VOL. JI.-No. 16. [E. V. WILSON,] CHICAGO, JUNE 1, 1876. [LOMBARD, ILL.] WrrOLE No. 42.

nIn. MOODY'S TOUGHEST JOB.

For the Spiritualist at \Vork.

THE RISING SUN.

The rising sun l with rosy beams,Shedti beauty o'er the earth;

And wakes again with magic powerEach form of Nature's birth.

Yet when we r21ly to OUT aidThe forces deep within,

And rouse the slumbering latent powersTo conquer and to win,

The merry warblers chant anewTheir gushing, thrilling lays,

And all the air is redolentWith sweetest melodies.

Then will the" rising-sun 0 appear,The light of kno'llJledg-e shed,

Her burnished rays to i:"uide us throughLife's tangled misty web.

The risinR sun dispels the gloomWhich Night has thrown around us

As o'er the hill-tops quickly fleeThe shadows which had bound us.

So dark the gloom, our ~oul's oppressed;We hear no cheerful song-

For hope, the siren bird, has fled,And faith and trust are gone.

Only at nie/tt, when silence reigns,Are deeds of darkness done;

But ere the rising sun appearsDeparts each murderous one;

We blindly grope our way aloll',And $fumblinr, sometimes fall,

Or make mistakes o'er which we grieve,But cannot once recall.

For when the shadows thickly fallUpon our mental way,

And midnight darkness like a pallShuts out the light of day,

Well knowing that the light of mornWould sure disclose to view

Their wicked purposes-impure­And motives 211 untrue.

So may the" rhing-$un" of thcurh.tDispel 211 mental dQubt,

Vvhich rrnoral1ce has cast aroundAnd error brought about.

cially such of them as Tyndall, shall learn to I and several communications were written, both saw hands, which appeared and dis'exercise more decency and moral respect than the penoil being hCHl:d writing and yet appeared; we heard raps all around us;to use such billingsgate against TRUTH, yes, I thcre was no pbysical contact with it. Then chairs and tablcs werc moved without phys­against FACTS; as he used in his recent little thc Dr. laid his slate down, and the three ical contact.intellectual tilt with Martineau, in the Dec. of us 'all there were present) laid our six Now will ~Ir. Tyndall and his dupes (for(r875) number of the Pop,dar Scimct Monthly, hands on the top of the table neal' the I care not how great a man is, if he leadin the course of which he goes entirely out of I centre, while our dOUble-hinged and closed others astray they are his dupes) say this ishis way to gather a handful of meaningless in· slate, with a piece of pencil the size of a "intellectual whorcdom?" I hope not.tellectual dirt to cast upon Spiritualism. grain of wheat ingide of it, lay ncar the I Do not deceh'e yourselves and lead thou·

If Tyndall had been discussing Spiritualism I end of the table, and while all was very sands into darkness, but come up, like men,in that article he could with some show of quiet we heard writing on the inside of our and use your powerful minds and riddlecause have exhibited his spleen and cast his slates. We opened them and found the fol. this great question, and show your fellowsmst/us slur at a downcast and bleeding lowing:" I am so glad you came; I am not creatures that your science is equal to thecause, whose teachings and principles are able to do much now. S. M." We asked occasion, for this ghost loill not down. It isfounded on the very truth he is trying to dis- if the spirit would please write its name in not worthy of your steel to stand bchindcover. But he exhibited his anger, for anger full while communicating on the Doctor's your forts, like the preachcrs, and cryis plainly manifest; so manifest that it de- slate, and it did so previously to the above "Deyil! foolishness! 'intellectual' non·throned his reason for the time. I thought, of being- written on our slate. sensei" for there are hundreds of perfcctlyall men, certainly Tyndall could not permit Tile above are the inillals of a brother, credible witnesses to prove these things ashimself to throw his reason overboard, even who passed to spirit life in 1860. related, and facts arc stubborn things evenwhen he was accidentily led to think of that It will be but fair to all concerned, at this to you. I am ashamed of the position ofterrible fact-Spiritualism. A fact that he and point. to say tI.'~ the only namcs given by our scientific men to.day. Shame! shame!his brother scientists will have to reconsider us was the name of the brother above, and to treat facts in the manner you h,we, and ,before they can settle it by such senseless the name of the Doctor's spirit wife before thus bolster up fraud and superstition.blackguardism as calling it "Intellectual she, as a mortal, married him. 'rhc Doctor Many facts about the science of spirits arewhoredom." Now mark, Tyndall had scarce· requested me to write the name of a spirit just as certain as the revolution of thely if at all mentioned spirit or spiritism in his relative, as he said, in order that the spirits earth, and yet your only reply to them is towhole article. u,ntil at the close. I suppose could call our spirit friends to commuieate. degrade yourselves by calling these f'lctssome spirit impressed the word upon his mind Rut while I wrole my hrother's name I also shamefully hard names. Oh! might.l· men,when he was struck by an intellectual earth- wrote the following question to the Doctor's how you belittle yourselves.quake, and the wild lava ran from his pen after wife:" Mrs. 'Vilhelm, do you remember The above, Edwin S. Marshall, was athe following style: "The world will have me?" the Doctor not knowing anything brother's son, he passed to spirit life severalreligion of some kind, even though it should I that was written, and directly I received years since. lIe returned, and wrote hisfly for it to the intellectual whoredom of Spirit- the following reply: name inside of the closed slate, which con­ualism." I have consulted Webster's Una. "Yes, I remember you and yours, and tained a bit of pencil the size of a grain ofbridged for some ground upon which the oftcn comc to see you. and always shall. wheat. Fact! Science please ri~e andlearned gentleman has rested his mighty pro- " A. ,Y." explain.jectile to frighten all who put any faith in The Doctor refld it, and, evidcntly, did Ilis brothel' Oharlie, of whom he wrote,spiritual things, but all I find is that Mr. Tyn- not understand it, as he recognized two was younger th'lll Edwin, and was acci­dall has been obliged to go to a spiritual book, IlelterS of his spirit wife's familiar Signa., dcntally kitled on the cars, where he. wasthe Bible, to get his remarkable idea of a mix- ture, and he asked if I had addressed her. employed, between Trenton and "ew lork,ture of intellect and whoredom. It seems to For, 'aid he, slle signs hcr name Slade. I in 1871. Neither of us thought of eitherrefer to the Bible account of somebody who explaiued by informing him that I was ac. of them thaI morning, or while sitting atwas supposed to have" deserted the worship quainted wilh her before he married hcr, the tablc. ~Iind readcrs and clairvoy"nts,of the true God {or the worship of idols." So when hcr name w,'s 'Wilhclm. I did it to please rise and cxplain. Oh! scientists,

For the Spirilualist at\Vork. poor Prof. John Tyndall, the giant of scientific get a tC.lt from her; and 1 got it good onc. lend a listing- ('nr, and give us a flow ofDR. SLADE AND PROF. TYNDALL. wisdom, had to resort to a spiritual book to 'Vhat >IllSwc'r will nInterialists make to rcason. S. :,\l.D. M. BE"NETT-Dear Sir: You say, get an idea to frame a sentence of his" intel- that ~ I askc'd one since what he woulll do 'Yilmington, Del., April, 1876.

. One world at a time." I would ask how lectual whoredom" to hurl against the spirit- with slich cddcl1tC, and he replied by along at a time? It i. well established by sta- uality of that book, and against all other long- homily, to show that we could not

listics that at every tick of the clock a child is spirituality. I feel sorry for our scientists that trust OUl' Own scuses. Then said I, what '!'!<YIXG TO PERSUADE A .JEW TO Emm.H'E

brought into this world, and in the same time they are obliged to go over to the theologians are our senses for if not to govern us? ClilUSTL\XT'l'Y.

a person is passed to the other world. At and give up their sheet anchor, their reason, Next, the name of a ncph~-w was written,least these are comparatively the facts. Now, when they talk about Spiritualism. and he suid llis brothel' Oharlie was therc. "Arc you fI Ohristian"" said nIl'. Moody,

pressinp; thc' hand of a wcll.dl·essc'd youngwhen you say" one world at a time," Bro. While Dr. Slade was in Philadelphia, re- 'Ve remarked thnt we wc're glad to hcn.· mau. who pa,sed with tlie crowd down oneBennell, please tell us how long shall we con- cently, my wife and I had a sitting in his pres- from them, and asked, "'ill Ollllrl ie "Tile ~ of the aisleg at the close of the sen'icl's attemplate one at a time? 'Vhile the unseen ence, in open daylight, around a very plain, I To thal quc,tion the followillg wag writtc'n the Hippodrome, tlie other night. Theworld of life and motion is eternally appearing unvarnished and unpainted table. 'We had sat I while the ,Inte lao' as described ahoyc: youn" man whispcrcd somcthing to the

prcacllC'l'. "'VeIl, come into my privateon the stage, and the material things are just but a few moments when raps were heard on " DcaI' ('ncle, Charlie cnllnol rOlltrol. It room," saill )[1'. )[oody, "I shall be thereas steadily disappearing at every breath, how the t,ble and chairs, made by an invisible I is hal'll work for me. I am ill a few minutl's." Hc turncd to speak tolong shall we stop to take stock in this world, power. We asked if any of our spirit friends (, Enwl1\ ~. jH.\HSII.\LL." nil anxious·looking· younp: man, find, after n.without counting our chances of falling into were present, and if so could they communi- . ~O\\ these con~l11unicati()llS.were w~'i~ten short convprsation with him, took hiIn

the next? No! it does seem that the visible cate with us. The raps answered yes. The 1l1Sldc' of thc clo,cd slatl's, wh.le no YlSlblc :~~:~;~'tes:g~{ ~:'~~~~IC~;·I ~lo~~'~,~gi~;e;~L~?i~;~and invisible worlds are so inseparably inter- Dr. held his slale under the lable with one power touched them, 'I'heyare intelligcnt his brand hand 011 the other's 'houldl'r, asblended that il is impossible to separate them hand, while the other rested on the top of the communications, ~ignell wilh the IwnleS of if in carnest admonition. The lights in thedistinctly. table; and it was written on thc slate by an those who wc' know to be in thc ,pil'it liall were being tUl'I\ecl ont, ancl soon the

placc. whiCh was clescrtcd by all bnt theI have penned these rew thoughts by way of I unseen powcr (for mark, the ])r. does nol touch wodcl, heeause wc lind lon~ ago followecl thrl'c, was pitch clark. )[1'. ~[ood.\' ancl his

introduction to the relation of a silting I and the pencil), "Many arc present, and wlil try." thCll' bOllies to the gran'. ('ol1\'ert seemecl to be too much engrosscdmy wife had with the justly celebrated medium, The Dr. then took up our slate and held it Can you hC'1ic\'e your sensCs when yon sec with the subject of their talk to noticc it.Dr. Henry Slade, of N. \'. Although many partially in sight, under the tahle, for two or your brothers lJUI'iecl in thc carth? If so, "Let us knecl clown and pray togcther,"

"tid the prcachcr, nner a whilc. After aaccounts of his seances have been published, I I three minutes, but nothing was written on it; thcn 110 not bc' so foolbl' as to say "'e can· ,hort ancl fervent supplicntion which, cclw-hope you will continue to publish them to the he then laid it on the top of the table, and nol bclie\'e onr S('uses wlien wc sec as plain ing thl'Ouglt the PoTcat hall in thl' '.niclst ofcircle of the earth, unlil mankind, and espe- I took up his slale again and held it as before, I facts in regard to thl'se phenOllll'na. We I the darkness, hacl almost a dramatIC' elll'et,

For the Spiritualist at Work.

The publication ofthe Origin of 8peeies,in 1839, was the signal for a fresh outbreakupon the part of tbe Christian Church, anda renewal of the relentless warfare, that ithas almost continuously waged against

The wonderful advance in scientifickno\vledge during the past few ycars hasstruck even investigators themselves withan amazement which is not lessened by theahundant promise of future revcalments,wh ieh arC even now casting II their shadowsbefore."

It is but a brief space of time since thetheory of the nebulous origin of our solarRystem was regarded with distrust by all,except a very few leading minds. It wassO far reach in!,: in its consequences, that

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they rose from their knees and led the wayinto one of the inquiry rooms, whither theyonng man followed them. A hundredperson, or more had gathered there, andulJout a hundred It working Christians II

were exhorting them lO II come to Jeslls"when :Mr. Moody entered. After a shMtaddress, dcli\'ered in his charaelcri,tiesledge.hammer style, the meeting dis.persed, ane~ he passed t};rough a hall doorlnto Jus pnvatc room. I he young man towhom he had spoken in the large ha II 1'01·lowed him there a few moments later, andfound him :-;ittin~ before a cheerful firc,talking to another man in tll(' same pcrsua.­sh·e. almost. affectionate, manner that hehad shown toward the person with whomhe had prayed in the dark just before.After a while they bOlh knell in prayer, andtbe slran!':er len, making room for a tall,hand:-:omc IlH\Il, with a luxul'i,lnl, sweepingmoustache- a sergeant of police, formerlyof the Prince street station. The police.rnan, who was in civiliull dress 1 seemed veryearne,t, and as he went out Mr. ~[oody

tUrJH'd lo the young man who had been pa­lienL1y waiting and pointed to the sergellnt,as one of h i~ Illo:-t prom ising converts."The' work is going" ,?Il well," he said... Did you sec Thurlow Weed rise to-nightto pronoune-e himself a Chmitian'" Adissipated-looking youth here rushed intothe room and eau!':ht hold of Mr. j\[oodyby the Illtnd. "'Well," said the evangel;,t,U arc you a Christian? II II Yes I sir," wasthe prompt an::;wl'r. II lIow lOllg have youbeen onc ~ 1l said )[1', )Loody, sharply.It Sincc la:-.t Sunday, sir. II Thc preacherbroup;ht his hantl down upon the t"ble in away that made the lillIe pile of hymn booksand testa.ments on it jump into the air.II You 'rc not a Chri~tian! II he shouted.It PIl'a.s-s~e, sir- ll stammered tile youth."No, you 're not; don't deny it. You '"cbeen drinking; I smell it on your breath."It I 'ye only had two drinks." 'I '1'wo drinkstoo muth," said the preacher, and dislllis~cd

him, handing him a little book with theparting words: "Cntil you give up drink.ing liquor you can DeVer be a Christian."

"J:\ow," said he cheerfully to the patientvisitor, drawing up two scats before the fire," you told me that you were not a Cbris­tian; I think that I can indnce you to be·come one. Now, let's sec: the Bi ble tellsyou everywheae that your only hope isthrough Jesus Christ." "I don't think itdoes," said the young man. "The 0 IdTestament says nothing about him, and Idon't believe in the New Testament...l( Ah! 1l sa.id ~rr. )Ioody, eyeing himclosely. II You're a Jew,1! "I am, sir,"replied the other. "Rut the Old Testa.ment does eonslantly refer to \he coming ofChrist." "It does in the headlineR of LheKing .James ver:-;ioD ," said the young man,"but they are O\-el' the chapters withontany warrant by the text." I( Docs not Jacobsay: 'The sceptre shall not depart fromJudah, nor a lawgiver from between hisfeet nntil Shiloh come?'" "Who is Shi.10h '! Jesus was never called Shiloh. Howcan the passage possiuly refer to him?Besides , the translation is wrong, ItSllOUld read: 'Until you come to Shiloh.'The passage has a purely political refer·cnce." "'What say you auout the prophe­cies of Isaiah?" asked Mr. Moody.",Vhich one '! That of the seventh chap.tel', which in the King.James version reads:'Behold, a virgin shall conceive and benra son, and she shall ca.ll his name Imman.uel? ,.. ., That is one of them that propc:cies the coming of .Jesus," ({ I think Jlllt,"said the young mall. H In tllC tir:;t place,the translation is incolTect. The Hebrewword hffl'UlLOlllwh means I the young wo­man,' and not [a virgin.' The passage:;hould l"e:ad; '.l3elIolcl, the young woman iswith child, and about to bring forth a son.'The words were uttercd uy Isaiah to thewicked Ahaz, King of Judah, who wasalarmed at the approach of the armies ofIsrael and Syria, which were about to at­tack .Jerusalem. God scnt the prophet tohim to quiet his fears, without success.'Ask God for a sign , then,' said Isaiah,Ahaz refused, saying: '1 will not tcmptGod.' 'Well, thcn,' said thc prophet, 'Godwill gi,·c thee a sign, thou impious man,Behold, the young woman is with child,and aboul to bring forth a son, and sheshall call his name Immanuel, and beforethe boy shall know how to call tather andmother, Ihe rie-hes 0f Damascus and thespoils of S"maria shall ue taken away bc­fore the King of Assyria.' The next chap.tel' tells how the woman spoken of was theprophet's own wife, and that Lhc child wasfirst called' Immanuel,' (God wilh liS,) andaftel'\vard ~lallCrshalal.hashba7,. Thc ful­fillment of the prophcey is given in thesecond book of Kings, whir.h describes theoverthrow of the hostile armies under theKings Pekah and Hezin. ])0 you blameme for bel ieving this interpretation of theprophecy in preference to yours, that God,to convince an impious man like Ahaz\promised him as a sign tha.t more than fivehnndred years after his death .Jesus shouldcomc on carLh ? I! .. How do you get overtbe fifty-thinl chapter of Isaiah 1 Thatplainly speaks of Christ," said Mr. Moudy."The best Biblical scholars have failed toexplain the meanino- of that chapter" replied the other, "b~t it is impossib'le t~make out of it a prophecy of the advent ofJesus" II Docs it not say, I lIe waswonnded for our transgressions; lIe was

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bruised for our iuiquities?'" urged thepreacher. "It evidently refers to .Jesus." THE POSSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE."That phrase may fit, but you cannot takethe whole chapter and make it apply toh im,ll was the answer. IC YtHl have noright to wrench lL verse here alJel therefrom its context to suit a special purpo e.Christianity ought not to be dependentupon such artifices. An Atheist might aswell take the words of David: 'The foolhath said in his heart, there is no God,'and, omitting th~ lirst claus~, use the latteras Il Biblical argument in favor of Athe­ism." During the convel'sation Mr. Moodywas interrupted two or three times by someof his deae-ons, who wishe·d to speak tollim, but each time he wai\'(>d them away,and, motionillg towanl hi::; companion,said: "Not nowi not now; don't disturb men's minds could scarce grasp the COD­

us; I am very hu"y; this is \'('1',)' important." I ceptiol1, and not until improvcd means of"The 1'~ligion of Christ," he ]'('sullled, observation had demonstratcd the existence

" has stood the test o! nearl y two thousand .ycars-" (( And that of )"toseB twice a~ at the present tll11C of nelmlo.us m~l~scs, thatlong," said the other. J,rl'. )foody paused, appear to be now unc1cl'g'o1l1g Importantand, }ool\ing at his visitor with an air of chanO'e::;, was thctheol'yof Laplaccftcceptcdcuriosity mingled with pil.\', said: " I t is I by lh~ scientific world. Grand as the ideastrano-c that you Jewti should reject .Jesus, . _who ~'as hill1sclf' a Jew," "ls it :-;tranger," was recognIzed to b(" few, If any, under­said the other," than that the Christians stood its real importance, and the ch'ilizedshould hltve persccuted ~he .Jews for ,eentu- world was al most slartled out of its pro­nes ~nly on account of the'lr belief, al.ter priety when but litlle more than a decadethtnl\ln~ II .}ew, who W:lS lIot cven a perfect . " , .man, good enough to be thcil' God ?" "Not and a half ago D:lrwln, follOWing ~hc san~eeven a. perfect. man ~ How can you say course of reasonJn~, announced It as IllS

that'" "Did l,e not eu.rse the Pharis~eti, belief "that probably all theorganie bcingsthe most l.eamed sect o! l11S day, to which which have ever liyed on the earth havehe hlmsell belonged, and call tl1eln I a gen. , .' ... . 11

cl'atioll of Yipel's'- a most unj\l~t Hnd descended flom someone pllmoJdldl fOlm,sweeping condemnation of a whole pol it- and that he viewed H all being:;;, not asieal party. To his own mother 'he said, special creations, but as the lineal desccnd.I \Yornan, who arc thou ~'lJ u lLe did not .. .cursc the Pharisees," silid ~1r Moody. "He ants of some few bemgs wh~eh Il\-ed longe-alled them viper>, as I might call persons before the fil'st bed of the Silurian systemvipers, !Jut calmly and without any anger." was deposited." This furni8hed the Recond"Such language might be pardonable in an chapter to the theory of E\'olution, andordinary lllan, but not in one who is held . .up as a God. BesideR, the .Jews could not gave t~ man a history of the genesIS, n~tbc blamed for not recognizing .Jesus, whom only of our system of worlds, but of organicthcy knew only as the son of Mary and life, both vegetable and animal, upon Ihis,Joseph, the carpent~r, as the ~[essiah, the planet, and traced matter from an attenu.royal descendant of Da\',d. They were l. . 0- • ,.' I 1longing for the Messiah, and would ha\-e atee gas yuou"h Its \ al'.ous ~ lllnges an:willingly helieved in the claims of Jesus if eomb111attOnS until organ,zed ttl the de11­they could. At first they qucstioned him eate structure of the human form.with manifest sincerity, but he answeredtbem only with reproofs and mysteriouswords, which could give no satisfaction.""So they crucified him?" said JIll'. Moot]y."The Homans crucified him," replied theyoung man ... It is true the .Iews demandedII is deatb, but not until he attacked thefundamental and most sacred principle of science. The clergy was furious, and de·Judaism- the absolute unity and indivisi- nounced and damned, while the press rieli­bility of God. But how can you blame I culed and reyiled Darwin and his doctrine•.them, when you behevc tbll.t Jesus IlTc()r~ I ' . H' " II , "

dained it should be so? H the Homans lIe" as accused of ,nfidelltj, and JII,and .Jews had not put him to death, you teacbing' branded as "bestial." But all:l'Ould IHlve no Savi?r, for yOIl tell me that their malignant abuse could not suppressIt IS only th~'ongh IllS blood that one e~ln be the truth nor fetter the free thouo-ht of thesaved. BeSides, did not.Jesu, himself say: . ., . t ".. .'Forgive them; they know not what they nttleteentb eentulj. The eonfilc" \\assholt,do?'" "I do not blame the .J ews, and I sharp, and most decIsive; the aell-ocates ofhave n.cve,~',s'p{~ke~1 agains~ tlJ.cn~lll. ~aid nI,l:. I the doctrine of a spceial creation ·wereMoodj. 1 he st,lten.1Cnt In a IllIlddelplll,1 routed at ever' iloint and with the exeel'-newspaper that I did IS untrue. 1 ncver . j" .see a Jew but I feel like taking ofr my hat tlon of a few fool-hardy bellIgerents, theyto him. In my opinion, your people arc I have given up the contest, and are no\\'destined to be the great missionaries to quietly revising their theology and adapt­e-onvert the world to ChrISt. What better ino- it to the increased intelligence of theagency could there be' You are scattered I " .throughout the eanh, and speak all 1an- present age. But the task lti no easy one,guages. I beliC\'e you will all go back to t(n·the march of scientific progress has not.Ierusalem one day, and be restored to lour paused for them, and, as eyer hefore, they

~~:,',ki~:~~O:~~~ ~.~;;;~. Y?I)Jt::t ;;:V~;. couel31 arc still in the real'.

in~luee intelligent Jews to 'eWe in such a Spencer's phi losophy has aeh-aneed a stepmiserable, stenle lIllie patch of land as further than Darwin's researches had gone.Palest inc, when Ihey can sit in luxury in. .their homes in London Paris and Frank- Leavlllg the malenal world, he has enteredfori, and there eontro," the ~ommeree of the domain of mind, and coupling it withnations and the destinit·s of cmpires. 'Vhy life, has traced it through an ascendingshould they go back to Palestine' In all scale, from the asehlian through tbe articu.their ancient glory- whieb was not very I t I v' 'b" 1'- I fj,;1 r.great arter all- they were never as pros. ates 0 t ,0. el te I dtes, 10m tie . les, cpperous and powerrnl as they are now." liles, and birds, to tbe mammals, and up to"You will all go back to ,Jerusalem, and man himself; he has marked the diflcrentyou will all be ul'Ought to Uhrist at last," stages of progress and shown their connec-said Mr. ;I[oody. "I tell yon it's uound to.. .'., _ .• .. .come." (( I have gi,·en you some reasons tWIl, flon1 the slmple l?ftE: nCI'ous tlCtl?Llfor not believing in Christianity, and I of tbe lower orders to IllSLlUcI, antl from Ill·

could give many more," said Ihe yonng stinct to an intelligence that hascnlminatedman. :' I am open to conviction, but 1 caIl~ ill man's ability to weigh the planets audnot believe what my reason rejects. Prove .... . . .to me that Christianity is purer than Jnda- read the char,leter, of IJght, th"t n"tule hasism, and I will beeome a Christian." "It traced upon fal' elJ;tant systcms of suns.is not a maLter or reason. Conversion must At first thought, it might seem that thiscome froll) the heart, and not trom the .head," replied the preacher. "But it Will last supplement to our ascertaln:d knowl·come at last. You will all be brought to edge, concerning the proces,; of devc10p.Christ" ." By ~ miracle, I presume. Do ment, had brought us to the point whereyou bellCve 1n modt'rn nuracles, Mr. further investigation is barred that tbe"\[oody?" "\Vell, I don't know. Every. 'conversion is a miracle, 1 suppose. Bnt human mind cannot go back of malter,when 1 was in England a Mr. j\lidwood as. nor reach to aught higher than it itself, andsl\t'ed ml' that a ft'll1ale relative of his had, that thc Beyonrl IllU,t still be excluded fromb,y means. ot IllS prayers, been cured of a the domain of science and left to that ofeli sease of long slandlng. You can wnte . . . . .to him, if you like, and he'll tell you all blind and unreasoning faith. But 1n theauout it. AdtIJ'ess him' care Young Men's light of the past, who will dare mark theChristian Association, Manchester.' Surely, point in any direction where it 1)1"y be s,lidthat was a mil'acle. N~w if! should con· to the invcstio-ating mind "thus far shaltvert you, I should call It a miracle." .1 Ho 0,'should I," rejoined the young man. "Have thou go, and no farther?" The possibili­you made any Jewish converls'I" he asked, tics of science arc beyond conjecture, andas he rose to leave. "Well, several bave even now a new era of grand diseoveriesstood up amI professed Christ. BUL," said . , nMr. Moody, as he took the visitor'S prof. seems to ?e dawnltlg. upon us. I rof: lyn.fe~'ed hand, "I cannot say that I put much dall has Just aseerlallled lhat the all', de­faIth in converted Jews." prived of its floating dust, will neither

generate life nor transmit the rays of SUItlight, while a co-laborer has shown that thesun's light has a direct mechanical force,wh ich he is able to apply and approxi.mately measure, What fountains of knowl­edge may be opened, what seals of thoughthroken, by these disroverieR, we can scarcesurmise; but their great importanee mustbe apparent to all.

But there is an ollIeI' field of observationthat is jnst beginning to receive its meritedattention, that is full of significant promise,one where seiencc will yet win its fairestlaurcls, and will indeed crown itself witbimmortality, La.place, Darwin, SpPJH'ef,and their associates, have traced evolutionthrough mattcr and mind, and it now re­mains for some specially gifted follower 10('I'ORS the boundary and add a genesis ofspirit. To mosl this will seem a rasb idea,nor is this to he wondered at. The recentdevclopnwnts in spiritual manifestaLionsha\-e been of such an unusual and slartlingcharacter that it is not in the least surprifot.ing that the careful students of natUf(' havefor the most part looked upon them wi thRuspieion, and ha\-e not dared to deal withthell! as reliable phenomena. Bnt thesemanifestations arc now being verified asfact~, as well a~ presenting new and intcr­estin~ phases. Enough has ut'cn olJservcdto ind icaLe that they arc governed by naturallaws "'hich may be stndied, as those ofmalleI' and mind, and the fi~ld is open forthe investigntor to step in, trace them out,and unlock the Inighty mystcry. As a gen·eral thing, investigation has thns f,"' beenconducted in a loose manner and withoutsystem. The truths we have gathcred havecomc to us so mixed with error that wehave often been unable to distinguish theone from the other. The time has now ar­rived for the application of tbe crncial test.of scientific melhod. Facts must be care­fully verified and generalized, and theirhidden meaning deduced by striclly logicalprocess. When the traincd stndents ofnatural science have Once been enlisted inthe cause, and have commenced their criti~

cal observations, we may expect soon to seean important advancc toward a knowledgeof the next important step in the orderlyserie,; of developments. A earernl and well.informed writer ha" said: "For scientificproof or Ihis afLer life, and fnture develop­ment, thc whole world is looking, nor isthe're anything unreasonable in the expec­tation." This concentration of mind, inlooking for and secking after this proof,must eventu,lle in its ditieovery. 'Vhenthinking 111inc1s have once conceived that abidden truth may be revealed by patientitl\-estig'llion, it cannot long remain asecret. If it ,honld be urged that ourfaculties do not fit us to prosecute OUl'inCluirit's in the ;;pirit world, it may be an­swerNl that the fundamental law of evo!u­tion is the development of new organs, orllew powcrs, as they beeou1e necess:u'y, andthere i~ nothing incon~istent nor inc]'Nliblt,in Lhe idea of an advance in the de\'elop­nlellt of our present senses, or of the begin.ning of an internal and still higher sense,which shall take cognizance of that whichis beyontl the grasp of those we now pos·sess, 'lnd lead us to that which is at presentunattainable_ I think we ha\'e even nowabundant evidence of adevelopment of thischaracter, in elain'oyance and clairaudi.enc('. These new senses arc at prcsent pos­sessed by but few, but through the laws ofberedity and adaptation, they may in timebecome general, and reach a perfection thatwill enable us to stand face to face with thehereaftcr, and to deal with spirit;; as wenOw do with mind and matter. The gran­deur of the thought is almost bewildering,but that the onward mareh of progress wille\'entually reach far beyond e\'en litis, Ihave not the slightest doubt. D.

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For the Soiritu.list at Work, magnetic" love potions," calculated to I its wing_, bear its breust to the storm, cut I balllc' of Phillippi (il. C" 42), rcsulting inCATCH ING TIlE DEVIL. etlcct em.otional natures; an:1 although the wind, and soar away onward und up. the overthrow and death of 1I go,'erument

BY DR. C, D. OltIMB:S. taklnp; eflect rather dlsproportlOlllltely, so ward, above the storm cloud, up where all similar, if not equal, to our own, which the

Ifar us sex is concerned, hitting a little over is culm und serenity, But this serenity minds of Demosthenes, Cicero, and others,

t is said that our greatest victories arcobtained, and our greatest advancement two women to onc man, it was, nevcrthe· cannot be reach cd without butl'eting the endeavored to preserve, And - the same

dless, in its natme much like a June frost - storm. Without antagonism allll disinte· necessity exists to.da v, to guarll IIgainst

rna c, when we learn to unlearn what we 01 Jhave learned amiss, soon ovcr with. gration, there could be no integration and' corrupt men obtainiug power - whetherIf we have learned to think that it is nll 'Vho, thcn, shall decide when doctors progression. The superior and corroding minds existing to.day arc superior, equal,

.. God" on the side of .. I," and all .. Devil" disagrec? And what prudent man will forces of the atmosphere must disintegrate or inferior, to Pluto, thc immortal Cwsar, or. I I' lb' dare spring the trap until he knows the rock hcfore the forces conserved, or laid ,those coml)etcnt to calculate thc results of

on the Sll eo" you," t IUS ecomlUg cx· I . ,d

. 1 w IIch IS to be taken, God 01' the Dcvil? up, there call be liberated, and be free to be government, or an cclil)Se of ti," 'lin orelusive, ogmatlc, ane overbearing, we LV.:>make a great advance when we nnlearn II ct us convert Congress to our faith," caught in a higher form. It i!'3 this dying moon to a 1110l11cnl, is as foreign to tllcand discard it. saith the" initiated," put God in the Can. and living, living and dying, in which we topic on which we disagrecd lind com·

stitution, Brothel' :llIoody in Congress, turn could not live and enjoy ullless we sutl'ered mellced our corres!)ondence as the theoryThis is why I counsel moderation, in Bout the ahcocks and Belknaps, brin" the and died, that carrics us f('J'ward in the you now olrer, that" the universe is arc·

catching and caging the Devil, before we Gfound whether he was good or bad; before O\:el'llment uack to puritanical purity, "rand seale of being. public- its go"ernmcnt republican,"aVOIding thc clash of arms and the" hlood [teasoning from the stand!)oint' of the I am no politician, and have no desire

we knew whether he is for us or against us. '!cUIllP;" by letting God reign in righteous. material - thc body - thcse cvils, or devils, for intri!!uc, cte, You ask mc to " listen toThen, again, if the Devil is a necessary , ~

I, k' I . I' . I ness, 1n love, in peace and quietness; but firc all wrong; and it is not only our dutv , your tenchiu!!s, and to acc:clll them'," UIHO,Ill' III tiC "vast cham 0 bcing, wlllC 1 N '1 I J ~

I' G I" ot paIn ess)y (oth God recast and mould but we cannot avoid the etlort, the stru!!· that" cause and e/rect arc insel)arable and

rom Ol began"; if he is one of those ,. ~links without which the universe would be allew n. natIOn," saId 'Vllitticr. glc, yeft, the Hntagonism , to set them right; convertible, the powers that govern, in all. The stake and faggot of early Christians j and iu the trial, in the anto.gonism, we oU· cases, being derived from the go\'erned,"Illcomplete, as well as one which was pro, -the saws, harrows, and axcs of iron, that tain the adnmcement- the !!ood that is in etc., ctc. If "au think thl' Government ofnounced not only to be .. good," but" I'ery D 'I ~ JaVIl caused thc pcople to pass under; as thc to·morrow to be Mexico, of Cuba, or Sl)ain, to sa" nothinggood"; if it be a fact that he did not creatc II d Jhimself, and was in no sense responsible we as the swot' that Jesus brought and Struggling forever, lhi 't it:! l1uderstood of others, arc H derived from the governed,"

~raholllet wielded, must all have becn in In the to-morrow of life there i8grenter good; 01' thatofthc uni\'crse from its peoplc, SOlUCfor what he was, perhaps it will be better the ) a J'rfin 1 e I II " tl H.enchillg foreyer o'er lifc'ij fitful sen,I I' g, 111 ; ! n W0re Ie necessary illustration mi!!ht cnli!!htell m v duIl, ornot to spring the trap on hilll fit present, fi 'fi ltD' 1 I I For the good jUtit ahead. the to-morrow to be. ..... '-' J

for there seems to be 110 doubt that he is re 1I1cr,s re tllat

salt uIPo

tll' a~:eb anl tIe Hcasonin!!; from thc standl)Oint of thc perhaps dark, mind in yOUI' estimation;

anCIClh peop e 0 cal lem, y" way ~ therefore, I conclude you will not bc inter·here without his knowledgc or consent; tl e ) , 1''' Sl)iritual- the soul- these arc all .. !!00l1,"1 Y (ncw no, 0 . ~ ested in anything I might ofreI' in the fu·and if he feIl from a high estate, it must Anlll e c'" 0 ' tilt 11 "cs," very !!ood," becausc the" cxpand andI I' h IS "gain, Ie c ergy nrc c . J J ~ J turc, and have about decided it as uselesshave been from some imperfection in his, 't' 'I D '1 tl • . ) , II develol) the soul, earryill!!; it a little nearel'lIlg us I IS, 1e e\'1 Uh I, wor ong a ~ to make any attcmpt.being, or in SOLUe inability of his Maker to 'I' . I' I' t' t' d ('" the Great Infinite Soul, toward which all,liS I1I1SC lie 0 commo Ion an nCllon, Hespectfully, for all truth,keep thus; for all of which, it seems to me, of war and famine, filling the land with bcing is tending. A, B, CItUBCH,:,~;~OUld be wrong to think he was to blame groans, and widows, and orphans, and To unfold the Deific powers that lay cn· 1'. S.-A., vou brant'll ofr to thc govern.

tears' but Chandler s'lYs , little" blood tombed in the human soul, is the end lor J

\Vhen Job was asked by his wife to I tt' '" I \Vl' .' I .. N 'which e\'ery motion and eU'ort in universlll ment of thc universe, and contend for.. curse God and die," he seems to have I:SS\~'~' is ~n~d WOlI;(\\~~' toS';;;'~ng ~h~t n~::~~~ nature transpires, ,Vitl, one voicc from .. reciprocal relations," allow me to askrecognized him liS having been shipped to a higher standpoint. lIow clare we her countless millions of avenues she calls how you illustrate, and apply human gOY... over the line," in due form, and labeled as ' '[ t t'l) I' I UI,0n us to venture on its Divine !)ossibili. ernment to the government of the universe,sprlllg ,Ie rap un I we 010\1' w lIC I we for it is said to be .. a poor rule that will., good," and" very good." And God not are to catch, God or the De\·il. Shall we tics. not work both ways," and, of course, canonly said that lIe created both the evil and catch the Christian De\'il, or Whitticr's 'Whoever met the Devil ill stern encoun· not be acceptable to you with" reciprocalthe good, but actually sent him on some God, if we spring it now? tel and obtained a victory \I Ithout feeling ,:el.lllonS" Icft out In the cold' Please in.important Inissions. B' .. ' .,..". btl I 1 1 10IU1 ,\hat plogless you have Inadc, say forut suppose Moody IS 1Il\ !ted Into Con. et er preparel to mect 11m t Ie scconl the last t\l entv J. ears, In detennllling which

But then, good people entertain such cou· IbIt 'Ot I tl I tl 'b I J.. ." ... gress, an( y ODe grane coup el' etat Con. Imc' UI Ita s snap Ie COl( S lall HH. S I b,\s the glcatcr exeeutive abilIties, yourself,thctll~g ~pllllOns about H,s Satanic MaJe5ty grcss is gobblcd up in hb gospcl net, will us to a matel ial plane; anti \1 hoc, CI 01 the C,luse of all worills dnd things'that It ,'s ~nough to make many \I'on:ler not they be a "tail" to Brother'Moody's snapped onc of these cords \llthout reel. Columbus Ind, Api'll 12,1876

wlllch '~, nght, ~fte.r ,~I~ Pr?f. Swm~ I" kite," in tlte lIew dispensation of gospel ing he hatl made an advancc tuward Deity' I

quotes Jean P.lUl ,IS S~,) ID" that a scholm and order, pcace and quietude' Vl'ill Il\Thoc"er o~ercame a matenal com!ItlOn For ,he Spirilu.list at Work.canl~ot be ml~elable, to. plove that the Brother :illootly call some of thc higlt dig. Without bnngmg the soul "out of the FH!E~I) 'IYJt,SON: Please allow me aDevil has nothlIlg to do Wltlt hllll-thathc nitarics about him in thc'new order. Will woods" amI nearer the rcalm or spirit' few wortls in reply to Prof. Yan ITyatt,starves o~t, and dies out: :v.here there is Congress bc treated to an essay occasion. 'IVho is it that sees thc most liolls ill thcir \I'as not awarc that thcre was anythingscholarsll1p, culture, and ClvlltzatlOn, wlllic I ally from BrotlterJonathan Edwards, D, D" path, and Devils hy the wayside, but thosc ambiguous in asking for the cvidence tbatthe Hev. ,J. Atkinson, of theLa Salle strect proving that ".Jesus, and Atheist,.;, alld who nrc always looking through thc the intemal fircs or the earth were cxtln.~Iethodist Episcopal Church, in the same Deists, Ita"e ,IS good right to li\'e as any' bloody vapors and clouds they I""'e drawn guished. I cannot ,.;e" the analogy betweencity, and on the same day (:i\Iarch 27, 1876.) othcr good lunatics"? around their own soul.: Who is it that i5 a brick kiln, with the arches closed, andIclls us that these arc his" best hold." Will there bc an occa,ional cssay on eyer seeing evil ill others, and fixing up a the earth with numerous yolcanoes in full

Now let us sec if we interpret him right: Baxter's golden diseo"ery, that" unlimited hell for their punishment, but those who blast, which seems like eddenee that the.. :'trany think "ulti\'ation willrcmo,'c the liberty amI toleration i" to be aIJllOrred'," 11'110 11>1\'(' thc most cvil in their natures? jires arc still burning. Perhaps Prof.. V,

sinful nature. You will incrcasc it by cui. Will they use Cotton Mather', ingeniolls I Tho,c who arc constantly looking for can produce Hubbard ::lquashcs by plantingtivation. Civilization has never made our plan, a rcplenishing the trcasury of the faults to fenst upon, find nothing but thc se('d on a boot-jack. I must admit Inatures bettcr. The Homans nevcr im. Lord with tlte avail,.; of Quakers sold into faults, and arc like the uuzzard. who pre- have nut faith enough in the expcriment toproved by their (:ultivation. They weI'{' shll'ery? 'IYill thcy copy ancl use thc pmi. fers carrion when tit ere is plenty of sweet tr," it. I snppose the soil bears the samemore capable of evil by it." tanical or(ler of :'tlassachusetts, that" no meat, while those who arc looking for good eorrcsponding relation to the ycgetable Ihat

,Ve think we h,,,'e an advanced state of person shall bc admittetl to the rights or a find it in God's dominions evcrywherc. the fcmale does to the animal. If Prof. V, iscivilization, and boast of our sciellce and citizcll unle,,.; they werl' a member or a ::ltlll'gis, April 2, 1876. correct the sced of the animal would gel'.culture, arts and manufacture::;, as well as puritanical church ~ "_ i. e., no Catholic, ['1'0 be continued.] Ininate just as well planted in the defunctour world.renowned free educational sys- "Gllivcl'salist, Anabaptist, or QU:l]u'r, would - - - ~ I'cll1nins of some fcrnalc as in the livingtcm j but when this reverend gentleman an:-;wcr. \Vill thC'y give such lunatics as Fol' the Spiritnnlist at Work. I animal. From your statement you seen1 totells us that" thc DC"i1 is running this Holmcs thirty ,tripe,.;, laccrating them so THUTU 0 TLY DESIRED, bc as finn in thc conviction that this opaquecountry," we inl'0luntari1y shout lIurrali thllt they cannot lie down, or sit dOWII, I FI""~DTJ~~>:y:-"'IYllentwodifreronc surfacc b the extel'llal of our planct, asfor the Devil- hoofs, lIorns and all! when thc)' refusc to hIke otI their hats in must be wrong," 1 think illogical, because ::lhermllll and Lyoll arc that its ccnter isDown with the man who makcs a cage thc lHe,cncc of tlte .. Lord's chosen·" I eal'h m'l)' be in error. Ask how large the inhabited 01' inhabitable. [doubt the cor·and olrers a reward lor uis capturc! 'Vould thc)' fine thc mastl'r of a I'essel mOOIl appears of ,omc one, and tlic repll' reetness of cither, ," the intercliange be-

Hut thc Rev, John Williamsou, of t1w £100 for IJringing a Quakcr into thc eoun· will be'," About thc size of your hilt, or;1 tween the ,.;een aud unsecn would ,.;eem'IVabash Avenue :'tlcthodi,t Cliureh, Clii.' tr)'· \\'ould the!' gi"e us a re·hash of the pe('k measure," when another will say, sulllcient eyi(lence of an extcrnal surround.cago, who, although very pro}l<.:rly douht- Connecticut blue laws, and allow no mot!l<;1' "Allout H~ lar,!.!.'e as a cart wheel , or a hip.- iog, to us invisibl.cj a clilrercllt condition ofing that God would be allowcd his own to kiss her chilL! on ~uIHlay" 01' fast days? (lrum," each bci,,!,: indclln ite, whcther the the same thing, It', as y"u say, my prcmisesway in elcansing govcl'llmcnt ollicials ,llId '\"ill this be thl' way they will catch the whole, or the Sllrfaee of wcl ollly, werc in. I arc 1\\lse, 111!' de(luctions mllst bc; as t\llseregulating thc govcl'Ilmcnt kitchcn at Dcvil. in tlic .. new dispensation"- the tended. Tlii, refers to 1'i"ible objects; but premises innlriably leml to wl'llnl( eonclu.Washington, did, ncvertheless, 011 the same good time coming'! I when i'nvi,iiJIe arc alludcd to. "'Istly greater sions, That )'OU Illay not mistake my<lay, haye faith cnough lcft to unfold to his If they do, there will Iic .. war in lIca"en" diJlerenee of opinion will appeal', with no prcmiscs, allow mc state them in brief:~udiencc Iii,.; plan, wliich (urns out to be agllill, alld somc of the new cOllvcrts will means of proof for thc truth desired, The double condition represented in thethe new go:-;pcl piau according to his 2"ood fall oycrbonnl before they arc half Hedged, I "A po,itioll ag'lin"t ~ll Christendom; seen and unseCIl, cllll theIll spirit alld ll:lIt­Brother )[oody, Not sati,ficd with thc, 1'01' thcre is an nntagollizing Ilnrest and about fIat world,.;; Catholies; Protestant>'; tel' 01' what you please. Hre Interehangll1gcrucifixion of Jhbcock HilL! Belknap, 01' motion at thc holtom of all bcing, 11 eon. I infallibility; the Pope-his pOII('r; ,Ind I'elations, consequently the powers that,\ith Hny pIau wldch ~tateSJllCn Jllight sug- stitutes the essential condition of every Spirilunli"ls doubting yic:ari()u~ atone- ~ovcr!1 arc derived from what they govern,gcst, he is anxious to go in for the gospcl atom a11l1 molccule ilt thc ulli"erse, i\10. ment," arC vicws similar to Illy own; but I and cvery efl(lrt of the nIoollys Hnd Snnkysaccording to Moody; i, C" that it would be tion is thc law and rest thc cxccption, 'l'hc for" spirit am! matter to bc onc and the or orthodoxy or Spiritunlism to susCain theII capital statesmanship to turn Congrcss soul is a thrce, e"\pre:;~ing itself in motion. ~(\Ille thing, wilh,interchanging relations," supremacy of the UlbC('!1 oy('r the !:;('cn is ainto a protrade<l mccting and invitc It is known to us by ih elrects upon Illat. I is whcrc we ditrer, the rea,.;ons for which blow aimed at the fprinciples npon which)Ioody to conduct it," tclling us at thc t('r. It moulds malleI' to its liking, like I I gavc in my last. You make no reply, or I not only am republic but all existence isame timc thnt _" r kno\\' or no other plall tlic clay in thc hand" of the pOllCr. 11 has cven an allusion, "whether this is compli· b,ISCl\. Withdraw the snpport of the sub·"0 fcasible, becausc it is so accordant with no pO\ler tu stop it" motion; but nn inex'l mentary to nny belief'," or the ('IW,<C for my jects of the most absolute despotisn,' on tlieGod's mcthod to save our imperiled IOJ'ablc neccssity compcls it to move on. f'aith is reasonabl(' or eonsbtent. You are tacc of the earth, and ItS power .IS gone.rcpublic." Likc thc ('aglc in the air, it i,.; compcllcd to as silcnt as thc <lend, henee ,uhmit the mat· Apply the same la\\' upon which our re·

But strange as it llIay scem, on lhe "amc keep its \\'ings napping, alld move onward tel' to our remlcrs; aho, that "no eo'rert public is founded to the government ofday, and ill the sallie city, thc Hev, Dr. alld ujlward. It cannot f(lld its wings and sneers" in the stubborn ('acts appeale(lto arc the nniverse and you lHwe my premisesPowcll had lIis soul stirred a littlc on thc lay idle. Thc "anI i, not an article that is I thought or, whether false or tme. You~s placcd Insubject of such kinds of gosjlels as thc to be polishcd up, and laid away to keep it OUIS may be" thc hest GOlel'1lment this juxtaposition \lonld show thcll IclntiveMoody plan, gcntly hmting, as I thought, blight, but it must ha"e,yea, willlIave, a lit· wodd has cvel produc('d," but yonI' proof !mClits ~ YOUIS lluly,tJlllt they wcrC englllCeled by the "OPPOSite I tle motion Hnd fnctlOn, a little collision and l's not conclushe, as I read the lIistol'y of J. 'frnNllY,

party"; ! c, that It cons"ted of celtaln antagonism cvery day The eaglc must flap ancient Glecce and Rome, plevio\ls to the Westfield, N, Y, :'t[alch 20,1870

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Th ~ "t l' t t W k Bremond, )1rs. Lawler, L. ,V. Daily, .Jno. common schools of Texas will rccei"e an I "All aboard," and we left" our colorrrle~plrl ua lS a or, D. Hiehardsoll, n. Harrold, )[rs. Griffith, incentiye that will make them just what brethren" and sisters with their berrie"placed us under many obligations for the they arc int('nded to be, a benefit and bless- unsold.generous .support, good will and kind ing; proYided the legislature ('arries out Now, we hold that there is fault on bothwords. Bros. Painter, Dwyer, Sawyer, Bris· the intent of the new ('onstitution. sides. First, the white race expect too

1'/ mH a man, and 'lUlr.at~ver concerns Humanity to], and their ladies were with us in good The labor question is an important one much from thc~c colored people. Sccond,is no/foreign to "u."-TER~NC£. will and earnest work. ill Tcxns j now that the old:systcm of slavery the black race do not know what to do with

E. V. WILSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. I At Columbia, on the Brazos, we were has passed away foreYer, a new and praeti. their liberty. In this dilemma moderation__ made welcome by Capt. Payne, of the Payne cal one must take its place. Who shall he must take the place of coercion. To throw

W Lette" and Communication, for thi, paper Hotel. Dr. Purter, and others, vieel with the laborers of Texas' is the all absorhiug the black race out of Texas to-day woul,lmust be addressed to E. V. \VILSON, LOMDARD I Du- cach other in making our star pleasant. question of the day. ,Yc lwyc interyicwerl be destructive to her growth; cripple herPACK Co., ILL., until orden:d otherwise. \Yc wish that they were a:-; firm in the faith the while and black race~, the uld master revenue~l and destroy her I'('~ourcc~; hence,

and knowledge of ~piritualiom ao we are, and the freedman, and we are fully per. eannot be thou.trht of for one moment.but they need the e,·illen('e. Col. 'Vm. L. Ruaded that the lJlack mee is the best ,Vhat, then. can be done; 'Ve answ('r sug­Booth, Charles Booth, and their families, adapted to the purpose of tilling the 'oil. gestively: First, drop the "damn nigger"arc the repl'('sentati"eSpirituali,ts of Hemp- They understand the raising of cotton and phrase, and in its plaee use the words" thestead. They an: also lawycrs of no mean sugar cane, wh ile the northern and European colored nUUl and woman, H 01' nlH.n and

TCI'Uls-51.10 for Twenty·six numbers. ability, and men that ('an be tru,ted fnlly, h,borers do not; besides, the hlack race is ac· woman. Second, pay the lahorer for whatSingle COllies 5 cents. and their good ladies arc queens in their climated) hardy and adopted to the customs be does, and do not let him g-et in debt to

houses. Col. Rankin and Dr. Speneer gaye of the country. The ('0101' line is strong in you. Third, build school houses, furni-hus the hand of friendship, and hid us wel- its influence, and markecl in its effect; the good teachers and educate your laborer":

,Yaeo, a city of full 4,000 inhabitant" is come to H~mpstead. These gentlemen arc old time planter will nenr tolerate siwial treat them with respect, yet maintain athe northern terminus of the ""a('o brandl )1ethodists; differing from us in their familiarity with the black race. Raid a digpified distinction between tile employl'rof the 1L & T. C. Railway. The city lies Yiews, and yet they are men in eyery sense \"Cry intelligent freedman to us at Colum. and the employed. Fourth, make the planta.on the right bank of the Brazos rh'er, and of the word, and believe in trying the bia: "Our race need taking by the hand tion the most attractive place to be foundis the county scat of )[cLennan Co. It is Spirits. and lifting up out of the etreets of shlYery. on eyery day on the week, and your helpin the centel: of a line farming cOllntry and At Nanlsota we were entertained by Bro. O"er four millions of men, women and will remain On it, and soon you will findwell adapted to agricuitunll pursuits. and Si,ter Walden, who did all in their children were turned loose in a day, ignor- that more men and women will come toPeaches, pears, !(rape", ligs, oranges, plums power to forward our ('ause, ami the )!iller ant of eyery duty of life; e,-ery one of us your help than you will require. This willand apricots, and all the Ye!!etables of the Bros., merchants, furnished us a hall free adulterers, fornicators and out casts. ~o gh'e you the right of choice in your help.season grow in great quantities. The honey of charge, in which to speak, and our good home, no place to lay our heads; our Fifth,and finally, lead your men to Yietory,bee doc, "'ell, and we eat as fiue honey in friend, )IeKair, the cotton factor, sent ns women and chilliren like cows and calves, aud do not drive them, and thus establish"'aco as "'e have in Illinoi;;. The streetR the finest houquet we e"er saw, for our our men like bullocks were turned out good labor, reliable help, and honest cili.are wide and laid out at right angles with table during the State Conyention. May upon society, not kno'Ying what the first zenship, and pleasant neighbors.each other. 'There is some attention being the truth of his life he as beautiful as this rudiments of society "'ere; not oue in onepaid to shade trees, but not enough. There g-rand 'Texas bouqnet. thousand who knew A from Z, let alonearc many fine houses in 'Waco, and some At Brenham, J. S. Norton, Capt. Bush, reading and writing; besides all this, we"elT fine public buildings. 'The Brazos and their ladies, made our stay pleasant. were naked, houseless and hungry, withoutriY~r is spanned by n. fine suspension bridge ,Ve met )[iss )1artin, a good circle medium, a cent in our hands to help ourseh'es with.of several hundred feet in length. The giving many fine tests. In tbis pitiable condition we were expectedpopuln.tion is a mixed one, made up from At Bryan we met Col. )1itehell and the to whirl into the ranks of civilization andall the civilized nations of the earth. We nIoor Brothers, good men and true, but become orderly citizens. We were plun.met a number of Northern people here, but fearfnlly demoralized by that common dered by those who professed to be ourthe majority arc from the Southern or slave fraud, Prof. S. S. Baldwin. Here we met teachers; robbed by the earpet.baggers;holding States. We like Waco, and believe the only man in all Texas who gave us no killed like wild beasts by the sonthernit will be one of the finest cities in Texas. unpleasant word, n.nd he, a Baptist Chris. skallawag; mistreated by our former mas. ,Ve present our readers in this number ofWe remained in Waco from Saturday A. )1., tian, was anxious to treat us to a coat of ters; refused admission into good society THE SPIHITUALIST AT WORK a chapter ofApril 1st, to Monday A.)[. the 10th, speak. tar. This was expressed at the supper by those who brought us our freedom, and tests, which have never been equaled foring cleven times, with good results, and table of the Buena Vista House, before you, sir, with all you boasted sprititual sharp points in the history of Spiritualism.I~ft with the friendship of nearly if not all many ladies and gentlemen, he not know. truth, founded on progression here and ,Ve have tbe names of all the parties re­we met. ing that we were at the table, but soon hereafter, would bar my soul in its ach'ance ferred to, and can prove them to be as they

~1arlin, twenty miles from ,"Vaeo, is a learned the fact to his own shame and the step, find send me to hell, before you would are here related:thriving little town of about 1,000 inhabi. great amusement of all present. allow me to become as you are through No.1. To a young man in ,Yaco, Texas.tant~, an aeth'e growl'l, founded on enter. Marlin, a live town, where we made blending my rn.ee with yours under the mar· On taking his hand, we were en rapportprise. 'We spoke fiye lectures here, giving friends by the score, among whom honest riage contract; and you dare not deny it. with his past, and there stood before us agood satisfaction, and making many Sam.)1. DuttoJl stood first and foremost, Now, what can you expect of us, look yon- colored man, who said he had somethingfriends. sustained by Hart, Watkins, Williams, del' on the depot platform, see that herd of to say to him, but did not wish to say it be.

Navasota, a town of 2,000 people, very Frank, Norton, and others. )Iarlin is a liye men, women and Children, all wrangling to fore the people. We said to the man thereco~servative, and not now what it was in town aml chuck full of Spiritualists. May sell that man a bucket of dewberries, and is with you, here, a colored man, who has1865-8. Then there were full 4,000 people. it become the capital of Texas. the chances are that he will cheat them in has something to say to YOll, aud if you wil!The yellow fever devastated this city in At Waco lives honest Geo. B. Dutton, the end; and I saw you but a few minutes ago wait a little after meeting we will tell it to1867, and it never has recovered from the faithful and true Spiritualist of Texas, to. beat ;that woman down from seventy.IiYe you. lie replied: "I will do so." Afterblow that God in his merciful Providence gether with his good wife, assisted by many to sixty.fh-e cents for her pail and berries, meeting he came to us, saying: ",Vhat didafflicted it wi~ll. We gave thl:e~ lectures lathers, made our stay very pleasant indeed. I and. yet you ask us to be Christians, Spirit. the nigger wish to say?" Instantly, wehere to good SIzed audIences, glvmg many Corsicana. What can we say of the good uallsts, to be honest and work for our old felt hb presence, then saw him; he was atests. will and full houses we met in this fair masters, or new ones, and yet remain the tine, powerful fellow, and he said: "This

Hempstead is a thriving town of ahout western city and what would Corsicana be 'damned nigger.'" man knows who killed me." "Did be do1,200 inhabitants, and in the midst of a withont earr;est Bros. Geo. W. Shelton, J. H. "You nre bitter, very, and J""'e drawn it'" we asked. "Ko; but he knows whogood farming eo(mtry. \I"e lectured twice Howell and many others' 'Thus the work a picture, as dark as yom own :;kin, I did the killintr." He then show,'d (h thehere, giving five tests in all, making friends goes br~Yely on, and all is well. of your pre,ent anel past condition. This place. ,Ye saw his shanty, or hut, and theand adding converts to our cause. docs not help you; fault finding neyer I two men that did the killing. ,Ve saw them

Colnmbia, on the Brazos river, at the mane anyone better, or impl'll,'ed the can· shoot him. The Degro said: "This manhead of steamboat navigation, once the EDITORIAL NOTES. dition of any human being. The color can put his hand on the parties who killedcapital of the Hepublie of Texas, now a We have just returned from a successful I line I know is strong and cannot be ruled I me." lIlr. --- was "ery much surprised,town of some 800 inhahitants, laying on the lecturing tour in Texas. Visiting Galves· out. In your reference' to become as you and said: "It is a fact. I knew such a case,rigbt bank of the Brazos riyer, ami in the ton, Houston, Columbia, Hempstead, Bren. arc through the marriage law,' we hold can long years ago, but I had nothing to domidst of the great cotton and sugar-cane ham, Nanlsota, Bryan, Marlin, Waco, Cor- not be; if you were as well posted in the I with the killing. This is how itwas: Thiscountry of Texas. Spirituali.m is some· sicana, Sherman and Denison. In all of physiological laws of life as you seem to be nigger insulted some youne: men, one day,tbing new in this town, and yet we had these places we found warm.hearted and with the condition of your own race, yon and they determined to kill him, and camegood success, and spoke to full houses true Spiritualists, who took us by tile hand would not for a moment think of such a for me to help them kill the fellow, but Itwice. and made us welcome. We haye done as thing, for the hybird is not prolific or long would have nothing to do with it, advising

Corsicana, a to\\"n of some 2,;';00 inhabi- well as we expected to, in fact better; we Ii"ed; for our observation proyes that, as a them not to do it; but one night the negrotants, is in nortbeJ'll Texas, 211 miles north like Texas, it is a great State in all that tI",t rule, the mixed bloods arc short liyed was taken out of his house and shot. Sub.of Ilonston, and 127 miles south of the In. I word means. The el imate is equal to that being", whether with the black or red I sequently these young men placed median Tenitory. It is a live town, ful! of of Italy; the soil is rich, and full of those races, and we hold that your nnly hope is to under obligations not to tel! what I knew.enterprise, and in the center of a fine agri. chemical properties that produce cotton, maintain the color line in all its destinetiye· It is far from here, and I can put my handcultural eonntry. ,Ve had full houses, and tobacco, hemp (and there wil! be a great ness and elevate it hy culture and industry; on the men who killed the Digger."the people were well pleased. deal of this last article required for special to blot it out is just "'I1<,t your enemies ,Vhile he "'as reflecting on what had

Sherman and Denison, two new towus purposes, in the next few years, if justice want. You refened to those men and been said, there came before us l\ sweet,near the north line of TexaH. ,Ve spoke in be dOll(' to al! that deserve, both south and women on the platform; there arc twenty. heautiful being, full of life and sunshine­each of these cities with good sueee,s, north), sugar cane, corn, wheat, lJarley, oats one of them all told, they haye cleven a young girl just budding into womau.making friends and opening up the way for and grasses; apples, figs, oranges, lemons, buckets of dewberries for which tbey wil! hood. She said to us: "Tell Cousin __a more extended tOUl' next fall. dates, pomegranates, banannas, plums, get ~5.50, provided they can scI! thcm; now that I am Jennie, and I want him to carry

In our visit to Texas we have been disap- grapes, blackLenies anJ strawberries, to· what arc these people worth on l\ planta- Illy 10\'e to hi:; sister Ida. Tel! her tbat'1poihted in more ways than one, and always gelher with all vegetables required for tion? Please tell me." often sec her and lJim, and that I lovc themagreeaLly. We met with kindne" e"ery- family usc. All that Texas requires is "They arc :worth from $10 to $15 per as of old. And do not fail to tell Ida howwherr, and good will in every town which del"elopement, industry ami the usc of the day." , I came." And then, tnl'lling to us, shewe visited. In Galveston, Dr. E. StonC', H. hoc and the plow instead of the revolver "Very well, you sec ,"t a glance that in a said:" God bless dear Cousin hla," and'Talbot, ,V. n. Pascn, and their good ladies, and bowie knife. Texas needs railroad pecuniary point of "iew this is not their then left for her home in the SummerCol. Thrashel', and Dr. Handal!, afforded us and slack water navigation. Thc system of place, 1'01' they are the loosers by 87.~0 IlL the Land.every a'sistance in their ]lower, and we arc common schools, outside of the large cities, I"ery least. Now you are a leader, go to nIl'. --- observed: "There is no use inunder mauy obligations to them for kind needs the attention of al! concerned; we these people and tel! them wherein they talking; this is a fact. )1y Cousin Jennieword and help. At Houston, Col. Paul I feel J.hat under tbe new constitution the arc wrong and wberein they are right." , was just such a girl as he has described,

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and, next to Illy sister Ida, was my especial I time we write of, and other things which DIe of this lett"r, the man yon saw and de· were twenty.two or twenty.three. Therefavorite. I yield tile point." I we Ilave not room to relate, and bid us scribed stood before my wife, on the porch stands in the background astout, well-built

No.2. In 'Waco, Texas, April, 1876, af. good night, and he left. The wife corrobo· of my house, inquiring if I was at home, man. He was your enemy, and was and istel' lecturing for forty-Jhe minutes, we felt rated all that he said, affirming that it was and when I would lJe at home, and was an- a clergyman, a Mcthodist minister, and isthe divine infiatus. After which, we said: true. swcred properly by Mrs. S., and her de· opposed to you and your interests, and that"Please nominate some one for test read- illany other tests were given in 'IVaco, scription of tbe man tallies with your's. of another. There is a lady in the matter.in?" I which we have not room to pUblish. We After getting all the information he could, You, however, maintain your right and

A vOlce-" Read the man on your leI"!, madc many warm and true friends in Waco, he left, JILl'S. S. thinking nothing of the mat- gain your case, but this man opposes yousitting on front scat, next thc wall." whose memory we shall carry with us to tel', as it was a frequent occurrcnce in my and is living to-clay. 'IVhat do you know

\'\cwenttohimsaying,"Pleaselayyour theSpiritLanel. absence. Thenextday,howevcr,thisletter of it'" Hev.Mr.A. replied: "You havehand on ours-the right hand- thus; do From 'IVaco to Marlin, couuty seat of came to my address, and Mrs. S. opened it, read me correctly. There is just such anot touch us with the thumb." "Can't you Falls:county. We gaye here four lectures, and you sec \I'hat it reads. But this is not case as you refer to, and the man is livingread me from my hat:" "Yes! Giye us \I'itll tests each evening-April 10-13. This all: Two other citizens of this place have to-day, and is a Methodist minister. I pro.your hat." lIe handed us a good-looking is an active little town, full of progressive each received a letter of this sort. And posed to marry his daughter, and did, andfelt hat. We took it on our fingers, the life and energy, and there arc many liberal- what is mOre important, the threat, or he was opposed to it, and done all that hek\lld being inside, and walked away from souled Spiritualists. Orthe Ulany wonder. waming, has been carried out, in the shoot· could to break up the match, but failed:the man. 'lYe had not gone five feet from ful tests given llere, we feel that the follow. ing of one of the parties, JILl'. Parker, who and while we arc now on a friendly fool­him before we felt a reverse wave, which ing;will interest our readel's, for they arc now lies at the point of death in this city." ing, I know that he docs not fully appro,""stated in so many words: "You are de· true: I JILl'. S. then went into a detailed account of the match. I had an aunt such as youceil'ell; be cautious." \\'e turned to the TO. 4. The case of )11'. S., of whom we of all referring to the matter, proving it to have described, only she was not fair inman, who had a wry honest, straight-for. wrote in No. 41. 'lYe are, for the first time, be Olle of those remarkable test cases of complexion. But it is mind reading."wart! look, nnd asked: "Is this your hat, going to repeat a test. It will pay to read spirlL testimony occurring all over our We gave many other wonderful tests insir?"· "Yes, ,ir." 'lYe again turned to it, or so much of it as was not fully ex· country, proving Spiritualism to be true. Navasota, fully identified, among whichthe hat, and our guide said: "Be guarded; plained in our last After giving incidents And this case is one that will go down to was the reading of the Rev. Baxter, whothis is not his hat." In an instant the in his life reported to us by his charming posterity as a base on which to rest the law had said, the day before, "I am alwayswhole truth was before us. 'IVe threw the spirit sister, whom we fully described, we of spirit control. We need not affirm that ready to face a lion or tiger, but shun ahat to him, saying: "This will uot do; it said to Mr. S.: "You have an important Mr. S. takes stock in Spiritualism. skunk always." And yet on the eveningis not your hat; we arc not to be fooled lawsuit on hand, and you arc going to lose No. ,'S. To JILl'. Nickerson, of the Nick. of the 25th of April testifying to thosetill"." There was a great laugh, and then I it. There will be too many witnesses for erson House, a thorough skeptic, came into truths of Spiritualism that he had denomi.the concession that it was a put.up job to you, and you will fiud the whole Bar pitted our room at Marlin, on the 13th of April, nated as belonging to the family of skunks.te,t us, and that they had failed. This in. against you." "I reckon not," he replied. and seated himself in a chair facing us. So the world goes.eident gave us position and character before "'lYell, if ever we sec each other again, you 'I'Ve were at the time talking with " ~Ir. No.. 7. At Hempstead, Texas, April 27the people of W'leo. will tell me that I am right. This lady Johnson, of Ragan, Texas. Said lIIr. N.: and 28. Sitting in the office of Wm. L.

No.3. To a bo~' not over seventeen years here with you is interested in a large estate, "Mr. Wilson, how did my brother die 9 Booth &; Sons, on the 27th, there Came inold there came his father, who spoke words far from here, and if it is not now on hand, When and where?" "J Can't tell you, un· one of those talking men, who know it all.of encouragement to him. The words it will be before three months roll on." less I am told by the brother." "You can- This man took no stock in Spiritualism.made a great impression our mind at the The lady knew nothing of it whatever. not?" "No! 'IVait a momellt. We sec a "It was all damn humbug when spiritstime; they were as follows, as ncar as we "We sec a man "-fully describing him - bill country, and woods. There is a man came and rapped on tables; it was, and IC,lll repeat them: "he stands On a portico before a one story walking in the woods, and he is shadowed don't believe it, for there is nothing in it;

")[y son, I come to you with a father's box house, and has with him a letter of by a man." We then carefully described and there can't be anything told me byblessing, and gl'eet you with a father's love, great importance to you, and we believe it the two men. "The first falls, dies, is dead; the spirits, there can't; no there can't."from the great world of spirits. We are involves a life, if not two of them. You the other man hurries away. The dead There were several present in the room, lis­with you- yOUI' brothers, aunty and I - are greatly interested in this letter, and if it man is your brother, and was killed, and tening to this tirade, when we turned to theand I am proud of my noble boy and his is not now on tbe tapis it will be inside of yet be does not show us any phase of "io· man, saying: "You know nothing aboutbrothers in the manly course you and they sixty days; but we fully believe it is now a lence. The other man is dead also." We Spiritualism, hence are not qualified tohave taken in caring for your good and fact, and the man a living one." "Well, gave the date. "There is here a spirit man, judge of it in any way or manner. Nownoble mother. ,Vork on, my brave boy; Jlir. Wilson, you have told me many won· a LJrother of yours, who reflects upon us a to show you how absurdly foolish you are,be prudent and temperate in all things; be I derful things that I fully recognize, butthis terrible chill, as if dying in cold water, or we are going to give you a lesson. Theresteadfast in principle; have an objective man with the letter, and ILs results, is a fail- fearfully froze; indeed, we feel the effect of is here a spirit of your sister," fully de­point in view, and you will win the victory ure, and I know nothing of it whatever." water and of freezing." We then described scribing her, and giving name, age andover want, temptation, trials and adversity. 'IVe replied: "It is a fact; and when we the spirit man, saying, "He calls 'you time of death, "and she points to your fifoDo not surrender your interests in the old sec each other again you will so concede it brother. There is here ooe other- a spirit teenth year, when you came ncar losinghome by the river, in Alabama; it will be to us." "loVell, it may be; but there is who died in 1863. He was a Confederate your life in the water. And then tells mevaluable to you by and by. And now, son, nothing now on hand that warrants your soldie~', and was killed in the late war. of how you came near losing your life atgo to your mother, and tell her to be of statement." These men arc brothers of yours, and are nineteen years old; but over all thesegood cheer, and "-turning to us the spirit I When we gave this statelllent to Mr. S. it all the brothers you have in spirit life." things, she points to the fearful trial thatfather said, "You will let them in without was raining as only it can rain in Texas, There we sat, facing each other, 1tIr. N. took place with you wheo twenty-two orpay (the four), will you not ", .. Yes; we I and the wind blowing a gale. It was Sun- lo~king steadily at us, not a smile on his twenty.three years old; of the dark, bitterwill." "Thankyou!"-"tell her to come day mornIng, between cleven and twelve fall' face. "What do you know of these hours you passed through, and the break­with your brothers, and I will giye her o'clock, March 19, 1876. At two o'clock in statements?" asked !iII'. Johnson. Said iog up of every social relation, leavingwords of cheer." I the afternoon Mr. S. and the lady left us, :Mr. Nickerson: "It is true, in regard to the nothing but chaos and wreck. And then

The boy turned to us with fine eyes filled fully impressed that through the failure of first statement. My eldest brother left my one other dark scene she portrays to me,with tears, and thanked ns, saying: ":My I these positive statements we had failed in, house at the time mentioned, in good that occurred eight years later in your life.father is dead, and our home is in Ala. that all was a failure. Time rolled on, and health. He had to pass through the woods These statements arc positively true in re­bama. After the war we came to Texas, we :lCard no more from Mr. S., or his case, described by !iII". loY., and was never seen gard to you, £ir, and we know them to beand father diedleaying mother and us three I or the paper. alive after he left my house. He had a dif_ so, for your sister tells us those things, andbrothers very poor, and we are all working On the 11th of April, 1876, we found our· ficulty with a man -the ooe Mr. 'IV. Saw she never told a lie; and she is now heretogether for a little home. I will tell self at Marlin, Fall county, Texas, to give shadowingbrother-aud he had threatened with us rapping out these statements,mothe'r all that you have said, but I don't four lectures. This is the home of ]\[1'. S. brother. Well, my brother was found dead through a law that you arc now rid i­know how we ~an all come to·morrow 'lYe mentioned to JI[r. D., our eorrespond- in those woods. When the news reached culing." There sat the man with blanchednight, for we arc yery pour." ent, that we had met JI[r. S., of Marlin, at I me, I made up my mind that this man had face, open mouth. and eyes staring at ns.

"Here, my lad, arc the tickets for you all. Houston some time before. "Ye"," said killed my brother, so took my revolyer and ilis name was Ware. "Is this true?" saidCome!" Mr. D., "and he wants to sec you very went to Illy brother's house, intent on kill. Judge Booth. "I must think. It is my

The next night they were present, but tbe much. There is a letter on hand that yon ing the man I supposed the murderer of my sister. You have described her as well asmother sat by herself, and came in wben referred to, that he and others wish you to brother; but on reaching the house of I could have done it. Yes, it is trne." "IIwe were uOJ- preseni. Late in the evening sec." Later in the day we saw Mr. S., and brother I found no evidence of violence, may be that she has lied," said one present.the father came, and stood by his sons, and had a long talk with him, when the follow· aod came to the conclUSIOn that my brother "No. She never told a lie. It is all trne.laid his hands on their young heads and iug statement was put into our hands: \I'as not murdered. The man is dead. My AmI that was a fearful time when I wasblessed them, and thus he said, or reJleeted I Said JIll'. S.: "Yon remember our con- second brother was ont in a fearfnl storm, I twenty.two or ~wen.ty.three years old, andon our soul: versation at Houston, on the 19th of MarcIl. and was frozen to death, as has been told. the date later III llfe. Gentlemeo, I shall

"Father of Heaven and Earth send Thy Well, we went on to Huntsville and had My third brother died as JILl'. Wilson says, not ridicule SPt.iritnjaliSml anly more·"r A~d

'. ., the luau maUl cslec nUll" ~e< respect lor tueangel ministrants to watch over my noble our tnal, aud I lost my case. When I got and at the tlUoe and III the mauner he tells spiritual law of anI' bEling.boys. Keep them in the royal highw"yof there, I found the Bar of Huntsville pitted us. It is true-wonderfully true."truth and pl"Ogn'ss, and make them sons of agaiost me, and they had too many wit.- We sat there I~oking at eac~ otl~er - we Our book, TUE TltU'I'US 0>' SPJlWl'UALISM,Thine in very truth. I ask it for their nesses. You "Iso remember. the statement t111:ee - fully realizl.np; the 10glC of Ulllllor- will be ready to deliver to subscribers earlymother's sake." made to the lady WIth me, ln regard to a tality: the sole.mn .unportance of the great in June. \'ve expect to ha,'e copies with

He then I'lilletl to tl,e side of the motller property claim, as shown to you by the I truths underlYing Ilie, and th~'t beyonll the us for sale "t the camp meet ing at Hockford.and wife, gazed long and earnestly into her spirit form of an old man? Well, sir, that stroke called death there IS life, no vulgar Iface. Stooping gently to her, he kissed her matter is on hand, and has been bronght comment uttered by either. We separated, BllOTJIElt .JONATHAN commenced bU9i.on her forehead. then held himaelf up in a up lately by the heirs of a lage estate in feeling that we had been in the presence of ness in 177G, \I'ith thirteen States and 815,615manly way aod ,oliloquized:" Than art N. C., and the lady with me is one of the those we deemed dead; and one more soul square '~liles ~f territory, wh,icl~ was oeeu·

I ,j I ' f . , v . f co is l)a]e heirs', and this matter was not known to was added to the "rand army of those who pled by "hout 3,000,000 M ~l\ llize~l hum"nC lun.6cc I 0\ eo mille. 1. oUt, a . , '. .. ,., h.,. bClllgS. lIe has now a famIly of 43,000,000,and wan. Care hath wrought Its work; and I her at the time she was With me In H. And I kuoll the 1,," and d,,' e to do 11. who occupy thirty-seven States and niueyet thy love is as of old - warm and true." now I come to the most wonderful part of ]\[any othertes\"s equally Important were territories! whi("h embl":l~_e over a,ooo,OOO ofThen stoopin" he kissed her "ently on her all that yon told me. You remember that give'n at Jllariln, which we have not tllne or I square mJles. He 11<:s .0,),000 miles of n:d.

, e' e. I 1" 't1 I'tt.· I' . t t 'eeo'd roads more than sullle-lCnt to reac·h tWIcelips. For a moment her chccklj were tlll~C( you saw a ~lau ~taD<. l.ng ,WI 1 a e eJ, III liS I oom (~Pu on J ,I,,...., ') and ~ half Urnes around the globe. Thea faint blush, as if she felt the sacred lIn- hand, or WIth him, alleclin~ me anti Involv. No. G. At Navasota, Iexas, on the 24th \'alue of his annual agricultural produc­print of Ids lips on hers. He theo turned in~ a life? Wdl, Oil rellc-Iiing home on the of Apl"Il, we gave to the He\'. )11'. Arche:, tions is 2,500,000,000,. and}is gold minesto me and spake sweet words of comfort 28th of March, my II ife put this letter into of Anderson, the folio" Ing test: "There IS are capable at prodUCIng $10,000,000 ,\ year.

. .. f' . I ,., , . ··t·· (. He has now more than 1,000 cotton facto-and cheer, ref<'rring to old.time days of love, my h!lnds. It lS a notlr:e rom some un- Wit I you a \lon'l.ln, no, ) OUI 81' II .)l ries 5aO daily newspapers 4800 weekly,happiness and prosp"rity. ] Ie then in., known enemy warning me to leave the mother, but yot~r nunt," carefully desc.l"lh. and'G25 monthly publicntiol;s. ' JIe has alsoformed me of tlie impression made on her country, or die. 'IVell, sir, on the 10th of I iog her. "She IS now a sjlm!. She gives I many. other thin!'s too numerOus and toomind on Thursday night preceding the March, and at the time you were telling us the following scene. It was when you notonous to mentlOn.-Omro lVeeklvJournal.

THE SPIRITUALIST AT WORK JUNE 1, 1876.

BY XL LA SAz.,"TL Y F1.0YD.

For the Spiritualist at \Vork.

MAMMA, lS DEAD,

Death makes sad havoc in our homes.

W~N;};a~n~~~:~i~;e~t.te~~~heoh~·re;Let papa kiss the bruise.

The childl"en miss her so, and cryFor mamma -" Papa, where is she 1"

I tell them she has .!tone to dwellWith God, beyond the sea.

To-ni&ht the grave mold hides her face.I call, but, oh ! she never comes.

How strange it seems - how strange, ah me !Death makes sad havoc in OUl" homes.

MEDI1.:}IS A~D )IEDI1.:}ISHIP.

Death makes sad havoc in our homes.

Sa~:r~e:~thbai~n~~'hb~~k~ie~dwifeAnd we thanked God for life.

I hold my babies on my knee.And hear them lisp their pra)'ers at night;

While she who should have guided themSleeps. silent, cold :lnti white.

Oh. empty home! Oh, bare, bare hearth!God pit)' those who mourn theil" dead,

N~:h~~hi~~g:~~'2~r2~dbheC;~~s,-Calveston Nnus.

That through her fingers slipped. Thy wed dothgrow,

l weave he thread with mine. 'TIS better so.Hope h:uh but pined since Faith died long ago."

.. • T,iI late (or Hope.? I Sad Voice! Is fail" Hopedead l'

.. Aye. Vester morn she drooped her shining head.Yet, ere she died, I caught the &Iowing thl"ead

HER PERFECT WORK. Ithan we as a people have ever yet been called ends. Sometimes fine results arc obtained Iall l~~der able leadership; they .may bony MARY'. C. ""·'Tll. to pa s through, protect and encourage from a lock of hair, ring or some other classified as, the corrupt conservative, who

" Faith, Ho~ and Patience! "- trusted loilen.fjc - I the nlcdiulllS who mu 'L be used as ag'cnls in Jucmcnto or kc(·psake. wbhcd to exclude froDl the platform every-ii~~isa~~~r~~~;.s~n~v(~i~~~~~~~~et:::~?l hree! the hands of angel:;. ji'or with such utter Bro. ,rilson, what you 'cc and so aecu· thing in the form of agitation that did not

neglect on the part of mauy as has been in rately de'eribe, Bro. II. fa-tens on the swear by their rule. They bclieved inthe past, what better can we expect of me· plate, in ant! a measure Objectifies, and yet a "Pure piritualism," that is, put the stardiumshipthan all mannerofincon isteneies? priest.ridden world cries" delusion, hum. of your principles forward and keep itFurthermore, I would say, as this is the Ihug;" but the mighty stream onward Ibright, pointing to it as the leading idea·ofhour in which woman is called, and must flows, and souls disenthraled from the their souls, and do whatever they pleasedcome forth to the rescue of her enslaved galling fetter of superstition, rejoice In the behind the curtain of profession. Therace, encourao-e her by helping her to knowledge that they live and progress in' second party claimed the right to discussremove the obstacles that lie in her path. the wondrous realms of the beyond. any principle they pleased; demanded away. For as 'he is the natural exponent of 'Ye would say that Bro. II. is associated free platform, without limits in the ex·

"11 Faith, too, d,.d' Alack! For how then dOlh the spiritual laws which must be under· with Bro. Teeple, Xo. 100 'Ve t Fourth pres,ion of thought or the use of language.Th\::~h~'ill g,o,,::'" Then low the sweel Vo;ce stood and obtTed in order that slllvation can Street, in this city, and this firm desen'es They also held it to be their right to pull

.. Patima 'ndurd, and w,ought the wo,k of both." come to Ihe people, should she not above the sympathy and support of all liberal the curtain aside and let the world view thoI all things be encour:lO'ed and lifted up? I minds for the 'acrifiees it is making in corruption in the circle of "Pure Spirit.-I ]<'01' just sO long as she is con lent to wallow behalf of our philosophy. 'V. S. ulllists;" pointing to the false lives theyI in the fillh and mire of false conditions, werc Ih'ing, and to the libel they published

serving mlln in his selfishneos, tlnd thereby ITilE NOHTIIERK ILLINOIS ASSO. to the world in condemning in others whatproving disloyal to her own soul, which CL\.TION OF ·PIHlTl.:".\.LISTi:i they pra~l1eed at home. .says, "Come up hi.~her and become pos,es· AND TilE C.UIP:\IEETIXG. The third, and ~ltltllately the controlhngsor of all things spiritual (instead of things party, bche,'cd 111 a free platform, freosensual and camal), which will proye the To thc Spiritualists of the'Yestern tates, speech and the right of the minority to bedoorway to eternal life for woman, man Greetings: 'Ve call your attention for the heard. 'With steady hand they held thoand child." Then how essential it is that last time to our Grand Ccntennial Camp. ship's bow to the storm and finally weather.we understand and obey spiritual laws, so meeting, to cOllle ofr Ilt ROCkford, Illinois, cd the galc; the press taking sides with thothat we may rise higher liS a people, and on the 7th, .8th, 9th, 10th and 11th of "Pure Spiritualists," and yet the conven.thereby proyc ourselves worthy of Ule June, 1876. In 1!l72 we called the Spiritual. tion proYed a grand success, and many werename of Spiritualists? ists of DuPage Co. to meet us in council at added to our cause. The th, 9th, 10th,

'Vheaton, Illinois. The re ults were so d 9 Id' CFurthermore, I would say, if any law is . " .. 11th an l_th were he III hicago, with

. ," much bctter than "e expected that "e varying success' but in the great resultato be Ignored and set aSide, let It be the resoh'ed to chan"e the n'lme from the -. ' .'.I . I . I' ',. I bl' I .~' prospenng rather than gOing behllld; buta"s tlat man III liS Ignor,lllee ant IllC· DuPage County\.ssoci·ltion of Spiritualist· . _ ..

l · d ,I" '11' f I '- • • , s all through 18,4-5 we had the unpnnclpledness lib lnu c to cn~ a\ CIlll IOns 0 luman to the North('rn Illinob A~sociation of '" :>

Ibeings. Then Spiritulism proper will take I .. " , . . and CO" ardl) Cour,e of the H·i . Journal

. Sptntuah,ts, and to hold OUI second qual., to conlend with which culminated' aa hlghel' and nobler stand, and lhereby terlv mcetin" at St. Charles on the 16th . ' . III

.. , If J lJ l' ,. f 1 'ld J.~ , bold eHort to smash our conventIOn atI prove ll~c t lC cacon 19ut 0 tIC WOJ . AUlrust 1871) Thi~ mcctinfr excelled Our . . _

I~ ,tf II' " ,~. ,- . BelVlderc, Boone Co., Ill., 10 187.), andespec u ), , 'xpectations, and in,tead of being a small failed.

S,~HAH IV. GOODALE. afrair, wa' .imply grand; many hundred Our thirteenth quarterly meeting came

I being present. 'Ye ne"t came together at ofl' in BelYider(', on the 15th. 16th and 17thEDITOR SPIHITC.\LIST AT "'OHK: SO For Ihe Spi,ilual;st al ,,"o,k. Eelyidere, :Eoon CO" Ill., on the 13th of October, 1 7.), with small attendance and

long as mediums are held ,ulll controlled by SPIIHTu.\.L PHOTOGRAPHY. December, Hl72. Thi' meeting proved a he'1\'y expense, and yet our meeting closedthe conventionalities of man·made laws, in DEAR BRO. 'YII.SOX: In this day the gl'1lnd.one, and:ga\'c such universal satisfac· well, commanding the respect and e teemcontradistinction to the highcr spiritual exposure of o.ealled medium., and the tion that the people looked forward to our of all who were present. This was tholaws, what else Can we expect than abor. so.call exposure of mediums, arc so common annual meeting with joyous expectation. first convcntion that fell short of the ex.tions and mallelrmations of every name that we ar' having a general distrust of the On ;the lath of Jum', 1873, 'I'e held our penses financially; indeed it was the cui.and nature' Then the qucstion is, can claims of mediumship, and that too among annual meetin!.( at Hoekford, Ill., when mination of the bitter spirit we had beenthose 'I ho are in authority as rulers to-day members of the household of the Faithful. there came to!.(ether full 1,000 people to hear fi!,\"hting for full two year,.lay the hlame of failure Wholly at the door ",e admit the existcnce of good ground for the words of truth ,poken. ,\.t thi meet· Our fourteenth quarterly meeting cameof mediums, who are subjects of and con· distrust·o far as mediums arc concerned, ing Dr. Kainer. our fil.. t president wa, 'ue· off in Rockford, III., on the 14th, l.'ith andtrolled more or less by the things around but as to the existence of genuine medinlll. cceded by O. J. Howard,:\1. D., of :\lcHenry Wth of .Jhnuary, 1 76. This was the trioand about them, which arc false because ,hip, it is a dcmon,tnlled fact. Your own Co., tIS president, and :\Iilo Porter, E,q., of umphant expre""ion of the pt'ople approv.based upon a false system of education accurate description of deceased persons, DuPage Co., was succeded by Dr. J. II. ing the Xorthcrn Illinois .\.ssociation ofwhich has and does control most of the accompanied \\ ith names, dates and dr. 'e\'erance, of Mih\"aukee, as \"ice.president, Spiritual ists; our huge hall was packed fullafrairs of men! cumstance' special, as ob,en'ed by myself E. V. "'ilson retaining the secretary's dar and night, amI man I' conYerts wcre

Then why is Illere such a eomplaint personally at ditIcrent times and lllHlel oflice, as weIl as chairman 01 the finance ad~ledto OUI: numbers. The third and con.made about the untruthfulness of medium, different drcum-tances, placed the simple committee. The com'ention do_cd its trolling cIa'S had won the Yictory, and!lnd their deceptions? .\.re they not the fact of mediumship, with mc, beyond cavil; labor- al Hockfonl on the 1·31h of .Julle sustained a th'e platform and free sp(·c("h.effect of eau,es lyinc; ba~k of them ~ In bnt on comin!.( to thb city and making the with the full endorsement of e\'ery one and we beheld the re,lllts of principlesother word, do they not mirror li)[th their acquaintance of :\Ir. Hartman, lhe eele. that attended. :\Iany were added to our that we had labored long to cstablish, andurroumlin!.(, ~ and if so, would it not be a brated spirit photographer, I ha,'e enCoun. rank_, and the' eau'e of Spirilllali-m re· lor three da\'s and ni!.(hls our work went

better and wiser way to inve.,ti.!~ate the terel! ,till further proof, of the gt'nuinencss el'iled an impetlls throu!.(h the work of braYely on,' closin!!" on Sunday eveningcauses and seck to remove them, instea,! of of mediumship, as the indiYiduality of these quarlerly mceting-, that \\ ill not be with mnsic, song and speaking, with ~an

stoning the medium to death je)r what he lllan after death. }Ir. Hartman Itas giveL for!.(otten \'l'ry soon in Illinois. inYitation to come to Hockford again.or she may be powerless to ftelp ~ test dcmon ·trations hl'r(' of the mOst Con. I Our fifth quarterly meeting came or in The fifteenth quarterly meeting \nt, held

As a gen('ral Ihing mediums are made to \"incin!.( chanll"tl'r, ancl that, too, \\ ht'n the }[c!I('nry, on tht, 12th, l;Jth and 14th of in Chi('ago, at Grows' Opera Hall, on thesuccumb to what man in Ids earthly wis· manipulation of thl' entire proees' wa, September, l,~7a. Full six hllndrell pt'ople Oth, 10th and 11th of }Iarch. 1~7(j. wa welldom tbinks is ri.~ht. They arc not f~ee to exclllsively in the hand of ti\'e skeptical came togetht'r, discll'Sin!.( l'\'ery principlc attended and ]1ro\"ed a _ucce,_ in e\'erything,carry out their higher pi ritual impressions and skilled klli!.(hh of Ihe camera obscma. helonging to the' well fare of man. Indeed, eltbing with the approntl of all present.if so be these confliet with the flJnller ::IIr. II. has ,ubmitted 10 seores of scathing the eonyention was con,idcred one of thc And now Wl' come before YOU in our(man's wisdom). illl'esligations, and to.day _tands confirmed mo,t profitable e\'er held in the ,re,tern sixteel;th qn:uterlyand fourth a~nlla! meet.

And, now, with thee facts in \'iew, what in the phenomenal phase of his art, beyond 1:itates, or in the l"nit('d i:itatcs. .\.t the ing, culminating in Il grand centennialelse can we expecl of mediums than to be qu(.,tion. lIc Itas not only suumiu('(! to dose of our firth quart('rly meetin'r thp camp meetin;; of ~piritualisls, to be held onthe recipiants of horrible eonditions ~ .\.nd, ,corb of tt'st ill\'e,ti!.(ations in tlte ]>a_t, hut ~pirituali,t, of Elgin, 111.. ("ame I'or\\ anl, the Winnebago ('ounty Fair Grounds, atif so, are they to blame' No! Xo!! Xo!!! is beltln' the worltl at this time with a chal. throug-h Iht'ir eOll1miltet·, and inl"itt'd I" to Ho("kford, Ill .. and we a-k c\'er,\" ~piritualist

Make the conditions what they ,houltl be I('nge to _ke]>tic', \I h(·ther friclllls or foe,. hold our sixlh con\'ention al the dty of reatling- this, our n'('onl, to hmw o,'er.and in nine c",es out of ten tlte mNliums The ]>henomenIlI resnlh do not appear tit Elgin, on the 12th. ]:Jth and 14lh of Decem. hOIlrtlllll pnj alice and ("lime to our calliI'will be all right. :\Iediums O('("upy Ii Yery eyery ,iltin!.(, bnt }[r. II. lrLHlrHnteb such ber, in DuDoi, Opera !lou,c, which W'b meetin.! on tlll 7th antl n'main ""("r Sundayimportant place, and yet a ("rilit-,I1 one. re,ult, til all \\ Ito fayor him with their I1("("epted subseqUl'ntl). Tlte Spiritualbts the 11th of Jnm', 1b76. '1'1,,'re \I ill be anSomctiulCS tlH'} art forced to ..... cn·c tite pnlron<ltrt', Hud in ('a ...c ~uch guarantee is or Elgin \\{'nt back on tht·ir invitation election of ofl1ct.:r... for the l'n ....uin.~ year.II mammon of t1nrightcousn(:,,~;" and, tl1<:l1, not madc ~O()l1, ht· :ltiks no compcn~atioJ1 through c(·rtain }wfnicious anilul1warranted 1st, a. president; 2d, Yic('-pn'""iLlent j 3d,again, called u)lon to be lo)'I1 to hil(lter li)r his s('ITiee,. lYe were f,,\'or('d \I ith the inlluence, and left u- in an unpleasant c·on· secretary, antl commi"ioners for fnturespiritual things. In otlter words made to pril"ile.!.(t' of Il silting. and Oil first trial Ihree dilion; but throu!!h tlt(" prompt action of work. \\"e l1>lye run these me(,ting,; forbridge the chasm between the two worlds, shado\lY ra("es were imllged 011 the !.(la, the pn'sitlent alltl Sl'crctar,\" tht' Op('ra lIou,e four yt',lrs, antl arc willing- that otherswhich is trnly a trying position to fill. plate, antl on tht· ,"('1l11l1 trial the re,ult was wa j"(·tainetl antl our ,ixth t'oll"ention \las -houltl try thl'ir hantl at running the quar.~nd, in the light of tltese truth-, wltat i' !tidily "atisfaetor,\". We had framed a held at EI!!"in on Iltc 12th, 1;3tlt and 141h of t~rly meetings for foUl" years to t·ollle. and

tile duty of a Spiritualist toward such ~ Is theory to a('eount fiJr tltes(' phantom faces, December, 1tl7;3, and" ilh the e"ception of we ;"'UI"e th~ Spirituali:ts that we will notit to crush them, or is it to help and encour· bdie\'illg thllt the spirit- at time of ,itting a ,lig-hl difiiculty produt'etl b.\· tht, oppon. pltlY dog in the manger, but will co.operateage them, so that thcy may yet become hecam,' _ufliciently materialized to make ents of free spet'ch llml ;fn'e platforms, the witlt you in all good work that will or maythe exponent" of grander spiJ'ituallnanifcs_ an imprc:-,:-.ion on the ~en:"litin; collodionized ('on\'E?lltion wu:-; a harmoniou:-- and sue('c~:-;- adYi.\llCC our <:(\lI~e. COIne, thl'n. to Utis,lations tban have ever yet heen shadowed glass; uut other re-ults connected \I ith ful one, and yet our numhers were reduced the first real camp meeting- held in theforth to mortals Y If so, let us bt· up aIHI the'e ph"nomeLUll photos con' ince us that hy the bilter and un]1rinl'ipil'd (il'n'lHlHlof 'Yl'st; come with tcnt" bedding, pro!"i,.doing, for the wt'rk is sadly needed. Thou· OUl" theory is incorn'1. For in'lanee, n ("ertain parties \\ 110 hatl ncYer lak('n any ions nnd w illillg "HIls; come up 10 Rock.sands arc pining and dying- for proper chair on whid! a ~uhj('(·t wa... sitting- ~hows active interest in our as"'(H.'iation, or any ford intent on workiu.!! out t1H' probll'm ofencouragement at the hands of Hpiritnalists. plainly all ih parh, a, tli'tinetly as if no <>tht'r OI''''lIlization, exc('pt to kill tht'lll. life frolll a Spiritual 'land point, intcnt on:\Iany who might becon", bri!;ht in,tru· per 'on had occupied it at tht' lim(·. In >tddi. Our -t'\'enth quartt'rly Illeetin!.( conn-ned establi'llin.; the Xorthern lIlino!' A-socia.mcnts in tbe hands of spirits for good arc tiou to this the spirit picturc:-. itrnorc the in (~r()wst Opera Ilol1~e, in Chic'ago, OIl tlH.' tion uf ~piritlli.lli:-'l:-.on a :"lure ha~i:"l, lo()kin~

neglected, forsaken and cast ofl', Then we focal re!;ults of the ealllera '0 JH'cessHry to ];lth of :\Iarch, U:'7-l, an<1 continued in -cs· lelnmrd to a btatl' organiz;\tion, 't'ated onwould say to Spiritualists everywhere, that n sharp outline in the corporenl snhject. ,ion o\'er the 1.3th. This wa' one' of 'those the rights of mankind, kno\\ ing no se" orinasmuch as you would ~ha,'e the help of ;III'. II. himself has no Iheory of eXPlana., important gatherings on which the fate of creed or cast or color, kuo\\ing only hu.the angels of light to aid you passing tion-tlte l'e.lilt i.,. and there the facl, so far socidies and organizations depend. The mamty, maintaining free -peech aUlI 'I freethrongh a darker and more trying ordeal, liS humnn comprehen_ion is concel"Ded, cOIl\'cntion \\a> di"idel! into three pnrtil", platform; but granting no license to do

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Done at Rockford, Ill., March '9, 1876.E. S~IITIl,

FRED. ll. BARNARD,A. II. F'SHER.

For tht= Spiritu:l1i~t at Work.

FEVEH HEAT.

THE SPIHITU.....LISTS HE.\.DAND ASK WHO ARE

TRUTHFUL.

LET

wrong; our motto being, humanit)' and the Iprived of the right of choice. Has the I 1776- 1876- 1976.right against ccwrcion and the wrong-. representative wOlUan ever elaimed the THE GREAT CENTENNIAL SPIRIT-

Spiritualist, come up to Rockford intent right to a.<sume what is termed male attire? UAL CAMP-MEETING.

on "communing- with the Lord, th)' God," No! '''h)' not? Because she lUlR not The Northern llIinois AssoCiation o[ Spirit.tlnd get the blcssing in the divine flow of desi~ed so to do. Not until shc SO desires, Iuahsts will hold a grand Camp-meeting on thesoul, and fcast on reason. Let Illinois, aud ~s not permitted so to do, can she be Winnebago County Fair Grounds, Rockford,Io.",a,. '\'isconsl~', Minnesota, Indiana and depnvcd 01' the privilege of cxercising this Ill., commencing on Wednesday, June 7,1 876,11lclllg-an he. full)' represented; let the nghl. . . at 2 o'clock, p. m., and will hold ovel Sunday,speakcrs, mecltums and seers be ou hand, Next, let us conSider one of her fights, the IIth, five full days, during which every at­and let the people respoml; let no hitler the lir,.;t, in physical pursuits, viz., the tention will be paid to the wants of those"pirit come with you, but the spirit of har- choice thcrein. Does wOlllan choose to till attending the Camp-meeting. Tents will bemon)' and 100·e. Come one, come all; let the soil, to work the mine, labor in the pitched on Monday and Tuesday, the 5th andIhe ..keptic and unbelie\'er come, fOI' the machine shop, eugage in commercial pur- 6th o[ June. Provisions will be furnished athosts of heaven will be there with the II,!ly suits, plow the oceau, or face the iron s~orm the lowest market price. The grounds areSPll'll. So, coml', one and all, and recel\'e on the battle field? 0 I else, lUethluks, enclosed with a substantial [ence; the gatesthe baptism of Lpiritualbm. , she would make tbat know,., as her choice. will close at 10 o'clock, p. m., and open at 6

O. .J. HOWAHD, Prc81. Her genl'ml phySical pUrsllltS ure those of o'clock, a. m., sharp, each day during the ses-E. '-. ",YILS01\, Sec. her cholcc.. . . sian of the camp-meeting. There will be an

Is woman depnved of her first nght In efficient police force [or maintaining orderintellectual pUl'suits, of choice? Aside night and day. '

If'rom "Ierature, docs shc not pursuc what,. The best talent in the land will be placede~'er cOUl'se of' thought ~r study she choose"lj I upon the platform, as speakers, singers, and1 cs. Is she not also free to make chOice mediums.

!{OCl<l'OHD, ILl •. , 1\Iarch 10,1876. 'Vof Ii t.erature ' hat book is denied to her Meals will be furnished at the eatin"-room,

,re, the undersigned, han' extended an b

im'itation to the ='iortheru Illiuois Associa- that IS open to mau? Does the represcuta- on the ground, at the lowest possible rates.tl\-e woman choose books 01 a mathemat- There will be no liquor or beer stalls tolerated

tion of Spiritualists to hold a camp meeting Di.cal character? oes she choo'e arithmet.ic on the grounds. All temperance bevera"e.

on the fair grounds in Rockford, commenc- blD prcfcrence to geography, or geometry lD and refreshments will be furnished on the

ing ,Yednesday, .June 7 next, and holding f'pre crcuce to grcunulur ~ Does she prcf('r Camp-grounds, under the direction of the

o,'Cr the following Runday; amI to this end I' I' I. c lemlstry to e ocutIOn, or geo ogy to Business Committee.

wc plcdge our hearty co-operation and I IIbotany? s the ebrew pill' e.rcellencc, and The Fair Grounds will accommodate '5,000

support. F I /. . 1 I .renc I (/.'[jll"tw[j. S she III ecstacies people. Full arrangements will be made [orF. l? Follett, E. Smith, E. Crowell, "G'! b ' D I I F II f tI

Emma B. Smith, '''m. Archibald, A . .J. o\'er I) ou s ec me au( ; a 0 ,e cheap [ares on the railroads connecting withRoman Empire," while II IIiawatha/' un· Rockford, of which notice will be given in due

Story, Wm. ;lL Brearl)', W. '\'. .Johnson, J. cut, is by hcr side' Is she enraplurcd with time.

W. Field, D. L. Baltlelt, F. Trusdel, A. II. Darwin and Huxle)' to the exclusiou of the There will be a news stand for the sale ofFisher, F. Lillibridge, .J. II. "Morrill, P.

"Latest Novel;" 01' buru midnight oil! in Spiritual and Liberal literature. All hawkingLillibridge, ;III'S. W. W. Barrett, ;lIrs. .J. W. I . "C t' P J't' IE"Field, Lorinda G. Browu, Sylve,ter COll, I evoul'lng ur IS ou ° I Ica ; couom)', or peddling o[ goods of any kind will be pro-

while "Lo\'e Rewardell," Or "How Cora hibited on the camp ground.:AIrs. F. II. Barnard, :illrs. S. Scott, Fred. II. t II b d" I . d

go a us an, are ylllg uuopcne on Families with tents can enjoy every homeBarnard, ;lIrs. ;I\,.J. Hockwood, ;III'S. ;lL J. th h If'Colson, .John ,rallis, ...... Coloon, 1\Iiss ;lIary e e . comfort they may desire.E. ,rallis, E. P .•Johnsou, .John Goldsmith, Is she depri\'ed of her first right in the These grounds are beauti[ully shaded andCharles B. Peterson, ;III'S. S. S. Fbhcr, D pursuit of' happiness, the manner of scekiug watered, are o[ e..y access by rail or carriage,

it? Docs -hc not seek halJpI'ness l'n her I d ltd th "'t [ [ thC. ?lIe Dougall, F. II. Brooks, aud thirt)'" an are oca e III e VIC1l11 y 0 one 0 eothers. owu way 9 The little girls seek it in un· finest cities o[ Illinois.

Thl' abO\'c call spl'aks 1'01' itself, and lies dressing and redressing thcir dolls, playing Spiritualists o[ Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne-DOt. ,rC publbh it not in any boastful l( tea :party II or ., rnaking call ; tl as they I sota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and Michigan,mood, but to show our readers the differ-I advance thc all ,dcsirable object is a ncw we specially invite all of you to come to ourence between the true and the false. hat 01' dress; a little lattcr a .. beau;" next Fourth Annual and First Grand Centennial

It marriag-c; 11 then to .1 go a shopping/' Camp-meeting. Come with your home social

Imake and recei\'e calls, eulogize the fash- influences, with plenty of bedding, with ham-

For the Spiritualist at \Vork.. . . . . ... ," .. _ _ ' lOllS, dISCU~~ the latest scandal or canvass pers filled With provlslons: come With tents

0';, ,'tIL\.: l~~~'t~l,~LA~ ,RIGIITS _IS the matrimonial prospects of Kate Eligible. large enough for others besides yourselves.I liE HEPHL E~ 1.:'1'1"\ E ,'i"O;l[A~ The representative woman 'eeks happiness Come with your souls [ull o[ love and your

DEPIU, ED? within that limited circle whieh excludes I hrains freighted with wisdom. Come up toIt ma~-seem strangc to the /reneral reader all but her and hers; iu that circle of her our First Centennial Camp-meeting, and let

that ODe who cornmenced life in ~pirit own circums.cribing, ~hc has no rival. She us have H a flow of soul and a feast of reason.""pllt're O\'er forty ycars ago, with an exper- docs not fail to fiud the happiness for which Our platform will be a free one, and free speechien"I' of Ie" than ,c\,('nteen YI'ars in thc she seck, because she is deuied the right to will be tolerated; this, however, grants no li­phpical form, should feel a personal its pursuit, aOlI to choice of ways and cense to do wrong, or warrants the use o[ abu­interest in the present agitation of the means therein, but hccause she limits the sive language.subject of woman's rights, as developed in field of search. Docs uot woman exercise By order of the N. Ill. A. o[ Spiritualists.arth sphere; but such mistake arises f'rom all her natural, individal rights' J. O. HOWARD, M. D., Pres.

a mi">lpprcllensioll of rcal conditions exist- If man seems to have more Or greater E. V. WILSON, S,c.in/r ill spirit lift" one of which is the link natural, individual rights than has woman, Lombard, Ill., ~larch 14, 1876.of connectIOn ('~lsl1ng between the two their .uperiority consists in man's grcatersphl·re~. ContlItlOns II) one spl~cI·e. eflect capability. Instcad of transfering somcth~sc 111 the otl.ler; he~cI" thl' II)dl\'ldual of his rights to woman, let woman improveSPJl'lt ,,:ho perccl\'es thiS truth feels n.Jcas- herself and crcate rights, tlH'reby raisingurahly Int('restl·tl for the snccess or fallul'e the ,tandard of her usefulness, and iucreae­of a pr.oposed measurc in earth I~fe, accord· the ag/rregate of human happiness.II)g to Its tendcncy for good or e\'ll. Wheu- I LIZZI E ST.\XWICl<.ever an erroneous idea is conceL,'cd, aninjury is incuJTc'd j and whenever a corrcct !

idea fails of realization, through an appli­cation of wrong mt'asures for its attainment,an crror is the result. llno. WrLeoN: It is po,.;sible that the

I understand thc basic object to be fcvl'r heat days of Spiritualism arc goneobtained through the woman's rig-ht~ forever? New towns and young ('ities inmO\'emcnt to be the improvement of Itheir commcucement have their fever heatwoman's condition. This is a wurthy periods, after which they settle down toobject, which is pnt fOrth throu.~h the dis- steady ways. Jn this respect Spiritualismcoycry or the truth that woman's conditiou may not be unlike thcm. Great lecturersis susceptiblc or impro\·cml'nt. If right I and cxeellc'nt mediums would not thereforemeaus are wisely usc impro\'cment mu,t be be less needed; the work docs not stop, itrealizl'd; whilc - failure must be thc eonse- is simply "haracterized by mOre regularity.quence of folly in till' "'leetiou Or application Possibly wc are ill a sort of indescribableof means. Beli,'\-ing that wTong means tl'iJl)sition state; possibly the trouble isare being usNI f()r the attainment of this with thc spirit world. Ju war as in peaceohjeet, the writ"I' fccls justified in qucstion- we sometimes proceed until a "change ofing thc validity of certain claims set forth base" heeoml's neccss",'y beforc we cau goby man)' peniOns WIll) arC professed I)' work- ou. Possibl)' the spirit world commcnceding for the attainment of this grant! object. this movemcnt hastil)', and witb butOne of these claims is, U that worn an is little organization or arrangement, nnddeprh'ed of many of hcr natural, individ. have procceded till thl')' find themseh'csual ri/rhts." Xatural, indh'idual rights Icompelled to hall in the march to rc.adjustmany be dh'ided into sevcral classes: ht, I thc order of their forces; possibl)' theconcerning respiration,; 2d. concerning ail- U familiar 'I clements of the hi~hcr life arcment; 3d, concernin~ raiment; 4th, con- carrying too high a hand. ,Vhate,'er Ihecerning physical pursuits; 5th, in intellec- cause of thc present quietude (not apathy)tual; 6th, in the pursuit of happinese. Ict the speculati\'e con,id 'mtion bc kept up.

On the first two thcre is no issue, but in E. ,V. BALDWIN.the third it is claimed that woman is de- Milwaukec, Wis., April 8, 1876.

TIlE SPIlUTUALIST AT WORK: J l'l\'E 1, 1876.

Philadclphia, from Thomas Fewkcs.-[n.closcd is 1.10 on accoun t of THE 1'11<11'.

U.'LIS·l' A'r ''fOHK. Final cttlcmcnt to bcmade on this Ill' thc other side of Jordan.

Burnsidc, Pcnn., Mary ~\.. Irwin writh­I wish to renew my subseription to TIfESI'IHtTl'ALlST AT 'VOl\". I can hardly·pare the, 1.00, but w ill do without somcother things sooncr than do without yourpapcr. I like it piritualists arc S('arcebcre. I long for somc good m('(lium tocome this way that we Blight have "omecomrnunitation:, frOtH OUf lo'-cd onc~ goneLJcforc, Angels guidc you in truth andrightcousncss.

:Many lettcrs rcmain on file, which couldnot bc attcndcd to on acconnt of my longillncss. I hopc you will all hc paticnt andb~ar with the dday, alI(I trust with return.ing hcalth and strength SOOn to be ablc torcsumc thc dutics pcrtaining to this depart.-mcnt. 111. E~fERSON WI LSOX.

HALf' WAY up.-With the light I nowha"e, I cannot asscnt to the truth of all thatSpiritualists eontcnd for. Just as whcn Ircad Pyc Smith on gcology and the Biblc, Ifeel that I know amf believc qnitc sufficientto !rive me uo little anxious thought andlabor in rc.a'TaIl!ring my idcas of Scripturctruth, and 'Idnpting them to thc light I havereccived. Tid will bc work enongh forthc prcsent. "'ith regard to thosc pointson which r fc'cl considcrable doubt and dif.ficulty, I \'cntnrc to s,ly that, not only maythcre be a ~id(' othcr thau that which I nowsee, but one or morc aspects of the truthwhich 'piritunli,t t!Jemsclycs j"l\"c notdiscovered. Thcre are threc states of mindin which a man ma)' lie iu rclatiOIl totruth-dcnial, convictIon, and thc suspcn.sion of judgmcnt. I deny none of the facts,nor the rcasonablc inferences Spiritualist,draw from thcm. I am com·inccd of thctruth of "cry many of them, and as for there,t, my rclation for the prc cnt mu,t be asuspension of judgment.-Rer. 11"irkh'!/l1T(}zer.

Alfred Domett, thc poct, descrihes sneral"pecic of that \'cry curious inscet the phalnid. or It walking*stkk," mct with in Nc"wZcaland, and '0 called from its sin~ularlikeness to withercd twi.!!:s or stick,. ~Onespecics has wiu!rs like dclicatc leaYcs, andauother resem hlcs a brill iant !!rccn shoot ofa plant coycrcd with thorns. 'rhey are fromthl'('c to sC"en inches long, with slendcrhodics, and legs which thcy lift hi!rh otr thcground in walking-, as if on stilts. Their1110YClllcnts nrc slow, and the," will remainfor H. long time motionlC'<.;..,: iI~l any positioniu which the)' nrc plneed, on their backs.and e\'en upright on thcir two hind legsand tail. )[r.'Domett kept a numbcr ofthcsc phasmids und('r a tumblcr a t(,rtnigbtor 1110re, when he founel thr :-imalll.':o,l speci­mcn dC'lld llnd partially dC\'flUrcd h)' itscompanions, ami thercupon hc killed th~

rest by placing them in ~J1irits of witH.'.

B1e'Sed be (he hand that prepares a pleasurefor a child, for there IS no saying when andwhere it rna)" bloom forth.

Recollect ever that the purity of the thoughtsand the motives are now building the spiritualhome of each one, are now fashioning thespiritual body of the fulare life, which will bebeautiful or the reverse in exact accordance,not with the seeming life, as it has appearedin this world, bur with the hidden life within,-London Spin"fuali,sl.

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For the SplrlluaJist at \Vork.

BY MRS. M. J. D1LLINGS"

living IltlJartmtnt.

You say I am merry, I'll tell you why,I often laugh to save a cry.My heart its bitterness h:uh known,But why make others feel how loneMy woman's heart can be at times?

I often laugh to save a cry,And if I laugh I'll tell you why,To hide the cup of misery drainedFrom other's eyes to s:;lye them painThey could not help me if they would.

And now I laugh with all my might,To think how soon it .....ould tak.e flie-htIf I but tri~d to stop every holeMade by poverty with his gold;It would not last me until night.

I often laugh to save :l cry,When little children go shivering by,Clothed in rags, and pinched with want,And see the rich man sit in pomp,And wonder why his gold aint mioe!

I often laugh to save a cry,When in neglect J see passed bySome worthy object in distress,By rich, and proud with haughtiness,Whom they could help and save from death.

I often laugh to save a cry,Thinking of the days passed by,When summer friends around me flocked,In adversity they knew me not;Vlhy should I mourn for them?

Then let me laugh, it keeps despairOut of my heart I while many caresAbsorb my brains, and body too,And laughing still, I think of youWho would cry with half the cause.

I often laugh to save a cry,When dark clouds obscure m>" sky,And if the rain in torrents fall,I have one comfort over all;Death comes, it cannot always last.

I OFTEN LAUGH TO SAVE A CRY.

And always laughing l will I prayFor just such sinners while I maYIWho curse the world with sobs and moans,And with their sanctimonious groanSIBe kept far a",·ay from me.

Iwith the sanl(' force and anthority that Iship whcrevcr wc lllay roam, whether inthey wcre from the S:ll~lC s'!nree agatnst the this sphere of life, or ovcr there. If wesolarsystcm, thc sph('rl('allorm and (hurnal would rid onrs('\"es of slavcry, we must

Imolton of our earth, and thc eXlst('ncc of .In this Department everything pertaining to the ad- antipodes, hut they will gi,'c way when study our~cl\'cs; dOIng so, we ~hall have

, ll.ocement and e1evat~on of woman shall have a science settles her points and demonstrates no time to waste upon our neighbor, noplace, and our children also: who arc. to bethe men her problcll1S. It will he argued that luan)! fault to nnd no censure or condemnationand women of the future. What they will be, depends j species, fiS well as all past g-~Jl('ration~, for an' on~. Socict? would then ri!:rhlupon what we MW teach them. Il[\\'c dcpartcd for good, and clt.appcarcd. .) ..) ..

from our carth, and "ClUl'n no mor(' forc"er; Itself, and Justlc'e wonld re!rulatc the sealcs; IBY M. EMERSON WILSO. Ibut as thc univcrsc and ~reat unboundcd I and in the palacc home of the ,oul happi.

. . . wholc IS thc same ) esterday, to.day and ue,s and frcedom would rcign in hli..fulLetters :and communicatIons for t~IS dep:utment foreYer, and the qUAntity of maller, ~pace ....1 ..

must be addressed to ill. Eme~S(m Wrlson, Lombard, and mind is Dot incrcascu nor dccrca:icd by unc1cl~l~ln(lI 19 and l~n.lt).Illinois. Mothers, sisters, friends, one and all, send creation or annihilation, there is surely as AdrIan, ~lay 2,1 dlu5/iving' trulhs, life experiences of your own souls, much rOOUl as there e\"cr was, and as muchand let us live our real selves, our inner life, and seem Juatcrial, and as rnuch energy or force, as CORHE~P01\DEXc.:E.and be to each other what we really arc. I rnuch God and nature, law and order, aod

why not as much life and as many forms, Scotts,)!ich.,:Mrs. Adcline Cooke writes­e"cn though they illay chanl(C place, gar. Inclosed plcase find two dollars to pay forments and evcll worlds? ]\(ay not those TilE SPTlllTUALIST AT WOllK. I am intcr.cvcr adapted to this planet, and not now cstcd in the work, and heli('v1Il!r you truth.adaptcd to it, bc on onc that they arc

Iadaptcd to, and it to them? and lllay not ful and persccutcd, willin!rly hold out thcour anccstors hc wantoninl( still in bcing ,,·idow's mite to help battlc for the trntlL

, morc or less advanecd than thcy wcrc here, I am sevcnty.thrcc ycars of al(e, but amaeco~'dll1g to tbe snr!'ound.'ngs. and thc I~CenlY alive to the good \I·ork you and

Iquality of the mate... al of whIch theIr .bodily garmcnts arc made? Why not? Is armcr )[ary arc cngagcd In. I hopc youinfinity inadequatc, or not good cnongh for will bc able to continuc your paper till Do IT No\V.-Don't livc a singlc hour ofsuch a magnificcnt carecr of ctcrnal lifc to cvcry wrong shall bc rightcd is thc wish your life without doing cxactly what is torail to our lot and thc lot of all beinll:s? or of an old lionecr in thc causc: bc donc in it, and going straight throl1l(h itIS not Naturc and hcr rcsources suthclCnt I from bcginning to cnd. Work, play, study,to fnrnish the supplies and the variety in Pctersburg, )lieh., Mrs. ,Jennic Kcllogg whatcver it is-take hold at once, and finisheternal timc and infinitc spacc? 'Vc think \\,.ilcs-I wish you to considcr mc a lifc it up squarcly and clcanly, aud then to theboth are snffieient, and in time all will bc. . next thing, rriUWlll lettinrl nny mCtment8 dr(}prealizcd as seicntific trnth, and thc theories subscnbcr. I ought to havc wntten before, Ollt betuten. It is wonderfnl to sec howof Christianity will he swept away with but am depeudcnt upon myself, and have many hours thesc prompt peoplc contrivethe dark agcs to which they bcloug. Lct carned the money I now inclose ($1.10). to makc out of a day; it is as if thcy pickedseicnec dcmonstrate immorta.lity, and thc lily husband has passcd over thc river. up the momeuts tbat the dawdlers lost.world wIll clasp sClencc to ItS heart and . And if cver you find yourself wherc youI e1in" to it as its Savior and more tena· )[ay you prosper 111 your work. have so many thin!ts pressing against uponcio(~ly than it CYcr has 'to any of its idol Jamestown, N. Y., 1Ilr". C. E. Brown you that you hardly know how to hcgin,gods, who could at bCst only ave a small writes-Ineloscd plcasc find $1.10 to apply let us tell you a ccret. Take hold of thepart of c"en our racc, and lea,'c all othcrs . . ' vcry first onc that comcs to hand, and yonto pcrish.-Brlllller of Liglit, .lfay 1:3. on my subscnplton to TilE SPIRlTUALIST will find the rest all fall into file and follow

.~T WORK, Go on, brother, and may richcst aftcr likc a ('ompany of well drilled sol.blessings rest on )·ou and "our com pan· dicrs; and though work may hc hard to

For the Spiritualist at 'York. J lllCcl when it ('hili-goes in a ::-quad, it is easilyA VOICE FRO)[ JlIICHlGAN. ion. I deeply sympathise WWI you, and vanquishcd if yon can bring it in line.

BY )IARY M. D. SilEIUIAX. hopc ere long to heal' of .ister 1\iJson' Yon may ha,'c oftcn sccn the anccdotc ofThe world is full of slavcs. Wh ? Be. recovery. Long may she Ih-e to su tain th~ man who wa. ask.cd how he aCCOlll.

y I I···· I' b fl. pltshed so much 111 IllS lifc. ":\1)- fathercause freedom is not to bc fouud as socicty I anC strengt len )OU In .Jonl ,lor 0 o'c, I taught me," was the reply, "when I hadexists at thc prcscnt day. Entcr thc From your eo·workcr 111 thc field of pro· anything to do, 10 go aud do it." Thcrc ischurch; docs frcedom cxist thcrc? Not at gression. thc se~ret-the magic word norc.-Bo.tonall. Crccds, blind faith and pricstly intol· I Otisco, irs. E. Wctcr writes-Incloscd Inu,llgnlor.erance forbid qnestioning upon points vilal is $2.50, rencwal for mpelf and fricnd,to soul growth, frccdOlll and progression; Mrs. L. 111. ]\(oon. 'Ve want you shouldconscquently stultifieatiou and sh"'cryarc consider us lifc subscribers as long as yourthe results. Shall wc find frcedom in the papcr continucs to bc what it is and hasmarital relation? Undcr the prescnt sys· becn. "'c anxiously look forward fromtClll of rnarriage laws, men and women Own one issue to anothcr, for iL is laden witheach other, and it is, ),OU shall and )'ou good chccr and loving words of truth. Wc

Ishan't, you may and you must, or thc bolts say, go on, brothcr, you shall havc our bestand bars of authorit), will confine yon to wishcs and support; and may thc augelssccming obedicnce and marital slaYery. hclp you to hear your hurdcns.Said a dainty, f,lshionablc )Iiss to a sla"e- Snmmcrtown, lIlich., from E. O. John. Itoiling drcssmakcr the other day, how shall son.-~1.IO to continue suhscription to Xo.

I I havc my silk drcss madc so it will look 52. If from del a)' m)' namc is off yourwell for church as wcll as:tIlC strcct ~ As I book pIcase send me back numbers, as Ilistcncd to the claboratc trimmings which wish all thc story of Thc Brokcr and his

IVIIAT IS ORGA IC LIFE? wonld bc necessary to makc thc drcss pre. Victims. I think it is about thc bcst thingBY WARREN CilASE. scntablc, I thought what cxtravagance, non· out.

Scicncc is stcadily encroaching UpOIl the scnsc and abominablc sla"cry! 'Vhy will Plymouth, Ind., )[rs.11. ,Yo Smith.-Indomain of theology, aud settling in hcr in· womcn wear th('ir livcs out iuch by inch, closed you will find post office order, . 1.10,fallible way questions of the most "ital im. catcring to thc foolish f,lneics of thc tyrant for rcnewal of subscription. lYe loye TilEportance to us. Recently she has bccntracing organic life to it> gcrms or tartin" fashiou and hcr countlc'" dup('s. ,rhy SPlRI1T.,US1' A'I' "'on", for it eomcs to uspoints, and not finding God thcrc creating will thc drc"smakcr stitdl, flounce and ladcn with thc 'pirit of kindness and loycbeings, she is half inclined to leavc him ruflJe at the cxpcnse of health, streng-th amI to all, nn elcmcnt so much needed to soothout and not recognize his participation in patiencc? Bceau'c shc is a s""'e and led thc aehin!!. hcarts that arc almost crushcdthe creation of man or bcast, since shc ,.find~ the same law that produces the plant, captiyc iu society'S galling chains. l:lociety with cruel censure. )Iay your little" Pct"the IUsect and thc beast, produccs in the calls women good and bad without con· Ih'e long, and find its way into thc homcssame way hnman being-s, She has fol· sidering circumstances of birth, ('ducation of thousamls to teach them to undcrstandlowcd cach order and divisiou to the cell, and surroundings. To thc good shc grants and apprcciate our bcautiful philo:;oph)·. Ito thc nucleus, to thc protoplasm, if not tothc final gcrms, and thc further she traces thc frcedom of associalion, to til(' bad she hope the time is not far distant that wc willthem the nearcr thcyapproach cach othcr points thc linger of ,('om, and bn\llds thclII I rcc·civc a w·cckly, inslead of a monthly. as ,in condition and rescmblance, anel the with iniquity ami shallle. Docs society at prcscnt. "'[ay sueccss bc ymlr,.nearer they resemble a singlc simple sub· realizc that the wom('n shc temb had arc "~III. Knowles, Hattle Creek, )Iich.-lnstance, if they havc not alreacly, ill themind of thc scientist, resolved th('mscIYcs what ,h(' mak('s thcm in a grcat mc'asurc, this you will find 5:3 cts., lo:pay thc balanccinto it. When that point is g-aincd, as we and that tlll'se womcn, in thl'ir Gcthscmanc duc on your paper, TltE SPIHl'l'liALlST AT"!have no doubt it will bc, and that snnple of sutft!'ing, arc gaining an experience '"YORK, as 1 don't propose to cheat <ltly onc,elemcnt is fonnd to be the force or ('ncrgyof the matcrialist, thc spirit Or mind of the which will compel"atp them wl\('n thc soul and want to kecp "Iuare with thc world, II>

Spiritualist, and thc god of !he theologian, has sen'cd its timc and hcen relca,ed from nCar as may hc, and as I happencd to gct aWhICh, 01' wlw, creatcs all lonns of cxist- slaycry in thc body to custom, eirculll. Iilllc cllange, thought I would ,('n(l it Iencc, animate and illanimat(~, then OIH' :-.tnnces, and tyranny ~ The wholc world is forth.more point remains to hc cstahl ishcd an(1thc w~rk is dOIlC, and theolo!ry may ':Nire aim in!! for happincss in it, multiform shape Xew 1[artfonl, BUller County, Iowa.. C.and sClencc take the ficld as conqueror, and and way'. \\'IH'n th(' dcsire is allained Chapman say· - Friend "'ibon: Hearingas haYing ('stablished immortality, or ('(pr. which in pro,pccth'c sc('med so r"al, they from SOllie of my triend, you \I·en' puh.nal life for all beings, cach in it:) order anll find ilunsati::;factorr, '"ain, and l1clu:siY(', as lblting a papcr, and knowing fronl thcforol. with new garments or coyerin~, hutnot IU a IICW form or ordcr of or~allie cx. far a, the real b ('"ncorncd. IIow can the acquaintan('c 1 hall "ith you it wonld hc aistencc. This onc morc point is' to ('stab· world bc rid of ,lav('l'~" By ('aelI indio li,'c papcr, and onc it would do to take, mylish the fact (if fad it bc,) that this ultimate \'idual uIHlcrstan(lill~ tllC corn'ct needs of ,on sent thl'Ou!!h fricnd ~herman,of ~\Jgon.esscncc, ~r spirit fore'e, C'II('rirY, milld, or the soul, a, wcll a __ of the body. The quin,.thc (lollar, allll "C r('ceh·ed th(' IHlllcrwhatever Il be, is PAHl'lCLED ill an intinit~"ariet)' of forms, and in ullimatin'{ or simplc ",Inls of lI,e hody are few if in" in duc time, and 1 1Ia"e bCl'n "ell plca.cdrObing il--elf fore"er follows Its gcrminal lIc'alth)' condition, '"Hl the ucan'r onc lin" with it tonc and hold plain truths. Lct itshape and rClllalUS in it, ord('r or di\'bion I to naturc, thc ncan'l' he i, to God, frecdom hit who and when' it JIl'''', and herein findoj crCllltOIl plant plant Hnim'll 'mimal . . . 1 .and Ulan l;lun, foren~1" ;lJld Of}( wilah'vcI~ and IHlppllll':--~' 1J \\"t' would 1"1( oU~'~cIYCS another doll;\r and. IWCIl:,}" cenb to pay Or Psychometri~~d~li:e:~~~·~~'characterwo~ld it may appear, and in whatm"er HUlt. of slaycr}, WI' shouhl lJO\\ to no shnne ex· P<bt postagc} and \\'I~h, With all my heart l MARY!\1. D. ~IU'"RMA:-; would respectfully announ~~rts~ter It may be robed, whether in the ('oar "(')' C('pt COll1mon SCJhiJ; \\ car that which uc- you could tuake it a we{'kly. Your~, for the th~ public that she will, upon reception of a letter ~on-Of' finer llultcrial of carih or sky-a scnsual comes our position in IiI'£' dccoratinlr the truth '\m1 ''I. frce phtfonn ~Hr taanlngp~o~ogr:lP~(~o be.retlrne~\lmonth ofcb'rt~,and degraded mortal or 'l l>ui·C' '\11<1 hoi" . , ~ ~". :t~el marne or sang e, .an~ma an owe.r pre c:rre ,

I .' ~ , Y sl>il'il instead or the frail casket· cat to Eliza )1cl'(,(:1' Co. III )11':-'. Geo GIHllt)·-r give an acc~lrate descnptlon o~ the leadlnR" tr:uts. ofauge:, au analtd or a hUllcrfly. 'Vc arc "'.' . l character, With marked changes In past and future lifeU\\~l'C.: that the thousan~l arguments of tlH'. sustain lif(', ~tl'('ngth and vitality i grow :-)('IH1:-; 1.10 to I'('IH'W her suhscriptioll, with Terms, $1 and two posta~ ~tamps. Ad~res~,ology will bc arrayed against this thcory thoughts IIhich lIill gh'e us companion. I kiml wishe, lor its,ucee,s. ~lRs. MA ~;~·02~5,S~~;~~~'i.~~h.