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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , T H U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 28, 1897.
From th e S e c u la rist S ta n d p o in t, organization and purposes ot the
Secular I nion, H er lecture was
A very good audience assem bled
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received w ith m arked appreciation.
in the opera
house Tuesday night
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I he young lady
has . been a lover
of e
to hear Miss K ate D ePeatt, secre- books an d a close student of the
tary of the Oregon S tate Secular best lite ra tu re for several years, and
Union. The lecture was preceded th e inform ation and tine culture
by some recitations and in s tru ­ thus obtained was much in evidence
in this discourse.— V alley Record,
m ental m usic by Miss High and
(A shland) Oct. 14th.
Miss Lottie P raclit. Miss D ePeatt
is a young lady, born and reared
In M em oriam .
in A shland, and a g rad u ate of the
A shland high school. W hen she
Died, a t W agner, Oregon, on
came upon the stage alone to speak, Tuesday evening, October 19, 1897,
ik was with the ease and self-posses- Mrs. W arren C arsner, leaving a
sion of one greeting old friends, re- husband, son and d aughter to m ourn
m arking p leasan tly th a t she did th eir loss. The direct cause of her
not feel the need of an introduction death was a cancerous growth on
to the A shland public. She pro- the lungs, she having undergone
ceeded directly to discuss the sub- several different operations for the
ject of the lecture, m aking an earn- removel of cancerous tum ors. P u r ­
est and able plea for absolute m ental ing her last illness she was constant-
liberty, as respects religious creeds, ly attended by her fam ily, and lov-
and an in d ig n an t protest against ing friends and neighbors, all med-
the bigotry and hypocracy of the ical skill being of no avail,
orthodox C h ristian churches. The
Mrs. C arsner, during her life, was
speaker gave an in teresting histori- a bright exam ple of p atient courage
cal resum e of the various religions and hope, and no priest-craft m ade
of the world, pointing out how they her afraid of death. She m ade lu-
had th ru s t them selves as obstacle» m inous the words, “ a life well spent
across the way of hum an progress, is well ended.” No superstitious
and through the greed and selfish- fear m ade her afraid to lie down in
ness of the priests kept the m ass of the bosom of N ature for her last
m an k in d in m ental and physical eternal sleep.
It m ight well be
slavery, as in ancient E gypt, the said of her th a t her life was an ex­
paren t of the earliest known civili- em p laro f the Secularist hope of ini-
zation. She did not fail to com- m ortality; the influence of example
m ent upon the blighting effect of i on present and future generations,
th e early C h ristian ity upon the I She held it tr u th w ith him who sings
To one clear h a rp in divers tones,
high state of civilization attained
T hat m en m ay rise on step p in g stones
by Rome and Greece, how the cul­
Of th e ir dead selves, to b e tte r th in g s.
ture an d refinem ent of those en-
How g ran d ly beautiful is the
lightened people were replaced by thought of death when viewed in
the sem i-barbaric h ab its and sup- t h e i i g h t o f a l i f e s p e n t i n c o n f o r m -
erstitious savagery <»f the Gotlis and jty with the principle contained in
V a n d a ls;lite ra tu re of th e A ugustan the words, “do un to others as you
age g ra d u ally disappeared, u n til fin- would have others do unto you.”
ally there was no intellectual spark W e lla n d tru ly has it been said,
to be found outside the cloister, and j “ a ,Iian’s |jfe
an appendix to his
the d ark ages with th e ir inexpress- h e a rt.”
Farew ell, gentle sister,
ible horrors were upon the world. 1 e te rn a i gtXMj bye>
The influence of L u th er and t h e ! E a rth , let th y softest m an tle rest
( >n th is worn child to thee retu rn in g ,
the rise of P ro testan tism in prom ot­
W hose y o u th was n u rtu re d at thy
ing m ental liberty were dw elt u p o n .,
b reast,
So also were the lessons of A m eri­
W ho loved th ee w ith such gentle
y earn in g .
can colonization draw n upon with
She knew th y fields and w oodland ways
effect to illu stra te the certain tend­
And deem ed th y h u m b le st son her
b ro th e r;
ency to cruel bigotry and savage
Xsleep, beyond our blam e or praise,
proscription of C h ristian fanaticism ,
We yield tier hack, O, gentle m other,
when allowed full reign, no m atter I
M.
what cr^ed was professed.
'The
principal colonists were refugees
E l HER HARDESTY,
from religious persecution. When
they had learned the lesson of
m ental liberty they adopted the
Declaration of Independence, the Will practice in all courts of th e state.
great c h a rter g u aran teein g freedom
SpeciaI atte,,tion Siven ^collection»
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and n o ta ry work,
of conscience.
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an en tirely different th in g iron. S IL V E R T O N ,
OREGON,
what it was, not a c e n tu ry ago, t h e r e ________________________________ .
was much to be done, and a jealous
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watch m ust be kept upon its g rasp­ N . J s r m a n ,
ing and proscriptive am bitions. Its
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prestage and power were sm all, com­
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capacity t«> work injustice and
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House, sign and carriage paint-
spread unhappiness am ong m an- •
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P aper-hanging and interior
in was still great. The speaker decoration a specialty-
Charges
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