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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1900)
T H E TORCH O F REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, M ARCH 29, 1900. Agnostics develope their brains ing upon the Lord regularly se v -’ O and assist others to become enlight- eral tim es every day. But I soon — G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R $ 3 ened. M inisters live in a s m a ll1 noticed th a t my prayers were very world and read nothing except the seldom, if ever, answered, and I be- ignorant m u tte rirg s of the unedu- gan to doubt if I was in favor with cated dead, and become dwarfed in th e Lord. I soon stopped praying, i their own m inds and sow the seeds however, and commenced thinking.’ of narrow ness in the m inds of A s a result, I am today a staunch others. ¡L iberal; and when J think of the Agnostics investigate the acts of various m eans employed in the the dead, im prove and build on past to im press on th e m inds of them ; live in the present; consult children these dogm as of God and H new family medical Work the phenom ena of N ature a n d s c i- the devil, I do not wonder th at or- entifically endeavor to discover the thodoxy has the following it has, bv Dr. 3. fi. Greer. Cbicaao«««««««««» H IS book is up to d a te in every p ar mystery th a t surrounds life and and when I see people poisoning tie u lar. deai“ - the m inds of innocent children I t tells you how to cure yourself I'V sim ple an d h arm less hom e rem M inisters dem and belief and faith, with the germs of this m iserable edies. Agnostics dem and the evidence. superstition, it gives me a sickly It recom m ends no poisonous or Agnostics accept the accom plish feeling. I realize th a t it is my dangerous drugs. t . ’•«•■gv.uuouiup. i s w ell » a tlio ,1,,»., r a ..„ eaches sim ple com m on-sense m ethods in ments of all the best th a t ever lived. dutv u u i y , a8 well a s th e d u ty of every : accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws. M inisters live in the uneducated L iberal, to aid in every possible m . 1 not endorse dangerous e x p erim ets with w a v I h p ' i th ^ 8‘,r^ on ® knife. past and glory in quoting the in way th e noble work of rescuing the I t teaches how to save h ealth and life hv safe sane ravings of the dead, especially rising generation from the tangled m eth o d s. I t is e n tirely free from tech n ical ru b b ish , if they have been dead a long while. web of ignorance th a t has been i t teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tter to know Agnostics cultivate the w heat of woven about them . The place to o ° " to avoid disease th an to tak e anv m edicine as a cure. Jifejministers keep alive the thistles com mence is most assuredly with I tea< 1|VS hv ph«,id and o th e r fevers can he _______- of the past. toe young. This is where the evil Agnostics fill the granery of the starts. Destroy the germ, and the It Ii >t an a,iv ert,8 en ,e n t and has no m edicine to sell world with glistening gems of evil cannot much longer exist. If It UIicom Prom ising w ar on vaccination and th e use o f a n t i t n v in o Thio book “¡¡¡nmt’fail'i8 8l!owin* <«ffere" t Part» of tl.e hum an Ixaly. thought; m inisters are satisfied people could only be induced to an d aaeiest m eans, do n o t d j ^ g e t u i g it.' ' hC“ ' lh by “ “e with the tho u g h ts of the dead. stop teaching the religion of Jesus r\ b.r«ter, tlm author, is a practfc ng p h y sic !,,, in C hicago, is P rofessor of C hrist, and teach instead the re B College President’s testimoir K W rinary, Di8ea8e8in the College ligion of Science, orthodoxy would A Victim of R evivals. P rof v . m II. C ook for thirty w a r , r>enn or the C h i e 7 J C,,ie a,r,Hi S u rKe ry, P hv sician -in - soon cease to exist, and the next c .n « - n n a t i P h y s i o - M e d i c a l C o l l e g e , writ«, to a n d f tO th e H arV ard Medical In s titu te , I iheuo...vrudiu;.ow. « h a s w ritte n m any works of value to generation would see less poverty, E ditor T orch of R eason : ' stn ln cl you. hook. -A Phy»iclan in the > p r o f e s s i o n a n d public. > with l u con ten t, and Tn , , , 2 7 Iu looking over your article, crim e and m isery and more noble, to n e 1 j h o . h : »» u u i m hi,,,., i u ’ t f(ir lll(, lh is honk has son pages, is .n e a tlv Z ? i t h v P hV ' u.u , h ‘ :<J- v ! i l h *" a h u " ’ <Kht a n d hound in cloth with gold lette rs,a n d will I r. '- ..2 n ’i ’i ” ” " F i vc* ,h e ' 1! ..rin m io n n ee d ed und in “Development vs. C reation,” fa the broad-tninded men and women. be se n t postpaid to any address on re - n t 'i U P 1 P c,,n y "n<Ie«stnnd. I c o n Y ours for Progress, Torch of J a n u a ry 18th, I cannot v - n , h *’ * • o f « " y p o b o n ceipt of price, |3.00. ndherUiK t, J c tly to th e o , n o n - n o » « ,» ™ rem- " ’T, ,r v e P rin c ip le Hint u h o n ld truide .11 but reflect on my boyhood days R. L. H ickm an . r fn w n tr t ,! | e, n n d w h ich I h av e a d v o c a te d 1 SPECIAL OFFER ■’’’’■ngement , :ny p ra c tic e fo r f o -ty y e a r , o r m o re. PHV i n a m < V ’ G re e r. °<f«r Bakeoven, Ore. and note the influences throw n OF D FA n w ? TMfc HOUSE •"<« th e TORCH 7 o u r s tr u ly , O r R EA ON fo r one y e a r fo r only nA D h - w . h . c o o k .” th e price of the book alone. du»UU around me, and I recall to my mind a series of revival m eetings I Oregon th e Cap-Sheat. attended when about fourteen years old, at W’hich, after relating stories How to Make The U nited States grain ex h ib it of deathbed repentances and h a ir at the Paris exposition is going to breadth escapes from bell, until lie A «■*- I-.'I 11 J lt y»< A »0 A »• be som ething grand and fine, and had most of the women and c h il T XT Gov«rn iïæ n t natio n alized th e Postal System , w hy not also Oregon is going to furnish the cap- dren and a num ber of the men in th e M oney S ystem ? A plan is told by C. ELTO N B L A N C H A R D sheaf for it all. in his book e n t i t l e d ................................. tears, the m inister graciously That will he quite a fine feather opened the doors of his church to U N C L E S A M ’S in O regon’s cap, and will attrac t the poor, wretched sinners, whom the atten tio n of the world. H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E he so dearly loved th a t he would The distinguished honor has -------- Postpaid for 25 Cents be willing to have them dam ned to been accorded on I he sim ple score ci H i- p r? fits, on th is b o o k will be given to th e L io eral U n iv e rsity eternal p unishm ent because they S iould lie in th e h a n d s of every th in k in g person. A ddress all orders to of m erit, and m erit alone. The did not believe as he did. A good The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton , Oregon U nited S tates governm ent w anted old C hristian brother, who m ade long prayers and loud speeches, a bundle of the finest wheat on . F o r s tn e r ’s sta lk —som ething th at no foreign Do you ta k e th e called out his children, of which he country could surpass— and Oregon was blessed with a goodly num ber, T orch o f Reason? had the best bundle of wheat there It is only One D ollar a Y ear, and and ordered them to “ go up and was to be found. co n tain s reading m a tte r th a t you can IS I NVALUABE TO jine the m eetin,” and with childish not get elsew here for th ree tim es the The variety is W hite R ussian, m oney. I t comes every week, too. C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , obedience they filed up to the altar, such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak e s th e and it was raised on the O. R. & not one of them realizing the place of chisel an d gouge; to N. exp< rim ental farm . The bundle Do you tak e th e nature of the step they had taken. a k e rs , for in laid w ork, dow O regonian C a e b li in n g e t , M p atch M hen these m eetings cam e to a is two feet in diam eter, and it will W eekly in g , rem oving sp lits and stand five feet two inches high a« a It is p u b lish ed a t P o rtla n d , ore., k n o ts. In fact, no close, J Was also num bered with the and co n tain s m ore am i l e t t e r infor center pedestal of the American ex m ation in regard to th e Pacific W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r Hock, as was n early every child in e r of pianos, organs, sew ing m ach in es, hibit a t Paris. It will open the N orthw est th a n any o th e r p ap er, and the neighborhood. 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