« THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, Call for the Congress of 1897. Tried and Found Wanting. N. J e rm a n , J , H , Lyons. I JERMAN & LYONS, Silverton . . . C hristian A tonem ent has been S ecularists and F ree From thinkers of the U nited S tates : tried and found w anting. P A IN T E R S . L IV E R Y You are hereby requested to meet C onstantine to the fall of the By FEED AND in eonverition at Ilard m a n H all, in zantine Em pire, C hristianity had House, sign and carriage p a in t the city of New York, on F riday, ing. P aper-hanging and interior S A LE S T A B L E S atu rd ay an J S unday, the 19th, suprem e control, and its fruits were decoration a specialty Charges 20th and 21st of November. Cor. Water and Lew is the Dark Ages, ignorance, supersti reasonable. W o'k guaranteed. Streets. Friends, we shall meet in this tion, and crim e. It has opposed Congress under favorable condi science and progress and hum an S IL V E R T O N ... tions. The tim es are auspicious. Double Rigs and Saddle H orses alw ays liberty at every step. It propa Heresy is becoming popular, even on hand at th e low est prices. A eorral connected w ith the barn for loose stoek. in m inisterial circles. The spirit gated its tenets with the aid of the In fo rm atio n regarding an y kind of of Secularism is pervading our dungeons and fagot, thnmh-screw stock p rom ptly a tten d e d to, by person or lette r. H o r s e s Boarded anil Fed on ecclesiastical institutions, our liter- and to rtu rin g rack; inventing and ...A rtistic Werk reasonable term s. lure, our whole social life. Reli using no less th an thirty-five of the gion, giving wa) before continual most cruel in stru m en ts of torture, W hen you w ant a .... N. J. HARDESTY. bom bardm ents and repeated as for heretics, that the m inds of Good Sm ooth Shave saults, has abandoned the strong holds of dogm atic theology, and is C hristian m onsters could c«»nceive. < )r a F irst-C lass........ Hair-Cut seeking refuge in the fields of It has sacrifice«! more lives, shed ------------CALL ON------------- h u m an itarian isn i. It m ay be that more innocent blood, th an any it is in this way th a t it is gradually other system of error th a t has ever E. E. T A Y L O R . to d isap p ear—by becoming absorbed cursed the world. Judaism slayed * * * * * C h ristian ity has in broader phases of thought and i’s thousands We can fu rn ish th e follow ing lxxiEs slain, »w ording to good authorities, S ilverton , O regon well bound in cloth ; good p rin t, sta n d a rd action. sizes, for th e ex trem ely low price of In the m eantim e we m ust con th irty m illions. W hatever m ay he 60 cen ts each, postage 10 cen ts. D on’t fail to tak e ad v an tag e of th is offer. tinue the work before us. It is said in defense of some of C h rist’s Origin of S p ecies................ C has. D arw in im portant th a t F reethinkers should teachings, the best of which were D escent of M a n .................... “ “ com bine. W ith so m any exam ples uttered before his day, the bloody F irst P rin c ip le s............ IIerl»ert Spencer Data of E th ic s ................ *' around us illu stratin g the power of atonem ent dogma is vicious and E m erso n ’s Essays organization and of combined effort, degrading, a product of ignor S arto r R e s a rtu s .............. T hom as C arlyle Salem, Oregon. H istory F ren ch R evolution “ “ it would be the height of folly in us ance and barbarism . E very drop Discourses of E p ictetu s LEA DIN G N E W S P A P E R , D A IL Y A N D not to have the benefits of such of blood th at has been shed for so- Past and P re s e n t............ T hom as C arly le H y p a tia .................................. C h as. K ingly called atonem ents, or to support W L Y , OE W E S T E R N OREGON. methods. There are im portant A utobiography of Benj. F ran k lin questions dem anding our atten tio n . ! religious dogmas, was a crim e Fifteen Decisive B attles of th e Its «laily consists of e ig h t pages W o rld ............................ E . C. C reasy against h u m an ity , justice and tru th . and its weekly of tw elve. The T heG od-in-the-constitution am en d T en n y so n ’s Poems weekly is recognized as the leading The expanding intelligence of m ent was again introduced in con Shelley’s Poems farm pap er of its section. The Longfellow 's Poems hum anity now dem ands som ething daily plays second fiddle to no gress at the last session. Our Na Pope’s Poem s papei in the U nite I S tates p rin ted tional Association, with its allies, more rational and »levuting than M ilton’s Poem s in a city of S alem ’s size. H ood’s Poem s creeds of savagery, the voice of ven fought this am endm ent before the Its circulation is grow ing con B u rn s’ Poem s sta n tly . congressional com m ittees, and fo r' g e a n c e , or the barbarous echoes R obert B row ning’s Poem s It is read and valued highly by B yron’s Poem s fr<»m C alv ary ’s bloody brow. Man th e tim e being defeated it. I'h e , a w idespread co n stitu en cy . sm all p rin t am endm ent has been reinstated, has atoned or suffere«! for his mis It has a b attery of linotypes and Shakes{>eare’H Poems o perates a photo-engraving p lan t. sm all p rin t backed up by a petition which is takes and ignorance in all the Its ad v ertisem en ts are regularly claim ed to have attached to it the bloody past. Paid the debt him A ddress, read by th e m asses, tiecause th ey self; all the «lebt he owed. Man is read the S tatesm an for th e news names of m illions of signers. We JONES’ BOOK ¿TORE, it co n tain s, and th e accu rate and a product of conditions, a creature must m eet tin* conspirators again In terestin g m an n er of its telling. 291 A lder S t . PO RTLA N D , this coming w inter. The people of environm ents. All rational hope O regon . C. B. IR V IN E , M anager of happiness, all im provem ent and m ust he aroused to the im pending danger and educated in the princi elevation of h u m an ity , must come ples of liberty and justice. The S ab of necessity, not from blood atone bath question and th a t of the bible m ents of hulls, and g«»ats, and my A weekly paper for th e young people. E n tirely free from s u p e rs ti in the public schools also require thic C hrists, but from more intelli tio n . Devoted to Secular Sunday-school w ork, and co n tain in g les consideration. Tlie efforts of bigotry gence, better environm ents, im prov sons for each S u n d ay . P er year, 25 cents. 'd conditions here and now’. We and intolerance m ust he thw arted don’t nee«l blood atonem ent for our w herever possible. In our discussions tln-re should souls. W hat the toiling and op How to Make he the broadest latitu d e in the ex pressed masses need and dem and is pression of opinion. There m ust brea«l-and-hutter salvation for the«r he absolute freed'»in, subject only bodb s. Take good care of the body T he G o v ern m en t nationalized th e Postal System , w hy not also to such regulations as m ay he nec and tin* soul will take care of itself. th e M oney S ystem ? A plan is told by C. ELTON B L A N C H A R D essary in conducting th»* Congress If one-half the talen t and wealth in his hook e n title d in an orderly m anner, and with now wasted to perpetuate this b ar U N C L E S A M ’S due regard to the rights of all the barous and degrading superstition, members. 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