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raised to some extent, but most ought to pay our friend, the editor genuine infidels and meeting places
varieties do not ripen as well here of the Tillam ook H erald, the same, for their dupes.
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
as in the valley. The clim ate, es in order th a t our opponent may
The “ Iufidels” of our tim e are
pecially in the sum m er and fall, is not receive an advantage, through not infidels. We who are faithful
P ublished W eekly by th e L iberal U ni perfectly delightful.
us, over our friend. F rien d s of to our honest convictions regard
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
But even here, as civilization th e Torch can, if convenient, less of consequences, we who in the
C o n stru ctiv e, Moral S ecularism .
takes the ¡»lace of the barbarism of patronize the Tillam ook H erald to face of ostracism , boycott and
the original natives, the old Jew ish the extent of one dollar arid seemingly devised trap s of G od’s
J. E. H osm er,........................Editor barbarism of oithodoxy follows
twenty-five cents, at least, and anointed will neither ta lk with
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sa iri/'to the account of double
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viie-'-Sniiiy barnacle- oh i V fi« lu a n T ifte g ru y . *****— ---- -* ' we who so love lioerty, yet accept
E n tered a t th e postoffice a t S ilverton, the body of a great fish.
Some people th in k we are too th e slavery and h u m ility of the
Oregon, as second-class
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A great “ revival” plague visited radical, but when we witness the misjudged, are not infidels. We
the little city of Tillam ook last degradation, hypocrisy a n d ’ crime have fidelity, but the men and
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year, and the harvest of its evil th a t has been propagated and women who today, by their m em
One year, in a d v a n c e .......................... $1 00 e ^ ef3s are already being felt.
The nourished by the C hristian dog bership in the church, say to the
Six m onths in a d v a n c e ....................
50 people (even the church people) mas, we feel as though it ig time
world th a t they believe in its ab
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
, are alm ost hopelessly divided, the for some one to he radical and surd creed, and thu s m isguide the
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75 members of the different churches eradicate the m ain root of hum an young, are either w eaklings or infi
M oney should be sent by reg istered I bating each other as m uch as God
m isery. The trouble in Tillam ook dels of the worst kind.
I hated his enemies, or as much as is no exception to th e rule. The
W hat a world this would be if
Jesus hated the scribes and P hari- schools, the m orals, the w ealth, the infidel “ Infidels” and infidel C hris
Notice!
sees; and wile they are thus d iv id happiness and the progress of the tian s would learn to have fidelitv!
ed, the young people, who should whole world are forever kept back
A h a n d poin tin g to th is notice denotes
th a t y o u r su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . be ta u g h t the great tru th s of R ight by the ignorant, superstitious and
GOD'S M ERCY.
You are e arn estly requested to re
new so th a t you m ay receive th e p a Living— those who need help the ever-present priestly lies of the
p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have d e worst are neglected— are “ going to dark past. Silverton, th at most
“ God’s w ord” is full of co n trad ic
cided th a t it is best for all concerned the dogs.”
Liberal little city and the home of
th a t we do n o t send p ap ers longer th a n
tions. In Ex. xxxiv. 6-7, we find
These contending creeds have the only F reethought school in the
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
the following: “ And the Lord passed
T his will p rev e n t any loss am i we will divided and ruined the public
world,
is
to
have
a
B
aptist
preacher
know ju st w here we sta n d .
before him [Moses] and proclaimed
We request you to send us th e nam es school work for the last two years, for the principal of its public
the Lord, the Lord God, m erciful
of Secularists who m ig h t becom e s u b according to good au th o rity . The!
schools.
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would
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have
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scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies.
and gracious, long-suffering, and
P resbyterians hired the principal, curred if Liberals were as radically
a b u n d a n t in goodness and tru th ,
and war ensued. This so ruined L iberal as C hristians are radically
keeping mercy for thousands, for
T hursday , A ug . 2, E. M. 300.
th e school work th a t even some of C hristian, and the spirit as well as
giving in iq u ity and transgression
the F reethinkers patronized the the letter of our state law, th a t no
and sin, and th a t will by no m eans
“ P ro crastin ation is the thief of C atholic academ y, th in k in g th a t of religious
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clear the g u ilty ; visiting the in
tim e,” is tru e of our work of build-
two evils they would choose m itted in our public schools, would
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ing a F reethought school, and if the least. U nder right conditions, not be violated. To the C hristian it
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we wish to get the L. U. O. well i. e., under Secular conditions, pu- is very im p o rtan t th a t the children
children, unto the th ird and to the
under wav before our lim e comes, pils of Tillam ook could go to the and the heathen C hinee learn th a t
fourth g eneiation.”
we m ust “ strik e while the iron is public schools and prepare them -J Jesu s died th a t they m ight be
A m an who would puuish his
h o t.”
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selves for the higher work and then J saved, but to us it is very im port-
worst enem y’s children and g ra n d
finish in the academ y; but no, j a n t th a t our youtlt learn the tru th s
Secularists should study well the those who wish th eir boys and girls of Science and have instilled into children and great-grandchildren
fundam ental principles of Science, to be educated free from the old I th eir m inds such a love for hum an- for what th eir parents had done,
L et every soldier in our ra n k s falsehoods m ust send them “ out-1 itv th a t no son of a god nor men would be a most despicable brute;
u n d erstan d and know the im port- side,” and u n til lately there h a s ! women and children will need tJ but God, who brags of his mercy
ance of the ideas o f ihe indestructi- been no place where F re e th o u g h t1 be put to death in order to save and goodness in one b reath, de
clares him self a tyran n ical, blood
bility of m atter and the conserva- p aren ts could send the voung peo- them .
tion of energy, for ignorance of pie w ithout the danger of th eir be-
How long m ust the children of th irsty villain in the next. The
these great ideas is the ch ief bul- ¡ng led into some one of the priest i the T illam ooks and Silvertons be fact is, th a t no God ever said it.
wark Of orthodoxy.
We should traps.
i 8acrificed ,Q , he
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uce? The inspired w riter was not inspired
read and study, and be not cow-
The a ttitu d e and influence of How long m ust the heathen peoples with the love of telling the tru th .
a d y in u s in g the weapons ag ain st C hristian teachings was very nice- of the world he sacrificed to the god The Bible is not the word of a god
superstition th a t we thus obtain.
! )y illu strated by one of the p u b li-; of w ar? How long m ust H um an- at all. I he story of the fall of man,
and his redem ption by the d eath of
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cations in which we published our ity hang on the cruel cross of
a god’s son is a farce, and those
T IL L A M O O K .
“ I hallenges.” We made ourselves priestcraft between the two thieves,
who are try in g so h ard to believe
known to the editor of the H erald, P rotestantism and C atholicism ?
what the priests and preachers are
L ast week we wrote most of our and he kindly consented to publish
telling them are a poor, deluded set
editorials while en route for the it. The editor of the H eadlight
R E A L IN F ID E L IT Y .
of suckers.
There is no use of
Pacific coast, and this week we also did the sam e, but the Head
wvite while seated in our cosy tent light m an proved to be a Presby-
T he preacher who stan d s in his m
, incing these m atters an y longer.
quicker we brand these lies as
in b ro th er M asons front yard in terian, and after getting the notice n n l n i t a n d r u n to « k « .,*
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Tillam ook county differs in m any twenty-five cents; but we explained del
H e is infidel (unfaithful) to" I “ ]
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respects from the rest of Oregon th a t we understood th a t he was to some of the d o ctrin e, of J e s u / he ' “ th
and from the rest o f the world,
T h e sum m ers are cool and very
pleasant
here, w ith occasional
showers. The w inters are warm ,
with much rain. No railroad has
ever blessed or cursed this little re-
public, yet its resources are very
p rin t it as a local, w ithout charge,
but again we learned the lesson
th a t C hristians fail to study the
’ Serm on on the M ount and th a t the
“ root of all evil” is sometimes
rooted deep in the brains of brother
editors, provided th a t one is a
which he professes- he is infidel to
what he knows to be the tru th - he
is infidel to h is f 11 w
f
k h
know ingly deceiving them for th e
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the cliurch ^ ^ J h” ' ” ' T i ?
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' b . 8e ° J lhodox cessP °ol"> tb «t some-
m dy Erow where they
en^um ber tbe ground-
if " be SUre it’’ “ d irt7 j ° b> but
fa
turn UP th eir rjO8efl and P ^ s
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generati° " 8’ a " d thu8
be fui-
great. No country can boast of and the other a “ lam b of the upper been tau g h t b
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1 08 I fiI.led tbe ch u rch ’» divinely inspired
better or more ab u n d a n t grass, fold.” The m oral of this storv is
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" bo are l11] ' raifl9Ìon °f punishing the children
butter, cheese, beef, honey, shell- th is: If we are fooled into paying fl<x* u n f ^ ^ ^
a,ld the ch ild ren ’s children for m any
fish, salm on, trout, tim ber, roots one dollar and t w e n ^ - f i v e ^ n T t o and uni'a R h h iV tn ’t h ^ . ^ ‘ h " " • e — r a ‘j 0 " »
I t ¡s our d u ty to tear
and bulbs. G rain and fruit a r e .t h e C hristian editor we
u 1 k .
, . 1 tbem s‘‘,ves> have dowu th at we m ay build up. Let's
,m e v n n s tia n editor, we really become nothing but rendezvous o f , up and at it!