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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1899)
3 TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 2, 1899. vindicated. The prison, and the dwelt on the other side of the flood scaffold and the gallows, war and in the old time, even Terali, the sentiment and Wettstein’s and an end and we now return to the Secular pestilence, vindicate God’s govern- father of Abraham. . p reeth<>ught badge, to use in corre- . I took old rate of $1.75, which is very spondence with your friends? We ment in this world and hell in the they served other gods furnish them to you with your next. The fundamental idea at the your father Abraham from the reasonable, and we hope to get . will n#n)e and addrvsH printed on them bottom of that “philosopy” may, as other side of the flood and led him I of Canaan. man>' subscriptions to both papers. f()r -g centB per hundred, $1.50 per the Review says, be grewsome and throughout all the land ’ of children Canaan, Torch of Reason, $1.00; Oregonian, 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let grim, but it is also more or less . . . Jacob and h 1 1 -‘lr“n and $L50—$2.50 for only $1.75. the people know where you stand. idiotic. “Hereditary guilt” is pro- went down into Egypt nouncing sentence on a man after afterward I brought you out of and brought you into $ 3 ' — GREAT SPECIAL O F F E R - he Egypt Jie has UilB proved uiutvv. an .... alibi. --- Vicarious ------- . suffering is punishing the innocent the land of the Amorites, which and euiltv both; for the innocent dwelt on the other side ot .Jordan. God recites to the assembled peo has already received his puuish meut, and the guilty (or some one ple the history of the Israelites, be in his place) is punished for inflict ginning (perhaps in a lit of absence ing it. Here is a case which the of mind), beyond the Noahian flood Christian Herald prints, to show and bringing it down to the cross God’s tender care for his little child ing of Jordan. The word flood is used seven ren: “A girl who died in Paterson, N. times in the account in Genesis, but fl new Tamilv medical tUork J., on October 3rd, made a deluge not once. It must have by Dr. 3. fi. Greer, CbleagO’ charge against the matron of a been this flood which was in the minds of the multitude. P I S book is up to d a te in every p a r school, which may involve that The Jordan is not a mighty tic u lar. lady in a trial for manslaughter. I t tel Is von how to cure yourself hv sim ple and harm less hom e rem The child was an inmate of the in river, a flood; it is fordable. Josh, edies. dustrial school for girls at Trenton. ii. 7. “And the men pursued after It recom m ends no poisonous or She alleged, in an ante mortem state them the way to Jordan unto the dangerous drugs. fords.” Judges iii. “And they went* I t teaches sim ple com m on-sense m ethods in ment, that one day she was charg accordance w ith n a tu re ’s laws. ed with infringing on the rules. down after him, and took the fords It does not endorse d angerous ex p erim e ts w ith th e su rg eo n ’s knife. Tbe<natron had seized her by the of Jordan towards Moab.” No passage of the Jordan, even It teaches how to save h ealth and life by safe throat and dragged her into the m ethods. is e n tirely free from technical ru b b ish . corridor, where she threw her down. though the waters were superi.atur- I It t teaches p rev e n tio n —th a t it is b e tte r to know ally parted, would have made a A woman how to avoid disease th an to tak e any m edicine A s strong tro n g w o m a n v came a iu c to w the ma- . . . . . i , , help, , and , sat t nnon re. ron’s upon the me cirl g*»», i m ark on the centuries; it m ust have as I It a t cu ty p h o id and o th e er r fevers can he —-------------------- ■ — teaches how tv , v . w;th a been a natural cataclysm of some both p rev en ted an d cu red , an d gives th e best know n tn a im e n . foi la grip p e, dip- while the matron beat her with a ......... kind that the generations remem th e ria , c a ta rrh , c o n su m p tio n , ap p en d icitis a n d e v e ry o th e r disease. strap. A straight jacket was then t is n o t an a d v ertisem en t an d has no m edicine to sell. bered, and which must have been I Tx .1. u .... — — ising a x«X . . . . . w . ■ . ar > M on If vaccination >1 II t <1 and * « / I sen. ♦ th b/1 e II use UO of Qlltl-tilYlIlP I t m akes n com prom a n ti-to x in e . put upon her, and she was then in the speaker’s mind. It has 16 colored p lates show ing differen t p a rts of th e h u m an body. taken to a bare, dark room, known God, unknown to anyone but T his book can n o t fail to please you. If you are looking for h ealth by th e safest asiest m eans, do not delay g ettin g it. . . and easiest as the dungeon, w’here she was kept 14 l G l . reer, u a . t th h e o a u u n th fh o n r r, is is a r a c tilH i himself, may have held Terah, his J T . II. a n practicing physician in Chicago, is I rolessor ot upon bread and water for forty- —-------------------------------- - ■ iG en ito -U rin arv Diseases in th e College sons and Methuselah in the hollow f l College President’ s Cestimon- o{ M edicine and Surgery, Phvsician-in- eight ..ght hours. hours The 11» child ennu probably 9 •’ i fb i8 h an d n untilthew aterB ofthe _ - - - - - - — —— n . . . o* th« »Chief P ITtOF. rof . W w m M . H. n. C ook , for thirty ••••» »j years Dean o f the v iiiv i to th m v e H arv ard Medical In stitu te , ¡eemed to the matron a friendless .... C in c in n a ti P h y s io -M e d ic a l C o lle g e , write« to a n ,J p aH w rjt ten m any works of value tO flood were abated. the author od follow« j th e profession and p u b lic . creature, who might be ill used per- God seems to have been a H oum ;.’ and ain m uch pleaded w ith It« con ten t« and This book b n w o to with is never safe e. E very fam ily should know how to care fo r th e vith impunity; but out it i w } fri d of Abraham, approved ton bound in cloth w ith gold letters,am i will h ealth o f th e h ousehold . w hich 1« a hum an r ig h t and lie se n t postpaid to any address on re ,o injure the most helpless ofGods d u ty . Y our bo. k give« th e in form ation needed and in la n g u a g e th e p eop le can readily understand. I con ceipt of price, $3.00. ra tu la te you on not n a m in g th e u se o f an y poi«on. »rondures while • u i *i ireatures w i he rules the world. Abimelech, and punished those g but ad herin g » tr le lly to th e u«e o f non-p<d«onou« rem- _ th e one tru e p rinciple th a t ahould gu id e all If God ts a citizen of N. J., and <)f garah, Abra. e,ljP< SPECIAL OFFER tre a tm en t o f dis. a>e, and which 1 h ave ad vocated in P H Y S IC IA N IN T H E HO USE and th e TO R C H he must be unless he has retired to kxj my p ractice for fo rty year» or m ore. OR REASON for one y r a r fo r o n ly JPO flfl T ou rs tru ly , DR w cook .” the price of the book alone. iP U iW ham’s wife,” who was over 100 Delaware, he is iuditaole for man years old. slaughter himself. A god who will Abraham was doubtful about stand by and see two big women God,s promige that he was going to T h e G re a t strangle, and s.t upon, and poun I ,arge ,allded possessions, and imprison and starve a helt « wher(.by Bhan little girl 13 of no sort of use out- I know that . 1 , shall inheiit ;,9»» it. side Delaware, where they still re He was doubtful also about the I No Need to Suffer from Any Disease. tain the whipping-post. Undoubt promise that a child should lie horn j edly God is silent, but the priests to him (a legitimate child). “He E lix ir B a c t e r ia c id e and preachers and theological pro fell upon his face and laughed, and E u c a ly p tu s O il V IT Æ -O R E lessors are still voluble. O r e - O lin e said in his heart, ‘Shall a child he M e d ic a t e d S o a p born to him that is an hundred For the Torch of Reason. years old?’ ” (Sarah was 127 years A gent PEARL W . GEER old when she died; Abraham, nine The Biblical Puzzle is Yet a years older, took another wife who S ilvkotom , O regon . Puzzle. bore him six children.) Though i having little faith in the promises by MRS. M. M. TURNER. of bis God, he does not seem to have T T iiW lir^^ worshiped other gods. Make II How to i..— # [An A nsw er to J . P. G uild in Torch of Who were these other Gods of A ugust 31st.] whom the Hebrew god was so jeal * -■“ .........................* ' ■r*w, *»A(ar- Terah, the eighth in descent from ous, and who were worshiped on K The Government nationalized the “¿ S Noah, had a .on whom h e n ““ ^ i side 0, , he flood, not of the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANC HARD Abram. 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