T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 1, 1900.
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Six Tracts to Promote
Hr. Swank Explains.
Concluded from 3d page,
organized m aterial form, for an in ­
dwelling aw the life thereof, and ex­
pressing therein life’s unfolded in ­
herent attrib u tes of consciousness,
and m ind or soul, then it is to be
In Place of C h ris tia n ity :
inferred th a t th a t soul-principle
1 Can Sin« be Forgiven?
had this aspiration for in d iv id u al­
2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil­ ity of itself, and sought the o rg an i­
ization?
zation and perfection of m aterial
3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
form for its own indw elling and
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
uses, as the individualized occupant
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
of such living organized iorm or
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
e n tity , and th a t when such m ate­
rial form was perfected for the in ­
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dwelling of the soul, the occupancy
to h and to your C hristian friends. Send thereof would be prom pted and im ­
2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tra c ts,
pelled by this aspiration of soul-
to E liza M owry B liven , Brook­
principle for individuality. Hence,
lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents
when the m aterial, organized, liv­
for 50, e ith e r kind or as­
sorted kinds, to
ing spirit-form was unfolded and
perfected by germ-life as an en tity ,
THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO., soul-principle
individualized, or
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Oregon flowed into it; and thus pervaded
and anim ated with the sufficient
and the only elem ent as an ideality.
Spirit-form thus organized, a t­
tained perm anency of being as a
m aterial organization against decay
from surrounding influences there­
on, and thereafter became im m ortal
in its identity, as an organization
in a perfected form of m atter by
and through the soul-principle,
thus individualized and dwelling
therein. And thus, for the first
tim e in e a rth ’s history, was e x h ib it­
ed th a t union of anim al or physical
. . . IS A BOOK O F . . .
life and nature, with spirit and
soul-life and nature, which consti­
tuted the dual ch aracter of m an as
an im m ortal being. R espectfully,
Scientific
Wisdom
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fir. D. E. Sw ank’s Self-Report.
/And now conies again our“spirit-
ual-essence” friend, Mr. D. E.
Sw ank, and tliiuks he can go the
Torch reporter “ one b etter” on the
report and explanation of his lec­
S e lf C ontrol
ture.
S e lf R esp ect
Dear reader, “ you pays your
W h a t is M o rality? money and you takes your choice” ,
for we p rin t the lecturer’s own re­
W h a t is Ignorance port just as he writes, and he writes
plainly,— for which let the “ spirit-
Fraud a C rim e
es8ence”(?) be praised!
But for
H a b it, 2nd N a tu re our own single, simple selves we are
still compelled to bet upon the
Politeness
original w rite-up of the Torch as
W isdom
the more intelligible report of that
lecture. It is not so long as Mr.
E tc , e tc ., e tc .
Sw ank’s, but it seems to us one of
the clearest expositions of “ the
One of these c h ap te rs is
W orth m on to
sp iritual im m o rtality ” we have
Young and old th a n th e
ever met. All you had to do was
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to take for granted “ th at p rinciple”,
and it landed you safely in the
. . . IT SHOULD BE IN . .
“ sum m er la n d ”. But w hat and
where is Mr. Sw ank’s “ in d estru cti­
ble spirit-essence” ? It used to work
un til science came along and ex­
plained the whole business as the
result of correlative assim ilation,—
and then th a t game was up, and so
,© ijdl $ Q , @ ® a n d re c e iv e a rem ains. Our reporter did bis lev­
n e a tly c lo t h -
el best to “ principle” a bottom u n ­
bound co p y, post p a id .
der M r.Sw ank,and expected tbanks.
For even the greatest and most
A G E N T S W ANTED.
original geniuses, and the more so
as they are grandly original, And
scientific midwives necessary to se­
cure safe delivery of their ideas.
N either Jesus nor Socrates ever
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their reporters made for them , and
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