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THE TORCH OF KEA8ON, SILV ER!O N . OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1898.
Torch of Reason
fro m s ta r t to finish
is one o f fear ,
P ra y e r as a L a s t R e s o rt.
g Mid water, soil th at never wears
a n d th e p rie s ts an d p reach ers h av e
Perhaps th e very best joke we p >ul.
'he most liberal people in
The O n ly Paper of Its K in d.
taught ihei.iaelves and others too ever heard wa„ one , h a , wa8 crack. ‘he world. W hat is to hinder us
well the dreadful lesson.
The ed last week at our County Teach- v u - ,naklf‘g a grand success?
Published W eekly bv the Lilieral L'ni
highest civilized people of the world ers’ Institute.
-o th in g .
A bsolutely nothing.’
versity Com pany, in the In terests of
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
Now the Liberal U niversity Cora-
After a discussion on the subject
still creep and cringe and cry in
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r it
fear
°f "h ip p in g , one who advocated no I ^a n ^ baH H Wonted option on this
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beautiful tract of land, and those
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success.
Oregon, as second-class wail m atter.
1 'e Hafth .
la k e aw ay trie fear of h ad tried to show him his e rro r
There are thousands of good peo­
a god and the fear of m issing his and persuade him to do better.
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.Money should be sent by registered
his comical way Haid, “ Dear friends, I ; n . acr,e ° f
b*‘a “ t' fu "-''
le tte r or m oney order.
ster from the world?
Our only I’ll tell you w hat I ’<1 do.
A fter I i J“ “1 ° " ‘’ and “ l" " ' oIe WOrld w,1‘
hope is with the children; hut oh, . .
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hear of
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ill come
of our work. Many
will
Notice!
what cowards m any of them are had exhausted ail my powers of a r­ and not a few be chosen to help
forced to he.
B rute teachers who gum ent, all my powers of kindness, sta rt a city whose streets m ay he
A jiencil m ark here denotes th a t your
all my powers of eloquence and
subscription will expire w ith the next follow the exam ple of those who
paved with som ething better than
num ber. You are earnestly requester! heat, threatened and frightened persuasion, I’d — I ’d pray for the
gold. We will then boost our U ni­
to renew so th a t you may receive the pa­
little fellow!”
them
into
obedience,
still
heat
the
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­
versity onto its feet. We will have
It came so unexpectedly, when
cided th a t it is best for all concerned tender flesh, impress the the tender
a large hall for en tertain m en ts, a
th a t we do not send papers longer th an
no one was thinking of .the religi­
m
inds
with
awful
th
reats
and
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
Secular church and Sunday school.
T his will prevent any loss and we will stam p there forever the brand of ous question, and it was said in
In fact, we will do as one of our en­
know ju st where we stand.
such a funny tone of voice, m aking
the
coward.
We request you to send us the nam es
thusiastic friends said, “ raise hell
the
idea
of
prayer
seem
so
little
and
of Secularists who m ight become su b ­
Teachers and parents, the quick­
and put a chunk under it”. Since
scribers and we will mail sam ple copies.
ening of new and better thoughts ridiculous, it m ade every one, even we started, a num ber have express­
in the world, the opening of new the C hristians, laugh, and it so ed a desire to be am ong the tw enty
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v and higher ideals of life, the ush­ touched the wicked editor of the and we hope soon to report th a t
ering in of a higher civilization is Torch th a t he laughed till he cried. num ber so we can go rig h t ahead,
After the laughter z had subsided, a
F e a r.
in our hands.
but in order to succeed one m ust
‘‘good”
teacher
rem
inded
the
“
dear
Let us not m ake cowards of the
not wait for another. We must all
One of the biggest devils th a t
children if we value the thought b ro th er” th at “ the prayers of the enthuse in order to make the work
ever entered the world is Fear. Go
of a higher and better future. Let wicked availeth n au g h t”; hut our
back as far as we have any history, us learn how to gain their respect modern St. Jam es was not caught a success. E very foot of the land
is excellent.
There is no waste
and we find that fear has been the and love, and thus give them a napping, and quickly replied, “ Ah,
land whatever.
People can live
one blighting, dam ning, dwarfing good— a noble—a true incentive for dear brother, I would call in the here as cheaply as anyw here on
elders.”
thing. Born of ignorance it, like doing right and thus rid them
earth and much cheaper th an in
The beauty of the joke is th a t it
and
future
generations
of
the
arch
its parent, prevents the hum an
countries where everything freezes
is true. P ray er is not even thought
enemy of the world, Fear.
up in w inter and melts in sum m er.
family from even knowing the
Say you th at “ the fear of the of as a real rem edy for auything, We are working for Secularism and
beauties of the sunshine of truth.
Lord is the beginning of wisdom” ? even by the C hristians themselves, Secularism alone.
Do not think
The awful slavery of the m il­ Let us see. \\ ho fear the Lord and and to them it is a ridiculous thing
th a t we are trying to deceive any
lions of hum an beings who toiled other supposed beings most, the only in theory and im practical one. We have been in the Free-
All know practice, when nothing is really thought work too long and sacrificed
for their kings and priests for years wise or the ignorant?
expected of it. But we believe th at
and years in old E gypt, the history that the wisest fear nothing and
too much to he accused of fraud and
neither prayers nor w hippings are
th
a
t
the
weak,
ignorant,
b
arb
ar­
refer all concerned to those who
of the feudal system , the sad sto­
ous m ind fears most. Who said necessary, and if a teacher or p ar­ know us best. We have carefully
ries of witchcraft, of the In q u isi­
that the fear 01 the Lord is the be­ ent should read these lines who has estim ated the cost and the results
tion, of our m odern cringing and ginning of wisdom? Not very good throw n over one barbarous practice
of our undertaking and we know it
cowering to wealth and priest and au th o rity :
A heathen of a heath- and not the other, let us beg of would not pay us to have people
popular opinion, all tell the sam e en, god-believing age. Inspired? him , for the sake of the tender come here and then be dissatisfied.
flesh and plastic m inds of the little It would h u rt our in stitution as
sad tale of the awful thing we call ' o. One who could make one
m istake could certainly be m istak­ ones, to study better m ethods of nothing else would, but although
fear. In the old time— in the dark
en in supposing th a t he was in­ leading them to the tree of know l­ some who are easily discouraged
days of jealous, divine power, when spired.
and of a pessimistic n atu re m ight
edge— into the true path of life.
be dissatisfied, we feel sure th a t
a man was found who dared to
The love of the tru th is the he-
nearly all will be well pleased and
bland erect ami fear lin t, he wan ginning of wisdom, but fear cram ps
S e c u la r H o m e .
our plan will help the cause more
put to death by those who bad and stu n ts the intellect. The only
Last week we started our work of th an an y th in g else th a t we can
power but “ feared” they would lose real, the only true inspiration is
securing the Twenty Forerunners, do. Those who wish to build bet­
ter houses thau the four hundred
it, but leav e men
Ulen who were the love of the truth
This leads
and from tim e to time we will pub­ dollars will build, m ay have the
not even afraid to die for the truth me,, to study the past,' to study the
lish, below the contract, the nam es privilege, but it m ust he remember­
h av e given us all our free,lout of present, and with the lam p of
of those w’no are brave enough to ed th at four hundred dollars here
th o u g h t—all the things th at make intellect thus trim m ed and I,urn-
will build a fine little finished
stand in the front ranks.
life, for modern men and women, ing, to peer into the future with
th is is no small movement. It home, and especially when we buy
the m aterial as cheaply as we can
wort I the living. Hut let us tu rn much more certain ty than the old u » .
has been known for a long time when buying in such large q u a n ti­
r'
1 1 P“ b'- I-et "s II,ink of the priests of the tem ples of Ignorance, th a t the work of saving the
ties. If we fail in getting the tw en­
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H ave we this lam p? I .,, us no, world from fear and supers,R lon is ty
-a Secularists
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~ take uwlu,
to
hold, o,
of
bushel. Let us p prevented
by o our
workers
being I C? Urse. we ^ ave the em barrassm ent
n in ili.o t; „ HC u- l 1,1 1 ” l*r pres-1 put it under
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o e u w u uy
ur w
ork ers oeing
UMlizaUi.n winch play very throw beau,if,il
picture» of a grand-
world
Lei
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11 over the
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of a fat 1 u re, but this will not check
our enthusiasm nor cause us to give
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the
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days.
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lu st ri«h
n ^ h t t in
in ^ 's a t k f i ^ T h a U U a
children during their school tidence and love will have entered every reaped
The story of C hristianity our secular home
r our secular nome.
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for all concerned .
J e n t clim ate, hue fruit and grain, ( Let us try it. H e l p !