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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1899)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, N OV EM BER 23, 1899. New H am pshire Secular Union, manliness for monkery, discovery _. O , ~ ~ concealment, friendship tor fak- I he Secularists of New H am p- shire have organized, and it is eaid th a t they hope to do with their or- ganization in the E ast what the c* * c i tt • Oregon S tale Secular Union U n.on is .8 do- ing in the West. The second Sunday 111 August was set as th e d a te for th e a n n u a l irage. honesty for saintliness, ju st- ’ce for alm sgiving, health for piety, knowledge of facts for faith in lies. £ ° m a,‘ m an ’8 eMual in ’ stead of his underling (aoulause from M rs. Ricker), and it c ire s for the children instead of praying to angels, and a tte n d s to th e business of the World we live in instead of aspiring to ,Hn an n im n a aginary one after after ^ '" a ry one to be good and get good while we are on earth , and th at it is a better preparation of our ‘souls’ for the Jk' •x' / the liberal Mr MZ UNIVERSITY 41 W MZ MZ SIZ MZ meeting, it coining close to the an- m v ersary o f the birth of Col. R. G. REGON. Ingersoll — Aug. 11. Officers were elected as follows: President, An- son G. Osgood, M anchester; Vice- president, M arilla M. Ricker, Do- ver; Secretary, Carl B urrell, Pern- The L iv in g Christ. broke; F in an cial Secretary, Win. i qq o o Concluded from 1st page, B. W ellm an, N ashua; T reasurer, F. be a unity am ong -the faithful J. EARL HOSMER, Ph. J)., B. S. D., P res ., W . W in d ric h , M a n c h e ste r; E x e c u which is now conspicuous by its Superintendent D epartm ent of Cosmology. tive Com m ittee, Alfred Levan, Jas absence; b u t the reality which io Mathematics, Physical Sciences, .Dynamics. F w™ n u ’ ,, Vi , overshadow ed by this phantom E. CnCRlcy, \ m B. W ellm an, C a r l; a u th o ri, ¡8 the bel.ever him self At I ft Burrell, M arilla M. Ricker, W illiam The au th o rity for each individual ABEL A. LEONARD, M. I)., M. E. * Superintendent D epartm ent of Biology, C. Sturoc, F. C. R eynolds, II. B. is a creation of his own im a g in a -1 Anatomy, Physiology, Animal Electricity, tion, and is lim ited by his own row'.'V, George W. W hittem ore. Physiological Psychology, .Microscopy. Several speakers were present at m oral and m ental developm ent— th a t is, by his ab ility to im a g in e ' the m eeting when the organization And these creations a r e a s unlike THADDEUS B. WAKEMAN, Superintendent Department of Sociology and Law, was completed. Mr. B urrell, the each other as are th eir creators.] General History, Sociology, Law, Linguistics, secretary, spoke on the subject, “ Every m an who worships, wor- Ethics. “C h ristian ity as a M oral Force: Is ships a conception of his own m ind.” The Bible is the only testim ony It or Is I t N ot?” His rem arks MINNIE P. HOSMER, L. S., B. S. D., th a t there was a “ historical C hrist” were in p art as follows: Superintendent Preparatory D epartm ent, and the idea th a t it is au th o rity History, English Grammar, Botany, Vocal “ I ask every honest, th in k in g because it testifies of C hrist, is man and woman to answ er this w orthy of a lunatic. The New Tes- Music. question for him or h e rse lf— ju s t tarnent— w hat is said about C hrist, PEARL W. GEER, M. G. H., S ecretary , what are the churches doing today and w hat C hrist is represented as for tl^oir m em bers? Are they m ak having said — is the foundation Business Methods and Correspondence. ing them more true, honest, self- upon which C h ristian ity is built; MINNIE PRESTON, sacrificing, brotherly fellow beings, and if th is is subject to criticism , to whom we m ay safely look for and if criticism decides th a t the Kindergarten and Primary Classes. the upliffing of struggling h u m an most wonderful and most im port SOPHIE WOLF, ity? We cannot say ju st w hat God, a n t p arts are untrue; then the liv if there be such a personality, m ay ing C hrist is a creation of the h u Piano Music, Elocution, English Literature. be doing for C hristians. There is m an m ind, and m an him self is his CLARA WAKEMAN, certainly not very much th a t we own au th o rity in religion. can see, hut, w hat seems to me to be Drawing and Painting. most im p o rtan t, is w hat is the Companion Stories tor 1900. ALICE DAVENPORT, church doing for him, and w hat is he doing for the w orld? Stenography, Typewriting. The stories published in the “ I can not fully sym pathise with Y outh’s Companion po rtray the LOUIS RAUCH, Assistant, the destructive elem ent in Free- m anly and w om anly virtues with Bookkeeping, Commercial Arithmetic. thought. I would not be so a n x no sacrifice of interest or vitality, ious to see C h ristian ity destroyed; and they appeal to the sym pathies LORA AMES, Assistant, I would ra th e r see its m ighty, con of old and young alike. D uring Physiology, Hygiene. densed forces turned to some good 1900 the Com panion will offer spe for the world. I d o n ’t know w hat cial series of stories— am ong them KATIE MATTESON, it may or can do for us in heaven being stories of F orm er Political Librarian. oi hell, and I do not care, h u t I C am paigns and A dventures of L ine want to do som ething for the world men. Besides these there will be a PROFS. HOSMER, WAKEMAN, GEER, here and now. I would like to see score ofstories for girls,by such writ- Lecturers on Religion of Science and Humanity. it do away with some of the hell on as S arah Orue Jew ett, Mary E. E M IL Y L. W AK EM AN, earth'that we eee on every hand; I ¡W ilkins, M argaret Deland, Eliza- M atron. would like to see it m ake heaven heth S tuart Phelps, E dith W harton, on earth in every home. And u n K ate Chopin and M argaret Sang- *Dr. Leonard has consented to take this chair until some one til it does do this, or a t least some ster. T here will he four serial sto can be found to fill it perm anently. thing more th an it is doing now on ries—“ A P rairie In fa n ta ,” by Eva ’his line, I can not consistently ac- W ilder B rodhead; “ R unn ing a S T U D E N T S M A Y E N T E R A T A N Y T IM E . n n l ''|I7 ,ge lh al, C hri“t,'a,"i(y'<8 a M a rry -g o -R o u n d ,” by C h ir k s moral force in th e w orld.” | Adam s; “ The Schoolhouse F a rth e st W e are now in our New building, which gives us room Mr. Burrell said at one point in W est,’’ by C. A. Stephens; and for increased attendance and much better facilities for 1''8 address th a t he would sooner “ C ushing B rothers,” by R ay Stan- teaching. For term s and fu rth er p articu lars, address, In addition there "mploy a non-C hristian than a nard Baker. will be two hundred other short ( hrietian. He found the form er stories by the most gifted of A m eri S IL V E R T O N OREGON. ’»ore honest, he said. This greatly can w riters of fiction. pleased Mrs. Ricker, who applaud- All new subscribers will receive ‘ * and in terru p ted him and prais- the Companion for the rem aining weeks of 1899 free from the time of f <l the statem ent. M r.Guild,a gentlem an from Low- subscription, and then for a full year, fifty-tw’o weeks, to .January 1, FRIENDS OF LIBERAL AND SECULAR EDUCATION f 11, announced his subject as Free- 1901; also the C om panion’s New are earnestly rem inded th a t’ the above U niversity is in a c t thought’s Mission. He praised C alendar for 1900, suitable as an ive and harm onious operation, but th a t it m ust be provided with G eethought and denounced Chris- ornam ent for the prettiest room in sufficient m eans to finish its building, now approaching com ple ’ianity as a system which did not I the house. tion and p a rtly occupied, so th a t a paying num ber of students Illu strated A nuonnceinent Num- can he accom m odated. 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