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i other relics which h* cherishes.
A u th o rity in R eligion.
above their own individual con-
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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
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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
, . .
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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.
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.
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-
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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
♦
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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
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anil easieH m em ,e, do n
o
t
p h „ iciall in Chicago, is Professor of
have some letterheads printed with
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