8 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 31, 1900, upon the Western world by Japan Washington Secular League. and China, unless these nations be- ---------- NEW S AND NOTES. come victims to some so-called At a meeting of the Secular $000000000000000000000000 higher civilization;” namely, the League of Washington, D. C., held Miss Ollie Geer is with the Uni Christian religion. As missionary on Sunday, 13th inst., after a paper versity people again. work for the cause of Science I sub- by Chas. L. Snyder was read, clear- 30 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 J u n e 1st we begin to build in scribe to two copiée» of the Torch f grtw t . W e.need v/,i i. help. Reaszis Lolie-suni to.. addresses given. of mental impulse we call reason and learn to live and grow and be hap- py in Nature’s Eden, 1 while feasting * * --------- — --------------- from the tree of knowledge on the priest-forbidden fruits of Free- thought. ly proving th a t the Bibie is a hu- wo'/iL full of in«;»>iT-7^ert?ce>," w _ _ _ _ _ _ m ust ^ sus T n e s s sense - contradictions, errors and false ______ M. M. T. teachings, Gen. W. Birney, the There is no change, growth, retro- president, evidently much inter- gression, decay, advancement, noi > 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 O O O O O O o o o o o o ested in the subject, introduced Mr. inertia without a cause, and to find P. W. Geer to the audience, as the the causes of things is the first O B ITU A R Y. representative of the Liberal Uni- WOrk of the masters of the world; 3O O O O O O O O O O O O oooooo oooooo versity of Silverton, Oregon. Mr. then comes the “laying on of firs . Anna B arth. Geer’s enthusiasm and his profound hands” and removing the causes of On Saturday, the 26th inst., many .tha,1 tbe w°rk of the evil and the promotion and cultiva- — - - _ I h . r ,i h » r .t . „ .„ l M„,-. L- U- °- ,a 111 t,ie hne of the t,url’ ,10n of the good- It follows that if of t the Liberals and friends ,,f of Mar- quam, in the Abequa valley, attend fying and organizing work of Sci- we, the Freethinkers of the world, ed the very impressive funeral of ence, gave force and urgency to his are master builders, i. e., if we are Mrs. Anna Barth, in the church words, grace to his style and pleas- to be “any good on earth,” we must Mrs. Emily Wakeman, represent house by the cemetery. They, with ing intonations to his voice. His find the cause of our previous slow ative of the W. S. S. C., is attend the family,children,grand children, statements as to the object of the progress and inability to swing the ing the meeting of the State Feder and great-grand-children of the University, and the method by great masses on to the right track ation of Women’s Clubs at Pendle deceased well filled the building. which that object is to be obtained, of the Religion of Science and Hu- ton, Oregon, this week. Mrs. Barth may be well-named as met with frequent applause. More manity. We believe that we are Now the time has come again for a “ Mother in Israel,” and few have substantial proof of approbation beginning to understand things us to build . Let every one help been more sincerely loved, respect was given after the meeting had better, and as we learn, see how our adjourned. | cause takes a leap forward! all he or she can and we’ll soon ed and even venerated. This Liberal University is the Freethinkers have lacked discip have an L. U. O. building to be Mrs. Barth was born in Bavaria, only outgrowth of its kind—of the line in organization and have thus proud of. Germany, in 1822, and so has ex broader, deeper, more purifying, been self-centered and bred selfish The University building will be perienced a long and varied life. and unifying knowledge which ness. We do not lack numbers, used for a polling place next Mon She came to this country in her Science has given and is giving to and as far as our work appealing day. We consider the Woman’s youth, married when 23 years of the world. m . m . t . to the reason of all men and wo age the husband who now mourn Suffrage question the most import men, and especially to the young, ant before the people of Oregon at fully survives her. In early life P R IE S T -F O R B ID D E N F R U IT . is concerned, we have a very great this election. We will vote YES! they moved to Wisconsin, were suc advantage. But the orthodox cessful as farmers there, and about C o n c l u d e d f r o m 4 t h p a g e , Even to us who have seen just 24 years ago they came and settled people have schools. They do not how’ every addition to our building on their present valley farm and simply little whirlpools of these neglect their own business much, has been made, it seems wonderful home, where they have been reason wonderful, eternal, all-in-all ele but their recreation is church going, how God (his(?) agents) have per ably successful, and saw7 their large ments; and when our life-forces organizing, sustaining and teaching x .... _ have expended themselves, or have Sunday schools, Epworth Leagues, mitted such an “awful” thing to be - fam ily of ten children grow up and , , , . , . ’ , .. , . . . „'been changed in their course, the Christian Endeavors, etc. Their done “right in a Christian country.” marry marrv and “renlenish e a r t h ’’ i £ . “replenish the earth m atter of which our bodies are com- spending money is used for Christ- A proclamation has been sent with a large number of children out by a local defense committee and great-grand-children. In her posed simply follows the line of the jan literature by the tons, and it is of C. C. Moore. The proclamation youth she had been of a Catholic least resistance, or by their affini- scattered everywhere by the millions gives a brief history of Mr. Moore’s family, but when she left the old ties are caught by other atoms of dollars’ worth. It is not so much overcome the round of corre- they do this because they suc persecutions and calls for help in country she left there its despotisms, , which . „ ... , , , ceed, hut T H E Y SUCCEED BECAU SE «... i j ; late actions we call life and hurls T H E Y DO T H IS! his defense. Contributions should political and religious. For some . .r , A. . . __ . the pure, the beautiful, the eternal If we Freethought Secularists be sent to Peyton Parrott, 49 East time she was with the Methodists, , , . , ’ , - ii she, i with ’« v her i husband i i J carbon, and hydrogen, and oxygen, ’ succeed it will be because we learn Short Street, Lexington, Ky. but finally , BUSINESS SEN SE i n OUT ..u , , , , and nitrogen, and phosporus, and to use GOOD -wx, .,v® xx. chi ren, dropped church at- 8ulphur| and calcium back into the Freethought work. We can do it! R. G. Ingersoll’s complete works . . . And we don’t need to rob the will be sold at 818 cloth, $36 half tendance and superstitions and „ . . calf or morocco, and $75 full Tur lived in and for this world and its £rea lnor&anlc reservoir o again wjdow and orphan either. Let us future, without auy pretences, but 7 , / n u ’ e.d aboUt by go at it in earnest and the ministers key morocco, until July 1st, when with an industrious usefulness, gen- whirlpools in the great of Science and Humanity will have the price will be advanced to $25 ’ cosmic ocean. their “innings,” and there will be And whftt Jf there b(j gome great rejoicing on earth by a gener cloth, $50 half-calf or morocco, and uine love,sacrifice and sincerity that flilA r ’l P P llT P n u n lm n m n n her life a 11 victory for k her $100 full Turkey morocco. Send m made nomena of that wonderful vortex ation of men and women that need no blood atonement to save them, orders now to Torch of Reason, Sil husband, family, neighbors and friends, who, at her decease, gladlv we ca)I tb® buman braln but little for all wen will be their brothers verton, Oregon. “rose up to call her blessed.” ' , “ der8'™d? Is not ,bB remedy t0 and t0 d° 8°°d be their re The little defenseless boys and The family requested Prof. T. B. ' ’ " T ,,1'’6, lHle °f T 80" ’ ° 1,g‘° n- girls in the Deaf and Dumb School , v , . . -i , tt • . °* honest, normal investigation, 3 <KXXXX3<><^X><X><><X><X>O O O O O O O « \\ akemau, of the Liberal University . , , ... , ’ of Oregon have given them pictures . J rather than that of faith, revelation T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . „ j r f , ... , o of Jesus being crucified, etc., and at Silverton, to conduct the funeral . and fearful religious credulity? With simple music, w r «* ;r u ♦ » c •*» e , T h is is O u r B uilding Fund other mythical Bible scenes, and exercises. ,, H , , , M hat if through the faith, fear and flowers and tears of young and old. e *• • e x - C o n trib u tio n Box. are taught that they are true. . . j. , • , , fanaticism of our ancestors, some of j o - o - o o o o o o o o o o 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 J his discourse, showing how the life a - , .. , They are taught to sing, “Jesus, f ® us inherit a longing, an unrest, a . . * . . . Previously acknowledged___$20.00 Lover of My Soul,” etc., on their of the deceased had t nobly . il us- perverted appetite for something the new, true, Liberal view ox„rt„ .. , , , fingers, instead of something of trated . j , 4l , , stronger than the beauty and hap- death, and hope, fell • , x .; , , , C some meaning and utility — and of life, and iL . , H ’ piness of this lovely earth-island? upon sympathetic hearts. Then, . • i . . /. . . Freethinkers pay their taxes. •xu r x . • , fehould we yield to these barbarous with a few touching words at the i x xv . £ , r . , , , , impulses and accept the myth food grave, the form of the noble Mother f , Torch Sent to Japan. m j x xi x, , from tho8e who Profit by keeping Mothpr of nf A . was committed to the “ Mother great mental restaurants, whose All,” and the mourners turned E ditor T orch of R eason : away to make more real the higher agents are shoutiug the prais Prof. Frederick Guthrie says: life, which her life has continued es of their respective theological “In a hundred years floods of Sci itself in making possible to them. hashes and metaphysical soups, entific knowledge may be poured, A F riend . or should we follow that higher Silvertonites will attend East Lynne at Liberal Hall to-morrow evening. Our printers have been rushed with job work this week. Keep it coming! Mr. A. Kautz’s little son, Tony, is staying at the University with his father. Tony is a worker. Strike while the iron is hot! Now is the time to work for the L. U. O., the cause of Science and Humanity.