T H E TO R C H O F REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 22, 1903. Free Public Libraries. Six Tracts to Promote S c ie n tific Spring of 1900 is Up and a Com ing A circular letter on the ab^ve subject, endorsed by th e Library O ur Big Shipm ent of Spring Shoes has A rrived. Tan Shoes Committee of the Oregon F edera will be the Correct Style for Spring W ear. See our A ssort W is d o m tion of W om en’s Clubs, has been m ent in In Place of C h ris tia n ity : sent to the diffent clubs throughout B A B IE S ’ * 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? o___ ! the State. It has been endorsed by C H IL D R E N ’S 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil- th e W o m a n >8 s ^ - i a l Science Club of ization? M IS S E S ’ Silverton. I hope the women will 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? be successful in startin g libraries L A D IE S ’ 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. all over the S tate. The following = G E N T S ’ 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? is an ex tract from the letter: 6 Immortality or Annihilation? At S ilverton’s Largest and Busiest Store. “ To the C lub Women of Oregon: JU ST T H E T H IN G to h a n d to your C h ristia n friends. Send The library d ep artm en t of the Wo 2 cents for 6, or 6 cen ts for 25 trac ts, m an ’s Club of P ortland, after a to E liza M owry B livbn , Brook thorough exam ination of the Con lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents PRODUCE TAKEN for 50, e ith e r kind or as stitution of Oregon and all its laws S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E sorted k in d s, to pertaining to education, has discov THE LIBRAL U N IVER SITY CO., ered th at not one d ollar of the State Oregon or City funds could be legally ap Silverton propriated for the establishm ent or m aintenance (»f free public lib ra ries. Oregon stands alm ost alone in this respect. $ TORCH OF REASON “ P resident Strong, of the State U niversity, in an able address re cently said, ‘the key to the educa tional future of Oregon lies in its U niversity,’ and C arlyle has said ‘the treu university of these days is a collection of books’. T he great est question therefore before the IS A BOOK OF club women of the State today is, can Oregon any longer afford to be J w ithout thiH most necessary means i of public education — free public N o. 2 . libraries? Realizing th a t unless S 4 -! V libraries are established, giving to the masses this only m eans of con s tinuing th eir education after school “Truth bears the Torch in the On th e follow ing and days have closed, Oregon— the mo k in d re d S u b je cts: search For Truth.” £ ther S tate of them all— will fall be -o'- hind in th e com petition for first 1 S e lf C o n tro l place in th is struggling galaxy of N orthw estern states. The library S e lf R e s p e c t ■;o; S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N: L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y PRESS d ep artm en t of the W om an’s Club 1899 W h a t is M o ra lity ? has determ ined to present to the W h a t is Ignorance next legislature a bill praying th a t í o ^ o ¿< o : 1-5 of a m ill tax be levied or set PRICE TEN CENTS. Fraud a C rim e aside for library purposes in every H a b it, 2n d N a tu re town of a given num ber of in h ab ita n ts in the s ta te .” Dreyer & Craig. RIGHT LIVING Song Book S ix t y E x c e lle n t C h a p te rs P oliteness W isdom E tc ., e tc ., e tc . T he proposed tax would be but $1.00 on $5,000.00 worth of proper ty, and when the im portance of li Our Job D e p a rtm e n t braries is understood our legislators -ALWAYS GIVES will surely not hesitate to do as the women advise them . Prof. W ake m an’s speech Before the S tate T eachers’ Association shou’d be ---- BECAUSE IT GIVES----- read and circulated to help this m ovem ent. P. W. o . HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP . . . Satisfaction O ne of th ese c h a p te rs is W orth m ore to Y oung and old th a n th e P rice of th e book. IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME! I wish you to understand th at I speak with all literalness when I say th at there is not a rite, a sym- bo’, a cpremony in the church to day which is not older than the church, which is not pagan in a n d re c e iv e a its origin. The cross was a relig n e a tly c lo t h - ious symbol in many pagan nations b ound co p y, post p a id . before C h ristian ity • whs horn. Holy • w ater, the eucharist, baptism — al- A G ENTS IJ ANTED. most all these th a t are sacram ents and sym bols in the C hristian church today an,I are regarded as of prim e im portance, were known and practiced in ancient Egypt and -A D D R E S S - in other nations hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years before the Naz- arene was b >rn.—Rev. Minot J. Toitch ©f ¡Reason S ilv er to n O regon Savage. 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