THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1898.
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'c n through his hands and feet, counted by some, all the universi- One m ay think he will get rich and
l x v d o H l l mugt have been very hard for a ties will be Liberal universities,and then do good, and perhaps some
P aper of Its Kind.
god, or the son of a god, to have all religions merged into one—Sec- have done this, but there is danger
home; and although he “ run the ularism , the Religion of H um anity, of failing in both if one tries this
plan. It is m uch better to do good
Published W eekly by th e L itera l Uni- nail” into his foot so m e n in e -
versity Com pany, in the Interesi'-n i
hundred Years ago, it almost
anyw ay and get rich if you can,
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
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If a business man
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coil Id have all the money he
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There have b een volumes writ- handles he would be rich indeed;
P W (jeer,
M a n a g e rc o n c e rn for the little modern bare-
foot hoy “ with cheek of ta n ” who ^en on
im portance of the pres he only has w hat he saves, but in
ru n a m « tv n a il through his foot
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, good one saves all he handles
E ntered at the ¡xistoffice at Silverton, r a n a r u s t y n a n w r u n g » m o iouv c n ti b lit w e are of the opinion th a t,1
and it seems to increase in his
yesterday. But then we forget that
Oregon, as second-class mail m atter.
not one in a hundred realizes how hands at com pound interest. Now
we are nothing but unfeeling Infi
much m ight he accom plished if happiness does not depend on
SL’BSCRIPTIOM RATES.
dels.
When the spear was run into Je- people woubl use the present time wealth, but rath e r on the good we
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”2 sus’ side, if the storv is true, it in going at things instead of wait- are able to do or think we do,
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I m ust have been very painful for jug for things to go at them . | therefore the sooner we begin
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
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There are probably enough hon- to do good the happier will we be,
Money should be sent by registered t |, e8e | a t e r days who are obliged to est, well m eaning people who would money or no money. Of course
work over the w aslitub, and in the like to help along our work but money may he used to do good, h u t
factory, and on the m ortgaged they don’t really know just what th a t is all it is good for, and many
Notice!
farm , until their sides ache and to do. They probably spend min- people can do m uch good without
A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your ache and ache, seem to look us in utes, hours and days in “ p u ttin g 1 it. Listen to the conclusion of the
subscription will ex p ire w ith the nex t the face with their sad eyes, as we ¡n tim e” th a t could be happily used whole m atter: Love h um anity and
nu m b er. You are earnestly requested
to renew so th a t you m ay receive the pa write, and beg us not to waste our for the benefit of our great cause, help save it from ignorance now,
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de m ental force feeling had about a hut they wait. The whole secret of for th a t is the sole d uty of m an.
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
tu a t we do n o t send p ap e-s longer tua.'i w andering .Jew who is said to doing good work in a good cause is
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. have been the innocent victim of (to do something now and to keep
This will prevent any loss and we will
his sire’s blunders years ago, but to doing something now .
know ju st w here we stan d .
B r ig h t P ro s p e c ts .
We request yon to send 11s the nam es sym pathize with and pity them
After your work is over in the
of Secularists who m ig h t become su b
Our m any friends will be pleased
If you
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. and do som ething to help redeem evening, perhaps you read.
them , and those who are to take do, have the shears handy and send to learn th a t we have at last succeed-
THURSDAY, S E P T . 15, E. M. 208 their places, from the awful suffer- us the real good things y o u find, or ed in getting the lum ber started
ings of the modern white slaves in if you do not wish to help us, send again
tow ard
the
University
our priest-governed world.
them to some paper you do wish to grounds. This week great loads of
P ity , a F a c to r in C h r is tia n ity .
The revilings of modern thieves help.
Don’t put oil’ writing. You
fifteen and sixteen hundred feet of
It is n atu ral for people to sym- j over their victim s who have been wish Io help, of course you do.,
pathize with those who surfer, and torn froni their homes bv m odern Then
don’t forget th a t a kind letter
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up around the basem ent until the
this fact lias been seized upon by ways of robbery, under polite and from you is a great help . Never
grounds look like a great lum ber
religion-m akers to catch those who popular names, the sneer at honest mind w hether you spell correctly or
vard. If we had the confidence
could not be threatened or bribed poverty and the wink at dishonest not. If an editor can catch your •z
th a t plenty of money gives an en ter
into accepting their saviors.
IIow greed, dem and our attention far thought, it is w hat he wants. Yes,
prise we could alm ost if not quite
often we have heard the old, old more th an the revilings of the write, and w iite again and again,
story of Jesus’ sufferings!
How thieves who, according to the old and keep writing.
It will help all °P en school in the new building yet,
but w hether we do or not there
vividly do the young have forced ta le , died with Jesus th a t we (i. e., concerned.
have been arrangem ents m ade in
upon their tender m ental screens C hristians) m ight live.
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now looks as if our labor has not
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a better way of m aking som ething lu turn up. These“ nows”
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his children good, it sometimes are precious. I)o som ething. J u s t,
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their natures cultivated, and he gent “ lets u p ”, but how sad the ested would do som ething. Propa- ing th a t was at first intended for a
barn will he moved up lo it and
taught to relieve suffering when- storv of divine w rath!
The father ganda work is p a rt o f the Religion
finished as p a rt of the same. In this
ever possible and to prevent all the curses the first man and woman of H u m an ity . Mail your paper to
way we will have plenty of room for
pain and anguish of body and mind a nd their seed by m aking them work a friend, or write a letter telling
our hoarders and roomers and not
in their power; hut they should also an(j gweat and have other troubles; about the work.
Do something
be obliged to pay rent. It seems
be taught to have m inds of their he then drow ns them all, excepting NOW AND KEEP doing something
wonderful how we succeed in our
ownand not be led astray by stories ' a choice few, and finally finishes
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made up for the very purpose of (be jo b b y letting his son sutler for
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If Jesus sweat great drops of he never did, and cries to his father, win. We all ought to do all we can
blood, we certainly feel sorry th at his father keeps right on till the to advance what we conceive to be brings us nearer and n earer to a
God s plan of salvation dem anded p()or hoy dies. Sad, sad indeed is the saving principles of tru th . To grand success.and now as we are on
th at his son should take such a ¿he story of poor Jesus’ cry to his work just for oneself or one’s fami- our own grounds and in our
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sweat for the whole hum an fam ily, father, but th a t is over, “ thank ly
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should he more concerned with the | o cries th at are now m aking the doing anv good as one goes along?
great drops of sweat of the over- atm osphere reverberate from conti- The good we do cannot be taken
worked men and women in our nen t to continent with the piteous from us, hut wealth is liable to be
great cities ami the burning, fever- wail of anguish from broken hearts lost, and at best is a source of wor-
H a thing is true, let us all be-
filled blood of the little children —from the victims of ignorance, of ry unless it be freely used in doing lieve it, rich and poor, m en, wo-
who, even as we write, and as you, superstition, of greed.
good. If a man or woman is sm art men and children.
If a thing is
dear reader, read, are dying for
But ours is not a religion of sym- enough to get rich and do much untrue, let us all disbelieve it, rich
want of proper clothing, nourish p athy altogether; it is a religion of good at the same time, it is a happy and poor, m en, women and chil-
m ent and fresh air.
K eason and of work , and if there com bination of m ental powers and dren.
T ru th is a thing to he
The suffering of a god. or the son are now a few who are fully con- conditions, but getting rich at the shouted from the housetops.— I’rof.
of a god, when the nails were driv- , verted, in a short tim e, as time is! expense of doing good is a sad loss, j \V. K. Clifford.