4 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 . T. B. W a k e m a n ...................E ditor l i w urt ■ ■ mi E ntered at th e postoffice at Silverton, Oregon, as second-class mail m atter. SLB5CklPTIO \ PATES. 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 je ----- .----------------------------------- ., - . _...... .. . inrrwtrnmari tii---- ■ « - j - p i w w i ria am itiefl'r w n iiriB triTp organization, and send it with some wholly im proper in tne public The true, fair, honest and literary 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 w One year, in advance..........................$1 00 50 Six m onths in ad vance.................... Three m onths, in ad vance................ and In clubs of five or more, one year, _ o u r c o u n try - — the ' lib e rty ----- in ad v an ce.......................................... "5 fare of us a ll, th a t you take Money should be sent by registered m a t t e r in hand. Ho riot k e e p letter or m oney order. . . . . . wel- a n d a p ** p re c ia te d as su c h ; ’ .................. a n d th a t ing w ithout which nothing good or " '• th is c a n n o t possibly he in o u r com m on true can be got out of them. nut- aUil public schools. The children Tor the aid of such and all people, I. . 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 « tor unless ________ I ’1 Torch we presented th e tim e paid so ordered conditions, which are a new world, so as to he understood, w hat then T his will p revent any loss and we will reasons to show that the Old Test- inn» t • ■ U f > 1 I) < I is gross» im position. Never should would happen? The Bible would know ju st w here we stand. f ” 5 ........... — . .oouiu We request you to semi us th e names am ent was wholly unintelligible, s..d “ > > e done ,n any case, and espect- then cease to be an unintelligible of Secularists who m ight become sub- and out of place and injurious in ally not when the heart of the Bi­ fetish ignorantly and fraudulently geri tiers and we will m ail sam ple copies. ... T. a 1 I „ . f im. ; ° u r p u b lic schools. We now ta k e If you are not a subscriber of the j 1 . _ 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 ___ _____________ | the New T estam ent; hut the Ro­ 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 ­ . • . . . . . . o ftlle world th a t was, and of the ly P aradise”— in our indestructable Sunnort the American Secular Union b eg in n in g in th e J a h v e h I heocracy present „ . world, , , for e . . . they , su p p o rtin e American secular union. which are F u tu re on E arth ! --------- I ot testam ent: The Macahe- , , . _ ,, J of the Old Testam Macabe- , . 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 ° f - V ’ 1 VÌtal ,hi8t° ” ^ . 0 ^ ^ 1 I . all their churches and cht. .prop- 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 " ° 8haI1 h- e w our cheery house- They are careful to appo,nt only tilated docunlPnt and a fraud , disconnected7 0m ^ “ 0 ,d 1 LÌe ‘h°se ^ ^ t n e d .............. . lurid shadow of the eclipse o, U h- lhe ^ i c '% * • erty^hy Superstition over the who,e 1819.2!, refused to print t ^ The President asks for members onl.v H ebrX po'ni'v able £ n d 7he C* X 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. Las! guilty ", X , 1, " ¡ m i 7 p 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 I ' tì X i” in“ ’, y ‘ ‘e a X o ' ' T ” " - " ", ' 9" ? 7 “X 7 h’ J u d i" in U '« * * • tractive I 'C ‘° n ‘‘letians m ake the i he charge th a t the L iberals and church trad ii- Infidels wish to destroy the Bible 8UPPre88ed ¡8 totally false. We charge th at the u 8 o 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 Now mark the sedar 1' • , 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