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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
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* • - ' • - • W J eekly
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-- e - L ite ra l U n _ i-' Men and women who
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born
versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of
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Constructive, Moral Secularism.
| entirely wrong in this respect, and
who have been trained entirely
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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Rise to m eet th e com ing m o rn .”