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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1899)
« THE TORCH O F R E A SO N , S IL V E R T O N , O R E G O N , JA N U A R Y 19. 1899. -¡Uer it complex, con.bting of all of ______ these. by KNAKF kemooc . The physical, or ponderable, parts must first be built up in Life: How every thought cen- prOper Hhape and condition to re- / | \ ters on the word! How we long to ^ ¡ v e tb e min(jy or “impressions.” continue our present existence. Io ^ be process is gradual, and the im- remain, after our days of usefulness pregsion8 are received gradually or, are over, a barren tree upon the .q otber worj p> “grow” into the To sell property field of progress! Merely to see, ag part thereof. To buy •/ a home feel and think we would remain, the far ag t nown> imponderable To go into business one desolate object upon a pleasant bodie(J are subject to the same nat- To exchange real or personal property landscape. ural law’s as ponderable bodies, and And what is life? It is motion, it .g nQt reagonable to suppose there To work, or to hire workers force, action, evolution, progression, are exceptions. ANYTHING moving, growing, inconstant, ever- Then, if mind is matter in corn- changing; whirling in cycles infin- bination wjth the body, it must be itesimally small and inconceivably either disintegrated with the body W R IT E T O U S . W E C A N H E LP YOU great, pushing forward toward some and enter into new combinations, unknowm goal of perfection. possessing entirely new properties, And yet we fear death! Yet all or set free to mix with the ether Nature proclaims: “ There is no which permeates all space, to be Address, INFORMATION BUREAU death.” Even decay is life and absorbed again by other bodies ac Silverton, Oregon. W a te r S t r e e t , growth, chemical force, creating a quiring ‘‘mind ” O pposite L iberal H all. new body from the atoms of the If mind is (as I believe) a prop erty, or motion of an imponderable old. That fallen tree, you say, is dead ether acting upon the ponderable and rotting. It is not dead. Ev matter of the body, it must have ery atom is alive, forming new the body to act upon before it can -D E A L E R S IN- chemical combinations, whirling, become “mind,” or thought. There rushing forward, growing, perhaps fore, the disintegration of the body into a new tree more grand and leaves nothing for it to act upon, beautiful than the old, and bearing and there can be no thought. more wholesome fruit, and you call But it does not die. This matter, that death: it is immortality. How whether ponderable or impondera easy to put a superstitious mean ble, will continue moving and en tering into new combinations, and ing to this. The caterpillar goes into his cof when the proper conditions occur, fin, the chrysalis, and after under mind will again be formed. Mat SILVERTON, ORE, going a wonderful transformation, ter is indestructible, and its prop- Corner Main and \\ ater Streets, is resurrected a beautiful butterfly. erterties will be the same under This is where our theological friends like conditions. <e conniuons. > YTV would leave us, poor mortal worms. We can not logically conceive a Z j ___ to Make How Immortal, everlasting, unchanging hereafter or heaven except an evo- A butterflies. Leading a useless ex utionary one created by human istence, lounging on Wall street in beings for the benefit of people liv The Government nationalized the New Jerusalem, without sorrow or ing at the time, and we can not cre the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD trouble, except listening to the ate such a heaven by worshipping in his book entitled............................ jingle of the Chinese bands and the he dead, or by deifying musty ro UNCLE S A M ’S prayers of Job. mance, moldy customs or unjust But the butterfly is more fortu laws.—[Independent Pulpit. H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E nate. After completing the func ------ ------- Postpaid for 25 Cents. Remember, if you send us th tions of nature, in propagating a All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University. names and addresses of 25 of new generation, perhaps of a higher •It should lie in the bands of every thinking person. Address all orders to your Liberal friends and acquaint The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon. order and better adapted to exist ing conditions, he passes into the ances, we will make you a present chemical life, to grow into some of a copy of the Torch of Reason Song Book No. 1. This will only who D oes Y our thing of still higher order. . . . Cut This Out cost you a few minutes’ work and a All is life, with ever changing Fill it up, and forward with forms. But all of this applies to 2 cent stamp. $1.00 to the the body, to the ponderable parts. Six Tracis to Promote What of the mind—the impondera L ib e r a l U n iv e rs ity C o ., Life. Death and Im m o rta lity . I n f o r m a t io n burea U do YOU WANT C u s ite r & D a v e n p o rt General Merchandise Good Times for all Time P rinting ? ble? Silverton, Oregon. Scientific W isdom I do not know of mind separate If you require any from the body, although there are many bodies separate from the In Place oi Christianity C a rd s or C irc u la rs , “ mind.” If they exist separately, where 1 Can Sins be . Forgiven? - B ill H e a d s , . . ,., , • 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil- and wheu did we get our minds? i N o te or L e tte r H e a d s , Who kept them in store for us be 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? S ta te m e n ts , 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. fore we were born? T ic k e ts , P ro g ra m s , Like the body, we get our minds 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? I n v ita tio n s , 6 Immortality or Annihilation? gradually. After maturity, our JU ST T H E T H IN G B s s k s o r P a m p h le ts , bodies keep building on new tissue to your Christian friends. Send E n v e lo p e s and throwing off the old. Our to 2 hand cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts, to E liza M owry B liven , Brook minds continue to develop while the lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents Or any other Printing, you will serve body lasts. for 50, either kind or as your own interest and help support sorted kinds, to Mind is either imponderable mat the Liberal University by send ter, or a property of matter, pon THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO., ing your orders to us. We Oregon will execute them promptly, tastefully . . . derable or imponderable. I con- Sliverton To the Publishers a f the Torch o f Reason: Please send the T orch of R eason to mv address for one year, for which 1 en close $1.00. N a m e ....................................... ...... Post office......................................... State.