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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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with like indifference assumes,
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Very truly,
edge.—[H
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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
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$5,
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Grass Blade your appeal to Liberals
beauty that we should desire them, should like to feel that whatever
for
the
L.
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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.
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