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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
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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-
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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
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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
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alert,
quick
of
imagination
and
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imagination and no tjme or energy upon known
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The G overnment nationalized the Postal System, why not alst
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broad in sympathies,
who is a nris- •
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I : impossibilities. We want a relig-
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home. Dea- •
oner in a a Calvanistic
Calvanistic home.
t
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. ,on ‘hat Paves from wrong-doing
cons flutter in and out like hats in , ,i > .
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and broken law, instead of holding
the gloaming, and the psalms keep ftllt to an , unthinking
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class
the
up their monotonous wail. And
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opportunity
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world;
yearns r for a more
, ’y • j forgiveness,
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kind or license for sin.
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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
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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 ,
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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
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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.
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will execute them promptly, tastefully. State.