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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1897.
Adam, Where Art Thou?
57,000 years ago?
And, Adam,
where art thou?
\\ hen the writer of this paper
In C hina, where we send the for-
was a very young m an and study- eign m issionary frauds, are the re-
ing for the m inistry, he believed m ains of long-lost cities with sculp-
im plicitlv in the story of Adam, tured walls and tum bled towers,
In later years the romance began to far beneath the surface; hut the
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seem a little ab surd, and, after pictured signs of the zodiac show the
counselling am ong his fellow pas- equinoctial point to have been in
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tots, he agreed with them th a t the
trgo, and it is easy to com pute
best th in g to do about the Adam th a t vast ages have past since these
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and the rib business was to pretend cities lost the hum of busy feet; yet
to believe it, because the whole we send m issionaries there to teach
scheme of m a n ’s salvation was has- them th a t six thousand years ago
ed on A dam ’s fall, an d if Adam the first m an, Adam, was made,
never existed the whole plan would who had trouble with his wife
“ fa ll” worse th an Adam did. As through a snake th at walked on the
there seems to he considerable end of his tail and talked Hebrew,
doubt am ong th e stiff-necked and and th a t his eating an apple caus-
unregenerate as to w hether Adam ed sorrow to the whole hum an race,
was really the first hum an being, it Oh, Adam , why did you, and where
“ Keep the Torch of Reason Burning.”
may be proper to inquire into this a rt thou?
circum stance, which is reported to
Adam, you are evidently an old
have occurred about 6,000 years fraud! The evidences of geology
ago.
show th a t m ankind existed before
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Adam seems to have been a fail- ^he glacial period, m any thousands
ure from the sta rt.
He m ade an , °f years before there was a garden
awful mess of his first business ven- planted “ to the eastw ard in E den.”
ture. If we are to believe the ac-
Goodbye,
m issing progenitor!
Price, Ten cents.
count in Genesis, the creation of ^ or s’x thousand years thou hast
man w asn ’t w orth p aten tin g as a f r i g h t e d the weak minded and
paying venture, and the creator has l'ysferical w ith the story of thy fall,
been losing m oney on the thing ev-
<>,,e °f thy descendants, I drop
er since. Recent discoveries in the a tear to th y memory and thv
east on the site of the ancient city m any shortcom ings. Like the fos
The above shown the exact size of the little song hook we
of N ippur show th a t m ankind was sil forests th a t lie buried one above
have just com pleted. It contains thirtv-tw o pages. The songs
civilized, and th a t m an knew’ how the other, is buried deep the m ys
are set to fam iliar tunes and should he in every F reethought
The m orning
to express his thought»* in w riting, tery of creation.
hom e and S unday school. Send us an order. Price, 10 cts.
over 11,000 y ears ago; and even stars still “ sing together” as thev
these w ritings tell of o ther ages did in I lie far first m orning; hut
reaching through countless years from the m ighty horoscope of time
beyond the knowledge of m an. O comes no answ er to the listening
E. M., 297.
Adam, where a rt thou?
ages. P erhaps we, with the m ighty
In Egypt, am ong the ruins of hosts who sleep “ where rolls the
Dendera, on the banks of the Nile, Oregon and hears no sound save its
are the ruins of w hat was once a own «lashing”, and those who
m agnificent tem ple.
W hen this walked and talke«! in ancient Nip
SILVERTON, OREGON.
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was unearthed two paintings were pur, and on the deltas of the Nile
discovered representing the zodiac. and M ississippi, shall arise and
In each the equinoctial point is wash the last long sleep from our
Enclosed fin d ..................................Dollars to assist in the
drawn in Leo; hence the m ightv eyes, we m ay hear am ong the “ trees
march of time is shown by the equi in the garden” the answer to the
Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon.
question,
“
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where
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noxes since the paintings of the
Yours for Progress,
zodiac on the w alls of the temple at — [H . W. C., in The F reethinker.
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Song Book
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Liberal University Company,
Dendera.
The equinoxes have
passed, at the rate of 2,140 years to
e give the Torch of Reason ar d
each sign, th ro u g h 10.700 years, the h reethought M agazine for one
and even then m an had passed y« ar for the sm all sum of $1.50.
through the savage and the stone N ow is the tim e to subscribe.
age, and was building m agnificent
tem ples and palaces, reading the 0- OOOOOO 0-0-0-00-0 <XXHX><><X>(XXHX)
story of the stars, and knew th a t
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the world was m any ages old And
the w hispering query comes across
the countless centuries: “ Oh. Ad
am, where a rt thou?”
C u t th is o u t, o r copy It; enclose
w h a t y o u can. and fo rw a rd to
J. E HOSMER, President,
Silverton, Oregon.
LEADER....
From the rem ains taken from
b low the rocks th a t have formed
1,1 the M ississippi valley, from
’he disentom bed tem ples nine-
feet b -low the soil of E gypt, th e
t' tnbs, p y ram id s and stuccos show
Us th a t the negro and white m an
existed 10,000 y ears ago in nearly
the sam e type as he does today.
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