T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , O R EG O N , JA N U A R Y 26, 1699.
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How can we expect to spread and pecteci? w ith your conditions. H a r -
E ditor T orch of R eason :
We read all the F reethought
books and papers th a t we can get
hold of and we see th a t all seem
anxious for organization in all the
states, but one thing we seldom see,
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the F reethought U niversity at Sil-
verton, Oregon, the only school of
the kind th a t is in operation. \\ hy
is it? Is it because F reethought is
narrow and selfish?
There is seldom a week passes
th a t we do not get letters asking for
donations for som ething public or
private to assist some one in the
east, and we have searched in vain
for a record of anyone in the east
doing an y th in g of great conse
quence
__ to _ help our school, . which is
trying h ard to keep above the ice
strengthen F reethought unless the
young are educated in th a t light?
For my part, I see the need of an
education, and shall do all in my
power to help educate the young to
th in k for themselves. As the twig
is bent, so stan d s the tree. I have
only one boy,and he is in this Free-
thought school, and it I live to see
my grandchildren grow up, I shall
do all I can to give them a sta rt in
the world w ithout th eir being bur-
dened with superstition as I was.
Yours for T ru th and Justice,
M rs . J. L. B a r n h o u se .
Caleb, Ore.
M cM innville, Ore.
Liberal
University
E ditor T orch of R eason :
yard hag it8 gjte jr, the proud yard
of g oston, its fine buildings over XjF
¡tg head, it8 m illions of dollars to
jts assets and its thousands of stu-
dents on its lists— kicking football V F
an(j breaking bones—but your lit-,
q j e woo(fen U niversity in the Ore-
gon m ountains is of more interest j V r
re a j thinkers an d scholars of \1<
t jlft worl<q th an are H arv ard a n d
Y ale and the whole cabal of pseudo-
, gcjence schools from M ontreal to
Mexico; for you are teaching facts,
not fables; how to th in k , not what
to believe; how to do good, not how
to please god; how to m ake heaven
on earth ,n o t how to graft one in the
God in E verythin g.
sky.
The few th a t you send out
will be a leaven to leaven eleven
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ing a hell of a tim e in hell. We cipled
know he is there, for we find it re proclaim .
M eantim e, stick to agnosticism
corded in the blessed inspired word
of God by his holy serv an t Job th a t in regard to those things you d o n ’t VIZ
if he descended into hell, God is know. If you don’t know a theory
to be untrue, don’t be kicking those
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and we m ust not h inder the H in doubt it. Y ours in light,
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doo from w orshipping him . How
about all th is?
Rem em ber, if you send us the
I th in k the Torch im proves with
every issue. Y our controversy with nam es and addresses of 25 of
the C h ristian is ju st the th in g , for your Liberal friends and acquaint-
some of his brethren m ay like to ances, we will m ake you a present
read it who would not look at it if of a copy of the Torch of Reason f
their “ b ro th e r” had not w ritten for Song Book No. 1. T his will only
it, and perhaps the reflection of the cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
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