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PREFACE.Tbe reasons which have Induced the w riter co ont.

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For nearly twenty years tne writer has been deeply engag ed in investigating tbe hidden realms of occult force, and, the results of these mystical labors were considered to be great valne and real worth by a few personal acquaintances wbo were also seeking llgbt, be was finally induced to con dense, as far as practicable, the general results of these re searches into a series of lessons for private occult study. This idea was ultimately carried out and put Into external form; tbe whole,when completed.presentlng the dual aspects of occult lore as seen and realized in the soul ana the stars, corresponding to the microcosm and the macrocosm of an cient Egypt and Chaldea, and thus giving a brief epitome of Hermetic philosophy. (The term Hermetic is here used in its true sense of sealed or secret.)

Having served their original purpose, external clrcnm stances have compplled their preparation for a much wider circle of minds. The chief reason urging to this step was the strenuous efforts now being systematically put forth to poison the bnddlng spirituality of the western mind, and to fasten upon Its medlnmlstic mentality, the snbtle, delusive dogmas of Karma and Re-incarnation, as taught'by the sacerdotalisms of the decaying Orient ■ From the foregoing statement it will be seen tbat this

work is Issued with a definite purpose, namely, to explain the true spiritual connection between God and man, the sottl and tne.stars, and to reveal the real urithsofbotb Karma and Re-incarnation as they actually exist in nature, stripped- of all priestly Interpretation. The definite state ments made in regard to these subjects are absolute facts. In so far as embodied man can understand them through the symbolism of human language, and the writer defies con tradiction by any living authority who possesses the spiritual right to say, “I know.”

During these twenty years of personal intercourse with the exalted minds of those who constitute the brethren of light, the fact was revealed that long ages ago the Orient had lost the use of the true spiritual compass of the. soul, as well as the real secrets of its own theosophy. As a race, they have been, and still are. travelling the descending arc of their racial cycle, whereas the western race have been slowly working their vay upward through m atter upon the ascending arc. Already It has reached the equator of its mental and spiritual development. Therefore the .writer' does not fear the ultimate results of the occult knowledge pat forth In tbe present work, during thls, the great mental crisis ot the race. '

Having explained the actual causes which Impelled the - wr.ter to undertake this responsibility, it is also necessar. to state most emphatically that h 1 does not wish to conve; the impression to the reader’s mind that the Orient is destl tote of spiritual truth. On the contrary, every gennln- student of occult lore is' justly proud of the snow whit locks of old Hindustan, and thoiongbly appreciates tl wondrous stores of mystical knowledge concealed within tl astral vortices of tbe Hlndn branch of the Aryan race. ' India, probabiy more than in any other, country, are tL latent forces and mysteries of natuie the subject of thong! and study. But alas! It Is hot a progressive study. Tl descending arc of their spiritual force keeps them bound the dogmas, traditions and externalisms of the decayjn past, whose real secrets they cannotnow peoetratu Tb. ever living tru ths concealed beneath tbe symbols In the astral light are hidden from tneir view by the setting sun of their spiritual cycle. Therefore, the. writer only desires to Impress upon the reader’s candid mind, thB fact th a t his earnest effort Is to expose that particular section of Budd histic Theosophy (esoteric so called; that would fasten the cramping shackles of theological dogma upon the: rising genius of the western race. I t Is the delusive Oriental sys terns against which his efforts are directed, and hot the race nor tbe medlnmlstic Individuals who uphold andsuppor them; for "omnia vincit verUas" is the life mqtto oJ ,

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words of wisdom from the venerated Masters and it would be wrong for me to pass them by. “My words,” she says, “may and will pass, and be forgotten [anqaestibn&bly]; but cer tain sentences from letters written by the Masters will never pass, because they are the embodiment of the highest practical. TKeos- phy. [Italics mine.] I mast translate them for yon.” And here is a specimen:

“ Let not the fruit of good Earma be your motive; for your Karma, good or bad, being one and the common property of all mankind, nothing good or bad can happen to yon that is not shared by many others. Hence your motive, being selfish, can only generate a double effect, good and bad, and will either nullify your good action, or tarn it to anoth er man’s profit.”

These, my masters, be weighty words, so weighty, indeed, that no man can crawl un der them, much less stand under (under stand) them. They are profound—so pro found, indeed, that we cannot pierce to the philosophy they express, But we never did know the depth o t that well in which Truth is said to dwell. If, however, this doctrine of utter indifference to Earma. or rather to the “fruit of good Earma,” is correct, why does Mme. B, threaten her followers with the

.Karmic power? Probably, it is only bad. Earma that she uses for this minatory use; but the Master says that Earma, good or bad, is “common.,.property.” If this thCosophic sage were a Christian, he would probably put it thus: “Don’t do good in order to get into heaven and avoid hell; for if you do.?wir motive being selfish, you will go to the atter place any way.” The Madame, how

ever, says, “These are golden words; may you assimilate them!” and signs herself “the devoted sister and servant of every true fol lower of the Masters of Theosophy.”

Here endeth the Epistle; and I close this review by the devout wish that the Theosoph- ists may improve, for their feminine leader shows very clearly that they very much need improvement—that they have not yet re alized the central principle (altruism) of their system and organization, and that they do not at ail, as a body, come up to the teach ing of the “Masters.” In fact I don't see that they do much better than the despised Spir itualists—the “illusionary-phantom worship ers” always excepted.

The Sew Departure in Christian Science.xo the Editor of tbe BeUglo-PhUososblcai Journo*- '

In your issue of June 29th a letter headed, “The New Departure in Christian Science,” seems to state the position of the writer as that of many students of Christian Science to-day, in consequence of the recent action of a prominent teacher of it, which apparently threatens the permanency of the marriage re lation and the principles upon which it is founded.

As one who has for some years sought per sistently to discover if what is called by the name “Christian Science” is a science or a theory, the endeavor is made to answer the questions of the writer and at the same time those of others placed in the same dilemma.

Christian Science, when coriectly stated through ability to perceive abstract truth, has a premise self-evident as true and all its

tatements an /log ica l deductions from it; mce asrreeiv with it and with each other. ’P'" constitute a harmonious

demonstratable and. provable iuu...dual as true; therefore Christian

Science is entitled to be called a science and not theory. Into the latter, opinions may en ter; science has no room for them, j There is no chink or cranny in a statement of science where an opinion could find lodgment be cause nothing else was there—because there was a vacant space for it; no place where an opinion is necessary to carry on the se quence; and if Christian Science is science, such must be the case with its statement.

I t is thus true in itself outside of what any one may think of it; outside of any num ber of opinions formed through inability to perceive the abstract and to reason independ ently of exterior contradictions; and if the true in itself shaU be demonstrated as true, i t can be done only to and through the in dividual capable of perceiving mad following this coarse.

The writer of the letter in question asks: “What change is necessary to be made in the theory of Christian Science to make i t agree with the practice of one of its most honored exponents?”

If Christian Science is a science—as is claimed—it is paraUel to the science of math ematics; is as abstract, as true in itself as the other, hence cannot be changed, bet may and will be developed more and more. If one known as a teacher of mathematics were to arrange his accounts in bis business relations with others in such a way as to suit his own inclination and convenience for reasons of his own, instead of in accordance with math ematical rules—which have no feelings and hence do not accommodate any—Would it prove for a moment that those rules were in correct or that the science of mathematics was at fault, in any way lacking, or capable of change?

Would it prove that statements he had made as a teacher which were in accord with the principle of the science. Were untrue be cause of his action? Would not the proof be offered through such a course—proof over whelming and convincing, that hits applica- ion of the principles of the science of math ematics was what was at fault and that his nisapplication or departure from them had produced the result manifest? Would not his proof be seen as such a t once by those ho understood the science, and who knew i consequence that when 5 and 5 were tade to read 11 in this teacher’s accounts, la t that statement was a departure from ae principle of the science and proved noth in but such departure?If a bookkeeper falsifies his accounts and

rratifies his own desires thereby a t his em ployer’s expense, does it prove that mathe matics is to blame for the employer's loss; or that he really has ndne because the books do not show it? Would a hue and cry about the fallacy of mathematics be justifiable because of this glaring example? Would this book keeper and his acts be an example of what the science of mathematics is; what its pos sibilities and value to mankind? Would a change in the science be necessary to accom modate conditions?

“Bat what I would wish to know is wheth- others of us Christian Scientists may also

llow the example of our leader, or whether 3 doctrines are to be changed, cow .to suit

iis course,” etc. Not for one instant. What re Christian Scientists following? The im- ersonal or the personal? That eternal ruth which is above the mortal with his er- ors and weaknesses or a fallible human be- lg who, with some glimpses of that above, is till ruled by desire for self-gratification?If they are following the former they will U1 follow-and find, whatever m ay be the sds of others a t their side; and gain more . 1 more the ability to-prove by demonstra-.

tion the value and true nature of what they have found. If tbe latter, they w ilf natural ly follow the application of the teachings of Christian Science made by that fallible hu man being who acts according to desire in stead of according to principle and misap plies that which, rightly applied, would lead him above that possibility.

“Choose ye this day whom ye will serve!” is the demand made upon the would-be Christian Scientist from the outset; and choose he must between the impersonal and the personal, between the unvarying and the changeable, if he would grow to that point where example has no effect upon him to turn him even a hair’s breadth out of his ap pointed course.

Christian Science does not teach people to repudiate what the world calls duties because they have grown too spiritual for them; those duties are outgrown only by the doing of them ; and the teachings, rightly given, point out the paramount necessity of meeting and fulfilling every obligation, private and pub lic. Every teacher of Christian Science who d es not float like a balloon above the plane of common sense, because inflated with emo tional theories which are not Christian Sci ence, knows that what he perceives interior ly as the expression of principle can never be the actual or the real to us, till mortals are regenerated from the within; and that it will take many generations after our own to bring it about; hence to take such a step as the ex ample offered, is to hinder instead of help that result. Generations will come and go on this plane of mortal sense before the man discerned through Christian Science displaces the mortals of to day.

The fact that such a stir and querying can be the result of this action on the part of a teacher of Christian Science, proves that many of its students have not yet reached the perception of the true nature of Christian Science; and it is small wonder that this is the case because of the way it is often pre sented and the claims made by many of its teachers of and for it. Those teachers to-day are few and far between who discern the im personal truth; who stand for and maintain i t independently of any feeling on the emo tional plane, for or against, and not per ceiving, themselves, they do not impress this all-essential fact upon their students.

Not till Christian Science is perceived and stated by its teachers as abstract truth, with which personal feeling and opinion have noth ing to do; not till the pupils discern in their turn this unalterable fact, wiU the followers of Christian Science stand unmoved in the midst of all commotion, however threatening to the life and well-being of the cause they represent, seemingly; stand because they know that the true in itself is not and can not be in anywise affected by such, and that a t any and at all times it is as capable of demonstration as ever, said demonstration depending only on the ability of the one who attempts it through his perception of and strict adherence to principle—not feeling.

All the contention and turmoil which, from the outside point of view, is connected with Christian Science to-day, has come from this attempt to amalgamate what can never be Welded—sentiment and science. How one feels about the science, about its teachers or about his own especial teacher; about the re sults of his attempts at demonstration and the nature of these results has nothing what ever to do with what they all are; and he can only truly see when he sees independently of personal feeling; truly see only when he can perceive the principle involved and if the results are in accord with it.

I t is shortsightedness indeed, that wonld use the means afforded by the teachings of Christian Science, of abstract truth, to make the carrying out of one’s personal wishes and intents, seem compliance with the de mands of truth.

All who occupy the position of pupils to a teacher of anything involving moral obliga tion; have a right to look to that teacher for an example of what is taught; a t the same time they do not stand firmly and make true progress in consequence—for one does not advance as long as he can be pulled back by others—till they can separate the thing taught from the teacher and judge both on their individual merits; and this is a neces sity increasing daily with the growth of move ments which threaten a new and higher basis for action, individually and collectively.

Many agood cause has been frowned upon and turned from because of individuals identified with it; many a gem from the in exhaustible mine of the Omnipotent J Am, which would have enriched infinitly the find er has been passed by because “I t can not amount to anything because so and so has taken it; up!” Many a grand statement potent for good has been condemned because of the one who uttered it.

When will the time come that personal feeling ceases to be the basis of judgment and doctrines put forth are examined and accepted or rejected independently of the one or ones who have brought them forward, and regardless of the acts of individuals which are not in accord with them ?

All who claim the designation “Christian Scientist” have a right to i t only through their recognition of, and allegiance to, the abstract truth; and as such, they should be the last people in the world to be swayed by the acts of any individual. The only way to establish Christian Science as a science in the world; and not an unprovable theory, is to recognize these facts and abide by them.

Ub s t j l a N . Ge s t e f e l d .June 27th, 1889.

A REMARKABLE_ MATERIALIZATION.A Spirit Appears under Conditions w here

Fraud was Impossible.Co tbe Editor or tbe Bellglo-Phllosopblcai Journal;

The enclosed statement was made to a friend of mine, August 23,1883, by a Profes sor in an English University—one of the com mittee of investigation referred to in the statement. This Professor desired that his name be not made public, and he-has since died. Jkiy friend wrote out the statement immediately after i t was related, and the Professor afterwards read it over and ap proved it as correct. I have no -reason to doubt the .truthfulness of the account, a l though it seems incredible. I send i t to you for publication, if you desire to publish it, as adding additional testimony of the immor tal life. S. G. Hig g in s .

East Saginaw, Mich.

Ten gentlemen, mostly Professors in an English University, one a clergyman after wards a Bishop of the Church of England, all scientists, and of skeptical tendency in re gard to the subject, were appointed as a com mittee to investigate the alleged phenomena o t Spiritualism. The medium or psychic sub ject was a gentleman in good circumstances.

who voluntarily offered himself for the ex periment. No professional medium would have been accepted; ‘no compensation of money was made; the medium's name is not given. Time and place of experiment, the private residence of one of the members of the committee, in London, in daylight, nine years ago. A lamp was at hand for special investigation. The subject wa9 taken to the private room of the host, entirely stripped, and clothed with garments provided by tbe committee. He was then taken down to the drawing-room, where he lay down on a sofa, and, without any outside aid or influence, passed at once into a trance; which continued all the time of the experiment, of profound unconsciousness and insensibility.

Soon after the trance began, the committee being about nine feet off from the medium, a luminous spot appeared over the region of his spleen. This spot increased in size and assumed a cloudy appearance, which moved to the left side of the subject, and gradually assumed the shape of a man, still fartherde fining itself at length, into an exact repre sentation of a deceased friend of one of the members of tbe committee. This gentleman exclaiming, “Why, Wheeler, is that you?” was answered smilingly, “I thought you would know me, John.” As he invited the tests of touch, the committee examined him, discovered the presence of a bony structure, and counted his pulse. This “wheeler” re mained for some hours, and the conversation between him and the various gentlemen of the committee became general, natural and easy. He expressed an eager wish to assist in tbe experiment, suggested himself many forms of investigation and more thorough scientific tests which'could be applied, and answered fully and unhesitatingly all ques tions proposed to him by the committee. He asserted that this medium was the only hu man being living whom he had found in a state admitting of this peculiar evolution. Tbe man, he declared; was not only one who was congenial enough to himself to make possible the dual habitation of a body, but the body itself was in a most exceptionable condition; therefore this manifestation was possible. He urged the committee to im prove opportunity to the utmost, saying that he could use it once more, but that it was a dangerous process for the subject, and would kill him if he repeated it many times. Of himself, he said, he had no weight, as the term is used upon our plane of thought, but that in this manifestation of himself he ap propriated the finer and more delicate atoms of the medium’s natural body to an appreci able extent. He therefore advised that at the next interview two sets of nicely adjusted weighing apparatus be provided and that tests of gravity be made. He was asked if he could eat.

“Yes,” be replied, “I can eat, and would like to show you as to the food elements I can take. You will observe a curious th ing about it. What I take in my month from you will be recovered, apparently unchanged; from the mouth of the medium, if you will ex amine.” Cracker was offered him then, which he ate with apparent ease, but it was shortly afterwards withdrawn from the closed month of the unconscious medium. The same was true of water. 'He asserted that the food used to sustain his present daily life was the concentrated, essential extract of ordinary food; that he had received from the articles given him all that which was assimilable by him. There was a perceptible link of lumi nous material between the manifestation and the subject most of the time. Mr. Wheel er said that this connection was a t all times unbroken, though not always visible; that if i t should be broken the subject would die, because he (the manifestation) was employ ing almost the whole of the most vital part of the medium’s body. He went from the medium across the room, and lay down upon another sofa. He spoke of his present exist ence as being in every way happier and more advanced than when in this form of life; said it was a decided growth of the moral nature; that i t was easy to do right there, and that the laws governing the spiritual body were tar more elastic and free; for in stance, as to locomotion, his presence was at any time instant when he wished it to be so. In life, Mr. Wheeler was an ardent, sincere Christian, and he remained equally devoted and loyal in the changed condition, but said distinctly that God was still apprehended only by intuition. He had not seen Him. nor did he speak of having beheld our Lord Christ.

In the second experiment the same prepa ration and appearances introduced the same visitor, with one exception; before the psy chic became unconscious be was weighed. After Mr. Wheeler had become entirely mani fested the subject was again weighed and found to have lost 50 pounds; after that the manifestation’was found to weigh 50pounds; and when both were simultaneously weighed the exact first weight was reached by them. At this sitting Mr. Wheeler illustrated still further (he possibilities of evolution. A luminous spot similar to that seen in advance of his own appearance was developed over the same region of his materialization and grew into the form of a pleasant looking woman, a less distinct presentment than his own, but like his having a perceptible pulse and bony structure to be felt by the grasp of the members of the committee. The flesh of both felt like that of the ordinary hu man body, but did not endure a continued grasp, disappearing from sight and touch after being held for some time, and re-form ing visibly and tangibly again.

In regard to the apparition or creation of this woman, Mr. Wheeler alluded to the ac count of Eve’s creation given in the Bible. The woman was an independant being and conversed as such quite apart from Mr. Wheeler, but she did not remain long and seems to have said nothing very worthy of remembrance while present. Mr. Wheeler spoke more a t length of the new conditions of existence as considered apart from the cir cumstances of his materialization. He said that the new Ufe differed in no essential re spect as to its . daily histories from that of this state, and that a great mistake was made in believing that heaven was so different from earth. When asked if happiness was an abiding experience he said no, not wholly so; that for one thing the griefs of those left behind were grievous to the spirit friends, except when sufficiently advanced to see in tuitively the blessed results of the discipline of suffering here. He said that our bodily sickness was the type of a certain spiritual pain or iUness caused by any lack of har mony in the spirit—any deviation from en tire love and obedience. Death also occurred, not at all like death here, except in that it involved a decided change of state, always progressive. This change is not painful, or deplored by any. He said, moreover, that many of the so-called spiritual communica tions made here were genuine, but that as a rule they were made by unworthy, ignorant spirits; that he had been toid that there ar e many spirits which have never yet been clothed with a human body, and which eag erly desired so to exist. That these are es pecially forward in seeking access to human beings upon every offered occasion. He did

not know this of himself; but had been so in formed. He spoke of the, entire life lie was then enjoying as an immense gain over his former one, but seemed anxious to disabuse his hearers of mistakes and prejudices con cerning the details of its conduct.

After his second appearance- he came no more. The medium was made sick unto death for over a month by this experience, but event ually recovered. He is now dead. The cloth ing used on these occasions met with a sing ular fate. Those -parts of all the clothing j ust above and around the spot of the issuing manifestation rotted away and speedily dropped out from each garment used a t that time. . •

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the religion of equality, fraternity, justice and mercy to oar social economy, through the principle of co operation, is the religion that most concerns the American citizen and the American patriot, as it does the lover of humanity.

Mr. West says: “As for those whose parents and grandparents before them had been so fortunate as to keep their seats on the top, the conviction they cherished of the essen tial difference between their sort of haman- ity and the common article, was absolute.”

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The wage worker and the tenant farmer are subjects of the competitive system and the mortgage holder quite as thoroughly as are the people of any kingdom subject to the crowned ruler. The* diffusion of intelligence has multiplied the keen brains of selfish schemes, but our economic systems have fail ed to develop the royal qualities of justice and fraternity.

And while the pullers at the ropes are shouting out the sequel to the Declaration of Independence, saying: “ We will no longer pull this coach to give the non-producer bis position in idleness, the occupants inside who have secured their ride by favor of both those on the top and those who pull the coach, are planning to fasten hew chains upon them. The ‘clerical sex,’ in their blind efforts to make our constitution religious, and to force upon the people the formal ob servance of a rest day, and the introduction into our schools of instruction in the ‘princi ples of the Christian religion,’ are seeking to get on top of the coach too, where their seats will become hereditary.”

Eternal vigilance is the price, not only of liberty, but of the genuine religion of Amer icanism; equality, fraternity and justice. The worker and producer, already bound like Sysiphus to the wheel of usury, needs to make heroic effort lest the gyves of religious despotism be fastened upon him, also to hold him in mental and spiritual subjection. Usurption overrides constitutions and dec larations to gain its selfish ends. Nothing short of the resistance of persistent, Unflag ging heroism can preserve to this people the precious inheritance which the Declaration of Independence forecast. American religion is human life glorified by the divine princi ples that heralded our nation’s birth. The American idea is service, not rulership. Like the Christianity of Christ it is the divinely illuminated soul of man who is authority for the individual. Americanism is the brother hood of man. A revival of American religion would abolish alike the tricky schemes of politicians and the unfounded arrogance of those in high places. American religion isi identical with that which Jesus expounded! to the sons of Zebedee. When James and John came to him asking that they might “sit one on thy right hand and the other on thy left band, in thy glory,” Jesus called the ten to him who were displeased with James and John, and: said: “Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Cen tiles, ex ercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them; But so shall it not be among you; but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your min ister; and whosoever of you will be the chief- est shall be servant of all.”

Politico-religious legislation, and the polit ical wire pulling of caucus rulers are out of place in Americanism. A retinae of high salaried officials who are dead heads on the top of the coach which the people so labori ously draw, is out of harmony with the Amer ican idea. When the people have grown to a full realization of,and loyalty to the Amer ican idea, we shall no longer consent to the rule of King Caucus, nor of an uncrowned king at the National Capitol. When we shall have re-modeled our systems on the Ameri can idea, and in accord with American relig ion, for the welfare of the people, we will have removed the political, commercial, and ecclesiastical deadheads from the coach, and the people shall have all become fellow workers in this land of bountiful resources, and none shall be rulers, and those Who have authority over them.

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MARIA MITCHELL

A serene, blameless.useful, noble and excep tional life came to a peaceful close in Lynn. Mass., on Friday. June 28th, when Prof. Ma-. ria Mitchell died. I t was a full, rounded and copiplete life which then so gently ended, and yet it was the life of a Woman who had stepped ont of the “ sphere” presumed to be allotted to her sex, and who had succeeded admirably in doing good work in one of the vocations which male scientists have declar ed nature has unfitted woman for, since, ac cording to one of these, “ the female mind experiences overwhelming obstacles in the study of mathematics,” and astronomy to which Miss Mitchell’s whole life was devoted, is a science largely based on mathematics. And yet she had not antagonized nature in her choice of a life-career, indeed it could not be said to be so much her own choice as tha t of nature for her, for she drifted easily and with out conscious determination into that life- work, but her place once found and her work set before her, she gave no thought to the ar bitrary limitations of indefinite "spheres,” but accepted her mission and faithfully per formed its imposed duties, until one year ago, having completed the allotted “ threescore years and ten,” warned by the increasing in firmities of age, she gave up the position of Professor of Astronomy a t Yassar College, held by her for twenty-two years.

Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, August 1st, 1818, the third child in a family of ten. Her father, William Mitchell, was at the time of her birth a schoolmaster in that place. Her mother was a Folger, a descend ant of the same family to which Benjamin Franklin belonged. Both parents were Qua kers, though not of the straightest sect, and worldly amusements were not forbidden to their children, and Maria was taught music, together with other accomplishments thought to De specially suitable to her sex. I mention this to show that in her case there was no intentional departure from the normal wo manly “ sphere.”

An elder sister in a large family with straightened means, she was of course oblig-

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,iiapv> uf cake and custardmaking only, but in the hardest tasks of house work. She often studied at this time with her knitting in her hands, and to the day of his death her father wore stockings of her knitting, one yard in length.”

The inhabitants of Nantucket at that peri od being mainly seafaring people, led Mr. Mitchell to give more than usual prominence in his school to the study of navigation, a study which leads the way to astronomy, a science in which he was greatly interested and in which he gave special instruction to his own children, boys and girls alike. While still only a schoolmaster with limited means, he built for his and their use, near his house, a small observatory, and soon was enabled to turn it to practical use by doing astronomical work for the United States Coast Survey for which work he received about one hundred dollars per year. When, later in life, he was made cashier of the Nantucket Bank, he built a better observatory on the top of the bank building, which grew to be a favorite resort of the village school children, to whom he sometimes, assisted by Maria, gave little im promptu lessons in astronomy while looking through the small telescope. A telescope and other astronomical appurtenances form ed also part of the furniture of the home sit ting room; and with such environments add ed to her inherited bent, Maria early became as enthusiastic as her father in the study of the heavens' and skillfully adroit in the use of the sextant,and other astronomical instru- ments.-

At eighteen she was given the position of Librarian of the Nantucket Athenaeum.a pos ition which she filled for the next twenty years; her salary for the first year being six ty, for the next seventy five, and every year thereafter one hundred dollars. Her biog rapher in “ Our Famous Women,” says: “ It was during this period that, easily perform ing her duties as librarian, she found time to prosecute the solid scientific studies which have given her a recognized and honored place among the scientists of her time.” The lib rary only occupied her afternoons, with oc casional evenings, thus leaving her consid erable time to devote to astronomical investi gations and experiments, and during her hours of duty she had leisure to enlarge her sphere of knowledge by reading.

Nantucket was already becoming known as a summer resort, and Mr. Mitchell’s con nection with the coast survey, brought to his house such distinguished scientists as Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Pierce, Prof. Bache, and others, and Maria, who often assisted her father in his observatory work, was thus brought into contact with many persons of congenial tastes who became interested in her, because of her enthusiasm for astronomy.

Her first valuable original work was in making a computation to accurately deter mine local time. Soon after she began the examination of nebula, and “ sweeping ” for comets. It was while engaged in this house wifely-sounding astronomical work, that she made the discovery which first brought her name before the public.

October 1st, 1847, at 10:30 P. m., while thus “ sweeping” over the horizon with her tele scope, she came across a strange visitor w ith in its range. I t proved to be a new comet. The King of Denmark had sometime before offered a prize to the first discover of a comet, and the fact that a Nantucket girl had made the discovery before any male astronomer had observed it, was a source of personal con gratulation to her as an amateur astrono mer, and to all womankind because of her sex.

The public recognition of her ability, con sequent upon the award being given to her in preference to several other claimants, gave her courage as well as fame. She was imme diately asked by various societies to prepare a paper of calculations upon this comet; to make observations connected with the Coast Survey; and to make the compilations for the Nantucket Almanac under Government super vision. Ten years later. Miss Mitchell whose name had already become known throughout Europe,made her first visit to that continent, daring which she formed the personal ac quaintance of many distinguished scientists, among whom were Mrs. Mary Somerville, Sir George Airy .Alexander Humboldt, Sir Charles Lyell, and Sir John Herschel, who afterward corresponded with her, until his death.

Shortly after her return to America, she was surprised and gratified by the gift from appreciative Massachusetts women, of a fully equipped observatory as a token of their esti mation of the honor reflected by her upon the Women of that State.

In 1865 came an invitation from the trus tees of Yassar College, to take the honorable position of Professor of Astronomy in that institution. This quite unsolicited and unex pected invitation was as much a triumph to the woman’s cause as to her personally, but she showed herself a true woman in only ac cepting the honor with the proviso that her father—who was now a widower and mainly dependent upon her for companionship- should accompany her as assistant. This re quest was acceded to. Mr. Mitchell died a few years later a t the age of 76.

Miss Mitchell has since then been the re cipient of many honors, all of them modestly borne, and more appreciated by her on behalf of her sex than on her own account. Among the honors bestowed Upon her we may men tion several tokens of respect from European societies and a membership in the American Association for the promotion of Science. She was the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the National Academy of Sciences, and was given the degree of LL.D, by three American col leges, Columbia College being one of those thus honoring her. She made a second trip to Europe in the interest of Astronomy in 1873, when she was shown much respectful attention by her cotemporaries; while in specting the Imperial Observatory at Pulto- wa in Russia, she was the honored guest of the distinguished Russian astronomer Struve. She is also the author of several scientific papers read before the Woman’s Congress,” or “ American Association for the Advance ment of Woman,” of which organization she was president one vear, but declined thereaf ter to take office therein on account of her college duties. Occasionally she has contrib uted scientific articles to Silliman’s Journal and American Journal o f Arts and Sciences. Every year since 1881, there has been held a reception in honor of Maria Mitchell’s birth day, in the parlors of the “ New England Women’s Club ” of Boston, on which occasions the tribute of appreciative praise by the most intellectual women, has been paid this mod est woman who has now “ Entered upon her rest,” full of honors as of years.

Though never a beautiful woman, yet Ma ria Mitchell's face was full of interest to the phy8iognomist,for its indications of strength, thought a n d . earnestness, and as one of .her friends lately remarked: “ A pure Ufe, high thoughts and noble purposes, had touched her race with many softening lines fend

written in eloquent language the evidence of a great nature.” She was always rather shy and reserved in manner, but a warm hearted friend to those who knew her best. In youth she was inclined to poetry, and a little book of poems by Nantucket writers, entitled, “ Seaweeds from the Shores of Nan tucket,” contains some of her verses.

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“Speaking of the mysterious a great many people imagine that Missouri is the hot-bed of Spiritualism. I suppose it is, because Mott has in his time created considerable of a sensation. However, I have traveled over that country extensively and to my mind the belief in Spiritualism is quite extensive. I am not so well acquainted with the people of Missouri, not having visited the state since 1865. How is it. Mr. Day?”!. The gentleman to whom this remark was

addressed did not reply at once. A look of sadness overspread his features, and, drop ping his eyes slowly, he stood for a moment in a meditative mood. Then he spoke: “I jean not say that I care to discuss this ques tion, gentlemen. I have been a resident of Missouri for many years and her institutionsSre dear to me. It would be folly to deny

hat Spiritualism has a hold among our peo ple, but whether to a greater extent than in any other state I can not, of course, say. I have paid little attention to the subject for the last five years. About that many years ago I had an experience that I shall never forget, not until the end of life. Oh, yes, I will tell you; it is just as well, for I do not brood over the occurrence so much in these late years.

“Among my numerous acquaintances in the city where I then resided were several Spiritualists—ladies and gentemen they were—and one or two of them were mediums. While I held not the slightest faith in their doctrines, and can not say that I do now (and when I am done you will wonder that I do not), I attended many of their stances. These were held at elegant private residences, and the wealth and social standing of those en gaged in them would certainly vouchsafe for the entire honesty of the proceedings. I have no doubt that to a great extent those who participated in these stances were hon est in tbeir convictions. Some of tbem ‘died in the faith,’ as they say; others are still liv ing and are firm believers in this mysterious doctrine. I had seen many strange things at the stances. Faces appeared before me which it was hard to believe were those of any human being. Songs were sang and music produced, the like of which I bad never heard before nor since. I connived with friends living at a great distance to as sist in setting some trap for the mediums,- but we could never succeed in confounding one of them. I soon found that much of my time and thought was being occupied by this foolishness, as I deem it, and resolved to attend no more stances. I

“Happening to be in a city some distance away where two of my friends resided I called npon them. Both were prominent railroad officials. The subject of Spiritual ism was introduced and both gentlemen evinced a desire to witness a stance. Neither one had the slightest faith in the doctrine and were anxious if possible to expose what they termed a huge humbug. 1 told my friends.that it could be so arranged that they might attend a stance in my city and promised to wire them the date when they should come. Arrangements were according ly perfected upon my return, and in a few days I sent them a cipher message that all was well. Both gentlemen arrived by a cir cuitous route late in the evening and gave out the impression a t the hotel that they had come on official business. Neither of them were known to the Spiritualists or the me dium* We repaired to the residence of one of my spiritualistic friends and were ushered into the elegant parlor.

“A burly porter guarded the front door and an oppressive stillness pervaded the entire house. At last we were informed that the spirits were willing to communicate w ith us and an attendant led the party into a large room that was darkened, save that enough light shone to reveal the cabinet, which was of the usual kind. One or two guests held communications with deceased friends. The two railroad officials watched the proceed ings with evident amusement. Suddenly the attendant said:

“ ‘M r.----- is wanted at the cabinet.’“It was one of friends. ‘Who learned my

name here?’ he asked.“ ‘No matter,’ replied the attendant, ‘a rel

ative wishes to communicate with you.’“Half reluctantly he stepped to the cabin

et, gave one look, and sprang back, uttering at the same time a low cry of horror.

“ ‘Go nearer,’ urged the attendant, ‘it is your wife who calls.’

“None of us heard what passed between the two. Mr. - — remained at the window some little time. He thein came back to his seat and wept like a child.

“At that instant the attendant announceda message had been received for Col.----- ,the other friend. He walked boldly to the cabinet stopped, and, in a trembling voice, exclaimed: ‘My God, Harry, you hereP and turned away. *1 can't look at him,’ he cried; ‘let us get away from this place.’

“Both the men insisted so strongly that we were allowed to depart. I tell you, gentle men, those men were changed. They went to the hotel and sat around the bar-room all night. All I could get out of either one of them was the information that they had met dead friends face to face.

“Of course I laughed at them and attempt ed to cheer them up. But it was no' use. They returned on the next train, each one saying little, but thinking pretty hard, no doubt.

“But my turn came next. Not long after the experience which I relate occurred I lost by death my only child, a little angel girl. The blow nearly killed my wife, and she lay ill for many weeks. I—oh, I was almost crazy for a long time.

“One day I met the medium who had called the spirits of my friend’s dead relatives. He came hurriedly toward me and whispered: ‘Mac, come down to-night. I must have you come. Don’t fail. I can not tell you more now, but you must come!’

“For the sake of pleasing him I promised to do so, but confess that I mentally resolved at the same time to stay way.

“However, as night drew on, I felt an irre sistible something drawing ine toward that medium’s, home. I walked rapidly in the direction, but i t seemed as if some unseen force was urging me along faster and faster, un til I almost broke into «• run. I was hur

riedly ushered into the.house, and the doors were heavily bolted. I had been in that house many times before, but now it seemed a new, strange place. Moreover, I felt as if we were in a different atmosphere—or some thing. I ean’t explain it. Then they bailed me into the cabinet-room. But I did not need any cabinet or any medium to convince me that some unnatural presence was there. I came close to the cabinet and peered into the darkened recess. 0 my God! There was my little Nellie I The same sweet face, the blue eyes, and golden hair. With a cry of joy I sprang forward and the frail cabinet shook with my weight. ‘Be calm,’ whispered the attendant,‘Nellie calls you.’

“Then I heard that little voice calling to me. ‘Oh, papa, I am so happy. Do you not see the angels that are with me? They go with me everywhere. They tell me I shall soon see mamma. Mamma is coming to me —she is coming to me!’

“I must have fallen insensible, for when I found myself I was on a sofa receiving at tention from some servants. The shock to my system was a terrible pne. Do you see this gray head? One night’s'work. In two weeks Nellie, my wife, went to meet her Nellie—our Nellie. I do not know how I passed Several months following her death. Some of my friends feared that, I would lose my reason. I traveled everywhere, and final ly .through good care of myself and change of scene, restored my shattered health to a great extent. But I dropped Spiritualism. Do I believe in it? Well, don’t ask me that. I know that I saw my Nellie that night, whether in a trance or a dream I know not.” —Chicago Mail.

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“ Trusts vs. Nationalism.”

er th e above heading the Rev. H. H. i g ives to the readers of the J o u r n a l in eek’s issue, a very able article on these nbjects. As b is whole line of reason- mds to show that the first named— ds”—leads to '‘Nationalism,” we cannot ly one should be pitted against the oth- Trnsts,” in onr view, are tentative shifts. They are signs, showing that e emerging from the old competitive of business; bnt as to where they are to lead remains to be found out. If

’ directed we have faith in their out- Bnt if not thus directed they may

le Country in anarchy and revolution have already indicated, in these col- onr view of the present trend of and the forms that great business en

bs should take to be in nnison with line of American institutions. That the idea realized by the Standard Oi y, E Pluribus Unum—One-in-Many al life of the nation must involve the ia, so that In its evolution the equi- of the Federal Union may be pre-

imarkable that in all the great evo- V steps which we have taken as a peo- ave swung to one of two extremes, ilization or to individualism. In the •n of the Federal compact the ten ia away from the center, to the con- i of the “rights of the States.” This d the weakness of a Republican form iment, and to remedy this weakness tment was compelled which secured ink Federal constitution with its lim- on the powers of the States. This mt brought peace, tranquility and y for seventy years. When the of slavery came up for solution and i necessary to put down rebellion and ate it from the iBoeial compact were nto play, the general government > the extreme of centralization, tbiis g the national feature of repnbli- tic life . Many feared a t the time nion of the States was endangered nendous powers exercised by the

'^and by Congress to ensure the tri >yalty and liberty. Since the war

ntry has been regaining its Federal jrium. I t is now a “ union ” of “ index ible States.” The Supreme Court has r emphasized this now universally rec-1 doctrine. This Republic is still l-Many.”•riticism of the Nationalists' move-

st here: Its effort is to concen :hing a t Washington; to redace aal and the States to non-enti- te sided; it does not take into ac- b factors that are involved in the ?ment of the social and business are coming into view. Besides

jsticablefor the ends sought to it is destrnctiveof the very basic ing the Republic. There m ast be oat there m ast also be the fed- of “indestractable States” and >f the individual as paramonnt 7his now exists in germ, and we y any movement that impairs - of what God has given this

people as their heritage for

this great qnestion i t grows, bady and indistinct a t first ) clearer light. I t is a vast - waiting for solution. To demands of business life vross pass an Inter-State:

compel a llth e “Trusts”^

to organize under it; we mean those “Trusts” which have inter-state business relations. We would have this law for the purpose of enabling capital to organize itself so as to have the feature of the Standard Oil Com pany—“On e-in-Many.” No supervision by Congress of these corporations, by “Commis sions” or other intermeddling contrivances. a h other organized forms of capital we would leave to the States and to the enters prise of individuals, We modestly make these suggestions; bnt believe they cover the whole ground and meet the evolutionary reiqnirements of the hoar.

The P aris Congress.

In the J o u r n a l for the 29th nit., we pub lished a circular relative to the Internation al Congress of Spiritualists and others to be held in Paris in September of this year. The Congress will affirm:

“1. The persistency of the conscient indi vidual after death.

“2. The rapport between the living and the dead.”. The important point that concerns Spirit

ualists is that they hold the first affirmation to be provable by.the second a t the present time. In other words what specially differ entiates them from other religions or scien tific bodies is the belief that certain events do happen in these days for which no ade quate cause can be offered except the contin ued existence, after death, of conscious in telligent hnman beings who were, but are no longer embodied in living human organisms like onr own. We desire to spread this belief because we deem it involves a tru th which is of vast importance to the human race now, and is gradually becoming a question of in terest altogether supreme. Consider, for in stance, the remarks of the President of the English Society for Psychical Research, Professor Henry Sidgwick, in an address de livered before that Society last year. He says that the group of inquirers to which he belongs were mainly moved to the investiga tion called Psychical Research:

. . .By the profound and painful division and conflict, as regards the nature and desti ny of the human soul, which we found in the thought of our age. On the one hand, under the influence of Christian teaching, still dominant over the minds of the majori ty of educated persons, and powerfully influ encing many even of those who have d is carded its dogmatic system, the soul is con ceived as independent of the bodily organism and destined to survive it. On the other hand the preponderant tendency of modern physiology has been more and more to ex clude this conception, and to treat the life and processes of any, individual mind as in separably connected with the life and pro cesses of the shortlived body that it here an imates. .. . .We believed unreservedly in the methods of modern science, and were pre pared to accept submissively her reasoned conclusions when sustained by the agree ment of experts; bnt we were not prepared to bow with equal docility to the prejudices of scientific men. And it appeared to ns that there was an important body of evidence- tending prima fa d e to establish the inde pendence of soul or spirit—which modern sctonce had simply left on one side with ig norant contempt, and that in so leaving it she had been nntrue to her professed method, and had arrived prematurely at her negative conclusions.”

With these statements may also be quoted the opinion of Professor Sidgwick as given in a later address delivered this year before the same society. Referring to the physical phenomena of Spiritualism, he remarks:

“Considering the enormous importance of the conclusion that a definite and measura ble part of . the changes that take place in the world of onr sensible experience is referable to the action of unembodied intelligences— considering the revolution that the scientific establishment of this conclusion would make in the view of the universe which the progress of modern science has hitherto tended to make prevalent—it is not too much to say that if the undivided labor of the best scien tific intellects in the world were employed for a ^generation in the investigation that established this as a scientific truth, their labors might be regarded as nnnsnally fruit f u l”

I t is well for Spiritualists thus to be re minded of the deep significance to human life, of the faith they hold, or rather of the knowledge which they have reached; a sig nificance which even Spiritualists them selves are tooprone to forget. Nor is i t only the prevaling scientific conception of the uni verse that will be profoundly affected by these conclusions. The doctrinal belief in a fu ture life is losing its vitality, yet notwith standing all that has been said by pessimists about the misery of living a t aU, there are very few persons who are in the position of desiring that they will cease to exist when death destroys the ordinary body; nearly all would like to have a conscious existence af terdeath. But this unsatisfied longing for an assurance of immortality, the need of the re conciliation for this life's imperfections which is afforded to the intellect by the con viction that they are part of a larger life in which the individual shall continue to grow when he has shuffled off the mortal coil,— are of small moment beside the grief that comes upon the heart when the loved.ones van ish. What shaU w esay of the myriads who moorn, almost as without hope, fortho loss of their dearest? The doctrines concerning a future 11 fe as taught by the churches, both orthodox and heterodox, do not suffice for the needs of men and women a t this hour, who reqnire something nearer and more real than ethical and philosophical specoiations or the

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two-thousand-year-old story of an apparition in the land of Palestine. I t is the cry of a continually increasing number which the poet has voiced:

Why on this spring air comes no whisper From him to tell ns all is well?

W hy to onr flower-time comes no token Of lily and of asphodel?

I feel the unutterable longing,Tby hanger of the heart is mine ;

I reach an d grope for hands in darkness,My ear grows sharp for voice or sign.

Still on the lips of all we qnestion The finger of God’s silence lies;

Will the lost bands in oars be folded?Will the shat eyelids ever riEe?

Spiritualists not only answer this ques tion in the affirmative, bnt they offer to jnsti- fy their assertion by proof. The land of the departed is not absolutely silent. While this is the cardinal and indeed the only tenet of Spiritualists, the belief in it is practically shared by many who do not call themselves Spiritualists, but who profess adherence to other bodies,—Theosophist, Swedenborgian, etc. The proposal of the Parts Congress is to unite all these different bodies for the specific purpose of giving a new and solemn emphasis to the fundamental points upon which a ll alike agree—the survival of the individual after death and the fact of com munication between the dead and the living. There can be little qnestion of the desirabil ity of such a stop. Union is and always wil be strength, and—lamentable as the fact is we must confess it—Spiritualists are not and never have been united among themselves, much less has a common cause been formec on the same fundamental basis with the other bodies whose co-operation is now invited. What is the reason of this? Partly, we think, the lack of funds for such an or ganization, bat chiefly the anomalous and indeterminate position of mediums, the dif ficulty of obtaining reliable and permanent subjects for experiment. The United Socie ties should have:

1. A central office.2. Periodical meetings.3. Periodical publications.4. Qualified and recognized investigators5. Genuine mediums.There would, of course, be in different

parts of the world, local branches, local pub lications, etc., but these should be more or less subservient to the work of the central of fice.

The first manifesto of the United Society should contain some general account of the origin and import of the tenet urged by the Congress, of the varions classes of facts which have established it, of the lines of research tending to confirm it, with indications for fntnre experiment. I t should also suggest the best means to be adopted for recording and unifying the results of investigations, both past and future, and the wide distribu tion generally, in convenient form, of inform ation on the whole'subject. This last aim might be partly seenred by the establishment of an International Quarterly, devoted to the publication of facts and discussions concern ing the points affirmed by the Congress, and containing a resume of the relevant and cur rent literature. One primary consideration, we might almost say the primary practical consideration,for the Congress,!? any success is to come of the organization,will be the na ture of medinm8hip in its different phases, the treatment of mediums by investigators, the provision for permanent services of mediums, and the action to be taken in cases of pre tended medinmship, and in cases of trickery by genuine mediums.

The above topics occur to us, looking a t the interests of those who already accept the fundamental belief which it is the object of the Congress to emphasize. Bnt an import ant part of the work of the Congress should be to disease the best means of reaching edu cated persons generally, the majority of whom do not accept that belief in its entire ty, and this question, thongh in a certain sense dealt with in what we have suggested above, appears to ns to demand some special and separate consideration. We need scarce ly say that the persons to be considered in this connection may be regarded as belong ing to the two large classes who are influ enced, the one by what we may call for con venience, the religions bias, the other by the modern scientific bias. I t is quite true, of coarse, that among religionists there are many who, although they retain their con nection with their varions chnrehes or creeds, do, nevertheless, accept the Spiritualistic be lief. I t is also trne that some of the most il lustrious scientific menof the present gener ation are widely known for their adhesion to and championship of the Spiritualistic tenet. At thje same time it must be recognized that in both these sets of cases the belief has been reached rather in spite of the tendencies which characterize the classes respectively, and i t behooves the Congress to endeavor to estimate the obstacles to the reception of the Spiritualist belief by these classes, with the view of removing these obstacles as far as possible, by the course of fntnre investiga tions, and the attitude of the Congress itself.

As to the religions bias there is not much to be said. Before those who think i t sinfnl to interrogate the dead, we shall continue to m aintain the right of free research into every domain of the universe, the right to discover tro th wherever i t may be found, a ll dogmas to the contrary notwithstanding. Onr desire is hot to weaken the faith in a fu ture life now inenlcated in the churches, already with many, so dim, so perfunctory, so unreal, bnt to strengthen and rationalize it. We wish, not to diminish, but to increase, the consolations of human life. The church itself is growing more and more unable to cope with the scientific tendencies of the age; i t is becoming m or^ind more pervaded itself

with those very that in the near L meats of the religi united with Spiritualists

id we can see om inatingele- will be either

.w exhibiting thefirm and present basis for the fntnre life of man, or arrayed against us in the belief that no traveler has ever returned from the bourne beyond, and that for man there is nothing after death.

I t is, then, to the so-called scientific class that we have chiefly to make onr appeal. Why is i t that when each an enormous number of workers are engaged.in one field or another of scientific research, so few have devoted their energies to investigations concerning the possible continuity of this life with another? How comes it that thousands of laborers are giving their lives to the study of the winding ways by which human and other organisms have evolved up to the present time, and yet so few concern themselves with the problem: What becomes of the individ ual when the organism perishes? Their a t tention has now for many years been direct ed to “ the rapports between the living and the dead,” to use the words of the circular. Why is it that scientific men as a class have not been convinced? The answer is that they have not made a systematic and prolonged inquiry. Bat now if we ask why they have not made such an inquiry, we shall find sev eral reasons, the fnU consideration of which we earnestly recommend to the Congress:

1. In the first place there is the strong re luctance arising from the very tendency to which we have adverted, to pay any atten tion to phenomena the apparent implications of which would overthrow some of their dom inant conceptions. They do not wish to waste time by an inqairy into alleged facts which they assume beforehand cannot exist. And if they do make an inquiry it is apt to be vitiated by the same tendency, and to re sult in a partial and prejudiced opinion. The remedy for this state of mind must be indi rect. Spiritualists mast convince even those who are unwilling to be convinced, and if the facts of Spiritualism, thongh srood enough for the impartial inquirer, are not good enough for the inquirer who is prejudiced against them, Spiritualists must bring more and better facts to the front continually u n til they force a favorable verdict.

2. In the second place there is the uncer tainty of occurrence of the phenomena. Spir itualists know so little of the conditions of medinmship that they cannot regularly and invariably supply to the scientific investiga tor the facts to which they call his attention. His very presence may in some cases be pro hibitive of the phenomenon desired. All Spiritualists are familiar with instances of scientific men who have made some prelimin ary inquiry into the reality of the phenomena, bnt who, failing to obtain any results, a t the outset, have soon become discouraged, and proclaim the futility of the investigation.

3. In the third place there is the terrible evil of spurious medinmship, which has brought so mnch disrepute oh the whole spiritualistic movement, and has kept many scientific men from the investigations which they would otherwise have made. We have no doubt that the attitude of the scientific world generally towards modern Spiritual ism would be very different from what it is were i t not for the gross practices and vul gar trickeries which have disfigured the movement throughout. We have done onr best in these columns, to stay this evil, and we trust that the Paris Congress will give great prominence to i t in its deliberations. Those who, undeterred by the repulsiveness of snch an “ugly and venomous” creatare as Spiritualism has been made to appear by ex posure after exposure of shameless and im moral and frandnlant. and bogus mediums, —those, we say, who examine Spiritualism to the end will find that she “wears yet a precious jewel in her head” ; for those who look askance a t her and reject her, there is not a little palliation while these frauds flourish.

We have no intention, however, of dwell ing a t length on any. of onr suggestions, most of which cluster, i t wiU be seen, aronhd the question of medinmship. Bnt we think i t of the most urgent importance (a) that the Congress shonld guard itself against fanatics and gobemouches and take the utmost pains to exclnde a ll trafficking trie store from any part in its concerns, and tha i t should a t the same time seriously consider the ad visability of securing absolutely reliable mediums, in whatever part of the world they may be found, for an extended series of ex periments to be placed on careful record, and in which, if practicable, the assistance of out side eminent scientific men may be obtained. Societies for Psychical Research a re a wit ness to the growing general interest in supernormal phenomena, and are a witness also to the increased readiness on the part of scientific men to look into these things. More may be expected from the coming gen eration.

In the meantime, if Spiritualists are to obtain any more serious recognition of their claims, they are doubtless under the impera tive necessity of organizing on a basis like that to be proposed by the Congress. Sacb an organization most be guided from the outset by strong and clean hands; i t must be purifying as well as constructive, and one of the chief results of its formation ought to be not merely the challenging anew of the attention of the scientific world, bnt the origination of better opportunities for ex periment than, are now available for the interested bnt unconvinced investigator.

W ill They Rise to the Occasion i • -

Under the title, “Spiritualism and Medium ship,” a widely known speaker and medium contributes a paper to this number of tho J o u r n a l , which embodies, so far as i t goes, the consensus of the competent. Many of his sentences weigh a ton; for instance: “Wo Spiritualists are the arbit -re of the destiny of Spiritualism as a power for good in the world.” Than this seemingly self-evident fact there is nothing the J o u r n a l has more strenuously and persistently endeavored to impress upon the mind and conscience o& the Spiritualist public. In all too many instan ces there is one stereotyped reply: “ The Spirit-world has the movement in charge and will direct and conduct it regardless of mortal help or hindrance.” The plain En glish of this is: “ We Spiritualists have no duty or obligation in the matter ; we are not called upon to exercise any care whatever; indeed, any interference on onr part would not only be a work of supererogation and fat- nonsness. bnt absolutely sacrilegious and dis respectful to the Spirit-world.” Herein lies the essence of one of the deadliest errors with which the Spiritualist movement has been corrupted by old theology. In a new dress i t is no more nor less than the rankest ortho dox virus brought into Spiritualism from the church by former followers of Calvin and Knox.

If every reader of the J o u r n a l would re solve to bend his untiling energies along the lines indicated by this experienced contribu to r ^ would not be five years before the Spirit ualist movement would attain a standing and influence in this country far surpassing that of any other. In this connection especial at tention is called to the views of Mr. Stainton- Moses quoted in fall from Light in this issue of the J o u r n a l . They supplement and em phasize the paper under consideration. I f Spiritualists as a body do not wake up to a realization of their duty, grasp the situation and turn it to the glory of Spiritualism, they will have only themselves to blame, and most suffer the penalty.

Mr. A. J. King, of Hammonton, N. J., paid ns a call on his way to Breckenridge, Colorado, where he goes to develop ids mining inters ests. . r

The New York Mail: Sixty million of peo ple enjoy already the incomparable advan tages which onr incomparable institutions offer to one and all, bnt one hundred million of people could now be sustained without increasing the area of a single farm or add ing pne to their number, by merely bringing the prodnet np to the average standard of reasonably good agricnltnre, and then there might remain for export twice the quantity we now send abroad to feed the hnngry of foreign lands. The Empire of Germany, to gether with Holland and B9lginm, has about the same extent of territory as the State o f Texas, and the good land of the former is no better than in the latter, and while the popu lation of Texas is not over two million* tW population of Germany, Holland and Belgi um exceeds fifty million. France, with an area of one hundred and thirty-two m illion. Of acres and thirty-eight million of people* has less land than Iowa, Kansas and Nebras ka, and yet these States only have a popula- tion of about four million, and the largest portion of their land is as fertile as that of France. A like comparison might be made in reference to other parts of the United States and other nations, showing the same results. The four States jnst mentioned do not coant more than six million of people* bnt they could easily sustain a population equal to that of Great Britain, Germany and France pnt together. There can be no donbt of the agricultural capabilities of the United States to maintain a population greater than that of any other eqnaUy large inhabitable- portion of the globe, and there is no doubt that the American race is destined to exer cise the commanding influence of the world’n fatnro. When Napoleon I. drew up his troops before the^Mamelukes under the shadow of the great pyramids, pointing to the latter.he saidi “ Soldiers, remember that from yonder bights forty centnries look down upon youP’ Amer icans may justly and proudly from the pyra mid top of opportunity look back on four centnries and stretch out their arms in to the fntnre with power to mould the destinies- of unborn millions, for they occupy the Gib- ralter of the ages which command the fu ture of the world.

Bogus “ saviors” are getting to be nomer- ons. The last one has sprang np in South. Carolina. He calls himself Jesus Christ, and has been preaching among the negroes along- the Savannah river. “ Give np every th ing and follow me,” he commanded. “ Let yonr crops go; tarn yoar cattle into the patches; the Lord will provide for yon.'* And obeying him, hundreds of negroes have quit work. To each an extent has the craze spread tha t the intelligent colored people and the whites joined in disenssing some plan to pnt a stop to it. I t was decided to arrest the crank or send him out of the country. Some were ready to lynch him, bnt better counsels prevailed. A warrant was issned for his ar rest and it is in the hands of the sheriff. The women were more emphatic than the men and armed themselves with gnns, bnt tho new prophet told U s people not to offer any resistance. They feared that be would bs crucified, ba the told them that he would not be pnt ; to death again. When th9 officers went to arrest him no resistance was offered, bnt a large crowd soon joined the favored disciples* who are almost constantly about him. They were ready to tear the officers to pieces, but a t their prophet’s request they anffered him to be'quietly taken away. Alter Us ar rest he. gave the name of Campbell, and gaid he came from the West. He shows sears in Ms hands w hlcir he says were made by nails whenhe wastnrucifiedon Calvary.!. His - ha ir - /

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,rd are long and shaggy, although he atly endeavors to trim his beard as the

. zior’s is represented in some pictures.

The Node in Blayatskite Art.

To him who aspires to lead those who de- ld to follow somebody, and especially to jwhose ambition is to dominate religions

pklings, superstitions wbhder-seekers, and would-be magic workers, the possession of an active imagination, glib tongue, flexible con science, and unlimited audacity in precipi tating his products upon the faithful are in dispensable. We have a great chunk of ad miration for one whose vaulting ambition enables him to disregard the truth and boldly utter clean home-made falsehoods with an air of sublime assurance, such as' will mislead his followers and yet not fool anybody else. In our limited experience no one can fill this role equal to a Russian or an Irishman. Give either but half a chance at the start and it is a hundred to one he will distance all com petitors, and take the ribbon and the gate money, a la the Clan na-Gael triangle. The nude in art finds no such masters elsewhere as in the Blavatskite society. Among the leaders of this cult there are, indeed, “mas ters"; those who despise the practice.of cloth ing their creations in even the scantiest ha biliments of troth. To them a false assump tion or a downiight lie has beauties and uses far transcending tru th with its homely garb. If any doubt troubles them as to the favora ble disposal of their wares when bearing their own imprint, they have a ready resource in the “Mahatmas," who are ever as conve niently near as the “controls” of certain venders of commercial Spiritualism.

Here are several examples of the resources of Theo-Blavatskite art, not the best, yet pro nounced enough in their way:

Mr. W. Q. Judge, the High Muck a-Muck of the American Section T. S., prospective suc cessor to the Theosophic papacy after Blavat- sky and Olcott, has declared without qualifi cation or reservation that Prof. Elliott Cones was the author of the five-column editorial exposure of Madame Blavatsky and her schemes published in the J o u r n a l of June 8tb, under the heading, “Muscovite Mesmer ism.” Prof. Coues is acknowledged by friends and enemies as a most polished, facile, skill ful, entertaining and able writer; hence we feel complimented by Judge’s assertion; nev ertheless. though we swell with pride at the encomium, tru th compels us to declare that the story of Blavatsky’s “ own" lacks the es sential elements necessary to make it true. As a matter of fact the only part of that arti cle for which we are indebted to Prof. Coues is his letter therein used, in which he incor porates one from R. Harte and an abstract from one by Blavatsky. Prof. Cones neither supplied material nor suggestions for anoth er line. He knew no moreof the article prior to its being pat in type than did his loving, altruistic, fellow Theosophist, W. Q. Judge— and possibly not so much, for his flock of Ma hatmas is not so large and rampant,and at that time he had not been put in rapport with the J o u r n a l ’s office cat. The history of the building of that editorial is simply th is: We procured the secret documents of the Esoter ic section through channels always open to

. us, and which we defy Blavatsky & Co. to close. With these, and a copy of Olcott’s People From the Other World, and the let ter of Prof. Coues before us, we sat down at our library table at nine o’clock in the morn ing, and at three o’clock in the afternoon the “ copy” was in the hands of the printers. That is the whole story. I t is a rule of the office to file all “ copy ” used, and keep it for sometime; any one desiring to see the “ copy" of “Muscovite Mesmerism" will be accommo dated by calling.

The Path is a monthly magazine edited by William Q. Judge and “devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America,” etc. In the current number of The Path its editor has a most excellent, able and truthful review of The Light o f Egypt. We regret that space forbids ex hibits of its excellence and ability, and that we must confine notice to a display of its truthfulness, as follows: (a) Mr. Judge gives the price as “$3.50,” whereas it is $3.00, and (b) adds, “This is a paper-covered book * * * to which the author is afraid to put a name.” The book is beautifully bound in cloth; and the author suppresses his name merely from modesty and because he desires the book to go before the world on its merits. Lastly, (c) after referring to the author as of the feminine sex, Judge concludes: “The book is by Mrs. Emma Hardlnge-Britten, and will no doubt be as good a business venture as her other two works." Light o f Egypt is not by Mrs. Britten nor any other woman, though no doubt the author will feel compli mented when he learns that his work has been mistaken by Judge and his office ma hatma for *hat of the distinguished medium, talented writer, author of those standard and vommifious works. Modern American Spiritualism, and Nineteenth Century Mir acles, and now editor of that able weekly,! The Two Worlds, published at Manchester, England; a writer frequently quoted and complimented by Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled.

The Independenttakes special pleasure in alluding to the shortcomings of Dr.Talmage’s church. I t says: “ Dr. Talmage says the church, if it would do its duty, could convert the world in ten years. I t has the men and the money. Perhaps so; but it must turn over a new leaf of generosity very soon if it is go ing to undertake so good and speedy a task. The Brooklyn Tabernacle last year, with 4,126 members reported, gave $151 to home mis sions, and $138 to foreign missions.” .

GENERAL ITEMS.» ^Mrs. Galpin will please accept thanks for a

photograph of herself and family. We place it with our collection. :

England has over $1,000,000 invested in the manufacture of idols for heathen countries, and yet the churches of that country are con tinually calling for more money and more missionaries to suppress idolatry—Ex.

The Christian Inquirer says of sensational preachers: “ If a minister is dishonored and expelled for any offense he is almost certain to have followers. His disgrace seems to make him famous. People wish to hear him preach, and till he is guilty of fresh escapades he rides on the top wave of popularity. We need not mention names. Every reader knows of such cases.”

The Southern general assembly has sus tained the action of the Charleston presby tery forbidding all public contending against the previous decision of the assembly adverse to the doctrine of evolution. The Southern general assembly thus adopts the papal prin ciple of infallibility, only it is an assembly not a pope which is decreed to be infallible.

Prof. Huxley speaks of Holland and Ger many “ as the only two countries in which, a t this time, professors of theology are to be found whose tenure of their posts does not depend upon the results to wbich their in quiries lead them.” In a foot note he says: “ The United States ought, perhaps, to be add ed, but I am not sure.”

Mrs. Sara A. Underwood, who has had charge of the Woman’s Department of the J o u r n a l for the past six months, left on Monday of this week to join her husband at Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Underwood has done good work, and we part with her regretfully but the distance between Portland and Chi cago is too great to keep up the connection*

The Esquimaux of Hudson’s Straits are in the habit of making offerings of various ar ticles to spirits, and scraps Of food, powder and shot, tobacco, and the like, are to be found on the graves of their dead. But they are anxious to conciliate all the known su pernatural powers as well as the unknown, and therefore they made similar offerings to the beacon in the shape of a man recently erected in that region.. The business of witch doctor is legitimate in Indiana. The Supreme Court has so decid ed in a case just disposed of. Paul March of Lake county thought the witches were “ hoo dooing ” him. For a cow, a calf, and some poultry he hired “ Dr.” Burnett to exorcise the witches. The doctor drew pay, but his remedy wasn’t effective. The Supreme Court holds that he did not obtain money under false pretenses, as his representations were not sufficient to deceive if a person used ordi- dinary inteUigence.—Chicago Tribune.

The Spiritualist Society of Baltimore over which Mrs. Rachel Walcott officiates as speak er, closed its meetings for the season, June 30th. When she had concluded her address, she was followed by Leo Broom, who made a few remarks commending the noble work of Mrs. Walcott. He was followed by Mr. Weav er, who presented her with a substantial tes timonial in the form of a well filled purse, a contribution of her many friends. She was urged to go to other climes and seek the rest and recuperation she so much needed. Mrs. Walcott has done a most excellent work in Baltimore.

The state of the Eaglish Church is regard ed as “shaky” by a large body of influential members; they lately met and adopted the following resolution: “That while gratefully acknowledging the past efforts of existing Protestant organizations in vindicating the reformation principles of the established church, and disclaiming all desire to inter fere with their work, this conference is of opinion that the present critical state of the Church of England demands that churchmen who desire to maintain the principles of the reformation, the present prayer book and ar ticles, and the acts of uniformity as stand ards of ritual and doctrine in the national Church should further unite and organize; and that for this purpose a-union, under the name of the Protestant Churchmen’s Alli ance, be hereby formed, with branches in every diocese of England and Wales."

Geo. W. Walrond, who is Well spoken of by the spiritualistic press of England, lately crossed the ocean, and is now stopping at 121 Park street, North Hamilton, Ontario. A letter in the Two Worlds, from Glasgow, Scotland, speaks of him as follows: “That Mr. Walrond will be missed amongst us is saying very little, because almost since his introduction to the subject of Spiritualism, now some three years past, we have had the best part of his thoughts and energies spent amongst ns. With a ready pen, a cultivated mind, and a magnetic presence, he has made his mark in our midst, and left an impres sion which will not be readily effaced. There has been no saving of his own powers, his highest joy evidently being to make clear to others the facts that have brought so much brightness to bis own nature."

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Dispatches received at Zanzibar say that Capt. Wiesmann has attacked the Arab forces a t Pangani.—In a reballot for municipal officers at Cette the Socialists gained a vic tory over the Boulangists.—Queen Victoria has donated £50 to the sufferers by the rail road accident near Armagh, Ireland, re cently.—The striking seamen at Liverpool have decided by ballot to continue the strike until the companies grant their demands.— Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, brother of the Marquis of Landsdowne, is engaged to be married to Miss Fitzgerald, the well known American Oriental scholar.—Sir Andrew Clarke, the well known physician, paid a visit to Lord Tennyson and was surprised to

I lud him much improved in health and mental activity.—Four thousand weav ers a t Jaegern8dorf, Austria, have struck work. An official proclamation has been issued warn ing the strikers against committing excess es.—It is reported at Vienna that fifty Ras- sian officers- have passed Bralia, Roumania, on their way to Servia. There are also rumors that the Russian Government has been sending material of War and pontoons to Rent, in Bessarabia, and to the mouths of the Danube.—New York has a Russian labor ‘paper. The title of the journal is Znamia and its editor is B. A. Stoleschnikoff.—The London & Northwestern railway company, of England, has issued an order granting every man in its service a week’s holiday with full pay every year.—The Paris conven tion for the purpose of forming an in ter national union of all the labor organizations in the world will be held from the 14th to the 21st of July.—Alabama labor organizations, in a state convention held at Birmingham on the fourth of July, established a state coun cil which is said to have political objects.— A national convention of glass-blowers will be held in Atlantic City on the 10th. Repre sentatives are expected from all prominent cities in the United States and Canada. Over five thousand will attend.—Council Bluffs barbers have adopted resolutions against Sunday work. There is a law in Connecticut prohibiting barbers from work ing on Sunday, but until recently it has been a dead letter. On Sunday last a Hartford barber was arrested for having his shop open and had to pay a fine of $1 and costs.

Henry W. Owen, Jr., died at Norwalk, O., last Monday.—At a picnic near Hartford City, Ind., Edward Clark was accidentally shot in the breast by John Carroll. Clark’s recovery is doubtful.—The Rev. Daniel Frankel, a Jewish rabbi of Cleveland. O., tried to kiU himself by jumping from a viaduct, but was prevented. Poverty made him tired of life. —Charles Sayre of Wabash, Ind., has con fessed to being an accessory in the crime of horse-stealing, and implicated Daniel Schultz, a farmer, who was arrested.—The members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Rockford, III., will refer the matter of getting rid of their pastor, the Rev. T. L. Condee, to the presbytery.—The Rev. Dr. A.C. Smith, since 1866 pastor of the South Pres byterian Church of Gal6na, 111., has accepted the Presidency of Parsons College at Fair- field, la., and left for that place.—F. A. Hpsh- er, editor and proprietor of the Norwegian Republican a t Minneapolis, Minn., has as signed to Charles Eittleson, ex State Treas urer. The paper was founded in La Crosse about thirty years ago.—The Waugh Steel- Works, Belleville, 111.; Ohio Falls Iron Com pany, New Albany, Ind.; Hubbard Iron Com pany, Hubbard, O.; Sligo Iron Company, Pittsburg; and the Laughlin Steel Company, Mingo Junction, 0.. signed the amalgamated scale last Monday.

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MRS. E. B. DUFFEY.

,Ve meet and jostle in the market places,We smile and jsst with one another there;

We 6ee each other's calm, indifferent faces,And neither knows the other’s grief or care.

My life is darkened, and the way is weary;And yours is shadowed ere its fullest prime;

From my own sorrows do I know how dreary,H ow desolate you are at this sad time.

You tell me life was full of joy and lightness,And sweatee: promi e t that man may know;

3ut midnight gloom o’ersbadowed all its brightness, And now you stand alone, o’erwhelmed by woe.

Alon»I Your grief is yet so new, so crushing,I t seems too deep, too heavy to be borne;

A hundred memories through your soul are rushing, You cannot check them, you can only mourn.

And yet, and yet, my frit nd—ntfay I so call you?— You are most blest and favored among men.

(ou have no vain regretting to enthral you.No painful hours you would call back again.

'o taste the sweets of life to you was given.And from your lips was early dashed the cnp,9 you had reached the bitter dregB which even n all our lives must fill the measure up.ter this sharp bereavement, aye, far better his sudden woe, while love is fresh aod strong,

youth’s first flush, than feel love’s bonds to fetter, ,ud know that one has lived too long, too long!

one has lived too long w hen love has perished! h, saddest word of all, that word, estranged!

ten we tarn coldly from the one we cherished,, 1 love to disregard or hate has changed!

m our dead loves stalk like wan ghosts before us, lunting, and taunting o f the far-off past; n the cold, sunless heaven arches o'er ns, d we each walk alone life’s way at last.blessed among men! for a brief season—;ee golden years—so perfect, blissful, bright, walked in paradise, and this the reason, angel walked with you in robes of white.

band in yonrs, her heart unfaithful.never, a walked with yon, but seems to walk no more; with the throng invisible she ever waiting stan Is upon the farther shore.

*>u have memories which ever bind you ,h golden cords to that sweet, sacred past; ries which take yon to the days behind yon; ugh ail else perish, the3s will ever last.is one spot which most her memory hallows; 1 with rockB and overarching trees, irm uring rivulet with stony shallows, flowers, and birds, aud softly-whispering

[breeze.graceful maples reach their arms, embracing ombre hemlock or the sighing pine, aarriage bond a bright vine interlacing boughs together fast: here is her shrine.

her altar, real e l by hand of heaven; red incense is the fl > wers’ sweet breath; hem by wind, brook and birds is given, ere her spirit comes unchecked by death.3ss pure she Btands, though all nnseeiDg

jur dim eyes; she bears your thoughts away bright sphere where she finds perfect being, vhere earth’s night is lost in heaven’s day.

le will come when this yonr crushing sorrow jrove a sweet and tender memory; it will from it a rich lnstre borrow;—

treasure in your heart ’twill be..euiury comes, with sad and tenderyearning, ere ^he quiet rests yonr thoughts are led, n tbe scenes of life yonr footsteps turning, ek the silent city of the dead.

teona Oak wood! on the hillside lying,— r, broad valley stretchiag oat below,— irth comes not, but only tears and sighing lg, breaking hearts, crushed down by woej

•turel granite or pale marble raises o of grief o’er many a pulseless breast; •ueless, grassy mounds, bestarred with

[daisies,<er mark where bumble steepen rest.

>bon through the vale, the river er on through borders brightly green; d surface sunbeams dance and quiver, reflections in its depths are seen.

river, in the bi^y city whose rash and roariog never cease, slaves, for whom man feels no pity;

n life holds no promise and no peace.

southward other slaves are toiling rn till night, ’mid furnace glare and heat, duty, sweltering and moiling, ant needs of human life to meet.

o’er their toil a smoky column, the night gleams like a burning brand; yay tbe mountains, faint and solemn, t sentinels forever stand.

aceful here, no noise or bnstle ’e disturbs the qu’et tomb; green, the leaves make gentle rustle, g, and the sweetest flowerets bloom.,

side a grave where the, the nearest .fe, lies pulseless, cold in death; is buried who was best and dearest— ve, her mouldering form beneath.

own, rebellions and despairing, a with yonr wordless agony; e, e’en your great sorrow sharing;

. for death hath set her spirit freeTaiks with you and her steps ne’er falter; stands by yon though you see her not; f heaven her true heart cannot alter,

arthly love by her forgot

. see her, for your tears are falling, will ever blind the eyes of faith; hear her, for her voice is calling,

ce that spans the chasm made by death.

for you at the celestial portal.''ugh the darkness gleams her fair young

[face;lessedness of life immortal "> ty add angelic grace.

hed to you; oh, look and listen! ills to you; oh, Bee aud hear!

.uty do her garments glisten; terns darkness, she is ever ce ir.

ill you that her love enfolds you; re and strong than mortals know; !des, and comforts and upholds you,

the will of heaven bow.

of youth! it has been yours; hallo o’er your past, g, memory endures! all that’s left a t last..

' Ineet within the market places;)st w ith others we find there, i c in one anotLei’s faces •rt will rise a silent prayer:

you .strength to bear your bur- [den!

jst, and faith to see His hand ; t which come as Barest guerdon, pose better understand. 1

1, wbo is to marry Mies Gham- American beauty, got bis queer ng" his father in tbe hunting re. He mistook the paternal 'led hem with sh o t *

R K L I G I O - P H I L O SO .’H IC A L J O U R N A L .■; ■ Y

A Consideration of Personalities.

lo tlie Editor of tbe BeUsio-PHUosonlilcal Jounui:Some years ago I was inclined to be somewhat

personal in regard to tbe shortcomings of a class of mediums. I may have been a little one-sided in my belief in Spiritualism, for I wanted nothing from tbe other side of life but its beauties. The false, the frivolous, the. impure and mischievous, I had no nse for. In fact, I had idealized it into a beautiful and perfect religion. I judged according to iny own standard of tru th . Whatever fell below this stand ard I denounced.

In a short time I learne 1 that it was far pleasanter to keep my thoughts to myself until the time was ripe for safely speaking my mind upon tbe subject. I was told tbat Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So had been an instrument for the angel (?) world for years. What ever had been said or done amiss was laid a t tbe door of these angels (fallm ones, I suppose), or was caused by the condition of the sitters. I f fraud was received, the sitters’ doubts produced them, or the evil within them brought the class of spirits that worked only mischief. I bad become a firm believer la Spiritualism, and visited mediums for tbe purpose of seeing and conversing with friends lately passed to the other side. When my heart called for a daughter, whose name I certainly thought I knew, she came in tbe guise of a Carrie, a Jennie or a Liz zie, whom I did not know. A brother Henry came, whom I never had, costumed in an elaborate shirt- front and petticoats. A mother came whom I had not lost; then it was my hnsband’s mother; if not his, it was a grandmother. Spirits sprang up through the floor and retarded the. same way; and the fraud in onr hearts was so great that we only saw a grown girl spring from a heap on the floor to her fall stators, seemingly, covered with very thin black lace, fl ag her arms wildly in the air, then settle back to her neap while gradually dra wing the lace over her white garments to slmnlate dematerialization, until she was lost within the folds of the cabinet curtain. The audience were mostly enraptured over this ghostly theatrical. I was simply disgusted. So you see wbat awful conditions I carried.

I heard a t every conference meeting and from many eloquent speakers: “Yon m ast uphold the medium, tbe dear instrument of communication from tbe angel-world; for whatever seemB evil, there is a can- e; you must extend tbe mantle of charity, and study until yon understand the laws that govern this great phenomenon.” Preach against the evil, bat up hold tbe instrument of the evil? I couldn’t do it; I tried, but th e ferment from the conditions within boiled over. Something got in tbe papers. I t was considered a personal matter, although no names were used. The coat fitted so many friends of spe cial mediums that I concluded my conditions had roused all the imps of darkness. But I see it has only helped to bring about tbe day whereby one may dare to connect tbe evil dene among Spiritualists with the evil doers in the same cause. I always re gret a personality that points out tbe door of the evil doer; but when our cause and society at large are being injured, there is ano ther way but that the persistent evil doer mast suffer to save tbe majority. No so-called medium ever put a fraud upon tbe pub- lic,aud made a convert to Spiritualism,that did not in time cause mote doubts and turn more away from investigating tbe subject than any one sincere though bigoted opposer could do, by talking and preaching a life-time. A lie can not live in the dark; it will come to light in time.

Here Is where I stand to-day: h a tie l for evil, lave for truth and charity for the weak. I believe there are many influences to fight against,whether of this world or of tbe one beyond, or both, I am unable to say, bat I am in c lk e l to believe that I need not look beyond this vale of tears for the evil influences ram pant in our midBt. I bBlieve that every true Spirit ualist should use his utmost power to influence oth ers for good; but when the evil continues, when the beautiful temple is desecrated and made a harbinger of all corruption, and has become a den of thieves, let the tables be overturned and the evil doers driven therefrom. Let not the troubled waters be calmed until they flow-pure as tbe crystal fount from which all trath and purity proceed?.

I f the majority of the people must be aud are un der the psychic or soul influence of some leader (and this may be a fact), if this leader is not true a t heart, no matter if every word is a gem, tbe majority will be affected by bis or her psychic influence, and more or less erroneous ideas will be inculcated, according to the perfect poise of tbe bearers or readers.

Then send out none but pure teachers, and through their psychic influence they may in time psycholo gize a world. Truly, truth is tru th whoever utters it, and water is water, wherever tbe fountain head: but as tbe pure crystal stream often becomes loaded with filth on its passage to the sea. so does tra th become contaminated by the psychic influence of tbe impure soul who otters i t A. M. M.

Newton, Kansas.

Infidelity*.

DB. B. B. WESTBROOK.

W hat is infidelity, and who may with propriety be called infidels? The words infidel and fidelity are from the same Latin ro o t M etis. In tbe former the prefix in (not) is used while in the latter it is omit ted. The original, fidelis, means faithful, from fides, faith. The word faith does not primarily and neces sarily refer to wbat one believes, ba t to bis fidelity to whatever he bulieves. The more comprehensive and practical meaning of the original word relates specially a d primarily to the m atter of faithfulness to a tru sto r contract, and hence, in the language of the law, adultery is denominated ‘‘infidelity,” because it is a violation of tbe marriage contract. By palpa ble perversion of language, and doubtless out of def erence to ecclesiastical bigotry and arrogance, lexi cographers have added to the original and real phil ological meaning of the word an arbitrary and ut terly unjustifiable definition, founded entirely upon tbe puritanic, usus loquendi, and applied it to the m atter of a creed, what one believes regarding tbe dogma of a.single sect, as to the infallible inspira tion of its doubtful Scriptures—doubtful as to their origin, doubtful as to wbat they really teach, and equally doubtful as to the real character and teach ings of the alleged founder of tbe sect. AgaiDBt this perversion I firmly protest and refuse to be called an infidel until I shall have been proved unfaithful to a a tru s t According to tbe real meaning of tbe word, I would as soon be called a defaulter as an infidel. In my judgm ent independent investigators and free thinkers have not been wise in tacitly accepting an opprobrious name without au earnest denial and an indignant retort. No claiss of men on earth are more free from infidelity than those wbo are villified as infidels by those to whom the stigma properly be longs. In behalf of the Rationalists and Liberals of the world, I flatly deny that they are infidels, and boldly retort by charging the rankest infidelity upon the paid, professional Christian clergy, with few ex ceptions, m that they are unfaithful in the search for truth, often suppress it when they happen to find it, and as frequently suggest the false and even u n faithfully and dishonestly preach what they do know to be false! Such men are tbe real infidels. ,

I close with a kindly hint to some of onr rational istic writers and speakers who sometimes use the ex pression “orthodox infidelity,” or similar words. Herein I think onr “Homerd” are caught “nodding” ! Has it come to this that there are men in oar Liber al rankB wbo are not only Willing to be stiginatiz <d as infidels, that is, as defaulters and unfaithful per sons, but tacitly admit that they belong to a ?ect having a “shibboleth” or sta’ndard of orthodoxy like other sects? Can it be true that some Freethinkers cannot tolerate free-thinking? Let Liberals beware lest they fall into the secret snares of the narrow bigots wbo “profess and call theuiBcivee orthodox Christians”! Let Freethinkers have no tests of ‘“good and regular standing’!except those of moral character, manly honor and]mental freedom.—Free-, thinkers Magazine fo r July.

Dr. Westbrook does not apparently realize as yetr the intolerance and bigotry bf the body calling itself a the “American Secular Unioil.” With a very few honorable exceptions, the speckled flock wearing that label is composed of crude, bigoted materialists, holding in contempt all wbp, do not sweeplngly en dorse the dogma of materialism. President West brook will find tbe pseudo-secular anion a most in corrigible and irreclaimable parcel of blatant bigots who will not take kindly to aDy higher teachings and who have no true conception of secularism.

David A. Wells, who is-reckoned a learned man and has ju st been LL. D.’d by Harvard, says that he would despair of getting into college nowadays were he required to pass - the examinations that young men are called upon: to pass before they re ceive their entrance papers..

'miss maria Mitchell.

Miss Maria Mitchell, tbe distinguished astronomer,' died Friday morning in Lynn a t the residence of Mrs. BeDj. H. Currier on Green street. She was one of tbe very small nnmber of women who attained high fame in astronomical studies, and her admirable in dustry and exceptional genius won her a deserved place in the esteem of scientific circles here and in Europe.

Maria Mitchell, born August 1,1818; was the third child of William Mitchell, an earnest, studious man, a lover of nature aud a teacher in the town of Nan tucket. His leisure hours were spent in a small ob servatory built ou his own grounds and in mathe matical calculations, and by these means he obtained, for services done the United States Coast Survey, ad ditional salary that helped in the support of -the ten small children growing up in his household. But still money was none too plentiful, and so Maria felt it her duty to add her mite to the family purse by ac cepting the position of Librarian at the Nantucket Library, where the firet year she received sixty-five dollars, seventy-five the second and one hundred after that. There she remained for twenty years. But one October night in 1847, as she was gazing through the telescope in her father’s observatory, Bhe was startled by an unknown comet suddenly flashing across her range of vision. Carefully she obtained its right ascension and declination, ba t was afraid to announce it, fearing that some one else bad seen it before her. Her father, however, who was undoubtedly prond of his gifted daughter, wrote to the Director of tbe Observatory a t Cambridge, and his answer a t once made certain that the obBCute Nantucket girl had indeed made a new discovery. Within a few weeks she fonnd hen elf becoming fa mous. Scientific journals announced her as the dis coverer of “Miss Mitchell’s comet” ; she was classed with Mary Somerville and Caroline Herscbei, and Frederick Y L , King of Denmark, sent her a gold medal valued e t twenty ducats. She still plodded on for ten years longer in the library, although she faithfully studied toe heavens by night, and also compiled the American Nautical Almanac, and con tributed articles to several scientific periodicals. The desire of her heart, however, was to see the observa tories of Europe, and at length. In 1857, she sailed for England. Here, as well as on tbe Continent, she was warmly welcomed to the most learned and cul tured circles. In Europe she was received by Sir John Herscbei and Lady Herschel, Alexander Yon Humboldt, Leverrier, Mrs. Somerville and Encke.

After a year Miss Mitchell returned to Nantucket, but in 1864, a year after her mother’s death, she re moved to Lynn, in order that Bhe might be near Boston. She was then earning $500 yearly for her government compntations. But before long Vassar College was built and Maria Mitchell was requested to occupy tbe observatory connected with the insti tution. She accepted and there held a professorship from 1865 until 1888, when she resigned on account of advanced age and infirmities. Since the latter date she had made her home in Lynn. Recently she had built a small observatory*at the residence of Mr. Owen Dane, her brother-in-law, thinking it wonld afford l e r some amusement, but her health had been too poor to enable her to uo any scientific work. She suffered with a disease of the brain, and had been failing for many months.

M Ie s Mitchell was the discoverer of eight comets during her career, in some cases being several days in advance of other watchers. In 1868, when the great meteoric sbower took place, she and her pnpils recorded the paths of four thousand meteors, and gave most valuable data in regard to their bight above the earth, while her observations on tbe tran sit of Yt-nus are considered of extreme importance. She had written upon the “Satellites of Saturn” and a book upon the “Satellites of Jupiter.” In the midst of- her busy life she found time in 1873 for a second visit to Europe, and was again cordially wel comed there, spending some time with the Russian astronomer, Prof. Struve, of the Imperial Observa tory a t Pultowa.

At Yassar she was deeply respected and loved by Ler pupils, while every one who met her was im pressed with her dignity, her self-reliance and her marked talents. Three institutions have given her the degree of LL.D., Columbia being tbe latest. One of her admirers, speaking of her lately, said: “Time has touched her face with many softening lines. The features are still irregular and unclaesical, ba t a pure life, high thoughts and noble purposes have written in eloquent language toe evidence of a great nature.”

Miss Mitchell was a sister of Prof. Mitchell, form erly of the United States Coast survey, and of Mrs. Joshua Kendall of Cambridge and of Mrs. Owen Dane of Lynn. The fnneral services were beld on Sunday afternoon at Nantucket. Rev. Dr. Taylor, President of Yassar College, officiated.—Boston Journal.

LETTER FROM! NEW YORK.

** The Future of tlie Negro.”--o Editor of tne Religlo-Vlillosoptucai Journal-.

Under tbe above caption recently appeared an art icle signed “Cora Fairchild,” in a cow spiritual (?) publication in this city. Cora Fairchild, it is claim ed, is a disembodied s* irit. While tbe article did not attem pt to dispose of the question it showed a decid ed prejudice to tbe colored people. This was all tbe more deplorable coming from a sp irit The article was so obnoxious to my sense of righ t and fair play that I sent to tbe editor a brief reply, and I was again surprised that be did not for some cause want to pub lish i t The following is my criticism:

Tbe colored people of America have fully demon strated their ability to bold their own in spite of tbe great odds against them. In proportion to popula tion there are less idlers, beggars and tramps among them than among tbe white race. When set a t lib erty some twenty-four years ago, they started in life with nothing bat the poor clothes to their backB, and notwithstanding tbe shameful treatm ent ever accorded them ail over the Sooth, robbing them year after year of their honest earnings, they have not only sustained themselves bat accumulated prop erty up in the millions. I t is doubtful if the Caucas ian race would or could have done equally as well under toe same discouraging circumstances. When permitted they have made rapid progress in educa tion, and thousands of them to-day grace with credit and honor every calling and profession in life. They are the most law-abiding and loyal class. No col ored man ever fired on toe stars and stripes. They have always been loyal, peaceable and law-abiding. For years they have waited for some sign of protec tion to their civil and political rights, as guaranteed by the Constitntion, but it has not yet come. Elec tions in the South are still a farce, and colored men are still murdered if they dare to assume their man-

*hood. When, O, when, will the people awake and crash out forever such villainy?

The article referred to in the English magazine is unworthy of consideration, and is not true in any sense with reference to the colored people of the United State*. How inferior and narrow-minded would the writer of said article appear in compari son with Frederick Douglass, Ex-United States Sen ator Bruce, and others who rank a t least on a par with the average statesman.

Bat colored people are accused of “voting early and often,” as taught them “under carpet-bag rule,” and they have “n >t forgotten the lesson,” Bays Cora Fairchild. That tdey voted early a t one time may <-r may not be true, but that they ever voted or now vote often is denied, and unsupported by any evi dence. I t is the white race, if yon please, who vote ofieo, staff ballot boxes, and shoot colored men for daring to vote a t all.

The negro did his part well in helping to squelch .secession, and if any class have a right to “vote early and often,” it certainly is not the white race who tried to destroy the Republic, but rather the colored race, who were to a man loyal to the flag.

The race problem will be solved with the march of civilization and the general progress of political and religions freedom. The negro is here, and he is here to Btay. No other part or portion of toe human race is more valuable or essential to toe universal welfare of mankind. J u s t i t i a .

In one of the British reviews for Jnne is an ap peal “to the common sense and educated thought of the men and women of England agains£ the pro posed extension of toe parliamentary suffrage of women.” I t is signed by over one hundred women, representing a great variety of social Interests and radical differences of political opinion. The names include Mrs. Leslie Stephen, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mrs. Beatrice Potter, Mrs. J . R. Green, Lady Layard, Mrs. Hnxley, Mrs. Lynn Linton« Mrs. Alma Tadema, Mrs. W. E. Forster, Mrs. Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Max Mailer, tbe Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lady Frederick Cavendish, toe duchess of St. Albans, Lady Louisa Egerton and Mrs. Goschen.

King Humbert of Italy squandered more than $100,000 during Mb four days’ visit to Berlir.

L etter from Boston.i’o the Editor of the IielUdo-PWlosoDhlcal journal'.

Dear S ir :—You see I do not address yon as form erly from the “Wilds of Willow Creek.” For a while I am destined to a sojourn in the ' proud City of tbe “Hub.” Don’t be alarmed, sir, I am not goiDg to write a lengthy and tedious communication, and for the best of reasons, I bave but little to communicate, a t least tha t I care to tell you just now. In a little while I may bave more. But that little, I think, will n-joice your heartland the hearts of all the truth-loving leaders of the J o u rn a l . Methinks I

= hear you saying as you finish reading tbe last sen tence, “Why, what am 1 going to hear that is cal culated to gladden my heart?”

About two years since I left Boston for Willow Ciesk, Nevada: At that time the'materializing frauds were in the zenith of their glory. They were mak ing money hand over fist. There were no less than eight of these materializing shows running in full force almost night and day, week in and week oat. One of the oldest, acatest and most successful of these frauds had saved up, I have been cfedibly.in- formed, abont $10,000 from her diabolical business. Boston was then called, and deserved tbe title o f “The Home par excellence of materializing Frauds.” About tbe time of my leaving the city the righteous indignation of the honest part of toe Spiritualists of onr community began to be aroused againBt these notorious humbugs, and one ur two success ful raids had been made upon them, and toe tricks and wickedness of some of them bad been fnlly exposed. I need not say that this result was pleasing to me. I bade these right eous Philistines god-speed in their good work, and departed. I return from my sojourn among the mountains to Boston once more, toe former home of the frauds, bat w hat a blessed change has taken place. I left eight materializing frauds. I now find only toe ghosts of two of them remaining. All the others have qnietiy folded their tents like the Arabs and mysteriously passed away, taking along with them all their trick paraphernalia, except what was captured, from them —a goodly quantity—and not very long since, exhibited to an astonished public in the Globe Theatre.

I can discover only two places in the city where this materializing business is even attempted to be carried, on and it 1b carried on sab rosa, never adver tized. Pecuniarily it is a losing business and most soon die oat entirely. No one attends these stances except hopeless cranks. But I most speak charitably of sneb, for only a few years since I was ja s t as big a crank as any of them. In justification, however, of myself I mast say I honestly belived in so-called materialization. I as honestly believe, w ith toe best of reasons for so doing, that it is a yile and wicked swindle and outrage on the public. So radical has been the change of belief in toe materializing busi- ness that many of my older spiritualistic friends are ashamed to own that they ever had any faith in it. Others like myself laugh over onr former credulity and folly. No one who has any inspect for himself or herself will own that they now ever patronize a ma terializing stance. Such is Le bleesed and radical change that has taken place in Boston. But Spirit ualism pure and simple haB not been injured by the change; nay, it has begn helped in its onward pro gress.

I t was not tbe “Heathens of tbe Heath,” the ene mies of Spiritualism that brought these materializing frauds to judgm ent; it was tbe work of the ean es t and honest Spiritualists themselves. I aui well ac quainted with the prominent men and women who were a t tbe head of these raiding ext editions, that ultimately wiped out the foul stigma from our city, and I know them to be of the highest character add social standing in the community. The only motive that prompted them to perform so disagreeable, and oftentimes so dangerous, a task, was their love of truth, a hatred of fraud, pity for its unfortunate victims and a since: e desire to rid Boston of this wicked plagne. And they have done their work well, a work for which every honest Spiritualist should feel grateful to them. I t is through their efforts that Boston can no longer trothfally be called toe “Home of Materializing Frands.” I hope other cities, similarly afflicted as oars once was may be as sincet e in their efforts, and as successful in the end, as we bave teen in eradicating this materializing plagne spot and all similar frands from their midst.

I said I wonld not write a long letter, and I mean to Keep that promise. Bat I cannot, and onght not to bring my communication to a close without say ing one word about toe part the J o u r n a l took in this war against fraud in Boston. I remember to its credit how careful it was in scrutinizing toe evidences of fraud sent for publication. How care ful and cautious and even charitable it was in this whole business of medinmship. Bat the moment that gnilt was evidently proven, then without fear or favor the whole story appeared in the pages of the J o u rn a l . You cannot tell how mnch it has done in helping us to reach the blessed consum mation which this letter announces. I t Baemsto me the thanks, a t least, of every honest Spiritualist in Boston are due to the J o u r n a l for its untiring ef forts, not only here bnt all over the country, to purge our beautiful philosophy from toe foul stain of frand. I t would give me great p.'eiBnie to name, if I could, any other Spiritualist paper beside the Re* L iG io-P hilosophical J o u r n a l tha t has fought so valiantly aod bo persistently in this holy.erdsade against fraud of every kind in the ranks of Spirit- n-Jism. W. L. Thompson.

Boston, Jan e 28tb, 1889.

A Word ol Encouragement.

iv> toe Editor ol tne Rellslo-PUldsoobical Journal*While we have never met face to face, onr spirits

have been in constant communion for nearly twenty years. During all this time I have noticed a gradual and steady growth and enlargement of the standard of religious tra th underlying the editorial presenta tions of the J o u rn a l . In fact, it is no small tax on the reader to keep up with its progress. Every is sue seems to be a reach fora higher truth, or a dem onstration of one already reached. The ringing edi torials of the last few issues clearly evince this. The light of that natural truth proclaimed in these must dispel superstition aod assumption resting on an age of ignorance, as the light of the son doeB toe fog and m ist Such is my jndgment and appreciation of yonr efforts, and while their expression may afford little or no encouragement to one bo well grounded and fortified in religic-philosophical tru th as you are, still the real satisfaction felt by the w riter prompts the expression.

The most intelligent part of the world is rapidly gravitating to this great standard: That there is an all-pervading, all permeating and exclusive power, impersonal because incomparable, that fills the en tire universe of matter and mind, Imparting that life and energy that crystallizes in the grain of Band, ma terializes in vegetation, feels in the EensationB of an imal life, thinks and leasons in conscious man, and giveB that intuitive perception that belongs alone to the spirit; that this unlimited Being, Energy, Truth, Spirit, God, fills, directs, controls and governs the entire universe just as tbe corresponding sonl or spirit of man fills, directs and governs bis own lim ited body—he being made in the image of tbe unlim ited: that this Being, Trath, God, is a t every moment everywhere, present, waiting to be perceived, accept ed, felt, and utilized to blees and benefit; that the highest daty of man is to search oat this all-pervad ing truth, and apply it to practical hum an affairs; that toe only true faith is such an abiding trust in this great trato , >nd its practical efficacy, as will in spire adequate efforts to learn and apply it to toe wants of man. This high progressive standard and abiding faith, and the consciousness of an immortal life to devote to tbe work before ns, are the sources of nineteenth century inspiration. No laborer has removed more obstructions to progress in this direc tion, or exposed more simulating shams, than yon have. G oon,m y brother. Continue to apply the truth according to the highest standard, with a zeal born of faith in it, and that still, small voice assures me that no three hundred years shall pass, as in toe case of toe noble Brnno, before yonr labors are duly appreciated and rew ardei. J . L . B a tc h e lo r ,

Clarinda, Iowa.

Tlie International Congress of Spirits ualists.

.u tlie Editor o t tbe ReUsk^PlUlosoDblcal Journal:In the R e lig io -P h ilo so p h ic a l J o u r n a l of Jan e

15 I read toe invitation to American Spiritualists to attend the International Congress of Spiritualists to be held in Paris on the first of September. I pre sume i t !b in the interest of harmony that tbe notice is eiven that the question of reincarnation—which is popular among toe French followers of Allai^ Kar- dec—rwill not be raised, and that no other matters will be brought before toe convention “save each as we are ail agreed upon” Including:

JU LY 13.1. Belief in the immortality of toe soul.2. Possibility of communion with those in .

fife.3. Personal responsibility for our thoughts au

deeds.I need not quote further' to raise *the question

whether we are all agreed that we are responsible for all our thoughts! If we are agreed upon this, does it not stultify the teaching of spirits as well as mortals that some of ns a ie a t times inspired w ith thoughts and ideas from the Spirit-world, so-called; that thoughts foreign to us are pumped into our brain for the purpose of enlightenmt-nt and good deeds, or for evil and vindictive motives accord ing to tbe nature of the spirit tbat finds a channel through which it can impress itself and influence a person yet in the form?

I t seems to me that this might be a question for consideration in the Congress to be held in Paris, as well as elsewhere. W . S. Wo o d .

N o t e s a n « l E x t r a c t s o n m i s c e l l a n e o u s S u b j e c t s .

Lcs Angeles is to build a newer to the oceanrat a cost of $ 6,000,000. '

The offers received at Johnstown to adopt or phans is far in excess of the sdpply.

William Lincoln, who lives near Grafton, W. Va„ has a cat tha t playB with rats ba t is death to snakes.

Ben Butler’s best eye , is now in poor condition, end it is feared that he may become .totally blind. ■

Mrs. C. W. Brace of New York has given $50,000 to Harvard University for a photographic telescope to |be used in the observatory.

Carlotta Patti’s voice is said to have been the high est soprano ever known, and her execution was cor respondingly marvelone.

The French Council of Hygiene has ja s t forbid den the obo of bine paper in the public schools, claiming that it was mak’n g . France a near-sighted nation.

Bees settled in the top of a house near Atlanta, Gan eight years ago, and toe other day, when the gable end was removed, the entire roof was fonnd to be filled with heney.

A Nurem berg manufacturer has invented pencils in bine, black add brown for writing on the human skin. They are for use in anatomical and chemical demonstrations.

Wait Whitman writes to a friend in New York:“I am easier and rather better these days, and am wheeled oat in a strong willow chair every day. Bat I aid a bad old wreck.”

Prof. T. H. Huxley says that he has never entire ly recovered from toe effect of a blood poisoning contracted daring his first post-mortem examination, performed when he was less than 14 years of age.

The Bcepter of an Egyptian king has been ex amined chemically by Professor Berthelot, and proves to be nearly pm e copper, with only traces of lead.I t is supposed to be about six thousand : ears old.

Tulare Lake, in California, which was formerly twenty or thirty miles in extent, is now only fifteen by twenty. Although the water is strongly impreg nated with borax and alkali, the lake is fall of fish.

Tbe Royal Meteorological Society of England is making a collection of photographs ot lightning flashes. On each photograph iB noted the time of the fiaBh and the interval between it and the thunder.

I t is expected that tbe grape crop in California this season will be the largest in tbe history of toe state. The wine production iB estimated a t from 30.000,000 to 35,000,000 gallons. Tbe raisin crop will be a veiy heavy one.

Que n Victoria and tbe Prince of Wales were much pleased when they visited tbe Royal Agricult ural Show in Windsor Park at tbe hearty gteeting ' they received, the royal crowd shouting, “Good old Vic!” end “Good old Prince!”

Lady Jar e Grey, according to a letter of her time preserved in the archives of Genoa, was short and thin, bnt prettily shaped and graceful, with small features, a straight nose, and red lips, her hair being auburn and her eyebrows dark, while her eyes were “rossi,” or light hszel.

“Marie, Baroness de Veszera; horn March 19,1871; died Jan. 30,1889. ‘Life is a flower; it opens and is plucked.’ ” This is the inscription on the headstone of the grave In a cemetery near Vienna where repose * the remains of the woman who shared the tragic fate of Crown Prince Rudolph.

A curious feature in ornithology is reported from Eckington, Yorkshire, England, where a hen has hatched two chickens from one egg, both chickens being in perfect Btate except that they are joined to gether on one side of the membranes of the wing. Beyond this they walk about and feed in the nsnal manner.

A man a t Allentown, Pa., has tw o tree frogs which dwell contentedly in a glass jar containing water and a tiny ladder. When toe weather is fair tbe little fellows crawl up the ladder and gaze aronnd, bnt when a rain iB coming they dive to the bottom of tbe jar. These movements are made hoars in advance of toe change in the weather.

Since cock-fighting has been suppressed in South Carolina the sporting men have been Endeavoring to create some suitable amusement to take its place.I t seems that the lawmakers, never having contem plated such a thing as bull-fighting, made no pro

: vision for its prevention. Now comes an advertise ment of a ball fight to take place in Florence.

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At a pool on Tobyhannay Creek, a mile or so from Tobyhanna Mills, Pan a few days ago, it is stated, a boy, with worms for bait, landed three trout in less than half a hour. Their combined weight was nine pounds seven ounces, and their aggtegate length was fifty-five Inches. They were taken to Scranton and made great talk among the fancy fishermen, who had fisbed the same w ater over and over without making any such catch.

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13, I8fc9. _Man Arrested for Hypn ing Shopkeepers.

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oe comfortably roasted before a slow fire, g man, whose name is Lewis Albert,-is a of Oxford University. Soon after he left i became interested iu mesmerism, mind- md hypnotism, and as a result of natural lose stndy, soon became so expert that for a traveled about giving exhibitions of bis

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PREFACE.The reasons which have Induced the writer to undertake-

the responsibility of presenting a purely the world, are briefly as follows:

For nearly twenty years the writer has been dee,, ed In investigating the hidden realms of occult force, anu, the results of these mystical labors were considered to be great value and real worth by a few personal acquaintance s= who were also seeking light, be was finally induced to cor dense, as far as practicable; tbe general results of these re searchesr Into a series of lessons for private occult study This Idea was. ultimately carried ont and pint into external form; the whole,when compieted,presenting the dual aspects of occult lore as seen and realized In the soul and the stare; corresponding to the microcosm and the macrocosm of an cient Egypt and Chaldea, and thus giving a brief epitome ot> Hermetic philosophy. (The term Hermetic is here used ba its true sense of sealed or secret.)

Having served their original purpose, external circum stances have compelled their preparation for a much wider- circle of minds. The chief reason urging to. this step was- the strennons efforts now being systematically put forth to- polson the budding spirituality df the western mind, and to fasten upon "its mediumistic mentality, the subtle, delusive dogmas of Karma and Re incarnation, as taught by the ' sacerdotalisms of the decaying Orient

From the foregoing statement It will be seen that this work Is hsned with a definite purpose, namely, to explain, the true spiritual connection between God and man. the soul and the stare, and to reveal the real truths'of both Karma and Be-Incamation as they actually exist in nature, stripped of all priestly Interpretation. The definite state ments made In regard to these subjects are absolute facta. In so far as embodied man can understand them through the symbolism of human language, and the writer defies con tradiction by any living authority who possesses the spiritual right to say, “I know.”

During these twenty years of personal Intercourse with the exalted minds of those who constitute the brethren of light, the fact was revealed that long ages ago tbe O rient. had lost the use of tbe true spiritual compass of the soul, as well as tbe real secrets of its own theosophy. As a race, they have been, and still are. travelling the descending are of their racial cycle, whereas tbe western race have been slowly working their way upward through m atter upon the ascending arc. Already It has reached tbe equator of Its mental and spiritual development. Therefore the writer does not fear the ultimate resalts ot the occult knowledge pat forth in the present work, daring this, the great mental crisis of the race.

Having explained the actual causes which impelled the wr.ter to undertake this responsibility, it is also necessary to state most emphatically that h ' does not wish to convey the impression to the reader’s mind that the Orient Is desti tute of spiritual truth. On tbe contrary, every geuuir- stndent of occult lore Is just)/ proud of the snowwhl. locks of old Hindustan, and thoroughly appreciates tha wondrous stores of mystical knowledge concealed within the astral vortices of tbe Hindu branch of the Aryan race. In India, probably more than in any other country, are the latent forces and mysteries of nature tbe subject of thought and study. But alas! it Is not a progressive study. The descending arc of their spiritual force keeps them bound to the dogmas, traditions and externalisms of the decaying past, whore real secrets they can not now penetrate, The ever living truths coccealed beneath the symbols In the astral UgDt are hidden from tnelr view by the setting sun ot their spiritual cycle. Therefore, the writer only desires to Impress *p<m the reader’s candid mind, the fact that his earnest effort fs to expose that particular section or Budd histic Tnen>ophy (esoteric so called; that would fasten the csBiuptt'ff nharklea of theological dogma upon the rising geuius ot the western race. I t is the f elusive Oriental ays terns against which his efforts are directed, and not tbe raee nor the meolumlsttc individuals who uphold and support them; for "omnia oincii varitae” lathe life motto of

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W. Stainton-MoBes, M. A., editor of Light, London) in his always interesting “Sotto by he Way,” which regularly cover the first page

or two of that excellent paper, thas dis- courses on the proposed convention:

There has already appeared in Light an announcement of the forthcoming Spiritual ist and Spiritist Congress to be held in Paris between September 9th and 16th next, I have received from Mr. Leymarie an urgent personal invitation on.behalf of the Execu tive Committee. It is suggested that I take that opportunity of bringing forward my views on the subject of confederation—'“a durable general union of all Spiritualists.” This, my correspondent tells me, is the end aimed at by all the members of th* Executive Commission of the Congress. He requests me to contribute a paper stating and enforcing these views, and adds: ‘ It is obviously of the highest importance that all may be useful for the development of Spiritualism should be carefully considered, and it is therefore to be hoped that everyone who may be able to do so will send ns a statement of his or her views.” In the printed circular, which was distributed a t the recent Conversazione of the London Spiritualist Alliance, it is ex plicitly stated that the fundamental points to be affirmed are, 1. The survival of con sciousness after death. 2. The relations be tween the living and the dead. To this is added, “All questions that divide us will be set aside.”

Adverting first of all to the last announce ment, it is matter for gratification to find that the position 1 have consistently taken up in respect to union and harmony among all students of our vast subject is to be the position assumed by the Executive of the Congress. It is to be an essentially catholic body. Its promotors put aside matters of contention, and fix the attention of those re specting which we are united. The wisdom of this course is undoubted in my mind. Points of disunion are generally speculative: points of agreement are generally practical. The former we guess at, the latter we know. The one is in the air; the other has its foun dation in solid fact. Let us then, admitting the wisdom of the course proposed, trust that the Executive will find itself supported by a large contingent of British Spiritualists, if i t were in my power I would gladly go and add whatever sanction my presence and voice could give to a course which I entirely approve. At the request of the Executive Commission I gladly advise them of my own adhesion and of that of the journal which I edit. The Lon don Spiritualist Alliance occupies already a position similar to their own, and led the way four years ago in advocating what the Exec utive Commission is now putting out as its programme. There can, therefore, be no doubt as to the course which, that body will pursue. I t is in hearty accord with the Com mission.

With reference to the preparation of a pa per for ihe congress, I fear that I can add notuing to that elaborate address—“Spirit ualism at Home and Abroad :<its Present Po sition and Future Work”—which I delivered before the London Spiritualist Alliance on November 13th, 1885. I t has been four years before the public, and I have nothing to add to it. It remains in my mind just as clearly and imperatively a duty to organize now as i t was then. It remains an urgent duty to proceed with constructive work duly organ- i7.Ad and with experiments rationally . con-

-i.nd I see no reason to modify the .. oich was set forth in that address.

.u. it must be admitted that four years’ trial has not shown the progress that was antici pated. There can be no good end served by a refusal to face facts. Organization has not succeeded; and the attempt at systematic ex periment hasnot succeeded either. Yet a con sideration of the replies made to my proposal causes me to speculate on the reasons why this plan should fail of success. I will print hereafter some extracts from French journ als, and from some correspondence on the subject, which will show that the exceptions to complete acceptance were very rare. Yet neither confederation nor organized research has been successfully carried out. I t may be that a dearth of mediums is accountable for the latter failure. I t may be that Spiritual ists refuse to organize from an apathy, a torpor, a lukewarmness, and, in the last analysis, a selfishness, the traces of which are over the whole movement in all its var ious manifestations.

I t is worth while to look steadily at this point, for it is of vital moment. We have an experience and a knowledge beside which all other knowledge is comparatively insig nificant. The ordinary Spiritualist waxes wroth if anyone ventures to impugn his as sured knowledge of the future and his abso lute certainty of the life to come. Where other men have stretched forth feeble hands groping into the dark future, he walks bold ly as one who has a chart and knows his way. Where other men have stopped short a t a pious aspiration or have been content with a hereditary faith, it is his boast that he knows what they only believe, and that out of his rich stores he can supplement the fading faiths built only upon hope. He is magnificent in his dealings with man's most cherished expectations. “You hope,” he seems to say, “for that which I can demon strate. You have accepted a traditional be lief in what I can experimentaUy prove ac cording to the strictest scientific method. The old beliefs are fading; come out from them and be separate. They contain as much falsehood as truth. Only by building on a sure foundation of demonstrated fact can your superstructure be stable. AH round you old faiths are toppling. Avoid the crash and get you out.”

When one comes to deal with this magnifi cent person in a practical way, what is the result? Very curious and very disappoint ing. He is so sure of his ground that lit* takes no trouble to ascertain the interpreta tion which others put upon his facts. The wisdom of the ages has concerned itself with the explanation of what he rightly regarus as proven; but he does not turn a passing glance on its researches. He does not even agiee altogether, with his brother Spiritual ist. It is the story over again of the Scotch lady who, together with her husband, formed a “kirk.” They had exclusive keys to heaven, or, rather, she had, for she was “ua«certaiu aboot Jamie.” So the infinitely divided and subdivided, and re subdivided sects of Spirit ualists shake their heads, and are “na cer tain aboot” one another^ Again, the collec tive experience of mankind is solid and un varying on this point that union is strength, and disunion a source of weakness and fail ure. Shoulder to shoulder, drilled and dis

-ciplined, a rabble becomes an army, each ' man a match for a huudr* d of the untrained men that may be brought against ii. Or ganization in eveiy department of man’s work means success, saving of time and la bor. profit and development. Want of moth od, want of i*'— haphazard work, fitful

energy, undisciplined effort—these mean', bungling failures. The voice of humanity at tests the truth. Does the Spiritualist accept the verdict and act on the conclusion? Ver ily, no. He refuses to organize. He is a law unto himself, and a thorn in the side of his neighbors. ;

Once more; it is an accepted truth that no cause can be worthily advanced the votaries of which are not willing to sacrifice selfish aims and to throw into it that vitalizing energy which comes of strong conviction, and of a readiness to bear witness to the truth that they hold, even at Borne personal risk Of Io s p, at some self-sacrifice, a t some cost of time and money, or money’s worth. Bricks caunot be made without straw: great efforts to disseminate tru th cost money: workers ought to be and must be adequately paid, unless self-respect is to be forfeited. How much do you believe—a shilling, a crown, a pound? is a question that is habit ually found inconvenient by the average Spiritualist. He is content to let a few will ing souls bear all the burden and heat of the long day, slaving in unrequited toll, or sacrificing of their substance for duty’s sake, the while he frisks in heedless abandonment, sublimely self-contained and self-satisfied. Gives tithes of his possessions? Not he. Tithes are a remnant of an ecclesiastiealsys- tem happily past away. Give according to his ability, as the humblest sect gives to the necessary support of its minister and his work? No, be sees no reason. He has got all he wants out of Spiritualism, and the whole fabric may rot for aught he cares. Responsi bility for knowledge? Not at all: he does n jt see it. He wiU instruct (save the mark!) any who place themselves in his hands, but he draws the line at subscriptions. And so while he and his sort enwrap themselves thus in a mantle of selfishness, work lags, men who would do good service drop out of the ranks of public workers because they must earn a living somewhere else, and Spiritualism becomes a byword for yet another cause than that which distinguishes it in the police-courts. These are a poor folk, men say, they cannot even support and maintain their own work, which they vaunt as Divine, and advertise as immediately in troductory to the millennium.

These are plain truths, and it behooves Spiritualists to weigh and consider them. For such a work as ours has grown to is not done by vapouring, by bumptious talk about what we know—the more we know the less Vre are likely to say about it; it is the sciolist who shrieks—by selfish isolation, by feline scratches at a neighbor who sees not bb we would have him see, by internal dissension, by quarreling and strife; by none of these, but by a resolute performance of the duty laid on each, by cohesion, by self-sacrifice, by steady determination, in short, by the em ployment in our specific work of1 those meth ods which have been found successful else where and everywhere the world through.

JTor the Beligio-Philosopblcal Journal.SPIRITUALISM AND MEDlUMSHIP.

past life, i t wouliT be in an interro^, form. I have been told that among ~ ~ mediums a regular underground railway ex-

• ists by which they convey information to one another which may be useful in their circles. However this is, some of them surely need information. Were if not for the genu ine phenomena which I believe I found in six of the forty-two mediums I should have set Spiritualism down as a stupendous illu sion. I hold the belief in profound respect, in the mean/time suspending my judgment as to whether its phenomena are to be attribut ed to spiritual intelligences existing outside of and apart from the medium’s own mind. ”

This ie the result of one earnest man’s re searches; but how many investigators will- we find who are able and willing to pursue their search for truth thus fAr? No one in ten thousand. The other 9,999 will meet with some palpable fraud or some half-de veloped medium before their investigations have hardly begun, and they will give up in disgust. The world will judge Spiritualism by its mediums, and the least bit of trickery, of pretence, of mere guesswork instead of certainty, will bring its penalty.

Now we have been told again and again that mediums are generally persons, the elements of whose natures are but loosely held to gether; that upon and through their organ isms the spirits work; that this breaks up the cohesion of their being, blunts their moral sense, dulls their inteliect and wears out their bodies; that aU genuine mediums are sensitives, and are hence peculiarly liable to all influences, both good and bad ; that they succumb to temptation more easily than coarser grained persons;and that this is the reason why there are so many melancholy exponents of Spiritualism.

Admitting this to be true, it only shows that the Bubtile laws governing mediumship and its development are not yet under stood. I t does not seem reasonable to as sume that in the nature of things a medi um should be incapable of attaining that which it is his or her office to develop in oth ers—higher manhood and womanhood. For if our belief in immortality does not make us better here and now, of what use is it? If, then, mediums are exposed to dangers in their own spiritual growth from which others are exempt, it is surely our especial duty to give them our sympathetic aid.

But the spread of Spiritualism and the spiritualizing of the world depending essen tially upon the mediums, it is doubly incum bent upon us to see to it that mediumistic powers are not perverted or degraded to ig noble uses. I t will not do for us to throw the responsibility off ourselves and upon the Spirit-world; we should Dot expect them to do for us that which we ourselves have not the moral stamina to undertake. Evil influ ences, from whichever side of life they come, can always be counteracted and outweighed by good. An evil spirit has no power to harm that we can not defeat, and a good spirit has no power to help that we can not render half usele s. We Spiritualists are the arbiters of the destiny of Spiritualism as a power for good in the world. Not that the Infinite One has revealed His truth to us alone—no; but He has shown us a portion of His will con cerning us and leaves us free to do with it as we please.

What can Spiritualists do to lift Spiritu alism out of the chaotic state in which it still finds itself ? What will consolidate its scattered forces? . What will bring the 8,000,- 000 (?) Spiritualists in America into one com pact body whose energies of thought and will shall not be dissipated and whose power for good shall be resistless? A step toward thisamid seem to be the concentration of

ought and desire upon one object, and this object a very simple and attainable one. namely, the development and protection of mediumship, with conventions to secure the discussion and arranging of a universal plat form. With this platform adopted in every town and village where Spiritualists are found, a little band of even only three or four earnest, sensible, big-hearted men and wo men could be formed who would agree to give their united sympathy and aid to any developed mediums among them; to prevent them from misusing or overtaxing their gift; to throw around them the safeguards of their mental, moral, and social support; to assist cautiously in the development of any new mediumship that may appear; to restrain young mediums from going before the public before their powers are well defined and strong; if such little bands could be formed all over the country, with one common aim, they would be the nucleus for strong organ izations in countless places where none now exist. By this concentration of thought upon one object great practical results could be secured more easily than in any other way; for we know that thoughts are entities and are as powerful as deeds. Of course there must be behind it all a genuine love for hu manity and a desire to help our fellow-men. This can be the only lasting bond of unity.

From the formation of such little societies for this purpose, with the consequent bind ing of all Spiritualists together, it would seem but a short and easy step to the found ing of a Mediums’ College, where, under fa vorable conditions and with able and experi enced teachers, mediums should be developed for their work, just as ministers, lawyers and physicians are trained for theirs, in theolog ical, law and medical schools. That some such work must be done, that some system atic instruction in physiology, hygiene and philosophy is necessary before we shall have a body of mediums who will command the world’s respect, is too obvious to require ar gument. Educated mediums, whose moral characters are above reproach and whose liveb are blameless, who will be able not only to let higher intelligences speak through them but who are themselves competent to give an intelligent reason for the hope that is in them, will be an incalculable blessing to the world and—what in comparison is, af ter all, a trivial matter—wiU make the name of Soiritualist respected.

This cannot be accomplished, however, either with or without the aid of the Spirit- world unless we have within us a profound sense of the solidarity of mankind and a strong desire to lift a little of the heavy! bur den of woe that oppresses our race. , W.

Every candid and careful observer will ad mit that the world was never more receptive than to day for the truths which Spiritualism offers. The mighty currents of human thought began nearly ten years ago to set strongly away from materialism and agnos ticism, this revulsion being so powerful that its effects are plainly seen in the secular press as well as in the current literature. The world may not be hungering and th irs t ing after righteousness, but it is loudly de manding some satisfactory and intelligible Solution of that problem which underlies all other problems—the meaning, purpose and destiny of life. The shifting sands of liberal Christianity, the chilling winds of orthodoxy, the shadowy phantoms of Theosophy, and all the nerveless and colorless mysticism which appears now in one form and now in another —these have proved themselves powerless to lift humanity out of the sloughs of selfish ness end indifference.

The world is ready for Spiritualism, but Spiritualism is not ready for the world. Something is radically wrong somewhere, or there would not have been in the civilized world to-day a single honest disbeliever in immortality and in the fact of spirit re turn.

Why is it that after the world has had proofs of immortality placed before it for forty years in such a manner as to satisfy the most exacting claims of investigators, that matters should stand as they do? Why is it that so many active workers in the move ment have gone into other fields of labor*? Within the past fifteen years nearly fifty (?) prominent workers in the cause of Spiritual ism have disappeared from the public plat form. They have gone into business or pro fessional life, or married and settled down. They were all of them men and women of character and consequently of influence. Their words meant something because of the personality behind them. Have their places been filled by men and women of equal intellectual power and purity of purpose? Can we point to-day to fifty or twenty or ten recognized leaders in the Spiritualist cause in America, of brains,and with self-sacrificing devotion to the work for its own sake? Has not mammon as many followers among the high priests of Spiritualism as among ortho dox or liberal ministers? I t is a sad com mentary on human weakness that the one belief in the world which is able to prove its claims, the one belief which answers satis factorily and conclusively the great ques tion, “If a man die shaU he live again?”—the one belief among aU the creeds that does not rest upon authority, should have to depend for its propagation chiefly upon those who care more for the doUar than for the truth.

-The knowledge which the world has of Spiritualism must, of course, come primarily through mediums. The world judges Spirit ualism by its mediums. To say tbat they and their mediumship have deteriorated during the last few years is but to state a w ell- known fact. An intelligent and impartial agnostic who has been investigating Spirit ualism said recently:

“ Ihave had sittings with forty-two Spirit ualist mediums. From six of them I obtained what I consider to be genuine phenomena; concerning eight of them I was unable to form a definite opinion, and the remaining twenty-eight were undoubted humbugs. Now,I don’t judge Spiritualism by these twenty- eight, but a great many outsiders would. I found at the outset of my investigations so much illusion and delusion, so much guess work, both shrewd and awkward, so much that was only ordinary character reading; I detected so many attempts on the part of mediums to draw out of me what they ought to have seen if their clairvoyant vision had been clear; and there was to much vagueness in their replies when I would pin them down to some simple question, that I became discouraged and disgusted more than once. If they prophesied anything concerning my affairs they would place it so far in the fu ture that I would have forgotten all about it when the time for fulfilment of the prophecy arrived. If they spoke of anything in my \

Shall Capital Punishm ent Extend Beyondthe Body 1- »

When Dots the Electrimort Dief Is Death a Process?

no tne Editor of the ReUgio-Philosophlcal Journal: ,The suspicion which has startled a whole

comjmnnity and which is spoken of with bat ed breath, that the famous mind-reader, Mr. Bishop, was done to death by instruments in the hands of skiUed physicians, and which. I t is admitted, can never be absolutely prov en to the contrary, has awakened a feeling of uncertainty as to what death is, and when it actually occurs* The investigations of Dr. Tanner have opened up most unpleasant sta tistics which no^i the shuddering attention of every reader.

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death o e »od, which, a8>„„, .man. The worldingsof sympathy, Ci . er-est.bumane impulse and unm. .forthe first mkn to give up his 1. cir-cumstancesattended by mystery iothedby the imagination with a viv. oloring which will never appear again to Surround the Electrimort. That the term Electrimort should be applied to this means of execution finds its valid excuse in the fact that there has been no proper term coined to popularly express the electrical death of the criminal. The first time anything happens is the time of its supreme interest and attraction. After ten criminals have been executed by electricity,’the process will have become a matter of every day news. Is i t not right, then, that a t this moment, when such a se ries of circumstances shonld have directed public attention to the subject, that a word of warning and of protest shonld be spoken in the interests of justice beyond the mater ial, or in other language, should not the ques tion be raised as to whether the death of the body shall not end the punishment of the criminal?

It is generally conceded that capital pun ishment is continued rather for the protec tion of society than for the aetnal punish ment of the offender. No punishment is Christian which is not remedial in its nature so far as the culprit is concerned. Were it the 9ole end to be obtained, to improve and correct the character of the criminal, impris onment under the most Christian discipline would be the better way. But since it is de cided that, for many reasons, capital punish ment must still obtain, no person of any hu manity would desire that it should extend to the spirit as well as the body. A man’s life is enough to satisfy society. ShaU his spirit be tortured?

It is the popular idea that when the breath leaves the body, the heart ceases to beat, the limbs become rigid and all animation and Vitality are over, that the process of death is complete, and that the spirit of the man is utterly gone—separated from its earthly ten ement of clay, and that the material envelope is empty and denuded of its former occupant. But there are many thinkers who believe that the process of death begins at the point of ap parent death, and that the in itial stage of death proper, or, rather, the first step of re birth, is taken at the moment when the last bubbUng sigh from the motionless lnngs gives to the accustomed ear the warning of material death.

I t cannot be supposed by persons who have made the analogies of nature a study that the process of entering on a new state of be ing and assuming a new body, sh mid be in stantaneous, or otherwise! than according to natural law. Even as birth is a process which begins at a certain point, when nature has prepared her child for entrance into a new world, and which occupies more or less time, from one jiour to three days, so birth into a new world from this, the separation of the spirit from the envelope which contained it, should, by analogy, occupy a varying amount of time, and may be from a moment to at leaBt three days in the process. “There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body,” declares St. Paul. We know that for the birth of the natural body, even after its full prepar ation for its material existence, time is re quired to brinj; it forth into those relations, and if there be a spiritual body awaiting the consciousness after material death, who shall say that time shall not be requised wherein to consummate that union and reawaken iAe consciousness to its new relations? If this be so, and the death of the body is but the ini tial instead of the final step in the process of progressive being, even in the old, the disease- ridden, the victim of long-seated disorders or the invalid who goes inch by inch along the road to the grave, what may we reasonably argue of those who are suddenly stricken out of life in the prime of health, in the flush and vigor of youth, in the strength, vitality and glory of middle age, as physically rep resented? Gan it be possible that a man is utterly dead, that his spirit is disentangled from the flesh, and nothing but a shell re mains, in one thirty second part of a minute? At three o’clock alive, awake, conscious, active, breathing, feeling, emotional, domi nant, life intact and health smiling in the face of death, and at three o’clock and three seconds dead, deserted, nothing left but a heap of matter, nothing remaining but a mere refuse of nature, unteuanted, unmoved, and not to be affected any more? I t cannot be possible. There is no process of nature which can be given as a precedent. If there is a soul at all, if there is any existence at all beyond the death of the body, that body there of the Electrimort is still going th rough 'a process ! I t is yielding up by natural degrees the life, the will, the emo tion, the soul, the man, who must detach himself, either consciously or unconsciously, from the tenement he has so lately fully oc cupied. .I f this be so, and who shaU say it is not so, shall we not give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt?

We have carried out the law to the full; we have deprived the man of ever mingling with us again to commit crime or to do us any harm. His body is helpless and rapidly growing cold in its material death. Shall we not be satisfied ? ShaU we not permit the soul to depart in absolnte peace? ShaU we not leave the man alone until he shall have fully escaped and is beyond our hinderance? Do we, in scientific investigation, take sufficient account of the possibilities of the invisible? Are we not assuming a tremendous responsi bility, when we subject a body too soon to dissection? Gan we tell whether we do not impede the real process o f death, and retard the natural separation of soul and body by impertinent and cruel disturbance? In other words, shall we supersede the mercy of God, and carry mortal justice into the other world? Such is not the will and cannot be the intent of the law. If this argument seems valid, or even leads to a doubt in the minds of those in charge of eases sim ilar io that which it has been decided shall occur in June, should not some measure be taken to add to the Christian charity which has advo cated electrical death, the further Christian grace of peace to the soul of the Electrimort? Let his body remain in peace and quietness for a reasonable length of time. Do not dis turb and intrude upon the solemn and wonderful event which your sudden applica tion of a lightning-like current has brought to pass. Respect the right of the immortal spirit to its own natural process of birth. Revere the invisible power which may be a t work beneath the fast-stiffening features of the dead. Grant time, grant time, before the spirit of scientific inquiry shall come in opposition to the spirit of a man, and let the law protect, and courtesy enhance the ease with which the man shaU really die. i

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lives. Underneath Paganism and ortho dox Christianity were certain great and enduring ideas, not to be cast aside or made light of, bat to be seen more clearly and to glow with warmer radiance. Con ceptions of Deity, duty and immortality were the light of Asia and Old Egypt, and of Europe in the Middle Ages, and that light will shine with a more golden glory as the clonds of superstition melt away and the spiritual nature of man asserts itself more and more.

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•SIXTH PAGE.—A Reverie. Various Religions of the World. The Old Roman Wall of London Unearthed. Who is Right? Letter from Slla3 Bigelow. The Encourage ment of Origlm-1 Research. The Pope and The Italians. The Labor Problem. A New Theosophlst. * Heaven Revised,” Notes from Brooklyn, N. 7. The Light of Egypt. The Divine Plan of Creation. Notes and Ex tracts on Miscellaneous Subjects.

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EIGHTH p a g e —Prof. Coues and Wm Q. Judge. A Bla- vatsklte Skit. Blavatsky vs. Collins. Miscellaneous Ad vertisements.

•For the Religlo-PhUosophlcal Journal.THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.

'Shallow Advanced Thought and Radical ism—Ethical Culture.

■ Liberal Christianity— Spiritualism — The Two Paths.

GILES B. STEBBINS.

Forty years or more ago that able and earnest orthodox clergyman. Rev. Horace Bashnell, sat in a meeting of his Congrega tional clerical brethren in Hartford, Ct., and listened quietly to their discussion of sundry theological dogmas. At last his opinion was asked and he said, in substance:

“Brethren, it is not for me to say that these questions are trivial, bat their vital import ance is passing away. Graver and deeper matters loom up before ns in the near future, not of election and reprobation, not of trinity or atonement, bat we shall soon be asked, ‘Is there a God or any Divine government? Is there any fntnre life?’ And these questions we most be ready to meet, not by dogmatie assertions, bat by argument, and illustration that will satisfy reason and conscience, and awaken spiritual lif e.”

The condition of religions thought to day justifies his sagacious foresight. “Old things are passing away;” time-honored standards are going down; authority is giving way to the progressive development of trntb.

Arthur Penryhn Stanley. Dean of Westmin ster, addressing the Episcopal clergy of Hew England daring his visit to this country a few years ago said:

“The crude notions which prevailed twenty years ago on the subject of Bible in spiration have been so completely abandoned as to be hardly anywhere maintained by the ological scholars....The doctrine of the Atonement will never again appear in its old crude form___A more merciful view of fu ture punishment and of a hope of universal restitution have been gradually advancingand the darker views receding___No onewould now make miracles the chief or sole basis of the evidence of religions truth.”

A million readers of Robert Elsmere are proving Dean Stanley’s words true. Old dog mas, which the larger thought of our time cannot accept and against which enlighten ed conscience revolts, are on the wane. The reign of law is coming in place of lawless miracles. Evolution—the Divine plan by which man is uplifted—is taking the place of the fall of man and the wrath of God. The sway of old dogmatism is still strong, and its gradual disappearance gives ns time to keep what truth it held while we let its errors die. The old method of religions thought is re versed, the standard was without; now i t is within. Books and creeds, fixed and un changeable, have been authority over tifb soul, tyrants to crash and dwarf the spirit- in man; now the soul is higher than book or creed and the freed spirit gains and grows in a pare air. So great a change is not without its dangers. The new freedom is better chan the old bondage, bat it does not make ns infallible. Without the infallible Bible, the iron creed, the bloody atonement, the miraculous Christ, the mystical trinity, the Oriental Sovereign on a great white throne, the fiery hell to which his subjects are eternally foreordained by countless mil lions, what shall come in their place? What ideas shall uplift and inspire man. helping to make to-morrow better than to-day? What great truths of The Fast shall we keep while putting its errors aside? What danger-sig nals are along our paths?

The old religions were not whoUy false, the old ereeds not all error; men and wo men who believe them, have led noble

ADVANCED THOUGHT AND RADICALISM.We have a good deal of “advanced thought”

and of “radicalism” in these days, in con nection with those who not only reject the old theology, but have no spiritual faith in its place, no belief in a supreme intelligence, in an immortal life, or in anything beyond the range of the ontward senses, it being implied that they are most advanced and most truly radical. Is it an advance to wander away in the mists of materialism? Which has gone farthest i& the path of wisdom and light, Emerson who says:

“Ever freah this broad creatioD,A divine improvisation,From the heart of God proceeds;A single will, a million deeds,”

or these skeptics absurdly called advanced thinkers?

Radicalism is going to the root or origin of things. That gifted and inspired spiritual seer Selden J. Finney said:

“How is religion possible to man ? On the ground of three great ideas. First, an infi nite spiritual reason and cansation; second, a representative divine or spiritual nature in man; third, the inspiration of the second by the first. The absence of either of these great fundamental conditions makes religion impossible to man. If the Deity be zero, there can be no divine sonl in man, no inspi ration from God. If there be a soul in man and no infinite sonl, there can be no inspira tion, no progress, no divine ideals of perfec tion to charm on to the spiritual levels. And if there be a God, and a sonl in man, and no vital connection between them, there can be no transcendent ideas, no march of man for the Morning Land.”

A spiritual philosophy makes mind active in will and instinct with ever unfolding and evolving design, the canse of all phenom ena, the sonl of all life from mollnsk to man. Man is a microcosm; rock, earth, and all flora and fanna, mount np into his “human form divine.” All snbtile forces that hold and sway sun and stars pulse through him; all great truths that save and nphold this world, and all worlds of men and angels, are in and of his spiritual being. So made up and related, he mnst have large wealth of innate and intuitive knowledge, wide and great powers of discovery. The absolutely nnknowable is an absurdity, time and eternity will reveal more and more to him. The sonl says, “ God is,” and sea aud sky and mountain and rose revealHim. The sonl says, “ I shall never die,” and the facts of spirit presence in all ages confirm its testimony. The ontward is bat test and sign of that which is within— invisible and intangible, known only by its results and effects, as we know the spirit in man by the mnsie of his voice or the glance of his eye, and his mental power by pyramid and palace, by railroad and steamship,in con structing which the skilled hand is but the tool of the guiding m ind., Vast spaces lie be yond the view of the telescope; no chemist can test and no eye can see the inner life of man. Aronnd and within ns is this wide, saper-sensuons region. The realm of the spirit is far wider than that of the senses. The truths of the sonl are primal and creative; to give these troths due weight, and to pay heed to their ontward signs in the testimony of the senses is wisdom needed to-day.

The so-called radicalism which repudiates old creeds, and lives on a poor pride of doubt ing spiritual causation, does not deserve the name. I t does not reach to the heart and core of things. Channing said: “ I call that mind free which escapes the bondage of mat ter, which, instead of stopping at the mater ial universe and making it a prison wall, passes beyond it to its Author, and finds in the' radiant signatures which it everywhere bears of the Infinite Spirit helps to its own spiritnal enlargement.” These are deeper words than the shallow style of so-called radicalism can give ns. To doubt error helps us to gain troth, but to live in a skeptical mood and habit is to make life superficial and nnsatisfactory.

ETHICAL CULTURE.This is a day of Ethical Culture. Societies

to that high end are organized, able dis courses go out emphasizing nobler diorals and a wiser daily life—aims surely worthy of all commendation. This movement ig nores all discussion of a future life and a Supreme Mind as possible helps to its aims; and treats of man as living here with no infinite relations, no inspiration from any sphere beyond this little ball we call onr earth. Its exclusive this-worldliness is an ex treme reaction from the equally absurd oth- er-worldliness of old-time pietists. That extreme mnst be abandoned; for the highest and most vital thought of duty is only possi ble when we see man as an immortal being.

Channing said: “ The sense of duty is the greatest g ift of God. The idea of right is His primary and highest revelation to the human mind. We little understand the sol emnity of the moral principle in every hu man mind. We forget that it is the germ of immortality.” ,

Theodore Parker, as stern in morals as he was earnest in his deep spiritual life, said: “0 , young man, now in the period of thy pas

sions remember your conscience. Defer it to no appetite, to no passion, to no foolish com pliance with other men’s ways. Ask always, ‘Is it right for me?’ Fear not to differ from men; keeping your modesty, keep your integ rity also. The Flesh will come np with de ceitful counsels; the Spirit teaching the com mandments of God; give both their dne. Be not the senses' slave, but the soul's free man.” Emerson’s noble verse Is in a like strain:

H So nigh is grandeur to onr dost,So near Ib God to man,When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou m ast,'The Toath replies, * I can / n

No cold and narrow this-worldliness chilled and dwarfed the thoughts of these greatteach- era. They saw and felt that man’s divine re lations and the large scope of his immortal life must help to light his daily path and en large and enrich his ethics. Ethical culture must be spiritualized; its air is too cold, its light too dim. Among its leaders are true men with noble aims, but their ideal of life is fragmentary. Can we learn most and best of dnty by ignoring Deity and immortality, or by not nsing these great ideas as inspir ing helps? Surely not. If we can, the New Testament and the morals of Christ had best be set aside.

LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY.How fares onr Liberal Christianity? At

the heart of Unitarianism, Universalism and Hicksite Quakerism are ideas of religious progress, of man’s capacity for culture, and growth, and of the Divine beneficence and the upward tendency of things. By these ideas chey have greatly profited. They have pat aside errors and gained truths, and an increasing number among them are glad of this growth. Bibliolatry and lawless miracles are fading out and ra tional religions views taking their place. With no rigid standards there is large di versity among liberal Christians, mnch agreeing to disagree on non-essentials and sometimes disagreement on deeper matters. A spiritnal indifference or blindness which is called agnosticism, is quite prevalent, exter nal and inductive science tending that way. There is a lack of the strong affirmation that gave the old-time evangelical preachers such power.

Dogmatic assertion is one thing, and the positive utterance of deep convictions to meet man’s highest needs and help his growth is another and qnite different. The first is passing away, and the last is greatly needed to take its place in some pulpits of the liberal faith. The reasoning and critic al faculties and literary taste may grow somewhat, bat the deeper wants of the spirit are not met. The old creed was an iron fet ter which i t was mortal sin to break; the new creed—I believe—will be a statement of j a few foundation ideas, not as fetters but as helps, not to bind any but to give definite aim and thought, and to be amended with more light. The old creed is going, the new statements are coming, but not yet in fall shape, and we have a Western Unitarian Conference, with its “Fellowship and Faith,” lacking in affirmation and strong conviction, all afloat and indefinite,between materialism and a spiritual philosophy, so that the outer world cannot see where or what its advo cates are or what they stand for. The * ‘deep er matters” which Dr. Bashnell foresaw are upon ns now, and this blind indefiniteness of aim and purpose will not meet or solve them.

In the many comments on Robert Elsmere, one feature of that remarkable book has been singularly overlooked. Elsmere’s faith in immortality, bis view of the high signifi cance it gives to human life, is qnite dim and uncertain—a hope so weak as to be, per haps, delusive. On his death-bed is no gleam of light from the Spirit-world; no heavenly presence is seen jnst as the mortal eye grows dim and the clairvoyant sight of the spirit opens. Is this dissolving view of the life be yond, a view fading and not brightening, a feature of liberal religions thonght in En gland?

It is noticeable that Unitarians of this school of cloudy uncertainty treat Ethical Culture, with its exclusive this-worldliness, with more marked and deferent attention than they do Spiritnalism with its ethics enriched by the affirmation of the immor tal life. This reveals the fact that their reckoning of spiritnal latitude and longi tude is confused. Sailing wide seas of thought, a current drifts their ship toward the sunken rocks and blinding fogs of mate rialism. Would it Dot be wise to mark this drift and set up a danger-signal?

SPIRITUALISM.A great and growing power is modern Spir

itnalism; too great to be put aside or put down, and giving signs of permanence as well as of power. Bigots and thoughtless persons judge it by its follies and frauds, and so are blind to the wisdom and trnth,the glory and beauty of its higher aspects. Judge any popular sect in Christendom in like man ner; look only at the follies and frauds to be found in them all, and we should sink them, one and all, lower than the plummet ever sounded. But they are not so judged. Under froth and scum we see the clear water and the sweep of the strong wave. A few years ago an able article on theism appeared in the Westminster Review in which it was said of Spiritnalism:

“It is in onr midst,with signs and wonders, uprising like a swollen tide. I t comes veil ing its destined splendors beneath an exte rior that invites contempt. Once more the weak will confound the mighty, the foolish the wise. Spiritnalism will re-establish, on what claims to be the ground of positive evi

dence, the fading belief in a future life,— not such a fntnre as is dear to the reigning theology, but a fntnre developed from the present, a continuation, under improved con ditions, of the scheme of things aronnd ns.”

The Scientific American not accepting its facts, says:

“If it were true it would mark this nine teenth century with nnperisbable lustre; if it were trne we can find no words to adeqnate- ly express onr sense of its importance.”

Millions, quite np to the average in critical care and wise insight, and with many among them eminent in these qualities and of high integrity, can and do testify to its troth—the reality that is, of its central and sublime fact, the real presence of the departed.

Conversing once with a Unitarian clergy man of large mind, heart and manly courage, who had paid some attention to this matter, I said to him: “ Unitarians and other liberal religionists are in a peculiar situation. No infallible book, no miracnlons Christ, the old evidence of immortality and of the being of God gone ont. no high trust in the sonl and its powers of discovery yet strongly devel oped, with the external tendencies of induc tive science, dealing only with erode matter and blind force, and ignoring spiritnal cau sation, drifting yonr thonght toward mater ialism. Suppose Spiritualism to be trne; its proven facts, evidenced through the senses, of great truths of the sonl; knowledge ad ded to intuitive faith; blessed manna for the heart-hunger of the bereaved,—would it not meet yonr great need? With yonr scholarly culture and large thought lighted up and made warm and vital in this new atmosphere, wonld yon not gain a deep assurance, a con quering and affirming power to supplant the old theology and pat something stronger and more rational and uplifting in its place?”

After a moment’s thonght his deeply earnest answer was: “ We should gain newand deeper life, and be able to move the world with a mighty power.”

I then said: “ I have no wish to underrate the good done by Unitarians and others of like progressive views. I try to take some part in that good work and would beone with yon in it, but it is for you to stndy and accept th e higher aspects of Spiritnalism, and Uve, or to hold the great matter off and die, be wildered and chilled by fatal doubt.”

His answer was: “I t may be so. Sorely it is worth serious thonght.”

In the last centnry that great German phil osopher, Immanuel Kant, intuitively fore saw and foretold the coming of modern Spir itualism: “ There will come a day when it will be demonstrated that the human sonl, throughout its terrestrial existence, lives in a communion actnal and indissoluble, with the immaterial natures of the world of spirits; that this world acts upon onr own through influences and impressions of which man has no consciousness to-day, but which he will recognize a t some fntnre time.”

The thonght of supernal spaces and realms fa ll of the wealth and glory of angelic hnman life, of the dear immortals of whom we may gain glimpses in hoars of open vision , or whose presence we may feel and know, and of the Infinite Presence, fills the sonl with joyfnl reverence. Spirit visitations may be “ angels’ visits, few and far between,” but these rich experiences lift and light np the whole being and their memory lives and glows for long years. They are like sweet strains of mnsie, brief because one could not bear them long and live in the body, yet no earthly melody so thrills the heart as these voices from the spirit-land.

No accepted theory of modern science is more strongly proved than the fact of spirit interconrse. Volumes of testimony, from the best witnesses the wide world over, are fiUed with this proof. “Add to yonr faith know ledge,” is a good Apostolic injunction. The old faith in Bible and creed is of small mo ment; the rising faith in the sonl is shaken by inductive science; the voice within which says, “ Thon shalt never die,” sounds feebly in the thin air of agnosticism. Sorely know ledge is needed to verify and confirm faith, and this knowledge can only come through Spiritnalism. Deep and strong convictions, spoken with positive and joyful affirmation, are greatly needed. The truths of the spirit must be emphasized. “ Where there is no vision the people perish.” Shall there be no vision to-day? The poet-sonl is prophetic. Tears ago Emerson said:

“Then shall come the Eden-days,Guardian watch from seraph-eyes,Angels on the slanting rays.Voices from the opening Bkies.”

Shall we be blind and deaf while this prophecy is being realized all aronnd ns?

TWO PATHS.Passing ont from the marshlands and

leaden clonds of old theology, the regions where the Giant Despair holds fearful sway, two paths open before ns. One leads to Spir itualism, the other to materialism. Along one path the traveler ascends to heavenly highlands, leaving bis pilgrim’s burthen of mortal sin behind if he ont look up and move on, and entering a more real life to learn more fnUy the significance of the poet's as piration,—

“Nearer, my God, to thee!”Dropping ont of the other path the traveler

goes down, soul and body, “to the undis tinguished dust from whence he sprang,” buried in the soulless clods, dead in the grasp of relentless force. Which shall we take? The agnostic hesitates in brief and enervating uncertainty, but the march of the coming host carries him along. Lacking faith in the sky he d ings to the clod which his poor feet can feel, and is swept into the

path which leads to his grave, and which he follows with decent courage but with no heavenly light along the darkening way. •'

Liberal Christians and all manner of pro gressive religious thinkers may weU bear in mind that they mnst choose between these two paths. They mnst hold to the Supreme Intelligence and the immortality of man or become materialists, and they mnst be able “to render a reason for the faith that is in them.” The two schools and methods oi thonght are not merely unlike, they are op-

?D9ite* If one is true the other is fels& here need be no detraction of honest ma

terialists. All sincere opinion deserves re spect. Bat how is most light gained? Which path is best for daily life? How is religions growth* or inspiration possible wlthont spir itual ideals? “ How can two walk together unless they be agreed?”

We can all unite in practical reforms, bat to join in teaching godliness and godlessness, deathlessness and death, spirit as king and matter as king, wonld be confusion worse confounded, ending in decay and disorgani zation.

All liberal religions movements must rest on sure spiritnal foundations, or they fail in their high mission and die. Light, more light! from the life beyond is the cry to-day. Science mnst be spiritualized and perfected and pat in accord with a spiritnal philoso phy,—a change like “putting a soul beneath the ribs of death,” bat a change which a growing number of scientists will hail gl&dly. Spiritnalism and psychic research are helps and guides indispensable to that knowledge of man’s inner life and infinite relations needed for onr release from materialistic doubts, and onr progress in religions ideas.

For the KeUEloPhilosophlcal J oumal.MARK TIME, TUEOSOPHISTS !

Still More Light on the P a th .PROFESSOR COUES, F. T. S.

Sacking-doves who flatter a t the mere shadow c.-^he hawk’s wing may be assw that there is no cause for disc*" —agemer. alarm if they wiU bat be wanted in time. Leaving the personal consequences of what has already been done to take care of them selves, as being no concern of mine, I proceed to the next business in hand. This is, first, to point back to a danger-signal which I set up four years ago, and which the tools and dupes of Blavatsky seem to have forgotten; second, to point forward to a new danger which I trust may be averted without wait ing four years for its verification.

I. AN IDYLL OF THE BLACK LOTUS.In the words of the Committee of the Lon

don Society for Psychical Research, appoint ed to investigate the “black lotas” :

“1. She has been engaged in a long-con- tinned combination with other persons to produce by ordinary means a series of ap parent marvels for the support of the theo- sophlc movement.

“2. That, in particular, the shrine a t Adyar, through which letters purporting to come from Mahatmas were received, was elabor ately arranged with a view to the secret in sertion of letters and other objects through a sliding panel a t the back, and regularly used for the purpose by Madame Blavat sky or her agents. ,

“3. That there is consequently a very strong general presumption that a il the mar- ‘ vellons narratives pu t forward in evidence of the existence of the Mahatmas a . e to be explained as dne either (a) to deliberate de ception carried ont by or a t the instigation of Madame Blavatsky, or (6) to spontaneous! il lusion, or hallucination, or unconscious mis representation or invention on the part of the witnesses.”

And the same Committee say in conclusion: “We regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adven turess; we think she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting im postors in history.” The voluminous testi mony supporting this conclusion covers the case np to 1885. Bat this is 1889.

In face of this repdrt, which can never be set aside, I mnst have had for four years strong reasons for membership in any “The- osophical” Association, I t is now time to give them: especially as I am told that the identification of my name with theosophy has had mnch to do in offsetting Dr. Hodg son’s report, and in promoting the theosoph- ical movement in America. Explanation is dne particularly to many friends whom I have brought into such associations, and in genera! to that portion of the public which has been more or less influenced by the stand I took—and still hold. The explanation is * transparently simple. As a scientist, I was bound to see and judge for myself, ignoring aU other.opinions, however authoritative. In conducting psychical research in various fields of investigation for the past twelve years, 1 have learned a t least one valuable lesson of experience. This is, to take every problem that arises under its own conditions, and never stand aside to impose conditions. There is no other way of getting a t the bot tom of these strange things, that I ever dis covered. I believed then, and I believe to day, that theosophy is a living power in the* world, for better or worse, according to the good Or bad deeds of professed adherents. I intuitively foresaw something of the career it wonld nave, irrespective of any question of the whiteness or blackness of the “lotos” Being not easily deterred from a purpose. Dr*.

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beyond the grave, and of the intercommunior. be tween the two worlds?„ What iB the most rbZ>s>rfcable in^aent of your experience with spirit phenou^no which yon can satisfactorily authenticate? p&'ticulars.

5. Do you regard Spiritu%ll?.ii as a religion? Please state your reasons briefly lor the answer yon 'give. • -1 ■ ■ j ■

. What are the greatest needs of Spiritualism, or, to put it differently, what are the greatest necjds of the Spiritualist movement td-day? .

7. In what way may a knbwledge of psychic laws end to help one in the conductof this life—in one’s

relations to the|Family, to [Society and to Govern moot?

~ * \ \ . ,:C>‘ V . ...absolute truth, as-near as it a s in the power of man to discover it. Even-now the majori ty of mankind in civilized countries will hardly listen for a moment to anything which does not appear to be demonstrated truth.

i. According to modern dictionaries psy chic laws pertain to the soul or mind of man. In the light of psychometry they pertain to the soul, spirit or life of all things. In han dling a subject like this one mnst not try to do too mncb, so as to bnry ideas in words and hopelessly mystify the reader. He is forced to generalize by reason of the nature of the subject, and the ntter impossibility of find ing room for particulars, which would re quire the filling of volumes. This subject comprehends the philosophy of all life, past, present and future.

In the practical application, I will try to particularize some. The first facts that present themselves to me are two suicides that happened in this town. They were both men past the middle age, and of more than common education and intelligence; but they were materialists, and conld not comprehend spiritual things. They had read in the Bible what Jesns said: “Spiritual things are spirit ually discerned” ; but they did not compre hend it. They took their own lives by hang ing; and each one left a letter explaining why he committed the act. Singular enough, the sentiments of the two letters were alike: “ They had lived long in the world and studied hard, but had failed to comprehend why. this universe existed, or why they had been created.” Both complained of confu sion of mind, and took their own lives be cause, in a word, they lacked knowledge of psychic laws.

I do not wish to be understood that want of psychic knowledge is the cause of all snicides directly, but in pursuing this in vestigation we shall, perhaps, find it to be the first canse more than anything else. In sanity, some would pronounce to be the first cause of suicide. Very well; but what is the cause of insanity? Among the causes, heredity stands first, for it is well known that a tendency to insanity is frequently transmitted from the parents through several generations, and all on psychic laws. Marry ing cousins or near relatives is a transgres sion of those laws, and a fruitful source of insanity. Now we are on another branch of this subject: Insanity, as a result of want of knowledge and application of psychic laws. There are other causes, of coarse: bodily disease, religions excitement, disap pointment in business or love, the immoder ate use of intoxicants or opiates. I have been credibly informed that Spiritualism (its methods, I mean) has been taught and used as a means of care by the New Hampshire Insane Asylum at Concord. It Is thought there that it has a harmonizing effect on the mind. How appropriate that Is to counter act the deleterious effects of orthodoxy on the minds of some of their patients there.

The physician knows how much depends on the mind to produce disease or act as a restorative, especially those of the modern schools, who recognize the following: spirit- magnetism given through the medium, or from a mind in the body; faith cure, mind cure and Christian science; magnetized medicines, psychometry, and even imagina tion. Here comes in a story which many of your readers are familiar with: Some French doctors at Paris killed a man by the imagina tion alone, as they termed it. For experi ments, they procured from the government a condemned criminal., They blindfolded him and told him they were going to execute Mm by bloodletting from the arm. They talked to him constantly and with eacn other about what they were doing. While one pricked his arm, another drizzled warm water, which he heard drop in a dish. The criminal died because he thought he bled to death, when not one drop of blood had been taken. The application of the story Is ob vious; if a man can be killed by impressions made on the mind, may he not be cored by the satne means? Behold the wonderful art of psychometry. The psychometrist can take a pebble in the hand, which reveals its hist ory from the time it was an irregular frag ment broken from the rock, and after being tossed in the cradle of the elements for countless ages, was cast on the sea shore, all in accordance with psychic law.

The telescope bad no sooner pierced tbe heavens, discovering distant worlds, than the spectroscope followed in its track to tell ns what those worlds are made of, and which was followed by the psychometrist with his astounding revelations concerning the hist ory, government, religion and other condi tions of life there as it now exists, simply by picking up a cast-off fragment that had fallen on the earth at his feet.

Consider for a moment the revelations of modern science; the imponderable forces, motion, light, heat, electricity and attraction which control all material things; those forces are correlated. In obedience to those invisible forces worlds swing in their ever lasting rounds; earthquakes sink a city, or raise a continent from the ocean, and all that is useful and beautiful is produced—all life is sustained and all else is accomplished that is good or beneficent. Consider bow the Sool of the great nniverselnm, the Eternal, the great Positive Mind, the great S p ir i t- God—is back of all this, acting through psychic laws on these imponderables to con trol tbe universe.

The body is bnt a temporary appendage. When the mind shall have outgrown the body, it dtops off. Take a walk on the sea shore and observe those cast-off shells; the body of a man, like them, is discarded. What is the mind of man? A combination of principles, each one of which is a counter part of some principle of natnre, thus: The principle of justice in man (phrenologists call it conscientiousness) is the counterpart of the principle of justice in universal na tnre. Music, spirituality, order and all other principles of the mind of man stand in the same relation to the principles of nature. What phrenology calls weight is the counter part of gravitation in natnre; so man is really the son of God. Mind in the body sometimes acts on mind in another body; mind ont of the body sometimes acts on a mind in the body: the former we call by various names which are synonymous, such as mesmerism, magnetism, psychology, tele pathy and hypnotism; the latter comes in as a part of the phenomena of Spiritualism.

I will not pursue this investigation any farther except as to its grand results. The Golden Age, the Millennium, the Harmonial Age, the Age of Reason, the Scientific Age, are some of? the names that have been given to that day or time when the mind of man will be able to grasp and apply psychic law. I see the dawn of that day; its auroral splen dors are streaming up in the East. I seem to hear the glad music of that time which will surely come on earth. The conditions of the elements are shaping to receive it, and many things are now pointing to it with the index finger. See how the shackles are fall ing from the minds of earth's inhabitants; they no longer are psychologized and terror- stricken by useless fears of death, hell or the devil, or scared by superstitions notions

RESPONSE BY FRANK CHASE.1. My parents were Baptists, bnt I never

belonged to any church:2. I commenced to investigate Spiritual

ism in 1850, and after seyen years I became a believer without a remaining doubt. About thirty-one years. I

3. Nothing less than a careful, scientificexamination of the whole subject, during which I discovered that I am a medium {act ing in this same investigation. j

5. Yes. In the first place spirit commun ication is a demonstrated scientific fact; and then we have the logical sequences of that fact together vtith its communications! its ethics and its philosophy; we have revela tions from the highest spirits, explained by the best reason and moijal sense ofmanL I hold that Spiritualism is a religion posited on science and philosophy. Tbe old relig ions of the world originated in communica tions from an unseen intelligence; in Persia, China, India/ Egypt, Arabia and Jerusalem, not to mention the more modern forms of Swedenborg and the revelations of jthe Quakers and Shakers; also the Grecian ora cles. Comparative phrenology demonstrates that man has a religions natnre and mnst consequently worship something. |H e may pray to and worship God as a G reqtSpirit, or as a Principle, Unselfish Beneficence, Divine Order and Harmony, or any other ideal principle of truth or beauty. Let oar spirit friends answer our prayers if they will. Does not the artist really worship mu sic, painting or sculpture? Does ncit[the sci entist worship truth? It is a great deal] as we think, whether Spirit oalism is a religion to ns or not. “As a nun thinketh, so is he.” I knew a freemason who once said to me: “Freemasonry is my religion; and why not, as it endorses the Bible as the word of|God” V

I knew a Democrat who said that h^fr party principles were his religion. Spiritualism is my religion. What is so consoling in life or in death? What is so appropriated for a burial service, to know that onr friends still live? j

Spiritualism to-day needs no popes; priests or sacred books; no everlasting hell, personal devil or vindictive God; no original sin, vica rious atonement or particular day of general judgment; no stereotyped creeds or unneces sary ceremonials; no man-god or man-made gods; no holy days or superstitious notions about Fridays or anything else of the kind. I t needs no ministers or priests for marryingSeople, but holds that some officer §f the

tate should perform all such service when needed. . j

Spiritualism to-day needs cultured, unself ish teachers, mediums and workers.! Doc trines in accordance with the -best reasqn and s e highest morality should be tgnghfcj -The

vel anr* the immoral In its literature should be^weeded ont. The immoral [medi ums and teachers should be droppedf:| Just think how much better tbe Bible wonM now stand before the world, and especially for children to read, if it were purged of i t s im morality and licentiousness! A great pub lishing house is a necessity where thq bejst and purest literature may be reproduced py the million. Almost anybody would secretly read a paper or tract placed in his hands, whereas he could not he induced to bear a lecture or attend a circle. The general in fluence of the campmeeting has been good thus far, because it has taught outsiders that we are no worse than other folks. I am {afraid if We depend on that alone they never will find ont we are any better than others/

There are many in onr ranks capable of making a scientific examination of phenome na, and they should do so once in a while and report in some newspaper. v

The day has passed when poetic nonsense or immoral teaching of any sort wiU be accept able to the average intelligence of the pres ent age. The need of the world is for reve lations which are unexceptionable. Had not this necessity existed, and! been so consider ed by bright intelligences,! spirit communi cation would not now be an established fact. All that remains for ns to do is to put this great fact before the world in all its power of trn th and native loveliness. Too mnch have mankind been taught by a “thus saith the Lord,” or a “thus saith the spirit” ; they! have been bored and almost preached to death.1 We mnst appeal to their intelligence, their reason and their sense of right. They will respond and accept onr heaven-born philos ophy. When we once have placed this’ great trnth properly before the world, it wiU be generally accepted. I will not omit to say that all envy and jealousy mnst be laid aside by speakers, mediums and workers, so that we may be strong and work in harmony to gether. What is so disgusting as this selfish jealousy among ns. Even some of those means that were once admissible i n 1 the in fancy of onr canse are hot so now. What we must have is: “Righteous ends by righteous means obtained.”

Every believer should take the best Spirit ualist paper published in bis country. He shonld induce as many others to do so as pos sible. That policy is known to be one of the strongest influences in the management of politics. One shonld, after he has read his spiritual paper, lend it or give i t to another, and after lending it two or three times, send i t away through the mails, or give i t to some one to send to a friend. But obtrusiveness should be avoided as a rule; don't give any one a paper to read unless he wants it; don’t give any one to understand that yon want to convert him to anything against his will. Wait until he signifies by word or deed that he wants to talk with yon on that subject; then sit right down and talk with him hours; days or weeks. When yon have an old paper on hand yon can wrap it around some bnndle,and then it is no matter whose family it goes in to. for yon have not asked anybody to read it.

The world is now full of cranks who are constantly trying to force their peculiar no tions npon ns; bnt we in onr management, shonld have respect for decent manners. We may converse with people in a cool, logical way, but shonld not lectnre them without giving opportunity for reply; except in meet ings, where we may speak when we are asked to, and sometimes when we are not. The strength of the cause does not depend {os numbers as mnch as on principles and man agement. The religion of the future is to he 1

of ghosts, hobgofelips orbugaboos; but are inclined to lookttie 'situation sqnare in the face, and to go:to work patiently to remedy all existing evite;

South Sutton, N. H.

SPIRITUALISM YS. SATANISM.

An Answer by Prof. Kiddle to the As saults of Rev. Mr. Andrews on

Spiritualism.

[Hartford (Conn.) Times, June 29.)Rev. Mr. Andrews still clings ardently to the

Satanic hypothesis. The spirits do manifest themselves by sensnons phenomena, they send ns messages, they make communica tions, good, bad, and indifferent, they some times talk like angels, and act like merciful, loving guardians; while others seem to be earthly, sensnal, and devilish—they show all the good and the bad traits of hnmanity; bnt all of them mnst be Satanic, Mr. An drews says, because they contradict the orthodox Christian system or creed. Nothing is to be considered good (even as tried by Christ’s standard) unless it be entirely con sistent with that man-made creed. Were Christ to cOme again, he would again be called an agent of the “devil,” because he conld not endorse the orthodox theology, for he certainly never taught it when on earth before.

Mr. Andrews fails to meet the chief point of my reply. He does not show that the good there manifestly is in Spiritualism as a sys tem of spiritual troth, and as a proof of the continuity of life, and the good that it has done, are at all consistent with the character of the theological Devil, or Satan. This personage is represented to be wholly malev olent, and determined to counteract tbe good ness of God, by doing to God’s earthly chil dren all the harm possible. If he, or his agents, should, therefore, succeed in doing them any good, his Kingdom, as Christ said, would be divided against itself and would fall. If all the g od that exists in this great and widespread movement known as Modern Spiritualism, has been done by Satan, it mnst be, as some of the Roman Catholic clergy men hold, by mistake on his Satanic Majesty’s part; or else he has ceased to be Satan—he has been evoluted, or converted. Why not? Can the infinite God of love have no pity on even the Devil? Burns conld. His lines are quite touching:

“But fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben!0 wad ye tak a thought an’ men’!Ye aibllns might—I (liana ken—

Still hae a stake—Fm wae to think upo’you den,

Ev’n for jour sake!”Bnt this does not accord with the orthodox

idea of this Being, an idea so attractive ap parently to Mr. Andrews. This is, that he is permitted by the Omnipotent Father of all (Satan included) to use every means, to re sort to every device of an almost infinite in telligence—the intelligence of a fiend that was once an archangel—even to assuming the appearance of an “angel of light”—in order to beguile mankind, often through their best and holiest affections and sym pathies, so that he may capture their sools and drag them down to an everlasting hell of physical tortnre.

I t is amazing that a believer in the in finite goodness and perfection of God should be a pessimist such as Mr. Andrews an nounces himself. Angels and men have fallen. There is “no continual progression in holiness and blessedness” ; there has been “a terrible fall from innocence and happi ness amongst the hosts of Heaven”; “nor,” he goes on to say, “has there been any uni form upward progress of mankind since tbe historic era. There has been degeneracy of nations and of individuals.” In plain lan- gnage, the whole hnman race are “going to the devil,” and have been from the time of Eden. Satan may sing a psean of triumph Over God; and the latter must retire from the field, with all his bright angels and arch angels, chagrined, defeated, and humiliated. Well, if Spiritualism is the last of Satan’s devices, Mr. Andrews is right, for it certainly has been very potential; and is so good per se that there seems to be little to choose be tween the two great contending potentates.

To what perversions does Bibliolatry lead the hnman mind! Mr. Andrews will have no evolution, no progression, no amelioration, no change at all for the better,—will not acknowledge it or see it, palpable as it is to others; he rejects every fact, and every theory based on facts, that is rational and consistent with the discoveries of science, and with onr best conceptions of the Deity, because they are contrary—to what ? To any or all of that handle of old pamphlets (I mean no disrespect to them) called the Bible (a name of comparatively modern adoption)? Not at all; hot because they are opposed to a theological' scheme formed ont of them, or rather I should say, read into them, long after they were written, and called the “re demptive scheme,” under which Mr. Andrews says, man exists with “possibilities of de liverance and eternal progression.” Bat tbe fallen angels, he says, are in a “hopeless” condition; hence they are “struggling with remorseless hate” against God and man. “God is seeking to redeem and restore, and Satan and his angels are plotting to destroy.” Now this “redemptive scheme” appears to the most intelligent students, even of the Bible, as a mere nightmare Of superstition; not found in tbe Scriptures by any reason able or enlightened interpretation; and to take such a scheme as an infallible test of spiritual or religioos truth, is the wildest of absurdities, which, I am devoutly glad, the New Dispensation of Modern Spiritualism tends utterly to explode. The latter is per fectly consistent with the Christianity of Jesas, as given in the Gospels; bnt with this man-made “plan of salvation” to which Mr. Andrews refers me in order to substantiate his amazing proposition, that Satan and his infernal crew are the authors of all the good in Spiritualism, it has no affinity whatever.

Redemption! What redemption can there be of the soul bnt the change from evil to good—from the wickedness of a corrupt and perverse will to that condition which har monizes with the divine will—from that which makes a man live for himself—his ap petites and passions, to that which he is per fectly willing to say to the Heavenly Father, “Thy will be done” ! That was Christ’s teach ing—a teaching which but few appreciate, for it embodied, in terms of the sweetest sim plicity, the highest and subtlest principle of the divine gnosis. Why does Mr. Andrews, like so many others among the Christian ministers, make the words of Christ in the Gospels, the records of his teaching and mis sion, secondary to the sayings of those who wrote letters to the early churches, as if the latter had a truer and diviner inspiration than the Nazarene himself? If the Gospel records are true, they contain all that is es sential to Christianity, and certainly we do not find in them the orthodox creed or the “redemptive scheme,” which Mr. Andrews makes the absolute standard of spiritual

trhth/”WhenJesaS^wa8 asked the-momentons question,, “What shall Ldo to be?saved ?” he did not.sayf “Believh that l am God, and have come in the flesh to redeeem mankind from the effects of Adam’s-fall; believe' in Satan and his “powers and principalities” ; “believe in the Holy Trinity,” etc., etc. He simply said, as the pure and holy spirits now say, and have always said, in addressing man kind: “Love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself” ; the philosophy of this obviously being, that if we love God, we shall love and desire everything that is good; and if we truly love Him as “our Father,” we shall love all mankind as onr brothers and sisters. This is essential Christianity: and this, too, is the essence of Spiritualism; as an ethical and religions system, not always il lustrated by the conduct of its professors, it is true, any more than Christ’s teachings are by his soi-disant followers and ministers.

Conjugal affinities! Free love, or free Inst! Violation of the sanctity of true mar riage! These things are referred to by the reverend gentleman in order to bring re proach npon Spiritualism, though he mnst know that they have been denounced and condemned by none more emphatically than by Spiritualists themselves, and they find no sanction in the principles which are tanght by this system of trnth. Quite the contrary. Were I disposed, I conld make the same refer ence with far greater force against Chris tianity, and use these things as a basis for its reprobation. This is obvious from St. Paul’s words to the church at Corinth; and even the angel of the Apocalypse deemed it necessary to express his abhorrence of the Nicolai tans. Why, it seems that even the celebration of the Lord’s Sapper was turned into a vile revel and debaach by these un worthy members of the Christian church of that early period; and all the way down the centuries, there have been things done by the churches, their leaders and their members, that conld be attributed to only infernal de mons (spirits)—certainly not to spirits on the Christ-plane. Moreover, I think I do not transcend the trnth, when I say that the doc trine of “affinity” and “free love” is as widely and freely practiced by professing Christians as by Spiritualists; and I will add with as mnch, or as little, sanction in the principles which they profess, or in the systems which they disgrace by their vile conduct. Shall I be so illogical and unjust as to charge these things on the religion of Christ, or on the Christian societies and churches? No. I feel myself too mnch of a Spiritualist to fol low the example in this regard set by the Reverend Mr. Andrews. I charge them npon the depravity of unspiritnalized, unregener ate human nature, which not even Mr. Andrews’s wonderful “redemptive scheme” can perfectly reclaim—which not even the hortatory voices of angels can avail to lift ont of the mire of lawless appetite and pas sion.

Mr. Andrews, in this assault upon the New Dispensation of spiritual light, seems obliged to go back to the old Levitical law, which he qnotes as the unchanging law of God, aB if he himself were living np to it, obeying all its prescriptions and injanctions. Doubtless there are among these some which many people, even Christians, would like to con form to, if they were not opposed to the “law of the land.” For example, the “sacred oracles” (in Dent. xxiv. 1) say: “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unclean ness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her ont of his house. [No judicial in vestigation or decision required.] And when she is departed ont of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.” Is not this a typical case of “free love” ? Hence, if spirit intercourse is wrong, as argned by Mr. An drews, because i t is prohibited by this sacred code, then “free love” is right, because i t is permitted, almost enjoined, by it. I t is qnite evident that the Levitical law—the legisla tive old clo’ of the Jews—is not for ns; and I wonder that intelligent ministers (of the gospel, mind yon, not the old-Jewish laws and customs) shonld exhibit so mnch logical weakness as to have recourse to their obso lete and absurd requirements.

Mr. Andrews thinks i t necessary to refer to a criticism, made ten years ago, npon my book, Spiritual Communications, by a Spirit ualist named George Bloede, entirely anti- Christian in his views; bnt he does not see the propriety of making any reference to my response, or to give my published reasons for believing in the identity, of the communica ting intelligences. I cannot go into this matter here; it is really totally irrelevant to the point a t issne. I might have been mis taken or deceived, as Mr. Bloede supposed; bnt that conld not have affected the general character, tendency and truthfulness of Spiritnalism and spiritual communications. Bnt I will add that ten years’ additional ex perience in Spiritual investigation has served only to confirm the position taken by me at that time, the views of such anti-Christian Spiritnalists as Dr. Bloede to the contrary notwithstanding.

“Mr. Kiddle,” says Mr. Andrews, “would have these evil spirits to be the disembodied souls of wicked men.” What Mr. Kiddle “would have,” or what he personally believes, is not the question; bnt what is the trnth, as demonstrated by the phenomena, which Mr. Andrews accepts as real. That the manifest ing spirits are those of persons who once lived on the earth, like ourselves, is not my opinion simply, bat is, indeed, qnite ancient I t is not a mere theory applied to the phe nomena, bnt a part of the phenomena them selves. The invisible intelligences that com municate with ns in so many ways, invari ably represent themselves as the departed spirits of men or women; and they often identify themselves with great completeness. They show the same traits of character, the same style of expression, the same char acteristics of manner, habitude and disposi tion; and in addition to this they often pre sent the same personal appearance. This is What the Rev. Dr. Bnckley admitted when he oppofed so strenuously the policy of doing what Mr. Andrews is now doing—acknowl edging the reality of Spiritnalism but rep resenting it as Satanic. I will quote his words: “Let the Christian church acknowl edge the supernatural origin of these phe nomena, and the Spiritnalists then have two- thirds of the battle,” because the Spiritualist conld say to one who had seen the manifesta tions: “Can you believe that the communi cation which yon know that yon have re ceived from your daughter is from the Devil? How has it comforted yon? Or can yon be lieve that what your dear mother has sent yon, so much like the kind words she has often spoken when npon earth, are from an evil spirit?”

Thus, according to this view of the matter, the Rev. Mr. Andrews is acting in the inter ests of Spiritnalism in his fair and honest admission of the reality of the ‘phenomena as emanating from the spiritual world; and what he says about Satan and his devilish emissaries and agents is only his opinion based upon his interpretation of a few . scat

tered texts'of that much-abased an. resented book, the Bible, perhaps the interesting record of Spiritualism in world—giving accounts of a great variety o spiritual manifestations by Doth good and bad spirits—those of “God” and those “no t of God,” as John classified them; some “lying spirits” (like that one which, it is absurdly/ said, “God put into the monthB of all h ia prophets” on a certain occasion), and other* the “spirits of jast men made perfect,'* angels of trnth, and of conrse angels of God, “ministering spirits,” as was, doubt less, tbe spirit of Samuel when he came, through the mediumship of her of Endor, to prepare the mind of his friend Saul for the- coming disaster, saying to him: “To morrow:

| thou and thy sons shall be with me”; also Moses and Elias, as they appeared to the! transfigured Nazarene, showing that the- “spirits of the dead” conld appear to the liv ing, and conld talk with them; moreover,! the “spirit of Jesns” (the Scriptnre phrase} as he appeared to his disciples, as he appeared to Sanl, and as he appeared to some of the Apostles subsequently. Thus is Christianity itself based upon a spiritual manifestation; and by spiritual manifestations are the pres ent doctrines of the Christian sects, so various and discordant, and so inconsistent with the .teachings of Christ, to be corrected,, simplified, and rationalized. Spiritualism, is rapidly doing this important work.

Mr. Andrews cannot make his case good against Spiritualism, for he cannot even prove, in tbe face of inodern criticism, that there is any such personage as he describes Satan to be. In the early Jewish literature there isjuo reference to any spirit of evil a t war with Jehovah. The story of the Garden of Eden does not refer to Satan. The “ser pent” spoken of is described asanag im al* and was cursed as an animal. The name Satan, it is true, occurs in Job; but tbe Satan of Job is by no means the Satan of Mr. Andrews. The Jews had no such concep tion until after the Captivity, daring which they had acquired it from the Zoroastrism religion, which is based upon the two spiritual principles of Ormnzd and Ahriman, good and evil; and this silly idea of a “war in Heaven,” “fallen angels,” etc., has come from a mere allegory to which ignorant persons- have applied a literal interpretation; and the Fnritan poet Milton has embellished and perpetuated these conceptions in bis beauti ful poetry. Evil spirits—devils, if you please so to call them—there are in both worlds; but the conception of Satan and h is crew of rebel spirits is a monstrosity, which even the Bible does not sustain, and which the modern world of humanity is fast giving up. He n r y Kid d l e .

P ro '. Campbell on the Brotherhood off Man.

To the Editor of the BeUgio-PhUosophical Journal.Prof. R. A. Campbell gave an interesting,

lecture on Sunday afternoon before the Chi cago Harmonial Society, in its new hall,.* corner of Peoria and Monroe streets. His subject was “The Brotherhood of Man.” He* said: “The expression is as old as the litera ture of the race. In the oldest books of which we have any knowledge, and in s t i l l more ancient tradition the idea of brother hood of community of interests is advanced^ This expression conveys as many different- meanings as there are different classes o f people who make use of it. whether the phil osopher on the intellectual plane, the phil anthropist on the affectional plane, the en thusiast on the ideal plane, or the demagogue on the catch-penny plane.”

He then proceeded to define the terms- “man” and “brotherhood”: “We are not m en because of our substance, which we have in common with the lower animals, and even with the earth itself; nor yet because of onr appetites and passions, which we share with* the brutes; nor because of onr form, for the- ‘hnman form divine’ is the common herit age of the imbecile and tbe insane as well a s of ourselves. The distinguishing character istic of man, which separates him from all other creatures, is the fact that he aspires to be better than he is, and that he not only aspires bnt has the power to become what ho aspires to. When yoQ aspire, will to become what you aspire to, and succeed in so becom ing; then only are yon men.

“We are born animals, bnt by tbe exercise* of the will, we become something different-.. Every time we will to do a thing and accom plish that thing, we have strengthened the will. Even though the thing we have dono be a wrong, the doing of it has given us a power to do a good thing better.

“It is not similarity of desires which makes us brothers; nor is it similarity of thoughts,, nor even of purposes; neither does brother hood depend upon onr belonging to the same family or race; i t depends npon sim ilarity of aspirations, the fact that we want a m an to aspire to what we aspire to. I t has its source in the affections, and results in doing good to others.

“You do not love a person because th a t person has done yoa some good service; th a t kind of love is pure selfishness. Yon only truly love one to whom you have done good. The ideal condition is that we love others as we love ourselves. When the revelation came

’tom an that God loved him as he loved him self, it was a new and inspiring gospel. We conld not think of a good and wise God re quiring of us more than he does himself.- Love yonr neighbor as well as God loves bim^ that is, as well as you love yourself, and you will then be his true brother. Yon are not asked to love him bettei* than yourself.”

He drew an instructive lesson from the olff story of Cain and Abel: “In Cain’s ques t io n ;‘A m i my brother’s keeper?’ lies th e whole of morality,” he ~,said. “All that we- are as hnman beings, is to prove that we are- our brother’s, keeper; to work for him, In take care of him—not from a sense of dnty (which is only a step in advance of not doing- i t all), bnt from love. When we arrive a t this point, we have become hnman beings. When I divide my loaf, I demand my shares when I give yon my affection, I also demand lpy share, and get it in self-develoDment.

“Here a subtile fallacy presents itself.- Robert Ingersoll says an intelligent selfish- ness is a t the root of all good done to others,, which is as much as to say, a man loves the race in order to fleece it. If I do good to my feHow*man in order that I may reap good therefrom, I am as selfish as though I did him an evil for my own sake. I t is pore selfishness, whether the result be good o r bad. If I do him a good tarn, for his own sake equally with my own, it is a! profit to* both. I most co-operate with my brother,, that we may both be profited.

“So far as I do good for my own sake, I am impure. .The Bible says: ‘The pore in heart shall see God,’ not that those who see God . shall become pore in heart. We have need, not to love ourselves less, bnt onr brothers more.

“We talk of human rights. The only re a l: right we have is the right to .help him who ; can’t help himself. Some men need a dollar;? some a meal, some sympathy, some instrnc~l

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orotherhood of man means help jy. sympathy for the tempted, for-

> for the criminal.„ are all members of one body. If one

jrs, all suffer. By helping one, we help ail. The poor sewerage and imperfect plumb ing in the honses of the poor give rise to dis ease, bnt the dread diphtheria does not con fine itself to the children of the poor man, on whose premises it originates. I t sweeps across to the avenues and devastates the home of the rich, who, in self-defense, is obliged to torn his attention to getting the alleys and by-ways cleaned up by the city authorities.

“I cannot neglect the ignorant and con serve my own intelligence. The evil of one is the evil of all; the good of one is the good o f .*11. We must band together for mutual protection, if we would become or remain men. My best interest is my brother’s best interest and his best interest is mine.” * *

THEY WERE BURIED ALIVE.

A Budget of Eerie Stories About Prem a tu re Burials.

How the Cardinal Thrilled the French Sen ate—The True Story o f Ginevra— Whose Wife Was She—Boccacio'8 Story and Ten nyson's Poetical Version— Was Ginevra' an Avatar of Mary Bourke?—A Tale o f a Spectre Guest.New York Herald: In 1866 a most dramatic

scene occurred in the French Senate a scene in real life that would have been voted im probable on the stage.

A petition had been presented pointing out the dangers of hasty interments and suggest ing measures for their prevention. M. de la Ouerroni6re proposed to shelve it. But the venerable Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, arose in support of the petition.

His argument was long and interesting. He had himself, he said, while yet a cur€, saved several persons from being buried alive. He had seen a man taken from his coffin and restored to health. He had seen the body of a young lady laid out for dead, the attendants covering her face as he en tered, yet allowing him to observe so much as convinced him she was not dead, but sleeping. With a loud voice he cried out that

. he was come to save her.“You do not see me, perhaps,” he said, “but

you hear what I am saying.”And she did hear. His voice reached her

numbed sensations. She made a mighty ef fort and woke into life.

“That young girl,” said the Archbishop, in the midst of a profound silence, “is to-day a wife, the mother of children, and the chief happiness of two of the most distinguished families in Paris.”

But the Archbishop had another and still more impressive story to tell. In 1826 a young-priest fainted in the pulpit and was given up for dead. He was measured for the coffin, the funeral bell was tolled, the De Pro- fundis was recited by Episcopal lips. Mean while the seeming corpse could hear all that was going on. “You will easily feel hOw impressive was the agony of the living in tha t situation. At last, amid murmurs around him, he distinguished the voice of one known to him from childhood. That voice produced a marvelous effect and stimulated him to superhuman effort. Of what follow ed I need say no more than that the seeming dead man stood next day in the pulpit from which he had been taken for dead. “That young priest, gentlemen,” and here the old man’s voice thrilled every listener, “that young priest is the man who stands before yon to-day—more than forty years later—en treating those in authority not merely to vig ilantly enforce execution of the legal re quirements in regard to burials, but to en act, fresh ones that may prevent the occur rence of irreparable misfortunes.”:In spite of official resistance the Senate vot

ed that the petition should be referred to the Minister of the Interior. Some of its modifi cations of existing laws were eventually adopted. But the French, like the English, have always resisted the innovation of mort uary chambers, such as the German and ether nations have adopted, in which the dead are retained for a time before inter ment. Here mechanical appliances are so arranged that the slightest motion on the part of the buried would sound an alarm and summon an attendant. Since 1828, however, when the system was adopted^ not a single case of apparent death has been proved to occur. Of course this negative evidence can not be cited as conclusive either for or against the system.

History is full of instances of burial dur ing suspended animation, many of which from their grewsome and startling character have passed into literature. Duns ScotU9, known as the Subtle, is said to have been buried while in a fit, in the absence of his servant and of all who knew that such fits were periodical with him. When the serv a n t returned he insisted on opening the vault. The corpse was found dead then be yond hope, but bearing all the evidence of a terrible struggle, one band being bitten off and half eaten. I t was no doubt the finding of other corpses in a similar condition after burial that led to the hideous medieval superstition of vampires, which fed upon hu man bodies.

As dreadful a story a9 any is that of the Emperer Zeno Isaurus, who during an attack o f coma was put in the mausolum by his wicked wife Ariadne, and kept shut op there till he died, although his cries could be plain ly heard by the attendants.

Of dead-alive ladies brought to conscious ness by grave robbers, covetous of the rings upon their cold fingers, nearly every coun try has its own story. A well authenticated instance happened at Drogheda, Ireland, in the last century, and was brought back to public attention in 1864 by the death of one Miss Hardman of that place. The lady, who was 92 years of age, left orders that she should not be bnried until eight days after the physician pronounced her dead. Her mother, it appears, had been buried while in a trance, and was rescued only by the cupid ity of the family butler seeking at night to possess himself of a ring upon her finger. -

A celebrated romance of real life, which has also found curious counterparts more or less authenticated in all lands and periods, is the Florentine story of Ginevra. Married against her inclination in the year 1400 to Francesco degli Agolanti. the one of her two lovers who loved her best, Ginevra was buried alive during a trance which looked like death. At midnight she awoke, and horror struck, made her way out of the vault to her husband’s house. But he, sorrowful for her death as he was, refused to believe that this pale revenante crying a t his door was aught else than a ghost, and repulsed her with a hasty benediction. So did her father; so did her unde. Then, nearly dy ing in good earnest; she remembered her other and truer lover, Antonio di Rondinelli,

11 dragged herself to his doorstep. .

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though startled at the ghastly vision, calmly inquired what the spirit wanted with him.

Tearing her shroud from her faee Ginevra exclaimed: “I am no spirit, Antonio! l am that Ginevra you once loved, who was buried yesterday—buried alive?” and fell swooning into the welcoming arms of her delighted lover.

He took her in, warmed, fed and; comforted her, and when she had been nursed back to health he privately married her. >; The next Sunday they appeared together as man and wife at the cathedral. There was universal consternation among Ginevra’s friends. An explanation ensued, which satisfied all bnt the lady’s first husband, who insisted that the original marriage had not been dissolved. The case was referred to the Bishop, who de cided in favor of Rondinelli, on the unscien tific but none the less poetically satisfying ground that the lady had really died once and been released from all former ties. The first husband was even obliged to pay over to Rondinelli the dowry he had received with his bride.

Now, to be at once slangy and Hibernian, this story was a chestnut before it happened. Fifty years previous something like it had been told by Boccacio in the “Decameron.” and back of Boccacio the story can be traced far into the mists of antiquity. So true is it that history repeats itself, although skep tical historians are too apt to see in that rep etition a reason for distrust.

According to Boccaccio Gentil Garisendi was in love with Madonna Catalina, the wife of Niccoluccio Caccianemico. The lady died, as i t was thought, and was buried, and the lover, going to lament her in the tomb and to give her the kiss which bad been denied him in her lifetime, found that she had been buried alive. He brought her home and nursed her bask to health. Then he gave a great banquet, to which the husband was in vited. In the midst of the festivities the lady was ushered into the room. Gentil re lated the circumstances to the astonished guests and asked them whether the lady was not rightly his. They all agreed she was, Niccoluccio himself sorrowfully concurring. Bat Gentil magnanimously restored her to her husband, Which of course, is an unwar rantable liberty with the facts that Boccac cio foreshadowed.

It will be remembered that Tennyson took Boccaccio’s story as the basis of his juvenile poem, “The Lover’s Tale,” and its more ma ture conclusion, “The Golden Sapper,” but he has transferred the venue to England.

•History is a plagiarist even from folk lore. Sir George Cox or any of our modern compar ative mythologists would find no difficulty in proving that the Ginevra of fact was none other than the Mary Rourke of Irish legend.

Mary, dying as it was supposed in child birth, was really spirited away by the fairies to act as wet nurse at the court. Once the Fairy King and his retinue set out to visit the neighboring province of Ulster. They looked like a dark cloud between heaven and earth and attracted the attention of oneTha- dy Hughes, who muttered the name of the Trinity, when straightway Mary was released from their power and came tumbling to earth. Thady took her to his cabin, and, as she had no recollection of her previous life, he married her. But she was recognized by a traveling peddler, who informed her hus band, and “ it took six clergy and a bishop to say whose wife she was.”

It would be easy to go on citing from poet ry, romance and history example after exam ple of premature burial (it Will be remem bered that the “ Premature Burial” is the t i tle of a ghastly skit by Poe), but space and time have their limitations, and it may be as well to conclude with this eerie tale which comes to us from Spain:

An undertaker in Madrid who lived over his shop, one night gave a grand ball. At the hight of the festivities a gentleman in full evening dress joined he company. He danced with the hostess and her daughter, he danced with the guests. HO seemed to enjoy himself thoroughly. The undertaker thought he re cognized the face, but didn’t like to be rude and ask the stranger’s name. By and by the iguests departed ahd only the unknown was left. ‘

“ Shall I send for a cab for you” ? said the host a t last. <

“ No, thank you, I’m staying in the house.” “ Staying in the house! Who are you, sir?” “ Why don’t you know me? I’m ,the corpse

that was brought in this afternoon.”The undertaker in horror rushed to the

mortuary chamber. Where in Spain i t is usual for the dead to be removed. The coffia was empty. His wife and daughter had been dancing with a corpse!

But it turned out that the gentleman had only been iu a trance and had suddenly re covered. Hearing the revelry above, and be ing possessed of a keen though ghastly sense of humor, he had got out of his coffin and joined the festive party. He was presentable, for iu Spain the dead are generally buried in full evening drefes.

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J -----SERAPHITA : A ROMANCE OF IDEALITY. By

Honors de Balzac Translated by Katharine P.69- cott Wormeley. W ith an Introduction by George Frederick Parsons., 12mo. Pp., 275. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Price, $1.50.This marvellous work, now first pre-'entei in a fit

ting dress to an Engliek-reading public, will a t once taka its place as a classic, both amongst students of occult lore and the lovers of the romance of ideal ism. Unique among ^ts kind in conception and ex* - cation, the book will prove a touchstone by which to detect the depth of imagination possessed by those who read it as well as. their spiritual intuitions.

Distinctly Swedenborgian as it is, Seraphita tran- sc-nds the conceptions of the Swedish seer in the ec static and sustained; loftiness o f its flight, which, from the first page to the last, nowhere descends to the doll prose of common earthly existence. In fact it is a poem, a pean,;a jubilate, exultant with the perfect onion of Love and Wisdom in a human soul and in the final trium ph of spirit over itB encompas sing flesb.

I t is no surprise toil earn that in working out this romance Balzac suffered greatly from exhaustion. I t must have challenged bis highest powers and u t most art, which, when spent, left him correspond ingly depressed.

Seraphita is a type of that soul of which all seers have prophetic glimpses—a soul resulting from a pare and perfect marriage, which discerns the truths and mysteries of the spiritual realm as naturally as her mortal eyes see external objects. -This exquisite balance between matter and spirit in which the lat te r is forever master is described with a skill so won derful as to show Balzac himself to have been bue- ceptible to the finest and highest inspirations. That is a true philosophy in which he makes a *genins so rare and radiant to betheoffspring of each an union, as well as in setting her solitary.life in the midst of the pore cold .w inters and. grandly, mountainous scenery of Norway. Sack a creation would be im possible set in the fertile valleys .o t ' the volaptoooB Southland.

In fact, the frame is worthy of the picture and ail its concomitants are harmonious. Bnt through what

’ perception: did. Balzac; more than- half a century* ago, understand that which Is qow called Thought Trans

ference or Transmission, as expressed in these sen tences?

“W hen a man discovers the results of the general movement which 1b shared by all creations accord ing to their faculty of absorption, yon proclaim him mighty in science, as though genius consisted in ex plaining a thing that is! Genius ought to cast its eyes beyond effects. Your men of science would laugh if yon said to them: ‘There exist such pristine relations between two human beings, one of whom may be here and the other in Java, that they can at the same instant feel the same sensation and be con scious of so doing; they can question each other and

"reply without mistake’; and je t there are mineral substances which exhibit sympathies as far off from each other as those of which I speak. Yon believe in the power of electricity which yon find in the magnet and you deny that which emanates from the sonll”

How did be know of that exquisite sensi bility which caused Seraphita to shrink from personal contact with even her dearest friends? Where did he learn about that magnetic aureole and spiritual illumination that radiated from her frame in its most ethereal movements? How did the Frenchman limn a creators made np of fire and ice, power and sweetness, reason and intuition, all blended as beautifully as the light and heat of the snn-ray? Why, indeed, except that Balzac’s inner senses themselves bad periods of exaltation in whieh he painted better than he knew.In his allusions to re-incarnation,upon which George

Frederic Parsons in his introduction, too strongly insists, the author of Seraphita shows the resalt of his studies in Oriental Theosophy and cognate lore, which, however, do not greatly affect the central

. theme of the book. The evolution and progress of the soul through the union and development of love and wiedom while passing through the Jnstinetine and Abetractine states to the Divine, and its holy at traction to God the central magnet, are described with fervid and mystical beauty. Through it much esoteric instruction is given by Seraphita in the guife of brilliant monologues, managed with great skill. 'W ith some of the premises, notably in regard to the co-ordination of God, or Spirit, and Matter, many readers will not agree.

I t may also be thought that in Seraphita is found the revival of old-time beliefs, such as were lately p a t forth by Laurence Olipbant and others, regard ing the androgynous condition of the highest devel opment of hnman beings. The unprejudiced stu dent, however, like to the author of the lengthy and recondite introduction, will conclude that Balzac really intended to convey the impression of a thoi- oughly balanced individual. Love there was with surging: affections bnt it could not overwhelm Reas on which rode upon their tidal waves and directed their flow. Wisdom stood at the helm strong as the love with which its life was blended. And so the dual Seraphita, masculine from one point of view and feminine from another, knew no earthly love and songht only for holiness and the felicities of the celestial realm. Through what temptations and straggles did the sweet soul gain its final triumph! How, then, m ast grosser nature suffer! What a les son here for those fleshly persons who, because in a measure medinmiBtic, find excuse for wallowing in senBnousness though calling themselves spiritual minded!

The book in question is the last and noblest of three theosophical and philosophical romances, named respectively The Magic Skin: Louis Lambert, and Seraphita. Though long admired by a few it is only within a comparatively recent period that the public taste has become sufficiently spiritualized to bring them into vogne.

CHURCH HISTORY, by Professor Kurtz. Trans lated from Latest Edition, with approval of theAuthor, by Rev. John MacPherson, A. M. Inthree volumes. Yol. I. juBt issued. Cloth, 12mo,574 pp. Price, $2 00. Funk & Wagnalls, 18 and20 Astor Place, New York.This work was first published in 1849. I t has

passed through nine editions. Revise l and im prove! at several different times, by the author, it is now about twice its original size. For years it has bad almost a monopoly in Germany, and it is now gaining a firm foothold in Great Britain and Amer ica. The author has long bean distinguished for his ample and acccurate scholarship; and the translator has done his work so well that the book has already become the standard Church History among Eng lish-Speaking people. While it was prepared espe cially to meet the requirements Of a complete text book for theological students, it is equally well adapted to intelligent readers of all classes Its ar rangement of general divisions, sab-divisions, sec tions, and numbered paragraphs—using large type for the most important matter, and smaller type for for minor details—conduces a t once to simplicity and variety. Of course the author does not treat every subject in a way to satisfy every reader. I f we consider the many centuries he covers, the great number of doctrines and practices he discusses, the prejudices of the reader, and the predilections of the writer, it is evident that no man could pomibly pro duce a Church History which m ight not be criti-

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Wide Awake. (Boston.) Fourth of July a t Rob erts College in Constantinople brings us near home. The Republican Court gives portraits and biograph ies of e igh ties of the prominent young women who were in General Washington’s circle of friends, Mrs. W ashington hereelf leading the train . Mademoi selle Papa iB a touching little tale from the French, translated by Miss Virginia Cbamplin. There is anoth er thrilling story of another French child in this num ber, The Child-Knight of Bonffiare. Mrs. General Frdmont writes graphically of her Sierra Neighbors. There are also many other bright things in verse and picture.

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Insane Asylums.

The proper care of the insane is a task which demands the greatest kindness,charity, and sympathy. The unreasonableness which distinguishes this unfortunate class, is too apt to awaken antagonism, and be heated with a levity which exasperates the patient, or with harsh, unsympathetic severity. I t must be borne in mind that the conclusions arrived at by the insane are to them correct and demonstrable; and are held to with even greater tenacity because of their narrower field of view. They cannot be reasoned out

I these, and force only strengthens them.Yith all the knowledge of the present, andII tho boasted humanity, which interests

itself even ir 3 welfare of abused animals, it mast be said that the treatment of tha in sane is far from being in accord with the re quirements of science, to say nothing of the tender care of sympathy. Late revelations show a condition of affairs in at least sever al asylums, so brutal as to be almost beyond belief. The superintendents appear to be ig norant of the meaning of the name of their institutions. Instead of being asylums, places of refuge, where the unfortunate may find the much needed care, sympathy, and watchful attention, they are bastiles and dungeons of torture, where brutal attend ants, beat, kick and stamp upon the helpless victims, even to the destruction of life, with out receiving even a reprimand. With the knowledge of the present methods prevalent in the asylums considered the best, one who has dear relatives or friends with impaired minds, will hesitate long before placing them in the hands of these human tigers and ignorant superintending physicians. They might be well treated, but as the whims of the insane cannot be foreknown, there would be no assurance that if a t any time they became refractory they might not re ceive the crnelest blows or have their bones broken by ruffianly kicks.

Asylums are. public institutions maintain ed in a great measure at public cost, and should be certainly free from the baleful in fluences of party politics. That a man is an active partisan is the last quality which fits him for, or should recommend him to, an office having the peculiar qualifications re quired for the care of the insane. The trus tees who are supposed to represent and care for the public interest, are usually mere cy phers, who think making regular visits and partaking of a good dinner with the presid ing physician is all that is required of them. Of eonrse they report everything in perfect order and extol the ability, executive and medical, of the Superintendent. They could not report otherwise when everything has been prepared for their visit, and tney are taken through the best wards, carefully avoiding the cells where the bad cases are confined, or any hapless patient suffering from contu sions or broken bones from being knocked down or stamped with the heels of assistants retained because they are bullies.

I t is high time these institutions be taken from the control of partisans, and the treat ment of insanity brought up to the require ments of this age of knowledge.

The whole method as now practiced is rad ically wrong; First, the herding together of several hundred patients in the same build ing, is according to well known psychic laws, exceedingly harmf ol. The insane as a rule are sensitive, their ailments in many eases are caused by exceeding susceptibility. While with those of strong wills and vigor ous minds, they are sustained and directed, bat when brought in constant contact with those like themselves, there is instead, a mor-

R E L I G I O - P H I L O S ^ P I C A L J O U R N A L .bid atmosphere, which reacts and intensi fies the diseased state of their minds.

Instead of one great bnilding there should be many small ones, where the patients may live in family groups, selected with a knowledge of the sympathies of the members. The attendants should be thoroughly in formed, self-restrained, and able to control by the power of kindness. If they fail in this, they have no business there. The superin tendent should be qualified and an example to his subordinates. If he believes in brnte force, and the infallibility of drag prescrip tions, he is not the man for the place. He must believe in the power of mind over mind, and meet the unreasonable patient with the strength of his greater reason. He must disabuse himself of the idea that he can enthrone reason by physicking the body; or restore the action of the brain by doses of quinine and phosphorus. Several leading editorials on the exposures of the crimes com mitted in asylums recommend that such abuse of the insane should send the perpe trators to the penitentiary by the shortest road, but this is shutting the stable door af ter the horse has been stolen. The opportu nity for the abuse should be taken away; a new method ought to be inaugurated, whieh should begin by calling the right men to the places. Then love and kindness should take the place of brnte strength. The spiritual laws revealed by psychic science should be thoroughly studied and applied.

No class are more susceptible to their envi ronments or to hypnotic influences. A care ful study made in several asylums, convinces us that a t least one-half of the inmates are victims of a dominant idea, which is of itself a form of what may be called self-hypnotize- tion. Every organ and function of the body may be perfect, and the brain normal, the af fection being in the mind itself. A superior or overshadowing inflnenee, as of another stronger mind, would free them from their thralldom. If physicians would meet with success in healing mental disorders, they mast adopt the new method, and cast aside their pills and powders. They find this or that organ depleted or congested and pre scribe as the symptoms indicate, as though a torpid liver was the canse, instead of being a reflection of the disordered mind.

Bat these changes cannot be effected at once, and the necessities are argent for im mediate action. There are no physicians qualified for the requirements of the exact ing positions, nor will there be until psychic science has received the paramount attention which it dessrves. The requirements of spirit must be met by spirit, and not by the coarse expedients of the strait-jacket, the cell, hand cuffs, or potions of poisonous drugs.

These changes will come, bat in the mean time there should be snch legislation as will make it impossible for such atrocious cruelty as has recently been reported to be enacted. The trustees should be held responsible, and compelled to do the work assigned them, thoroughly and impartially.

The M inisterial Famine.

A Boston paper states that there are with in the vicinity of that city over thirty im portant churches without pastors. They have extended numerous “calls” which have been declined, or when accepted, the called have not proven satisfactory. This state of affairs is by no means local, bat to a greater or less extent is everywhere observable. The large salaries and social position preserves the city churches from standing vacant. There is a praiseworthy ambition among country clergymen to get to the cities, and a distin guished church dignitary recently bewailed this inclination and expressed bis amaze ment at the number of ministers who wrote him asking for places in the city of New York on account of the condition of their health.

All over the country there are churches with closed doors becanse they are not able to procure pastors. Every year the number of graduates from the theological depart ments of the colleges are less while the in ducements are greater, for although the other professions are overcrowded that of the ministry is ready to take all who show the least ability. I t seems, however, that the latter does not offer sufficient induce ments to yonng and aspiring men, and that the age of ecclesiastic preferment and honors has passed. The New York Tribune com menting on this subject recommends the or ganization of an order of clergymen pledged to fill those now vacant, and all undesirable places. That is very good, if men coaid be found to join it, bat those who would join, would go without an organization.

There is a ministerial famine, and the rem edy is difficult to determine. The old-fash ioned exhorter and circuit rider, even among the humble Methodists, are of the past. Cul ture and scholarship are demanded even by the frontier settlements. The preacher must be trained in more than acrobatic skill in Bible exegesis. That method has given some ehoice grain, bnt it is all threshed ont, and now yields only dust and worthless straw.

No position offers snch splendid opportuni ties for the thoroughly equipped teacher as the pnlpit. There yet remains a lingering trace of that superstition which honored the pastor above other men, by which he is called holy, and it becomes possible for him to be come a model for the guidance of the com munity in which he resides. Every Sunday from the pnlpit he has the opportunity of in structing and leading the people to higher grounds. Through the Sunday-school the plastic minds of the children are in his care. More than all he has a strong and compact organization to m aintain and assist him.

To look a t the m atter squarely, while this

glorious opportunity Is offered, the zeal and faith which once i would have brought for ward a dozen applicants for everyplace, has perished. Preaching is regarded as a busi ness, like law or physic, and the “ call ” comes not from the Lord, bat the pockets of the church officers, and is convincing of its superior origin in direct ratio to its size.

A Methodist “ Mill.”

Oar beloved Methodist sisters are not free from that wearing friction with which the unregenerate are prone to make life a bur den for one another. There has been war among the managers of the National Tem perance Hospital in this city for some time. The institution is one of the activities pro moted by the W. 0. T. 0., and is largely mothered and managed by Methodist sisters. Accusing one another of downright false hood, and resorting to the sharp practices of a political caucus are part of the ontpnt of this Christian and temperance imbroglio. A few days ago Dr. Mary Weeks Barnett through the daily press charged Frances E. Willard, President of the W. C. T. U., with highhanded usurpation of authority and downright bulldozing, and, more awful still, of actually taking raw alcohol. The charge was that Sister Frank had been seen to braz enly take homeopathic pills from which the bouquet of the alcohol used to cat the reme dial agent was distinctly perceptible a t a distance of three feet and six inches. When remonstrated with by Dr. Total Abstinence Barnett for this unchristian inconsistency, the chidee aggravated her heinous offense with supercilious treatment of the chider, actually uttering the rank heresy that her doctor, who used remedies prepared with alcohol, was “a good enough temperance doc tor." Soon after this exchange of conrtesies there appeared in the city press a statement purporting to give the proceedings of a meet ing of the trustees of the temperance hos pital, alleged to have been held on the Meth odist camp ground at Lake Blnff. Dr. Barnett was not to be thus driven from the ring, and responded to the scientific left-hander dealt by the Methodist Sullivans with a vigorous blow straight from the shoulder, which sent her opponents to grass. She declares:

“There was not one legal trustee present at that meeting. One of the legal trustees, whose name is attached to the statement, is in Europe and knew nothing of the meeting or its purpose. Another is on the Atlantic, and could not have been commnni- cated with even if the persons who called this meet ing had tried to consult her.

.“Mrs. J. H. Hobbs, Miss Mary Allen West, and Mias Jnlia Ames are not, aDd never have been, le gally qualified to act as members of oar board. They are well aware of this fact, and they have admitted the illegality of their position on more than one oc casion.”

Verily, verily, it is indeed fun for saloon keepers and the heathen to watch this spirited mill between the Lord’s annotated. How it will promote' the kingdom of Hod on earth and help to core, drunkards.

The Religions Outlook.

The thoughtful paper on this serious topic from the pen of Giles B. Stebbins, is worthy the profound attention of all, and especially of so-caUed liberal Christians and promoters of the Ethical Culture movement. Mr. Steb bins was born and has lived beyond his a l lotted three score and ten years in a Unitar ian environment. Unitarianism has many attractions for him, bnt its one great lack has kept him from closer indentification, and caused him to fill the thankless task of vol unteer missionary to bis Unitarian brethren for two score years. For want of a keener appreciation of the strength to be derived from modern Spiritualism on the one hand and through lack of manly courage in pro claiming this appreciation when secretly held—as It is in innumerable instances—on the other, the liberal Christian sects are dying of dry rot, while flattering themselves in mu tual admiration conventions about the “tremendous inflnenee" they are exerting. To all these worthy workers chnrched.and unchurched, we commend the sober words of our veteran contributor.

Referring to the first sentence of Mr. Tut tle’s contribution on another page, we ' agree with him that i t does require confidence “born of an abiding trust in the constituency of his paper," for an editor to admit such an article as “The Astral Light,” and for that matter many articles that appear in the J o u r n a l . Were we seeking a personal fol. lowing, or to build up a narrow sectarian body, we should certainly be more politic if not less courageous. Bnt we have confi dence in the fair-mindedness and intellectual strength of our constituency. We have never sought the support of sacking doves, imbe ciles and fanatics; nor have we the slightest ambition for leadership. To fill the role of a fearless journalist who has the welfare of humanity so close a t heart that his own petty interests are never taken into account, this limits the bonnds of our ambition in public directions.

Prof. E lliott Cones contributes to this num ber a paper on Theosophy and Blavatskosophy which, from the high position of the writer and his intimate knowledge of his topics, will be read with more than ordinary inter est. Some excellent people, fellows of theT. S., have complained that we permitted se vere things to be said in the J o u r n a l by Mr. Coleman, and that we were not overly tender in our own remarks. To such friends we point the article by Dr. Cones, and the one published several weeks ago written by a lady Theosphist and headed “She” ; coming from Theoeophists who have basked in the light of the Blavatsky countenance in the one ease, and stood close to high dignitaries of the enlt in the other, these articles seem somewhat meaty.

I t appears from dispatches from Boise City, Idaho, that the Committee of the Conven tion to frame a State Constitution began re porting the Bill of Rights by a strike a t the Mormon question, in guaranteeing religions freedom, bnt declaring the religious con science shall not tolerate or excuse acts of licentiousness or justify polygamy or other pernicious practices inconsistent with mo rality, or against the peace and safety of the State, nor permit any person, organization* or association to aid or abet, counsel or ad vise any person to commit bigamy, polygamy or other crime. No property qualification is permissible for voting or holding office. All males between 18 and 45 are subject to m ili tary duty. Military companies m ast carry no flag except that of the United States. The Legislature is to meet annually, and to be composed of one Senator from each county, with twice that number of Representatives. Senators are to serve four years and Repre sentatives two. Corporations did not receive much attention in any way except a restric tion preventing railroads from pooling dis criminations or consolidating with parallel lines.

W. H. McDonald writes from Washington,D. C., stating that a gentleman residing there has discovered “ perpetual motion.” He says: “ In the J o u r n a l of Jane 29th yon publish Frank Chase’s statement regarding so-called perpetual motion, intim ating that the inven tion of snch a machine is an impossibility. Now, let me say to yon that if yon were here, I would show yon a machine, or wheel, which tarns, seemingly, of its own accord. The senses can not perceive the power; it is sup posed to be gravity. Place it upon the ground and it will ran even np hill, and were i t not for the * governor * the thing wonld tear itself to pieces by its velocity. There are no springs, no magnets, no visible power. This device will some day ran all the street cars, sewing machines, etc., and take the place of steam and electricity.” Mr. McDonald also speaks of a yonng man, colored, in Washington, who though ungainly is a wonderful medium. He diagnoses diseases, treats mesmerically, and while under control exhibits wonderful knowledge, of the nomenclature of physics.

The Bath Times says: “ For three or four days three or four hundred people had been diligently scouring the woods and examining the ponds in the vicinity, when a brother-in- law of the missing man in whose care Gall’s motherless child has been left, dreamed that he had found the body of Gall drowned under a bridge. After telling his wife and others of his dream, he started to foUow down a creek not far from his farm, over which his dream had located a bridge. Upon arriving in Dresden he sought his intim ate friend and brother-in-law, Mr. Bowman Myers, and they both made their way to the little stream from a directly contrary direction from Gall’s home, and under the old country road stone bridge, so old that old people say that it was built before their time, they found the body."

Will Mrs. Mary Brady be docked? That is the moral and legal question which is exercis ing the citizens of Jersey City. The grand jury cf Hudson county has indicted Mrs. Bra dy—who lives in Van Horn street in that part of Jersey City known as Lafayette—as a com mon scold under an old law which has not been repealed, and which makes the penalty for the offence a docking from a dneking- stool. This is the first indictment for such offense known in the history of Hudson conn- ty and probably the first in the State. There is no dneking-stool in Hudson county at pres ent, and the burning question which is being discussed in Jersey City and Hoboken is, “ Will a dneking-stool be constructed and will the old blue law against common scolds be enforced in this case?”

The residents of West Roxbnry, one of Bos ton’s rural wards, are in a great stir over the conduct of Deacon Charles H. Botsford. The deacon is a rigid churchman and the main pillar in the Congregational Society of the district. Recently he sold Alvin Spear, a neighbor, a field of standing grass, and the latter having ent the hay was obliged to core i t and haul i t to his barn Sunday to prevent it, as he says, from spoiling. The deacon, however, had Spear and his three assistants arrested for working on the Sabbath. The Judge decided to enforce the Sunday law and so fined them ten dollars each in the police court. An appeal has been taken, and the deacon’s neighbors are making i t hot for him now.

For the first time in a quarter of a century a successful attempt was made last Sunday to enforce the Sunday closing and comnion labor law in Cincinnati. The city was so remarkably quiet and tranquil that the people who had become accustomed to the noise of the concert rooms and the crowds in saloons and on the streets were almost be wildered by the change. For twenty years the city has been under the control of the sa loon element. No one could be elected to office who did not have their endorsement and support. Several attempts have been made in the last ten years to close the saloons Sun day, bnt all were ignominious failures. The religions portion of the community tried in vain to overthrow the power of the liquor interest, but never met with success.'

Dr. M. L. Sherman, a prominent Spiritual ist and medium, passed to spirit life from his home a t Adrian, il^ e lu , July: 9th. aged 80 years. He was the author o f “TheHolIow Globe" and “The Gospc^qf Nattfre,” bdtbof which excited a great dealof tbougMRmong

JULY %.Major L. C. Hnbbard, the talented au

satile editor of The Farmers* Voice (Chic*, makes ns blush with his worm words o. praise in an editorial on the J o u r n a l in the issue of his paper for July Osh. We should like to copy it entire, but modesty forbids and we confine the extracts to the following

“. . . .The R e l i g i o -P h i l o s o p h i c a l J o u r n a l is doing noble mission work among a strong brained and intelligent class, who in sadness have rejected old theological dogmas as in sufficient, and false as well. To those who grope in darkness after the right way this wise editor comes as a cheering guide who speaks with the buoyant confidence of a man who knows. Welcome all Who strive to light Humanity out of altruistic darkness into the splendor of God’s deathless day. There can be no true reforms that are not laid as step- ing stones for men to use in climbing to the higher igfe.”

The Farmers' Voice is “the unofficial organ of all societies that are laboring for the well being of the productive classes,” and is said to have 200.000 readers.

Madame Le Plongeon is booked for two lec tures a t Lake Pleasant Camp next month. On the 13th she will discuss “The Religion (ancient and modern), Superstitions and Amusements of the Maya or Central Ameri can People.” The second lecture will be de scriptive of “Five epochs in the history of the Maya nation, anciently the most ad vanced, and probably most numerous of American peoples." The first epoch will be a glimpse of certain events that occurred a few thousand years ago. The information on which the talented lecturer will base her ef fort was obtained by her in conjunction with her husband, the well known archeologist. Dr. Le Plongeon, from original researches in Yucatan. I t is safe to say that no more interesting or instructive lectures w ili.be had at Lake Pleasant—or Chautauqua for that matter—this season. The camp manage ment is to be congratulated for its enterprise in securing Mine. Le Plongeon.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Walter Howell will be in Philadelphia un til July 21st; after that ffate at Cassadaga Camp Meeting.

Elizabeth Akers Allen, the author of the famous poem, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," is living quietly at Ridgewood, N. J . She is an interesting woman of 57.

G. H. Brooks arrived in this eity on last Tuesday, from Atlanta, Ga., where he has been lecturing for two months. He also had a week’s engagement a t Lookout Camp Meeting. Next week, Wednesday, he goes to Haslett Park, Mich. He is chairman of the camp meeting there, a position he held ac ceptably the two previous seasons.

The Standards Rome correspondent says: “The Italian Cardinals oppose the suggestion of several foreign Cardinals that the election of an American Cardinal as Pope wonld tend to solve the Roman question. The Pope has asked three Cardinals whether it is advisable that the conclave to elect his successor be held a t Rome or elsewhere.”

Light of London, says: “ The day when the spiritual press was inferior toother class journals is past, and our literature will one day be a revelation to those now ignorant of its merits. For precision of statement, for exactness of record, for philosophical disqui sition, for close argument, it contrasts very favorably with any group of journals or lit erature devoted to a single subject.”

Miss Leoni Steuvenal of Bayonne, N. J., lost her reason a few months ago through ton great application of religions studies, and on Jane 26th made an attempt to crncify her self. She secured a hammer and hat pins, removed her clothing, and endeavored to nail herself to the door of her room. She succeed ed in driving the pins through one hand and foot before she was discovered, and though the wounds were bleeding freely she gave no sign of pain.

Dr. Joseph Beals,president of the Lake Pleas ant camp meeting, writes under date of July 7th: “ The prospects are that we shall have a large attendance this year. There are some sixty families a t the camp now. The hotel has been repaired and painted, dormer win dows pa t in* and some fourteen rooms added The pavilion has been remodeled, painted and beautified. Many new cottages have been built, and others are in process of erection, and painting and beautifying are going on all over the grounds. About one-half of tho park has been made into a beautiful flower garden.”

Francis Murphy, one of the most enthusi astic and earnest temperance workers of tho country, declares that “the defeat of prohibi tion everywhere is a good victory for temper ance. Prohibition is Phariseeism, fraud and hypocrisy. I t is an attempt to bring the Chnrch and State together again. The people will not permit it. When preachers band themselves together to get the Legislature to enact laws to regulate the morals of people they are going counter to the will of God. The death knell of prohibition is sounded. We are going forward instead of backward, and these great victories against prohibition are temperance victories. High license and restrictive measures will promote the canse of temperance, and the people are sensible enough to see it.”;

Mr. Gladstone has been offered a large sain by a London publishing house to write a po litical romance. The Grand Old Man de clined. j

Kate Field lias hadsome difficulty w ith the Vittlcultural Commission of California re garding her salary, and has thrqwn n p her : oomindseion:,

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520.1889. B B L I G / I O - P H I L O S : 0 P H I C A L J O U R N A L .

dflotnan’d JJtprtmnit.Rone Llreth to Himself.

Say n i t , u I t matters not to me:My brother’s weal is his behoof ” I

For, in this wondrons human web.I f yonr life ’s warp, bis lifeis woof.

Woven all together are the threads.And yqp and he aie in one loom;

For good or ill, for glad or sad,Yonr lives m m t share one common doom.

Then let the daily shuttle glide.Wound full with threads of kindly care.

That life’s increasing length may be Not only strongly wrought, but fair,

So, from the stuff of each new day.The loving band of Time shall take

Garments of joy and peace for all;And human hearts Bhall cease to ache.

—M inot J. Savage.

Women are found in every good work; their warm sympathetic natures, and their great er leisure than meD, attract them naturally toward all philanthropies. A few weeks ago an account was given in the editorial columns of this paper, of the Norwood Park Industrial School for homeless boys, and the munificent offer of Mr. and Mrs. Milton George, of 300 acres of land at Glenwood, 111.,Erovided $40,000 could be raised to erect

uildings and equip the school.The Women’s Club of Chicago took hold of

the matter, and have now raised about $35,000 so that the offer of Mr. and Mrs. George, seems likely to be made available for these boys, that so much need to find a sheltering home and be taught industrious habits, rath er than left to drift into our jails, reform schools and penitentiaries. If it cpuld only be impressed upon the minds of our wealthy citizens, how much less money per capita it takes to educate, and teach a trade to a boy whereby be may earn his own living and be come a useful citizen, than it does to take gare of hiin as a criminal in the State Prison, the money would pour in by the thousands of dollars instead of driblets, as i t now does; it only needs the education of public opinion to insure a realization of these facts.

Another philanthropy in which we take great pride is the Fresh-Air Fund. In 1882 Mrs. B. Schoneman, unaided and alone, start ed what she called the Lakeside Sanitarium, and for six years devoted herself exclusively to the work of caring for invalid infants of the poor, the first four years largely defray ing the expenses from her own private purse, not a plethoric one. During the time thou sands of infants were nursed back to health through her ministrations and through the provision of fresh air secured by her energy and forethought; ignorant mothers were taught the value of cleanliness, proper food, and other essentials of maternal knowledge, and her counsel, instructions, help and ex ample have saved untold suffering to these helpless infants. This Sanitarium was lo cated near 27th Street, on the Lake shore; it has now been transferred to Lincoln Park, and suitable accommodations will be pro vided for it. Mothers take their sick infants in the morning from the hot poisonous at mosphere of the worst parts of the city to this cool, refreshing, healthful spot, and there care for them through the day, return ing at night to their homes. For older chil dren who can be taken away from their homes a "Holiday Home" has been erected a t Geneva Lake, Wis., in which nearly one hundred children can be accommodated at one time. These Children are selected by the ladies who have the matter in charge, and taken out to this delightful retreat, and re main two weeks; they are then' returned to their homes and another installment is sent. I t would be difficult to estimate the benefits accruing to the children thus given this sum mer vacation among the healthful and hu manizing influences of this delightful re treat.

The third branch of the work done by the Fresh-Air Fund is a t Rest Cottage, where fourteen widows, with their half-orphaned children, a total of sixty-four persons, were entertained two weeks each during the sea son of 1888. The Fresh-Air Fund has been promoted mainly by the Chicago Daily News from which we learn that there was on hand to the credit of the Fresh-Air Fund at the beginning of the season of 1888 the sum of $730.73. Contributions during the season amounted to $2,737.71—making an available cash total of $3,468.44. The total cash ex penditures amounted to $3,327.71—leaving on hand a t the close of the season a balance of $140.73.

Of the cash contributions $1.717 40 were received at the Daily News office; $310.81 were received at the Lakeside Sanitarium; and the balance, $709.50, was the cash con tribution of the Daily News to defray the ex penses of the executive arrangement of the season’s work. By this management—the Daily News assuming all the expenses of ad ministration—every dollar contributed to the Fresh-Air Fund goes directly to the benefit of those for whom the Fund is intended. There are no salaries for supervision and no services are paid for which are not im mediately necessary for the care and comfort of the beneficiaries.

At the Sanitarium a total of 5,763 infants,, children and adults were received and cared for, a t a total cost of $1,132.49—being a per diem expense of 19.7 cents for each individ ual.

On account of the Country Week there was expended a total of $1,008.47—for which sum an aggregate of 63,717 miles of railroad transportation was famished and all other expenses of a visit to the country were de frayed fofSlS children, mothers and sewing girls. The average duration of the visit was 12.2 days, and the total cost to the Fund for each person was a fraction less than $1.96. At Rest Cottage—64 individuals in all—the average cost to the Fund was $1.44 per week, making an aggregate of $184 expended on this account.

As heretofore the Daily Newsxw ill defray all the cost of executive management, the la bor of organization, etc.,' which last year amounted to $709.50—leaving th,e gross re ceipts by subscription or contribution to go direct for the actual expenses qf the bene- ficiaries.

Thus will be seen what a noble work has grown from the small beginnings of one woman who had the desire in her heart to uplift humanity. She did not stop to talk of it, but she went to work.

NOTES FROM ONSET.To the Editor a t the Bellgio-PbUneophteal JoanuB’

Since my last, the glorious Fourth of July has come and gone, proving to be a very wet and unpleasant day for out of -door sports and national celebrations;yet nothing daunt ed the people came here in large.ftnm bers to spend the day a t the shore and vjdrinlc in as much of the beauties of nature 'as the cir- eumstances would permit. The day’s sports over, the lovers of the terpsiehorean a rt met in the Temple, a gay and happy throng.

Pool’s orchestra furnishing delightful music.Since the 4th many people have continued

to arrive, and to-day there are probably more a t this summer home by the sea than ever before at the same date since the grove was opened in 1876. Many are here for the first time and are delighted with the natural and healthful influences of the place. Among the late arrivals are: Mr. and Mrs. John Lumsden, St. Louis,Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. DumontC. Dake, New York; Mr. and Mrs. J. J . Whit ney, California; F. J . Lippett, Washington,D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartlett, Chica go; Louis F. Jones, the spirit artist. Medi ums for spirit communion are well repre sented and are deserving of the most liberal patronage, while the army of black magic venders are here in force as usual.

Sunday, the 7tb, was one of the most beau tiful days of all the year, and it was fully appreciated and enjoyed by the hosts at the grove. The Middleboro band was here and discoursed fine music, giving two open air concerts, at 10 A. M. and 1 p . m. This band furnished the music for the Saturday even ing hop in the Temple, a large party of the elite being in attendance. President Crock ett being present on Sunday at the grove, al so Kate R. Stiles of Worcester, who is always ready to do her part to keep the people enter tained and instructed, the bell at the grand stand rang lond and long and the people came together a t 2 o’clock p. m ., to listen to a lecture by this willing worker.

The regular camp meeting opens July 14th; Mrs. R. S. Lillie will be the next speaker for the day. W: W. Cu b b ie s .

Onset. Mass., July 10.1889.

CONCERNING MENTAL CONTAGION.

Epidemic Outbreaks That Affect the Nerves and Brain.

Longman’8 Magazine: The illustriousFrench philosopher, Esquirol, first clearly defined under the term "m oral contagion" that in the study of mental phenomena there may be detected variations of action and di vergences from the ordinary or natural con ditions, which are excited by contagion in the same way as physical derangements are excited by physical contagions. Despine of Marseilles, who in many respects may be compared with his master, Esquirol. has fol lowed this line of study with wonderful suc cess* and has given to us a history of moral contagion which claims the attention of every social, scholar. For my part I like and ap prove of all that these teachers teach, except the term they use to set forth their argument. I prefer the term mental contagion to that of moral contagion. Moral contagion I cannot conceive as conveying any sense of variation from a standard health of the mind, and any contagion moral in its nature. would to me indicate a contagion that was good, and therefore contrary in ite nature from the idea of contamination usually connected with the word contagion. I therefore choose the term "m ental contagion" as being more to the point and as most in accord with the commonly accepted expression. We will study this division of the subject under that title.

The unhealthy mind affected by mental contagion presents itself, when it is careful ly observed, over a much more extended field than is generally supposed. I t is, in fact, a representation of a series of phenomena so widely spread that its extent is a cause of its Obscurity; we are so familiar with it that we do not recognize it; we are so familiar with its results that we come to look on them as occurrences sufficiently common and nat ural to be unavoidable. I t is only when we are critical in our analysis that the obscuri ty begins to pasi away, and the character of the phenomena appears in all its clearness and extensiveness. When these phenomena are recognized it is astonishing how conta gious affections of mental origin are seen to resemble in their course those arising from simple physical contagions. Sometimes they take a spreading or epidemic character after the manner of the so-called catching dis eases with which we are most familiar, and are seen to widen into great epidemic out breaks, extending over large tracts of coun try and causing the strangest of effects known in history. One of these marvelous outbreaks of m ental contagious disease, not to name any more, was the dancing mania of the fourteenth century, during which assemblies of men and women who had come out of Germany toAix la Chapelle, united by one common delusion, formed circles, hand in hand, and appearing to have lost all control over their senses, continued dancing, regard less of the bystanders, for hours together in wild delirium, until at length they fell to the ground in a state of u tter exhaustion, pant ing, senseless, and laboring for breath, yet hoS infrequently rising after a rest and con tinuing the motion until in many instances they died from the effort.

At other times these outbreaks from men tal contagion in which one victim has fol lowed another, have taken what, in regard to more ordinarily known diseases, is called the sporadic form—that is to say, have been developed or have broken out in some par- ticlar locality, and have not extended beyond the boundaries of the locality.

An outbreak of a convulsive type, aris ing from fear, once occurred at a manufac tory, a t Hodden Bridge, in Lancashire, in which outbreak over twenty persons, taking the contagion from one individual, were at tacked most severely, but without communi cating the affection beyond the place where it broke out. Like the common contagious diseases, these diseases of mental contagion have been known to have their seasonal pro clivities. The ordinary spreading diseases, such us measles, scarlet fever, cholera,typhus, have each their favorable seasons of intensi ty and decline, their maximum and their minimum periods. I t is the same with the affections of mental type which spring from contagious influences.

In the Shetland Islands a contagious con vulsive affection, which was ultimately cured and prevented by moral means alone, broke out in the year 1817, during the summer months, and recurred every year during the same months until it was finally disposed of. In like manner suicide, which may be looked on as a distinct form of mental disease, is of a contagious character, so contagious that during the reign of the first Napoleon the sentry-boxes of a station had to be burned because one soldier set the example of hang ing himself in a sentry-box. Suicide also has its season of bight and decline, its max imum being reached in June and its mini mum in February, like a true epidemic. An other singular and important characteristic quality of the contagious mental diseases— one of immense importance, to remember, and one which links their phenomena closely -with those of the common contagious dis eases—is what m aybe called the line and order of development, course and decline. The common contagious 'diseases usually commence' from a single point, rapidly in creasing in intensity, and then decline often as suddenly as they came on the field. The fsame is seen in the contagious mental dis

ease. Despine illustrates this cogently from the contagion of the duel. In the beginning it is necessary to have some great cause to induce the disease of mind which leads to a first contest of dueling. But let the con tagion go on, and soon the merest pretext is sufficient to excite the phenomenon, until at last it ceases altogether for the time, as if it were worn out by its own excessive fury and folly. • _________

Convention and Camp Meeting.io tne Editor of the Kelifilc'-l’hliasoDlilcal Journal:

The Spiritualists of Western Michigan and Eastern Ulinois are to hold a convention and camp meeting a t Potawatamie Park (which is located on the bank of the lake, six miles north of St. Joseph, and a mile and a half from Riverside, which is a little station on the C. & W. M. Railroad) commencing at 2 o’clock f . M., Aug. 3d, and closing Sunday night, Aug. lltb . Tbe meeting will be ad dressed by Hon. L. Y. Moulton, of Grand Rap ids. and Prof. F. D. Dunakin. of Cecil, Ohio, assisted by several other speakers. It is ex pected that arrangements will be made for holding annual camp meetings somewhere near St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Spirituf alists are requested to come prepared to takb action in this direction.

D. Bo y n t o n .

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Lake Minnetonka—Hotel Lafayette, the largest summer hotel west of Saratoga, has accommoda tions for nine hundred guests, and Is beautifully sit uated on a peninsula overlooking the lake on both sides. Tbiel’s Celebrated Milwaukee orchestra will give afternoon and evening concerts, and the season of 1889 promises to be the most brilliant in the history of tbe house. Excellent fishing, boating and bathing, and a healthful. Invigorating climate. Terms, etc., on application to Eugene Mebl, Minne tonka Beach, Minn.

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TH E STUDY OF PHRENOLOGY.THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY opens

its Annual Session on Tuesday, Sept, 3d. Tbe courses of in struction. open to both men and women, are invaluable to all wbo would acquire a Systematic Knowledge of Human Na ture by competent Instructors. For foil particulars write for “IN8TITGT* EXTBA.” Address, FOW1KB & WELLS CO., New York.

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Se c *!, Ha b m o n ia l So c ie t y .

T D K V O IC E O F T H E T IK B 8 .

A d d resses o n th e S o c ia l Q u e s tio n .

C le a r , C o n c ise , S p a r k lin g , H e lp fu l.“Nationalism,” by Edward Bellamy.-Tbe Earth for Man.” by CoL T. W. Hlgglnson,■Christian Socialism,” by Rev. w. D. P. Bliss, tbe Founder

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Kansas Camp Meeting.The F irst Society of Spiritualists, of D Iphos. Kan., will

hold their 10th Annual Camp Meeting, commencing August 10th and continuing 17 days. Parties attending from abroad will find the camp a beautiful place wherein to rest and re cuperate, as well as an instructive field for truth in the great llgbt of Modern Spiritualism. For full information address the sec’y., L N. RICHARDSON, Delphos, Kansas.

CAMP MEETING—AT—

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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSIONJuly 28 to August 25, Inclusive. Ablest Speakers. Fine Test Mediums. Worcetter Cadet Band fo attendance. July 20 to September 5.

Reduced Ratos of Fare, as Usual.tFor Circular, Address,

J. MILTON. YOUNG. ClerkLake Pleasant. Maws

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CASSADACA LAKE FREE ASSOCIATION.The Spiritualists of Western New York. Western Pennsyl

vania and Eastern Ohio, will hold their .TENTH ANNUAL MEETING

On their grounds at

C A S S A D A C A LAKEChautauqua County, N. Y.

From July 26th to September 1st, 1889.‘ Officers of the Association.President, A. GASTON, Meadvllle, Pa.Treasurer, T. J. SKIDMORE, Elly Dale, N. Y.Secretary, A. X. GASTON, Meadvllle Pa.

The Cassadsga lak e Camp Me ting Ground Is eight miles from hake Erie, and seven hundred feet above It. situated midway between New York and Chicago, and convenient of access from all points. I t lies on the shore of a beantfn l chain of lakes, three In number, and a t an elevation of nearly one thousand fe» t above the level of the sea

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service a t Conservatory Hall, where Mr. J . J . Morse has been filling the rostrum for the past month pre paratory to his camp work. His morning subjects were of a practical rather than a spiritual character and dealt w ith questions relating to earth affairs as viewed by his spirit guides. Among others, the tak ing of life by meanB of electricity rather than the rope, was ably handled and the question viewed from all sides. In the evening, questions were handed up to be answered from among the larger audiences then assembled; and in his answers to these the speaker manifested the same familiarity with the subjects, the same forcible presentation of the points involved and bore himself with the same dignity of planner as before when be has occupied the rostrum here. The ball re-opens in September with Mr. W. J . Fletcher for a three months’ en gagement, and old admirers of this well known me dium look forward with satisfaction to his return after so long an absence from our city. Saturday was medium’s day a t the conference in the John ston building. Mrs. Yittum opened w ith a ve y good paper of the same practical and spiritual char acter we may always expect from her, and was fol lowed by Mrs. M.A. Gridley, who spoke for some time on psychometry, and then gave an oral read ing therein. The party receiving the reading then disturbed the meeting by bia outspoken doubts of there being any evidence of mediumship in the same, and finally gaining the floor after much dis cussion as to right so to do by the audience fee ut tered a -forcible desire for the tru th as well as a de nunciation of much he had seen there. He comes from among Talmage’s congregation and is seeking those facts and ideas outside which he cannot gain therein. Skeptical to the last, nothing short of that which comes very close to bis personal life, or phe nomenal factB entirely above question can convince him.

Mr. Albert Smith, a lawyer, and a m an of large and deep culture, spoke upon “Re-incamation” be fore the Emerson class organ zed by G. Sterling Wines, lately from Boston. He endeavored to show that the term meant not bo much that we who dwell here to-day have lived in other bodies, both human and animal, but that spirits who died un timely, either before birth or after, and so lacked ne cessary experience and development, came back to earth (or lingered here) and fastened themseves up on othera wiser than they and shared their lives for their own improvement. Oabspe was drawn upon to throw light upon this much talked of question. Remarks were made by others bearing upon the salient points of the able lecture, when Mr. Wines dismissed the gathering until fall. Since our new chairman, Mr. S. B. hogert, took control of the Con ference some-three months ago, it has grown to the full size of tbe room, so that between that and the noise of tbe elevated railroad new quarters must be secured. Young people have come in who take part in tbe music and help in other ways and may yet form the nucleus for a Lyceum. Mr. Bogert be lieve? in organiz <tion, in giving the people some thing to do and in letting them have a.voice in the management of affairs. We sea growth ahead for the confe ence and wish it all success. W. J . G.

July 1st, 1889.

T l i e Light o t E g y p t .

If a stranger from some other world were to be landed on our planet, and particularly in the United States, w ithout previous information of the state of things he might expect to encounter, he would be justified in concluding that, it we have but one soup, we have at least a handled religions. In fact a new one is launched every year, and all seem to find popular acceptance. I t is a time of spiritual upheaval. Changes are in progress, which will ere long affect the crystallized shapes of public thought on viral questions. Among the most fantastic phases of the endless procession of modern prophets and world-savers are the various forms of “Occultism,” Bo-caliel—a revival of ancient Oriental mysticism, under the generic name, Theosophy, and of which— or or whom—tbe chief priestess and b ig she-mug- wump is-one “Madame Blavatsky,” now, we be lieve, of London, but lately of New York, Brooklyn, and India. The TheoBopbists hold the existence of a mysterious and wonderful secret order, or broth erhood, which claims an ancient date—somewhere away back of the birth of Christianity—and which, they affirm, has maintained an unbroken existence in India, Egypt, and other places, from way-back to now. I t is also declared that this “mystic crewe” have chiefs in India (perhaps, however, with the headquarters in th e inaccessible hills of Thibet, where the Grand Llama is) who Ige “adepts” in spiritual knowledge, and who can, at will, leave their earthly tabernacles, or human bodies, and pre sent themselves visibly before initiates in any other place. Tbe fact of the existence of aa ocean be tween the Himalayan headquarters and tbe friend to be visited—Bay, in Washington—presents no ob stacles in this exhibition of the individual to a friend4,000 miles distant from the visitor’s body.

We don’t ridicule all this, knowing that it would be foolish to ridicule mysteries one can’t under stand; but it doer seem to call for a big swallow, so to speak, to admit the additional claim that your true “adept” makes nothing of living a couple of centuries or so a t a time and -then going out of life bete, to live a few centuries, more or lees, in spirit- life, only to be “re-incamated”'in earth-life, as some body else, and go through with it all again.

But these are high mysteries, and we will leave them, here and now, with the remark that a new book, on the general subject, but one not in harmony with the Blavatsky party, has just, been issued by tbe Religio-Philoeophical Publishing company of Chicago. Its author’s name is withheld. He says be has be“n for twenty years deeply engaged inves tigating the hidden realms of occult force. His book, “The Light of Egypt, or the Science of the Soul and tbe Stars.” is, on the whole too deep for us. I t seems to require a “Theosophist” to get glibly along with it. But it is a blending of Swed enborg’s doctriDe of ‘‘Correspondences” with a re vival of ancient astrology, all dovetailed into a mechanism of modern Theosophy, but without ac cepting the “re-incarnation” doctrine of Allan Kar- dec and tbe French spiritists and the Biavatskyites. Some other things held up by the occultists are not accepted by this anonymous writer—who, however recondite bis book, certainly presents a theory of first causes which is well-fitted to challenge the thoughtful reader’s attention, and to excite much reflection—Hartford, Conn., Daily Times, June 29tb, 1889.

T h e D i v i n e J P Ia n o f C r e a t i o n .

To me individually it has always appeared that a false issue is raised when opponents o t Darwinism make their appeal to the odium theologicum. For although it Is quite true that the theory of natural selection is incompatible with that of supernatural design in those cruder forms which it necessarily presented under a belief in special creation, I do not see that such 1b the care with regard to any hypothesis of teleology which deserves to be re garded as in any way worthy of those higher con ceptions of theism which the growth of natural sci ence, in all its parts has been the means of engend ering. I t is true that thetsts are now required enor mously to widen their ideas touching the nature and the method of superhuman design in the realm of organic nature, just as was the case when as tronomy first revealed the u tter inadequacy of pre vious ideas touching the realm of inorganic nature. But I cannot see that in the former, any more than in the latter case, those who on other grounds have accepted the theory of theism should find any reason able cause for alarm in being required to extend immeasurably their conceptions of the Divinity. And I am quite sure that they would be committing the gravest of possible mistakes if they were to adopt the advice which appears to be given them in the words with which I will conclude:

“No wonder that Darwin was reviled by men who had the cause of religion a t heart, for his theory tended not only to repudiate creation, but to dis credit design, and so practically to enthrone un reason as lord of the universe.”—Prof. Geo. J. Ro manes,™ the J u ly Forum.

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ELIZABETH LOWE WATSON.

Jhe Summer-tide flows full and t we t *)’. r io8e-wreathea bauks a t sunny Brae,An -m ’rald sea bieiks a t my feet .In billowy boughs and leafy t pray Tbat fill the air witb tremors due,Like music-thrills from harps divine.

W hite clouds flock up high hills of blue,- Like sheep by unseen shepherds led;Bright humming-birds sip honey-dew .From crimson roses overhead,Aod golden winged: butterflies ‘F lit noiseless where the sunlight lies. !

And here, on Nature’s tender breast,.My tired h e m itB burden flings; .Her lullabies shall soothe to rest My soul’s too eager questionings,That seek in Summer’s opulence Some healing balm for woes intense.Of wind-harps that are never mute,Your songB are sweet, but still I miss The soft toneB of my darling’s flute.Mis happy laugh and loving kiss, .A*id tender looks from precious eyes That made this place a paradise!

Bod infinite! the thing I ask 1And which, metbinks, would meet my want,Must seem to Thee so small a task,

. So slight a thing for Thee to grant! |'Restore to the flute th’ sweet young breath That was so lately lost in death— jAnd let the love that made life dear,Hold me in its embrace once mote!So small when poured thro’ heaven’s wide sphere, And yet for me such ample Btore ]That with it life seemed crowned,! complete, iAnd all my labors rendered sweet! !■; ' IBut huBh! great Nature gently bends (From beauty’s raptures to my soul And whispers: “Griefs like these are friends; i All life is one eternal whole— j 'Through death God draws your heart above !And fills it with a holier love!” • j

Dome, breik the bonds of selfish grief,Behold your darlings glorified!And let your sorrow find reliefIn this: Their joys are multiplied! .Believe, love’s summer w ill not wane.And faithfu l hearts shall meet again.

Various Religions of tlie World.

Mona. Jean

The following is a brief but genuine account of the origin, growth, and present status olj the new re ligion called

BABISM,a form of faith which we are assured by1 Cahagnet, a writer and traveler just returned from Persia, seems likely ere long to supersede all tbe oth er forms gf belief prevailing in that landi Mons. Ca hagnet kindly translated and furnished! the Editor with the following sketch from a forthcoming work on the religious beliefs of Persia:

“I t appears that a new religious sect has since 1843 been organizing in Cen'ral Asia, and has now become a powerful opponent to Mohammed’s adhere eats. Fortunately for the progress of the world*'tfale founder, Mirza Ali-Mobammed, seems to: have beep in advance ot both Judaism and lelannsm, having imitated neither the intolerance and self-righteous ness of the former, nor the fatalistic crecid of the lair ter. This must be attributed to the character of itjs founder, who, when only eighteen years of age, be gan his missionary work, for which he was qualified by natural genius, also by earnest inquiry into the Scriptures, the Koran, and by discussion with the Jew s of his country. ■ i

“He is described as a young man of imposing as pect and charming features, gaining the admiration

’ his he,, rs by nis personal attractions and tbe Chaim of his eloquence. His life is in strict accord ance with his doctrines, which are remarkable for their tenderness, humanity and sympathy. I

“After having paid a visit to Mecca, he published la commentary on a part of the Koran, which audacity was a total breach of ancient' customs, the much more so because he therein introduced some novel doctrines. From that time he began to preach in public, with enormouB success, and declared himself to be the ‘Bab,’ i. e., .the ‘Door,’- through which ode arriveth a t the knowledge ot God. The Islam priests eould no longer ignore tbe agitation .caused by this young preacher, so, after having been ignominloub- ly defeated by him a t a public'conference, they .air- ranged, as all prieits have done in similar casesj an appeal to the Civil power. Rah end his followers suffered persecution, and this proved the beginning of the spread of Babism. Missionaries were sent to Ispahan, to the north and west districts, and every where they met with grand success, though, con stantly persecuted by the clergy and the king’s agents, un 'il they decided to take up arms. The war rage l in Persia with alternate successes and defeats of tbe reformers. Finally Bab Was captured and put to death as he was trying to make his escape.

“The government then considered the question settled forever. The new religion, however, did not d ep m i on the presence of Bab, three-quarters of his adherents never having sedh him, ana another Bab was nominated, to whom the believers declared the crown of Persia legitimately to belong. The perse cutions continued, and the punishment of the cap tives was beyond measure crueL Women and child ren fearlessly marched to their execution, and seem ed to rival each other in hopeful and courageous res ignation, singing this veree: j

.‘Yes, truly, we have come from God, and now return to him.’ : j

These spectacles, far from ruining the prospects of the new sect, gained them many partisans; and the Bab, who at present resides in Bagdad, is only w ait ing for an opportunity to conquer by arms the Per sia whose faith he has already subdued. Perhaps we shall witness one day the ruin of the Persian Dy nasty, and see Mohammed’s religion defeated in the Countries of Central As ia.

“Babism is a return to the ancient Pantheism, pre sented in a novel and attractive form; and when Bab said, ‘G jd is the absolute Being, beside whom nothing exists, all beings are but fotbk. emanations from his omnipotence: on the day o M v g m e n t you shill be united with Him,’ he only v r a a k e n e d add restored the old sentiment that h ^ b e e n dormant for centuries. Its adherents incldfe the foremost of

' Persian clergy and dignitaries, as well as philos ophers and poets.* Even the obstinate Jew has been converted. Babism has much of tbe Oriental forin of worship, but it teaches charity, peace and monog amy. I t has a tendency to lay a foundation for fam ily life, so little known in the E ist, and gives to wo man a higher and nobler sphere of action. |

“A sect which in a few years caused such a revo lution in a country where neither railways, letter post, or newspapers existed, and that has taken such t great step in advance of other Orientals, must needs impress us with a hope of a better and greater fu ture for Eastern countries.”—The Two Worlds, j -

The Old Roman Wall ot London Un earthed. j

Who is Right?ro the Editor of the ReUglo-PbUosochlcai Journal:

Is W. H . Chaney right? and all the prophets and seers, Including Swedenborg, Joan of Arc, Edgar A. Poe, and others whom he mentions, only epileptics with cerebral disease? Let us see. I f there 1b such a thing as logic and rationality, surely be* e is a good opportunity to show it. I f we show tbat W. H. Chaney, who published in your J o u rn a l of June 29 an article, has not spoken the truth, should be be be lieved, or any faith be placed in any of his utterances? “False in one, false in all,” is an old adage tha t haB much merit. He says that Emanuel Swedenborg inherited epilepsy of tbe brain from both father and

Srandfather. A more outrageous slander has sel- om been uttered.I have before me “The Life and Mission of Eman

uel Swedenborg,” by Benjamin Worcester. I t is regarded by all .New Church people and, I think, also by othera, the best biography of Swedenborg ever

'published. On pages 454, 456 and 457, the author enumerates thirty-one other biograpbie * of Sweden borg published between 1769 and 1883. Now, my point is .this: In all the above cited volumes there is not the least allusion to show that either Sweden borg, his father o r grandfather, was ever afflicted, directly or indirectly, w ith epilepsy. Or any disease of the brain whatever. So far from this being true, I venture to say that the history of ages may be re searched in vain without finding a son, father and grandfather so healthy and free trom disease as the Swedenborgs, let alone, the healthful, useful and honored lives of the father. Bishop Swedenborg, and tbe son Emanuel. Ob! you who Blander tbe just and righteous, do you not do even as those did who accused the Lord of casting out devils by the finger of Beelzebub? Take warning and hear w hat hap pened to a Swedish minister who stated publicly in bis church in London tbat Swedenborg was a luna tic. I quote from Worcester’s “Life of Swedenborg,” page 339.

“Mr. Mathasius was an opponent of Swedenborg, and said tbat be was a lunatic, etc., but it is rem ark able tbat he became a lunatic himself, which hap pened publicly one day when he was in the Swed ish church and about to preach. I was there and saw it. He has been so ever since, and was sent back to Sweden, where he now is. This was about four years ago.”

I don’t mean to assert that all the slanderers of tbe great seer are thus punished, but I do say that no good, sound, healthy, sane man will ever say that Swedenborg was either a luuatic or epileptic, and this is what Mr. Chaney haB done; and be has Bald the same of Joan of Arc, the Bavior of her country a t that time, who suffered martyrdom a t the hands of ignorant men who, like Mr. Chaney, accused her of being an insane epileptic. He has also assailed the character and memory of Edgar A. Poe, whom he also accuses of being a lunatic. “His mania was intensely dramatic and poetic,” a “victim of the same disease as Swedenborg?’ To all you who have read the writings of either Poe or Swedenborg, I ask in the spirit of truth and justice, who do you think is the more insane, the slanderer or the slandered?

Oh! Mr. Editor, if you and other Spiritualists could realize how much iDjury is done to true Spiritualism by the unjust and uncharitable articles that so fre

quently appear in your journal againBt fellow Spir itualists, their Christian brethren and the Bible, sure ly jthey would be more careful what they write. Take, for instance, the following extract from Mr. Chlaney’s article: i

“He [Swedenborg] fancied tha t God had called him to explain the meaning of the Scriptures, ju st as. Esdras fancied God had called him to write up tbe Old Testament which was lost, and he dictated it in forty days to five scribes only a short time before Christ, and thatj is bow we came by the old Bible.”

The above extract iBso unjust, and shows so much ignorance of the subject about which he pretends to write, that I wonder if there are any of your read ers Iso ignorant and shailow-pated as to believe such trash as, for instance, that Christians of ail sects get their Old Bible from E9draB and his five scribes.

Query: Who is right? Is Chaney? Are Josephus, the Christian historians, the wise and good men of all past ages, only imbecile epileptics and their fol< lowers deluded victims? Is this to be the teaching, the fruit of modern Spiritualism? I f so, then God help us! At h e n e .

W ashington, Arizona.

Letter From Silas Bigelow.

*.o tlie Editor of the ReUsto-Phliosonhlcai Journal:Some weeks ago when I received a number of the

J o u rn a l richly freighted with those editorials so characteristic of it always, I Immediately, under the! influence of the heroic spirit inspired by it, com mehced a letter thus: “ Bravo! Three cheerafor Bun dy!]” By some means that letter was not finished and seat. Now comes that crowning number, June 15th, just bubbling over with brave and noble senti ments, thoughts that will live, because all thoughts are immortal entities, and should burn and pierce till [they bear rich fru it for the harvest of purity, truth, common sense, goodness, honesty, fidelity and sound science and reason.

H I attem pt to call attention to the many “seed thoughts” tersely and bravely expressed, or quote the' numerous home thrust* a t frauds, shams, corrup tion and every manner of evil which just now seem aggregating and culminating for the final destruc tion of our poor, priest-ridden and Inverted mankind, I could not not toll where to begin or w hen to stop. When a paper, in a single issue, arraigns a t the bar of justice and reason, “Trusts” ; Talmage, w ith his brazen audacity and illogical twaddle; weak, one-sided Ja s tro w ;. the many weak points of Spiritualists and TheoBophists in that far reach ing article, “Personalities” ; and “The Great In ternecine War,” and “The Calvinistic Church,” all briBtling with aggressive truth and challenging thought and admiration of every lover of justice, pur ity and honor, I say with such a paper before one,

The old Roman wall of'London, laid bare by the excavations for the new post-office a t St. Martin’s- le-Grand, becomes daily more interesting to anti quarians as farther portions are uncovered. From he better view now obtained, it is evident that the tomans dag down about four feat into the London ay, filled up the trench for two i feet w ith a

' - toreixture of clay and flints, surmounted this structure itb two feet of the hardiest concrete; and then laid e tiles in sets of three courses, each' separated by ’o feet of stonework. Apparently, the wall whs oe feet six inches high. A bastion has been found tbe northwest comer of the ground, exactly coin ing with m at marked on th e . mandof Stripe’s ed- ion of Stow in 1756, bnt seemingly of later work in Roman times—probably medlsevaL Many pits re also baen found fillet w ith animals’ bones, ich may either have been use 1 for' the rubbish of city or for the refuge of the slaughter bouses In

cbers’ Colony, which, from Saxon times, existed le b y in Moorgate street, etc. W hen the site of 'Trench Protestant Church is excavated, it Is ex-

1 that a complete section o f the wall and th e : i t town dltch may be discovered.—London. II- >ted News. !

llgn ttUU UvUvl) A atXjf Ivlbll BULL1 cl yaptil wUlUiO viiOfhe may well consider and bethink himself if he, too, has not a duty to perform in this connection. Such ~ 'Haper means work, unremitting toil, nerve force,

iausted vitality, opposition of all the cohorts of or, all tbe frauds and fraud-defenders, all the

creed-bound and fossilized champions of a church fast becoming desperate in her attempts a t self-preserva tion in tbe face of a destiny as apparent to the un prejudiced thinker as the “hand-writing on the wall” ofiBelshazzir’s temple.

Do we who read these editorials consider w hat they cost, what they imply? Do they not inspire us with a desire to help, w ith a wish to share in he grandest of all works—the defense of truth,

justice, purity, fraternity and “peace on earth and good will to man”? How the wincing cowards who have been discomfitted by his well-directed dis- hlargeBof his long-range ordnance, resort to some

bak attem pt a t parrying the shot and pretending |t to be badly hurt, and seeking aid and comfort in

camp of charlatans. S. B.

te Encouragement of Original Re search.

3 scholar is to have his true place in our American life he must have his true home. I t is top soon for us to expect that in a world so new as burs we can have those cloistered nooks which in other lands are a t once the retreat of the student add bis reward. But surely the time has come when we may ask ourself whether enough has not been spent in planting institutions ot learning, and whether now something may not well be devoted to enriching them. I t is easy to see that in a land like ours, colleges, both small and great, may each have their place. But w e have sufficiently multiplied the outlines of institutions of learning, and may well begin to think about filling them up. The w ant o f

n r American people to-day in the direction of a higher education is not new institutions, nor more bnildingB, nor more free instruction. Of all these things experience is every day showing us there is enough and more than enough. But we w ant space add place for men, who, whether as fellows or lectur ers, shall, in connection w itb our universities, be free to pursue original investigation and to give themselves to profound study, untrammeled by the

ty cares, the irksome round, the small anxieties, ich are sooner or later the death of aspirations,

fatal obstacles to inspiration. I t is with pro of thought as It is w ith processes of nature,

crystallization demands, we are told, stillness, equanimity, repose. And so the great truths which are to be the seed of forces tba t shall now create our civilization must have a chance first of all to re veal themselves. Some mount of vision there must belfor the scholar, and those, who are tbe material treasures out of which-cam e those wonderful en dowments and foundations which have lent to Eng land's universities some elements of their chiefest gloiry—muBt see tbat-tbey have this mount of virion. —Bishop H . C. Potter in the Ju ly Forum.

t :The Pope and tlie Italians.

Again rumora are coming thick and fast that the Pope is contemplating th e abandonment of the Va tican and removal to Spain in case certain emerg encies occur, and this time there seems to be better foundations for the rumors than ever before. I t is given out tha t the Pontiff haB made announcements to thiB effect in a secret consistory of the Cardinals, and from Spain comes the statement that the Pre mier has offered him a harbor of refuge at Valencia. I t is also in consonance with these rumors that Sig, Crispi has publicly announced the Vatican will be in possession of Italy before next autumn. No attem pt has been made to conceal the violent antagonism between thePope and Sig. Crispi. Tbe recent erec tion of the monument to Bruno in Rome, in tbe face of Papal protests, was an illustration of this antag onism, and the extraordinary popular enthusiasm cn that occasion only served to emphasize the sym pathy of the Italian people with their Premier. Un doubtedly this incident and tbe helplessness of tbe Pope, which he was obliged publicly to manifest, bad much to do w ith his menace, but this was only one of many incidents going to Bhowhow rapidly unified Italy is drifting away from Papal influence.

Assuming that the statement of tbe Pope’s pur pose is correct, there is no country to which be would more naturally turn than Spain. France is no longer a faithful daughter of the Church. She has become not only the hotbed of agnosticism and skepticism, but of undisguised hostility to tbe Ro man Church. French officials have been especially contemptuous in their treatm ent of the clerical au thorities. Legislation looking to the absolute di vorce of Church and State has not only been inimi cal but harsh. The Church has completely loBt her hold upon France. Germany and Austria, for po litical reasons, are as much opposed to tbe Church as Italy, and their close political alliance and com munity of material interests w ith tbe latter would of themselves forbid any hope of a secure asylum within their borders. Switzerland also is tbe home of skepticism and the refuge of political offenders, of Socialists and Nihilists, and would thus be a most inharmonious and unsympathizing refuge for the Pope. There is no hope that the English people would ever welcome him, and Russia is out of the question.

The choice thus narrowed down to Spain or Portr ugal, unless some one of tbe Mediterranean islands, Majorca, Minorca, or Malta, were chosen. To retire to one of these islands, however, would be tanta mount to a complete retirement from tbe world The Pope might as well bury himself in some mon astery in the remote parts of Palestine. As between Spain and Portugal, the former offers the strongest inducements. I t is tbe only country left in Europe where any c onsiderable number of the people are still in strong sympathy with the Church, and where the Roman Catholic religion may be considered a State religion, though even there it no longer has tbe binding force it possessed three centuries ago. The modern leaven of progress is working even in decadent Spain, and should the Pope attem pt to set up temporal power and maintain a political estab lishment at Valencia he would find himself opposed by the Liberals and Republicans under Castelar’s lead. Undoubtedly the Papal asylum, if restricted to the spiritual headship alone, would be maintained with almost regal pomp and splendor, and the old medieval pride of the Spanish race would again show itself a t the Escurial and in the great cathe drals of Toledo and Seville by surrounding tbe Pope w ith all the pageantry of the Church. But tem poral power even in Spain is no longer a possibili ty. That dogma, if it may be called such, is forever Bet a t rest. There may be pride in tbe Church yet le f tin S p a in .b a t there is nolcnger fear of it. Its political edicts would be disregarded, and Leo XIII. who is an able, scholarly man, probably knows it. His eagerness to get away from Rome cannot t e in duced by any hope on his part that be can set up a temporal court in Spain or elsewhere, but rather by the desire to get out of an unfriendly atmosphere into one having more respect and sympathy. But friendly as the Spanish Government m ight be to him there is no likelihood it would show itself friendly enough to convey a single acre of real es tate to him for political purposes. The world has moved too far ahead for tbat even in slow-going Spain.—Chicago Tribune.

Tbe Labor Problem.

ro tbe Editor of tbe Belislo-Pbllosonbical Journal;Underlying the social problems of to-day is the la

bor problem. Upon its solution depends the oppor tunity of solving all others. While we discuss elab orate and complicated schemes of social regenera tion, the army of the unemployed steadily increases. In growing bitterness of feeling our “laboring clas ses,” sb we delight to call them, are realizing tbe sit uation. In full sight of the ease and luxury in which live the favored few, the laborer finds him self forced to almost fight for the mere opportunity to labor. As he pursues his dull round of drudgery, ever haunted by the fear of a “cut” in wages; as, out of employment, he vainly seeks the blessing of a “job,” and as be learns tbe lesson of strikes, lockouts and blacklists,tbere gathers in his breast feelings that wait but the occasion to find vent in action, and which once let loose will play sad havoc with the bright dreams of social philosophers. To relieve the pressure of the labor market, to give every man the opportunity to produce at least a living for himself, is the pressing necessity of the hour. Can this be done? Suppose we were to be given easy access to morrow to an uninhabited planet, similar in other respects to that on which we now live, would it not furnish an outlet for all the surplus labor of the earth, relieve the pressure, and solve the labor ques tion? But suppose tbe first-comera took possession of the new planet and refused to permit tbe use of its soil except upon the Bame terms now demanded by the owners of the earth, would not the outlet be a t once closed, and the labor question remain un solved? But a small part of tbe earth's surface is in actual use. Land in abundance, untouched by tbe hand of labor, lies all about us. Tell us how labor may be given free access to all unused land and you will have solved the labor problem.

C. G. Ab r a m s o n .

A New Theosophist.

[San Francisco Chronicle Jane 16th.]We have received advance sheets of “ The L ight of

Egypt; or. The Science of the Soul and the Stars,” by an anonymous writer who makes large claims to esoteric powers. The purpose of the book is best explained in the author’s own words: “I have writ ten the work with a definite purpose, namely, to ex plain the true spiritual connection between God and man, the soul and the stars, and to reveal the real tru ths of both Karma and re-incarnation as they act ually exist in nature, stripped of all priestly inter pretation. Tbe definite statements made in regard to these subjects are absolute facts, in so far as em bodied man can understand- them through the sym bolism of human language, and the writer defies contradiction by any living authority who possesses tbe spiritual right to say, 'I know.’”

He claims that the Orient has lost the real Becrets of its own theosophy, and that the forms of an obso lete esoteric system should not hamper the Western adept. I t is idle for one who has not made a special study of the subject to criticise the value of this book, if it have any real value. From the chapters we have read it is plain th a t tbe author is far more lucid than Mme. Blavatsky or Laurence Olipbant. W hat he has to say about evils of celibacy and the huge de lusions tbat celibates are responsible for is good reading, bu t his ideas about the true soul-mates would be apt to create a good deal of trouble in real life if carried out. W hat will particularly commend the book to many in this country is tha t it is the first successful attempt to make the tru ths of theosophy plain and d ea r to any one not a special student—and that it lays bare the frauds of the Blavatsky school. The book will be issued this month. [Chicago: Re- ligio-Philosophical Publishing House; price, $3 ]

“ Heaven Revised.”

This modest pamphlet contains “a narrative of personal experience after the change called death.” The w riter tells the story of a woman who died, woke, saw her earthly body laid away, found her sons previously deceased, talked with an angelic woman who taught her very many facts, visited the places of the depraved, and found meanB to com municate with friends here. Tbe trouble w ith the account is that it seekB to give particulars. The doctrine of the New Church is clearly righ t in pre senting principles rather than minute details. B u t Mrs. Duffey has told many reasonable things, some of which sound much like pages ln “ Heaven and HelL”—The New Jerusalem Magazine (Sweden- borgian) Boston.

Notes and Extracts on Mlseellan*. Subjects.

Mr. Parnell is reported to be suffering from insom nia.

The world's coinage for 1888 was £58,500,529 against £56,729,000 in 1887.f

A horse dentist is reaping a rich harvest up in the northern counties of Michigan.

Gov. Biggs, one of the largest peach-growers of Delaware, estimates this years crop in that State at about 1,000,000 baskets.

A Scotchman, who evidently does not deepise-Bmall things, claims that he has detected 30,000 dust motes in the thousandth part of a cubic inch of the air of a room.

The Vermont Microscopical Association has an nounced that a prize of $250, given by a firm of chemistB, will be paid to the first discoverer of a new disease germ.

About 30,000 people a day go up tbe Eiffel tower* Of these between 3,000 end 4,000 go to the top. On an average a person has to wait about an hour to go up in the lift.

Joseph Jefferson says that the reason neither he nor ex-President Cleveland was hurt in the carriage accident was because neither of them was in the ve hicle a t tbe time the horses ran away.

A well of so-called electrical water has been tap ped a t Fort Scott, Kan. To place both hands in the water a t the same time is utte-ly impossible. Tbe shock is so forcible that it throws one aside with vigor.

In St. Patrick’s Church, Hartford, Conn., and S t. John’s Church, Middletown, Connr colored people rent and occupy some of the best sittings, other sit tings in the same pews being rented aod occupied by white people.

daughter.zenith of Tweed’s power, and the description of the ceremonies and wedding pre ents was one ot the sensations of the day. {

Miss Mary Wanamaker, the Postmaster .General’s daughter, will make her ddbut in Washington socie ty next fall. She is not yet out of her teens, but iB an accomplished girl of considerable beauty. She has had the training of an excellent education, and is skilled in music and languages.

W hen tbe Seminole Indians of Florida elect a chief they choose the biggest fighter ana most suc cessful hunter of the tribe. I f there happens to be a tie between, two candidates, their method of decid ing it iB to have each candidate place a live coal on hiB wrist. The one who flinches first loses the of fice.

Algeria is suffering from a plague of locusts, and the soldiers are employed to destroy them. At Letif nearly 800 soldiers were lately engaged in this work. At Sedrata a long line of fire? was kept up to pre vent an invasion, but the fuel was exhausted before the mass of invaders, which had an unbroken front of six miles.’ Rev. J. T. Ise. of Tokio, is now in this country seeking aid to build a new Christian church in tbe Japanese metropolis. He is a son of tbe illustrious scholar and patriot Yokoi, who took a leading part in tbe “opening” of Japan, and in bringing about the liberal reforms of recent years, and who was mur dered because of his Christianity, some twenty years ago.

There is on a lot in Lexington, Ga., a sour cherry lree that seems to have gotten out of its usual order i f doing ibings. At the proper time it bloomed and bore a full crop of fruit, and since its firat blooming it has continued to bloom and bear, it now having a pretty full crop of green fruit on its branches, though the first crop ripened and was gathered some weeks since.

The paid entrances to the Paris exhibition during the month of May were 2,208,000, aB compared with1,269.000 in May of 1878. In the first half of June they have been 2,602,000, as compared with 1,104,000. Thirty million tickets have bteu issued, so there are nearly 26,000,000 to be utilized, if possible, in four montbs. Tbe price has for the last fortnight been 50 centimes, or 10 cents.

Ex-Gov. Gardiner, who signed the Prohibition law when he was Governor of Massachusetts, was one of i's most vigorous opponents at the late elec tion. His explanation of his changed views is that the operation of prohibition in the statutes convinced him that local option and high license furnish a practical system of regulation of tbe liquor traffic as admirable as frail and imperfect humanity can provide.”

Miss Johanna Kemler, of Paradise Valley, Nev., is on her way to join Buffalo Bill’s show in Paris. Tbe Virginia City Enterprise says: “She rides any ani mal that wears hair and hoofs, and cares no more for a saddle than does a wild Indian. She is as much at home on the side of a galloping steed as on his back. With her horse a t full speed Bhe can pass un der his neck and come up on the other side, a feat that few Comanches care to undertake.”

Peter Laing, one hundred and four years of age, has ju s t been admitted to church m em bership in Elgin, Scotland. Apropos to this incident the Hart ford Courant Bays: “ Bishop Asbury, in his Jour nals, speaks of exhorting a man over a hundred years old to give his heart to God on tbe ground that he had very little time left. The man answered, ‘But my father lived to be one hundred and nine.’ ”

Workmen doing tbe grading on a railroad near Atlanta, Ga„ witnessed the sight the other day of a snake fee ling its offspring. The baby snakes were secure in the roots of an old tree, and the mother, which caught flies by springing a t them , would, when possessed of a fly, rapidly glide to the young Bnakee, which came pell-mell, helter-skelter, to meet her. She caught a fly a minute, and was watched securing them for over two houra.

Concerning the use of tobacco.a French writer has thus gathered the opinions of various of his literary countrymen. M. Dumas found that tobacco after awhile made him giddy, the giddiness disappearing six months after he ceased smoking. Of it he sayB: “Tobacco, in my opinion, together with alcohol, Ib the most formidable enemy of intelligence.” Augier and Feuillet, Dumas declared, have almost died of smoking. Taine smokes cigarettes and sayB it is a bad habit. Zola says he left off smoking some years ago on the advice of a physician, and adds: “Perfec tion is so dull a thing that I often reg re t1 having cured myself of smoking.”

Here is an illustration of the wonderful intelli gence of some dogs: The dog’s owner and he were in the reading-room of a hotel in Scranton, Pan one day, when the dog strode in and lay down on the carpet. “I won’t mention his name or make any motions,” said the landlord to his boarder, referring to his dog, “but I ’ll say something to you in an ordi nary tone and see if he will notice it.” Then the landlord added: “I think his place is behind tbe desk, in front of tbe safe, instead of in this room.” The dog seemed to pay no attention to w hat bad been said, but he got up right away, walked slowiy through the long hall, pushed the gate open back ofthe desk, and lay down in front of the safe.

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1. That salt will curdle new milk, hence in p re paring milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared.

2. That dear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fru it stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric.

3. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white do th , also from the hands.

A That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled w ith white dothes will aid in the whitening process.

5. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arable dis solved.

6. That beeswax and salt will make rusty flatirons as dean and smooth as glassy Tie a lump of w ax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the Irons are hot, rub them first with the wax rag, then scour w ith a paper or do th sprinkled w ith s a lt ' '

7. That blue ointment and kerosene mixed In equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is an unfailing bedbug remedy, as a coat of whitewash is for the walls of a log house.

8. Tbat kerosene will soften boots or shoes that have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new.

9. That kerosene will make tin tea kettles as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with i t I t will also remove stains from varnished fur niture. ..

10. That oocl rain water and. soda will remove machine grease from washable fabrics.—The Sani tarian. ■

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BUDDHISM.^ ' I " ,

it a Stagnant and Decaying Sys tem? -

The farther moBt courteous communication of your highly-esteemed correspondent, Mr. Oxley, in which be has been so good as to allude to me in such

. very gratifying, complimentary and flattening terms, does not, to my mind, advance the discussion of the hints raised by my first letter1 on the subject, on his alludiDg to Buddhism as a “stagnant andi| decayirg system” ; and further on to “ the position o f nations that have been under Buddhistic tutelage! for near some thirty centuries.” .. fi.

I crave your kind indulgence and permission to occupy valuable space bo aB to state my c&Dviction, based ou experience gained residing in the Extreme Orient, living amongst Buddhists, occupying apart ments in their Temples, that se far from being “stagnant and decaying,” is a most active and im portant factor, in all that is good in the lives of the vast bulk of the peoples of Eastern Asia—Religion, Ethics, Sociology.

The superimposed mass of local superstition, and the materialistic philosophies existent, are most ben eficially leavened, by the good taught by th e lead ing principles of thiB, the doctrine of Enlighten- n e n t, later numerous sectarian parasite; growths notwithstanding. i V

As to the countries under Buddhist tutelage for thirty centuries, etc.:—

Amongst the few millions of Ceylon. Nepal, etc, i t may be twenty centuries ago since gaining a foot ing to any extent; in China, say eighteen centuries; Japan, about thirteen; in Burmah, Siam jet<vnot earlier; and the (progress was by no means rapid, or the influence (widespread or great in the early centuries. I t was too altruistic to be universally followed by the natives of Southern an d 'E as te rn Asia, in all its self-denial and purity, and hajd estab lished, indigenous cults to reckon with, and vested interests to combat. - - ' ;

Residing in -Japan , a t the tim e of disestablish ment referred to, I am able to state that?revlval of Shintoism, the National Cultvs (vide Light, May 11, pp. 223-4), officially and in popular estimation, was- contemporaneous with the priesthood’of the numerous Beets of the Buddhists, giving ample ex cuse to the erem ies of their faitn for a sweeping reform, when an opportunity arose. i -

There has been a reactii n, since I left Japan, of a very tnergetic character, and an active revivalist propaganda has been organized to combat the ma terialism of Chinese philosophy, the pessimism of Taoist doctrine, the efforts of European and ^m eri- can missionaries and their awful creed, of an angry and jealous Jehovah, only to be propitiated ty sacri fice, culminating in that of hiB “only son.” j ::

All that may be found in modern sectarian (Budd hism, and which has b< en open to criticism, has been engrafted upon it in later times; and the most objectionable features in doctrines and rites are cur iously parallel to much existing in the sectarian Christianity of the Occident.—I am, sir. etc.—C. J. W. Pfvundea, in Medium and Daybreak.

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For nearly twenty years the writer has been deeply engag ed In Investigating tbe hidden realms of occult force, and, the results of these mystical labors were considered to he great value and real worth by a few personal acquaintances who were also seeking light, he was finally induced to cos dense, as far as practicable, the general results of these re searches Into a senes of lessons for private occult study This idea was ultimately carried out and put Into external form; tb4 whole,when completed,presentliig the dual aspects of occult lore as seen and realized In the soul and the stars, corresponding to the microcosm and the macrocosm of an cient Egypt and Chaldea, and thus giving a brief epitome Hermetic phlloeophy. (The term Hermetic Is here used to its true sense of sealed or secret.) *

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During these twenty years of personal intercourse with the exalted minds of those who constitute the brethren at light, the fact was revealed that long ages ago the (talent had lost the use of tbe true spiritual compass of the soul, as well as the real secrets of its own theosophy. As a race, they have been, and still are.- travelling the descending a n of their racial cycle, whereas the western race have book slowly working their way upward through m atter upon ttar ascending arc. Already it has reached the equator of ltq mental and spiritual development. Therefore the writer does not fear the ultimate results ot the occult knowledge, put forth In the present work, during this, the great mental crisis of tbe race.

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Hodgson’s report eoald only pat me doably o n guards not s t a l e r me, as it did so many ethers. I resolved to take i t as a warning, t a t not as an injunction in stay of farther jHtoeeedings. Furthermore, 1 indulged the no tion—perhaps Quixotic,—that I might to s ta le extent redeem the past of the Society, and so pat theosophy itself on a fair foot ing. So, seeing, in “Science” of January 22, 1886, an article entitled “The Collapse of the Theosophist?,” I a t once signed and in serted in the same scientific periodical the following significant note:

“Permit me to take exception to the article: entitled ‘ The Collapse of the Theosophists/ In yonr issue of yesterday. I have no conten tion with any statement, corrector otherwise, whieh the article contains, and offer no argu m ent pro or con; but 1 beg to be allowed to ose this occasion to protest against and to obviate the prevalent misconception that ‘ Blavatsky’ and ‘theosophy’ are synony mous terms, or that either the manners or the morals of any individual theosophist necessarily represent the methods, objects and purposes of the Theosophical Society. In my judgment ‘ the collapse of the theoso ph ists’ is a prediction-much safer to make a fte r than before the event, there being, to m y knowledge, no organized body of psychic a l researchers in the world less likely to ver ify any such prophecy.”

This note, which was widely copied, made i t possible for me to proceed, and, in accord ance with my habit in psychical research, to appear to fall in with whatever might go on. Thus, among many friendly recognitions of my motive and purpose, I may cite the follow in g from Mind in Mature ot February, 1886:

“ Madame Blavatsky has managed to make herself so prominent in theosophical matters no doubt many of our readers aTe unable to distinguish the one from the other ; and - on leading the report of the Soe. for Psy. Re search, will conclude that the exposure of Blavatsky is an exposd of theosophy. We do not so understand it. As the Committee re m ark—with the ‘ tenets of the occult doc trin e ’ they had no concern, and it is with these only that the American Theosophical

- Society, uf which Professor Elliott Cones is -President, is concerned. Our readers will, therefore, remember that when Professor ‘Cones speaks of theosophy he does not mean JIadame Blavatsky.” .

.Thank yon, Mr. Woodhead, you put the case 'exactly. This daDger-signal proved prophet ic. That was a hard and fast line, and the logic .of events has widened the breach, I trust, into a chasm, forever impassable. And if into that chasm should fail and be buried out of sight the whole of the stage-proper ties, Oriental masks and wigs, tin thunder, red and blue lights, bogus mahatmas, tom-cat OTC&estration and the rest of it, I think I should be filled with a holy joy, and know the peace that passeth all understanding.

For this unhappy woman has shown to all who are not blind (and who are so blind as those that won’t see?) that her vaunted know ledge of true theosophy is bat a shallow ipretense; that her life is ordered aside from theosophical precepts; that her so-called al truism is but mouthing; that her “ universal brotherhood ” is a universal school for scan da l and hotbed of dark and evil passions; and th a t what truth there is in theosophy can af ford to wear this leering mask no longer.

Therefore, in view of what I may delicately ■characterize as her constitutional incapacity for veracity—that which the blnnt wcrid calls lying, cheating, and so forth—Madame Bla-

.. yatsky must be politely but peremptorily re quested to resign from the society she has 'Scandalized.

But le t her keep her “ Esoteric Section” lu ll of sucking-doves: These psychic squabs on toast are dainty fare to batch from the egg of Pseudo-Brahm in the heart of the JBla^k Lotus’

I I . THROUGH THE GATES OF HORN.'When any great spiritual pressure comes

upon the world, and a psychic wave breaks upon the rocks of physical environment, much human flotsam and jetsam is tossed in conspicuous confusion. Witness the drift-

\woo3 branded along the lines of the early history of American Spiritualism. Theoso phy appears, and lo! the loudest shooters of ihe “ divine wisdom” are the failures in hu m an wisdom—dead fallen leaves, withered, shrivelled, caught up in the dust of the con flict between the old and the new, whirled hither and thither at the mercy of the fonr winds. Many are mere cranks, harmless enough; some are cranks by no means harm less; but all alike are garnered in the “ theo sophies! ” dust-bin. George Chainey learned *’ theosophy” of Anna Eimball. The Dies Debar was a “theosophist” when she came out of jail. Messrs. Ohmart and Butler il lumined “theosophy” in Boston till wanted by the police. One Street, a ’theosophist,” taught the projection of the astral a t so much per project. “Tony” Higgins airs “Theos ophy” with Blavatsky’s instead of Victoria Woodhnii’s petticoat flying at the fore. For a climax of absurdity, a poor little harmless w aif known as Marie Le Baron calls herself in the papers “more than a mere Theoso phist!”

The black-list is a long one, but it would be incomplete without the name of one W . Q. Judge, of New York.

The character and “theosophical” functions of this person can hardly be known to those of his associates who have helped to make him a factor in “theosophical” activities. The actual extent of the immorality taught and practised in the “Aryan” Branch T. S.,is no t yet exposed, and has less to do with the present case than has Judge’s confederacy with Blavatsky. This renders the “Aryan” the regular flow-hole through which most of Blavatsky’s “flapdoodle” (to use her favorite expression) has long been spouted upon the public at large aud the sucking-doves at small—whether by the manufacture or cir culation of “mahatmic missives,” which in psychic science corresponds to what the sports call “shoving the queer”—or by other ■devious means. “The T. S. i* H. 'P. B .” writes Mr. Jndsre; who also puts i t in writ ing that be always obeys her orders. T he se cret of this connivance is probably known to few. As a blunt matter of fact, it consists in bis knowledge of Blavatsky’s former frauds, and his willingness to fall in with others.

For example: Mr. Judge says that he “did not go to India for nothing” ; that he can “ pfwhitewash the owld girrul,” meaning Blavatsky. The actual implication of snch talk appears from documentary evidence in my possession, on the high authority of an eye and ear witness (Dr. R. Hodgson) to the “ shrine-business” at Adyar in 1884 or 1885. I t appears that Mr- Judge, being on the spot a t the time, (a)knew perfectly well that the “ shrine” was a trick cabinet, constructed in connection with a hole in the wall for fraud-

' <w t phenomena of bogus .mahatmas; and s at he threatened to make matters very

Portable for the Theosophists unless his ses were paid back to America; and that were paid/with how much more booh y is probably known to few. This was a matter of common informationnt Ad-

yar,at least to the chief offioials there; and Mr. Judge was an actor in the incidents which finished the '‘shrine” as described on224,225, of Hodgson's Report; Mr. Judge is the person mentioned to Dr. Hodgson as be ing present and sharing his (Hodgson's) con victions, and who burned the shrine In his (Hodgson’s) presence.

There is little if any donbt that Mr. Judge has co-operated in most if not ail of the Bla vatsky tricks which have been operated in this country at least daring the past fewSears; and it is certain that,whether through

onest fanaticism or other state of conscious ness, be has been the chief promoter of the mahatmic myth. All the bogus papers of this kind which, in nnflinchiug pursuance of my policy, I .have managed to possess my self of, have come to me directly from or through Mr. Judge, under cover of ordinary letters in his handwriting and over his sig nature. They all have exactly the value of a skit which was placed, not without a purpose in the Chicago Tribune of May 5tb, 1888. The anthor or agent of one snch document has been identified by an expert with the writer of an anonymous letter in my possession— bringing this “mahatma” at auy rate, plnmp down to the level of ordiuary scurrility.

These are facts verifiable by written evi dence, and respecting which more may be said on a future occasion, should a game of such transparent tomfoolery ever become worth the candle. Rice-paper missives in “Tbibetan” envelopes have laid about my sit ting-room and library for a long while;'to the merriment of many visitors, theosophic or other. If any sacking-dove has ever sop posed such things worth a postage stamp-v- he has been fooled, that is all, as some may have been by a letter lately “precipitated” in St. Louis. But jnst as, some years ago, a certain Masonic story was “a good enough Morgan till after election.” so I suppose these mahatma papers are good enough for anybody who believes them. As Mr. Judge once naively remarked to me (letter of March 4tb, 1886); “When a disciple actually believes the message genuine, great weight follows the instructions.” Mr. Judge is quite right; and snch documents are not forgery, because there is no real person, Eoot Hoorn!, Morya, or other, to answer to the alleged authorship.

None of the statements here made-express or implied, are intended to reach any other member either of the “Aryan” branch or of the “Council” of the “American section of the T. S.” For it is quite certain that these bod ies include members of entire respectability and integrity. Bat the “trail of the serpent is over it all” ; and “theosophy,” so-called, will properly and inevitably continue off color, if not positively disreputable, un til the Blavatsky and Judge operations are confined strictly to that “Esoteric section” which comes so dangerously near the “Esotericism” of Ohmart and Butler in Boston. In view of recent events, it seems improbable that many of the “Branches’’ of the T. S. in America will continue tribatary to an organization which focuses in the Aryan of New York, presided over by a person who says: “The T. S. is H. P. B.” But as Liucolu used to say, “for those who like that sort of thing, it is just the sort of thing they like.” Snch will probably not wish to see Mr. Judge pass down and out through the Hates of Horn.

Many theosophists in America, however— those who strive to deserve the name, and are ashamed of its vulgar travesty—are determ ined that such nonsense shall cease. Some of them are willing and able to take a little trouble to that end. I t has been with such a serious consideration whether the very name of “theosophy” should not be dropped,and all attempts at organization be abandoned. Bat it has been determined to continue the “the osophical society, the members of which use the letters F .T . S. on occasion a t their dis cretion. These do not propose to leave the osophy or all theosophical associations in the hands of persons who disgrace both the one and the other. Theosophy is a good word, coming down from Porphyry, disciple of Plo- tinus, from an early century of the Christian era, whe : the Gnostics of that day were op posing the nascent dogmas of Rome, as some latter day Gnostics now oppose what threat ens to fossilize into other dogmas; and a few hundred theosophists, united in pnrpose, method and object, may do much to the de sired end. No theosophical system has any mortgage on trnth,or any exclusive patronage of any thing bat the errors peculiar to itself; no theosophical society has any patent on the name; and no theosophist worthy of the name assumes to be the mouthpiece of hid den seers, or the exclusive vehicle of pre ternatural wisdom.

There is a witty saying: “What is h it is history, and what is missed is mystery.” Pe culiar purveyors of mystery wonld not them selves be missed should they disappear; and their disappearance, it is hoped may be a matter of history in less than fonr years from the date of this danger signal.

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PROF. COUES AND WM. Q. JUDGE.

The A stral L ight vs. Spiritualism.

HUDSON TUTTLE.

I t requires a marked degree of courage on the part of the editor to admit an article like that on “ The Astral Light,” and an abiding trust in the constituency of his paper. There are few who appreciate having their most cherished beliefs traduced, misrepresented and sneered at. To be snre it is mild in its charges to that made by Prof. Cones, who quotes from an article published in a preced ing number, with the following remarkable comment: “ I do not know who the writer is; but I do know he is right.” The quotation is this:

“ The mesmeric force is simply sex-magne tism. In this simple statement is the secret of Spiritualistic ‘medinmship’ as well as mesmerism and ‘ black magic.’ I t is also the secret of the invariable fall into vice and special degradation of fools who dabble in such things, whether they call it ’ medium- ship,’ * meamerism,’ ‘ mental healing’ or what not.”

For an anonymous writer to make snch a reckless statement, is not surprising, but when Prof. Cones unqualifiedly en dorses it, a patient constituency can not be expected to pass it by without ask ing for an explanation. Since Madame Bla vatsky at the Chicago Convention sneered at Spiritualism, it has been the style for Theo- sophs to imitate her; but Prof. Cones a p p a r e n tly leaned on the side of Spiritualism, and. was quick to expose the mahatma trick of the subtle Madame. He, in the passage quoted, places Spiritualism on the lowest plane of degradation possible, and makes medinmship an offence, if not a crime, against society. He makes no attempt to prove his assertion, and until he does so there is no occasion for argument. There are thousands of noble men and women who are Spiritualists to the very core of'their beings, the peers of Prof. Cones; whose-lives are so. far above reproach, that snch {disparaging assertions need no refnti

tion. - I l ls right and well to hear the argn- ment of opponente,forwe learn the strength bt oor own position thereby as well as of theirs, bnt we have theright to expect the same calm impartiality, and respect for our opinions, that we ourselves exercise toward theirs. The dogmatic statement of this unknown writer, which Prof. Cones so emphatically endorses, has not even the merit of original ity. More than thirty years ago some kind friend (?) sent me a book of that unmention able class which Comstock valiantly sup presses, with a leaf turned at a page less vile 'than the rest, and there was this identical explanation of medinmship, and slur a t the character of mediums! I said that we may gain by patiently and attentively listening to opponents, and perhaps it is contribntive to strength of character to listen withont re plying. The opinions of individuals pass as the froth on the wave, and if we feel that the Truth abideth with ns, we have no need of controversy. We are assured that the froth will go by and leave the clear waters.

Granting this to our opponents: onr time to listen, and the colnmns of onr journals to present their views, ordinary courtesy de mands that they respect onr feelings, and in stead of tearing down our temple, sneering at onr opinions, and branding us as “fools who dabble” in the phenomena which to ns are of vital import, they bnild better for themselves and fortify their conclusions by irrefragable evidences. If they do not this, the loss is theirs. This applies directly to the manner in which Mr. William Q. Judge uses the space famished him in the R e l i g i o - P h i l o s o p h i c a l J o u r n a l to present his ideas of “The Astral Light.” He does not explain to the uninitiated what the “Astral Light” is, or how it is to take the place of “spirit” in the manifestations referable to departed friends, bnt makes a direct and sneering a t tack on Spiritualism. As he brings nothing new, n^ direct refutation is required, and when he presents his explanation of “The Astral Light” it will be time to reply. If his object is to instruct, and gain Spiritualists over to his Astral doctrine, he is wide of the mark in his method, for he must know that assertion never convinces, and abuse is the least successful of arguments. Paul might give him valuable suggestions in the most snccessfnl methods of proselytism. At least he should learn that to bait his hook with a snapping turtle will not increase the proba bilities of successful fishing.

Being in New York at the time the Anthro pological Society held its last March meeting, I gladly accepted a ticket of admission, as I desired to meet the most advanced minds of the Metropolis and become acquainted with their methods and work, i t was a represen tative assembly. The seats in the pretty ball in the Cooper Institute were all filled at the appointed time by men and women who bore the marks of the highest mental cnltnre. Mr. Jndge was announced to speak on The osophy. He is a man of peculiar physiognomy, rather Jewish in features; whom one wonld infer woold be liable to take narrow views of subjects, easily duped and difficult to un deceive. His lecture was in manuscript, and gave him trouble to read. He made no pre tense to do more than to read it. The first part related to the history of the tbeosoph- ical movement, and the latter to what The osophy really was. In tbe historical part, he said the first parent society was founded in America by Madame Blavatsky, who gath ered a few interested people about her, and began the great Work. They held a meeting to frame a constitution, etc., by which an or ganization might be effected, bnt before any thing had been accomplished, a strangely foreign Hindoo dressed in the peculiar garb of his country came before them, and leaving a package, vanished, and no one knew whither he came or went. On opening the package they found the necessary forms of organization, rales, etc., whieh were adopted.

The inference to be drawn was that the strange visitor was a mahatma, interested in the founding of the society. I looked over the audience to note the effect of this remark able statement—made with the cool assur ance with which an nndeniable fact wonld have been presented—on minds trained to the hard reality of scientific accuracy. It was a wet blanket to any demonstrative approval, and was evidently received with more than the prescribed grain of salt. I confess that while listening to the lecture, I repeatedly asked myself: Is this a scientific association, in tbe heart of the great metropolis, with the broad light of an afternoon of the nineteenth centnry overhead?

This wonder story of celestial messengers bringing documents to mortals is not qnite fresh. In the pointed language of the street, it is a chestnut so old that it is qnite monldy, and has been for thousands of years one of the cheapest expedients for rascality to lead confiding credulity. I t is older than the time of Moses and his stone tablet, and served good purpose for Joe Smith, whose book of Mormon was bronght by an angel. Now it is a Mahatma, whom I dare not at tempt to describe, who has not been ~ de scribed even by devotees.

That evening at dinner with a gentleman who had taken an interest in Theosophy at its beginning in the city, and who is widely known, I mentioned the peculiar statement. He at first said I must be mistaken, but on showing him my notes carefully made, he replied, laughing, that it must be so, bnt he was there a t the time the matter of or ganization was discussed and no stranger came with any document as reported. I t is not to be entertained for a moment that Mr. Judge purposely deceived, and hence arises the query, what did he really see, and who bronght the desired constitution of the “par ent Theosophical Society”? Madame Bla vatsky is an “adept” in the lower meaning of that word, at least, as is shown in the re markable article “She,” in the R e l i g i o -P h i l - o s o p h ic a l J o u r n a l for Jane 22nd, and in the trick perfoimed on Mabel Collins. If, however, this be admitted, what becomes of the tangible evidence of the existence of the Mahatmas? for, if I am not mistaken, Eoot Hoomi, himself, depends on Blavatsky at least for a godmother. In courtesy it may be ac cepted astrue, that a t some time, at a gath ering of the favored ones of the inner circle, a person dressed as a Hindoo, bronght the documents carefully prepared, not in the in accessible crags of the mountains of Thibet, bnt in a quiet room in a not too costly flat by the one most interested in this infamous deception. Mr. Judge testifies to the appear ance of this lay figure, and disappearance, and beyond that his knowledge does not ex tend.

It is to be hoped the “astral light” depends on more substantial evidence, and that Mr. Judge may, in succeeding articles, lose sight of Spiritualism for a sufficient length of time to present the Theosophical side, in a manner ordinary intelligence can compre hend.

Mrs. Gen. Logan and Miss Florence Poll- man will spend the rest of the season in London. So wiUMrsl Gem McClellan.

A B latatoktieS k it.’ * . ■___ . • • • .to a » Editor«x tfaeBeUgto-PtnioBqpMcml Jooman

Sm:—Few funnier film flams have flowed from the Blavatsky's fount than the follow ing, fonhd in her latest effosion against Matiel Collins, whieh has jnst reached ue from England. Here the antique is at one of her most unique antics:—

“A cartons prqphecy was made to me, in 1879, in India, by a mystic who said that every letter in tbe alphabet had either a beneficent or a maleficent inflnence on the life and work of every man. Persons whose names begin with an in itial * the sound of which was adverse to some other person had to be avoided by the latter. ‘What is the let ter most adverse to me?’ I enquired. ’Be ware of the letter C,’ he replied. ‘I see three capital C’s shining ominonsiy over yonr head. Yon have to beware of them especially for the next ten years and shield yonr Society from their inflnence. They ate the initials of three persons who will belong to the The osophical body, only to turn its greatest ene mies.’ I bad foi gotten the warning ti!l 1884, when tbe Coulombs appeared on the stage. Are Dr. Cones and Miss Collins (Cook) prepar ing to close the list—I wonder. ”

Certainly, my dear Madame B., I am pre paring to do nothing of the kind. Bnt let me tell yon, seriously, tnat your Indian mys tic of 1879 came within one of it. For the letter yon have most to fear from is B. No, it is not—Bandy. I t is—Blavatsky I Go read the inscription over the door of that famous temple,—“Enow thyself.” F. T. 8,

1726 N. st., Washington D. C., July 7,1889.

Blavatsky vs. Collins.IX the Editor of the Rellglo-PhllasoDhlcal Journal:

Among all the amenities and asperities of authorship on record, tbe very queerest ques tion seems to be that raised by the differing statements made at different times by Mabel Collins respecting three of her books. The question, “Who struck Billy Patterson?” seems to me not less obscure and equally momentous. What Blavatsky may believe about it to-day I do not know. What she said July 23,1887, in a letter of that date before me, is: “Mabel Collins, my co editor, is she through whom the Masters wrote ’Light on the Path,’ ‘Throngh the Gates of Gold,’ ’Idyll of the White Lotos'—etc.” What is this “etc” ? Any other books? As if the question were not already bnrnihg brightly enough without this possible fresh fire-brand!

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C O N T E N T S .P .K3T PAGE.—Antonia;—A True Story. Beyond the Gates

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Notes from

For the Rellgio Philosophical Journal,

A N T O N IA ;

-A. T R U E S T O R Y . ;

ALICE D. LE PLONGEON.

A party of travelers on their way from Vera Cruz to Mexico City were whiling away the time, whea not giving vent to exclama tions of delight at the unsurpassed scenery, by telling that which had appeared to them most extraordinary in their own experience. One gave an account of unexpected and re markable escape from a great danger. Another, having been in India, amused his listeners with sC vivid description of wonder ful joggling feats. A third said he question ed whether all such performances were jug glery, pure and simple; be wa9 disposed to th ink that much was due to a knowledge and application of occult forces, the power of mind over matter, more yet of mind over mind.

To explain his meaning he described effects produced on persons of peculiar organizations by others who had made a special study of psychological phenomena, particularly what is to' day called hypnotism. He then gave an account of very astonishing experiments made by himself with sensitive persons.

This brought np the topic of Spiritism, «verybody proclaiming the most ntter disbe lief, except one, who seriously affirmed that he believed he had seen a spirit.

“Good! good!” exclaimed all in chorus, '“ that’s certainly the most wonderful thing among us; pray favor us with this story.”

A shade of sadness flitted over the physic ian ’s face as he replied: “On one condition— that yon do not turn it into a jest, for what ever explanation yon may offer of the events I am abont to relate, the person with whom they are connected holds a privileged place in my memory. Mind, yon, I shall confine myself to facts, neither omitting nor adding anything to what really occurred. The whole affair was published in the leading newspa per of the city of Lima, Pern, at the time, and there are persons, no doubt, yet living there who remember the circumstances.”

By this time the listeners were eager with expectation, and protested that whatever they might think, they wonld treat the matter w ith respect.

“I must begin,” said the doctor, “by telling yon that in 18611 went to Pern charged with a scientific commission and with no thought o f practicing my profession, though I was af terwards established there for ten years in the capacity of medical man. I boarded with a very pleasant family, soon becoming as one of them. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. P -— , one or two sons, to whom I shall have no occasion to allude, and two daugh ters, Antonia, a little more than twenty years old, and a girl abont nine years old, named Jnan ita .

“I fonnd Antonia exceptionally interesting and well educated, while drawing and mnsic were her favorite pleasnres. She was a?;if ted musician and endowed with a beau ti

nt voice; it was that which cost her her life. And yet, perhaps, I should not look at i t in th a t light. Death mast have an excuse, and her time had come.

“Antonia had a cousin very much in love with her, bnt she wonld not contemplate an oarly marriage—it being her fixed determina tion to go, as soon as she came of age, to Paris, where she desired to complete her mnsical education. Frequently she spoke to me of the pleasure she anticipated in travel ing .

“Antonia was a noble creature in appear ance and character. To do good she was ever ready, her whole life being one continual act b f charity. Thongh light-hearted and cheer fn l she was not addictwl to frivolous pleas

ures, nor given to vanity. She clothed her self with simplicity and good taste. I need not dwell on her good qualities, enongh to say that to know was to love and admire her; everyone did so, and her father almost wor- shiDed her. ‘

“She was asked to sing in some great af fair at one of the many cbnrches in Lima, at that time a thoroughly priest-ridden city. An Italian, a terribly bad-tempered maD, called by courtesy ‘very nervous,’ was training her voice, and suggested that she have a certain tooth removed and a false one put in its place. The objectionable piece of bone wa9 sawed off and a substitute made fast to the root by means of a platina prong, which was too long, as we discovered later on.

“Soon afterward Antonia’s face became dis torted, and I a t once told her to have the new tooth removed because the prong, togeth er with the amalgam, was producing an elec tric current injurious to the nerves. No one agreed with me, ail insisted that the twisted face was simply the result of a cold. It is no uncommon thing there for lockjaw to resnlt from a cold. In Gaayaceil exposure to a draught induces lockjaw.

“We soon had the grief of seeing Antonia a victim to that dreadfnl affliction. All the best physicians of the place were called. A consultation was held, bnt I stood alone in my opinion, and unable to prevail against such a majority of men mnch older than my self. Yet I was certain that the false tooth was the canse of ail the tronble. To this day I cannot understand it, neither they nor she wonld consent to its being removed, thongh it was the simplest thing imagina ble.

“Finally, when already choking, she assent ed. 1 must here interrupt the story to tell yon that I have made, years ago, a particular study of that scieuce they are now so much interested in, in Paris, under the name of hypnotism, and was in the habit of using animal magnetism for the relief of my pa tients. It was the only thing that might now possibly enable me to rescue Antonia. I had a dentist to stand close by with orders to watch for tho least parting of her jaws and instantly place between her teeth a piece of india rubbor. Exerting all my will-power and magnetic force to compel the locked jaws to .open,T-at last succeeded. My joy was great, but alas! quickly faded .away. After the tooth was removed and the convulsion dis appeared, the tongue was found to be so swollen at the root, and the throat in snch a condition that nothing could save onr be loved young friend from death’s relentless grasp, no power could prevent her from chok ing without the operation of tracheotomy, to which the doctors wonld not resort. The de lay had been fatal! It was exceedingly pain ful to watch the struggle and know that thongh in the fnll enjoyment of health the dear girl wonld be lost to us through the miserable mistake of the wise doctors who had insisted that the lockjaw was not in duced by the false tooth.

“At the close, strange to say, after the last convulsion was over, Antonia spoke in a clear voice. I was supporting her in a sitting post ure when all a t once she uplifted both arms and her beantif nl dark lnstrons eyes, a t that moment filled with a wonderful light.

“Gazing into space, she apparently address ed beings unseeu by us: ‘Yes, yes, 1 am com ing. Wait, wait amoment!’ This she repeated several times not only in Spanish, her moth er tongne, bnt also in English and again in French, as if she were being urged to join a throng of people who addressed her in var ious languages. Her gaze was rapt. Grad ually her bands sank lower and lower, and her voice grew fainter and fainter, dying away in a whisper, when the lovely tapering fing ers at last touched the bed. At the same mo ment her head drooped upon my breast; light fled from the eyes and I closed their white lids.

“I cannot dwell on the scene that followed; it was heart rending. Bat one thing I wish to mention before passing on. From the mo ment that Antonia uplifted her arms she was insensible to all things earthly. A priest came and spoke to her bnt it was quite plain that she was utterly unconscious of his presence, and I bade him hold his peace and respect the mystery and beauty of death. I went so far as to say: ‘Silence! or leave the room. She speaks with those who are far above you !’ *

“As soon as i t became known that Antonia had passed away, the many that had rejoiced in her friendship monrned her departure and brought so many sweet flowers that we hardly knew how to place them all in her room.

“The morrow would have been her twenty- first birthday, that day she had looked for ward to as the begining of a new era in her life, when she should depart to a wider field and perfect herself in the art that had claim ed her best energies. On that day I laid her mortal remains in a bed of flowers, for I lined the casket with them and spread others over her, leaving exposed only the beloved face with its beantifnl smile. Gentlemen, will yon undertake to affirm that her birthday did not open to her a wider, happier field? For my part I wonld not dare to assert anything of the sort after witnessing her—I suppose I must say death, for want of a better term.

"Well, we carried her, after ten o’clock at night, that being the law there, to the church, attached to the convent of San Francisco, and on the following morning went tojperform the last sad dnty. There was service in the ehnrch, of course, and that edifice was crowd ed with grief stricken friends and sorrowing acquaintances. Imagine what consternation spread among them, what a peculiar revul sion of feeling was created when, just as the

priest was “raising the host”—always a mo ment of profound silence, a wren descended from the vanlted roof, alighted npon the head of the casket and commenced singing at the top of its voice, only ceasing when the priest faced the congregation, when it spread its wings and flew upward.“Loving hands bore the body of Antonia from

the chnrch to its last resting place. When we entered the burial grounds, a most lovely garden, numbers of birds came in a body and hovering above the casket, sang in chorns, keeping their position nntil we came to a small chapel. There they disappeared, we having to pass through the building; bnt when we emerged through the opposite door they again joined ns, and continued their joyful strains up to the place of interment.

“The casket was put in its niche. Several gentlemen spoke in memory of Antonia and her noble qualities; meanwhile there was not a dry eye among ns. Then the mason began to wall up the niche. There flattered the birds; during the speeches they had not ceas ed to warble and they kept on while the ma sons worked. Only when the last brick was in, and the mourners turned away, did they take flight.”

Here the narrator was interrupted by the suggestion, from one of his hearers, that the birds were possibly attracted by the perfnme of the many flowers in the casket.

“I will not insist that it was not so,” re plied he, “thongh fresh flowers grew all aronnd ns and the others were no longer fresh. I make no attempt to explain any thing bnt simply relate what occurred. Ev ery one considered it strange and the papers alluded to the fact as an extraordinary one. Everything has its canse, bnt sometimes we fail to trace it. I am telling of one of those cases, and have not yet completed my story, thongh perfectly willing to let it end here if yon have heard enongh.”

“By no means! Pray go on!” all exclaimed.“Well, it was between ten and eleven

o’clock when we returned to the house. It was breakfast time, * and we went through the usual form; that was abont all we could do for qnr hearts f*; %-desoIate. Mr. P. told me that he could not enter his lost daugh ter’s room, and would consider it a favor if I saw that things were a9 they should be. I therefore caused the servant to arrange the deserted chamber as if it9 occupant was ab sent but for a few hoars, thinking that should they enter, the grieved parents wonld prefer to see it thas. The windows were left open till night, then closed. Next day when I arrived at the breakfast honr I fonnd the house full of fragrant perfume, and every one trying to find out whence it proceeded. I went to Antonia’s room to open the window and let in the fresh morning air. I noticed that the perfume was stronger as I approach ed that room,and when I threw open the door it was almost overpowering. Here was its sonrce, bnt I failed to discover its canse. I can compare the perfnme to nothing that I know of, only imagine that snch might have been produced if the aroma had been ex tracted from all the lovely blossoms that a Dost of loving hands had brought to that spot and amid which I had laid Antonia to rest. After doors and windows had been open two or three hours the pleasant odor disappeared and we naturally supposed that to be the last of it. Not so. On the second day the perfnme was as pronounced as on the first, and in like manner died ont after doors and windows had been some time open. If onr surprise was greater on the second morning than on the first, it certainly was not diminished on the third and fourth, but the same thing went on for thirty days. On that thirtieth day I went to Antonia's room, not only to open the windows bnt to seek a certain drawing rale that had belonged to her and that I desired to keep as a souvenir— it is yet in my po-session. I opened the door, believing the room empty, bnt within it stood my beloved friend,so life-like, so real, that all remembrance of her death was swept from my mind. She was there and I had en tered without knocking; this was my one thought, and stepping aside I said: ‘O, An tonia, excase me! I did not know yon were here!’ She smiled at me, inclined her head, and passed ont of the room going toward the parlor where stood her piano. As she went by the door of. her mother’s room, I heard Jnanita scream, ‘Antonia! Antonia!!’ The form had disappeared at the piano, which I could see from where I stood. I hastened to the little girl who, not yet dressed, had been playing in the bed. But the sight of her sis ter, whom she had last seen, stiff and cold, among the flowers, had so startled her that she had covered her face and called out to her mother. We did onr best to persuade Jnanita that i : w h s all fancy, but the child repeated again and again: ‘No, no; I’m sure it was An tonia; she went to the parlor!’

“I afterwards admitted to Mrs. P. that I, too, had seen her lost daughter, she having come from her own room when I entered it. There is nothing more to tell. Had I alone seen Antonia, I might have persuaded myself that it was imagination, but the child’s test imony corroborated mine.

“After that day we saw her no more, nor was there any renewal of the perfnme in her room. Ask no explanation; I have none to give, and I never speculate abont things that appear to be beyond the realm of investiga tion.”

66 Cranberry St., Brooklyn, N. Y.Mahomet when dying, with his head rest

ing upon the bosom of his faithful wife,open ed his eyes and looked upward, then smiling, said, “I come among yon, fellow-citizens on high.”

BEYOND THE GATES.

And Outside of the Old Pasture.[Buchanan’s Journal of Man for July.]

Animals are kept in herds, and their mas ters erect the boundaries or fences in which they may enjoy life. The ruler, the soldier, and the priest have established the bounda ries for mankind. To go beyond them is a dangerous disloyalty to the over-ruling pow ers, ror which millions have paid’ their lives. There mnst be loyalty in thought as well as action. To think beyond specified limits is an egregious error—egregious means literal ly beyond or away from the herd.

Nevertheless it is only they who leave the herd and thus encounter the danger of pro scription that break down the fences and en large the field of knowledge—the area of hu man happiness.

As the limits have been adjusted heretofore —physical science was confined in narrow limits by governments, priests, and colleges, nntil Galileo and his numerous successors es tablished sciences upon the rains of sectar ian faith. Physical science is now emanci pated; for the chnrch no longer dares to op pose either geography or geology, chemistry or physiology.

Bnt a mnch larger freedom is demanded by the foremost thinkers of the nineteenth cen tury, and the straggle is still in progress be tween those who demand and those who deny freedom of thought. The priesthood and their confiding followers demanded and still demand that we shall bow before tradition, shall accept as divine guidance a collection of old manuscripts, gathered by very unreli able men, inherited from an ignorant, unsci entific, credulous, and barbarous period, the very authorship of which is largely in doubt, and shall not investigate for ourselves the post mortem life of humanity. As well might they demand that we rely npon Greek and Roman authors for the geography of Enrope, and object to onr visiting Europe for our selves.

They are now reinforced by college profes sors who deny the future life of man and as sail every attempt to investigate i t with the same ontcry of frand and falsehood which first assailed Galileo. Like Horkey they will dither look throngh the telescope nor accept the testimony of those who do, and thus we have the singular spectacle of two antago nistic classes, the infidel materialists and devout Bibliolaters, suspending their strife to stand guard together at the fences which keep the herd in its pasture.

Dare to investigate that future life which the chnrch affirms, and yon have the clerical anathema, reinforced by the professor’s boy cott. proclaiming that yon are an outlaw be yond the realm of both religion and science —an outlaw in religion for demonstrating it9 fundamental truth—an outlaw in science for enlarging its domain.

Nevertheless we dare to investigate as mil lions have dared. In 1842 I discovered the proximity of the world of emancipated spir its and proposed a society to ascertain what communication we might hold with it. The poet Bryant was one of the first with whom I proposed to begin the exploration, but for political reasons he withdrew, and other la bors prevented me from prosecuting the de sign. When the Rochester rappings were announced, I at once vindicated their truth and explained their philosophy in the old Journal o f Man, then published at Cincin nati. If my proposed society had gone into operation it wonld have been the first to an nounce the intercommunion of two worlds.

Tbe science of the brain shows that post mortem is under far different and more ethi cal conditions than those of terrestrial life. Anthropology is not & limited science, like the physiology of medical colleges, dealing in bones, muscles, viscera, and nerves alone. The science of man reaches throughout the universe, for it embraces the post mortem as well as the ante mortem existence of man, who is not, as supposed by the priests of In dia, a disintegrated being incapable of com munication with the earth sphere after mor tal life is ended, bnt has, on the contrary, a far nobler life and a far wider sphere of knowledge and interesting relations.

No other medical professor or editor forty years ago dared to sustain or was competent to illustrate the physical phenomena by which mankind were roused to the reality of the Spirit-world. Nor has there in these for ty years been much development of a spirit of scientific investigation of the spiritual phenomena. Ninety-nine in the hundred re ceive the facts without an hoar’s thought as to their philosophy.

As I propose in this number to illustrate both the facts and the philosophy, let ns first consider the scientific-basis of the spiritual phenomena and the post mortem life.

Anthropology shows that the nature of man may be divided into two opposite gronps of elements—those which associate with the basis of the brain, below the ventricles, and those which associate with the brain above the ventricles. The former faculties of the basi lar region act npon the body and m aintain onr intercourse with the physical world in which we live. Their tendency is altogeth er earthward and opposed to the higher fac ulties which lie in the brain above the ven tricles. '

These higher faculties make essentially the trne higher life of man, for they do not directly relate to the perishing body, bat em body those powers and emotions, with con centred will and expansive intelligence, which constitute onr spiritual being, and which in the interior convolutions of the brain bring man into relation with the infin

ite life, the oversool o l the universe. There are no physical functions in the most inter ior median convolutions and septum lucidUm, which bring man into relation with the un seen world. |

Thus are the opposing spiritual and mate rial elements of man’s life connected inti mately by many fibres in the brain—the former relating chiefly to man’s immortal career and the latter to his life in the body;' in which life, invested with bodily organs and surrounded by a material world, it has a natural advantage over the higher nature. Hence is the earthly career of humanity a career of imperfection, of disease mingled with health—of vice and crime mingled with • virtue.

The animal nature is the inevitable condi tion of existence on the earth, and the evils to which it is liable belong to the career of every individual, for these evils cannot be controlled except by the absolute dominance of the higher natnre, associated with the up per brain and responsive to the supernal world.

Evolution may bring on this ascendancy of the higher natnre, bnt neither the chnrch, the colleges, nor the government are doing mnch for that evolution. The “New Educa tion” has shown how this higher life may be attained, and all the measures it proposes will in time be adopted, because they are ob viously proper.

That higher evolution brings man to bis normal position, which he does not occupy a t present. His normal position is to have his higher nature in as close relations with the Spirit-world as his lower natnre is with the world of matter.

In this condition the serenity, peace, love, and hope of the higher spheres would role the earth-life, banishing vice, crime and dis ease. For life is a spiritual quality which flows from the spiritual into the physical, and when man lives chiefly in his higher nature, his life is fuller and more perfect, and is capable if necessary of being rein forced from above.

The life of each individual typifies the ev olution of the entire race. His antenatal embryouic life isthrough the stages o r development which belong to the entire animal kingdom of brain and spine-bearing animals. When first re cognized by the microscope his nervous sys tem corresponds with that of the fish, and this is followed by the reptile, bird, and qnadroped forms, before the fally developed hum an..

Having attained the human form at birth, in a soft and crnde condition of the brain, evolution carries the human being from the animality of infancy and boyhood to the ma ture responsibility of adult life, in which the brain, ripening from below upward, has a t tained a sufficient balance to make him a re sponsible being, capable of being controlled by law and social influence.

The process of ripening is followed by the process of decay, in a similar order. The restless life and vigorous growth (from the power of tbe basilar organs in infancy) grad ally ceases, nntil in old age the growth c the tissues fails to repair their necessa waste, and the mnscnlar powers are inade quate to the daily labors of life. The moral powers are now no longer ruled by the man’s enfeebled passions and appetites, and if the moral natnre has been duly cultivated his life attains a high degree of tranquil virtue He is now rnled by the tranqnil, spiritualiz ing faculties, which gradually withdraw the life from the inferior animal natnre until it becomes incapable of animating the body, and the body mast be abandoned by the spirit as a decaying tenement which it cannot suc cessfully U88.

The ascent ont of the body takes place from the summit of the brain. The body dies from below upwards, and so does the brain. Life lingers in the top, in that spot, fully an inch on each side of the sagittal suture of the sknll, where the convolution lies which pro daces trance or suspended animation. The tendency of this faculty is to carry man up ont of his body into the Spirit-world, as the Rev. Wm. Tennant, of New Jersey, was car ried in a state of apparent death (his friends demanding his burial), while he declared afterwards that he was enjoying the most exquisite pleasure of life with his friends in the Spirit-world,

The departure of the spirit in this manner has often been seen by clairvoyants, and it is established by my experiments, in which the region has been sufficiently excited to snb- dne the action of the heart, and bring on a sense of impending death. In one experi ment the pnlse at the wrist was entirely sus pended.

If the transition from mortal to immortal life is thns produced by the failure of the re gion of vital force (which counteracts the up ward tendency) and by the power of the high er faculties, which tend to their c e les tia l home, i t follows that the post-mortem lifers an expression of this higher tendency,Ies8 restrained by the power of the lower natnre.

Hence a ll persons, in passing from terres tria l life, lose the strong appetites and pas sions that ruled them here, and even spirited of the criminal class cease to be dangerods and become amenable to instruction and'im- provement.

If it were not so, onr departing criminals might make life nnendnrable. They might originate incendiary fires, might prompt marders, and might establish an infernal discord in society by circulating falsehoods and slanders. /B n t in the communics*1 that I have witnessed I have been strnc’ the pervading Courteous and friendly i

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f t E L I G I O - P H l L O S O x ’jHICAL J O U R N A L .QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES.

. To what church, or churches, did, o r do, your rents belong; and are yon now, or have yon ever en, in fellowship w ith a church, and if so of w hat

<iC*ir. 5- bpulUAttlU)t'lv "What convinced yon of the continuity of life yond the grave, and of the intercommnnior.be* 'een the two worlds?i. What is the most remarkable imruent of your cperience with spirit phenoi^«nj» which you can tisfactorily authenticate? Gire p&'ticulars.5. Bo you regard Spiritmiteai as a religion? ease Btate your reasons briefly for the answer youVOe I6. * W hat are the greatest needs of Spiritualism, or, put it differently, what are the greatest needs of

e Spiritualist movement to-day?7. In w hat way may a knowledge of psychic laws ad to help one in the conduct of this life—in one’slations to the Family, to Society ent?

and to Govern-

RESPONSE BY S. P. WHITING,1. My parents were New England Unita-

Ians, and I shared their faith. In the year S51 I united with the Ply mouth Church of •rooklyn, N. Y.. at the request of the pastor, ’ho* was a personal friend and did not re tire me to change my views.2. Since 1855 or 6.3. No single experience; it was the result many correlating facts.

4. For several years 1 had studied and ex- lerimented in magnetism, and read Reichen- jach’s views on od force, in con junction with ay pastor, when I was asked by an intimate .Tiend, J. J. Mapes, who was al90 interested >n such subjects, to make one of a small clnb he was forming to examine alleged spiritual facts. Mr. S. B. Brittan, a t that time editor of the Spiritual Telegraph, had told him of some wonderful things occurring with a young man named D. D. Home, who was •hen in Western Massachusetts. Mapes had a list of seven names besides his own, select ed as persons quite differing in mental tend encies, hoping thns to obtain a better inqui sition. I recall some of the names: A Mr. londit, hoted in mechanics; Dr. Hallock.phy- ician of Quaker belief; Dr. Gray, then lead-g homeopathist (both doctors afterward )ted as Spiritualists); Prof. Mapes, a me- lodicai and thorough experimenter. There ere three others. Mapes had charge of /ery detail, and made a contract with Home, /trough Brittan. He hired the whole of a

second floor over a store in the Bowery, and had it furnished, adding by Brittan’s sugges tion, a guitar, accordion and two slates. Now a word as to the principal table, secured after a long search among old trash; an extension table which had done duty so long that when fnllv extended the leaves had little spaces between them, and when raised a t one end it curved in the center as a worm would do un der like conditions. The object was to have a table that would not rise promptly at the bidding of a hand or foot. When the time came. Prof. Mapes opened the door to Home and ourselves for the first time. I t was a winter night; a fire of coals was blazing in an old fashioned range, the jets of gas fully lighting np the room. The table was cover- 3d with an all-worsted cloth, as slippery as a snake’s skin, to prevent hand adhesion, and n a far corner leaned the gnitar, while ac- Drdion and slates reposed on the floor.Home Was placed in a chair at the head of

he table the moment he had taken off his doak, thus preventing his making any ac- inaintance with onr adjuncts. I can see aim now, a fresh looking, auburn-haired youth, apparently twenty one or two years old, with a real honest face. Around him sat seven or eight fellows, with a “you-can’t- cheat-me” look on their countenances. We

''"sVifidi te4nws- any opening prayer as we wished to do the polite thing with Home in case he had the devil with him; but each one put his hands on the table with a defiant air, and waited for the “circus,” which came a t once. My first individual ex perience was to hold my right hand near the floor and clutch the end of the accordion, which was presented from under the table; on doing which some nnseen power played a tnne on it. Slightly dazed as well as an noyed, I somewhat tartly said: “If yon are so very fond of music, play ns a tune on the guitar," when in plain view of all, the strings began to vibrate, and “Home, sweet home” (perhaps as a compliment to Daniel D.) was sweetly played. I think that for an instant we all queried as to whether we had not “got 'em”; and then with intense interest con- inued our work far into the night. When •e parted all ware satisfied of the existence

an extraneons intelligent force, and for uy weeks added proof on pjroof. Excuse prolixity, induced by the fame Home af

terwards achieved.5. I t is, o r i s not, as each one is. Those

who love to theorise abont, and pray to, the Great All in All, will surely feel their de sires increased by a belief in Spiritualism. But 1 think i t is illy fitted to be used as a foundation for special theologies, but is rather a destroyer of many dogmatic beliefs by proving a future individuality to be jnst B9 natural as onr present condition, and not a gift to certain selected ones.

6. I answer: to prove it true to the great popular belief. Granted that, but how? Let as see what has been done. For forty years ve have been receiving true proofs of spirit etnrn, as vouched for by millions, including wndreds of names distinguished in various ranches of learning. What is the result in art? A belief in Spiritualism at this mo lent is popularly considered as a jnst cause rt prejudice against a teacher or a public Hcial; a cause for courts to set aside wills u the ground of mental imbecility; even in une places it affects social status, and I

sincerely believe that some States to-day would have laws making public medinmship i misdemeanor, or an intolerable nuisance, vere it not for the relentless war the R e l i g o -P h e l o s o p h ic a l J o u r n a l has waged on rands, and mediums supplementing with rand.

If onr past methods bring snch fruits, let s look for another way. first seeing if the ldentshad similar results. As we scan the

past centuries, each shows similar occult forces, which were not examined for the pur pose of solution, but sought after as the more harvelons,—especially as a hoped-for source through which to gain benefits: mostly in- lividual experiences; and finally failing to dominate the public mind, ending in disas ter and bloodshed. The number of persons iestroyeil as witches since the Christian era exceeds a million—all for nothing, as no new truth was e tablished. Finally as we ap proach the nineteenth century, mesmerism lpbaars, commencing a struggle for recogni- tonTwhich has just terminated in triumph a a popular belief, after eighty years of warfare, during which it was proved true y millions, through personal experiences, ipugh without avail; surely, the way by

/Men it has a t last succeeded right before •nr own eyes, is the one we a^e looking for; .nd ^ h a t is that way? By proving one of

' test facts to the general m up^as true ’ispute, by the testifp»ny given a t ,e time, of a lnrg£ number of wit- jld as competent? by the public,—

the actors, action and result'being given. Dr. Charcot, by inducing hypnotic trance and performing amputations a t the great Paris hospital, and which was witnessed by many eminent physicians, changed incre dulity to belief, and the great hospitals in France and Germany at once opened their doors to its further investigation,and we now almost monthly hear of new and startling facts, which hint that great benefits in the future may be realized by humanity.

In view of the foregoing, my answer to your query is; Select some fact for proving extraneous intelligent force alone; nothing else. Settle that first as an absolute truth that the public mind cannot deny. Have no complications with reference to spirit re turn, but present the truth as a psychic fact, one step in advance of clairvoyance, now ad mitted as true, even as that is a step in ad vance of brain subjection by another’s mind. This will enable us to get testimony from that large class of men whose lives are so devoted to science that they have no time to get rich, but depend on their salaries for the support of their families,and cannot afford to peril their position by meddling publicly with Spiritualism. The ones to secure these wit nesses are the rich and quiet believers who have strong social influences, and who would readily assist a simple inquiry as above. If such men as Prof. Cones,Dr. Crowell and along list of others made a conjoint effort on one test as agreed on, the signed depositions of fifty men could be obtained in less than six months, whose reputations would compel its general public acceptance as a truth. But right here some might say: Spiritualism has to contend with the bitter and active hostility of the church in addition to mes merism’s foes. I reply: That is powerless in our day against facts properly proved. What does science care for church love or hatred when it- endorses a result as true? Nothing. The particular test I would suggest is in dependent writing. I t is easily made fraud- proof. and is obtainable from several sources, and should never be witnessed by less than three persons a t once. To more fully ex plain I will give the details of an actual ex periment properly conducted. Less than six months ago three gentlemen living in Orange determined to absolutely settle for them selves this question of extraneous intelli gent force. They brought Slade (without slates) to a private house. A bare table was there under strong gas light. They seated him at a corner of it in a sideways position, so that his feet protruded far outside of it- and in full view. Then one placed a new slate, privately marked, over a bit of pencil on the table, placed his own hand on it and had Slade’s hand placed on his, all closely watching. Soon the man whose hand was on the slate felt a movement under the slate, and aU three heard the sound of writing, which' ceasing, one of the three upturn ed the slate and they all saw it to be cov ered with an intelligent communication. Then outsiders were shown it in order to preclude mesmeric deception. From be ginning to end Slade did not touch the slate, and the private mark excluded the trick slate so dear to Mrs. Sidgwick.

7. As we hardly know their alphabet, an answer theorisinggis out of place; but there is one momentous though shadowy hope al ready arising, which may by and by prove a possibility, which is, that permanent im pressions may be made by proper will power through the mother’s brain on the embryo brain, so that through life, as in the born kleptomaniac, he or she shall hate lying and dishonesty; hate narcotics, idleness and cru elty, and love their converse. Imagine snch a race of humans.

East Orange, N. J.

A NINETY-SIX HOUR TRANCE.

He Says a Sp irit Tells Him Ju s t When and How Long He Will Sleep—The Case Reviewed.

This hamlet — Kingsley, Mich.,— nestled among the balsam scented hills of Grand Traverse county, has a sensation. Every one of the 600 people here knows about it. Some of them have watched the developments so far with an interest akin to alarm; others with levity. And the future holds in store for them all, and particularly for five fami lies, something that superstitious people would look forward to with timorous concern. I t is the old story of spiritualistic demonstra tion with the usual admixture of psychologic trickery.

Alvin C. Ryon was born near Scottsville, Livingston county, N. Y., 53 years ago next month. He lived there until be was 17 years old, working on his father’s farm, and at odd times acquiring the rudiments of education as best he could in a district school. Soou after his seventeenth birthday he moved to a farm near Mendon, in St. Joseph county. Mich. He lived there about eight years and then took up his residence near Marcellus, in Cass county, also in this state. He lived there five years. Next Mr. Ryon turned his face toward this north country, set tling 20 years ago upon a 20-acre tract in Cleon township, Manistee county. It is but a little way from here. Five years ago he moved to Kingsley and entered the employ of Case & Croster, who operate a saw mill boro#

ThiB is all there is in Mr. Ryon’s life. The only value of the matter is to identify him with the several localities where he has re sided.

Before entering upon the story that is troubling the peaceful-minded folk of Kings ley it will be well to state that Mr. Ryon was on familiar terms during his residence in New York state with a family named Bonney. They were slightly related) o him by mar riage. There was a daughter in this family, a fair-haired child with a light complexion and blue eyes. She used to clamber into Mr. Ryon’s lap when be was a guest' a t the Bon ney house or when the Bonney family ac cepted the hospitality of the Ryon home stead. “D olly ,as everybody called the little girl, was abont 14 years old when Mr. Ryon moved west.I “Well, yon see, it was like this with Dolly,” Mr. Ryon said to me a t his house this even ing as he reminiscently stroked his iron grey mustache. “After I had lived in Michigan a few years she told her folks at the breakfast table one morning that she was going to be taken away on such a day at such an hour. Her father made light of the matter. Noth ing more was said about it until just before the time she named. Then Dolly told her schoolmates that if they wished to see her before she was taken away they had bet ter caU a t the house. The hour set for her departure was 10 o'clock a . m . Her school mates came c t 8 o’clock. They made light of her statements. At 9:30 she asked to be excused. She wished to make some prepara tions for her departure. She returned to the room where her schoolmates were sitting, a t five minutes of 10. She urged them mean ingly to say any farewells they wished, but before they realized what was about to take place and in the midst of their expressions

of regret the clock began striking 10. When the last stroke was over (poor little Dolly was dead. She passed peacefully away.

“She had been perfectly well up to the time of her death. What I have told you is all we know about the matter.!

“But it is my own case that will interest you most,” he continued after calling for a lamp, for it was getting gloomy within the little chamber where we sat talking.

“I t was one year ago last February. It was the second day of the month. I remem ber the date well. I was piling some lumber on my wagon over there at the mill. While waiting for a couple more logs to be sawed into boards I happened to lean my elbows on the wagon and look up the street. I saw a young woman coming towards me. She had blue eyes and fair hair and her complexion was light. She wore a white dress, but I do not remember of seeing any flowers about her. Dolly, you know, was buried in a white dress. Well! this young woman came up to where I stood, just as any person would.

“ ‘I am Dolly Bonney,’ she said after she had looked wistfully into my face for a mo ment. ‘Do you know me? I am the same lit tle girl you used to know before I died. I have come to warn you of sleep.’

“I can hardly describe my sensations to yon. I knew that Dolly must have grown some since I had left New York State and be fore she died. Making a calculation on changes that would have occorred in that time I thought I could recognize her. I was not frightened by her presence, but felt greatly surprised. Then I was puzzled at what she meant by warning me ‘of sleep.'

“Not knowing what to say, I said the first thing that came to my lips: ‘Well, if I am to have the sleep, I guess it's all right.’

“She smiled approval of my words and continued: ‘You will fall asleep June 19 (1888) between 10 a . m . and 12 o’clock and will sleep 12 hours.’

“Having said this she turned about and walked up the street. I watched her until she was lost from view. No one else saw Dolly.

“I put no belief in the matter and gave it little attention after the first few days of ex citement were over.

“But June 19 came in due time. I remem ber every detail of that day. I was hoeing in my garden out there where you can see the corn now. At about 10 o’clock I began to feel queer. I began to gape and yawn. Next a numbness stole into my hands and feet. I went into the house and told the folks I guessed I’d lie on the floor a few minutes. I lay there until noon, when they called me for dinner. I told them that I didn’t want any thing to eat. 1 wanted to sleep. Then I did go to sleep in earnest. But it was a peculiar kind of sleep. I could hear everything around me, even to the whispers of my friends. But 1 couldn't open my eyes. I could move some times with great difficulty and at other times it was impossible to move at all. I woke at midnight after exactly 12 hours of trance, just as little Dolly had said I would. I sat up and talked the rest of the night. The next day I napped a little, and at night resumed my regular sleep. I was not in the habit of sleeping day times. My eyes were very 6ore and tired after this sleep.”

Mr. Ryon detailed how some of his neigh bors were warned through him by Dolly of pending sickness and trouble.

“On the nineteenth of last January,” he began, “I was sleeping quietly upstairs there when I was awakened at midnight by some one rapping on the bead board of my bed. I opened my eyes and there stood Dolly. I t was dark as Egypt, but I saw her plainly. I remember just how sbe-looked. I saw every line of her face, with her ringlets of golden hair clustering about it. She was dressed in white, the dress, I have no doubt, in which she was buried.

“ ‘I am going to call on five of your neigh bors,’ she said quietly, ‘and warn them of what is going to happen.’

“And now came the most peculiar circum stance of the visit. I would hear Dolly rap on the headboard of my bed and in an instant I heard raps on the door of Mrs. Mary Swain- ston’s house, just across the street there. Next the rappiog went from the head of my bed to Mrs. Emma Stanton’s home over there, yon see; next M. S. Brownson’s, then to J. 0. Crotser’s and Ellen Porter’s. They are all near neighbors, their houses standing within one hundred rods of where we sit this mo ment.

“I didn’t know what Dolly meant by warn ing them. She returned to me after the re peated knocks and stood beside my bed with her hands resting on her hips. Suddenly she disappeared. I don't know how or anything about it. She simply was gone.

“ I made careful inquiries of the five neigh bore to learn if they had heard anything. None of them had heard the raps. They paid no attention to the warning I gave them. I don't mean to say I understand it myself, but since that night these five people have been sick. I t is true that some of them had the same trouble before, but not so severe as on this occasion. Mrs. Swainston’s trouble was light. Mr. Brownson had teirible spasms and lay in them for a long time every time they came on. J. 0. Crotser had heart disease and pains in his head. Mr. Porter suffered with inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. Stan ton was quite ill, but I don’t remember what was the matter with her.”

I t seems that “Dolly” was not pleased with the incredulity shown by the five people, and later she came again to Mr. Ryon and told him with meaning emphasis that she was going to stay with him three days until he made personal visits to the people she wished to have “warned.”

“I couldn’t rest until I had done it,” Mr. Ryon observed simply. “I could only warn ’em. I couldn't tell them what the warning meant. They listened to me, but didn’t be lieve what I said.”

During the same night of January 19 last “Dolly” appeared to Mr. Ryon again. She said to him.

“I am going to give you a long sleep this time. I t will last 96 hours or more. You will begin to sleep June 19 next (one year from the 12-hour trance), between 10 o’clock in the morning and noon. Don’t be afraid, for PH fetch you out of it all right, and then we shall have work for yon to do sometime.”

“I didn’t give the matter mnch attention,” Mr. Ryon said in relating the story, “until last April. Then I began telling my friends about the circumstance. Every one seemed interested, and as the day drew near all eyes were anxiously turned on me. They wantec to see what would happen between 10 and 12 o’clock June 19.

“The morning of June 19 came a t last. I was perfectly calm. I had no fear. I simply yielded myself to Dolly. I sat aronnd the house for an hour and a half. Then, although I had slept well the night before, I began to yawn as I did the other time. Then tha same numbness came into my. hands ant feet.

“I told my daughter, who had come from near St. Ignace to take care of me, that C guess I’d lie down. I lay down abont 9:30 and went to sleep.

“It was 9:30 a . H.VJune 23, just 96 hours later, when I woke up, that is, when I got control of my muscles. All the time though

was conscious of what was going on around me. I could hear what was said;-though not so well as I did the time I lay in the trance !or 12 hours. The whispers were not so clear ihis time. When I came out of the long trance my head ached a great deal. My pow er of long distance vision, accurate before I fell asleep, was very much impaired. Other wise I am perfectly well.”

Dr. G. L. Fenton, a young physician, with intelligent eyes, was called to see Mr. Ryon when he slept 12 hours. “I found him suf fering from what appeared to be apoplexy or perhaps sunstroke,” the doctor said. “His raise was full, breathing stertorous. To all appearances he looked like a man sleeping. He had been to Traverse City the day before and had walked in the heat a good deal. I gave him a sling or two, but did nothing else. He came out of it all right at the end of half a day. I learned that he had foretold this last sleep and when the trance came on ; after he had prophesied I was non plussed. They called no doctor this time; they simply let him have his sleep out. I am sure now it is not a case of apoplexy or sunstroke, but what it is I don’t know. I dropped into his house out of curiosity the last time he slept. I found the symptoms I had considered apo plectic before present, but modified. His breathing was more natural, and his pulse ran about eighty, a little too fast for a man of his temperament while lying down.

“This case makes me think of one that hap pened here at Fyfe Lake two years ago next fall. Henry Browker of Bronson, who used to sell a good many horses up in this coun try, and who was well known over the state generally, was told 32 years ago that he would die to a day three months after his wife’s death. She died two years ago in the summer. He !came up in the autumn. He was taken sick at Cadillac. When he ar rived at Fyfe Lake he was a very sick man. He had gastritis. He fought it like a hero, but in spite of everything he died three months to a day after his wife’s death and his body was shipped home for burial.

“Now we can’t explain snch cases as these. I think Mr. Ryon, who is as honest as the day is long, is tending toward Spiritualism.”

Mr. Ryon, the sleeper, weighs 1187 pounds He is rather low of speech and phlegmatic temperaments. He has grey hair, a hand some blue eye, grey mustache and his face is bronzed from long exposure to wind and sun. When speaking, his manner indicates scrupulous honesty. There is nothing tricky abont him. He evidently believes in the es sential doctrines of Christianity, but is not a professed Christian. He is not yet a Spirit ualist, bnt proposes to follow the directions of the fair-haired “Dolly.” He thinks his tendency is to become one day a medium. “Dolly” said the spirits would have work for him to do sometime.

Mr. Ryon lives in a very modest story-and- a-half house. I

A little garden of corn and truck is uDder cultivation on part of the lot. The furnish ings of the house are common, but decent. He owns the farm in Manistee county and some lots here and is worth perhaps about three thousand dollars.

The citizens of this little place are puz zled by the strange sleep of their fellow-resi dent. They all corroborate the tru th of the statement that he slept 96 hours. His repu tation among them is so excellent that his word is not doubted. He does not drink liq uor in any form and his habits are good. He is not living with his wife and doesn’t know were she is. He has beside his daughter four sons, three living aronnd here and one near Mendon.

Judging from what I saw of Ryon, I have no doubt whatever of his sincerity. He be lieves all that he says. Those who are about him accept with child-like credulity the fact that he didsleep 12 hours a year ago and 96 honrs last month. They simply say they know it to be true, but offer no explanation. To them the most remarkable fact connected with the case is that Ryon foretold the exact time and length of his sleeping periods.

He is an unsatisfactory man to interview. His narrative is fragmentary, nothing like as connected as told here, and not very lucid. It was necessary to question him closely to get a clear and connected story. While giving him credit for nominal honesty, one can’t but be lieve that he is the subject of some nervous disorder. He is not smart enough to be a humbug. He thinks he sees visions, perhaps owing to some inexplicable nervous trouble and then, although he says not, consciously or unconsciously, dwells upon the coming sleep so continuously that when the time comes he actually goes into a sort of trance and remains so the specified time. Then the neighbors marvel.

There seems to have been no attempt at scientific study of the case. When the really long sleep came no doctor was called. Both Ryon and his daughter believe in yielding to the impulse, in the belief that the whole scheme will work out in time and that the end will be beneficent.—IF. C. G„ in De troit Tribune.

For the Bellfirlo-Philosophical Journal.FORM PRESENTATION.

A Curious Psychological Study Approach ed from any Direction.

A Writer on Scientific subjects Attends the Materialization Seances o f IF. W. Aber, and Gives his Experiences. According to his Account. Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Yankees, Englishmen, Gener als, Civilians, and any number o f Distin guished Spirits Visit Kansas City, and have no .trouble^ in making their iden tity clear.

Knowing you to be interested in the sub ject of phenomenal evidence of occnlt power, I would call your attention to a series of s£ ances held in this city to determine the vari ety of form manifestations under the best of conditions for its legitimate production.

Probably no more absolute proof of the power of spirit to produce form from the ele ments was ever witnessed.than that given at a trial stance held in Kansas City, July 9th. The circumstances leading to this stance were of a nature that belonged to the de partment of science and were startling as well as conclusive. A gentleman who has been engaged in scientific pursuits for near ly twenty years, the author of some of the most advanced publications in the field of chemistry in its relations to life, and an English scholar and Egyptologist were the only persons present aside from the medium, a young man by the name of W.-W. Aber, formerly of Topeka, Kansas. There had been a series of stances held for several evenings

' previously in a room belonging to a teacher of esoteric science, where Mr. Aber had re moved his cabinet by the request of the par ties interested in observing the phenomena.

JU LY 27;The cabinet was a simple black walnut fr<> made of strips of wood covered w ith blat walnut and so placed that no one could ap proach it without observation by the sitters.

Under these conditions a series of forms appeared that claimed to belong to the scien tific and historical world, giving' names th a t corresponded with the claims and costumes of the ages in which they lived. Among theso apparitions were some of the leading chem ists of the past generation, of whom we men tion as worthy of note. Prof. Hare of Phila delphia, and Faraday and Sir Hum phrey Davy of England. With these came form » purporting to represent spirits from Hindoos - tan, Chaldea, Persia, Greece, Rome and Egypt •. Among the latter were some of the historical rulers of Egypt, such as Ramesis II., Seti, Pinotem, and the great magician, Hermes Trismagistus.

The most striking feature of these stances was the transformation of the faces without withdrawal from the aperture, changing from callow youth to mature old age, with white beards and silvery hair, and often in a twinkling reversing the process.

Although only the face and bust is gener ally shown, the features were so different from the medium's face as to preclude the possibility of this being the transfiguration phase of medinmship. Many of these faces were twice the size of the medium’s face, and evidently belonged to a race of people of gi gantic stature, as history depicts some of the ancient warlike races to have been. Ramesis II. was notably of this type, and his resem blance to the faces cut in the rock at Abon Simbel in Egypt, and upon other statues, was so marked that he could be, and was, recognized at once by those familiar with the subject.

One peculiarity of these stances was espe cially worthy of notice. By direction of the controlling power, pictures of two Hindoo sages, Buddha Sakya Muni, and Ranyu Hil- yod, the great Brahma, were placed each side of the doorway of the cabinet, and both o f these persons were frequent as well as wel come visitors.

There was no exclusion of any spirit, but for once the Hindoo element had the ascend ancy, although these representatives of i t were' quite different in their interpretation of the old doctrines from the teachers of the theosophical schools of this age. They avow ed themselves to be evolutionists in all de partments of life, and explained many things that places the subject of reincarnation and planetary life upon an entirely different- basis of consideration. One evening the cir cle was startled to see five new forms appro priately costumed, purporting to be Josephus (the Jewish historian), Pontius Pilate, Annas, Caipbas and Herod. In answers to direct questions thejr by voice and gesture emphat ically declared that history was wrong in iniputing to them any connection with the story of the condemnation and death of Jesus. Pilate presented the aspect of a large, thick set man, with rather a square face, a type of a soldier of the Gen. Grant order, but not essentially cruel although sternly obedient to the civil and military power of Rome. He seemed to resent the imputation that any Roman governor would have been guilty of condemning an innocent man to death as an insurrectionist sgainst Rome, especially as no claim was preferred that Jesus ever had & soldier under his command or had tried to incite a revolt against the imperial power of Rome. Annas and Caiphas appeared in their priestly robes and Herod in the court cos tume of that period. I mention this episode as one of the peculiarities of several equally striking appearances.. The stances were generally different each night, and continued surprises awaited the- circle as the sitters noted the changes and the different forms. In order to determine the absolute power of the inteUigences be hind these manifestations to produce form and clothing, in the last stance the medium, was stripped entirely naked and a dark gray ' army blanket was wrapped around him when he was placed in,the cabinet. In this con dition some of the same forms in their ap propriate costumes came with some addition al forms in the order as follows: Buddha- Sakya Muni of Hindoostan, King Seti of an cient Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte of France,. Pharaoh Ramesis II. of Egypt, Pontius Pi late of Rome, Emperor Julian (called the Apostle) of Constantinople, Emperor Augus tus Caesar of Rome, the poet Cicero of Tuscu- lum. Italy, General Grant of the United States- and King Henry VIII. of England. Some of these called especial attention to the differ-r ence in the costumes and colors of their gar ments.

This series of circles seems to conclusively prove not only the ability of Mr.Aber to be able to be used to give proof of the power of spirit - over form, bnt to open a way for the more perfect 9tudy of the occnlt forces from the standpoint of science, and it would be a great • misfortune to the scientific world should he - be diverted from the especial Work for which he is so well fitted nnd in which he can be so ably utilized. H1b regular controls are a Dr. Reed, who acts as the chemist, and Samuel Smith, a German assistant, whose test-giving ~ powers are positive and often very satisfac tory. The stances for personal friends are equally good in their way, and it was no- uncommon occurrence for relatives and friends of the sitters to come after the scien tific part of the stance was accomplished..- Still the chief interest was centred in the marvellous manifestations of form and men tality that belonged to the historic ages of the world, and the opening of the doors of ' the buried world of antiquity and the free distribution of its treasures to the defective or immature mentality of this age.

I t was a little singular that the very na tions that have been pronounced and often denounced by the Christian* world as being - in heathen darkness, were the only resources from which we were able to obtain the demon strative proof of the basic principles of Chris tian dogmas that belong to the province of ' immortality; and it was also strange that the heathen Hindoon in spirit seem to be the ones that in this age are willing to bestow upon the Western World the light and wisdom of " the past, in return for the inhuman treat ment their descendants have suffered from the brntal domination of Christian England. - Certainly their coming to the spiritual as sistance of their detractors, is the best possi ble evidence that they hold no malice against the people of other nations and are ever will ing and desirous that the people of the earth shaU know of the life of spirit in all i tsgrades as well as the pathway that leads i t .

rom the gloom of error up to the radiance of ' immortal light which pertains to the sphere - of the nirvanian heavens. B.'

Kansas City. Mo., July 10.

A woman at Lancaster, Pa., who applied « for letters of administration on the estate of ~ her husband, was surprised to find that he had seenred a divorce from her in Nebraska ■ several years ago.

New Jersey has examined her pnblioschool •- houses to discover, that 65 per cent? are a bur-* leeque on sanitary rules.

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Many of oar readers will remember with pleasure some excellent articles and beauti fu l poems from the gifted pen of Mrs. Eliza beth Lyle Saxon, of New Orleans. She will also be remembered for her splendid work with the Tellow Feyer Commission. I t was during a yellow fever scourge that her beauti fu l little daughter passed from earth to spir i t life. It is some time since we have heard from Mrs. Saxon, but we are pleased, to copy from that bright little paper. The Woman's Tribune, an account of a visit by the editor, Mrs. Colby, while on a lecturing tour for Wo man Suffrage through the extreme North- West, to Mrs. Saxon in her new home in Park, Whatcom Co., Washington. Mrs. Saxon has been an indefatigable worker for Woman Suffrage and Temperance for many years:

Out into the heart of the woods to see our beloved Mrs. Saxon. The three and a half mile stage ride fronji Whatcom to the lake is the worst part of the journey, for the roads are something fearful to contemplate. Ge neva, the town at the foot of Lake Whatcom, has also doubled in size since our visit, for i t has two houses instead of one. One of these furnishes the traveler a most excellent meal, prepared by a brave little woman, who crushes down the memory of sorrows and works courageously for her two little ones. The steamer Geneva gets us to the town at the head of the lake. Park, which also has two houses. Here we are met by Lyle, Mrs. Saxon’s fine son of fifteen, who has grown so much as to be hardly recognizable. Then we set out for our six-mile walk, for instead of the nine-mile pony trail, the distance is shortened by a foot-path recently slashed through the woods. The tales of Mrs. Sax on’s heroism in walking the distance and even carrying a pack on her back, would make one ashamed to flinch even if so in clined. I t is delightful, more so than the pony ride. We stop frequently to drink from the streams of mountain water. Oue has a strong sulphur smell and td9te and in its bed sparkle crystals of ’‘fool’s gold.” The short cut through the woods leads partly through a swampy region where the “devil's club,” of which the traveler must beware, for its thorns are poisonous, and the “skunk cabbage” abound. This latter object is the same for which we longed when seen from the car window and its beautiful lotus like flower reminded ns of Egyptian boat-songs and Howad ji moonlight rides upon the Nile, the glamour is gone, as it emits a decided odor justifying its name as we pass.

There is very little of bird life in these woods; that is the one thing we miss. The great fire of 1854 set by the Indians that the game might be driven down from the hills, not! only marred the beaaty of a large part of these grand forests, and destroyed untold wealth of timber, but killed nearly all varie ties: of the native birds. The drumming of the > pheasant, the thrumming of the blue grohse, the choppiug of the yellow hammer and! the melody of the song wren are all the bird voices we hear. The woods are every where full of fallen trees, and this makes travel exceedingly difficult. Some logs are hacked to form steps, others you sit on and swing over. .

-In due time we come to the “burn” which is tnlarked as the future town site of this val ley; Just beyond is the knoll crowned with white pines, by which we know we have come to Mrs. Saxon’s home, for she has the only pines in all the valley. Those who know and love this gifted, royal soul will realize what a joy my meeting her must have been.

The readers of the Tribune will like to have a glimpse of Mrs. Saxon on her claim. There is nothing more harmonious with the forests than the log cabins of this region, and Mrs. Saxon has one of the prettiest. One good- sized room curtained at one end, and this again divided by curtains, so as to form two bedrooms and the living room. The logs outside are chinked with moss and battened with cedar “shakes.” Inside the room is fined with oil paper of a pale yellow, which

quite a pretty effect. Shelves, tables, bedsteads, and benches are hand-made and home made—nothing but the stove and its furniture, the dishes and three camp chairs have been packed over on ponies. Everything is as neat and pretty as a poet’s corner should be, and Mrs. Saxon says she has not felt lone some a moment since she has been there. The trouble with her hand prevents holding a pen, .but she has had encouraging, sympa thetic letters and quantities of papers, sent in response to the Tribune's gentle hint. Mrs. Saxon especially desires to thank the Old and New Club of Malden, Massachusetts. Outside a man is at work grabbing up the sallal roots and sowing timothy and clover. The large yard bas a picket fence and a styl ish gate, all made by Lyle, who t)as developed great skill with carpenter’s tools. He has built himself a workshop and a chicken house, and ere this doubtless has begun his projected porch to the cabin.

From the back window is had a near view c f the Three Sisters whose snowy peaks give back gloriously the changing colors of the day. They can never seem more sacred or sublime than they did to us as we communed together in the tender moonlight. .

A few rods back of the house Mrs. Saxon has had two acres cleared, or at least so nearly so that the logs form the fences be tween her various fields. Here are all kinds of flowers,yonder the early vegetables; beyond that the destined potato-patch and the trian gular oat field. I t is delightful to'note Mrs. Saxon’s interest in it all, and her delight in the work of her own hands.

Then I must climb a log and lean over a perilous height to watch the pretty creek which is lost this side and then again comes out from its mossy hiding place.

At the foot of the hill on the other side is the spring which furnishes the house, and it is the finest water in the country. Below it has been dammed up in numerous places by the beavers, and their cnrionsly constructed pools are sometimes several feet deep. The cress that is found in this running water has been a great boon to the table. Mrs. Saxon has made herself a blessing to her neighbors, her nearest one being a widow with two lit tle children, and we may be sure that none cf the gifts with which she has been so rich ly endowed have failed of their purpose.

r Los Angeles now has a cable road system twenty-two miles in extent and the cost of it was $1,500,000.

The English sparrows have almost exter minated the wrens, orioles and meadow larks, and in five years more the goose will be about the only native bird left.

New York now manufactures an imitation c f every mineral water of any merit, and these are bottled, labelled and sent out\as if coming from the different springs* T

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fo r the Religlo-Philoeophlcal Journal.“ STUDIES” IN PSYCHIC SCIENCE. *

The “ Luminiferous E ther” and “ PsychicE ther” One and the Same—Why Not!

NUMBER TWO.

Brother Tuttle’s valuable book of “Studies” in soul science provokes much, thought. The first sentence in the “Analysis” prefacing his volume contains a leading idea which per vades the whole: “There is a psychic ether, related to thought, as the luminiferous ether is to light.” This announcement is clear and bold, as it should be, though probably not suggested as entirely original. How long has the impression prevailed in the minds of men that the outward and “inward light” bear to each other a close analogy? Why should they not, then, find practical expres sion through means almost identical?

The wonderful prevalence of types and cor respondences in the domain of nature tends to assure the truth of this conception; none the less that these correspondences are ob served to be—not mere shadows of coming truths—types for types’ sake,'so to speak— but practical expressions or initial steps of growth in the line of divine order, every one of which blooms into the flowers of beauty and ripens unto the fruits of use. ;Thus does the enveloping atmosphere which sur rounds our Mother Earth appear as a type of the all pervading ether, yet has its own admirable and abundant uses in ways proper to itself. Since we thus well know that our air has numerous uses other than the mere propagation of sound-waves, we are encour aged to presume that the intensely elastic and infinitely wide-spread “luminiferous ether” has more than the one use—the prop agation of the waves of light. Are we not, indeed, almost forced to conclude that this vastly more comprehensive and highly en dowed soul life of the universe is an agent in the divine economy for the accomplishment of uses proportionally more numerous and transcendently important?

Marvelous as the existence of this univer sal ether may appear, and imperceptible as i t may be to our senses, save in its effects, yet we are led by the “consensus of the compe tent” to own it as a sublime reality and to proceed without dwelling upon the proofs, to generalize accordingly. If its elasticity be such that the undulations of light pass through it a t the astounding ascertained ve locity of 186,000 miles per second of time, what quicker pulsations do we need for the waves of thought? If, to repeat, the incan descent combustion, even of a lamp, can fill a circuit of miles with these,all but instantane ous pulsations, just as the shining of a sun or star fills an approximate universe with a like “trembling light,” why shall not thoughts that burn in thousands of brains (which are only individual pulsating centers of soul life) be able to send their appropriate waves through the same ether in radiating vibrations all around them, or in lines wherein congenial waves may unite in a t tracting each other? Since lamp light in terferes but little with the light rays from another lamp and the separate light of mil lions of suns and planets, maintains each its own individualized pulsations, so nearly in- tact.that each one can be read throughout the limitless fields of space, what more sensitive medium can we conceive of, or need for a transmitter of th9 infinitely multiplied thought waves than this same marvelous ether?

What a field of wonders here opens before us! The great Newton, high priest of Sci ence* joined with others in teaching that the varying lengths of the wave undulations, gave to the sensitive eye and brain the im pression of varying color—that 40,000 undu lations in an inch created the sensation called “red”; 44,000 of the same that called “yellow” ; 51,000 that of “blue” ; and nearly60,000 that of the “extreme violet” of the spectrum. Wonder of wonders more! I t is also known that the human ear which catch es its impressions of sound by atmospheric

. undulations, is sensitive to no sound from a musical chord that vibrates slower than 32 times per second, while—marvelous con trast—such is the sensitiveness of the eye that it perceives no lower color than the red (length as above stated) the almost infinite quickness of whose pnlse is measured by 400 billions of vibrations per second in this elastic medium; and, more marvelous still, the pulse of the “extreme violet” leaps to the tune of 727 billions per second of the beats of the same infinitely sensitive, all permeative life of the divine cosmos.

Verily may we not conclude that in this vast ocean of incomprehensible and vibrat ing sensitiveness is found the rationale (as far as our limited powers may master) of the methods whereby the Infinite Divine becomes the omnipresent and veritable soul life of the world; using the one same medium, through which light—light of the soul and mind— light for the eye (with heat whilom com panion of light)—spiritual light from a great central sun (if there be such)—magnetism— gravity (the most omnipresent and steady of all known forces) and many others, we yet know not of, may all pulsate in due order; may all feel and own the master vibrations that ever thrill the whole?

Allow me to entreat you, Mr. Editor, as well as the readers of the J o u r n a l generally that you do not complain of these compara tively brief speculations in the direction of Brother Tattle’s ideas of a “Psychic Ether,” for are they not directly in the legitimate line of inductive philosophy? To your hum ble writer they are worth infinitely more than all the “empiricisms,” the “Blavatsky- isms,” the “secret doctrines” of the East.

I love the philosophy which teaches that all truth is rational and orderly when under stood, and that mysticism is the fancy of ig norance and folly.

The deductions of the last few centuries in the line of the positive philosophy of na ture, is worth thousands of years of the em pirical dreams of those who preferred to clothe truth in the phantoms of their own dreamy lives rather than to dress her in the simple garb naturally appropriate to the beauty of her open countenance.

Away with the mahatmas and adepts of the Himmalaya Mountains, be they real or fictitious personages, and allow us to follow such “adepts” as the Newtons, the Laplaces the Brewsters, and other more modern and glorious names of our own countrymen, who, like them, wield the Ithuriel spear of a sound inductive philosophy. J . G. J a c k s o n .

"Studies in the Outlying Fields of Psychic Sci ence, by Hudson Tuttle, Author of Arcana of Nature, Origin and Development of Man, Etc. New York: M. L . Holbrook & Co. Price, $1.25.

Names selected from Cooper’s works, Indian and local names, will be given to 180 state islands in Lake George. The forestry com mission has decided that the present names are not euphonious^

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THE MORAL IDEAL; A HISTORIC STUDY. ByJulia Wedgwood. London: Trubner & Co., 1889.Somebody haB said that there are not over five

hundred books in the world that are worth reading. Certain it is, as one advances in life, under the reas onable culture which this age of printing affords,the number one cares to read is greatly diminished. This work is a rare exception. I t should be added to the number of “five hundred,” even if “Pilgrim’s Progress” has to be eliminated to make room for it.

With the exception of Hegel, in the first sixty pages of his Introduction to the Philosophy of His tory, we know of no writer who has so mastered the principles which underlie all history. The name of the work does not give one a clear idea of its im port. I t treats not alone of the moral aspects of the questions discussed, but it treats and brings into bold relief the representative Ideas which each world- relg ion has crystallized into the thought and exper ience of the race. Hinduism, as presented in Brah manism and Buddhism, here finds its monism clearly expressed. Grecianism, with its contrasting play of Grecian beauty and love of nature, is handled in the true Greek spirit; a spirit akin to woman’s aspira tion. Persian Dualism -darkness and light, evil and good, Arimanee and Ormuzd—are brought out into firm contrast as the eternal antagonism, unreconcil- able, with no surrender, except in the utter subjuga tion of darkness and evil and the triumph of the good and the true. The place of Semiticism is fully iecogoized in the divine purpose as the revelation of the one God—personal in bis relations to one tribe or representative race.

Miss Wedcwood says she was twenty years pre paring for and writing this grand classic of the English tongue. We can readily believe her. Would that others would profit by her example. We would have fewer books, but more thought in them. H er style is unequalled except by Landor. In some respects she is bis superior. Here is a woman by culture, refinement and rhythmic flow in her sentences that is lacking in his masculine per formances. Miss Wedgwood carries you through her profound reflections with that womanly witch ery which for the w ant of a better term we call— charm. She is as self-poised as a Grecian statue; and you feel all the time you are reading her book of masculine strength wedded to a womanly deli cacy, that is rarely blended in one writer. She never falters, never plods, but from the pieface to the closing paragraph she roles the reader with her gentle sway. We bad intended to have given a number of extracts as illustrating her style and m anner of writing, but these became so voluminous, as we proc> eded, that we gave up in despair, and have to be content with her closing words:

“All the strength of ancient life w sb wrought up w ith its exclusiveness. A few persons were welded into a closer unity than that attained by any mod ern State, because a number of persons, quite as necessary to its existence as any of its members, were treated as things. Towards this unity we can n ver return. We cannot so unlearn the lessons that we inherit with our bodily structure, as ever to combine in a conscious unity which is to shut out othera of our kind. We have no antagonistic pres sure to supply limits from without; our oneness must come from a universally felt attraction to wards something within. Men think in our day that this center can t e found in the ideal of human ity. Tt ey have yet to learn that no ideal is possible, if that which is idealiz»d knows no beyond. These pages have been occupied with an effort to illustrate from the history of moral thought the belief that man can strive towards no virtue in which he does not feel the sympathy of God. He must feel him self in some sense a fragm ent.it ever t e is to dis cover his true oneness. Virtue must be a refracted ray from something above virtue; duty must be the aspect, visible in our dense atmosphere, of a higher excellence ext* nding far beyond it. And they who would deny this, they who feel that nature exhausts God, that the summits of human virtue are the sum mits of moral excellence, that reverence is the pre vision for inferiority and fades away before man reaches those heights towards which be iB always striving, they can find in the moral thought of the past little but a collection of errors. Man, if we judge him by history, knows nim^e f only so far as he turns towards the eternal Other of the human spirit; he fiudBhis true Unity only as he finds a larger Unity which makes him one with himself and his brother man. ”

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Blavatskosophy.

I t is undeniably true that through the ex ploiting of a Rassian adventuress a wide and permanent interest in Oriental literature has been created in America. It is also true that a considerable namber of intelligent and ex cellent people interested m ancient lore and searching eagerly for light on the great prob lems of life have turned to the literature of the Orient hoping to find a solution of vexed questions. A still larger number have been drawn toward India through their love of the marvelous and their all believing credulity as to everything claimed to be of psychic or igin. Both of these classes have been fed di- -aotiv afely-see--onded by her lieutenant whom she has al lowed to stand as the nominal figure-head of the venture. Col. H. S. Olcott wears the title of President-Founder of the Theosophical So ciety .hut Helen Petrovna Blavatsky has up to very lately pulled the strings, and furnished most of the brains. Those of the first class hereinbefore mentioned have been little in fluenced by the Russian woman’s person ality, and do not feel they owe her fealty. The

Madame-and she departed. Getting back to continental Europe she sat about conjnring up* a scheme for repairing her prestige and extending her influence without the risk of farther exposure of pseado-psychic exploits.

Fortunately, by the timely aid of our office cat who has been iadnstrionsly rummaging about in Europe and America for the past few weeks, assisted by a corps of fall-blood ed mahatmas, we are able to exhibit a bit of esoteric inwardness on this point which we copy from a letter in Mine. Blavatsky’s own handwriting. King Cat declares he had great trouble in secnring it from ont the Rnssian’s astral light owing to the swarms of belligerent elementals that hung upon the front, flank and rear of his Silver Age body guard and fought desperately for their mistress. Bat he succeeded, and here is a copy; the original being in our hands and in Blavatsky’s own familiar chirography:

‘ My De a r -----, What I meant was to keepthe details of phenomenaand anything com ing from and connected with Masters very secret, yet to make no secret of the phe nomena as before going on (otherwise the public would say that since the expose, so called, by the Psychic R. S. we were tamed and that the “humbug” has ceased, whichwould be fatal tons)___We are snrronndedby pitfalls, whirlpools and traitors. We have to fight them fearlessly and openly but with the weapons of philosophy, not those o f phenomena as we would 'soon get worsted again. Let it be known that phenomena goes on with ns as before, bat do not let any one know what it is, and the great secrecy will be the best punishment for the howling, doubting and profane public. We must work publicly on the platform of philosophy. I f Olcott had not courted exposure and scandal by his stupid invitation o f the S. P . B. to ‘come and see,’ then there would be nothing o f all that happened. B ut note we are in and have to do the best we can.. . . . I tell yon one thing though. There’s Sinnett coming ont with the ‘Memoirs’ upon Mme. Blavatsky. Therein he has collected all that could be collected of my life written by others not m yself and by trust worthy witnesses. Now if yon have anything you would not mind saying, over yonr own signature, something that took place or yourexperience after the d-----d Psychic lies, thatwould do a great deal of good.......Yon wouldclean and scrap off the mud stuck on me more efficiently with a few words to-the ef fect that yon know I am not a charlatan and that yon know I can travel in my astral body than hnndred tbeosophists defending me. Would you do it fo r me? If you can do so, write it immediately in the shape of an open card or letter beginning with ‘I, so and so, certify,’ or whatever yoa like and send it to me Ostende posts restante whither I am go ing to emigrate next week.” . . . .

[Signed] H. P. Bl a v a t s k y .The italics in the above are oars, otherwise

it is verbatim. Any one looking through poor Sinnett’s Incidents in the Life o f Madame Blavatsky (London, Redway, 1886,) will sur mise that a number of people, including W.Q. Judge, “did not mind” saying something over their own signatures at the Madame’s request, just to brace things up “after,” in the pions language of the high priestess of the “Wisdom Religion,” “the d-— d Psychic lies.” The reader will please make a note here that philosophy is to be exploited hence forth and phenomena relegated to secrecy. The importance of this point will appear later.

From the time of Mr. Hodgson’s report up to last fall Madame Blavatsky was in most cantankerous hnmor. She openly usurped the authority of the President-Founder in several instances with the most idiotic disre-

second, by far the larger class,regard the Mad ame as the Alpha and Omega of Theosophy, a person too sacred to be lightly spoken of, and to whom they bow down in worshipful sub mission, even abasing themselves' to that de gree which enables them to voluntarily and gladly accept the name of “sucking doves,” and obligate themselves to obey her “with out cavil or delay.” They talk about “wis dom religion” and “sacred doctrines,” bat in all this are only spelling the name of their goddess with the Blavatskosophic alphabet. Of coarse they are not so far gone as not to deny this—even other lnnatics, now confined in State institutions, would have that much -wit—bat all their acts and talk prove its truth, prove that to them at least H. P. Bla vatsky is the Theosophical Society.

After the crashing exposure of the schemes of Blavatsky, and the pnblicity given the “Rules and Obligations of the Esoteric Sec tion,” in the Jo u r na l of Jane 8th, the Gen eral Secretary of the American Section T. S., W. Q. Judge of New York, deemed it politic to deny that the aforementioned Esoteric Section was anything new. In his Path for June he pats this supposititious question in the month of an apocryphal correspondent:

“Why has H. P. Blavatsky waited until now to so publicly proclaim the Esoteric Sec tion?” To which he replies:. “As a matter

gard of the proprieties of her position and to the great danger of disgracing in the eyes of the faithful the alleged Council in India, which the gentle Theosophists had been taught to believe managed the organic ma chinery. She seemed a Boar bon as to memory, and apparently fancied the old halcyon days when her word was law had not passed. The relations between herself and her chief chela, Olcott, grew more strained, until the painfnl tension threatened demoralization of the whole flock of chelas.

The battle for supremacy between Olcott and Blavatsky waged none the less fnriously because esotorically. Olcott in his contests with Helen Petrovna is a fairly good long distance fighter, and he harried the old l^dy badly. She feared that before she could once more get him in her presence for re-hyp- notization, the old spell would be dissipated entirely and he would smash things. But she is a woman of resources and a born strat egist; her wits did not fail in this dire emerg ency. The climax was appr. aching; Olcott talked of coming to America; she was about to throw the dice or play a game of cards with him to see which should rake in the pot. She concluded if either was to be put in the soap it should not be the Rassian; she loaded the dice and stocked the cards; and this is how she did it:

of fact she has not so waited. In 1875 and since many (?) have been in i t . . . . ”

That there has from the first been a “ring” of more or less hypnotized dupes and accessories (take your choice Mr. Judge) there is no question; but there has never been an Esoteric Section in the sense the Path man

On July 6th, 1888, she cabled her faithfnl henchman,W. Q. Judge, that the crisis had ar rived and American support was “absolutely necessary to save the cause,” i. e., Blavatsky. She also ordered him to get prompt adhesion of all branch societies—by the adoption of a resolution which she also cabled—and cable

desires to have his readers think, until with in the past year. The esoteric history of the need of an Esoteric Section may be briefly a>ld.

Mr. Richard Hodgson, who had been ac cepted by both parties in interest as an im partial observer and competent investi gator, was sent to India in November, 1884, by the Psychical Research Socie ty, to investigate the tru th of certain claims as to marvelons phenomena wrought there by Blavatsky and her “mahat-

ys.” He spent three months in thorough d impartial research. His report was most

jastrons to Mme. Blavatsky’s claims, and a t Olcott and others in a painfully ridicu

lous attitude before the public. Great efforts were made to break the, force of Mr. Hodg son’s report, bat all to no avail; consequently Adyar bee** a an unhealthy place for the

result in ten days. When Madame pnlis the string, even though three thousand miles away, Judge jumps. Before twenty-four hours had flown he had written or wired every branch. Here is a copy of his letter:

Ju ly ,6,1888.D e a r S ib & Bbo.:—By direction of Mme, Blavat-

eky and the Lodge,!, as her representative am to re quest yon to call a apodal meeting of your Branch for the purpose of passing or refusing to pass the following resolution:

“In event of the President in India (Olcott) declin ing to recognize Mme. Blavatsky’s authority in the West, we undertake to support her in any course she may consider necessary to adopt.” .

The vote on this to be sent me at once, by mail if possible to reach me in a week, if not then by tele graph a t my expense; so that I can cable to her. This resolution has been passed unanimously by the Blavatsky Lodge in London. Personally I think it should be passed. This is a critical year in T. S. history, although not apparent in the West. The resolution ’ the hands of both Col. Olcottand Mm '"-“temally Yours,

(P ‘w Q. J u d g e .P.C

Judge’s naive remark that “the resolution will hold np the hands of both Col. Olcott and Mme. Blavatsky” wa9 a stroke of diplo matic genius worthy of the heathen Chinee or the Clan-na-Gael triangle. Of coarse it would “hold up Olcott’s hands”—just as a policeman might do it with the manacles on them—and put a club in Blavatsky’s with which she coaid poand him into proper condition for hypnotization and compromise.

At this point it is necessary to diverge for a moment. We have for years past repeated ly told intelligent Theosophists of the 1st class—as defined a t the beginning of thte exr position—that Blavatsky was considered to be the T. S. by many fellows of the society; and that it would be useless to attempt to crowd the woman down the throats of the bet ter class of Americans; that a woman with a tainted reputation and addicted to chicane and jngglery would not be accepted in this country as a religions leader or as an ex ponent of psychics, whether under the name of Theosophy or any other. When asserting this we have usually been met with an as tonished disclaimer that she was regarded by any fellow as being the T. S. In proof of the correctness of onr assertion we call as a witness W. Q. Judge, Aryan President, and General Secretary and Manager of the Ameri can Section T. S. His evidence will not only prove onr assertion bnt will be found in teresting in other particulars. For instance, we have yet to see an F. T. S. who did not take it that the communication to the sev eral branches requesting a meeting to be called to vote on the resolntion pledging un qualified adhesion to Blavatsky was sent ont by Jndge in his official capacity. Judge’s testimony will clear np this point and sat isfy members of various branches that they were in error. Thanks to onr indefatigable office cat we have before ns a letter in Jndge’s own handwriting dated July 12th, 1888, from which we extract the salient points. His “H. P. B.” stands for Blavat sky, and“d . S. 0.” for Col. Olcott; with this explanation we publish the extracts as fol lows:

“ ___Representing H. P. B. I ask them toconsider what she proposes. The same was sent to every branch and none have the slightest proof that I acted otherwise than as the individual agent for H. P. B. I would not make the request as Sec. nor propose it to the Ex. Com. nor as CCC for the simple and easy reason that 11. P. B. on- Friday by telegraph ordered me to do what I did. And when she orders me I do as she says with out reasons___The T. S. is H. P. B., andhence what she wishes done shall be___This- matter is wholly and solely H. P. B. and no one else and the ontcome is here. The cable came Friday bald and bare, and my request was wired Satnrday to every Branch___Since then I have a letter notify ing me that a circular letter from H. P. B.will come here___There is a crisis whichno one but H. P. B. can use and avert and pass.

There is no split with H. S. 0., but T be lieve the whole affair of H. P. B.’s telegram is to work on the assinine [sic.] council H.S. 0. has about him in India----

[Signed] William Q. Jndge.P. S. I have received telegraphic and

written replies from all T. S. Branches bat 3 that they have passed the resolntion nem. con.

No italics or capitals are needed to accent uate the evidence of this competent witness, and coadjutor of Blavatsky. What do you think of it, Tbeosophists? “When she orders me I do as she says without reasons___TheT. S. is H. P. B., and hence what she wishes done shall be,” says your General Secretary and American manager. How do you like it? If you agree with this Celt’s devotion to the Cossack, say so! Let the world know what sort of people you are, in a frank and candid way; don’t play any close-mouthed, after dark, Camp 20, Clan-na-Gael games. The public has had enough of such tactics.

Reverting again to the main topic. Hav ing captured the American Branches, Blavat sky was ready to treat with Olcott. He saw she had outwitted him and that a division of the business was the only show he had as a temporizing expedient, and until he could lay new plans at a safe distance from the Muscovite mesmerist and manipulator. So it was agreed that he would, after one more trick—necessary to hoodwink the dear strag glers for “Universal Brotherhood”—give up the faking share of the partnership to Bla vatsky, who should be qneen in her own realm, while he wonld play the philosophic organ. She should have her Esoteric Section, and dispense “occultism” while Olcott was to ran the exoteric machine; to be allies in so far as their common interests might dictate and it might be necessary to hoodwink the pnblic, bnt neither must poach on the pre serves of the other. Having fixed np this compact, the next thing in order was the playbill published in the Jo u r n a l of Jane 8th, headed “The Esoteric Section of the The osophical Society,” in which the proposed Esoteric Section was formally announced. Of course all this joggling by the twin found ers of the T. S. was not done without calling in the aid of Koot Hoomi. The story was put forth that Olcott while still a t sea on board the “Shannon,” on his way from Bom bay to Brindisi, and on the day before arriv ing at port, “received in his cabin a long and important letter from the said master, gen erally known as ‘K. H.’ ” It is unnecessary to quote this fatuous fake which Olcott, an American, has the audacity, conjointly with Blavatsky, to attempt to palm off upon intelligent American and English people who may be interested in eo-calied Theoso phy; unnecessary because the events of the past eight months tell the story of the scheme foreshadowed in the supposititious Koot’s supposititious letter. That the Yankee outwitted the Cossack for once is quite ap parent when viewed in; , the light of to-day. To the disciples of Bl&v ":y we commend a careful study of a most nifleant editorial

in Olcott’s Theosophist for Jane, entitled “The Situation.” We quote the opening sen tences, both because they forecast the drift of the entire article, and because they dis credit Judge’s attempt to palm off the Eso teric Section as a venerable institution:

“We have not yet got our proper bearings after the radical change in the Society made by an Order of the President last antnmn, and adopted into (foe Constitution and* Rales of the Theosophical Society by the General Conncil in the Annual Convention of 1888. This change was the formation of an Esoteric Division of the Society; and this separation of the esoteric element from the exoteric, is hot only a disentangling of two things that have different methods and aims and the mixing up of which in the work and life of the Society has given rise to considerable confusion, bnt it is, moreover, a weaning of the Society from sources that have previously nourished it.”

This may properly and fairly be interpret ed, taken in.connection with the context and the history of the past three years, to mean abont thns: Since I, the President-Founder, was such an idiot as to pit Blavatsky’s skill as a trickster against the investigation of the Psychical Research Society,and since Hodgson exploded onr psychic and mahatmic fakes; and moreover, since the.old Bourbon, Blavatsky, is not amenable to reason any more, it is use less longer to work the phenomena branch! of onr business. Hence I will turn it over to Madame as her share of the assets; then I will depreciate her stock and belittle her occultism, for thereby I shall get even with her and a t the same time tickle the public and gain favor for my scheme which is no less a fake, bat not so easily detected.

<* Our Lady of Cambria,”

The Annals o f Our Lady o f the Sacred Heart, now in its thirteenth year, is the “monthly bulletin of the Archcon Fraternity of Onr Lady of the Sacred Heart,” published by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a t Watertown, N. Y., with the approbation of the Rt. Rev. Edgar P. Wadhams, Bishop of Ogdensbnrg. Some of our readers will re member the attempts of the Catholics in Cambria to work a Blavatsky “fake” on the faithf nl in the matter of a statue in a church which was saved from the flood by a “mir acle.” Any joking over sach horrors is sim ply ghastly—like the prayer of the clergy man who besought the Lord to “pour ont the waters of his grace”upon the survivors of the Conemangh flood! That was gruesome and grotesque enongh, bnt i t is nothing to the following—to comment on which words fail ns—clipped from an article in the periodical jnst cited. The writer is speaking of the feast of “Our Lady of the Sacred^ Heart,” which this year fell on the 31st of May, and goes on to say:

“The celebration of this feast is often post poned on account of Pentecost, bat this year, while we were keeping that day so dear to oar hearts, while onr voices,;more fervent than usual, ascended to the throne of Divine Mercy, in supplication to, and praise of the Mother of Jesus, a calamity unprecedented in the annals of this country, struck terror into all hearts.' We adored the designs of God and prayed to onr heavenly Mother still more fervently, and behold, from the midst of the disaster, she responds to the confidence of her children by a striking prodigy. In Saint Mary’s Church, a t Cambria, the water destroyed and sullied everything, bnt was prevented by an invisible hand from touch ing the statue of the most Blessed Virgin, or the decorations with which it had been sur rounded by the filial piety of her children, who were assembled at her feet to close the month dedicated to her honor, when warning was given them to seek safer quarters (!) The destructive wave having receded, she ap pears to her children wearing the same ex pression of serenity, and entirely free from all stain, like an apparition from above, coming to console them in their sorrow. In a moment of supreme distress, Mary affirms in the most remarkable manner that she wishes, indeed, to be the Protectress of a country long since consecrated to her. The Catholics of America are deeply impressed by this strange fact. In all Catholic coun tries Oar Lady has revealed herself to her children In order to increase their confi dence, but it seems that on the 31st day of last May she found this land also sufficiently Catholic to take possession of it in a visible manner, like a good Qneen showing herself to her stricken people to tell them in a mys terious language: ‘Behold 1 come to you as a Qneen fall of clemency, as a kind and ten der Mother, as a powerful Protectress. Con fide in me and take conrage.’

“We thank thee, Qneen of heaven and earth, and Mother of onr God, and we extol thy bounty for giving ns so signal a mark of thy kindness.”

The way in which sensations are pitted against systematized conceptions, and in which the one or the other prevails accord ing as the sensations are felt by ourselves, or merely known by report, is interestingly il lustrated at the present day by the state of public belief abont Spiritualistic phenomena- There exist numerous narratives of move ment without contact on the part of articles of fnrnitnre and other material objects, in the presence of certain privileged individuals called mediums. Such movements violate onr memories, and the whole system of ac cepted physical “science.” Consequently those who have not seen it, either brand the narratives immediately as lies, or call the phenomena “illusions” of sense, produced by fraud or dne to hallucination. Bnt one who has actually seen such a phenomenon, under what seems to him sufficiently “test condi tions,” will hold to his sensible experience through thick and thin, even thongh the whole fabric of “science” shonld be rent in twain. That man wonld be a weak-spirited creature, indeed, who should allow any fly blown generalities abont “the liability of the senses to be deceived,” to-bally him out of his adhesion to what for himf was an indis putable experience of sight. >A man may err

in this obstinacy, sure enough, in any partic ular case. Bnt the spirit that animates him is that on which ultimately the very nfe-and health of science rests.—Prof. Wm. James on " The Psychology o f Belief,” in Mind fo r July. • • . -

I f Not Spirit Presence, What?From a reliable sonree comes this remark

able fact which needs no comment. Some- years ago a lady was heir to part of a large- estate, a brother and other sisters sharing i t with her. That brother always addressed her as “ Sister,” and had a habit of touching her shoulder as he came up to speak with her. He passed away, and she lived in 4 large house, which she owned, bat which was in charge of the exeentors of the estate. She wished to make certain improvements on the premises, bnt i t was a question whether the estate most pay for them or whether the cost wonld fall on her. Her lawyer held i t quite doubtful, and at last she said: “ I will make the improvements and pay the cost myself, i f necessary.” The day she came to this deci sion, while walking from her parlor to an other room, not thinking of her brother, she felt that familiar touch of a hand on her shoulder and heard her brother’s voice say; “ Sister, yon can go on with yonr plans and the estate will pay the expenses.” She asked her lawyer to see the exeentors, which he promised to do, bnt thought it quite useless. In a day or two he told her they had said i t would be right, and that they were bound to pay the cost of the proposed rebuilding, a ver dict which surprised him, bnt they did pay that cost. None of these persons were spirit ual ists, and this account comes from one o f the aisters, not a Spiritualist.

Confidential.

One hot day last week, when the sirocco blew in from St. Lonis and raised the ther mometer to 85 degrees in onr sanctum, w e rebelled against editorial work, declined to agonize farther over the woes of numerous correspondents whose queries wonld in some instances take an hour to dictate an answer to, and still longer for the stenographer to pa t in typeoscript. We took off oar coat,, metaphorically speaking, and undertook th e pleasing task of approximating how much was dne ns from subscribers perfectly able to pay their bills and renew their subscriptions. We found the amount, greatly to onr sur prise, to be nearly $4,000! This sum if prompt ly paid together with renewal in. each case for another year wonld pa t over $6,000 to onr credit in bank and enable ns to make im provements vital to the interests of th e Jo u r n a l . We don’t propose to scold, but only to suggest that if those in arrears w ill promptly settle, it w ill tend to prevent sun stroke, bad crops, grasshopper plagues, and cyclones. Try it! Qaickly! —

A Question to r Oregon Officials.1

A subscriber atYoncolla, Oregon, writes:: “I see yon are advertising for the Oregon Board of Emigration. Hundreds of families come here and are compelled to leave on ac count of the fact that there is no established, road law to give them a road to their land. How can a State be settled np that does not - provide a way for people to get to and from their farms? We have been trying for some time to get a road law for the poor settlers- but have thus far failed.”

The Jo u r n a l knows nothing about t t . status of this matter, bnt if as set forth in the above complaint it is a horning disgrace to Oregon, and one that will in the end injure the State, however mnch it may benefit monopolies and land barons. The- Jo u r n a l is- open for a statement from the Board of Emigration.

One of the funniest features of the theo sophical situation is reflected in an article- lately started on its rounds in one of the great New York dailies, entitled, “ Heading- off Dr. Cones. The Theosophical society pats itself beyond his control.” The article states that the society has applied for a legal char ter of incorporation “ as a means of protec tion against Dr. Elliott Cones, whom they de nounce in unmeasured terms.” It reminds us of children snuggling nnder the bedclothes - for fear of bogies. Or, perhaps, the New York: branch were afraid the Professor might dis perse them by reading the riot act, having- failed to pat them in his coat-tail pocket.- Bnt in any event, we think they will be more likely to “ head him off ” if they ever find ont which way he is heading. Jnst now it serais • to be Blavatsky and her “ pals” and dopes- who have been “ headed off.”

E W. Dunham writes as follows in refer ence to the Spiritual Alliance at Providence,R. I.: “ Initiatory steps have been taken to form an association here on the principles so> thoroughly advocated by the Jo u r n a l : Intel ligent investigation, repudiation of frauds,, and the elimination of the sensational in . Sunday services. Our intentions are to em ploy the best lecturers, and have the best:, music. Hon. Sidney Dean is a member, and* will be onr speaker for a large portion of the- year. We propose to compel the respect and* attention of intelligent outsiders by showing: them the better side of Spiritualism.”

From the Daily Pacific Commercial Adr- vertiser published a t Honolulu, Hawaiian: Islands, we learn that the 4th of July was celebrated with great £clat there. A salute of 42 guns was fired, orations,* fire-works, balloon, ascensions, and all the Yankee con trivances for expending patriotism and mon ey were fully utilized. Onr old comrade, Captji/w. C. Wilder, now a Noble of Kalakua’s realm,was a prominent actor in the jubilee..

L 27. Ib89.l a Exciting Incident.

RELIGIO-PHILOSC H1CAL J O U R N A L .GENERAL ITEMS.

•The following incident from that unique* yet trustworthy work in three volumes. Trav els in Spain, Siam, and Siberia; byO’Sul livan and Sinnett, (London, Roadway and Troobnah, 1886,) has a peculiar interest a t this time, and is here reproduced with impunity owing to the lack of an international copy right law:

“Once npon a time a broken-down showman, who had in his batter days aspired to rival Barnum, found himself in a strange city, and withont financial resources. Bat if Bloh- wiskcy—that was his name—had not money he possessed what was better, unlimited audac ity and infinite resources. Patting on a bold front he went to the imperial prin ting office with a drawing of a beast of gigantic size and terror-inspiring appearance. As suming the tone and manner of a king of the ring he ordered huge posters by the hundred containing a picture of the animal and an nouncing that Count Blohwiskcy, Chief of Emperor Nicholas’s Corps of Animal Cap- tnrers, and Lord High Tamer to the Empress, had been ordered by His Majesty the Em peror to favor the people with a sight of the terrible man-eating Griastakntas, the scourge of the Himmalayas. The exhibit would take place at the opera house on a specified even ing. Admission $1.00, the proceeds to be used in promoting Universal Brotherhood among the hard-working but self-willed and cranky people of Siberia. At the hour desig nated the immense building .was crowded to suffocation; Count Blohwiskcy having pre sided at the box office—so as to have as much for the U. B. business as possible. After a long talk on the philosophy of tam ing the savage nature of men and animals, and blood curdling stories of what the Giastakutas was accustomed to do when cantankerous, Bloh wiskcy excused himself for a moment, say ing he would retire and hypnotize the animal before ordering the curtain raised, otherwise the sight of the many people might so stimn late the giastakntasian thirst for gore that none would live to leave the auditorium.—The excited audience w'aits five minutes, ten min utes; fearful throes of expectant attention sway the vast gathering. Suddenly the most awful shrieks are heard, as of one in mortal agony; a great clanking of chains and u n earthly roaring, as though Bass Viol had conspired with Tin Thunder to raise a riot, adds to the wildness of the scene; out rushes Count Blohwiskcy, his dress suit in tatters, his face besmeared with a good imitation of blood: ‘Save yourselves! Save yourselvesfor God’s sake! The awful and only Gias takutas is loose!!’---- As the crowd surgedand fought for exit, a man dressed in the disguise of a Russian general's wife and carrying a small but heavy bag might have been seen to quietly emerge from the back door of the opera house and head toward the dock of the London steamer.”

We learn from Light, London, that the s& ances given by Herr Emil Sehraps, under the direction of the Psychical Society of Berlin, Prussia, are now concluded, and with the ex ception of the seventh, at which nothing whatever took place, were eminently success ful. Herr Karl Siegismund drew up an ac count of the stances, which was recognized as correct and signed by all present. The manifestations were of so conclusive a na ture that the greatest skeptic must have been convinced that it was impossible they could have been produced by the medium, even if he had been sitting in the cabinet quite free and unfettered. At two of the stances the rappiDgs were such as to cause general as tonishment, and as loud as though made either by the knuckles or the fists. They came upon the floor, the wall, a secretary, the bed, the book-case, a box, the stove, and a packet of packing paper, as well as on the side of the curtain, on both parts of the fold ing-doors. following one another in such rapid succession that the medium could not possibly have reached the different places, in which they were heard, in so short a time, 4et alone the fact that the cabinet was in to tal darkness. In every stance the lights which appeared were wonderfully beautiful and in two of them quite astonishing. Arms and hands, as well as feet, were distinctly seen and shown in front of the curtain by a strong stream of phosphorus. Several times the hands were clapped loudly together or upon the door posts, and against the curtain crosses and figures of large hands and arms were formed, lighted up by numberless little phosphorescent spark9. In every sitting also the head and face of the medium were ilium inated and the curtain was drawn back by unseen handB, so that he could be seen fast bound, sitting on the chair. Several times when this took place the medium, with the chair on which he sat, was raised from the floor. ..

Mr. Ralph E. Hoyt, President of the Chi cago and California Colonization Company with headquarters at Los Angeles, is in town for a brief visit. Bro. Hoyt reports a build

i n g boom of large and healthy growth at Los Angeles, and predicts from this time forward a natural and rapid improvement,both in the cities and in the farming districts of South ern California, now that the unhealthy spec ulative fever has cooled off. Mr. Hoyt is Pres ident of the Illinois Association of Los Angel es, which has grown into a powerful organiz ation, devoted to social and literary objects

Miss Phoebe C. Hull is an authorized agent to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the J o u r n a l a t any camp or wherever she may be. I t is now expected that she will reach Lake Pleasant on or before August 1st.

Postage stamps inclosed in letters at thiB time of year cause much trouble to recipi ents, owing to their adhering with obstinate pertinacity. Frequently in removal the con tents of the letter are rendered illegible and the stamps spoiled. They should be wrapped in a separate sheet of white paper.

Mr. B. F, Underwood is having a fine lec ture campaign in Oregon, where he meets with the highest consideration from the press and people. The Statesman, the leading daily of Salem, compliments very highly the course of lectures just closed in that enter prising city. We hope when snow flies Mr. Underwood will return to Chicago.

Miss Jennie B. Hagan spoke, July 14th, and 16th, at Cape Cod Camp Meeting; and 18th to 26th at Parkland, Pa. She will be at Clinton Iowa, from July 27 th to August 5th; Ashta bula, Ohio, August 7th and 8th; Sunapee Lake, N. H., 10th to 19th; Cassadaga, N. Y, 22nd, to September 5th; St. Louis, Mo., Sep tember 8th and 15th.

Mr. John Slater passed through Chicago last week, en route from San Francisco to Philadelphia. He reports flattering success in his mediumistic work daring the past eight months, having,'as he says, banked $9,000 in that time, and had Metropolitan Temple full twice each Sunday. He returns to San Francisco in September; in the inter val he proposes to visit Onset, Lake Pleasant and possibly Cassadaga.

Co r r e c t i o n :—In the article, “Mark Time, Theosophists!” occurs a slip of the pen which, however immaterial, should be cor rected by myself rather than another person. In speaking of the finishing of the “shrine1 a t Adyar, a t the top of the second column of the eight page, the name “Hodgson’s” twice in parenthesis, should read Hartmann’s.— E llio tt Comes.

A new edition of Rules and Advice for those desiring to form circles, together with dec laration of principles and belief, and hymns and songs for circles and social singing, com piled by James H. Young, is ready, revised and enlarged. Many copies of this pam phlet have been sold, and now another edi tion is ready. Price 25 cents, postpaid, for sale a t this office.

The Light of Egypt has lately come from the press and is a work well worth a careful perusal. I t is sure to create a sensation and be productive of lasting results. For nearly twenty years the writer has been deeply en gaged in investigating the hidden realms of occult force. I t will interest Spiritualism and all students of the occult. Finely illus trated with eight full page engravings. Price $3.00 . *

L. N. Walling writes: “The little handful of Spiritualists of Cawker City, Kansas, thinking organized work better than un organized work, have organized under the name of The Cawker City Spiritualist Asso ciation, with Mr. P. T. McNair,President; Mr. Isaac Skinner, Vice-President; Mr. L. N. Wal ling, Secretary, and Mrs. Isaac Skinner, Treasurer. The Association starts with but eight charter members, but with buoyant hopes for the future.”

The account of experiences in materializa tion with the medium W. W. Aber, which ap pears on the second page of this issue, will tax the credulity of those even who are full believers in this phase of spirit manifesta tion. The J o u r n a l has no comment to make at this time other than to say i t folly credits the truthful intent of the writer and believes he has told only what he thinks be actually saw and heard; and this being the case, the account offers a curious psychological study whether one considers only the narrator or the narration itself, or both together.

Mr. Fred. L. Alles and family of Los Angel es were in Chicago last week. Mr. Alles is making an extended visit among his editorial friends in Illinois. For some years before leaving Illinois he was the inspiring spirit of the State Press Association and endeared himself to hundreds of editors—their wives and families,by his untiring energy and great executive ability, displayed in planning and conducting the annual conventions, and im posing excursions from one end of the country to the other. “0! that we had Alles back,” is the perennial cry of Illinois country editors.

ally acquainted with the facts with which it pretends to deal. I t would deceive no expert, not even a tyro who had a little personal ex perience: but it appeals to prejudice and ig norance; it has just so much pseudo scientific terminology in it as may take in the unwary. It is, therefore, perhaps, well to point out, as we have done, that it is worthless from begin ning to end, and adds not one iota to our knowledge.”

G. H. Brooks started for the HaslettPark Camp Meeting, Mich., last Wednesday.

videre Seminary, boarding and washing included. This department embraces Typew riting, Steno graphy, Book-keeping; and all business fornw. For circulars address Principals of Belvidere Seminary, Belvidere, New Jersey.

“The Devil” and “ E P luribus Unum.”To,the Editor of the Bellglo-Fhllosopbleal Journal.

I see the R e l i g i o -P h i l o s o p h i c a l J o u r n a l has adopted the idea that “The Devil” is the genius of progress, and “E Pluribus Unum” co-operation is to be the final remedy for all industrial and business evils. Perhaps you are right, but I do not think that either you or your correspondents have made the way to the end quite clear—although the Rev. Mr. Brown hints at it, or approaches closely to the edges of it.

The natural order of evolution appears to lead through small combinations np to larger Ones. This is a limited application of co-op eration—call it co-operation for competitive purposes, if you please. Co-operative bodies are formed to get rid of competition on a small scale, and for the purpose of more ef fectually competing on a larger one. I think there is no way of preventing the present monopolistic movement from going on to the end. putting every industry and line of busi ness into one gigantic combine; and I do not think it would be desirable to prevent it if we could. To retard it, even, is to delay the final consummation that will bring relief and satisfaction to all. To unnecessarily hasten it, would bring confusion, growing out of imperfection and lack of knowledge. The end must be reached through contention and suffering, until every obstacle is cleared away and the monopolies, or co-operative competitive organizations, are placed on an undisputed foundation.

But while each organization may become harmonious in its own sphere of co-dperation, each will be a rival and competitor of every

. other similar organization. Each will want to secure the largest share of the public fleece, and each will be watchful and jealous of all the rest. Thus the war of the giants wiU begin, and wage hotter and hotter up to the verge of a dead-lock, if not destruction. In consequence, the people—especially the industrial portion—will suffer fearfully. They will play no small part in the struggle, bu t they will be held in the iron grip of the monopolies until these giants have exhaust ed themselves and whipped each other. Then common sense and common justice will be gin to receive a little candid consideration by mutual consent. I do not think the strug gle will be very long, but it will be furious and fast while i t continues.

During the truce that will follow, a grand E Pluribus Unum combine will be consid ered and adopted just as naturally and freely as any of the present combines have been formed—but with much greater facility. All the combines will be united under one head, and that bead will be the government, which will run every industry and line of business much as it now runs the postal service. Then we shaU be truly “many in one.” The powers that prompted the adoption of thfe motto looked away beyond the States, and saw much farther into the millstone than the men who pecked it. They saw the time when the people should own and control everything through their governmental organization. Then all will, in a general sense, become em ployes of the government,each working for all, and all sharing with each, every individual being given an eqnal chance, according to his Or her capacity, and every one made se cure against want and its accompanying tor ments.

This is the ultimate way out of the woods, Mr. Bundy. Meantime, we must tax our wits and powers to palliate the almost fathomless suffering of the masses before the final con summation is reached. T. D. Cu r t i s .

Chicago, July 16,1889.

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now ran a through line of elegant, new buffet sleep ing cars, leaving Chicago daily except Friday, at 10:10 p. m., to Portland, on the Maine coast, via Ni agara Falls and the White Mountains, without change. Ample time is given to see Niagara Falls, and the roost interesting parts of the route are all passed by daylight The train stops directly in front of the principal Hotels of the W hite Mountain re gion, and has open observation carB attached for the passage of the W hite Mountain or Crawford Notch. At Portland connection is made with Pullman Sleep er, arriving at Bar Harbor in time for breakfast the next morning. Connection is made a t Niagara Falls with through Sleeper to Clayton, connecting there with steamers to the Thousand Islands, Alexandria Bay, Montreal and Qaebec. For fall ana detailed in formation in regard to these summer resorts, and the way to reach them, send six cents postage for “A Modern Pilgrimage,” and Summer Tourist Bates, to O. W. R u g g le s , General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111.

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lasted to #pirit'tpt*.Sarah J. Richards daughter of D. S. Richards, of Castalla,

Iowa, passed to spirit life on tbe sixth day of June, 1889, agen 18 years. 5 months and 24 days. She bad been a patient sufferer most of her earth life. At the time of her death tbe was an inmate of the Sanltariu n at Battle Creek, Michigan. Her departure was sudden, her lifeless form being found in her bed tbe morning of tbe above date Having spent most of her life a t her borne sbe will be greatly missed and mourned by the family, relatives and friends. Had her strength been equal to her will and energy she could have accomplished much, being very firm In tbe temperance cause she longed to help In the great work. Jennie has gone before us to Join her mother and little brother in tbe beauti ful beyond, and they are waiting to welcome our coming to that home of the Immortals. B b v M a t h k w W i n s .

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Dr. W. G. Reid, editor and proprietor of the Spiritual Instructor, writes that he will take a much needed vacation dnring August and visit the various prominent camp meetings. The testimony of many professedly compe tent witnesses is to the effect that Dr. Reid is < superior medium and an excellent healer.

Dr. Joseph Beals, the efficient and popular President of Lake Pleasant Camp dnring its entire existence of fifteen years writes: “The camp never looked so well as now; the hotel opened oq the 13tb, and is rapidly filling np with boarders.- The brass band comes to day (20tb), and over 100 families are in camp. The outlook for a successful session fall of interest and calculated to advance the high er aspects of Spiritualism was never so prom ising. The medicinal spring at which the editor of the J o u r n a l has so often qnenched his thirst and imbided new life is beginning to attract to some extent the attention its great value merits.”

Light, London, for Jnly 6th, has an able editorial showing np that psendo-scientist, Jastrow. Only that the J o u r n a l has already devoted more space to the “ potboilers” patch ed np by this “ shoemaker ” than his obscuri ty warrants, Lighfs article would be repub lished in full. Here is the closing paragraph: “ I t would not be in the least degree worth while to make any comment on such an a rti cle as this, were it not that it obtains in Har per’s Magazine a wide circulation, and goes - among a class of readers who are not person*

Considerable damage was done to crops in the vicinity of Jacksonville, 111., by Sunday night’s storm.—An inflated bag, believed to be the gas-holder of the missing Campbell airship, passed over Louisville, Ky„ Sunday Right.—In the suit of the Fowler Cast-Steel Car-Wheel company of Chicago against the Pittsburg Steel company for an alleged in fringement of their exclusive right to manu facture rolled cast-steel car wheels, the com missioner of patents has decided on final ap peal in favor of the Fowler company.—The Whaling schooner Franklin arrived at New Bedford, Mass., last Monday, having on board the crew of the steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, from Point Antonio, bonnd for Boston. The steamer was horned at sea Jnly 10 and two of the sailors drowned.—The American ship Rose Welt, Capt Welt, from New Castle, N. S. W., for Singapore, has been wrecked in Bram- blebay straits.—Bands of Cretan insurgents have seized the towns of Yanos and Cidonia. They expelled the authorities of the towns and burned the archives.—The British steam er Altnacraig, from Uoilo for America with sngar, struck a rock near the island of Pela- van and filled with water. She will probably be a total loss. The crew has arrived at Ma nilla.

John G. Whittier is spending the summer at Conway. N. H.—Grover Cleveland and Dan Lamont will start about August 1 on a two weeks’ yachting cruise.—Sir Percy Shelley, the son of the poet, is said to be seriously ill. He has no son, and a t death the title.w ill be come extinct.—Lord Fife has two sisters who were divorced from their first husbands. The question of their reception at court is a t tracting some attention in England.—Arth ur, a brother ol Gan. George B. McClellan, is engaged in business at Drifton, Pa. He is about 50 years old, of medium hight, and was a Major in the late war.—Christine Nilsson is quite lame from rheumatism, and is also troubled with |loss of memory.—Buffalo Bill has fitted np a suite of handsome apartments in Paris in which he entertains regally.— Miss Ellen Herndon Arthur, daughter of the late President Arthur, has grown into a handsome woman with mnch of her dis tinguished father’s dignity of manner.—Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, the widow of Admiral Dahlgren, and one of the busiest woman in Washington, has written sixteen short stories in six months and finished her longest novel in two.—Michael Flurscheim is spoken of as the Henry George of Ger many. Herr Flurscheim was at one time a manufacturer, but now devotes his life en tirely to’the advocacy of land nationaliza tion. ■ ■

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O V E R T H E R I V E R .

Over the river they beckon to me,Loved ones who’ve crossed to the other side;

The gleam of their saowy robes I see,Bat their voices are lost in the dashing tide.

There’s one with ringlets of sunny gold,AndeyeB the refi ction of heaven's own bine;

He crossed in the twilight, gray and cold.And the pale mist hid him from mortal view.

We saw not the angels who met him there.The gates of the city we could not Bee.

Over the river, over the river My brother stands ready to welcome me.

Over the liver the boatman pale Carrying another of the household pets;

Her brown curls waving in the gentle gale,Darling Jennie, I see her yet.

She crossed on her bosom her tired hands,And fearlessly entered the phantom bark.

We felt it glide from its silver sands.Ana all our sunshine grew strangely dark.

We know she is safe on the farther side,No more to sail on life’s stormy sea.

Over the river, the'mystic river,My angel Sister is waiting for me.

And I sit and think when sunset’s gold Is flushing river and hill and shore;

I shall one day stand by the waters cold And list for the sound of the boatman’s oar.

I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail;I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand;

I Bhall pass from sight with the boatman pale To the better shore of the spirit land.

I shall know the loved ones gone before,And joyfully sweet will the meeting be

When over the river, the peaceful river The Angel o f Death shall carry me.

—Selected.

T b e D i v i n e .P la n o f S a l v a t i o n .

There is a great awakening among thinking peo ple regarding the true religion all desire to possess and Gtod’sSway of improving and elevating mankind. I t is the verdict of science, without exception, that eelf-.xi8tent and eternal law is the only governing power in the universe. Many of us who have been members of large family circles, and children of many prayers, deeply regret that we have lost so much of this valuable primary school in trying the nse'ess work of understanding frail man’s plan of salvation. We had justification for breakfast, sanc tification for dinner, and damnation for supper al most duly until mature age, and on Sunday a doable dose was administered; therefore, it seems cruel for any on-* who has been thus afflicted to cease work until the world shall accept a religion made by God. We re id in tbe Acts of the Apostles, when they were trying to prove that there was no death, nothing but a change, that “the common Dsople hear them glad ly,” but those educated in a system based on opin ions and cretds naturally opposed and sought to de stroy the teachets of this simple tru th . We should have hoped for better thingB in New England in 1692; but orthodox theology was true to itself, and when earnest friends were trying to demonstrate their piesence the common people again "beard them gladly,” but learned ignorance, under the lead of Cotton Mather, insisted that they should be put to death, a n l thus many of those innocent people mis called “witches” were sacrificed. History says that800.000 were destroyed in France, 40,000 in England,17.000 in Scotland, and many in other countries. Our spirit friends after this sad experience, tor obvious reasons, abandoned any general attempt to enlighten ns until alter the success of the magnetic telegraph. Then these millions of earnest souls, desiring to co operate with us and hoping that we might profit by their dearly bought experience began to find mag netic instruments at this end of the line to “en trance” and thus inform us of their condition. The Bible refers to those who spoke “as the spirit gave them utterance.” The “trance” state is simply mes meric control of the medium by a spirit. During the past season at Washington, D. C., crowded audiences have filled the largest halls to hear inspirational lec- tpres, Sujadqy morning having been devoted to an-

- swering questlonsin writing from the audience re garding our future heavenly homes. These, proved highly educational and have added much knowledge to our faith. These dear friends, so anxious for onr welfare, all agree in saying that if we will encour age them by right living they can come very near and impress and help us in many ways with valu able suggestions as we pursue our weary way up the Bteep hill of progress.

After the lectures Miss Maggie Gaulle, who has a rare faculty of “discerning spirits,” as among other gifts mentioned in tbe 12th chapter of Corinthians, for many weeks has given great satisfaction to hun dreds of people by describing and giving names of friendRwhom they had supposed were far away, often relating events unknown to others, and with tears of joy they declared that the comfort thus given was nearly equal to a personal visit from the dear departed. These Pentecostal scenes and good influ ences of the Holy Spirit, so common in the early apostolic church, should be duplicated in our time to aid the good results expec’.e l from the delibera tions of the conference for all religions called to meet this year. I t is estimated that at least one- quarter of the people of the United States already endorse this comforting gospel of the early church and regard it as God’s way of saving the world, which is iu reality a true science and philosophy as well as a religion. Let all the clergy become awak ened and follow many of their wise and far-seeing brethren, who already discern the signs of the times, and soon the "Golden Buie,” and its clear explana tion, “the sermon on the mount,” will become the only required creed, aB it is the only foundation of all true and practical religion. This state of har mony must precede the long prayed for millennial era, which it will rapidly usher in.—A M inisters Son in National View. Washington, D. C.

J . H . H a n d . 9 1 . D . , writes: I t has beenabout twenty years since tbe R e lig io -P h ilo so p h i- c a l J o u rn a l first came into this section of the state of Georgia. I t was then ably conducted by Mr. Jones, and was distinguished for its editorial ability. When the news of his death was flashed over the country it waB feared by the admirers of the J o u rn a l that there was no successor capable of m aintaining the high position that it had attained. In fact, it waB feared that its days of usefulness had departed with its editor; bnt it came forward prompt ly as though no evil had befallen it, freighted with cheering words of hope, battling with opposition from both within and without the rankB of tbe ad vocates of the cause for which it was laboring, soar ing higher and still higher, the hotter the battle waged. To me it is the grandest paper of tbe age; the grandest advocate for the'progress of humanity that I have ever scan; but you have no need to be told these things as you know them already.

L e n a B i b l e of Grand Rapids, Mich., w rites I concide with the idea I hear so often expressed, that the J o u rn a l is the beet Spiritualist paper pub lished. I prize it for its enlightening and Instruc tive contents. The cause of Spiritualism is quite flourishing in Grand Rapids. 1 bave the pleasure of sometimes addressing the Spiritual Union, which convenes twice a week. Ours Is a grand and glor ious , cause, and the determined efforts of the “J o u rn a l” to extirpate fraud greatly assist in pro moting its growth, and it has our hu mble wishes for Its success and prosperity.

The National Confectioners’ Association, which is holdingits convention in New York, has delegates from nearly every state in the anion. ThiB association looks after the interests of candy eaters as well as of Its own members. For example, it offers a reward

. of $1,000 for tbe detection of any manufacturer who puts deleterious stuff Into his candies or other con fections. This is practical business of the right kind.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks , for a friend without imperfections will never find

w hat he Eeeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding onr faults and we ought to love our friends in like manner.—Cyrus.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even lor this.

IgnatiuB Donnelly has taken the stump in Minne sota in support of his pet Baconian theory.: -

Catherine Gaffney, the poor old woman in New York w ho recently inherited: $30,000 from the er-; ta teo f her brother In Chicago, dlbd July 10 a t the! Home ' • T b!e*

K E L I G I O - P H I L O P f l l C A u J O U R N A L . ;__ I * '

A. Solemn Warning to Mediums.

The following narrative 1b trqe in all particulars save the names, which for obvious reasons are sup pressed. I t is now years ago since the incidents I am going to relate took place, yet they are as clear to my memory as if they had occurred yester day. At the time of which I speak I sojourned in one of the many cities in which 1 have resided, and was favored with the very best opportunities for in vestigating the phenomena of Spiritualism, In which I had for some time been deeply interested. Amongst other forms of manifestation, materializations were frequent. I became acquainted w ith many investi gators, some of world-wide renown. One of these introduced me to a Mr. Meek and his wife, who were frequent visitors a t one of the circles,■ Mr, and Mrs. Meek invited me to their house, in

forming me at the Bame time that Mr. Meek was a trance medium and automatic writer. Mr. and Mrs. Meek held tw o stances weekly a t their house, and I was promised great things if I would go. I accept ed their invitation and became one of the sitters. The only other sitter was a Mr. Lamb, who was a highly-educated gentleman, a keen observer of facts, but withal a genial, cheery, social and friendly man.

Mrs. Meek told me, a t my first sitting w ith them, that their band of spirits was most exalted. F irst was “Martin Lather” ; second, “Phillip Melanothon”; third “John Knox” ; fourth “John Galvin” : w ith a dozen or more of lesser luminaries. All this being right, I thought myself a fortunate man to be al lowed to commune with such a galaxy of heavenly men and women. But do w hat I would, doubts would obtrude their ugly presence, and I became conscious that all was not right. My doubts I kept to myself, determined to be on the alert, and unmask thoEe reverend gentlemen when I could do so clearly and logically. I hinted to Mr. Lamb that we should take St. John’s advice, and “try the spirits.” But how was it to be done? I said: “Mr. Meek haB a fine biographical dictionary in his library, contain ing beautiful plates of the persons there represented. Mr. Lamb: you take the book, find Martin Luther’s portrait in it; I will describe his appearance as I see it; compare my description with hiB portrait in the book, and see if they agree.” Night after night, we tested them, from clairvoyant descriptions, also from events in their past lives, but we could find no weak spot in their armor; they were wbat they represent ed themselves to be, “spiritual reformers.” Every sitting my doubts became more intense, until a t last I came to the conclusion to withdraw from the circle altogether. This resolution was overruled by “Mrs. Martin Luther,” who divined my thought, and said, if you will come to the next meeting, yon will be convinced of the tro th and honesty.

At our next meeting, the “Rev. John Calvin” held forth with great unction, and a t last turning to me said, “Now, doubting Thomas, are you a t last convinc ed?” I eaid: “Reverend Sir, have you in your wand erings beyond the tomb met with, and are you on friendly terms with, one Michael Servetus?” A Dutch man would say donner und blitzen, but I will only say that I had a bad 5 minutes. The reverend gentleman caused his medium to se'ze a small table by itB pillar, and furiously to attack me with it. Mr. Lamb and Mrs. Meek a t last got hold of the medium, and we disentranced him, else I think he would have killed me. We a t once broke op our sitting, determined at our next meeting to unmask this neet of vipers.

When we again sat, befote any of these divines took control, I said to Mrs. Meek: “There is stand ing beside yon the handsomest m an I ever saw. He gives his name as ‘John Hooton,’ and says he is only known to you.” This spirit suddenly changed bis dress from that of a laborer to that of fight infantry man, a soldier. Mrs. Meek called him “a liar,” and “a lying vagabond,” and he'as stoutly defended him self. He maintained that she knew him, and he was determ ired she should acknowledge him, or he would know the reason why. Again we broke up in confusion, hoping for better things a t our next stance.

I w ent home, and to bed, pondering on the last two stances, until I w ent to sleep. How long I Blept I do not know, but was awakened by hearing rnyEelf called by name. I sat up in bed, rubbed my eyes, until assured that I was awake. The voice and its owner took a chair, and sat down at my bedBide. I said: “Who are you, and what do you want?” He said: “Do not be afraid. I will not hurt you.” I assured him that I was not afraid, but startled. He then said: “I must tell you mystory, or you will think me a liar, as t h a t --------called me.” “I said: “Use polite language, please, and I will hear w hat yon have to say.” He ieplied: “Do not interrupt me again, or it will be bad for you as well as for them. That woman was my child hood’s playmate, snd we never knew the time when we began to love each other. As we grew in stature and years our love for each other seemed also to grow; until a t last we were never happy unless in each other’s society. I was intensely happy in those days. Well, the day was appointed for our wedding, and I was the happiest of men. An ex cursion train brought to our quiet village a number of people, and that wretch was one of them. He saw my darling, and fell in love with her. I was mad, but wbat could I do? He was a rich merchant and I was only a poor farmer’s son. She married him for his money, and the position he conldgive her, and in my insane fury I enlisted as a soldier, was Bent to India, and got killed there. Since my death I have been an inmate of their house, but am now going to wreak such vengeance as will ruin, shame and disgrace them while they live. I will never leave them until they are utterly ruined, until they have no bed to lie npon nor food to eat.”

I begged this poor spirit to forego his vengeance, by every argument, human and divine, a t my com mand. I even implored his pity on my knees, and prayed he would leave them at peace. This he promised to do, on condition that they would ask his pardon on bended knees. These conditions I thought reasonable, and assured him that they would gladly aepept his terms. So, next evening, after business hours, myself and Mr. Lamb Bet off to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Meek. On the way I told him all the spirit “John Hooton” told me, and we both thought his demand only just and very reason able. We laid the case before Mr. and Mrs. Meek, and honeBUy told them that it was a slight repara tion for a great wrong. They both got into a vic-

' lent temper, and again and again called him “liar,” “scoundrel,” and every bad epithet they could hurl a t him. We tried, by every a rg u m eata t our com mand, to reason them out of their folly, but without success; so after vainly trying to induce a better and holier frame of mind we left, and went to our re spective homes.

That n ight Mr. Meek was dragged out of bed on to the floor, and thrashed black and blue. His wife in the meantime ran into tbe street shouting, “Mur der! police!” The men in blue entered, but could not find any one capable of inflicting such punish ment, there being in the home only Mr. and Mrs. Meek, their children, governess, and female servants. This thrashing went on night by night; no abate ment, no mercy/ They tried to avert it by sitting up, by having some o tte r person present in their room, but all in vain; the punishment was in flicted, try how they would to avert it.

Under such treatm ent Mr. Meek became moody and melancholy, and resolved to end a life that was unbearable; and one m om ’ng on going to his. bus iness he entered a gunsmith’s shop, and bought an instrument of destruction. This he carried to hiB office, shut and locked the door, fully resolved to put an end to a life no longer to be borne. While pre paring for self-destruction, he became entranced, w ent to his desk, got a sheet of paper, and wrote in structions to himself how to quadruple his income; also a promise that his nightly punishments were ended. This latter promise was religiously kept. He was instructed by this paper, written while in trance, to engage fonr salesmen, on commission, to sell his manufactured goods. This he did, selecting good men. but every one of their sales became a bad debt, and in a few months Mr. Meek was adjudged a bankrupt. So bad was his case that he never got his certificate. His creditors sold np everything; they did not leave him a bed to lie upon, and he was obliged to go info furnished apartments, with his wife and children.

Mr; Lamb and myself even then tried to make this man and his wife perform an act of justice, but in vain. They only used worse language than former ly; they then defied him to do his worst. A wealthy relative came to Mr. Meek’s rescue by investing a large sum of money to place him in another kind of business, in less than nine months he was a bank rupt. A second time he was put into business, and here, after a tew months, he was again a bankrupt. Dear reader, all I have related are pure facts, but other events in this man’s life, during this time, I will not introduce into this narrative.

During the period of which I speak, I waB Eesr in a circle for raising low spirits to a higher plane. At one of our sittings, I saw my friend of thrashing proclivities. He at once controlled the medium, and touting to me said: “Have I not had vengeance?

But I will have more. I will torture them with mental suffering!” Ail members p i the circle joined in prayer for this poor spirit, and it took three m onths'united effort to .ties him from all desire of further vengeance.

This is not an Isolated case. I have known many; bnt none equal to this in fiendish malignity. The I Editor may be able to throw some light on this case, as his experience is vastly superior to mine, and I will await his comments with pleasure.—2?. Gal lagher, in Medium and Daybreak.

H u d s o n T u t t l e ’s N e w R o o k .

The second book to be noted is the new volume from the publishing home of M. L. Holbrook & Co, New York City, and from the pen of Hudson Tattle, whose named*, at. once a household word and a guar- antee of excellence. The title of the book is “Stud ies in the Outlying Fields of Psychic Science,” and the contents dre divided up into seventeen chapters, a preface and a dedication. I t presents in compact form a general survey of modem scientific thought regarding the physical universe, and offers cogent arguments as against them , alike on the score o f h j- potheticalness, insufficiency, incondusiveness, and their general weakness in ignoring the spiritual in the constitution of nature and man, a paragraph, on page eleven, emphasizing the above points, the last especially most vividly.

A DEAD VIEW OF DEAD WORLD’S.A section of chapter two, on page twenty-two

headed “A dead view of a dead world,” with another section, “The Logic of Results,” are among tbe most forcible and virile pages in the book. While all praise Is due Mr. Tuttle for his able analysis of the trend of material science, and his pages devoted to that purpose will bear the most careful re-reading a a number of times, the greatest praise will come to him from his masterly marshalling of those mystic phenomena that are in tbe out-lying fields of psychic science at present. The chapters on sensitiveness are more than interesting, they are instructive. As a discriminative collector of facts and incidents, Mr. Tuttle compares with the most careful, and so fully inspires the reader with confidence in the narratives he presents.

NOT MERE MARVELOUS TARNS.The various incidents, dreams, visions, experiences

of thought-transference, somnambulism, apparitions, and so forth, that are told in these pages, are not in troduced as mere marvelous yarns to amuse or thrill the reader. In each case they admirably Illustrate the subject in hand, and in t te ir totality lead up to the spiritual hypothesis as their ultimate, and only wholly satisfactory explanation. The chapter upon “What the Im m ortal State m ust be,” confirms the purpose of the author, and presents us with a clear and able analysis thereof, as illustrated by the facts and conclusions reached in his previous pages; while the actuaLdescription of that life, which Is credited, by tbe author, to his mother, and claimed to be a correct communication through,presumably, himself though that point is not quite clear, is a particularly interesting description of death, and entrance into the second stage of our immortal career.

The preface, called tbe “analysis,” is brief, but weighty, and concisely summarises the object and scope of the work. This latest contribution to our cause by Mr. Tattle has all the characteristics of the mental virility, spiritual insight, and strong individu ality that have been associated with all his previous productions. Where nearly all is sans reproehe, it seems a little ungracious to speak of one or two minor blemishes, due, no doubt, to baste in getting the volume through the press, which blemishes cau easily be removed in the next editions, as they are mainly errors of proof-reading; though in quoting from periodicals, the actual dates would be valuable additions to the title of tbe publications; dates are decisive, evidence exactitude, form points of verifica tion, and when givtnr close the mouths of carping caviler* One other suggestion. Is it not to be re gretted that the im print of one, or other, of tbe two great American Spiritualist publishing houses is not upon the book, since its author has an honorable name in our ranks, and his book an able argument for all our cause presents in its highest and best? Possibly tbe idea that, issuing from a neutral press would insure a wider recognition of t i e treatise pre vailed. However, thiB work is well worthy wide spread reading. I t is brimful of ideas, sound sense, and logical reasoning. We are not led through a morass, and left sticking in tbe mud upon its farther shore. No Jack o’Lasterns of mystical gas delude us from the macadamized road of reason. Instead, the rays of the sun of tru th shine upon us from above. While not bo technically deep or scientific as our author’s ‘ ‘Arcana of Nature,” or so voluminous in range as bis “Arcana of Spiritualism,” it equals them both in value, will rank with them in import ance, and add another deserved leaf to the bays al ready won by the keenest, most intellectual, and by all odds the most critical inspired writer our cause has ever possessed. I t will amaze the enquirer, con found tbe skeptic and strengthen the believer.—J . J. Morse in The Carrier Dove.

P s y c h o - T l i e i s m .

- uie Editor of tbe .Rellglo-PMlosoDhlcai Journal:Having fallen in , accidentally, with a copy of your

J o u rn a l , I felt deeply interacted in tbe subjects which you advocate. £u fac t.it reminded me of bygone times when I was an enthusiastic worker in behalf of Spiritualism; but, iu the bard struggle tor existence I bave been compelled to leave alone that question, which of all questions was dearest to me as matters of tru th and life.

In reading over a portion of your J o u r n a l —for I only got hold of a portion .of it—it stirred np the latent Bpirit within me, and carried me back al most a quarter of a century, to the time when my bouI was full of its glorious truths, nut, sir, l a m somewhat diverging from the question a t isone. Psycho-theiBm, mind, soul or spirit religion, I look upon as being the only true practical religion. The existence of soul or spirit is fully demonstrated in onr philosophy. To me (who was once an atheist), i t has always been satisfactory ever since I first ob served those so-called spiritual manifestation* I t is utterly impossible for the rationalist to pin his faith to th e blind belief of modern Christianity, and its semi-barbarous doctrines. I t is otherwise with Spiritualism; it is rational, and gives demonstra tive proof. The philosophical Spiritualist is a pan theist—not the cosmo-theistic pantheism, bnt spirit ual pantheism, or pyscho-theist.

I , a t times, recognize spirit outride of m atter; at other times acting in conjunction with it. From that I form my views of after-life, t e they cosmo-theistic or psycbo-theistic.

The time psycho-tbeist recognizes in spiritual manifestations, spiritual individualism. This a t once destroys the idea held by some, that we, after death, are absorbed in the great soul of nature. Af ter-life would be no fife at all unless individualized.

In this we have sufficient proof in connection with Spiritualism. Tbe p-ycho-theist regards tbe future w ith favor, for'w hat Is unattainable here is attainable hereafter in th a t progressive existence.

Here in this existeace we are limile 1, bound like Prometheus to the rocks of a material world, swayed by the circumstances and snrronndings of life. There we are free, eternally Lee. Sorely the time is not far distant when priestly hierarchies shall be no more, when people can think, and will think for themselves, and work ont those problems for fntnie life, attainable oDly by the life we live.

Psycho-theism or spiritual pantheism, utterly ig nores the teachings of modem Christianity. This soul-religion has a higher and n )bler aim than that connected with the Christian theology. I t courts no particnlar heaven, nor feara any eternal hell.

I n the great beyond there are undoubtedly many conditions of existence. Tbe fntnre Ib but a combi nation of life, carrying with ns all onr imperfections and aspirations. Soul development is what we as psycho-theists aim a t; onr march is onward, up ward, towards a higher order of being. A little self- sacrifice 1b only needed so as to throw aside those low, gross, an l sensual desires which carnalize the eooL

What gi eater reward do we require than the knowledge of doing good, and resisting the powers of evil. In conclusion I may say that the teachings of Spiritualism are sound, rational, and elevating; at any rate that has been my experience of it for more than a quarter of a century. John Stubbs.

King, Ontario, Canada.

A few days ago an ambitions Maine rooster un dertook to lunch on some bees and called tbe bens to take p a r t The beeB gathered round and one stnng him on the wattles. He jnraped into tbe air and vigorously attacked the hive. The whole swarm descended upon him in an instant and the proud fowl was soon streaking aronnd the corner with an angry crowd of bees in foil chase. He won’t under take to gobble np those flies again.

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PREMONITION OF DEATH.

A Remarkable Phenomenon,

Two yeara ago a family named Williams, consist ing of father, mother and three Children, were rerid ing in Pittsburg. The youngest child, a boy of eight, more than usually bright and smart, was especially near to the hearts of bis parent* One afternoon about this period, as Mrs. Williams was seated in the shade of the rear yard to her dwelling w ith a few of her female acquaintances, the boy came bounding forward to ask it he could go off and play with a knot of his chums. The answer was given that he could do so, but must not go near the river, the Monongahela, which was close by.

W ithin a few m inntesof the boy’s departure, one of; the * women was struck with the white, com pressed appearance. ofvMr* Williams* Ups, and a strange, lookin her face of gathering concern and bewilderm ent She asked if anything was the mat ter, when Mr* Williams raised her hand as if to brash something from her face, a t the same time saying:

“I do not know wbat ails me. There seems to be a clond I can’t see through all aronnd.”

The next instant she threw np both arm s and screamed:

“Oh, my God! my boy is drowning!”One of the women said: “Ob, no! don't think that;

it can’t be. He* has only ju st gon-.”With a quick motion the mother clasped both

hands to her ride and moaned:“I teil yon he is drowned. He canght his tw o

little hands here and begged me to save him out of the river!” then fell back in a dead swoon.

She was borne within her dwelling and laid ,on a t e l , and restoratives applied until she recovered, her face deathly white and draw n into deep lines of agony. When again sought to be cheered by assur ances that she must be laboring under a grievous mistake, as the boyjhad not been away long enough to be drowned, the mother perristel in a voice of pitiful torture: If

“My poor boy is drowned! I can feel his hands clasping me here, as he begged his mother to save him. Take my clothing down and look.”

She was stripped to the waist, and to the astonish ment and speechless awe of the attendant women, the marks of ten little fingera—five on each side— were distinctly risible on tbe skin in daik purple streaks, just as wquld have been had the boy in his death struggle caught hold of his m other to save himself.

Jnst then tome men came into the house bearing the dead boy, only fifteen minutes before in the fall enjoyment of vigorous life, drowned as hiB mother bad cried. In jum ping into the water the poor little ellow bad struck his body on the end of a sunken

fpile and sank to his death.Strangest of all, the livid marks of his fingers im

printed on the waist of his mother, are still visible after tbe lapse p t two year* and were seen only a few days ago by a lady friend of mine in Cleveland, when Mrs. Williams paid a visit to a married daugh ter residing near by. The marks are so plain that any beholder would be a t once impressed with the thought that they had been caused by the actual grasp of living bands a t a moment of intense dire extremity. I leave all comment to other*

North Dover, Ohio. W. W h itw o r th .

The Phenomena of ControLCo the Editor of the RelislO'Philosochlcai Joarnai:

Mr* E. B. Doff ay’s paper on “The Phenomena of Control,” is able in its premises, bn t I may be justi fied in an objection to some of ita deduction* The mission of Spiritualism, in onr age a t least, has not been so much to inform ns “concerning the con ditions of the fntnre life,” as to help u b “in the con duct of this life.” Her remarkably intellectual en- dowm tnts and intuitive perceptions enable her to raalize both worlds a t the same time, hence she needs not the “proof palpable of immortality,” as do those to whom she critically refers as “always seek ing a sign.”

The desire for immortality is inherent in alt, yet few are able to see or comprehend it through their own senses. They are ever “rasking a sign.” They sought a sigh in- the days of John the Baptist; through the oracles of Greece and Rome, from the top of the tower of Babel, and when the pyramids were bnilt. They ever have and ever will continue to do so until evolution, progression, and correct ed ucation spiritualizes the race, in the dark, dim and distant future.

The don’t knows are ail agnostics; they all w ant to know; they all want prooE I t is onr province and duty to collect all the evideuce obtainable—phenom enal, trance, inspirational and scientific—before sub mitting onr case to the judge or arbiter* To discard or rale out the phenomenal phases of medinmship would be like excluding the.evidence of an ignorant witness, in which case we Might rale ont important facts in support of onr cause, which would be unat tainable from the higher sources that she relies npon to make out her cafe.

Spiritaalism is under indictment for heresy and frand; onr judges are the materialistic scientist, tbe pseudo-scientific in psychic law, and a ju ry of ignor an t church bigots. Onr cause is a h u d one to de fend on account of the prejudice that exists in the minds of both court and jury.

The Seybert Commission is ominous of tbe verdict, and in “ Wbat I saw a t Cassadaga L ake” by A. B. Richmond, are some phenomenal phases of Spiritu alism, affording, in my judgment, the very best (ad ding D. D. Home’s sdanceO proofs extant to the materialistic world. Discard the phenomenal phases of Spiritaalism? No, never! *

B. F . L iv ingston .

HINDOO SUPERSTITIONS.

If Met by Any Evil Portent the RayMust Be Commenced Afresh.

The Hindoos are early risers, says Science. In the warm season—extending from April to October— they sleep either npon the bonseetop or in the court yard, or in the veranda if rain abonld be threatening, and are usnally np at 5 o’clock or earlier in the morning. In the cold weather, when they sleep within doors, they rise later, but they are out before7. Rising in the morning while but half awake, the Hindoo repeats the name of Rama several times. Happening to yawn, he immediately fillips bis thumb ana middle finger, though he does not know why.

He prepares for his morning toilet. He plucks a tw ig from the bitter Neem tree, breakB off a span length of it, crashes one end tetw een his teeth, and temporizes a tooth-brash. He i ext draws np water from the well in the yard with an iron back et and prepares to wash hie hands and face. This is quickly done. He then throws on an tx tra garment, tne thickness and texture depending on the season and weather, lights his hooka, takeB a few polls with bis enphonions habble-bubble, and is ready to go ont. With a passing “Rama, Rama,” to friend or acquaintance, and a neighborly gossip by the way, he repaira to hie place of business.

While going he will sedulously avoid these signs and sounds which may angor ill for the day. Should one snetze or should he hear the cawing of a crow or tbe cry of a kite or should he meet an oilman or one blind or lame or see a cat cross his path he would he greatly distressed a* to the day. before him. On the other band if a fox crosses his path, if he hears a gong or shell summoning him to worship, or if he meats a Brahman with his head uncovered, he will be rejoicing, hailing it as auspicious. Some are so superstitions that if any evil portent occurs on the way they would return home, have a smoke or chew a betel-leaf, and proceed afresh.

I—A n g e l W i n g s a t $ 5 a P a i r .

* f r te g in s to look as if there la some method in the Liberty County lunatic’s madnee* The “kyarload” of wings that he told his followers that he bad or dered ont for them to fly into the land of Canaan with has not arrived, bnt be is collecting $5 a pair for the wings, so that when they do come to hand the chosen 860 will have nothing to do but to buckle them, and soar away Into the land flowing with milk and honey. I f the false leader succeeds in col lecting $5 apiece from his entire flock he will have a neat little sum to flyaway with himselL—Savan nah News.

Thoroughness and tru th are pretty mnch the same in their essential element; and people who al low themselves to shuffle away anyhojv, and smooth over hastily, to the eye, in ontride platters, had bet ter take heed to this indication of w hat they will be easily tempted to do In graver and greater.—Church Union.

JU LY 27,M o te s a n d E x t r a c t s o n M is e e l l a n e o * .

S u b j e c t s .

There are men whose friends are more to be pitied than their enemies.

He who Is most slow In making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Woolen mills a t Bennington, V t, which cost $800,000, were sold last week for $66,000.

Apetrified tree was recently unearthed a t Farm ington, N. J., sixteen feet below the surface.

The great sheep raiBer, Mr. Mitchell, of Elko, NeViWill have a wool-dip of 50,000 pounds this season.

There .is no use trying to Btrike an average on honesty. The a rtide must be slmon pure or it is spnrioo*

Gall Hamilton is also reported to have repudiated emphatically the authorship of the “Arthur Rich mond”' lettera.

Other people’s tongues will make yon miserable', bu t it will not mena matters for yonr tongue to make them miserable.

John Morton, recently appointed Shipping Com missioner a t San Francisco, is a son of the famous W ar Governor of Indiana.

Prof. E. M. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural College, has produced a variety of wheat which yields 47 boshels to the acre.

I t is said that a man is judged by the company he keeps, but more frequently he is judged by the com pany he does not keep.—Boston Transcript.

A. A. Stagg, the Yale base ball pitche r whose powers as an exhortor have added to his reputation for delivery, is organizing a nine at Chautauqua.

Australia is as cosmopolitan as the United States.At the hotel in Sydney the other week there were thirteen different nationalities represented at one tabl*

I t is reported from the Pacific coast that a gang of counterfeiters there have been employing two Japanese coiners, nnable to speak English, to help them in their work.

President Harrison will go to Georgia in October, and will moke an address a t the celebration in At lanta of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the rise of that city from the ashes of war;

George Graham, of Clyde, Ohio, had 650 cabbages ; in a field. Then cows got in one rught and destroyed every one, and George didn’t have time to shoot but three of the animals before being arrested.

A story is told of the Indians, who replied when a missionary asked them if they were willing to ab stain from work on Sunday: “Yes, and not only on Sunday, bnt on all other dayB as well!”

The huge cantalever 'bridge over the Frith of Forth has been completed, all but tbe bridging of the 350-foot gap between the sections. Tne con necting girder will be 50 feet in depth, and will weigh 800 ton*

Five years hence there will hardly be a place on this earth for the robber, murderer or conspirator to set his foot and feri safe. Treaties are being made in eve*y direction concerning them and their extradition.

The officers of onr army and navy are the most dissatisfied people in the country. Most of them are chronic applicants for better position?, and are al ways smelling ..out prospective vacancies and push ing claims.

Mr* Jam es Gallagher, a resident of Brooklyn, be gan sneezing the other evening, and she had got the tally np to 2,040 times when the doctors finally found a remedy. She says she won’t try again uu- til some female beats the record.

Professor William Saunders, horticulturist of the Agricultural Department a t Washington, declares that tbe golden rod is his first choice for a national flower, tbe sunflower his second, adding that both are characteristic American plants.

The end-gate of a wagon came ont a t Leaven worth tbe other day, spilling 400 beer bottleB on the ground, and then, when the crowd which rushed to picked them np found tha t they were empty, it looked for a moment as if they would lynch the driver.

Tenement visitations have began for the Beason in New York. A staff of forty physicians will give free prescriptions, distribute free excursion tickets and instruct mothers how to care for their infants. I t is a wiBe method for care of the poor.

A Summerville, Fla., paper says: “ We have a man in onr county who iB about thirty-five years old who was never more than forty miles away from home, never rode on a train or steamboat, never wrote or received a letter, never subscribed for a newspaper, and never voted the democratic ticket.”

Herr von Hortig Kroger, the Berlin editor who obtained and published the diary of Emperor Fred erick and in consequence bad to flee the country af ter the confiscation of his property, has settled in New Haven, Conn., with his family. He is now an editor of the Connecticut Eepublikaner.

One of the beet lessons to be learnt is the abso lute necessity of preventing work from degenerat ing into worry. I t is worry that kills for tbe most part, no t work. To learn to put forth our best pow ers steadily, continuunsly, in the proper grooves, to the proper ends—this is one of the most preciooB fruits of wisdom and experience.—Once a Week.

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; tbe leaves falling like onr year* the flowers fadiDg like onr boars, tbe cloads fleeting like o a r illusion* the light diminishing like oar intelligence—and the son growing colder like onr affections, the rivers becoming frozen like onr lives—all bear secret re lations to onr destinies.—xV. T . Ledger.

This story is told about an encounter between Tennyscn and Lord John Russell a t tbe latter’s houee some years ago: “Mr. Tennyson, bow d’ye do? Glad to tee you. You’ve been traveling in Eu rope lately, I Lear. How do you like Venice? Fine things to be seen in Venice. Did yon visit the Bridge of Sighs?” “Yes, my Lord.” “And saw all tbe pictures and works of art in that wonderful city, did you not?” “I didn’t like Venice, my Lord.” “In deed! Why not, Mr. Tennyson?” “They had no good cigars there, my Lord, and I left tbe place in aisgust.” “Indeed! Good evening, Mr. Tennyson.”

A black pnake in an up-country town in Queens land was owned by a doctor, who kept it chiefly in order that it might eat flies which infested his estab lishment—flies being a cording to this veracious au thority the favorite food of this species of serpent. Unfortunately in cold le a th e r , when flies ran short, his snakeship was wont to invade tbe hen bouse snd eat tbe eggs—a bad habit; which eventually led to hiB rain . One day he exhibited symptone of indi gestion. His master treated him, but without avail, and after a fortnight’s terrible agony tLe poor rep tile succumbed. The tra th came out. In one of his forays upon tbe fowlyard the misguided creature had swallowed the glazed china egg by which the bens w e:e decoyed into performing their maternal duties.

A steamer which arrived a t Colombo recently from Bombay, via coast port* reports that a t Can- nonore, where she lay two miles from the shore, a large number of bea* numbering some tens of thou sands, settled on her foreyard, forming a cluster about three feet long by eighteen inches in depth. I t waB considered inadvisable to attem pt to diEloage them before the arrival of tbe vessel a t Colombo, as a t each of the coast ports she lay some miles from the shore. Bnt several nights after tLe third officer, enveloped in a blanket and armed with a hose, climbed the mast and gave tbe dangerous visitors a dose of salt water. The infuriated bees flew abont the ship all night in search of their disturber, bnt not finding him in the morning concluded to quit. They were last seen making a bee line for the north ern suburb of Colombo.

Tbe eminent Dr. Bronardel, in a lectors before hispnpllBbf the faculty of medicine in Paris the other day, proved conclusively that the victims of the conflagration at the Opera Comiqne were none of them burned alive, and th a t all of . them were un doubtedly asphyxiated by the oxide of carbon fur nished by the burning wood. He adduced R great many proof* chiefly taken from the bodies of the great number of persons who were found dead in the passages of the theatre without any marks of suffer ing or any disorder of their clothing to indicate that they had been crowded. They had simply suc cumbed, according to Dr. Bronardei’e demonstra tion, to a tem perature varying from 110 to 140 de grees (French). This, he think* must have been the case w ith those unfortunates whose bodies were snbeeqnently burned. I t is ’ a consoling theory for

•thoee who have lost friends in similar horrible catas trophes and who have snppoeed tha t they most have died In g reat agony.

27, I8f 9,t c F a b l e o f t h e U p a s T r e e .

^ernalurai, almost diabolical, influences are at* ..unfed to the famous upaB tree, says A ll the Year

A rovnd , which, according to all accounts, is so dead ly that if a hot wind paeees over it an odor is carried along which is fatal to whoever hreatt e* i t Old let ters written from Paris in 1642 by ,“The Turkish Spy,” describe a plant cultivated in a garden in the city that blasts all that grows within ten cubits of its roots. They call it “111 neighbor.” He declares that there was a withered circle around it, while the trie itself was green and thrifty. There is a tradition of a poison or upas tree that grows in the Island t>t Java, from which a putrid steam rises and kills whomsoever it touches. Foorscb,a Hutch physi cian (1783)says: ‘‘Not a tree or a blade of grata is to be found iu the valley or surrounding mountains. Not a beast or bird or reptile or living thing lives in the vicinity. On one occasion 1,600 refuges encamp ed within fourteen miles of it, and all but 300 died within two months.” The falsehood of this story is exposed by Bennett, who Fays: “The tree (upas), while growing, is quite innocuous, though the juice may be used for poiscn: the whole neighborhood is most richly covered with vegetation; men may fear lessly walk under the tree and birds jroost in its branches.” Darwin, in hiB “Loves of t ie Plants,” has perpetuated Foorsch’s fable when he says:

“On the blasted heath Fell Upas sits, the hydra tree of death.”

I t is probable that the fable of the blighting in fluence of the upas tree has been derived from the fact that there is in Java a small tract of land r n which nothing can live. This is caused not by the “fell upas” but by emanations of carbonic acid gas, which are constantly going on. At the same time, it is quite true that the juice of the upas is deadly poison. , ■ ______

Mr. Buskin was once asked if it would not be well for the Welsh language to die out and be replaced by the English. “God forbid!” he replied. “The Welsh language is the language of music. There is no genius about the English language. The Scotch have got all the poetry, and the Irish ail the wit; and how t t e devil we got Shakespeare, I do not know.”

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’ dense, as far as practicable; the general results of thesere searches into a senes of lessons for private ooeult study This idea was ultimately carried out and put into external form; tbe whole,when completed,presenting the dual aspect of occult lore as seen and realized in the soul and the start, corresponding to the microcosm and the macrocosm*atan- clent Egypt and Chaldea, and thus giving a brief epitome Hermetic philosophy.. (The term Hermetic is here used IP Its true sense of sealed or secret.)

Having served their original purpose, external circum stances have compelled their preparation for a much .wide* circle of minds. The chief reason urging to th is step * sa the strenuous efforts now being systematically put Sesfh to poison the budding spirituality of the western mind, turd to fasten upon its medlnmistic mentality, the subtle, delusive dogmas of Karma and Be-Incarnatton, as taught by the sacerdotalisms of the decaying Orient.

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During these twenty years of personal Intercourse with the exalted minds of those who constitute the brethren of light, the fact was revealed that long ages ago the Orient had lost the use of the true spiritual compass of tbe soul: as well as the real secrets of Its own theosophy. As a race, they have been, and still are. travelling the descending a n of their racial cycle, whereas the western race have been slowly working their way upward through m atter npon the ascending arc. Already It has reached the equator of its mental and spiritual development. Therefore the writer does not fear the ultimate results of the occult knowledge put forth in the present work, daring this, the great mental crisis of tbe race.

Having explained the actual causes which impelled the w r.ter to undertake this responsibility, it is also necessary to state most emphatically that h i does not wish to convey the impression to the reader’s mind that the Orient Is desti tute of spiritual truth. On the contrary, every genuine student of occult lore is jn stl/ proud of the snow white locks of old Hindustan, and thorongbly appreciates the wondrous stores of mystical knowledge concealed within the astral vortices of the Hindu branch of the Aryan race. In India, probably more than In any other country, are the latent forces and mysteries of nature the subject of thought and study. But alas! It Is not a progressive study. The descending arc of their spiritual force keeps them bound to the dogmas, traditions and extern allsms of the decaying past, whom real secrets they can notnow penetrate. The ever living truths concealed beneath the symbols In the astral light are hidden from their view by the setting sun of their spiritual cycle. Therefore, the writer only desires to impress npon the reader’s candid mind, the fact that his earnest effort Is to expose that particular section of Budd histic Theosophy (esoteric so called} that would fasten the cramping shackles ot theological dogma npon the rising genlns of the western race. I t Is the delusive Oriental ays terns against which his efforts are directed, and not the ram nor the medlnmistic Individuals wbo uphold and support them; for "omnia cincit eeritat” Is tbe life motto of

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carefully shunning all remarks of evil ten dency and endeavoring to diffuse a happy and kindly inflaence adorned with poetic re finement. Indeed, it is not a t all rare for controlling spirits to improvise poetry on any snbicet, graceful alike in sentiment and in language. The poetry delivered extempo raneously on any subject mentioned by such mediums as Jennie Hagan, Mrs. Hyzer, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. Richmond, and a number of mas culine mediums, constitutes a marvelous phenomenon, which materialistic scientists habitually ignore, although such a display of poetic power, sometimes coming from per sons who are not poets in their ordinary men ta l condition and who cannot poetize thns un til the inspiration comes, is one of the most effective demonstrations of the world of spirit power that surrounds us.

Suppose that in the midst of one of his sub stantial political speeches, Mr. Cleveland (ex-president) had suddenly launched into an extemporaneous gush of graceful poetry ap propriate to his theme, and delivered without a moment’s hesitation, would not the whole American press and European also have over flowed with astonishment a t so improbable an occurence, while unfriendly critics would have accused him of having memorized the poem in advance. But poetry coming when ever called for and upon any theme suggest ed, occurs habitually on the spiritual rostrum or in private life without exciting any seri ous thought among our literati.

There is no end of supercilious sneers at the intelligence comiDg from spirit sources through mediums, because credulous and ig norant me Hums often attribute their crude and feeble utterances to exalted spirits, and equally credulous listeners may believe in the high spiritual origin of commonplace twaddle or platitudes. The publication of such messages in some spiritual books has done much to discredit spiritual science, as the

! critics fasten upon these, paying no attention to works of spiritual inspiration, fnll of grand and beautifnl thoughts, and pervaded with the most exquisite ethical instruction.

1 The lofty ethical instruction of the founders of Christianity is sometimes paralleled by equally noble and sacred utterances to-day, coming from the same supernal world which has been the source of inspiration in all ages.

But the most satisfactory demonstration of supernal intelligence is that which our materialistic scientists and dogmatists ha bitually disregard or overlook. It is proba ble that they know very little of such facts, for they never seek them and never seriously reflect upon them. I refer to the innumera ble instances which have occurred and are occurring daily, in which the spirit power of some deceased friend comes through a me dium to the sick chamber, to correct the di-

! agnosis of disease and to make a curative i prescription.

In my personal observation of such pre- ! scriptions and diagnoses thirty-five years ago,| 1 never found any error or inaccuracy in the ! instruction from our spirit friends. The de- I ceased physician proved to be far more sa

gacious and reliable than he had been in his mortal life. Thousands have had the same experience, and the most astonishing cures are continually being published,* credited to the spirit power that operates through in telligent mediums—sometimes physicians, sometimes persons who have no medical knowledge.

.A.To no t such facts, which might be re ported by the thousand, conclusive demon strations of the disembodied intelligence

! which has saved so many lives, and is it not the duty of every honorable scientist to rec ognize such facts? Is it not the duty of the Journal o f Man to present such facts to its

i readers?! The glorious truth that our deceased

friends are ever ready to help us, and that by living on their high ethical plane we may have their co-operation in all noble deeds and thoughts is one of the most delightful trnths of Anthropology, one, too, which Is illustrat ed in the greatest works of genius, alike in music, poetry, painting, eloquence, and phi losophy. The inspiration of Homer, Socrates, Aspasia, Joan of Arc, and Shakespeare was the same supernal assistance that has been given to Ole Ball, to John B. Gough, and to Harriet Beecher Stowe. It has been given, too, in some degree to those who have not osed it wisely or well, for it is also true that psychic powers, like all the other intellectu a l faculties, may be developed without a cor responding ethical nature.

The co-operation of a power outside of self has often been recognized by gifted writers. Sir Walter Scott recognized his own inspir ation, and said that his fingers sometimes appeared to act independent of his head.

Whence come these marvellous powers which guide some men intuitively to extra ordinary success in the walks of ambition, as they lead others to famous intellectual achievements, profound philosophy, pro found invention, or brilliant expression? They come from that portion of the brain which comes to the surface in the temples behind the eyes and in the parallel region where the hemispheres come together against the fa lx that separates them. A large development of these regions gives the intuition of genius, if they are vitalized by an active circnlation, and that depends mainly upon the occipital region of the brain, to give the necessary energy of tem perament.

The inspirational speakers who are most efficient on the rostrum possess this occipital development. The Grecian forehead, like that of the statues of Psyche and of Aspasia, in which the front lobe projects at the roots of the nose, is a form that indicates the in tuitive faculties. Out of these faculties arises a true knowleege of the Spirit-world and a clear appreciation of truth, not the su perstitions of antiquity, which arose from ignorance and self-sufficient speculation, but the clear practical science which has arisen in America.

By means of these faculties, the divinest part of man’s constitution, they who are gifted may commune at unlimited distances on earth or in heaven, as the psychometer perceives the distant regions on the earth, or the most exalted life in heaven. And more than this, the spirit power may go forth with the intellectual faculty and impress the distant friend either with the idea to be given or with the healing power which is us ually felt only in presence of the parties. Spir itual healing thus was performed by the late Dr. Newton too often to permit any doubt of its reality, and the same power is habitually exerted now by those who discard medicine and cure by mind healing, which is not pre vented from success by any of the fantastic theories with which it is associated.

There is a world of wonders in the opera tion of spiritual power and spiritual intelli-

* A Mr. Cunningham, of Minneapolis, Kansas,? stated by his friends to have been given up to ie by the re' — faculty, after he had spent $2,0^- their - -I services, and to have be

by a medium*

gence, which is daily becoming more won derful and instructive. The spirit power that writes messages and paints pictures on closed slates, makes pictures in panes of glass, plays on musical instruments, carries mediums in the air, lifts pianos and tables and presents itself in the human form that was once familiar as a friend, will continue its enlightening work until heaven is brought very near, and sacred tru th takes the place of decaying superstition.

The evolutionary power and value of psy chic science render it advisable to give it a fuller development than usual in this number of the Journal o f Man, for of all questions that interest us none can compare in import ance with the question of future life—the question that comes to us all, and the an swer to which is not far off.“There will come a morolog that I shall not see. And a summer whose sunshine and greenness will be As fair to others as this is to me;B at where,when the morning shall dawn,will I be?”

Prof. Huxley has written upon this sub ject simply to make a supercilious display of his ignorance and his brutal indifference to the elaborate and careful researches of able and honorable scientists whose writings he has never read. Alderman Barkas. an able in vestigator, has replied to him as follows:

“The learned Professor has devoted a few hours to the investigation of some of the most elementary phenomena, and yet from that trifling and manifestly biased investi gation he ventures to give the most dogmatic opinions respecting the subject, and desig nates all who practise or believe in the phe nomena, and the spiritual theory associated with them, as dupes or knaves.

“As a contrast to Professor Huxley’s casual investigation of the alleged facts, I may men tion that I have, as opportunities presented themselves, cautiously investigated them for nearly forty years; that I am not and never have been mediumistic; that I have examin ed them as a cool and dispassionate outside observer; that I was as ready to accept or reject one theory as another, provided the evidence were clear; and that the result of the whole inquiry is, that I have received proof palpable of most of the more advanced phe nomena that are alleged to have occurred at stances, and that, making the widest allow ances for illusion, deception, hypnotism, mesmerism, and all the natural agencies that are offered as explanatory of the al leged facts, I believe that they are real, gen uine, non-illusory, and inexplicable on any ordinary laws of physics and psychology. I have seen, for example, rooms filled with moving luminous points of various colors; I have requested the colored luminous bodies to move in various directions, and they have obeyed my expressed desires. I have in full light had a guitar played in my own hands. I have had writing, both in longhand and in phonography, produced upon paper and slate held by myself. I, and other observers at the same time, have seen numerous human forms grow up out of apparent nothingness in an open room, the medium visibly sitting with us, and I have seen those forms disap pear in the open room without screen of any kind; I have seen, shaken hands with, and even embraced them, and they have vanish ed in the centre of the apartment. I have had answers to hundreds of questions asked in, writing and replied to in writing, by a comparatively illiterate medium, on various critical departments of physics, music, met aphysics, psychology, etc., and have all the MSS. in my possession, the answers being such that I could not with careful prep aration improve their excellence, and such as I believe Professor Huxley, with his life long study and exceptional ability, could not equal under similar conditions. All the MSS. are extant, they are in my cabinet, they are open to the investigation of Pro fessor Huxley or any other gentleman who may desire to examine them, and I shall be glad to ask the same questions of any

’living man or woman, and shall be much surprised if their answers even approach in excellence those received through a com paratively uneducated young woman medi um, through whose hand all of them were written in the presence of critical witnesses.

“I should esteem it a great favor if Profes sor Huxley would venture replies even to a small selection from the questions asked and answered, and as he is likely to be in New- castle-on-Tyne during the next meeting of the British Association 1 shall be glad to.give him or any of his friends opportunities of testing their skill in replying to them.

“I am, etc., T. P. Ba r k a s , F. G. S.”In brilliant contrast to the coarse bigotry

of Huxley,we quote the language of Victorien Sardou, the eminent dramatist, one of the forty immortals of the French Academy, in a letter to the editor of the Gaulois, as follows:

“For over forty years I have watched with curiosity the phenomena which, under the names of magnetism, somnambulism, ecsta sy. second sight, etc., were in my youth the butts for the ridicule of men of science. Whenever 1 ventured to inform them of some experiment wherein my skepticism was con quered by irresistible evidence, what a re ception was accorded to my proposition, and what m irth was provoked!

“But now a days all the facts that were hitherto denied are now accepted by the very same persons who used to regard them as tricks and jugglery. Not a day passes but some young savant reveals to me things that I wa9 familiar with before he was born. I find that nothing has been changed but the name; there is no longer magnetism but hyp notism and suggestion. In adopting these new terms, savants let it be understood that ‘magnetism’ was simply a trick long since exploded. Science has liberated us from our errors, and endowed us with a truth called hypnotism, and which after all is exactly the same thing.

“I spoke one day to a very skilful surgeon about the insensibility produced in certain temperaments by requiring the subjects to look intently at a small mirror or brilliant object so as to produce strabism. This reve lation was received as usual with loud bursts of laughter and all sorts of chaff at my ‘mag ic mirror.’

“Years passed by. The same man came to breakfast with me one day. He was very late. He excused himself by saying: ‘I have had to extract a tooth from a very nervous young girl. 1 tried with her a new and cu rious experiment. By the aid of a little me tallic mirror I put her to sleep so soundly that I was able to draw out the tooth without her knowledge.’

“I interrupted my surgical friend by say ing: ‘Pardon! but it was I who was the first to point this fact out to you, and you simply laughed at me?

“My friend seemed quite taken aback, at first, but soon recovered himself by saying: 'Bon! You spoke to me of magic, but this is hypnotism.’

“All the official science the world over treatsoor despised truths in this way. After hav*— ncoffed a t these old truths, science has ta* ossession of them, but has taken care *r lew labels on them.

— sin<*-» our savants !»■— covered

seen under Louis XV.at the Saint Medard Cem etery, there is still hope that they will some day condescend to busy themselves with that Spiritualism that they think they have long ago killed with their disdain. They have only put another name to it so as to win the credit of discovering it. But this will take a long time. Spiritualism has other enemies besides ill-favor.

“In the first place, parlor experiments are against it—a detestable means of investiga tion, only good* to confirm the incredulity of skeptics. Then Spiritualism has to struggle with charlatans who practise Spiritualism a la Robert Houdin, and by demi-charlatans, who, although endowed with mediatizing fac ulties, do not know how to use them, and try to supplement their shortcomings by ficti tious methods. Then there is the indiffer ence of a generation devoted to. pleasure and material interests, and the weakness of those who lack the courage of their opinions.

“I don’t admit the supernatural. There is no supernatural. A fact must always be the effect of a law of nature. Hence it is natural; and to deny a priori, without exam ination, that a creative law does exist, be cause it is not known; to contest the reality of a fact because it does not happen to be comprised among facts that are already dem onstrated and established—is the error of an ill-balanced mind that believes that it under stands all of nature’s laws. If any savant has this pretension he is a poor man indeed! What I am waiting for is the serious exami nation of facts. Then I promise some sur prises.”

A Grave Economic Mistake.To tbe Editor of the Beligio Philosophical Journal.

I notice that your correspondents discuss questions of political economy—wages, labor, land, etc., in their bearing on tbe people’s gocd,which is well. I have refrained from any such discussion in your columns because in their limited space it is impossible to take up all subjects, but surely a journal like yours, while it has certain topics to which it is mainly devoted, should show its interest in all reforms and give some reasonable space to their discussion, as you fitly do. Not to do this would be to fall back into the narrow ways of the old-fashioned religious newspa pers, which rnled out what they called “secu lar qnesiions, to treat exclusively of creeds and dogmas, of church affairs and the joys of saints in heaven—a kind of other-worldliness cold and heartless indeed—a covering op of treason to man under a pretence of worship ing God. The higher class of modern relig ious journals, like the Christian Register, the Christian Union and the Neto York Inde pendent, have departed from this poor old fashion and give space to earnest treatment of leading questions of the day in their hu mane and reform aspects, although the two last named are not yet capable of any intelli gent or fair discussion of Spiritualism.

In the articles on capital and labor in the Jo u r n a l , marked by a sincerity which com mands respect and giving much tru th in an able manner, I find one fallacy which viti ates the argument, making it weak instead of strong. This is the assumption that while tbe rich are growing richer, the poor are growing poorer. This is not true and no facts can be given to sustain it. The assertion and as sumption comes largely from Henry George, not one of whose leading statements are trne or fortified by facts, which he does not bring and canDot. Wages were 20 per cent, higher in 1880 than in 1860, taking the total of our wage workers and the figures of the govern ment census—the best approach to exact tru th we have. The great increase of wealth in few hands is the result of the immense growth of productive power through improv ed machinery and new modes of transit in the last thirty or forty years. We are now in the transition stage from the old methods of production on a small scale to the new meth ods of manufacture and transportation in great masses and by armies of workmen instead of single handed or in small compan ies, and have not yet adjusted the new moth ods wisely and well. Time and fair discus sion, and the wisdom which comes with ex perience, must do that, and when it is done “the world will be the better for it,” and we shall not wish, even were it possible, which it is not, to go back to the old ways. But meanwhile the lot of the wage worker is growing better and not worse. The sober and self-respecting man or woman earns more and not less, and the cost of living is les9 rather than more. The Savings Bank deposits in nine Northern States were $168,- 000,000 in 1860, and $788,000,000 in 1880, an increase in twenty years of $640,000,000; about two-thirds deposited by working peo ple. A state of things full of encouragement for the attainment of that amity and justice between capital and labor which is surely most desirable, but not tending, when under stood, to increase the blind hatred and jeal ousy on both sides fostered by ignorant as sertions.

The discussion on Trusts .has been espe cially valuable as well as original, and there is much troth in the view of the matter giv en editorially. The article by H. H. Brown is eminently suggestive, although I do not accept bis idea of government managing our industries. In the future as in the past such management would result in wasteful ruin and partisan corruption—as witness the Erie Canal in charge of the State of New York. Brains, with power to guide and skill to or ganize, must find, as they will, the leader ship. Let our great captains of industry cul tivate justice and fraternity and organize these sentiments in our industries, and let them be met and helped in the great effort and all will be well.

How this shall be best done I cannot say pure ly not in your brief pages. I can see “between the lines,” in Mr. Brown’s article, and also in the eloquent article by Mrs. L. B. Chandler on The American Idea, the erroneous thought that our industrial career is ernshing the worker down to - lower depths. This is not true. • WroDgs enough are to be righted but there is ground for hope and fraternity, not for despair and blind hate.

What I have said of Henry George need not be taken as charging him with intention al deceit. The proofs of his ignorance can be found in my little book, “Progress from Poverty,” which your readers can get from your office.

Li l e s B. St e b b i n s .

NOTES FROM ONSET.To tbe Editor of tbe Bellglo-Philosopblcal Journal.

The thirteenth annual camp meeting at Onset opened to day under very pleasing con ditions. The weather was magnificently grand. The people had anticipated the open ing and had arrived here in large numbers, especially the cottagers and mediums, early in the month, and were prepared to receive the visitors as they arrived this morning on the many lines of the Old Colony Railroad, both from the' north and south

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altogether there must have been nearly 3,000 at the grove. The Middleboro Band, Carter leader, was present, and gave a concert morn ing and evening to the delight of their many admirers.

President Wm. D. Crockett came to the grove Saturday, to be present at the opening service on Sunday, but owing to the press of State printing in which he is engaged, call ing so much of his time in Boston, he has engaged Mr. E. B. Fairchild to preside, for him during the entire meeting; consequent ly, with a Fair—Child—before us, who has proved himself not only competent to preside but also instructive and entertaining we feel confident of success in the chair.

Mrs. R. Shepard Lillie was the speaker of the day, occupying the platform morning and afternoon, in her usual fluent and instructive manner, answering questions and dealing with th e : higher phases < of Spiritualism, as the subject of her lecture. Edgar W. Em erson followed each lecture with a stance for platform tests, reporting a large number of names, nearly all of them being recog nized.

Mrs. Sarah A. Byrnes, of Boston, will be the regular speaker for Sunday, July 21st; Hon. Sidney Dean Warren, R. I., July 28; lectures and conferences during the week.

The following from the Brockton Gazette will be of interest to the readers of the J o u r n a l who are acquainted a t Onset, giv ing a9 it does a fact among the many of On set’s grievances:

“The proposed Point Independence bridge is of course a matter that interests a great many people, especially those who own prop erty a t the point. While it would be worth many dollars to them and would mean sale of those lots at good figures and ready rent ing of cottages, it is not surprising that the association opposes it. An impartial view of the matter will show that Onset has become what it is, primarily because of the camp meetings. These of course are under the auspices of the association, and depend upon it for support. The thousands of dol lars laid out by the association have never come back to the promoters of the project. Other people, whose property has been made valuable by this state of things and the pop ularity of the place have reaped a benefit, in the substantial form of dollars and cents. The association to-day owns cottages and land at Onset, depending upon the rental of them for much of its income. The opening up of a large tract of land, such as the proposed bridge would aid, would bring both houses and land into competition with their property and cut down their revenue, and of course they oppose it. Their expenses for music and speakers are not far from $200 per Sun day. These facts should be borne in mind When the advantage to be derived from such movements is considered. By the way, it is not so very long since that one of tbe present promoters of the bridge scheme, addressed a letter to the harbor commissioners setting forth tbe great disadvantage to the place and the espeeial injury to navigation that such a bridge wonld work. Bnt it is said that he is not now a member of the association.”

W. W. Cu r r ie r .Onset, Mass., July 14,1889.

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