THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH I, 1900.
For the Torch o f Reason.
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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 .
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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
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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
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anything nor know anything.
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BY D. E.
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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
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$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,
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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
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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.”
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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,
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