Progress, tbe Universal LaW of f'laiare; Tbodgbt. tbe 3olVer)t of fier Problems.VC L 4. CHICAGO. J U N E 6. 1891. NO. 80

SOULISM.Or the Doctrine of “ Soul

Human Embodiments.”in

there your “ transcendental ego,” the eternal self-consciousness, of which you are but a mutter-limited fragment.

Tho inspiration of Mr. Wright teaches by implication, embodiment, but not em­bodiments. Standing on tho dividing line, his office—and that of others like him—seems to be that of a bridge, whereby thoso whoso vision begins to opon to tho thomo celestial, may pass over into tho wider realm by a perfectly natural gradation: for once let the thought of an eternal “ transcendental ego ” os background to tho human ego, take possession of your consciousness, and it will uot be long bofore you will feel the Impulse to know more about your relations towards it—why it felt called upon to express Itself at all, and what the moral meaning of it is—and so by easy stages the mind resolves itself into a state of receptivity, in which Inward

tiro philosophy dopends on conceiving to speak, 1s hardly tho ono to put in his this monad " as nothing, and the pluco n variety or forolgn devils,—i. o.,

Jworking it up into un individuality through repeated Incarnations. Lot mo make this still clearer. If tho “monad ” in all-consciousness has any meaning, it must bo distinguished by something, and the*only thlug possible to distinguish it by in these clroumstuuocs is individual­ity—conscious * individuality—because individuality in consciousness"; not to bo Itself conscious would bo tho absurdest of all possible absurdities. If there is actuality anywhere, it must be when wo strike eternal substance—and all that pertains to it nmst bo aotual. And whilo it is possible!to conceive that what passes out of this state actual into a state phenomenal may lose something— not in itself, ofl course, but us oxpros- slon—it is simply inconceivable that it should gain anything, and, least of all,

C o m p ared a n d C o n tra s te d \Vlth " O r ­th o d o x S p ir i tu a l is m ,’' " T r n n s c e n d e n ta l E g o ism ,” a n d “ T lic u so p h ica l R e - in c a rn a tio n "

BY FR E D E R IC K F . COOK.

2 purely fortuitous, becomes involved with I common matter, and thus is there I evolved a self-conscious being, which, by virtue of the “ finer stuff,” is guaranteedan immortal existence. This is, of I perceptions naturally wait upou a sincere I individuality.

|course, materialism pure andt simple: desire to perceive, and.intuitions In di- In Embodiments individualityfrom wbiohi implication an Inclusion of ract touch with the "transcendental---- T- .> «„

spirit matter, or a spiritual sub- 0„o »»—,• the soul—more and more tance, in no wise saves it: unless tho inform the mind, and make it ready for

is tho flower: which

W ritte n E x p ress ly fo r T h e P ro g re s s iv e T h in k e r .

From time immemorial thinking men have pondered “ the whence, the whyl and the whither.” All along the ages there have come to the race,In one form or another, “intimations of immortality.’! But nc ver until there appeared the va-1 ried phenomena that group themselves under the term Modern Spiritualism, was it made possible to man to rest the problem upon an orderly arrangement of facts, and apply to it the powers of an unfettered reason. This marks a new epoch in human history: the advent of a new order of progression. But even now. if the answer to the “ whence, why and whither” given by the New Dispens­ation be accepted only in so far as it is limited to material or purely formal concepts, it is conclusive only as to an exceedingly narrow and circumscribed segment of the “ whither:’’ while its de­liverances, upon both the “ whence” and the “ why ”—that is to say, upon the origin of existence and its intrinsic mor­al meaning—are still adapted to a form of thought now happily in a rapid de­cline: a stage of thought quite oblivious to the truth that there are moral consid­erations bound up with man’s conception of his origin that are of even greater im­portance as influences to conduct than those related to his destiny. And the amount of attention now given to themes suggestive of pre-existence (or better, absolute existence) by the questioning minds of every school of thought, is one of the significant manifestations of this spiritually vibrant epoch. It is clearly apparent that there is now also in Spir­itualism a lively awakening to the larger thought of which the phenomenalism of the hour is but a suggestive prelude: and there is little doubt that henceforth the absolute nature of the inner or spiritual life, will be more and more brought into the forefront of discussion by the intelli­gences who have this movement in their wise keeping.

Sound reasoning demands that ideas be held strictly to tbe implications of the terms in which they are expressed. Now, the term Spiritualism, in its modern restrictive (i e.,sectarian) appli­cation, is limited to the sphere of sensi­ble phenomena—i. e., the sphere of the manifesting spirit—and all thought areas lying outside of this formal or sens­ible presentation are logically excluded from its definitive meaning. This is a sad limitation.

But if Spiritualism, when held to a logical definition, is unable to answer the riddle of existence in its entirety, there is that in the world now which can. This answer, as a voice, is in Spir­itualism, but, strictly speaking, is not limited by it. This solvent, in distinc­tion to the concrete term Spiritualism, I shall venture to call Soulism—though the more descriptive title employed by the inspiring intelligences of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, by whom these inter­pretations of transcendental existence are specifically given, is “ Soul: in Hu­man Embodiments."

I am of those who believe that a New Dispensation islipon us;and that this Dis­pensation can no more be expressed by the term Spiritualism than the manifes­tations of the “ Holy Ghost ” during the apostolic period can bo made to express tne full significance of the Christ mission of the Carpenter of Judea. A sensible vouchment should never be mistaken for a spiritual reality.

With regard to man's spiritual origin there are at least four distinct presenta­tions in the composite known as Modern Spiritualism. These are held by: (1) Tnoselhave denominated “ orthodox” Spiritualists, who derive tho human ego from avowedly non-egoistic antecedents.(2) Those who declare for a " transcen­dental ego ” as lying back of the condi­tioned ego. (3) Those who posit a metn-? hysical abstraction styled Spiritual

lonad," and further its development to individuality by means of successive incarnations. (4) And, finally, those1 who start with soul as perfect being: to whom soul is tho individualized and il­lumined sourco of all manifestation in the realm of moral consciousness—in the hierarchy of spirit no less than in tho lower or sensible domain of man—and whose mode of expression is by impul­sions into matter, each impulsion result­ing in some form of expression in con­sonance with tho soul's inmost desire. And whilo the soul is never embodied as soul, that which it seeks to express is embodied. And as it is reasonable to suppose that it will havo no desire to ex­press the same thing twice, so it follows that there is no re-embodiment in any sense effecting man’s personality. In other words: In the outworking of “ soul in human embodiments,” man as man is nover rc-embodled, and his egoistic in' tegrity remains inviolable in the con sclousness in which it originally rea­lized Itself.

matter as substance thus uosited bo con­ceived as having what alone can be said todlstinguish spirit per sr,namely self-eon- scions ness. But such a conception neces­sarily involves tho thought of pre-exist­ence, and that is “ orthodoxy’s ’’ partic­ular bete noi’r. Therefore, and because it likewise closes the door against mir­acles, or tho idea that each spirit is a special creation, “ orthodox Spiritual­ism ” is unalterably bound to a purely materialistic concept of human origin and—destiny. Many Spiritualists were, and are to-day, recruited from the ranks of Materialism—a form of thought once |my own. The idea of existence that logically goes along with the material­istic concept is modified with difficulty: and when stubborn facts finally compel some sort of spirit admission, tne modi­fication in the concept goes no further

divine and ever diviner inspirations.The “ transcendental Ego ” descends

to the world of phenomena for what? For experience or expression, you may answer. But suppose it fails, what then? Suppose the “ expression ” dies before any “ experience ” comes to it— say* with its first breath—what then? If experience or expression in the hu­man form is valuable or desirable for one “ transcendental ego,” is it not nec­essarily valuable or desirable for all? You see in what a dilemma this “ tran­scendental ego ” puts you, unless you go with the enwodimentisls in the affirm­ation that what it fails to get or to ex­press at one time it will get or express a t the next trial, or the next, and so on. until all its divine attributes find full and satisfying expression in the Christ- lman.1 i

than the formal fact necessitates, and e,,0 » embodies itself once, it is hal’din place of seeking to adapt our notions | finfed a against a second or any

I root. In /fe-iiicdrmi/ioii it is thoand the “ monad” is the sued iu|_

Jindividuality—i. e., the principle of self- consciousness,—resides in potentiality. Right here we strike the radical defect in this doctrine, In that it predicates po­tentiality of an actuality. Wo speak of potential forces jin nature, because tho difference between u thing potential and a thing active, or between the seed and the flower, between the acorn und tho oak, between dynamite and an explosion, is a difference not in kind, but one of de­gree or relatioimonly, for each can be expressed in the terms of the other. But what term expresses consciousness ox- cept consciousness? W hat term ex­presses individuality except individual­ity? If you express them in terms of Being, or of eternal substance, or of soul, you express theman terms of itself—i. c., in terms of actuality and not of poten-

If. on thao ther hand,

“ orthodox spir it u a l ism .”The term "Orthodox Spiritualism,"

in the sense already indicated, undoubt-| odly represents a majority of present be­lievers in the phenomena of the New Dispensation. Fundamentally, spirit is to this class a substance analogous to matter, only .finer: which n stuff," through the processes that distinguish the organic universe,and by causes

to " things of the spirit,” as wo should, we strenuously set about to conform I* things of the spirit ” t o our materialis­tic form of mind—regardless of the fact that our logic stands in clear denial of the proofs of immortality made evident by spirit communion.

And, next, what sort of a Spirit-world is it that presents itself as a necessary development of this materialistic form of thought? Why. plainly, it is a sense and substance world: in some things a slight improvement on this matter-world, ana in other things positively worse.‘ But the spirits tell us theirs is a world

of things; that they live in houses, that they are surrounded by fields and gar­dens, that groves embower them, and the limpid brook murmurs musically by.”And pray, if our minds remain cast in this ■ form of things,” what report do you think we shall oe able to make when our “ feet touch the other shore?” Noth­ing is more literally true than that we now make the Spirit-world we shall in­habit. It must Inevitably be the exact reflex of our concepts: and growth there has no other meaning than a modifica­tion of our concepts, not to any absolute order of things to be objectively dis­cerned, but to more perfect types or vis­ions that press for perception within. Thus, there are “ spirit spheres” innu­merable, but none arbitrarily located.In a sense,all descriptions of formal con­ditions reported by our translated friends are true descriptions—that is to say, they are bona fide transcripts of what they have perception for—but this truth is a purely subjective one, and does not go one iota beyond the Individual lim­itation. So long as the essence of a thing eludes our perception, we must perforce visualize It, or go without it altogether. If any ono is desirous of knowing to what extremes of crudity these material notions may be carried in their application to the realm of spirit, my advice is to read “ The Spirit World,” by Dr. Eugene Crow­ell; an d . if that does not open his eyes to tho nbsurdlty of the fixed and materialistic views of spirit existence, then his case is simply hopeless.

TRANSCENDENTAL SPIRITUALISM.The second class (represented on our

]rostrum,for one example,by Mr. J. Clegg Wright) affirm a transcendental ego—a higher self, uncreate and Immortal in its essence and being—as lying back of tho embodied or human ego. In The P ro­gressive Thinker of June 14 last, I find this answer by Mr. W right’s control to the question, “What truth is there that the ego nover had a beginning?” And I regard this answer as one of the most logically conclusive on this head that I have ever seen. He said:

“ Tho ego, tho transcendental self, if it had a beginning, either began by creation out of nothing, or it began by creation out of something like unto it­self; that is to say, the transcendental ego must either always have existed, or it must have had a beginning. If it al­ways existed, it is self-existent: it is not indebted to cause for its existence. If it was created,—that is, if it had a begin­ning—it was either created from some­thing like itself, or from something dif­ferent from Itself. If created from some­thing like unto itself, it is but a contin­uation of tbe same thing; if created from

i something different from Itself, it would contradict the postulate of reason that things which have nothing in common can not be tho cause of each other. Therefore, through the reasonable con-1 tradictions, I have to affirm as a univer­sal postulate of the aomaln of reason that elements are uncreated, that they per­sist in the necessity of existence itself; | that is to say, tho transcendental ego I never had a beginning.”

I havo listened to Mr. W right on a number of occasions, and always with I interest and profit. His position on tho Spiritualistic rostrum strikes me as a unique one—holding apparently an even balance between “ orthodoxy ’’ and “hot-1 erodoxv ”—between tho old and tho new in Spiritualism. Standing on the divid­ing line, he says, in effect: If I look to­wards you, or as it would appear to you, with your present comprehension, if you stood in my place,—i, c., the place of his control—it is thus and so. But if I turn away from you as an outward limitation, and look in the opposite direction—that is, within—I sco a very different state of things, utterly incomprehensible to you now. Looking towards you in matter I sec your human ego, and with it that | which after the change called death will bo your spirit ego; but looking away from or through the darkness of the phenomenal world toward and into tho world of light and reality, I perceive

Jtiality. if, on tne other band, you ex- Man if estly, if the “ transcenden- press them in terms of matter, then you

‘ ‘ ‘ 'Hare bound to attribute them to matter, and they are subject to the mutations of matter. I t is in tbe attempt to set up individuality on a bridge between these two positions that failure comes in. The bridge will not carry, aud underneath flow the waters of oblivion. And this the Theosophists practically confess.I This individuality that is derived

| number of embodiments on merely form­al grounds. Obviously,* the “ transcen­dental ego ” carries with it too many implications to be a safe resting point. Man}’ who have been lured from their materialistic basis by the hope that it would be a comfort to rest upon the bosom of an eternal selfhood, as the most likely means of having immortal­ity assured to them, will scamper hastily back to the arms of Mother Nature, and with an added industry seek for the germ of the ego in the primal activity of matter. Others, however, will feel an equally strong impulsion in the opposite direction, towards the soul; and, regard­ing human existence no longer as pri­marily and principally a physical ques­tion,—a mere achieving of material form, with a mysterious “ spirit form ” attachment—will now begin to ponder it as essentially a moral proposition. The physical generation of life is a scientific question; the spiritual expression of it belongs entirely in the domain of morals. Science interrogates the “ how." Morals forever asks the “ why.”

I think it safe to go on the theory that whatever answers most completely the moral propositions of existence comes nearest the truth all round. That the doctrine of Embodiments Is conceived in the spirit of ideal justice none will deny; and that its acceptance is hindered chiefly by the implication of re-embodi­ment of whatever is once embodied, is indisputable. The reason, therefore, why it meets with such strenuous oppo­sition. often ouite bitter and vindictive, is primarily due to the fact that there is in all human beings an unconquerable objection to a loss of identity. This ob-

|jection I share in common with all my brothers and sisters; and it may surprise some, therefore, when I say that I am a believer in these teachings for the sim­ple and plain reason that it is the only presentation of another-world order in which,on purely logical or philosophical

contlgrounds, a contention for the continuity of egoistic identity can be successfully maintained—i. e., on the ground that identity of the formal self is inherently related to and identical with (to tho de­gree that it represents “ expression ”)— an everlasting, “ transcendental,” un­created self.

RE-IN CA R N A TIO N .We have now to consider Re-incarna-

tion. This doctrine is chiefly distin­guished as the modus operandi of Theos­ophy. That the reader may clearly dis­tinguish at the outset between Rc-incar- nalton and Embodiments—two radically different ideas, but about which there is a deal of confusion in the public mind— lot mo say that Re-incarnation starts with an indeterminate germ, and builds

lit up by repeated incarnations into an individuality which by its own acts may become entirely extinct, when the indetormlnuto germ returns into the body of eternal substance from whence it was derived; while over against this wo have Embodiments, which starts not with an indeterminate “ Monad,” but with the Soul as Absolute Being, to which nothing can bo added, from which nothing can bo taken, which was, is, and jwlll bo forever. For this soul there is no building up by accretions from with­out, and all that takes place in the phe­nomenal world is tho result of tho soul's desire to express Itself. You might call this soul tho “ transcendental ego” if you liked, whilo its expressions are hu­man egos, each ono different from ovory other, of course, and each secure in its individual or porsonal existence in tho consciousness of tho soul, from whence all human consciousness is derived: and

I along with it tho intuition of Veiny.Rc-incarnation, therefore, is a process

of building the within from without: I whereas Embodiments is a process of I building tho without from within—its direct antithesis. Tho most scholarly

souls “ Immortal in evil ”—and, but for tho fact that Theosophy is just now lifted into temporary prominence in tho spiritual field to servo as a foil to a higher and more adaptive form of tho truth, it would not bo a rational ponton's worth while to give the slightest hood to its casuistic puerilitlos.

T H E DO CTRIN E O P EM B O D IM EN TS.Somo fundamental propositions of ex­

istence have been brought cloarlv to no­tice in what has gone bofore; and among others this self-evident ono: that con­sciousness (which can nover ho other than

noss. Now, if spirit bo superior to mat­ter, it must bo so bocauso it has what matter has not—consciousness, self- awareness, egoism and intuition of being. Matter is matter still, though It be a million times supor-roflnod. And be­sides matter and self-awareness, there is simply—nothing. These, matter (or force, oronorgy) and consciousness, con­stitute the sum of the universe. As has matter, so has consciousness, an in­finitude of modifications; but, in the lost analysis, all manifestations are reduced to tnoBo two conceptions. In so far as spirit can bo said to havo “ form ”—i. c., in so far as it presents an appearance

(when what we call unoonsclousnoss over­takes it) comes easily within tho range of human comprehension—and without this predicate the annihilation of self- consciousness with tho dissolution of the body is an inevitable consequence.

The Materialist (and nearly all mod- ora psychologists must be classed under this head) unhesitatingly defines con­sciousness in terms of matter and motion, and its conservation in any super-atom­ic state is thus rigidly ruled out of his consideration. Now, we Spiritualists de­clare tha t the facts are against the ma­terialistic theory—that the conservation of consciousness in an egoistic form Is noD U i u u o u c o B i n u i u i i u a u i i u v o i u u u u i u r t i i a u . . . . _ . . . . , 7 --------- . « —.^(/’-consciousness). In order to escape ox- conformable to human conceptlon-it is ongor a. speculat on or hone merely, but

tinctlon with the dissolution of tho body, 11 counterpart of the human body, and is a fact susceptible of demonstration, must bo in its nature absolute: /. c. an I ni°y ce conceived of as the resultant of So far so good. But what have we to

is deriveIfrom a conjunction of non-lndividualized elements,-i. e.,of “monad"and matter,to both of which individuality is explicitly denied—is seen to be a shaky sort of a contrivance even by those who are log­ically (or, rather, illogically) responsi­ble for it. and accordingly they give it only a sort ot nondescript provisional ex­istence—a sort of something-nothing or nothing-something—and make its abso­lute individuality depend on its good be­havior. If it is1 " vvery good,” then there comes a time when i t partakes of the di­vine spirit, and its future is thereafter eternally secure; but, on the other hand, if it turns out “ awfully horrid,” i t is left to its own evil devices, and the individ­uality derived from nowhere, returns to nowhere; whilo tho “ monad,” with all its “ potentialities ” intact, goes back into the bosom of the conscious substance from whence as nothing i t issued forth.

Tf now we epitomize all what the soul is and what it is not, according to this book, we have the following delightful mess ofometaphysical olla podrida:

1. The soul is the seat of the divine central will.

2. It is engendered in the lowest forms of organic life.

3. f t is generated in tho fluidic material called the astral body.

4. I t is perfected,or dissipated and lost.5. Once begotten it is immortal, until its

own perverse will extinguishes it.6. The soul is in its nature eternal.The soul is the individual, and per­

ishes finally if uniformed by the spirit.One is a t a loss to account for contra­

dictions so obvious on rational grounds. I Occult causes alone are capable of fur-1 nishing an explanation. There is an at­tempt in ‘‘The Perfect W ay" to show that the inspiration which expresses it­self in phenomenal Spiritualism is all of the “ astral ” variety—i. c., is the pro­duct of phantasms, more reflections of things, of “ olementals ” and other suoh fry—and this wo are told is their intel­lectual and moral status: “ Of contra- dictions in their own statements they are altogether unconscious: and bo these gross and palpable as they may, they [the said nondescripts] remain wholly unabashed by the disclosure of them. " Obviously, for once these phantosmio re­flections must have escaped the limita­tions ot Spiritualism, and turned them­selves loose for a “ picnic" in "The Perfect Way."

Now lot us note what anothor author­ity in Theosophy reporta on this subject.

■Mr. A. P. Sinnott (whoso open-minded­ness and undogmatlc manner of treating this subject deserves special recogni­tion), in nis “ Esoteric Buddhism," is de­lightfully comprehensive, but. oxnspornt- lngly vague. Ho, too, begins the inovo[ meat from neumena to phenomena with a “ monad,” and, in telling his readers what it is, talks with a charming gen­erality about “ the stream from tho spring,” * • * “ the tide of life, the wave of existence, tho spiritual lmpulso, call it what name we please.” In all this verbiage there is one expression only that carries a moaning with it: and that is “ spiritual impulse.” In “ Embodiments” the word “ lmpulso,” when applied to

I the soul, has a special significance—is. Iln fact, a solvent note. A “ spiritual Impulse,” taken oven a t its lowest term, Implies an actor, something that is acted on, and a purpose. Thus wo are confronted at tne very outset with a moral proposition—a circumstance of trancondont value.

If, however, unsentient evolutionary I forces involve the metaphysical abstrac- Itlon yclept “ monad.” nolens volcns, inoirecv unm nusui. l no musi> nuuum nv i , . » i _ r , >

exposition of Re-incarnation la undoubt- tho,lr is manifestly no oo-«l . i s « i _i_i i fusion Til tnl If mini it. nn "imRMiluv" muIdly to be found in that rotnarkablo[ book called “ The Perfect Way," a curi­ous medley of spiritual insights and il­logical reasoning.

l?c-tnc«rna(ion, according to this au­thority, starts with a divine substance, uncreate being, all-consciousness. This substance, we are told, is homogeneous, yet composed of1 'monads,” each of which is potentially tho same as the entire sub­stance. Each "monad ” constitutes a “ soul,” which “ soul” realizes individu­ality by effecting repeated incarnations in matter. Let us analyze this. We have an all-conscious substance,and “mo­nads " composing this substance. Now, Is it possible for tho mind to ooncelvo something that is nothing? Certainly

casion to talk about an “ lmpulso:” and there is. of course, a t tho same tlmo an end to the thought of a moral purposo in man's existence; and if this bo not tho way of It, what then is it that starts |this non-existence on its pllgrimago to axlstenao?

Finally,wo have this fromMr. Sinnott: “Tho consideration that ultimate progress is determined by spirituality irrespective of its moral coloring,is tho grout meaning of tho occult doctrine that ‘to bo immor­tal in good one must identify oneself with God, to 1)0 immortal tcith evil, with Satan. Thoso are tho two polos of tho world of souls; botweon these two poles vegetate or die without remembrance tho useless portions of mankind.”

It is pretty safe to assume that o olvll-not. Yet that is precisely what the Re- izatlon that has once and for all glvon a incamationfot asks us to do, for his on-1 quietus to the devil indigenous to it, so

uttrlbuto or quality of soul or being. In this view man is because soul seeks ex­pression in human form, and his con­sciousness proceeds from thatwhloh puts him forth: not because ho is in matter, but in spite of mutter—m atter doing its utmost to limit his consciousness to its peculiar conditions and forms: and in some Instances (as in tho case of idiots) quite succeeding in limiting the celes­tial flame to the merest flicker of self-

| recognition—typical of an almost com- nleto triumph of m atter over its hered­itary enemy. In tho child, years elapse before persistent self-conscious­ness is achlovea—i. (., before tha t which realizes itself os absolute self-conscious­ness establishes Itself in some permanent modification as human self-consciousness. And in all cases matter puts its peculiar limitations upon tho intruder. Some it permits to realize only the clods of the earth, and the wherewith to feed and clothe the body. This, indeed, is a limi­tation to which the vast majority are reduced, whilo comparatively few only— because the soul, through repeated em­bodiments, expresses more and more its divine attributes—make touch with the Infinities.

That there exists a fundamental differ­ence between tho ideas comprehended respectively under the terms Embodi-\ mints and Re-incarnation has, I trust, been mode sufficiently clear. But what has not, perhaps, been emphasized as it deserves, is the circumstance tha t Re-in­carnation and “ Orthodox Spiritualism ” start from precisely the same premise: neither positing a self-conscious entity as lying back of and constituting the real element of spirit, and both conceiv­ing spirit as evolved to consciousness by material processes: the only difference between them being one or mode—the “ Orthodox Spiritualist” believing that the single concatenation of fortuitous incidents by which a human body ap­pears in the realm of phenomena, suffices not only to create a spirit, but that a spirit once called into existence has no further use for material vestments after the change called death; while the ife- incamationist regards successive “ baths of oblivion” essential to a moral out­working. In this instance, the loglo is obviously with the “ Orthodox Spiritu­alist,” for the simple reason th a t if man be regarded as naught besides an evolu­tionary product, i. e., a product of blind, unsentient forces—there is manifestly no moral problem whatsoever involved in the issue—in such circumstances, all talk about the operation of a “ Karmlo law ” Impelling to re-incarnation being a pure gratuity.

I t is important tha t tho reader should get a firm hold on the idea tha t all the while tha t man is, his spirit is also—that each expresses dis­tinct state of self-consciousness: the ono humanly or materially limited, the other only spiritually limited—the man being excluded from tho spirit in order that he may realizo a feeling or state of self­hood, but tho spirit all the while in- eluding the man in its consciousness, but always, remember, according to its own way of regarding things. Now let us suppose the man dies. W hat happens? Why, simply this: th a t ho nowrealizes himself more or less under an­other aspect or form of consciousness, which, however, has always co-existed with him—and thus, step by step, heItroceeds to make tho acquaintance of lis larger spiritual self, by entering

more and more fully into the self-exist­ent consciousness of nis spirit. Lifo and death are thus mado complementary modes of exchange. Tho spirit puts forth man for moral achievement, and it is in this wise that man enriches tho spirit; per confra, when the man outers tne spirit, he is by dogreos made hoir to all that previous embodiments havo achieved for tho spirit; and, finally, it is he, as tho totality of spirit, that deter­mines upon another embodiment. Is this I2c-tncanio(i‘o)if Obviously, no. Tho man who died is forovor secure in the spirit: nay, to all intents and purposos, no is that spirit—and spirit ho remains, with­out a scintilla of loss— and what happens to him by and through anothor embodi­ment is all gain, by an absorption of now experiences—experiences tnat are absolutely neoossary to call into activity all tho powers of wnloh tho spirit fools itself Informed, but for which It finds no

i moans of expression in a state void of ! temptations, and, therefore, void of any soul out-calling qualities. The problem which tho soul sots itself is to overcome tho world, tho flosh and tho dovll incar­nate in matter. This it can do only where matter is; and it is for this that it urges spirit, by means of embodi­ments, to a final divine expression.

Soul, as soul, makes no contact with matter. For this it employs tho inter­mediary state known as spirit; a projec­tion from itsolf, and a limitation of litsolf, but not to tho degree tha t man Is limited. It is this Intermediary state— i. c., tho state of spirit—that contalus and expresses the formatii'c intelligence which,through suoh moans os unsentient nature provides, fashions tho human body for ourth existence.

According to “ Orthodox Spiritual­ism," it is tho body that fashions the spirit; per contra, as wo havo soon, ac­cording to tho dootrlne of “ soul in human embodiments,"It is tho spirit that fashions tho body. To this form of stating tho

[“ orthodox Spiritualistic” position, a portion will probably outer an emphatic protest—but thoy can do so seriously only because they fall to realizo what their demurrer Implies. W ithout con­ceding to that which thoy call spirit (be­fore embodiment) a singlo attribute above matter, either of consciousness or other Implication of selfhood, thoy nev­ertheless declare that it is superior to matter. Superior in what? Lot us koop within determinable bounds. Wo can note of matter everything but oonBolous-

mntorial conditions. But is this “ form tbe spirit per sc, or only a thought gar­ment put on for purposos of sensible recognition? If you answer that the “ form ” expresses spirit per sc. then, surely, we have spirit as a material pro­duct. If, however, your answer is that

say to a thoughtful and analytical mind 1 as to the manner of its conservation? and this necessarily Involves considera­tion of its ultimate constitution.

I t is conserved, the “ Orthodox Spirit­ualist " will answer, because within us

_ ___________________ Ithere is a spirit—an organism like thethe likeness is as a thought-woven gar- human organism, except tha t it is com­m ent, then the spirit must be regarded posed of “ finer stuff "—and it is this as the expression of some eternal verity; tha t carries on the thinking process al­and its existence prior to any earthly ter death: it is in this that egoistic con- embodiment is a necessary corollary, sclousness is conserved. Granted that And if this pro-existenoe be granted, it is so, what then? Surely we are no then tho putting on of material condl- nearer the solution of the problem than lions has a far other meaning than is we were before. How consciousness ordinarily Imputed to b irth—i*. as manifests itself is of small concern be* conferring existence—for tha t it already side the question: “ W hat is conscious- hod. Obviously, then, there is but one ness?” Is it a product of m atter that conclusion permissible to us, namely: you are now conserving in the spirit, or that which spiritually exists comes to Is it something by itself to whlcn matter earth for expression. has merely given a certain limitation or

From the point of view of Soulism, form? In other words: can m atter ore- spirit is that which in another world-or- ate an entity—can m atter create (i. e., der stands towards us as the immediate give consciousness to) an immortal soul? promoter as well as the conservator of In fine, is it possible to conceive tha t it embodiments or expressions in matter; can do anything more than put u llmita- while soul is tha t which puts forth the tion upon consciousness—i. e., crib and expressions—is tha t which employs the confine it. and reduce i t to its lowest spirit-state as a vehicle for expression— term as expression? and is tha t in whose supreme conscious- The position of the Materialist is un- ness all associated expressions or embodi- doubted I v false, but it is strictly logical ments constitute a unit: not by any pro- —there Is perfect accordance between cess of loss to any single embodiment or his premise and his conclusion—all the expression,but by reason of each gaining way along he holds himself strictly to what all tho rest contribute. In this conditions of matter, time and sense, view, neither spirit nor man is anything Now the position of the Spiritualist is a in itself or himself—both are a t best only supremely difficult one If he provides temporary states. Man dies in the himself with no other premise than tha t spirit to vaster outlooks, and so spirit taken by the Materialist, for It is his a t last dies in the angel, and by this business to show how th a t which is now birth the horizon widens to proportions obviously in time is to be got intoeteral- comparatively illimitable. ty without the intervention of some deus

The process of involution from soul to ex machinu. There must be no juggling man eventuates in what we call b irth— here—no confusion of notions in-we ought to call it death. The process herently different. If sp irit is a time of evolution from man, through spirit, product there is no hocus-pocussing it in­to the angel, we call dying—it is really to eternity—to a philosophical mind it b a succession of'birth-throes. The first simply an unthinkable procedure. Then, is a descending series from light into j if you say man is immortal by reason of deeper and ever deeper darkness’and the spirit within, which is an eternal limitation,until the human expression in substance, you are bound to concede to m atter is achieved: the second is an it, as a possession before material birth, ascending series from darkness and im-1 all those essentials that you expect it to prisonment to greater and over greater possess after its earthly pilgrimage: for, perceptions of tne light celestial. obviously, the only elements that matter

The soul is being: it is the measure of te r can yield is experience, provided there all consciousness tha t can ever be man's is ready to hand a consciousness to receive it. portion, for no effect can exceed its And if consciousness be regarded as pre­cause. I t is by reason of the soul’s oon- existent—(i. e., eternal) nothing essential sclousness tha t man is conscious (though smuggled into eternity with what we call in an absurdly limited degree, com -! death—all th a t is taken there is a cere­parative ly speaking) and if alone is typical, in any true sense, of eternal life.

Man is not being. If he were, he would have compassed the universe and eternity, and there would be literally i nothing more for him to do. Being u 1 both tne beginning and the end, the alpha and omega of man and his possibili- ties. Man, therefore, is not being, but j because he is an expression of, or from, | being, he has an intuition o f being, and it j is th is sense of being tha t constitutes his ego. This sense is that which unites I

tain amount of experience, constituting the phenomenon man (as spirit) in the neumenal consciousness of soul: and this phenomenon, so humanly limited, will lose little, time in acquiring larger and ever larger perceptions of iU diviner self.

Let us. by way of illustration, take some man of note. He has had many experi­ences. He has solved many problems; many discoveries stand to his credit; he has been In many lands, and a d e a r mind enables him to realize the entire

„---------------------------------------------------- synthesis. But he grows old; one facthim to the absolute. I t Is a something after another drops out of his recollec-related neither to time nor to space. Regard i t as we will, we can consider it only as a quality—as the "know er” in contradistinction to things known—and cannot be considered other than as a priori.

tion: and finally ho is returned to the incidents of his childhood, and all the great achievements of his life are out of nis consciousness. We find tha t ninety and nine parts of the man are gone—only the hundreth part remains. W here now

Ian ad vanoes from stage to stage by are these ninety and nine parts? You will concepts. He has now, so far as physical! answer: they are in tho spirit, and ail aspects are concerned, mastered tho idea will come back to him when he enters very thoroughly, th a t the sum total of that realm. Very well, but in what form tho universe can neither be added to n o r , are they in the spirit? All was in con- taken from. To the scientific mind it is sclousness once; out this consciousness now simply inconceivable tha t a single has outwardly contracted and crowded atom can ever be added, or one solitary them out, ana now the vital question is, atom ever subtracted, from the totality. | are these experiences still conserved inThis concept marks a transcendent achievement in the ovolution of tho human mind. And, following this as a logical sequence, another oonoept is awaiting the awakening of a still higher perception, and it is this: tha t being is

consciousness, and do they realize them­selves in spirit Just as well now as they will when the final hundreth part shall arrive, and the human book is finally closed?■Clearly, it is only by considerations of

subject to a similar arbitrary numerical this character that we can ever arrive [limitation^ and tha t it is just as lm- at any satisfactory conclusions upon thispossible to create new beings—i. e., absolute things-in-themselvos—as it is to create new atoms. Tho absolute nature of an atom must remain to the end a mystery. I t Is the same with the ab­solute nature of briny. But the atom we are bound to assume, or wo cannot think rationally about thecosmio universe; and being wo are bound to assume, or we can­not think rationally about tne spiritual universe. Each realm requires a final basis—an eternal background, whenoe Issues tho entire phenomenal phan-

deepest and subllmost of all subjects. Spirit Is a state. From that state you are now excluded. That state does not await your death. That state is now what it ever will be. All you hare lost you will find there. Of course. It is there now; and as it was not a thing, but a consciousness of a thing, you must expect to find It not as a thing, out as conscious­ness. If In spirit you expect to be ad­mitted to larger and larger realms of consciousness, those realms must be Ithere, or you cannot be admitted to

tasmagoria—an eternal background upon them. Or do you expect to reverse thewhloh the panorama of phenomenal ex­istence pictures itself In an endless variety of sensible illusions.

All progress is a process of shutting back doors and opening front doors. All lower functions, or forms, are lost in higher functions or forms. And in a similar manner—suoh is the relation of i man through spirit to soul—all lower selves are perpetually lost In higher solves—but so divinely ordered are the Iprocesses of transition, tha t the thread of egoism whloh joins all forms of ex­pression to Being is never broken.

“ Orthodox Spiritualism " takes the generally accepted view that conscious­ness is in man: t. tha t It Is a produot per m of function: “ Soidism" reverses tho formula, and says “ man Is in con­sciousness "—consciousness being thus Identified with Being, and oonoolved as an eternally persistent thing-ln-iteolf.

If the human limitation In conscious­ness that knows Itself os John falls into a dreamless sloop, what has become of

[John’s consciousness? Is it extinct? ITho Materialist answers, “ Yea, it is non-existent, and must remain so until a certain material process, for a time in abeyance, is again set in motion.” Now, what does the Spiritualist say? What answer can he make that Is more satis­factory than the Materialist's, if ho re­jects the views tha t consciousness is a thlng-in-itself? Given a persistent back­ground of consciousness, and the con­servation of each and ovory limitation

method and glvo consciousness to spir­itual realms from the puny self—tho self tha t often has literally forgotten Itself through old ago,—that, as a last remnant, goes over there?

Both Re-incarnation and “ Orthodox Spiritualism ” make “ achievement ” their shibboleth. In distinction to thL the “ Embodimentists ” lay stress upon “ expression.” I t is a difference compar­able to not having a thing and wanting it, and having i t to give. If you regard yourself os wholly a produot of evolu­tionary processes, you naturally look for­ward to your environment, to externali­ties, to assist you to what you oonoulve to be Intellectual or spiritual growth. If, however, you regard yourself as the re­sult pre-eminently of an involution, you will as naturally look Inward for means to perfectibility. Obviously, if you be­lieve you have nothing until it is “ ac­quired," you naturally lay stress upon intellectual or external agonoios ratner than spiritual verities. The evolution­ist m ight say, “ Movo forward and lay hold on the dem ents to perfectibility tha t are about you;” tho lavoluttonlst will say, 'fMove Inward and lot tho dl- vino elements awaiting expression lay hold on you.” Christ has said, “ Heaven is within.” It Is not amidst tne stars. I is not amidst the sciences. It Is found by considering intellectual proj: sltloas. I t Is purely a soul dement.It Is only wnon the soul possesses y

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tho Ignorant mombors of tho Cnthollo Churcu.

Again, this aamo phenomena enn bo onusud on n sonsltlvo through tho In­strumentality of "suggestion " ulono, In accordance with n natural law not yot fully undorntood. Through suggestion ulono tiny puH of tho hotly of tho settsi- tlvo can no mado Insonalblo to ndlmovun can bo pierced with u knlfo bltulo, anil yot nothing disagreeable bo experienced, or tho blood caused to forco Its way through skin on tho tiglins of tho hunu, on tho dorsum of each foot, und tho side. Hut whothorctiUHod by mosnicrlo or hyp* nolleoperator, tho phonomcnon Is novor outaldo of tho wuU-doflncd domain of natural law, and Is novor In any sonso miraculous. Thus wo boo ono lifter an* othor of tho sacred claims of tho Cath­olic Church coming within tho province of natural laws.

That Miss Collins hod tho gonulno stigmata wo lmvo no doubt, but In no sonso wore they entitled to rovoreneo, nor should they ho regarded tut snored. Tho stigmata survive simply tut n rollo of Ignovanco and suporstltlon, and In no sonso arc saorod.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1891.

S T IG M A T A .

They A re a R elic o f S u p erstition an d Ignorance .

Some time ago the Chronicle of Son Francisco, contained the following:

“ On Thursday night last, after a hard day's tramp in going among some poor people in a remote part of the city, Miss Collins was taken quite ill. She felt a severe headache and was seized with a semi-unconsciousness which alarmed her companion, and Induced the latter to tend for aid. A messenger was dis­patched to the Rev. Father Prendergast, and also to several of the young lady's Catholic friends, and they wore soon in attendance at her bedside. That night her condition grow worse, and the friends became seriously alarmed. Tho next day (Good Friday) Miss Collins suddenly went Into a trance, and then it w&h that the startling manifestation of which wo write took place. Suddenly the persons watching by her side ob­served red spots come in tho middle of her hands. The spots grew redder and

• redder, and in a few moments blood flowed from them. The spots had the appearance of wounds mado by piercing

i with a nail. They went d ear through the hands, showing as plainly in the palm as on the back, and they discharged

| blood from both sides. The persons ini attendance a t the bedside when these!

, remarkable phenomena took place were Father Prendergast, D. J . Oliver and wife, Mrs. Richard Tobin, Mrs. C. D. O'Sullivan, tho housekeeper, and Miss

t Collin's companion. The appearance of theso wounds led to an examination, and

’ two wounds of precisely similar charac- ■ ter were found on the feet. Like the I hands, they exhibited two dark rod I spots, from which the blood flowed quite I froely. Another large spot, from which

the blood likewiso oozed, was found on

Tlio R elig ion o f H um anity .In an lntorvlow on ono occasion at

Mliwaukoo, WIs., tho distinguished Prof. Felix Adlor, among many othor things, said: “ 1 lmvo novor yot hoard it acknowledged, yot it Is a fact, os tho New Tostamont Scriptures provo, that tho teachings of Josus, with all thoir] beauty and simplo grandeur, woro hos-1 tlio to tho State, hostile to society, hos- tlio to tho family. It was tho individual, first and last, that must bo ministered to. ‘ If a man hate not his brother,’ said Jesus. Only once did ho suggost tho rondoring of n duty to tho Stnto, and thon it was with tho impression, ap­parently, that it was to bo a duty only temporarily. * Rondor unto Ciesar,’ ote. With a great individual to worship, ono whoso personality not only mado its im­pression on his followers while ho lived, but has ontorod into tho faith of his fol­lowers with a living power for noarly two thousand years, thoro came, neces­sarily, class distinctions, aristocracy— the Popo, tho Presbyterian Synod, otc.In short, tho lnfluonco of Christianity has boon monarchical tn contradistinc­tion to tho lnfluonco of Judaism, which | was republican. I t couldn’t be other­wise. Personal worship meant king- ship."

From this point Professor Adlor naturally turned to speak of his own faith ana of his Ethical Culture Socioty and its work: “ Wo havo, so wo bollovo, combined the strong features of both tho Jewish and the Christian faith. Our objective point is what Christianity has emphasized—tho elevation of tho indi­vidual. But we bollovo that tho truo way to help and build up the individual Is to put him in right relation with tho institutions organized for his benefit. It is plain to those who have studied tho problem that, instead of being hindered In his development by the performance of duties required by those Institutions, tho individual is greatly aided in his de­velopment by tho right performance of those duties. In other words, the per­fect individual is possible only through these institutions. Wholly practical, you ice, our aim is. Notice how the workings out of our plan will help the homo, socioty, and tho State, why, take the rotations of tho individual to the home! Do you know of a more del­icate, or more beautiful development in tho building of character than that which comes with tho responsibilities of fathorhood and motherhood ?’’

Prof. Adlor enunciates a grand truth in tho above. Tho relation of tho indi­vidual to tho homo is such that if it is .in a certain degree perfect, ho will develop morally and intellectually, and bo a sub­stantial strength to tho community in which ho lives. In that respect, Prof. Adlor is advocating and sustaining tho vory essence of true religion. Tho onoSrreat mistake mado in sects generally s: they do not enter into tho practical affairs of life. When tho physician, tho scientist, tho philosopher, or tho minis­ter of tne gospel, teaches tho aspiring mother the truo principles underlying maternity while she is carrying tho em­bryonic germ, and developing what Is to make the future man or woman; teaches her how to impress it with high and

1 holy aspirations, and so attuning tho vl-

No A bsolute Rost,Thoro Is no absolute rest for anything

but truth; that alono will remain undis­turbed through all tho cycles of tliuo. Tho old, staid Preabytorlan church, re­garded ns a primeval fossil, and tut fixed ns tho olornnl, Is now in tho throes of convulsion, In attempting a revision of faith. According to tho Tribune, thoro was at tho Gonorul Assembly at Detroit only ono vonorablo prouohor from Nebraska, a man who hud reached four score, who stood alone In holding teiiu-1 otously to tho creed without revision. I IIo would not oress u t or dot an I. That I only ono such clergymun canto to tho front tn all that largo assembly was truly remarkable. Even Dr. Francis Patton, whom Chicago has so much occasion to romombor ns a stickler for “ tho faith once delivered unto tho saints," whllo1 ho was gingerly In approval of revision, showed plainly enough that he has no light in nlm. Stripped of vorhlngo and technicalities, tlio changes, to name thorn in tho ordor of tholr probable im­portance us changes, are, first thoro Is no longer uny suggestion of tho damna­tion oflnfunts. On thocontrurv, nil In­fants uro expressly assumed to uo among the “ elect.'' Second, tho spirit of big­otry against tho Roman Catholic Church, so pronounced In tho old oroed, was eliminated. Of course tho Presbyterian Church Is fur from being In accord with Romo, but that bitterness which existed originally Is now blotted out. Third, tho word "condemnation" is substituted for " damnation," a change which sug-frests, to say tho least, that tho star of iopo shines, if fnlntly, on tho gruvo of

tho Impenitent dead. Fourth, thoro is no longor any attempt to Invauo tho do- main of angola and lift into oreodul dig­nity tho speculations whloii huvo lniiuu I" Paradise Lost" ono of tho master- pieces of literature.

Some discussion may bo indulged in at u latter stago of tho proceedings, but re­vision Is now so nearly an accomplished foot that tho pobllo will liurdly tuko much interest in its further discussion. No ono supposed that the Presbyterian Church hud stood stock-silli ovor slnco tho Westminster Assembly met, but it will be for tho good namo of tho ohurch that its formal statement of doctrino is to bo brought down to date and iniulo to fairly express what tho intelligence of tho denomination really bollovos.

Tlio TliomiiN I till.This nefarious bill, whlolt |muukn! tho

Bonato a few weeks ago. received a sot buck boforo tlio Judiciary Committee of | tho House from which it will not bo likely to rooovor. Mr. Ilundy was thoro with his various chestnuts which he lias been for several years collecting in Hus­ton and other parts of tlio country, consisting of wigs, gauze, ote,, whlolt lie presented ns paraphernalia used by vari­ous inuturlulixlng mediums. Ills pre­sentation wus a mostagainst tho bill, for wiiut had the par-1 itpliornitliit, olalmod to havo been used by

j Huston mediums and othor mediums outside of this State, to do with a law hero ul the present UinoV Although tlio comm It too (consisting of Dr. Ihtiulttll, Coo. P. McIntyre, Mr. Powell, and J. It. Francis), sunt tlown from this city to op­pose tho bill, had only a few hours In which to work, thoy accomplished it good deal. In tho Judiciary Committee tlio vote wus it tlo, but tho ohntrman favoring tho bill, It wus sunt back to tho ilouso, where it will, without doubt, bo rojootod. As soon as tlio liberal mom- burs of tho Judiciary Committee learned that this bill Is a chestnut, having boon dofeatod In Now York und Massachu­setts, and boon floating around generally among tlio States, where it hits failod to find lodgment, thoy realized tho situa­tion spoodliy, and a lively opposition wits a t onoo inaugurated. Tho frionds of tho bill woro amazed at tho turn things hud taken, und tho vote, though hy ono majority sondlng it buck to tho Ilouso, was tho signal of its final dofoat. Lot tho old chestnut keep on tho fly; It will work no dangor in tho air, and stands but vory littio show of ovor llndlng rec­ognition In tills State.

Som ething Im portan t. To tlio Hplrltimllst* of Ohio.

Scored a Grand T rium ph.

To tiik Editor: ptho columns of your o say it word to tlm State. Willie thoro un

null mo through oollont paper to frionds In our I opon and avowed

Splriluullsts In every oily and nearly every village In Ohio, little hits boon dono for inuny yunrs In tho direction of practical organization to promote nubile work. At a few places limy are nolo to maintain public, meetings; out In a mu-

xcollonl argument, I Jorlly of Instnnous such efforts havo boon I a failure for wunl of practical organ I za-1 lion and tho nooussitry financial bus Is. I Hrothcr D. M. King, of Mantua Station, I Ohio, hits boon for many years wr. un-1 tiring und zealous worker In the cause, lie Im u lecturer of inoro than ordinary 1 ability, and few men possess inoro prac­tical Knowledge In organizing limn does | ha. Intensely in ourncsl, ho novor tires In tlio good work. To Ills unselfish zeal wo shall be indebted this yuitr for the existence of two citinp meetings which give promise of more than ordinary suc­cess. Ono will bo hold In Mantau, In tlio cits torn purl of tlio Slate, and llm other ul Ashley, In the central. Those camps uro thoroughly organized und will no provided with good spoukors and mediums. No effort will lie spared for tho comfort and ontertulnmunt of guests, it is tho duly of ovory Spiritualist In Ohio to pulronlzu und eneourugo these camp mootings. Write to Urothor King for full particulars. If you want u

To tiib Editor:—-'Two weeks ago I put my foot In a hornet's nest Imre, and I havo returned to smite nil tho yellow* jackets that threatened to sling. We havo had n good deal of fun. I)r. Swart* gavu you u correct Idea of tlio work. Tho priest denounced us publicly, and I challenged him to moot mo on the

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Lyman C. Howe gee* to <* for tho flrst Sunday <>( dune, to visit Ills old parishioner

lis ox pooled > will rood

greeting. Mr. llowo hit* arplatform of tlio independent Church, hut City, Mo. lie no filll«ul to ooiiuit I «|Kiko horo liml I HOO,,» whom I Sunday morning on "lnlldollly 'WHIM |Infallibility," anu on Monduy evening on " Human I h'di ond the Boycott." Tills was termed the moat conservative of my loeluros. Now, wltii all tho good adver­tising iu your valuable impor, I hope to racolvo u few units from Spiritualist

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nt Carding ton, Ohio, lie says; » ” ry soon to hogln tho completion

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lohurohus, or olsc rant halls on my own responsibility. This lilts boon the flrst time that I spoke under tho auspices of a liberal sooioty. and we have scored a grand success. I inn Just starling for noma, to remain thoro for a few days. I exjieel to iw hero again for Juno 7. Since my last' report In Muruh, 1 havo spoken In tlio following places!

April 4, Clyde. O.; 7 and R, Moroncl, Mien., Town Hall; 0 and 10, Fuyoltu, O., M. K. Church; 13 and M, Huhooiorufl, Mich., Hnptlst Cliuroh; 16, Constan­tino, Mloh., Lutheran Church; 17 and 18, Throo Rivers, Mich., M. K. Church; ill, Constantino, Mich., Opora Ilouso; 20 Constantino, Mich., Lutheran Church

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local organization and lueturus, do not I e; un(j 22, White Pigeon, Mich., Ro fall to call hlin. His lectures uro always formed Church; 24, Weston, Mloh., M full of ntorost. PorMonnUy ho ,Inspires g. churoh. May 5, 0 and 7, Trains I" ii , *(un, ' kindly naturo. Intellect-1 hurgh, O., Congregational Church; 10 |ually, ho foods with solid and substantial | unj n ( Alliance, O., Indopondantthoughts. ICncourage his work, do not forgot the camp mootings ho organized. Attend thorn und you bo tho gainer thereby.

A. B. French.

und has I will1

T ho an d

H eresy .Thoro is heresy in tho air, and it acts

liko a ferment In all tho ohurohos. Thoro arc numerous trials for horosyJ even of priests of tho Calholio Church,! who are wont to go ustray and drink too deeply of tho waters of knowlodgo, which makes thorn restless under tho bondage of croods and abominable dog­mas. It is, however, In tho ranks of Presbyterian and Congregational churches that the defection Is most widespread. Tho judgos of tho theo­cratic tribunals arc in accord with tho offenders they would condemn, and yot havo not tho manliness to declare them­selves. W hat will bo tho rosult on tho churches? Some of tho lcadors whistle bravely to keep tholr courage up. Thoy reiterate that tho apostates may go, and tho churches will be tho stronger, and next year thoy will not bo missed. Thoy say the churches are too solid to bo moved by heresy in thoir ranks. I t is Joyous to fool in this manner, but if thoy would ston long onough to think ana compare tho advanced position now oc­cupied by the most orthodox to tho orthodoxy of twenty-five years ago, thoy would become conscious that tho louvonof knowlodgo is working in tho mass, and will in tho ond inevitably burst through all crccdal restraint.

T I I K A U N U H T IC ’H C H E K Jh

From whence I come, or whither go, My creed la this, I do not know; Into this creed all other* flow.1 am a flickering spark of mind, Vast darkness In before, behind- - Darkness to me, for I am blind.Lo, In a blade of grass there dwell Dread invsterica I cannot spell,Higher tuan heaven, deeper than boll.

the right side just below tho breast."I__[ Tho stigmata are wounds resembling 1 brations of its brain that its moral fnoul-l those received by tho Lord Jesus Christ tlcH wiU always predominate, then ho isat the time of the Crucifixion. In tho Catholic Church they are esteemed as supernatural, and those manifesting the phenomenon arc regarded with special reverence. According to the statement of Sir Richard Wheatley, who examined the subject from a historical standpoint, they are only peculiar to the later eras of the Christian history. There have been 153 cases of Stigmata in the Ro­man Catholic Churcn, the ono moat

Thing* were and arc and are to bo;I peer not Into myatery,And cry, made bold through fear “ I acol"Thing* were, and arc, and go tholr way, Whether they govern or obey;With them I go and cannot stray." I do not kn o w all thought sublime, All prophesies of former time,But bluo this pearl In seas of slime.

teaching the very essence of religion,1 and doing a grant!, good work.

Religion must cease to bo transcend­ental, and become practical In all re­spects. Prof. Adlor is quietly lending to tho accomplishment of that ond. His magnanimous soul is ever aspiring God- ward, ever trying to elovate poor, strug­gling mortals, and always anxious to es­tablish foundation principles for tho elevation of human character. Thoro is not a minister of tho goepol living doing so much for tho world in gonoral as ho.

And I, who neither fear nor trust. Holding this creed because I must,Hbsll not Iks mocked, alive or dust.

— H euryt H o r to n , (Jhlcayo.

prominent being that of Francis Borna-1 done, in Italy, and who was canonized as SL Francis d’Assissi. He claimed that he beheld a vision—a seraph with six wings, and in connection therewith tho likeness of tho cruclfiod Jesus, which

Veriltab'

ji'liy, Wish I

great shall bo his reward for es- ing the Religion of Humanity.H

was followed by the stigmata; each hand) and foot was pierced In the middle by anail, whllo on his left side was a wound! as if pierced by a lance. These wounds,] it Is claimed, nover gangrened or sup­purated. Fifty Franciscan monks pro 1 claimed that they had on one occasion seen them.

Of course, tho stigmata of Francis Be mad one woro regarded as being caused by the miraculous intervention of God himself, as a testimonial in behalf of tho Catholic Church. That they did occur, it may bo possible; but that syn­chronous with the appoaranco of the

[Wounds on the palm of his hands and tho dorsum of each foot there also ap­peared the nails, half clinched, passing! entirely through tho wounds, wo are ln-1 Ollned to doubt: but be that as it may,

i we are willing to oonoedo tho existence of tho stigmata, which have contributed

mao largely in promoting the interests In ! the superstitions of the Mother Church.

The phenomenon has often existed, and I will, no doubt, continue to occur ovon

after the cause thereof is fully under­stood, when their proselyting mission

■will cease.There are two causes that can produce

the stigmata. If tho subject is highly i mcdiumistic, Catholic spirits can ho

manipulate tho forces of tho body that there is a determination of blood to theG luts of the hands, the dorsum of each

>t and to the side, producing wounds { | very much resembling those made on ; the body of Jesus at the time of the Cru­

cifixion. Thoy were not always success­ful in finding a medium that possessed

> an unblemished moral character like Francis Bernadono, but would use any one who could be controlled for that es­pecial purpose. There was Christine do tttumbele, who was said to bo a hysteri-

I cal, epileptic and orratic woman, fine had fl ve wounds on Good Friday, the crown

I of thorns on Tuesday of Passion Week snd the bloody sweat on Holy Thursday.

I The details o f her experience, as given by Dr, William A. Hammond In his

■ work on Nervous Derangements, are do- I elded ly nasty. She, too, was undoubV-

K issin g a n d tlio B ib le .Kissing plays as Important a part in

the blble on it does In modern civiliza­tion. Thu JleroUl says that when doc­tors of divinity hold that ovory word and every letter of the scripture is in­spired and is literal truth, tho kisses recorded in tho scriptures comes forth) to torment them, even as tho Bostonian tormented the vigilant guardian of dej mure deportment in tho thoroughfares In tho Book of Psalms ii., II, Protest ant version, we read: " Kiss tho son les he be angry." Tho Catholic version Ii " Embrace discipline,lest a t any time tlicL, Lord bo angry." Here la oloarly a confusion of translations. Which Is right? In tho tenth chapter of First Samuel the anointment of Haul is re­corded, and the ktasing of him by Sam­uel Is related in tho two versions in iden­tical words. Why did thoy differ in the first? It Is not a matter of verbal scholarship? And since the difference is obvious and is irroconall&blo by scholarship for lack of sufllolunt knowl­edge or precise equivalents In languages. | what becomes of literal translations? at least in translations? As Saint Luke relates the betrayal of Christ by Judas, the Latin vulgatu uses osaularo for the verb to kiss and osculttm for the noun. English versions concur In using tho kiss, Yot the Greek contains nothing to justify It. Thu Greek word moans primarily an expression of respectful love, an ombraco, a deferential and lov­ing salutation. Philology is tho most modern of sciences. By It alono can theso discrepancies In tho versions of the scriptures bo reconciled and their '-onflietfng aspects Iw removed. Until ihllology has said the last word on ver m I equivalents, Is It not premature to claim transliteral inspiration, especially In toxts of whose origin nothing Is abso­lutely known?

A Catholic P arty .Tlio Catholic Jlctticw earnestly advo-

ales the formation of a Catholic politi- it) party, but tlio J/iYror,wlth tho subtle

wisdom of the ohurcli, declares such a party undesirable, and thnt Catholics will gain tholr onds with less opposition by using the already existing partios. Tho priesthood,holding tho entire church vote of n population of from twelve to fifteen millions, and able to cast It for olthor parly, holds the balanco of power, and cun dictate terms to parties and can­didates. If thoy had adlstinetlvu party, with issues publicly discussed, tholr strongth would be reduced to the actual Catholic vote.

G ro w th o f LiboraliHin P ra c tic a l P h ilan th ro p y .

Tho N. Y. Tribune says that tho growth of llborallstn In Scotland in recent years is romarkublo. Tho Edin­burg Presbytery of tho Free Church virtually acqulttod tho Rev. Alexander Martin, of Morningslde, who was charged! with having said that tho Biblo was full! of inaccuracies. Mr. Martin admitted that his phraseology might have boon somewhat too strong, but did not recede from his tnuin position. Nevertheless,

like Presbytery dismissed tho case with a gentle warning to tho radical clergy­man to bo less vohomont In his strictures In tho futuro. Surprising us it may appear, Scotland is apparently destined to play ulotuling part in tlio grout liberal religious movement that is to-day ex­citing the hopes und fears of so many Christians. And Scottish liberalism is I a t once so profoundly rovorent und so Intelloctual its to arouse tho interest and attention of both believers and unbo- Hovers.

But oven in tho deep shades of ortho- doxy great and lasting good may bo accomplished, upon which tho angels of heaven smile. I t has boon said that if Robort Elsmero were altvo ho would find a Presbyterian church in Phila­delphia with whoso work ho could heartily sympathize. The church In question is the Beacon Prosbytorian Churoh of Kensington, of which tho pastor is the Rov. Dr. Francis L. Rob­bins. Connected with tho church proper is tho Beacon Dispensary, In whoso four departments more than 10,000 people find medical relief every year. Some of tho best physicians in Philadelphia are on tho staff of tho institution, whleh is entirely free. Tho Beacon Institute is another important department. In It thoro are live classes, presided ovor by competent teachers. Music, languages short-band, book-keeping, sewing und fancy work arc taught to all comors free of charge. Tho Beacon Lyceum Is literary association, with a reading-room 1 and library. Thoro is a ladies' kltchon and ladies’ parlor, with accommodations for 1,200 pupils. Disston Hall is used ns u Sunday-school looturo-room and for ull

| ohurch entertainments. Tho Young Peo­ple's Working Association ulds tho un­employed in gutting work. And it good orchestra of sixteen pieces hits noon formod by tlio eliurch, to furnish music a t all tlio numerous ohuruh onlorUtln- munis. Tho wholo ohurch, in a word, is a busy hive of spiritual und social life, w ith‘ovory kind of holpful agency in active operation; and Instead of being u hindrance, tho possession of it clear-cut,| vital creed Is found to bo a help. In fact. It is their belief which inspires theso working Christians to do whul

Ithey are doing.

C assadaga to tlio F ro n t.A F avorab le W ord for tills R esort.

Churoh; 12, 13 and 14, Northflold, O., Presbyterian Churoh: 16, Trolnsburgh, O., Congregational Church; 19 and 20, Aurora, O., Town Hall; 24, 25 and 20, Alliance, O., Independent Churoh.

Gko. p . Rudolph, ox-Priost. Alliance. O.

A NEW DEPARTUREProphecy is often disguised. Symbols

meaning much may be ao applied as to seem to mean nothing or worse. Things to come are told as things past, and we are not always sure of the meaning until wo see tho fulfillment. It litis boon wldo- ly reported that CasHitdagti was about to recede from the policy that had made its past success und ubundon phenomenal Spiritualism, und reduce the unnual camp meeting to the cultivation of phi-

Prof. Rudolph's homo address is Clydo, Ohio. Spirltuullsta should hoar this man. Hu Is broad and llboral in Ills views, and presents facta with which every Amur lean should bo familiar. Ho would provo a drawing card at any Spir­itualist mooting.—Editor PltOORKHHIVK Thinker.

Announcement.To tho studonts of tho O. O. M. and

soarchors after light:—As our ioeturaa havo como to a close for a brief suuson. and the Tomplo of tho Magi la tompor-

losophy only. This would Indeed bo u I urlly closed, and dealring to Improve tho ■“jw departure, strangoly inconsistent | Hmu and not become deprived of the

imbue work." Til__Spiritualists who wlli^l again on tho pubilo rostrum, *Is esncolnllv brilliant.

F. N. Foster, tho spirit artist!In tho oltjr soon.

Mrs. W. H. Bontly, of Ionia, Mloh writes: "Tho Spiritualist* of Ionia Cltv' Mloh,, will hold a Quarterly Moetlnv al A. O. U. W. Hall, Juno 14. Sunday

I morning and uvonlng, with lion, L, y Moulton, of Grand Hanlda, as apoaksr and wo hopo to havo with na Mra. K. o'. Jackson, test medium, also of Grand Rapids, Mloh. Thoro will ho a basket* dlnnor at tho hall. All frionds ars in. viled to attend, and will bo cared for n far aa pctslblo by tho Ionia people."

L. 8. Burdick, of Toxaa, Mloh., wrlUr," Tho Spiritualist Association of South­west Michigan will hold a Grove Meeting Sunday, Juno 21, at iAiko Cora, Van Buran county. Mrs. Adah Hhoehan. of Cincinnati, Is among tho ongagsd speaker*. Mrs. Dcnalow, of South Bond, Ind., will sing."

J. Nelson Yokes, of Ludlngton, Mloh., writes: " I am arousing pooplc front astale of bigotry, Ignoranoo and th o ono- man power of saying grace. They earnestly Inqulro, * How shall I pro* coetl to onlignton tho mind? What's tho host paper to road?' 1 answer briefly, that TIIK I’ROOKKHftlVK TllINKKII la tho stand ard of tho present ora and tho champion of equal rights, and that

I ovory artlolo oontalnetT in its column* emanates from minds that sparkle with reason, equity and Justice."

I J. G. Stratton, of Eureka, Kam says: "Thera have boon million) lari spent, and millions of i preached, and millions of I written to prupan- poopto for tl after. Now, if all tho money, pr and writing and lnfluenT oxpundod to hotter th«]k<opie bora, teaching

1 in this life, soolot

was tbdoty

only FIrplieoHi t H-tobi

tliL Tb«‘| lOphlq roconijpriest*porta* (o tbo that bits fa*growl)Tn Indhome

trulj

with all its precedents and all tho claims I vaiutiblo lessons taught, and tho manyand promises put forth by the munugo ment. Any one al all familiar with Cossaduga and tho character of Its offi­cials, know that no such suicidal policy was ever contemplated by any of tne di­rectors. Bnt change is in the air. Some­thing now may bo expected where there is growth and expansion. -But instead of a diminution of attractions, tho now doparturo signals an Increase. This season, for tho flrst tlmo, arrangomonU havo been mado to contlnuo mootings from tho date of tho Juno picnic to tho opening date of the regular camp season. Mrs. Lilllo Is to bo there continually from tho picnic, Juno 14, to August, and hold meetings every Sunday. A good tost medium will co-opcrato with nor, and Prof. R. T. Lille will furnish^music.

rniuiw ilumos

r tin- bore* preaching bad boon

__iindltlon ofthem how to Uvt would be far la

Thtlo:

P. L. O. A. Keeler, tho wonderful slate writer, will bo on tho grounds, which will bo a continuous attraction for tho wholo throo months; bosidcs clairvoy­ants and healors, and varieties of music vocal und instrumental; and tho Hplon- did now boats fitted up by Mr. H. 8. Powoll will bo tho wator queens, mak­ing constant pleasure for those disposed to use tho opportunity. This will make a season of exceptional interest und keep things lively the wholo summer through; and by tho time tho regular camp season opens tho woods will bo ulivo with tho eohoos of inspirations, and tho rising tldo will doubtless swell1 to proportions never before attained, boforo August is half gono. This Is probably tho doom foreshadowed !n| AlcjjOm:. which got tho prophetie Impres­sions mixed anu interpreted the signs of nctlvo Increase through an Inverted horoscope, which mado growth look like decline. This Is the new departure, which Is llkoly to be followed by others always in udvanolng waves, and nuvor ro treating from anything valuable to Die cause of Spiritualism and tlio well­being of man. Lyman C. Howe.

N E W Y O R K M E D I U M S .

■/ t i m i i i n n i o i w i v i i * i i i v i i i 'f long-suffering humanity a "h u rrah " from ovory

'ret- Testimonial to tliu First Moulnty ol’ Hplrlt iiiiIIhIm, at Atlolpltl Hull, May 21, I HOI.

N ote from B ishop A. Benin.To tiik Editor:—As my ongagomonl

for tho Literary Bpirituul Club here Is nearing its close, I feel It tny duty, tut well as pleasure, to express to the rend­ers of your vuluablo paper, my grateful praise to ouclt of Its mombors for tholr courtesy and kindness, oxtondad mo while horo, and tho earnest and thought­ful interest exhibited In niuking my meetings u success. I can say llm! no­where In my labors havo I found u mora harmonious and intelligent class of men and womon than oomjtoso this society. My mootings huvo been held in Mtisto Hall, a piufutuni, commodious place, and tlio attendance hits boon uniformly large and coin|M)sod of some of tho most prom­inent and Influential citizens of tho plucoi My ministrations have been well received, and tlio reudlngs and testa ocognlzud and gratefully received,TlllC I'UOOKKHHIVK TllINKKR is II Wei-

All honor to the mombors of Huncon Presbyterian Churoh. Their creed may be absurd, tholr vlows of tho devil wrong, tholr conception of heaven with­out a modicum of foundation, thoir views of hall and tho atonamont chimerical, tholr Ideas of faith an Illusion, their method of baptism oxlramoly foolish, und their definition of God tin error throughout, yet tholr benevolent moth ods in bohalf ofl are worthy of warm HplrlluaHslIu heart

There Is something trunscondonlly beautiful In tlio humanitarian inolliodH of this Beacon Prosbytorian Ohuruh.I leaven draws near to them whon en­gaged in snob holy, beneficent practices for the bonollt of tho poor and unfortu­nate. Angels smile upon suoh heroin attempt* to do good In tills world, und draw nearer, Indeed, than to any moot­ing where nothing of a benevolent na­ture is entertained. Give honor where honor Is duo, and wo hurrah and swing our hat in holiulf of tho ohotuu souls who aro doing so much good in a hu­manitarian way. Tholr religious creed is ull wrong; tholr humanitarian nets uro in accordance with tho highest othlos. P lain Facta.

totnu guest In many it liousu, and highly Die host spiritualommondod as ono of

im|Kirs published, I shall leave those luar frionds wltii slnooro regret, und my love will raturn to thorn, like Incense of flowers, In yours to eomo, wherever 1 may bo, wltii grateful remembrance.

DlHIIOl* A. IlKALH- WalsrUnnn, N. Y.

I>r. .1. II . Ruiidnll.Dr. J, II. Randall looturod ul Spring-

fluid, III., lost Hunduy,

w . ii. Butte.This gontloman, of Poorla, III., Is a

prominent Spiritualist and a most excel­lent worker. His opposition to that old chestnut, tbo Thomas bill, which has

p jy ft medium, and could bo used *uc-1 boon rejected In various Stoles, has beencemfully In attracting the attention of | vory effective.

M. Beruud, u Parisian urtlst, has made a sensation by bis ploture of Christ and Magdalon. ife has ohoson to raprosont tlio supper at tho house of Dio Pnurlsoo with modern guests In mod urn costumes,! and with tile accessories of n fashionable] Parisian entertainment. Our Havlor alono is depleted in the traditional East­ern garb. Even Mary Magdalon, pros­trate upon a stylish, plain, crimson carpet, wears a nlnatoonth-oontury gown, and has lust slipped off a long! satin-lined evening-cloak of tho latest fashion.

A Now V olum e ol’ Hliort HlorloN.A notable vultinia of short slorios will

Im issuod curly in Juno, by Tlio Arena Publishing Company, written by tho brilliant ruallstlo author, Hamlin Gar­land. "Main Travolod Ronds; Six Miss-

To the Editor:—This exhibition of combined tnediutnshlp, giving most of tho phiiuoH of modorn expression, such) us Inspirational Hputiklng und singing, violin und pluno-playlug, tost readings) and spirit messages, slate writing und table rapping, anu. most singular of all,! full-form materialization, was an un-1 doubted success. For two hours tho I large uudlunce was hold under tlio spoils of Hpcuoli, music, und spirit form and | action. And tho results showed Unit) mediums cun, wltii their Imuds and guides, intelligently combine and to-rKOlhur provo loo strong fur unroasatm-j do prejudice and skeptical animosity.

Thu mooting last night not only nutted a vory handsome return of money to help tne library of tho Hootoly, Imt gave tliu opportunity for loeul imMiiuinaliip to help tlio common cause, and, host of all. proved tho foot that sitoli spirits as lino manifested In private olrolua had gained strength und skill by previous oxpuvl- onou In appearing. Ono of ilium) sup­ported on oilher side by friends who had Just eomo upon tliu platform, asked that tiie great electric lights from the culling Iw turned on brightly, so that all might see her boforo site doniatorlallzed boforo 400 people. Why tho aubtlo chemical action of oil, gas or oloclrlo lights Is so doatriiolivo to tliu soft yet brilliant phospiioruauonl waves of spirit*

rated light, familiar to oaolnot

blousing* onjoyod, during tho ahorl In­terval of tlio past few months, for that rcuson sumo of us havo thought it woii to arrange to moot togothor as frequently as possible and keep up in the work so well begun, to nurture and possibly gar­ner somo of tbo fruitogoof seeds already sown. Many of our frionds and mystics have boon mooting with us on Sunday mornings at 10:30 o'clock, at tho Arling­ton Hall, near tho corner of 31st 8L and Indiana Ave., where wo havo for tboI>asl few wooks onjoyod renewed and re­freshing ovidoncos of our advancement

socially, Intellectually, and spiritually, having hod sdtno of tbo host known spoakors and test mediums to grace our platform from tlmo to time. Dr. Car- jwntor, now of thla city, has ontortolncd and Instructed us vory highly. Mrs. Hugo, u vory prominent simukcr and tost modium, recently from Boston. Mass., was with us last Sunday, and will bo with ua again aftor her raturn from | Canada. Mrs. Covordalo, that grand and noblo soul and over-willing instru­ment to convoy messages from tno othor sido of life, to luingry, weary, worn mor­tals, oagorly searching after somo posi­tive evidence of Immortality or spirit raturn from n conscious continued ex­istence, will assist In tbo good work. I will also state horo to tbo many frionds

I of Mra. CovorJnlo and the readers of T iik P rogressive Thinker, that she has removed her parlors to No. 78, just opposite the old numbor, on tho same street, whore sho will, no doubt, bo ns)f 'lad as ovor to see thorn. Wo will also l o vory glad to havo our visiting frionds

and mediums, and all thoao who aro in search of light and knowledge of tbo Oriental Ordor of Mystics will Im given a hourly welcome; and wo wish to mid thnt not only to those already ndvunctxl.l but thoro uro many, vory inuny, mystics I who havo not yot had tho opportunity affordod them, but will most llkoly ho pormlllud to learn much through these Hirelings; and later nil, when the Tomplo is again oponod in tho early fall, thoy I

| will on Joy tho full bonoflfe and manifold I bluaslngs somo of us havo boon permitted

| to share. Wo oxtond a hearty welcome I Ito all aeokers after light and truth at | our Sunday mornitig meetings, at 10:30 A. M., 35tli Bl. and Ind hum Avo.

F. B. Gkouiikcian.

duly_____advunco of where it is to-day."

J. W. Still, M. D.,and wife,havo moved from Onoonto, N. Y., to Gorgotowo, Madison Co., N. Y., and havo oponeda Homo and hall whore lectures and fefllfl will bo givon ovory Sunday.

O. F. Perkins, tho lecturer, write* fl* follows from 1422 Washington Avo., St. Louis, Mo.: "W e uro now located tor a few weeks in thla city. Wo hold a mooting under tho auspice* of tbs Spiritualist Socioty, Mr. Joseph Brown. President. Wo onjoyod two gv®J>d lectures, morning and ovonlng, by Mr. Lyman O’. Howe. Wo are to hold a series of meetings hero. Wo find ovory

I ono eager for messages from tho Spirit. ]world/r

O. J. Brown, of Flat. Indiana, writaa that thoy have organised a Thoy havo commonccd a work widen R needed all ovor tho country.

Mra. Margurlto SL Omor lectured on tho "Beautiesof Spiritualism" In Ahlng* ton, tho 28th ulL Where *bs lecturs^

I tho cry la, " Come again.” " bm ito people are socking after are spiritual truths spokon In such a manner ut*i

I they ranch tho minds of tho lUtoncra • thoy cun think ovor them after they nia hoard.

G. W. Kates, the lecturer, well tffiJ* "Our people should cease to )»tronl*fl such vilo 1 ox pours,' who are at

prd ur* to Irollthim•kyo)ro(HidlEihjthth)»*.'s itiitl:bi)ai

7B

beatbut allly worker*. They novor produce

—- - ------- ----- " nto of tho pitiny aomblnnoo to a dupilcato of tho pbw nomona. Tholr iwtranagu cotnoo larfa* ly from tho Spiritualists. Our jH-opUJ should cuuno to attend auch js.-rfonn- nncos. Thoy will novord o M j^n n :tb J

bion an early stay away,

i to prevail, tlio ohnrnc-

iaslppi Valley Slorioa," Is tliu unique titlo of tills volume. Tho flrst two atorlusaro In reality novelettes,uf about seventy iiigos enoli, Tlioy lmvo novor buforu Kion publinbod, and uro said to lie lx)ld In tlioiight and original In Irentmunt. Though an nrdont realist, Mr. GarlundIs a critical artist, und tlio up|>uiii'anao of his work will bo ougarly looked forwardto witli nil tlol pit lion of keen delight by ills many admirers.

A Lively I'ttpnr,15. Garner, an aotlvo worker in tho

eausu and now residing al I'uoblo, Col,, writes na follows to Mr. Jenifer: " T iik P hoorkhhivnT hinker Ihu lively pnpori and Is making great headway In tho inareiwo of its number of roudors, A |Mt|Nir of tlio outspoken kind was muchhooded to correct tho abuses growln and uxlsling in this great oountry. I hope It wlllgoon with addod lnfluonco, until all abuses and wrongs are wiped off tho face of tbo earth."

Lyman C> Howo olosod a suoooasful ongagsmont at St Louis, Mo., Juno 1st. A subscriber writes: " ilia loeluros uro splendid and soul-slevatlng-"

gumauuneos, I cannot und will not attempt to Hxplain, but no ono who ha* witnusvod suoh proauntations often but knows that thoy lmvo n peculiar und | nmIUvo oliar- actor, never soon elsewhere, on suu or shore, and tho loglo of tlmt alone Is oon vllining. To Mrs. M. E. Wllllatna, who, fur tliu past two yours, has been tlio pro- aiding olllour of tho Hiuulay afternoon or inudliiina'mooting (ho aullu’d), a t Adulphl Hall. Is duo the urodlt of iKirsundlng to uxlilnll tho home talent roproaonted In tho following prngrammu, and which tnudluniH mlglil linltatu olsowiioru, work­ing In llku inannor In tholr own loeollty:

I'ROQHAMME,Norwegian hymn, Miss Annlo A. Wat­

son and Prof. J. Jay Watson; Addroaa. Mrs. M. 15. Williams; Slate Writing and Hups, Dr. Ilonry Hindu; Test and Hplrlt Communications, Mr. J. W. Flctulior; Form Materialization, Mrs. lODIo Morse; Instrumental Duett, Miss Annlo A Wat­son and I’raf. J. Jay Watson; Slate writ­ing, Mra. Mott Knight) Inspirational Hinging, Miss Addle (iago) Violin Holo, Llttla Johnnlo MoKoovor. DKXTICU.

Mra. 8. 8, Rook hill, of Alllanoe, Ohio, writes: " Goorgu P. Rudolph gave a loo*! ttiro last ovonlng, to a lull house, on 1 Romanism and tho BoyootL' Ho is doing u good work, showing up tho hydra-hoauod monster of ltomanUm. Buoooss to him-"

I VctlnrU'k F . Cook,This comprehensive and critical think­

er gives us this week an artlolo pre­pared with (tainstaking oaro, on " SOUL* IBM.” It Is an oxlmuHilvo disotualon on " lie-1 near nut I on and Embotllinont," a ubjoct In which tho writer ims boon

deeply intoi'oHtod for yours, und it sltould he carefully nrosorvod for futuro refer- onoo and study. Our nltu It ns boon and will uonllmto to bo, to bring tho loading minds of tho country to out* aid In ouaslng quoatlnns of puriunuunl im- poi’taiiuo, and with whlolt Spiritualists should bo familiar, wiiothor endorsing thorn or not. All that Is wanted is "light," Intellectual light, and wo In- tend to furnish tlmt. Mr. Cook wus formerly u Journalist of this city, holng commuted with tho Vftncs whan It was tho loading pu|H>r here.

can only gall a fool. Tito follow J. A. Leroy) gave a silly performance horo, but ho clmrged falsely agalo*'Mr Slater,as 1 havo written you.and further against Mrs. Horry, saying ho Ml oaught her doing tho trumpot work IB a hoiuico In a highly dlaroputablo manner. His datamation of character ahoulaslop pod. Ho left tho city train, and ho will llkoly |Watch for him. it la time vulgar fools from defaming | tor of our mod tutus."

Tho locturor. J . W. Kenyon, w rite*: "Wo closed a throe months' engagement to tho First Spiritual Asaoclatloefll Providence, R. I., tho 10th of May. Tbs truth Is growing horo rapidly, noth in pubilo expression and In tho heart* of hundreds who dare only think and It, but in tho d irk . There are a d or more tost oiroloe hold Sunday lugs; also through tho week. At onl wo nre speaking In our pat day and Friday ovonlng*. my w Ing tosto. The Interest taken I Wo are to spend tho camping Onset Bay. Our dates art for tho scuson of '91 and ' doslrous of our sorv at 192 Friendship SL, I'rov

Gilson Burliness is now ready, after 1

von* p \ t _ pres- dors, MM*

Ifo glv*• great-naen i t

|lw lng taken 92. nooisllsfl an addrav ms ■lottos, R. 1."

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Tlio TIioiiirn Bill Thoro woro, wo aro told, vory oxolting

times at tho l'ooplo's Spiritualist Sooi- ety, last Sunday, ovor the Thutnas hill. Resolutions wore passed, howovor, al­most unanimously, calling for Its rejec­tion, and presonilng othor fuels noeus- siiry for tlio ilouso to understand. Wo wore present whon tho mooting oom- me need, but was culled away,

A Mtnto O rgim lzatioii.Wo are glad to know that the Hplrltu*

allats of this State will soon effect on or­ganization under tho hoiul of Htate Pay- oliloal and Spiritual Culture Association. Mr. Jenifer, of this oity, und Mr. Hulls, of Pooria, are tho moving spirits, anu thoy will accomplish what thoy havo un­dertaken. This is oortalnly a tnovo tn the right direction. Wo snail givo It a oordliti support,

G, G. W. Van Horn writos ns follows from Now York City: " I will nunalu In this oily for a short lltno. 1 will hold a sorlus of mootings Sunday ovon* ings al Areanutn Hall. 67 Weal 26th SL, whore a lino nudlonoo jtresanfe ifeolf, to wilnnss tlio latost magnotlo and siilritual phonoinonn In tho light to individual sensitives In tho uudTanoo, This now phaso Is vory intorestlng, of whlolt I will write later on."

Wowook.Issue.

Our Now Quarters* it wot to ho located there Full parlloularfe in our

■ b rie f illness, to receive calls for n-aulaga mH. and spirit paintings, al 240 Wells 8̂1.

I h. N. Asplowftll, of MlnncapoiU, Minn., writos: "Pleuso say to tlio many renders of your widely circulated isjflf that in order to take advantages or U» low rates of ono faro for tho round trip, made by tho Christian Endeavor How* olios, tun ticket* must Iw bought from tlio 6th lo tho Ktii of July, and are good to raturn for (Ul days. Tits Hearts bought, and via MlonoattolU and 8U Louis liuliwuy. will land tlio purchaser at tho Lako Park llotol, and on tho grounds of tho Northwestern Hpll'ltuw Camp Mooting,"

L. B. Hustings writes: "1 rncloMtho following clljiplng from Sun Fran- elHi'o (Jluvnidt. It is u good noIioiuq for tlio |trlosl to mi) tlio poor fanallos: 'Father Duron, of HI. Joseph's t ’uthollo Churoh, hits evolved a now Idea ind formed a society tor Ihu relief and do* livoraneo of |Hwr souls in purgatory- Tho soolflty la organized on tho liuur* anno assessment plan, the Initiation fss holng 26 cents anu tho annual contrlhu* lion 10 imnta. Among tlio hciislltfl onumoruUid In Faliu-r Duran's proapoel- ua are: "Partlolpullon In the praysra and masses said for the society," ana " R H|M>eiul share III tliu novella of inilBMI uulohrulod in ML Joseph's Cliurch from Novoiniwr 2d to Noventhar 10th." A iioveiia of ms*>h>s will bo said fur any inoinhur of tho sooioty as soon as thd news of Ilia Uontli Is received hy the dl* motor,'"

A subscriber writes: "The Firs) Pro*rfroaalvo Hpirltuailst Sooioty of UhleaffO told nil oiilhusliMtlo mooting at No. tl

N. Ada ML, tho 24th last. Mrs. Dr. Dr Lusonu read an essay on tho awakening of mind to spirit culture. Mra- Hr* Preston mads an appropriate address M tlio fitness of spirits to teaoh inorkuN Dr, J. II. Tliom|Mon made somo very is* terusting remarks on ilia nintiiodi 88 spirits In ths education of humanlt MeedauiM Andrews and Gutter aunts vary satisfactory testa roslrte readings. Mrs. Ovltt eh Ming in son. Mr. WilliIinsluw with di ilrs. lir. He

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3.THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER,

IMPORTANTLESSON.One With Which Spiritual­

ists Should be Familiar.Henry J . N ew to n T h ro w s L ig h t

on th e B lav a tsk y S o c ie ty .

To the Editor:—I t appears from a late number of the New York ltccordcr that Henry J. Newton, the President of the First Society of Spiritualists in this tity. denies that the late Mme. Blavatsky iw the founder of the Theosophical So­ciety. Furthermore, he says tha t the only genuine,old,original organization ofj Theesophitts was formed in nis house ini October, 1875: that it died a natural «ieaiu about two years afterward, and

r that the present society is, therefore, f tut a pretender and a fraud.IcThe interest awakened in the Theo-[ i sophical cult and its pretensions by the recent death of Mme. Blavatsky, its high priestess and alleged founder, gives im­portance to Mr. Newton's revelation as to the real origin of the new religionl that has attracted so ranch attention by

through with the society, having met the expenses of hall rent principally out of

Jmy own pocket. As to tne original mem- | bership and declared objects of the so­ciety, this book, which is the original record of the organization of the Theo­sophical Society, will tell you precisely.”

Here Mr. Newton unlocked a drawer in his bookcase and brought out a leath­er-covered quarto, decorated with the Theosophic symbol already described.

IMPORTANT QUESTION. freighted with immortal life; and stillon beyond the highest flight of the Ideal can overcome some people’s ; imagination, aye, on up to Potontia, up prejudiced opinions; but let us hope that

opinion still.” No amount of evidence can overcome some people’s preconceived,

Is S p ir itu a lism luslon , o r

a R elig ion , a W h a t Is I t ?

D e-

PREAMBLE AND BY-LAWS. THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

NEW YORK. OCTOBER 30, 1875.

The following list of officers is written >>n the first page: President, Henry S. Olcott: Vice-Presidents, S. Pancoast, M. D., Henry Felt; Corresponding Secre­tary. H. P. Blavatsky; Recording Secre­tary, John Storer Cobb; Treasurer.

JHenry J . Newton; Librarian, Charles [Sotheran; Counsel, W. Q. Judge; Coun­cilors; Rev. J . H. Whiggin, Emma Hardinge Britton. R. B. Westbrook, C. Simmons, M. D., Herbert D. Monachesi. i

The large number of medical men and | Spiritualists among the members is not-

. , . — — — .-------- .-able. Olcott himself was an out-and outits fascinating philosophy and its rapid I Spiritualist, and wrote a book, “ People « w th In this country, as in Europe and from Another World,” on the phonome-

— ------------ ----- ‘ ‘ ~ Brothers’in India. Mr. Newton was seen a t his borne. 128 West 43d street, by a reporter

Iztelv.HENRY J . NEWTON,

and questioned as to his

n a witnessed a t the Eddy homestead in Vermont, thoroughly in­dorsing tho claims of spiritualistic me­diums. There is not a word in this orig­inal constitution of the original Theo­sophical Society setting up any claims to present a new religion—nothing about a

P“ Universal Wisdom Religion,” or a “ Brotherhood of Humanity,” or the “ Study of Aryan and Other Oriental Literature,” orJ“ Esoteric Buddhism ”— the rallying cries of tho present society

In fact, according to Mr. Newton Jthere was no other idea in the founda I lion of the society than the study and in I vest igat ion by physical tests or processes of so-called psychic phenomena in its physical manifestations. The name was chosen from W ebster’s Dictionary, not for the signification of “ wisdom relig­ion,” now given to it, but for its euphony, and because one of W ebster's definitions of “ theosophy” conveyed the idea of knowledge of God by physical proof. iThe funeral and cremation of the Baron de Palm in 1877 were not under the aus-

CHAPTERIX.Well, it seems now to the superficial

observer that this question is about to bo I settled once and forever, since i t is an- [nounced that a staff of ministers com-Jwsed of different denominations and pro- lessional scientific men are to take evi­

dence and sit in judgment on this sub­jec t. We notice tho name of Judge Jack- j son is left out. and those scientific i men who so hastily passed judgment on tho famous Cardiff Giant do not appear on the committee. The world has dis-1 covered tha t these distinguished titles are sometimes worn by the unwise, and

I yet, after the investigation and decision, the result will be taken with a good deal of allowance. Many of the committee, no doubt, are intellectual giants of scientific external knowledge, but without soul- perception—that light which comes from the soul within, from *the interior of being—spiritual truths will never be re­vealed. Every soul must bo enlightened for itself. The phenomenal part of ma­terial existence presents itself to all alike, i. c., through tho senses, and has i to be sensed by the individual, as It is a I

to primordial spiritual essence; back into infinity itself, and with their chem­ical retort and geological hammer and astronomical apparatus, striking off edi­tion after edition of billions upon billions of worlds, the freight of all that ever was and is yet to be, and noting the

Imathematical exactness of absolute law and Infinite Intelligence as it differ­entiates along the cycle of a progressive evolution, resolve again all life back into j Infinite Being: they may possibly dis­cover that Spiritualism is not such a “ narrow field ” to search in after all.I However difficult their declared in-1 tentions may be to become realized,—for j they will find It more difficult to Mtimp

” As a matter of exactness,” said Mr.l Newton, “ it seems to me tha t the news-

I paper accounts of the organization of the Tbeosophical Society printed in connec­tion with Mme. Blavatsky’s death should

knowledge of the Theosophical Society. I pices of the society, as has been stated,—| nut under the direction of Col. Olcott and

Mr. Newton as executors of the Baron’s will.

“ In less than two years,” Mr. Newton H continued, “ the society died a natural

he corrected. The facts, indeed, may shed I death. I resigned both my treasurer- some light on the real character of the ship and membership toward the end of present movement and the motives and 1877. The by-laws required eleven mem pretensions of its promoters. I happen bers to constitute a quorum for the trans- to have at hand documentary evidence I action of business, but for months before u to the truth of the facts which I will my resignation and up to the time Mme relate to you. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott went to Eu-j

• “ It was in September, 1875,1 thinly, rope, in 1878, not more than three mem- that I found myself one of the company bers could be got together, so it was Un­fathered one evening a t Mme. Blavat- possible to have any legal business meet- sky's rooms in Irving place to hear a I ings. The society was practically dead young mathematician named Henry Felt and abandoned when I resigned. Never-

| read a paper on the Egyptian Kabbala. theless, on the eve of their departure He claimed to have made some original I from America, an article appeared in the discoveries in regard to the secrets of Sun stating th a t Blavatsky and Olcott Eastern wisdom and magic as practiced I had been commissioned by the society to by the Egyptians Pharoah’s time, go to India and preach theosophy to the and by Indian fakirs and yogis to Hindoos. This was not true, as there this day. Through his interpretation of was no society then in existence and no the symbolical meaning of various pass­ages in the Kabbala, my interest as a Spiritualist was aroused by his declara- |tioc that in ancient Egypt the spirits of he departed used the incense made by

porning various aromatic gums, herb, ad essences, as the material of forms in hich they made themselves visible to ortal eyes. He dwelt on the superior ifinement of this method to tha t of the

era materialization seance, in which suppose the spirits to require the or­

ganization of a medium entranced in a dark cabinet, and to draw the material for visible and tangible forms, not only from the magnetism of the medium, hut also from that of the sitters in a ‘c irc le5 |or horseshoe.

Mr. Felt said he had not only dis-1 covered the formula and the proper com-

COL. H. 8- OLCOTT.such action a t any time appears on its records.”

“ W hat was the object of publishing such a statement?” queried the reporter.

“ I believe it emanated from Col. Ol- I cott. and was designed simply to screen the real nature of the ir visit to India. TTie Russians were then advancing on the Afghan frontier, and it was of great importance that they should have knowl­edge of the English position and prepar­ations to resist their movement. Mme. Blavatsky had twice visited India be­fore, and was an experienced traveler, a

I clever talker and an accomplished lin­guist, speaking ten or twelve languages. Only a short tune before they decided on going, she spent the whole evening talk-

bination of gums and herbs for produc- ing with a member of the Russian Lega- ing this materializing incense of the old tion here in this house. Col. Olcott was Egyptians, but had actually tested i t in also well fitted for a political mission of

Iself-cvident fact tha t we cannot see, feel, taste, hear, and smell for another. In like manner must Spiritualism present itself through soul perception to every individual to be comprehended. When the individual has this spiritual percep­tion developed within him, he will know it, even though he cannot impart it to others, any more than he can impart seeing, etc., for there is no external lan­guage tha t can convey it; yet within all mankind is the germinal elements of universal being—the embodiment of a living soul. He is both finite and all {that Is infinite—on epitome of all that is. This conclusion is not reached through jthe development of intellect, but through the astral tha t develops soul functions. Hence the most intellectual may be the east competent to judge Spiritualism,

and from this fact many have fears that the cause of Spiritualism will suffer, ■hould the committee report unfavora- bly. Have no fears, and encourage the

__ ,_______ _________________oid than to establish Spiritualism,—wo will

[not oppose their efforts, believing, as we do, tha t if they are sincere and honest with themselves, Spiritualism as a truth will be their reward. B ut how are they to inspire confidence in others when

Ithey have so grossly treated the testi- [mony of those equally intelligent and truthful as themselves? If they believe not Moses and tho prophets, they would | not believe even though one rose from | the dead. If the testimony of learned men and divines is to settle this ques- Ition, it ought to have been settled long ago in the affirmative, for surely we can-

investigation. even though it is report- led upon unfavorably. “ Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Spiritualism has been sat down upon a great many times, but i t always rises stronger than ever. I t has come to stay, and cannot be got rid of. Its towering apex is the Infinite Mind reflected through the

Jprismatic hues of matter, and not of m atter itself, and whether their verdict confirms the opinion of the Rev. Mr. Phelps, or the wishy-washy of a Talmage, and adds laurels to the fame of these haters of Spiritualism, or covers them with the slime of their own venom, and renders famous the name of him who said, “ He would not believe, even though i t were sworn to on a stack of Bibles as large as a court house,” Spir­itualism has nothing' to fear. I think tha t we will not have to wait long for a [decision, say, perhaps, only a few months a t longest, Judging from the attitude of | the signers, for they say: “ I t is not in- I tended to ignore or depreciate the work of the Society for Psychic Research. We only propose to concentrate our efforts on the narrower field of Spiritualism, [pure and simple.” “ The narrower field \of Spiritualism, pure and simpler’

Such a conceited and limited knowl­edge of what they are about to enter upon, by these learned and eminent men, gives the whole thing away in a nutshell. The chances are th a t should they stum­ble onto a few spiritual facts, the ir spir­itual perceptions are not far enough developed to cognize them. I have known learned men, and women, too, that were presented with positive spirit-1 ual phenomena through the physical, and yet were not convinced. Such peo­ple are only in a state of Becoming. The astral is not far enough evolved through the material for the animal, man, to cognize soul, to say nothing of its mani­festations through the physical when out of the material body. W ere they competent men for this work, they would already know, and would have so declared to the world. Spiritualists proper, like poets, are born, not made, and with all their intellectual attain­ments, without soul perception, “ Spirit­ualism, pure and simple,” is likely to

■not get any more reliable than what we | already have. I t can only corroborate | what has been given. The testimony of the late Prof. Hare, of Philadelphia who is said to have been one of the most scientific men tha t America has over produced, ought to outweigh a hundred negations.

He has given testimony of his own private investigation while alone, and with an apparatus of his own invention, with which he procured communications

Jpersonating his deceased father and oth­ers who had dropped the chrysalis form. Judge Edmonds loft a record in his “ Facts for the Millions,” tha t this called-for-investigation implies is not truthful. I t also says tha t not only the testimony of these two men. with a world­wide reputation, is not truthful, but includes Wallace, Crookes, Varley, Gregory, Mapes, Brit tan. Sargent, Zoo- liner, Massey, Carpenter, Thackeray; and of the clerical profession, Rev. Sam-

I th e se in v es tig a to rs a re not of th is class.Oapac, Midi. O. W . T e n n a n t ,

l a t e r .N. B.—The great problem is settled.

This Easter Sunday will go down to posterity as the commencement of a new epoch. A t this moment, 2 o'clock p. m., tne Christian church bells of this place lare tolling the news and setting vibra-

| tions in motion that are to carry the I news around the world, and before the sun veils its face in darkness or sweet

I luna appears above the eastern horizon, | I the news will have reached the mountain i peaks on the Highlands of Heaven, and I we listen for the hosannas of the morn­ing stars when they sing together for

| joy.Spiritualism has this day been pub-

! Holy declared in the village of Capac, by Mr. Cole, the M. P . minister of th f place, to be a delusion and a lie, and was heartily endorsed by Mr. Townsend, the M. E. minister of th s place, in bis repeated exclamation of “ Glory be to God!” etc.,etc., and now they are puzzled to know what to do with Spiritualists and those who preach Spiritualism. They finally concluded to “ leave it with the rest to say what ought to be done with them,ana where they ought to go.”

•O. W. T.

luel Watson, Rev. Allen Putman, Rev. |B . F. Taylor, Rev. Wm. Mount ford, Rev. M. B. Craven, and a score of othi era, to say nothing of the thousands in the more numble walks of life, who havfl time and again staked their honor] reputation and eternal happiness onl spiritual manifestations obtained under test conditions absolutely prohibiting all possibility of fraud, and denying afil hypothesis a t explanation except the

Ispiritual: and yet, possibly, i t is o n l y ! [contagion tha t has spread quite far enough and done damage enough a l l ready.”

Is it any wonder that some of our best mediums are living almost in seclusion and only breaking the bread of immortal life to a select, favored few? Many others have cast their bread “ upon the waters,’’ trusting it to return a lte r many days,

[only to discover to their sorrow they had simply cast pearls before swine. W ere I a medium in possession of gifts and pow-

1 ers far exceeding those of the persecuted Nazarene, I should hesitate a long time, with the knowledge of the contumely with which mediumship was treated by the Seybert Commission and others, be­fore I would submit to the manipulations of such learned gentlemen. I positively know a young man whose mediumship is such th a t the invisible intelligences through him have produced some very remarkable physical demonstrations, such as causing the house in which he lives to shake and tremble from g arre t to cellar, w ith a violence th a t would nearly frighten him out of what little wit he possessed; and the fact th a t he is only half-witted would most likely be treated with contempt by “ learned men.’’ They would consider i t beneath their dignity to trea t even a dog for blindness with a clod of clay containing a little spit. The ignorance and simplicity in such instances are substituted for the facts, which are ignored altogether.

If the phenomena are such tha t they could be duplicated in any manner, they very often say they were so produced, and the fact tha t such phenomena are not produced through themselves, is the standard they judge others by when not relegated to trickery. W e are often asked the question: “ If your friends, whom you say are in sp irit life, come to you and make their identity sure, how is i t tha t mine do not come to me in like manner? No amount of explanation can explain this clearly to them, and in many instances it is difficult to de-i

THE BIBLE.T h e P o s tm a s te r D e c id e s i t I s N o t

a n O b sc e n e B o o k .

MR. WANAMAKER—MR. ST. JOHN.

If all the Liberals of the country make up their minds to pursue the course de­termined on by our friend St. John, as outlined in the subjoined letter, Holy John will have a racy, not to say vulgar, quarter of an hour.

Mr. St. John some time ago became in­terested in the application made to Holy [John for a decision on the mailability of the volume called the Holy Bible, and

Ihe naturally also wanted to know how a [decision on the book as a whole would af- fect a volume in his possession called the ■ H oly Bible Abridged.” In communi­cating with this office in regard to the Matter work, he informed us of theJavor- Jable result of his application to the de- | partment, upon which we a t once asked for a copy of the decision. The follow­ing is his reply to th a t letter:

“ Ce d a r Fa lls , Ia., May 4,1891.Mr. Editor:—Yours of April 27 th at

hand, and in reply I would say th a t I did not write to w anam aker myself, but left a copy of the ‘ Holy Bible Abridged ’ with the postmaster of Cedar Falls, to see what he thought about its being mailable, and he could not decide, so I asked him to send it to the Postmaster- General and>get his decision. And he did so (or said he did), and said tha t the decision was th a t the book was mailable on account of its containing nothing but extracts from the Bible. I asked him for the report th a t he got, and he said th a t belonged to the post-office, but per­haps he would let me have a copy of it.

Since the decision I wrote 2 Kings, xvili, 27, on a postal card, and sent it to John Wanamaker, and intend tha t more shall follow. The churches are forcing the Bible into our common schools, ana want us to swear by i t in court, and are I determined to engraft i t into our nation­al Constitution. And now I am deter­mined to feed them on the ir own filth until they get enough of it, and hope all o ther Liberals will do the same. In this they can be greatly assisted by ordering a copy of the ‘Holy Bible Abridged.’

Yours fraternally,M. W . St . J ohn .”

W e have since received a copy of the le tter to which Mr. St. John refers, which reads as follows (It will not es-

I know what kind of people, if any, in­habited tha t planet, what form they took

| on, etc., etc.The next thing he knew he was lying

on his bed where they had laid him for dead when they found him a t the tele­scope, rigid, and to all appearance dead,

Jana the doctor and friends were stand- | ing by his bed. His first words on re -1 viewing were, “ Bixby is a t the door.” He said how he knew Bixby was a t the door he could never tell, but the instant be spoke, Bixby stepped in.

He soon became possessed of a passion ate desire to know wbat happened to him while be was out of his body, but could remember nothing, and as week after week passed his longing became insati- tiate, out could find no outlet. A t last he said tha t bis hunger equaled that of Eve's when she ate the apple. A t last he awoke with the morning, with a very tired feeling. such as he had often felt after his n ight walks, for in his youth he was a somnambulist. He felt so much exhausted tha t he had scarcely strength to dress himself.

On passing from his sleeping room into his office, he glanced toward his desk and there beheld-several fully-written sheets. He was surprised, and wondered who could have gained access to bis office, but was much more surprised upon looking to find the writing was all nis own, for there he had written out all that had oc­curred to him while he was out of his body on tha t memorable night, for ac­cording to his own trance-writing he had actually visited Mars, and this is what he wrote:

DEATH.I n te r e s t in g P a r t ic u la r s in R e g a rd

to the :C hange*

Upon reaching Mars I found the in­habitants there were very much like the [children of earth; in form and feature I walked upright, and were very intoUi- gent, the only marked difference being

[ they all looked young, and i t was only by closely scrutinizing each of them thatl could discern any difference between the youth and the middle-aged, and the mid­dle-aged and the old, for time appeared

I to have no tooth on Mars. Presently I was met by a man who (by way of intro­duction) said to me: “ You are not mak­ing much progress on your sphere, are you?”

I replied: “ We th ink we are doing pretty well.” He said: “ Well, you are, considering the circumstances and the difficulties under which you are laboring, for you are in darkness, and we call your world the blind man's world, for notning there is foreseen, so you cannot progress as fast as you would could you see as we do. Here on our planet we see every

levent before i t transpires, even to the [very day we are to die.”

I then asked him if they had any dread I of death, to which he replied: “ Not in j the least, for we know the change is beautiful, and we obey every law of our existence so perfectly th a t we die with­out a pain o r a struggle. Our marriages are perfect and bring happiness to all,

Jfor all marry, and when our people get i to be of a marriageable age they build in tbe ir mind the ir ideal of a husband or wife, and the ideal is in perfect keeping with the real; hence when they are first seen they are recognized and loved a t a glance; in fact they know and love each other before they see each other.”

He then asked me if I would like to | look through the ir telescope, and when I assented he led the way ̂to it and leveled i t on our earth , and bid me look. Upon looking I could see distinctly our town and the college, and even the stairs th a t lead to my room, and I could see men hurrying up and down the steps, and wondered what the cause of each a commotion could be.

Mbs. M. M. Sisco.Pomeroy, Iowa.

Thousands of people pass over the mystic river and land on the other side oflife without knowing they have made Jthe transit. As a being does not know [when he is horn, so, likewise, he doee not know when he dies. W hat! Do you mean to say that when a man dies ne does not know it?

Exactly so. Such seems to be the rule, though there are many exceptions. W hat are the proofs?

The history of a memorable seance will both prove and illustrate our state I ment.I A friend of the writer, whom we will [call Dr. Brent, a fleshy person of 85 or 70 years of age, was an old-time Spirit­ualist. He had been a student of its philosophy for over twenty years. He was superintendent of the asylum for the insane. He died suddenly away from home. The first thought with the publie was suicide. But a letter was soon found in which, lust before the fatal issue, he wrote to nis wife expressing regret that he was to leave her with financial or business affairs so unsettled and so un­satisfactory.■ E ig h t days after this event, March, |1880, Dr. H. visited a lucid and trust­worthy medium, with the purpose of calling for bis friend Dr. Brent. When seated before the medium, the mother of Dr. H. came, and after a little per­sona1 conversation said: “ We know the object and purpose of your visit, and will bring the person you seek. You are

THE QUESTION SETTLED.cape notice th a t Mr. Tyner is getting a I T h e T h eo so p h ica l S o c ie ty D id S en d

W. Q. JUDGE.

his laboratory with perfect satisfaction, several spirits of those long dead to earth having taken form and substance out of I the smoke as it curled upward from the censer in his presence.

“ At the close of Mr. Felt’s paper I arose, and, expressing my sense of the importance of such a discovery if it could he demonstrated, moved that a commit­tee be appointed to co-operate with Mr.Felt and thoroughly investigate the re­ality of the phenomena he described. My[_motion was agreed to, and I was appoint-1 ernment they kept up theosophy in In-1 or~ overahadows—"the ed chairman of a committee of eight or dia, and afterward started it in England, positive.

this kind. His appointment as Colonel ence—back to in the United States army was given Spiritualism. him by President Lincoln in recognition of his services as Chief of the United States Secret Service during the war.He was also a linguist of rare ability, speak­ing six or seven languages. I t looks a s __ _______if the religious or philosophical move-1 eternal; Son, the Spirit, ment, intended a t first only as a cloak to | sometimes manifested to

I remain a-** delusion,” and still continue to do “ harm.”

If they take, like the materialist, their premises in m atter, they will return to matter. Let them exhaust all the ir in­tellectual powers of reasoning and sense- perception, they still remain outside of I ___ _ ________Spiritualism. Phenomena is not Spirit- J termine whether we go to them or they uaiism. I t is only through the ap-per-1 come to us. The predominance of the ceptive, the intuitional or soul percep- difficulty in th is communication not tion, tha t its interior truths are revealed j being more frequent and general, lies in and comprehended. This takes the mind | ourselves, and for reasons already in di- back ana out of time and space; out of cated.all phenomena, back to the most into-1 To further show how learned men have |rior,^thecause,_tiie essential, of all exist- J disposed of the phenomenal part of

■ Infin ite Spirit, hence I Spiritualism, I will call to mind theinvestigation by th e editor of the No­

l l will here predicate ore of the funda- tional Baptist, of Philadelphia, Pa., some mental doctrines of Spiritualism, that in | eighteen or twenty years ago. I do not

remember the name of the medium he

little belligerent and inclined to talk hack sharper than official duty strictly demands):

“ Of f ic e o f th e Assista n t A ttorney General ,

W ashington , D. C. April 10,1891.“ S. B. H umbert, Postmaster, Cedar

Falls, la.“ S i r :—W ith your le tter of th e 7th

inst., addressed to the Postmaster-Gen­eral (which has been sent to me for re-

S la d e to R u ss ia .

To t h e Editor:—In your issue of the 16th ult. you p rin t a le tter from Mr. J . Simmons, in which he makes an effort to convince the readers of your valuable paper th a t I made an erroneous state­ment when, on the occasion of our last Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism, I stated th a t the Theo-

vour opinion th a t i t is unmailable un- Russia. Mr. Simmons is somewhat pre-your opinionder the provisions of section 380, Postal sumptuous in attempting to inform me Laws and Regulations, would be con- with reference to the proceedings of the curred in by this department. I answer J Theosophical Society, as the Society was in the negative. The volumei is made up t one.and Mr. Simmons not beingexclusively of reproductions of chapters | and verses from the Bible, and we nave not progressed here to the extent of re­garding that sacred book as obscene or j Treasurer, and thoroughly conversant indecent. | with a ll of its transactions. A simple

“ If the volume referred to is offered to

r a secret one.and Mr. Simmons not being m-a. «™ a member, «m ld know nothin* of ifc do- ^ 1 * *5J- mgs. I was not only a member, but its Voice of Angela/’ the report tint

their real mission in India, proved such a success that when their services were no longer needed by the Russian Gov-

the concrete it constitutes the trinity, “ Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” Soul, t h ^ F ’ather—th e e g o —the I Am—the

which, when the external

you for mailing, you should take it with­out question. very respectfully.

“J ames N. Tyner, Assistant Attorney General.

“The volume is herewith returned.” Mr. St. John, however, has no doubt

a t all linguistically, of the quality of the Holy Bible, He calls it, plainly, filth. And upon looking up the verse ne has |

visited, but he denied all possibility of J sent to Holy John, we will have to con-

ten, among whom were Col. Henry S. 01-| cott. Judge Cross, Dr. Charles E. Sim­mons. Prof. Britton and John Storey Cobh. That committee was the germ of the Theosophical Society, w e held several meetings here in my parlors, as the result of which, on Oct. 30.1875, four or five weeks after the appointment of the committee, the Theosophical Society was formally organized under that name, and adopted the symbol of the interlaced triangles encircled by a snake. Both name and symbol belonged exclusively to the original society, and have been

Truly. Mme. Blavatsky was a remarkably clever woman!”

senses, is equal to the Father, which is true in a relative sense. Holy Ghost, the body, tha t which casts the shadow,

negative to thoposit!)

Again, tha t when the soul now oocu-

I fraud, and said the manifestations were genuine and not produced by the medium or an accomplice; but gave his opinion tha t they were produced by the devil, j Thus it is with many, when spiritual I

I manifestations cannot be denied and ■excused away, they are relegated to the devil.

During my last trip East,and spending

fees that Mr. St. John is not far from right. But tha t only shows how men differ. Mr. Tyner, Assistant Attorney- General for the Post-Office Department, holds tha t the volume does not come un­der the prohibitory clauses of the law against “ indecent” literature, and | therefore will not question its mailabili- j tv- Yet if Mr. St. John were in Mr.

statement of its proceedings with refer­ence to the question in dispute will be sufficient to justify me in the statement I made, of which Mr. Simmons complains.

Madam Blavatsky was the Correa-1 ponding Secretary of the Society. She

I was a Russian, and in correspondence I with some of the high officials of the Russian Government. Akaakof wrote to the Theosophical Society, and Prof. I W agner (one of the most distinguished I scientists of Russia) joined in a request] tha t the Society send them a medium j

to do a good work to-day, for which he will bless you. There ne comes now! Surely he has not been long enough

■here to get waked up. He has not tne | least idea of the change he has made. Your mother found him talking with a crowd of people, most of whom have something the m atter with the head or mind or heart, a t least he thinks so.”

Dr. Brent being allowed to take control and speak, said:

“ w ell, Doctor, I am glad to see you. You look well, and I th ink your brain is all righ t (putting his hand on my head). I have seen so many queer people lately tha t I almost begin to doubt my own senses. W here is Shurtlieff (a former superintendent)? W hat is he doing? Is be in the asylum yet?”

“ No! he is in Napa.” Turning his head and looking out of the window. Dr. B. said:

“ Why, there is Mrs. Shurtlieff. How well and young she looks.”

Dr. Brent had followed the remains of Mrs. S. to her grave some few years before.

“ Have you not spoken to her yet?” “ No, but I will.”Then putting his hand on my head

| again, Dr. B. said:“ Doctor, there is surely something

wrong with you o r me. W hat is it?” Looking about the room, he asked: “ W hat place is this. This is not

Stockton. I was never here before? W ho is this woman?”

“ This is a friend of mine whom you must know.”

“ Yes, bat what is the m atter? I see so many queer people around. W hat is wrong?”

“ My good friend,” I said, “ you have been bora again, and have gone over to the great majority.”

“ Hudson, you don’t mean to say I am dead?”

“ Yes, th a t is the English of it.”“ W hy should I die? I had a great

deal of work to do.”“ The fact ia, your heart was so over

loaded with fat it could not work an; longer.”

“ Yes, that is true, and i t was pressim the tubes together, and I had a terribl reeling of my head. I t went round an round, and I had a pain here (putting hi hand to his heart), and I felL But I ai all rig h t now. Well, Doctor, if this } death, it is a pretty good thing. Ho beautiful everything looks. Such lovel trees, shrubbery and landscapes.”

Listening, he said:“ W hat is tha t crying for. W ho is it;I told him I thought it was his pot

wife, who was greatly distressed I “ Oh! yes, my darling wife; I must f right off and stop that. I will go hoc with you. I am very thankful, Doctc for this favor. Should you see any my friends, please say it is all righ t wi Dr. Brent.”

To my view this was a most remarks! seance. I t set forth a new truth. He is an intelligent, educated man, an (

read in t!T

Angela,”'th e report throu [the editor, D. C. Dinsmore, of ms cases in the other life where the unhap

I wanderer and befogged traveler i I brought to him, and there have his e; opened and made to understand the r change called death. Yet this doct whose profession and occupation t o study and care for the insane, was fc week in total ignorance of his own des He did not know he had crysmuta and had started in the next life.

.A. S. H udson, M. IStockton, CaL

Passed to Spirit Life.Ifor physical phenomena whom the So-1ciety could recommend. Action was j Passed to the higher life. May taken on this letter, and a committee of 1891, at Vicksburg, Mich.. Mrs. N three appointed whose duty it was to in- Powers Kimble. She had paused vestigate such mediums as they m ight twenty years of this earth-life. She select. The committee was not in-1 a medium of fine powers, a true Sp stru tted to examine any particular me- j ualist, and never afraid to acknowle

the same.I te m s fro m S t. L ouis, Bio.

Lyman C. Howe writes as follows from St. Louis, Mo.: “ Mr. and Mrs.Perkins are here. They bail from . . - . . , . . . . . .Council Bluffs, Iowa: formerly from San Pt S**1. “ -“f68 mortals through this Francisco. They gave a test meeting spiritual body. Here we have both the

Pylnff • mortal body crosses the divide, the “ Lord’s day” with near relatives, Tyner’s place, the Holy Bible would be “ 7tha t which separates time from eternity, a lady neighbor came In, saying tha t she a t once excluded as filth. W hich shows T f f F i n dit still retains this spiritual form, of had heard I was a medium for certain tha t human beings are fallible: that it Slade, and the ref uI.l,w*g.a ™y°Tu7 i _ _ _ _ , ____D1 _------ |_«uu_u«iru_i_Lua • u raium iw . - ^ , 0 difference in the world » minority report. The Society accepted J j . W. Gilmore, of Council Bluffs,which the physical body is its prototype: tha t this soul, this I Am, can, has, and may continue

They gave a test meeting Sunday afternoon, and made a good im-1 pression. They seem to be earnest, hon­est workers, and true mediums. I hope they will do much for the cause here. Mr. Baxter created a lively interest

physical manifestations; as she never——---- ;— —— .—-—Jsa\V anything of the kind, and did

to ^ a m f e s ^ ts e l f ^ ^ the^l not believe in Spiritualism, she would ■ l ik e to investigate i t just the same, if

misappropriated wrongfully and without I Mr. Baxter created a lively interest the authority by the organization now two Sundays he was here in April, and calling itself the Theosophical Society.i”--®

Well, did Felt prove' his claims and call spirits from the curling incense?” asked the reporter, with breathless in­terest.

“ Not exactly.” replied Mr. Newton. “ But he persuaded us that this would be one of the least of the wonders that wemight perform a fte r organizing ourselves . —— into a strong secre t society and devoting T h in k e r is in lively dem and h e re i ourselves to m ystic study and expert- j has m any w arm adm irers. T h e &

comes again in June. Mrs. Sherman I made many friends here, and her work | has left a favorable and lasting impres­sion. She is highly esteemed as a speak­er, a medium qpd a woman of high social and spiritual qualities and moral worth. Bishop A. Beals has done good work here in the year gone and has many

I warm friends. T h e P r o g r e s s iv eand tier

1 phenomenal and the actual dimly out­lined, and from these promises we will proceed to take the positive testimony of one single individual against all the negative testimony those learned gentle­men and divines can possibly produce in ten years' time, viz., that of one by name called John. He was banished to the island of Patmos, and while there he was approached by one, a man. with all the bodily parts and functions, but in such a gloriousl

same,there was an opportunity to do so. I replied that I made no pretensions to mediumship and could promise her nothing, but was willing tosit in a circle with her and see if weoould get anything. Everything being in readiness, four of us took our seats about a common stand, and we did not have to wait more than five minutes before the stand was fully alive with motion, which the lady said I was purposely causing, though I believed she sincerely knew better. I

me ox Is gored; and tha t Mr. Tyner is •dopted the nuDority report, and departed to the higher life April 2, Jin sympathy with the Holy John’s eent aoopy of it to Aksakof. He, on its aged 71 rears. He was born in niiinn nf ovi'inrinhiA hnnlre. rir that ho receipt, sent to the Society one thousand Vernon, Ohio. He served his cou

makes whose!not ... ___ j ___ ________jdefinition of excludable hooks, o r tha t he ^ / , , , - ,has not read the Bible. And yet he doltons- 'Hie BocIety of course, could honor during the late war, andthrew out the “ Kreutzer Sonata.* not send Slade anywhere *rcth<mt Ms held the porittan of Chaplain of

In this difference of opinion between co°?e° t’ Md * apprehend .that the ne- Lincoln Post of thia city e re r sine two supposably fallible people, our sym- potiatign* which followed organization to the time of Ms d«---- -— ---------- -----— _ friend Simmons has got mixed and mud- He has been an earnest, outspoken Sjpa thy is entirely with Mr. SL John.- The Truth Seeker.

Way ana Banner of Light share liber-! ally in public patronage and are great­ly esteemed; each has its favorite, and all are doing good work for the cause.”

ment. Mathematics be declared to be j the key to knowledge of occult laws and their physical phenomena. We engaged him for a course of four lectures before the society at Mott Memorial Hall, for[_which be waste receive6100. Astreasur- Mrs. A. K. Doney, ot Salt Lake City,| er of the society I paid him 825 after the writes: “ I see by various press reports first lecture, which was on “ Geometry,” | that our much-esteemed co-workers, Mr.I and not particularly novel or enlighten* and Mrs. Geo. F. Perkins, are about to ing, that I remember. A few days after- enter new fields of labor. Well may the ward he came to me and asked me to ad- Society of Spiritualists of Council Uluffs| vance the additional 875 he would be en-1 congratulate themselves upon!

. titled to after delivering the three re-1 such earnest and faithful workers with! staining lectures arranged for. I a t first I them. We now have with us a most] objected to this as entirely unhuslness-1 estimable lady, Mrs Dr. Patterson,^ike, saving I had no right to pay out known from North to South, and theshe society s fund before the work was West, as a marvelously fine clairvoyant - >aiuu JO, ..I[nr w ......... .......pme, and I was not inclined to pay him and tost medium. Starlight, her direct dred years respectively, and coming onm my own responsibility. Mr. Felt came controlling spirit, has so endeared herself down to the present time with all its^--k-with a note from Olcott, saying the | to us that when they are in our midst, spiritual attestations, and analyze themlecturer needed the money badly, and he indeed we feel that there is * only aOlcott) would answer for his fulfilling thin veil between us.’ How beautifulthis contract. I therefore paid him the the thought, compared with other

i5. | teachings that our heavenly home is so“ That was the last the society saw of far away. Th e P rogressive Thinker r. Felt. He neither delivered another is just what i t should be, a fearless

lecture for the society or returned the standard-bearer for truth. I read every I was out over 8200 before I got word in its columns every week."

Iu glorious form tha t John was | then requested the other two to sit away about to fall down at his feet and wor* from the stand, hut sit in such a position ship him, when the angel, here so called, that they could see all that was going on, said: “ See thou do it not, for I am of and told this lady to place her hands on thy fellow-servants, the prophets.” | the stand as lightly as possible and allow

I t seems passing strange that these me to touch them with the tips of my divines who nave been instructing us all ~----------- • ~

THE PLANET MARS.I t is V is ited by P ro fe sso r L a rra b e e .

these years in the a rt of theology have never taken St. Paul’s advice before this, and tried tho spirits and found out what manner they were of; passing Strange that they have lust awoke to the necessity of investigating •Spiritualism, with their lucid knowledge that it “ had done damage enough already in conse­quence of the spread of contagion.”

As these gentlemen will have to pick j-—^— I up a link in the endless chain of being “* 2 “£ | t o commence their Investigations, how

would it do for them to commence with those distinguished personages who had gathered around that most historic spot. Mount Tabor, two of whom had left the physical form from nine to fifteen hun-

ail, trace all phenomena to its cause.

fingers, to which she assented. ’ In a few moments the stand was alive as ever, and calling the alphabet, we got a name purporting to come from an uncle of this lady, who said he went to sleep on the raifroad track a t Susquehanna depot. She denied all knowledge of such an uncle, and declined to ask any questions. I then asked if ho was killed on the track, and the reply was: “ No, I went to sleep.” We got more communications, all of which were denied. Then 1 was told tha t the lady was fooling, and that she would not believe, even though one rose from the grave, and they would stop; and stop they did.

The next day I learned that this lady had an uncle answering to her maiden name, who was killed in the Erie yard a t Susquehanna depot, of which she must have been cognizant. He had a very spirited team, and when a train was

A fter reading Professor Pickering’s opinion in The P rogressive Th ink er concerning the dead condition of Mars. I would like you to publish an article writ­ten some years ago by Prof. Larrabee, of Abercromby College, just for the benefit of your readers. The article was written some time before the Professor'sdeath, but it appears, from lack of cour- age, or for some other reason, he did not | something which was contained

Tdled, and I think your readers will see tha t he makes this pretty clear in Ms statement: that, after all that took place,

j he (Simmons) went to the Theosophical | Society for the thousand dollars, and got it as the partner of Dr. Slade, and I claim tha t he (Dr. Slade) was sent by the Theosophical Society to Russia, in j accordance with my statement, and Dr. Slade so understood it a t tha t time, and

l so understands It to-day.The mission of Dr. Slade was of vast j

and far reaching importance, and by far | the most important and useful th ing the j Society e re r did. I t would, no doubt, | he interesting to your readers to learn |

in the

I ualist for the past th irty years. He a semi-trance medium and an ins tional speaker of considerable abi He was highly respected by citl friends and comrades.

Mr. Artemus Eld ridge, residin Butler, Mich., passed to Spirit-life 14. after a prolonged illness, of 1 failure. He was a devoted Spiritu Services were conducted by Mrs. I King, of Butler.

give it to the reading world, but he | report of the committee of investigation

and that back again to Its antecedent | about to pass, he stepped to their heads cause or phenomena; and so on through the fathomless abyss of blazing suns and systems of worlds, billions of which do not constitute a sand-speck in their rela­tion to the limitless whole, and all

and took' them by the hits and was thrown against the passing engine and killed

Thus It is. “ If a person is convinced against his will, he is of the same

willed it with other papers and proceeds I to a friend who caused it to be published soon after Ms death.

Larrabee was Professor of Astronomy and High Mathematics a t said college, and used to spend every leisure moment before the telescope when the atmos­phere would permit, and to use Ms own words, “ was like all other astronomers, for all have their hobby, and my hobby was Mara.” He said: One night it was midnight before he could leave Ms work to sees the telescope, but the atmosphere was exceedingly clear that night and be could not think of retiring until he had looked upon the face of Ms old friend Mars. Upon leveling the telescope on Mars he said he beheld the most glori­ous sight that his eyes ever looked upon. He could see the land and water so plainly that it seemed to Mm be could almost hear the waves dash up against Helper’s land, and he immediately be­came possessed of a very strong desire to

I which was sent to Aksakof. They pre- I pared two slates by screwing them to­gether, first putting a bit of slate pencil between them. The heads of the screws were countersank and filled with sealing wax and stamped with a seal. These slates were taken by the committee to the presence of Dr. Slade and submitted to the action of his mediumistic powers. The result was that under these condi­tions, an abundance of writing was ob­tained an the imride of the slates thus secured. If my memory serves me cor­rectly, the slates were not opened in Dr. Slade's presence. Dr. Slade, howerer, says they were opened in Ms presence.

Wew York. H e n r y J . N e w t o n .

The foregoing statement by Mr. New­ton, in reference to what transpired pre­vious to my journey to Russia, is as I then understood it, and according to my memory a t the present time

H e n r y

Thomas Morrell, of Pawtucket,. passed to Spirit-life, May 17th, i 78th year, leaving Ms wife—she is low and expects soon to follow hei band—and sixteen children, six of i have preceded him to the higher He had been a brave and true S ualist during the last six years life. His last days were blest b opening of Ms spirit vision, maid) passage a remarkably glorious one. w riter spoke the words of comfort many children and grandchildra large concourse of friends were tendance. J . W. Kens

Heinrich Johnilinsky <a wealth distinguished citizen of Hamhar Icently deceased, has bequeathe* Ural million* of marks in M wi found a Hamburg asylum for unm I teachers who hare outlived their i to earn a living a t that calling.

Our (frowning Triumph I I t j In furnishing to r 1)4 cents per week, at rending m atter as our city eontemi fa r 5 cents.

ntempon

3THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER.

IMPORTANT LESSON.One With Which Spiritual­

ists Should be Familiar.Henry «J. Newton Throw s L ight

on the BlAvatsky Society.

To the Editor:—I t appears from a ]a(o number of the New York Recorder jfaat Henry J. Newton, the President of

[ tho First Society of Spiritualists in this r city, denies that the late Mine. Blavatsky | was the founder of t he Thcosophical So­

ciety. Furthermore, he says that tho only genuine,old,original organization of Theosophists was formed in his house in October, 1875; that it died a natural death about two years afterward, and that tho present society is, therefore,

' but a pretender and a fraud.. cTho interest awakened in tho Theo- lophicai cult and its pretensions by tho recent death of Mme. Blavatsky, its high priestess and alleged founder, gives im­portance to Mr. Newton's revelation as to the real origin of the new religion

through with thosocioty, having mot tho expenses of hail rent principally out of my own pocket. As to tlio original mem­bership and declared objects of tho so­ciety, this book, which is tho original record of the organization of tho Theo­sophical Society, will toll you precisely."

Hero Mr. Newton unlocked a drawer in his bookcase and brought out a loath- or-covored quarto, decorated with th Theosophic symbol already described.

IMPORTANT QUESTION.In S p iritualism

IiinIoii, o ra R eligion, n W lm t In I t ?

D o-

p r e a m b l e AND BY-LAW S. T1IEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

N EW YORK. OCTOBER 30, 1875.

that has attracted so much attention bv afoj0>

Tho following list of olllcors is written on tho first page: President, Henry S. Olcott; Vice-Presidents, S. Pnncoast, M. D., Henry Felt; Corresponding Secre­tary. H. P. Blavatsky; Recording Secre­tary, John Storer Cobb; Treasurer. Henry J. Newton; Librarian. Charles Sothoran; Counsol, W. Q. Judge: Coun­cilors: Rev. J. H. Whlggin, Emma Hardingo Britton. It. B. Westbrook, C. Simmons, M. D., Herbert D. Monachesl.

The large number of medical men and Spiritualists among the members is not

CHAPTER IX.Woll, it seems now to tho superficial

observer that this question is about to bo settled once and forever, slnco it is an­nounced that a staff of ministers com­posed of different denominations and pro­fessional scientific men are to take evi­dence and sit in judgment on this sub-

its fascinating philosophy and its rapid Spiritualist, and wrote a growth in this country, as in Europe and from Another World, ”'o:]n India. Mr. Newton was seen at his borne. 128 West 43d street, by a reporter

HENRY J . NEW TON, lately, and questioned as to his knowledge of tho Theosophical Society.^" As a matter of exactness," said Mr.

Newton, “ it seems to me that the news- ! paper accounts of the organization of the I Theosophical Society printed in connec­tion with Mme. Blavatsky‘s death should be corrected. The facts, indeed, may shed »ome light on the real character of the present movement and the motives and pretensions of its promoters. I happen to have at hand documentary evidence as to the truth of the facts which I will relate to you.

“ It was in September, 1875, 1 think, that I found myself one of the company gathered one evening at Mme. Blavat-

Olcott himself was an out-and out book, “ People

on tho phenome­na witnessed at tho Eddy Brothers' homestead in Vermont, thoroughly in­dorsing tho claims of spiritualistic mo dlums. There is not a word in this orig inal constitution of tho original Theo sophical Society sotting up any claims to present a new religion—nothing aboutd “ Universal Wisdom Religion," or "Brotherhood of Humanity," or tho “ Study of Aryan and Other Oriental Literature," orJ‘* Esoteric Buddhism ”— the rallying cries of tho present society

In fact, according to Mr. Newton there was no other idea in the founda lion of the soeioty than tho study and in vestlgation by physical tests or processes of so-called psychic phenomena in its physical manifestations. The name was chosen from Webster's Dictionary, not

Jfor the signification of " wisdom rolig ion,” now given to it, but for its euphony and because one of Webster's definitions of “ theosophy” conveyed the idea of knowledge of God by physical proof. The funeral and cremation of tho Baron do Palm in 1877 were not under the aus pices of tho society, os has boon stated, out under the direction of Col. Olcott and Mr. Newton os executors of the Baron’s will.

“ In less than two years,” Mr. Newton continued, “ the society died a natural death. I resigned both my treasurer- ship and membership toward the end of 1877. The by-laws required eleven mem­bers to constitute a quorum for the trans­action of business, but for months before my resignation and up to the time Mme. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott went to Eu­rope. in 1878, not more than three mem­bers could be got together, so it was im­possible to have any legal business meet-

ky’s rooms in Irving place to hear a I ings. The society was practically dead young mathematician named Henry Felt and abandoned when I resigned. Never-read a paper on the Egyptian Kabbala. He claimed to have made some original discoveries in regard to the secrets of Eastern wisdom and magic as practiced by the Egyptians Pharoah’s time, and by Indian fakirs and yogis to this day. Through his interpretation of the symbolical meaning of various pass­ages in the Kabbala, my interest os a [Spiritualist was aroused by his declara­tion that in ancient Egypt the spirits of the departed used the incense made by [burning various aromatic gums, herb,

id essences, as the material of forms in hich they made themselves visible to ertal eyes. He dwelt on the superior finement of this method to that of the lodern materialization seance, in which e suppose the spirits to require the or- anization of a medium entranced in a ;ark cabinet, and to draw the material

for visible and tangible forms, not only from the magnetism of the medium, but also from that of the sitters in a 'circle ' or horseshoe.

Mr. Felt said he had not only dis­covered the formula and the proper com-

theless, on the eve of their departure from America, an article appeared in the Sun stating that Blavatsky and Olcott had been commissioned by the society to go to India and preach theosophy to the Hindoos. This was not true, as there was no society then in existence and no

w. Q. JUDGE.bination of gums and herbs for produc­ing this materializing incense of the old

I Egyptians, but had actually tested it in his laboratory with perfect satisfaction, several spirits of those long dead tooarth

I having taken form and substance out of the smoke as it curled upward from the

| censer In his presence.| “ At tho close of Mr. Felt's paper I arose, and, expressing my sense of the Importance of such a discovery if it could be demonstrated, moved that a commit-

COL. H. S. OLCOTT.such action at any time appears on its records."

“ What was the object of publishing such a statement?" queried the reporter.

“ I believe it emanated from Col. Ol­cott, and was designed simply to screen the real nature of their visit to India. The Russians were then advancing on tho Afghan frontier, and it was of great importance that they should havo knowl­edge of the English position and prepar­ations to resist their movement. Mme. Blavatsky had twice visited India be­fore, and was an experienced traveler, a

■clever talker and an accomplished lin­guist, speaking ten or twelve languages. Only a short tune boforo they decided on going, she spent the whole evening talk­ing with a member of the Russian Lega­tion here in this house. Col. Olcott was also woll fitted for a political mission of this kind. His appointment os Colonol in the United States army was given him by President Lincoln in recognition of his services as Chief of tho United States Secret Service during tho war.Hc was also a linguist of rare ability, speak­ing six or seven languages. It looks os if tho religious or philosophical move­ment, Intended at first only ns a cloak to

ject. Wo notice the name of Judge Jack- son is loft out. and thoso scientific

Jmon who so hastily passed judgment on tho famous Cardin Giant do not appear ̂on tho committee. Tho world has dl covered that theso distinguished titles are sometimes worn by tho unwise. and[ yet, after the investigation and decision tho result will bo taken with a good deni] of allowance. Many of the committee, no]

[doubt, are intellectual giants of scientific external knowledge, but without soulr perception—that light which comes from tho soul within, from *tho interior of being—spiritual truths will never be ref realed. Every soul must be enligbtenc for itself. Tho phenomenal part of ma torlal existence presents itself to ail alike, i .«?., through the senses, and has to bo sensed by the individual, as it is a

jself-ovident fact that we cannot see, fc taste, hear, and smell for another. In liko manner must Spiritualism present itself through soul perception to every individual to bo comprehended. When the individual has this spiritual percop tlon developed within him, he will know it, oven though ho cannot Impart it to others, any more than ho can impart seeing, etc., for there is no external lan guago that can convey it; yet within all mankind is tho germinal elements of universal being—the embodiment of a living soul. Ho is both finite and all that Is infinite—an epitome of all that is. This conclusion is not reached through tho dovolopment of intellect, but through the astral that develops soul functions. Hence the most intellectual may be the least competent to judge Spiritualism, and from this fact many have fears thut the cause of Spiritualism will suffer, should the committee report unfavora­bly. Have no fears, and encourage the investigation, even tnough it is report­ed upon unfavorably. “ Truth crushed to earth will rise again." Spiritualism has been sat down upon a great many times, but it always rises stronger than over. It has come to stay, and cannot bo got rid of. Its towering apex is the Infinite Mind reflected through the prismatio hues of matter, and not of matter itself, and whether their verdiot confirms the opinion of the Rev. Mr. Phelps, or the wishy-washy of a Talmage, and adds laurels to the fame of these haters of Spiritualism, or covers them with the slime of their own venom, and renders famous the name of him who said, “ He would not believe, even though it were sworn to on a stack of Bibles as large as a court house," Spir­itualism has nothing to fear. I think that we will not have to wait long for a decision, say, perhaps, only a few months

l tee bo appointed to co-operate with Mr. I their real mission in India, proved such I Felt and thoroughly investigate the re- a success that when their services wore I ality of the phenomena ho described. My no longer needed by tho Russian Gov- motion was agreed to, and I was appoint- eminent they kept up theosophy in In- ed chairman of a committee of eight or dla, and aftorwaru started it In England, ten, among whom were Col. Henry S. Ol- Truly,Mme. Blavatsky was a remarkably colt. Judge Cross, Dr. Charles E. Sim-1 clever woman!” mons, Prof. Britton and John Storoy I - , , ,C°bb- That committee was thegorm of ite m s from S t. Louis, Mo. the Theosophical Society. We held _ _ „ , „

i several meetings hero in my parlors, as Lyman C. Howo writes as follows the result of which, on Oct. 30,1875, four ,s t- Lou“ » Mo.: “ Mr. and Mrs. or five weeks after the appointment of Perkins are hero. They hall from the committee, tho Theosophical Society Council Bluffs, Iowa: formerly from San was formally organized under that name, I rrancisco. They gavo a tost meeting

at longest, Judging from the attitude of the signers, for they say: “ I t is not in­tended to ignore or depreciate the work of the Society for Psychic Research. We only propose to concentrate our efforts on the narrower field of Spiritualism, pure and simple.” “ The narrower field of Spiritualism, pure and simpler’

Such a conceited and limited knowl­edge of what they are about to enter upon, by these learned and eminent men, nves the whole thing away in a nutshell. The chances are tha t should they stum­ble onto a few spiritual facts, their spir­itual perceptions are not far enough developed to cognize them. I have known learned men, and women, too, that were presented with positive spirit­ual phenomena through the physical, and yet were not convinced. Such peo­ple are only in a state of Becoming. The astral is not far enough evolved through the material for the animal, man, to cognize soul, to say nothing of its mani­festations througn the physical when out of the material body. Were they competent men for this work, they would already know, and would have so declared to the world. Spiritualists proper, like poets, are born, not made, and with all their intellectual attain­ments, without soid perception, “ Spirit­ualism, pure and simple," is likely to remain a “ delusion,” and still continue to do “ harm.”

If thoy take, liko the materialist, their premises in matter, they will return to matter. Lot thorn oxhaust all their in­tellectual powers of reasoning and sense- perception, they still remain outside of Spiritualism. Phenomena is not Spirit­ualism. It is only through the ap-per- coptive, the intuitional or soul percep­tion, that its interior truths are rovealed and comprehended. This takes the mind back ana out of timo and space; out of all phenomena, back to the most inte­rior, tho cause, tho ossential, of all oxlst- enco—back to Infinite Spirit, hence Spiritualism.

I will horo predicate ore of tho funda- Imontnl doctrines of Spiritualism, that in tho concrete it constitutes tho trinity, “ Fathor, Son and Holy Ghost." Soul, tho Fathor—tho ego—the I Am—tho eternal; Son, tho Spirit, which, when sometimes manifested to the external [sensos, is equal to tho Father, whloh is [true in a relative sense. Holy Ghost, the body, that which casts tho shadow, or ovorshadows—tho nogativo to tho positive.

Again, that whon tho soul now occu­pying a mortal body crosses tho divldo, that which separates time from eternity, it still retains this spiritual form, of which the physical body is its prototype; that this soul, this I Am, can, has, and may contlnuo to manifest itself to tho

“ a far al-

of such learned gentlemen. I positively know a young man whose mediumship is

and adopted Iho symbol of tho interlaced Sunday afternoon, and made a good lm- trlanglcs encircled by a snake. Both presslon. They seem to bo earnest, hon-nalmf and'symbol belonged"exclusively I est workers, and true mediums. I hope to the original society, and havo been they will do much for tho cause hero, misappropriated wrongfully and without Mr. Bnxter created a lively interest tho authority by tho organization now two Sundays ho was hero In April, and

if — •***------ ——a——•——j ——- —'“-Jn June. Mrs. Sherman

physical senses of mortals through this spiritual body. Here wo havo both tho phenomenal and tho actual dimly out-

calling Itself the Thcosophical Society.” comes againWell, did Felt prove his claims and many friends horo, and her workt prove nis c

call spirits from tne curling incensein-1asked the reporter, with breathless

tercet.“ Not exactly." replied Mr. Newton.

“But ho persuaacd us that this would be one of the least of the wonders that we might perform after organizing ourselves Into a strong secret society and devoting ourselves to mystic study and experi­ment. Mathematics be declared to bo

I the key to knowledge of occult laws and their physical phenomena. We engaged him for a course of four lectures before

lined, and from these promises wo will proceed to take tho positive testimony of one slnglo individual against all tho nogativo testimony thoso learned gontlo- men and divines can possibly produce in ten years' time, viz., that of ono by name called John. Ho was banishod to

has left a favorable and'lasting imiiros-1 btlttnd of Patraos, and while there sion. She is highly esteemed as a speak- ''i0* approached by ono, « nuin, with cr, a medium and a woman of high social aU Lho bodlly l)art* and functions, but In and spiritual qualities and moral worth. 8\,cb ?I?,r Lou* form that John was Bishop A. Beals has done good woric aJ™V. at W» feet and wor-here In the year gone and has many I Bh‘P hlm' whon lho an&ol,horo so callod, warm friends. The P rogressive Thinker is in lively demand hero and has many warm admirers. The Better

said: “ See thou do it not, for I am of thy follow-servants, tho prophets.”

IKay ana Banner of Light share libor- ally in public patronage and are great­ly esteemed; each has Us favorite, and all arc doing good work for the cause."

the society at Mott Memorial Hall, fori — • » • »■»■ ------which he was to receive 1100. As treasur-1 Mrs. A. E. Doney, of Salt Lake City, «r of the society I paid him 125 after the I writes: “ I see by various press reports first lecture, which was on “ Geometry,” I that our much-esteemed co-workers, Mr. and not particularly novel or enlighten-1 and Mrs. Geo. F. Perkins, are about to ing, that I remember. A few days after- enter new fields of labor. Well may tho ■ ward he came to me and asked me to ad- Society of Spiritualists of Council Bluffs vancc the additional 875 ho would be on-1 congratulate themselves upon having titled to after delivering the three re- 1 such earnest and faithful workers with

I mainlng lectures arranged for. I at first I them. We now have with us a moat ^objected to this ss entirely unbusincss-1 estimable lady, Mrs Dr. Patterson,

ike, saying I had no right to pay out known from North to South, and the khe society s fund before the work was West, as a marvelously fine clairvoyant lone, and I was not inclined to pay him and test medium. Starlight, her direct pa my own responsibility. Mr. Felt came controlling spirit,has so endeared herself

ok with a note from Olcott, saying the to us that whon they aro in our midst,lecturer needed the money badly, and he| kOlcott) would answer for his fulfilling [his contract. I therefore paid him the

“That was the last the society saw of Mr. Felt. He neither delivered another lecture for the society or returned the “ 6. I was out over 8200 before I got

indeed we feel that there is ' only a thin veil between us.' How beautiful the thought, compared with other teachings that our heavenly home is so far away. The Progressive Thinker is just what it should be, a fearless standard-bearer for truth. I read every word In its columns every week.”

l i t seems passing strange that the' divines who nave boon instructing us all thoso years in the a rt of theology have never taken St. Paul's advioe before this, and tried tho spirits and found out what ronnnor thoy wore of; passing strange that thoy have lust awoke to tho necessity of investigating Spiritualism, with their lucid knowledge that It “ had done damage enough already In conse­quence of tho spread of contagion.”

As theso gentlemen will havo to pick up a link In the endless chain of being to commence their Investigations, how would it do for them to commence with those distinguished personages who had gathered around that most historic spot, Mount Tabor, two of whom had loft tho physical form from nine to fifteen hun­dred years respectively, and coming on down to tho presont time, with all Its spiritual attestations, and analyze them

I all, trace all phenomena to its cause, ana that back again to its antecedent cause or phenomena; and so on through the fathomless abyss of blazing suns and systems of worlds, billions of which do not constitute a sand-speck In their rela­tion to the limitless whole, and all

such tha t the invisible intelligences through him have produced some very remarkable physical demonstrations, such as causing the house in which he lives to shake and tremble from garret to cellar, with a violence tha t would nearly frighten him out of what little wit he possessed; and the fact that he is l only half-witted would most likely be treated with contempt by “ learned men.” j They would consider it beneath their I dignity to treat even a dog for blindness

ith a clod of clay containing a little spit. The ignorance and simplicity in such instances are substituted for th e { facts, which are ignored altogether.

If the phenomena are such tha t they could be duplicated in any manner, they Very often say they wero so produced, and the fact that such phenomena are not produced through themselves, is the standard they judge others by when not Relegated to triokery. We are often asked tho question: “ If your friends, whom you say are in spirit life, come to ; rou and make their identity sure, how is ■ th a t mine do not come to me in like linannor? No amount of explanation can explain this clearly to them, and in [many instances i t is difficult to de-

•mine whether we go to them or they ! [borne to us. The predominance of the difficulty in this communication not j being more frequent and general, lies in ourselves, and for reasons already indi-1 cated.

To further show how learned men havo disposed of the phenomenal part o f1 Spiritualism, I will call to mind the I investigation by tho editor of the JVa-1 \tional Baptist, of Philadelphia, Pa., some eighteen or twenty years ago. I do not remumbor the name of the medium he visited, but ho denied all possibility of fraud, and said tho manifestations wero gonuino and not produced by the medium or an accomplico; but gave bis opinion that thoy were produced by the devil. Thus it is with many, when spiritual manifestations cannot be denied and excused away, they aro relegated to the devil.

During my last trip East,and spending tho “ Lord’s day” with near relatives, a lady neighbor came in. saying tha t she had neard I was a medium for certain physical manifestations; os she never saw anything of the kind, and did not believe in Spiritualism, she would like to investigate it just tho same, If thero was an opportunity to do so. I replied that I made no pretensions to mediumship and could promise her nothing, but was willing to sit in a circle with her and see if we could get anything. Everything bolngin readiness, four of us took our seats about a common stand, and wo did not havo to wait moro than five minutes before tho stand was fully alive with motion, which tho lady said I was purposely causing, though I boliovod she sincerely knew better. I

| then requested the other two to sit away from tho stand, but sit in such a position that they could see all that was going on, and told this lady to place her hands on tho stand as lightly as possible and allow mo to touch them with tho tips of my fingers, to which she assented. In a few moments the stand was alive as ever, and calling tho alphabet, wo got a namepurporting to come from an uncle of this lady, who saidr

[freighted with Immortal life; and still on beyond tho highest flight of the ideal Imagination, aye, on up to Potontia, up to primordial spiritual essence; bock into infinity ltsoll, and with their chem­ical retort and geological hammer and astronomical apparatus, striking off edi­tion after edition of billions upon billions of worlds, the freight of all thut over was and is yet to be, and noting tho mathematical exactness of absolute law and Infinite Intelligence ns it differ­entiates along tho cycle of n progressive evolution, resolve uguin ail life hack into Infinite Being: thoy may possibly dis­cover that Spiritualism is not such a | “ narrow field " to search in after all.

However difficult their declared in-' Itontions may be to become realized,—fori [they will And it moro difficult to stamp out than to establish Spiritual ism,—wo will not oppose their efforts, bolloving, us we do, that if they aro sincere and honest with themselves, Spiritualism as a truth will bo their reward. But how are they to inspiro confidence in others when they have so grossly treated the testi­mony of thoso equally intelligent and truthful as themselves? If they believe not Moses und tho prophets, they would not beliovo even tnough one rose from the dead. If the testimony of learned! [men and divines (s to settle this Ques­tion, it ought to havo boon settled long ago In the affirmative, for surely we can­not get any moro reliable than what wo already have. It can only corroborate what has been given. Tho testimony of the late Prof. Haro, of Philadelphia, who is said to have boon ono of the most scientific men that America has ever [produced, ought to outweigh a hundred negations.

Ho has givon testimony of his own private investigation while alone, and with an apparatus of his own invention, with which he procured communications personating his deceased father and oth­ers who had dropped the chrysalis form. Judge Edmonds left a record in his

Facts for the Millions,” that this called-for-investigation implies is not truthful. I t also says that not only the testimony of these two men. with a world­wide reputation, is not truthful, but includes Wallace, Crookes, Varley, Gregory, Mapes, Brittan, Sargent, Zoe- liner, Massey, Carpenter, Thackeray; and of the clerical profession, Rev. Sam­uel Watson, Rev. Allen Putman, Rev. B. F. Taylor, Rev. Wm. Mountford, Rev. M. B. Craven, and a score of oth­ers, to say nothing of the thousands in the more humble walks of life, who have timo and again staked their honor, reputation and eternal happiness on piritual manifestations obtained under

test conditions absolutely prohibiting all possibility of fraud, and denying all hypothesis a t explanation except the spiritual; and yet, possibly, i t is only contagion tha t has spread quite enougn and done damage enough ready."

Is it any wonder that some of our best mediums are living almost in seclusion and only breaking the bread of immortal life to a select, favored few? Many others have cast their bread " upon the waters," trusting it to return after many days, only to discover to their sorrow they had

mply cast pearls before swine. Were I medium in possession of gifts and pow­

ers far exceeding those of the persecuted Nazarene, I should hesitate a long time,

ith the knowledge of the contumely ith which mediumship was treated by

the Seybert Commission and others, be­fore I would submit to the manipulations

opinion still." No amount of evidence can overcome some people's preconceived, prejudiced opinions; but lot iib hope that theso investigators are not of this class.

Capac, Midi. O. W. Tennant.LATER.

N. B.—Tho great problem is settled. This Easter Sunday will go down to posterity as tho commencement of a new epoch. At this moment, 2 o'clock P. M.. tho Christian church bells of this place are tolling tho news and setting vibra­tions in motion that aro to carry tho news around the world, and before the sun veils its face in darkness or sweet luna appeal's above the eastern horizon, tho news will havo reached the mountain peaks on tho Highlands of Heaven, and we listen for tho hosannas of the morn­ing stars when thoy sing together forj°y - , ,

Spiritualism has this day been pub­licly declared in tho village of Capac, by

Cole, tho M. P . minister of thisM r.|_filace, to be a delusion and a lie, and was icartily endorsed by Mr. Townsend, the

M. E. minister of tb s place, in his repeated exclamation of “ Glory be to God!" etc.,etc., and now they are puzzled to know what to do with Spiritualists and thoso who preach Spiritualism. They finally concluded to “ leave it with the rest to say what ought to be done with them,and where they ought to go.”

■O. W. T.

THE BIBLE.T he P o s tm a s te r D ec id es I t Is N ot

a il O bscene B ook.

MR. WAN AM AKER— MR. ST. JOHN.

If all the Liberals of tho country make up their minds to pursue the course de­termined on by our friend St. John, as outlined in tne subjoined letter, Holy John will have a racy, not to say vulgar, quarter of an hour.

Mr. St. John some time ago became in­terested in the application made to Holy John for a decision on the mailability of the volume called the Holy Bible, and he naturally also wanted to know how a decision on the book as a whole would af­fect a volume in his possession called the “ Holy Bible Abridged." In communi­cating with this office in regard to the latter work, he informed us of the-favor- able result of his application to the de­partment, upon which we a t once asked for a copy of the decision. The follow­ing is his reply to tha t letter:

“ Ced a r fa lls , Ia ., May 4,1891.Mr. Editor:—Yours of April 27th at

band, and in reply I would say tha t I did not write to Wanamaker myself, but left a copy of the ‘ Holy Bible Abridged ’ with the postmaster of Cedar Falls, to see what he thought about its being mailable, and be could not decide, so l asked him to send it to the Postmaster- General and-get his decision. And he did bo (or said he did), and said that the decision was tha t the book was mailable on account of its containing nothing but extracts from the Bible. I asked him for the report tha t he got, and be said tha t belonged to the post-office, but per­haps he would let me nave a copy of it.

“ Since the decision I wrote 2 Kings, xviii, 27, on a postal card, and sent it to John Wanamaker, and intend tha t more shall follow. The churches are forcing the Bible into our common schools, ana want us to swear by i t in court, and are determined to engraft i t into our nation­al Constitution. And now I am deter­mined to feed them on their own filth until they get enough of it, and hope all other Liberals will do the same. In this they can be greatly assisted by ordering a copy of the ‘Holy Bible Abridged.’

Yours fraternally,M. W. St . J ohn.”

We have since received a copy of the letter to which Mr. St. John refers, which reads as follows (It will not es­cape notice tha t Mr. Tyner is getting a little belligerent and inclined to talk back sharper than official duty strictly demands):

“ Offic e o f the Assistant Attorney General,

W ashington, D. C. April 10,1891.“ S. B. H umbert, Postmaster, Cedar

Falls, la.“ SIR:—W ith your letter of the 7th

inst., addressed to the Postmaster-Gen­eral (which has been sent to me for re-g ly), you submit a volume entitled ' Tho

foly Bible’ (abridged), and inquire if your opinion that it Is unmailable un­der the provisions of section 380, Postal Laws and Regulations, would be con­curred in by this department. I answer in the negative. The volume is made up exclusively of reproductions of chapters and verses from the Bible, and we nave I not progressed here to the extent of re- | gardlng that sacred book as obscene or indecont.

" If the volume referred to is offered to you for mailing, you should take it with­out question. very respectfully,

“J am es N. Tyner , Assistant Attorney General.

“The volume is herewith returned.”Mr. St. John, however, has no doubt

a t all linguistically, of the quality of the Holy Bible, He calls it, plainly, filth. And upon looking up the verse he has sent to Holy John, we will have to con­fess that Mr. St. John is not far from right. But that only shows how men differ. Mr. Tyner, Assistant Attorney- General for the Post-Office Department, holds that tho volume does not como un­der tho prohibitory clauses of the law against “ indecent’’ literature, and therefore will not question its mailabili- ty. Yot if Mr. St. John were in Mr. Tyner’s place, tho Holy Bible would be a t once excluded as filth. Which shows that human beings are fallible; that it makes all tho difference in the world whoso ox is gored; and that Mr. Tyner is not in sympathy with tho Holy John’s definition of excludable books, or that he has not read the Bible. And yet he throw out the “ Kroutzer Sonata.

In this difference of opinion botwoen two supposably fallible people, our sym­pathy is entirely with Mr. St. John.— she Truth Seeker.

THE PLANET MARS.

know what kind of people, if any, In­habited that planet, what form they took on, etc., etc.

The next thing ho knew ho was lying on his bed where they had laid him for dead when they found him at the tele­scope, rigid, and to all appearance dead, anu the doctor and friends were stand­ing by his bed. His first words on re­viewing wore, “ Bixby is a t the door.” He said how ho knew Bixby was at the door ho could never toll, but the instant he spoke, Bixby stopped in.

He soon became possessed of a passion­ate desire to know wbat happened to him while he was out of bis body, but could remember nothing, and as week after week passed his longing became lnsati- tiate, out could find no outlet. A t last he said that bis hunger equaled that of Eve's when she ate the apple. A t last he awoke with the morning, with a very j tired feeling, such as he had often felt after his night walks, for in his youth he | was a somnambulist. He felt so much exhausted that he had scarcely strength to dress himself.

On passing from his sleeping room into his office,he glanced toward hlsdesk and there beheld-several fully-written sheets. Ho was surprised, and wondered who could have gained access to his office, but was much more surprised upon looking to find the writing was all nis own, for there he had written out all tha t had oc­curred to him while he was out of his body on tha t memorable night, for ac­cording to his own trance-writing be had actually visited Mars, and this is what he wrote:

DEATH.In te re s t in g P a r t ic u la rs in R e g a rd

to th e :C h a n g e .

Upon reaching Mars I found the in­habitants there were very much liko the children of earth; in form and feature walked upright, and were very intelli­gent, the only marked difference being they ail looked young, and i t was only |by closely scrutinizing each of them that! could discern any difference between the Jyouth and the middle-aged, and the mid­dle-aged and the old, for time appeared to have no tooth on Mars. Presently I was met by a man who (by way of intro­duction) said to me: “ You are not mak­ing much progress on your sphere, are you?"

I replied: “ We think we are doing pretty well.” He said: “ Well, you are, considering the circumstances and the difficulties under which you are laboring, for you are in darkness, and we call your world the blind man's world, for notnlng there is foreseen, so you cannot progress as fast as you would could you see as we do. Here on our planet we see every event before i t transpires, even to the very day we are to die.”

I then asked him if they had any dread of death, to which he replied: “ N otin the least, for wo know the change is beautiful, and we obey every law of our existence so perfectly tha t we die with­out a pain or a struggle. Our marriages are perfect and bring happiness to ail, for all marry, and when our people get to be of a marriageable age they ouild in their mind their ideal of a husband or wife, and the ideal is in perfect keeping with the real; hence when they are first seen they are recognized and loved at a glance; in fact they know and love each other before they see each other.”

He then asked me if I would like to look through their telescope, and when I assented he led the way to it and leveled it on our earth, and bid me look. Upon looking I could see distinctly our town and the college, and even the stairs that lead to my room, and I could see men hurrying up and down the steps, and wonderea what the cause of suen a commotion could be.

Mrs. M. M. Sisco.Pomeroy, Iowa.

THE QUESTION SETTLED.T h e T h eo so p h ica l Society D id S en d

S la d e to R u ss ia .

To th e Editor:—In your issue of the 16th ult. you p rin t a letter from Mr. J . Simmons, in which he makes an effort to convince the readers of your valuable paper th a t I made an erroneous state­ment when, on the occasion of our last Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism, I stated th a t the Theo­sophical Society sent Dr. Henry Slade to Russia. Mr. Simmons is somewhat pre­sumptuous in attempting to inform me with reference to the proceedings of the Theosophical Soeioty, as the Society was

Thousands of people pass over the mystic river and land on the other side of life without knowing they have made the transit. As a being does not know when he is born, so, likewise, he does not know whon he dies. What! Do I you mean to say that when a man dies ne does not know it?

Exactly so. Such seems to be the rule, though there are many exceptions. W hat aro the proofs?

The history of a memorable seance will both prove and illustrate our state ment.I A friend of the writer, whom wo will cal] Dr. Brent, a fleshy person of 65 or [70 years of age, was an old-time Spirit­ualist. He had been a student of its philosophy for over twenty years. He was superintendent of the asylum for the insane. He died suddenly away from home. The first thought with the publio was suicide. But a letter was soon found in which, just before the fatal issue, he wrote to nis wife expressing regret tha t he was to leave her with financial or business affairs so unsettled and so un­satisfactory.

Eight days after this event, March, 1886, Dr. H. visited a lucid and trust­worthy medium, with the purpose of calling for his friend Dr. Brent. When seated before the medium, the mother of Dr. H. came, and after a little per­sona1 conversation said: “ We know the object and purpose of your visit, and will bring the person you seek. You are to do a good work to-day, for which he will bless you. There he comes now! Surely he has not been long enough here to get waked up. He has not tne least idea of the change he has made. Your mother found him talking with a crowd of people, most of whom have something the m atter with the head or mind or heart, a t least he thinks so.”

Dr. Brent being allowed to take control and speak, said:

“ Well, Doctor, I am glad to see you. You look well, and I think your brain is all righ t (putting his hand on my head). I have seen so many queer people lately that I almost begin to doubt my own. senses. Where is Shurtlieff (a former superintendent)? W hat is he doing? Is he in the asylum yet?”

“ No! he is in Napa.” Turning his head and looking out of the window, Dr. B. said:

“ Why, there is Mrs. Shurtlieff. How well ana young she looks.”

Dr. Brent bad followed the remains of Mrs. S. to her grave some few years before.

her yet?”“ Have you not spoken to “ No, but I will.”Then putting his hand on my head

again. Dr. B. said:“ Doctor, there is surely something

wrong with you or me. W hat is it?” Looking about the room, he asked: “ W hat place is this. This is not

Stockton. I was never here before? Who is this woman?”

“ This is a friend of mine whom you must know.”

“ Yes, but what is the matter? I see so many queer people around. W hat is wrong?”

“ My good friend,” I said, “ you have been born again, and have gone over to the great majority.”

“ Hudson, you don't mean to say I am dead?”

“ Yes, tha t is the English of it.” “ Why should I die? I had a great

deal of work to do.”“ The fact is, your heart was so over­

loaded with fat it could not work any longer.”

‘‘Yes, that is true, and it was pressing the tubes together, and I had a terrible reeling of my head. I t went round and round, and I had a pain here (putting his hand to his heart), and I feU. But I am all righ t now. Well, Doctor, if this is death, i t is a pretty good thing. How beautiful everything looks. Such lovely trees, shrubbery and landscapes.”

Listening, he said:“ W hat u tha t crying for. Who is it?” I told him I thought it was his poor

wife, who was greatly distressed.“ Oh! yes, my darling wife; I must go

right off and stop that. I will go homo with you. I am very thankful, Doctor, for this favor. Should you see any of my friends, please say it is ail righ t with Dr. Brent.”

To my view this was a most remarkable seance. I t set forth a new truth. Here is an Intelligent, educated man, an olda secret one.and Mr. Simmons not being ,— - - — , , , .

a member, could know nothing of its do- Spiritualist, who had often read in tha t . _ ’ . , . . . . little gem of a paper in its day, “ Theings. I was not only a member, but its | VoIoe *of Angels,” the report throughTreasurer, and thoroughly conversant with all of its transactions. A simple statement of its proceedings with refer­ence to the question in dispute will be sufficient to justify me in the statement I made, of which Mr. Simmons complains.

Madam Blavatsky was the Corres­ponding Secretary of tho Society. She was a Russian, and in correspondence

the editor, D. C. Dinsmore, of many cases in the other life where the unhappy wanderer and befogged traveler was brought to him, and there have his eyes opened and made to understand the real change called death. Yet this doctor, whose profession and occupation was to study and care for the insane, was for a

eek in total ignorance of his own death.with some of the high official*/ of the Ho dld “°* had. cp*«®utatodRussian Government. Aksakof wrote to the Theosophical Society, and Prof.7 Wagner (one of the most distinguished scientists of Russia) joined in a request that the Society send them a medium for physical phenomena whom the So-1 ciety could recommend. Action was taken on this letter, and a committee of three appointed whose duty it was to in-1 vest!gate such mediums as they might select. The committee was not in-1 structed to examine any particular me-1

and had started in the next life,A. s . H udson, m . D.

Stockton, Oaf-

Passed to Spirit Life.

I t Is V isited by P ro fe sso r L a rrab ee .

_ he went to sleep on the railroad track at Susquehanna depot. She denied all knowledge of such an | unde, and declined to ask any questions. I I then asked if he was killed on tho track, and the reply was: “ No, I went to ■loop. We got more communications, all of which wore denied. Then I was told that the lady was fooling, and that ■he would not believe, even tnough one rose from the grave, and they would stop; and stop they did.

The next day I learned that this lady had an uncle answering to her maiden name, who was killed In the Erie yard at Susquehanna depot, of whleh she must have been cognizant. He had a very spirited team, and when a train was aoout to pass, he stepped to their heads and took them by the bits and was thrown against the passing engine and killed

Thus it is. “ If a person is convinced against his will, he is of the same

After reading Professor Pickorlng's opinion In The P rogressive Thinker oonoerning the dead condition of Mars. I would liko you to publish an article writ- j ten some years ago by Prof. Larrabeo,, of Aborornmby College, just for the bone fit of your readers. The artiolo was written some time before tho Professor's death, but It appears, from lack of oour- ago, or for some other reason, he did not giro It to the reading world, but ho willed it with other papers and proceeds to a friend who caused It to be published soon after his doath.| Larrabee was Professor of Astronomy and High Mathematics a t said college, and used to spend every leisure moment before tho telescope when tho atmos- phore would permit, and to use his own words, “ was like all other astronomers, for all have their bobby, and my hobby was Mars.” He said: One night it was midnight before he could leave his work to seek the telescope, but the atmosphere was exceedingly clear that night and he oould not think of retiring until he had [looked upon the faco of fits old friend Mars. Upon leveling the telescope on Mars he said he beheld the most glori­ous sight that his eyes ever looked upon. He could see the land and water so plainly that it seemed to him he oould almost hear the waves dash up against Helper’s land, and he immediately be­came possessed of a very strong desire to

diutn. They thoroughly examined Dr. Slade, and the result was a majority and a minority roport. The Society accepted and adopted tho minority report, and sent a copy of it to Aksakof. He, on its receipt, sent to tho Society one thousand dollars. Tho Society, of course, oould not send Slade anywhere without his oonsont, and I apprehend that the ne-?foliations which followed is where our friend Simmons has got mixed and mud-1 died, and I think your readers will see I tha t ho makes this pretty clear in his statement: that, after all tha t took place, he (Simmons) went to the Thoosophical Soeioty for the thousand dollars, and got it as the partner of Dr. Slade, and I claim that he (Dr. Slade) was sent by the Theosophical Society to Russia, in accordance with my statement, and Dr. Slade so understood it a t that time, and so understands it to-day.

The mission of Dr. Slade was of vast and far reaching importance, and by far tho most important and useful thing the Soolety ever did. I t would, no doubt, bo interesting to your readers to learn something which was contained in the report of tho oommlttee of investigation wnloh was sent to Aksakof. They pre­pared two slates by screwing them to­gether, first putting a bit of slate pencil between them. The heads of the screws were oountersank and filled with sealing wax and stamped with a seal. These slates were taken by the oommlttee to the presenoe of Dr. Slade and submitted to the action of his mediumistio powers. Tho result was that under these condi­tions, an abundanoe of writing was ob­tained on the inside of the slates thus secured. If my memory serves me cor­rectly, the slates were not opened in Dr. Slade’s presenoe. Dr. Slade, howeror, says they were opened in his presenoe.

ATew York. Henry J. newton .

Passed to the higher life, May 14, 1891, a t Vicksburg, Mich., Mrs. Nolle Powers Kimble. She had passed but twenty years of this earth-life. She was a medium of fine powers, a true Spirit­ualist, and never afraid to acknowledgethe same.

The foregoing statement by Mr. New­ton, in referenoe to what transpired pre­vious to my journey to Russia, is as I then understood it, and according to my memory a t the present time.

Henry Slade.

J . W. Gilmore, of Council Bluffs, la., departed to the higher life April 2,1891, aged 71 years. He was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Ho served his country with honor during the late war, and has held the position of Chaplain of Aba Lincoln Post of this city ever since its organization to the time of his death. He has been an earnest,outspoken Spirit­ualist for tho past thirty years. He was a semi-trance medium and an tional speaker of considerable He was highly respected by friends and comrades.

inspira-ablllty.

citizens,

Mr. A r tom us Eld rid go, residing in Butler, Mich., passed to Spirit-life May 14. after a prolonged illness, of heart failure. He was a devoted Spiritualist. Services were conducted by Mrs. Emily King, of Butler.

Thomas Morrell, of Pawtucket, R. I., passed to Spirit-life, May 17th, in his 78th year, leaving his wife—she is very low and expeots soon to follow her hus­band—and sixteen children, six of whom have preceded him to the higher life. He had been a breve and true Spirit­ualist during the last six years of his life. His last days were blest by the opening of his spirit vision, maklnghls passage a remarkably glorious one. The writer spoke the words of comfort to tho many enlldren and grandchildren. A large concourse of friends were in a t­tendance. J . W. Kenyon.

Heinrich Johnillnsky s wealthy and distinguished citizen of Hamburg, re­cently deceased, has bequeathed sev­eral millions of marks In hi will tos found a Hamburg asylum for unmarried teachers who have outlived their ability to earn a living a t tha t calling.

. i n O ar Crowning Triumph I It consists In furnishing for ljf cents per week, ss much reeding m etier as o ar city contemporary doea for 5 cents.

4 TJHB PRO G RESSIV E THINKER

SYBILLA;A True and Thrilling; Narra­

tive of “ One Alone.” Abounds inI t S ta rtling

tions.S itua-

By th a t Peerless Woman,M R S. EM M A H A R D IN G E B R IT ­

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[The numerous admirers of Mrs. Em u Hardings Britten In this country will be gratified to know that we hare concluded to present them with this interesting naira tire, which abounds In startling situations and a most exalted spirit power. Mrs. Britten will be pleased to know, also, that her production is to appear in Toe Progressive Thinker, which now has the largest circulation of any Spiritualist paper in tne world, one special coition reaching 119,500. Our only aim Is tomake our paper a cotnv/rU epitome luleancttl thought, and It would not be, without this sketch from the Peerless Emma Hardings Britten. Our readers, wo are sure, will thank us for presenting It.—Editor Progressive T q in k b il J

CHAPTER V.I havo said that Flora Masters was my

only friend and confidant—and though she was fair as an angel and as beautiful in mind as in person, under the iron rule of a proud father and jealous, cold-1 hearted sister, this lovely child of six­teen was coerced into an engagement with a millionaire more than double her age: chosen, bid for, and tradod off to a man repulsive In person, manners, and character: an admirer of beauty and a despiser of women; coarse and uncouth In every point but tho gilding of an im­mense fortune. Two young girls had already shared his name, house, and poisonous atmosphere, and in the uamo of “ wife” been sold to early graves.[ “ Mr. Varley has been unfortunate with his wives,” men said, and though he was forty and she sixteen, Flora Mas­ters was deemed fortunate when selected to be the third wife of this man.

Flora and I had interchanged our most interior thoughts from childhood. In deep sympathy with each other, the same restless nature, eager for life’s busy conflicts, had forced us each to ex­claim. when we saw the boys go forth to school, college, and a place in life,“ Would we were like them.” Some­times we would climb jagged rocks, high over the lashing waves of the ocean, and our fervent longings would mount the curling waves and sail off in fancy barques to picture out the wonders of unknown lands and act imaginary dreams of discovery, explorations, inter­course with distant nations, and all the glowing scenes of life shut out from ea­ger woman. The mystery of the stars, the ancient temples written over with the hieroglyphics of old, bygone days, -these we would long to spell.

W hen Charley came home from col­lege, and glibly poured into our eager ears the wonderful revelations that chemistry, anatomy, and physiological sciences would yielu, we would both im­plore to be permitted to learn them, too. To such requests as these Mr. Masters j invariably replied w ith a scornful,“ Pshaw! what need have women to cram their heads with such stuff: 'tis

eamo, by virtue of his position. In daily contact with her, and something of tho now relations she was about to assume dawned upon her. Indifference was changed to loathing, deepening daily Into positive horror.

Wo had a seamstress in our family | whom for sotno time wo all regarded as a pattern of propriety and virtue. Charm­ing in her appearance, neat, modest, and humble In h er ways, and so Indus­trious that she never seemed as If she could do enough for us, the girl became our very Idol until subjected to tho eye of Flora's now betrothed. One fatal day he Informed tho family, with many a ribald lest, that our favorite had been “ a girl of the town.”

Flora was astounded a t first, but gen­erously replied, “ W hat If sho has been, do you know aught against her now.?"

Mr. Varley shrugged his shoulders, and Augusta nearly fainted: but when Mr. Masters heard the talo ho loft the room, and our gentle favorite was put ont of tho house within half an hour.

I heard one of tho girls say afterwards “ tho creature did not deny it, and yet had the boldness to ask to stay, th reat­ening to go back to the streets again If somo decent family would not keep her. Aye, she oven had the audacity to go down on her knees and ploud to stay.’

“ No wonder,” added tho virtuous girl, “ when slip found how much nicer It was to live In a docent house than on the town, but if such as she can be taken In, we won't stay, and tha t tho creatures may depend.”

T hat night Flora dragged mo with her to her father's library, and there ensued a conversation of which I give these fragments.

‘"Father, why did you dismiss Ag­nes?”

“ I am astonished. Flora, tha t you compel me to repeat the disgusting facts of wnioh I should think you would bo ashamed to speak!”

“ Oh, father! Agnes said herself she sinned for bread, to save an old blind father from dying from starvation. Fath­er, you are not old, or blind, or starving! W hy should you ask me to sin for bread?”

“ Good God, Flora! W hat horrible fancies have you been imbibing? Can you see no difference between the dis­graceful prostitution of the streets and the holy state of marriage?”

“ No, sir," responded the girl, “ I can­not see any difference unless love sanc­tions a union otherwise merely animal, degrading and loathsome. I do not love W alter varley! I hate him, and I do not see the difference between selling mvself to him for house and lands, and selling myself to him for a piece of bread.

“ Do you see no difference between the kennels of infamy and the Church of tho Lord?" gasped the furious father, liter­ally gnashing his teeth in the pale face th a t so calmly confronted him. “ Do you dare call th a t the same marriage tha t consummates ruin to woman in tne places it is a shame to speak of, and the| solemn ceremony which God’s annolnted pronounces over you in His sacred I house?”

" God may sanction and priests may sell me.” replied the haraened girl;“ the pollution is the same in the end.”

“ Now, may heaven gran t me patience with this most unfortunate child?" cried Mr. Masters, then, turning a savage look on me, as if he haa detected the source of w h a th e deemed h is daughter's per-

cuftomod to look upon—on this occasion swam before my oyos, as in a |tanoraina, but almost Immediately passed away. That which was left in Its place, bow* evor, was the view of tho misty moun­tain range, on which, heretofore, somo scene or event yet to bo realised would bo propbotlcally Impressed.

Was it so now? This 1 could not de­termine, for on tha t mountain I saw but a singlo figure; it was tha t of a tall, noble, commanding-looking porsonago of about thirty years of ago, with a fine head, strikingly handsomo face, with large, piercing eyes, and a foreign-look­ing cast of features. I saw this in an for a apace of over two minutes, and though I never remembered having soon him before. I felt confident I should know him again amongst tun thousand. The ringing of tho dlnnor bell broko tho spell alike of my vision and meditations. Hastening to take my place among tho throng of ■visitors who were assembled on tha t festal occasion, Mr. Masters lod me up to tho gentleman who was to ohaperon mo to the banqueting hall, and having simply Introduced him as “ Count Re Inhold, " le f t me to be conducted by—

only fit for men who make a business of ver8ion, he scowled upen me with a look, , I of hate I shall never forget, and thun-“ But, papa, Flora one day ventured dered_

say, “ the other day, Jennie, our cook, « Bgg0ne> serpent!"The next minute 1 passed the thresh-was in a fit, and Anna, our laundress,

had h er ankle dislocated: now, if I had learned these things, I m ight have cured poor Jennie, who had to almost die before the doctor could be sent for, and Anna's ankle m ight have been set, and saved her from being a cripple.”

“ Flora, you have nothing of the lady in you.” rejoined her parent, sternly; ll cannot imagine where you have imbibed

iav iilitoa avrtant na ailnon rrlonn. I

old of the library, and soon the arm s of Flora were wound around my neck, while in tender accents she murmured:

“ Forgive me, darling, this is all my fault. Sybilla. I will amend it.”

The next week saw Flora Masters the wife of W alter Varley. . . .

Between me and my self-constituted■ c o r d i a l, , r .— - , ™ W iardIan, Mr. Masters, no very l_

such low ideas, except," he added, glanc- feelings had ever existed: he brought ing askance a t me, “ these democratic me house, as even my childishlongings have come through association. bu t acute perceptions taught me. ra ther Let me bear no more of them ; I donit ^ an act cf duty, o r some unexplained want to see my daughter a strong-mind- impulse, than from kindness to myself ed woman, to be the sneer of every arts -1 otf_m_vjdeJul_mn^aj^_The_searfttL-ojL_hia toe ratio salon.”

Often we watched the pale faces of shivering beggars, hungry children.m ngry |_and desperate men, as they flitted by I our windows on a winter's day; and we would wonder why such misery was, and what could be done to mitigate It. and though we scarcely knew what cold or hungar was, and our worst idea of suf­fering was conjured up only by the repe­tition of my own early history, which Flora was never weary of listening to, o r I of talking, still we thought and wept and longed to know more, do more, and be like some good fairy—a streak of sun­shine In the house of every child of sor­row. And, after all, what was there to live for, but ribbons, silks, and polkas?W e knew there was a world outside these things, hut not for us, and •sometimes the question would arise, whether we m ight not find It beyond th a t dark closed portal through which our loved and well-remembered mothers both had passed.

Flora was even more impulsive than I, and leas schooled by early suffering to control the burning fires of genius and the uncultured powers of mind th a t her woman's sphere allowed no vent for.Since, then, no other aim was allowed existed between Flora and myself up to soaring Intellect—since it must be | th is hour wm viewed with visions din-

promptings 1 had never learned. His 1 manners were cold and repulsive, even I to his children; and to me, bis self-im­posed charge, absolutely awful. My poor mother's name, whose dying re­quest alone could have induced this singular relation between us, had never once been mentioned, and my position in Mr. Master's household had never, therefore, assumed the directness e ith e r of a menial o r an adopted child.

After poor Flora's marriage and the conversation to which I was in part an j auditor which preceded it, Mr. Masters’ repulsive feelings towards myself were obviously increased. I felt tha t he a t­tributed the rebellion which she had manifested toward h er hated union, not to her womanly promptings of nature | revolting against such loathsome asso­ciation, out to the influence which I was supposed to exercise over her. The poor g irl had dragged me with h er to bear protest against the sacrifice, and much as her determined tyran t affected to disregard her pleadings, he felt their force too keenly to endure th a t another should be witness to the degradation of I his own cruelty unmasked. I felt, more-1 over, th a t the real affection which had I

crushed down to the Ignoble conquest! over men's admiring eyes, this was an] aim, and tha t was something; and to steadUy did she persua i t tha t a more de­termined coquette never lived.

“ I've nothing else to do," she often said to me, “ and I’ll e'en do mischief; no lands to conquer, so I ’ll oonquer man; no name to make, knowledge to gain, or life to comprehend; so, then, as man must be all to me, I will plough and har­row. win and wear him."

Flora was a g irl of uncommon mind, and so she conla express what thousands! of other girls only Indistinctly feel; shel recognized tha t woman’s sphere was no more than conquest over man's passions, and the subsequent lot of his toy or drudge; and while thousands of g irls act this unrecognized fact out In petty acts of despicable coquetry, does the world ever stop to question whether It has as­signed to woman any higher aim?

W hatever Flora did, she did with all her heart, and soon began to delight, ave, and feel the necessity of tha t which she had first engaged In from mere Idle­ness and excess of life. Practising until she became perfect, her glory now was conquest, her study how to make it, her aim to make I t (as she would have made any aim) the most*triumphant over every one she came near.

W ith a dim perception th a t some­thing In the beautiful Flora was danger­ous, and becoming unmanageable, the automatic governess and the autocratic lather determined tha t the fate to which Flora must ultimately be consigned namely, the care of a rich husband, had better be consummated a t once.

Now. I would not bo supposed to Infer th a t Mr. Masters simply sought -to es­cape the charge of his wilful child to spare himself the burden. I believe he loved h er then, as dearly as his nature admitted of; but as he felt her destiny Inevitable, he knew of no other for a well educated young lady than to be married richly, or, as the world says, “ well;” and simply because the world said it was right,the world's voieo Is om­nipotent.

w hen Flora first heard her destiny announced she was simply provoked, be­cause she believed her ‘‘ fate bad come too soon,” and her only game—excite­m ent—be ended. B ut as the suitor

this hour was viewed w ith ^ H like both by her proud half-sister Augus-| ta and th a t father who was ever watch­ful not to elevate, but to subdue the in­dividuality of the child, whose independ-l ence m ight thw art what be e ither be-T lieved or affected to believe was her best Interest—to wit, a profitable sale In the legalized m arket of matrimony.

Now, as in Sybilla Morand independ­ence born of early effort and b itte r no- 1 cessity was an element th a t no subse­quent moral rack could crush out, every spark of th is unladylike evidence of a reasonable soul exhibited by poor Flora I was naturally enough traced to my per­nicious Influence.

I must here state th a t though the con­fidence existing between mo and my dear friend was—on her p a rt a t least— unlimited. It was not so with myself. I Somehow, it teemed to me th a t the con­stant Intercourse maintained between I me and my beloved Spirit Guardian was I too sacred to become the subject of con-1 venation to any living creature. To me it seemed like profanity to speak of tha t second world and its angelic Inhabitants,

| which I full well knew surrounded or Inter-penetrated this world, as the soul

I to the body of the earth . Besides this.I am bound to confess there was a total absence of any religion, to say nothing of spiritual sentiment, about poor Flora Master*. Intellectual, clever in all branches of knowledge, with a noble' heart and tender nature, generous to a

I fault, and attractive in every relation of i I life, she had no religion but th a t of the I Intellect, and where th is was unsatisfied ! she rejected the mere affirmations of faith with biting scorn and pitiless logic. To open up even to th is beloved associ­ate a view of my Holy of Holies would have been to me mere profanation. Yet In the adytum of my very soul the vis­ions still continued, and i t was on one occasion, when preparing for a grand party, tha t Mr. Masters Intended to give In honor of his youngest daughter's mar­riage, th a t I dismissed the maid in a t ­tendance, and sitting down before the French windows on a lovely autumn evening, waited In deep peace and tran­quility for " the opening of the gates." I had not long to volt, ye t I feared I was to be disappointed, for my highly-prized view of “ Paradise"—as I still called

tho exact counterpart of tho visionary figure 1 had lust boon gazing upon. But lest my readers should be a t once dis­posed to believe they could prod lot In this encounter the commencement of an ordinary passage of romance, I Invito them to suspend any such flight of im­agination until they have come to tho end of the next chapter.

CHAPTER VI.During many months after tho mar­

riage of my friend, mv situation becutno daily moro intolerable in tho unequiv­ocal tokeus of Mr. M aster's and Augusta's dislike. Tho event I am about to n ar­rate brought about this state of things to its culminating point. I t was on u certain sweet summer evening, exactly Ithreo weeks prior to tho day set apart for Mr. Horace Travors to load Miss Augusta Masters to the hymeneal altar, tha t said Mr. Horace Travers stood with me, Sybilla Morand, in tho deep cm- Ibrazuro of a large window, almost on-1 Itirelv shrouded oy heavy damask and laco hangings. Mr. Travers was a very handsome, highly accomplishedson of an European gentleman of broken fortunes but noble descent. By powerful Interest and marriage connections, Mr. Travers had obtained a seat In Parliament, bid fair to distinguish himself highly by Ihls intellectual attainm ents, and only needed the lever of wealth to place with­in the grasp of his matchless ambition the highest honors tha t place and for­tune can confer.

To supply the last g reat desideratum, | Miss Masters, an immensely rich heir­ess, had resolved to exchange a plain! ungainly person for his very a ttractive] form, a narrow, envious mind for his I splendid intellect—In a word, to barter a fine fortune for a fine man. Slanderous tongues had whispered tha t a proposal for the sale haa originated with the enamoured young lady, and th a t tho ambitious father of the young man had extorted a consent from him by certain threats and promises, which ended in the ratification of the bargain; and so Mr. Travers sa t by Miss Master’s side, whilst Sybilla Morand played, sang, | talked, laughed, and amused the be-r trothed ones, and as the final of the drama, Mr. Travel* stood at last by Sy­billa Morand's side in the shadow of Mr. Master's window curtains, imploring the said Sybilla to fly w ith him from hated bonds without delay*.

Reader, I hated Augusta, and loved! Horace. The one had leveled such] shafts of insult against my dependent] head th a t she had made herself the onei g reat bitterness of my life, against which I felt i t lawful to levei the worst feelings of my untutored nature. The other had { attracted th a t human emotional nature which the world cultivates lit g irls by teaching them th a t the business of their lives is to a ttrac t men by a beautiful ex­terior, and won the tenderest place In my desolate soul by the cheering words of sympathy and love. A rapid, though secret, understanding had taken place! between us, which was now ending in a lo.\e scene, th a t I do nobpropose to Inflict upon the reader, conducted in those low but piercing tones which should never reach but one ear, when I suddenly be­held the thin, angular form of Augusta Masters stealing from the shadow of the opposite side of the window, and stealth- in* passing out of the apartm ent: I N either she nor Horace were in the > least conscious of this, my observation. | His back was turned toward her—her's, as she retreated, toward me, bu t I saw, j and I knew ruin was before me. My lov­er's unequivocal expression of disgust for herself, and earnest pleadings th a t I would, on tho ensuing evening, elope with him: my half promise th a t In the quiet of th a t night I would decide in favor of this daring expedient, all these points | had been discussed between us, and weret'n st term inating In the parting salute as

beheld the apparition of the serpent-! like audltress of the whole scene glide I away from her ambush.

“ Farewell, Horace—my resolve is fixed without the night's deliberation,” I were my parting words. ' ■ Be a t your I post—1 tall fly with you ”

Mr. Masters was from home. I knew he could not re tu rn—a t least I thought not, before the following week, and whatever Augusta could do alone (I be­ing now on my guard;, believed I could successfully meet. W hen Mr. Travers left, I retired to my chamber wtlhout attending the supper table, alleging in excuse a violent headache. W hilst I eat in my room revolving the chances of the desperate stop to which I had pled­ged myself, Augusta entered with a tum­bler, half filled with water, in h er hand. As a disciple of homoeopathy, Miss Mas­ters was our household physician, and, under other circumstances, I should not have been surprised to see her thus I

[irompt in the exercise of one of her I nvorite hobbies, that of “ doctoring.”

“ Marla tells me you have one of your I sick headaches. Sybilla,'' said the lady. | with h er usual frozen accent. “ You j had bettor take some of th is medicine at dboe—a teaspoonful—repeat the dose In | an hour, ana again In two hours, if remain awake.

“Thank you,” I replied, equally cold-1 ly. taking the glass and setting It down.

“ Take I t Immediately,” urged the physician, with unusual earnestness, “or | you will certainly become worse.”

“ In a minute, I replied abstractedly, bu t without moving. Augusta looked at me steadily, lingered, left the room, but returning instantly, added:

“ I want you to bo especially well to­morrow, Sybilla, to go shopping with me, so pray take your medicine: I am

I sure of Its effect."I have lust eaten a peach.” I replied.

" I will wait for half an hour, lest, asdo-

“ Not yet—I am just about to do so.”

“ Don't fall." wore hor parting words. “ I t will oortalnly cure you; It Is lnfalll- bio, and you must stop your usual head- uchu. I trout you to nwnwr."

She was*gone. I felt no surprise a t this ap]>arent;lntorost my niartydom to a sick 1 headache was u common occurrence. Augusta's remedies wore generally of-1 fcctlvo In modifying If not curing tnem, I and although I (enow hor usual dlsllko must now bo dcoponod Into hatred, I could not account For this special Inter­est on the supposition tha t if / hod not the excuse of tiuliojtooitUnt, sho meant to send mo away on some excuse on tho morrow, or dispose of mo in somo inan- nor which sickness would huvo Inter­fered with. Aware tha t I should neod all my onorglos on tho morrow, and al­ready beginning to sink boneath a real sick heudaoho, I determined to take her remedy. Two or throe times I approached tho table for this purpose, and as often sank back in a ehalt* affooted with an un­usual but deadly faintness; to dissipate this feeling I stretched out my hand for the glass,and was about to raise it to my lips, when a low whine met my ear, und something touched me. I looked down and behold Augusta's little dog,that bad crept Into the room with hor, and until now had nestled in a rug asleep on tho hearth . Tho animal seemed under the Influence of extreme terror, and pushod against my feet, as if he would have hid­den from somo unseen enemy.

I had been accustomed to fondle this little creature, but not choosing to detain him from his mistress, with whom he usually passed tho night, I strove to drive him away, but ho only clung the oloser to my dress, whining in a most un­usual and piteous manner.

I rose, purposing to open the door for his exit, the spoon and glass of mediolno still In my hand: but whilst In tho very act of rising, a lady stood between ino and tho lamp. She was there with tho speed of my thought, and In tho same Instant 1 knew—1 cannot say by what In­stinct or through what effect of conscious­ness—th a t I beheld the apparition of my mother. I have to this day the most vivid memory of my sensations; they were not those e ither of fear o r surprise. I was spell-bound, and though held captive, In tne half erect posture of one rising, I seemed to possess a keenness of observa­tion I never experienced before, and but once have felt since. By th is I per­ceived th a t tho figure before mo slowly raised its hand, withdrew the glass from mine, poured Its contents slowly|

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I havo left myself little o r no space In which to consider tho distinctive moral! __solution which Embodiments offers. This I 11 , .philosophy, and this philosophy only, "DROf. J . It. RANDALL, S F IU T L A LcrlviiM In . . r i . t . I t . nf iuinafl. A llaalar. can fumDh hundred* of tratlmoalaU.u> existence lu measure Of equal 1 g*odeiockol your hair, aut# ooaleadingaymptotn.

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B jf f Mexpressed, it is impossible to keep these complementary “ states ” apart. The sum of human exlstenoe, therefore, Is conformity to soul: and thus, through spiritual interludes, Is man born Into tne angel.

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ground, ana then gradually (so gradu­ally th a t it seemed as if I lived years in the process) melted into—nothingness; yes. i t was all over—there was surely nothing there; now a t least I was awake. If, indeed, I had been dreaming, or in a fit, no dim impression of one state or the other passed my mind. Yes, I was awake, ana I thought I had been so a minute before; ana th a t surely i t was no dream—my mother, yes, my mother, in life had stood before me, and taken the glass from my hands.

The glass! aye, this was life, and ma­teria l life, too. Tho very thought of th is human appendage seemed to call me from my superhuman wanderings. The glass! what had become of it? At my feet i t lay on the marble hearth­stone, but unbroken, whilst little Carlo was eagerly licking up the fluid which slowly streamed from the stone on to the hearthrug,

I watched him like one in a passive­waking dream, and by a strange psycho­logical condition tha t seemed to possess me, in which everything appeared lumi­nous and comprehensible, as if i t had been all written down, I knew the little animal had seen the apparition ere 1 did. A ghast a t its preternatural influence, the creature, frightened and feverish, gladly regaled himself w ith the spilt fluid. Yes,now plain i t all seemed—even to the death agonies of the little dog, who, after lapping but twice of my niaht draught,'rotted over in a few spasmodic cohvulsions, dead at my feet, the sacrifice, the substitute, the victim.

There was no surprise, no sorrow, no movement on my part. I knew i t all now. Doubtless I had dream ed—a t least the world would have said so—dreamed I saw my m other's sp irit, and the vision had, for a time, so illum inated or stul­tified—as the world would have said—my ideas, th a t all th is pageant appeared played out before me For my own special amusement, and I was only a passive spectator: perhaps an Insane, perhaps a still dream ing one.

I t was a cold, dreamy dawning, when I once more bestirred myself to regain the equilibrium of human self-control, and then these thoughts came out dis­tinct and clear before my now fully awakened senses. The dead animal— myself saved by a sp irit from his fate, and Augusta Masters a murderess.

(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)

IIT EMMA ROOD TUTTLE.

I see thee alt with heavy bands And sorrow-bended bead,

And dream In alienee of tbe lands Whore dwell tbe cherished dead.

I see tbe memory of me All fresh within thy heart.

And know, wherever I may be,I never will depart.

O, If the shadow-lands of earth.With all their clouding cares.

T heir shallow revelry and mirth,Their blossom-bidden snares.

Have not the power to drive away Love’s precious memory.

Think you an angel for a day A faithless soul can bel

I am not changed by this fair dime Of which you vaguely dream;

I love the tender olden time Back In life’s scurrying stream I

Your noble words, your smiles, your tears. Your eSorts to do well,

Which sanctified those earthly years,Ah I I remember well I

The saintly angels are moat fair And gracious unto me.

There’s beauty In tbelr loose, bright hair, And cloud-like drapery:

And oh, their crystal purity Is such a quiet rest!

ft falls like moonlight over me,And gathers Id my breast!

But ever, dear one. In my thought I bear thy mortal face;

With every dream It Is Inwrought Id all Its manly grace.

So think not In thy loneliness I do nt.t love thee yet.

For I remember but to bless,And never can forget.

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■ I f you su F e r .l t Is not because you a re cu rsed e f God. b u t because you v io la te his I a n . We know th a t, am ong Indians, th e squaws do not suffer la childbirth ;| they will s tep aside from th e ranks, even on Ike m arch, land re tu rn la a abort tim e bearing w ith them tb e new. ho rs child. O ur rem edies a re purely vegetable, ga th ­ered la tw o hem ispheres of th e globe, contain ing n o j poison. Dor a re they In th e least narcotic ta tb e lr effecL lactose stam p for c ircu lar: Address.122(3 Cottage Grove A rm . Chicago. Ill

The Astral Body.As M a n ife s te d b y M a d a m e B la -

v a tsk y .

appeiNew York paper th a t Madame Bla­va laky dead appears to be Quite as ubiaiutous and Industrious an old lady as Madame Blavatslcr living. No sooner

Down tbe shadowed west there lingers Lines of crimson, gold and brown,

And the light of fairy lingers Gently scatters fragrance down.

While in silence fall the shadows.Reaching earth with holy calm,

J O’er the mountains,plains and meadows,Broods a warm,Inviting balm.

And the earth Is stirred with rapture By some mystic power divine.

As the voice of song and laughter Wakes the morn with mellow chime.

And the south winds onward hasten,Like the sound of little feet

Through the shadows till they weakt n .Flower-eyed beauties bright and sweet.

1 All tbe world In wonder listen To tbe music of the sphere*.

And the dancing waters glisten And the radiant spring appears.

Earth la waking from her dream,Flowers are trembling In bloom,

I And the light of ages stream From the ashea of the tomb.

Mourning hearts with sorrow riven.Bowed w ith b itter grief and polo.

Feel the brooding light of heaven With the gladsome spring again.

And around tbe grave and headstone 1 Of the «*ear departed dust,Memory-flowers bave sweetly grown.

That Inspire the soul with trust.

Sepulchral Sympathy.T o t h e Editor:—W h a t Is sepulchral

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I having been burieSThe complained th a t | * * »*his hand was cramped, causing him ex-

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Tba following a rc the!__PA RT F IR ST —R eligion and Scieno

Introdactio n : R rilytoo: Fetishism: POfJMaM onnhrl.il): Phallic W orship: Man's I M n * d r p s t ta on bis Intellectual Growth; The Gr»«» TM laglcal Problem s—tb e Origin of Evil. Ik* Z*j*s Gog; th e Furore S ta te : F all o f M ss sag the ( W Schem e o f C rdrm ptlun; Man's Past lisa. FM . f» Will. F ree 1 1 1 * 1 , Necessity. R s s M * R i M and Obligations o f Man to God and Him*PA R T SECOND—T he Ethics ofSclenc

T he Individual: Genesis and EvolaUoo of h U T he Law o f Moral Government The ApprtlM: MHs Propensities; Lores W isdom: Conscience: Across! bUlty; C keage o f B e a n : W het Is Goodf Vi a . W ronct Hsppt a i ss ; T he Path of Advance: The WD Is M as Free? C ulture and Drrekmmzat e f * r w * The C harter o f Homan R lrb ts : I M F Paw* n Obligations; Ota: Punishm ent—Fresroi and r a n f Duty o f P ray e r; D oty to Children: 10 Parents; to Sag c ty : Duty as a Source o f S cuag th ; OWIgatli Iclety; B ights o f tb e Individual; of Gov*

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for • H istorical J a o i .In th is volume tb a Jew s are clearly S m U l

b a re been (be holy and favored people they d t t l have been . T b s atem taaic Idea U traced 1* t t i m tr im Philosopher. B B y z u n E C . and ha B Moutlined, following th e w ares of rmlsraCfa* ttM il fully developed in to Christianity. w ith a nyiM talM a t Alex— d n a la Egypt, to m r a m the cs^M M M E a f tb e C hristian era.

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PSYCHIC SCIENCE.

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you m v , the acid of tbe fruit should stray the effeeta of the homa-patbe."

“ T hat is woli,” w ld Auguste musing­ly “ but bo sure you take it the last thing before going to bed—It will be sufficient | a then."

She retired, and

lhad h er sp irit left h er body than she went over to Paris and made an after­noon call on the Duchesse do Pomar a t her residence In the Avenue de W agram. The Duchesse had another caller. Mate. Adam, a t the time, and was greatly surprised to see M ae. Blavatsky en ter the room dressed in black silk. She ap­proached within four feet of her, looked a t h er gravely, remained there silent for half a minute and then faded away. Mme. Blavatsky did not make herself known to Mme. Adam, probably because they were unacquainted, and because social etiquette between ladles is not confined to th is common place earth , bat is equally in vogue a t all way stations between here and Nirvana. B ut the Duchesse saw her, and did not know until th ree hours la ter th a t she was dead. I t was, consequently, beyond ques­tion a spiritual call from Mme. Bio- vataky’s astral body, and anybody who does not believe I l l s confidently referred to by the Duchesse as unquestionable proof of hysterias.

Nor is th is the only way in which the late founder of a successful religion seems to have spiritually taken her coat off and gone psychically to work la the freedom of a ir. All this week London theosophists have been up in arms. The arrival of Mrs. Bem nl from America will bring to a head the concerted de­fense of the late high p r i e s t e M which has been mode necessary by the London Psychical Society. No sooner was Mme. Blavatsky dead and safely cremated at W oking than the society came out In an attack which left her not an astral leg to stand on. X .

trem e pain, and desired the arm to be R E V . DR. M ARTIN. TRANCE, TEST, d isinterred. No attention, however, I x v t-aiing. u u m ru i. m m * ■■iissi_ Fo* was paid to the request for some tim e, ^S S ^ o J T S J S t bu t the boy still persisted, asserting th a t | m . csinagn. 111. if the arm was not raised he would

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