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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1898)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER, 24, 18b 8. “ God is Out of It.” 7 more childish than to see our sky pi lots on their knees praying to vacan This is the daily paper heading cy. Yet there are millions who can’t of the announcement coming from see it in this light. AND Paris that henceforth the motto, an d in S ilv e r to n , Christians certainly have scrip “God Protects France,” is to be go to th e tural warrant for their childish M a in S t r e e t S ilv e r to n , O r e ’1 erased from the French coin. One ness. In Mark x, 15, it is stated newspaper sarcastically remarks that Jesus said: “Verily I bay unto CAKRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF that this is a good thing, since for you, Whosoever shall not receive eigners, seeing the inscription, the kingdom of God as a little might he led to believe that French child, he shall not enter therein.” School men still have faith in Providence, This means that a man must and it suggests that “Scnwartz- S u p p lie s , believe all the ghost stories in the Koppen Protects the Republic” ! N E A R T H E B R ID G E , Bible as a child believes the nurse Books and shouid be substituted for the dis ry tales of modern times in order to AND B E ........................ credited and discarded motto. If ionery. get to heaven.—The Gleaner. the French people who control this matter really believed in a divine Not Sustain ed by Souls. Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables . W e l l F e d a t a providence, their action would be strictly in line with that of the and Confectionery. ! S m a ll A minister with a beggarly sala Africans who, when disasters come, ry went to his deacon asking for an pull down their god, strip it, beat increase. “Salary!” cried the dea it and curse it, and then, if fortune con in pious horror. “Salary! < ^ F O R S T N E R 'S ^ smiles, set it up again, ask pardon Why, I thought you worked for for their bad treatment and do pen souls’” ance for it, and then go on worship “And so I do,” replied the min ping it as before. ister, “but I can not eat souls. It would be an amazing spectacle And if I could, it would take a . . . IS invaluable TO . . . if we could see the face of “god” as good many souls the size of yours to C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e rs , f° r m o rtis he watches his children playing a make a dish.”—Boston Herald. ing, such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e sort of football with him. The place of chisel a n d gouge; to Christian Yankees are trying hard Only One. C a b in e t M a k e r s , for inlaid w ork, to stuff him into a dried up roll of dow elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and Wifey—“Do you think there is a k n o ts. In fact, no wagon or p a tte rn m ak er, parchment they call a constitution, where, after all, he could only se man that could conscientiously say m an u fa c tu re r of piano9. organs, sew ing m achines, a g ricu ltu ral im p le m e n ts, s a s h : b linds, fu rn itu re , n o r ANY O T H E R WOOD W O R K E R , should he w ith o u t it. cure a temporary shelter from the to his wife, ‘You are the only wo AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. attacks of the Rationalists, while in man I ever loved?’ ” Hubby—“Only one that I can It ’8 th e only ro n n d b it in th e world th a t France, and we believe also in w ill bore a Austria, he has been kicked out of think of.” Wifey—“ Who? You, dearest?” the public schools, and even in Hubby—“O, no; Adam.”—Trav pious England, Canada and the an d do all th a t any o th e r b it will do. States he has been allowed but a elers. minor and perfunctory attention at PRICES. Set of five, differen t sizes, p o s tp a id .. $2.60 the hands of the public school W hose Fault? Single h it, jx jstp a id ................ ....................... 60 teacher. It must be a cold day for Jones—“There is no rest for the any god who dissolves partnership with Mammon; and we are inclined wicked.” A ddre«. LIBERAL universty co ., Smith—“The righteous worry S il v e r t o n , O e r q o n . to think Yrahue may as well at once quit the soul saving business them so.”—Pick Me Up. in France when the people have ttttttttttttttttttttttt Club R ales. decided to scrape his name off their coins, or, as we may say, have The Weekly Oregonian is agreed to stop offering franc-in best newspaper published in cense to him.—Secular Thought. OUR Pacific Northwest. The subscrip tion price is SI.50 per year. We Im agination. will give it, together with the Torch Some grown people have more of Reason, for the exceedingly low imagination than little children. price of $1.75. You w ill get two O FFER ED T O YOU What are all the churches in the papers for a little more than the land but big play houses built by price of one. ----- A T ----- Christians. These houses are alleged to be Special Notice. haunted by the Holy Ghost. This T he a d v e rtis e r, P . O, Box 40, Silver- ton, M arion Co., O re., d esirin g to form a fancy has a tendency to keep peo colony of F a ith is ts , w ith th e assistance of o th e rs, for th e rea rin g , tra in in g and ple awed. of castaw ays, in accordance In these houses of worship grown education w ith th e m e th o d s laid dow n in Oahs}>e, people meet and make believe they would confer w ith o th ers like m inded. have a music-appreciating, praise- loving, prayer-answering Father in Secularists would you not like to heaven. have some letterheads printed with They make believe He hates Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s those who do not worship Him. S ilverton, Oregon. Freethougbt badge, to use in corre Some children are not allowed to spondence with your friends? We play with their toys on Sunday, will furnish them to you with but if the Christians were deprived your name and address printed on of playing with their toy god, Je them for 75 cents per hundred, iJ J .iJ J - iJ J J J J J - iJ J J J J . iJ J . sus. on Sundays in their big play for j.'i), or $_’•'<» for . ' im >, poet —--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- houses, they would feel oppressed. Playing with dolls is no sillier or, you stand. HEN HUNGRY KINNBV PORTER S ilv e rto n R e s ta u ra n t..,» Auger Bit SQ U A R E HOLE ^ ^ W H O L E ST O C K Actual Cost! ADOLF WOLF & SON 11 '* T r y th e T o rc h fo r Jo b w o rh