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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON OREGON, JANUARY 11, 1900. 3 of than the officer who uses great who make of the rostrum a “cow- G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — 3 $ opportuuities for self-glorification ard’e castle”. In this respect the or aggrandisement. Spiritualists won his admiration, Four children, a girl and three as they nearly always gave him an hoys, were bom to Mr. and Mrs. opportunity to propound to them Priestley only one of whom, Schuy- knotty questions, which have not, ler, lived to reach maturity. Mr. I believe, up to this time, been sat- Priestley talks little of himself or isfactorily answered. The Theoso- family, but to an intimate friend phists, also, had frequently to wres- he spoke as follows of his dead son tie with his quaint queries, and Elam: “Elam lived until he was equally unsuccessfully. thirteen. He was maturer in mind Though an unobtrusive and even fl new Tamllv medical Work than nine out of ten persons ever get diffident man, Mr. Priestley always bv Dr. 1 B. Greer. Cblcaao to be. I never felt that any one courts and challenges discussion of H IS book is u p to d a te in everv p a r ever understood me as he did. His subjects supernatural, and has on tic u la r. kiss was the most crushing blow I several occasions drawn the enemy’s I t tel Is you bow to cure yourself by sim p le an d h a rm less hom e rem ever received; and to add to it, I fire. He never indulges in person- edies. had to listen to an orthodox preach- ality, nor in anything that could be It recom m ends no poisonous or d angerous d ru g s. er at his funeral. If I had believed called abuse. To an opponent who H teaches sim ple com m on-sense m eth o d s in in hell, it would have had no ter- does indulge in that sort o f“argu- accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws. not endorse dan g ero u s e x p erim e ts with ror for me after that.” ment”, as most theologians do, such th e It su does rg eo n *8 knife. Intellectually, Mr. Priestley is a a course is particularly exasperat- I t teaches how to save h ealth and life bv safe m ethods. combination of poet and critic, and ing. I t is e n tirely free from tech n ical ru b b ish . while the latter quality is domi- One of Mr. Priestley’s ambitions It teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tter to know now to avoid disease th a n to ta k e anv m edicine nant, it is no doubt due to greater has been to write a “Life of Jesus”. as a cure. cultivation. He has written con- He thinks no writer has yet done It teaches how typhoid and o th e r fevers can He i siderable verse, some of which, in thorough justice to this Bible char- k, X 7 „ ^ z ' ^ or la grippei dif* I 4 my opinion, is of no mean rank, acter. He told me a few months t u not an a d v ertisem en t am i has no m edicine to sell In his later years, intellectual ac- ago that he intended to devote the » A - 1 « ^ M ’by th e safest tivitv has taken the form, largely, present winter to this’subject, even of criticism of the dominant super if he didn’t “hit anything higher J . H. t.re c r, th e a u th o r, is a p racticing physician in C hicago, is P rofessor of stitions. But his Muse did not en than the ‘Star of Bethlehem',which f l College President's testimony L Y ?M ? r L-rinary, ? i8easee’ ‘J’ the. College p r o f W „ II. COOK, for th ir ty y ears Dean o f the I C h ^ f t o t h e tirely forsake him even in this is the only star with a Christian c i n n a t i P h y n io - M e d i c a l C o lle g e , writes to * . H arv ard M edical In s titu te , work. He rendered in verse some name, and Science has not yet dis C th in e author as fo llo w s .a n d h as w ritte n m an y works of value to humorous parts of the Bible— for covered it”! I have exam in ed your book, ‘ A P h ysician In th e H-he profession aild public. 11 k mid , 1 ... I ..... - co n ten ts and S H ouse,’ am ....... m uch 1. pleased 1 w 1 ith a its This book has HOC pages, is neatl tone. E very fa m ily nhnuhl know how fo r th e instance the meeting of Jesus and Mr. Priestley is a student of so health o f th e h ou seh old , v hich is a hum to an care K rig h t and bound in cloth w ith gold le tte rs,a n d w i., Y our ho, k g iv e s th e in fo rm a tio n needed and in Zacheus, where, in the crowd that ciology, as of theology, and has lent duty. be sen t jAostpaid to any ad d ress on re 1 n g u a g e t i e peof.le can read ily understand. Ic o n g ra tu la te y en on n o t n a m in g th e u e o f an y poison, ceipt of price, $3.00. had gathered, his pen and voice to discussions of but Adhering strict ly to I he use o f non-nofsonous rem- e-lie- the O’ e true p rinciple that should gu id e all “ . . Z acheus, being sh o rt, vou know’, many social and political questions. I treatm en t c f d isease, and w hich I have ad vocated in SPECIAL OFFER my p ractice for fo rty years or m ore. S K iU S t o vuvn rS To see him stood no t halt a show . A poor man and all his life a hard Y ours tru ly , _ ... „ 7 D r . w . h . C ook .” So he ju st scram bled on«before th e price of th e book alone. 53.00 working man himself, his sympa And clim bed in to a sy cam o re.” Another instance is a part of the thies are naturally with “the T h e G re a t book of Job. To thoroughly quali under-dog in the fight”, and is in fy himself for the work of the crit terested in any proposition for the betterment of the condition of the ic, he has acquainted himself with a wide range of subjects. I have common people. He says the uncer No Need to Suffer from Any Disease. met few men more conversant with tain feature of the sociologic prob lem is the human animal himself; the works of the eminent scientists. E lix ir From these and from the great po that he could construct an ideal so B a c t e r ia c id e ets he appears to be able to quote cial system if he could have men VITÆ-ORE E u c a ly p tu s O il made to order. O r e - O lin e at will from memory. M e d ic a t e d S o a p At the age of 64, our friend is And here I am reminded of de settled on a littie farm near New PEARL W. GEER lightful occasions in Portland in the Agent burg, on the Willamette, where the early nineties, when a small group of good wishes of many friends attend S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . mutual friends, with Mr. Priestley m, and let us hope that here he A PHYSICIAN IN THE HOUSE t A s I Vitæ=Ore Remedies streeto in conversation. The “con versation”, I may remark, was just sufficient to keep Friend Priestley “wound up”, then we quietly enjoy ed a feast of wit, wisdom and song. Not only his own opinion and crit- icism, bright and incisive as these always are, but Tyndall, Huxley and Spencer, Tennyson, Whittier and Ingersoll, we enjoyed. may live long to wield his human itarian pen. 4 vl How to Make "vjGood Tim es fo r a ll Tim e Tl lie G o v ern m en t n ationalized th e P ostal S y stem , w hy n o t also th e M oney S ystem ? A plan is told by C. ELT O N B L A N C H A R D in his Ixxik e n title d Do Atheists Ever Pray? ____ A jj peopie pray « ho are of a thoughtful mind. ___ Many people pray who do not know it. Prayer is an earnest, loving, rev- UNCLE S A M ’S H O M IL IE S ON FINANCE ■-----m. ___ Postpaid for 25 Cents This er" n t' al contemplation of then.es e, - - - • • Pr? fit8 on thip book w ill lie given to th e L io e ral U n iv e rsity A a veritable Liberal education \\Tjsdorn? justice,holiness; these,and ftio u iu ne in th e h a n d s of every th in k in g p erso n . A ddress all o rd ers to to me, who, though classing myself such as these, are the verities upon The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon with the “Infidels”, was little ac which good men in all ages love to quainted with the ground I was meditate. Theists regard these great A descriptive catalogue of all the principles as the attributes of a trying to occupy. best Ereethought works free on ap- living, self-conscious intelligence One of Mr. Pnestley s great de- which they call God. Atheists re- Plication to Dellquedt & Andrews, lights .8 ,n free d .scu ss.o n -“free gard them as (which they are In i Secular Booksellers, El Paso, Texas pltch-in”,H8 he often calls it. M hen fact) unchanging principles, With P a ten t” sent upon request. Patents secured he lived in Portland, be was alwavs which the conduct of all men should ‘‘j S S t t u f i T S S u S S ? ------------- --------------=--------------- )n i , . 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