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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH I, 1900. For the Torch o f Reason. lifo Qr. j -n » me, and each will respect . the ones The Religion ot the Future. who know the most and do the $ 3 — G R E A T S P E C IA L O FFER best, and teach wisdom to others. BY ELIZA MOWRY BLIVEN. People will be rated then, not by what they profess to believe, but Ingersoll and Paine were Agnos- by how they live and the kind of tics. They had cast aside the Rible examples they set in their dealings and miracle-working Gods, but they with their fellow-men. did not know but there was a future Those who believe in a super life and some kind of intelligence natural intelligence, or God, are which governed the universe. apt to consider themselves so in- We can not free the world from ferior aud comparatively incapable, H new family medical Work superstitious, religious worship, that all great undertakings and re- bv Dr. 1 B. 6reer, Cblcaao and the multitude of errors which forms are left for their God to do. H IS book is up to d ate in every p a r these cause, till we and our follow- Hence, as there is no God, this tic u la r. ers become thorough, moral A the work does not get done. But when It tells you how to cu re yourself by sim p le an d h arm less hom e rem ists , and teach why there is no they know there is no intelligence edies. God, no devil, no spirits and no beyond the human, they will rate It recom m ends no poisonous or d angerous d ru g s. future life. All there is everywhere themselves as capable of matching t teaches sim ple com m on-sense m eth o d s in consiots of tangible realities and others; then competition will de accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws. t does not endorse dan g ero u s e x p erim e ts w ith their physical forces; the most velop abilities and self dependence, th e surgeon s knife. wonderful and complicated of all promoting progress and reforms in i t teaches how to save h e alth and life bv safe m e th o d s . J being life, the human brain and its rich abundance. It is e n tirely free from tech n ical ru b b ish , activities, or intelligence. The religion for this w’orld is the i t teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tter to know now to avoid disease th a n to tak e anv m edicine Thought, reason, intelligence, are Religion of Humanity, founded on as a cure. activities of live brain cells. Know Scientific, Moral A theism . It teaches how typhoid and o th er fevers can be th eria c a t a r r h c o i i s n i ^ t ’ Hn<* g ’ve8 .H‘.e *,e8t know n tre a tm e n t lor la g rip p e, dip- ledge, happiness, and all our arts Brooklyn, Conn. io’ ,C atarrh ’ co n su m p tio n , ap p en d icitis and every o th e r disease * result from use of our physical }t is n o t an a d v ertisem en t a n d has no m edicine to sell senses and brain. When we die, For the Torch of Reason. It h a s 16 c ,d n ? S Pfr? T ,81n,g War OIl.v’ace’n a tion and th e use of a n ti-to x in e . T his book cLnnnrPf«im 8h,OWing ,ht,ereIVt Pa rts of th e h u m an body. the blood stops flowing, the brain Neither Fictitious Nor Novel. and easiest <•-> ° i** please you. It you are looking for h e a lth by th e safest anu easiest m eans, do not delay g ettin g it. stops acting, and we can not sense ----- ——— I ( ' H * 1 ’ a i l ? l |l > r ' a p racticing p h y sician in C hicago, is P rofessor anything nor know anything. •V W ■ ■ — n. I I * <1 1 i ZA I •« 1 ■ k i r. zv ¿It i ' . » I I . BY D. E. J! College President’s te s tlm o r* The inferior brains of animals | f i m i n a u I’h y X - M ^ to th e H a rv ard .Medical In s titu te , and insects give them intelligence For obvious reasons the real th e a u th o r a s follow « 1 and h as w ritte n m an y w orks of value to of an inferior kind. But there are names are disguised, but the facts I h a v e ex a m in • e d ■ y o u r b ook, • A P h y sic ia n in th e ‘ th e profession an d p u b lic. u n .l am m u ch p le a se d w ith its c o n te n t» a n d no brains superior to those of man are as stated below in this article. to H oube.’ T his book has 800 pages, is n eatly n e E v ery fa m ily rh o u Jd know how to c a re f o r th e h e a lth o f th e houi-ehoid, w h ic h 1» a h u m a n rig h t, an d bound in cloth w ith gold le tte rs,a n d wifi rm a tio n n eed ed a n a in kind, hence no divine, nor spirit Two gentlemen chanced to be d I in u ty g u . a > g e v tir th e box p eo k g p iv le e s c a th n e re I n a fo d ily lie se n t postpaid to any ad d ress on re u n d e rs ta n d . 1 con » r a tu in te y o u on n o t n a m in g th e u»e o f a n y poi»on, ceipt of price, $3.00. ual, nor all-wise intelligence. riding along the road together this m t ad h er in g s tr ic tly to th e use o f n o n -p o lso n o u » rem - s—th e o n e tr u e p rin c ip le t h a t » hould g u id e all By special arrangement Every atom in the universe al morning, December 29, 1899, when e tr d e ie a tm e n t o f d iseaze, a n d w h ich I h a v e a d v o c a te d in SPECIAL OFFER ---- --------------with Dr. Greer, we offer y ear» o r m o re . PHYSICIAN N THE HOUSE and the TORCH ways has existed and always will. one of them remarked: “I paid A iny p ra c V tic o u e rs fo tr r u f ly o rty , _ OF REASON for one year for only D r . w . h . C o o k .” $3.00 the price of the book alone. Not one atom could be made out of B eight hundred dollars for his | nothing. The form can be changed farm last week, and yesterday I from solid, to liquid or gas, and met him in town and he asked me T h e G re a t changed back; and millions of com to give him two dollars. He said binations are made and changed by he had been drinking and gambling the forces which are properties of and had sp-nt and lost it all.” each kind of atom, and of each ‘‘Aes,” said his companion, No Need to Suffer from A ny Disease. combination; but these are not “that is the way it goes. Two creative power, nor intelligence. f E lix ir years ago my brother was riding B a c t e r ia c id e Those forces, like the atoms, al home from town drunk, one night, V IT Æ -O R E E u c a ly h f p 't tu u ! s O il ways have been and always will be, when in some way he fell behind O r e - O lin e M e d ic a te d S o a p because they could not be other the horses’ heels and was caught wise. They are the unalterable and held there until they, taking PEARL W. GEER Agent physical laws. Some are beneficial fright, ran away and kicked him to man and some are injurious. to death along the road. Blood S ilv e r t o n , O r e g o n . They were not made for man, but and brains were found along the man selects from among them, as highway for half a mile and on the do all animals and insects. wagon wheel.” ’ v, How to Make To drink and get drunk when When people are convinced that there is no intelligence outside of you like may be the right thing, live, active brain , then all religious but it is dangerous. To take a y T he G o v e rn m e n t n atio n alized th e Postal S y stem , w hy n o t also worship, prayer, and superstition glass with a friend now and then th e M oney System ? A plan is told by C. ELTO N B L A N C H A R D in h is book e n t i t l e d ................................. will drop; man will respect man; may be social, but who knows morality will be based on the rela where it will end? To touch not, U N C LE S A M ’S _ will __ taste not, handle not may seem un tions of ___ man _ to man; man H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E value his own brain, health and social and stingy, but it is safe, ----- — Postpaid for 25 Cents opportunities; and the study of And it pays in the long run to profits on th is Irook will be given to th e L ib eral U n iv e rsity hygiene, nature, politics and phil- take some pains to be on the sa e Should be in th All e h an d s of every th in k in g p erson. A ddress all o rd ers to anthropy will take the place of side. The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon theology. What an impetus to Science that will be! When these Secularists would you not like to )he W iley B subjects are studied and taught in have some letterheads printed with Allen Co. all churches, and thought exchang- Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sendin T he O ld est! th e sketch and description of any invention w i.. Largest ! 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