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. The truth shall make you _/‘ree.—lJesus.

In the clays 0f\t]?/6 voice of the seventh angel, the
mystery of God shall be _ft'nishecl.—St. John the

I Divine.

Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un-
searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which
from the beyirmirty of the worlcl hath beerihial in

Goal.-—Pau1.,

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WHY I AM DISAPPOINTED.

Dear Weekly :—Shall I tell you and your readers, this bright
June morning, what “ my thought tells me ” concerning the
reason so many men with whom I comein contact, personally
and through the medium‘ of the pen, disappoint me? I hope
“ Veritas ” will not misjudge and call me a “ man-hater,” for
expressing my opinions candidly.

“ My thought tells me,” after putting this and that together,
that in nearly every instance, when I have been approached
directly or indirectly by one of the opposite sex, considering
me as a woman of avowed advocacyjof free principles, a per-
sonal motiye, based uponrwhat I call, in spite of my assertions
of its perfect purity in right conditions, the lowest plane of
human nature, has been the ruling motive‘ of said approach.

I have found to my regret that the cause of social freedom
was of secondary consideration with the most of its male
advocates, when indeed they were not basely using it as ' a
cover for self-indulgence of abnormal passions that would
never have had existence save for the curse that woman’s

. sexual bondage has entailed.

In short, I have found in too manyinstances that men are
seeking a mere physical afflnity when they talk so bravely of
the “good of the race,” and the “ elevation of human na-
ture ;" and that the woman so unwise as to take them at their
word, lays herself liable to both their privately and publicly
expressed contempt; for where was ever found a man consist-
ent enough to treat himself to the same bad opinion that he
bestows upon the woman who favors him under the rose?

Such is the grateful result of our “ wise” and “ sanctified ”
social regime. Now, such knowledge as the above is quite
enough to disgust me with the pretensions of men, even if
they would not persist in placing me on their own level, to
the effect that I, together with themselves, am seeking the
gratification of desires that, however much I may advocate
their pristine purity and the imminent need of elevating
the prevailing tone concerning them, I nevertheless, out of
my thought, feel constrained to place on the lowest

‘ plane of human nature, though only through their perfected

agency can immortal souls be evolved in perfectness.

However, I must aspire to the perfection of my thought
which tells me that when we become entirely refined in na-
ture and sentiment, even like unto the angels of God, there
will be spiritual realizations so superior to the grosser physi-
cal exhilarations that we can but regard the latter with feel-
ings of aversion, similar to what the brig.ht—Winged butter-
fly must feel, supposing it a sentient being, when it §contem-
plates the ugly state of the grub. -

And to arrive at that higher spiritualized state, where we
can experience the harmonies and the exstacies of pure
spiritual rapport, it seems to my thought that we must put
off the garment of the physical as though it were «but the
shell of a past lower stage of existence. What does the cat-
erpillariluxurating on a burdock care for the fragrance of a
rose? But let the catterpillar turn to a butterfly and a bur-
dock can lure it no more; no, not even if in all the garden
there breathes not a single fragrant blossom. The butterfly
starves and dies if it breaks its wing of freedom and is com-
pelled by social fiat to lie on the repulsive bosom of the un-
sightly burdock.

More women than men, my thought suggests, get a promo-
nition of the spiritual possibilities of their natures while yet

‘ the body holds the soul in durance. Hence the disgust that

springs up in the woman soul for the physical nature—a dis-
gust that is‘ but the legitimate result of ignorance and false
customs.

They know not how to analyze oroutilize their higher oa-
pacities for . spiritual contact with the opposite sex: and if
they did, where would the man be found so far emancipated

from the slavery to passion as to meet the emancipated wo-
man on that plane? ' x

Hence the everlasting conflict between men and women;
while their failure to meet each other in harmony causes all

the miseries of their perverted mateship.

A husband, for instance—-and here I’m going to speak plain
at the risk of shocking prudery and arousing pruriency in
vulgar minds—a husband never seems to arrive at that plane
where he can approach intercourse with his wife, unless he

comes in physical contact with her, and in such an obnox-

ious manner, too, as to doom her more and more to disap-

_ pointment and disgust, because her nature has gone higher

into the purer—no, not pu/rer, for both states are equally
pure in themselves——but more refined realms of her spirit
sphere, where it seems impossible for him to ascend with her.
She is doomed with broken wing to lie on the bosom of the
burdock, if she would keep “ chaste ” and “ virtuous ” in the

I estimation of a world in the grub‘-stage of its sexual exist-

ence.

If such a pair are candid with each other, what a foil they
are to each other! And if they are not candid, they but play
a miserable game ‘of cross-purposes, till utter estrangement
of the physical nature results in her case, and a maddening,
disappointing over-stimulation is the inevitable result in his.

And so men and women go on, neither analyzing nor seem-
ing to care to understand the diiference in sex; While those
in power continue to make "laws {for those in weakness to
abide by, whether or no; and those who meekly wear the
social harness and trot single or double “ according to law,”
based upon utterly false conceptions of nature, are unmind-
ful of their grand strength, even as the fettered horse in the
hands of a captious master.

Woman’s spiritual strength in this miserable sexual mud-
dle is inestimable. But in order for her to know it and use
it for the elevation of the race, she must take her body out
of sexual bondage; for, ”until she does that, body and soul
are dead in trespasses and sins.

But a saviour is at hand to stand by the open‘ grave of a
dead and decomposing womanhood and bid it arise and live!
And that saviour’s name is sexual freedom—a very Christ——-
which has come in this day and generation out of our social

Nazareth to die upon the cross of social ostracism for the re--

demption of the sexual sins of the world.

Manhood and womanhood are at loggerheads, because man
in power does not think it worth his while to ask himself a
question concerning the needs and capacities of woman, who,
under the yoke of man's dominion, asks not herself what are
her uses and abuses but submits to the iron rule of estab-
lished precedent, content if so her “lord and master” and
Mrs. Grundy think her “ a chaste woman” while she re-
mains a patient minister to her‘master’s demands.

But Christ is born—woman’s Christ-—and the end shall not
come till he has leavened the whole lump of debauched and
decaying womanhood with the living leaven of freedom; when
self-assertion shall take the place of quiescent submission,
and men shall in that day rise up, and, in spirit and in truth
out of a redeemed manhood, call woman blessed; and men
shall fall down and worship her as the pure vestal she will be,
not from suppression or sacrifice of nature, but from the
striking of sexual bonds from her soul and body, enabling
her to rise into the inspirational ‘spiritual of her diviner
capacities, and become indeed the mother of men.

Doubtless this sounds like idle or insane talk to all those

who abide, either from policy or ‘ignorance, in “ s/ocial sanc- -

tity,” diseased, debauched and dissatisfied, not} knowing
what ails them, and stoning the prophets in their blind zeal
to be considered eminently respectable among the degenerate
anointed.

Yet, is all this the outcoming of a soul that -never ceases to
question of causes from efl"ects, and to solve the mystery of
life—a soul that is neither yours nor mine, nor any one in-
dividual’s, but the eternal divine spirit of truth walking upon
the air, and upon the earth, and upon the sea; inhabiting all
the regions of space; evolving for ever order out of chaos to
the glory of God, which is ‘only to be_ seen and known and
felt in our highest conceptions of true manhood and woman-
nood—on1y to be known in manhood and womanhood per-
fected through sexual purity?

, Let no idle scoifer-and abider in otime-worn ruts, for no

other reason than that his fathers abode there, condemn

what he neither comprehends nor cares to understand.
HELEN Nssn.

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MATRIMONIAL SLAVERY.-—THE ESTIMATE OF A
CALIFORNIA WIFE. A I

The following unique card appeared in the San Jose (Gal.
Patriot:

“ All persons are hereby warned not to trust Mary E.
Aborns (my wife), as she has left my bed and board without
just cause or provocation, and I will not pay any bill con-
tracted by her from and after this date. _

“SAN J osn, February 6, 1875. JOHN ABonNs.”
"fMrs. Aborns then came to the front, and made the follow-
ing statement inreply to the above “ warning” by her non-
crediting liege lord:

“ The above notice now appears daily in the San Jose
Patriot. Why am I thus published to the world? And what “
human being on earth has the right to do it ? Let us look at
the facts. I have been the wife of John Aborns about ten
years, and lived with him during the whole of the time—the
prime of my life. That makes 3,650 days. During that time
I have cooked about 10,000 meals of victuals, set. the table as
many times, cleared it off and washed the dishes. During

those ten years I have spent between ten and fifteen thou-

sand hours over a red-hot cooking—stove, both in summer and
winter. I have cleared up and swept his house for him over
ten thousand times. During that ten years I have borne to
him six children, five of them now living, the youngest two
and a half years old. Besides the pains and anxieties in-
cident to child-birth (which every mother knows), what steps,

cares and troubles (to say nothing of sickness and anxious’

thoughts for my children) it has cost me to bring them up, it
is impossible for me to say; every mother knows it better
than she can possibly tell it. In addition to that I have made
all their clothing (besides my own), and during that time I
have made clothing and done sewing for others for money,
which went into the community funds; that is, as I under-
stand it, all the property made by the husband andwife is
community property, but in reality belongs to the husband,
and it is called in law “ community property,” to take 0E the
sharp edge of injustice. More than that, during those ten
years I have milked, on an average, three cows twice a day,
which will make about '7,000,_milkings, besides takin ,2’ care of
the milk and making butter from it. I‘ have, during the
whole of that time, attended to the poultry, and often have
assisted Mr. Aborns in loading hay, sewing sacks and even
cleaning out stables. Now, I have drawn the picture vrery
mildly. I have made allowance for my sickness, when I have
had help, something after the fashion that a farmer would
hire a horse if his own was sick and unable to work. I had
nothing when I went there, and have nothing at theend of
these ten years of servitude. I have lived, it is true, and was
moderately furnished with clothing. This is all for my labor.
What man is there in the world who would do the work that
I have done for the same compensation? I make this state-
ment not out of any feeling of revenge to Mr. Aborns, for he
has only done what hundreds of others have done. In many
respects he is a good man, industrious, and like hundreds-—
yea, thousands—honest with every one except his own family.
I choose to live with him no longer; my reasons are my own,
and I ask again what right has he to impair my credit by pub-
lishing me? In the name of all that is just I solemnly pro-
test against it. MARY E. ABORNS.

I

ETERNAL LIFE.
CHAPTER I.
BY MARY w. MOORE, M. D.

What words of mighty import! Do they come home to us
as an actuality, a possibility, an evolvement, that here and
now, with this sun shining, with theseevery-day realities all
about us, without descending to the grave through the valley
and shadow of death, we may begin to take on the immortal
conditions? ’

Coming events cast their shadows before them; yet these
are not shadows, except like the froe-shadows of morni_ng—-
they be shades of light. All along the horizon and on’ the
hill-tops these harbingers of a coming, a glad immortal day
are brightening. He that hath eyes to see let him see the
signs of the times. .

Philosophers, divines, scientists, each in their own way
and order, are bringing forward the threads of destiny. They
who teach of spirit and they who teach of matter are all,
however unconsciously, pointing their testimony t0W8?
the coming time. ‘Both spirit and matter they say are i’
structlble; forms, combinations only are changeful; P

  

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.Without the combination’ of these two they tell us’that
neither are visible or palpable——-no substance, no intelli-
gence. , .

Those who subscribe. to evolution and those who deny it
are each anxiously asking. “ What next ?.” Evolutionists are

looking for higher functional development, better physical
conditions; special creationists look to see man clothed upon
divinely, little lower than the angels. The two theories are
one, and the “ what; next?’ is an everlasting combination of
these great, forces—these mighty positive and negative reali-
ties--in the human existence, eternal and divine. -

All prophecy, inspiration, poetic effusion, tradition, belief,
the intuitions of our own spirit, point to a. yet-to-be, to a
something more grand and good and glorious than has yet
gladdened our mortal lives, to be made real some time in the
far away. — I

So many of us, in our earlier days, have felt and known by
our inner consciousness and outward reason that slavery
must sooner or later be _t11.6_occ_asi_on of a» civil war inthis
country. “ Not in our generation,” we said, but it came like
a thief in the night, or a tornado athwart a summer sky.

And this great fact ofeternal life is near us,-even at our
doors. Be ye also ready. Let us set the house of this earthly
tabernacle in order, for “one shall be taken and another
left.”

In lesser ways, I was going to say, but there are no lesser
or greater, higher or. lower, in nature; in other ways, then,
the foreshadowing and the preparing go on. Mankind are
looking more toward physical perfection, despising in their
own souls the impure, .glu.ttonous., beastly lives they.live, and
becoming conscious of a desire and a reverence for something
better, purer, more satisfactory. Great souls here and there
adown the ages, join hands with great souls now, as apostles
of the new dispensation. . . _ .-

Priesnitz, with his baptismof water, cleansing mountains
of impurities; and Sylvester Graham (all honored be his
name), with his Bread of Life, which shallbe for the healing

of the nations ; and many, many others have done and
are doing their work quietly and wisely, helping forward the

great physical redemption of the World. . w 

Sexual reform, -the stone which the builders rejected,

which is become the chief of the corner, and on which the

heavenly hosts are concentrating their powers to bring to its
place in the great temple of eternal truth and lightand life;

and love; .to this we bow with the homage of our lives,

ready to go as we are sent, to run as we are chosen in the
great work, or in other ways to help bring forward the purifi-
cation of these human tenements, which the gods of their
own kingly souls shall yet delight to honor.

The great -matter of this every—day living these human
lives of ours-this what to eat, what to drink, our breath,
oursleep, our rest, wherewithal we shall be clothed-—deeply
In other chapters this we will try to:con-
sider in the light and with the demands of the Eternal Life
pressing upon us. —

 ARE MILLIONS.

rWe are the bone «and sinew which produce the wealth and
prosperity of nations. We are the laborers in the earth’s
vineyards, tilling the land and treading the wine presses- We
gather treasures from the bowels of the earth and manufac-

' ture theminto-articles useful and ornamental. In fact we

do everything that requires labor; we are the body politic,

s and all that we now require is the brwm. .
Where does all the money come from that supplies our’

bankers and brokers and stock-jobbers with the means of
carrying‘ on their speculations and wholesale gambling oper-
ations? Where do our merchant princes, railway kings, aris-
tocratic pehsioners, and the majority of ofiflce-holders and
hangers-on that become immensely rich in a few years, get
their fortunes from? Where but from the toiling millions!
Can it be right? Can it be just that nine out of every ten
of the earth’s ‘population should be over—worked, over-taxed
and under-paid to keep the other one in luxurious idleness?
We are millions;_we are the producers; we already make
the-wealth; all that we have to do is to keep it in our _own

0 hands. If we have a little spare cash, we either throw it in-

to one of those bottomless pits, the names of which are re-
corded on the stock-list; or we put it in a bank for somebody
else to speculate with, and perhaps lose."

Why do we not conduct our own banking and commercial
institutions? It is estimated that in Boston there are
$535,000,000 belonging to the working classes, which are held
and used by the banks, all of which are run in the interests
of their owners. Banks should not be private institutions;
they should be owned and controlled by the people using
them. If a man. starts a dry-goods or a provision store, he
runs it in his own interest, and not in the interest of the
people supporting it. This is the cause of all the cheating,
lying and swindling which runs through every branch of
trade. The clerk or store-keeper who can edge in the most
lies in a given time is the smartest man, and commands the
highest salary. This system is simply offering a premium on
dishonesty. K ~

Why do we not have our own stores, our own factories, and
everything else that we want? We support governments,
railroads, banks, wholesale and retail businesses; we let
other men control them and get rich at our expense,_and we
quietly look on like children gazing at the moon. If the
working man who produces wealth wants to go across the
continent, he must go in an emigrant car; while a man who
merely handles the wealth the other produces can travel in
a sleeping coach. I ‘ .

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent this
year by trades’ unions to support men on strike. It was so
much money ‘lost. Strikes and lock-outs are suicidal to men
and masters. Production is, for the time being, -stopped;
the channels of industry get out of order; panic 's'eizes- the

‘ people, and the result is distress and suffering amongst the
' A working classes. Nothing is gained by strikes, even if they

are. successful, for the masters will be sure toiretaliate when
they get; the ghance; and, besides, they increase the cost of
living. , i

‘his drudgery while he spits hisitebacco juice for her to clean

and only a score of our free women on the rostrum (not pulpit)

-thatare :heralded,::with the: costly dresses an-drich presents,»

We have plenty of money when we are prepared to use it
wisely, We can,have our own stores where we can get what
we want without being swindled. We can start banks
where our savings can be utilized for our benefit, not that of
the managers merely. -B We can erect dwellings for use, not
merely for sale. We can have our own farms, and all the
laborers be shareholders; then the earth will bring forth her
bounties, and shower her blessings on all mankind. ’

These are not wild dreams; they are realities within our
reach when we are prepared, to grasp them. It is useless to i
cry over spilt milk. Begin now; organize, co-operate, and
the future will unfold itself as we goon. We must stand by
each other, and when we make a mistake, as we often shall,
rectify it at once. We have the experience of others to guide
us, and, we can avoid their mistakes. We want no charities,
no benevolent societies, no help-the—good-young-men associa-
tions, ifwe will but help ourselves. If we don’t help our-
selves we deserve to starve, and this is what it is coming to
if we don’t make a move. J. BALL.

WARREN CHASE TO HELEN NASH. ,
We are not all “ Veritas,” but as he is one of the few and I
am one of the many of your readers, you' need not spend
much breath nor waste much ink on him, for you have thou-
sands of unknown friends who speak your name with admi-
ration, glad, as I am glad, that our sisters Victoria and Ten-
nie have at"least1 one woman on their staff who is never
found “fighting shy,” and who will not wear, and does not
need, a “ blinder.” We have too many half andhalf social re-
formers who pretend to advocate woman’s rights, while they
do all they can —to.perpetuat.e her greatest wrongs which arise
from her slavery in the present marriage institution. They
dare not face Mrs._.Grund’y, and hence hold up the blinder to
hide their eyes from seeing the terrible evils of this institu-
tion that furnishes -more cases of -wickedness, zcrimefand
murder in our country daily, than ever chattel slaverygdid,
and of a worse-characters} Every neighborhood has its;”vic-
tims and itshorrors. and [no one need be. blind to them ;; and
he — or she who dares -‘not speak with tongue or - pen
against them is not worthy the name of reformer, but is a
coward. Lay» on your iconoclastic blows, myyoung sister.
You willfiud friends enough and laurels enough, long after
my tongue -is silent and my pen rusty; but while they can run
they will bless youfor the good you have done, and hope for
more, and for more like you. ‘I havethe pleasure of hearing
your name, with Victoria/s, used with praise every week, and
I never allow either to be abused in my hearing without its
stirring the blood in my old veins up to the battle heat of
our patriot sires. I wish we had a thousand more such
workers in the field. We would stir this old theological;hor-
nets’ nest till they let the prisoners free, while they, coming
out from their pulpits to blunttheir stings on our coats of
mail till they could sting no more, would return to ‘find
their victims gone. Full well I knew, years ago, when some
of the leaders in the woman’s rights cause joined with the
church and_acknowledged marriage as a holy institution,
that ‘it was the end bf their usefulness and the death of the
cause,. as far as they could cause it to die. It was this -that
ruined the suffrage cause in Michigan and elsewhere, and it
will cause us to be beaten, as the Union armies were, so long
as they attempted to put down the rebellion and save slavery.
It is the same principle and will have the same results.
When we all unite and fight for social freedom and perfect
equality of the sexes, we shall conquer, and not before. No
half-way house will do. Christianity twill die when
liberty triumphs, and then we shall have freedom and peace.
It was shameful cowardice, and a defeat, when the suffrage
cause backed under the theological shed for protection; and
a like action. caused the same defeat for the temperance
cause, and. the same again with spiritualism. It was the
sheltering wing of the Christian Church that protected slavery
while it lasted, and it is. the samehwing that protects the social
slavery of woman both in and out of marriage. She is the
slaveof the church as she is of her husband, and does its and

up. Man does the preaching and praying and preying,.while
she gets up the sociables and collections for him to spend, too
often in prostituting her sisters. Sixty thousand clergyman

to" combat their errors! Is it a wonder that some timid
souls should think youare too bold? "What if there are such?
plenty more say, “ Lay on, lay on, McDufi’,” till the men cry
“Hold, hold, enough.” It is hard but good for the clergy to
feel there are “ blows to take. as well as blows to give.” The
clouds are slowly-lifting in spite of the backsliding time-
servers that fire and fall back to get out of the way of the
enemies’ shots. I suppose all people, like all things and
creatures, have a use; but I should not like to be a louse nor
a spittoon for tobacco quids among the animals and things;
nor as a human being should I like to . be a, mental or
spiritualeunuch toadying for a popular Christianity that is

and let the grumblers grumble.

brought with it, for which there is on the woman’s part disap'
pointment, disgust and loathing with sorrow for life. no

remedy but P0P111fi1‘ diflgrace. Dip in your pen, sister,

MUTUAL BENEFIT UNION.
' UNION Farms, Busnxrnn, PIKE 00., Pa.
Dear Friends of Truth and Hwm.am'ty—Many thanks for
your kind, unsolicited notice of our community, which has
awakened an interest in the minds of many, from ocean to

‘ 0063.11.

The correspondence and inquiries being too numerous to
answer by letter, we are requested by many subscribers to.
the WEEKLY to give some more definite information through

your columns regarding our object and present condition.

We have sought to work silently; do not desire to attract
unripe, conflicting elements. We desire tried, efliicient 00-
workers; no drones will be tolerated; none but especially in-
vited visitors can be accommodated. All persons must first
join on probation, admitted to full membership if mutually
acceptable to all concerned. None but those possessing
either talent, capitalor the ability to labor, are considered
eligible to membership. _ ‘ '
Our supreme organic law is the mental constitution. We *
seek to perfect ourselves and others. Truth is our Savior,
divine love our bond of union.
with its three-fold bark, white, and heart, is joint stock, co-
operative, unitary. ’ '

In externals, like the rough bark or unpolished diamond; we
repel drones, parasites. curiosity-seekers and lawless adven-
turers; seek to blend with the working progressive element,
to concentrate the talent, capital and energy of true, worthy,
devoted minds; to found our community upon perfect equity,
to offer every possible «opportunity for the consistent growth
and employment of every faculty of body and mind. “

We have over 500 acres of fruitand meadow lands, well
adapted to the growth of vines and berries, for the breeding
and culture of trout, bees and poultry, hundreds of acres
gently sloping to the south, protected from the north, east _
and west winds by majestic pine clad hills, with an extended
view of Jersey in front, and the lofty range of Blue moun-
tains. We have fourteen splendid water falls, a series of
charming glens, grottoes, cataracts and cascades, with their
panorama of variegated rainbows; an unlimited number of
natural curiosities, a thousand inexhaustible water powers.

We are located nearly at right angles with New York and
Philadelphia, but a few hours’ ride from either city, fourteen
miles from the world-renowned Delaware Water Gap, three I
miles from the Delaware River, on the fork of the Little
Bushkill and Crystal Spring Rivers, one mile from Bushkill
village, which is a pleasant, thriving, Watering-place, with
several grist mills, saw mills, tanneries and factories, nu-
merous large handsome boarding houses. We have a two-
story and a half, double-framed house, acres of choice fruit,
vines and berries in bearing condition, abundance of
farming implements, carpenter-tools, wagons, buggies, etc.
We have any quantity of building material, good building
stone enough for walls, mill dams, artificial lakes, fish ponds,
roads, under drains and other improvements, plenty of pine
and some choice hemlock. lWe have an immense natural
park, alarge part of which we wish to keep in a. state of
nature for the, amusement and comfort of paying visitors
and curiosity seekers, that already throng our place in thou-
sands. This, together with thesale of views of our wonder- I
ful waterfalls and charming scenery will be a perpetual source
of constantly increasing revenue. — I

This property is free of all incumbrance. We donate and
hold it in trust, for the use and comfort of all acceptable
members of our Mutual Benefit Union, never to be incumber- T
ed by any possibility.- Every. person in the community will
be remunerated in stock, scholarships, scrip or labor notes,
exchangeable for the products of the community or any of
its disposable property. ,

The extent of our punishment is free criticism and expul-
esion. We ignore‘ allcreeds, superstitions, usages, fashions
and arbitrary laws ;' require every member in full fellowship
-to have no outside interest or secret policy, but give his un-
divided energy, talent and capital to the best interests of the
community. Those that can best serve its highest interests
are counted leaders and alone can occupy positions of trust I
and honor. We seekto adapt our theory of social life to the
wants of this progressive, utilitarian age. I

We believe God is love and wisdom, the soul of all things,
permeating every atom, animating -all nature.‘ The spirit of
truth is the Son of God, the only begotten and eternal saviour
of the world and prince of peace, the comforter, guide and
light that enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world
This Christ must come through woman, the angel redeemer
of earth, in this millennial age of universal judgment. She
must be guided by her intuitions, instincts and inspirations,
live the truth, redeem the race. Our community is organized
in her behalf; to encourage and help her tofind andfill her

0fl1Y P.0P111aI'.iI1 3 human f1'0g-P0115» that is 130 the race as the utruelsphere. :All~true women everywhere shall ever find rest "

frog-pond is to the great lakes, with preachers that are to the
great philosophers as the frogs are to thefishes.

Never in our history has there been such a time of need
for brave and true women to ‘come to the front, and help the
sex out of its slavery. Thousands would be glad to speak
words of encouragement, but dare’ not, as they areas com-
plete slaves as ever were the negroes on a plantation, and,
like them, they defend the institution through fear of its
power. Every -week,-. sometimes every -day, adds to my list
new instances of social and. domestic tyranny, by letter. or
personal observation, till my.heart is shockediat the enormity
and the magnitude ref the social evil in marriage. I have-.
been ableto learngthat infimany of. the great -wedding feasts

through—the=press, iswthe-I beginning of misery that: scarcely
waits for; the guests to get soberand rested ;/that the misery
begins in the holy bonds of wedlock that were cemented a
few hours before by one or two distinguished clergymen, at
great cost, and between parties that knewnothing» of each
others sexual adaptation, and when they did the knowledge

and protection here; We bclievewoman must be free, con-
trol her person, bepermitted to choose her intimateassociates,
free to follow the highest light her soul can see. ‘

We have laid the foundation, free from all encumbrance, in ’
tangible realities for the. development of the germ of true
communism, as we hope.and«verily»believe. It is now passing
through its first stage of. gestative or pre-natal life. We seek
to read the book of life and experience aright; to be true to
ourselves and race. . _ G . r

We believe your wonder working WEEKLY is the most ’
progressive living oracle of advanced thought, in. a dying
world, the forerunner, seer and prophetess of that stone cut '
out .of the. mountain, iwithouuhands, which is the rock of
eternal principles and immutable truth,which-is=destined to
fill the=w_hole earth.’ You have kindled- the: fire that is burn-
ingto the lowest hell. Again_-wezextend, our former invita-
tion to come and see us and__rest as long as you can in our
unitary home, A j . 1 g .

We remain your sincere friends and co-workers,

HANNAH L. MARSH, ‘See,

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' GEMS '7 FROM FOURIER.

CRITICISMS ON EXISTING oIvILIzATIoNs, POLITICAL ECONOMY,
“I-HILosornr, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, ETC.

The people of the future willisymhbolize the policies of civil-
ization by the figure of a head with the face to the rear, see-
ing only backwards. (Vol. I., p. 226.) L I

[Or, as the New Yorkr’T'r1Zbunc has it: “ Not long ago a con-
tinental chain of conventions stood facing to the rear, march-

” ing" backwardto the future with index’ fingers pointed to the

past.’’] A

Remcwk.—Such are our political and social systems and-

soience.- But as physical science now looks ahead, social
science will ere long begin to do the same. Our theology looks
back even more than our science, society or literature, and
is the main cause of the condition Fourier mentions. Yet
some Fourierists expect social regeneration to take place,
leaving theology untouched! As well expect to get a crop
and leave the weeds to themselves.

True greatness and glory for a nation, according to political

I economists, is to sell to neighboring nations more breeches

than we buy of them. (I., 273.)
Frederick the Great, of Prussia, observed that if he desired

/to punish any one of his provinces, he would assign’ it to be

governed ‘by philosophers. ’ (I., 284.)

[Are any of Grant’s Southern satraps in this category ?]

The embarassment of savans is due to their examining the
[social]' movement only in a retrograde aspect. Seeing it
arrived at the fourth stage, or civilization, they thence con-
clude that it can reach no higher, and speculate only on the
career already known. This is to reason as one who might
have said before theage of Columbus: “I have sailed a thou-
sand leagues on the Atlantic; I have advanced further than
any other navigator; I have discovered no new continent;
(Vol. II., p. 43.) ’

Those are not men; they are products of some subversion,
the cause of which we know not how to reach. (Rosseau
quoted by Fourier.) *

Rema.rk.—-That cause is just what Mrs. Woodhull and thou-
sands of others know and are endeavoring to remove. “Pro-
ducts of subversion” is a synonym, in this case, for children
of hate (the curse of an undesired maternity). The diagno-
sis is indisputable, and suggests the remedy.

Nature is not confined to known means. . ,

Remark.—-Fourier frequently repeats this sentence, which,
to reformers, is very suggestive. Most social scientists, even

-of to-day, seem tacitly to assume the contrary.

The model man of our present civilization, as delineated
by Rosseau and quoted by Fourier:

He burns with quenchless fire,
Less rich for what he owns
Than poor for what he wants.

Humanity was four thousand years behind in the invention
of stirrups and carriage-springs. Cofieejremained for three
thousand years ignominiously rejected at Mocha, and its
merits were only discovered at last by the acciden al obser-
vation of the antics of some goats who had eaten it. ,

RemwrIc.——Fourier cites these instances of usefulbut sim-
ple articles that might as well have been discovered several
thousand as a few hundred yearslago, to show that a social
co-operative order might have been discovered 2,000 years ago
but for the unfortunate habit among ancient as well as mod-
ern savans of invariably looking backward instead of forward
(tete a rebowrs.) But for this habit, he thinks, the Grecian
civilization might have grown into co-operative life, instead
of waiting 2,000 years longer, and allowing civilization to
reach decrepitude before reaching the next stage, as has now

I been done, owing to the habit which has prevailed among
men of learning and science of judging as to whatcan be

done by what has been done, instead‘ of by" inherent ability
to do. I I ‘ ‘ ‘ 1

He does not say, as he might have said, that orthodox Chris-
tianity is {mainly responsible for this habit of retrospection
by which people become crystallized into “pillarsof»salt,”»
and that, unchecked by this reactionary influence (which in-
cluded the doctrine of celibacy), Grecian civilization would
in all probability have evolved that social harmony of which

as yet,‘we only catch occasional glimpses; more as a possibility’

than an actuality. Chistianity even now stands with a drawn
sword,‘ in the form of legislation, guarding that‘ paradise

which we might otherwise enter. But for -the law, enforced‘

in the interest of that religion which controls the state,
France to-day would be studded with co—operative business
organizations and unitary homes. And probably-but for legal
and social bonds, for which religion is mainly. responsible,
children of love would replace children of hate in the United
States. — - 2

, When things have reached this point, when errors have
thus accumulated, there is but one way to resume order in
the thinking faculty; that is,‘ to forget all we have learned,
to trace back our ideas to their origin, a'nd to re-make, as Ba-
con says, the human understanding. The difficulty of the
method is proportional to the degree in which one‘ ‘believes
himself to be instructed.—(Condi1lac, ‘quoted by Fourier, III.

“ What do I know ?”——Socrates. ‘ j,

“ Had God consulted me at the creation I could have given
him some good advice.”-—-Alphonso of Castile. -

“By what dense night Nature is still veiled_!”—(Voltaire

I. 109 .

1,1“ Remember, my son, that nature is covered by a brazen
veil that all the efforts of centuries cannot pierce.”—(Barthe-
lemy, ‘Voyage d’Anacharsis.)

The “brazen veil” is a very convenient illusion‘ for those
monopoiists of genius who, rather than- trouble themselves
to invent, prefer to fabricate systems by the fathom, and
claim that the human mind should stop at just such a‘ point;
that it is unnecessary either to study sciences that are un-

touched, or to explore these that have been merely sketched
‘out, such as that of attraction, of which Newton made only"

-hematerlal, not the passional calculations.-(VI. 467'.)

It is only for simplists that nature has a brazen veil; all
veils fall when she is reached by the composite method.

b (III., 165, Prologomenes, chap. 5.; III 238.)

_Remark.—Simplism consists intlooking at objects only in
one insteadof many aspects. ‘ E-ati‘ng'_"is.a';simple"pleasure~;

but “ the feast of reasonand the flow of soul,” rinccombination,

therewith, is composite. i “ Lust.”«is simple, but t“‘« love ’I’- (ama-
tiveness interfused with adhesiveness, ideality and"spirit-
ualty) is composite. The exaltation of spirituality alone is

uality seems to demand material love. asits V accompaniment.

The purely intellectual soon tires, because =simplistic,'and- de-~ c

mands expression inthe material, as inscience an'd’art‘.“ "The
new social order, as outlined by. Fourier, is composite in the
very highest degree.  ‘ '

These quotations are used by Fourier as texts which he
elaborates to show that philosophers and thinkers of all ages
and nations confess their impotenceto solve the problemrof
social evil generally, and that gt is therefore necessary to
that solution that we “let the dead bury their dead,” and take
a “ new departure.” But as the readers of the WEEKLY
would in general regard this as a truism, it is unnecessary to
follow Fourier in detail thereon.

The necessary without the agreeable will not suflice for man ;
deprived» of pleasure, he remains unquiet, dissatisfied, and

(III.)

Inso4uc'ia.ncc.—-The happiness of animals-—a right not en-
joyed in civilization except by means of accumulations. But
nineteen—twentieths of civilizees, far from having the ability
to be without anxious care as to the morrow, are full of
care even as to the day, since they are obliged to apply
themselves to repugnant and compulsory labor. They also
on Sundays frequent taverns and places of pleasure, there to
take for a few moments the freedom from care vainly ‘sought
for by so many rich persons. (III. 167.) I -

/Rema/rk.—One main cause of intemperance. is here indi-
cated, viz: “to drive dull care away,” a care not necessary
in nature, but only caused by a defective social order, unjust
distribution and wasteful expenditures. To remove intem-
perance, which is only an effect, we must remove its causes;
it naturally follows from the exhaustion caused by excessive
labor, poorly compensated and badly organized. ‘

Scripture tells us that God condemned the first man and
his posterity to labor in the sweat of his brow;*but it does
not condemn us to be deprived of that labor on which our
subsistence depends. * * * *‘ * * * *

We -have no equivalent for the four cardinal rights [the
chase, fishery, pasturage and “cucillette,” which last may
be defined as the right to gather such natural productions as
we can utilize], but in a social order where the poor can say
to his fellows in his native “ phalanstery:” “II was born on
this earth; I claim admission to all the labors here carried

on, the guarantee to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I demand‘

the instruments necessary to exercise this labor, and I de-
mand subsistence -in compensation for the right of theft
which simple nature has given me. (III., 179, 180.)‘

Remark.——What say you, labor reformers of to-day? Do

you realize that justice to labor comports only with business‘

and domestic co-operation?

Civilizees, having never speculated on the integral culture
of the globe, have never realized that the pivotal nourish-
ment of man ‘should not be bread—-—a simple, comestible, pro-
ceeding from a single zone—but sugared fruit,which is a com-
pound comestible, proceeding from two Zones. (IV., 20.)

Do public funds fall? It is for the common people an un-
deniable thermometer; and every myrmidon concludes that
the ministry works badly. This fall is often produced ‘by
intriguers more powerful than the minister. (III., 206.)

Remarlo.-National banks,for instance, have more power
to-day than President and Congress combined; ‘th'atIis,ithey
own about half Congress and perhaps. all the Executive,
besides manipulating the ‘press as much as -they need.’ But

the Executive (or Cabinet) have been known to manipulate-

the gold market to defeat a rival Presidential candidate, as
in 187 2. . - c

In strict analysis, it is the Statethat pays exchange agents
and brokers to induce them to accept a hundred thousand
francs of revenue. . (IV., 92. . .

Remowk.-—So the United States, in another way, pays the

National banks about twenty-four millions annually, in order A
to “induce them to accept’? as much aga’in‘by loans; thus the‘

United States pay National banks twice‘ ‘for doing what the

United States could‘ better do itself." How would a farmer-

thrive who paid his hired man doub1e'wage's for working,
while he (the farmer) stood by with his hands in his pockets?
Yetfsuch is the highest achievement‘ of ourrpolitical finan-
ciers!’ , .

It is certain that in association, money or riches is born
only from truth embodied in practice." (IV., 132.) ‘

[In contrast to the present social order, the falsities of
which he depicts at considerable length, deception being the
main basis of wealth.] ‘ ’ ‘ A ‘ '_ L‘ .

Let a man, docile to the ‘lessons of philosophers, and re-
solved to practice that noble truth, which ‘is, theysay, the
best friend of humanity, betake - himself ‘to a salon to state
this truth in regard to the acts and transactions of those pres-
ent—-the extortions of the businessmen and ‘the intrigues of
the ladies; he would ‘be detested as a philosophic ostrogoth,
inadmissible in good society. A-Each, by requesting him to
leave the premises, would prove to him that truth is by no
means the friend of humanity, and can only bring to disgrace
whosever desires to practice it. (IV., 228-9.)

How confused is the age, from its mania to dream of good,
instead ofrequiring inventions and means of amelioration
compatible with experience! (IV., 294.): E

The principal wrong of our regenerators, true slmplists as
they are, is in seeking to organize the useful without the

lagreeable; or the agreeable without the useful, going to ex-
cess in each." "(l”V., 311.) ’ ‘ * ‘ ’ ' I

“ simple,’-’ but the human mind demands the composite ; . and»
so, among Methodists and others, this exaltation of spirit-'

does notcwarmly adhere to the social order [thus defective]-

’WOODHULL & CLAFLIIN-’S WEEKLY_ I g 3

Remm~k.——Even our most progressive minds too frequently
err in this respect, expecting from one reform what needs the
conjunction of several to effect. Abstinence, from alcohol
and tobacco will effect but little, even were it practiced, un-

less accompanied by facilities for intellectual and social cul-

tivation, by a more refined cuisine, such as the isolated
household rarely affords by only moderate -labor and the ab-
sence of ecclesiastical terrors. Nor will woman sufirage alone
efiect political regeneration, unless the mechanism of repre-
sentation itself is radically revolutionized, and personal free-
dom secured. ’ A. GRIDGE.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 1875.
, Dear Vt'ctom'a-—I'can assure you there are many here-who,
although silent, are neither ignorant of nor indifierent to the
work you are doing to benefit therace.

The WEEKLY comes here regularly, beaming with light and
full of instructive lessons, foreshadowing» a bright future to
many who otherwise would bewithout hope in the world.

4A~bout one-seventh of the people of this territory are prac-
tical polygamists, while probably nine-tenths. are professed
believers in the doctrine. As a system, polygamy is merely
experimental, and as such it should be viewed. Indeed, it
may be said to be a national necessity. Entrenched, as it is,
behind a strong and almost impregnable political organization
it has the power to vigorously contest the right of the State to
interfere in the domestic realm, and force from the Congress
of the United‘States its unwilling recognition.

_ Mormon polygamy is the pioneer social revolutionary sys-
tem of the age. Nearly half a century ago it shook the old
social fabric to its very ‘centre by its domestic infidelities,
and defied the efforts of all Christendom to put it down.
Theologically, its advocates cleared the rostrum of its oppo-
nents, and finally sent V Ulysses Gr_ant’s pet chaplain, Dr. J.
P. Newma‘n,'home to Washington without the laurels he so
much coveted. “V A I I '

A The American Republic itself is as yet but an experiment,
and a sickly one at that; it would, -therefore, be impolitic in-
deed foriti to assume extraordinary powers, and take upon
itself the supervision of thedomesticrelations of every house-
hold in the land. Sucha usurpationof legislative functions
would meet with no better reception than a general uprising
of the people in defense of their sovereign rights, and the
precipitation of a bloody revolution. .

Federal treatment" of polygamy in this territory is a na-
tional disgrace. It amounts to nothing less than legal black
mailing; Bills are forced through Congress in the interest

 

of a set of official carpet-baggers and unscrupulous pettifog- 2

gers,,who have congregated in this city for the purpose of
plunder. Citizens are arrested and subjected to vexatious
lawsuits, and assessed thousands of dollars for the purpose
ofodefraying expenses, after which the whole of the‘ proceed-
ings -are declared to be without foundation in law. But the
money thus stolen can never be recovered, theithieves being
irresponsible for any amount. , »

Themission of polygamy is to establish the right of the mi
nority to regulate their own social and domestic relations,
however objectionable these relations may appear to the
majority, without either State or N ational interference. The
removal of the methodistic fanatic James B. McKean from
the Chief J usticeship of the Territory, and the overruling of
his decision in the Ann Eliza alimony case byhis successor,
C. J. Lowe, has done much toward settling this question in
Utah favorably to the minority. Another important point
gained in the same direction is the recognition of our polyga-
mous delegate, Hon. George Q. Cann.on, by the Congress of
the United States. .

The Mormons are holding up to the Christian (?) world the
practical results of their own -accepted faith; and, strange to
say‘, they affect to be unable to endure the sight. They pre-
fer to. be allowed to practice it, on the “ nest-hiding”) princi-
ple; While they are clamoring for the conviction of Brigham-
Young on the charge of polygamy, or “lewd and lascivious c’o-
habitation,”,they are subscribing thousands of dollars for the
purpose of defending H. ‘W. Beecher against substantially a
similar charge. Consistency, where art thou? I ” -

You will not, I trust; charge ime with being in harmony
with polygamy, farther than as it serves as a means to assist
in the revolutionary movements of the times; or as giving it
that respect due from every one to a social experiment -in
which a number of our fellow-citizens are engaged.

Polygamy is a part of former-day Mormonism, infidel and
revolutionary; it struggled through blood against long, old
and well-established institutions,‘ for an independence it
would carve out for itself by its own indomitable persever-
ance. . —

. Mormonism is a social religio-political system, embodying

fall the elements of national greatness. Its very revolution-

ary character is the secret of its success. Had. there been no
revelation, no kingdom of God, no polygamy, no endowment,
there" most assuredly would have been no political Utah for
politicians to ‘quarrel over to-day. With the permanent‘
establishment of its political independence as a State, the
auxiliaries used in its achievement will gradually disappear,
and that too withoutvthe meddling of Federal carpet-bag-
gers’, who at best are but an afiliction and a curse to any part
of the country where their obj ectionable presence may
intrude. - - ‘ —
7 Mormonism as afomattcal religion will be short lived. “ In
this generation shall all things be consummated,” is its de-
claration. ' Saints and fanatics are made such by conversion,
but never by generation. Polygamy, as a prevailing system,

must of necessity die with its founders, from the fact that
the incoming age will cease to supply its ranks with new vic-’

tims. It cannot survive to any extent where commercial

competition exists. To the young of both_ sexes it is objec-= A

tionable as a rule, while those who are -already in it tolerate
it from sheer’ necessity. . ’ ' ‘ ‘

I have great faith in the future of Utah, believing as I do
that she will -contribute much to‘ the cause of social -reform-;

certain I am she will never give up the confiict until the bat- 4'

tie of freedom is won. / .
I remain, Madam, yoursvery respectfully, (
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If a man lceepeth my saying he -shall never see
death.——Jesu‘s. ,

To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the
hidden manna.——St. John the Divine.

That through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, and deliver them who
through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to l2ondage.——Paul.

The wisdom that is from above is first pare, then-

peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without joartiality and without hy-
pocrisy.——J ames, iii., 1 7.

And these signs shall follow them .' (In my name
shall they castout devils; they shall take up serpents;
and if they drinh any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover.——Jesus.

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Such of the readers of the WEEKLY as can do so, ought,

to bring this number to the attention of the ministers. The
destruction of their Garden of Eden upsets the whole basis
of modern Christianity.

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THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE;

OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST.

For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
him.--ST. ‘MATTHEW, 11., 2.; -

      

This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of
which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly
shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre-
sents thecoming blending together of the inhabitants of the
earthand spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the
establishment thereby of__ the universal human family. It
also represents still another and more important truth which
has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in a few
words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself.
-We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work
and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth
which We hope and trust may be shortly realized. ,

THEGARDEN on EDEN.

 

No. II.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the Garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.’

And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden to dress
it, and to keep it.; '

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die. _= -

And the serpent said unto the woman: Thou shalt not surely die; for
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and_ a tree to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with
her, and he did eat. ‘

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were
naked; and they sewed flg—leaves together and made themselves aprons.

' And the Lord God said, Behold the man has become as one of us, to
know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also
of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever, therefore the Lord God sent
him forth from the Garden of Eden to »till the ground from whence he
was taken. ,

So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden cherubims and a flamin
the way of the tree of life.-—

22’ 23 and 24. enesis, ii., 9, 15, 16, 17;, and iii., 4, 5, 6, 7,

THE BASIS on ALL PROPHECY AND INSPIRATION.

Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? was the ques-
tion asked, because Jesus was conceived at that place which
was the most despised of all the cities of Galilee. The Jews
did not Eionceive it possible that, being a Nazarene, He could
be a Saviour.‘ This question, however, was not peculiar to
the Jews. It has everbeen, and will ever be, asked of every
new truth that comes into the world, since every promul-
gator of new truth is a despised .pe1's0n~ or a Nazarene;
although in the meaning of the Hebrew word it is “to be
set apart,” or consecrated. It was i-in this sense that Jesus
was a Nazarite. Out of the most despised spots of the earth
come the greatest blessings for the earth; out of the most
obnoxious things spring the forces that move the world
upward, heavenward. I 

Lo here, or 10 there, has been, and is, the cry of the world.
Nevertheless “the Kingdom of God is within you,” said
Jesus. The eyes of the world ever look outside of them-
selves for salvation, while the whole teaching of both in-
spiration and science plainly indicates that salvation must
come from within. The human body is the temple of God,
in which God will come to dwell when man shall no longer
pollute the temple and cause it to die. The body, as a
whole, is considered vulgar, and people dress and cover it
much more because they hold it in this low esteem than to
protect it from the weather. Certain; parts of the body,
indeed the most important of all its parts, are held to be so
vulgar, so obscene, so despicable that it is a penal offense if
they be seen in public. Man has forgotten that “,God hath
tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honor to that part which (in our esteem) lacked” (I. Corin-
thians, xii., 24). So God thinks more highly of just those
parts of the body which are most despised by man, and thus
St. Paul taught always. -

Those despised things are to be as Jesus was, the Saviour
that was conceived in Nazareth, and are to the present what
He was to the Jews. The despised body, instead of the
honored soul, must become the stone that shall be the head
of the corner, now rejected by the builders. There can be
no undefiled (unpolluted) temple of God that is not built
upon this corner-stone, perfectly; and until the temple shall
be perfect there can be no perfect indwelling spirit. Christ-
ians have been working ‘at the wrong end of the stick; have
been thinking to take care of the soul while letting the body
take care of itself ; nay, while cursing the body and hold-
ing its most favored (by God) parts as worthy of evrery vul-
gar condemnation. Ignoring the plain words of their pro-
fessed guide, they blindly rush headlong to destruction-
death. The last two chapters in Revelations refer to the
human body saved, and God dwelling, in it. The second
and third chapters of Genesis refer to the human body
cursed by the acts of primitive man (male I and female),
through which they became ashamed and ’ covered them-
selves, because they had done evil with the parts that they
desired to hide.
are pure.” So also from Genesis to Revelations the human

' body is the chief——indeed, the only— subject, is the temple

of God, which, through the long ages, He has been creating
to be His perfect abiding place here on the earth; and as

this important thing it is the basis of all revelation and all

prophecy. .
TEE AEGUMENT.

The only reason that will be raised, anywhere, against the
plain -meaning of the second and third chapters of Genesis
will begthat the things of which they treat could ’ never be
made the subject of consideration. The degradation of the
human race, following the transgression of Adam and Eve,
through which they vailed purity from their own lustful
gaze and shut out virtue from the human heart, can never
be removed until the world can endure to have that vail
lifted. It was not and is not that the" parts concealed were
vulgar and to be ashamed of, but because their minds and
thoughts about them were vulgar; and their eyes could not
endure their sight without engendering lust within their
souls. So it is now; and so it will be until the human heart
becomes pure enough to recognize just this fact. When
there is purity in the heart there can be no obscenity in any
part of the body, either male or female. We are aware that
this is a terrible fact-to put beforethe world; but it is a
fact, and one that the World needs must learn before it will

sword, which turned every way to keep

1 “ To the pure in heart all things (all parts).

be -able to give thatvcare and that attention to the creative
functions, which must necessarily precedesalvation from
death.

In the eyes of the Creator, then, the creative system in
man is its highest and divinest function. It is the holy of
holies where‘ His highest creative purposes have been
performed. Can such functions and such organs, by the

use of which man has been created “ a little lower than the

angels,” be -obscene? Nay, charge not such degradation
upon God. Let man rather acknowledge that what God
has most preferred has been debased into vulgarity by the
uses to which he—man——hath put them.
more sublimely beautiful, more entrancingly sublime, than
the thought that within ourselves-—our bodies—there is
concealed the power to create an immortal soul, and an im-
mortal residence for that soul, if we will but learn aright?
Who shall dare to blaspheme a place where such perfection.
dwells? Who shall dare look God in the face and tell Him
that the place where He performs His most noble works, is
vulgar? Let him or her who dare, take heed lest they die

past the hope of resurrection, having part not only in the
» second, but in the eternal death. ’

If all this is true of the sexual system of man, if it be

God’s most perfect and most divine creative power, why’

should not the place where it resides be called the Garden
of Eden? Where should the garden of pleasure and of de-
light exist if not in the human body? Is there any other
place or thing in the universe so worthy to be called Eden;
to be called the most happy spot—the Paradise? No!
Search creation» over, turn the earth inside out, range
throughout the sidereal universe even, and nothing can be
found anywhere within them all that is for a moment
worthy to stand comparison with the human body. It is
the crowning wonder of God’s mighty Work; it is the image

of Himself, and when it shall become perfected, will be the,

place where He will live. Then let who may esteem
himself a better judge than God condemn this Garden
which no man can ever hope to imitate. This temple, not
made with hands, we shall proceed to treat in terms so
plain that none may fail to comprehend the meaning of the
foundation of the Bible. It will not be necessary for us, as
it was for Moses, to use such words as the people cannot
readily understand, because the vail that the Lord God put
over Adam and Eve must be removed, so that the hearts
and acts of man may be made pure and good, respectively.
Hence we shall proceed as if all parts of the body (as they
are) are equally honorable and pure, and equally entitled to
have honor and consideration, and to be treated according
to their needs and merits; proceed as neither Jesus or" Paul
could proceed, because the fullness of the Gentiles had not
then come in, that fullness meaning the exhaustion of the
power of the law over individuals. The people who have
outgrown the law are now ready for the whole truth, and
they shall have what we have got to give in its proper

order.
THE APPEICATION.

We said that it seems to us that whoever would read the I

second chapter of Genesis, divorced from the idea that the
Garden of Eden was a spot of earth, must necessarily come
to the truth. We think we showed conclusively last week
that it was not such a thing; indeed that the Garden of
Eden, according to Moses, was a physical absurdity, if in-
terpreted to mean what it is commonly held to mean by the
Christian world. We believe that many of its best scholars
have long seen this, but have feared to express it, since they
have not been willing to accept the modifications of their
religious theories which a rejection of the proposition upon
which they are based would make necessary; and so be-
tween the two alternatives they have clung to the old and
attempted to ignore the new, and not make a change which

would lead to they know not where.

But we now make the broad and the comprehensive state-
ment, without any reservation whatever, that the Garden of
Eden is the human body, and that the second chapter of
Genesis was written by Moses to mean the human body, and
that he chose the terms he used because they best described
the human body of any that he could choose, without stating
the fact in so many words. The very first words: “And
the Lord God planted a Garden eastward” (indicating a. new
light or truth) in Eden demonstrate fully the point which
we wish to impress; for Eden is the land of pleasure
and delight. Could there be a more poetic statement of the
fact which did really occur? The spiritual sight which
Moses had of the Creation revealed to him the real case——that
the first reasoning human beings were the product of the
land of pleasure and delight, as they still continue to be.
All mankind was created in that garden, in pleasure or de-

light. This method of expression is in perfect keeping with e

the times in which Moses wrote; indeed, it is in keeping
with the writingsfiof much later time than of Moses. It is true
that if the record stopped here, it might be said that a gar-
den which has been termed a paradise, might very properly
be called a land of pleasure or delight; but it does not so
stop, as we have already seen. Nor does a paradise appear
at all inconsistent with our version even if it stopped here;
since what more complete idea can there be formed of a
paradise. than a perfect» human body, such as. there must
have been before it had become corrupted and degraded
by sexual sin? Therefore the Garden in which God put the
man whom he had formed and in which he created Adam-
universal thinking male and female man—--was the human

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The general misunderstanding of the Bible, -however,
is very easily to be accounted for. The proper names have
been translated-from the original languages, absolutely,

a and mingled with the common usage of the new language

in such» a way that they do not mean anything to us unless
we know what the words from which they were taken meant
originally. The term Eden is a good example. The Gar-
den of Eden, if we are ignorant of the meaning of Eden,

imeans that there was a garden called Eden, simply that it

might have a name; but when we write what it really sig-
nifies in the place of the Word, thus, the garden of pleasure
and delight, the real significance is conveyed. The failure
to translate the Bible after this rule is one cause of its hav-
ing been so long vailed in mystery; and this fact becomes
especially forcible when it is remembered that in early his-
toric times, names were given to persons and things, not,for
the purpose of designation, as we give them now, but to
embody the chief characteristic of the thing or person
named. '

But let us now go to the description of this Garden of pleas-

ure and delight: “And a river went out of Eden to water
the Garden; and from thence it was parted and became into
four heads.” The name of the first river was Pison. Now,
as we have already seen, this term signifies “changing” and
“extension from the mouth.” How is the human body
watered? Is it not by a river that e§tends from the mouth,
constantly changing as it encircles the system? Does not all
the support of the body enter by the mouth and run to the
stomach? “And from thence it was parted and became into
four heads.” Now this is just the fact which is occurring
in the body continually. From the stomach, or rather the
small intestines, where the separating process in the chyle
(the digested contents of the stomach) begins, this river Pison
has four principle heads; that is, gives off three branches,
the main current continuing on its course to “compass the
whole land of Havilah.” This current, this river Pison,
changing in its character as it runs, empties itself into the
heart, and from thenceis distributed over the entire system
by the arterial circulation, in all its course to the extremities,
giving to the various parts of the system the necessary sup-
plies, which giving oft constantly changes the character of
the river until it reaches the circumference of the body,
from whence, returning through the venous circulation to
the heart, it “compasses the whole land of Havilah,” which
is the land “that sufiers pain” and “ that brings forth.”
Could there well be a more graphic description of the river
that waters (feeds) the body? A river to water the land of
pleasure and delight enters by the mouth, and extending
from thence by the way of the stomach, small intestines,
heart, arteries and vein s, waters the whole land that suffers
How could this description
apply to any other thing than the human body?

iWhat other thing, save the animal, is it “ that suffers
pain” and “that brings forth?” It would be simply ab-
surd to‘say that the district S. E. of Sanaa, in Arabia, called
Havilah, suffers pain; nevertheless this is the land of Havilah
of the Christians.

“And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.” The first
branch that divides from the main river of the body is that
which runs by the way of the intestines. This is the river
Gihon, meaning “the valley of grace.” What could be
more appropriate than the appellation of “grace” for the
process by which the refuse from the river Pison is discharged
from the body? or, than “ the valley of grace” for the ope-

" rations that go on in the abdomen for the elimination from

the system of the ingredients foreign to the welfare of the
body? Is it not a process of grace; a process of purification;
for “by grace are ye saved.” And this river of grace
“ compasses the whole land of Ethiopia,” the land_of black
ness (darkness) and of heat. That is, the intestines occupy
the ‘abdomen which is the land of darkness in Eden. All
the movements therein are made in darkness, and therein
also is the heat which here signifies the warmth that gives
life, that sustains the temperature of the body, and that re-
produces. Physiologically this is true absolutely, just as are
all the other descriptions of the Garden by Moses.

“And the name of the third river is Heddekel; that it is

i which goeth toward the east of Assyria.” Next in physi-

ological importance to the maintenance of the human
economy is the river that drenches the system from another
class of impurities‘ by the way of the kidneys, bladder and

’ urethra. This is the River Heddekel, or the stream that runs

with a “ swift current and a “ sharp, hissing sound.” Search
the language, and a more appropriate description for the

elimination of waste matter from the system
by the urinary organs than this‘ cannot be
found. And this river runs to the east of Assyria.

That is, it goes to the light—the East—in front of Assyria,
which is the happy land. That this may be still more evi-
dent, it is proper here to remark merely, that .the Eden spe-
cially described in Genesis is the female human body, be-
cause her body is the productive body; the body that brings

' forth. It -was in woman that the Lord God_planted His

garden that produced mankind; and it was woman’s capacity
to bring forth that was the ground which was cursed by their
sexual transgressions—through which “her sorrows and
conceptions were multiplied.” So the happy land of this

verse is the womb, the producing land of the human family,
which man was “to dress and keep,” so that it might be
fruitful. » .

“And the fourth river is Euphrates.” The fourth and

last river ofthe Garden is that which renders it fruitful, and
which flows through the reproductive system. Euphrates
means fruitfulness, and this river, the last in the physiologi-
cal order of sequence, is the fruit of the action of all the
other rivers, which fruit can be good only when the func-
tions of all the others are perfectly performed. This
river, as seen by Moses, was in its natural,
heathful, primitive state, and is peculiarly feminine,
since it is from its waters that her fruit is formed. In the

female system this water of life is constantly being sepa-
rated from the great river Pison, and made into the matter
of life, out of which the body of the child in the womb is
formed; but this stream of life, by the transgressions of
primitive man, was turned into blood, and has been entirely
lost to the race, except during the very small part of the
time in which it is appropriated to the formation ofnew
bodies during active pregnancy. The supposition that this
river of blood is something of which the female system
ought to be rid; that it is corrupt, disgusting and lifeless, is
utterly false. It is precisely the same matter out of which
the body of the child is formed; and when not used in this
way, it ought, as it was intended by God that it should be,

to be utilized for the building up, for the rejuvenation of
the wasting adult bodies. This utilization of what is now
wasted is the great mystery of tbe Bible; is the redemp-
tion of the body from death. Physicians, perhaps, do
not know this fact, but they ought to know it. "These func-
tions of the human body have been considered so vulgar
that even physiologists have thought them unworthy of inves-
tigation. V

So this river of life has continued to run the strength of the
race away, and no efforts have been made to remedy the
destruction. On the contrary, this spilling of life upon the
ground has been considered as necessary to health and life;
and so it- has been, under the conditions in which the race
has lived, since this river was turned to blood, as related by
Moses in the fourth and seventh chapters of Exodus. This
has been and is the vicarious atonement which averts death
for a time. But when the new J erusa1em—the purified woman
—shall come in the new heaven and earth, as seen by John on
Patmos, then it will be again “ a pure river of water of life,”
proceeding out of the throne of God—out of his creating
place; out of the happy land through which flows the fruit-
ful river Euphrates. If anyone doubt that this application
of this biblical river is the right one, let him read the six-
teenth chapter of Ezekiel, and learn there if the pure condi-
tion of woman, is to be “ polluted in her own blood,”
monthly, as the prophet saw her. And if this de not satisfy
let woman be questioned regarding this universal curse,
and see if she do not feel it be a pollution such as Ezekel
saw it to be.

The Garden of Eden, then, is the human body, and its
four rivers are the great river Pison, the blood; the Gihon,
the bowels; the Hedekel, the kidneys, and the Euphrates,
the sexual‘ system. By these four rivers the whole garden is
watered and drained, and its fruit produced. It was in this
garden that intelligent ‘mankind was planted by the Lord
God, and out of it thatthey grew, and it was the ground of
this Garden that was cursed, so that “ in sorrow” man should
“eat of it all the days of his life,” and that it should “bring
forthlthorns and thistles.” And has not this been literally
verified? has not there been sorrow upon sorrow to man,
and hath not woman’s sorrow and conceptions been multi-
plied until “the whole earth is groaning,” as Paul said, “ for
the redemption of the body,” including even himself, who
had only “the first fruits of the spirit?” John saw them
fully ripened into the new heaven and the new earth, when
“H.e.that overcometh shall inherit all things;” when “to
him that overcometh I will give to eat of the hidden manna,”
which is the pure river of water of life, and the fruit of the
tree of life mingling their divineflessences so that “,there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain,” for “the new Jerusalem has come
down from God out of heaven;” and “ the tabernacle of
God is with men.” “The Seventh Angel has sounded,”
“Babylon, the great mother of harlots and abominations,
has fallen,” and “the mystery of God is finished.”

 

EXPLANATION.

Some of our readers have misapprehended the sources
from which we obtain our interpretations of the Garden of
Eden, supposing that we construct the meaning which we
give to the different words, to make them conform to our
theory. This is utterly erroneous. The_rendering of each
and every biblical word that we have given is that which is
made by the translators of the language, and most of them
are to be found in all the large bibles. We have not built a
theory which we are endeavoring.to twist the bible to sup-

that we have been engaged for years in advocating. So we
have not fallen back upon the bible, but are bringing the
bible from behind the vail where it has enslaved so many so
long, to become a help to reform. ‘ '

THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS.

 

With the close of the trial, by the disagreement of the
jury, the Tilton-Beecher scandal is by no means finished.
What there may grow out of the Loader-Price fiasco remains
to be seen. It seems very improbable that there should

[ have been anyconspiring with these persons on the part of

port, but we find that the bible supports just those truths.

Mr. Tilton or his counsel, although a perso n by the name of
Connor, a reputed friend of Price, is out in a statement
which, if true, implicates all the counsel, save Mr. Fullerton,
beside Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton. There are those, how-
ever, who believe that Price and Connor are in the pay of
some of the friends of Mr. Beecher, which to us does not
seem improbable, in view of the use that was made of the
three colored witnesses. _ .

Mr. Moulton is in a defiant mood,and is said to havettold
General Tracy that if he did not havehim arrested he would
have the General arrested (we suppose) for perjury. One
thing is evident, and that is that the case cannot rest where
it is. Mr. Beecher’s speech of last Friday evening would
seem to indi.cate that he is ready to shake hands all around;
but Mr. Moulton is not in that mood at all. The disagree-
ment of the jury when they had the testimony of himself
and wife to confirm Mr. Tilton’s charge of adultery, three-
fourths of the jury, by their vote for Mr. Beecher, accusing
them all of perjury, and only one-fourth thinking that the
oath of the three, together with all of Mr. .Beecher’s letters,
was not as good evidence as Mr. Beecher’s personal oath,
must be terribly humiliating to»M1'. Moulton, who is not the
man to stand under any such insinuation. There can be
but little doubt that he will find some way to obtain satis-
faction. .

Of course there are two sentiments in thecommunity.
The professedly religious deprecate any new opening of the
trial, and are pretty unanimously inclined to accept the
disagreement as an acquittal. Plymouth Church evidently
desires it to be so considered, and no doubt the entire

influence of the religious community will be given in favor ,

of Mr. Beecher. But this is by no means the whole com-_
munity. Much the larger number of all the people are fully

convinced of the truth of the charges against Mr. Beecher. '

The Sun; and Zimes specially, and the Herald, and most of
the other smaller city papers in a more timid way, re-assert
their belief to be with the majority of the people. The Sun
advances thirteen reasons why Mr. Beecher is guilty, and
the James prints a leader summing up the case for Mr. Tilton
in a more masterly way than that presented by Mr. Beech.

Of course there is a great deal of evidence floating about in

the community that was either legally inadmissible, or
else! could not be obtained, upon which a large part of the
verdict of the people is based. The papers are in pos-
session of a great mass of testimony of this kind, and they
are at least not disinclined to ‘aid Mr. Tilton in setting all
of the facts before the public. That all this will come out
we have not the slightest doubt. We are on the eve of the
time when the roofs of the houses are to be lifted, so that
the lives of men and women must be what they wish the
public to think them to be. This is a necessary stage of
development that must be accomplished before the reign of
individuality, in which every one will mind his own busi-
ness, can be ushered in. So Whatever shape the further
developments in the Brooklyn business may assume we are
confident that they will lead further up toward the desired
condition in which every person will be a law unto him-
self, and in which every person will permit every other per-

son to be guided by his or her law of right and wrong, in-

sisting only on non-personal interference.

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interested in the new truths being proclaimed in its columns,

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this direction. Indeed they are doing it constantly, but not
in sufficient numbers to accomplish the purpose in view; to
wit: the return to sixteen pages. -

In this connection it may not be out of place to say that
the reason we cannot now return to the original size is on
account of delinquent subscribers. If they would renew
promptly, we could, return at once without danger of failure,
since our list is sufficiently large, if promptly paid, to meet
the expenses of a sixteen-page paper. So our readers will
hereafter know where to place the responsibility of the “ cut-
down,” and the continuation until now of the smaller issue.
We hope also that this consideration will be a spur to those
who, by their tardiness, are curtailing not only the amount
of matter that we furnish, but also the influence and circu-
lation of the WEEKLY.

BEFORE THE DISAGREEMENT.

While the jury was out,‘and before it was certain that
there would be a disagreement, Mr. Beecher spoke as follows‘

at his Friday evening lecture, which we copy from the

Christian‘ Union :

“ Now, by the grace of God, I am going to say one or two
more things. One of them is this: that I look with all
courtesy, all sympathy and all respect, upon the right of any-
body on the earth to think of me just as he chooses to think.
Whether you think one way or the other I am not angered,
and I shall not be angered. Let men form their own
judgments. I accord to other people the most perfect liberty
of opinion, which I do not claim, but which I exercise, for
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July 1'7’, 1875.

“ In. the next place, whatever‘ men may think, this world
is so large, and God sits’ on it and drives it in such a sense,

God's earth to determine my future: That is a matterthat
lies with me and God, and God. and Iagainst the world.

“Now, I am not going to be put down. I do not propose to
be put down in any other sense than the sense in which
wheat is put down when it is sowed. If anybody treads me
in the ground I will come up a hundred-fold‘. I do not say
this as a matter of arrogance. I simply say that where there
is patient continuance in well-doing, nobody can be put
down. I do not care what other people think of me. I know
what I am; God knows it, and time will disclose it. I know
that there is health and strength in me, and I know that the
appetite for work will never cease till the coffin lid is screwed
on me. I do not work for any other reason than that work
has always been sweet to me. This world is not going to be
destitute of opportunity, here or somewhere; and with you,
or with those who need me more, under God’s providence,
and under the genius of the divine love, I am going to work
out my life. Now, let me see. the man that shall stop it! It
lies with God and me. Nobody is allowed to vote on that
subject. And as long as there is sorrow to be assuaged, as
long as there is ignorance to be enlightened, as longgas there
is discernment‘ to be imparted tolmen under difficult circum-
stances, as long as there is sympathy to be encouraged, love
for the unloved, patience for the outworn and the weary,
championship for the downtrodden, tongue for those that
cannot speak their own want——so long as there are men that
need God and cannot see him directly, and want somebody
to reflect Him for them; aslong as God loves me, and gives
me his spirit and his power (and that will be till he takes me
into his own bosom)———so long I will do God’s work among the
poor and needy in this world. ’

I did not care-, when I began, for high places. I went into
the wilderness. I did not take myself out of the wilderness.
I was called out. I did not come here with any ambitious de-
sire. I was sent here. 1 did not stay here because I had any
particular schemes or plans of life of my own. I was kept
here by the divine providence that sent me here. I shall
stay as long. as God’s providence keeps me here. I shall go
when Grod.’s providence takes me away. I shall live as long
as God wants me to live. I shall die as soon as God pleases
to call me into the other life.- Living or dying, I am the
_Lord’s first, man's afterward; and my feeling is simply this :_
“'What wilt thou have me to do?” That I will do. I would
do it, though there were ten thousand devils in the way.
That is my futui-e—to ask God, day by day, .“ What wilt
thou—above the babble of tongues, above the roar and noise
of passionate men, . above the fleeting . and tempestuous
passions of the hour——have me to do ?” -There is the great
serene Heart ofpeace and love, and his name is God; and
his other name, nowbetter known to me, is Father, and I
have day by day to say, “ Dear Father, what wilt thou have
me to do ?” and that I shall do, and hell and the devil can-
not stop it.

We do not think our readers will fail to see if Mr. Beecher
had acted upon such positions as these at almost any time
within six months after November 2d, 1872, he would not
now be left standing before the world, at least one-half of
which not only believes him guilty of legal adultery but also
of perjury. When these sentiments are taken into consid-
eration, together with those expressed by him from his pulpit
in April, that nobody has any right to judge him, it must be
conceded that Mr. Beecher has felt compelled to speak some
great truths, and to make the world feelthat his life is his
own, to be lived as between himself and God. We cannot
help thinking how much better it would have been for him
if he could have found courage to have preached thus say

two years ago.

  

. .. , AFTER THE DISAGREEMEMT. _
On.Friday last the jury having Mr. Beecher’s case in hand
disagreed. ’ The same evening Mr. Beecher spoke asfollows:

“Now, after years of great church prosperity, in which
there was ‘danger of pride and spiritual vanity,'G’od for two
yearsfhas had this church in a furnace, trying its self-life’—,
not by ordinary trials, not by family afiiictions. ~ My one
thought is that this church may now come out _victorious, not
in the sight of spectators and in the sight of men, for the
judgment of men is superficial, but that-it may comeout vic-
torious for God and to do more honor for Jesus Christ. To
do this there must needs be more Christ-likeness, more gen-
tleness, more meekness.

“I never. have, I never mean to, and I do not, proclaim a
charity inconsistent with thepractice of justice, and the vin-
dication of truth by the modes of justice; but don’t you know
that no milk gets so sour as the sweet milk of conscience, and
no honey so bitter as the honey of a fine sense of justice.
L‘ While we are to keep all distinctions between what is manly
A    . and mean, what is honorable and what is miserable, we must

” guide our consciences by the apostolic injunction, "Speak-
ing the truth in love.” No man can be just toward the neigh-
bor whom he hates; and out of a heart of anger and coldness
no man--can judge another correctly. If God has tried you
with any purpose, it is one whose mainspring is a feeling of
Divine kindness. If He who was our master, our model, and
who is to be our judge, could in the hour of crucifixion pray
without compunction, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do,” cannot we in our trials make the same

, prayer? Some may be blinded by hate, some by rage, some
~" - may be wicked and some wickedly weak, no matter what or
- l A Chow, thetribute should be, and you owe it, Father, forgive
A ~ them, they know not what they do. If you cherish animos-
I —~ " ity. if your hands long for the rod, if-your jaws come together
with emphasis when you’ speak your enemy’s name, you are
not tried_ enough. As long as flax is stiff and the wood is not
' broken, and it is not retched, it is not yet fit to be wovenvin
the garments of the saints‘. By a large Christian kindness
and j ustice, by speaking wisely and gently of all who vex and
trouble you, it is this profiting under trouble that will make
your history such a preaching of the Gospel as may come to

 

 

that it does notlie with you nor with anybody on the face of ~

you but once in all your life to take advantage of. The Isra-
elites never went through the Red Sea but once; we have
crossed over and are now on the other side, while Pharaoh is
lugging at his wheels in the mud.” [Applause] ,

Here seems to be a conversion. ‘Some weeks ago when
Mr. Beecher defied Mr. Bowen there was another spirit rul-
ing in Mr. Beecher’s heart. Can it be possible that the result
of the trial has had the efiect to work this change? Would
Mr. Beecher have been gentle, forgiving and Christian-
Christ-like—-had there been a verdict of acquittal? We hope
so, but it was said by some of his friends that in case there
were a verdict inlhis favor every one who had ever raised a
voice against him would be pressed to the wall. Let this
be as it may, however, the spirit of his last Friday evening
lecture is not the same as that in which Mr. Beecher went
before the grand jury nearly a year ago to secure; indict-
ments against Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton for libel. Those
indictments still stand untried. Will he press them? Not
if he be ruled by the spirit of the above quotation. We
trust it may be the genuine “indwelling of ‘the spirit of
God,” to which he likened the conduct of his church‘ during
these two years or more of difficulty; and if SO", then the
scandal has had this good result at least.

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WHY NOT?»

 

Yes! Why not call Jesus the Saviour if he be really so?

things. Then may it not be ‘possible that there is a truth
about which those who treat, the idea of saviour with con-
tempt, know nothing? We know that there is a more im-
portant truth to be made known to man than has ever yet
been received; and further, we know that Jesus was the
first person who ever lived on the earth who embodied that
truth in his own life. Others have had an intellectual com-
prehension of it, but never a practical realization. _ But the
realization is to come; and when it does come, those who
now scoff at the idea with intolerant scorn, or laugh at the
proposition with pharisaical egotism, will find themselves
called upon to repent. We know whereof we speak,
and knowing, we even entreat our readers to not shut their
eyes against the light, their ears against the ‘truth, or their
hearts against their own welfare. If it be asked why we
do not speak out what this truth is, we must yet reply, ‘Wait;
the time is not yet; but the time is, when the wise will have
their lamps trimmed and burning; their houses swept an d gar-
nished, for the time to know and accept this truth will come
like a thief in the night—the lamps to be kept in trim, mean-
ing a readiness to accept the truth—-the Christ, the Saviour,
the Bridegroom--intellectually; and the houses in order,
meaning a pure and healthful condition of the human
bodies, which will permit them to properly entertain the

Watch! let others ululate as they may what they afiect to
despise as a “ going back” to religion, while the fact is, there
never has been any real religion in the world.

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their efforts to our own to spread it everywhere. Thousands
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THE PRESS AND MR. BEECHER.-Before the decks are
cleared for the newspaper verdict in the great scandal, let us
dismiss once and for all -the absurd assertion that the press,

and that it desires to keep up this profitless discussion in
order to create a demand for the papers. ‘

No man fared better at the hands of journalists for twenty-
five years than ‘Mr. Beecher. His agreeable oddities were
paraded in print; his bright sayings were reported and re-
peated; his good qualities were magnified and his popularity
enhanced by the gratuitous advertisements which he got from
the public journals. - ' r “ p I

His fame at best was always ephemeral. Nobody remem-
bers anything that he said five, or three, or two years ago.
He has commanded the largest hearing imaginable, but he
has leftno enduring monument to his reputation in‘ the form

,0: religious researches or literary ,efl’ort. If the newspapers

There are none yet in this world so wise that they, know an .

coming stranger. Therefore, we sayunto all our readers-
7

whose souls have caught glimpses of the truth ought to join‘

as a rule, is malicious in its treatment of Henry Ward Beecher,-

had notassisted in bolstering him up, his fame ore this would
naturally have begun to decline. 3

We know of ‘no journal in all the land that took any plea-
sure in laying before its readers the charges against Beecher. ~
Fully a year before the publication of the Woodhull‘ scandal,
the Obsemzer, and presumably -the New York Sun and Times,
the Springfield‘ Rcbublictm, and the Chicago Tribune were in

-possessionof statements involving Beecher’s moral charac-

ter. Nor were these statements mere idle rumors. They

emanated from responsible parties—-and from persons, too,

who stand forth to-day as Beecher’s ablest apologists and
champions.

by common consent also no heed was paidlto Mrs. VVoodhull’s
recital. It was not until Theodore Tilton had made his sworn
statement, and Beecher had called his Investigating Com-
mittee that the “ newspaper trial” began.

When the scandal was once launched on the sea of discus-
sion it became the duty of every decent and respectable jour-
nal to weigh the evidence, to dismiss all feeling of prejudice
and passion, and to judge fairly between the two sides. It
nine-tenths of the public prints have reached a decision ad-
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love for Mr. Tilton or any dislike for the Plymouth pastor,
but because the preacher's own explanation of his acts and
utterances is unsatisfactory.———Utica. Observer.

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“ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A M 8.10 “ “‘ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .  11-45 “
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A1 Hainilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 " 11.20 “

" London..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a- m.

:‘ Detroit ................. .. . 9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ .

“ Jackson . . . .  ....... .. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A M “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A 13.30 “

“ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 p. in.

Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 5.30_A‘.>M. 11.50 A M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A M 5 30 a. In.

A? Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 1’. M . . . Ar Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . . . .. . . 8.55 p. in.

‘XITL8. Crossc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.50 P M 7.05 A M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. In.
Ar St. Paul. ................ .. 6.15 1- M  Ar St. Paul ......  ..... .. 7.00 A. M.

Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M.  Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M.

Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P. M. -  Ar Sedalia . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M.

“ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “  Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 

“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ , Galveston . . . . . . . .  10.00

LE-Esismarck ................ .. 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck....... ......... .. 12.01 p. M .

“ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ C91l1Inb11B - . . . . .  6-30 “ --

“ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M, “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 

 Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M» Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M.

“ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M« “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A M.

“Cli.e_yenne......... . . . . . . . . ..   _ “Cheyenne...........,... 12.50P M

“ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..   “Ogden................. 5.30 “ .
“ Sail Francisco ........... ..   “ San Francisco ....... . . 8.30 “

Ar Halesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A M  Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P M .
“ Quincy . . . . . . ..  11.15 “  “ Quincey  ..  9.45 “

“ St. Joseph . . . . . ..  “ St. Joseph..... ....... .. 8.10 A M

=‘ Kansas City .............. .. . “ Kansas C1ty- .......... .. 9.25 “ 
“ Atchison...... ...........  11.00 “ “ Atchison .... .. .. 11.17 “ 
‘- Leavenworth . . . . .  . . . . . . .. 12.10 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. 
“ Denver. ................. .. 7.00 A. M . “ Denver..  .......... .. 

Through Sleeping Car Arrangements

9.15 A. M.—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pullman’s Drawing—Room. Cars
at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in
the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there.
7 20 P. M.-——Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to
Chicago without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take
the morning trains to all points West, Northwest an outhwest.

CONNECTIONS OF ERlE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF»

liiicliigaii Central & Great Western Railways.

At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne.

At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover.
. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations.

At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway.

At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Alsoqwith Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an
daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. V A

At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron. Branph Grand Trunk Jiaflway. Also De
ti-oit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City R. R.
E3-ranch Lake S. & ’M. S. R. R. to Toledo. .

At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc.

At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel _River R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Banker’s, Waterloo 1
Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis.

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At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Pem & onion: 3. 8. Also with Louisvi11o.NeW Albany & Chi-
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At Chicago, with all railroads diverging.

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