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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!
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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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