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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1899)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N , A U G U ST 3, 1899. 3 decided to walk. My route led me fore the Lord God m ade A dam and Lived at Home th e Gospel He across the Long Bridge, and I Eve. (See Gen. i., 27.) These Preached Abroad. thought o f th a t day in '61, when aphis pair, and then die—com m it C ontinued from 1st page, the Upiou troops ran across th a t hari-kari, so to say, in the act. The should enable them to reason and sam e bridge. I had only walked im pregnated femaie aphis proceed see for them selves. He stood on six miles th a t evening so I thought to bring forth other female aphis the bridge than spans the gu lf be a little exercise w ouldn’t h u rt me, already im pregnated, which bring tween science and religion, anil he and to make it a little more re a l forth other im pregnated females, passed over it, m erely asking us to istic I ran a sh o rt distance. It and so on, and the “ eternal ro u n d ” see th a t he did so. He did not was dark and I th o u g h t no one is kept up day in and day out all . . . IS A BOOK O F . . . claim to believe in God, but he be would see me, but I had not gone sum m er, by the whole lot of them . lieved in God’s universe, draw ing far when I ran into a m an fixing In fall they lay eggs again. So no line between. He cared not so som ething about the bridge. He with angels. The first angel created . S ix ty much for the soul to live as he did wanted to know’ why I was in such was im pregnated by God himself. th at its work shall live for the edi a hu rry , and I asked him if he (D on’t ask how, please). Then the E x c e lle n t fication. He worked for money, h a d n ’t heard of the b attle of Bull egg process began; and from the and he gave the money aw ay. He Run; he said he had, an d I told eggs are hatched more im pregnated C h a p te rs worked to educate, and it cost the him I w’as the last U nion soldier angels, and the “eternal ro u n d ” is public nothing. H e took not the On th e follow ing and just getting into W ashington. The still going on. Bible aw ay from th e babe, but he kin d red S ubjects : m an looked a little skeptical, but I We have been m ore lucky th an took it from the guilty conscience. walked on in to the city, and beat ordinary m ortals, and have secured He did not believe sc much in the electric car a few m om ents, be eight of the eggs. Please don’t ask teaching with words as he did by S e lf C o n tro l He believed in him self sides having the wonderful experi how we got them . I d o n ’t want my exam ple. S e lf R e s p e c t ence of crossing th e Long Bridge on valuable tim e taken up in answ er more than his or any other gospel, i because he believed his happiness foot. I am glad the C o n fed erate' ing foolish questions. Next thing depended on his own doings. He W h a t is M o r a lity you’li be asking how do I know believed more in the forgiveness of arm y w asn’t behind me. W h a t is Ig n o ra n c e these things. I know them in the the body than in the forgiveness of same way th a t you, my C hristian the guilty and self-condem ning con F raud a C rim e F o r the Torch of R eason. friend, kow th a t there are angels, science. He believed in the peace Angel E ggs. th a t is established and m aintained H a b it, 2 n d N a tu r e or a God, or a heaven, or a hell, or by reason, and he died, as he had a devil, or any of the other u n lived, a t peace with his own con P o lite n e s s B Y F . S. M A T T E S O N . knowable things th a t you claim to science. Ask if he has any friends, W is d o m “ Angels,” having the hum an form know. Isn ’t my claim as good as and perhaps they will come from yours? No? W ell, you can’t prove the retreats of a changing world. and feathered wings, p artak e of the th a t I don’t know these things, and Ask if he will he forgotten, and you E tc , e tc ., e tc . nature of both anim als and fowls. th a t is usually good C hristian a r will see, in the daw ning of another One of these c h a p te rs is W orth m ore to They are not, however, m am m als, gum ent. And if th a t isn ’t proof day, the gathering p ro f ile of a m ys Y oung and old th a n th e enough, see the eggs in the Liberal terious m onum ent, th a t may harden secrete no lacteal fluid, and there Price of th e hook. U niversity Museum, or call on the into a corner-stone of a new u n d er fore do not suckle th eir young. writer, a t T urner, Oregon, U. S. A. standing.—[O regonian. It would h ard ly be consistent for . . . IT SHOULD BE IN . . an “ allwise providence” to “ create” a race of sem i-hum an beings, so $ 3 — G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — $ 3 pure and “ holy” as these celestial in h ab itan ts, who should be under the necessity of “ know ing” each $ 0 . ® © a n d re c c iv e a other “carn ally , after the m anner n e a tly c lo t h - of m en,” in order to the propoga- b ou nd co p y, p ost p a id . tion of th eir species. S o angels are all females. A t least, no one ¿¡GENTS W ANTED. ever hears of m ale angels. No doubt, however, th a t if God had -------- A D U R E S S -------- been a female, he would have made B new Tamilv medical Ulork the angels all males. But he d id n ’t. T©i|Gh o f H e a s e n And it is not for us poor weak bV Dr. X R. fireer, Chicago«««««««««« S il v e r t o n - O reg o n worms of the dust, to criticise the H IS book is u p to d a te in every par- tieul r. wisdom of the A lm ighty. So the angels lay eggs, and put them under . . . F o r s tn e r s ’s . . . . the “ great white th ro n e,” where the warm fervor of the w orshipping It tells you how to cure yourself throng hatches them out, and they by sim ple and h a rm less hom e re m edies. are fed with liquid am brosial nec IS in v a l u a b e to It recom m ends no poisonous or tar, from a crystal bottle, with a dangerous d ru g s. C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , golden nipple, and hose of twisted It teaches sim ple corn m on-sense m ethods in such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak e s th e w ith n a tu r e ’s laws. “ holy smoke.” W hen they are accordance place of chisel a n d gouge; to It does not endorse d angerous e x p e rim e ts w ith weaned, they are fed on am brosia th e su rg e o n ’s knife. C a b in e t M a k e rs , for inlaid w ork, dow- It teaches how to save h ealth and life bv safe ellin g , p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and straig h t, u n til they are old enough m ethods. k n o ts. In fact, no I t is e n tirely free from technical ru b b ish . to cut teeth, and can chew celestial W a g o n o r P a t te r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r I t teach e s.p re v en tio n —th a t it is b e tte r to know m anna. e r of pianos, organs, sew ing m ach in es, how to avoid disease th a n to tak e anv m edicine RIGHT LIVING EVERY HOME! A PHYSICIAN IN THE HOUSE T I have sai<l th a t angels do not propagate after the m anner of men. But as there m ust be a way to m an- age the m atter, it is after t h e m an ner of the aphis, only a little m ine so, as they are more p e rn c t beings. The aphis (p la n t lice) are p ro d u c'd from eggs deposited the p r e v io u s autum n on twigs of w hatever t n e or plan t they feed on. They are hatched male and female, same as God created the first pair of j»eo- ple— the p air th a t was created he- ag ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash, b lin d s, as a c u re . fu rn itu re , nor It teaches bow typhoid and other fevers can be ----------------------------------------- both prevented ami cured, and gives th e best know n trea t merit lor la g rip j e, d ip A n y O th er W o o d w o rk e r, should he th e ria , c a ta rrh , co n su m p tio n , a p p en d icitis and every o th e r disease. w ith o u t it. It is not an a d v ertisem en t and has no m edicine to sell. of It m akes uncom prom ising w ar on vaccination and th e use of a n ti-to x in rolesnor e . 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