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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 2, 1899.
From Chicago.
by J . B. B E A T T IE .
How sorrow ful, how sorrow ful!
T hou freedom ’s forem ost frien d ,
T h at they who toiled w ith thee for tr u th ,
T hy bleeding h e a rt could ren d .
Six Tracis to Promote
The P aris
Scientific
W isdom
terrib le, how te rrib le !
The amount of untaxed business How
W hen exiled from th y hom e,
property in this city that owes its T hy co-exiles could drive thee fo rth ,
exemption to religion has become so ’Mid savages to roam .
...FASHIONABLE M ILLIN E R Y .. '
In Place of Christianity
How
cruelly,
now
cruelly
areat that citizens have started an T hy persecutors plied
investigation, simply as a matter T he sta b s of slan d er to thy h e a rt,
1 Can Sins be Forgiven?
of self-protection. In the business N erved by a bigot pride.
LA TEST STYLES
2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil­
center alone there is more than $7,- How dolefullv, how dolefully
ization?
L A R G E S T STD C K
The tale breaks on th e ear,
000,000 worth of business property W hen th e long sorrow of th y life
3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
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4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
that pays no tax; and nearly all of
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
this vast property is given, free of B ut gloriously, but gloriously,
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
he victory was w rought,
charge, police and fire protection W T hen
tru sty tim e took up th e sw ord,
SEE TH E
v’E L Y PR O D U CTIO N S
arid all other benefits that the tax­ And th y own b a ttle fought.
JU ST T H E T H IN G
payer can claim for his, because the Y es, gloriously! yes, gloriously!
.BY OU K.
to h an d to your C h ristia n frien d s. Send
rents go to the service of God. F o r now’ th ro u g h o u t o u r land,
None dare th e sacred conscience touch
2 cen ts for 6, o r 6 cents for 25 tra c ts,
Among the most notorious exam­ W ith sacrilegious h an d .
to E liza M owry B livkn , Brook­
C hicago T r im m e r !
lyn, C o n n ., or send 10 cen ts
ples are the Illinois Trust and Sav­ Yes, gloriously! yes, gloriously!
for 50, e ith e r k i n d o r a s­
ings Bank property, valued at $2,- For l o ! th ro u g h o u t th e world,
sorted k in d s, to
tru th is push in g on th e w ar,
000,000; the Young Men’s Chris­ T he W ith
banners high u n fu rled .
291 C om m ercial S treet,
tian Association office building, val­
—[Copied from Religious Domi­
THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.,
ued at $1,700,000, and many others
nation,by
Joseph
Belcher,
published
Oregon
OREGO N Silverton
SALEM
of less value, but in most instances
running into hundreds of thous­ in 1856.
ands.
. . . . F o rstners’s . . . .
Why?
If a man is robbed, it is of little
consequence to him whether he is
Will some kindly disposed Spirit­
robbed according to law or in vio­ ualist please tell me why the
IS IN V A L Ü A B E TO
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lation of it, so long as he has no re­ spirits of those persons who lost
C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g ,
such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak e s th e
dress, but our Christian friends do their lives on the steamer Port-t
place of chisel an d gouge; to
both. While the law gives them land last year have not returned to Main S treet
S ilv e rto n , O re’
C a b in e t M a k e rs , for in laid w ork, dow-
the right to withdraw property to inform their friends and relatives
elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and
k n o ts. In fact, no
any amount from the tax list on where, when and how the accident
AERY A COMPLETE STOCK OF
W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r­
condition that they use it for relig­ occurred to the boat, and who is, or
e r of pianos, organs, sewing m ach in es,
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a g ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash, blinds,
ious purposes, it does not allow was, responsible for the loss of one
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fu rn itu re , nor
then to devote it to legitimate com­ hundred and sixtv-five, more or
A n y O th e r W o o d w o rk e r, should I>e
mercial use without paying tax.
School
w ith o u t it.
less, lives on that awful night?
If the citizens’ movement con­
If the spirits of people who die
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS DNEQÜALED.
S u p p lie s ,
tinues, a good many more millions’ here in our midst on terra firma
It is th e only ronnd hit in th e world
worth of exempt property is likely can. and do, return and communi­
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th a t will bore a SQ U A R E H O L E
and do all th a t any o th e r
to be found; but the great trouble cate with us, as is claimed by Spir­
b it will do.
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with movements of this kind is itualists and others, whv cannot
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that they have a habit of dying those who die at sea do the same?
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Single b it, p o s tp a id ............ ..................... 60
and dropping out of sight, for some What is there to binder? It is
unexplained reason, before much of strange, indeed, that out of that D ealers in F ru its, Vegetables
Add ress, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.
real value is accomplished. I hope number of persons, who went down
and
C
onfectionery.
S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n .
the movement will result in com­ to a cold and watery grave, not one,
pelling the church to show a more as yet, has been back to enlighten
decent respect for the rights of us in regard to the catastrophe.
others.
I don’t care a rap what Spiritual­
ists may think or believe about it, I
want to know what they know.
Looking Back 300 Years.
How absurd, how utterly foolish,
Roger Williams was born of hum- is the assertion that “guardian an­
rde parents in Wales about 1599. gels are hovering around and over
PR IC ES L O W E R T H A N E V E R .
He became a resolute dissenter from us day and night, protecting( ?) us
ecclesiastical establishment. He from all harm,” etc. What mock­
We hav e ab o u t 75 Dewey su its, enough
to clothe a com pany of
»ailed with his wife Dec. 1, 1630, to ery! What rot!
young A m ericans.
this country, and arrived at Nan­
For nearly forty years I have
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B ring y o u r boys an d girls along. $1.25 shoes reduced
tucket Feb. 5, 1631. Not many been quietly investigating so-called
^ H O C S » to 75 c e n ts; $1 .50 shoes reduced to $1.00. f a p
vears
afterward he w-as accused of “modern Spiritualism.” My ex­
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‘ embracing principles which tend­ perience has been varied and exten­
ed to anabaptism.” He was “hunt­ sive, having witnessed every phase Mail O rders P ro m p tly A tten d ed To. Sam ples Sent tr e e
ed like a partridge upon the moun­ of mediumship, from raps and table
on A pplication.
tains,” and was at length driven tipping to full form materializa­
D R E Y E R & C R A IG
from the colony. He sought and tions; and today finds me more
T h e O n e -P ric e M e rc h a n ts ,
found among the Indians, of what skeptical than ever before.
SILVERTON ’
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OREGON.
Glendower is made to say.
say, by
is now called Rhode Island, the
PR O D U C E TAKEN
rest denied to him by Christians. Shakespeare, “I can call spirits STRICTLY ONE PRICE
He, with ten others, in 1639 formed from their vasty deep!” To which
Hotspur very ironically replies:
the first Baptist church at Provi­ “ Why, so can I, or so can any man, O u r Job D e p a rtm e n t
dence. The inscription on the bell but will they come when you do
ALW A YS G IV E S
of this church edifice is as follows: call for them?”
Belief in a hereafter is not, and
“ For freedom of conscience th e tow n wa9
never was, universal. The Saddu-
first planted ;
Persuasion, not force, was used by th e cees did not believe it. The nu­
people;
merous tribes of Indians in North
This church is th e oldest and has not America, when first discovered, did
B E C A U SE IT G IV E S
recanted,
not.
Belief
is
not
knowledge.—[In­
Enjoying, and g ran tin g , bell, tem ple
H O N E S T STOCK, F IN E S T IN K A N D E X C E L L E N T W O R K flA N S H IP
vestigator.
and steeple.”
MRS. D. L. FIESTER. PROP.
KINNEY
PORTER
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UNDER FIRE!
A H e a v y A d v a n c e A lo n g j t h e
L in e !
Dewey S u its.
$1.25
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