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The truth shall make you free.-—-Jesus. ,
In the clays of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the

mg/stery of God shall be fim'she(Z.———St. John the
Divine.

Ti7here0f I was made a mz'm'ster to preach the em-
searchahle riches of, C’/mist, and the mystery which
from the heginmng of the world hath been had in
G0cZ.—-Paul. I ‘

THE MISSION OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM.
B)? J. BALL. '

Already the influence of modern spiritualism is felt
throughout the civilized world. The relations of men to
each other are affected by it, and will eventually be radically
changed. The present conflicting interests of capital and
labor will be harmonized; the law of nature will be sub-
stituted for the legal bonds which now unite man and woman
in wedlock, and the religion of humanity will displace the
superstitions which now infest society.

Modern spiritualism is essentially an adjuster, though not
a leveller. True worth will be recognized wherever it exists,
and right will rule instead of might. Legislators will be
guided and sustained in their efforts by the wishes ofthe
people, and not by the bribes of monopolists and swindlers;
and all offices of power and responsibility must be under the
virtual control of the public vote. National jealousies must
b.e abated, and all nations enjoy the reciprocal rights of free
trade, and offer the rights of free citizenship.

When men come to understand, not from faith in any

system or person, but from undoubted knowledge, that their
own well-being, both now and for all time, depends upon what
they really are, and not upon what they seem to be, they will
be less eager to grasp at a “little brief authority” for sinister
and selfish purposes, or to take any unfair advantages of
‘their fellow-men. Spiritualism demonstrates that man is
essentially the same in character and intelligence immedia-
tely after death as he was immediately before; death brings
about a change of place and circumstances, but not a change
of character. .

The commercial I interests of society are at present in any-
thing but a satisfactory state; and the antagonism which in
recent ‘years has been manifested between labor and capital
has been most disastrous in its immediate result. The rights
of capital have always been maintained as opposed to the
rights of the laborer. In the nature of things capital can
have no rightito unjustly oppress labor; but it has been

. doing so. Under the present system capital is necessarily

accommulative, its power is daily centering in fewer hands,
and becoming more oppressive and unjust toward the great
body of the people. A change must come soon, -as things
cannot go much further in this direction. .

All great reformatory movements are toward th_e rights
and liberty of the individual, and. in this direction must all
the friends of reform bring their efforts to bear. The trades’
unions which exist in most or all of the leading.-nations of

- the world show what power can be obtained by judicious

combinations; but the power they have acquired has, for the
most part, been misapplied, and they have, therefore, done
little for the benefit of the working ‘class. This error should
be corrected at once, and co-operation, not coercion, be the
watchword of the future. Nothing of any great benefit will
be done for the working classes till it is done by themselves.
They must inform themselves of the nature of the reforms
necessary to procure their just rights, and then energetically
carry those reforms through.

F Each man must begin with himself, and not expect others
to do everythingfor him. Great organizations cannot be

e formedin a day; they always grow up from small beginnings.

The great trouble with liberals is that each one wants his own
way; but this cannot be, for each one must merge a part of
his individuality for the good‘of the whole. The simpler the
form of union, and the less the restrictions compatible with
co-operative‘ effort the better will it be, as it will come less
into collision with extreme individualism. . Besides, every

/ man, woman and child has the inherent and natural right to

do just as they please, provided they do not infringe upon
that right in others; but as it is impossible that everybody
can do as they please, at least in the present state of- society,

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some restrictions must be laid upon them; but these re-
strictions of individuality should never exceed what is just
and necessary for the good of the whole.

Modern spiritualism is a liberator as well as an adjuster.
N ot only does it bringjustice in its train, but it carries the
love of justice into every heartiwhich. yields to its influence.
And when we are prepared to be just not only in act but in
thought toward each other, this earth will be like a “little
heaven below” and all its people angels in disguise. One
half the evils we suffer from are caused by our own ignorance
of ourselves, and the other half by other people’s ignorance
of us. We are irritated and angered when other people mis-
judge us, and yet we are continually misjudging other people.

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the circumstances surrounding ourselves than we do the cir-
cumstances surrounding others. It is one of thetruths incul-
cated by spiritualism that vicious and debased lives have been
fmore or less biased in their evil course from pre-natal causes,
themselves resulting either directly or indirectly from ignor-
ance, and over which they had no control. This being so, it
follows that popular acceptance of any religion or custom is
no proof that that religion or custom is true, because it may
be. and most likelyis, the result of transmission and a false
education. This is the case with christianity. Its, founder
was an independent investigator, but his followers are not
such. Any result arrived at by two independent investigators
ismore worthy of belief than anything which has mere«*po'pu-
larity to support it. N ow, nine outof every ten independent
thinkers have come to the conclusion that christianity is not
what it claims to be. This is, at any rate, enough evidence to
set every christian to do his own thinking. Every spiritualist
has become so on his own evidence, and I say firmly that
modern spiritualism has more independent evidence in its
support than anything in the history of the world which has
offered itself for the acceptance of mankind. Christian-
spiritualism is an anomally; for christianity is of G'0d"—Bl1-
pernatural, while modern spiritualism is of nature——natural.
Everywhere the supernatural is false, the natural, true; while
God, in the light of modern science and modern spiritualis
has “ melted into air, into thin air.” '

It is quite possible there are some spiritualists who yet be-
lieve in chrlstianity, and who, were they compelled to make
a choice, would prefer their christianity to their spiritualism:
By such spiritualists is the cause dishonored. But although
spiritualism sweeps the universe clear of all such G-ods as men
have been taught to worship. still 1 do not like the term
Atheism ; for although modern science has demonstrated that
outside’ of nature there is no such thing as a designing artificer,
yet what there is inside of nature we cannot tell. I prefer to
be called a spiritualist, a name significant of What I do know,
to being called an athiest, which is significant of what most
probably I never can know. But whether we call ourselves
liberals, athiests, or spiritualists we must ever stand ready to
‘receive whatever we are convinced is true, and believe noth-
ing on the strength of its general acceptance.

There are few who will dare to say that the present state
of society in any part of the world is satisfactory. In spite of
the great influence‘ of chrlstianity, with its prayers and ex-
hortations, its Young Men’s Christian Associations, its
charitable institutions and its acknowledged respectability-
in spite of the good example of all good men and women, and
the good precepts of most hypocritical pretenders, most men
do not love their neighbors as themselves, and a vast num-
_ber of them are neither truthful nor honest’. Now, surely it
is afair question to ask why dishonesty and hypocrisy are so
prevalent. It is in answer to this question that ignorance
through christianity replies that man is naturally depraved.
But wherever the answers of christianit’y to any question
have been brought to the test of Nature, they have been
proved erroneous, and it is a fair presumption that her
answers to many questions of the deepest interest to the
welfare of the human race, now waiting a solution. are also
erroneous. We must look elsewhere for a reply. If a’ man
wants information in astronomy he examines the stars :. if in
geology, he examines the crust of the earth; and so if we
want to understand what human life is, we must examine
human life in all its relations.

In the light of modern spiritualism, the past history of the
world loses much of its mysteriousness, and becomes more
natural. The gods and demons, which haunted, inspiredand
terrified men’s souls, have been reduced to human spirits,
and we have lost nothing by the change, but gained im-

Why is this? Simply because weknow and better understand .

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nmensely. And since no infinite power ever pronounced a

curse on man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, it is-
time that we understood how to satisfy the demands -of
Nature, and secure justice for all. ~ But not only will natural
law right the wrongs of the laboring classes, it will eventually
regulate all the social relations by which man is surrounded.
It is evident from the adaptability and equality of the sexes,
that their production is governed by law. It is also evident 1
from the strong attraction existing in the opposite sexes for
each other, that their union is natural. Under what condi-
tions must this union take place? It will not be saying too _
much to say that on the right understanding of this question
depends mainly the happiness of every man, woman and
child. And I suppose that no question of vital interest to
mankind has received less attention from thinkers, and is
therefore more under the control of ignorance and prejudice,
than this one of the relation of the sexes. If we are deter-
mined to be governed by prejudice, the present state of
things will never become much better; but if we will make
an effort to look steadily and calmly at the subject, We shall
soon arrive at a better understanding of it.
[TO BE ooN'r1NUnD.]

THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY—VVHENCE - DERIVED.

In our previous article on marriage the challenge is plainly
made to all whom it may concern, to show that any religious
rite or ceremony was ordained or practiced by patriarchs,
prophets ‘or apostles, or by Jesus, the divine founder of
Christianity. Whence, then, did Jews and Christians derive
the custom; or when was the occasion changed from one of
hilarity and mirth, of dancing, feasting and drinking, to one
of solemn religious observances? For an answer to this as
well as many other questions on religious observances we
must visit Rome. Here we find long previous to the era of
the New Testament the worship of Venus had become so
popular that -her aid was invoked on all occasions of love or
marriage, her good oflices sought to be secured not only by
costly offerings and sacrifices, but by participation in rites
which historians prudently pass over unnamed. Nor was
the worship of Venus the only means used to propitiate the
deities of love, and bespeak their favor against the curse of
barrenness. Relics of a worship more sensuous if possible,
and more indelicate to even allude to, are yet found in some
parts of the East where it-has maintained itself for thousands
of years. The Roman conquerors not only captured empires
and kingdoms, but religions as well, and added to their list
of titular divinities those of every nation which they sub-
dued. Then, as now, the Pautheistic wife bowed before her
favorite divinity to beseech the gift of maternity just as the
Italian women do to-day. The maid on the eve of marriage
paid her devotions tothe object of her worship that she might
not bear the reproach of being a childless wife.

What more natural than that the Jews after they had be-
come the slaves of the Romans should adopt some of their
customs of worship, even lfthey persistently refused to ac:
cept their gods? But, as regards the adoption by Christians
of these ceremonies there is less doubt. When Christianity
fought for the ascendancy in pagan Rome it adopted some
methods of success which are still in vogue in the Roman
Church. One of these was partially conforming to the usages
of the people they sought to proselytize, and thengradually
changing the character of that usage so as to give it a Chris-
tian character. We have an instance of this in the observ-
ance of February 14, which day was esteemed by the Romans
as sacred to Venus and her worship. ’

The good fathers, instead of exciting the prejudices of their

‘neighbors by inveighing against the idolatrous and sensual

practices of that occasion, adroitly adopted that day as a
holy day, consecrating it to a real or imaginary Saint Valen-
tine; and to. this day, after sixteen centuries, it still shows
a commingling of the heathen and Christian in its character.
St. Valentine never proved strongienough to crush out St.
Venus. The 1st of‘ May was sacred to the worship of‘ the
Goddess Mai, whose character was not very different from
that of her sister divinity last named. .
The youth of both sexes culled floral offerings to present
at the shrine, and tripped lightly in the dance, with songs,

to her honor. A queen or priestess was chosen, whose reign

extended throughout the year. “ The fathers ” wisely for-
bore to knock their heads against the practice, but gradually

substituted Mary for Mai, and the continuance of a part of the ”

observance to this time proves their sagacity.

 

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2) g y i woonnnm. a (lLAiF‘LIN’S WEEKLY.

’ August 14, 1875.

In aword, what they found too deeply rooted to hope to
eradicate they accepted, gradually and cautiously abstract-
ing the heathen features and supplying those having at least
a Christian name. Thus with the religious ceremony now
considered so necessary to marriage; without warrant of
Scripture or Christian authority, springing from a heathen-
ish and obscene origin, it became engrafted upon Christianity
by the wily politicians of the Church, and is now regarded as

V of equal authority with the commands given on Sinai or the

oral teachings of Jesus. .

‘ Could many of our young ladies, who would be horrified at
the idea of a marriage without religious ceremonies,'trace
back the custom to its source and witness the forms in which

C it originated, we can imagine the blushes which would

mantle their fair brows, and the alacrity with which they
would choose a Scriptural marriage. In another article we
will try to show the difference between a true and false
marriage, and their effects upon the world.

T. S. COTTON.

 

‘GEMS FROM FCURIER.
V.
TREE-wILL——L1BEnTY.

=1‘ * ‘F Since one understands by free-will the faculty of
forming a healthy judgment disengaged from illusory sug-
gestions.——(II., Xviii.)

There is no other path to unity but by harmonizing the
two impulsions, that of God, which operates by attraction,
as is seen in the stars, and in animals, and that of man, which
should operate by reason or science in accord with attraction.
-—(II., xxviii.)

Some have believed that God was all, and man nothing;
others that God was nothing, and man all; a result of pride
in the one case and humility in the other. To’ reach theories
of equilibrium, throw ofi‘ half the pride of philosophy and half
the humility of theology; you will then realize the concep-
tion that attraction must be placed in the balance with
reason; that man must be an associate, not the valet of God.
—(lI., xxi.) .

I have not been stopped by the subtleties of the schools on

free-will. I have not read and shall not read them.

Religion, to the use of which men are counselled, is to
seven-eighths of them but a refinement of punishment, a con-
straint added to want; and free-will, in its accepted sense,
is but a warrant of punishment in this world and the other;
for in yielding without reason to natural and attractive im-
pulses, we shall be punished; and in yielding to reason,
which directs us to resist our passions, we experience double
torment, constraint and want.—(I1., xl.) ‘

When balance and option shall be regularly established
4‘ * * =16 * there will be free-will in divine or direct im-
pulsion, which is attraction, and in human or indirect
impulsion, which is reason. To the latter will no longer be
assigned the impossible task of moderating attraction, but

only to enlighten and direct it in the options and graduations‘
of the affluence of pleasures which will be at hand [in the A

combined, co-operative or unitary order, in contradistinction
to the present discord ant, competitive methods pivoted on
the isolated household.] Reason will then be heard, because
it will serve and refine attraction; To-day, as reason tries to
confine attraction, it is trampled under foot.——(II., li.)

In harmony (a social condition to be reached by scientific
co-operation in which unitary domestic life replaces the
wasteful and discordant isolated household) we have no need
of reason as a moderator, since moderation is born from the
affluence of pleasures.-——(II., lvii.) '

Rema.rk.——Even in present society this lawthat “ modera-
tion is born from the aflluence of pleasures ” may sometimes
be seen in operation. Cultivated and aesthetic persons, hav-
ing within themselves great resources for a variety of enjoy-
ments and having access to congenial society, rarely go to
excess in any pleasure. Diversity insures temperate enjoy-
ment‘. Intemperance and dissipation are mainly found where
the characteristics and conditions are the reverse of the pre-

ceding, and are certain to disappear in harmony.

TABLE on‘ THE FOUR EXERCISES OF LIBERTY.
Compound positive; convergent direct. . .2 elements.
. . . - 5' 4
Simple positive; divergent active . . . . . . . . .1 ‘
Simple negative; divergent passive . . . . . . .1 “
Compound negative; convergent inverse..2 “ S .

V Liberty, in its fourth exercise, is the compound negative, ‘

or the two elements frustrated. Civilization knows only this
fourth uberty. Its raw, rough, but just reason shows only
misfortune (as resulting from gratification of desire) in its
miserable condition. 111 Vain Dhi10S0PhY and th9010g.‘7 in-
tervene to prove, the one that privation is the road to heaven,
the other that privations are the happiness of the wise. The
people are deaf to this scrawl of subtleties, and exclaim
everywhere that they are very unfortunate and desire to be
rich that they may deliver themselves to pleasure. Philoso-
phy replies that gold and silver are vile metals; theology that
we only need grace and indulgences. The people kick beau-
tifully againstthese learned teachings, and persist in desir-
ing riches and deploring privation.——(lI., lix.)

Let us not lose by discussing a free will the moments des-
tined for its enjoyment.——(Il., lv.) A- CRIDGE-

 

“DUNGEON ROCK.
BY LOIS WAISBROOKER.
Sister Vtctoriia: . _“
What brother Middlebrook says of the “Presidential cam-
paign which the same spirits undertook to engineer” and
, omments upon the same, lead me to say a few words

our c
y of the above-named

upon spirit-pledges in genera}-—and

place in particular. _ _ _ _
For myself, I do not believe that truer words of inspiration

. were ever uttered than those of Watt, in which he says:

“ God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to psi-fornn.”

then adds in comment upon the tendency to unbelief:
“God is his own interpreter V
> And he will make it plain.” —_

Many and various are the comments made upon the folly 0
those who “ follow blindly” the dictation of spirits, when the
fact is that those who are thus led are generally the most
stubborn, the most incredulous, the most unyielding natures.
They are those whom the world cannot subdue, those over
whom wealth,'fashion, popularity have but little or no in-
fluence; those who have the stuff in them of which good tim-
bers can be made for the temple of progress, if they can only
be hewed and straightened.

I am particularly struck with the amount of evidence it re-
quired, in the shape of tests given through different mediums’
communications that came from parties between whom there
could be no collusion, before Mr. Marble could be induced to
undertake to open the cave which had been closed by the
earthquake of 1658, the cave then becoming a dungeon, thus
giving tlze name, “ Dungeon Rock.” ,

Instead of seeking for evidence to encourage him to under-
take the work, he continued to resist the evidence given, ab-
solutely forced (so to speak), to yield; but once commenced,
nothing could turn him back, and now from his home on the
other shore he still comes with words of encouragement to
his son, urging him to continue the work, asserting that the
treasure will yet be found, and at the right time to accom-
plish the greatest amount of good.

The treasure for which they are seeking is said to have
been deposited there by Claudius Morello, the leader of a
band of pirates and an Italian, and to have been taken from
the Spanish; government. An excavation, about '2' feet in di-
ameter, has been made into this hardest of rockto the distance
of 145 feet, it being commenced by Hiram Marble, June 5, 1851,
and since his death been continued by his son Edwin; the
son having really done the greatest share of the work, work-
ing from time to time as means and strength have allowed.

- There is one thing apparent to all candid thinkersin refer-
ence to this vmatter. Something more than the idea of mere
personal gain has held these people here all these years, even
till father and mother have joined the unseen hosts, and he
who came with them as but a boy, not yet twenty years of
age, has begun to turn the downhill side of life.

Dungeon Rock is in the western part of Lynn, and about
two miles from the city proper, and has become one of the
places of resort in the vicinity that counts Lynn, Swamps-
cott, N ahant and Marblehead among the favorite watering-
places in the region of Boston, it being some twelve miles
from the latter place and three and a half from the beach.
The lookout from the top of the rock is very fine; while the
house in which the family reside, and the grassy plot in
front, together with the rocks and the pines, make it one of

‘the most romantic places that I have ever visited.

I will close this article with a remark I heard made since
I commenced it, by one who had just come from there: “It
is the greatest curiosity I ever visited ;” adding still further,
that Mr. and Mrs. M. are devoted to the cause of freedom:
and if the treasure is ever found, such workers as you and I,
Victoria, will not want for means to do what our souls so
desire to accomplish.

 

My Dear Mrs. WoodhulL——I have been reading an old book,
“The Poems of the Earl of Rochester,” written two hun-
dred years ago. Appended to them are songs and poems by
other illustrious writers, and among them the following,
which I thought so appropriate for the VVEEKLY that I copied
it and send it to you. Whether or not it is as old as my Lord
Rochester’s works I cannot tell. The book from which I
copy it was compiled by St. Everemont, and printed in 1709,
about thirty years after Rochester’s death.‘ The book is
therefore 166 years old, so whether the song is as old as the
poems of Lord Rochester or not, it is at least of a very re-
spectable age. I give it you as nearly as possible in its
original dress of spelling, capitals, etc. : X,

7 THE
MAID s COMPLAINT 2
A
SONG.

By STEPHEN CLAY, Esq.

1.

Custom, alas! does partial prove,
Nor gives us ev’n Measure;

A Pain to Maids it is to Love,
But ’tis to Men a Pleasure.

11.
They freely can their Thoughts explain,
.But ours must burn within; ‘
We have got Eyes and Tongues in vain,
And Truth from us is Sin.
III.
Men to new Joys and Coiiqucsts fly,
And yet no Hazards run;
Poor we are left if we deny,
And if we yield, undone.
IV.
Then Equal Laws let Custom find,
Nor thus the Sex oppress;

More Freedom give to Womankind,
Or give to Man kind loss.

 

UNION FALLS MUTUAL HOME.
JULY 29, 1875.

True and Tried W. & O.Wee7.cly—Inspired friends of the new
era, whose living oracles of truth, astounding and startling
disclosures are resurrecting a dying race, I hasten to redeem
my promise amid flaming persecutions, for the conflict is
raging with unabated fury. On my arrival home I found the
highways barricaded, and our diamond dwelling at Union

Cataract laid in ashes with all its contents.

A celebrated artist, who was painting some gorgeous views
of our {magnificent waterfalls, lost his sketching apparatus
and all his unfinished paintings.

The Governor had visited our grounds with his cabinet in
response to our petition; Sinnickson had thundered his
truths from his cell in the county jail. The eyes of the foe
were opened; they saw they were arousing a power that
would sweep them away with the bosom of destruction. The
white Quaker elephant was in their hands, whom they have

their study.

We have sent them word that we are ready for arrest or
battle, but the stillness that precedes the whirlwind and of
death seems to reign on the grounds. They have no thought
of, arresting me or of committing further depredations at
present. Victoria’s prophecy has proved true that peace
would reign on my return.

Robert is singing in his cell like a caged bird,/and sends us
encouraging lines of glowing poetry. Many columns he has
published in the surrounding papers; is being interviewed
by the reporters of the city press, while we are moving surely
on to the goal of our destiny.

Our Secretary is striving with her might to satisfy the
world-wide curiosity you have awakened regarding our com-
munal home. The incarceration of our printer has increased

the enemy do its worst and suffer for the truth and right.
He is a brave and noble spirit, a true martyr at heart.

Our enemies are quaking with terror; it is thought that
the most of them will leave the country. The Governor has
evidently diséom fited them.

We feel your glowing spirit and remember the prophetic
words of encouragement regarding us. We learn that Lant
is imprisoned and look for a movement on the part of the
thundering Train. We are fortifying for war; will soon be
ready for battle, to die for the truth, if need be. God speed
your work; you have kindled a fire that must burn up the
world.

I inolose a poem on the voice of the seven thunders, pub-
lished in ’53. Am delighted with your marvelous speeches,
with the fury of your focalized truth which is sharper than
any two-edged sword. You are blowing the trumpet in Zion,
calling the cohorts of freedom to arms, sounding the bugle of
true and lasting reform, wielding the lever that must move
the world. God speed your work; do not faint nor falter;
write, speak. and spare not,with the eloquence of an avenging
God, for the world is ripe for destruction and few are living
worth saving.

Tell your resurrected readers of our misfortune and inabil-
ity to respond to their many wishes save through your glow-
ing columns. They must read and re-read the WEEKLY if
they would solve the mystery of life and know the meaning
of this movement. Christ must come through woman; she is
the soul of the new era.

Say to all who would live the truth, come on with your
tents and bedding; our dwelling is laid in ashes, but the
earth is not consumed. It rains now without ceasing; our
roaring cataracts echo the voice of many waters ; the music of
the spheres are opening up our heaven; the Eden of the Lord
glows with grandeur on the mountain unto which all nations
will surely bring their treasures. E. Z. WICKES.

. ASTONISIIED.

VVc scarcely nccd say that we were astonished to find the
following in the Omcinnati Oommercial. We more than half
suspect that the initials “ II. N.” stand for a name that fre-
qucntly appears in the VVEEKLY; while the crispness and
vigor of the sentences still more clearly indicate their source:

MRS. WooD11ULL’s DOCTRINE.
- J ULY 26, 1875.
To the Editor of the Co'mme'rct'a.l: ‘

In your issue of the 24th is an article on the
Gush,” copied from the Bufialo .Eaapress.

Now, I protest it makes me mad when you editors continue
to misrepresent Victoria Woodhull in your columns, in spite-
of that which is clear evidence to the contrary of what you
assert. ‘

“ Gospel of

deny«for her, that assertion of the Buffalo Empress about her
promiscuous doctrines?

Have you the sublime courage to publish what she does ad-
vocate? You editors are fast and sure to publish the asser-
tion that she advocates promiscuity. Will you, as only one
of the fraternity, manifest any sense of justice and also make
public through your columns a direct denial of that asser-
tion ? -

that could have been construed into the meaning her ene-
mies have put into her mouth. '

She knows that promiscuity is an outcropping of all the
social systems since “Adam was a little boy.” She knows
promiscuity is, therefore she does not “ advocate” a fact.
She advocates freedom as a corrective of an ingrained and
growing evil that, in her opinion, is augmented by restric-
tion. "

Whether she is correct or not is not the question. The
question lies in journalistic injustice to her and her prin-
ciples. ‘

She has said over and over that promiscuity is the {lowest
stage of human sexual development; and she does not fail to
define the word promiscuous, so that there need be no mis-
takes made save by the willfully blind and bigoted.

She further asserts that the promiscuous plane is the com-
mon one, whether the promiscuous nature is sated on one,
or a dozen, or a hundred, or two or three thousand women_

Let social scientists of “ acknowledged” respectability
deny the ‘above, not a mere “ locker on in Venice,” for the
sake of hunting awoman and her principle down, and set-
ting a “few barren spectators” to howl at her heels. H. N.

Dear Wee7cZy—Allow me to allude to a little) blunder in
your article on “God,” in No. 243. Speaking of Dover’s

powders and their constituents, you instance saltpetre. , Now, L

saltpetre has no part in Dover’s powders ;‘and even if it had

christened the swamp angel. How to get rid of him is now -’

her labor. He refuses to have us bail him, preferring to let '

How often must she reiterate, and those who know her, .

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potash is quite wide from saltpetre. What you possibly had,
and surely should have had, in mind was James P0Wd91'5““
a fever powder used in allopathic practice, composed of oxy-
dized antimony and phosphate of lime, which latter, when
obtained from the phosphotic rocks of Estremadura and used
in its composition, renders the powder inert and worthless
as a remedial agent.) That from animal bones is alone effec-
tive, and for the very reason given in your elaborate article-
namely, its having passed through organic animal forms.
And I fully agree with you that D1‘0b%b1Y its efficacy Would
be largely increased if taken from human bones. So much
for chemical and scientific matters.

And now a wo.rd speculatively in regard to the hand of
God in creation, which you essay to make appeal‘ 0Vid911l3

I through many passages in the same article. Starting with

the formula that “ external form is the exact measure of in-
ternal force,” I hold that each material particle exists only
as the form of the thought of the individualized, intelligent
spirit interior to that form—underlying it, so to speak-and
that the universe is but ‘an aggregation of thmkms spirlts.
individualized and distinct, projecting their forms externally
for the very purpose of affecting the consciousness and ap-
pealing ‘to the sympathy of other spirits; and such, and of
such only, are the visible forms, miscalled material and sub-
stantial, while in reality they are verily evanescent and
fleeting. The real material and substantial things are those
which, in the exercise of inherent power, project upon the
vision of other like beings the forms of their thoughts, born
of volition. And so we come by a short out to the question,
“ What and where is God?” These infinite armies of -spirits
are necessarily eternal and self-existent,vuncreated and im-
perishable. The question, “What and where is God?” has
no place. Let us waste no words about it.
Yours, ST B. BULKELEY.

WI-IO GET THE HIGH WAG ES?
BY A WORKINGMAN.
To THE GRANGEBS AND TOILEBS:

Brothers and Sisters—Did you ever think of it? Think and
be roused up to indignation and co—operation. Who are
always paid the very highest wages, and never cut down-
always cash and no store pay, nor county orders? A certain
class is so favored, even in the hardest times, and in such a
blessed and famous land as ours; while large multitudes of
honest, willing producers are out of work and out of bread!
That extra nice and favored class never soil their most re-
spectable fingers with any hoe, spade or plow, to plant so
much even as a hill of white beans or squaw corn. And yet
their own handsome wages, salaries and fees are regular, sure
and prompt as the sunrise, without delay or bother. That
class are your ofiice-holders and professional men——dead-
heads—over the whole broad country. They live in the
grandest houses, wear the finest and most stylish clothes, and
drive -the richest liveries, and then tax you and me to pay
their heavy bills. , '

The big wages of this fat, happy and lazy class, ‘for nation,
state, county, city and town amount to millions on millions,
continually drawn from working-people’s pockets. It is a
flooding river of taxation, vast as the mighty Mississippi, con-
stantly rolling and swelling to the great ocean reservoirs
(treasuries) at every state capital and at Washington. We
may call it a cruel juggernaut, and every workingman is
forced under its ponderous and bloody wheels. Yet, lucky
is the scheming wight, so cunning, cute, sharp and tricky as
to fawn his sly way into this charmed circle of ofice-holding
and professions. He then gets the luxuries and revels in the
honey, while, poor working and grubbing devils, burn gun-
powder on the Fourth of July, so proud that a hundred
years ago, our brave grandfathers thrashed out those detest-
able red coats! Oh, look at us; ain’t we most pitiful and

0 silly fools? What, indeed, have we workers to boast of,

except that we shake the bush, while others (loafers) grab the
pretty bird and--eat the luscious fruit?

Who ever heard, of a president, governor, congressman,
legislator, lawyer, doctor or minister volunteering to reduce
his own pay? Never. / The boot is on the other leg. Only
common workers and factory operatives are ever. expected to
do any such thing. A hundred thousand dollars _a year to
Henry Ward Beecher and starvation to a million weaving,
sewing and cooking girls! The officials and professionals
must all receive full price for the least service (mighty little
sometimes), and some even demand advance salary, if not
“ back pay.” But‘ there is no monopoly nor extortion in all
this, of course, not the least shadow! It is Democratic, Re-
publican, Christian, Jefiersonian, Madisonian, Jacksonian,
G-rant-onian, or whatever you please. Only manage some
how to gather up the clean cash from the honest poor, who
are always ready to work—when they find a chance.

That is the «difference, my kind friends, between the top
and the bottom classes, between workers and ‘hon-workers,
producers and non-producers. This difierence is asiold as the
“ oldest inhabitant,” and it grows wider and wider, until
now it has become areal ‘.‘ bloody chasm.” The few high up
in the rich clover-blossoms of beauty and comfort; the many
—-the fnillions—down in the dust of helpless vassalage—all in
théxnfilllle of justice and equal rights!

“more is labor to-day? Abeggar in the streets. Where is
money? A God, a king. Money dresses up, rides in a car-
riage and goes to Congress, then taxes labor to pay the high
wages and heavy costs. Money, though a blodkhead, always
wins against labor and brains. Don’t we all know this? How
will it be on election day? Labor produces all wealth, and
yet goes in rags, travels on foot and sleeps in a hovel. And
why? Just simply for lack of unity and co-operation among
the workers. Nothing else. And who is to blame? All of
us. We don’t stand up for labor; we don’t, we don’t, we
don’t. , '

Now, brother workers who expect to vote, letme beg of
you not to allow your ballots to count against unity and
equal rights, and thus prove the ballot-boxa mere party-
trap to catch fools.

I CHAMPLIN, Minesota.

‘ _ WIIOSE CONSENT MUST BE OBTAINED?
' BY WARREN crush. it

It is not yet decided whether a wife has a legal and reli-~
gious right to blow her nose without the consent of her hus-
band, nor whether she has a right to use or control any organ
of her body without his permission. We contend that under
the present law she has not, as she is his propertysbody and
soul during life; and that as the husband is not the property
of the wife, the law does not work both ways alike. If a wo-
main is not a wife, whose consent must she obtain "to use her
body? A widow, whose husband is dead, thereby making
her a legal social and religious widow, writes us that she has
been magnetically treating a married man greatly to his ben-
efit, as all parties even his wife admit——a man of wealth and
influence sufficient to do as he pleases in such matters—and
she says (I suppose he told her) that his ailments were largely
attributable to inharmonious social relations. She does not
say that even his wife complains, though probably she will.
But the awful widow! all her friends have deserted her,
which proves she had no real friends. Even her children dis-
card her, and she is scandallzed of course. She ought first to
have got the consent of the minister, then of her children,
and then of all the neighbors, and to be sure that she would
only do just what they all consented she might do, and not
soil her reputation, they should have appointed -a commit-
tee to witness the treatment. All widows and maidens
should be guarded and closely watched lest they do some-
thing to tarnish their moral character. The clergy are the
best guardians. since it has been proven in the Beecher case
that they are above committing any act inconsistent with
their profession, which is largely hypocrisy. Why, there
might be such a terrible act as a “paroxysmal” kiss if no
witness were present, and that would be horrible unless it
were given to a clergyman; it would not hurt him nor the
female giver. I ‘V

We are sorry for our lady friend, but as the law is and the
social status, we do not see how she can escape condemna-
tion, since the functions of a widow or a maid are under the
guardianship of the public for protection, not for use, and
those of a wife belong to her husband; hence women have
no rights of person in either case. V,Ve men are lords of cre-
ation, and of course have rights for ourselves and the right
to control woman and make laws and rules to protect her,
since she is incapable of self-protection. Poor souls! VVith
bodies not their own why should they blow their noses with-
out consent of owners and masters? This female slaves of
chatt elism were little worse situated.

THE SALE OF DAUGIITERS.

The public marts for the sale of young ladies are now in
full operation. It is the height of the season at fashionable
watering-places. Hither worldly-minded, ambitious, schem-
ing, women repair with their marriageable daughters, in pur-
suit of what are deemed “ eligible ” matches-that is to say,
matches in which, for the sake of social or pecuniary ad-
vantages, the hand is given unaccompanied by the heart.

It is in" vain to appeal tosuch women. The motherly" in-
stinct appears to be eradicated from their nature. And yet
they are engaged in an undertaking but little elevated above
the slave-mart.‘ They are bartering away the whole future
of the lives of their’own children. For these forced mar-
riages, springing, not from love in the heart, but from base
business calculations, are sure to end in mlsery.—-N. Y.
Ledger, Aug. 14, ’75.’

VVHAT DREADFUL MYSTERY IS HERE?

The Boston Gazette says: In a private letter_our Paris cor-
respondent says: “A few weeks since I met an American
gentleman who is living here. Ile is a man whose reputation
in America is as wide as the United States. He spoke to me
for hours of the miseries of American families living in Paris.
He himself is wretched. I every day expect to hear that he
has committed suicide. I determined to write a letter for

the Gazette on those miseries. My first sentence was, “ Don’t ‘

envy American families living here.” I had not written
two pages before I saw it could not be published. Everybody
here would have applied the proper names to the incidents
related. I should have revealed many families’ secrets, and
I should have caused widespread distress. I threw the manu-
script into the fire.”

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“SHOW YOUR HAND!”-—A few days since a gentleman‘

called on us and inquired how he could be served with the
Iwzcestigator? He was asked where he lived, and he gave the
name of a city not far from Boston. He. was told that the
paper could be sent to him by mail, and he could get it at the
post ofiilce, as did our other subscribers at the same city.
“ Why,” said he, “ do you now have any subseribers there?”
life turned to our book and showed the names of seven.
“. Well,” said he, “ I am well acquainted with those men, but
never knew that either of them took the Investigator, nor
was it until recently that I heard that there was such a paper
published. Had I known it I should -have had it before.”

‘He subscribed,-and seemed very glad to know there were
others in his city who were inquirers as well as himself, but
remarked that if people had light it was not good policy to
placeit under a bushel, nor to. hold sentiments of which they
were afraid to stand by, and let others have the privilege of
replying if they could. A very sensible remark, and worthy
of being remembered.-—Im:estigator.

NOTHING LIKE IT. A

Tothose who are inquiring of the price of the ‘above when
published, I would say that I cannot tell exactly, but
not higher than Helen Harlan’s Vowfias it was originally
published on good paper and well bound, to wit, $1 50. Shall
make it less if I can, but do notpropose to publish a cheap
edition. LOIS Warsnnooiinn.

SEVERAL young American ladies are at present in Paris,

. studying the art of displayjiig their ankles without appearing

to do it intentionally.

WHEN the good Bishop heard many exclaiming, and ex-
pressing great indignation against anything: “Oh ! oh!”-——he
would say, smiling: “It would seem that this is a great crime
of which they are all guilty. How frightened hypocrisy has-
tens to defend itself, and to get under cover.”——Victor Ifugo_

WERE we ‘to strip our sufferings of all the aggravations
which our over-busy imaginations heap open them, or all that
our impatience and willfulness embitter in them, of all that
a morbid craving for sympathy induces us to display to
others, they would shrink to less than half their bulk; and
what remained would be comparatively easy to support.—Ju-
Mus Hare. ’ _

ON the outside cover of a Bible lying on the cabin-table of
a Hudson River steamer, are written the following lines:

“ This holy book neglected lies, ’
No soul with it communes; ‘
While scores of souls sit round about,
With Heralds and fZ’7"ib2mes.”

“ MY SON,” said arf American father, “ how could you
marry an Irish girl?” “Why, father,” said the son, “ I’m
not able to keep two women—if 1’d married aY-ankee girl I’d
have had to hire an Irish girl to take care of her.”

IT is even worse than it seemed at first glance. For, while
it is palpably true that 35,000 young men in this city cannot
marry on their salaries, it is also true that at least 35,000
married men would give $61,200 a year to be single again, and
where the social system is going to is what we would like to
know.——I'nter-Ocean. V

“ THAT woman,” said a physician to his friend, pointing to

her husband.” “Indeed! Then I suppose you had the mis-
fortune to lose him?” “ No,” said the physician dryly, “I

, saved him.

A YOUNG lady after reading attentively the title of a novel
called “ The Last Man,” exclaimed: “Bless me! if such a
thing were ever to happen, what would become of the wo-
men?” “ What would become of the poor man?” was the re-
mark of an old bachelor.

their harvests, must not become utterly oblivious to our
needs. They must not forget that there is no distinction in
times with us; for all times are alike. VVe 1‘oquire"‘just the
same remembrance in midsummer that we do in mid-
wintcr. The price of a year’s subscription is so small that
those who can ought not to let a week pass after receiving
a bill for the renewal of subscriptions without making the
required remittance. Indeed, if those who think that they
cannot well give it immediate attention would stop and re-
member if all those to whom we send bills were to think the
same, and should act upon the thought, they would see that

V we should soon be‘ unable to issue the paper at all. The

proper way is for each one to imagine that he or she is the
only one who will remember our needs. If this were to be-
come the rule we should be able to return to the original.
‘size at once. \ A

‘NE must request those who are sending in their questions
upon points that they do not understand, or else that have

to exercise a little patience. Our space is very limited, and
besides there is a regular order in which the various parts
of the subject ought to be discussed, some of which parts,
in -which many of the questions proposed are involved, have
not yet come up. We are desirous of meeting all objections
as quickly as possible, and shall endeavor to make all points
plain in due time.

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over the owners of, the patent are progressive men, who in-
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_.. - . cleath.—-Jesus. A 7

To hzfrn that overcometh, I will give to eat of the
hiclclen manna.-—-St. John the Divine.

-That through death he might destroy him that
hacl the ,vower of oleath, ancl cleltver them coho
through fear of death were all thetr ltfettme subject
to bonclage.—Paul.

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j060lC6Ctbl6, gentle’, easy to be entreatecl, fallof mercy
and good fruits, without joarttalzty and wtthorat hy-
j9oorz'sy.—-James, iii., 17. I ~

Anclthese signs shall follow them: Inmy name

— shall they cast out clevtls; they shall take up serpents,’

it . and if they clrinh any cleaclly thzng zt shall not hurt

‘ them ,' they !shall lay hands on the seek and they
shall recover:-—Jesus; -

W YoEK, sATUnDAv, AUGUST 14., 1875.

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break-of-day, next its dawn and afterward its full meridian
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THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE; '

’ , - OR, THE SIX-1’O1‘NTED STAR IN THE EAST.

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earth and spirit spheres ‘in a common brotherhood, and the

_ establishment thereby of the universal human family. It
- f _ also represents still another and more important truth which
E A 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
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And in thatiday there shall be a robt of Jesse, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be
g1OI'i0l1S.———ISAIAH xi, 10.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto Davida
righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute

» judgment and justice in the earth.-—JEEEMIAH XXl1l., 5

But thou Bethlehem, though thou be little among the thousands of Ju-
dah, et out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in
Israe ; whose goings forth have been from everlasting:-MICAH v., 2.

And there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all

people, nations and languages should serve him; his dominion is an ever-
asting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which

shall not be destroyed.-DAN1EL v1i., 14.

Havin made known to us the mystery of his will, That in ‘ the dispen-
sation o the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.-
E1>HEsrANs i., 9, 10.

From the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that
which every joint supplieth according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of
itself in love.-IBID iv., 16.

Now of the kings of which we have spoken this is the sum? VVe have a

' minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle which God pitched,

and not man.——I-Innnnws viii., 1, 2.

And this is the father’s will that sent me, that of all things which he
hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
-—ST. JOHN vi., 39.

And when allthings shall be, subdued unto him, then shall the Son also
himself be subject unto him that put all things under _him, that God may
be all in all.—I CORINTHIANS, xv., 28.

For he must reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last
enemy that shall be destroyed is death.—IB1D, 25, 26. '

That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is the devil; and deliver them who, ‘through fear of death were all
their life-time subject to bondage.—HEBEEws i1., 14, 15.

Having boldness to enter into the holiest by a newjand living way, which
he hath_consecrated for us, through the vail.——InID x., 19 20. A

INTRODUCTORY.

Some, have said that there is no God; others,that there
was no Christ. The former proposition, as well as its‘de-
nial, is withoiit what is known as positive proof. Belief in
one or the other is established by faith, upon the side its
subjects deem" the weight of the presumptive evidence to
rest. A mind?‘ that is naturally skeptical, requiring to know
the why andgwherefore of everything, is also naturally a
doubter of the existence of an intelligence that cannot
speak in the peculiar language of its questioner. By the
same rule, however, the class of minds which are naturally
skeptical, might as well deny the existence of intelligence in
the brute creation. It is said that there is no evidence of
intelligence in the creation around us, because all its mani-
festations can be accounted for without calling intelligence
into requisition. Why cannot the movements of the ani-
mal be accounted for upon the same principle? The ani-
mal cannot speak in the English language and say, I know
of this and that; but its movements indicate that it does
know. Neither‘ does- the intelligence which is indicated
in lower orders of creation than the animal, speak in words
to say that it knows anything. Nevertheless, the move-
ments to be observed in those creations speak as plainly of
intelligence asido the same seen in the brute. It is also said
that all the movements in so-called nature are governed by
law, and occur in regular order, and can be ascertained in
advance of their occurrence by an understanding of the law.
When any one can produce to us a thing that man ever per-
formed, from the circulation of the blood within his veins
up to the solution of a problem in geometry, that did not
occur by reason of the strictest rule of law, then we will
fain admit that there is a basis for an argument; but until
there shall be such a thing produced, we must hold, per-
force, if the animal be intelligent, that everything below it
must also be the same in its sphere and range.

The writings in which it is assumed that there is a God,
are of course no evidence to him who questions the fact; but

this does not apply to the other question as to whether there"

were ever a Christ or not. This is not a matter of faith, but
of evidence. In one sense, however, the evidence upon

~ which most people believe in the existence of an intelligent

God, is the same as that ‘upon which they believe in the ex-
istence of a Christ. As there is no one who ever saw God,

to come to us and testify about the fact, so is there no one

living who ever saw Christ, who can come to us and testify
about Him. He is only spoken about by the ministers as
having lived, the same as God is spoken about as living. Sel-
dom is there an inquiry made into the evidence of the life of
Christ on the part of those who listen to the ministers. They
accept their say-so as they do their say—so of a God, and one
is about as questionable, so far as their authority is concern-
ed, as the other. Few can give any reason for a belief that
there was ever such a person as Jesus of Nazareth. They
will answer, if questioned, that the Bible says so; but that
answer is not sufficient. If that were the only reply there is
to be made to the question as to God’s existence, it would
not stand a moment. The Bible in which God is testified
about most clearly and emphatically, is the book of Nature.
Moses and the prophets all speak about talking to and of be-
ing talked to by God;.but if the Bible be examined closely,
it will be found out that in the first instance where Moses
pretends to have talked with God,_that it was the angel of
the Lord who appeared to him; but thenceforward he speaks
of him as God instead of as His angel. All the prophets
are to be explained in the same way; and such explanations
are counterparted by thousands of instances which are now
of constant occurrence in all parts of the world.

THE EXTEENAL PROBABILITIES.

Before going into a review of the evidences that exist in
the Bible of the life of Christ, it is to be observed that there
is but little evidence to be obtained outside’ of that book.
The fact of there having been such a personage is men-
tioned by Josephus; but its authority is denied by some,
and it is said that, the reference has been interpolated by

_ translators interested in having the corroborative evidence

August 14, 1875.

of profane historians to support that of sacred history.

There is but little weight, however, to be attached to such‘
corrobora’tion, even if it be admitted that it is genuine.

Sacred history and profane history have always run parallel
to each other, never coalescing, unless it may be said that
Peter the Hermit and other similar illustrations are excep-
tions to the rule. We mean by this, that in a hundred
years from now, when the political history of this country,

for the present time, is read, there will be no mention
found of Plymouth Church. Wliile it is true that this

‘ Church has exercised a more potent influence on the govern-

ment during the past ten years’ than any other single
organization, it will never pass into recorded history as
having done so. A fact that played so important a
part in the political history of modern Europe as the
Lutheran Reformation, has received scarcely more than a
passing notice in the standard histories of Europe. When
we consider that this event that has had such an immense
effect upon the world, occurred but two centuries ago, and
notice how little is said in political history about the real
personnel of the Reformation, it will not be difficult’ to ac-
count for the want of confirmatory evidence in profane
history of the personnel of what occurred in religious evolu-
tion more than eighteen centuries ago, when the writing of
history of any kind was but little practiced in comparison to
what it has been in more modern times.

It is safe to say that had Luther lived two thousand years

, ago in J udea and had done there what he did in Europe, his

name would have received no more frequent mention from
Josephus than the name of the Nazarene received. There-
fore we are not to go to profane history to prove the facts in
sacred writings, any more than we are to look to sacred his-
tory for the verification of political facts. If we were to rely
upon sacred history to obtain continuous political history,
there would not be enough elicited upon which to build any
historical theory of the evolution of government at all.
Then,why should it be expected that there ought to be enough
confirmation of sacred facts to be gleaned from profane his-
tory upon which to base a consistent theory of the evolution
of religion, when the predominance of the latter kind of
history over the other is so marked and yet contains so
meagre information? If we were to base our judgments as
to whether Sesostris, Semiramis, or Alexander ever lived,
upon the religious traditions of their time, we have no doubt
that the reality of their existence would be questioned quite
as extensively and seriously even as is the existence of the
names that figure in religious history. Indeed it is seriously
to be questioned whether those parts of ancient history that
relate to pre-historic time, are not equally open to the charge
of being myths as is that part of the Bible relating to the
same time. '

One of the most improbable things,when viewed literally,
that is mentioned in the Bible, is the flood; and yet it was
accepted by the ancient historians as a fact, and stands re-
corded so in their histories to this day. But by a well-estab-
lished meteorologic law it is now known to be a physical
impossibility for a rain to continue forty days, and to cover
the whole surface of the earth to the depth related of the
flood.‘ There is just as much water on the earth and in
the atmosphere now as there was at the time it is said that
the flood occurred. If a flood were possible then so’, it is now;
and had there been a literal flood at any time", there must
have been more at other times both before and since theone
related-.

So we are forced, by the lights shed upon civilization by
scientific research, to find some other explanation for the
Bible flood than the one that Moses gave so many hundred
years after it is said to have occurred. To be consistent,we
should regard ancient profane history in the same light that
we regard ancient sacred history, remembering that if the
latter were the foundation for our judgment of them both,
and it were as copious and complete as the former is, that
there would be similar skepticism about the reality of the
former as there now is about that of the latter. Or to view
it in another light: If the writers of sacred history were
myths, why should we not be justified in holding that the
writers of profane history were also myths? That is to say,

"if Peter, John and Paul and the. personages about Whom

they wrote were myths, why shall we not also maintain that

Herodotus, Diodorus, Pliny, Dionysius, Plntarch, Thucyd- "

ides, and personages of whom they wrote were myths?
There is no proof positive that any of them ever lived or
wrote; but neither is there any proof that they did not; and
there is quite as much presumptive proof in sacred history
that its authority is genuine and the things recorded, true,
as there is that the authors of profanefihistory were genuine

and the things recorded by them, true.  
THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE. ‘ vs”

We had occasion to remark previously in these articles
upon the unity of the purposes of a book composed by so
many different authors as the Bible, as being a remarkable
fact, and., probably, one of the best evidences that can be
ecluced of its spirit origin. To find a book made up of not
less than fifty contributions, by as many different authors,
living during a space of two thousand years, and, taken as a
whole, making a‘ complete book upon the subject matter, is
something that cannot be attributed to chance. This book
involves the creation, evolution and final condition of man;
and so far as the development of the subject is concerned

could scarcely have been more connected and systematic had’,

it been written by a single author. But the unity of the
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is the diversity of style in which they are composed. No
two of any of the various writers at all resemble one another
in this regard. There could be no greater dissimilarity of
style between two authors than is patent between the
books of Moses and of Job, or those of Isaiah and Ezekiel
of the old, or those of St. Luke and John, or of Paul and
Peter of the New, Testament.

Each is incomparable in its peculiar method of statement
and argument, as well as in the subtilty of its diction and its
logic. None save the learned and wisest minds could have
produced_a single book within the Bible. And when we ask
ourselves the question, what the condition of the world
would be if the morality taught therein were in practice
everywhere, and consider the inevitable reply, we are com-
pelled to the conclusion that it is the very essence of what
is wiseand just and good. It must be remembered that
the laws of the Mosaic dispensation were for the world four
thousand years ago; while the new commandment made by
Christ, “That ye love one another,” is for all the coming
time. N o nation on the earth has yet grown to the possibil-
ity of that law; indeed, scarcely any individual, of any na-
tion, has ever yet done so. When it has been fulfilled; when
all the people can be said to have outgrown it, then we may
look for another dispensation to be ushered in of which no
mind has yet conceived. .

Nor should we permit ourselves to be misled by the im-
moralities and cruelties of some parts of the Old Testament.
‘They are a faithful allegory of the internal development of
the race. In evolving from the level of the brute to be a
reasoning, thinking individual, man must needs have passed
through all degrees of growth. And when we consider that
there are no worse things recorded as having occurred in the
old time than are occurring in our midst every day, we
ought to take heed lest we be found guilty of the grossest
inconsistency, in requiring so much better things of those
who lived so long age, than of which we are capable with
the experiences of centuries to assist us. The people of
whom these things are related (supposing them to have been
about a people, really, instead of having been used allegori-
.cally by the authors to represent universality, personality
having no part therein), were as good people as were in the
world at that time; perhaps were the best and most advanced
of any. Society and people under the law of evolution,
were as good and great at any given time, as it was pos-
sible for them to have been; and putting the Bible upon a
literal base, no doubt the Jews were a peculiar people with
whom God was well pleased. It is evident that the wise
men and the prophets of the Jews, were visited by visions
and made to prophesy-those things that have been verified
so remarkably.

If a similar book were in the process of development now, in

» the most advanced nation of the world, which would undoubt-

edly be our own, it is not difficult to conceive that something
very similar to the bible would be true of it. As a com-
parison with the wars which it is said the Jews undertook
by the command of God, use the slave-war. If its incep-
tion and development and culmination were to be written in
the peculiar style of the Old Testament, it would be readily
seen how similar the record might be made. The agitation,
extending through a period of forty years, would be the
prophecies of judgments to come upon the people if they

, should not give their slaves their freedom; the war, the com-

mand of God given to Hi.s servant, Abraham, and the final
wresting of the slaves from their masters, through the terri-
ble carnage of battle, "the execution of the judgments.
Regarded in a strictly philosophic view, this is the sum
precisely of all that has occurred. Had there never been the
iniquity of slavery in the South, there would never have
been the terrific judgments that have been visited upon the
nation. Hence it is a complete illustration of what has
occurred to the Jews in fulfillment of the prophecies given
to them. The error that is made in considering them, is
that we fail to keep in View what we know to be the truth.
We lose sight of the fact that there never anything occurred
in the history of a people or a race, that was not a necessary
result of the operations of the law of evolution; and there.
fore everything that happened to the Jews, and through
them to other peoples, with whom they came into collision,
was the execution of God’s judgments. The terrible
character of the charges against the Jewish God, there-
fore, is in those who make them rather than in Him. He
wrought through the Jews by immutable law, while those
who set themselves to be His critics and His judges, have
built a God whom they place upon the level of their own

. undeveloped natures, and pretend to conceive him as issuing

arbitrary commands as penalties for deeds between which
there were no natural connections of cause and sequence It
is necessary that people acquire some icoherent idea of the
ways by which God works before setting themselves up to

, criticize His deeds. It was for this reason, more than for

any other, that we endeavored to lay before the public our

_ own ideas of God. It is impossible to have a just concep-

tion of the Bible, or, indeed, of anything, unless the mind
is first relieved of false ideas that have grown out of the
conception of God as being a personality, subject, like our-
selves, to passion, revenge and repentance, and a healthy,
broad and rounded view of the creative power of the uni-
verse isreceived to fill their place.
PROPIIECIES coucnnnnve HIM.

The value of the Bible to us,-liowever, does not consist so
much in its poetic rendition of that which was, as in its

. prophetic ifiromises of that which is to be. In this respect,

weennnnr. as cjLnrtrn=s wnénnrxr.

the Old Testameiit is no less remarkable in things that still
apply than it is in those that have been realized. Let what
may be said of the doctrine and theories that have
been developed from the Bible, there can be but one con-
clusion about the fulfillment of its prophecies. VVherc are
“The Holy People?” , Scattered into every nation in the
world as their prophets have foretold that they should be.

But behind all this seemingly terrible retribution ‘there is
a cloud of silver lining. No matter how black the fore-
ground may be, nor how deep the bank, there is a still be-
hind it all, which is to shine and to illuminate the world.
“And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things; a feast of wines on the lees; of
fat things full of marrow; of wine on the lees, well refined.
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the
Lord will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the
rebuke of the people shall he taken away from off all the
earth; for the Lord God hath spoken it. And , it shall be
said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for
him, and he will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited
for him, we will be glad and rejoice in’ his salvation,” said
the prophet Isaiah. , ‘

Similar prophecies to these were made by all the other
prophets together with many other things of not so general
application. This one relates to all the people inithe world.
Others, pertaining specially to the Jews, have been long
since fulfilled. "It is not positive evidence that the former
will come to pass because the latter have come true; but it
is strong presumptive evidence that it may; and at least en-
titles it to fair consideration. . ‘

Viewed in the light of modern acquisitions, we deem it
quite as certain that this prophecy will be fulfilled as that
the world shall continue to exist. Indeed, it is the inevitable
outcome of the evolution of society. If it last and grow, it
must come to the words of the prophet Isaiah at last. Then
who shall undertake to say that the prophet merely wrote to
see what he could write, when he penned the promise? Who
shall undertake to say that a power which knew that this
should come was not the source of his inspiration‘? If there
were a mind in the universe at that time which comprehended
what thousands understand to-day, that the world must grow
to the condition ‘mentioned by the prophet, why should not
that mind have been the real maker of the premises?

It is awell established fact that there isa prophetic power
connected with the human mind; why not admit that
Isaiah’s soul was made the ' subject of this power?
Moreover, this prophecy, as well as all similar ones made
by other prophets, is connected with the Saviour that was
to come, through whom the promises were to be realized.
There never was a theory or truth of any kind introduced
upon the earth that did not find expression first in some
individual, from whom it spread to others. The individual
through whom each separate good has been introduced into
the world has been the saviour in that good.

In the condition promised by Isaiah, all people must
have grownto the full stature of harmonious manhood; but
all will not come to it together. It must have a beginning
somewhere, and he or she in whom that beginning shall
be made; in whom shall be the perfect unity of two natures
moulded into one; in whom the love of self shall be ex-
tended over all; in whom the new commandment shall be
verified———he or they shall be the recognized saviours of that
glorious dispensation, and the Christ of whom the prophets
prophesied and poets sang in their prophetic strains, as
well. If these things were realized in the gentle Nazarene,
then he is the saviour of the world, and will be recognized
as such when the world shall have been saved; if not, then
another will arise who shall fulfill the prophecies.

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STILL AGAIN.

Whether ignorantly or willfully, some of our readers
persist in thinking, or in pretending to think, or in pre-
tending to think that they think, that in some way or other
we have gone over to the Church. Some have gone so far
even as to say that we have been bought over. It seems to
us, however, that all this must be -put on. What is there
that we ever advocated that we have departed from? Do
we not still hold‘ to the doctrine of freedom for woman,
which was the most obnoxious thing to the Church of any-
thing we ever advocated? VVhat, pray, have we sold?
Will some of our criticsplease inform us? The fact is that
ewe are receiving severe criticisms from the Church on ac-
count of the new positions to which we have advanced, in
all of which criticisms we are advised to drop the
opposition to legal marriage, and renounce our old theories,
which we shall never do. Moreover, we can show con-
clusively that salvation, according to the Bible, can never
come to the world so long as the curse put upon Eve, that
her husband should rule over her, remains, and how can it
ever be removed save by the abrogation of legal marriage‘?
Perhaps some of those who advise us will give the informa-
tion. But we insist upon not being misrepresented. We
have no connection with any church ; no wish to have any,
and shall never have any unless it be with a church that
shall be reared hereafter upon the principles that we have
suffered so much to establish. We know that legal marriage
is the present stronghold of the Church, and that when it
falls, as fall it must, the Church will have to be recon-_

istructecl upon anothei: base. Tlie legal. family is titterly

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inconsistent and impossible with the family of which
Christ is to be the head, and which will ultimately include
all people. This family is the one of which we are the 1111-
compromising advocatc; andunless the Church come overto
such a basis, we never shall be related to it, as at present
organized, even in sentiment, to say nothing about any
external connection. Moreover, we feel to .repeat again that
Christ, as we see, is the Saviour in an entirely different way
from what he is taught as being by any sect of Christians.
He is the Saviour of the body from death, by having brought
to light the physical ‘fact by which death is to be destroyed,
and not the Saviour of the soul, except as a result of the
salvation of the body.
further occasion to repeat our position.

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THE TOLEDO SUN.

John A. Lant, the publisher and editor of this paper, has
been endeavoring to make his Sim shine in New York; but
he has encountered the-same difficulties that he had in
Toledo, and with which he was threatened in Berlin Heights.
Last week he was arrested upon the charge of sending ob-
scene literature through the mails, and is now in Ludlow
street Jail in default of $5,000 bail. The article charged as
obscene was one of Mr. Train’s productions. It is due to the
latter gentleman to say that he was present at the examina-
tion before Commissioner Osborn (the same before whom
we were first brought), and ofiered to become responsible as
the author of the article if he would discharge Lant. It is
supposed that the society under whose auspices this arrest
is made have got the laws fixed to suit themselves. Both
Congress and the Legislature of New York have passed all
laws that they have asked them to pass, and are, therefore,
responsible for this gross violation of the first article of
Amendments to the Constitution. We hope that Mr. Lant
will be able to test the constitutionality of the Congressional.
Act which contravenes the language of the Constitution,
which says that “Congress shall make no law abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press.” We do not see
how stichwexplicit language as this can be gotten over; but
we must remember that this is no longer a free country, and
that those who are in ofiice put their own construction upon
the laws, and the people are either too absorbed in their
selfish pu.rsuits to care what they do; or else are too indif-
ferent to care what becomes of the country. While we
question the good taste of the publication complained of,
we have no doubt of the right of Mr. Lant to send it through
the mails, and we trust thathis right will be vindicated
when the case shall come up, should the grand jury find an
indictment, which they undoubtedly will. If the press of
the country does not lift its voice and power against these
encroaehments upon the rights of the people, its own rights
will be the next to be invaded. If they can arrest and
punish Mr. Lant for pnblishing the Toledo Sun now,,’they
will soon be able to arrest and punish others who shall‘ dare
to criticize the doings of any hypocritical modern Pharisee,
as they attempted but failed in our own case.

notified Messrs. Shearman and Sterling, Mr. Beecher’s coun-
sel of record, that the case of Tilton es. Beecher will be
called for trial at the beginning of the September term of
the Brooklyn City Court. So the celebrated case is not dead
after all. It will be‘ remembered that we said it would never
be closed until the whole truthis fully established. It is
said that they have now conclusive proof; and that they
are going this time to try -the issue instead of the reputation
of witnesses.

WELL done, Gentle Wilson! Z’he'Spz'm'tuaZz'st at Work re.
published from the Dubuque Eimes, Juliet H. Severance’s
speech at the Inter-State Camp-meeting of Spiritualists,
held at Dubuque, Iowa, on My Religion, which she said
was Free Love, and it ;is actually introduced by a first-class
indorsement. Well, well! Is the world so nearat an end‘?
It was not many weeks ago that Gentle Wilson took special
pains to state that he was utterly opposed to Mrs. Wood-
hull’s social freedom doctrines. Let our readers remember
that Mrs. Severance’s social ideas are precisely similar to
our own. He indorses hers, but condemns ours; or has
there been a‘ conversion?

THANKS to friends D. W. Allen and Elvira Iiuli, of Vine-
land, for a crate of luscious blackberries. They are as
sweet and tasteful as the spirit in which they were sent, and
are received by us as the evidence of a feeling that ought to
exist between each and every member of the whole human
race.

SOME days ago we received a visit from E. Z. Wickes,
the President of the Mutual Benefit Union Company at
Bushkill, Pa. He explained fully the plans and purposes
of the movement, and is thoroughly devoted to them. At

movement. In the meantime we refer our readers to com-
munications from the Sec1“et.ajry, which will be published

that they are not Without their troubles. While the Presi-
dent was visiting in New York, the mob burned one of their-

houses. The Governor of Pa. has been there and has re-
Lstorecl quiet and order. , ~

 

We trust that we shall have no.

SAMUEL D. Monnrs, Mr. Tilton’s counsel of record, has ; '

some future time we shall have something to say about this i

-from time to time. It will be seen from another column’

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August 14, 1875.

.THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION.

The centennial of the true and brave Daniel O’Connell is
to be honored in Dublin on the 6th inst. From accounts re-
ceived it is to be made the occasion of a great Catholic dem-
onstration, and many of the high dignitaries of that Church
have been invited to join in the celebration. To make the

I ecclesiastical idea of it more prominent, the Lord Mayor of

Dublin, who is to preside, has given notice of his intention
to propose the health of his Pope before that of his Queen,
which slight can only be looked upon as a priestly gage of
defiance to all temporal potentates. A million of men are
expected to parade in line, and of course all the German
bishops have been invited, _ including his imprisoned Emi-

/ nence, Cardinal Lechowski. _

The question is-—what will be Prince Bismarck’s answer to
this long flourish of celestial trumpets? He is prompt and
eminently a man of action. If he says through Victor
Emanuel to his holiness Pio Nono—“ travel”—why, travel
it must be in spite of the objurgations of the faithful. VVhen
the King of Italy captured Rome, it was reported that there
were two British frigates in the Tiber, at the service, if need-
ed, of Pio Nono. We do not think,if the programme of this
health-drinking business is carried out, the cntemfe cordiale
between the Queen of Great Britain and the Pope will stand
the strain put upon it. Still we honor the consistency of
our Catholic brethren in placing the infallible vicegerent of
their God, before all other potentates, whether they be

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A HARD BLOW’ AT THE CATHOLICS.

 

It will be remembered that J olm H. Grerdeman, the ex-
catholic priest of Philadelphia, some time since married;'that
on attempting to leave that city he-was arrested and charged
with embezzlement, and thathe was tried and acquitted. In
retaliation for this, he, one evening last week, delivered a
lecture in Horticultural Hall (Philadelphia), in which he
made a most terrific arraignment of the Catholic clergy. He
charged that, as a class, they were not only given to drunk-
enness, but that they were also alarmingly licentious, many
of them, to his own knowledge, having one or more mistres-
ses. The embezzlement that was charged, was of the funds
of the church. In his defense, he rendered an account to the
court, in which there was a large itemfor wines andliquors.
These, he said, were purchased to enable him to conform to
the common practice of the priests, of entertaining each
other; and he said if one did not do this he was sure to fall
into disfavor with the brotherhood. He told a terrible story
of the profligacy of bishop‘ Wood, and altogether
brought an indictment that, it seems to us, "the Catholics can-
not permit to stand.

Had such a thing occurred ten years ago, Grerdeman’s life
would not have been worth much; but since the explosion of
the Beecher business, these things do not seem to create
much of a stir.‘ However, we look for something to come
out of this before it entirely blows over; besides, C-‘rerdeman
threatens to go further and to make personal charges, and it
is presumed that bishop I/Vood will be the first to receive a
broadside. Taking them altogether, the last few years have
been rather hard ones for the clergy, and if they continue to
be the same for a few more to come, their influence, as a

body, will be materially lessened.

A CRITICAL.
‘ ‘Editor Weekty——In your last number, after announcing

some views of male continence, you say, “If male con-

tinence mean the transformation of sexual power by mental
process, then female continency means the same to her for
the menstrual flow.” “ Nobody who thinks will attempt to
dispute this proposition l” .

Then you would brand me as one of those who do not think;
for I unhesitatingly and squarely deny your proposition as
I understand it, and as I understand the philosophy of gene-
ration and reproduction. I see no propriety in a comparison
of the seminal secretion of man and the menstrual flow of
woman» The former is truly the.vehicle of one element of
the new life, and only of value as it meets a generating
element in woman, which I maintain is not the menstrual

-fluid. Nor is the menstrual fluid required for “ generation.”

And if at this point I was disposed to indulge in a little plea-
santry, I should quote this: “No one who thinks” (and
knows the whole physiology of reproduction) “ will say it is.”
The elements of the menstrual flow are used after the male
and female elements of generation have harmoniously com-
mingled so as to form a nucleus of matter through which
spirit may act, and use the elements otherwise wasted in
menstruation. These elements go to form the body of the
foetus after the male and female elements of generation have
prepared the way. , And I know of no secretion in man during
the nine months that compares with this, and, therefore,
your argument fails with me. You go on to speak of the
“ vicarious atonement” of menstruation of the surplus pro-
duct “ not used to build up the body of the child.” Do you

"know of -any action in man during that nine months that

corresponds to any of the pregnant woman? If he dies in
three days after his wife's conception, is her-,“use"’ of the
as surplus product,” “to build up the body of the child,” there-
by rendered imperfect? - If not I fear lest your reasoning
may mislead the “ thinkers.”

Bear in mind "I am not writing as an advocate of ‘‘male
continence,” for I believe in male consecration, toward
which “ male continence” may be an aspiration and prayer.
But when the divine law which is ultimately, and I trust
soon, to govern ’the_',relation of the sexes, is recognized and
understood we shall not hear of continence.

The generation of a perfect being is only possible, in my
opinion, when the human will in no way interferes with
God’s most perfect use of both parents as His instruments.
The initiation or individualizing of a newlife is the matter
God has reserved to himself. But I must not enlarge upon
this as I am tempted to do. “When men do not desire to de-
termine this, or rather when they so sacredly deem this God’s
prerogative that they have no more desire to pass the gener-
tive fluid than an honest man has to take his neighbor’s prop-
erty, then no mental eifort will be required to conform to
God’s law, and it would be readily understood. Better, far
-better, that a man should be “held in bondage to the law.”
than to recklessly waste the purest elements of his physical
being. But worse than all else, and more to be deplored, is
the reckless waste of human vitality under the sanction of
law.

You say: “Assuming, etc., that the only use for which the
sexual functions are developed in the race is for reproduc-
tion, etc.,” and make an argument on this assumption. But
this is not the other horn of the dilemma. I cannot conceive
that any “Thinkers” can deny that there is an affectional
and spiritual impregnation of the sexes from their association
with each other as well as a physical. And the former can
be secured without the latter, and without any waste of the
physical being, or any restraint by mental resolution. This
is the state toward which mankind are struggling, and male
and female continence are steps or better, expressions of
aspiration and prayer, as I have said before. What analogy
of use is there between the uterus proper and what you call
“ the reservoir for the male procreative fluid? The uterus is
the receptacle of generative elements of both sexes, and not
in any sense a “ reservoir.” But, as you say, this is a fertile
field, and so little studied that it will . be a long time before
any of us can be Well understood.

1 O. H. WELLINGTON, M. D.
_ 18 Beach street, N. Y.
 A REMARKS.

We scarcely know whether just at this stage of the reve-
lations we ought to attempt to reply to our correspondent as
the tenor of his criticism demands. We may say too much
or too little ; too much briefly, or tolittle to be understood.
The subject at which he aims was not referred to in the
article to which he has ‘taken exception, and it requires
lengthy and exhaustive treatment when really opened, to do
which is not the time now, nor have we the space in which
to give it, but we will endeavor to so guide what we say as
to merely point to what must in due time be stated plainly.

In the article to which Dr. IV. refers, we were speaking
of the relation of continence to health, and arguing if it were
the natural cure for the waste of life that now goes on in
man,and it could be transferred by intellectual pursuits with-
out damage to the health, that the same law must also apply
to the waste that woman sufiers through menstruation, which
is the counterpart to the waste in man. We were not speak-
ing of the seminal secretion and the menstrual flow as coun-
terparts in principle or in function; but as counterparts in
waste of life, and we are at a loss to imagine how Dr. W.
could have fallen into such a misconception as he has. We
repeat the language of the article:

“If male continence mean the transformation of sexual
power by mental processes, then female continence means
the same to her for the menstrual flow—-the same law for
both sexes. Nobody who thinks will attempt to dispute this
proposition.” ' 4

That is to say, again, to place it, if possible, above mis-
construction, that the waste of life that results to man from
present modes of commerce, is counterparted by the waste
of life that woman suffers throughjmenstruation; and the pro-
cess that will naturally, and without detriment to health,
*-cure this waste in one will cure it in the other; because we
do not hesitate to say, that the latter kind of waste was origi-
nally established by the practice which led to the former
kind of waste; that is, that improper intercourse was the
cause of the curse from which woman suffers; that through
the two kinds of wastes, death has fastened its fangs
upon the race, and that the discovery and practice of the
true commerce will cure them both and banish death. VVhen
the mystery of God shall be revealed, then there will be no
possibility -of misunderstanding what we say; nor in seeing
that the relations which the doctor; denies, are even much
nearer true than we have here stated them to be;f since if
one is the cause of the other and the cure of one is. the cure
of both, it will go far toward establishing what the doctor
denies, We wish it to be understood that, in the article in
question,'we were treating of these forces simply as wastes,
and not as being in principle the same; but since the doctor
has called us out, we will say that it does require the one to
vitalize the other, and therefore that they are identical in
principle, both of them being necessary .to cause the
ovum to take up the process of growth. It is the subtle
process (by which the female [principle in its reservoir is
vitalized by the male principle from its reservoir when the
former is not required to build the body of the child, and
by the process is utilized to build up the bodies of both male
and female), that forms the last mystery of creation, and
which, when discovered to the world, will finish the mys-
tery of God, because His complete reciprocal life in and
through the universe,will be exemplified by a like reciprocal
life between the sexes; between man and woman, represent-
ing the positive and negative universal principles, who in this
perfect blending become like to God; live as He lives, two
in one, the two lives making in‘ their union one complete
life. Therefore the relation that the male creative principle
bears to the ovum for reproducing individualized life, is

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the same that it bears to the female creative principle to,

maintain the lives of the producers; and the female Creative
principle bears the same relation to the ovum, which is the
basis of the new life, that it bears to the male creative prin-
ciple, which is the basis of the renewal for the two lives that
already are. ,

We have never attempted to deny that there is affectional
and spiritual impregnation without commerce; but all this
may be experienced that it is possible to receive, and its
subjects will still grow old and die. Eternal life in the
body can come only when the process to which we have
referred (which is a physical process) is actually set up be-
tween the male and female; and anything short of this will
fall so much short of eternal life. Spiritual processes and
relations can never meet the demand of physical needs;
physical life must be supported by physical processes, and
the “meat” that is “in mine house” must be eaten by
physical means; it cannot be transformed into the “bread
of life” by spiritual association; physical association—the
bringing of the positive and the negative poles of the human
battery into actual contact—must precede the eating of the

“hidden manna,” of which he only partakes who hath. ’

“ overcome ” and passed the guards—the cherubims and
flaming sword-—set to keep the way of the tree of life.
When “ the New “Jerusalem” shall “ come down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband,’’_ then and then» only shall there be no more death;
and this coming down of the New Jerusalem from God’s holy
pla_ce——the Holy of Holies, the inner court of God’s temple-
is one part of the process to which we refer, and which John

‘saw in Patmos; and that to which the prophet Malachi

referred when he said, “Bring ye all the tithes into the store'-
house (not waste them on the way) that there may be meat
in mine house (not deposited in the vestibule), and prove me
now herewith, said the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that
there shall not be room enough to receive it,” is the other
part. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye have eternal
life. The spiritual part of them is comprehended by some,
but the counterpart to the spiritual is known to few. Seek
out the subtle relations between God and nature, and then

find their counterpart between the sexes and you will find

eternal life. There are several other points raised by the
doctor, but we have had to pass them to give special atten-
tion tothe main issue.

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ERRATUM.

Our attention has been called to a blunder made in our
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as an illustration of the inertness of one of their constituent
parts when obtained from inorganic substances, the potent
article coming from organic bodies. We had reference to
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not to sulphate of potash which is used in Dover’s powders.
Of course we made the illustration from memory, and not
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one of fact and not of principle, which was what we sought
to present. We are obliged to the several friends who have
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coverjany others that may creep in in the way that this one ’

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“ Quincy ................... .. 11.15 “ “ Qu1ncey..----.»----  9-40 “

“ St. Joseph .....  ........ .. 10.00 “ “ St.Josep1i..--~ ....... .. 8-10 A- M- 

“ Kansas City. . . . . . . . . _ .. 10,41) 1» M “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ 

“ Atcliison... . . . . . .. I1.00 “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ .
1- Leavenworth...  12.10 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon.

“ Denver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. iii. “ DBDVBIH.  - . - . . . . . . .. 

Through Sleeping

Car Arrangements

9.15 A. r/i.—-Day Express from Jersey City (daily cxce t Sunday), with Pullman's Drawing-Room Cars
and connectin at Suspension Bridge with_Pul1man’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in
the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. I -

¢ 730 p_ M_._Njght; Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars-, runs through to
Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., giving passengers ample time ior breakiast and take
the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and Southwest.

CONNECTIONS OF EREE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF

lliicliigan Central at Great Western Railways.

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

At Hamilton, with branch fpr 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. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an

daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland.

At D t ‘t, "th Det o't &. lv1i‘waukie Railway for Port Huron Branch Grand Trunk _B.ai1w9»Y- ’ A150 De
troit, L21.1$SlrI?{:'&5“I:ak0 Mihhigan  R. to Howard and mtermediate stations. Also Detroit 85 Bay City R. R.

Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo.  1

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

At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel _River _R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Banker’s, Waterloo
Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapohs. ' _

At Jackson, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuiicia, Pent, -
water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis.
Also with J ack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginaw, Wenoiia, Standish, Crawford
and intermediate stations. Also ‘\Vll'.h.F0l'l3 Wayne, Jack <9_£- Saglnitw R. R. f01‘ J 0IleSV111e, WEWFIOO, Fort
Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncio & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. .

 At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. \
‘r A Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to G. J u

notion, South Haven, etc. Also with G. Rapids & Ind.

R R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. _Also with Branch of L. S. & M. R. R

111'. Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw.
At Niles, with South Bend Branch.

At New Buifalo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwater and

all intermediate stations.

At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru & Chloe; R. 3. Also with Louisville, New Albany 85 Chi-

cago R. R. .
At Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet.
At Chicago, with all railroads diverging.

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