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I ta u n e r C o n te n ts ; sF ir st P age.—‘‘Spiritualism Vindicated Against tlio

Unfounded Aspersion* of the Huv. T. l)u W itt Tnlmage, X). D .,” a discourse by George Buxton, M .A ., M .l)., Xj L . D . • / t

Second P age. — piscourso concluded; Poem — "l*a- tlonco," by Mrs. E. M. Ulckok; "lMijhlcal Manlfesta- tions at,Savannah;'1 “ A Sitting with Mrs. T hayer," by

■ Anthony Higgins, J r . ; / 'L ev ita tio n of a Materialized Spirit—TheMeiUuinshlpof M r.W illiams;" "M aterializa­tions a t Mrs. Maud L ord 's ." *,

T iiih d P age.—llanner Corrosixuidencu: "T h e Rutland ■- Globe Criticised," by llarvey How.es; "T horne 's Expul­

sion—The T ru th ," by Ed. S.'Wheeler; Poem—"In -c a r- na tion ," hy Etmna Frances Dawson; " Notosof. T ravel,", by WArron Chase; List of Spiritualist Meetings.

F ourth Page.—Edltorlalson various Interest log topics.F ifth P age.—brief Paragraphs, Nbw Advertisement*,

etc.Sixth P age. —Spirit Messages; "T h e biography of

Mrs. J , 11. Conant;" "Experiences In Am erica;" "Spirit Commumcathm;" Obituaries, Convention Calls, etc.

Srvkntji P aok.—book and other advertisements.E ighth Page. — "Spiritualism In bellevllle;1,' "N ow

publications," etc. *

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falsehood, wo can only p ity .their ta ste aml h'opo for the ir u ltim ate improvement. Sermons redo- Jen t of vulgarity, coarseness and slang, and over­flowing w ith faiso and cnlum nious statem ent? respecting o ther people, m any of them , in every qpnseof th e w ord fthu superior? o f th e preacher,- may please the depraved ta ste of a gaping mob, but can hardly redound to the honor of tlio min­ister, the credit of th e church, th e edification of the congregation, or the glory of God. . How­ever, I will deal w ith these clrarges seriatim,.

I . — S P IR IT U A L IS M IB AN IM PO S IT IO N . p r o - d u c e i ) h y T i u c k e i i y . D r. Talnm ge rem arks :

"N inohundred and nlnoty-nlno out or^vory thousand achlovomentson the part of Spiritual mediums am arrant and unmitigated luiimiug. The mysterious red letters that UBfd to come out on t)ie imMlium'snrm were found to Imvo boon made by an iron pencil that went heavily over the llosh, not tearing It. hut so disturbing tho blood, that It came up in great round letters. The witnesses of tho fioancesbavo locked the door, put the-key In their pocket, arrested tho operator, and found out, by searching the room, that hidden levers moved the table "" ’ ‘

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Spiritualism Vindicated Against the TJn- , founded Aspersions of the Rev. T.

. De Witt Talmage, D.D.A D l ic o n n c deliv ered In O o iw e ll H u ll, ( lo m e ll-

ro a d , I.om loit, on N u m la y e v e n in g .A p r il 11 111, 1S75. by tteorge N cxton , 91. A ., 9 1 .1)., IX .I>.

[.Reprinted from the London Christian .Spiritualist.}

“ A faiso witness slmll not Iio iinpiiiilslnTdi nifif lio that npcakoth Hus shall not escape, " —l ’tovetbs xlx: 5.

T h is is nn age of sensationalism . N oth ing . goes dow n w ith the public bu t th a t w hich is cal­cu la ted to sta rtle and surprise. T he m ost popular m en of tjie day nro no t the profoundest th inkers, tlio g rea test scholars, tlio nnfst renow ed scien­tis ts ; tlio most b rillian t w ritefs, or tlio m ost dis­tingu ished o ra to rs ; b u t tho m en who pander to tlio w retched taste fo r sensation now so prev­a len t. In every d ep artm en t of life th is is appar­en t. In literature, w orks contain ing grand nnd lo fty thoughts, dealing w ith tlio profoundest problem s which force tliemselvfes upon the hum an m ind are littife read, w h ilst 'the trashy novels of M iss D raddon, and the otlier m em bers of tilt” school to which she belongs, are circulated by ten s of thousands, anil p e ru sed 'w ith an avidity, th a t is lam entable to w itness. In poetry, bewil­d ering ra n t predom inates,*and unm eaning bal­derdash is m istaken for lofty sen tim en t and keen p enetra tion into nature . On the stage, Siiak- speare no longer draw s, o r if perchance occasion­ally some one of his p lays should prove nn a ttrac ­tion , i t is only in> connection-w ith th e accessories o f scenery and show, or m a y b e w h a t is callea a new .personification o f some leading chnrncter, tile new ness of w hich consists in th e w retched trav esty of the original, \vhlch the ac to r has not b ra ins enough to understand. In science, m at­te rs fare b u t little b etter. T he g rea t men witli th e public are neither profound th in k e rs nor dis­coverers of new tru ths, b u t men who endeavor to please the populace by ta lk in g scientific tw ad­d le ,-an d s ta rtling audiepces w ith m agic-lantern sliows, “ brillian t experim ents,” and verbal par­adoxes. Philosophy, sta tesm anship , and every d ep artm en t of knowledge, nre sub ject to the sam e ru le. Sensation cnrrles off tho palm , and th e line on tho play-bill announcing s ta rtlin g effects fitly describes th e end had in view by al­m ost all those who aim a t g ra tify in g tlio public taste . T his is a lam entable sta te of tilings; b u t so it is. A n d now we find th is same sensational­ism dom inant in the pu lp it, nnd tak en advantage of hy conspicuous religious teachers. In A m er­ica, perhgps, tliis is th e case to a g rea ter ex ten t tlitin in England, yet even, here it w ould n o t be difficult to iinmeLhalf-a-dozen m en wliosu popu-

'• la rity depends en tirely upon their p ersis ten t (at­tem p ts to pander to th is m orbid public ta s te .- T h e A m erican clergym an w ith whom I .h a v e to- deal to -n igh t is forem ost am ong th e sensational relig ious teachers. E v ery th in g th a t lie does is studied for effect with ns.m uch care as a th ea tr i­cal m anager would em ploy in a rran g in g the

-scen es of his play, or a show m an reso rt to in p lan n in g his advertisem ent. N o t co n ten t witli sensational titles to . h is discourses lie ,.in com­m on w itli some otlier A m ericans, adopts the p re­posterous and ludicrous custom -of elevating into cap ita l letters, placed in 'separa te lines,-a fpw s ta rtlin g words, selected here and th e re from dlf-

• fe ren t parts of th e disoourse, m aking 'tliem look a s though they were th e headings of paragraphs, w hen in tru th they m ark no separate division in tlio serm on w hatever, aud aresim ply th u s throw n u p for effect. H is discourses are, as you are per­h aps aw are, published w eek b y w eek in tiiis co u n try in the C hristian Age, a paper which lias a large circulation, arid lias been u n til recently respectably conducted. Should i t con tinue the course, however, th a t it lias adopted w ithin the la s t tw o or three w eeks of ou trag ing th e feelings o f gVeat num bers of its ' readers, its circulation will soon be considerably dim inished. F o r m y' ow n p art, I am thoroughly astonished, as well as pained, th a t a respectable publisher like Mr, D ickinson and a liberal-m inded ed ito r like the Itev i G. H u n t Jackson, should have allowed the pages of the ir publication to becom e contam i­n a ted by. tlie vile and disgraceful garbage with' w hich D r. Talm age lias recently been feeding Ills flock in Brooklyn. Q ne week w e had an a tta c k upon Uriiversalism, a serm on in defence of the e tern ity of hell, contain ing n o t tlio sm all­est vestige of argum ent, o r the s ligh test trace of reason Or logic, b u t consisting exclusive­ly of m isrepresentation, denunciation and abuse. N ex t, an a ttack was m ade on U nitarianism , about w hich D r. Talm age know s as- little as h e does of good m anners a n d g e n t le m a n ly behavior, and last w.eek S p iritualism cam e in fo r an am ount of - scurrilous abuse from this gentlem an, which eclipses everyth ing th a t lie has done before. .The sermon was en titled th e “ R e­lig ion of G hosts; a D enunciation of S p iritual­ism ,” an d a denunciation i t certa in ly is w ith a vengeance. Seldom, indeed, lias an y th in g so

- villainously false as iriany of tlio sta tem en ts con­ta in ed in it issued from a C hristian m inister.

T lie religious sensation-m ongers seem to have considered it so unusually good as. to he deserve ip g of w ider circulation th an it could obtain in tlie C hristian Age, and they have consequently Issued it in a separate form, an d d istribu ted ft f a r an d wide. 'T h e m erits of this e legan t pro- duction-you will be able to judge of as I proceed.

T he objections urged aga inst Spiritualism b y D r. Tajm age are some of them very curious and novel. Several of them m ight be answ ered by

: being placed one aga inst tlie otlier, so flatly do they contradict cacTi’ b tli'd i-'.A ll of then ii how- ever, show how thoroughly ignoran t h e is of the -entire subject upon w hich he speaks. -If the la rge num bers of .people who assem ble Sunday a f te r Sunday In tlie Brooklyn T abernacle are .satisfied to w aste the ir tim e ‘ tri'T laten ing to such a d isp lay of ignorance, slander, m alignity t,and

, . — ......— ------- ------ - ........- ......... Thu Honluiililtturs that wurumyRturlnUHly rt‘;ul without oncntnir liavo betm found In havekeen out at tho aide ami then afterwards silly put togothor with gum arable; ami thu medium who, with a heavy blanket over Ills head, cuhtil lead a book, lias boon found to have bad a bottlo of nbospborlc oil, by tlio light of whleh anybody can road a book; and ventriloquism, and logordeinalii, and sleight-of-hand, and .optical delu­sion, account for nearly everything'. Deception being tho iiiiiIii staple i)f Spiritualism, no wonder It chooses tlio darkness.” , ,

Of course tills is a ll clear enough, and easy to be understood, and were th is tlie only objection urged by Dr. Talm nge against Spiritualism , we' should havo no difficulty Iri ascerta in ing his w hereabou ts., Tlie whole tiling is resolvable into a series of conjuring tricks, effected by means of sleight-of-hand or mechanical contrivances. Snir. itiiallsts are o n e 'lin lf fools and tlio o ther half knaves, all tlie honesty and wisdom in the world being confined to tlie Brooklyn T abernacle. I fancy I havo shown, in a small publication th a t IJssu ed two years since, en titled " Spirit Medi­ums and C onjurers,” th a t th is theory of legerde­m ain is u tte rly incom petent to explnin tlie phe­nom ena th a t take place in tlie sp irit •circles. P robably Dr. T alm age lias not seen my publica­tion ; I will tak e care, however, th a t lie lias a copy of it'w ith this discourse. N ot th a t it is very im­portan t, for, as we Shall see p resently , lie dis­proves tlie conjuring theory'him self. The sta te­m ent about producing tlie le tters on the arm by m eans of an iron pencil is'copied, with a slight alteration , from D r. C arpenter. I t is, however, nrbposterous in tlie extrem e. No such effect can bo produced by any hard- substance, cither-iron or wood, as is here described. L e t D r. Talm age try tlie experim ent for himself. L e t him tak e a nail, oy any piece of b lun t iron, in tlio form of certain letters, and then compare tlie resu lt with tlie w riting th a t m akes its appearance on tlio arm of M r. Foster, tlie medium, a n d he will see how to ta lly unlike they are ;.' E ven Were they, howevor, exactly sim ilar, the form er Would form no explanation w iiateverof the la tte r,because , in Mr. F o ste r’s case, the nam e appears df-a deceased person of whom lie lias never heard. In tlio case of L am an Blanchard, who visited Mr. Foster when in th is country , in 1862. in com pany with some friends—well know n public m en—tlie me­dium had no idea who ills visitors were, and yet tlie nam e W illiam B lanchard—Mr. L am an Blanch­ard ’s fa ther—appeared upon Mr. F o ste r’s arm, and afterw ard (lie figures 27-dune o u t upon his hand, in nnsw er to the question of how ninny years Mr. W illiam B lanchard h ad been in tile 'spirit-w orld. Tlie le tte rs appeared in the pres­ence of tlie visitors and faded aw ay before their eyes. C learly no the'ory about scra tch ing the arm w ith nn iron pencil is of an y avail here. A nd still more w onderful cases tlinn this are re­corded of Mr. Foster, ns happening in Dr. Tal- m age’s ow n country, on tlio au th o rity 'o f men who are above suspicion. A recen t instance lias been published by D r. Eugeno Crowell, of New Y ork , w hich D r. T alm age and otlier people who. adopt -tlie iron pencil theory would do well to consider. The case, as recorded by Dr. Crowell, is as fo llo w s: H e visited Mr. F oster unan­nounced and unexpected, and took h is seat With­out say ing one word, fu rth e r th a n th a t lie de­sired a stance . O n Mr. F oster’s consenting, w ithout having th e ' slightest idea as to who his visitor was, D r. Crowoil wrote on a paper tiie question, “ W hat is tlie naino of my first-horn' c lilld ?” W hereupon Mr. F oster bared his arm immediately, and there appeared upon tlio clear sk in the letters formed before his eyes in scarlet, E. W. C. These being tlie correct in itials of the nam e of the child to whom tlie question referred, and who had passed away a t th o .n g e o f about four years;'D r. Cfowell'ihqiiired if file full nam e could ho given, when, the m edium im m ediately 'seized a pencil and w roteEugeneW liartor) Crow* ell. T he Doctor rem arks, in reference to th i s : " T h e re were b u t two persons .this side o’f tlie grav& w ho knew tlie middle name, and these per­son’s were the p aren ts of tlie clijld ." W lm t be­comes of D r. T alm agb’s iron.pencil theory in tlio face of such facts as these? Tlie nonsense ta lk - ' ed about tlie levers tiia t moved tlie table?, tlie phosphoric oil, ventriloquism ’ a n d legerdem ain,„ all go to show th e thorough ignorance of this clerical critic. Ilad Jie taken the s ligh test trouble to investigate tlie subject-lie would have seen tlie u tte r im possibility pf producing w h at are called sp iritual phenom ena by m eans o f any kind of conjuring. To tcil us who have seen these m ani­festations occur in ouf own houses, in tlie m idst of our own fam ily circles, in the absence of ven­triloquism , phosphoric oil and m echan ica l. con­trivance, th a t clumsy jugglery lias any th ing to do w ith th e m a tte r isa n in su ltto o u r intelligence. Dr. T alm age know s no th ing w hatever of the.sub- ject abou t which he talks, and his serm on is only ano ther illustration of a very o ld ap h o rism : " T h e re ca m e‘a wise m an and a f o o l; th e wise man heard, investigated and d ec id ed ; tlie fool decided.”

II..—SriiliTUALisM is a H a l l u c i n a t i o n rn o - d u c k d h y * E a t i n g H o t M i n c e P i e , a n d t o h e C u b e d b y B i l i o u b M e d i c i n e . ' Tlie Brook­lyn p reacher p ro ceed s; i'

“ you inve nil seon strange mid unaccountable tilings In ‘the night. Almost every man 1ms a t some time had a touch of halluclnatloij. Some time ago, after I had been over- tempted to eat something indigestible before retiring at night, after retiring I saw tho President of one of tho prom­inent collegesastrjde the foot of the bed, while he demand­ed of mo a loan of five cents 1 When I awakened, I had no Idea It was anything supernatural. -And I have to advise you, IT you hear and see strange things a t night, to stop eating hot mluce ple'and take a dofcoof bilious medicine. I t Is an outraged physical organism, and. not to deed vethe verv elect after sundown* docs nearly all Its work In the night. The witch of Endor held her seances a t night; so do all the witches.” '

Tills is to resolve tlie whole tiling into a disor­dered im agination. . So, then, conjuring;.tricks a fte r all, despite the p a rad e 'th a t lias been made of them , w ill no t serve to aid in solving tlie prob­lem. W e should be glad to be inform ed how any phenom ena can be a t the same tim e objective trickery .and subjective illusion. D r. Talmage, in resorting to. these tw o,m ethods of explanation, sim ply refu tes him self. H ad lie adhered to one or tlie other, he m igh t have clung to It and pre­served his consistency; b u t in advancing the two, he d isp lays his u tte r Incapacity fo r reasoning and proves too m uch .’ W orse still, however, he has m ore theories yet, as w e shall -see as we pro­

ceed. Now w liat' a re wo to understand by tills m iserable balderdash about " h o t mlnco p ie,” and “ bilious m ed icine;” elegant subjects, in all tru th , to introduce into n sermon professedly evangelical to tlio 'h ighest degree. D r. Talmpge w as tem pted to e a t sbm ething indigestible — w hich is certain ly n o t much to Ills c to d lt; had lie been a Spiritualist, lie would probably havo paid some atten tion to tlio iqw sof diet—and then w ent to bed and dfeam ed of a retiring P resident sitting astride ills bedstead, begging for tilts loan of tw opencc-halfpdhny. In the .m orning lie awoke, and had not, he tells us, tlie slightest idea- th a t any th ing sup ern a tu ra l had occurred. G reat h eav en s! How m arvelous, to bo sure,.to th in k th a t a m an should ent tori much supper, g ir to bed nnd dream of th e P resident.of a college beg­ging him to lend h lm jv few coppers, and not im­m ediately conclude th a t som ething supernatural hud happened ! V erily , tills D r. Talmage m u s t . really be tlio SapiejUum octavus. But w hat lias all this pu lp it tw addle to,do with .Spiritualism ? Indeed, one m ight ask w itli a good show 'hf ron-

. son, w hat lias It to do witli religion? Spiritualists do no t get the ir m anifestations a fte r eating " h o t minco p ie ," nor do they find tiiat antibilious m edicine will produce any effect upon the phe­nom ena. T heir experiences do nflt come in dreams, blit w hen all concerned arc wide aw ake.' N or do m edium s select n ight, in order to work the ir m arvels un d er cover of tlie.dnrkncss, m any of them linving as strong a iikiim for daylight as 'D r. Talm age himself, though if tlio.v hole tiling he the resu lt of im agination, .the m ediums—or witches, as Dr. T alm age chooses to call them — have little, indeed, to do w ith the m atter. I f wc are tlie victim s of hallucinations, then no.m edi­ums nro requ ired ,since tlio “ hot mlnco pic,” nnd tlie. indigestion w hich follows, can accomplish^ 'everything th a t is required.. TliY^t'Tieorynr iin- aglnntion is, how ever, a thousand times more ab ­surd than tlio hypothesis of deception. T o say tlm t sober, respectable, rational, dispassionate; cool-hended, in te llig en t m en, half a-do/.en n t a tim e, imagine tiia t th e y sec tilings which havo no existence, is to se t.asid o all tlie laws of evidence, nnd to render ce rta in ty in tlie 'm ost simple m at­ters u tte rly im possible. S erjean t Cox, who, hear in mind, is not a S p iritualist, says in reference to a Inrge num ber of tlie facts and m anifestations Upon which Spiritualism is based : " Here is evi­dence w hich in an y court; o f justice in tlio ^vorld would bcliu ld to,be conclusive proof at the fact. asserted by, tlio, w itnesses, whose honesty and capacity nobody has questioned. I f so palpable a fact as tlio m otion of an untouched tabic can­not he received on th e testim ony of so many ob­servers, specially charged with the duty of rioting and testing, tru tii In ,|Uiy m atte r'm ust ho u n a t­tainable, and treatises on evidence n mockery. All tlie facts of Science mu.st'cqunlly be denied, for no t one of tliom -ifi.establi.slied by better evi­dence than is tills fact, of motion w ithput curi- tnct.” Now, S erjean t Cox is a judge in a Crim i­nal Court, and should ho, therefore, tolerably com petent to form an accurate opinion of tho vnlue of evidence. W liat th ink you would lie ids opinion of a council who should endeavor to de­stroy tlic'evidencc of a num ber of intelligent and im partial w itnesses in a law case hy 'declaring tiia t they were suffering from a disordered im ag­ination 'caused hy ea ting too much minco pie, as was proved by tlie fac t tlm t lie him self a ta pork chops for supper tlio n igh t before, and dream t th a t tlie Chancellor o f tlie U niversity of Oxford came to libn, and pressed liini for th e loan of twopence ? B u t enough, of th is. Sucli imbecile drivel is u tte rly unw orthy of notice,,

I I I . —S i ’i b i t u a l i s m i s ’t h h 'R e s u l t o k s o m e O c c u l t F o r c e , .w h i c h m a y - h e H e r e a f t e r D e m o n s t r a t e d . D r. Talm age re m a rk s :

"Some of.the performances of spiritual nuMlIimiH arc not to lio’nsurlbetl to fraud; Imt to bomu occult law that after awhllo may be demonstrated.15

I t appears, then , tiia t there are phenom ena tiia t can be acbounted for neither by trickery nor by im agination, blit,w ill have to 'rem ain u n ­explained until some occult a n d a t present u n ­know n law is b rough t to ligh t.- We should he, glad to be inform ed Wliat D r. T aiiuage knows of tills occult law, or tlie phenom ena which it is supposed to bo capable of explain ing . H e lias given abundant'evidcijpe th a t lie is utterly igno­ra n t of tlie lin ture of tlie m anifestations tlm t tak e place in spirit-circles, and ills opinion as to tlie agency by w hich they n re caused is as w orth­

le ss ns tlie rest of tlie.tw addlc to be found in this wretched discourse. W hat does lie know about occ,ult laws of. N atu re tlmt'-j/m.i/ be hereafter d e­m onstrated % N o t being dem onstrated a t pres- >ent, lie is clearly in no ptfcition to resort to them ns'explanntions*of any th ing . T ills theory of oc­cu lt law we have m et with before—Dr. Talm age lias b lit borrowed it for tlje occasion—and wo have alw ays 'considered it to be a miserable subterfuge for avoiding tlio colicluslmi tp which a due consideration of tlie facts,inevitably leads. "Wliat would tlie 'H rook lyn preacher th ink of a skeptic who should 'object to th e .Christian m ira­cles upon such grounds and in such a sp irit as he displays tow ard Spiritual ism ? T rue, thu unbe­liever‘m ight say, there are events in connection w ith the early h isto ry of C hristian ity , .especially in tlie life of its Founder, ^fiicii 1 cannritexplain by any n atu ra l law , blit wllich, a fte r all, are probably due to some occult force which mat/ be. discovered hereafter. W e,v en tu re to say tliivt Dr. Talm age would call th is tlie lam est of all lam e argum ents. I f you adm it tlio facts, lie would say, you are hound to accept tlie conclu­sions to which those fact? irresistib ly leqd. A nd lie lyotild be right. E ich teen hundred years ago occurred a series o f , effejts whose cause lie o u t­side th e domain of natu ra l law , k now n .o r un ­know n, and wlilcli pointed unm istakably to tlie supernatural.' To-'day, sim ilar events lmnpen in our midst, and to ta lk about explain ing them by “ occult law " is to show a -d esire .to avo id .tlie tru th by a m iserable sub terfuge which,' fo r a time, m ay serve to bolster up a skeptical philos­ophy, or a no less skeptical theology, b u t m ust in th e end be crushed an d overwhelm ed by th e ad­vancing tru th .

IV . —SriniTUALiBM is W i t c h c r a f t , S o r c e ­r y , N e c r o m a n c y , a n d .C o m m u n i o n ;w i t h t h e U n s e e n W o r l d , C o n d e m n e d h y G o d , a n d M e r i t i n g t h e P u n i s h m e n t o f D e a t h . »P iling up tlie ngopy, w ith the view of horrify ing b is congregation on .the sub ject of Spiritualism , Dr. Talm age goes on t&'.'remark:

(lui Hplrlts tiuvii tix|iloll,‘(l in our tiny; prnc'lKi-ly llm hiiini- I Mini!, nvi-i-tinil over uipilii.'iiiiilcr (lie iiinnliiiilnt Ions nt the Urnlmitns. Now, do jim uny Unit Spli ttimllhin in illili-ri-nt from those? 1 jitiswer, till thesedeliisloiiH l have mcnlhin- e<l belong to the sumo family*, they are exhumations from the unseen world. What does (Stxi think of all these delu­sions? He thinks so severely of them that lie never sneaks or them hut.wlth livid thunders of Indignation./ He says?' Fwltl he a swirt wltnenH against tho soroorer.’ He says:‘Thou Hhalt'not suirer a wlteh to live.' And lest you might . .make some important distinction between SpirlluullHm ! l>Hma ami RtHU'mlkml witchcraft, God says, in so many words: ‘There shall ! ...........................not ho among you a consulter of familiar spirits, or wlz- i nrd, or necromancer; ror they that do these things are nn | abomination unto tlm Lord.' And he says again: 'The : soul of those who seek After such ns have familiar spirits, I and who go whoring ufter them, I will set myself-agalnst i them, and he shall hccut oir from among his people.’ The I Lord Almighty,* in a score of passages widen I have net | now time to quote, utters his Indignation against all thls^ great family of doluslons. After that, ho a Spiritualist If youdaro!" « - . , * “ •’

Here is a.violent explosion for you. .Spiritual­ism is, it seems, after all, \yliat it professes to be— com munion witli tlie unseen world. F irs t it was

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you tiny. T ru e ; imt in tlmt;very alleration-yop nave disregarded tlie Mosaic law , in no ease, however, Is the crime of breaking the NahbaUi, either Jcw ish-or'C hristian ,'pun ished us tlie-old law enjoined. Certain principles enforced under the.Old Testam ent dispensation w ere of univer­sal application, ami related to m orality in its

id and general sense. These are eternal iir th e ir obligation upon mankind. U ertn lu 'o ther . principles appertain ing to O ld/IVstaiuefit times were limited In' tin* obligation they imposed, ami referred principally to the statg aji tilings then existing, and the eomlith ns by w hich tlie people concerned'.wpre suriimiKlid. ‘T h ese la tte r lire n.o . longer binding-.' Tliep ,\vns the prohibition .(if (‘ommiiniiril wit li tlie dead ii principle intim ately

’'hound up with m orality itself, aiulluppertiiiiiing, therefore, to the ethical code that-should lie. bind-

........................................................................................... ing upon all men in all ages. O r ',was it lim ited 'trickery, then it was im agination, then there WliK i to the Israelites under the Old D ispensation , and a certain small residuum of it which “ occult" I’iilled into 'existence by sdme spUelal circtim- law ” hud to tie called in to explain, and now—ye<j stance adapted to tlii-ir .condition a t th a t timegods, w here Is tills 'm ail's consistency ?—we nre told th a t it is tlie .witchcraft of .necromancy pro­hibited In tlie Musnic law, ami therefore really and tru ly w hat It professes to lie: communion

1'liis question 1 will endeavor to answ er.It m ust lie liorne in mind tiiat eoinm'iinion witli

the dead, aud .the practices usually associated.. ............................ w it l i i t,y i i’r .K ',w e re iiid p i '( i l i i l) i te ilu iid e r tlie ^ Io -

w itli tlio'se wlio liltve underg o n e .th e ch an g e called ] -sale law . T lu y -asc of .Saul going to in q u ire re- d en th . I t is clear tlm t-if .Spiritualism fu lfills tlio ; sp e e tin g h is f a th e r 's asses is a ease hi po in t, fur c o n d itio n s of. Old T e s ta m e n t n ee ro m an ey , It Is : Id’ d id no w rong, a s far its we can learn , in tlie n e ith e r ’ ju g g lh ig , n o r illusion, n o r “ o ccu lt la w .” j pe rfo rm an ce of Unit act. In re fe ren ce to tills very D esp ite , tliurf? all th e nonsense ta lk e d '''b y th is . ev en t th e Glide re m a rk s ; - , .clerical m o u n teb an k a b o u t tallies m oved hv 'lev - 1 " iii-fe n - ti.... in Imiu-i, wiii-n n iinui went in iniiniie.lr(ipg | f (iru w ritten mi tlie nrtn w ith irnn • iidik'I I < • thus he s|eik**. ( oinc, .iihI let us go to the seer, for hr!

*-}.:“ » _ IV.. -U1 *!1 :.W !1 1 1 V J1. 4 V, a11 - " " " IM'»- A IToj.het, was hefoietlme called aa disordered '-im agination .-produced by “ hot mince, p ie,” and su ch lik e twaddle, Spiritualism is, afterm il, a great renjity , and consists, in tru th , ill w hat those who* 'believe ill i t profess—com- (minion, witli the sp iritual world. We are glad to havo brought Dr. Talm age to th is point iCt all events. He and we are agreed as to tlie cause In which the phenom ena have th e ir origin. Sti* f a t lie lias replied to ills own objections about trickery, (lelusioii.aml oceiilt law. >

Spiritualism , being genuine, m ust lie got rid of by ano ther method. No longer aide to dispute the reality of tlie phenom ena; a num ber of men of Dr. Talmage,’s tu rn of mind have arrived a t the conclusion tiiat tile spirits who com m unicate are devils, and tlio intercourse w ith them

Seer."--I Sitm . lx: !; And, we m ight add, is now called a spiiit-.mciji- • , 11m. .Moreover, .Said, in the very ease in which | tlie woman of E ndor is conc'-mi'if,' before going j to J u t; - sought for a .communication from tlie .' i spirit-world -by wliat was evidently a legitim ate)' j m ethod— >i - - And win u S.inl InqiilW-il of 'tin- i.nitii, iliii 1.mill mi- . j Mvcri'il him mil, iii-IUn'i hy ilrcium,, nm -hy 1'rlni, mu' hjr

pr(iiitii-l.4.-I ,V'im. x\vlll: i’i. , -; T here was e.learly no wrong in th is , and lienee 1 '■there m ust Im w been t wo kind? of sp irit coinmun- | ion, one of which w as prohibited, -anil tlie ’otlier | perm itted ;, and it was unlv after Saul lmd’.ltied j tlie .lalter and failed, tiiat he, in desperation, rc- 1 sorted to the fo rm er,, if all Intercourse with tlioIll'll- j s; . . . . . . ...................... .............

hibited on pain of deatli in tlie Scriptures. Nor -spirit-world had lieeii prohihlnl un d er llit^Mosaic' .................................... " ' dispensation, I lien-Muses himself in list have been

the greatest of all oiiVmlers, tii say nothing of Ihe repeated tiaiisgvessiuns in .th is 're sp e c t of .Sam uel,Elijah,Tsliiah, K/.ekiei;.f,)anIel, Aei And In tlie ease of our Lord himself, iic held comimiii- ’ ..................... ............ ' ................ tlio

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is this a very unsuccessful method to adopt with nervous and weak-m inded people. If yrtu can­n o t reason men out o f their'ciinvietions you may frighten them into silence witli regard to tlie ad­vocacy of-them, liu tle r said, lung ago, In Iludi- bras

Nothing In the Spiritualistic circles of oiirTlay has liccn more strange, mysterious and wonderful tlinn tilings which have lieen seen In the past centuries or the world. In all tlie ages there have been necromancers, those who .consult with tlio spirits of the departed; charmers, those who put their subjects In a mesmeric state; sorcerers.' those who, by taking poisonous drugs, see everything and hear everything and tell everything; dreamers, people who In their sleeping moments can see tho future world and hold consultation with spirits; astrologers, who could read

!„•> new dispensation ln the stars; experts In palmistry, wlio •can tell bv'the lines In the palm of yonrlmml your origin and your hlstory. From a cave on Mount Farnassus, wo are told, there was an exhalation th a t Intoxicated tho shepp and the goats that came anywhere near It, and a l shepherd approaching It was thrown by that exhalation Into an excitement In which ho could foretell future events, nnd hold consultation with the spiritual world. Yea, before the time of Christ the Brahmins went through

“ lie Wlmeiimplles against hls'wllli , I Half tliu same opinion still.”

And the .numbers of persons th a t tills line of n r-’ guiiieht frightens out of tlie practice of Spiritual­ism will, in theory, rem ain Spiritualists still. Dr. Talm nge fuum l'llm t ills congregation was large­ly tain ted with this m odern heresy, ami fearing th a t they m ight learn to prefer th e wisdpm of in­telligen t sp irit? out of the flesh' to. iguqm ut ran t and fustian, coming from so-called teachers in tlie flesh, lie .sounds tin; tocsin o f a larm ,'w aves tlie red rag of hell-lire before their eyes,.am! baw ls out., till lie is well-nigh b lack-in the face, about God’s prohibitions of sorcery ami witch- cn ift. I t will not do, h ow ever; tlie messed tru ths of Spiritualism have taken too fmfFn hold upon hum an n atu re for th is so il of rodoihontndr to have any effect;excep t .upon tlie m inds of the nervous and timid.

Now, in tlie first place, there is no analogy w hatever between w itchcraft—cither ancient or m o d e rn —and-Spiritualism ,, ns could lie easily shown had I the tim e to devote to Die subject. A' w itch, according to tlie ordinary acceptation of tlie term , w asn woman who em ployed a dis­embodied sp irit to aid her in carry ing out sonic m alignant designs of her own. She, in her nor­mal condition, w ps^actuated diy .hatred}’or an i­mosity,'"nfiidiistsomC one a t whose hands slu- .had suffered'a wrong—real or Im aginary—and resort­ed to spititiiariH-iiigs ns agents for avenging her­self upon tlie nggiessor, in wliicli' case you seetlie sp ir it wns.tliem edlunieiiiployeiH iy tlie witelii f is ter can liaidlv do so without- betray ing tlie I i f Modern SpiritiialisinX the hum an being is the medium 'through w h ich \lh e disembodied sp irit speaks, and the wishes and desires of the former are, for. tlie time being, \eom pletcly subjugated- by tlie will of tlie la tte r. \ This distinction is a mnsj; im portan t one. N either is there any evil influence exercised over m ankind through mod- urn inediiim shipnt all nnaliigoiis to th a t which constituted, a lew cen turies ago, tlie crim e of w itchcraft, in d ia ling w itm th is question, Dr.Talm nge.takes ids tex tfro m the passage describ­ing tlie v isit of Saul to the woman of Eiiilor, and gives a very glowing description of th is event, draw n entirely from.his own fertile im agination.Tlie woman lie speaks of ns haggard, weird,, and 'sh rivelled ,” sitting by a table oil which are “ d iv in ing rods, ami poisonous h erb s,an d bottles and vases ;” arid the circum stances a ttend ing the appearance of Samuel a re described in m inute detail, for tlie account of w liichyDr. Talm age m ust, wo should, th ink , have consulted a s |lirit medium, since lie certain ly did no t obtain his in­form ation from the Bible. .W ho t.old him th a tth is woman was a lniscralile oid ling, sucli ns lie ,.......Inis described, or tiia t sin- used poisons n t ail ill i these faise and malicious slanders lie would re-carry ing on her trade ? Tlie Bible does not even ! ceive no notice from me. Shakspenre lias ailmi-spcfik of h er as a.w itch, and this Irian who ta lks j rably reiiiarked ; ' -so loudly about other .people being wise above I wiKdom omi K<c><io<-ss.t<> u»; vile seem vile,w liat is Written should lie more careful him self I l-'iiuis .-.nvur Dot i iicni-n-ivlvs. -•ill his in terpretation of tlie sacred record. sCer- | U nless we find in this fac t tlm explanation of tain it is, tiia t if she was old and haggard she was I)r. T alm age’s outrageous charges against iSpir-ra th e r am iable tlianotlierw ise In her disposition, for she risked her life in tlie exercise of her c raft ta se rv o tho king, and, when she saw him ex­hausted and fa in ting -th rough w an t of food, she.;' pressed him to toke refreshm ent, and in the end killed tlie fa t calf tiia t she lind in the -house, kneaded and baked bread, and induced him to enG T hese do not look, to sny tlie least of it, like the ac ts of twiialicious ami diabolical poison-' er. Nor do, w e f e r n th a t she h ad com m union' w itli tlie inliahilants of tlie in fernal world, for tlie sp irit tlm t she called up was (v prophet of tlie Lord, who cai'nij-not for tlie purpose of practicing deception, h u t to deliver to Saul a m ost tru thfu l, although a very terrible, com m unication. V

T lm t com munication witli the dead was pro­hibited under tlie Mosaic law no one-attem pts to deny. The, only questions 'tlmt a rise in connec­tion w itlrth e subject are why tills was, and how fa r the law is a t present binding upon us? A g rea t portion of tlie M osaic law was only app li­cable to th e people to wliom^jt w as first given; and no C liristiam at th e present day considers it*

.incum ben t o n 'h im to obey its inandntes. Even D r. Tnlm age, I take it, ca ts Imre nnd pork, nnd in a dozen other ways violates th e stric tes t com­m ands of Moses. Sabbath breaking, in common w ith w itchcraft, wns punished w itli deatli, ns was also disobedience to ” one’s paren ts. Sab- bath-lirenking', in tlie Jew ish sense of tlie word, is practiced throughout Christendom , for the com mand distinctly sta tes tlm t tho “ seventh day is tlie S abbath ,” and tlie law enforces th a t it shall jje k ep t from sunse t on F riday to the sam e

Y ea, be fo re th o t im e o l c o n s t m o H ra n m in iiw e n u n ro u g a " " ^ t n n l o v ri’h o ; i o v W o n n lt-p reda l l tb e tab le-m oving , a ll th e fu rn itu re ex c item en t, w h ic h , C Q U r.on Saturday, lr ie day Has Deen a l t e r e d ,

finalists and .Spiritualism, it is ilitlieult to im ag­ine.w here ' to seel; them, t ie know s perfectly well tlm t the s ta tem en t,h e makes, if applied to the g rea t-m ass of Spiritualists; is n deliberate and wicked falsehood ; and 1 hurl tlie atrocious lie hack in bis teeth. I f Spiritualism Were tho abom inable tiling th a t lie describes it to be it could not exist for ah hour, for a sbeiety which is a t bottom usunlly sound upon m oral questions would not a l lo w ‘its presence am ongst them. T lm t'thore is a small band yf people calling them ­selves “ Frco-lovers,” among A m erican Spirit­ual us ts—in England there aje. none—I do not deny. Buf, in tlm first placv, these have, I be­lieve, lieen grossly m isrepresented ill their views ami practices'; and, in tlie second plncc, tlie great bulk of tlie Spiritualists in all parts of tlie world are thoroughly opposed both to their.'opinions nnd the ir doings.- T o 'c h a rg e tlie fau lts of tills sm all num ber of people upon Spiritualism a t large can only proceed frqip .a feeling of the-bib • te rest nm iignfiy and aiiD itter disregard both of fair play arid of tru th . I f Dr. Tnlmage will take tlie trouble to read Mr. Hepworili ’D ixon’s work on “ Spiritual W ives,” lie will find a description of several sects of Christians, quite orthodox in their faith in every otlier respect, wlio disregard entirely the m arriage lawA F a th e r Noyes and hii^comnmnity lit Oneida Creek go to a much greater extrem e in tills m atter th a n the .most arden t “ F ree lo v e r" am ong the Spiritualists, . y e t they call them selves “ Bibie C hristians,” and profess to base their'w hole system uiiotl Pauline tencliing. Now, w liat would Dr. Talm age say to a skeptic wlio should, clmr^o.tlie practices of th is

ion 'with Moses ami F.lijah on the M ount; in presence of l ’eter, Jariies, nnd .lolm-Ann instil which of its e lf is siiliii'U-iit to refu te the charges , so frequently made, Unit SpivilujfiifOii is crim inal In tlie eyes of God. , ;

N or is there any (lifficulty-in gathering tlie rea­sons th a t iieeroiimney was prohibited in certain, ease's iiudefllic(>lilY)is|ie»sifiiiiii. .The Israelites, ill tlieir'ciimiiiuiiiiiii witli ,thc V u th c n nations, were perpetually failing into evil practice;,, nnd adopting the wicked arid 'idolatrous rights of •these peoples. Fioni them they learned polythe­ism, and from tlie,same source they iieqnireil the sinful practice of sacrificing to the 'dead. "T hey joined themselves onto Baal l ’cor, they ate tlie saeriliiies of tlie dead.” In friilli, witli them, communion witli departed spirits culm inated in the worship of deilied (lead men. And it was to . destroy root ami branch, this practice Unit necro­mancy was prohibited on palii7if death . We re-. ’ peat, therefore, that intercourse witli spirits was . not altogether prohibited under tlie Mosaic law ; and, Unit where Ihe prohibition did e.vist, it was for a special reason applicable only to th a t time, and tlm t it .is .altogether beside th e question to quote 'tlie-'passages which',denounce witchcraft, and necromancy as though they had any applica­tion to Modern Spiritualism . v’(,'<iniimininn with the spirit-world was, as 1 have shown, practiced with the approval ol God throughout the whole . of tlie Old Testam ent'D ispensation ; indeed, it is even made tlie basis of tin- D ispensation iisejf.A skeptic- inayolijeel to it, hut, a Clulstaiii mjn-

grosso.st incouslstrufey.V . — . S i ' i i i r iT A i . i s M is a -S o c i a l a n d M a r i t a l

C u r s e . - , Di\ Talmage proceeds to fuliiiinate M s denunehftioiis of Spiritualism as follows :

•*l indict Spli-UiuiliMii alMi, liccaiisi* it is a snoial.and iiuirittit'cnr/o1. Tin* woi si ilunls or llt-unl hmsiii’ss, ami,thu wtti’.sr orfih’S nf-ohsuritlty, liavu hfun umiutml umlor Us pat- roiiaL'1*. Thy story Is luo vllu for nn* lo lull. I \vlll not |mi|. Into my Uuiirm' noryoiir cars with tin* luultal. .flit* civil l;u\ has hern cvokutl lo stop thu out ram*. Kami I lea Inniifiirrahli1 havuheen luokrn up hy It. It has pushed <>lf inimlreil.s of yoiihkf woiifii Into a li fe of pmlll^aty. I (talks about ‘elective iiilinitles’ ami ‘atlinlral relations.' ami ‘spiritual matches,' am! adopts the wlioh* vocabulary of frce-lovlsm. Itioneol ifs.jmlille Journals It declares: ‘Mar- ’rlas;ti Is Hie monster curse of el vl II/a* Ion. It Isa smirW* of debaneliety and Intemp'cninc.e.' If Spiritualism could have, Its full swIuk, l! would turn this world Into a pamlemonl- iim uf carnality. It is an unclean, adulterous, damnable trillion, and tin* sooner It dions Into Hu* hell from which It rose, |lm better both lor uurtii and heave’l l .”

W liat can wo say lo this vile, scandalous, dis­gusting, ami memlaeious statem ent ? "The man wlio vomits forth from his own foul mind sucli .venomous tilth, nnd then charges i t upon other people, hardly deserves to lie nolfeed, nnd blit for tlm fact tlm t there arc Inrge num bers of evil disposed people who will swallow with avidity

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Q BtA N N E . R . OF L I G H T . MAY. 22, 18*15. ■

sm all com m unity upon tin '' entire C hristian w orld? W hy, that such a man was a vile slan­derer, a ly.ipi} calum niator, '.pittim ; forth the evil venoin from hi- own heat* upon better men than him self,.. Ami he would he rig h t.- A pply the princip le to sp ir itn a li 'iu and. you have an exact fy auahiL'oii' ca-c. I>r. T.ihu.ific kijows perfect­ly well tha t there arc th-ca-atids. and tens ut th o u s in d ' of • hpii i t l u l i ' t ' as goad husbands, "Wive-', ,fathets,...ne.thers and ehii’dreti as any m em ber of his ciiicarcaati in, am! that the di> g u ttin g charge- viia" he htinu's aL 'aiii't then! are bo tli’scaiidalous'aiid false. < lae wonders that h i' entirj- eoftirrcga'iuH.-ull -the- ne.-a'ii'U - of -th livr-rv <if th i ' -• rni"ii, did not ri-e and.leave th place i n i/i-.i- - to 'how the ir contem pt for it manw h o n iu ld th u s d eg rad e th e -acn p re a c h e r in to th a t’oi' -a \ il- -land ln m n ia to r , h u r l ip e ab ro ad d h t : 'o h a rae te r of iiuti whom he untile u la te .

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ntlice of till-■ter. it lyin'.' ca-nd tilth itt thedo well ,to em-

I n ? a n f ; V, I.EAI'IN'Jo I i m t v i s : ....

“ 1 f -1 r i r-iu s. i u'l'i'}''/11 h r i -r«• r't ‘■I Vi’.-i rIlia,’ v MllM. •• «-f;;•u it ;«■ ;* ■ 7 ."him. ’ W:- r-i‘ii it i-tu (!•••:.' MeJu id ) tin . .ft ,.t T,." . | ••li*' r . I ’ 1 .(c ' i».• !. •! m'l -

..;f *.Illifi W*"f *•(’(' ’ 1. • • * n -1. "!. :i.ric • : iii’- i*;- -;■ i»•:<t 'Iir.ir S - •’i’;.'. a ii.ifi{A11,11 \ . !•“ •k *01■ n nfvtk" .* f i iV -j-li iti.'.il iii vliitlm*"-1<* {>•a .11. < ;,(| f.i Mnt”.| in t) . • l.:i!i:t'rn\ iitif m i flirt."■.<*f Kit 1 -I ;m.*I .-li- util ,.wli* r*- -h** h'.!-'- !.••! i ;• r!

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V* At K!ii*h'tiK*. ’A fill i t . f u l f i l l s 111- \ w'.uifinlvlvi1■ i' V.. :»t:.siiil'f'-il tl.if. 1 t l ■ ii n ; i ' i n r . i r o T. If 1- t'fl.tv :

h.iti.r.-f thi' w it. i -r:<-:n 1 - |» i*111: n.

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eovery of every new tru th from w hatever source it came. ’ •

IX . —.SfllitT fA I.ISM EFFECTS THE R l: lN OF t h e S o n . . D c. T a ltiia i’i-'s worths a re :

••1 tirlii/ .iLMitt't tli!"* ‘lr.lti'Ui'n a mure fearful, liyllct-lUftit: i t r u i n * . y u l

Attain waving the red ray o f hell-fire, which priests in all ayes have found effectual for the purpose of arresting progress, and destroyiny every th ing like fr.e; dnm l-T here has seldom IteiMi a 4:rent disc'overy. tiiade, or. a new fru tli hrouylit | to liyht, hut the- th rea t of dam nation has been hurled a t the head of" the man who was iiistru-

l>(-kj m eiitaM n b ring ing it about. J t is the story of ' < h tlilcr^v t-r iiyiilii’. ‘ lit his d ay the world moved

on despite the th u n d ers ‘of * tin* V atican, the anathem as of the-priesthood; arid the th rea ts of ev erlastin g -d am n atio n to all concerned. Ami to day Spiritualism will proyress despite the fury o f the Ju p ite r T onans of Brooklyn and the very small th u n d e r w ith which he trijRs to display liis w rath. S p iritualists are quite com petent to ’look afte r th e alfairs id' .their own souls, and require no advice from so pigm y a Pope as !)r. Talm age. Let him look a f te r his own soul,.w hich, jm lyiny hv the vnlyarity , m alignity, and violation of tru th d isplayed, in this discourse,'w ill rei|tiire a yood deal'o f ituproviny hefo're it call lie litted-to. yain udmis.-jnii into tliej rey ionw here-on ly tha t which is holy am i -pure shall lie allowed to entiT, and lit* will iind the ta sk siillieient w ithout trotu lditiy his hi-atl about Spiritiialistsiand Spiritual 'is in. ’ ; ■' X .— SrilllTEAI.ISMTS A livt;its.u TO THE IilllLK.

The li'rooklvn oracle rem arks :

than ttie*si shall lieijo, because I go unto my Father.” — Juht\ l lv : 1C. .

If such, were to b e th e characteristics possessed by believers, a d epartu re from the faith would be indicated by tin; absence of these powers. Let I)r. Talm aye, who ta lks so glibly about S p iritual­ists hav iny departed from th e ’faith ,.am i beiny inllueneed by doctrines of devils, tell-us w hether lie is cjipabledf exercising any one of thetniracu-

! ions powers just enum erated .'and if lie confess— f ns1 lie no ilouh t‘w ould—that lie is unable to per- | form any of these acts, is not tha t a tacit adnvis- | sion th a t it is-lie and- liis 'partv , and not we, wlrq ; have departed from t.he fiptli*. I

PHYSICAL M ANIFESTATIONS SAVANNAH.

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••i. to.- nno.lie

In - in*- Ji.-oel ami Si-lrltual- i'IIht \\ ill slip out of tour

th e lu a rr ia y e question ,o.i,.| p u s itio n 'to juO ye.of t h i 'scruples at imthiny Unit is

calculated to -iipport [h i' po-ition iiml p an d ec t” the depraved appetites of his hearers. The tru th fu ln ess ,,f t>his sta tem ent about the insanity- is on a par with thenn 'e concerning the m arriage question. It is -imply fal-e. Spiritualists are no more iiiad than o ther people, frequently per- haps less s , , : and ino-t iv i iniidy do not supply as m any victims J o .asy lu m ' a- Micalled ortlih- tlox r iu is t i a u '. The statem ent, so frequently repeated, a I o m t the Asylums in America beiny full ol S p iritm ili'ts’ lia's h.-eii disproved by facts ayain and ayain. Dr Talm aye' knows this, or ouylit to know it before 1-mtliny jih ro ad his de­nunciations. 1 km'iw no th iny .o f 'tlm 'individual ea-es to, whieh-he refers . They tnay or may not

. lie .true, hut w hether true or not, they certainly prove, tiotliiny to the puraw-c. W hat if a Spm t- ualist did,attem pt tliree tfflie- to com m it suici.tH'.’ W as lie tlm tirst mail who was i'.yi-r th u - yuilty -It would not, m ethinks, hedilli.'ult to nam e « few ■ministers of the yo-pei, as orthodox and as n a r­row-m inded and biyoted a- Dr. Talm aye hiln~elf,

' who liai'e done tlie same thiny. A mini leaviny his family, and yiviny his money to some person

^ who has exercised over liiip an undue lu llucnoiv "Twen if it ('centred, is not so exceptioiud an'Sti-

(statiee of hunm n credulity that it deserves to lie hrouylit conspicuously iii -the foreyround when it lmppeiis in tlm cit-e of a Spiritualist. Heaven know s it is common i-mniyli ill th e class of people fii which tlm Iirooklyn in in i-ter hli'n-clI' lielonys. .We. have already -had attih itinn called in this coun try to the increase of in -an ity caused by tin- -preachitiy of Messrs, Moody ami Sankey, aiul ill one ease a friyhtfn l suicide has heen traced di­rectly to this source, hut ■ any man w ho should, on that yrounil, condem n the en tire re'Viviil m ovem ent, would display alike u 'lack of intclli- yence, and a (lisreyard of justice. Spirituali'in xloe's not odrivi; .people mad. fin- the contrary, it b rinys them ,to their senses. If you waiit to learn of a real cause of madii'ess, you will Iind it in your m onstrous1, inlimiuin, n'm-crijitural, aihlHod- (lislionoriny doctjiire 'of eternal torm ent, and in

. the ('a lv in i'tic* buybear of reprohatioii to diim- nation of milUons of yiiett liefore they were horn; • •

V II .”— SlMIHTTAl.tSM lll'IN'S THK I’ HVs;iCAJ.

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•Some of us have a notion th a t we can hold j Spiritualism , and the Hihte both in one hand, so i closely do they aeciifd, and so tlm rohyhly are ; they in Im nnony the one with the other. As Dr. T alm ay e 'd o es not point d o t the Instances in which Spiritualisii}, and the liihle disayree, save a reference or twit to some rejmted com m unica­tions from W esley, R unyan, and a few1 o ther em ­inent ( 'h r i 't ia n s —who tire said to have ehanyed their reliyioi 'since they entered th esp ifjt-w orld— V liieh are, of course ,' iiothiny to, tin 1 purpose, one hardly know s which is the best way to reply to ibis sta lsm eiit. . I have already shown you, iii nil earlier part of the discourse, th a t tin 1 passayes in the (till T estam ent prohibition w itchcraft, usuatjy so trium phan tly quoted ayuinst S p iy t- 1'ialisiii, have no heariny w hatever on the subject.

. When a m aii.-fherefore, says th a t Spiritualism ' is opposed to tlie liih le ,,and yivesTpt ivasnn for his statem ent, his objection miyht very properly he dismissed .without fu rth e r ' notice.' Rut is Spir­itualism opposed to the Sacred Record ' Why, tlie Rilile is tlie most sp iritual book tha t lias ever appeared in tin- History of tlie world, as m ust lie obvious to any person ut all. acquainted with i ts con ten ts—spiritual in tlie very sense' in which tha t term is used in reference to tlie modern m anifestations. On every pane may lie discov­ered indications of its spiritual origin, and in thousands o riiis ta n c e s phenom ena,are recorded of a character e x a c tly analogous to those which take place to-day.

charge-ofV departure Jfrom tlie faith"'ili tlie teeth., of these sham teachers of C hristianity—gigantic sem blances, offering to the .people a liusk from which tlm kernel lias been ex tracted—and tell them th a t it is"they, not we, who have heen.se- duced aw ay by doctrines of devils, and that we who are C hristian .Spiritualists have preServed intact tlm pure 'and unilelitrvijeliyipn of Jesus.

They tell us th a t tlie miraculous gifts were limited to tlie Apostolic, age, and thatr-w itli, tlie death of those who received the commission d i­rect from tlie Lord, they, ceased. 1 reply th a t not only is this a pure assum ption unsupport­ed Ify th e sm allest tittle of evidence (>f a Scriptural character, hu t tliat it is diam etrically opposed to historical fact. T here is no in tim a­tion given in the New T estam ent tliat tlie pinv- ers were to cejise at the fia-sing aw ay of' th e ; Apostolic .age, and tliat they did not we nre 1 very well assured, for wd Iind them ex.ereised re- j peatcdiy for centuries afterw ards. Let us, .there- fore, hear' no more about our having departed I from the faith, when it is, in tru th , our accusers I and opponents who are in tliat position them - j selves which they un justly ascribe to us. |

T he nex t and last objection of Dr. Talniage 's ! th a t I shall notice.is ope of the most curious th a t j it lias ever been , my luck to come across. I t is j t h a t : _ v ... ’ |

X I I . — SlM HIT l'AI.IfM FINDS . I T ? V I C T I M S j AMONGST THOSE WHO AltK IN Tl lO V H I.E A N D ’ ID isth k ss .. Of Saul-, Dr. Talm age rem arks : I

lie (Hit not know where- to go O.r relief. AfO.T :(>vliili* ! Id* n*M>lv«T| to iroiihil mm? the wlirh of Kmlor. He ex|*ecteil that M>nH"|iow she would atfonl him leSlef. It was Ills trouble that drove him there.

l ie then a d d s :

To the Editor of the Ihmnerof Light: ‘• As no th ing lias of la te been published in-the- B anner from this p a r t of the coun try , I suppose our friends' liave^. concluded th a t we are doing n o th in g f 'H n ..tliis they are m istaken , as we are

liyyl back tln 'JS jiaving w onderful m an ifesta tions th rough the

ils io \*• \lid I have to tell you now that Spiritualism finds victims in the troubled, t ho bankrupt, the sick, the bereft. **|

I ven ture to say th a t such an objection as th is lias never been urged against .Spiritualism or a n y ­thing else. Tlie fac t th a t a principle can bring comfort to those who nre distressed, consolation to tiny sorrow ing, hope to the desponding, and solace to tlie-w ounded spirit and the troubled mind, should assuredly lie considered one of the highest recom m endations tliat could lie,present­ed in its favor. Y es, it is quite true th a t m any persons have gone to Spiritualism for succor and support in, affliction or sorrow, and the fact tliat it could supply them .with the balm they

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m edium ship of Dr. B enjam in F. Sheftall, a n a­tiv e b o n i of this city-, a gentlem an who is from one of the best fam ilies of 'Savannah , and one who is h igh ly respected here. T h e phenom ena tliat occur in his. presence are w onderful and m arvelous, and have m ystified all those who are fo rtunate "enough to obtain adm ission to his s<5- ances—so,uiuclrso tlia t he is daily in receip t of le tters requesting him' to give public exhibitions.I have been fo rtu n a te enough to w itness se.veral of his seances, and nm 'ftjlbk to sta te th a t they excel an y th in g I Jiave ever seen. I will endeavor to give a description of his seance on Sunday, fflglit, A pril 4th. 1‘ The cabinet was exam ined by the audjencef who pronounced it; to be all right. Tlie Doctor was th en bound with ropes, his w ris ts ware’-Tteil behind ids back, and h i s ‘arm s also tied firmly. Tlie gentlem an who tied th e D octor is an old sailor, hav ing followed tlie sea fo r fifteen years. Ile.co'nsutued tw enty-tw o m inutes in tying. Tlie door o f tlie cabinet was then closed? and in fifty- eight seconds the ropes yvere th row n out of tlie cabinet, and the m edium w alked ou t free.

The ropes were pu t back into tlie cabinet, the cabinet door closed, and in th e sh o 4 tim e of ten seconds—tlie door being ,reopened—we found tlie medium firmly tied, hands under tlie chair, and feet to tlie spok .es 'of tlie clmir. T lie door was again closed, and tlie m edium w alked out free in tlie rem arkable time' of seven seconds. l ie re­tu rned into tlie cab inet and wns tied in a t lensf. tw enty different positioiis in about two m inutes. Tlie m edium was tied dow n to a chair and the knots'sealed with tlie p rivate signet o f one of the audience. Y our correspondent was requested to go in to the" cabinet, which I did, when, to my great surprise," tlie m edium ’s coat was im m edi­ately placed on me And mine on him .

My rig h t w rist was now. handcuffed to tlie me­dium ’s left, anil my le ft to his r i g h t ; we then entered tlie cabinet together, and in about ten

Tcurled lip an d k n itted brow of .the..hard-shell, skep tic w as rep le te w ith Jov ian thunder, ready to \sm ash up Spiritualism , Mrs. T h ay e r a n d 'a il thi green-houses in sp irit-perturbed (Christen­dom ; some **“ A rtfu l Dodgers.” in the ir own e d n e e itk n ew all about i t—saw th e w hole th in g • c l e a ns m ud—b u t w ouldn’t t e l l ; they w ere triad, d isg iisted—w anted to go home. A sly-appearing ' felloty o f the te rr ie r type (m ight be th e veritable Jo e B agstock—no telling, you know , in, this ma- . te ria liz ing age) w hen n o t engaged study ing o u t tra p s in th e p lastered ceilirfg, o r cotycing o u t a 1 solutiori\from betw een Ills eyebrows, cast fu rtive glances a t th e w riter, and w hispered to a neigh ­b o r : “ C onfederate .”. T lie sound of his own audible w 'lispercotlfirm ing ids clever coup-d'-elnt and g iv ing hint assurance doubly sure. I t is vefy common for converbfto be htmored w ith “ grave suspicions b u t wliero a p e $ o n is constitu­tionally opposed to conviction, s i le n c e ‘is • the bdst-argum ent. U nfortunately a first-proof skep- , tic is a portab le budget of “ fixed op inions,” and will, like Jo e Bagktock, “ sell s h o r t” every time.. B ut, a f te r all, such persons-are n o t a ltogether irra tiona l in the ir “ h u n t for the. w ease l.” I f they cannot rub out th e phenomena..-(tlie object of the secret detective bureau of th e Young,"Men’s - C hristian. A ssociation) som ething m ust go by the board. I f M ahom et \ii lf not com e to" the m oun­ta in , tlie m ountain m ust go to M ahom et. .H ence tlieir efforts to in ju re tlje -rep u ta tio n ttf the m edi­ums, an d tlieir efforts to fasten “ confederacy ” on every person supposed to be available .

, W hoever o r w hatever It iS| tlia t com m its p e tty larceny on tile florists of \Bosttm nnd suburbs, I am satisfied—though not applying th eeru c ia l-tes t of Btorer, W etherbee et d a —th a t M rs. T h ay e r does.no t e ither through, herself o r confederates introduce or in anyw ay assist, save as a medium, in tlie production of flower^ an d p lan ts a t her rem arkable stiances. ,

H aving doubted the lady 's honesty I take th is m ethod of apologizing for an erro r of judgm ent and th a n k h er for her courtesy,\ fo rbearance and unexpected kindness. , \ .

fering, cheer tlie drooping spirit, and take the sting from the in tensest pain tliat hum anity has

. . . to experience. .W hat \vould*such a man ‘haveY . l,M|T slb1'* 011 this occasion to J ^ i d to. tlie-blessed inv ita’ion of C hrist to tlie

needed 1 'th ink tells largely in its favor. Im agine a C hristian m inister objecting to anv system on , the ground tha t rf is calculated to soothe the suf- ' seconds the handcuffs fell off tlie niedlym , and

i,\vell lit length upon-tlii' numerous instances re- | weary and heavy-laden to come to him for rest ? corded m which phenom ena took place of pre- j jj,, w:ouid probably have ci.'i'Iv thexsam o ------ ’ ...... .................: ............... - ■ - •

H e a l t h , a n d ( ai sks a l l t h o s e w h o Re l i e v e IN IT TO HE C.VliAVKltftTs,VOE

W e a k a nd X e u -■ i*

“ It ruin'-.tlie l""ly. I >k in nj lirill-tsi ( ;nl;i\- |i t-lumioy. ionl «-i*01 in:ir-ln*s vn-Mms- pl iyslnd ht-nl(l)

n an (nnlieno '".! Splr lt - 1:. ii. i o n-. «-\Dao-tt-d - ' l ia inN

N " i l . ln e p i , j-*'r- nm Innir liali ."fi r;oik e t a - ' - >pir ' l t i ;all ' ln ip slia'ls, (In* II- <li-, ip!,-- a n '■ m i In-arlin; - t a i t l l n e

rn'ws i m >ui .......... . (o t M. stianir*. ni-ine- r r " . - ' l n s (In-rt-im In ulil: ■. TaM-' ILU.-tty. y.-intln1.; 1“ «,'( it- lo't |iHi-*-a-lf I'Mlanr--. \ 'm1. -,-|.ui, lir.il ami ‘'inliinn-. 11,'-wlPP-n-il ulth i.ip-, I n--\--r kn-iv a I'niOioin'il Spllilnal- l-t win, lla’I ;( ln-.i!l)i\ n,'n*>'(- -( -P'ln. I ll- lnrljp-'nl fpi- ll'p-y ami ratan-|-->. ’' *■ So spy? thi> Iirooklyn clerical demagogue. So

we a rc 'n o t sim ply periling our eternal welfare by em bracing Spijitiialism , lull ru in ing our phys­ical con-tilu tio ii- as well. I’ooryiljlplctnil ! .To' what strait.s-lie iim-t he driven to tiiid argum ents

.again-t Spiritualis.iu.. I have addressed larger' audiences of S p iritu a li-t-, and inure frequently

. tlian perhaps any other m an in -this.country, and I had a notion," judg ing from my observation, tlia t live, were, as a rule, an unusually healthy class of people. Tlie reason for this is obvious.- O ne principal eliaraetcristic which m arks tlie teach ing of tlie sp irits is tlie im |ioitaii('e of at­ten d in g to tlie laws of N atu re im planted by God, in th e 'p h y sica l constitu tion of man, and avoid­ing all kinds of foods "find d rin k s of an 'in ju rious

.d ia m e te r , obtaining pure air, tak ing exercise, and iiL .othcr ways, resorting to those practices wlpeli are in variably conducive to health. Kvery oii(“ wlio lias had experience of -'.Spiritualists know s, perfectly well jh a t , as a class, they arc untisiiallv jsu tieiiiur about m utters of tliis kind, .and tliaf, edii.'ei|uentTy, they po-.-ess the, .1 Acs

• M if > in ••nrjmrc in a larger dt'grce than unist jrOtlier people. Almpst all tlie spirits who eotn- ; n iiinieatc m ake a pdint of insisting upon the ne- " cessity o f liii-iliiiins iilieying tilt" laws of health ;

and tlie great mass of Spiritualists, in obedience to the distinct in junctions of tlie spirits, carry out tlie strictest hygienic .principles. Spiritualist's “ weak, nervous, exh au sted ,” w ith cadaverous countenances n n d 'rla m m y hands ’ Well, tld^ is

' ’am using! 1 fancy sejnc of ir- a re quite equal to Dr. T alm age or any iiii-iiiIk t of his congregation

. in physical staiitina, and I .should myself, al­though fifty years of age, lie delighted to try an enco u n te r with him in any a th letic sport lie may like to .name. As to Die t waddle alnm t incipi­ent epilepsy and catalepsy,.w hy Spiritualism hag"

; cured inore'Ya'f-s o f-th o se diseases than all the ‘ colleges of physicians tliat have ever existed.

V III .—S p n im -.M .ism isTiiE.CrsTOM of Buy­in g ' in t o H o d ’s S i .c u e t s , w h ic h w e h a v e no R ig h t to K n o w . Dr. T alm age goe-s on to say :

‘vlf Hoilis D\t*r s1;i| i|h'0 ><|ii:uv Wi ill** face :unlrefined'laiiKiume t«m»' in the pulpit:, ll Is v.lien a,spirit-

^ual iiiflimii pnt> her hand mi the table, luvokliin’ spirits «!• part*»11«. make a ivwlatimi. Hod lias told you all youovmht to know, ami Imw date you beptyitiK Into that

. whldi is muieof voiir Imsim^s'; . . Keinemfier thatspiritualism, at the best. Is a useless thin#; for If It tells- what the liihle reveals n i* uf-upetHuity; and If It tells what the IHble <lc*es not reveal It Is a Me.”

' 1 How lias this man lieeome so well inform ed ns to w hat are H od’s si'erids, and w hat are n o t? The fac t tlia t the com munications toxvliicli lie refers a re m ade should lie sufiicient proof tliat they’are no

' longer secrets, b u t appertain ing to tlie "revealed th in g s" which are the b irth rig h t of ourselves and ou r children. The objection urged here about th a t being useless which teaches what is in tlie

. B ible, and injurious-.which communicates w.liat Is not, I th in k we have m et with before. A n en ­tire E astern -lib rarynvas burned in consequence o f a conelusiop tliat w as arrived at in reference to th e K oran by this m iserable process of reason­in g —if reasoning it can lie called. I f the plain le tte r of tin* Bible be sufficient for guidance even on religious m atters, why are.-coinmentaries ever w ritten , or w hy does Dr." T alm age preach?' I f it lie law ful and desirable" for a m an in the .flesh to

■ .throw such light upon S p iritualsub jec tsas h issu- ‘p e rlo r intelligence niay nave ennbled lfim to pos­sess, it is difficult to see how .it nan be wrong for th e sam e m an, after he lias throw n off ids m ate­ria l body, and a tta ined to a position in which his in te llect is sharpened, his knowledge increased n n d h is experience w idened; to do tlie same thing fo r w hich ijow he is evidently m uch better fitted th a n he was b efo re ; an d of course if the ques­tio n be taken ou t o f-th e field of religion into th a t o f science and philosophy, to which, afte r

'a l l , it more properly belongs,-D r. Taim age’s re­m ark s about th e Bible w ould app ear all tlie more

. -preposterous and absurd. T lie same objection m ight’be u rged w ith equal force aga inst th e dts-

charactcr as tlie lim deriunani- fi'-tatiiMis. All th a t can lie done, therefore, is brielly to refer to some few eases with which you will be tolerably familiar. • .Spirit lights are seen again 'and again', tlie m oshpalpablc instances being probably the p illar of lire which guided the Israelites hy.night, the light tha t was seen by all present at the conversion of Paul, am i the “ cloven tongiie.s’like as of. lire,” observed on the (lay of I’eiiteeost. Sp irit voices are heard so frrquen lly by the w rite rs -o f the b o o k sp f the 1'iib le 'that simply to record the instances in which they occur, woiild occupy half the 'tim e tlia t I have to devoje to the whole discourse. Spirit- w riting is also an 'exceedingly common .occur­rence, the most rem arkable case being th a t in which"tin* om inous words were inscribed.on the wall a t 'B elshazzar's feast', on which occasion not only wa,s (lie.w riting, lint,tire hand itself seen, a (drciinistaiier exaetly analogous to wlmt.froquont- ly iiecur.-fin bu r‘own day. Daniel is recorded to lidve had stren g th im p'irtcd to hi in by :uepirjt touch. Spirits move m aterial objects repeatedly,

’as in tin- ease' of the angel who released I’etcr from prison, find the supernatural beings who re­moved the stone from the sepulchre in w hich the body of Jesus had been entombed. Inanim ate substances were often made the vehicles of spir­itual power, as they are to-day. A dead man was raised to life by touching the hones of Eli­jah , and m iraculous (’tires were effected by means of tlie articles of dress that had been worn by Paul. M aterializations, so ridiculed in our day Jiy people who th in k themselves possessed of great stores of wisdom, wore of common oeettr- lvhee. "Angels appeared to A braham -in the- plains of Mamro, w alked home 'w ith him , and partpok of m aterial fowl. A n angel w restled with Jacob, dislocating the -p a tr ia rc h ’s thigh. A nat}gel-u>nthis occasion h av in g ad raw n sword in Ids h an d —appeared to David by the threshing- Ituor’of O riia n ; and another, of exactly sim ilar character, was seen by Joshua. Did an analo­gous ease to those two la tter occur'In m odern

dimes, skeptical critics would dem and w ith a chuckle-to know w liether the sword was a mate-; rial sword ; if so, whence it had been obtained, and if not, how it was m anufactured so as to a p ­pear like one, o r w hether it was tlie sjiirit .of a m aterial sword. Instances of the levitation of hitman beings art* filso to lie found in the Bible. Ezpkiel was lifted by the .h a ir of his head and c a r r ie d ‘to Jerusalem ', w here '-h e m et seventy sp irits of men wlio hud li^ed and passed aw ay from eafitli long before. And tlie ease of Philip, who was carried th rough the a ir to A /.o tus, is fa­m iliar to every one. In point of fac t,'tlie whole of tlie m odern phenom ena were of freq u en t oc­currence in ancient- times, and are relerredU o repeatedly in' tlie Bilde. To sfty, consequently, tliat Spiritualism and tlie, Bible are not in har­mony is to display gross ignorance e ither of tlie one or the other,-or both.

X I . — S l ' i n i T L ’ AI.ISM IS THE F iT.FII.I .MENT OFt h e A po st l e ' s T hofhkoy Co n o eu n in g t h e L ast D ay . Not only Dr. Talm age, b u t a 'score of o ther men of the sam e tu rn of tniiid, atid

"equally ignorant o f tlia t with which they ought to he b es t acqimjjnted, are constantly in tlie hab it of sta ting tha t the A postle Paul had Spiritualism in his m ind w hen lie penned tlie following prophecy :

“ Nowlin? spirit spuaketliv expressly that In "the latter times some **Ua(1 lU-jJurt from the faltlu giving hec<l tosc- ilurhig sptrlls ami tloetilue* of devils; speaking lies Ip hy­pocrisy, having tlmlr conscience seared with a hot Iron: forbidding to marry, and commanding to. abstain from meats, which (»od hath created to be received with thanks­giving of them whfeh believe and know the t ru th ," —l T i m . iv: 1 :t.■ Xow, w e .should lie glad to be inform ed w hat possible connection th e re (an be betw een tlie event, here predjeted and Modern Spiritualism .- Spiritnalists n e ith er forbid m arriage, nor abstain from those “ m eats w hich Hod hath created to be* received in th an k sg iv in g ,” neither d o tliey speak “ lies in hvpocrisy ,” no r a re -th e ir , consciences.. seared. W hether they have departed from tlie faith by giving tieed to seducing spirits , we shall see.presentiy .-

Supposing tlie prediction to Tefer to the pres­en t tim e, w hich tliere.B not a shadow of 're a so n for believing,*it would lie interesting to inquire* wliat classes am ongst all- tlm'se in existence m ost nearly fulfill tlie conditions there in se t forth. D epart from the fa ith ! W hat faith ? A ssuredly if words have an y m eaning, it refers to -th e faith

• which th e early C hristians—some of them th e n - -living—had received from Christ. Now one fact, and a m ost im p o rtan t one in connection, with th a t fa ith , was. th a t tlie-pow ers given "to the Church were to "remain with it. Tlie following passage will illu stra te m y m e an in g :

“ '’Ami these Tigris shall follow them that believe: In ray name shall they cast out devils they shall **peak w ith.new tongues: they shall take up serpents: and If.they drink any deadly thing. It shall not hurt them: they shall lay hands on the sick, and thyy shall recover. ’‘—Mark xvi: 17*18.

These were th e sig n s by w hich believers were to be know n. T h e m iracles perform ed by tlie g rea t M aster h im self w ere to be repeated by his disciples a fte r he had le ft the earth , and, in 'tru th , the prom ise is th a t th ey slioulcT. do even g rea ter w orks th a n he h ad done. . "

‘ •V erily , verily , I s a y u n to you, he th a t b e lleveth on m e, th e w o rk s th a t I d o sh a ll b e do also, mod g re a te r teorkt

objected tliat a svstem which was adapted to “ the troubled, tlie b a n k ­rupt, the sick and tlie b ereft,’’.m ust be based up-' on error. W liat sort of people, one wonders,' dues Dr. Talmnge preach to. 'Folks, we suppose, wlio have no troubles, no cares, no afflictions. Well, it is lucky for them, for.the religious tdacli- injLem anating from the pulpit in the Brooklyn T abernacle is not much calculated to supply con­solation to tlio.se wlio iieeil it. »The doctor m ay charge us .with im parting solace and comfort to those wlio' are ,“ troubled ,” "nml endeavoring to aid tlie “ sick and tlie. b e r e f t w e are sorry we cannot re tu rn the compliment.

In conclusion, I have only to say tlia t S p iritu ­alism is one of th e m ost glorious tru ths th a t lias even been made know n in1 tlie history of the world. I t came from God, and God’s work is

.beiiig.accomplished by it every day. -It aims not- to 'supp lan t religion, or to overthrow C hristiani­ty, but shows itself tlie best ally b f botli by w ork­ing for tlie same grand e n d . ' I t lias shaken A th e­ism to its foundation, humbled tlie m6st stiff­necked skepticism , nnd crushed M aterialism be­neath its feet. O ur lot lias fallen upon glorious tim es—to hear the news tha t we have heard, an d see tin? tilings which w e have seen." T he glory of tlib olden days lias come brick again, in te r­course w ith the spirit-.world is reestablished, com piunion with angels is again an every-day occurrence, nqd we now see tlie sw elling o f 'th e wave which carries on its crest righteousness, and tru th , ami love, and the worship of Gocl, and tlie brotherhood of- 'm an, and which will roll on until-that ancient prophecy be fulfilled tlia t“ tlie earth shall.hi* full of the know ledge of tlie Lord, as tlie w aters cover tlie sea .” •

“ Countioss c!mn!> nf huavenly music,Struck on* carthlv sounds hfgarv

- Vibrato. In Immortal ronconl,• Through the answering soul of man;Countless gleams of heavenly glory 1

Shine through spirits pent In clay,On thiMjtj men at their labors,

On the children at thejrvlav.MV have gazed on heavenlv secrets,

Sunneil f»nr>elves In heavenly Seen the glory, heard the musle !

M’e are Wiser than we know..*’

W ritte n fo r th e Ih th n e ro f L ig h t. PATIENCE.

31Y MHS. E . M. HICKO K .

Life is‘ a struggU* so b itte r and hard," ,W ith sentinel Poverty ever on guard,N ever relaxing his terrible hold,'Never relenting to feeble or olii !•

H ands grow so weary w ith to iling for n a u g h t ; H earts grow so heavy w ith g rief burdens fraught, L ining fa ir brows with the fu rrow s of care, •Sinking tlie soul in the deeps of despair. •

W ishing and striving forever in vain,H earts ' noblest im pulse^crushed back again, Fain jo bless others, bu t no th ing to give,Oh, w hat rare courage it takes ju s t to lire/ ' -

W and'erlng, praying, and seeking for light, ..Shrouded in gloom like the darkness of night, Som etim es so weary tlmfc.dfiath seems a friend, S truggling still to be true to the e n d ;

Sometimes enduring the chasten ing rod, Sometimes imploring a m erciful God - To help us to bear it—to help us to wait,A nd teach us to bow to a merciless f a te !

Ah, little they kri.ovr.who have never a care, W hose life-path is smooth, and whose life-sky is

fair,Of the keenly-felt to rtu re a b rave-sp irit proud

J s bearin g in silence, ’neath poverty bowed I

A nd lit tle they know of the*powers o u tw ro u g h t'. By -the p raying and striv in g and conflict of

thought !>A nd little theydearn in tlie ir dead lives, I ween, Of the dearly-bought wisdom th e sp ir it m ay g lean !

O r th e richly-earned freedom, w hen over it all—?’er. th e crosses an d J rja ls Rnd keenly-felt thrall, lie sp ir it can rise bgj» 'pow erful will,

A nd bid th e rebellious heart; stern ly , be still.

Work bn , then, poor toilers, th is life is not a l l ; Somewhere in the f u tu re ea r th ’s fe tters m ust f a l l ; T hen the souls s trong and happy in freedom and

lig h t V -W ill be they who” w ere fa ith fu l to -tru th an d 'to

righ t. • ' ' ,

yet he did n o t move, neither did 1 hea r a Sound.C hains w ere next placed on tlie m edium, locked

with seven padlocks, and tli.e handcuffs ran through the chains, and botti-of ills hands were handcuffed. We then searched tlie medium (a t ills own request), but, not a key could we find. We then formed n circle aroijpd him , but did not have to s it long, for in one minute.! we heard handcuffs, locks nnd chains fall upon tlie floor. We carefu lly exam ined them all, b u t they w.ere all un lock ed -an d the medium free. I brought with me n solid iron ring, w h ich I proposed for the m edium to ask th e sp irits to p lace on h is arm while I held his hand . l i e consented to m ake the tria l, and in tw o m inutes from the tim e I made tlie proposition tlie ring w as on l)is arm , and I holding his h an d all th e w h ile .' h o w th is

. was done is beyond my com prehension, h u t it was done,, an d well (lone, too. T he D octor is then firmly tiedj-hnnds b eh in d d iis back, and a hand­kerch ief placed over h is m outh, so tlia t it is im­possible for him to w rite. A com moil school slate is placed on h is lap, w ith a pencil one-six­teenth of an inch lo n g ; in this ’m anner sealed letters and m ental questions are an sw ered ..

A coat was then placed upon th e Doctor, and sewed up a t tlie neck, sleeves, an d also under his legs, so as to m ake it impossible to remove it w ithout b reak ing tlie stitches ; y e t tlie coat was remdved in tw elve seconds, and th en replaced on him in six seconds, th e stitches undistu rbed and unbroken. ' ,

■ Tlie n ex t and last phenom enon was the m ate­rialization of hands. Tlfe D octor .was securely tied—hands, arm s an d feet—to a chair, when in­stan tly four m aterialized hands appeared a t tli’e apertu re . T lie door being opened, tlie medium was found bound as before, nnd th e knots undis­turbed.

In conclusion I w ould s ta te tlia t D r. Sheftall does n o t give, seances for th e general public or fbr money, b u t has several sc ien tists investigat­ing th e phenom ena, and lias given every oppor­tu n ity to them and o thers to investiga te ; lie al­lows an y one to en te r th e cab in e t w ith him, who expresses a wish or desire so to so.

- “ Savannah. ” ', SnrannaJi, Ga., A^rilOlh, 1875.

T h ere recen tly died In F a rls , a t th e age o f seven ty -e igh t, a m an w ho h ad ca rried th e w illow b a sk e t and book o f a rag -p ick e r In the s tre e ts o f th a t c ity fo r fifty years. H e bad gone th ro u g h a fo rtu n e In h is y o u th a t Toulouse, a n d bad stu d ied law subsequen tly , b u t,fe U fro m po ln tfio p o in t t l l lh e g o t to a sta tion below w h lcb I t w as ap p a re n tiy 'lm - posslble to jfa ll. .

A SITTING W ITH MBS. THAYEB.

IVY ANTHONY .HIGGINS, JR .

To the Editor of the Banner of Light:.FlowerS; roots, mosses d ripp ing w ith m oisture

introduced by sp irits in a closed d a rk room—no w onder we Impeach hum an ev id en c e ! Tw elve m onths ago, o r thereabout,-wliffn th is ex traord i­n ary phase of mediumship. was first presented through Mrs. T h ay e r’s organism , I a ttended one of tliis lady’s seances. I question if “ Ja c k Buns- by ” looked wiser th an I did w hen delivering m y­self on- “ an opinion as is 'a n opinion “ hum ­bug !” Since then, m y sum m ing up w ithout ev i­dence—a failingam ong most of us—lia s had w liat “ hookey-from -school-urciiinir” call a “ pickey- b ack .” M ine opinion, Mr. E d ito r, has received the severe logic of the birch-rod of facts,,and. facts a re “ stubborn chiefs,” and as the au tho r of T am O ’S han ter says, “ W inna be th w arted .”

W ith ra re m agnanim ity (am ong sensitive m edium s) M rs. T h ay e r harbored no ill feelinjg against me fo r expressing my_.doubts as to the genuineness of h er m edium ship, b u t k ind ly in ­vited me to a tten d h e r regu lar S unday evening cjrcle, w hich I did Sunday, 9th in st. S k ipp ing tlie tedium of unnecessary descrip tion of th e room and a rran g em en t-o f circle,, all o f w hich your readers can learn fo r them selves^LW itk proceed to tlie sta tem ent' o t results. F low ers, roots, mosses, raoiild* m ixed w ith clay, anglp-worm s and insects cam e upon the ta b le ; an d said table w aslite ra lly covered w ith freSh and dew y products of F lora, am ong tliemdieing m any rarities. T hey seemed th row n from all directions, and struck, th e table w ith considerable • force. O ne branch of fir s tru ck m e a la D onnybrook. I t weighed a t least betw een tw o an d th ree pounds. M y'm en- ta l order for a rose-bush and roots w as responded to by tlie; m ysterious ag en t a t w ork. T he am ount of m aterial on the tab le a t th e end of th e sitting caused M rs; Thayer to ex c la im : “ T h a t ’s quite a load for one w om an.”

•When th e lighted gas illum ed th e occult flo ra l". display on th e long dining-room tab le, I t w as really am using to read th e p lay of thou g h t on th e faces o f th e v iew ers— th e coniem ptuously-

-------------- :------ ;— :—LEVITATION OP - A M ATERIALIZED

SPIR IT —THE M EDIUMSHIP OP MR. W ILLIAMS. \

In th e physical m anifestations o f Spiritualism , as in o ther operations of nature, w hen there is a gain of pow er in one direction th e re is usually a loss of pow er in another, and tiee term. A t the m aterialization seancesof Mr. W illiam s, the spec- ta to rs ’s it in Abe d ark instead of in tlie light, as with o ther “ mediums, and when the sp irits are ready to show themselves, they illum inate them-, selves witli a ligh t of a phosphorescent nature , which fiasfles up for a few seconds and then dies aw ay. But the ligh t being thus m oderated, nnd produced only,.when necessary, there is a conse­quent gain of power in another direction,\for tlie sp irits are able to show them selves floating abou t the room, tlie test being of.a most convincing ua- • ture w hen tlie conditions are good. . I t isigiven in m ore or less perfection a t n ea rly all or Mr. W illiams"s m aterialization seances." |

On T hursday evening, Inst w eek, a t Mr. W il­liam s’s o rdinary public seance, th e sp irit “ Jo h n King ’’ first slioiyed hitliself several tim es near (lie cabinet, then lie floated upw ards iivone steady sweep, and w hile his w hite tu rb an was pressing against tlie ceiling, lit up his face a nib tlie ceil­ing ; iiex t he floated round tlie circle, ahfive tlie heads of tlie sitters, and a littto in -fron t of tlieifc faces. A fterw ards lie floated to th e o ther side ofV the circle, an d stood upon the floor, so th a t he ' wns upon the opposite side of tlie circle, to the fcabinet; 'w hile there lie lit him self up so tlia t all could see him and his features clearly , and a t th is tim e th e re w as-a violent flu ttering noise in the cabinet, which .-lie said was caused by his d raw ­ing pow er from the medium.

Among the observers present w ere Mrs. George Neville, Mrs. nnd Miss Cutinore, and Mr. Cut- m o(e,"Jr., Miss Poyscr, Mr. W. II. H arrison, nnd several other friends. T he ord inary d a rk seance which usually precedes„,tlie m ateria lization s t ­ance, was for tlie m ost p art abolished a t th e re ­quest of tlie com pany, in order th a t m ore of tho^ p o w eran d vita lity of the medium should he con-* served f o r tlie la tte r .—The London Spiritualist, A pril 23.

, 1'(From the Boston Herald.]MATERIALIZATIONS AT MRS. MAUD'

LORD’S.

A few evenings ago Mrs. M aud E. L ord g ra ti­fied a few friends assembled a t h er parlo rs 26 n an so tt s tree t by a “ m a te ria liza tio n ” se an c e .. The rea r parlor w as darkened an d used ns a cab ­inet. B etw een tlia t and th e f ro n t roonv, w hich was occupied by tlie spectators, w as suspended a curtain , w ith -an ap ertu re over w hich fell som ef' dark drapery . Tlie “ workshop o f th e sp irits ” was exam ined nnd secured ngainst m o rta l.in tru ­sion, w hen Mrs. Lord, w ith h e r. h an d s 'tied be­hind her, entered the d ark apartiiient.. T he door was scarcely closiid upon iter before bands w ere th ru st'th ro u g h tlie ap ertu re in th e cu rta in , an d a few m om ents la ter tw o well-defined faces—one having a m oustache and tlie o ther a fu ll beard— also appeared . Some one beh ind th e cu rta in w ltispered hoarSely- through a t in trn m p e t.fin d then th re w it into tlie room occupied by the spec­tators. A rose was also taken fron t tlie dress of tlie m ediunvjuid "thrown into the lap of a lady in th e fro n t row: D uring tliese m an ifesta tions th e m edium was in h er norm al condition and con­versing w ith her friends on tiie o ther side o f th e 1 curtain . W hile th u s engaged she rem arked tlia t the sp irits w ere dissatisfied w ith tlie im perfect,

"m anner in w hich she was tied, w hereupon the cords were removed, and as\the m edium solem n­ly avows, securely replaced by tlie spirits. Be­fore tlie close of tlie seance tlie m edium called for a copper wire, which, being brought, w as taken by some viewless hand beh ind tlie cu rta in . T hen followed noises of bdsy w ork w ith in , ac­com panied by the sound of a ham m er, d riv ing nails; and when, a t the close of th e seance, ligh t was l e t in to tlie dflrk ro o m jth e w ire w as foundattjichiid to tlie chandelier, and fasten ed by nails

fljovarious po in ts along the walls, as though an a ttem p t had been m ade to s tren g th en the m an i­festa tions by the aid of a n electrical c ircu it. A ll tliis tim e tlie m edium was alone in th e room ,

.w ith h e r hands tig h tly secured by .cords.

£ 5 f W e a re glad to learn th a t M r. J . W illiam s T horne, whose expulsion from h is se a t in the N orth C arolina L egislatu re we re fe rre d to some tim e ago, is sure of being re tu rn ed b y an over­w helm ing m ajo rity of h is constitu en ts . Mr. T horne, i t w ill be Remembered, w as th e victim: o f an opposition w hich sought to accom plish its purpose of ousting an enem y of tr ic k e ry and cor­rup tion by falsely represen ting h im a s denying th e ex istence of a God. , T his u se of a religious clause in the C onstitu tion to accom plish p artisan purposes has been alm ost’ unan im ously con­dem ned by th e press of th e country , a n d th e re­su lt is seen in th e v ery S tate w here tills u n ju s t proscrip tion was had. The lesson of this whole business is the danger of having a religions test in - corporated in a political constitution,.and N orth C arolina should profit by i t to b x p u n g e the clause

- whipli h as been th e mfeans of do ing an in justice wnlclf’now bids fa ir to ’be rem edied th rough th e p o ten t influence o f th e press upon p ub jic opinion. —Boston Daily Globe. , •

W hat w ill th e G od-in-the-C onstitutlon b igots say to this?.. W hile th e bigots in M assachusetts cry o u t “ P e rse c u te !” “ p e rse cu te !” N o rth Caro­lin a w heels in to jin e w ith tlie a rm y of progress.

“ H o w ls y o u r ch u rch g e t t in g b n ? ” a sk ed a f r ie n d o f a re lig io u s S co tchm an w ho b a d sep ara ted In tu r n from th e k irk , th e F rco ,C hurch ,, th e U n ite d P re s b y te r ia n , a n d sev­e r a l le sse r bod ie s. “ T r e t ty w eel, p r e t ty w ee l; th e r e ’s nobody belongs to I t now b a t m y b ro th e r a n d m y se lf , a n d I a m su re o f S anfiy ts so u n d n ess .”

175.

hard-shell , ready a n d 'a ll

C hristen- leir own ole th in g • ere m ad,

appearing veritable

n, tills ina- • ■'dying ou t

ng ou t a - fu rtive

a lieigli- his ow n

oup-d'-etat I t is vety

“ graveconstitu- ,

■is th e »*' roof skep- ,

and ery time.,

a ltogether . " I f t l i e y o b je c t;of

,-M en’s ■ go by the

the moun- , .H en ce tlie medl- *

fejlcyacy ”

fits p e tty suburbs, I '

crucial-test \ 'T h ay e r v

federates medium, s a t her'I • ,

take th is judgm ent

trance and

L IZ EDO P

piritualism , there is a usually a . A t th e the spec-

b light, as W rits are ate them-.’ t nature , then dies

rated, and is a conse- on,\for the .tin s abou t incing na- • I t isteiven all o f Mr.

it Mr. V i l - u rjt “ Jo h n tim es near one steady

as pressing lib the ceil-

abfive the m t of t l i e i , h er side of so th a t he

ircle. to the so th a t alt and a t th is

noise in the • Ills draw -

arts , G eorge Mr. Cut-

xison, and irk seance

ialization se­a t th e re.-

m ore of th e liould be con- Sjnritualist,

. MAUD'

L ord g rati- p arl’ors 26 ” s e a n c e ..

acd as a cab- roonv, w hich suspended a ch fell som er-1 . th e sp irits ”

ao rta l.in tru - in d s tied be-

.. T he door hands w ere

u rta in , a n d a ' ' d ’ faces—one

fu ll beard— th e cu rta in ,

tru m p e t a n d ■ by the spec- th e dress of of a lady in <

festatioiis tho ion and con-

side of th e ’ m a r k e d tlia t ;he im p erfec t, hereupon tho diuni solemn-

spirits. Be- uedium called brought, w as

th e cu rta in , w ith in , ac-

lm er. d riv ing seance, ligh t re w as found le d by nails

though an :n the m a n i- . c ircu it. A ll

in th e room , ords.

. J . W illiam s se a t in th e .

rred to som e .b y an over- -exm

ituents. Mr. ’ as th e victim: iccomplish its ■ ckery and cor- « n a s denying of a religious plish p artisan iraously con- y, a n d th e re- re th is u n ju s t .> of this whole -

ligious test in- ?n,»and N orth nge the clause y an in justice

th rough th e ublicopinion.

itu tlo n b igotsMassachusetts ” N o rth Caro- of progress.

MAY 22, 1875, '- E - l

B A. UST 1ST E l l , O F L T & M T . j3

tim er ® 0 r c isj}0 itb m j:c .

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P e n n s y lv a n ia .P H IL A D E L P H IA .—D am on Y. K ilgore, Esq.v

•writes : We have had ' q tiite an excitem ent liero recently , over the “ w onderful and inexplicable”

' . perform ances of n medium by th e nnmo of Brown.Concert IJall has been several tim es packed with

, lawyers, doctors, m inisters (Catholic and P ro t­es tan t) and editors, and a irtrge. num ber from the Y oungtM en’s CliristiWn A ssociation—all eager to find ou t how these wonders are performed.'

On Sabbnth evening (1 fitli u lt.) , in com pany w ith a select num ber of 'M ethodists, P resb y teri­ans and skeptics, I w itnessed thesan\p "m iracles- thnt, Brown has perform ed, w ithout know ing how he does it, repented over aijd over ngnln by Mas- tor D e AYitt C. Hough, ab~tho fresidonce of life parents, $fo. 216 N orth T w elfth street, in this city .. M aster H ough not only found articles th a t w ere hid while lie w as in another room, in the keep ing 'of Mr. Biidd, one of our. railroad P resi­dents, tint gave, abundant evidence of being able to answ er jnen la l questions, perform m ental re­quests, and read tho m inds of those w itli whom lie came in contact. ■ "

To S|dritunli.sts it is quitii-nniusing 'to 'spe the cliiidWhi wonder expressed by full-grown men a t

' fnets witli which we are fam iliar, and even ma­ligned for know ing, lmt 'w h ic h , are as new to

• some of our perseentor.s^is.if they lmd first come• to light. .'When will the .stupid believers in a

C hristian ity , w ith ' n C hris t le ft out, have th a t love of (tilth superior to -love of trad itionary creeds th a t will enable them to 'fnirly investigate the palpable proofs of continued individual ex­istence w ithout t'lint- ignorant and foolisli preju­dice which effectually shuts out the light of tru th .

W hen we reflect upon the possibilities o f scien­tific research into the realm of' magnetism and w lm t we call sp ir it—of the g rea t good th a t m ight result, and the g rea t glory th a t would be sure

• to crown every successful effort—how insignifi­can t nppenr the objects th a t engage the atten tion of our scientists both a t home and abroad.

On Sunday m orning,'A pril Ifitli, P io f. B rittan delivered an address a t L incoln H all, which ought to he rend by every m ind able to com pre-.

f ‘ bend tru th , eloquence and beauty.,- We have recently organized n,'Liberal League,

w hich meets every Sunday a t .1 o ’clock r . m . In seven weeks-we nave grown to num ber nearly a hundred souls more or less tru th-loving anil free.

F or tho opening address th ir ty m inutes a rd a l­lowed, and tlia t is usually followed by ten m in­u te speeches, the henrers having tho r ig h t to question any "doctrine .publicly taught. The question, .“ Is a religious persecution im m inent?”

■•was profitably discussed a t th ree m eetings,'am i the question of the citizen’s r ig h t 'to the ballot, anil “ why should'women v o te ?” bids' fa ir to r i­val thy first iii profit and in terest.'

In view of tlie political and religious move­m en t now going on in ou r co u n try ,‘ is it not the du ty of tlie Spiritualists everyw here to en- cournge.the organization of all liberal th in k ers for resisting oppression and preserving religious freedom ?

Iow a. . , ,D ES M OINES.—l)r . j i . W. Kenyon w rites,

A pril 22il: The. tru th as i t is in Spiritftalispi, is spreading-jrapidly through tlie en tire W est, es- specially in Iowa. T lie sp iritual element is more extensively received in tills S ta te tlinn in nny oilier of tho W estern States, and its philosophy is advocated by a.band of S ta te lecturers. T heir nam es a r c as fo llow s: l ) r . Sanford, Mrs. II.

H o rs e , Capt. IL I I . Brow n, I )r . J.,\V . Kenyon, of Des Moines, and ope other, whose naim hl can­n o t call to 'm ind. I have n o t heard D r. Sanford sufficiently to judge correctly of his lectures, bu t believe he confines him self closely to tlie science of Spiritualism , le tting “ side issues ” nlone. l ie was form erly a m inister of the C hristian faith .

■ Mrs. II. Morse has received h er education from tlie sp irits wlfif ac t on her organism ; I h ea r h e r ’ spoken highly of in nil p a rts of the S ta te ns a good inspirational speaker, w ho lias much pow er

' over her nudiences. She is said to be a fine test m edium also. C apt. II. II. B row n I would speak especially of,- as he is n young mnn, and of a very sensitive nature , is finely educated , of a refined m ind, honest in tiie extrem e in the advocacy of liis opinions, ns well ns in every other sense of. ■tliat word. ’ H e hns a wide ran g e of thou g h t and in sp ira tio n ; iconoclastic, and a teacher of posi­tive science and philosophy, lie by no mentis steals the livery of Spiritual ism to serve sensual­ism in ,,h u t Inbors for p u rity in tlie m arital, as w ell’ ns in all other- relations. * 1 m ay, while speaking of the o ther S tate spankers, allude to m yself, or a t least of the powers the spirit-w orld are able to mnnife,st through me. I lecture only b y inspiration, tak in g no thou g h t of .what I shall say, b u t yield my organism to the 'use of sp irits, w ho control me' to speak on a variety of subjects in revealing tlie tru th of Spiritualism . M y.forte seems to be in revealing the m ysteries o f tlie sci­ence of life.

D uring th e w inter, my labors were confined to the city of Des Moines m ostly,-having lectured.

\\fo r tlie sp iritual society du rin g four m o n th s; \a lso gavo th irty lecture-^ in Jefferson, G rand Ju n c tio n . Nevndn, W intcrset, Somerset, nnd in the vicinity of th is city. - L iberalise] is s tro n g in nil these places. . M r.'B rlfekett, of Jefferson, is nn \earnest worker, who m akes largo sacrifices to build up the cause. Mr. B riggs, of N evnda, is nn extensive business m a n ; ow ns a ball which lie has dedicated to the cause of th e spirits. H is com panion is a fine mccjium ; they are w orking for the sp iritual elevation of the ir neighWtfi's. T here nre also' m any o ther earnest a n a n.oble w orkers in these parts.

Spiritualists of Iown, your S ta te lecturers are rojijiy to w ork in the/hall, In tlie grove, nnd from

...hou*n to 'h o u se , in /cu rin g th e sick, a s w ell aslenaihg ou r seiisitiye organism s to the control of sp irits for the education of th e world. W ill you' w ork w ith us by m nking arrangem ents and cor-, responding w ith us ? I in tend tq work m uch in the grove du ring tlie coining summ er. A ddress D r. J . W . K enyon, E as t D es Moines,-Iowa.

tion. I am ready to respond’ to calls from any p art o f M aine, a t reasonable prices, an d hope to receive such.

t . , — - - i _ "*

M assacliiisctiN .F IT C H B U R G .—D r. A rth u r liodgps, of Bos­

ton, lias been spending n few weeks witli us, nud we believe Win to be nn honest nnd reliable test medium, he having given very ninny excellent tests, personating , etc., and nlso " in giving nam es nnd places. H e lias* nlso given the best satisfaction in exam ining nnd 'prescribing for Die sick, nnd wo most, cheerfully recommend him to all tlie world.

i M n .-and Mns. J onas C o k ey , — Mns . A .K w e n , " . .■ , Mil. vSAWTKqi,,

' I n d ia n a .N E W A L B A N Y .—M ary J . Thomas w rites,

April 2,'Id : Ciipt. E. II. Green lias been lecturing here on Spiritualism for .■tome time. H e and liis Wife, nre excellent; mediums,, and have done n g reat work here ill the cause, and deserve’ tlie tlinnks of the friends of our beautiful philoso­phy. U nder th e ir m inistrations m any have been led to. see, and em brace the truth.

hnppineSs will be on tlie same plane tlia t immedi­ately preceded such passing away.

A nd (Wally, tliey 'need no t be looking into tlie im m ensity of space to find se ise local heaven, but if they live Mid net- in accordanceqvitli their h ighest conceptions of moral r lg h t 'th o “ K ing­dom of jleaveii is w ithin them ." ,

I believe 1 have tru tu fu lly presented tw i^sy s­tems o f ’Instruct Ion : the one now .practiced hy P ro testan t Orthodox C h ris tian s ; and tlie other Dint will a t some fu ture time lie practiced hy Spty jtun lfsts ./ A nd 1 believe no intelligent, nn- prejiidiced.imlividiial.will hesitate to decide tliat, of tlie tw o sjstoifis, th e one last m entioned will cnnducjv to a niucli g rea ter degree for tlie well- being Of' the convict, both while in .prison and a fte r discharge therefrom .

■ - . I I a k v e v H o w e s .Iforth,Bennington, 17., •hniiari/, lH7.ri.

,' T lic K utland Globe C riticised.To tiio Editor of tlie llunncror DlRliti

The R utland Globe, a newspaper, published at R utland, VI., (in common wtDi ' m any o ther new spapers th a t ca te r for popular, app lause ,) em braces every favorable opportunity to rid i­cule and belittle Modern Spiritualism . In one of its issues in tlie 'm ontli of December, 1874, the G lebe in nn editorial somewhat strongly crit­icised, th e notion of th t r “ m anagers of Dm'W est­ern H ouse of R efuge n t Rochester, ” for g ran t­ing the Catholic inm ates of tlia t institu tion Dm rig h t _to worship according to. tlmlr professed faith . X m l in doing this Dm editor indulges ill his usual tirade aga inst Spiritualism.. Believing,

,ns I did, th a t Ids language was not d ictated in ac­cordance witli proper rules of propriety, I re­viewed th e portion of his article, re la tin g to Spiritualism and its Immediate connections, and sen t Die sam e to tlm Globe office; bu t its puhli? cation has never appeared. Believing a perusal of iny review m ight be interesting to tlm read ­ers of the B anner, I send a true copy of tlm same for publication. H auvky I Io w e&‘

North Bennington,. 17., May Ath, i-875.

tlCvlwJr UI lilt* i i l i l l l l ( j( r lS 4l|)|)( u lo It) 1)1.ii^pii tlm legal opinion of llen ry 'A . So of tlie 'ab le s t lawyers’ in W estern Nev You adm it th a t Mr. Sclde.n man be cot

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C a lifo rn ia .E U B E K A .—W. J . Sweeney w rite s : A ddle

L . Ballou finished a term of.tw.o m onths w ith us, A pril 18th. On this occasion our hall ( th e bes t in

• the c ity ) was filled with nn a tte n tiv e nnd apprecia­tive audience.' ner!ectu!re w as extrem ely radical, nnd elicited frequent applause. F o r the la s t six m onths w e have had co nstan t lectures on Spirit-

1 ualisni and reform questions connected there- .witli, com m encing w ith .J . L . Y ork , C. F an n ie AJIyn, and la s t,b y A ddie L . B allou; we expect Jen n ie Leys n ex t Ju n e . A reverend geiitlem ail when asked th e religious s tn tus pf the place an sw ered : “ T he Episcopalians a re tlie m ost re^

• spectable. the Catholics have m ore communicants'/ h u t the S p iritualists and L ib era ls are m ore nu-

„ m elons tlmn all tho sects p u t toge ther.” W e w nnt a good te s t m edium , w ho w ould lie well re-

...Ceived, and I am confident w ould be w elkpaid.

O lilo.A R C A D IA .—Joseph D llle ry w rites : Spiritju

alism is gain ing ground here ,' a n d y e t w e are no t favored w ith any lectures. W e w islrsom e lecturers on th e ir way W est w ould stop over aiid spenk for us. W e will pay the ex tra fare, fu r­n ish a hall for free lectures, ty k e care of them and pay them for tlie ir’ tim e. T here a re not m nny outspoken" S piritualists here, h u t m any who would like to learnvSomething of the Spirit-

• lial Philosophy.1-' A te s t m edium would do well . here.

M aine.« R IV E R S ID E .—P .'C . .Mills w rites: 1 have lec­tu red a good deal tlie p as t w in te r, b u t m ostly >in places- w here there-had been no lectures on Spir-. tualism , and w here b u t little was know n o f its facts and phenom ena, nnd consequently have n o t received 'a dime fo r lecturing since I came from the South'. I in ten d to devote more tim e to the cause, and though I am w illing to do all I can for places whqre ,they canno t afford to h ire a speaker, y e t l hope to receive some rem unera-

To tlm Editor nl tho [Ciitliiiiil (ilolie: •I observed an editorial article in tlie Globe

under dnto of Dec. 4th, 1874, in which you refer to tlie notion of .the," Malingers of tlie W estern House o f Refuge n t.R ocheste r”'in g ran ting the right of the Catholic inm ates-thereof, “ to wor­ship according to the ir professed fa ith ,” Ac. The action’ of th o 'M an ag ers appears to he j 1 based

Selden, one w. Y ork .”

mag lie correct, “ as. a pure m atte r of C onstitutional law ,” lm t ns a practical question you consider it a g rea t impro-!>riety to adopt such a rule. . You base your oh. cations' upon th e fac t of the m ultiplicity of be- iufs being so g reah tlm t t he lowest clas's of socie­

ty , down to the “ Eddy kind of S p iritu a lis t,” would be likely to present their claims for such privileges. I will here, rem ark th a t the “ Eddy kind of Spiritualist ” believe th a t men, women and children, a fte r .they have passed to spirit-life., i'ciippcnr in a materialized, form, and ninny" of them are recognized by" their relatives anil friends, witli whom .tljey hold social conversa­tion, nnd often m anifest a great degree of p leas­ure in such a .reu n io n . Such nppearniicos are th e g rea test evidence of. im m ortality o r life b e­yond tlie grave.

You say, “ In all reform atory and penal In sti­tu tions m oral and religious instruction m ust, of necessity, constitu te a p a rt of the m eans used for tlie well-being of tlie convictvboth while con­fined in prison and afte r discharge therefrom ." In each of these “ reform atory nnd penal in sti­tu tions ’’ we now have a chaplain of Die P ro te s t­a n t and Orthodox faith (who nre paid a sa lary hy tlie S ta te ), whose duty i t is to inculcnfe th is “ m o ra l 'a n d religious in s tru c tio n .” Tlie first d u ty of tills chnpinhi is to prove to tlie several persons “ under liis (religious?) ciiiirge” th a t they will have a continued spiritual existence a fte r the present life, and for tlie proof of tlie same will refer to the “ W oman of' Endor, ” through whose modiu'mship the sp irit of Sninuol nppeareil linn m aterialized form nnd talked with S a u l; also the m aterialized spirits of MoseS nnd E lias, w ho 'appeared , to Peter, Jam es nnd John , wlio lienrd such sp irits ta lk ing with Jesus, w itli o ther sp iritua l m anifestations recorded in tlie Bible, too num erous to m ention in tills commu­nication. H aving truly proven a fu tu re ex is t­ence in spirit-life, tlie chaplain tells tlie persons “ hnder liis 'c h a rg e " tlm t bv nature they nre totally depraved, nnd unless T hey 'com ply w ith certain conditions (hereinafter m entioned) th e ir sp irits will be cast in to a “ lake of fire and brim ­stone” and th e re ‘'remain (suffering the m ost ex ­trem e agonizing-torm quts) during a never-end­ing e te rn ity ; b u t if they will “ come to C hrist, ” or, in o ther words, “ love J e s u s ,” they will ue carried to a local heaven;-w here th ey will sen God sented' on a g rea t w hite throne, w ith Jesus C hrist sented a t liis rig h t hand, and tlie Holy Ghost flittin g -ab o u t as occasion m ay require, nnd in tills desirable situation pass a never-end­ing e tern ity in shouting n o san n as to Jhrec.se.pa- rate. Gods embodied in one! WhFh persons con­victed of m urder are incarcerated in prison, th e chaplain tells such persons i£ they will solicit tlie a ttendance of a clergyman (a clergym an of our church is preferred) to pray w ith them , and they express a sincere “ love for Jesus, ” all will be well with them. “ T ills niay be done while s tand­ing under tliO-gallows, and even b u t one m om ent before they are “ launched in to -e te rn ity ,” a l ­though they pass aw ay dyed witli the blood oL the ir victim.; w hile tlie unregencrated sinner, who depends upon h is or her moral and virtuous conduct of a lifetim e for the ir present a n d fu tu rc spiritual.clevntion, w ill be cast into h e l l! Such is the (so called) “ m oral and religious instriic ,tion” now practiced in our “ prisons nnd reforni- atory in stitu tions.” '

You pass along w ith your subject, and nhtici pate the probable claims of. the several-religious sects—if th e Catholics nre n o t compelled to ob ­serve the regulations 'noioex isting in the several institu tions you have m entioned—and close th is p a r t of your rem arks by asking wlmt shall we do w ith th e followers of the *' E ddy P ro p h e ts” 7 I "will answ er your question by te lling w h at I be lievo th e followers of th e Eddy prophets (o r Spiritualists) will do. I believe th a t before very m any m ore years of tim e have passed, th e p rin ­ciples of tru e Spiritualism will be universally in troduced in to our “ prisons and reform atory in ­stitu tio n s,” w hen the evidences of im m ortality will bq presented to the inm ates of such in stitu ­tions by sp ir it m anifestations of the p resen t tim e of so clear and convincing a character tlia t th e m ost skeptical m inds will n o t doubt its reality .

Such evidences will be decidedly more positive than the accoun't'of the woman of Endor, w hich dates bnck four thousand years ag o ; o r th o np p ea ran ceo f Moses and E lias a t the "T ran sfig u ­ra tion” tw o thousand years ago. W hile J adm it th e probable tru th of spirit-ninnifestations tlia t nre recorded in thb Bible, I 'c la im the sim ilar m anifestations of to-day which are brought to our several senses of seeing, hearing and feeling, a re en title d .to much grea ter attention th an h is­tories of the 'fn r-d is lnn t past.

W hen th is desirable tim e arrives the inm ates of pur “ prisons nnd reform atory in s titu tio n s” will lidaf. no m ore from the ir authorised in struc t ors of a hell of fire and brimstone, b u t th a t each m an nn^ w om an m ake the ir own hell o r the ir ow n lieaven according-as they practice v i c to r v ir tu e ; th a t th e ir p resen t and fu tu re w elfare

.w ill n o t be 'a ffec ted in any m anner or form in consequence '‘o f . th e shedding o f some m an blood, who died upon a cross tw o thousand years

THORNE’S TjX PD IiSION—'M E TItUTlI.

I notice with reg re t in the Banner of L ight of April 77th tlmt you have quoted Die prevalent new spaper error in regard lo Mr. J . W illiams T horne niid ids recen t' expulsiim’froni the Legis­lature o f North Carolina. Under the heading of

The Jlcligimis Test, ” you, assum ing tlie cor­rectness df .general report, a ttr ib u te tli&expul*'. sion o f. M r.'T horne to “ the action of the su p e r-f stitious blacks, ” and, by logical tlffmght, from tlia t idea infer, tlm t Die blacks constitu te a class

ready for tlie .m eld ing band of bigoted lead-' is .” Your relleetions, ns snob, a re n as usual,

timely, jnst, h u d 'w ise ; hiit “ ignorant ” hlarhs are not .ill fault, h u t, still worse, designing, mn- ligiinut w h ites 'a re the-crim inals ! H aving re-'1 ceutly a ’personai interview \yilh friend Thorne,I have- from his lips tlie facts I communicate,' Which I know you will glm llypublw h, in ' justice to ills constituency and tlie entire N orth Caroli­na ni’g io delegation. - ' *

TheUUutF? in 'th e case of Mr. Thorne, is, tha t nn unprincipled b u t successful effort was made (o oust him from Ills seat entirely on account of his high character, strong Intelligence) nnd jiolit- ienl liberalism ; not, ns appeared, because of his- gdynneed religious convictions. ^

The fa c t is, the “ w hite mail’s p a r ty ” in tlie. Legislature took advantage of whntfLlicy su p ­posed tiio circum stances to lie, solely nnd sim ply as n m atte r of base partisan tactics. T horne was too good a m an, nnd t(fo ab le ; hence they made the occasion, nnd defrauded ids constituents

a g o ; th a t im m ediately a fte r they have passed to sp irit-life t ’leh^condition in regard to m isery or

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IN-CARNATION.11V EMMA l-'UANCKS .DAWSON.

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of the ir representation.Tlie drjg innr ehnrgo made aga inst him was

A th e isii^ iiu t it w asjp irn d , as one of T h o rn e’s old Pennsylvania .acquaintances' certified, as a clergym an),'tlm t'T horne ' “ knew more, of God, and lived more continually evidently in though t of .God than mnny honored C hristians.” 7

Tho charge was then nm de^lm t he ■.‘advocat­ed and .prom ulgated a m ost blasphem ous doc-\ trine,, subversive o f tiio Constitution of N orth C arolina and of sound m orality ." A negro m em ­ber was, cajoled in to p resenting the Resolution of expulsion, Sand afte r a debate, wldcii did th e h ighest honor to T horne, and should have shamed -ldsLporsecutors into-retirem ent an d -o b ­livion, i t '’cnm(vloJh'e prearranged vole. Of the fyrty-five who voted for expulsion, forty-tw o were of the. “ w hite m an 's party , ’’ the' 'negro mover of tlie Resolution realizing Ids m istake, and voting against his own motion. Of Die th irty - tw o who voted aga inst expulsion, one-fourth w ere Democrats also,, men who fb r very .shame rebelled ngainst;caucus ty ranny an iH lictation . B u t T horne wns a N orthern m an,‘and a Radical, andvdesperato m easures were taken to deprive h is p a rty <j‘f ids moral Influence qnd ability . The samo tactics woiihbdoflbDess /he used hy .them w lienevcrjLvotoeould he counted o u t by tlie op­eration ; 1101100" our d a n g e r . / 1

Now, th is shameful affair only adds ano th er to tho long list of impositions -and 'in su lts which heterodox souls.have suffered, nnd stiff suffer, in tills land of counterfeit Kcpublicafiism , sham D em ocracy ; nnd bogus freedom 1 ' U nder tiio, chronic injustice from which we appeal, forbear-

ranee long. ago conned to be a virtue ; b u t love of p e a ^ a n d the/m sensib ility which comes of con­tin u e d suffering, combined to restra in resistance and rev o lu tio n .'

B ut now ,tliat progressive science nml practical Spiritualism have m ade so evident the gross, a b ­su rd ity o f sectarian do g m a; now th a t the power o f 'f re e thought hns conquered in all places an im m ense and most rospcctnblc follow ing of tlie best men and Wotnen, we see everyw here an a t ­tem pted revival of tha t w hich is \yorst nnd m ost, keenly offensive In ecclesiastical arroganco nnd priestly ru le I

T he Christian Statcsnbm , " organ of " T h e G od-in-the-Constitution” inbvem ent, heartily en­dorses and enthusiastically applauds the C onsti­tu tion of N orth Carolina and the action of the sham eless Legislature, and dem arids th a t sim ilar C onstitu tions be fram ed ..fo r-n ll-S ta tes and for the_Geueral G overnm ent; an d th a t all m en like T horne be forever excluded from citizenship, am i le ft a t th e proverbial and historical' mercy of Christian S ta tesm en !

T he trouble nndfdanger in tho w ay of" such a program m e is, all free-tlih ikers are n o t Q uakers, like T horne ; all nre not o f tiio old school of in­fidel philosbphcfl$ftiio tak e from long usefm eek- ly , C hristian insults and ostracism . T en s of thonsainlfe—yes, .millions -of L iberal is ts are now. m ade freedm en in mind, and know no reason wliy they should-tolerate a rabble of ignorant, can ting fanatics lit, their supercilious pretence of privileged superiority ; or allow co rru p t poli­ticians to-roh them of political and personal rights, to su it partisan convenience, while a t the sam e tim e purchasing, by the crime, tlie gnod-will am U npplauso of short-visioned an d m alignant C hristian sec ta rian s! •

Modern infidels have active b rains, persuasive tongues, educated p e n s ; they have Jong and full

urscs often*; they lmve proud ‘s p ir i ts ; they

Clnyc-Pink! thou briiigest sccnt-brlm nied bowl From gardens of (lie L o n g ’Aj'o,

W here dear old grandm a' (sa in tly soul!) j ’ L ifted thy rich glow.

Tlie years tliat prisjine vigqr'took,Her Inward sight ninl ear' re fin ed ;

hi thy leaves as on a lmok *, . 'She bent h e r mind.

"G randm a, w lm t is i t? " T would ery.She answered, with an;absent* sniile, '

“ T lie la test wind from God. .The sl;v 'I . ■ Unfolds a w h ile !":■ 1

Wliyn I am grown,, I then would think, s I, ton, nmy.tliessago hear, liko*}**r, fe­

l ly looking long w ithin n pink,- See angels s(ir. -

L ike old Scriptorium , illumed W illi chen ih jign rcs through the text,

. H er life with charities lmd bloomed* Thoiigh eares pc’rplext.

W hen (fossil's m urm ured o’er llie ir tea,• A n d l m d in l i d s o r t l m t o n e s p i t ' d ,"W h a t good can. now'Tie told ?" said she.

T im s tiirned tin- tide.STrfffi peace she niade, her presence brought

A-eatrn litre that wiiieh follows prayer, ‘ Or peal of blessed bell athw art''

'H e ll's 'im il'k y air.'T he "pour were helped, tljei'ich Were blest, ' - W ho'did hi'il touch her garm ents ' lu-m,The angels missed wlmt we possessed,

Recalled'to them. ■Tim e 1ms not taught me grandm a 's grace ;

Yet lest thy charm, sweet l ’iuk, I would, T hough conscious tlmt my years em brace

- _ Nn'spociiil good. ...Stiff nt thy shrine he my (dilation, ■

For if I'onfy " s tan d ami wiiH,"My heart 16 full as thine, Uai iumon, e

A m i—Gottfis g rim !Thy' pungent bleatl'i iiilhiums like wine., -

Like wine thy fringed depths n re lined :Thy velvet lips’ l lift to mine

A re lire imbued.I look on tropic sea and sky, •

• ■ I.fei-I a soft ami spicy windT h at lunched the eiissiii uml Hew nigh

T he tnnm rind., The m angoes' massive Buyers arise '

Like sentries while Die. vast.woods sleep •„ S tray bird-song lmt intensifies

Tlie,silence deep. ,(lav birds nml moths gleam, rainbow-lmed," Through triiiilng.vines, cicadas whir, .Shrill insects till Die solitude

W ith m ystic stir.I follow red flamingo w here ,

T he lotus dream s in slumbroij&Jnko,W here blue aiid silver lireH ies flare.

Through laqgled brake.A Ihw, la rge moon, lil:p topaz door 1

•v T o o th e r world, lights bind and sea,Drops down those depths th a t own no oar,

" , '. '.L o s t argosy.In th is pellucid pool where palm

A nd earths pictured are , 1 see—Oh life ! Uli tim e ! this siu'lit could charm

\ / E te rn ity ! '\F rn m lotus blnssntus slowly rise

'‘F am iliar forms tlitrti (loaf ami lly,“ We are y ea r dreniiis? y our longing sighs,

. ' ‘Desires gone hy.Y our fancies, visions unexpressed, . .

Chim eras vague of pensive brain, * " • . ' Forgotten, lest, or uiieonfessed,

v A m ighty tr a in . . .Desires to aid thoui/h iSithout power,

lii spirit join all good deeds done.The poor mitn’s wish, the rich man's dower,

- Hack count as one. '?"W hile lost'In clouds they drifted up,

Tlie magic scene dissolved, ami 1 Looked long in thy enchanted cup

A nd wondered why!

apprecia te him nt home, ns it was said of the old prophets. Those who lmve ntteilipted tn exposs him lmve Invariably exposed themselves as either

.knaves o r fools, ns \ve are assured hy those who kfiow.

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S P I R I T U A L I S T M E E TIN G S.

1 ili.i.HI.a , M a s .-. Mii. Itllili-l'lirlsll.-in .sjifrllnnllstaliold * intTlliiK- r \ n y Siiiniuy In ll . ' inilinm Mirel ('.Inipe], iniar lli-llliiKlinm s ln -H . »i :i w l : r . m . Mi s . M. a . Kicker, rt-Kiiliir hiM-jiki-r. Si-atWn-c. II. ,1. Itli-ki-r, S n p 'l .

11A u w u ii i < m i , M a s s , i In-( lillilri-n'H 1'innrinfslvol.y* ri-iiin iiH'i-i.-al stM-lal f l a l l . - w n Sunday ai I ' .M. <». I).Smalli-y, ........ ............. T. 11. Uakrr . As-lslanl I 'nmlin-lnr;M is . A. .n-nklu.-, Onai.dlan: W. 11. K.dU-\, Musli-al D lrco- lm ;S . Tur in-r , l . l ln a r l a n : Mrs. A. Ilnlddii.-, Si-m-lary.

S a l.i.M. .M a s s . - l . t /num Ihill. I ti>‘. i t niaanl tin Ian A s - . MM-iailnn Indd n n - i - l l n s - > sn n d .n . al a and 7's e. kf.I I : M . Ilnliin-iin, 1 A n d m ' -i' -I i.-i-l, Ai-iT.-lni A. '

rh llUn n 'x / ‘r.'fun sxir. /,./,■;in„. I ' .mdu. ii. i' .'.ndni H an -dall : I fn a id lan , Met. A. Wan-iIn.n-r : l .Hnar ian , Junn-a Kr».it-r: Si-cii-iary, S. u . Mi-np.-i : Ti.-a-ni.-r, I-:. Ii. Anu-s. CntiP-l.-tna- Mi-td Inns cnnin Ali'il \% 111- lln- I ,> n n n n ain hidil fvi-iy Sunday at llid.nn l i a n , . a i I and a r . m, ,

l ' l . v Min-1 i i . M a s s . .M.-i-lInt-s ,an- In-Id i-n-iy Sunday In ' l.i-ydi-n Hall, F . W. I iidddn- . i *»ri*■-'P’*ndIok s.-rn-l i r y . , Tin-I lilldi.-n's I..M't iliri n n v l s a t II a'. >1. I. i aiAi;c, r u n - ' d l n l i ' l ; Ml- . M . r , Ui.lddns. O tu l iljan: M l-s M;n > l.t-wls, l . l ln a r lan ; Mi. I. i-ii Is 1 n.n-n, .Mn.-n-al IMii-rlni' ; .Mr.Thus.I ' . Sn III, Mn-li lari. -s

Kim Ii n \ n p. M Acs. - Tln> t ' ld ld l ' ‘II I'rui;ir-‘ si Vi- I.>1*1-11111 , n n i - t - a l l ‘, p . ' i . In I’nu-nU Hall,' I - ' -I. 11 in nny. i 'nn- din-lnr; Mar ia lir-mu-ti, c .u a td lan ; Hi-niy I 'lias.-, a,<rr«- l a i r . v -

S n i lM d - l l ' . I . n . M i - - , s j , | , |[ , i;, | | s , a,,.] l. l ln-rallst Sn- ili-lv nn-i-.s ill A Ill'll' - 11 all s iitnlai ■- a I 7 a r .d 7 - . l - . M, .1.](. Ni-ll-. I’l. s ldcnl : .1. I-. Ad. n . 'V P , -P i . - I , l , 'n ‘i; .Mis. E.I lain-, T l ra-p li - i ; \\ . s . V.d--, >■ , i. Lii>. d y i M i i n itn-fW al II n'i P» k A M . “ *

\\ r.- r o n inv--!in'r:st-> and 7 r. >i. s.-iii-iaiy.

- I’l -1N . M Assi-IVSMnilnr 1 M . E ITi'F," Mar) I.. I-i.-

Tli» Klin,\V k i l n ...., ITi-sld-'h -It i ' ;s'iilai

al A-.Miflal Inn lurid I Ha l l . l . i - r l i n i - f t i lZII. M. ■prakrl'.

.Mai Inllnr,

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A i- I ' i . i .r i ( \ . W i s . ,.M m l Inn’s an--In-Ill at J 'mini'll .1 kill rarl l Siinda) al C I-, >1. ?

A IT.AS I A, O S . / ‘n\.f .11xrtriii/i.,11 <.f Sl>iriti"t!I.'tX. — OMIi t i s ; d . Mr Kill-. A l lan ia . I ' l .-sld.ad: l . ' . i '. K l'. Mii- rli ' l la. W m . r ' ! l ' , nian."T'ull.l„-n. | i . II. All.ml, l.a l 0 anKo,\ Ire ITrs li I rn ls : -Jbrn- Ii AlT-rs>4Ju AI la (da. Srct c la ry.

II a t it . K I ' n i P i f f i S n i H. "I'lii- I'l I s[ S, | , | , . |> i d .Sp lt l i na l-I sl s Indd .......l i n n s a l Sln.'il t ' s Mali r \ r j > s i i n d a ) ' , aUrla'a A,M. and 7 1’s^'l. A. II. A r r t l l l , ITrs ld ' rn l; .1. V, S'prlU'cr, Scr rr ln iy ; M illlanr M rr t l ) ! . TTcu-.uter.

May Cl IV. M i d i . Till- s p l l liuallsi S.it'-lrly held incct- Inns In l.yi’i-inn Hall ea rn snn .j a r al pic, >. m . and 7'^ p. >r. I Imii. s . SI, l i i r r n , P .rr.sjdrni; .Mis. ,i , a . Il'rli .sirr, Si-rm:• t o "

H .o i .n sm u r . . M u. /,.• »■!<' H \ U . ' 'H d- S p i r i t u a l l y<’D|iKiui;;i!)i'ii d | ItallliD..!«•.*• |.i rt in.-N r\.*iy > iijkI:iy Wit 'l l. A. I >.ID'I> I M, itmi r l l t l r s |n| .spllll i>-111 Hi ltt| | c;i (11 )||1 i*\ur\ Frl ' luv i

Lijf'nnii J/'tll, «Vg,'.i'J M\ H'tlliinort *trnt. <Milh1r.*n*(i T hiKU'nMvi' r.yu. tuu, Nn. 1. un<t a In ilit-s hit it DVvj s MUi.ijiy Ilinl llllUs', at III n ‘i'tm |(. ;ltnl «• \ ri t 'PIni| -<|.i>\ I'lllilK. I.*‘V J W fav i 'i ,J niiiluc'lnr; l . l / . lr W. ii il \ . i i i i i tn li iiu ; Miss Kalt* l.U*r;»rian, liunrui* lltnnnr, Miit l .a l Din-utorami Sr . ' i r la ! . .

IlHAM '-V. Mu- >h‘WlDKs will l..‘ ti.'hl al Vw\uw Uall flurliiK tli*'uni n hi >uar. .M iv, | ' i i-r| : |; t 1). i t j ml I mi i > sp mk« iIIK ''V'T.v Inui'lli Mimlay al |u a'. M. I In- <‘h l l i l i ru S l*H»- mvsslvu l . s iv m n im-vts In >am«' Hall p;u;)i Nimlay a l t . t -III.MUI, al I 1'.. nh' I .H'k. N'ni i l ' . ’V'ni |. |i i. ,tni ; . Inlml,y i in , ( ' c in . ’Nfn ujil IMK S ' l ' i r l a r y , tn w li"tn ; t || ri nn 111 II h I ra - l i n n s hJinul.J hi! JuUlH^>.*'l. /

r i .K V K i .A n i*, u . I / v . - i t m niDfis nv.-iy S m i h a ^ a l T u rn-( i c t a m n Ha l l . IM S u p . - v l n i - a t i ; - \ . m, « 'nmim u n , F . •r . UI. )>; ti i ian l lau . ,MIss r , T hn t iip '" ii : T i .uimikt. lirurKO * l». W llsuy; r i a l >. A. Dunlap. .VI W hi tm an s l iu f t , •

c u p i:a i!u . I t .1.; •Hm FI r-l V*el'|i't \ of >pli ltiiaUst.s meets111 (Hi >V\ S • IlM'lti Halt. 517 w.i-.| Madl s-m -h . ' el, e i c | \ Mj|j.dav; at to'v a , m . at idT1-. V. M. A . I I . JATllUuus. Pie^ldcwl;W. T. ,lone'*4. Vie c I’te'dd ■ 'll 1; s . .1. A \e | V. M. IL, .1. L.Hunt , A. H. W ill iam- . W . ’1 .luues. ( 'f il in ' I’aton, Trus-tees; 1 SJoeniin. >ee)ct avv; Dr. Alllt-l ('•‘e Davl'i, Tietus-titer. Present <picakcr, S;am ne| Ma\ \\ell. M. D.

(font / Tttnplor'simiS In (all!

'.v Noll. -Th - Pi-i«g r-'^sivc Lyee-i m holdsIts aes n| Tempi ar •s H a l l . .•m mu 01 W;e<htni;tfiiiami D c-,|<lalns stt S'indav id IT • I ' .M. All HIOinvi te d. Mis. c ,, A. D>S» LDrilmto 17 A. D In-nunc, t ' o r -respl*mlhl^,, .s ei tc tary . • A

Ih i i i ' irsnl A<isnritt(inu u f .Spiritiwlists. I’ili^ai \ <' .mu* i'll Nn. I. nl ll liunl s. jiD'i't uv. ' iy Suml;i\ , at H::m l \ >!., at hall 'Jn| Van Huivii siic*-t, .'nr. I ' l anUlt i. rhlr:i»'n. Km)

am i flu.* su;'us.“‘T . S/-A. IVpu, Kj. 'shh 'hl ; .l«*hnM rAul ll l r , V l n 1 I ' l J ' i i l r t i l ; M J I ' i i iIn h m . u l l n «

A. W l lhufunl, rnM''sp"mHnK h r .n - ia ry ; M ih. ' - A; A m huhs . /T i raM ir i ' r .

r i . v i n : , o . - I’rn.u'i.i'sslvi* Assnclailnn Imhl l nk orySunday In Willi s Hall. r h ih U .-n ' s K in ^ i r ' s U u . \ ,j<Vuu» i n n ' l s h i Kil im’s NVw Hall at II a . m . H. M. T«*r)y. ( ’on- i lurh ir ; S Dnwy, (iuunllan .. -f, s*

Mam m o n t . iv. N . M<<‘i1ni:s Imhl .'v»*i y Mu inlay at in'« A. >!.. al I h j t ' s p h liualist HatW,j»tr TI iIh I s i t . ’r i . Mr. \ \ .

“ . Van titlui '. M.'.'i.'tItlUl.y

D. W ha i lo u . n .- s l.h-nt al* Hit A. M. n a in i ’s Itinwir. (ii iaulla ii .• Mi'UiU' .,-A i .a . SiArllnal As' him. I’i ' ‘s t . l r u t : S. Aimin'. AH H I’. It. Aluipl.y, 2.1.1".; r . Itaufe" oiivur M. l(**.'i' < ’«'m'spHinii

■tury.mi, <'iimlii.'l.n ; Allss K.

iM'laVhui: 1*mr. )\. a . Ta -Isl Vli'i* I’M'sh.h'lil

. M.'.'i.'lai j .aml T.i.'asm.i'r;........ »ri'i.'i;ny. llM«iilai' im'<*l-aml^V-Ain us Mumlay ami T iiumIhj

have a ■sense o f 'ju s tic e ; they have im m ense nnd increasing numbers ; m illions of them .havq the b a llo t; hun d red s 'o f thousands understand the use of arm s, tho tactics b f armie's. L e t Chris­tian Statesmen hexvare! before tiiey allow them ­selves to be fu rth e r p u t in tiie 'w ro n g by tho m achinations of sanctim onious hypocrites,or the violence,of. ignorant zealots. T ens o f th o u sa n d s ' o f firm hands will, if-driven to It to" save free-' dom, seize their arm s, nnd give " Christian” pol­itics such a universal overthrew nnd aw ful burial a s will abolish.tlie g rea te3 tra n d .la s t obstacle to- genuine Republicanism and p u re D em ocracy forever I , ,<C-

Mr. T horne gives n high clinrncter to the peo­ple o f ,N o rth Carolina, assu ring the-p u b lic th a t d anger from ' the. negro, voting- " in tu itively r ig h t, ” is n o t to he dreaded ; b u t tl ia t selfish a r­rogance, in ' tlie case of prejudiced “ conserva­tiv e s ,” h as-b rough t Die p resen t d isgrace upon tlie t?tate. .This all classps.nre no)v conscious of, an d tlie consequence has been sucli an ag ita tion of free thought ns 1ms never aroused the people before. T he reaction w as. im m ediate, and, the re su lt hns mado.fnmous and popular tho m an ec­clesiastical ty ranny was In v o k e d d ^ e ru s li .. . -

^ “ H(| wlio would have ronyiie oak,____ D/eamed notof the reboundlV

E d . 8. W h e e l e r .

N O T E S O F T R A V E L ,

KV WAKItEN CHASE.1 _ _ _ S'

Kiikpvffle, Mo., ou the St. I (nuis, K ansas City and NiiUhorn It. It., is a town of about three thousand inhabitants, p leasantly situated on a prairie, b u t jvith tim ber and coal plenty nearby ;I t 1ms a Stqte Normal School, ami six or seven churches runn ing nt a very low stage of water, as tiio school is evidently le tting in lig h t 't l ia t dis­pels (heirdnrkness, nnd will soon ru in their busi­ness if tlie preachers do not get eontrol and slop the scientific nnd historical know ledge dlsscmj,-' natwt by Die school, nml lienee there is already a clihrcli p a rty try ing to abolisli the N orm al School in Missouri. -----. There is also a railroad from tiffs poin t running

eastw ard d irect t b Quincy, III., nm k in g .it n fa­vorable location for business, as it is one of Die best and m ost en terprising tow ns in N orthern Missouri, and noted also for its liberal and infidel sentim ent. We closed a eour.se of fivo lectures here on the fltji of May, and lmve la r d y found more general in terest and apprecia tion ; am i ns it is only about thirty-five m ites from-the home of Mr. Mott; Die m aterializing medium, s/ivem l, qf tlie best citizens lmd visited him am i became fully satisfied, and be lmd also v isited -the place and gavo ‘sa tisfactory tests to all who. sought

.them , nnd could and woulij haveconvinccd every .clergyman in tlie, plnce, if they lmd been willing to lie convinced by the evidence, which was suf­ficient to sa tisfy Die m ost.inveterate skeptic; hu t tlie d e rg y n re tlie last persons wlio will exam ine,' ns their in terest lies- in k e e p in g 'i t ' from being know n tlmt,. spirits do return find cqnominicnte. to Die living. Tlu’re is the ‘most inveterate will­fulness, stubbornness, and ignorant resistance to ' the tru th from tiio-clergy and lcading-^U urdi members.

. Oqr tim e wns so closely engaged and fully oc­cupied tlia t we could- not visit Mr. M ott a t liis home, nnd his so engnged lie could no t meet qs a t K irksvillc, w here1 lie has m any friends a n d no enemies^except those whoso prejudice is s tro n g cnougli to keep them blindly, in ignorance. We read th e le tte rs of a -I wlge who cam e all the way from SaltL ,nke to seo him and got tlie most com­plete nndlconvincing evidence, fully satisfying liim. T o one who,looks atfchesc facts of iuaterl- nlizing friends of strangers to Mott, nnd perfect id e n tity a n d correspondence on subjects know n only to the m eeting friends, it seems strange tlm t there is, or need be, any skep tics ^ and-indeed there a re nono wlio seek tlie tru th .an d lmve'-op- po rtu n ity to w itness it, hut - there nre mnny who do noj, have tlie opportunity , b u t would gladly em brace It, and m any wlio luvve the opportunity b lit will no t exam ine, for fear of being convinced and. th u s becom ing subject to Die. clerical anil sectarian prejudice nnd persecution-,'lmt if they knew how m uch w iser nnd b e tte f th is " persecu­tion would m ake them , they would surely em­brace the first chance and bo convinced.- Mr. M ott lias dono a g rea t work . in th e regjon abou( h is hom e in Mcmpliis, Mo., n little town th a t 1ms gaihed more notorie ty and lmd more

•visitors from ills m edlum shlp , in th e last two years than" from all other causes—At least from people o u t o f th e county, a n d yet they do not

lug!' a t II A. m . Sunday rwnlnus. m T1” ." ’clock.

M l i;k, W is . /-Tin* Kirst S|ililhi:»IKit* Siirluty hold m"i,tl!i«wrvrry'Miifiilav al v. m.. In KluM’s Hall, lit) AVisnihsln sirud . K. W•• Haldwlii, lY-Mih'iil; II. D. UartiT. Mrcrulaiy,

Mh . a n , t) .- M<ifi.*iy <vf Si»lrHua!lsiB and MImudIIsIh nnrt t ’h l M m i ' s l . \ i itM'i'Is ;ii 11 a . m . H iuIhodTultli'. CoiMlurinr; Kniiiiii T.illlu, Huai'Uim.

Nl’.W VoUK t ’ITV. Till* MiH'iuly nf I’lnjj'rt'sslvo Mplr* ‘Ihiiuisls hold niufiiiH's u v i v Mundny In fN'imMli'an Hall. Ni i.-Vi W . ;ud si iuc i, m w Ur*«atlwav. al iu'v a . M. and 7 1'.. i v m . A. I 'n /ii .o , S r n r i a r y, aj j .’L’d .slM'ut. r i d i d n u i ’N I’n '^ n ^ s iv u l,\r«*um mi-.'i.s ai v. >it .1. A. <'n/lnn, <’nndm*lnr; 11. D'U Kinsnii, Af^l^lam Al rs. II. .1. I 'o/ I imi, H mini I an : Airs. A da K. < 'ghIdv, Ass is t­ant Hiia id fan; «i. W. Mi-nvlaiv; N.W iu l r r . rnrivsiHuidliiK M'U ii ' lary : .1. H. > am m ls l Trurw- im>r; Alls. K. d. Adams, Mu-dmi Hlicf ln r .• Niavahk, S . .1.--Mjdvllnal lu 1 AlnaryHall t'iu'h Sunday, iindur i Im* h i l of Mr. David \\ alMtr. <'»»n r*-r**iM,«* or lurluni In tin* aft m i nn; Iituui'S or teat s^am’us In Hi'* rVuiilitit. MpuaVuri and olliuis ran addrrsH Dr, I,. K. Doonlry, m Armlrmy .sirr«*l.

N V.W H A V IA, C t i S S . - T l w “ Kivu l.r rhwtt AssovlaHon*1 inui'ls at I.omnls Tri iip l r of Music, roru i ' r Oiarmr ami O i l - lur stri' i 'ts. I'.. K. Wldlltius T ivsimiht, n:» Dlxwcll avo. TSrrvWuHcarh MumJay aj 2'i- uiid 7‘v M.

N’ k w pout, K v.-I,y rrum meets every Mmulay at 2ls P. m, al Uatui-s Hall, No, At VmU street, ,l«lm .lidinson, rntMluetor; Miss Alary.Alarsli amHiem-j»e AHirmw. Huar* illans; ('has. I mnalrnwer, Musical Dirt-elm ; Willie .luhnn- t<m. (Snavd. Decime e.vejy Sunday evening nl lln- abovo lull at ob’lnek. ’ . .

I’ll l l.A l>Kl.l*n I A, I’A.-'I'lie. Fli'Kl 'Asseelallnu <>f Spirit­ualists 1ml,| regular meeilm's mi Sundays at lii’a a. M. lmd 7’w I*. M., alsnim Thursday eveaim(s, at l.lurnlii Hall, e4ivneir<d Un»ad and (V.desstreels, Win. H, .Imu'S, I’rvs- hlent, No, itl'JI .Market s ired ; K. A«MD« Kmth', Secretary. KVr'Nortlitilh'sireet. I.yreiim No. I mcctsevei) Sunday at 21*; 'i*. m. .1. W. TijJler, ('miduetm, No. 2J.M Haul stre»?t; Airs,. K.1 S. rim aic, (iiiaiitian,. No. Jdfi Kalrmoiinl avo., I,yeetim No. 2 meets al Thompson - Hi eel Church. Tlimiiti* son si reel,, helow l'*nml. Sumlaj s at lo1*. a. m. (Jeo. daek- sou, (’ondueloi ; \1 is. llarlloY (itiardlan. ' -s

I’j.ATTsmni;. M »>, “ The \ *n1ied Circles of l he Kvlends of I’rdlfH'.sH,“ Charles V, l.lvrly, rivshlent: doha H. I*rli,h,|*i» Medium. I.eeiiirer and Cm 1 esimmllnK'Sei'ietary5 Miss-Jenny IJvely. lh-eordin^ Secretary; (’has. Dietrich, Treasurer.

KouThASHt M i: .— A rc a n a Ihtll, crmpivxN strert, — Sp i r ­itual Kralernltv meels i*ver\ Sunday, al a l*. m. dames Kurhlsh. Ksij., rresldeiit: William Williams. Vice I’reH- Ident: tlem-Kci Freneli, Si'cretaty; AVlDlam Thay»?r, 'freasuier. . .

NoiiHitf /loll; ('ongrrsn slyrtt. - 1 hoSpiritual Association meets regularly every Smulay. At»-» tier Shaw, K.s»|,. rresiilent; (Jeo iw ll. Harr, Seetelary,

San. l*nAN’('iscn, CAt..--!’nder llu* uatronaip* of the<San Francisco Spl 1 UiutMsts* Union,' i\ Children** I’roKirsHlve Kvceuni Is held at in.'v A. M.e-ami a ( 'mifeivnce al 2 r . M .; al'sii fet»ular Simdav evening IcNurcs are'Klven at the NewHalU idKAlarket sttvel. . , /

Th^ Son Fronvisco Svirihm list .Sociitj/ meeteverj/Sun- ifhy a! Chartur Oak Hall. A!ark(?t sheet,- near Fourth./ Pro- Kivsslve l.yeeum -nt |ulq a. m.. Mediums* Conferei

t

Kro’clocK P.'m., Leirture at 7'v V. M. MV». Ada Koyu, Pres-

lihdit.SthCkton.C ai. .—.Meetings aiv.held at Uleknnn

on Hunter \lr< et, each Sunday eyeidnu. hv Hie splrl Sneietv, of which Dr. IlmNmi Is Piesldeut. M V/ A. Sumi«, Vi<T PtesPhud. atul Messrs Manchester a Ktiirifeon, Secretary and Treasurer. • • , _•

SachaMKNTo, <’ai,,~Mvet ln«s are held nt Central Hail,’ K street, eaeirsumhiv evening. Ali^sts. Wheatley. Van- alstltp* and llullci, Lecture Commlltee. The childtcn’s Progressive I.yeeuiu meets e;u U Sunday at the same (tall.

Si’ttiNhrir.Mi. o .-T h e Snlrlluallst and l.llieiallst So- cietyof this place meeisat. Allen's Hall Sundays, at II A.M. and’7 I*. M. Alts. Mary A. llenrv, Preddenl; dohn P. Al­len, Vice President: Mrs; PriM se. Treasurer; Melvin llenrv. Secretary. The Lyee.um meets at 10 a. M. Mrs. Mar.v'A. Henry, Conductor:

Titov* N. V.‘—The ProKresstvo SpitItuallstH* Society meets every Sunday iti LyevDiu Hall, Nos. 12nnd 14 Third street. Lectures at 104 X^M..and 7*s f. m. Tli«'(Jhll- dren's Prn|?resslve\ ,vedum‘niefits In same hall a t z r . M. t . ' (’. Howe speaks 1 hero .May and dune; duly.and A iiKUflt vacnllmi: Sepn-mher,'d. M. IVehles; next four months,Nellie d.'T.m'lKha'm; Pol ................ .............Wlille. .

V|s’CKNNES', iN'JVT^Kreo' lectures ...Sundavevenlimal 7*6 o’clock, by rote the First Spiritual A v wiclalfon. W. Stewart. Lectufer. S. S. Pm nett. Pres­ident; M. P. Cilice, Vice President; 1). P.Jfamaker, See? rotary.

ViNKLANir, N. .T.—Tho Society or’tho Friends of .1J.ro-:r.esH meet nt Cosinop.(dUan Had. lMiim street, every Sun-

< 7

uaryaml Match, 1K7«, N, Frank

at Noble's Hall each

Rr.essday, at lutf A. m. and 7 1hell.

M., for-lectures, coaference or ' free discussion. Louis HtJstol, PrcsIdeAt; (’. lb Camp- hell, Lucinda D. Ladd, Vice Presidents; Nelson L.Shejh , Treasurer .Mid ARCntof hall; Dr. David W. Ailed aiid.Sj 1- vla isvlvi'ster, ( ’tuicspmullup Secretaries, 'I'lie Cluluivti1 1 I’rttirresslve Lvccuin meets P. m. Dr. DavJjl AN .Allen, Conductor; Mrs. 11. IL In«a1ls. Himrdliin;, *AVnotVMusical DHawtor; Miss Phetm AN lUmr, Librarian; Klvlrnl/. Hull. Correspomlinif SorrHstry. Sfieakoi-H vilsh-* 4nKcnKt«?«meiit8\vllladdr*ss theConespi.mdltiC Secretary.

Wlt.M AMsnructi. N. A*.—TheSpIt Itual Piogivsslvo AB- soclatbm «d WIlIkhtislmiKh meetsevery Snmla\, at ,'lo’cloek p. m;vJ u Latham’s Uiill. Ninth-street. 1 «‘at* ltopCn TUoso who desire Jhe promotion orailjJhnt D y»ood, true and pure. In reference to things boili splrltiiaiipul etnporal, • are cordially Invited to meet with us. J . H. MJlpck, bee- - rotary,- 4t» Union avenue. - ‘ ' \ . . .

WASHINGTON, 1>. C.~The First Society of> Progressive ijnirltimlluts bold their moctltiK-s every Sunday at 1 a . m. and V i v . >1. at Lyceum Hall, No. 1108 F street, northwest. * Col. .LG. Smith, Preshlcut; Pj-of. Hralueid, Vico Presi­dent: O. lb Whiting, Secretary; M. Mehweu,Treasurer.- W inona , Min n . —1The spM tuallsts ho d regular me^t- ings. Mrs. daneDayls, Vice President; Mr. S. 0» Ilrook^ Treasurer;-Mrs. Esther Douglass, Secretary. *

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BA-NIsTEB O F L I G H T. .MAY 22, 1875.

T o .Book-Ilnj-«*rn.A t our now location, -No. 0 M m itgam ery Place,

corner of P rovince stree t, Boston-wo lmve a fine B ookstore on tlie ground floor of the. Building, w here we keep on sale a large stpok of Spiritual, R eform atory and M iscellaneous W orks, to 'w hich

•wo Invite your atten tion .. O rders accom panied hy cash will recidve prompt

a tten tio n . . W e are prepared to forw ard any ,o f the publications of the ''B ook T rad e nt tisujl ra tes. W e respectfu lly decline all Im siness opera- tioii.+looUhigto the sale of Books on commission, o r when cash does not' accom pany th e order. Send for a free C atalogue of our i ’ulilicjt.)ohs. ;

Mir In <|Ui>tli>K from dm I I a n n k i i o f i.ioti'rtje.-uc should | Im taken lo iII s I I u k u Is Ii l.ciucon o.lllorl^lai tli-les anil the | cemmttnlrathins (i-otclensotl or othunvisp) of enrrospond- j ent.s. Our columns a\ r cijion for the t'xj.uvsMon ,of lmpcr- ! pnnal free thou^M: imt we cannot mulcttake toendorse the Tirlcil stiadeHof opti»loii tu which tMircnrres*|iowlentHglv«i utterance; N

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p ' BOSTON, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1875. *

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f O I. II Y il It M* If ,I't.’M.IHHKIlH AND 1’HOt‘lt! KTlill'S.

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H. ItJf'Ji............ .....Jti*m n b .*». . . . E n i T O I t ..MANAOJvU,

. -95* L e t te r s urn! coMiiiniiit.ciUli.'h-. A pperta in ing to the .Edi to r ia l I >c|iiu tnictit ' of th l sp ; )^ f i should he addressed to L r n t K i t C o u t v ; and all l l r s i N r . s L k t t k i i s to I s a a c 1L U k *i i , Ha n n k k o f L i u h t j *u i>*. i s t i i . s o I IoV hk, Bo s ­t o n , M a s s . f. '

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A som ew hat rem arkable work u n d er tliis’litlc, .snid to lie tin ' production, of “ em inent English sc ien tis ts ,” was published last \v.!ek by M acmil­lan & Co., an Knglisli liouso.yia'viug a hramdi in New Y ork. For sale 11 y I.'-e A- ,Shepard, Boston. Tlu: au thors would seem, to lie. sonie- w liat’ig n o n ln t o f . the facts of Modern Spiritual-

' ism, for tliey dism iss the subject with tin* purely dogm atic assertion flmt th e re is “ iWpromincnt d istinction ” betw een the spirit uni appearances

■ recorded in the Scrip tures and thosiMif our day. O f the form er tliey remark-:

“ Tliey are, represen ted ns made to I hose who w ere unprepared to receive them, and also for th e most p a rt as ta k in g place in open daylight, or, to speak more 'properly, having no sort of reference fo light or darkness. W h a te v e r lie th e ir exp lanation , they have an open-air look- about them'. ‘ On th e o ther hand, Hieiimiiifosta-- tions recorded by the Spiritualists take-p lace, as a rule, -in,insufficient ligh ted ' lint in total d a rk ­ness, and in jiir.mii'i' o f tlni*' who are lira state o f I'.rrilriih ut, Now, for ou r.ow n part,

„ we sliouiil pot lie disposed- to e red it'any commu­nication fhiin Ilic world of sp irits Hint was not m'nde in open- day ligh t, and to tliose uinireparcd to receive it, a n d th e re fo re unprejud iced ,”

Tliis' is all tha t the au th o rs have to say on tin* subject-. W e are surprised .that these “ em inent sc ien tis ts ,” who really seem lobe Sincere in tlj.eir a ttem p t to proceed.by scientific m ethods, shou ld ' show them selves e ith e r so. ignorant- or so u n ju st

. in regard to., .Spiritualism . Had tliey given the sub ject p ro p er a tten tio n they wjyalj] h av e learn t

. tlm ttl ie m oderh m anifestations^ure'-.s'n various -■ th a t 'in some way or o ther nearly all tliose re­

corded in the S crip tures are paralleled by them. T h is is ab u n d an tly proved in the first volume of D r. C row ell's rem arkable work on. the subject.

,J f tlie an th o rs of “ Tim 1'nseen l 'niver.se " bail eve r read th a t - work, tliey could never have fallen into the erroV w hich ’m ars their ot)|j',rwise excel­len t volume. N oth ing could lie more absurd than to Assume th a t t(.ii;.,\vjt,nCftfi.t;S..tv..tI,tii|> thrrn ,p l(e- nnnu'im arc “ in a s ta te of no trial exc item en t.” Q uite the con tra ry h? generally tin* easepam l the phenom ena-are w itnessed with a sany froid which is almost unaccountab le in view of tlielr really,- am azing and significant -character. N or is it t ru e tlin t all th e 'p h e n o m en a tak e place in the. d ark . Some of them occur, in f lie light, and some in a sem i-obscurity , i

B ut we imiijt forgive the au tho rs, of “ The -U n seen I'liivi/rserir th e ir m isrepresentation in

reg ard to S p iritualism , in view of -the /fa c t th a t liy 'scientific'^ processes they a r r iv e /a t p re:

/cisely tlie conelusicjns to which S pi/itualism conducts us. Wo' lmve. been surprised ' in read ­ing th is volume | to 's e e in how m any instances tlie results atta ineil liy rigorous scientific in d u e-,- tion n'.re identical w ith tliose a t w hich Mr. Sar-/ gen t arriyes in /h is “ I!i|oof Palpable o f Im m or­tality ,-” a w o rk /th a t i t iss;ulit.Iiir<vly th e au tho rs of “ T lie U nseen U n iv erse" have ever rend. T h ey ..re s t their 'argum ent for im m orta lity on w lm t tliey 'call/ the Law o f t%ntifiuity in the viji- rerse/nml suggest tlm t the visible un iverse is b u t an .Infinitesimal-' portion, of tile invisible, in to w hich it is / to dissolve ng /in . T h is is p re­cisely the idea tlm t ru n s il 'Palpable,V /where it is. sa id I: “ O th er universes

' p a y lmve preceded the presi/nt. ” r/ We a re told of tlie auth/irs o f " T lie U nseen

U n iv e r s e ,” t h a t ’they presen t “ an entireljj new view jof miracles,. w hich awe explained i i i t ’ ns brenks o f /co n tin u ity .Im t as aV onjiinctidn yf the unseen -with tlie visible uin verse ;” im t tldsf “ en ­tirely new v ie w ” is -common not only to /“ T!ie P roof Palpable'*’ b u t to /m an y oilier w orks on S p iritu a lism .' It irns become one- of th e ci/mmoh^places pf our belief. " ------

___T h e /au111<Vrs /sllow bylscientific iiiduction howtlie prim ordial potential energy of tl/e, visible un ive rse -is gradually converted .into light and

- beat, /and how .this light and heat a re u ltim ately dissipated in to space'. /A s tlie process proceeds

■ the ./m asses of the universe become /inrger andlnrger, In fine, the dissipation of tlie energy of. the' v isible universe proceeds, pari murni, w ith tli^ aggregation of mass : ’ I

• /“ T h e I v ery . fact, jlierefore, th a t tlie. la rge m asses of the visible universe are of finite size is sufficient to assure us tlm t tlie p rofess canno t llave been going on fjbrevWr; nr, in o ther words, th a t th e visible universe m ust have had its origin

, in t im e ; and we m ay conclude with-, ecpial cer­ta in ty th a t the process will ultim ate!1)' come to ;an end. A ll tliis is,w liat would tak e place, pro- fideil we allow the indailrnrlibilily o f ordinary■ matter; h u t we .may .perhaps suppose tlm t the i very m ateria l of the visible universe will ulti-hm tely vanish in to the invisible.” ■

E nergy , they prove, 1ms as m uch claim tb.be regarded as aii olijective reality as ih a tte r itself.' B u t w hile m atte r is a lw a y s 't l ie sam e, though m asked in various com binations,.energy is con­s ta n tly changing the form in which it presents'it-

—self.-' T h e available energy of tlie visible uni- ' verse will be appropriated u ltim ately by th e in- . visible. T h a t the invisible un iverse 'ex isted be­

fore th e visible m u s t 'b e scientifically conceded, and from th is it is concluded that the invisible uni­verse exists now. A n d tiien tlie (fuestion is 'p u t, -“ W hether Is-It m ore like ly th a t b y fa r tlie la rger

* p o rtion of th e high-class energy of th e p resen t

uiyVcr.se is traveling oiltw ards into space with an imm ense velocity, o r tlm t it is gradually tra n s ­ferred inlNsuninyisible order of tilin g s?” "M a y we n o t'a t once say th a t .when energy is carried from m atte r into ether it is carried from the visj- ble ifrto the inv isib le?"

T he .Spiri^ualist^loctrine of the spirit-liody lias to lie adm itted; as ' our scientists proceed in their- di-diictions. If tlie principle of con tinu ity and the doctrine pf Im m ortality a re both true, then m ust the spirit-body becnme|n sijjjonlific. necessity. A ll scientific objections to th is assum ption are fairly and squarely .met and answered. /T he conclu­sion,is like th a t which Mr. S argen t arrives a t in his “ Proof .Palpable" ; this, nam ely : " T h e re is an in telligent A gent operating ill the universe, whose function it is to d ev e lo ju en erg y : and n sim ilar (tlie sam e?) A gent whose fu n c tio n 'll is to develop 'life.” - .

In the tw elfth ' chap ter of “ Tlie P roof Pnlpa- ple ” we find these expressions : “ If atom s are tile u ltim ate reality , tlie one real sidistance, then there, is no plfiee for spirit, no fu ture for man ; ail assum ption Wholly disproved by the facts Iff th is volume'. * * * T lie facts of Spiritualism* are now facts of Science. * * * He [Mr! TyfSV dull] conducts us ns/,far back as atrtms, anil there sets up his hoiji'd, labelled, Xo Thorjiughfuri But Spiritual Science disregards his "w arning,

“ami passes o n ; whither, the nex t C hapter nqjy show .” A nd tlie nex t C hapter slioys th a t it Is the nimei'n vnirerse tiiat Spiritual Science is an-' tliorized, liy tlie .m odern verified phenom ena, to "p a ss o n .” > -

Com pare witli Uieso rem arks.from “ T he Proof ■Palpable” the following, from the concluding pages of “ T he Unseen Universe, " 'a n d observe, ho\y closely they coincide :." T h e tru th is, th a t science and religion neither

are no t can -he two fields of know ledge-w ith no possible com m unication lietween them., tjuch an h y p o th e s i s sim ply absiyd. T here is undoulit- eillvuii aveiitie 'leading from the one to tlie other, imt tliis avenue is th rough 'the unseen universe, and unfortunate ly it7ow W » walled up and tiek- ited with ‘ No no.Mi 'm is wav , ’ professedly alike in tlie naiife of science at the oiic end, and m th e inline of religion at the o th e r.”

T im s we see th a t mechanical Science itself is draw ing nearer and nearer.to the sp iritua l-hy -' p'otliesis ; and Hint all advances in universal S c i­ence are fn perfect lmriiiqny with the facts and legitim ate deductions of our S p iritual P h iloso­phy. , . '

W e commend " T lie Unseen U n iv e r s e to tlie atten tion of all studious Spiritualists.

••sfsC liirrch Tn.viilion.

Our. excellent' friend, Tliojnas R. llnza.rd, of Iiliode Island, review s afNibiny length , in the

d ’rovplence^Pross, th e 'R e p o r t of the Jo in t Spe­cial Com m ittee of-tlie (ieneral Assemlily of Iiliode Island on the sub ject of “ P roperty tliiliheto and exem pt from tax a tio n .” H is comments are of general in terest, and m erit n runn ing extraction. .A fter paying a jiroper triln ite to tlie spirit of ean- Mor and fairness pervading tlie Report, he still tl.iinks it open to grave criticism , if not.to actual condem nation. A t tlie .pufset, the Com m ittee adm it in^ineViuivocal term s th a t tlie tleneral' As- semltly has no right* to liestow a dollar o f-tlie people's m oney'for tlie supp/>rt~o!f c.luirelies or' ie lig id u s 'w o rsh ip '; and, also,' tlm t ex'omptitii'gi 'church property from taxation is exactly equ iva­lent to flestbwing upon re lig ious.in stitu tions a g ra tu ity c(|ual io Hie pro rata am ount th a t would

,lmve been assessed on.them did ,no such exem p­tio n 'e x is t. T hey fortify tliis implied and ex ­pressed conviction hy quoting from Section :t of A rticle 1st of tlie S ta te C onstitution.

l ie tin'll charges tlm t when the com mittee a r ­rived at tliis conclusion their duty was too plain to be m istake;), and nint' tliey should have stiiod b y .n ;id -su s ta in e d -th e fundam ental law of th e S tate they had sivor'n to respect and abide by, re ­gardless of, ahy-iU(‘g lcctr .]ii'rversion or abuse it l]iidjliinierto*M5ceii sulijected to. A nd lie insists th a t it had nothing, to do w ith tlie wisdom or ex ­pediency of its provisions, b u t were- bound by tlie solemn official oaths of a i l ' i t s members, to sustain its enactm ents,.w hether in its view expe- drPht o r^rp 'xpedient, or w hether rig h t or,w rong. Tlie com m ittee proposes, lie says, by w ay of com- promm, to, exem pt from taxation “ houses for. religious w orsh ip ," and tliis,'too, in, tlie teeth.'of a provision iii the constitution', tlm t by tlie com ­m ittee’s ow j)'show ing and acknow lcdgm entfor- hflfh; it.

In contrasjt w ith tlie exem ption of. churcliqs from taxation , Mr. Hazard pointedly observes :> O ur common schools arc m aintained and con­ducted, n o t in -p art, bu t in whole, by tlie whole public, and therefore it would be worse than u se ­less to tax them . So, too, w ith our S tate, county apd town asylum s, poor-houses, court houses, jails, prisons, etc. But, ap a rt from these, I would m ake a clean tiling of it and have every corpo­ra te or p rivate in stitu tion , w hether for charitab le or educational purposes,, “ le ft to stand on its own bottom *’ and made to depend on its usefu l­ness and tlie munificence of its patrons,, and friends for support, w ithout being exem pted from taxation in common w ith other property enjoy ing tlie protection of tlm lnw.V Tliis would be “ rendering tin to O s a r the tilings Hint.belong to O s a r , nine! to God the th ings Hint belong to God.” Tin* “ quality of charity ” cannot “ be s tra in ed ,’’ neither will tru e charity covet g if ts from unw illing donors. -/Instead of depending on forced lonns or taxes for tlie support of o u r charitable, educational - or o ther com m endable in stitu tions;' le t us}’- ra th e r aim to elevate tlie niornl arid religious standard o f our schools.anil clnirclifs, so th a t every m ember of society w ill feel in ills h ea rt tlm t it is “ be tte r to 'g ive than to receive,” even' though we do it from the love w e bear tow ard God and our fellow creatures of o u r penury , ra th e r th an of our abundance.

In conclusion, le t me express a hope tlm t',our General Assembly will perfect wlmt glorious old Roger W illiam s so nobly began, and m ake o u r little S ta te free indeed,'as well as in nam e, of tlie priestly tlira lldpm th a t lias.so long,,in s)>ite of its claim s to the /C ontrary, impeded tlie progress of m ankind, and tliiis place R hode .Island, small as it is. in te rrito ry , in the van of every civilized n a ­tion and S tate in tlie world, as it.-would in sucli an event deserve to s tand . > i •

t5 T T o a coterie of lite ra ry gentlem en assem ­bled a few evenings ago .at the house of D r. J . R. B uchanan, Louisville*- K y., the d istinguished host read (a chap ter of his forthcom ing w ork, “ Philosophy and th e Philosophers:” Tlie essay was cliiefli’ devoted to a discussion of H erb ert Spencer’s/, speculative .pliilosophy, and was p ro ­nounced by the e p i c a l aud ito ry a profound and philosophical com m entary. D r . ' B u ch an an ’s w ork, we are inform ed, is a historical and c r it i­cal review of tlie systems of philosophy from .Plato to jllu x ley , and dem olishes tlie pretensions of m etaphysics and-tile doctrines.of m aterialism to solveltjig actual problenis of life. Tliose who lmve reiid the D octor’s m asterly essay on “ f lo ra l E ducation ,” will aw ait the publication of tlyis w ork w ith eager expectation.

“ E c c e R e s p o n s e ,” No. G, by Jo h n W ether- bee, E^q., of this city, will ap p e a r .in the fo rth - comin-g num ber o f th e B anner.

- D i e r r a u d l n g t l i e I i i d i a i w l *Of late the. public, journals lmve had a great

deal to say about tlie w a y tlie,G overnm ent has been trea tin g the Indians. I t lias-com e out at last tlm t 'th e y lmvd been regularly cheated for years, and th a t, as we lmve for m any years charged in tlie B anner, tlie G overnm ent favorites

-And the agen ts lmve made fortunes b y their sw indling. T he Boston Jo u rn a l, which would not say it, u n le ss-it were- obliged lq, confesses Hint " as to-tlie fac ts-th ere can be no d ispu te.’ Tlie revelations o f Prof. M arsh, it says, “ made with tlie rem orseless accuracy and thoroughness of a Scientific explorer, could not be w inked out of sight. H is specim ens of vile groceries found- am ong the In d ian s ju s t as tliey had come from tlie 'hnml.i o f the agents, w ere much. more, im­pressive evidences of fraud than any of tlic^J/ro- fessor's .fossils are of the m onsters of a former epoch, w hile h is general testim ony as to the clinr- ai-lerof tlie several Indian tribes which had fall-, en under, lps notice, and as to -tl|c 'm anner.in which th e y h ad -b een ’ dealt w ith hy the agents and contractors, was very pertinen t and impor­ta n t.’/ -a '

TJic’n th e testim ony given on tlm. subject hy ieut.-Col. H atch,'com m anding a t F o rt Sill, is,to

tile effect tlm t there was no 'llour a t th a t agency, gml Hint’ n o t more than one-third the am ount aiithorized had been issued du ring th e year. The sugar had given out, the beef had been poor, and tlie Ind ians h n dbeen driven to kill and ea t their horses. T he s ta tem ent is likewise endorsed by (Jeii. Pope, who foretigiftMjf.serious trouble if tills condition ojfaffairs" continues. Tlie severity of tjie w in ter lias been pleaded in excuse for tliis del.ny-In transporting supplies, b u t even such an excuse fails: jo m eet the m any btlier'charges of sim ilar ch arac ter th a t are p referred and sup­ported hy positive i evidence. A severe w inter will not palliate notorious corruption, nor wilf the s ta te op Hie roads conceal tlie conduct of the

. Indian rings. Som ething m ust ije done, an d done n t once. . ' , s ,. * - •

i f tlie Ind ians a re seriously regarded as'tlie w ards of Hie nation, it is v e ry evident th a t otiicr agen ts m u st lie sen t am ong 'them th an such ns are eager only to plunder them . Tlliere is no.de­p artm en t of -tlie G overnm ent-tlm t shows n more' infam ous record than tlie Ind ian D epartm ent Since ju s t b cfo ru .th c wnr tlie tribes have dw in­d le d -to .one-lmlf the ir form er num ber, yet tlie cost of the Ind ian D epartm en t is doubled. Tliis vast difference of course Sticks to dishonest hands. Tlie Ind ians are m ade tlie p re tcx t'fo r such n se­ries of outrageous sw indles, on the tax-payers of tlie country as well as on them , th a t tlie very m ention of it excites w onder and indignation. Tlie agen ts a re ' joined w ith tlie contractors In m any instances, so th a t tlie Ind ians get tlie worse sw im llud nnd p lu n d ered ; b u t when tlie agents are honest, the contractors and traders get in betw een them nnd tlie ♦Indians nnd skltn all tlie cream besides cheating sham efully on tlie milk, tlm t is left. -• I t is tlie enndid opinion of Prof. M nrsli,tlint

even a n e w system of dealing with the red inqjj, snob as tlie G overnm ent, has claim ed it'lins es­tablished, still needs the m ost honest and capable men to adm in ister it. B ut, in .add itioh .to hon­esty, som ething of a firm character 's wanted, too. Prof. Mnrsli favoVs the appoin tm ent of arm y officers ns In d ian agents, believing them to pos­sess tlie requisites for the plncc and tli^ task. B u t the trouble comes from tlie traders, and Fhf- linns, nnd whiskey-selftVs. T liey need suppres­sion, so.far ns it is possible. . A t'a n y rn te , it ought to be in tlie pow er of Hie.-Govenifiient to protect the people who are directly dependent on its pro­tection. Tliis; "tbiiig lias ru n n ld n g a s fn r a s .i t ought to, IVlint is to be said,-w hen the Govern­m ent, a fte r m aking a solemn trea ty w ith tlie ln'- dinns concerning tlie Black H ills T errito ry , goes to w ork to g e t it away from them because of tlie m inors of tlie gold it contains. ,* W hen treaties arc thought so lightly of, w lm t is to be expected of agents find contractors ? ,

N pirit P h o to g ra p h y in C in c in n a ti , O,I t will be rem em bered by our readers th a t we

sometime since announced tlint A lfred E . Giles, Esq., a prom inent Spiritualist of Boston, had gone fortli on' a pleasure trip which w as to ex­tend, its scope th ro u g h 'th e W est and South. ’Mr., Giles, since his departu re , lias contributed*sev­eral highly in teresting “ le tte rs of travel ” to the columns 'bf tlie N orfolk County G azette—wiiicli is printed in - H yde Park , M ass.—and frQin his' epistle, fluted. M ay 4th, w e make- the following extract', w hich bears upon S pirit.P hotography as an ex isten t fact-; I t is w orthj'. o f m e n tio n 'th a t tlie G azette, though a secular pnpdr, 1ms not, feared to give tliis evidence iii favor of tlie claims of one phase-of sp irit re^ irn , w ithout reserva­tion ;

H Letters, from home arid o ther places were aw aiting your correspondent a t Memphis, T en n .1- Among them w as one from Mr. 'l’eeple, the pho­tographic Artist of C incinnati, of whom m ention was made in a former letter. It enclosed two

..photographs,..made.from tlie negative, fo r which your correspondent lmd su t ju s t before leaving th a t city, l ie ..perceives on tlihsj) photographs

'•three fangs, (b u t no t his <nvn)*elenrly defined. One qf them is th a t of a stranger, a nmn of mid-. Vile age ; the, other two he rccoynizm, to his sur­prise and diliiiht, as the countenances of his'dear and only childJpn, whose bodies about half :d'score of years ayt) he saw put away in a tomb under the 1‘iirk-streei chitfclim Boston: *■ \

He carefully scrfitUitzys those 'lineam ents, lm’ calmly reflects’ on all th tfe rcu in st Alices a t te n d in g . ids silting in itlie .p lio togiapherks room. H ere- ' members t l i a r l i e ,was a stranger, to Mr. H art­m an, tlie photographic op era to r; th a t before s it­ting for the photograph' lie lmd carefully exam ­ined the glass plates, and .noticed tlm t tliey were clean and free froih films of former im pressions, th a t lie lmd accom panied tlie operator a t eacli ol' tlio four tim es lie pad sa t into ids w ork closet, and in its faint'-yellow l ig h t -h a d fe tc h e d the- operation of pouring collodion upon an d other­wise preparing tlie p la te ; had seen i t ,p u t into th e ..plate-holder an d -tlie p la t^ lio lder into tlie cam era; lmd noticed tlm t the operator after- having w ithdraw n the cloth fropi tlie lens lmd stood by it w ith his'lm nd resting on tlie cam era ; lie rem em bered'.how w h en /th e plate-holder was’ w ithdraw n lib lmd again accom panied tlic'dper- a to r into hiss closet, and had there w atched tlie developm ent o f-th e negative; he also rem em ­bered, to r lie had m inuted it in a note-bpok, tlm t as tlie resu lt o f the. first sitting there had np- p e a ra lo n the pla te ju s t above h is own head tlm t o f -a venerablo and an mfknown m a n ; a t the second sitting, besides ills own countenance tlm t

.of-another person, and-lien foreigner, w as clearly m a n ife s t; tlm t a t tlui th ird sitting only the like­ness of his own face 'w as visible, and a t the, tfourth and la s t sitting the plate bore no impre^- /sion of his own countenance, b u t did show three ’ o ther faces, tw o of whipli were tliose p f ids d e ­ceased .children, an d tlie th ird th a t o f an un-- ■known man. A s lie calls to mind All these c ir­cum stances an d yet sees on "the photograph b e­fore him the sun-pictures of tli.e countenances of his children, cnlm and p leasan t anil y e t older looking th an when they played and gambolled a t home in the ir’m ortal bodies, lie is lost in wonder, love and praise;''V Silo lives,’ says tlie poet,, ‘ whom we call dead .’ And here before tl ie ' fleshly eye the proof is-palpable tlm t— ’

‘Tlicyaru Dot ifnid, tlm children of our affection,• Hut aro gono untf> that school * » >•

" Where' they no longer nedd our poor protection.’ ”

T ra v e ls In F o re ig n L an d s .I t is th e common say ing of those' who have

Tcad Sir. P eeb les’s book of som e tw o years' trav ­els in tlie old world, tlm t lie is the “ first traveler who has so u g h t.to do B rahm ins, Buddhists, P ar- sees and o ther so-called heathen , ampl.e justice .” T he secu lar p re ss— tliankij Jo tlie progressive sp irit of tlie ’nge—liigldy com m ends th is volume. Tlie following ex trac t cbm m ehdntory of tlie book is from a la te num ber of tlie W estern Rural, pub­

lish ed in Chicago, Illin o is : . >.“ T his is a-delightful sum m ary of th is gen tle t

m ap 's-jou rney ing? through the countries of tlie earth , told in a crisp, fresh m anner. Mr. Peebles: lms.condensed a wide experience in to the pages o f h isbook , and 1ms given a volum e of travels w iiic li/o r d irectness and y e t m inuteness pf in ­form ation 1ms few equals.” ’ *-

Colby & Rich, No. 0 /M ontgom ery.P lace, Bos­ton, nrc tlie publishers.

KngliHli I t e m s o r ' I u t e r e s t . •M essrsfB astian and T ay lo r will sail from Liv*

erpool, M ay 18th.Miss L ottie Fow ler will sho rtly leave , London

for n to u r on th e continent. • '• ;Mrs. Cora J,. Y, Tuppa'n 1ms recovered froln

her severe illness. She commenced Sunday, M ay 2d, her third- an d final, course of lectures a t - th e Cavendish Rooms, M ortim er .street, London^ /

M essrs, M nskylyne arid Cook, jh e English con­ju r e r s ; lmve “ backed” from a one hundred pound challenge issued to them to prove th e ir m isrepre­sen ta tions regarding S piritualism . .Will tliey now h'oliHlieif peace ? .

P e rse c u tio n ol' t le i l in H r P a r is . 'In our Inst issue we, referred to the a rre s t of

M. Buguetj tlie Parisian sp irit-photographer, on charge of sw indling tlie public by nnd through the exercise of his g if t; and ou r la test English ad ­vices inform us Hint tlie F ren ch authorities lmve proceeded even further, and lmve seized upon

^ and confined M. Leynmrie, th e fearless editor of tlie Revue SpiritefmA M. F irm an , m aterializing medium, as accomplices of M. B uguct. These gentlem en are reported as being closely im pris­oned, no one of their friends o r fam ily being al­lowed to see them, arid tills s ta te of affairs is to la s t till tlie officials‘ cari decide as to th e ir course in the m atte r by a p relim inary exam ination .

J . N. G ledstanes and o thers are represented as m aking efforts for the legal aid of these perse­cuted instrum ents of the, w orld invisible, and we. hope the m cn d s.o f tlie cause in P aris will be lip' and doing, rem em bering tlm t, though we as S p iritualists “ should he th e first to expose any a ttem p t a t im posture ori th e p a r t of an y m edi­um , it is, on the other hand, our bounden duty,, both to God and-man, to see that mediums are not unfairly dealt with hy a skeptical and.hostile pub­lic."'- *

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W as passed by a large, delegation of tlie friends of Mr. and Mrs. W illiam II . D ure li, a t their home, fit Ferd inand street, Boston, on Thursday, M ay 13th — it being an o th er of tlie regular course o f S piritualist m eetings now being held a t tlie residences of the friends of th e cause in Boston. D r. Samuel G rover presided, nnd con­g ra tu la to ry rem arks were m ade by II. S. W il­liams, Dr. A. II. R jclm rdson, Jo h n W etherbee, D r, M cLellan, H attie W ilson, A lonzo Bond, J. B. n a tch -an d others. C ora H as tin g s and H attie Wilson varied the exercises w ith songs; and Miss Lizzie J . Thompson gave a d ec lam ations

SST A W om an Suffraggjtlonvention, under the auspices of the M assachusetts S ta te Woman Suf- , frage Association, was held T uesday 'afternoon niub evening, May 18th, in th e Ci y H all, F itch ­burg, with the object of fo rm ing a local w om an’s association in th a t city. Speeches in belmlf of tlie cause were made by H en ry R. B lackwell and Mrs.- Lucy Stone, of B oston^M rs. E lizabeth It.- Churchill, of- Providence, i t . 1., M ary F. E a s t­man, of Lowell, arid others. A t the close of the afternoon m eeting, thirty- nam es w ere obtained for m em bership in the local association, and m any m ore were added gn trip evening. t____ ,

“ 137“ D uring the absence of D r.vClmrles Main in E urope iris house; No. GO D over stree t, will, be' in* charge of- Mrs. Sarah A . Byrnes, who will tre a t patients, also.give s ittin g s fo r tests to those’ desiring. Mrs. B yrnesJs one of th e oldest w ork­ers as m edium and sp eak er in th e field, rind m erijs th e approving p a tro n ag e of th e public.

t CharlcM II ., F o s te r lit B o sto n .Tills gentlem an, .who is one of tlie m ost won-

derf/il'm edium s .in't/ie world, is still .giving p r i ­vate sittings at.-the P o rk er House; wiiicli will be continued during: th e p resen t m onth. The r e ­sults of liis’ incdiuinistic labors, are o f-tlie h igh­est order of u se fu ln ess reaching, as th e y do, to quarters accessible to no o ther w orker n't present in the sp iritua l f ie ld .- 'L e t it be rem em bered th a t tliis/m aj’ be tlie last chance- presented to com m u­nicate w ith tlie lpved ones who lmve passed on, through tliemiediupisiiip of J lr . Foster, as lie will; not probably b c jfr jth us another season, g rea t inducem ents lia\TSg ,been held out to h im by in ­fluential p arties iii-Eiiropefto m ake tlie Old iVorld iris perinanenlfliome.

T h e C am p M eeting SeasonIs ’ draw ing n igh, nnd by the various published, notices p u t fortli by Drs. G ardner n,ml R ich ard ­son for Silver L ake, tlie L ake P leasan t A ssocia­tion ’s 'C om m ittee , and J . S. Dodge,) fo r Lake W alden, ft is ev ident th a t sustained out-of-door conventions fo r S piritualists are to be as ab u n ­d an t tliis year as in tlie p as t—tlm t held n t Lake Waldeq alorie being changed .from a cam p to a series of Sunday grove m eetings. J V e are p leas­ed to note the active preparations w hich are b e­ing m ade byjtlie various boards of m aniigem ent for tlie aecoirim odation 6r the public, and tru s t th a t a due m easure of- success m ay a tten d them all in the ir.laudab le undertakings.

¥' «Liber!}- ofv'W o rs liip to b e P re s e rv e d in S p a in ;.

...A London telegram dated M ay,17th sta tes t h a tthe papal ntincio'lm s m ade a form al -demand for'

.tlie restoration of, C atholic u n ity in Spain, and .tlint the A lphonsist governm ent ims replied tlm t it is resolved to maintain liberty of worship. A ll lionot to th a t governm ent, say w e ! ,-Only as freedom of > though t — and worship at? well — is guaranteed to any nation , can tlie hope of its ad ­vance and progress in coming years b e reasona­bly en terta ined . ' - :•

I S f “ Obsession,” “ th e true life on ea rth ,” etc., a r e ' brofight before the C ontro lling In te lli­gence for cn n sid era tp jl on ouwsixth p a g e ; A n­n e tte 'J a n e R oberts, o f’S alt L ake C ity, speaks to h er m other'; Ju lian F razier, lost on th e “ Morn*" ing S ta r ,” desires to reach h is 'b ro th ers Thomas and Joseph; C apt. Thoirias Neale, of Portsm outh, N . II., w arn s his.frieiich “ ag a in s t 'm a k in g 'th eo ­logical m istakes here in tliis m ortal life, th a t shall become g rea t h indrances to th e ir progress in the o ther l i f e ” ;, an d N in n a V ibbet comforts herniQ tiier. J

S t a r t l i n g F a c t s i n M o d e r n S p i r i t u a l i s m . —The second edition of tliis w ork w ill be Issued by tlie R elig io-PJiilosopiiical.Pubiish ing House, of Chicago, on or ab o u t tlie first of Ju n e next. We lmve been supplied witli a few copies of- the first edition, to fill im m ediate orders. We will supply our,custom ers jvitli the new edition a t the reduced price.of $2,00 p e r cqpy,.postage 25 cents, wiiicli price includes th e few-copies w e have on hand of the first edition.

S T J.-M . Peebles’s1 fine pam phlet fo r the Ly­ceums, en titled “ T h e S p i r i t u a l T e a c h e r ; ” having passed throrigh one edition, is now offered by tlie publishers, Colby .& Rich, N o. 9 Mont-" gQmery P lace, B osto iL gt a reduced ra te , 15 cents per copy, ih stea ffo f 25 cents; its original price. C ircuiatgiti, friends, fo r it will do a good w ork am ong-the young. S ee-ad v ertisem en t on obr six th page. .

. EsT* W illiam B runton w ould like to m ake en­gag em en ts t o lecture jn tlie v ic in ity o f Boston for the la s t . tw o Sundays in Ju n e , fo r w hich he has riow-no appoin tm ents.. Keep, h im a t w ork,

.friends.

G iles It. S te b b ln s . __T his gentlem an, whose s te rling qualities have -

for ninny years given influence to various reforfti riiovements, says the Religio-Phiiosophical Jo u r­n a l , and wiio is a pillar of stren g th .in the templflf Qf Spiritualism , delivered a lecture on “ T he R eal Gospel, o r the- T ru ths of the Soul,” a t B erlin H eights, Ohio, May 2d; I t w as an eloquent e f fo r t , , nnd was1* received with g re a t favor b y ’ a large audience. H e intends to r v is it ' W orcester an d F riendship , N. Y., and S turgis, M idi., iii J u n b .v

A Seance by M rs. H o lm es■Was held on Tuesday, everiing-of la st w eek at, tlie residence of Judge A llen ,'in V ineland, N . J ., we understand , nt* the special request!of a gen­tlem an from N ew York C ity . The m aterializa- ■ tion o f: sp irit forms'.yvAs satisfactory , i l l s Said, although tlie conditions w erp not as favorable as could lmve been desired. . . • '

’ Hr.” G eorge S ex to n . * ■On the fmst page* preserif issue, will be. found

tlie report of a highly, interesting, lecture recent- „ ly delivered by this tiilente'd English ’orator, a t Goswell Ha'll; London,. T h is gentlem an ft also tlie able editor of, Tlie ,S p iritual Magazfno and Tlie'C liristiAn S p i r i tu a l i s t . ( c

EgT Read th e business announqem ent-of D r. J . I. E llet, St. Louis, Mo., on our fifth page. T h is gentlem an 1ms - been a n iagnetizer f r r tliii;ty- five years, an d his.labors in tlie .past have- been attended, w ith 'tlie most g ra tify ing measure- of ciirnti.ve'success!; l l i s services lmve u n til re ­cently JjjjflBditven w ithou t fee oi; rew ard to suffer- i/ig huiiiamVj^dnit inci't'asing dem ands fipon his tim e render it necessary th a t lie* now receive rec­ompense. H e is stroriglj* endorsed zby Dr. J . R . / New ton, tlie w orld-renow ned healer, who w rites u sjth a t lie is “ a w orthy m a n ,” and “ one-of tho v ery best mngnetizers I h av e ev.er m et.. I confi­den tly reeomrriend Dr. E lle t to all in the W est who m ay requ ire a physic ian .”

J 2 f T lie Catlfolic Chapelt in tliis country m u st adap t itse lf fo the Jm y so f tliis country , arid th e sp ir it of itk instinuioiis/N aJ’s tlie Boston T ra v ­eller. I ts rig h ts m ust be secured, and it m u st be to le ran t'w h ere -It has been tolerated. T h e ex­am ple and th e teachipgs o f the niorodnfluentiali

’Catholics—clergy and la ity —has b ee iro f a c h a r­a c te r 'to disarm hostility, to allay suspicion, and to inspire Qonfideiice, and if tho church, now th a t it lias becom e.strong,.shapes its fu tu re course by its past, our country will s till fu rn ish proof t h a t ; tlie best governm ent for a n y v ita l religion is th a t wiiicli gives absolute religious freedom and equal­ity to all.

15?" M rs-,Maud E. L o rd , the deservedly popu-. ■iar physical medium, at 20 H anson street, Boston, recen tly gave great p leasu re to the friends resi­d en t in B ra ttle b o rq ^ V t., by! h er sittings, held w hile on a v isit to tlm t place, arid accom plished a good w ork—" for w hich,” Adds a-correspondent,“ we’ tender h e r our sincere th a n k s .”

J5?" W e lmve on; file for publication }n ou r n ex t issue, an v oration delivered in M anchester, E n g ­land, some tim e since by S p i r i t T h e o d o r e P a k - icfJit, through the in stru m en ta lity p f M rs. Cora L. Y . Tappim ? Subject selected .from tint aud i­ence, viz., “ GiiowyH An d R e c p g n i t i o n i n S p i r i t - L i f e . ” , ' '

Mrs. D . N. G reene B u tts w rite s : “ W e like the general tone of tlie B anner of L igh t, and adm ire th e sp ir it in which it is conducted a n d the/ sym pathy w hich it extends, to ‘ causes th a t lack assistance,’ an d for tlie'dieautiful tru th s of Spir-. itualism wiiicli .it fa ith fu lly advocates.” j ’

D ub'ufe’s grand p a in tin g of “ T he P ro d i­gal S pn,”- representing o v er fo rty higldy-finished life-size figures, ori canVas-20 by 45 feet in/sfze, is on exliibition in H o rticu ltu ra l H all, tliis city. I t is tru ly a m agnificent trium ph of art,/w hich

'n eed s to be seen to be apprecia ted . / .•4 —1----- :— - . --------- :------:— /" O jir th a n k s 'a re due, and are hereby re­

spectfu lly tendered to M rs. R . M. L eav itt, of Bradford, V t., botli for th e fine” floral offering wiiicli she s e n t .u s u n d er da te of M ay 12th, and the k in d w ords and good w ishes w hich ,were em­bodied in h e r le tte r of 'tran sm itta l.

E iP P ro f . S. B. B rjttan and W . F . Jam ieson hav ing lmd “ A D iscussion A bout Je su s and R e­lig ion ,” the la tte r gen tlem an has em bodied .his views upon tlie m atter in pam phlet form . Tho brochure m ay be had a t ^u q ’offico. — ■ .

S p r i n g f i e l d , M a b s .— Spiritualists; a n d Lib­e ra lis e ’ Society meets a t L iberty H all Sundays a t 2]4 and 7>i iy m . Speakers en g a g ed : W illiam D enton .for {he last S unday in M a y N e l l i e J . T. -Brigham f a t J u n e ; J . F . B ax ter fo r Septem ber. M ary A .'D ick inson , C orresponding Secretary .

E g fW e h ea r th a t tlie Shakers a re ,to hold a public meetffig in L y n n th e la s t Sunday, of th is m onth . A m ong others, E lder F . W . Evans, of. M t. L ebanon, N. Y .j is to he present.'^ •

, E S T A ll w ho read it w e re d e lig h te d V ith M rs. H ick o k ’s fine Story ju s t published I n tlufB anner, and are anx ious for an o th er from th e sam e source.

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1875. MAY 22, 1875. B A N N E E OF l i g h t : -y

>ands.,e' who have years' trav-

flrst traveler uddhists, P a r- mpl.e justice .”

progressive th is volume, of the book Rural, pub-

> .th is gentle?

n tries of th e Mr. P eebles

in to the pages line of travels u teness of in-

,ry Place, Bos-

B R I E F P A R A G R A P H S .—— ' * <a

BiionT Sermon.—Slhce the days that,arc past are Rono forover, and those that arc to come may not collie to thco, ltbehoovcth thee, oh, man f to emiiloy the pAscnt tim e ,. wlthont»rcnrettln(t the loss of that which Is past, or too much depending on that which Is to come.' -

lf r . Robert <>. Link Is creating i|ultp a sensation as a; singer In Canada/, Why don’t they call him liub-o’-llnk ')

Cardinal Antonelll Is seriously 111, BUlIerlnR, his physi­cians slate, from llrlght's disease of the kidneys. SorUins doubts are entertained of his recovery.

ere.st. • sail from L iv-

le a v e , London

eeovered frolri Sunday, M ay ctures a t - th e

London^ / English con-

uindred pound their m isrepre-

;Will 'th e y

Tho Cincinnati, l)r Jubilee closed Maydlth, with inuyii enthusiasm on the part of*all participating. The exponses of {lie festival havo been a tritle over $UL000, whlcli arc hliout covered by rgre||its.

. The Seventeenth of •)uno wiy soon be here, ami then wo shall hear martial music ” to k ill’’-no t to kill on Hun­ker Hill, us they'dld a'hundrcd ycui^^igo—ami bayonets will glisten In the sun 71111 don 't rain;} awl the boys and girls will have rare fun. and Bostomtbwn (not Charles­town) will bo o'errun, ami we shall hear the signal gun, and orator? will have their say, it ml thus-wlll end the ’.’glo­rious ” day that ushered In our freedom one hundred years

'a g o ! Show. _________________ * do Oohk.The European war-cloud Isgottlug “ thin,” but still It Is

In sight. . • *• ____ ••

Missouri and SouthcruTHIubis being In trouble concern­ing them; ten thousand square miles of Mhuonrl lantlhave already been laid waste, and farmers are utterly discour­ag e^ Every clfort Is being made to exterminate the plague, and It seems nothing’ short of a miracle can avert a famine and bankruptcy. ■

--------- ------_ ----------I \ T ^ H ahnum’s IIiitodhom e hns attracted largo

crow ds during the past week. He remains ai Ids present location, cojrncr Exeter street and Commonwealth avenho, Boston, tor several days to comb. * 1

[ualitics have - . irious reforfti nphicai Jo u r- in the tem pi# m “ T he R eal ,” a t B erlin oquent e f fo rt ,. r W a la rge ^ Worcester and :h., iii J u n b .1'

olmcN>f last w eek at, /inu land , N . J .,

piestfof u g en - lie m aterielrza- foijj’, it'is 'Said, os-favorable as

John Cabell Breekcnrldge, nnex-Ydeo President or the United Stated, died at Lexington, K y .^ tay 17th, aged 51 years, ' ■____________.

Tho whiskey “ rings” need rtcD/j/DifluinohJ thrtn the whiskey.

Ethan Allen was a religions skeptic. Ho had more faith In the Cnntliie'iitalj'ongrcssjhan In Great Jehovah.-itoA- fon Globe, . ____ *

The Emprefts Eugenic will accept of no compromise of her claims on the Fjcmfli civil list, and will bring an net loti 'demanding the fulfillment of the convention concluded by I)o B r o g l i e ________

The Italian senate has voted a national donation to Gari­baldi. ' ‘ ______ _■

' > • Sum men are oktagon.. . AUd suni thrce-sldcd arc; **

’T Is'thurtaf tuff lew 11 ml one .... yi'ho lz kompletely square.

, Two determined CQiiv.lcts escaped from Slng-Slng last week by,BprlngIngdo\vn from tho-arch over^tho ^dlroad upon a lftpyflng freigjit train, and overpowering the fireman and engineer. The>v detached the engine, put oJf the em­ployes and’ started on a fearful race for liberty’, which lasted till the cylinder head of tho machine was blown out from want of watpr. They then took totliowooilsAnd havo not since been heard of. .

teas in close relationship , in some mysterious,ioayt to- the world beyond the veiJ.” Is not,t)Wt . almost equivalent,’ to saying In a very cautious manner that sho Is a Spirit­ual medium ? Gen. Sheridan it Is Announced Is about to be married to Miss In/ne" Pucker, of Chicago, daughter of. Gen. Pucker, of his stair. y

imiTTANIA. #faded Holmes recently sent tho following,

to a bazaar and fancy fair at Matches- Inlaid of t(ie Mlctt Cjdtdreii’s-Hospltalr - ■-

Dr. Vlty with his ter, England

iyer'Wi/ndoautograph,

,1 ■ .v .l I .1Hugged lu the dinging billows’ grasp.

From seaweed fringe to mountain heather,. Tho British oaks with routed grasp, *

Her slender handful holds together;With cllifs of white and bowers of green, «,

And ocean narrowing to caress her, . ♦And hills and threaded streams between—' Our little Mother Isle, God bless her!

There arc 701 convicts in the Massachusetts State Brls/m, tho largest number ever coufined there at one time, v

How sweet is perfect understanding between than and wife. He was tosmokC cigars when he wanted thefh, tint he was to give her ten cents every time he Indulged, In one. Jldkept his word, and every timq.she got fifty cents ahead he’d borrow It and buy cigars, « ' ’’

A mind that is consddus^of Its Integrity scorns to say more thatiH menus to |K‘rform. - *

A despatch from Berne, Switzerland, says the represeh- tatlvesof the States hclonglng to the Postal Union ratified, the treaty on Monday. France signed, subject, to flic con-

The grasshoppers aro moving eastward from Kansas, f sgnt of the Assembly, j

" Everyone tuVns^ils dreams Into realUlcs as far as ho can; timn Is cold as ice to the truth, hAt ns (ire tb fiitsehood. ■

Amcrlcten Splrftuul IiiNtitiite.

At a recent wedding in (Milo, the minister was About' to salute the bride, when she stayed him with: “ No, tplster,I give up them vaqltlcs now !” ^

Bishop Haven estimates the wealth of- the Methodist Episropal denomination ns at least one thousand millions of dollars, and says, “ we do not pay a mill per year tax on* our capital .for tho world’s Christianization, outside our w n parishes.’’ . >______ ••_______ ' .

Dr. Livingstone round that the ostrich could ruu at the astonishing speed of twenty-six miles : i hour.

A San FVanela&fi conipqny'lias gone extensively Jnto dh*’ manufacture of paper barrels. Some of Hie barrels, con­taining sug^r,khave already,iiecn shipped to China ami Ja^ pan, and they scemcdasgimirwhen they reached their des­tination as when they started.

The iron urinal lu Hayniai kct Square Is a “ piddle nui­sance,” and should lu?- abated forthwith: It was a City Hall “ JbbV unquesllqnatdy.

Alclhtadcs dreamed that he saw himself wrapped lu Ills mistress’s cloak; and before long lie was found lying dead, with no othcrcovei logon his corpse.

Chnrlotto Cushman, tho great,American actress, took her'-farewell bemJtU and closed her career as ’a^dramatlc,' personator, at tlie Globo Theatre, Boston, Saturday even­ing, May Kith. ________i ______ >

Hutlaml, Vt., bad a$l25,(K)(Mlre May Ifith.

will be. fm ind lecture re c e n t- .

lg lisli'orator, n t ntlem an ft also

M agazine and

C’nr) Zerrlmn’f $"i,000 suit RRaliHt 1’. S. tillmore and tho 3TB?(oiiulillco E xccut Iro Coni 111 Itteo for scrvlcos remlereil aS loader of tho cliorus has heen Anally'decided aualiist lilin.

King Kalakaua has rallAed,tho reciprocity treaty be­tween tho Sandwich Islands and' tho United States.

(jement-of l}r. fth page. T h is z e r f o r thii;ty- last havo been ng m easure of have un til re- yward to sutTer- nands (tpon bis tow receive rec- 3(1'b y Dr. J . R . / ler, w ho w rites , id “ one-of tho

m et.. Ico n fi- .11 in the W est

Whcn aman hands an editor an article for publication onda*ks him to tlx It up because ho “ wroto it In n hurry,” and “ hadn’t time to revise I t,” you may know that, he commenced the article directly after supper'aml wrestled with it until after midnight, rewriting it fourteen times, destroying ft <iulrerof foolscap, and “ blessed’M ds pen • every two minutes. T h a t’s the way they generally write nn'artlclo when they are “ l i r a hurry,’’ ami haveru no time to revise i t . ”—Norristown Herald,

• “ Amian’s foes are tltoy of his owji household,” said Jesus. , A greater truth never*'was uttered, ir is nitrite to-day ns it was( w*hm first’mumdated. I t Is strong ovl-' donee In favor of “ total depravity,” we admit. Believers In Spiritualism arc no exception todLlio rule, altltough some, of them call thenuselves “ ImrmonhjAphllosophers. ’ ’ ’Why is it thus.V” has byett qubded millions of times probably, but never solved. ArewecWUlzed heathen, or heathen civilized1/ ‘Which?________________ _ iNtjuiitKit, *

• Heaven help my soul In Love’s tempestuous season 2Yot who would all Ids summer glories spurn /

, If these bo lost, say, what has haughty reasonOf equal worth to give us In return ! •

• If loyalty/o Love to her hetreastm,The name of “ tra ito r” , I will (fare to earn;

And, llkotho hnnny seraphim nhovo,1 ’ll save my soul b)1 losing it In love I—John G. Saxe.

s country m u s t \ uiitry , nncUlie s Boston T rav - and it m u st bo ated. TUe cx-[ioro<influen tiali'" i-b ee iro f a char- . suspicion, and -

lurch, now th a t uture course by - nish proof th a t ■ religion is th a t

■dom and e q u a l- .

1

As storm follows storm, pmfwnvo succeeding wave give addltlonal harducss to .the shell that encloses tho pearl, so do tho storms and waves.of life add force to the character

leservedly popu-. >ji street, Boston, the friends r e s l - . er sittings, held ■

accom plished a a-correspondent,

on jn ou r n ex t nebester, Eng-lEODOItE PAR-p f Mrs. Cora

rom tlnS audi-COGNITION IN

I'CAi!.

Only last week we firiuted an account of the terrlblo loss ofllfe by the wreck of the steamer Schiller on th&Scllly Isles; hnd It will bo remembered that thepress called atten­tion to tho fact that said great loss was In a measure oc-

\ casionedby the fact tha t'the signals of distress mado by \ tho wrecked vessel were mistaken by the people on land for \ thosoof Joy on arriving near tho coast. Proorof the most •

absoluto lacker common prudenco In this regard Issct forth in tho despatches of later dates, whereby tho continued blowing 6ir of steam and tire firing of cannon from a British guhboat oflf 'the ' JJcIHyTalea, May 13th, created tho Impres­sion that another'steamer was Wrecked*which supposition was telegraphed all over, the wot’ld, causing much needless anxiety. Surely so exposed a spot should not be selected by gunboats and Htcamers ns a “ blowing” and “ prac­tice” ground, wherein to imitate signals of distress, for

' all history shows, and especially the lamentable episode of . tiro SchUler, thatw hen “ Wolf” Is really cried, tho shop* hord who has been so often deceived WllMiot hasten to the rcllofof tho flock, and tho vessel who Is really In need of help w ill sound her cannon In vain.

Lot every man sweep tho snow from his own door, and not busy himself about tho frost on his neighbor’s tiles.

------------------- ---------- 7* ,Tho best thing developed in the wholo course of tho groat

scandal trial was* the Intimation that It Js near Its end. Like the-proclamation of peace after a long war, tho ter-,

i mlimtlonof this caso will bo a great relief, but, like the cvfl cHectsof war. the bllghfand onrso' bf this social up­heaval will bo felt even when all Its outward marks are ob- merated.-AT.' r . Herald,

An American College of Music Is about to bo founded in New York City.

A conspiracy tonssnsslnatc President Domlnlqucof Ilaytl was discovered on tho evening of May 7th, and MonpJalsor Pierre and Getu Boyce, two of tho ambitious seekers after, power, werq,shot after making a stubborn resistance, ami Uon. Casal, another, sought refuge with the American Consul. Tho greatest excitement exists at Port-am Prince at present. -

IUisuanh ANDWiPKiji K ansas. - I n Kansas the hus­band atyd wife, under fhe law, enjoy equal rlglits and priv­ileges in all things, save tho right to the elective franchise. The wife Holds the'property sho had at the tjmo of her matrlnge, all she acquires afterward in her own right, the. same as the husband does. Tho wife may buy, soli and trade, and carry on business tho same ns her husband; and when she dies hei' property descends one-half to her husband, and one-half to her children, and if no children, then the whole goes to.her husband. The samo ftjl^ap* plies to wife and children In case of the deatli of the hus­band. ' * . •_________ ,

An old Presbyterian preacher whoso congregation usual­ly slept inotft of the liburs of service, recommended that they “ take a. little snuir*’ to keep them awake.* 4 wag among the people sent,up to his pulpit the followlngo’euly: ■“ Put a little more smut In pour discourses; thus shall ice. sa\\* our noses from defilement, while you keep our eyes from slumber.” 'y- ■ • .’Tiio leaves of geranium are an excellent application'for!

cuts, when the skin Is rubbed off. and oilier wounds of the same kind. One or two leaves must bo bruised and applied on lined to (he part, and tho wound will become cicatrized in a very short time.

.Thisorganization lissembleJ nt Rochester IInll, Boston( on tho afternoon-of'S undny , May Kith,

>to innke the choice of n perm anent. Board of Gov­ernm ent for the ensuini! year. II. S. Williams called tho m eeting to order. - T h e records—read by tho' Secretary, E. Vlorry IJrown—were ap­proved, and afte r som q': prelim inary.voting and counter voting it was'decided to elect one oilicer a t a time, instead of oinking use of th e printed slips, ns "a whole, for ballots. T liekfollnlfing- lad iesand gentlenien, receiving tliol,i.igliest num ­ber of votes,-were declijted elected't"

President, 11. S. W illiam s; Vipe-Vresident; .1. B. H atch; T reasurer, Will. 11. DurelL; Kinancial Si'eretnry, M. ,T. Dole ; R ecording'Seerelnrv, E. J . Blnnk ; Roard of Mnnng«rst''C harles-H ough­to n ,' II. 1). Simonds, Slejihen-W ebster, George Woods, C, II. Union, lfr. l l . li.'Stm er, S. A. W ing, Mrsj A. A. W oods,. Mrs. A lfred Nash, n'ml E. G erry Brown. "'■ ■ ■: D uring tlie m eetingrrem ftrks were made by M'. T .T )o le, Dr. -Welister', .1^11, liatcli; M r.'H um s ■and others, also by tire President and SeeretnryA - - J a m e s S. Dodge stati'd that, instead of liis reg v ufar eani’p-meetiiiR a t Lake Walden lie Imd made arraiiL'eiiieiitsAyitli tlie Ritehbiirg Itailrond Cor­poration to i liolil a series of-from three to live Sundny grove-meetings nt the lake—tlie same (o coininengejiily lHtli—of which fu rther particulars would lie given hereafter, lien lso stn ted tln,H*illl tlie money received 'by him through these grove- m eetings which was above tlie am oun t-o f his actual expenses lie proposed to donate to tlie treasury of the American Institute.

Alonzo Bond, tlie well-known 'Boston musi­cian, nnd proprietor of Bond's Band, also offered tlie services of tligt liand gratiptinisly for one of these Sunday grove-meetings.

,11, S. Williams, ns P resident of the Boston S piritualist Union, gave notice th a t1 -a business m eeting of Unit organization would lie conv.ened

-a t Rochester' I fall iiW mlf-past 2 ow .Sunday, May ‘.’ltd, to considnt^lfe question o/ tlie fu rthe r eoii- tinuniico of this society ns a separate body. lie sta ted th a t tin! m a tte r imd been considered hv t he Iloard of M anagers of tlie Unioivniid it Imd been decided by them thn t innsniucli as nearly all Hie m embers of the ’Union w ere'also signers to the new Institu te C onstitution, it would lie belter to merge the old society Into said Institu te, thus concentrating instend of fu rther div id ing tlie ■working force of tlu r friends of tlie iiioveme'nt. T h is m atte r wns !h tlie forthcoming liioeting to lie subm itted to tlie vote of tlie members of tlie Union. ,

I t was also announced tha t a m eeting for .busi­ness, conference, ytc., would die held b y 'th e .In ­s titu te a fte r the Union session, a t Rochester I Inll, on tlie afternoon of tlie ‘.’ltd. T lie Institu te then adjourned. * •

M o v e m e n t s o f 'I j e c t i i r e r H H in t M e d i u m s .i

Dr. Joseph’ Beals, writing from (ireenflcbl. Mass., May 13th, 1*75, says: “ The well known speaker, J i , Frank

.."White* closed Ills tnonlh’s course of lectures hem luy •Sun­day. Ills discourses have sheen listened to wlth^Josc_at-

.fentlon, nttd In fact, none Iiave Klven hetler/tfilfsfaetlon; nnd we feel that he has done much good to tlieV'auso lu this place.’’-i Dr. Beals also sends us an abstract report of Mr'.* White’s final lecture, <m “ The Spiritualism of ChrlHllanl- ty ;’/tlnmglk-'tho crowded state o,f o7ir c«i)uinns precludes tlieposslhlllty of printing It at prcMnl,‘'\ve shall make use of It hereafter. ,

K. Augusta Whiting, has returned to Albion, Mich., after a highly succMsfui tour of six months In California, She now desires to^fjirney eastwaid.) Soeld jus wlshldg her services should address her at once at Alhlon. -

Mrs. M. Sunderlnmb.Onpur will he lu Turlsmoulh, N-! ll / , during the inontluiMuue. *

John Cojllfir. who has now with* his family settled por- dnanently in Spriugfldd, Mass., would he pleased topnswer calls to lecturo win river Ids services may be reqirtreil. Address hlpi Luck Box 157, SprQigflchl.*

0 . Biddle, No. 115 liOeint street, I’ldladelphla, I’a., an­nounces: “ I am ready to visit any loeallty/to shod the light

<d(ftruth as It Is given tb mo, where I be requlied.”J . William Fletcher lectured on, Sutulay morning ami

.nftc.rii(t{)n,...May .10th,. at Stahord Springs, (it. lie is en­gaged to speak there again on the 23J,

P repared in Pills.Sent by mail by tlie, doctor, or by Gcf>. C.

win A <J(»., .'Irt H anover street, Boston, Mass.n : _tif ?• v ■ >

T Ie a d a c h e , N k u iia i.o ia , N kiiv o u sn ess . —' Dr. J . f t 'M ille r,'n : practicing physician a t :ii!7 Spruce street, P luliylelphia, P a .; has discovered

'that'-tho 'extract op C ranberries niul H em p cures dyspeptic, nervdiis or Sick lleadaelu', N euralgia and Nervousness. P repared in Pills. .10 ets. a box.

'.Goodwin A <Jo.J n It!.—ly

v I I knuy S l a d e ' C lairvoyant, No. 1H W est 21sl( stree t, New Y ork. V A p.J.

, J . V . Ma n s k ie m i, T kbt Me d iu m , answ ers sealed letters, atlltii S ix tliav ., New Y ork, Term s,

'$8 am lT rn r S-ce&Sstamps., .'R EG IST E R YOU1C L E T TE R S. • '. . Ap..i.

.M iig n b f i e W o i u l e r is a ee'rt'aln local remedy for nil- i'Yiimle W eaknesses, -Prolapsus .UleVirUi cerations, Leueorrluea, (or W hites,) and nil Ab­norm al Uomlitions of tlie i ieneriitive I'lindioiis.; These l'm vders, by the ir unequaled Tni.de Prop-’ cities, preserve.from disease those delicate, ajid, complex organs,\Jjpoii' the pi*rfeet .nnd heaiiliy n e tlo n o f wliieli so g rea tly depend th e geiibnil health •nnd happiness of all women. Sent by null), f 1 per box. A ddress l)n . .). K, B itioos A Co., Box 82, Station I), New York. i:iw*.Ap..l.

T h e Ma o n k t ii ' I I e a i.e i i , D ii. J.-K. I litiaq s, Is also a Practical Physician. Olliee'JI East Ifourtii st. Addrcjjs Hox.W, Station 1.), New Y ork City'.

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SRAI.RD ^ t t b r I ANbwkkkd by R i ^ j F l i i l t . ' .17-1 W est :i'2d s'trect, New York. T e rn )s „ p and

Money refunded if not answ ered.th ree stam ps. M y.l.lw

^ . VP u b l i c I l r c c n i l o n I t o o i i i f o r N p l r l t i i -

i i l is lN .—'i’lie Punlishe.rs of the Hnniii’r of I.iglit have flttcil lip u-suitable Room’in ilieir Estaldisir-m oilt EXl’UESSI.V KOll THE ACCOMMOIIATION OK S i’IhitJi’ai.ists, wliere they can meet friends, write letters, etei, etc. Strangers visiting the city are invited to make this their Headquarters. Room open fronr7 a. it. till,(I i>, M.

w rites : “ W e r of L igh t, nnd , luc ted an d the/ m ses th a t lack tru ths of Spir- i te s ." ./’

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[ “ T he P rod i- highly-flnislied 5 feet in/sfze, Hall, th is city, of a rt, /which

arc hereby re- M. L eav itt, of floral offering M ay 12th, and hich.w ere em-

I ndelihle I nk .—D lssolvo one part asplialtum in four parts of oli of turpentine, and add black lead to make It of a right consistency. Or dissolve tlio* same amount of ns- phaltum In turpentine, and color with printer's Ink.

The question Is: "NVas Bro. S .’s no3e “ grasped,” or not? Of courso a harm(\ntp.l philosopher ” would,allow hjs nose ,to bo grasped wlthout-rcslstlng-othcrwlse It would bacontrary to his philosophy.

I , 81MUNOFLOWKHS.Oh, dainty baby foresters, -* --

i That blue In silent nooks,. • Tbatllnger by thocoWpaHis.

Antf peep Into the brooks I To mo you are the warders ^ . .

• ^Of tboxealin of longngo, >* At whoso soft beck unnumbered forms

Like shadows coino and go. ,I trace the tints of deathless hope; *

Hweet (lowers, lu allyourbeauty;You corneas meek Interpreters ,

» Of man’s exalted duty. ' .\ You wlilsperof a dawning heaven ,

- Beneath us as above,When eatth shall melt with poejry,

Am) man be full of love., — L,----------- —. A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, says the city of Sydney and vicinity have been, visited byhfeiiv^and dam­aging rqlns and floods.

’. F . Jam ieson Jesus and R e­em bodied .bis

at form . The

u a l i s t s ’ ail'd L ib- r ty H a ll Sum JaTrs, n g i g e d : W illiam H a y ;,N e ll ie J . T . e r fo r S ep tem b er, d in g S e c re ta ry . ‘ „

era a re ,to hold s t Sunday, o f this F . W . Evans, of.

esen t.' •

'MayAgnes Fleming’s now1 novel, “ A Mad Marrlagp,. by the author of “ Guy Earlscourt’s Wife, ” will be'pub-/

Bshed next week by G. .7V. Carleton & Co. ,,•:< « ’ ». — ■■ >» — • • •* ’

Twelve vessels laden wllh sugar reached the port of Bos­ton,.Thursday, May lath. , v

By tho laws of Wisconsin every woman Iff the ago of (twenty-one years aiiil upward may bo elected fo tlie omce of Director,'Treasurer, and Clerk of school districts; Di­rector and Secretary of Town Boards, tjnder tho township system of school government; memberof a Board of Edu­cation In cities, and County 'Superintendent of Schools.

A 11 editor b ho thinks he entertains or amuses his readers ■' by low abuse and bald personalities Isa pbor Judge or hu­

man nature. He simply disgusts his patrons anil reflects no credit on himself. Impure himself, Jie Imagines only

P evil and Imputes It to others. Tills class or editors, we are proud to Bay, in sm all and fast disappearing, being driven

' from the editorial tripml by the contempt of nil sensible ■ men. When all such arecast outns unworthy of the/pro-

......... fesslnn. tho standard of journallsm.wlll boclovatcd.—iyan^tonxiliss,) Citizen.

l ig h te d V itl i M rs- ie d I n th tfB afln e r, n th e sa m e source .

' JohikSlierldan, father of Oen./l’liH. Sheridan,'V. S. A., departed this llfd May Otii, a t Somerset, O. Mrs. Sheri­dan, mother of “ Little 1’h ll.,” survives her husband.

• She Is.descj-lbcq.by tho papers as ‘.‘a small woman, with dark hair and black eyes, and of a highly sensitive, nervouaT=>=;i

' -organisation; some persons would call her superstitious but others would say that sho was woman who believed In the living presence 3f the Divine Creator, and that she

, F u n d s in Aid o f J e n n ie F ,B anner of'L ig lit-sends . . . . Clias. Cliitteiiden, B oston,' . . . “ A F riend ,.” W orcester, Mass., . , Olqirles E. Jen k in s, Boston, . . ‘^'Student,” . . . . . ' . . ' .

« Total to date, ' . . ,. . . . .

Holmes,!^,. . $ 10,00

. . 2,00 . . 00

. . 10,00

"A Co m p e t e n t I’HYsiciAN/^-rDr. J . T . (illmaiK I’ike, wlios(“ oilice is located a t the 1’a v ii ,io n ,, N o. 07 T hkm ont St.uk e t ,. ( Room .0 ,) .B oston, is cordially recommended to the valiHc ns one of tlie most com petent practitioners in tlie State. He com pounds Ids own medicines,, is n iiiesmer- izer, sk illfu lly applies tlie electro-magnetic bat­te ry wlie.n required, adm inisters medicines witli ids own hands, 1ms imd g rea t experience as n physician, nnd heen very successful In his prac­tice. llt>(gives closivattention to nervous com­p la in ts •

B U S I N E S S ' C A R D S .’ "* • ■ , ' ' .

’ B h a i n W o m t v . -Many of us pray In h M i ’H v u m t fr«*rti sinldun ib'.TlIi; am i tin \vu not worry om.st'lvi's in,to ll ? AmiIf wo <*o ran w r nqt hulp It ? _______ _

“ M n n l o n o t rually tllo of ll ua r t DIsviim* asvnftuu as It h suppnsud, but of AqppVxy* o r ( ' tuigcsllon of ll iu l.uugs , so‘ll |uy <lo not tllu of bra in work, Iml tiratn W'nvry, Nroti' tllutliof it. . ioulbuy. Swift, Horan* (iivult-y, am i proliabl) Tluu*k(*rt»y." —Aoijf/iTrt Tiu im, ■

As' ll ra ln W o rry Imlucospivii iaturuil lssolutloti by .l t sdu pivss lug liilbuMin^upoii tin* gunuial nurvoiis hoaltli , by f a t ­ing the brain fas tur th an tin* w as lf Is rupalnul, anti as llie’ niyaiis’nf su s ta in in g nmlMm.Tt'asiUKH'TVtins huallh Is’no longer hnpqsslb lf. thosu who su llur llm il fbllltatltig Inlbi- u t i ruof nuuitaJ aiu/nlsly or fMiunn* tnuiital failgm*. rn'nl j^nly rusi' il »to (In* p n ‘|»atallon of IlYpoplmsphitfs Invunlnl by Mr. Ffllows, as (but w l l l co m lu r t tl iusubjuft saffly

N O W READY, !•jAND

FOR SALK BY CpLIiY & RrCH,-

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W ON D E R F ir L ? S E A N CiE S

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M rs. Compton.Tbo aiMlior’foHfli’ms tit hi

jihfmim’i'nal sltb of S/OrMna, f lfV atf Ft Hiourr or latb M'lftn'f*. Mi* >aysvtn Hi) pumlous f a d s , a'diulih'-l pursous lu all agu** suol ft at lip* prfsf ii t t-iim*. I

‘'roost o\.*lnvhvhvto MiQ to ihost; bo t; uf?b^t*unist

poNllion ot an fstajkllhlujl l l : •■•ip-r.Ui

fuaiii (lioii-aiHls of iniII j tu -

lllguiit. bvjrfTmnn) as.

h a i r va \ a I If 11 in > iy.lt of^my opp t» r-l. . nod

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tin* rapblsofdfspalr, ami crratc lH lilm strfiigtli b ^^v llli rvfry (lllUfully.

Vflgrapplt*

ITils i.s no bile assmllon, but an fslabllstiftl fad .

n m l i l f s to lityf.silgaif ih r m , ;o ,u r iu h , ‘ piobi* tliftn as far as It w;is pos'lbb* lo <|o >o. 'i h tlie Im-Nlstlbb* piool o f - ih f iMtfimViinAif ff .il aln lm*x|ill- cable plifiioiHfiH), rcpmlia lfi l tor t i c most p a n by If.-olKif' physiologists ami ps\ uhologiMs. Inn « hb b a'lc iicvci ||irlcs*r. tlmnoigliti w d l fstabllslifil a** far t v ■ ami'w l ib h must ‘soon^ e r OI la ter levob il lon t/e opinion mi a \.ayi**lj of qucM ^nv . relal jug to the nalm e of mao; * * - *•CT/o* woik fo in i sa large I’Jnio volume of UlI pages, arid Is. munl llfejitty

' Illustrated, with some’ Sixty Engravings, ,

CuhslsUng of

Portraits, Cironps, Lajulscaucs, Interior?' ' Biagraius, Fac-Similcs, &c.} - • ■

■all of wlileh add grea t ly to Mm Inte rest of the text. Tb*» siyle Is a ii I rim (e d. f rank’, engag in g : amt a enmnla'll ve ilm - m a d e Interest Is given In the m m a t h r o f ev eh ts bj* f !■<*> ll le ra iy skill manliest In the prepara tion. Still l l icre l> u a l l e m p r a l sensallonniism. \ i t ;i*'hi Is g h e n h.r ev e ry ­th ing ; and even the Morles*.f thidr past lives, got from Hm?* Eddy family, thongl%neeesMU ily sum, the au thor co id^ noi v e r t l i . have llii'h- in phiee ami bearing In the g en em k narra tive , ami at lonl In te ies ling m a i le r bu ps^cholo^lca*. spenil al lbn. / ’. ^

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VVuntc.l to C om plete our FileN.W e are greatly in w ant.of No. 22, Vol. I l l , and

all the num bers of-Veils. I l l and IV , to complete tlie files,of th u ‘B anner of L igh t up to date, Wc

.should f.eei much pleased if any of our subscribers who ill ay be possessed of 'e ith e r of these num bers would forward tlie same to o u r address, and in tlie event of the ir so doing 'w c will recompense them well for the ir trouble.

$22,78

. \ C a rd .To tho Editor of tho Banner of Light:

I earnestly p lead -in behalf of Mrs. Jenn ie Holmes’s appeal for pecuniary assistance in tlie B anner of M ay 8th inst. - I linve satisfied myself, by a long, a n d thorough investigation, th a t she and her husband have been the victim s of a wi'ck- ed conspiracy Jd ie ob ject o f which was to break down Spiritualism .itseff.' I k n o w jie r , moreover, to-be a k ind-hearted, generous wom an. I write this card w ithout' her Solicitation or knowledge, from a simple sense of du ty .

May YMh, 1875. . F rancis J; Libpitt.

C h u r l t y D o n a t i o n sReceived since our la st re p o r t 'in th e B anner, for which the donor is tendered tlie th an k s of all g o o d p eo p le : - . ' ~ -

KouG od’s l’Oon.-Froui-Mra. L. Pierce, Boston High­lands, $1,00. ' ,' F ob Austin K bnt.—F rom.Mrs. L. l’lercc, $l,00.-‘

Fou th e Colchester DAY Fu.sb. —From Sirs. L. Pierce,' ?l,oo. ‘ -

EET Mrs. S. A. Ki’m bal!,'o f S ack e tt’s Harbor, w rites D .S . Kim ball, has been .lecturing, giving tests and trea tin g disease, a t Skaneateles, N. Y., and vicinity, since th e 20th of, A pril. B ut she lias recently m et with an .accident, by which.one’

-of her limbs wa^ broken, and is now obliged to rem ain am ong 'stran g ers ,a t'H o w le tt’s lI j l l 'O n o n ­daga Co. T h is is one 'o f th e vicissitudes of a me-

■('(lium’s life, b u t she feels th a t i t m ay be all for .the.best, and is reconciled -to hea r her sufferings patiently .

13T In our last w eek 's issue, in acknowledg­ing a fine b asket of flowers from some unknow n friend we erroneously credited the sam e to " M ay­flower -the name should liavb ‘read “ ^TARyL10HT.” -

W e shall publish in the n ex t num ber of" the B anner nn article o f in te rest .addressed “ T o I n v e s t ig a t o r s o f . t h e S p ir it u a l P h e n o m ­e n a . ” 1 ' - ■ - / ,

• L a b o r R e f o r m .—T he N ew -E n g lan d Labor Reform League.C onvention w ill.m eet a t Cotton H all, Essex s tree t, Boston,_dn_ Sunday apd Mon- 'd4y, M ay 23d and 24th, day and evening.

»ourW c have received and shall p r in t 'h i nex t issue an '-able artic le Jro m the 1)011^01 J , J : .Morse, 'th e E ng lish ' trance “ Concerning M edium sliip.’ '

m edium ,' entitled

E5f* Jam es J . N orris, w ritin g from Bradley, Me., May, 12tli, s a y s : “ T h e In te res t/ ih Sp iritu ­alism Is increasing, a n d new mediums are being developed in th is v ic in ity .”

R ead th e call fo r th e eighth anniial meet-* ing of the Boston F ree Religious A ssociation, on our six th page.

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N p lr ltim l, Ifi^form a m i n U celln iic« iin llrnm n, pub- ilHliu^by Colby A Ulch.

' ( E i:v i : i i i !v n , <>., i i o o h i i e i ' o t ,LKKS‘8 BAZAAIt, Hi Woodland avotimvClu.vuland, o.

All tho Spiritual and Liberal H ooka anil T a p e r* kept for sale.

K O (!iii:N T i;n , n . y ., h o o kD. M. DEWKV, UiwjkHeller, Arcade Hall, Hochester,N.

Y., keeps for sale tho M n lrlfnn l a n d I to fo rm W ork*puhllHhed by--Colby A Klcli. Give him acall. *

NT. laOITIN, M O.. B O O K D E P O T .H. Ia. KK.M l*KB, i;:b North 5th slreet, SI. Louis, Mo.,

keeps eonsiautly for sale,the Bannkji of L io iit , and n roll supply of the N o lr llu a l an«l K rfo rm W o rk * pub- llsheuby Colby A Uiuh. '

WANIIINCJTON BOOK DKI*OT«UICIJAUD KUBKKTS, Bookseller, No. loin Heyetilh

street, aliDvo New York avoimo, WaslihiRloiu l), keeps constantly for saletlHrUAN’NKKOP L ioiit. and a full sniiply of the N n lr l tu a ln m l B r fo r in W ork* published by ColbyAJtleh. • \

N E W V O ItK H O O K D H 'O T .A. J. DAV1SACO.. Booksellers and l’ubllshersof fftanil-

ard Books and Periodicals on ilarhionial Philosophy Snli - ....... ...... .............. and General Reform, No. M Kaip

The Work is Highly Illustrated lIn lino CiiKtUli < lo(l». faMtufull.v Im iim l....... ftZ.itO

“ ** “ Kill i ' i l w ........ ............. 3,«KK*I I a i r T u rk e y Mm*oe<*«>....................

p o . s T . u a ; »i* c u n t s t u b <;o t y .For sab* by COI.BY A I t lc ll . ;it N". b M'dtl^orrjorv^

1-laee, corner of Provlun* siivet (lower lh»on, Boston^ .MitSS. 1 ;

' Bori.hKll. Col.ciHAho.I ln .t. A rjiAMbi.ni.Ais*: . '

I*'iiik m »s >n*ln^ ihiii v "i pi’‘*|".'M* puiillshln«.af'ln*utur of TusIIhiiimIh' . we seiol !«• om a t no* MatcuiPiil of r*ir d;nii;bli*i ' m um*. 1 bat you mny o*>'* It IT > nii'w l**h. if

NVIli‘li our ibnik'bli'l' Alin* \v;ih Ibl' i' h'ihI it hidl vuiirs old, shn- hail n (InM'lliil 1.11111; l i'Vi'i'. w bt' li lasli'il -i'Mii'h| v ) montl^. In all llukL-U-nn* Nle-conUt mu sV?md w’alk. Tin*

'i*ifhMM|uyiuiU mis li H»*tl bci alt liis'.Ubl. wllh tin* rli^bl lluil* / iliiiu n op, so ihat shr )ia> iilwitvs h nl to unit, on ln*r mid Inis soIIfil'd iniifli pain. Nln* I - now pi \«*msold. I'ti^r* I'ttinlt rs bm-e rin>>l h>r, >b»* ran no\C walk or viand orr dial lout an wfll as I lu* id li**r. \\'iill‘* (m-n»**rl v it usi-d m pain h'*j • M'vun'b to siaml''or walk. -In* can iniv. si.^d o r walk Mr hbiiis, :nul ll dffs u<>t hurt Imm-. She **avs not n*iiifNibri ever having a \wll day slnn* |n*r cjulif.-J. chlMhoiid until slins* sin* look v mu Pou.jri -.

I luivi' sollfi•*d m*\ ori*lv f i tint sir!; fo rld im iv^mid could find no liiedlrlnr lo irllt-vi* no* unlit I I omul > mii Mauiifllc aud Kleclrli* I’oudf i s. They luiveenllndv i mn! me. We would raniustly n uomiMfhd ilium lo all suiri-ms.

We fi'ul vury Kraiefnl lo jmi and Jlu* kind miKi'l w ho d t- red yoiu ‘woj k for lln* Komi lliuy have dom* to us.

'I rul> > ours, I.oI'isa Mi M ixx.

Dualism, Free Hellglon Fourth-street, New York.’ tf—Nov. 1.

NAN FKAN0INC’O ,U A Ij., BOOK D K TO T.At No. 3101Kearney street (upstairs) may he foundm<

sale the Hannkii ok L ig h t , ami a Kuneral variety of Npli I tu n lU t n n d B o fo rm B ook*, at Kastern prices. Al: Adams A Co. ’s G o ld en Ten*. T la n flieK en , N p n e i . . P o a illv e n m l N e ffn th e INnvder*. O r lo n f* AnJIi T o lm cco T re p a rn t lo n * . I>r. Nlorer'«» N u lrlllv c C o m n o u n d , etc. Catalogues and Circulars mailed Truer 49" ifemtttanccs In U. S. currency and postage stamps re­ceived at par. Address, HEKMANbNOW; p . (J. box 117, San Francisco, Cal. ......

E R IE , T A ., BOOK DKTOT.OLIVEUSPAKKOHI), the veteran bookseller and pub­

lisher, keeps on sale at bis store, r»o;i French street. Krle, Pa., nearly all of tho most popularN ^IrH im llntlc Book*of tlie times.aAIso, ngent'for IItill. nolle and Electric l’owders.

Chamberlain's Mag*

1IA B T K O H D , C O N N ., B O O K D K T O T .A. HOME, 5« Trumbull street, Harltord, (.’oiin., keen

constantly forsate the B iin n c r o f I jIkIiI alula full sunpV of the N p lrftim l iuhI B H 'o rm . W ork* pnhHubfd ir Colby & ltleli., • *

LONDON, UNO.. BOOK DKTOT.J . BURNS, Progressive Library, No. 15 Southampton

Bow, Bloomsbury Bquare, Holhorn, W.C., London, Kng.. keens for sale the IIannkkof L ight and other N p lr llu a ) P aD H ch tfon* . .

A U S T R A L IA N B O O K D K T O T .And Agency for tho Ban nkii ok L ight, W. H.TEKKY.

No. 96 Bussell street, Mcllmurne, Australia, has for sale nb tlie workson N iilrltiin ll* n i. LUiERAL AHI> REFORto WORKtiy publlslied by Colby A Bleb, Boston, U. S., mm

at all ^lines he found there.

given. ‘D iagnosing disease by lock of dinir, $1,00. G ive ago and sex. Rem edies ■ sent by mail.137” Specific for Epilepsy and N euralgia.■ Address M r s . C. M. Mo r r is o n , Boston, Mass.,

J?M)2519. .- . v"13w*—M y:i3.

... TI1EX o p e n i n g s p r i n g .Farew ell to W in ter’s cold dnjl s to rm s!

Wetcome the beauteous S p rin g ’s re tu rn !T h e gyissds springing on tlie la.wns,• A nd men their, thoughts to Summer tu rn • Let.all rejoice—both old and y o u n g ,. .

T lm t through.tlic season th e y ’ve been spared^ ’A n d praise he heard from every tongue, /'■

T lia t Iloayeii for jtlioix li'iiS k ind ly cared ; ' 'T^NowHertlie B o y s . w Iio need new "'Oloihcs,

' Cojit, P an ts, Vest, H at and.Slioes coniplete,G o p u rc h a s e tliem a t G e o r g e F e n n o ’s ,

Cdrner of Bead) and W ashington s tre e t;- '

D u. F r e d . L. II. Vsfn.i.is mny he addressed un til fu rth e r notice, a t his sum m er, residence, Glenorn, Y ates Co., N. Y . . ' J >

I)r. W. will he in Boston nt in tervals during tlie summer, due notice pf. w hich will appear in tins-colum n. * For ucpuriicy in .rcad1ngrlista .se psyeliometricnlly, and for success in trea tin g the gravest and most com plicated cases, D r. W. ad­m its no superior. Send a postage stam p for proofs. . _ t f—M y.15.

M r s . N e l l i e M. F l i n t , H ealing an d Develop­in g Medium, office No. 200 Joralem on st., opposite C ity H all, Brooklyn, N . Y . F rom 10 to 4. Mng-

tized p a j ...............w ho desire

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TERMS Ca s h . - orders for Books, tobesentby Kxpross must be accompanied by all or part cash. When tbe mourn , sent Is not sMibclent to fill the order, Unbalance must Ih^ i^ U n te r s for Books, to bo sent by Mall, must Invaria­bly bo accompanied by cash to tho amount of each order.

Any Book published In Kngland or America, not out oi print, will be sent by mall or express.

o f B o o k * I*ul»B»lio«I nm l F o r Ni*l«* 1>t Uolb.v «V K IoI u .,h Im> o f B ook* M iblliilied l,» N nniiicl B . IVollN. o n T liro n o lo r .v , T I i .vmIo Io* Ipy. H y g ie n e .H o m e lin|>roveitieiil.«Vr..iM >nt:f'ree.

You may Journej o 'er the raging main,R E L Y

MACHINE * S lIX !

May 22. — 2t<*<»w

' A better thread Lrfind,— *But for a sewing silk, you *11 *<*o

Kuiikka ' s not behind-

netlzed paper, w ith instructions, m ailed to tliose ilre to be developed, on receip t o f $2.____

D U. J. I. ELBE L is perlormiiig, by Ins peculiarJInfftioUo K in.alm ost mlracuJouseureH. lie treals

Spinal Complaints, Uramilated Kves, Deafness, ’ ■r blLs lieldhty, Female Weakness, Itliemuatlstn, Neuralgia, Catarrh, and Indeed almost every other form of disease, wl hout medicine or pain. I»r. J . B. Newton, the re­nowned bealet-of America and Europe, saya : “ Dr; El­iot's gift am! power or healing Is not surpassed by any one.” D r .E . t reals the poor free of charge fmn.bt<> U A. m. a t his pariprsrNu. 210 N. Wtli street, st^ Louis, Mo, •Ma> 22.-3w* ? '

.Nlalled l*o*( p u l i l l I B o * ....... ....................................... f .0Oal lliusu I * B I4 'K S ; ( <1 l l o v i ' h , . . ................i ......................

A G i ; \ T N W A N T K D K A K I I Y U T l l I B K .r i l H T L A B S ; nnd A gen ts ’ ' P e n n s e n t F R E E , to'Accv

address..bynd your money al our expense and ii sk , by rnst-nff iny

money-older. Iteg lh te mi I .et ler, o r I h a i l s o n N,-w Yt*iW.All letters and reniHlaure*- inti^t be dl ree led to ^

K I LL A ( H A M l t » ; i t U I \ , VVVS F.uM I t l t t i H (rn>(. N ew YoHv YH.v. yPha*boC. H ull, I Annio Lbrd ChamborlaiiL.'

O r i T r n , 12; E. l'»th Mreet , UIt a n t h f u k i c k . *-.-.New York C lly , 1 Uio W arren A\' . , Chieago. UL.

, A p r i r : i . - I tT s eo w _ ; £______' T IIK ’* . . . •» * (•

Hiiliiieinaini MiigiiHic Movoinoiil Cure7 W ill RMpon for tho Scueoii May 20th, 18j5,\;a£

. Tarrytown-on-tbe-Hudson.<^ •'"‘V,

S r s . 1 3 vi s o ii la u y ;r p l l i s Is :i trill' M iikiii.'i I.' Hi- JL e4unpioniKlng wIth drug*-

ling ln^llluMoii: allows n t> . . . _ .di*eV not believe In t h e mir those who give them or pretend 1«» magne ti /e them ;:

floes n o t ’allow i he use ol Tobareo m Mnfiuianls. .Send f t c • Clveulav and for p r h e o! Uomn' and Board. A d d i r s s ■ ^HltS. m ’S E N B U B Y , 27 Union .equate. New S'ork U ltv .

May 15. -• twls • _K V K B Y B K I D K l t O K T l I l N T i T K B

C JIIU U LII send addieh** on post a I ca nt lorvlf t pp. ( •Ireubrr* O of “ T m : S n i ; s ( i . i »i \ N » w L i n : , " Nearly copies a' ready sold, ronta iie* Intoi inutlon that i i o m a u K woman can a fiord to be w it limit. A g*’pts wanted on salary <ir e«»inm|ssfon. Ad«lies>. r o W A N A n t . , Mli si ree l . N .

May !.’- ______________________________ •yeuirs*

_!MithHr-oti*i *. New Yoik. T e rm s : Li fe-Beading, or Bi ief Wi llIn^r. Y- a l n l l writ ten NattvB>.>5. All letter? mast !»e mli- flr*'S"fl lo I’. i l . Box Is2’.». New York t ll.v, >eml fftna Ulr*- <Mitar. ‘ * I2w |s -M arch *J».

R -. JU I.IA M .iA lm E N 'i 'E R , M W ash-l l ig l o i l s t r e e t . T i e>>l.i*. s, / W e d n e f i l a y s , 'Hi

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l)H O K . U N T K U ,J - Uracllce. 27 In Boston, can be rnns 'i lh ’d at :fjt»

and Friday* May 22,-r.Hw

Sledfeal evi iriiliallons onl>. 'I'hurMlays-

t ins

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STARTLING FACTSIN' ' % '

MODERN SPIRITUALISM --Bv X. B: V.'OI.FE, M. I).- *

T h e au thor says : ” I have tint honor of nlac lqgon record! some s ta r t l ing and significant, phimouiena, occurring Irt •'Modern Spir itua li sm , w hlHi, l o mv ml m V herald the dawn, of a pew a n d Im portant e ia to the world . /That Is w hy I. give them tin* promlnenee I do. W ha t efieet-lhls rceortl will liaviruj ioiithe publ ic mind, gives me little r o n m r n . • T ru th has a good ch a rac te r , and »ran take ca te of H^e tf - Ueople wlio e n t e r ta in .opinions which an.1 at all valuable,, do not easllv par t w i th them ; -those who have no opinion*; will h a t d lv ’be inf luenced by an y th in g l have w r i t t e n . ". Price postage 25 cents. . . .

For sale wholesale ami retail by UOLBY A U K ’H,No. 9 Montgomery Tlace, co rner of P rov in ce stree t ( l o w e r Ibrnr.) Boston* Mass. ~ ___

A . I H S ( T S H I O . V* ' A H O l’T

J o s u s a n d R o l i g i o i i rv , I tKTWKKN

PR0F,;S, B. BRITTAN IN THE AFFIRMATIVE' 'A M I

W. F. JAMIESON IN THE NEGATIVEAll who have read Urofi^sor Brlt .tan' s •• Democracy «»*r

r h i lsiliinli v*’ should peruse t h N a u a l j lieal reply.I’a p e r r ^ i pages. 25 ce nts ; tlevlble cloth i-oveix, .V) cent}*.For sale wholesale and re ta il by CO LBY A RICH, a*.

Nnr«» Motitgoinery I’lace, co rner fit P rov ince street (lowers llbor),.Boston. Mass.______ •______ ■ 1 .

~ ^ h e T U n s e e n Universe ;Physical Sjecnlatious Future State.

A tmnbowhat n^markablo work, said to be tlie predudlpnj_^~ of “ Kuilnenl Kugllsh Scientists.” . - - - t* T. « • ^

Cloth, f t .00, jKistage 20ccjatsj-I,aPc^ -UOccnts, postagius-_/--For. salOrWholCsafe. and retail by COLilY \t UICU, trt

-NormUontgoniery l ’lace, corner ol Frovlttce street (lower: . lb>or), Boston, Mass. < ,

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f t p a ' r t m t n l .Kacti Message tiulfis Department of the Banner of Light

wo-claim .was'spoken by .the Spirit whose uaine It bears anty.ii/

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through the Instrumentality.'^JfHH, J. II. CONANT*. .While In an abimrinaf condition called the trance. These •MesWenindicate that spirits carry with them ttu* charac­teristics of their earth-llftf to that fteynifll-twhuther fAr.

'good or uvlU Hut those who leave, ttu\ earth-sphere Hi an ondevelpi^l-st^te.VVeniuany progress Into a higher cgp-

AVe ask the reader to’ reivtve. no doctrine put forth by splrlta In these columns that,does n«t eompnrd with Ills or her reasoii. All express as* much of truth as they, per- eelve—nq uWre.

Mjjb. t'nNANT receives, i(t»,^sltors at ln»r residence on Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays*.. unlit after six o ’clock

^P, M. Shu gives ho-prlvnte'sItllnKH.gOT* The questions answered are often propounded-?*)’ in-

dlvIduals*imonK tlte audience. Those read *o the eonitju-. ling Intelligence by the rhalrm an.'are sent -'n hy cqrrc- stKmdeuts, Lew is IL Wt.i.^iJN.'hVutirmuw.

'■ • V . . . /T - V , ' . * ’ '' Invocation; .• l'ntlivr Almiulity, „\v.: thank tliri* fftr nil,-thy

fur iVciiiit'imijrtiDiV bfWu-lits, itiul wv (iiviy clhvt'tin ' siin if, iim i.inure in Hme tu ro n u :.. W ek e ju ice in th e iiulit th o u lu iit k ijn tly sh . 'i lu p iin u s , am i■Nvoulil strlye eariie-tly t(> walk in thy wny.anil tn umlerstiiniT Unit w/iyi- Ami ul.i, iii our weakness pive’ns nl'tliy strength, ip (iiir'lilinilness pive us

• Here, that 'sail 1 ’vc p o t ; will t l ia ldo?. [throw-' inp the medium’s handkerchief townrd thu (#fnir-u man by,way of payment.] • ■ • -■ ,- “Dec. 2.8.

”S(aiice .conducted by Father Fitz James.

MES8AOE8 TOtBE'P-CITuftdny, lift, iSh— 'f«wiil!iKalfc,»£^(igKfhur.gh. SRm1£

la nd, to i l e r m other : M e r e y Fu-der>of *J4®Ap,r o \ N. I L :• r a r o l ln e Adams.-of W t im ^ l r r T M ass , ; Martnadt'i ihtiM^.-ofPhiladelphia: Ti>m.-to Mrs. >l:u'y KHYafKdh'SaiiiiiTcrs/fif r i i ’.M'leston< . Sebastian Slreeter.-' ' J................. , . . I »- lei . . ^ r«I /.

M tu d a ti, J a n . 4:— 1 >• Di Hyerlev, froth lmllj^lelphla, lo^t on the Morning Star; Joshua'Harrison,*i>r buyer, N. H\;Colonel Tom l.eavift.'to his son-in-law.; WlUiMULJsinfiMrd, ofr-lllack-tone, Mhs.s. * ' ' . . • - t 4 '. . T u w la ; / . Jan.'-h. — KllzabMh Peters, t<» her sister, Har­riet Kllen,lVtel>Vof Mlnrte>ota; CJiar iditi.Keiulall; Tlfns Hill: llatph Johnson, nf HoMnt;: Kllenlavrnev, of Boston’*';

rVpr.vr/f/;/,c Ja n .' 7. -Samuel M asttUuqSlfi'*w . a» hiST vhlltlreh: Lucy l*ag*i*. o'f 'Augusta, in loVnuUher:"Ilotito, h* ^lr. Walkeri'i/f. New OrKtahv*; Henry W.'KmV^ur; of New Vurk City, to his father.^ ■ >* * r -

■Thwrxdny, J a n . 21.'—Sam Wyer, of Chicago. IlUt^nui-. nleA\ altet’s, .of Lawrence. Mii'fe!, id ,lny father., Kdwanl Walters of Si.'.-I.nuls.' Mo.; Homutle Lutlzl,‘of New Yolk

y has been’givfii .to.these mes^ades.by their imlilication weekly, in tli.rt fianr.er.df IJplit’; ,nutl- dredtofjtlie,ifr tmve been subsequent])’ pyoved to h e 'in fe c t - in 'all particuhirs. We caie assure iHir‘Ru(It,rs_f.rom oii,r own personal t'^perience, thaqpttiujt'ir \Ve may licit nnve amend us any iyjLV'mediuin tliroupli whom such diversified mani-'

' ts tJiose Rive'll tliroupli iiriouk plieuoniena de-;

, honk may he found ambnp ^avti'selviftf ’ sflvUereil. indeed, ainonp/ a ajJtmlier'Of liieiljuinsy an’il, as fay a sw e hiiow, nowhere cqnjiflitated^itll ifi one, liut-in tlie.in-

/selves, .as .Immwtinp and iiistriietiye as in the's^ rv ed ly fam o u s M rs . C im ant.

' ;Xi^-"E X PER IE N C E S IN AMERICA. " .

fSC-.-JIdriic; ^yluf is at present .filiinp a, hjphly 'j'f'Ss^ik.hicturlnp enpapeinent for ilie month

,of M dy'itt'^ew Ilaven, Cf-i has '|Jb fnteri'stiijp ‘-''Lo samiieiA^ippVryJivkf V ^ '/ f . Chqter hi a late muuhVr of Till! Spiritualist! (put)-

2 ntMilat/, .{an . *;»•. — Mui garet Ua*t.dav*»<>f. Hojtqn; lytTath ✓ , • ^ r>v * t *. . ' 1 . , / u 1 '%steveils;v-ilan>; Smith: iMmc, to Mrs.*saib Hun- -Hslu»cl in TiOiiddncEiicland,) fro'in winch wc pro-,ler„„; Mn^-areutsmalKu,. .,. Her -OUe-Who s h lt .t^ fo„oVvti| for,Uu! pe^Sltl Of Ol.r

reader's in tt^ls country: ■e “riinee' nij’ last lttterm y exiferieuees liave been,'numerous,- vimell, aful considerably-'''-"*.... '

lertso

........................ -irj;Knows** I Aiionytutins). • i- . *i .

T h u rx tia u l J a n . 2 ;.. -Angelta Saniftsiiif. h'rhciCb^dherI Ai''4 rntyirjh[ld#n. Sjolo*

of tliy. r-if;ht, i! i\o iir ipiinrnuee" give, o f thy •wi-'diiin, find W'e will oiiiitinue in the way*.oflife, seekinp fo r 'th e e foreVfr'.'aml forevermore'. Amen. . r . 1 >ee. 28,. ‘

Kllza ibdiinxin. of lli lghtnn. Knyj,, 'to hi tnon Stebbins. of Stel.MnSvllle. it(th... +1 - r -

J ln u 'la y , Ft ft. i.« M\iryHJM.i?ctyii.f'f sr, Lnitl>i:.(icorgc lli*p - Ills. «rf Wllllainsttiw^ur Vl ..r^bujob ^inulgdon, - a*f Ch;tRes|«»w n, Mass. :* Paul. .Inunlth, nf'*\ew Orleans, .to hls^.ncN am L ragc. **gi\*vN. H, -. • '

T 'ltx lfa t/ ' /Vjo^.-.Mar.v .Ihilc- Vg»l**tiv o(r55k,d

s ’ ' Questions and Answers. -t'oNTitcu.i.iNu SiMurr.—Mr. ( ’iufirmaii, if yon

have an'y i|iie>tiuns in l.iand, I will eiideavor to consider.tlielll. .»' (}o'l.s.-^ls it po-silile for'an innoeeiit eliilil to

pin- carjth

Kvery exiiression

>8 . he.- obses-ed or possessed l»y ..jm 'undeveloped Spirit, thereby m aking it eoiumit liendii-li ac ts?' A ns.—,Ves; \vIicii siiidi'-.a child is horn a hy­brid, as was flie'-l’oiiieroy'Jioy. lie,it; understood that a'uilpiity responsiiiility syUs upon 'parents.

( ) .— W iiat.is tlietrfu* lifc^in-eayth? -Is, it to ’ blame or helpscach other

. A .—All lives are trueJi-yes. of Nature is true to tile cause upon fyliieh it is dependent. " . ' , ,**. .

(Jit.—.V.'Kvd, of,-linden, (ierm any , sayV tlia t a fihuully lljpli-t.’liureli elerpy iuan .'w itli' wlioin he has had 'freqiH 'nt dise.ussioiis, w rites this

' s ta tem en t : I t ■ is a question w hether we a re not overstepping '!lie boundaries assigned to us in a t­tem p tin g -to acquire know ledge wliielpdoes: not come, to us through our own special-organism s, and seeking aid " /m p '/e in /m ," Mr. tKyd re ­spectfu lly requests the contro lling intelligence to

-his views of the above sentence fo rtlio en­

lis t ind iv idual’s special organic life,' ln.it it is to ic o b ta in e d • from all so u rce f’W libitum.--.The ock may he’o u r teacher, flic prop of w ater, the

figlitenim.'lit -of tliti.se who niay,.Jiave'adopted ■similar views to his clerical correspondent.

A .—All wisilum read ies the inilividiial tliroupli th a t ind iv idual's special' organic llfe.' iyit it is to lie rocray of light—everything, from the smallest to thif greiitei^, assists in educating the soul in its journey tliroupli matter. I f it were wrong ti)"re- ceive an education in this .way,’ our tlciyvchly. Father would have inptitiitcd'othoMiieans, doubt­less ; lint inasmuch' as lie, she', or (jtr lias not, and inasniucli as'liy our organic life we arc forced to obtaiirwisdoiirin ’that way, it must bo fight ; . j t cannot lie wrong. - Dec. 28. .

Annetta Jane Roberts. ' •1 want to send adetter to my motlier to tell tier

t'lmt Annetta lives, and that she docs.n'.t.goaty,ay., from lie r 'to live , tint-site lives witli tier, only mother Cl'itrlottc can’t,see lier. Anm tla's'imme \yns.Roberts— Annetta. .lane liidierts,' and she liVeilfii.i Salt I,ake City. Her mother was a'Mor- mdn. Annetta do i f t ’knbw wliat she was; slie was only nine years’ old. Annetta lias been gone, three, weeks, and her motlier Charlotte mourns •for her so much, and says she can’t live without her ; so Annetta comes to tell her that sim inis n’t left her; it is only tin) body thirt-ls"‘g(Tne7~-Aip neita lives, and lives witli her just the sanie. Good by, sir. , ■ ^ iiec . 28.

N.-Y..: Moi.-t>ll,7r11 \ \v . Il-'nultiLr-i'j- Sr.-.Mi.l,).I:ili;i)n;i ln- •fanlry;: lSli/ati,:tl. AI wuu.lC d . ' lH;o:lisl..fiC’, rM ass.; ( ’ il.. 'I'.nn t 'hlrk.-i liig. . ' ^

.If,ii'lit;/, .7VI..-S.- -ltfiuil.- Tallitii. of FratiUlh? N. IT., In 'M '.iuMln-r: 'I'linnijis. in l-'ran.-U IJ. Snllllj. nf-llalllnmri-,M,l.: II li alll' Illan'rhai d ; N alhantL-J'Amln-u' Mass.*: r.i-illaM’.'i kins, nf s i . a.ilyolSioy^Vt

s. of tianvers.7’n.)-',/oV. a, —'Siooika/crwa, In S]fattv-il 'I’allt* l,.I>11 --

AVIlkiii-.n. nf Nt-w York CUv. In Ills faltn-n pvlyla Nn|-:; n u n .n l Svrarnsi-. N. Y .; 'Hllpliali-i llanews..of. llaniiig-, ii.ii.-N .1ll; Mary. ISmcrsno CnllU, ul' llnsluir, -in.'lu-r pa-'I'll III S, - - ’ .S

1 1 , " — 1 ' —1 . . . . . f

if January),-! was iqtiled tu'speak liefore the ritualists ;tif ’ (;rcciifn'lil,M:iss. Previous to

„ up' flg're, 1 spoilt three days in Ne\\j York, fA'isiting h fgyv of itshjuiny sights. AVIiat a'.M'orld' it’ is n ’eojde f^pm every pprthm of tlie baliithlile

.-Klolie,*airt} every oiib inisijch a bustle, Hint one

[Fjnm fho li:irUlhg**r <ff Light, Mt*|l.The 4lji!oh,,n|)li.r of Mrs.

(L b e: f b i c Id c r„Iltmirnc. Australia. )

J. 'll. (.'onniit.Tills iiiterestiup tliough .-uiipret,ending, ho'olj

ean.iiot fail, to add oite mold, gem -to an 'those- Jihi'ai igs Avliich are open to "spiritualistic litefyi- ture. Wlioever lias liceit viiciwmally inti.matv wit!),nicdii|iiis deVotipp,loucliVtime’ to .tlieexcr- cisu of this spi'o.hcUfjtft, must, biive recognized tlic’lieenl'iarly dmfmtmiajiKitef-of. tlie,lives tliey lead. Tlie eiirfli-lift-Twliicl?1 tlicYShare., in com­mon witli ail (if us. scc.ihs'tn lie \:eriliil),|.y--only lialfiof tlicir cxpcrieiicp. Tlie friendsliips, einui,ties< incidents and ,‘plans of tbeir- syrruu,tiding4

full, as varied, aim •spirits form liiiother.liiilf, as.................'often as im portant! tb jtliejr widJare.^l'JVe.ATiy simplioity and liatiivalncss-of-style VVliicli m arks tlie excellent. Hiograjlliy of Mrs. Conaut^. gives vividness to this doulilivcliaracter pf^h’er life.

..The incidents of her external lifeantfewm iid fa-r' between, and are lint ligjitl.v touched Hipon. T hat ■ .wiiidi lias enriched and*raised her life above tlie daily passing pares that .encompass us all—that .wlticli m npSM t'n lessort fu ll'o f wisijoiii’ to ijie wisest ainong qs, is (lie wonderful cuijiuilinio'n of spirits' it .opens to onr>vinw, far ex'ceedinpHn. beauty, variety and value what even most Spirit-,, ualisls could,'iiiiagine'. Mithy. will .betfiirlq'us'tb' read'tlie hook, op accoiiuWnT'tbe'faine.asa medi­um to which fills. Cjqianudiifk'aliained ;'hutwerishe as utterly'unknown ievaih; many bj)ier-niedi- aims,' tlie intrinsic .v’atq'u of the record Would .well-repay most, cnreftil,-perusal?. TJicttfarebut.tw iP ll(.

s of viewing i t—you must eitiifl'saV witlr'.tlio............... ■'............ .il.ii1,,, Atwaysrtjii

extended*.Taking matlbrt Bii the wli.ohv I ani-'notTl little delightful -witli tlie New World,', Alier-concIuiUiig my eilgagepients iilTliiladel- pliia, wlietice I ’wrotc yom lipjt' tinip,,.I .tiavcle(l eastwards. Havilig onu Sunday disdiipnpeil (thendpf Ji ..............................Spi-ritu going'

Every sense realizes its equivalent, and thought- itseff is an entity with whlclr l can grapple. It is not impossible for me to-walk rip to tile thought whicluiuotlibr person* lias conceived,.examine it an(t -iHi/)roriiJfip.oii it., I fiiid that, niany ideas’ originnted'Mfithe.uiiiids of children are-nspYeco-' ciims-as tiny advanced by adults, and pf so fresh nuihjAire a. ring as;tq- be wortliy of adoption by tlie sages and seers of' advitneed spheres'. In­dians nro appraised-, in. soino instance^, as tlie

charaeteTistips of tlie representatives .of natjons, .1 might-fill a volume.'- I have-'only, touched iiponthe. specified^ peculiarities of .races, not. having, .time to descanhupon nations. JEvefy individual spirit- is situnted nccordiiig to ids deserts ; wlntt- ever one earns lie is sure.to g(d, and to whatever one nspires witliiu tlie possibility of qttraatioii

r;Will hq nwarded sooner or later._ Intellect de- liihnds its equivalent, morality fts/Virtuelts, and spir-ituality its own equnl„nnd' supplies to every deipaiid are, hy iiatura'1 laws, furnished; so that heaven is well balluiecU, and there can never bo a decrease, never a'decadence; nev'or a retrover­sion.. Hut foreyer pud ever ,cmil(t.I singTiMans in praise of heaven, aiid yet never be done.' '• I go bfick lo eartii.'hut, not so often as I d id . I lopg to get jentirely. weaned from iliy nld.-fKUihts. Tlfe 'nndqiarks of materialism I'.'woujd have erasedfro’in my fiieiiioi'y, tliat 1'inigjit dual out with ini- ‘ ............. ' ‘ " (ill ' ' ’

would tliiijk tlie UnitihhjfiU^ were all going to sniaslc, pud each mcmberiMthis hurrying, rtisli- inattfoAvd was. spcediliilfflRyiplv sonic remedy .wl ieh sliouldfsftv\* the nalyiim L have- iii’eii.men ruslnoi’ flieir' lives,'seemingli\ after'a liorsu-dar,Riilih aimard.'ride abcm.tfJWty-rnds, alight, walk up tiic.Mmti.'l Steps,'jnd thiyi stand picking tlicjr

Evifrytliingteeth witli 't!ie-,iitini>st.,iim'olicebi here i^done ‘ oil the rmdi.' *• . .- ’ Among-the persons I ealled upon in New York, was Air. C.vH. Foster, tin''world knowifim'iliutiiA I Je,'received niy yis|tmo,st cfuilially, and inquired; after manyMih had met, in England'. He is in a

Targe,practice, amj-.is resorted toTy iliejnbers of all classes of sociqty. ‘

I also jraid a Visit, af.the oillcehf'her paper, t o ; ■Mrs. Victoria C. Woodliull, tint great,cliampifih

.ol 1 woman’s rights ’ and 1 social’freedom, ’ Amip- Ti)e and intelligent, witti' a certain womanly grace. ‘>e 1'iUininfj--1<> her,'find with .a most,evident enrji-• *“ ......— she'seems tbylte inspired'

to carry• jmviv Jblti-

myih, Md:,‘jiKtfNovember. STiejs an •eniertnin,-' ing niul’ intimideiftbipeakyr, aiuWdrawsdurgeu- illelice)< iCHlflpTlt»r. .. ' , • ">> ...

I spent^au^ye’ping with Jf M/Reeblcsi’and foqurl’liim its qcfivd nnd zealoiis as ever. I arrived in,nreenfield,'hi.due course; the lectures'.wfere deltvercd, ajid’ stQ well pleased were.tlm people,

mrtiuliti/ to all men alike, soihe iiilluinice to help tlieni. - >*"Humnn tastes cling tSJtw for if long time, and ■soi.n’e are' Joth to be spirifs out of tlie body, and would-prefer to he living, walking bundles of corporeal vilesli and bones,’ with til# society of

'some lbved-lriend', tljey have left-, than to fatten on (he nii[k,nud hontvy of tbeatifuder I like you, and I hope to im a^le to benefit you in some way pr hnotliei’. Will you take my wi'itten'vordthat. I aiq most truly yours, 1 H enry Hr a.v. ■a .. * -— '. - J-'---------------- -

P a s s e d to N p irlt-fiU 'e ti^hkueiisie, N, Y .,( April 29th', ‘ l)f. Auiam

ho wqs'pfooMliiViit* H orn'fit htunblo parmiaKC, with 1Utlo oiliiratlon In Die schools, ami whl.lo working at his trade <lf bhoemakiriff, ho came under tliA ctnitrol ot WUt.

/dam LovliiBStoiiv thu first inaKnotJzof of A, .1. Divvls, suiil n connectlmi wUli him'a^hts'magnetlAerattaiued to a'largo,.. .. -. .r - - .. ... . . . . . . . . . i...»---

uri j’timi wmi .u iiiosiA'viutji cstni'Sfi in .nll^slio says, she'HtHMiis.tl^bi; i with • pnrpo^^tlmt’ is. (h*tt*riiiined t out. I. hk'ar(tf<Sr»k Woodliull TectUte ii

Hint l subsequently tqigaged for tlie month■nnrv_ . ,V / . '

brt]loi]ox, " I t ’s all ties fromTIeginnhig to Ohtl,| and so disjmse of- evideneqoind tlieory.hlike ; -or- it is one of dim most practical additions to our knowledge of tlie laws' of spirjt eoiitro) that has' ever been made. Nor is tlie knowledge given limited to the laws of spirit control only. . It’jle- venls, witli. terrible .distiiictpess;,' many of'tlie darlt*.and unnecessary suheui'g.-enhieli the stii; cide draws'upon iiimself in-liis iwaavcjrert to es- enpq from tlie siiiTerings wliicli- are Juiccssivt-y to Ws-sleveloiiment here in mortal ,Iif(*.'(hese unhappy suicides says : “ Wiien my father

oillce and foundTne’dend, I stood'came into lii,s tliefe (.ill spirit)

of February. . .' Oil Janu'ar.y ,thc iftli I arrived in HAston, the litewry celitre of the United Str(tes,' aml-tiie'- ‘ Hul)' of chc’iinlverse. .Winteivl .must here in- sevt; had began in (lead earnest. I*found about,♦ wiVfiiches anij a half,of solid iqc on all tlie side­walk's!; .the roads- were about six or eighC iiicii'es deep,in snow ; wheels lind dlsappbayed frohv the

’ iclcs, and slclis, or runner.-t,.had-taken vtlieir ■s. Unaccpstonied to iiedestnanism oillce, it quite ’natural toe,xpect.tofall.' Fjvb minutes

reiHJVcd tlic expectation. T fell I d idn 't pray! Tlie weotliercoiitvnued terribly cold hi I tlie time I remained in the eity, and'the cond-itioif of roads' and sidewalks Was a variation from bad. to worse,, ,At lrtmie we giaiinble at-ljalf an inch, of snoV!) f'hmVice—out here that is not noticed. ,

Tlie ,first tiling to behlone whs to pjiy^ny. r<v stiectsAo the Banner o f Jwighf 'estahli^iimmiti AcNconHiiglv' l pr....... ................,r *'------* "•■*'iiHfr’t edrdially

and k-iieW-tiis-yigdiiy. Olg niy Gml! wliat* would I not' have.gijl'eji to iiave re­turned ! Tlie.uiirestraiiied’pAssibift witli which jsoilie lind left,the eartli are slunyiPhv JheAVords and notions of tlie returning s|nriAS hiyaj; strong as ever; Clearly “ regeneration,”' ''d^pihgn>ss,- ns we slipuld call it, is no iiisi(intaiimey;iJX!ft snirit-life! but thh^'diions-AYbtlrbfserf'giivern’

I'lit-rnril. gradual (levelo^nneiit, wlijcli, it is far

Julian Frazier.My name, sir, was J ulian Frazier. I was twen­

ty-four years old. 1 came to .my dentil by acci­dent—by tlie disaster of tlie “ Morning .Star.’’ 1 come liere to-day because 1 am in hopes of reach­ing my brothers Tliomns and' Joseph. One is in New York City, tlie other somewhejj in’Minne­sota. Like all tlie dead, I am anxious to let my people know I live. T h a t 's -a paradox, 1 know, but i t ’s a truth nevertheless. To be dead and yet alive is a strange statement to make to those who don 't understand it, but I know-very well that my brothers consider-tliat I am dead—gone into some state tliey don 't know where, but cer­tainly out of tlie range of human knowledge so far as this life is concerned'; hut, fortunately or unfortunately,M seem to be rigid here, and I think it would he well for my brothers to-inves- ■ tignte this m atter; first, because it will teach them higher views of life, and, •second,'it will give them an understanding of the life to come, anil if tliey innke good use of tlie knowledge to be objniinbl in these matters,-it will be like a pearl of grtht price, to them ; but if they abuse it- it is tlie door opening straight tohelVaihnitting. to.them a legion of devils. I 'v e 'learned that

- much sincevl canie liere, and while I urge my brothers to look into this matter, 1 at tlie same time warn them to use. it properly:- Good'day, sir. . Dec. 28. -

better to begin in this sphere; - Samuel Upliam, a trance liicdiuiii^khf

health, and siqice .deceased, called oh, evening iii February, IH.Mi, for an exnminSflbf „ Dr. Fisher witli reference to his'dise^Se. Ilnrdfy lind ho,tli seated'themselves, when tlie male me.

Mrs. C o n a n t,m o s t unexpected ly to herself,' \^ns im m ediately controlled by an ImWMV, whose love for “ W hite C lo u d ’1 w a \ not of th a t tender so rt supposed to rule>ii® Elie‘‘H appy H un ting G round ,” and a f ie rp e ^ ^ ^ f i le ensued, Caoj) .hos­tile sp irit end'eavor'nvg^fde.stray liisenbiny! TH5 w arfare was, hbvyujjer, of sho rt qlillfcn^dii, ns tile m edium of “ W hile C loud ,” ■bcid&hmcji reduced hy sickness, \(Ss no m atcli fo'f jT u ^ r is k oppo­nent, an d wiien Mr. an d M rs!, I’oplifrriislied'into tlie ro o iq , a ttrac ted hy th e uproar, they found tlie lam ps broken, tlie tab les 'overtu rned ,’ and Mrs. C onant—unconsciously en tra in ed —belabor­ing the iinfortu iiate 'M r..l>blm m with a clm ir! In all probability ' he w ould have b een ’kiUeikfqs. "•W liite Cloud ” still held control of JnKWpwith tru’o In d ia irp lu o k , and wonUl iiiit yield ,) find not Mr. Pope and lii s w ife interposed ns a resefte. A fter considerable diilieulty tliey iiiinllv siiccced- ed in- separating th e com batants, and then set about convincing Tlie betligorcif&MiIWsiSml Urey were dead—t-lmt i t e ith e r killed, iirt-yliotry now i t would be one of th e n ted ium + xvT /^^yld diiTI'd/ tlie enem y tliey desired to destrfl^^l^ie?cjjjwW rp com bat then closed, leav ing tly r^sIro r-'in ^Q lm '- w lia t battered sta te , w hile Airs. C. iq

’iiave sustained ho iiiju ry . T his uincm);staltiot)— rather stn rtling , i t m u st he c o n fc ^ e i^ ty jf i im it n represen tative of one o f the chnriRferistic phases* of undeveloped s p i r i t . com m union>at th a t early; day. ’. A .. J!’ - V ’.2 >

■' Capt. Thomas. Neale.I was calledTiere Capt. Thomas Neale.— I lmil

from Portsmouth, N. II. * I would reach my . friends if possible, to warn them against 'making

theological mistakes liere. iinthis mortal life, tliat shall become great liliidrances todlieir progress in tli? other life ; and if tliey will give me tlie privilege of . speaking witli them other than in this public-way, 1 think I can say something that it wfll be to their advantage to hear. D.ec. 28.

Ninna Yibbet.My mother.is Jennie Yibbet, and I am Ninna

Yibbet. My .'mother sings and dances .’in' the theatre,, and N inna'is dead, and she wants to hear from her. I am.six years old-wns, most,when I went away. 1 am six years old now. want to tell my mother I am' learning to sing, I am leaning to read; I am learning a great many

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ning a great many vtliings, and she mustn’t cry tor me. I ’ vc seen my grandfathej.Volklnspn, and lie *s sorry, sorry, sor­ry lie did'nslie did. lie *s very sorry, and he says if he was living on earth now lie would n ’t do it.. H e ’s paid for it, oil, so hard! You see, m.v mother, Jennie, went to dance and to sing,-and he did n’t lilrfs it, and lie told her she couldn’t comc.liome any more, and he was very wicked toiler, lie was wicked to lier, and lie ’s sorry for i t ! I reck­on mother better forgive him. She looks into the paper for N inna; Ninna aint thereat a l l ; and now she.’Il have to wait. . But wtfen slie-knows Ninna'cnn come she won’t cry any more. She m ustn’t cry any moro."

dimn'bqcame entranced by.the spirit of an Indian eliiff, who.gave ids name ns " White Cloud."*

\ - F r e e R e l i g i o n * A a K o r ln l l o n .T h e ElR-htn A n m ia l’M eetlng io r th e Froo lte llg lous Aase-

e la tion w ill lie held In H uston , as follow s:May 27tli, T!i l'. >i. Session In Horticultural Hall (Low-yQ|* hoclnosn eiwl r_, , ’ .11. . . ._I „.. „.. «i.A \er)sfor busin essan c i fo r freo d iscuss ion on tl |o ob jects a n i v

w o rk or th q A ssocia tion . , .May'Sath. Two sessions In Heetbcrven Hall (Washingtox

stfeef, neareHoylston), at 1ft A. m . and 31*. M.,«for essays and adtlressee. Eshay at tho morning session,- by William 0 . GatiuetL on i ‘rreil*nt.Constructive Forces in Hell-* glon.1*. L ^ a v a t th e a fte rn o o n .session b v F ra n c is E . A bbo t, on ‘‘ C on fftrh c tlo n an d D e s tru c tlo h In -H fllR lon .”

A ddresses >\vlII follow each essay , the sneakers to bo a n - no iin ced m ereafte r.

I rlday ^yonlnK, May 2Sth, there will be a social festival l a . Parker Memorial Hall, Berkeley streot. for brl if spoeche.1 , / music, refreslimonts, conversation, aiuWor subscription to thtTfumlsof the As.-oclutlon.

’It Is hoped that as-many of the inemhcrs and fricntls of the Association as possible will bo present at this annual meeting. Members who cannot bo present ah> hereby re-

lo f “ ...... ........................................................... ..... 'minded of the annual subscription fee, which 1t Is desfrod. **.........* ' ’ — * ‘ *' ” w Heflford, Mass. •

‘ottku, S tc r e ta r y .they should senjl to the K«‘cretary, New' Bedford, Mass. •

* ' • W'illiam J . P(

v Notice, „- ^The Vermont’State Splrttualist Association wl\l hold Its next. Animal (’onvenifoii at tJio Wilder House, In Ply­mouth, on the llih, 12th'and 13th of dime, 1875. A largo hall and nmnle'aceommudtttlous furnished by the proprie­tor. “Board tl.oo p**r day. *

This dicing the Conv«nitilon for tho choice of officers for tluvensulng year, a full attend nice Is desired.

The usual courtesy of return checks over tlie Vermont •HaLlfonds will doubtless be .extended. Stages will bo In readiness at* Woodstock and Liulluw, on the arrival of traluA, toeonveytpANsetigors to the Oonventloii. ■ A cordial. Invltatloirls extended to all. Per ordi\r Committee,' • * . , • A. E. Staxi.ey , S ecre ta ry ,

Leipestcr* M'fy I3fA, 1S75. , .

. • .S p ir i tu a l ( 'o itro n llo iwTho Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will

hold their Fourth Annual Meeting jn firow's Opera House, fil7 West Madlsou street Chicago, 1 1 1 .4* commencing on Fiblay.'-dnne 11, 187.1,,:\t 10 o’clock A. M., and continuing over Sunday, the 13th.

Spiritualists of the Northwest are cordially Invlled to come up to odr meeting. Bring with you baskets of p ro -" .visions and blankets for if three days’ (.‘(imp Meeting In our hall* .I t Is clean and tldv. Como let us reason together. .' - ' <). d. H ow ard , M. Ii .^ P r e n id e n t.

E. V.'wn.RQN.; S ec re ta ry , •'‘C hicago, May, 7th, *IS7o. . -A -------------------------------------------

. pron\ Vi ^Stodtlard, Aged &Oyeat*s.«. Among the m a n y mediums ttirmigfi'whom the . worlu has found access to those who still H.ve'ln the Jlesh,

spirit*

.medical luactfceV -He ultlifiately developed into Independ­ent clairvoyance and medlumshlp. .Passing Intq uncon­sciousness under spirit control, ho frcquontly narrated tp (is the. strange meetings and conversattnnsheld^n chlHT hood with seeming mortals,.who .strangely came tohlin and as Ktrangely dlsapiieaVed; • ‘■ His. practice grew to biv very*larfje, his \

scattered throiiglinut the United St^tiy, ( -anada a n*po. own py Ing llts-tlme so fully ns toileprlve him or recii;aUmiv Hih.medle.il examinations during t

His. practice grew to biv very*larfje, his patlents.helng‘ * ** ....................... * ............... - *n ami lCu-

ni of rest. . .i>atlmi« 'Hih.medle.il eXan’ilpatlons'durlng the past

twenty wars b'aye tmnriiered'more tJiaifdHty thousand. Kver)\dlngnnsl0Av.ns stfemlngiy Infallible*,-ami there are thousands vlvlng who will mess his memory for relief from

.sullerlng and iestoratlbntoJienlth........................................ 4 ■ n\ *DoctoT Z.,k wlm prorqssed1 to lie his sole control, gave cv-

• Idenee ot a knowledge surpassing that of mortals, tho* product oLllfteen hundred ycara of study..In thu^MilgUer llf“ in alL/lepartments of-sc!entlficNknowledge.' Le'arned

'fhen havecofiveised-wlth him hnd fqpild-hlhfever prej»aredto answer ibMr most'abstniso questions, and always todead theiiYinm greater Illumination, Impressing the mind withthe full ludRef of the/'.vNOnee and pr^sein’e of an Intellect far, snrpassfng thfitor the medium, who was ont^ely un- educated, ' . ** / ' ' ,,/Vi '

.The many whq Ivcro -so fortunaje ns to eomo Into closo coumifihlnii with J)r.‘ //., beed noconfinnat-lou of tholnhe-

From West'ActonLMasrf.s lay 3d, Ailden Fuller.: Mr. Fi^ati tho tlmo of the. advent of’ Modern Spiritual­ism, .was a mumborof<tho Trlnltarliin.Con------ -—nationalist

W ilier -Golby. CqiU'teoits and gviitlq’iiianly.'.Mr. •

I’lHiiglv' I presonted liiyscif thereat, and wits fr’t edi'dially rocidyed hy the'editor-inchief, M r.'

- --- ------- jy- - - . , -------Colby is- jUstTluv liinn for thy position lie ocqi

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pies, yOji n*sii8sequent'ocensidn’ I liaii- the pleas; ure of attemlifig' tlie world-fenowned’Hagner o r’hoLight Free Circlijfi. Mrs. J. II. Conant isHlie me­dium: Spirits.OfigH'classes comp to thesAcinjlcv send nqes^es-tortlieir'fi'ieiidvaird'tlius give-un-

nn15takal)Te proofs of tlie after-life. ; Also qifos-. tions nre discussed, and answers given' by such' spirits ns Theodore Parker, Ellery Clmnuitg',- . Thomas Paine, and other minds of equal poweiv Tliese eijelesare largely attended, and-give much plensurpjnnd instruction to those present,' Mrs. Conant is-a pale,'delicate, fragile-looking'indy, herself-almost a'spirit. • Tliose wlio*are best ac­quainted witli ,)ier say 'tMuJ'lherRs tlie title of tlitv

world’s,-medium,’ and aier. biography, whjcli is well wortli reading, seems to bear but tlie claim '"

On Sunday, Jnh. lOtli, .tlie’-first address was g'lven tliroygli Jpein the Buetlioven Hall, Rost on; every one. was stifpripeil Juid 'dejiglited.' 'I must confess-my .succej.s ttjata'greatsrclief to my own' njind, i»S' I knew j n Bfeton T should meet-the most critical nuik«i((TOsliouUl;fiiid in theStatos. Unforfiitiatelyr-flieMy fallowing I was taken ill witli a violent cqld. Jufor fiye days I was in -bed, apd was wofje in luKiitli than I ijad been since a seriiAis i 111 ipssJkmifeeii years iigo. I rallied, and on tire thSfe i^maining fjundays tlie’ verdict o( tbo-firstSyiidaM raaS'iiuircftlmn confirmed.,! was: tlie success offjMioufsb durijig tlie late S’eason.

Cordially receiVwi,' and,ih(fet kiiidly'treated on, ------*-•*-1 •»- ' “a filled my memdry

jscences. * * ........... - —^.'achhi&'England.by the mld-

1116 01' July,-lki&yl<find tliat is impossible. ,T rtln engaged cle^r' tjjrqugli August,-and several of tlie societies af(j1wixious tifseeure me for Septem-^ lajr. I am/ncl'iTiecl to think that I*diall be some time Johg’er here than I’ orjginally anticipated.

, III fact, iiiyAnierienn friendsjnnnifest'a disincli- natiqn to part with me, just as did*my friends at'

Ibbme'! - - -Jh , ,• 1 Am mjttc.hjieuer .pleased witli the country and- the peonie'tlifisRvas sdnie’ time ago: There is a ’ generatSiJhm sroM ^yM W ini and breadt’li tliat

.is Agreeable niuH ||gffiM fm r It is n grand coun-. try, a great natjePPBUilWyare a lively people.”.

sliliiln'K’ilg litjtb bin foe*- She leaves two children—one n clilUI iilno.dayB old, to >fecl tho lops.of one of the best of mothers? .May her uplifted spirit he a hovering angel

•ni'oumrnll tho bereaved ones,nnd prepare a way for their unlranco Into t^e world among v^hosq linrmoasuniblc duties

„ ------ , ----------- ubject,<ft.,study to other mediums. . Mrs. Conant, thougfi often beset by suchauulevelojiud spirit^ ns those ineiitioncd above,-was never Witlm.iit- a bail’d of wise and powerful "guardian spifitsj^liom slid' early learned to,know, and whose judgment and fidelity she found, after ,testiilg,tliwn hi many' ways,. she'could" always .trust.: Whenever Jsliefl went counter to their adviee nnd.warnmgs. she had cause to repent i t ; but tlipy. ifevei’-'afrarnpted to -coerce lier .upon-aiiycoiir.se, liowever niucli tliey might desire lier to follow it. • -■ Of.wliat are called “ tests,” the book is full. The following is one of t l i e n i A German,, re­cently arrived in America, in conversing on-the' subject of Spiritualism with a firm believer in that philosophy, wa^rather inclined to deride it, and asked his friend if the spirits coulff write German through a medium who did-' not know a word of tlie language. Tlie reply was, unliesif. tatingly, “ Yes.”. “ Impo.^ible.f’*'qatplniiftedtho new arrival.' “ Let us go to a m’ew u tu fld try it,” replied the other; They went, formed by tile controlling spirit that be done through that Instrument, buttliat.^ would go to Mps.. Conant, wliosrand^ress wa] given,-they would.be successful."^eltlierof. tbpm were acquainted with tlie lady, Rut, accusing to directions,vtlie'y went imuipdiately tp-lier resi)' dence. Without .stq(hig at ail \Vliat jjieyldesired to obtain’by the seance, they receivCiLffl/iiost at. onqe a.piess«ge,, written, with tllMutmost rapid­ity bjjjtiiVAiediuni’s hand, in dalqiaiLJjnd di­rected to nu: skeptical ongk I t purporh'fflo c from his fatlier, and'Tva#so correct in S true in detail, tliat tlniskeptio became' jnquirer, and finally a firm believendijfspirit com­munion. No single test, liovyevcr, car weight the fact that for'years Mrs: C'

•been tlie medium for tlfe well-kpown cles.-of the Hannerof Light. * given public sCanoes tlir wliieli an incredible nui" been received through

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[l-^-om an Occasional dorrespondent,]S p i r i t ( !o in i n n n l e n t i o n : .

\TJfirough the mediumshiji o f^ tr s .J . 7 ’.- Burton, lately 'deceased.

* * * I esteq»ne(l yoii-nsaniari> .1 now esteem..

i conicAn, air

An earnest

you as certain,

human vanityifir egotis tliecoArse cohbof amed to a perspfi; civility—has imnus—whose soi to our own ri secure to us through wlioi able office. convenient position merit, 1 .tlie .iiiai

liking, . . . .IjiVE: while occupying Tlife, may be attract-^

,an one shows* us make pastime.for

jfsucli as wjll-.conduce r wliosekifibence may

of.powersatliat exist, he. promoted to lionor-

tindred waysStve may find it rtnin people, bu t’-from m y iliaracter,^-! value intrinsic

, _ d by the inherent quality of JI 1'ave.also tlie keen- gift of

yviMing n ^v e a ’&Ahside self, I have a riyhi to opinions, . Iliave no ends to suit, no selfish pur-

. poses hTproject, no personal aggrandizement' to -cater fby, and so am an unprejudiced, impartialjudge, and niy, predilections must be based on somethisometiijilg not so superficial as outside attracHops

> I esteem wuptlien, because 1 find within*you qualities orwifich 1 approve. . Iliaveoften come forward witmtlq) intention, of claiming your at­tention,'through a medium, but have been shut out by the misunderstanding of the occasion. Npw that I am allowed to take the position.so long coveted, I make myself known by name df Jlenry-Glny, njnan who held a small share qf Cfirtlily distinction, yet one wlio was not made hnuglityJAy it. I iiave chmo Into a good place— am following a clearer light than, any I ever saw through the- ecclesiastical windows or the doors of politics.. I can grasp what I hope for,.arid not * ............................... - inliavfrit slip through my fingers ambitibn. The ideas That crowded to niy brain’-

mockery rof

■ m *-v ' a.,

as so many lures to greatness, are lief-e worked —it in-nill, and my affections* which were keen

it ngvafjSatisfied, find exactly what dURs them.

(,’hurtdij Hjs atUmUonAvas railed by. (ho wr ter to S p lits imllsnrjjoine IWOiityA vars’liRO !>>’ the *>’ lo,ss ’* »*f Ills eldest uoff* who was on ti (i'llI-fatu(V steamer O.eean Wave, wiiloli was hu'rned tm Lnke'Ontarlo. Ills son ndinlfested himself In various ways, tyhlch ffdly cmivlnced his parents of va continued existence, and from that time to ids exit to the better llfe'hp remained'In full belief of the Spiritual IMd* losonhyf lit his.last year of sickness, disease caused tils spirit to he hiactltcv, or somewhat- disturbed, but a t the Vdtiatli'” change; whlch ls thy second birth, the spirit without question became active, nndw lllfeturn w llnhls usurtl will anti determination.' Ho leaves a wife ami several children, who will 'm iss his worn-oht material form, hut w;lll feel his spUIt: presence, whether recognized verbally ornbt. . , ‘^ Alr. F>‘was a prominent man In the town, having flll.od several positions of trusf. It can he truly said or him that 1m ll^ed an iw^Moqs,*»tist>r»l life, also ono of Integrity.’

t Frhm Byalntrec, V t./A prU w th, of typhoid pneumonia, ^mjly bopeland, wife of Mr, Isaac F. •Berry, aged

po years :^nd 10 months. '' Mrs! Berry was a firm believer In tho truths of Spiritual*

'Ism . ' Peculiar tn-4nmn of her l'di‘iiS^yet-&ho-comnmiHltMl- -I'eiqM^ct-frnTTrftirior her hbiiesty of heller. A husband and live children are left to mourn the departure of n goodjwlfe

Intci'»Stut<TC’a iu p ? Ico lln g .t tire Iovoi »tatd Camp Meeting, held at Iowa Falls, ,*a, last ajfluijui. Hr.-C. P. Sauloid, who called.that •ling, w’if<Tinp(4iitcil to call another ibis year* and ho,

Atlow meeting witli W posy to

\S . Cliamilfi’ and the friends at Dubuque, Iowa, pre- lo call an Lnter-Slatc Camp Meeting fqrTowa,milnoi» ,

and Wisconsin, at-Dulmque, commencing the last days of*\’V* R

’dune and holding over the4 thof duly next,. Frlondsln Iltwa, Illinois ami Wisconsin, wilt bo Interested to tako part In the meeting. • P e r order Gt\inmUtee,

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SpiritrPhotpgraphy.THU PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

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WILLIAM Hv MUMLER-* . ’■’ ■ ' < IN * . ’ .

S p i r i t - P h o t o g rNc11(8

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and uu nlfectlonato mother. May the thou; hear presence mitigate the. pangs of pi

tnre of n goodjwlfe loughtof JuyTcver- am ug,;nm f solace

Thothem In t|ils the*»hour of their Iteeh b^reaveinenL*Hie funeral of her bod^’. y

Frtmi Tilton, N .H ., of oryslpelas„.Mrs. NelllQ Marla, xv.lfe of Albert J.* Clark, and efdest daughter of William.B. and Dolly Emery, of East Andover, N. IL , nge(L28 years,,,. • Bv*thls..s»id(ien chatige'. of sphorrti;' ft liusbaml is called upon to mourn tho departure of a most excellent wife, pa­rents of a famiful and dutiful daughter, and a sister of an evetykhid,.loving and alfoclionale sister. The departed* was Instructed froimher ear,ly girlhood In thegiorlous prin­ciples and Trutlwof the.Spiritual Philosophy, and in all thfl years of ftffer.itllTe they were a Joy to jio r soul and a

J oseph D. St il e s .From Ka4 Cambridge, Mass., April 30th, a lter an Ill­

ness of eighteen years, Mary L ., .wiftTof Watson*B. Ilast- <tngs, aged 47 years. - ^ ^

81io .had endeared herself to all hearts by her patient, cheerfursnlrlt. always striving for others’ happiness rather thitp dwell on her acute suRorlng.y But we aro ns9ureil shohas joined the'loved ones.gone heforo.^vhere,' freed from pain, site awaits tho coining of the tj^ar ones who remainon earth. „ M. A. B.

From Bock’s Mills, Me., April 25th, Mrs. Lucretla,wlfc f Kingslmry Cole, In the 4bth year of her ago'.She left this earth fullm'faith In the beautiful philosophy

of Spiritualism. She, was a great sufferer, hut bore ail

of

with foijjltudo and patience. None knew her hut to love, * and sltd’wdl he greatlylnlssed and tleeply mourned by alartre circle of relatives and friends^

Porti(?ivl% Me, D r . T. G. Sw if t .Dr. Anthony ;M. Dlgnowll/, on6of our oldest residents

in qereneffof tho rights of the oppressed, became a martyr to a prejudiced persecution and exile. Slnco the freedom-war, he enjoyed Ills family.elicle, and after a severe dis­ease, which fasted some months, he changed hlsspherb,onthe 22d of April, a t tlfo ago of 6.5. Ho yns a Bohcmlati by ■birih, imt resided' 1A this country ovoi forty years; was a practical observer, and often perceived some prophetic vhAvs. Clear-sighted, he cherished and defended tho Spir­itual Philosophy, and so endowed lig .became perfectly reconciled, when his spirit withdrew nom the worn-out casket to meet, under an alb-wiso power, his own dearest lrlemls on better planes. C aul, E. Kr eisc Iie .' S a n Anfonfo, T e x a s , A p r i l 26, 1875.

Ffom Pepporell, 5Iass., after a short Illness, M,rs. Patty 'Spaulding, aged 69years.*

The deceased had long been a resident In rcpporoll, hav­ing lived on tho same spot over fifty years. Cheerful amidstlife 's duties, ever faithful ns a wile and mother, sho will bo missed not only In the household band but among a lari c lrd eo f frlends’and neighbors, lor she was beloved byalAs d^past-officer of our .Association, wo g re a tly __ _loss; hut we know Cin tho same earnest spirit) site will re-'

t*.' cnlrlt ie \ l.l.ln tio nn (i, f 1m A.it.i'ii ..f t.i.fl. a.. .1 mmaturn in 'spirit to hblp us on In the cause of truth ami pro­gress. Her companion, comforted in the knowledge of sylrlt communion, calmly await^ his call to come uji higher,

ay all whovknew lier liavo the tangible proof of ence among them, so (they may read, tlie mystery o*f life

ior pres-........jff’ rnpm. Ro .rnnv m.av runo 'iiiAmi’Rtpr * **“dnd death-.

FronrShlriey, Mass., Charles Parker, aged*70 ydars. .Judge Parker was a native of Vermont, but had resided >r many years In Pepporell, removing from thence to

Shirley. He had lived to see twocoinpanlonsatid twochil

his companion, who was &SpirltiMli8t,1toTitte‘ndour-nieGt;- ings, he. became muclv Interested, and was chosen Chair­man of our Assoc tUlon. AVe miss bis presence among us, hut know that though absent In tho flesh he is present In spirit, and will watch over the "loved companion and little oneq and all whom ho hasjeft behind, and will also hfelp ns in our labors lor humanity. MahyX . F r en c h , •

During tfrldhy night, April 2d, after suffering a long and weary sickness, Theron Vv. Strong, son of Mrs. .Julia A.. . . H K, noil IH ill It*. «?UUU A ■Strong, and grandson or Milo J . Wcb-tcr, laid abide mor- tallt);_nnd entered upon tho grand btudics or tlie hereafter,An nlfebtlonn'te son, a genial friend, a pleasant companion Ills visible presence will -be sadly missed, and many warm friends will Join the circle of bis family In their grief atIlls departure. Jfo had barely reached his twenty-sevontli year. Full of liopo for the future, In which fils mother’s comfort aipl enjoyment Ima a largo place, ho was, whenstricken- by disease, p'annlng a home and pleasant sur­roundings for those nodoved; but as Ills disease pi ogressed, anil as these earth 'y hopes gradually faded away, his thoughts'dwelt upon that other “ home not made with hands,” (vliero sickness and separation aro unknown, anti where hopes have their full fruition. To Ills sorrowing friends around his bedside lie spoke confidently of that homo, and wlfli an abiding faith which In lilscasc, came from actual knowledge, he calmly waited for tho end,,andwith no lagging steps- hut (yitli a linn anil confident tread, lie passed through the ------ .----------------------. - .the chango to the life beyond, and re­ceived the welcome of- expectant ones Who stood 'ready* to greet hlni. kml to assist Jilin In llio never- ending progressof-tho life to come.— A u b u r n (.V. Y . ) D a i l y A d v i r t i s e r .

[O b itu a ry ' n o t i c e s -nnC - e x c e e d in g tw tn t y l i n q i p u b l i s l t e dir a tu i to iu d y . T w e n ty cen ts j) 'r l in e r e q u ir e d 'fo r a d d i­tional matter.1 The average line in aydte idpe contains ten words, Thus hu counting the words, ttte writer.w ill see at once whether the manuscript exceedsAhe stipulatedsee at once whether the manuscript exceedsAhe stipulated number o f lines, and is Requested to rm it/accordtngly.]

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' . '. • C O N T E N T S . y ''Frefaco; Kxplan itlon; .Iutroducticui: Address to the

»• ; Hlcrgy.<ihnp. U—Rival-Claims or the Saviors.V hap , 2.—Messianic Prophecies.(’/n ip . 3.—Prophecies by Rio figure of a Serpent.C/wp.'l.-Miraculous atuL Immaculate tfemeepllon of the

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- Jcfo gonlis.SFX'OXD KD1TIO.V.

ARO U N D T H E W O R L D ;OR,; - v . x •

AVhat I Stnv in Hie South Sea islands, Auslyalia, China, 'India, Arabia, v

Egypt,, and o|l(cr “ Ilea- <hen.”(?j Countries,.

J . M . P E E I I L K S ,A uthor i f . . . . .

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“ l t t \

. place.'C h a p . 7.—Angels, Shephenls, and Magi visit the Infant

Savior. . 11C7m/>: H.-Tlie Twenty-fifth of December the Hlrthdayof

Ihctiods. ' - , • '(■hap, 9.—Titles of-the Saviors. ' .** .(■hap. Ip.—The Saviors of Royal Descend hut Humhio

Hlrtli. .- . ’ . - .Chap,. H.-^Christ’s Uejicalogy,Chap. 12.—The World’s*Saviors kave<l from Destruction . In Infauey. , -Chap. 13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Divinity,' Chap. 1-1..—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of* tills World.C hap 15.—'The Suvhirs are*real Personages. ■C hap. Ilk— Slxteep SUiVlors (’ruclfled.C hap. 17*—The Aphnnasla, or Darkness, at theCrucIflxIon, C hap. 18. —Descent of the Saviors Into Hell.Chaps 19.—Resurrection of Hie Saviors. ,(*Jtap. 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of tin* Saviors.

■ Chap: 21.—'Thu Atonement: .Its Urleiunl or Heathen Orl- ' ght. . . >Chap. 22.r—The Holy (Jlmst of Oriental Origin.

'C hap . 23.—The Divine.” Word ” of Oriental Origin.Chap. 21.—Tho Trinity very anclenRy a current Healhe»i

Doctrine, * ® # -<Chap. 2->. — Absolution, orxlio Cimfcsslon of Sins, of Hea­

then Origin. . * ,Chap. 25.— Origin of. baptism by Water, Fire, Hlood, ami t tin* lloly.Ohost. . •Chap. 27.—ThoSacranlent orKucliarlst o'f Iren'then Origin. Chap. 28.—Anointing with OH of Oriental origin.Chap. 29.—How Men, Including Jesus Christ, came to he

worshiped as'Oists; ..Chap. 30,—Sa^reil OyeloB'expInitilng the A<lvent of the

Gods, the Mastdr-ke.y to the Divinity of Jesus Christ, Chap, 31.—Christianity derived fnun Hcalhcuuuid Oriental

Systems. ' 1 . . .Chap. 32. —Three Hundred ami Forty-six striking Analo­

gies between Christ and Crlshtia. » s ’ ,v•C hap. 33."— A phi loh his, Osiris* and .Maftus as Omds.- c h a p . 31.—The Three Pillars of tho Christian F a ith —

^Miracles, Prophecies;and,Precepts. . .Chap'. 3”».—Jjoglcal or Common fense View of the l)oc|rlnc, ■ol Divine Incarnation. - .

Chap. 3d. — Philosophical Absurdities of the Ductrlno of the Divine Hicaruation.

Chap. ;i7.—Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrlno of• the Divine incarnation.Chap. 33.— (VJllidorlcul View of the Divinity of .Jesus

• Christ. . *. . **>■Chap. Tlic Scriptural View of Christ's Divinity.'Chap. -IO.—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus.Christ.C hap : ‘\\.—'The Preeoptsand IMyctlcal Llfdof JesusChrlst, Chap. -12.— Christ as a Spiritual MiyHum. * *Chap. •t3.#-(h*nvcrsl(ui, Repentance, and “ (Jetting Reli­

gion” of llvathen Origin. *C hap' -H.*-The.Moral Lessons of Religious History.Chap. 45.,—ConV.luslon ami Review. ► , ■r. ” -Note of Explanation. . y

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I idiom I national scctarisls wllfdoiiMIc s accuse the writer of studied ell orts'lo impeach I ho Christianity ofHheChuich, .and ut|duly extol Hratimhilsm. ConfuclaiPsni, lUuhllnsm amlother Via •tern, religions. Hirlctsires or this charader •U*« must ^\pcct to meet at the hands of erltlrs. .

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mean those, qualities of goodness, honor, Integ­rity of purpose,' fidelity and truth, which inhere in every noble child of earth. - We do not merely requirtfybti to..say in Spiritual' Y o u '

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• .. . TH K .T ltl THS UK S PIltH T A U SM T .J'rieiah—We do. riot,select this subject

th is evening because it is Hew, but because we so often hear the question askPd : What important tru ths does .Spirituulism-inculentc, ambwliat are

,,thV new'revelations or revualmeiits it lilts made;'l)f-pfVcatiiig all ideas of jiersonal comparison,

iuul without the slightest irreverent intention, v e cannot bu't hi' reminded, by thLs.lni|uiry, of a similar one tliat-tvas frequently on the tongue of the incredulous in d ay s long piist: "Can any jjood ccim-taut of.Nazuretlr.*."

Kven ns when the son of Mary bhgan bis mis­sion among a people who saw inrliiiii only a low* bbrn youth,-the friend of publicans and sinners,

, so li'oiv, when Sjirritualism, .springing1 from' the shades df o|iscuri'ty;nnd. indigence,-fostered amid imperfect and even vicious surroundings,.and

' soiuetiiiiestendingappayeiitly tiMisastrojis issues, .,b$S forciHp its astounding evidences upon the'

' most careless observation, the.snnie half-scornful ■«urio.sit-y'prompts thesuperficial investigator. It

J is not oiir piirjxise, on this occasion, to speak of ■the consequences of the system in ab of its nppli cations, hut it shduhj be remembered. that' the tru th of ..a doctrine or theory is in .no case re , sponsible for its abuse, and tfmt ttyere is no idea, however,.elevated, which is above-the reach of •perversidn by impure advocates, and thosivim- Jios.tor.s who wear "the livery of heaven to’serve ilie powers of darkness in. ‘Jn viewing this suin' jeot, we desire to view; it apart from all extrane­ous and non-essential considerations, and from thii.siMipjiiiiiii.s apd practices of its professed ad­herents which haveaided in bringing it iiitopopu-

• lar disroptite, and.to consider It,simply as it is.Tile light of this theory -Seoul's to hlivo dawned

-hu t recently upon the wprld, in theform;qf those messages'from the loyed', and lost, whii'ICtt-ll you they have not passed out of ttig sphere of your own existence and sympatlfy, but ary living and can speak to you. Two questions are here inv volved. - First,'.'^If a m an diesliall lie live again'.’”. To wliioli tile'answer is; tile departed are not dead, except'in the body ; and this resolves th e '

'' doubtltof tile skeptic and materialist. Second, mid moi'e important, “ fan those you call dead,,

. return among you.'.’’’ During all the ages of,the past, notwithstanding tin' revealmeftts of religion

' ;wnl teachings of ('liristianity, wi(find a luck,of confident,belicf-of the immortality of the soul, which has been felt even in tiie sanctuaries of

• relthioii, anddiallled the'lvarned in- eeelesiiisflcal Ion", that even professed devotees have pot,es­caped the'contagion-oof doubt’. Science and phi­losophy-have ulWdcd, m> aid to tiie doctrine, if they liavc not rather contradicted it, and at length some mighty dcumtistni'tion liecame necessary, to

•startle the world from its letliargy/in tills all im-■’ portant subject. Tlien came Spiritualism, ob­

scurely'visible at first, and speaking in feeble ac­cents,* hut now holding out its evidences and pro-

„ .claiming in clearer, tones tiie truths of (led and -of eternity to millions of perturbed and careless souls. lhiUSpiritualisiii, in its truest and Widest' sense, lias not beep eonfiiied«to tills day and gen­eration. it is at once tiie most exalted, compre­hensive and universal of all beliefs, embracing* all in. the past tliat'was great and good and beau­tifu l—all in tlie present tlflit is’true, holy and di­vine, and destined to develop into all that is to

* bco f excelloncetiiid glory. ’ l\ eapnot.besummed up in any single iiropositioli, and refusas‘to bii

■ circuinscrihed liyany tihupornry or localyspliere of action. ' It is that’ which-.in the past was're-

‘ v'ealed in the 'glory of inspiration—of tliat in-' spiration which it teli.-j; you is as tin* breath of <J>«d, eternal, constant, universal,* shining liky

* 'bis sun for all. .All those exceptional phenomena of past ages;

tiie Strange, freaks of mind, the instances of pos­session, of trance, of dreams,-and of prophecy

. iflid forewarnings, are proved by- tin* tea'cliings » of' Spirjtualism tft lie -in strict’accord w ith the

laws ,of' universal inspiration ; nnd tints it shows yo\j the, illuminations, of antiquity,..poetry, sci; ciicctl’artj arc dilTused in every direction where the human ln'ind 1ms penetrated.- tVlmtj without

' tSpu'itual aid, were poets and jihiltisoplieiw—those ■who lireatlred tiie tliouglils of angels, nnd wrote

.■wiser tlian-tliey knew'.’ YVhat were the proph­ets and seers of the past, save ns they presented the. jtruth.of tiie angel-world '> From what other- sourCcwas derived the wisdom of that Hook held sacred among you, as-embodying thediighcst and1 holiest cuiiocptiAns possible to liumanity, and

1 reoordtng the brightest examples of goodness 'whtbli hod has vouchsafed on earth? The truths

•co'nneeted with-spiritual' teachings, are not nar­rowed withjn the boundaries'of any treed. Its

' claims embody gild are allied to everything good and true and beautiful. 'Believe not those who

- Jireseyt as spiritual that wjiicli is deformed and , jm p e r fe c ti t is tins base counterfeit. Trust not

those wlio pfoclltim ns spiritual ideas nbhorrent to tin* undepraved moral sense, and inconsistent,with pure religion.........

Spiritualism believes; in a God, perfect, divine,i io - o th e r

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. . 4 - .. , destitute of true .Spiritualism and lis ignorant ofmaterial existence art* maintained in action ; tlm t/its real meaning as though you had never heardmind employs matter, but is not governed by i t ; j its name.. Ithat mind is the unseen agent in producing all the wonders of, creation, and in nian the suhlim- est,most powerful ill ,the univer.se, next to'God

That which is highest, holiest, truest and**best; —that* only is Spiritualism, and nothing else' holds any relation to it,-whether new or old. , Its

' fitets are all glorious, ami it includes- the highest revealments of truth to ytan„ under whatever

vjiame they have been promulgated. It ]iroclaims God as the Father o f Humanity, tiie Creator and Ilulcr of tiie Uniyerse—the soul as. his image, divine,•immortal, which' is placed iii the human form that it may attain to an individuality of' ett4nial.consciousiies3,"aiid go.ou and oi^through the ages of eternity preaching after higher truths, and achieving neffl'conquests over error and im­perfection. To tins it adds the great fact of communioti with departed friends, and the theory of unseen angel visitors speaking some-1 times audibly to the material sense, sbfneti'mes to tiie consciousness of the soul, but ever hover* fug near, guiding the steps of mortals, and inspir­ing poets, sages and-'statesmen with their- Imp* plest conceptions. It tenches that angels and human beings are allied by common.sympathies, and fitted for mutual intercourse: •

It declares .that all men arc immortal—that the snpl, in its.essence, is pure and unstained by

fur it is an axiom of that science that matter caii ,j;cnrthjy iin. aml wlieii It shall have outgrown the only be nlTectyd % the intervention of material | weakness of mortality, is destined fo nil eternal forces.* ■Spiritualism replies —God is a spirit, ‘ p rog ress^ ,i.n happiness- and tfirtiuv It'says

liimselfi wearing tiie outward fo>ui as temporary garments only, and' then carrying into a bound­less field of activity its individual consciousness, its intelligence, nnd'its.splcndnr.s of uttainment.. Spiritualism discloses also tlie cliain of connec­tion.lietjveen.thouglit.and thought, and illustrates <fiie fact that uiind, i^ its ess’eiice,'is uncontudled by any condition, ofcdjiaterial nature, unaffreted by material forces, but that it conies had goes as it listetll. s ■,

Thought is tiie secret agent, therefore, between tin* spirit and ipa^erihl world. Soul is tiie same* substance within aiid without the material body. Spiritualism. establishes, and distinctly proves, that tiie mind, when it understands and rightly employs material laws, can influence, matter to almost fin infinite extent, ebnipared to tiie litres* ent limitations of its power ;'tliat,spirtt can mnke use of a subtle agency to overcome the laws of gravitatiop, and so can move a physical body be'-, fore your eyes—a ' feat'wliicli njere material sei- Mice -inny be confidently clialie.nged to explain,r - ” .......1—n of tbn‘ ....... -* -

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.and yet lie nets •'directly upon creation nil'tiie time. So,.tlie miml and squl, within their splicres, j can .suspend or overfull; tiie "lu\vs of mutter at their pleasure. Spirits 'irtu’iieimibered by the ymterial body can einpjoy unknown agents to do tliyse tilings which formerly they accomplished through tin* means’ of that body. So much for

»tlmt problem, A; .truth is thus made apparent. w.liie[iJij would take unassisted seieime'centufies( to discover. And indeed it lias become a question* wlictlicy tin1 lpind, cvcip.wliilc in the body, might not accomplish wonders liitlicito undreamed' of,

•,if it only fully understood tiie laws which govern tin* relations between the two. Material science

'arrogates what’it does not possess; hut truivsci- *eaice discovers all tilings, nnd only decides upon tha t which Is true.' .

Another tiling which Spiritualism does for the mind ; i't relieves it from nli restraints of preju- diee and superstition,, and'removes the arrogance of. scientific, egotism by showing that* tin; mind can never know everything, or lie 'competent.to measure'nil yrohalniitics -r that'there is always

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■ infinite in love aniLpower. ■ There is Giid. And it recognizeS hinuns^'tlie same. Being

, who, ‘ in 'a ll1 ages and piiKing all - iiatiims, lias ©- vouclmfed to lireatlie, through hisjchoseii instrn-

.nicnts; wQrds of iove ami hope ai.id consolation 1 to lii.s children. •* - .'• ‘ Again, Sjiiritualism speaks^witli certainty of . the presence of tiie departed among von. lteli

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'gum does this in its original sense hut'imper­fectly, aiid she represents spirit cominumon ns onlyra rare,»aiiil. occasional mercy,'granteu as a

k , special dispensation.. Believe tis, Spiritualism “ reveals it as constant, amFshows you tins angel- ... ichost.ho'yeri.iig over the eartli, lin'd filling tiie air

■' 'w ith tlreir presefice and songs of praise. Believe , iit or not, tills truth is connected witli Spiritual- ‘.j~ ism—is felt hy all- tho world. .In jio civilieed

coulitry yviiere tiie idea has heeib promulgated .lias it failed to. take foot even a young" scoffers. AVitness tiie change which, within a.few years,.'

, ■■ .lias come over the literature of your own.’coun-' “ try. Y our most popular writers, instead .’of

standing aloof from tiie concerns of eternity, / and never hientioniiig tiie future world'save in " “ iermS'bf vague horror, now picture mild, angelic

visitants ns .hovering over the couch of - death, \ and inwv’isions of a blissful reunion prompting'

the farewell accents of the'departing. Such- , • Ideas have now become familiar as household ' words, pervading all walks of society, nnd ex-

firessed by those who have acquired them direct- y or indirectly through the agency of Spiritual­

ism—nay, these glorious truths have even pene­trated into the exclusive citadel of Orthodox prejudices, so that you can hardly enter a church

♦ y'Df Any denomination'without hearing.'same re- ■ ference’made, to guardian angels or, spirit minis­

trations and ’‘kindred topics, as if the preaeh- er was unconsciously giving utterance to the thoughts of 8oimi',bright intelligence by his side, while the terrible theme of endless punishment Js nlmost entirely neglected,And doctrinal (feeds

•." are referred.to only as tliuy confirrii the leading articles oif the new faith ., In all this,you see the influence of .Spiritualism.' i

..... . O ur‘-teachings, moreover,-carry the mind to ahigher plane of thought in connection wjtlr.ici•

’ . c t i c e So. many, so varied are the phases of this subject, that we are "unable to hold the. medium long enougli to present them all,'and enti only indicate a few leading ideas. In the realm of mind it. reveals hitherto unsuspected agencies and operations, and portrays -the subtle .powers

' which.intelligence.possesses wheresoevaPlt ex-; teiids, by'demonstrating its existence outside of the material body.' This, by itself, is a most im*

tljat in its highest pride of attainment',lias but reached, tbe stepping stone *of true sci- j cncc—is but .stammering over flu*' alphabet o ff Natiirajo.laws—but faltering on-the- threshold of tiie nngust Temple of Creatiod. T’iins it trains the mind to listen to all teachings, and to receive that- which judgment'nnd common sense ap­prove-, and reject that tluit will not hear the test of reason and intuition. ‘ . , •

Another great doctrine, flrsf advanced hy tiie spirit-world, is t,hat of a connecting link between all 'minds in the universe—that the substance of soul js everywhere the same—God himself being its Infinite, and tiie huiiiaii iiiteliigence its finite forms;' thus establishingjui intimacy of relation,(in essential sympathy between the highest, ami lowest forms of eonsrloAs being, npd leading to a VMnpreliension of universal Deity not before conceived of. Next, it reveals tiie connection between tiie material aiid spiritual worlds, giv­ing palpable proof of a hereafter, and making

of lie inner ami outer life only differentapartments in tiie same .tgmple, showing tlint spirit-life is evil-witli you;.and indeed you ale spirits ah ready—that everyAoul among -you is even now in the spirit-Worlil.iqnd'thnt not’afar inf are the celestial innysions, but that ns wqs said hy'Jcsus, "T he kingdom of heaven Is-with you."< Now let us sum up wlmt'nil this means: It means tlint' to no age,or generation does Spiritu- Alism confine its benefits. No true believer ip its docirines-Plnims that it possesses any abstract truths superior to'the highest ideas of tiie pa;St.It boasts no monopoly of .excellence or wisdom.I t only says, la m one of tlie-clmnncls'- through .which'you can receive knowledge. It does not require of its disciples adliesioii to nny. creed,, or formulary oj belief, but It demands ilmt every man shall be permitted to worship l)is own Gpcl* after his own,form, in his own plnce, and at his Own time, beenuse Deity lias so stamped hinisclf oil the soul that its relations witli--him are inde­pendent of circumstances'nml education. His voice, when fairlydiiterpreted, says not, ‘.‘Believe on pain of eternal condemnation.” but ‘.‘ 1 lived before tiie world began. I spake in- the first breathings of inspiration,.anil have been heard in every lofty utterai.c ; of the linifiiin soul.’’- .

And "SriniTCAi.iSM also says: I'cam edow n to you, through nil the ages of the phst, in the form of all tliat.is hi'autiful, improsslvemitd pro­found — in the embodied conceptions of poet , sculptor, painter, orator,, philosopher.. Indepd,1 am ns old as'Tim e'‘hiniself. That.special, in-i spiration upon which you'hang your faith, and which" you-regard as a precious gif t from heaven- in that also r 'a m visible., In the Old Testa­ment, I spoke to the Prophets ; in the New Tt's- tameiit, to John, the Uevelator. I am seen in the gifts of the spirit to. nil believers in so-called ltuvelation; 1 have sivept over. tj|C-battle-field

vby the .side of-every hero ; -I have driven, the bloody chariot of .Revolution over the necks of prostrate kings ; 1 linve fouglit And - conquered Eiror.in a thousand shapes. *Mim: are' all the forms of truth,,past, present and {o' come, in all her iiijiltipliecr resurrection's. Y'es, Spirituajipm means the undying advancement of the soul,' flip everlasting.elevation of tlie„mind. It hohh-the' key to the history of civilization. It includes all thivmiujfiests of Science, awthe-attaiim'fjnisbf art, all the revealments of religion. It Implies that which in 'tim e shall cause ,tl|c world to adopt' newer and higher methods of-life, which-shall insure freedom' and order among tiie nations,

•and endow thi-m with a lofty’ and unsfiBied spirit of devotion .'" ';-*^ ■ ■ • e v'~'- . l’ememher, tliat SpiritualIstiKdeals not.alone w;lth tiie modern plienbinena alluded to undcr tills title, but criticises ap'd investigatc.s'the rev--; elutions of all past .ages; searching ivherevfir- poets liave^oimd images -of beauty or of terror, wherever propliets. linve' raised their -warning, voice,-wherever safees have tolled amid the hid­den tilings of nature ." . . ' '

And yet you qsfc if there are any truths ip Spiritualism! You might"aV- well' inquire if tliere is any truth jn Nature and tiie world, and -in both cases onr answfer would lie tiie same.

We do.not Include in our definition Jhe nbor-

that all .souls are alike dear,* to ’God,’and tlint every henr,t is ns near to his life as are th^pulsa-. tionp of his own infinite being. Hence then! are really no distinctions of high, or- low among his human creatures, save such ns are external and temporal1!’, and dite merely to circumstnnces of hirtli and education, ami the conditions'of earthly life. Therefore it tells you no man should condemn his brother; but deal with him pi tliet spirit of charity and forbearance, which is the- oh(y truq justice. I t paints, no revolting or ter­rible pictures of futurity -am r the character of l-pnl/but iti'iill its features nnd presentments will bear the nipst fastidious scrutihy of the skeptic; while it. satisfies tlie-most ardent longings of the devotee. This wo affirm to be a faithful de,frui­tion of Spiritualism as handed down by spirits to mortals. No true Spiritualist can contradict this, though all may not succeed in illustrating it in their practice. And, it 'is WliaF all human, beiiigsftln every age and country('nj the highest point of cultivation, nnd in their liours of, loftiest

■meditation, wbuld.ppprovc and long for.*, Spiritualism 'present* to humanity its highest possible standard of attainment in faith and in practice. This, which .we have given is the onjy. i rue definitfoiu' Reject all others as counterfeits or forgeries. Turn from those who seek to' palm

toll strange and mysterious theories—tiie product ‘ ' ’ /verted fancies mill impure de-'or'their: own per

spes—as tiie true iinspiration from on high. Be- liAve . tliat only wliicli is genuine and perfect— that and nothing else.. • 1 V-W

Spiritualist^; it is for you to*iiecide yourselves how much or liow little yqu.vpossess.qf tiie gifts we have spoken of in this article, and Jiqw far. you have.availed yourselves of the privileges you claim.. In right of your denomination, in' pnrt, m/floifbt,'you-have attained nnd enjoyed them ; but rt-mcmliey cvcry sti-p you take outside tiie strict path of triitli and jilstice—though you boast ever so loudty of angel communication t, will lead you further away from genuine spiritual faith, and brand you witli' deeper reproach than attaches, to the crimes of others, who know not the light wliicli you acknowledge. *

And I woiild say to those wluxdo not yet pro­fess this belief, receive" not nny.doctrine.wliicli'' does not wear the holiest aspects and breathe the atmosphere of he.nven around yoUr souls. Better to possess unconsciously'"ahe. light that lighteth every man ” than enibrace darkness and 'corrup­tion ip the name of truth. -Better' clierish in, ignorant simplicity your unperverted affections than sacrifice all tliat is pure and holy in your being on the'nltar of a false’divi'nijy. * *

Cherish in Spiiittialism only wlmt-is noble, lofty and divine, and it’will ,bring»you all tliat, your soul desires, when .angel musibshajl.salute' you at the liiiiihight hour, and waff to your en­raptured spirit tiie soothing messagesof.tlie lpved ones that will, visit you from the eternal shore.

“ T h e r r o o f I’a lp a b le o f Im m o r ta l ity .’1To the Editor of the Banner of Eight: ■* .

I wisli to say a word in relation to this excel* lent volume, thougli it lias been repeatedly com­mended ta the public. Not a few valuable works on Modern Spiritualism have made their appear­ance the past year, but to the honest, candid tbinber.tliiAJs a multum in pared. - It" is a book -of careful^com piled statistics,'and perfectly compact with, thought,' 1M a man read common tbeojogical teac)iings on the fiiturq life from the Cliurc^point of view, and^liep*peruse this ex* celient uttle work, ami he m il find'food that will nourish fliilh i f he has the l^asl germs of it. ■ \

As a writer in this department of literature and science ^Ir. Sargent.has few if any. superiors. His is a well-trained mihd, and he is competent to tench. After reading-the productions of our author, whnt-'$hnll we tliink of the mgical con­sistency of our’Christian teachers, who rule out the stern and incontrovertible facts collated by the. vigorous pen of Mr. Sargent? To treat tiie Bible iii tiie Nvny that our ablest treatises on Spiritualism are treated by Churchmen, would consign it to an oblivion from which no theologUe would attempt to rescue It. -

It is the' phenomenal fagts :of- Spiritualism wliicli are to save our unbelieving generation; if it is to be rescued from its uiibelief. Gerald Mas­sey aptlyreoplpared the Christian '.who opposes Spiritualism, to the man standing on theejdrenie end of a pWik^unnitig from a vessel, sawjng it in twain. Cannot tho clergy understand,' in teaching the immortality 'of the ^oiil, tl|ey in fact are committed to SpirituaUsm, while the facts and phenomena thereof prove the doctrine,, if it is provable?',. O n . the part of the men. of the pulpit how plainly it is beilig proven, “ neither will they be persuaded though-one rose, from tiie dead.” . In their case hoW1 historyrepeats itself! ‘.‘ He linth Blinded their eyes'and hardened their heart, thAt they fjliould not see with their eyes nor under­stand witl)1 their heart nnd b o ’converted, an d 'I should heal them .” '- If Almighty God holds men to a strict account fcfr a neglect to use tile means,provided for their enlightenment, then the Oliurch li^s a day of

^reckoning before it^for a neglect o f. the use of means, and for contemning the light which now shines jnto thajvorld.

T lyish^to bid-Epes SArgent “ Godspeed" his .able and timely labors in behalf of Spiritual ism ; trusting lib will,continue his efforts in de

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in c u t .- The President? Treasurer, and several of the Executive Committee met a t Liberty Ilall, Spring- field, Mass.\ An the 16th, ami agreed upon the following details respecting the August Meeting.'In obedience .to the iiijanlinous vote of . the^sso-,- elation, given at their last convention in Spring- field, April 1st, viz. : “ that the first public e.xer- cises should be held at Lake Pleasant, August! . 8th,”, (to which time the programme' to be soon announced will strictly conform,) the Execu-i . tiye Comyiittee liave fixed upon the 4th of August v ‘as’ tiie day for pitchiiig tents.fgr sucli as desire to ' '*, come to the Li(ke4he first week,. All sucli per-' sons ^unless self-provided) should • send ■ their ’orders for tents as early ns July 1st, to Ilafyey Lyman, of Springfield, Mass,, as lie will engage no more tents for the opening of the meeting than may be orderedjn advance.' - v ■ A large invoice of tenfs will be on the grounds . by the 12th, for-tlie u.se of those who do not order,, them in advance and may not desire to come,till • ,that time. Waterproof teiits, 10 by 12 feet, sit up ready for use, will cost twelve dollars for four . weeks, and ten dollars for three weeks, and must be paid for when first.taken.' Bnnrd can be obtained, the first week, of W.£.. Austin, qf Springfield ; Mrs. Warren, of Bos? ton ; or J. "J'Miiclmrdson, of Greenfield, who will all'be ready for tiie public by the 4th. Mr. Dunk- lee will be ready for boarders on the 13th. Price of board, six dollars per week.-.

The FitcbBurg - Qornet Band nnd Russell's Or­chestra (the same ones.employed last year) will arrive atitlio Lake tne. 13th,'and remain till the close of tiie meetipg on the 30th. An able corps of speakefs in the field.of spiritual and liberal reform will be secured, and a programme of ex- erciscS with names of-speakers will bo published

•hereafter.'., • $lleduced;fnrCs liave -been scoured -on the rail­

roads to tlios» .who' buy Camp Meeting tickets, and return tickets ctm be'obtained.’at the Luke.

The grounds are to be -reguhirly laid out, tlijs year,'streets cut through the grove, water brought on the hill, nnd many other improvements-made.

. Tiie camping-ground is a snndy bluff skirtejl with ,pines, lienee is remarkably healthy. * ..

.With our splendid mifsic, beautiful grove, healthy location an'delbquent^peakiug, theCom- iniittee feel sure of a'great and liarpiontobs meet­ing .- (Signed)

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New. P u b lic a t io n s ./ . -v. t‘ T he 'W oui.d' sv^ix t e e x C iiccniED SA iTunts, orCluistlimity lu-rore ptirlst, Isonoof tho ii(ost soarcliing of nooks', the author being Kersey Graves, who wrote “ T 11D niogiaiihy of Satan ," anil --Tlio hlbJeof lllUlt-s. ’’ Afqir a j nolle r proiaco ami au uthlresa to the clergy, ho enters with a Ahnist lfonesly ami ,j!.norgy on tho work which tho title of his lunik i'oresh;ulo.ws;' ami the result Is such will surely wake tip the sluggislwjdeas of those who take their belfcfs liy borrowing or hy coutaglui. I t is utterly Impos­sible toglvc the reader, except In a very cxtonUeil space, ;(u ailei|uate coneeplloii of flie contents of this volume. There are'forty-five chapters % l(, mid all aje alive with' tae lire of discussion.-. The authorities so liberally adduced' to sustain-his* positions it will not he prudent to decry or dispute, lie who would enlarge and enlighten his mind ou a subject w hich Is of universal Interest, will do well'to. perjISe’tiUs volume -attentively, for he may he sure of being rk'lily repaid. -Published hy Colby A filch.

W a iiu in u td n ' s Manual Is a conveuleht ami timely, little book fur thy information of ofllcers amlfnemhers of-, legislatures, convention^, societies, corporations and-or- ill-r.-rvbrylie prai'.tU'.al governing'and membership of all such hoilles; according to tiie parliamentary' law’ anti the prhetleo in,Ilie Cnin-d Stales. I t Is, In sholt, a cbnclse nnd practical gplile In wlmt Is known as • ■ I'arHamentery I,aw,"• -Theadmirable preface explains.the srtnide prin­ciples on which It Is w ritten, ami gives some excellent sug- g- stl'ons conceniing.the real uses of the law thus elucidated and applleij. 1’uUllsilCil hy I.co A Shcpardy . .

Ch-ark-.s nradlauglUs 1mj-ea iuijIunt ok tiIIE .House ok ISiil'.NSwrcK,.',’ rcprjnteif-hy Wllllani F. GUI & Co., isa^harp attack Jo the Hanoverian dynasty, of England, which he fort! lies with ipmtatlonsand statistics m k fib itu m . It will wc)l repay perosalhy (hose 'who are Inclined lolhlnk there Is divinity that doth hedge a king, and who nro not yet frilly peesuailed of thoadvantagesof republican govern­ment. „ - 1 -

E ssays .ESt iie t ii 'ai;. By George II. Calvert. I,co &

L etter Troiu Col.- O lcott. ,To Iho'Edltorof thoiliyincrof L lg litr- '

Sin—In tlescribing tiie manner in which Mr. Bastian was'ticd in tiie recent seance in London, at' whieh a series of surprising miiterializations occurred, yiijfi' o'ori'espondentsays: “ A commit­tee chosen for the purpose applied d styil to the

' knot, not without Creating some nervous appre­hension in ipy0own mind lest'they should drop someof the burning wax on.tliu medium^ hands." Apropos of wliicji^.I desire to inijke ii few re­marks: The«Eddy Brothers - and Sisters showed me Upon their wrists-the scars made by burning wax, carelessly applied, to knots by1 cruel com­mitteemen, anil other mediums have done Hie' same. I speak of this circumstance in my book, nnd denounce the useless" barbarity. In securing- Mrs.' Holmes, I adopted tiie simple precaution of senling&he bag-strings to a hit of cardboard*held' beneath them, and also to--a 'coin ; tjie one pre­venting any accident to’ the* medium, the other keeping the ^tringsjjjCcurely together without tiie necessity of tying them into a kpot.- If “ investigators ” 'cannot guard ngatast im­posture without "resorb to inhuman methods, the sooner mediums refuse, to sit .fo r them, the bet- , ter. *• ' /- I I eniiy S. Glcott..

7 Beckman street, New Tork, May fUth, 1875.

th is t i t le , b u t c r itic ise s ajl'll investigutl!S 'tlTe reV- -f slll-’Ii:ul1- B«sUui. Tlu-re are nine essays In this neat■»mf' ■ - ’ ei'-iiY-liinn- iVl,prp,.A}^tattractlve little volume, all on literary sulijects, anil aU,

* ‘ ^ ' we believe, orlglnally^mbllshod in Putnam*6 ^Magazine.Mr. CaUerrs^feiuu^tion* require^ nO notice a t our hamls. H cw rltes^n the topics he has here proposed to himself with hitf; acknowledged tfueTfcy,^graeef and power, ar^l manifests, In his detiultions, descrlidions.and criticisms, the possession of that luy^tqripus Insight .tvhieU4s the gift orglrtijito jpi'an. W'k have been especially' gratined wlth therepernsalof his~paper on,Salnt-Bcuve, Thomas Car­lyle, and Style. Theothersare not less full of the fruits of his faculty and his assiduous culture.” These fine essays are richly worth preservation and continued distribution In theljp present form.*

Sl*AlX AND THE Sl’ANIAUDS by S . L. Tlilublln, Is a freshplcture of modern,Spain and Spanish politics and so^ clety, by an aecomplbhed foreign journalist, who wrote tiie contents of this volume for the columns of tHe New York Herald; The Condon journals and reviews have re-

five offspring of pretended .Spiritualism—those impositions and falsehoods wliicli arise from The

tian community. No. IVe mean by Spiritualism tliat doctrine wliicli presents the inspiration of tiie AngeiyVorkl; wliicli comes ou tiie wings of angel '-messengers to tell You your loved ones departed are not dead, iior unmindful; of - their earthly friends ;. wliicli awakens anew your faith in iinmortality, and robs death of its terrors; which reveals tiie trutli and confirms tiie sacred­ness of religion; which, in all’its teachings and all i t s ' aspirations, points only 'to' the highest, coni; which has ensliroudeil the past in glory,- fills tiie present witli hope, and points to a future of yet more successful endeavors. Wemiean the secret whispef wliicli speaks to the heart of a higher life, tiie efforts of the genuine,, those out- gushing springs in the desert of liumanity and living embodiments "of angel thoughts; we mean, tlie'inspirations-of, science, -Jvlien, after years of study, a suddenoflasli enlightens all tiie depths, of mind. Spirit'id at’work wlien the soul, bowed down beneath theniirdensof eartli, finds consola­tion in religion ;.when," bruised, and torn; .'the (hinting pilgrim of life throws himself nt the feet of Jesus, and hears those words of ineffable com­passion, “ Ncitlmr do I condemn thee. - Go, and sin no piore!” *"\Ve mean tliat sacred ministra­tion which is not too high to stoop from the'liigh- est heaven, and bear witness in unnumbered acts and utterances of charity, to the undying love which'belongs to God ana his holy angels.' We

reived It with Brest fav6r, anil dwell with, deserved cm plialis on lt,s merits. I t Is something more than a hoOfc of

. travel; It Is a picture of actual life and manners, which w ill Illuminate m ap- a reader’s mind'.on a subject concerning which lie may at presetft have hut lndlstjnct and confused Ideas. The style lu which It Is written Is graceful and Uasy, quite In harindnyVIthhlslheme. The Ilritlsh Quar­terly llevlew says It Is tho most graphic.hook about Spain of late years, as it is tho mdst useful, possessing thc.lm- portance of history and tho.fasclnatlon of romance. W ith such endorsements It should meet with a very wide sale. rubllshed.D) Lee A Shepard.

( . -. ■ Inrurm a|ion'’ IVanfed,To the Edltcr of the Banner of L ^htf>

Three of my immediate relations, w ith one other, Were sitting in a gjrcie last week. Tiie table began to tip freely, and spelt ou t the name of Keziah Lowrester, who claimed to liave been a doctor, .and. ,to. liave died a t Denver, Col. I t would Be interesting if some of your correspond­ents would give information as to w hetliera lady of tiie above-mentioned name and profession lias been known at-Denver. * * -•

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- Mr.-E. V7.>Wilson, omHof our ablest w orking, .yjpiriiiiqlistii, isvwith . us ffor the montli of May; - spreading ligljVnnd encouragement b y b is ehrn- es'K'br&ySjAvord^ >IIis lectured and tests lfnve always credtod tiie grentest interest am ong^pir-

)]t.iiamt$;mid’•skaitics alike'wherever lie may go. V Sumlayfjiveliing, MNo,“ I

ilavfcveliing, May 2d, in Republican- Hall, WeSI\33d street lie gave me the following:

see staniUng'byV.Aitr.sfile a'ypiing g irl; ,sbo is lame'; 1 slmuld say'Slur Had' iup\disease when - she passed a way,.bii t as site presents herself now by your sidells perfectly restored to bealtli. I do not believe Her to be your daughter.” Then . followed a full hnd minute description of her V ? iyo \ sonal appearance wliile, on eartli. ■- So complcro \ and satisfactory was the entire delineation, I • could not fail to recognize in it a dearly loyedP liiyce-whdse transition^occurred, twenty yeafs ago, '* *- ...,•*?* • , • fff. ,

On two other-occasions I'have received mbst wonderfu] tests through' Mr. Wilson of events anil incicWnts "in my own. life, the dates being very exnct fh every instance. ‘ ,-ir /. New Yftrk City. E. T. -ByiOjlAH,

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L Y C B U I K I / S T A G E :A COLIjECTIOH^OF

Spiritu ttlist L ectures iim l Lyceum s.. ' \ K 'MEETINGS IN BOSTON. ‘ '

- The B oston S p i r i t u a l i s t s 1 U nion hold regular weeW>k meetings at Ilochester Hall, 554 Washington- street, evory Sunday evening,' Lectures and. Conference. U. B. Wil­liams, President. * »

J o h n A x A n d r e w H a l l . — Free M ee tin g s .—Lecture by Mrs. S. A. Floyd,vat2\f and7‘4 r» m . The audienceprlv- lleced to ask any proper nuestioiis on spirituality^ Ex­cellent quartette singing. Public Invited.* tR ochtfiter H alU 554 W a s h in g to n s tr e e t ,—The.Childrens .Progressive Lyceum, No, 1, which formerly Qiet loWobt ■ A. Andrew Hall, will hold Its sessions at this place every 1 Sunday, at 10^ o’clock. Geo. H. Lincoln, Hec’y.

ThP, L a d ie s ' A id S o c ie ty will until further notice hold its meetings at Itochester Hall, on Tuesday" afternoon, and evening of eac^i week. Mrs. O. C. Hayward, President*; Miss M. L. Barrett, Secretary,’

.M e d iu m s ' M eeting at Templars’ Hail, 2S0 ’Washington. street, a t 10^ a . m., each Btinuay. Ail mediums cordially invited. ’ * . '

L u r l in e H a ll , Ho. S HVntcr s tree t.—Public Free Circles are held In this lull every Sunday morning a t lOj O’clock. G<?od test mediums and speakers Ih attendance. Lectures

•every Sunday at Hand 7H M.-bv weH-known rfpeakerH. • The P e o p le 's S p i r i t u a l M ee tin g s every Sunday at 2‘£

r . m., at Investigator Hall, Paine Memorial Building, Appleton street, near Trem ont., Good speakers always in attendanro r ‘

Cotton H a l l .— F rankT . Ripley, Mrs. Lottie F . Taherand Mrs, M. C. Bagley, trance test mediums, will give circles for tests only, at Cotton Hall, cornur of Cnauncey and Essex streets, every Sunday mornlrig at 11 a . s i. Sealed lutters answered every Sunday. Test circles Hee. Acol- le^tloi? will he taken up to defray excuse*. v •' T r im o u n ta in H a ll , H o. 8 H o y ls to n street.—Developing Circle, for mediums exclusively, oil the morning of each Sunday; afternoon, conference and tests:* evening, test circle; >each Wednesday evening a test and social circle.

6*. ■ — — . ■* ■* „Hostox. — R ochester H a l l .—The -following Is the list of

member.-!,engaged -in tlio literary cxcrqlses of Children's I’rogrcssive Lyceuin No. toil thomoriiliigof Sunday, May 10th: lie lit at lens — M ai Hotter, Esther James, Albert llcVtlosen', Itudolph-Ticytlesen, .Mabel Edson, Emma Gil­man, Jennie Miller, .Lizzie J . Thompson, Emma Currier; licadlngs—fteien M. 1)111, Alberta Smith, Hi'"A. Johnson; Song—Saunders sisters. - .

In m s t ie a to r H a ll .—'The m a tin g hold bytlfo People's Spiritual (ioursoat this hall, In the Paine Memorial Hulld- Ing, Appleton street, Roston, was made Interesting on ihe^ Afternoon of Sunday, 5I^y Kith, by the psychological e'xperl- ments'of'A,. E. Carpenter, wliicli were of a highly Instruct-- lve nature. Mlss J/e. Mont gave- some fine singing,-and May Potter a recltatlon ciitltled “ The Soldier's Return.”■ On motloh ot'’Horace Seaver, Es(i., It was unanimously voted that Mr.-Carpenter be requestedAo give further ex­amples of his fisychplpglcal powers a t as early a date as practicable. , 'x - v .

Mrs. Hope\vhipple will spcalt.ln.thls hall next Sunday- afternoon, 23d,lnst., a t o’clock. Subject: ** Woman As

^ fr ien d ," with an analysis of the hu'raap sentiments and passions, and the relative importance of each.

J o h n A . A n d r e w H a l l ,— The regular meetings wero jtbld- a t this place on Sunday afternoon and evening; May unit. Good music hy the clurlr; aiid trance-lectures, and the an­swer. j f queries propounded by,the audience, through the mediumShip ofMrs. Sarah A. J’lojil, constituted the exor­cises. . • ' " N. CitARLBSTOWN DisTiticT . — W a v e r ly H a l l !—The meet­ing held In this hall Sunday evening, May 16th, wls well' attended. The exercises wero commenced Ijy slngjhg hy the choir, followed byre marks hy Mr. Bickford, tests hy Mrs. Bagley, and remarks and tests by Arthur Hodges. Mrs. M, C. Bagley will be lli .this hall w(th' other-speakers and mediums next Sunday evening, a t O. II. Marsh .

Sa leh .—AYceum H a l l .—Dr. T .P . Taylorgave alecturo at th jj hall May llth (an d [during tho same day FrankT:' Klpidy held a message stance there, uuder test Cbndltlons. The Salem Reetln/ven. Club' furnished some flno singing- during the meeting for the lecture and the seance. Both lecture and seance met with the unqualified approbation of the people. I t Is expected that Dr. T. and Mr. It. will visit Salem again ere long.

MayT6tli Dr. Taylor and ji(r. Ripley blended the argu­mentative .and demonstrative phases of .Spiritualism by well attended lectures and stances. a t Bprlngfleld, Mass. They will officiate ltr the same city, by earnest Invitation, on Sunday, May 23d, iqi • • ’ ’ ■ /

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