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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 7, 1899
1 of the fittest, and although evolu-'est and noblest of earth. The sel- tiful realities of love to each other
tion seems a slow process at times, l^rs of indulgences have waxed and our w’orks here have been
-
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crowded out. A bitter harvest
yet we must * remember
that -Mr.nDinch
results .
. and n11 the
, traffic , , in . human
,
The O nly P ap er of Its Kind.
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thought filled the world with the
of a long series of evolutionary pro­ hell of hate and hypocrisy. The of prisons, lunatic asylums, drunk­
Published Weekly by the Lil»eral Uni­ cesses are now upon us, and if we superstitious myths and miracles of en husbands, weeping wives, neg­
versity Company, in the Interests of only know how to take advantage Christianity has made the most at­ lected children, domineering wealth,
Constructive, Moral Secularism.
of them we can score a great victory tentive people of the world inatten­ cringing poverty, and the many
tive to the things which would have other items that make up the
J. E. Hosmer,..................... E d ito r for Humanity.
most promoted our happiness; they
P. W . G e e r,....................... M an ag er
have driven us, by causing us to earthly hell is the result. Does
fear honest doubt, into the habit of Jesus save? No! He that believ-
E X A M IN A T IO N S.
refraining from concentrating our eth is damned already, for he has
Entered at the e postoffice
post
at Silverton,
Oregon, as second-class mail matter.
z\gain the students of the L. U. minds, and the mind has thus bpen believed in a myth and is mystified.
robbed of its greatest power; they He w’alks in the dark.
O.
are
telling
their
instructors
what
have placed a high value on worth­
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A CURE FOR SPOOKISM.
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standings. The greatest difficulties
But Luo! Luo! Luo! We are
that teachers have to overcome, and free! And if we of this generation
A good, solid, scientific lesson for
Notice!
have
been
robbed
and
left
faint
and
the greatest causes of the disappoint­
the week is the extract from Dr.
bleeding by the way, we can yet
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nature of life ever made, and it
of Secularists who might become sub­
What
is
your
standing,
dear
should be read and re-read until
scribers and we will mail sample copies. true worth of things, and the de­
reader?
Are
you
in
the
senior
ceptive gratification of the emo­
class or are you still cultivating the thoroughly mastered and under­
Whence comes these our sense perceptions of your adult stood by every Liberal w’hn wishes
THURSDAY, DEC. 7,, E. M. 299. tions.
weaknesses? Is it not true that mind with products of the toy-mak­ to become emancipated from ghosts.
thousands of years ago the great ers of supernaturalism?
It is indeed a sure cure for spook-
R E FU G E .
Let us all, as fellow students, ism for any one who has brains
civilization of ancient Greece and
earnestly into this work, using enough to understand it and to fol­
Science, Savior of our race,
Rome produced wonderful thinkers? enter
the
Torch
of Reason as our grade
Help us to thy refuge fly,
Why
are
the
people
of
today
so
While our days are rolling on,
card, that our loved ones (all men) low out its consequences. Of course
Help us hear the human cry.
weak? Ought not we who are heirs may know our true grade, and that you know the law of correlation and
of that great civilization to be far the world (the great Alma mater) uniformity of causation in science,
Guide us, O, our Savior guide,
While our strength of mind doth last, ahead of what wtc are today? When may not be dishonored or made from which it follows absolutely
Be our mind’s and heart’s defense,
the hordes of sturdy Germanic worse for our having lived.
that if life comes about and exists
From the ancient shadows cast.
tribes began to take up the civiliza­
in this one way, it is not possible
Other saviors have we none.
We will ever cling to thee ;
T H E C A U SE OF E V IL .
tion of Greece and Rome what were
to exist, or to have ever existed, in
We are never now alone,
the elements that promoted, and
any other—that is, life is the pro ­
Thou hast brought us liberty !
what that held back their develop­ To be able to perceive the cause cess of the properties of proto ­
All the pure unselfish hopes,
ment? They progressed it must be of things is a great and beneficial plasm , and has no pos.-ible exist­
All the fearless righteousness
Thou hast given to us here.
characteristic, and few there are ence otherwise.
Lengthened life made death but rest. admitted, and we their progeny are
victorious only after a battle that indeed who are skilled in looking
So, we must say Farewell! to
Heathen myths we do not want.
has cost us billions of the brightest through things with the X-rays of all spirits, ghosts, spooks, gods,
In Savior, Science, strength we find,
To raise (he fallen, cheer the faint.,
and best of mother nature’s child­ a clear, unerring mind. Those who devils, angela, hobgoblins, fairies,
To heal the sick and lead the blind.
ren; and there are battles yet to are, are usually condemned by the and even to our beloved “Santa
We will conquer in thy name
wiu. The great school of human­ majority of their own generation Claus”,and to all our old cherished
That which makes unrighteousness;
ity is having its examination in the but pass into history as great phil­ “spook religions”, all of whom we
Vile is ignorance that has l>een;
Thou art full of truth and grace!
closing days of its term known as osophers.
will replace with better and higher
The great majority of people of truths and things in good time.
the nineteenth centurv, and its
V E R IT A S V IN C IT .
teachers are issuing grade cards today think that the cause of the
Never fear the wounds that Truth
such as were never before seen in crime and misery of the world is may give, for she will heal them all.
When Christianity comes in con­ the great university of the world's the lack of the religion of Jesus
Don’t be afraid of hard words:
tact with pure Secularism U e progress.
Christ, but those who have the “CentrosoLuc’ 3imply means the
old myth takeR a back seat and our
The peoples from which have power to look through effects to central body of the cell containing
cause goes marching on. This was sprung the highest civilized nations their causes, know that the evil in nucleus and nucleolus with its germ
very nicely illustrated when the of the earth, loved their homes; the the world is largely a result of center, and that is the center of
two armies in Silverton lined up men loved their wives; they were Christianity. Men and women are
“Karyo-kinesis”, which is Greek
on Thanksgiving evening. At the truf, brave and strong; and this naturally good, but the doctrines of
for “nut movement”, that is, the
beautiful little opera, Four-leaved was before Christianity had ever the Christian religion, working for
changes in a little nut-like body of
Clover, given by the students of the cast its deadly shadow over the eighteen centuries, has not resulted
protoplasm—with all the cell and
Liberal University, there were over world. The civilization with which in our moral development as a true germinating parts and properties
three hundred friends present, they came in contact when they religion should. We have slowly within in it. Look out this word
while the churches were very poorly migrated from the north and set­ grown better but not as rapidly as “karyo-kinesis” in the Standard
attended,
tled in the south and west of Eu­ we ought. Trusting in Jesus to Dictionary, or any good encyclopae­
We are sure that our cause is rope had been built up outside of save us instead of working out our dia, and you will get the solid
Religious persecu­
right. We are building on the Christianity.
tion was almost unknown, and if own salvation, many have been bottom of modern biology in that
things that we do know. We are Christianity’s central idea of “be­ kept from the work that really
“nut”.
teaching pure morality, while the lieve or be damned” had never saves. Believing in an hereafter
Next week we will give the true
churches base theirs on a weak crossed their path, where, oh to we have neglected the now.
birth of the“Ego”,and you may then
foundation of myth, false hopes and what height might we not have
Trying to believe impossible find out how you yoursELF came
fears. Our work is bound to suc­ climbed in our sturdy march up the
heights of progress? The things has made us infidel to true about, and what you are.
ceed! It can’t fail for it is in line sunlit
struggle has been a continual St. things. Ghosts and gods have oc
with the great law of the survival Bartholomew’s massacre of the fair- cupied our minds, while the beau­ This is the age of discoveries?
Torch of Reason
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