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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1900)
4 T orch Of T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, NOVEM BER 1, E. M. 300 (1900.) 1 a strong Liberal element in Jefler-1 can do it well. He is now finish- state of life in the future on this sou’s cam paign of 1800, but where ing up the H all, or Assembly Room , ea rth , worthy to be called the The Only Paper of Its Kind. is it represented now? The clergy in the I Diversity. As soon as he E arth ly 1 aradise, or 1 he heav- - know ‘-their own” well enough, is at leasure it shall be begun, en th a t is to be.” The hom e of P ublished W eekly by th e Liberal U ni- Scarcely a priest or a religious Then the fund should be sufficient “ The C hrist that is to be;”-T h e H u- new spaper in the whole length and tojsustain one Professor who should m anity of the F uture. — breadth of the land, who do not be selected and then to furnish prizes 5. T h at under the known his- T. B. W ak em an ................... Editor Htand together for the co-partner- or tuition for as m any students as toric and social evolution of man- p. W. Geer..........................M anager ship of the A ltar and the Throne; possible in the branches or acquire- kind, the Bible becomes a n atu ral as Paine well described the alliance m ents th a t would have been a de- and interesting part of the past of E ntered a t th e postoffice at S ilverton, of Theocracy and Despotism to be, light to Col. Ingersoll when alive, hum an lite ratu re; but th at to ap- Oregon, as second-class m ail m a tte r. Iu this way we mean to have ply it as a rule of “ faith and prac- - ------—----- ------------- 1 ' no m atter w hat nam e or form the SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ingersoll still alive and speaking, tice” to our E ra, is to overwhelm latter may take. our larger civilization aud prog One year, in a d v an c e .......................... $1 T h e L a w of God m eans w h a t .’ T hree'm onth*” ¿ “ e e / . 26 I I t w ean» what .he Prieata.C hurches ress by th e trib al barbarism s of Is This Your Challenge? past and lower stages of social, po In clubs of five or m ore, one year, _ a n d r e lig io u s n e w s p a p e r s c a n g e t in litical and religious evolution— now in a d v a n c e .......................... ........... .. J pelf or power for betraying their Money should Ije se n t by registered . P I Please to note th a t one of the greatest danger and obstruc- le tte r or m oney order. “ C h rist” and giving their sanction, votes and blessing to th e ‘‘money editorials of this Torch ends with a tion to the peace, welfare ar.d prog ress of the hum an race. The bible ! changers,” whom C hrist drove from challenge-—a “ defi.” Notice! Four others preceed an d go with is a “ Mosaic” poem of the past the Temple. W here would the stages of hum an progress, but not author of the “ Im m ortal D eclara it, m aking five, viz:- A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes 1. T h at the Copernican and applicable to our present or fu- th a t vour su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . tio n ” stan d , were he with us today ? You áre earn estly requested to re W ould he not say th a t those who Modern A stronom y proves th a t ture evolution. new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa the H eaven, H ell, Cosmogony and p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . W e have de- joined with the Theocracy to sacri cided th a t it is for all concerned fice Man to M ammon, were traito rs Substance of C h ristia n ity were and Anyone who th in k s th at the th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n are sim ply a “ firm am ent” illusion, above statem ents, or any one of th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. to L iberty and H u m a n ity ? And and that they can never be real them , are un tru e, is respectfully T his will prev en t any loss and we will would he not speak the T ruth? know ju st w here we sta n d . ized. “ C hristianity is a back nu m invited to show wherein. We request you to sem i us th e nam es ber.” of Secularists who m ig h t becom e su b If short and to the point, th e “ sav ” scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. The Ingersoll Chair? 2. T h at “ the bottom law of will he printed, but the Torch is a Science” ; viz: The conservation sinajj pa pe r. We note the n atu ral inquiry, of energy and m atter, because of W ords or inquiry to give or ask the “ equivalent co rrelatio n ” of all [See page 6J of the generous E ng for further light will be answered lish contributors to the Ingersoll of the changes in the Universe, as far as possible. President Hosmer at Work. C hair, as to the scanty appearance proves that N ature does not repeat ; Let us have a sym posium , where We are pleased to a n n o u n c e ? of American support for th a t ob- th a t no correlates are the same; in none m ay be too great or too th a t President Hosm er is still re- jecl. We appeal to A m ericans th a t, therefore, our existence ca n sm all, to “ bear the Torch in the covering from his illness. Not only who love and would honor the not be rep eated ; that the universe search for T ru th .” is he at the desk with his usual name of Ingersoll, to respond at is conceivable only as a plenum ; p art in the openings, hut he gets in once to this inquiry by subscrip th at there is no possibility of, or a pretty good d a y ’s work for tion, if not contributions, which room for, an uncorrelated, ex tra - The Bible a Beautiful Dramatic Poem. will prevent the inquiry from being m undane or su p ern atu ral God or L. U. O. every day. It is u npleasant to be compelled repeated. T his chair will require Devil, Spirit or Spook, of any kind. much more money than has been T h at all notions or words to th a t to constantly protest against the God, The Basis of the Government. forwarded to m ake it a success. effect are deceptions and illusions, outrage which Modern Biblioliters, From th e Outlook we take this Let us have $1000 pledged at once or mere personifications and figures Hebrew, C atholic and P rotestant, They text, w ritten ostensibly by its edit by those who agree to pay a cer of speech. God is not, unless “ God com m it against the Bible. act like a lot of farm ers who would or, the Rev. Dr. L ym an Abbott, in tain sum, ttiey can afford, when and the world are one.” 3. T h at the said laws of corre get together and insist th a t there The opposition to the Declaration of In th at am ount is subscribed. dependence, which says th at just A m erican com m ittee appointed in lation and biological evolution ac could be no good ag ricu ltu re unless governm ents “ rest upon the con response to Mr. H olyoake’s origin count scientifically for life, the we planted crops and spent our al letter will take this m atter in Ego, Self and “ Soul” of m an, as time in the study of the Geologic sent of the governed.” the property and proctss of proto- S tra ta and Fossils of the periods of He on the contrary says: “ Ju st charge. the Silurians, the Mr. Geer intim ated in his letter plasm , and not as an “ e n tity ” or the Eozoons, governm ent rests neither on the edict of a few strong men, nor upon to Mr. H olyoake why this has not “ sp irit” of any kind; and th a t, Oolites, the Cretaceans and the the consent of the m an y —it rests been done before: Y/e are strain - therefore, personal, conscious, con Eocenes, instead of working on the ing every nerve to get the U niver tinuous mem ory and im m ortality present surface of the earth. upon the law of G od.” The Bible as the “ rule of faith and Dr. Abbott was the successor of sity building com pleted, to pre-, after death become im possible; and H enry W ard Beecher, and twelve pare the necessary rooms for p u for the fu rth er reason, th a t any practice” in law, m orals or religion years ago was a noted “ Liberal ’ pils, a p p a ra tu s for teaching, and “ H eaven” has become inconceiv now , is like resorting to Geologic clergym an, w riting exactly the n n a n s f o r printing. The A m eri able other than in the hum an race S tra ta and m onsters of old— it is an anachronistic m isplacem ent, reverse of the above text. T his can contributors have put up all on E arth . 4. T h at the proved evolution of and a m urderous m otive in practice, change indicates th e singular trans- Ih at has been done for these pur- form ation th at has come over the poses; and more of course must he the hum an race from savage a n i as now. in C hina, In d ia, etc., is to clergy within the last few years. raised to make the result self-sus mistic and ance t ’al fetichism , be seen. And this is just how our un- They no longer disguise their theoc taining and effective. The Liberal through ages of barbarism and evolutional Bible-religionists make racy. lmi stand squarely against Am ericans are giving and working sem i-civilization to its present bet it to be an awful curse. To so would be bad the Declaration of Independence, to get a solid U niversity to put ter stage, is utterly inconsistent misuse H om er and justify all that Jefferson said th a t chair in, so th a t it will stay with the Biblical stories about the enough, but not as bad. We love to turn away from these forever. To do th at, m eans th at creation, origin, history, language about them in his day. Indeed, the Jefferson Cyclopedia we must accom m odate students e n and future of m an, individual and fossiliferous people and look at the was not published a day too soon. ough to pay the way. T h a t point collective. But it leaves with us Bible (including a com plete Apoc- The sam e m onsters—Theocracy, is in sight, a few lifts such as we the solid hope th a t by the relig - ry p h a, of course), with the eyes of Mammon and C orruption, which have h a d —will fetch it— and for ion of science and humanity , the the Liberal, th a t is of a Scientific, Egoistic may be brought to the H istorical, Sociological, E thic and hut for Paine and J< ft’e rson would those lifts we “ work and w ait.” have strangled our young Hercu- As to “ the C h air” physical, the support and endearm ent of the Al- Aesthetic E volutionist . W hen seen h*s of a Republic, in its infancy, are suggestion to build it is good and truistic and co-operative instincts, through such eyes “ The Holy r a m p a n t and determ ined to affect practical. We have our eye on the sentim ents and efforts of m ankind, S criptures” of the Old, M iddle and th at destruction now. There was man — a Liberal Oregon m an, who and thus m ake possible a b e tte rjth e New T estam ent are soon trans-