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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
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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 :
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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
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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
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death, evil, sin, disease; disease, cacious as spit, clay and oil? Such
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sin, evil, death deny Good Omnipo­ texts are, presumably, the author­ woven into switches may leave their
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“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
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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.
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“If God created drugs at all and gtance.
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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
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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....................
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Life is eternal. Beauty and good­
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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
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