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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, JA N U A R Y 17, E. M. 301 (1901.;
Torch of Reason
The O nly P aper of Its Kind.
P ublished W eekly by th e L itera l L ni-
vereity Com pany, in the In terests of
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
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and $5,000 in money to meet the tiong which make their Bible a law, to force their m utilated fraud
opposing m illions opposed.
“sectarian” book. The Jews claim upon the ign o ran t and innocent.
His dem ands are moderate. There the Old T estam ent only as th eir Bi- When was effrontery ever carried
are m illions of F reethinkers and ble. P rotestants insist upon the further?
S e c u la rists in this country. W her- New I estam ent too. The Roman-
Of course t hese Apocrypha books
ever there are five of you in any ,rttH insist upon the Apocrypha he- are not fit to he read in our schools
neighborhood oi r tooi thek ! H unt tvseen the two, and all subject to and certainly not the other Bible’
up l»ool<s arid literature to read and Church explanations and control hooks w ithout them _for then they
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contribution of money to the Secre- schools until the priest is there to course to take is to introduce all of
»ary R. C. Reichwald, No. 141 South £’ve their church interpretation, these books into the literary course
W ater Street, Chicago. If you The Liberals regard the Bible as of the universities, as is done at the
write he will send you a form of “ literature, ’ a p a rt of the ancient Liberal U niversity; or to leave them
certificate,and literature with which »»cred literatures of the world, ut- to the people of literary inclination
to begin. It is of the utmost im- terly out o f place, except where after they have acquired at com-
portance to you, our children, and fhey can he understood, disclosed mon schools the rudim ents of learn
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ting your liberties at hazard. Do not *n the common schools m ust have instead o f forcing the Bible upon
keep puttin g this m atter off, b u t .
rudim entary education there children in the interest of a dishon
Notice!
now while the winter gives you Pr°vided, before they can possibly est P ro testan t propaganda, the time
leisure, use it for the best and high- understand these ancient and re- or m eans should be taken to have
A h a n d pointing to this notice denotes est interests we can l ave at heart, i mote literatures; and to present the Bible hooks edited in the in ter
th a t your subscription has expired.
them or any part of them by state est of scientific criticism . W ith the
You are earnestly requested to re
authority, as controlling the heart, books placed in the order of their
new so th a t you may receive the pa
The Apocrypha Not in The Schools.
per w ithout in terru p tio n . We have de
mind or action of people now living date, and historically and evolu-
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
in a republic, and under modern tionally introduced and an n o tatn d
th a t we do not send papers» longer than
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conditions, which are a new world, so as to he understood, w hat then
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of Secularists who m ight become sub- and out of place and injurious in
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ble, the said Apocrypha, is om itted. used for untrue, unfair and dishon
T o rch and receive a sample copy, it is up the rem ainder of the Bible; and
a respectful invitation to become a the P rotestants say that next comes Never should it he done when o th est religious purposes: It would be
ers, the Jew s, Catholics, Liberals come a most interesting and beauti
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and business people object. Never ful world Poem of the P ast, with
man Catholics and all others say it
should it he done, when the Liber its three great Acts, the Old, Mid
T hursday , J an . 17, E. M. 301.
is the A pocrapha: and the Liberals
als, th at is the scientific and pro dle and New Testam ents illu s tra t
say th at the Bible is utterly unin
gressive people of today, point out ing three thousand years of the re
N. B.—This Torch is our prom telligible w ithout that. The Bible th a t not a single one of the three ligious evolution of our race, and
ised “ Im m ortality Num ber.’’ Pre- comes down to us from the Greek great parts of the Bible, nor any leading up to the illusory Ideal
serv eit; there w ill not besuch a flood and Latin C hristians and Churches considerable part of them , can he Heaven in the sky; which it is to
of •‘im m ortality” again in your with these Books as the explaining read by, or before young people be the suprem e problem of our race
part of it, and thus a complete
day.— Ed.
whole,—a mosaic Poem. It has a w ithout a total m isunderstanding to more than realize in the “ E a rth
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o ftlle world th a t was, and of the ly P aradise”— in our indestructable
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the American Secular Union b eg in n in g in th e J a h v e h I heocracy present
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su p p o rtin e American secular union.
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being educated—the Lord’s Prayer
In th a t world Poem, the diversi
Dr. J. B. Wilson (206E ast Fourth an Revival and G overnm ent of the
tor instance, being particularly fied books of the A pocrapha will
Street, C incinnati, Ohio.) the new Apocrapha: and the final denou-
t reason a ole and objectionable in become a most interesting and in
President of the American Secular merit, solution and trium ph in the
every way.
structive part. How the Old Test-
Union sends out a grand letter “ The Ju dgm ent d a y ” and “ King-
The Evangelical Protestants can
m eant was formed we can learn
which is too long for the T o rc h .) dora of H eaven” to come, in the
m ake no pretensions to religious, from its Esdras. How the Hebrew
As a irue watchman he points out New Testam ent. Thus the Law of
literary or common honesty, until S tate was formed The Macabees will
that the Theocracy is closing on the Aristotle, th at every D ram a and
they put the whole of the A pocry
tell us, backed by their only H e
Republic, and using it as an instru G reat Poem should have a begin-
phal w ritings hack, and give their brew coins. How the “Son of M an”
m ent to extend its religious and ning, a m iddle and an end, was
people the whole unm utilated Bi
cam e to be, and to become the “ Son
m issionary curse in China and ev- beautifully hut unconciouslv colli
ble.
As it stands it is no Bible at of God”, Daniel and Baruch shall
ery island of the sea, that we have plied with, and the Bible as a whole
all. W ith the 400 years between tell us. We shall then know how
an y th in g to do with. That at home was the G rand Dram a, of the ori-
M alachi, or 250 years between
the hard com m andm ents of Yahveh
the religious sects dom inate in our gin and evolution of the Hebrew
Daniel and the last of the Old
m elted into the m etaphysical “ Wis
legislative halls and dictate Bible, Tribes, their change into a Polity,
T estam ent w ritings and the first dom of Solom on”, into his Psalm s,
Sunday, blasphemy, and sim ilar
loss, or ra th e r its transform ation
w ritings of the New Testam ent, and prepared the m ind for the
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The Bible w i||, eilhpr of thppe t h e X ^ B ^ b l e ap p eal a tu T d ^ o r becam« ^ e “Divine Word.” Then
er y from taxation tn every state. grand Act8 taken (roni it> ;8 a
rnatura] M-m^ ^ “a u " °
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They are careful to appo,nt only tilated docunlPnt and a fraud
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disconnected7 0m ^ “ 0 ,d 1 LÌe
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The President asks for members onl.v H ebrX po'ni'v
able £ n d
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and means to check this advance th at connected the Old a n t T x " " H H
of Theocracy by proper committees, T e s ta m e n U o g e th e r-ie re hev
advocates, and literature.
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year only »1800 was raised, leaving would be called a crime?
a debt of »142. Now he wants three A c , Ir ' no, seperab e
70.000 and more active members
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‘‘letians m ake the
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church trad ii- Infidels wish to destroy the Bible
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¡8 totally false. We charge th at the
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n y 1 e -''an8el|cal Protest- Protestants have done this very
tn an age o, compara,.ve bon- thing. Our cry to them is: Give
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cnligntenment have emas- hack the Bible, the whole Bible-
mark the sect.r.an post-jculated thetr Btble, and now try by lP lace it under the light of modern