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 -’
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and assist others to become enlight- eral tim es every day. But I soon
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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
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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 .
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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
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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
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hv ph«,id and o th e r fevers can he
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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
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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
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ligion of Science, orthodoxy would
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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 :
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p r o f e s s i o n a n d public.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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he so dearly loved th a t he would
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be willing to have them dam ned to
been accorded on I he sim ple score
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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. The blood­
a g ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash, blinds,
is
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best
news
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in
Oregon.
eyes of all people who view it and
fu rn itu re , nor
You get six teen pages of good read ­
curdling stories of m inisters, com-
ing m a tte r each week, including all
will be a living, useful, m onum ent
th e r W o o d w o rk e r, should be
:i>ed with other influences s u r­
th e news of th e n atio n and th e A n w y ith O
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to the productive capacity of the
work!, for only $1.50 a year.
rounding me, had led me to believe
that I was a very great sinner, and nation and of the Pacific N orth, W ill you a c c e p t
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west;
and
may
well
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proud
of
the
1 was in constant fear of being
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enterprise of the men who raised A Good O ffer?
th a t will Ijorea SQ U A R E H O L E
' ruck by lightning or blown aw ay
it.—
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hy a cyclone, or some horrible
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and th e M eekly O regonian both one
year for only $1.75, little m ore th an
death th at the Lord m ight see fit
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