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Torch of Reason
T H E TORCH OF REA SO N , SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, JU N E 7, 1Ö00.
has alw ays been a success. W hen­ tie n t’s head a little— there, see, the will be, and w hat help our Univer-
ever we have tried to touch the W orld is gome better already. Do sity will receive when we are prop­
hem of the beautiful garm ent of not let us be discouraged because erly organized. In towns, a house-
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
the world is so large and we are on­ to-house canvass can be m ade by
Science we have been blessed and
ly one little cell. Think of the bil­ you or by com m ittees appointed by
P u b lish e d W eekly by th e L iberal U n i­ received virtue, and this finding o f lions of cells in our own bodies,and the society, which could be easily
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
the great tru th s of nature, coupled yet it takes but little to m ake us organized if only some one will
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
_ with the love for others, which is sick and m iserable and but little to m ake it a business and carefully
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them enjoy life to th e very highest
be considered prep arato ry take it in band in each town and
degree, is the on ily real enjoym ent work, a th rill of pleasure has been go at it in a steady, stick-to-it-ive
E n te red a t th e postoffice at S ilverton,
there is, after having as a basis th a t felt away across the A tlantic and m anner, ju st th in k w hat can be
O regon, as second-class m ail m atter.
anim al happiness th a t comes alike across the Pacific, and the dear, done! E v ery th in g is in our favor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
to all healthy anim als surrounded d istan t brothers who feel th a t we if we will only organize, and if
really and tru ly have the rem edy, you , dear F reethou g h t reader, will
by a norm al environm ent. If, then, the only remedy for the ills of m an- wisely go at it and get everyone
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Six m o n th s, in a d v an c e ....................
50 knowledge of the great universe kind, are now, as we write, carrying else to help th a t you can, not
discouraged even if no
T h ree m o n th s, in a d v an c e ................
25 of which we are a part, and love “ the glad tidings of great jo y ” to being
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
else takes hold for
ten
those they love. To be sure, other one
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"5 for our fellows and its consequent
remedies have been carried to d is­ years, ju st planning and work­
Money should he se n t by registered harm ony, music of life, is the p an a­
tan t parts of the world, but they ing whenever you can get tim e
la tte r or m oney order.
cea for individuals, why is it not have failed.
Only the right one , from your other duties you can ac­
the fountain of im m ortal youth, will produce the desired result and com plish wonders. N ever give u p !
Notice!
the balm in G ilead of the whole h u ­ be quickly assim ilated and ac­ T ry again , and the little seeds of
knowledged to be the treatm ent tru th sown, and the help the L. U.
m an race? I t certainly is!
“ we long have sought and griev­ O. will receive ju s t from your spare
A h a n d poin tin g to th is notice denotes
And
how
to
secure
this
A
laddin’s
th a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d .
ed because we found it not.” The moments, which will become the
You áre earn estly requested to re ­ lam p, this treasure-trove, this re­ old religions can never become u n i­ happiest of your life if you are a
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­
p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have de­ ligion of Science and H u m an ity for versal, but the Religion of Science true-blue L iberal, will grow into
cided th a t it is best for all concerned the whole world is the great prob­ and H um anity can and certainly m ighty results, which will be a
th a t we do n o t send p ap ers longer th a n
will. Jesus can never be proven to m onum ent th a t will grow larger
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. lem of this age. To be satisfied be the true savior of the world, nor and larger ages after you are
T his will p rev e n t any loss and we will with “ seeking” and “ knocking” for
can M oham rnet.
It does no good through acting well your part.
know just w here we sta n d .
our
own
special
seat
in
this
new
Our work
We request you to send us th e nam es
to w orship either, but to work for Please do sem ething.
of Secularists who m ig h t becom e su b ­ heaven is contrary to the spirit of the introduction of the new and drags. We need help.
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies.
E very F reeth in k er who lives in
this new religion, and selfishness beneficial tru th s of nature, all be­
a
city
can organize some system atic
soon brands itself upon the brow of cause we love our fellow7 men and
plan of w’ork and do us untold good.
T hursday , J une 7, E. M. 300. him who, as the m illions do, become want to make th is world a happy
place for ages yet to come, does do F irst, work, or su p erin ten d the
backsliders— infidel to th is n atural good; makes us exceedingly h a p p y ; w orking of your ward, and branch
religion. Today, in every country takes away the fear of death, and out as you can. Send us the nam es
OUR CO NFUSION A N D IT S
REM EDY.
in the world, the environm ent into will ultim ately .make new beings of of those L iberally inclined and we
which a child is born is such as to us w ithout the trouble of our being will send each a sam ple copy of the
C hristians are woefully divided, have his better nature, his desire “ horn ag ain ,” as receiving the forced Torch. F in ally , if there are no
F reethinkers in your vicinity, work
and th a t too to th eir “ s p iritu a l” for tru th and love for his fellows, and u n n atu ra l faith of the old with the tim ber at hand and d o n ’t
creeds is called. It is plain th a t
dilution and u ltim ate annihilation; warped, benum bed, dwarfed, m ur­ when tnen and women are perfectly give up under any consideration.
but as yet, L iberals have but little dered by the lies of supernaturalism in love and harm ony by the tra in ­ The building of the Liberal U n i­
to brag of if the word L iberal means and its a tte n d a n t evils. M any a ing which em ancipated schools of versity, Oregon, is one of the great­
all th a t m any u n derstand it to youth sta rts out with the very best progressive, m oral Secularism can est undertakings th a t F reethinkers
of any age ever inaugurated; and if
m ean. So we see the whole world of intentions, but, as a rule, only give under Secularized conditions, it is a success it will be because we
they will be as good angels as can
is still in a state of confusion. The those hum ans survive who are n a t­ be im agined. W hat kind of beings are willing to be Free workers as
opposing creeds, both C hristian and urally crooked or are bent out of could he more angelic than educat­ well as F reethinkers.
so-called Liberal can not all be shape by their cruel environm ent; ed, refined, loving m others, wives,
tru e, and this confusion is the cause and all h u m an ity is now sick with sisters, sw eethearts, fathers, hus­
L A D IE S , A TTE N TIO N !
bands, brothers and friends?
of h u m an ity ’s sufferings.
selfishness and crime.
Think of it! Can you im agine
The unity of the hum an race is
Now it is evident th a t the doctors an y th in g better than a perfected
Do you know who your friends
the greatest idea in the world today of divinity, with th eir old-fashioned hum anity? W ings, did you say? are? Is C h ristian ity the friend of
and the question arises how can pill boxes (th eir Bibles), can not Never fear; when all men are free woman, or has it alw ays m ade her
harm ony be brought out of this cure the patient. Long and faith ­ they will turn their gaze from play second fiddle in everything?
the m ythical anim als of the sky Does your em ancipation depend on
awful chaos? I f we endeavor to see fully has the world taken the p at­
to the real things of earth .
L ove the success of Secularism , or on the
things as they really are, perhaps ent nostrum s of these quacks. W hat and S cience w’ill give us wings.
extension of the m yths and tra d i­
we m ay discover the quick-acting we w ant is som ething th a t will
tions of the church?
H ere is a
panacea— th e fabled fountain of really and tru ly give H u m an ity
pointer: Silverton is noted far and
im m ortal youth. Can it be th a t power to “ pick up its bed and w alk,” LET US W ORK SY ST E M A T IC A L L Y . wide as a Secular stronghold, and
Mt. Angel, less th an five miles dis­
there is no cure for the crim e, the and th a t at once. The pretenses of
We can do more in the next year ta n t, is strictly a C hristian town.
sorrow, the weakness, the useless the medicine men and the hum ble
This week an equal suffrage am end­
agony in our n atu ra lly beautiful, faith of the p atien t will not, can than has been done in the last m ent was voted on by the people of
light-receiving and life-producing not, produce the desired effect. The twenty-five toward building up our Oregon, and in the Liberal" Univer-
ea rth ? Is it tru e th a t “ it has a l­ real, true remedy m ust be found, cause, and introducing its noble sity precinct it carried with a large
principles, if each F reeth in k er will majo rity , but in Mt. Angel it
w ays been so and always w ill?” and then will come a change.
do one very sim ple, easy thing, and " as e n t^re^y snowed un d er ’. By
M ust our generation pass away
The genuine, hard-w orking, take- ., . .
J i c j
n
the next issue of the Torch we will
w ithout seeing the daw n of a b rig h t­
th a t .8: first find an o th er Free- know w hether the S tate is to give all
it-on-its-m erit plan of building a
er day ?
“ Is there no balm in
thinker, talk over the best plan of its m oral, intelligent citizens a right
U niversity which is to stand for*
system atic work in your neighbor- to help m ake the laws th a t they
Gilead?
the Religion of Science and H um an­ hood, be it country, town, or city, and their sons are obliged to obey,
The “good book” (p arts of it are ity, with its rapid purifying and If in th e country organize a society or w hether the old, w hite-slave re-
very bad) says: “Seek and ye shall unifying effects, ie our rem edy, and if you can, no m atter if there are gime is to continue, And if this
find; knock, and it shall be opened we only ask those who have held n0 more th an five or six members; noble war for freedom is reported a
unto you.”
Let us apply this th eir m ental fingers on the pulse of have regular meetings and read, failure it will not be because the
sing, speak and discuss the best men of the S tate are Freethinkers,
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or years, sometimes p ia r s for carrying on the work of but because the powerful shackles
th e case in hand. In looking over hoping and som etim es despairing, helping build the Liberal Univer- of th e church, which has alw ays
the specim ens in our own life’s to carefully watch the effect. D on’t sity. If there are not enough to served the political bosses, are still
museum of experiences, we fiud th a t let us be too im patient; give the organize, lay your plans carefully unbroken and th a t the Goddess of
w hatever we have had to do with medicine tim e to work; help us and then carry them out. If you Lil>erty is still crucified on the
need sam ple copies of the Torch, bloody tree whose two m ain branch-
Science and w hatever of love we keep it pure and unm ixed with the
don’t be afraid to ask for them , es are known to us as the Catholic
have had for our fellow creatures, filth of selfishness; raise the pa- T hink w hat a m ighty power we 1 and P ro testan t S uperstitions.