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C O N T E N T S :

F ir st P ag e .—Gems of Thought: Two Worlds.

S econd P ag e .—Answers to Questions; From the Sun Angels’ Order of Light: Two Worlds—continued; The Poet’s Heaven, etc.

T h ird Page.— Fortune-telling and Prophecy: Spirit Pic* ture; Airing Rooms; Club*Throwing; Letter from Emma Hardinge-Britten, etc.

F ourth P ag e .—(Editorials) — Mediumistic Conditions; Spiritual Chemistry: Our Ancestors; A Work of Art; Spirit Bands; Assembly Hall; W. J. Colville; An­other Ramarkable Slate; Prof. Wallace Speaks; Time Lives; Mr. J. J. Morse in New York; Not so, Sister Britten, etc.

F if t h P ag e .—Editorial Notes; A German Invention; Obituary; Annual Meeting; Our Kindergarten; Name Identified; Pebbles; Col. Ingersoll’s Family; Publica­tions; Professional Cards; Advertisements; Notice of Meetings, etc.

S ix t h P a g e .—Spiritualism from My Standpoint; ** No Pen can do it Justice;” Women and Street Cars; Pro* fessional Cards; Advertisements, etc.

S eve n th P a g e .—Rest and Recreation in Spirit Life; Some Objections; Jenny Lind’s Later Days; Publica­tions, etc.

E igh th P ag e .—(Poetry) A Refrain; Two Years Ago; Awakening; By the River; To-day and To-morrow. Annual Report of the President of the Golden Gate Religious and Philosophical Society; Advertisements.

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Who has no inward beauty none per­ceive, though all around is beautiful.

Where God is there is love. God is everywhere, therefore love is everywhere.

A man’s worth is to be measured by the respect he pays to his mother.— Renan.

Whatsoever is true, by whomsoever spoken, proceeds from the Holy Ghost. — S t. Augustine.

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working Universe; it is a seed grain that cannot die.— Carlyle.

Life is like a theater. During the play we take higher and lower seats, but when it is over we mingle in the common stream and go home.

No one ever slips on a rough road; no one ever did much, if he never had to overcome difficulties that to him seemed impossible.

There is no time in a man’s life when he is so great as when he cheerfully bows to the necessity of his position, and makes the best of it.

Life lies before us, not behind, and when things are done with, it is a man’s duty to go past them and press forward to new duties.— M rs. E . Lynn Linton.

God kindles the light of genius when and where he will, and he can inspire the highest and most regal thought even into the meanest slave.— Cation F a rra r.

Fear and laziness can accept beliefs; only trust and courage will question them. T o reject consecrated opinions demands a consecrated mind.— O. B . Frothingham.

You may put humanity down on its knees before a scientific inquisition and force it to say that God is unknowable, it will rise up again and say, “ For all that I know.”

No trait of character is rarer, none more admirable, than thoughtful inde­pendence of the opinions of others com­bined with a sensitive regard to the feelings of others.

B e thou like a bird perched upon some frail twig, which, although he feels the branch bending beneath him, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that he has wings. — M ine. D e G asparin.

There is that within us which solemnly binds us to believe that no such cruel falsehood would be played off upon man as a great longing laid deep in his heart without a corresponding object.

The best recipe for going through life in an exquisite way with beautiful manner, is to feel that everybody, no matter how rich or how poor, needs all the kindness he can get from others in the world.

Truth can no more be seen by the mind unprepared for it than the sun can dawn upon the midst o f night. Such a mind receives truth only to pollute it. He who pours water into- the muddy well does but disturb the mud.

TWO WORLDS.

[A Lecture by Rev. M. J. Savage on Spiritualism, de­livered at Saratoga last September, and repeated in Boston February 2c, 1887.]

Mr. Savage began his discourse with a few general remarks regarding the univer­sality of the belief in a future existence among all the people of the ancient world, and said that the central significance of the renaissance was nothing less and noth­ing other than an awakening from a world trance of other worldliness, and a discov­ery of this world. The other life had been everything. Now, this life begun to be felt for its own sake. It further began to be believed that the connection between this life and the next was generis, not merely magical; and that,«therefore, the best preparation lor the next world might be the making the most and the best of this one. Out of this state of mind science was born, and the essential spirit of science is the careful investigation of facts and the demand for proof as a condition of belief. It reverses the old idea of “ authority for truth,” and, instead of it, takes for its motto: “ Truth for Authority.” Its posi­tion was and is a demand for common honesty, for he who does not make a dis­tinction between his knowledge and his beliefs and his hopes may be very re­ligious, according to popular standards, but he certainly is not moral; that is, he is not honest with himself. The scientific demand for proof has enormously con­tracted the range of celestial geography. When suddenly asked for “ titles clear to mansions in the skies,” either they could not be produced, or else the evidence for them was disallowed. Since popular be­lief in a future life could offer tor itself no proof that did not seem in itself to need proving, there has appeared that tre­mendous reaction of feeling that takes the name of agnosticism. It commends itself to us for its honesty and its modesty, and it is certainly a blessed ignorance that takes the place of the most that ortho­doxy has been teaching us as absolute knowledge about the future world. I have no very hard words for agnosticism as compared with the tyrant it disowns. But I can no more submit to . the new tyrant than to the old. When it attempts to set limits to investigation, and warns us off even from a rational search for “ the undiscovered country,” then I rebel. But grand as is the growth o f science, it is manifestly one-sided and incomplete. We have gained a partial control of some of the natural forces and made extraordinary excursions into the heavens, but man is very largely an unknown country. Many have been inclined to give up the soul be­cause they could not find it with a dissect­ing knife, and others have given it up be­cause our ordinary conceptions of space and matter have furnished for it, to our imaginations, no appropriate home. But both of these positions are utterly unscien­tific— a leaping to conclusions before all the evidence is in. And this haste to set­tle one’s opinions is always an evidence of an uneducated or only partially educated mind. Then one of the diseases of our present civilization is a sort of world weari­ness that make many people, tired with the sorrow and confusion of this life, ques­tion as to whether they want any future life anyway.

Now, let us turn sharply round and look in the other direction. Contemporary with this growth of science and agnos­ticism is the enormous native develop­ment of Spiritualism, and the sweeping in­vasion from our old Aryan home of that strange looking exotic, theosophy. Sci­ence comes out of its inner temple, and by the mouth of the more forward spokes­men announces to the waiting world its verdict, m Agnosco.” But reasonable or unreasonable, the toiling, struggling, dy­ing, but still hopeful, masses refuse to look on nonentity as a desirable acquain­tance. So their answer to science and philosophy is Spiritualism and theosophy. The hungry human heart wails its protest against receiving life as “ a sunlit passage to a sunless shore.” I cannot say “ amen ” to those who declare the logical outcome of unbelief is suicide— that if there be no future, then this life is not worth living. For myself, the spectacle of the world’s beauty and activities, with the glimpses that may be gained of the upward march o f humanity along the pathway of the past — all this is so wonderful, so fascinating

to me, that, however it ends, I am grate­ful that I was invited to be even an hum­ble spectator.

Traditional orthodoxy has nothing to say to any one who needs to have any­thing said. What it offers in the way of proof is sadly in need of being proved itself. Church tradition is authority only to those who have not investigated it. Biblical infallibility is a thing of the past. The reappearance of Jesus after death may be accepted by either one of two classes. First, by those who accept it on authority as a dogma; and second, by those who hold that similar reappearances take place to-day. In the first case it is not evidence; and in the second, it is be­lieved on account of a supposed present1 fact instead of its serving as a proof of this fact. The church then is, for the pres­ent, out of court as a witness.

The transcendental “ I know,” “ I feel,” that seems to be satisfactory to so many easy-going liberals, this, also, is ut­terly lacking in probative force to any mind that stands in need of proof. How can a man’s present consciousness testify to the continuance of personal identity into an indefinite future ? It seems to me that this talk of knowledge on such a basis is simply a misuse of words.

With only such exceptions as prove the rule the statement may be broadly made that the desire for continued existence is a universal one. When Mr. Frederic Harrison tells me that I am selfish to wish for immortality, that the desire is an im­moral one, it is a sufficient reply to say that he is selfish and immoral to desire to be alive to-morrow or this afternoon. At any rate it is only the difference of my wanting a somewhat larger slice off the* same loaf. And when any one informs me that I am only a “ worm of the dust/’ with no right to aspire to such destiny, I reply that this is just the point in dispute, and that I will accept my lineage, what­ever it be, when it is established. The practical universality of human belief in immortality is all the past has made plain. It is still taken for»granted by the world’s millions. The reactions toward the older faiths have this for their main motive. The springing itp of Spiritualism and the­osophy on grounds burned over by fires of the orthodox hell, and right in the teeth of the east winds that blow from the cheerless seas of doubt, testify to the hun­ger of man for some assurance that the loved and departed are not also the lost. Death certainly seems to be the end, the dissolution and destruction of the indi­vidual. But on any theory conceivable this story of immortal hope is a tale that the universe has whispered to the trusting heart of man. He stands related to the universe as the coin is related to the die. Whatever is in him was first in it. Any characteristics of man which have existed always and everywhere must, it seems to me, be regarded as matching a permanent reality in the universe itself. This is the foundation of all science. I cannot see, therefore, why we are not justified on the clearest scientific grounds in claiming that this story that the universe has always been telling, no matter through what sym­bols or by what methods, is an echo of some reality that is a part of the universe itself.

And then, again, it may be said that so long as the most materialistic science utterly fails to prove the negation, no one can declare the grandest trust to be un­reasonable. This natural faith is in pos­session of the ground. Until it is forced to vacate by some proper warrant, no one need apologize for his faith. Materialism is already an antiquated phase of science. In presence of the higher problems of thought and consciousness, materialism is as dumb as the Egyptian sphinx.

Suppose immortal life be a fact? Is there any prospect of its ever being dis­covered? Prof. Fiske says that, “ scien­tifically speaking, there is not a particle of truth for either view ” — that is, either for or against immortality, and he goes on to speak of desisting “ from the futile at­tempt to introduce scientific demonstra­tion into a region which confessedly tran­scends human experience.” But, queried Mr. Savage, does the problem of immor­tality “ transcend human experience ” ? Is not this an unscientific assumption of the negative of the very point in dispute ? If, in reality, any man has ever entered into immortal life, then since this man was and is human, the fact of living be­yond is in his case a fact of human ex­perience, and in nowise transcends it.

Now I suppose that neither Mr. Fiske nor any one else would feel himself warranted in saying that, if there be immortals, this supposition of possible relations with them would be antecedently or inherently impossible. Neither Would it require one to believe in the supernatural, for such converse, if real, would be as natural a fact as any other. I f immortality be a fact at all, and if it in any way touches us, then, most certainly, it does come within the range of human experience.It is outside that range no more than this continent was before Columbus sailed, and we know now that even this had been discovered, in ways that never became fruitful to civilization, by sporadic and scattered adventurers, over and over again. So, it is claimed, have the mys­terious seas of death been crossed over and over again. I f this pathway, this mystery, should ever be brought under control, then we should read the old-time stories in a very different spirit. The un­certainty, the intermittentcy, the appar­ent lawlessness of these, manifestations in the past is no more against the possibility of bringing them under voluntary control than were the first manifestations of steam, electricity and magnetism arguments in discredit of the locomotive, telegraph and mariner’s compass. I protest with a\l the earnestness of which I am capable against both the shallow and flippant disdain of this question, and the airy, aristocratic in­difference with which theologians treat it, while all the time they glare with holy horror at any man who presumes to doubt what they are so ready to admit is outside of the limits of proof.

I shall now venture to set my feet, for at least a little way, within the borders of a country that at best has been but very rarely traversed on occasions like this— the regions of psychic research. Some of you must be familiar with the work of the English Society of Psychic Research.I have been a member of the American Society from the first. Besides this, I have done what I could as an original in­vestigator for eight or ten years. I think I may therefore claim, without any breach of modesty, to know something more of the subject than those who have given no careful attention to it whatever. Many dismiss it on a p rio ri grounds, many others have made up their minds on the basis of one or two public and probably fraudulent seances, while others know only what from time to time they see in the newspapers. It is evident that these people have no right to hold an opinion, much less to express it. And yet, if your experience is like mine, you will find that they are more certain about it than anybody else, and quite ready with their shallow judgment as to the folly of any­body who has really taken the trouble to study the matter. I have long felt it to be a part of my duty to investigate the subject and to have at least a few facts, for or against, on which to base an opin­ion. ’ Some millions of people in Europe and America are Spiritualists on the basis of what they claim to be personal experi­ence. The belief seems to me to be either the most lamentable delusion or the grandest truth in the world. Which ? It really would seem to be worth while to find out, if for no other reason than to deliver the thousands that may be led away by a fancy. When my parishioners come to me in sorrow and beg for guid­ance I feel that I ought to have something for them better than a prejudice. In what I say to-day, beyond what is ac­cepted by competent, scientific investiga­tors, I shall confine myself to my own personal experience, and to the briefest hints even here. I wish there were a lan­guage in which people could hear better than in English. When I delivered this paper in Saratoga, a few months ago, sev­eral good Unitarians left the hall because they said I was defending Spiritualism. A number of Spiritualists who were pres­ent objected to it because I did not de­fend Spiritualism.

Three things I now regard as settled. They do not at all prove the claim of Spirituatism, but they do go a wonderful way in at least illustrating the power of the soul to transcend ordinary physical limits, and act through other than the recognized channels of communication:

First, hypnotism or mesmerism. This is now recognized by the medical fraternity — in the words of one o f them— has a “ distinct therapeutic value.” Secondly, the fact of clairvoyance is established be­yond question. Under certain, as yet

little understood conditions, both seeing and heariug are possible, apart from the ordinary use of eye or ear or ethereal vibrations. What is it, then, that sees or hears ? Thirdly, it is a fact that mind may impress mind, and, iu some excep­tional cases, send messages to places far away, or even half-way around the world.

Now, no one of these facts, nor all of them combined, goes far enough to prove • the central claim of Modern Spiritualism.But this apparent semi-independence of the body does, at least, make the ques­tion a rational one as to whether the soul is not an entity capable of getting along without the present physical body. And „ while we are on the borderland of stupen­dous facts like these, I confess I find it hard to be patient with the conceited and flippant ignorance that waves them aside with a supercilious air, while it gravely patters over a fish’s fin, or a dug- up vertebra of the tail of some extinct mastodon, calling one science and the other superstition.

Connected with Modern Spiritualism there is, beyond question, an immense amount of deliberate fraud. Then there is much of honest self-delusion— much honest misinterpretation of facts. But when all the fraud, all the delusion, all the misinterpretation have been brushed one side, there remains a respectable, nay, even a striking and startling body of fact, that, as yet, has no place in our recognized theories of the world and of man. Whatever their explanation, they are, at least, worth explaining. And whether they prove or disprove Spiritual­ism, they cannot fail to throw important light upon many problems touching the nature of man.

That physical objects are sometimes moved in a way that no muscular pressure, conscious or unconscious, can account for, I know. That information is some­times imparted that was never in posses­sion of either of the sitters, I also know.It is true that these cases in my own experience are not yet common enough to preclude the possibility of their being coincidences, though the circumstances have been such as to make this a strained and improbable explanation. To have information given me that it was impos­sible the medium could know, this has been a very common experience. To call it mind reading is easy, but what is mind reading? Any fact until it is ex­plained must be either a constant chal­lenge or a standing reproach to any science worthy of the name. I have never paid the slightest attention to anything that occurred in the dark, or under conditions where deception as to fact was possible.I have seen plenty of these, but have always ruled them out of court. Most of the things that have impressed me have occurred when the medium was a personal friend, and not a “ professional ” at all.I must let these bare statements stand as hints only of a story it would take hours to tell. As a result of all this, am I a Spiritualist? No. Would I like to be one 2 I would like to be able to demon­strate the fact of continued existence and the possibility of opening communication between the two worlds. But I am a great deal more anxious for the truth than I am to believe either one way or the other.

I f not in the present age, then in a more fortunate one, I believe the.ques­tion can and will be settled. Thoreau’s remark, “ One world at a time,” has often been quoted as being the end of all wisdom on the subject, but I cannot so regard it. I do not think, as some do, that morality is dependent on it. Bui I do think that one’s belief here may so change his life-emphasis as to put a new meaning into his whole career. In spite of George Eliot’s “ Choir Invisible,” it seems to me that the enthusiasm which works only for a certain indefinite future here on earth, while all the time it is believed that the whole thing is finally to end in smoke, is, to say the least, a little forced and unnatural.

But if all men could know that death is only an incident, and that life is to con­tinue for good or ill, right on, and if they could know that, under the working of the law of the cause and effect, they are making that future life day by day; that* its condition is to be determined thus, not by creed, or belief, or ritual, or wor­ship, as such, but by character, is it 'not plain that this would become the mightiest of all possible motives? I f it can be

( Continued on Second page.)

A n sw ers to Questions.

- [Through the raediumship of Mrs. N . G, Aylesworth, and phonographically reported for the Golden Gate.]

Qu e st io n .— H ow can w c best discover truth for ourselves?

A nsw er .— In the discovery of truth there are necessarily elements, the dis­covery of which will be quite essential in order to correctly interpret its every mani­festation. Truth may be discovered in every expression of life whether it be of an agreeable nature or not.’ Necessarily there is contained within every expression truth's manifestation; and for man to cor­rectly discover that which will tend to elevate all thought expression toward that eternal light that ever illumines human consciousness is, first of all, to make each thought that emanates from human con­sciousness pure and clean, free from every stain of atmosphere through which error is expressed. Be careful ere a thought is forced upon the atmosphere from human brain, that it is as pure as a drop from the crystal fountain originating in that, super­nal light directly from God.

God is truth, and truth manifests itself constantly through every expression of life. The soul in its earnest efforts toward gleaning the necessary experiences of life oftentimes comes in contact with these thoughts that are thrown out on the at­mosphere o f life, and thereby not being able to separate the dross from the pure, sometimes in its own expression apparently carries with it the germ gathered from this error of expression.

We do not feel that we can elaborate upon the subject as we would like to do, for it embodies so much, there is hardly a branch in the expression of human life t hat it would not become necessary to. call your attention to were we to give you what we term the correct method by which you could become the better ac­quainted with truth in its divine mani­festations.

As truth permeates the whole universe even down to the smallest atom, even down to the most feeble expression of life, it is quite difficult to bring it, perhaps, as clearly to your attention as we would like; but to keep the soul thought centered constantly toward that divine light from which ever flows germs of truth is the best method toward becoming acquainted with truth.

Q .— Is a state o f perfection possible?

A .— I f we understand you correctly you mean to convey the idea, is perfec­tion in expression possible? . T o that we would answer, It is possible in time and eternity. As there is no limit to either we would not dare to say it never could be attained. But perfection in the ex­pression of life as you and we are able to discover we could not truthfully say you could ever arrive at perfection.

T o become perfect is to be one with the Divine in all expression and manifesta­tions, and we have not as yet discovered in our investigations and study of spiritual laws that any soul germ sent out seeking expression through the material universe has ever, as yet, returned to its primal source perfect.

That you may become perfect in one expression of life we do not doubt; but that you may become perfect in all the expressions, in all the possibilities o f the soul, we cannot answer yea. For instance, in your earthly experience you oftentimes find individual minds that seem to have become perfect in the expression of music, and in different branches of art; they are perfect so far as they are able to express and so far as you are able to comprehend to peer into the spirit o f the expression.

Q .—D oes God live in us, or w e'in God?

A .— Both. You live in God because God is everywhere; God lives in you, as he permeates every particle o f this mighty universe of worlds. God is infinite; you as mortals and we as spirits immortal are a spark of the great infinite source, and consequently we must live in God and God in us.

God in expression dwells in the tiniest pebble that you find on the ocean beach, breathes through every flower that* opens its petals to the golden sunshine, breathes through every blade of grass that sends up its shoots from the fertile soil, breathes through every wind that passes over our earthly universe, breathes and shines through every star that studs the firmanent. T o find where God is not is impossible, and in time you will think and feel the same of self; to find where self is not will be almost as impossible as to find where God does not dwell, for the hyman soul in its expression through material life is a spark of that divine source from whence all things, all forms, all life exists. The breath o f God materialized again passes into the elements when the spirit is free from its tenement, and who has power to tell to what limit those particles of the or­ganism may not float.

Who can know upon what breere are borne the chemical qualities that have been utilized in the expression of the hu­man organism ? It is not as yet in the power of any spirit whom we have met to determine the possibilities as yet awaiting even the expression of one atom of the Infinite.

Oh, my friends, it is a vast subject; one that can be conversed upon, it would seem, for an eternity o f time and yet not become exhausted. Think what the word God embodies! Everything that can possi­bly exist is God. Think of it!

Q .— W hat is the true Christ, or the Christ principle ?

A .— A perfect purity of purpose. We

( Continued from F irst Page.)can but repeat somewhat the words we have recently; uttered: To be pure in thought toward every expression of life is Christ-like. To be simple as children, to be loving, to be kind, to be charitable — always charitable, no matter how im­perfect the expression may be, is to exer­cise the divine Christ principle.

Q .— W hat is the connection between the spirit­ual and material body ?

A .— The spiritual body is an emanation from the physical body during that ex­pression. The connecting link is a fluid- cord termed by some teachers the astral or magnetic, and plainly visible to those whose spiritual vision has become suffi­ciently clear to recognize it. But whether recognized or not it is an established fact by spiritual scientists that should this fluidic current be severed from any cause whatever, the spirit would immediately de-

1 part from the physical tenement and enter directly into the spiritual or magnetic body it has formed during physical ex­pression. The first body the spirit pos­sesses after its entrance into the next stage of existence is of a quality differing according to the power of the soul over the elements it has called together in building its physical tenement. The link that connects the spiritual and physical body is weakened or strengthened by the life of the individual; ofttimes to the clairvoyant or psychic vision the cord seems to be o f a very fine and delicate texture, and an ordinary observer would naturally suppose the cord would be very easily severed because of its seeming frailty. But the finer the cord, the more strength and power of pure spirit has entered into it. The grosser, the larger, the more material this connecting link, the more it partakes of the grosser quali­ties in vthe human organization, and, like matter, is more easily destroyed than that which is formed more purely of the spirit­ual elements.

Q .— Is that which we call our individuality or selfhood contained within the dimensions of the body or immediately around it ?

A .— That which you ordinarily call selfhood is confined immediately around the body; but the real self, the ego, only acts upon the ’ body as an illuminator. Never for an instant does it enter into even the astral emanation of the physical or spiritual body. It is like a sun set far in the heavens sending down its brilliant rays and illuminating, according to its power, the tenements which it has builded.

To understand fully the divine expres­sion as a whole would be utterly impos­sible; but the constant reaching out for knowledge will truly in time bring to the soul all that it seeks.

Q .— H ow can we become superior to the con­dition of being drawn upon when among people that are not congenial?

A .— To become superior to any condi­tion of life is to become more spiritual! and positive. Ofttimes the condition produced, to which you refer, is as much ; what might be termed a fault of unrecog­nized thought in the individual who seems to be drawn upon. There are different reasons why these sensations are produced. We will give an illustration: In coming into the atmosphere of another individual you necessarily come in con­tact with the aural emanations around their physical and spiritual bodies, and as the lives of individuals are so different, their emanations are different—-very differ­ent chemical qualities are contained in each— and the meeting of these forces, if they are not of a harmonious character, will reflect unpleasant sensations upon the consciousness of the individual most sen­sitive, causing a disturbance in the atmos­phere of that sensitive.

To become superior to the conditions referred to, the soul must needs gain sufficient power over matter as to thor­oughly infuse the being it has- created with the “ cleansing fire of the spirit." When that has been accomplished there will radiate from the soul center of being a light that will be as'fire , destroying all elements that may come within its ray that would produce an inharmonious con­dition.

Q .— Lord Lytton in his work “ The Coming R ace,” speaks o f human beings inhabiting the central portion of the earth; what is your opin­ion of this theory? _ •

We are not personally acquainted with the work you mention, and our opinion must be taken for what it is worth. We do not see wherein it would be utterly impossible for a race of beings to exist in cavern^ under what you term the earth’s surface^ we do not feel prepared to say they can not exist, or that they really do exist. We would rather suppose that the individual you mention must have had a very clear spiritual penetration and proba­bly has made discoveries of his own, out of which may have grown the idea ex ­pressed. But as we do know there is no limit to the possibilities o f a soul, we feel it might not be impossible for a soul to sometime project a race of beings that could exist in atmospheres , interior to your earth. We can not say that we have ever, in our experience, met with people who have dwelt within the earth; but we do know we have met with individuals, and we can see them in expression to­day, who have lived upon other earth’s surfaces before.

Please convey, for us, to the noble workers of the spiritual paper our most tender greeting, and tell them if it lies in our power to assist in any way the ad­vancement o f the cause they so earnestly promulgate in the messenger that goes forth each week before the people, most happily will we do so.

[Written for the Golden Gate.]

Prom the Sun A ngels’ Order o f L igh t.

The lines of light from the sun center, the love aura of the Infinite, wherein dwells holiness and right enwrapped in love which finds birth into and expression trorn the heart of the Father’s children, radiate into the soul of the words Saidie would give to the children of her love at this time, in individualized truth which may and need be taken home to each child’s consciousness.

Individuality strong, grand and pure, is the acme of human existence; to gain through, and by means of all life’s experi­ences, its lessons, which should be treas­ured as a harvest of gold in the storehouse of the Infinite. Let each child look within and ask the inmost heart what would be the great harvest that will give satisfaction to the endless immortal life which awaits you in your own future. What would you sow in the field which is your portion of the inheritance from our common mother, Nature? What growth of beauty is your grand desire ? What bud and bloom will best gladden the eye and sense of the best unfoldment your mind can reach as an ultimate of per­fectness ? Considering thus, look well to the preparation of the soil, and to the selection of seed you will sow, for Saidie says into each child’s consciousness are woven many- threads of responsibility which will make their own demands in each and every future.

The God of your own souls will be found inexorable in his demands. Saidie desires not to enshrine herself as the human gods have ever been enshrined, but as a loving mother would she be held within, one who, having had experience of all life can bring, would warn, counsel, guide and guard each child over the deseits, through the valleys, and over the trackless seas, wherein are hidden many rocks that threaten shipwreck to the traveler who must wend his way through all these. Saidie would have each and all gather to themselves the greater good, that there be no lack of soul possessions in the future awaiting them, and to do so there is one safe, sure and perfect way. The way of steady, onward progress, and if Saidie, in the earnestness of heart she feels, could but impress upon each child the wisdom of continually receiving the light she brings; could she but bring to your understanding a true perception of the wis­dom and happiness to be gained thereby, half the work of the angel world would be accomplished. She would bring for your every-day study the law-book, con­taining the law of. cause and effect. These can never be separated; if the seed time be neglected, the harvest must lack in grand fullness. Nature’s soil is capa­ble under proper culture to produce the most choice growth of fruit and grain, but each one versed in the lore of farming knows well that it requires toil and skill, would we have the very best results. All lands are not best adapted to raise wheat; one portion of land may be, another bettef for fruit, and so on through the varied requirements of that which is to be pro­duced for the good'and happiness of mankind; and so with the human life, in the varied schools which is entered, is learned at last when th l robes immortal are earned and worn, that each and every lesson has been learned, and learned, too, by entering each class of the divine school of human experience.

The teachers of the different grades may be pupils in the grades still higher, and all together seeking the graduating class, from which, with honors, may each child be promoted into the higher school of infinite love and wisdom, there to solve problems unknown while upon.earth.

There are attainments ye now little conceive; there are joys earth knows not of. For this Saidie would bid each work with a will understandingly, knowing that the gems of wisdom gained are unto you a precious jewel, whose value is untold in the treasure of earth. Saidie acknowl­edges the full worth of all life-classes, where lessons of value are taught and learned, but these fall short of the wisdom of the higher spheres, because all is not seen and comprehended in its truth by those who can understand and teach much they have gained unto themselves.

I f it be asked, why have not true ideas o f incarnation been taught in the past, Saidie would say the spheres from which so many ideas have emanated concerning it, see it not in the full light of truth. While spirits must wear at times the robes of earth, they are more or less bounded in their world of thought by the horizon thereof, seeing not beyond its boundary line. And, too, becoming satisfied in a greater or less degree with the wisdom to which they have attained, they accept and give that as the grand ultimate of knowledge concerning life’s principles. Saidie speaks in no word of censure, for these limited horizons of thought must of necessity bound the fields they have thus far explored. Yet in the future these same minds will explore new fields, seek an extended range of thought and of wisdom, from whence will be sent forth from the same brain new ideas, advanced prin­ciples, as these are seen and comprehended. Many times have Saidie’s mortal Pfeet trod the shores of the lands of her different incarnations, until to-day she wears the crown of wisdom, the robes immortal, and no more for her will be felt the need of donning of mortal robes. But from her home of light has she come earth­ward, the wisdom mother of the planet, which she has watched with a love as

measureless as the shoreless sea, and from whence her feet will not stray until her children are redeemed. My children, you who have stood in the temples above, who are now light bearers to the earth, and into its darkness have come, bearing the soul-lamps lighted in your Father’s land, Saidie’s heart whispers to yours ever her benedictions of peace, and in her mother love you will ever find an assur­ance that will be strong'to bid the wild* storm and life’s surging billows “ be still.” Saidie would ask of all .whose name is enrolled upon the book of the angels, that they center their thought upon the teachings and the principles she gives forth from time to time> They will be to you instructors in the wisdom of the higher spheres, upbuilding and uplifting you in the scale of being., Saidie brings no fanciful, unreal doc­

trines; would lead into no myth-shrouded bowers of seeming rest, but would lead out of cloud land, uncertain seas of error, into the green fields and clear seas of truth, where the sun of the Father’s love may be felt, where the lines of truth will reach your understanding, and where each and every one will be well fitted for com­munion and companionship wilh the good and wise of other ages, other worlds, other spheres of light.-

The knowledge now gained is but the alphabet preceding the reading of that of the future. Mind will be opened toward the sun, when all incarnations with their need are over. And Saidie now says spirits have outgrown all need of incarna­tion who have become masterful, into whose individualized natures has been in- woven the power and force of the Infinite, who have evolved their God-given powers and gained the inheritance bequeathed by the Father of all. Many, to-day, tread the earth shores, who have come from the shores of sister planets; they are here for a purpose, not having outgrown all response to the .call of Mother Nature, who had power to yet call them back, as their being, robed in materiality fully shows. When again they respond to the call, Come up higher,” the crown of life will be theirs to wear, the robes im­mortal will be fully earnbd. They will sing the new song of redemption; then will the marriage morn of the soul have dawned, and they go forth in realms of light wherever they may be attracted, to work in the fields of the Infinite on other worlds. But to attain this must each one have fully solved the problem of life— have become free from every fetter that had power to fasten itself into their inner beings, even in the land of light and song. Some have fancied themselves free, who yet would feel the inward rest­lessness betokening something ungained, some power yet unproved which impera­tively calls for a baptism in matter that the problem be fully solved, and the re­sult unerringly given.

It is simply unreasonable to suppose that any earth-life, however full it may be, has solved all the problem of exist­ence in material robes. The unerring law of cause and effect give no such solu­tion, and all false theories concerning it will fade away before the light of actual truth, which will never dim, but grow brighter and brighter as years are told, making their record each upon the pages of time.

Saidie asks of her children who have willingly placed themselves under the banner of the Order, who willingly give the heart and hand of assistance to the angel host who have established the earth expression of the heaven-born Order, that they investigate fully the principles set forth; make yourselves familiar with the thoughts given from time to time; send your words of greeting to the center; send also your questions where Saidie, in materialized form, can give voice to the answers, and from whence they will be transmitted to you for your better under­standing. Saidie would have her children interested and earnest seekers for the truth, and assures them that through avenues she herself has opened, will the true light and knowledge she promises be given far and near to all the children of her protecting love. Peace be with you.

Given by Saidie, of the Oriental Band, through Mrs. E . S. Fox.

J . B . F a yette , President and Corre­sponding Secretary of the Sun Angels’ Order of Light.

Oswego, March, 1887.

T h e Atlantic for January has a tre­mendous indictment of the drink traffic by Geo. F . Parsons. He says the saloon is an institution for the compounding and dispensation of poisons. These poisons cloud the reason of the victim, extinguish for a time his conscience and his moral convictions, stimulate all that is ferocious and brutal in him, and impel him to the perpetration of crimes. Alcoholic drinks made by the most honest processes are bad enough in their consequences, but the drinks of commerce are adulterated to such an extent that those who use them habitually and freely are exposed to a whole catalogue of diseases from which our ancestors with all their intemperance were free.

A J apanese gentleman, bearing the simple name of Azurizawa Ryochi Nich- ome Sanjukanboz Kiobashi-Ku, has dis­covered the secret of photographing in natural colors. It is hoped he will not, in imitation of Daguerre, christen the new process with his own name. Think of going to • a photographers and telling him you want a dozen Aurizawaryochinich- omesanjukanbozkiobashiknotypes taken!— Norristown Herald,.

attained, here is a power able to lift and transform the world.

It is not a question, then, that is all in the air, and is of no practical importance. I know of none that I believe to be more practical.

But if this certainty is never to be attained, I believe with Mr. Fiske in this, that the great majority o f men and women will cherish the hope, at any rate, in the hours of sorrow and loss; and when the night comes, they will look up at the stars, and dream of other and happier worlds.

And this, at any rate, can be said for the dream, that no advance of knowledge as yet has proved its right to impeach it, or take away its comfort from the hearts that ache for the sight of faces that have vanished.

[Written for the Golden Gate.jT he P o e t 's H eaven .

BY ELIZA A PITTSINGER.

I dwell in a city of beauty,Engirdled with rivers o f gold,

Where pleasure, imblended with duty, ,In sweet revelations unfold—

The temples are gilded and golden,W ith walls that arc carven and planned,

From the symbols and types that are moldcn, By the art of a magical hand.

The oracles here that are given,From the center o f being have birth,

Where the glory and wisdom of heaven Are set to the music of earth.

The sibyls are fresh as the morning,And fair as the Angels of Light,

W ith eyes like the starbeams adorning ~ The mystical brow of the night.

And I know in this kingdom of splendor Are temples that ever will stand;

Inspirations whose beauty shall render A radiance immortal and grand.

Bewildered I sit in the twilight,Enraptured I dream in the shade,

I sing to the sun in its high light,And thus my ovations are made.

0 up to my city, ’tis glowingLike a pearl on the bosom of night;

Where the streamlets o f beauty are flowing Through valleys enchanted and bright—

1 have tablets and shrines that are gildedW ith many a gorgeous device, ,

And everything fair as I willed it To charm .and bedazzle the eyes.

I have fountains whose waters are nectars, Ambrosias whose odors are balm,

Enchanters, guides, pilots, protectors,In danger, resistance or harm.

I have sweet-scented laurels and scions O f mystical sceptres and wands,

By which the hyenas-and lions Are changed into satyrs and fawns.

Tis an island of beauty, all paven W ith emerald, opal and gold;

O f a charmed oasis or haven Ah, this is the model and mold—

Then up to my beautiful city,Away to my sweet paradise,

To be wandering so far is a pity,To its splendors awake and arise!

I have barges to float on the river,Gondolas to float on the sea,

And banners that tremble and quiver Like arrows sped over the lea—

I have palaces, temples and towers,Mosaic impression^ and forms,

The center o f magical powers,The symbol of magical charms.

Groves, gardens and lovely valhallas,And tomes of a language antique,

Combining the wisdom of JPallasW ith the songs of sweet Sappho that speak

In measures o f longing and yearning,In numbers sublime and unique,

And peans of ecstasy burningW ith the wonderful love of a Greek.

I have statues in deathless devices Of all who have suffered and sung,

From Homer, as real as life is,To Browning, Keats, Shelley and Young—

And goddesses, all the Immortals Illustrious and noble in birth,

Who have opened the heavenly portals,And brought down its music to earth. .

W ho have sung in melodious measures,Who have trodden the circuit and goal,

Unlocking the manifold treasures Enshrined and embalmed in the soul;

W ho have read the fair scroll of Creation, Attuning its secrets to verse,

And w ith plummets o f inspiration H ave sounded the universe.

Then up to my city all paven W ith shrines emblematic and bright,

And images sweetly engraven W ith symbols eternal as light!

O up to my beautiful city,Away to m y rivers o f gold,

N ot episode, legend or dittyOne-half their enchantments have told! Sa n F rancisco, Feb. 25, 1SS7 .

T h e soul element is stagnant in three- fourths of the race. When the pressure induced by our criminally unjust system, social, religious and political, shalljbe lifted from the brains and bodies of men, this element will be liberated to an upward and outward expansion; and its liberation will mean nothing less than absolute im­munity from disease, sin and even death. It will mean the beginning o f the millen­nium .— Woman*s W orld.

T ramp (whose request for food has been denied)— “ Well, ma’am, would you let me sleep in the ten-acre lot back of the bam if I won’t make any noise ? ”

Woman— “ Ye-es, I don’t mind letting ye do that.”

Tramp (appealingly)— “ Well, one thing more, ma’am, before I say good-night. Would you have me called at 7 sharp ? I want to catch the limited cattle train West.” _____________________

T h e r e are in the United States 15 ,2 10 ,- 14 1 church members.

[Written for the Golden Gate,J

Fortun e-te llin g and Prophecy.

BY HUDSON TUTTLE.

Fortune-telling may or may not reach into the future. The professional fortune­teller is satisfied and satisfies by narrating the past; the more sensitive the practi­tioner the more perfect the result. That even vagabond fortune-tellers are able to substantiate their claims to a certain ex­tent is an every-day experience of their lives.

The story of the wonderful powers of Zschokke is often referred to because of his known integrity and ability as an author. He says that “ It has happened to me, sometimes on my first meeting with strangers, as I listened silently to their discourse, that their former life, with many trifling circumstances therewith con­nected, or frequently some particular scene in that life, has passed quite involuntarily, and as it were dream-like, yet perfectly distinct before me. During this time I feel so completely absorbed in contempla­tion of the stranger's life that at last I no longer see the face of the unknown where­in I undesignedly read, nor distinctly hear the voices of the speakers. By way of jest, I once in a familiar family circle at Kirchberg related the secret history of a seamstress who had just left the room and the house. I had never seen her be­fore in my life. The people were aston­ished and laughed, but were not to be persuaded that I did not previously know that of which I spoke; for what I uttered was the literal truth. I on my part was not less astonished that my dream-pictures were confirmed by the reality.”

In Zschokke’s time such an episode was rare and wonderful, but now more start­ling experiences are the every-day occur­rences of psychometrists and clairvoyants. A shred of garment or lock o f hair re­veals to such sensitives the character and the events of the past lives of their pos­sessors. This method is entirely distinct from that which forecasts the future, which is among the rarest endowments of the highest clairvoyant powers where it reaches into the purely and distinctly spiritual. *

Repeatedly is it said that prophecy is impossible; that no future event ever was or can be predicted. The current of his­tory sets by the headlands of accident, and is impelled by the winds of chance. This is the view taken by material science, and is an acknowledgment of ignorance rather than an exhibition of knowledge. Because the universe is ruled by fixed and undeviating laws prophecy is possible. There is nothing fortuitous; there is no chance, nor can there be. The game of chance itself is ruled by laws. The flight of birds> the burrowing of a worm, the falling of a leaf—resultants of intermin­able series of causes and effects, predicta­ble, certain, and as such predictable by an intelligence able to grasp all contin­gencies.

Men prophesy; they draw inferences from known data and arrive at conclu­sions as to the future. Sometimes their predictions come true; more often there are causes they do not see which change the results. No mind fettered by physi­cal limitations can grasp the wide range of conditions and thereby correctly fore­tell the future.

T o deny the possibility of prophecy, as is so boldly done by some leaders in science, is to deny the fundamentals of science itself, which teaches that there being no chance, and law ruling supreme, to know the law, or combination of laws, is to know the result. Not to know the result is acknowledged ignorance of the laws which lead causes thereto. The throw of a die— there can be nothing more fortuitous, and yet a die never fell by chance. Whichever side was presented was determined not by accident, but by series of conditions. The erratic actions of individuals are held to the same de­terminable principles, and the history of nations can be read into the future as well as into the past. Because the most learned man cannot predict the events of to­morrow is not an argument against the possibility of the events of the next century being foretold by one who commands a sufficiently lofty height.

A few years ago a philosopher said that ** It was wisdom not to hazzard a con­jecture as to the weather of to-morrow; then one would know only of the weather o f his narrow locality. H e might shrewdly judge by the direction of the wind and appearance of the clouds, but his knowl­edge was to circumscribed to be more than a guess.”

Now, an observer at Washington, through the telegraph, is in momentary connection with the whole continent, and with the other side o f the Atlantic. He knows the temperature, atmospheric press­ure, state of moisture, direction o f the wind and electric condition, and all other meteorological phenomena, from the Gulf to Hudson Bay, from Newfoundland to the mouth o f the Columbia, and is thus able by grasping all the conditions to pre­dict the changes of weather which are to effect extended territories. When the unknown causes fill the atmosphere with a vast mountain in the northwest he at once orders danger signals, for he knows that down the sides of that mountain the cold air o f the frigid upper regions will pour over the plains this side of the Rocky Mountains and meeting no obstruction will rush over the surface in tongues of biting cold until warmed by the southern

sun. I f the current is moist he safely pre­dicts snow; if dry a biting wind with fine dust-like particles which represent the last particle of moisture it contains. Obser­vation over extended areas has thus re­duced what has always been regarded as the most fortuitous realm, the ocean of the uncertain winds which blow where they list, to order and law, and the weather prophet, from a charlatan has become a profound and most useful phi­losopher.

I f an astronomer should fall among savages and predict an eclipse, when the light of the sun was extinguished as he

foretold it would be, they would worship him as possessing superhuman knowledge. They would have no comprehension of the phenomenon or the laws by which it was produced, yet to the astronomer it is a simple application of the principles of motion applied to revolving bodies, and the result has the certainty of mathematics. He not only can calculate the coming eclipse; he can as readily predict all that will occur for a million years, and all that have occurred in time past. The astron­omer is a true prophet o f changes in the heavenly bodies. In the same manner, one versed in the laws, influences and conditions brought to bear on an individ­ual or a race may truly prophesy what the future of such individual, nation or race will bring forth.

A ir in g Rooms.

[Philadelphia Call.]

It is a great mistake that the whole house, particularly sleeping-rooms and the dining-rooms, receives little ventilating and purifying of the air, when it can be done with so little trouble and no expense. A pitcher of cold water placed on a table or a bureau will absorb all the gases with which the room is filled from the respira­tion of those eating or sleeping in the apartment. Very few realize how, im­portant such purification is for the health of the family, or, indeed, understand or realize that there can be any impurity in the rooms, yet in a few hours a pitcher or pail o f cold water—the colder the more effective— will make the air of the room pure, but the water will be entirely unfit for use.

In bedrooms a pail or pitcher of water should be always kept, and changed often if any one stays in the room during the day, certainly be put in fresh when the inmates retire. Such water should never be drunk, but either a covered pitcher or glass bottle with a stopper should be used for drinking water, and always to be closely covered. Impure pater causes more sickness than even impure air, and for that reason, before using water from a pump or reservoir for drinking or cooking, one should, pump or draw out enough to clear the pipes before using it, particularly in the morning, after the water has been standing the pipes all night.

[Written for the Golden Gate.l

Club-Throwing.

It is hoped that Spiritualism, through the evolutionary process, has at last entered upon a time when the period of club-throwing is a thing of the past, and the work of the builder actually begun. In the pioneer time the newly fledged Spiritualist, in his attitude to the outside world, was much in the condition of the three-year-old child, whose most exalted mental operation in connection with its

most prized possession, is expressed in the words, “ I ’ve got candy—you haven't got an y!” The first impulse was to boast of superior wisdom, and next to proselyte by informing his neighbor how ignorant and absurdly foolish was the latter, through the free use of ridicule, argument, hate and contempt. This, in face of what is universally known, that you cannot reach a man's affections or convictions when he is in angry mood, or by assailing that which he holds most dear. In those early times, how many of us have invited friends who were im bedded in the old errors, yet really anxious to know something of this new occult power, to attend a lecture; and, when the occasion came off, not a word was uttered bearing on the subject proper; but, in place of it, a violent and venomous tirade against that which the friend considered the most sacred. There is no doubt that if Spiritualists had at first begun a course of respect for their heaven- born truth, and one also of self-respect, by confining their public work to the great fact of continued existence after so-called death, and communication connected therewith, instead of employing their energies to destroy the firmly and jeal­ously held opinions of others, the world would now be advanced in this direction from fifty to one hundred years ahead • of where it stands to-day.

It is, unfortunately, the way of some who call themselves Spiritualists, to get all their inspiration to effort and action—not through the organs of benevolence and spirituality, but through those of combat­iveness and destructiveness; and such persons are only happy when they can make somebody a target for the missiles of hate and ridicule. Man, from long habit, retains the primitive savage and undevel­oped method of conquering all before him with brutal might and the force of violence, and himself occupying that which another has built up, making the ruins of his brother the foundations of his own success.

It often costs more to destroy a structure in making place for a new one than it does to build the new. The latter may be so constructed that through its very superior attributes others will be glad to leave the old hulks of .error and make it their habitation instead of the old. And what then ? A building unused soon goes to decay; and this is nature’s great process I

of transition and change—ever supplying the better and higher in place of the lower and meaner, by which action old things passgaway and all things become new.

These thoughts come in consideration of the course of the G olden G ate as a means of promoting a knowledge of the great fact, that when a man dies he does live again. No little of the present suc­cess of this journal is because there is no room in its columns for subjects belonging to the province of the iconoclast, while they are ever open to receive anything relating to Spiritualism, or the truths, phi­

losophy and facts associated with it. Peo­ple take up this paper, expecting the glint of rays from the swinging gate of gold will dazzle the outreaching sight, or, pos­sibly, that they may see something in and beyond; and not specially to learn of the weaknesses of other isms, or to indulge in a cruel disposition toward those with whom we differ.

I f there is one lesson above all others ever taught us by spirit-child and sage alike it is that of beneficence; and that the real happiness of the progressed and unfolded consists in reaching out the helping hand to every struggling mortal to assist him in climbing higher.

So we find that the indoctrinating of our fellows into new truth is not best done by felling them with a club, but by first showering them with kindness and then observing Spiritualism's great law of supply and demand, by feeding them the living bread as fast as they hunger for it in place of casting the cruel stones. This, too, is the method of reason and practical com­mon sense. H . W. B oozer.

G rand R apids, Michigan.

How H ouses R est .— Horses can get some rest standing,” said an old trainer, recently, “ provided the position be reasonably easy, but no full rest except recumbent. It is known of some horses that they never fie down in the stall, though if kept in pasture they take their rest habitually in a recumbent position. It is well to consider whether the habit has not been forced upon the horse by some circumstance connected with the stall he was made to occupy, in that it' had a muddy earth floor or one made of dilapidated plank, uncomfortable and offensive to the horse that had been accustomed to select his own bed in the pasture. I f the horse can have the privilege of selecting his own position for resting on his feet he can sleep stand­ing; but while his muscles may be to a certain degree relaxed, and, get rest in that position, what can be said of the bearings at the joints? Without relief through the recumbent position, the joint surfaces are forced continuously to bear a weight varying from 1,000 to 1,800 pounds. This must act unfavorably, especially upon the complicated structures within the hoofs which nature intended should have periods of rest each day.

Letter from Emma H ardinge-Britten.

[From a private letter from this grand pioneer of Spirit* ualism, written from her home in Manchester England,Feb. 4th, we venture to give some matters of general interest.]

Your numbers of the G olden G ate are excellent. My heart warms at the mention of names and places once so familiar to me in California, where I was certainly one, if not the pioneer lecturer on Spiritualism. The people there seem to have forgotten me, but I have always a warm and kindly remembrance of my early experiences and the kind friends who then sustained me. Nearly all those friends have gone to join the majority “ over there,” and I, like many others who have been pioneers in the ranks, find but few worthy to fill their honored places.

Amongst the very best signs of progress I note on the Pacific Coast is the publica­tion of the G olden Ga te . The local articles are much needed. Your distance from the Eastern States rendering local representation much essential; in the meantime the tone, and truly philosophic character of the editorials and writing generally, are beyond all praise and could only emanate from such vigorous minds and experienced journalists as my esteemed friends, J . J . Owen and his associates.

■ • * • The Winter here has been .unparalleled in severity, and the distress appalling. On one side are the fools and the frivolous, devising all sorts of costly plans to celebrate a jubilee in honor of the Royal Paupers who sap the nation's vitals to sustain them; on the other side, are armies of gaunt, starving ft miserables,” - clamoring for church disestablishment, land reform, bread or revolution. I five in the north of England, wherein, as as usual, you may be sure to find the brain of the land. Although I have neither time nor inclination :o send re­ports or notices of myself to the spiritual papers, I am at work unceasingly and untiringly. Such is my life constantly, and as I am in the midst of the people, and always on their side, my fife is passed amidst gnashing of teeth from the foes of progress and shouts and applause from its friends. I am often, by choice, lectur- . ing in the thickly populated, bright, bold, free-thinking towns of Yorkshire and Northumberland. Last night, for example (Sunday), I had a large hall jammed, several hundreds turned away, and when I came out, the street was full of my audience, waiting to bid God bless , me. My carraige could hardly get through' the throng, and dozens of rough hands were thrust through the window to shake mine, ^nd children held up to be kissed by me; and this is no unnsual scene, my friends. . All through the north “ un­popular Spiritualism ” is the most popular faith of the day.

Poor drones of parsons that cannot command a congregation of a score of people in free seats, can draw together a thousand, at a shilling each, to hear Spiritualism “ exposed,” or “ exploded,” so eager are our opponents to get rid of us.

The people here are poor and the distress frightful. Our meetings free, and pay small; but if we had half as many good speakers as you have to labor as I do, Spiritualism would be the religion of.>—^ the people in less than a year. I,did not

'intend to spin you such a yarn, my friend, when I begun; had I intended to do so, I would have written in printers' style on one side of the sheet only; as ‘it is, if you find any items that would be of interest or encouragement to your readers to copy for the paper, they are at your service, but as I am sure both your time , and mine is now up, I will not add an­other word, save to thank you for the golden leaves of the G olden G ate, to bid you and Mrs. Owen godspead, and to assure you I am now, as ever,

Your sincere friend,E mma H ardinge- B ritten .*

S incerity becomes a man like a gar­ment of righteousness, but sometimes it cuts in a way least expected. A good instance in point was, we think, afforded in Joseph Cook's prayer at the close of Sam Jones' address to ministers in Tre- mont Temple, Monday noon, Jan. 24th. Mr. Jones had been denouncing the drinking habit in scathing terms, and urging and exalting purity of fife and godlikeness of character. But not a word was said about tobacco—a habit which Messrs. Jones and Small both indulged in until last Winter, when they publicly renounced it at Chicago; but the Inde- pendent says that they have since broken their pledge. Mr. Cook, being called on at the close of the address, prayed in equally vigorous language that men might keep themselves free from the evil of tobacco as well as drink, and that all narcotics as well as intemperance might be banished from the land. He who preaches sincerity and purity ought to practice what he preaches.— Congrega- tionalist.

T h er e are dumb souls—fives that find­ing no outlet have turned back’ upon themselves and become voiceless. The world is full of human victims; victims to a thousand social wrongs, but to no wrong like that great and incomparable fie that teaches us to shape our fives in conformity with narrow and bigoted creed, instead of giving ourselves to the natural and spontaneous development pointed out by innate inclination and native faculty.— Woman's W orld.

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S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 12 , 1887.

M E D IU M IST IC C O N D IT IO N S.

Investigators in the philosophy and phenomena

o f mediumship are often at a loss to understand

the necessity for certain conditions in medium-

ship, or why it is that the manifestations cannot

be given in ways they may choose to dictate or

demand. They cannot understand how it is that

one person.can obtain satisfactory manifestations

through a certain medium, while another, through

the same medium, can obtain nothing.

* Every person possesses an atmosphere, or aura,

which wholly envelopes him, extending a few

feet in all directions. This aura is a physical

emanation, composed of the m agnetic forces of

the body, which are thrown off from the body,

like the aroma from the flower. Upon this aura

is registered the quality and character o f the man.

It is light or dark, as the spirit is pure and re­

funded, or otherwise. Clairvoyants and psychom-

etrists can readily perceive these em anations, and

know of a certainty the nature o f the individual.

N ow , the aura or magnetism of each individual

investigator constitutes an essential factor in the

manifestations, determining their character and

quality; for it is through this aura, interblending

w ith that o f the medium, that the spirit is able

to m anifest. Exactly how this is done is not

known; but the fact exists nevertheless. Like

every other fact or principle o f nature we must

accept this one and make the most o f it.

I f w e w ould cause the expression of a rose, or

produce so much as a blade of grass, we would

not question the conditions necessary to such ex­

pressions,— we would sim ply com ply therewith,

well know ing that the more im plicit and faithful

the com pliance the more perfect the expression.

So with spiritual manifestations; if investigators

understood the matter better they would study

how best to com ply w ith the conditions requi­

site to the best results, and not set up conditions

o f their own, and insist thereon.

N ow it is w ell known that in the phenomenon

o f independent slate-writing, for instance, the

most perfect manifestations are obtained upon

slates that the medium has had an opportunity

to handle,— cleansing and drying them with his

ow n hands. And these results are still further

enhanced when obtained in the presence o f per­

sons w ith friendly and sym pathetic magnetisms.

As for obtaining the writing between sealed

slates it is no more convincing, if as much, as

when given on the under side o f a single slate

placed in the hands o f the investigator, and

which is never for a moment permitted to leave

h is hands or sight.

A s to the suggestion of the skeptic that the

w riting may possibly be placed upon the slate by

invisible chemicals, and then made to appear

under the investigator’s hands, the idea is too

absurd for serious consideration. I f writing of

any kind had been previously placed there the

rubbing to which the slates are invariably sub­

jected would remove every trace thereof. But

the fact is apparent to any one with half an eye,

that the writing is caused by the attrition of a

pencil upon the surface o f the slate.

Certain it is that California, and especially the region along the coast, is remarkably favorable for spiritual and mediumistic development. There is probably right here in San Francisco a larger proportion of mediumistic persons than in any other city in the_ Union, and some of these me­diums are equal to the best in the world.—G olden G a t e .

We presume that this is so; but we regard it as anything but a compliment to California to be told that the Devil can work through people here better than he can anywhere else.—S ig n s of t h e T im e s .

W e usually see iri others what we possess the m ost o f in ourselves. N ow , our neighbor is un­w illing to recognize any good in Spiritualism; to him it is a ll ev il. ’ T he messages o f love and comfort that com e back to us from the dear ones whose pulseless forms w e have laid aw ay in the grave; the gentle adm onitions from the spirit world to live nobly and wisely; the suggestions and promptings to a purer and better life ,— all this is the D evil working through humanity! W hy, brother, you surprise us. You should lift yourself out o f that ungenerous thought elem ent, and then you will not think so much about the D evil which you im agine you see working through your neighbors. D on ’t you remember that the Teacher saw no evil to condemn even in the poor, sinful woman that certain o f his follow ­ers brought to him for judgm ent? H e could see only the good in her, because he was thoroughly good himself. H e wasn’t alw ays worrying him ­se lf about the D evil. I f there is a devil, and he does a kind and noble act, why not give him credit for it? W hy not elim inate him from your creed, and jo in hands w ith a ll good men and wom en in all good works.

S P IR IT U A L C H E M IST R Y .

Most mediums for independent slate-writing

are able to produce the writing in colors, and

without the use of colored crayons; or rather

their guides, working through them, are able to

do so. • Mr. Colby writes in various colors; so

does Dr. Stansbury; and for Mr. Evans, we

have had the writing through his mediumship,

under absolutely test conditions, in as many as

nine different colors, or shades of color upon one

slate, and all produced at one time.

The question naturally arises, W hence do the

spirits obtain these colors, and how do they ap­

ply them? They assure us that they extract

them, by a process which they are unable to

fully explain to our comprehension, from the at­

mosphere and from the coloring material o f the

carpets and upholstery of the room in which the

medium sits. A private medium for this phase

o f writing, residing at Stockton, informed us

recently that her carpets, lounges, and colored

upholstery are actually being so despoiled of

coloring matter by the spirits, for work of their

own, as to show a very perceptible bleaching out.

It would be interesting to know exactly how

this is done; but is it any more mysterious than

similar manifestations in physical nature?

W hence comes the coloring matter that .paints

the rose, or the violet? From the black earth

and the limpid air and water. Can any one de­

scribe the process? H as any one ever been able

to master the chemistry o f plant growth? When

he can explain this, then possibly may the philos­

ophy of spirit writing in colors be explained.

And here com es in another thought: The

manifestations o f nature all around us—of ani­

mal and vegetable life and growth— of attraction

and repulsion—o f gravitation, of electricity, of

light, of heat,— all of these and more, with

which man is familiar, are quite as great mys­

teries as those o f modern spiritual manifestations,

which the world is disposed to reject, simply be­

cause it is not familiar therewith. Familiarity

with a thing does not change the fact o f the

mystery surrounding it . T he occult forces of

nature— the life principle that permeates and

dominates matter,— is ever active, wherever the

necessary conditions exist.

N ow , what is there really more phenomenal or

mysterious in the materialization of a human

spirit in habiliments o f flesh, during a period of

ten or tw enty years, than in the temporary

clothing of the spirit in the semblance of mor­

tality? Because the spirit o f man can manifest

through the physical brain, does it necessarily

follow that there can be no other way for it to

communicate?

W hat dq we know o f the occult forces of

nature, that we should presume to say, “ Thus

far and no farther?” W hat do we know of our

own souls, that we should presume to circum­

scribe their capacities and powers?

The true student o f nature is the last to pro­

scribe her forces, or question her methods. H e

sees mystery in all her manifestations, and mod­

estly infers that there may be many things that

he does not know. Instead of assuming to know

it all concerning that o f which he really knows

nothing, as is the case with some of our self-

opinionated scientists, he is ready to exclaim

w ith the Psalmist: “ Truly, the ways o f the

Lord are a great deep, and past finding ou t.”

H e is patient, and willing to learn.

W hoever, in this spirit, approaches the inves­

tigation of spiritual phenomena, is certain to

reap a rich harvest o f golden and glorious know l­

edge for his pains.

O U R A N C E S T O R S .

1 ‘ Eating matches, ” is what is called the gas­tronomic feats o f the present time, but they used to be every-day affairs, or rather ordinary dining, amounted to what we would now call phenome­nal achievements. The poor lout who can only eat fifteen pies and nothing else, w ill never be renowned in history as a glutton.

W hen George Shird was nineteen years old, and the king’s watchmaker’s apprentice, he could eat a leg o f pork weighing six pounds, with a proportionate quantity o f pease pudding and a pint o f brandy. H is name is classed with other illustrious dead whose appetites seem to have been the best part of them.

N othing more clearly establishes the theory of evolution than does the 'lessening capacity of man’s stom ach. It is not necessary td go so far back as caves and caverns to find our ancestors when they lived to eat; they ate for pleasure, and indeed they had but poor resource in other things.

L iving in houses w ithout chimneys, without windows, without furnishings such as almost the poorest homes possess to-day; no newspapers, and no. books save in rare instances, what could they do but eat? W ell, they lived their lives, were great in their day, and live in history. They must look down upon their mincing de­scendants, and wonder at the change that has com e over the race.

— The Sisterhood o f the Seven L inks returned a vote o f thanks, at their regular meeting, March 7th, to all who so kindly contributed in making a success o f the benefit to Miss Crews. The net proceeds o f the entertainm ent were $73, which was paid out on her piano, hence w e think the young lady may feel quite released from anxiety on that point for aw hile. There is a world of

possibility in her mediumship in the realm of music, and we hope nothing may retard her on­ward course. She has won many friends already by her modesty and the truly humble spirit she manifests regarding her beautiful gifts.

A W O R K O F A R T .

Mr. Briggs’ fine portrait of Mrs. E. L . W at­son has ornamented the walls of this office for the past week, and has been the subject of much comment and speculation. It has been exam­ined, at our special request, by a number of our leading art critics, whose judgment was con­fined alone to the picture as a work of art, with­out considering the manner in which it was pro­duced. They have unqualifiedly pronounced it a masterpiece. A noted artist, in this city, said he was astonished to know that any one in San Francisco could do such work. Another gentle­man, a connoiseur of art, having visited all the great art galleries o f the world, and for twenty- five years a “ dauber in paints," said that es­pecially the soft blending of tints o f the face were the finest he had ever seen. These are high endorsements for the painting, and it does seem that if spirits can do a work which receives the highest encomiums from the best judges, merely on its own merits, Spiritualists should doubly appreciate the effort, and be willing to lend a helping hand to bring to the world this high proof o f the power of the spirit.

The delicate and beautiful finish of this picture is demonstrated in the fact that one must study it closely in order to comprehend fully the artis­tic touches which is gradually /revealed. Virgil W illiams calls this the “ poetry of drawing.” W e give below a note from that great teacher touching this very poin t:

Now a head of a beautiful woman if drawn in a hard, decisive manner, presents all its qualities at one view. You see at once how it is done. There is nothing sug­gested. It is all then staring you in the face. You have got to see the whole of it. But the same head if treated in a mysterious manner does not show all'its beauty at the first glance. You have the dark, soft marks of shadow about the eyes, the soft shadow about the nose, the half­tints about the mouth, the strong masses of dark in the hair, but all expressed as if seen through a veil and softened to the eye—seen, as it were, in a dream, and that is what I want you to feel and try to reach—the Poetry of Drawing.

Mr. Briggs, the instrument through which this picture was made, is in need of assistance to get material for further work, and on account o f this pressing demand he now offers the picture and frame for the small sum of seventy-five dollars.

W e should be glad to see Mrs. W atson’s friends take hold of the matter and secure the painting, to be one of the heirlooms for future years for the society to which Mrs. W atson ad­ministers. This gifted lady will not always be w ith us, and when her beautiful ministrations shall have ceased, it seems most m ete that this fair prototype should still silently speak to the old and new ones who shall congregate under the name of the Golden Gate Religious and Philosophical Society, as its founder and first “ little preacher.”

S P IR IT B A N D S .

That powerful bands of spirits, embracing the wisest and best of the children of men of all past ages, are now organizing for the spiritual unfold- ment of humanity, is the uniform testimony of all our mediums. These bands are concentrating their forces, not upon any individual, as some who have felt their influence vainly imagine, but upon all sensitives through whom they can reach the hearts and consciences o f men. .

These noble spirits are no respecters o f persons; they come to the rich and poor alike, selecting their instruments from all classes of society. That their mission is one of special benefit and blessing to the race is everywhere apparent. They are to be the instructors o f humanity in wisdom’s ways— the monitors to a better life— the beacon lights to a future of endless happiness.

W e hear frequent m ention, among partially developed sensitives o f “ M y Controls,” and “ M y B an d ;” and some of these sensitives will name scores o f the grandest souls o f all past times as constituting a band especially devoted to their development and to work through them. These selfish assumptions o f special considera­tion, when uttered in presenee o f others, are calculated to call forth the ridicule o f the skeptic, and cloud the holy cause o f Spiritualism with doubt.

But divested of this exclusive feature, which is the outgrowth of human selfishness, the idea broadens into a grand and glorious possibility. Multitudes o f noble spirits, constituting mighty bands, are no doubt working through these individual sensitives, as they are through thou­sands of others, and preparing them for the grand work o f bringing light and truth to the world. This thought does not conflict with that o f the individual companionship and guidance of some one or more spirits who may be, and no doubt are, close to every life.

W e would urge all sensitives, who pride them­selves on the number and high character of their individual controls, to consider whether it would not be wiser, and more in accordance with the truth, to regard themselves as humble instru­ments of a common, but mighty, spirtual power now deluging the world; and that their spirit band is composed of many wise and good spirits who are working through many mediums for a com m on purpose o f good to humanity.

— W ill the friend who kindly sends us each week gems of thought culled from the works of the world’s master teachers, please write on the unsealed envelope ‘ ‘ newspaper copy;” then they will reach us with a one-ccnt stamp. As it is, the letters remain in the Postoffice, and w e are notified that they are held for postage. W e thankfully appreciate the favor conferred in send­ing the excerpts.

— In a seance with Fred Evans, on Monday evening last, we received nine slalesful of .inde­pendent writing, one slate being held in our own hands and the rest scattered around on the floor, and all in sigh t.

A S S E M B L Y H A L L .

The last o f the present series of test meetings' at Assembly Hall was held Sunday evening last, when over one, thousand people gathered to greet those very remarkable test mediums, Mrs. J . J. Whitney and Dr. Stansbury, who were in excel­lent condition and gave the most wonderful exhi­bition of public test mediumship.

After appropriate music, Mrs. W hitney ap­peared and immediately became entranced by her guides, who proceeded to give the names and de­scriptions of spirit friends until over one hundred persons in the audience acknowledged they had received most positive tests o f spirit return. Some of the tests were of'so startling a nature as to elicit spontaneous applause, notwithstand­ing the guides forbade it on account o f disturb­ing the control. Mrs. W hitney’s guides control her so easily that it is a pleasure to sec her en­tranced, and the clear and positive tone in which the tests are announced is conclusive proof that her guides understand their business.

Dr. Stansbury then came forward and exhib­ited four slates; at his request, Mr. W . H . Northway and Mr. S. Fred Young took seats on the platform. A pailful of water was next brought in and placed in the center o f the stage, into which the Doctor plunged the slates. In the presence of the committee, and in full view of the audience, two of the slates were taken out of the pail dripping with water and then thor­oughly dried A bit o f pencil was placed be­tween, and the Doctor held them out at arm’s length; at the expiration of two minutes the

1 slates were opened and a message found’ upon one of them from a father to his son who was in the audience, and who acknowledged it to be correctly signed in full and reading very much as his father would write.

The other slate was then covered with a towel and held as before, when, on removing the cloth, was found a long and characteristic message from one who was immediately recognized by parties in the audience, who declared that they had never seen the medium before.

The remaining two slates were than taken out of the water, dried and examined by the com­mittee and freely exhibited to all in the front seats; they were then tied together by one of the committee and hung upon a wire suspended from the chandelier in full gaslight. The Doctor, being seated about ten feet distant, became en­tranced. A t the expiration of about five min­utes the slates were taken down, and on one of them there was found to have been written one hundred and ten full names of spirits, over one hundred of which, when read, were acknowl­edged to be correct by persons in the audience.W e have examined this slate and find the names to have been very finely and closely written, and which we pronounce one of the marvels o f inde­pendent slate-writing.

W e regret that these excellent instruments for spirit communication should close their public meetings, as they have, when so much interest is manifested therein. But the reason therefor, we are assured, is because o f thair great amount of private work, the public m eeting in addition so overtaxing their mediumistic powers as to impair their usefulness in the private seance.

W . J . CO LV ILL E.

The many friends o f Mr. Colville will be pleased to know that he has been per* manently engaged by that scholarly gentleman,Dr. Albert Morton, to hold services in this city, beginning the first Sunday in September. The Doctor has secured Assembly Hall in Odd Fellow s’ Building, for Sunday meetings, and the hall of the “ church of the holy ele- elevator” for his private classes, all of which will be under the efficient supervision of the Doc­tor, who has had a long and widely extended ex­perience in the management of spiritual meetings. Among those who have lectured under his auspi­ces or management are to be* found the names of many of the most prominent lecturers, including Miss Belle Scougall, M attie H ulett, Laura D e Force Gordon, H elen L . Palmer, Warren Chase,E. V . W ilson, N . Frank W hite, C. Fannie Allyn, Prof. W illiam Denton, Emma Hardinge Brittan, Elizabeth L . W atson, G eo. Chainey, Gerald Massey and W . J . Colville, and with but tw o ex­ceptions the Doctor has labored without material reward, and sometimes at considerable expendi­ture of means.

W e bespeak for Mr. Colville on his return one of the largest and heartiest receptions ever tendered a spiritual lecturer in this city . H is work during his brief visit in San Francisco and sister cities met w ith such general approval that we shall look forward to a wide-spread awaken-

; ing in spiritual matters, when he is once thor- ( oughly established among us. The Golden Gate , with a host o f earnest hearts, eagerly awaits the com ing of this high-souled evangel o f Spirit­ualism. ______________

A n o t h e r R emarkable S late .— W e have published several remarkable slates o f independ­ent slate-writ ing, drawing, etc ., obtained through the mediumship of Mr. Fred Evans, written under our own hands. W e give one this week, upon our third page, from the C arrier D ove% written under the hands of D r. and Mrs. Schlesinger, and which they have kindly permitted us to use. Thus we have the confirmatory evidence of two other careful witnesses as to the genuineness of the writing through this medium. The slate is of the full size of the original. The history of the slate is given in full in the Dove for March. The background of the picture was made by rub­bing the bit of slate pencil over the surface o f the slate. The picture 'vvas then made with the tip of a lead pencil. The D ove declares that it “ positively knows ” that the writing was not done by Mr. Evans. A ll o f the work was done by spirit power. W e have another and, we think, still better slate o f our own for next week.

—W e are still patiently waiting for Mr. Col­ville’s new book, “ The Science of H ealth and Healing, ” of which he informs us he has ordered shipped to us 250 copies. That the book is out,

we know to a certainty, as we have received an unbound copy of the same. It is a book of 218 pages, and will be well worth the money. We refrain from reviewing it until wc are able to fill orders for it.

P R O F. W A L L A C E S P E A K S .

The grabbers o f Mrs. Ross’ spirits, thinking that Prof. Wallace, who had attended two of her seances, had been duped, and would probably acknowledge the same, “ counted without their host,” as the Professor now comes out in a long letter in the Banner o f L ight, in reply to Prof. James, in which he makes some telling points against the twelve “ reliable gentlemen ” who set out to expose that medium. T he Professor says:

Twelve gentlemen go together on purpose to expose, and by their superior force are able to do what they please; yet, up to this date, we have no statement by them, or on their behalf, which Is not either disproved by facts or quite con­sistent with the forms seized being what they profess to be. None of the alleged confederates were secured, or any steps taken to identify them. They have all vanished into sjiace, and the " ghostly muslin ” with which they were said to be draped has vanished likewise. The “ frightened children ” said to have been found in the cabinet were not asked for their names, or the addresses of their parents, so as to secure their appearance in a court of jostice, if required. The tall Indian, the two young men and the two children are all as if they had no existence I If it is asserted that they must have been human beings from the mere fact of their visible and tangible appearance, then no other evidence was needed; but if imposture is to be proved—not merely as­serted—then we have a right to ask for some material and producible evidence of the existence to-day of the five alleged confederates; and not a particle of such evidence is given us I Again, we are entitled to ask, Was the mop- board story an observed fact or a mere inference ? Will any one of the twelve gentlemen give us the exact particulars of this marvelous secret door, which twenty-one other gentle­men declare, after careful examination, to have left no ' traces of its existence ? Will they tell us how wide and how long it was ? Did it open with a hinge or by sliding? and if the latter, did it slide up, or down, or sideways ? What was the character and size of the corresponding secret door into the cupboard in the back room, of which there is now no trace ? Did any one of the twelve exposers them­selves pass through this opening, or even put their heads or

I their arms through it, so as to prove that it really existed ?- that it was, in theatrical language, “ a practicable passage * * for men, women and children ? All this is of the essence of the question, whether the forms seized temporarily, but

mone of them retained or identified, were actual human confederates, since it is admitted that only by some such opening, could confederates have entered the room. Yet up to the present time we have no single fact of this kind clearly alleged by eve-witnesses; and wc are accordingly forced to conclude that these twelve gentlemen, who went specially to expose an imposture, came away without any careful examination of the one thing which would confirm their story I

These are pertinent questions, and until they are satisfactorily answered the evidence of the twelve gentlemen wohld hardly be accepted in a court o f Justice.

T H R E E L IV E S .

11 It seems as though we must all have two lives in view— the one we really live, and the one we intend to live. The ~ latter is always vastly better of the two.”—Ex.

Yes, we all have two lives, certainly, but Spiritualists have three— the one we live on earth, the one we would like to live, and the one we shall live hereafter. These three lives are quite distinct, but we can put neither of them aside. The first is so exacting and- intensely practical that it confronts us at every turn or 'move we make. The second is so fanciful and ideal that - it holds us by enchantment, and we are always discovering new beauties and virtues in it, and we are more and more attached to j it by the be­lief that we are getting nearer to it with each day’s journey.

W ell, w e are somewhat justified in this be­lief since we do realize some of our desires regard­ing it. It is very beautiful and attractive, because it is connected w ith our material being and as tangible as flesh and blood can make it. But as w e travel on the third life grows upon our imagi­nation. It is the real and final destiny, and we at last come to view it as the only thing to be lived for. It holds the treasures that have been robbed from our two earthly lives, and it prom­ises the fruition of all our fondest hopes and am­bitions. It holds a ll possibilities and solves the mysteries that have perplexed our blinded eyes and narrowed minds, groping in earth’s ways.It is to this final and eternal home that we all turn w ith wondering mind and heart throbbing, expectant o f joy . There w e shall find all, see all, know all that finite mind can grasp, and live always— forevermore!

M R . J . J . M O R SE IN N E W YO R K .

W ith the services at the Grand Opera H all on Sunday evening, Feb. 27th, Mr. Morse closed his engagement with the First Society o f Spirit­ualists of N ew York C ity. On the preceding Satuiday evening a reception was tendered to Mr. Morse by the Society at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H . J . N ew ton . After the services on Sunday evening the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

W h er ea s , Mr. J. J. Morse is about to leave this city to visit the Pacific Coast, for the purpose of continuing his labors in the cause of Spiritualism in that faraway part of our country'; and

W h er eas, It is the desire of the First Society' of Spirit­ualists of the City of New York to express its high appreci­ation of the services of Mr. Morse and his controls on the platform of this Society during the past few months; there­fore it is hereby

R esolved , That the thanks of this Society be and here­by arc tendered to Mr. J. J. Morse and his controls for the able and satisfactory’ manner in which they have treated the several subjects that have been discoursed from the platform of this Society' by’ them, and that in parting with Mr. Morse and his spirit controls wc assure them of our earnest love and friendship for them personally, and of our continued in­terest and sympathy' in their labors for the elucidation and promulgation of the truths and philosophy' of Spiritualism, and that their services among us will ever constitute a pleas­ing remembrance. J ohn F r a n k lin C la r k ,

Corresponding Secretary.

N ot So, S ister Br it t e n .— In an interesting letter from Emma Hardinge Britten, which we publish elsewhere, our good sister thinks the Spiritualists of the Pacific Coast have forgotten her. N ot so , Sister Britten. Your name is a household word in many, many homes on this Coast. W e remember well your grand inspira­tions, your noble advocacy of Spiritualism, and the lessons o f love and wisdom that fell from your lips in other days. But the cause here has made a grand advance since those days of your pioneer work. There is a score o f Spiritualists here now where then there was one. Should you ever visit us again you w ill find such a wel­come as you little dream of. You would soon be convinced that you are not forgotten.

EDITORIAL NOTES. .

—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowles, the mental 'scientists, have returned from their Australian trip.

— Henry Ward Beecher, the eminent divine, passed on to the higher life, Tuesday morning last, from apoplexy. H is demise was peaceful and painless.

—James A . Bliss, editor of the N . D . C . A xe a n d T ru e Keystone, has our thanks for a photo of his pleasant countenance, which shall henceforth adorn our sanctum.

— The subject o f Dr. W . W . M cKaig’s lecture at Armory H all, Oakland, to-morrow (Sunday) evening, w ill be, “ Life, Tim es and Personality o f Henry Ward Beecher.”

— T he semi-annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Association of Spiritualists will convene in D es M oines, Iowa, March 31st. Arrange­ments w ill be made w ith railways to return all visitors at one-third rates.

— W ashington H all, 35 Eddy street, will be re­opened on Sunday evening, 13th inst., under a new management. The first hour w ill be de­voted to a conference on spiritual subjects; to close with a seance for spirit tests, by Mrs. Ada Foye.

— T he C a rrier D ove, for March, contains fine lithographs of the three F ox sisters on separate plates, together with an illustration of their home in H ydesville where the rappings first appeared. T he D ove for this month is an especially excellent number.

— W . T . Jones, President o f the Southwest Association of Spiritualists o f Michigan, who resides at Benton Harbor, in that State, arrived

' in this city a few days ago, and naturally dropped in upon us. H e com es with a view to locating on this Coast. W e hope he may not change his plans.'

A conclave o f Congregational ministers in Chicago refused to pass resolutions o f sympathy w ith M r. Beecher, in his last illness, because of the great preacher’s heterodoxy in the matter of an everlasting hell. Some folks are apparently never happy unless they can have a hot place in which to put their enemies.

— The March S t. N icholas is brimful of bright sketches and graceful pen-pictures, clean and healthful for its child-readers. Out o f its in­teresting contents we would specially emphasize* ‘ The Boyhood of Thomas Bailey A ldrich,” ** H istoric G irls,” and “ A N ew Leaf from W ashington’s Boy L ife .”

— W m . N . Slocum has an able review and criticism, in the last C arrier D ove, of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ late school-girlish fiasco on Spirit­ualism . Bro. Slocum picks her argument thread­bare, and does it so nicely, that one feels really sorry that Mrs. Phelps did not exhibit better sense than to give such an article to the public.

— The O verland M onthly for March presents som e capital papers, among the most delightful o f which we may note “ Street Scenes in Mexico, by G . B . Cole, and “ The Perils o f the H igh Sierras,” by Dan D e Quille. There is also an able paper on “ Socialism ,” by Edward W . Bemis. T he Pacific Coast is proud of its O ver- la n d .

— There came upon the slates at D r. Stans- bury’s public seance, last Sunday evening, the follow ing message from Judge W m . R . Thomp­son, father o f H . M . Thompson of this city: “ The essential principles o f primitive Christian-

. “ ity and the precepts o f Modern Spiritualism* ‘ are essentially one and the same, which, if “ practiced, would lead to the highest standard “ of morality and be the means of grace by “ which all might be saved.”

— H o n . S . B , M cKee, late o f the Bench of the Supreme Court, passed on to the other life from his hom e in Oakland on Wednesday, o f last week, after a brief illness from pneumonia. Judge M cK ee was a liberal thinker, a wise judge, and a kind-hearted, honorable man. The writer had known him well for a quarter o f a century, and a more genial, unassuming gentle­man he never knew. H e was a subscriber for the G o l d e n G a t e from its first number, and was much interested in the facts and philosophy o f Spiritualism.

— M r. Fred Evans, the remarkablemedium for independent slate-writing, will appear at the California Theater in San Jose (instead of the Theater Lecture H all, as announced last week,) on to-morrow (Sunday) evening. H e will be accompanied by the editor o f this journal, who will deliver a short introductory address, and conduct the m eeting. Mr. Evans’ psychographic control, Spirit John Gray, will undertake to demonstrate the affirmative o f Job’s question, “ I f a man die shall he live again?”

— Those tw o great spiritual lecturers, Mrs. Cora'L. V . Richmond and W . J . C olville, have exchanged platforms for this month, a pleasant exchange which show s what a beautiful spirit of sympathy and harmony exists between these two grand souls. Jealousy and envy is always the fruit o f little minds, and som ething which could find no lodgem ent w ith either Mrs. Richmond or Mr. C olville. This is a plane all Spiritualists should strive to attain , and especially the teachers and leaders o f rou philosophy. W e regret that there are not more Colvilles and Richmonds.

— Am ong the many interesting features o f the March C entury are tw o papers on “ Faith H eal­ing and Kindred Phenom ena,” one p ro and the other con, — the former by D r. Buckley, and the other by R . K elso Carter. Faith-cure, spirit- cure, or mind-cure, whichever name you call it by, is undoubtedly rapidly gaining ground in these days, and these tw o articles will be largely sought for. The Lincoln biography by Nicolay and H ay enters a new stage in the life o f the subject, and grows in interest w ith each succeed­ing developm ent. This history is alone worth the year’s subscription.

A G e r m a n I n v e n t i o n ,— W hile the German Government is taking all possible pains and measures to increase her army power, that coun­try has a chemist whose studies and experiments of late seem to be influenced by a consideration of the miseries and sufferings of battle, A t the same time it looks very much like a contrivance for facilitating the taking of prisoners. The thing* referred to is the anesthetic bullet, which, it is claimed, produces instantaneous and com­plete insensibility, that will last for hours, dur­ing which time it is thought the bodies might ‘ ‘ be packed in ambulances and carried off as prisoners,” But we do not see how this would tend to diminish the horrors of war.” The suffer­ing would be just as great when consciousness re­turned, although the surgeon’s work might be done. Whether it lessens the list of killed, would depend upon the wounded; and there .would surely be as many maimed and crippled.

O BITU A R Y .

A notable death has taken place in our midst, which deserves a notice in the spiritualistic paper. Gen. Jonas Winchester, of Columbia, Tuolumne county, was born into the spirit world Wednes­day, Feb. 23, aged 76 years and 6 months. v Mr. Winchester is well known by Spiritualists, from his connection with the “ Ancient Band.” W ella and Pet Anderson, spirit artists, produced some thirty life-sized portraits of these ancient worthies, Mr. Winchester bearing all the ex­pense; said pictures are now in San Francisco. Photographs of the same may be obtained from the widow at Columbia. Mr. Winchester leaves a wife, one son, and three fine girls to mourn the loss o f husband and father. But when the loved one comes back and through a writing medium makes known his presence, bids them dry the tear-drops from their faces, as he is with them still to bless and protect them, all this taking place while the cold casket of clay lay in another room, it seemed to the writer, as he gazed upon the scene, that death had lost its terrors, when children could comprehend life, death and immortality, and feel even buoyant, as the father was inditing messages as of old, only unseen by mortal eyes. It seemed a happy and harmonious group even under ghostly circumstances, the widow declaring, “ that if it was ndt for the spiritual philosophy she could not stand it; he was so good and kind.”

The funeral being on Sunday, a large assem­blage congregated around the grave, the Odd Fellows granting permission, as Mr. Winchester was long and prominently identified with that Order, although not an active member at death. Mr. Winchester being a pronounced Spiritualist drew many spectators, expecting something ex­traordinary, being the first Spiritualist’s funeral in this part o f our State. The writer performed the services in accordance with the highest prin­ciples of progress. The effort was without preparation, except an original poem, which we wrote for the occasion. Said poem will be pub­lished to-morrow in the Democratic B anner.

W e learn that many are anxious to investigate, as they never heard the philosophy of Spiritualism presented under such circumstances.

The day was very fine. The genial atmos­phere made the outdoor exercises to be attentively listened to. It is truly a boon to humanity to rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. N o pictured despair blanching the cheeks o f the bereaved, knowledge of a never-ending existence of the continued guardianship of the departed, the love of God, and watchful care o f good an­gels—all tend to lighten loads of care and to brighten the pathway heavenward. Few men pass away with a brighter spiritual record than Jonas W inchester, and few had the cause more at heart, being active in every good which his fertile mind and pen could accomplish.

' J o h n T a y l o r .C o l u m b i a , Tuolumne C o ., March 3, 1887.

A N N U A L M EETING.

-The Annual Meeting of the Golden Gate Religious and Philosophical Society was held at the Temple on Sunday morning last, taking the place o f the regular morning service. The Presi­dent o f the Board of Directors, Mr. F . H . Woods, called the meeting to order, and after a few well-timed remarks, presented his annual report which was read by the Secretary. The report [which see elsewhere] contains a history of the Society froih its inception to the present time, together with its general workings, the charities that have been bestowed, the work accomplished, etc. H e paid a glowing tribute to Mrs. Watson, and to Manager Dodge. Following the Presi­dent’s report came the reports of the Manager and Teasurer, of the Librarian, and of the Secretary of the Ladies’ Aid Society. These reports were all ordered to be placed on file.

The Society then proceeded to the election of ten Directors for the ensuing year. H on . Amos Adams nominated the members of the old Board, and on motion the Secretary was instructed to cast the vote o f the Society therefor, which he did and the following persons were declared duly elected: F . H . Woods, M. B. Dodge, J . W . Chase, Abijah Baker, A . Weske, W . R . S. Foye, J. M. Mathews, J . J . Owen, Mrs. H . E . Robin­son and Mrs. E . E . Staples. Thereupon, there being no further business the Meeting adjourned.

A m eeting of the Dewly elected Directors fol­lowed immediately. Present, Messrs. Woods, Mathews, Baker, W eske, Dodge, Owen, and Mrs. Robinson. The Board was organized by the election of F . H . Woods, President, Mrs. M. E. Robinson, Vice-President, M . B. Dodge, Manager and Treasurer, and W m. Emmette Coleman, Corresponding Secretary. J . J . Owen declined a re-election, as Secretary, his other duties pre­venting a proper discharge thereof, but consented to act pro tempore. The election of Secretary was postponed until Friday evening, March n th , to which time the Meeting adjourned, to meet at the residence of the President.

J. J . O w e n , Sec’y, p ro tem.

O U R K IN D E R G A R T E N .

At a m eeting of the Directors, Advisory Council, and Ladies’ Aid Society o f the Temple Society o f Spiritualists, held March 2, 1887, at the residence o f Mr. S . R . Robinson, Mr. F . H . W oods acted as President, and by request Amos Adams acted as Secretary.

Mrs. Robinson, Manager and Treasurer o f the Jessie street kindergarten school, being called upon made the following report: Receipts for collecting donation from October, 1886, to date, March 1st, $361.55; disbursements, $292.55; cash on hand, $61.30; average attendance at the school, 50. The Manager recommends that the teacher’s salary be raised to $50 per month in­stead of $25 as at present. The estimated ex­pense per month, with the advance in teacher’s salary as recommended, would be $75 per month. On motion, the report o f the Manager and Treasurer was accepted and adopted.

On m otion, the meeting adjourned.A m o s A d a m s , S e c re ta ry .

There is nothing which so completely hinders a man from understanding his neighbor as the foregone conclusion that that neighbor must be an impostor, a criminal, or a fool.— M rs. Oliphant.

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Pebbles.

, BY ISAAC KIN LEY.

Oh! ne’er were words so fondly meet By tongue of mortal spoken;

Oh! ne’er was uttered thought so sweet As that dear, holy, token—

/ fo rg ive .

I speak that soothing, sacred word —It hath no tone of sorrow—

There’s bliss wher’er its sound is heard,It brings no sting to-morrow—

I forgive.*

Oh! I ’ve hatl wiongs and madly deep My spirit has been stirred;

But anger soothed itself to sleep When in my soul was heard—

“ I forgive.”

Forgive each word, forgive each deed,If aught of wrong is done thee;

For soon thy aching heart will bleed,If vengeful thoughts have won thee.

I forgive.

Each angered thought ,we must control, The fires of passion smother;

N o malice cherish in the soul,N o evil for a brother.

I forgive.

Forgive, forgive, if thou wouldst climb U nto the hights empereal—

If thou wouldst taste on shore o f time The fruits o f the ethereal—

I forgive.

Forgive, forgive, if thou wouldst feel On earth the joy supernal,

And on thy forehead bear the seal Of H im who rules eternal.

I forgive.

Sweet memory’s golden afterglow,As beams that play at even,

F ills full the soul with bliss to know The wrongs it has forgiven.

I forgive.

And as I speak the holy thought,My soul with joy is swelling—

A thought with blissful feeling fraught Beyond my power of telling.

I forgive.

I thank thee, dear All-Father, God,That thou hast blest all living

W ith joys that’s borne within this word— The holy joy, forgiving.

I forgive.

Hate is a malicious devil, and like the flame consumes itself in its own action.

Who maligns others publishes thereby his own baseness. Conscious of self­depravity, he would have us believe that all are prone. Knowing the corruption of his own heart, he would teach us that none are pure. Unwilling himself to go, he would drag all others down.

There are those who are organically in­fidel to human improvement. Pessimistic by nature, they have no faith in human­ity. To them the fallen are hopelessly lost, the degraded hopeless prone. Agree­ing, possibly, that sentiment looks well enough in a poem, or serves to ornament a public speech, they only laugh in the faces of those whose earnest convictions would seek to exalt into a fact their high conceptions of truth, and purity, and beauty; and ridicule, as impracticable and visionaries, those who would follow to their logical conclusions the deep prin­ciples which are the basal rock on which all free society stands. These political Jack Puncheons, delighting in the mis­used name of conservative, cannot under­stand that R ight is always politic—P rin ­ciples always practicable. They cannot comprehend that the lowest are yet hu­man, that the weakest have yet latent strength which needs but the encourage­ment of sympathy to enable them to stand erect.

These doubting Thomases have but to study their own lives— to look into their own hearts to have their errors refuted. Who of the best, has not at times gone astray ? Who of the highest and purest, has not had to resist the forces drawing earthward ?

The examples are without number of the low and vicious who have left off their evil habits and climbed into the pure atmosphere of virtue— not because they were morally better than thousands who have not climbed, but because of the more favorable conditions re-enforcing their resolves and bracing their steps as they went up.

Who has no sympathy for the fallen, no desire to aid in their struggles to rise, is himself down— not perhaps in the boil­ing caldron of passion and appetite; but in the cold and cheerless cavern of selfish­ness whence comes not a ray of human sympathy, not a love-beam of human affection. Pity his depravity, if you will, but heed not his sneers at your efforts to raise the fallen— to lift the degraded into higher life.

Humanity, like the physical universe of which it is a part, is in continual onward march. Forward is the law of its exist­ence, and to halt is to die. It is a great human river with the ocean of eternity to receives its waters. With freedom to move, its motion is peaceful, marking each day an advanace on the day before. Arrested it becomes stagnant and bale­ful; or, breaking dam and dike, it carries desolation and death in its course.

Ascending this human river as far as the geography of history will carry us, we arrive in the dreary regions of stagnant

pools and miasmatic death. Descend­ing the channel widens and deepens, the waters growing clear and purer by their own flowing.

But whither? Though meandering sometimes, though held back sometimes by impediments, its gathered waters break dam and dike, and its onward course lies through the Land of Liberty. Here are peace and purity. Here grow pleasant fruits and beautiful flowers. Here flourishes the tree of knowledge laden with such fruits as exalt and ennoble those who pluck and eat. Here are grand forests of all the virtues— benevolence, charity, truth, courage, justice, temper­ance. No more turbid waters, no more destructive whirlpools— pure is the air, serene the sky, and grand ahd glorious the earth.

Who doubts most believes most. From doubt come investigation, reflection, and from these belief. Assumption is not belief, neither is blind credulity; although credo means, / believe. Who thinks not, believes not, however many dogmas he may blindly accept.

With many, to know a dogma is popular is quite enough, and they neither ask nor desire better argument. Against all deeper thought they draw themselves into their tortoise shell of stupidity and hiss disapprobation.

Knowledge is the mind’s treasure; and the author of a new idea is greater than the builder of a city. The new thought becomes the thought of all mankind, and for each added truth all stand on a higher plane.

I f money-getting were the great end of life, stealing would be in order and the Vanderbilts would dwindle Washington.

A millionaire dies and the world hastens to forget that he has been. A philan­thropist, a philosopher, a poet, or a hero dies and his memory is embalmed in the popular heart, his example teaches through the ages, and his acts are added to the treasures of universal history.

All things worthy harmonize. Beauty is truth in color and form; truth is beauty in thought; and justice is truth and beauty in the act. They may move in parallel lines but can never conflict.

Col. Ingersoll’s Family.

[M ax Eliot in Boston Sunday Herald.J

Imagine, if you can, a tall, exquisitely- formed creature with the bust, shoulders, and head of a beautiful statue, with soft, fair skin and oval face, in which are set beautiful eyes that puzzle the beholder as to their color being gray or brown, and, drawn back from the forehead in a severe classic style that suits the wearer perfectly; soft waves of bronze brown hair that is caught at the back of the head in a loose coil, setting off the exquisitely-shaped head to perfection. A clinging, graceful gown of white silken material, with lace draperies, envelops her figure, and’ half hides, half discloses her lovely neck and arms by the fashion in which the bodice is cut.

This is a portrait of one of Col. In- gersoll’s daughters. I thought her one of the most superb creatures, and yet with a tinge of daintiness about her, I ever looked upon, and this opinion is shared by every one who has the pleasure of knowing Col. Ingersoll’s family. In their refined, hand­somely appointed home they are occupy­ing in Fifth Avenue this Winter, she and an equally handsome sister reflect every charming and womanly grace imaginable, and their list of friends and admirers is legion.

Col. Ingersoll is at home every Sun­day night to his more intimate friends. He is always hospitable, always agreeable, and always entertaining, and one will meet some of the most noted men and women in the world of art, letters, science, and society at his house upon any Sunday evening. Recently it was the 25th anni­versary of his marriage, and while no special invitations were extended he quietly asked a number of his friends to drop in in the evening, and a friend who was present tells me they had a very merry evening, and among their guests were many distinguished people, whose name and fame have extended far beyond the precincts of New York’s social circles.”

Name Identified.

E dito r op Golden G a t e :

I noticed in the Banner o f Light ol Feb­ruary 25th, under the head of “ Indepen­dent Slate-Writing,” a notice of your meet­ing and a copy of the slate. On it appears the name of “ T . Starr K ing.” Being blood relations (cousins), and also know­ing his signature, can verify the correct­ness of this as if written when in the flesh. Our people (Shakers), are most all Spiritu­alists, and this manifestation seemed to give them more hopes that, in time, they will hold ground far exceeding their doubting friends. Respectfully,

T h e o . P . P a r se l l .S k a k e r S ta tio n , Conn., Mar. 1 , 1887.

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C O C IE T Y O F P R O G R E S S IV E S P IR IT U A L IS T S v- ' meet every Sunday at 1 p. m., in Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street. 1 Good speakers upon all live subjects pertaining to Spiritualism and humanity. A free Spiritual Library, of 700 volumes, open every Sun­day from 1 to s p. m, All are invited.

L 'R E E P U B L IC M IN D -C U R E M E E T IN G S A R E ^ held every Sunday at x i o'clock a . ni. and 2:30 o’clock p.m., at Grand Pacific Hall, 1045% Market street. The morning meetings are devoted to questions and answers and healing patients. At 2 o'clock a paper is read, followed by testimonies and closing with asocial. These meetings are for the purpose of showingpeoplc how they have power in themselves to remove all disease and trouble.

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Larkin street. First hour—Trance and Inspirational Speak­ing. Second hour—Tests, by the Mediums. Admission, free.

[Written for the Golden Gate.]

Spiritualism from My Standpoint. -

The promulgation of Spiritualism de­pends not wholly upon its phenomenal features. It has for its basic principles, strong, firm, scientific philosophy.

The mind often imbibes from false education an erroneous idea, concerning the future destiny of the soul, and nurt­ured in this idea the perceptive faculties become impaired; trusting implicitly in these “ false teachers and blind guides,” and the mind vibrating between hope and fear at last brings man into a condition o f negation and doubt, which leads him to the very brink of despair, looking with dim eyes and forlorn hope into this chasm of unbelief and uncer­tainty, without a ray o f hope from his feeble consciousness to illuminate the darkness.

Is it a wonder then that creeds and church dogmas fail to give to man the satisfying proof his soul longs for ? With what joy does the inspiring evidence of a life beyond come to man, after the mid­night o f doubt and despair, as is found in in our^rand spiritualistic faith.

These faint shadows of a spiritual dawn­ing will not shrink away, “ nor down,” at the scoff of the skeptic or the church. Spiritual truth has yet revealed but little o f the beauties which yet awaits us; it is still in the embryotic state and strug­gling to become emancipated from its dark prison of undevelopment, and come forth into the light of the soul’s full com­pleteness, then will man be awakened to the realization and responsibility and pos­sibility of his own existence. Not de­pending upon the merits and the sacrificial offering o f innocent blood to atone for our sins, but a full restitution for the transgression o f nature’s laws, which will not be abated one “ jot or tittle.”

“ God (or nature) is no respecter of persons.” “ H e visiteth the iniquities of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.” I f the parents transgress the laws of nature, by the laws of heredity they are transmitted to their offsprings which no atoning blood will wash away. But the streams o f human life must be cleansed and purified through the channels o f a pure, healthful, physical organism. Live according to the dictates of your conscience, and future genera­tions will “ rise up and call you blessed.” The consciousness of your own soul will be the highest tribunal before which you will be arraigned to give an account of the deeds done in the body, and if your record is white and without blemish, the satisfying conviction of your soul will be your greatest reward.

It is this development of self-conscious­ness which Spiritualism is seeking to un­fold, to elevate the moral and spiritual nature o f mankind; and to bring this great fundamenal principle of soul culture to that state o f perfection which should become like a burnished mirror, reflecting every impulse of the human soul, making us more afraid o f viewing our distorted conscience than meeting our deadliest foe in mortal combat.

The soul of man has been tried in the crucible of “ doctrinal belief” and sub­mitted to every corroding chemical that the “ church militant ” could devise, until there is but a faint showing of the original conception which the Almighty designed for the fulfillment of H is laws in regard to man’s immortality.

Man’s powers o f comprehension are limited and crude, not having the refining elements o f spiritual intercommunion from which it derives its buoyancy and elasticity and makes them receptive to great truths which are demonstrated by the living witnesses which surround us to-day, and proving without doubt the influx o f a new element in the economy o f nature. I will qualify that last remark in saying, there is nothing new, but on the contrary very old, which has ever existed in differ­ent forms and expressions.

Matter is ever organizing and disorgan­izing. It brings into existence those chemical properties of adhesion and at­traction which will naturally find their component parts, and as the laws of ad­hesion are affected by consanguinity the whole structure of Spiritualism rests upon a natural basis.

Each and every atom in the material world retrogrades and accelerates accord­ing to the propelling power with which it is endowed. Nature being the great arbitrator o f all things receives all con­tingent particles of matter and arranges and classifies them in her vast laboratory. Nothing is revealed until the period arrives for it to come forth and join the grand triumphant army of eternal progression which includes all things from the glorious god o f day who drives his golden chariot through the blue heavens to the most minute atom which floats in space.

It would be an omission, an infringe­ment, o f this law which governs the uni­verse, if the human soul should not be included under this great head of designs which prove so effectual and perfect in every other instance— perish the thought that the soul, the highest expression of Deity made in his own image, should prove recreant to this law; these human souls which have accomplished so much in the world’s history should be relegated to oblivion with all their glorious possi­bilities paralyzed when the most insigr nificant particle of inorganic matter is transformed into something more beauti­ful and useful.

Is it possible that the mind, the soul,

can become supine, inert, after divesting itself of matter ? Will it not rather be­come more glorious in its resemblance to Deity, creating for itself more perfect and higher conditions for unfoldment ? Some say we believe, the soul is immortal, but do not believe it ever comes and mani­fests itself to us on earth after passing out of the earthly body. Why not ? There is no limit to the unfoldment of the soul power. Can they not while on earth an­nihilate space and bring into subjection all inanimate matter1? and would it be very unreasonable after the immortal self is untrammeled by mortality, it can, with its clear perceptions and full understand­ing of the laws which govern matter, make it subservient to their will ? From what source comes this knowledge which is unfolding our mediums of to-day ? Whence comes this knowledge which con­founds the wise and learned by their clear, concise and truthful arguments in rela­tion to obtuse subjects which would take the natural man years of study to clearly comprehend. A . W.

“ No Pen can do i t Justice.”

(Jesse Shepard, writing from San [Diego to Light in the West, s a y s :]

I have made many trips to the moun­tains in company with friends, and in all my long experience I have never seen any­thing to equal the magnificence of the scenery, or the perfect serenity of the at­mosphere. No pen description could do justice to this ■ peculiar climate, with its superb fruits, its rich soil, its life-giving air, and its sublime scenery. It is one of the few places which cannot be described. One must live here, feel its influences, see its sights, and revel in its sunny atmos­phere to know what it is. Mansions and villas are being built by the wealthy and the cultured, who arrive from the East by the score, all eager to leave the damp and chilly winds of the Atlantic and the northern lakes to come and live in this beautiful country. Statistics show that the climate of San Diego is the most equable of which any knowledge exists. There is no cold nor great heat here, either in Winter or Summer. Flowers are in full bloom, and I have seen a peach tree in blossom in January. I have never seen such orange and olive groves anywhere, 2,600 oranges growing on one tree, and thirty gallons of olives on a single olive tree eight years old. Much more might be said about this wonderful country did time and space permit, and I hope in a future letter to give more details.

Women in Street Cars.

[Philadelphia Bulletin.]

The man who sits in a street car when ladies are standing up is deservedly an object o f reproach unless he can excuse himself on the ground of age or infirmity. As much as the American men are accus­tomed to speak with pride of their superior gentleness and courtesy to the sex, it is a matter of doubt whether the surly and selfish fellows who cling to their seats in a car with a resolute tenacity in the pres­ence of ladies who are standing up, are not increasing in number. T o gentlemen with the true manly instincts of deference to women at all times and in all places, a man who does this is an object of con­tempt. But while we hold such men in aversion, we are not certain that women themselves are altogether undeserving of some censure.

While it is right that they should ex­pect and receive the largest measure of courtesy from men, they often seem to forget that there are occasions when they should yield what they exact. Their selfishness in the street cars is sometimes as reprehensible as that o f men, and there certainly is great room for improve­ment in the code of etiquette which they seem to adopt in their manner toward one another on such occasions.

For instance, it is rare, very rare, that we behold a woman tender her seat to an aged or disabled member o f her sex. It is a daily occurrence to witness some old lady hanging on to a strap and rudely jostled about, while the seats are filled with strong and healthy women, who never think of rising. I f they, especially the young ones, were to know how gracious and kindly such an act would make them appear in the eyes of men whose good opinion is worth having, they would not loll back in their seats with the cold and languid indifference which they usually display.

The sight of a young woman giving her seat to an old man or to any man who is infirm or in physical distress is equally as rare. It is consequently not to be won­dered that there are some men who justify themselves for their own gross negligence in this matter o f every-day courtesy by declaring that nice women themselves are so sefish they are not deserving the good offices of the stronger sex. This does not excuse their own churlishness, but there is, nevertheless, a good deal of truth in what they say. The young woman who will give up her seat in the car to the old or the feeble o f both sexes ought to be seen much oftener than she now is. _________ _

E n g l a n d , the land of the Angels, takes its name from one of the chief tribes of low German invaders, and the term Anglo- Saxon as applied to the language repre­sents the union of dialects of the Angles and Saxons.

. T h e editor of the Callicoon (N. Y .) Echo states that his nine-year-old daugh­ter assists in setting up the paper, and adds: Our little compositor is in her ninth year, and no doubt is the youngest known in the trade. She sets the type, justifies her own lines, but is not yet able to empty her “ sticks.” Incredible as it may seem, the little type-setter often sets from one to four stickfuls from our manu­script, sometimes correcting a slip in our grammar or spelling, and is never as happy as when sitting at the case “ help­ing papa.”

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It is a medicine to be dis­solved in water and then ap­plied externally to the parts affected by pad and bandage, which accompanies the rem­edy. It cures by absorption, which is the only reliable method of curing the above

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Rest and Recreation in Spirit Lite,

[From Spirit \V. G. Clayton, through a private medium transcribed for the Golden Gate.] ■

There is one subject that I have not as yet spoken of, in connection with our life, that I think would interest you; that is the way in which we take our rest and recreation. You have, no doubt, read of musicales, lectures, and the other many ways in which mankind find enjoyment, as being also enjoyed bv us, and have wondered how it was possible that being spirits, without bodies, (or visible bodies) we could meet and enjoy in the same way the same things we used to in the body. You have heard also of the “ music of the spheres ” as being transcendantly beautiful, far beyond any melody heard by mortal ears.

The spirit of harmony is our music, the spirit of eloquence our lectures, and all that is beautiful or instructive to eye or ear can be enjoyed by us in its most per­fect form, for all these things tend to ele­vate as well as please, when rightly under­stood, and what would Heaven be to the philosopher or student,*to the artist or musician, if none of the things were to fill his life which had filled it during the time he had spent on earth. I f we had not our highest desires gratified, and our senses (which are more acute in some ways) satisfied by what is beautiful and satisfactory to us before, where wouid we be the gainers by our having left earthly conditions behind?

We have our social reunions, but have none o f the tiresome part of them; our musicales, without the 'jarring discords which often arise among the different claimants for applause when on earth; our lectures, where all may come and learn— that feel the desire— and discuss whatever topic seems most to demand discussion. But the houses wherein we meet are not made with hands; the beau­tiful visions o f hill and dale, and smoothly shaven lawns, dotted with beautiful flowers, whose fragrance exceeds that of earth’s flowers, are all what you would call visions. Our lives would be as a dream to you in earth-life, but the reality comes to us in the realization of what life really is, and the aid we are enabled to give those whose battle is not yet ended, whether they be of the spirit or of earth. Of course each one sees from their own standpoint the situation as it appears to them at the time of writing, and if their views undergo a change, are not able to, perhaps, communicate their change of views, and so erroneous opinions are sown broadcast over the land and erroneous ideas obtain among even earnest and thorough investigators; therefore, it be­hooves us to be cool in our investigations and moderate in our expressions, not giv­ing to the world our opinions unquali­fiedly, but leaving each one’s reason to be the rule to judge whether or no what is communicated to them appeals to that reason, and let each one accept what they can, and take our expressed opinions for what they seem worth to themselves. •

I had seen before I passed out of the body many communications, printed and otherwise, relative to the future life, and, unfortunately looking at that subject, as I did, with an agnostic’s darkened vision, did not give credence to them save as the hallucinations of unbalanced, wholly- biased minds, and therefore did not be­come interested in the subject sufficiently to afford me any light while in the body on what seems to me now^to be o f para-

■ mount importance to learn all one can | before passing into the higher life, and therefore I feel the greatest interest in gaining all the knowledge I can, and not only benefiting myself thereby, but others whom I can reach through this means. As I said before, our lives and pleasures would seem as a dream to you. The spirit while still held to the body by the invisible cord o f mortality sometimes catches in dreams glimpses of the higher life that cannot be dispelled even when the stern realities of life again claim their attention.

Those who lie in trances are treated to these rare glimpses and see and speak with friends whose place in their mortal life has been empty for years, and very sick people often have their spiritual sight given them before they pass out of their suffering, and see the loving faces and feel the tender touches of hands they had long since missed from their lives* It is a mistaken idea that obtains great cre­dence, that each family have a separate and complete home, isolated, if they so desire it, from others. To be sure, all that makes a home o f beauty and ten­derness can be ours, but not houses built by workmen. Our homes are what our desires make them. Our furnishing what will best contribute to our pleasure and satisfaction, and that of those whose tastes correspond with ours, and whose presence is a continual source of pleasure to us. And when one whom we love is coming to this side the life, we strive to gather together all that will conduce to their pleasure, whether it be friends whose faces they long to see, or “ things of beauty” which shall prove “ a joy for­ever.” I have written only of the side of the picture you will be likely to see, and the associations you will be likely to come in contact with, unless your desire to help others lead you to go to other scenes, for there is another side to this picture o f life, as there is in mortal life,— a side that belongs to those who, through the misfortune o f birth and surroundings, or from choice resulting from such surround­ings, make their homes from their desires, until the light penetrates through some

crevice and broadens into a desire for higher life. Life, so dark in its earth- bound condition that sensitive souls shud­der and cannot look upon it without horror, yet all shall, in the mill of eternity, be purified and made clean. “ The mills of the gods grinds slowly ” in many cases, but surely, and the grand life prin­ciple that exists in all nature, will prove triumphant in its outcome, and the day of judgment that comes to all (not as a literal reading of the Bible brings it, as one last day, but the revelation of what has been, which is the judgment, and in which each soul is its own judge), will in time purify the souls of men as with fire, and all shall be clear that has seemed dark, and men shall be “ clothed in their right minds.” W m . G . C l a y t o n .

Some Objections.

[Light for Thinkers.]

“ Spiritualism is a faith in precisely the same sense that Christianity is a faith.” Does not Christianity “ believe'” entirely and completely ? None denies that. Its facts are eighteen hundred years old. Faith is “ belief.” Do the Spiritualists “ believe” ? We think the word does not apply. Many Spiritualists “ know” that their spirit friends live; and upon that rock they build. Is “ knowledge” faith ? You say it is not. How, then, are Christianity and Spiritualism both faiths in precisely the same sense?

The Spiritualists are basing their phi­losophy and religion upon facts now occur­ring. In the absence of knowledge, faith is a great comforter, but the mind will ever be uncertain. The Spiritualist feels no uncertainty; he no longer has a faith in an immortal life, but he knows that his friends live, communicate with him, and that if they live he will also. Therefore it is folly to say that as Spiritualists we are in the house of faith only. The Christ­ian does not even believe it possible to hold communion with spirits, and decid­edly has no faith that we do. Were we only “ believers ” of spirit-life and a possi­bility to communicate our faith would not be at all in the same sense of the Christian.

There is no possible analogy between the two classes of people. We have stepped into the inner vestibules of life and have present-day revelations, and are not in the least building upon a record of an olden time nor of others witnessing. Unto all is the fact given, who shall search for it. “ But the phenomena are obscure.” The obscurity of the spiritual phenomena depends upon the darkness of the investi­gator. They are not concealed, unintel­ligible, destitute of light, unknown, re­tired, unnoticed, etc. These and other meanings of the word “ obscure” will apply in a degree to dark circle seances, but to that one class alone, and we de­pend the least on that class. They are not confined to one locality, but are prev­alent the world over. In thousands of households, and for thousands of public platforms are these evidences given. In nearly all the phases there is an external independent evidence, shorn of all possi­bilities of deception. In the mental phases there are positive evidences of in­telligence beyond the medium. In all nations are found every class and caste of people who indorse and have witnessed the phenomena. In thousands of different modes do spirits produce the evidence. There is no obscurity; it is an open book, widely diffused and flooded with a heavenly light.

Jenny Lind’s Later Days.

| N ew York Times.]

I was speaking the other day with an elderly Swedish gentleman about stories one hears in America of the sensation Jenny Lind created there in 1850— of how people still told of hearing her mar­velous voice in the streets outside the hall and churches in which she sang. He had known her ever since childhood, and is an intimate friend of an old gentleman still living in Stockholm who was the tenor in the old operatic company she first be­longed to away back in 1837, and who was once engaged to be married to her. H e told me many curious things of her later life. She is plain and white haired now, with a severe expression of counte­nance. She is very pious, and most of her talk is devoted to bemoaning the days when she was sinful enough to appear on

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T he mountain peaks nre wrapped in cloud,The sullen rain falls slowly down;

T he sobbing wind scarce stirs the mist That clings to hillside, rock and town.

T he sodden earth is cold and drear,A gloomy pall is overhead,

And o’er and o’er comes this refrain,—“ For gone is gone, and dead is dead."

■ O hopeless words I O words o f grief l Wrung from some spirit's helpless woe I

Wrung from some torn and tortured breast O'erwhelmed in sorrow’s overflow.

How lone and drear the poet's hearth,H ow ached his heart, how throbbed his head,

When first he traced these bitter words,—p “ For gone is gone, and dead is dead ."

O poet mind I O artist soul t Bound down in heavy iron chain,

W hat wrecks the weary, plodding world,Your heaven-born ecstacy, or pain ?

What though the galling fetters press On heart and brain like molten lead,

T ill every song is hushed but this,—** For gone is gone, and dead is dead.”

T he winds still moan among the pines,T he mountain torrent rushes on;

And strange, weird fancies float and flit Athwart my brain, and then are gone.

T h e firelight glimmers faint and low,The cold rain patters overhead,

And o’er and o’er comes this refrain,—“ F o r gone is gone, and dead is dead.”

These are the words of sad despair,N ot tones of hearty hope and cheer;

’ T is thus the mourner sadly weeps While bending o’er the tomb and bier.

But every long lost love shall rise,Each buried hope lifts up its head

T o greet us with a glad surpise,—In Spiritiand there a r e no dea d !

P a lo m a r , San Diego Co., C al., February 13 ,18 8 7 .

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BY MARY W. MCVICAR.

The skies are gray, and bleak and chill,As on that night, two years ago,

We stood upon the bridge and watched The swollen river’s sullen flow.

Brown billows of the fallen leaves,Tossed by the keen November blast,

Swept by like wraiths of Summer's bloom,L o w moaning o'er their vanished past.

Sad was your voice as that sad hour;But, ah 1 your words were sadder yet;

A shipwrecked life, whose hateful bonds Break only where death stills regret.

A shipwrecked life, an early death I T hy fate as then foretold by thee

Two years have served to prove, and brought Fulfillment of thy prophecy.

T he hands, so strong and warm that night,Over thy pulseless breast lie now;

Death’s dreamless slumber seals the eyes,Death's solemn calm is on the brow.

And still the river sobs as then;T he brown leaves flutter through the air;

But I am standing here alone—Alone; and you, my friend, are—where ?

A w aken ing :.

With careless feet and dim, unseeing eyes We plod along the weary ways o f life,

Closed are our ears to angel harmonies,Hidden from sight the deeper mysteries

With which the spirit-world is ever rife.

One touch o f the enchanter's hand, and lo l W e waken up to a new heaven and earth,

O balm y air,—O golden sunset glow 1 O wondrous fragrance o f the flowers that blow

In the glad sunshine o f the heart’s new birth.

O soul of mine, that trembles to the touch O f fairy fingers never felt before,

A viewless Presence broodeth like a dove,Fills and enfolds me with a perfect love

Unknown, undreamed of in the days of yore,

T is the sweet token o f the great “ T o Com e” Thro' gates a jar soft falling on me now.

Then, it will be the earthly part must die Before we bask in immortality,

Or catch the radiance from a heavenly brow.—E l iz a b e t h P . M a t h e w s .

B y th e R iv e r .

We met at morning by the willowed river,L o n g years ago, when both our hearts were young;

Wc met to watch the lights and shadows quiver And listen to the song the waters sung,

B ut deeper than the music of its flowing,T he tide of love flowed on from mind to mind.

While overhead the elder blooms were blowing,And dewy fragrance filled the wooing wind.

We stand beside the waters o f the river,But now the moaning o f the sea is near I

F a r off the beacons 'mid the dimness quiver And rolling breakers All our hearts with fear.

N o longer choristers o f morning greet us,Or blossoms o f the M ay time droop above;

But shadows o f the twilight rise to meet us And cloud the golden harvesting o f love.

Ah I listen to the rushing o f the river Toward its haven in the restless sea,

While like a leaf upon its tide forever Our life flows onward to Eternity.

O, 'mid its eager tumult and commotion,T he whirl o f waters and the dash o f foam,

M ay L o ve , the beacon, shining o’er the ocean,L ead us together to oiir Father's home,

—C h a m be r s ' J o u rn a l .

T o -D ay a n d T o -M o rro w .

T he things just out o f reach seem alw ays fairer Than any things to-day can have and hold.

To-morrow's sunshine will be brighter, rarer.A nd so we miss the present hours o f gold.

To-day is lost in dreaming o f to-morrow.And while to-morrow comes the heart will lay

Plans for the future, thinking over in sorrow The squandered blessings o f the yesterday.

T o lose the little jo ys o f life forever,In thinking o f the far-ofT unattained.

And by and by, when fainting hope says “ Never For what we've missed, life's long regret is gained,"

J f we could take life's blessings as we find them,And vague unrest be banished from our ways 1

Then would we grasp the fullness o f life’s meaning, And jo y and peace would1 lengthen out our days.

“ W h a t shall I do to gain eternal life ? " Discharge aright

T he simple dues with which each day is rife,-— Y ea, with thy might.

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P re s id e n t o f th e G o ld en G a te R e lig io u s a n d P h ilo so p h ic a l S o c ie ty .

L a d ie s a n d G e n t l e m e n : —A llow me to con­gratulate you on being permitted to assemble at our First Anniversary under such favorable auspices.

W e surely have great reason to rejoice that our lot has been cast in so goodly a heritage.

The Golden Gate Religious and Philosophical Society was born of the thoughtful, earnest and tender ministrations o f Mrs. E . L . Watson.

As all men seem to feel that the end of a year is a good time to close old books and open new ones, it may be well for us at this our Hirst anni-. versary to look over the way we have come and, in the light o f the history we have made, try and shape the future. Our teacher did not come to us from Andover or Princeton; she was not or­dained and set apart for this work by the hands of Priest or Presbytery. Angel-inspired she early began her labors in the East, and on visiting this coast her fervid eloquence and fine ability in expounding occult phenomena, womanly grace and charm of manner, soon attracted the atten­tion and won the hearts o f the members o f the First Spiritual U nion of this city . Under the auspi­ces o f this Society, she lectured at Ixora H all for more than .tw o years to a large and admiring audience, but the platform did not quite realize her spiritual aspirations. Failing health making a change of climate necessary, there came oppor­tunely pressing invitations to visit Australia. The hope of restored health from a long sea-voyage, the novelty o f new scenes and new acquaintances could not be prudently resisted. Before leaving, a few earnest friends assured Mrs. W atson that on her return they would place her on a platform as free and broad as the realm of truth.

In May, 1883, she returned covered with the laurels o f a grateful and appreciative people.

A t that time this platform was occupied by Mrs. Cora Richmond, and no inducement held out by the most earnest and influential friends could persuade Mrs. W atson to take the field and divide the forces with one so greatly admired and esteemed.

A little rest was needed after the home-voyage, but she was not allowed to rest long. Soon in­vitations came for Eastern engagements, the most pressing of which was from Philadelphia, where she was best known, and the negotiations were closed for an extended Eastern lecture tour. A ticket was purchased for the trip, and, bidding good-bye to her friends and children, at the little home in the foothills o f Santa Clara county, she started on the journey; but it was decreed not to be. The invisible powers had been silently preparing the way, and on arriving at San Fran­cisco she was met by a delegation of warm friends, who informed her that Mrs. Richmond had decided to resign and leave, and the field was clear. The result was that Mrs. W atson was then and there engaged to be our minister for one year, and on the first Sunday o f Sepfember, 1883, she began her labors in this Temple, uuder the protection and encouragement of many triends; but without organization. Dr. Albert Morton kindly and voluntarily assumed the management, and through his rare executive ability and knowl­edge of the rocks and shoals in the waters of Spiritualism are we largely indebted for our suc­cess, but the great charm and radiant center of our meetings has always been the occupant of this rostrum.

The laborer is worthy of his reward, and it is meet and proper on this occasion to express our appreciation of our teacher’s labors among us. W ith the exception of four Sundays, her services have been uninterrupted for a period of tw enty months, making one hundred* and sixty-rix ser­vices. It is a feat unparalleled that a delicate woman should travel over six thousand miles each

ear, through sunshine and storm, and be at her post, and always richly equipped for the duties of the hour. W ith a heart full o f love and sympa­thy for mankind, she has not only led us “ in green pastures" and “ beside the still waters," but made the path through the “ valley and shadow of death aj to many a lonely soul fragrant with the blossoms of everlasting life. Her good, practical common sense has kept her clear o f the cant of m any reformers and the bogs, fens, and noxious weeds that have beset the path of Spirit­ualism. And while with potent eloquence she has expounded to us the workings of psychical forces, the universe has glowed with new mean­ing and our ears have caught some strains o f an infinite harmony that will go on unfolding to all eternity. God bless our “ L ittle Preacher,” and may her health and life long be spared to go in and out before us.

During the year three o f our members have passed to spirit-life— Mr. and M rs. Howland and Mrs.' Lucille W atson; confirmed by years o f ex­perience o f the truth of our philosophy they were ready to go, and passed away with a full knowl­edge o f im m ortality. Appropriate services were held in this Temple, and the sweet and tender services o f our minister on such occasion, as you know , disarms death of all terror.

T o her immediate staff o f workers, Dr. Mor­ton, who served us faithfully for twenty-eight months; M . B. Dodge, our present efficient and worthy manager, and his amiable wife and sons; Charles H . W adsworth, our accomplished and courteous chairman; our' excellent choir; the m any friends who have so liberally helped this enterprise w ith their means, and last, but not least, those good helpers who have from Sunday to Sunday so tastefully and elaborately decorated the rostrum with flowers, we owe a debt o f grati­tude we can never pay.

T he growth of our meetings increased the al­ready arduous labors o f our managers, and made it apparent that a more effective organization was necessary, and consequently on the 2d of March, 1886, w e took our place am ong the spiritual soci­eties of the world as an incorporate body.

Considering our age, we have no cause to feel ashamed of the record we have made, but much to cheer and encourage us. Animated by the de­sire to show their faith by their works the ladies o f this Society, supplemented by the aid o f the gentlem en, have worked w ith zeal to lighten the burdens o f humanity.

T he Ladies’ A id Society was organized for charitable work, and, like the rain-bow on the bosom o f a dark cloud, its beauty is best seen in the homes of want and trouble. Too much im­portance cannot be given to this beneficial agency aside from the blessings of its tender ministries; meeting, as it does, once a week, it will be found conducive to friendship and pleasant acquaint­ances. Subsequent to the organization o f the Ladies’ Aid Society was-the adoption of a school for poor city children on the kindergarten plan, perhaps one of the noblest of our charitable duties. These benevolent enterprises should never be allowed lo languish for want o f efficient workers, nor shrivel for the lack of means, as they are an exemplification of the sweet and am iable sentim ents we have heard so often por­trayed from this rostrum.

The social element has not been neglected. Our m onthly m eetings for this purpose have been well attended, and as a means of becoming more intim ately acquainted with each other, cherishing the fraternal sentim ent, and extending the hand oi friendly greeting to strangers in this great, fluctuating population, it cannot be too highly estim ated.

Thus far I have spoken chiefly o f our temporal, affairs; but there is one thing in my judgment too important to overlook. Spiritualism has not

always been free from reproach, and the greatest hindrance to its success has come from that part of the great Spiritual Family who prostitute its phenomena to the lowest mercenary aims and idle curiosity. Spirits are every day in this city con­sulted about slocks, lottery tickets, and the seance room has often been filled with the most vulgar gossip and twaddle. About this phase of it, it is not strange that a vast deal of fraud and knavery has accumulated.

This platform was established for the express purpose of trying as far as possible to keep Spirit­ualism free from this sort of scandal; to insist that the light shall be thrown upon all psychical phenomena, and that all doubtful seances and me- diumship should be unsparingly exposed. Spirit­ualism is no more responsible for this class of pests and parasites than a ship for the barnacles and weeds that cling to it, still if the hull is not scraped clean the barnacles and weeds may swamp it. In this work our speaker has made some of her best deliverances, never hesitating to puncture a fraud, or warn against suspicious environments, and the Society has been in full sympathy with her-. W e have been accused of being too critical, fastidious and conservative, but the purity o f Spiritualism is too grand and holy to allow the least appearance of evil to pass our gates unchallenged.

T he results of our work-time alone w ill de­termine, but there can be no doubt that much of the seed that has been sown here has fallen on good ground and will produce an abundant harvest.

W e are confronted by the question so sharply propounded the other day by the gifted authoress of “ The Gates Ajar," “ Can Spiritualism spirit­ualize?" W hy not? If its central idea is to penetrate the awful veil that so long hung over the door of the tomb, and demonstrate immor­tality by actual converse with the so-called dead, what higher incentive to noble efforts can there be?

W hile we all may have much to regret, many shortcomings to confess, still it can be truly said that in intelligence, moral integrity, beautiful homes and charitable and educational work this Society in proportion to its means and age is the peer of any church in this city.

I cannot close this report without once more calling your attention to the earnest and faithful labors o f our Manager, Mr. Dodge. What should we do without him? The management of the Society’s affairs involves a vast amount of work, and the unremitting service he has given us could only come from one devoted to our cause. Let us by our sympathy and kindness show our appre­ciation of his services and always keep him in funds.

I would also speak again of our Chairman, Mr. W adsworth, who is ever at his post, and who has so admirably filled the position, and thank him for his services.

F . H . W o o d s , President.

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T h e true way to make pure and whole­some our own share in the ceaseless tide of words which is forever flowing around us is to strive to make pure and whole­some the heart within. f< Keep thy heart,” says the wise man— “ keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” I f once our hearts have been trained to care very deeply for what is best and purest in life, for what is beautiful and true in thought, our hearti­est mirth, our freest jest, or hasty words, will not be those o f men and women who are indifferent, who care nothing for a Christian life, nothing for a Christian spirit.— Dean Bradley.

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To Oakland and Alameda.g6:oo, §6:30, §7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30,10:00,10:30,

11:00, 11:30, a . m . 12:00 m . 12:30, i:oo, 1:30, 2:00,2:30, 3:00,3:30,4 :00,4 :30,5:00,5:30 , 6;oo, 6:30, 7:00,7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:45, I*:45 H- M.

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From H igh S t r e e t , A l a m e d a : 85:16,§5:46,g6:i6,6:46, 7:16, 7:46, 8:16, 8:46, 9:16, 9:46, 10:16, 10:46, i i :x6. 11:46, A. M. 12:16, 12:46, 1:16 , 1:46, 2:16, 2:46, 3:16, 3:46, 4:16, 4:46, 5:16, 5:46, 6:16, 6:46, 7:16, 9:16, 10:31, 1 1 :3 1 p. M.

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TIME SCHEDULE.

Passenger trains w ill leave and arrive at Passenger Depot (Townsend St., bet. Third and Fourth). San Francisco :L e a v e S . F. }■ Commencing Aug. 20, j 886. -j A r r iv e S . F.

8:30 A. 10:40 A.

f 11:30 A.* 3:30 P*

4:25 P.* 5-*5 v-

6:30 p.t ir:45 r.

San Mateo, Redwood, and

Menlo Park.

6:28 A.* SjIOA.

9:03 A.• lo :02 A.• 3:36 P,t 4:59 f-6:00 t. 1 7:50 t 8:1s p.

8:30 A. f 10:40 A. I1 3:30 »*. -j

4:25 r . I 1

Santa Clara, San Jose, and

Principal W ay Stations.

J 9:03 A. | *10:02 A.

* 3:36 p.6:00 p,

t 8:15 V.10:40 A. j 3:30 P.

Gilroy. Pajaro, Castroville, Salinas and Monterey

1 * 10:02 A., ( 6:00 P,

10:40 A.' 3:30 r.

Watsonville, Camp Goodhall, Aptos, New Brighton, Soquel

(Capitola). and Santa Cruz.'10:02 A.

6:00 p.

t 7:50 A. | Monterey and Santa Cruz, (Sunday Excursion) t 8:55 p.

10:40 A, * 3:30 P.

Hollister and Tres Pinos.

' 10X12 A. 6:00 P.

10:40 a . J- Soledad, San Ardo and W ay Stat’ns. -{ 6:00 r.A.—Morning. p.—Afternoon.

Sundays excepted. f Sundays only.{Theatre Train, Saturdays only.

Standard time furnished by Randolph & Co,S T A G E C O N N E C T IO N S are made with the 10:40a.

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S P E C IA L R O U N D -T R IP T IC K E T S —At Reduced ates—to Monterey, Aptos, Soquel, Santa Cruz, and Pes-

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E X C U R S IO N T IC K E T SgoodFor Sundays only, L Sold Sunday morning.3 /for Return same day.

For Saturday, c Sold Saturday and Sunday only;Sunday and

Round Trip from San

Francisco toSun.Tkt.

San Bruno.. $.......Oak Grove . San Mateo.. Belmont. . . . Redwood.. . Fair Oaks... Menlo Park. Mayfield__

75 1 00 1 00 1 25 1 25 1 25

day, inclusive, at the following rates •Sat toMonTkt.

50 65 90

1 10 1 25 1 40 1 50 1 60 1 75

Round Trip from San

Francisoo toMount’n View Lawrences . . . Santa Clara...San Jose.........G ilroy............Aptos . . t .........Soquel............Santa Cruz : . . Monterey........

Sun.Tkt.

$ 1 50 1 50 1 751 752 75

Sntto Mon. JkL $ 2 0 0

2 25 2 50 2 504 005 OO 5 00 500 5 00

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T im e Schedu le* A p r i l 6* 1885*

TRAINS LEAVE, AND ARE DUE TO ARRIVE AI SAN FRANCISCO, AS FOLLOWS:

LEAVEFOR

)8.00 a. m.8.00 a. m.

*4.00 p. m.7.30 a. m.7.30 a. m.

*3.30 p. m.8.00 a. m.4.00 p. m.5.00 p. m.

*8.00 a. m. *8.00 a. m.3.30 p. m.7.00 p. m. 0.00 a. m.3.00 p. m.7.00 p. m.7.30 a. m.8.00 a. in.7.30 a. m.3.00 p. m.4.00 p. m.4.00 p. m.8.00 a. m.

*10.00 a. m.3.00 p. m.

18.00 a. m. *9.30 a. m. *3.30 p. m. *9.30 a. m.

DESTINATION.

.Byron........................

.Calistogaand Napa.

.C olfax......................................

.Delta, Redding and Portland

.Galt, v ia Martmez.................

.lone, v ia Liverm ore..............

. Knight's Landing...................

.Livermore and Pleasanton..

.Martinez..................................

.Milton............... ........................j Mojave, Deming,} E xpress.. | El Paso and East) Emigrant.!Niles and Haywards.........[Ogden and) Express.............[East.......... j Emigrant.............Red Bluff v ia M arysville__.Sacramento, v ia Livermore.. r via Benicia

“ v ia B enicia__. ' v ia Benicia .Sacramento River Steamers. .San Jose....................................

.Stockton, v ia Livermore..

. “ v ia Martinez. ...

. “ v ia M artinez. . . .

.Tulare and Fresno..........

ARRIVEFROM

16.10 p.m *10.10 a. m6.10 p. m5.40 p. m6.40 p. m

*10.40 a. m5.40 p. m

10.10 a. m *8.40 a. m6.10 p. m

*7,10 p. m 10.40 a. in6.10 a. m3.40 p.m

11.10 a. m9.40 a. id5.40 p. m5.40 p. m6.40 p. m

11.10 a. m10.10 a. m *6.00 a. m *3.40 p. m J3.40 p. m9.40 a. m5.40 p. m

*7.10 p. m *10.40 a. m *7.10 p.m

♦Sundays excepted. ^Sundays only.

L O C A L F E R R Y T R A I N S ,(Via Oakland Pier.)

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, DAILY.To EAST OAKLAND—*6.00, *6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00,

8.30, 9.00, 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, 11.00, 11.30, 12,00, 12.30,1.00, 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00, 3.30, 4.00, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30,6.00, 6.30, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,10.00,11.00, *12.00.

To FRUIT VALE—*6.00, *6.80, *7.00, *7.30, *8.00;*8.30, *3.30, *4.00, *4.30, *5.00, *5.30, *6.00, *6.30, 9.00.

To FRUIT VALE (via Alameda)—*9.30 a. m., 6.30, t l l .00, *12.00 p. m.

To ALAMEDA—*6.00, *6.30, 7.00, *7.30, 8.00, *8.80, 9.009.30, 10.00, }10.30,11.00, J11.30, 12.00, 112.30, 1.00,11.80,2.00, 8.00, 3.30, 4.00, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30, 6.00, 6.30, 7.00, S.00.9.00, 10.00,11.00, *12.00.

To BERKELEY—*6.00, *6.30, 7.00, *7.30, 8.00, *8.80,9.00, J9.30, 10.00, J10.30, 11.00, 111.30, 12.00, 1.00, 2.00,3.00, 4.00, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30, 6.00, 6.30, 7.00, 8,00, 9,00,10.00. 11.00, *12.00. » . 1 • »

To WEST BERKELEY—*6.00, *6.30, 7.00, *7.30, J8.00, *8.30, 9.00,10.00,11.00, J1.00, 2.00, 8.00, 4.00, *4.30,5.00, *5.30, 6.00, *6.30, 7.00.

TO SAN FRANCISCO, DAILY.From FRUIT VALE—*6.23, *6.58, *7.23, *7.53, *8.23,

*8.53, *9.23, *10.21, *4.23, *4.53, *5.23, *5.53, *6.23, *6.53, 7.25,9.50. ' ’ ’

From FRUIT VALE (via Alameda)—*5.15, *5.45,16.45,9.15, *3.15.

From EAST OAKLAND—*5.30, *6.00, 6.80, 7.00, 7.80,8.00, 8.30, 9.00. 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, 11.00, 11.80, 12.00, 12.80, 1.00, 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00, 3.80, 4.00, 4.80, 6.00,5.30.6.00. 6.30.7.00.7.57.8.57.9,57,10.57.

From BROADWAY, Oakland—*5.37, *6.07, G.87, 7.07,7.37, 8.07, 8.37, 9.07, 9.87,10.07,10.37,11.07,11.37,12.07,12.37, 1.07, 1.37, 2.07, 2.37, 3.07, 3.37, 4.07, 4.37, 5.07,6.37, 6.07, 6.37,7.07,8.06,9.06,10,06,11.06.

From ALAMEDA—*5.22, *5.52, *6.22, 6.52, *7.22, 7.52 *8.22, 8.52, 9.22, 9.52, J10.22,10.52, 111.22, 11.52, 112.22, 12.52, J1.22, 1.52, 2.52, 3.22, 3.52, 4.22, 4.52, 5.22, 5.52, 6.22, 6.52, 7.52, 8.52, 9.52,10.52.

From BERKELEY—*5.15, *5.45, *6.15,6.45, *7.15,7.45, *8.15, 8.45, |9.15, 9.45,110.15, 10.45, 111.15' 1L45, 12.45,1.45, 2.45, 8.45,4.15,4.45,5.15,5.45,6.16,6.45,7.45,8.45, 9 45,10.45.

From WEST BERKELEY—*5.45, *6.15, .6.45, *7.15,7.45, 8.45, 19.15, 9.45,10.45, 112-45,1.45, 2.45, 3.45, 4.45, *5.15, 5.45, *6.15, 6.45, *7.15.

CREEK ROUTE.From SAN FRANCISCO—*7.15, 9.15, 11.15, 1.15, 8.15.

5.15.From OAKLAND—*6.15, 8.15,10.15,12.16,2.15,4.15.

* Sundays excepted. \ Sundays only.

“ Standard Time ” furnished by Randolph & Co., Jewelers, 101 and 103 Montgomery St., San Francisco.

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