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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1899)
3 T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, JU L Y 20, 1899. i other relics which h* cherishes. A u th o rity in R eligion. above their own individual con- _______ science — to the Rom an Catholic The New Y ork Sun, discussing church. The m ovem ent th a t car- •l,“‘ . . f nnfi J ,o r t acq u ain tan ce I am q u ite • vorably im pressed with him . He seems"to be a m an in every sense the word and I am anxious to L o m e bet’ter acquainted. T he ~----- * 1 train pulled in all too soon, ami I had to bid good-bye to my newly made friends, with an earnest in- ^ifation to call again. The last I " M r Bliveu, he was waving ba" oi all -ir. as I looked , i firew from the car the projected union of all sort» of C hristians, including those who de- deny the m iraculous incarnation and special divinity of the founder , . . ------ of C h ristian ity , says The unbelievers, as we h iv e said, m ay com bine to get up a new C h iis H a n iL w ith a" purely ethical sv su m as i subs,itu'te for the old . o , io g ^ «.-a tiie B ut au« th e believers, wh**FP where nndow. I wish I could have re probable th a t tbey wm undergo a turi<ed with him to his delightful cbange of sentim ent tow ard the b a s s o o n in H artfo rd , Conn., w h k h th e y w iU be in ^ y m p a th ^ ’so ned Newman »»d h l. “ s’‘' ,c1“ ''’ out of the cl.urcl. of E n g lan d and landed them In lhe church of Rom . j gave notice to the world of a tend- ency th a t close observers had long been aw are of; and though no such personality as N ew m an’s has re- cently been connected with it, i t i s still in continuous operattom No j R t he Rom a n Ca t hoi ic ch u rc h l tsel f wholly free from the tendency. But of course in the Rom an Catholic church it can never be outspoken. There are those who want and m ust RIGHT LIVING 18 A BO OK O F S i x t f v e E x c e lle n t C h a p te rs T ., . pnnncb to visit far as concerns the infallibility of have absolute au th o rity in theology On tb e follow ing and where I tdaid oug 6 Bible, while they m ust tu rn religion, and through the ages k in d red S u b jects: the Capitol, and get a bird s-eye away sharply from the infidelity of to come the Rom an Catholic church view of the city an d th e C onnecti the Briggs disciples. Really the must be more and more th eir S e lf C o n tro l cut! River V alley. By eleven great rock of defense of the inspira refuge.—[O regonian. , tion of the scriptures is now the o’clock I was in M eriden, and lost The above, from the editorial j S d f R © S p © C t R om an church, and its exclusion no time in finding the hom e of Mr. from consideration by the proposed Griswold, the m ost interested F ree conference on religious unity sug page of one of our leading newspa- W h a t IS M o r a l i t y thinker in the city. I was invited gests th at th e m ovem ent is propel pers, shows th a t F reethinkers are W h a t is Ignorance to dinner, and enjoyed a good visit led specifically by the new unbelief driving the P rotestant children j with Mrs. Griswold, who, by the in the Bible. T h at it is a project back to th eir m other, wheie they 1 Fraud a C rim e for u n itv in unbelief rath er than way, does not agree w ith her hns- belief, for a sort of agnostic com will rem ain until the “good fight” H a b it, 2n d N a tu re band on the subject of religion. bination, the interest in and sym P o liten ess Mr. Griswold is quite an aged m an, pathy with it m anifested by Unit- between science and faith is over. but is bright and active and exceed ariaus seem to bear witness. A descriptive catalogue of all the W isdom ingly good com pany. He is in te r It is unquestionable th a t the , e tc ., e tc . ested in a hardw are firm, in which tendency to unbelief in the dogm at best F reeth o u g b t works free on a p plication to Dellquest & Andrews, nearly all the em ployees own shares ic theology of C hristianity, so p re One of th ese c h a p te rs is uf stock, an d everything goes on valent am ong P ro te s ttn t sects, will S ecular Booksellers, LI I aso, lex as. W orth m ore to Y oung and old th a n tbe harm oniously. T he Liberal U ni drive a class of m inds th at must Price of tb e book. Are you acquainted with the versity strikes Mr. G risw old as a have au th o rity in religion an e x m erits.of the F o rstn er auger bit? grand enterprise, and he has ex tern al and IT SHOULD BE IN . assertive au th o rity pressed in a su b stan tial way his in tention of helping to m ake it a suc G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — cess. After looking through his place of business, Mr. Griswold ac companied me to the depot, where a n d re c e iv e a we waited for a train for New \ ork, n e a tly c lo th - when we p arted com pany, aft< r a b o u n d co p y, p ost p a id . very satisfactory visit of four hours. I now consider th a t I have been A G E N T S W ANTED. East, in fact, so far E ast th a t the people think th a t Chicago is in the -A D D R E S S - far West, while Oregon is so far away th a t it m akes one shudder to fl new family medical Work think of going there. Some of the bv Dr. 3. fi- Greer, C W c a flQ *^ — O regon S ilv e r t o n New E nglanders th in k th a t New I l l s l>ook is up to d ate in every p a r York city is in the W est, while it tic u la r. only takes five hours to reach it by I t tells you how to cure yourself . . . F o r s tn c r s ’ s . . . . hv sim ple and h arm less hom e re m train. They th in k P ortland and edies. San Francisco are in the sam e It recom m ends no poisonous or neighborhood, and some even in dangerous d ru g s. I t teach es sim ple com nion-sense m eth o d s in clude Salt Lake C ity in the same accordance w ith n a tu re 's law s. . . IS IN V A L O A B E TO locality. There is nothing so very I t does not endorse d ang ero u s e x p erim ets w ith C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , strange in th at, however, for I have th e su rg e o n ’s knife. 6 . I t teaches how’ to save h e alth and life by salt such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e seen people in the W est who con- methods. place of chisel an d gouge; to aider th a t Chicago, Boston, W ash- I t is e n tirely free from tech n ical ru b b ish . C a b in e t M a k e rs , for inlaid w ork, dow- $3 $ 3 |E V E R Y . H O M E ! A PHYSICIAN THE HOUSE ToifGh of R eason lU 'lf 6 . I t teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tte r to know lngton and New i ork, are a lm o s t bow to avoid disease th a n to tak e any m edicine in the sam e neighborhood. The j as a cure. Western people are nearer rig h t I t teavl.es how ty p h o id andpother ie v e rs^ a n |< ,„ r la H ♦ X• : at f t ic b oth p rev en ted and cured, an d gives tn e oesr k h u m i u r a im c iii b h than our friends in the E ast. It is c a U rrh (.on8UInption> ap p en d icitis and every o th e r disease, too bad we canuot travel more and I t ig n o t an a d v ertisem en t a n d has no m edicine to sell. become better acquainted. It m akes uncom prom ising war on vaccination and th e use o an i- o x in t. It h as 16 c o lo re d p la te s show ing d ifferent p a rts of the; h u m a n T his book can n o t tail to please you. If yon a re looking or i ellin g , patch in g , rem oving sp lits and k n o ts. I n f a c t .n o d ip - W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r > e r of pianos, organs, sew ing m ach in es, ag ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash, blinds, fu rn itu re , nor A n y O th e r W o o d w o r k e r , s h o u ld l»e . w ith o u t it. 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