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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1899)
•> •J TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 31, D99. prosperous, is loved by his family and neighbors, and lives for what there is in this life. H is kind wife sym pathizes with him in the Secu- lar work, and is president of the women’s club in the neighl>orhood. Miss Nellie proposes to devote her life to im proving the condition of woman and all m ankind, and has decided th a t to Secularize and Lib- eralize the world is the proper way. There is a bright future before the young lady, and the Secular cause will hear from her. Mr. V an Ness is enthusiastic in the cause of the Liberal U niversity, and I am pleased to announce him as one of its supporters. F or the Torch of Reason. Sunday E vening, June 18, 1899. BY MRS. M. M. T U R N ER . power outside of nature, but th a t it m ust appeal to Nature, and by love of, and obedience to the changeless and uniform laws of the universe, redeem itself, binding all hum an hearts in love by these laws. It is well! It is well! sounded the clos- ing notes; and from the furthest distance the m ind could reach seem- ed to come the response: It is well! It is well! It is well! Heavy Reductions . . . . IN . L A D IE S ’ 5 K IR T S . L ad ies’ S k ir ts ,.......... L adies’ S kirts, L adies’ S k irts ,.......... . . . . $ .H5, reduced to $ .60 1.65, reduced to 1.25 .............. 2.60, reduced to 1.25 A fortunate chance aw aits those of v o n who have need of . . . F o r th e T orch o f Reason. SH IR T W A ISTS . . . . S h irt W a is ts ,............................................................ $ .60, reduced to $ .35 S h irt W a ists,.................................................................. 90, reduced to .75 S h irt W a is ts ,.................................................. 1.25, reduced to .90 Corrections. BY JOHN P. GUILD. S e e o u r S h o e A d . in th e A p p e a l . . . . In H enry M. T aber’s chapter on Mail Orders Promptly Attended to. Samples Sent Free on Application. “ Intolerance” , reprinted from his “ F aith or F a c t”, in the Ju n e 8th Torch, I notice one blunder as to the facts. He says th a t Aimer S IL V E R T O N , O R E G O N K neeland was im prisoned “ for dif ST R IC T L Y O N E PR IC E P R O D U C E TAKEN fering from the o r th o d o x on the question of uni verbalism ”. The T h e G re a t facts were, he was im prisoned by the U niversalists themselves, the prosecutor and condem ning judges being of th at faith, the m inority for acquittal being orthodox Congrega- No Need to Suffer from A nv Disease. tionaliets, on the charge of publish ing “ A theism ” in saying, “ The dif : E lix ir B a c te r ia c id e ference between the U niversalists V I T Æ - C R E , E u c a ly p tu s O il and me is, they believe in a god, I O r e - O lin e 1 M e d ic a te d S o a p which I do not” , the comma being an error of his printer, as h e showed PEARL W . GEER Agent in court. About 7 p. ra. one can be alone on the Steel Pier at A tlantic City, N. J., and alm ost half a mile at sea on its far end. The sun at its farthest declination north giving rosy hues and pearly lights to the hours th a t in a few m onths will be plunged into the d arkness of night. A realizing sense of the grandeur of things grows upon one as the ocean reaches to the soft purple, rose-topped band th a t unites ocean and sky, whilst in the sky, sum m er, sun-stained clouds shed a pink In the same issue I find “ A Bib light on the water. The near u n colored waves, m otion w ithout pro lical Puzzle” , which I will proceed gress, are dark hut for their own to undo, as the Bible is puzzling lum inosity, the lum inosity of deep enough, in all conscience, without m isreading any of it. Torah is said water. Lingering, the color and the to have begat ‘•A bram ” , because light die out, giving place to the th a t was A bram ’s name when be stars, leading the gazer’s thoughts was born. We should not “-peak of on to regions so vast and sublim e, what Adm iral Dewey and General th a t belief grows into conviction W ashington did when hoys, for th a t the universe-had no beginning then they had no titles. Again, when Jo sh u a speaks of and will have no end; m aking the belief in a personal god of lim ited Terah and A braham being taken form, of hum an passions and em o from “ the other side of the flood”, tion, as the creator of the bound the Noahian deluge is not intended, less, lim itless universe, seem gross as they are given as horn a long tim e thereafter, but the river J o r m aterialism . Every Sunday evening there is a dan, of course. But I will leave concert in the pavilion on the shore another puzzle unsolved, nam ely: end of the pier. From contem plat W here was M ethuselah during ing N ature, and com m union with Noah’s flood, as he died two years her, I came to listen to the music thereafter? rendered by the H u ngarian band. In a later issue is an articleabout The first piece, a native tune, s ta rt led me, and grew into my thoughts angels, which declares th a t no m ale with strange m earin g . The first angels are ever mentioned, nor rep strain seemed a wild dem and for resented bv artists. That is a c o m peace, for a surcease of strife and mon m isstatem ent, made, I su p the b itter struggle of life—a claim pose, because all the angels are pho to the rig h t of happiness. Then tographed in M other-H ubbard cos came a low m urm ur as of prayer, tum e. There is the angel “ Uriel” , seemingly from the heart of h u “ Michael the arch angel”, “ the a n m anity, pleading th at tears and gel of the bottom less p it” , who was blood m ight be done away with. the prince of the angels before the A stirrin g change cam e over the rebellion in heaven, the “ three m usic; it swelled into bolder, freer, m en” angels, evidently, who ap- more joyous strains, as though this peared to A draham to warn him heart of h u m an ity had roused it-[a b o u t Sodom’s fate. Peter at the self; had recognized th a t it m ust gate of a house was believed to be free itself from ignorance and sup- an angel at first sight. eretition, and m ust no longer de- W hat function sex plays in bea- pend on some arb itra ry , capricious ven is a m ystery. 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