3 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JUNE 29, 1899. RIGHT j. ,r the Torch of Reason. material surface of things and hands and feet, t'nat it is I myself; j j .¡sm or C hristian Science, found their spiritual cause.” handle me and see, lor a s p i r i t --------- The disciples whom Jesus “sent hath not flesh or bone as ye see me forth by two and two and gave have, said the risen Christ, by mbs . m . m . turner . them pow’er over uncleau spirits The Episcopal church teaches Mrs Eddy uses the term science, went out and preached; they cast that, having been crucified, ( hrist w J -w iniugly not knowing what science out many devils and annotated rose again from death and took W She does not appear to recog- with oil many that were sick, and again his body with flesh and is. bones and all things pertaining to nize the fact that that which is healed them.” . . . IS A BOOK OF . . . t?ed on assertion alone has no One who was deaf and had an the perfection of man’s nature.” impediment in his speech was Mrs. Eddy seems to think she claim to be called science. The cardinal doctrine of Chris- brought to Jesus, “ who took him knows better than the Episcopal tian Science, according to Mrs. aside and put his fingers in his church, or Christ himself, as to the Eddy, “is that the soul (whatever ears, and he spit and touched his nature of his body. that may be), through the power of tongue . . his ears were opened Theories such as Mrs. Eddy’s God triumphs over sickness and and his tongue loosened.” and others are the natural weedy » Jesus “took the blind man by growth of a superstition which is In her book, “Science and the hand and led him out of the itself the resultant of the fear and On the following and Health,” Mrs. Eddy says: The fun- town; and when he had spit on his igi orauce of the dark ages. kindred Subjects : i m ------------------ damental principles of Christian eyes and put his hands upon h . . he was restored to sight.” LOCALS. Science are summarized in the four S e lf C o n tro l “ As Jesus passed by he saw a following, to me, evident, propo Woodworkers, don’t forget to send an 1 sitions. Even if read backwards, man who was blind from his birth. order for a set of the Forstner Auger | S e lf R esp ect Price, $2.60 by mail. See ad. these propositions will be found to . . . \\ hen he had spoken, he W h a t is M o ra lity Money to patent good ideas may he agree in statement and proof: 1st, spat on the ground and made clay W h a t is Ignorance God is all in all; 2d, God is good. of the spittle, and he annotated the secured by our aid. Address T he P at - God is mind; 3d, God, Spirit, be eyes of the blind man with the knt R ecord , Baltimore, Md. Fraud a C rim e Remember our clubbing rate with the ing all, nothing is matter; 4th, clay.” Might not some drugs be as effi Oregonian only lasts for a limited time. H a b it, 2nd N a tu re Life, God, Omnipotent Good deny Read our offer on page 7. death, evil, sin, disease; disease, cacious as spit, clay and oil? Such Ladies who wish cut hair or edmbings P oliteness sin, evil, death deny Good Omnipo texts are, presumably, the author woven into switches may leave their ity for many horrible concoctions orders at the Torch of Reason office. W isdom tent, God, Life. “Medicine is not a science, hut a used by the ignorant as remedies. Orders by mail promptly attended to. E tc ;, e tc ., e tc . Mrs. Eddy says: The Jews, who bundle of speculative human the One of these chapters is Our offer of the Torch of Reason ories........................ The rule and its sought to kill the man of God, Worth more to and the Oregonian for $1.50 is at Young and old than the showed plainly that their material perfection of operation in my sys Price of the book. tem never vary. If you fail to suc views were the parents of their an end and we now return to the ceed in any case, it is because you wicked deeds, To such material old rate of $1.75, which is very . . . IT SHOULD BE IN . . have not obeyed the rule or proved ists, the body which they laid in reasonable, and we hope to get the principle of Christian Science. he sepulchre seemed to be sub- many subscriptions to both papers. Torch of Reason, $1.00; Oregonian, “If God created drugs at all and gtance. Si. Luke, 24:39: Behold myl$L5Q—$2. 50 for only $l./5. designed them for medical use, why did not Jesus employ them and recommend them for the treatment an d re c e iv e a of disease? n e a tly c lo t h - “ Drugs, cataplasms and whisky b o u n d c o p y , p o s t p a id . are stupid substitutes for the dig nity and potency of Divine Mind AGENTS WANTED. and its power to heal. “The idols of civilization are far -------ADDRESS------- more fatal to health and longevity than the idols of barbarism. The Esquimaux restore health by in S ilverton - O regon cantations as effectually as civilized practitioners by their more studied methods. Is civilization only a SHOULD HELP TO BUILD . . . F o r s tn e r s ’s . . . . higher form of idolatry that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannel, to baths, diet, exercise AT SILVERTON, OREQON. and air? When there are fewer IS INVALUABE TO doctors, and less thought is given Carpenters and Joiners, for mortising, 1. It will help many young men and young women to sanitary methods, there will be such as letting in locks, as it takes the to a higher education who otherwise will grow up place of chisel and gouge; to better constitutions and less dis without its great advantages. Cabinet Makers, for inlaid work, dow- ease.” This doctrine ought to be elling, patching, removing splits and 2. It will educate workers for the great forward brought to the bar of reason and knots. In fact, no march of Freethought and Progress. science. Wagon or P attern Maker manufactur 3. It will forever silence the accusation that Secu er of pianos, organs, sewing machines, “ Never record ages. Minute agricultural implements, sash, blinds, larists have never done anything. chronological data are no part of furniture, nor 4. It will hasten the time when Reason and Love the vast forever. . . . But for Any Other Woodworker, should l»e will reign, and when superstition and hate will be without it. the error of limiting and measuring forever gone. all that is good and beautiful, we AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. 5. It will give you an opportunity to build yourself should enjoy more than threescore It is the only ronnd bit in the world and others a monument, while you yet live, that will that will bore a SQUARE HOLE years. We will continue to be al do a million times more good than the most costly and do all that any other ways beautiful and grand when one of cold, senseless marble. bit will do. mortal mind so decrees.................... PRICES. Set of five,different sizes,postpaid.. $2.60 Life is eternal. Beauty and good Single bit, postpaid............................. 60 If all help a little, w e can accom plish ness are immortal. m uch. W ill you help a little? “Jesus of Nazareth was the most : Address, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO. scientific man that ever trod the S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . globe. He plunged beneath the i S ix ty E x c e lle n t C h a p te rs EVERY . H0ME1 T©i[Gh of Reason The Liberal University