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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. MARC H 9, 1S99.
REFLECTED RAYS.
) O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
A Bible trust, it is reported, is
about being formed to advance the
price
r — of God’s holy
- word. Truth
would be conserved and the poor
would be enriched by a successful
trust in that direction.—[Ex.
At a dinner of the Literary So
ciety, Lord Houghton once said,
with reference to a statue that had
been lately found near Athens, that
when the Demarch telegraphed to
the lord mayor of London, “Phidi
as recovered,” the latter replied:
“Glad to hear it, but I didn’t know’
he had been ill.”
do not exert a harmful influence
upon the natives; they breed dis
content and stir up insurrections.
Early in the present century, the
English government endeavored to
prohibit missionaries from working
in India; it was then said it would
be betler for a ghipload of deviis to
come to India than a single mission-
ary.—[Flaming Sword.
Bloody Hand of Religion.
Do you ta k e th e
T o rch of Reason?
It is only One D ollar a Y ear, and
co n tain s reading m a tte r th a t you can
not get elsew here for th re e tim es the
m oney. It com es every week, too.
Do you ta k e th e
W e e k ly Oregonian?
I t is p u b lish ed a t P o rtla n d , ore.,
and c o n ta in s m ore arid b e tter infor
m ation in regard to th e Pacific
N o rth w est th an any o» her p ap er.an d
is th e best news p ap er in Oregon.
You get six teen pages of good rea d
ing m a tte r each week, including all
th e new s of th e nation and th e
w orld, for only $1.50 a year.
Six Trae’s to Promote
Scientific
W isdom
In Place of C h ristia n ity :
1 Can Sins be Foi given?
2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil
ization?
3 Is Religion or Sconce More Reliable?
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions..
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
6 Im m ortality or Annihilation?
Religion has placed its bloody
hand upon every age, every land
and every people, where its domin
JU S T T H 3 T H I NG
ion has been possible of establish W ill you a c c e p t
to ham l to y o u r C h ristia n frien d s. Send*.
ment.
It would require an elo
2 cen ts for H, or H cen ts for 25 trac ts,
A Good O ffer?
quence impossible of attainment to
to E liza M owry B livbn , Brook
For th e n e x t six ty «lays, you can !
lyn, C o n n ., or send 10 cents
get T he Torch of Reason and T he
Six or eight great Chicago pulpit adequately describe the ravages of
for 50, e ith e r kin«l or as
W eekly O regonian both one year for
this
monster.
Yet
let
an
Ingersoll
sorted kinds, to
orators are called by the New Eng
only $1.50, th e price of th e Oregon- 1
ian alone. T his is only a lim ited
land gods at higher salaries. If speak :
offer. You should tak e advantage
“The
sword
of
the
church
was
these clerical gentlemen are of any
of it a t once.
THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.,
unsheathed,
and
the
world
was
at
value in the world, it would be
.
.
Ore<,orr
Semi all o rd ers for su b sc rip tio n s and for S ilverton
manifest in the moral scale of the the mercy of ignorant and and in- |
sam p le copies to
furiated
priests,
whose
eyes
feasted
east, and in a corresponding lower
TH E TORCH OF R E A SO N ,
F o r s tn e rs ’s .
ing of the religious temperature in on the agonies they inflicted. Act
S
i
I
vert
o
n
,
Oregon.
the Chicago pews; but it will re ing, as they believed, under the I
-,
command
of
God,
stimulated
by
quire some delicate instrument to
IS INVALÜABE TO
the hope of infinite reward in an
detect the difference.—[Ex.
other world, hating heretics with
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 es th e
every drop of their beastial blood,
Missionaries Excluded.
place of chisel and gouge; to
AND
savage beyond description, merci
C a b in e t M a k e rs , for inlaid w ork, dow-
ellin g , patch in g , rem oving sp lits amt
less beyond conception, these in M a in S t r e e t
S ilv e r to n , O re
Delightful news comes from the
knots. In fa c t, no
famous priests, in a kind of fren
W a g o n o r P a t te r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r
Soudan in Africa. The British,un
AURY A COMPLETE STOCK OK
zied joy, leaped upon the helpless
er of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines,
der (iren. Kitchener, lately regained
ag ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash blinda,
victims of their rage. They crush
fu rn itu re , n o r
control of that vast empire hound
ed their houes in iron boots, tore
A
n
y O th e r W o o d w o rk e r, should I e
ing Egypt on the south, which was
School
w
ith o u t it.
their quivering flesh with iron
wrested Irom them a few years ago
hooks and pincers, cut oft'their lips
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUAL! B.
S u p p lie s ,
with the loss of Gen. Gordon and
and eyelids, pulled out their nails
It «s th e n n lv rn n n d hit in th e world
his arinv.
•* Gen. Kitchener has is- and into the bleeding quick thrust
Books and
th a t will I mh - c a SQ U A R E H O LE
sued orders, said to be approved by
ami «I«» all th a t any o th er
needles,
tore
out
their
tongues,
ex
ionery.
bit will do,
the home government, prohibiting
tinguished
their
eyes,
stretched
PRICES.
missionaries, either Catholic or Pro
Set of five,different sizes,postpaid ... 2.GO
them
upon
racks,
flayed
then
alive,
testant, from entering the territory
Single b it, p o s tp a id .................................. HO
crucified
them
with
their
heads
Dealers in F ruits, Vegetables
or in any manner interfering with
downward,
exposed
them
to
wild
the established religion, which is
A'W™, LIBERAL university co
beasts, burned them at the stake,
and C onfectionery.
Mohammedan.
S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n .
mocked
their
cries
and
groans,
rav
Attempts at Christian propagan
da against the wishes of the people ished their wives, robbed their chil
should not be tolerated anywhere. dren, and then prayed God to fin
The faith of Mohammed rescued all ish the holy work in hell.”—[F. W.
the countries where it has been in Snow, in Investigator.
troduced from idolatry, and it has
A Fact and an Underlying
saved the people from drunkenness,
Thought.
and many of the vices common to
Christian countries. But it is said
PRICES LOWER THAN EVER.
A Jewish newspaper organ, “The
they allow polygamy. And they,
i t ^ S We have a lo u t 75 Dewey su its, enough
in reply, sa y prostitution is un Voice,” reviewing the question.
clothe a com pany
known among them save in the “ Does the doctrine of eternal dam
$1.25
young A m ericans. P er su it, including cap ..................
nation
lead
to
insanity?”
replies:
great seaports visited by Chris
B ring y o u r boys and girls along. $1.25 shoes reduced
“Judaism neverbeleived and never
tians.
«¿711 J C N «
to 75 c e n ts; $1.50 shoes reduced to $1.00. _
!
taught
the
horrible,
unreasonable
A few p airs left a t .......................................................................................
In til we can reform our own so
doctrine
of
‘eternal
damnation,’
cial code, we should he silent in re
Mail O rders P rom ptly A ttended To. Sam ples Sent Free
gard to that of the half-civilized hence ‘religious insanity’ has been
on A pplication.
nations.
Reforms should com and is unknown among the Jews.’’
While the Jewish statement is an
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D R E Y E R &. C R A IG
mence at home, and spread by ex
unquestionable
fact
as
regards
non-
ample, not hv legal mandate.—
T h e O n e - P r ic e M e r c h a n t s ,
insanity
among
the
Jews,
there
is
[Progressive Thinker.
SIL V E R T O N
OREGON.
a thought underlying the narration S T R IC T L Y o n e p r ic e
P R O D U C E TA K EN
.
' worth considering. It is claimed
itt « more corruption infused I hy churchmen that Christianity is
, ..
ai
would break the an offshoot from Judaism. If so, O ur Job D e p a rtm e n t
ir.» ’ a,l<
reason General 'where did they get iheir endless
ALWAYS GIVES
dish
r> CO,nma,,der
the En- damnation theory? Do we h. ar the
>i FC r 1,1 Abyssinia, discour- answer? “ From Roman mythology,
dges »he in f u s in ng
g of
C h r is - from
r______ whence
u________
. '
o modern
modern Chris-
came I h ____
e e n t L i r e . ru
Chrir-
tian ideas
tnto the minds of the p an creed, with slight addition»,
Souda nese.
wheth r ♦>
raises the question changes in names, etc., borrowed
Bi CAUSE IT GIVES
Whether the Christian missionaries
r
.1
.
•
rv
10... Binaries froln other countries. ’— [Ex.
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