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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1900)
T H E TORCH O F R E A SO N , S IL V E R I O N , O R E G O N , M A R C H W a n te d —A New Religion. Six Tracts to Promote Scientific W isdom 15, 1900. Spring of 1900 is Up and a Com ing We are in receipt -of the follow* ing letter from an able teacher, Our Big Shipm ent of Spring Shoes ha9 A rrived. Tar. Shoes who lost his position in a prom will be the Correct Style for S pring W ear. See our A ssort inent state agricultural college on m ent in In Place of C h ris tia n ity : account of his religious and politi 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? B A B IE S ’ cal beliets: 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil “ We were not reinstated, nor C H IL D R E N ’S ization? will they pay us for the last three M IS S E S ’ 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? m onths of last year nor our con 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. L A D IE S ’ tracts for this year. They are the 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? = G ENTS’ 6 Immortality or Annihilation? most cunning and audacious ras At S ilverton’s L argest and Busiest Store. cals I ever encountered. It looks JU S T T H E T H IN G to h a n d to your C h ristia n friends. Send as though we shall have to wait 2 cen ts for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts, over a B vear until after the next F to E liza M owry B liven , Brook legislature meets, and if they areo f lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents for 50, e ith e r kind or as the same opinions and beliefs, it is S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E P R O D U C E T A K EN sorted kinds, to im probable that it will be voted. THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO., W hat are we corning to? There is m orals in Silverton . - Oregon distinctly a decline in these recent yeais. It is due to a decline of an v and all religious be-j Dreyer & Craig. RIGHT LIVING lief. The old is effete and gone. Its influence on conduct is nil. N othing new has been clearly form TORCH OF REASON ulated to take its place as a ground ¡ for m oral sanctions. The negation has gone on faster than the recon struction. This is dangerous to the nations of ‘C hristendom .’ ‘No nation ever outlived its religion,’ said August Comte. It lies with IS A BOOK O F •o' those who see the way to get a new one ready. You people, with your Torch of Reason, should he a power for construction. F o rm u late, form ulate, form ulate! 'Pell N o. 2 . the people what you believe; never m ind what you don’t. S u p ersti tion and skepticism can only be On th e follow ing and “Truth bears the Torch in the supplanted by facts, and the defin k in d red S u b jects: search For Truth.” ite, doctrinal statem ents m ust be m ade for most people. S e lf C o n tro l “ Physical Science, H igher C riti cism , Ingersoll and his school have S e lf R e s p e c t done all the negating necessary. S IL V E R T O N , O R EG O N : L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y PRESS W h a t is M o rality? The world is in positively grave 1899 W h a t is Ignorance danger now from indifferent a tti tudes in morals, etc. A nother h u n Fraud a C rim e PRICE TEN CENTS. dred years will witness the begin- H a b it, 2nd N a tu re inng of another lapse in civilization unless the so-called Liberals are Politeness able to reconstruct faith in a tru er sense and preach it effectively. W isdom We m ust not deny; we m ust affirm. E tc , e tc ., e tc . W e m ust show7 ourselves of the Our Job D e p a rtm e n t higher spirit, we m ust exhibit the -ALWAYS GIVES- O ne of th ese c h ap te rs is real good will while we urge it W o rth m ore to upon others. This, Liberals as a Y oung and old th a n th e P rice of th e book. class do not do. We have been polemic, sarcastic, negative, bitter. ---- BECAUSE IT GIVES---- We never convert in this way. We IT SHOULD BE IN destroy, but we do not enthuse. HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP There must be a genuine revival of religion. You know w hat I mean. 50 YEARS’ W e m ust state our confidence in e x p e r ie n c e the Universe, in Law, in H um anity. ■ r EX -G O V . J O H N P . A LT G E L D . We m ust m ake it sim ple; we m ust an d re c e iv e a m ake it effective. We have b u rn t A B o o k f o r t h e P e o p l e ◄ n e a tly c lo t h - down the old; now we m ust build C O N T A IN S A L L T H E F A M O U S S P E E C H E S , L E T T E R S , bound co p y, post p a id . before the people get so they prefer E V M E R E S Y S IS A G S E U S E A O N F D N E A S T S IO A N Y A S L O IM F P T O H R E T A A N U C T H E O R A N . D TRADE M ARKS D esig ns P O P U L A R I N T E R E S T E A R N E S T L Y C O N S ID E R E D . the woods of barbarism .” C o p y r ig h ts A c . Song Book W S ix ty E x c e lle n t C h a p te rs Satisfaction EVERY HOME! “ LIVE Q UESTIO NS” A G E N T S W ANTED. 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