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4 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 8, 1900. Torch of Reason from early childhood that there is v no suffering after death, the world The Only Paper of Its Kind. would soon he full of the sunshine of happiness. Published are l * • - ' • - • W J eekly - — by th -- e - L ite ra l U n _ i-' Men and women who Mil'/ C A 1 V U t7t II born versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of . , . , . Constructive, Moral Secularism. | entirely wrong in this respect, and who have been trained entirely V , • . . . and “good work and good pay” is can visit only a few of our friends what is necessary to make workers in the time he can spare from our happy. Let us sing! Let us be ■ Secular Home, we feel sure that happy! Let us build! all whom he is able to visit will ex tend to him a welcome, help all AMONG T H E H E A T H E N A N D they can and try to get others to HEATHEN. do the same. We are sure that the J. E. Hosm er........................Editor wron?< can probably never be con- Torch of Reason family is in verted to common sense, but th> re Our representative, Mr. F. J. earnest and are not what Thomas W. G eer,...................... M anager are many older ones and very Beaty, who has just returned from Paine called Summer Soldiers. E ntered a t th e postoffice a t S ilverton, many children who can be helped the Hawtiian Islands, brings the May that part of the great god, Oregon, as second-class m ail m atte r. to see that to die and then be Liberal University so m e very valu Humanity, to which “Brother” resurrected into what would able specimens and some excellent Geer appeals, send “showers of SUBSCRIPTION RATES. be almost, if not quite, a stereoscopic views. Mr. Beaty gave blessings” upon him, and may the different being, and that, too, into the students a very interesting talk transportation department of our One year, in a d v an c e ..........................$1 00 Six m onths in a d v an c e .................... 50 altogether different conditions, is in regard to the costumes, customs “Savior,” Science, bring him “safe T hree m onths, in a d v a n c e ................ 25 no better than sleeping on and let and religious beliefs of the native- ly home” to wear a “crown” of his In clubs of five or m ore, one year, in ad v an ce........................................... 75 ting our progeny inhabit and en of the islands, and will lecture be friends’ approval and a “golden Money should be sent by registered joy a heaven here on earth. And fore the Thought Exchange Sunday harp”of a conscience which vibrates le tte r or m oney o rder. the happiest thought to those who evening, March 18. in harmony with eternal truth and are redeemed by our altruistic re The most interesting thing to us, right. Let us all “pray”! N o tic e ! ligion is that we can help build on account of its confirmation of this heaven for our representatives the Secular plan of civilization, is A h a n d poin tin g to th is notice denotes TRU TH IS CO NQ UERING . th a t your su b scrip tio n has ex p ired . who are to follow, and this hap his account of the native religion You are e arn estly requested to re piness becomes so complete as we and the effects of Christianity on new so th a t you m ay receive th e p a In a private letter a friend per w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have de work away that we find we are in the natives. It seems that the na cided th a t it is best for all concerned heaven ourselves. Many who are tives are almost forced to play the writes: th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. naturally weak may be obliged to hypocrite and, against their honest “ How beautiful is Truth! How This will prev en t any loss an d we will “ work themselves up to it,” but convictions, which were freely ex it purifies the mind!” know just w here we sta n d . We request you to semi us th e nam es when they find themselves pos pressed when they found that Mr. Yes, indeed, Truth is beautiful of Secularists who m ight become su b sessed of “the power” of enjoying a Beaty is an unbeliever, some of scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. pure Secular life, they discover, as them pretend to love Jesus. The and purifying. It is beyond hu the newly-converted Christian does, I missionaries there are a set of man speech to express the wonder 1 111 « « • AA a > •» • — THURSDAY, MAR. 8, E. M. 300. that “the world looks different than plundering pretenders and are, as ful results which come from the it did before.” The old fear of they deserve to be, heartily hated introduction of Truth where before COME, Y E POOR M Y ST IF IE D . death and dread of annihilation by the simple people of the sea,who was Error. What does the world and shadows of hell and angry gods have been forced to help fill the now enjoy, compared with what it T u n e : Com e, Ye D isconsolate. have all gone. All is peace; no coffers of the wealth-hunting Chris did three hundred years ago! And why is this? What has brought to Com e, ye poor m ystified ! egoistic desire of heavenly man tians. W hy will ye wonder us the great advancements along A t th e trad itio n al sions enter their minds to rob them Most of the Kanakas still wor every line? Is it not the larger de Priest-given m y th s? of their scientific, professional, ship their own gods and, wonderful We should not sorrow fully M ake life a b u rd en , mansion building here for those to relate, their gods answer their gree of freedom from the old super stitions, and will we not advance Seeking for heaven who are to follow. Instead of sing prayers fully as often as do the A nd losing e a r th ’s bliss. still more rapidly when all the peo ing: Christian gods answer their wor T h en , w hile th e m om ents fly, ple of the world are set free and “ T hen ask m e not to linger long shippers, either in or out of their L et us w ith every th o u g h t get “out into the clear” ? We have Amid th e gay and th o u g h tless th ro n g , H elp to redeem th e w orld; closets. For I am only w aiting here P rie stly pow ’r flee. a great work to do, but if we “act To h e a r th e sum m ons, ‘C hild, come W e have no rig h t to live We wish that every lover of truth well our part” we need not fear for h o m e.” ’ ’Ijess by our living could listen to Mr. Beaty and look W e h elp our b ro th ers and sisters to be the results. Truth will conquer! as the Christians do, we sing: free. at the beautiful views which he has Truth is couquering! Then ask us no t to linger long placed in the L. U. O. museum. H ere see th e joys of life ; A m id th e su p erstitio u s th ro n g , See faces glowing. Let every Freethinker take the F o r we are happy, w orking here, Friends of H u m an ity To build an e a rth ly heaven-hom e. same interest in the Liberal Uni C onquer with love. O U R O P E N IN G E X E R C IS E S . Come, leave th y selfishness ; This work of disabusing the versity that our Chemawa friend Come, ever know ing minds of menof their inherited and does, and the world will the sooner Alan by his wisdom Every morning in the Liberal E a r th ’s sorrow s rem ove. cultivated fear of non-existence and know the real solution of problems I ni versity, instead of prayers, relig of putting in the place of its result- social, ethical and economic. ious harangues and “sacred” songs, GOOD W ORK A N D GOOD P A Y . inghope for personal immortality by we have for opening exercises, first, the better, nobler and more reason LET U S “ P R A Y . responsive and concert reading of The greatest reason, if it can be able hope of the continuity of the gems of thought from the master called reason, for believing iu a good results of our individual and It became very necessary for the minds; second, singing of a Secular future heaven for the individual united efforts for the happiness of Liberal University Company to song and, third, the development of seems to be the dread of annihila our own and coming generations, raise more money to pay up the some great fundamental principle tion. When the average man and requires much attention and unavoid hie debts which have ac- of cosmology, biology or sociology. woman think of non-existence, it thought. It requires but little in- crued during the winter and to Our friends must remember this causes them very unpleasant feel tcllectuality, knowledge of the laws finish our building; therefore, the ings. This comes from an inher of nature, or of history, and but business manager, Mr. P. W. Geer, important fact: there is no super stition WHATEVER IN ANY OF THESE ited fear and from the wav we have little of that quality generally packed his grip and started out on songs , poems or lectures . Where been educated by coming in con known as large-heartedness to be- the road last Friday morning. Of else in the world is there a school tact with the older ones who have come a member of the orthodox course, we who are at home work- where superstition is entirely ex been so ignorant in regard to the Salvation Army, and as there are ing are all “praviug” for his cluded? And where else in the nature of death, and thus acted so still in the world more people success and we have “faith” world is there a school where pu fearfully about it and its supposed poorly born and bred physically, that he will succeed, for we pils are free to express their honest awful consequences. intellectually and morally than know of no one in the whole world opinions on any and all subjects? These two causes for the fear of otherwise, we have just what who could better explain our deeds death, and the resultant desire to should be expected. I bus we find and our needs than he. We regret The L. U.O. is truly“the only school live in bliss after death, must be that there 18 plenty of good work that he is only one, but, unfortu- of its kind in the world”, and we must not let it be crushed out by overcome. If when children are and good pay (satisfaction) for nately for us poor unbelievers those who are blinded by supersti born they could possess brain cells those who have learned the trade “three in one,” in any way to us tion or selfishness. entirely free from the taint of fear, of building mansions here instead beneficial, is an impossibility But and if they could be made to know »of depending on those in the sky, I although our Pearl is only one and “ Come, aw ake, th e d a y lig h t daw ns. A I I A Rise to m eet th e com ing m o rn .”