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V O L ,. 2. C H IC A G O . JU L Y . 12. 1890. NO. 33.

SPIRITUALISM.ITS RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY.

Anniversary Address a t S tnrgis, Mich­igan, by

J . M. PEEBLES, M. D.

Thirty-two years ago this sunny month of Jane I delivered by invitation a dedicatory address at the opening of this house of wor­ship, erected and furnished by Spiritualists of Sturgis. The day was fair, the fields were green, the atmosphere was heavy with the odors of flowers, the desk neatly trimmed m fragrant with roses, and the auditorinm ■as literally crowded with sincere and ear­ned worshipers. The very air on this me- ■orable occasion seemed afire with enthusi­asm, and the heart-felt amen rung out audi- bly and often from the glad worshipers in attendance. It was an hour of triumph and inspiration—a day of baptism and angel benedictions.

There were present Judge Coffinbuty, Joel Tiffany, Selden J . Finney and other distinguished exponents of the spiritual phi­losophy; the majority of whom, now clothed ■poo with immortality, have gone to increase that ever-attending cloud of witnesses men­tioned by an ancient apostle. Some remain. Before me are the Hon. J . 6. Wait, the venerable Harrison Kelly and a few others. These were men of faith, men who never shirked responcibility nor faltered in the de­fense of their convictions. Their presence today is an inspiration for the good and the tine. And, bending as they now are under the weight of years, they look westward to­m b life's golden sunset in peace and joy. They know that death is but the masked an­gel of life They know that the morning gates of immortality stand for them ajar, sad that the white hands of their loved ones ire kindly beckoning them over the river to the land of the fadeless forever.

This house was dedicated not to occult­ism, atheism or any form of agnosticism; but to the elucidation and dissemination of loch uplifting principles and religions teach- ioga as the Fatherhood of God, the brother­hood of man, the demonstrated ministry of spirits, and the necessity of free thought, intellectual growth and spiritual culture. These principles are as rational as they are immortal and beautiful; and they will live is increasing moral splendor when this structure shall have crumbled to dust.

Since the dedication of this edifice a whole generation—thirty and two years with their muhine and their shadows have rolled bekward into the abysmal past And ntchmen what of the night? Their lessons whether of joy or sorrow have not been lost Oily the evil perishes. The stinging bee nay have perished, but its honey sweetened tome well-spread table. The faithful horse that died had lightened many a toilers task. The uncouth caterpillar ceased to crawl, died, and rose a beautiful butterfly. Up- nrd all things tend.

These thirty years and more, as such, are dead; and yet out of them have leaped new Noughts, new discoveries, new inventions, mv methods, new sciencies and new ameli- Mating movements for the elevation and perfection of humanity—all these, and aorr, out of them have sprung a thousand joji for a single sorrow, and ten thousand miles for a single tear. Days and years

seeds and showers, “ Go underground to dress, and come forth flowers. ”

Thirty years! Permit me to go back not (Sly thirty years, bat over two-thirds of a watery to 1822, the year in which I was bom away down by the Green Mountain foot-hills of Vermont James Monroe, au­thor of the Monroe doctrine, was at the time President The population of the country vis shout 9,000,000, and the Union com­prised seventeen States, slavery existing in •I of them except Maine, Vermont, New Himpahire, and Ohio. What astounding (tenges since! Kingdoms have become Re- pablics, Islands have risen from the ocean, ad time and space by steam and electricity ten been nearly annihilated.

And though to-day upon the border-land •f seventy my memory of prominent events Marring sixty years ago and more is vivid ted dear as a crystal. Agriculture was fin the chief source of profit. The old •ooden plough with an iron point broke the

i tiL Labor-saving machinery was almost (•known. Our fathers raised the sheep and

I the flax, and our clothing was span, woven tefl nude by oar sterling mothers. In the (tece of s piano was heard the hum of the (ptesing wheel, and instead of a brass band

music on each recurring fourth of July ■* had the fife and the d ram , with ginger- bad four cents a cake, and hard cider a oat a glass. Everybody drank, priests ad people A t the ordination o f the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the great expounder of

Calvinism “ John Loomis gave half a bushel of malt; Matthew Grant, two quarts of rum and John Stoughton a sum of wine money.’ And in the Rev. Edwards's account book oc­curs this record:— “ Bought of Joshua Loomis seventy-nine and one-half barrels of cider;" which in the shape of ' ‘ brandy, he sold to his own parishioners the next year. ” (See New England Magazine, April 1890). This was a bad mixing of rum, hard cider, brandy and Calvinism. It may be added that this Rev. Edwards, as did Presbyter­ians generally, preached the damnation of both non-elect infants and Pagans. The first minister that I remember of hearing was Elder Lamb, a stern close-communion Calvinist Baptist He preached in hollow sepulchral tones the hissing gospel of hellfire, election and reprobation, and the eternal damnation of the heathen. He was a ghost­ly terror to me. Sulphur in its crudest form, now used as a disinfectant, was then employed religiously and freely as a means of grace.

Many preachers sixty years ago preached the doom of the heathen, infant damnation, drank brandy and eogaged in the lottery business.

Trinity Record publishes the following extract from a letter written in 1763 by the Rev. Samnel Seabury, of Hempstead, L. L : “ The ticket No. 5,366, in the Light-house and Public Lottery of New York, drew in my favor, by the blessing of God, 500 pounds (of which I received 425 pounds, there being a deduction of 15 per cent), for which I now record to my posterity my thanks and praise to Almighty God, the j giver of all good. Amen. ”

Farmers at that period thrashed their1 grain with flails. Candles were employed for illuminating purposes. Open wood fire places were nsed for heating and cooking; and, heavy clnmsy stage coaches for general public conveyances. Steam had not been applied to the promotion of our industries.I must have been nearly twenty years of age before the first steamer crossed the ocean. Now, George Francis Train, by steam and rail, girdles the globe in some sixty-five days.

The Erie Canal completed in 1825 was con­sidered at that period a rapid and luxurious method of traveL When the first American railroad was constructed (1826) I must have been about four years old; now, in round numbers, we have 150,000 miles of rail­ways with their circuitous branches intersect­ing and spanning the continent.

A summary of modern inventions, com­forts, improvements, and conveniences such as stoves, hot air, steam, gas, electric lights, the telegraph, the Atlantic cable, the spectroscope, the telephone, the photo­graph, the phonograph, phrenology, psy- chometry, with other scientific discoveries, coming into practical use daring the last fifty years, almost seemed to me for the mo­ment, with my vivid recollections of boy­hood time like the fairy tales of the Arabian Nights. And yet, they are not only tangi­ble every day realities, but are considered by most of the busy thinking masses, as absolute necessities.

There are lost arts. And there have been many golden ages of history, the Ptolemies in Egypt, Pericles in Athens, Augustus in Rome; but our golden age, the lost half of this century, resplendent with art, science, research, discovery, and religious aspiration was a befitting time for the re-discovery and propagation of Spiritism. I say re­discovery, for to agnostic materialists and Protestant Christians, Spiritism, demon­strating conscious communications, between mortals and the over-arebing invisible worlds of immortals was literally a discov­ery*—a new revelation.

The world moves in cycles. And this up­ward-tending progressive world of ours, con­stantly moved upon by the Divine Spirit, was now ripe and ready for the “ Rochester rsppings." They came—came naturally causing excitement even to consternation in social, sectarian and scientific circles. The wonder grew, and no Samson was on hand to solve the riddle.

The Buffalo “ toe-joint" doctors, that pretended to expose the marvels died os might be expected, from taking their own doses. Investigations and prejudicial reports, instead of putting down the spirits, only gave wings to their manifestations. They had evidently come to stay. They have staid. And they will stay manifest­ing in some form, so long os this earth re­mains a race-bearing planet These spirit­ual intelligences from different spheres wore and ore to-day God’s living witnesses of the souls future existence.

The fact of spirit intercourse in 1848, was not absolutely new, however, for every stu­dent of history knows that all ages and races had in some form witnessed and | echoed these phenomena. They were con

sidered at different periods miracles, raagio- possessions, apparitions, oracles, special providences, witchcraft, demons and an­gels. Their persistence, surviving the decay of throues aud empires, is according to Her­bert Spencer a proof of their reality and their value. One of our poets has said:

“ If ancestry can be believed Descending spirits have conversed with men And told nliu secrets of the world unknown.”

Well do I remember a conversation while in Canton, China, (the guest of Dr. Kerr, both physician and missionary) upon mes­merism and Spiritism. When I had got well warmed up in my descriptions of Amer­ican spirit manifestations, he coolly ex­claimed: “ Why, Sir, thoso manifestationsare very old in this country—China is an Empire of Spiritia.‘ ^Vjrad to prove it, he took me out to temles, shruSteq*'* and booths where I witnessed ipirit writing aniHL other forms of mediumslp. j^Sj.

Spiritism is neve to bo used interbWl®*1 “ r ably with Spirituals). For weary yer*'*v'J have pressed this oint—in my Ixxikfl-- Os- Says and lectures. Spiritualtein-t^nheres in and originates froi Ggj&C tvnois Spirit, and therefore naturally and necessarily refers to man as a spiritual being, the offspring of God. Spiritualism then, from spirit and spiritual, is the direct antithesis of materi­alism, which posits the origin and present condition of all things in matter, plus some unknowable potencies. Like the Greek arch materialism rises only a little above the earth to come back to it again—and so death ends all.

The terminoligies of Spiritualism and Spiritism absolutely necessitate, as every scholar knows, different meanings. Chinese, Indians and Utah Mormons are Spiritists, believing in spirit communications. Most of the African tribes of the dork continent worship demons and believe in spirit con­verse—but certainly they are not intelligent Spiritualists. Correct definitions, ever in­dispensable to the elucidation of truth, would if properly heeded by our writers and speak­ers save a vast amount of unprofitable dis­cussion, if not of non-fraternall feeling.

Spiritism like anatomy and telegraphy, is a fact—simply a fact of physical and mental science. And properly and relig­iously studied ought to lead up to Spiritu­alism. But it necessarily belongs, with such kindred subjects as mesmerism to the category of the sciences; while Spiritualism rooted and grounded in man’s moral nature is a fact, and infinitely more—a fact, plus reason and conscience—a fact relating to moral and religious culture— a sublime fact ultimating in consecration to the good, the beautiful and the true. Spiritualism prof­fers the key that unlocks tho mysteries of the ages. It constituted tho foundation stones of all the ancient faiths. I t was the mighty uplifting force that gave to the world its inspired teachers and immortal leaders. The spiritual is the real. God is Spirit■Pythagoras the famous Samiau taught that angels and spirits exercised a guardian care over mortals.^Socrates had his ever-attending spirit- helper to whom he listened.■ T he Apostles healed the sick, saw visions and witnessed the Transfiguration. ■Constantine saw a flaming cross in the heavens with the ominous words “ In this sign shalt thou conquer."■ Jo an of Arc saw visions and conversed with risen saints.

Torquato Tasso frequently heard the voices of spiritual beings.

Antony of Egypt met angels by the way side and had holy visions.■ 8 t Francis of Aseissi put down demons and talked with angels.■George Fox the Quaker was entranced and had the spiritual gift of healing.■ T he Wesley’s heard spiritual sounds and mysterious noises in their home when at prayer.

Boron Swedenborg conversed with spirits and angels during twenty-seven years of his eventful life.

Savonarola, Bruno, Boebman and Roger Bacon were Spiritualists, inspired and pos­sessed of mediumistic powers.

John Bunyan and Richard Baxter were Spiritualists. J ust before Baxter’s death he published his work: “ The certainty of the world of spirits fully evinced by unquestion­able histories.'’

Dr. Adam Clark declares his belief that there was a “ spiritual world in which hu­man spirits, both good and bod, lived," and that “ these spirits have intercourse with this world and become visible to mortals."

The French President Thiers said: “ Iam a Spiritualist, an impassioned one; and I am anxious, I repeat to confound materi­alism in the name of science and good sense."

Senor Castelar, Professor of History In a Spanish University, is a Spiritualist. “ I believe " said bo, “ that I commune with loved ones lost to my sight during this my troubled earthly life. ”

M. Camille Flammarion, the French As­tronomer, is an avowed Spiritualist.

John Bright, the British Statesman, said to me in his own mansion in presence of Mr. Bailey, a poet of some note, that be “ had witnessed marvelous manifestations with D. D. Home and others that he could account for only upon the hypothesis that the agen­cies were spirits.

Ex-Primier Gladstone, who has investiga­ted the spiritual phenomena, said: “ I know of no rale which forbids a Christian to ex­amine into the signs of preternatural agency in the system called Spiritualism."

While lecturing several months in London

upon Spiritualism and cognate subjects, I had no more patient listeners than A. It. Wallace the Naturalist and C. F. Vorley the Electrician.

Memories of tho past remind mo that in other lands I sat in seances with Victor Hugo, H. R. H. the Prince of Solms, Wil­liam Crookes, F. R. S., Leon Faure, Consul General of Franco, and other ominont states­men, scientists, savans—all Spiritualists I What a ohain of testimonies stretching in golden links adown the ages I

My thought, this hour, is fully expressed in tho olear-ringing language of that eminent English Naturalist and Scientist* Alfred Russel Wallace, F. G. S.— “ My position therefore," says ho, “ is that the phenome­na of Spiritualism iu their entirety do not require further confirmation. They are proved quite as well as any facta are proved in other soienoes. ”

The consensus of opinion through the loidightened world to-day admits, no doubt, the verities of Spiritualism. The bat­tle, however, is not yet fully fought Far from i t There is commotion and mental warfare in the very air. And the great moral and religious battle-ground in tho fu­ture will be, not between Spiritualism and and Christianity, but between Spiritualism and Naturalism. The bitterest and most merciless opponents to-day of Spiritualism are such prejudiced scientists as Haeckel, Lancaster and Huxley. And the psychical research investigators arc not much bettor. Their pseudo-methods lead to Saduceeism, agnosticism and bald materialism.

I t requires no proof that a perfect oircle can have but one center—no proof that space is—no proof that God exists. Intuition feels, consciousness knows. If my physi­cal body had an earthly father, it is just as certain that my spiritual nature had a spirit­ual father. That which is spiritual is spir­itually discerned. The blind can not see the sun. I t’s their misfortune. They re­quire optical treatment. Saying nothing of not seeing angels and spirits, tho gross, dull physical senses do not see such potent forces as cohesion, attraction, gravitation, sounds, thoughts, principles. What do tho sense know about life—about vitality? Loye, hope, thoughts, can not bo measured by yard-sticks, nor oan ideas be melted with a blow pipe. Spiritual realities and spiritual beings are seen and sensed through clair­voyance, clairaudionce, .consciousness, in­tuition and the moro refined and ethereal- ized senses of the inner spiritual man. Does the Materialist say? “ I never saw a spirit?” Quite likely. Did he ever see an atom? Did he ever see the unit of matter? “ The ultimate unit of matter," says Spen­cer, in his Principles of Psychology, ‘ ‘ must remain absolutely unknown. ” i And yet, while the atom—whilo tho unit of matter are by confession unknown, these arrogant materialists talk learnedly about ‘ ‘ thought being a property of matter," and about in­telligence being evolved from matter and force"—evolved to flicker a few years and then die away into nothingness. Thinkers are tiring of such dogmatic babble!

If reason and logic mean anything, non- intelligcnce can not produce intelligence and rational beings. Tho effeot can not ex­ceed tho cause. Ju st what iB put into mat­ter can bo gotten out of it, and nothing more. Involution necessarily precedes evolution.! When materialists in their reasonings put force, life, thought, consciousness into mat­ter they unwittingly put God into it, for God is tho infinite consciousness, tho abso­lute will, the absolute soul of the universe. And we are made in the image of God—we ore birthright citizens of the oity of God, and our aspiration is the measure of our destination.

I t is not matter for sco-slimo nor proto­plasm that constitutes tho basis of life—but spirit—that is to say, spiritual, or divine substance. Spirituality is the substantial reality. And man is a spirit now—a spirit living in a material body, which body boars something of tho same relation to the real conscious invisible man that tho husk boars to tho corn. Evidently, man is a trinity in unity. Ho is constituted of a physical body, a spiritual body and conscious undy­ing soul—triune hero, dual ovor thoro, and ono uncompounded, indestructablo divine substance in his inmost, forevor.

I repeat, man is a spirit now, and spirits aie but men and women divested of their mortal bodies. Thoy have token with them consciousness, memory, reason, sympathy, character. And thoy walk by our sides, often felt, and yet unseen. Philosophically considered, thero is but ono world, and that one world embraces tho yesterdays, the to­days and the Innumorablogto-morrows of etornity. And mediums stand midway be­tween tho visible, and invisible states of ex­istence. Thoy are conscious and unoon- scious sensitives—thoy are mesmeric instru­ments most delicately tuned—thoy aro towering palms, that-catch and rofloct such morning sunbeams of light and love as gladden other spheres—they are tho trum­peters upon tho mountain—thoy ore tho message bearers of immortal truths from gods and angels to men, and to bo success­ful in their missions of good tidings thoy need the most pleasant surroundings, tho most perfect conditions. Doubtless thero are “ frauds." Such is tho case in all lifo’s callings. Let them first bo reprimanded in private, then reproved more sternly, and then punished. And tho proper ones to do this are kind, generous, full-orbod men, and gonuine Spiritualists rather than pretentious,

| unprincipled thugs. Tho greatest frauds I among Spiritualists are the fraud-hunters.

They get out from a seance just about what they take into it, and so fools ore answered according to their folly. If those fraud hunt­ing Psychical Researchists had boon among tho night-watching Shephonls of Pales- tino, instead of looking up trustingly, joyful­ly, at Bethlehem's star, and listening to the songs of the angels, thoy would have been ogling around some old Syrian's table, scent­ing out the odors of tho offal—that would bo thoir natural element I

Mediuinship is innate in all human organi­zations, awaiting development, and demand­ing the most careful culture. I t should be relegated to where it naturally belongs, tho select seance, the quiet family, the religious homo circle. Judgo Edmonds opened his seances with prayer. And mediums should bo guarded and surrounded by kind sympa­thetic and calm religious influences: then would there come,—continually oomo richer and still grander pentecostal out-pourings of tho spirit from the heavenly world.

Spiritualism has not only demonstrated a future life, but it has explained the philoso­phy and psychic methods of spirit inter­course; it has liberalized the public mind; it has encouraged the philanthropic reforms of tho age: it has given us a revised geogra­phy of the heavous and disclosed some of tho transcendant beauties awaiting us in tho mauy-mansioned house of the Father.

It does hot say “ good-night ” in tho hour of death; but rather gives tho glad assur­ance of a welcome “ good-morning," just across the crystal river. I t does not drape the mourner’s home in gloom, but lifts the curtain, permitting ns to hear words of un­dying affection from thoso wo love. Oh, let us rejoice, then, and be glad in these Easter yeurs of Spiritualism, for they give life a new meaning. They put new courage, new strength, new intelligence into our daily tasks.

Spiritualism, the compliment of Chris­tianity, sweetens the bitterest cup, helps bear the heaviest burden, lightens the darkest day, comforts the saddest heart, and, gathering up the kindly efforts we make in behalf of oar fellow men, transfig urea them with its brightness, ennobles them with its moral grandeur, and throws around them the circling auriole of fadeless splendors. And further, by and through its holy ministries we know that the grave is no prison-house for the soul, but that life, progressive life, is ours, eternal in the heavens.

As to organizations, State and national, Spiritualists have made a signal failure. They never can organize permanently. There are too many diverse opinions, too many materialistic tendencies, too many opposite teachings, and too much mulish in dividualism. What, then, have they done? Much every way. They have proved future life, fought old-time errors, grappled with bigotry, dethroned superstitions, liber­alized thought, inspired reforms, and diffused the life-giving, spiritualizing prin­ciples of Spiritualism through the minds of millions. The sheaves of their precious sowing are already in sight. The denom inational churches aro gathering them in. They have been long hungering for a bettor, higher grade of spiritual food. Calvinism is no longer digestible. And accordingly Spiritualism is now being preached in man; church edifices under tho euphonious phrase of angel ministries.

Neither the workmen nor their works die. Demosthenes and Cicero live in thoir mas terly creations; Apollonious lives in his travels and spiritual marvels; George Fox and Ann Leo in the truths that stroamod like pearls from their lips; Judge Edmonds lives in his judicial decisions and spiritual visions; Robert Dale Owen lives in his foot­fall boundaries upon the shores of Immor­tality; Brittan lives in his spiritual relations of man; Denton in his soul of things; Now- ton in his sound and substantial essays pointing to the “ Better Way;" Fishbougb in his sormons, visions and unpublished writings; Sargent in his proofs palpable; Mrs. Farnhain in her idoal attained; Mrs. Mary F. Davis in her poems and self-sac rificing deeds and swoot, saintly life—thoso and many other Spiritualist workers live, not only in memory, not only in thoir sur viving books and kindly work of good to others; but they livo as conscious men and women, disrobed of mortality; livo in and among that glorified and ovor-inoroasing throng of witnessos that minister to mortals.

Though many of tho fathers in our Israol h'avo passed to tho hlghor lifo; though Na­tional and State organizations have perished, will Spiritualism die? No—a thousand times not Novor a truth of God diod. It may assumo other clothing; it may bo pre­sented in a different form, and under differ­ent names—but tho truth itself was and fs imperishable.

Spiritualism under tho guidance of God and angol hosts was novor making suoli rapid stridos os to-day. And all tho con­centrated and malicious potencies of oarth and demons—all tho infernal machinations of Hindu occultism, Gorman materialism, religio-nationalisra, psychical-researohism, and a score of other beggarly isms, floating like dead-wood upon tho groat agitated ocoan of thought, can not chock tho onward, upward march of true Spiritualism. God is in this univorso of ours, and governs it too, pessimism to tho contrary notwithstanding.

Am 1 still pressed with tho inquiry, what tho general trend? What some of tho lead­ing tendencies among the prosont toilers in the intellectual and spiritual harvest-fields? Tho writing blazons upon the walL Tho half-blind ought to so oomprehend the signs

of tho times as to soo tho two well-marked drifts in tho mental and spiritual current of this free-thought era, tho ono towards ma­terialism, tho other towards a broad, liberal Christianity. That once trance speaker and always eloquent platform orator and de­bater, W. F. Jamieson, is a confirmed ma­terialist now, doubting a future immortal existence. Others, because of mediumistic frauds, jealousies, wranglings, and ma­licious criminations, ore standing upon the agnostic border-lands of doubt, half ready for tho dizzy loap down into the psychic- research (opths of Aducoesism.- Among the ohilly and hopeless words spoken in the post by that sound and solid yet materialistic writer, B. F. Underwood, at the grave of Dr. Barak, Nichener, Iowa, were these:“ We aro now about to commit our dead to the care of mother earth, in whose bosom he will sloop the quiet) unbroken, everlasting sleep of death. No vicissitudes of earth, no event of time, can disturb our brother's rest, or wake him from his dreamless sleep; hiB career is finished, his conscious life ended, ho belongs now to that vast realm whose monarch permits no sound, not even a whisper or a sigh, to break the silence that reigns throughout his wide domain. What though the storms of winter sweep coldly over him, or the lightnings flash and the thunders roll above his narrow home, he will feel not, bo will hear not, he will heed not thoso conflicts and commotions; the oonvulsions of nature, even a world's disso­lution will, to him, be no more than the decay of a flower on his grave, or the moul­dering of the marble that marks his burial place.

“ Brother, farewell Careful hands and loving hearts will guard and deck thy grave, and keep thy monument whole and thy memory green. Farewell forever." Cold and ioy is the cap that this materialism puts to the mourner's trembling Ups, and doleful as the echoes of an arctic tomb are its final words, “ fareweU forever."*

Naturally, just as naturally, then, as night's dew-laden flowere turn toward the light of the East in morning-time, do the sad, the sorrowing and the spiritually- minded turn towards the gospel of Spiritual­ism with its psychic demonstrations of a future life aud its awaiting greetings and good-mornings in heaven.

The other drift referred to is towards Christianity—not Roman Catholicism, with its infaUible Pope, not Calvinism, with its eternal decrees, not old-style, orthodox the­ology— thete are but priestly travesties of that New Testament Christianity whose ex­ponent was Jesus Christ

Such religious teachers, once Spiritualist lecturers, as W. Brunton, C. B. Lynn, G.B. Stebbins, A. J . Fishback and many others, who have knocked at the door and entered Christian denominations, becoming preachers and lay members, have not re­nounced Spiritualism. I t is well known that a majority of some Unitarian and Universal- ist congregations are Spiritualists. In the Baptist, Methodist and Congregationalist denominations are many believers in the present ministries of spirits. The same may bo said, to my knowledge, of tho Epis. copal church, which by the way, is the only religious body that has manfully grappled with and candidly considered tho claims of Spiritualism.

At a church congress of the Established Church of England, hold a few years ago, Dr. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham, pre­siding, speeches were mado and papers road upon tho ‘1 Duty of tho Church in respect to tho prevalence of Spiritualism." Horn arc some of tho scattered gems gathered from this church cougresa. Tho Bov. Dr. Thornton said that Spiritualism “ in its vory nature is antagonistic to all Sadducoo- ism and Materialism. I t flatly contradicts tho assertions of tho miserable philosophy that makes tho soul but a function of tho brain, and death an eternal sloop. It tolls of angels, of an immortal spirit, and of a future state of personal aud consoious exist­ence." “ Spiritualists claim to hold inter­course with the spirits of the dopartod. Now I am far from donying tho possibility of such intercourse; on tho contrary, I be­lieve that in God's providonco it sometimes does take place." “ Wo aro terribly afraid of snying a word about tho intermediate state. We draw a hard aud fast lino bo- twoon the soon aud tho unsoon world. In vain does tho crood express our boliof in the communion of saints." “ Horo perhaps some ono will say to mo * You soom half a Spiritualist yoursolf. ' Well, [ am just as much a Spiritualist as S t Paul was, whon ho wroto, 11 know a man in Christ whether in tho body or out of tho body I cannot toll. God knowoth—suoli au ono caught up to tho third heaven."

“ Just os muoh os S t John, whon ho bado his bolovod ‘ try tho spirits;' and said of himself that ho was ' in tho spirit on tho Lord's day.'"

“ Lot us thankfully acknowlodgo tho truths of Spiritualist touching, ns weapons which wo aro too glad to wiold against posi­tivism and secularism, and all tho anti- Chrlstianlsms of this ago of godless thought"

“ Churchmon must bo careful not to imply that those phenomena wore incredible because thoy woro supernatural. Tho ohuroh was founded on tho boliof of supernatural

*—If Mr. Jamieson, Underwood and other* of le distinction, hare recently modified their opinions, t coming Spiritualists, ana hollering In a future co scions existence. I shall rejoice In the Informant and do rejoice already In the many brare words tin haro spoken In behalf of Investigation, free thoug' and free speech.

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t u b t r t m o r T B S PBOGBSSSITS THIXKSB .The paramount design is to publish the ablest Lec­

tures, the most profound Essays, the most Interesting Sketches, cultivating the reason as well as the emo­tions, each subscriber feel that he has par­taken of an Intellectual repast that will better fit him for the life here and the one hereafter.

Bear this thought In mind: That while The Pro­gressive Thinker Is the cheapest Spiritualist paper In the world. Its editor has the laudable ambition to make It the best. The high-priced paper* pay noth­ing for contributions, and It stands to reason that the most eminent minds In the Spiritualist and Free Thought ranks will cheerfulhc lend their aid and Influ­ence In making The Progressive Thinker the brightest and best paper for the fireside In the world. For reference as well as stndy, l u columns will prove of great value.

A B o u n tifu l H a rv e s t f o r T w en ty -five C en ts .Do yon want a more bountiful harvest than we can

give you for 25 cents! Just pause and think for a moment what an intellectual feast that small invest­ment will furnish you. The subscription price for The Progressive Thinker sixteen weeks is only twenty-five cents! For that amount yon obtain sixty- four pages of solid, substantial, soul-elevating and mlnd-refreshlng reading matter, equivalent to a medium-sized booklCLUBS! AN IM PO R TA N T SU G G ESTIO N t

As there are thousands who will at first venture only twenty-five cents for The Progressive Thinker six­teen weeks, we would suggest to those who receive a ■ample copy, to solicit several other* to unite with them, and thus be able to remit from $1 to $10, or even more than the latter sum. A large number of little amounts will make a large sum total, and thus extend the field of our Isbor and usefulness. The same suggestion will auply In all cases of renewal of sub­scription*—eolleh others to aid In the good work. You win experience no difficulty whatever In Inducing Spiritualists to subscribe for The Progressive Thinker; for not one of them can afford to be with­out the valuable information Imparted therein each week, and a t the price of only a trifle over one cent per week.

A - LARGE PU BLISH IN G HOUSE.Without soliciting the wealthy to take "stock,”

or Importuning any one for gifts; and without any anticipation of any bequest, we propose to establish In this cUy the largest Spiritualist Publishing House In the world. If O ne H u n d re d T h o u sa n d Spirit­ualists will subscribe for The Progressive Thinker, on trial, sixteen weeks for twenty-five cents, and con­tinue even that small contribution, we will have a Publishing House here, of which yon may well be proud. Inside of five years. Each one who subscribes for The Progressive Thinker will be, a s it were, a "brick” In the contemplated structure (don’t forget that), and from a spiritual point of view be considered part owner. We believe that ninety-nine out of one hundred who read this, will co-operate with us. The one who will not respond must bare the paper free.

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1890.

Sensitiveness o l th e B lind .I t is well known that in the blind the

loss of sight is in a measure compensated for by the increased accnteness of the other senses. The development of hearing and of touch become phenomenal. To this cause the wonderful ability of the blind has been referred, and the explanation regarded as satisfactory. But it by no means ac­counts for the facts. The blind differ in their ability to receive impressions quite as much as those who see. Some never recov­er from the shock of the loss, and literally group in blindness, while others are so sen­sitive they receive so much assistance they scarcely feel their loss. Their capabilities under their deprivation furnishes a most in­teresting and valuable study to theAtndent of man s spiritual nature. We observe in them the awakening of a new mental power or faculty, which may be called intu­ition or sensitiveness. |J I t is nearly allied to clairvoyance; in fact, in some instances, is indistinguishable from i t This may be tak­en as an explanation of the astonishing performances of “ Twaddles Family,” which was one of the most remarkable of which1 there is on record. The last aged member attended the church at Mooretown, 0 ., on a recent Sunday evening, and after the servi­ces was found dead in his seat Seventy years ago the family attracted great atten­tion. The father and mother had excellent eyesight, and the eyes of their children were large, brown and bright, bat sightless. They were without optic nerves. In all ether respects they were bright, healthy and intelligent children. The State of Ohio, by a special act of its Legislature, deeded to the parents for the support of their children a quarter of a section—160 acres—of the best of the agricultural lands of Eastern Ohio, and the land is known to this day as the "B lind Twaddles’ section.” Upon this farm these young men and women— there were seven boys and two girls—grew up in total darkness, became useful citizens, married and settled in the surrounding com­munity and reared families, in which no trace of blindness is shown. They became saccessfnl farmers, millers, distillers, etc., and were as able to go to any place upon their farms or to surrounding towns and perform all their necessary farm work with' out attendance or help, as if they had per feet eyesight They cut timber in the woods, made rails, built fences, plowed their lands sowed and harvested their crops, ran their grist mill and a distillery, worked oxen and horses, and, in fact, learned all of that by intuition which is supposed impossible for people without sight

Their lands are intersected by numerous deep creeks, which were crossed by foot logs, and these people would go unhesita­tingly any where along these form paths, crossing the precarious foot bridges and treading the most intricate ways unerringly. They could name any tree in the forests

their hand upon the coat of a horse they would instantly tell its color. And by feel­ing its head tell to which sex it belonged. They were excellent judges of horses.

A good man}' years ago 1 ‘ Blind Twad­dles ” went to town on business. His pres­ence at the hotel gave rise to a discussion of his wonderful power regarding horses, and it was agreed among some of the par­ties to test i t The landlord had a splendid sorrel team, of which oue, however, was a good deal better than the other. When Mr. Twaddle, who was riding a brown mare, called for his horse the stableman placed the trappings upon one of the landlords sor­rels and led it forth. Mr. Twaddle put his hand upon the animal’s neck before mount­ing he stopped and said:

"Y ou’vemade a mistake: this is not my horse. I ’m riding a brown, and this is a sorrel horse.”

The hostler apologized, and, changing the bridle and saddle, brought out the other of Mr. Patton’s sorrels.

Twaddle, perhaps, suspected the joke, and going forward, placed his hand upon the horse’s head and said at once:

** This is another sorrel horse, a ‘single footer,’ and a much better one than yon showed me before. But please bring out my brown mare, as I am in a hurry to start for home. ”

This story, as well as many others equally remarkable as instancing these wonderful in­tuition of these people, is well vouched for. By the death of Andrew the last of this fam­ily has vanquished, and the " Blind Twad­dle section ” is now occupied by people with eyes.

T he R ev. H enry F ra n k .The Rev. Henry Frank is having an

exciting time at Jamestown, N. J . He is a Spiritualist and would he burned or tortured probably, if he didn't live in this nineteenth century. He has been pronounced a heretic, and expelled from relationship with the Western New York Association of Con­gregational Churches. The association met in the little village of Ellington, and un­loosened its pent np vengeance to the extent that when Mr. Frank appeared in response to an invitation to show cause why he should not be expelled he found that he had already been tried and convicted without a hearing, and, figuratively speaking, thrown oat beyond the limits of Christian fellowship into the domain of a worldly world.

The judge, jury and prosecuting attorney were all one,' the evidence was all in before the court opened, and the verdict rendered before the accused had time to recover from his astonishment. Nothing in the history of ecclesiastical procedure can be found to compare with it for the unrelenting speed with which every movement was executed.

Mr. Frank spoke eloquently in his own defense, but could not overcome the intoler­ance, bigotry and meanness that confronted him. In concluding his remarks he said: "Look at Lyman Abbott, the most radical preacher in the Congregational church to­day; there were some who actually frothed at the mouth because of his audacious and scandalous antagonism to certain well-es­tablished doctrines of the faith. But when he appeared before the council and ex­plained himself, how glad they were to receive and honor him, and exonerate him from all prejudicial rumors. Are you afraid that something like this possibly might come to pass in my case? I t is very evident you are. Yon are afraid to give me a trial, and yon will write yourselves down as in­quisitors, worthy of the age of Jeffreys. This action of yours will rebound upon yon, and belittle your influence and disgrace your cause. Col. Robert Ingersoll with all bis eloquence could not in a century so prejudicially affect the popular cause of Christianity as this outrageous, unwarranted, unscriptural, and tyrannous procedure of yours. If that Jesus whom you pretend to worship were here to-day he would pronounce upon you all the [judgments which he did upon the scribes and pharisees of old. Bat I pity your ignorance, and I forgive your barbarity. You know not what you do. Let me only say, as I leave yon, I still have faith in the paramount power of love, and I believe the day will yet dawn whose resplendant rays of justice will pierce the murky mists of earth’s darkness, and so mingle the fair and the foul, the true and the false, the just and the unjust, in the one white ray of purity and love, os to teach ns all how to be brethren, and walk in that heavenly light, in the fellowship of freedom, and by the dictates of truth. Forgiving you because of your ignorance, I bid youall farewelL ”

D r. J . M. Peebles.Dr. J . M. Peebles, the noted round-the

world traveler, writer and author of several Spiritualist volumes, dropped in upon us julte unexpectedly a few days since. While in the city he was the guest of Mr. Bovee and family, Ogden Ave. The Doctor came Westward to attend the National Electic Medical Association (of which ho is a mem her) convening at Niagara Falls.—to attend the Michigan State Sanitary ^Association^ held in Battle Creek—to attend the Spiritu allots Anniversary Meeting, Sturgis, Mich., and to dispose of his real estate property in in this city. The doctor looks remarkable hale and hearty for one verging upon sev­enty years. He seems nearly as quick and active as when we, a mere boy, first met him at Kelloggsville, N. Y. He was then a young and beardless Universalist preacher a t that place. His gonial social nature has always given him hosts of friends. At present he is the proprietor and physician to the Hammonton Sanitarium near Phila­delphia. He lectures more or less each year also, upon anatomy, psysiology, hy­giene and several reformatory subjects. " I look forward,” he said " to thirty years more of work on earth before

Ho spoke of the different methods and formulas used by many so-called ‘ faith curists,’ and ridiculed their ideas in broad terms. Ho drew a well-defined line between faith curing and the true teachings of Christian Soieuce as applied to the allevia­tion of suffering. He alleged that many persons willfully misconstrued tho precepts of the doctrine of Christian Science and overstepped the hounds of propriety in their manner of working, and claimed that it was not instituted as a means of gaining wealth, hut for the elevation of humanity. Mone­tary or financial returns were not looked for, he claimed, and said that if practicing scientists would attend more to tho uplifting of humanity, showing the proper mode of living and leading them into the bright pathway of health and happiness, instead of reaching out forever after the almighty dol­lar, Christian Science would be a lasting benefit to the struggling masses. Ho claimed that the only true road to perpetual happiness was through health, and fur­nished some interesting facts deducted from his experiences in that respect

* Mr. Colville commences class lecturing July 10, giving three days, a week to this city and three to New York and Brook­lyn. Many names have already been en­rolled.

The Problem o f L ife will be published for the next six months at 9 W. Fourteenth street, New York, Mr. Colville attending to the editorial department as heretofore.

In an interview with this eminent lec­turer, your correspondent gained some inter­esting information concerning his views on Spiritualism. He said he heartily disliked the cutting and slashing, the forever pulling down and not building up, now in vogue with spiritual lecturers. He said that if they would only stop and consider the irre­trievable wrong they were doing both to themselves and the public in this warfare against the Bible, he thought they would stand a better chance of being appreciated.

I t is a well-known fact, among those who have heard or read Mr. Colville's lec­tures, that he never did pull down nor attack the Bible in any way; on the contrary, he labored zealously to explain what he terms

the hidden mysteries ’ of that book." He spoke very highly of T h e P r o ­

g r e s s i v e T h i n k e r and its editor, and hoped the paper would come to the front as

champion of truth, science, and knowledge of things spiritual.”

D r . G. W . B row n.J . G. Jackson, of Hockessin, Del., after

reading the lecture delivered by Dr. G. W. Brown, of Rockford, 111., writes to us os follows: “ That lecture by Dr. G. W.Brown on the first page, is very interesting. Some of it is new to me. I have been rather inclined to believe that the story of Jesus of Nazareth had a historical basis, though very unreliable as to its facts, and

ery mythical and unreal as to what the Christian world now builds upon it. I have been gradually growing more and more convinced that Christianity, on an average, has done and is doing a t this day more harm to the world than good; and that most glorious would it be for the human race could we now attain to a simple, rational, true philosophy of human life and pros­pects. I t has seemed to me tha t the Bible accounts of Jesus, if quietly studied, are of themselves quite sufficient to satisfy ns that he has been and is a much over-venerated man, and that much that is erroneous, mys­tical and unwholesome has been attributed to him. I f Dr. Brown and others tha t have claimed the entire fictitiousness of his char­acter, shall prove to be correct, it need be a cause of neither surprise nor lamentation; but rather of rejoicing; and the thinking world can all the more readily be freed from

superstitions incubus that has so long rested upon it, and been the fruitful cause of so much suffering and depression. ”

T he B a n n e r o f L ight.The late numbers of the Banner o f Light

have been peculiarly excellent, which is saying a great deal for that grand old jour­nal, which for sixty-seven volumes has stood the unshaken exponent of the spiritual philosophy. The beautiful story by Mrs. Longley is just concluded, and it has been followed with unceasing interest by its read­ers. The editorial page is replete with timely articles and the news of the societies, meetings, mediums and camps most attract­ive. Luther Colby, a natural-born philan­thropist, is the right man in the right place, and holds the spiritual forces concentrated around the Banner, in snob a manner, that however the conflict with out, as they ap­pear on the bright pages of his journal they pall harmoniously for tho good of tho cause.

l lo N le tt P a r k .Tho eighth annual camp meeting of tho

Haalctt Park Association will bo hold at Haslott Park, near Lansing, Mich., com- j mencing July 24, and closing Monday, Sept. 1st, including six Sundays.

This year tho camp inootiug will bo under the direction and management of the Has- lett Park Association, which was organizod under tho laws of tho statu on the 24th day of August, 1890. The following named gentlemen were elected as tho officers: James H. Haslott, president; M. J . Mathews, vioo- p resident; J . M. Potter, score tar}'; James H. White, treasurer. Tho trustees were as follows: James H. Haslott, James H. White, M. J . Mathews, J . M. Potter, John R. Briggs, M. B. Sheets, Charles Day.

The growth of Haslott Park for the lost three years has been marvelous, considering tho many difficulties under which its projec­tors have labored. I t has been transformed from a brushy piece of woods flllod with stumps and logs to an elegant grove with a velvety, green carpet of natural grass. The auditorium represents a largo number of generous stockholders, who are now a part of the Hoslett Park Association and those who are still filled with the necessary zeal to push the enterprise to a successful end.

George Hodson, of Palmyra, Me., writes speaking in high terms of Dr. F. H. Merrill

moot the most important of all for the highest attainment; this not only for reasons already stated, but because tho foundation ns a test medium, of nil phenomenal works is based on what Mrs. A. L. Andrus, of Liberal, Mo. we may coil magnetic relation, or a con- , writes: " I t is with feelings of regret that 1 dltion of tho presence of both tho positive record the transition of our beloved Prcsi. and tho negative to secure manifestations as dent, L. L. Suyden, who loft us tor a a result brighter, better land on tho afternoon at

This we see illustrated in tho universal tlxo 26th. Ton days before, ho put LU modiumistlc experience which requires after worldly affairs in order. He chose J. M. about so long a time, a change of locality. Allen to deliver bis funeral address, but " I have worn out these conditions!” they he being in Stanton, Go., and not available all say. We find out what this means when nt present, the services were deferred until we analyze the spirit-chemic constituents of |i(g return, which will be in the near fnture, the homo circle. Brother Suyden was an old and reliable

Here are a certain number of persons, Spiritualist, and died as be bad lived, firm most probably united by ties of blood, jn his knowledge of our beautiful, soul-sab

M r. nud M rs. D r. A lina.We take great pleasure in announcing

that Mr. and Mrs. Dr. L. Alma, of Grand Rapids, Mich., hare arrived in this city, and will make it their future home. Both are prominent as leaders in the new movement now being inaugurated by Mr. Olney H. Richmond, and both am laud in their praise of his wonderful Ifmfr&dgo and occult pow­ers. Mrs. JF.~ A) mo. is distinguished as a romarkfC- -successful physician. She has tlffPchilt M r. Richmond developed•I- ln o k in ff^ ^ en ^ ^ t i n g disease from the .* j,*p$fc.tein. She will be able in a very suoiT"pe to sa y more on the subject, and which wul new light upon theso-called science of medicine. Letters of inquiiy will reach her, if addressed in care of this office.

A n Im p o rta n t C orrection .By an unaccountable error on the part of

the printer, it was made to appear that the excellent address from the pen of Dr. Charles W. Hidden was one which had been delivered at Newbnryport, Mass. The ad­dress has never been delivered anywhere, having been especially prepared by the Doc­tor for the columns of T h e P o g r e s s iy e T h in k e r .

Written for The P rogressive Thinker.

G O O D W O R D S

For the Professional Medium.

________________________________ I cross i ng ' the1by feeling the bark, select the best ones for I crystal river. We all ought to live a cen- any desired purpose, and " f e l l ” them inltury and grow o ld ’gracefully.” We call

A B lack P ro p h e t.The Florida Timet-Union says that Es­

cambia County can boast of a weather proph­et to whom Wiggins could not hold a can­dle. This prophet is a negro boy, seven years of age, who, it is said, makes prophe­cies about the weather many days ahead which, in nine cases out of ten, oomo true. I t (b alleged that he is as black as tho ace of spades, has red eyes, and lives near Mill view, a village on Perdido Rivor, about seven miles west of Jacksonville.

H. W. Boozer, of Grand Rapids, Mich., writes: "O ur cause here has recently boon given a heaven-sent impetus with two lec­tures, too fino for my description, through the organism of our faithful and able sister, R. S. Lillie, which have been followed by the telling demonstrations of spirit power in slate-writing through the modiuinship of Brother W. R, Colby, who Is now with us, doing valiantly and thoroughly a much- need od and acceptable work. He is kept very busy, and we hope ho will remain to satisfy the demand of the many who desire to know " i f these things are so.”

Caste is the bane of everything which would elevate humanity—the Chinese wall that shuts out the world’s progress. Its root in human pride and selfishness, it in­vades every place—even Spiritualism re­veals its presence.

We have seen much in the papers inveigh­ing against what is termed "commercial” mediumship and the professional medium. I f the cavilers would confine their efforts to those who in greed and selfishness seek to use Spiritualism as a means for gain only, the case would he a clean one for them, without dissent; but when, as is usually the case, there is no qualification, it is a t once) presupposed that every person endowed with mediumship is born rich, and with an over-ruling philanthropic nature. We know) such premise to be incorrect; and all who have investigated also know that to present the best evidences of the continuity of life beyond the grave, in any phase of medium-) ship, it is necessary for the medium to give his entire forces and energies to the work in hand; so that money cannot be earned at other pursuits—to do so would be to make the endowment a secondary matter, and rob the possessor of the forces needful for its exercise. I t is not only necessary for the person to exist, hut a condition of ease of mind and of freedom from cankering care or blighting despair is needful to secure the best results. This state of habitual passivity) can only be obtained by the medium’s hon­orably earning a subsistence through the) daily spiritual use of his or heratimo and en­ergies, as do other members of society in ways material.

I t is in bitterness we have to confess that there are people almost everywhere who) identify’ themselves with our cause for the one reason that it costs them nothing to be a Spiritualist; and to these the slurs on “ commercial " mediumship are welcome, for they are the na.ural enemies of medi­ums who are supposed to want their money, and on whom they will often inflict their presence in such excess os to materially in­jure through magnetic depletion. Tho ‘1 homo circle ’’ costs them nothing, and into this they would force every medium. With this thoy are content; while the clutch and grasp for the possession of more of this world’s goods never lots up. The great les­son the advanced minds on both sides of life teach, that tho highest joy of oar exist­ence is to assist and lift up our fellows, is not a matter of interest to them: and the query will oomo up to tho thinker, can such souls become immortal?

To the writer it seems little less than out­rage, when, in describing a fraud-proof se­ance, It is stated that all this wonderful ex­perience was through tho agonoy of a " non- professional ” medium. Observe, the pre­fix italicized to emphasize tho paste.

An investigation and observation of thirty- oight years has convinced us that tho power and influence of Spiritualism as it is to-day, is largely tho result of the professional medium’s pionocr work. The oonvorsions are comparatively few where tho evidence presented is complete from tho one circum­stance of investigator and medium being en­tire strangers to oaoh other, without intro­duction or previous acquaintance.

With this fact ever before us, how can edi­tors and writers continually exalt the home circle os a moans of obtaining the highest and best results in spirit-intercourse? While I would give tho home circle and tho de­veloping room full meed of praise for all they can do in the needful indication, as well as the practioe and unfoldmcnt of the modiumistio endowment, I claim that the necessities of the case involved in the gen­eral term, condition*, make the stranger ele-

mingling, day by day at least, their mag­netic auras, and three times a day, year in and year out, sitting together in a circle to partake of food prepared (magnetically) by one or more of their number. Like oil other magnetic bodies when thus often placed together, the positive and negative relations subside in an equilibrium thus es­tablished. Now, it would ho as futile to expect water to run up hill as to expect phenomonal manifestation on such a basis. And this Is why the cry for change, which so often wells up from the breast of the me­dium in tho prison of adverse conditions, is so often beard. Change is a law of the universe, and those who ignore it here, do it a t their cost

Thus we see the work of the phenomenal medium, os such, is based upon immutable law; and that tho attempt to belittle it or make it secondary to that of the home, is but suggestive of the old four-by-oue prayer to the seven-by-niue heaven, "O Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife—us four, Lord, and no more. Amen. ’’

H. W. B o o z e r

Grand Rapide, Mich.

A G e n e r a l S C i r V e y .

The Spiritualistic Field—its Workers, Domes, etc-

Summerland, Cal., seems to he in lack, and we are heartily glad of it. Natural gas has been struck there. Mr. H. L. Williams speaks as follows with reference to it: " The importance of this strike to the cause of Spiritualism can not be over-estimated. I t means the building up of the colony of col­leges and other institutions of learning, temples, and filling our library with books. I t means ample means without a tax on the inhabitants, to grade the streets, beautify the parks, and build up manufacturing in­dustries of all kinds, thus furnishing ample employment for all. When the gas was struck I remarked, that enhances the value of lots tenfold, but I do not propose to advance the price. My purpose is to build up a colony of Spiritualists, and offer them cheap homes. I have been pushed into the work, and propose to carry it o u t I be­lieve that by the union of the forces of liberal-minded and progressive people act­ing in harmony with those of the spiritual spheres it is possible to reconstruct society on a basis of equal rights and justice, and great good to humanity result therefrom. ”

Mr. E. F. Slocum is to visit the Onset Camp-meeting. For twelve years Mr. Slo­cum has been the efficient Secretary and financial agent for the First Spiritualist So­ciety of this city. He is a hard worker, and we congratulate him on the good showing now made, as the society is free from debt

N. R. Harrington, magnetic healer, has located at 113 South Hoyne Ave. He has resided for a long time at Sycamore, 111., where he has been instrumental in doing a good work.■ v Rosa L. Hordes, Secretary, writes as follows from Reed City, Mich.: "W e have organized a Society, to be known as the First Spiritual Society of Reed City. After a strong effort, we sacceeded in organizing with twelve members. Though few, they are earnest workers, and we hope to be able to add to our list a t our next meeting. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. A. P. Rosenberg; Vice-president, Miss Emma Baldwin; Secretary, Rosa L. Hordes; Treasurer, Emma O. Rosenberg. Dr. S. A. Thomas and his estimable wife, of Angola, Ind., have been stopping with us for the past two weeks. While here, the doctor delivered a course of lectures, and also as­sisted us in organizing. He is a fine in­spirational speaker, and gets right down to facts, proving his assertions by the Bible. He gained many friends while here, and all join in wishing him success in his good work. ”

Dr. J . K. Bailey spoke at Joliet, HI., June 1st; a t Cbatworth, 111., 7th and 8th; (visited friends a t and near Milan, Ohio, including Hudson and Emma Tuttle, 14th and 15th); a t Friendship, N. Y., 22d; at Bolivar, N. Y., 24th and 25th, arriving home the 28th of Jane. Address him, box 123, Scranton, Pa., for engagements, etc.

Cora Carpenter, of Hannibal, Mo., known as " th e child medium,’’ fourteen years of age, is creating a sensation in the West by her " in sp ired” lectures. She talks learnedly on subjects suggested by her audience, such as "Progression,” " I s the Human Spirit Immortal?” etc. She re­cently spoke an hour on one of these subjects, and astonished her hearers by the masterly manner in which she treated i t — Telegraph, Philadelphia, Pa.

Will C. Hod go desires engagements for tho fall and winter months, beginning with September. Address for July, 315 Van Buren S t , Chicago, 111.; for August, M t Pleasant Park, Clinton, Iowa. He will an­swer calls for funerals.

Jim writes as follows: "T h e Quarterly meeting of tho Wisconsin State Association, held In Omro, Juno 27th to 29th inclusive, was a success, notwithstanding the intense heat There was a fair attendance, and we trust some good was aooompllshed. The spoakors for the occasion were Mrs. Mattie H. Freeman, of Chicago, and Will 0. Hodge, of Beloit, Wisconsin. The well- known and thoroughly reliable medium, C. W. Peters, of England, was present tho en­tire session, and was veiy successful in demonstrating the phenomena. Mr. Peters is not only a genuine medium, hut is a gen­tleman «as well, and any parties desiring a good medial instrument would do well to secure his services. ”

isfying philosophy. We shall sadly miss his mortal presence among us, but we know his spirit will be ever with the little flock over whom lie has presided the past three years."

Mias Emma J . Nickerson, of Boston, Mass., tho well-known trance and inspira­tional speaker, lectured and gave public readings and teats at Banner Hall, 93 South Peoria S t , on Sunday, July C. Subject:" Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow of Spiritualism. ”

Wm. W. Lee, of Troy, N. Y., relates a remarkable case where a lady totally blind was restored to sight by spirit power, as manifested through W. H. Vosburgb.

M. 8. Liden writes from Milwaukee, Oregon, as follows: " Under the head of ‘General Survey,’ in number of June 7th, M. S. vLinden ’ is quoted in regard to the census. The idea is a little mixed. The ‘ religious ’ census is to be taken by an ex­pert, Dr. M. K. Carroll, of Plainfield, X. J . I t will be taken through the Secretaries or their proper officers. I t is for our people to report to them; that requires some effort I—not much bravery. Coward and Spiritu­alism are not synonymous terms. If you had quoted the entire article, you would have seen I lay no stress on numbers, but much on life and deeds. ”

The Firat Spiritualist Society of Hanaon, Mass.; officers for 1890: President, Wm. W. Hood, South Hanson; Secretary, Geo. F. Simpson, Hanson; Treasurer, Mrs. D. B. Everson. South Hanson; Executive Committee, L B. Howland, Caleb White and Frank Corbin.

A true Spiritualist writes as follows from South Deerfield, Mass. "South Deerfield is only about ten miles from Lake Pleasant, and there are several families of earnest Spiritualists here who are not afraid to express their opinions. Mrs. Mary A. Fisher is mistaken when she says the lecture by Mrs. Brigham, May the 21st, was the first ever given in this toum. Several years ago her husband’s brother, the late Asa M. Fisher, secured the services of J . Willie Fletcher, who gave a fine discourse in Ock- ington Hall to our people (when Mrs. M. A. Fisher was in the Methodist Church, which may account for her mistake.) The lectures by Mrs. Brigham and Mrs. Banks were very interesting. We are in hopes to have another lecture this coming winter. ”

The Minneapolis Tribune devotes a large amount of space describing the spirit photographs, as given through the medium- ship of F. N. Foster. Mr. Foster says that he is willing a t any time to have his methods of procedure pu t to the strongest test, and invites investigation by those who are interested in the matter.

A FA VO RITE*RESORT.

The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Cassadaga Lake Free Association-

The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Canadas* Lake Free Association, will be held on their grounds a t Cassadaga Lake, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., from July 25th to August 81st, 1890.

PROGRAMME.July 25th, Jennie B. Hagan, South Framingham,

Mas*.; 26th, Hon. Sidney Dean, Warren, K. I.; 27th, Miss Jennie B. Hagan and Hon. Sidney Dean; 26th, Conference; 29th, Lyman C. Howe, Frcdonla, X. Y .; 80th, Hon. Sidney Dean; 81st, Ly­man C. Howe.

August 1 st, Willard J . Hull, of Buffalo, N Y .; 2nd, Hon. Sidney Dean; 3rd, Lyman C. Howe and Walter Howell, London, England; 4th, Conference: 5th, Mrs. F. O. II jeer, Revenue, Ohio; 6th, J . Frank Bax­ter, Chelsea, Mass.; 7th, Mrs. R. S. Lillie, Melrose, M assj Sth, J . Frank Baxter; 9th, Mrs. F. O. Hyscr and W. J . Colville, Boston, Maas.; 10th, Mrs. ff. S. LUlle and J . Frank Baxter; 11th, Conference; 13th; W. J . Colville; 13th, Mias Jennie B. Hagan; 14th, Walter Howell: 15th. Temperance Day: 16th, Wil­lard J . Bull and Jennie Leya, West Medford, Mass.; 17th, Mrs. Cor* L. V. Richmond and W. J . Colville; 18th, Conference; 19th, W. C. Warner, Yorkshire, N. i . ; 20th, Rev. Henry Frank, Jamestown, N. Y.; 21st, Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond :22nd, W. J . Colville; 23rd, W. C. W arner and Jennie Leys: 24th, Mrs. Core L. V. Richmond and Hon. A. B. Richmond; 25th, Conference; 26th, Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond; 27th, Hon. A. B. Richmond; 28th, Mrs. R. 8. LUlle; 29th, Walter Howell: 80th, Mrs. Elisabeth L. Watson, Santa Clara, Cal.; 31st, Mrs. R. 8. Lillie and Mrs. E. JL. Watson.

o m c i x i o r the association.President, A. Gaston, Meadrllle, Pa; Treasurer, T.

J . Skidmore, Lily Dale, N. Y .; Secretary, A. E. Gas­ton, Meadrllle, P . A.

Board o r Trustees—T J Skidmore, Lllv Dale, X Y; M R Rouse, Titusville, Pa; C B Turner, Lily Dale, X Y : Mrs M H Skidmore, Lily Dale, N Y; A Gaston, Meadrllle, Pa; J W Dennis, Buffalo, N Y ; D B Mer­ritt, Linden, N Y.

LOCATION AND ADVANTAGES,The Cassadaga Lake Camp Meeting Ground Is

eight miles from Lake Erie, and seven hundred feet above It. Situated midway between New York and Chicago, and convenient of access from all points I t Ilea on the shore of a beautiful chain of lakes, three In number, and at an elevation of nearly one thousand feet above the level of the sea.

HOTEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS.The Grand Hotel la In fine condition, haring been

furnished, papered and painted throughout and fitted up with modern conveniences for the season of 1890.

Lodging can be obtained a t cottages at reasonable prices.

The dally admission to the grounds Is 15 cents per day, and for campers Inside the gates 10 cents per day.

MEDIUMS.A great many phases of mediumship will be repre­

sented on the grounds—clairvoyance, slate writing, healing testa, etc. Many mediums whose names uo not appear will be present, and better opportunities than ever will be offered to Investigators.

LTCICMThe Children’s Lyceum will be under tho direction

of Mrs E W TUllngnast of Petrolla, Pa. I t will, as usual, be made a leading feature.

MUSICT he Northwestern Orchestra, of Meadrllle, Pa.

(Fred B Nichole, director), has been engaged for the reason. The orchestra will give daily concerts and will play for the dancing parties.

trs. E . Marion, Fowlervllle, Michigan, spiritual J Healer and Teacher, will treat all cases of chron­

ic or aerate diseases, by the spirit power, which Is ever present with her ■ Perfect cores made by absent treatm ents; or will teach the art of spirit healing to

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It oar chid re ones. May he and hie talented I K t k e lire many yean to labor la the field* of H u d |eufTu»ioo. We have been highly h ra ra l ■ l the past two yean la haring Mrs. Brigham !

fa* many times. Her li i tares hen la* n not aalj lesUng. but are dot ng a good work on the east

the Mend Wa hare ***** the Banner dnr- pasx twenty years, a paper that Is always i defend mediums, and apeak a kind word la

behalf It* light shlnea forth like the morning h a the east, while Taa Pboobss*it s T a m a n Its golden mellow light to Ulnae the western

Haas to brighten the pathway foe all hungry souls -------- --------- short earth life while

I f t t n u hav ing occurred a t Iene< ago. Therefore, i t would no t to say in the n ex t b reath , that were im possible, because they n a tu ra l.”

“ H e would on ly fu rth e r say th a t w hat­ev er Spiritual jam was, a t leant i t waa not m aterialism , and th a t i t waa m aterial i«rn | p which a t the p resen t d ay wan the great

a*Dually fragm entary and one B ishop P o t i u , New York.

*' C hrist s salvation then— and indeed the only possible salvation in salvation by conduct. A ll th a t the religion o f C hrist a sks o f us is to perfect ourselves." — Kzv. Da. A. W. Momekie, Loudon.

44 You will be saved, brethren, neither by opinions nor by observances, but solely by y o u r character and life. ”— Archdeacon

London.T o be a fulfilled m an is to be a Chris-

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d an g er th a t th e church had to face. Thun I tian. and a Christian church in the fulfilled i t was th a t m ate ria lis ts like B rad iaugb hum an society. C hrist cam e to fulfill.”— were inimical to Sp iritualism , because to E a r . P h illips B rooks p rove th a t Spiritualism waa true, would be u The broad eth ics o f C hristian ity can to p u t a final ex tingu isher upon all th e ir j never be narrow ed to village theologies.

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f f t h d It appeared again In the last lasae. There J always words In U that go right to the heart, and tahaas a longing to live a higher and a better life,

desire to In d eed : ‘Be Good’ and * Do

I doctrine&L_R ev C anon W ilberforce, a fte r

I th a t “ Spiritualism w as now undoubtedly exercis ing a po ten t influence upon th e re­lig ions be lie f o f th o u san d s." fu rth e r sa id : ■ • Those who a re follow ing Spiritualism a s a m eans an d n o t an end. oootend w arm ly th a t i t d oes n o t seek to underm ine religion o r to render obsolete th e teach ings o f C hrist; th a t, on th e o th e r hand, i t fu rn ishes illu s­tra tio n s an d ra tio n a l p roof o f them , snch as can b e ga ined from no o th e r source; th a t its m an ifesta tions will sup p ly d e is ts and a th e ­ists w ith positive dem onstra tion o f a life

t u » y i qo superior would libel him, and no j men sp< a t m went so fa r a s to say th a t inferior coaid ." ! we should no t punish them if they are

These la te r years are the sunniest and hap- frauds, fo r punishm ent will only bring dis- p iest o f my life. They are fa ll and brim-1 grace on th e cause. "ing with reform atory work. 1 average three No such rem ark was m ade by any person lectures a week the year round; have the [a t th is m eeting. P e r contra, the general wwlwwl care o f a H ygienic Sanitarium ; am expression was o f a recognition o f facta, not ed ito r o f a weekly newspaper; a oorrespon believing charges until they were proved, den t fo r several m edical journals; a genuine land when frau d o f any k ind w as found, to

thority on earth , I would call th e ir atteo-1 every-day hard worker! an d ye t, o ld friends | le t all persons th u s proved dishonest alone; tion to h is au thority and rank in hea ven. In- { here continue to repeat, • - How well you are | th a t th e bunt for tro th was a h igher occo- terrogate the w isest sp irits whom you < « j preser ved. ” Long life you rem em ber, is I pation than nosing fo r frauds and m aking reach and you will find th a t they ail recog- prom ised to the obedient, and why then [m are noise over th e discovery of one sm all nixe bis lo fty rank and h is pervading power, shonld I n o t live to see a century? L ive to weakness o r e rro r than over a dozen great

“ In professing to be a C hristian, I pro- a tten d ano th er anniversary in S turgis th ir ty I tro ths, fees a desire to im itate C hrist, to lik es d i- I years hence? L ive to see C hristian ity and I T V W orld has done g rea t good in its v ise life and d o all th a t is possible to help i Spiritualism one: an d the “ g reater w orks ' ' | w arfare against frauds, a s its colum ns prove.

done in c u r m idst, th a t were prom ised by I t finds them daily . I t urges th e application

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1' The grandest developm ent o f spiritual religion th a t the world has ever seen was th a t o f J e su s o f N azareth, the g reat com­m ander in th e arm y o f Heaven. A nd if there are any S piritualists present, who are disposed to neglect o r ignore h is m oral an-

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mental in converting many secularists and materialists from skepticism to Christianity. In corroboration of this statement may be appended the remarkable testimony of Mr. S. C. Hall, the founder and editor of the Art Journal: “ As to the one of Spiritoal-iam,” be says, “ it haa made me a Christian., I humbly and fervently thank God it haa removed all my donbta. I could quote abundant instances of conversion from un-

I belief to belief—of some to perfect faith from total infidelity. I am permitted to give one name—it is that of Dr. ElUotson, who expresses his deep gratitude to Al­mighty God for the blessed change that has been wrought in his heart and mind by Spiritualism. When this is the standpoint of the believer in the higher aspects of Spiritualism, it is obvious that we have to deal with do mere commonplace infatuation,

hich can be brushed aside with indiffer­ence or contempt, but rather with a move­ment which is firmly established, and the influence of which is every day extending Appealing as it does to the yearnings of ‘.he soul, especially in times of bereavement, for sensible evidence of the continuity of life after physical death, belief in modern Spiritualism continues rapidly to increase in all ranks of society."

Canon Wilberforce refers to the “ well- attested manifestations, and to the material­izations of spirits, as described in a pamphlet by the Bev. T. Colley, late archdeacon of Natal (a clergyman, by the way, whom I have met, and know to be an avowed Spirit­ualist). The canon also refers to Prof. Barrett, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and certain evils growing oat of a phase of mediumship. Bat the Prof, sub­sequently wrote this: “ I know and rejoice in the blessings Spiritualism has been to my own faith, and to that of several dear friends of mine. Moreover, I cordially recognize the fact that in bereavement and deep distress, numbers have been cheered and consoled by the hope that Spiritualism has set before them. ”

To the above, that eminently learned English Spiritualist M. A. (“Oxon") makes this significant remark: *4 Prof. Bar­rett looks to Spiritualism, as I do, confi­dently and with fall conviction, as the handmaid and helpmeet of the pure teach­ings of the Christ ”

True, this church congress noted some of the antagonisms and antagonistic teachings, to the church, afloat under the name of Spit; itualism—but these were the crude, ranting, semi-atheistic teachings of Spiritist*—and not of Spiritualists. There is no antago­nism between true Spiritualism and true Christianity, as I understand them.

Directly in this line of thought are some of the late and living utterances of the scholarly' W. Stainton-Moses, M. A.I ( “Oxon") read at the London St. Nicholas Club: “ Spiritualism is no new sect It has proceeded by a process of permeation, and has rendered unique service to the cause of religion by adding to faith, knowl­edge. There is nothing in the broad truths which we are taught that is incompatible with what the church requires us to believe. Indeed, there is nothing in what I have learned that conflicts with the simple teach­ings of the Christ, so far as it has been preserved to us. I t is something to know that the whole fabric of religion, so far as lit affects man, receives its sanction and stimulus from the doctrines of the higher Spiritualism with which so many of us have made acquaintance. And in days when it is the fashion to bring up every time-honored truth for proof anew, when man has largely lost bis hold on the ancient faith, when re­ligion, as a binding power, is losing so much of its vitalizing influence, it is some­thing to feel that by the mercy of that God who never fails to respond to the prayer of his creatures, we are being brought face to face with the reality of our spiritual exist­ence by experimental evidence adapted to our understanding.

I t is not to be denied that in a scientific age a creed that shall commend itself to the thinking men of the day, demonstrated in its foundations by the scientific method, logically coherent and free from dogmatic encumbrance, will appeal with tremendous force to those who yearn for an union be­tween science and religion. The faith that I have learned satisfies these conditions. I see in it no contradiction to that which I know of the teachings of the Christ. I see no reason why the old faith should be as­sailed. I am no iconoclast As to the doubt of the age, I did not create it, and would not cnoonrage it?”

These sentiments from this illustrious Spiritualist, are comparable to pure gold.

I t is hopeful and insplringly encouraging to witness the growing sympathy between representative Christians and representative Spiritualists. Their extending hands al­ready span the abyss. They see eye to eye. They quite agree in the fundamental principles of religion, as the following quo­tations prove:

14 Christianity is supremely the words and life of Christ, and these may not be compressed or expressed within the compass of any creed or confession of faith what­ever. Modem formularies of faith are es-

L r t t u cease to lim it H eaven 's shepherding | and up lift a ll arotm d me. T h is is no t ||m - chtb to th is email m ote in the universe, o r itattoo, i t is expansion. To object to Christ-1 the C hrist, who was an d is th e Sack, and usurp its gracious privileges fo r sectarian ianity in th is sense, fo r fea r a t lim iting o u r ! th e brightness o f h is F a th e r s gloiy.

| advantages, o r claim a monopoly therefor I own transcendent gen ius and lo re , seem s a s j D aring the p a s t thirty-five y e a n 1 have fo r th e select enjoym ent o f one particu la r I rational a s to object to the sky th rough been y o u r lecturer a t intervals, b y th e m onth fold. G od loves all, an d h is m in istering which com es o u r light, fo r fea r i t m ig h t and b y th e year; an d o u r confidence has angels m in iste r to a ll ."— Archdeacon J com e In to ro d e con tact w ith o u r up lifted j ever been m utual; o u r harm ony unbroken; Collet, NataL j beads. ”— P o o r. J . R. B uchanan. lo u r sym pathies and o u r friendships, abtd-

“ G od 's m ercies are over slL A nd h i I 1 'Spiritualism , like C hristianity , teaches [ in g a s the s ta rs! W e have know n and salvation is n o t from th e penalty o f sin, b u t | th e fa therhood o f God and the brotherhood I loved one ano th er here and we nh«n know from sin itself. T he on ly sa lvation poasi-1 a t m an O ne involves th e o ther, an d each an d love one ano th er ov er there, fo r metnor- ble is salvation from sin. A nd while th e I requires us to oonoeive o f G od under a per-1 ies a re undying an d pu re love is immortal- saved are a ll saved th ere a re m anifold de- sons] re la tion to ourselves. C ertain ly , if g ro ts in salvation. E v ery ch ild born in to God is to be recognized a s ou r fa th e r, he isthe earth is a possible archangel. God de­stroys no mnn He has built no belL Men are their own architects. They make their own hells. They reap what they sow. Men are saved and men are damned as a visible fact here.”—R e v . P r o f . H. M i l l e r T h o m p s o n .

44 The Christian religion is neither a sci­ence, a philosophy, or a theology. Neither is it a dogma, or a creed, bat a life.”— Be v . O. A . B urgess.

“ Christianity so fully taught in the ser­mon on the Mount is a life upw ard and on­ward. The tendency of things in the Christ­ian world is towards goodness. The higher a man climbs the further he can see. ”—R ev . Dr. B radford .

4 4 Christianity is a life and to be a Christ­ian is, to appreciate the spirit of Christ and seek to imitate his example; Salvation is not a crown, a robe, a harp, a palace. Char­acter is salvation, and there is no short and j easy way to it. The Bible does not repre­sent the happy land as 4 far far away,’ bat the heavenly Jerusalem was let down to earth. The stars may be peopled with an­gels and spirits. And, whatever other worlds or lands may be opened to the winged spirits, the earth is not closed to them. They are all ministering spirits. We live and walk in the midst of them. Ac­cepting this conception of the Spirit-world, as a world all about ns, as a world in which we live, the story of the transfiguration ceases to be a strange episode, a breaking in upon the order of nature and the super­natural ”—R e v . L yman A bbo tt .

“ Christianity is not to be confounded with ecclesiasticism. The water of life is not the same as the cup from which per­sons drink. The Protestant Episcopal Church stands pledged not only to unsect itself, but to unsect everybody else. The spirit giveth life, while the letter killeth.”— R e v . E . E. Ca m pbell .

4 4 Christianity embodies all that is religi­ously good and true. That the spirits of the departed have returned to earth, is a belief that is all bat universal. Those eminent in the church for learning and piety have cher­ished this common faith. Two worlds met in Bible times. But does not the communi­cation between the two worlds continue to this day? I t was the opinion of Wesley that Swedenborg was visited by the spirits of his departed friends. And it was Paul who said, 4 Are they not all ministering spirits?’ ”— B i s h o p J . P. N e w m a n .

“ Christianity with its revelations of God and unfading glories to come assures us of recognition and re-union with friends here-, after. The soul wakes up in the future world, or passes into it as it passes from lone city to another, with as little interrup­tion of its faculties retaining personality, in­tellect, emotion, will, the real manhood. Multitudes there stand waiting to receive us, expecting our arrival. ”—Rev. Dr. W. Mob­ley P unshon.

“ Spiritual manifestations' are, so far as I know, in agreement with scripture and ob­servation and sound sense. We are all of us mediums, our bodies curiously and won­derfully made are acted upon by forces in­telligent, passionate and mysterious. Re­member that all intelligent Spiritualists of the present day are accustomed to listen to the messages from the unseen world very much as you, my friends, listen to preach­ers. I have come to the conclusion, from investigation, not that spiritual manifesta­tions arc in themselves incredible and to be rejected, but that it is truly wonderful that we meet with so few of them.”—B e v . T. K. B e e c h e r .

Now listen to the testimony of some of our representative Spiritualists:

“ Spiritualism is the complement of Christianity; spiritual phenomena are the witnesses of Christianity; all thoughtful ob­servers, when convinced by these phenome­na, will be Christians as soon as they make sharp distinction between the simple grand­eur of Jesus Christ's teachings os given in | the synoptical gospels and the Augustinian | version of Paul's theology. ”—H o n . R o b e r t D a l e O w e n .

“ Christianity as we understand it, stands upon precisely the same basis as Spiritual­ism, and whatever destroys modern mani­festation must, with unprejudiced minds, do the some with ancient, though they may have become hoary with the veneration of antiquity.” Of the teachings of Jesus Christ he says: “ They are laden with therich fruitage of spiritual philosophy, requir­ing only a knowledge of spiritual things to be understood. No Spiritualist can afford to cast aside these teachings, because they contain lessons of wisdom and inculcate principles of action which will bear the most rigid scrutiny of overy phase of skeptio- ism.” “ Christianity ns promulgated by Jesus and his apostles, and true Spiritual­ism are in spirit and purpose the same. ”— D r . S a m u e l W a t s o n .

The Fatherhood of God, the confratern­ity of ail intelligences partaking in the di­vine life, the immortality of all souls, the supremacy of the law of love and of tho law of right, such are tho great realities which Christ come to teach, and such are what Spiritualism reaffirms. ” — E p e s S a r g e n t .

“ Spiritualism is not the opposer, but the handmaid of pure Christianity. I t adopts

to be oo Derived as seif-conscious personal ity, not as an abstract principle, norm blind, unintelligent, senseless, unconscious force. When the Spiritist becomes a Spiritualist by the dne cultivation of his spiritual nature; by the acceptance and practice of those principles of virtue and charity (prmeipl which the ethics of both Spiritualism and Christianity have ever comprehended), en­forced by love toward man and God, recog­nizing the fatherhood of the latter, and, aa its corollary, human brotherhood, he most necessarily learn that spiritual union and common fraternity, in word and deed, do not need absolute sameness of view in intel­lectual matters, and charity beoomes the natural result, which charity, the Christian apostles pronounced that more excellent way.

“ Christianity and Spiritualism are in es­sence the same, and could Christians and Spiritualists rise above prejudice, rise to be truly Christians and truly Spiritualists, they would stand together and be illumined by the same great central son of Truth. Jesus died to accelerate that ascent, and the angels of God are ever striving to consummate i t Let os work with the angela. ”— P rof. H enry K id d l e .

These few sketchy selections among the many before me, from bishops and arch deacons, from representative preachers in different religions denominations, and from representative Spiritualists, plainly teach and tell in tongues of fire of the inspira­tional trend of spiritual thought and aim. There is no mistaking i t Take warning watchmen. Fall into line with the divine current, and work with God, angels and the overshadowing inspirations of the day and the hoar. Having no sect to sustain, no committee to please, and being socially and financially independent, I can afford to write, to speak the whole truth and God palsy my pen and tongue when I cowardly cease to do i t

The bigotry of confession-bound sectar- ists and materialistic Spiritists are equally deplorable. But neither of these bigoted classes can block the wheels of spiritual truth, nor destroy the heaven-inspired ten­dency to unity in spiritual essentials, unity of Christianity and Spiritualism which in essence and purpose are essentially one!

The divine spirit is moving mightily upon the great surging sea of thought. The times are ominous. Vast social, political and re­ligious changes are impending. Old mon­archies are crumbling. Labor is threaten ingly facing monopoly. Ecclesiastic dog­mas are dying. Presbyterians brushing the dust off from their 17th century confession have commenced revising i t And when they have revised, re-revised, and whittled it down to the standard of New Testament, it will stand thus: “By this shall all menknow that ye are my disciples if ye have love one for another." This is Christ’s test of Christianity. In the words of a late sermon of that expedite English Churchman, the Rev. Dr. H . W. Momerie. Prof, of logic! and metaphysics in King’s College, London: “ I say Ciirist's Christianity, for there are plenty of other Christianities in the world. But Christ’s consists entirely in a plan for perfecting the individual character. His salvation is neither more nor less than self­development Christ's plan was a very sim­ple one. I t is all summed up in a single word. He taught that men were to be saved by love. And if you look into the ra­tionale of this, you will see that his plan of salvation is profoundly philosophical, per­fectly in harmony with the best ethics and the highest metaphysics of to-day. ”

When Christ’s Christianity prevails, when nominal Christians become more Christly and nominal Spiritualists more spiritual, the chasm of sect—the chasm of shibboleths and dogmatisms will be bridged, souls will be baptized afresh, estranged bands will be clasped, unsympathizing hearts will be warmed by the pentecostal flames of love, and all the peopled realms above and below, mortal and immortal, will be recognized as constituting a vast fraternal commonwealth of gods and men; and love, pure unselfish love, Christ's universal love will then bo the creed, the one acknowledged creed that en­dure th forever.

I may not live to see this glad day; and yet, why not? Though looking westward towards the fading sunset of life, I have only reached tho border-line year of seventy, and you say to mo, “ How well you look," “ how well you are preserved!” Yes, and why? Because I use no liquors, no tobacco, no pork, no ooffee, no tea; iu brief, I be­have myself. That's why I am so halo and healthy; that's why I can bat a ball and run a foot race with an athlete. Truo, my lifo has been a very ovontful one. I have been villifled, lionized, nngelized; have twico cir­cumnavigated tho globe; have preached tho gospel of peace, universal brotliorhood, and angel ministries to nearly all nations and in □early all lands; have taken part in all tho tru­ly great reforms of tho last half century; have been in perils by sea and by land, and among false brethren; and yet havo never noticed their envies, jealousies, lies and li­bels. I t would have been paying them al­together too much honor I That groat journ­alistic humanitarian Greely, said, 11 No gen-

n o m u t t .Tree *orth Is In bring, not weening—

In doing, each day that coca by,Soae little Rood—not la tne ilneiitliij

Of greet things to do by and bye;For wbatrrer men ta j In blindness.

And spite oltbe fenrlra of n u k .There’s nothing so kindly ee kindness.

And nothing so tv*y1 a* trothW eyri back oar mete aa we a n ra w

we can not do wrong and feel right.Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure.

For justice avenge* each slight.The air for the wing of each sparrow.

The bosh for the robin and wren.Bat always the path that I* narrow

And straight lor the children of aiea.*TI* not In the page* os story

The he7rt of its Ole to beguileThough he who makes courtship to Glory

Gives aD that be bath for her smile;For when from her heights he hath won her,

Alas! It Is only to proveThat nothing’; so sacred a* honor,

And nothing so loyal a* love!We can not make bargains for Misses,

Mar catch them like fishes in nets;And sometime the thing oar life misses.

Help* mare than the thing which It gets;Far good lieth not in p a n a n t ,

Mar gaining of g n a t nor o f small.But just In the doing, and doing

As we would be done by. Is afi.Through envy, through m aiw, through bating.

Against the world early and late,Mo Jot of our couraging abating,

Our part la to wore and wait.And slight is the sting of his troubles

Whoae winning* are less than his worth;Far be who is honest is noble.

Whatever his fortune or birth.- A u c z C art.

o f sufficient punishm ent when frauds are proved, and every Spiritualist in Brooklyn and elsewhere in th e U nited Staten, an far aa I know, desires to co-operate w ith any and nil work th a t will promote virtue and knowledge regarding tru th a s s d e a r founda­tion oo which to s tand while th u s aiding progression. 41 B rick" P o m e r o t .

As 183 S m a ll area we, Brooklyn, .V. Y.

IN C ER SO LLISM

A CARD FROM BRICK POMEROY-

WHAT AN ADVANCED THINKER THINKS O F SPIRITUALISTIC

FRAUDS.

To the Editor o f the N. Y. World:This morning I read in the World an arti

d e signed •4 Spiritualist,” charging George A. Deleree with a desire to protect fronds in Spiritualism, and at the same time charg­ing me with a desire to protect spiritualistic or other frauds. “ Spiritualist” is in error. Judge Daly or his friends had asked the Spiritualists of Brooklyn to meet and indorse a bill he wished to have presented to the Legislature, asking for a new law, to apply to those who use the cloak of Spiritn alism to cover frauds. The first meeting called to indorse Judge Daly’s bill was so lightly attended that no action was taken beyond railing the second meeting, at which, by actual account, eighty-three persons were in attendance. George A Deleree was chairman of this meeting. I entered Everett Hall, in Brooklyn, while a lady was reading. She was followed by others, who read, and expressed their opinions. After a lady had read an interesting essay, Mr. Deleree, the chairman, said:

“ I notice in the audience a gentleman whose opinions are worth listening to. have not spoken to him on the subject being discussed, nor do I know his senti meats concerning the bill of Judge Daly, but would like to hare him come to the platform and express them. I allude to M. M. Pomeroy, whom I notice seated in the body of the house. ”

Being called by the audience to speak, stated teat there was no sense in the bill That we had abundant laws in the State of New York to punish frauds, whether of bunko-steerers, bucket-shop brokers, saw dust-dealers, or Spiritualists, as witness the arrest of Billy McGlory, a New York dive- keeper; Johann Most, the anarchist; Mrs. Diss Debar, the alleged Spiritualist; Jacob Sharpy the oorruptor of corruptible alder­men, etc. That what was required was a disposition on the part of the public to refrain from patronizing frauds, no matter where they cropped up or through whose instrumentality they were presented, and a further dispositionQto ask the Prosecuting Attorney to proceed legally against frauds of all kinds with a view of securing their punishment; that there is no more necessity to take the time of the Legislature and to create a law that should apply only to Spiritualists, than for one to apply only to printers, blacksmiths, Catholics, Protestants or ice-cream venders as a class. That all snch laws were in the line of class legislation, while the general laws of the State were sufficient, and if not sufficient could easily be made so. After I had spoken a man named Bowen arose and declared that the State should pass a law directed only against Spiritualists or persons claiming to bo such, under which law any person, no matter by whom aocused of fraud or attempt at leception, could be arrested, imprisoned and if found guilty, further punished. If proved innocent their lives were blurred unjustly.

The question was put to the audience. Mr. Bowen voting in favor of the ideas ho advanced and every other person in the audience voting against them and against the nocossity for class legislation in­tended to single out persons of any one profession or engaged in any one line of deception. The sonso of tho meeting was that tho proposed bill of Jadgo Daly was unnecessary and something of an insult to tho law-making intelligence of tho State, which in the passage of laws already in existence, covers every case of fraud and deception when persons ask for the applica tion of the remedy.

“ Spiritualist” says: “ One of tho wo-

W hy th e G rea t Doubter Doubts-

Is toit possible for the human mind conceive infinite personality? Can it im­agine a beginnineless being, infinitely powerful and intelligent? I f such a bring existed, then there m ust have been an etern ity during wAtcfi nothing d id ex ist except this being; becanse if the universe was created there most have been a time when it was not, and back of that there most have been a time when it was not, and back of that there must have been an etemty during

hich nothing but an infinite personality existed. Is it possible to imagine an injuute inte llig ence dwel l ing f o r an etern ity in in fin ite nothing? How could such a being be intelligent? What was there to be intelligent about? There was but one thing to know—namely; that there was nothing except this bring. How could such a being be powerful? There was nothing to exercise force upon. There was nothing in the universe to suggest an idea. Relations could not exist—except the relation between the infinite intelligence and infinite nothing.

The next great difficulty is the act of creation. My mind is so that I cannot conceive of something being created out of nothing. Neither can I conceive of any­thing being created without a cause. Let me go one step further. I t is just as difficult to imagine something bring created with as without a cause. To postulate a cause does not in the least lessen the dif­ficulty. In spite of all, this lever remains without a fulcrum. We cannot conceive of the destruction of substance. The stone can be crushed to powder, and the powder can be ground to snch a fineness that the atoms can only be distinguished by the most powerful microscope, and we can then imagine these atoms being divided and subdivided again and again and again; bat it is impossible for us to conceive of the annihilation of the least possible imaginable fragment of the least atom of which we can think. Consequently the mind can imagine neither creation nor destruction. From this point it is easy to reach the generalization that the indestructible could not have been created.

These questions however, will be an­swered by each individual according to the structure of his mind, according to his ex­perience, according to his habits of thought, and according to his intelligence or his ignorance, his prejudice or his genius. Probably a large majority of mankind believe in the existence of supernatural beings, and a majority of what are known as the civilized nations, in an infinite personality. In the realm of thought majorities do not determine. Each brain is a kingdom, each mind is a sovereign.

The universality of a belief does not even tend to prove its truth. A large majority of mankind have believed in what is known as God, and an equally large majority have as implicitly believed in what is known as the Devil. These beings have been inferred from phenomena. They were produced for the most part by ignorance, by fear, and by selfishness. Man in all ages has endeavored to account for the mysteries of life and death, of substance, of force, for the ebb and flow of things, for earth and star. The savage dwelling in his cave, subsisting on roots and reptiles, or on beasts that could be slain with club and stone, surrounded by countless objects of terror, standing by rivers, so far as he knew, without source or end, by seas with but one shore, the prey of beasts mightier than human self, of diseases strange and fierce, trembling at the sound of thunder, blinded by the lightning, feeling the earth shake beneath him, seeing the shy lurid with the volcano's glare—fell prostrate and begged for the protection of the Un­known.

In the long night of savagery, in the midst of pestilence and famine, through the long and dreary winters, crouched in dens of darkness, the seeds of superstition were sown in the brain of man. The savage believed, and thoroughly believed, that everything happened in reference to him; then he by his actions could excite the anger or by his worship placate the wrath of the unseen. He resorted to flattery and prayer. To the best of his ability he put in stone, or rudely carved in wood, his idea of this god. For this idol he built a hut, a hovel, and at last a cathedral. Before these images he bowed, and at these shrines, whereon he lavished his wealth, he sought protection for himself and for tho ones he loved. The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were tho carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

The Christian of to-day wonders at the savage who bowed before his idol; and yet it must bo confessed that the god of stone answered prayer and protected his worshipers precisely as Jehovah answers prayer and protects his worshipers to-day.

4 THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER.

THE MYSTERY OF THE POSTERN GATE. Krtia with vlitloiwof |

A KouwvkttUU' N arm tlvt' illu stra ting Spirit Poww.

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lNoth —This iixo«t wx'iuU'rtnl narrative I* Ukwi Iiwh fit fW IIW^s Maochx'rier, KufUml, an h CclU'VVt |<U<M xlx'\\'lx\l hx |Im xllMx'ixxlnilTxx)i xx| SlJlfl xxslUux, x<xvnll seletuxy cthlc*. ivltxiloxx aud retortu. lu editor, Mi*- Kxxxxxx* lliixllnfi' Hrlllcix, stand* |w eminent m an orator, suthxw. medium ami »ee\\ *l\d the weird narrative which *lu> publlshi* umler the M xxl "The Mj iIm,! xxt ths INolwii Gate," * Oiud never km (wi given to Ih* wxwht k«>( she wot foil dxvply Impressed that wn»wnl «l It ti true. Tho citeunxalauee* td the narrative xx ri* rotumnuifatod h> Mi*. Hiltlan tit a xtxVKX>nxtkWt txf the fmiiltx whose HiNatN they detail, amt the x'lirlxan wii-neoled w llh thxMxx «*» only |wnutUnl In w xm vs'iixtitlx'ix that the re*) name, nt the avkaa should he concealed, *a well m the aoewe of the xaxatwuie, under fictitious title* Kmaiiatluxi from w high a luxaxe it Mr* Kixxuxa ti*r\tiu*v tirfileu. «e shsli fob ixia her ttf miMMiInc the narrative lit Tub hw. m i u i t i Tm in u i ]

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CIUVTKH XI— OONYM’SltiN.Greotiugn ovor, a four luuTiofi vroitlfi of

AxUUUxutAl oxpUuittion from tho vvoojriuy; urothor to her numerous tuul uulooUvxl-fov jvarly of fiympAttitilUff guests, Uto bunion of poor Maxi nine Kaloev's lament llfitonod to—

iVnatauoo i* lost!’* eolwaxl by Utile Prana ami KUa—aih) Hum llorr Muller, with a time of ilociaioit Atttl firmitoa* wluoh romniamlctl AttouUou from all around hint,I marahalod hi* forces in tho following tuan- nor. Ho drat stationed Madame Kaloqy by Uto &ido of tho painting of tho olook, in tho angle of tho passage loading | to tho postern, chaining hor to call I aloud if a ho noticed any ohango tu tho appearance of that olook, Ho next despatched old Anna, Uto family domestic, and UtUo KIIa, to collect and bring there alii tho lamp* and eandles they could And, otto alone to bo lighted. Requesting tho rest of Uto party to stand dear of tho postern, he then proceeded to open and shut tho gate several times. On each opening and oloaurtf all present notiood a suooessvon of bolldike sounds, repeated for each occasion. Now tho hell sounded once for opening, then once for chtaing; thon twice, thon thriix\[ and on unUI eight detonations followed tho opening and closing of Uto gate, After this Uto blind mechanic paused, and more than once withdrew his hand in hesitancy,f or as if ho wore listening, before essaying the ninth opening. Thon it was that, though no lips of that silent party moved or attempted to speak, all present distinctly hoard a man's vedee enunciating tho words,“ Q\> ant" A general exclamaUon of y Who spoke?" was only followed by pro­found silence, and then once more the gate swings on its hinges. With the ninth stroke the voice of Madame Kalosy was heard in loud, sharp accents, crying, "Come here! come here!” ‘‘Stay!" shouts Muller—“ Frans, stand by that door, and whoever comes, or whatever happens, /or your l\fa\ suffer no one to close it. Father Hermann! stay with him, and, there I place yourself on that stool, between Frans Jand the door. For your lives, remember! Now, Baron Frits, son Rudolph, and you, Horten Man. helm and Wagner, light each a lamp or candle and follow me,"

Advancing with his guiding stick, ami tho stately march of the blind, to the angle where Madame Kaloev was stationed, but still passing on with the assurance of one who was perfectly familiar with tho path ho was treading, he gained the angle, and thon si­lently pointed with his stick. All started back In amasement, for there, instead of the solid wall and the painted clock, so fa- miliar, at least, to Frits and his family, there appeared the broad aperturo and steep staircase down which poor Constance, some twelve hours previously, had made her way.It was quite evident that Herr Muller, at least, was aware of the staircase, for still advancing ahead of the rest, and beginning to descend,, step by step, he turned his aighUeM eves back upon his followers, and with a smile of triumph observed, “ Behold the mystery of number nine and the postern gate?" Before any reply could be made, another reornit joined the party, for leaping and bounding lu their midst, with quick, sharp barks, came little Nixie, the blind musician’s dog. Pushing his way amongst them, tho little creature dashed ahead, and ere any one could arrest his flight, he sprang down the stairs, still barking and whining, until his cries could only be faintly heard in the distance of the under­ground passages,

••Follow the dog!" cried Frits, “ he knows more than any of us. Heaven Itself has sent the little one for our guidance, ”

And so, Indeed, It seemed, for when gaining at length the three circular steps and diverging passages at the foot of the descent, it was the sound of little Nixie’s pitiful whining, rather than Herr Muller's guidance, whton led them at last to the open door of the small oell, studded round with bags of treasure, where, prostrate on three of them—strangely enough arranged in the form of a couch and pillow—lay the form of her they sought, the much beloved and deeply lamented Constance. By her aide and Ueking the fair hand that had so often fed and caressed him, was her four- footed little friend, whilst tenderly bending over her, the fond mother—no longer an hysterical invalid, hut now a woman In whom the exigencies of the hour had awak­ened all the firmness and courage that con- fctltutea a heroine—cried, “ Her heart heats, her pulse throbs, our darling Uveal Now let us bear hack to Ufs and light, and a mother’s love," And bear her back they did, Rudolph Muller raising the precious though still unconscious burden in Ills strong arms, and earning her up the stops, once more marshaled by the delighted little animal who had found her, and followed by her mother, sister and attendants. The rest of the party by the request of Herr Muller, remained to assist in the work yet before them, when he addressed them as follows “ This morning, at early dawn, he whom you have once known as Baron Paul Kaloay eamo In person to the bedside of our Baron Frederick here, and bade him come home and rescue hla slater. The minute after making this visit he came to my bedside In the room adjoining, and in his own well-iememborod tones hid me arise, come hither, end destroy the piece of dookwon machinery which 1 invented for him, anu which hla Wither, Johan Kaloay put up some fifteen years ago,

m If you wish to know why It was con

trance to these underground halls and |vas sagos, l Ain now five—by Caul Knlxtiy own command to tell you. Inn targe hall adjoining this, was hold the meeting* of a secret society—the mime of which 1 mny not disclose. Their ohjoot was to discover the marvels of Animal and mineral forces called magnet Ism and electricity. Of their praUcos in Imth dlivctlons, as well ns of the names of the uiemhera of llaron Paul'a

I society, 1 have no permission to apeak, It is enough that—secret societies being for­bidden by the laws of tho land, ami tho experiments of science, when assuming the form of arts «« little kuown as magnetism and electricity, rendering nil who prat iced them amcnahlo to the charge of magic ami sorcery -those meetings had to ho guarded by secret methods, too stringent to ho easy detected. Unron Paul discovered these crypts when he that took possession of his castle; and, being wholly devoted to the arts I have named, fitted up the hall and several of the adjacent chamhora with electrical machines, galvanic batteries and accommodations for the associates he had gathered around him. Knowing me to have boon well skilled In the machinery of clockwork, ho employed me to cou- noct the postern gate anti the masked door at Die top of Uto stairway with this clock [touching a huge clock on the wall]. Thus, when tho olook had sounded twice, eight times, and the postern gate had boon opened and shut eight times -at tho ninth opening all tho doom unclosed simultaneously, admitting the members to the secret meeting. The meant of returning, I as well as tho government of tho machinery,! resides in this olook; and as l was its eon structor, so am l now commanded to dr a troy it, and forever break up and end the purposes for which it was contrived. It only remains for me to say to you, friends, that the Barony of Kaloay was once reputed to he the richest in Bohemia. It was so when Baron Paul took possession of it; hut in the infatuation which urged him to devote all he was and all ho had to the discoveries which ho doomed would rovo- lutioniic all forms of art, science, and iviliiation, this determined scholar sold

his estates, tamed all his possessions into gold, parted even with all the furnishing* of his once splendid castle, and lived and dressed like tho miser which the world deemed him, in order that lie might lavish all his wealth upon tho prosecution of his dangerous and costly experiments."

And are wo to understand Herr Muller," said tho notary Wagner, now coming forward, lu something like his usual professional way, ‘ • that these sacks which I find upon a cursory examination of hose on which our fair friend was lying

contain gold coin), were the hoarded up proceeds of tho Baron's once ample for­tune?"

You may so understand, Herr Wagner," replied Muller. “ I t was for tho sake of tho wealth contained in this cell, that the .'look (the management of which was only known to mo ami JBaron Paul), was placed hero, as guardian of the treasure."

Then," rejoined Wagner, “ that same treasure in virtue of documents drawn up by u\c, and still in my possession, I uow claim as the gift of Paul Kaloay to his niece Constance,"

Hold, my friend I” said Frit*, gently interrupting the notary, aealous as ho know him to be in his sister's interest. “ We have yet to show that my unele Paul may bo willing to confirm these documents and part with these vast stores of wealth gathered up for a special purpose. That Paul Kaloay still lives, both Herr Moiler and 1 can witness of the strange visitation this very rooming."

Destroy the clock, a ml hare then thy I wish." were words syllabled out in tho saute role© that had before spoken. Each of tho party glanced foarfullynt one another, and then around the weird and terrible place in which they were grouped.

The vast height, and wide vistas of the dark hall, plainly visible from tho treasure vault; tho mysterious and forbidden arts to which tho place was devoted, and the obscurity which still aurrrouudod the fate of Paul Kaloay, combined to impress throe of the party, at least, with a sense of awe which deepened into terror, as the voice of the Invisible speaker rang dearly lu their ears.

It is my undo Paul that speaks," cried Frits impetuously, “ We shall have our wish presently, 11err Mullordo your duly I"

Stretching out his hands until they eamo contact with tho clock, Herr Muller

rapidly withdrew some bolts from the wail, then lifting up a ring in the floor, dose to

hero the olook stood, ho disclosed a trap­door in the middle of which the clock stood. Loosened from all its supports and chiming, hinting like a sweet peal of bells, the look descended lower, lower, lower yet,

until it disappeared from sight, and then a heavy splash in the water and the sudden cessation of the bells, convinced the wit­nesses that the mystic dock had boon destroyed indeed, by being sunk in a deep wdl. The portion of what had seemed to be the wall against which it stood was soon discovered to be gone also, and the gap thus disclosed revealed another small chamber like the one in which they were then assem­bled. Within tills, was a table on which stood an Immense rudely constructed gal­vanic battery, long since spent, and by the tide of the table seated in an armchair, but so connected still with the battery as to show the manner of his death, sat the skeleton remains of what had once been Paul Kaloay.

Tho maw had kept his word, and the fatal resolve suggested by the last lines of the biography of “ a lost soul” had Indeed been put iuto execution two years ago, but even whilst tho assembled party gased In awe and deep sympathy on all that remained of the devotee of a new and ill-understood science, they /baste that the spirit still lived; that he had boon instrumental in the roecuo of the only being for whom hla poor starved heart cherished any human affootion, and when, in after years, he oatne hack as a re tu rn ing g u rd laa spirit, and Inspired his

Moved (Vtiutauce mid the higher life to which he hud pHnsod, llt'ey found Hint Instead of it /<•*# tow/, he had only lteen it martyr to the first immature dawning* of a noble science, and Hint the crown of earthly nuttyrdoui lutd boon ex­changed for the fndoloM amaranth wreaths ot a glorious Immortality.

Through the linud of tho twin so disciple of olootrlo science, Baron Frederick Kaloay, treatises, glowing with the liiispiraUou of a higher and better world than earth, wore subsequently written, ami Immense progress was made In the knowledge ami application of that wonderful and all-pervading force, many years after tlm Itaron, with Ids married sister, Madame Muller, hor beloved husband, Rudolph, and many a fair Utile Nmatnuco and Frits, had removed from the

grim old castle iuto more oougeulal acones ami surroundings.

No inconsiderable portion of the treasure found in tho castle vaults was bestowed by the rich heiress in converting the castle iuto

modern but still ploturosipio building, whom hundreds of the helpless blind have found an asylum. With this was a refuge and school for destitute orphans.

Over the blind asylum presided for many oars the staunch anti faithful Herr Muller, rhi 1st the orphans in the adjoining huldllng

nmler the motherly care of his sister Madame Hhoiuhold, wove never ho happy as when, at morning and evening prayers they wore joined vy the school band, led and presided over by tho blind viollulst, Father Hurmanu.

Autmal magnetism has gone through many phases, «• Mesmerism" was found to bo a term too thoroughly Identified with the “ Charlatan"—as tiro scientists of the French Academy chose to label good Anton Meanior—to ho acceptable to those who fol lowed in Mearner's footprints, hut disdained to own their indebtedness to his discoveries Under the new aynouyn! of “ hypnotism,' such an array of stupendous possihlll ties open up to future experimenters, that it seems useless to attempt to review the wonders it has already achieved. Still more undreamed of potencies loom up in tho future, for humanity, when tiro lightnings— tho mightiest, force in tho universe—shall yield more and more to tho divine and all conquering spirit of God, in his creature man. What electricity cow do whou hat noasod by mind to tiro car of progress would take volumes to describe. What it can not do will never be fully realised till time shall be uo more.

And now—If We had boon privileged to mention real names, and describe actually existing locations, our readers would marvel uo more when we claim for the anonymous personages of our little drama that they have been the active pioneers not only of tho growth and unfoldment of tho great potencies known as magnetism mid electricity, but that their still living and honest descendants— whose names we are not at liberty oven to hint at—owe as much of their present grand scientific achievements to their noble ancestors—whose early fortunes we have been tracing out—as the march of science to-day owes to its most prominent leaders. And though much of the power they now exert is duo to the researches of Paul, the subsequent brilliant writings of our poor Friti, and the wealth, virtue, and saintly life of our fair heroine—our sweet Con­stance, there are few who would endure to bo told so—few who would bo satisfied to attribute any portion of their present repute and worldly standing to tho crude experi­menter* who in their own time wore either ranked as “ Charlatans" by the »rise uad frorard, as sorcerers and magicians by the ignorant and superstitious, and as ••lost souls"—heirs ot perdition"—by tho pious, amongst “ groat thinkers," as amongst great people generally, there are few on tills earth that care to examine the corner­stones on which mighty structures rest. Happy it is, for some of the present age at least, that we do know beyond a perad- ronturo that there is a land whore eternal justice is done and that—even in earthly martyrdom, tho cold world's ingratitude, or the silent mystery of death itself—" tux

AN ALI<1‘KU21> M15SH1AI

lie In OomlitK lu the Crxitt* unit Cheyenne*.

in

XNlt IS XOTYXT;

Madeline and O ther Poems- Madeline and other Booms ” by James

McCarroll, of Now York, (Belford, Clark As Co., publishers, Chicago, New York and Smi Francisco) is a hook of rare merit. Mr, MeCarroU’s poetry seems to bo genuinely natural; nothing oumhorson about it. His Madeline is beautiful; in faot, through tho 331 pages, no ono becomes tired, hut ex­alted iu fooling and made hotter. Speak­ing of “ Tho Church of Humanity," the poet says;W* can not bullxl it ot Uw crumb)Inf boa**

ipu rrlc l trout the print terulchree o t yore;Nor ot tho hollow, i t v lM w l x - i Ixxdn

That shottxt ao gaudily lu cuuix< lor*;Wc can not tu tto o It o t head* or creed*

That parcel out our God before our t i n ;Bui rather hulld It ot the I bought* and deed!

That purity and elerate our race.Set It* touudaUone deep tu every aouo,

l u ritual, un erery ahlttlttf | a n ,I t lore to (hat attxl lor* to titan alone,

And pl\y tor the error* ot the age.Let l u proud dome All all the aaure attain,

JXMtSo that IU utlghty and majeelk- iwee|

And Ite r»«t channel* stretch front pole to pole;* that IU mighty and majestic sweep Give ample epace for every human soul.His vivid picture of “ The Dreamer" is

as follow*:I’ve u world ot my own I I've n world ot my own,

That la brighter bv far. and more happy than this;A creation ao pure that the eplrtt alone

Is penultted to taste ot Its fountains of Idlas;Where the utyetlcn) drop*, though they glance hut In

dream*.M u he qtiad’d with an exquisite thrtU to the last,

For the depths where they sparkle are ted by thoee stream*

That still sprinkle with verdure the waste ot the past.

I've a world ot my own I I've a world ot my own, With IU morning—ot hlushea that waken no more;

With IU nooalKle—ot emlles that once brilliantly shorn*;

And lu starlight—ot eyes whose last beaming* are o'er.

And thither from earth I oft wtug my Iona Sight,To revisit the arease that to ate were ao dear,

And to lutvn again to that phantom ot light That « a* once all that heaven could graut to me

here.I've a world ot my own! I’ve a world ot my own;

A bright spat lu this daaart-Uk* bosom ot mine;WhereT meet with the spirit of Joys that are town.

In an oaxd* blooming 'round meatury't shrine.With the shaxlows 1 cherish, there, there let me

dwell—Would the hand not he cold that could tear us

apart ID uel* alienee and emlaraa, hut break not the Spall-

Wake me not 1—wake me not, from —that dream ot my heart.

A api'clttl from Fort Custer lo the Rally |xn|N'r* inillcalea that a Messiah l* expoeteil.

Tho lutllaiia on all I lie reservation* In that HiH'tlon are In a state of excitement honlorlng on frenay over the allege*I coin­ing of the Mesatah. A few tluy* ago IVmuiltiiie, the itpoalle of the new Chrlat, gave to an army ollleer the story of hla mooting with the Messiah. June 30 ho arrive*! at Ft. Gunter with a few follower* and rolato«l hi* story with nddltonnl details.

He apoko to the olMoeva and ladltut of the post for over an hour, and fully explained his roliglou, which closely roHomhlo* the Christian roliglou of the whites, except that IVtrouplue claims positively that Christ has conic Ixnek to earth anti is uow In the tleah near Walker Lake, Nov.

Porcupine did not know anything about the first Christ, hut ho say* this Christ told Idm ho had boon on earth hundreds of Years ago, whou he appoarod to the white ample who use** him roughly and even killed hlui. Porcupine any* he saw marks on the hands of the Christ, who said he had boon nailed tit a tree by the hands and that spikes had also boon driven through Id feet, and Id* aide had boon cut open. The Christ did not allow the soars on Ids feet aa he hail on Ida shoes; nor did he show the wound In his side, hut all knew what he told them was true. Poronplno said he did in believe in the Christ when he first heard o 1dm, hut no sooner did ho see him than all doubt vanished from his mind and lie kite he was looking at a Got). He had never aeon such a man before, and never would unless ho saw tills man again, wldoh ho rnoaht to d a

It was evening when tho person caiuo walking Into the camp, anti they all knew who he was without being told. Ho do scribed him as a large man with tawny akin a noble carriage and face. The strong*.' did not apeak tho first day Porcupine saw hliu, hut commenced talking tho noxt day soon after sunrise and did not cease until tho sun was noar tho western horlxon. Hundreds of Indinua, representatives from cores ot tribes, hoard him, and all under­stood him. Ho did not speak in Cheyenne but Porcupine understood him perfectly, as did tho other Cheyennes present

Porcupine then repeated much of tho Indian Christ's sermon to the Indians, and its similarity to the first Christ’s teachings was at times astonishing.

Tho stranger said what grow on the earth grow for all, and all were equally entitled to the earth’s prod not*. He said he could not repeat in a day all that was said, hut these were some of the things and ho, lYuvuplno, believes in them, and the man he saw was the son of God, and none other. Christ told the white people when they put him to death ho would come again, but not to them first—hut to the Indian Nation, whoso rod children, being poor and simple-minded would hear and hollovo in him. He wm mandod them to go forth and preach his doctrine, hut to add nothing to it and to hold nothing hack. Ho said ho could hear all they said wherever they wore, and, said Porcupine: “ Christis hearing me now, aud is horo in the room." Tho apostle stood with outstretched hands in silence for sev­eral minutes before he began speaking, and thon broke forth like ono inspired. There were commandments, too, such ns thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill, thou ahalt not hear false witness.

Poreupino said tho Christ told them all wars wore wrong, aud they must not kill any one. lie answered cheerfully all ques­tions, and said ho told only what he saw. Two of the Indiana with Poreupino had boon to Walker Luke, aud when questioned by General Rrisbin said what Porcupine had told was strictly true, and that they had seen and hoard the same themselves. Por- opine is a fine-looking Indian, with large,

black expressive eyes, and an abundance of silky black hair. He is over six foot tall.

she supposo*!, the apparitiou again; hut It proved to lu> a real mini riding on a white horse. A moment Inter n servant entered and handed her a letter. She was nervous when site broke the senl. 8ho rend the nit- nonnoomout of her husltand's suddon death, and wlUt n shriek fell to tho fioor.

Thu dream of a man riding on a while horse was twice repented lu the family during tlie late war. tv lilt the snmo dread news following. The wives were cousins, and each was married to a distinguished confederate ollleer, one of whom was killed at the buttle of Pea Ridge, Ark., tho other In the cavalry fight at Brandy Station, Va,— (fiin iy u / ie n ih l.

AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN-

lie K cutisThe I 'rogronsltc T h inker.

(IRANI) CAMP MEETING!

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xx till •**|t Ihr Wntrt,

AwocUtloqIblrxl ( ■lltie xtatc turn.u»tvx> by Ute tolluwlns (Ittaxl and i . n k ,

0|«>iilng atltlro** b j l ’mUIrnt J. s. LoyZ>ra I.. V. Illchtnc!

He also preached to the Crow Indians ontho “ now Messiah."

Let us hope and pray that this alleged Messiah may not be crucified, and if he teaches an exalted morality, brings the un­tamed red man down to an orderly life, im­proves humanity generally, exalting them to a higher plane, good will result, even if ho is an impostor, or in respect to Messiah,

lunatic. For all such saviors I have a cordial welcome. J r s Tick.

A F A T A L W H IT E H O ltSK .

Brings Death to the Caldwells-

The recent nuptials of Miss Lena Caldwell and the Rarou Kodwita, now the theme of lluforoom and society gossip, recalls a ro- iuan eo in tho life of tho fair fiancee's grand­mother that caused a sensation iu the fashionable circles of Virginia more than sixty years ago, writes a New York corres­pondent.

At that day Fredericksburg held high rank in Virginia. Washington was once a familiar figure there, and hi* mother lived, riled, and was buried in the town. More­over, Marquis do l«afayotte had boon ele­gantly entertained bv its oiUaens in 1834.

Mario Carter Hall was the daughter of' the emiuent Robert Hall, who married! Ann By ret Carter, a haughty beauty and laughter of Oolouel Charles Carter, of (Rove, son of the famous “ King Carter," of colonial history, president of her majesty's council at Williamsburg,, and one of the ablest, wealthiest men and most autocratic rulers of his time.

With beauty of a rich brunette type, flashing eyes, dark hair, delicate, pale fea­tures, a graceful form and stately pose, Marie Carter Hall's youth was uuuauallv brilliant She was married to Ralph Wormoly, a wealthy young Virginia planter, of old name and family, his ancestral name­sake having been In 1649 a burgess of York County, aud member of the colonial council They lived happily for some years upon a plantation, when at middle age her husband suddenly died while absent from home, hia wife being strangely forewarned of the trouble through a dream. In a vision of restless sleep the saw approaching, riding on a white horse, a strange man with dark face and sable garments, who brought her a letter. A day and night passed, nothing uncanny had happened, and the wife was conquering her fears, when she saw, aa

1 enclose stamps to renew subscription, hut must admit I have some grave object­ions to much of tile matter in the paper. A fow weeks ago 1 read a paragraph which said, “ When you have read your paper, do not give it to an orthodox Christian," oto. W by, Mr. Editor I aui an orthodox Christian my sol ft ao 1 kept thinking, what have Christians done that they should lie de­prived of tiie elevating influences of Spiritu­alism? Arc Christians not as good iu* Ma­terialists, modernsadduuees, “ who do not hollovo In a resurrection to a higher Ufe, either angel or spirit?" Spiritualists hollovo in those, and Christians agree with them.

If Christians say harsh and hitter things ngnlnat Spiritualists, tho different denomi­nations do the saute thing against each oth­er, when they get Iuto controversies; and even tho Spiritualists themselves, who are lu dally communication with tho purified In­habitants of tho higher spheres, sometimes dissagreo aud hurl viudlctivo nttatimmios at each other.

A Christian minister once told me that ho believed In spirit communion, hut did not nttond their meetings much; could not enjoy himself with them because they said so much against the hible and Christian min­ister*. Why should Spiritualists drive this class of people from them, who hold so many sacred truths iu ooinmou with thorn, and of­ficiate so closely with materialists who reject all the sacred spiritual truths held in com- mou by Christians and Spiritualists.

Mauy Christian ministers preach a groat deal of Spiritualism because they find it in their hible without knowing or thinking it is Spiritualism; many others believe it and preach it knowingly as far as they oau with out becoming ohuuxlous to their congrega­tions aud Impairing their usefulness. In this way they do muoh good to Spiritualism, because they preach the doctriue to large audiences who never would learn it from any other source, fur they would not go to a spiritual meeting. That there are uuwor-1 thy persons iu tho ministry can not reason­ably be denied; but the general tendency of their preaching is to make men live better lives; and I believe all Spiritualists hold that the better life a man lives here, the better his condition will be over on the oth­er shore; so we see again the ministers are doing good, aud ought not to be subject to harsh words from Spiritualists.

Tho hible is a history of ancieut Spiritu alism, dating back to tho earliest period wc have any account of man ou this planet, and contains a brief relation of a series of piritual manifestations extending through

several thousand year*. The objector says that there are contradictions and inconsist­encies in the hible. We kuow there arc evil spirits in the other world as well as good ones; some of tho had spirits can com mnnicato as fluently as good ones, and are

ery willing to “ steal the livery of heaven to gorve tho devil in. ’’ In this way we can readily account for contradictions and in consistencies. Let the objector take all the communications that have been received tu the last forty year* through mediums gen orally accepted by Spiritualists as reliable and we see what a mass of contradictions and inconsistencies he will have; then I think he will cease to complaiu of incousisl oncies iu the hible.

Tho world was not made out of nothing, hut the great Supreme Spiritual Power, rhoiu the Christians call God, created the rorld out of preexisting material, as men roato a house or a ship out of trees that a

few weeks before were growing iu the forest. The house may be ouly one year old, but some of the material of which it is composed, iu its former condition of forest trees mav ho several hundred years old. So also the world in its present condition may be no more thau six thousand year* old, while some of the material of which it is com­posed may be billions of year* old. Now, if your correspondeuts will strive to build up spiritual theories without teariug down the ancient spiritual deliverances of the hible and Christianity, thev will do much more good, and much leas harm. The au­thenticity of ancient Spiritualism is the best; the surest basis for modern Spiritual ism. L. M. D a v is , Sa.

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