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Account* hive riready appeared In 'lh ls jourbal of the m anlfa'atlooi at the B lily* I am not Bare that my experience iltflers mater ially from that of other*; hat I place tho rec ord of the *<-*ncr* I-wItnrMf-l In-fore the read era of the Rbi.ioioTiiiuworilirai, Jochnau and they will ibe-i bo a«le to Judge wuetber there are any freah development* of tht* won derful powrr at Cb-Mendem The fact* are certainly very extraordinary, and require to be wllnc-a-d In order to be realtnod It i* Indeed most .11thrall to believe that the figure* or form*, or whatever name they may be de»‘g natu.l hy. that nightly appear on tht* humble stage p laarasrag all the properllra of human! ty. clothed In

tinker** Him a n d VAtttRlt, are not human being*, like ourselves;—that .bring palf-altle to slgb\’ and touch one m e 1 men'., should the next, be no longer rogniz* frtq by the natdril tenaes “ Like the baaclcr* fabric of a Vision they depart, leaving not a trace behind " It can be no hallucination of the rentes for they have been seen by bun dred* who do near witness to their reality; and the appearsuco o ' tho girlish and sprightly n-mlu la alone sufllcient to dissipate the idea that tbo spirit forms are personated by the medium There -manifestation* alto do a *ay with tho duplicate theory, for In no care la tbere tho slightest resemblance between tho spirit form and tho medium, either In form or

The’ numbers that witness these phenome na, and the sdll greater number lint, for some reason known to the apirll/i who aro tho arbl tralors in the matter, are refused permission to do to, at’est tho gTeal and growing interest In them. From a book in which the m a r t of viiitora are recorded, It appears that aince Jan uary. 1874,

600 ntKHONBhave come from far and near.to witness these manifestations, arid this does not show tho, total number, as a good many refused to enter their names on account of being “ohnrch mem bers" or In deference to Mrs Gruody

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sides. Mr E Brown who came as a visitor last summit lie did lift do what the sinner •did, who "came to aci fl anil t remained to pi ay,” but bo did what w»s far better, became to invtwilgele and

USXal.Nxn To Mannv.Be fonod a suitable partner In one of the M-ss K Idyl Every evening accompanied by bis wife, Mr Brown cornea to the bnu*«, and punctually at 7 o'clock, tell* tbe visitors to tike their place* for the seance Mr Cleve land, a neighbor, la also a regular attendant liavtng arrived at the room and taken their nlacra on the two forms placed at about ten

j 's jc e t from the platform, the company in the • f r r o o l row are erl lined to Join hands,' and all

to keepquiet. William E idy then walks into the room, and without saying a word outers the cabinet after adjusting the curtain at tho entrance He ls dressed In the same clothes he is about in all day, sometimes wetriog his overall boots that be goes about the farm in. Nothing mom is seen or heard of him till tbo but spirit disappears, when he at once walks out and away, without taking nolloo of any body. The man who doea the work on the farm and the odd-Jobe In the bnusor. ails In front o f 'th e platform and plays tbib.flddle. This he generally does In the room previous to the seance. Whether this Is done as a sort of ovenue, or to invoke the spirits, o f for hie own amtutemeui or praeitoe,.l did bol Inquire;but tor some reason innate (t) -sn indispensable Concomlla '

speaks. Sometimes the spirit Brown will give Instructions about the mnalc, saying, for In stance, "play lively music." or direct a certain

which the spirit! aro seen. This It regulated* by Mr K. Brown by tha direction of the spirit*. Ten minute* generally ethpsea before anything taken pi toe, and then tho curtain I* observed to move, and slowly a form la seen to emerge from tha cabinet. If It la Hoolo, aha draws the curtain aside at ooco and comes ont.on tha etage waving her head gracefully after the manner of a public performer;ana after going through this performance meaee her exit In the same stylo. After tuo appearance of the Ural spirit an average Interval of three min utes elapses between tha appearance of the others, aad the number that generally appears Is from 10 to ia . On ono occasion U ■ said as many as

THiirrv t w o arrm aitio.

ESf“'I t ls obvious that manifestations of each a

conclusive chsraotar, given nndsr dream- sUaoes that "lSkve no loop to hang a doubt o ty m n e t be conviaoiog to e|l each mtmls *• are capsule of appreciating fact* and reason ing on them. Consider for a moment tha -dlf- flcqltlea involved ia personating .the various characters that are area, npwtrde of

TWO THOUBSHD __ _| of which have already appeared; add the work

itu-nding the providing of the various cos- umi'i Why. a theatrical costumier would *c Iiq tired to supply the nccesaary wardrobes, (ta t:mOnel Olcotl remark*. ' 1 feel I'-inhdeut ,hat if Protestors Huxley ami Tyndall would ipend a fortnight here, they would sec their .ir-ituplnsms aud such like soothing syrups dying out of the window* upon the entry of tbe Hrtt materially, td ghost from the E Jdy cab in e t '' /

With there nrellmlnary/obrervation* 1 now submit what I witnessed and this t d 7 In diary form, the notea being made after jiacli

U nclrfl'h — Tne Ural spirit form to appear was tea -gm/.'-’d as 11 into, Bxe la of elegants f o r i 5 fl -’ in in height Chat of the medium .7 ft rt in ) every mov-atcnl evincing much grace and actfviiy ii r black hatr baogs down her ha\k in two Iota She wear* a sort of while muslin gown reaching to the ankle, and n»t auireihiog Use a dark apr.itt lied bo hind her. round the waist, meeting in front After aslutinr the audience a.,e went, to one end of the pisiform ami Hooped down, and picked np a shawl* app trendy from tho 11 Kir, which she extended and threw over her head, and then proceeded to produce other shawls In the same way from other places. These shawls, are

Haul rit-SNsrau k n t .After drawing out two or three she takes them Into the cabinet Hue thea look up an accor dant and tried to play It, bat flailing the in strument defective she p t it down and reached through tho railing and took a guitar from tno laid-,—then skipped across the stage to a chair, in which she sat and plsyed. After a little posturing she retired to the cabinet Other spirits then Came j ist outside the dour and were rccogo K d by their friends A Mrs. B iton stood at the door'way aVuLqfavo ao ad dress, wnicb lasted *b ml three minutes Too (list of her remarks was thst in her life time she held tho ordinary orthodox view* which were detrimental to nor progress in the Spirit- world We. she sold, had the advantage of possessing truer views through Hptrliuslism, and therefore should not have the same ob stacle* ta c iDiund with sa she had when she died. Sae thou went on say that prayer

was cskcasa . /of itself;—the beat way to pray was to work. If a man was hungry ll'waa ur doty to sup ply hi* wants inatesd of asking Gird to do It. Mr Brown, the spirit who gave tbo funeral address then appeared at the door and said be concurred In whst trad been advanced bytbe preVious -p i-sker Uesald Ibattb ry ' ‘ -----exhausted the power of the medium, rectiy came out of the cabinet. Bcven or eight did- rout flgnre* appeared on Ibis occasion, but the light was not strong cuougn to See their features

M ahiu 0 b --W illiam entered the cabinet as before and after a»mo music by Horatio on the violin and tome singing by the Company, Hobio sppe.m l. Hue saluted tbe company In her usual style, and then proceeded to

DRAW roHTlI SHAM LA ,from different pltcea Hue then came down the steps to the fl -orand intimated a wish for Horatio and Mr Cleveland to go on the stage wlyb her. Upon their doing to, tho three J lined hasdi and began daaclng.. They then let go hands and went dancing round, passiog caca'-tltior in add out. Tel* lasted about 0vg minutes. H >ulo then danced by herself In a sprightly manner, throwing up her lega an c iu* neign- oy fay of finale as she entered ttioc.bluet. Tuo light was then fumed on full, and *bo snowed herself at the doorway wltn * self satisfied smile on her face. .Other spirit* then came outside tbe door and were recognised try friends present, one speaking ia a whisper. A ootid also appeared inside the camaei, holding tne rnru ln on one side in ofiler to be sees/ Tno seance was closed by tbe the spirit W. Brown stating that so much fotce Usd been spent on Homo's manifesting that me other spirits could not manifest to (trongly s i iney utoerwtM would do.

Horatio then held a dark circle. HI* bands being securely tied healed’by one of tha com pany. ue sat uf aO -sir in front of tbe platfecm. Ou a taolo about e font frost him were a great uumber of musics! instrument*, via: |— — 'bnuj r, two lamb/ariose, two coanrrtiaj... _oordloa, eight n»ad bells of dtffjranK Sixes, spring belt, two,speaking trumpjis, triangle, six moatu organs, whistle pipr; *1*0 ' two • words ta d two I roe rings Ta/se sitting In the front row were requested to J rin bsqds. Tno llgat was thea ta ra o lo a l sad ‘-matedlate ly me instrument* were neard In motion, sad s variety of sounds produced by them -' A Voice thea spoke woton We* isld to be that of George l)*x H i addressed m* by name aad asked me to g, re ta in my

m Ah .nusouu b o o k .I said, "Shall 1 D/tag it id you." "No, W* WtU (etna ll, ws are g nag to writs lq lt-h I held U ia my hand ta d soon felt a band teach ing mine, and me book was taken away. It wasaoon b r-ng it back. A light was then •track, aad 1 freed ou sn uawritten space, Ue names of two relative*' written la peaolL I rxsmtnsd me tying sad found lbs medium ■•cure. Tae ilgat was sgtlaexttngaltbed,and tno spirits wld us la s / w raid, perform the

_______ . . wonderfully ilsscrtpi.the event ll Intended toreprraenj. Ttte whi* tling i f ihu wind and the ru«b>"g*rf The waters were Imitated to perfection. Every now aod then was a dreadful crash *» if some heavy object had fallen no deck Too principal lu slramenu engaged In the parformanco were a vffrlin, a guitar, a mouth organ and tambodoe. An Indian spirit named ‘Majllrwer" then spoke and said, "W ould you like to beer mei>i»y nOUB. SWBKT. Ilona'We said wc should Toe hound of a concer tina were now neard fl rating in The air, ami tbe above md rdy was artistically played with a slight departure from tbe usual method that rcu-iund it very pleating. Genre DiT n n t • poke inviting nt to aak a scientific question 1 asko-l him "W ny spirit* could m>t manffcsl at well in the light a* tho dark-'" Upon which he commenced a very lucid and c.imprehee sive explanation He spoke in a clear and moderately strong voice1 for about ten min utes, every word being clearly articulated At the coucluiiim of his disc mrso ho addressed a few words to me, saying be was glad 1 had eomo to this country, aud bad no doubt my visit would bo attended by very satlsffttory re sults Mi) fi rwer'a voice Was sgtlrf beard Bhe said she would give a poem, and com rncnced reciting la a very pleating manner a rather lengthy poem. Her stylo and lono of voice reminded mo of tbo recitations I had heard by the young ladles at the f iltd rens ' Lyceum at B/ston I was Informed that she waa Italian by birth, and was stolen by the tadlana when a baby, and lived with them till tho al(e of Id, when she passed to Spirit liter—m e it certainly a ntoai, cnarmlng and In

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anting opposite me, we bold each others' hands. Coder these circumstances strong manifestations look pUce, Tne loilrumonra were brought from the table and thrummed and fl tsied over our beads and then placed In our laps Feeling hands touching me end pulling my beard, I rrq tested my rpsctscles to be taken from m y face and pi seed on tho gentle man alltlngopp uue me Tula waa Immediately done. Itesumlng my teal on tho form, tbe Indiana were announced. They signified their prerence by a

DRBtOFPt. CLATTBR AND NOISXS of various kinds, mingled with sundry war- whoop* Thus ended a very remarkable de monstration of spirit power

M alien 8t h — Heaoco commenced as uau nl. Wiektcbec. ao Indian, said to be Mr. E 'Brown's controlling spirit, was tbe fltstTo appear. Ue was dressed in

\ 1 KNKI IlHKKCMBHand'whtlc stockings, and resembled one of Iboee circus perforiqcrs that tots children about, aod do suph like feats lie walked two or Gjrce lime* across a.<ge In • stalely manner, ami then stood at tbe lop of tbe step at If

^Intending to comedown, but did nut do to. The nr xt that came waaBaolutn, alto an Indian'

'He waa taller tnan tbe last, bis height being b ft I in. Ha was followed by ’ Big Oak." also very tall. Two others named Silver Heel, and Awaada, a female then appeared. N<xl came rieakum, who is said to have been a hfln ter and trapper in earth life lie bad a pack on kts back aad walked across tbe ttagrf—then retired to tbe cabinet aod re turned with something., white in bit hand, wntcb .turned out to be a rabbit. HonUr baa bevin known,to bring ,

a aqcntSKt.,' which ran about tbe platform- When on earth Heekum was a searcher after minerals, and u*< d to trade with the neighboring tribes in rabbit akin* and sucb like commodities. Ue can Control Horatio to find things when lost, Horatio has a sword that he dug up un der h it Influence, a considerable distance un der ground. The next two spirit* were recog

be a relative of mine, but ae 1 could only see a Ugure-ln white in the cabin 't, it waa i o^o*- stole to identify it. Old Mrs E tlon. a lady who djed at the age of (£!. next appeared at the cab-

'Inel door, and gavo a short addrosa, the first of which, waa, mat in ordor properly to ap prectate Bpirilaallsm. the ipfrilnal natnre re • •‘■'d to be unfolded. Mr Brown then spoke

the cabinet and said they had don all ^ jy could; It was the Indiana, night. Their, reason (or manifesting was to improve the manifestation*, and al tha same time to give strength to the medium. B tlh Mrs. Eston and Mr Brown speak without a lube.

Ma k c i i ».h — llonto waa the drat to Appear After pirouetting about on the platform and drawing a saawl or two ’

o u t o r t i ib n o o n , aha, to oar great gratill tenon, came down tha steps aad stgas.ltJ to U trail» aad Mrs Clave iand.tocAiae to oer. Tney then all j lined nands and begs* dancing close beside na U into men let go and sat oa tha form, as on* of me compsuy, and as .she did to It caused q m s a J tr on tha atooL Hue then Went up to N-'e- Cleveland and drew, appar e n t / from ofl aar one of her

MTeTBhtOOa SHAWLS,aad than r ta down to me funner and of tha room, danclog aroanJ-tao atom. Htooplng down onsauadsn. ia front of the lamp, aha drew forth another shawl, and then esma to wnsrs wa were titling, aad *p Hotel algaifio sal 1/ to a ring oa n ladies fiager. ItumJng down to U s fsr end of u s room sgsin, ans draw, form snotaer shawl sad placing la s o on her hasds ret arsed to the cabinet having bean oat n felt q*<trt*f of sn hoar. U ir dress U said to

than it useerly she waa dressed in true Indian style Hue la aald Id wear Jewel* an l peat Is" bul I <*** not close enough to delict them. After II into bad disappeared, several spirits came, all of whom were recognised by tbure pita ent.

Alter this, Horatio held a light seance 'The table containing the instruments was placed , on the platform, lu the corner of tbe rcces*A cloth waa then bung on a rope acroaa the recess, about five fevt from the ll mr, tbua biding the table. Tnree chairs were tbi-n placed In front of tbe cloth, in which sat a Mr H trrla my self, and the medium, wh-ioccupl>-d tne outside chair, and placed hi* hands on Mr Harris' bare arm. i held Mr. it '* other band A cloth waa then placed in front of us, leav lag only our hesds t'lpised Two par*(line lamnv were burning in tbe room Before the arrangements were completed, tbo gult’sr tie gsn to sound, and a yiotln being played, the guitar aud tambourine J lined In a vigorous accompaniment. Bella were then rung and thrown Into the room, and the tambourine and guitar held over our head Tbe guitar was e rst protruded underneath the screen «iW apptsrod at our feet, playing- It re ntatned in this p wllt in several minutes, and the string's could be seen vibrating aH.the time. Wohex; fell something like band* striking u* on our backs, and then observed a

WBIX roilMBP RAND coming through-an opening in the screen, be twdeo our'hcad*. Tho little finger of the hand wax observed to be defective It wa* said to bo tbe baud of George Dix The hand point

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then bold oh a tambourine just by our facer Tbe hand esmo forth aod wrote a name on the card. This v<* repealed several limes Tho band, a considerable portion of the arin being vlstblo, then placed a card on Mr. Uar ria' head, and wrote a name on it, and handed, ll to me. it was tho name of my grandmother.

, Tbe name or another relative was written in the same way Toe hand then pointed to two iron rings that Were hanging on ibo corner of the rail These were trended ta i l and taken bo bind the- screen. Horatio sneaking in a trance, told me to take bia band. 1 did so, and immediately felt a tttock, and on examln mg, found botn ring* round my arm Tola c included the aesnee, wince waa most aalta- factory in every reaped, and well calculated to cooviocq unbelievers. As U iratlo re marked, *T never ait to a light circle for • par'y of sk-ptlca but I convince them all."

M anat 10 u —Tbe first spirit to appear wys ono Ovlnl M iry Bho w u dress d in a rai menl snowy white, with black bands crossing tbe breait. Bae aloud at the step* of tbe plat form and beckoned Horatio to her Teen took bl* hand In one of her* and placed the other on her breast, and then extended ll upwards, thru returned to fr-iot of cabinet sail held up both bands aa If 'o supplication 86n was formerly a nun *1 teba-c, and rtlaterof Merry. Tata waa the first tune the had appeared. Her general appearance aod snow white dreaa had an Inspiring i ll c l A sprightly lltllo spirit

o was said to be n mlo’i r and named

nest appeared. Hue wa* dressed In a while' male, which did not quite reach her koee>. Her legs were encased in tights, of a gray col

" - locked very much like a circus per-____ and had tne ' -* —

danced aboal on the (fof ue. placing t i t root on too naairr * •boulder. Boeing a vacant specs on the forms, she bounded over them and went to the far end o f .tb o room, aod then returning vaulted over the ratline and retired to tho cabinet Hb» performed Uonto’s abawl feat Uooto next appeared and danced with Horatio on the floor Bbe placed her bead on bl* breast aod tnen' w ltlPhls afm about her

"WITCH Of TUB MOUNTAINS" was the n n t to spp-ar This was a weir'd- looking figure dressfld in white. Bae stood on the pl^furm and sp/ke la a loud shrill voice, with considerable amp basts and gesture The aubs'anco of What the said was that she waa the Dtugnter of King Bstshaxiar. Bho was tbe medium through whom the writing was done on the well In tne Kieg’t Palaco. In 6onae- quenon of her moJlnmiatic power* the was

the remainder of nor dsy* Bob I* said to be. the presiding gemot of Wlllitm’s band, and a spirit of great power. A spirit said to be her brother wa* the n*-xt to appear. A Roman soldier followed H i wt# dressed In armor end had a shield. Mr W. Brown (the spirit) Is conductor of the seaooee; and stands at the oablnet door and ana Kinoes unknown charac ter* Moat of the relative* of parsons answer by rapping with their hadda on the wall, or by bowing; tnay rarely (peak.

Wlcbachee, tbe Iadlaa, next appeared. He sprang from me platform *1 a bound, making th* room shake He now hunted Horatio about tne'ro>m, aud both going ou th* plat form had a fsnolng mateh with swords, after lire al/le of lt>* • w

"TUBBirO OUMRATB"that taka place ia melodramas. Another Ia iliaa folio sad, A ssads, a female. Tha aplrtt, Mr. Broea. la anuoaacing that thaaaaao* waa al an sad. Said they ware doiag aa muoh a* they could to develop th*manifestations which will la Urn* be greeter man Uw earth ever wit- netned before. Ton lisas would cojH* w b.d they would aot be required to oonrinoe peo ple that there wsa a Bplrilworld. "Friend*,

I wt^h you ait gooO otgbt." are a way* bla last

AIU'M llr lf - The llrst spirit to, apjwar on >-c asi--n was Ibo same lhal kppearod first litghl, Halnt Mary. She was, draped the

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a mo u n t a in scame next, looking as on the previous ncca-. •ton. Sue sat lma chair in front of the apec- laiors, and gave a abort address, her arttrula- II n being much plainer than on Ihe previ. us rvcnlhg in the urao of her addfree aha •aid, ' Wost would have been the stale of the world at the present lime if it tred not been f- r Spiritualism t Mankind wuuKi^bavc been belli* the beasts If tl bad ool been ( \ t spirit* hrtngingi the world spiritual fond. 8 >w not your seed on a barren tot), bul on good ground, and It will spring up and bring form abun- dan ly " A Mr* Harris ne tt sppeared, who -was recogbittu] l>y a gerJleman of lhal n*mn aa bis mother Mrs 8 a\w followed. Tnl* wa* recogni/. d sa ins mother of Mr* Cleve land Maty Aogel aunt of Mr llarrla, wa* tbe neii Ttoeae tp irilt were dreased in ordin ary costume. A figure of quite a tl It treat ensracter next came out He waa described

< •»» ANI’IKNT SPIRIT,and was drernel I ke a aoldtet; wore a saah and purple velvet breeches with buckles, snd had a k 'apaack on his back and aaword by his •tdo WIHtam While, formerly o f tbe Ban- n b a i P Lioiit then came out of the cabinet, auas'-an nog m the center of- fbo p'alform, •poke thr'Ugn a trumpet, and said, with ap parent o 111 ■ulty' " 1 pour out my aplril upon yon. I am glad to be one with you, though you are few in number You nave a powerful lady at the bead of your band, who will etartle the world with her power and rnako Ihe world yield to her " John Ngvma aurcoeded. Ho waa recognir.ed; and then Mr llsrrla recog. n x d e spirit aa hi* nod-. Mr. Brown said in coocluaiuo, •' Work while the day laela. Whatever your bands Jflud to do, do It if it be good Bty w hakypr/our tongue flods to fay, ami aay ll wtibmrf fear, for the nigbl otmem, when ou man ijar. worii " Mr Brown does nol use the trumiK-i. but apeak* quite cle*r)5 with out. Toe spirit. Mrs. Il.rria, spoko In a whia- per, but loud enough to be nadervfood

M arch I J -h — li>nu> tame flrit and went tbroogu her usual performance. Bho wal probably out or tbo cabinet, from flrat lu l»»t, a full quarter uf *u hour Bho danced with . Horatio and Mra Cleveland un the fi'Kir of the ro >m to fruol uf Hie spectatyra, and au-ldenly | vaulted uver toe f*lL aad with • graceful sa lute retired to Ihe cabinet A gentleman pres ent, wnu has been among the Ind'an tribes, sa>s in action and appearance 11 unto j* a thorough Indian tquaw- A lady w tlha/hU d in her arena came nett Bbe waa unknown.Mr Harris.was next visited by bin mother, woo spoke to a whisper An uncle of this grntie- , man, wnu died forty years ago, came next. An - Arab appeared n, i t

UXAPBHrAU.A, who lived at Ihe time the pyramid* were built, and had charge uf a gang uf slaves TWorel atives uf those present n r t l presented (hrm-, selves, and then old Mra Ellon. This lady ia ^constant vuttor, aodsappeara as aho died, 8d year* old. B jo gave s snort address, in whicn she said that allowance has to be made for mediums Tney were naturally sensitive and had a great deal to put up wltn from skeptic*,

-and it waa not to be oorpnsed at if they man •omewnat irritable, oho thea br-gah-jJafic- Ing, remarking j mostly aa aho entered tha cabinet 10*1 'she felt like a gal." -A few word* from Mr Brown concluded the seance. After this a dark seance waa given by Uurslio, wnen tbe 'same kind of manifestation* took place as before. The "Btorm at Be*"-baing performed with, if possible, more characteris tic rfl .-cia-ttaa on me previous occasion. A very pretty accompaniment was plsyed to the violin on several bells which sounded as if suspended In the air, reminding one of a party of bell riogrra Tht* lasted several minutes Mayflower then produced some pretty echo • fleets on the mouth yrgao, ao instrument of tbe accordion teloe. After this she recited a

8b* improviser tbo poetry, speak through a luMrf

Nol 4 speak independently.” Oeorge Dl* thea invited a icieniiflc question. 1 asked for some Information as to ins constitution of thestan. A learned dissertation thea followed la* somewhat sammatio voice. Georg1.1 un derstood was neosaallatsd to use a tube May (1 >wer then volunteered some information about .Mr moon, and •paeared as able to talk on scientific tnemes as G urge. The Indiana came n«rt, and seemed - to be running roand in front of ae, shouting most lustily and Jab bering muet unintelligibly, creating an Infer nal dm. George G x, whose real name la B alto, was a sailor on board th* ill fated - President, at turHmn it was lost some thirty years ago Lamps of snow were foaod on tbe floor waloa were supposed to have been brought by tee spirit* I waa told that on os* uooalon H watto, aad the chair on which ae wa* sitUog, were musing when tne lights wsa sirnck They were ibea told to look out side tne hoasa, and then ibgy saw the msdinm sitting la bla enalr on tha chimney. Oa their

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Second, Tbia-'multitude of goda Iroplli Ignorance, our xlupld. ignorant, undeveloped natures; that In, we feel that we ere surround ed by myateries, power*, force* for wblch ran trot, account. It It difficult for ua to Uln that higher grodc. There are some wlio bare not yet gone beyond the worship of the

ship of tb it eternal b rightens of the unlvcrre, the run,''and adore the dime*. Still ageip otbera look back on i glorious ancestry whom they venerate a* eert*. and whoee deeds a lolft In story and tong.

Third This-iUallilude of gods Implies ouf superstition. It Is looking down rather than nc'eralandlng what comes from looking up.

But this multitude r f gods also Ijnplica a natural seeking of tbo iinlie for the Infinite. We are incomplete alone. This seeking la for the complylemeot o to u r being, tbe comple ment of our nalure.yTlbc finite can not know Itself until It knows ttirinfinlte ’To I to know God I* the greatest infinite |

Again, this also Implies onr ye*rnl_„ praent God. We always desire a God with ua, in whom we can live, love, work, hope;" In fact, a God ever near. When tb it present God--------place in our nature, wo may *~*---------

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Thcse dead gods. then, are only dead idrsls, which stand for something that once bad life, and breath, and thought, and hope.' There is In idolatry the' germ of the present

theology. It ia the worship of a power, a force; and that ia aa far as scientists or even our arcbblibope have ever reached. The fo- tiah is a simple power. The four armed and double-faced idol ia a hewn conception of complicated and infinite power; the one exhi bition-meaning omnipotence, and Iho other omniscience, of Iho image of our deity. I t is ail climbing wbat some one has called tbe "endlraa stairway " Tbo Christian worships bis ideal, tbe heathen bis; and it ia all wrong ahd it is all right; wrong, because of it* defect iveness; right, in its approximstiveucss. its hope and «llork Wo all seek to worship Dim la spirit tod in truth. Dead gods, thru, are simply dead Ideals, the outreachlog of the im aginative forma of tbo human mind.

It la sad for a people when "they outgrow their gods. »ujl- It la sad for a soul when it

. _ . have another to take the vacatecplace. When one god It outgrown snother It constructed. When man sweeps away one deity and docs not substitute another be will Inevitably fall back upon himself. As our----- Apostle, Paul, lelli us, he falls back upon

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ThetJTlb Anniversary of Pnirltus’tsm wm Only celebrated In Utls etty on March :il«t by a num ber of rnlritedTeeinresand tine nieces of music at the Hrrubllcaa Hall on :13d 8 l., near Broad- way, during the afternoon, while in the even ing s'social gathering was held at tbo same n!see, and a public test seance at-the Harvard Kooma Tbe d»y passed ofl dellghtrnliy, being a time of general reunion among the friends of progress. A -gentleman remarked of the sfter- noon gathering that It was u>n tirret looking audience that he ever saw. Mr. Keyser had rendered the room fairly fragran^by.a numbr- of magnificent bouquets, amt a profusion < flags finished out.(he decoration in honor of day which may be callod the Spiritualist’* Skater.

T h* C ont-rkkkck’s now held every Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 at the Harvard Rooms, opposite tbe Reservoir Park. I t consists of various ten minute speeches on both sides of tbe Spiritualistic question, and hss become a dignified assembly of keen debaters, among whom are judges, lawyers, physicians, clkrgy-

Mb * Hv/*n of Baltimore is chahning our people by h * fluent and graceful! oratory at odi forenoon and evening mecp'ng*- wb'oh are held at the Republican Hall, on West :CU Bt.. two doom east of Broadway. She Is our speaker for Anril.

• Wo.vDKuroL PttKHOMR>>< are "yanspiring in certain private circlet of New York which ex-

, teed anything that nas yet lieen recorded. After awhile I tbsll probably bo st liberty to give an account of them, bpt can not at pres ent. The spirits are out do in^ themselves now-a-days ahd ere long there will &e a mightier shaking np of the dry bone* of old Ideas than the world has ever seen. Every band at the helm then, and lot ns work for liberty and life, and the new joys which arc to come,

ronucanow aT he I . i t t l * Borqrirr published by the H»-

t.toio-PniLr E.I1-1IICA1. Frnuriim l Ho uc k at $1 a year, lies on my tables lid s full of de lightful stories, which carry a high moral les son, and I* reallv hotter than it was when its price was | l .10* a year. It is interesting to mature minds as well at to the young, and the Editorial Department at the, end hat a slice of food In eanh number for philosophers.

T h * “ EiicTtilr. P u y u c ia n , or Self Cure through Electricity." is a most useful and

tie girl, from six lo eight years old. and leads her toned the circle. He then places her in the mtdrt, ties her hands behind hrr back, and binds all her limbs together, which all Iho company may Inspect and then puls over her i larger beehive ahsped basket «>f closely woven bamlioo. He then walk* sbout-fiourUblng a sword and mtkiag various stfingA, groticula lions after the manner of jugglers, 1 and pres ently enters into conversstf.'D with the chlid, who snswen from witbi/t the basket; aflect* to become angry, at last furious, and. rushing to the basket, plunge* his sword several lime* violently Into i t The grows and straggle* of the child are heard within It, and '• griffin* ” who see it for (be first time ta n with dlftifulty be.kept from'rusblng on sndcolluing tbe ranr- drfreF, but shortly he smooth* bis brow, pacesrefund, wav’- ' 1-------------- ** “ — *Ing ruo d ry __________ ____ ______kilt, and, lot tn place of a dead and bleeding child there i« nothing'

ls(e*en(ty the little girl, free snd unbound, comes smiling fiom round a corner 10*0 tbo i lrofii, bolding out her hand fnrthe "bittM ihtt" s 'e-ik sore to get Be it remembered thst this la done in open day, on * hsrd II >or'. snd in the midst of spectator* seated a few feet dis tant all round, *a<l teems inexplicable from any point of vieW except by tome enormous mtdtumixlic and levitating pow er and so in deed la-the well known mango or fliwer trick, performed under tbe same conditions, in wblch from a dry mango stone, buried In a few handfuls of earth, a aboot is made to arise, tin t shown In bud, then in leaf and flow er. and Dotty bearing a ripe fruit This trick quite batllca all.who see it. and who would ~~ plain it by ordinary sleight-of-baod.

Whilst on the suhject reference may briefly be made to the astounding accounts given by media val travelers, especially Marco Polo, of feats witnessed by them tn India, when ob jects flung Ultimo the sir vtnitbed and never fell down, and performers mounting a rope, apparently attached to nothing, disappeared, and presently Ibeir dismembered nmbi came tumbling down out of the empty atrl This the old trsveleiN witnessed In su open *pacq by open day. and of course could only attrib ute it all to Satan. The full accoun', with cu rious wood cut* and notc#t maj\, be readCol. Yule’s splendid edition of the travel* of Marco Polo, published a ^ a r a g o ; the truth fulness of the old Venetian's account of what

modem times; at least, the present writer baa heard of no instances near our own age.

To conclude these Indian manifrota'looatbe writer may ldd one within his own knowledge In Tinnevetly, the cxereme province of tbe Indian Peninsula, there lived, sud still may be living, a Brahmin of ill repute, a gaunt, welrd-looklng, wild-eyed man. posacssed of uncapcy powers, e»ptciitlj-of fascination or power uf eye. European residents would oflen send for him and desire him to exhibit this. He, or any one present, would then tear from aa y hedge or bu»h a long -wreath of convolvu lus or other trailing plant and throw it on the ground or in the verandah before the specta tors. Then standing a few paces distant, he would fix fait unearthly eyes Intently upon the long green streamer, fingering his beads and muttering to himself, wbeo, sometime* in a

-w ___ shorter, sometimes a longer time, tbe wreath^ to ^ fo u n ^ « I .|fn)kreT.b i - - ^ '*°°!<> begin to movo, and, aa though endued

1 Tmt wilh " fe or Pa,ltd by * siring, approach him well tra.ned in the logic of (Bn churches, and M,M<nt.uket coming up to his feu and follow-

Th e "Lyc t suh St a o u," by G. W. Kstfea, of Cincinnati, abounds m poems, speeches, snd dialogues, excellently adapted to make our Ly ceum* more interesting, as well at more in structive to the young. Manv years ago when I bad charge or the Miami Commercial Col lege, of Dayton, laws, I remember George Kates** one of the conscientious, earnest and thoughtful students, but I should have been somewhat distressed at that time ir I had ‘ iwn ho was to become such gn industrious

------------------------log ic_____ ___,could silence many an antagonist,this young stripling of* Wilt, t _________aoul, blameless In moral character, aimed with thosefyctiTrod thoughts which at times were notsooaillym ci. My iron tiound creed has since been shattered to atoms before the

of Invioclhta facts, and I went ‘ young Kates Instead of the"

toung Will has grown up . _ _ soie man, and for many years back has been .Principal of the same Miami Commercial Col-

_J n tlh u i M edium .* m id -M tuiirchlutiun.*.

Like everything else under the sun, it is. how. ever, nothing new. In the Portuguese History of the Indies, printed in 1.181, folio, there Is aa account of a set of magicians, called <in fan t or Soangvt, in the island' of Grombocca- note, in the East Indies. They are said to have had the art of rendering themselves in visible, and passing where they pleased; and, tk they did infinite mischief by these'means, the people hated and feared them modally. The history goes on to say that the king of

made an Incursion with them 01Tidore, and, by aid of their magic aria, con quered and killed great number*. To test whether, in elicet, they possessed the facul ties ascribed to them, Brito had several of them lied by the Deck, and their limbe strongly lashed -wilS ropes, without any poasibillty or dikes gaging themselves by natural means; but, however cloeely guarded, they were In a abort lime found loosed and free. Tbe history adds that Brito, in order that the King of Tidore might not complain that he made war on him with devils, dismissed them at length to their

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What real occurrences may be hidden In this, wild Story It were herd to aay, bu t the feature of sudden resolution from bond* by unappar- out means is clearly Indicated. Borne extra ordinary mediamiitlc power* probably origin ated the tale. The uc couth name, Gromboc- canore, seems to be the same with Orsmsbak- anar, aa ancient port bn the western coast of

. Indlt, now sbsndoned. A* for the btrbgrout appellation " ouvana ” and "soangut.L' the present writer can pnfy conjecture that tbe former it s word distorted from a Dravidian root, aigulfjlng evJl/mUchlef, murder; and the latter a mangled form of "■unyikoran,” a e., oagic-mgnger, from “ «unyam," magic, sorcery.

In connection with this subject It may be m a rk e d thst some of the famous Indian jog gling feats appear hardly explicable except on the euppoeUlon of wonderfuljxedlutnixtib and levitating power, which though only of Isle attracting attention in Europe, has doubtless existed in great force and practice amongst the ancient nations of the East. For ex ample, the famous basket-trick, now performed under many modifications In London and elsewbtre, has been often described vrttb wobdef-by trav elers In India, where it baa retened a develop ment nnaporoached In Europe-. - It* highest end rarest manifestation—for less striking snd marvelous gradation* of performance are-far more common—is thus brli fly described. The performers are Just a t ready to do It by day light as by dusk, and the usual place for exhi bition Is the broad, solid dunam floor of the verafldah of aa Indian bungalow, or even 1U 11*1 roof/ The spectators sit round In a circle, and tbe principal Juggler brings forward a 1U-

sgo; the truth- ccnunt of wbat

like that of Herodotus, afire long ridi cule is now established, and Col. Yule srei'un reason lo suspect that in the above particular instance Ee was telling travelers’ talra^nThc

log him if he retreated; people might walk be tween and scrape with Etitks to discover any suspected string connecting him with the plant, but to no purpose For all that could be dis covered the long wreath moved of itk own ac cord in obedience to his power of eye or will Id Isr. E. Growell’s wutk on Bpirljuallsm and primitive Cbris^vnfly there are some curious instances and speculations 'respecting eye- power. I t is reufarkable that this Brahmin was induced by a European gentleman, now living, for a considerable bribe, to diiclotc the aecret of his power He acquired It from him, and was able to eflect the feat. But ft would seem he considered there was something ob jectionable ia It, for be was religiously dis posed; and after a lime desisted from pulltbg the power into practice, and lost it. Ho would not be questioned about it, and declined any convcrention on the subject. —tyiriiuoltst, Eng.

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Tbe I{yv, E- P. Powell, the pastor of the Third Unitarian Church, 'preached Hunoay. April 11th, on the subject of •• Dead Goda." The lesson for the day ws> read from the eigh teenth chapter of Second Kings, in which book* and chapter waa the text:

(iry aloud I he Is a god I E ither he 1* talking; or pursuing, or la on a Journey; or, perad- venture, he aleepelh. r s w r

It la aenrions fact that th li world has had s multitude of gods almost equal to Its mortal inhabitants: indeed, the deiUet will tally well with the Indlviduala There are not only dead tribes, dead nations, dead languages, wbilfe- fluger Up* point lo the dead fiast, dead histories, but also dead goda Worshipers and worthiptd bavedeeayed together; tbe first fatten tbe soil, the latter fertilize thought. Tbev are both good. With this view of' iho subject we say, the more god*.the better. Nothing Is .achieved without friction and antagonism. Progress is the result, or leverage, and old gods, as well ' t exploded theories gnd theologies, have served or fotcruma. When the log-ls roiled we leave

the fulcrum behind, and when theaegods I lived oat their dty they have aldcd.ln rolling humanity forward.

A host of gods Implies t host of Idesla Beauty can not become idealized in an Appllo or Apollo IMvidere until It geta a powerful possession of the human soul All Greek mv Ihetlc culture culminate# in Olympto forms, and then forms grow beautiful as the culture U enlarged. At last It Is possible for a Greek soul with a chisel to put these glorious ideas into msrble. Strength, law, honor, truth, poetry, love, become personified gods, and these personification* In turn become the la- tors of the generations.

This multitude of gods Implies on the one side: . ( s s s .

First. Our weskqeta sud a confession of it, and a dctiro for help. Most of onr prayers are but beggarly sfifslryinthe.v. selves. Webescccch our deity wjth both hands lifted, the p a lm toward the skies, and after all they are but mean petitions which sscetrd from us to our obj-ct o f worship. We ask for a gift, some g ilt wblch we do not now posses*. Always asking, seeking praying for something sought for, and beyond our reach. We are, In f t c , religious latxsronl. appealing to the heat P of that which has no heart, beseeching thoto who Will not, can not bear. Indeed, Naples has d omore lizzxronl l l r '— 1— *v--------- *-■----*•-—there are in ou; C •hip-day.

groat Ap-w himself, b

grosser**, his brutality. When we fall behind cur Ideals we-brgin to worship what corres ponds to the beast of mythology.

I aay it is sad when a vast church or people, . _r cluster of people*, or any ago outgrow* Its god. 1 mean that it produces a temporary chaos, a relaxation of hope, a dissolution of faith, and probably a lower moral life. Men

ot live in thla way. Anything but a_ ---- at to o l or a godless generation. It It themost unnatural of conditions, and it lir plies tbst our hope* know not whither they fl>, we are orphans. Tbe family of babe* Is left with out a protector.

The moat natural course, therefore, for man to nursuefll to fight fur bis gods. The basest ana the meanest actions, as well as tbo moat glorious *od heroic, are done to keep our god* alive. Odlloo* are imprisoned; Jesus cruol- flrd; but belli for the sauio purjw bo afterward glorified. M ar'yrt die; but inquisitions are equally working’ in the cause of their god. Tocologies spring out of the brain* of those who are st one time called the apologists and at another the defender* of gods and of the faith. Nothing *0 quick!/ arouses hate and malice eg a question brought aguinsl man's duty. Because to brlng'my gods in question brings in question my ideal thought*. It ia attacking my moral art, the fine arta of tbe soql. > If you look through those old cathe dral* of sunny Italy, and there see the picture* of Raphael's thought aod sneer a t them, then von sneer at the conception! of the artist, St b it Iron soul, at hia highest ideal, and at his

by Blcpheui. Blaring up through tbe tropical luxuriance of foliage, half-grown over by trees, spanned by roots and tangled with vims. He

-the giant got)a of the Aztec race. They have really outlived their worshipers, aa stone out- lives flesh. Pitiful old enthroned heroes. bew£ With skill, covered with hleroglyptfic prayers or history, they are tumbled into the ruins of the ages, and are scorned by tho wll-

•deraestea that have sprang up over tbelr wor shipers' bones and cities and shrines.

Go to tbe East with mo, to tbe crtdle lands of the human race, and there In the mound* of Nlooveh, ln4he ruin* of Haslbec, where once were tho palm tree* of-Palmyra—broken, forever untrlmmed, subjects for museums tmi.

dead, "stone di God with us is a yearning as natnrml to the

finite soul as the yearning for homo or com panionship. Every nation has its tradition of a time when God was -with them. They all propbety that Ho will tome day relnrn. Tho Bsxons tell you how the God of Innocencd once held mild sway ovrr happy mortals; thst by treachery be waa'killed; but that tome day he will be resurrected, and with 'him will re tufa peace, plenty, and UDiveraal love. Tim Aztec* told their Spanish conquerors of the white grd who long eras before ruled them in a golden ago; but that grieved by their sins, ho bad gone over the sea to tho K ut, lo the

acd has never returned. Tbo heart of

this gtd Idea. It belongs lo human conscious-

our mythologies become enriched with the names of Odin and Thor and Jesus and Apollo. By a alow growth reverenco and honor grow into worship, and miracles began to spring from their bonra, and fables of their power grew slowly lo be received as facts And so the founders of a people, the heroes of hat tics, the great conqueror* developed Id divinities—dead goda Were it not for the art of printlqg, restraining history from a too rampant wildness, Washington would be by " ' time a demi god, and Lincoln would be

on tbe way beyond the sphere of common mortal* Tho best wo can do with onr heroes now is to bury tbelr faults and make giants of them. Alas for us! there is 00 more a single

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more there are the more th* tokens of growth.At the Aral glance, the niost-painful feature

of our generation la that Christendom baa loaVfaith in ita goda—In all throe of them. Tho Holy Spirit first lost It* penonallty with alj thinking mind*, although many atill look on the'Holy Ghost u a peripatetic deity, largely under the away of revivaltata or emotionalists. Then tbo lovely Jesus quickly took his place, the only pltoe he ever claimed at Prince of Peace among men. And now at last the vast anthropomorphic God—the 7U t Being whose abode waf heaven, and whoee flat created, governed matter—la dead. I t seems aa If Christendom had been pushed into chaos by natural science. Matter haa risen up against spirit. Giants will bo bom. Tbe battle de scribed by Milton iu heaven, for the glory of God, ia not ao fertile of grand council* and ex pedients aa this struggle of -matter to dethrobo spirit. W. T. Harris, of BMLou!*, the great mathematician of the United Btatea, says that unleu this Baracenlo Inroad can be met there will be no God. Martineau says "m atter as sume* to write Hamlet, and substitute* a mole cular plebiscite for a divine monarchy."- 80 far tbe omlook la great In Ua fertility. Old gods m ike good oorneratonee for modern house* and good ornaments for modem muse- urn*. But any god that run die ouxblto die—in time. Any god thst live* can not die. Tneeter- nal and Infinite are Indestructible. Created goda are anomalous. . The creator god only exist*.

At present the question Is: Have we a God -a G kI above assaultr Tbe problem of the

day I* to find a to* God. When I return from the Exit I will define “ wbat tk a living God,” aa I h*Vo tried to define wbat were the depd................................... the far look, we can see______ . — ._, what there )• whtch en

dure*. Wo can gather up from the very soil the gods wblch have come down the sgee.

mala old In story. A thunder storm even now to some has the tread ot a god in lk-

Gome with me to Yucatan, to Palerque, to iose old cilic^ unearthed in Central America

of divinities, locked.

Wo have inscribed on the famous Hosettaone a corloui account of how a god waa

made, the deifying of a king. The atone waa found tn Egypt by tbe noldlers or Napoleon, and It records, In three stylea of writing, “ bow the chief print* and prophets, and all the other priest* from all the temples of the land,

ir living, beloved of Ptha, haa In many ng* beni tiled the lemplea acd those connect with them, and all those living under bla

away; since belug a god, bora ot a god to a goddess, he has given revenue* to the temples and lightened the taxes, and baa made great gifts lo Apia, and alio to the other sacred 'ani mal! in K.Jypt; and having provided far better than previoua king* for tbelr funerals—It has seemed good to the priests of all Iho temples In the land to greatly moment all honors now psld to the ever-living Kipgy- Ptolemy, God, aod lo decree an Image la rich temple tn tho most conspicuous place to God Ptolemy, near which shall ita? d the Imago of tbe god lo whom belongs the temple, snd It aball be with glory declared rm blah why the people of E /^p l exalt the Grd Ptolemy; and all people may set up hia shrine In thulr private hmiati am! perform rites appropriate to a god."

ia, Sax ony. India. Chios, and there are millions of poor, pitiable, dead goda, now mostly not only dead bill also forgotten, some fertilizing the

Pan, Pan ia dead.Gints, we valfily do addreaa you;

Ye return not voice nor sign,Nm a votary I ’d secure you.

Even a grave for yoor Jivine,Not a grave to show thereby, Hero these gray old goda do llq.

.Pan, Pan la dead.And that dlamal cry ran alowly,

And tank alowly thro' the air, Full of spirits melancholy,

___________ x* chill with dying.And hia soul was faint with loss.

When hia priestly blood dropped down ward,

And hia kingly eyea looked.throneward.Then Pan was dead.

By the love He stood tlono In HI* sole gt dhesd stood complete,

And the falao god* foil down moaning.Each from cil his golden seat.

All the false goda with a cry Rendered up their deity.

And Pan waa dead.

remains to them.

vengo, god* of cursing, god* of oov-________, ged* of maudlin folly, the golden

^calves of our aelfiihneaa, no more the real Je hovah than the fetish of the African; other goda of our bigotry, begotten of Ignorance and conoelt; other god* of inheritance, heir loom.!' from our fathers. Inherited Juit as wii inherit farms and utensils. You may always teat the character of the God you worship by the Ufa that He Imparts to you. U you are

God ia wrong. If you are g row ing_______*--------------------- keenly last, more dell-

more — “ ---------sllivt to wrong, cstely pure, more tolerant, anxious to know atfij to d t, P the Uvlug God." Jehovah

you havkjouod d r God." Jehovah la in your soul elements of Ufa are there. t Praise,

and drink Hia blood If we woul_T________Bat he fdds, " My meat 1* to do the will of my Father; that la, eat of Chriaf* nature, and ye shall live forever; digest Him, assimilate Him. Ha that drlnkelb of the water tbst I aball gtve him. it *1|b!I he a well Of water springing up unto sternal life."

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t h e d o c t r in e o f d r i e s t a n d d a i;IVINIBM. By O.earMeUmidt. I'mfcssot 10 the vi.i«er..ty A rira'i....ir New York: H Apiilrion .V ill. pp W-» I3ta». For sale t>y the Mituot- Piiiuutoruiuai. rvnuatiiitn 1 lot's « F.lce II M>.This la the 18th volume of the " Intcrna-

liongi Hertea," and Ilka all the numbers of that writ*,, Its mechanical appearance la uneicrp tionabla. The object of these volume*, each composed tiy specialists. la to pnpolsrlio the various hranchea of acicnce on wh ch they

„ , ____understandable than that given b y __author Hot while Lhu pages of that groat master glow with vltiluy, his commentator* are as d?y a* a aspless tree, lie has written this book not because he has discovered truth* wbteb-be is compelled to utter, but because lbs publisher* have .mtfilu arisogeincnta with hl-i to write euch a book, f-.r wnicb he I*-to r tc iv e a certain compensation

Ue does not add astoglc new idea or thought to the details of Dtrwtn, »or does bo bring more felicitous illustrations, ills turgid ken teccea are not mere riorrssive The general reader will find [I if win's hooks far more clear and understand aide I ' | ’r.if Schmidt wrote in Herman. he »i,tiers by a clumsy translation, ir be write in B ig tali, then he ha* not yet mastered that language

I'rof. Schmidt la a follower of Bucher and Vogt; In «lhrr words, a believer In tbu gross e>Vform of Materialism Hu accepts matter and its Inin rent forces, and considers It set tled that nut of, and lyv these, creation,**! "eVolwedT 'T here I* no t! «d, no Immortality' of man, who U only n ntgner animal.

In the beginning (p -i after lauding the at lalnmcDt* of science, nu says, deplurlngly, as abowi, g the need of more light:

“ We bivu only to look around at the Spirit ualista and summbnera _pf souls, who mus forth specisl sects and societies, at lhu sdvo caies of cures by sympathy and incanlatlon, and we Can lijst inaivel at the extensive sway of a superstition hardly superior to the Kell chism of s race as alien to ourselves as sre the negroes " With such profound Insight as Is revealed by the shove lenience, Prof Schmidt proceeds to rapidly p.aiwvcx lire ground* oc eujncd by the Dirwloiafi theory He ace* nothing nut tbo constant present:* of lawa, and lower forms evolving h’gbcf.

lo all deference to great auinorilica, we pro noun c this constant reiteration of "law,” ami evolution.” aa though they w»»c c»n»r*. a* the most glaring chsrtata r» TV aM»U c.itisa m nof inoitn of ■> unyU phriomrifn in nature And yet We hear lue tl.ppanl is,ires •i-.n,-Pllio “ b/bv-tble" suel "unknowable,” as iV'Ugh tbo <-;um had conquered tbo world of (Jv<T7 am) sent tjielr pi urn lint line t*> the bottcush and Ihotr telescopic gaze to the lop.

Dirwin. like sll great mind*, is modest, and cl tins for bis theory only merit as sn expla nation of. the method, whereas, his rxpom-nU Wildly assert, that evolution is a cause, that “ natural selection ” is the key by which the mysteries of crest ion are unlocked.

The unpnjodtccd .mind will acknowledge that if car run us doe step further Into the no ctet portals of Nature, one step uoly. and Ibc light it reve|lioulv makes the darkness beyond more profound, tyo are as far from tie cause

Tuoso wbo desire to understand t> trwlnism should read his works, after w hich'they will gain nothing by the perusal of such books as the one under review. Wc havk no doubt Prof Schmidt is accurate In bis science, but he Is bigoted and partisan. He Ignore* one half of oaiuic. ils spiritual part, and plumes hbi self on bis bravery

Tne facts of mat spiritual aldo are rapidly accumulating, and will submerge as With an avalanche this gioss material philosophy, The scientists have the tiulb, hut It Is unly half the truth When tboy accept it In Ha complete ness, they will b.gln to have a correct under standing of nature.

Tiny sre, however, Constantly provibg that the new and true conception of the order of the world has little or nothing to cxptcl from

N ew d fm p er S iilis iT lIw r* .

The Luodojr JYftrsjaiper /Ve«s contains the fpll -Wing classification iif newspaper sub scrlbett, which a somewhat vaguely credited to an A iii-ncan paper. First come the

UPHtotlT* —These sre men who lake news papvis. pay for them, and read them. Observe Iho order In which these things are d->nc:

.Toe pay comes first—the reading next These mcup- mslder they get the Worth of their mon-

-eySo the bargain. It seems aa fair and Just to tfietfi1 that tbo newspaper should be paid fur aa a barrel o f sugar or a new coat They never entertained kny other opinion. When

. the year ruoa out, or a little before, they are 'on hand with ibe pay. There Is no more dif ficulty with them In remembering the period, than tiunday or the Oral day of January. If odo of them wlahe* to atop hi* p iper, be either call* or writes a letter by bis postmaster, In due season, like a man. Tula das* Is dear to the heart of the editor. -Their image la em balmed In his warm afieettona Miy-dhcy live a thousand year*, and aee their sons' Ions to the fourth generation. The second data now to mind la the - ,

Do Wmixa —Tula class I* nearly related lo each other-sko near, that It Is bajd to tell where one begin* and Ibe other end* These men always pay In advsnoe In the beginning, and intend to do so continually. But memory fads a little, or some mishap intervene* and the time run* by—sometimes e little— sometime* quite e period. Bat tbelr rccollec Hon. though nodding occasionally, neve(. get* •uaed asleep It prunouoooa thsJwotd In doe time “ Tne printer 1* not palds" end forthwith their j r t i r t o do well kindle*, into activity. Now come* tho paying up—“Meant lo do so before. Don't mean to let 'anch thing* paw by." A publisher can live with men men. Tn- y have'* warm place in his themory—only a little bach of ibe Upright*. If such a man die* In arrears, hla wife or son soon remember* that lie might no: have peid up /o r hie news paper, and forthwith inalitalea (equities. Tony remembered that p in af the benefit was theirs, and. estate or no relate, see that the printer's bills are not among their father’s on- Settled accounts Next comes tho

E as t D bhb —Tore* men b-.-liora In news- paper* Tney have fully teilled In tbelrfown mind that a nuwipeper la a good thing. They take them, too, Ho met I me* at the first they T>»y Ou for the flpB year—at any rate they mean to, pretty aoon If they have dona eo, they sll down with the comforting convioll -a that their ntwspaper Is now settled (or; end

- ‘ ‘eg once got Into their heeds, re aly to b* dislodged,,hot keeps Its year to year; e truth once—now - iy and rheumatic with year*,

xln* the elongated and elongel-. accounts current of tholf iol- *- '* they ere deed or gone

lo begins to poke bill* at

pule his bill! they know books tell belter stories then moss covered memories. If the publisher b^s faith enough, or a long purse, eud ran live like a hibernating bear, he may tnrvivo this cWa. But if he is a mortal only, -woe to him The nrxt class la that of tho

11-jw n HiU.itns Here we begin to elide over lo the other side. The picture suddenly gels sombre. We ahall dispatch the Down Hillers suddenly. One of these may take a paper because b ll Wife wants one, or the chil dren are xssloua lo read It, or a neighbor per- auadcs him. When it begins lo comp, he dll misses all thought* about St further. If the editor sends a man directly to him at the end of two or three years, be may get some pay for his paper, with growl* and surly looks He never p»ya any debt* if. he can get rid of It, and a newspaper least of all. Still, ho hates lawsuits, constable*, and alt that A dun baa the same «licet on him that a bullet baa on a hippopotamus—glances from hla bide, or sink ing in the blubber harmless. Ho la alwayulid- log down bill, and iu o d merges Into another cla*s, of

Tint Nix (j'tJw Kol-or No matter bow th is1 man begun hi* subscription, he never pay* for It—not bo. ‘lie don’t lOtc that sort of pa per, It don’tjiivc news, lie tievcr did like It He didn't want It in tlo- first place, and told tno p-slmaaver *o. 1,0 Bcn‘ 0De backmore than a year hgo—besides, he never began lo lake It till a long lime after it came, and he hadn't had only two or three of them, at any rate, and those lie hadn't read.' Wipe him ofl II re comes

Tliic Hiat-KoiiacR - It iseni ugh tossy of him that ot- never falls to have a ncwapajier—two i or three of them When ho think* they have come shout long enough for the publisher to ' want pay. ho send! back with 'atop It,' Or j he lakes up hi* quarter* and leaves for parts unknown He .loea not waut lo pay, and he j don't mean to Oel it it you can.

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JuUii M . Carpenter,Spiritual nnlrwijruDl -iml i'ayriioinrlriU.

aiihed\ sellcuring sppeUte for opltun and all other cotica, by tho Board of Chemists, in spirit life, who have heretofore given her the nocc* vary antidote fo^ curing the appetite for to bacco, and tho pi tpur ingredient* for restot ing hair to all bald bcoda, no mallei of bow|ODg ■landing

Mrs ltobinson will furnish the remedy,' and send It by mail or cgpirei to all who may apply for the same within, the next xixty days on the receipt of flea tL&tn (the simple coll of the Ingredients), and guarantee a mo*i perfect cure or refund the moooy. If directions accompanying each package are strictly fol lowed.

The remedy is barmleea, and aol nopals table

tihe make* this generous ofler for the doublt purpose of introducing tho remedy, end foi bringing the «ur< within the reach of the poor oat people wbo use the pernicious drug. Thi expense of e perfect remedy w ilKupf exceed the coat of the drug for continuing the dele terlona habit one month I

Addroaa Mr* A. H. Robinson, Adams 8 t and Fifth Avenue, Chicago, CL

Wo havo so much confidence in the ability of the BoaStl of Chemist* and Doctor* wh< control Mra Robinson's medlumshlp, that we unheeltatingly guarentee a faithful exo notion of the above proposition.—(Kd . JOc b

f? 1 .0 5 pitye lo r th in p tip o r o n o y o a r, to n e w t r i a l HulnwrHHtra, and we pre pay the postage after the first of January.

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52 RELIGIO-P5ILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL MAY 1, imp.-',

J t r l i g i o - J h i t o s o p U i c a l l o t & n a lJ O N K K ,

HDITOR. rUBUdBXli AND I'ROPHIKTORJ . R . P lfA S O H , - • i i m l A H RAMor.

TXRMS OF S C m C R IfT IO N ;“ "H7- °

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flUS?-'CB1QAUO. SATURDAY. N

T h u C u ln i ln u t lo n o f I ’reu I .oxc.

On the .1J day of August, IBTIt, the Mot. Moses Hull published in HrodAqtt «f CUjhn* VTeekty * •• statement," which created a decided sensation throughout the ranks of ►tplriluiU* ism—not, however, on account of lU intrinaic merit, hut, on the contrary, in consequence of the unblushing impudence and boldnes* mini feetod la advocating licentiousness aa a virtue, and the desertion of one’s family and tllspring aa an act to be'commended, more especially when the husband has a large brain) Had a prostitute from the purlieus of vice 'in this city, reeking with lilth and covered with lostbaome sores, invaded the pulpit of Hubert Collyer and demanded a hearing, she would not have exhibited more brazen impudence, or mote consummate egotism, than did Mjoci when he deserted h it wife and children and prcaenled to the world bU'Statement, bearing upodf it hla moral obliquity, and fraught with evil til sets that took from the :>J d ty of Au gust, 187.1, until "the Huh of February, 1875, to folly culminate in his family becoming pau pers, receiving assistance from the town Ho savo them from the tnosl'lnlonie lulUring. W hile their cries of relief 'can bo heard in Vineland, l’alne’a Hall in Boston la disgraced by the prescnt'C'vf Moses, and its doors are open fo rU ie advocacy of those pernicious principles which lead to pauperism and crime, and which would make Faine frown with in dignation wens he living on this earth to day. Those who have so generously contributed to build that monument to perpetuate the name of Ihia immortal patriot. will'regreKhe course pursued in admitting Moses within lie walls to "scintillate licentious Ideas," xrbtlo h it

-family are paupers in a distant city. Imagine a woman in the decline of Urc, with several children resting upon her for support; sec her toil dsy after day to clothe and educate them, being finally compelled to solicit assistance from the town; then look at her lubberly hus-

'TTaud and affinity in Paine’s Memorial Hall, Itotton, " spouting ” to an "Intelligent" body of "reformers,” and you have the material for a first-class tableau. Denton, one of the finest orators in the field, a man of thorough culture and deep rc&eSrch, and Prof, Pijre, a man of profound knowledge, would not con sent to attend a meeting where Motes waa to he one of the principal speaker*! They acted wisely In so doing.

On the ltd day of August, 18711, Moses male U» celebrated statement, and the world was astonished s i his moral turpitude; however, on Feb. 19|b, 1875, Elvira, his wife, made the culminating ataiemont, aa follows

“ The facta are. that upon the dlst day of last December I found myself out of money, flour and.f uel, and unable to find employment. Having always endeavored to psy my taxes and to help the poor around me, 1 thought the proper place for mh to apply for relief was to the masters of thejfund provided for the relief of the needy. I did,this in preference to ap plying to Spiritualist*, who are dot brave enough to employ Moses to spesk lit their bell or for their society. M om and myself have been ostracised in Vineland,-and have been ■banned a* altogether something vile. From this fact you can judge why 1 went (o the town for help’ln preference to going to tb - 'tfplriluallsts. Tho amount 1 received ( / t o l this town this w in ter,ia 'just #U.U5. Since I applied to the town f ir assistance the Spirit ualists have been belying me. My pride re volts from receiving charity. Mr. and Mrs.

Willing to work at anything honorable to rap port myself and daughters. My eldest la now working for her board; the other three are in school, where’ I intend to keeD them, unless compelled to lake them out tokfcep them from starving."

The (fleets of the debaucheries of the free lovers have had three central culminsling points; one In Vineland, N. J . ; onoin.Boston, Mass.; and, the third at lha Valcour tommu- nlty. One (Vineland) presents to the world abject poverty; tho third (Valeo®)'resulted in a pqjrld pool of licentiousness, where Iqst Meld high carnival and all sente of shame faded away. The tongue of one of the lead ing characters besmears Paine's Memorial Hall In Boston with hla filth while his family areU “L

crying for bread, and the beautiful fields of Valcour aflord a retreat for those who hold infernal orgies, and Indulge In s carnival of the passions, until at last they disintegrate from their own rottenness and are scattered

le four winds of the earth. Augusta A White, who lived on the free and easy plan dth one Woodbouse, In/CBtcrao, was so

purely unselfish that the nj'on men ahe had to love the better! Bbo supplied tho female ele-____far the lustful' Valcour community,while her flrat love, Wbpdbouse, was snubbed by Its superior till'era, \ Bho, In connection with Wilcox, one of her many paramours, can havp ['nine's Memorial Hv\l, at Uoaton, prob ably, to acinlillate in, and If Prof Denton or i ’lke should refuao to attend on the acore of respectability, no doubt some aged " veteran " l f Uoaton con be found to act aa President,

is ao thoroughly infatuated with the ides of'free speech that he would allow’a monkey to-klvO his opinion, even if the aulmai could

Aihdy express his ideas in grimaces ‘The following letter captains Itself ■

U t i v u l U a , W is, April lU’b, '75 Mu 8. 8 JOaus;—I do noi thtnk I am a*k

Dg too much of yqu when I request the publl lalii'S of anHnsnlucg lell- r written to my hua '*nd from l i t r e love community at Valcour, Wllci i l» not sat It tied in the w ptralion of his

family, but ho-wants to make others ua happy Our house and homo lias always been a pleasant one. and I hope it will continue so to be My hqaband and 1 are HptrlluaNs of the true Stamp There is no free love in the qarstion, OV in our make up My husband has not repited to the letter, and did not want me to, hut I desire Jpbn Wilcox to know how much be has burl my feelings in writing such a licentious letter to my husband

A I f11SA L. Ul.AN£ttARD.

B o n n PtATTenctto. N V.. April’l b "5 Mu IIhapv- uo U la rih a h i. DsA'i Bho:—

No man of whom 1 have any knowledge.in my opinion, is belter calculated to enter com munion life than you 1 have thought of you a thousand tiu.es, and wished V"U was with n«; but I will not disgul* the fact that Mrs Blanchard would nbt be happy here, or per mit others to be ao, 1 am coi fldent that your highest duty gud happiness lies in tbi« direc lloo. There are thousand! who wou'd Jdn us, butihere a rc ju it few who are fltti d j i 0 com munion life. You are one among a tiv.uaaod. and should do your utmost to unite yourself with some well organir-d communt'y.

N iw. Brother Blanchard, 1 want you to write me and let me know'w hether you c»n not make arrangements to J tin ua soon If 1 have not made things plain, please-ask q-ies linos, and I will take pleasure In answering Write soon. Your brother,

JoUN WlM-COi. The infernal old lbchcrl" Not satisfied with

deserting his own family, ho tries hla best to induce others to follow In bis footsteps! King Kalsksus banishes the lepers from the Handwich Islands, sod they are Infinitely su perior to those characters that prowl about the country, and under the guise of free love do -elroy the peace and happiness of others.

In aJIadlng to this culmination of the doc- ine and practice of free love, It la with pain

and sorrow, rather than Joy. It ia far from being a pleasure to us to witness scenes t f ■uttering or debauchery. We foresaw the res ill when it was first inaugurated by the publica tion of Moses’ letter. In the Valcour com munity the condition <f sflrirs is really de plorable, as exhibited by Mra Btrab J >oe Shipman in s circular which she- has Just is-

and frotn'Vhich wo make the following extracts ' y

The Shaker brother reported that there were in the house occnpied'by Willc -x Mrs White and olbera, "orgies " or " frantic revels " lak ing place in tho dark by blowing out the lights; • hat he found In the sbs*oee of Woodtfoase tu Valcour. who was the afllaity of M»e Wnite, that Wlllrox had succeeded ass “ go between " in regularly sleeping with his associate secre tary; and these fsete were known to all in the bouse. On the return of Woodbouse, Willc-.x gave way. They being rap riutegdenu. it is “ *■* they both ordered i It Woodhouse to (be___ id. Before going, the latter staled thesetruths to my husband, who Invited the three ‘ " 'i presence. They all owned the charges;

their practice was in accordance with t^cir principles. We were shocked. My has. band wrote, revealing these facta to virtuous

Vtguo and strange reports came from Yrl- . >ur. To know for myself, my sob and I visited the Island I was amazed to find simi lar event* there transpiring—looseners and'

p04ecu ujq uoio!|ca among ior». They ai e Istknd link

among the neighbors of the N Y. ""ley assured me it were be ter that

. . link than oontaln such a Sodom. Ihastened home.

Wllfoox came for our team to get to the Community another woman, with whom it bo Came evident he waa com milling adultery*. Bho fled. To justify beret >f-ho decWred over and over In my presence that the Prei|deoi/a wife and daughter, iu the absence of the bill, bsnd-aod father, both slept with d.iflerent male members of the community. To know some thing for myself I visited toe room n-ghtlv oc cupied by Mrs- H. Agnus White and J Will- cox, and tfacro 1 truly (uund evidence of tho moial disease, naturally at home with dirt, and phvalcal degradation.

O h.V irtuti Are such persneato be our ex amplwapd-gufde* to build an Industrial Uel ence Fraternity f Mr Blllor, I aim to tell you plain and simple truths that can be well attest ed. In this bouse I fi uod nearly all too mem bers at war with WiUcox. charging tin him

.falsehood, tricks and fraud, refusing to recog nize him as a leader, and two wumen who came to the community gave me plalu evidence they had a private disease. Oue a fair young girl of seven tees, whom my husband sod I advised logo quickly aa possible to a reliable physician in Burlington. Oae furnished my self and husband a statement in wrl'log, which we now bold. T bit dlseere waa •pread among the two sexes J Wilier x firstrevealed tola state of things to my husband In my pretence He assured u* uf-bla knowledge of patent medlclnea, and having bad muchpersonal sxpcriencAwitb the dl-ra-e. claiming to be able to master) It. • • • • Alto on reaching home, J, W lllcoi wrote an aboalvrr teller to my hu-band, and for aomo time kept out of sigh t F -rbearaeco had ceased to be a virtue- . • • • • •As a painful act of duty we applied to the Htate’s Attorney. A w arrant. was Issued. Willcox waa arrested and went to j til. The trial Is not yet closed. 'T he re It a D lrtnfy that shapes our ends, rough hew them hpw we wUL" . \ .

By reading E'.7lra Hull's statement and tbla

rl of the Vafena have a chimin

Free I -re Oommuniiy, yon have e culmination of the’ pernicious teschinga of Moeet Woodhultlim, worse even than a realirstion of the witch's Invoca-

"Fillet of a fiacy snake In ihecauldron boll and bake,Kye of newt, and too of frog,Wool of bat, and tongue of doe,Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting, lylzard'a teg, owlet’s wing—.Fur a charm-of powerful trouble, - L ke a helHsrotii boll mod bubble,'*a hrU-brnti

K lirtli VT h e T iji r tl l t q Iso I>«*troj'tHl I "

Saperalltlon-exlata in this, the It* h century, id possesses the same potency Chat It dU

hundreds of years ago. One religious denom- in all o yiesscs wMff. thereby making it holy;

>ther cals bretf{J]|ad drlnkawloe, attribut ing miraculous properties thereto; another sprinkles with water, aa gently aa rain drops from heaven; another docks the c >nvcrUcom- plitely under, In order to mako him accepta ble to Hod All these claim to preach the

Anolhcrdraomination, the Adventists, believe that on Monday evening, April lO'-h, they will ascend heavenward, while.this earth and all that la on it, .will be knocked into chaos in the twinkling of an tye We are 'writing this. April lt> h I t ia Sunday,—a day. to i, of unusual u urtoess for Chicago. If the Adventists are correct In tbelr conclusion,

nexi number of the IIk u o io Phium rincAb Jouhnsi. will be published In the New Jeru- salcni, and will contain news from the dlflcr-

spheres of the Spirit-world, Including, of course, items from liiakka laud. Otir terms will Hill continue to bo fit a year. The do struction of this planet will not interfere at all with our buslnesa. The burning of Chicago did not prevent toe regular Issue of o^r paper.

so, however, the Ailvcntlsla do prove cor rect lu their conclusion,, wd shall epen an

fl] ;e- within. IweDty-four hours thereafter cm m ^'il the ptirclple thoroughfares of Itoo New

JerusslemT Why. men who are more c-tnee- allaWnau the destrurllnn of a half a dozen ball* the size of ibis planet, have tried to

crush us. and under their opposition we have continued to prosper, therefore our < quantmi- ty will not be disturbed at all by the demoli tion of tb it earth Meally, then, we do not know noir whether this arlirle 'w ill appear from our p»p*r luued re, or /'.ere; but know ing the spirit of enterprise we pcrsrai, it cer tainly will be prevented to the virosld within

week from this date; if not on earth, in heaven.

w, the Adventitia In this city, are In earnest—deeply in -earnest, and if correct in

calculations, we jxU) have on Monday Dight the erandeal thaw of Ih# aeason Fogcn said tita 7’ritr‘iw reporter:—

Wo have given’ up *>ur orrupalioua, and given our goods to the pw r. Wo have food

laat until neat Monday, and that la all. Borne of us have given away aa murh as four and five Iflouaaud dollars.

) tr faith la too firm. I t wrutd bo pecul iar If the Lord ahon'd hear US in other thing* and not In Ibis Why, we h»vo performed

miraculous cure* in the name of Christ One of our brethren baa received the gift of longue*, and can-spe*k In ail laogutgc*. We were mist .ken in 1871: when we expected the Advent. We uacd t \ belong to K tier McGul- laugh'a church on West M» lisou street, and drew out abm t three vears ago. After we w en .disappointed in 18711 we got Thurman's books and papers, and saw where we were mistaken. Brother Thurman Joined with ua only about ten mouths ago "

There are about 114.000 Adventists in toe Toiled States, Many of them have f*llh that the long.looked for event will snrely comma! the time dealgnatcd Many have given away their property in conwquence. In co doing they acted wltely, and manifested tbelr confl deuce in Ood and tbelr religion, and should

prediction prove c irrecl on Monday,—____t all nrdera for the J io h n a l to the geucr-al p I Ill:o, New Jerusalem, In care of Adam and Eve Advertisements will be Inserted al the uraal rales t *

nil. -Orit —The autlclpatcd crash did not come, and courequently we did not have the pleasure of promenading In the streets of the heavenly city ' •

S t a r t l i n g F a c ta .

Dr. Wolfe m utt be, and no doubt it, highly gratifled by the OQrdial welcome awarded hi* jrqok ou da Orel appearance, and the continued ■ubatanllai demand for the tame ever since. O v ln g to tte entire exhaustion of the very large edition published by the author and tho continued unabated demand for the bock, we have arranged to publish a now edition of Startling Faett tn Modem Bpiritualum forth with. ‘ Thenow edition will bo t Acred to lhe public in the same elegant’ TDrsa aa tho Brat edition, and will be ready ai adon aa it chn be got ook Order* atleaded to in regular course as received

C o n te n ts o t t h e L i t t le B o u q u e t io r M»y, 1870.

Bierllng Old, Poem; A Onlld’a I lea; A Oat that L >ved Metre; Jesua Walking on the Sea (illustrated). Itihte Arcouat of H'» L f«; L 'g ends of the R ,lne—Tno Bpectral Bride: Tee Dublin Towtr (illustrated); Lillie Nellie Vonk;M 'ntixiiuia; Beltley and Her K'ttcns; The K rphanlln Hi am (illuatratec); A L itl Oravr; Mia. Culilri'a Mcdiumablp; A Lmte Hero;F«cti; A TurUl-ng Trance; Fault Finding- Not a Oo*>d Etampte; The Phlloraphy or Life; D .ato; In Italy; An Ancient Custom.

The article* la ihia number are very Oae, Every family ahctrtd rubecrlhe for I t Termi | l l» r y e a r Addrtt* Hguaio 1’u l l :ScruHUL PcBLnntno Houxx, Chicago,

(Coetloiiod from Ximt Page. | by An absence of the dancing element, and a much larger introducltnn of talking.

. SAINT MARYthe flrat to show herself. Hhe waa aiilred

__ an the previous occss ons The figure sp ikcnol, but simply mood a short time mod raised ni-r haud The Witch nf the ModnlalDa came next. ’ Bho said nothing ou Ibis occa lloo, but rat quietly iu * cbalr for about a minute and then retired. The mother of the Eddy* was the next to appear. Hire waa dressed In a light colored body, with a dark skirt Bbe gave a abort aridrete iu » atrnng clear voico, speaking "Itjdepcndtelly." Bhe exhorted us to hold out arid be faithful in iho great and glorious cause of Bplriluallsm. After tbl* she retired tn the cabinet far a short time and 'appeared again at the entrance and kneeling dawD, with Uplifted bands, uttered -"i-rveut prayer in which occurred these---- "

May s e li t I up prayers to Ood that me spirits may contleuoto manifest tho rose Ives for the good uf tainsnily. nnri that we m»y lead pure and holy lives.” Old Mr*. Kalon was the next to appear Being askm by some one Whether it was Mr* Bo and H», »ho replied sharply, ‘ N-> it tin t " Bhe then proceeded -to say that "aho waa a frvd for having negbettd Bplritualism In earth life. Bhe used to ;>------

■AST

(ashVir .____ ^ ’ saved hercuvaih to coed her porridge " Bhe wa» lic it asked to dance, to which she replied

to dance to-night" Mrs Pnllllpi, a lady from Mich'gsn, was the ni v- to appear, Bhe was beaaiifully dressed in white. The brother of the Witch of tb>' Mountains was the next, fid Inwad by an ancient spirit, an Arab W. White then came from the cabinet and stand ing In the center of the platform, said, speak ing through a lube which ha held in hia.band, "When I was here 1 worked for the cause of Spiritualism through the crisis. The light is now dawning ou -no world, they (the ikepltcO must come down, for the tenth will prevail, and then exhorted u t to "live pure endup right live* " A great laughing wo* next heard in the cabinet "That's

HLACk BALLY,”said two or three who recognized the spirit hy herlragb Bisek Billy was'ormerly a slave at New Orleans, and waa servant to a Mr J icons who visited the Eddy'* lest summer, when she first manifested, Since then she has occasionally pul in an appearance, and plaja the tambourine whilst dancing, laughing mint heanly all the time. Bhe has bccu known to

on the platform. Bhe was ssked to come oui on this occasion, hut she could not lie persuad ed to do so. Bhe said, "When there was a j lly lot she would come out and have a J illy time." Through the Isugbing which, as the chorus says, beusme "contagious," a collcqtiy could be heard going on between three voices, —thorn of Hally, His. Eaton and Mr. Brown. The latter in conclusion, standing at tho door way. said they had done all they could, and thanked the company for tbelr hind attention. After this Horatio held a light aeance which was the sanioos on the formrr occasion, Iho only d'fierence being that several plain Cards were given to the spirits who kept throwing them from the recess, ono by one, with the names of deceased friends written on them

Ma r c h 14 h This being Bunduy tho utual tesnee waa not held. In jho Culirae of the evening, bowuver, lloratib wo* controlled ty a spirit, who gavo u* directions what lo do. Ua>fcr Tic* directions, we blindfolded the me dium by placing a piece of wet rag on each eye, and then tying two handkerchiefs over tt.-jn. V.rlnus experiments were then made tn demonstrate the power* of clairvoyance. Horatio would take up a photograph, and pUcing It an his forehead upside down, the. front facing the spectators, would mlnntely describe it and give particulars as to the char acter of the person. Experiments were then

.made with book* and other of jseta which were for the boa; part auccctaful A guitar

two* then played by the spirits, os an accom paniment to a violin The head uf the In • irument was placed j isl underneath the ta ble, the re*t of tho iostiamont being riposed to view. Under these circumstances au artis tic acc irnpanlmect waa played In a moderate light a- d continued for about a quarter ofhour, I---------- T- "at tuowith us *

Ma r c h 15th. Boiut ilary wo* the tin t lo appear; then

w it c h o r Tint w o iSt a i r s , who spoke in an emphatic manlier. Ltdy o t the Lake came next, and danced with Horatio and Mr*. Cleveland—concluded by ranning down the stop* and then vaulting over tho ralllug waving her hand an ahe entered the

'cabinet Uonto then came. Her dress was not the same as usual, she wore a white bodice*) and block skirls. Bhe beckoned to Mr. Harris and he went up and she shook hands with him. Bho then drew out a shawl and gave

herself round, the shawl was wound her, msklog-faer figure look dark. In a rew second* the shawl waa no longer visible—It was gone. Bho bos been known to prodnoe shawls and stretch them right across the room a»d then wind herself up Id them. Mrs. E ton came out and spoke for a few minutes, men began dancing, and as she retired to the cabinet, remarked, ' I thtfik I did that very rlce 'y " The lady from Michigan, Mrs. Poiliips, waa the next to appear,

The remarks of all the spirit* were directed two men who had come with not Iho best In tention* with regard lo Spiritualism Mr* K ifon came again followed by IwoVelailve* ot tnoae present. Mr. Brown said in closing the seance, that to-morrow night Wickachee would appear with hla family In fall light. Uonto, on this occasion, had the light turned on her

thing an her head_ Hi-ARULIU MKK DIAMO/UKL ’

M Alien I Urn —Homo came on'lhe platform and drew forth one of her magic shawls. Bhe then ordered the light to beeinrned on full sod a peared In. full view at the cabinet door. !!<r face could be seen quite distinctly and the little cap that hangs in the cabinet, a present to her by sufie visitor, waa observed oh her head. The light being lowered, Uiree spirits came out in succession. Wickachee then appeared on the platform and signalling the light to be turned up retired to the dh lne t. Ho tbeo drew aside toe curtain and* M rid be Plainly seen; even the embroidery ''mjfci* dress. In the n n s manner hta wife Mamnra, hi* daughter Amanda. Black Swan, Silver Heel and Btnlum. appeared In full ligh t Tho form* all diflired to height and they were ell diftirenlly dretred. Bant urn’s head reached above lha- doorway. Two other spirit* then appeared In ordinary coaiame. Thu* w«* ful filled Mr. Brown'* promiao of tho pievlcu*•Teoteg.

pinnaMa r c h 17t i i —In all eleven /p ’rite manifest

ed on ibis rrcrssioD, When tne seairca w u half through, Mr Brown,-(rum inside Ibn cab inet. said the night wo* not favorable for man- ifratation* on account of tho wlnd’whloh c ra t ed motion, but if WO would play sbmo lively music they would do ihe host they could, ‘’ercupoa out bounded Lady nf the I»ike who

mere! about the piriform, first hy herself, on with Horatio and Mrs. Cleveland. The nsl Interesting event of.lhe evening to myself

was the appearance of a female figure dressed in while who purported In be my wife The light was not strong enough for mo to Identify

features. All 1 could see was that Ihe of the figure c >rrerp mded with that of wife, and that the hair waa done in the

e aiyie, hanging down in rli'g'oteeach side__ ac face. After this a figure, catno dressedin modern military costume, who waa ree*>g- ntz-il by a visitor, and anothrr came w)th a stick which c-iuld bo heard as It came in con- twc.l with the fl k)r as the spirits walked al->ng. Mr Brown then concluded by saving that they bad done the best Uyy could; they did not want lo draw too much on lh" medium ni he was not In good health, Uo would not bo with ua long and. they desired to do the best they codld with him while her* This an- nanneement corllrroed *ho Tears that were en- Terialnt'l respecting William and cMtarel a gloom to fall on the wholo party, and the meeting broke up in alienee.

Ma r c h thru. — to company with three men I vltticd the place known as

Homo's CAV x.Here, last May, a seance waa held by moon light, and !1 onto sod other Indians appeared. A previous thaw and subsequent frost had made the surface of Iho snow hard enough to walk on; at times, however, the surface prov ed tretchfrtius am* wn found ourselves knee- deep in snow. Following the course of a stream that ran down the mountain's side wo at length came to a deep and narrow gorge, •cross which Iky an Immense bli^k of f t mite estimated to welgi I 500 tons Underneath this is a cavernous recess through which the water flaws. The seat tn which the spectators sal still remain! ns dura also the frame work of the cabinet The locality even at thli time of Ihe year has a charm, although the over hanging trees were bare and Ibe water th a t ' flowed down I'* court* ws* rendered invisible by a thick surface of Ice In the glory <rf summer I can well imagine It lo he a beautiful ■pot, and viewed under the circumstance* of the f-rsixes, must indeed have been grand and awo Irr/drinc We felt well repaid fyr our somewhat dilH-ull J <urn* v

Al tlj* usual seance, Uonto appeared and her programme was much (ha same as utual. The spirit Jibsu. purported lo be my wife again appeared And ten others, among whom wo* a lltuirtitiy said to be the sou of « I)r. (JArdner. who was present Pour of t* e spirits toot ap peared bad not been scon before.

w u heard tushie the cabinet, but did not com* out. Bhe walked away, lauybing most hearti ly after u very sentence, she u id somo smart things

A dark seance by Horatio was then held. It w u much the same as bcjJrc The

- " KTORM AT SKA " was again performed, At the conclusion of which George DU said he fell so rich and sounds such si accompany the mofiemcr were heard. George then said ho would givo us a

^specimen ofORTIIOIk jY ph a x t n o .

We then heard something In a style character istic of revival mretinga »* If tho being suppli cated waa very deaf George then »»ld he wculd givo ua a Spiritual prayer. He then gave a must excellent Invocation The con trast w u very striking. Aa Interesting exper iment was then performed with a 'nmbter nf water. This was placed gn a table and tbo light pat o u t Ia a few moment* we were told to tURio a light and to our surprise wo found the ’glass inverted and every drop of water umlornfialh it. A gentleman raised the glass and the water ran out; bnt for ibis, we were told by tbo apirlts, that ihe g lu t would bavoAecn restored to iu original position. Tho light w u agsinjiut out and we afterward found several young potatoes about the size of n e u and another small tuber In the giou. Where they came from nobody can conjecture.I w u told by Ms)flower tha) 11 I presided three f uriba ut * yard of bluo ribbon and Ihe ■smo quantity of wbilf and pink, she would make mo a bracelet a* a souvenir of my visit. .Vox.a errrens After this Gepirge satd, " I smell ■muke"—Alien tee fire-boll-Wu sounded—and than a great set til > and confusion, amtd.wbich were cries o f " lire, Are,” making noise enough to alarm a small town. WhesL tbe din bad subsided Oeofge laughed and said, " Il 'sa false

direction.Ma r c h 19t h .—T he seance to-night w u dis

tinguished by mo/o talking than usual. Four spirits gave short addresses, ipeaking distinct ly without the Wte of tru m p e ts ,-------* —Mrs. Eddy, e ijiln td r~*-------Hal duties, *awaited ob e i..„ --------— , ---------- . . . ----- -kindness, and that we shoald pray wJHS kind deeds and acts rather than by wards/ that we should barmon'ze together on ode united

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irumpou, i is to perfor

bro therhood"then would UNature and loflgite Live give us ubem ljt >he very belt emdence*of hi* kindly regard.* The figure tbsV’clsltned to be my wife again ap-

quet,' coming forward and kcoepllng one which Ahe took with her into the cabinet

peered and I could see a greater resemblance to her lh*ta before.- The only olhtr Incidents of note were, tbe sppearsnoo o t * star en the brow of aJcmale fchieb sparkled'brightly to the dim light, a lady carrying a child In her >ra*, and a spirit who, herself carried a bou- |Uet, coming forward and acoepllng one • bleb Ahe took wllfi her Into the cabinet

The ribbon did not arrive to time lo r May- tljwer lo fulfill her promise.

c h c l b b in o k x h a r x a .Tbe great drawback to the materisUxxtlon

seance is that the figure* do/not appear gener ally In a soWclenlly Uroog light to be satisfac torily vlrible. This ohjscitbn.wll), no .doubt, bo removed u tho manifestations become do n-loped. I have no doubt that a apixit cpuld appear in a strong light for a 'considerable lime, but as tbl* would be a drsinNupou the vital force of the medium (of which tb«io would appear to bo only s certain^amount available on each occasion) It would prevent other spirits from manifesting. Instead! there fore, of concentrating the power on^ne'ob ject, It la preferred to nifluse It In producing a diversity of results. In time, If tbe jBteOluin't health bolds out' lung enough, all-the spirit* will, doublleu, be seen to u gtest su ad vantage aa tome of them are now*. Tbe pre diction made by tbe spirit* some years ago tb it In s malfrial'zed form, theyjwould. one day, give addresses In public, seem* about to bo realized, as my notes show, - An see- unt

Mountains, which, In a mater I alia :J form,

KELIG10-Pl IILOSOP111 C A L JO IJ1 IN A L. 5 3 ^

J lined the hands of the contracting parties together and jtronnuueed thum man and wife W hat (be ultimate divcliptiit-cl* of (bin m»r velous power will be. l / is impossible to c in Jcclure, bat hII who read (heie Dote* will tec that (bey haTC already reached a point that, a few yearn ago, the luoll sauguluo could bhrd ly have anticipated.

It certainly seems tlrango that phenomena a t marvelous at to bo the greatest wonder of this wonderful ago, should base their cxislcnre In such an obscure a td remote locality amorg simple and uncultured people But it would seem to bo to the order of nature that import ant truths and religions should have an humble origin, Thus we see Christ born In a manger

d Modern Spiritualism dating its Initiation >m the rapptngs (>f the'hum ble home at jdeavtlle, through the organism of little

Children, and now .ore sec the grandest devel opment of this wonwer working power mani festitig itself under the least likely circum stances

Taking all the facts of the case Into consider ation. the nightly, appearance of those people

-from the other world, in tbetr habit as Ibt-y lived (au occasional appearance was I raitr'y cutreid- en d a great marvel) the certainty with which they appear, as It were liW drr, an»' Ho nctu allty of their presence. 1 hesitate not to s sen that ni talng so wonderful ever look place in the world's history and that no greater medium for the nunif-slallon "f this ei**s <*f phenomena ever lived than William Henry Eddy,

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t A r c c t i l l o r H o o k .

TKN TEARS WITH 8PIRJTI At. MEIill'MB It) Francis sierry kaliUyId A singular hnok ihls The author reminds

us of a medical student prep-ring his thesis Having selected bis sn> | ci, he sirains (Very point to find mailers wretch may have some poaatble ci nnictiun with It grouping together facts and fam lo« which have o« relation to Ihcsulj.cL Tae autaor's theory is I hat me dlumstup ronsiaU In "U rvat-d epilepsy" We suppose tbis to mean in pb-io E-gbab, masked, or roncealtd epilepsy He cites the cases of ab< ut forty mediums, beginning with bwedenborg and coming down >u JudgeR I monda, A ,i Davis, and Mr U m s of Eng land . TEcepUepsy of three Is certainly very masted, I up to enlarges the tango of cptbpsy •mss to ihclude tbc least absence of tntnd— that1which is known as "brow n study'" and every twitch of the muscular system comes wiihin ihr range of his "latvalrd epilepsy” He speaks from experience, having on s vcral occasions had tbs disease ' itueelf, of winch he gives minute details of bis own feelings and impressions. Having sollled this theory of "InrvaUd epilepsy" to bis satisfaction and ilUnWalcd it by numUrons caacs, lac b< aring of which does not boo in very clear, he thou «d • mils all tbe various phenomena of Hpiri'ual- Ism as real, and atlem[>is to explain them by

“ ' ’ ■ - hat thepry

• lestiBpirilu»7lein

io thathis lesion belongs to tbe epileptic type. U demoDtlrab'e, huwrVt r. that, so f^r from »up porting the hy pot basis of sprliiisl interven llun, these phenomena.llo strictly within the circle of nervons aud bereRral dijuurbinc-s" (psge 101). Again, page 183 he says "T he term aura, as it rcltlrs to nerve tissue. Is. therefore, as In tbo instances of drugs and medicines, appropriated to the emanating at mosphere having the molecular properties ------ir and sensory, of nervous tissue He* If,

aneo, though within a email periph- r)', , •toned by lever, I was distinctly c - being enveloped In a peripheral si

On page 1113 ho says, "Observation and perlment s o s alike to ludioao that nerve

' aura Is material—an imponderable, servi - ether, possibly related to odyle, not long sii

announced by a celebrated observer as an t. tnent of organic structures. It Is thus ht once a force and a medium, susceptible of control by the will of tbe operator, and capable of aensory impression; an atmosphere to lake shape at his command, and to dissolve the mi>

. tnent volition ceases, or when Ihr habit of the medium's will has become fixed in that direo-

- 'fll®, to come aud pass In visible apparitions, 'Without oonscioui sil'j-ct-vo Impulse o‘n his

: park Here) then, is the sub sensible medium \ enfolding me like a splm, that may be caused I to rt 11 cl the wildest imaginings of my own

or of soma one present, acts consciously ... unconsciously, more frequently, tbe latter, to produce tbe.various manifestations, wbleh are generally claimed to have a spiritual origin The rspt, the movement of bod.te«, tbe form atlon of tnassee of light, out of which hands, faces, and even entire forms of beings resem bling ’ humlan, are pr- Joclcd, having the power to write intelligent commnolcvtions; to play upon musical Instruments at a distance of several feet from tbe medium) and (he faces and forms to move ah ut and speak In, telligently " He asserts, however, “ that the Inti'Sl'gench, eltner when written hy the band or spoken by the figure, Is the result qf tbe mind of tbo medium, or of somaJpcrsou pree eel, except in some rare Instances, one of which he describes, whrroaypuog physician, Dr ttprague, drnsmedthal pe saw the form of his father standing by his bedside, and tbe young man being quite anxious ab ur of fever which he bad under'care, . much gratified to Bod that bis father described tbe esse and prescribed a remedy which.’ pn being used, was successful " This our author ex; Ivins to have resulted " from the action of Ibis epilrptlo aura, going hack tome years and ------" - ‘-id o f the e’- * ----- ------reading the m lud ol I gentleman, while.

the prescription ” V*r-ly. tbis Is wonderful.On psge 171 he says, "T he reader now sees

how it la ibsi tbe will of a Bplrlluil mfdlum rosy, intelligently je t onroo*cli qsly.,-»ci In

-the prodncllun of the uncalled ip u in s lp lo 'nom ena; also, bowf'it is tbat nerve •tmoaphere,

Invisible, Imponderable, tu t entering into in tlmate molecular relation and eon tact'with sur rounding bodies, and with unrounding nerv

—Urns organisms, 1* sasceplible bn th jtf sensory fmpreuioca and of motor lirpnlle*. II.........

“ Ihe emseof E.orence Oimk, i may produce a Visible

,j l lie movements, or mayliving at a considerable d»a loo, write a mileage and ;e into (be invisible How -use loos operations sr-—far

-i our conactoup-tfSW*

man life in its deepest p*,ch<'"glc*l aspects Also how auptitlciii it is to n r to spiritual ttgencics. Or to presumptions like tbe ptyclil force, to fiitnisli hd i-ipUnetioo of phenotne na purely incident to morbid stales "

We have quoted thus freely in order to rt<> justice to the writer. Bhottld, we not be (hark ful for sickness even for "li'rvated -epilepsy " which has thns enabled the author to rive Turin such lucid expUnatnu.* of splri>u*1 p tenome- nat These things seem scarcely worthy of notice, but they are pm forth a* learned and ecientili-t explanations of phenomena tbat are vr-ry properly olaltnli g the nlWnipm of the thinking minds of the world

Epilepsy is an tdd disease. its symptoms and tendencies are writ known; the remits are de mentis, or weakness . f intellect, and in long continued arfil oft repeated cases even Idiocy; while spiritual medium •hip. wren properly cultured, hud wr demand this for it is a means of produe tog brilliancy of intrllerlnal and stftllUal p..wrra Uur best < ra>nrs ami most ilequrnt speakers arc often contclous o ' the insp -ink Infinrtici-a tif splrita ap-m'-bc m The ill -cuN therefore of spiritual in p • s-ions nr® directly

sily .-f 1 ailing It "V.rv.trd “ or maskr.t be

ftcia ate d<r. rtlytoppos.ic m those of genuli-L epilepsy- We recociilx • that there t« an atirs

That Ibisis of Ci

osph. r

mo»phe r

-tween human b legs and e spe. la'ly between plrits and ntoii.ls there esu he no d u b .

remders that this nniht>r altrtr.ules to it is •imply absurd Then, sgaln ill* statement "Ifact* does not cover ihq wl have a small percentage, it is

establish " ....................to establish the fact that ntsolulo koowlcdgee has teen romtouiucaleil by aplri’s rnlirely In./ dependent of all-hr- iniadsdn the f -rni asso-/ cialed therewith— otten cor.tea y to the idea/ ol those who receive tl BlftfiiUalUm stan /i ' upon a htsls oa eternal as rif® htavenso^/is f.cl* are 11.at man is a -ptri' eW —tbat that spirit has criniinut^^W fi'ccn a'ter throwing. II I lie b.xly ^rr[3*That un er favor able condt'tooa it hay 'l'. ah' as is provedby l£eHfadllioDt an-Ab-r'iiry of all peoples, heen^ileHqjjoiu maimst® mote or bsa ci- ally

rtesv d Infelllg.-nre of mankinel and their pro gresslse development this c -mn.untestton Is fat more genital and valu-bie than at any former period, and in proportion as the laws governing 11 heAo.e uto irstood and are care fully followed, will it become a blessing to all mankind

SUf Spirit World.

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■h»n« l»dHvtrlf# b*»e exprpww! % d- Bire mil 1 ahn

-mse it»t | nut rgfpon ms gl*rn throaijb ot tboiki uuaMwiU hm Klvri. with th«lf rximo

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Ccmmanlratlona Throngh Katie II- ICublip non, uf 31311 llrandyvrlnis Street,

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JOKrWXTTA TO IIBK UspUtlt 1:1110 tIT eTAjL Mr want you say In fny pale face Bright

Bt*r tbat me come here to send talk to him. Hi! want him in 'cel that Juid*atta bring him hlg nowE-r. Me brine big chief from tbe r mo d i in theiVhsppy burning ground of Ureal Spirit. Mr wan' Bright Star to write for your lalal 'g Sheet M- want to make all the roe deer g'ow s’mng Den they will have fslthhx the Great tJ.drlt. Me no much talk, but mo

_______to the happy hunting ground;him where me live; show him big chiefs up here; then he can tell people what he see In dlan no mure come with tomahawk and scalp ing knife, hut come to-do good, lu bring big Strength. Have no more revenge, but li ve fur tne pale faces We all like to see pale face grow good. Me nut know much, but me know when me do good, then me happy Just a > with pale face Ik Is not what be know, but wbat be do, that make him happy, or make him suflor ' When we feel good wo bavltmuch good limes in the happy hunting ground, and then we come to earth and make good times for our mediums- Mo gltd Bplrltuallsts most all like (odlao, and want ant to come and make cm strong

There * • • a peculiar vivacity about the in fluence of this un’ulured child of the forest Inal we know can not be conveyed toonr lead ers. though we give her words as nearly as wo Can. H. T. C.

Ttcn/s l b rough Dr. U. 1*. Fairfield.

-to the diflcrenl plane* of life, resulting from the unfolding of tbo mental and eplriiual ca pacities Tnerc fa wisdom connected with mao's physical nature, which ensbtrs him to plan and design upon that plsne with more — less perfection^ according to his condition.Is h-ve that tberg i-s and atienglbcns him

lie will power executes sod accomplishes tbo object* sought afier. The intellectual pbiloe pber bse bis wisdom upon a hlgbet plane In 'accordance with thn ex'eoslon i f hla knowl edge, ibcie plans are carried forward In 1IS6 manner. Thera :a a higher wisdom retulllni from a union of m u 's spiritual and iniell^cl nal natnre, which outwoiks the best plans Ami designs that mao can reach vp -n this plsnif of lire, and tbe love which strengthens man hi re, as well as the will Which executes and accop plisbes bis purposes, are purer, nobler a id mote efficient Spirits, In Utelr nnfoldmen'v upon higher planes of knowledge; are still •uH ci to tbe same law of wlsdbtn,- love and/ wlh 1 to plan, s^lengthen and rxecute thetr works, Over and above all Is Infinite wisdom, which plsns and dr signi the universe and alt things therein contilned. Here Is the perfec tion of wisdom, accompanied by the beautiful ly a tm cllve force ■ f loye; atxT lb* executive p iwerof- an omnipotent will Tbe nearer wan approaches to u e divine in all these a t tributes, the mere perfect will betbe results of his labors and the realisation of hi* happi-

BO BOB »I»J» Ulil «IV wnswrw swsm w ••comparatively little written, men were die- paetd to treasure up eveiyiblng, end hold msey things ssen d :bnt today ,’when Inspira tion Is u.u-.h more fiee and slmoet everybody writes, everything ts w«||hcd and criticised,’ u d but lltlld Canonised*

B icltlv has bcun s > organized that it has act nally made criminals, ami theu its chief labor has been to punish them

The pernicious doctrine that you must In dorse a vicarious /atonement makes you all moral paupers.

E ir tb h a i no truth so grand. Oo bliss so sweet, no harmony so beautiful os that which •hall result from tne parfrcl outworking of the living g«*pel of Spiritualism hrery rap ha* been an invitation for -man to come up higher

T hr nest number o ' this series of article^ will appear in So. :> of the dointxAi , and wil’ contain a nntrallvr of a spit It, who, when ol earth life, was a confirmed inebriate, and win bad the dcitiiitm tremens lie will give a ful account of his exyvrlorces

Mediums' nml Speakers* fun tenU on.

The next O isrterlv M'-etinv under this hr«,| will i* h . ' t at ' ll-mloek II*11." Tucker Drove. Brand K lo Countv New Votk. on Baturday and hand ay, the rt h and b.n of May

As this is the old rallying grounds of the ' Friends of Human 1’rogrrrs,” a cordial invi tation is n un -led to all who have 'lie good of our common humanity at heart l'art' a com ing bv the Hull do an 1 Jamnalowo It It , will •top i II tl ff :rlh 0 Bins Station, whlcn li 111 the vicinity of the ball » ,

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Ma wst o w, March 33d. 1M7.V _ Mat A. II ISoBiKeoA..

Mv Dkak Fnikhu am> Bl*Dnt:—Von may perhaps remember 1 wrote y ti last Beptembvr Ih regard to my own healtni ./.sm h*prT *n Inform you that through y-tftr aid and that of your guides 1 have entirely recovered my lost health I d-> atoce'ro'y think tbat I sbonid now be in Bpirtt life, only for yon. V >ur raising me to health Is what Induces a friend of anlne to send to you now, Bbe i» a p.ijir womalf and can only send you two dollars at tbis time! bat lti< She will try and send yon more as soon as •be can Her family are ail Seven day Advent Isis, and are bitterly opposed to our beautiful faith, hence her getting me to write for her Hhe also desires you to send the prescriptions in ’my name or to me. I want you to do the very best you can, for she has been to several physicians hytu wllhoyl receiving any benefitwhaiever>4d her family bolog so opposed to

IlfTBsm, 1 want you to snow them a lit ' " silt can do. [Then followed

Hpirittfs

description of her cast |I will incioso an order of two dollars and a

lock of her hair. 1 have become partially de veloped within a few wreks and have been thinking that II might help mv if 1 were lo send to you for some more of your magnetized papers Fiessii let me bear (rom'you aa sou-

A CASK or Cl!RCMC IhrLAWMATION DV Tilt s t o ma c h ruuiui.

FiiAtiiig Cit y Jss|«erCo . low*, i M <rch 2.V h, lfiTS. i

, Mrs ItoniNso.s. Cblosg". I l l , DxAiidisTRU —You* letter dan-d tne l-> b of this month, with magoettzul papers, Is at hand. My wife Is now well,/aud the remedies she tak- s will last abont two -days more, fihe think* that she wllf gel along without takt"g any more. Dxjpecd you will find a post-t fli to order for $3 nth- J ’leaee accept this with best thanks, t remain yours in truth,

. Ed w a k p fifitOLAMiano

<»o Mohr r u j. ih o o r r otMtia uaiu )?{!&. A. H. Korinu _n, Cuicaoo, Daah His

t k r : —I do not know as It is necessary 'or rue loSend for new magnetized papers. Since I began to use your remedies my hslr has quit coming ou t You have dooo mo more good' than all other doctors I have ever tried, and they arts many. Mty you continue lo be suc cessful in your noble work'. If you think •hat I should wear new magnetized papers loqger Uihafkdo so. Y*our* truly,

Fa t a h MAJumri SLO N"rth I.ee 81., Bloomington, l i t , March

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Mh s A II Hoiitiison:-I sent to the ItRUUlO I’ltlLoaOl-UlCAL Fu h u s u ik u Ho c r k . Cotcago, iu February, for a box of your tobacco antidote, which camo In due time. I followed the directions an the box, and it baa cured the hankering dcslro’for tobacco on m e I would •ay, tobacco ebowers, try It. It will cure you. I want the agency of Tama County, Iowa, lo tell your tobacco antidote. I think I can sell a good deal of it (bis coming year. I **■*"

Keply. _ You can havo them .at wholesale rater - f l i per dcien, and order one half ^czen at a time, If you wiah to do so.

Mm . A. U. HoniNecii.Chicago. April 13’h 1875. If '

O n ly O h o U o lU r a Y e a r.

That beautiful magazine, T h r L rrru s Bou- qoirr. Is sent free of postage to any person on* |rw r for Oh r Do l l a r . Any one who will get up r Club of Five subscribers, will have It sirot lo him or her fre* Address Rruoio- Fhiloso rill g a l PuaL’sniRO H o o u , Chicago,h l ■ n

F o n t O fllce A d d r eea.

We a n constantly romlndlhg our readers of the prime oeoaHlty of String their’ P. O. ad drees when writing us, still, not a day passe* that ws do noy. twoelvt valuable tatters—In some eases’ urgrat—with no addroas, aud fre quently not even the oasts signed. We now have a considerable number of euoh letters, ths writers of which are probebly, impatiently awsitlng-the fulfillment of Utelr order*. *

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Our readers will phase bear in thtnd that the Iniquitous law doubling the p -stage on

'third class matter is now in forte The rate ts one cent for one ounce or fraction of an ounce, and includes ail transient printed mat ler and merchandise Our book list this week c-ntsins the corrected r*tc. and our friends will please observe tt in ordering. I •

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'B u s iu r s s C o t te r s .

We call attention of our readers to the car of the It yal Insurance Company of Ivvi pool, who have removed to thtlr new i|i!c< 130 lit Salle Bt-

Tiih Mkh. u . h t h , F a h ma h . ’a k u Mat h a ; ice* 8a vinos Bask gives a tat n ar at ate no t of the increase of their Invest men! Certifies!* in au other column, and also a s'C-ng Indorst meat of them by K eer on W Kata, of Net York, the acknowledged autbonty on 8 »vins Banks Id this country

C lo t it r r last lonecr when washed wit l i ’bhlus' Kteclrlc 8 <sp unsde by Crsgin .V C< i’ailadc’phit) because no rubhing is need- •

lollies sit n tbe t Hardl. Try it. II

Titltiix are over one hundred thousand per inns die annually of lung disease. We want evcrybi-dy to know that W tal's Fulmonsry Balsam never falls to cure any dltesso of th<- throat or lungs. All -Itogglsts sell it for Vi cents, SO Cents, and f 1 fiO per bottle. II

This celebrated Medium Is the Instrument nr oritanism uned hy the invisibles for the bcnrfii of humanity Tire pi icing of her nspie lieforethe public is by rt quest of her C -ntrol ting Bind They through her organism, treat all ifunuei <and cure lo every Instance where the Vila! organs necessary to continue life are not destroyed Mrs Morris >n Is an Oh-COKSCIOtle TlltMCX hiuiicu c l a ih v u v a h t

AMI CLAlRAUdlAKT.From the very beginning, nets Is marked as

a most remarkable career of success, such as has ac|d"m if mer failed to the lot of any per •on No disease seems loo Insidious to remove, nor palieal lou far gono to be re •lore.', £

Mrs-Morrison, becoming cnlrsnred. the lock of hair is submitted lo her control The diagnosis is (dven through her lips by the Band,Mind takm down by her rt-rrelary, Tbe orlRCAl manOacrlpl is senl lo Ute Correspond em.

When Mcdittiues are ordered, ibe esse is submitted lo Mrs Morrison's Mulical Btnd, whj> give a pr-scrlpiiyh suited to the case _ Her Medical Band use' vegetable remedies ' (which they msgnettz--) combined with a scientific application of the magnetic beaikng power,

Diagnosing disease by lock of hair, f l 00 (tlrve age and sen

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54 RKLIGlQ-PBlLOSOPHICAL,* JOURNAL

LETTSH FROM J01WK k B nOLDBOCB.

-1 believe, Mr Editor, if

knowledge, o f the search sfier truth under dif ficulties Not Ihnt 1 hive * new subject, or new ide*s upon in old aut ject, but only tome tboughla in tdocldstlon of >n old m tjrct. For, according to Che moat approved coamogony of tboee wbo assume to be veraed in such malter*.

........................... * ‘ " -------drat.even God, the mighty maker, at tbe very £ absolutely prohibited the acqulaltlon or km edge on the pains of death asd hellt would have aucoeeded in cooaigiHog all to utter ignorance, had not the devil Instigated Eva to enter up in the'pursuit of knowledge It was sorely a good thing for tbe devil to beat tbe great God In hia plane for ignorance, and to open np Ibe way of knowledge fio far aa he did (and for this many tb»nko, but yet the difficulties, which oven to Ibis day attend the search after truth, beat the devil himself- All nloDg the agea, the truths, lockrd op in the boaom of nature, hidden down deep and i | j most idacrutablc, have yielded and c>tne forth only upon the moat extreme expenditure of labor, of cunning, of force and of never-end ing patience A thousand f.ilurcs to one sue cesel I doubt if you remembri (b it I do Aell, for my Hunday-school education » n well atfended to) how Pilate matt have conaidrasd himself on the royal rigid to knowledge, w htnthe Son of God was before him lie thoupVil he would make Ibe beat of bla < ppoituulty and pul the vexing question, " Wuat is truth ■ ” It was surely a good lime ( < r i good answer, but, aa naual, no answer came. Whereby I think Jesus concluiivcly proved that b.o was Indeed the real B-m of Gml; for you know it is often said by puzslcd trntta seekers, • G-xl only knows, and ho won't tell." Bat I think any common man would have answered Pilato somctnlng I would have answered, If 1 hyt been there,“ The truth la that which Is d-ek and ye ah all find 11—If you don't fail I " IMatc might not have considered that answer, though true as far aa it goes, any great advancement in In formation, and that no answer would have done aa well, though quite unseemly li who allectcd to teach boo, and to " beai ness unto the truth." But either,answer belter than the one of Jesus, “ Thou sayeat that I am a king ‘'when 1’ilatorinlyasked tdm,“ Art tboo a king?" For that was a falsehood —that which is .not—at least it would be If found anv where eiau than in " the infallible word of G id."

Truth—that which la—and Falsehood—that which is not—,utterly at variance with each other; yet how they approach each other, bow they resemble each other, ho* they interweave with each other, so aa to pnrr.lo the observer, so aa to ba til i tho Inquirer, so aa to deceive tbe believer, wbo bad thought to rest in unques tioned aaauranccl How much in this respect la our life like a panoramic viita of diaaolvinf vlowst And yet there arc facta, and laws, am. reasonings, and conclusions, and ‘truths, and principles that we mutt bo warranted In ac cepting and incorporating into our very souls aa a part or our being, and' it la our business to find them In the face of nil difficulties.

Invapeaklng of truth and falsehood, their several discovery and eliminations, and the dif ficulties of diacrlminatlon, it la quite apropoi

‘to remark how often It seems aa though thelatter follows and attaches itself to-he former, „„„ . . . .aaa ahadow the subatapc-t; and H I. j W *

i, that the thickcr-ibo shadows (the closer and more approximate to the original), the mote perfect the deception; and further, tbe greater and more valuable tbe truth, tho more likely thpvattempU In deceive, and the more fsteWt'ankMiaful. Valuable ,money la counterfeited, timbogus not. I t may be ob served, also, that there sro two methods of de ception, or deterioration of truth. Tho one ia inch aa we have mentioned, where the false la the mere shadow of the true, and wherein the greater rcaemblance to the true the greater and more damaging the cheat. According to a 11- — Satan eat at the ear of Egtr^vouat like a_ I . , 11. ■ . 1. 1. 11.,i .

biaapeir, and hoifotlnwilh assumed bla own ^/i-rm . a devil. May we alt bs Itliurleli to the

jtiivllt rtf failnxTIhiavixt Th« ttlhbr (* k gf

reasoning; tbe latter is very comtaon, ao mon that 1 have wondered if ibe human mihd

.could put into expression a sentiment that la absolutely true in all Its parts lienee the re mark ao common, there is something of a truth in this, and something of a truth In that, and ■something of error in each as well. Wherein we mhsl continually labor for the purest truth and tbe highest good, which requires an ever active discrimination? an edjested judgment; and which also Involves this, that there la, or may be, at least, always something better be yond; still n higher truth, a greater good.

1 think, Mr. Editor, somebody at sometime entered very vigorously Into tho " Bcarch After God," and, if I recollect aright, never found him. .But it be did not Hod God stieo- lately, ha stUI found him approximately—his died and urchanglng lawa Bo if In cur •earcb.after truth we can not reach absolute truth, yet wc can resch relative, comparative truth, provided we exercise sufficient power, Ingenuity and wtkdom; and bleaacd be even inch truth when it la found.

I was Intending, Mr. Editor, if I oould ever get at it (bnt this la my theme, the difficulty of getting at anything, and I must prove ft practically), to make tome remarks on the. d fflcnltUs that attend oar search after knowl edge In aplrllnsd things. Passing by, there fore,. merely temporal things, such aa * 'Whcthor-Beecher did or Beecher didn’t?" (a truth to be found, ir at aU, with the greatest d.fflculty, and Involving no principle of Im portance, only this, perhaps, if "devil with devil damned drm concord holds," or “ mlnli- tera they hae been kenned, In holy r a p tfe , a----- .------*-*-■- — - ■- *— -*t gn,i. nall’t

tr poets have

didn’t " r a i d lkmse of a like character. Whlfo the evidence* of spirit communion ere greatly magnifying, the stories of moat Impudent de ceptions are pouring In from every quarter. There is eminent success, too, or at least seem ing success on the part of tbq expoaenr—be lievers and unbeliever*—and the magicians are easily passing their counterfeit coin. Conse- qacntly there la muoh bewilderment with half believers, and Jocularity ‘with unbe lievers. What of itt Shall “ the mourners go about the streets?" or, like Peter; "deny and (wear 1 know not the man ?" 1 hive long since wopdered what a certain thing coold mean, the seeming feet that spirits are engaged sometimes In deceptions at the dark circles, and-wt the expense of the honor of the medl-

1 urns. If so, I can not but regard it as an in vitation from the Spirit-worm to us mortals to exercise our utmost Ingenuity to beat their proofs If wy can, for the higher good that will ootnst That la to say, they.want to show what Ibsy can-do. They say. “ You nr* loo ends- loos, loo Insipid and soft. Load us down with

your test conditions, and then wo will do work worthy of our vocation, and we will pro duos conviction every time." Now I will not aay positively, Mr Editor, that spirits are so engaged, for the truth Is found with difficulty; but Id o s»y this, let us woik up. a system of testlog so sharp that no mortal, no angel, no devil can beat It, and then Ipvlto in tho skep tic and eej iv tho fun. Hteanr ssys, T If ypu will harness me down with hands sufficiently slrom and yet give me my methods of action, I wl carry you and your heaviest burdenaover land and sea; but If the botlV bursts through your weak contrivance, there tyill be disaster, and all my force will dissipate Into thin' vapor." Let spirit power have its proper conditions, appliances and testa, and then behold the re ta inj Again, our search after knowledge, aa to tho

spirits in their own Spirit worlds seems to be Mpcclally attended with difficulties That might well be rxpretod, aa their plane of being la'eo remote from oars, and from our aensen. “ To be, or not to bo, that is the question bub when this it settled In the afllrm.tivo, sod thjDtucsUoos sro Issued, where, when, what, how ’—oh! oftentimes what wicked tr»n«grc« ■iona of all reason, and what contradictions I I will refer, aa a promineul specimen of such, to one. In the B /nnkh < v Liuiit, a few weeks since. 1 quote from memory Toe direct question was'pul t 'th e presiding geuius of the free circle, (Mrs. Conant medium, Theodore 1‘arkeCcontrolling) bow he had located the Spirit wofld so far .from the material world, while Judge KIntends bail located U Imme diately bordering on, etc., and aato tbediscrer ancy? Tho answer was that the Spirit-won was sixty flvn billions of miles from t lie nat ural world, and then the advice was given not to lrqulre of batwra wnen they wanted ‘ " 'o u tth e tru 'h t Oh. dearl it is' the ss l question, Whoshall show us any good? “ What is trntta?" and “ can it be found either on Cnrls- lian or on Heathen ground?" and now we will add. in the heavens ah-ive b ribe spirit spheres? Obi Theodore I airfy/vei bJliont of mi!i t ! quite a long j mrney; no wonder people bate to start I remember that Baron Man ebsusen, after telling his gaping auiiitora boW be rode horseback at the bottom of tho sea from continent to continent, and whst won, dershesaw , added further, “ Sfemo travelers are in the habit of exsg^ratlng in order to amuse or astonish tfielr auditors, a pernicious practice, nod wulch 1 never do," As 1 am but a humble individual, and never traveled, 1 will not venture on comparison.

OO-hnw.difficult this search a flcr^ low l- edgcl What may we fee! that wo k n ^ r, and what are we Justified In believing *

Speaking of knowing and believing, Mr Eliior, reminds me to aayj(*a 1 have beard from an eye and ear witness) that at toe last quarterly Spiritual meettog, bold in this city by Brother Wilson snd his associates; he slated that what ho knew he knew, and what ho did not know he believed, thus spanning the whole ualvrrse. Bister Bsverance replied that then he miu t bt'Jtve a pr*it <ir-iI, quoting fur once as auinurity some oou other than herself,nr “ Vic ■ ■ . . . . —

not very broaJ; and so that matter remains settled unto Ibis day. Time sud the paticoco of your Intelli gent readers will not permit me to siy some of the chief things that I thought at the flnu t > say. I thought how Col. Blood, In the Wukfy a few moQthssloca, called for Information How any of tbe community had a right to Interfere 'with others as to their social practices, pro vided tho partlee Immediately interested were agreed, and how 1 wrote an article for that paper showing a ich rlgnt (according to my ability), sod how that article (poor thing) never saw the light I and then-fore how difficult It la for the readers of the ItrttXly to gel any true “nowledge.

Add, alao. as tho ean crossed .the lino of •Brine to day, cmd yet the cold o f winter still SDidia, and people nave been begging to know why it ia that we-have-bad and are having such - cold time, I had thought to throw in my

lews as to how It It—-how it is happening ac cording to the woes threatened in that wonder fill prophecy, “ The E'-xir of Life, or why do we die?" that cither V-ckey did not atjend to that last stirplculiural experiment that wm to introduce a new order of immortals underJho smiles of the “assembled hoatsof tbe spheres "

havirg made “ the one last experiment," bad failed, and so the earth, according to

the programme, had commenced to whirl “ back into chaos" (where it ia to be “ for mil lions of yearr,”) and hence the commencement of tho frothing process, and yet she was stag ing It,-or starring it around tbe country, all un concerned—Nero fiddling while 'Rome was burning^-and thu* add tny mile to-tbo discov- ory-of truth In tbe midst of d ill jollies. But 1 have not space nor time, and, besides. I think it Is as well, for a hint to the wise is sufficient.

“ Great Is truth, and it -will prevail;" but what la truth?. It must be wrought out by the sweat v t the brow from the deep bidden mini s

skill fulness wlU stand at a premium; soft,.__r. -■— Mlty at a d)--------

ill st, 1875.

IIA B T IA N A N D T A Y L O R .

T h e i r S c a n ce a ItH -renaing In In te rc u t* .

LProm a Special Oorrenpocdcnt. 1 _ Jnarnallar often meets with strings ex

periences in hit pm tult of the Information re quisite for the gratification and Instruction of hit readers. The other evening, It was my lot toaBpend a couple of hours in n circle eager for the ‘-'m atefisluttlon of spirit forms" and drawn together .for the very purpose, in full expectation of these manifestations, which 1 was Informed had been definitely promised. The circle it under the direction of Mefiftffi. Bsstlan and Ttylor, two American gentlemen, who, It is understood, are very powerful "me diums," the former being the chief lnstrumon-

dent bo g u lllv p f_______________ _________recollection of having “Interviewed” spirit*f

Much has been said against thcao seances bo cause they are usually held In the dark, and darkpess, it Is assumed, is favorable to trick ery, and is chosen because It is essential to the Impositions that are practiced, flat this accusa tion will not apply in the present case. I t was not exactly dark A small jet of gas was banting, and It produced a dim, religions light, by tbe aid of which I could discern at least the countenance of the sitters. It was also a seance under

“ axTRAonoiitititv f x r r cokpitiohs," ) to adopt a pbrasc/Tjy which the Bpiritualists mean that everyAxtgslble toil of krrut JUUt was given. The-fobditloqj were seen aa u> render It Impossible that the “ tnedlnm” should be aa- eisted by a confederate In producing false spirit forms, or of personating the “ pisterialt- /.tlions h)msclf by the aid- of masks, changes ofgarm tnl, legerdemain, or otherwise. Wo fastened the motk^^CfomplatolDg medium ia a sack, hit head on>,-i;;ing allowed to emerge at tho top, tho tUingWvhlch drew tho mouth of tho sacs round hia throat were tied to the chair on which ha sat, and covered tho knot with sealing wax, and scaled it with a signet- ring, We nailed the bag in which he was cn veloped to the floor of tho ante room which served as bis cabinet, and measured with a careful attention theesact spot wnere wo had drivc.n in each nail. We sealed tbe doors and windows after we had well examined the cab inet, and found there was no confederate pres ent, so that it waa Impossible for any confcd- 'erale afterwards to obtrudo into the cabinet (vilbuul breaking Ihtsu seals, ('satisfied my self on all these points before tbe opening of tbe programme, for I am not given to take every ' thing on trust, and 1 satisfied myself when llic manifestations were over, that all was fair and above board. Mr. Raritan waa still in a deep trance, exactly where we left him. Tho seals on the cord that bound him to the chair were unbroken, the nails by which bo was tacked to the floor had never been drawn, and there was pr.Hif enough for any candid m!nd that he had not stirred an inch from his place, and it waa -I fL or ft ft away from the curtain behind which tho “spirits" emerged, I ex amined ail these teals most rigidly, and have

.) hesitation la saytug that Mr llaatia'Va per- niitlcation was simply impossjble. Tne as

sistance of confederates was iqually impossi ble, for rosa-qra I have already explained. In front of thei/ablnel there bung a black cur lain parledMuwn the middle, It was through this thatJJ/e “ materialized formk" from the

stTtass<M into the room where we sat. prelude, some hands and- face* were

. — J, and were duly recognized; but the real spectacles were full forms that afterwards pre sented themselves, looked us full In the face, shook nandt with us, anil spoke to us. Your correspondent is no adept at sensational writ ing; but \

-----------------CESSATIONin the even's of that nlgM enough to make'

- ‘ particular hair to stand on end—only, so___ s my experience went, It did not. I don’tknow whether it was the harmony of the meet leg, which waa pointed out with mnch empa- il»; whether It waa a holy, soothing calm brought from the higher spheres I know not, but I can testify that in tho appearance of ghosts that night there was not so much, after all, to alarm even nervous people, and, at for my fclhiw allters, they took it all as a most familiar and delightful experience. The first that came forward was

OHrKNT.u. vm uns; solemn and majestic; he burit not suddenly on our viaion—th»t might have frightened some of tho nfTto timid of us—but after a great shaking and rustling of the curtains ho stood ‘n fr.lnt a moment,, then, with a graceful and

timid step, moved’-forward Into the middle f the room. That waa a crisis for a man or oman with a guilty conscience—to see a ver

itablc ghost slowly approaching, albeit, a ghost of gentlemanly and respectable appearance, clad in white,’from head to foot, but black in complexion, like the enemy,of universal man. who. as a memorable line has tt, “danced awa’ wl’.tbo exciseman," and might possibly be coming to “ dance awa” wire some of the company, if not all of them. Hut some how

' r no one seems to be afraid. I positive I felt no,emotion in tho slightest re

sembling fear, and looked on with profound.‘ t calm amazement. As for the ladies, one

. more recognized the Oriental gentleman, called him “dear uncle," and had a brief con venation with him, he answering first by graceful bows and afterwards by articulating sounds. That dusky form turned out to be no evil genius, but a polished, graceful, agreeable visitor.

This spirit had frequently to retire behind tho curtain ilho skeptics woald say for some purpose of fraud, the Initiated told mo to “gain now strength from tho mtdiutn,” who sat In his cabinet as quiet as a mouse, a deep sleep having fallen upon him. I particularly re marked that on each successive occasions, the

ipsrently less timid and more conscious of his power to c xblbll himself, lie shook bands with one of lift ladies, and then with ona of the gentlpmen present—It was a

N j Bring man could h i dwarf Ms stature—aay, from*------- — -------fe<

within hims-lf feel,

Hiaoo, Bloomsbury, bnt It U not so easy to obtain an Introduction to the a«nnocn Tbe Spiritualists are J lalons of the Intrusion of strangers, who often como with pc centric notions aa to how they are to behave, and what they may exvect t j see, and they bring with them, it la SSd, — “ -----------------laid, many disturbing Infln-

Aa to the particular circle to which I bad the privilege of ao introduction. I believe, to

a phsis) current Just now, the door Is shut the elect, end there Is no chance for strang

ers to ohlaio a farther glimpse of the farther mysteries to be dUd . ted. My awa admission was a special favor, granted at the request of a lady who 1* an active member of the cirdfe, and I certainly shall not repay the conrtesv wjth which I wan received by any coarse

small hand bell filaced It; iu ___________ _________the ladles, and then finally roUrod*

----------me a fair female form ;at firstwrlth thetame halting atop and manifest timidity, but this wia shortly overcome, and "Ellas’’ was recdgtnzrd by her friends. She shook one or more of tho company by the band; and then retired; but “ Eliiyq* though to fair, lovely, end angelic, could not- materialize a voice.

' Her dress wsa aUBAtmvtn, wiiiTX rbowrso h o b s

of the meet simple form, end caught It at the waist as If by a belt. It dragged In a long and graceful train at the bottom, and we distinctly heard It rustling on tbe carpet ae though made of some thick and still material.

Tut* third visitor at length stood before us— a noble and commanding figure, with a fiile

‘ long, thick, blsdjt beard.

exchanged a most fraternal greeting—the one in the flesh and the other—oat. That, too, was a sight to behold I ‘'Yes, here 1 am; look at me. You see I have kept my promise.” There was no failure In that voice. I t waa foil of musical sound, and fell upon tbe ear with all the Jorde of a hearty natural utter ance. Too kwo brothers shook hands togeth er, m it they both understood the philosophy of shaking hands, and tbaringof that fratern al greeting sounds In my ear white I ■> etch this Dsrrs.lve. “ Tom” retired to tho cabinet renewedAlaslrengih. once more came forward, and, at the requestor a lady, shook hands with her, and receded from our view. Bat this wm no sudden vanishing; ha retired graceful- 1j ,m he had advanced; and. aa he regained the curtain, that tall commanding figure dwarfed Into a little tTorm, bnt preserved tneaame rela tive proportion o? height and breadth. To my mind that wm a must remarkable feature o f the spectacle,, and was • conclusive evi dence that there was no personification of tbe ••spirit," e llhe^ by medium or confederate.

down to four feet or four feet six Inches . . trick mighr have been performed, it Is true,

'by optical Illusion or otherwise, but there w«a no contrivance for anything of the kind W her-speaking of- “ lil-rs's" oppcstace* I ought to have said L distinctly observed her shadow aa she passo-l in front of the gas light, and the tbad >w traversed the wall in exact correspondence with her transit across thefloor. Nor should I forgot to mention a ------liar odor that difluaed Itself through tho In the coarse qf three strange proceedings It was like tho odor that Is otien perceived about bodlt s that havo been newly laid out.were told by tho ministering spirits that ----odor “Is caused by the disintegration of the chemicals wo extract from tho atmosphere I fqrm the m ateriabod envolopo of the spirlta Tnere are spirits, it seems, wh< so duty it Is to ' direct these seances and secure tbe proper conditions—there were two In this case, and each of them spoke to us In an audiblo voire.

Buch was my night among the ghosts, and I simply narrate what fell under my own obscr vation. U la not for me to reconcile these marvels with onr philosophy. Science to be no longer able to ignore the phenomena, snd to attribute them to “ the trteke of medi urns and the credulity of iheip, iiu'pes,” but iflcoco Is puzzled in its attempt to account for them—science must try again. Tho “Satan ic” theory has often been tried, but It is clear that this theory Is moat In favor with those who know least about these manifcslaln and iherefore tbe least able to form a con Judgment Tho Spiritualists say that there is DO marvel at all, in Iho alrim and-proper ser e of tho word, and that it la not the actual ap It

it we see, for tbe sight of a spirit 1* not f ir rial eye, but can bo only spiritually dis

cerncd. This view may relieve us from one d ffijulty, but it pluogcs ns into a greater. Tney toll us that their friends from tbe falgh- r spheres long to assure thorn of their per ms! existence and ha; pinesa, and having ac

quired a belter knowledge of chemistry snd ignsui science, are able to collect from tho urs emitted from the medium and the circle, ad especially from tho formur, material, with

which they1 clothe themselves. Tney then pri-J-cla strong will-f.-rco into the collected aura and trao>f irm it into a perfect picture of themselves in form and lineament, and invest this forms, temporarily “ materialized," with speech and motion Mortals ire thus able to rccogniz^a departed brother or sister, husoand or wife, as. the care may be, and aroestablished in th rlr faith In spirit communion. Tula like ory may nol be altogether saliafactory, espe cially to those wh" have been carefully nur tured lu strict orthodoxy, but It is at least' plausible, and. fresh from tne experiences which i have given above, I am bound to say it has at least ihe merit of In-lug Iho bust i t ptanatlun j have hesrd. The phenomena arc certainly not to bo ignored, and there ia neith er candor n»r philosophy iu making the al tempi Let every ore go and sec for himself, but let him go with unbiased mind. For my self. 1 feature not on any explanation. Tno philosophy of those things Is too high for

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III! Cjl tltN, t u . - l F. Willi, writes.-I ihawtir hsvr renewed st expiration „f my time rirTrls! Mibscriber, lull fwa, absent until -yvarreU Plc.se rend iu« t/re J.1CI1NU., I can nul/do wltbol It. ills iui iqual slid drink. ’

NEW LISBON. OHIO.—T*ho Pro.I writes - I like Ibe plain, blunt style or IIbt- JoekNAL. IV« have orthodoxy here pretty severely, but on the olhrr band we also have men aod women of liber al thought ami expanded ytewa in matters pertain ing to ad called religions subjects. . .

BAY ( r r \\ MICH —Chas. U DeWade writea — riiaal. Is Uitno a dear friend. Tho losophy taught and advocated by

___ , ha* changed my mind In ao far'from a skeptic and unbeliever, I began to ,1

id appreciate Spiritualism.LEAVENWORTH CITY. KAN.-! re writes.—Through the klndi

spiritual friends, I havo hod the , _____ _____.— .w- i-------- —j ■ — well pleased with

CAN.-Mrs. J. Me, dne.ia of some of mV • pleasure: of read

ing the J0UHWal,__ _____ r____ ____the stand yotl have taken In exposing everything that la nol true spirit manifestations. I am a raei- ‘1am and expect to take tbe field aa a speaker he re long.WOODSTOCK. IL L -R P. Simmons writes.-

Inclose please find post (.dice order tor renewal of the Kst-ioio I’iiiLmoi-ni. at, Jo ubk bl . Can’t do without It. Shut out from the external world sa

by blindness, the sound ofe, .[lords a guide t-

tbo in-------------------,tlons of the ail. r andmy steps, and a light to my h— , ______ ___shady side of four sooro years.

VERNON. IOWA —Wm. P. Llpplncotl writes. —Having lust read tbe curious photographic ex perience qt your London correspondent In No. 4, 18th vot. of the Jo ukwal , reminds me o f-----------lenceof my own to Sell In

•lx oraeveu years ago. ,! other fanners, -i have hogs

fall. It was a cold sven|ug- In No- obody In tbe bouse lint myself, when

i sat up in vue table to read a newspaper; at tho bottom of a column to fill It out, were these words, "Tbe cotton crop of Georgia la estimated to ho

^tjoflh forty million* of dollars." When I bid retd* - " or tne____ _____ ______ _______ _

. . . “If all the Cotton states havo done as —.. . . will enable them to buy pork and advance tbe price," snd Instantly as I sighted tho head oft the next column I saw my nearest qylghborreading to think shout what 1 had seen; Ia minute there-------------“ “ — -my neighbor In

----rap at thfi door. There stoodI* shirt sleeve*, without coat or ul seen him at the bead of the

newspaper about a minute before. And still more strange. If possible, there was a hpg buyer at his house, and be (the neighbor) had cautiously and silently left his bouso*to consult with me about selling our hogs. This Is the whole story. Now, whst was It? The hog buyer had hogs lu nj* mind, my neighbor had them In hi*. 1 — •-

$ 1 .0 0 pay* f o r tt i la p a p e r o n e ye a r , to n e w t r i a l aubacrlborw , u d IS cents

one year, wntoh has to bo making 11.6.5, which most

psys tho postage oi paid In advance, n bo remitted in adn

Genoa now ready-and UUx-papof. Price,' fV 00.

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The Fishermen’s

Kim yoa InlcrerUcg rsrWrclxUve to it,,- fisheries. How fish sis caught, and where they sis might, olden lime and Wo*tern Urns fishing Grr Havn -baarewsa. Bio Ta'rs, Bt s t ibv ic so* rnr Pisasaisa.Tayas or N*aa.,w

other maltera or interest «,lire-ruing this Imp .ilsnt In- dsstry. Very handsomriy llluitrsted wl-h original co- greylag*. Price si <» In Paper Cover*. | l M Aer'y hound In Cloth. ‘« « t anywhere oo receipt of price. Agent* wanted, lo whom excla-ive tsnttcreywlll he liven. Liberal com minima. Write for partftnlai*.

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UT. PAUL;Pare, tx pel day. This home Is'new snd ratty eqpnt

te say two dadar s day boass Ia tha Otata

vitalIU

L y c e u m S t a g e sA cotlecUoo of eoslribated, cJmptlrd and otigtaal

Beeitiblons, DiiloRnei,; Pair? Pltji,(With Poll Marie Note*) Ac-

Adtptci tot Lycram and 8cboohE*h)hltl«s«, by (I WIIiTFKLD KATltX

Pa*t Fiaav— TKt Lycram StaQt la a vrVy valeahle book tor Liccema, bcbool*. ot Individuals V< got op perfaemueea Price M cents, postage^

•••For sale whole**)* snd mall by sophlcat Publishing Rests*. , ----*

T h e F a l l o fCriUerily Beriewed. This psophkt, with otharTtreo-

sad RaUatoclaadaptaUan t, aa ags of rh* uxauht. and

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s=‘N,— , |l fAn Bov with the Angel*. Cloth ................. M '»

Punt . H <HVtoxtfgjcal Origin of JebntahAlod. D. W. ^ A Dtorasrion between Mr M. V. W m apirHul- ^ ^

AitlAdal’Borenanbiulm. by Dr. Itohneetock LH Jo Auwere to liuestlon*. 13»<|lcjd And Spiritual, ^ ^Apocryphal New Tm u bi a I > * I*• K r - by Taccaaa Pain*. Cloth

* PhUO*Cdiiy ol Mm Spirit V

t. DlTlBA OniWt, h)ArebalaJor, tlx------------ --Apoetle*. (trenstatrd flora the Finch) by Ham LIS . \Deris. Paper, no ot. t mm, . . AJtnx-ThooioKtcAl Loaves, by Bee. Hubert ^A tS>*r™ a Blow. > >- -.k for children. hr a

0. Wright.Antiquity and Duration of the World, hr G. H. AnEre-O coM. by tcp*. ClothA Unde or Own* of Bird*.Ancient Hex Worehlp Colh. ft. poet. Sc-p*tn 0 After Death or Disembodied Man IHbagt.ad Oita— n*lh, IIS 00. Ollt.......... JS 5 ^ 3 ^ iu S ? e , ,h/j*n(i rt*h . i°ia**pb«of. bj t a iiAAArd .....................Be Thrrelf. by Wm. Deoti* , .............Brother brad Of M*n And whet Followi from a

Mart* King.•While*) (ThronoloKi M U Crtren. «<* reTlble In In* 1* » 00 Intitle Barrel Worker*-Alien Ftlnm ltft l«Iritur)’* Journal per number «0 Oolore Tappro’s Lecture. O' 00tommonKeneo Theology-D II. Hamilton I SO <0filth 1.0 IS; P»i-r 100 OS---- ly before Chrteb N IL (.'reran. * 01

llstnry of the Doctrine of a Future " Ante And Nation* by WmRAlga AM 1“ l X U.': Biography of ... AM Id

OcraoM* Worheof A. J. Dari* IS.®Childhood of the World. Prof. Clodd. Peper. SO MCloth, M 'HChapter* from the Btble of the Ago. 1.M JJCriticism on the Apoetle Peal Ain Deles*. of

Woman's Bight* etc. h, If B. Crerea m *Ocajogal Hite egalnet tbs U wa of Life And

BeeTth. br A t OtrdDer. A_ M . M. D... l.M ISConstitution of Mnn. br Genre Combe I.TS InOommrai Ken» Thought* on the Bible, by Wm.

Denoa .... 10 rsOosmology. by o. W. Burner l.M toCommon Bcnee. br Tbomee Peine............. 00 r*Christ Idee In Elston, by Hudson Tattle . . l.M HiChrist and the People, by A. IL Child, M D. 1.10 ISChristianity no Flr-xllty, or KptrituaUim Bap*.

rtorto Chrlrtlcnliy, bj. W®. Denton I) OSiMUdsmoo the •tVoli*tfc*l Ides <£. Deity. byM. B, Crernn . *. 1.00 isCbrtstiarlt-, Its Orttfn end Tendency ooneld.W H "ll IJ*tl “* XsIroTbeolotcy. by a ^

™-‘— of Ht< ritualism; embredn* the Brport>f sn Inrreilrsur by s Medlesl Men. 00 Cl

>-B. F. Ilotion of tbi9 it. Wm Tattle. Peper .

f>oae end bn, pie. Ilureon Tslll*..........DiAkkelsoi.....................DefenceBf bplrltnsll.m Welltre ...........Dictionary. Webeter'e UtiAbridsed. ..... II

“ “ Pocket, ft nil b-j oorer 1Dyepepetd He treeunent etc..Deecect of Men. by Derwin, Two Vets. (IAOO

per Vo4.) . IDerenport Brother* • their ItecuirkAhlo end In

tareMtiut Utslore ............. IDlrwnelj-ny Bet, HobertTtylr*. written by bbb

While imtirtwiaed for bluphcmy This worn is Ah Account of theortKln; eridenca, end e ty

Day of Doom. A PueticAlUroel Ahd last Jadjrtncnr, WIUI r u e perm from the iltth edition of '1715

Derll's Pnlt.lt, by Her. Bnbert Teylor. withSketch of the Aothofs Life............ . „ „Del tut*, br Wm. Denton.................... 10 OSDswn. a EsorSI of tntenes tntereet to progr 'D^ffend ihs After life, by A. j. Derte,

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‘ I,It M------- - Hr 11 Cion, or Ifsrnre____ dJ-Derii. fcirimlldltlaB .I II; f u r .............................. t» OSby A. J. Deris............................ t oo ure, by firs. Sweet ................. l.M IS

,______ ihd Ethic* of Oootngil lore—A. J.\ Dsrte—GUI. *1.00: PtUa, l!e.; Paper. 60c. on•ood IMUA By Beros D'llalbAce . LOO IS

A Tbs Thinker. Beeh............................. l.M IS- ,s

M t o i . U u ................ .r!T. m ng,.M n

!. Derte Cloth .................... .7^?.7.... 1* IIo . . . i a BehncJ Elanee hBletccy end Phllqeophy of Mri byAl'X Dvie.'

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is S{nodenti In My life, SMowd senes,.......... . LM IIB i s s s i s t a r t r s c ,.s sT O m a iK r v s s S : : : S!i

Arc An. with explAhAtorr wdt*. by trorntn tteie.I Vo., IT0 IS). Host edition yet pn Mlsbed I

lone. will. Idle of Mohnmmnd, trnnamud by OwmHel« (lent tlcuv.Stlpp I

Life of Thornes Peine, with entire] end enilen story obeerreUws of hie writihm. by <3 Vet*. I

rjfnof Jesns, hy'Kor.nn ILore end the Masu> pAsslor.. by Dr P U HenLetteti m Bder Mile# tlrenu by Her Mneee

mB-Deed Pest, by IL a WrishL

_______ CblldrA. B. Newton.

MenuUMedlctnd Brens,

_____.. _ __________ ____Darin Cloth - ;... N«y ASinltr. end Other HUrricw. br Lteeie Doien l.K Modlnmship. it* law. end (VmdlUota, with Brief

lnstrnrtlora (or the Formation of Spirit Or • by £_ B PoweU

n! wltchrr*sftTend Mir_____Ameriain HptrUaaJtam-IStdtBSS.

wlllMJtit lb« (i&irirlttfi . l.iO 01ICorlIcix LoctOTCM. (Twenty DIkuotm*) by A.J. D*n« | 00 inKMIam* MMJam»hlpr by T.K. IUiax± toKaUK'are. . - 1.00 IUM Weddini oin» rrtitt. .. S oo

09 M,aa<*OCA 00 Ji.i«c«nrMl iRe Iurwliuw-M. Man*uo . 100 n»Martyrdotnuf Mar. 100 WMaa-lr huff A J. Dart* 1.70 ««*•llttwn. rrum the Krmrb d A lac Kaitlrc 1 00 00 Nall? a bpLrtt, by A, I’Qtcaca rinth,Ndnrr'p Law* In Quioac Ufa: ao kxpoaiUne

of Hplritullcn N»tar«'» IMtIm lte«l*Ont;a by A* J Dtvli "Nnt PbTat&CTHJBiT-l IS!tu:mt1f«n»—8. H.

Wmfa Plain . .......N«r*tw aad lea N«rma Dr Ualllck

ThfM>]Ofcy I broad Upalda Dnwn by T IL -jyK»r a * (V*th I » Paisar

l>rlbodoiy Palaa. aletc Brlrltnallam ia Troa, by Wm. Dec'

Orl/ln of Hjwy] a .-a_ ~-cWUj___ 1l#§____KvUdoii Many CrrMa. /

Phmioltsjrlrei Cbart-(Wrli’a Ds-«rn/»n ph’jswtiny of Hps'd-'.al l*Ojw!.isj r. ■_ hv

Darla OoOl

. *#• Pot aaj« whelaaafaXHopbltalf bUakiAi Un i

a » Ob

Thy'. .•Tthf OX. _ _Wm. Denton

of Hiwdt-. ................... , .........Orfictn of tlrutaaUoc and Primitive CocdtUoc

Pmiaa*. PoUUrPb5wot»hlcal Dictionary of Vollalm'

Aacncen idJU«m mocun. r-----“pUUre Uuxmt and moat fit*\h+ KrflLnh Lanjriaiftt OgatA -.k an t* • -L- ' -l«ni :t'Iu - vA'i! -

PaalmaSKUVyby J S. Adai*I'rrasiti* aild frcoU. hr A J. Dart*~ h«iu\b»’«ict fiancrmi

tcaUa br A J DanB

Partariuos wtthoel pels. M. L. Holbrook, a.d. 1 « Pefiteleocb—A twtrect of Ctolenso ttI'hyrlcAl Men. Ms Ortictn i«d AnUquIty. by

Bodsun Tattle . . I KPrcvreseire Soortler UPbllorophy of Splritnel Inlrrr. nt«\ by A. J.

Derte clou. 1.MProconncmK IJend Boot Inrelaable It ell *• 13e..lsmile Msu l.MPrurlUr* t'hrtstleslty end Modem HpIrilseUsm.

llellKlon end Dcm wrecy. Prof. Urtuan ... Hi 01 lUdicel Otecevre*. ny Oenton l td lbIb-rlew of Cl«rke <m Bluer on. Uaale Dotes 15 01 Hedies! Hhrmen Wm. DrnUm. t *\ itHnlew ho rormln* spirtiael Ctrrjee, ... » 00Ileel Life In Spirit land, hr Mrs Marta M. Bln* l.M Islie port on spiritualism Dialectical Society iVenmlibw ... AOS noKptrip.ll* . t . IS O)spirit Work*. Keel, but not Mlrecalooe »y^Allen Poinsm M ftSoul ASImty. A B CMJd . ... SO. WSatan, Biosrepby of. By R. Ore re* ......... M OnBermwi rromSbaksfeare'sTsiL Donlon, .... IS ftSacrist Otepels of Arehula, A. J. Darla, doth fall silt l.M 10M^th^mstton**A. a Oltas.V.V.' Jo itHncdl) Not the sabhain It (IBernal PhrmWW. by It T. Trail. M.D I 00 I"Streiute Visitor*. Dictatedthroosb a CUlrroymnt I SO sSpiritnal Harp ..... l.M »<

Abridmd ndlilcm .... ........................... i n IISelf. Abneeatlonlst 1 tm the true Kins and ffueem, v .

br H. C WrirbL Paper M X)Soul of Thtnrt br BtaaWth and Wm. Denton 1 50 t<Bern) of Thins* VoL A Prof. Debtow.......... A00 It

“ ^ “ A " .. .... L50 IS8(0 ritual PhUotopby a*. DtaboUan. by Mr* M.M. Kins M M---------------------------r. hr Prof. D. F.

. Piper............. 50 Skby Joel Moody 115 on

Bow*, Cloth, i

Byttea of Nalur*, oc law* of the Bocal and Physical World, by Barca D' Bolbaek l.M U

Startling Obnet Slcirie* from Aalhentlc Sonrtea 50 . "Self luetmrlor In Phrenology, paper._____ M t*

Cloth ....... IS ItHalf Oentredletloni of the Bible, IS MSpin mallsm a Trot of CtirteUan ty, D. W. Hall, 10 t Selena or the Mental Constitution, by -------

8ns;*, an InUrseUng OAm* nf Cards Stone* of Inlnlty. froen the French of Ol

Flammarion—a stngniar and tntep

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daU. Cloth ............... ... „Splittusl Toscosr and Bon jtter J. M. Peeb.ee » 00Threading M 'Wey—B D. Owen............. .. 1J0 00Tipple* hla Tahla......... ........ M OfThe Ftwt aad Future of (hr Planet, by Wm.

Dentoa . l.M ISTalk to my Patlarta by Mr* U lk Bleaeca, kLtt LM ISThe Vratal, by Mre. M. J. WUeoxaca ------ *«S ISTreauea oo the .InUtlectaaL morali sad social

aaa. a reluhl*workbyJL PocraU ... l.M Tajaor a Physician, by A. J. Dari* Cloth I SO ft Piper Oorer. IS 10Tb* Merit* of Jem Christ aad the Merit* of Thome* rain* ** eSahetitut* for Merits ta

other*: Whatts the DtSsnao*lBtw*s* thmr by B. C. Wright / M ISmmduuml Pom by M (<

n . v s « b , W m N m « w . SB VSS li

Tsc"i or7°,u*-------------- m noTrerels Arovd ite;Worid—J iit Peebier!-. ISO M Oarojjcwa* Child, by Rmf/TO. WrigkL Papes » jj

B £ E w s r 09 T _ ^ « ? .I n " Mr e a t a (MS I B i l

Votoey.s Bains: or MadltaBocu on the Berot*- .i£:.c'n£:p"~ , ,

^ K sT S m -tXlng W e T f ? * ••Volney-t New Baeearcbes....................I.* tM M

hy mil! or p I press, as may he desired If sent by mall, wo* Sflb more than the tjlgulir oat of tba bona will be required to prriwy pueijg* The petnaMr of oe friends If fohdicd. tc mcldcg rcmittcccoa for hrtnkr buv (swul order* »h«*u protkchlc If piwtAl orderf ca&dtA M bed. ftfUitor TO or letUiTfL

. c . o r i>.Ordfr* for HooUn. 7fr^lrlor. or Mfrrhan.

'<* It-"'''s. ...1 y r.vt I... l!,s-,;»co-....r. ll„ri ....•-•r.ti.'n oy nnef.urrh the cost' No nttenllan mill be paid to any order, uetr.s tbr.r terms sn- cvnpl.rdwith. Kauuio.PmiBsoraiesi.pt sl i. ii.i... Hoi s*

A T A L E O F E T E R N IT YAad ether Peemn

B T O K B A L D MAS S E T. manage* beery Ualed papa, gilt hr* Price II.JKWUC*

31 lt.H. A . II. KOHINMON,

Dcalioe PsTctaometric & Bosidcss Vedino.Co r k k b Ad a ms St ., A 6rrn A m , Ch ic a o o

M rs. BOBINHON, while under sptiti control, on re miring a lock of lialr of a sick patient, mmdlagnom

the disease meet perfectly, and preerrlho the proper re mndy. Yet. ae the tn«t epcmly cure !e the eseenUal ob iecl In rtew rather than to gnltfy Idle curloelty, the MtUir pncUce la to seed fJoc* with ■ lock- of h*!f. i brief eUtement of tb* ear, age, loading aymtrUMU, ant the length of Umn the patient has hem rich; when shr will, wtiboul delay, return a moet potent pceecripUon aat remedy r« eradicating tb* dleease, anJ permanent!) earing all curable few*

Of iuimlf she claims no knowledge of the healing sn but wha» her eidrtt guide* are brought re eopporTwtU a sick pereon, through her laedlumshiii they nerer falAhrougb the perillee uni nepu.-|r*‘f. uree laent In tbr. ieyetem and In nature. Thle nrcerrlplloa la sent by mall

a Internal« an external application, It ehrroie-----------appUed preeieely as directed In the acnxnp*eying letter of Instructions, bowcecr simple It mejeerm to be: remember It to not the quantity of (be.----liound, hat lb* chemical effect that to produced, science takes eocnt---*-Oee prescrlpdoo_____________ ____________...

daye after the last, each time elating — n------------- . . ------- omioi.

--------h the. tplrite controUlns---------- . to don* sa w*lL*hen tb* Ippucation It by letter, a* when the palladt to premtL fiw elite are eery remarkable, not only In the healing ut, bat----- -yrh,metric and buelnsee medium.

net—Dtogncete tad tret preecription. lUcnl on*. fAoa Parnhosnetric Dal ler. *A0a Anewering fmetr.re* letter* should acnomtany Ihs ai

... ^ JS .T O W'Tnt^ Mnii*"Roatsso* wOMweed/tar gtr* ut HuUgl tc on, cns. If prirecy ts required. It an. letter, accompanied with the usual foe: and tone ----‘----- b* strictly ouapUad with, or no to*

A. Good Head of Hair Hs- Btoro ft t>y a Bpirit Pre

scription.kzrrron Jotruant—For tb* barest • ay mends *ac

the World. I deetreto make this brief gutemanL1 bate been almost entirely bald fur about ill rears

Bad tried alcaoet m.-Tthlng that I could bear ram mrmded. and Irmly trellmd that nothing could restore mohair. ^ ^ ^ ^ muthe healing medium, lift Fourth araiua, Chicago, u ■

Mr* B Immediately preecribed *for a* 1 did not gr ill the Ingredient* fog the HettcraU?* until am* Uaalr June, Igli I thru ocurn.: r.s) using It u directed. **• was encouraged, brg9.se It wss the fret eppUeatlon th*' aad been fell lu e lb* *calp,-H rearing • rousting tec alloc. I continued lire are of this preparation about three month* -her. I could re* the hair etorting to spot* all ora my head, and 1 now bare a eery comforuble

M r s . H o b ln a o n t o T o b a o n o A n t i -

___ remedy for th* amrit* for Wf-t* to for aato u this o«Ic* Brel to

------- *T* of JAOO. It

■ will nay r e . -------------------------------a analysing this remedy, Sad on* particle — -r anr other pototaooa dreg t» f____in lWcxxirwituL PtmrsiQi

etaaiLFlfU Area** Chicago, 111.. M

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I’rof. Wiu. Denton’s Works.KAIIICAl HMYVIKb Ic '.n.wrt u. repeated celts the

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OBKISTIemailOKTIItll

n NO FINALITY Oh ShthlTVA1.IBM

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G O O D B O O K S .TBS PCBULATIONh UF

S. R. W E L L S.

S T A N D A R D WORKS- ON ~

Phrenology, Physiology,Physiognomy,

-Psychology, Ethnology,Phonography,

THE NATURAL 8CIF.NCE8 GENERALLY.

rjnuaoeaicsi. Pt-aixjsuie Hone*__Ad»

SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY.rt BC1KNTTFIO AMD FQFVLAB BIFf^moiS 0t

THE FUNDAjOeNTAL PBOB1XMS IN

g y II. X. TrnlI. FI.M.TV great letereet now being felt a all rebtocto relettog

|* human derailment, will nuke th* book of letereet toaaLThrT arfn ffTh rariuoeeubJretiMreeled'ia aprre- tng and Hiring a high dlrectica and rain* te bare** Bl* Cannot be ovrrerilmated. ^ ^ reyewtretCWrertV.to tMAnmlray a d JTiyrioiogy of the ftozeej Vplains the origin of llunaa Lift; how sad whs* Mre*-

ting and rearing cf beautiful mut.hrellhy chlldremTk to high-tor.ed. ana gbcrald V read by erery family. With• t l t t t r C S S C h t— d throrere Ire ^ red

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P o e m s o f ^ P r o g r c s s .By MI8E LIZZIE DOTEN.

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3l**n by Mies Dotes since IV publictUoa of keg Are

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NT HE BV TUP PKK.VIU 1011IS- SIOXEBX.

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SPIRITUALISM, WITCHCRAFT, ANDA M I U A C L K .

A 'I'K K A TISK K SJ.nK ;* hi. It toil uul.-K many rUmbereof ui)itt*iy.

author of -Spirit Work* '■'and*-iWy. a HpDiL” Price »)t«nte( p«u«* fins.

For Sue wlwuxreir and retell br the Rylljto-Phll*- eopKiral publl.btng lloua* Adame bL, and Fifth At*.

. A V I L U D EO R H i a m p : O K B I R D S

c m pabllehed (■ the lutrrrel of Mrlrerr.

Amoiini, Kalirimnint sml tgiiradU e, U You ns snd Old.

I the beet Inccullve to the eyetemaur. etndy of at History poeelbl* ahd the moet entertaining j In the markt-L NouneUresof II ae a pa*Um*/ id young alike pla> It wltb unabated enjoyta.al. cblldrea p... hour, la Uaklsg al the ptetaraa of

g. while the ealaahle Information afforded by U

imuaemests. and the eery reaeontble price at which It a offered, mut Insure for It eo lamaaas sal*.”—llri* lon L’nloe:-We rally and cordially andona Us akore."- Ka.

*n il . J on su ./Vt«. SB nenta, eenf free by mml

For eale -botreale and retell by the JUItoto-PhUo- Wrphlcal Publlaktng Bona* Adam* fib, mad Fifth AVfc,-''

^ THESCIENCE OP EVIL;

on■ First PriaucJes of Human Actin.

BY JOEL MOODY.

THE SCIENCE OF KVIl ’iTT book of redtori reftnarUlne ttwiuirhb It (tee* * Conner led and logical atom* main of t v PtaeT F v * a n a oe U n it Aorta*, eeft Clearly ahowe that wltboul aril man co*ld no, aniM. Tt* work fully eot.e* IV protdem. rod ane.U. V MreeerJ of Bril, ^ring It * acteotlSc me*,u.. rod ahowe riatftsX weaun

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A NEWHealth Cookery Book,

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Dio Lewto epeaktog of the book reye: - It poeeee.ee a clear staple and dialect plea. V* a well proportioned building The Ml. or 50.100 would add mack le lk w t lfe e of IV people"' Dr BabSlU wtUret “ I here rare!red year work relL V ‘ fattog fur - trwagth 1 rod VIlere It to V Ue aoe«practical thtog of to, kind ton* tC IsMed. Map It aaft Its way lain tbousuds of f ami lie* eo that f*wqr people^ “{S V ^ w : 1

56 REL1GJLOFHILOSO^HIOAL JOUBNAL. „ MAY I, 1875

i u H a iT H E CICACK OK D O O M /

A D e lu d e d I ’e o p ie o n th e W e n t S id e E x p e c t to H o a r I t a t 12

O ’C'look T o -N Ig lit .

Amiri the Wreck of M atter and I'rnah ol W orlds They W ill Take T heir F light

from No. 110 D replalara Street. x

.from tit* I'hleaca TlmM, dprll Itth.)Ai the time draVs nearer, according to the

Adventitia, or old Mlllorilea, for the end of the world and the descent of Christ from Dll throne above to Bla throne on earth, u a vial- hie sovereign and ruler of the world, their anilely Increase* They have aet the time of HI* manifestation at midnight of the 10th of April, to-day. According to Roman llmo, by their chronology It would be the Ulh day of the drat month Ablb, counting their Jubilee eycka by moona or Jewlab time. Recording l« their flgnricg, this la the 1’aachal period, and lodav constitute* the expiration of the term of 6 000 yeara alnoe the creation of Adam. These people take tho aacrament but once a year, and then make a regular tup per of It, after bavldg practiced the apoalolic rite of waahlng one anotber'a feet. It ecema that

Tim atnr ann bcwitaiicx'ov rax m n n u n r ia about aa follow*: In the Srat place, theybold that a literal adbercnco to the prophecy of ancient scriptures, tho revelation of Johnand the primitive epoetolic rltee, la Absolutely

ry to the elect. They base tbtelr calcu- in retting the definite dab) of

L >rd’a appearance on earth, on tho prophecies of Daniel and the revelalionaof John. There have been four epochs, or atarling points, apbn which they have baaed their-ipterpreia- tlou of the propoctlc numbers, and each giv ing a diBercot date Tney have used three of these already, end they have all failed. This date, lhe .lt) h of April, la tho last on they are confident that It can’ not fall, should It fail to bring about the appfkra Cbriat, aa an earthly king, with the capital of Uta empire at Jerusalem, then they give op faith In their mrlhods of reading prophecy and do not know upon what data to expect its -fulfillment They do not claim therefore that the Bible fa false, or tbat the prophecies are pureUabte, but abandon all faith In their sys tem and arc literally at sea. Tlicy hold that when Cbriat comes lie will makoitho brother hood of tun elect, that la of course the»Hcc ond Adventists, members of Hia royal family; they will lie around'H it person, and will be appointed by iltm co-rulers with Ulm over the nation! of the earth.

TIIST DO HOT, 11KUKVK IH A IIKLL,nor any eternal punlabment, nor do they be lieve la tho resurrection of a spiritual body. They claim tbat the spirit has no separate ex Islcnce out of or independent of the body of which it ia the vital principle. Hut when Christ shall come, that ia to-day, or at any other time, a certain portion of the Hying shall lye changed and Immortallrcd and reign with Him Also a certain portion of the dead aliall be raised in their own bodice, and llvo forever with the riobteoua. Christ ta not held to destroy the wicked; He simply takes Uls people out from among them, .and establishes Hla be«dquartcra at Jerusalem, where Hie n ig i on earth, which is to last 1,000 years. It inaugurated Tblg. new dispensation, hl>w- ever, will cause an Infinity of troubles, wars among nail ju s , revolutions, and wara of ex termination, of w h ich , they bold the communistic outbreaks In Frames in 1873 to be

shouted In a freoxy ol rengtous delirium. Many of the women had young children with them, and both they ami the men teemed filled with the utmost of religious real. Aa a rule they we-e not partlcularlv Intelligent looking, and if. to-tho language of an unbelieving Is raellte in the ball ybstrrday, ” tbcjblng don’t come ofi." Ibetr condition will be"a moat plti able one. for, acting on lbespu/of ferVent en thusiasm, they havo ?

soi.n Tsntni-ttKpbntQ, furniture, utensils, olothes,\*nd In many In stances their extra food in thh house, la antici pation of the coming of theft, Lord and Mas ter. Borne of the women with bablee at tho breast, and cbobby youngsters hanging to their s k i r t s may regret this before the thing la

and probably the explanation of____ _ aunnaa and hla godly brethren, so verynear Use throne will be anythlog bat satisfy

^’hA.hall was completely filled with a crowd of cynical skeptic*, who, for their cheerful un belief under the clrcumaUuoea, will doubtless, iu the opinions of the aatnla, receive their re- wardlwrihe lake of flte previously referred to

After fervent prayer and singing and an ex- •hortsUon from Elder Tnurman, a conference moetlng, or |ove fewr\ waa held, at which they celebrated the appatoltc ordinance of break ing bread In comtoemr allon of the resurrcc lion of the Lord. Of this bre»d about 100 per

ms partook. Cargo caarts illustrating the ision of Daniel and the cycles of jubilees re •rred to were surpended from the platform. The afternoon meeting was largely attended,

thu hall scarcely sflirdiog standing room for tbo>* In attendance.

Elder Thurnjan commenced proceedings rllh an earneat prayer, aflcr which tho blerscd elect” sang with a great deal of en-

thualaam tho hymn:"W e are p u t the coats of Babylon,

And near the heavenly shore ,And we'll never get discouraged “*

Nor disheartened any more." v . Brother Thunnan then preached a sermon

from tbo text. 20lb verse of the 3th chspjer of the second book of Corinthians;

Now, then, wp aro aintiarsadora for Cbriat bongh God did beseech yon by t>s:And we pray you in Christ's stead to get

reconciled to God.”In tho oration, which was a sort of

Bmr-SOOIC XXHORTATICNto the unbelieving, and a glowing expositlnp of lbetrp«:BU*rodoclrinre and the j lys l« b c gained by tho saints thereby, tho preacher re ferred to tbo abominations of Mormonism, which ho staled waa furelold by prophecy to occur exacily when it did, that ia upon the r> h of April, I-cm, the date of lu Aral tnattlu lion.

At the cooctnalon of tbo aermon which w m constantly interrupted by the groans, the amena, and balleU jabs of the faithful, several people lu tho audience asked Thurman and bis associate* aeveral questions, oFwhlcb the fol lowing were the moat pertinent:

Query—Are you people not a continualidb of me sect known aa the Mil'.erileal

Answer.—Yea, the original organization waa called such.

Q.—I understand that there aro many of these poor people here who have disposed of

their goods, bedding, furniture, and every-

*8leal.

will destroy each other, the worl_ _______aged by fire and sword, sod a period of misery -and deaoUtipn-cbma npoo the human rare, auch aa the world hal-never yet known. But tho n Ign of Christ will supersede and end this, and It* term for 1.000 years will be the Bab- bath,

TBB JDOHJLK OP J till l USESand rest for G-id'a people. For this period of tltbe Brian will be bound, and the p tople who hive not acknowledged the Merfraa>iUh»v« an opportunity to becomo reconciled to Him.

Potentates, empire*, and kingdom! will be all "Verthrowo and Christ will rolgo aapreme tyter the earth. At the expiration o f, this 1,-

, r OOO yean all that hive ever been bom since the n time of Adam will be railed from the grave in

their proper bodies. The righteous will be resurrected tl at s td tbe wicked last. The earth will bo fused with fire, aud will conatl lute the lake of fire and brimstone referred to lO/tb* scriptures. Into this lsks the incor rigibly wicked will be call, and will be Imme diately consumed, tbe Adventists believing that God puoiahea tbo wicked with total *n- nlliilatlon, but not lasting torment*. Tae earth will thus be fused or purified but not de stroyed, and will be a habitation of men with Cbriat aa their actual, >lail>|o, and physical •overelgn forever.

Tnelrpom io r UAITISU

la aomewbat peculiar, It being necessary, they bold, to aultaln a triune or three fold hsptlim In the came of the Father, Bon, and' Holy

menion, aa tbe word bspllam la In tne plural and comes from the Greek word bapto, to dip, wberoaa boptiw, the plural, la aeveral dippings. They eaUem the meal of

t u b l o r d 's acri-KH i substitute for tbe Paaohal sacrifice i

llt'le n dialIXL - Q —But fa'nol Ihl* the faett

A.—(Tnurman) I have heard that Borne have done *<•

Q —Now If this thing should not comecll, what are theae people going tla do, a id whsl would you thlnk-abdut itt

A.—(Tnurman) I should think It very bard Indeed. - [Laughter ]

Q. — YoO have people here following you who have put their whole faith iu you, and many of them ari^Ignorant, some not even able to read—how can you answer to them, if this affair does cot come-oft all right f

A.—You are prcsumlog that Christ 1a not coming to morrow. Nowwe presume that he ia —you are baaing your argument upon what la in our view an erroneous aaaumption.

Queilat.— It la not an argument but a quea- live.

A.—Well, the question H premature, and wc* can answer it better the day after to-morrow. [Laughter and confusion |

Another Querial —But what possible expla nation can >oo afford, air, to those who were deluded, when, baring placed their all faith in you, they find that the whole thing

d o bs Not o o r r as you KM-RCTf A —I belli Ve that those who are hero with

ua know whit the term reconciled to God ia They-lean upon tho alrong faith they have in Oo*r, but should they lean upon the short arm of Thurman I pity them. 1 have traveled from place to place without siafl or scrip, and once over the mountains with but 60' 1my pocket, and that didn't belong

over, according to the law, and aim tbat Christ------ - 1 o f the I -------■* " —

---------------- i f e t a ____ ______ , ,make a regular meal of-It, all silling doiju to-

----------------- f the law, and tbat the-with hla dIsolates w u jib* a '

said before, they

THKIR RXCKOMlHOaThey caJcaliate their epochs,' or interpret

the prophetic number* from what la termed the cycles of Jubilees. Under the ancient Mo- aaio dispensation every aeventh year waa a Babballcsl year, or Bsbbath, each seventh 3 aro oatlcal year constituting 4*> year*. Jawiah Um«, wa* a Jubilee year, and Aach seventh JubUee rear was a jubilee of JbcUecs. Should the fulfillment o f tbe prophrev not occur to-night, the expiration of tbe 0,000 years fere told by Dtniel, and according to tha doctrine of theae people, verified by S t John In Revelations, they will abend >n the business aa a bad one and give op trrlng to peer into the future through the medium of prophecy.

YBSTBRDAT'S DO El 118,Religious, exercise* yesterday were conduct

ed by thelr leader and preacher, Elder Thur man, and by ssveral of the brethren In con sequence of tbe limited accommodation* of their own ball, a wretched upper ilaor at a little wooden building on the corner of North Deaplalnaa and Uw North western railroad track (there la, ta fact, a great daoger of "the floor going through to the carriage shop beneath}, Vhe,exsralaea of thar devoted, or ae many call them, tbg demented, band of expectant salate were carried on at BUnley'a hall, on the corner of Paulina and West Lake street*. Bare, at I t o’clock, la the forenoon, were eeeembUd about 160 men and women, member* of this peculiar eachr They were *11 ready for aa in- au n t reception of Ohriat, and groaned and

"Anion, amen, mor’n that."V . m m sM m t h e l a k e .

Miller to the North Side, where, a little north of Lincoln Park, they were formally Im mersed In the lake throe llm e^ according to tne doctrine* of this peculiar sect. Another batch of converts are to be given their freez ing cold_waleg bath at tho tame plaoe this forenoon._____ __________ •

, ilBAHMI.MSM,

What 1* Brahmlnlimr I t la the religion of the Hindoo*, tbe Eastern branch of the-greal Aryan or Indo Germanic race. It la the most ancient form or religion existing, older than that of (he Jews or of Zoroaster. In the course of aeveral mUlenluma this religion ha* under gone many changes, imperceptible at the time when they took place, but in the aggregate ao great that they have entirely changed theprimitive, pure character of that religion, we look at It aa presented to u t in the Veda, and again aa It appear* to the obeen at the present time, we should-be inclined . . think there were two dlfiereot religions The coda of the Rig Veda, Adltl—U a infinite and first cause of everything created—the Adityaha are entirely lost sight of in the modern H in doo Pantheon. Again, the leading gods\>f tbe preeent time, Bikhma, Vlthnor, Shiva, Doorga, Kail Kirin a, ware unknown even "by name to the Eastern Aryan* or primitive Vedi* time*. A religion that had ex ited ao many thousand years must, of course, have consid erable interest for ua, the more *0 ae It la still profeaaed by about

ORB BIOBTH OB TUB HUMAN RACE.I t la generally auppoeed that this religion la

one that cannot atand In the light of our pro •enrtimes, u d that It must soon tuocumb the mlgdonaiie* of the Bible, who are a t wo proeelytinlng the native* of India. Aatopli meat la, lndead, sometimes expreaaed th „ those miaelonarlea have so little to show for

Brabmlnlam waa graduelly being undermined.B uts short tlmo ago Mr. A C Lyall, of tho

ll-ngel OlVll Service, nu« ( tllclstlogaa Sccre- tery to the Governor of India in tne Prone Oe-

.riment In CalcutU, staled In the fvrtnijht lierieif, that Brahminlsm waa

aNTTIIINU 1I0T A DTIHO RBLIOIOM, and that, far from iu number* decreasing, the proeelylcs annnally gained over to It were greater lhan,tbe number of converts to sll the religion* to India together. A statement Hko this, coming from a^gentleman holdlpg the high official posltuiu iff Hr. Lyall, must, of course, have great, weight; noverthelees the writer of thl* arrtcie, wnb-hasalao lived many yeara In India, disagree* with him Uu due* not bv an means call In question Mr. Lyairit assertion aa to the proselytes annually gained over to Brahminlsm. He only denies the in ference that aucb conversions are the clearest sign of the vljallty of lAyferellglon. A patient suficring from a fatal which has foryear* prostrated him pliyalcaUy and mentally, often recover* tbo full use of hi* faculties for short periods previous to death, but no phyei Ian would pronounce sock

TEUI-ORAhV BI-ARtB < r LIVEproof of tho patient's recovery from llloeia, m the contrary, he will therein see tbe cer-

.Jtn sign* of early death. I regard similarly this temporary revival (It sucb It can bewailed) of Urahiriniam only as a precursor to the cer tain extinction, at no very distant dale, of tno religion of Usins. Vubnor. and Shiva

Tela religion baa now become so < llete, im moral and corrupt tbat the mure enlightened of tbe Hindoos havo long stneo lost faith in Ibcir gods Brahminlsm iu India is now to a situation similar to tbe religion of Greece and Homo to the third and fourth centuries of our era A t.that period the massea of the Homan world gave a kind of tacit adherence to the' prevailing religion from force of habit; but philosophers, statesmen, and all educated peo pie had long ainco ceased to respect and wor ship

TDK OLYMPIC HODS.Degraded ns waa the worship of Jupiter,

.Minerva and the other godaof Olympus, there were other religions in thd Hrman Empire still more degraded; for example, ibal of the Druid* in Gaul and Britain. Kvco aa regard! conversions, the. parallel holds good, for tbo religlon^nf Rural-, waa gaining proselyte* in varlousdirovin/ea at a time when it waa about to expire altogether.

Tncao-firtSeljJscs belong entirely lo th< pre-Arran races inhabiting tbe highlands of Central Southern India, aa well aa tbo other hill regions of the Indian peninsula. They be long lo the K-darlan and Dravidlan race* They are the Dariaha (nr bill men) of India, the men without any caste, or outcast* from Hindoo societv. Some of these tribes, mostly those of the Kolarjau or Northern group of tbe aborigines, are probably tbe untnlxed or slmoat unmixml descendants<If tho very uldcil Inhabitants of India.

tu b ihuv id ish o r souTnBKN ouotrrtt. on the contrary, are the mixed deicendanU of the very oldest inhabitants with the conqueror! of the Caahlte race, who held away in India long before tbe immigration of thu Artao race. At what period tbese--While Ethiopians of Arabia (Duaba Dwcepcr. aa it is called iu the Veds)*lirsl obtained power in India is un known now, but that event was probably con temporaneous with tbe first occupation by the same race <It Egypt, if not anterior to It, aay tl 000 yeara ago or more.

Tne natiwea of India havo the impression that the l!./rtsh Government la opposed to proselytizing In the favor of Christianity The attitudo of the Honorable E tat India Company waa certainty always uccnristiaa. It is a matter of history that when Carey. Mvrshnian and Ward, the first Christian mis- aionarfea, arrived in Calcutta, leas than eighty years ago, tbo then Government of India re fused to accord them permission to reside within the dominions- of the company. The asylum refused them by theft own country mcn waa granted lo them by the Governor of the neighboring Danish colony of Serampore,

WUKKB THEY OuMMKMCSn THHIU LAIVORS,and translated tbe Bible into several native language! The opposition of the Honorabio East India Company became, under pressure -from England, gradually weaker, but It* at titude was always more or less h -stile to Chris tianlty and lo Christian ui'sslonarie* up to tbe lime uf IU extraction in ItvJS Since tho as sumption of tbe government of India by tbe Queen of England, the policy of that eovtro- im.ni has Keen, aa announced by He- M-jealy's proclamation of November 1, '1658, use of Strict neutrality. There la now n« overt op position lo Christianity, and native Curiatlana may be employed in any and every capacity under government. Thirty years ago Ibis waa prohibited, but government official* arallowed, under any circumstance, t o ____their official authority toward pioielytlDg na tives. I* it then surprising that, In tho face of the traditionary hostile polity of the gov ernment, the half civikzed natives of India should misunderstand the strict neatrality ofthe government in religious m*Uert, and pose the god* to look with disfavor on p i . . . Iytes to Christianity t That feelllig ja nrju-t to the god* of -India at present, but It is a face

'M rs . J u l i a U . D lc k in x o n .

This Medical Clairvoyant and Healing Me dium baa arrived in Chicago, and ta slopping temporarily a t - 148 Weal Washington street. During her traveia in England, she made many warm friendi,*and performed many remarks-

One of (he highest use* which Spiritualism has beslowed upon society la tpn development of the clairvoyant faculty, latent in thousand* of Individual*, whereby, amongst Other things, tho nature of disease can be accurately deter mined, and a suitable prescription given. A. clairvoyant not only aeea with the eye of the

physical ol forces or a

bey service* more valuable U that by sending her a lock of hair or article of clothing with a few symptoms, the can In moat cases operate as andoeeefuliy u [f the patient were before

objects become transparent, the vital________aplrttual energies being revealed tothe observation. By thla wonderful power the exact nature of disease* can be determined which entirely h* (Be the skill of the ordinary phyalotan, and simple remedies frequently prevail In cases where numerous highly sclen- tlfin medicine* have proved unsnooeaeful.

In this sphere o l usefulness there la, at pres ent Bate— * — * 1----- a — -i— u -Julla H _ ____ ________________________highly anooesaful In numerous Instance*. Our column* bore frequent testimony to bar power* during bar former visit to this country. u'—

------- “* 1------- **— —v,,“ -• Liverpool,conanltcd

Charlotte Dixon, of Liverpool, writing to the same paper, says:

Mr*. Dickinson la dlrotlng some really won- devful cure* In Liverpool A case under my own notice baa occurred of an extraordinary character. Mr*. M ingin, of 23, Bean Street, a friend of mine, a poor woman who has been

(■uflerlng from cbronlo rheumallfa and en largement qf the heart, h u , alnce the 3rd of October, 1M7, not been able to rlso from her bed, or even turn her head upon her pillow, 'and bad been given up by aucb doctors aa It has been lo her power to secure. After lh*- flrat magnetic treatment by Mr*. Dickinson ahe waa enabled lo alt op in her chair, and now, after tome other four or five treatments, ahe la ablo to walk from the bed to the chair, aud aew for hour*, and all that teem* lo be re quired ta nourlahmcnt, which It 1* oil’, of her power to obtain, being a widow, and having nothing but a widowed mother to depend

T H E T W O T R A V E L E R S ..

’Tw»d evcotng, and before my eye*

id clouds tbat hid the borir. m'a brim, taw- or wa* it that I dreamed!A WakiDg dreamt I can not say;

'or every soape as real teemed As those that meet my eye to day.

Through lo ll ihruha the cold wind hissed;The air w u thick with falling anow;

And onward, through tho frozeo mill,1 - weary traveler .go.

Driven o'er that laodacape bare and bleak, Before t'-e whirling guau of air,

Tbe tno* Hikes amnte hla withered cheek,Aud gathered on h it sliver hair,

Yet on be fared through the blludlng mows. And murmuring to himself no said:

"The night 1s near, tbe darkness growa,And higher rise the drifts I Head.

• D'-ep, deep each autumn U iwer they hide;Each tuft of green they whelm from alget;

And they w hoj -urnryed my side Are lost In \no surrounding nigbL

“ I loved them; oh, no words can tell The I--TU tbat to my friends I bore.

Wc parted WHh the sad farewell Of those who part to meet no more.

"And I who face this bitter Wind,And o'er three snowy hillocks creep,

Mu-l end m> i mroey soon, and find A frosty c >uch, a froxun sleep.

X« thus he spoke, a thrill of pain Shot to my heart; 1 closed my eyes.

And when t opened them agsin 1 tu n e d with a glad surprise.

T wai evening atlll, and In tha west A flush of glowing crimson lay,

I saw the moiroar there, and bleat That promise of a glorious day.

The waters In their glassy sleep.Shone with the hues that tinged the sky,

And ragged rbfi and barren McCp Gleamed with a brightness from on high.

And onfe was there whose j ramey lay Into tbe slowly gathering night;

With steady atop tie held bis wsy O'efc’shadowy valo and gleaming height

I market hla firm and weary tread,Tbe lifted eye, and brow tereno,

And aaw no shadow of doubt or dread Pass o’er that traveler's plscld mlou.

And others came, their Journey o'er,And bade good night with words of cbcei‘

"T o morrow wu shall meet once more;'T I* but the night that parti us hero."

“ And I,” h* said, ' shall a1o> p ere long Three fading gleams will s->on be gone- -

Shall alerp to rise refreshed and strong.In the brightdsy^hat yet will dawn. ’1

.1 heard; I wa'cWrd him aa he went,A lessening form, until tbe Jjght

Of earning 'rout the firmamentHad passed, and he wa s lost to sight .

Wn.tuM CuttBN Bryant. Atiantie Mmthly fer Ftbruary

About one year ago the people (some of them) were astonished to learn tho following ‘ - -that tbe " Brooklyn I’teabyUry bee

__________ _ /reebyterv had lo times p u tpositively affirmed that Mta* Hmlly's preach. [pg w u a violation, elc., and it tells tbe'world tbat the little lady treated tbe great injunction with tho contempt it richly merited. It also shows ua that the orthodox God, "w ho bear* tbe ravens when they cry," dIJ net hear the croaking of the Brooklyn ravens, but that He did graciously permit thla bold (Inner to *'IIve and move and have a bring;” yea, lo preach, too, for I see by the Union that ah* b u lately been preaching In Mrtnudlal, Baptist end Pres bvteilan churches In Cincinnati, O , nod score* of Infidel* dock to "bea r her gladly," and many of tbe "satnU of the Moot High” fol low after her. What will tbe orthodox Zion do If their Qod doe* not Interfere In their be half and remove this trespasser out of the way, for the people will fixik to hear, even if the

^Brooklyn Presbytery should continue to in- Jiiecl until they grow gray-end' tarn black in the face. Still U seems that en Injancliqp from so august end mij satlo e body as an i

before I t - Why did they tally Was lK>'bec*u*o----- ■ * ->&*»“ *--------------------- ' *

' m

_________ . th e y _________________and see If tnelr God will not answer their do-

-------- I t appears tbat the lnfiu_____ igtoua leader* and teapber* In Brook

lyn I* at qaite * low ebb In " thSas latter day*.’’ I would auggest-that they re affirm once more

ib course that E Jah did lo the prophet*

J -urney, or peradventure healeepeth, at be awaked, and would also say, perhahad better (Ilk* pious Bsal'a priest.) "cu_____selves with knives and lancets, even until the blood rushed out,” or like the holy D tvid, tear their baft or rend their old olotbes u e proof that they, feel vary bad, If not worse. I think. If they bang on end won't let him go until ha b leu them, t h u he will grant thair rrqqest. Ilk* the uolost j idg t that wf read of, " Leal ye weary me.1' Perseverance make* ike astute. /

Star field, 111. T. j | Moomn. I

N o te s fro m C le v e la n d , O h io .

The Anniversary day was one of the most ploau.nl of tbe season. We depended entirely on home talent for speaking. -At half-past ten the chairman, F. C. Rich, called the meet ing to erder, and after sieging by the eholr, introduced our venerable Father, Ja*. Law rence. After ■ few remark* by Mr. Lawrence, an account of the origin of the anni verasiy cele bration w u read from the Year Book of Bplr- ltualiam by D. 6 . Critchby, followed by abort addresses from Brother* L. 'Nichols, A U, Webster, Dr. Rose, BUIera Mrs Thompson, Mr*. Drake, and other* occupying the time vory pleasantly and profitably until adjournment at — Aft ernoon, aaaalon —**opened at half-past one by singing by tho

.chojr, followed by declamsuoua, singing, dia logues, etc., by the children and member* ofthe Lyceum, all acquitting themselves noblv. After the exercise* were concluded, the fol lowing resolution w u oflered byT. Lecz, and passed unanimously:

Wh x r e a s , In the natural and legitimate or der of events, our laio follow clt r.en, brother, Spiritualist, co-worker aRtl friend, D Pratt, b u passed through that chemical change called death, thereby taking ' ’vanre of us in.carth-lif. , tbert

IbmKved, That wc. aa a b o d j____________beie-ayr-mbled In honor of the 2<th Anniver sary of'M*«d«rn Spiritualism, do unite In ofler- ing our sincere condolence to h it bereaved widow and children, feeling assured they most acutely fee! the sudden removal -of one to near and dear to them and all wh*i knew bitn.

A more harmonious and pleasant time sel dom falls to tno lut of mortal.

In the evening, dancing commenced at 8 'clock, and waa kept up till tbe wee amt'

hours, by a large and highly pleased <• impxny. Thus ended our 27;h Aon*vora*ry~uot soon to lw forgotten by. the pnrllclp*nl(.

Fraternally yours. A D u r l a p."dl Whitman direct.

A CliulD 'tiirt!.

Caiiio, It 1, , April 3th, 1873.. Pro? «*, U BcnnKsa, Indianapolis, Ind^

Di/ar Bth —A* tbo point of discussion be-

and published, and inasmuch as we desire a debate on tho merits of the Bible between competent disputant* be reported and publish ed, that the real merits of the argument* of both sides may be set forth in s mannor that will afford itrfTTmblic an opportunity lo judge drllbtraleljf of the superhuman claim* of tho illble, therefore we, the Liberal Religion* As sociation, baying full > rafidenco in B F. Un derwood’s ability, invite you to a joint discus sion with him tho following proposition:—

/Jr»2rc-£^jp*at the Did and New Testament Scripture* aro merely human composition*, abounding in errors, contradiction* and Im moralities. and a belief In their superhuman origin la productive of great evil.

We think thla discussion should continue at least six sessions, of two hours each.

Please inform us at your earliest convenience of your acceptance of this invitation, and aa to the time that will auit your convenience for Urn same. & ,

Thla discussion to be rr ported and pub lished

IvxBCCTtv* CoMmrrvK

IFa u t l a r a m > T a v l o h wifi leave London about the first of May, for this country. Tbcy have a host of warm fiienda here, who will welcome tb»ir relnrn.

. TH E A NSW Kit.

KY SARAH B ItOWK.

I would not have you lift for “me, tho ckiso wrougbt.vell of destiny.

Fur aaon I shall Brand face to face, with what Is now—the'yet lo bt.1

I would not know of hills to climb, of vile* to which I must descend,

Of shadow* which may cloud my path, or any bliss which JicaJ&yond.

Known before, least ills would grow to giant* lowering grim aud gray,

O'erabadowing .the sweetest .1 iys, with which tho Father geme our way, *

Prospective good would draw tbo heart too far beyood Its pretenlfbands,

And dally care* by faith msdo.'lighl, would •com great weight* upon the hands—

Thu* might I slight tho thunsand helps, tbat atrcam.Iike ever towards me roll,

And in my haste for future Joy, lose blessing* and defraud my soul.

Leave me then patiently: to climb, 1 way up lire’* rugged Keep,

To catch the sheen aa beat I may—1

climb, my glad

_________________________ . best Ican to brave lbs aleetl

Bo shall my toiling aoul grow strong,' In little dalles daily done,

Thu* shall I yet possess myaelf, by all loyal victories won,

And tread with faith and hope along tho on- " explored way.

Learn atop by step mydeetlny, aa the hoqrare veal the da> I I

For surely 1 can trust the Power which bo ld ed all Life’s myatsry, x

From coy being's natal hour, through cycle!

Fredonla, n Ty .

-ROTALI n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y ,

OF-JitYlRPOOL.

U nlimited L iability o f Stockholder*: Lowt aoj Jibod and pal* wlttoiil daisy 1

Urctpool 01 1 laenbate. - - vbee at Atasnlaa la* Principal Taaiaa.

CHARLES H. CASE,j._I fa aa k sr fo r th e Msrtkwe**^

1 2 0 L o S a IIo S t r e e t , C h ic a g o / t i l .A t—

Eggs Kepi FreshD r s Mew Hslhsd, )

Far one-half eent per Dssaa.' ltir««e*Ulths*paiu. karp Usa frart lav tha marfc- •l u-xt naK», aad rrallaa from IM IiM Ipaiw tH l

Old Bittfer Rendered Siren, cud lh« rich, rails* Jana tint Unirwl to *h>U «*4*r, b. recant ch.mu:U dr-coaerlaa Write for. psrtlealant .Almpi* vitacnoLcngMisriiy co, it Douu. m

^ . . . u - w .

Sjrntb luearo no mnob, boto« 'it nn ijunmn *ljrhit, arena neither place nor npplunse: Bbr onlr nehe a bearing.

"VOL. XV III. CHICAGO, IVIA.'Y: 8, 1875. IfcTO■ ^ TH E OTITKU W ORUI.

BY HARRIET BKKCBRH.'l-rnWR

II Ilea around da like a cloud A world they do not aw .

Yet Uie awoel dosing of an eye May bring us there to be.'

Ita gentle breezes fan our cheek; fimld'our worldly care*.

1U gentle voioea whisper love,And mingle with nut prayers.

Sweet heart* around tta throb anJ beat, Bwect helping bamla ar atirred,

And palpitates the veil between With breathings almost heard.

The silence—awful, awcet and calm— They have no power to break;

For mortal worda aro not for them To niter or partake.

80 thin, so soft, so awcet they glide,Hj near to press they scotr, —

They aocm to lull us to our real.And melt Into our dream.

And In the tuVb of rest they bring •Tii easy now to ice,

llow lovtly and how sweet a paaa The hour of death may be;

To close the eye, and close tho ear, Wrapped in a trauce of bills,

And gently laid in loving arms.To awooo to that—from thti;

Bcarcg knowing If w* wake or aloop, Hearce asking where we are,

To feci all evil aiDk away,All sorrow and all care.

Sweet soiria around ua watch ua still. Tress nearer to our side;

Into pur thougoU, Into our prayers,' With gentle helping glide.

Let death between us be as otugbl - A dried and vanished stream;

Your Joy bo tho reality.Our auQerlog life the dream,

N E W Y O R K C IT Y .

LETTSH FROM J. F HSIl'RH

Tho subject of Spiritualism bas taken pos session of the '■*

NSW YORK I'UONi OHAI'HUlSociety, of w hlchl have the honor to be tho huinbla editor and critic. Tnla Society la computed of practical reporters and students of pbonogrspny, and meets every Sa'utdsy evening in the Bulb District Court ltooms, dth Av, and 27ih 8 t

April 31, tee Trealdent, E Toalson, E>q opened a diacusalnn with an able casay. deal-

Wrjknow not where we were, wehardly know where we are, and would certainly like to know where we are going.

April dih I metVS W r. aSDKllBDN,

tho spirit artist, at the home of Mr. and Mra Llndaley and family. 31 -Av. and 129 Hi. Mrs. Llndsley (tynneriy Mra Waterman), beg.

-proved heraolf a good medium fur answering sealed letters under tbs direction of their legsl friend, Hufua Choate, and also for tests under the control of an Indian spirit named Sunny

that Juat aa I entered an old man had appeared before her with an hour gists In hla hand, and •■sJhlie kn king at It, It abtvered in pieces. and she esteemed It a algu that the aands of her life were nearly run out. Very recently I called •galo, and was Informed that three dayi be fore her body waa burled.

We have much rcasoo to rtjolce In. the pro gross of spirit pbotovraphv. Mr. New.lon, who is president of the New York Photographic Association, ami who consequently has great ialluence with the profession, fi}r some time past has been endeavoring to ‘.obtain spirit forms In hia own bouae, but without success^ untii-rcceully, when, after accurtofc tiit^pfp*-- ence of tho wonderful phenoroenStSoWlTum, Dr 8 ladr. and following ajMTTIrcctlon. he has obtained excellent likgbceeCa of the dear deparlc<LT-and Judging Wrote the fpeclmcne seen, iheyWF-wyisHor In the important merit of natnral HiatihcUvcncai to soy 1 have aeon, with perbape one exception, text la. to those obtained by

MR. T. U. EVANS,Ml Iliwery, nearly unpotilo Cooper Inatitule. The pictures received by this gentleman arc creating considerable interest *(111 llo was formerly among the scornful, and a. photo grapher in Washington, but the spirits so much Interfered (blessed Interference) with bit ordinary bualoets ho scarcely Sat a tingle peraou without

tm im .l nxsri.tn, which he suppoeed were simple remnants of previous sllttugs, until the extra forms were recognized by tho sitter K algntog the regu lar buslnesi, and himself to ihejntluecce, he nqw receive* faces tnd writings in the dark,

WITHOUT ANY CAMERA,only requiring a sensitive plate. He relies confidently upon his guides, chief of whom Is his former partner in tho photographic busi ness Already his sneer et here Is assured; will give you further, particulars after a peraonal trial.

Apropos of tho practical benefits Yji^splrtt conversation iwblla Ms okjsotolcommualoa is

__________________ ,__.. _ . said So bemodlpmt for

TRANCS AMD RSI'Sunder the Influence of tiilverlne, Bnowbxnk and Crystal. V.-rlly out or the mouth of babe* and suckling* i l j ordaloath praise.

On this occasion we sat around a Urge ex tension Uhls, whan by request the tM < open, ed in the center, and could not' be ro shut. Toen fuut-of us sal.upon the tabJb,' whoa It roso from the floor, the weight as least- of flvo hundred pounds.

Mr. Anderson, under Influence, retired to theadtolnlng room, liking with him a Urge blank aboel of drawing paper, torn on the edge and otherwise marked for ldeallfloation, and InJa il ulna minutes, Including the preparation, be bad sketched upon the same paper a life lia r picture of an aged lady, which, however,waa not recogniss-l by a u r ---- ------------ *—upon a second trial he prod time, a beautiful lixencss

or a u r r u i r o t , 1with marked features and carls, which igu reooguiasd at once by a H ra Btevsnt. as an excellent portrait of fyrlilam Henry L oyster, her brother's child. Toe lady seemed aur-

deligbtad, and promised to bring aph, which -------------- *-his photograph, whloh compares exactly.

TaavartUl and the lady never met before.- ■"■fTAndefara'srooms areal 803 W .Illh 8L where he baa numerous interesting portraits of sptrllA beautifully draws throngs his organ ism oy spirit artists. Whan reooghited ale

A short time sgbfc tiled upbn

naturally and.wisely to Implra our spirits with a desire for the cultivation of the gT " live forever, and contentment andlabor for the necessary things of this life, we do often reoelve material aid from unseen s >urcei, aa evidenced by au acoouol Just given

' r the gentlemanly co laborer of Dr Blade, llmmone. A man of promloence (whose can be given) by meana of advice from

but for which aptrit directloo, he would havo been compelled by law to pay the note again.

Visitor* to Dr. Blade's rooms will bo Inter ested In a photograph of a page of writing which waa done directly by tuo spirit wife or

air and moved out from under the ta b le ___over It. In a singular way. I put my foot on the rigbt foot of the medium, wnlle Ms left limb was In sight, and tho table awuog up a >y. was enabled bx jhsUt and bung steadily in the air a minute or

he had duly paid w , dropping again boavlly on tho It wr, and r«>*MWi 1 ioon Upping upy'with Ita edge In my lap and

thus standing noaily at rlgat angles to tho

done directly by tuo spirit wife_ „----------a from anolhcrcity, who promkhim If he wonld go to the medium and provido paper, pen and Ink. iho herself would write for btm. The gentleman with some doubt in h liand hi* fttmiy's mind, ofany such power, came to New Tfork and eat down with the me diant, when the spirit hand of his wifo, fully materialized, took the pen from nls band, and wrote him tho aforesaid aOectlonato test letter.

To the unaplritualistlc world, the amount of Spiritualism which Is bcipg developed In the Beecher scandal Is astonishing; but will not be when 11 discovers that the great defendant and hia Irsscr stars are true believers, and more, that Mrs. Tilton herself is a trance medium, and haa been Mr. Beecher’s oracle for years I

Hope yoitwlU publish tho pipsra onI-HATIt, Otl-tltX PATHWAY FROM RABTH TO

/ il-IHIT LIFE,In substantial book form/ when completed. Tney aro ccrulnly worth more Man a Muuaafad work* of Action:

April Sib. I visited a "materialiastlon" at the home of a lady who claims to be controlled her performance by the spirit of her Ural he. hand. The programme consisted of placing flvo thlckneases of Eourlplaster over her mouth, taen lying of hernaods behind her with rope (waxed cord was rtfasod) sad entry Into • Cab in;!. A lamp threw an oblique light on the window of tha box. After preliminary sing ing of "John Brown," a masculine voice w*a hear4 within, a hand made its appearance, then the face of an old man, fall gray beard and hair. Taen after more familiar talk from the deceased's Aral husband, withgrammar, In a wheexy voice, ai____ _____appeared, that of the aforesaid husband, re sembling a photograph on the wall. The speaking at first * « did} toll as If pumped up. afterward cleared,'but always forced. A third face appeared; teat of an old lady. Nnlutor of thb three boada were recogo-xad, or-gtve an Indication Of humanlike suppleness. Tne oompiny ware permitted to look Into the cabi net while, the spirit was talking, hut, although the spirit bid ssld be w u compelled to tahe on the earth form in order to t-Jk, there waa no second form to be seen^tSiUne voice appeared onmliUkibly to Uiuo

rHOM TUB ITOX4CB of tha Bedlam. Tne doors of the cabinet were opened, the tiller pulled oat, boned, seemingly deeply entranced, the plasters were removed, and the collection taken up. A few days after, the tame piety, with her associate*, gave anotbsr tilting, the result of wulch waa the appesranoe of in* sta te throe, face* — Considering tne stala-neat that waa first ns that Innarmony had no ta se t upon the manifestations) that they are alwsye going away aaxtda>; that the fsoes and bands ware

_______three identical face* appeared a* before; that a lady present tai l she certainly saw s wrist beneath the mask of tho old lady at>lilT, that the voices sometimes tapered into one an other. and could be Justly attributed to skillful veotrlli quism. and that oar own spiriifrieod* warned ox of deception after the rshibitioo;- considering ail these facts, wo are rather In cloned to conclude that another.weak. picked

tan la cheating her own soul of the reward good conscience, and her credtiluua disci

--------and money. '

i t io f a good conscton [/e* of Iheir wit* i

I t.

of Mr Blade,my wife, 1 visited thewhom I bad not seen for some years. We seated ourselves on three sides of * .table four feel or more iquare, near the mtadlo of a par lor, perhaps, twenty feet rquare, well lighted by two large windows,'add with no cabinet or other unusual furniture It needs not that 1 give you details of all we stw and heard, bi-l wo were quite aalirtled that Mr! Blade not on l£ retains toe powers he had In ye ire past,' when wo often saw him, but that those power* have grown and that the manifestation* are more-marked and varied than ever.

Boon came clear rapt on the table and chairs, then the aisle, held close under the table by the medium, bad written on It a mes sage by Mrs. A. W Blade, who teemed thus lo set as smanuenilt for twp valued friends In tho tfplril lsn<t><rhw sent grilling* to us - My chair wM'tuovcd back and forth a foot or more, a large arm chair opposite ma was mov ed some two feet toward my wife and away from Blade, and then back again, and a mar ble lop table aome four feel distant was mov ed and lipped about, with no l)*nd near It. I was repoatedly grasped on Ibe nose as by a large hand, my wife's shawl aed sleeve, on the side next to me, was pulled several lime*, and 1 taw the finger* of a hand reach up and take bold of It, and alto i*« a haul reach up and draw her handkerchief-over the edge of the table—on the opposite aide, away from the medium or from any pf ua. I saw a light

Tee's!and a a ------- --------------- — ---------------- -do one bat myself toucalng it. Tbo same slate waa laid at IhooppoalW edge of the table, near three feet from any of ua, and a message came, wnb no band near It.

A double slate opening.on hinges, waa laid open before mo, a small piece of pcucll, bitten ott byMhe medium laid In, it was abut up be fore me, and 1 laid my hand on one end, Blade touching the other end with .wo tijgers.

terlaiizing wltnout written may be food for thought to others, _ It was aq hour of rare enj oymaul and spiritual communion to ua.

We next went to Mr. Mansfield' ______rooms on B.xtb Avenue, and ( ta t down oppo site him at a table between the front windows, my rtgnt band toacalog bis left on the table, while ne kad pencil and paper before him Boon hi* arm trembled aa with maguotio thrills and tne furefluger rapped the table like the click of tbo tclcgrapn instrument. He Oiled a long page wmeu 1 ouly could read a* It was signed and passed over tome, and I found It s cnaracteriAiio communication from my friend, I£. B. Ward, speaking of bis late de par,are' mentioning persons,events, and piths orulfeh by nl* sudden transition, %nd signed as no siwayn wrote hie name, who tne Imuais of his first oil me a I aimpiy said, •• 1 tntnk I endersiand/iai*." Mr. Mansfield weal lo the utner eu-rof in* room So show my wife mctttfS*, find said Id me, •* Write to tha

'•on or any other." 1 wrote so him, fol__ _but of signs and laid U before Mansfield, wno tuucoed it with paste, folded It unoe over, sod

my two questions, to tne order 1

Again, Mans Held left me and I bsgan rlgni." and followed by two mow queitl— folding all in as below, and ag.ru hs sal down and pasted and folded, phased bis Hager over ta* folded saoei, I smiag in both cams some six feet distant, and wrote a reply, be- glnolng, - Yes, all. is rlgnt," and going on to answer my qua*lions aa cisarly and concisely as before. Mr. Mihail aid said n# had nevar Seen Mr. Ward and whew very Bid* of him. I think Mr Ward did mot know aim, and e v u It ta*y nad met toe mention, of p«eoas of late wants and of plans, only sormUM oy others and known bat by Ms Ml* resident of .Ml* city, were beyond tbs normal kgowtedgs of

To us tt was ftmarkablw, talUtaeiory and

natural, as my friend was a Hplrliualtti, waa sometime* In the habit of seeiag mediums,. and wi-uld thus be ready to make a way'for returning to ua

A mad »f great power of will, meutai strength and clearoesa of judgment, he visited mediums, weighed their messages, and \bon decided for himself, never blindly following spirit* either out of the morMl form or ia it, as 1 havo heard him any repeatedly.

After all 111# was over, my wife sat down, wrote a few words, and tho answer was given as before, only in print, like a child’s tllort. sod signed by the awret name of a child among the ange!*, As the medium knew noth ing of our fginily—this was especially satis

I was s dsy to be remembered, and a pleaa-cloie of ten days' slay in New York, dur

Ing which time I h-.d tho privilege of meeting and Addressing • company of thoughtful and Intelligent persons who braved storm and snow and mud to reach the hall on two Sundays,

Your* truly,G. H, SmiiniN*

Detroit. Mich.

O cu n lf f li- lca ro .

Tlta t;IJC|1»INIAN P1t(U'SJI'nY, OH Til* KIXNCa c f l io u t , u r a a n d u>va.

The principles governing this science have come down lo u*. through the lapse of age*, from the Mteusinlsn philosophers, tu whoao dsy lived ttnrlsl, Jhe accepted savior of the or- thodux^Sworid, Whether Christ learned of theso men, or they of him, la In history a mooted question, via this aa It may, He and they wero certainly governed by the Love prin ciple, so far as by their aoa. the visitation of our race la concerned. Here and there aome are-found who have prostituted these O id- giveo powers for base. Ignoble sod wicked purposes. Hence, the revengeful sad terrible —and paid for—.llucts wrought by the Voodoo and -tiler* who dallgal Is utdag these tfljcllve forces of the soul, of (limes to the destruction of life. This Is simply wbst we kpow aa tbo black art. A belter -day la now dawning on our world, and men are seek log to work on a higher plane. An almost impenetrable mys tery hai heretofore ahropdod from view these grand and sublime truths, aa were once enun ciated by these old philosophers To dsy toe veil Is being raised to'the daring and the true. Due* not the world heed a moral, a toclaj rev olution of thought, feeling and action, where by men would be exalted to a higher planer Is there a power, outaldo of angel Intienc*, org.nir.sd on this green earth able to i II ,<t thii end? Toe churches have failed to a greater or leu extent; so have the dtflorrtnt orders. WbyT Because they have failed tu duty. Tuo baste principle, love, which underlies all others, h** Ix-eo, is, and uovdoubt will be. Ignored, prac tically, and hence tho failure Wc present these prioclplea, not as a new religion, bul aa ver itable, tangible , f*CU; and truth. If It be cultivated, makes s man a pnwer in the world, yea, Pi the ruling of, almost, destiny. T u fire worship of the ancients was, and was not, in a sense, a mythical worship Tueao wqtahlp-rt understood themselves, and Jast so far as (Ary developed the Innate or occult forces of their souls, were they superior to the men of to day,-a* the sun 1* superior to tbo moon. They wore mystical, we more mat ter of fact; hence tbelr powey. Tho subtle force which lihpcts and cnabKs u* to accom

-pllsh a go Hi f t evil eod^nust bo sought for sway down in tho depths of our souls. If you sock Vo know the loflalle, you can to a greater or less extent. To know without reasoning 1* the grand point, and u attainable. If you seek to know aught of tbo hidden mysteries of nature and ot God, you will be brought face lo face with your past and present ex periences, sod au Insight given -Th Iho depths of the future. Verily, God never sleeps, anA his ear It ever open lo pleading mortals, i n f It ever ready to answer through those subtle Influences ho uses as IhSLmetMogers of knowl edge. What those IClloehces are we say not; albeit we know. Burs and there we aee the footprints of,*mortals who havo braved the angry storm, r.ucrod the mystic tempts, raise ! the veil of lsts, sod gathered the long sought for treasure*. If jo a with to apply MU power to the cure of disease, 'lU easy to do so, and with magical eflec>, 1 care not how great the 0 (stance Would you rather aid In subduingdisease, than stand idly by and see lire patient die? Disease Is but Me disintegration of the moltcslar forces, tha t dwvroylffg the equili brium of M* positive sad negttlve condition,

- and what more powerful remedial agent can be broaght to bear than the electrical, mag nolle and ethereal for oca of the human s o u l T aste were Me mesas used by the men of old. sad with a right uodsnuodlog ot the law* and conditions governing them. Me tick are cared by magic, aa It were; th* dead almost raised; man and nation* exalted In tha scale of being; the world redeemed, and.God glorifltd In Me oaeof Mae* Innate, graqd, and noble power* He himself ha* glvtn lo mao. Oo, learn and be.wlset foe In troth, IhU U the science o* Light, Life and Live.

O a Bi h u t , M. D :;0. aSpringfield, Ohio.

A m u Incarcerated la U a Tomb* at New York figured U oha'k on the walla of kit o*U. I t reads M an " I t N iw Y o ik d ty tha spire* of U rea'hundred and forty two eharehsa w orts f ill 110.000. p rin t heavenwards- 1 apt hare for mealing a loaf of bread for my starr ing child."

A VVoi t l-’o r c l t jn c r .

The recent sncsllcd rxposee In Spiritual- m have, aa the nrgaos of Mia religious and

philosophical movement show, called fbrth sympathetic contribution! in regard to Iho treatment due to mediums In general. The Ute very able -article cn this ad jec t, by Mra L miss Andrews, whilst It advance* very Just claims lo respect to-tbe CL-ntideralloo due tu such acnailivo nalurts. leaves, nevertheless, the question as to how the counterfeit of me- dlumsbip Is to be dealt with, untouched. T hat1 s genuine medium has by right of hia or her peculiar sensitive organization, au UDilitnula- ■

claim upon our forbearance and kin Jh«*a, one will deny, but pail event* have sbowh to wbst great c lien t false mediumshtp li

practiced. A hundred y**rs ago, when Spirit- ‘ m meant wttcbcratl, and was imeuaMo to

___we allowed our true mediums Uibe burnt,Imog, sud q lartcred) tho pour creature* Were cruelly bunted down from placebo place, and no shelter w»* a-crel enough.to protect them against the blind and ignorant wrath of a mis takaa* *c*l I" ' the right. Time* and wen and opinion* have since changed; Spiritualism, though it is not wholly cleared yet of lueetig- ina of dgvdlry, baa nevertheless conquered tor Itself, iff the eyes of j Ml and reaiouabln peo ple, a resprcublc place among the many other w u that vie for pro eminence; mediums are no longer persecuted, they are sought alter, but, in our eagerness to atono for to* miatakc* of our forefathers. We are ruauing 16to tn oppo site eitreufCT by unduly and unwiaely plaiting til mediums Thu question resolves IMelf somewhat to this: Wu*«l is charily’ It mayhave teemdd to tho Jew* of old an Innocent and very allowable Ming to sell doves, and change money, and IretUi In U.e temple, bat Christ Judged otherwise, and whilst hia doc trine is all meekness and love, Me energy with which he rebuked Me venders^ ought to be both a lesson and an example to na as to bow au eyil It to be dealt with. A murderer that cornea steaHbtty upon u* tu the night, with in tent to kill and foo. is btlt^uBSt with a loaded pistol than with moyal *jM»lonp-it were very m isukea ' charity to f preach to him on tho to il of tbo Golden lisle. The question/- la not to persecute a wrong doer, but to pro-* lest by active meaui agaiml Me wrong*- he does, to stand up for a principle, sod cither enforoe it, or prevent its being trampled under foot, least of all lo overlook and excuie Me false in view of the true mixed with it; such compromise can only be fatal to a cause-

h it urged Mat in the present as yet unde veloped stale of BplmuaUspi, we can not Judge- can not distinguish trus modiumtblp from false, and that il is better to risk encour aging Me fatso Man u Jure the true, The ob J-ctlon holds only good to a Certain ci.eut,Wd know quite cnoughVif spirit manifests- lions not to remain long in doubt s i to Muir genuineness U rotti-y nas its own unmislska- Ele ring; itonly req tires an honest and prac Uced ear to Juuge of the sound. A few seances ought to bring to tbo one or the other member of a circle communications that contain Meir own inherent truth. Buch tests are far more aatufaclory than soy rope, cage, or bag expo- i rimeat, for wnat cunirtvauc<i agilott d.cup- tlonl* Mo Jugglery of ..ur days not iq is l lot Its canning aiuioat aoumnla to genius. Be- ■ idetrit is uot to be supposed luai >uch a gift would be so largely, to promiscuously, so. In- discrimlnstely busuwod. !"he cjuuiry is ac tually swarming wtM mediums of over/ des cription, tnd one would Mink In reading tin . accounts of Mo Innumerable seances hi id aU._ over the lend, ibsl Mo truM of B p lrilu s liio i ' 1 rest* up.man exiraordinery amoantuf din and clatter of varioua unmusical instruments, and so tuauy materialised hands and laces.

That such pneuumeha may In the beginning havo boup uoudful to calling Mo aUeniloa lo . Ms sacjecl, like so many apparently trifling cause# wmcti naeujod to great diaouvenua and . benedclint revolutions even uur opponents sre ready to admit; for to q role Lord Bacon, " lo all divine work* Me sm.ooat beginnings lead as-

- suredty lo some result," but wneu suuu have ser ved Meir purpose, sud threaten to accumulate to an inordinate degree, wnen from tne force of circumstances, tuaeparsuie from sll great move- menu, a good cauao btc ones clogged sud im peded by mo parastlsl influences which be da all avenues lo progress, it ia time mat its uphold ers Mould corns tu Me resCu*. >Vu ate I as; drift- tag- into Me clap trap *„<? the tpectecalar.

'T »e Cause a* il looks lu this Country, does ool compare w h o what wo read of it from abroad.The qutetutsof Keneluu's time—Madame Guy- on uC <X died memory—dolling—mo atie Palis, sod la la* preseu, dsy, Madsins do Vay in Germauy, and Dr. E Crowell la this coon- try, wno, in bis last aumlfsble work "Toe Identity of Modern 8pir|luaUem wild Primi tive UnruUaiiiiy,'' snows oow fully oooyincsd Ow U of Me sacredness uf Me ocwdispensation, ail alike pay it me highest homage it deserves la max mg it siibiervieat lo Kreugellsat.

Whatever be Me bold and free thinking In this Country, and especially ot this generation, it U no cicuao (or UosocraJoh. It is a truly lamentable fact, and one watch mutt seewi woolly lajornprshooslbio to a great number ot BpiritoaUtu, mm a a l i a o i wno nave there- Set Yea admitted toetr guilt, taould, on Me erie ground ot Meir mediumahip he sstU supported and encouraged oy Bplmuaiieu aed allowed lo oold aoauues. I t Would testa Mat a ttoowre leva of truth mutt, tu proportion to lu slnoer- ily, reject all that u fiJRftdus, aed fight It down oy all pueaib.e lueahs. / T ss resolute

- court* pursued by Mr. O swuUn the lata' au- -graceful Ujl iaee' alt or oanaht be loo Algal/ commended No sooutr. wJk Me (ranfl <Us- covered Mew he M torsed of It Me world i l

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Tbo New England I’sychclogtat "Incog." whose will is to « UecHvc Id swaying mm etcn without the spoken word.In trill m other letter commoolcated'lw.i myaelf to Dr Blnklei BpringficM, Ohio, ihow* the other tide ol mu method of exerting power. Before be b*d been demonK rating *hh necessity et time* of hiving the will wrought op altnn*} to ■ pbrrn-

Kto become mom potent Now he ihowi e neceuity of not being in too much o fa

hurry.• Hold on!” he seye. "Commence in tbo

moet trivisl s a t in o f ‘life end curb your self. If you cstcb yourself going st s thing impulsively, go (lowly. If yHi feel like springing out of bed bssttiy, without good esute, lie swbile longer end get your heed set tled. If you And yourself ws’klng too rapid ly, moderate your gste I assure you that If you will cultivate methodical physical action, your mind will tone down to it. and graduallyget tBo better of 'impulse. W hen------------*yourself, you can control otbera ”

"Bring yourself down into a calm, squid magnetic state either in the violent forciblemanner before described, or by sitting calmly down for a littgth of time, ami -(dkily, but firmly concentrate the mind upon bringing

----------------------------------------------- j thatthe power to heal take postesilon of it, not iTciting another thonght enter, tyd you will feel the band surcharged with a uew sensa tion.?’

There is much that la tcnilMc and most im- p irtan t in the above words. It-pose is a grand element of power, and ou r American people with their restless activity ehnu*l heed the idea. Rqpoeo is not inertia, by any means. A great man may combine the power of thn lion with the gentleness of a lamb. Jupiter mav grasp the iigbtning with a calm majrsty whlch is sublime. In the words of Bnddsh, " I f one man conquer in batlle a thousand times a thousand men. and If another conquer himself, he Is the greatest of c orq 'ernrt."

But “ Incog.” strikes the grand-st key note of power. In the following burst of Inspisatloh: "A great essential to great magnetic power is the gift of a great' human anul, covering bu inanity as with a garment, and this is Oxl, or rather the god clement, which is lo*«."

There ia a subtile sura proceeding from a lovinv soul that hinds all men in awed bonds The Psychomlat will heal far more effectually and permanently If he possesses It. The cre ator will sway people all the more potently if be oveifiiwa with exquisite sympathies for bis race. Those possessing the lower animal lores, are the best msgnets for attracting the lower natures. Those- possessing a more pari-

-fled spiritual love are the most potent In con trolling the higher grade of manhood, and angels themselves come down to help them

I haTe Just received a letter from a Mr -To- arph B Bun, of L-eaville, Ohfo, an old Psy chologist, greatly commending my efforts to establish a ’'Journal of Life," and (Bering holp from pen and purse in carrying iv -o u l A 'ter stating that he had taken the Itcuc.to Pmt.oe-irniCAi. J ' i 'h n a i. from in commence-, m int, and speaking In kindest terms of onfr' humble Now York Department, he speaks of the need of a monthly of the kind at especial ly supplying what the world- does not now possess. He shows that the church has long labored to losjEftt the people In thejihllosophy of the mlmPunlll HVkncaa has become doubly obscure, through tbrir 'c redsl teachings and

done much to teach lie what we are, and ___we may become. Spiritualism .now volun teers to explain thcac mnmentoua matters, and, aa an honest man, 1 feel constrained to say, aucceedi better than, adylbihg I know of."

Thta he says although he Is not a confirmed Spiritualist himself, and ho tells the truth.

^Tne light beyond the veil excelling, all mere earthly lights, all the old systems of thought, reveal* * how beautiful human life can be made by coming at the fountain head of the life forces themselvce and learning hqw to bless mind and body through them.

Phrenology points out dtfierent organs of the brain, but what good Is It going to do to study those unless we miy learn how tp wield them. HOw shall ws fire up sluggiah-or deficient or gans, and bow tone down ovor active and dis eased ones? Physiology teaches about the action of the coarser functions, such as blood and muscles and nervy, but what can -It tell usoflhoee paycblc principle* that'stand u lord and master over muscles and- blood, and nerves, and without which tbsy are mere dead matter? Preachers and lecturers tell-us to be good, rise up into s noble manhood, and pul vice under foot.- - But bow shall we be good nnleaa we reach'the causes of thlnga abd learn how to remedy constitutional ailments? How shall we euro vicious propensities unless we know how to reach the part* of the brain sr body that ace so inflamed agio cause this vice? How shall we cure drunkenness when the gastric membrane is hot and ulcerated? How •hall wa cure rineationtneta If we do norknow how to cool cfl diseased amativeneas sod its connecting pole*? How shall we cure iniani ty with the brain too electrical in one part, and too magnetic in another, while its negatives poles In the spleen, hterui etc., are dlsordrecd? How shall are rear/a grand humanity unless wa learn how to control antenatal force* and to have the future generation born rightly » How shall we regulate inharmonious spiritual

m w ia i urenijiugioii j u c io u igaurcu lac iuu*Jectof Vital Magnetism, and look only tly-old worn pathways, which fall to explain thephe- nomena of life with kny satisfaction, I sent the following questions, which I challenge them or Dr. Brown-Bequard to answer wtihuui

- the aid of the magnetic or fluidic theory:—1. How account for'm uscular action? In

other words how do the motor nerve* contract lh« muscles? How account for M utation?

2. How Is it that one man may be far more intense in Destructiveness or any othsr organ than another, whose similar organs are ■ •■rite a t Urge? You may say one ha* greater activity.. Bat what makoa this greater activi ty. •specially of on a particular organ *

3 How does one person psychologies or control another. Through what instrumen tality does mind control mind ?

4 How esplain nervous Irritability ?3. How.cso a sympathetic or negative per*

■on lake on the suffering of another?r. How account fo r the insensibility to

mfieflog evinced by the convuUlonaires of tK. Msdard?

7. How account for the power of Imagina tion over a whole or e part of the body?

a How eccount for tUluvoUeoe which enables e person at will to render eny pert of the body tnaenalble to pain?

•J How account ?■-* Pstcbome'ry, M-i----Ism, and kindred sciences? How docs mind control matter?

10 What Is the law of insensible perspira tion, and whst cau-ea the process of absorp lion?• 11 What Is It that moves outward from the

brain in the motor nerves, and .s h a t Inward to the brain in the scosory e rro rs ? \

12 What special department o fltbe floe fotcca exist Id water, orelryriclly, or In human life-power of various -kliyh ?

13 Why can not electrician*. hydropsthlaU,etc., learn what persons Deed water most, or elcctrlcl'y. or rnsgnclUm and why mqst they go on killing an many from Ignorance of these subtle forces? \

These and k hundred other-questions Ci------sn£wired hy a knowledge of terse wonderful foices which your magtxlne almost, if not quite ignore* A science of life without them 1* like Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Id con nerttion with spirit ihey constitute lire Itself W aterls not life Electricity Is not life The nerves, muscles,'and blood are not life: Food is o*4 life. Is not high lime to Inquire then wJiaUs life, and what <s the law of polanz lion. In these fife forces?

In reply to this they seemed to fear that it was Imoosslblo to^u-wer such quesllous, . that If i-could defso'1 would maae my name immortal. I answered that wedid Dot pretend to earns any question' to its ultimata source, or the dtifle fountain. but wrreenabUd by our <heorics V< (ise a step beyond them in the In finite ladder of causation.

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T lic ir W oiM lcrflll S n in ee a in H ug

I Prom (he London «Kn( ) BpIftleallrO.Sm :-1 deem It mv dn<v to makeyknown

the remters of the Spiriluatut the marvelous materlalixed spirit manifestation* beheld by mo and Mrs. Began, and witnessed by others, at a private select circle held at Ibe rooms of M< asrs Battlsq sod Taylor. 2 Vernon place, Bloomsbury-(quart-, on Tuesday evening, the- 23) ull The circle consisted of twelve sit ters, smongst wbonv were* Colonel B'-warl, Mr. Ronalds. Mr Potls, Mr Lowthrr, Mr Ar thur, Mm. Woodforde, Mrs. Bullock, apd other* The members of the circle were ap proved and elected by the controlling sujplts, George and Johnny. After arrnnglrwour selves In a semicircle facing the eDtrabce" 'the inner room, from tho top of which was hung a pair of long closed cu. tains, I~wa* asked to

k\AU1ISX A MACK SACK,in which the medium, Mr. Bastiau, was in be inclosed; also the room or cabinet. After scrutinizing and thoroughly searching the

ne myself, Mr Ronalds and Mr. Taylor pasted piece* of gummed marked paper on (he fastenings of the doom sod window*. Wc then barricaded the door, which opens oit to the stairs, by placing a table with s heavy lot of books thereon, to prevent It* being opened from tho outside by a duplicate key. The me dium w u then enveloped in the sack, and the running cord of the mouth of it was drawn around hi* Deck, lied, knotted, and sealed, the remaining portion of the running cord being wound around the back of the chair on which the medium was seated in tbo sack, tied and

bottom of tho sack was then nailed to thefloor.

We then withdrew, leaving tbo medium In darkness, drawing the heavy curtains close at tbo same lime,And resumed our seats in the seance room. The lights were lowered to a glimmer, which gave sufficient light for ns to disllnlnilah and recognize object* throughout tho room. *

The company then aaug the Beautiful River. On its conclusion, thn. curtains were drawn aside by a lady, who emerged from Ibe dsik cabinet room, and stepped Into tho circle. She w u attired In a

WHITE LOMU Hong, with girdle diawn in at tho waist. After ad vancing a few steps, she retired into the cabi net. In a moment or two sbo sgalu drew tlio -mains utde , and walked firmly to where Mr.

. ’oils sal, took his hand, and greeted him. She w u recognized u the wife of Mr. Potts; she then returned to the cabinet and came out again quickly, *Dd laid hold of a chair which Mr. Ronalds had placed against the door of

removed it, and carried it opposite,________u J her husband, and gracefully tested herself thereon. She again took her husband's hand,

1 patted him on the cheek with her other wuid. He then bowed bit head iow to her, and uked to be kissed- I believe she granted hi* request. She then arose from her seat and returned to the cabinet, reappeared, and

• WALk'tfi ACROSS TDK ROOMto the other and of the circle, where Mr. Tsy- lor **v»nd shook bands with him; she then graciously bowed to the circle, and finally re tired. -After convening about the wonderful -isnifeeUtion we had mat seen, we again jlned In harmonious song, and ere we ceased Inging the curtain* were drawn u lde, and s ' til, noble-looking personage," with long, black,

!1 jwing beard appeiteod, and be wa* Instantly recognized u tho brother of Mr. Ronalds, He w u aTOred fa a whiter, long, fuli robe, with girdle, ne materialized strongly and in a striking mannej, appearihg.u natural.and u sociable u when a resident mortal here. Upon hla leaving the cabinet, he walked straight to his brother, greeted h|m, Mixed him by taking hold of hit hand, giving it such a hearty slap that 1t»re*0Qnded through the room. After making a remark 6r two in an audible voice, he returned to tho cabinet, came out again In a few momenta, took up the chair just vacated by his predecessor, Mr*. Potts, and gave i t a bang on the I! Jor, and at the same time lu m p ing h it feel thereon, so that we should know*■------ *■**— **■— really were. I'pon Mr.

o show hU feel, he kind------ip hlx robe, so that

----------------------- ------ plainly. He thenlifted his foot, and placed it firmly on the chair, and desired his brother to look at it and see how perfect were the toenails, which w u truly the esse; in fact, be w u a most substan tial , ,v ----------------------- —________ a great pity that be should . . . ____desire 11 that hi* too solid fleah' would \melt, thaw, and reaolve naelf into daw,” Ue then retired to the cabinet, and. u he w u doing ao,I uked him to come and shake hands with m a .

*• George,” .the controllingkplrit of the cir cle, spoke in the direct voice, and said that •* I w u to come lo the front of the circle, and that my Wish should be gratified, u I w u ono that w u Dot afraid to msko kuowa what I did see, hear, and feel." Our spiritual friend then came again from th* cabinet, and walked ill-------o me, and u firmly and u strongly u at___ be kindly took, me by each hand and•hook them cordially. After which he lald- hia band and patted mn on the head; be alao did the same to Mr. Taylor, who ast next to

me. O. ce more he returned to the- cabinet, came out sgalnr-bowed lo us all io a mn'l graceful manner. t>vie us good night, and fi Daily retired Afterwards wc impressed our wonderment lo each other, and indulged in mrdllatftjn and contemplation on the marvel ous. palpable, and tangible Manifestations to ocularly demonstrated to us. which filled us with feelings of unutterable heavenly reverence and gratitude for whet wa bad aeen.

George, the controlling spirit, desired Mr Taylor to sing “ M«ry st the Btvior’t Tomb.” He had no sooner finished singing it than the curtslos Were drawn aside by a nun,'attired ht the Urtuline garb, wearing a massive ivory croc* about four lnypna long, and beads of the um c. On onterlug the circle, the knelt down and raised hes-erou lA^n attitude of prsver^ ttho then arose, and wklkrd firmly to Mr* Woodforde, and allowed her lo handle her

__________the cabinet, and ---------------------and greeted several of tho aittera, myself In cluded, ami alloWcA-tbem lo rxamlde snd handle her crott. v ^ e then reverentially placed her hand* on IBHr heads, 'and, on re tiring, holding oot her croaa lo me, she bowed to all, and finally retired. Upon Inquiring who she w u, George informed us, in the di rect voice, that she was known u Bister Bl Hcrsphlnr, of the Ursullne Convent, L-iUisiana, Nonb America. H r* Woodforde was brought up In tho u n i convent with her, anil that it why she visited the circle.- Bbo ma teria!' zid wonderfully strong, and, walked •bout the circle with great firmness, ease, and confidence, bbo appeared to be about thirty yhsra of age.

Tho neat materialization • > appear was that of Mra. Kogan's brother. Ha materialized as strong u any of his predecessors, he was at tired in a white, long robe, with girdle; he came out of the cabinet and walked straight across the room to his sister and roe; ho greet ed and shock band* with us, also Mra. Bullock. He then returned to the cabinet, and on com ing out again be pulled the curtain* strongly together on one side, so that we could see the outline Of the medium seated entranced In the cabinet Ue stepped Into the circle, and fold-

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my sgaln uk iog him If he woujd control the medium at our residence onoa more, snd im part more to-us-of hia "Australian life," ho agaiiyioddedAasent. Ho then bowed to us all, and pullSd the curtains each u ide, and stood between, them, still in full view of ibe clrcJar-Mid'gs'JiDg at ua Ue then gradually bc/<an ditaolving from hia feet upwards, and a* he did so his head kept lowering until It appeared no loogcr to oar view. The most marvelous " dissolving view” that mottal ever beheld, to my humble thinking. We sal some

7BXslacle, which made a nuiso and awake tho me dium. George announced such to us. and ou lighting up and going into the cabinet-room with Mr. Tsylor, I found the med am awake, looking rather startled, be staring that on awaking he beheld a form before him, but It uddonly disappeared. Tbo aplrlt'a feet mocked George’s trumpet;' whlcn always lie*

on the floor of tbe room, against something, which aVoko him. George, after speaking through it, always thrtw s it on the H -or of the cabinet. L'pon examining tho cabinet, we found all i i we had previously left it—acala on tack, and everything about being Intact! We then resumed oy.r seats, and after sitting a short whrib; ono of Ibe controlling spirits, Johnny, called for a pair of aclatore. Then George spoke In tbe direct voice, and an nounced that the aeabce bad terminated, wished u t all good night, and blessed us. Tbe light* ■were then turned on full; curtain* of tho cab inet drawn aside ror *11 to enter snd examine for themselves; the cord of the sack found cut by "ap lril" Johnny, wilh scissors borrowed, but the seals snd knots ju it tho same aa when examined a few minutes before. We then re leased the medium from hi) not over-pleasant confined state.

Bucb wsa the conclusion of as remarkable seance as ever fell lo the lot of mortal to re

cord, under tbo most rigid and strict 'ra t con dition*. Ere I close I must add . that Mra. Ha

later, the 25lh Ult, to the sbovo eventful seance—thus fulfilling hla pr -mlac then given,

/and confirming an extraordinary test of rpint Identity. J a mb* Ru o a n .

i Stanley Villas, Noribcote Road, New. Wadsworth. •

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compendium of the I'oll Malt"The time-honored ccremon-y, a* the report

calls it, by which the Portuguese aillors are seeuitomod to celebrate Good Friday seems to have gono off last week tto the docks with more then the usual'splrlt and success Tbe manner of performing it on board each l’ortu- gutM ship w u precisely similar- Punctually at daybreak the effigy of the false apoetle Is hoisted to the masthead, with a placard f u t , cne-d to It* breast bearing the legend in Portu- ,gue*o, ' This Is Ju d u Iscariot,’ a precaution whlph can scarcely be deemed unneccuaxy when we read that the figure of Isqartot w u ' dressed in su ito r's costume with jack bool*.’ Tnetfllgy remains, mutbeaded until about U a m., when the entire crew assist In lowering it to the deck, the ship's bells meanwhile keep ing up an Incessant clanging The figure is then carried three times round the deck, and finally tubed to tho capstan, the crew bela boring U with knotted rope* and shouting. The clothes aie then cut away In shreds, and, When the figure la completely denuded, the block of wood which doe* duly for tbe body I* ktektod a ll over the deck suspended to a line, thrown overboard Into tho. docks and repeat edly dipped. Owing to the d^ck regulations the elump can not be publicly burned, hut It is chopped up into small fragments and band ed over to the cook to be destroyed under the galtey fire. Tbe ceremony is one which it somewhat out of harmony w ith . the ‘ modern spirit.’ but at the tame rime no great amount of public sympathy ia likely to be fell for the object of tbeM indignities. Io spite of De Ljninccy’t ingenious attempt, Ju d u Iscariot trill remains s distinctly unpopular character. Richard III.*. Tiberius, Marat, Lucrczla Bor gia, and many others, nave all been found capable of 'tak ibg1 a coat pf whitewash, but the rehabilitation of the traitor apostle is a work t'tlll to bo performed, and one well cal culated to awaken the ambition of the mod em historian, who looks upon s character of excessive bUokoeu in somewhat of the aplril ’- which a physician regards a ’beautiful

Jbe Portuguese aallors-lu all parts of tbe world never fail to put this ''tune-honored" ceremony lhLa practice. .A crew of theae poor, deluded, superstitious rreaiure* did Ibq same thing at .the port of .Philadelphia, several year* ago. W hy‘should an effigy of Ju d u Iscariot be thus treated ia the eniighteiM be thus treated ia the enlightened age

of the nineteenth century? Who w uremarkable person ? It is said that he wi___traitor to Jesus of Nazareth, by betraying blm into tbe bands of a gang-of murderers, si though from tbo remarks Jjrsut made they mutt have known him, because they all saw him whQn ho w u daily preaching in tlio 'em- plo. If Orthodoxy on this aulject IHTOo/then the poor miserable sinners, tho simple souls that stray, are all right, because tbe sacrifice ia made for their salvation. Toerefore it may bo considered a glorious sacrifice, sud everything preliminary to it thonld be held In the highest estimation by the orthodox r*°P'« of this great and blessed country. Bad It not been for Judas* where would all ol us sinners lie? lie w u tbe very Individual that caused the tacri flee to be made, and that tacriflo saved all mankind frbm eternal damnation. These very religious people ought to be consistent, and not lav themselves open to criticism. A- statue of Judas ought to be erected on the bigheet pinnacle of every cbarch throughout the world. This would at least bo consistent wilh the teachings of sectarian Cl ristlsnUy.

As a Spiritualist, however, I look upon that bloody tragedy on Mount Calvary u ao act of unparalleled.atrocity. I t w u the murder of. innocence It w u tbo extiegfilahment of bright light; osy, more than this, It w u _ crimo Without a name, That llgot -was the power, beauty, and hoi In era of -the Chrlst- efilrit, a tl-ime from tbe throne of Ibe Great- Eternal to lead men from tbe deep darkness nf sin and misery; -but the bloodthirsty rabble of the times, who-know nothing of God except wbst they learned from a crafty priesthood, whoso garbled and Improved writings we arc called upon to accept as th" Word of Oud, could not comprehend it. Tho whole party 'from I’onllus Pilate down lo the rabble were liotblng more nor le u than a gang ol murder era, sna they will be regarded u such by all Intelligent beings until tbe t u t syllable of re corded time Jesus wgs a pore spiritual me dium, through whom we should worship the great Father of u* all I,el mankind, of whal over tt-cological theory, b i careful that thiy are not now engaged in crucifying Inc stn-u spirit which b u so signally manifested itself in the present century.

founlaiu of life is open," sod the call is g'-rag forth, " Choose ye th a -‘ay " thecourse lhaets most fit tilling yntir Condition—a purely spirit us! life, or * righteous, generative life.- -

Spiritualism teaches ibnt our dcedii are known by those who have " g -no on b« fore," and are d wellcrs-ln tbe SummeFItudj ao IS he come* *11 to live u comely u If their physical earth body wm In our Immediate presence at all times, "U-- Just and foar not," l« tbe watch word of every true Spiritualist Finally, it i* the duly of all " como outers " who have for aaken tbe old ship of false religion, to present an exemplary life before their former "mates " snd lbs world lo general, sod show lo them by example as well u precept, that the " new way " la desirable and commendable In *11 points, and greatly preferable to the old way. Tno brute creation observe " lime* and tea sons " to the propagation of tbelr ipecies, but

-the v u t m»J <rlty of human kind are below this standard. Preachers have woefully neg lected enjoining upon thrlr follower* ibis most important principle—perfect generation, and hence wn have a weak f u t running out pop- ulalion on hand to deal with. If SplrtmsH»m It a reform, this is the " to o t of til evil ” st which it mutt sod will strike. Tnen let every true Spiriiualtet bo about hit work era human ity Is to deeply buried in lust si to lota ell Its spirituality L ml Is the slaveholder which holds ut In the bonds of *> J ct slavery lo ( very Would-be dominie Let u t have Hue humanity;

'llicn-sjuil we a id our redeemer, end the lost sheep of 1-racl will bo rcstoicd by Nineteenth Century Spiritualism. E E II.

B mb IIadity Maas

Never w u the c lu b of Spiritual arms loud- or the army of lovestlgstors of the r ra llm t

or soul life a s demonstrated by the spiritual litic philosophy larger than st the present time. The great ship of Carnal or Gentile Christianity, which h u been to long pr-pellrd by arrogance, superstition, and the or just and uncivil laws of tyraon-.csl governments for so long s rime, h u st lu l begun lo founder on the shores of liberal America, and not only lo America are tho more enlightened and In tellectual minds beginning to perceive her bloody prow, wblch b u been tho terror of all true reformers (since the introduction of the doctrines os arranged by tho Alrxandrlsn school of theology), but the whole world of so-called orthodoxy it slowly gravitating to wards open rebellion against her toal binding and unreasonable theories, which have so long and successfully kept Its dupes beneath the dark waters of tyranny and wrong They are cslcblng glimpses of the sun of truth, '

the privilege of gravitating lapectlve and proper sphere^ grape and canister are hulled I for dujog to stand upon the bu is

. their re- Bombshells,

into their midst

Ihocentslnt of the great boat of salvation, but like the good Daniel of Biblical record, they are protecled by the(r LaqJ, the living truth, over wblch their (lion instead of lamb-beartefi) would bo do- vourcre, have no power, physically or spirit ually.

The bright angels have st l u t found an chorage In the more advanced souls of human Ity; they bavo slammed tho tide of that "awful gulf.” which superstitionists suppose divides them from the mundane spheres, Snd ihe continually pasting sad repauiog the "m ighty abyss.” Borne of tho enemies of spirt '.-communion maintain the theory that

fiSYILH ONLY COMMimiCATK.My friends, let's join in right-hand fellowship and allow noao cfl their communicants at our table; yea, let it/be Inscribed on the soul’s tab let of every true friend of human progress,

"HO DEVILS WANTED H IM .” •The bridge over which our flplril friends come to us is no new structure; It 1* as oM at tbe world. True its gates have beeff kept closed in a measure-by an artful and self interested priest hood through tbe "dark agea " from which' w'e --e cow emerging.

Ttto friends of truth have prevailed, and io " pearly galea "a re opening, the glorious

-jo llgh lo f angelic brightness la Hooding the length and breadth of the land. The priest-, hood of tbe old musty theologies stand aghast1 at the appearance of tho living witnesses (mi-j terialized spirits) of Bnmmcr-ltnd, and shout. "F raud ," " Delusion," " Dovll,” mournfully discussing the condition of things, but all *~

stend upon it and defend the living truth. Boult with their " mortal colls ” post in a t .

out of their " sanctuaries ” of rplrit-communloo, and speed ou their way r<J -Icing in the “ ■weel light, the muaio light of Immortality,” with an undeniable knowledge at the fact “ that the sou) still lives. In the bright be yond.”

HoW sweet, how Ineffably glorious. U Is to •tend and catch the angel whispers from that bright celestial laud.

Oht ye aooflen! Ye who are prone to mtke light of the boaulltul philosophy of spirit- communion, pray atop and righteously consid er for one moment, yea. Just one mprnent, how Infinitely good and refreshing are lha reunions of the missing one* among our family and so cial clicks. Think how blessed it U to know that the loved one* In Bpirlt life d6 live and can come lo u t. True Spiritualist* know no ■parting when tbe " e e r ily tabernacle* of their souls are destroyed;" they know lhaf they have an existence la another phase o f life. No rational mind that h u carefully examined, and oaptldered spirit-life, at made manifest by, the tplrliual phenomena " with go eye tingle to glory,” can reasonably deny Its validity,,ror revolt against the return of friend* out of the body to their homes, any m&re than when Urey were In the body.

What greater boon has humanity received in this century than the spontaneous revival of apirit communion? Our country w u not entirely free from h tt former rulers and egtab. lithcd on a permanent basil u d IU after thn dawn of the present century, and wlgrin its limits fonr millions ot human slaves l i f t been released from bondage, but what szejw^er of the**, or the vast Improvement* In uilcbinery, arte, e ta , when compared to theeiubliabm ent of soul rn 'l i f on the real and permanent f< un dation of living proof. Tfie qaetiion, ** If man diet will he live again?" may now I

at the her of icteotiflc and rpirUnsl truth. Noon need to "languish and die” fo r want or a knowledge ot the " bright heyo ' "t tjeyond” ; ^ th

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E c u r r i r Maoa7,inr —The cmh*l!t»bmcDl of me f>Urtic for M.y t* nn rxrcllrot par Ir .|i of rUkUicnt L o . of tho Washington Loe Univcrnty, ton of General L 'e ; it forms ihe fourth Id the tcrle* of loadlot? American cdu ciilor* which w u commenced in ihia mega Cine Borne montna *g ■ T"o following par till liat of the contents abowa thai ihn present ia a scry ellrerilvo number K irrpe and fVacc; On the Diapoaal of the L)can, The Oran's Welch, l<y Mm.‘ Krckmaun dhatrlan; On the Llmi'« of Bcicnce; Early King, of Norway, by Thoms* Carlyle; The 1 versel- ity of BupcrelllKro, Connected wild ; .icring; The Foun’iln. from the French of TheophlVe O oilier; S r CharlraXyell; J ’halbert by C -*i F in e r Tyiler Chapter, VI to XI . The Oiogcr* Ilf thp See, by ihe Captain of an Ocean Hteiimcr'; Reproduction < I Oigentsmi;

• Oa i.axv Pop Mav — Contents- boat" A... .............I F.abbot a Cnaplera XX . XXI..and XXII Bj Mo. Annin IMwafiia. the T abk .n Vi vent Hy .1 W D. Forest. I.oula 11 of UsTHTia; or U imanliclam on the Throne Part II. lit E It -clua, The l.aat of lb" Old Mailers Hy F M Cray Krcilaior. Hy F. W 11 ror'llUra Hear 1,'dy Uliilam Cttap-

X XI . and XII Hy .lualln McC.rthy. l i ..bidden Hy It C. Angelica Kanllm*n, Hy Muy A E Wag-r A N om m eu’s IM —Image Chapters XIV. lo end. Hy lljal-

ir lljortb lluyeaen Literary and Linguis _ Notea and tficrie*. Hy Hichar(J-llrant WaltoN. Home Fretted Flowers. Hy .lohn James H a lt ' Miaa Clive and I Hy I. C, W. Which! Hy Mary II. Hodge Driftwood, Hy Potllp tjalllbel Art and Ihe Centenary. Hciennlio Miscellany' C urrent, Literature. Nebula-. By the Editor.

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A very alngnlar gift, or phase of medium- sbip through B. Ware Merrill recently came under our ohacrvatloti, giving forcible convic tion of a higher power, and leading us to con alder the words of Shakespeare, “ There are more thlnga lo heaven and earth than mau'a philosophy ever dreamedof.”

B. Warn Merritt, who la blind, will read rtXKNTi.v I i‘ON a n v »im;»CT;

also, »h*t Is more singular, be will read a long and complicated story, woavIMg the plot and introducing the characters, dialogue and Incidents, all in the moat vivid anil perfect or der; this, too, without study or the IcaaLfore thought; stories entirely new, reading them from a btyok, with the aanie oll han Jed ease one would a printed book. There are those who can c'otnp «o and tel type, or write a story, but here they have time for thought. hut even to write a alory oil baud, without preparation of plot or forethought, would require great mental eflort, still B Ware Merrill reads lengthy stories rapidly and apparently with out etlort, not having a moment for thought, either of diction, plot, comment or dialogue.

lie recently acquired local reputation in Maine as the

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1B75: Tho Baltim i-.,...... ,____ _________B, Eugene L Didler. A Temple of Bong lb lustraled By F'rcder'ck A. Schwab. The S ory of tkvrnoaks Chapters XI. and MI. Illustrated By J. U Holland An Electro Mechanical II nuance. Illustrated BjChailcs Barnard Too MY *lerl(iU4 Ir'and Fart IL Cr.aplers V ill., IX . and X Illusirnted., Adapted from .lulea Verne.' A Farmer’* Vi ‘ i II. Hroogmakcrj Illiisiraied.

irge W. Warlcg, Jr. The Heron l*n—. James Maurice Thomson Tho Elder

Myths. illustrated By William Hayes W ,rd The Happy V llage. Foem. By Kano O'Hinnel S o m e '1 * “ **' “

__It H D Jean ah Poquelin By GeorgeW Cable Home Decent Women Foci* Yung Wing and Uta Work, By Janie* L Bowen. Topics of the Time Count Ten—Sneaking U.sreapectfully of lh" Equator—Popular Arts -•The Premium on FriKluclive Culture. Tno

Old Cabinet English Criticism of American Foctry—The Poet’s Mind and Mood.

Co n t r n t s i t Ft , Nil uox-a « f o b Ma t , 187". IVuntiap.efC- "T h e K'utghl and the IJastle," from a picture hy Guki.ve H ire. Tuo Ku.ght and tho Castle. By' Habccca Harding Hsvia. “ distress Mary, [pillo contrary." I’lcturc drawn bv K M S, rtcannell Fadl Tadpole. Poem, llj Hose Terry Copke. lllastration by Fortier C •ncklin Eight Cousins. Chap-

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Uy Laura Ledyard. The Cradle of NTf>«*.

bill now is attracting attention as a reader. 4n deed, li la a marvel to all who are favored with an opportunity of attending bia reading. The following is the manner in.which ho conducts bln reading: One of the company hands him a book, uucstioning, *■ 1>o you'always efint a book?". i

“ Well, yea. I do not read what ICin the book, but what la given to mo, ■ t ,/srbat I seem to see." I see the letters a n j words about two lines at a tirrip, thyjscjiJ* being of

reddish hue. I look tSgjS^S-Tiver and soon >o a title; then iJ tu ir ifivr the ldavcs and sec

the tame reddish bite continue! through tlie J 'book , I knoiMho story or piece la lougi or if

'fh rtc iy ish hatXappeari on a few pages only. By t know the piece ts short, Tho book answers

gs amort of focus. Home have agggeaUd that I might have learned these atorlea (t r , those who are not readers, of cauysi) Just con- aider a moment. I am blind, and should have lo learn by proay—an endless task; then you try to commit lo memory a work of fiction c uitalntog two hundred pages, ao that you can repeal it exactly (not having (he work to look

1, and you would find It <|Ulto a, ta»k, but I ,ve read hundreds of five hundred page vol

umes. Bciideg, even if I could commit so much to memory, it would be in vain, for all

)il ate road by some one, and s you, or you i indicating

company ], therefore l could not jeh loauUurable presumption sa

pass another’s work for my own. I read ueforo a committee ftt-Jiangor, Me., amongst whom, ono Professor Tefts (a gentleman and a scholar), declared that, to commit a story would be Impossible without its being delect.

iiJto. Mr. T efu also pronounced ibis , vof reading a gift latent, to developed that it seemed so outside, lofiuencc. On that occasion, one gentleman speaking of the story I bad read, said It w u very natural and vivid, but be should like lo bavtvlt^»ad dillarenlly, whereupon I Lniluily saw a leijuel to it, and it finished u hu desired It. Now* I will al you that [.read u If from a book, with ■tuo ease and lotereat ”

Here be began to lurn thg pages, when be uquestioned, “ If wo should atlec lor re-

attest the kind of story steroid It have an ia- uedee on the sketch or e toryf"

I don’t know; select and I will try.’

W L eitipoaid. Tho F o u l of Flags,W E. Grid!a. Illustration from a drawing hv a.U psctas artist. A Live Meteor. By Mary E. (J Wyeth. lllosUMiuu. Poor Fuck, Poem’.K By Mary A Lath bury. Two illua-trailoas hy Mary A. Lvhbury. The Young Surveyor. Onaptera XVIII to X X By T, T. Trowbridge Two illustrations by W I, Sheppard. The Baker and the Tobacconist. Translation of French story In the March num ber tjieen Blossom. By Busan tioolldge. lllastration by Alfred Fredericks “.Welcome! Little Htraugcrl “ Ficture drawn by Frank Beard. For Very Little Polka. " The Gin gerbread Boy.” Uy Mary A. Uragin. Five illustration! by Frank Beard. Jack in the Pulpit- Tho Letter 11 >i. Tin! HiddleUox, Three Illustrations by Abram Holier.

T h » Hi rurroAi, MiOAriHB f o b Ma t has the following Choice list of articles: II jw to In vestigate Spiritualism; A Word to Inquirers; Angels and Bpirituallam; Angel Care; Rest for the Weary; The Oburche* and spiritual ism; Spiritual Conferences In New York; BptilluaUimTruet The Channel of Inspiration Dr. Crowell in Haply to Dr Tslmagt; A Fa mitfar Confab with Frieeds; Holdtualisca Slan dered; Who Will Meet M .f Il*?i John Wes- Iry’s O plnoci; Ntg'ecled Comspondence; Explanation; ‘ We Bhall Maeu Beyond the

_____Spirit Photography; Postal Oorreepondeoce with a Spirit; Historic Art—" T he Dawning L igh t"; Book Notice*.

At l a n t ic fob M at. Contents: Henry W. Longfellow opsins the number with sn exquis ite poem, A meld, apd John G. W blnlrr writes a centennial poem for L xlogton, 1875 There are elio characterlalid p toms by J tide* Hus sell Lowell; Bonnet, to F. A. T. B Aldrich: The Pine end the Walnut. J. W DeForest: The Fastidious Goblin: Mark Twain, in OldTime* on the Mississippi, tells about Bound- lug" Fscnltles peculiarly neoeassry lo a pilot. William M. Baker gives some recy sketches of B mtbweatern character In Merely a Mirror. Calls T baltar has s graphlo account of a Mem-

-orable Murder at the Isle of Baoals. ’ B. J. Binowe conlributee a droll paper on tb< N irthwestern Mule end hie Driver. F P, Baoborn continues the Virginia Campaign ;al John Brown. An anonvmotu Writer asks and answers the question, W nst U 'an American 1 Henry James, J r , gives Chapter V (Christina) of Roderick Hudson. W D Howells has s critic*] paper on Aider!, and there are sixteen Reviews of B •oka, besides, careful editorial notes on Art, Music, and Education.

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resd i sketch to qrdcr. Ills style and easy, the sketch griphtc and full of Ing, the character* cktural and decided ; alto gether, It la the roost wonderful develttpement or gift we over had knowledge of. Mr. Mer rill came here at the solicitation of many, that- w i might have the benefit of his wonderful powers at Hi. Albans, where he will remain until further notice. Will answer all calls In vicinity.

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J Mrs. A H, Robinson has )u*l been nlshad with a sore and harmless specific fo caring the appetite for opium and all other aa> colics, by the B^erd of C luinliu , in spirit life, who have heretofore given her the neoe* vary antidote for curing the appetite foe to baooo, and the puper Ingredients for r leg hair to all bald beads; no matter of how

Mrs Robinson wiU famish the remedy, an. send It by mall of express Ur ail who may apply for lh* sa n s within tho nsxt sixty days on the reoeipt of (It* deSars (the simpli of the .Ingredients), "and guarantee • mo* perfect cure or refund the money, tfMlrect* accompanying each package are atrictly lowed. /

The remedy li harmless, and; not on pal*a t i) | \- She makes this generous oiler far the doubt- purpose of Introducing the remedy, end to bringing the eure within the reach of the pooi eet people who use the pernicious drug Th. expense of a perfect remedy will not axooe- the oo*l of tho'drug for oontinuing the dels terious beHTtone month I

Address Mrs A B. Robinson, Adams Bt .and Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Hi

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CHICAGO* HATUHDAY. \

Wo have re mo d to believe tbat from the earliest age of the world, superstition h$a ci- Is ted, causing Intestine strife, persecutions, robberies, s i n , snd other disasters too nom- eroos to mention. In a great measure, it b u originated from the Ulble, snd on that as a su perstructure, nuddreds of different religions hare been reared.-each of which differ widely in tenets of belief, eisrclies, etc., and in con sequence of that, antagonism has arisen which has resulted in producing nearly all the catas trophes of which tho human race has been subject.. On Monday, tho 10th of April, the Adven- tints believed the existence of all thing* sub lunary, would terminate; so many of them neglected their business, cave away their prop erty, ptepared tholr ascension robes, and pa Uently waited for that distinguished heavenly personage, Oabrict" to sound his trumpeCT It is not atrange to say that they were disappoint ed. They founded their belief on the BiblV and were uutbakon in their 'faith when that orenUal Monday morn was ushered In; but when tho evening twilight disappeared, and

had proved ephemeral.BoperslUion in tho early ages of the world

was manifested in t dill Brent way than at present. Then humanity worshiped rude object—a so she, or animal of tome hind, Anally progrearing until theyrtifsd^the ele ments an object of adoration. Them they at tributed magical or sacred properties to stouts, The j taper took the lead in-value. I t cured

'fever, bulk'd tho effects of witchcraft, and promoted parturition. The turquoise or Turk ish stone was supposed to htve many and var ious good qualities that made it second to (he jasper only in popular estimation, Bbjlock’ ring that he would not have lost “for a wilder- new of monkeys," was a turquoise. This ■tone was believed to strengthen the sight and spirits of the wearer, and reconcile man and wife, and to move when any peril was about to fall on the wearer. (fToadstono was for many disorders. Agate rendered athletes invincible, Amber was good against poison. Amethyst was an antidote against drunken ness; and it tbp sun or moon was-engraven upon It It was n charm against witchcraft. Bloodstone checked bleeding at ll Corel hindered the delusions of the devil. Crystal clouded if evil was about to happen tb the wearer, tnd it was formerly mnch used by fortune tellers. Diamond was an antidote against all poisons; Opal sharpened the'sight of its possessor, and clouded the eyee of those who stood about blip. Ruby changed It* color if any calamity waa'| abont to happen to the wearer of 1L Sapphire possessed 1 virtues as the bloodstone. Topaz Increased riches, and averted sudden death.

Superstition has, however, changed, to • great extent its base of operations. Supernat ural properties are no longer ascribed to pre cious stones, the attention of the religoua world having been directed exclusively to the Bible, end on that constructed a temple of supfirtl- lion that has been a nniform cone to humanity. W e are not acquainted^with a religious denom-

„ instlon that has not been guilty of some groat crime perpetrated under the garb of religion. A ll' worship the “ same” God, and their acts of injustice have been committed—as they expressly declared—under his direct supejrvi- sloc and sanction. The chaplaids of opposing armies abjectly kneel before the shrine of the “ true" God, snd in tremulous tones solicit bis assistance. The Bandit* of Italy and those who wielded with such deadly effect in Mexico the macM*. destroying Use Uvea,of many i'rotes- tants, were devout Catholics. Those who hong Mary Dyer, banished Hogev Williams,

. persecuted the Qoaken, and caused the Franco German war, were deeply Imbued with a “ U gh''religious feeling founded on tha Bible, one version or another I

By carefully perusing the last page of our paper'lbu week, the reader will readily com

prehend the situation, and observe the inriJ- ious poison that the Catholic U.blo has gen erated. Io view of all these facts, we believe that tf the Bible, the corner-atone of supersti tion, should be abolished altogether, the world would-be the better oQl Why, the Mormons

great cjtlenl found Ihclf-religion upon it; their bematlal polygamous,-practtc^a receive the unction of the Old ‘jMetament, and tho Mountain Meadow Massure w u believed to have received the direct Unction of God him- aelf. Intemperance and aU the low dens of llcentiousneu combined, have never been guilty of such high ctlcoseal against law and order, u thoee which nniforjnly characterize tbf Mormons and Catholics, and at distant in tervals all the other rellgloqa denominations.

True, Intemperance is productive of crime -^pcuionally a murder has been perpetrated

under its influence, and families ruined. Re ligiu^ murders by the wholesale, while Intern pyrante only retails the death warrant- The -inebriate, with a leaden hultel or cold steel de stroys human life. Religion, however, more remorseless, piles the fagots around Servelus,

-.me the (opc 'round the neck of those laboring under' hallucination, as at Salem, in Ullfl T|je Bible, then, we Justly claim, has caused more crime and trouble In the world than intemperance, and gambling, and human ity In the aggregate would bo far I letter oil without it.

ll In a fact that our beaven-born Harmonist ’hiloaopby baa many beautiful counterparts In

the Bible; the sublime maxims of Jesus shine forth there like diamonds lb a muddy pool; bis moral teaching* scintlllajg on ils pages like the itars here and there In a cloudy night. l i t precepts bloom forth in ‘various chapters, as rarely, but as beautifully, as flow

i a drsert plain. But sbould such a book bo retained on the shelves of our libraries, ad-( mltted to a place in our heart, containing such* diverse tench logs? C’a re fu ^ preserve Us mer itorious pasatges, extol its virtues, point ex oltlngly to ita Bpirllttaliam; then read the nau seating tales, a* those of Lot and bla daugh ter*, the Lovi’.es of Kphraim, and DivARnd Uethsheba. Uow damnably filthy! There

the licentious Abraham, who twlce.pros Minted bla “ virtuous” wife do Pharaoh and Ablroelech. Wbal a rascal! Thea there w u the deceitful Jacob, who was a special favor-

of heaven on account of bis frauds and falsehoods

Is it wise and proper for HpIrKuaUsls to seek among the rubbish of the Bible for examples

sustain their fsith? A diamond in a mud- hole Is rendered no richer by the contrast. A virtuous woman in a house of prostitution oc cupies tbe same relation to the world at largo tbat an example of pure Spiritualism In tbe Bible doe*. The precepts and teachings of Ubriit were gTand Indeed, but they stand In the filth ol Solomon and David.

It is not neceeaary for Spiritualism to bo sustained by tho traditions of the past, nor is It well for Spiritualists to make the Bible one of the corner-stones of the superstructure they

building, for it-stUl so acta on the minds of religionists;that It esuses not only wart, murder* and persecutions, but bitter tlrifo on all aide* Spiritualism should stand on Ita present merits, tf it cab not stand bn them, it thoold crumble to the dust, and be known no more. We have nt> feara, however, as to onr beautiful llarmonlal Philosophy. Pane plied in the Shield of Truth,' and guided by i visible host, It will continue to march grandly on, while old theology will finally vanish, lak ing rank by the side of the Saurian monsters Of the primeval period.

T lttre I > A d l i r e .

The Spiritual (Boetoi 1 gW<r»f*f. soya, “ Do not act upon Ihe advT i of the spirits In oppo sition .tj your own convictions, or tho dictates of common sense. In the first place the rues sages are all colored before they reach you by the channel through which they pass; in tho second, the spirits who have the most control over matter, are not alwayagood or Intelligent. Mr Kooija, who had the most wonderful of the early phyaical manifestations in Amerlcb, was brought to rebrand disgrace by.allowlng the rp lrilslo control \hls business affairs. I t is said that-Wfv. J 's j f array Spear so tiered much by blindly attempting to make machin ery under their instructions, Dr. Doc, the as trologer of tho days of Q seen Elizabeth, was ruined In mind and body through following advice, o«*. rather l^rWers1 given by spirits through the medlufluA -liy, and’cohld wo re move the veil from private life, deplorable in stances of tbe shipwreck of the happiness of families from the same cause could be given much nearer tbe present time. If spirits

to destroy our individuality and inde. pendenre, and to make ua blind tool! in their hands,- their mission must be ■ bV) one. A high spirit, In or out of tbe body, would say tbat be had no right to govern any other apirtt,

lo do more Iban to give advice; men have -ugh to do to be responsible for their own

lives and actions, without being responsible for the deeds of others

Tho ,‘yun tu t ie right in saying that “ Mr. Koooe had tho most wonderful of the early phyaical manifestations In America," but It is mistaken In asserting that be was hroughl “ to

or disgrace” through the advico of the spirits, Mr. K tons is now living on a farm in ibis (Bate, ono of the happiest and best of

dares it to bo simply a sensitive organism or powerful current of electricity in bimaelf, so powerful aa to attract him- Irresistibly lo llv- ■ing streams of water and min, oral deposits be- nealb tbe surface. Daring tbe war bo located all the- wells under'General Uoward’txcofu-

C O L . O L C O T T ’S - i lO O K .

1‘c o p lo T rout th o O th e r W o rld .

The Colonel haa embodied the resnlt of hla careful observations and experiments in a 12tno volume, containing 492 pages, and over 60 One Illustration*. This is tbo lin t book la-sued treating of Spiritualism that ha* tfcqn IjlghTw hldt rapidly f a d e d ''i t did not ’nicker, — .»— <- ..... — ' —J —‘■'-v ----- 1-----“ * 'T bn t faded gradually, though renewed Us brll-

A H a u n te d H o u se .

It appears from tbe Concord (N. I I ) I'atn- that a genuine haunted house exists to that section.. Tho story I*given as follow*.— "The Kmereon place baa been vacant all winter. Mr. James Emerson, tho owner, only cireying on thff place during tho summer. About one week ago Mr- U se sun Emerson, son of James Emerson, moved Into the houac, together with bla wife and two children. Everything passed off ail right for the Ural three nights, when, on the fourth night, he heard 'strange sound*, but supposing they proceeded from rata som dotber natural causa, did not pay much attention to'lbom. On Wednesday night laa<, alter, llte family had ail retired, they heard a noise as of some one groaning, the groan* lie lng load and distinct and heard several tlm ej^ i n also tho doors would fly open and then cloee 'l l again with violence. Mot content with the above two demonstration*, tbe chairs com- menceo dancing about the room. Mr. Emer- aon, hi* wife and children.hastily arose, much

•disturbed by the violent and atrange ffemon- Strattons, groans and noises, and taking their clothing, left the honse, going to that of Mr. Amhroeo Chase, who live* twenty or thirty rods ffom the Emerson plaoe. Mr. Chase took them In tnd Mr*. Emerson, who was very mnch prostrated by fright at the noise# and groans, was kindly eared for. Mr. Emer son, who is not easily frightened, thought he would go back and make a thorough examina tion of the house, to ascertain if there were any persons concealed in or about the premi ses, and with M r Chase ihe twowrent all over, tbe honee; ba t no one coaid they find and no nolteedld they hear, The Emerson family can not be induc'd to return lo the honae, and really what the whole npabot of tbe mjjfory will amount to remains lo be seen. There are various stories sndbolnloo* sfloat about town, bat the snm and rubalance of the whole itbry Is as above related. Tbe Emerson family have no inducement to misstate the matter, and I lls plainly evident that the demonstra tions they report actually occurred, proceed ing from some cause that they are-entirely un able to explain "_______________

W . C lsa u d lc r ’a T ea t.

The Dubuque VYwies tolls this story; "There ere soma atrange ‘manifestations’ at the

epiritiatlsUtv^eance at tha Tram nl House on Monday evening. Tfaeusual 'manifestations’ we^e-xtVcntaxhe satisfaction of tbe Spiritual ists or tbe charmed circle and the wonder of those who were not believers, and then, when the I'ght was sgsln out. and the medium w u tinging to charm tho spirits and gel them In good tune to do tomotblog tbat wsj^marreioui In tbe extreme, one of the firm believers In Spiritualism In the circle, W. Chandler, Eiq.,« determined he would apply a teal that would

a a lest. Up Immediately resolved to hlm- ilf that If the spirit* would take a |1 bill from

bla pocket book, which w u In an Inside pork el of his vest, and place It in the lap of Mr*. Bang*, the medium, she might have tbe bill. Aa quick u thought Mr (£’feU the spiritualis tic fin ge{# at/w ork with the button* on bit waistcoat; felt the prosecco of the Angers u they pulled the wallet onl, heard the mailing of the bill* u they lamed them until one of tbe right denomination w u found, and then the book wai ^ turned; but the spirit* having got the stamps, were c u e le u of him now, for they left hi* vest unbuttoned—tbe greedy, cerelcu spirit*. Shame on them tbat they couldn’t have left friend W. looking aa tidy as they found him. The g u w u turned on, and there in tho medium’s Up w u the |5 blit, and then Mr. Chandler told his story. It was a pretty tough one for r u m of the non be liever* to swallow, and aome of them offered to bet something the aplriU couldn’t take a f i bill out of their pocket book*. There w u a jonrnalirt there, and we are morally certain they could not have got a f-> bill oat of b it pocket book. Wonder and astonishment took possession r,t the crowd."

profusely Illustrated, end which carries a peg' ■on, u It were, right lo the scene* and place* of tho author's operation* You are con ducted directly to the acaticca of the EJdy Brothers, at Chittenden, Vt., eeo the spirits u they advance npon Ihe slage, and ao vivid la the Colonels descriptions of them, that the reader seems to lw for a time oa Iho confines of tbe two worlds, spiritual and n\*teH*i.

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A ti U n k in d H e lo r t .

A benevolent gentleman from Vermont an- piled to a B wton gentleman for aid in sending

Vermont mlAiunary lo Turkey. Tho reply -as aa follows: “ I have Invested much in

Vermont securities, and lost many thousand by the act* of your railroad men, sustained by tbB people und the courts. I bavo also livod In Turkey, and had much intercourse with her people. 1 would far rather give my money to •end Turk* aa missionaries to Vermont.’1

A D e f in ite E n g a g e m e n t.

The following illustrates In a beautiful man ner the "Having Q ialltles" of the Christian Religion.- It appears that three brothers were in prison, fn Charleston, Hauth Caroline, sen tenced to be-hung—colored men, named Har dee,—and tbe minister was engaged In admin istering the spiritual consolations so desirable to men thn* situated. Bald tbe'good ms an attempt at comfort: " How happy you should be lo know tfe very fiay on which you will meet the Lard— how much better < 11 than

who do not know wbore.1 will go when 1 die,” I t *o chanced that two of the brothers to whom these word* of cheer weri addressed had received information of the commuta tion of tlielr sentences, an act of Gubernatorial denW cy of which the clergyman had not been Informed. These two promptly respond ed by aaylng: " We’s excused, and U no bet ter off for mootin' de Lord den you is," The divine waa gtreatly puzzled, and troubled as well, at the'apparent levity o f men near death; but the third brother, tbe one who w u to be hung, catqe to the rescue: Bald he: " I ’sd e one yoo’a talking to; I’m to meet de Lord next Friday." Then the preacher understood It. and was enabled to devote hi* attention ex clusively to the one who fellas kind of pride In his engagement to “ meet de Lord ’next Friday." ____________________

W L J a c k M ,D , clairvoyant and medi um; gives ns notice that he will return to Philadelphia in c few weeks.

A W is to r - l 'iu d e r .

A New Hampshire correspondent says that Captain John 8. Oodfrey, of Hampshire Falls, who b u gone to locale wells, never falls in bl* "manlfetlatlOn" u to where water can bo found. He works Ihni: With nothing in bis hands, he walks ‘over the. ground until the water, if any exiils. Is approached, when he ia ■fleeted with • nervous twitching In the limbs which In urease* u the water la neared, he act ing very much like a person with the bars t f a magnetic, battery In hla hand*, and fol lowing tbe conreeof tbe. stream, whichever way It may lead, regardless of wall*, fence*, or other o tj/cU , and aeemlng to be controlled by eome power which he Is tumble to resist

’ Captain Godfrey claims no supernatural poi In,tho accomplishment of hla work, bat de-

The spirit of John King ie at present mani festing himself at Handburst, Austrian*, mak ing himself visible by tbe wonderful »r1iU light. v

| This lamp ia a aclMumtnous cake or cylin- dro about four inches long by two In diameter; It li carried by materialized band* and sur rounded by drapery. It w u about twe year* ago, we think, that this light waa litsl spoken of In England, and at that limo waa brought by Katie King It had not tben attained the perfect form above described, but reaemtiled a lemon in shape; It emitted a pale, bluish

llancy when Katie made paaael over i t Prof. Crookes has bad the advantage of seeing this spirit light by the aide of a lamp of phoiphnr- ixcd oil, and the color waa perceptibly dtflor- ent and stronger.’

The appearance of Jqhn King u described by tbe chairman of tbe circle at Sandhurst, corresponds lo that given of him by those who witnessed hla manifestations ip England, lio has, however, since appeared In different shatRil turbans, one being round in shape and twisted in a very artistic manner in front All tho circle b u been permitted to feci King’s head, face, and beard near-tbo ll >or, a well- formed spirit hand comiug op from the floor and passing Ihu beard through their hand* The hair on the bead and beard feels just like- human hair. Lately ho la trying to UUminate his entire form in the center of -tbo room, so that ail may see him at ones. To a certain extant he h u succeeded, a t thoy are now able to see his face and form dimly. WLen ho puses round tbe circle, carrying h it light In his band, each member ia afforded tbe oppor-, tunlty of having a good look at him, and somo- jimes when he perceives that any have not seen him well, ho parses their hand down his faoo and beard — .Srirnfiat.

Noncfraj*

Tbe colored folks of Cincinnati have bad spelling match, in which, among other*, good old aunty of eigh’y participated. Ti climax w u reached, when tbo Itov. Janes Johnson, being invited to spell "nosegay," started off with a "N o n s," then, seeing the fog horn uplifted to blow him down, suddenly corrected himself to "N o-u-g-h a g a-y," and stepped down and oat amid tremendous rounds

f JJHl dar!" and applause.

I ’o s la g e M u s t Ire I 'r e p a id .

Occasionally a subscriber remits only $3 lo renew tbo J o u r h a l . It requires fifteen cent* more to prepay the postage. When only It sent, we credit that prcpirtlon of tbe yfar, ikbich makes us trouble, and it Is more diffi cult for the subscriber to keep a run of hi* credit* Always send fb Iff and that will re new and pay tbe pretage for one year. *

D w t J f i Of S . I t . W ell* .

... H Welle, editor of tbe Phrtnoloffu-M Jovmai. passed to Bplrii llffl April 14th. Ho w u a man of profound knowledge, And bis loss will be deeply regretted by thou who are familiar with hla writing*. . .

T lio Ilo rN e -n iP itt Itnn< |tie t.

It appear* from tho I’arlt correspondent of tbe New York 'Awa that the horse meat din- .ncr that,/sure oil at the Grand note) there w u a brilliant affair. There wm a very large at- tcndancc^and they aLl pronounced tbe horao- meat excellent. Cooked by accomplished ft"1- lUmtUtfitjy ought to be. for they can, it is said, maVe a soup Of an old boot, and servo up a cat eo that II can not be told from a hare. Two or three hundred pe plo ate horae, asa, and mule meat in a great variety of ways, drank a large quantity of champagne, and then’ made apeccbe* lo honor of Mnpnpbagy.

O 11. p. K r k k k y , of Wajierly, N Y .Mods resolution* adopted by -'.lie n )clely there, indorsing Mrs*Nellie L. Davis u a most ex cellent lecturer.

Dh . C. 1\ Hart gout), Blate Missionary of Iowa, gave ua a call one day lu t week. He ft doing a grand good work for Spiritualism, and Is well received wherever he goes,

M» II. MoBSK, who b u been laboring so of- .ficlenlly in Iowa, ls about to leayo that State for other fields of lebor.

Bl a n c h A. lltrniRBvouD wrltcs_jQ this of fice but give* no poit-cffice address

C M TitosireoN send* u*‘ *a.65, but give* no post cCtoc address

S p i r i tu a l is m in HjNtlti

Draw 8m :—I have tbo pieanire to sand to iu, u a sample, the Spanish 8plriic*ll*< i wir- d published In Madrid, " Kl Criteria Spirit

_ll,” to which 1 am a correspondent, and jmany times I have translated from your Jot'll-. N*L for the ismo.

In a nation like Spain, where the Roman su perstition b u prevsB-<l more than In other European nations, " El Criteria " b u about ten thousand subscribers, tnd tbe belleveri in Spiritualism are about thirty thousand, among them tbe very best Spanish literati. The Pres ident nr tbo Spanish Spiritualist society la " De Vitamtie de Tuftm Slanot G u te tir” the great thinker. If you have a translator you can see thn great progress bqlng made In Spain. On page BO. In the Criteria yon mav see an art icle translated from tbe RRUoio-PnibOBprin- c a l Jo u rn a l . Y uan truly,

Jo ssrn M Tx l l r s . Chandlertvllie, Case Co.. ILL. April 30, *73.

Tnn Ban Antonio (Texu) Herald gives the foUpwing notice to lUsubscrlb«r*:'VRereafter we shaU publish the list of the names of those who go a fishing on the Lord’* day add fall to send ua a string of trou t Perch and tucker* have too many bone* in Jbcm to allow ns to forget that the moral element of our popula tion look to tbe p ro u te eradicate this growing desecration of the Sabbath.”

Du. T. B. Ta t l o r delivered a carefully pre pared lecture on "W hat are Ihe responsibili ties of tbe BpIrliualiaU of Bistou to dsy t" at Rochester Hall, Boston Mas*, on the evening of Bonday, April 20th.

W s understand that there Is to be an luter- BUteCamp Meeting to ld at Dnbnquo, lifwa, the l u t of Jon* The Indefatigable worker in the cause or tbe llarmonlal PhlloaopMi Dr O. P, Hanford, will tako charge of Itsy Q .

Bayard Taylor, in his lectures upon ancient Egypt, informs us that many sentences record ed on the papyri found In the tomb* give *vi: deoce that most of the H ou le law w u com plied'from the rellglua ■ teneU of the Egyp tian priesthood, and that some of tbe rite* ob served by the Jews, u recorded in the Bible, had their origin in Egypt. * \

A “ H A U N T E D ” H O U 8 £ .

ThO t^plrltR llu d a M e d iu m In a L i t t l e G ir l u nd d o W o n d e r fu l T h in g s .

D rab Jo c h h al:—Certain phenomena has* been occurring here which utonisb ua all very much, and we would like to have eome one ex plain them. At the house of Mr. Gooflfy. a highly respectable citlaen and neighbor, a half dozen of u* were vltiltng'oD Tburedsy evening lu t. when it w u proposed we sbould hold a seance. Forming a circle a*' directed In tho J o u r n a l , we soon auccreded in bringing the raps. Little Minnie G tiliry, a child of

"llRAD IS IN Nix’s POIIXIIRAO ”

lines upon It. Closer eiamlnallon dlscloaed that this wee written npon her forehead: ".Your uncle J )hn Allan sends fain love." It is true this w u brief and we were ell very much u tout abed at if. We again resumed our ^placee at tho table, when Minnie selxed tbe ocn and wrote In.* plain legible band:

’Oh, *li» awjtot, ’ll* tapt’rous sweelV To leave tbe fqrm our friends to moc Mlnnio qgt not write. Borne of the friends

still c lam ors for more satisfying test* Hud- donly Minnie wujfifluenced, and cijed "w a it" We all utbxpectanlly. Then she'command ed, ‘ join hands.” , Wo did so, when home noise w u neard In the room immediately above ua Bounds of harrying reel and per sons running to and fro. I t gfew louder and more boisterous until th e confusion w u such u to rehFer oar voice* lntudlble to one so other. We broke our circle and filled with awe. donbllngly opened the room door (aa B by 10 bed room) when there w u preeented to our gize the bed minus the clothing; the sheet* sroand the poets, tbh quilts teiuslly dene up In suoh balls tbsl w icould not undo them. H r* Geoflry suggestdd that the quilts would have'to be ripped optn wlth A knife, when Minnie again under influence exclaimed, "Mol gu dow n.' 8o down we went, joined hand* u before, when a few strain* of(aeawoel- eat music I ever heard greeted our cart, and there w u the sound of foolilipi moving in porfect nelson to the lime. 1 \

Under Minnie's direction we darkened the room, when an accordion, violin, *ed„ibe pi ano were all played together, tbo twei former Instruments moving tn graceful uudhittiooi, ’ and keeping pufiC t lime In their moitemeota. On closing, we found the room in good order. Oa Friday evening we met again, >Whrn sub stantially the same thing took pitch u before. On that occu lon the three leading ministers end ell the school teachers of Hartford were present. Now, are such manifestations com mon, or are they something out ofthe usual line. All tharw ere there on both these nights are willing to ,a tte s t the truthfulness of those thing*. ^ ft

.. IIx n r t Joaxaon.Hartford, WU.

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llow often Jo we And when death enters i household and takes one from a family, <hi

several others follow In quick succession. This h u been the esao recently In our family, la the month of Auitull last Mary 11 O lid , wife of my father, who is now In bis no b year, paused suddenly on to the homo of the angels A fitting tributes wlli paid to her memory by non of her daughler*. in number >>i of ihb Sul volume of the Io c h s a u On the -il b dajrt'f Novemlier, Tlisnargmng day. B»rnh L Ohlld, wife of my* ti ler brother, Samuel.■ after attending chinch in ibo mornir g ,' was

taken suddenly ill, anil died In less than two hoofs of apoplexy. She was n noble ar d trne hearted woman, one of XIini's btrsied angels, who carried sunshine wherever she went She had been "Clivelj/ engaged In many reforms. She went forth Into the land of the hereafter to meet her children aud frimds who bad gone before her. Now on Ihe b of Febru ary. Isaac K Wright, no uncle hv marriage, pais.'d on to the higher life In Ihe Ml 1 year of bia age n e was a member <>f the society of Friends, and was esteemed for his lnlegrliy He attended the Frletda’ meeting in Urn morn ing, and In tho afternoon paasetl auildrnly'to I be nig tor. life A large cottcnrre of frieteja anilTelativH.aa*cu>Meil at bis fuorial

We were I m prefer d to say that our twin veil friend bad not gone '‘ unto the monnl that might be touched, and Ihnt burne!l with Are, nor unto bl.rkncss, and darkness, and tempest, end to the sound of thn trumpet and the voice itf w ords" Hut he haa gone "unto Mount /ion , and unto the city of the living G «!. the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an Innumerable company i t-aogels to the general asiemldy and church of the Ural horn, which are writ ten lu heaven, and to God the Ju-lge of all, and la the eplrlls of Jaet men made more per feel." And as wo gather Into the allenco we may reallr.e that t i n Inhumcrahle company i f Ju«t men aud women arc not far from us. that each one of them holds Individually the same loving relation to us that they did whi n in lb# form, and aa we coma to reall:r Uis com munion we shall know that the separation by death it only transient, and that our loved ones are “ not lost, but gone before."

Wo bavr no reason lu mourn for our friend. He bad Jived out the fall measure of life on esrth. and l*K'a fet'ord of <tood deeds among hi* fellow-meb. The lesson of the hour Is for curatives, that we may so live that when the summons come for us to j "in the innumerable caravan that moves inwaid the pale rovlcni of shade, we may go as he has gone, calmly and peacefully, to meet the loved ones there

(Join p t'ium t Io n , l(ccont|iciiM P.

The law of compensation i„ but another cx ,

Fresilon of j mice. As au attribute <f the nflnlte II pervades all C"Kd!lloi s of mind and

matter everywhere. It buds rxpresainn in va rious fnrlhs of language -‘As ye s->w sonhall ye reap." In the Gulden Hula. " Whatsoever yo would that meu should do uolo you, do ye likewise unto thorn." Il la In reality the law of cause and tfl "Cl lienee In all our life ex peiiencca we may rest assured that at round and round wc go, “ -ever the right comes up permosl, aud ever Is justice done " As indl vidnals and aa nations tradition and history confirm* this, and tho result should lie up >n lutelllgent and tbiDhing beings' to l‘i il lence them lo do the best they Can, and to carry out tbo highest principles In all tbclr actions, so aa to receive the highest and beat compensa tion. IWe should not. however, make the co n. pensatlnn the id j c«; il ahould always be con sidered aa the result. Our acts may 'become degrading tf we permit the compensation that should coma naturally from them to assume the place of a motor or esua*.

The word recompense means literally to compensate again, and la not necessarily and strictly Just I t may mean a reward of merit

.or a punishment. I l la too often looked upon as the chit f Inducement for action, and then it bccomea a lower motive than we ahould fol low. That labor which Is done with no higher motive than a pecuniary reward does not ex ercise the most elevsilng influence upon the human mind. Wneli we look only f-.ylherec ompenBc of reward we may have a very low

'aspiration. There can be no iilj-oltun to the -jtliV compensation for labor; but every one sflould have In their dally experiences some labor of love that shall give a sweet savor of

l life to them, and make them realize that all is \ not sordid and selfish, but that « b may have a ^portion of heaven mingled with our earthly Career.

Individuals and society are In tho habit of Tecompebalng those who dp wrong with pan ishments mure or less vindictive. There Is ho authority for Ibis. They may have tbo right to protect themselves if 'th ey do not lij.tre others thereby, but this does not extend ch ltao power lo punish any pao, even though Uey violate our rights. The desire to lull ct pun llhment comes from a low plane of our nature, tnd reacts upon the asms plane most to the In jury o r thosfrwho indulge In it.- Toe highest ■pirilual condition attainable by mankind Is that spoken of by Jesus, In which there was so much lovo In the human soul that II ex- ten'di lo those who would I rj ire u t, and would lead ua to do good to those who would despite, fully u*C us We know this Is almost en- tlrely an Ideal state, bilk we believe it Is a ttain able In dplrll-life, and to a very Tjonsldcrsble extent In this Ufe But whether we attain lo It or to t, tf we tee It cleerly ad an Ideal state we should hold Ibup for ouieelves and others to strive to retch as nearly aa wa can.

The cQect of s vindlotlvesplrlt-msy be more lrjurlous to the person who harbors It than to thoae against whom It la harbored. It unset- tics the mind; Il deprives us or that clear, calm discernment that can reach the exact linh and plummet of jastloe, I lalso I r j ir te the p u ly against wburn it It practiced J at In proportion as they are on the same vindictive plane Herein society Is morn to blame In the treat- meet of the so called criminals th in In any thing elssi Instead of reforming and redeem ing them, It often makes them w orn by lie In Judicious treatment Instead of nlakldg friends and useful citizens of these we make them oO*edcrs, offbn enemies of tha bitterest kind Instead of removing tbs causes which have led them to do wrong, we aggravate theae and make criminals of those who would other

—Wise be useful members of society, happy In tbs epj ivment of tpelr rights, and In the re spect’tb ryfee l for those of others

T bspre.au t structure cf society Is based I to m-ph upon silflibnesa. The desire for weebta and power Is Iso generally-encouraged ja the- y .uthfol mind that there are few who can rite aboW It T se question; Will It pay In tnooey 0T power! teems lo be almost universal, ju d not. Will It b leu the eWorld, oqr f olluM-pKaend' ourselves? • / • I

Tbcro Is an innate respu t for the yo.nl and tho true, the noble and the elevating, et With thole who are nut always up lothis pla__ lu thtir llVes How important it is for all of ua to weigh well our lives, lo measure their re- • potialhllllle'v.jjnil In all dtparlmcol* endeavor to rise to the very highest plane 1* •ysically, wc should resolve to take the very.best care oj Ibcio bodies, and do every thing wo can tu maintain the highest health, knowing ibai the compensation wblch this brioga is the very best and most desirable. M-utally, we ahould seek for all llie uufoldment which can be at tained by us by the most strict, observance of the laws of life Hptrltnally. we should en deavor tu attain to the realization of the most beautiful ideals, which In momenta of ecstasy may dawn upou our souls and invite ua to come up Higher The gMnpensnlioh lo all Iheao eases la legitimate; It is not a recompense which can In any way Injure another, but It brings the purest and best blessings to ui lo all wilhln the sphere of our Intldcnqm etch day Had us standing upon a logger , _ nacle, so Inst we may have our lives rounded out Into hi suly ami harmony, so that all d> cord and contention, and especially all vir*l—tive feelings end desires to puulsn or It___another, may psas sv i j f eulirely, anil in the loom lhe(0»f may that pure low which Is the true badge of djsclplesbtp over bo ..ura,

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l>o«p and j> tw- rful souls si’i n l evcrylhlcg in ajlrnre, ai.d make no mdse with their doings or with themselves They go on their w*j like the works of God, In deep silence th> sun ascends the heavens; silently sinks the night down upon Ihe esrlh. What prepares Itself In greater stillness than the re awaken

the * p»nmg «f spring V Uiikhru

large, sacrificing thereby without besitatioc hot his repaint It'D as an investigator, and laigj 1 tierary interests; nor could'Ihe-dear pionerj of the cause bo has so long and so noliu served, be made to retract his slalemcDt, w h/i, a lttr havlog returned to the lad fluid of h trde feat, he fuuod Ihe treachcrous^jjasSffZlsClie mo dlums; ho could not ao d ig ir it rE o th it v o any thing tm-re to do wilfc'Tflch characters. It mayjre said by su m /it mailers little bow Ibc, bnrita'RUWttn, tui.vliVd il Is won. but it dot* maltsy T-Jks \ tn.laiJ of old won msny bat lies, nut Ijow do we look upon tbeir conquests? Wu arti ecu working furiitC present otiiy, hut for the future alt.-; wc want, when wu shall have dr* pi, as I'mfrssor Tyndall so-poetically < xiucrars it, lolp ihe "dim azure of tho past, ' and beco t o anifhls. to !e. v« to our dtect n ianta a fair historic page ami thsl it may not Ire said of ua, in reading our records, that we fongbl like Hans and Goths. “ A msh's mao- ocis, cm m oulv make bis foslune,” say's the proverb, and allh> ugb this would stem a rath <r worldly wire maxim to be applied to a re- llgli os movement. It Is nevertheless true that thn aspect i f things has much to do with their success II Isall very well lo be Indifirrenlto the world's opinion aa long aa we hi Id the truth; hut nur mission la lo make this truth known, and It stands to retain thsl Ihe pro mulga'lnnuf It had belter be inlrusled lo a gr-ve teacher than to a ilarliquln.

Hi poses In themselves mean little or niitning; they reveal but Iheuatural and child Ish aiumbllngs of a frail humanity. The Catholic church Ihe Protestant church, all churches, have ihG rocct tonal exposes Bptr dualism It ion firmly planted in the past to bavu anything lo fear from. Ihe UI wipes that have blown around It of late, bnr-ir reforms, l.oy movement such as Ibis resuscitation of old forgotten truths assumes to be, should ‘walk with caution on ineh slippery ground as mini tin skepticism has prepsred for it, and glvo the world as few occasions as possible to Hugh ct Its false steps

AraoDg the various things Bnrnpe reproach es America‘fur. Is tha latter’s Impatience to arrive at results Education Is hasty, finan cial, commticlsl, Industrial enterprises are hasty, everything ts hasty In that land oveVtfie waters They vat everything green In the New Country; they pull thCtr young plants up by the roots to see how fast they grow; they have not learnt yet the , real significance of the little word, tMiV, like all y*>ung athletes, they shoot boytond t- - mark IL-mombcr tho Ital ian saying'- * Chi w fwung, M a.mj, t cAi r i sons, ex fdnfans

C. It Ct.nsoN.Ithaca, N_Y_____________

A C liu rc lt EeHIlco L’l id c r tl io l ln iu -

The Bhiloh Presbyterian Church, at Princo and Marion streets, Now York city, was sold at auction April 2d J, by order of tho Presby tery of New York. Two years ago tbo Itsv. Henry Highland Garnet and bts colored con gregation moved to HO Sixth avenue, where they have since worshiped, the Presbytery tak. ing the Prince street propertv rtf their hands,and promising to psy- them |0 ) 000

Why don't the spirits find Cbirlle Hoes? N o| thsl is not the question wo desired to pro pound. 'W hy does ool'lhe Great BplrlU-Ood —prevent the sale of h lsn sp church building?

M rs A. P. W arm , of BL Louis, Mo., Trance Test Medium, holds two seance* dally precisely at :i A TJ r. m. Koomi 00i Chestnut Direct. y

A. IlastsDaLB writes lo this oflloe but falls to give bla address.

Wk F h t write* to this office but fall* to give hla P. O address.

O n ly O n e H o lla r a Y e a r.

T hat beautiful magazine, T un L r rr ta qtnrr, I* sent free of postage to any person w ar for On* Do l l a r . Any one who will u-- np a Club of Pivh eubacrlbars, will have1.!!

P oet Office A ddress.We are constantly reminding our reader* of

the prime.neoewlty1 of-glvlng their P. O. ad- dree* when writing ua, still, not a day passes that we do not reoalve. valuable letter*—In tome cases urgent—with no address, hod- fre quently not even the name algned. We now have a considerable number of such lettare, lbs writers of which are probably, impatiently awaiting the fulfillment of their order*. *

jpa*ritd.OaTumir BSOnhw. at SUf pest lias o'clock byltn.

M S. Amrhirti, Mlotrtrr U thr 8*imatl roll wnphy, k x Wiuxau a l*naca to Mbs A»a r. Jaadaa, ofthlscSty.

^uslnrss Hotirrs.1 iirHTKKN cents 1* the c j M < f live g»lbm

soft arap, made from one pound of II ilib Electric Bjap, (made by Cranio A Co,, Pt delphla.l and tbi/aoap will go farther I a dollar*’ worth of common loan. Try it.

T u b wonderful curative qua! ties by West's Pulmonary; Britain are aim. credible. It I* a rich and pcctornl balsam »»f the most healing, softening, and cxprcloratlng qualities, and haxrbeeu given in thousands of cases with wonderful success, relieving and eventually curing all diseases of the throat s d J lungs. Trial bottles 85 and fill cents. Large bottles f t 04 Bold by all diuggltu

Tpis 'celebrated Medium Is the instrument or organism used by the invisibles for the benr lit of hnrmimly. The placing of hrr name before the public is by request of her Control ling H rod They, through her organism, treat itil'duMiet uBo rurr in every instance where the Vllri drgans ui-cesiary to continue life are not destroyed, Mrs Morris,in ts an URCONUVIOUS TUSNCB MKIXVM tUSIKVOVANT

AND C.'LalRAUUiKNT.From Ike very beginning, hers is marked as

a most remarkable career of anreeaa, such as haa seldom if rrer fallen to the tut of any per son. No disease seems too Insidious to remove, nur patient loo far gone 'to bo re store-?.

Mrs Morrison, becoming entranced, the lock of hair is submitted to her control The ' diagnosis is given through her lips by tho Band, and taki d down by her Bccrctaiy, The original mlmnacript is sent to thejL'orrcspond cut.

When Medicines are ordered, tho caao l»- submiltod lo Mrs. Morrison's Mtdicsl Baud, who give s prescription suited to the case, Her Medical Band use vegetable 'remedies, (which they magnetlrr). combined with a scientific application of the magnetic healing

Diagnosing disease by inch of hair, i I 04 (G-ve age and sex)

11 melies sent by mail prepaid at-kciric von BriLiteav a m i n k h r a u h a

Address Mr s C M Him-.u- <n 11 " o n .

Marhto.n, Mtrch !! I. ISTV Mrs A, H. ltoiimaon,

Mt IJr a h Fninriii a k h Bih t b ii — t ou may j trhaps remember I wrote you last September in regard to my own health. I am happy to Inform you that through your aid and that of your guides 1 have entirely recovered my lost health I do sincerely think that t should now bo in Bptritdlfo, only for ybn. Y*mr raising me ,to>sjrflh is what Induces a fnce'd of mine to send to you now. Bhe is a prior woman and can only send you two dollars at this time, but *sy« she will try and send you more as soon aa ahu can Her family are all Bevun day Advent lata, and are bitterly opposed to our beautiful faith, hence her gelling mo to write fur her Hhe also desires you to send the prescriptions in my name or to me. I want you to do tho very beat you can, for she haa been to several phyrician* here without receiving any honetH whatever, and her family being ao opposed lo Bptrttarilsm, Tyrant you to abow them a lit tie what tho spirits can do. (Then followed a description of her ca*e)

I will luclose an order of two dollars and a lock of her hair. I have become partially de veloped within a few works and bavo Men thinking that it might help me If I were to

rod to you for aome more of your magnetized■Tapers- I’lcsso let me hear from yo------ ssihte, as my friend will wall anxiously

letter- . Direct lo Mrs M. A Leonard,

m »jc u .^J.n id h j . (M<t» Homwsos, Chicago, 111. De a r Bis t b ii ;

— Yyitr letter dated the 1-Yh of this month, w^fh magnetized papers, is at hand- My wife leuiow well, and the remedies she takes will Iasi about two days more. She thinks that she will gel along without taking any more. Inclosed you will find a post-< fil je order for (2 00 Please accept this with beat thank*. 1 remain yours lu truth,

Kd w a h d Be-itinxNiuiiio.

no Cotta KALLiKo o rr ok h is HAin..Mnn. A. U Bo h ih b jn , CihcAOO, Ds a r Bis

t k i i i—I do not know as It Is necessary for mo to send for new magnetized papers Since 1 began to use your remedies my hslr has quit, coming out. Yoa have done me more good than all other doctors I bavo over tried, and they are many. M<y you continue to bo suc cessful in your noble work. If you think that 1 should wear new magnetized paper* longer I shall do so. 5 'ours truly,

Pb t r h Ma jk k c a . 510 N orth Lee BL, Bloomington, HI., March

25111, ltf73.

unit Itoi CUttkO HIM AND list WANTS IT TO

T a ma Cit y Tama Co.. Iowa, I March 14th, 1B75 j

Mr s . A. H RoBlNaon;—I sent to- the lta i iuiu Ibtrt/oeoruiCAL I’nuuaniNO UooaB, Ontcago, in February, for a box of yoor tobacco anl'dota/ which camo In due time. I followed the directions on the box, and it baa cared the

iketlcg'deslre for tobacco on m e 1 would _ /Ttabaoco cbewera, try IL It wlU cure you. I want the agency of Tama County, Iowa, lo sell your tobacco antidote. I think I can sell, a good dea] of it thU coming year. I shall make a business of selling It. How much WlU It cost me a df z*n boxes?

Hoping to bear from you w on. I remain,W. F. Bo s l b t .

Reply You can bare them at wholesale ra te s- $12 per dexen, abd order ' dozen at a time, tf yon wish to do so.1 U .e A PI II

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American- OJtSarir Wo7£x, • Newark,Oor Wash kinle th*h«fI^S V rottd . IIdere ant

streak. eonulinB»thn>*bi)«rlo»* lo hwllk or fskrie, sad Is awl by all tw lares Uaadriss oa M toul of Its plsaslae tffset and tbsspaesa Noasrlor Hr * bllwresb.

og In packages coarealcut tor torally aso.Kor sals br »n*rrt STSrrwSus Always ask hr tbs

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IIiio Joni*:—8'aco t havcW l tbe resiling of your pajjor. 1 u p il 1* like a rl i«a meeting: inasmuch s i il givni ill s chance In toll through' Il whet tb« L -rd b i t d-*uo f >r them, sod s* I hove lately h « n converted, sm fullYif fsllh sod hope In tbs o s* Ilf*, msy I nol be permitted, to till whit baa been done for my •out? 1 i u brought up under Uriel eee'srlsn discipline, but from my esrlital rcaa ini g I could sot reconcile many of II* 'eirbinna. 1 could never understand ho* 0 “t could be a merciful,' loving Father—fu'l of grace »nd truth, and yet was angry with the wicked every day T t i l we were conceived and horn. In aln; Un wbat we would, we were ulnful and aftor doing all wo could to get rel-glou, if wi failed In being savrd, H-, th<- J idge Supreme, would langb at our calamity iiniTSnrvrir when our fear cornelh Tbl* theology waa In strict i>l p wittou to my idea Of love, for I bed ob served Ihe tender love of my parents tho un dying Interest towards their children; * motherhood among the domeallc animals,1 fell these teaching* s libel upon the great universal parent I know you can not wonder at my bsppy conversion, from such Inconstat ent teachings There were many tblrgs rab id seemed to my young soul perfrcily at variance with the character of a loving O-uf. at variar** with the laws of reproduction; thaTwc ca Into the world without eny will of our oa antf must be doomed in eternal pen! Won for that which we were entirety unaMe to obviate

In 1»30 when ab ml fifteen yrara of age througn the death of my father I was plrced iA the family of a rigid orthodox -wjio bad the name of being a very good than; on accounl of hit-being a prafetaor of religion I waa tc llvo with this man till I arrived at my m»J irttyj I found mo Improvement, going from a loving, gentle mother, whoso everY-day life was an example of goodnew, charily and forbearance, to u man ifho made loud professions of religion, bnt who would nol hesiute to drive a good bargain out of a poor widow or make money at the expense of health and private inter ests of others; would go >even miles every Babbath to attend church, rain nr ablne; In a word, carried bis Chris' Unity Sunday* withh it Bonds)*s suit.. and be wholly --------*greed, and bard faced six day* " -Wkes. _I _ h.a____ 1 ..I

Stale, became very anxious through protracted «fl irt In which be was always very attentive, that I should get religion, allowing that all I needed was 11 be washed with the blood of Jesus; I could hot understand by what pro cess they could wash my tout white with bl»«d. or through wbat means the cbsnge waa to come, but 1 was n< t only willing, but anx ious, coouquently he took me to meetings, sod labored hard; and to did I, to And this something, denominated a change of brart, I suffered much from fear and ai>xietv, in regard to the future state. I-prayed, struggled and ■wept, and that I could not get the svidcnce, concluded I must be .given over to hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, as I had heard them ssy, or else w u not of the elect; but still I did not cease my iffirU f in one of these caret'll appeals there came to me an Irtl tcnce which I was unable to dt One. I knew It waa nol of mvse f; could It be Ood f I then thought so; It told me I abould have an evidence, the wey would bo open bofore mo, that Mr. K would ask me to pray when they w scm bbir for family Worship. at which Time t should ro- Citvc an abiding faith In something beyond the cooflnea of sectarianism I thought I would rather make so attempt at prayer be fore the mln1|Ui^%nybody, rather U>*u before this man, whoso precept sod example had never given me any confidence in him, had never by any good wholesome counsel, or no ble work, given me faith; only dread. Its memberlng so distinctly the time bo w u ap pointed with a deacon of the church, t-> labor with a young man, a member of the church, for having participated with a Uulfi_party In's daces, I will mention it u adillusTMtlon of h it character. After he had dressed himself to go.on his Christian mluion. he took down a watch wh ch I bad heard bjm say. hef was go- -tiTg to try to trade tbla young man for a wag n wood. AS he put it In hie pocket, I said, Mr N , doe* It not airtke you u a alngular and uupro- pltlous time to make a trade when you are going to labor for the

SAVING o r Tills MAN’S DULL?Tho watch w u hung up. I aft-r ward learned from Ihe deacon, that Hr N told hint thal ho w u never ei rebnhed True to the raem ge which bad been delivered, and which I have since recognized u Spiritual; when we were rested for family worship and ibe chapter had been read, be looked up to me—1 knew wbat w u coming, my bean Was fluttering' and throbbing, but I bad rcsolv.d to mske au ef fort if he irked me. Be eafd, Leonard, “ I be-llevo you have got religion, but you don’t know Ik I believe if you will pray,, you will receive tome evidence." We all koelt, and 1

I csrac further in’o tbe th in wilds ofII irrn county, have worked bard, ami like other p*one*-r» have hail a Lard life with f — advantage*, but in all the up* god downs life, I do n«»t fi *1 that I have beta tbe m unfortunate, for I can look bock to a harmoni ous childhood borne, the btak^oMcflloncsa which had given me the betvcr portion of my manhood, can bless my aniuV molherwho Itn-

Planted the eerma of my present railh.,and feel am blessed .bove tbe glfltering wealth which

often gtlda the homes nf.(many who dlo ■- princely poverty, having no real subslani ko wledge of ibe life beyond.

For many year* *on>elh<nglkept whispc;ing to my spirit understanding, that in Ihe future I should know tor myself, law! it b u come at

IlLur years lu t summer,(.Mrs Maud Lord, spent some time at my houW being In- poot health She held a couple of W aA etln which Ihe Voce loved of earth, long resident In the Bumther land, visited our-home, and brought the ipnch.-wiihcil conviction to our welting hearts] from h<ur to hour she bapt zed me w /h a holler dtvlmr faith, giving me unmlt- jlkkable evidence of the things I had always wished t-< know, to be aathfled of tbe life be vond, for which-f'shall always be grateful. Now, I know f!»r myself that u my d “ - psr'ed friends l(ye, I .'ball live also.

As soon u I became eatisded of these things, knew how to main myself receptive to spirit

dri-gb------------------------------------ utonlshed

ighud.that so great a gift as healing bad been delegated to me At present new phase# of medlumsbip are manifested at the shrine of my. earnest seeking soul Many testa and manifestations have bceu given me, with promise* in the fu'ure, which I do not intend to put under a bushel. 1 could specify much which is beyond the cavil ot-doubl, but have wrltteo lengthy, and du not wish tc * den your columns wnen others can flil-tbi much better, and will conclude with my In cidents at tbe seance rooms in Chicago, and wonderful spirit phenomena In which 1 bad grand experience. A year ago last winter, spent a few days In Qbicago, determined t witness a cabinet exhibition. 1 met several fimpaolt a of Intelligent vnd'rrflaeH people at Hr* L >rd’s rooms, 40G W ed Madison street,

eager for some satisfactory evidence, thal wr live beyond tho boundaries of earth-life. 1 there saw and recognized with others, to my great satisfaction, too form* anil features of those who had-been witn us in cauDSfti Those we had Consigned t-> Ihe narrow f m t . wept and mourned them as dead, having piss ed beyond ibe boundaries of this life to dt-Hallo, undefined futnre to hyaven, orother place, from which thiy coui-J n e t___Caps through the cea.clear ages of eternity; some to bo happy, and olhera to be forever miserable. With these ideas instilled into our minds, it otn not be wondered thal a waiting company was held breathless, and when in the feeble gaa light fully material.zsd forma ap peared1, there was au audible breall--------spouse came from each waiting soul. ____

recognized, those who .tied professors----- on-professor* of religion, some robed In

tho garments ftmlliar to friends, others in robes of peculiar beauty and' loveliness; many, and some that were very skeptical, went awayfully satisfied to set at the foot of the crc------*bear away the trophies of Ibe new feitb.

I also visited your rooms, end s it in a seance given by Baelian and Taylor, 1 did not receive much that evening, owtug to Mr. Haitian's physical ailment, but It did uolenockmy faith at all; others bad received the best of le«t«; I could wall, besides there ialo my mind, no bel ter evidence t f the genuineness, boceuse were the manifeiUUoni trie works of deception and trickery tbeyfconld alwiyi produco them. “ --- - - - - - - - ‘ 10*1— kery they could ulwvys product) them. My glffa are fa healing. Tnruugh these gifts I have done some wonderful tblngi, wonderful to me (bet through my .suu brown untutored bands, a gift froi? heaven coaid be brought to suQering bumanllY; that 1 could lift them of tbelr diseased condition, and send them __ their wey njuiclng. While at Mrs Lord's,* --------- n’s wife and. daughter visited her

private manner, hoping somewhere n of new things, to obtain physical

aid for her daughter, who w u suffering from, I think, splaal difficulty, which bad so far re sisted the treatment of the medical depart ment. I treated her twice, and had tho satis faction, through a letter from the mother, tome mouths after, thal tho treatment bud ful ly restored her to health; at le u t no symptoms of the dl*ea»e had troubled bersloce my treat menl. N j w to the strange phenomenon con------ *--------- elf. On my return from Chicago,

__ seven miles out of Decatur In thecountry. Tho snow w u deep and badly drift ed. In going through a bad place the sleigh w u upset, 1 w u thrown out and dislocated my wrist. 1 w u taken home, and while deliberat ing howto get a physician to tho h< spirit told me to wait Evening came.

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began to pray. A strange and wonderful in fluence came upon me; some power w u tak ing possession of me I w u full pf a new life, such a glory shone arouad and about me, my lip* were cfoecd. but to open again with Ian-

' U p _ _ _ _ _then leacblngs of theology,______________reel Idea what It wha, o r how to find ot}i.

In this neighborhood lived a very pious girl who bad become decrepit Bbe seemed very happy; often talked with me- and wished to much that I could embrace religion, and so did I, for I th ught her a very worthy exam ple. but the could not give me tne modus oper and*. aod I could -not find it with all my search and prayer*. V

Sometime about Ihfltyear 1837 she died. I thought if the could come back to me, I should obtain some positive •evidence, for I believed

. (be w u a real Christian. Borne time after the had pueed through the dark valley and shad ow of death to that bourne from which I had bees taught that no traveler could ever return, and, I waa, If poealbla, more serious in obtain ing religion. I w u forced to the conclusion that my teachings had not been altogether cor rect, for she cam* to me i s th* seclusion of my room In Ua stillness of the night' Being lgooranlrof these thing* I w u alarmed, and like a frightened child I covered my head, and did not dare remove It till morning, but beneath th* covering I u w

' LIGHT* AND TORUS,such u I hkve since seen end recognised u spirit msnlfesutioo*. I .can now understand

'th a t Isw u a medium, t y h e n I was twenty one year* of age, I left

my employer with the full proportions of men- hood, without the schooling spec!fled In th* article of agreement—without * dollar for mv aeved w ar’s labor; not even the much-wiahtd- for religious fa!ID. I struck out for myself with no MUled opinion, but believing Uut be hind the cloud w u a brighter day of promise.

upon » lounge in the sitting room, froorwhlch----- «1 two bed rooms, occupied by company.

spirit* showed me* clock with the handsJo ' .....................

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________________ my wrist wouldhe set Bo he from curiosity kept awake.Just »t the minute, the Influence came, and In an instant, it w u set with such a snap that the young man sprang to my fide to And that uo the invisible! had been true to tbelr promise,' , end that the Job w u well done and without - the slightest inconvenience. Il never gave n a minute’* pain. The swelling gradually su sided,'Shd in* dun time my blind, and wrl were ustrong u ever. Since then I have. CUBED THE LAME,

my heavenly gift, don* many good things. And now I ask, who would not rather bo uao- ful, be i doer of good work* under the name of Bplrituallam, with the bleased angels tohelp us,—knowing that our assistance c<------from the fountain of Ood, than to loch u p __Judgment end reason, and call all these good thing* the work* of the devil, and go grop ing about In the dark. If It le the work* of th* devil, he Is * much better philanthropist than h u formerly been accorded to him. B j- ilde* It la to my mind giving to his msjeety. whom we have always been taught-went around like e roaring Hon, seeking whom he may de vour, altogether too much credit aod power. In this lb* orthodox make Ood * Very Inferior bring, with little power or desire to help hi* sfllieted children, that ha, h u created Ic-bls own likeness, while those who have been Duly o -averted to thiat. rational religion, who know for themaelveaVglve all the power and glory to the most high.

Lb o x a b d T is d a l e .Decatur, Mich.

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IC K V IV A I, r l tE A C I I I N t J .

lurit o n S e n s a t io n a l C rtnunlcn* . ) A gatiiH t N innerx .

One of tho most indigestible feature* of rival preaching It it* uaauit upon tbe nervoua system Instead of the reuon or tho understand ing. Tbe getter up of revival* must know how to wrfrk tho lachrymal gland,—not only his own. bill that of’bls hearers. Ho musk play skillfully w ith/* loud noiso u fibrous chord* caliodf, nervea, w hk„ through the tyiie'm akd give it an radian a us-, ccnllbllity toel( i|uont Wind

i t seems to be taken tor granted that the preaching done by tbe regularly graduated aud accredited preacher, must sooner or later tail of Us t ffjet, and produce a lot of what are called *• UpapolhanleDCd " hearers of the word, and a gorge of;vy'\ lu the way of church- member* which obslrtifc tho flow of the wat ers of life I d other word*, tbe eppeal to the understanding of people who sit clothed and in their right mind at-tbe feet of their spirit ual couaaelor every Bunday, Is understood to fall aim ply because it il followed by no re sponse on tho part of the nervous system. There is no weeping or wailing, no spurns or jirita, no shout* or shrieks, no bounding into tho air and falling dead (spiritually dead) upon the floor. Tbe little children, although natur ally tho most impressible of human creatures, seem to be t* Impassive u tho reel of the con grcgetlon. They " love Jeatia,” and anybody else who u lka u kindly and rationally to Hi*** little ones " u Uo did.

The common people and the uncommon people, young people and old people, attend with punctuality and listen with attention. The preacher doea nol appear to shun any of the wnole counsel, but goee the round of pre cept and doctrine, admonition and entreaty, with about u much fidelity and fervor u could be expected of a man who b u to repeat the aame word* over so frequently. Bo one would conclude that tbe good work of winning souls w u going on genuinely, however quiet ly, aod Ibal the faithful were being built up in

‘r moot holy feitb u rapidly u the ffnan- degeneracy of tho age permit*. But this

it seems i* all wrong; tbe goetd Work n u stop ped. The singers are being hardened in their sins, the prodigals in their waywardness, tbe < Itice-BQldtrapn their recklessness, end the saints Id they torpidity. Tbe gorge of frozen

"-BMMT'ty broken up, that the Uospel__ , jave free course and be glor fUd In aword, the a[ pral to tho reflective faculties having failed, we must assail the nervous sys tem. I am tired of tho grace that druppeth as Ibe gentle dew from Ilcavcn. We must have l " outpouring of the spirit"No sooner said than done.' A professional

outpourer is secured, and the air is rail of the note of preparation. Tho old machinery ia brought out, and new addedOo IL "Aoxiuui' benches " are provided for those who arc In the Aril stage of the revival fever, or thoee who havo reached that stage are requested to rise and bo counted and prayed for. A man with a silver trumpet le sometime* employed to lead the singing. Borne enonnou* auditorium is engaged for the v u t multitudes which are thus created by being expected! The crowd goes to see—the crowd) People go where they caif not get in, on the principle that everybody should be w tere everybody is u ld to be. (live It out that the church could not contain the' people lu t evening, and It will not contain thorn this evening. Barnum ad vertised hi* hippodrome by opening it to tho revival, which In turn w u advcrtnod by mak ing uae of i t I t a church is secured, the pul pit desk D removedvto Indicate perhaps mat the deeks are now fof the first lime cleared for action, and to inllmato. perchance, that, white the undershepherd of that fold is dependent upon a manuscript and human wisdom, and

The preaching of tbe professional getter-up of revivals is In keeping with the rest of the Lfccntur allurements wnlcb mark tho move ment A Yorkshire (shorter ."lakes a pair of scales Into the pulpit to weigh In tbe balances tho characters lie describee" A nother’-v air gel 1st'exclaimed; ' You seem to think ralva- tion an e u y malted Yea, Just a* euy a* it la

-for me to catch that tniecL" Whereupon be grabbed, paused, opened his band amid breathless attention, and said, "O . 1 hkve missed 111” Tho effect was. however, dam aged afterward to some ixtent by the remark or one of Ihe " breathless ”• bearers; " I f be

~ only tried to catch the Insect, Instead of ■“ * oted preach-

" Tney may itor, fa —

------- ig His people, held only a parcel ofby their tails!'' Brother- Talmage could hard ly excel tbet, although in hit denunciationthe comedians he compete* with them t o __extent of hla undisciplined ability. Brother ilantmond plays his cards ("cuv< nant cards’") well, and with a Held for cultivation as pro ductive u Ibe nervous system of " a lillle gltl eight year* old out of Cnrist,” aod the " boy

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of nine who « __i a book-In favor of Jesus;■ wonder that he has coniider-

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Elsewhere as a general thing no sooner does the machinery begin to move than the nervoua system begins to move also. No cider-mill could yield lu Drat Dickie of sweet j sice with more alacrity than tbe lachrymal glands show In succumbing to'the coercive pressure of the " revival measures " Binnera succumb; saints awaken, lodeed, Ibe revival of the faithful at these periodical seasons of refreshing re mind us of nothing so much as the rtsurcii* lion of tbe frogs front their dormancy In tho spring. The frogs, however, aro thawed out by the beams of the April suo; while tbe aalnls aro " awakened ” by tbe thunder and lightning of the revallsl'i exhortation It la a question of the nervoua system' in both instance* I) ■ saints, *■ well aa frogs, have tboir winter time of dormancy ’ and tneir apriog-time of "revi val 1" Wo read of nothing like this in the teachings of Jceui- But tnen "Ihty didn’t know everything down in Ju Jta l"

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vals doea not lean upon an arin of flesh, or de pend upoq a salary. Ho ia not an hireling. The raven* will feed bun, or. If they do not, there it a nervoua system or two thal will aee ‘ that. The stepping down and aside of the . _gul*r<watchman on that particular »p— '*the walls of ZioA, add* to tho effect. I___an awakening tfloct upon tbe drowsy, nervous system of both penitent and Impenitent. Tho revival is limed with even more accuracy than Old-Probabilities signals the burrlcano or know-storm. I t is heralded by placards, an nounced from tbe pulpit*, prayed for by preacher -aud deacon, and puffed by both the profane and pious pre**.

So that Jt will be seen that tbe devices aud contrivance* for " awakening" purposes re sorted to by those who look exclusively to tbe Lord of the harvest for tbe Increase are varied, numerous, and adrolL By the time the cry goes forth, " They are coming,” there la as great a atD of expectation as.when the first equestrian of the traveling circa* appear* In sight of the village populace. Ho come*,— tbe getter-uoof revivals comft, he sees, and he ootqucra. He mint be a dull fellow not to conquer, where the arrangement* for surren dering to him are so complete. - A nd what 1* lacking In (he besieged city fa amply made up n the cXpert.Caplalu of the besieging forces, lie Is not a dull, but a clever fellow. Uo

how. He Is endowed by uatara___ , work. Uo has the requisite Ignorance.W bera Ignorance is wisdom It is fully to be enlightened. What would be effutaive Irrev erence in e clergyman of culture I* in him a powerful means of grace. Hla familiarity With the Almighty U counted unto him for a high attainment In plou* meekness. HI* very vice* in rbethoric taste, and manners are put to the credit of hie advanced godliness Mr. Valley refused to give out the hymn, "N earer my Ood to-Tnee," at the request of a lady, be- cause the “ believer* ” of hi* school could not

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This reminds ua of another auxiliary to'the getter up of revivsli—hla name' or nou de plume. He D a " la y preacher,- or “ a boy preacher," or a " regenerated comedian,” or a " converted Jew," or a " reformed drunkard*”

perienoea of bis closest communing* and mid night vigils The report, in pamphlet or book form, of what thp getter up or revival* has wrought, n quires twelve time* Ihe number of words that are naceeeery to put lo type all that their L>rd and M uter did while upon earth. Your modern revivalist reveD In publicity and notoriety, *hnd hla work oometh with o*raeiv*; tlon. Ha ftjfloclh In advertising. He dla- tribntetu his photographs Borne of them are

-length,—that D, the face DI Bjme repre- *■’“ In the altitude of humble suppll

upon the nervous system with uplifted -arm "and rolling eye. We hare seen one photo graph which caught the great revivalist as his hand*, or rather elbow*, were being upheld by th* Aston and Bwr of the movement.

Our frianfl Wilkin's better half Is a Uever lu Bpirilual manifestations, but

^her that mateilalir.id spirits are a snsru ana "delusion, sad that none but weak minds aru

deceived thereby. Last week ho read au "Exposure of Bplrituallam," wbteh explained bow Ihe medium disengaged himself from his fastenings, and was thus enabled to ring the bell, play the violin, drum, etc., aud be thought thal If he could j li t give anexpose-al his owo house, he would thoroughly convince Mr*. W. of Iba fallacy of her belief, Bo Do cleared out the cupboard and aet tl in tbe mid dle of the np ataDi parlor, and had hia wife lie him to a chair on the inside^ an J p’ac accordion, a tin pan in lieu 'o f a drum, severalpit\er articles inside the^cabinet Tnen she cldeed the door aod the seance was about to commence, when Wilkins thought she had better run over to Mra Keyser's aod get ■ ’ ner te)l for him to ring during the cour hla manifestations. But when she got there, she and Mra K got to talking about tho Beecher scandal, and soon she forgot all about her husband being in tho cupboard. After awhile Wilkin* got tired waltlug and thought ho would practice slipping the rope, until Mra W gpt back, hut somonow or other the rope seemed adverse lu slipping, although heMhought he was following tue directions --the "oxposo" implicitly Finally be got m_and excited, and went to fl luadering about like a catfish on a saudbauk; aud the flret* thing he knew the cupboard awayed beyond tho center of gravity and came down liko a Methodist falling from grace, carrying witn it the parlor clock. Several section* of novo pipe and knocked about four light* out of a bay win dow. The concussion bunted the door open, and when Wilkin* emerged from hi* cabinet and saw smoko in tbe room, ho commenced yelling "flrel" and started on all fours fur tho

. stairway,-with the chair covering, him like an Immense pack saddle. Too choir rather lm-' peded locomotion until he-got down about two sups, when it cbspged tactics and to..k him down the stairs with a rapidity of revolution that rathor bewildered him, and made him mink of snow slides, glacial era* and other re ligious toplpa.

Uo had Just fetched up on the pavement when a policeman aelasd him, thinking be was a bound lunatlo who nad escaped from the ap parently burning building in vain Witkini begged lo b« unloosened. Tho policeman, con scious of hD duly, held on lo the chair, and there he sal anil howled and swore, wnlle the Are department came around and played on the bouse, knocking In the parlor wloduw*.

’tearing down the fence, and occasionally turn tng iba hose on Wilkin* to k o p him quiet, until they found mere wasn't any fire at all, and that the alarm waa caugjed by amoke is suing from tbe dDmembcred stove-pipe

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H T O K K A L D M A SSK T.»I* page*, heavy Unled paper, gill lop Prtoa (I: poalagv

,*,• Povaala wkelaaala aad retail by the Re irlo-PhfM ral pgblilklng Uanaa, * llama SL, and Filth Arm.

M IfH. A . I I. K O H IN H O N ,

BealiDK Psychom etricft Bnsmrss MedinmCo r n e r Ad a m* 8 t ., & firo Av b , Cnicaoo

Mrs. ROBINSON, while under aptrtt raotm. on r* r>,lying a l.gk of halrof *atrk|uil!<nl wtlldlagnort

thedlseaw moet i¥rfectly. and pteecrlbe the [froper rv medy Vet a* lb* moat apaedy cure la the eamntla! oh lect In view rather than to gratify Idle curtualiy. (h> belter practice i* to vend along with a loch of hair, r

& W iir 5 iis a s r ia »will, wfihtrat deAy, retain n mort poles’ preecriptioii an. remedy for eradfcallng the dleeaae. anJ rrarmananll" M S ahe etaJnu so knowledge of thk sealing an but when her spirit gnldaa are b.ougtt an rw or f will

tk iwraun, through her raedlamahlp, they never (ai In Immediate and permaoen! relief. In curable reaps

and aagoflra farce* Utopt In lb- Thla pfeKtlplloe la aest by mall

------------r as external *prL’cail.m. it ahou).applied precisely aa directed In Ih accompa f* of InirtrucUoca. however' jlmple II ma-------- ' 7 II la sol the quantity of the cots

deal effect that la produced, tha________. ____ usually auOdimt, hut lh eaae th

i«llrnt I* not pcrmantoUy cared haona preacrlpflnti. lh application for a second, or more If required, ahtrali b> ■ made is about ten days after the last, each time ala tier

Mr* It'iaoritoa also, thnragl ooaea. the dtaoaae of any on* wno car;* a|«m uer at na reeUlqr.ee The fadlliy with which the ap.rtta eustroUIni her accomplish the tans, la dona aa we’l when lh* appli ration la by teller, aa when the patWIa prwm Ha gift# are vary remarkable, sot only In the healing art. ba aa a pevchometrlc and bnalcea* medium

Than a: Dlagniwla and (ret prescription. (10); sect vabeequest emu It OC Ptyeborsetrlc DcUceailan eg rharecter, ( t 00 Anvwegtng bnalseen letter*, (1.00, Tb< monav should arena peer lie apptlrgltos to 'satire a (y

l(W~ Barmnar, all cnartty application^ to tnnr* a ra"

T u t -Mna .ItoatgaoM will HerMCtcr give na jwitvwfUtlLft to anyone If privacy la required. It moat be hi !*U*r. accompanied with lh* umal fee; and larmi above vupvd. moat >H) strictly compile-* wtlA or no notice wtl •» lakep of letter* sent

A Good llo ad of Ilnfr It© atorod/by a S p irit Pro-

' ^ ‘ B c r i p t i o n .

h rw a JotraaaLi—Fog th* benedi o my frtaod* asse world, I dertr* to make this brief ttatemer.1 I have bees almoat anttrely bald fov about rtx yean

Had tried almoat everything that I could bear rents mended, and «rmlv haitaved that nothing mold ragtov- my hair

On* year ago thla month I wrote Mr*. A H. Robtngoa the healing medium, IM Fourth avenue. Chicago, aa. art rrwrrrt or, rather, to plaaae my w|fa Mra R lausedlately preacrlbod for ma 1 did sot ge

aU tha liyrredlenta for tha ReetoraUv* aclll aocua Hmali fan*. Ifni I then.venmeEred aalng 11 a* directed. *nr waa escohraged, becaaqa It waa ihalret appllcaUoo the aad been fall opera tbp acalp,- It rauatsg a amartlrg tan •aUrra I aratbiaad tha oat of thla preparation aboa three month*, when I coaid see the half starting In apnO

... day how n“\T l

.•raci, aU^ymrlsa

baft navar would n l a bead or ha I can raUy «ubrtantlate th* for

a unacciraotahlr rilled tad glvra ary, had told a<

Springfield, Me1' . W Doot-forget le

forlbai“ OHM. _________________ _______ j t of »x pa »

to core tha mort inveterate user of th# weed------erttosa an each box are followed Newep*

par* and quacki wm teU von that thla antidote la mad* o m rattan root, tl la file* Gentian root la no rera «dy, for tha appetite for tobacco, bat It ta Inlorton* to health tona^I^lfratoM raa'i'tu iSS if U' „•twia before labtbtng the hankering deetr* for a pderra °ua weed. It U a remedy preaentedhy a band ofeham Ma tong In aptrlt-Ufa. and la warranted to be perfectly

Thla Boom will pay any ehemltt eras tkowmad doBart who will, npon analyalng thla remedy, lad on* particle Vf gentian root, or any other potaonona drag In IL

---- ”---- to-lygcaoroc i t h n u n n y -B o tn ,> |ja AeMkrt CMcnge, nL. el that fa

^ T E S T I M O N I A L S . ^

^|g,. ifv 1. Bobldioq'i Tobicto Antidote.One box of Mra. A. H Robtnacra'. Tobacco Antidote

cured me f r a th# nr* of tobacco, and 1 heartily worn mend It to key and all who dartre to be cured Thanh Dod f aa now free after using the weed trvev thirty veer*. Lonroao Mglkxa

' vr’ 'r* 2

s I have need aao fourteen and fifi cn, I procured t box id Antidote. It hue cn

Ivu veer* Onto Antidote he_______re m hankering tog th

a, N T

F. H. Braun, about I’# To

Mr R t ” w'jriaan, of Wankao. tsforma MS Ual he ■A* used no. Mr*. A H. Boblnerra'a Tobacco

— Tr"• / D. H. F r a u

B aah at this office. (IDSper box. Bent free of

TRAVELS Around tho World;W lirtl I S n t ill l l i rM ltlf ll H**« laliilitlA

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BT J M i'KKDLKB.Author of * Srrrt of IA# A * .S’;unrwe/ilm f\A»i"

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•a* For aa * whcuaaalt and wall ky Ika Re!iglo- rwk> raph’cal Put llaktsg Bsuae. Adana flt. aad Flrph aam

SPIHiriiALlSfl AS A SCIENCEA Trance Address,

1 tv . t . M O R S E ,

BOSTON M»miTJHiiISTd’ UNION

Career of Rel ^ious Ideas:The ir U ltim ate:

The Religion of Science.By IludMin TutUo.

I.J-i ’!Vi.'bM?'* ogu1 h .»i" '/A# Audhrnf'-Mi*Tai . is a «rire.ora.kn.iV.l.ilgv« ab.dlj.ls lb* tanka ..I

.1 be hixrs Inlelii.enl and more cbarttabla t „ o s .V * ^llcitiR ritr H U e p I lo k ,

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RV II P I MilfHW.HiH

THE REPORT ON 8PIRITUALI8M

LONDON DIALECTICAL SOCIETY,

WITHOUT ABRIDGMENTI —Th* name* In full of the Clergymen, Barrlaten

BdilclUWA Ptiyaiclasa, Surgeon*. Editor* Literati. Belts- tlate. Mar. ban la, aad othera funking th* lnrasllfiailag

II -Tha Report I*'fun u praeantod by thla body toth* Soci*'/, after aa Investigationaxtrcdlcg over many months, daring which oral and wripies lertimuny waa obuinfd friim y

N B A M .T O SB UUtq>lifcl> PBRSOXa.III.-Th* w&laof th* laatexpertmaau mad* ky Ike

WITOOLT PROFESSIONAL VEDldVS.IT.-Th* mlnkle* and raporte of theV.—Th* namaaof the witmaaaea; and the whal* oft

a ride sea given under cron* axamUiatioo by paraona known credlbltliy. In avary (rad* of society, beltfi a I ord of axuaordlaary ip'rttual -pbaaoUtenA dlaacily toeted—AppartUona- Levltatloo* of heavy bodies, a. mate and Iranimite-Hplrn Voice* and Muale-riblrA telegraphy. Massage* WrtUBfi. Drawing, aad Paicllng-I IbW|8m Ml VMmMk flliMiM Tiai i i i - i'r,., i ..I,. Hieahlrfiln Urhoown Tuc(u**-Tb* Hand llOCof rod hOtCoala. ate-et&. * fprinted, being Ura» e r L ar

O riginal Paper* u g ^ . U k . f >and snt and modem workscabjecta; aad a ooptone Hid

To lh* above la to be added a raraw

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ThUkaadaomevol art* U Mknowladged to be oa* of' tb* pnbGc|of1eltir1taaJLim*fIt TboaJd'te obiaiasd ky avary tnqalrar, lavaailgatur. and kpirltaalla*.

Price, l l .o a Pontagu (ft* .For a*]* wholtaal# aad retail hr U* R*Bgto-rhD»

kophlcal PnbllahlegBuaaa, Adams hL. aad FUtA Ark,

N E W R E S E A R C H E S

Ancient History:Umbra.tog aa Examination a

Jews autil ine Capilvliy of jubyli origin of Moanlc Laa.r-'----- Th* Fall of Man. Flood.'

Ilaaltoa *f lb. HUIory at lh* r of/lkbylon: and abowlng th nde concsmlng lb* I'raalloi and Confoalon of Imugnagti

By 0. F. VOLNET,Count and Pear of Pmnee; anlhor of “Th* ftalat, or Mvdliallvas on lh, Kgvoluilon* of Empire*." a to.

Prioo; *180. Postago to cents.aCa par sale wholesale and retail h/ tb* ExBalo-Fhllm

aophl.al PabUahlng Uooav, Adame bL. aad FUtA Ark,

I .V/. ll' KunhWOMAN, LOVE

and MARRIAGE,

w.viArr. . \ t., mu ul the Dlvtnr lnatltut*ofnrCrrltk-r woaldVIP'OJ.^wltbool drfrnaeJhi^honw *tof

The anlhor t* l ,kiio*ii f>jr ni. V l turclbl*po.uui'lr reading

TII K I \ V 1.1 K \ ( K

Christianity on C iv i l iz a t io n ,

Hudson iniUr's Works,

CAItKKH OK THK ooli 1IJKA IN lUNTUHY IMc«.

L'AIO.RK i»K TltK« ifICIST inifA IN MIHTOHVA JiT 1 I ITV •• K I'll V - M M

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byiwa’iin a l I l n v I a o A iH 'l l l lo n .

**i' \ T U VO L t H S f■h i,

ARTIFICIAL SOMNAMBULISM,

MKSMKlilSM,-V i i M i m l M a g n e t i M m .

IMSTIlRiriL S lSV n IIP HKSIHR'S «FES1- th in s , i \ u tiii: i : \n n N W io s o p t u r

. slMi: BV TUK FRENCH CORJIIS- SIONERS. *

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is be unfounded fa a raiioaal lh*

'~'TIIK(SCIENCE OF EVIL;

OR

• Firsl Priowjilss of Boman Actioi.BV JOEL MOODY.

THE BOUNCE OF EVIL la * book of radlmfi a> alarmr,f tbonvhl It give* a otmoacied and logical Mat Blent of Iba Fiiuv Fnixcirvxa or Bonag Ai-riua. aa Clearly a bows that wlthoat aril man work folly aolrea lh* (iiublem. an of KvtJ, (Ring It a actant!He mean!TUf IXVRR WHICH HcthJ THH HO--------- —•

’a ne book if a large IX mo, of SO p*g**,'prtnled ^a« larva, clear type, un fine, hanty paper. Price, gl.la^ T r o r sale wboleeal* and roiafl by lb* HeUrlmPhUo- aotllral Punching Uooav, Adam* 81. and Fifth Are, Chicago.________________ __________________

5.W2

“Eating for Strength.’*A NEW

H e a l t h C o o k e r y l i o o k ,S l . A - U O l . U H O O K . M . » .

Pant Pikav-Th* Science of Ealing.Pnnr Bacon»—Recipe# for Cooking.Panv Tnikto-Uqnld Foods and Rcclpea fer Healthy

Dio Lewis vpcaktng u .------------ . . .dear simple and dlatfnri plan. Uk* k w*U t,eliding. The sale of M,au would r ----

t - 1 have roertrod r a . rah «

fu way Into thouaanda’of famine*. *o to*! fewer, peopl anaU at last Uk* op tk* muq(Afal rtmg. ‘I have dug m gravo wllhmy' —'■ ' ’’ ^

0 4f^=

RELIGIO-PHLLOSORHICAL JOURNAL.Death, o r (he Pathway Irom E arth to*

V. Hplrli-I.llp. /

In our next cnmBtr wo ahall publish the narrative or a spirit, whoao txaneit to Bplril- Ufa w u effected throngh the Instrumentality of that terrible disease, the delirium tremens.

J. F. Bnipoa, writing from New York City, u y * “ I hope yon will pcbllih the papora on 'Death,' in anbotanttal book form when com pleted. They are certainly worth more than a thousand workttof fiction."

P K O .

T b© P r e s e n t S ta tu * o f C a th o lic is m — C a th o lic s Ml N ow Y o rk —Th© VII-

la g e B la c k s m i th —C a th o lic S ta t i s t ic ia n * .

T ill r o ma b carnouc c a r d in a l — iireKaai a a n d rBRiactmoN— c a c a c i a n d s t a t s in

m o is t*—a n t i b d u c a t io n iieotiiv

bomb BULB Uarpcr't HVJUy, whoee aerrlcea to the cauee

of uu lh and Prolealanllam, are extremely val uable, haa a very significant picture In thereat number.

Senator Tllden la Handing beforertyo urns. One la labeled^ I“ ROUl IDLE. BO ALLXOUNCB TO;JtN% roB

i j o b b o i .b r ”The eeoond haa:

" jTOBBHIB BULB. BIB ST ALLSOtANCH TO THButrahUBLi r u n o r h i m s'*

The United Btatea Republic, atanding In the American Senate, points to each and asks: “ To whom do you owe your‘allegiance!" and the Hon. Francis Korean, from New York, looking askance, aaya: "T h is la a very em barrassing position to be placed In." Ho car ries under nla arm a bundle of documents

'labeled, • • " Home Rule,'' one of.which reads: "Ae a Roman Catholic he w u prominently put forward by hlasupporters.”

In the same number one of Edgene L»wt recce's papers describe! the situation aTful

a DIVIDIO SLLZC.tANCB.The election of en U tramontane Senator

from New York will necessarily awaken new Ink real in the question which Sir. Oladstone haa suggested and .to which Dr. Manning has recently replied: Can a believer In the Pope’s Infallibility be a good clllx n In a free 81 etc I Tbe strong aaeertlona of Dr Manning or'tho casuistical reticence of Dr. Newman hare failed altogether to shake tbe belief of most Intelligent persons, that one who owes Implicit allegiance lo tto Pope, can not at the same llmo perform hi* duty to his country unaf fected by tbe inllaence of s foreign m uter. In ▼ala we a n told by a Manning tb it the Pope la too amiable a person to Interfere In metiers that do not belong to him, o r 'b y a Newman that codVclccco must still be the final guide. The fatal theory of an absolute rule still bangs ov.tr u», and we are-rtluclanlly Informed that tbe Hjmaa priest la endowed with a temporal and spiritual power from which there Is no. anpea). Against such aa authority Itim an Cattralio will venture TO rebel! . .. tbe question lo reality la one of fact. Are Ul-

nor In Germany, where the Catholic unions have already stirred up a dangerous excite ment In nil parts of the empire, and where they even strove to divide Grrmsos when the French were about to c tou the Rhine; not lo France, where the Pope baa lntei fered to pre

p rin ts have never ceased _______________insurrections; nor In Ireland, Mexico, BrsziU and the South American republics; nor In onr own, where Senator Kernan and hlaallida have never failed lo encourage rebellion and threaten the on ly of the nation, and to vote In aolldnever fa

- ''th e u n i t ___________ | _____ ____________masses for infamous politicians whose only merit was that they were friendly to the Ultra montane plana. With ua they nad .answered the question by their unpatriotic conduct long before It pasted Mr. Qladalone'a lips, and we h%Adlscovered by a fatal experience that no political leader could be honest or trustworthy whoubeyed the Vatican rather than hla coun try.

A divided allegiance la all that Senator Ker nan can givo to hla American home, and the blate of Now York i^ il be represented at Washington for tbe next tlx years by one who la opposed at heart to all the principles that lie at the base of free Institution*. tie la tbe enemy of unaectarian education, we are told by the-Freeman's Journal, and could never con- eent to Send bit own children to tho public schools; nor la H ebay to tec bow, u a devoted K-jinantit, he could possibly- spprove a system of Instruction which an Infallible Pope hat condemned. A liberal and Independent I t >man Catholic might perhaps venture to dtaobey hla foreign m uter; en Ultramontane la bound by the strict rules of the Syllabus. It la salt lo Infer, therefore, that our new Sena tor, lhough.be may tolerate for a time tbe American mode of luitruotlou, will destroy it whenever he and hla party have the power. TbU la the usual policy of hU church, and one that haa served lo make It ever the more dan gerous to clvD-aoclelyj because It la never to be trusted. No one can foresee whefi the Pope will think It an opportune moment lo withdraw the alight degree of froo-wtll he ac- oorda to hla people, and may drive our whole Irish Catholic population Into rebellion against freedom, or lead them on.to the destruction of our whole system of education.A GRISTS IB THB CBCSADB AO+DSST BNOWLXW#

York In futJsctiOD, who have taooeeded the Tweeds and Sweenya of five yean ago, with apparently even more abeolute power, are tbe appropriate agents In the crusade against knowledge which was begun anew by tbe Vat ican Council of 1870 The aim of the Roman Church la to check the wide flow of InlaUl- ■ n o t which has covered the worlds with use ful Inventions, and filled modern races

-literary progress. I t would eelss upon eschool and college, and forbid thqn l___teaching anything that It does not approve. In oar oounlry, where knowledge h u always been the Okie! eource of freedom, the ptpaT ‘UI tramontane -policy must prtrfe In fntnn___gularly dangerous. Tbs moat Imperative and abeolute requirement of our political-system la

fostered In Earope In. Ignorance and driven from the school house, and once more. In the New World, it would prohibit them from ac cepting that free opportunity of loatructlon which la ofiered by the common school. While all European races aa well ea our own are thirstier tor new draughts of that knowledge whloh luHhe list three hundred years has al ready raised them from barbarigm;iha Vatican Council would seize upon th* sacred spring and hide it from tho people.7 Knowledge is what It chlcdy fears. An absolute Tope h u already commanded every devout ltxman Catholic to oppoae the spread of any education but hla own. He can leach\nolhing but what the Pope sanctions; he moat learn only’what the Pope allows; and are shall bo doubt be soon Mimmoued to defend at the polls against Mr. Kernan and bla allies that magnificent system of public Instruction which by the direction of the Pope they would overthrow."- Soon or late hhe cot diet must come, and the dull stu por, with which the friends of knowledge have sufleted New York to fall Into the bands of lie determined foes will be lhakeu by a- fatal shock,, ,

k »t ooc.il c it iz e n s . lin t possibly the strongest proof that our Ul-

tramontane population are not good clt'/.ms la the fact that they have Insisted on the election of Mr. Kernan ley the Senate upon the plain mound or hla renglot<\ tenets, i t was because he was a Roman Catholic that Tammauy Hall urged hla election as Governor In 1873. and It la aa a Roman Catholic tbat he h u been pressed u a candidate for tho United Buies Senate. Tho Democracy did not dare to dis obey the commands of their Ultramontane supporters; the papal faction among ua have shown their power, and are no longer satisfied • in . — derate success. Fifty thousand Irish_______voters in New York City, tho blindadherents of a foreign priest, and u many more In the rural district*, have carried the State over to the Democracy, stopped the progress of reform, placed in office neatly the same men who three yean ago, robbed the public treasury at Albany and New 'York, threaten tbe Interests of education, and would be satisfied with oono but Mr. Kt roan.ln tho Senate. They could scarcely have chosen a better repretcntyllvp. - What ultramontanism means In American politics msy be seen In tbe

Kllllcal career of tbe new pa s to r . Ho baa so the steady supporter -.-rslavery and aris

tocracy. no opposed almost every measure for suppressing the rebellion. When the neo plo of the North were rising In 1801 Mr Ker nan said he " disapproved and comtemoetyfce war spirit at llie.Norlb." After Burnleyhe rieldeil for a moment to the popular Impulse,

n 1SG3, In the period of deep depression and disaster, bo waa In Congre-s laboring to slop tbe war and save slavery. Like Seymour, be could not endure the thought of "freeing (our millions of slaves.” He led the Irish voters of tho State in (heir Incessant attacks upon Lin coln and Grant, and htltv-d to prolong the re bellion by the aid or his Ultramontane follow era He was loud at every peace meeting in denunciation and threat*, When tbe rebel lion w u ower, modesty might have taught him to remain In a close obscurity. He forced himself Into public attention. From ISM be is once more seen laboring lo shield slavery from complsle destruction,, and to rebuild anew an aristocracy at tho South, guiding bis Ultramontano followers Into dangerous cours — •*-— tcaing the public peace, exciting the

races and of creed* No better ex ample of an alien and unpatriotic leader conld bo found than Mr, Kernan; noun whoso whole

\ -career has been more clearly maiked by tho 1 silent Inllaence of Roman guide* An enemy

of popular education, of human equality, of pure republicanism, tbe defender of slavery and of aristocracy, be Is tho plainest proof that no Ultramontane, however reputable hie private character, cau beitfely lotrueted with the administration of American attain. He may usumo tbe garb or freedom, but must ever wear In secret the chain* of Itomb. koman catiio lics ‘should pboTbct thkm-

tft.Vgg.This 1* what our Homan Catholic population

will probably discover a rtbey become educa ted in American Idea* and we trust they will themselves at le u t admit tbat their first alle giance U due to that government which has given them a shelter from the sorrows and the-----nny of the Old World. To the Irish Csth-*

i especially the examples set by tbeir ye and Kernans should ba peculiarly odi-

___HepuollcanUm haa built for them apeacefal homo. No class of men have profited so largely from the labors of Washington, Jtttorson, Adams, Lincoln, Grant. From poverty tbe Republic baa raised them lo wealth, from slavery to Independence. Here tofore, under the guidance of Kellys, Kcreans," ------"fa , ahd Sweeny* they have labored______ titructIon; let them with sbamo andremorse In future endeavor to repair tbe wrong they have done to freedom. But still mere odious and dangerous to out German popula tion must be the daring ascendency of the Ul tramontanes-, they have aided In placing in cffice the worst enemies < f Germany, and may well idok hack upon their own conduct with no small regret, llow, indeed, is It possible for Ocrqjsni to Vote for Ultramontane* or tho lnstramcmts of the Papal faction, it I* almost

ul of a growing people that th* U.tramon- ___ i faction M M W lf moat resolutely. A1

3Se s^ s s £.------------------

— — iTrw ( v . -----~ —r ~ 7------------- Qiycii RiifftAiicti irom mo iftiierramong u* which Is now threatening their na- Ir „ e w?n tTpay attention solely to o tlve-land with desolation, and shaking En- -indiscreet priests like Father Walker In

that the Kellys and Kernses, whom they h»v* placed In power for*«me poor local pnjudloe. am the men w hole 1870 would have rejoloed had tbe French armies swept on lo the gates of Beilin, and- who In 1373 are again plotting tbe ruin of German Independence I Tnsrecan be no doubt tbat the triumph of Ultramonlan- ■------------ tho -ruin of freedom everywhere;

Kio s k h La w r e k c b .

TUB VILLAQB lltJtcaSMlTU.A case h u Just been decided b y 'lh e Court

of Review at Montreal, which b u a special Interest, considering tbe recent bold ntteranoe* of Qu*beo newspaper* on the subject of priest ly influence. In the parish of St. E obrep d’Upton there la a blacksmith named Rlchar, who seems to have been specially s it sp ir t by Providence to release French Canadians from the chains with which they have been to firmly bound by the Roman CtthoUo pries* Having been Intended for the church, hu had received th* benefit of a college education;; but, ieight years of study he resolved to .g o to th* trade of blacksmith, and o n hla fo rg e u a sort of school of Instruction for young men. Hs began bis work In a vary adroit- manner. H iving first secorod a popularity by convers ing on topic* of th e ------*---------- * -*■— —

purposely, Up to tbs question of fa s had eoooiseded In oonvlnffinx a. c s number of young men that there

no purgatory, the parish priest became alarmed, and resolved to mush him. On the following Sunday he (Rsv. Reneod Blanchard) devoted the greeter part of his sermon lo tbja purpose. He did net allude to the blacksmith by name, but be pedaled him out lo bts congregation u cflectually by describing tbe owner of the' forge, u "a man wanting In religion, and a bad Catholic” In order to make certain that all hi* hearer* should understand him, be Hid " that there w u a certain (hop where contro versy w u preached; that It w u not people who bad been In the same d a u ln college forX ’__________________ W u the person meant,for he w u the only blacksmith In thee parish who bad had a cofUge'education. After hav ing conllnned in. th'l* manner for tome time, the priest concluded by threatening that thou members of bla flock who Should continue to frequent the forge would be drprived pf the benefits of the sacrament* .

Richer was a member of Father Blanchard’s congrcgatloq. Finding himself thus de nounced, he ImmedlsVTapot the c u e Into the hands of a lawyer, andk#actlon fdr damages w u tried and dismissed by the court sl^Bt

meat, assessed damage* *t ftOO, and oroereil that the priest abtll pay the coats of both

lurl* The presiding Judge*, with a single jcepllon, held that a priest h u no right to.

use the “ spiritual weapons at bis command" to deprive any resident of his pariah of, llvell hood. There w u no doubt whatever Of tho fact tbat Father Illauchard had endeavored to drive Richer oat of his way by threats against bis ’ customer* Tbe Judge of the Inferior Court might have tbougbt him Justified In so doing, u bis object w u lo protect ycung men from the sin of tuviog idea* of their own. but the Judges of the Court of Itiview Incklly bavo a higher regard for tbe law, and more respect for the rights of the subject.

It w u in November, 1870. that tho priest de nounced lUcberln tbe manner described, and

b u remained ever ilnco undecided, a fact which goes to show that the law’s delay’s- sre often u aggravating In Canada u else where. It b u not been slated whether Rich er b u contrived to keep his forge open during ,the four dreary years of uncertainty throngh whloh ho b u pused ; but, from what Is kriswn of the character of tho man, it Is reasonable to suppose that he has done so. Fro hi the fear- leu manner In^h lch hie witnesses testified at the trial as to lue words used by tbo priest, wo should^ndge that be b u a large followlog of young men. t be defeat of tbe priest before i court mmp^fed'of the greater part of French Canadian* Is well calculated to strengthen tbo influence of Ihe blacksmith wbo, unless wo are greatly mistaken, will be heard of to some purpose hereafter. The young French Cana- dlana of a certain clua are sadly In need of such men u he to encourage them to revolt against the tyranny of tho Roman sCsthollo Cnurch. Hitherto, when s young man fell that there w u something lo be done In life be sides praying and priest feeding, he w u corq- pellod to cross tbe border. As a oonsequcnce, the teachings of tho priest rarely mcl with anything like hcatty opposition. The young men wbo remained under their care hid to be sat la fled to obey them In all things.

The Commluioncr of Agriculture of Quebec, reader* are aware, b u had the courago

cattle, and the Emigration over the American border. The Q rebec Jferrury, following In bis footstep* went even still further. It charged upon the pridsts tho loss of skilled labor from tbe factories, and look upon itself to advise them to loosen tbeir bold upon tbe throats of the people Krthey did not wish lo sco an end lo all Industry, and ultimately a complete de population of the provlnco. The Minister of Agriculture and the Ifrrcury will Dad an able ally In the learned blacksmith, and between the three It la to bo hoped that such a move ment may be Ml on foot u will speedily Irsun the power of the priest*—AVta York TYrwss.

I* IT SB MI-BBICM UtyRHlO?A Catholic statistician claims that out of the

r>rtv millions of soots in 'th e Ualtod Btatea, 7dl 343 are Roman Catholic*.—They occupy 9.’<l stations, chapels, and churches; they ave the service* of 4 874 priests, 'I apostolic

.Icars! 41) bishop* U archbishops and I cardi na l Tnat they are increutng rapidly Is quite obvlou* They already bavo 18 theological schools or seminaries, With nesrly 1,300 am-

i; over 2 000 reboots of all grades and than 300 uylum s and hospital* Tbe

jurisdiction of theso prelates (Blends over a very wide cange, from 2,000 soul* in tbe dio cese of Little Hock, Ark , to iiOO.pCO In thatrof Chicago, aqd from the archbishopric of Ore gon comprising ‘20 000 to that of New York rated at 700 000 Tccse figures are stupen dous. Toua far it I* undeniable that this Catholic portion of our population b u been In tbe main Indistinguishable from tbe rest In all the elements of good dlixsnsblp, patriotism and obedience to the law. Have we any rea son to apprehend anything dlttcrent lu tho fu ture f To meet tho point ro*o definitely, is there any ground for regarding the Catholic communion in the United Btatea u a poislble iroprnVns imjvrw, a governmont-«fLIts own set up with in our common Government, liable to

allegiance from the latter!---------. ---------- •- certain

s New. V-,., , . . V . UU.UUVWUVM. . . pUbliCachoote we have heretofore referred to, we should u y that a collision between the- Catho- llo Church and the Uaited Steles Government w u only t question of lime. Hal ru h ultra- lit* belong to every class, religions or seqular, and are not to t>e taken u representative* We cocteas, also, that after having tried to make oat Ihe average theoretical position of tbe leading controversial champions of the Catholic Church In this country, we do not find their logical deductions very aunring. Here Is the venerable Dr. Browuson, for in- staxes, whose discourse we reported l u t Mon day. He maintain* first, that, -“every human being oweaalleglanoe to tbe Fop));” secondly tbat “ the Pope b u command In nil things spiritual;” thirdly, that “spiritual* and tem porals ruu very much into one another,” the temporals being for tbe spirituals; fourthly that “only the Pope is the Judge.of the rela tion between theee two classes of thing*” Now this reasoning Is oertalnly u injudicious u It Is swceplnj. It Is only for the Pops to

to death the first opportunity It get*- . Yet tbe Irish people, who seem to admire

liberty u much u any other nation, appear to be Infatuated with Catholicism, whloh allows them no liberty at all Just now, they are rvjoiclug because Mr. McOloskey, tbe former Uirhopof Now York, ba* been raised by tbo Pope to tbe supposed dignity of Cardinal His dress la all red. and he wears a llltlo red bat, remindirg one of a three-year o il child play ing aololer. We see It stated that tho fall dreu of a Cardinal Is probably the most gorgeous and striking costume worn by civilised m*« Now the-Catholic Cnurch pretends to be t-V Church—the only irue and genuine Church ol Christ, but is no more like nim than pride and arrogance are like humilily and mwkneaa. ' Its ye out called Ribbt?” said tho democratic and unassuming Reformer of N<x«reth ; bat |ust look si tbo Catholic C- urch with It* pom pons, Pasrisaical and ar<slocrMlc litlf* of “ R j v ,” " l ig h t R ev." "V ery Riv.," “ Most Rev. Father in G -d,” " His Grace the Arrh- bishop,” “ the Prlcce Cardinal,” and "IL s Holiness the Pope, the Infallible Vicegerent of Heaven I"

in tinman folly give inch another exhlbi- of human weakness! Wearonotsenalbto

that we partake In the least of any of the ■) lal- which constitute a Corlstlan, yet wo are o say that when a teacher is burlesqued

•xve feel somewhat like saying a word in bis favor, and of- all tho burloquee tbat we ever heard of, we know of none i qoal to that of tho Catholic Church In claiming lo Imitate, In lu vanity and pride, tho elmp 'cHy and lowliness of tho Man of N « treth .—lloiton /nrr»fip-i6>r.

u y what Is spiritual to demand the allegianoa of every Catholic, regardleu of the oonflicUn|‘ claims of the national Government. Tbl* we My, la the theory generally put forth by the OalboUe champions; and aooordln* to It, a collision with the governmental claims can only be averted by the wisdom of th* Pope, end the memory of some Pope* In the past la not a very, satisfactory guarantee on that point.

We do not, howevsr, regard mere theologi cal theories u decisive In this matter.—They have their sphere, and while Urey may occa sionally Impel to r u h utterenoea or even to rash conduct, they combine with other Infln- anoee to coeteol^grutloal ***-

w u 1 fathers could not do that v

and the Mexican Csthollcs In some provinces are now acting equally badly toward Prates- tents; bat where civlllsttlon and public Insti tutions have rightly trained the masses, eoclo ateellcal dogmu will general!* be k> pt within their proper sphere.—Uoiton Journal.

- ' a Ro ma n c a t h o l ic cauDmai. v The Catholic religion la evldsnlly gaining

Catholicism looks with longing’eyes to the United Stales as tbe locality U> which che Is to retrieve her fallen fortune# and regain her former power. Rot she can never be In the majority her* though she may continue to gain somewhat by foreign Immigration. The —*'“* American people, or any considerable^

30 of them, will never be likely to teko ... ..1th Catholicism. It h u too many cere monies -, would occupy loo much of their time; and nqulree a degree of servility and submis sion that Is entirely contrary to their character

lake that is Inevitably followed by ctlam lloruj const queuce*, especially to the Church.

Tbe a wmer tbe Government rids Itself of ihe task of running the religion of its people;.ex cept to protect It, tbe sooner It will destroy the antagonism of the churchee towards the Gov ernment Let Religion bo Gee, aod .it will

human Government* A Government with a Church on Its hands Is always wet ken (U by the usoclstlon ; It srreys against It the moral Influence of all the other churches, and gets no support from It. Blate churches always lan guish, and religious governments end In Imbe cility. If this measure In Prussia Cull end la the severance of the Bute from Church alto gether, It will he a step In the world’s progreu

psbple. — CMrago 7HVme.flections of the whole

t u b c a t h o l ic i-o w b h *Though the Farlg dispatch that the Popebu

_,->pealed to Austria and the Catholic powers lo resist the unreasonable demand* of Pruula,

all four o f __________________ _ _____ ___Tor slave* rather

__________________ liberty whateverIn tbe Catholic Church. It Is an unmitigated despotism, and toe hour which should — **-triumph In tne United Mates, would see the end of the American Republic. Wo are har boring a viper In our midst that will sting

tllSMJtnCK A B I-BBSBCOtlOB.Prince Bismarck claims to bo a Christian

crusader, as well as a German patriot. In hb present desperate struggle with the clergy of Rome within the Empire of his-imperial mas ter. In a speech made recently' In the upper houee of the Prussian Diet, tbo au’ l-ct of withdrawing Blate grants from the It iman Catholic clergy was under debate. Rode dared that, since tbo Vatican Council, Catho lic Bhaopa were merely Pope’s prefect#. He said ho was not an enemy of tbe Catholic Chorcb. He warred only against the Papacy, which bad adopted tbe principle of tbo exter mination of heretic* and which was in enmity with tho Gospel a* well as with the Prussian BUI*

Tbe greater part of tbo history of the H<y. isn Church Justifies this accusation. For

mifty centuries tbe priesthood shrank from no means, however bloody, to ma’olaln unity In the church. In Italy, France and even Spain the Protestant movement gained great head way, and the new church would have rivalled, If not e.xceedcd lu .Dumber* the old cbutch. had no'pcrsecutL-n/Sprung up. England had no stronger Protestant ‘element, In tbe early days of tne Reformation, than several coun tries of continental E rr ope. 9 Tho dIOereoce was that the ccclcalailtcal fiends were kept in check, thanks to the vices of Heqyy V llf. and tbo Mgsclous statesmanship of some of his counselors - Whilo all this Is true, and goe# far toward Justifying Uismarck in his accusa tion, wc do not believe that there la tbe re motest danger of tbe adoption In sny part of Cnrlstendom of “ tho principle of tbe extermi nation of heretic*." Wo are awaro that the

and freedom has been such during these Tatter days that a return to the extermination policy Is quite outsldo the rtngo of future probsbUi-“ e*

The printing pres* destroyed the rack, the thumb-screw and the stake. This U not a

2alter of opinion, but a historical fact.vents have shown tbat, once give the print

tag press * fair foothold In n country and, persecution to tbe death for theological Ideas and ecclesiastical sfilliatlons disappears, once for a ll

Tbe hope of the world Is not In the Bis marck*, bat In tbe Guttenbargs, not In poli tics, bat In tbe disMmloalloa of knowledge. If the clergy conld have tbe power to slop the

dieted, It recall* a remarkable fact which we

•lonally some small Indo-Bpanlsh Republic In Genual or Bouth Americ* such as Peru, places USSR at the feet of the Pop* promises to to]orate no religion but tbe Catholic Apos tolic and Roman, abolishes civil marriage* and sends a remittance of Peter’s pence to Rom* But Ibis only means that the Occi dent* of revolution have thrown to the top of all dr» some political party which finds it con venient to ally itself lo the priests. In Earope It Is not to be denied tbsl all government*, ex cept, perhap* tbe Spanish, are heretical or

postele. It is not more titan ferty years ioce a considerable msjorlly of them stood in definite relation to tbo church and its bead,

which was expressed by speaking of them as Catholic powers, hut Ibis maturity b u entire ly melted away. Russia, England, and Prus sia are ichlsmatlc, u they have always or long been. but Prussia h u grown into Germany, and baa given the strongest Anti Catholic bts* to h number of smaller powers formerly reck oned u Catholic. France, in wblcb a certain, amount of departure from sound principle In d jmealic sflaira b u always bad to be tolerated since the first revolution, if not in a position. . . ------r „0t s foreign policy of any particular

Portugal Is distinctly, and Italy bitter ly auli-pspal. and Austria, once tbe consistent patroness oPT’ln tl interest* h u fallen away tjr lhc rx tey t of secular!/.mg education and permitting marriage to he solemnized without religious cefnmontal. Apart from Belgium, which exitls tv consenting lo be powcrles* and Spain, whrere tho new ministry shows re- actlonscy-umaettcles, tho Pope b u lo be con tent with tho allegiance not of Btatea but of fragments of States. Ireland tn the British Empire, Poland In tbe Russian, tho Tyrol In Aus’ria, the llttque provinces In Spain, and the Drelon department of France, now iropot- tnlly represent the solid phalanx of Catholic powers whom the custom of nations once re garded u entitled to bavo a policy of their own on certain sub) -ct*. and on whom the Pope <■ tuld el ways rely at all events 4jir the protection of bis own church itsle. " '

The disappearance of (he CtthoUo power is one of the landmarks of modern history. It shows that the spirit of many foreign govern ments h u altered much more rapidly than their form, and that the mainspring of several apparently half or three quartcra despotic sys tems is no longer tbe will of princes, hot the opinion of communities. From the Reform ation to the French Revolution tbe bold of the ltoman Catholic Church on European states was a personal hold. Tbo bloody warabrought about, by tbe disturbance of the old creed left all European sovereigns immeasurably, more powerful In tbeir own dominions thsn they wefe before, and tbere-wu a Jesuit Father at tho ear of every ruler. Tbo conversion of

CrinceS aud'powctful nobles w u the process y which the CalboUo Church hoped to regain

her authority over tbe human mind, and by which she did partly regain I t Tbe ancoess of this ptilcy In the Mventeenth century w u enormous, but In the eighteenth it began to fall. Tbe opinions ofsA'oltalre took posses sion of great portions of all European ailsto- crsclcs; and kings themselves, even when they did not think and talk of Christianity, u did Frederick the G reat Catherine of Russia, and Joseph II.. lost their tsslo for Jesuit con fessors, and began to treat Some herself with indulgence. Then came the great scare of tho French Revolution, and for twenty or thirty years all the privileged clsrses, with tho kings a t tbeir head, were again tn close sill- ancu wilh the church, as the fountain of con servative Uflueuoss. I t is only quite recently that a marked change to tho mode of con- dueling governments, malnlv traceable on the ■mtlnenl of Europe to the French Revolution, and always ftls l In tbe long run to- Cslbollo ascendency, h u become too plain for mta’ak* There h u not been a slnglo goverhment of lato years, However despotic) In theory, which h u not had to follow, and sometimes blindly follow, the opinion or lu subjects. After the suppression of the last Pollsu rising, the Rus sian Governmonl w u completely hunted a*sy by tbe sentinlentl of the national p a rty / and for a while w u little more than the creature of a Moscow newspaper. It w u » sense of\lumb and Inarticulate fiplnlon which led Napoleon 111. to u k io rh l* plebiscite, and whlcn thus led lo his uuUfejte ruin. The Dinlth war be gan In the suduen awakening of German Gov-

p reu for "constructive” heresy, there wouldbe serious danger, but u n r " ------------ *Prince Bismarck msy lookOermaay, without giving himself any -anxiety about the cause of religious freedom tn Chris tendom at larg*—Cklntgo Journal

‘he Government of PruAi* h u proposed a__ tn the Gaambtr of Deputies withdrawingall Btale endowments from the O slhollc clergy, and providing for their restoration to such of the clergy who may usumo tho nroicritxd ob ligations to tbo Government. Pruslla h u an Eslabllsaed (Jourch, but mskso annual appro priations for -tho support of the clsrgv of all denominations. Tho withdraws! of Uovtrn-

lo ruin. Tho D inlsh war bo-_______ i awakening of Germ "

______ Is to tho fact that an almost tsympathy with tho suppoood wrongoof Babies- wlg-Uolsteln had arisen among tbeir (Ab ject*. Tbe new clerical legtslatiod Is a still mVjre striking instance lo poin t The Empe ror Is a fervent Catholic, yet ho h u not been able to resist tbo now fot’oe of publlo opinion In tbo oouM y which w u brought to boar on him.

If, than, the It iman Catholic Ohureh 1* over to regain the ascendency In state sttslr* which It onooenj jyed. It will be by operating not on the o bo so ic o c o of ruler* but on fth# collootlyo opinion of sabj -cu.—Ohieogo ‘ ~

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_____ _______ I ip port of UoU_____ To tax a whole people of variouscreed* to support an KiUbllshed “Injustice and oppreulon for wbte-------Jollification, To U s the wholo pooplo port all tho churches. Is th* assumplto _ duty by the Government which property be long* to tbe people tbeaerlvc* I t la a forced contribution to be distributed by the Govern ment, whldh distribution must of neeeulty be more or lees ueJasL Tbe partnership between Statecraft and Rillgloa la always Ir j irioo* to both, bat especially to It dlglou. Tn* O nurch,no matter what It* faltb may ■*“ * -------upon the Sword of Btate aad _ voluntary (Section of Ua paopl*

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Hhothkh J o n s h —Home writer in I York H trM having filled rrifelH factory H-al from !>;. Blade. at on: acanr.es. tin* tskon upon himself tbc i blllly of pronouncing him an-lmpn*1 behalf of Justice 1 desire to give your render* an account of what 1 e»w, beard, fell and otherwise discovered during toy flr»t inter Tier* with him in .lane, 1873 L. left Kinsas about three day* previous, where I had ro- aided for seventeen year*, aud went dlrectiy to New York. I want immediately from the •latiou to Blade's room* On tiDging tbc bell, a genteel, handsome looking man, of pleasant feature*, and n frank, huoeet looking counte nance, met me at the door. Seeing him to be

•a middle aged man, and behoving l>r Slade in bo an old, gray-haired man, I inquired for Dr. Slade.1 “ I am Dr, Slade, erf*'

------ qte, sir," tail) 1, 'I thought Dr

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n my nolorloty, cnSlade ...________ .

•'Many," said he, “ fr. lertain that opinion,"

I informed hi n that 1 wanted a acance.‘ Name any hour to morrow, unless you arc

oonoaod to coming here on Sunday, and 1 will bo at your »ervicc." »aid he.

Kttycnud twulvj o'clock, at noon, and bade him good day* At the appointed hour I waa punctual to my engagement. 8 .on after bo ing ushered into the parlor, a lady came out of the seance room, weeping, the Doctor fol lowing her. invited me Into the room oat of which she had Just come. Aaaoon aa I stepped

them again. The Doctor exclaimed, air, I am so glad you have come, you have brought such a splendid influence with you.

. ‘Yon make me feel ao good acroea bare I feel ao warm hero. That lady who haa left brought a bad Influence 8 into friend of hcr’e who had died a shocking death appeared to her,’ and when auch Influence* come they hurt me, and I feel like <i lilting this hualncaa In disgust, but when good influences come like you bring I feel aa though I would not lose this t>ower for all the world." We had now advanced near one of the window*, when t started to place my hand on a chair it

iu h tc ii awaV rn <u mk liko a thing of life, clear serm* the room d r clod around for a while and then slopped

Said the Doctor. “ 1 sec a hand on the chair; do you not!"

"No, air, I can not ace anything there," said I

"Will the spirits move the chair back thla way!"

D gently glided close up to me and slopped.“ LookjSosyour arm," said the Doctor;I U« ikc-ldTiPtho cull of my gray coat sleeve

and thqr'e' ' I was A BI.AZB

apparently containing alt the colors of the rtinbow{ and about the alas of a teacup. It fell warm, but soon disappeared. I prcceivcd no odor from it. I Immediately fell some thing twitching at the bottom of my pants, nearly Jerking one font ofl the carpet. This waa repealed several timer. The Doctor re marked, “ I see someone down by your feet," My reply waa, " Yop needn't have told tuo that,-1 have better evidence than your asy-ao."

I then look a seat, when a large plain Uble came sliding np close to mo, apparently of Its own aooord. I ,felt hands slapping me on the kneee, patting mo on the head, and a quick sudden jerk at my coat collar almost raised roe to my (eel I said, “ ThU Is pretty rough, Doctor." "They will not hurt you," was his reply. Tney are only trying to |erk a little skepticism out of yon. What next will yon have!"

T want a communication," waa my reply. Handing me a slate and a small fragment S i a pencil, he said, ' Hub that clean, place' It overthe piece of pencil on the table, place ope band on the elate and the other on both of mine.” I did a* direclod. I board a scratching under the elate which continued apparently across It, when three little Upe were heard dose to me, and the writing slopped. I turned over the slate and foond thereon written as followi; "This gentleman lives far weal of here, lie belongs to a circle at bis home. Thoee spirits wnp have control of that circle are here, and they desire to make hhn glad that ho baa come here. We deelro to esy that his mission will not be In vatn. Be haa brought some most beautiful spirits here, who- are a t anxious to communicate with him as ho D with them.

A m m o* Wn.it b l it Hi. sum.'This wus the name of a lardy whom I had

awn prevlona to her> marriage, Jh U had noknowledge of her having married Dr. Blade. I. Immediately erased this writing and turned tbe slate down on the Uhls as before, when againThiaM the scratching of a pencil which seemed to cover the eotire aide of the slate: Oe turning it ot*r,1 gecognlxsd the handwrit ing to be tne tame u the other. I t proceeded to slate how '.hall a certain lady, at a certain street and a k a Bet, WM'elck, giving a diagonals of her dlssaae^eadlilggsinnr a certain remedy. 1 add to the D x l o r . l don't qndrrslanJ this," and handed him the elate. Heismittagly said,••This la meant foe me. Tpli refers t o ------tlent of mine,” and p lc l '-----

.time, continuing tin rw.vctsullon with Its bund involu itarily aoomed to writo the other side of the slate which he car

ried to an adj lining room where lie '.oft it. and returned to resume tnlr seance At tbc D >c- tor's request I wrote on aslule tbc name of one 1 IboUgOt must likely would be able to 'com municate wiili me 1 held the slate under the table while I wrote the name entirely out of his sight, placed my band on the name, turned the slate over, aud with « email bit of pencil on it. pressed it firmly ag»ln»t\lhe table leaf, amtplsccd my other ban I on b'rtp of hj-

the table opp islte me, when ttar "'This ia a lady. 1 think shejLili

.......... c 8 ic seem* cool and v*fm.!' —I b-tard the scratching of ibc pencil which continued WHirtbrec raps signalled the close I withdrew tbit al*te~*bd without letting the

ctor see It. Irea^ the following communica n written lb a full, round, even, lady's i d :Db a b IIII,Til a n :-W e ate So happy to

et you her.- i-d sy .a h d give you another l of tbc truth of immortality. Tni* is what have often longed for, for you arc not quite

sure yet th-.t Spiritualism is true. Wo wilt do Jbe host we can for you, though spirit* are not able to accomplish everything they desire.

Your slloclton-*' - -1- '—

I ruhbed out this communication, and con coaled from the Doctor, 1 wrote the namo Mary on the slate, placed my Imnd on tbo name as before, placed the slate under the leaf aud resumed tbc- satno position as before, when the 1> •elor Icqutringly said, "Tnis is a lady ala.,? Bho baa not been dead long. She*---------r communicated before?" I replied,

here to get testa, I> «ior, not to an swer questions." " I tblnk 1 am right," said he. "Hao seems very much excited. She is very much agitated. 1 fear her anxiety' will prevent her writing " -** "

When 1 beard thebe exclaimed as if __________ „ , __writing, but you will not bo able to road It." Three raps and I took out the slate, to find thereon a short communication, rapidly writ ten, but in a band aa well known to me end familiar a* my own. It read a* follows:

'My Da iil in o Hu s b a n d — How happy we to meet you hereto day. Have you c-uno

ill thla long tray to talk with me? Give my love to the children God bleu you. I

libbed this out also without showing it to the medium, and then at his request I reached the slate under Iho table, when cc said,

do nut let them take it away from you."Immediately I fell some power contesting

with me for the possession of the slate. Find Ing I was likely to lose it, I eelzrd hold of It with tbo otner hand also, when a large hand, a* Warm as blood, seizin! hold of one of my hands and griped t,t as flrmly as a strong man would be able to, All this while the medium was standing up opposite pie at

holding up both hi* hands I laid down Iho slate and look bold of his baud). They both fell moist and cold When 1 Informed him how warm the band fell, bo aaid- he had felt thesame hand, bat that it felt cold to him. He then naked if the spirits would raise the ta ble. When anawered iu the affirmative, ho plabod hi* hand* over the ceotor of the tablo 'about aix lochtrSbovo it, and tbo table waa raised somo three or four feet from tbo fl » r advert! limbs, and lowered again, while no part of hla person touched U. so,far aa I could

.T he Doctor next asked the spirits if they would gike me some music. Using signaled in the affirmative, he picked up a common accordion and directed me to hold It out In my right hand,

AT AW«'« LBNOTtl, he standing somo flva h r six feel from mo on my left. At his request to name some tune, 1 called for "Autd Lang Syne," then "Yankee Doodle," and "Sweet Homo" In sqccesilon. and though I never played a tnne on a musi cal Instrument in my life, thoee Innee-were played oh the accordion the bellow* railing

my hand was used to blow the billow* I then made a menial request for "Bonny Doan," and “ 01d Hundred" which' was immediately compiled with. Bame tunes were played In the Doctor’s hand, he holding oql the U ltra- ------ In the same thinner. This closed the

('acting,ahpserat______________ J____I ______stretched his hand across the Uhls and said, •■Haw." On'exchanging greetings he aaya, " Ism O w H io . I control medium. My hand you felt. Medium's squaw beeo. here-, your .squaw and sister. -They use up spirit power; ■one now. Two more comet then two more. All gone.” The latter four I recognised from his description. I then asked him to describe my wife and sister. One of them he said, "W as good s in , Urge heed, light browfi early hair, small blue eyes, ar.d had sweet smile, bnl no laugh. She keep, cool The other not so MU; hot so large, dark brown -hair, big hstel eye. She get excited. *8te laugh, and then the cry; and then- the laegb, then she cry again." Now said I, "Owssso, you hare dee-

- . » dribed them correctly. Wnloh was my wife?,'..F hV »B<1 which “ T sister!" "U rh," said he, • I th * I'M* no tollt me ro t 'am mlvwt «

Now right here let me Improvise a word two and say that this answer taken in connec linn with other circumstance*, si) .rd# t-> me the strongest proof that a spirit waa talking to mo, of any test that I have ever received out shlu ■>( mitertkl<x>tlon Had 1 been psycholo gi/'ng or mesmerizing the medium. 1 should

ol'hvve rcrelvod lhal sntwci, fur I was an ccliUg it to be answered diflereuliy Had it ccn/be reshlt of "mind reading," It wvild

bavefanawered what was In my mind Had It b e e / the answer of

’ unc o nsc io us cnantmATioN,.. would have answered correctly what waa In my unconacloua mind. H al it bean "psychic force" or "odlc force" possessing any intclli genre, 'it would have certainly told which was which, as well at to hare described so accur ati-ly there two forms. But tho moiqory of a solid nijt-pf tbo body like thr mind .of the lidril in, had become confused and gave a truthful answer.

1 then asked Owaaso If be controlled the medium on all occasions. He said, "No. sometimes me no come at all .When bad folks come, me no like 'cot. Spirits have likes and dislikes Yonr Spirits say to me when Indian come to your c*b(n,way. way, you feed him *■> 1 do all for yon I can. You have clr do w nerejou Uvo. I »1U go there sometimes You will have everything there you sea: here,

AND Mown TOO, only you havo no write oo slate." After bidding mu good-bye, the Doctor became bimaeir again, when 1 bade him gofaihyo, alto', leaving him ao far as anythW gne had learned >>f me aa ignorant of my name, belief, or rcsidcnco, aa when he first met me. 1 will further add

not a statement ana made to me, be it by-----or spirit, but what was a n irately true,end I trust I Shall be pardoned for being tbua tedious, for the reason that 1 havo endeavored to relate everything that was laid and dono. Borne of my tabtcqneot experiences at' thla medium’s I have heretofore related. Other things equally'** miraculous I may relate here after.

Burlingame, K*.

1’o s tu l (,’o r rc a p m n lc n c o w ith a S p i r i t .

Db a b Bu it iik h J o n s *; —It.‘turning spirits untforudy it ally that ibis world is, in all Its cs'WTul, organic-features, ao ezact type of that to wide i they are transferred when they leave tbo body. T/.i* seems very crediblo, and is In harmony with reason, philosophy, and the lit ness of things. Were it otherwise, their traustuMi jsrould greatly impair, if not entirely destroy!'their individuality.- even their idenlitj, If then they have ‘.‘everything there that wo have here, only In a more per fect c ‘million,” it It certain they have mean* of commUnlgitUon throughout the spiritual realms, by^whtch messages and communica- t l jd s cau tic conveyed wun dispatch to any of the occupants of the celestial spheres - Here

•iu this world, autjocl as we aro to the gross kod ponderous elements of earth, we are en abled, by means of our postal and telegraph arraogcinenls. to reach our friends in the re motest part of the carlb Iu very brief lime, and very fittle cfl/fl. ^ I l la but reasonable to suppose' that ept/ils can do the tame in tbo world they occupy. And aa it Is now a dem- onitrstcd fact, that tbc chasm Which has au long been supposed to separate tbo two worlds, Is bridged over by the established fact of ’mo diUinsblp, what Is . there to hinder ui from communicating by letter with bur friends on lha other side?

Hrasoning as above, and having a dear am in tne Bplrll- world, who left us ten years tines,

tin hiilwcnly first ye*r;and standing, a s l now do at the ago of sixty nine, on the very aands ot tne dividing river, longing for somo deflntts tidings from me other shore, 1 concluded to make the attempt to reach him with a written metaage, through some recognized, reliable medium. I remembered the favorable notice I bad seen In Brother Watson's "Clock Struck One," and Dr. Wolfe's "S tartling F*cU In B tnrU ntlism ^ of J. V. Mansfield, of New York, as p medttim, o f ------ * --------- ' ‘f postal agent between

____ __________ „ ____ ita r e c e iv e T h o u g hI was made happy by his bensvolenoe, I had to reach that boon thioagh pain and mortifica tion, while Bro. M knew only happiness and Jay In the gift, and Is toreof an additional ttar in hta crown of glory in heaven.

Tne following It a copy of my first sealed note addressed to my son lq the spirit land:

C a b tiU o l Ohio, Feb. 90. *73.' T oB sm nelJ. Winder, formerly of Hoag A

Q lick's picture gellery, Cincinnati, Oslo.Mr Db a b Bow: Yonr dbar mother and I

wisn to know positively Whether you stlU live, and are happy. U ave yon met any of our dear departed relatione in the spirit Isndf I f to, which pf them? Please (rive their names, which will b* to p t so infsllibls test F.-om .jour aflecllonato father. D. Win d s *

The above note w tt Incloeed in n heavy.

way a* rendered itjmpoeslble '- -•- >ytng the wrapp-r. as l bad to do on its

i With this I enclosed » separato note to Ute-tnedinm, simply stating that I bad " a dear friend " In the spirit world, whom 1 had ad dr (-seed In the scaled note 1 was careful trf give the medium uo clue to my friend'* name, set-, age, relationship, or profession. Tne M lowing response was returned, iuclosed with tqy sealed note, which had cot been tampered krtth in the least.

Have you, In the dci’lha of your, s -a!*, minds and tU.-cltons. thought to call me to you from my spirit land hoinid With all your research Into tho my* teries of godliness, or the It 10k Divine—as you taught me to believe It was—b*»V you doubts of the alter life, as-taught and believed by IhC would ho wlsej i » my father' O my mothcrl when I look back on my past life, and see bow dirt-renlty 1 would have lived, bad I but tho knowledge of this mode of communicating,— this assurance tb it If it man die be shall live Arsln. - 1 feel thst my life was speot fraitleasly. Not thst I would censure you or mother desr for not giving mo this light that now Illumes my spirit pathway. No! nol you gave a long time t • expounding the truths, as truths they seemed, to you; and now in your advanced age, you ate comparatively t|pned oul inlb tho by-ways, to feed aa best you Van by the road side, until nature I* overcome with fatigue, and the wautof common necessaries to sustain you In your rlig repliuTc Wcjl, father, bo of good cbeerlaAqiur JouTney is nearly completed. Boon, at the lurlbermuit, you wilt bo with me tied your dear parents ■ \Ve are with you day by day. and try to sweeten-your dreams by night. J

Ye*, dear one*. I Ain happy; aiid that made ■o by knowing we shall meet again

1 have just been t \ king to Alex Krnmont, N. P. Hoad, Oliver G wdo, and others from Cincinnati.

Tell mother I love her dearly a* over, and not less so my dear father Feb. 25, *75 BaMUBLj WINK**.

The above rerpoete not Katig a* fell and satisfactory as I could wish, 1 Immediately sent the following hermetically sesled as the first In duo time tho following response came ' hand

»R w-itn noth. no. i DxabHaumv; Many thanks for your kind

ana ready reap mse to my former Dole. I re gret that I forgot to ark you the (ollowiog questions; D i you praclico your art drawing and painting in your spirit home? 1 would like also to know whether you get to sec Harry lliuke and Willie Homer. 1 asked In my former note whether you bad seen any of our relations. If so, who? You did* answer this question—can't you flo it now?

Your papa,D. WlNTMtH.

Tho omission of the word nol in the last question rendered It confused and uncertain The respousc, however, is as foil and ditto ik on She' whole, as any I usually receive from my friend* in (ho fl:sh; more so than many of them. «

BKSI'ONSR To SSALBII NOTB, NO 2 My Db a b Ao k d Pa b k n t s : God, our

lleAVenly Father, bo praieed, for the assurance I have that yon-hoth yet allow mo a choice place' In your heart aflcciiont. /W h in my former note reached y.ou, and «ou tremblingly opened the rceponV, my soul leaped with Joy, to see your souJ light up with snclt assurance that thu laal doubt you had of the continued life of your dear boy bad vanished. "Thank God!" was the language of your bearU;—"my ton lives.” said you. "and because he dues 1 shall." [E rrry word of this picture te truo to life.- D W ] - -

O falberl you want to know whom I had •cen that I ever knew on earth. Well, ’very many- 1 meet Calvin W. Btarbuck, Dsvld Kinsey. Riv Bsmuol H. J ’erkini, Howell Fletcher, Nicholas L ingwO>tiT\Ollver Lovell aud Kale, and Andrew Bkrt, all of Cioolncalt I tell you thla th iuyon may know It la your a tllii boy who tsK s to yom grandfather Winder I meet often, and others of the dear relation*.

Yee, father, I Oed my education In the art wa s very Imperfect. Mach that I produced at Hoag A Quick'* wss Incorrect Blncp coming hero Bir J -shu* H-iynoldt, Borjamin W ist, Anthony Van Dyck, Bsmbrout and Tillanhavo-kiodly set me right; smliLow my progree* here Is in the right direction. I am in the class with O bu. Luring E l lott, Kunn- uel Gottlieb LeaUe, Toot. Kostiier, Joseph- Amo*, and other* Here my fond ambition la satisfied.

his nspuew.-Now, father, yen Intend to give thle to the

world, do you? Well d i ts It seems right to you, bnt my mala ohjsct In coming tha t par ticular, waa to satisfy you and mothar that It a man die ha shall Uvo again Pas* my triad eat love to all wbo recollect me. Tell them to live, ln» for eternity I for precisely a* that life leave* them, tfai* will find them.

Be of good cheer, my dear parent*. Yonrpilgrimage on earth la nearly oompltUd, and if tho*# you spent the beet pan of your life to doing what yon honeetly thought your dnty to them, have now in yonr decline of life felled

id they ought,-----JOW thn angels have not forsaken you.

Bj look aloft, dear father and mother, and aoeyour future wrt.ten in gulden letter* on th cenopy jri tho^spheree—life eternal through

v ;' I have now given i .

my spirit son in full, withu ting, " t adding * single wm of the tniih. that Dr. resntt-s sevenhuudri d miles from me. Is an entire stranger, knowing nothing of m ytrstury or ante-re-'e-nts, or my family eonne-et ons; snil the array of names familiar to the people of llinciunsti and surrounding country, thu minu'o details of th.e responses—some of which 1 fain would hsvo suppressed were I at liberty—I say in View of all these circumstances, tt is diffir rtt, indeed

V for an h ir.jjdio___ nclustomhat thesv rcipfiasc* dlil-'

really come- from the source whence the / were Sought It u certain that 1 never furnished any of the qaniri mentioned, not even the ns/nc, sex sge, or rclxticuship of the spirit communicating nor bis profession, or the firm. "Hirsg A Qltek." with which-ho was connected in life, There are poiflts in the correspondence not as definite .and 'clear at could be wished; but. taking it altogether, it is as nquli so as any c-,.rrcip mdence watts my earthly friends now iu my poas-sston A n d l would say to the reader, in conclusion, if yon. have dear Jricnds In the spirit laud, with whom you ring to commune, address thorn a loving N-tler. J :sl as you w mid ton friend on earth; tend ii to I V Mansfield, Jill Mirth avenue. New York, inclosing such a tee as you feel able, aa he devotes Iris entire lime to this heavenly calling, and bred* house, food aud raiment, like HfFrest of ns. If you arr bleat With means, eclid his proscribed foi $5 00— that he may be able l > g!*>Jen the he»rta of G id's bumble P'*.r, without money or price This lath* law of the L ird, to whom we must all give an account in tho future.

C'AHTitAOB. liultl, March 12, 75

The poet has well a n d . S '“Tears that trickto down o£r eye*,

They do hot fall to earth knd dry.They soar like angal* to thu sktee.

And like angel* can not trie, /For. oh! our immortality

Bjunds thro* each year—sounds in each sigh.

"Whs! waves of tears surge o'er the deep Of sorrows in ourrcstless souls!

Ami tney are at’rung. pot weak, who weep Those drops from out that set that rolls

WiHiiiAbcir heart* forevermore—Within the deep—without a ah- re

"Bui. ah! the tears that are not wen! - The tears that never outward fall.

The tears that grief for-years has kept Within us :ney t est of all-

Tho tears our eyes * -II never know Are-deeper into t>. leara that fi.iw!

"E-tcb night, upon cai n 't ll iwcr* below.The dew comet down from darkest skies.

And every night our tears of woe Go up, like dew, to paradise;

To keep in bloom and make more fair The ctowus.i f fl ‘Airs we yel shall wear

"For. ah! the surest wty to Ood It up the lonely stream of D-ar

That ll iw, when bending ‘neath hit rod,And fill the tide of our past years:

On laughter's billows hearts aro tossed On waves of tears, no heart is lost.

"Flow on, ye tearsl aniTIwar me home.Flow on, ye wave* of deeper wool

Flow on, yc tears that are tint foam Of deeper waves that will n< ' * — '

The Bolton Courier says -

be named, that we havo ever heard or read of

the honso of a Philadelphia gentleman. It* truth U .vouched for by the gentleman, his wife; and family, all of whom ar* crediblo wl in eases, whose testimony would not be doubted by say body, but whose name* we do nol feel at liberty to make known- The tacts as stated to ns are as foil .wa: One of thoeefroe'ty morning*, of which wo had each a su perabundance. while the'children of the fami ly In which this sitaoge revelation w m made, were amusing thems- Ives in the sitting room, they observed a figure In the frosting on the

er to the strange picture, and Anally thn fath er was called, who reoognltsd In It a* exact representation of hli mother. Having n cor rect photograph of bar, be brought it uukefcd placed th* pictures side by side, and they cor- responded evan to the stripe* on th* drees, ex cept the picture la frost w m hotting the .paper document la tier hand. Tal» picture remained ipon the window pane for m & m x or Iwm till llasipated by the'warmth o fb e ip o in . or per-

hap* of lb* sun outside. Bat n . strangest p a rt 'd the story. TM ter this appearance, the ganttM by mail a paper ptekag ' ~ lag with u e one U thn i

EK . IU TO rH 1 LyS( ;PH 111A L • TO U RN \ L.

S P IR IT U A L IS T IC .

M o tt , th e J>I«*iuplilM M e d lu i

O. — INTKIlKsT

wnen • » ram. ••had no jb|rr>l>'i> of giv.og «

. S' li >uli ho exhibition of I been tmpan

______ rD_________ , set), be sides, w*. suffering from to attack of miss malic fever It was not until some weeks bad elapsed that ho reluctantly consented to hol.1 1 few seances for a small number of his friends

*"t»k place was held J o an.upf*'?The f i r s t -----------------— —front parlor »t the residence of l)r- Ws.l on Wsshinitton avenue. The cabinet waacuu- •Uructed under the supervision <1 Ihe well known builder. Mr Heal, and^waa, of black walnut, firmly ) •Incd iu sections and then fit ted together with largo screws from the out side. It was p'aced on citsters. so that it could be rolled to any part of the room d|* dimeifsions were alioul five feel by six, and its height was about nine feel. Its door was ee curcly fattened from the outside, and the only opening waa a window some twenty by twin ty four inches in *lz«, standing ab<>uts six feet from the ll -or. It is well to be thus parliru lar, for there arc skeptics who iyrj ever ready to cry ) I v "

The author of thia will aswrptbal there was no possibility of anything like deception on the part of the medium. He went into the circle with his eyes wide opqjj, and allowed nothing to pass unscrutinin-.l Whatever the appearances may be csllcd, whether spirits or not, thc?e is one thing certain, they < * .ibited an intelligence that ia wonderful On ibis oc casion there were only seven persons In the circle, and after the medium ciWcrcJ the n b t net. the room was darkened so that o lj r.u could'only be dimly discerned, and Ihcv a on mcnccd singing “ Prom Greenland’s Icy Moun tain," and other longs of that cba-acter. so as to keep their thoughts in harmony. In the course of five or ten minults, the curtains parted without visible hand, and a face ap prared at the aperture which waa recognized as that of General Uledsoe, by a member of (ho circle who had atUndcd Mott’s jounce* in Memphis. We were told that ho was the leader of a ” hand " of spirita that attended the medium wherever he went, and that he always came first, giving directions, as on this occasion, about the light, bow strong it should be, and wbcrl- It should be placed. He wa> a confederate ■ 111 er, and h is been recognized by those who anew him in life. Us app.-ared desirous of showing himself, and would tnrust his head far out of the opening as* different members of tho circle went up to talk with

some onehim. Presently he said there there who

WANTS!) TO IKK MI went up to the aperture and saw a dim

face that 1 cuuld not mako out distinctly. Kx peeling a brother who had died three or four years before, I said, ’’ Is, It you, D iver" and there came an answer, In a tort of sibilant whisper, “ Yes " I aald, " Dave, come for ward, so that | can see and recognize you, if~ ------------ *■— *— " *- ■"■’sis *—you are my brother " Then he puPTn far beyond the curtains, close (o my own. and . ------ lh#l ,t ------ *-^---*1 Could diilioclly see,that It was indreri thq counterpart of my descldjrothcr. The ifiem- htance was so strong that there was no mis taking it. He bad the same complexion, the — yTetP ----------’ ' ’ -----------------■ - *features, except tbsl the eyes were closed, and a peculiar «xprcsslon about the mouth, whichcotrfd n»l be mistaken.^JIis manner < f wording, too,' waa the same as in life. He •poke quite plainly' and said, " Be a good min." lie said " h o was very happy, and wanted his family with him." Then 1 heard tame strange sounds, and asked him wbat was the matter Ue said, " I’m crying. I’m so glad'" Ha then said, ” Willie is here." I saw a smooth, pale face, but It^-ttuh. not cofiie for ward f-ir tue to rccogoize. as mp-brolher Wil lie, and his voice waa so low that I could not hear wbat he Mid, The forms were not able

........................... ’ to be fa

OTIIKII MattlVDSTATlONSI white cap called f >r

could Just reach his chin up-to tho opening 1 knew tne family, and saw a distinct lir-encss to bis living brothers Ho said, In * childish voice, “ Mamma, mamma. I’m ten years utdl’/ ' Which waa bit exact age when be died. Mrs Walker saw her h a Jimmie, who Was drowned two or three years ago! She had before seen and convened with him in Memphis, and he now presented the same appearance as on that occasion. General Bledsoe came again, and *ftcrw*rdaj)r. Downs, another member of the "band " Ue bad a pleasant face and wore a mustache and' goalee, which he kept stroking with his hand He seemed anxious to make himself agreeable, and boVed right and left three or four tlmos. I offered to shskd hands wKh him, but ho would not do It, altu-ngb hy touched me twice. I expected to find the fin gers cold aui}.clammy, but. on the conlraiy, thry were warm, and I felt them quite plump.I asked Dr Downs if he would tell my brother Dave to bring Maggie, a relative of mine who ■“ I died mor^tnan twenty years bcf--re. Very

that 1 could only racognize the old-faibloocd 1 way of wearing-the hair, and the large upper

head Iu answer to my question^ she gave mo Information only known to her and myself. After this, Illveos. who.it the medium’s con trolling spirit, look pomcsaion of him and

TAtuctNa o ilm an , though Molt himself can not speak+ word of that language. We opened tne ce-itnel door nod conversed fn broken German with him some lime, ho answering all aorta of questions, even menial one*, correctly, and ihowlog a fa DtiUarity with various iu ' j -els far above the capacity Of the medium. At thla ecance there Wife some twelve dficrenl faces seen.

The b roof lime that'tbe manlfeltU-lions remslned*dsb»ncj ns froi m asking tost question* on this occulon, but we prepsrvd ourselves for tbe next seance with memor xed Lata. TbWa war* Ova or alx aeseces after this, and each Uma there appeared from ten to thrl tarn facet, at leaet half of them ‘entirely new •very night. PareaU reeogn a d their chil dren, hnabanda their wive*, -and wives their hMbenda, u d ofUn lime* the living were af- fecUd to tears by the recognition.

Oa o n occasion the spirit of a well-known geo lie man of 8t- L iu Is, who died about two years ago, cams and asked for Dr Walker. They oonm a d about business sflatra, and be

-refuted l< toll wham they w -uld d id soma Ion papers, lev.,Ivin* a Urge sum of money, aay lag If his W tfln w lld eo e i to the aaanoen ha would MU her. 7

another member of tb- "band,"complained that Ibo me,limn was hot. and asked fo, a fan to keep him cdul ll was RV-’n him''and we could hear Its motion Inside the cabinet We were told that ihwaplilts would often give tbe medium watgr to dkink, and be ing unconscious he wouhy ►'reogle

When I saw my brotpfr W.llic, I fold him I bad sent a present to my little 'nlrcc, and asked him the color of Hhe ribbon It waa tied with He answered rnW ctly, “ blue " Tne si xt time my brother Ds\e appeared; I noticed that he bad on s while vei’. while before that he had worn dark I aakttl him about it. and Ao-aald be was buried in vkbiio 1 asked him how he knew I was there • He said, “ I saw you come In ’’ " I th tight yru-wcrc in WIs poosin,'' said I “ I was."said ho “ now did you come then*" “ Like the telrgtaph,” he ft phed. He said he was with me »t my home >n Monday night and told me lhal I waa writ

" even t<-I>1 roe that I, __ .-ad, which was the

ough it had never entered my head. 1’asked him to till Maggie to bring t cr tisby to show me Presently I was called uo, and 1 saw s female t/TNu holding a liny Infanl In her arms' ThcnC seemed to be a sort of phos phorescent glow r <K>ut tho child, as if to si lracl'my attention She kept repealing, “ I am so happy;” and before she went sway touchcth-ino on the forehead.

On one oceasiod, I asked IJuI Venn where Mott was _ Ue replied, "Over tim e," point ing behind b it chair, "and Le is no bigger than’ that," marking the length of hla fore finger I asked him if people ever became so uod be fore they died lhal they did not want to come back again, lie said, “ They had better com mit suicide if they gel so good at that If they were there a thousand years they would want to come back to ate their frl-uda " I asked him If there were any blaclyaptritt Ue said, "A black baa a soul, *' I ou bring black pee pie into tho circle and you will see black spirits.’’ I asked him how about

on Jiunuay u;gu'. Ing, and what aliot haft date d ll one

'fSct, though it t

Ho said: 't tf y< b •••nil us bad people they m-.ke bad spirits. Y .ur-liars trill make liters ->f the spitlla, for Ihey^are Jiitl the same as-- ------- >e I ..C -J ,f lh<) bll] e¥4.r

ids and deceived us He-persemalcd our fitcnds

much individuals aa we were oil earth " I asked him .how the splnls mat< r l» l^ ^ He •aid “ that they gathered maguc^m fre>m every ti log. from me medium, tho cabinet and tbe circle Yon lake msgr-ciism away, and' there Was uolhlog left; that it was a chemical operation to material'ze Ific elolhea they wore, and tho aubalaiice waa extracted from all sur rounding nature; that when tho spirits re moved tightly-bound ropes andhsnda.il. from the medium, it was entirely a chemical opera tion; that there were bands of instruction among the spirits; that ,lhey grew In meuta! cap >cily and Intelligence', hut that there was

* ‘ 'ie —s child was tbc,;am casmao when they materialized; howcv

earth That a medium moat inherit his quali ties; a bad medium caa never gel the material ization of good spirits; ho has to bo pure and honcat, or they will not Como.

At one of the scancea tbe medium was firmly

rasTlNsn w it h naNCcui'rB.

found to have made deep marks In his' wrists On tbit occasion tho manifestations wore .pitte aa good aa on previous ones, and the first form that made it* appearance (General Bledsoe) waved It* hand entirely out of Ihe'cabinet, to show that they were frccZ'-sHo expressed dissatisfaction at finding the medium confined In that way, but we assured hiih that it was only done as a lest, to satisfy some skeptic* Jimmie Walker came this lime and-told his slater of aconfi-lcn- tlal onverasiion she held with a y-ung lady friend some days before. He criticised s bon net they were trimming, and expressed a dis like to tbe arrangement of the material Ue talked with his father and mother on snbjoct* that were entirely unknown to anybody but themselves. When my brother came again, I handed him a phot graph of myself, which ho held In his hand for some lime, and seemed to be scanning closely. I asked him if ho could carry ii to nil wife in Wisconsin Hu said -lie could not; that be had not materialised often enough to be aide to transport anything At tb li sOsnco a prominent lawyer from Hi Louis was present, and got startling tills of his fs.b-

'er. Toe Wife of another lawyer was present, and saw the form of her mother, ‘whose voice and manner were instantly no-gn ■*:<). Sue told her what tbe ha{l been reading at home, and that sbe bad told the cbildren'n *t to b >lh- er her; all of which was true. At first glanre the lady waa disappointed, for she expected ' find tier mother's form all bright and bcau-

an angel; and ihe laid to her: where's your wingat" The etrong-

— ____ of endearment and »I1t c Uod wereused, and she said: “ Mother, I want to come to yuu—we all want to come to you " Too reply came: "You must bide your time, my child; you have duties to perform; your end is not yet," Tnere were .

iliful. like an VMolhcT. whor eft terms of o

OTIIKII WONLlKIlfOL TRSTa.■Mr. II*ot saw and conversed, with a form bo distinctly rtc-'goued as h it mother. Mrs. Bent law her motnor and brother, A gentle man, a •prominent business man, saw his daughter, and another gentleman saw bis wife

_______my brother said to me: *Twill say tb« prayer which I made when T war-dying. Tell them to stop singing " When they had erased bo npealed: “ Oar Father wno art in Jlesven, 1 pray tbco to (or-

6We til toy sins, and take tbem to Utj’’-—here ia volce descended Into a wnlspet and I loat

tbe rest, though U occupied some seormds, I asked him If he would write ll down for me If I gave him penril and paper Ho said bo would on the next Tuesday night, but unfor tunately Mr-M oil went sway, and the oppor tunity was lust. -

In ibis account I da not give half of the wonderful tests tbst wete received, but only Dim s ihal 1 aaw and became conversant with. Eaoogh was seen on my part to i mat it was an exhibition of .an* force In nature, that belogs other Ui ones had tdentfested Ibemaelver touch aod hearing Confederacy wi •Ible; iponlsptlly of tbe apparitions not lobe thought of; creation o lth e resemblance of our departed friends by the madium, nonsense. In regard to mind reading, I thought I detected

' a aught semblance to ih-»Y If, a t has been asserted, all the thoughts of onr lives are lm- pansbably written on the tablets of lbs (brain, may not tbe spirits themselves read them as from an open.book? Toa trance slat*' is like that of a second algut, or somnambulism Toe body rad ihe soul seem to hove e «spar- ste • xletenort and may not tbe spirit of tbe medium bold communion with the spirit be evi.kse. and thus Impart Information beyofid our comprehension?

uoknowt .an bodily to sight,

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I tc a a o n s W hy.

iu im .louHNAt, of -N ov CS .h. U A Good, ale ask* an explanation of some Ideas a lvsnc- d by me In an article published in the J. v s m a i. of Oct. 34 h. After quoting from my com munication, he lavs: “ As the Ud le la theonly written record we have of tbe sayings and doings of Qod, 1 would like him to give

sonat being, aud asks why I still cling t

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the record'of .uGbf" In the outstart I would have Mr Goods le to understand that 1 have no expectation of convincing him of whatto me is undeniable evidence and proof of complete personality of Ood. —" to enlighten him somewhat

To illustrate: I may be the father of a dozen children. They each slid every one are a part of me, and gJiU rtaks, more or Icsa. of my natuie or peldinalit), my llkenesa Is stamped on their features also t • some extent, and they arc cuoscioua »f a personal protector and provider; and-yellf one or all of tbem were taken from me, my personality remains just the samo

Precisely ao in the case of the personality of Ood. and the nearer we get to God, by go id ness of life and purpose, itbe clearer view.no we get of this personall y as tcScaled to the soul The soul or Spiritual nature of man, thetefore. Is transmitted to him frutiiU-i.l, and is the essence, so to iptak, not the luhttauce of Gml

N >w, as regards the written record of God, if it docs not come op to my soul born ideal »f his characteristics. I have a perfect right to set it aside as incorrect and imperfect, and I •hall do ao most certainly, the »»moas I would denounce a false statement or description of my earthly parent Why, I would ask, has not man the right to use nil reaa >n (-me of the' soul’* noblest powers) In relation to tboiio things pertaining to his eternal -veil being the • true as In relation lo thing* pertaining to tho natural world and temporal things or every day I f< • Tnerefore, 1 do and will maintain that G Hi in the IliMe Is represented as doing and saying, and causing oucra lo dg and say. many things against which my Inmost soul has always, docs now, sipi I In pc may over re

>lt-as unbecoming, grossly belying, hideously mpreprr uniting the character of the Infinite Bring, whom love, wisdom, power, purity and

J if so plainly stamped on all animate liifato things, and written indelibly

seek t<luUM of all. however njuch they may

up or erase it. Wo hear people say tney esn see God In all bis works, ao they can see his wisdom and love Ihero display cd, but they can not sec him In person, ror will tbiyever, nor baa man ever, the B blo nut wilhataiidlng. Uonsiqueutly 1 do stllrtn that_____________ 1 world the sfre&m riihigher than It* fountain, so in Ihe spiritual the soul can not rise higher' than its Creator. Sod ll Is Ugh time that man Should seek to vindi cate tne character of his heavenly Father, which ia so basely traduced In the Old Testa ment Hcripluie*. The world ha* been taught that this ta a perfect repreaenlalion of the In finite One. and Jid to blindly worship him through fear; while those who donut wor ship him am led to cui«e biro who Is hold up

will also. Hut to- proceed: My knowledgeof G.id la received through Ibu various avcotir* of tbe’soul. and that knowledge is increased ** my desire for it Increases If Mr Goodale has ecver obtained any other knowledge of G >d than what he haa derived from tne Bible, It la no wonder ho thus questions. 1 deny, therefore, his assumption tost 1 never receive any answer to ’a y ififqn*t» only through the stretch of my imagination. When a child ask* ita ptrent for a piece of bread, and the bread is given to it, la the r< quest answered through tho Imagination only? Not Ihe on tiro consciousness of the cnlld’s being ac knowledges the reception of the thing asked for. Precisely so, where I ask O.-d in the tut tegrlty and honest earnestness of my son! for more of that peculiar spiritual food by which tho soul is borne npward still higher in the spheres of spiritual intellectuality, is It lung ‘— ‘on to feet, and that feeling substantiated

corroborated by every sense of conscious within you. that tbe thing arked for has granted? Again. Mr Goodale complain* in questioning, many limes, mediums

controlled by spirit*, he hag been unable lo get from th- m any more perfect description of God than be could from mortals, pr word* to that effect. Now be ought lo know that the communications received through , mediums

plwsys more or less modified by the spirit condition of the medium through whom

they come, and could friend G lodale find some medium whose whole soul was thirsting )o get tbe highest spiritual truths to disseminate to Ihe people, Le c.dild undoubtedly get better and more satisfactory reaq,lts from tne Spirit land, and yet be could not get a perfect de tcriplion of the Infinite? for an eternal law of progression over finds the spirit still seeking, ■till up iring tiMnrd a more perfect knowledge of Its parent mind.

In conclusion I would-athte that the reason •by 1 still cling to llit/ oame and personality ! God, while ignoring tbe record* of him, is

because that record Is not fully up to my £>ul’ impressions in regard to bla nature. He (a represented in that record a* posaeating ’ pro pensltlc*. tbe nslure of wbioh would uitkc a devil of any thing or body; ia aald lo boh , re- spc-lerof persons, and yet by showing him. st ir to be such lie is surely the Instigator or tbo murder of Abel, according lo tho Bible; and mafiy more worse things are laid to bis ebartfb wbicb ought lo msko humanity blush. All through-the O d Testament he is portrayed

and those who are reported to have b e e n __faTored ones, were men of tbe moat gross and Itaontlpus deeds. It ia no wonder-that the N'Xsrltea in their theology claim they havo tne approval of 0 >d in fhllowing out tbe niflat pernicious free lust doctrines. Tht*Blule God 1* said to bo unchangeable, the same jester day, to day amt forever. But in paaaiog along down lo New Testament time* be leaves iff bis old rough nature aod deals la a more lov Ing. way. But 1 must draw lo a clone this long article for fear of thing the patience of aome. and yet tbe bait of my resiona have not been told, for having an exalted opinion of tbe In ’ finite, and .a correspondingly repulsive feeliug toward any writings, sayings or doiogs that attach lo him as attributes u e character of a' fiend incarfiale.. These are a few of my Idraa In regard tolhn

ex s ’-enceof G id, believing It impossible for any one to convince me that In Ignoring tbe written record of tbe iiyings and doings of God; it Is also necessary to Ignore bla person ality, for that can not be. Ue will continue lo exist dr spile tbe «Q >rta of many lo destroy bim. You who would divide him Into three equal -parts might Just aa well divide bim Into a million. >

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Antwerp. Ohio.A- J. CnAMrioa

I MY FA TH ER IN HEAVEN.

<T_i m .. ir Ii V . j :» to a . tho morn ’ bright aoo clear,Acd Ihe tranquil sun ia shining os It shone o

ua last year,And I’m wailing at tbe Ikicihold wllh a Ii

tie gift for ilieo—Uhl surely, my own father, thou will come l<

Long weary months I've listened for tby atop• upon the sill—Ling weary months, and often, my heart bath

grown qnito still.But lo day, oh I nublc father! be tbe star upon

my gloopt.And tby soft accent let mo bear, though ’tin

only from the tomb.O? 1 know that thou art with me, though 1

can not hear thee speak.Yet I feet tby presence near me. and tby breath

upon m y cheek; #I)!.-1 'll* sweet to bear thee, father, like a dream

within my heart.And to know that though tbou'rt abrenlt we

do not dwell apart

My life Is very sad, father, since 1 was left

I'm pining for Iby gentle glance, tby deni, fa miliar tone.

My heart is growing restless beneath its weight of te»rs.

For ’twas cradled in a sonny nest for many

They do not dream, dear father, how my heart ■ttll clings to thine.

How 1 wander tottiy quiet gravo, like a pit grim to a shrine,

Aod press my burniog temples on the cool, green tod.

And pray Ibal I may meekly bow beneath the chastening rod.

They say tbe wound Is *sr|y healed, because I lightly smile,

Tbo heart may wear a heavy grief, and yet be

Tho laugh may tremble on my lip. the sunshine in my eye.

They do not dream I'nvtflklng to my angel in tbo sky.

How half my own life went out that drearywinter’s day

lYhon thou folded up tby loving wings and calmly passed away.

we'll meet again, dear father, when- this earthly life Is done, #

The weary strife all ended and the victory surely won;

And thou'lt be tbo first to meet me upon that golden shorn—

0! then how sweet those word* from thee, “ Wo part—we part no more."

'And thou’lt meet mo, my own father, thou'lt meet thy wayward child,

Thou'lt (/reel her with the pleasant glance, the tones so clear *n^ mild;

Though all tho world be har*b to me, though all toe world be cold,

Tby heart will lovo Just A well as in tbo days of old.

Back to this weary world of ours, with all its bitter atrife,

I go from this c*lm borne of thine, bearing a now, charmed life—

A life of patient waiting till the aommoos •hall be given, ft

Then be tbino the voice, be thine tho amUe to welcome me lo heaven.

— SelteM

SpIrltlM ii n t t l i e O n tc i i i i l n l .

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Si'xHisn HrmiTiST Bocixtt. F- ohdedut ) IN 1IW5 V

Madhiii March 15, 1B75 )7o tht Pftiident o f Ifit S/nrititl o f /'Alhl-

dtlphoi ,Dh a h Hi h :—O io of Idc HpirUitl •> Woty of

B.talL, the 1) ucclonese Hi'O'ettct for P.ycbolo glcnl Hludies, of which La Ilevltta Etplri isla It tho organ, has conceived the great thought of bringing Spiritism forward at the coming Universal Exposition Id Pnilsdelphla. in order that 1< may figure duly and woithily in Cate gory X. of the classification .among "obj eta illuitr.iicg the <ff>ru made .to improve the physical, lotellrclual, and moral condition of man.” Tbe 8 -c led ad Eaplrilisla Eipanola, "center of organiattion aud of propaganda,” has enthusiastically taken up this Idea, snd design* to promotq.il fo Spain with a view or producing at thla great compellttou tbe evi denceof the state and progress of Bpiritlsm ia thla counlry; and it also propose* to invite tee principle centers of Europe and South Ametl c* to realms tbe same dettgq on tbelr part.

We.do not doubt that North America will tako. tbe Initiative and. the chief direction, since it belongs to lhA continent to oomph to this great thought, which will perhaps m .ke the greatest at* p made by Spiritism Id our%Wo entreat you aficotlonately, If you shall find It agreeable, to open communication* with tbe Spiritist centers and periodical! of h-dbSpirilla’, center* and peiiodl continents, since, aa wo have *'(< - , _them, we hope lhal they will t f w n U y second

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Dot well (mil to be, u it tuny be recanted a* almost a compilation of Godfrey Higglin' col ebrated "Adacaltpsla," now being republished in London, Mr Graver digresses at timer, but when ho d Jes It l> generally to blunder. Thus in bil title he *aya ne elver - th e history of llilcoD oriental crutitfitul gods ” Among there oriental Jiodr He placer the Alter if lex a 1 cot* (c«Atl») andlbu nbrevire Wiu< n*of t he Tel- iDgoneaetHio or Ntpaul. thu Jlo/nan Qulrin o«. and I'rometheut, and Abmtor. «f the tlrrtk» ' Tne evidence of these being orient at go,III It on a par with that which prove* to w ini. Hi mm

Godfrey Higgins, unierr bin authorities are quoted. I* not authority, nor la Taylor’* ILege- si* As far as the Anai'niypmt is supported by evidence It it acceptable, but It* author wim inclined to p-cr* hia point with p demic r ial instead of scientific dircrlmiuallon. Mr Graver quotes from the Anarilypalr at n finality, r d hence only when he niunttonr on what author' tty ltd statement* rest, cau the reader | idge of Iheir value

The •trangcat confusion pervade*, his pyges '1i», regard to ltrahmlnlsni end vtuddhlam,

whtuh hnjeemr to regard a* the rune, quoting from the sacred books of each and opinion* of writer* quite Inditttrenlly Uo draws Bill par allels between Christos, the llrahmtn e»vb>r, and ('hr 1*1. aud thereby conclfide* Christianity to have been a devclapmen' of JSuddhisinl Whereat, Buddhism and Itrahminism are quite distinct, each having ih rtrop -rls! sirred b ><>k* and ravior gods The Hig Veda of the Itrab mlDt certainly dales 12U0 year* II C.. anil yet the seer* who composed the Veda apeak of “ older hymns whlcntiiclr fathers sang " K*cn then their civilization was old and mature T htlr most sacred books are the four Vedas, written in the nanekril language, to whieh-la added the Mthaliharata, K onay--- modern Pu-ansa and Txntraa I

lluddba died A13 R. 11 He in the savior or thorn who rail themselves his followers lie' was a reformer who led n reaction against Rrabmtnism. and for a lime succeeded L’iti- mately hi* sect withered on its native soil and was only preserved among the Turanian na tt os. The Dshrjna Pads, satd lo contain the ut'cVauerg| of Dul/dha. Is the moat esteemed, but fOztnWocly a small portion of the Bidd hlsilc canon Buddhism was' antagonistic to Urah’mtnism, and It is strange any author should represent the savior of one as teaching the doctrine* of (ho other I it is a blunder wbicii casts discredit over the whole book, and makes the reader unnecessarily suspicious, doubting where there is no cause.

The same criticism applies to the l imn at tempt to prove the e ru d itio n of “siitecn sav-‘ iort " They may have been, but far more testi mony is required for demonstration of the slate- Dnmlthan is produced! thcruipagcs Mr Graves

.deals with the surface of the phantasmagoria of mythology, thinking he baa |Tiuogcd to its depths, lie is not the careful student, sec-king to grasp the grand principle* which underdo the religions of mankind, consolidating them into a unit, and by which they are evolved, but the disputant seeking lo overlbrow Chris tianity by'showing that Its root* strike down into another soil The reforms of Buddha and of Christ ran parallel courses, and there can bo no reasonable doubt bqt i ho Jailer drank deep draughts from the former, and that It was also Indebted to Ibe still older Rrahminian— how much it la not stfc to prnnouuce.

As a whole the book contains a vast amount of unique and Interesting information Had tbe author been more discriminating in bis criticism, sod rejected the unsupported state ments, however much they proved hi* post Mo d s , his book would bsve been somewhat smaller, bnt far more valuable.

IMKfiKTELLKa OF LUVK. By J. O Barrett.It is a singular freak which sen! Mr, Burrell

into the field of poesy Bomellme in life every individualli seized with the infatuation of poetizing, which usually conics on at the dawn of love, and disappears when reason reaches maturity. Toe-try and muiic seem the proper garb of full and completed love, as well a* tbe pining of IU uncertainty Mr. llu re tl ii an exception lo this rale, for be has reached the meridian of life beforo being seized with the dosirc to transform his staccsdo prose Into verse, lie is at this late period Uans formed Into a sort of rpiyilutl Uoccaclo. and lew is the only and all aosorblng theme of his existence When a man at bis age gets this disease, even in It* milder form, tbe result la bio pitiable to be laughable, but when It comes

In paroxysmal intensity, and distorts his

Sceihi____, “ Woman loves but one In fullness of soul conflderci. She is so obstinate in heFlove; demands complete and solid possession, cap luring you all over if you -advance sol 8h< drawsymi stronger than you calculated. Cm ton heap loving her. so free, so earnest, at c mBdenl, ao bcautlfulT D jyou not seelhal dream playing on her fsce as sho lies beside you, left to faith's sweet' stand ml What is sho dreaming of t " .

Here is another conundrum 1 What a woman who smites In her sleep may he “ drssnilnftof,” Is entirely beyond tho rcacc of conjecture In her wick ml brain ten thousand freaks may lake form and substance, and as L >rd Oundfeary wisely says, ' That is a nut J -cl no fellah

on in paxi-xyeuiai mumiiq, nuu untuiwhole being, It leads to ruinous folly. __Barrett has not only become infatuated, he dreams that bo is (As poet who Is lo string ItphT “ Immortal verse tbe grand assertion* of sofital freedom. He thinks himself irfgunlcd on A i t t Pegasus, end that bis daily drink la from the fountain of Parnassus, while in truth he rides s ring boned 'cart horse, and Parnassus for him yields only Croak beer.

Ill* theory of poetry Is probably tho most or iginal tine* Solomon sang his lecherons love duties to hi* seraglio of mistresses. He evi dently is an admirer of Wall. Whitman, and write* after him, sad a great way after. Home poets discard rhyme, and others adnere rigidly lo rhyme snd overlook tbe iweetnesi of n

ten, rhythm and rhyme may go lo the dogs; ke is sure of bts poctrj/ -He la never c a u* r.t In lb# se t of counting biafiogeia In measuring his verses, for he never measures them. , If they contain one word or one hundr d, it is just as well. His argument* and illustrations aro equally original. He is fine In hi* coolness of assertion and prollflo In anflogy. He I* highly inspirational, bnt hi* muaa h** only re cently escaped from a mad house Ho is ob sessed by what he b u so well named - arene." Ho Intensely hates main mind cobitantiy recant figurative of freedom. We will allow him to apeax ror himself: I V

“ Marri*ge-**U thing* are Iscied—organic forces, thoughts, slteclUmt,*'polygamous or monogenic. What I* fatnionabte marriage! I askciKmy experienced siller. Bbe said a choice of spider* I

*• Tho while marble and tho lie ongnvbd on it, the contumptlou. Infanticide, death of bodies and morals "

’•M«rrtedf Wbst forf A wi’e to brow and lust wrllQT A. husband to lean upon! Gal

“ *-----■* souls)” "Oy«l yo damnaUonsI ye—.rrligti! ye mighty pfosUtnti m il We a have s paradise right where the damned bare migoed a thousand Christian years."aw---------aterphrese;

all • > ne honeymoon,

Mr Barrett dedicates bis book to "Olive, w-o ha* taught him tho law of Live “ 'O live," we presume, is his wife, and sho tnuit have had a stvcft task if she has only j lit learned him ihat law. That he,has recently learned it we Infer from hla friskinesa and ardor He thinks, evidently, a life long honeymoon only one re move from paradise. Th»t it would be so sug gests grave doubts. If Mr Barrett is an Ulna tratioD, any physician Wi-nld at once say that chronic honeymoon would result in speedy death. Wbal hi* UlctThooeymoon is may bo inferred from the following llnea:

"Tbn lice may cull lu honey anywhere, but the hive must be stationary tu store it up."

Again: '" bee the grapevine dipping rootlets Into soil beyond the fences."

That is. one must have a home, and then like a bee go out foraging, or \Mr a vine which lends its roots through the*Icnce into neighbor's garden’ And this be fortifies i the conundrum * \

" Will you iron case the spring of love, another soul may drink and be refreshed!1' Which we would suppose dependent mi ihe

lbcation of the spring snd the character ot"~ soul whining refreshment' In some case might be J u t as well to fence a " thirsty so out from the spring, lest it be made acess-t and a wallowing place for swine

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‘ All the gases courting each olher, forming hcauly in the womb of chaos.” II is splendid the chemistries! Wonder if our world s great heart ever make* a mistake or promised zer her l ivers!

"Nature knows no divorces, so I feel confi dent our Mother aud FStlhef will never orphan ize mo their Great liiby " 1> u reader willpronounce the Wqresafol

Then he throws (n a word of chair to lore children /

Illegitimate children! nearly >11 of us—

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CHICAGO. SATURDAY. RAY If

I t Is • fuel there sre In the United States shout 5.000,000 of Catholics, occupying sogje 8,080 stations, chapels and churches, presided over and scrupulously guarded by 1.874 priests, 8 apostolic vicars, 40 bishops, 9 arch bishops, and ono cardinal, all of whom are under the direct supervision of Pope Pius IX, who, though practically without pres tige at Rome, hss almost unlimited influence with the Catholics here, and who will, no doubt, transfer his future operations to this country. Did the Protestants and Liberalism

.of the United States entertain the same, opln- ion jhat DUtnaich. dues,—vlx.: "That Papacy had adopted the principle of exterminating heretics,” and were only waiting to accumulate power to do so, the Pope and his fanatical ad herents tn th is country, would have a hot llmo of U in the fulurei The little hall of snow, as i t first starts down the' precipitous sides o fT mountain, is not large enough to destroy the life of the tiniest Insect, but hi the proportion that it acquires' momentum, It becomes more massive, until booses and trees-are demol ished before it. When starting forth from the nreuntoln top, we^nDj* that all it requires is material and speed, in order to prove a des tructive monster. The same with Catholic ism. In this country, whenever it has gained a sufficient number of adherents and influence, tt has proved an enemy to free institutions.

Notwithstanding the fact'that the influence of the Pope Is waning, and that. tdHay'Urere are no Catholic powers, still Catholicism is the same Insidious serpent-ponly a few of its j>ol- •onojy fangs have been extracted, bql not

-etfough, however, to prevent those remaining 'f ro m lacerating our free institutions. The

majority of Catholics, on flnl coming to this country were very poor, but our free govern ment granted them a home, nourished them with/'the care of au indulgent father, gave them prominent positions, and such privileges tha t enabled the majority of them to surround themfclvcs with all the comforts of life, many, even, amassing great wealth.

The New York Graphic has a deeply. Impressive cartoon, upon UcCldckey, who has been raised to the dignity of a Cardinal. I t represents the honorable gentleman In. gor geous costume, seated on a throne, exhibiting to hli devonl followers a #300 ring and other precious adornments of bit person Unde Bam standi in a meditative attitude at McClos- ' key’s left, and remarks: This ,1s somethingnew to roe, but we have room for all In this country, and if the Cardinal shall succeed la bringing back the cardinal vlrtnee of prudence. Justice, temperance, and fortitude, I shall be -jtod to see him."—Should the Pope remove to the United Stoles with his . #8 OOCHDOO, to *11 bnt Catholics, he becomes simply an American citizen. Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt, and hundreds of others are superior lo him tn wealth.

The moment his royal highness steps upon American soil, millions of eyes will be directed towsjds him to behold only an old fcssll, a . superannuated "Infallible" dunce, containing about 175 pounds of oxygen, hydrogen, car bon, nitrogen, phosphorus; calcium, sulphur,

• fluorine, chlorine, sodium, iron, potassium, magnesium, silicon—all combined Into a com mon biped, with no more virtue than a work ing Clodhopper, who cleans the filth from our back alleys, and removes the debris of our streets. A nal]ltd chemically, tb t old do tard oomtains in the aggregate about 14 gallons of water; cantos iron enough lu hie system to make a small horseshoe; phosphorus enough to make a large package of matches; sulphur enough to cure one hundred cases of Itch, *or sufficient to make a hell as large as a botcher's cauldron kettle. The water enclosed in hie system, U turned into snow Hikes, would be nfflqtopt to make e hundred balls for school boys to pell each other with. Thamagm be carries about, would make a mors bri light than, one thousand holy candles, sides Use "pious’* old fallow, has some thirty

or {forty well defined animals in hi* system from one hundredth of an inch to six Inches In length. The fact Is, ho 1* simply a man, and his bones, fleah and blood, don't entitle btm to any moro respect, than tho must bum ble American citizen.

In this country be will be sublept-to many petty annoyances His private property muil be assessed, lie must pky lax/?/ contribute to street Improvements, rtcelrb business balls, hear the cry of the boot black, "Shine ’em up—give 'em patent-leather rhino," etc., be held amenable to the civil law, and when he lakes a rido in hit splendid cirrlage, every true American citizen will bo careful when they s^e him coming, that he yields Just one- half of tho road in passing. Then, too, the Orangemen will parade right under his nose. They'AjH lUunt their saucy banners In his face, sound their defiant mush: in his cars,-and the noiiciof their martial step will make his palsco 'tremble. Supposing, too, that we should have a war, and that he should In one of the trying exigenen^ thereof bo "conscript-

-w hat . would Ahc old fellow do under those circumstances’ I" rhsps, too,he might, as a Joke, bfc elected to the high and honorable position of '^Idcm an or Coroner, or select ed to respond to a toast-on some Fourth of July celebration! Uo can try tho grit of tho American people by interfering with tho Urangemen's processions, and see an iltuslra

of tho way things are managed here In our Justice courts when a man is arrested for disorderly conduct.

The following items show the “ signs " of the times: ^

" In reply to a recent antl-Pspal manifesto of ka rl Blind, Garibaldi -writes: ' I believethere is not in all the world a country let# Catholic than Italy. Government and tho up per classes afiect a Catholic devotion which they do not feel. .A s. td the tn asses of tho people, neither do they believe In Catholicism, and In the Popish churches on* only secs big oted old women-*"

Tho Bixline Chapel has considerably gained since Pio Nona shut up shop and re fined to allow the performance of " Holi^ W eek" services in. his Immediate precinct. J g r the old candles, altars, ADd especially the !«»«• aeebino, have been removed, and so Michael Angelo’s superb fresco of the "L ast Judg ment " and of tho " Creation " ara not only to lie seen without obstructions, but are no longer suflering from smoke and incense—except that of admiration.

" Monsignor Nardi is a big-bug of a Captain at tho Jeauit headquarters in Home. He is a linguist, and well tip in foreign countries. Al his Instigation General Bcckx, -chief of the order, has* freshly dispatched secret agents Into Germany to stir up the consciences of the’

. It is an old R o m an__to carry the war Into Africa, and make It

___ot and heavy as possible. After that thodouble-distilled critics of England and France step forth In the most Jaunty stylo snd Inform us that the Pope hasn't got an army, and Ire Chancellor is tilting at a windmill. At aoy rate a windmill that ropes in the consciences v t mjm certainly ropes in their bodies of tho flesh, fleshy.”

“ At Buenos Ayres, last month, 20 000 citi zens assembled In vigilance committee, and proceeded In short order to sack tho palace of the archbishopric, and born the college of the Jesuit Fathers. They were opposed to allow ing tho Order of Jcsolts a foothold on their soB, and hence tbo movement to wipe them o u t They moved about the streets crykig out free church, free sia'is, down with tho Jesuit*, uutil the troops of sotqp most excellent serene highness ensconced thereabout came upon them

.with a volley of bullets, which dispersed the ambulating assembly "

P r o m in e n t M on o n K ltutlng.

John G fiaxe gels ofl the following in the If. Y. Ledger .-

Give me kisses—do not stay Counting in that careful way;All the coins your lips can print

' Never will exhaust the mint.Kiss me, then,

Every m oment-arul agalnlGive me biases—do. not stop Measuring ncclar by the drop;Though To millions they amount,They will never drain tho fount

Kiss me, then,Every moment—and agalnl Give me kissea—all Is waste Bare the luxury we taste,And for ktsslog—kisses live Only when we take or give.

\ Kiss me, then.Kvery'iaotnbnt—anil agalnl

• Glve-m* kissea—though their worth

And wbat bappiney# be misses Who, sflcctionfe impulse scorning,

Many say it's hi— ,Very much depending

Go whoso Up* yon kits!Bnt tho truth 1 am confessing,

And I'd have yon all take warning,If von covet any blessing,

K<ss iho children in the morning!Kisses In the evening,

When the lights are low,Bet two hearts a flaming

With aflection^glow.And the angels sw^fra In numbers

Round the pBfoW thejtare prcsilng.Who are wooed to pcaccftij slumbers

By a dear one's fond caressing.Kisses in tho morning

Are npt out of place; - Kisses in the evening

Have* special k u d o ;And It a cent! to me t&05»ie Is ,

For Indulgence lawftflTcason;Sweetest tulips—I mean klssesl

You are never out of season I B ulan eminent medical practitioner steps

in and says, "don ’l kiss the baby," citing one case where death was actually caused thereby.

A prominent writer in the Chicago Tribune says:

I recall a time when a kiss from a noble woman, " not nearly related" to mo, was a positive good to me

It Was after the w ar 1 bad not seen her for years. Chance'took me to her hospitable mansion, and wo spent tho evening talking over those thrilling times, with her husband and son, who had been active through the long struggle. The spare chamber was accorded to me. and the dear old lady came for the light herself. Bho asked mo if 1 had sufficient clothing, and, after “ tucking me up," as my sainted mother used to do when 1 was a child, she bent down and kissed me with a “ God bless you, my child!" " llow did I fee lf" 1 lelt as if my mother had come down from her 'hioing home and left a blestiojg.on iny brow. ILsolutions to be worthy her noble and tender •flections were the only ourgrowtb of t£ht kiss, unless 1 except this brief mention of it today. I am glad tho did nut wait till I should be in m y c lllo, for she has long since found repine iu rntrs, and should have been poorer bjnone kliw

An orthodox/iylne, in replying to an arti cle froqx'TTfifpen dr Mrs. Bwlsahclm, up kiss ing. says:

Bho usea those very words: "All the ortho dox churches in the country bavo, for a cen tury. been teaching that promiscuous kissing '* most innocent amusement,—nay, more, a _ . ms of sanctification." In thy large and long experience of over forty years, I pro oounco this alatement'umiuartiflcdly erroneous. I speak mildly; It tt not true, according to my best knowledge. I am thoroughly acquainted with the Bsnlltl- denomination, numbering about 1,800 000, and 7 000,000 or 8 000 000 In " elr congregations; and 1 most solemnly aver,

wording to my extended knowledge of them, is not true. I have a very large aequainl- ice with other denomination a, and promts

cuout kissing is not " practiced"' among them. Young people sometimes practice i t In small evening patties; but Iho " church" bas noth ing to do with It: much less do "orthodox churches te>ieh Jt "

P r o f . D e n to n In K anauH .

Prof Denton is lecturing with great success at Lawrence. Kansas. The Lawrence tlejmbti- cun Journal speaks at follows of'him:

"Prof. Denton delivered the third of bis series of lccluret on Geology, at Frazer’s Hall, last evening. The hall was well llllod, and the amjlcnce were evidently deeply Interested throughout.

"In a notice of inch a lecture, with the space at our disposal, it would bo impossible to convey oven a tH,he of tbo Interesting facts and Illustrations with which, it abounded. We can only'indicato some few features of its

T b o U olnietto*.

Robert Dale Owen comes lo tho following conclusion In regard to the Holmeses, in 'a lengthy article in tho Ba n k e r :

1. That the Ilolmcsce undoubtedly have, under certain conditions, considerable powers of matcrTaltxitiou.

8. That they have dishonestly supplemented these powers to a greater or leas extent.

As regards what I have witnessed, through their medtumibip, I do not undertake to draw tho line between the gennlnc and the spurious.

.Tbo practical result, in my own ease is, that I adhere to the original purpose expressed in my flist letter on this subject, under date l)o-

WU.U.VMWO, B. .v v , r . .v u „ , ccmber 10th, 1B74: that Is to say, I shall exgraphically tracing the rise of the continent '\lm ki (as Insufficiently authenticated) from the

which we live, commencing, as is sup --------- * ----- *—---------- *— *-*-*- * " — *-al the Ht Lawrence and stretching ofl

------- Bnt of the BUnriantoward tho A rctic___ _____ ____________and Devonian eras he thought he might say but little, while bo dwell upon tbo Cattronife rous lu which Americans were far more inter ested, entering Into, ss It did, so much that wo as a mechanical people had to do with. His picture of the carboniferous swamps al the lime when the earth was as a vast hot house trans forming plant life Into wonders of'g igantic growth, afterwards, when heaped laid moun tain niassea of vegetable debris, by the wind Storms that swept over them, to be converted into the coal that was now so essential an ar ticle of fuel, was a line piece of word painting. If It was not upheld in all its minuteness by facta of science. The I’rofcsaor gave very in teretting particu lar with regard lo the man nor.of searching for Coal, the processes neces sary to obtain It from the bowels of the earth, and incident* of travel In the collection of data, with which ho enriched his lecture. With all dno deference to the feelings of the Adventist, ho thought that tho world had been established with a view lo a longer period of existence, Judging, *t least from the vast .amount of coal that yet remained tn the ’cellar.

"The limestone formations gave the lecturer an opportunity lo speak of the caves ot the caiUi, most ur which were of this formation. His delineations or the beauties or tho stslac tiles and atolsgniitcs of some of the larger sub terranean space*, and hi* accounts of the salt sculpture of tho I’olleh indies, where a church of considerable *:ze dedicated to Bt. Anthony had been hewn out of the walls ot salt, were -picture* of beauty, as well as interesting de tails of the labo'rs of an ardent and hard work ing i xptorer in that science which Prof, Don ton possesses a wonderful power ot layingopen to the comprehension of every ---- — •—hears him."

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It is appears from a London Correspondent that Bradlaugh, the great English Orator, 1* a Free Muon, lie says

‘ The American Freemasons are directly in terested in a very pretty quarrel which has been going on between some of their English brethern and Mr. Charles Bradl*ugh. I t is the common boast of Euglith Freemasons— and t think tbq same thing is said generally of American members of the mystic tie—that no one can be a M uon who does not believe in God. But when Mr. Bradlaugh was lo Boston ho was received by the Muons there as a

lions mado through the Holmeses

T h e B o s to n In v en tln u to r.

. We are glad to see This s ta ling reformatory paper come oat in n Dow dress, thus giving ev idence ot prosperity. I t Is doing a grand good work In behalf of liberal ideas, and Is osrqrthy^of having a hundred thousand circu lation! ’Itsreditor and proprietor wtlj proba bly become good Spiritualists scon, ami then tbe paper will labor in bebait ot tile Uarmo- Dial Philosophy, They have goo;! judgment and too much sound sense lo tesiat the pres sure long They can now avail themselves of psychic force, unconscious cerebration, etc., as an aigument against Spiritualism, but that will not avail them long

M rs. C. F . W ell* will continuo tho business of B H Wells, aided by tbo same capable and < tllclenl corps of assistants tbal Mr. Wells had drawn around him. In their bo w quarters at 737 Broadway they have ample facilities for their Increasing builne-s, and it will be known as the headquar ters for all now and standard work# on phre nology and kindred subjects, including those valuable periodical*, the / ’Aremrf-yieof Journal and the Uric nee of UealtK

M rs. AInu«l L o rd a n d M ro. T h a y e r , O u r PjhyMlcal M ed In h im.

In its Bflnday edition, the Boston Herald now publishes a column on “ Bplritaallsm " Its representative give* the following aa his expe rience with two well known mediums:

A few evenings sgo, Mrs. Msud E. Lord grat ified a few friends assembled at her parlors on Hanson street, by a “ malerializiiion " seance. The rear psrlor was darkened and used as a cabinet. Between that and tho front room, which wa* occupied by the spectators, was sus pended a curtain, with an aperture over which fell some dstk drapery. Tno “ workshop of

whe spirits v was txatqined and •• cured against mortal Intrusion, when Mrs Lrrd, with her bands tied behind her, entered tbo dark apart ment. Tbe door was.icatccly closed upon her before bands were thrust through the aperture in tho curtain, and a few moments' Ivor two well-defined faces—one having a mustache and tho other a full beard—also appeared. Bofhe one behind -the curtain whispered hoarsely through a tin trumnet and then threw It Into the room occupied by Iho spectators. A rose was also taken-from the dress of tbe medium and thrown into the-lap of a lady In the front row. Daring lh«se manifestations the medium was in her normal condition and convening with her friends on the other side of the cur tain. While thus engaged the remarked that the splriti were dissatisfied with tho Imperfect manner In which aho was tied, whereupon the cords were removed, and, as t h r medium sol emnly avows, securely replaced by the spirits. Before the close of the seance the medium call-

laugh was not and could not be that he1*as on the contrary, "a Intruder." Tnev were all wrong, howeverT neolherdsy Mr Bra-Haugh showed tome bis diploma ss Master Mason. I l ls a parch ment dated May H, 1808. signed by the Grand Master of "L eG i*nd Itrlent do Franco." and >y eleven other < fllrials. Mr B'sdlaugn was in avowed atheist long before 1839 but on the U.h nl Match of that year he was initiated Into the Masonic Order, and wss made Master Ma son of tho Grand Lodgo of Franco on tho date above given. Morn than this, he J lined ah B'-'tll*h lodge—the Tottenham High Cross

lire—and held hia regular certificate from Oranp Lodge uol1 September of laat vear,

,._en, in conMquencte of {be 1'rlnce of Walea being made Gr*n<y Master, he returned his cer tificate cancel id Mr. Uredlaugh's status as .a Mason cannot be questioned; aiffi although the fact that he, an avowed atheist, has r>cca a Mason for sixteen years, may embarraas those

mgh in E igland and America, the msjorl- ly of Freemasons happen to be Christians; on me Continen; the very reverse Is the case, and tbal there Is really nothing in Masonry which lenders belief in God a neccaiary condition of

ed for a copper wire, which, bring brought, was token by some viewless band behind ibe curtains. Then noises of busy woik Vrlthln,

o Hltle, i s ______Kiss me, then.

Every moment—and agalnlGlvo ten kisses—nay, Ms tree,I'm J o s tia rich as yon;And for every kiss I owe.

' I can pay yon Back, yon know. 'Kiss me, then,

Every monient—and agalnl Mr. Baxe would not make a good Bhaker,

They are opposed to kissing on religions prin ciples. Bhould ono of the members of that order gosh, or have an attack of poetry in the above direction, he. would be expelled there from at once. I t la really strange, however, that the sentiment contained In the above m s lodloat verses, should have originated directly from a Bhaker, who, trying to’ revolutionize his sect on this question, took the position that " kissed lipe lost no flsvor.’* I t was easy for the imaginative poet to My, after reading, that

"All the ooins your life can print Never wUl exhaust the mint,” . C

While we believe that kisses are "good ih their place,” we think, that to have them thowered down on yoni person "Svery mo ment—and again," which 1* twice in a mo ment, would be too much of a good thing, nn- le u they were directed to your feet,’the meth od adapted by the Magdalen toward Jesus. Bnt the following Is really a gem:

xrs’iao t h r pniuramr.' " Klsme in the morning

. Make tbe day'seem bright.Filling every comer

With a gleam of light;

accompanied by l tie aonnd of a hammer driv- iLfp-oails ; and when, at the dose of the seance, light was let into the dark room, the wire was attached' to the chandelier, and fastened by nails to vsiloul points along tho Wallr though an attempt had been made to (trenf. tbe manifestations by the aid of an electrical current. All thla time the medium waa alone In the room, with her hands tightly secured by cords

At Mrs. Thayer’s seknee. last Sunday even ing, besides a large number of 11 j were brought to those present, ono gentleman not only re ceived a canary bird, but e wicker cage for Its reception Beveral visitor’* at Mis. Thayer’s have been* similarly honored. Where these

-birds and flowers .came from 'remains a pro found mystery, but It Is said that a certain A ir- Icullnriat in tbo neighborhood of Boston has several time* mtssed flowers from hiahothonse, and with a view to preventing the cootlnr of the larceny, has discharged several itu cd workmen, but this did not prevent a recur rence of the thefts. I t would be Interesting to know who is losing birds, and also to as certain the moral scuuuntobUlty of spirits en gaged in this businm .

l la a t in n a n d T a y lo r ,

an o t h e r TBiuarH nr m i t e r u u u t i o *.The Midium and Daflrtak of England,

s*ya, "W e have been informed that, at Mr. Ronald's seance, with Messrs. B utiai Taylor, on Tuesday evening, tbe spirit-form led ont the medium, Mr. Bsstlan, so thst both sppeered In f\M eiri* of the audience, rendor .tag tbe test ot the genttineness of the manife*- tlona complete.' The medium was not tied, and the spirit gave its own test—s much mot's satisfactory one than could be otherwise de vised.!’

T n o 1‘ugllljilL 'u l I ’ re u c lio r s .

A regular Ml to In a church between two ministers of God, is really a ludicrous aflair. From an exchange we learn that tho Methodist Church lu Nottingham, Manitoba, recently had a double service of a most Infelicitous charac ter. A quarrel bad divided the congregation, and each party claimed lo be dominant. Each had called a new minister, and the two clergy men were on hand to begin theil labors. The first to arrive took possession of the pnlpit and the other u i behind the chancel raU. Tno man in the pnlpit gave ont a hymn, and tbe other gave ont another, and both were song confus edly by the rival sections of the assembly. Then the men behind the railing storied ofl on his sermon, and the other began to read a chap ter of Boriptuto. \Y..on the reading wag over and it w u plain tb s tih e preaching was'golug to Uat much longer, the partisans of the loader snog another hymn with a load organ accom paniment. The musical noise drowned its voice or the clergyman In the pnlpit, tu t when it wm over jio was found preaching right along as though nolhlDg unusual had happened. Tbo clergyman in the chancel, le u oool, was unable te fix hi* thoughts on a discourse, and «o re mained’ silent and boatoe. At the close of this extraordinary scene, a deacon explained that it had been enacted "under legal advice asd to farther the cause of'C hrist." A little olb should have been thrown on the troubled

barrel full, on tbe beads

Ma y Au.sn/ F i.k h in u * new novel, "A Mini Marriage," by the sulfaur of "Guy Earlspourl’s Wife,” will wt.published next week by O. W. Csrlclon * Co. )

" PuoptR_gjl/n t h e O tiikh Wo r l d ," os ex hibited by Col. Olcott iu his book with that title, proves very attractive, OvorS.OOO copies have already been sold al tbo Chicago clfioe. We shall be pleased U> Supply our rriend* free of postage.

Th r lliiv. Washington Gladdonsays lhatthu religion of tho Bout hern negroes has not tee remotest relation lo their c o q u e t, amj that " the notion of any incongruity between piety and theft or adultery scarcely enters tbeir bead* "

T iib " N uthjno t o We a r " controversy bids iir bn revived In.the publication by O. W.

Carleton A Co., of another book by the young iady who claimed the authorship of tbal clever poem The new w;rk which is entitled “ Tht Wvthan /ejt," csrrien tee ramo slinging, satiri

cal rebuke a* did the poem "Nothtnglo Wear."

$50,000 Cljaltenifo.A writer inthq,Chicago Tribune says:The story of David and Goliath in Iho sa

cred writings of the Jews, whether truthful or mythological, certainly aervea to illustrate, in tho strongest possible tn<nncr, an occurrence that Is stiiNtrcah in tho mind* of the readers of the Tribune, n a m e l y , #30,000 challenge to tho thoologians and scholar* of Chicago to show that the sacred writings of tee Jaws and Christiana were of any more importance aa linlhful and reliable histories than any otbc» writing* known aa sacred writing* Upon in quiry at tho cflk* of tho Tribune tee slrange but most Important fact is developed tbal the gentleman who made the oiler has round in Ohicsgo no focman worthy of Isis steel. In tbo case of Dtvld and Goliath, the swaggering and boatlfn] Philistine who had been *o long lording It over God’s chosen people we* struck dead at the first blow by a stripling who went up against him simply w ilb tee truth upon bis Bids and " In the name of IBe Lord God of H a t* ” The theologians of Chicago and of the country have apparently fallen aa sudden ly al the first blow as did the huge Phltiillne*.

Tho only effects thus far noticeable upon the public have been, flrally, the withdrawal from the Alliance of a number of Its editors, whose leanings, lr sny, were toward the upb of traditionary religion Instead of

ira. whose upholding

D r . W . A . F L ouder* .

Tbe above named medium passed to spirit- life, t t Plymouth, Ind-, Batordsy night, May 1st HeNras a native of Vermont, and had been a Spiritualist for fifteen yean, and a heal er of remarkable powers. He leevee behind, him a boat of warm frleadi teunot^rn bis lose./

modus Us editor. The Alliance was asked to publish tbe original challenge to Christ. Church, and ihongn* matter of freeh and LnV’ portaht newt, M J intimately connected with the oanee of tin? religion, Urey failed to com ply, awing prqbably to a disagreement among its editors concerning'the matter. Another eflecl most plainly noticeable has been the late move of the Ufilterlen Societies, in providing ceqtral plsccr of worship In the theatres, where the masse* may gather without money and without price, and liSlen to the gracious words of tbtgChrlit of the Goepelt, and I te r s . lo admire and seek to emulate H it life and character. They tell us that the Christ of the New Teetomrnt h** obscured by thoChrist of the creeds, and Hls Church, the blessed company of all faithful people, divided up into warring sect* over dogmas and article* which are untruthful and nnaouiid.

’Tear away, then, O Awing, Collyer, Herford, and any one who will, tbe curtain^ that have so long obscured HU bright nets, enlkjteow ns tbe Christ—the Christ of youth who <

-ed the wlia doctors in the templo, vlcted them of their ignorance,—the Ckr manhood who went about dqlog good, (: . tog corruption and hypocrisy in high plat the friend of pnbllcani and alnnore, and w even for tbe woman token in adaltcry.Tbaa only kind and g-acloo* word*. wbUe W llng •corn and contempt at heg^nejasl and wicked " accuser*. The OhrUt who, standing bvtw—

"th e blood of Christ (or the abeolnt priests) cleanselb from all iln ,” bus show ns tbs CbrUt *hnd call upon ns in HU words to " Repent" and bring forth works meet for i

r atone* Show us the OhrUt who said, "A 1^ 1 be lifted up, will draw Ml m enus

M A \MAY 15. 1875

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KELIGlO-PHU^OSOPHiCAb JOURNAL.

O tl lfoVi* *o, — A u ra , i 'H jc lio in c try .

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Tho discoveries of Baron Keichenbach opened a new field (or investigation He found that around every subataucdlu oaluro there was a peculiar aura, or atmosphere. It will be found that Ibis surrounding atmosphere in the mentis by which the properties ftrfa even the existence of bodies ni'ay be known. It has been a favor ite Idea with certain philosophers that all things are Weal and sat ji-ctlve only, and that unless we can think of the* , they do not ex iat This Is undoubtedly carrying the matter too far, while on the other hand, the material ist. who believes that we only know of the cx litencc of bodies by actual cohlact, may be quite as fir from the truth. The valuable dls- coverivs In psyThoinotry'madc t-y l)r. Ui.ehnn au and others confirm the idea that it is the aura around bodies that gives us the idea, nut only of their existence, uul iu many cases of their qualities and properties Tho doctor placed substances in closely stopped glass but. tics, and without giving the sensitive person any idea of what they contained, not evenknowinVhimself sometimes what he was ex perimenting with, he found that If they hold the buttles in H'Vr hands the. spec flu i fleet of the article* waiffitodueed, and the individ ual waa often not only able to describe the ef ferts, but tn givo the name of Ihe article

Thte suljsct la one of deep interest in all de partment* of nature, but muro especially In the domain of life. Animals manifest wutidcr- tnl inst!«ctive powrrs, which -must be the re sult of ibis aura or atmosphere. The dog, for instance, will follow the exact trail of hia master, or of some other animal, through crowded thoroughfares, anil where many others have passed, with very great certainty A portion of the aura sufficient to tie distin guished has been left along the entire line oval which the animal has passed.' Many carious Instances are related of attractions and aulip slides on the purl of bumm belrgs toward certain animals The faithful attachment of dugs and other domestic animals Is » familiar illustration Tho feeling i f dread of certain ani mala It quite common, and there have been In stances in which persona have been t.irown into convulsions from the pri setieo of a o*L in a room, although. they_.l)ad no knowledge of this. Ilumnfi bcalthritbd bhyslcii’ilevelofimenl are often' largely Jv pa nil list Upon our associa tion with certain animcls, from whom we da- live an auri or magnetism. When this law comes to be better understood, we shall have In our healing institutions many annuals from whom patients may receive the magnetic ele ments that are essential to their well-being It is man’s positive aura or magnetism that gives him dominion over Ihe animal kingdom, aad UTe declaration that •'m an should rule over them," Is based upon this fact Among the lower animals arc some whose atmospheres are so poisonous to others lha t-if they come within its influence It, is fatal to them. Ani mal aura should lie belter understood, as it has . both beneficial and irjurloui influences, and we can uniy know of these by careful observa tion and sludy. Our Institutions may aid us In regard to these, but we should endeavor to obtain all tho knowledge wo can in relation to them.

Tho aura or atmosphere around human tie inga is one of the most important studies that can claim the attention of the human mind, and will doubtless claim tho attention of the scientific investigators as soon as they can di vest themselves of prejudice and enter upon its Investigation in a proper spirit, Even the dcast sensitive can not fall to realise something of Lbls atmosphere around their fellow brings The halo which is generally painted aroiAid tho portraits of nattily and canonized persons, has Its origin in the fscls of nature. The sen sltive human being, and especially tbe clair voyant, secs this atmosphere and Judge* the character of the Individual by it. There is a peculiarity of color and density to each one,, and .when seen ciaUvoyanlly this gives an Idea of the state of the individual, and Is tho means of Judging of msny Interesting phenomena. For instance, when a very positive Individual approaches one who is negative, It will be seen that the atmosphere of the first displaces that of the second. Negative persona arc often very much attracted to certain others who are positive, and their influences seem to- blend. Aj-tdJnn times, when the latter approaches ttfenx'tENr sphere is disturbed, and may been- Dryly pressed to pne sldo, so that their thoughts

'anu any questions which they Intended to ask, aro\all driven away. Sometime* this will only be tbe case for a abort time; at others it con tinues. Ail sensitive persons have experienced something of this in their Intercourse with others. Jest to proportion as these spheres,

. which really contain the finer emanations of the physical and spiritual bodies, blend and harmonize, will that attraction of the Individ ual* be, and nnle** there la some 'blending, -there will be little pleasure or profit In the tn>> tercourse. Through this aura teacher* must always be able to reach the sphere of Ihe child, or they con not communicate knowledge with any degree;of pVbfU or latlafscUon. Where there ia proper adaptation of. the two spheres the taacher and pupil beedme absorbed In the •uhj cels they are investigating, and tbe leaeoni become profitable and enduring to both; In all the relations of life tho Influence* of these sphere* play a moat Important part, and the more we know of them the better will we bo able to regulate their actions so as Introduce

I MIHIK rtKA.

A*, when the friends we dearly love ’Ho sidling over tho sea,

For alt the Joy toWhlch they go,Our hearts will saddened tic; f

Ho when upon that sea which rolls All earth sQd heaven between,

Those whom we lovfi, upon tho deck Of death’s great ship are seen;

For all tbe Jny to which they go; j Though heaven be e ’er so sweet’,

And e’er so good and wonderful Tbe folk they go-io meet;

As with Inlenscst gazejre watch, •- And see them fade.from sight.

Hod bt-lp us, but our human heart*Are anything but light!

As when the friends we dearly love, | Have gone beyond the sea,

Tim far Ul lands in which Jhoy bide More real get to be;

Bo when our loafed ones ones have crossed Death's lode and silent sea.

And Id a coilntry new and strange Found infmortah')’,

The heavenly land in which they bide. Which erst did ever seem

An unsubstantial pageant vast A dreamer's idle dream—

Becomes ns solid to my tout As the earth I tread.

What lime I walk with reverent feet v The city of the dead.

Not Europe seems so real tome,The Alps not so etornc,

As that dear land for which at times My heart doth Idly burn.

The Atlantic’s waves divide,Will meet again, some happy, day.

And Unger tide by side,

As that tho day shall surely conic — When I. with all I love, "

Bhsll meet again, and clup-«irirkisa

the highest happiness for ourselves and other*. Tbe communication of health and. itrengtb from one to anolherlp very greatly dependentupon Urn reciprocal and harmonious action of these spheres. Persona In ordinary health gen erate a superabundance of the vital elements which extend out into these sphere* and may be transmitted to those for whom they arc adapted by establishing proper relations be tween them. This ia undoubtedly tbe basis ofmagnetic healing, which, however, may be ▼err much ex-tended by the Influence of spirit*, which act* upon the spheres both of the uper-

the p an of the patient, and tbe best. ,ty, it may be a certain room where the mag nettp elements seom to be concentrated, more martelotii cure* than / the world boa ever known will be realised. The magnetic physi cian, learning to understand these spheres, and having on unfaltering trust la the divine aid wblah come* to them, a* It did to Jesus, to bless them In their holy work, we shall have such results aa have never been witnessed by mankind. ...

^ ' s s K s s :-------------------- 1 for charitable efforts,whose whole energy iah worbed In the daapars it r i i t | |H to sea i tp t i ----------- -

and abj/Vc

AN W i O t ^ N T E i r I*.

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A large audience assembled yesterday aftrr noun iu the Harvard Houma to hear about the' Wonderful witch o* Havana a pretty villain of IS miles fro,,, K mira, N V Dr. J 11 Newbrongh of lias We»l Thirty fourth street, who lately made a visit there, told tho fellow in* ghost stories.

Mr* 1’elor Cuiuplon, the wife ol an invalid husband and mother of seven children, Is de- icvnded from the old farmer) oC Havana, a well known and not rich, ycftcspcctable stock. A woman of sound, uncultured Intellect, she married a carpenthr and builder, and on tit permanent failure tn health fourteen years ago. and their mbs*quent destitution of other to, sources, she supported him and their numer out children hy washing the clolhts slid icrub biug the houses of her neighbors.

Two years ago Mrs Compton was developed into a full blown spirit medium of lbu“ fiiust wonder working kind, tier own body changes Into strange, other and sometimes beautiful bodies, according to whatever spirit lakes pos session of her. Bho may be fastened in a cabinet In any manner, tbe cords are loosened, not cut or untied, (he nails are Lakcu out, and a new being Walks forth, man. woman, or child, ancient ango or modern savage, and the new person walk# about, talks, can lie fell of, shaken bands with, patted on the shoulder,. meanwhile there is not on I tala earth to bo found the body of Mrs Peter 'Compton. The cabinet is empty—no Mrs. Compton, nor her

PoasKssitu o r a uitvtfi.Dr. Newbrougk procured some shoemaker’

thread, and thif man who was waxing the end for him said they would be t>f no use, for ah waa possessed of a devil. Dr. Newbrongh use* them, however- He also procured nails with out beads and so iiao tbsl pincers could not get hold of them, snd wilh them closely nailed her gown all around the bottom to tbe Ujor.

Out of the cabinet walked a strange and fipe lady, of different stature, com Itx.on, and* manners from tho plain, the homely washer woman who a few moments before waa nailed to tho II Kirin an alpaca gown. p r. New- brougb rushed to tbe cabinet. It was empty; his nails were nowhere visible, and hi* waxed ends had also evaporated. Tbe new ledy’i drcis was a brown, summery texture, thst looked as though It might have been m ids on a malerlalloom. Dr Nowbrough said to tho ■ghost: " Kind lady, I have a pair of remark ably sharp so b e rs in my ■ pocket. Will you oblige me byaTlowlog me to clip a souvenir from yciir robet" The beautiful being tmiled on him graciously, but answered:

"KOTIIIKO TO WXAtl"" My medium has but one gown. I t you

cut a piece out, there will be a hole in It, and she will be entirely destitute.” ” But,"listed the doctor, " I will seo thst s h e __money to buy another gown." “ Ah, my dear sir,” sadly answered tho beautiful spirit, " perhaps you Vrould, hut I do not know It; tor Mr- Olcolt was here, and Dr. Storer of Boston was here, and they both and maify others said lh i‘. they would do something to relieve tbe poverty of our mediant, but lh» y have not, and 1 cannot let you cut-*, piece oat and make a hole in her only gown."

After the beautiful lady stepped away, and after a atx foot tall ghost had come and gone, and no mote ghost* would he evoked. Dr, Newbrongh again Impeded the cabinet. There eat tho homely and motherly lire.

agalq, the flnb ltUle nails being with almost perfect exactness driven Into the holes' they had previously occupied.

Mrs. Crompton has lately been assfetod by tbe Overiuser of the Poor of tho county, for them changes to wbioh her. body has been subject .daring two year* have ruined her health, and In addillU oto being unable to work, the reputation of being poeeeseed by ip lrite hoe deprived her of her fprotisr employ er*. The ptcple of the town eay nothing against her except tbxt she Is a sorceress. Tbe little children had mended their clothae with yam and with twice, or with whatever they coaid g e t A mortgage on their liouse^added

ttrpilbl'can IN!', #83 One of his asked whether -'oi persons Iu Havana

Who c min tinted the #120 were tulldoH, spirit Christians He answered that they

.v o infidels, ooo spiritist, and himielf, Tnrec or four la 'tea passed among the audi encc and collected #<33 A pitisr of tho a-mi r ty suggested thst this /collection and all other* should be Intrusted not to the solicitor but to the treasurer of the society, lit a regular way, This suggestion was hoofed by the audi ence who seemed to be (amilitr with Dr. Newbrougl), and on being nut to a vole was almost unanimously voted -down Money has been now raise ! t > m arly the amount of Mrs OMqptno*# drb 's (

I ’m y in g fo r 1 'roa lte ln .

The R ght Kovercnd William Croawell lane, K.riscopil Bishop of Albany, tn this

Stat". recently ordered prayers for rain to he put up In tbe churches under bis J irisdfehoti Albany and it* neighborhood wero sulleruup from a protracted drought. i*ud the Bishop fatirltd that <ho proper thing t * do in the

' — ■ • appea! to Oo.l to interfere“ ■ * - II poU'

l Batin lay night, M irch 20.b, 75, at a dark seam .. we bad a m x;d circle of some twenty person#. Tbe manifestations were not so good. I saw three spirit forms. The mo diuu Was not Controlled H speak, nor did the

fell* speak A letter was taken out of Joseph a s ('he midiuu ) pocket when in the cabb t. upon tbe envelope of which was written, Excuse int-to night. I cannot control tbe ediuns. Neely ”Wfaisilcr, A1* . April. 2t h. T5,

e n lkuow. it did rain abundantly light ago, and the II shop thcreup lir'to an Albany newspaper, dc

livered himself lu this frw;, little short of irreverent trilling inyitery, and Irreverent Ing/ati

___ . . , rest mercy, to question that theabundant fall o ^ an o * . followed hy th^ past grutle and gr.u'u kl thaw, is truly U id's answer to the many prayers—Sc me worded or e way and dome another—whica has been ( tiered to the Throne of Uraec "

The letter is dated Feb 21 A slgnlficsnl commentary upon it is found in some tele graphic despatches of tbe samu day. and Ihe next but .ode. Hero they arc

' Tkiiuk Uaiiik. Ind., Feb. 21 —The ,,#n river baa risen fourfe<vv feet In^twcu ■ul hours. Tbe steamers V iung America Ilk. Sytrg here, were swept down by the

pnfuure of 11 >atlng Ico The f >rmfr was - flight six mifes below in a badly damaged

— ,n The Ilk is supposed lobe rout aiucr D dly Vardcu was sunk at the

landing hy ice. A barge belonging to Prairie Oily wan aiao sunk ’’

".PniuAom.PHiA Feb 20 —The Ice in tho Bch'uylklll river at M tnayunk broke up yester day afternoon, and last nigh; the wafer rose twenty feet above the usual bcighf, and within four feel of the higheat freshet AJJ the houses in the lower part of the town were submerged, forcing the occupants to. l?ave without saving Ibctr goods The gan works were also sub merged, leaving the streets In darkness. All the mills except one have suspended work.* throwing at least 2 OOO persons out of.ccuploy " inent. The Fountain hotel was flooded, and the street, which forma a bi llow at this point, was submerged, causing tlu- lutpenaiuti of travel tfy si-cet cars this morning ”

"• Iticiiw ik ii, Feb 20 —Tho regent heavy rains b„vu swollen the Virginia rivers con siderably; in some cssca cm-ing much dam-

” -- James river at tbia p -‘

i0 city are oveili ig-ed.__ _ part of — . . . . .— —------ —I.yuchburg the river is up nearly fifteen feef above the usy d level. Much damage is re- portnl there, and al-ng the line of the Allan tic, .Mississippi and Ohio railroad The Jack son river n< Oovington is higher than at any time since 1801 “

" Kn xviu.8, Feb 20 —The moat'deatruo live freshet for ycara ha* vfeiled Esat Tetines- Sec. The bridge over fete Hiawaaace river, tin tbe East Tcnnc*s«t> Virginia end Ueorgla railroad, ia gone, apt! no mails were received yesterday. It will probably tic a week before the trains aro running nit that road. The Tennessee river has thirty-eight feet of water, and ia atill rising. Bridge*, mill*, barns and house* have brcnaw tpl away by tho flood

"*■----- submerged, and

*tbn Place, NOw York -Ui< Pk .n c k . of Terre Haute, Indiana, ever no

the alert to defend honest mediums, eomea to rescue In tho local p ' , r*. published

where he rts des. He Is doing a k -k .i! work Jxs-as r*iiKjv*i»u, from fit Petersburg, Hus- I, will give three cloistral coocen* only, the rat attraeiivo ever offered in America, at cConuuk Mumo INll, Wednesday. May 0 h,

Friday, May Till, and a grand sacred concert Bunday. May U;b

ilsMiia tay* "W e are glad to ste that Hi linos T p it c h has not laid aside his pen. In the cause be has efrnuch at heart. Ills notices of the r tcin t works on Spiritualism

fine specimens of appreciative criticism. Tuttle send hia tiffe-d wife are amoug the

heat aix^aTohlest of our workers. In the good lime coming the writings and book* o f HuJ sun Tuttle will be esteemed as unexcelled in their statements, their brokj/ond lilwrai vit as, their concise and accurate aVyle Ills residence Is Berlin' IIfights Ohio,"

The lie ' ivlUuUas W- rksa;

_____ itin* to newly <800, luld Um prospect ofHi* oounty poor heuxa for a more permsnent

Dr. Newbrongh announced that he railed for th* poor family before be left Havana,

1 from tho spiritist meeting yesterday qtest-

doubt it'wctf cratifying to the Bishop' flock in Albany fev have their wells and ctsterus filled as they weAe.-and it is right in them to be duly thankful for It. But what of the peopte-iqlhe pan* of the country where "the abondantTatl of snow followed by tbe gentle and gradual thaw," produced the devastation recorded' in the telegraphic -despatches we have above quoted! Tbe Bishop did not ro tted lh*t<thc same causes which produced the one n s u j r also produced the other; and tba! If Umfgave rain to the Albanians, in answer to theVg prayers. He also, in answer to (he same prayers, destroyed steamers, railroads, biidgis, dams, gas works, ami buildings ami property to au enormous amount, beside*

------striking illustration of the heathenismInvolved In this practice "f prAytng for raincould not be presented,— Chicago Inbunt,

T h e S p i r i t s B r o k o b o o se In A rkanm ui,

1.ETTKB ruoM jsask da rijko .

At a dark seance held In Whistler, Ala., on Thursday night, March 18:h, 1878, the follow- log results were obtained, with Wm, Joseph Nix, in the cabinet, HeU a machinist, work ing dally. In tho Whistler Kali Road Shop. First,

. tl-XCTUlG L1UUTSappeared In great number*, and question* an swered by them; three light* In quick succes sion wo* yes, one light no. Thera were only nine peitbna In the room. After Joining hand* and forming a part of i circle in front oflhe cabinet, singing was commenced, and short ly after the T

J _ w n m »oxt of a j>ov appeared, and the medium In a

/ trahco, was controlled by the spirit of Dr. Neely, who gave us words of encodrigemenl, snd stated that the HUle angel wo

him, giving his name (Jyhuny Key), and said, "A unt L iny, Grand-ma will aoon he vfith me." Ul* Aunt asked him which Grand ma, gnd ho arid, "Grand ma Carr " Before he disappeared he kneeled and said tho L ird’a prayer. Next came the white form of a little girl. Being asked her name, she Mid " IN**." The next and last that I n w , was the Utile white form ef e child

CHAWUKO da TH* FLOOR.. We beanl a load noise os th* floor. I t

sounded like the report of e pistol. I heard three hMvy footstep* do** by me, to t could not eee anything. Ope lady said she saw her former bosbaad, end that he whispered to her.

The witnesses of th* above were, dees* D ir ling, J M Walton, J Herbert, M Monaghan. Mm Walton. Mis* Oena Pritchett, Mm B K er, Mia* V c. Key.

Alii l-Kkluni! Ion Soclcly .

kVu find iu the New York llcrahi tbe repoi an kxceedmglt lufeuif-crat^scrttuu dell 'c: l-i tn-kt city Suu-lay Iwfora U*<, <■' " '

**td to be -k vt-f) /,. i .ccuily traosfefrot t

lebenkrt’. uf the par-

NaW V-rk"W ail,I ti-.

i ‘Uki th rlr chilli re .1

i! fit Lawtaface Run

h u Dish .leeuit ptif t :, the South In li tl would tw taki-IJue hia I -e holds, he ill

at the day of IS ale the nursersa sch-iula, and tt

ere"" sin'"!'11H .e''u-f,! al” the rameufe ICnurcu ’ Wnat ■ !. t them die wirik-.ul

1 would as Soon ailinititstcr the aacram

fid s i tl ii fanaiical (>r« aehcr went o length, wilding up w th i b last that tbe i o l ta in tho State of New York were sti Chough, if valiantly banded together, to trot the public school system', or to be rvlii from tai-ill -n for iia support The new A IcaiiC udih il may will giv*- hi* attearie this Futtiur .V.tx.-r / to ’ , Innih-jUUir

Bill) E I alklill!

Wo i

kval. Al llut

i.jeitiHii Hot'sa, twiHxun

south and In plain view from the south and east fronts of the new I'ostotllcc and Cuslu house building. It being three stories higt than any building near it, acd turmounfed with a tl igtlafl, ran be dctigitefed anywhere on Dearborn street,' from South Water to Twenty Second stru t*. The building stands just south of Harrison street, and fronts on D <arhnrn street and west on Fourth Avn

O T Ail letters should be addressed K sli PitllgMoruiCAi, I’ciiLisniMJ llouan, Ciiicaoo, 111.

O n ly O ite O u lla r n Y ea r.

quxk, is peril nee uj popt/igo iu auy pviaou ("** pour for On a D ollah . Any one who will get .up a Club of Five subscriber*, will hav ' sent to him or her frte Address Kxt.ii PiULoaopntcAi. l*unusiuNu Monaa, Chfeiuir 1*1

P ostage M ust bo P repa id .Occasionally a subscriber remits only | J

renew the J o u r n a l It rrqufra* fifteen ce more to prepay the poatafh. When #3 only leaent, we credit that prep jit Ion of tho year, which makes ue trouble, and it is more diffi cult for tho subscriber to keep a tun of hi* credits. Alwaye send #318 and that will re new and pay tbe pwtago for one year,

181 O o c c u ta r e n e w * t r i a l e u b e c rip ^ t lo n n o n e y e a r .

|lass<:4 Iff ^ p r il $if<|.

rawed lo Bpirtl life, from Boa Png fewwa. Ky.. < rrih April. J. II. kmvaaa, afur a^alafa! IIJx ms o I to day a

Bat tlmnigb alih •aawfeg and sfelf*.

a tbs SI*: uf M»/ch, me, agad u

Tawvd loBpIrtlllfo from lU ivtldaae* of h«> a law, Ljmui Kmltfc, *-q . la A’onha., R. Y., April soth. )ST1, Mat, LaUAA IIpoo!■ a. widow of lha law OrriaUaitlaver Lja**d#r. H. T.. q t l t* jalrs,) moult, and •I Oaf a •

Th# rahjael of this aorica'waa for away yaai* a u n - •r.of tha Baptist elaob. hat wtsn ah* Isaraad Ik*

.1.1 -Obm,, '.- 'iik - r I’-I lriioa.Tr,. M wm with lot* aid r,Jolrira -cbraced by Oar. ani aShrded groat ccmfnrt .i d rorisfacitoe dariia Ika pain- fml Be kata* which r.tcorod l « from cans to aptrt'-Mr*.

Bar row air* w-r. ceevatsd le b.r lala hems fe Lr- satdsr. for latatmaaL whvrooaUat.id. a larva himbar of rolaklroa aaS f-trsda taevsesd la pay e trihata ef i*- spset ts a co-la sed bfesij saaaawat frit ad. aad c l , n-issise&as&m

» A itdros

ecoMUnfiy reminding •

' 1r/readers of 11*. « . adthe prime necosa.iy of giving their!

dress when writing ua, atill. not a day passe* o not receive valuable fetters—in urgent—wilh no address, and fre

quently not even tuo name signed, We now insiderable number of *uch fetters,

tbe writers of which are probably, impatiently awaiting the fe'fl’,Tneir*. " f thefe ordure. *

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m i v " ' • ' " '•* * 'v"< AwZfe,v“ VM hk'V fl.l..’, 'v r'"- llO- .1 ?°.i M d T I

r,-r s'r.o.' more1 f"> ur nLg"n, tir.-'-l

I- my fell !i'l will wall at.xi ■uriy*’ D feet to Mm M A I,, nard.

i lu

with to

H*iiiisHON, Cbirxgo, lu . U kaum -ikk fetter dat- -1 the 18 h of this month, igntlixed papers ia at hand. My wife

(a now well, and the remedies tho t-iU- * will last about two day* more. Bhc tinuks that she will get along without fakloe' any more In, ..red -ou will find a p >H" lU-e order for #2 i w I’uuee accept tbia with mst thanks 1

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no'Iiokb ■vau.tno o r r , r ms nam Mh». A li Hiiiiih« n. Ciitcao), DltAlk Bis

tk u —I do not know as it it net -aaary h>r me to send for new magnetized papers. Hince Z began to use your remedies my Ifpir has quit coming o u t^ You have done mo more good than all other doc'dra I have ever tried; and they are many. M iy you continue to he sue r .skfol in your noble Work If you think fust I should wear new magnetized papers '.oiigt r‘ I shall do so. Your- reu.y.

I’k t k k Majkiira.510 N tllTtwo Ml.. Biooraiugkjo, 111., March

•r.tb. 1878.

ONB UOX CUUEtl Ulkl ANfe ItB IVANTS IT TO

T a ma Cit y TamaCo.. Nwa, i M irep - lf b, 1875 (

Mu*. A. IL H-uisoeC - I soot to the ilm-iom PiilljoaolTilcxa I’i oi.ishiko Hors*, Chicago, In Fibiuary, fur a in x of your tobacco I antidote, which came id due lime 1 followed' the dirm iona on the b -k, and it ha* curciFChc hankering desire for lobicco on me I wouldsay. tobacco cITowcrs, try It It will cure you. l-wanl the agercy of Tama Couoly, Iowa, to sell your tobacco nntldotn. 1 think I can sell a good deal of it till* cu ring year. I shall - " - Suidncaa of selling it,sill if h d t

m hear from >oi

blctgo, April V2'h W

Business flotircs.I f there are any of our leaders who bavc not

tried Dobbin*' Electric Boap, (mode by L'ragln Jt Cj ., Ph'l.) wo advise them to give if one trial^fotxbeir own sake Have your grocer gel it. »I-

To all thoan who are ekepiicsl of tbe cura tive qualities of West’s Liver Pill*, and their perfect*alaptation to all diecatei of the liver, and blood, please show the advertisement*' ( -.uniting tho formuje) to their family physi cian or dioggist, and oak their opinion of them. They will. Inform you that there la nothing better, or a* good, and a, tv iso yon to try them. Tnlrty sugar coated pill* for twenty flva centsT-BoM by all druggists, t l

This celebrated Medium Is the Instrument or organism need by tho Itfvisibtei for the benefit of humanity. The placing of her namn before the public la by request of bey ConlroV licg Bind They, through her organism, treat all dittatu and eure in every instance where the vital organs nreem ry to continua life ore not destroyed. Mrs. Morrison ta anDXOOMSCIUCe THAKC« MBtltCM. CLAtHVOTAHT

From tbe very beginning, hers 1* marked *1• most remarkable career of success, such aa has seldom if rear fallen to the lot of any per son. No disease aeems too insidious to remove, nor patient too for gone to be re stored.

Mr* Morrison, becoming entranced, tha lock of hair Is submitted to her control. Tba diagnosis Is given through her lips by th* Band, and taken down by her tkernary. Th* original manuscript ia san^to the Correspond ent.

When Medicine* are ordered, th* case U submitted to Mr* Mnrriaon'i Medical Bead, who give a prescription suited to th* oaae. Her Medical Band ue* vegetable remedfea, (which they magnetize)- combined with a scientific application of i f ----------- **“ —

isgnnslng dlaaaa* by locjt Of hair, #1 00k (G'vn ag* and **x)

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Ad.lr.vw Mm 0 M. MoiLu»re, B*hSo*. ta**.. No, IIS Westminster Bfri B x *81*.

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a ^ i ' Kn™ nt ‘'Cl' i t \mr hld“ ’"‘ 1,1 •» 'i*

‘ n!l 1 dld"° '’ dur,n;tnT iS l? rlprSaent the Mmi

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n non earth. 1 did not, for a moment, .upp«c that 1 waa In Spirit-llfe.' I rould not readily reallre my true condition.

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Go J o c h n a I.:—T he following e ilra d s from the w riting of Mirtm Lather an! tlie utliei lending I'rutcstant reformers, are of exceeding intereit at this lime, as showing teat In that epoch, a* ill the present and all similar one*, when large masses of people have lost their old religion* anchorage, they lose the moral aa well, and drift into all manner of ex cewca Hut Protestant*, without rcUnquiah- ing their new found liberty, regained their equilibrium, after the first intoxication > f eti l.iymcnl was over, cl.. may we hope, will it ne with those In our day who arc tempted Into t.ccalioufncas by mistaken notions s* to the precise H m lt^oflbe neg-cra <if freedom which baa been opened up by setauch anil the gener al advance of human thought.

Ba MISI I.KAVITT

The marriage of.I. ilhcr was a terrible shock to all conservatives, “ The whole world was astounded.many Protestants werefshocke J and scandalized.” Timorous Metaurlhon says, in a tetter to Lamer anus. '' \Voe. howeverto him who would ri J :ct the doctrine on account of the sins of the teacher Krasmus viewed It as another proof of the truth of his Caustic remark that “Toe tragedy of the refer matlun ever terminated In the comedy of marriage-” In a letter written on the occasion., he said, “ Thl*l%*’*lngularoccurrrace. 1.other has thrown off the philosopher'* cloak and married a young woman of twenty *lx. Hu revel*, while 100.000.000 peasant* descend to the tomb.” Thl* tame savai| often dilate* upan the disorder* to which Luther'* epistles, sermons end work* against celibacy led. Bo represent* certain eluea of Germany a* swarm ing with apostate monk*, wno drank beer to U tM i daaoed and sang In the public streets, and gave themselves up to ell manner of riot. He says tea l “If they could get enough to eat and a wife, they cared nut a straw for any- Ihiug’clao ” “ When they found not wive* ammig the female religious, they sought them ip the faaiiau of vice, What cared tncy for p'rioslly benediction r They married each other, and celebrated their nuptials by orgies, In which the new married couple generally lost their reason.” ‘ Formerly men quitted their wive* for the sake ortho gospel; now aday The ghtpel 11 lurichea— “ — ------ ' ---------'* * * - ' 1----------*------ ' “ sw ell non n c -------

s lately_____ - > peel to

mortify hla ll ish.” 11j also informs ns that “these eg monks, after having become the moot zealous partlzons of the reformation, sub sisted by open robbery of the churches and of their neighbors, indulged to excess in drinking and In gamc^qf hazard, and ( resented a spec tacle of rnS o ^ tp st revolting llcentousnesa. " Luther haii'iaaght that, “ As id Ihe first days of Christianity, tbo church was forced to exalt’ virginity among the pagan* who honored idultery; ih now, when tho Lord had made

’opish celibacy." (Luther <*> (Jpp tom 1 pp S2i seif)

The'monks eagerly sclzid on this and simi lar teachings of tho reformers, and the above are tome of ibodisorders ihst naturally resulted

-among those least prepared for tho liberty which fio advocated But even these are not the worst. Bigamy w ts qnttecommon among them, at lo u t for a time. Tncy defended it, too, on scriptural ground^, Luther was ap pealed lo on the tul j ret, In bia reply he waver* and hesitate*, wishes each individual to be left to- the guidance of hie own con science, and foncludrs h it letter In these words: “ For my part I candidly confess that I could not prohibit any one who might wish It, to take many wives at once. Nor is this re pugnant to tho U ily Scriptures. But thorn} are things 'lawful which are not expedient. Bigamy is of the cumber. (Split. ad K Brack, 13 J an .1524 1 - - '

There seems sufficient proof that fully and solemnly authorized a Protestant prince to commit bigamy.

Lather himself assures us of the deterioration -of morals that temporarily resulted from h it teachings, "Tho world grows worse and worao, and becomes mote wicked every day. Men are now more given to revenge, more avari cious, more devoid of jnercy, lei* modest and snore Incorrigible; In fine more wicked then in the I’apscy.” (Luther 1’ostilla sup I Dima Adventna f

la another place be aays. speaking to his most intimate friends; "One thing no less astonishing than scandalous, is to see that since tho puto doctrine of the gtospol has been

‘'The noblemen end the peasant* have come to inch a pilch, that they be .without scruple, that they have only tow um nu.Kiuiw io n ioey nave umy to 101 themselves be preached at, bat that they would

. prefer being $plir«dy_ disenthralled from the -■ of Oodi and.that they would not give a'

i . . r ~ / — -------------put together.

They uvo a* lucxjjtiioTe; ui tinno to be ewlne; they live die like real *wlne." (Lathi Corinth. ch. XV)

Aurifaber. the disciple and bosom friend of Luifibr, and the publisher of .bin "Table Talk." 'el that ’ Luther was wont to say that *f- ■i the revelation of bia gospel, vlrt-i<* ha-l bs orne I'xilnci. justice oppressed, temperance

•wjutd wuh cords, virtue turn In pieces by the logs faith had become wavering -and devotion had been lost." ( Aurifaber fof *12:1 )

u»ly unmoral, tn fact, were manyB..no(o_____________ . . . ___________if tho early Lutherans, that it was/then a b!nod”Jf Christ, all purses Were open. Money ommon saying In Oirmnny. to express a day could t u procured for endowing churchy*. fir pent in drinking and dehauen “ iV die niainuinlng superstition*. Then nothingV-ntmrr riwwnre" “ To day nt> will \l ve Ilk; Ipjrial to put children in the cloister, to * .'Ithirana " In another (dace, Luther la , tjfli) to schru ‘ " ' — — —ni-nts the”moral evils of the refurmtllnia-l^+nSC -false pi-us acailollnwlug chaiaclerlsllc iangu*gc_^L>ieou!d ' ------• -1--lot be astonished if God sbotild.vfte&at length

the gales and jaindow# of hcl/. and snow or hall down dwuk^ijr rain dowi\nn our heads firo and bilinsbduiTor-bury us lira fieiy abyss, as he did Bodonlam} Ojniorrba. Had B »b-m ami Oomorrha received the gifts which have been granted lo u j —they would yet be standing Tbiy wese a tbousand times leas culpable than'Germany, for they had nut heard -the word of

‘ ' their preachera And wo who bavo. . . . ____ jid beard 11—see do nothing but ri’eop against God Smco tho downfall of I’op ory and the cesaatlun of it* eacommuDicalions and spiritual penalties, the people hsvr learned ‘ despiae ihe word of God. .Theylonger for ihe churches; tney hive ceased io fear and honor Grd (Luther Wercke, Kill Alton I

Martin Ulcer, aqolhcr of the reformers, gives the following explicit testimony on the subject: ' Tho greater part of the peopleMem to have embraced tho gospel oaf>Jn or der lo shake oil the yoke of discipline, and Ihe obligations of fasting, penance, etc . which lay upon them in the time of Popery, and to live at their pleasure, crjiyiog their lust and lawless appetites without control, They therefore lend a willing car lo the doctrine that we are Justified by faith alone, and nofhyC « WO h W T,ng 00 re" ,h * " lh“ n " ‘ v ° J > w exception.; are congratulating tec Arne ri

v .v. _ n*i_i_ j _________ i. l j -v . _oarJohn Calvin draw* a nol much brighter pic' lu re : "There remain* a wound atlll more de plorable. The puTors, yea the pastor* them selves who mount the p u l p i t ........................ere at tee present timo the most shameful--------■“ pr waywardness and other vices.____ ___ Jr esrmons obtain neither morecredit nor authority v'Jian the flctltloos talo uttered on tho stage by tho strolling player., . . . I am astonished that the women and children do not cover them with mud and filth." (Llvre, sur les Beandalea p 12s j

McUnclUon Inform* ns that those' < ho had J lined the standard of the reformation at hit day “ bad come to such a pllcb of barbarity, that many of them were persuaded that if they fasted one day they would find themselves dead the night following.”

Greslmis thus describe* the moral coodi lion of tho reformers: "Thoac whom 1 hadknown tobo prro. full of candor and simplicity, these same persons have I seen afterward*, when they had gone over to the seel, begin to apeak -or girls, llrck lo games of hazard, throw aside prayer, give themselves up entire ly to their Interest*; bkcorne tho moil imp* tlcnt, vindictive and frivolous; changed in fact from men lo vlprrs. I know well what 1 say." And again “ 1 see many Lrthcrana but few evangelic s'*. Look little at these peo pic, and see whether luxury, avarice and lewd- m si do not prevail still more'among thorn then those they dcteat " Yet so friendly had Erasmuabeen lo tee reformation at first, the proverb was current In Germany that he had “ laid the egg which Luther batched."

it rman Catholic writers give a Jong and ap parently well aulbenDeated story about a per' mission, granted /by 'Luther to Philip, Land gravOof Ileste. lo have two wives at once; but a sufficient number of facts have been already adduced to ahow that the lame Immorality fre quently resulted from tbe teachings of ihe Lu theran apodlles that characterize! tee Eng lish after Cromwell's downfall, and indeed all epochs which bavo followed the overthrow of too strict moral code*.

and rapacity among ihe reformers, cupidity teat Induced Albert of Bra to leave the Catholic church, "that be might plunder with a safe conscience the country of Praaila which belonged to the Teutonic Order of which ordef ho was tee general,” and which state he erected into an horedilary principal Ity. Francis Von Btckengon was another of those sporters, who, at the head of twelve thousand men invaded the archbishopric of Treves, tracking hla path byteeblood ho abed and Ihe licentious excetsekof the soldiers.

The candid Melancthon avowed that, "In Ibo triumph*of tbo reformation, the princes looked not to -the purity of doctrine, or tee propagation .of light, to-the triumph of a creed, or the Improvement of morals; hot only gardfid the profane and miserable Intel of thhf world.’’ (Apod Audln, p 843)

"T<f the D-----1" cried Luther, "with ■jort„fnanor lords, princes and mitrtrtv nol who do hot leave for the protcL . ihe servant* of tee gospel wherewith lo auo- port their wlvee or child ran." (Table Talk cited by Jsk Marx' p 175)

In hi* oharaotertstlo style he ponred forth a plaintive Jeremlodo, mingled with bitter lnvoc- live and reproach, against Urn secular leaden of the Protestant party. He Isshrd without mercy, the avarice of the pritcee, who, after having devoured the inherence of.the church, and ihe'fondeof-tee Catholic school* closed Iheli p trees and refused io eonulbato to the erection of aslablUhmeal* to replace those they had destroyed. “ Others" he sax*.cloM tevtr\hands a n d _______ __________tecir pastor'and preacher, and even to support

them If Germsny will act thus. 1 am ashamed to be one of her children, ami lo" speak her language; and if I were pirmttte 1 to---------i silence on my conscience, 1 would call

I’ - pc- and assist him and hi* mialont in cljai,pi> for u*. lo subject us ---------

tortures and to

of Satan, when

more Ilian before " ibtinucs, “ when wo were

' ~e profaned the

But now. when demlea and endow the cbuich

___________ i — endow, did I s»yt no. bu» asSlat In preserving her, for ll li the Lord who has founded this eliurcb and who watchc*over her, now that we know tho divine word, and ibai we have learned to honorthe *ord of our lllartyr -God, tbe puraii* aru closed With U«n padtorki! No one wishes to give* anything I Tne children are neglected, and no one teaches them lo servo God, to venerkte the blood of Jesus, while they are Joyfully (minoLud lo Mammon. Again, 1 would wish if pqislhle lo leave these men without preacher or pastor, and let tlicin live tike swine. There is no longer any fear or love of God among them, After throwing oil the yoke of the I’opc, every one wishes ip live ks he please*. Bat it Is the duly of all, ci p-dully of tho prince, to bring Up youth In the fear of the Lord aad lo pro vide them with teachers and pastor*. If the old people are not for these thing*, let them goto lh e D -----1. Bat ll would be |t shame forGovernment to let t t j / yputh wallow In the mire of Ignorance-fCd vice," (Luther Wcrke, edit Altcahurg, tom. ill, 550)

T ire A m crli-U li O itrd lu a l.

Tbe leading J turuals of the country with

__ poopit on tho grott nondeeoesslon of teeI'opa, In his recent appointment of a Cardinal for This country. There are 150 000.000 Oath oilca In tbe world, and orCardinal*;teii gives a Cirdioal for every 8 500 000, and as the Csteollcs of the I'nited Biases nave long ex coedetl that number. U is only Jasllce for tee I’ope to grant the high hoaor of their being overlooked by a cardinal. What j lurnallsti or anybody else, ixcept s Jesuit, can find to re- J jlce ovehdti this new honor. Is d ill cull to de v e rm in T h o recipient. McCloekey, may be wurtby as a man; as a Cardinal, be 1* tho rep resentative of tho Pope/ sail the actual head of the church in America. He consolidates the terrible puwor of-these millions of ignorant and supiirstilloils-ilsyoteta, and Uthe xieculivc of the wishes of his infallible leader. IIjm c ognizrs no political authority superior to his church, and whenever there Is iMnUictloa tho government mux) go to the wall Tne very freedom and gepCToaity of that government, allows him liy-tel up Ills princely Court within tho limit* of MJe It p iblic, ,and will defy the puwor that protect* him

Already he has established a court, and maintains an equipage which suipuacs lhat of most temporal princes. H olt provided with a three thousand dollar carriage, silver rilounl- ed and Satin llucd, with emblazoned coat of- arm*, drsworiiy fouy'cog)-b!*ck horses, with a livery driver and a footman. T ell would do for Europe, where people are iiccuitomud lo an hereditary aristocracy, but in this country ll la Intensely disgusting, and t x.remely dan gerous Tho people should not have suefi pretensions Haunted in their faces until their perceptions are deadened, and they became lb dilbjienl.

It Is the tiger step of despotism, never sleep tny, never acknowledging defeat, which stealthily approaches lo throttle free thought and free iiiitlluilons, and sot up Ita Infallible Pope in their place.

Anyone who think* at all on tho sol j set can sec tho approach of a great struggle between .the powers of Ignorance and darkness, repre sented by'the Catholic Church and Liberalism. The constant ct!art to wrench the school from the hands of the government; tbe zeal with which * proaelyllsoi Is Carried forward, tbe threat* darkly teroafa out; all show the drift of tho great tide.

To mako this fori-jb a unit already organ ized and drilled wllh/a discipline no army of. the paat*s presentsver achieved, a Cardinal Is essential. J>er J'ope Is too far away. A present atfifibrlty possessing all hla power, la e commsddcr In the Hold overlooking his whole army. (That army h u \ picket on duly as servant*, kitchen maids, gardoners, or day la borers Id half of the families of the land. It has los e r s In numerous Important govern ment t ffi teg, civil and military UhM.a.Matec- t(vs force lnTu prleeU, who are msdocogalzi- 2>le througlUhocoufessioual uf anything known by tho raifk and file. I t I* not to be admitted for a moment that any measure for tbe fur- thsrsnca of the interest* of this organisation will bo yielded. Whatever they m»v grant lo their adversaries I* because of expediency; the

bers, the ir demands are more Imperative and Inaatlate, and to Ibelr almost the Protestant churches are working In furtherance of tbe

Let every person ao live teal be can go to bed In peace with himself at night. No matter who else fights with him, don’t let that little

bier called conscience.hav* good groundsGJK

We are glad, lo see (he v'tilcago Ji-iAan* re garde J In the post a* somewhat conservative, lias awakened from that condition, and U not afnild-now to present '<> the world thoagllts that .bear upon them the marks of s progress Ive spirit In a late number, Mrs dsno Grey Bwiuhelm is allowed lo speak as follows

With all the books which have been written about the Bible, there seems to b<i uu di l| illo Ides III the mind of most believers as to wbal is meant by it* mipiistiona There arc ni-iun UinTof commentaries treating of occult mean lugs, of separate passages, but a great lack of amplilied and general views of I ho whole col - lection, of Ihe books contained tn i i . and, by calling tbo attention of Biblical scholars to some of the ddll tellies which have presented themselves to oife earnest sicker after truth, I •hall hop* to bring- out. for the benefit of the unlearned, the hot thought of some of thole divines wno do not hesitate to avail themselves of..the secular press 1 > spread a knowledge of th in ruth

Take, first, the icstlon of wealth, or worldly prosperity and note the teachings of the Bible Oil this bead la not the central idea of ihe whole Jewish system Acorn and wine’ ” Through all the books of the tpcntateuch, the leading dogma 4s that wealth tend power are tho rewards of rfghleoueness. The man who obeys Gcd is to be rich, anJ great, and puw erful. as a reward of tiifMbcdtcncc; while ihe sinner Is to biy'iTniehed-for hie sin by poverty and the loss orTtberty ami children The cn. lire law of Moses, from beginning to end, Is founded on the central ides of. reward sod punishment In this life, and in ti})s life alone There Is n.i brnl of a hereafter H eaven and Hell were alike unknown to tbe Mosaic theol ogy ; and.'for some twenty eenltuier, thl* ccn tml doctrlne.of wbst wc have been taught to believe was then tec only Church on earth, was that a iiuyi * acceptance with O >d could be accurately measured by Ihe extent of bis land*, number of his cbllilreo, wivei, servants, cattle, am! silver coins, andjhe height of 'hi* honors Tmo. there w#re doubters, of whom David seems to bsve been the first. He was a philosopher, sod, looking on sim oof the pros parous men of his day, pronounced them r* wicked," evea though they “ flsarUhed like a green bay tree.” ’The discovery seems to have unsettled bis r*llh; foe he says, " My feet had well nigh slipped " Ho doubted bis stand Ing ground, and not until he "went into the house of Gxl," and got a new revelation, was he able lo ' vindicate the ways of God to man " lie taw that tbe wicked, no matter how prosperous. " stood on slippery places;" but, even Iken, bo teem* to have felt that their punishment was Income In this life.

Of all Ihe Old Testament writers, the suthor or smanuonils of Job afone seems to have bad a definite idea of what we now regard at truth, of wlial Chris), tsught *• such, viz . That c* lsmttle* are no evidence of O id’s displeasure Tbe eighteen up m whom the tower of Bllosm fell were pot sinners above others who dwelt in Jerusalem; sod Christ, in teaching this, was evidently striking at the still living belief In the old dogms, which bore to the M -----

r. the G xl that made tbit universe Is oi

lice; and how doc* It come t\i*t He whose in-, disputable works are so full of harmony should have revealed a system of religion at One time so contradictory to that which — " * " — ltl

• to follow

Ho# can it be that the tame God should for, centuries and center!** teach aa truth—that which He occupies all tbe succeeding centuries in contradicting?

How U it possible that tbe same God taught that wealth was the sign of Oil favor, and that. “ Ilia easley for a camel to go-through tbe eye of a need lb, than for a rich iparf to 'en ter Into the Kingdom of Heaven

Let any one cam pa r* the theology of Most* with that of Christ on thl* one point, ‘the sig nificance of wealth, and attempt to reconcile them a* the svork of the arfmo author,-the ofl- iprlng of the same spirit. To mo the task has long been hopeless on any other hypothesis than annihilation of tbe great mas* of the'

coming of Christ. I can DM b tlis i. __Creator who endo*sd tee smallost animalcule with all tbe faculties necessary to Its welfare, and who* accomplishes the most enbllme remits by the simplest means, did ever make the pa rade we read of la tbe Old Testament, In- or der to toach Immortal beluga that He would give them plenty to eat If they kept all Hit commtnimonU, hat would visit thorn if they disobeyed.

Of what constquenc* wse their corn and wine, their milk and honey, and Independent nationality. If, through all ateinltjr, they tb a Har for aln, or enjoy the reward* of righteousness!

If we assnme that the people to whom the revelation through Mo h s was addressed were *o entirely of tele earth, earthy, that they had no existence after death, except the few Indi viduals with whom tee Dslty had speelal com munication, and who am specially signalized as immortal, the Old Teatamsat Scripture* be come Intelligible as Divine revelation, If we reconcile tbe "day*” of creatloa with geolo- etal period* of .formation. Thl* would her monlxi with the theory of evolution eleo, end the Jews of long ago beooms the conaectlog link between tee highest type of animals and that clast of beings who a teto outlive the ran.

the I Ti Ilsmriil la as important a In k In

physical -kvclopmedt of i mated intelligence*; but, as addressed to people who would only begin to live when its rewards a 'd punish- ■items were ended.-it is Incomprebcniibla as a work of Infinite. Wisdom, I wiite ,n all rev- cruucd for lhat which, from Infsncy, I have ticcn taught to hold sicred as ' the word o fx G hI," and slate what teems to tne- Insurmount able ddtl-ulUc* In Uro way of any theory of tee inspiration of Bcrlpture with which I am acquainted. nuJ In anxious hope that some one of clearer vision will enlighten oat only mo. but Ibo tens of thousands who are .struggling with Ibis problem af Inspiration \

T liu iitfh l

Caod teen

i, and In this

. David wasayman ;-f God* own heart, never tholes* he would cave ocen arrested, now-a- days.on twenty indiclmeiils. any one of which would send him to tho penitentiary for life. Uut God loved him dearly and lor yearn !’»vid was bis buss He had so many wives aed con cubines, that he (tgd to have a s.-cretary to tell . him their names, and being full of human na ture, the older he become the younger ho wanted them, line moonllglft evening while be was meandering over bia house top, he caught sigh! or a beautiful woman bathing. He did nol know jrhosbe was, but sent sunes- singer who returned saying that 11 was Bsth- sheba, flifo of Clteh the Hilltc, one»of hi* moat faithful captains, who was away firhtiog bti wars. But David did not hesitate about honor of conaciencc, nor did he lit down “on the ragged edge of despair " lie JjsK cnl brought Bhe ia over to hit boijsv, and

Bat truo love never ran smfxill. case, tn the languago of Mta. Tilton, “ tho turn In her bosom began to sing " David thought he would Irap V rish, and have him come home, before he would bo.suspicious and Inquire ” Whose been bereetnee l ’ee been gone.”

Uriah esme, but as long as tee soldiers w en In tee field, he would notlie In 111* hguse, end slept at David’* dour. David was pot lo hla wits end how to prranade him to go over and stay *1! night at home, ahd atleegth bethought him t - g.» him drunk; this he did on tee next night, acd still Uriah staid on tbo door step

Here was a dilemma fur this godly man— a greit many godly men have been in like allu- alTon. He could nol appoints church council to dear him from the ciargoof allowing hi* benevolent Interest In I - welfare of the wife of hla brave captain, to -nee run discussion, and give tho appearance . f bad motive*. Ho could not silence U ivh when he returned, by a law suit. Uriah must-be blotted out. At present a d- z:n of witnesses would have sworn him insane and of air Insane family, and Uriah wcul-1 have been regarded by tee community as a singular lunatic D ivtd wrote a letter to dob. to sec thatjdrloh who was ao anxious for fight Bhou'd'&sve hi* fill, and to place him in front where bo could not escape and then leave him to take the city alone, or be taken.

And Job carried out the order, and Uriah was slam much to the delight of God's own man. n u wife, of coarse, felt desperste from several causes, until Divid went and "fetched her to hla bouse," telling bar they were each other-! soul males, and ifililtios, and they would now conform lo the law, and the might bo Ihe chief wife of hla hatem,

Ood becatae dirptcoocJ with Divid and killed the baby, after which ho was perfectly

.stlisfied and tho m xt proUTrct-of this criminal union, originating in treachery and lust, and bsptiibd with blood, was Bolomon whom the "Lord loved.” We cannot discern why, un leu for hi* lechery. H id ho lived at tee ''teScntday he won d have been a minister of -

e gospel, for he had the emotional ti

mostly, about h!s mistresses, of whom he kept about seven hundred, more or leu,

t h o u g h t *. *The shepherd is supposed lo guard the sheep,

hut ministerial shepherds believe they carry God’s commission In their pockets authorising them to devour the lambsl

If Jesus Christ ws* tbs Bun of God by the Virgin THory, what relstion w*s he to God’s wife?

.Wo have attentively extmlnod some dcaea slate prlaoa reports and do not find a single BpirUnallat rep rted within Ibslr walls, but we do find s large nnmber of clergymen, greater In proportion to their cl u* than any other profusion or i-ccupstlon, and not a tittle re ceive their desert*. *

Hrllgion is the Little Boy’s fcaf tbot-teo Big Buy will thrash him.

AH church cimmunlcants are cannlbals;-

and Aalsh by drinking h

youth and commencing her Jmxns the checkered sphere of womsnhotte. dew-spsrkte and morning glory to hi buoyant spirit, as she puses forw In hllssrol anticipations. But t heat of ths c inflict of Ufa creeps o i ; U drops exhale; Ihe garland* of nop*,- st end di-ad. strew tee path; and loo oft—, noontide, tee clear brow and sweet smile d tick angel for ths wtery look of oeelo— “ for ths evening rest, the twilight, the nig

74 REUGIC RH1BOSOPHIO.A1. JOBTRNAX MAY 23, 1876

(^aiv, a n i l tb o P l a n o l S a l ta t io n . ^

When we look Iota the heaven*, and tec the ita n H t In their order; when we behold the planetar; world*. and observe the order In which they perform their axial and orbital m > Horn, tome of them attended by their mooni, at lantern* to guide Jftetn In their Irackleat way, ever revolving around them like faithful attendant*; and the confeta, strange wander er* through tbo score, a* they move In regular order to and from the tun, and the tun ittelf, king Of day, ritlog In the catt, mounting to the zenith and retiring in the weat until the horizon ihuti It* eye-'npon It; the moon, fair queen of night, wading through itarlight and blhe, in an ecstasy we are ledtotxclalm. Order [yumeates them all.

When wo descend from our celectiaKsoar- Inga, tilled with awe and wonder, and view the earth, we And order there alto. Wo see variety, which, when classified, still reveals order. We behold the high snowcapped mountains, the deep, verdant valley* and fer tile plains, tho, 1*11, towering pines and cedars, the tiny aplrea of great, with the modest little dowreta nettling closely by ifaelr tide* T wide, deep ocean, with Its tldla In regular

the

flU-U, Imw f vlvW V* “ a*— --ea chanting in deep batso tone* the ribtfii- ■ of those who ilycp In Its cmbrscc. | We the broad rivers, bearing upon their botomi

__ Inladd commerce of the world, aa- lheyflow orderly and nolteleaaly toward* the sea We *ee the porting brooke as they da*h over their n»bbly bottom*, a* If In haste |o add their parts to tho music of the spheres. We view the placid lake* aa If they were seas of

-flfass. reflecting the sun, moon and stars, aa .they In their order p reunt themselves before them to receive the image of their-glory. We And the gurgling epilogs, bidden In aomdfcool, ahady nook, voicing forth the melody of na ture, and invitiifg the thirsty ones, from the wild, timid gazelle, and bright-eyod Indian maiden, to the fair-faced sons and daughters of clvllizitioo, with their ffucks and herds, to drink their pure, life giving waters. In the beat of anmmer. or the froata of winter, they offer their cups of nectar, fresh from the breast of nature, to give renewed strength. to the wearied traveler, or cool the parched tongue, of fever. When we look at tho mountaina, acaa, lakes and rivera. or even the unpreten tious spring* and spire* of grass, we behold order revealed In them all; they each have their bound!, and each performs its part lb ful- Alling the purpoao for which it war designed. When we leave tho contemplation of the heavens, and casting onr eye* uver the earth, not the least of all the objects which atrike our tight la man, said to be the crowning point, the apex of the pyramid of all things which have bees evolved from the Dlvlno mind. When we look at him, we perceive order ap piles to him also, so perfect la he in all hi* in tricate mechanism. Every part of hla physl cal frame 1* to perfectly adapted to the pur pose for which It teem* to have been Intended. The bones requiring strength are 'round and

____ , ____ from harm; thestomach and Ha viscera, as the fire-box, to keep the whole engine of life In motion by. selecting and diffusing beat and strength to all o f' the wearied nerves and worn-out corpuscles of the whole machinery of the hours we live in. When we look at o u b all hla organiam, and aludVlhe lnlricaerta of'Vhls physical frame, the delicate nerves of tho eye and ear, the mus cles upon which tho heart Is hung, we are prouo to eay with Iarmel's aweet lingers, " Man Is fearfully and wonderfully made.

Whan we survey the heavens, the earth, and all which appertains to them, even ap to man. we And a rale of order manifested in them all.

_______ .__term, w# And that word ..law. Law, asya onr legal lexicon, la a rule of order. The earth, tho aky, aye, all the upl-

H J a it* multiform manifestations, repeals the fact that one common law govern* hole. We are taught to believo that this

la true; but at the same lime wo are asked to believe that this law la God's law. Thla '

that it/bslongi_______ . _________________us, or the balance of existences In thla vast universe* Did be make Ilf We bavb been taught that he did. When, In fact, la not the law m necessary to hi* existence aa be la to itf Did ho not need the law aa a mean* by which he could work! If *o, did not the law exlit before he cauld do a ny th ing and of necessity' has It not existed commensurate with himself! We may be asked. Who did make the law, If he did notf If pressed too hard for an answer, we should, retort by asking the question the child asked it* mother, which never baa' nor ever can be answered,.viz.. Who made God ! Aa we see the necessity of 'an. enlvcraal law by which to manifest an universal Intelligence, wo era compelled to admit that tho one 1* co existent with the other, and each Is of neceasiexistent wil q toe o ner, ana eacn is or necesst ty self existent And because we; In our Aalto comprehension, are not capacitated to grasp the fact or self-existence, we need not Ignore the one nor deny the power of the other. God exist*, and the taw reveals to ns the feci, or at laaet nil that we are capable of comprehend idg of the fac t Beyond, this, we are com- polled .to take the universe in all thing* u It Is, and make the J>e*t off it. Human reason-------- ---- ------------- ' ■* thought or fac t

it wo know,, and to ns by a law ap

pertaining to each Item of knowledge acquired. And aa It La, what we don't know would, If published, make a much larger volume than what we do, and yet we some of us think our selves, wondrous wise' The Uw la a revelator, and every day of onr1

lives w ears tho subject* of tit* ministration*, and it preaches tons plain, unvarnished truths, truths w* only need to be rtminded of tp ad- te l ta t once, and that, too, without argument It* revelation* are axiom*, and are so plain that they, who run may read. I t la simple, so (bnplettnat children, and even the lower crea ture* In the realm below man. can and do un- twdentaud it, when.they, by instinct or reason hare received it* Ustracilons by thsexperience of their m sk i . It 1* p e rfe c t ' We can not by any cou th of reaaon discover In one point W hen, a* a tWhifle, applying to the whole. It might have been or be Improved. I t 1* omnipotent, adapting lue lt with the same power and foroo to the grain of sand a* to the earth ltaelf; ae necessarily present In the o ls as la Use other (or their main usance: aa vial ble la the structure of the hillock * | la the mountain; aa prasant la the brooklet ea la the river; aa tangible In the Utile 0 jwret under our feet ■ la the giant oak; king of the forest tree*-, *a really present in the dew drop, which reSscle the arinUllatlog ray* of the rising ran,

- ‘-My ocean, whose water* reflecta* la lb* mighty oc the starlight, theglare. There la no thing or plaoe ao small aa

to be below Its power; nothing so stupendous, oven to the unlvcrH itHlf, hat that It per meates It; It la ubiquitous; in It there'll no rtableneaa or even shadow of turning. In ... simplicity, uncbaogeablentss and universality, it la Infinite, yet it reveals to onr comprehen sion all that I»,nccc*s*/y for os to know, aa ap plicable to ouiHlvee, for our good in *’■-

perfection.,_______________ ,law, u It discloses Itself to u y there la no mercy. It 1* strictly Just. This-may be trary to our creed*, and opposed to our f founded upon these creed*, but n tt any

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it false Interpretation*of the law! Let ns sup pose s simple case for Illustration;. The law by which (all falling bodies gravitate toward* the center of the earth is scientifically true. It U one of the revelation* of the law! Ia there any mere* In thla law! Instance: We may h o a scaffold ten feet high, upon which " brick tottering to fall; 'directly* under may soc anjpoucenl, poverty stricken * , , cant In thaihrm of a curly-haired, fair-faced child, with. Its bright eye* dimmed with tears, pleading with all passert by for bn* one penny with which* to alleviate tjm su tiering of a weak and dying mother, to a id a little comfort to tbo remnant of her life. Ia there pity in the law! TbeKsfl,)ld, Jostled h,- the wind, looions the brick and it falls, true to a perfect law, In

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crushes In an Instant. There is n this law, nor la this anexception, as wo may learn by experience If by no other means, lo all and every manifestation of law, aa wo may observe In certain result* And the more we investigate, the belter satisfied we shall be that tho law 1* Impartially Ju»L

Again, we have been taught that we can break the law. flow It Is poaslbla for flnllfe being* to pliwe themselves by soy act in r ich a relation lo an In Anile law as to utterly slop it, or even turn it out of Its c o u t h , we never bavo been told, nor can wo comprehend, hence wo do not believe It poeslbl«-for us to break It, Wo will suppovo, for Instance, that It ha* been coming on and on in parallel! from the vista

bead* against one of there wall*, break the wall or doe* It crush our beads? Wo' know by experience and obrervallon tbal every Uw of our being la as Arm and unshaken in Its purpose and intention, aye, m orn to, than " walls, and that when we would break

___, repetition of the trial to break it, It stillreveals to ni ltg Irrevocable consequences. It vlstta all transgressor* alike, Is Jnai; and If we study to, and comprehend this, wo shall bo made happy in tho knowledge it will give us,that lo whatever we do wo may b e ------* “ ***

* will ‘result, and o W 1 depend upon

negcr-taught us thus, but to tbo contrary. Well, which Is true! We may think we can forgive, but the law hold* us accountable It nover forgivea, and if wo mako an application of it lo our Individual acta, we* will fled it more invincibly potent in its claims than tho most popular creed* What Is forgiveness! It ta, say the creed*, that our aim she!) be re membered against us no more loraver Well, then, can wo forgive or bo forgiven! We may believo that we c a n ; '^ 1 can rref We*may malign your character or barely falsify your name. When we discover the enormity of t£e wrong we have done you, we may repent, and In deep contrition of souj. with unfeigned penitence ask your pardon. You, seeing our deep distress, may extend to us your hand, and from o.ur creedal point of education yon may. say, and we may believe that we are forgiven. But are we! I* our sin remembered against ns no more! The law says no, for It days, week*, months or yeaia hence we but trespass upon yunr good name In a very trivial degree, this last small act of wrong 1* greatly magni fied In Jour mind by the remembrance of our first transgression. Hence we are not forgiven. You have taken ui upon trust, and aa soon ns we violate the trust, we stand In yonr estima tion Just where, fir perhaps below, where we did before the first i tlcnsc We are no t for given. -Onr alii 1* remembered. We are not saved from the consequences. Wc may in **“ * well as in other thiogs, observe that

■* and tflccl ia perfect, un-the lav change------heart* would forgive, __________ _______ __*»y* wo can not. Wo have learned thla truth,------ do all thing* appertaining to the law, by

rperfence* We are forced to acknowl edge It, notwithstanding It crosses the path of our creedareducnlion. The law 1* contradic tory too, and existed before man made the cfccds by wfetch be hoped lo escape It* conre- quences The creed* may ipeak, but the law peremptorily call* them false teachers, and demonstrates it* right to do *o by It* revela tions to onr senses and It appeaUqo onr rea son, and we feel Intuitively that it la just and tiuo. A belief In tho creeds can not tavc u* from iUcoSCqueioe*, when-violated, nor with hold It* bleating* when It I* obeyed; and thus

.the conviction come* lo osthattf we*are saved, onr Salvation 1* not tTy the creed* *

We have been taught that the law applies to - physical, and al*o to our moral nature*. * we believe, and yet the law, a* applied to pby*ie*l**nd moral universe, seem a lo be

Intarblended that It requires an almost -in finite mind lo dlioent wherein the distinction

.exist* In the general application of the law, >v* physical act* seem to be so prompted by

moral direction that we are compelled to n isolated Instances in order to show the

to which we refer, when we «id moral. When we

i»w, wo mean to be understood a .. .the law aa appertaining to the outward man and the material universe at large. When we take this view of It, we learn, our experiencenvoea. It ... I V. * t t# — .U l . l . iLw _t__ t_I

Thla w

WEin we aay f physical

The law says that If / o < *------ J it toshes i

„ sink inshall drown, am( ft mako* no difference, *o *.......... positive tfieci upon us la concerned,isr as me positive t ile d upon us i* conccrncu, whether we fall In, or tome powerful men bind and thrust u* In, or that we voluntarily throw ourselves io ta the water, the result will be the tame in cither care—death. Wo may sosstand log upon a table before us two goolel* Oiled with water, one of which I* strongly im pregnated with arsenic. Wo are very thirsty. Wnat aay* the law! What ha* tt revealed to u i If wo would quench our thirst! Take water, pure water, provided for u i In nature'* great laboratory.*’ It comes to u* from tho cloud* It hang* In crystal drop* oi leaves of the tree*, shimmering the suullg early morning. We may dtpU from the bL the river and the lake-^W o vmay *lp It from the cool spring, or from tbS \"O id Oaken Bucket," a* poised on the curb,'It inclines to onr lips. The life-giving, health-inspiring water will paint the bluah of the peach on our checks, and the’ lips with the rose tint of health. Clear water, says the law, will quench our thirst We lift the our lip* andquaff nntll onr thirst I* satista# But what* If In Ignorance of- Its content* we drink tho solu tion of arienlc! Wbat then uy* the law! Pol* on. What of all potaon*! Death. And doc* it change the effect* In the least that wo take the cup by mistake, or, If intending to accept Its results, wo willfully and knowingly swal low Ua contents! Well, when we have taken the poison, what then! Du we resort to prayer.

la simply ai that prayer

be said, Du you not hellcvn In prayer! assuredly we do We believe prayer is the soar* sincere desire, and that the fervent, ef fectual prayer of a righteous man availcth much. Yet we believe the soul's sincere de sire may be made more righteously effectual by kind deeds of charily than by the honied words of an empty-handed lip service. When

chaqge it to suit our can , or alter tho effect of a single cause. If we would pray for our eno-v mins, and make them our friends, wo can best

they in their creedal bltndness suppoK to be possible. Hone of them would be so foolish

to expect that tho water* of the NiagaraWould bo made to run tbo other way over tho

‘ heir praj

might h o that it I* just- as reasonable

rocks by thelr praying to have It • done, v*ndyet If they I stop and consider' they

peel it. Ooil would answer the prayer Just as soon u lo change any law of the simplest- lm- -portanco by his belDg asked lo do ao by them. The law, physical and mural, Is perfect and

haogcabfo, and no petition of human lips change it, and when wo listen to the teach

ings of our better Judgment, wo do know It; — la It subject to the caprice or caterings oi

i mtdo creeds or dogmas. If- we pray we may soften onr own fcellnga, and prepare nnr- nlves the more resignedly to receive the just retribution of violated Uw. - But it would be as unjust so it is impossible for God lo change tho Uw at our request, to suit our Iloilo no tions of | mt Ice.

1‘y cu aU I In flu en c e* .

Mu 8 B J o n h :—In your piper fur Janu- . y31 . I find the followio^stalcment from the pen of T. B Taylor, M D :

“ At Csrbondale I found the most wonderful e of t’sycbologi

Hinchellfl-a pbvl____________ __Eight Mile Point, was shot by some Christian (!) Bushwhackers, riddling Ills body with six teen buckshot - His horse also fell dead in fals track. This was In broad daylight, about 300 yard* from bis own houre. The blackened

waa the Ar*t lo reach her murdered husband, and found his arm broken above and bel->w the elbow, bl* neck broken and six or eight ballet bole* In his breast. A short time after ward* Mrs II. gave birth lo twins, both of which,were dead; and one of which bore all marks Of the mnfdercd father; six bullet holes In its breast, arm and neck broken aa waa the father’*. These facts I obtained from the mother, the nurse, and the Doctor In attend- — 1 Now will some of our wise ones

Mr. Taylor clotet by saying, "Now will _jmeof our w in ones explain thlic***!" 8o I •ay. Here 1* something for the w in one*

the reenlt or conuqnenoee will be the same, - far a* our physical being or bodily harm- IV

..accrued. No creed cut, or pretends to reg-v ulale the Uw la this res {Act. The creeds mako no pretensions In the physical Sold. They have Uarned better. Butin the poral field, where they can act upon our fears and super stitions, they cUlm absolute sway. If they w en to m ake. their present pretensions to guide, In the field of physical law, they wonld be met at tho turn of every comer, and becon- rlcted of open-faced egotism and de&ptlon. Ueuoe, considering discretion the better part of valor, they gracefully retire behind their i l f made pyramid o t musty, old, tmlhlete

iyth* and fable* to practice upon onr super stitions credulity.

wUhed . . .solve such case* 1 will add a few cases corresponding exactly with the otra related by Mr. Taylor. While I l i* d in the Btatc of

tlsslssippi, Gen. Thomas Falconer, who waa. believe, president of tbo Constitutional Con- enllon, reared a nice young mao; an- orphan

.oy. At lho|propor ago he married, Bsthc six' or eight months after tbo ceremony, the young matPand his wife went to a lagoon In a river- awamp, tq fish with a hook and line. The young maftdook his rills with him, and while there she discovered a large alligator under a

' ited it oat to.her husband. In an__________alligator received-a rifle bulletsquare' through Ua body, just behind hi* fore leg. Tho blood spouted from tho ballet hole, and the animal struggled and rolled around at a terrible rate, tho blood running freely all the time. The young wife waa badly frle^htaned^

________________ __________________ fol lowed, and on examining the child, It waa found t ) harft) a bullet-hole through Its body------------------------- ------------- -— -------- lahot.

ml the year 1848'

A few years after the above c an happened, rule I lived In Clark Co., Mis*, one of my

.ear neighbor*, John Green, had a daughter who married a man by the name of James Ilehni* About * year after they were mar ried, the raccoons commenced eating Hennla’ roasllng-can, and b* got my brother, 0 . W. Gardner, toact a stod-uap for them. When Ilennls went to examine the trap his wife aald, " I t there Is one fir'll, yon matt fetch It to the house, for I novsr saw a live on*” My broth er and Hennla did drag a lira raccoon to the hooH In the-trap, fit compliance with her re quest. caught about mid way of one of lu hind feet Mr*. Hennla came out and looked at the animal, law It gnaw and tear lu foot with Ita own teeth; u w my brother amaah 1U head with a heavy piece of board, then take hU knife and split lu body open from the end of l u breast bone down between 1U hind lege, to h o If It was fat Mr* Hennla, In a fainting oondllton. went back into the house. Borne five months after this, Mr* UennU gave birth- to ach ild ; 1U skull bona waa In H venl pieces; the whole head fall soft aa U It had been

smashed, and it had eyes exactly like k rac coon; it* body was split open from the pH of the stomach past the extremity of the abdo men. One of iu feet had tho *car of Iho steel-

everybody, this unfortunate creature lived six months and then died. Its mother was the *iatcr of the Itov. Wm. Green, a B*p!l*l mini* ter, who now lives and preaches In Barry, IB. There are now Hvcral living witnesses to tho esse above related.

Perhaps anclt men u Dr. Richardson, of tho ' faculty of New Orleans, could thrownedical fa

lomc lists____ . earnestly hope that tome one capableof fnrniahlng |lght loan enxlona world, will glvcjjs bl* thoughts on the aubloct.

AMOT1IKH KXSUrtJt.A woman run* to her husband, some 800

yard* distant and she soc* six or eight (hot- hole* In bl* de*d body. The tame wound* on her husband are found upon one of her ofl •prings Why w u not the same wound* on both the children! Why were they not In Jured tllker l e an t tell. W ill tome one tell me! The eye of the mother Bees a bullet-hole in the alligator, or In tho dead man'* body the eye throw* tbo force upon the mind of tbo mother, and oreates bullet holce through her offspring. Wbat a force there must bo in mind! What a mystery,—klllr tbo offspring instantly,'bat leaves the mother alive. Hush about the mystery of the Bible am! Modern Bplrlluallsm till wo scientifically solve the cause of the above.

The Lord cutting a rib out of Adam's side and making a woman therefrom la no more remarkable Elijah going lo heaven In a chariot of fins, hardly excels It, knowing that men now oavlgato the air in a balloon, wo should allow the Creator of heaven and earth to Kud down one lo tako up Elijah.

Jonah boiog swallowed by the great 11 lb that the Lard prepared, does not overreach tlio mya lery w e'are explaining In thocasoof Jonah tho Lord prepared a gr- at flab, (not a whalt) with capacity sufficient to carry Jonah. Per haps there was never such a flsh since or be fore, lilted and pr<pirefi to-'make a safe eon veyanco for him as a messenger lo Nineveh; It took thla great Ash tim e days and three nlghu to land Its occupant at tbo place ap pointed. Suppose this great Ash lo have trav eled at the rate of sixteen miles per hour, he would bsvh traveled 1153 mile*. Pretty good swimming for a Ash In three days and three nights. Rnt what Is that compared to the tele graph and the great Atlantic cable, which car ric* a message from London, England, to Ban Francisco, California, In less than live minute*, a distance of more than 11,000 mile* Talk about Blblo mysteries, when wo havoconstant ly before our eyes, mysteries that eolipH. If possible, all those that are related in the Bible.

Thu balloon, the photograph, tho telegraph with the Atlantic -able, and the cans that arc rolitad of children being destroyed, as herein before stated, -all tb eu things are now pres ent with u* Wo do not think of them as wo should, or we wonld not bo no ready to sniff up our philosophical notes at the miracle* that “ c related In tho scriptures.

In conclusion let me repeat, I do most sin cerely Join with Mr. Taylor, in hoping that some of our scientific men of Chicago, Phila delphia, or Now Orleane, will give its some light, if possible, through the llxuoio Pruno uoruicAL J o u r n a l on tbeso case* uf Psychol ogy, using as few mysterious technicalities as poeslble.

In the case of the twins, I would; ask this luts’-ion, Why was nol both of the children Found with kfioV holes In the breast, arms and neck broken! In tbc case of the alligator, why waa not a bullet hole found in the heart or brain e f the mother, aa well aa her off spring? And In the esse .of the rsccoon, how came the mother to escape nniojured, wljllo tho offspring ao severely auflered!

M Ga h o n x hMcDtdc, Text*

B. B- J o k e s :—Aa the world did nut come to an end April ID;b as expected, I am spared to make another report of my labor* In Spiritual ism. I now report for March and April. I have visited during Abe two mootCharles, Elgin, Pleasant Grove, Kyota, ...... -nil, Mlnnelik, llomqr. Hokah, Husbford, Wy-Charles, Ergin, Pleasant Grove. Kyota, Wino na. Mlnnelik, Homey, lloka'b, Husbford, Wy- koff. Hpringvalley, Etna, York, L tR iy, Aus- “ ~l. Rose Creek and Lyle, giving 4M all tblrty-

(bt lecture* Have added twelve new names ... the books aa members of the Association. One brother go; dissatisfied and withdrew frflm tho aocloty. If ho can enjoy himself better out of the Association than In, he has

perfect rl(?ht to go, and I say, Joy go with

ly dues_____ . ____ ___ ircumstance* all in all, March and April have been rather against u*fin*nclally. At almoitevery point aloDg the Winona and BL Peter It I I , scarlet fever was raging, so much so that It waa almost impossible to get out an audience. April brought Ha mud and high water tl|»t Interfered with travel, especial I r along the line of the Southern Minnesota It R Taking all of the obstacles.Into consideration, wo have had to contend with, we can n j it Is almost a sucre?* Nerve 1* a splendid thing to repair R I t with, or pilot one along through Minne sota mud. It l*good In law, good In religion,

................................ fi> the f--------------------------and'a iplendld thing to have & a invesffga-

The song hire_______________„ _________melodious song* The farmer 1* busily en gaged In putting In hi* grain, and the gen uine Spiritualist 1* ever working for the tip building of the cause, that prove that beyond e doubt, the soul live* in a conscious commu nicative stale of being, oven after Ita worn- out body has been placed In the cold,, cold grave, thus bringing Joy and sunshine to . the mourning ones of e»nh

The above la respectfully submitted to the Spiritualists of Minnesota.

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1* ITbte cca: p tcripbltt t* • lire eebstancc of a

paper read before Ihe Lrolevillo Library A* •oflatton," and while It laments the defective- ti<x\ o f nsthetic culture in America, It points out tho obvious reasons aud the means of at lalntng a higher and more correct lasio. As yet there Is too much rough work to do to al low our people time and means for Ihe culluro of high art- The money getter* arc the con- Uttering heroes of lac sgo. * They lavish their gains on houses, which arc eye sores: dresses that are illustrations of crude and vulgar taste, machine made furtnlure, and coarse chrumos and daubs- As religion has al ways nourished the fine arts, the author sots Ihe now era In American (fit he lie culture, as the outgrowth of a higher, pufqr religious and •ocisj llfo,

PEOPLE FKI1M THE xifHEH WORLD U,

It Is profusely Illustrated, with sketches the Eddy homestead, its rooms, portrails of the mediums, and of the various "malcriall- zalions," as they appear, and mechanically jp everything to be desired, <1

As ICwii^ known, Mr. Olcott was comims sinned by thh N Y Oni/Aif t» visit the Eddy* si their home In Cbitlendon. V l, and rcporL the strange t ccurrcnccs said there to he taking place. His letters created considerable inter est, and drew attention from quarters where It- was least anticipated ..These articles are the basis of the present book, which gives only a brief space to tho "Holmeses,” and the "Comp ton Transfiguration " '

Mr. Olcott says In his preface, "T his work was not written from the Spiritualistic stand point . " I t aims neither to display the trained shrewdness of the Juggler, the profund ity of the scientific investigator, nor the acute nets of the p dice detective; but to rctlect the careful and patient method of tho average layman, whose sole object is to get at the facts, that he may have the means of forming su opinion for himself upon matters for which be finds no explanation at Ihe usual sources of knowledge." (I X I

" Olcor--------i believer f i the begin- o foil.nlng, and be only says adverse thing* s

or to cast adpitsilonr. Into bolder relief. The Eddy* tfiay ho -all that he claims, sml ilvery manifestation no absolutely as aei forth. Of This we neither stllrm nor deny. Wo could not wisely until wo bad ourselves Investigated them, Yet he must not bo ofieuded st "Helen- lists ” If they fail to accept his slstetncnls, ns they assuredly will, because they are nol sur rounded with the proper safeguards to prevent Imposition.

It Is said of spirit manifestations that they canto to mceladctdan-l for positive knowledge. If so then thoyTnust be given in a positive form. Mr. Olcolt's legaLand literary training

lalifles him for scientific Investigation He fanliy sneers at tho scientist, and gs con

dirqualiconsianstanlly Invokes his assistance.

Ip bis capacity as " reporter,'' ho narrates what he saw and beard He la allowed

repay tho enoer of the author with a smile at his attempts to Institute crucial tests. In stead of adhering to his plan of -recording what be sect and heart, he launches Into the broadest s^a of disputation, and one Is made to feel coustantly that our advocate Is main taining his point at sJI hazards, and giving his client every advantage: Had the E-Idyt sought the world over for some one to "/vn to up" their manifestations, they could not have been served belter. Uls method Is the antipode of the scientific, and strongly contrasts with tho experiments of ITof. Orookea

The Eddys reside in ■ locality which has not felt In avmtiked degree the Inllucnce of modern thought. Thcii neighbors are hard, bigoted rcllgionlsli, who regard tho tpIrllMl manifestations as of the deviL The family of five children inherit tbolr wonderful medium- ship from their mother. The first hundred pages of the book Is devoted to their early ex periences, sud depends, it appears, on their word, Mr. Olcott writing down and embellish-

^ajiog ghostly reading, bat the author peed not be told proves nothing.

He it received In a spirit far from friendly. The EJdys are nol a polite family. Their father was t rough, cruel ehurchmember, who attempted to whip tho deviJ out of his chil dren and family, hired them to traveling show men, and they were abused by Investigating committees and mobbed by unbelieving towns men, until they have become suspicious and churlish. Seven or eight years ago they gavo exhibitions exposing " th e commoner tricks of mediums; themselves Included " (p. SOjV'Thu* oheatod the public with a sham expdeure,” ssys Olcott, granting which, their word-la un reliable, and anything not absolutely proven conoccte4,with them Is of no value. Mr, Ol cott soemp to think otherwfse, and pnU all they tall him Into -evidence to curry favor for bis esse hoforo he presents It.

. The e lide room, which has been remodeled for the purpose. Is 871 (eel bv 17. Across the end runs a platform 0 feet 7 inches wide and 33i inches high, along the front edge of which rues a railing St 'eel high, wbjoh Is -much In the way of vislun and bitterly complained of. The kitchen chimney comes ?t> a t the back of, this platform, and forms orfe side or the cabi net, which Is made by partitioning oQ the cor ner from It to the side wall.

In front, 12 feet » inches, ft the first raw of teats, and nearly at the other end of the long hall is the kerosene lamp, SO feet 6 Inches from the cabinet (seo p. 117> "T he light In tho room Is to very bed—about as strong as that In the parlor, when we sit before the dying em bers Vlwlxt the s lo t min' and the mirk,’ before' the lamps were lighted—that It la Impoastble to see the features of Honto, etc." (p. 139). Again, " The light hat been dim—very dim— and I have nol been able to recognlxk the fea

how positive Mr. Olcott U of w htt hei-----------bow gratuitously he berate* the scientist* who refuse to accept bit testimony I I t 1* also re markable bow tba artist was able to so clearly

' - t Ilona.”

dlfierent " material1 r.silon«” to vary .from .1 feet .1 inc'.i-s to U feet 21 Inches, and the weight* u iv try from hh to -is pound* Tee " materialization was at one time so perfect that Mrs Cleveland, an old lady of the E Idy circle, cut i tl e lock of Honto"* hair which wm preserved! This may be regarded as a crucial test, but it proves entirely too much.

Of the Eddy’* Mr. Olcott says: " But It iaa waste of worda to talk lo them about Ihelr reputation as mediums, their duties to the public, or their treatment of visitors. Their reply Is that the house Is their home, they invito none to come.” ,. and "as to their rep utallons, they profess to care nothing for what ts said of them, good, bad, or inditler

strange f a r " ------- ‘_____ r s tjr e a t____ _-

most desirous of befriending them " (p

• Ho far from the importance of my labor being recognized, and all reasonable futilities • Horded, 1 was constantly held at a dpar.ee, •" though 1 were an enemy Instead of — —

cited dtfi nso of their character before the public, Ihe idea apparently never crossed Ihelr

*• I nertr Aid </ ;<rir-if* aro/uv iimlrr Utt rawli ttom anil a •!■ r u almplo not crucial t«-»t‘, re I) ■ ir-g in nowise upon the honor of tne me- ilium*, but calculated to place them in an bon orablo light, ami satisfy tho most doubting skeptic of tbc genuineness of the phenomena, were not even mentioned by me, for fear that 1 might gel my dlsinlasal before my work was

-Again of ‘ Msyllower," of tho dark circle: "I have no conclusive evidence to oiler a

srUnlilic Investigator that ahe ever spoke a word, or drew a breath, or look a step; aud if my reason could be -aatbfied upon certain points, I would be ready to adroit that every feature of these dark circles may be a.trlckY

There are /it* of the Eddys, but only twt> are conspicuous; Wllli*t|l for " materlalira- lions," and Horatio for the dark circles TAp manifestations In theae nroVjUlto distinct. I

Mr. Olcott Is assured that'-tnere are BN,-ton federates; that the Eddys ofproducing the insiitfcstiUiopa^tCitrdo not; that the phenomena are *prttnal in origin, which ho believed In the beginning He investigated IhWilVipct fpr twoynonlha, slaying w..h thA family Md-JUnoklngcfie peace " pipe " lu their kite hen, gathering up a store of traditionary lore which ho has Introduced Into hla book with such odd tHeel that it often requires a second reading to delect the observed from the hearsay. .

Mr, Olcott IsVnmigb of a lawyer to know that as evidence all thM hearsay would be

./uled out, and after the characteHip ha* given the family, anything else, but what he abso lutely proves Once he sought to predeter mine the conditions by placing a tumbler over a table bell placed on the tambourine. Bui ho was not allowed to hold tbc tambourine. H'm A'./Jy held It. After the light* were turned down, tho bell was faintly struck twice or more. Mr. Olcott remarks:

"T his inconclusive result of what should havo'becn an Interesting .experiment, is of a piece with many thing* Ihfct happened to mo lu tho course of my long and wearisome lave* tl nation at the Eddy house " (p. 1M7)

It would be unjust to criticise Mr. Olcott'* deficiency in thoroughness, for be was not al lowed tho opportunity. He was kept at a re spec lint distance by tho constant threat of ex- pulsion, and the boorlahneas of tbe Eddys. He will say In bl* preface:

" What a waste of golden ifpptftunlly the unfriendly behavior of the Eddy boys ha*

Had they frankly allowed blot to Institute the teat* Prof. Crookes demanded of tbe medl- urns through whom he Investigated, tbe whole matter would have been forever set at rest. There wmild have been neither room nor need of argumSntatlon. Their claims would have been irahitantlatcd beyond dispute, or proven fal»o. This was not allowed, and hence aU. that wi* permitted to Mr Olcott was M peer around a* best ho might for any appearance of deception, and sit in hia'seatand witness what ever might bo presented

Much a* Prof. Crookes I* lauded by Mr. Ol- - cott, and honored as he Is with tbe dedication of this book, we are assured that bo would not have regained more than a single evening, thus bound band and foot. He would have said, "T he condition! must be such a* to make deception Impossible or 1 will not waste my time." Hr. Olcott I* of diScrent temperament. Ue could not obtain what bo desired In tbe manner ho desired, hence accepted what was allowed-him In It* own lime and manner. *

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erary production We rejoice in every _ tf ijr t which tend* lo enlarge and ennoble the, sphere of Spiritualism. But every attempt which claims more than It perform*, weakens that cause and brings it discredit. Tbe Eddys may be and perhaps are genuine mediums, and all that Mr. Olcott narrates may be true. No one would more Joy folly receive'such assur- anpatkap ourselves. This Is nql how the ques tion. ''The " manifestations" are so far be yond tbe received opinions and belief* they mast-be supported by rigid demonstration. This we claim Mr. Olcott has not given, as he himself .admits. t

After completing bis task with the Eddys, Mr. Olcott s u Invited to Investigste the me dlumshlp of tbe Holmeses, who bad recently‘----*--------J ’ " “ in and Dr. Child.

every'rrqnlred lest,___________ r _________ a marked contrastwith the Eddys, who submitted to none, and as she was accused of fraud, they were of tbe moat stringent character, and tho manifesta tions occurred unimpeded. The experiments with her have a far higher scientific value than all those with the Eddys. "-Yet Mr. O lcott1* not content loYecord In perimont*. which amout He forgets that whst we now want to di and hold the attention of skeptic*, is ftcH, devotes the greater portion of his p

K'ea for his new client. I t would be a court of lark, bat quite out of

lu connection. Ha Attempt* to bre__Mr. Owen's testimony and Dr. Child's, ^spe cially tbe Utter's, by special pleading.

He Introduces a likeness of "Mr*. W hite" and of " Kalla King," to show Uist thoy codld not possibly be the same If tba engraving* are correct they prove the very reverse o f what |>e lntendsAhdy should. Their position Is different, but otherwise they are tbe same. Yet Mr. Olcott ssys after alj the evidence:

" I confess that 1- am Completely unable to decide whether there ever was anCh a thing ** a false person*'I'ro of the spirit at silt", and “ nothing but a futl confession by tbe Holmeses to the fact, backtd Vy wrrt^orMitt. proof, will throw light upon the foggy subject"—Ip. 450).

We confess that er.a can not uadsntand why the Holmeses themselves, could not be believ ed, without "cArroborstivb proof I"

The 'short chapter devoted to the' "Compton Transfiguration, U the most "scientific." and wonderful In the book, and the wllllngdea* with which thU lady enbmlUed «o all tesU de manded, and Ut* vigor of ihoetffceete U In marked contrast to the surly Insolence of tba

l‘. Myv The chapter Is only loo brief, for it opens up a boundless Held for research nn-1 speculation

As very few desire the purely scientific meth od of treatment, and the many sre better pleated with the literary, " /Vyyifs I ova Dttrr ItVrhf" la anro of a vast audience Ailde fiom in* crlt-clsms wo have made, it has great value, and will awaken attention and gain a hearing in quarters where no other book on It* subject has found admission.

While It 1* not all tho scientific investigator demands, yet to tho Hplrituallst, already con vlnced of the truthfulness and source of the manifestations, It-is fully acceptable, for he is assured of Its probability, aud If its statements arc out proven, he has already established those of parallel character. Ue will read

their facts, but an appeal to hls Intuitional con sciousness, and in thus presenting his subject, the author ba* a rare faculty, lie la blmse'f convinced by this method, and so (Boroughly saturate* his pages with his spirit, his reader* are convinced by tbe aamc

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The Christian religion it to a great e ilffit rounded on tbe miracles of tbe Bible, and they. In all loalaocea, bare Ignorance for a superstructure, espiclally when their-cause Li ascribed to the direct intervention of God. Tbo doctrine ii rap|dly gaining ground, not only among aclontiaU, but in the churches, that Odd only works by law, and that be days not take cognizrnco of (bo various acl« of hu manity, in the same manner (bat one person al being observe* another; neither doea be manifest bis tender care for those called bis children, by the same method that a mother doc* toward! her child.' lie never lifted eu a il out of a pit in which it had unfortunately fallen, *ml he Dover saved an innccent fawn from tbo Jsw* of repaclou* wolves. In tbit

. day *nd age of the w ofli, be Is never known to assist the unfortunate, to wipe tbe tear from the eyes of the bcresvqd monrntr, or lo carry t leg of mutton or s stek-vj t! iwcr to a starving soul. We never beard of his Sending • bushel of grain to tbo famine*stricken re gions of Kansas and Nebraski, or of giving a .cillco dress to-adrSlf «ad washerwoman. We can not point to * single instance where be h si directly taken care of his children, or seeffiod lo bo interested in their behalf, We wonld certainty tike to see a manifestation of his benevolence, tenderness, love and mercy. Wo would not object lo a miracle^—t£be will stop the ann, as ho did in ancient timfcs. or try the economical expedient of feeding the Western praplo with five loaves and ’three

^flfEc*. ho will glvo practic'd evidence of his ' existence, and a Tcry abstruse question will

thereby be settled.But being " In ravor" of God performing a

miracle, will not induce him to do io. Mira- clcftt-howcvcr, have received varioue Interpre- UtlODft. Oicon asserts, " There never was a miracle wrought by God, to convert so Albclet, because the light of nature might have led him to cobfeaa a God; but miracles are deaigu- ed to convert idoiaten. ^pd the superstitious who have acknowledged a I)Ally, but erred in his adoration, Ixctuse no Hghl of nature i-x tend* to declare the will and worahip of God. " The “ light of Nature." to Which llscon al ludes, Is more truthful in its inflections than tbe Bible, and present* to-ua no contradictious . Bplnozs, however, wisely says, “ A miracle •Ignillca any work the u tn ra l c ruses of which we can not explain after the ex unpin of any- tblng'clse to which we are accustomed." The Bib)elite, however, .consider that miracle*are not In accordance with any law of natnre, and, surely, those recorded in the Old and New Testament, if they really had an existence, are

“ hot. Jonah was swallowed by the whale, car ried in- bia stomach- three day* and cighti, and flnaUy vomited forth, is le and rijuud. We can not conjecture, howover, whether the miracle would have been a success or not, If Jonah had acted on the poor whale aa a purg ative, and made hia exit In a diflerenl way: Indeed, we think,. If such had been the cue, that the poor whale would then have had U e cholera morbus or apldlal meningitis, and the probability la that Jq jnh would never have

„*een daylight again.Bat of what doea the miracle In Jonah'*

conalatf Of course, la hi* safe passage to the whale's stomach and in hi* preservation from the ordinary procetae* of digestion, Tbe throat Of the whale being no larger than .that of an la order to aflord a safe passage for Jonah, It must have been enlarged, or else donah de-materlallzid, and thon reformed In the whale'* stomach. Then, of course, being a savory morsel, the gu lric Juice must-have been showered down upon him by tbe digest ive organ* enclosing him, and tho yhale must Juve been astonished at the obetinale refusal of Jonah to digest. T hen la where the m ira cle comet in. W* a n willing to call this re- markable preservation of Jonah, not only a miracle, bat a .very remarkable "fleh sto ry" To th o n who lived 1a Bible time* it was really aa astounding occurrence.

Coming down to modernllmes, wo Had what is considered a miracle happening in the Band- wich Islands. To the ignorant people there it wae really eucb. It appears from tbe Sin Erantieco (Cal.) Call, that Mias Adelaide Miller, the Uawaiiah songstress, was the heroine, or tbe su ij Cl of the miracle. Hbo w*r on ftvvlstt to some mends at Wal ki-ki, ? celebrated

awalcrlng place near Honolj/u, and also' noted ai tbe summer rerkk-LetH of tho Ha waiian Kings. It it a great place for surf- bathing—almost every hour of th,e day during season sboala of dusky figures being visible- bathing among the breaker*. Th? waters near IhelBr-ra are considered **/<* but outside of the jreef are tabooed, on accouuruf the ■bark*, (which abounrt immeuec numbers. Woe id £{i<S daring swimmer who ventures that far. Once beyond the reef ho may as well make h is .^ illjn favor of tbe nearest fish, for bit fa te 'is m certain as the depiction of a friendless toper's exchequer by the voraclou* sharks of a police court,

(lac day Miss Metier was vatoying a surf- bath with a number, of b ' ~ companions. Like most of the islanders, ahu la amphibious, as much at home ip Water at upon land, (wime, in fact, like a fish and has a national reputation as a diver. While so engaged, one girl pro posed they should swim out to tbe reef. Tbe •uggcetiou was not followed, fear of the mon- ■tera there abounding beiDg the excuse. This did not Intimidate the gill who made the prop osition. Bbe resolved to go thither herself, and busily bantered her companions into fol lowing her example. As they approachcfijlhc reef a canoe passed them, the native*! io It •boUtlog, " Mine! Hanoi" (ihark: shaikl) also urging them lo hasten lo the canoe for safety, But, before the terrified girls could move one way or the other, » hugc'bluc chark surged in among them, and, rising lo the turfa^b, lifted Miss Miller out of the water • In her terror she grasped one of the shark’s upper tins. This proceeding, a* well as the burden upon its back, seemed to terrify tho monster, for it darted ell at a spued that would easily o u t l i e r that of the fastest ship, keeping, however, upon the surfsce of the water. It kept along at this psce for about sixty yards, stllLbearing thu Hawaiian naiad upon its bsck, when it rud- dcnly plunged downward, forcing its fair rider10 let go her bold, and leaving her unscathed after her perilous adventure. Bhe was soon picked up by tho Canoe, and, with her com panions, returned in safety lo Wal kl-kl. This adventure raised Miss Miller highly in tho csli-.. malion of her country people, by tbo bulk of whom tho shark is held sacred, and Mil) wor shiped, and tho Incident was regarded as a miracle The Kanakas will not kill a shark except in self defense, nor will they eat its tiisb,' though this is estimated a delicacy among most of the Booth Baa Islanders.

tho Bmdwich Islanders this wonderful preservation of Mlw Miller, will be ngarded

miracle, and it will a havo place in their history as such, tho same a* Jonah Is recorded in the Bibio. But God never did, and ntver will, perform a miracle. Us winks only thiough 111* Immutable laws. Ho never car

i loaf of bread to a starving child—never clothed the naked,, and all statement* to tho c jatrary are base fabrications, having a foun dation only in superstition and ignorance.

Tbe following from Itans Christian Ander sen, under tho head of " The Miracle," being founded on an actual occurrence, ia more won derful, even, than the fabulous narration abenl Jonah:—From a pyramid in th* desert's sand A mummy waa brought lo Denmark’s land— Tbs hieroglyphic inscription told That tha body embalmed was three thousand

year* old.It waa ths.corpse of a mighty Queen,Kx induing It. they found between Her closed fingers a corn of wheat;Bo Well preserved was this little seed,That, being sown, it put forth il* blade,Its delicate item of a light greeu shade,Ths ear got filled with ripening corn, Full-grown through sunshine and light of the

morn-

That vtanderful power In a corn to small—11 is a lesson to each and all.Torso thousand yean did not quench it* germ—11 teaches oar faith to be strong and firm, W hin out of that husk a new,plant could bo

boroTo ripen in sunshine and dew from the sky. Then, human soul, thou spark from on high, Thou arrimmbrtal aa thy great sire Whose praise is sung by the angel-choir!The husk, the body, ii buried-deep,And friends wiU go to the tomb and weep;But thou shall move on, on wings so free— For thine ia the life of eternity. - That wonderful power of to small a aeed— Tha miracle seen In that corn of wheat,'I l potato* tho mind; but still it is dpne By the Author of Life, tbe Eternal One.

Mr. Bhepard la at present In this d iy . He Ii regarded by many s i the greatest musician of the age. Ue Is a medium. His great suc cess hat been achieved through the aid of spir its. He has traveled In various parts of Eu rope, and won a reputation of whloh he may well be proud, in vigw of the fact that hW re lies upon spirit Infiucnce to aid him In hia mas terly «Aorta. /

We give below the opinion! or the press, and our reader* can Jadge therefrom In regard to his merits.’ The Mtatnytr (U Parit aays:

* * * This yonng artist, only twenty year*

parallel to that o f 'Je n n y Lind, not only In

from UiAert le l)ia\U If v n the

Msycrbcer's'tftaatrrplcre The moel difllr-ult and wonderful test with Sir, Bhepard la hia singing, composing, and performing at the same time.

The Sfrdium and /litV ia*, of London, speaks or him as follows:

* * • Three jnontln ago Mr. Shen&rd waaan entire stranger amongst us, but in a fuw weeks he had been able lo make himself well known as a musical genifi^ and now la fdlly occupied in giving concert*! In the mansions of the nobility. — "

Don Piatt, in the Washington (D. C ) Clips !at, pay* him this high compliment.

Nor Is Mr. Bljipsrd'a voles less remarkable. I t is not human at all. Hunulng from a deep, mellow bass to sopranivtflicrc tho high 0 Is held for forty seconds a clear purity never before approached, ofiv hat only to clcse his eyes to realize that two superhuman voices ere pouring melody into ouo’s ears.

The Washington (I). C> Oaretce ex tola him tu this manner:

* * N stsr Were the keys of a piano used in such a manner, and never were (*hoidi heard In such extreme variety of combination and eilect No notes ate ever used, and all flows on, cslm and clear, like a river of cxbauiliess sound, and melody, * * Oenlua seems to have a.law of its own, and it generally.acts up to that law. Tbe necessity of practical rules which common minds arc alwayssuljtcled to, is in tala done away with when genius rccog nixes and ia controlled by a regulation of su perior order in the development of higher in spiration. In poetry, painting, and music there Is the active principle of thought woven tn lo tiled , and of principle combined with practice, so Mozart was in music what Byron was In poetry; and Ittphasl in palming worked under an inspiration that nqutrod no rule of fixed purpose lo develop bis Immortal fancy into form on canvas. These three great minds hold the same degree of power and original pirpuse, and created their ijuhlimc concep tions, not uoder the influence i f any n«e which ordinary art would tcrca, but from a perfect perception of a more divine law in a uighcr sphere of-creation sud endowment Mr. Bnep^rd is a venlus of an original order, iml has ) tst wituout doubt created a school 'ill own ' - -------- --------------’tkcY.ffl

indent olie known to

The following c u d speaks for Itself; itauehKSut.u mu lie a i, k r t b iit a immb n t .

7b tht Editor of the " Chnmkb." Waihinylon. V C Dkah tint:—We tu j iycd' tho privilege >f attending a remarkable musical culerlain-

____ tha house o f 'M r Hosmcr, on BxUirday evening- For two hours Wh had brilliant operas, and the awcet strains of simple and more homo-like melodies, all with niatlerly skill, and with dtficrent styles of execution, aa though not nno, but several players used the instrument,

Bigned — General N - 1* IWoks, I . B Senator; J. 8 Harris. U 8 Senator; J F Driggs, Metnberof Gungreas; Wm Lawrence, Member of Googyess; it Mallory, Member of Congress; G W Julian, Member of Coogteia; G. B Btebblns, E*q.

Q u e e r M lu liik e —u o t Nose, Jitil K tieen .

Kiu t o h JurautAt-:—"Live and learn" is a kh) motto, only wo learn such queer things l

At the pleasant homo of Hudson Tuttle, lastSunday* I saw your JostiKAL, and learned thsl my nose was pulled, or "grasped" In New York a few weeks ago, and that it was "rare

tent" to me __ letter of mine describing a acancc with

Mr. Blade I am made to say tnst- .. . . . l - uy #

Joymeut" of the occasion! For ""knees," and the nonsense Js ail

* G. B. Bt e u b in b!)*lroitv Mich.We Have carefully examined our good broth

er's manuscript, where the compositor was led astray by a word that ho at first took for an cient Sanscrit, then a ily track, aud then an Egyptian hieroglyph, and a lter exhausting his energies on the "outline" alone, and failing to detect wbaiil waa, ho cirae to the decision that aa something waa "grasped," Il mftel have been Brother Btebbins' nose. Us very wisely came lo the cocclnxion that as there ex isted very grave doubts in regard to tho char acter of the object grasped, that it Would ba very natural for Uts spirit to tako hold of tho hose in order to make Hi presence' fell. Tho compositor who pul the article In type has a largo Hyman nose, (pd misdoubt waa In- rpired in hia efirria, by that prominent mem ber of bia body. Welbope ofir apologies are satisfactory to Brother Btebbliia, who by the way, ia an able and honored advocate of* the

'Hjirtnoniai Philosophy, and who has done, and Is, doing, a noble work, and having re lieved hta "nose" from tho grasp of ths spirit we hops he will feel easier. In con’clniion, however, we desire lo say, (hat should Broth er Btebblns ever meet that "noso" as written in bia manuscript, he will fed Inclined "to ■wear" that )t”nevpr_ originated from hi* pen.

Brother N. B. Blare, of Port Huron, Mich., the Jutlly celebrated spirit medium and artist, has executed for our reception room another beautiful landscape oil painting, representing a tropical scene.

The foreground Is rich with verdure—flaw- ering plants and shrubs are in fall bloom". Farther on along the margin of a river msjss- llo palms rear their stalely trunk* high above the attrroutiding coencry, whilo beautiful cot tage*, with verdant lawna In front and abady groves in the background are seen in the dis tance. Far, far a r ty , In the extreme distance, a thunder shower and the rainbow of hope 1*

-portrayed with wonderful naturalness. The river, with. * deep channel, and bayou* of shoal water, w ith boulders rearing their heads' above water, -while other* u e marked by the breaker* which conceal them from view. Far away towards .the lowering cloud* of the north- weet is to be Veeo a-solitary veaael, with Ita

ja ils gUatening in the rapidly sinking and soon "to be obscured setting sun. In tbe left fore ground 1* a boulder ol immense aizs. I t ia

cleft as If nature had made an efijrt to chisel tho features of a giant head to mark a prom ontory in tbe tiend of tho river near tho point of observation. Tbo storm rsglng in the dis unce seems to near sa we gizs upon tho pic toreequo scvjre» and we turn away to gsze- once again upon an indoor scene of lovely flowers, executed by an IlaH.u spirit artist, through tho hand of Mrs. Blair, another re markable mrdlam

It ml non T u t t l e .

This well-known author has prepared a scries of lectures on tbe Great Htllgioni of World, Brahmanism, Buddhism, /. noisier ism, Confucianism and Curislianity. The secular press admit their great merits, as will b t seen by the following clipped from the fleyuler.—

“This gentleman, of well known radical and literary tendencies, has during tho past winter delivered three lectures before hia towns poo -pin, which were largely attended and well re reived Thjsse elbrrla were ooti> much due Irinai as literary, and were full oircicnrch and instruction. The portrayal of tbo IINt and character of "Mohammed," who was the sub J«ct of the second lecture, was intensely lQUir citing, and doubtless'many were surprised lo behold the great religious revolutionist and tulhusiaxt stand out to so grand and trims ccndanl a ii.-ht under the lilnmination brought upon him by the lecturer -

"Tho third lecture,'"Confucius and It rad logs from thu Bscred Books of the Chinese,” was a mastiug of Uno things, which rau»t have taken much reading and careful study. Tnose who have missed attending tho lectures lost a fine opportunity for instruction, and those who i!n! attend were mors then •stisfled.”

S ta r t l i n g I ’,seta In .tlrMlorn S p iri t it si,Lain,’*

Owing todbe fact that the paper for the new edition had to be made to order, tbe work will not be Issued before June lit , but we arv bsppy to announce that through the kindness of Dr. Wolfe wo art-supplied with a few copies of tho lirsl edition with which wo can All •tsuding orders.v and those first received after tbo iiiuo of thia notice. Tho price of the new cJitiun, will lie reduced to |'J fit), postage cents And wo will fill all older* at this price from this date, including copies of the first edition now In stiwk

(iik -a U. SU-Llilim

This gentleman, whoso sterling qualities have for many years given influence to various reform movements, and who is a pillar of strength in the lemplo of Bplrllnallim, deilv t-red a kclurc on "The K:al G.ispel, or the Truths of Ibq B >ul," at Berlin Hfgbts, Ohio, i liy 31 It was an eloquent tHurt and was received with grost favor by s targe audience. Ho intends to visit Worcester and Friendship,N. Y , and S uiglt, Mich , la .iurfh.

Tu ma A MkhniHAU St x k o x at the Lrxtng- ton Centennial said, "And must wo now and henceforth omit to greet the men of '751 Tbo tumrsiHlrums have long sines heralded to the grave tho last survivor »f thess venerable forms whoso long attended our celebrations —bnl If it la tmo that the dead ever revisit the scones of their earthly grandeur, what Invisi ble auditors throng around us to day' Adams ami Hancock, whose veiled presence! stand ' upnzh this platform, arc with us. They are ail with us. For of tbe rewards which Hesven gives to those who strive and die for their country, we can conceive none more magnifl cent than the gratitude of a nation saved to liberty, Their heaven .to-day will be here. Tho dead kcroes^tre with ua In our triumphal pigeant. We reverently wclcQns their edm panlotiship to day."

. Btaiitilcj havo recently been published showing the condition of the Church of Eng! land. Binco tbe year I BOO and before the year 1H74 tha Chores of England had bnilt 3 SOi cbnrctacB aurl rebuilt ir.M, making 4 l'JlHn all. In 1831 tho number of benefits was over 10 000; now there are over 13,200, with an an nual Income of |H 207,330 E ig lat.l bad 5 000 parsonages in 1833; now there are 11 000. From 1831* to 1872 there wore expended on parish schools about 3 900 000

D. S KuiusiA write*:—"iirs . 8. A. N Klm- ball ba* been lecturing, giving t«au; and treat ing tho diseased at Bkaneatelaa and vicinity, over since the convention there tho 20.h and 21tt u l t , to and eager, loquislJtTO and appre ciative people, and la now confined among stranger* at Hewlett’* Hill, Onondago Co., N. Y ., with a broken.leg; such being the sacrifices poor media have to make for the establish, meat of truth; nevertheless sho feel* if it was necessary forth* greet medium's life lo be sac rifice^'for Christianity, she will not 'rnarmur, but bear her suflerisg patiently."

Hu t . B F. Bowen, of C - li Spring, N. Y.,Is.ln trouble. According to -tho New York Sun, of May 7ih,, "The charges against Jiim were that he nsed awfully blasphemous lang uage In tbo pulpit; that ho gestlcalaied In inch a manner that the ungodly likened the church to a theatre or a circus; that ha had ifguralivcly threatened »o bury hia congregation, and. preach a funeral asrmon over their remain*; and that he used abnaivo and slanderous lan- E01® * / " ___________ .

Mas M. J B u r ra rd writes: "W ehavehSd Mrs E, T. Trego, lecturing for ua. She. alao give* teats at tho close of her lectures. 'J b h e gave very good satis Faction while rtt2$ni. She starts for California tha 33ad of li ly , and will answer call* to lecture on the route. Any one wishing to do ao, can addrea* her at In- dlanopolla, Indiana.

The Amerioan Methodist chapel at quick- sag, China, was destroyed by e mob of China men. Tbe authorities have tiltre c 11:rod reparation

' PO E M ItY A IM tIS O N E K .

7u the Editor ol the Chicago Tn&une Cuicauo, Msy ' —Tho vorrea lucloeed were

given mo by a member of your Btato I-eglsis live CuniuiHleo appointed to visit the Pocllen- tiSry at Joliet, Tooy were written by a prisrm- er confined st that institution. Tbo deep feeiing and more than ordinary poetic talent which they evince make them worthy of greats er publicity, and i seed them to you for publi cation in the Tnhune It would seem that the in an who wrote them had something in him which rendered him worthy of s better fsle,

’ Only s strip oidrift by rusty bars;

11 jly a patch of azure;.Only a cluster of stars;

‘ OaTy'abkircn future.To sUrvo bis hope* upon;

Duly stinging memories Of * post that's better gone;

duly a scorn from women;Only bate from men;

Only remorse lo whisper Of s life that might have been.

Onco we were little children,And then our unstained feet

Were led by a gentle mother Towards the Golden Street;

Therefore If, In life's forest,Wo have lost our way,

For the sake of Ijer who lovod us,God pity us, sill) 1 pray.

O mother I gone to Heaven,With earnest heart I sik _

That y»ur eyes may not lack earthward On tbe failure of your task;

For oven In those mansions The choking tears would rise,

Though the fi.ltcet hand in heaven Should wipe them from youreyes.

And y»a who | ;dge so harshly.Are you afire the stumbling Slone,

Tnal IriqjfthTthe feet of others,- ' Slight pot have bruised your own?

Are you ill re the sad faced Angel Who wHtr » onr errors down,

Will sscrlbXln you more honor Than him on whom you frown*

Or if s steadier purpose I’eto your life is given.

4. stronger will to conquer,A smoother path to Heaven;

If. when tern plat Ions meet you.You crush them with a smile;

If you can chain pale pvslon.And keep your lips from guile,-

Then bless the baud that cQwncd you, Htmembcrlqg as yon gHT '•

That il was not your own endeavor That shaped your nature

Amt sneer not st tho wetkuets Wiurti undo a brother fall.

For the band that lifts tbe fallen,/ G ot loves the best of oilOb that 1 could y iur pity awake

Throughout our land to-day;Think of tho heart that la ready to break.

• And wipe Its guilt away.Joliet, Oct. 7. '74The Tribune claims now that the prejm is

not original with Col. Ypnng, concluding with the remark, " i'uder these circumstances, wo must conclude that CM. Young's character for integrity 1* under -a temporary cloud, and he has shown quallflcttion* for an extended tu-

‘jm rn in t ie 1’enltentUry, which we hope fu ture Oovmnurs will not. overlook when tho Inevitable petition coruS rouud for the par don of Col .1 W. Y mug »

L D. Da v is . N rvaija, la w * —Tho columns of tho JocilNAt., are and always have been open and at the service of the,Brother you writo about, to make a direct and ttranjhtfor- teard denis) of charges made 'against him of sympathy for and advocacy of ''Social Free dom,” Neither circumlocution nor doable entendres past for genuine coin w ltb'tho read e r of this paper.- B A.. Thomas. M D., will hold a discussion with tbo ll'iv E W. lismmon, Christian, of Ft. Wayne, lad , commencing Ju n d l, 1875, to conttnue'four days, at West Grove Lyceum Hall, Pcnuvitle, In,!., on the following ques tions : *

ItKSJi.vEii, That the Old and New Testament Scriptures, King James' translation, torches modern Bpifilnaiitm, and sustains it la nil Its pluses end manifestation*. V

Rwi j lv rd , That the church of which I. rtJA E W. Uaspmnn, a b a member, La tho church of Christ, bslQ identical In faith and practice with tho church founded by Christ and the apostles. \ yP

Bavtiah akd TayLon started Jo r ;«ila country the first of May. From lb6 numerous extracts that we hsTe published of their doings In Enrope, the reader can rightly Infer that their mmUomahlp hoa" greatly Improved. Tholr address, on tholr return, will bo Now Boston; Erie Co., N -Jt.

Dr. J. H. Hoodtll, of Clyde, O., would be glad to make engagements to Ihcture, officiate at funerals, or solemnize marriage*. He may

\b* addressed as above, I . i <The Catholic monastcrica hav^been abolish

ed.in Germany by edict of the govehtment.I t a colored tbeologloal student In Mls^sslppi,

concludes hia course of atudlei and -gra* hia first sermon written without fooling aroupd a hen coop, he la considered a promising nyan.

A Ho mAjs Ca t h o l ic Pr ib s t of lluiJa!^ late ly declared th u "U).* public schools ha /s pro duced nothing but a godless generation of thieve* and hlackguarda." j

Lout* B B iu ia b o sends |3 to thiiofflee, but gits* no P. O. address. )

J . G. H o s u r »ends |3 15 to tbU office, hot give* n o # . O. addrea*. *

T nn next pumber of th* L r m ji Bocqom will contaffi several charming articles Stshould be read In every family.

MAY ‘2’J, 1875 . HE IjIGIQ-PI 111 jOSUPI 11 (. A 1; iJOUKXA L.

lia ^cjtiirtincal

q b t s p i r i t W a r n

ttiej any bare the oppcstanltv nff.-ndlnittfeiif u>i.a*h« t/i the world. The intended circulation of the .Toviiwil farnlrbee the menu ot rtaciilmr more lndtelilaatn then any other psper on HplrUnaitero. *

tiplrit* bare ciprewed * Julnij.-.M I .tumid no' unitecr:.‘- h'Tli. tiu nin;r. It

Conutfunlfattonn l'hrotiscti|h.ttlt II. Kot non, «( i l i a llm odywlur Street,

Philadelphia. -

Well, 1 don'l know as yon will understand who I am. I wo* nut one uf your n-iiglrm* folks when la the body, but I think 1 bad n good hc»rl, It t had not any religion, I tried to ilo the best I could. 1 am here, not under •Undine anything about Hpiritualism, I" rend a word to my wife Mary, aud to my moth r, and those that I know will ho glad to ip »r from me. I lived In AJklutown, awl the dear old place la atin attractive to me I war a little wayward in come tilings. 1 hail luy peculiar la tola, and yet 1 don't think there la any one who 11 vt s there but whit remember* me with kind fueling*, Tell Miry that (Jus in happy- I lee how lonrly ahu In a inullmeut. 1 will ail mil th a t I did not make everything aa pleasant u 1 might, Hill I think I did about ns well as some who protest a great deal more than 1 dt 1 I was no hypocrite-, if I did pot like a person 1 told them ao, and If I did they auon found it out. I tpenl many happy days id that dear old place. 1 now know that there was s cer tain 1 nII deuce around me from my childhood up. 1 also know that there wfcrc n-rnc thing* 1 did which I could not help 1 v u acquaint *d with the modlnm'a huabknd. aud I luveit him &a I did my own brother. 1 knew ibal aim wm a medium, bm I 'lid not believe ti«r care much about It, and paid fin attention to II, I am beginning to lake an Inloreat ill Hplrll- ualism now, though 1 have been a tuny lime about It 1 could not undrrstan 1 how I was to yet here and do thi* until I bad s.udied this [ know pry folks l!>ve often cat'ed me. tint I could not tied my way back Tucre are a lot of old f/ihtnla there I Would like to talk to; Fllnk, and George Blizel and old I'lielc An drew, they used to call him ripltrc lie and I have ha I many a tro d I ike on the other able Tell Mtiy ana mother he I. about the a m i Why, it seems like old limea to speak with friends >.n the other aide Father, he baa

-g-ome over since I passed away. I tell you he was just shout as much annul ceil as ‘And Himself alive and in j isl ab ut condition as when we lived with you that ho la happy, and we- understand each other better now bay to mother and Mary that we are often together with " "can J i'll toll t!.< m red i" w ir> f. . . . . . . .not (tone tu hell, as some Christian* thought 1 would. ] will he barged if I think At any auch a place. .Tun tell Mary to (ay folka that will be there neat summer, that (Ijs may sunulitm-s be Ihttc'.iu spirit If 1 can ever give It rice and ray brother proof of my presence, 1 will do it Tell him to go to Cast lie Fi>ster. 1 met my friend llrot, and gave him a teat, and 1 will try U> give him such a teat that no will know that 1 am his brother Qua. Tell mother I have met Martha, ami sometime I will tell her something that will■ be very strange concerning mailers pant, she

will know what that means Tell them I h o f to have the old circle of friends gather togcfhi this summer; and lull Mary to ask for me aud

•I will try to bo with them. Why. I am often in tho old home; it te the dearest spot on earth tom e. Tell Mary Gus don't forget her" kind nest, and how faithfully she attended upon rot), and when you come to this world that 1 now know ia a very beautiful one, Gus will be tho first to meut you aud make you hippier than you ever were before Tell poor old mother that 1 still live and am often with her. Father is beginning to ace how tilings arc; In fact, we are all together now 1 hope some day to be able to ahow myself to the friends at home. I tell you, friends, It it not always those who live In the smooth life and make the m oiftapfeuion that gel to the best place up JicrrfT Wo fellow* that sometimes rough It In your life have hr welcome, thank God, on the other tide. 1 want to bo true in returning, so ydu mutt not mlod If 1 am a little rough; that w it my way. and 1 want them to know It is me. Tell Mary I send my loyo to her. God bloat her. Who was a true and* faithful wife, and I think when she meets mo here 1 shall prove that 1 love her more than I ever did on earth. Tell her 1 have met Charlie; the knowa who that It. Well, I feel very happy, and will bo very thankful If you will semi all thie-fp

■ my people. *

This was followed by e very quiet leflutnce, giving the namp-of

•ci *ii* nverts *Would you just please send a few words to

my frlendsf 1 am from the same place.

communication has opened the vfay tor me, 1 knew him well In life. *-Ohl how swiftly time flits. I see the changes In my home. rToll Michael his wife still lives tn l loves him. I love to think o£ the past, and Hill more of the future, when we shell all come borne, I have met dear mother, who ha* come to Join us, and It la very pleasant for her to be free from pain. Tell item mother is happy, and wo wander together where there are no clouds and alorme. Tell them. 1 tee -the changes that have taken place. One by one the dear old friends are cresting Ufa’s tea. Tell them Fknow there are times when they think of me. Bay to the dear ones 1 am to happy. It seems Ilka a beautiful dream at I sit in my qniet home, and I look forward to the glorious time when we shall all meet. god be free. Dear old Allenatown; maqy happy days have I spent there. How pleasant it U

we can come *od send words to onrfriends I think your spiritual truths are to be much better understood. Many are anaious to send messages to their filonds. from beyond*“----- sve, to tell them not to look for u* In

‘ iveyard, for We are llvlcg where all ‘ * — Very glad to find Ibis was

_ one can go on with the for them to do.' Hessen Is

j ton] Is \nsde hippy by.do- kll mey find peace and reek 'w e n t him to be Interested

Id brighten the autumn would

cau'return, and that I woul.t help him Tall 1 cau I sue that he t» lonely at time*, and 1 know that be has thought much about these thing*, and ke feels aom>times ns If the form' uf his spirit wife Would appear to him. Many, many loved ones havu Joined me since 1 enrae here. Tell them there are loved onea here that I know, If the opportunity is given thuy will send messages home I f eel now s« if 1 couldtend up u prayer that wuhld leave ft* blessing upon the loved ones at home.

side The first thing IJ knew my spirit stood outside of the msnglt*ir body, and I wondered what had happe&eu, it was ko real

1 felt for a time that that could not be my body. Then i thought If it was, *hat will poor mother think? What will bo the re sult of the news when, in a few momenta, they, , will go to her and tell her dames Is dead? Tidal brought such sorrow, each anguish to me, that I fell that I would give all tee world if 1 could gather up that body aud. again lake possession of it, and, before the mesacngtjT reached ray

'home, say to motheP.it Is not true; but when they reached tbc-home I no* there loo, though I could not Uke-nuMUskm of my pour, man gled body When I felt the terrible shock It brought to mother. It was far worse than what I had tip -rlcaeed, and 1 felt that 1 must speak anitssy, M ilher, tils not true Hill I could note It was very strange to me. I felt ao trot oral, and w«« so really myself Having pecu liar Ideas about death, I could not understand that, I bad not my earthly bodv The terrible ignjow and gloom held mo for days about Juy earthly home; even when the form was IsiJ away I could mil leave tny mother 1 followed her for days, until kind angels came and took mo away, saying It was butler for both of us I d ialed upward* to some place that <y*s new and strange to me. still it sceined to he a world ttihl was natural, and 1 met friends and former companion* Again 1 felt this w jlsto fesl; I am not dead. 1 live, and I will Jo home and tell mother, Hull I sra» borne .higher and higher, until I became sallsltedOi .VJi " out of- the body. 1 seemed imp lied ward, though I dot not f. had left behind; still there rcslitlblo that drew are upwaftls I was thank ful when ,M«*rned that If was belter that 1 should ptsSyt&nsy at ihxt ngVthnn If I had lived longer In my inorra body. There were temp tations that were coming to ri.e that I might dot have withstood, hut ns au angel 1 could make my mother happy I Itive iny I, well home; It was there tny spirit left the to J ’ 1have often tn later yittr* returned to mother and other* of lire family I have met those who went before me Wo arc not always to ecthir, for I nm engaged in sptcullar mission, Tell sister* if they f-.rm * circle 1 will try to, report tn them ttpiriluallatn is the key that open* the door for us to return. If G >d gives us that key Wc fee! thankful I have h arped many thing* sihee I passed let the Spirit land I am a happier man, The Spirit world is a world ol truth- No masks are every worn there We are known tor last what we are

(JorilH ot T lltw g iib .

Matter results from the compression of the sublimated elements hy tliu torcc* of the spir t into a primordial condition Theapiritual work- tog tn this condition evolves the various forma of animated nature, and reaches Up. to man, in whom it unfolds the mental, and through that mentality the individual spirit force* ope rale to cbrystalil/ing man's -rg*hlc tohg£>ud)to that refined condition that enables man’s spiritual nature to i xpress itself a* It fees, know* and understands by its spiritual sensea. - D r T‘T**m

On* of tho important question* is to dis criminate between the false and the true mani festation* that to day are being given to earth's children. -The passive and the positive condl lions must be better understood by those wbtvt> the angel world are Lsing as the:- instrument*; that piHsivc slate that sinks your individuality^ and maki a you receptive to -dpuse tollueucts that would use yon for their o«sji selfish end# should be avoided, whilst yon-should setk for that passive condition that comes from your own interior desire to know that which will benefit not only yourself, but mankind univer sally This I* the state In which the X-xtreno lived and expressed when he said, " Not my will, but tblnc, be done *’ Only In that state can wo gain access to the fount of wltdom, from whence all linlh roust tl jW. Then we

- would have each one of you aapiro after that pas-ive condition in which your own interior nature ia the active power that governs and controls, for by so doing yon shnti fi the phys ical that controls for selfish enda " '

A C urlotiH U rouiUi

™A dispatch from Urorgctown. Del.. «»ys;'S “John Andrews, the colored local preacher

who murdered hi* wife on last Kundsy night, was discovered through a remarkable dream of Henry James, one of our white citizen*,night, w hdhad. with others, been In »care-----the tS ltu ln /^ H o otto knew of the colored ckurcb/hsv log an attic, but after James dream ed that be bond Andrew* there, be took son* friend* *nd a ladder, and 'dl*cuvcred - -----

blooded echo came back. * I will If you won’t- butt me,’ which earned Mr. .lame* to take two stip t—one down the ladder, the other one clear into Ibe street. Notwitbitandlrg the ’drcam-readerV fright, bla friends ascended to the attic and cfptnrid the 'echo,1 darky end all, and have him incarcerated In our Jail at the preaeut time.n

Iito n n lty C u re d Isy 8 p lr l t - I* o w o r— K p ir lts C o n v e rse aaltti t b c 'P a t l e n t .

through your treatment. Two ancient, female spirit* approached her bed one night and looked upon her, and asked her a few qtts*-

then withdrew from -tight. The young lady la » German, the and her parent! are Lathe rasa In tbelx religion. A bout.the Ume of

a In a lletleae Inditebed rem aining------------- -------------------------fere at elate of mind. During th lt tint* she w u m to re d to health,

II the above statement or any-portion of the tame la of any value to Vos, or any other* who may be snfierlng from like cauiea, yon are welcome to pntilth It, W1lh hind regards for your future-uaefulneu and health, I sub scribe my name In the cause of anflerlng fan-___i tty. ___________

, Darlington, Ruin* Caupty, f f la , M lyJ,Gnoitan Jo k e s

- 175.

II-1 m oral, t l l l- t

We can now lie found at our new lUhluto ’iili/etoi-uicAt. I’tiHtJautNu H tose .tw ol l >tks uutli and to plain view from Ihc south aud

coat front* of the new l'oatottlce *cd Custom house building. It toeing three stork* higher than any building near (l, and surmounted with a fiigatsfi. can be design*!' -I anywhere on Dearborn street, from S;uilb Water to Twenty tjterond atrreta. Thc*liul)dtog stands Juilaoulh 'of tlarriion street, aid fronts rail on I tear born street and west onVuiirtb Avenue,

1ST All letltts ihou’.d addressed IU l iu io t’liiiAWoi-nicAi. I’uuLisuijiii H w sr I'lrii Aoo, Ju .

O n ly ■ O uts l>oliter u V citr,

That beautiful magatinu, Thk L itt le Don- vest, la sent free of postage to any person cm year for One Dot.l.Ats Any one who will gut. up1,* Club o f . Five, subscriber", will have it icni tv him or bet (™ Address lUtl.loio l*Hn fSoTUiCAL Pubumiiko Uousr, Chicago, 111 _______________ 1*1

IsoHlago M usi In* l*r saltl.

ttetcoabinally a lubsrrihcf remil* only f t to renitw the J i i k a a L, It requires fifteen cents morn to prepay the postage When f t only i* tent, we credikibsl pr< |i >rtion of the,yi ar, which makes us trouble, and it Is more d.tll cult for the subscriber t<> keep a tun of his credits Always eend | ; l.’i and that wiU.re- new and pay the p -align tor one year, •

t O filc* Aiirlrouit.

) are constantly reminding onr rcaSers of irime necessity of giving their I*, ti _v1

writing ua, still, not a day parse* n not receive valuable letters— m urgent—with no address, and fie

qucptly not even the name signed. We n--w have a considerable number of such lett- rs, the writers of which ore probably, impatiently swidtlbg the fulfillment of their oblcre. t*

lllto. ■ No -.Clin

W At pa c k ’s Tonic fitomscb Hitters, tho great tonic nftd blood puritlrr, a perfect eradlcator of ail hlSloos diseases, a safe and »uperlor ton Ic operating on the liver and kidnrys. strength en-s the nervous system; a sure cure for fever and ague, loss ofappsllto, Ip-ligeation, and all disease! of IJimtefSod-. Try them and be'eon viuevd. 8 <ld only by iDuggols and'deskn

sold m sal'iii tlAs people learu h«w true economy it

use Dobbin's K'cctrU- Bnt|), I made Ity t 'ragln A Co . I’niladelpbla, i too cuAnum, adulter ated, dishonest soap* arc being driven out uf market Try tL

Ma m s iii.v , Mirch A H. ItnanfsoK,|) k a h FruaKO Abb ftirn'Kii — t <<u may

perhaps remember I wrote you last Septemtxr in reganl to my own Inaltti 1 am happy to ' ’ - - - - that through your aid and that of

* have entirely recovered my '_____ sincerely think IbM I should i___be In Spirit llfe^mly for you. Your raising

to health Is what Induces a friend of mine mil In you, now- Hhc I* a poor — tod yon two dollar* -* “

S m you that gulilcs I hh I do si

it this lime, but

,sm, »uu n.c bitterly opposed to our beautiful faith, hufice her getting mo to wr|te for her, tthe Alf'Odssircs you to send the prescriptions tn mv-efame or to me, 1 want you to do the viry V - t you can, for she has been to several physicians here without receiving any bent fit whatever, and her family being to opposed t Spiritualism, 1 want you to show them a If He what the spirit* can do. [Then followed description of her case]

1 will Inclose ao order of two dollars and a locJfof her hair I have become partially de veloped within ? few weeks and have been thinking that It might help m«, if I were to •end to you fqr tome more of your magnet;ret papers. Piease let me hear from you os toon n* possible, as my friend will wait noxiously for a letter. Direct to Mrs, M. A Leonard, Mansion, Wisconsin. Gratefully yours,

M. A. Lb o k a iip

a CASE 01 r TUBCHRONIC ISrLAMUATtOK STOMACH CURED.

Pr a ir ie Cit y , Jasper Co, low*, M uch 25.b. 1875. ,

Mrs Korinson, Chicago, HI., Dear Sister ; —Yonr letter dated Use 13 Ax of this month, .with magnetized paper*, it at hand. My wife is now well, and the remedies she take* will last about two' days more. She thinks that •he will get along without taking any more. Inclosed you will find a po*U fflte order for |3JQ0. Please accept this with beat thanks '’ I remain your* In truth, . ,

1 RDWAnD 8dIULSNaRHOI Rowan

ip-MUHk VALUING OM

umthlp i will atetelbal'Uto young lady w h en / do not know**’ It la oeceiaaryJor moyon prescribed for itm y request, for insinltjr to send for new magnetized paper*. Since I caused by .uppresred menslruaHon, and fo« tKg tn to nae your remedit. my hair bo* quit .. / w i d __ ___________ ti.* i-nnilnu nnl. 1 riu have done me more good.coming onL You havo done me more good

than all other doctor* I have ever tried,they are many, hf iy you oonlinne to b e __eeasfnl In your noble work. If you think th a t! should weer new magnetized paper*

-longer I shall do *o. Youra.truly,Pe t e r Ma j e r o *.

510 North Lee St,, Bloomington, 111., March 25tb, 1875.

OKE BOX CORED HIM AMI BE WART* IT TO

March 14th, 1875 Mint A. H. Ho But SON!—I aani to w

RoLtaroPHiLoedriucAL PonutM Ko H oots, Chicago, Id February, for a be x of yonr tobacco antidote, which oame In due time. I followed the direction* on the box, and U has cured the hankering desire for tobacco on tn*. 1 would *07, tobacco ohewere, try Ik It will cure yon.

make a bualncae of wiling It How mue will it coat mo a iL /. ;n boxes?

Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain,W V Uoulrv

Hr ply You can nave them at whole**! r a te s - f 12 per dozen, and order onehal d< / .-n at a time,'if you wish to do so

This celebrated Medium Is the instrument . . organtitn used by the Invisible* for tho benefit of humanity The placing of her name before the public is by ft>|Ueato)( her Control Slug Hand They, through her "rgankm, treat nil </i«-J"1-' curt in evesy instance where the vital organ* necessary In continue life are not destroyed Mrs Morrison I* an UNCoNtKltoU* THAN' * MKPtllM. CMIHVOVAMT

AMI 1 I.A1HA1 11IKNTFrom the very begmolng, hot* I* marked a*'

a n.\'Ot remarkable career of success, such a* bo* iieldom if rwr fallen H* the lot of any per (OD No disease aeein* loo Insidious to remove, nor patient too far gone to be re alorCd,

Mr* Mor

Whoa Medicines arc ordered, the case Is submitted to Mrs Morrison’* Medical Hunt, who give a prescription lUiled to the case. Her Medical Hand urc vegetable remedies, (which they magnetize), combined' with n scientific application of the magnetic heatiffg

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f .78 liKLIGIO-PHILOSOl^ilCAL JOURNAL. MAY 2( IK7*

Unco Id tho long ego, in a f i t country — tired a grout and powerful Monarch, who waa exceedingly wire ami rich. Among hit r u t poMCialonr, was a beautiful garden, where, mutnlog^aad ovcnlog he w u accuitomed "

Ae well a* lx teg rich, ho w*» elan very vain and much'dcalred that all hia aubjecta should worablp and pralah tala name forever. Bo to eccomQllah tbla deaire of bia heart, he pro cured a man, and placed him In tho garden, aa ha aaUI-to cultivate and drear It.’ Bet tfala waa not the true reaaon, aa will be aeon in the atqnol;hecauM>'he waa a mighty magician, i well aa K ng, and by word could command ibruh or buab to grow Id a certain manor and It would do eo, or cause the whole garden to bloom In an Inatant of time, eo «f course be had no need of a gardener; but the real motive waa to place this person under auch obligation! to him that he and hia posterity would praiae and extol him forever, for bte wonderful kindncai qod love to them. Bo to accompliah tbla design, ho. by bie greet power cauaed the fruit of one of the treea in the garden to be exceedingly poisonoua In ita nature, art that all who partook of it, would eventually die a>liu gering and horrible death N tw to prevent anyone from blaming him for being inatru mental in tbla auQcrlng (in case thefVparlook of the pnieonoda f ru i t) be called the. gardener android him that It m ail not be ehlen. end thet even to touch it would produce death So lime paaaed on and the man did not even eo much aa go near the tree. Too great King now, biding that the man did not cal of Ibe frail, placed a woman In the gtrdeh to help him, ay he aald, to till It. and aaaho knew noth ing of tho command ll! *ad Genesis recond chapter frnmThe HJib to Ibe 23d vereo. and you will find that the woman-wu not created until after the command with reg*d to tho frail wa« given) concerning the polannoue fruit, abe might have raten of it any day but from some cauae ibe did not do eo. The King then permitted one of hia meaaengera to go to the garden and communicate with thewoman, and be told her that the fruit w u poisonous, but that It poaacaeed Ibo wonder ful proper!ll property of imparling to those -who par-

,____ of the King himself. Tho great emittv of th e ' woman, implanted in ber by the King, d o doubt for thia very purpose, together with the persuasion of the tempter, prevailed, and the ate of the fruit, end gavo to th e -----___ . gavo l--------------who also partook of it. and m a abort time “ ---------1 both in mortal agonyi»y ________ ____

The King who had (unseen by them) been watching the whole proceeding from hia palace window, now came into tho garden and called loudly for the gardeners, and seemed very much surprised when he raw the

not kill directly, but kept tho person who a

Genesis 3 1 chapter and 1(1 h vene,) they would rear a numerous progeny all of whom would be'alike afflicted: the diseases ihua engendered being transmitted to ihcm by their parents.

Bo the Klug when he had cursed them great- , , drove them ont of the garden, thus bring

ing them to p e a t destitution, sbame and miltry, Now this wp* evidently just what hi tended to daJtrthe'beginning, but fats v

he In---------------- worktl only halt finished, and he let these poor peo pie suiter on and on for a long while until a great number of children had been born untotbem, end tbe evil edict of the diseases he htd cauaed had almost filled tbe lend, tie then went In the night time to a small towu in the country, entered a house'where a virgin slept., and ttdvttd'Ktr during ber tleep, jnrft-irql away

to • poor mechanic of tbe place, and ng lime paajed on, they were married; but wh<‘— astonishment and mortification when he found hta wife, whom be suppoaed to be per fectly virtuous, to have been otherwise. You may bo sure be w u greatly distressed,. , , -----------------riy, and

\ W o rd of’ C a n t Ion.

Knit__________________ ekljr,great Interest, lb" frtq ien t details which . give of biaterlsli&itlou leas era throughout the country. The evldencta of llriv greatest of spiritual manifestations seem V'i tic rVildly In creasing, and tbe facta chronicled to bt of such varied and wonderful chgfacter as (•> leave hardly a loophole fo f doubt, yet tbe many false professors of these ;si range powers who have already been delected, cautions os lo be ciccsalvely careful bow we accept any aitlrgeJ materialization aa truth. Theca is, unfortunate ly, loo much pecuniary lndudemoot to trick aterpv-god too great an army Of creduloui be-

ivrra, for reader* lo be titltfleid with aoy acUni of "* * ■"*“____ such manifestations unltM-provcd be

yond the possibility of doubt.Permit me to remark that many of your

correspondents, when chronicling tneso won derful phenomena, neglect-to givo tho details of the seances with that precision which aloncTstube folly convincing to a reader. TbeY-deem so fully satisfied In their own mlcdv with tbe reality of w h 't they have wit nessed, that they fall lo mention the minor de tails which have Jmgcly aided in convincing them, sccmlogly taking it for granted that tbe broad results argali t it readers require.

This ls*a glaring mistake, and o— —’1 causes many Ujcg- and carefully W| tides to be utterly without tfiect upon aoy mind accuitomed to scientific methods of re-

1 have read at least twenty articles deecrib

o which

forma appeared, many of which were nlzid, and how olhor wondcia were enacted amply inffldent to prove the truth of the ap parent facts, if only tbe chance* of fraud were obliterated

Yet 1 confess to having thrown down the paper m o d and disappointed at not-flodiog a word of satisfactory evidence that ihe 'writer bad not been gulled. Not a word given as to the character of ibe cabinet, of wbal materials

made, bow put together, where placed, whether wttb doer, wifidow or other opening behind It. whether It stood ageing a wall or —I In the room, what examination of cabinet

medium w u made, what hat* applied,what _i» done to obviate tbe thuusind avenue* of

trickery which ^n expert operator may in

______________ __ ____ __ . SHEmany reader* of the J o u r n a l , accept or rrjtcl intelligently the numerous dtlails of seance* submitted lo their criticism. Better have “TEe ( advance of Bpirituallsm retarded, than to bavo a dangerous progress througb too ready an ac c« planco of possible frau 1. There are

. double a* many atop* backward.Your correspondents may Indeed eay, aa

they sometime* do', that a fulj description of the cabinet la not necessary, since it has al ready been described. They reason on weak premises here. There can not be too constant and full detail* given of tbe minor particular* of sconce*, and for two very good reasons. First, to ullafy the reader that tie writer baa not been a credulous swallower of myaterlca. but bas critically watched, examinod, and tested every point at which deceit could enter; second, lo awaken others, who are about to attend seances, to tho necessity of Invcatlgat-

sudden close, bad all It* dupes been awake t<

Some of your readara may imagine that 1 am over captious In ' regard to this matter, and that tbe numerous aeancea described, with de tails of recognition of faces, etc., ought lo ba amply au(9c|enL I certainly acknowledge that tbe testimony of a multitude of obaervora I* far stronger than-that of one observer. Yet the story of a thousand, observers, none of whom convince me tbat they bavo had tbolr eyes wide open, and none of whom I know, would not be satisfactory .evidence of the claims of materializing mediums

As for recognition of faces, 1 know of at least a dozen facta being fully recogDlzcfl at the seance* of Henry Gordon anil of the Holme* mediums, and by worthy and Intelll “

‘ people, and yet we know now tbat they

III__ MT demanded tbat be ahould put her away,yet hta love for her was such, that ho waa ready to make my excuse for her In hli power,

to Ml the child she should bear upon (be throne of hia power, aud he should be a great king, nod aa soon as the child was born, he sent some of bia servant* to anoint It, and proclaim It of rciyal blood..

Now he had no Intention of making a king of thia child, aa the aiqua) will show, but only • - — >•- J —•*- ■- - — • ‘— 1 horrible-----

compilened in lbe following manner:He caused it lo be proclaimed that the only

antidote to the dreadful poison that wu- so •orely sdieting them w u contained In the veins of bfi son, and although he loved him veky dearly; yet he Wu willing lo havo him sacrificed eo u lo rid ibe world of this terrible disease. He then It licenced some men to take the child, who^had by thl* time grown to a

to let tho blood 0 iw out; the pouring out of this blood, he. Bald, would care the disease, and he aficrwardi aent men to make Ihe peo pie believe ibal tnry were really cured by this great sacrid jo, apu on account or tbla they were under many obligations lo this kind and genhroua monarch, so thou that these pcQ tons made bellivo were entirely healed would meet logstr.er one day o t i of every seven, to p ra iu the King, for hla-Wonderful kindness, and composed many songs in hi* praise, and (ting them, but othen did. not believe In the clllcacy of the blood of the King'* son to heal tbem, aud one great reason of their disbelief w u caused by watching closely tbe ones who said they were healed, and th o u who were the loadeet in their p ra iu of the greet King, and by eo doing, they found they wore ho t really healed, and that ihelr.soret would sometime* break out and run, and Lust moat of them wore a garment to hide the aorca. This garment w u a kind of cloak and became very fuhlona- ble, bnt U w u very thin, and men whose aye*

•discern the fettering a o ra w

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havo ventured to give these words of caution to your correspondent*.

At the several Holmes sc sows which I at tended, I examined the cabinet inside qnd

and could find oo loophole for trickery 'to en ter, yet, while ibe rooms were filled night af ter night with creduloui observers, while per-

I remained in doubt, from the fact that

JlULSg LQUm tb watchi. Y ,he evohl al------------, showed that my doubts were not

111 founded- Through that close partition the ------ bare-faced rascality sulked Into the cab-

ones sickened; fell disease breathed ill peatl lcntlal breath upon them, and they were pro* Irate. seemingly al tie mercy. Again w, heard lh<S assuring voice fiorn within Ibe veil, whispering, '-Lo, I am with you, fear not;"' and I w u strengthened to my task of watch Ing and ministering Ye were more than phy sician and fritndt ye were angels that stood lo G id's stead to mo and mine, ministering *bis Ispirit, a >f bia healing balm, oi

where disease had Igidlit* iron band, and where humanity, enduring all aerta of Ills, needed just the aid 1 fis3 received. Did I doubt tbat auch aid w u being beatoWed. though perhaps all unconsciously to the recipient! Ah, not I said In my heart, Who can tell how* much heavier IhcM burdens might seem were thiy not lightened ai mini have been by unacen helper*! Who can Icl^ifflcra Death would stay hlB hand were not theV * l of the earthly phy sician assisted by tbat of tbe heavenly! 1 ate angel footprints at every fireside; bear angelvoice* In evory homo, and speaking t o ----human eoul, u I scan wbal — --------*

IJcnce. I know auch special Intcrposltiu

------. ____ , a* natural a* themother's forethought lo u ve her child from calamity. If life itself is not an "hallucination,' then Is It true that from an unseen world In lelligences interfere in tbe »lTrira of men!

1 hear people talk of Oo.i'a angels u though they were beinga strange to us mortals, or cast in a diflercnl mold from earth's inhabitant 1 u k myself if tbla be so, bow they be minis (ering spirits to us! Can they be “ touched with a feeling of nur Infirmities" and tempts lions, having never been tempted or endured like Millerioga! What Is woe to one who h u never lu ted it! What mortal trial and care lo tboso who have not lived the morul life, that they should know bow to assuage ll!

The still, small volco that speaks to me from the spirit In limes when I most need an arm stronger than a fleshy one on Which to lean '

' - “ - of my mother, or faUicr, brother, oh I — — >• —r of another I t declares t

less, tbla yoice _ ________ „ ____ ___fliicnco Is angelic, and u sacred u augbt be, tlnSe It Is Ufe dispenser of God's own bless Ing tom e My mother w um y angel on carlb; Is ahe any thrfifgi so now that she Is glorified! My f/riKerTiny brother, my child, they loved and were ever ready lo bless me accord leg to their ability on earth Do they love mo aoy the leu , and arc they any the leu ready to bleu me now that they arc In tbe spirit, and with hearts and understandings quickened, can bet ter comprehend ray state and my wr----- " 1, ________In tbtae spirit voice* u plainly u

he ever spake to prophet <>/ old, since 1 rec ognlze this u tbe channel through which the highest communicates with men; and hence spirit cojnmunl"0 Is to me a sacred thing. AIM, that men should spurn their best benefactors' A lu, that they should. -***-

Ifoircs ftjom tin |}co|ilc,BKTIIANY, MO-A A Wl i i 'hn a l makes ll* weekly till cume * household necessity,

along without It PLUM' HOLLOW. JUlWA. rites.— W* are to be favored

leeturiand Sunday, by lie will prohibitlog for themselves,

ty seat, next Kfldsv. Saturday big gun. B F. Underwood, a few of the people to Ihlnk-

NF.VADA < ITT, CAL —Mrs. Jane L rites.—X can not do without the Jociiwar

..jure than I can without material food. I good angels will give you atrength and heal

KI.NAKD, ILL-Mary Plt<man writes.-l have :cu perusing your Jo u r n a l for four months, and have be gun to have a good deal of faith In Spirit- allain. We have been trying lo eoromunc with le spirits, and,have succeeded. At first we oDly >uld commune h; tilting and wrappings — **--

“ * ’ responses by calllugrord that we got-waaalphabet. The lb

Df. Blade's maUrtalizatlons were equally uu satisfactory to me, though I mw too little of them to give eny positive optuiou on the sub ject. As to hia alate-wrillng and other manl- fettsllon*. the <o u b n a l h u alresdy given my opinion of tbem. I need only repeat here that I believe tbem to be spiritual;

O ut df the greet number of writers orfme IcrializaUou phenomena, I can only al preaeut name two writers whose description*, evidenco the true spirit of investigation, namely, Col. Olcott and Prof. Crookes.

In coni! queue* u( their careful telling of Iba phenomena, the description* of these writers, have had more weight with the public than those of all other writers combined. I hope to induce your correapondcnl* to u u a similar c >mpleleneu of Investigation. Let them tell ua not only what they u v , but under what conditions they aaw ll; what degree of light they had, how, where, and of what the cabl-— w u c ontracted; whet tesla they applied;— r the medium w u secured agmnst fraud, and. In ahort, the thousand and one details which sharp e y u wlU observe. With article* written thus we will know what they really

telllgenUy of the credibility of their communt-

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lions were bestowed' upon me, yielding atrength and refreshment; even u the dew re-

Steh wi .sentence. ''Be truthful lo all things " .

IIKI-BLO, OHIO - Rufus Mcca writ*B - tbty-anL- years old, and able to do a d*Va

-------- ly time I have been a HpliltualUt overtwenty years . I like your paper for lla uenlatent opposition to the barnacle of aoeial freedom We are rather few la number here, but lining lo faith. Doctor C. P. Hanford, of Iowa, waa here a few day* sgo, and gave US six lectures. Ministers and church members turned out to hear him, and they

rre so interested in the eub|ecl presented hy him ._ hit style of prrscLlatlon, tha t'he audience In creased every evening.

WUUDMAN, WI8 —C.M. VoAglove writes - re arc Irylngto advance\fie cause of Spiritualism

_.I we can, by the circulation of tho Journal. I would like to tell yon of a little clmumUnce that happened in February last at Ibe house of J. Mil- burn, our near neighbor, who had a aewlur ma chine out of order, and he took It to pieces lo fix

<11. but put it togilbrr wroog, and It would not wbrk at all. About this lime they were In'the pracllc* of going to one of their neighbors, to bold elides, hn’en ll was made manl!e-l tbat Ihe ma chine would work, m a epl-It said he bad fixed It. On going borne, Mrs M examined tbe machine, and found tbutlt had been tampered with, Borne

been taken ( if and changed, and

.r for the whoredom*•foreland how a kmiwl communion, eao make ally a t . ; l^he conf'

iter, ran, daughter or frVrnf

I of splrit- th< y naturspirit*-*

a high moral order, full of love ar

lo these remarks hy ibe mixed c renlly held in Ban Francisco, c rary of Spiritualism — °

>* Spiritual rformer*.let them _______conventions are held, let ventlona. These mixed i are neither tbe one nor llUallsm mix with freclove_,wliv-water. When Bi.irituall cnl enough to call and to

Ifsu’becomihold HpirHusl course

forward and acknuiid take an active part in th i_ . ___rlr heads and Ignore tbe whole thing,

bem!CNIKLTS. N V-F.mell* fllerlp fb-smsu

Before I ever beard of spirit rapping*, -omplelely at a slatti still, bsving outgrowi. Id creed, and In anawer lo the oft repealed Ton. "Wbal are rou going to do! You hat up all religion," I said I am walling, for

re Hod haa something in store for me tbat rly upon; something pot fu '

what I. In as fully ii

-Iaimed with joy, tiisnlfri

you one It Is a gulden,-frat, and the beat I eve bad, which Is Ibis; After tears of sutlerlng am ---- iw In-roosiiaucnre of false teaching and th

voice from heavr

never faltered, but I hat

avrn. sating, "Tbe trutl ■It that I was free .Vue

1, my Fsthrr, bat hour my

though 1 ridicule of unbellcv- Klog Isa failure that 1s

nothing to me. fur well I know that I coimnunlrat" ‘ o hdvc passed lo a higher life Just •re our glorloua Philosophy with lOghl In the churchra. I will here tract from a sermon which I heard n Orthodox minister III* subject eof the sheep and the goats; and

rewibe pliturr of Ihe dreadful separation be- ■n husbands and wives, parents sod children,ic ii sohhid aloud, and he further said, "That smoke of tbe damned in bell would ariae

Tb^more beauty than_____________ icb doctrine Is not fit lo leach aHottentot No* I am bold to say, 'hat much

called preaching at the present day, la a lu mankind; giving false Id. as of Ood and

e tint a of 'he rainbow "

finking the soul In despair. I have taken Spirit, nal papers for twenty five years, the drat In 18S0. called the "Hplill Messenger." printed In Bprlng-

I always expect to lake onn aa long aa I I am willing tbe world should know It.; the duty of every Spiritualist to take ritual paper, and give up aoine superflul-

-- Tied be, to accomplish ll, 1 prize pure and holy principles more than fashion or all tbe fadingpleassoul now

of earth, for nothing else will feed tire ----------editor* loll night and day, and

. Brothret tt-'flb blltcrtiets______1 cheering words from th e __" ' r said lo me a few days si

— editor of a Spiritual id now dear brother* cm In their labors to

i superstition and blgo-namlpaty 1 and Is

>e doidli---------Vf to travel,

messages for fi ray, who list

ill betiue to the cause we advocate, “ In our power to sustain one

ell know the thorny path they (ten go lo mediums tu obtain s who are llv'ng many miles opportunity thruiselvesl *ml 1

Pleating myself. Tbst is whsl Bplrttusl- T , •• I understand It, to not live for

[holly; buyto do good to others, to lift - 'loddeiy lo cfimforttho " ‘ - ‘

'Selves, the do __

to speak kind ami loving.

"Uod bless you.*SL__who dctplt< psthl/e With y ■ ' with you!

Dear-----— -»PM I should be l«

" h a hearty shskrg^f the band day.

llave you friendsawho are . lave !. and no doubt our ex

periences alu alike, slid although we are so fat separated that we can never meet here In thl* life, yet we know that in the gieat gathering of the family above, we shall all meet, where song* of re- Juicing will gladden our souls 1 look forwardthe day that shall bring me face to face with dear friends who are already there, end waiting

1 repeat It again, of all things of which I ik on rarlb, honors, wealth, pleasures.

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nothing I* ao near my heart____ u of angel*. O glorious coneolatloolfill* my spirit with rapture that words ran not i press. And now, dear friends, may youjever ah lo the sweet enjoyment thst you have found ■ spirit communion. Let oe bo up and doing, and he noble defender* of th* truth, though It costs popularity, and-altbough we may be despised by tbe out tide world, y rt we will stand In the strength oltteroal truth which

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rclencc. I > the 27th daywhich----- j------ ,of April, IH75 at m' lluglun, Mid, (hi curred, tbat lo my i shade. Da tbe day er was sewing on a Ill obstinately refused to w ork ,__ __________. .----a . <---- a ,a ., n , thst passes through

town of Dar- — Incident oc- he.risg teat In the

lion she found thtbe silittle holes on each side of tbe shuttle, over the top of shuttle and under aid - thence to the eye of tbe needle, had all these boles and slide*, but remained unaer me

log, but tbe thread waa not broken; aha re-sd- .L-.i,— • precleely the same reealt

ie out of

Justed Ibe threadObo fixed it some_________________________couraged and quit. Her mother then came to the reicue, declaring that there might be a spirit un threading tbe shuttle. After she bsd adjusted the thread, the finished Ibe garment without fur ther trouble. Now. sir, U there la *ny man of science smerng the boast'd orthodoxy, of the nloe-

century, who will tell uio how thl* waa --------Ilbout broking the thread, tbs ahuttl* be ing perfectly round, then I will ecknowledge my self largely their' debtor.

OAKLAND, CAL—R. B. Hall write*.-Splrft- illim Is a knowledge of man’* Immortality. It

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All nations sod tribe*. civlVzrd *nd aeml- c It IIIzmI, u for busk u history txlends. have, been Inspired with religious reverence tor s Buprcmo Being, m the sulbor of their exist ence; while even those living in bsrbxrltm, or----------------------------- liv ing------------------ .s ssvtge stele, have* practiced rude formsof worship., But " whst, or- where Is Q r d f Id s question ibst h u been reltersled by the learn- ed end the unleuoed from lime Immemorial, end still remains without s dt finite answer; in-

Our nvolved In Impenetrable mystery, sacred Writer savt, “ Th(

which the-most modern oneb L ird Is i

replies: "G od Is 1/ve;" conclusively showing that tho God Idea of one age could not bo stereotyped In adaptation to the delflc Intuition

orally manifested by the use of symbols, while those r»J rcUng them hsve been equally devoted to various rite* and supstflfivl ceremonies iu usoclsliou with worship In the early ag<*. worship consisted in oQerings snd sscrifi- :«— which primitive modes were sbsndoncd — ■*—devotional spirit matured, and become au(*y- J J ■------------ “■— —d praise in

irav TonFklchlsni.devotional feeing originated with F ------

in a remote period of anliq illy, and after |> greasing through Polytheism, Tritbetsm. Du alitm and Monotheism, It culminated In l‘an theism; hence the most divinely studious and highest cultured udnd 1* essentially as psulbe ietic as the lowest savaga la fetich. "The apos tle Paul acquiesced with the Greek pacts la this advanced p illoaophy on Divinity when preaching among them,—that we, astb o ill spring of God, live, move, sod have i.ur being in Dally,—though irreconcilable «rlth bis professed theology that *' our God Is a consum ing fire" *

Tho religious harmony which anciently pro vslled among the nations was antagonistically confronted by an isolated eicip'.lon in Ihv He brew code as given by Moses, which was re Strlcled to an absolute monotheism, cWImed to have been derived from the originil theism of Abrsham Yet when ho migrated from tinaldea to Canaan, tne Csnaanile priest Mel t cblaedec was a w.i * .ipor of this -n t G >d. aj patently In unison •with his p dvibetetic pci pie In assailing polytheism. M <sct assume to have first revealed tM« Djlty by tiro title of Jehovah—Lord; (E i 0:3), though" the an t'qulty i f J >b, ludifin to an eaelier origin Bishop Colons ', on the " Pentateuch," In showing that M »*(■» wss not author of the bock* ascribed to him. assigns a later date for the name, and Imagines that Hsmile! may have contrived it on establishing the monarchy, for the purpose of discriminating between tho deity of Israel and tnc elohlm of the surround ing nations, whose forpt of government they wy re then adopting in preference to the the ocrscy.

Tnough the nama was Ignored by Pharaoh In tho operations of Moses, It was pHloly no other than the Drily fr un whlph the Egyptian priests (according to J tsephus) gave a revela Mon concerning an Insurrection against the' government la Abraham’s <ime, and that after wards directed Pharaoh Nscho to invade the territory of Charcliemisb. In opposing his march, King .KuiaU fell mortally wounded at

t- Nichenot to meddle(9 Ohron. 35:80-24). Thus Jehovah ______ly a divine title for the Israelites. identical with Ammon In R#ypl, Brahma in India, the Eternal In Bent?. ftJunli in P .o ’ticla. /. —

through the whole range of mythology, of which uur theology la but a branch shot up to seed, and Instead of ripening to perfection, still continue* lo bloom with conceit

When viewid in the light of Astro theology, astsm lird Idea >f the ancient G vH?e»*Oi com prised to Jopltcr or J.v# whd was worshiped

___________„ Hesiod, rep resented tlio ether which permeates allspice, hence bis o unipreseoce. Hs was adored in

pT he Image of a maa, while tl c Hebrew god Jehovah—who was forbidden to betdolalriz-’d —was worshiped will, the cbaracterlslY pas sions of a man; and merely constituted one ol the many Jives in ancient deification, itcfi personified lo the God Almighty of Abraham.

Wo have historic testimony that Abraham w u not settled in his religions views when he left Caaldea, and though be paid tithe* to Mclchlscdec In Canaan, did not treat him as antfaariiy on Divinity; for when a famine pre vailed tuere, Josephus ssy* " he went down to

know whst they said concerning Ihg gods; de signing to follow them If they had bctler no- tlons than he, etc. (Antlq B 1. C 8, Whit Trans.) These people practiced a multiform system of polytheism In tho worship of a Bu preme Bring, or a.iiigootbcism In Ibe abstract, with the use of images: Tho Israelites were, so pissed In favor of this mode of worship—a family proclivity to which was shown by Hichel—that they did not utterly abandon'

tho Pharisees learned tho formula of publicly repealing prayers, with a belief In being beard for their '"much speaking." as shown by DUriel—who w u enrolled with the Magi, and declined to leave them on the edict of Cyras. After this they gradually become Indoctrinated in the tritheism then 'so prevalent throughout the gohlllo world. / *

This divine trichotomy, knowh In Inula u Brahmab, Vishnu, and Mahcss; Id Persia u tho Eternal, Mithras, and Ormusd, witbd:ftor- ent national'title* In the Oriental snd Occident al mythologies, w u tantamount In deification to modern iriniurianlim: It w u metaphysic ally ixpounded by Plato In the Hellenic schools of divinity fonr hnndredveara bef(>

onymou* with L 'gn,-<>r Word, and Psyche personified In the Holy Ghost. A modifies- Mon of the Platonic ixrgesl* or this dlvlno hypostasis w u subsequently Incorporated with Christian theology u a cardinal axiom of be lief, consistent with the leaching of Jesus, un der the title of Father, Bon, and Holy Ghost. John, by becoming scqusleted with Grecian philosophy at Ephesus, {where various creeds abounded) substituted the Plstonlo term Ben/ for Bon, set forth In tho prologue to hi* gospel, and specified In ble first epistle. Tne trlnal Idea of Deity being »o vaguely treated la the New Testament, rendered It a subject of theological, controversy amyng the pautslic Fathers; but on the triumph of A thsnulu* over Arlan Ism, a consolidation of the three per-•aa m la A>a‘ M l ^eolaMrJ r. rl Ki i\-{nV at th*S \Tl.

gave n er-c'ursgMoent lo the practice of hu-_______ loUtton U> Deity, then common, sndwhich wss supposed b y Abrshsm to be s dl vine ordinance; yet the conclusion Is cully reached that If ho had been arrested before he tl jd from Egypt for his crime, and-dealt with according to s reputed command of bri God. IGen 9:t>) instead of surviving to infuse bis hostile bigotry with moral laws to those semi barbarous Israeli tea, sueceeGlng generation* would have been more opeh to tho benign In ll recce of those peaceful reformers who labor ed for tho good of. humanity fivm Baddba to

. snd thus hsve escaped i tho alrocloqj . . . . and persecution tb it hlsVeuatfcIsm en tailed Lurl-tlsnlty and Islsmlkm during the

snip o, aimed to be tho only true one.-he adopt- - 1 a rude and partial Idea of Dally In congruHy wfl h bis ambition ft i quest ai

. indiscriminately slsughter_____ ___„ children of dlllerent profession.He sought dot to convert; but to destroy them llu even1 gave such ah Inhuman command as to " lea v e nothing alive that breatbeth," In kbto towna they look iDeut, SO: Ifii.thus placing bis people in open byntillty with the c vilizad world, and superinducing the religious wars that afterwards dlsgreced the ecclesiastical history of CbrlilcCdom Hi* Inherent tendon cy to m*te(iaiisnw- •*> counter cted psycholog ies! pri r •nceptfon In excogitating a Iking of worship as creator of the unlverno. he could not conceive of urch so In’illlgerc j without pcrsonalliy, andgr-wsiy adhered to an'hrupop aihy in divine attributes b r d ford ing im mutability, representing Gen ss a i*ru,n tb tt talked with him, wTealted with Jei ate «iin ocr with Abraham, walked about K len call- tog for Adam, *u?-j:ct to mobility and the various sinful passions of rnsn sur.h as i nil ouay. anger, hatred, revenge, cursing and swearing, with a sprclii propensity f o r jg h tlo* V

The surrounding gentile*, <• ilemporar/wlth the Israelites, likewise depended on their gods in battle, but regarded the Lord onlv a* a god of the hills, who could not flehl s’-, -esafnlly on Ibe plain i.Tjdg drill 1 Kgs Sll. With his assumed help, the lsrae i’rs generally 'uc r-riled in contlct with petiv (fiihea hu' when nnwerful monarch' like BMshark "f Egypt. NebuchadniMar of It ibylon, or Veipatisn of It lire marched Unfit armies sgsinsi them they were Invariably defeated —the cause of who's their writer* ahrewdlv Urputrd to^fP faithfulness to their war-god Though 'Tev numbered more aolJfera on the plains of M'«b Ilian the om blncd kings of Canaan emrid muster, they nevrr could cor qncr the Pbill* tinea, who occupied a portion (if the territory they coveted The Lord's chosen man David come so near being slain In the attempt-, that it was declared prudent for him to desist from further action in battle with them (1! Mam 21 10, 17) It was through fear of them that they t«Hik a circuitous route /or Capaan when they left Egypt (E t 13; 17 t

Their rnemtrs. In tob rating the use of in,' age*, did not su ppose an Idol to c institute the Divine Bring, hut meretv employed aueh aym bole to briog an Idea of Deity witnin the raogo of their comprehension feeling aaaurrd that the devotion t J pressed for It wr-uld Ns appro elated hy the IIring represented. The later Ephesians did not hcllrvc the Image which they had been taught fell down from Jupiter, lo bo their great DritV himself; though hy using It in worship thty were stigmatized as

"Idola'era by the f..Powers of Moses, who were equally infatuated with the I'loplan idea that Jehovah came down personally on Mount Blnai. and after raising a fearful smoke, wrote an irjunctinn with hia own finger on a atone tablet, forbidding the use of emblem* In wor ship By blending the worship of Diana with that of Jupiter in c»nn<c'lon with blsdaughter Minerva, those pagan Ephesians evinced a consistent dcgrec.jif veneration for female ea- sence in tbo Trinity, that is irreverently ex cluded in the partial male tripartite of Chris tian triology.

All ancient gentile denominations, like the judicious town clerk of Ephesus, believed their respective systems of theology to *— -•*

MtkyaMonnl, Cbrishna. . _____Osuisma, Laotie, Confucius and others. wh< did nst think the use of tmages a subject worthy of theological controvoray, nr ascribe marlial qualities to Deity, were not disposed to make religious sentiment a pretext for war or aggression like the pillaging Israelites un der .1 >ahu* snd his surensure, and consequent- lv left s more civilize! record. Tho code of Menu, a* gWeo In the Vedas—which is shown fto-a* Ibe Mcrcd Manskrit to be older tban our Bible—taught an Idea of Deity quite as sublime as any conception reached through the tnlolti gence of Christian ontology. He says: " Tost Spirit which la distinct trom ‘

»ya: T_r ____ ______________ Her, Is __various He Is one, and beyond description, whose glory is so great that there esn be no Image of h in t" .Thus an Immaterial Being, wnoseiublqulty is acknowledged, can have no Image \for an archetype in tho formation of man; ahd instead of man being made in hia Image, as Moses assumes, he merely made a God In-hls-Own Image.—Ex. 13:3

It, was from such supernal ssplrsnia u Mean, Z iroasler, and the. psychologists of Greece anterior to the Christian dispensation, that tho founder* of our theology derived tbelr spiritosl Idess of God and immortality of the soul. Though Pythagoras, Hoc rates, Plato, and most of the Oreclan-philosophers, as well ss tho Oriental sigea and lhaosophical gym Doaophist* of Iqfli* taught' future life,, ibishighly cherished doctrine wss lolally Ignored by the Btnal law-giver, who, through the whole course of his Jehovlstlo JurisprudenceJehovlstlc Jurisprudence

never otlereij.------------------------------------lief In an eternal or aupramundane stale.of Istence. His rellgtojudtcta! economy limited rewards snd pnnlsbmunt to this life only.

gentile Athenians, but failed to solve the ' mystical problem involved In the Inscription on their altar by refuting Idolatry to reconcile Moaaic theoaophy with a crnclflod G ud. The ologians and metaphysicians may now attempt It tike him, by advancing their abstruse the ories on a Godnead In trinity or unity, as based

sue j&mmeuicai vour.cu, & u Through the arrcgsnt religious legislation

nd bigoted God idea of Mosea, tbs Israelite* _rtt set an example to the world of contemn ing other creed* and formsof worship.— which sectarian pre J sdioe ban been Inherited by their oSsprlng, the Christians, and Hill practiced much to the detriment of true religion. It can be raid to the credit of his rilaal that he

of a personal First Cause and preserver of all things, but with the benrfit oficlenUfle obd-

enkaown Deity will dhubilcst, forever cootloue to btffl! all human knowledge. When think ing minds hsve r )mpnttly traversed the con jectural domain of metaphysfcsl speculation

intuition o b the subj Cl w

eternity le completed can the Haiti) mind pect to arrive a t any adtquste conception of- the Infinite, or comprehend what Go d if.

For further particulars on the sublu '., too sutber's "C rttldem on theTheologlcu Idea of Deity."

R'chboro, Pa.

A n n ie D e n to n C rlilee .

. Brinrday evening, March 27, at eight o'clock, Mra Annie Denton Cr'dge passed to the other life, from Rivers'de. Bin Ikrnsrdioo c a n ty , C*1 ifurnls, aged t'.i years and H months Knowing that our readers would be glad to learn something of the life snd cbarsclor of one so nobly endowed by nature ss was Mrs. CridgA we n quested bet friends to furnish us for publication a i ketch gt her history, snd In response have received tlie following from hrr husband: /~ j ‘

Mra Cridgo was born ip E tglsud, and raised In the Methodlst-ekurch.Vwblch she | lined at the age of ft urteen; bat undfrisklng to obtain arguments to convince s free thinking rela tive, she reasoned herself out i f sll forms Of orthodoxy at pbont the age of eighteen. Borne years afterwards she cim elo the fa iled States, end in ISM u.jlted wltlume In all the relations of life, forming a vo luuv -i union, which was In every respect compH* Together wetheught and worked. In 1837 we c immenced the publication of a radical paper—73/ fun yu-irrf— In advocacy oT Spiritualism, frce_ thought and co-operative life, which we con-' llnucd until 1800 Meanwhile she was aUo engaged in psychometric experiment* and re seaichi», which rcanltcd In not on[y establish ing a bridge between the present—and the future life, but in making it -i« presenf-.prov log that ire ar.\ In the form, spirits, having spiritud 'ctises corresponding to the corporeal sen/ee Her experiments go even beyond or dinnr’yrpiritual phenomena, proving not mere ly that we hut that we mi d 'tn-twrity sur viva the mortal

Tluae experiment*, and the resultant philos ophy, have been partially embodied in a novel 1-iiHtlcd "I* It ImputSiiiU T" contributed to the /Vevar Aye and the * S >ul of Things” ; but tbe full bearings of the subj -ct would have la.-«u more i xptlcilly staled by her in another form had not the change of slate premature')' oc-

■ stig bad a peculiar facility for teaching children both orally and in print. For twelve month* In 1859-(M) she published a child's pa paper Bio realized most intensely the treed of progresiivo literature for children, which should not only negatively, bill .p-witivtly, embody the principle* of free thought Spirit ualism ami tho mclhoda of science F >r this purposg^he prrpVed In manuscript, four vo! umes, emb.Hlirig suitable incident* and o n - versations fropj ij'n At tbe point of death, iipparoartyT^Ui 1*017 sho rallied because she felt til at these vo'uinea should be prepared and published In D.-cembcr ls7o partly to raise money for this purpose, aud partly to demon strate that self-aalvatinu for women lies in the culture of the soil, she left Wasbingl <n for California to <.ogagc in ornngp culture, I re maining lo furbish such means as mp salary would permit. B u t.' hope deft — -■

ture. Hence the reverence for these princi ple*—for the sexual parts (the Phallus, male. and*lhe Vonl, female) ss Uielr type*. These were carved or drawn, true to nature, snd be came symbqU of the male and female princi ples, and their union the expression of creative energy. The devbnt worshipers bowed before these sculptured representatives. The uncul tured instinct* of primitive man' saw nothing Impure In tbe set of generation, but consid ered It one of the divine processes of creation. Were they Impure thus to regstd it V O ra te Vo Impure that we Uo nor so regard Hr

In tn ed ln ra ad undefined prehistoric age, out of which the distinct forms of P lirtlc lan , Assyrian, and Egyptian civilizations energize, phallic worship'appear* to have been univer sal. The supreme god of tho Assyrians was' IM, tbh Procreator. The onion with his wife, the goddess MyUtla, was the origin of all ere ated things. Virgil expresses tho Orctk and Roman ides, when ho makes tbe cor J igal set between Jupiter and Juno the ctuseo'r tee pro ductions of tbe earth, As at present lu India, the jJutUui, as an emblem of tbo Creator, is found In all tho temples, and la carried in re ligtoua procession*. Tho ltoruao*. when they held their festival In honor of Venus, a pro cession o f women carried the p W f'/y-aad pre sented. it to the goddess '

Thq celebrated French pbllos- pher, M D* Voltaire, in his Philosophies) Dictionary, un der the head of ' ‘Emblems," says: "T hefarther wo advance eastward, tbo more preva lent we find the employment of emblem* and figures; but. at the s tmu time, the images in UM) arc more remote from our own xnanne-s and customs. Toe- emblems which appear most singular to ua, are Ihoa: which were in sacred eisc among tho Indiana, Egyptians and Byrians These people bore aloft. In their most solemn procession*, and with the most profound respect, the appropriate organs foV tho perpetuation of the specie*—the symbols of life We smile al sucb practice*, and con aider these peoples* simple barbarians But what would they have said to see ua enter uur tcm nl/aof worship wearing at our sides the imt'Umente of <tettrueluM > "

Saow these symbols «f antiquity to a man of cl- ar sense, but wbo has not heard them

misery of the Isolated household l' which sne su detested,' (being an ardent believer in the co operative household) overwork and 11- poaure finally caused n termination of her earthly life twenty years too soon.

With the body emscliitcd to a ikelcton, her mind was clear to the Wat.'aqd-firin as adamant

faith of a continued existence Her last words lo me, a l I kirajd her lips on which Ikstb had act bis icy soil, were, "love la stronger than death."

Bince she tam e to CtMornla her medium ship assumed an additions) phase. Bbe caw splnl-i as usual, but has been Utterly controlled by them to syvak in prlv de.

E i quent addresses si hrr funeral----- A~llvcrcu by Dr J P. Ore--* —J1 1 “ *_ . ___________ J 8 L'-vetand.

also enebled loTtlate tome incident* in her experience as a medium, and lo outline the purpusce of her life to those attending her funeral, uaoy of whom were orthodox At this time my eon saw her making passes over me that I might be calm. Ho and my daugh ter have subsequently seen her and heard her speak.

Thus bax passed to the spirit life, twenty Bars ton soon, a mind seeded to none, capa

ble, with proper condition*, of unravelicg

puzzle for generations, and fill volnmcs wlih .conjtclure where she had knowledge. Bhe united tbo intui'.ional with the scientific to an extent which I bcll^vo to bo almost uncqualcd at present, and I fear, left no one capable, at ofico, of filling her placu in the peculiar field of 'thought and action which.she occupied.

Butboth-ber children are thoroughly ground ed lo Spiritualism and free thought, and-of rare promine of future work. These are ray only earthly.consolations for the reparation from that life which was so completely one with mine.

Other progressive papers will oblige by copy ing so much of this notice as they may see fit. " ‘ change of state bastbrownDn — “ *-

•Yiwswi/ Sir, liernur

“ T lie C ro M n n d S teo iilo /"

Dur'radical brother, and original and lode-

lie 1* one of tbe few investigators who search for the rvott c t thing*, and considers no ques tion settled until harmony I* obtained betweenthe fact* of history and modern philosophy. Possessing a highly positive character, bis mental biases and predilections are strongly'marked; anfi being emphatically Infidel____that relates to Christ and Christianity, hia prime object seems to be Ibe overthrow of all religions Idea* In sympathy with them. In this sphere of kctlon he Is nse/ol to society in Its present rapid transition of religions thought, A tbo governor Is useful In regulating the steam engine onder high pressure.

T boo’Jectof this little work. '.'The Cfoaa and Bteeplo," Is to show that Christianity Is founded on the ancient phalli: religion of India/ ■Egypt and Syria; and that the modern cross and chtuch steeple were Originally modeled after the emblems in use among them. It seems to me that the work Is defective iu historic de tail, and on that account will be appreciated only bjr the fear who are familiar with tba hi*, tory of ancient religion*. The author says: " O f all Ihe great' religions, Christianity Is

-------------------- as Is distinctly shown bymost purely pi. phallic, as is d istinctly_______,comparing Its doctrine* and symbols with more 'ancient faith*. By pKaXic is meant the wor ship of the generative principles, which Is probably the moat ancient of all religion*, and Whicb, by lie universal acceptance by primi tive man. has given lit precepts and symbols to all others, even the most clvli;s*d people. Frocroa'lon, the most mysterious phenomenon of nature, early attracted attention; and, by analogy, primitive man sought to solve Ibe problem of crcstion. A* oflspring cam* from the union of male n d female, so all things sprang from tha union of male and female gods, types of thqscllvs and pu tlv s la ns-

the slightest idea »f lic lr meaning It i* on this arc Mint that I regard the " Cross and Stoi pie" de ft cllve in historic data. The plain English of the matter contained In tins little book 11 that the Ohii'tlau cross am) church a'ecplc arc inefc mod tl ntlnna of the emblems of the phallic religion of ancient nation'. "It was tha assembly pf bishops at Nicia, In the third century, wbo determined Hint “----------

criticised, and if thought good followed a* ah i s ample; therefore wo publish It, and never yet have we bad one second's regret." But when It come* to tbe fruit of Mr Iiull's "mode

•of life," he doe* not^ublUh that, but trie* to hide it from tbo light by falsehood. And why should Mr. Hull hsve any " re g re t" when others besr the burdens a td endure tbe misory that (Iowa from bis mode of life? Bat it Is an "assault upon character” lo point oot tbe retail* of Mr Hull's free love practice*. If It la an assault upon the character of tbote who run a Juggernaut, to show the mangled victim* of the sport, so ranch the worse for them and their Juggernaut. Muse* Hull further declares. In the tame article, that he and the woman

. for whom Mrs. Hull was abandoned, are r \bound to obey the divine law of divorce when

It-riep* in. " We are " says ho, " aspoaltlvely pledged to obey the law which puli* us apart at that which brings ua together.” But are not Chlldton ( T in f an ted i) a legitimate const queue* —the natural result or that relation? And who will support th< so children after the "divine- law of divorce " steps inf Shall the abandon- o l woman do it alone; or mrfst tbo tax payers of Boston help her do It? Will it bejuat for M(*ca to compel Ihe people of B' stun to tup port bis abandoned children, while he goes ill lo olisy Ihe law Which draws him to ‘ another

^wqulaul He will be Just as much bound to obey 11UL-'J-*ivice law of divorce” In the next Instance, and will I o Just as likely to repeat the old game of throwing the support of bis sbsndoni'd babes upon tbe people-of 'some other town. And if be may do such tbiegs, so may the thousands i f those for whoso fene 0: he publishes his " mode of life” lo be fol- Inwol " a t an example." Heaven pity the children.! Mr. Hull seems lo think, " th e government" should atppvrt his children while lie put tho government in tbe crucible to diatroy I’

What Mr l> SV Hull says about being "for the truth and the truth only," and about the quarrel being waged against Motes <t Co.,

because we will not be hypocrite*, because wo w illard mini tm honest." come* with a very bad graee- Muses Hull llruls It necessary to ruvir up the rcsulta of bis tjs lrm by false, hoojl and hia friends who c'alni to be cham- plunson ■' free speech ” have suppressed as far as lbuy could the statement!) of fact made by those who declined to be publicly Identified with hitu. Mateo.ttuer F i.in t .

should be- thu emblem o ' tho Christian faith. In their bauds it was given a new meaning Thua ti.e central ly.nbol of Christianity was stolen from the Pagan world. Tho devout maiden may blush to learn that the diamond cross she wear* on her breast 1* only a dla pMisnl phallus, and indicates almost the same idea of the more truthfn) symbol worn by the

summer evening, is seen rising above the greed shade, tndlcativo of the Christian worship, wo pronounce It an inspiring object, and would - ‘ have It removed from the landscape Yet ..... thoughts revert to Ua origin; and If we ask why churches have steeples, and what the) signify, the answer Is not conducive to our reverence. The c lumn, the lower, the minaret, tho obelisk, all have onwstgolficancr'. Tne re quirements of architecture cover the orlg lost meaning. Tbe aspiring steeple is a typo of tbophaUue, and connected with tha "houso of God." has a ; urcly phallic' mi suing If the steeple is crowned with a dome. It refers to tho YKsl. tho nsvel ilo te type of the Muther G jddeea, of Ammon, of D.lphi. cf the shrines of Isis. When the dome Is surmounted by tbe cross, there is completed the symbol of tho phallic religion."

in reference lo the developments of mrdorn Christianity, ao called, the author holds the following significant language: ,

Christianity, founded on phallic concep llonl. 1*. true to it* mlRin, a religion of feel ing and emotion. Its bests is the passions To them ll'mskcs Its strongest appeal; without them ft is nothing. Is it strange, then, that in lessons of “ revival," under Ihe phallic

intellect anil that Uio orgies of Bsbylon »

, In pre iccntlou

by the clvlllzstlon of our ItnAa, portion to their number*, tho mo class? or that the strength of thrupburcb is In the female members, held under the magnetic oontrol of "Ministers of tbe Cross?" He adds:

" It Is not with s sc* ffiag spirit I hsve stud led this interesting, tn tjrc t, which exhibits more than any other the vital »fil',istlon* of roligiuus systems, however diverse, and reveals tbo foundation of thorn all. Because Chris tlsnlty Is held to be the only true system, of divine origin, snd infallible. It becomes ntc- cssary lo snow lu human origin, and its rela tion lo the so c tiled Pagan systems. Super

foe of msoklnd^snd throw the light of truth through IU dark dens, where dogmas arc made plethoric hy faith, is a necessity of the time The CAu eA. tho .S’f/cjde, the Crom, nourish the supe-rttit[on on which they are founded."

Those who desire to peruse Ibis unique lit tle work, can obtain a copy by eroding len crnU lo tbe Rauoio P n iu s iuiicai. Punusii mo Hopes Ch ic a g o

M oses H u ll n n tl th o F r u i t s o f F rc

It would seem from the article of Mr D W Hull in Btlurdsy's U iiu ld , tb sllu set forth the practical woikiogt of free love 1s itself an “ assault upon the character" of ihe^pos'lce

e doctrine, such as Mr.

attack tho free lovers "u p o n 'th e logic and truthfulness of their views” What If Mqies Hall has found it neceaiary to resort to falle- hood to cover up the fruits of those views a*

logic in my opinion than that of cause and• A..- I , . . _rr ..u __ 1-------- - - , ...... .A, 1878. published t

•octal relations. He confossed, or boasted, of his violation of "m sn made” social loriilu tlons and lawa. He was only practicing what he preached when bo deserted the mother #f bis children for another worn an; and those who cannot tee that the poverty of tho abandoned mother and children, and tbelr necessity ( A p plying to tbe overseers or the town peyKvor relief,, la the legitimate fruit of Mr.TOulI't theories snd practices, are below the level of

■eU himself up at a teacher, but he pi

_________ and that otherwoman, " Because," says he, (Crucible, March I. 1875), " w e wanted tbe world to hsve the bent fit or our mode of life. I t dlflere from the world, * ‘ "world, and we claim it Is truer and better

n any system yet published. We want ft

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Spiritual'™ here-, as everywhere else, wher§ a lp rlt uf frii' luve'llt'ali'in has been develop ed is the ullemph'ni faith; Mrs Mtiuctt, the medium irmlhVr, ifuf rlairvuyanlly tec Ihe pin in her child three weeks before It made Its so- p rarancea t rife surface, and when the only knew hei^emld had swallowed It by having been to told by her spirit control, (thus proving, ............. a* well a* clnirvoyancr), andthe pin ib>f come out exactly at ibe lime and pi tie predicted by the spirit! .arid Bpirilua'iita ami ripiritual Investigator* are tu-day in the majority here, and their numlor it constantly

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In lining to give a description o( w hit I b»w while In Bt. Petersburg, I hardly know where to commence, for there it to much to be u ld concerning this peculiar country tnd people, that were 1 to write e volume It would hardly hold one half of whst 1 would like tossy My first Impressions when arriving In lit, Peters burg, where strange Indeed, nothing 1 raw around me seemed like any thing I had ever seen before; lbs cold was Intense, yet unlike the cold of Amerlcs. The snow, too, seemed un like the snow of other countries, and alto-

ithor the acene which presented itself whllo was being driven to my hotel In s little

sleigh by a veritable itusilan nuM , was enough to awaken one out of those ellatlc reveries of southern bliss, which the dreamy am to naturally Inclined to, and usher the be wildered spirit ftdo a land o? polar winds, vlrslrnwhlte, and Oriental eaae. Hither a dif ficult place for an -Influx of Inspiration-1 thought, while the sleigh flew psst the differ enl places of regal proportions, and covered with snow and blocked up with It on every side, but 1 was soon In an element of warm re pose and calmersolllcqules, as we descended at the elegant and comfortable Hotel de Prance,

^ w here every thing looked like Paris, and the YcrvanUypoke F rench.. 1 can nut here atop to give a description of general life In St. Petersburg, for, were 1 to do so, I snt afraid the work of describing more Important things would bo left undone Suffice II in tb it letter, Hussla Is unlike any other country in the world, and Its pooplo correspond with the countryf I mail past over several months of an Intensely Interesting sojourn In 81, Peters burg—months of luxury, comfort, 'elegance, and the strange fascination of H tstlan grand- dcur, and come to a time tn summer when the buds where in bloom, and when thewholofaco of that snowy country was green and fresh, and giving out fragrance. This was now the limn far Inspiration, and now had' comb the hour for work and manifestation.

'55)o court yard of the grand old palace, and------------ i,y (ho Grand Marshal of Bus-_________ __ .Inccai, were welcomed Into aelate apartment in the west wing of the palace, and there were refreshed with Russian wine and all the delicacies of a Jlnialan Uhlo. After

ng, the Marshall with all the courtesy of a bora prince and the freedom of an Ainer-

c .u , Invited mo to a walk with him through the balls of tho splendid palace. 1 We were not “ assemble for a seance till late ip the evening, __ there was Limo to see eomdfhing of the grandeur of Russian architecture and thjjJJiL?' “ fy of 1U nobles. —

First of all we entired a siwcprifoui suit Of apart menu, once gric»*d by the presence of tho band soulful, man In lvirope, the Emperor Nicholas?'1' TVrrvw ,1 a iBj,»II, low bed, made of iron, with nOUiiug about ll to mark the Apollo-llk^form which once repoaed upon

„ .......................................... as itwas when occupied. Tne old Marahat 6n on tcring the room knheled down, crossed him self, and then hissed the bed In token of rever ence for the godlike Emperor; when he did this a form passed near the bed and a commu nication was given In Huasiao; the Marshall ~as surprised sad full of wonder, but after a

lie explanation was able to understand more illy the Import of such things Wo walked through the palace for over three

)Urs, through about 000 apartments of regal „.egance and- oriental splendor, through so many different Helds of magnetism, so many spheres of psychological Influences, so many elements of past glory, of grandt ----- ___ — -*-■ brilliant women,

_________ | r _ ............... princly mag-n I licence, loading the very air of the place with the memories of wild Joys, silent sorrows, love isles of beauty, triumphant songs, romantic, illusion, tragic acts, and frightful tonnes, which once In tbs' long and silent pall weroborn and nourished within Its mysterious halls 1 came out -of th tso sp a r t meats .with an Influence weighing w* down with s feeling of sadness and pent up grief. 80 much 1 saw and fell could not beultered in ;ncech nor told with the pent tho palace — -

Intimate friend and advlaer, tho Baron Levin, to visit tho Imperial palace of / W (As FVrrf situated at Oalchln, near Bt. Potcrkbu'” - the court bad not yet left for tbe Crimea the south of Europe, and were waiting until

dees in all Europe, a a I had been singing al most evory night daring- tba winter which had past, and felt weary ana worn after so many ordeals of fatigue; notwithstanding I was In duced to make the visit, accompanied by an amiable and talented Princess, whom the Baronets Levin requested should attend the Ant spiritual reunion at tho palace, Tho day

- lovely, and balmy wlnda blew throng!

mess, which Induced a peacefnl inspira tio n to settle, and Invited tbe higher denizens of spiritual control to come a little nearer tarlh, and mingle with her worshipers at nature’s ungllded shine. My companion a - J myself both felt thie refreshing influence, I ., row the time and the circumstances teemed lo suit well tbe pecnlltr occasion, and the divine powers above gave a willing asaeot to the pro gramme of the day. We arrived at the station and knew there was a strange power which Joined us when we entered the train, wuich was to take na to the station near the palace. Tbe Princess N--------- remarked that some thing would happen the train before wo should arrive et our destination, but I paid Utile at tention to this. nnUl we were about 'half wayt^ere, when all of a Hidden the engine slopped and somo omi cried out that we could go no farther as the engine was broken. Bare enough, we were planted there in a lone coun try, In danger evory moment of a coUlaion with another train which wa short lime. The - women __

* ' " when 1which

tie and were getting out of the train, heard.* voice aay f t Huaalan "euro 1A0 means aU right, o r go ahead; latmedla..., conductor told the paaieogdf* to set In, and the engine started again at a alow rate, aaIf there wla just enough power to make Itmove and np more; Haiti;----------*“ *the engine would so no f _ _ ______moat tnankfdl for Utla escape, believing. It lobe due to a gTeat power bi-----“ — ----------- *■-engine to make It move,

Bat we were still to experience another m ation, In which two fall blooded Huai— steeds bore ui flying through the wild pine forests, up the bills and down the ravine* to the palace, Id danger every second of (wing dashed down wild steeps of the monnUir-

,On the hone* galloped with augmented fa 'and swifter apeed^tnaklog the dust fly on tide*, sad tearing the carriage through t roughest plane* In the rough road. The Pr! cess til lb* time laying Russian prayers and

. — —, upon u Iq u for safe arrival, while I, n odd appreciation of the curiotu —

give utterance to some ol thoughts, andfiled with Immortal* ready and anxloua to

of their Uw “ — *« fron

_________ . ufleriniIn the evening were asaembl

pray!ns for deliverance from the bondage from which they were suflerlns.- ----------1------------------- VjJ J |Q .k . — >

tlon and "expression. Then camo who sang a duel with Lablache,the!greatbaa*o. Thl* was considered by all to bo tho moat wonderful teat of tbe evening, and at tho last received (he most hearty congratulations from the lUroncsl Levin and the Prlnceet Belsclakl. T ie success of the seance was complejp, and nothing waa wanting to add to tbe perfection c l the Whole. Several communications were 1?von of s secret nature, which I am not at

/ibo rty to name. During the singing of .Bon tag a large portrait waa seen to move, which causer] s sensation in that part of the room. I found It aa a whole very orthodox In Russia,

lal court; the Count /llilerbcrg, also prtacut at the palace daring the seance, Tbe Count la tho greatest senator in Hussla, and I believe n Spiritualist. Prince Dolgaroukl. Prince Nam cncskt, Oalcchln, Absmoltk; Htrqn Keller Senator, General Count Jonrafakl, Marshal IDusolf, ThoOrand Duchess Marie, The Grand Ducheas Helene, The Grand Duke* Constan. tine, fCzBaruvitch, and all the members of the Royal family

In a another letter 1 Intend giving a descrip tion ol bow the Russian Spiritual Ills conduct a seance, and also what their notion* are con cerqlng Ameriain S.drttuajism,-and) may add my aecondataaceat the palace.

ChlcagoTTll.7 May 15th, 75

S p iritu i* l I tev lv u t In Boat nit.

got taarrs—apinrr raiNiiKO —

(Lstwr Iron Obsernr.l Tbe Music H ill course of lecture* for the

present season closed some three weeks ago. Last year’s qours^was not as great a success ss the management could have desired. The eudlencee had run down lo a comparatively

1 number. Somo object to H e hall-

wing of the r , In the apartment occu pied by the litronea* Lavtu (first lady of hon or to the Empress) shout Arty lords and lad lot of tbe Russian Empire. Thh J I ironcss greet ed me with Ihc moat pleasant smile and hearty welcome, saying, " I knew you would come for tbe eplrlts have been hero before you; they told me to have everything ready

intended accepting the invitation, so that this to me was a leal of tbe lady’s medinmlstlc powers, Wbed the Baroness hoard of our ex perience on tho way, she said the spirits had told her aa much and assured her no barm should cometto us on the way.

Immediately on my taking a seat with Abe Rareness Levin it) a comer of the salon, a German control came and gave, the names of three of the Madame LcvUPs children, a ion and two daughter*, and on calling for paper the foil names were written out In tbe Osrmaa language. The Barones* was made very hap py and contented by this,‘nr -*---------—* “

monstration. Tho Raron Lovlo now camo to the table-and received-a communication alto, whichserved to make him think, I f nothing else,-being a great skeptic. After this two Italian spirits esmn and giving their name* in full were rccognlted by a friend, a Dulqbf from the court of Italy. r• The real of the evening whs (pent In mutlc which waa given In a grand salon on tbe sec- and floor, a room full of magnetism and pow er and inspiration. The lime-satiated walls, covered with quaint old portraits of ancient warriors, who fought for Pater tbe Great, and who regaled themselves on the fat of Ruialin victoria* and Muscovlao triumphs, threw off an element which seemed to forbid one be coming Influenced by the control of higher------------ i t at the same time giving an Influ-_________own not altogether contrary to themedium. Aa aoon. aa we reached the top of the grand aulrcaae, I wa* greeted by a host of lh$> great musical stare in the Armament of Im mortal glory and song. There stood tho di vine OaUlanl; the great and wonderful Mall- bran, who saegher life out In her song. - lovely Bontagt beautiful in her spiritual 1 nets, and *0 inspiring In h*r magic in f it— and tho all-powerful lUbrelti who raised toi portals of her heaven her hearer*,; who crowned, her Immortal. Supreme amongst those stood , Beethoven the god of Byrnphonv, who seemed to dlfeet the wholo, and wav* his msgle wand of melody and aound whUe all the r ‘ '

w and beautiful hall...._ _.»**loten<ledtocloH

—____ Je by oiir popular Brother Thomas 0.Forster, but his health was *0 poor ho wai ixftn polled to decline. Tho mana _t, with ------misgivings, engaged

of your cljy, for (wo Sundays, with the prom ise tiiat, if Mr. Forster was not able to be on hand^lre should close the yoaris c iur*e. I have satd-tho management engaged Dr. Taylor with some misgivings. T h r 1------ ----- *

/n o ' -

-----------. jvs 1------ -----------------------d himself nobly.. The following Is the

testimony borne by the Ba n n e r o r L iob ti— “ Dr, Taylor proves to be an able, and very

Interesting speaker. Uls hearer* last Sunday wore wrought up to s high state of enthuais— by hi* strong and telling dlacourae, and u» audiences have steadily Increased. We hope tbe ball may lie Ailed on ibh occasion of hla last lectured-’

HU lccturel* were reported for the Ba n n e r by John W. Day, who In closing tbe report of tho second discourse, says; “ Tho speaker

msjastlc eommand^^The music was now to commence, and the chosen Invited guests of the paisco took theU seats In . due order, fol lowing the will of the medium. (I may here ■tale that only a few of-the prlnoe* and 'mam- ben of the court were admitted to this musi cal aeacce in the grand salon, because of iha order which 1 received from one of my control. This Incident created not a little Jsaluuay and strife among tho** present for all asked to be admitted, and many were sadly disappointed). Tho first control was .that of Mall brad, and a ever do 1 remember being con trolled with mor* eaae and freedom a* on that, occasion; all present ware spell bound, and a Polish prlnoeaa becama.despiy moved by the

> of the alnglng. tfontag thfifa 1 of great briUJanoy and extent

when ll was announced by the Chairman. Mr. Lewi* B. Wtiaon, that ho had secured the services of Dr. Taylor for tho closing lecture of tbe course—Sunday, March 2Sth.,r ‘

The closing lecture was largely attended and the enthusiasm continued unabated. The aocond step lo this

REVIVALwa* the “ moving of the spirit ” to bring to gether, In loclal meetings, a few choloe friends at private house*. Tney have usually been conducted by Dr. Grover, Dr. Currier, or Mr. Hatch, all 6f whom are excellent workera in tho good cause. The first Sunday after Dr. T. closed lho Music Hall course of lectures, ’ mooted -tho question of bnllding 18j>!rtit— Temple in Boston. This movement I* now absorbing everything, and la aaaomtni propor tion! that are really Very promlaing, more thsi ,’.0,(XK)/dollar* have been p'cdged already, ‘Vmgh no one has been formally called npon. J r . Dow, publisher of the JVaotrlu Magazine, give* *25 000 to begin with.

The meetings have all been well aticoded— - and a very great interest has been awakened. 1 will enclose to you by and by the plan of in corporation), *9 aa to afford your thouaanda of readers to see that, at last, Sptritimllsm ha* taken a position worthy of her adherents, and the grand Philosophy the teaches.

MEDIUMS AND ME1W7MS1III-.- New mediums are being developed in all

part* of the country In a most wonderful man ner. In this puritanic city of Boston they are numbered by the thouaanda; for thtre la scarcely a Spiritualist family in which there la not mare than on* member that la mtdluin- iatic, and many that at* well developed, and

For example,

though ■ and In t

I MAUD LORD,i woman, baa been a medium ) for a long ‘time, yet a few

------------- -pu t 4 o’olock In the morning, bythe preeeacj of five spirit* who Mood by hsr bedside, on* of whom* Mrs, Lsvltt, eald; ** I paassd from earth Ufa at h tif pu* 3 o’olock this morning, Just 00* hour ago. My m

___ Levitt. 1 lived at No il Forest avenue. Iwould bo glaiLto have a Spiritual minister to speak at my funeral. Bat as all pty people > re strangers' to this religion, they will probably tet’ Rev Mr. Cheucy. Ha la liberal and good, ju t‘1 would bo glad to have somo one to assist him, that understood this Poilosophy, fdr ll wonld help mo.”

And It was all *0. The next day all these facta were developed. She had died at half p u l 3 o'clock that night; Itiv. Mr. iChcoey w u engaged to preach tbe funeral, etc , etc.

ANOTHER CASE Mrs Lord, on Friday, April 13tb. w u walk

ing tbrongh the hall of her own house, and br*rd a spirit sav: ” Frank's father Is dead 11

.—Emma who 1* Frank?" This question she ssked of tho young lady tha'. w u doing the housework. *' Why do yon ask?" ahe replied.

" Why, I hoard a spirit say Frank's father ll dead." The young lady burst Into tears.Fr*nli is her.--------, well, 1 don't know whatthe people call It, now a days; would havo been rilled " betrothed ” In Biblo time* A dispatch soon reached the-parties from Ualtl -o re , M l, disclosing the whole sad story.

KIND TOKENS.People this way -are more given to dem

onstration than they are West, perhaps. It is a good thing to encourage the poor Itinerant in hla labors, when he proves himself lo bo worthy .The friends In <$baton havegiv -n Dr, Taylor I Wo very hearty " receptions," on the surprise plan.

At the last, It waa not kind words only, bat . good substantial token of the high apprecia tion i&Srhlch they held this worker in our cause. A few days ag° h° was Invited to make a little vlaK to Haverhill. Mass, and while there hla friends did him handsomely at tho rooms of Drs, Rich JpJiok. Isle of Phil adelphia. Your readers -will remember Dr. Jafck u the medium of the " Circle of Light,” f t Philadelphia, Penn.

honored, u the recipient of a great favor—lo .. .. — ‘“ ‘“ g of a magnificent spirit

u a part of the programme, after which, la a deal little speech, Dr. Rich presented a aouveuier to Dr. T. of a very sub atantiaJ character, u a token of love and re spect by hla Haverhill friend*. Too following la an Imperfect sketch of tha magnificent painting:

“ pGAJUTA "Thl* Is an oil painting representing thn

rescue of a little child wbb i» gathering water- lilies, and becoming so absorbed In securing them, lose* her balance and fall* in tbe water and la drowned. In tbe foreground is seen a canoe with the spirit of tbe child speeding 1U way to the Spirit land, holdtng'ln Its hand a beautiful water Uly. while emerging from tho mist 1* »een the spirit of Ogarlta, one of (Dr. W. L Jack's guide*, who is the medium of the Ctrclo of Light, of Philadelphia) *nd in her hand bearing a bouquet of beautiful ll >w- era, the most prominent being a ctils-lily of

beauty and symmetry, with other rich flow-__ in the act of oflering them to the chtld intho canoe while to tho left of.the spirit. Is seeu a dove descending from the Spirit-world, and on either aido a beautiful grovo representing tbe Summer land and Spirit-world. Suspend-

' over tbe rocks are beautiful twining 11 >w- 1, of richest bn*. This Is painted by Dr. 8

_re works pf rare valuejmd prized highly Upon the whole, Splritusdlsm In New Eng

land, U on tbe ascending plain, and the people are commencing lo learn that Spirllutllala are among the very beat people of the c >untry, and will bear comparison a* to wealth, culture, learning, s--'clal position, etc.

Boston. M wa

with bit Satanic majesty. He la a man of

for his belief in the power of spirits lo return and hold communion with mortal#, many of hla neighbor# have long extended the cold •flouldcr to him . This stale of fact* w u ob •crvsble to the casual looker-on, of many who attended at tho grovo meeting, holding a r*i. apectable distance between themselves and the public speaking.

On going tq tbe Doctor's house to dinner, mut s dozen of ns hailed in the orchard, —

inspect andabundance;

I partake of the floe fruit there In directly I observed a young Jdlre

t ua, and as the came ft speaking inquired If there w u a gentle)

by the uamo of Edwards I an swered to'that name. She replied the ta spirit had just informed her to tell me she w u here.1 asked her who she w u, and wbal were the circumstance* of getting the infoimation. She replied that she w u Miss IJondeVlyter, could see and hear spirits talk. She says, whllo 1 w u in the orchard, u she w u going about the ho5*5, she felt some ono taking hold, of her arm. and lead oil In the direction of the orch ard, when the spirit whispered into her ears, and reOaested her to deliver tbe meseage, above stated, giving my name u well as the name of the spirit 1 had never seen or hcardvof Miss U before arriving at Dr. Ilobb#. I had known her father forty year* previous, but he had long since passed sway, and noV controls the band of .epirils that havo this medium under charge

A dirk aeance w u held In the evening, about thirty persona *,1 resent There were various kinds of musical Instruments laid upon tha table, performed upon by the spirit*. Several ofdhe company held con venation with their spirit friends. I also observed spirit voice* 1 lining In tbe singing U w u then re quested that tha spirit* sing for us, unaccom panied by mortal voice*, which they did very distinctly, to tbe gratification of aU present. After the dark seance w u ovefe M lu U. went into the cabinet for malerttllzatlon. A face appeared-at the aperture? bnl loo far ofl from where I ast to be identified. Although de lighted with the dark seanos, I felt somewhaY disappointed over tho message received through Mr*. Hawked So In the mqfulng after breakfut, In company with the medium, went Into the cabinet alone; no other* permit ted . evan tho room door locked Inside. We had not taken oar seats tong before a spirit ap parently stood between ua, and hold alprotract- ed conversation with me) inaudible whispers, remarking that Ihe dark aeance on l u t evening lAd so exhausted the power of the medium, ahewaa unable lo gather sufficient strength for materialization purpose* After convening about family attain, ahe uttered many word* j of comfort and cheer; of a homo In the Bum mer land, and of the Inspiring and elevating truths of spirit philosophy, and of tbe bold aland I had taken for tho truth.

Mtaa. II. la about twenty years of age, re side* In Jackson County, and near neighbor to Dr. Creed T. Wilson, whom I knew forty

n>, u a successful practitioner of modi-

H. If tho conUn

L e t t e r f ro m W tu h ln g to n .

In connection with my personal experience u an Investigator oLUre truths of Spiritualism, T desire to rend erf a simple act of justice to a young lady mediant, whoao name I'h av r *u yet seenl'intijtionod tin a public ms------One autumn evening Jaat year, I wa* sitting f t the parlor of Bro. J Kimball, of New Albany, Indiana, whend had the pleasure of an' intro duction to Mr* Amanda Hawke*, of Louisville, Ky , who waa on her way to attend a grove meeting of Spiritualists, at Dr. .Hobb'a, near Bslem. Indiana, some thirty mile* distant. Mrs. Utwkes la a media tu^ o r Independent elate writing, and for this phase of phpnocqe na one of the beat I have ever met with. I was not Intending mytelf to engage a private sitting, but when the had flntahed for those who had come for tho purpose of having sit- tings with her, ahe observed that there w u a ■--e'*1- 'r)QjpOftCsi

matariallai he rse lf,______ __________tlon with me. and pressed upon me to go. . had not baud of any medium In that section of tha country for materialisations. Howavar I cAaaented to accompany a party of friend*

ties. Dr Q. waaof Transylvania Unlvaretiy.Lexlngton, Ky., bat baying aecured a fine tract of land near Balem,*--- A) |k l |f J ----l-* - i “___and da

Up*. He la-------- ----- ------------------Itnallat La that aectioe o t the state.' For many yean, be baa been greatly persecuted, u'unted and Jeered, by those of bftasighboi * *--------------.V- Djoto, M -----------

_ devoted HpirltuaUet. who baa rendered . . Henderton much assistance in |hcr develop ment In her mediumeblp. I do not think f t all my travel*, I have met a medium who poe-----------many phases of medlumthlp as Miss

L------ tinues to develop In the future____________.he past, the will astonish thg_xdenizens along the water* of White River. On the whole the visit to the grove meeting of Dr. Hobbe, was pleasant and Instructive. It la sLrsngo, nevertheless true, I have come scroe* a number of poisons in my trsysl*, who have

nicate with tbeterwho have never received any toils, while In my case I have received innum erable teats of the most palpable, marked character. Other* may act and believe ** they may think beat; as tor myself I could not If 1 Mould, doubt our ability to hold ommunlon with the BplrU-world. Al) the loaaobs I have learned from spirit teaching has been of (be moat pure and elovating character,. and whatever people In their bigotry and preju dice* may havo to aay of a subject they have had little or no experience in, mere are those by the hundreds of thousand* in this country who know for themselves, that the cardinal doctrine* of the spiritual philosophy, la aa true as any proportion that can be demonstrated by human senses

Washington, D C. i . Edward* Z

O rig in o t tli® W o rd P r o te e t a n t ,

With the month of April I* associated tbs derivation and dissemination in a formal and < fflclal manner of tha designation ot Prole*tent The Emperor Charles the Fifth called a diet at Bplrea In 1529 to request aid from the German

rrinoea against tbe-Turii*, and to dev is* m ur the allaying tbe d ila te * growing oc

Luther'* rebellion against Catholicism.

of the E-nptr* formally protested on April 17, 1930 From thl* act the designation of Pro testant, which MnSLihrm glvea to the folio w as of Luther, 1* dd r*£T \ TThe OalvUUta wars subsequently lndndedA sad the title became general for nil thn -Christian ~

pSLIGIO-PHILOSO: JOURNAL MAY 2i> 1875

O u r N ew L o c u tio n .

father* of the church sew. and Id order to got ou to flhed tt" fun. -A rso t

<. bDL__’%«atdrtpT»ad’a equal, «p:ci»lly hony-to be the ” X j lh c r o f God, and <4 icon of heaven.” NNow,

dear reader, can you took at theyb two (lineal-

While tho Hsi.iai 1 Pniooaorm ciL Ptinuaa iro C o . now beveAhetr'own noblo building aa proud headquarter! of BptritnaUsm for the Weal, 1 hare myself choaen a ne#loo*ilon, and that In. tho literary centre.of Mew York city. My present headquarter* at which adverllaj meat* and subscriptions for tbo J o u h n a S and BocquRT will be received, are at Mo. 3 Clinton Place, foqr doora from Broadway, and about a block from the Bible Building, the

- Mercantile Library, Cooper Inatltute Library, tho Aator Library, and almoet a* near the Great Methodist Book Concern, the. Society Library, the Union Theological Seminary (Presbyterian). the M. Y. Uolrerally, rv- Woman'e Free Medical College, and erer man* other Important places. Situated thus In the midst of orlbodoi religion, aa well i

the second in that It declarcaUhat Jesus la tho eon of David through the llnc\ of descent, of which Joseph must bo tbo father in order, to make tho genealogy hold good, and the second. Impeaches the flrat, In that it m i at positively declarq*.lhat Joseph had no part la H, by mak ing J m u i the ion of God direct,- thus letting

Wo Will now exemln 5 if he

orthodox medical Inatitnlions, we are opening op beacon light! In various direction! which will offset some of these influences, and lead men into more beautiful pathway!. A little below, at 34 B u t Fourth street, la the liberal publishing house of Andrew Jackaon Davit A Co. At 139 KtaLE-ghl atreet, near Based way la another liberal publishing house, Ithat of Oita*. J*. Burner by. at which aucb works ~ Comtes, Bradlaugh'a, Tnomaa Paine'a/Uueincr'a, Frolhlngbam'a, andaeveralof the leading Spiritual publications aro kept. In the same building Dr. Cowan has hit rooms, and aendarail1 hi. *-----*—-■--- • --- * ■ ■out* hit inspirational and radical ThoughU through the handa of many hundreds of agents. Hla leading work la the "Science of a New Lire," whiob advocate* an exalted standard of purity, precluding sexual use. excepting for the propagation of the race, and ah,«ra how humanity should bo born in order to attain to a sublime msnbood. Clinton Place is a contin uation of K gblh atreet: westward from Broad way and St. Mark's Place on which la the Women's Free Mi,ileal College, la the eastern pari of Eighth street; about two block* from my office, in Plimpton Ilall, the Liberal Club meet* every Friday evening and their keen Intellect* grind into powder maoy ol the (UperiLilioD* of the u—superstition* of the p tii.

w o n d e r s The J o u r n a l teem* with wonderful

._ rich with marvelou* and moat cheering item* about what should intercat intensely every human being. '

In New York alone wonder* aro transpiring dally, enough to flit the Jo u rn a l and triumph antly a t ta in our cause. Oa this very Clinton Place, an old school physician, who la now Ue coming ao much of a new school man as to practice peychomany in many ciaia, ha* strange antics performed by the furniture of hla room, etc. He puu -a slate in a drawer without a pencil and after awhile a noble com munication appear* on It, written to delicately and minutely aa to require a microscope to read It- He rubs it out and it gradually cornea to fall view again. He continue* the erasure and learn* th*t the invUlble* arc using some chem ical proceat which far transcends the knowl edge and skill of mortals. Lst the chemists attempt *omething of the kind

At the residence of Mr. Henry Newton, President of the N. Y Society of Progressive Spiritualists, and a gentleman ofhlgh standing in tho city, inirit pictures have been produced by the eld of Dr. Slade which ec.lptca all allurla of the kind that b y e thui far been given to the public. K jeayTieiurcaundeooi almost a*

'clearly as in £n ordinary fl.-sh and blood’ eerie de titiU. Ho lakes no plolurea for thogcntral puolic, bat it ii to bo hoped that ho will allow printe to bo struck from some negatives which be ha* on hand and otiered for public sale

Judgo Carter showed mo some remarkable writing in letters of light- on a black ground which were dono by a tytlem of utterlyphoto graphy without the aid of instrument of- pen. through the medinmabip of Mr llvaos, of 392 Bowery, near Ibe Coopcr Institute Ills spirit pictures are admitted to be remarksb'.o and are

^ « S e n in th« dark as well as in the ilg t . ' With Anderson, tho spirit artist, and Slade,

and Mansfield and Foster, which last It now .absent in Boston, and many other mediums for healing aa well a* for teste and materiallx' a'lox. New York is becoming an Importer! c-ntfeof Spiritual ir-flu-nce.

M e t u s - l s H o M im o r-G o d Y

Mr . Ed it o r :—1 wlahato lay before your reader*, a few plain thoughts, ,aa to tho loaU- mrmy of the New Testament Writers,* In refer ence to the Onrlstlan Deity, Jeau* Christ; aa to whether he be Deity or not.

I am well aware that there are many or your readers that believe Jesus to be something more than man—and 1 with tossy in the outset, that It It far from my desire to bnrt the eensl- bilitlea of any one, bat at an earnest seeker after truth, 1 wish to lay these thought* before your readers. -

Every Investigator after spiritual , truth and •pirfl communion, receives from the Spirit- world the intelligence, that all in that world are rewarded according to their deeds. Oar Christian friends tell u* that all tuoh com mu Dication* are delusive and devilish; for

-they no rewards can be given only through the merit* of a crucified Jesus, who, In order to have pow erto s*vc( mutt bo "very Odd."In order that there, may be no confusion wi will take one witness at a limo.

KATrasw'a TMTuioav.In the 1st chapter of Matthew vie have two

Toe first, a very long one given iri’proof that J-an't by line of natal descent is the son- of David and Abraham,in accordance with promise or prophed/. Tala genealogy begin* With Abraham.—run* down through David, ami on down through J iteph, "who was ther husoand of Mary of whom was born J e n s ” In accordance with this genealogy. If Joseph be not the father of Jt-sus,- then la the genealogy worthless;and the very thing Matthew eterls out to prove, to wit; that Jeaua was the eon of David and Abraham, Is wholly untrue. Bat If this gene alogy be correct and Joaeph be lly: father Of Jeans, then U moat ba clear to every thinking mind, that he was-J oat n natural man, and nothing nfore. For according to thie geneal ogy he comae In a natural line, and lathe same way a* every other one c f the line from Abra- hem down to himself. I t toe ins to me that the above statement Is clear and to the point. N jw let ue examine the

SECOND O UREA LOOT. » *This liAhort, and entirely itate aside the flrtt genealogy,\ denying in toto the premise*laid' down M il, aa well as the proof to substantiate It, to w it. tha t Jesus U the son of David and Abraham, and makes him the eon of God dl-

U v * l^ « « U r ^ t lr e t Joseph h a d eo ta ln g £ d o with it whatever, thne making Jeans, accord-

genealogy, through which Je*ui is made Ood.. 4 lu b e 's tkstivony ,

a* rccordil in tho 1st and 31 chapters of hla goepei, though in some things contradicting

especially in the genealogy from

_______propoeillqda are like Matthew's, withthis difference, that hi 'roverec* tbo genealo gtes, giving the one direct from God flrtt, and the natural1 descent last, commencing tbo lino of descent with Joseph and running back through David, Abraham, and allll on back through Noah and Adam loGod, allowing ~ by this natural line, Jeaua was not only the •on of David and Abraham, bat also or God in tbe asms sense that every other man 1* the son of God.

Now, reader, If yon will examine the above Chapters carefully, I think you can not fail to see that Luke give* two genealogies, as docs Mstlbew; and tbat the one a* rally impeaches the other; for. if Jesus be tbe direct son opGod, begotten of him by the direct ovenhadbwing of the Holy Ghost (Luke U 33). then Is bo*not the son of God in the sense of Luke's second genealogy, which begins with Joseph.and ends with Adam, which was the son of God. Header, our second-’witness, la impeached, and what can wc do with their tcslimody. Tbo witnesses have either Impaacfed themselves, or some later hand In ordtr to deify Jeaua, or reduce him to a level with mankind, has ad ded the tlrat or second genealogy to tho testi mony of each of thcao witnesses; nor do 1 know aa it matter* which, for one makes (Jaffi testimony aa unreliable aa the’ other; for wf Matthew and Luke have each impeached their first propositions, they may have erred as much in every other; or. if a later hand has by Inter polation destroyed these witnesses' flrtt propo sition*, they may by. interpolation* have

a* honest J urors, wo can only accept so much of their testimony a* reason and common sense ■ball dictate to us aa reasonable; one of the genealogies may be true, but both can nut ac cording to these witnesses.

"But," says aa objector, who is zealous for infallibility, "Many ufiour eminent commenta tors make tho lino of descent from Abraham and David, and como down throughto Mary, who they suppose (and It lamcreaup position) was of the house and lineage o ' David, tnus making both genealogies meet ii Mary.” IVctly shrewd Ibis; bat hold on, airTnese commentators are impeaching ___Msllhew and Luke over again, for they both

Mcclkre tbat the line of descent la through Jos- cpb and not Mary; besides, Luke as good as tells uc that Mary was of the tribe of Levi. In Luke 1:3, we read tha t Kl-ztbelh was of tbe daughter*- of Aaron, and conse quently of tho Uit)h of L)?l, And Luke 1:3d, tells uk Mary was her cousin.

Now, the line of relationship aa well a* de scent was invariably carried through tbe male, for bad it uoNhave been, they could nut have kept the tribea at pirate from each olbcr, as they wore permitted to intermarry; but by carrying the genealogy through the male.only, the difficulty was avoided ana the tribes kept distinct; therefore the father* of Elizabeth and Mary were brothers, and of tho tribe of I.jvi, "But." say* one, “do not hla work* «bow btm God?’ John teatiflea th»t Jesus said tbat "(ho woiki that 1 do shall yo do also, and greater work* than these shall ye do, because I goto tbo father." Were thoy that followed, and did these greater works divine Gods I and aro all the great healing medlnma of the present, divine, and God’s equal** 1 think nono will admit it. The first genealogy aa given by Matthew and the second aa given by Luke, may be taken aa true, and no violence ba done to either reason or common acnao. But to be lieve M atinee's second and Luke's first, does violence to bulb. Lst uaexamlne i-rltfly some of tho absurdities of Mattbow*' second geneal ogy. It makoa Ood an •duttercr, and ounao- quently a sinner. "But, ' says- one, "baa not Uod, as tbo great lawgiver, a-right to do ala he pleases?" 1 answer no, by no means unless be pleases to do right, bln is transgression of law, and If tbo lawgiver transgresses, he ia as much a sinner as the merest subject. The word* Of Jeaui In the rulers of the Jens, aro equally applicable to God If the narrative be true, "Tnou that aayest a man should not •teal, doat'tbou steal?" ‘T oon that aayest a man should not commit adultery, docs', thou com/hll adultery?'

Tneologiana tell us that Satan transgressed, and by hla transgression became the Devil, anu was cast out of heaven. Then, In reason, if Ood should transgress laws, would he not be- como s atrvllf •

God has declared, according to the Bible, that every thing shall bring forth after ita kind, add there La alaw'given that whoever shaft lie with a beast shall be put to death, and whyf Evidently bedanao they are a lower order of being, and should they generate, the result would bqevll. Bo would the result be If God ahould cohabit*with a lower order than him self. According to bis own laws he would bo worthy of death. "But." aaya one, "If Jeau* be but a man, how can he aave from aln, or alone; and how can God forgivof" Wejanawer,:

passages of the Bible be true, then there can be no atonement, no forgivenosa of aln, nor any salvation In any orthodox aanae whatever. "Bat,” (aye the objector, "the Bible teachee both atonement and forgiveness?*1 I admit U. 1 have already shown that It leacbe* oppo site*; and this subject Is no exception. Bat can they both be trnef and If not, which 1* inter that U the question.

In Romania: 8, we read, “ who will r en je rio every man according to hi*deeds" v Again Gal. 8i 7, "For whsUocvcA* man aoweth that shall he also reap." I oouldVproduoe some 130 cor roborating texts, but these two are sufficient for my Ufattniion. It seems to me that every reasoning mlm), whether Jew, Mohamedan, Fagan, ObUstian, or Infidel, will.adm it that the sentiment of tbe above texts are eminently lost, and what would be expected from a Just end perfect ruler. Now 11 there text* be true, where coatee in the atonement, and forglvness of aim and salvation by proxy f What can a' crucified Jesus aave ns from? Not from aln, even. In U e least degree; If ao, Uen shall tw* not be rewarded acoor iteg to oar deads, or reap what we sow. There can be no fOrgive- rue* of fin for Ue asms reason; Ureetore a

divine savior In thc-Chrlatlan tenso would be a superfluity. Neither could the forgiveness of sin byany means make us morally any bet ter. If the bovernor pardon* a murderer, and lets,him go-free, he may rejoice in hi* freedom, but doe* it make the pardoned criminal any lease murderer? Has it changed bis moral nature In the least? 1 think It must be a self- evident proposition, (not Ignoring in Ue least the help* U at are thrown around ua,) that mentally and morally, we are Just what we make ouraelvoi. Every man works onl b it own salvation, ia hla own savior.

I have endeavored to Impartially cxemlno Ue record of the aonahlfrjof Jeaua, and td my mind Ue preponderance: rtf evidence la in favor of hla humanityr andVnot his divinity. Bnt aa the evidence ia destroyed Ihn ; .-h the Impeachment of Ue main wituoaacs, I havo only my reason and common aenae to guide me in the matter.

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M o n u m e n t to .Ic m Th o f N n/.n ro tti —T h e F i r s t S p i r i tu a l M a r ty r .

V CHARLES C WILSON O l-BILAOBLPIlia.

Fan! Ue apoelle, years after the crucifixion or Jesus of Naxaroth, explained to Ue people of AUena, something about the "unknown God" whom ihey worshiped. Tbe people of that great city were intelligent, and it ia Won- derful U at within the Ural century, they erect ed an alter to tbe "unknown God." By this it would almost seem aa though Uey had noTcr heard anything of tho teaching! of Jesus, who spoke by the spirit wiUln him. Theologians may explain Ula want of knowledge on tbo part of the people of Athena, if they can, with truth, divested of modern sophistry. That something ought to be done towards spreading

verlaatlng glories of spiritual trulha in iua sectarian cburchea, la becoming more nore evident every day. About 27 years

ago, tho first intelligent tiny rap was recog nized by an artlesa Innocent little child. In a lowly, rough tenement at Ilydesvllle, N. Y. Since Uen U e glories of Bplriluallatlc truths, wonderful as they certainly are, and past tho c6mprebontlvo powers of the human mlojl, have spread over tbo broad continent of Amer ica, lighting up many a household, • and even prison cell*, relieving many a poor mol 1*1 from tbe darknoas of o'ltliodoi bigotry, by tbo intro duction <4? apiritJlgbt- To the calm, contem- platlvoJphllotopUlcal splrituai;christlan,|tho mo dlumahip of JnShti. cornea like a golden beam of thO/tfiorning Iftcr a long night ,qf dark

oas and despair.I must confess I could never rrellxe until wllh-

iu the paatyear the valoo of Uo Now Tcalament.1 thought ft entirely Impoasible that after Jeaua was pul to death, for him to appear again on earth, take a seat at tho table,. break bread, •peak, and present himself In jlllcreut'pUces at different times among. different people. The narrative was like a dream indeed. I began to think it mythical. But within one abort year, although brought up In boyhood days in U a Presbyterian church, the creed of which I never did believe, I havo had the eyes of my splritnal understanding opened, and now I firmly bellevo that the appearance of Jeaua on earth after hla dceU Was literally and nb- absolutely true. 1 have been .redeemed from------ by U e light of Christian .Spiritism,---- although /I know little about It,yet 1 havo seen enough of It* beauty *—1 glory, aa well as apparently nonson-

•nd somewhat terrifying phenomena, in several varieties, U at I would, rather aban don all my earthly possessions, than to telln- qulah tho bapotiicaa of heart, the content of mind In regard to the great hereafter, result ing from a alncere desire to ascertain the truth aa developed by SplritOtlUm and the sure com munication we can havo from tbe spirits of departed relatives or friends Facta are stub born things, and better than all tbo theory of theologians Orthodoxy must finally take a backseat, Mark tho prediction. Spiritualism means progression, if. 1 understand i t It means "pjace on earth and aood'wlll to men." To Ula 1 am a subscriber. Now the first thing we, aa American Spiritualists should do, is to have a standard, tomcUlng that will rivet at tention and bring tho subject more property before the world. Wllh this end In vlow, allow tac to saggett the following aa a preliminary guide to erect a monument to tho memory of Jeans of NazareU, Ue first Intelli gent martyr to Splrituallim. What society in Ula broad and beautiful country will take the Initiative? Let tho suggestion go broadcast to life world through tbe columns of your Jo u rn a l aqd all other Spiritual papers I can not say positively, but I am inclined to think, from what I have heard, that a small site on Mount.Oalvory, now within, but where Jesus waa crucified, waa outside the walls of Jerusalem, can.be had at a cheap price. Tbo Turks have possession of U e place, andpay no deference to U. Perhaps when they become spiritnallxed they will see. things in a different light, and help to erect'U e monu

Tint MONUMENT*'It being generally conceded by Christian

Spiritualists that Jeaua of Nazareth was Uo flrtt well developed Spiritual medium, whose mission waa well understood td be'"peace ,ou earth and good- will to men." which.' aa the

.principle of Ue New Jerusalem, or Splritnal religion, has ever been strangely misunderstood by sectarian organizations and Improperly appliesTin enforcing Uelr different creeds of merely human 'origin, Una blinding their fol- ' ----------- ■* * ' i them In tho darkness of

of Nazareth and hla Immediate disci plea were spiritual mediums. Who suffered death In their efforts to establish Uo truU which ema nated from the God ol love and mercy, Instead of revenge and terror; and, where as, In tbo land of Intelligent America, the abiding piece»of civil and religion* lib erty, U e first .dawn of Modern Spirit ualism, emerged from a lowly subtirban cabin, similar in some respects to the manger, from which U e sublime rays of U e spirit of truth and love first leaned, nearly nineteen centuries ego. therefore

Jfeaofcerf, T hat aa American clUzsna, fully believing that "God la a spirit" aa diatinctly stated by the "son of man," Jeans of Nazir- eth, practically exemplified and beautifuUy Illustrated by him daring hi* life time on earth; and U at hla second coming, has been and will ba mofe folly developed, In this en lightened age of Ue,19U century: that there fore if la our solemn and Impress Wo duly, to make manifest to all nattoni, tongue* and kln- -dred, our firm and everlasting conaclentoo* onvic tlocaof the sure spiritual development of the beavAn born truth, the glory of which will eventually Illuminate the world, and by its luster reopen the pathway of pleaaantneaa, reason and love to our misguided fellow crea ture*, who have made merchandise ol Christi anity, and turned temples, solemnly dedicated to U e worship of God, Into place* of aelf-ag- Brandlaement and personal gain, at the ex pense of the principle* so plainly explained by Jssns of NsxireU, the first martyr to the glor-

coming from the God of Lorn.

ItootKil That In commemoration of his vio lent and untimely death, by a rabble horde a t priest-ridden skeptics and idol worshiper*, Uat-acommltteoDe eppjlnted, to enquire into the feasibility of purchasing a site on Mount Calvary, and to erect thereon a plain monu raent, lo_ IIS' appropriately Inaoribed to life, memory of Jesus of Nazireth, the flrtt martyr to intelligent spiritual philosophy.

A N E G I tO L O V E F E A S T .

H ow tli»- C o lo re d Moodyw mill l ln n i - m ol: (In F r e n c h a n i l P r a y ii o ile r I te - IIk Io i ih -HIr Ii PrcNNtire.

(MiwIiijpptCorrefpozdszcs Cincinnati Commercial] Wo give the reader a few specimens of a

prayer and an exhortation we heard in a re rival meeting among the colored folks, and a snatch or two of Uo native music. A shining black preacher, glosay as a varnished beaver, gave us a characteristic article in this line. Be- ginning hla prayer in a low voice, ho addressed Ue Deity as "T h o n " and "Y ou," Indiscrim inately, sometime* indulging In the doubtful grammar of “ Thou knoweat," and "Y ou knowa.” Boon bis words were uttered aa a kind of walling chant, wllh a prolonged sound in higher key on emphatic words and §y liable* Imagine Ua effect of tnch s-ntenecs as Ue fol lowing, which we copied aa they fell from hi* lips, the word* and parts of words hyphened indicating the weird wailing of tho prayer:

INVOCATION.

way jus' one lime mo'—Jos' one lime mo’.1 away do cuhlaina ob dy msj :aly, an’ fol'

back de dosha ob dy g r e a-t glory, an' come down dia way Jus’ one lime — * ” ' -------

knowshow dey’a a cryln' an' a-weepin’ In do dark midnight ob dar gloom, you knows de moon 'turn Into blackness an* do atari all Mowin' out in de brefl ob de tempo*' swoopin' roun1 de sky ob sin. O thou g r O a-t Light ob de worl', pc' In de floods .ob du mohnin' upon dare trouble' aouls. You a t lt>e haekslidah trip

o hell.

beautiful gnhmonu. and corns a trampin'down on de cloodi ob dy majealy, and st*n’ on old Gsl i 1 c-e long time ago; comoan' put dat hen' where do nail waa driv' an' Mocdiu' an’ a hurt In' sore—oh, come an’ pul dat han1 on do back •lldah’s shouldah now, an' atop dat man ilia night. Did'n you promise to wipo away his drlppin' tcahs? You beabs de raouhn ah's cry; vou see his drippln' teabs. () turn r-o-u n‘ Zion's wheel) « ' one lime mo', an’ letdow n de glory! When de poor mouniah call to night —when he come s-creeptn' an’ a-weepin’ to de altab. i s v o, e a-v e, o h m m m m (a walling chant by all) a a-v-e by de blood ob do lamb. (Uho poople respond. ' S a v e by do blood ’) Turn do wicked clar1 roun1. Tell him whor to go wid his trouble' min'; show him what lo do wld his poor broken heart. Comfort de weep- in ' Hschels; let de weary John lean on dy brcaa'; bush do stormy seas ob aln; blockade de road lo hell; s-a t o, Mastah, o b a a-v-e by do blood ob d^ lamb. When you hears de wailin’ Marys, tell dem dare dead bruddera shall como out'n de gravo and live; tell de poor cbll'n dare etna la all forgiven; tell de a n g o I s to take up do harps an’ do trumpets ob glory; Iro w-1 d-e open do mansions oh d< New Jeru salem for dejubl l e o over de one' sinner who tarns to de Lord to night.”

The prolonged and chanting intonation of tho worda waa Indescribable. The effect waa at times thrilling. Home parts of an exhorta tion to which wc ltatened, however, while lets eloquent, were certainly very practical. The ->roachcr struck nails square on Uo head aa he ismmcred away.

EXnoHTATION." Now, bred re n an’ sister*, we want moun-

shs tresb to n ig h t . No foolin'. Ef you can’t mouhn for yonr sins, aon’l come foolin' roun' disaftah. I knowa yo. You’* tryln mighty ha'hd to be converted 't'houl bein' burl. Dc Lord 'apises mockery. Bomctlmoa you sln- noha comes foh'rd an' holds your head too high s cornin'. You como foah you'* ready. v«„ j onq repent; yon'anomouctah. You'* foolin’ wid dc L'.._, ___come etruttln 'up to do atiah; you Hope down on your knees, atf you peeps througn you fln- gahi, dia way, and cocka up tau cabs to she whose mskin' de best prsy'r. You’s 'tircly too peart for pcnlten's. You* no mounahs.- Ef yod comes here to fool, you bcltail stay away. ■Bettah go to belt from do pew a aiecpln', or from yonr cabinet a swearin,' don from de' mounah'j bench a foolin', Ef vou'a not in earnca', keep away ftoin he’ch ; don't boddor ua Do you want ua to-make ouhtelves house an’ weah out our lungs a pravln' for you whenf ou knowa you'a only a foolin' wid de Lord?

tell* you lo be mighty cahtul. 1 want to see you a cornin' ao buhdened by de weight ob you alna dal you can’t hold up you heads 1 want to see yon ao heart-brok'o dat you knees knock togodder when you walk. You mua’bo low minded. De Bible lays great streaa on de lois. You'a got to be low down In de dua’. De good book says 'Low (Lo!) In de vollem ob de book itia writ.' Now, min’ dat an’ be low."

ob do yoah, when de leave* la joinin ', an uu ffowaha is a winklin’ an' a bloomin', what dm a de leaves an’ de ffowaha say? Day aaya, 'G it up t' ['Amen! dat'a ao,' from an-old brother In the corner] U La mohnin’; de day la breakln.' Git upi Wake up In do mohnin'. f Amen I wake 'em up, Biudder Clinton,' from the corner]. Too many ob yon 'fcaaahsob 'llglon has been aleepln'on de wheels pb time.

Every time yon hollers de Debbla he put an other thought In you heart • You'd bctlah whisper to de Lord dan to oolbr a ide Dabble.

you heart___ __ ________ j din vo bu___________ _Talk’low Lhl de monnaha pray for dein- aelves. You bodder dam wld yonr hollerin'. Qlt down Jon’ aide dem, an' ‘atruct dem when dey ask, bnl don’t waste brtfl over jny who's peepin’ roun' Batenin’ for ntoe talk. Don’t tell de monnab to watch for visions. an' wait for mlrac]as Jos' show dam hofi- to res' on de wohd an' rwk de promises”

TUB UNOINO, interspersed through the other exercleet, waa

- ’“-1 anything we hed-ever heard. Led by a__. . . voice for a Une or two, until the hyn&and time are ascertained, the Immenie coegre- galion J oln In the chorus. A circle of -keen and women standing close around the nftne mourner* at the altar, worda of aong-WcOhia the expression of a faith strong enough to move mountains. In pulsing rhythm with the malic the whole body of the singer iweya to and fro, a t if the tone conned along the vcina

' ed upon evwry nerve. The paalmlst______ jvar cfltred more acceptable serviceIn tha Hebrew, nor touched tweeter melody from hla royal harp, than did these Mississippi negroes whan they poured, forth their joy in such simple line* ar. ' ■• ) • /

" Oh. won't we havo a happy time,Eslln’ ob de honoy, and drink In.' ob de wine."

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sion of the manuscript In a way not very cred itable to him. Miss teck dying a short time since, left a posthumous work, 'uoitlted Keen Fomina, or the Woman Zoe. Thia hook is a (harp and clover satire on the " fssbtnhable religion " of the day, aud certainly has much of tho brilliant anil cutting sarcasm which is so slroDgly maikcd In "N othing to Wear " The story is (hurt, bat all too long for the ''O r thodox " people whom It rHys

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THF.PRKBOMALF.XPKIUF.NCK OF WILLIAM II. Ml'MLEH IN BPIKIT PtlUTtMIKApHY, Written by himself 12mo, Pamphlet, AS pp, Boston Colby A •Klcb. Chicago: f< r (ale by the Kxi.toiol,im.oacjimc«i. Piiu ib iiik o Hursa. Price Uftcu. postage 'iris.In the Be days of earnest Inquiry, tho au

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ANTIQUITY OK CHRISTIANITY. By John Al- berger. Pp. 81, I'-’mu New York: Charles P. ftomerby. 3ft Dey 81.Whenever orthodox authors have written u(

the oytglnof Christianity, they have suppressed every quotation which would appear adverse to Its Interests. In consequence their works hive only the vrdue of an cr ;»urfv examination, and that by most interested and prejudiced parties. As such, cbdsch histories, without ex .cepllon, are unreliable. Mr. Albcrger has In this little volume supplied what the orthodox writcre have omitted. 8mall as It Is. It indi cates profound research, and by a wonderful power of condensation the author presenta all the mod Important Information, passages from

rly fathers and Pagan writers tit should‘ ‘ rlstlan who regards his

from the preceding „ no of facta to f - “

_____v It Is a book worth lta weightgold. 'T he firet sentence Is the key-note on yihlrjh the book is composed:

" The origin of Christianity la involved In ■o much obscurity that the most distinguish'J fstheia of tho prlmltlvo church explicitly „ dared that It had existed from time Immemo rial."

Justin Martyr, born A. 0. 90, writes:" I f , then, we hold some opinions nearer

akin to those of the poets and pblloeopbera in most repute among you, why are we thus ur justly haiedf Y.ou, In saying that al’Were mado In this beautiful manner b

do we teach more titan the stories ? By oppos ing the work'of man’s hands, we concur with Meander, the comedian; and by declaring, tbo Logoe^-the first begotten or God, our Master Jesus Christ, to be born of a virgin, without any humkn mixture, to be crucified and dead, and to have risen again, and ascended Into heaven, we say no more In this than what you aay of those whom roil style the sons of Jove.”,

Baseblus says in Jtls Ecclesiastical ‘MJstory “ the religion delivered to us, in tho doctrines of Christ, U not a new and strange /oc trino .” Amobius wrote: " I f Cioero’s works had been read as they ought to hive been, there would have been no need of Christian writers."

“ Fsuslus, a Man let m o bishop, addressing BL Augustine, says: " You have aubatlluled yoor Agajtc for toe sacrifices of tho Pagans;

celebrato the solemn festivals of the their calends and their solstices; and aa to tbetr manners, thou you have retained with out any alierallon. Nothing dlstlngulihea youi from the Gentiles except you assemble apaxt| from them.” v . *'

Thjte through a long list of eminent author ities, and Mr. Alberger /onehides most truth fully that: "A brief sketch of ancient Pagan mythology wUl establish the existence of tko fundamental principles of Christianity In the remoiesl periods of antiquity."

UU answer to the question, "By whatmeans, then, did thePope and hU monks effect the

Buropean bsrbarlansf" jot of the matter: “ By political and domeslio U-

m eddling, military mis- anostollo exterminating

pimed kings." t.btxlove and peace " y . ;

is shown by Tcrtuilian, who extatically ex claims: "IloW'Shall 1 admire, how laugh, how exult, when I behold so many proud mon arebs, so many fancied gods groaning in the

jf darkness," etc.-.work !» so condense^ that it la unjust to

make extracts, but Its bold and fearless spirit may be learned from the foregoing With, clear and terse sentences, tho author fearlessly expresses bis ideas. There is no compromise There Is never an ambiguous sound. The reader rises from IU perusal refreshed and strengthened

" S h i r t l l i i i ; K n cts In M plrltuu llitlii."

HT D. VYI tUft |l

Hno, J o n im From a notic«Tin the Joun-L I perceive that a second edition of Dr.

WolfeVremarkable book is about to be pub lished I am glaJ to learn this fact, as I re gari this work, as far as the phenomenal as pects of Spiritualism Me concerned, as the mos't illustrative and demonstrative of any

under all the circumstances, the most conclu sive tests of the tnrth of Modern Spirllualtatn ever presented to the American public I am constrained to believe that, to the appreciative mind, the realities of Spiritual phenomena are more clearly demonstrated in thia book, than arc the prodigies of primitive Christian ity in ail the documents now in existence. It ia a large Volume, nearly five hundred and fifty hages. which renders the work rather expeKlivc for general circulation. It Is to be hoped that the time will come when Spiritual ists will have circulating libraries, through which their literature can be more generally

in author’ which I

remarkable for its terseness, pungency1 and in dependence. The author ts easily understood, as his Ideas arc clear and delimit) and, forcibly expressed. In reference to his oljecV-Jn pro ses ling his experience and I hough Is Yto Ifcjt- world, ho says: " 1 have Ihe honor ofTJSETrrf- on record some startling and ii_g*KT5%nt phe nomena occurring In Modcui 8|Hrl1iiallsm, which, to myjtrmd, herald the dawn of s new and ImportanriiriTXqJJiF' wornl This Is why I give them the prominence I do." "Home men have persona! ‘opinions; among them, I. These 1 h-ivo expressed without reserve throughout this volume. It is of no cons^-

but because they i of my own mind, one thing ar ’ —‘ Botherf

Make me a slave, but do not leach villain. Lacerate my back, IXjl do not brook my spirit to falsehood. I am that I am All men should speak their hraveat thoughts In the cause of tiuth.”

An Important ft-Uuro In tho history of tho "H urtling Facls” recorded in this book is the following:

Dr. .Wolfe employed Mrs Mary J. Bollii, one of the tr ust efficient and remarkable mediums in Ibe United States, al bis own expense, for more than one-fourth of her time, during a period of two whole years. The investiga tions were conducted al bla own home in Cin cinnati To theao Investigations many of the more prominent citizens of tho tjucen City were Invited, among whom were the proprie tors and reporters of the leading Joukngla*' Tbo only condition demanded of theso who attended these free circles, was that they should Uil iht truth, and make a fair report of whal they saw And heard. How far those very rea sonable terms were complied wltb, on tbo part of those who erjoyed these freeenterUln- menta at the Doctor's expense, will be seen by reading the book. v-8omo of those who are moot ready to Impeach tho testimony of Hplrit- ual mediums, proved themselves destitute of the principles of common honesty and truth. Out 11 Is all tbe belter fur the qause of true Spiritualism that it receives not honor from merely worldly men, who worship only money and fame. Their patronage could not fall to corrupt the celestial f unuins of the cause.- I wish to say In conclusion, to all the read er* of tbo J o u r n a l who may attach any Im portance to my judgment, that they can not make a better Investment in Spiritual liters*

The following is a condensed list of tie principal passage* of Scripture which Tischen dorf, the late eminent Bible critic, njects as spurious. These corrected* are generally ac cepted by divines and biblical critics. lie re ject* aa undoubtedly spurious the whole story of tho woman taken In adultery. (Jokn 8:1-11 ) IJe also pronounces spurious tho passage, (John 0: 8) respecting tbe angel troubling tbo pool and the person first stepping Into it. Ho also rtjeety the fast verse In John's gospel; also

KLuke 24;7l5; also tho last twelve veraee of Mark. Ho also agrees with tbo reviser* ot the Bible union that Matthew 19; 10 and 17 ahould road, ."Master what good thing shall 1 do that I may'receive eternal life? And he said unto him, why askest thou me concerning the good? There ia none good but one, etc." Of the d o l ing word* of the Lord’* prayer (Matthew 0: 13) "For lh<no I* the kingdom and the power and tho glory (or ever, Amen," he says they were neither written by Matthew nor spoken by Ibe Savior, although they are hallowed by tho, old (acred usage of tho church." In reference to t Tim* 3: 10, he tty s the apostle did cot write "God was manifest In the flesh." 1 John Of 7 la he thinks, undoubtedly'apuriou*.

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opportunity to let you know thus 1 do noli went you to tend mo your Infidel papcfhny longer, I have nulrostl but two or throe of the climbers you hive already sect mo, and what few I dul read made me think that the to who write auch blasphemous language, ought to be hanged by thp neck until they are dead I dead!I

- Uiiui Ma r y K Dihiu.k

Individual*, like nations, may be divided into distinct classes, via.,—enlightened, civil ised, half civilised, barbarous, and savage The enlightened are those who ascribe to God the possession of a philanthropic spirit'; who en terrain the ides that he never place*, either in this world or the next, a single obstacle in tbe way of those who desiro to reform. Illicoun- tenancy Is all ablaze with benevolence, and ho never frowns on the erring; uever points the finger of scorn at those who are wallowing In tho filth of licentiousness, and he needs no law to compel him to act Justly towards e!).\Ills mind is-towering in II* grandeur, noble in 1 uur its aspirations to alievlsle the pisforlunes of humanity, and hia presence sheds sunshlno over those who nywd encouragement.

It is necdletfto e^_ that there are very few that belong to tbatolaaa, ihe truly enlightened!You will not find them In Ibecbnrchevf stand ing In a pnlpit beautifully ornamented, read Ing out of golden bound hymn-book* and Bibles, and receiving a salary of teo or fifteen thousand dollars a year. They /teaplM c sien- tallous religion; they turn with horror from extravagant outlays in building towering steeples, and they oppose the employment of

^fiTiXiO ministers of the Gospel to promulgate asystem of moral ethics which neither feeds the hungry nor clothes the naked. Ue feels kindly, however, towards all humanity. Hta magnanimous heart knows nothing of real- bple towards a feilow-belog. He loves the er ring minister in the pnlpit who promulgates false theories and advises unwise (.radices, equally as well as the culprit who forfeits his life at the demands of an outraged law I The little curly-haired girl, p i th , rosy features and •parkilog eyes, who has fallen Into evil ways, he lovea with a pure devotion, and with all the appliances that he can bring to hear, he tries to redeem her 1 Ills love Is as broad as the universe, an<T his aspirations only to do good. His labors lit behalf of the unfortu-- n*l« is one contlant prayer. Thq sermon he preaches consists of good deeds, and hia nil* gion embraces all humanity .within its ample folds. Hn feels kindly towards hLs enemies; he would assist those who bale him with tho same tmUe.beaming on his angelic features that characterises him when ministering wants of those he truly respects. Indeed, no p v t can picture the beauty of hi* nature.

We.oome now to to o th e r extreme, the sav age. Uhe may bav* the appearance of'an an gel. tbe maiesty and bearing or Queen Elisa beth, the aUractlveneM of an Anne Boleyn, and the winsome ways of a Cleopatra. Her •miles msy be as pleasant as the suoahlue, and her voice as sweet and clear as the melodious notes from an Jixllan harp, and yet she may be a savage. The.one tkho wichea to aee those hanged who diOer wit* her In opinion, can

„not be ranked with the enlightened, clvtlisid, half civillshd, or barbarous; bnt she is a first- class'savage, whose aspiration* are as low, vile and damnable as those possessed by the Indians, who tie their victim to a tree, and then after piercing hi* flesh with poisonous ar rows, apply the burning torch to the wound*. In the beet of fiery passion a man may mil murder; under the influence of pulaonons liquor* he may perpetrate an awful crime, and bengarded as a living monster. For# such there la m b s excuse, and from our Inmost ■onl w* p llj him. But the woman who is devilish in nature; who Is-so lost to all rvflned fqellngs that the Would delight lu seeing those hanged-by the neck who difler with her in 'opinion. Is a fiend, an impure monster, a devil Incarnate, t hydra headed serpent In the shape of a female, n walking mass of bad aspire-

lions, s combination of. all the foul stenches tha t ever collected together tn tho pools pf li centiousness; a human being with the heart of

vulture, the aspirations of s hyena, the tongue of a viper, the rspaclousnoss of a wclf, antKtbe devilishness of a malicious mon key I Wish that a human being -might be hanged by the neck until deadY O h! iebat on unboly wish. What ah unqbarilablo oxpres-

What a devil in heart one must'be, to forth on the wings of The wind s wish—

s prayer—of that kind, to rhyerbcralc in the corridors of heaven, and touch angel hearts that always are tremulous w ilt loving sympa thy (at t!..' humanity I

TUB AH JVE LKTTKU ^__ Miss,” perhaps j u t blooming into

womanhood, and moving in society, where •bo'wishes to be esteemed, ready to put a rope around the neck of those whom (ho considered

erridg, and cruelly murder them! llat-we wish no person any llL We would

r^oi bang her; we would not injure a hair of • 1 — w outdpot pul an obstacle in tbe

way of net happiness; on tbe contrary, we pray •he may restrain her impetuous nature,

cultivate her benevolence, until she can truth fully say, *’ 1 lovo'all of God’s creatures, amt prsy from my lnmcst soul that all may be re deemed, and be made happy."

The statement that certain peisona who dif. fer with her in opinion ought to bo hanged, is

horrible reflcdltun of one’s nature. It is not the erring one who drifts from tbe palhaof vir tue, and occupies a room in a low brothel, that are the woisl beings living. You may visit all

fallen women tn the City, and csdnjdy talk with them, and not one will exhlbtVtho vin dictive, revengeful, despicable spirit that the

docs who writes tne above loiter. Tho Mavior forgave the Magdalen, and sbo'wered down upon her the benedictions of his smiles, but here is a woman, or a tiring, *rho scuds forth her hate towards ,Uioee4vho difler with her In belief.

roman, l^ e tho one who writes the sbuve letter, that gives birth to murderers, thieves and assassin*. No woman shuultldRe

the sacred mission of maternity who reels unkindly towards a human being. During the Ftcncn Devolutions, see the monsters that come

the world nursed by hste In the bosom of the molner. Tost woman wbo bales any one,

who would like to see those who dilDr with her in opinion, hanged until they are dead.' dead ' ! t» in no wise in a til condi-

i tne holy'conditions of married life and maternity.

r this unlortunato woman we would the veil of charity. 8be wishes our life

destroyed. We hope that she msy live to • good old sge, c l Joy all tho comforts of life, be uiaLrunitu.al in doiog good, and that the may

change that she will feel kindly towards all who difler with her Id opinion, 8hc would

to see ue strangled with a rope. Wo from inmost sonl prey that she msy never moot

such a fate that sue wishes u*. May her noble impulses, it she baa any, be awakened, and may ncr life then be aa serene as a midsum- mei’a day, and may she deeply regret that she ever thought ill of any person. We have no unkind-wish to msnUtal towards this unfortu nate woman. In.^act, wo do not bhlieve itio la as bad as her letter appears ’ We can not believe that she La a "murderer st heart. Tbe blame probably could be traced to a disrepu table minister of the Gospel, who had InalUled within her mind hia own pernicious teaching*,

induced her to write the above atrocious l e t t e r . _____________________________ ,

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T H E t / v «> S ID E S .

H p 'r itu a lism V in d ic a te d agalriH t ll ieU n ro u n d e d AN|ier»loni* of t in t I lev . T . I r t W i t t T a lm a tte , D . D ., of B ro o k ly n , N ew Y o rk , a F lnd-e lrum S o p lils t .

"A fide# witness fhalVcpl be anpaaUtied.iuo b* At sreaktth He* shall obt rlx ATbia is an sgc“uf wrftAtlonalieni. Nothing

goea down wiui the pcWlf. but that which fi calculated to startle and surprise. Tbe most popular men of tho day are hot the profound- cat thinkers,.tho greatest scholars, the moat renowned scientists, the most brilliant writers, or tho moat distingulslyMkorslors; hut the men who pander to the wrtt.-jgd taste foy sensation now so prevalent. ln*fvcry department of life this is apparent. In literature, works con taining grand and lofty thoughts dealing with tbe profoundcat problems which forco Lhenv- selves upon the human mind are little read, whilst tho trashy novels of Bliss Uraddon, and the other members of the school to which she belongs, are circulated by tcos of thousands and penned with an avidity tbsi is lamentable to witness. In poetry, bewildering rant pre dominates. and unmeaning bilderdssh is mis taken for lofty sentiment and keen penetration

laming his whereabouts. The Whole thing la reec-lvablo into a series of conjuring tricks, ef fected by means of sleight of-hand, or mechan leal contrivance^ Spiritualists are one-half fools and the other half knaves, all tho boncaly and wisdom in the world being confined to the Brooklyn Tabernacle. I fancy 1 have

'shown, In a small publication that 1 issued two " , entitled, "Bplrit Mediums and_

____one of his plays should prove an attrac tion, it is only in connection with Ihe accesso ries of scenery and show, or may bo what is called a new personification of some leading character, the newness of which cmslsta in the wretched travesty of the original, which

In science, mattcra fare but little better. The great men with the public are neither profound thinkers nor discoverers of now truths, but

----------------------------------------------- ingencca with magic lantern shqws, •• brilliant __

'pertinents," and verbal paradoxes. Philos ophy, slatcmanship. and every department of knowledge, are subject to the same rule. Beu- sstlou carries oil the pstm, and the line on the plsy-btll snnotMihlng startling eflccls, fitly do- scribee$the eruf had tn view by almost all thoso who alrnj at gratifying tho public taste. This is a UjAcplablo state of things, but so it Is. AfitiTnow wo find this same sensational- ism dominant In the pulpit, and taken advan tage of by conspicuous religious teachers. In America, perhaps, this is the case to a greater extent than in England, yet even here it would not bo dilllculi to nemo hslf-s dezsn men whose popularity depends entirely upon their persistent attempts to pander to this mor bid public taste. Tne American clergyman with whom 1 have to deal Vi-pigbt is foremost among the sensational religious teacher*. Everything that he docs Is studiod for eflect with as much 'care aa a theatrical manager

■ of hisI his

advertisement. Not content with sensational titles to his discourse* ho, in common with

other Americans, adopt the preposterous

words, selected hire and there from diflerem parts or the discourse, making them look as though they-were tbe headings of paragraphs, when in truth they mark no separato division in the sermon whatever^and are simply thus

you are perhaps aware, published week by week In this country in tho Chnttian Age, a paper which has a large circulation, and baa been until recently, respectably conducted. Bbould it continue the course, however, that ll’haa adopted within the last two or throe

In our previous issue wo gave several ex tracts from leading papers in this country, showing their views of Jesse Shepard, the musical medium. Since then we have listened to h a soul-inspiring music, end we do not think that the extracts alluded to overrate him in the least. He is really a prodigy, and we are glad to say he has made arrangements to trav el and hold seances. On Friday, Bqnday anil Tuesday Evenings, Msy Slit, 211 rd, and’ 23lb, he will hold a seance at Dr. Maxwell’s, 400 West Randolph atroeL We advise our read er* to jgo and hear him. Aa Mr. Shepard in tend* Vo travel; ll wotUd be well for Spiritual ists to open correspondence with him, with the view_of engaging his services. He may be addressed in care of this i fflcc.

i Lightatone, a Clairvoyant, teal. *ndi - u lI , linua „ f„ wlde. The merit* or healing medium, will accompany Mr. Bhep- thU elegant production you will bo able to

considerably diminished. For my own part, ' thoroughly astonished, as-well as pained,

a respectable publisher like Mr. Dfckln-__ and a liberal-minded editor like the Rev.0- Hunt Jackion. should havo allowed tho pages of their publication to become contam inated by the vile and disgraceful garbage with ■which Dr. Tslmsge has recently been feeding bis flock in Itrooklyn. Oho week wo bad an attack upon Unlveraallsm, a sermon in defence of tho eternity of hell, containing not the smallest vestige of argument, or the slight est trace of reason or logic, but consisting ex clusively of misrepresentation, denunciation and abuse. Next, an attack was made on UniUrianfsm, about which Dr. Talmago knows as little as he does of good manners and gentlemanly behavior, and last week Bplritualism came in for an amount of scurril ous abuse from this gentleman, which eclipses everything that ho has done before. The tut- mon was entitled the " Religion of Gho*t*; • Denunciation of BplrituaUsm,” and a denun- ’elation it certainly Is with a vengeance. Bel- dom, Indeed, haa anything so villainously false as many Of the statements contained In it Issu ed from a Christian minister.

The religious sensation-mongers-----------Id S r " ---------------- Jhave considered it so unusually .good as to be

deserving of wider cLroaUtlop than it could obtain in tbe ('.’.ruftan Age, add they have consequently issued R In a separate form, and .distributed it far and wide. The merits of

by Dr. T(image, are some of them very curious and novel. Beveral of them might be answered by being placed one against the other, so (lately do lh«y contradict eaoh other. All

norant be I* of tho entire ___________ ____he apeak*. If the large numbers of peopl* wbo assemble Sunday after Sunday In the Brooklyn Tabernacle are satisfied to waste their Umo in listening to such a display of Ig norance, slander, malignity and falsehood, we can only pity their taste and hope for their ultimata Improvement. BerinOps redolent of vnlgarlly, coarseness and slang, -and overflow ing with false and calumnious statements re-

the word, the superior* of tho preach er, may please the depraved taste of a gaping mob, but can hardly redound to the honor or the minister, the credit of the church, the edi-

mriatimI — Bnnm r+uait u an m ro em ox f r o -

d c c x d nv t r ic k e h y . Dr. Talnudge remarks: "Nine hundred slid ninety nine out of every

thousand schlaviDenU on the part of spiritual " '

found to have been madsby an Iron {febclt that went heavily over tbe fleeh,. not tearing It, but so disturbing the blood, that it came up tn great round Utter*. Tbe witnesses of th* eeaneeabave looked the door, put the key tn tbeir pocket, arretted the operator, and found out by searching tbe room, that hidden lever* moved Ue tables. Tbe sealed letters U at were myster iously read without opening have been found to hare bean — -* **---■•*-------* **— -

leavy blank*! over his head,

coaid reed a book, baa been found to have had a bottle of phosphoric oil, by Ihe llghtof which any body can read a book: and ventriloquism, and legerdemain, and sllght-of-hsnd. and optical Sr- lu«lj>n accounts lo r nearly everything. Deception being the main staple of By I ritualism no wonder It •booses the darkness.”

Of Coupee, this is all clear enough, andi bo understood, o this ihe only

easy y ol>

? .* * " 1Conjurors," that this theory of legerdemain is utterly Incompetent to caplain the phenomena that take place in the spirit circles, l’robably Dr. Talmage has net teen my publication; Iwill take care, however, that liu b*i a copy of it with this discourse. Not that it Is very im- portsnt. for, m we shall see presently, bo dis proves the conjuring theory himself. Tho statement about producing tho letters ~~ ” ‘

It is,however, preposterous lu the extrerr sucly eflect can be produced by any ni stanoe, cither Iron or wood, as is here dcacrib-

Let Dr. Taimage try the experiment for himself. Let htm’tako s nail, or any piece of blunt'iron, in the'form of certain letters, and then compare the result with the writing that makes its appearance on the arm of Mr- Foster, the medium, and be will see bow to tally uuilke they ale. Even were they, how-

o appears of a do-, ...._______ ss never heard. Ine case of Liman Blanchard, who visited Mr.

pany with sumo friends—well known public men—the medium had no idea who his visitors were, and yet the name William Blanchard— Mr. Liman Illancbard'S father—appeared up on Mr. Foster’s arm, end afterwards the fig ures 27 came urn upon his hand, in answer to the question of how many years Mr. William Blanchard bad been in the Bpirlt world Tne loiter* appeared In Ihe presence cf tba visitors and faded sway before their eyes. Clearly rfb theory shout scratching the arm with an iron pencil i t of any avail here. And still more wonderful casts than this sro rccurded of Mr. Foster, as happening in Dr. Talmsge’s own country, on the authority of men wbo are above suspicion. > A recent Instance has been published by Dr. Eugene Crowell, of New York, which Dr. Talmage and other people who adopt the iron pencil tboory would do well to coneldor. Tho caso, ns recorded by Dr. Crowell, .is a* follow*:—Ho visited Mr, Foster unannounced and unexpected, and took his teat without saying one word, further than That ho desired a seance. On Mr. Foster'

____________visitor was, Dr, Crowoll wrotoon a paper tho question, ” What is the name of my Urstborn child?" Whereupon Mr. Foa ter hared bis arm immediately, end there ap peered upon tbe clear skin tbe letters formed before hie eyes in scarlet, E. W. C. Tliceo being tbe correct initials of the name of the child to whom the question referred, and who had passed away at the ego of about four years, Dr. Crowell Inquired If the full neino could be given, when the medium immediate ly seized a pencil, and wroto Eugene Whartonly seized a pci—.. ,____________------------------Crowell' The Doctor remarks in refereecc to this:—'' There aero but iwo persons this sideof the grave who knew tho m lddlo-------th(s:«rersons were the parents of tbe child " What becomes of Dr. Talmago's iron pencil theory in the face of such facta aa these? The nonaenso talked about the lovers that inovodtho tables the phosphoric oil, ventriicqulam and legerdemalu, all go to show tho thorough ignorance of this clerical critic. Had ho taken the (lightest trouble to investigate the sutjecthe would have seen the utter impossibility of producing wbat are called spiritual phenome na by means of any kind of conjuring: To tell us who have seen these manlfettallons oc cur in our own house*, in the midst of our own family circle*, in the absence of ventriloquism, phosphorlo oil, and mechanical contrivance, that clumsy jugglnvy has anythin? to do with the matter Is an Intuit to our Intelligence. Dr. Tslmsge knowmolhlng whatever of the sub ject about wblcb he talks, u d his sermon is only another Illustration of Avery old aphor-

Tbero came a wise man and a fop); thewise man heard, Investigated and decided; the fool decided."

Il.-bplniTPAI.ISM ts A tlAt-LPClNATION PRO oucao BY SATING HOT MINOR FIR, AND TO BR oURBliHY UlhluUB m x d ic ik b . Too Brooklyn preaenrr proceeds:— -

strange and unaccountabiitime had a touch

ago, after 1 hsd t>*_____ ________ ___---- jthlng Indigestible before retiring at night,after retiring I saw the president of one of the prominent colleges astride the foot of 11 ‘

n over tempted t

while he demanded of cue a loan of five, cents'

, ________ see strange things at night, tostop eating hot mince pie and take a dose of btl- Iqus medicine. It Is an outraged physical, organ- fsm, and, not to deceive the very elect »ft## <m-down, does nearly-11" - ----*■'■ -.witch of Endor hel the wltchea.

This Is to resolve the wholtf thing in ti e dis ordered imagination. Bo, then, conjuring tricks after all, despite the parade thet has been made of them, will not serve to aid In solving the problem. We should bo glad to bo informed how any phenomena can be at the same time dblecllvo trickery and subjective il lusion. Dr. Tslmsge, in resorting to these two methods of explanation, simply refutes himsdlf. Usd be adhered to one or the other, hs might have clang to it and preserved his consistency; but in advancing the iwtl he dle-plsye his utter incapacity for reasoning and proves too moob. Worse sljU, however, he bks more Ibeorie* yet, ee wo shall see as weproceed. Now what are we to uuderslanfijiy this miserable balderdash about " hot mince

i," and “ billon* medicine-," elegant subjects, all Uulh, to Introduce Into a sermon pro

fessedly evangelical to' tne highest degree. Talmage waa templed to eat something II mil-

credit; bail he been — _________________probably have’paid some mention to the lavra of diet—and then went to bed and dreamed of a retiring President silting astride his bed stead, begging for lhaloan of twopence-bair penny. In the morning he awoke, and hid not, he tells ns, the sllghteet idea that any thing supernatural hsd occurred. 4beat heavens! How marvelous, to be sure, to.tfiick that a man should eat too much •upp ty gtt to bed and dream of tho Preeldent of a'tolleg* begging him to lend him a faw cuppers and

*------ ooncludo that something su pernatural had happened I Verily, this Dr. Talmage must really be the Sapientvm oclamu But what has all this pnlpit twadula to do with--------- *-*—- * ---------- ghl -* - —■*" -

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BplrituaUsm? Indeed, one might ssk with a good show of reason, wbat haa It to do with religion? Spiritualists do not -------

__ When all concerned are wide awake.Nor do medium* select night. In order ur work their mhrvel* under cover of the darkness, many of them having

..... of Imagination, tho mediums— or witettoa, ss Dr, Talmage chooses to call them—havo lit tle, indeed, to do with tho matter. If wo are the victims of hallucinations, ■ then no medb urn* are required, since tho " hot mince pie," and tho indigestion which follows, can accom plish everything that is required. The theory of imagination is, however, a thousand times more absurd than the hypothesis of deception. To say that sober, respectable, rational, dla- TAMlonr*- — - *— ■*— * -------■*•-**visional*, cool-headed, intelligent » > , . . . . a-dozen at a time, imagine thatthey-aec things which have no existence, Is to set aside all the laws of evidence, and lu tender certainly In-- .. .... . . .t slmplo matters utterly imposslbl

, siys in reference,to s large number of tbe facts and niaolfalalloiv*' upon which Bpir- ltualism is based: "H ere is evidence whichin any court of jualice in tho world would be held to be coqelujiv* proof of (As /net aaserte 1 by the witnesses, whose honesty and* capacity nobody has questioned. If so palpable a fact aa tho motion of an untouched table can not bo received on the testimony Of so many, ob servers, specially charged with the (July of

cry. All IIlenco a mock-

denied, for not one of them is establL bolter evidence Ilian is tbia fact of motion without contact " Now, Bcrgcant Cox is -a judge in a criminal court, *Dd should be, there fore, tolerably competent to form an accurate opinion of the v s Iu b of evidence What think you would be his opinion of a council who should endeavor to destroy the evidence of a number of intelligent and impartial witnesses tn a law case by declaring thet they were suf fering from a disordered imagination caused by eating too much mince plo, as was proved by tbe fact that he himtoif all) pork chops fqr supper the night before, Sud dreamt that the Chancellor of the University of Oxford came to him, and pressed him for tho loan of two-' pence. But enough of tbio. Such imbecile drivel is utterly unworthy of notice.

I ll — SrilUTUAMSH IS Tint RESULT OF SOUR OCCULT FoilCJt, WHICH MAV UK IIRItttAFTKR OKMONftTRATBP

Dr Titlmiigwemarks:t'Somc ofij/lhe pfriormaDccs of spiritual mc l-

msj be dectonstrat-

It appears, then, that there are phenomena that caji bo aytounted for neither by trickery nor by ltnsVtnallon, but will have to remain unexplained until some occult, and st present unknown law is brought to light. We should be glad to be informed what Dr. Talmnge knows of this occult law, or tbo phenomena which It la supposed to bo capable uf explain ing. Ilo has given abundant evidence ijist be is-utterly ignorant of (ho nature of lha mani festations thst tske place In spirit circles, and

die to bo found Tn this wretched discourse. What doe* he know aboul occult law* of ns lure that may 4# hereafter demonstrated. Not being demonstrated at present, he ia clearly in no position to resort to them aa explanation! of Anything. Tbi* lhn->ry of occult law we havo met with before—Dr. Talmage has but borrowed It for the occasion—anil wo have always conaidered it to bo a miserable subter fuge for avoiding tbo conclualon to which a

\yi)»t would tbo Brooklyn preacher________sceptic who should object to the Christian mir acles upon such grounds and in such'TT spirit as be displays towards BplrituaUsm. True, the

______I __________ Christianity,especially in the Ufa of lu Founder, which I can not explain by any natural law but which, after all, are probably due to some occult force which mdu be discovered' berealier. We ven ture to that Dr. Tslmsge would call this tbo lamest of all lame argumcnU I t you ad mit the facU, bo woulu say, you arc bound to accept tbe conclusion* to which thooo facU ir resistibly lead And be would be right Eighteen hundred years ag < occurred a series of 111 id s whose cause UeouUide' the domain of natural law, known pr unknown, and which pointed unmistakably to,tho snpernat- ural. T o " - - “ ---------- — “ --------- *--------day, similar evenU happen In our____ , .md to talk about explaining them by“ occult law ” la to abo v a dealre to avoid tbo truth by a miserable subterfuge which, for

>e, may serve to bolster up a sceptical phil osophy, or a no less sceptical theology, *—*— - ------• ' ---------•—* — ■*--------the end be cruthed and overwhelmed FJr tbo advancing truth.; IVT - r BriniTDAUSM is wrrcncn*FT bor- PRHY NRCHOMANCY ANDO'HMDNION WITH TOR CNSKKN WOHLD COHDKMKBD BV G ID, AND MER ITING T1TR PUNISHMENT UF DEATH Piling Up the agony with tbe view of horrifying his con gregating on the subject of Spiritualism, Dr. Talmsgo goes on to remark:—

"Nothing In this Spiritualistic circlet of oumday has been more slrsng#, mysterious, and wonder ful than lb logs which have been seen In life post centuries of tbe world. In all tbe ages thelro have *•------------- meets, those —1-------- - —***- -

•ubj- Vs In s mesmeric •late; sorcerers, the. .---- by tsklrfitpolsboous drugs see everything,sud bear everything, and tall everything; dreamers.

astrologers, who eon read a new dispenseUoe\ l_ the stare; experts in palmistry, who can thll by the lines to tba uulro of your hsnd your origin and jour history- From a cave on Mount Parnassus, we were told, there WSJ tp exhalation thst Intoxi cated the sheep and goats that esme anywhere near it, suissC shepherd spproachlng It was .thrown by that exhalation Into an excitement tn which he could fortell future events, and hold conversa tion with the spiritual-world. Tea, before the lime of Christ the Urabmlns went through sit tbe Uble-morlng, all the fnrnttore excitement, which tho iplrlts have exploited In our (Tsy; precisely the ---- ' thing, over end over again, je d e " **■----.pulsllons of tho Rrsbmlns. Nowt do you say that Spiritualism ls'dtffurenl fromiheie?* 1 answer, all these delusion* I bare mentioned belong *-

_________Indignation. Eessys: ’I will bos *'........vagainst the sorcerer.’ Ha rays; 'Thou sb * v__suiter • witch to live.' And lest you might tsske make so the Important distinction between fiplrit- usil«m and witchcraft, God says, In —words; There shaU'nol be among----of ramlllar spirit*, or wlaird, or e< they that- do these Things are an —‘ tbe Lord.’ . And tieaayaegaln:those who seek after auch a* have famlj/arsplrlu, and who go whoring after them, I wtll aet myself

*—** * - h ‘ oil item --------•gainst them, sou n# enau iw cut on Dom among bl* people.’ The Lord Almighty, In i score of passages which I base not now time to quote, til lers Ills Indignation against all this great famllv of deloalqna. Alter that, be a BplriCfiaJUt If you dare I"

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CUAITKR''SECOND,

In our last we entered upon the considers tlan of Ibis Interesting and tmpurianl subject, and were spanking at the close of magnetic phyniclsnr One of the most miportnnt phucs of magnetic healing. an<l one that It very lit tle understood, is presence ae.'ion

It Is self cvldeul that everything has an in fluence by Its presence, and it is well known lh»t tho greater the power possetsed by any- thing, the more marked will he this presence action. In the cue of human Jxfing*, espec ially in IJic trcatpicnt of dUhatcs and in the production of three. this may be cuntidcrcd as

_______ prove that anch- .always existed, although Ita application hat been hut little understood. It Is a well-known

" fact tfcat when the good add true meet with pure and holy aspirations, they always strength en each other. It is the “ two or three gath ered In his namef that Jesus promised that the power would he with them; and it always la. AU religioua organizations have been hated upon Ibis, The idea of general prayer for the sick and for other object* U tho result of an experimental belief In thla Influence. Other organizations, even those of a- corrupt ing nature, have their origin In the samu prin ciple. The simple action of the presence of an individual, has been very little understood, We have known for a long time that there arc certain patients under oar caro who llnd in our presence and conversation that which la essential to their speedy restoration to health,

We should all learn to ' analyze carefully our feelings,"-and know whether thia presence ac tion Is bone dels] or injurious Tho aura or atmosphere around individuals, is the only means of ezplaining these phenomena. The silent Vending of these atmospheres will be beneficial to both parties when tho proper re lations subsist between them. This ie a sacred

vent any good resulta. There is no more ef fectual mode of transmitting health and strength to car fellow-beings than the presence action of thiyio whoao lives are pure In all

It Is well known that *.ho mind has a power ful tflccl In producing and removing diseases, and it is through these atmospheres that It acta. Psycbomctry, or the science of meas uring the soul of things, operates through these sphere*, and measures tbs soul of any thing by the emanations which radiate from It. In tho human being these lines radiate from all parts, bat tho most Important are those coming from the nervous system and the brain. It It to be regretted that to faw intel ligent and able observers have turned their at tention to this Important and interesting tUb-

’ Jcct. We shonld have the most careful anal]-r i p----------------- „----------------- 1 ------------ Weneed to gather the facts, to arrange and classify them so that we Bay safely mako our deduc tions from them. Dr. Buchanan, the dlscoV-

_________________still laboring In the field,yet there la abundant room for others, and a rich harvest lies within the reach of those who will bring the proper talents, energy and per severance, without prrjudloo or partiality, to bear upon this Important sntject, important In,all Ita bearings, and of the most practical ▼aloe to humanity, in lu progressive unfold- m enjht this sge, not only as a means of pro- 'venting and curing diseases, but also as that ty£ which human development (hall be carried f ir ward to the grandest and most desirable re- a tW

Front tho lofty heights of tho angel world came the loved ones, and as we are strictly careful to prepare ourselves—these physical bodies which are to become the temples of the living G od-these mental natures which are to discover the laws and principles that gov ern mind and matter, and theso spiritual na tures which arq to reach out into Infinitums and grapple with the great problems or lm> mortality and eternal llfo, their presence ac tion become! to us a grand and living reality, and brings that peace and love which crowns life with its highest glory. >

It is essential that we should understand this, for we ire .to select the presence action, not only of oar fellow beings In this life, but In the so gel world; and In that selection we tbsll find that which shall either sink us In the soils of being; and render oar lives unhappy and unprofitable, for the time being ,st loan, or that which shall make them ^gloriously beautiful, and fit ua for the companionship of the angel*, even while Journeying In thla life of mutability. Let>ua giro heed to the study of these atmospheres that are around us, for we may rest assured they are the reflection of the Interior conditions from whence they come, and let us so Uve that we may discriminate olearly and wisely upon these. This subject la as boundless t s infinitude. We can only

I a^few points, snd^lf we^have^ opened

Uful lews, we ehall bo glad, lies befure in U fall of grand possibilities. The whole future of' Immortality la to be fhe

world In which we efe, ss really t h e ___workers now as «< ever shall be, and if- we do oar parte faithfully and earnestly, we ttrell have our heaven hero and now In as perfect re ality a i we can possibly receive It.

A b s t r a c t o f a L e c tu r e by L y m a n C. Ilo itre^ in t L in c o ln H u ll, P h l la -

\ d e lp h ta .

\ J ravocATips.Oh! thou whoettoi

wo-would open the

. , ___ j»s»y to pul »-urs we.uid collect these

words Into holy sympathy with our devotion, and meet face to face with the unseen and in finite who feed up ov thy love Our Father, we ask only to be drawn nearer to iby pur- noses, and to understand thy faw, that s-ur hearts may serve thee, and so may know a rising from rho-raorta! into the light and sweet ness of the immortal,' tho Inrlulte, and thus baptized with life and sweetened with wis dom, our thoughts shall tipn.es the purer of godliness, and in them tby will Bbaji ire done,

run miss io n o r mk d iu ms h ii’.What is the presenj position of Jesus Christ

in the Bplrlt-worldf In answering all ques- lions wc endeavor to mjjte them consistent with your understanding and your knowledge. We'might ssy many things which would be true, bat without evidence that satisfies your reason they would not convince you. Our uh- ject is to give yon such truths, and in sucl^i manner as will convince your Judgment, and then they become food for your souls Hence In all these subjects we tabor in the first place lo establish our positions by appeals to your own knowledge, your uwn Apericncc, your own convlctlups, slid then wo may lead you into realms unexplored, which, though you may not fully indorse, you will be enabled more correctly to grapple with, from having the ground work laid In your materia) life. What can we reason but from what *------ ‘

. . . _ authoritywhich we can call out of nature Sn 1 ------------

.souls. We do not wish our declai binding, but rather suggestive, «_ . __

Sway they will be profitable. The terms, dtumsbip, or medium, or mediator, are nearly synonymous. To mediate Is to go between, to act or alaud bet ween two parties; a mediator is one who occupies Ihu medium position be tween opposing parlies, to reconcile these.Theology has believed In and taugbt medium, ship In this sense at least ever arnce Ibe days of Jesus. Even before that M ors was recog nized as a medium, standing between the re- ______________hellions Israelites and God, and *• Mohammed / , , ,andJLbe Pagan thcol. gists were S H re c o g g J^ pooPlt‘_ medium*. ___ _

All mediums are not alike iQsJsVtfarealikc. Homo are higher lu their, 'ftfcto , and some lower; eurne stronger and some weaker, de- pondcnC-ujirm^the constimional ipialities, both of mind imd body, also sbmewhal dependent upon the forces from above which are able lo control them ouly in accordance with law. Jesus said it Is not I that speaketh, but the spirit that speaketh in me He believed be was a messenger sent by God on a certain mis sion. He also believed In spirits—angels, and their power to aid and direct his life. He not only hottoved In thla, but ho proved his belief by his practice, Ua healed the sick;devils. He exhibited bis clairvoyant p iwoiA, and astonished tho multitude by bla wonder ful Insight. Hosroke as tfae having authority. He declared that be could pray to his Father aud he would send him twelve lcglobi of an gel*. lie demonstrated Ills tuediumsblp in the transfiguration upon Ibe mount, when Moses and Elias panic and talked with him, What they said has not been handed, down ----------- re told that It wa* knotari lo those

to bring together ibe seemingly distant and antagonistic world of matter and lha world of mind. It is progression. It it tounfoWevcry human soul from the seen to the unseen; from tho tangible' lo the intangible; and thus to demonstrate a future life as a continuation of this life—lo prove that tho human soul retains Ita identity In that life The mission of mo- dlumahlplt not only to bring tho angels in rapport with man. nut lo bring man Into a consciousness of their presence, and also to satisfy him that it Is by and through natural law. There Is a discipline In mcdlumahlp that may not be at all understood. It may amV - sometimes does plunge the Individual into ex treme suflering, but their fccliifgi are enlarged, and they have a broader range of life, a keener appreciation of all the relations of life; they feel more for humanity In tho flesh and out of it, bul when tfmv come under the cloud of hu man wcaknesa iney sutler Intensely.

Medlumshlp may be said to be a new thing In one sanss, as It wa* so little understood prior to the advent of Modem Spiritualism; the name was applied within the last quarter

There Is no branch of Modi

____ identandlng and improper treatment hasbeen greater than from any olhar cause. When wo come to understand more of the laws, which govern this, and dan appreciate Ita value — *-------- "------- J '----- will be respected, t i

the y should be; then ie to be a far greater

, the Individual*, .but lo_______ u* pray for that harmony andpurity ot'lflh-ihat shall 'develop in all of ns those ifiedlomlitlc powers and qt will bides the world, and by spreading tbs

will mcdlumahlp ci

those rfiedllfrnlitlc powers anif qualities that will bides the world, and by spreading tbs glo rious truths of Immortality before mankind, tend lo bring about that condition in w^fch peace and harmony shall reign. I would say to LU mediums, stand firm for the right and the true, though we may often have to sutler. Let ns remember that this has been the expe rience of mediums lu all agei, and out of these trials tnd suflerlugs has come the pro gress of Individuals and of the race.

.B am crl W atson, D. D., anthor of the- "C lock"aerie*of books, and editor of tho dipt rtf uni Vagatint, is making a lour through the femth. He lectured on Bpilitnaltsm at Bryan, Texas, on the evening of t the 17th ult.

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Tncit merit has placed West’s Pulmonary llalsam foremost in the ranks of proprietary compounds. Our experience teaches US that for the rapid euro of coughs, colds, soar throat, asthma, bronchitis,Influenza, whooping courIi and consumption, there is no remedy thnt gives such general satisfaction as Weal ! mer.ary llalnsm. All drugguata sell 11. Ttlal bottle*. i!i and 30 ccitls. Large bullies f I 00.

j n ," March MJ. 1C75.^ y M y N sro i Mns. A, HrHoiilNaoN.

My DttAK F u is n u a n u » is t *b — to n may perhaps remember I wrote yi u last HeptemU-r in regard lo my own bcaUn. 1 am bappy to inform you that through your aid and that of your guides I have entirely recovered my lost health- I do sincerely think that 1 shonld now be in Bnlril-life, Only b>r you. Your raising me lo health la what Induces a friend of mine to send to you now. Bhe la a poor woman and can only send you two dollars at this lime, but says sha will try aq j seed you more as soon as she can. Her family are all Beveo day Advent ista. and are bitterly opposed to our besutirul faith, hence bar getting me to write for her. Bhe also desires you to send the prescriptions lu my name or lo me. I Want you to do the very best you cau, for she has been to several physician! here without receiving any benefit whatever, and her family belag so opposed to

.Epirituiliam, I want yon to show them a lit tlo what the spirits can do. [Then followed a description of her case]

1 will Incloeo an order of two dollars and a lock of he /hair. I have become partially de- veloj»4with)n a few weeks and havo been tblnklngthat.it might help me If 1 were lo send to you for some more of your magnetized paper*..’ Please let me hear from you as soon as possible, as my Mend will wait anxiously for a letkr. Direct to Mrs M. A Leonard, MansUjjfTWisconsin. Gratefully yours,

A CAU or CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF TUK STOMACH CURED.

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Mna. Ho u in s o n , Chicago, I II , De a h Biv t e ii; —Your leUes-daud me l.Vb of this month, with magneflzotfpapcra, Is a t hand. My wife Is now well, and the remedies abe takes will last about two days more. Bhe thinks that she will get along without taking any more. Inclosed you will find a posloffice .order for $3.00. Please accept thla with best thanks 1 remain yours in truth,

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RO MOM FALl.LNO OFF OF lUS HAIR.Mr s . A. H. Ro b in s o n , CnicAao, De a h Bis

TkRi—I do not know as It la necessary for me to send for now magnetized papers, Since I began to use your remedies my hair has quit coming out. You have done me more good than all other doctor* I have over tried, and they are many. May you continue lo be sue ' ceasful In your noble work. If you think that I should wear new magnetized papers longctrT-sball do so. Tours trnly.

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tX'CClfED IIIM, AND I! WANTS IT TO ---- •" . SELL.

Ta m* C rrr Tama Oo., Iowa, 1 March 14th, 1875 {

Mr *. A. U.. Ro b in s o n :—1 seal to the Hml ig io Ph il o s o ph ic a l P u l l is b in o Uo c s z , , Chicago, In February, for a box of yonr tobacco antidote, which came In due time. 1 followed

Al^e directions on the box, and It hail cored the hankering desire for tobacco on me. I would

Jtty , tobacco cbewort, try It. It will core yon. I w u t the agency of Tama County, Iowa, to MU your tobacco antidote. I think I can sell a good deal of It th is coming year. I shall make a builncM of selling I t How much will It cost me a dozen boxcar

Hoping to how from yon toon, I remain,W. F . Bu r l e y .

Chicago, April l?th. 1878.a A.-& IV niNsoN.

benefit of humsnity. The placing of her name before the public is by request of her Control ling IWn.l They, through her organism,treat all anti core to every Instancewhere the vital organs necessary to continue life are not destroyed. Mrs Morrison is an Un c o n s c io u s t r a n c e me d iu m , c l a ir v o y a n t

AND CLAIRAUDIKNTFrom the very beginning, bore.ts marked as

a most remarkable career of success, such as has seldom if cwr fallen to the lot of any per son. No disease seems tyo insidious lo remove, nor pallant too far gone tb be re stored.

Mr* Morrison, becoming entranced, the lock of hair is submitted to her control Tho diagnosis is given through' her lips by the Hand, and taken down by her Bi^retary. The original manuacrlpl is sent to the Correspond enl. . ,

When Medicines are ordered, the cSso is- submitted to Mrs. Morrison's Medical Hand, who give a prescription suited lo the case, Her Medical Hand use vegetable remedies, (Which they magnetize!, combined with a scientific application of the magnetic healing power.

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I.iiw , a n il t lin (Man ol S a l ta t io n .

Wo have liken the polion, m l wo ibow our good lento, u prompted by the revelation* of the law. In our ttycrv'alion* or experience! In not Iciiog time by males* prayer* and repin ing*, t ut by lending for a phyilclm to aiaial nature l,a restoring ua from the Wrong we have thus been made to culler This suflering il the linger poll of the law by the pool of death, pointing to the path of life and true hajfplncaa. l’&ln is the voice of the law admonishing ui to obey. True pleasure !■ but the law calling ns to tho pnthi of peace, which wlidom has strewn with the awcet dowers of a contented and connqucntly happy mind

Again, ai a farther lllutrsllna of the r fleet* of the violation of the law, cither willfully or

__ la not only tbo beauty, but la peerlcai inher example, aa being diacreet and virtuon* Mothers mention her name with pride to their daughters, as one wcrlhy of their imttanqa. Here, also, is the model young man, ono to whom boptfnl and anxious parents Ifdhl. as a pattern of evtfo manly grace, and laslt their sonpto emulate bis faultiest example. In all tbe'ptrty each ono vies with tbo otifer to see how much of pleasure they may gather from the inspirations of the hour, by following to ■he music of tbo viol the ever changing ateps if the waltz, polka or qoadriUe. '■'Foremost

___________________| ___over theface of their hodica la dllluacd a warm moist ure. The music ceases, and all retire from the floor to rest and refresh themselves. This

pouring In with a temperature far below zoro. What Is the consequence* In vulgar phrase, they tike a violent cold. The result 1 Incip lent consumption. The sequel f Continued: consumption and death. And does it matter, so far as the finale is concerned, whether they, In their joy of each othcr'a society, thought lessly, or that they knowingly committed this violation of the law of health f Thejr die, and tho reverend minister come* to pay the last sad tribute of teapot to departed worth, cut down so young, and he, with deep clerical era- phials, exclaims: What a wonderful diipen-aallon of divine providence I Death lovsa a shining mark, a signal blow, which, whllo it execute*, alarm*; and preache* a lengthy sermon upon the awful tin of dancing, and warn* the young people,to abalaln, for death il on their track, and as an evidence of Ootl’a displeasure at auch unholy amuaementa, he baa snatched tho falreat' flower* from their gar den of delights, and nipped the moat promis ing bud* from their »ocl*l roacbod. Obi the awful ifia of indulging In inch idle pleasure* Clod ha* spoken, beware I Look at the beautl- fnj face*, so recently tho life of your sinful gathering* Stop in your mad career, before it shall be everlastingly too late. And so he will go on to the end of the chapter or whatN the law has revealed aa nonsensical nonsense;

Don of thoughtless ignorance, o praanmptuon* improvidence on their part.

'Instead of lir'Seinjftan evidence teat d love* a shining mark, it la an evidence that beauty nor worth command any mercy from the law, but that all who dare Itaconaeqaenoe* will reap It* eflccta. Jt is no respecter of per- eoni; and Instead of it* being an awful slu to dance, we know that In . tho act of dancing there la no more harm nor tin than there is in

........................ ■ ‘ il-------------- gldeath upon themselves by disobeying, elihi knowingly or Ignorantly, an ImporlanVUaw of

Jkeir bodily health. If knowingly, tboy com- -m illed suicide. If ignornntly. It was their

misfortnne, probably occasioned by their giv ing more heed to the teachings and command- menu of men, like the preacher referred to, than by learning the lesion* of a trde life, as taught by their own experiences and observe-' lions.

We have sometime! thought that ministers w odd be doing a vast deal more of good if, Instead of continually talking to the young and old, .particularly the young, to much about dying, and presenting the pale hone and hia rider, the akeloton flgi|fe qf Time with his forelock, with scythe ready tq cat thetn down at any moment they wonld teach - them the law* of life and health and how to live, and thus have good bodies, in which they might develop good aouls; and Inatead of warning them against the awful sin of danclpg, tell them the truth, that tbero la not a blessing, privilege, or pleaturo 'which we may par ticipate in or et joy, but that may. be mado a curse to ua by our abuatng II It is not in. dancing or lc.any other amusement* that con- alsU iboiln , bnl It U In carrying them to ex cess. They would do much more good by teaching them temperance in all thing*. I t they would teach parents how to properly gen erate their ctl spring, the children wonld never need regeneration, but would lead pore, holy and consistent Uvea, tree from crime and lu consequences. •!

We,sometime* thigh it would he better for the children who attvhd'Bunday schools, if their ■nperintendenu, Instead of reqnlrlng-them to commit passage* of Scripture which neither understand, would learn themselves, and teach the children where their bralna are and what they are for; where their hearu are, and tbelr use*, where tbelr stomachs are, and their < dice In the perpetuity Of life, and the harm fuW - fecUot Improper rood and drink; and telrfch them the use of every Member of their bodies, their hand* and feet, anfl the positive conse quence* of an improper us* of any and every

-part of. their physical system: in fact, to teach them 'bow to properly develop them- •elve* physically. We believe little, If any,

yoeog. If Bundny acbooUfllcersond teachers would taka this course, are believe crime would cease, and .they might thus assist In the salva tion of dw race. Open the door* to the knowledge of the true principle* a -d applica tion of law, and impress these truths upon the minds of the oomlng men, and error and an- Dentition will vanish like mUU before Use ris ing sun. Healthy bodies would give us healthy souls, and healthy souls would harmonize the world, and disease, moral or physical, would be Midbin If ever known, and when discov ered, the remedy to save would be at hand In the form of a course of mental or physical regimen, which would bring the unfortunate Into harmonious relations to the law. Love would lie the keystone to the archway of Ilfs, and modesty and virtu* wculd be faithful at tendants to opes the gate to the elytlsn fields of purity and happiness.

When we enter the moral field of action, the ■ aw goes with us there also wilb its ever true revelations; snd it tells us there are two con sequence* entailed upon its violation, or per haps we duty say but one, with a dltlcrent de gree of intensity Tho one i»-regret; the other remorse, which may in reality Op regret Intensified. Regret is the copkequcorO of .the sin committed in ignorance/ remorse the con sequence of our willfuPsifia, and the depth, force and duration of our'regret or remorao will be In proportion to lh,c knowledge we any possess or acquire of the, just claims of the law of right which we may ' -------___ I __ e violated.We bave been taught that we tqn sin against Ood^but we fail to comprehend how It Is pos sible, by any means whatever, lo r finite being* to bong themselves Into such a relation to an inflttjlo being, as to malign, traduce. Impugn or trespass upon him to his ir jury. There * wo can not admit tbo assertion as true, more especially when the social law of the family brolhtrhood of mankind reveals to us that ev«y time we sin, violate tho moral law, wo,dliEcr sin against ourselves or our feUow- mhn, Snd generally against both. Wo can not

‘ain against Uod. Our arm Is too short to do him ir jury, Onr thoughts are too feeble to cope with the infinite. We can not qnarrel with the Deity, dpr e t w e disturb bis peace, nor moveTnfinlte love to Ire, so that we shall need to conciliate 'o r make peace with him. Conciliation and peace making applies to our selves. We arc the setors,'and If wo sin we arc the eutlercrs. The wrong ts in ourselves, and we mast make It right with each other 80 the law revcalrit to us, If we will rightly interpret Its manifestations. In the moral plane of action it bold* ns responsible to each other, end to ourselves, for every act, however trivial. Il is just upon this plane, aa well as upon every other. We are its subjects, snd we must obey or we must endure tbe conic- qnccces of our disobedience. There la-so for giveness. v

At first thought to our minds, pnJudliSrd by our esrly teachings, this may nut seem true. Rut let us see. We may live in a community until they are perfectly confident that we are a lover of peace,gtwd order and right We may learn that a man by the name-of Jhmo* Reid ia coming from a place in which we formerly lived tocatabllih himself in some business or profession among this people. Wo know him, and as a person Interested in tho best good of society, we warn the people against him. Wo tell Ibotu that bo Is not a fit associate for young men, for hia footsteps lead to tho pllbca where the streams of liquid damnation are poured tn at the mouth to burn up all tho fitter sensibilities of tho soul, and that hit mouth

-lbs and Billingsgate slang.____ , _______ the. proper companion for

tholr yonng ladle*, because hit lips utter guile and his words are seductive. He ia lax in hia morals and prono to evil. We leave the place for six month* and return. Wo meet a friend. He says to us, you mutt have made a serious mistake. The man James Reid baa come here and (itabliahed himself in business, snd he ia the exact counterpart of what you have------------- . . -T# proaj 0f blm._____________________ 11 of our youngpeople at least twenty five per cent, by blapersevering eflorlsln Interesting them in things entirely above the nonsense so common In fathionablo life. He has made them to too that the cultivation of their minds ia of far more consequence than fine dress or merely

j» t* ldo appearances. Just at this point In onr conversation a stranger appears, and It Intro duced as Mr. James Reid, the man we were Hiking about. It la not the man to whom wo referred, but who of all the community knows it, save ourself and him* Wo have traduced hit character unintentionally, and bow do we feel* Have we tinned against Ood, or him* It it blip against whom we have tinned. We can bnt reel-to regret it, and the depth of this regret it In propor’Jon to what w* kno'w or may learn of the lcjurywo have done' him. But, and if, supposing we-had known him to to Just thn man he la and hat proved himself to be, acd from mtiice or jealousy we had told tkll tamo story of warning to prevent bit being re ceived there to supplant or rival os, then bow would the case stand* Uomoree, keen, know-

totae, mast be the consequence, Wo Inner, and we can not look him in th e

face or oven think of him without the blueh of shame and remorao tinging our cheeks,|or the stinging convictions of wrong doing going down Into the secret recesses of our conscious ness. Let us turn which way wo may, we meet the society we have wronged, or the per son against whom we have sinned, The creeds bava told ua that ail tina can be forgiven. We enter into oqt closet and shat tbe door, and whllo tho bitter tears of sincere repentance chase each Other down onr cheeks, we pray to our Father In secret, and thru with none but God to hear, we importune, until we feel, in

Im against whom we bsve sinned. The io scute Of guilt comes up to ns from our rciputness. What must wo do* Wo are

__ forgiven. . We have not tinned againstGod, add-be can not forgive ns. We cm not he forgiven. Onr only hope It In foUowlog nature-as-the law has revealed It to ua When any law has been violated, Nature's process Is to restore. We have received p wound, either by contualon or laceration. Natnre, by law, begins the cure, fever ensue* In the wound, which calls an extra amount of Oeah-maklng material to the parts, and one after another little (PObulel arrange themselves, side by tldo, until the whole abrasion la filled, the parts are restored, and ndlhlng remains but ia eschar to show of the injury. (Jin' only hope, then. Is in restoration, and the restora tion mutt be'to the party Injared. We havo not U lured God, bu tltU our fellow man, socie ty and ogr*elve*,.agalnst whom we bave tinned; our fellow-mat la that we have maligqed hit good name; society, in onr warning them against a man whose oomlng might be a bene fit to them; ourselves, by lowering onr stand ard or plane of usefulness and self-res peel,land, by canting society to lean confidence In our stability and Integrity. How moat we restore* We have asked God and be baa no t helped os. Hence, If we would be redeemed, we must re deem ourselves. Tcsre is but one way. How ever humiliating this may be, lt~ts the only true w ty by which we may expect redemption. If wa wonld occupy the plaoe in aoctely from wbenoe we have fallen, or throat ourselves, and be respected by onr fellow-mu, we mutt first go to Ute man we hare wronged end con- fosa, In the first Instance, onr regret, end in tbe second, onr remdiae at the mistake, or the........................................rhlch wo have injured

breast to him, and

remotas at , by\w hl a clejm t

intended wrong confess onr guilt, and assure them that we oroDOM to redeem. oar food name, and ask (hem to Jndg* by onr future acts whether we are In earnest and honest In' onr Intention* Ws, In this act, bava restored ooafldsnM In onreelvea to do a good act, and " - i live up to onr good promise* andvreso-____m , I* tbs oonree of lima tbs man ta d *oclety will respect and trust ns again, and wa will ba hsppy tn tba knowledge that right do

ing brings peace of mind more positively than much praying. Repeating tbe rituals of a creed may soften tbe feelings, but if we would fee! tho full pleasure of well doing, we muat work out our salvation by deeds as well as words in the every day afialra of life. But after all are we forgiven* la our tin remembered agalnal ua no more* We will find, if after months, or even years, we. in this society, shall, by an unguarded word, even accident ally, by a slip of the Up, speak that which msy by distortion bo construed as against tbit man, tho first oflonteia remembered, gad the last accidental triqtall (.flense brings it up afresb in bis memory sad before society, and wo lose our atafiUTng, ans-jiavc our first work to do over again, to bo repeated aa often as wo are so unfortunate as to tin. We are taught that God can forgive ns our sin* But do wa tin against him* Wo meet tho minister and ask him, If we steal a hundred dollars from s friend, can (iad forglWVks* lie answers yea. Bat we say. How abouujA: hundred dollars* Ho says after God has forgiven ns he will trouble our conscience that we will havepay our friend tho money. The law of right doing taya that if we pay onr friend and make it right with him, it willho right; we havestored to bltn against whom we have sinned. Tho matter rests between him and ua, and not between ua and Uod. Therefore, when we have made it right with our brother,' it is all right, and God does not trouble blmselLyboutIt. and we need not trouble him with It; Il must he settled between the parlies Interested; so taya tbe law. U also sayrthal if -we would not fall, we must-lake heed while we stand. There is no forgiveness, and at each time we fall we lessen tbo confidence of society in ua, and weaken our confidence in oursolvci. Yet if wo have confidence in the law, although wo may fall seventy times eaven, w« may rlae again, for by our experience wo have learned, that the true meaning of forgiveness it to re store, and our only Stope of peace and salva tion from tin, in every instance, ia that so soon aa we discover the wrong, to use —etlorla to restore p) tho person against we have sinned by doing deeds of repentance, and ever living in correspondence with our pretention* It is lawful tp do good at all limes, and the law says that those who do right shall have their reward. The law ts Just, snd we can trust It for our a&lvalifin. It says our every good work shall be rounds In the ladder of onr Redemption, by which we may go up higher and higher, until we may govern out passions wltp/abjsolcto sway, and walk with tho liprCTTof right In tbo fields of glory, feel-

— —-* — ~ " i g supreme a, with soul

I m S |rirltliallM tii a Se lene** /

Science, from too to know. In a general enae means knowledge; and knowledge ia a 'clear and certain perception of that which

exists, or of truth and fact.'' In a special aenae a science Is a collection and systematic arrangement of tho facts belonging to a sub ject. Facts arelunalterabto and indestructible entitles, and equally cognizable by all aano minds under similar circumstances. Hence tho more evident the facts sustaining a theory, tbo more Unanimity among all classes in ila adoption.

Not faith, nor theory, bnt facia, are tho de mand of this invistlgatlog ago. liven tho church la reading the signs of fhe times, and its loaders are using all possible (Hurts to rec oncile rellgicw with sciecce. They recognize the fact that what can not be reconciled with

ience Or.put on a iclpnUflc bails will sooner r later go down In this scientific ago.It Is at this lacctnre that Sr>lritu*liam cornea

on tbo stage and cballengsathe attention of tho world. Il claims to demonstrate man's im mortality, and hia relation to a future slate, by living facts, instead of basing these ques tions on old and doubtful /ecorda as tbe church doe* Hitherto the converts to Spirit ualism bave been chlefiy among the masses, but few scientific minds giving’ tbelr attention to it. This arises from several causes, tbe chief of which are. the radical position of Spiritual- ‘im against tho claims of the church, and tbo

CueriUtiea and absnrditica connected with it y impostors and ucsclenllflc mind* whose

M alls not according to knowledge Happily however, for Spiritualism, it it passing out of the rudimentary state. Facia, in any depart- — ■ of nature can not long bo Ignored by____cc. Phenomena current and known tothousand* and millions in the most enlightened nations of the world for aquarler.of a cculuVy, are beginning to arrest the attention of tbe world's greatest scientists. Crooks snd Wal lace, among. England’s most scientific men, are collecting and arranging the facts of Spiritualism with tbe same critical acumen that dlillngnUbes them In the field* of lhc;pbys leal sciences. Tbelr example will be followed by othera, and the day It not far distant when oat of comparative chaos will arise' tbe no bleat iciencrthat ever .shed lA luster on the world.

The remarks of Alexander Winchell, former irofessor of, geology, zoology'shd botany in

University of Michigan, pnbHibpd In. hittehee of Oreslior *--------------— — “

appropriate in C ‘ them at length:

'There la nothing which It la reverent to pronounce inscrutable among the works of God. I t remain* for ns to penetrate the world of Invisible thing* We hayo already sundry rumors and pretenses—shadows cast before, perbsps—but atvyel unsatisfactory sud unin telligible, and, above all, unreduced to a phi losophy, There mast be a substratum that ha* not vet been Bounded, lying beneath the confuted and apparently caprlcloua phenom- enaof clatrvoyance, mesmerism, dreams, acd spiritual manifestations With much imposi tion, — *------------, lhefo is much which can nol be sclenltfi-c*By ignored.' It remains to fcsplvo the mys tery of these sporadic phenomena—to reduce them to law, and to open under the law some regular and Intelligible Intercourse with tbe unseen, world. The nnaeen world ia destined to become like a newly dlreavernJ continent. Wo shall vltit it—we shall hold communion with It—we shall wonder how so many thous and yean could have pasaed without our being introduced to it. We shall learn of other modes of existence—Intermediate, per hap*, between body and iplrit—having the forms and limitation* in ' tpace peculiar to matter, with the penetrability and lnTialbUlty of aplrlL And who can aay that we may not yet obtain inch knowledge of the modes of existence of other bodies as to discover the meant of ten- -dering them visible to

m bold renow bold conversation with a frtenJ upon the ■bores of the Pacific or In the heart of Europe, or fly with the superhuman velocity of the wind from the Atlantic to the Mississippi val ley. Then msy wo not at last giz* upon the ■plritual,bodla« in which onr departed frlrnda reside, and dlquver the means of listening to their spirit voloeS, su'd join bands oonsdously with ute heavenly boat* Doe* the reader smile* I believe Um m are the suggestions more of philosophy than of fanc^

Dowaglso, MIcO*

O o d In ( lie C o n s t i tu t io n .

Tbe House of Reptescnlativeapf North Caro Una baa expelled one of its member* .1 W. Thorne, (oz non-belief in tbo existence of God.

Many'libcral people think that an amend ment to the Conatllulio.n rccogn zing tbo ex istence of God would produce no Irjurioua rebuilt—that auch a measure would simply gratify the religious vanity of an over zealous class, whllo it would not Interfere with tho rights'of any one. „ It Is to be boptd that such will he convinced by the logjo of facia It was s maxlfn among tba early Christians that “ tho blood of tbo martyrs is the teed of tho

-church;” let us hope that tho expulsion of Mr. Thorne will open the eyes of the American peo. plo to tbo danger of this Invidious enemy oT human rights. Tho resolution for expulsion was Introduced by a colored man The act of despotism It no more flagrant la a colored msn than in a white man; but it reminds one of tbe lesson of history, that, when an op pressed c lttt gets Its freedom, i< Is slwa) resdy to oppress another class But this Is not only an act of despotism, but. to far as the colored members who supported il are coc- ccrnod, an te l of gross Ingratitude.

Doe* lion. Hanson Hughes not vomhmber that the God-Idea embodied io the American church, was for many years the oppressor of

'his race*—that the priests throughout the country rlvitcd the chains of slavery hy a "Thus salth tho ' Lord*" And docs he not know that for years the strangest advocate* of the freedom of his people were generally men of liberal minds in religion, who were perse- cqled and;denounccd as Atheists and Infidels J Doubtless should the crisis come many colored people would lie found on tbe aide of religious freedom; but they arc a deeply religious race, snd the larger portion of them bave not yei risen to the full stature -of enlightened man hood, owing to their recent degradation in the house of bondage, ami are just in that impres- Bible condition when bigoted priests sod cor rupt politicians can influence them to use the ballot to tho injury of Wco Institutions,

Tho God-ln-the-Constitnlion parly is making such little progress that many treat it with con tempt; but wo should remember that some of the greatest revolutions of history were slow

d feeble in their beginning. Y/oknow thato essential elements of religious despotism

•till exist in tbo old theology that still prevails, snd It needs only the necessary exciting cir cumstances and matter mind io organize s party that m i j prove formidable to religloni liberty. The great conflict bolwcen reason and theology has J ml .begun; and if it will end in a bloodless revolution snd perfect religious free dom, It will mark tho brightest era in tbe his tory of tho human race.

Dowagtac. Mich. U. Brasun

C u r io u s C u sto m s.

' In Wendlsh. Prussia, there are villages where certain old cnatomtare still observed on tho death of the head of a family, lf.the man should happen to have been s beekeeper, one of tho family goes to tho blvo and striking the comb, exclaims, ''Bees, arise, your matter Is dead.” A similar custom prevailed, and pos sibly still prevails, in parts of England, and furnishes the idea for an Interesting poem by Tennyson, entitled, “Telling tho Beet.’’ The English custom was bated on the supposition that unless tho beet were told of^any death oo carring in tbe family would qhtMhe premises, — * 'he manner In which tho Information was----- oy«l was by placing a black cloth overtho hive. In the Prussian villages already al luded to, it Is the custom oo the morning of a funer*J,of a farmer, for tho men to proceed to the cattle sheds and after causing the cattle

"faites ([limn Ifa ^copli):BRADLEY, AltK.—Frank M. Marks writes.-

'hree years ago 1 was thoroughly convinced jot plill-comniunioii, My father's iplrit gave mo a cel that I could not/doubt, since which time I

bave dobe all I|could( both publicly and privately, to promulgate tho triitb. ' I am happy to Inform you that a.great fluey havo embraced the.trutb, >nd are bolding commUDlon wllfe the dear ones that have passed to spirit life.

NEW YOKE.—Mrs. E. Itscketl write*—My admiration for your valuable paper il unbounded,I am sorry to give you so much trouble tn chang ing my address, but I really can not live without

CAKTSKVILLK. ILL.-R. 1W1 writes.-Your paper la Interesting to n s whenpt apesksof the Pbl- luapphy of life, the laws of nature, and tbe ruling

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As to the manifestations what to think of them. I ipportunlty of witnessing

DETROIT, MICH.—J. U. Wood w rltes.-l have now read the Jo ph k s i, for five months, and find Il advocating tbe very principles and truths that have grown with mo from my earliest recollection upon the subject. My father thought himself a Unlvrraaltst, and was so liberal In all of his re ligious ideas that I was never told to believe any thing that my reason after Inveatlgallon could not freely sanction. I have therefore no shackles to loose; no prejudice to overcome.

Bro. Wood gives an account of a test received from a medium, wherein the death of his brother was accurately described.

I'EKU, NEB.-Wtllls Csrter w rites.-! esn not do without the Jo u b x s l ; it Is food for the mind.

B1LVERCREEK, KAN.-Chsrlea IV. Saunders write*—I esme to Katisae In tho year of 183d, and have been a permanent settler here ever since.

1 know of families hen tnst nave not bad any bread tn their house for months, only wbst they begged. We are-holding circles at roy house once or twice a week, when the weather Is not toe cold, aodt^e folks can turn oUVandwe bave the very best of communications. My wife sod daughter, and son of ten jesra sold, are all good mediums. There are several oilier good mediums lu tbe neighborhood.

QREENUP, ILL.—D. Kester wrltes.-We are doing what we can in our way to sustain tbe great and glorious principles of our beautiful iibllosn.

le value.GRATTAN, MICH.—Jennie Btorey writes.^-

Each week we read the angel teachings of the Jodrmsl, hoping and traaUag that wa mar, be the belter for It. and may the loved one* thavSbve gone before ever guard and guide ns, unllfcwsroo. shall cross Ute mystic river, where ws -M Will meet and know each other on tbe other shore. “ Death, or tbe J'slhw*y from E utb to Bptrit- llfe," to me, 1* verv Interesting. Hope you will publish It I* book fora, to w* will know who the

WACO, TEXAS.—K. P. Wtldmt w rites.-! Ilk* the wty you express yourself Is opposition to cer tain Ism* I am *n outspoken Spiritualist la tbe Uttls city of Waco. I bave no doubt good test mediants would find II gresUY to their Interest tp come h«re. The harvest IsV tn tlf il though tX laborers or* few.

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The e|>lftl of the Ape prompt* Chotghiful people to!» ■alre Into the IfAdlUone of the i u l , In dolit* •<>. Ii labass?Uttioghtlul uirn. frumtime to lime. In did.rent tgea or Vans. *o •yetcmaUaed, to bt u-,iking lets than delta command* Imaginary god* b*»* been cousirucutl t* • horn th* world h«l paldb.nus^e end dlvjn* lionoiedevotees, Uts World hss'bsd nuiucioue Incarnst*drills*

Those who hare bean educated to belief la the Chita Ban religion, and to regard the gentle Naaa/eae at the only Non of God. mV* a n rj lliniici! view of vhe various religious systems of tbe present end of th* past sg«* Among the Intornati dislilri tbsl dldcrsni systems ol religion have recognised » having silsted, thrnugb omolpotcnl love for fallen bunacily. by th* overshtd owing aI female* of vestal purity. Krishna waa a char otter as Unpurtanl IS*th* llrahtniulctl tyatsm of re ligtoo. as Christ Is » In the ulsnof aalvstlon" Inttlmk *d hr the Jews'Great Jtbovlb, bsllsvedln by Christiana

111* coming was loretold, *Vcn as was Chrlsl a At th* age of alateen, Krishna'began to preach and waa llks Christ, Urn foamier of* new religion Prior to the great Chicago Ore, the Itai mh>Psiii>

SOMllcah PllLlslllsa Docs*, pu!.listed lbs irAo jevii* OUa, from a translation of tbe Hsnekril. by ilisi cel* hrstsd scholar, Chsrlcs Within* Nasriy two sdinons olstrayed toe stereotype plates Tbs delnsud for to* work being so great; ws wsr* Induced to send to Kristand fot a copy Of a more recent translsUon, by J. Cockbnr* Thomson, tnembe/ of tos A visile Soelsty of Prsnce. *n< •f the Antlqusrtsh Haclely of of Normandy.

Tbs Iran viator accompanied the work with coplots notsg. which *rt dnnhUi at or mors or leas rains, as ei y-lassb-tt of to* u ik but tos tesdsr will take «»<« ' - lurl wbartkvy or* worth-nothlog mors It *ij

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• Tills curious voltnm- purports In give a full and accunDifcijtnpUdlion of tint wnt'ls Inught I o KrUlind. • Tint tcxl coil 1*1 ns manybrllli.anl lliouciric well worthNllic nttenllon ol Hie tliouglHfyl sunIt'iii »r history, lllcraluicorscience.”—(fur /Vjr«</r /-Vrcncf.

"This lrnnslaiion"f« lllnaoo poem, tlitllcal- evl by Mr. Thomson, to bis sonietliuolnslnic. ir, Professor Wil-oi, ..f Oxford, i» ofic »f a cluss of works demanding all the consideration and assislanco tliat scholar* everywhere can afford. It belongs to a elusi id books believed by great numbers of our fcIlOvv-men, to have liven ail. pcrnaiurally Inspired aud irusted by Uiem for their guidance in, Iho ways of this life, and for light lo pierce iho dividing darkness In ivtceu death and a future existence.

No such hook can in dm nature of tiling* have been thus esteemed by rational living* without having In ilsotf much that U Intrinsi cally valuable for comfort and instruction in rlghteupsocss,- or at least, considered at it* lowrAi, imicli that I* curious and auggcslivei a« affording Insiglil Into the desire* and needs ol the Souls /bat found Ih'creia thetr bread and water of Iffc."— Orvrturuf Monthly.

T bh iy»n,unusually intervaling publication, Mr. Thomson has renderctl good service to llic

unffeiUviughtful class of readers. There is a peculiar charm about ancient litefnlurb of theprofounder aort. The old Hindoos intellectual pronto. The poem heforo via li probably older than the time formerly fixed id Christian chronology for tho creation of the world. It breathes a lofty spirit of qnaeifisb tlcvn Hon to good object*.1 We can not refrain from complimenting the

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Dcalioi Psycbomotric & Bosioess VeiiQDi.Co k h mb Ad a m* Ht , >k 6t h A n , Ch k ia o o .

M r s JIOB1NHON. while ntdci spirit couuui, ■*%- reiving a lock of hair of * slcg patient. wUldlagnoaba

tbe disease moat perfectly, and prescribe the proper r*l randy Vet. f* lb* most s|»edy cure 1# thknemflal ob loci In View nlbci IBM tv .TetlCy 'die curtoalty, th* hotter practice la to aead along with a loch of hair, a brief stateno-nt at tbe s*s, age, leading ermptqsaa, and the length of time tbs patient has beam rich; when aha wtil, wtthvni delay, ridnrn a moat poton! f reeeripUpn and remedy fm eradicating the diet-***, in I imrmonsclJr

Of Scraelf she claim# no br,.-vwi«tg* of lb* h«*l!na art, drat wben her eutrjt'goldre are bnragbt ew mfyeef with t sick person, tiinragh ter msdturdsbln they nrVnt fall to gift' immediate and permanent relief. In curable naswa, Ihrvragn the pnrtftre and iwv-sGre fuete# latent In tt* system and In nature. This prescription to sent by molt, and be It an Internal nr an external application. It thooid he given or applied precisely a* directed la tbs wouxapa

I lobe; remember II Is not the quonUty of the am id. but to* chemical stlscl Ural I* prjflncod. Ural ?t"prescri pt^ra "u'asaaiir suBIr-tent, but In A islta

___Jtit la not permoncnUy cured by one preacrtMIoinSh*application foe a Second, or more If required, should la made tn alurat ten day* after tie dost, each time elating any chantry* that may be apparent tn lb* symptoms t f

Tvetdeuce. The facility with which the spirit* cemtrotung has acre mpllsh th* aaoie. Is decs os will whoa Urn ipptf eaUos Is by letter, vs when lb* iratlenA.I* prtraenL Bat gifts era eery remsruahlc. not only In the trawling art, bat is a psyrLonp trie and trutna** modluru.

Traill. —Diagnosis and «rst prescription. 6A®, sacs rflBqacnt one, |l« v Psychometric D*l!r.«atloo eg choractoi. Id.vsi Answer-g traatriM* letura, 1180. Th*

lotsy should accompany the apptlcoriuo to lnauro a r»larTkenaftar. all charity appllcatl, n«. to Insure a re ly. must contain on* dollar, to defray its axpmvsa* of

rrjerfer, omanumtO. and postage.N B. -Mas. Hoainso* will tsvVerier glse'we petevsH

rlrtinpr to any c~. If pri**cy '» required. It must be hy letter, arrsimpanli'd with the usual few; and terms shoes stated, must b* strictly compttad “UMot no usglrewUl — icaof IsttaralcaL 5

A. Hood H ead ol H a ir lie- stored by A S pirit P ro

scription.Borro* Joetoasn:—Fot the beoegt o say fits

’■■' 1.1 d**!re to mahe this brief statement.----------------------- ^ i ahoul si-■ - 1 could Iran

Jh* Wilrld. i daalra to make thts brisUsd tried a'most ererythltig mended, aod Irmly hollered t,'Lwm'year sgo this aumlh 1 w

tos been red nton live aearp, - it eauemg a smarting a s muon, 1 continued the bee of tkta prepanticB abost three mocibe. wben I eooi as* tha hair atoning Id g rtr all orer ay head, and I now hate a vary ocmfottohl* head of hair, which money cannot huy. 1 am aahad almost artery day how 11 Is, and what 1 had used to bring my hair bach, *11 agreeing that It 1* anawownlahiy strange, at*., ttc. And barelat aa grata, that art csra NX all the eminent physicians 1 had cc*suited knd riven any enreiuragemsnt. tun, on th* contrary, hod toll a* that I never would get > head of hair.

I can fatly eahetonUst* th* roragotng hy 10.000 wtp i£*#c#| If noted**!/, and will anaSvee f-otrmjraralanu If■nrtnrttikl. Me.

receipt of a letter tn it.* tand wilting n ps * hick of hair, lira dlagnn pound* th* Batr Bettorcore to each persne, whose tali t* to b# restored

TVs ReatoraUes weear faiu to rVprodtica a -

M r * . U o b l n a o i r a I o b a c o o A n t i - ' - ' f i o t a .

Th* above nomad sure remedy for tha apostil* for to bacco in all lu form/, 1* fas sal* at this offlrra. Bant to any port of th# country by moll, on receipt eg *1(0. It UlruTtaUd to core tha mom Inewtarem neat of & **•*, when Uve direction* on tarn bos ore follow**. Kawsp*

lVaraa^^ImMMngUw lankertng'dsalra fov apegao? oua weod. It I* a remedy preaentodby a bond of chaao- tats tong to eptriVUfa aod la warvwled to ha parfaetty

Thl* House will pay any chemist mss ttawemig aoUarv who will, apon ihl« iwtBAdv. Sail ode cwilicik

TE STIM O N IA LS.

In. I. ,11. BoblmoTT Tobitto litlfeu.

rearm On* tApiidotehas i

rema” a SSTtw^nUtaMncaq I'pcctoTredTboTaf Mr*. A. H. Hobtosow-s Mreceo AhtGota U has canto ns, and I fael parfaclly TrreTsaas It# nan. Hava node-

inHirMd rad |ktl he '* a—**—»- ——* Bk —tb* w**d! lactoaad tad I

REL1GIO-PHILOSCJPH1CAL JO URN AX,. MAY 29 ISfS3[CosUnaed from Bt*bty-rciirt» P « l]

to be, communion with tha unseen world. First It « u trickery, then It was Imagination, then there wee a certain email reeldlnm or It which '*occult law " had to be'called In to ex plain, and now—ye gods. where ia thle man'e ooniielency r—we are told that It le the witch craft of necromancy prohibited In the Moealo law. and, therefore, really and truly what I t professes to be, communion with thoee who hero hodergonclho change called death. It U clear that if Spiritualism fulfills the condi- tlone of Cld Teefhment necromancy, It le neither-Joggling, nor Ulnalon, nor “ occult law," Despite, then, all the nonacnee Ul)ted by tbli clerical mountebank about table* moved by lever*, letter* written on the arm with iron pencil*, a disordered Imagination produced by “ hot mince ole,” and inch like twaddle. BpIxttualUm 1*. after all, a great re ality, and consists, In truth, to what thoee wbq believe In It profe**, comm inlon with the spiritual world. We are glad to have brought Dr. Talmago to Iht* point at all event* lie and we are agreed aa to the canae in which the phenomena have their origin. So far he haa replied to.hi* own objection* »bont trickery, delusion, and occult law.

Bplritualiam, being genuine, mu*t be got rid of by in other method. No longer Able to dli* pule the reality of the phenomena, a number of men of Dr. Talmage'* turn of mind have arrived et the conclusion that the snirlt* who communicate era devil*, and the frttercourse with them prohibited on pain of death in tho Script area. Nor 1* this a very urisucceasful method to adopt with nervou* and weak- minded people. If you can not reason men out of their conviction*, you may frighten them Into alienee with reghrd to advocacy of them. Butler said, long ago, in Hudlbras;

And toe number* of persins that th is line of argument frighten* out of the practice of Spiritualism will. In theory, remain Bplrltual-lita Hill. Dr. Talmago found that hi* congre gation war largely tainted with this modern heresy, and fearing that they might learn to prefer the wladom of intelligent spirit* ont of the flesh to Ignorant rant and fuitian, coming from to-called teachers in the flesh, he aonnda the tocsin of alarm, wav,a tho red r»g of hell- are before their eye*, and bawl* out. till he 1* well-nigh'black In the face, abait O odT pro hiblllon* of sorcery and witchcraft. It will not do, however; the blessed truths of Spirit- ualtim have taken too Arm a hold upon hu man nature for th * to il of rodomontade to have any effect, except upou the mind* of the nervous and timid.

Now, In the flrsi place, there I* do analogy whatever between witchcraft—either ancient or modern—and Bplrltoallim, aa could be easily shown had I the time to devote to tho subject A witch, according to the ordinary acceptation of the term, was a woman who employed a disembodied spirit to aid her In .carrying out some malignant designs of her own. Bhc, in her normal condition, was act uated by hatred, or ahlmo«i|y. against some one at whoso hands she had suffered a wrong —real or Imaginary—and resorted to spiritual v~*— " — gent* for avenging herself npon the

n which case you see ibe spirit was urn medium employed by the witch. In-mod ern BptritusUsm thehuman being la the medi um through which the disembodied spirit speaks, and the wiahoa and desires of thV former are; for tho time being, completely

-subjugated by tho will of the latter. This dia llncilon is a most Important ofio. Neither Is there any evil Influence exercised over man kind through mpriern medlumsblp at all analo gous to Ihslr'Srhichj constituted, a few centu ries ago, the crime 61 w iteberaft. In dealing with this question. Dr. Talmage takes bis text from tho passage describing the visit of Rial to the woman of Endor, and gives a very glow ing description of Ibis event, drawn entirely from hi* own fertile imagination. Tho woman he speaks of a t "haggard, weird, and shrvv died," sitting by a table onrt*BTCK.are "di vining rods, and polaonona herbs, and bottles, and vase*;" and the circumstances attending Ibe appearance of- Samuel are described in

^minute detail, for the account of which Dr. Talmage mutt,'we should think, have consult ed a spirit medium; since be certainly did not obtain hit Information from tho Bible. Who told him that this woman was a miserable old hag, such as he has described, or lllat she used raisons at all In carrying on her trader Thopels

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people being wise above what Is written should be more carefnl hlmiclf In hi* InterpretaUon of tho sacred record. Certain it It, that if the was old and haggard she was rather amiable than otherwise in her disposition, for tho ritkod her life In tbo'setwise of her craft to serve the King, and when ahe s»w him ex hausted and fainting through'want of food, ahe pressed him to take refreshment, and in the end killed the rat calf that the hsd In tho house, kneaded and baked bread, and Induced him to eat. Three do not look, to aay the least of It. like the seta o t a malicious and dia bolical poisorter. Nor do we Jearo that ahe had communion with the Inhabitants ot the In fernal world., for the spirit that she called op waa a prophet of the Lord, *ho came not fo? the purpose of practising decepUon, but to deliver to Saul a most truthful, although a very terrible, communication.. That cofhmunlon with the deed waa prohib ited under the Moielc lew ho one attempts to deny. The only questions that arise In con nection with the tutjjeel are why this waa, and how far theJaw ia qt present binding upon u tf A great portion of the Mosaic law v|*s only applicable to the people to whom It - was first given, and no Christian at the present day consider* It- Incumbent on him to obey it* mandate*.' Even Dr. Talmage,'1 lake It, eala hare and polk, and In • deten other waye, vi olates the strictest commands of Mo ms . Bib- hath breaking,' In-common with wllcbcraftwas punished with death, aa waa also dlsobcdiUce to one'* parent*. Bebbathbreaking, In the Jewish sense of the void, U practiced through out Christendom, forfho command distinctly

- states that the "seventh day la the Sabbath," and the law enforce* that It (hell be kept from sunset on Friday to the same hour on Satur day. The day haa been altered, you lay. True, but In that very alteration you havo dl»- regarded the Mosaic law. In no c an . how ever, la .tha crime ijf breaking |th« Babb fib, either Jawlah or Christian,' punished as the old law enjoined. - Certain principles enforced under the Old Testament dispensation ware of universal application, end related to morality in it* broad and general sense. These ere eternal In their obligation npon mankind. Oertaln other principles appertaining to Old

------ " " - i s w a r e limited in the obligationlad in te n d priao' **•*I then existing, ai

____ ^ _____ the people con.----------duronnded. Three latter are no longerlag. Then wea the prohibition of comm-------wfth the dead, a principle Intimately bound np with morality liseJf, and appertaining, there to* , to the rtMeal code that should be b la d ltti v p o t i l l m in In •— • A- — u limited to ths larae lltre i

l i sell on, and called into ai

they Imposed, and referred principally to the ■tali of thing* then existing, and the condi tions by which tha people concerned w e a

It must be borne In mind that communion -ith Ibe'dctd, and the practices usually as ■ocialed with It, per v», were nyt-prohibited under the Mosaic law. Tho case of Maul go ing to Icqulro respecting his f/lber’s siUts Is a case In point, for ho did no/Wrocg, r« far ss wo can learn, in the performance of 'Hat act. In reference to Ibis very eyonl the Bible re-

"Beforrtlmc In Israel, when V man wcot'to In quire of God, tho* be spake. Cope, sod let n*jto lo the seer for As that is now e-rl.W a Prophet, waa ‘ efory called a Ki-er "—t 8am. lx.*'*.

And^wn might add, 1* now-tailed a splrit- jedlum . Moreover, Saul, In the vary caao In whifcta tho woman of Endor la concerned, bj foregoing to her, sought for a communication frotai.the Spirit world by what waa evidently a legitimate method—

“And when Saul Inquired of the Lord, the Lord answctyi him not, neither by dreams, nor by UriurreW by prophetic’'—! 8am. xxxllL d.

There era* clearly no wrong In this, and hence there must have been two kinds of spirit communion, one / i t which was prohibited, and tho other permitted; and it waa only after Saul had tried Up lar r and failed, that he, In desperation, resorted to the former. If all in- tercourieiwith the Spirit-world had been pro hibited under the Mosaic dispensation, then Moees himself must have been tho greatest of all oflenders, to aay nothing of the repeated transgressions in this respect of Samuel, Elijah, Iaaiab, Exrklel. Daniel, ole. And in the case of any Lord Himself, Ho hold com munion with Moses and Elijah on tho Mount, In the presence of i’eler, James, and John—an Instance which of Itself la sufficient to refute

' rges so frequently made, that Spiritual :nminal Id tho eyea of God.

. . . . J* there any difficulty In gatbetipg tho reasons that necromancy was prohibited in certain case* ander the Old Dispensation. The Israelites, In their communion with the heath en nations, were perpetually falling Into evil practices, and adopting the wicked and Idols Irons rights of ptbsse * people*. From them they learned polytheism, and. from tho same source they acquired the sinful practice of sac rificing to the dead. "T hey” lined themselves unto Baal Peer they ate the sacritlcea of the dead." In truth, with them, communion with departed spirit* culminated in the worship of deified dead men And it waa to deatro^yot and branch this practice that nccromancvwai prohibited on pain of death. We repeat, therefore, that Intetciurso wllh spirit* waa not

ither prohibited under the Mosaic law; lat where the prohlbillonrdld exist tt was

_ special reason applicable only to that time, and that it I* altogether beside tljc quea tlon to quote the passages which denounce witchcraft and necromancy as though they bad any application to modern Spiritualism. Com munion with the Spirit-world was, as I have shown, practiced w llh' the approval of God throughout the whole of the Old Testament Dispensation; Indeed, tt Is even made tho bails of the Dispensation Itself. A sceptic may ob ject to It, but a Christian minister can hardly do so without betraying the grooscat inconsis tency.

V — SrUUTTA!.I«Jf IS A SOCIAL AND MARITAL CURSE.

Dr. Talmage proceeds to fulminate Lis de nunciations of Spiritualism as follows:—

Indict Spiritualism also, because M it a "tela! m.triiol cut tt The won', deeds of licentious- , and the worst orgies of obscenity, have been ltd under Its pslronage. The story Is too for me to tell. I will not pollute my tongue

. your ears wllh the recital, Sometime* the civil law ha* besn evoked to stop the outrage. Families Innumerable have been broken up by lL

............ ndreds of young women IntoIt talks about ‘elective tdlni-

_ _______ latinos,' and ‘spiritual match-adopla thy whole vocabulary Ot frte-love-

ii.ni. in one of UV public Journals It declares: 'Marriage la Ibe monster curse of civilisation. It 1s a source of debsuenery snd Intemperance.' If Spiritual lam could have Ua full swing It would turn this world into a pandemonium of carnality, it la unclean, adulterous, damnable religion, and the sooner It drops Into the hell from which It rose, tho better both for.carlh and heaven."

What can we say of this vile, scandalous, disgusting and mendacious statement. Tins man who vomits forth from bis own foul mind such venomous filth, and then charges It upon other people, hardly deserves to be noticed, and but for the fact that there are largo num ber* of evil disposed people who will swallow with avidity theac false and maliclou* slanders, he would receive no notlco from me- Shake speare has admirably remarked—

"Wisdom and goodness lo the vile seem vile, Filths savour but themselves." llnlcss we find In this fact the explanation

of Dr. Talmage'* outraged us charges against .Spiritualists and Spiritualism, it Is difficult to Imagine where to seek them. He knows per-

VI —SprRrTOAUSM is a rR u rm n . souses o r irsah ity , ls a d iru to suicide -

Dr Tannage observes:—"I further Indict Spiritualism for the fset U is' > mutt of mush (nunUp. There Is not an asylum tween Bangor snd Bsn Frscclsco which has not o torn and bleeding victims of this delusion.

Gplloto toy asylum. I care not where It Is, and the presiding doctor, after you have asked him, ‘What Is the matter with that manV will say, ‘Spiritual ism demented him;’ or 'What Is the matter wllh that womanf* be will aay, •Bplritualiam demented' her.' It baa taken do*n some of the brightest Intellect* It swept Op-to menial midnight Judg es, tension, governo/s, 'ministers of the Gospel, and one lime came pear .rapturing one of the pres IdenU of the Ufitted Statii. At Flushing, near ''» city, n man became absorbed wllh It, forsook

family, look hla only fifteen thousand dollars, rendered them to a Spiritual medium Ip New

Tork, attempted three times to.put an end lo hla own life, and'then was Incarcerated In the State Lu natic Asylum, where he It to day a raving manlae. Put your haiM In the brtHtif this witch of Endor, -id she will lead you VJbottomless perdition,

here ahe bolds her everfSlIng seance."After what we bad ou the marriage, quos-

pretty good poaltloo to Judge — Hn scruples at noln-

________ o support bt* position___,_______ o the depraved appetites of hi*bearers. The truthfulness of this statement abuul the Insanity I* on a ps. wlth the on* concerning tho marriage question. ~ 1 t Is sim ply false. Spiritualist* tre do more mad than other people, frequently perhaps, less so; snd molt certainly do not supply ss many victims to Asylums as so-called orthodox Christiana. The statement, *o frequently repeated, about tho Asylum* In America being fall of Bptrlt- aallst* has been disproved by reels again and again. Dr. Talmago knows this, or ought to know It, before burling abroed hlsdenuncia tlon*. I know nothing of tho Individual case*

which he refers They may, or may not bo lo, but whether truo or not, they certainly

r .ove nothing to the purpose. What if a Spiritualist did attempt three lime* lo commK suicide! Waa ho the first man who was ever thus gulltyf It would not, methlnks, be dlffi cult to name a few ministers of the gospel, aa orthodox and as narrow-minded and bigoted

Dr. Talmage himself, tyho have done the me thing. A man leaving hi* family, and

giving bis money to some person who has ex ercised over him an undue influence, even if It occurred,' Is not So exceptional an Instance of humarjcredullsy that It deserve* to be brought conspicuously! in the foreground, when it bap------ ln th j j/c |* o of a Spiritualist. Heaven

rrn a c o th m o n enough tho class of peo- ' which tho Brooklyn minister

___ J pushed oil hundreds of young women Into* life oj profligacy, It talks about ‘elective r'*'-1 ties,* and ‘sfllnltal relatloos,' and ‘spiritual m es,‘ and adopts th-j whole vocabulary ot free-

fecUT well that the statement be makes, if*filled to the great seas* of Spiritualists, Is a 1 berate falsehood; and I hnrl the atrocious He

back In his teetk. If Spiritualism were the abominable thing that he deocrlbe* it to be it cbula*uat exist for an hour, for a society which 1* at bottom usually tound upon moral quea Ilona, would not allow its presence among thorn. That there it a small band of people calling themselves •• Free lovers,” among

■enlcd In their view* and practices; and, in the second-place*, the great balk of the Spiritual- 1st* In all parts of the world are thoroughly op posed, both to their opinions and their doing*.

-*To charge the fault* of this small nutdber of people upon BplrltnslUm at large can only pro ceed from a feeling of the blitereei malignity and an utter disregard both ot. fair play and of troth. If Dr. Talmago will take the trou ble to i tad -Mr! Uepworth Dixon's work on Spiritual Wives,'! he will find * description of several sects of Christians, quite orthodox In their faith In every other respect, who disre garded entirely the marriage law. Fathfly Noyes and hla community at Oneida Creek go to a much greater extreme In this matter than the moot ardent “ Free lover " among the Spir itualists, yet they call themselves "B ible Christians," and profess to bate their whole system upon Pauline teaching. — Now, what would Dr. Talmage say to a scepllo whoabould charge the practices of this small community npon the entire Christian world!' Why, that such a man was a vile slanderer, a lying oul- mlnator, spitting forth the vile venom from his own heart upon better men -than himself.And h e -----'* v ‘ -*-*-* *—■- •*- i-t-i-i-to Spirt

to rt there sre thousands and tsn**of thousands of Spiritualists as good husbands, wives, fath ers, mothers and children as any member of his congregation, and that the disgusting charges that ba brings against them are both scandalous and false. One wonUpn that hU entire congregation, on the oocaslon of the de livery of tola sermon, did not rise snd leave the plahe m mesas, to (how their contempt *~ e man who could thus degrade the seared o l_ - of the preacher Into that of * vile slsduerer, e M ag calumniator, hurling about dirt end fill a at the ohavwnwr of men whom' he would do

cansed by the preaching of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and In one case, a frightful aulcido baa been traced directly to this source, but any man who should, on that ground, Condemn toe entire revival. movement, would display alike a lack ot inlelllgenct, apd a disregard of Justice. Spiritualism docs not drive peoplo— ' On the contrary " -------

If you'want tc ss, you will fine

_____an, unsc ilp tu ra l,--------------------------- „doctrine of eternal torment, and in tho Calvin- Istlc bugbear of reprobation to damnation ot millions of men before Iheyjrere bora

V ll —SrtltlTUALtSM HUIRS TUB I'llYgH'AL rrKAi.rn s s d c iusas a l l t h o s e n a o r e l ie v e

Eliot) I, WEAK. AMD MERV

oi opimusima. weak, ncbsusted—hands clammy and cold. Notbleg perou* hut L)os hair—soft marshes yield u u , grass- Spiritualism destroys the physical health.

disciples ever hearing startling news from the oiucr world. St ran go .beings crossing the room la white. Table fldgeUV, wanting to get Its feet

ss If lo dance Voices sepulchral and ornln- Bewildered with raps. I never knew a

continued Spiritualist who had a healthy nervous [stem. It la Incipient epilepsy and catalepsy.*' So says this Brooklyn clerical demigoguo.

So we are not simply periling our eternal wel- , by embracing Spirltuallsb, but running physical constltutlona as well. Poor sim

pleton. To what straits he must bo driven to find arguments against Spiritualism. I have addressed larger audiences of Spiritualists and

i rolo,----- j --------, ______ir Doonie "*“—for this Is obvious. , ___.

characteristic which marks the teaching of tho Spirits ts the Importance of attending to the law* of nature implanted by God In the physi cal constitution ot man, and avoiding all* kinds of foods and drinks of an Injurious character, obtaining pure air, taking exercise, and in other way* retorting to Ihose practices which are .invariably conducive to health. Everyone who haa hsd experience of Splrltus- "1* knows perfectly well, that ai a class, they

s unusually particular about mallcra of tola kind, and that, consequently, they posses* tho Vent wna in rorpon n rw ln a fsrgcr degreo than moat other people. Almost all the spirits who communicate make a HNnt of lotfillog upon the necessity i t medium* obeying tho.--------------------------------------- 0f 8pWt

. _____________________ njnnctloniof toe spirit* carry out toe Strictest hygienicprinciple*. BplrllnaUsU ‘*r—-*■----------1 —hansted," with cadaverous

American Spiritualist*— In England there are*- .clammy bands! Well, tol* Is amusing) I none—1 do not deny, But Id - the first place, fancy some of na are quite cqnal to Dr. Tal- toeae h*Te, 1 believe, been groaaly mlsrcprc magi, or any member of hla congregation In_________ __________ ___ congregation _

physical stamina, and I should myself, al though fifty years of age, be delighted to try an encounter with him in ■ any athletic sport be may llke-to name. As to toe twaddle about Incipient epilepsy snd catalepsy, why Bplritasliinr has cured more cases of those diseases than all-toe college* ot physicians to rt have everexisted.

V III.—Spir it u a l !a m is t h e c u s t o mrRTIKO IB TO GOD* SECRET! WHICH WE R RO 1II0HT TO EKOW.

Dr. iVm axc goes on to aay:—"If God Is ever-slapped iquare'tk the face |

g u t and refleed laogusgn to use U tbs pulpit .. u whan a spiritual medium put* down her band onthe table, Invoking spirits departed'to mr*---------elation. God has told yon nil yon ought--------- ,and how darn you be prying Into that which ts nous ot your business! . . Remember Spiritual- Ism at the best Is a useless thing; for If It tell# wbst toe Bible rev tali It I* a super dully, and If It tells wbst toe Bible does not revert it is n lie."

How has this man became so wall-informed as to what are God's secrets, and what are nott The fact that,the communication* to which he refen are blade should be sufficient proof tost they are no longer secrets, but appertain ing to the "revealed things" which are toe birthright of oureelva and our children. The objection urged her* about to rt belnF useless which teaches what Is In toe Bible, and injn-

ate* w bst U

to to* Koran, by tola miserable proossa of reasoning—!/ reasoning it can be oallsd. If

r r - r * . .? -------------- be snfflolsnt forto* plain letter o f _________________guldanoe even on religious matters why commentaries ever written, or why does — Talmage preach! If It be lawful and dealra- bln for n man in the flash to throw such light npon splrUnal Subjects as his superior

lnteUig*Doe may have enabled him lo possess. It 1* difficult to see how It cab be wrong, for ttffi same man, after ho baa thrown cfl hla ma lerlal body, and attained to a position In which bis Intellect la sharpened, hi* knowledge . in creased. and hi* experienoo widened, to do too same thing for which now he Is evidently mneb better fitted than he w u before. And, of course, If the question be taken out o f the field of re ligion into that of science and philosophy, ‘to which, after all, It more properly belongs Dr. Talmage'* remarks about toe Bible would ap- pear'all tho more preposterous and absurd. The same objection might be urged with equal force agatost the discovery of every new truth ‘ om whatever source It came.

IX — SrraifuALiaM e f f e c t s t h e r u in qj*IE SOUL.Dr. Tslmtge’s words ate.—"I bring agrtnst tbli delusion a more dam

aging indictment; ff nii'u tht mut Immortal "Again, waving tho red mg of hell fire, which

priests in all age* nave found effectual for the purpose of arresting progress, and destroying everything like freedom. Tnero haa seldom been a great discovery made, or a new truth*----- * — " it toe threat of damnation_______, ________ too head of toe man whowas Instrumental In bringing It about* It la the story of Grtlloo over again. In his day the world moved ou despite tbo thunder* ot' the Vatican, the anathema* of the priesthood, snd the Ihrests o f everlasting damnation to all concerned- And to day Spiritualism will pro- ires* despite the fury of toe Jupiter Tonac* of irooklyn and toe very small thunder with vhlch be tries to display his wrath. - Spiritual ists are quite competent to look after the afTtire of their own souls, and require nosdvlcefrom h> pigmy ■ Pope ss Dr. Talmage. Let him look after hla own soul, which, jadglng by too

‘Igulty, and violation of troth____________________ oh. Judging bjvulgarity, malignity, and violation of I displayed in Ihb discourse, will require a good deal of Improving before It can be fitted lo gain admission into the region where only that which is holy and pure snail bo allowed to enter, and he will find toe task sufficient with out troubling bis head- about Spiritualists and Spiritualism.

X — SriRITUkLIEM IS ADVERSE TOTIIE 111 RLE The Brooklyn oracle remark! —

"You can not keep the Bible lu one hsml, udSpliltUrtlim In the other. Und or the other rill illp out of your graap. depend upon It."

Some of us have a no Ion that we can hold SpirUuetUm and the Bible both In one band, *0 closely (bqlhey accord, snd so thoroughly are they In harmony tbo one with the other. As Dr. Talmage doc# not point out the In stances in which Spiritualism and the Bible disagree, lave a reference or two to some rep uted communications from Wesley, Banyan, and some other eminent Christians—who aro said to have changed their religion since they entered toe Spirit-world—which are, of course, nothing lo the purpose, one hardly knows which Ts the best way lo reply to this statement.

"1 havo already shown you. In an earlier part of the discourse, that tho passages in tho Old Testament prohibiting witchcraft, usually so triumphantly quoted against BMrilUaHim, have no bearing whatever on tho subject. When a man, therefore, says that Bplritualiam ts opposed to the Bible, and gives no reason for his statement, hi* objection1 might very properly be dismissed without further notice. But 1* Spiritualism opposed to the Sacred Record! Why, the Bible is the most spiritual book that has ever appeared Injho history of toe world, aa must be obviou’s to any person at

acquainted with Its content!—spiritual In__very sense In which that term Is used inreference to tho modern manifestations. On every page may be discovered indications of Its sj& llaal origin, and iu thousands of In* stances phenomena are recorded of a character exactly analogous to those which takes place today.

It is, of course, Impossible on this occasion to dwell at length upon tbo nnmerou* Inutan-

manifestations. A1I that fore, I* briefly to refer to some few case* with which you will be tolerably familiar. Spiritlights ate seen again and again, Itai------- * “ *pable Instances being probably Iig probably the piUar of fire which guided the Israelite* by night, the light that waa seen by all present at toe con version of Paul, apd the " cloven tongurs like as of fire,"- observed da too day of Pentecost. Spirit voices are heard ao frequently by toe writers of tho books of the Wblo that simply to record the Instances In which they occur would occupy half the tlmo th rt I have to de vote to toe whole dltcourse. Spirit-writing Is also an exceedingly common occurrence, tlje most remarkable case being that in which toe ominous words were Inscribed on toe wall at B ottom *t’s feast,.on which occasion not only waa the writing', bat -tho hand llaelf seen, a circumstance exactly analagou* to what fre quently cccor* In our own day. Daniel 1* rec orded to have had strength Imparted to him by a spirit touch. Spirits move material ob ject* repeatedly, ss In the c u e of tho angel who released Peter from prison, snd too an- Tcrnatural beings who removed thQ alone 'rom the sepulchre In which the body of Jesus jad been entpmbed. Inanimate substance* were often made too vshlclea of aplrilual pow er, u they are to-day. A dead man w u raised to life by touching the bones ot Elijah, and mlraculons cares were effected by means of the article* of dress that had boon worn by Paul- Materialisations, so ridiculed in our day by people who think themselves possessed of great store* of wisdom, were of common occurrence. Angels appeared to Abraham In the plains of Mamie, walked home with him. and partook of-m aterial food. An angel wrestled with J acob, dislocating toe patriarch's thigh. An angel—on this occasion having a drawn sword In bis hand—appeared to David by ths threshing floor of Oman; and another, o! exactly similar character, w u -seen by Joshua. Did an analagou* c u e to these two litter occur In modern times, scepllcyl critics would demand with a chuckle to know wheth er the aword w u a material sword, If »o, whence It had been obtained,' and It not, how ll w u mannfsc.ured so u to appear like,one, or whether It w u the spirit ot a materia! sword. Instances of toe levitation o t human bclog* are also lo be found In the Bible. Ete- klel was lifted by toe-hair ot hi* heed and car ried to Jerusalem, where he met seventy spirits of men who had lived and passed away from earth long before. &.od tbo caa* of PsIBp who w u careiod through too air to Azolua is familiar to every one. In point or fact, the whole ot too. modern phenomena were*of frequent occurrence in ancient times, snd sre referred to Apeatedly in the BIMe. T o u y , consequently, to rt BplrituaUsm and the Bible are not In harmony Is to <feplay gross ignorance, either of the one, Mr the other, or both

XL—SrnuTuautM is th e ru l ti ia w e x t o r th e ArovrLB'e r i o r n i c r c o rceh riro th e la s t DAT. Not only Dr. Talmage, but a (core ot other men of toe same turn of mind, end squally Ignorant of that with which they

■pctoloK lies In hypocrisy, having thtlr conscience •cared with a hot Iron; forbidding to marry.'and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with* thank»glvlng of them which believe tad know the truth."—1 Tim. I n l- S .

Now, we should bo glad to be Informed vrbst possible connection there can be between the event hero predicted and Modern Spirit ualism. Spiritualists neither forbid marriage, nor abstain from those "meats which God bath created to receive with thanksgiving." neither do they speak "11c* In bvpocriny," nor are their consciences scared. Whether they have doparted from the faith by giving heed lo seducing spirit* we shall see presently.

Supposing toe prediction to refer to tho present time, which there is not a shadow of -reison for believing, It would be Interesting to Inquire what classes amongst all those In ex istence moat nearly fulfill toe condition*there in set forth. Depart from the faith I What faith! Assuredly if words have any meaning, ll refer* to tho faith, which the early Chris tiana—some of thein then living—had received from Cbrlit. Now.one fast, and a most Im portant one In connection with th rt faith, w u that ton powers given to the Church were to remain wljb II. The following passage will Illustrate my meaning:—

"And these sign* shall follow them that believe, fo-my>»nyi.»b»ll they east out devtli, they shall •peak with new tongue*; they ihall lako up aer- pent*; and If they drink any deadly poison, It'ahali1... ,__. -----i..ii - *it hurt th

Mark xi» tick,

they ihall recover.These are algos by which believers were to

be known. The mlrecle performed by tho great Master Himself were to be repeated by His disciple* after ha hsd left the earth, and,

"Verily, verily, 1 eay unto you,on me, tbo work, that I do *h»ll — _ ---- , —greater works than these (hall ho do, beeauao I go unto my father."—Joho xvL 12,

If such were to.be the characteristic* pos sessed by bBlievcr* a departure from the faith would be Indicated by tbe absence of theao powers. Let Dr. Talmage who talk* ao glibly about Spiritualists having departed from too frttb, and being influenced by doctrines of dovils, tell us whether be Is capable of exer cising any one of the miracnloua powers jn t( enumerated, and .If heconfcu—u he no doubt would—that ho Is unable to perform any of these act*. Is that not a tacit admission that It la he and Ms party, and not wo who h*ve de parted from toe faith. I hurl back toe charge of departuro-ffom the faith, in the teeth of these shaia/tesobers of Cnritlianlty—gigantic ■emblancef ofierlogto Ibe people a busk frdm which the kernel haa been extracted—and tell them that KHs they, not we, who have been so duced sway by doctrine* of devils, and that we who Christian Spiritualist* havo preserved Intact! tUiJ T'uro and undented religion of Jeans.

They tell us tost tbe miraculous gifts were limited to the Apostolic age, and tort, with the death of those who received tbe commta ■Ion direct from the Lord, tboy ceased. 1 re ply that not only Is this a pure assumption unsupported by the smallest tittle of evidence of a Scriptural character, but that- It la diamet rically opposed to historical fac t Thorolano Intimation given In the Noer, Testament tost toe powers were to ceaso at - Jo passing away of toe Apostolic'Ago, and that Ibey did not, we are very well assured, for we find them ex- erciaod repeatedly for cenlurto* afterwards. Let cs, therefore, hear no more about our having doparted from the faltb, when It ll, In truth, ous accusers and opponents who are in that position tbomselve* wMch they unjustly as cribe lo ua

Tho next and last objection of Dr. Talmage'* that 1 shall notice, is one of the moat curious tost tt has ever been my lol to come across. It Is that:—

X fl — Spir i t u a l i s m v ir u s i t s v ic t imsAMORODT THOSE WHO AHE IR TlIOUULgTNp PIS-t r e s s Of Saul, Dr. Talmage remarks —

"Uc did not know whtre to goTor relief. After awhile he resolved to go and see tbe witch of Kn- dor. its expected tbsi somehow sho would afford hlui relief. It wsa his trouble that drove him there."

He tb« i adds:—"And rhave to tell you now that Splriluallim

finds Its victims In the troubled, the bankrupt, the rtek, the bereft." ^

1 venture to say that such an objection aa this has never been urged against Spiritualism or anything else. Tho fact tost a principle can bring comfort to those wbo are distressed,__________ to tbe sorrowing, hope to tbe desponding, and solace to the wounded spirit and* l i - r — • *w—1J qfidly !>«

Can bring i consolatlo

th^ttonbled mind, should assuredly be eonsld ered one of the highest recommendations that could be presented in Its favor. Yes, it is quite truo, that many persona have gone lo Spiritual ism for succor and support In affliction or sor row, and tho fact that It could snjiply them with too balm they needed, I think tells large- Or In IU favor. Imaglnda Ohrlstlan minister -objecting to any system on the ground tbat it !ls calculated to soothe tbe suffering,' cheer the drooping spirit, and lake toe fling, from the intense*! pjiln that humanity ha* toexperienoe. What would such a man have said to the blessed lnvilatloe ot Christ to toe weary and heavy lrden to come to him for rest. He wonld probably have objected that a aystem which waa adapted to "toe troubled, too bank rupt, tbe sick and tbe bereft," most b - based upon error. What sort of people one vfonder* doe* Dr. Talmage preach to. Folk*, wq sup pose, who have n a troubles, no cares, noMflic- lions. Well_lt islucky for them, for to e \re ligious teaclVtg emanating from the pulpit In toe Brooklyn Tabernacle la not much calculat ed to supply consolation to those w i nced It- Tbe doctor may charge ua with imparting solace and - comfort to those who are "troubled,", and endeavouring to aid toe "elck and bereft," we are sorry we can not return too compliment.

In conclusion, I have-only to eay toatSpirlt- naltom Is Trio of toe moet glorious troth* that has ever been made known in toe history of the world. I t comas from God, and God’swork I* being accomplished I ' " ------- -**“I t alms not to supplant rolls throw Christianity, but ihoi ally of both by working for end. It baa shaken Atheism

'humbled the moet cliff necked crushed Materialism beneath h u fallen npon glorlona Uu_„. news that wo have heard, and eei which wo have aoen. Tho glory i days has come back again, Intel toe Bplril world is reestablished,with angels is again a a -------J—and wo now see toe . which Carrie* on its ores troth, and lovs, and thsthe brotherhood o f m a a ,_____on, until that.ancient propbeoj that, "toe eerth shall be fall of the Lord, as toe water* cover th

"Countless cords of hsavenly i__8truck ere sarthly.spnads

ought to behest acquainted, are the habit o i stating that the Apo BplrituaUsm in his mind when h

Vibrato, ta I Thro’ th* sa ie soul ofmaa:

ahaUsss gleams of heavenly glory

Oa tha thUdraa at thhlr play.Wa have g ttsd oa hs»—•nnasd omsrtva* la hiw r j t e M

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