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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1900)
T H E TORCH HE REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, JU L Y 12, E. M. 300 (1900.) s C O KXHX><XH><><><><><XXX>00-0-0-0-0-00 | N E W S AND NOTES. X o 0<XKXK><><X>0<X)<X><><K>0<X><X>00 5 Ju ly 20th is “ Donation Day” for the Liberal U n iversity. Prof. W akem an workn in the garden by m oonlight these even ings. Quite a num ber of new students have inform ed us of their intention to be with us next term . Mr. A. K au tz and fam ily arrived in Silverton this week. Mr. K autz will soon begin work on our build ing again. T here will be a “ Donation D ay'’ ball a t L iberal H all, F rid ay even ing, Ju ly 20th, for the benefit of the L. U. O. Everybody come. A traction engine, a grading m a chine, several men and some boys worked two days on the bicycle track this week, and have it in tine shape. Mr. C. N. Young of Scio, Oregon, m ade us a very pleasant call S at urday. He inform s us th a t his cousin expects to atten d the Liberal U niversity this year. J u s t as we go to press, the m ail brings us two good donations, to be acknowledged on D onation Day, Ju ly 20th. One comes from Ore gon and the o th er from P ennsyl vania. This is, indeed, encour aging. Mr. A. E. Mason, wife and two children, from Tillam ook, Ore., are visiting relatives and friends in Silverton. Mr. Mason was for one year a member of th e L. U. O. facu lty , where he did good work and will long be rem em bered by the students. Miss K ata M atteson, who has been with us for some tim e as s tu dent and lib rarian in the Liberal University, departed for E astern Oregon, W ednesday, where she hopes to get a school for t he coming w inter. \V e are sorry to have K a ta go and hope to have her with us again soon. Gen. Wm. Birney, W ashington, D. C., in sending a c o n trib u tion for D onation D ay, Ju ly 20th, says: “ F ig h t off the ‘G iant Des p a ir:’ the money for th e building will come in tim e to make your grand enterprise a success.” Friende of the L. U. O., let us see th a t this prophecy comes true. Mrs. M attie B arnhouse and Mr. and and Mrs. L aughlin and ch ild ren left for Salem , W ednesday, after a few d ay s’ stay at the L. U. O. T h e L aughlins will soon retu rn to their home in E astern Oregon, but we expect to see Mrs. B arnhouse again in a week or so. We enjoy these pleasant visits from our friends, as we like to have them see w hat we are actually doing. Letters from intending students come from all p arts of the U nited Spates, and there is prospect of a large attendance. There will be no trouble in getting students for the L. U. O., and we hope the friends of our institu tio n will help us to in crease our facilities for teaching and boarding, so th a t we can a c com m odate enough students to pay the ru n n in g expenses of the school. D onation Day, Ju ly 20th, will be a good tim e to th in k of this. Miss Em ily W akem an was thrown from her bicycle last T h u rsd ay and suffers from a dislocation of the right ankle and a fracture of tne fibula. She is getting along nicely and ventures about the house on crutches. T his is a very u n fo rtu nate accident, as it deprives Miss W akem an of much of the pleasure she m ight have-enjoyed while visit ing her parents and the m any warm friends she has m ade in S il verton. A friend from M aine, in a p ri vate letter, inform s us th at he is going to give the L. U. O. five or ten d ollars a year, and adds: “ I also w ant to add som ething to the Ingersoll C h air—a m ost excellent suggestion and scheme. I like the Torch of Reason and hope to be able to subscribe to it as long as I live. I t seems th a t there ought to be a large num ber who could an n u ally give $5.00 to the Liberal U niversity.” T he New Life in th e New W orld. Concluded from 6th page, productive, In d u stria l Life. The last three hundred years has ac com plished more th an all of the preceding ages. It was the incom ing of the New E ra, the New W orld th a t m ade all this possible. L iberty, Science and H u m a n ity have done it, not Theology. They gave us the idea of progress, the evolution and co n tin u ity of our race, and of its ever-increasing Solidarity. They gave us the conception of T ru th , as not a celestial R evelation, b u t the agreem ent of our thoughts and con cepts with the facts, processes and laws of the world around us. All of these never existed before, they were the new results of the new A stronom y and its new W orld. The em otions through the Fine Arts have been transform ed. P h i losophy, through Science, has be come a new em pire of verified T ruth. T he Scientific A rts and In d u stries have harnessed the lightning, solidified the air, and are m aking a hum an playground of tim e and space! Well, w hat then rem ains? W hy, the sad confession th a t the masses of the hum an race know not th a t these things have ever happened, and have little or no participation in the benefits resulting. As the astonishing progress of m achinery has done little to lessen the toil of m an while it has increased th e pro duction im m easureably, so those other great leaps of progress have been taken by and for a few’. These facts indicate clearly and adm onish us overw helm ingly th a t the d u ty of the hour of those fav ored few is expansion ! Not of the old kingdom and im perialism of heaven or earth , but of the R epub lic of Man. E xpansion, not of the old, silly and lim ited notions of Y ahveh, but of the sublim e concep tion of the Infinite W orld-God— tiie A ll . Expansion of the C hrist idea, not of the u tterly impossible God, or “Son of M an,” of old P ales tine, but the m odern H um au-C hrist which is beginning to be, with its em ancipated, regenerated and d is en th ra lled m an, woman and ch ild — the heirs of the New Hope, of the A ltruistic Im m o rtality — the fit and w orthy builders of “ The E a rth ly P aradise,” which E volution is a l ready encouraging the in tellig en t w orkers to fore-see, fore-feel and en joy as they toil on,and sum m on into Being the rising generations, to re al ize the “ Im m easurable Blessings of Conscious E xistence.” DO N A TIO N D A Y FOR T H E L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y The Liberal U niversity is in great need of funds, and as a “day of p ra y er” would be behind the tim es, we have concluded to appoint July 20, E. M. 300, as a Day of D onation. We earnestly request every Lib el al in America to send us a rem it tance on th a t day, if it i9 no more th an twenty-five cents. The name and address of each donor, with the am ount given, will be published in the Torch of Reason. “ In uuion there i9 stre n g th .” A ddress, J. E. H osmer , Silverton, Oregon. A Libera! Offer. A good friend of the L. U. O. has offered to donate Two T housand D ollars in cash to our in stitu tio n if other F reethinkers will raise it to Five Thousand. Let us till up the contribution box! L ater — M r. R. C. B urtis of M ich igan adds one thousand dollars to the above offer. At this rate we Form of D evise. will soon be able to go ahead with I t is not well to defer your ben our building. “ A friend who helps eficence until your life has closed, quick helps double.” when it m ay be defeated. B ut if 0-<X><><XX><><XXX><><>0-0-0-Cr0 0-0-0-0-0-0 < there is no better way, include in T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . your w’ill a provision for Liberal T h is is O u r B u ild in g Fun d and Secular education of the rising C o n tr ib u tio n B o x . £ generation, in this form: ° 0 > O-O-O-O-O-O <KXXX><>O-<XX><X)<HXXX>O < I give, devise and bequeath unto the Liberal U niversity Com pany, incorporated under the laws of the S tate of Oregon for the purpose of operating the Liberal U niversity, .-ituated near the city of Silverton, in said State, the sum of ------------ dollars. Or the following described real (o r personal) p ro p e rty :--------- ----------------, for th e said com pany to have, own and enjoy the sam e absolutely and forever, but to be applied for the benefit and use of said U niversity, p u rsu an t to the term s of its incorporation. Several p arties have inform ed us of th eir intention to leave property and m oney to the Liberal U niver sity, and have asked for ihform a- tion in regard to the wording of wills in our favor, and in order th a t the m oney and property m ay go where it is intended, we publish the above form for the instruction of all of our would-be benefactors. P earl W. G eer , Sec’y L. U. O. Previously acknow ledged.. $165.50 A. F. II ....................................... 25 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L arson__ 5.00 > <XXXX H><X>0<K><>0-0-0<X >00-0-CK X>00 The Free Thought Magazine T he ab lest publication of the kind in the W orld. Sixty-four pages Illu strated . Published M onthly. Price Si.oo a year. F or TW E N T Y -FIV E CENTS it will be m ailed to any ad d ress T H R E E flO N TH S. A ddress FR E E T H O U G H T MAGAZINE, 213 E. Indiana St., Chicago, 111 QO Worth ot M flG flZIN& S FREE! ‘‘S ecvlar S cience and C ommon S e n se ” p o in ts T he Ingersoll C hair. The am ounts subscribed and paid in for the Ingersoll C hair are set forth below. T his sum is actu ally in the hands of our treasurer to be safely invested, th e income only to be used. L. P. Maxam................................ $10.00 Geo. N. H ill................................ 2.00 Eva Ingersoll Brown................. 50.00 Herliert Spencer......................... 10.00 English Friends, acknowledged... 62.40 Benj. D u val................................ 1.00 $135.40 th e w ay to th e g o a l of y o u r a m b itio n . A m a g a zine o f A d v an ced F re e T h o u g h t, L ib e ra l an d M odern Id e a s of R efo rm an d N a tu ra l Law . D evoted to p ra c tic a l d e m o n s tra te d tr u th s . H u m a n ity is u n d e rg o in g im p o r ta n t p h y s ic a l, in te lle c tu a l, an d so c ia l c h a n g e s . P ro g re s s de m a n d s th e re n d in g of s la v e r y ’s c h a in s. T h is m ag a z in e is a ste p p in g -sto n e to success in a ll of life ’s u n d e rta k in g s , a s it dev elo p s pow er of in te lle c tu a l p e rc e p tio n so t h a t la te n t an d a c tiv e e n e rg y w ill be p ro p e rly d ire c te d , in s u r in g a c le a r h ead in a sound body. N o th in g lik e it o r h a lf so good and p ra c tic a l. T h is r a r e tre a t sent a w hole y e a r, to g e th e r w ith sa m p le s of o v e r 50 o th e r v a lu a b le p a p e rs and m a g a z in e s o f $5.00 v a lu e , fo r o n ly fl.O3. Send a t once a s th is offer is lim ite d . S a m p le copy w ith a n in te r e s tin g book of over 100 pages free fo r 12 c e n ts in s ta m p s . A d d ress SECULAR SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE, P.E. 532 Atlas B it Chicago, III.