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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1898)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER, 17, 1898. Use of Bibles. ami state in European countries— everywhere—must pale and fade The world has heard a great deal away before the rising sun of pro about the large number of Bibles gress.—J. M. P. printed annually, and shipped to missionaries in India, to bedietfib- A clergyman one day astonished uted among the natives, whose! the congregation by a new reading. souls Christians are extremely anx “Look here,” he said, “just do the ious to save from hell. The money , thing that is right, and care for no to pay for these Bibles is raised by To sell property body. 'fake St. Paul's advice: Love systematic begging, very largely your neighbor as yourself, and pad To buy a home from Sunday school children, whose dle your own canoe.”—The Liber To go into business sympathies are aroused in behalf of ator. the benighted heathen. The Stand To exchange real or personal property Bats, strange to say, are provided ard, published on the island of Cey To work, or to hire workers lon, innocently tells the use made with two tongues, a large one and ANYTHING of those Bibles. We copy as we a small one, one beneath the other, find it in one of our secular ex the lower and smaller one being known as the “sublingua.” This changes: W R IT E T O U S . W E CAN H E LP YOU “ It seems that gold leaf for dec peculiar phenomenon is also met orative purposes is, as a regular with in certain apes. matter of business, packed in little The late Mr. Spurgeon, giving books made up of the unbound pithy advice to some young candi Address, INFORMATION BUREAU packages of holy writ cut to the dates for the ministry some years W a t k r H t k e k t , requisite size for the purpose and ago said: “Above all, mind you O pposite L iberal H all. Silverton, Oregon. stitched together. On inquiry it is avoid inappropriate texts. I re learned the practice of packing the member a brother, when preaching material in this way is a well estab on the loss of a ship with all hands lished one, and that the Bible is on board, selecting as his text, ‘So selected for this purpose because, he brought ihem to the desired ha — D E A L E R S IN- as a rule, the type is more evenly ven,’ and another, just returning set and the printing generally finer from his marriage holiday, ‘The and better executed. On the other troubles of mv heart are enlarged; hand, I hear from other sources O, bring me out of my distress!’ ” that the use of the Bible is looked M ost preach ers talk of fighting upon as a sort of guarantee that The enem ies of God, B ut never talk of rig h tin g the leaf is of the best possible qual T he wrongs of flesh and blood, ity. It appears that the Book of They talk of holy b attle Ol blood and ghastly scar, Common Prayer is also employed As ’tho men were but cattle, for the same purpose.” And God a beast of war. Corner Main and Water Streets, SILVERTON, ORE. /Ml the gold leaf of commerce Ah, is it any w onder and the arts come in little books I h a t C h rist has died in vain, When churches share the plunder inches square with 25 leaves of Of those who live for gain? gold of varying thickness. From If th is old world depended On such a brood as they, * vl How to Make the large amount of gold leaf now O ur wrongs would not be" m ended in use, mostly by hook hinders, ’Til earth has passed aw ay. —Man Without A Soul. decorative painters and dentists, ' A * * * » « ■ * •■A” >*»• ---- much of it coming from Ceylon and Elias Howe, the inventor of the , T Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD the East Indies, it is important the sewing machine, proved his patriot in his book entitled ............................ shipment of Bibles to be made into ism during the American civil war gold leaf hooks should be contin by enlisting and by frequent heavy U N C LE S A M ’S ued, so it is hoped generous Chris contributions from his private H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E tians will not withhold their con purse. In November, 1862, his ------- Postpaid for 25 Cents. tributions, otherwise the price of regiment was in Virginia, suffering ' 0 T. t ,, , . All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal U n iv e r sitv gold leaf may be greatly advanced. great discomfort. Not having been should lie in the bands of every thinking person. Address all orders to X V __ 1 .1 .. T /in /'u raw-, a __ —Progressive Thinker. paid oil, and the men needing The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon. money, Private Howe advanced $13,000 due to them. He sat at a God and the Constitution. W ho D oes Y our table handing out the money, when Cut This Out Out of some 70,000,000 people, a clergyman asked him for a sub less than 20,OCX),000 of them, so re scription toward a new church. Fill it up, and forward with ported, statistics say, are church “Oh,” said Howe, “ this is war $1.00 to the member,. Therefore, courage, time.” “Yea,” tbe clergyman re- L ib e r a l U n iv e r s ity C o ., brothers, there’s no danger of po-! plied, “but we need churches, and Silverton, Oregon. liticaliy injecting any orthodox God J hope you give U8 somethi into the constitution. Saying noth-1 for gt. Peter’s.” “ Well St Peter .ng 01 the reported nine or eleven wiU have to wait," said Howe; m.llmne of Spiritua l « « , with the “just now my money is being spent C a rd s o r C irc u la r s , I nitarians, Umversalists, Quakers, „„ saltpeter.”—Selected. 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