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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1898.
denom inational catechism s f i t t i n g us, th a t we m ay have a good
ai J the th irty -n in e “ articles of re- will”, “ and the Spirit applying to
n”. all form ulated a hundred us the redem ption purchased by
vears «ago and based upon much C hrist— working faith in us.
'mOre ancient Jew ish history:
No wonder “ this view of life, its
“There is but one god, . . . m eanings and aim s” has not tau g h t
the only tru e god.”
In the “god- the laborer happiness, or w hat to
head”, “ w ithout body, p arts or pas- believe.
gions"'',‘ unchangeable in being, .
Scientists who will accept no
the sam e in essence, equal in scientific theory w ithout full and
rower and glory”, th ere are three sufficient evidence, who believe in
persons, F ath er, Son, and Holy the sublim e and sacred uniform ity
Ghost. The Son,which is the word of the universe, send their children
of the F ath er, begotten from ever- to the Sunday schools, m aking
lasting of the F a th e r” by the power them enemies of science, and so
‘of the Holy Ghost was born of the impede the “ organizing and purify
Virgin M ary. H aving been cru- ing w ork”, bringing them under
cified as an atonem ent according the condem nation of Count Tolstoi,
to a plan said to have existed in | whose m ind, great man as he is,
the “ thought of God before creation • has not yet outgrown the teachings
began” ,he was buried.
“ He rose of the Sunday schools.
again from d eath and took again
his body with flesh, bones and all
Club R ates.
things ap p ertain in g to th e perfec-
tion of m an ’s n ature, wherew ith he . The W eekly Oregonian is the
ascended into heaven” and “ contin-1 best newspaper published in the
ues to be God and m an in two dis- Pacific Northwest. The subscrip-
tinct natures and one person” ,“ and tion price is 81.50 per year. We
sitteth at the right hand of God”, will give it, together with the Torch
the F ath er, Son, and Holy Ghost, of Reason, for the exceedingly low
“ until the last d a y .”
price of $1.75.
You will get two
“ When God created m an he e n - . papers for a - little more th an the
tered into a covenant of life with price of one.
him. . The covenant being m ade
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Secularists, would yon not like to
for his posterity, all m ankind, . . have some letter heads printed with
sinned in him and fell with him in Secular sentim ent and W ettstein ’s
his first transgression.
F reethought badge, to use in corre-
“ All m an k in d by this fall lost spondenee with your friends? We
communion with God, are under will furnish them to you w ith
his w rath and curse, and so made your nam e and address printed on
liable to all the miseries in this life, them for 75 cents per hundred,
to death itself, and to the pains of | $1.50 for 250, or $2.50 for 500, post
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Ghost. F aith is the one requisite Song Book No. 1. This will only
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