TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 29 1899. PRODUCE S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E Just For Fun. DREYER RFFl RAYS. X ' 7» Mamie xr • had l „, i K t r u c ECTED vi v five.year oid 5<xx><xxxxxxx>o<xxxx>o<xxxxx> listening attentively to the Nothing is more becoming to a gtQr^ of the Inaggacre of the child- reasonable person than tolerance of rfcn at Beth|ehem> and after it was U U r the opinions of others. [Ex. finished her mother asked her what It is seldom that meanness of she thought of it. “ Well,” she re N e w disposition is found associated with pijed, “I think God was aw ful' high mental attainm ents.—[Com- selfiHh to save his own little hoy C arp ets mon Sense. and nobody else’s.”—[Unity. are Those who disbelieve in virtue ig narrated that a New Eng- because a man has never been lantj preacher the other day was, Big found perfect, might as reasonably horrified d uring his sermon by dis- deny the sun, because it is not al coverjng his son in the gallery pelt- S e lle rs ways noon.—[Ex. ing his hearers in the pews below Apostate Christians are more con- with peanuts. But while the good cerned about leaving the earth on man was preparing a frown of re- gome star-bound journey than they | proof, the young hopeful cried out: are about making the world better “ You teud to your preaching S IL V E R T O N ■■■ for the rising generation. [Flam daddy; I ’ll keep ’em awake.” & C R A IG you ordered your Spring Suit yet? The fact th a t we are the clothiers of Silverton, we would ru n a great risk if we did not know our clothing, for we g u aran tee it, and only good clothing can bear such a guarantee. H ave If you w ant to get acquainted w ith us w ithout spending m uch, trv •/ one of our ready m ade suits a t................ $7 DREYER An American soldier who had been ill for a long time with fever fell into a state of coma recently, and was declared to be dead. 1 he night preceding the day fixed for his burial he regained conscious ness and scrambled out of his coffin. Attendants rushed in and stimulants were applied, and the supposed dead man soon recovered. Men can never understand the In relating the facts he assured bis fear of everlasting punishment that hearers that when he appeared to fills the souls of women and chil be dying the experience was very dren. The orthodox religion, as pleasaut, but when he began to re drawn from the Bible and ex cover consciousness he knew that pounded by the church, is enough he was not dead because his feet to drive the most imaginative and were cold and he was hungry. “I sensitive natures to despair and don’t understand what you meau,” death.—[Elizabeth Cady Stanton. said a bystander. “ Well,” replied The story of Jesus has the ap the man, “I knew if I were in pearance of having been written in heaven 1 shouldn’t be hungry, and the dark. It will not bear criti if I were in hell my feet wouldn’t cism as a biography, and as a ro be cold.”—[Commoner. mance its hero lacks sentiment. Jesus is painted too divine for a A descriptive catalogue of all the man and too human for a god. It best Freethougbt works free on ap remains for the world to make him plication to Dellquest & Andrews, one or the other, or to admit that Secular Booksellers, El Paso, Texas. he is but the thought of man pic tured in words.—[Investigator. ing Sword. Some men will not shave on Sun day, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow men; and many folks think it is very wicked to blacken their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor’s reputation on week-days.—[Beecher. • • • • TME These are troublous times. The B arb er Shop trouble is everywhere: in politics, N e w Next Door to M o rley ’». in the social system, in religion. But the storm centre seems to be A. A. A R M S T R O N G , P R O P . Shaving, 10c.; Hair Cutting 15c. in the region of religion. The fun damental beliefs on which our social system has partly rested are Six Tracts to Promote giving way. To replace them be fore the edifice falls, and at the same time to gain such knowledge as may he attainable of man’s es tate and destiny, thought must be entirely free.—[Goldwin Smith. In Place of C h ristia n ity : S cie n tific W isd o m One good man and a kind man said that he believed in the Devil, an actual, living, personal Devil, who was attending to business; and that all the evidence that he need V 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil ization? 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. Does Belief in Miracles 5 ______ , ______ - - Benefit? id to c o n v in c e h im of th e e x is te n c e 6 Immortality or Annihilation? »f this devil was furnished by my life and my lectures. He undoubt- pdly was a good man; and when I read these sermons and these au- swers, in spite of myself there came into my mind a line from Heinrich Heine: “Christ rode an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.—[Inger soll. 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