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Q u e s t i o n s a n d A n s w e r s , ' The power to put a question presupposes and gua

rantees the power to answer i t ."

B R I E F A N S W E R S T O O U R C O R R E S -

P O N D E N T S .

BY T H E EDITOR.

S p c c i a l W h i s p e r .

This is to i n fo rm all that ' por t ion of t h e public , wish ing persima^ly'"to m e e t the editor o f t h e HERALD OI . PROGRESS, t h a t l ie w i l l b e accessible ontat t t fh e&ch Wednesday , a t t h e publicatioiuigffice, No. 274 Canal S t . , a few doors ea s j j f l s&roadway . All o the r days of every wee!«nfe is o u t of the ci ty, and in the r e t i r e m e n t of t h e s tudy , devot ingghis bes t h o u r s to t h e objects of th i s j ou rna l , f

g i p Everybody, however , may reach h im t h r o u g h t h e genera l ly " re j iab le m e d i u m " of t h e Uni ted States Mail.

spread over all n a t i o n s " is the foggy g a r m e n t of Ignorance, which is the first p a r e n t of all the errors, and vices, and miseries, of humankind. When t h e spir i t of T r u t h shines " i n t o t h e d a r k n e s s " of error , " t h e darkness compre-hende th i t n o t . " T h e poet , Thompson , h a t h wr i t t en—

" Yet, bear up awhile, And what thy bounded view (which only sees A little part) deein'd evil, is no more : The storms of wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle All." The miserable theory of ever las t ing evil is

born of na r row and incomple te concept ions of the divine g o v e r n m e n t . We are moved to believe wi th the ancient Spir i tua l is t , who said; " T h c sufferings of th i s present t ime are n o t w o r t h y to be compared wi th t h e g lory (or goodness) which shall be revealed in u s . " T h e poe t , Bailey, has expressed our convictions, t hus :

" We only know that God's best purposes Are often wrought through dreadest means, and

sinful. Is thunder evil, aud the dew divine ? Does virtue lie in sunshine, sin iu storm ? Is not each natural, needful, wisest, best? How know we what is evil from what good? "

W h i c h w a s first - t h e o r t h e C h i c k -e n i

J . M. W . , BOSTON.—"BROTHER DAVIS : P e r m i t mc to ask you a question recently propounded to Prof, \gassiz— namely : Which was first on this terrestial globe, the egg or the lien ? In other words, was a hen lir-t made to lay the eggs for future generation, or were the eggs made first and from these the poultry ? " .

ANSWER : How t h e t ru ly learned and sci-t i f ^ J* ro f . A. will dispose of t h i s quest ion

-Pr : : .t k n o w . 1 ' is il i. t h o mos* im-i) j r t an t problem in t h e w o r l d — n o t half so in teres t ing , in t r u t h , as tho ques t ion pro-pounded by the work ing mil l ions : "Uow can men obtain nil the eggs and chickens which are de-manded by their bodily necessities V' Th i s p roblem is unspeakably more in te res t ing to t h e h u n -ger ing and^thi rs t ing m u l t i t u d e s of ea r th .

—Sti l l , in cases where t h e bodily w a n t s are supplied a n d l ikely to be, t h e i m m o r t a l m i n d will ind idge i ts inves t iga t ing facul t ies in every conceivable direction. T o such we an-swer. t h a t all organisms in t h e var ious k ing-doms or iginated f r o m embryonic eggs or f r o m ganglionic nuclei . Mo the r N a t u r e was t h r o u g h o u t long ages engaged in ref ining her raw mater ia l , and in condensing a n d c o n c e n t r a t i n g appropr ia t e essences in to egg-centers, f o r t h e product ion of organic forms. Eggs first, t h en the chickens. To coun t chickens " b e f o r e they a re h a t c h e d " is g la r ing ly un-philosophical . The modus operandi of pr imor-dial egg-mak ing is a n o t h e r quest ion, which we do n o t propose t o answer unt i l i t is pu t .

T h e F i n a l T r i u m p h o f T r u t h . T H O M A S W . C . , P H I L A D E L P H I A . - - " E S T E E M E D

FRIEND DAVIS : Will thee he so kind as to inform nie irapressionally what are the ' signs of the times' in regard to the triumph of spiritual truth ?

ANSWER : T h e spir i tual s igns are fu l l of promise. This is t h e mos t wonder fu l period in t h e wor ld ' s h u m a n progress. F r o m the inu te shell-fish gasping on the ocean shore, to celestial minds in the gorgeous rea lms of in-finity—from the lowest musclemen on ear th to t h e h ighes t beings of l ight a n d love—the causes of Progress, of Agi ta t ion, of Aston-i s h m e n t , of Dis integrat ion, of Independence , of Brotherhood, and of Happiness, will op-e ra te w i th a m i g h t y and irresistible force.

Our heaven ly bre thren k n o w what t h ings a re needfu l for all m a n k i n d . If ye, being selfish a n d undeveloped, " know how to give-good g i f t s u n t o your ch i ld ren , " how m u c h more shal l your F a t h e r God, which is in a l l N a t u r e . The whole world is moving toward redempt ion. The distracted na t ions , under t h e blessings of h igher spheres, shall be delivered f rom t h e bondage of s tupendous i g n o r a n c e ; t hey shal l be ga the red toge ther " in to the glor ious l iberty " of the chi ldren of e te rna l t r u t h ami good. And all this will be accomplished th rough t h e pure wisdom of d iv ine Love. I t is the only omnipo ten t spiri t .

" Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or thc sway Of magic, potent over sun and stars— I * L O V E . "

And yet , f r i end Thomas , do no t unders tand us as teaching a n y t h i n g ns possible beyond t h e established laws of t h e spir i tual universe .

I m m o r t a l i t y o f E v i l .

I S A A C GK, E I O H T U S T . , N E W Y O R K . — " M Y F R I E N D : It is my intention to ask you a momentous ques-tion. i will propose it iu the form once expressed by a poet, viz:

•• • Shall all defects of mind, and fallacies Of feeling, be immortal ? "

" Perhaps you have already answered this ques-tion, but not knowing much of your writings hitherto, I venture to invite your earliest attention to the above subject.'1

ANSWER: I t is pleasant to be t augh t by t h e spir i t of T r u t h , for i t is the hea r t of t h e Inf in i te God of Na tu re . " T h e veil t h a t is

S W E D E N B O R G ' S C O R R E S P O N D -E N C E S .

QUESTION : " W h e r e can Swedenborg*s Dic-t ionary of Correspondences be f o u n d ? ' '

ANSWER : " G . , " SOUTHHOLD, L . I . , w i l l p r o -bably find t h e '1 Dic t ionary of Correspond-ences" a t a n y of t h e Swedenborgian Book-stores. I t is a work commonly called " T h e Science of Correspondences ." T h e t i t l e page of t h e one in ou r possession reads t h u s :

'A Dictionary of Correspondences, Representa-tions, and Significations, derived from the Word of the Lord—extracted from the ivritings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Second Edition. Published in Bos-ton by Otis Clapp, School Street, 1847. (This is an a b r i d g m e n t of a work compi led by George Nicholson, of London , and publ ished iu folio i n t h e year 1S00.)

S W E D E N B O R G ' S G R E A T E R R O R .

T h e g rea te s t e r ror of Swedenborg , is th i s : T h a t m a n is unab le t o m a k e a n y Progress a f t e r d e a t h ; t h a t no ind iv idua l c an r e fo rm hiuiself , thac m m rema ins t r a i l e t e rn i ty the s a m e as a t d e a t h ; t h a t if he is doomed to go to hell he m u s t r emain t he re forever . &c., &c. See " Heaven and H e l l , " page 273. Sweden-borg says t h a t he has conversed wi th some w h o h a v e been in t h e o the r wor ld 2000 years; w i t h o thers who have been there 1700 years ; some 400, and ye t o thers 300 years ; a n d each and all of these remain , in all respects, the same as t hey were on ea r th . " A n d t h e rea-son w h y m a n canno t be re formed by ins t ruc-t ion, as on ea r th , i s because the u l t ima t e p lane , which consis ts of n a t u r a l knowledges , aud affections, is quiescent , and canno t be opened, because i t is n o t sp i r i tua l . " Therefore all Progress a n d r e fo rm m u s t be accomplished on ea r th , in t h i s lower world, or n o t a t al l , be-cause d e a t h ever shu t s the ga te to all h u m a n oppor tun i t i e s t o m a k e any advancemen t . This I consider Swedenborg ' s " g r e a t e s t er-r o r . " M.

Mljisperin^s to Comsponbfuis. " TO A L L W H O M IT MAY C O N C E R N . "

K . GRAVES, HAKVEVSBURGII.—Your p r o s p e c t u s will receive early attention.

A. B., CINCINNATI, O .—Cannot aid you in the matter of magnetism. Are there no scientific " mediums" in your vicinity?

JAMES."—Will welcome you at our publication office on Wednesday, between one aud four o'clock P . M .

MURRAY T. . . . ,NORTHVII .LE—The term " ever-lasting" is improper in your article. May we sub-stitute the word "duration?"

DAVID T. , PERRY CITY, N . Y — T h e mai l h a s fely deposited in our hands the first chapter of

your promised series, entitled, " The Nebular Hy-pothesis, or Nature's Method of Forming Worlds."

ANNIE P , PEARL ST.—If you would realize the divine life withi u, live faithlully to the laws of Nature. These laws arc truly appreciated by your intellectual uud spiritual faculties.

. M . H E N D E R S O N , R I P O N — G O O D F K I E N D : I t not, very soon, be possible for our columns to

receive your communications. But we shall heartily welcome anything you may feel inclined to deposit with us.

" PERSEVERANCE."—1The poetry is received. The necessities of your body and ihenspirutionsof your spirit are tenderly regarded. In the Medical de-partment you may ere long look for u word of counsel. There is "Hope ."

E. F. C., OXFORD, MICII.—We always wish to be informed if subscribers fail to receive any num hers, and will reinail them. If they get extr: copies, let. them distribute them where they will du good, and induce others to HIJuseribe.

S. T. D., WILLIAMSBURGB —Affectionate friend if you would add more precious blessings to tin human family, we counsel you, first of all, ti practice with gentleness all the Truth you possibly can day by day. This will inevitably convert yo. into a fountain of sweetness and encouragement t> others.

II. M. LAWRENCE, CHICAGO—We shall examine the discovery of Dr. Wm. Bird Powell, of Cincin-nati, O. Dr. Dixon is deeply impressed by it. The true causes of deformities in progeny lie deeper than the physical " ties of consanguiuil

W. P., WILLOCGIIBY, 0 . — Certainly, good friend, man will be both under and oner laws throughout his eternal progression. He is, there-fore, always a sort of " probationer"—on trial, at the bar of Time, before the ever-present judges, N A T U R E a n d R E A S O N .

C. B. A., HAHTFORO, CT.—Your paper "contem-plating Nature" is received. Wr ti ft g 0 0 ( j private discipline. Acquire the power of express-ing your best thoughts i u good language. It will promote mental development. Perhaps we raav use your contribution.

" CULTURE," BOSTON—In one of h is Es says , second series, page 271, Mr. Emerst.n says: "There is a power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits, which contradicts what we say."

0 . C. H., GROTON, N./l .—God forgives no sins, either moral or material, because he is "without variableness or shadow of turning." Punishment in Nature is the divine consequence of transgres-sion.

—A well-written paper against " Mail-mid-wifery," if not too lengthy, will be very accepta-ble.

P. A. R., SPRINGFIELD—Yes. ".iendly Sister, the faces of departed ones are shining with a diviner loveliness. Yet. let node forget that the gladdest and most beautiful spirits are those who. while on earth and amid its duties, kepi their feel in the paths of righteousness us far as they com-prehended truth aud justice between man and man.

T. W. C., NOHTUFIELD. -Yonv serio-comico in-dignant letter, elicited by the recent slander case in W.'s family, reminds us of an expres sion attrib-uted to a celebrated character. " If there is any-body under the canister of Hea\ en that 1 hate in utter excresence," says Mrs. Partington, " it is the slanderer, going about like a boy constructor, cir-culating bis calomel upon honest people."

J . T.. NEW YORK.—Tt is impossible to belong equally to both dispensations. You cannot be a Spiritualist and a sk<-;n i-. in lii.y Our advice is. " get off th>; i t;'nrl on the honest earth. " i .V .. Dry To which Mr. F. reff.'i • T - >, is a thing whose head is in England, and iu> body in America, and its neck ought to be stretched."

READER, NEW ORLEANS.—Your le t te r con-cerning two business questions has been lost, con-sequeuenlly we are unable to reply by letter, for want of your address.

The cost of sterreotyping such a work as yon mention would be about one dollar a page. If from manuscript copy, a trifle more.

Humboldt's letters were published by Iludd & Carlton, of this city. Price $ I 25.

E . G. J . , PEORIA, I I I . — Y o u r reques ts are com-plied with. This correspondent says: " I know, f I know anything, there are spirits who do, or who

try to do, meaner, and falser, aud more rascally things in the spirit world than the same ones would have attempted surrounded by the restraining con-ventionalities of life."

—We think that our Brother has a few more facts to learn on this question of evil spirits. " Live and learn!"

T. W. W., BALLSTON SPA Yotir lengthy epistle is respectfully declined. But it is but just that we should give our readers to understand the ubstance of your reflections. Emerson, in his

lecture on New Englaud Reformers, has already embodied your thought. He says: "A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me : ' that he liked lo have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and oilier public amuse-ments go on.' This comes of the same origin as the tyrant's maxim: 'If you would rule ihe world quiet-ig you must keep it amused.'" Such, as we under-itand your article, is what you meant to express. Write again, Brother.

T. M. M., TROY—Your query has had the effect to return to our memory the child'squestou : "Do the angels carry letiers, mamma?" asked the loved one. "Yes, darling," tho mother replied. " B u t G«'d does not write his letters. He only tells them to the angels, and they always remember."

-Amen ! Hut our explanatory statement would be made in different phraseology. Intuition, we would say, is divine wisdom stored up iu the soul's pure.it deep. The augels have infinitely more knowledge of such intuition than lesser intelli-gences. Therefore "they always remember" what the Divine tells them. Does this answer your question, Sister ?

MARY P., CONCORD.—This correspondent writes a brief history of her struggles with sectarianism from early jouth until some two years ago, at which time *hc read a work ou the " Laws of Na-ture" by a phrenological writer, and the reason-ings thereof gave her considerable sympathy aud intellectual satisfaction.

—As a child, in the Sunday school, her experi-ence was not unlike that of the clergyman's little soil. A minister's wife says: The first time I took my eldest boy to church, when h,e was two years and a half old, 1 managed, with caresses and frowns and caudy, to keep him very still till the sermon was bail' done. By this time his patience was exhausted, and lie climbed to his feet, and stood on the seat looking at the |fren«-lu% (his father) quite intently. Then, as i!' I« had hit upon a cer-tain relief for his troubles, lie pulled me by the chin lo attract my attention, and exclaimed ilia distinct voice, "Mamma, make papa sag amen /"

B. F. C., NEW YORK.—" The Strange Dream," reported by Mr. William Arms, of Napoli, N. Y.,

.and published in the Cattaraugus Freeman, does not establish thc doctrine of " foreordiuation,"but this : A prescience, on the part of the dying wo-man's attendant spirit, of the particular and multi-farious causes then at work,whereby certain effects (the special events) would almost infallibly trans-pire. These events are not always absolutely cer-tain to occur—as is proved by the fact that, in all history, the best prophecies sometimes fail—but it is, occasionally, possible for a clairvoyant or spirit to cast a correct horoscope. A first-rate Astrolo-ger is right almost half of the time. The best pro-phets and seers of events, however, are inspired by a perception of producing causes, and are, there-fore, most likely to foretell with accuracy.

WILLIAM J . , CAMBRIDGEPORT.—This v e n e r a b l e friend waxeth indignant over the familiarity and arrogance wilh which certain self-sufficient per-sons habitually address the " Throne of Grace." He declares that, recently, lie was present when the professional supplicant, with marked venera-tion and humility, described to the Maker several specific social evils which he (the minister) prayed the Almighty to recognize and overcome in par-ticular sections of Boston city.

—Our correspondent's description of the method and matter of many prayers is nearly embodied in the following, which is furnished by an exchange : " During the Mexican war an estimable old gentle-man, and a staunch Democrat, was called upon at a regular church meeting to pray, and he closed with this addition : " Be with our army in Mexico; whether it be right or whether it be wrong, bless i t ! We of tbe Democratic party are charged with making a war of conquest, but we believe it to be a war of defense. But we would not enter into argument on the subject, and for further particu-lars would refer to Ihe President's Message

S. W , CHARLESTOWN.—Wisdom dictated our reply to thee in number twenty-three. Nothing less, or different, could have elicited so good a let-ter from you. Your testimony of personal progress is cheering to us. It is like the grateful assurance of the sick " t h a t the medicine administered is effi-cacious and pleasant."

—You say that you have been enabled to break away from many bad habi ts—Shearing! Gam tiling! Fighting ! Smoking Cigars ! Drinking Tea and Coffee! Chewing Tobacco! And eating hog meal! All this mass of bondage and corrup-tion yon have been rescued from by rending and

P u l p i t a n d R o s t r u m , , "Every | r a access ion of

ne, to have a es place to a

A Spiritual Sermon. Delivered in

M B . ISAAC CROSBT.

B T M M . 7 B A N C E S LOUD B O N D .

Text:-ir .1 MAW SHALL EH LIVk AOAI i r f—Bib l e .

This quest ion was asked by ono w h o did no t k n o w t h a t dea th is b u t a birth in to a h igher and holier life. Then , m y friends, let us rejoice r a the t than mo u rn when a child is b o m ! Yes, le t us rejoice t h a t thc prison door has opened and ano the r captive is f reed.

F o r long ages has the beaut i fu l process of dea th been looked upon with fear and horror . " ' i h e King of Te r ro r s , " when cla iming h i s ' vict im, has ruthless ly torn thc babe f r o m i ts mother , the mothe r f rom her babe, husband f r o m wife, anil wife f r o m husband. You all k n o w well t ha t the tomb has been associated wi th all t h a t is terrible.

FALSE REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD.

Fel low-beings have been consigned to a bot tomless pit , doomed by the creeds of ear th t o roll and wri the th rough unending ages in bil lows of fire. Even the happiness of angels has been represented as being augmented by t h e s ight of t h e agonies of t h e d a m n e d ! and God has been praised for his grea t and won-der fu l mercies, for His justice, wisdom, and goodness, shown 111 creat ing a Devil to en t rap and ensnare His own ch i ld ren ! The nearest a n d deares t fr iends have been consigned to an e te rn i ty of misery, the bare t h o u g h t of which has dr iven t h e survivor to the verge of de rangemen t . Despair and g r im hor ror have filled t h e h e a r t of the mourne r . Cries and l amenta t ions have gone up to heaven, ask ing for a respite for the lost soul. Prayers have been made to appease the WTath of an angry God, and for the redemption of the

, unpardoned s i n n e r . but tho unpardonable believing tlio Harmonial Philosophy. *« - Let) B i„ has been t l iou ' rh i t o h a v e been commit -every minister of tl,.: ancient Spiritualism read tl.,. M t l „ . K , l l c s „ f , , l e | l v e n to u c W ^

foregoing case of " easting out of Devils! —We find, Brother, from the sphere of your

candid letter, that you desire,and somewhat expect, to be unfolded as a public teacher and speaker by inspiration. It is not yet clear to us whether you will be thus developed, but we behold a white cloud, laden with the dews of a higher sphere, hovering very near your present habitation. It is for you. May you receive the shower of good and truth with which it is surcharged. We send with this our fraternal greeting. We also invite you to write us without hesitation.

MASON S . P . , PAWTUCKET, R . L , s e n d s us a f e w details of experiments at one of Prof. Grimtft' pub-lic exhibitions. It seems that four gospel minis-ters and six prominent church members signed a call inviting Mr. Grimes to perform his charla-tanic tricks, like the magicians of old, as tbe slyest aud shortest way to ridicule and dispose of the "stubborn facts" and teachings of Spiritualism. This happened the latter part of last November.

At the close of the Professor's witty and bombas-tic tirade,the experiments (a la mediumislic) were instituted for the sake of the four ministers and the six church members. Our correspondent was the first upon the platform. Several others followed. A circle was formed. The Professor closed tbe eyes of the parties,and commanded the table to tip,turn, &c. Our friend, supposing that G.'s pretended mediums were perhaps genuine, solicited the presence and co-operatiou of a familiar spirit by the name of " Johnny;" and he testifies that, by simply mentally requesting this spirit to frustrate the experiments, the Professor found it Impossible to proceed, and really did nothing until our friend voluntarily retired from the platform.

—We think this case explains itself. There is nothing unreasonable in the supposition that

Johnny," the spirit, did co-operate with his me-dium to counteract the Professor's delusive exhibi-tions. Why cannot clergymen remember' thai Moses' rod,being genuine, was enabled, al one swal-low, to destroy the tricks of a host of magicians?

T H E B E A U T I F U L G A T E .

BY H A R R I E T MC E W E N K I M B A L L .

The Beautiful Gate of Sleep is barred! () Angel within !—

The panels of pearl with diamonds starred, Give back no sound to my feeble knock; 1 liuve no key that will turn Ihe lock!

How long must I wait? O evermore and forevermore

Must I staud at the Beautiful Gate?

My garments are thin—my sandals worn! Sweet Angel within!—

How piercing the blast—how sharp the thorn! The night is cheerless ! the wind is wild ! My bruised heart sobs like a pitiful child !

How long must I wait? O evermore and forevermore

Must I staud at the Beautiful Gate?

If I were a Queen I'd give my crown, t) Angel within !

Or famed. 1 would lay my laurels down; Or rich, I'd yield thee my treasured gold. For thy sweet shelter from rain aud cold!

How long must I wait? O evermore and forevermore

Would I pass through the Beautiful Gate!

sequence—and tha t all entreat ies tire of no a v a i l ; and the God whose " m e r c y endu re th forever " has been t ransformed into a fiend, sending his children in to " ou te r d a r k n e s s , " a f t e r being t empted and led away of the Dev il, who was created to t e m p t and mislead them. T h a n k s to t h e law of progress, the world is being hujnanhed, and refuses longer to believe in a God of revenge!

T H E A D V A N C I N G C H A N G E I N O U R I D E A S O F GOD.

T h e God of Heaven is no longer t h e God of Moses—animated with hat red — sending plagues, famine, and dea th upon his child-ren. Bu t as the vail rises between this and the spir i t world, and we are allowed to catch gl impses of our f u t u r e home, t h e t rue God of N a t u r e is seen to be an a l l - loving Fa ther , who cause th the sun to rise on t h e evil a n d on the good, aud sends his ra in on t h e j u s t and on the un jus t .

Thousands of souls heretofore in abject bondage to church dogmas and creeds, are to-day rejoicing in the knowledge of the real i ty of the spir i t realms, anil in this sub-l ime knowledge, hear t is l inked to hea r t and soul to soul, and mau is bound to the angels ; for no less wide shall be the circle of love and fai th t ha t is to be t h e u l t imate embodi-men t of a catholic Spiri tualism.

This is the only faith t ha t robs death of its terrors, exhibi t ing this change as b u t a portal , t h rough which the freed soul passes f rom out its prison walls, or r a the r as a bir th, over which angels rejoice. N a t u r e rebels a t the or thodox idea of the f u t u r e s ta te , accord-ing to which t h a t state is ei ther an e te rn i ty of psalm-singing a round the th rone of God, or the endurance of the agonies of hell .

T H E N A T U R A L E M B L E M S O F D E A T H .

" I f a man die, shall he live again? ' ' The es-cape of t h e but terf ly f rom i ts worn-out ear th body is analogous to the escape of man ' s spir i t f rom his body, leaving the gross and impure behind. The violet b u t dies to change and live again. So the ea r th and innumera-ble planets , in ful f i l l ing the laws of their being, are submi t t ed to the same process, in the progress of ages.

Le t us, then , view th ings in their true l ight , and talk uo more about the dead, but the l iv ing, no more abou t deaths, but of b i r ths in to a h igher and holier existence. The re is no fai th under heaven that affords fu l l consolation to the mourner but ours. There is none other tha t establishes beyond a doub t the soul 's immorta l i ty . The Spiritual-is t ' s heaven is not paved with gold, nor walled with precious stones ; in other words, it is not an external heaven, but internal .

The k ingdom of heaven being wi thm, it mus t be a condition, and not a location: hence, if the acts of our lives are harmonious and humani tar ian , we are in harmony with the great divine mind, and in heaven.

2 T H E H E R A L D O F P R O G R E S S . NOT S P I R I T U A L I S M , BUT O R T H O D O X Y T E N D S TO I N -

S A N I T Y .

Our beautiful faith, it is said, often lead* to insanity. If so, it must be f rom very joy created hy finding the dark creeds and the-ories of earth disclaimed and rejected in the spirit land If there is anything in earth or heaven that would drive me mad, it would be, to be made to believe the doctrine of end-

liove that God himself was incarnated in the form of Jesus of Nazareth for the purpose of saving the human family from the hell and the Devil he had himself prepared for them. But having endowed this fallen angel with unlimited power, this angel gathers thc most of tho heavenly father 's children into Pande-monium in spite of the superhuman efforts of thc triune God, and thc strenuous and cffica-

less misery, which, indeed has sent its thou- cious exertions of Holy Church and its armies sands to the mad-house. Contrast this hor- of clergy ! rid doctrine with the revcalments of spirits - The new revelation to man utterly denies that no one is in a worse condition, but all the existence of a Deity that would uiah are iu a better state through leaving this sphere of existence. They claim that theirs is a life of progression, and tha t there is no 6uch thing as perfection this side of Deity. So, through the cycles of eternity, the soul is ever aspiring to, without attaining, in-finity.

T H E MORTAL B O O T TJ IE S H E L L 0 7 T H E S P I R I T .

" If a man die, shall he live again V Here lies the form tha t but yesterday enclosed a human soul. That soul is thc same to-day, and will forever retain iteindividual identity. How beautiful thc thought, that we shall again behold the face of those wc have loved: again hear thc gentle voice welcoming us home ! We have not a doubt that thc spirit of this deceased brother is here to-day, and rejoicing, too, that thc gates are passed ami lie has entered the house of many mansions !

TUB VISION.

Our brother, before his departure, in vision, traveled with spirit friends over a road which was at first rough, then 6inooth, leading through a beautiful country. The journey, to him, appeared to be taken with carriage and horses ; so real was it all to him. he won-dered much upon finding himself in his earthly home again, inhabiting this tenement of clay. But the connecting link between body and soul had not been severed, and the spirit returned to receive its normal discharge, that its journey might not be limited, nor its course impeded in its upward progress in the realms of light and beauty.

THE ROAD TO HEAVEN, AND THE CARRIAGE THAT

RUNS ON IT.

My hearers, it is of vital importance that wc should all be ready for tlie carriage when i t comes. I t is essential to our progress, and to the comfort of our journey, that wc be clothed in garments of charity. To acquire these garments, we must see that the naked are clothcd, the hungry fed, the sick com-forted.

If tho Christ principle were carricd into life, the road would be made smooth for all the weary, suffering pilgrims of earth. In-stead of relying upon our fa i th in Church dogmas and creeds to get to heaven, we should practice good works, and thus develop the kingdom of heaven within us. But we need utter no word of censure against church doc-trines, for they arc surely declining; bu t if practical Spiritualists, we shall see tha t our own houses are swept and jjut in order. A HEALTHFUL AND NORMAL GENESIS EQUIVALENT

TO REGENERATION.

Along with the facts of Spiritualism, there has been a discovery made in this century, that religion is a growth of the soul, and not a doctrine to be dispensed authoritat ively by tlie Pope of Rome, nor hy Calvin, or Luther , nor by Jesus, or Swedenborg. True religion ignores any authority, other than the dictates of nature and reason ; and the t ime is rap-idly approaching when man will be born, will live, and die in accordance with natural law ; in other words, he will be legitimately and naturally born, aud live and die the same way. Then will the religion of t h e soul, or religion which is in alliance with science, have reached its climax.

To l»e born naturally and truly, parents must of necessity be harmoniously united, and bonds of love must be thc bonds of wed-lock. Unions for life are daily formed from mercenary and selfish motives ; children are daily born who are thc offspring of selfish-ness and crime, and therefore, murderers and criminals are in our mids t ; and when the law of the laud intervenes, aud sends the cul-prit to tha t bourne from whence travelers do return, it is ignorant of the law by which spirits return to earth to indulge iu propen-sities entailed upon them by ignorant parents. Therefore, to live and die naturally and re-ligiously. it is essential tha t righteous and pure relations should usher the soul into ex-istence. Great improvements are making in the vegetable and lower animal kingdoms, but the races of men are still victims at birth to lust and crime. The soul, a spark of Deitv is, through untoward circumstances, obliged to live in a body repulsive to itself and to all the world, because of the sins of its father and mother, and therefore death is generally premature and abnormal.

True and holy marriage relations will br ine peace on earth and joy in heaven. For when a child is properly born on earth, t h e i , aud only then, can i t be legitimately bora into the spirit-home, t r o u g h long periods of its future life the spirit must feel the effect* of an impure and misbegotten birth. That these Views of birth, life, und death are antagonis-tic to orthodox teachings we are well aware. THE DIVINE PLAN SEEN FROM AN ORTHODOX

STANDPOINT. The God we Were taught to worship, made

his children totally depraved, then cursed them for Iteing depraved ; made men to glo-rify God and enjoy him forever ; then cre-ated a Devil to deceive them, that they might be tormented ' forcver; made man in his own image, then transformed him into a demon, for a demon can l>e no more than totally de-praved. After all this, he caused his own son to l»e nailed to the cross to expiate His' folly ! Thus the Christian world to-day be

world totally depraved ; ami of such a God of venganceas is worshiped in all the churches.

We wonder not that death, with theiradhe-rcnts, is the "kingof terrors"—that with them it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of their God—or, that the mourners go about the streets dressed iu thc habiliments of woe.

OUR DESTINY.

Tlie great question is, or should be, for what was man created, and what is his destiny ? .Ccrtuinly he was not created to live iu discord and strife, but to be iu unison with the great divine principle of harmony which pervades and permeates nature. However discordant man may become, by the perver-sion of natural lnw, his destiny is luippines.

If the few short years of earth-life are con trolled by circumstances unfavorable to man 's development, then is he removed to grow and unfold in a more congenial atmosphere.

Spirit friends are anxiously awaiting the es-cape of the butterfly from the chrysalis of the spirit—from the form of clay—and wc shall surely meet and recognize thc father, mother, sister, brother, child, and compan-ion. This, my friends, i t is, tha t makes our belief so beautiful and attractive. Not only this, but wc also believe that , in all cases, it is not necessary to pass the barrier called death—to sec and hear from beloved friends who have passed into the spirit spheres ; and instead of fearing the metamorphosis, thc be-liever in our beautiful fai th waits for the change of alnides with pleasure, and a perfect t rust iu him who doeth all things well. Therefore, we rejoice rather than mourn upon such an occasion as this—nither would we mourn for those who remain. Still, we look upon life here as a blessing, when we know that thc soul must live in tliia body in order to confirm its individual identity ; und, al-though adverse circumstances may interfere with the harmonious development of body and soul, and prevent their living in perfect unison, it is well for the spirit to mature in this form. For if the spirit is freed from its natural element prematurely, then it goes home before its time, there to regret the in-harmonies of its earth-life—though also to rejoice that it is within its power to develop and progress through the cycles of eternity !

NO REMISSION O r THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN.

Spiritualism &aves uo one f rom tho effects of his sins, uor in his sins ; but claims that every individualized being must suffer the consequences of wrong doing—that in the fu ture , life we cannot be saved f rom a re-membrance of this life, and that our deeds, whether good or bad, will rise in judgment , and must pass the ordeal of a clear or guilty conscience, and praise or condemn us accord-ingly. Now, I submit whether our philoso-phy be dangerous—though the dogmatic and church-going may declare it so—because we refuse to go to heaven by the atonement, and through faith in the blood of au innocent being!

W H A T SPIRITUALISM n A S DONE.

I t will devolve upon the historian to accord to this era the greatest revolution in opinion recorded in the progress of the race, which is none other than thc revolution Wrought by thc revcalments of Spiritualism in thc minds and hearts of men. The new facts have already convinced thousands of the immortal-ity of the soul—thousands whom the teach-ings and doctrines of the churches had driven to rank skepticism and atheism, have been redeemed by the evidence given them of the existence of their friends after they have thrown off this mortal coil. In this sense, Spiritualism lias been their saviour, and it will ultimately save the world from all skep-ticism and doubts in regard to a fu ture life.

ORTHODOXY TENDS TO ATHEISM.

Man has looked out upon the broad, green fields, thc towering mountain, the sparkling rivulet, the expanse of ocean, and on the bright sky above, wi th the myriads of suns aud worlds revolving there in harmony and beauty, and in his inmost soul acknowledged a Divinity. But when called upon to believe that the crowning of na ture ' s perfection of beauty, in the form of man, was created by this Divine Being, subject to contingencies that involved his soul 's salvation or damna-tion, then the mind revolted and denied the existence of Deity ! We wonder not a t this result, but rather wonder tha t the whole world are not Atheists, when we consider the inhuman, not to Bay ungodly doctrines,which originated in heathenism and have been palmed off upon the world as belonging to Christianity. However, we again rejoice that Spiritualism has come to save mankind from skepticism and the fear of death.

OUR JOY IN THE MIDST OF G R I E F . Soon must our forms, too, lie here ; soon

wd friends be called upon to take thc last look of tho casket for which the liberated spirit has no fur ther use. We therefore cheerfully consign these remains to the tomb believing that the husband, father, and friend .S Htill in our midst. To-day thou, ands of bright spirits have come f rom thei. spirit homes to swell the anthems of prais, that man is re leemed from the thraldom of the fear o f d e a t h - t h a t the homes that were

once desolate now recognize the presence of thc departed—that instead of wailing and despair there is joy and peace—instead of weeping and mourning there is thanksgiving nnd the voice of melody. With these feel-ings and views we can consistently reverence thc great cause of our being, and return thanks to the divine source (from whence came all life)—the author of all love—for the blessing of an existence which is to be con-tinued through spheres of endless progress. THE STUDY OF SPIRITUALISM A CHEERFUL P R E P -

ARATION FOR DEATH.

If there are any within the sound of m y voice who fear to take the step this brother has taken, we would earnestly invite them to investigate this new philosophy and revela-tion, in order that their fears may be dis-pelled. and -Hliat the journey so cheerfully taken by thc deceased, whose funeral rites we this day celebrate, may also be to you a pleasant one, and that you may not be alto-gether a stranger in a strange laud when you arrive a t thc spirit 's home. Give thanks, rather than mourn, that the angel of death comes in mercy to transport us where there shall be 110 more sickncss or suffering, where tears are wiped from off all faces !

Let our lives be in accordance with natural law and in l ^ r m o n y with its divine teach-ings, and we shall be developed so harmo-niously that the spirit will pass f rom its earthly form without a pang or a struggle.

My friends, this body we return to i ts mother earth, believing that the spirit t h a t once animated it is now free to explore infi-nite worlds of beauty, rendered vocal with praise offerod by angelic hosts to the Father of spirits.

May the aspirations of our souls lead us in the ]laths of t ru th and righteousness, tha t we may be ready for the journey which awai ts us a l l !

May the peace and love which our faith in-culcates be and abide with you a l l !

And to that Power which sustains and up-holds the universe we would ascribe due honor and praise, now and forever more.

Voices from the People. : ivery man have duo liberty to speak an honest

uiiud in every land."

trincs, are the greatest religious scourge that was ever let loose upon any undeveloped community. The rain of fire and brimstone in tho days of Sodom and Gomorrah was nothing compared to the reign of such a man as you ; and I am bound, in grati tude for my deliverance from such religious despotism, to do all I can, during the short time I have to stay here, to break the spell of your hell-dooruing control, and to destroy, if possible, the psychological effect of your ignorant or unsanctified will ; and to redeem reason— that ' light which lighteth every man t ha t cometh into the world,—with you a ' carna l t h i n g ' - from that slough of despond into which you have aimed to plunge it ; nnd if you will take the trouble to come out and hear me you shall have a chance to reply to my arguments if you can ."

Well, lie came the first night, and looked surprised to sec so large a crowd. Fearing I should not get his ear again, 1 held up be-fore his mental vision the " Ixioking Glass for Creeds" — the poem of " rough-shod rhymes." And as 1 began to talk, he began to color. Soon he dropped his head, rounded up and received my slug shots like a hero. He made 110 reply, and the moment the meet-ing was dismissed he made for the door, hu t stopped there and looked back to see many of his congregation gather around me, like hungry sheep around a stack of hay in winter time ; while 1 dealt out the rhymes and they passed in the dimes, and then went away cheerfully smiling to think what their minis-ter had to do to meet them.

The next day I met the " man of God " at the post office, and asked him how he enjoyed the poem.

He said, " 1 felt all the time like saying with the apostle—'Thou child of the Devil '

"But , my dear s i r ," said I, " y o u mus t re-member that I have been a member of your church, in 'good and regular standing,' for several years; tha t you, in the name of all tha t was good and great, sprinkled holy water in my face, and gave me, in the name of your church, thc r ight hand of fellowship, promising to stand by me as a brother, and when I got out of the way to restore me in the spirit of meekness, to forgive me even seventy times seven; and, fur thermore, you tried to make a minister of me, and thus get this child of the Devil into your orthodox pulpi t . Why, sir ! you may have many other jus t such un-promising children in your church yet. I t would no t be strange. You have talked so much about " the Devi l" t h a t a large portion

rich and be able to speak out of only one cor-ner of my mouth , and then make apologies if I happen to stir a frown. . .

'ilierc are many efficient lecturers in .Maine, „1k> devote their whole energies to the cause, among whom arc Gibson Smith, of Camden ; A P Pierce, of Belfast, Taylor, of Bradford; Hopkins, of Old Town; Hodges, of Appleton; Rand, <>f Bangor; Ripley, of Paris; Hayden, of Livermore. Lovell, of Yarmouth; .Mrs. Haskell, "f Auburn: Miss Works, of Bangor; Mrs Morse, of Searsmont ; Mrs. Thomas, of Camden, and many others not quite so proin-iuent, vet good worthy persons.

Healing mediums are p lenty , some of whom are remarkably successful.

Maine has also had a round share of pow-erful physical mediums.

In a circle at Bradford, while set t ing upon a table I was twice l ifted, by the invisibles, to thc ceiling overhead. Wri t ing in locked-up drawers, and upon tables apar t f rom all physical touch, has often been produced. Some fine test mediums are here, though not numerous. We are no t forgot ten by the angels even "away down Eas t . " Pardon m y lengthy epistle. . J .

Fraternally yours, in the love of t ru th . D . I I . H A M I L T O N .

O b j e c t s i n t h e S p i r i t L a n d .

WANTED : CLEARER D E F I N I T I O N ? .

Why cannot some one of the teachers of the Harmonial Philosophy define clearly and intelligibly, to our comprehension, thc actual character of the trees, birds, and beasts, al-leged by spirits to people their world ?

It seems to me impor t an t to t ry and settle whether their existence in the inner world is, as by some alleged, purely ideal, or whether , as others allege, it is literally t rue and actual. We are told by some spirits tha t they have never seen organized animals in their sphere, bu t others say they have, and that they find therein a source of individual en joyment .

Some allege tha t death is but a transi t ion of the life in tbe tree or bird, f rom the exter-nal to the interior world of being, and declare there is a spirit in the tree, horse, and eagle, as well as in man . which, being individual-ized. will ever remain so as an ent i ty .

Now there is a question of fact involved in these opposite affirmations deserving our carcful thought aud effort of solution ; for if we cannot intell igently satisfy ourselves thereon, we should dis t rust our ability to

T h e C a u s e o f P r o g r e s s i n M a i n e .

SKOWHEGAN, July , 18G0. DEAR BROTHER DAVIS : Y o u r HERALD, l a d e n

with the rich f ru i t s of intuitional wisdom, and animated with a charity broad enough to encompass thc whole human family, and deep enough to reach the most abandoned and man-forsaken of the race, comes to us "away down East in thc State of Maine." It comes, too, lik.- a messenger of love to cheer our heart and fill thpt aching void which nothing but a rational . - can fill, and which pop,.1,. - i r , . . os but to widen and make rm-i digressing, :>r a t least more ap-pan nt Ho , .-ver. tin- l'.n !•• about the " f a l l , " the use , the " d w i l / ' the " to ta l deprav-ity of m a n , " the "a tonement by blood," the "second b i r th , " tlie "second dea th , " the "l i teral resurrection," and, above all, the "annihi la t ion ," or the "end le s s punishment of the wicked," have iu a great measure lost their power to charm or to f r ighten any but the most thoughtless and undeveloped."

Yet we are not wanting for men who make i t a business to preach these slanders upon God and the humau race, either through ig-norance or for hire. Charity would hope the former. Many of them, having passed through the Divinity school a t Bangor, (having learned the trade,) loudly proclaim a call from the Most High to preach the everlasting gospel; and yet so destitute are they of a knowledge of themselves, of human nature in general, and of the benevolence of God in particular] that they can scarcely find any room in hea-ven but for themselves and a few of their own order—those who pay the ministers, and will listen to their libelous talk every Sunday. Such lament terribly the encroach-ment of Spiritualism and the Harmonial Phi-losophy.

One of these anxious watchmen upon the walls of Zion, whose congregation and salary had begun to wane, as he saw me throwing out my "infidel bills" within the precints of Ins religious domain, with this Bible mot to upon it, "Come let us reason together" ; and f u r t h e r :

" There'll be no fee—'twill all be free To those who please to call ;

But bring your dimes to buy the rhymes, You'll want tlieui one and all—

1 guess, af ter you have heard some of them but if you do not you will not be obliged to b u y . "

Said he, " I am sorry you have come to this place to disturb and unsettle the minds of the people in regard to the great t ru ths of re-ligion aud the established doctrines of the church. There has been a season of quiet here now for some time, and I had hoped it might continue. Can ' t you be persuaded to leave this place and go where you won ' t be breaking in upon established religious insti-tutions and long-standing churches ?"

• No, s i r ! " said I, " 1 have a 'special call' to this place, and 1 feel, under the circum-stances, tha t " wo is me if I preach not the gospel" as I understand i t ; and I feel the more so because 1 remember how, some twenty years ago, before I had learned se-riously to think for myself, you preached ine into a hell of inharmony and unhappiness. You often chose such texts as this : • Thou

of your church may have become transformed . form any rational conceptions of the na tu re into his image. Y'ou know you have labored and character of t"

fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee. ' I r emember , ' a s though it were but , u v v < i i u u i yes terday , 'how you alarmed and excited my xnonial Philosophy. Th is ' furnishes nu caution, how * - : : « -«•! - «

hard to make them feel tha t he was forever at their elbow. You have encompassed sea and land, as it were, to make proselytes, and now you have made them, what are they? ask the Scriptures. 0 , s i r ! it is t ime your church had a sifting, and if you are a consist-ent man you surely cannot wish to harbor such as have any affinity for a rat ional reli-gion, even if they do contr ibute to your sup-port, so be quiet. I may, it is t rue, be the means of reducing your salary, bu t what is tha t in the eyes of a t rue watchman, when compared with the purification of his church ? If, sir, God is in Zion, and you are a man after his own heart, he will not suffer you to be afflicted above what you are able to bear, and my visit t<j your religions-jurisdiction you have but to interpret as an afflictive dis-pensation of Divine Providence for your good and for the purification of your church."

Said he : " 1 have no fellowship for your manner of interpret ing Scripture, nor for your poetry, and wish to have n o more con-versation with you . "

" V e r y well, s i r , " I rep l ied ; " bu t allow me to present you with "My Soul 's Religious His to ry , " which gives an account of my con-version. Good day, s i r . "

"Good d a y . " There are many ministers of the above

s tamp in Maine, b u t they are fast losing their influence over the people's mind and the people's purse. The doctrines of Spiritualism are gett ing a s t rong hold upon the hearts of the people in general, and its t ru ths are tak ing root among the th inking, reasoning, intui-tive class in particular, both in and out of the church.

tha t inner l ife—the world of actualities, of which many are beginning to think or feel they have {dread y mastered a detailed knowledge.

If it is t rue that our loves assume the forms they affinitize for, and thus present to our consciousness ideal, though seemingly real ob-jects, i t seems t o m e our aversions would alike act. Thus,where one spirit loved, and another hated a monkey, each ought alike to see, or seem to see this form of animal life ; but the fact that some spirits repudiate a l together the cognizance of spirit birds, trees, &c., as belonging to thei r sphere, and declare they only see or know of them as they exist in the natura l world, seems to clash with this theory of ideal objects; for we may suppose each Mid all hayc either a love for or aversion to t«. .. species of vegetable and animal life.

I have never yet met with any exposition or defence of the ideal theory in such detail as would enable me t o analyze and thus esti-mate tho rationale thereof. 1 feel tha t i ts defenders should give us the da ta for their assumption so confidently affirmed.

My reason teaches t h a t the living con-sciousness of the fox is an organized enti ty, and though the same iu essence as that ani-mating a bird or a fish, specifically differs theref iom in the form of i ts organization as an ent i ty , and therefore alike iliffeis in the degree of developed inherent being. Thus, to m y mind the quest* >n arises whether dea th of the individual bird, fish, or fox, involves a transit ion of such living consciousness as an ent i ty , t o a m o r e interior sphere of na ture or whether such living consciousness i.s then absorbed ^ in the ocean of unorganized life wherein its individuali ty is lost. W h o will

In a great many towns there is a spiritual enlighten us on these simple but impor tan t rce euual to the maintenance of reirular points? FraternalK-force equal to the maintenance of regular points ?

Sunday meetings, which number by hundreds. In several cases they have the entire control of meeting-houses. No less than two Spirit-ual papers are printed in the State.

The Spirit Guardian, published at Bangor, has quite a circulation, and is doing a good work. The Banner tdso circulates quite freely, and is well spoken of. But t h e HERALD OF PROGRESS (SO say those who have the reading

Fra ternal ly yours, P H I L A D E L P H I A .

N o t e s f r o m t l i e W e s t .

N U M B E R 4 .

MCGREGOR, Iowa, Aug. , I860. DEAR HERALD :—I came to-day into this

of it) cannot be dispensed with. It brings a ? " e : s t r e e t e d J o w n ' M>' f r i t ' u d , *Budic, sen t e — . r..» n.:«— «-i. . .- . . . his horses and sou along with me. By this

deed of his I have seen twenty miles more of this great State, ami escaped the discomforts of a stage coach. I know to many the stage seems a providence of t h e prairie, and I should so regard it, bu t f rom the fact of hav-ing been twice stowed away with pipe-smokers am w hisky-lovers. My soul abominates stills and pipes, and I cannot coax my soul into be-lieving that , s inner as I am, I have merited the misery they bring. • I am, therefore ever ever ready to escape the misery inflicted by the still and the weed.

feast of fat things even to t h e most unfolded is not only read, bu t studied. Its bold,

independent, uncompromising (yet unselfish) acknowledgment of tlie right of reason to rule, must win for it a wide circulation and the hearty approval of every reasoning individ-uality who comes in contact with it. 1 chum the right and the privilege of recommending it wherever 1 go, and hope now and then to have the pleasure (as to-day) of sending in good substantial subscribers.

Never a truer saying than tlus : " The agi-tation of thought is the beginning of wis-d o m . " 1 mean to speak my best thoughts when I can get a hearing, though Bunyan 's Apolyon stand brandishing his ungodly steel a t my elbow. I will live up to the highest light I have, and then hope for more. Don' t think me aboas t e r—for i know that , *l>ating tbe more favorable circumstances of my bir th and education. I am not one whi t better than the biggest villain the earth ever bore up.

Inherent newer an,l circumstance M a k e alt m e n w h a t they a r e :

A s t h e s e d i r e c t we m a y a d v a n c e T o wisdom or to w a r .

I lecture six times each week upon the lib-eralizing sciences of Astronomy ami Phrenol-ogy. and two or three times club Sunday upon the soul-cheering doctrines of the Httr-

McGregor, my home for to-day. is a s t range, looking business town. I t has" bu t a single street of any length. Th i s one street , s tar t -ing f rom the Mississippi river, winds along between the hills. There is no room for other s t r ee t s ; n o room for yards even. I have seen many outhouses and clothes vards upon the hill-side. These are the first' hills of any suse 1 have seen since leaving Dubuque, ft mon th ago. The f a .mcrs like the fertile plains ; so do I ; bu t there is a sublimity iu tlie mountains . Thcv inspire one wiih their grandeur . 1 ofteu th ink, while admir ing the rough, wild beauty of the hills, that our Strong-,nu,del mother Nature was t rying her skill a t Epic wri t ing when she pu t those glo-rious hills in to type and f o r m . "

less 1 fell upon my knees and cried, 'unclean! unclcan !' andpleiwKor 'specialgrace' of that God iu whom you said there was no variable-ness uor shadow of turning ; but, my dear sir. I have lived long enough to learn and to realize that you, while you preach such doe-

light of our rational gospel has not stdned because many or tho tpiritual teachers cannot atlord lo go without pay. And, besides I am so lawlessly constituted that I cannot en dure a gag. I had rather live among the Uauls. poor and free, thau dwell among the

leave im- in Cleveland. W h o of fifty years ago would credit (his fac t?

My a t tent ion has been called to a mistake or two I made in my first letter f rom Iowa. I said Independence was nearly one hundred miles f rom Dubuque. 1 find' tha t it is but

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seventy. 1 judged from the time it took to go from one place to tho other. I told you the land in Independence was from $10* to $100 per acre ; hut 1 only intended to convey the idea that that was the price paid in the village. Good farms can he purchased in the vicinity of Independence for from two to ten dollars per acre. I hope my extravagant cal-culations will not discourage any one Iowa-bound.

I have seen the larger part of eighteen States, and for grain and cattle-growing, 1 have not seen Iowa excelled. And then the clear, dry atmosphere, thc absence of ague pools and fever swamps, render the State val-uable for the raising of human plants. The prairie children are rosy, brown, strong of limb, and clear-headed. 1 thought, while watching them at play, of thc pale, puny children of cities, famishing upon "swil l mi lk ," or dying for lack of fresh air. I won derod then, and wonder now, why people give more attention to raising pigs and poul-try than to the growing and developing of human bodies and immortal spirits.

I saw in Independence a splendid family — a representative family. Mr. Chase discovered this family a t the convention. Father, mother, and unnumbered children were there morning and evening.

The physical development of parents and children, their natural cultivation, and the attention they gave to our speeches and songs, attracted Mr. Chase's attention, mul he deter-mined to know where and how these human specimens lived. The result was, a few of us were invited out to the farm to dine. We found our friends far enough from to&n, as the father said, not to lie ' -pinched for room.' '

The log-house stood in the center of a g r o a t farm. A. wheat-field of perhaps an bundled acres was being harvested upon one side, and as many acres of corn growing upon the other ; oats and potatoes in great abundance were making ready for the coming of the harvest man. Cows and pigs were number-less. Hope that herd of swine will never find way to the stomachs of that <m/i-cannibal family. The proprietors of this immense farm and log lodge weigh 400 pounds, and a dozen black-eved. blooming children are ris-ing to the physical dignity of their parents. Disease, doctors, and Death have never made the acquaintance of this family. Nature is their physician, their liigh-priest. their law-giver. The blessed gospel she pre it-lies brings health, harmony, peace, contentment, and loving lives to her votaries. These children of Iowa may never see the Great Eastern, the Prince of Wales, a Gallery of Art, Lon-don. or the Atlantic Oc<;in, but they have seen God's great Art Gallon', in the flower-ing prairie ; they are themselves kings and princes, and know, intuitively, their kinship to nature. And they know not, may not know, the moral disease, the crushing of souls, and the starving of spirits the city dwellers too often see and suffer. Their faith in God and human love will not be impor shaken in their prairie paradise.

1 find in Iowa a spirit tending to individ-ualism—a free-thinking spirit. True bigotry anil superstition have here, as elsewhere, a priesthood and willing worshipers. Hut those who hate you most vehemently will listen to the thoughts you may speak. If you get a hearing, and a cursing, even, tha t is better than not be heard, for it indicates life and action. There is hope of such souls. Let us work aud wait for their redemption.

There is here a wide field for thc worker. Let those who are strong of heart —those who arc not working for dimes merely come this way. Warm hearts will give them a wel-come. and famishing souls will come asking for life-bread. Destructionists are not the persons most needed. Few are strongly wed-ded to the old. The want is speakers who can explain clearly our philosophy—those who can aid in the creation of a Harmonitary Temple. I think a woman would be quite as well received as a man ; but Warren Chase has received a call f rom almost every hamlet in the State.

I am now homeward bound. When this reaches you, 1 shall not , as now, be looking over the grand old Mississippi, listening to t he steamer bells and counting the hours of my departure. 1 leave the State as I some-times turn from a new friend, with regret, but richer, and happier, and braver for thc acquaintance.

Peace be with you, loving-hearted and gen-e r o u s - s p i r i t e d I o w a n s . FRANCES BROWN.

L o o k i n g o n t h e H E R A L D a s a n e x p o n e n t o f a truer aud better life, I give it my cordial support.

Yours, for tho causc of Humanity, N. M. STRO.MO.

Spiritual Lyceum and Conference. ' Let t r u t h no more lie Rugged, nor consc ience

d u n g e o n e d , n o r sc ience tie impeached of KodleHsness."

(Ropor ted for T h e Hera ld of P r o g r e s s . ]

HUNDRED AND TWELFTH SION.

SES-

The New York Spiritual Conference is held every Tuesday evening, in Clinton Hall.

Q r H S T i o r : (Con t inued . ) W h a t a r e tho c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of tho Sp i r i tua l Ph i losophy f

M R . L'ARTIMDQU: T h e g r a n d p e c u l i a r i t y c o n -sists, as it seems to him, in the fact that is is a philosophy. I t is iu some degree, to say thc least, an explanation of certain facts of ., . . . ,

, . • , , . , , . . . . other improvements the latter Items rp-wule-spread notoriety, which facts and their , . . - , • , r e , . . • i r j i rdp f l n s n f R A e n m l f t r v i i n n n r f o .

import or philosophy, (constituting what is called modern Spiritualism) he considers as

3 ment, I would refer to thc historical fact that Jesus of Nazareth only occupicd three years in indoctrinating his disciples in the best symptoms of spiritual and moral science ever known among men ; while modern Spiritualists have been occupied for nine years mainly in trying to ascertain whether and how spiritual phenomena occur.

A third difference between ancient and mod-ern Spiritualists may be noticed in that the former constantly pointed to the lessons and examples contained in the records of preced-ing dispensations as not only profitable but most precious for their use. while not a few in our day ignore and repudiate them as quite useless and unworthy of thc least attention, placing even Jesus of Nazareth in the same category with Washington, Lafayette, Bona-parte. &c.

A fourth difference worthy of notice is that the ancients most wisely, as I think made moral improvement the basis of all

forming for the first time a union of religion with reason. Now, what has hitherto been deemed essential truths of religion, are with-out a basis iu philosophy. For example : Is there any philosophy in the trinity as held by the Christian sccts ? in thc atonement as thus taught ? iu hell torments? in short, in a sin-gle item of the entire '-plan of salvation" as set forth by themselves? Not one a t o m ! Philosophy is explanation. Docs sectarian-ism explain anything ? True, our spiritual philosophy is in its infancy, but as compared with the chaos of thought, whence its disciples have emerged, it seems like the perfection of order and reason. I t rests upon fact as con-tradistinguished from assumption as a basis. Under the reign of Ecclesiasticism, men are taught that they arc to take for granted that God held personal intercourse with certain men of the olden time, whereby his will and pleasure concerning man throughout all his generations was finally made known. That dogma is a sheer assumption : indeed, in the

garded as of secondary importance; teaching that the carnal nature must be brought in subjection to the spiritual, while the leaders of our dispensation have been mostly occu-pied for nine years in seeking and narrating facts for the purpose of proving what ninety-nine out of every hundred of the human race have always admitted to be true viz: the doctrine of immortality.

D r . HALLOCK : T h e p h r a s e , " l e a d e r s " o r " leading minds ," as we sometimes hear asso-ciated with Spiritualism, suggests to him one characteristic of the spiritual philosophy which those who make use of these terms seem to forget. I t is a philosophy without leadership, as it is a religion without cere-mony. I t has neither sacred places nor sa-cred men. In place of a special, it affirms a universal sanctity. As is honestly, no doubt believed by some tha t it has been busily em-ployed for the last nine years in doing con-siderably less than nothing, it may not he un-profitable to look a t this opinion in the light of facts. Thc facts are, tha t in these nine years, the superstitions, the fallacies aud

popular religion there is complete avoidance f f t l s e philosophies of forty centuries hav. of all the facts of the age whence this relig- received their everlasting quietus. Is that ion, so-called, pretends to derive its origin »°thing • Redemption from the fear of death and authority. The facta of t ha t age, as of all a n d o f hell, t l , ! l t perpetual horror of church ages, belong to our philosophy, they are of no theology: and of annihilation, that scientific significance to the church theology. Our stultification o f French philosophy—a dis-every-day experience illustrates this. When ( 0 v e r y of the very truth of the matter as l>e-we at tempt to reason upon these facts, that tween these two, whereby both have leave to is to say, when we endeavor to philosophize (Ue. Is that to be held as naught? In these nine

Their u r s h o w their true dignity, their practical >'cars> t h e literature of religious disputation ot be import and significance in the economy of the concerning the meaning of Scripture texts on

divine Providence, the church theologian de- ' he one hand, and of " in f ide l" refutation of nounces us as atheists, &c. He demands that wc shall not have a philosophy, thai ice shall not reason.

Again : the religion of spiritual philoso-

botli parties on the other, once a staple in thc market of polemics, has taken sanctuary from the contempt and loathing of all thoughtful men, in libraries which are not read—upon

phy is not ceremony, but faithfulness to eter- shelves, where, even now, the dust of forget-nal" and universal principles demonstrated to f l , l n e s s gathering tk*< k and fast, the understanding. Hence it seeks to pernio- U i s <'h*racteru.ti.- <>• the new school that, ate the daily concerns of life rather than to f o r w h a t U a f l i r m s U *hows a natural reason ; culminate once a week in a dramatic spasm. o f t h e o l d ' t h u t i l u f f t ' M a s c r ¥ n r a i reason.

Again : I t may be thought a hard saying ™ 8 'K w h y it was sa : 1 «y Mr. Partridge that of Ecclesiasticism, as contrasted with Spirit- t l , e hitter did not Inculcate morality. Mor-ualism, tha t it does not teach morality ; but i s f r o m n a t u r e a n d n o t f r o m authority, the t ru th will appear in this, tha t where it I Authority is the bottom immorality of all. forbids the wrong, it does so not because it is V i r t u c i s , , o r u o f freedom, not of force; its wrong, but because it is assumed that God has Preceptor is reason, not a whip. The univer-said you shall not do it. Thus, in ecclesias- *al imbroglio of all past and present ecclesi-tical computation, we have the sup posed a g e i s m , and of civilization over which it has anger of God as a basis of restraint, while the d o m h n u t e d is- that it never demonstrates. The spiritual philosophy opposes ayainst wrong, misfortune arising from this error, may be that it is a known and absolute offense against | 8 c e n m P™1' considering how instinctively

faithful and true man is to all thc command-ments of nature when once understood. He

F r l c n i i l y a m i C h e e r i n g W o r d s .

FREDERIUKTOWN, K n o x C o . , 0 . , J u n e 3 . BROTHER D A V I S : - - I h a v e r e c e i v e d a c o p y o f

your HERALD, and I find that it truly is a worker in the great field of human progress.

Verily the world needs many such HKRALDS. for few comparatively understand the laws of Nature, by which man ascends along the spi-ral pathway of life, upward and onward to the vast fields of knowledge and human brotherhood.

Man needs to be separated from the love of crime, and, with childlike simplicity, drink at Nature 's fount of knowledge and purity, l ie must learn to love the modest tiuwer, the singing brooklet, the sighing breeze, the gladdening sunshine, the golden clouds, and all of the ten thousand beauties that Nature outwardly unfolds, ere lie aui rise from the plane of sensuality to a blessed communion with angelic beings of a higher sphere of ex-istence. Calmly, and hi the spirit of love, must thc grand laws of Nature be unfolded to him, through which he can learn that he is linked by an invisible chain, to all spheres of life, and that all souls are animated by the same life-principle—that each thought, each action has an influence on his brother s weal or woe, as well as on his own, not only here, but through all spheres of coming life.

When lie learns this truth, he will have a lever sufficiently strong to lift him to a plane where the pulsings of his inner bein^ shall vibrate the spirit strings in harmony with all t ha t is pure and beautiful in the boundless

U T O ^ s e n t h r a l l h i s o w n BOUI, a n d t h a t o f h i s brother, f rom the animal love, to rise to a true sense of hisvUtnhood and freedom, is man's mission. He can certainly reach a plane of harmonious unfolduient. where each faculty of the soul shall act in harmony with each and all of the others. Ihen wcl life no longer be called a "vale of tears rogether we shall advance a "Dg the flower-decked planes of life, unfolding in the golden light of harmony.

man. Du. GOULD made a written contribution

which he prefaced by saying that he differed in Mo from the conclusions of Mr. Partridge. He said : modern Spiritualism excels in its scientific and metaphysical aspects, while it is vastly inferior to ancient Spiritualism in the department of morals, and then pro-ceeded to read as follows :

One of the most distinguishing features of modem Spiritualism, as compared with other spiritual dispensations, is, as it seems to mc, a reluctance on the part of its subjects to re-cognize the utility and necessity of faith, as an instrumentality in the great work of hu-man progression. And I trust 1 shall IHJ ex-cused in saying tha t I have been surprised in noticing that the leaders havcexiiibited more of what seemed like pertinacity in this mat-ter than have the followers in this dispensa-tion. As modern Spiritualists, our best in-terests require that a Wide and clear distinc-tion between knowledge,tfnd faith should ever be kept in view; the former, being the result of sensuous evidence, ridding us of all doubt in our conclusion, while the latter is composed of expectation and desire ; the first element being based on evidence so limited in quan-tity, ofttimes, as to be barely sufficient to sus-tain us, in spite of lurking doubt.

The seers of the primitive church held faith to be one of the cardinal graces of their religion ; the chief corner-stone of all moral progression and final salvation. They taught that the trial of their faith was more precious than gold, that men must exercise faith or be damned ; and, moreover, that Without faith, it was impossible to please God. Now, how is it, that Spiritualists of our time should In-engaged in ignoring and repudiating faith as nut only an error but as an actual vice. Con-temning and rejecting the ordinary evidence, so acceptable to tlio good men of the past, and setting up the presumptuous claim that, for themselves, they must have actual dem-onstration for the basis of all their conclu-sions. The result of this course, however, is, that failing in^his system of demonstra-tion, they make slow progress in spiritual, and still slower progress in moral science. As an an evidence that I am correct iu this state-

never shows a " bad hear t" with respect to these. Observe the engineer a t his devotion before the invisible spirit of steam. How faithfully he keeps the law! Thc sailor who invokes " the viewless winds," the mathema-tician who bows at the shrine of quantity,who would be strong in the potence of nuinbe% how religious are they all in their fidelity to the powers in whose presence they stand—the forces whose aid they supplicate 1 Politiciaus "compromise constitutions;" but no engineer at tempts a compromise with steam—no tele-graph operator calls the lightning " a glitter-ing generality." Whenever science utters her gospel, man obeys ; thc degree of his com-prehension is the exact measure of his fidelity. In thc workshop and the laboratory, man is good, and faithful, and wise; in the church and thc senate-chamber he is unwise, un-faithful; and the reason is because authority in the one case, and expediency, (what he calls interests of state) in the other, tire the rules of conduct. A s a churchman, he com-promises his Bible, and as a statesmau, his constitution. In the one case it is " infidel-i ty ," and in the other, " treason," to look beyond parchments. What tlieso compro-mises say lie may do to humanity, that lie does, until they cease to answer a present purpose, and then he compromises anew. Have not our Doctors learned in divinity re-cently discovered that property in man is per-fectly admissible under the compromises of Scripture ? And do not our statesmen tell us " What the law makes property, that is pro-perty," and to be used as such, even where " the law" does not make it so "under the com-promises of tho constitution"? Bights, jus-tice—all that pertains to man—according to these, are founded, not in the nature of man, but upou parchments sacred or civil. Were love seen to be us much a fact in nature as electricity, the commandment to practice in obedience to its iuw, need not be enforced by authority of Church of State, any more than their authority is required to secure re-spectful attention to any other natural force. But ulas 1 the rights of humanity, tho offices of brotherhood, the demands of justice "the whole duty of man"— is supposed to have no

broader foundation than church creeds and state constitutions. Now these, in so far as they fail of demonstration, (and the church Side is an utter failure) fall necessarily into contempt. He who regards the rights of others only from authority, does so onlv while his authority is to him respectable. As a direct consequence we have the present con-dition of things, and the new philosophy comes to redeem us therefrom. While it fearlessly scans all parchments it blackens no truth thereon. It simply shows what truth is there, to lie a satellite, and not a sun

- that its brightness is not from its position in the library, but is a reflection from the light of nature.

Now, it is characteristic of this philosophy, that it shows the future life as a thing sub-stantial. and with this new conception of the reality of life, comes a dawning consciousness of the reality of the laws which pertain to life. These laws arc seen to inhere. " T h e spirits of just men made perfect" do not act from the church catechism. I t proclaims, therefore, this grand truth, viz: that, when fra-ternal attraction—human sympathy, brother-ly love—and its laws, take rank in the uni-verse with the attraction of magnetism— gravitation—and its laws, man will obey the behests of the former as religiously, to say the least, as he does those of thc latter. This philosophy proceeds by observation—takes no ground beyond what it can demonst ra te-and it is a fact of observation that man instinct-ively reverences every law of nature that he understands, He loves them because he finds them good. He obeys them because they pro-mote his well-being. He hated the lightning once, jus t as politicians hate justice now, when electricity, like justice, was supposed to have its origin in the divine vindictiveness. Know-ledge has turned his hatred into love, his fear into admiration, and a like change awaits the transfer of justice from the creed to nature. In the light of these characteristics, how plain is the disciple's pa th! They say to him, " my Brother, you have only to know thc ways of God to approve them. That you have blundered heretofore is because you have studied the commentary instead of the text. You have mistaken a bad translation for the original utterance. The language of truth is written in things; you had studied words only. There lay your brother in his cradle before you, and, in order to learn his charac-ter you turned from him to moldy creeds and barbarous traditions; no marvel that you gave him a bad one. So you made of him a devil and of yourself u tormentor, and between you both, of the ear th, a hell. But a little while and all this shall pass away. Tlic same fidel-ity to t ruth and fact which now characterizes the mechanic and the mathematician, shall yet be seen in the divinity doctor and the statesman—in all men everywhere—to all things whatsoever."

IRA B. DAVIS: I t gives a valid reason why we should love one another. The old idea is, that we must do so because it is God's com-mand. This is an absurdity. Love from authority is impossible. ,

Mr. BALDWIN (of Texas) : I t is free from the element of terror. The old dispensations are full of it. Under its stimulus they were actually cruel. To placate the divine wrath all the older nationalities offered sacrifices human and other. Our popular theology even, demands a human sacrifice. Now Spiritualism utterly ignores terrorism, and is a glorious freedom from all the fallacies and cruelties it has engendered.

Dr. GOULD : The crusade of mod> m Spirit-ualism against faith and authority is a mis-fortune. They are both indispensable. Au-thority is the only guide to inexperience. We could not else govern our children. Faith in thc superior knowledge of the parent secures tho necessary obedience on the part of thc child ; and this is true of all who are on the child plane, no matter what their age as to years.

Mr. W. P. COLES : Once it was supposed that all spiritual communication was directly from God, and inasmuch as these communications were iu some cases contradictory and there-fore could not be received by the understand-ing, wo were told that they must be received through faith. It is now known that human beings communicate from the spirit world This fact explains discrepancies by a plurality of origin, ami therefore there is no need of faith for the reconciling of differences as be-fore. I t is a peculiarity of the spiritual phi-losophy that it does not require us to believe in contradictions.

IRA B . D A V I S : M a n i f e s t l y , n o m a n c a n create faith by talking about it. No child can have it without a reason. If the pareut cannot give his child a reason why he should do thus or so, the child ought not to exercise cither faith or obedience. The father must act so as to establish confidence, else no faith can lie formed.

A d j o u r n e d . R . T . HALLOCK.

The Soirit's Mvsteries. ' Your young m e n shal l s ee v i s ion . , nnd your old men

.ha l l d ream dr«am>."

A D V E N T O F T I I E P I t O P I I E T E L I J A H .

A I.FCTTKR FHOH 1)8. ORIGWOTD.

T o A . J . DAVIS , D E A E S I B : I a m i n d e b t e d to you f< -r a somewhat extended notice of the little Shekinah, and I am pleased to see it. in-asmuch as it assures me tiiat you are not dis-turbed by my strictures on your opinions. I like ajig/it with a good friend, but despise a contest with an mrmy. This is reversing the order, I know, but it is my way. Neither will I discuss the opinions of one whose tal-ents I do not respect ; therefore you see that my strictures grow out of my appreciation of your position and influence.

You are seeking to promote the growth of the great tree of TmiiTH, by all those means which to yon seem best calculated to pro-mote that end I am working to the same end, but in a different way.

This tree is rooted in immutable principles and it is believed that these principles wili ultimately gain the ascent, and appear as fruit upon every minute branch of this tree that overshadows the world, to be plucked and eaten l y all mankind.

The growth of this tree represents Progress. Its fruit is Fraternity, Equality, Love. These represent elementary principles that have ap-peared more or less bountifully in all past ages of the world. I believe that I see the evidences that this tree is to bloom afresh, and to bear a many-fold greater burthen of fruit than it has ever yet yielded, and that it will be brought to light so effectually that all will sec and be led to partake of it. About eighteen centuries ago this tree bore bounti-fully for a short season, but it was so ;Peltcd and stoned that it seemed to die. This har-vest was gathered up by a few, and has been held as sacred by its professed lovers ever since; who have constantly cried out, " t h e tree has ceased to bear." By these means, mankind have been led to look otherwheres for the elements of growth, or trust to that which was gathered so long ago; the vital-izing elements of which have long since de-parted, except so fur as it bears promise of more from the same source. Through the coming of Elijah, the Prophet of three thou-sand years ago, to the world again, I learn that the good old tree of Truth is not dead, but liveth : that it is about to bear a more plentiful harvest than ever before, and that its fruiting season draws nigh. I learn also that it is identically the same tree from which the ancients gathered the little fruit they had ; and the same also from which was gathered the harvest onr Christian brethren prize so highly, at a later day.

I find in the coming of Elijah to the world to-day, a verification of past history and promises to mankind. If the promise is ful-filled in part, we liave reason to believe that its realization will be complete. " I wiU send you Elijah the Prophet," is the promise of a higher intelligence than lived in form on thc earth (Mai. iv : 5, 6). Elijah came before the great harvest wasgathered through the ministrations of Jesus, but, ' ' the heart of the fathers " was not " turned to the child-ren," nor the "heart of the children" turned to their fathers." He comes now again, and the signs that this great end, (namely, what you aud I are working for—Fraternity. Equal-ity, and Love,) may abound everywhere.

It is soon to be shown, I most confidently believe, that the greatest good comes to the individual man from doing good to others, and that the greatest evil consists in build-ing up t he individual at the expense of his brother man. Let this be apparent, and the very selfishness of man's nature, that has ap-peared so great an evil, will become a virtue in instigating him to be good. Then will man fulfill the whole law and thc prophets, in loving his neighbor as himself.

By this you will see that the advent of Elijah is, in my view, the evidence of a period of exalted inspirational teachings, and espe-cially from the spirit of Jesus.

BATAVIA, N . Y . , J u l y 2 7 . C . D . G .

Apotlic •osis. '• Dentil is hut a kind and welcome se rvan t , who un-

locks with noiseless hand luo 's flower-encircled door, to show us those w e love."

Depar t eds From this to the higher spheres, M r . ISAAC CKOSHV. o f C o l u m b u s , W a r r e n C o . , Pa., Aug. 11th, in the 77th year of his age.

Mr. Crosby was a Spiritualist in belief, and was sustained through a tedious and painful illness, by the consolations of our faith. The funeral services were held at thc Spiritualist Church iu Columbus, and the truths of the new revelation tendered to an audience com-posed of believers and unbelievers, Jew and Gentile, bond aud free, by the writer.

F. L. B.

S P 1 K I T L I G H T S O N T H E I I O A D .

BRIEF ANSWER TO E. W.

LODA, A u g . 7 , 1 8 6 0 . A . J . DAVIS , RESPECTED F R I E N D : A t a c i r c l e

for spiritual improvement, I was once told that it was my duty to " write" ; not feeling that anything I could say would be of much benefit to the world, I paid no attention to it. I happened, however, some time after, to send an article to the Telegraph, respecting "Spirit Lights" on the road near La Salle, scarcely expecting it would find its way into the paper. Of course I felt somewhat surprised when I saw it in the HERALD, ami still more to find that it had attracted sufficient attention to require a few more words from me. After all, I may perha{>s soon begin to feel that I am 41 called" to write.

For the heading to thc article which I first wrote—" Spirits Light the Way/ ' I am not responsible, as that was done either by Mr. Davis or his assistants, and 1 expressly said thev did not light the way nor "illumine the road." I believe I expressed i t - N o , wc did not drive towards them ; they were sometunes on Uie right and sometimes on he left tn d occasionally directly in advance ihe onl) time we mav be said to have driven toward them was when the lights appeared to haU m ftline on the straight road, which wo kept instead of turning off upon a road through the woods.

T H E H E R A L D O F P R O G R E S S .

The object, or design, ns I understood it, was to convince us of the presence of spirit friends, and their power to manifest that pres-ence. I think they ted thc horses. In my opinion (though, being a woman. I am not much accustomed to greasing nnd putting on wheels), a loose rein is decidedly different from a wheel without a pin. At any rate, I think a horse would discover an unfastened rein sooner than a missing pin in a wheel nnd 1 also imagine (hat colts not over five years old would not be likely to travel many miles with nothing to guide thorn : they cer-tainly needed thc rein in the daytime.

I t "was not the circumstance of the loose rein that induced ™ w l ' i k ' t h e o r t i c l c 10" ferred to. but simply Mr /'>'«•<• •«"'' ""' limits, and if the " ,rhole thing together" induces E. W. to doubt spiritual agency in the mat-ter will he please consider tho light as a phenomenon by itself. If ho doubts spirit agency in tlio matter, probably he can give some other solution-can tell us whether lie ever saw or heard of lights successively ap-pearing and disappearing, over a distance of seven miles, in a high country, where there were no low graveyards or marshes to create them.

I t certainly was a Hind confidence in spirits that inspired us, that " p i t c h dark" night, and I think the lights were meant to reassure us, and keep up that confidence; and it neither unmans nor unwomans us to feol such dependence on a dark night, when »e{Adepcnd-ence would amount to just nothing.

if there is anything more that E. W. would like to know concerning this, 1 should be glad to answer all he may ask, if the H K H A I J > has room to spare. As ho feels so confident that spirits had nothing to do with it, will he please solve the question. Wo patiently await E. W. 's philosophical solution. S.

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With curls in the sunny air tossiug, With light in the merry blue eyes,

With laughter so clearly outringing, A laugh <>r delight and surprise;

All friendly assistance disdaining, And trusting no strength but his own,

Tlie past fears and trials forgotten, The baby is "going alone."

What woful mishaps liave preceded This day of rejoicing and pride,

How often the help that he needed Has carelessly gone from his side;

He has fallen while reaching for sunbeams, Which, just as he grasped them, have flown.

Aud tears of vexatiou have followed, But noic he is "going alone."

And all thro" his life, lie will study This lesson again, and again,

He will carelessly lean upon shadows, He will fall, and weep over tbe pain.

The hand whose fond clasp was the surest, Will coldly withdraw from bis own,

The sunniest eyes will be clouded, Aud lie will be walking alone.

He will learn what a stern world we live in, And he may grow cold like the rest,

Just keeping a warm sunny welcome For those who seem truest and best;

Yet, chastened and taught by past sorrow, And stronger and manlier grown,

Not trusting his all in tbeir keeping, He learns to walk bravely alone.

And yet not alone, for our Father Tbe faltering footsteps will guide

Tliro' all tlie dark mazes of earth-life, And "over the river's" deep tide.

Oh ! here is a Helper unfailing, A strength we can perfectly trust,

When all human aid unavailing, " The dust shall return unto dust."

WELLSBOKO, P A .

MOKE week.

' LEAVES" from George Gray next

NOTICES o f s e v e r a l N e w B o o k s , a n d n e w Medical intelligence, will appear in our next issue.

OUR second and third pages aro teeming with a variety of communications from able correspondents.

THE tP.EAL l§ THE REA.L. " God never ye t pe rmi t ted us to f r a m e a t h e o r y too

beaut i ru l for his power to make p rac t i cab le . "

Men take the pure ideals of their souls And lock them fast away,

And never dream that things so beautiful Were made for every day!

So counterfeits pass current in their lives, And stones they give for bread ;

And starviugly and feariugly they walk Thro' life maong the dead ;

Tlio' never yet was pure Ideal Too fair for them to make their Real.

The thoughts of beauty dawning on the soul, Are glorious heaven-gleams ;

And God's eternal truth lies folded deep Iu all man's lofty dreams.

In thought's still world some brother-tie Which bound the planets Kepler saw,

And through long years he searched tbe spheres, And there he found tbe answering law.

Man said he sought a wild Ideal, Tbe stars made answer : " It is Real."

Aye ! Daniel, Howard, all tbe crowned ones That star-like gleam thro' time,

Lived clearly out before the clear-eyed sun, Their inmost thoughts sublime!

Tbe-e truths, to them more beautiful tban day, They knew would quicken men,

And deeds befitting the millennial trust, They dared to practice then ;

Till they who mocked their young Ideal, In meekuesi owned it was tbe Real.

Thine early dreams, which came like " shapes of light,"

Came bearing prophecy ; And Nature's tongue)-:, from leaves to quiv'ring

stars, Teach loving faith to thee.

Fear U>>t, to build thine eyrie in tbe hights Where golden splendors lay,

And trust, thyself unto thine -inmost soul In simple faith alway;

AndGoilsball make divinely Real Tiie-highest forms of thiue Ideal.

BY inadvertence the name of Wash. A. Dan-skin, of Baltimore, was not appended to his communication on the "Aurora Borealis" in our last week's issue.

EVERY BROTHER w h o c h e w s t o b a c c o o r smokes cigars, and every Sister who assaults her mouth or nose with snuff, is hereby ad-monished to read our next number. " Look out for the Locomotive while the bell rings!'

WE are not a little curious to know who among the thousands who read our sheet, will solve the "Jewish Riddle," by M. Durais, in our last issue. The correct solution will dis-close a religious mystery of universal import-ance.

be followed by a universal distaste for the consideration of really important questions of State and government. I t is our immovable impression that thc future welfare and pros-perity of the United States do not at all de-pend upon who happens to succeed James Buchanan.

" F R A N K L I N ' S COMET" i s j u s t n o w a t t r a c t i n g a large share of public attention. Early last Spring the " Lancaster Circjc" received re-liable communications from thc spirit of the Philosopher, Franklin, to the effect tha t a comet was rapidly approaching the earth aud would be visible about the Fourth of July. All happened precisely as was predicted,*nnd of course the " Circle" is in justice entitled to the credit, " be the same more or less." I t was a fine demonstration of genuine spirit intercourse. But the terrestial scientific searchers after planets and "comets" are striving to lessen the importance of the Lan-casterian claims to priority and spiritual dis-covery. Wc shall print next; week another brief criticism from Mr. Parkliurst, a practi-cal astronomer of this city, and the proprie-tor of a " telescope of six inches aperture," thc use of which he proposes to furnish the "Circle" on conditions that they will pur-sue the investigation.

A BIOGRAPHICAL s k e t c h o f D r . T h o m a s Dick—a man of rare intelligence while in the body, and a spirit reverentially esteemed in the Summer Land—from the pen of Mr David Trowbridge, has just reached us. I t will soon appear.

'1 TUE Characteristics of the Spiritual Phi-losophy," is the question before the New York Conference this week. The speeches are all good, but we would direct particular at-tention to the excellent words from the mouth o f t h e C h a i r m a n , D r . HALLOCK.

FROM almost every quarter we learn that the friends of sectarian institutions arc com-bining together, and endeavoring to forget their creedal differences and their local an-tagonisms, in order to plant themselves as one body against the advancing tides of Rea-son and Progression. Can prayer 6top the flow of l ight from the noon-day sun 1

F R I E N D LEO M I L I . F . K — w h o s e r e c e n t l e c t u r e , respecting the reflex action of man's desires and appetites after death, was freely criticised in our twenty-fom th number—has written us his defense. His reply is conceived in a fra-ternal spirit. Therefore we shall checrfully lay it before our readers next week. It is his conviction tha t departed spirits sometimes employ me'diums in order to gratify their evil passions and unsatiated appetites.

T H E ATLANTIC MONTHLY f o r S e p t e m b e r c o n -tained, besides many valuable papers, a lively article entitled "A Day with the Dead." I t is as near the current facts of Spiritualism as wc could expect " under the circumstances." The story of the apparition by which the life of De Wette, the great German scholar and author, was preserved, though not now "pub -lished for the first t ime," is worthy of record. We liave accordingly transferred a portion of the article to our sixth page.

T H E LAW OF PROGRESS, t h e d i v i n e p r i n c i p l e at the very heart of Nature—

" Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Ol' glory and of good"—

is burning its way through the huge consoli-dations of ignorance and superstition. We are in the constant receipt of intelligence from all points of the compass, as in America so also on the continent of Europe, to the effect that old institutions are crumbling and falling at thc feet of Reason and Righteous-ness.

IT is impossible not to remark that, as the political elements become more aroused and discordant, several doily papers increase in dreariness and cupidity. Their antagonistic-editors, very enlightened and capable men, expend their best hours in the composition of political rodomontades and platitudes unread-able. The trashiness and insipidities of these political writers, the insincerities and reck-lessness of their resolutions and speeches, will

WE call special attention to the lecture, in t h i s n u m b e r , o f M R S . FRANCES LORD BOND. I t is a production of rare merit, logical, can-did, eloquent; and stating, with that clear-ness and beauty indicative of a cultured and religious mind, the true philosophy of Death. Mrs. Bond is now in the lecturing field, and those wishing to secure her valuable services are referred to her advertisement in another column of this journal. I t may not be unin-teresting to our readers to know that this gifted lady is a sister of the well-known Rev. Dr. Lord, of Buffalo, N. Y.; a man perma-nently stationed in one of those watch-towers of Zion reared hy the old school Presbyterian Church. He, with talent, position, and influ-ence at command, raises his voice in favor of personal, mental, and spiritual Slavery. Mrs. Bond on the contrary, with equal talents but very unequal external advantages, goes forth, like the great Teacher of old whom Dr. Lord's " meek and lowly" disciples profess to rever-ence, and raises her voice in behalf of per-sonal, mental, and spiritual Freedom. He stands in a gilded pulpit, tapestried and cushioned, from which woman must be for-ever excluded. She stands on the broad plat-form of Humanity, where woman and man alike are accountcd teachers of Truth, and "called of God" to proclaim the glad tidings of immortal life and unending progress.

Mind and Matter. I T I S A P L E A S A N T T F L . N G T O D I E .

E A R T H ' S p o w e r s a n d p r i n c i p a l i t i e s e x -

clude most men from the society of poetry and eternal principles. Mutter i.s a powerful and controlling God ; it is the "p r ince of darkness" to millions of our throbbing hu-manity. Mat te r clings and clusters heavily about man 's interior Life ; it is the dead freight of his perilous voyage from thc cra-dle to the coffin. Men are necessitated to worship at t he shrine of Mat te r . They make it the chief object both of master ly effort and spiritual contemplation. Thou-sands reverence Ma t t e r incessantly. They bow down before its al tars. They bring to it many offerings—tithes of mint , anise, cummin, and lip-service—covering its tem-ples with everything within t hc power of man to bestow ; wi th scientific a r t and the works of genius, w i t h developments of t he noblest t a len t s—with everything, even life itself.

Mammon is bu t t he servant of M a t t e r ; ma t t e r i.s bu t the servant of sou l ; soul is bu t the servant of sp i r i t ; bu t . in this lower world, it happens t h a t spiri t and soul and mat ter are the servants of Mammon. No human soul is independent of its material surroundings. All human " Life is real" bondage to mat te r . Individual " l i f e is earnest" in overcoming this bondage. Bu t " t h e grave is not i ts goal," because the soul is not destroyed by its environments. The physical circumstances of the spirit arc negative a t l a s t ; bu t they are absolute and positive in th i s sphere. Mat te r is the mind's jailor. Want is t he overseer who lashes t he prisoner into his daily labors. 'Tis the mandate of ma t t e r which the mind obeys nine- tenths of ear thly t ime. Thc sight of objects, t he tas te of flavors, the smell of odors, the cognition of sensations, the hearing of sounds—thus the spirit looks out and lives through the grated windows of i ts prison castle. A defect in either sense is so much subtracted from the liber-t y and capacity of the mind. Deficiency in blood or brain, and misplacements of either material , or the slightest excess in any de-par tment , are recorded mathematically upon the ledger-pages of the life book.

The universe, wi th its beauties and laws and harmonies, is nothing to the idiot mind caged in mat te r . The gorgeous heavens, with their unnumbered systems of suns and stars, are nothing to a soul bowed down by the daily drag of material necessities. The ponderous globes of space, so a t t rac t -ive to the uplif ted mind of the philosopher, are nothing to my bro ther who makes a God of gain.. Mat te r and money sur-

round him on either side. He drives through his surroundings, and then they drive through him; and so goes his daily life, to the last syllable of recorded t ime."

Thefa i r sky of heavenly t ru th never covers thc earthly mind. Angels do not dwell in the shades of pandemonium. Mat te r is the raw material of Heaven and of angels. Strange paradoxes ! Tho world of mat ter is the region of discord. The myriad forms of evil originate in the realms of Mat ter . The history of our beginning is a salutary history, because it teaches the lessons of progression and imperfection—how chaos precedes or-der ; Mat ter , mind.

Bu t it is a pleasant thing to die ! W h y ? Because t hc countless shades of mat ter , like storm clouds and dreams of prison life, begin to move off and forever away. Mat-ter, the soul's prison, is abandoned The spirit in quiet looks upon tho dim substance s t retched and cold on the ear th below. The dark broad mountains of mat ter , where t he thunders of earthly discords rave both day and night, are forsaken or exchanged for flower-clad hills " eternal in the heavens."

I t is a pleasant th ing to die, and to join the peaceful brotherhood of the upper realm. The Divine Mind, whose infinite powers and principles fill all t he temple of immensity, is seen by spirit . Mat te r is incapable of contemplat ion; y e t it is the deep-liewn valley in which soul is cradled. The soul is the chariot of the golden s p i r i t ; bu t alas! in this world, Mat te r is both the driver and the steeds. Mat te r is molded into shapes replete wi th grandeur and sub-limity ; but the power to cognize and enjo}r

is inseparable from spiri t .

I t is a pleasant thing to die, because by a natural going forth of the spirit, a t t he ap-propriate period of its his tory, the evils of ma t t e r are more readily comprehended and overcome. The music of spiritual water floats into t he new-born soul. The sick-ening shadows of terres t ia l ignorance and misunderstanding depar t among the broken urns, behind the curtains of t ime. The principalities of falsehood lose t h e i r power. The}' fade away. Tlie pure light of a mea-sureless f i rmament shines down into t he reasoning faculties. Whi r l ing globes, sup-port ing innumerable forms of life and beauty, fill tlie immensi ty wi th t he glory of God. Harmonies of the affections, touched by the awakening love of celestial lingers, come up and down like thc breathings of t r u th , caus-ing the immortal hills to sing like birds of a thousand voices. 0 u t h r e a d i n g landscapes become vocal wi th an abundan t harvest of eternal love-lessons, too pure for ear thly language to embody. And thus, t he un-ear thed soul is sent to school among t h e angels of t r u t h and the Ti tans of wisdom.

I t is a pleasant th ing to die, when the death is natural , because the soul " makes a Sabbath day's j o u r n e y " toward Dei ty— gets nearer to t he central Fountain of ever-lasting life—nearer in t he sense of realizing more love and acquiring a higher know-ledge concerning the spiri tual laws of t he universe. The kindling fires of infinite life light up the t rans-mundane pilgrim with a larger and diviner comprehension. The great cycles of t he world 's progression ap-pear like changes in t h e performance of an operatic drama. The rise and fall of em-pires seem not more impor tan t than the shift ing of scenes in a t h e a t r e — t h e l ights and shades of an immortal picture.

I t is a pleasant th ing to die, and to get out of the prison of engrossing and heavy mat ter , because i ts chemical t ransactions emancipate t he spir i t from the imperat ive besetinents of hateful appeti tes. Al though the soul re tains the effects, sad and many arising from the multifarious transgressions of the principles t h a t are indispensable to its progression; ye t , by the fact of chemi-cally al tering the relat ions subsist ing be-tween soul and body, t he spirit is measura-bly empowered and inspired to rise above its ruling earthly passions. W i t h tlie body-goes tobacco, alcohol, s t imulants, &c.; and with death comes t h e power to be larger and happier. Some minds are vicious be-cause of physiological defects. Brains sometimes are imprisoned by a malformed skull, and spirit is embarrassed by a ham-pered brain, and character is deformed as a consequence; so tha t , in contemplating our common humani ty , it is wisest to pu t down a large amount of evil to externals, which, in this life, are positive in beget t ing per-sonal manifestations. An accident has been known to j a r into life certain portions of a long-slumbering brain, whereby the prosy person was a t once converted into a poetic genius ai.d partial musician. Impercept i -ble alterations in t he cerebral polarities will be followed by special changes in the character and habits of t he individual. Sorrowful persons may suddenly become joyous and g a j r ; d runkards change into the finest examples of temperance; vulgar souls t u r n into the paths of re f inement ; and thus, " in the twinkl ing of eye," it is possible for Death to elevate the character and multiply t he opportunities of a man. Even here, under the magic touch of human

magnetism, the ignorant soul is suddenly con-verted into the embodiment of surpassing intelligence; and by means of the same transforming influence, the mouth of t he dumb is opened, and the slow tongue is made to move with t he lightning flashes of eloquence. If a few passes of the human hand can work changes so instantaneous and so marvellous upon a human soul,while ye t in the body, wha t are we not au thor -ized to expect when Death burs ts the "pris-on-liousc of clay," and gives t he mental powers l iberty t o run to and fro " t h r o u g h the halls of creation," iu the natural exer-cise of all constitutional r igh ts and inclina-tions ?

Yesterday we climbed to t he loftiest sum-mit of a dark, broad, and beautiful moun-tain. W e sought a solitary dwelling place beneath tho shadow of many trees. The beetling cliffs l if ted thei r s ta te ly summits on e i ther side. The music of the deep val-leys bc-low filled the temple with sacred melody. The far off silvery clouds, floating between our up turned eyes and the sum-mer sun, seemed to welcome our though ts to t h e worlds on high. W e there obtained a wondrous vision of t r u t h , and law, and soul, and ma t t e r ; and for t he thousandth time, we acquired a lesson from Mother Na tu re to this e f f e c t — " i t is a pleasant thing to die."

" S E L F C O N T R A D I C T I O N S . "

By an arrangement with the compiler, we have issued a new edition of tha t valuable little pamphlet, " Self Contradictions of the Bible," and can supply all orders a t the re-duced rate, fifteen ccnts, or eight copies for one dollar, postage paid.

T H E C H I L D R E N .

Among our public notices will be found one for a Children's Convention at Longwood, Chester Co., Penn.

The meeting will doubtless be conducted by Joseph A. Dugdale, who enjoys the envia-ble t i t le of " A Friend of Children." We have something in our drawer from his pen, and from other contributors, for our Childhood department, which will be given to our young readers soon. Till then, let them not over-look the Moral Police record, and other enter-taining features of each paper.

Bibliolatry. " I t is not more true, that the Bible is too

great ever to have been the invention of the human intellect, than that it is too good a book ever to have originated with the human hear t . "—Dr. Spring's Bible Lectures.

In the great secession from the Church, in-itiated by the so-called Reformation in the early part of the sixteenth century, the Bible necessarily became an idol for all shades and sects of Protestantism. The Church, as the light of the world, supported its pretensions on the double basis of Oral and Wri t ten Tra-dition, claiming the power of infallible guid-ance for both sources of its precepts. But Writ ten Tradition was naturally more highly prized than Oral, as it was the undoubted ex-pression of the very mind of the Apostles— the pillars under Christ of the Church itself. Add to this, the circumstance that the corrup-tions in church practice were most flagrant in those usages which derived their chief sanction from Oral Tradition, and we sec abundant reason why the reaction against these cor-ruptions should find its main support in the Scriptures, as furnishing at once a standard by which to condemn them, and of appeal from them. But in this reaction against church corruption, the Protestant sects not only disclaimed the authority of Oral Tradi-tion, but of the infallibility of the Church as a corporate body, and were logically com-pelled to lodge this infallibility iu the Bible. They could not find this element in them-selves, they cSuld not appeal to Oral Tradi-tion, aud yet tin external infallible guidance must be claimed somewhere, and the Bible received the honor.

In the struggle between Protestantism and the Church, which so violently agitated Eu-rope during the lat ter part of the sixteenth, and the greater portion of the seventeenth century, the Church insisted more anil more on her own infallibility, to the neglect of Scripture, and the Protestant sects on that of the Bible, forgetting to assert a divine au-thority in themselves. The Church claimed immediate union with God by virtue of her divine constitution, the sects claimed indirect union with God through the sacred letter of Scripture.

This was a groat step gained for man ' s freedom and progress. From the moment the religious organizations abdicated infallibility . in themselves, and referred their adherents * to a book for infallible direction, it began to be manifest that discordant interpretation was the only practical result. The quick-witted philosophers who arose in Europe upon the first lull of the contest between the Church and the Sects, were not long in drawing the inference, that an infallible book with no infallible key to its sense, is a very suspicious authority. This was tho crisis iu the development of Protestantism. I t found expression in the announcement that the individual Reason, illumined by experience and a love of Truth , if not an infallible, is man 's only reliable guide.

For a century, now, the Sects have been struggling, might and main, against this principle, which, in their view, is the quint-essence of infidelity. Fully believing that all " saving truth " is contaiued in the Bible,

T I I E H E R A L D O F P R O ( i R E S S .

The Shoemaker's Parable. A journeyman shoemaker Vicing asked where

in the universe the Bottomless Tit was located, answered as follows : As to the place that the-

they have committed themselves to the dogma tha t every statement of fact and doctrine in the book is true, while the advancing enlight-enment of the age has forced from them tin-concession, that proved contradictions in its teachings would demonstrate its fallibility. o I ° ^ ' a n s designate by that name, I know On the other hand, the artillery of skepti- n ° th ing . But in my business, as a shoemaker, cisin has been directed upon these teachings, a bugc family to support, I catch many and their inconsistency, both with themselves a S^mpse of something like it. I t is that and well-known scientific facts, has been 8 e m ' 1 v o r t c x which holds all Unemployed shown ad nauseam. Capital. This dilates, and enlarges, and be-

comes more and more voracious, with the growth of civilization, and every improve-ment in mechanical power. I will illustrate what 1 mean. Ten men named after the letters of the alphabet, in their order from A to J,took possession of an Island containing one hundred acres, which they distributed equally among themselves. They carried with them one thousand dollars for mutual trade, each man having one hundred. Now it was found when they entered upon the island that the half of each one's wants must be supplied by the labor of the remaining nine, and that each

| D ^ | o one must pay out half his labor among all quite willing that the devoted sectarian should t h e r e s t — a twentieth to each—to supply amuse himself with these illusions, should t h o s e w a n t s " B u t b e f o r e they n , a d e this d i*-

The skeptic having driven the disciple of the Sects into this narrow corner, is content to witness his performances. If the disciple extols his Infallible Book as something too good for human invention, he calls to mind the childish double stories of the creation, of the origin of man. and of the flood in its Genesis, and the unintelligible farrago of its Apocalypse. Or. if it is praised as contain-ing precepts of morality too good to have originated in the human heart, thc skeptic remembers with a smile that Murder, Concu-binage, and Polygamy are all represented in it to have been sanctioned by God. He is

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hug his darling idol as God's last gift to man, for he knows that a secret unbelief has already begun to disturb thc depths of his bigotry, and to undermine the foundations of his su-perstition. He knows that in the end the in-dividual and collective Reasou of the race is to be acknowledged as the only sure guide of faith and practice, and that the light of the Book is destined to be as thoroughly drowned in the rays of Science, as the faint gleam of a farthing candle in the beams of the meridian sun, while the essence of its really true and pure morality will ally itself with the dictates of natural Conscience, and lie translated

covery, they had agreed tha t the relative prices of their individual toil should go on in a decreasing ratio of a tenth, from A to J ; that is, A's labor should be worth, per day or hour, ten times as much as J ' s , B's nine times, C's eight times, and so on. So when they began to exchange commodities, and accounts were balanced at the end of the year, J paid to A ten dollars and received one, to B nine and received one, and so on to all ; thus A came out with $145, B with $135, C with $125, Dwith $115, E with $105, while F had but S95, G but $85, H but $75, I but $65, and J but $55, of their original

"without seeing death " into a code for uni- SU1US- T h e s o brethren had done business versal human action, which the fallible inter- h u t a f c w 5 ' e a r s o n t U s principle, before it pretation of written documents can never w a s f o u n d n o t o n l - v t h a t F - G> H> l> a n d J . imperil or harm. had become bankrupt in money and their

Bet ween the skeptic and the sectarian, how- , a n d s f o r f < ? i t e d their brethren, but the tide ever, a candid appreciation of the Bible is likel}- to lose ground for a time. The claim of infallibility for every statement of fact and d'X-trine contained in it, naturally impel

of indebtedness and want was continually rising upon thc scale toward A, B, C, with-out any possibility of reaching A. In other wonls. this little island society spontaneously

We shall delay filling this order, that others may have an opportunity to send at thc same time. Will not our friends and the friends of criminals respond generously. Donors may either select books or leave to the judgment of the editor of this paper the choice of works most useful. Wo shall add to the entire contribut ion a small collection of our own donation and forward in one pack-age, which we hope to make a large one.

M i l . B B E C H E R D E C L I N E S .

We mentioned last week the fact that Am-herst College had conferred the title of Doc-tor of Divinity upon Henry Ward Beechcr. The empty title so repugnant to a progressive individual is respectfully declined in a manly note, concluding as follows :

" All the use of such a title ends with the public expression of a wish to confer it.. For the rest, it would bo but an incumbrance, and furnish an address by no means agreea-ble to my taste. 1 greatly prefer the simplic-ity of that name which my mother uttered over me in the holy hour of infant consecra-tion and baptism. May I be permitted, with-out seeming to undervalue your kindness, or disesteeming the honor meant, to return it to your hands, that I may to the end of my life be, as thus far I have been, simply

" H E N R Y W A R D B K E C H E R . "

What is Doing in the Reform Field.

the discoverer of the falsity of this position divided Itself into a creditor, or Capital class, to the opposite extreme. The believer in this a n d a debtor, or Labor class, and the purses dogma no sooner comes to doubt the painful a , l d s a f e s o f the Capitalists became a bottomless experience of Jonah, or the astronomical Pj l f o r t h e c a r n i n - s o f the Laborers, and in manoeuvres of Joshua, than he mshes into t i m e raost o l t l l e Laborers became tenants on the pitiful error that the whole Bible is false. t h e ver.V land which were once their free-in which the extravagant and preposterous holds. a n d a 1 1 became hirelings and very poor, eulogies of the book by the sectarian clergy. My imaginary island is a type of civilized only tend to confirm him. Thus, one partv society. Its industrial system is organized on is constantly finding glories in it of which the the principle : Unequal wages for equal, amounts original writers never dreamed, and the other °f labor. The avocations of men, however overlooking and even denying its indisputa- numerous they may lie, are like the ten ble excellencies. islanders. In the exchange of their commodi-

The Spiritualist, from natural sources com- t i e S a f e w Avocations get vastly better wages than others, and a shift ing line of division separates them into two classes, one of which is always earning of the expense of the other.

ing into possession of thc one great truth which renders the Bible of any worth, is alone ca-llable of rendering to it its due. On the one hand, he reverences its sp i r i t ; on the other, ^ hen the fortunate Avocations have drained he discards its letter, and even confesses its the less fortunate dry of all their business contradictions. In his camp, therefore, must ( ; aI ) i t aL members of the humbler Avocations the candid skeptic and the honest sectarian meet a t last and lay aside their enmity, on the ground of a common truth which lifts both to a level, on which their differences shall be seen to be ridiculous and puerile. Enlisted under his banner, the skeptic shall admit the truths, and the sectarian the er-rors, of the Bible. D. L.

Goodness Infectious. That a l>ad example is contagious, the

Christian world has long admitted. The cor-responding advantages of " i n d u c t i o n " as a mode of benefiting mankind have never been

fail, or are driven by poverty into hospital: and alms-houses, while the Avocations them-selves are filled with new aspirants destined to the same fate. The general clearing out occurs a t regular periods, under the opera-tion of what is called commercial crises, the fre-quency of which depends upon the velocity with which the pit of Unemployed Capital swallows up the labor of the poor. This bot-tomless pit has three openings in Christen-dom which are very famous, and where the evil genius of labor keeps continual watch and ward—they are the Paris Bourse, the I>ondon 'Change, and Wall Street in New York.

When the questioner had listened to the

ful ly appeciated. Theoretically regarding shoemaker thus far he went off in a great themselves as not of the world, "professors of religion " have sought to become " l i gh t s in the world," radiating or reflecting intense brilliancy upon the pitch darkness of human depravity. To this end they have separated themselves from the world, seeking to illu-minate from an isolated eminence, instead of to benefit by fraternal contact and holy in-fection.

"We desire to introduce a change, to show the world the excellence of the better way. We wish mankind to feel and acknowledge the value of a good act, of tender sympathy, of hearty appreciation and loving forbear-ance and charity—to recognize these excel-lencies as moral weapons for the reformation of the world.

To this end we would teach that goodness is not au artificial light, reflected from a re-mote spiritual sun upon unilluminated minds, by those by special favor more enlightened; but is an actual natural possession, an inherent quality, permeating all human hearts, latent if not active in every soul, and quickened into healthful activity by contact. The ex-cellencies we have named, when recognized, always induce, or tend to do so, conditions favorable to their repetition.

A single timely illustration will serve to verify our position.

The Chicago Zouaves, whose excellent code of regulations we took occasion to commend a few weeks since, have scarcely reached their home, and vet, in most of the cities they vis-ited similar companies are already being or-ganized. and quite generally with like rigid rules of conduct. And in this city, tl..- Fire Companies, too. with the avowed object of keeping firemen out of bad habits, propose a similar dress, drill, and code. May success attend the effort.

O for a little healthful enthusiasm in the pursuit of thc path of Progress! A manly competition in attaining interior harmony Faith being dead, let us witness the triumph of deeds, noble deeds!

rage, saying that such sentiments were not fit to be uttered in respectable society, and that decent people always closed their ears against unpleasant truths.

Hie following meetings have been adver-tised heretofore :

Grove Meeting at Lyons, Mich., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1st and 2d.

Fort Recovery, Mercer county, 0 . , Friends of Progress, Sept. 1st and 2d.

West Grove, Jay county, Ind., Grove Meet-ing, September 8th and 9th.

Ashtabula Annual Convention, a t East Ashtabula, 0 . , September 1st and 2d.

Grove Meeting at Medina, Mich., Sept. 7th, 8th, and 9th. Sjieakers particularly invited.

Grove Meeting at Eaton, Lorrain Co., 0 . , Sept 15 and 16.

Friends of Progress a t New Boston, Mercer Co., III.. Sept. 8th and 9tli.

M E E T I N G O F T I I E F R I E N D S O F H U M A N P R O G R E S S .

The sixth yearly meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, of North Collins, will be held a t Hemlock Hall, in Tucker's Grove, one mile west of Kerr 's Corners, Erie Co., N. Y., on the 7th, 8th, and 9th of September. 1860. to commence on Friday, a t 10 o'clock, A. M.

A cordial invitation is given to all persons to attend.

Walter Wood, Levi Brown, Lucy W. Haw-ley, Prudence Iv. Sinton, James A. F.Varney, Alonzo M. Hawley, Joseph Sinton, Phebe M. Varney.

[Hemlock Hall is a temporary building

Sickness. Arriving at Sackett's Harbor at 3 o'clock, the excursionists were cordially re-ceived l»y a large concourse of people. A pro-cession was immediately formed, preceded bv the band, and marched to the grove, about a mile south of the village, where thev proceeded to dispatch sundry edibles in the original pic-nic style, for which their morning ride in the cool, invigorating air had given them a keen relish. Phis over, addresses were made by Dr. I), s. Kimball, of Sackett's Harbor, and Miss Sprague, from Niagara Falls, when the procession again formed and marched to the village, where, after dispersing and rambling about for an hour or so. the excursionists re-embarked at half past six for home, highly gratified with their visit and reception. The homeward passage was equally as pleasant as the one down, and was enlivened by the ex-cellent music of the band, dancing, vocal ex-ercises by several "g l ee clubs," and the dis-play of lire-works from the deck of the Ackron on the approach to this city, which w about half past ten P. M.

Brief Items. The Christian Banner says preachers who

compare good works to " o l d rotten filthy rags," understand the Bible " j u s t about as well as a monkey understands the science of mathematics.' '

The Presbyterians of St. Johns, N. B., are considerably exercised because at the reception of the Prince of Wales precedence was given first to the Church of England and next to the Church of Rome. This order is in harmony with an old enactment of the province.

—The Earl of Caithness has built a carriage to be propelled by steam on ordinary roads. He has attained the speed of eighteen miles an hour.

•The Governor-General of Canada has given great offense to the Opposition party by failing to recognize the members of the Legis-lature in the programme for the reception of the Prince of Wales.

The last mail from Europe brought intelli gence that .'10.000 Christian women in Syria, had met with a fate worse than death, having been sold at twenty-five piasters each

—An exchange objects to the term, "sanc-tified press," used by the religious papers. The reason given is the bitter spirit displayed and disgraceful language used by such papers in controversy : " There is a cordiality of ha-tred between the members of different reli-gious sects, when they get into a discussion, that is absolutely refreshing to a mere man of the world."

—The Boston Omgregalionalist attributes a church quarrel in the Congregational society, at South lladlcy, Mass., to the practice of allowing their women to vote in thc church meetings. The Springfield Republican thinks rather the cause was a little of the " o l d Adam" among the men.

—At Newark, N. Y., a child about a year old, who had always shown a strange aversion to water, chanced to tip over a tumbler of water, a portion falling on its hands, shrank back, gasped, and died.

HON. N. 1'. BANKS, Governor of Massachu-setts, will it is said, decline a renomination, and accept a high position in the manage-ment of a western railroad, supposed to be sufficiently large and strong to seat 1.500 ^PP?** 1 t o be

or 2 000 riersnriR l . t , i e Hhnois Central. Owing to his private or . . .wo persons.] integrity, official position has not made him

G O I N G W E S T .

F. L. Wadsworth (of Maine) leaves New England for the West in December, spending the winter months in Ohio and the South, thence into the North-west where the summer and fall of 1861 will be occupied as circum-stances indicate best. He is now ready to make arrangements with thc South and South-west.

For address refer to Notices of Speakers.

A L I B R A R Y F O R C O N V I C T S .

In a recent issue of the daily Tribune, Mr. Theodore Til ton. of the Independent, publishes an appeal in behalf of the convicts at Sing Sing.

He says there are twelve hundred inmates, the larger part of them young men under thirty, suffering their first sentence, and re-penting their first crime—many of them show-ing fewer features of the rogue than many a man that has never seen the inside of a state prison. Now he says :

"Their human feelings need to be met with human sympathies ; their minds need to re-ceive culture like other men's minds ; their hearts need to be touched like other human hearts.

" I f any person would like to do them a kindness, there is now an opportunity."

On Sundays, and afternoons when their tasks are finished, they have leisure for read ing, but the prison library contains few books adapted to their wants. Consequently Sun-day is to them the dreariest day of all the week. "Ought not a book to be given to every mun who is willing to read 1"

Mr. Tilton invites contributions of suitable books, "including, for instance, history, bio-graphy. elementary science, the better class of fiction, and practical, unsectarian religious works. ' '

They may be sent to the venerable Father Luckey, Chaplain of the Prison at Sing Sing, or to Mr. Tilton at the office of the Jnde-fiendent.

In response to the above appeal we have received the following note from a friend do-ing business on Broadway :

" J'lease send to Sing Sing as many copies of "Life in the Spheres,'' by Hudson Tattle, as yon can for the enclosed amount ($2.)

C H I L D R E N ' S C O N V E N T I O N A T L O N G -W O O D , C H E S T E R C O . , P A .

This joyful anniversary will come off on Saturday, the first of September, a t 10 o'clock A .M. It was inaugurated five or six years ago, by Joseph A. Dugdale, a friend and lover of children. I t attracts large numbers of little folks, as well as those of more matur years. There is a magnificent park within sight of the meeting-house, planted with Norway pine trees eighty years ago. Per-mission has been obtained for the multitude to walk over there and eat their picnic din-ner and spend the afternoon. Children from Philadelphia, can leave the city on the Balti-more Central Line, at 1\ A. M., arrive at Longwood at 10, and leave again for the city a t 4 P. M. Come, little friends, you will all be welcome.

integrity, official position has not made him rich, and it is supposed he accepts on account of the high salary offered. Here is a lesson for political aspirants.

Gleanings from Correspondence.

G B R M A K T R A N S L A T I O N o r T H E H A R M O N I A .

We have received from a Western corres-pondent a letter of inquiry in regard to the propriety of his undertaking a German trans-lation of certain portions of the Hanuonia. By the following extracts from a letter recent-ly received from Breslau, in Germany, it will be Been that the labor of translating the Har-monia and Revelations into German has al-ready been undertaken in that country.

BRESLAU, June 28th, 1860. 0 o e o o

"Your"Revelations" reached mea t Breslau through a dear friend and patron whom 1 can never forgets-the President of the Imperial Leopo d Academy of Physicists, at Berlin— the celebrated botanist and natural philoso-pher, Prof. Christian G. N. Esenbe. k - havinir been sent to him m the latter part of the yew 1856, by the hand of some unknown friend in Bremen. I t was destined to solace the last (lays ot his laborious lite with the fulfillment of Ins anticipations and hopes for the pro.-ress of natural science and the free Religion oi Hu-manity. The profound importance of Magnet-ism and its flower Clairvoyance for the future advance of the mind—an importance which he had long before anticipated and proclaimed— was in this work disclosed to him in all its full-ness. Moreover,as a physician lie was acquaint-ed with your 'Physician ;' as an instructor he prized your 'Teacher ;' as prophet of a fairer future for the German people, through po-litical and religious unity, he appreciated your 'Seer,' and his daily increasing enthusi-asm he shared with me. who enjoyed the confiding intimacy of his last remaining days, and was his true disciple in Philosophy and Religion. ° 0 ° In the advanced years ot this gray-headed man of science, it had become impossible for him to execute alone so great a work as the German transla-tion of the three volumes of your 'Great Har-monia,' and he therefore chose me for his as-sistant, and dying confided to me the comple-tion of the enterprise. Until the day when he retired to the couch of his last sickness with eyes dimmed with age. he labored upon his portion of the sublime philosophy of God —when the Angel of Death bore him to the higher vision of the Deity on the 16th of March, 1858. In this last period of his life, in consequence of political persecution for mv intercourse with the leaders of the free reli-gious movement in Breslau, I lived in ban-ishment in the town of Striegau, seven Ger-man miles from that city. o o o There I finished the manuscript left to my care by my friend, as well as my own trans-lations. when, near the end of the year 1858, by marriage with a lady who is a free citizen of Breslau, I regained my privilege of resi-dence there. In my present situation, as secretary of a judicial functionary. I still find leisure for the performance of my favorite and self-imposed task of translating all your re-maining writings of which I may be able to be-come the possessor.

o O o o o With feelings of unchangeable regard, I

remain henceforth Your true and most devoted

G R E G O R C O N S T A N T IN W I T T I G .

T H E P I C N I C A T S A C K E T T ' S H A R B O R .

From a correspondent. "Anchises," we learn that the Spiritual Picnic a t Sackett's Harbor, the 14th inst., was truly a grand affair.

The number present was stated by thc Watertown papers as from 2,000 to 3,000. Our correspondent estimates the numlier at 1,500 or 1,800. The party found, on the bor-ders of the bay, a beautiful hickory grove, carpeted with fine grass, and beautifully sup-plied with appropriate mottoes aud banners, preiaired for the occasion and suspended from the trees. Our correspondent writes :

"Miss Sprague seized upon the most prom-inent. remarks of Dr. I). S. Kimball upon free-dom,kept the audience speB-bound for more than an hour and a quarter, astonishing those who had never heard speaking by inspiration before.' '

The Oswego Palladium of the 15th furnishes the following:

"The excursion of the Spiritualists yester-day to Sackett's Harbor was a very pleasant one, notwithstanding the threatuiii^r aspect of the weather in tin- morning. About half past ten o'clock the N. T Co.'s steamers, Bay State. Capt. Brown, ami Ackron, Capt. Burnet, left the dock foot of West Seneca street with a party numbering from 700 to 800. including the 'Mechanics' Sax-horn Band on tho former steamer, and an excellent quad-rille band on the latter. The trip down was delightful, and but very few experienced sea-

FOREIGN TPEMS, By the arrival of the steamers Glasgow and

Arabia, we, are in possession of European ad-vices to the 11 th of August.

The report of the landing of a large num-ber of Garibaldians on the coast of Calabria is confirmed, as also the fact that they were re-ceived by the people with great enthusiasm. The crisis of the fate of Italy Been is to be rap-idly approaching. Thc Neapolitan govern-ment was exerting every nerve to collect suf-ficient forces to meet the invader, and a rumor prevails that Gen. Lamoricie're had re-solved to join his forces with those of Francis II, by which movement an army of 45.000 men would be concentrated to oppose Gari-baldi. On the other hand, a rumor is current that, on account of the disaffection in Naples, ami in the Neapolitan army and fleet. Gari-baldi would be able to enter the city without bloodshed, and that the king would take to

fate

T H E D R O U T H I N K A N S A S .

F. P. Thomas, Twin Mound Douglass Co., Kansas, writes most gloomily of the situation of farmers in that vicinity. He says :

" I t has been fourteen months since a good rain in Kansas, and of course we have raised nothing to eat or sell. The summer has been excessively hot. The thermometer has stood as high as 112° in the shade. Persons have actually cooked eggs in the sun.

' 'The people of Kansas have had trials be-fore, but the present prospects are more gloomy than ever. Most of them are in debt for their land, and paying heavy interest to speculators. They expected to meet their obligations with their crops ; but, alas ! their hopes are blasted. Many will suffer for want of good food. Those who have corn enough for bread another year, think them-selves fortunate indeed.

"One of our neighbors, thc other day, who was out of bread, took some chickens to town

on among the revolutionary chiefs of Europe, which is likely to result in a formidable or-ganization for the simultaneous liberation of Venetia, Hungary, and Croatia. Some con-firmation of this report may perhaps be seen in the fact that the Russian government has ordered the concentration of nearly 140,000 men in Poland, as a preparation against anticipated disturbances in that country.

The French expedition to Syria left Mar-seilles on the 5th and 6th of the present month. England does not join actively in the expedition ; but Russia is to send a large fleet into the Levant.

Meanwhile the prompt action of FUAD PA CHA, the Ottoman Commissioner, appears to have restored confidence and order iu Syria. By telegram dated Itamascus, Aug. 4th, it api>eared that he had arrested nearly 800 persons in that city as implicated in the late massacres, and had ordered the immediate execution of the guilty leaders.

By intelligence received from China by way of Russia, that empire is represented sis being seriously disorganized by internal dis-turbances, and that the insurrectionary forces were within fourteen miles of Pekin.

The Paper Duty Bill passed the English House of Commons on the 6th inst.

The affairs of Mexico are a^ain complicated by the anticipated intervention of Spain in behalf of Mlrnmon and the Church party. The Spanish minister PAOHECO lias recently made certain peremptory demands upon the Juarez government in Vera Cruz, which were backed by the presence of armed vessels in the Gulf- These demands wore firmly refused by Juarez, and an attack upon the "city was expected.

In New Granada, in consequence of the distractions of tin- civil war, communication between Bogota and the coast have been cut off. In Magdalena, hostilities had again :ommenced. From Chili the most important

information received is in regard to the dis-covery of new nnd very valuable silver mines.

this case to show what poor economy some persons use. If this man hail all the monev he has spent for this filthy luxury, he would have enough to buy bread for his family during the present famine. I don' t know-how the poor people of Kansas will be en-abled to iive the next year unless it is done by a society organized by those who are able to help them. This seems to me the only way to do it effectually."

A Y O I C E F R O M L O U I S I A N A .

L. D., New Orleans, writes in a spirit we hope will prove contagious. We invite the promised brotherly chat.

"Whi le the Sabbath bells are willing the faithful up to worship their several Gods, I. 'poor, miserable, infidel sinner,' have been l o o k i n g o v e r y o u r HERALD OK PROGRESS. Though truly a progressive herald, yet I think you might call it the ' Welcome'Mes-senger.' for it is indeed welcome, and oft a messenger of truth. And though you do tread on the 'corns' of us Southerners about our own 'peculiar institution,' yet I, unlike some of my friends, keep cool, knowing, or a t least feeling that though you may err. yet it is tin- head and not the heart. I feel con-vinced that as you disclaimed any desire to found a 'Davisite sect.' you are open to argument; and yet I believe that advocating the principles of progression you cannot do otherwise than admit that oth.-rs may know more of some things than you, and I believe that you will listen to sound and logical reasoning Iwsed on truth.

But I regret to sec some of your correspond-ents entirely misrepresenting Southerners and Southern Institutions. However. I am wil-ling to attribute it to ignorance- though some of their letters smack st rongly of fanaticism

and 1 think at some leisure moment I will give some of them a brotherly chat."

6 T I I E I I E I t A L D O F P R O G R E S S .

Attractive Miscellany. All things Are rugst!''.! ill writing their history-

Th. nir is fillot.oumT.; Iho sky. of lotos: Ihe go'lind IS all memoranda nnd signature.; AII.1 ever) oiij.o. covered with hulls. which speak l» Hi" inlolhgont.

F o r Ihe Herald of Progress .

U T T U E E U O E N E . I To ln> Mother , this huml.lo Iriholc o r eon.oh.Uon is

lUioclioiiHely dedicated by C o n . W i i . m «».) S o l g o n e ! t h o u g h f r o m o u r l o n g i n g e lg l i t do-

N o t K d ' t h e g l o r y or h i s b r i g h t b l u e e v e ; N o t f r o m .rth-III. ' s i n f a n t J o y s u p u r l e d ;

T h o u g h E d e n - c r o w n e d . u n t o t h o d e a r o n e s n i g h .

N o t dead ! f o r l o v i n g m u s k - J o t is w e l l i n g . In s w e e t Ihmi l i a r l o v e - t o n e s f r o m h i s s o n g ;

A n d r e c o g n i t i o n ' s b lessed j o y i s s w e l l i n g

T h a i l i t t l e h e a r t , a m i d t h e s e r a p h t h r o n g .

N o t l o s t ! t h c b l o s s o m f r o m d i m e a r t h t r a n s p l a n t e d T o g r a c e t l ie G o d - s h r i n e ol t l ie h o l y l a n d .

E x p a n d s in b e a u t y in t h a t r e a l m e n c h a n t e d , A n d f o r m s a h e a r t - l i n k w i t h t h c a n g c l - b a n d .

W e e p n o t f o r h i m ! t h e l i l ies of t h e h e a v e n T w i n e t l i c i r v e s t a l i o g l o r y ' r o u n d h i s b r o w ;

Tl ie p a l m b r a n c h o l t h e p u r e a n d t h e f o r g i v e n H e b r i n g s u n t o t h e s i l e n t h o u s e h o l d , n o w .

S i n g t r i u m p h s o n g s I t h i n e m i u e l Is f o r e v e r j V i i n e o i i l y , ' r a i d t h e s w e e t d e l i g h t s a b o v e :

A n d s u m m e r s k i e s a n d w e l c o m e l l o w e r s f o r e v e r ,

A r e g r a c i o u s t o k e n s of a s p i r i t ' s l ove .

T h i n e is a m i s s i o n g r e a t , o ' e r w h e h n l n g . h o l y ; T h o u ai l t h e e a r t h - g u i d e of a n a n g e l e h i . d ,

Oi l . e u a r d t h y h e a r t , a n d to i ts p o r t a l s s o l e l y A d m i t t l i e g u e s t s t h a t h a v e in Kdeu s m i l e d .

T h e w h i t e r o b e d c h a r i t i e s , t h e love of B e a u t y , T h e k i n d r e d a s p i r a t i o n s , a u d tl ie d o v e ,

H e a v e n w i n g e d a n d e a r t h ca l l ed b y t h e n a m e ol

S w e e t m o t h e r , n e s t l e t o t h y h e a r t of l o v e I

T h o u w i l t b e h o l d h i s b lue e y e s ' s o f t e n i n g g l a n c e s A m i d 11,0 s u m m e r g l o r i e s ol t h e d a y ;

A n d n i g h t sha l l w a i t t h e e w h e r e t h e c h o r a l d a n c c s

Of e a r t h ' s y o u n g a n g e l s load t h e s t a r r y w a y .

H e l i v e s ! a n d l e a r n s of T r o t h , n n d G o d , a n d U d ' i i i c " H g h t s o n l l i nk is w i t h i n t h y h a n d ;

U n t o t h y m i n i s t e r i n g h e a r t is g i v e " T h e g u i d a n c e of t h a t s e r a p h m i d t h e b a n d . LYNN, MASS., A u g . 9 t h , 161111.

A Day with the Dead. IThe following, Ihe I t s ; half o f . good Article, is

t aken f rom Ihe llUmtic MMhl.j for Sep tember . ]

Durin" our rambles among the tombstones the sun has long since passed the meridian, „ d the streets und avenues of the cemetery are crowded with carriages ami thronged with pedestrians, the tramping "f horses feet, tho rumbling of wheels, and the voices ol men . . . . . . 1 i u » i r h M i ivsi>i s o SHCll l

Inspired word of God 1ms no inherent power to 1 stand alone that it has fallen amor* thieves and robhers is being pelted with los-sil coprolites. suffocate,! with lire-mist and primitive gases. «>r l^aten oyer the head with the shank-bones of silunan monsters, and is bawlinn aloud for assistance. Ihcre-fore. not stopping to dress, they dash out into the public notice without hat or coat in such unclothed intellectual condition as they happen to be in in their shirt, or stark naked often ami rush Jjrantically to its aid.

The most melancholy case ..I this intellec-tual delirium tremens that probably ever came under tbe notice of any reader is found in u professed apology for the Scriptures, recently published, under the pompous and bombastic t i t l e Of " COSMOOONY. OK TILK MySTKRIKS OK I'RKATION. 1' A volume of such puerile trash, such rubbish, such twaddle, balderdash, and crazy driveling as this, was never before vomited from thc press of any land, and be-side it the " REVELATIONS " of Andrew .lack-son JDavis, the " Poughkeepsie Seer," rise to the lofty grandeur of the "Novum Organon —a sight that makes one who really respects the Bible bang his head for shame.

The beligcrent pundit who has Hung in the face of peaceful geologists this octavo camou-llct of his scientific lucubrations professes to have scoured thc surface and ravaged the bot-tom (in a suit of patent sub-marine Scriptural armor) of a no less abysmal subject than the cryptologv of Genesis—to have undermined with his sapping intellect and blown up with his explosive wisdom the walled secrets of time and eternity, carrying away with him in the shape of plunder a whole cargo of the plans and purposes of the Omnipotent in the creation. I have not the least doubt, if he were respectfully approached and interro-gated upon the subject, ho would answer with the greatest ease and accuracy the fa mons question with which Dean Swift posed tin; theological tailor. The man who can tell us all about thc institution of the law gravity, how the inspired prophet thought and felt while writing his history, and who knows everything respecting "affinity and attraction when they were in Creation's womb," could not hesitate a moment to measure an arch-angel for a pair of breeches. But I was talking o i funerals.

A friend once tissured me that the heartiest laugh of which he was ever guilty on a sol-emn occasion occurred at a funeral. A trusty Irish servant who had lived with Ijihn for many years, and for whom he had great af-fection, died suddenly a t his house. As he was attending the funeral in the Catholic burial-place, and stood with his wife and children listening to the service which the priest was reading, his heart filled with grief and his eyes moist with tears, thc inscription

vainly endeavoring to keep the boys away from the edge of the grave, seized suddenly the rope with which the coffin had just been lowered down, and, stooping forward, laid it like a whip-lash, " cut! " across the shins of a dozen youngsters, making them leap with " O h ! oh! oh! " a foot from the ground,and scatter in short order.—" 'looking for the' "

(turning t<> mv friend, as lie witnessed the successful exploit of his favorite sexton, aud whispering iu bis ear.) " I'ooke made r,„ hop thai time, didn t he? 'general resurrection in the last day, nnd the life of the world to

Dooke's mode of dispersing the boys, and tho officiating clergyman's comment upon it. parenthesized into the middle of the most solemn sentence of the burial service, were too much for the usual stern gravity of my •lcrical friend, and, under the pretense of

shedding tears, he buried his face m his hand-kerchief and his handkerchief in his hat and shook with laughter.

Speaking of funerals, reminds me of aeon genial subject. Nothing in New York aston-ishes visitors from the country so ranch ns the magnificent coffin-shops, rivaling, in the ostentatious and tempting display of their wares, the most elegant stores on Broadway Model coffins, of the latest style and pattern are set up on end in long rows and protected by splendid show-cases, with the lids remov-ed to exhibit their rich satin lining, r amy coffins, decorated with glittering ornaments, are placed seductively in bright plate-glass windows, and put out for baiting advertise-ments upon the sidewalks : as much as to say, " Walk in, walk in, ladies and gentle-men! Nows your chance! here's your line, nice coffins!' —while in ornamental letters upon extensive placards hung about the doors. " I K O N COFFINS," "ROSEWOOD C O F F I N S , " " A I R -TIGHT COFFINS , " MAUOO ANY COFFINS . " " P A T -ENT SARCOHIAOI," address the eyes and ap-peal to thc purses of thc passers-by. And I saw in 'one of these places, the other day, painted on glass and inclosed in an elegant gilt frame. " ICK COFFINS," which struck me as queer enough. As though it were not suf-ficently cool to be dead.

It seems to me, that, in this matter, the undertakers, digging a little to deep below

highest at another time would have caused no more than a smile, struck him us irresistibly funny and drove in a moment every trace of sad-ness from his face and sorrow from his heart —to give place to violent emotionsof another

fill the air, ami the place which was and deserted this morning is now as noisy .

w S w as the metropolis yonder. And on a gravestone just before him happened to arrive thick and fast the fune- attract his attention. It was tins : " (Hon.,

S t r a i n s Many of the black-plumed hearses j iu Excelsis Deo! Patrick Donahoe died July are followed by onlv a single hired coach or 12, 1 8 - . " Now the cxchimation-p..intafter omnibus others by long trails of splendid " Deo ' and the statement of the fact of Mr. en linages On the broad slope of a bill, whither D.'sdemise following immediately thereafter the Greater number of the procession move, made the epitaph to read. "Glory to God in entirely destitute of trees and flooded with the highest! Patrick is dead." This, which sunshine, many thousand graves, mostly un-marked by headstones, lie close together, re-sembling in appearance a corn-field which has been permitted to run to grass unplowed. Standing upon an elevated point near the summit and looking down those acres of ( nature, which his utmost exertions could not hillocks to where the busy laborers are en- conceal. gaged in putting bodies into the ground, cov- [ " I beg your pardon ! I ve been afloat, ering them with earth, and rounding the soil was thc graceful parenthetical apology which over them, one is perhaps struck for the first a distinguished naval officer used to make, time with 'the full force, beauty, and mean-ing. of the language of Paul in his first first letter to the Corinthians -.—"That which thou sowest is not that body which shall be, but bare grain. I t [the human body] is sown in corruption, is sown in dishonor, is sown in weakness. It is sown a natural body; it is raised [or springs up, to complete the figure] a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot in-herit the kingdom of heaven. " I once heard a distinguished botanist dispute thc accuracy

when by mistake he let drop one of " those big words which lie a t the bottom of the best man's vocabulary," in conversation with sen-sitive persons whose ears he feared it might offend. I ought possibly at the end of the following anecdote, to make some such ex-cuse to the scrupulous reader, whose notions of propriety it will perhaps slightly infringe: " I beg your pardon! I couldn't help tell-ing i t . " ] '

An eminent divine once described to me a of this simile, inasmuch, he said, as the seed, scene he witnessed at a funeral, which he when it is sown in the ground, does not die, but in fact then first begins to live and to dis-play the vital force which was previously asleep in i t ; while the human body decays and is resolved into its primitive gaseous, mineral, and vegetable elements, the parti-cles of which, disseminated everywhere, and transferred through chemical affinities into other and new organisms, lose all traces of their former connection. In answer to such a finical criticism as this, intended to invali-date the authority of the great Apostolic Theologian, I replied, that Paul was not an inspired botanist—in fact, that he probably knew nothing whatever about botany as a science—but an inspired religious teacher, who employed the language of his people and the measure of knowledge to which his age had atuiined, to expound to his contempora-ries the principles of his Master's religion. I am not familiar with tlie nicer points of strict theological orthodoxy, but, from modem ser-mons und commentaries, I should infer that few doctors of even the most straitest school of divinity hold to the doctrine of verbal in-spiration. That the Prophets and Apostles were acquainted with botany, chemistry, geology, or any other modern science, is a notion as unfounded in truth as it is hostile and foreign to the object and purpose of Rev-elation. which is strictly confined to religion and ethics. Those persons, therefore, (and they a rea numerous class,) who resort to the Bible, assuming that it professes to be an in-spired manual of universal knowledge, and then, because they find in its figurative Ori-ental phraseology, or in its metaphors and il-lustrations, some inaccuracies of expression or misstatements of scientific facts, would throw discredit upon tb- essential religious dogmas and doctrines which it is its object to state and unfold, are, to say the least, ex-tremely disingenuous, if not deficient iu un-derstanding.

said nearly caused him to expire with —well, you shall see. An intimate acquaintance of his. who belonged to a neighboring parish, having died, he was naturally induced to as-sist a t the burial-service. The rector of this parish was a man who, though sensitive in tbe extreme to the absurdities of others-being, in fact, a regular son of Momus was entirely unconscious of his own amusing eccentricities. Among these, numerous and singular, he had the habit of suddenly stop-ping in the middle of asentence, while preach-ing, and calling out to the sexton, across the church, " Dooke, turn on more ga»! " or " Dooke, shut that window ! " or " Dooke, do"—something else which was pretty sure to be wanting itself done during the delivery of his discourse. Nearly every Sunday, strangers not acquainted with his ways, were startled out of their propriety by some such unexpected behavior.

On the occasion referred to, the funeral procession having entered thc church-yard, and my informant and the officiating clergy-man having taken their places a t the head ol the grave, the undertaker and his assistants having removed the coffin from the hearse, and the mourners, of whom there was a large crowd, having gathered into a circular au-dience, thc Reverend Doctor began the service. " 'Man that is born of a woman'-Oh, stop those carriages! don ' t you see where they are going to ! " (he suddenly broke out, rushing from the place where lie stood, fran-tically, among the bystanders ; aud then re-turning to his former position, continued,) — " 'hath but a short tiuie to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up '—Oh, don't let that coffin down yet! wait till I tell you to ," (addressed to the undertaker, who was antic-ipating the proper place in the service.) " ' a n d is cut down like a flower : he fieeth as it were a shadow,—Please to hold the um-brella a little further ovor my head,'" (sotto

if a gloomy wood, when he was suddenly startled by a strange noise a abort distance "rom the road. Turning bis head, alarmed, n the direction whence it proceeded, he was

horror-struck at seeing through the darkness a white object on the ground, struggling ns if in the grasp of some terrible monster. In-stantly the l.lood froze in veius ; he stood petrified—the bowlings of the wind, clank-ing of chains, and groans of agony, filling bis ears with his eyes fixed in terror upon the white shape rolling and plunging and writhing among the tombs. Attempting to run, his feet refused to move, and he swoon-ed and fell senseless in the road. A party of travelers, happening shortly to pass, stumb-led over his body. Raising him upon his feet, they succeeded by vigorous shakes in restor-ing him to a state of consciousness. While explaining to them the cause of his fright, the noise was renewed. Thc men. although somewhat alarmed, clubl>ed their individual courage, climbed the wall, and found—nearly in the center of the graveyard—an old white horse thrown down by his fetters and strug gling violently to regain his feet.

B assured me, the explanation of thc spectacle instinctively occurring to his mind at the moment as indubitable was that some reprobate had just been buried there, and that the Devil, coming for liis bodv, was en-gaged in binding his unwilling limbs, prepar-atory to Carrying him away !

The reader may smile a t the weakness and folly displayed in this case, but the assertion may nevertheless be safely ventured, that there is not one person in a hundred who would not under the same circumstances have been greatly disturbed, or would have invent-ed a much less frightfully absurd solution of the phenomenon than poor P. 's.

1 think thc singular feelings associated with graveyard darkness, which the wisest and bravest of men find slumbering beneath all their courage and philosophy, would be found upon investigation to proceed princi-pally from two sources—a constitutional in-clination to religious superstition, and an ac-quired educational belief iu the reality of the dreams and fancies of poets, mingled, of course, with some natural cowardice.

The dryest and hardest men liave more

pect. Indeed, if we could take our individ ual or collective culture to picct-B and award to each separate influence its due and just share of results, I should not be surprised at finding that the poet had done more iu the way of fashioning our education than the scientist or any other teachcr. Milton, to give but a single example, with his specula-tions concerning the Full -its effects upon

the surface of the present age. have thrown p'-etry in them than they or we begin to stis-out some of the mystical and grotesque re-1"""* jjggg|g g -mains of a very antique religious faith, which looks as singular just now to the eyes of com-mon people as would an Egyptian temple with its sacred Apex in Broadway, or a Sphinx on Boston Common. To the eyes of an old Egyptian, no object could be more grateful than thc sarcophagus in which he was to re-pose at death. lie purchased it as early in life as he could raise the means, and displayed it in his parlor as an attractive and costly or-nament. Indeed, I do not know but it was useful as well, and thc children kept their playthings in it, or the young ladies their knitting-work and embroidery.

Are we not, in this class of our tastes ami feelings, becoming rapidly Egyptianized ? Why, 1 expect in a year or two to see cofiins introduced into the parlors of the Fif th Av-enue, and to find them, when their owners fail or absquatulate, advertised for salt; a t auction, with the rest of the household fur-niture, a t a great sacrilicc on the origninal cost.

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subject a jeriori credible to the reason and judgment, would be received as satisfactory and decisive without a moment 's hesitation. In truth, with all the light which science is able to shed upon it, and all the resolute shutting of the eyes at points which no eluci-dating theory is available to explain, there are facts in this department of su pel natural-ism which stagger the unbelief of the Btout-est skeptic.

It is constantly urged, nraong other objec-tions to the credibility of supernatural appa-ritions, that thc names of the witnesses have inguhirly and suspiciously disappeared—that

you find them, upon investigation, substan-tiated thus : A very worthy gentleman told mother very worthy gentleman, who told a very intelligent lady,who told somebody else, who told the individual who finally commu-nicated the incident to the world. There are, however, as just intimated, instances in which such ambiguity is altogether wanting. Among these is one so well authenticated by well-known witnesses of undoubted veracity, that, having never before been published, I venture to relate it here.

My informant was Professor Tholuck, cf Halle University, the mos t eminent living theologian iu Germany, and the principal ccclesiarch of the Prussian Church, lie pre-faced the account by assuring me that it was received from the lips of De Wette himself, immediately after the occurrence—that De Wette was an intimate personal friend,a plain, practical man, of remarkably clear and vigor-ous intellect, with no more poetry and imagi-nation in his nature than just sufficient to keep him alive—in a word, that he would rely upon his coolness of judgment and accu-racy of observation, under any possible com-bination of circumstances, as confidently as upon those of any man in the world.

Dr. De Wette. the famous German Biblical critic, returning home one evening between nine and ten o'clock, was surprised, upon ar-riving opposite the house in which he resided, to see a bright light burning in his study. In fact, he was rather more than surprised ; for he distinctly remembered to have extinguished the candles when he went out, an hour or two previously, locked the door, and put the key in his pocket, which, upon feeling for it, was still there. Pausing a moment to won-der by what means and for what purpose any one could have entered the room, he perceived the shadow of a person apparently occupied about something in a remote corner. Sup-posing it to be a burglar employed in rilling his t runk, he was upon the point of alarming the police, when tlie man advanced to the window, into full view, as if for the purpose of looking out into the street. It was De

humanity, the brute creation, and physical Wette hims-/f!- the scholar, author, professor nature—and his imaginary conflicts between —his hight, size, figure, stoop—'his head, the hostile armies of heaven, and his celes-1 his lace, his features, eyes, mouth, nose,' tial and Satanic personifications, lias had so chin, every one—skull-cap, study-gown,neck -much influence in Anglo-Saxon culture, that tie, all, everything; there was no mistaking nine-tenths of the people believe, without I him, no deception whatever: there stood Dr. knowing it. as firmly in " Paradise L o s t " as De Wette in his own library, and he out in in the text of the Bible. The Governor of I the street:—why, he must be somebody else! Texas, citing in his proclamation a familiar Thc Doctor instinctively grasped his body with passage in Shakspeare as emanating from the inspired pen of the Psalmist, is not to so great extent an example of ignorance as an illus-tration of the lofty peerage instinctively as-signed the great dramatist in the ordinary associations of our thoughts.

his hands, and tried himself with the psycho-logical tests of self-consciousuess and identi-ty, doubtful if he could believe his senses and black were not white, that he longer existed his former self, and stood, perplexed, bewil-dered, aud confounded, gazing at his other

This faith in the visionary world of poets i.s likeness looking out oi' the window. Upon instilled into us (and it is for this reason that the person's retiring from the window, which

„ , . . r . . . . l iving 1 II I I lit I u v u i III > l ie i lU. ' Wtlt, But a much more prolific source of injury , u, the man who was endeavoring to pro the character of the Bible than that nisi 0—1 1.;.. 1. .. 1 . , . to the character of the Bible than that just

mentioned is the injudicious and impertinent labors of many who volunteer in its defense. "Oh, save me from my friends ! " might the Prophets and Apostles, each and all, too often exclaim of their supporters. I t js said that all men arc insane upon some point ; so are classes and communities. Tho popular mon-omania which at present prevails among a class of persons whose zeal surpasses their

tect his head from the sun. I -" 'and never continueth iu one stay,'—Hold the umbrella a little higher, will you?" (sotto voce again to the man holding the umbrella.) " 'In the msdstof life we arc in death. -S tand down from there, boys, and be quiet! " (addressed to some urchins who were crowding and push-ing one another about the grave, in their ef-forts to look at the coffin.) At length he had proceeded without further interruptions as 111 r nt 11. •.. . . .. ' prudence and knowledge, is a foolish fearand far as the sentence, " 'We therefore commit

trembling lest the tendencies of science should his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes result iu the overthrow of the Bible. Phey to ashes, dust to dus t ; " when Dooke the seem, somehow, to be fully persuaded that thc | sexton, a queer, impetuous fellow, w ho wus

And then tlie fashion will become popular with the less aristocratic portion of commu-nity, and you will see crowds of servant-girls and street loungers around the windows of our magnificent coffin bazaars, and hear from them such exclamations 11s these : ' ' Oh ! do look here, Matilda! Wouldn' t 3*011 like to have such a nice coffin as that ? " or, " W h a t a dear, sweet socophagus that one is there ! " or, " F a i t h , I should like to own that air-t i g h t ! "

But the day is now far advanced. Tlie fu-neral processions have ceased to arrive, and the husbandmen, having sown the immortal seed furnished by the metropolis, with shov-els and empty dinner-pails are on their way, whistling aud talking in groups, homeward. The number of loungers ami sight-seers is rapidly diminishing as the light in the more thickly shaded walks becomes dim, and thc clock at the gateway indicates the near ap-proach of the hour when the portals will be closed.

- Alone with the dead! Alone in thc night among tombs and graves ! How many readers do no t at thc sight of these word's feel an involuntary soupcon of a shudder ? Would not the cause of this indefinable se-cret dread of the darkness which covers a graveyard be a curious matter of inquiry .' Let one ever so cultivated and skeptical, fa-miliar as a physician or a soldier with the spectacle of death, ever so full of mental and physical courage, passing alone late at night through a graveyard, hear thc least sound among the graves, or see a moving ob-ject of any kind, especially a white one. and he will instantly feel an ulloverishness foreigu to ordinary experience, and I will not answer for him that his hair does not stand on end and his flesh grow rough as a nutmeg grater. A company of three or four persons would feel far less disturbed. This proves the emo-tion to be genuine fear. And with this re-cognized as a fact, ask the question. Of what are you afraid ? What makes your feet stick to the ground so fast, or inspires you to take to your legs and run for your life? A " r i -diculous, foolish superstition," reason an-swers.

1 do not intend by this to intimate that you, reader, bold and courageous person that I know you to be, would not dure to go through a graveyard at night. By no means. I only predicate the; existence within you of this ridiculous, foolish superstition, aud main-tain that you would do'so under all circum-stances with peculiar feelings w hich you did not possess before you entered it ami which you will not possess as soon as you have left it, and under certain circumstances with a trembling of the nerves and a pulpitation of the heart, and that the occasion miyht occur when you would be still more strongly and strangely affected. To illustrate the latter case I have an anecdote a-propos.

A college class-mate, (Poor B ! the shadows of the Pyramids now fall upon his early grave !) a young man easily agitated, to be sure, and possibly timid, 011 his way home, lute one autumn night, from thc house of a relative in the country, was hurrying past a dismal old buryiug-yard in the midst

Rousseau, in his masterly work on education, the "Eini le ," reprobates the custom as pro-motive of superstition! in early infancy by our parents and nurses with their stories of nymphs, fairies, elves, dwarfs, giants, witch-es, hobgoblins, and the like fabulous beings, and, as soon as we are able to read, by the tales of genii, sorcerers, demons, ghouls, enchanted caves and castles, and monsters and mon-strosities of every name. The exceedingly impressible and poetical nature of children (for all children are poets and talk poetry as soon as they can lispi appropriates and absorbs with intense relish these fanciful myths, and

occurred in a few moments, De Wette resolved not to dispute the possession of his study with the other Doctor before morning, and ringing at the door of a house opposite, where an ac-quaintance resided, he asked permission to remain .over lught.

The chamber occupied by him commanded a full view of the interior of his library, and from the window he could see Ids other self engaged in study and meditation, now walk-ing up and down the room, immersed iu thought, now sitting down at the desk to write, now rising to search for a volume among the book-shelves, and imitating in all

for years they believe more firmly in their respects the peculiar habits of the great Doc-truth than in the realities of thc actual world, tor engaged at work and busy with cogita-And 1 more than suspect that tliis child- tions. At length, when the cathedral clock credulity rather s lubbers in the grown man, 1 had finished striking through first four and smothered beneath superimposed skepticisms then eleven strokes, as German clocks ar and cognitions, than is ever eradicated f rom his mind, and thus, upon the shock of an emergency disturbing him suddenly to the foundation, is ready to burst up through the crevices of his shattered practical experience

wont to do an hour before twelve, De Wette Number Two manifested signs of retiring to rest—took out his watch, the identical large gold one the other Doctor in the other cham-ber felt sure WJIS at that moment safe in his

and appear on tho surface of his judgment waistcoat-pocket, and wound it up, removed and understanding. a portion of his clothing, came to the window,

In addition, then, to an instinctive ten- closed the curtains, and in a few moments dency to religious superstition, (of which I the light disappeared. De Wette Number shall here say nothing,) to the fairy mythol- One, waiting a little time until convinced ogy of the nursery, and the phantom 111a- that Number Two had disposed himself to chinery invented by poets to clothe with the sleep, retired also his-self to bed, wondering semblance of reality their dreams and fancies, very much w hat all this could mean. can be traced in a great measure the existence in the mind of the credulity which renders the fear of the question possible, opening an in-troduction for it into the heart excited by in-explicable phenomena or circumstanced where such phenomena might, according to our su-perstitious beliefs, easily occur.

llising thc next morning, he crossed the street, and passed up-stairs to his library. The door was fastened ; lie applied the key, opened it, and entered. No one was there : everything appeared in precisely thc same con-dition in which he had left it the evening before —his pen lying upon the paper as he had drop-

Without entering into au analysis of thc ped it on going out, the candles 011 the table aud /ear itself, beyond the remark that any extra- , tbe mantel-piece evidently not having been ordinary sight or sound not immediately ex- lighted, the window-curtains drawn aside as he plicablc by t he eye or ear to the understand- had left them ; in line, there was not a single ing (as a steamboat to the Indians or a comet trace of any person's having been in the to our ancestors,) is a legitimate cause of the room. " Had he been insane the night be-eiuotion, as well as the possibility of the occur- fore? He must have been. He was growing rence of such sights and sounds, for believ- old ; something was tin- matter with his eyes ing which we have seen man prepared, first by natural superstitious inclination, and sec-ondly by a peculiar education,—l will only further add, for the purpose of a brief intro-duction to an anecdote I wish to relate, tha t there is another fountain of knowledge, from which we drink at a later period than child-hood, as well as then, whose waters arc-strongly impregnated with this superstitious, fear-provoking credulity : 1 mean the stories of yhosts which have been seen and heard in all ages and countries, revealing important secrets, pointing out the places where mur-der has been Committed or treasure concealed, foretelling deaths and calamities, and fore-warning men of impending dangers. Hun-dreds of books familiar to all have been writ-ten upon this subject and form an extensive department oi' our literature, especially of our older literature.

The philosopher attempts to account for such phenomena by referring them to optical illusions or a disordered condition of the brain, making them subjective semblances instead of objective realities. Butone iscontinually being puzzled and perplexed with evidence contra-dicting this hypothesis, which, upon any other

or brain ; anyhow, he had beeu deceived, and it was very foolish of him to have remained away all n ight . " Endeavoring to satisfy his mind with such reflections us these, he re-membered he had not yet examined his bed-room. Almost ashamed to make the scorch, now convinced it was all an hallucination of the senses, he crossed the narrow passage-way aud opened the door. He was thunder-struck. The ceiling, a lofty, massive brick arch, had fallen during the night, filling the room with rubbish and crushing his bed into atoms. De Wette the Apparition, had saved the life of the great German scholar.

Tholuck, who was walking with me in the fields near Halle when relating the anecdote, added, upon concluding, " I do not pretend to account for the phenomenon : no know-ledge, scientific or metaphysical, iu my pos-session, is adequate to explain it . but f have no more doubt it actually, positively, literally did occur, than I have of the existence of the sun im Uiminel da."

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P R I C E R E D U C E D .

THE PRESENT AGE AND INKER LIFE. B Y A . J . D A V I S .

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THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE. Being a Philosophical Exposition of the Origin, Un-

fotdings. and Ultimate of Creation. UT AND Til ROUGH

R . P . A M B L E R .

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"FIFTY DROP MAGNETIC MACHINE." WONDERFUL IMPROVEMENT IN MAGNETIC MACHINES.

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ON AND A F T E R MONDAY, A P R I L 30. 1860. T r a m s on the

HUDSON R I V E R R A I L R O A D . TO A N D FROM N E W YORK, ALBANY. TROY.

AND P L A C E S N O R T H AND WEST, will run ns follows, Sundays e x c e p t e d :

Leave 31st s t ree t 3.20 A. M.—News Express and Pas -senger t ra in , s t opp ing a t Peekskil l , Poughkeeps i e . Rhinebeck, Oakhill . ami s t a t ions Nor th , connec t ing a t Albany with ear ly Tra ins to Buffalo and Suspens ion Bridge, and a t T r o y with t ra ins to Rut land , Sa ra toga , and Montreal . Reach ing Albany a t 7.25 A. M.

Leave C h a m b e r s s t ree t , 'i.00 A. M.—Way Maii a n d W a y Passenge r T r a i n to Albany, ca r ry ing w a y freight nor th of Poughkeeps ie , s topping at all s t a t i ons ' no r th of M a n h a t t a n , niul r each ing Albany at 2.40 P. M.

• | g [ ' ind T r o f l | B | p H , Poughkeeps ie ,

Gerrnnntown, Oakhill, ami Hudson , connec t ing a t Albany with Wes te rn Tra ins for Buffalo and Suspension Bridge, :>nd at Troy with t ra ins for Rut land. Burl ington, and Mont rea l ; a r r i v i n g in Albanv „t 11.55 A. M.

BST W a v pas senge r s for p o i n t * nor th of Peekski l l m a y leave N. w York on th is t ra in , and m Peekskil l lake w a y t ra in going North, s a p p i n g at all s ta t ions .

9.45 A, M. Way Passenge r Train lor Sing Sing, s top-ping at all s ta t ions .

11 .00 A- M. E x p r e s s Tra in for Albany and Trov, s top-

eonneci ing at Albany wilh train for Biillalo Su* pension Bridge, and at Troy with t ra ins for Sa r a toga . Rut land, and Mont rea l ; a r r iv ing in Albany at 4.35 P. M.

1.15 P. M. Poughkeeps ie Way, Freight , and Passen-ger Tra in s topp ing at ail s ta t ions .

3.20 P. M. Poughkeeps ie Exp re s s Tra in , s topping at Yonkers . T a r r j town, Sing Sing, Crugers , Peekski l l , Gar r i son ' s . Cold Spr ing, Flshkill. and all s t a t i ons no r th .

:>.35 1'. M. Tnr r ) to» n Express Train s t i m p i n g a t 162d s t reot . Tubby Hook, Rivordaie , Yonkers , Has t ings , and s ta t ions nor th .

4.15 P. M. Sing Sing Way P a s s e n g e r t ra in, s topp ing

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H O T W A T E R m i l K N A C K ,

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H i t C 'u i t a I S t r e e t , N e w Y o r k , T h r e e doors e a s t of Broadway

Machine is incroasod in power ten-fold, reducible also to a m i n i m u m p o w e r for

E X T R A C T I N G T E E T H W I T H O U T P A I N . The Zincs novor requ i re c leaning. Expenso of run-

ning it. one cen t a week . Wi th full d i rec t ions for i ts medical uso. aud for e x t r a c t i n g t ee th wi thou t pa in .

P R I C E $13.

.Stuyvesant, and to land Now l ork pns songe r sa burg, connec t ing nt Albany with night express t ra in for Buffalo, Suspension Bridge and Wes te rn l ines, and at Troy with Night Exp re s s t r a m for M o n t r e a l . a r r iv ing at Albany at 10.25 P. M.

f>.30 P. M. Peekskil l Pas senge r Tra in , s topp ing a t all

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I ) I t . S A M U E L B . S M I T H , : » » « C a n u I s r . , N e w Y o r k .

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T h e lot is 100 feet f ront , a n d 110 foot deep , is well s tocked with choice f iu i t t rees , hushes , grapt- vines, Ac.

Tho H o u s e is a large two-s tory Octagon Co t t age , con t a in ing twelve good-sized rooms , b a s e m e n t k i tchen with d u m b wai te r , wa te r tank in the upper s tory , mar-ble basins, Ac . An oxcel lont woll at tho door.

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M R S . E . J . F R E N C H , Clairvoyant and Magnetic Physician.

Mo. 8 F o u r t h A v e . , M. Y .

P a t i e n t s examined , prescribed for, and trontod. Examina t ion with wr i t ten d iagnos is and proscrip-

tion Fivo Dollars. A l imited number of pa t i en t s enn be furnished plea-

san t r ooms and all tho c ' fall and winter mouths .

mifor ts of a home dur ing thc t f

Albany and 1 ing at Albany with ear ly t ra in lor Buffalo and Suspen-sion Bridge, and a t Troy wi th t ra ins for Montreal and in te rmo ia te points .

10.45 P . M. T a r r y t o w n Way Passenge r T r a m , stop-ping at nil x ta t ions north of Manha t t an .

On SUN DAYS the following t ra ins will I e run : The 9.20 P . M. Train from New York, and tho 4.45 A. M. and 5.05 P . M. T ra in s f r om Trov .

A. F. SMITH, Super in tendent . NEW YOKE, April 30, 1800.

N E W YORK AND E R I E RAILROAD-P A S S E N G E R T R A I N S W I L L LEAVE PIER FOOT

Ob D l ' A N E ST., AS FOLLOWS : Dunkirk Exp re s s M 7.00 A M , for Dunkirk. Buffalo,

Cananda igua , nnd in te rmedia te s tat ions.

Mail at S.15 A. M , for Dunkirk and intermediate s ta l i T h i s t ra in remains over night a t Elmira, and pro-0 e W a y . ' a t " u 5 T M % Middlotown, Newburgh. and . .aerinediHte s tat ions. f o r D u n k i r k . Ruf-

Th0 ,rui" on ^ ' " ^ ^ V MINOT General Super in tendent .

NATHAN ILL M A R f H , Receiver.

T II E II E Ii A L D O F P II O G R E S S . For the Herald of P r o g r a m .

Interesting Letter from Ste-phen Albro.

T H E S P I R I T O F D U . ( V R E M L ' S C I I A -P I X .

REMARKS EXPLANATORY.

BUFFALO, N . Y . , A u g u s t 7 , 1 8 6 0 .

FRIEND AND BROTHER DAVIS : I n y o u r v i s i t s and sojourns with us of Buffalo, did you ever m a k e t h e a c q u a i n t a n c e o f M r s . JOUN SWAIN ' She is a medium for spiri tual intercourse with minds incarnate : b u t she is more par t icular ly adapted to t h e heal ing labors of spirit phys i cinns. She is principally used for diagnoses and prescriptions, by thc spirit of Dr. Oyrcnius Chapin, who, up to 1838 or '3D, spent a long professional life in this city, and was general ly esteemed as ski l l ful in a high degree, and wor thy of all confidence.

Having been cognizant of all thc particu-lars of several eases of the renewed practice of t h i s old Buffalo physician, i t occurred to me tha t it would be well for those whose family physician he was, dur ing his ear th life, to know t h a t he has found it convenient to re-t u r n t o t h e scene of his former labors, aud renew his professional practice.

Hence I determined to report a few of t h e cases which would afford the most s t r ik ing evidence of ver i ty and identi ty. And I very much desired to have them published in some one of our local journals . This will account for the appeal to the Buffalo Press, preceding the case which I send you. If you should deem the appeal and report of sufficient gene-ral interest to give room for them in your columns, I know it will bo very g ra t i fy ing to our fr iends in this city, and will, iu all proba-bil i ty, be the means of mater ial ly aiding one who is as necessitous in circumstances as she is t ru th fu l and reliable in all the relat ions of life.

For myself , m y only apology for asking so much of you, is t ha t which the sailor made to t h e Lord, when he prayed for preservat ion iu a perilous s torm. "Grant my request this once," said Jack , " / o r thou knoicest I trouble thee but seldom." Tru ly and f ra te rna l ly th ine ,

S . ALBRO.

AN APPEAL TO THE PRESS.

To TOE BUFFALO FLDITORS : I have a few cases patched for Dr. Chapin , who, in a few m m of diagnosis and t r ea tmen t of diseases, by one utes, announced his presence by his usual who was. for many years, an esteemed and signal . Af t e r m e n t i o n i n g to h i m t h a t Dr. successful pract i t ioner of the heal ing ar t , in l l i nk lcy was present , he addressed h i m as t h e then village, and now city, of Buffalo, bu t follows : who passed to the second sphere of h u m a n " Wi th regard to t h e child, I have n o t been life some twenty or more years ago. These able to g ive i t as t h o r o u g h an examina t ion as cases I wish to report to the citizens of Buffa-11 could wish. I find g rea t debil i ty, which has lo , th rough the local press. Will you g r a n t me caused rachit is and hydrocephalus . I will t h e privilege? Mistake me no t—they are n o t give i t f u r t h e r not ice and say some th ing in cases which occurred in his practice d u r i n g regard to t r e a tmen t , if you wish. Bu t 1 h i s earth-l ife. They are of recent date , i n t h ink , f r o m wha t 1 can see, t h a t the frai l ye t his renewed practice as a spirit physician, beaut i fu l flower will soon be t ransp lan ted in to th rough a mor ta l medium. CYRENIUS CIIA- a more congenial so i l . " PIN is the physician referred to. MRS. JOHN Dr. H . expressed a desire to have h i m ex-SWAIN is the med ium t h r o u g h w h o m he now a m i n e f u r t h e r and give his s en t imen t s iu rela-practices in th is city a n d vicinity. t ion to t h e case. I then asked h i m w h e n we

My reasons for wishing to have them pub- should m e e t to hear his repor t ? H e said : lished in some one of t h e local journa l s are ' ' I could see bet ter if m y m e d i u m could be sevend, and as I th ink , cogent. I do n o t wish p r e s e n t . " I t was t hen a r ranged t h a t Mrs.

CASK NUMI1F.R ONE.

This is a case of a child now ten m o n t h s old. I t is an i n f a n t son of Dr. l l i nk lcy . of this citv. The complaint , as I had been in-formed, was water on the brain. In f r equen t conversat ions with Uie fa ther , I learned t h a t nei ther he nor any o ther physician whose counsel he had sought , had any hope t h a t i t could possiblv IKJ saved for more than a few weeks or months . I solicited h im to allow m e to call the a t t en t ion of Dr. Chapin t o t h e case, suggest ing that , as there was no hope of saving the ch i ld ' s life for any length of t ime, the exper iment could do no ha rm, even if no benefit resulted f rom it. As a last resort the fa ther consented, and I laid the case before the spir i t physician, as fo l lows: I wen t to Mrs. Swain 's and took a seat with h e r a t thc table. In a few minutes rapping commenced. An Ind iau spirit , who calls himself " J i m , " announced his presence. He is the Doctor ' s messenger. 1 asked J i m if the Doctor was present . He answered in the negat ive by a single rap. Will you call him ? I asked. He replied in the aff i rmative ; and in a few min-utes t h e Doctor gave his signal of five raps, s ignifying t h a t he was present and ready to respond. I then told h i m for wha t purpose I had scut for h im, and asked h im if he would go and examine the child. He replied by t h e fol lowing in te r roga tor ies :

How old is the child ? I answered, nine mon ths . How long has i t been sick ? I an-swered, since February . [I did n o t k n o w the fact t h a t i t was born wi th the disease.] W h a t nre the leading sym p toms ? I answered : i t has a large water b ladder on i ts head ; and 1 believe i t has had spasms. [ I t had never had spasms.]

Where a m I find i t ? I a n s w e r e d : on Cour t Street , near Main. I do n o t k n o w t h e number . Dr. H i n k l e y l ives and has his office on t h c second floor. His sign is the one near-est Main s t ree t . I t h e n asked h i m when I m i g h t in t roduce Dr . H . , t h e f a t h e r of t h e child, t o h im. He replied ; " I will tell you th is e v e n i n g . " I called aga in in t h e even-ing —the Doctor came—I asked when he would be ready for an in te rv iew wi th Dr. H i n k l e y ? He replied: " I will cntleavor t o give t h e resul t of m y examina t ion to -mor row e v e n i n g . "

Dr. I I . a n d I were t he re a t t h e t ime ap-pointed, and took seats a t t h c table wi th Mrs. Swain. T h e ready messenger was dis-

the idea to go abroad tha t we have no public jou rna l in this city conducted with sufficient in-dependence of spir i t to lay before i ts readers well au thent ica ted facts, going to p rove thc t ru th of a philosophy which is combated only by persons who refuse to inves t iga te i t . I wish i t published here, because th is city was t h e field in which t h a t eminent physician labored through a long professional life—because here are still l iving many citizens whose family phy-sician he was, ami who will be enabled to dis-cover, in the language and style of his commu-nications, t h a t which will be evidence, to thei r minds, tha t this is or is not , t h e same mind which was once familiar to t h e m in t h e sick chamber—because, if convinced of his iden-t i ty. such citizens will na tura l ly wish to avail themselves of his great ly increased pa tho-logical knowledge and his incomparably greater capability to search o u t the causes of disease in all the depar tments , fluids, fibers, and tissues of the human system, and to peer in to and detect t h e heal ing treasures of t h e mineral and vegetable kingdoms—because the medium through whom he examines and pre-scribes is here, ever ready to answer inter-rogatories touching alleged facts in re la t ion to cases reported, and to a t t end to all who desire to tes t the medical skill of the still l iving though long since departed Chapin ami because very few who have known Dr. 0 . , either personally or by reputa t ion, would ever see these reports, if published only in some dis tant journal .

Having given my reasons for wishing these repor ts to be published here a t home, 1 shall direct them to be presented to the four prin-cipal journals of the city, in the order of their

Swain should a t t e n d a t Dr. H i n k l e y ' s thc n e x t a f t e rnoon , a t or abou t five o 'c lock, and I was invi ted to be present . W e m e t according to a r r a n g e m e n t . T h e child, t h o u g h genera l ly somewhat restless and f r e t f u l , was ly ing awake when I ar r ived, on a lounge, be tween Mrs. Swain a n d i ts f a the r , a s qu ie t a n d smi l ing as if n o t h i n g t roubled i t ; and so i t remained for a t least half an h o u r whi ls t I was presen t . T h e n i t bccaine f r e t f u l and had to be r emoved ; a n d then i t was (as I suppose) t h a t t h e ex-amina t ion was concluded.

Having received th is evidence t h a t the ex-amina t ion was ended, we drew near to a table, a n d t h e invisible physician t h u s addressed t h e anx ious f a the r : " Well , Doctor , i t looks l ike a hopeless case ; st i l l t he r e is life, and while the re is l i fe t he re is hope . You k n o w t h e g rea t object , iu this compla in t , is to subdue the inf iamat ion aud to p romote absorpt ion of t h e se rum. Once in m y practice, while in ear th- l i fe , I had a very similar case, only t h e sac was n o t so large. I f o m e n t e d t h e head wi th a decoction of wormwood, mul len , and s t r a m o n i u m , with v inegar and water . Th i s I did once a day ; and a t n i g h t I had a poul t ice of slippery e lm applied. I t was a n experi-m e n t ; b u t i t proved effectual . I n two weeks the change was mos t as tonish ing . I do n o t say the same t r e a t m e n t would produce t h e same effect on this p a t i e n t ; b u t it can do no h a r m . I k n o w it would relieve i ts pain.

( S i g n e d ) C H A P I N .

This communica t ion , l ike all o thers made by th is spir i t , t h r o u g h Mrs. Swain, was made by means of raps and t h c a lphabe t .

Dr. H i n k l e y could n o t m a k e u p his m i n d to t ry the remedy suggested by Dr. Chapin

ages, in case of r e fusa l ; and if refused by all . till five or six days had elapsed : du r ing which I shal l send t hem, together with this appeal to the local press, where they will be pub-lished ; not allowing myself to enter tain the least h a r d feelings toward those who refuse : bu t I cannot promise to repress a feeling of deep regret for t h e enslaved condition of mind , which, a t this day, uses i ts negative-act ion, voice, and influence, to shu t ou t from t h e eyes of human i ty the opening dawn of a b r igh te r era. In conclusion of this appeal, 1 would Bay to any journa l i s t who may see fit t o g r a n t my request , t ha t I have no objections to crit icism, whe the r i t be by the conductors of the press, by the facul ty , or by any indi-vidual who may be t he reun to prompted . Nor do 1 care in what s tyle or in what Bpirit the reports are handled . Let the citizens of Buf-falo see them—th i s is all the favor I ask.

8th. Will the connect ion between the brain SELDKIV j I I V M . V will speak at Oswe ,1 » , » t T if he should live a few go. N. \ dur ing November , and will spend

and the sac be cu t off, if he snoiuu ^ ^ ^ ^ A t l t l r e 8 8 till Novcm-onths longer? r , , „ . fttolir her, Plato, O., dur ing November , care J . L . I read these questions to Dr. ( hapin , a t o m 1 V ) 0 , 0 t w •

first in terview af te r I received t h e m , a n d he P . L . W V D S W O R T H speaks in Quincv,

Mass., Sept. 2d and '.Mb ; P l y m o u t h , 10th, 23d, and :50th . Providence, du r ing Octol»er ; Williinantie, Conn. , Nov. 4 t h and 1 1 t h ; P u t n a m , Coon. , Nov. 18 and 25. Address a c c o r d i n g l y .

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said he would answer them a t his earliest con-licnce. Some two or three evenings there-

af ter , be answered them as follows : 1st. Tho l ining membrane of the sac is the

l u r ama te r , and cont inuous with t h a t mem-brane of thc bra in . .

2d. The re is s l ight effusion going on in t h e

3 d a n d 4 t h . I w o u l d n o t s a y t h e s a c c a n b e tapped with safety ; for the re is b u t the sinu 1-est thread t h a t holds the i m m o r t a l gem with-in t h e shat tered caskct. There is a f r iend of mine, however , who t h i n k s thc fluid could In-drawn off and some s t imula t ing fluid injected, which would cause adhesion of the walls of t h e sac, and so prevent any fu tu r e collection.

5 th . To fomen t t h c head, t ake of worm-wood 2 or... of mullen 2 oz., of s t r a m o n i u m 1

ami 1 would add, of hops 2 oz. Mix add vinegar and water make of these a s t r ong decoction by boiling wet c lo ths and apply warm th rough the day ; and a t n i g h t apply a poult ice of slippery e lm ba rk over t h e whole head, and remove before i t becomes dry .

6 th . The v i r tue lies in the combinat ion of the herbs .

7 th . T h e scull, where t h e sac is a t tached , is very th in and soft .

8 th . Wc canno t say w h a t change may take place, if he lives a few m o n t h s longer .

( S i g n e d . ) C H A P I N . Since receiving these answers , Dr. H . has

appl ied t h e prescribed remedies and found t hem all t h a t was promised in the i r pain-re-l ieving and sooth ing effect upon t h e afflict-ed babe ; b u t , l ike the prescribing physician, he has l i t t t l e or no hope t h a t a cure can be effected.

Fo r t h e accuracy of th is repor t , in all i ts par t iculars , I refer to Dr. H ink ley himself the f a the r of the child.

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R . P . A M B L E R will receive calls to lec turc a t t h e W e s t d u r i n g t h e fall or win te r , ad-dressed Lyons , Mich., care D. M. F o x .

M R S . E . A. K I N G S B U R Y will answer calls to lecture addressed 1328 Ca thar ine s t . , Phi ladelphia .

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G . U. S T U B B I N S will speak at Ann Arbor , Mich., every o ther Sunday du r ing the year , and iu places in t h a t v ic ini ty when called upon . .

M R S . S . L . C H A P P E L L . i n s p i r a t i o n a l speaker , will receive inv i ta t ions to lec ture in Central New Y o r k t h e coming s u m m e r . Ad-dress. Ph ien ix , N. Y.

interval he handed me t h e fo l lowing ques-tions, which he desired me to present to Dr. Chapin.

1st. Is thc l ining m e m b r a n e of t h e e x t e r n u l sac t h e same and con t inuous wi th thc mem-brane of t h e bra in f r o m which t h e effusion comes?

2d. If so, is effusion going on in t h c sac as well as in the c ran ium ?

3d. Can the sac be tapped a t any t ime, with safety ?

4 th . If so, under wha t c i rcumstances ? 6th. Can you give me specific direct ions for

foment ing the head ? 6th. Docs the v i r tue lie in one of those

herbs, or in the combinat ion of the three ? 7th. W h a t is the condit ion of the skull

where the sac is a t tached ?

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Th i s d i s t i ngu i shed W r i t i n g T e s t M e d i u m for an swer -ing sealed letters m a y be addres sed a t Che l sea , M a s s a -c h u s e t t s , Box 60. His fee is three dollars a n d f o u r pos t -a g e s t a m p s . P e r s o n s w i s luug h i s s e rv i ce s wil l p l ea se not w r i t e a n y supe r sc r ip t i on on the l e t t e r they des i r e tho sp i r i t s to a n s w e r , but sea l it so t h a t i t s a n n o t be d i s tu rbed or t a m p e r e d wi th w i t h o u t d e t e c t i o n . T h e a n s w e r a n d the sea led l e t t e r will be both p rompt ly for-w a r d e d to the w r i t e r . 27tf

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A. J . DAVIS «fc CO., 274 Cannl S t . , N e w York .

T H E P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E , No. 09 W e s t N i n e t e e n t h St . , N, w York , for pupi l s of b o t h sexes , will IKS reopened on Monday . S e p t e m l w r 3d. Two Uia rde r s can be a c c o m m o d a t e d in thc family of tho P r inc ipa l . 20-28 A. T . D E A N K .

TO T H E SICK W h o w o u l d In- c u r e d w i t h o u t M e d i c i n e .

Dr. IIUSSEV, of 222 G r e e n e S t r e e t , would r e c o m m e n d Dr. N. PAI.MKR for tho c u r e of Aeu te o r Chron i c Dis-enses. All who wish a power fu l M a g n e t i z e r at t he i r houses , call a s a b o v e . 22tf

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