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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-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Ingersoll still alive and speaking, tice” to our E ra, is to overwhelm
latter may take.
our larger civilization aud prog­
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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
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J pelf or power for betraying their
Money should Ije se n t by registered . P
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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-