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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 31, 1900,
upon the Western world by Japan
Washington Secular League.
and China, unless these nations be-
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NEW S AND NOTES.
come victims to some so-called At a meeting of the Secular
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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-
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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
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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
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m ust
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sense -
contradictions, errors and false
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teachings, Gen. W. Birney, the
There is no change, growth, retro-
president, evidently much inter- gression, decay, advancement, noi
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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;
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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-
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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
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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
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mitted such an “awful” thing to be -
fam ily of ten children grow up and ,
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. „'been changed in their course, the Christian Endeavors, etc. Their
done “right in a Christian country.” marry
marrv and “renlenish
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“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
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; late actions we call life and hurls T H E Y DO T H IS!
his defense. Contributions should political
and religious. For some
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the
pure,
the
beautiful,
the
eternal
If we Freethought Secularists
be sent to Peyton Parrott, 49 East time she was with the Methodists,
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and hydrogen, and oxygen, ’ succeed it will be because we learn
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chi ren, dropped church at- 8ulphur| and calcium back into the Freethought work. We can do it!
R. G. Ingersoll’s complete works
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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
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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
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a 11 victory for k her
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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" ’ °
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girls in the Deaf and Dumb School , v ,
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of
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Liberal
University
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of Oregon have given them pictures .
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of Jesus being crucified, etc., and at Silverton, to conduct the funeral
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fearful
religious
credulity?
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other mythical Bible scenes, and exercises.
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flowers
and
tears
of
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and
old.
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his discourse, showing how the life a - , ..
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They are taught to sing, “Jesus, f
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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„
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fingers, instead of something of trated
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stronger than the beauty and hap-
death, and hope, fell •
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some meaning and utility — and of life, and iL
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piness of this lovely earth-island?
upon sympathetic hearts. Then,
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Freethinkers pay their taxes.
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impulses and accept the myth food
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Torch Sent to Japan.
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tho8e
who
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by
keeping
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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.