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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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