THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 1, 1900. G S ii Tracts to Promote Tor the Torch of Reason. Is the Christian Religion De clining? Scientific W isdom S p r in g of 1 9 0 0 a isU pa ing nd Com Our Big Shipment of Spring Shoes has Arrived. Tar. Shoes The Popular Science Monthly will be the Correct Style for Spring Wear. See our Assort ¡for Feb. 1900 publishes au article ment in In P lace of C h ris tia n ity : by Dr. C. A. Briggs, on the above 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? B A B IE S ’ subject. 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil Through seven or eight pages of C H IL D R E N ’S ization? sophistry the Dr. convinces himself 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? M IS S E S ’ 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. that the unrest in the churches is L A D IE S ’ 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? the development going on in the 6 Immortality or Annihilation? G ENTS’ Christian religion. The cross did At Silverton’s Largest and Busiest Store. 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IS A BOOK O F . they throw upon questions of mora obligations.” Mr. Briggs says, “It is only by the application of the scientific method of our age to dogmas possible for our age to verify dogma N o. 2 . and accept it as valid and reli able.” He goes on to say, “The Chicago-Lambeth articles, adopted On th e follow ing and “Truth bears the Torch in the by the whole Anglican communion k in d re d S u b je cts: search For Truth.” throughout the world, reduces the essential doctrine of Christ’s S 2 C o n trl church to the Nicean Creed and the Apostles’ Creed.” S e lf R e s p e c t The application of the scientific S IL V E R T O N , O R EG O N : L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y PRE SS W h a t is M o rality? method of our day to these creeds 1899 proves that they are superstitious W h a t is Ignorance and barbarous. Fraud a C rim e PRICE TEN CENTS. Science proves that the human H a b it, 2nd N a tu re family has developed from lower organisms, and that the damnation Politeness of the unborn generations because Adam disobeyed God is a horrid W isdom nightmare of the dark ages. E tc ., e tc ., e tc . Science proves that the laws of Our Job D e p a rtm e n t the universe are uuiform and in ------ ALWAYS GIVES------- One of th ese c h a p te rs is violable and that no child was ever W orth m ore to born without the agency of a Young and old th a n th e P rice of th e book. human father; that no one really dead ever came to life again, and ---- BECAUSE IT GIVES---- . . . IT SHOULD BE IN . . that the sacred uniformity of the aw of gravity was ever violated by HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKflANSHIP ¿he ascension of a body of “flesh and bones.” The creeds teach all STOLL’S PINK w — 5 50 YEARS’ of these unscientific things to the E X P E R IE N C E injury of the community. D reyer & C raig. 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