T H E TORCH HE REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, JU L Y 12, E. M. 300 (1900.)
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N E W S AND NOTES.
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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
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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 .
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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
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