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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1898)
6 T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , N O V EM BER 10, 1898. A W ord to C rusoe. BY F. J. COULD. do not despise the crowd; but I re member, with a feeling of triumph, that this crowd will sooner or later follow the Freethought nonconform- ists. To these Crusoes, these spir- itually isolated sisters and brothers, I give my greeting and my homage. For in all this universe of planets and stars and far-radiating infinite distances, nothing surpasses the grandeur of an honest man, an hon est woman. — [W atts’ Literary Guide. J N F O R M A T I O N , My thoughts often go out to the men and women who live on is lands. Yesterday I ment a man who lives hard by a cathedral city. The church bells ring incessantly, but they wake no response in his To sell pro p erty heart. A while ago he bowed the To buy a hom e knee to Christ. But now he has caught the music of a finer hymn To go into business than that which sings praise to the To exchange real or personal p ro p erty son of Mary. He pledges himself To work, or to hire w orkers to serve the new order of science W h a t is o u r Aim an d D uty as arid reason. All alxjut him his A N Y T H IN G L ib irals? Christian neighbors troop to the worship of the ancient Yahoo of Continued from 5th page. ----- W R I T E T O U S . W E C A N H E L P YOU the Jews. He stands alone; he puseruatural by building such a lives on an island. church organization, not passive in I can think, also, of a man who character, hut aggressive and pos- • • lives under my feet. Out in the ltive. A ddress, IN FO R M A T IO N B U R E A U But someone will inquire: “Why far antipodes he has his little cot- W a t r k S t r e e t . tage, which overlooks the vast ' ou advocate this movement? Oppœite Liberal Hall Silverton, Oregon. Southern Sea. By day he dilli- We have morft churches now than gently chops wood; by the evening can he tilled and supported.” lamp he cons hooks that breathe of Others will argue that if the infi- the coming day and prophesy the ^cls are sincere and anxious to do fall of the church that now is. H isichl>rch work, let them join the neighbors scout him as a heretic; liberal churches already organ -DEALERS IN- « * * . * — _ 1 as ized, such the Unitarian, Uni- they give him to understand that a special allotment of sulphur is re versalist, etc. To this we reply: served for him in the grim territory , church of to-day of which we of hell. He smiles; he reads; he have any knowledge fills the re argues: he stands steadfast; he Q’^rements we make for a Liberal church. 1 huse mentioned either lives on an island. I know a woman who has passed cling to much of the old doctrine, years in a tiny village, and amid a or have prayer and other objection hundred social pressures, resisted able rites very much like the o r Corner Main and Water Streets, SILVERTON, ORE the insolence of orthodoxy, refrain thodox church. All have their ed from church-going, and quietly theories of immortality which be and persistently propagated better come motives in their religious views of life and history. Brave work. We want a religion for this life—a religion for this world. We v * V How to M ake soul! she has lived on an island. are content to let other worlds get I know another woman, \oung, on |,ept they can. We waste ■ V* 53- 1 a •• ■•K** .*■ •• g.#« J*- « alert, quick of imagination and . . . imagination and no tjme or energy upon known X . The G overnment nationalized the Postal System, why not alst syn broad in sympathies, who is a nris- • u- L, . . , I : impossibilities. We want a relig- C- ELT0N BLANCHARP home. Dea- • oner in a a Calvanistic Calvanistic home. t , . , . ,on ‘hat Paves from wrong-doing cons flutter in and out like hats in , ,i > . , . ® , . and broken law, instead of holding the gloaming, and the psalms keep ftllt to an , unthinking ,, . , . , , class the up their monotonous wail. And . . „ fibp Inn, « , • . ever Present opportunity she longs to go out into the open c „ • , . . , for escape --------P o stp aid for 25 C en ts. tvnrlfl• she b L ' which becomes a world; yearns r for a more , ’y • j forgiveness, - BU REA R DO YOU WANT i C u s ite r & IO a v e n p o rt a v y • . • -w ▼ ■ General flerchandise A1Good Tim es for all ¡me UNCLE SAM’S HOMILIES ON FINANCE , , • . kind or license for sin. We w ant I t .h ou,d he in wholesome environment; she fives ♦ « . ,, . . . . ’ to stop all this this. We do not pre The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon. on an island. tend to say that we all agree upon These four men and women are what is right and wrong, but we hut types of a great multitude, all agree that the theory of forgive- W ho D oe ® Y our — They are today our nobleet noncon- nees—Salvation by Faith—is a formists. There was an age when curse to the race. Christianity and ' Fill it up, and forward with Chrtsttans themselves laced such its philosophy is sending too many $1.00 to the d,lhcult.es, and bore them with pe„ple t0 hej, on carth (or , manful loyalty to the Ideal. The gent people not to wan. something L ib e r a l U n iv e r s ity C o ., Silverton, Oregon. tmes are cuanged The Christians done to save them .-Curretn If you require any loll easily at the banquet of Con- Thought. vention and nod their heads to the _____ music of the Mode. It is the turn C a rd s o r C ir c u la r s , The Flood. of the Freethinker fo play the part B ill H e a d s , To th e P u b lish e rs a f th e Torch of the proscribed. These men and [Concluded from 3d page.] N o te o r L e t t e r H e a d s , o f Reason: women can snnrk over the prospect time playing with a prism and S ta te m e n ts , Please send the T orch of R eason to of no promised land. Angels min- making rainbows on the wall my address for one year, for which I en tster not to them in their ternpta- This, like many other stories, 18 T ic k e t s , P ro g ra m s , close $1.00. ton No reassuring dove cleaves accepted by many because it is In v ita tio n s , the sky, to bring celestial blessings found in the Bible, and woe be B e e k s o r P a m p h le ts , N a m e .................................. .... upon their heads. In alienee they unto him who is rash enough to E n v e lo p e s , Pf^'st. Faithfully they Itear wit- question them. But intelligence is P ost office...... ..................... ~8 ®8 ‘or reward- coming, anathemas have lost their Or any other Printing, you will serve Their fidehty ,s their glory. I think power and the world is seeking your own interest and help support the Liberal University by send tern 111 t tetr splendid exile,and light even on religion.—Big Bible ing yo'»r orders to ns. We I contrast them with the crowd. I .Stories. Cut This Out P rinting ? will execute them promptly, tastefully. State.