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T H E TORCH OF R E A SO N , SIL V E R T O N , O R EG O N , MARCH 30, 1899.
doctrines cause!
In a country
S u n d a y in t h e C o u n try .
Yes, the establishm ent of the
where one can sit down to such a
Liberal University is, we believe,
Our friend and co-worker, Mr. d inner as Mrs. Klein and her
the grandest movement th at was
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
H E. Klein, has been sick for sev­ daughters prepared for us — in a
ever undertaken in America or in
eral weeks, but as he is now con- land where nature has done so
If, after learning of
P ublished W eekly by th e Liberal I Di­ the world.
| valesceut and can en tertain com ­ m uch, why, O why can not we get
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
the opposition of the fiendish pow­
C onstructive, '.Moral Secularism .
pany, Mr. Ju liu s F isher, an o th er rid of the old hobgoblins and be
er above mentioned and how it
substantial Secularist of this land free? We will be free! We m ust
is
applauded
by
the
orthodox,
J. E. H osm er,....................... Editor
of F reethought, and ye editor “ cut he free!
P. W . Geer......................... Manager who love to see the fiendish cross lots” last Sunday to visit our
As we walk home after our pleas­
opposers of the home and of scien­
brother out of Christ.
an t visit and exchange of promises
E ntered a t th e postoffice a t Silverton, tific thought flourish rath er than
The
day
was
a
lovely
one
—
of sim ilar good times in the near
Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter.
have a respectable institution exist
bright ami balm y. In the distance future, we are strengthened n r
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in the name of F reethought, we had
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m ajestic Mt. Hood glistened, white the weeks’, the m onths’ and the
not thought th a t we were right in
pyram idal m onum ent to the a n ­ years’ work before us; an d we vow
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Six m onths, in a d v an c e ....................
50 tion as we propose to establish cient giant powers th a t formed this th at not one opportu n ity shall
T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................
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most wonderful region. Beautiful “ pass us by” to help m ake this
would be the pivot on which would
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
in advance.......................................
*5 turn the moral, secular, scientific green fields of wheat, the finest pas­ earth such a happy home as it
tures with succulent grasses, where should be for the producers, and
Money should Ire sent by registered
religion of hum anity, we would
le tte r or m oney order.
sheep and cattle lazily grazed or the others whose success depends
have given up. But no, our faith
lay chewing their cuds, fine m od­ upon the workers’ freedom and the
/Notice!
in our work is based on facts and
ern farm houses with beautiful right to enjoy unm olested the fruits
is stronger today than it was three
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes years ago w hen we first began to flowers in front, groves of second- 1 of their own labors.
th a t your su b scrip tio n has expired.
grow’th oak and fir where hide the
You áre e arn estly requested to re ­ form ulate our plans. Ami w hat is
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­ three years, when com pared with silver grey and them ongolian pheas­
W a itin g for E v id e n c e .
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­
an t, old and young orchards, em ­
cided th a t it is best for all concerned the time th a t others have worked
th a t we do not send papers longer th an th a t we m ight have the degree of blems of plenty and promise, are
In the well-known F reethought
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
some of n a tu re ’s pictures we were
This will prevent any loss am i we will peace and freedom that we now’ en­
jo u rn al, the T ruthseeker, we read
happy to exam ine on our road.
know just where we stan d .
joy? As long as our school is pros­
am ong the objects ol its existence
We request you to send us th e nam es
We find our friend much better,
of Secularists who m ight become su b ­ pering, even though it he slowly,
the following:
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. we will not com plain; and although and as he shows us his fields,
“ It [speaking of their paper] de­
groves and other points of in te r­
we sometimes wish conditions were
nies the existence of the theological
TH U R S D A Y, MAR. 30, E. M. 299 better, yet we always think that est about the farm , we can not help
heaven and hell, but as to the ex­
thin k in g what a lovely world — istence and im m ortality of the soul
“ time is our in heritance” and if
w hat a heaven parts of this earth neither affirms nor denies. It waits
A F ie n d is h O b s e s s io n .
properly used will gain for us the
could he m ade. But no, it is only for evidence.”
victory.
The following is taken from a
Yes, brother, the frozen clogs w ill glim pses th at we can get of an
There is a reason for every thing,
kind letter written by one who,
earth
ly
paradise
as
long
as
super­
soon thaw. We only lack the sup­
ami we wonder why it is th at our
though far away from the scene of
stition
has
its
vile
clutches
upon
port that a few can easily give, and
brothers in the work of freeing the
battle, knows w hat our victory will
our
throats.
Mr.
Klein
is
an
ex-
the superstitious and the worse than
slaves of superstition deny the ex­
mean to hum anity.
It suggests to
C
atholic,and
the
faithful
(?)
priests,
superstitious will soon wonder why
istence of one kind of a heaven and
us the idea of the oneness of ortho­
as
soon
as
our
friend
was
taken
their gods ever allowed such an ene­
hell after death, yet are careful
doxy and th at infidel element th at,
sick,
flocked
to
his
aid
and
offered
my as the Liberal U niversity to
about affirm ing or denying the
like its parent,the C hristian church,
him
—
urged
h
im
—
alm
ost
if
not
spring up in their reckless, C hris­
other kind.
It m ay
be all
is hindering and destroying the
quite
tried
t<
»
force
him
back
into
tian midst.
right to w ait for evidence if they
good done by all lovers of tru th
the church. W hen a man is down think there is any chance of secur­
and right. H ere is the q u o tatio n :
is the tim e the cow ardly saints ing it, hut they will wait a long
E a rth ly H e ll.
“ I am surprised th a t the Liberal
pitch onto him .
Finally they got tim e t >r evidence of an im m ortal
U niversity fails to get the support
Eternal torm ent can he no worse his permission to pray. This point soul. The fact is th at this idea is as
it deserves.
I sometimes think to bear than a torm ent that is just
gained, they then urged the poor, great and as injurious a su persti­
there is some fiendish obsessing
power holding hack or restraining as torm enting though only a life­ weak man to take the holy sacra­ tion as the theological heaven and
Now we know m ent; hut no, even in his w eak­
the grandest movement th a t ever time in duration.
hell notion, and we believe th a t our
was undertaken in America.
I th at certain causes always produce ness, alm ost crazed with ex h au s­
would say, never give it up, as the an earthly hell, while there is no tion and disease, they could not contem porary knows it. W hat can
be the reason then for such a state­
frozen clogs may he thawed loose
proof of the one the preacher tells force this upon him.
F inally, the
and knocked off after a w h ile /’
m ent?
about, which is prepared for those priests being forbidden to enter
In these days of policy, one n a t­
Our friend is right in his “ some­
who do not believe on the Lord and the house, his sickness, which was urally looks first for the reason of
tim e” thoughts. There is a fiend­
Savior Jesus C hrist. In view of of a ch aracter requiring freedom
such things along the financial
ish power at work, and although it
the fact th at preachers have no way from excitem ent, began to leave
line.
Now if the Torch of Reason
has never m ade us budge from our
of finding out these things more him.
were a policy paper, and cared more
position, it has prevented much
There is an interesting history to
than we have, and th at we know of
for subscribers th a n for doing good,
th a t we m ight have accomplished.
no proof th a t the silly idea of be­ th is case which furnishes another
it would cater to the large class
This enemy was a surprise to us at
lief in a soothsayer of nineteen chapter in the awful book of relig­
who, although they call them selves
first,but we arc now fully acq u ain t­
hundred years ago is necessary to ious intolerance, but space forbids
infidels, believe in the “existence
ed with its m ethods and its
Suffice it to say th at
our eternal rest, we think it the its recital.
and im m ortality of the soul” .
strength, and are not atraid
part of wisdom to spend our time our friend still resists one of the
‘‘Never give it up” ? No indeed.
We believe in F reethought and
trying to prevent ourselves and our greatest forces of superstition which
Giving up is the idea farthest from
in being free to express free
fellows from the hell th a t we know has been brought to bear upon him
our m inds. We are working, and
— the same force which has swept thoughts. If any one believes in a
exists.
we have been tau g h t that “ labor
Walk along the streets of any m any who would be free, back into soul and in its im m ortality he is
om nia viucit” . Labor is conquer­ city and you can see men, women the slim y current. For the sake of no less our brother, but we should
ing everything; for the obsession ami children w rithing in as awful their church they would rob it m an be no less his brother if we say
of th a t element am ong the ranks of a hell as any hum an m ind can pos­ of his home, make him a hypocrite, frankly th a t we do not believe in
Liberalism which alw ays attack s sibly conceive.
The fact
Unbelief is not or drive him to despair and then anything of the kind.
every organized effort among us, w hat brings this kind of hell, for
point to him as an exam ple of infi­ th a t there is no proof th a t there
and especially if it be of a n atu re most of them are not to blame for delity. But their form er power is exists in man an im m ortal soul is
th a t brings their creed or loose the hell they are in. How to keep
broken forever, and they m ust de­ proof enough to us th a t there is no
out
and
keep
others
out
of
the
only
ideas into question, is powerless to
such thing; and especially do we
hell there is. is to study, teach and cline, and we are happy to believe
overcome us, although it has to preach .he Religion of H um anity,
th a t in this case they have met deny its existence when we think
some extent postponed our Secular whose savior is Science, and whose m ore than their m atch.
how hard priests (of all kinds)have
god is All T ruth.
triu m p h .
But what trouble the old spook worked to prove it and how
Torch of Reason