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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JULY 26, E. M. 300 (1900.) Dear Mr. Hosmer: Enclosed find The Joy of Being Deceived. thusiastic about, it, Professor?” $2 to renew my subscription to the “My dear sir, I am not enthusi- Torch of Reason, and the balance 1 he Liberal Rev. ’ J. P. Bland astic about it, not in the least, and Som e of th e R esponses. for Donation Day, July 20th. continues his remarkable serial, never have been; and, above all, W ishing you success, I am, ‘The Gospel of Evolution,” in our I have no such feeling about it as I Dear Sir: I send you two dol Sincerely your», old standby, the Boston Investi- oncehadaboutthegospellsohap- lars. Please advance my subscrip C a RRIE A NDERSON. gator, to which we have already re- pily preached; nor is there aught tion to the Torch one year and ferred. It is in the form of a di- jn | t to produce any such feeling, W a g n e r, O regon. send me a copy of Holyoake’s Eng dactic dialogue between an enlight- for as strongly as Mr. Romanes lish Secularism. The balance, one m u — ’-¿¿‘ ...ï - ....... ..... Tir frien d : A req u est 1 a J Trrr- QoUaf, please cousiuei Qjy porhuu Freethought Magazine for a dona student who is about to become his times, even now, do I feel, the for Donation Day. tion to the Liberal University son-in-law. We print a few para dreary contrast between that dear Yours, meets my earnest approval, and graphs on the emotional value of faith’which once was mine and the R. L. H ickman . w ith best w ishes I herein enclose th e old faith for the purpose of a gloomy shadows of that which now Sisters, Oregon. one dollar for the Donation Day contrastive comment, which please has forced it8elf upon me> a faith see in another column. Here fol- whose God—if such its Infiniteand Dear Sir: Seeing your call in fund. lows: Eternal Energy can be called—is Freethought Magazine, and fearing Yours truly, void alike of evil as of good, of love that I might forget the date for M rs . R hoda G lover . The Gospel of E volution. as of bate, or rather who them “Donation Day.’’ I will now en- Baldwin, N. Y. each and all, as modes of himself, close 81, to aid the L. U. O. ’ ___________ BY REV. J. P . BLAND, B. D. with like indifference assumes, I am thankful that there a re : 1 Dear n » Mr. xt Hosmer: lt i j Enclosed whose man is but an evanescent those with TT courage enough to start i please _ find c i v New v York i draft □ <• $25, _ . 6. & for T he foun d atio n of m o rality is to have n a Liberal TTnivprtifv University. my contribution to the University done, once an d for all, w ith ly in g ; to bubble, blown with apparent un give up p reten d in g to believe th a t f o r , concern __________r................... „ passing scenes upon earth’s Hoping you and your associates for “ Donation Day.” w hich th ere is no evidence, an d rep eat- ! „ „ j .. 1 ... r . , fe ~ *’ 7 may succeed in making it perma ing u n in tellig ib le p ropositions a b o u ti soon with seemingly equal unin propositions ab t Wishing you success, I am, th in g s iieyon-1 th e possibilities of k n o w l uuconcernedness pricked off; a faith nent. Very truly, edge.—[H uxley. I am, which not only on life and death I). A. B lodgett . “You were just now asking if I discourses, but which also to our Fraternally yours, Grand Rapids, Mich. thought people were quite ready annihilation, with fixed and move J. F. P rocter . for some of the things of which I less finger, calmly points, thus Hersey, Mich. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find was speaking. Well, while they transforming for us—as, with in Dear Sir: Seeing in the July P. O. order for one dollar as a are always more or less ready for finite sadness, Romanes says—the number of the Freethought Maga small donation to your grand en whatever promises to promote their Delphic oracle, ‘Know Thyself,’ zine that every Freethinker should terprise. I saw the call for assist welfare, yet I don’t think they are into the unspeakably more terrible contribute 25 cents to the Liberal ance in the Freethought Magazine. quite prepared for many things of one to (Edipus, ‘Mayest thou ne’er University fund, I herewith enclose Yours truly, which I have spoken, for not only know the truth of what thou art.’ that amount. Hoping you will J ohn H. T aylor . are they unprepared for them in And yet this faith has that one ele meet with a hearty response from Redlands, Calif. tellectually, but they are also ment which left me no alternative all Liberals. naturally opposed to them emo but its acceptance, and that is, of I am, Dear Sir: Enclosed find $3 in tionally, not liking to give up such course, its apparent truth.” Yours for the cause of Freedom, postal order, two dollars of which religious beliefs as are pleasing to “But is there not also, Professor, M ary M. S troup . are contributions to the Liberal them and that pleasingly minister some truth in Christianity?” Moore, Oklahoma. University, to be credited as fol to their desires and hopes. Thus “0 yes, of that there can be no Dear Sir: Enclosed please find lows: F. W. Hubbard, $1, and Ben the popular conceptions of God as 1 possible doubt. There is some also one dollar and ten cents. T h e Duval, $1; the other dollar is to a loving and all-wise father, of man, in Buddhism, in Judaism and in dollar I donate to the Liberal Uni renew my subscription another as his immortal child, and of the Mehammedanism, as also in every versity, and for the ten cents please year to the Torch of Reason, as I eternal bliss which is supposed to other great historic faith which has send me the paper, Torch of Rea do not wish to lose one issue of await him, are all rather agreeably arisen.” son, that contains the names of the that grand and noble little sheet fitted to the people’s predispositions ' “And do you not think, Professor, donors, as I wish to know how I think it the greatest educator of and natural beliefs, and conse- that one might teach evolution as the age. The only trouble is, quentlv they are somewhat loth to something in harmony with this much will be donated. Christian truth?” My very best wishes for the pros enough people do not read it, and let them go. “And then, too, let men say what “Well, I believe there are those perity of the Liberal University go of this we are very sorry. they will, the science and the dom- who profess to do something of that Y'ours for the whole truth, with this little donation. inant philosophy of our day have sort, and that there are also others B enjamin D uval . Yours with respect, nothing whatever to offer that in who, while not thus professing, yet Del Norte, Col. J ohn R. S mith . grace and glory can compare with think they are doing something Galesburg, Illinois. what they take away; and in their akin to it; but I really should not Dear friend: Please find enclosed Dear friend: I notice in the Blue deepest truths there is but little care to see you among them, for I Money Order for $5, as a donation Grass Blade your appeal to Liberals beauty that we should desire them, should like to feel that whatever for the L. U. O. building fund. to assist in the work of building for evolution’s God is but ‘an In- you do in life you do with a The amount is not large, but it the Liberal University. I herewith finite and Eternal Energy, from perfectly clear conscience and with comes from a “cheerful giver.” enclose my very small share of which all things proceed,’ its man a no less clear and sold intelligence, $5, which please accept with best I his should have been forthcoming but a transient physical organism and work such as you just now before, but I have had no time to wishes. wound up with meat and drink, suggested would, I fear, make this call my own, to acknowledge with Yours truly, and its all but an elaborately somewhat difficult.” M artin A ndrews . financial aid my earnest wish for wrought-out conception of the end- “You seem to speak. Profeesor, the success of your grand under Fonda, Iowa. less up-building and down-pulling, as if you thought that Christianity taking. the integration and disintegration and evolution were quite irrecon- Yours very truly, Dear Friend: My little daughter, which the whole universe assumed- cilably opposed.” B. P. R eynolds . Katie Kehm, sends you a donation ly is forever undergoing, but a “ Well, that certainly is how it of 25 cents to help build the Lib Laurence, Kas. statement and partial explanation appears to me; and I do not see eral University at Silverton. She of the slow, unending changes from how there can he any rational often speaks of going there to Dear Sir: Enclosed find S5 for evolution to dissolution, and then reconciliation between Christianity school when she is old enough. the I Diversity fund. I hope you to evolution back again, that on the one hand and evolution as hope to be able to send a dollar will receive hundreds more and everywhere presumably are trans- taught by Spencer and others on soon; I want to help you all I can. larger amounts for the cause. piring, together with an attempt to the other, since their ideas of God, Yours very truly, Yours truly, point out how our own brief mortal man’s nature, destiny and principal M rs . F ammy A bles . J oseph A. K imble , span may best be passed.” [duties are almost diametrically Crystal Springs, Ga. Vestal, N. Y. “Then what makes you so en- ¡opposed.—[Boston Investigator. Donation Day.