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spending the millions of dollars an<l
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Published Weekly by the Liberal Uni- m u sc u la r tissu e in s u p p o rtin g an d layed, and we will have lived and
versity Company, in the Interests of
p ro p a g a tin g a religion of love to labored in vain.
slightest call for help from our fel
low’ men, and this is what I ca1’
true religion. It is not how many
times we attend church, nor how
many prayers we say, nor how
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much money we pay, nor how
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<r> ers, fa th e rs, a n d c h ild re n h av e been woist grave robberies. And yet is it g
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je c te d f()r the virgin mother, the not a« reasonable, as legitimate and 6uPP°rt the m," 'ster ,D P™ ch‘7
Ipiter or m oney order.
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father God and brother Jesus, until as beneficial as what the ministers ,hia suppositions of immortality bet-
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been; hut in spite of it all there is all these years? They preach and child to school. Don’t we feel bet­
ter, and are we not doing more
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes yet left enough leaven of love in pray to the people every Sunday,
h a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ired , the world to leaven the whole lump and teach the little ones that Jesus, good, than when sitting down with a
fo u "are earnestly requested to re ­
long face and saying, “O Lord, pity
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­ of humanity if we will only awaken who died years and years ago, is
the sick and the poor” ? Yes, in­
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­ to our duties and our privileges.
yet
alive
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is
pleading
with
his
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Oh, mothersl Oh, fathers! Oh, father for their souls; that they deed, true religion is doing, not
th at we do not send papers longer th a n
the tim e paid for unless so ordered. children! Let us learn Secularis; (the ministers) have the power to sitting down and asking some one
T his will prevent any loss and we will let us practice Secularism; let us
else to do what we are too lazy to
know just where we sta n d .
teach Secularism — the religion of reveal his will, and in prayer (a do ourselves. Church members to­
We request you to send us th e nam es
sort of trance) they talk with this
of Secularists who m ight become su b ­ love.
departed savior. And if an honest day are asking a god to do what
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies.
they ought to be doing themselves.
W E M UST KNOW CONDITIO -ÎS. Jesus Christ ever lived we feel cer­ True religion is the religion of hu­
tain that he would not thank these
THURSDAY, AUO. 31, E. M. 299.
manity. With this religion we can
Our experience in the work of es­ scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, accomplish much. It is not neces­
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tablishing the religion of progres­ for using his name in such a de­ sary to be a church member — far
sive, moral S< cularism shows us testable speculation, any more than from it. There is less true religion
Our mother has just arrived in one fact which, if now taken advan­ Mr. Ingersoll would sanction the in the churches than outside of
Silverton from faraway Wisconsin, tage of, will yield abundant fruit spiritual charlatans who now make them. True religion consists of
and the editor is so happy that he for humanity. This fact is that stock of his death.
Let us not be afraid to condemn love of truth, purity, kindness,
can scarcely think of anything to many whom we Freethinkers sup­
bearing one another’s burdens,
write nor force himself into the pose to be rank orthodox believe and root out every species of super­
making a heaven of this beautiful
ditorial chair; hut one of the les just _ as we
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do. _ In ________
a late conversa- stition, wherever it be found, and
ons which mother taught us was tjon witli one whom we supposed to verily this has the “ear-marks” o f: world- and if we learn the lesso" 9 ° f
a species that has driven many in-\ ‘his religion we w‘n be ^ r e of one
he valuable one of “duty,” and so believe, we find that her Christi
heaven any way; and if there
ve will endeavor to say something anity consists in nothing more or to the dark corner of religious in­
should, by any hook or crook, be a
ibout the subject that is uppermost less than doing right and helping sanity.
chance of finding one in the here­
in our mind.
the world to become happier and
after, so much the better, and if by
Children, as a rule, do not ap­ better by the dissemination of F or th e Torch of Reason.
chance we are doomed to eternal
preciate their jnothers as they scientific wisdom. This friend does
The True Religion.
punishment, such as the preachers
night. This is owing to various rot believe in an eternal punish*
talk about, we will have had one
BY IDA DEDRICK.
auses. Many times it is on ac- meutj she does not believe in a
heaven any way and fooled the old
ount of inherited weaknesses of the man-like God; she thinks she
,
fellow after all.
There are as many different ideas
hild along lines of love and re- knows as much about spi 1 its and a
ard; sometimes it is the mother’s fU(Urt> existence as any preacher, about what true religion consists of
Ingersoll Memorial Number.
nek of knowledge of how to secure aI1(j acknowledges that she knows as there are different ideas of the
he respect of the child; often it is 1 nothing about such things. Such hereafter. My idea of true religion
The Freethought Magazine for
n account of the had example of pCOpje have been prejudiced against is this: to live right because it is
he father; and many times it our work, not alone by interested right and because we will enjoy September is an “ Ingersoll Memo­
tomes from the natural carlessness preachers, whom they know’ would living much better by living clean, rial Number.” It contains original
if childhood. But no man who has gO out of
business if it was not true lives than bv living for our own articles on Ingersoll from Elizabeth
not had a very bad mother, or one for (|ie money there is in it, hut selfish desires and ambitions, and Cady Stanton, Charles Kent Jen-
who has not been very much biased they judge us by that element of covering it up with what the world ney, George Jacob Holyoake, B. F.
by very had environments, can reckless immorality that has today calls religion. If a man must L nderwood, Judge C. B. W aite,
think of mother without feelings of hugely represented the cause of be frightened into doing right, wliat David B. Page, Susan H. Wixon,
the deepest tenderness and love, Freethought.
reward can he expect? If I had-a G. W. Morehouse, Helen H. Gar­
and especially is this true when
The w’orld can never be made child that would never mind me dener, Prof. Daniel T. Ames, Daniel
conditions have robbed one of the m e h better by the ignorant rant- without a whipping, I think I K. Tenney, Prof. Hyland C. Kirk,
»resence, interest, and love of a jng against orthodoxy, w’hile the should not feel like rewarding him Rev. Minot J. Savage, James A.
iind ard ever sympathetic mother. ranters’ lives of impurity and reck when he had obeyed,and I think he Greenhill, and by the editor and
What is the lesson we all may less condemnation of things true, w’ouJd not feel kindly toward me, assistant editors. Also the proceed-
earn from these facts? Is it not and dear to the good are allowed to even though he did obey when ings and speeches of the great In-
hat while we have a chance we prejudice the very purest and best made to do so. When we stop and gersoll Memorial Meeting held in
diould do, and help others to do all elements of society against our think of all the bosh about eternal Chicago, and the best likeness of
in their power to make the mothers cause. We must know these con- punishment and eternal glory, we Ingersoll that has ever been pub-
happy?
Should we neglect to ditions. We must condemn the see that they are only toys with listed. This number of the maga-
teach the young the great value of evil practices of so-called Free- which many people are frightening zine is printed on heavy book paper
luother’s love, and our great duty thinkers; we must be careful of au­ or bribing their consciences. They and bound in linen poper covers,
to reciprocate that love? Should we tagonizing good, honest people by live either in the hope of one or the with black border. For sale at
not put in our time teaching love personal severity, and we must en- fear of the other, but a life lived so Torch of Reason Office. Price 15
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