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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.
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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
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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
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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
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— — 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-
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eight
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hours The
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P ITtOF.
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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<
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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.
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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..—
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[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 * -■“
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' ■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. When Abram was 99 years the
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S\lCiood Tim es for all Time
in his book e n title d ..............................
old God talked with him, and sain
Tbat the Bible is strictly a hu-
“Thy name shall be Abraham. man hook and full of human errors,
Sarai’s name was changed to Sarah, j8 the only answer to the puzzle,
she being then 90 years old. (Gen.
xvii.)
Under the banner of non-resist-,
Josh. xxiv. “Thus saveth the ance the church has shed the h oo<
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