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BREAI{ING THE TWAY FOR FUTURE GENERl£l1lIOi‘.2E§.

Vol. XI.-—No. 12.—Wl;ole No. 272.-

NEVV .YORK, FEB. 19, 1876.

PRICE TEN CENTS.

The truth shall make you free.-—Jesus.
. In the clay/s of the voice of the seventh angel, the
$.11/stery of God shall be jinvis/zecl.-—~St. John the
1v1ne. ‘ ‘ .

Whe7'eof I was made a minister to preach the un-
searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which

from the I)6((/'l'7?/I’l?'i7”tg of the world hath been hid in

Gael.-—Paul.
~—~——4~+——%—-— _
“ WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED?”
BY NELLIE L. DAVIS.

A very pertinent question; for salvation is no myth, although
it is not found in the orthodox fashion, nor yet is it found
in any sense of the word until it is fairly earned.

As uncompromising as the Abolitionists who refused to
call this a free country, while the manacles clanked upon the
limbs of one negro, so do we refuse a system of salvation
which is incapable of ministering to the needs of every soul.

The life which enfolds us physically may be properly termed
the foundation of all life. Of the building erected thereon
the superstructure is the intellect; the dome which crowns
the whole is spiritual growth and perceptivity.

Materialism compasses the needs of foundation and super-
structure. Spiritualism en-wraps, the whole, from «dome to
lowest foundation stone. Spiritualism is materialism, with
the addition of a soul; it is Pygmalion waking to life his
statue in the earthly clods insensate.

Man in his threefold life, as a physical, intellectual, and
spiritual being, has need of a threefold religious and social
Culture. To ignore the one department of his existence for
the other, is_the fatal mistake committed by most systems of
religion.

Materialism is the reaction of the perverted Spiritualism in
the religious code of the middle and early centuries.

The mediseval saint ignored his physical inheritance. His

body was a huge excresence on his soul, to be burned,
scourged, and fasted away in an earthly Valhalla of self-
denial.

To be a fleshless unincorporate soul was the very acme of
existence.

To be imprisoned in a body which knows hunger, thirst,
disease, amative impulse, and death’s corruption, fretted the
would-be saint with dire impatience of earth, its contingen-
cies and associations. He answered the query: “ What shall
I do to be saved?” throughshameful neglect and crucifixion
of the basic principle of his being. The foundation being
omitted, the intellectual and spiritual man was a starveling,
where his physical imbecility was a success; where not, he
was a hypocrite. _ _

By so much as he ignored the materialism of life, by so
much was he incapacitated from prescribing a safe and speedy
process of salvation from the sin of ignorance. V

The theologic» plan of salvation says: “Take care of the
soul and let the body take care of itself.” '

Materialistic salvation says. “Take care of the body and
let the soul take care of itself ”——a decided improvement upon
the old plan, but not covering the entire ground by any
means. These systems are only twofold——the body expunged
from the one, the soul from the other. The Spiritualistic
salvation is threefold, and the one for which our organizations
clamor the loudest, and will not be educated properly in all
departments without. _ ‘

The law and order of salvation consists in the evolution
from the scientific knowledge of the present, of a system of
physical and spiritual growth that shall ripen every faculty
of our-‘beings; that shall evolve perfect bodies f_or the ten-
antry of pure souls; that shall redeem manhood, woman-
hood and childhood from all abuses of the holy temple of
God—the human body—by gross self-indulgence, by pamper-
ing abnormal appetites until the lamp of life burns so low
that it cannot longer resist these fitful gusts of morbid pas-
sion, flickers a brief uncertain moment, then goes out for-
ever, leaving the soul barren of rich results—-the carefully
garnered wealth of a life well lived and replete with pure
thoughts. puredeeds, pure loves. ’

Such is the salvation we all also for, but so many of us
have weighed anchor on the sea of eternity fora life voy-
age in such unwieldy, decayed and worthless vessels, that a
wreck or premature termination of the voyage on the shoals
or reefs of inherited disease, and mad passion, are the inevit.
able I'6Bi1.1t5 Of. a large proportion of the voyages of life.

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Look to Jesus for your salvation, says the theologian. We
have contemplated the cross for centuries; how much better
are we, physically, because of such contemplation? Cross
contemplation has afforded a leaning post for every morbid
sluggard. Because one man has died for a truth, is no good
and sufficient reason why we should die in him to any in
dividual work for ourselves. -

VVhen we trace the need of salvation back to its source, we
find that the transgression of an inquisitive Adam and Eve’
has nought to do with its necessity, and that the crucifixion
of the Jewish philanthropist is of no more avail to stem the
tide of our ignorance, than is a child’s hand to stay the rush-
ing torrent of Niagara. .

Humanity has a chronic distaste for home truths, and the
preacher has been popular in proportion as he steered clear
of all unpleasant allusions, and confined himself to the story
of salvation by the cross, omitting to mention thatthe cross
has no remedial power for those who fail to work as well as 5
pray; popular so long as he did not urge brain and stomach
salvation, and laid not a finger upon the veil shrouding the
iniquitics of social life, and pretended not to see the grinning
skeleton of excess peeping from the eye, seeking expression
from the tongue, shadowing the life; popular so long as he
did our thinking for us, and told us that ’twas good to be
good for Jesus’ sake! As if, our lives were going to benefit a.
man who has been dead for centuries, and who has left
earthly things so far behind him that they-have become more
motes in his memory, “and wl1o cares not a rush whether A
eats meat or fish Friday, whether B keeps Saturday or Sun-
day, or C believes or disbelieves the story of the immaculate
conception! Clearly, salvation in its threefold character
comes not by contemp lation of the cross.

The most that has resulted from such contemplation is
found in these enormous churches, useless six days out of
seven, occupying the most elligible building sites, exempted
from taxation, while rum shops, brothels, and the poverty-
stricken but welltaxed homes of the laborers multiply so
rapidly that crime and its parent poverty fill our prisons
and almshouses to overflowing, and our highways and by-
ways with predatory bands of tramps.

If these churches could be used as reformatory insti-
tutions to investigate the cause and cure of crime, they
would be pre-eminently useful in abating hell upon earth,
into which humanity ‘is plunged through its ignorance of
this most important, but least understood, of all questions-
sexual holiness, perfection of the human body, the living
temple of God.

We want a salvation that will offer a road out of all this
misery and darkness that rivets closer the chains of earth’s
famishing millions, and curses society with the fruits of
debauched passion whose highest sentiment is selfish grati-
fication. “ He prayeth best who loveth best; and_ he liveth
well who loveth well,” are two axiomatic truths, whereby
hangs the law of life. ‘ -

To save ourselves from ourselves we must elevate, not de-

and he. who degrades the coronal of being into animalism,
commits the unpardonable sin, and while cursing posterity is
eternally cursed himself by the recoil of his act. Phallic
worship was the embodiment of an idea of physical per-
fection and freedom from pruriency, toward the attain-
ment of which we are struggling to-day. This idea, with us,
will assume a diflerent expression than in its old time rendi-.
tion, in accordance with the enlightenment and scientific
research of the age. ’

We are jealous of our prerogatives as human beings above
the brutes, and have not made good our claim by using those
intellectual and moral‘ perceptions which have supplanted
the fixed unreasoning instinct of the brute, to win salvation,
and attain, at least, as healthy bodies and normal functions
through intellect as the brute owes to instinct.

At birth we are nothing, save in possibility Thus, we are
left in a measure, free. As animals alone, we are inferior,
because our instincts as animal, and our attributes as human,
become so confused and untrustworthy, that to save our-
selves from becoming the meanest objects on the face of
God's footstool. we need to supplant them with something
higher; ‘and we find that our only chance of gaining
a useful and immortal existence consists in developing our-
selves up to‘ that point for which we were designed-—-from ani-

malism where we do not belong, up to Spiritualism, where we
do belong. ’ ‘

 

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Sexual salvation for the race is found in redeeming woman
from centuries of serfdom, and selfish, woful subjection to
tyrannous lusts; found in purifying our bodies; found in
gaining a knowledge of our physical functions, their uses and
the penalty of ‘their abuses; found in a heaven of freedom
where each individual owns himself, and is not the bond
slave of anothers’ will or whim. Womanhood fettered to
the lowest, excluded from the highest, is the curse of the
world, arousing the just anger of nature, from which, cross
contemplation can never redeem us. For woman the three-
fold salvation tarries and waits for its divine consummation
in humanity, through the mothers of the race. Woman’s
kingdom is the human heart, and she prayeth, ruleth and
loveth well, when she has purified her kingdom of selfishness
and lust by her determination to quell sexual impurity in
lieu of pandering to its larger growth, by abdication of her
rightful throne and relinquishment of her sceptre of power.

The keynote of woman’s salvation as a physical, intellectual
and spiritual being, is struck when she becomes a selfhood
with a distinct identity from man, yielding allegiance, not to
her husband, but unto her conscience and her God. Woman
then becomes, not the reflex of man, but an individualized
half of the basic principle of the unive1'se—-sex—each com—
plete through thejnon-encroachment of the one upon the
sphere of the other. Then human life shall attain its dl'\VlllQ
perfection, crime and injustice shall disappear, and the Uni-
versal Republic shall take the place of the corrupt demagog-
ism that new rules thecountry to its ruin. .

Man’s physical salvation is secured through woman's eman-
cipation ; the degradation of the mother is the degradation of
the children she bears. Take heed that the spring of life be
pure, for if the fountain head bepoisoned, coming genera-
tions bear the cross and mount the Calvary that lies in the
pathway of violated physical and moral law.

Spiritual salvation aims to strike at the cause; theology
aims to strike at client. One tries to heal over the bites of
the old serpent of ignorance; thenother tries to remove the
serpent that no more may be bitten.

VVe do not want to outwit hell and the devil by hiding be-

hind a cross; for how well is the world healed to—day after a
treatment upon this plan of nearly nineteen centuries!
‘ When a. person gets far enough along on the road of free in-
quiry to ask why God don’t kill the devil, be sure he is on the
high road to true salvation, for he will speedily find that the
devil is his own ignorance, and that God intends that we
shall slay our devils by educating ourselves into a knowledge
and obedience of law, so that we may send forth no more
half—made-up children that are no better than rabid dogs,
to curse society, and make up our army of criminals, drunk-
ards, prostitutes, paupers, imbeciles, tramps, and lunatics.

Here are your devils: the abominations of ignorance. Slay
them with the weapons of knowledge. Here is need of
salvation; provide it from healthier bodies, better~balan,ced
heads and riper souls. Exalt your physical functions above
the slough of centuries of ignorant degradation and besotted
passsion. Hold high the standard for manhood and Wtilllétll.-
hood . Arise ye emancipated souls, and welcome the gist: new,
era of a world’s redemption by the perfected typeof hu-
manity, through the amalgamation of, and elimination from,
the races, of the attributes and characteristics of each worth
preserving and repeatin g. j ‘

The Millennial day draweth nigh; and how beautiful the
thought that so many faces shall yet greet us through the
salvation of "divine knowledge typified in the pictured divinity
of face and form, the outcome of the purified and redeemed
soul within. V

Then, as on their natal day, shall the spheres chant the
praise of the advent of 7a new race. Earth shall smile with a
new gladness, and heaven will be found with gates wide open,
not without, but within, the purified and redeemed soul of
man.

THAT “FINAL RECONCILIATION.”

There certainly is to be a “finalreconciliation of all things”
in spite of the quackeries, which in these latter days, have
clustered around this phrase. The lion and the lamb shall
lie down together; the Bismarcks, and the Pius Ninths and
the Henri Delescluzes, shall meet in fraternal embrace. On
the one hand,,there shall he the swords beaten into plow-
shares. and the spears into pruning hooks; and on the other
hand, the myriad seemingly contradictory doctrines that now
divide men, hopelessly as one would say, shall have their u_n_-s

 

 

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Feb. 19, 1876.

derlylng truths brought out into the clear day light, and be
just so reconciled. On the one side, the “conservative spirit-
ualism,” (whatever that may mean), with its “capital, la-
bor’s best and only"friend,” its “superior sagacity,”t_aking
“advantage of opportunities,” its “sweet by and by,” with its
“millionnaire * *  accounted as the benefactor of the
race” ; on the other side, the “sell all that thou hast and give
to the poor,” “that terrible‘camel’ business,” that “whip of
‘small cords,” with Dives roaring in hell and Lazarus sweetly
reposing in Abraham’s bosom; and both sides having the
truth,’the one side just as indispensable as the other. And
yet, after all, truth is one; error, or What is the same thing,
partial and one-sided truth, is alone divergent and contradic-
tory. But no error was ever yet enunciated by human lips
that had not a truth underlying it. '
How to eliminate the underlying truth. and so accomplish
, that “ final reconciliation of all things,” for which all noble
hearts, and synthetic minds have ever been longing, and
striving, is of course just the question, To attain this un-

' derlying truth is simple, the same thing as to arrive at the

genuine “universolgy,” or, to coin a better word for. the
‘hence, “pantology”—neither word, by the by, having any fur-
ther utility when once the thing itself is attained. From
that moment, the word "science”vserves amply; for the uni-
versal doctrine resulting from the application to all possible
categoriesof thought, of that method of positive demonstra-
tion which finally solves every problem, solves it past all pos-
sible recall, putting an end, at once for all, to doubt and un-
certainty, in spite of all the “free thought” in the world; is
thatwhich will most assuredly constitute the universal faith
of the future, leading up the now scattered and mutually
hostile races of men to the normal, oneness of humanity.
But then we are met here, flnally by another divergence,
another seeming hostility, one that looks at the first blush
more profound then any above indicated. On one side stands
inspiration; on the other side,science, or rather the sciences,
the strange new gospel of dispersed specialism, the Spencer-
Darwin—Tyndall-Huxley—Draper N ihilism, with the elec-
tric telegraph flashing across an ocean and two continents its
daily batch of lies, as a most fit symbol of its sovoreiguty!
these two social forces—for such indeed they are, notwith-
standing the anti——social propensities of the latter——are evi-
dently now gathering themselves up for a final and decisive
death struggle, the by-standers all feeling sure that one or
the other must speedily succumb, be finally and definitively
squelchcd, and to be no m ore heard of forever, save in the
pages of curious history. And seeing that supernaturalism,
from the very birth of science two thousand years ago in
that little greek peninsula, destined to give intellectual light
to a whole world, has been at every point, sooner or later-
yes even when for special purposes it could secure itself a
respite of a thousand years—forced to give way, and recog-
nize the supremacy, in the sphere of pure intellect, of pos-
itive demons_tration——these by-standers, Ii. (5. the freethinkers
really free, come naturally enough to the seemingly unan-
imous conclusion, that it is inspiration which has to go under,
to pass away utterly and forever from among men.

Only the very rare, really integral, minds, minds that
can look at both sides and all sides of a great question, and
not take for granted that the one side of the post facing the
spot where they happen to stand is the whole post, can
see-——and they will succeed, too, in finally demonstrating to
to all mankind, along with the rest of normal universal doc-
trine—that while supernaturalism has doubtless to give way to
the all-conquering genius of positive science, that he in no
way deprives inspiration of her own sphere. The conception
of inspiration, like all other human conceptions, has doubt-
less to undergo the transformation indicated in the law of the
three states, the great universal law of progress. But it re-
mains inspiration still. It is subject doubtless to immutable
natural laws, which science,—the regenerated and unified
science—has had to discover. But it is inspiration still,
having its own function within its own sphere that can never
be taken away. True enough the relations between science
and inspiration are widely different from those that
would be imagined by the pure inspirationist. But those
who would pretend to systematize science while ignoring al-
together the role of inspiration are clearly only quacks. A
pretty science of history that would be, truly, that could not
divulge the natural laws of a social force that has played
such a part in the progressive development of our" race as
has been played by inspiration! The play of Hamlet with
the part of Hamlet left out would be consistency itself in
comparison. RAMSHORN.

 

AUDI ALTER AM PARTEM.

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 1876.

Editors W eekZy~—-‘Having recently observed, by chance, N o.
10 of a published’ series of communications by one of our
municipal Tax Commissioners on the subject of taxing church
property, and as I consider your journal independent, and‘
not under any subsidizing influence, I would beg leave chiefly
to note through its columns some of the remarks and proposi-
tions of this wiseacre on church assessment or taxation.

He begins by quoting Lord Chesterfield, who said: “A tax
implies a license granted for the use of that which is taxed to
all who would be willing to pay it.” Now, the matter of
church taxation, in order to a proper understanding of it,
does not require any Chesterfieldian authorities, but rests
solely on the basis of common sense and reason. Our pilgrim
progenitors came to this country to escape from the tyranny
of an ecclesiastical government; their descendants,‘ the
patriots of the Revolution, fought and bled to rid themselves
of it, and the framers of our Constitution in that American
Magna Oharta, knowing the consequent mischief and curse of
such a mixture, very wisely inhibited all connections and en-
tangling alliances between Church and State.

This correspondent then goes on to state that the General
Government, after imposing certain duties on all articles of
luxury, has gone so far as distinctly to recognize the value of
religious teaching by exempting from taxation and placing
upon the free list, according to oificial interpretation, Bibles

and other books i_mported in good faith for the use of Sunday
schools in the United States, on adequate proof; and then
asks what sense ‘there would be in exempting books used in
such schools from duty and imposing a tax on buildings
erected for the fostering of them.” According to such logic,
if the existence of one thing be wrong then another wrong
should of course be inflicted to make it sensible and just.
While a Sunday school or a church may be a desirable insti-

tution, per se, and productive of great good, it is not the
province or duty of ou‘r”G-overnment to foster or aid either in
any way, and the act, as the national records will undoubtedly
show, was not voluntary on the part of the Government, nor
by the expressed wish or will of the people, but “through
petitions of those more immediately interested or concerned
in the matter. And if our more modern law-makers preferred
to stultify themselves by practising this little amenity ‘toward
the Sunday schools it does not follow that a still further mix-
ing—up of such things should be indulged in by compelling
people of all beliefs a11d of no belief to contribute to the sup-
port of the many and various religious and sectarian interests
throughout the land to the amount of over $200,000,000. He
admits that secular properties. to the amount of $2,500,000,000,
are exempted by the United States Government. Well, one
would’ naturally infer that this amount alone was about
sufficient for tax—payers to look upon acquiescently without
bearing additional burdens through any outside or extraneous
causes. Then he says: “ The enormous amount of securities
exempted by the General-Government owe their origin to
war, and if Congress should enforce upon the States the tax-
ation of buildings for public worship, great wonder would be
expressed that, while such enormous sacrifice by exemption
is offered to the Moloch of war, so small an cblation to the
God of peace should be withheld.” The question: “ Who
pays the taxes?” has time and -again been propounded and
discussed, and the inevitable and correct answer has always
been: “The poor man.” Yet, supposing this not to be the
case, and the burden fell on all alike, for what purpose is it
done by_any citizen but to support the Government under
which he lives, and its established institutions? But is a
church an established institution of our Government? By
no means. How, then, would the whole people grudge an
oblation to the God of peace by refusing to pay for the sup-
port of a church, while they might be obliged by a natural
law of self—protection to offer an enormous-sacrifice to the
Moloch of war? The fact is, some people out—Christianize
Christianity in their pretended religious enthusiasm. Then,
too, there is so great a diversity of sects and denominations,
how is "a disinterested citizen to know which one among them
all is right? And what assurance has he that the sums which
he thus pays, directly or indirectly, in the form of a tax, will
be appropriated to a good and useful purpose? If there be
any thing right about them it must be in some one of them.
Christ’s body was not divided into so many parcels. Such
divisions and subdivisions are all the result of priestcraft——
the work of doctors of ideas. True and unfeigned religion
may be found in an open boat at sea, or in a wilderness, as
well as in a grand and costly cathedral. It is not at all depend-
ant on church conventionals. Indeed, in this age of corrupt
and apostate christendom the real saints, compared with
pharisees and hypocrites who make a trade of religion, and
“ steal the livery of heaven " to gain an undue advantage of
their fellow-beings, are like sparsely-scattered grains of
wheat in a. mingled mass of chaff and rubbish. A man now-

'a—days may inwardly worship a golden god, with his heart and

affections centered in worldly interests, and if he will say
but Lord, Lo—r—d, and subscribe $100,000 to the erection of a
costly Christian church, he will be supposed to have secured a
through ticket to heaven in a palace-car. But God is not
propitiated by any such works, the humblest hall or chapel
being as acceptable in His sight as the most grand and
gorgeous structure. A .

When He said to His people, “Ye are the temple of the
living God,” He didn’t have much reference to anything
fashioned or finished with their hands. And when people
think to be doing God service by selecting for church cere-
monies or service, called worship, the most valuable plots of
ground, and erecting thereon large and imposing edifices,
gorgeously decorated and furnished to suit the fine apparel in
which they are arrayed, they fall far short of the wisdom and
comprehension of King Solomon, when, in his dedication of
of the Temple, he exclaimed: “ The Heavenof Heavens can-
not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have
built! ”

When in those days of types and symbols of the future,
that temple of costly magnificence and grandeur was erected
for sacred use, it was not intended by him, who designed it,
to be a pattern of houses for the same purpose in subsequent
times, but merely as a symbol of the beauty and purity that
should characterize those living temples in which he would
ever delight to dwell.

Christ’s kingdom is not of this world; neither are his people.
And a church body or ‘assembly that is truly devout and pious
will not lack for anything essential tolits ,existence. But
if it be chiefly made up _of those who have not sufficient faith,
that He whosustains the universe will also not let them fall
to the ground, and look to the world and the goverments of
the world for protection and aid, they simply show that they
are but sounding brass, and have only the form of godliness,
without the power thereof. But there are plenty \such.
When, therefore, Mr. Andrews denies that exemption of
buildings for public worship is a concession, and insists that
it is a right inherent in the conditions and uses of the prop-
erty, he proposes what in the form of reason is the merest
sophistry, and in the way of simple assertion, is nothing
more than the sheerest and shallowest nonsense. His fitness.
for beings. tax commissioner must, indeed, be surprising.

Unscrupulous and persistent beggars for church privileges
in the form of donations, exemptions, etc.,whether Protestant
or Papal, are among the mostdangerous of frauds. Though
possessing millions, their constant cry to the outside world is
give; and they seldom. if ever say, hold, enough. It is such
fanatical pharisees who are most opposed to taxation; most
clamorous for an ecclesiastical government, or whatever may

tend to a union of Church and State, and are ever acclaim-
ing for the embodiment of the word God in the national
Constitution. They make frequent and long prayers in pub-
lic. and have always the words God and the Lordpin their
months. If they would try to have more of such things in
their hearts, without regard to the Constitution, they would,
perhaps, find it ultimately much better for themselves, and
not much, if any worse, for the Constitution, or for the

people for whom it was framed.’ _ -
I TAX Payne.

REAPING.

“Though the vision seems to tarry,
Yet it surely will transpire;
Though the battle seems eternal,
And forever bums the lire,

Suffer on, 0 ye faithful,

For the end will surely come,

And the fruits of all your labors,
You will harvest to their home.

In the yonder stormless regions,

With an ever balmy sky,

You shall soon receive a glory,

Which can never, never die.

Thenlet heaven kindly lead you,

Through the river Jordan deep;

And with calmness bear all chaslenin g,
On this holy way to keep.”

EI.i.rAn llirnrciai.

Editors W echly :——The Jan. 22d number of your paper, con-
taining the conclusion of an article under the caption, “A
Critic Criticised,” has been received, but the previous paper
containing the beginning of that article I have not seen. I
perceive that you have been using me and an unfortunate
article printed in my paper a short time since, as “shoulders”
over which to Whip a great many people, and for that use no
apology on your part is necessary. I am only too glad to
have been of some possible good to the world. even in this
way, and more for the purpose of giving you still further op-
portunity to express your views by making myself a target
to be shot at, than with the hope of advancing any new or
important ideas, I take occasion to reply, promising, for your
readers’ sakes, to be as briefas possible.

Now, I admit that if society were so perfected in its parts
and organization that the weak as well as the strong could
feel sure of protection; if composed of members possessed of
sufficient intelligence to comprehend the meaning of justice,
and capable of reasoning correctly from causes to efiects; in
short, a state of society in which it would be possible to live
up to the precepts of the Golden Rule——then woman, in com-
mon with all of the physically weaker portion of mankind,
might freely trust in the wisdom. honorand generosity of
man, or her fellows, to secure to her justice; and your the-
oriesof freedom might be put in practical operation to great
advantage. But such is not the case to~day. "He who holds
the purse does hold the power, whatever other “ prize ”
woman may have to sell, and to be sought for. Money is one
of the prime necessities of our existence. It may be ranked
next to air, since air is about the only desirable thing that
can be had without it. Of course the possessors of it are,
more or less, the autocrats of the world, and especially of the
little domestic worlds that fill the world. You assert, and
defy contradiction, that “ financial independence is impossi-
ble for woman ” so long as a competitive system of industry
prevails. This is my position exactly. Now, under existing

cannot conceive of any independence worthy to be called‘
such, outside of financial independence; and as woman can-
not have that, therefore, freedom for her is out of the ques-
tion, since she cannot be free and at the same time depen-
dent. Therefore, he who holds the purse holds the power.

For this reason, it seems to me that a system of marriage
by contract, which may be dissolved at any time by either
party, is one which favors the man who “holds the purse ”
very much more than it does the woman who is dependent
upon that purse. He satisfies his desires, base or otherwise,
and is at liberty to seek “fresh fields and pastures green.”
She is faded and dispirited, cursed with physical diseases
peculiar to her sex, which are augmented, perhaps. by_i1l—
usage, and as a consequence——being a financial dependent and
the weaker party in making the original marriage contract-
there are no “fresh fields” for her. A beautiful flower,
plucked and fondled, and, withering, she is thrown aside for
another. In common with a worldful just like her, she must
eat and drink and be clothed and housed. She has her free“-
dom, however, and if she can find “the man to her liking,”
she is free to form a matrimonial copartnership with him-
providing he is willing. If she possess health, she has free-
dom to commit suicide by the slow but sure process of
drudgery, devised by the purse—holders for the extermination
of both her body and soul. Hood"s “Song of the Shirt”
illustrates’ this. She has jumped out of the frying~pan fairly
into hell, but she has her freedom. Nor it does not mend the
matter that old marriage contracts (“for better and for
worse ”) would not be annulled by the new order of things,
because the parties to the new contract come there under
consideration, with woman at the usual disadvantage.

Be it remembered that I am reasoning from the stand-
point of the world, its men and its morals as it is, not as it
might be or will be. Nor do I overlook the fact that agitation
is necessary before purification, and that your ideas. which
seem to me at present impractical, maybe the necessary
forerunner of a better tlme to come. Indeed it is not difli-

pated woman may be queen over herself, and bless the world
by the use and exhibition of her full and developed capabil-
ities, now scarcely known to ns;. but one glance out of the
window at the. passers-byis -sufflcient to shatter all such
heavenly dreams of bliss, and bring back all the dread reali-

ties of the world as it is, with the discouraging multitude
of reforms that mast precede, and wondrous growths that

laws and customs, which must exist for a long time yet, I '

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WOODHULL & CLAF=~IiIN’S WEEKLY.

must take place, before we can welcome in the grand eman-
cipation day of woman and give to her that freedom which is
her right. » I

I seek the use of the Vl7EEKL‘Y' rather than my own paper
for this, because it will reach a greater number who have
read‘ your article; and while I do not pretend to have an-
swered your arguments i_n full, I think this will relieve me
from the imputation which you unintentionally cast upon
me, of being of that numerous class of editors who thought-
lessly malign you and the cause you are so ably defending.

Very respectfully yours, LUCIEN V. PINNEY,
WINSTED. CoNN., Jan. 14, 1876. Editor Wiinsteal Press.

[We will not break the force of this graceful complimen
by any attempt to reply to its arguments. _We will only refer
our friendly editor to what we said, in the first article which
he had not seen _when he wrote. We said if all women would
rise together and throw off the yoke of sexual servitude, and
hold out a month, that they could make any terms that they
should demand, with their former masters, and hence it fol-
lows that he who holds the purse, “ does not necessarily
hold the pOwer;” he only holds it, because women will not
together exercise the power which God -has given them for
their defense against the opprcssors of their personal rights .]

FLORENCE HEIGHTS, N. J ., Jan. 8. -

Dear W eel.-ly-—A few lines to let you know I am buckling
on the armor to prepare more vigorously for the fight. I am
at Dr. Trall’s, attending lectures with my husband and child-
ren. Cannot say too much of the system ; of Dr.9Trall him-
self as an earnest, honest truth-seeker, and a daring teacher
of the same. His Hygienic Home, on the banks of the Dela-
ware,‘ twenty miles from Philadelphia, is a beautiful location.

Here we are taught that to be true to one’s self is to be true to
God; to be a Christian is to be a humanitarian; to take the
world as our church and Nature for our creed is the highest
‘religion. Here we are taught. if we would be happy, we
must be well, and if we would be well, we must obey the
laws of health.

Dr. Trall has long been condemned and scornedlb37Th73 _

medical faculty for his radical views on health reform. but
his theories and principles will live long after he has passed
from earth, because they are founded on the immovable laws
of G-—od—Nature.

Your readers may be desirous of knowing some of his
eccentricities. His many valuable books explain much, ‘and
they should be more widely known. He holds disease as
a remedial effort, and as such should never be cured. Assist
nature’ to its normal condition through the physiological
agencies of air, exercise, water, magnetism, diet, etc., and
she will restore herself.

We here have two meals a day. Meats, salts, as well as all
other condiments and spices. are excluded. A strict fruit
and vegetable diet is required. We have two——sometimes
three——daily lectures, two lyceums, and a dance weekly;
gymnastics daily.

Dr. Trall fears not to call things by their right names, and
place people in their right pews. Six male prostitutes to one
female, was the assertion made yesterday. He fully agrees
with you that the blood flow in menstruation is disease. The
ovum should ripen and (pass without pain, and not only con-
clusively proves it by nature (as he does every statement),
but we see it demonstrated here by women ‘coming and living
strictly hygienic. The flow entirely ceases, and they improve
in health.

Just now the doctor is giving us some extra lectures, by
request. His views on theology—-rich, deep and abiding.
God bless Dr. Trail, with you, dear Victoria, and many more
of our modern Savlours, till they see the fruits of their labor

Let me, too, offer aword of cheer to Mattie Strickland.
GO on brave girl; be true to self and you can but be true to
God. I wept over your sorrow, but rejoiced over your noble
test of womanhood. Would there were more possessing your
courage. C ANNA ATWATER.

[Dr. Trail is the author of a work on “Sexual Physi(-
logy,” which we will send post-paid to any address, on re-
ceipt of $2. Eds. WEEl{LY.] . C A I

 

h . NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 1876.
Editor Woodhull and Olafl'in’s Weekly: ,

I think Mrs. Woodhul1’s lectures are practically true, and
go to the bottom of the evils of society. The church, as at
present constituted, is lopping off the branches of the great
tree of evil, while Mrs. Woodhull is going down to the
foundation, and digging up the tap roots.

I can see no reason why society has not as good a. right to
prevent criminals,lpaupers and lunatics from propagating as
society has to support and take charge of them after they are
propagated. '

In my view no criminal, diseased person, lunatic, idiot, or
pauper ought to be permitted to propagate their species. The
course which society pursues in this respect is a disgrace to
the race, and an outrage upon the.Divine Being.

If the true history of all the idiots and deformed children
could be correctly ascertained, it would be found that one or
both ofthe parents was directly responsible for these diffiul-
culties. Many children are made idiotic and permanently
deformed by the efl"ort,s of the mother to destroy them in em-
bryo. The fearful question of foeticide is taking hold of the
minds of the people, and it will have to be met squarely be-
fore long. ,

‘We want the facts laid bare in these cases, so that the pub-
lic can see who is responsible. I

It should be-considered a reproach to a woman to have a
deformed child. A healthy sentiment of this description
would have a tendency to stem the tide of degradation which
is nowcarrying the race toward the quicksands of total ex-
tinctioii.

The people wantichristianity made practical. Theology is
alfltheoretical. Christ healed, the bodily infirmities of all

whose sins He forgave. The most important part of the
mission of the Apostles was to heal the sick. A
Salvation of the body was what Christ principally taught.
All His teachings go to show that He came that we might
have life, and that whosoever believed in Him should not
perish. I believe in Christ as a physical Saviour. “ Ithink the
time is not far distant when the great mass of the world will
believe in this idea of salvation. ' — '
' I can only bid you God speedin the work you‘are doing.
Yours truly, E. P. MILLER.

AN INQUISITOR AT NEW HAVEN. 7.

.Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, who is lecturing in this city
before the Free Lecture Association, took occasion. in reply
to a question, to pay her complimentsto Mrs. Woodhull and
to that large and increasingclass Of thinkers who agree with
her on the social question. She said ‘_‘ it was the dis-
grace of the age that speakers should be permitted to travel
through the country and teach such abominable doctrines”-
meaning, of course, the doctrines of Mrs. Woodhull-at which
a crowd in the back part of the hall, which had several times
interrupted the meeting, stamped and applauded, the Spirit-
ualists and Liberalists present preserving an ominous silence.
‘We cannot imagine a better co-adjutor of Comstock, the
Y. M. C. A., and the hosts of bigotry, than Mrs‘. Britten. She
denounced atheists, she sneered at “reason,” she quoted

judging from her remarks, the social reformers would be
arrested, and all free speech on the most momentous ques-
tions of the hour stifled. What a liberal is this Mrs. Britten
who can talk transcendental vagaries for two hours without
hardly taking breath,’ and who would prevent, by force, a
noble and glorious woman from declaring the grandest truths
that were ever uttered by human lips! - I

Be assured, Mrs. Britten, and all would-be liberal popes
and spiritualistic inquisitors, that you will not succeed.
Spiritualism will have no pontiifs, either in pantaloons or
petticoats, to dictate beliefs and crush out freedom of con-
science and speech. BRUNO.

A PETITION FOR GREENBACKS.

Eclilors Wee7ély:—The workingmen of this city have pre-
pared the following Petition to Congress. Please to publish
it and request all those who are friendly to copy it, or some-
thing similar. obtain all the signatures they can, and send the
petition to Hon. Peter Cooper (Cooper Union, New York
City), for presentation to Congress. What we want is that
our friends should get up petitions for legal tender money,
to be issued by the Government-‘V sufficient) quantities for
the needs of the people. WM. A. A. CARSEY,

402 W. 51st st., City.

THE PET1TION_OF THOSE WHO LIVE BY HONEST LABOR.
To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress As-

sembled. -

Your petitioners respectfully represent-—— ~

1. That they believe that a large part of the suffering which
prevails among the industrial classes, by reason of their non-
employment, has been caused by a mistaken financial policy
of the Government; , e

2. That two kinds of currency for any nation are incom-
patible with the public interest, and are a certain cause-of
misfortune; — ‘

3. That the circumstances that seemed to make it neces-
sary to authorize National Banks under the present system
passed away with the war;

4.. That the National Bank currency is a costly currency to
the people, inasmuch as it ensures the banks two interests;
first, on their bonds, and second, on their currency which
they receive for their bonds while deposited with the Gov-
ernment;

5. That the currency best adapted to the interests of in-
dustry, is that issued by the Government, which should be
made receivable for all dues. —

We therefore respectfully ask that your honorable bodies
will pass a law providing for the retirement of the National
Bank currency, and for the issue of United States Treasury
Notes to take its place,:and for this we will ever pray.

A 4
f 'wr'—*

MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD.

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

 

(From the Tribune, J ohnstown, Pa. J an 22, 18.76.)

The lecture delivered by Mrs. Woodhull in the Opera
House last night was thoroughly. enjoyed by the ladies and
gentlemen present. She is a rapid, yet clear and distinct
talker,'and possesses a richly—modulated voice, which is ex-
ceedingly pleasing to the listener. There were many home
truths spoken last evening by this lady in such an impres-
sive manner as to touch the hearts of her audience, and the
close attention with _which her discourse of an hour and a-
quarter was received showed that it was highly appreciated
by all present. .

(From the Democrai, Johnston, Pa. Jan 22, I878.)

<VICTORIA C. WOODHULL delivered her lecture on the
“True and False, Socially,” in the Opera House on Friday
evening last. There was not a great crowd out to hear her,
but what it lacked in numbers it made up in li‘igh—tOned,
appreciative listeners. Mrs. Woodhull, in personal appear—
ance, is far handsomer than any other lady we have ever
heard onlthe rostrum—gracefu1 and feminine in all her move-

voice and gestures. but everything denotes the sweet—voiced,
cultivated lady. She spoke, about one hour and a quarter,
and the very close attention given her by the audience was an
evidence that she was interesting and entertaining. The lec-
ture surpassed the expectations of the public and was a rare
treat, being one of the most elegantly delivered lectures ever
heard in our town." 

(From the Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, [Mo.] Feb. 21876.)
THE OVATION LAsT EVENING AT ARMORY HALL.

If among the large audience who were present at Armory
Hall last evening to hear Victoria C. Woodhull lecture, any
went with the expectation of hearing anything advanced by
that lady that was either immodest or licentious. they must
have left the hall disappointed in that respect, but much bet-

Jesus like a first-class orthodox ranter. Had she her way,

A faith in the old motto, Verltas prevvalebit.

ments and positions‘ There is nothing masculine about her

ter imformed on some matters than they were before they
entered it."

Mrs. Woodhull appeared upon the platform attired in a very
plain, darlc-colored dress, and spoke with great animation
for about two hours. Her utterance is very rapid, but dis-
tinct: her language forcible, and her gestures appropriate
and effective. Everything she does. both, in utterance and
action, seems to be spontaneous. She never hesitates for a
word, and her strong, vigorous thoughts are clothed in the
most appropriate language. Unlike most fluent speakers
she deals but little in imagery, and her efforts have no at:

tempt at rhetorical embellishment. and yet she is an orator

of great ability. In the treatment of her subject, she goes
straight to the point under consideration for the time, and
says what she has to say, in vigorous Saxon,
and then passes On. Her strength as a‘ speaker ~ is in her
earnestness. Her audience at once become en rapport with
her, for they feel that they have before them awoman who
is in “dead earnest,” and that the wOrds,which are falling
from her lips are not the mere coinage of a mental process

but they are thoughts coming straight from her heart, earn:
estly uttered. because earnestly felt.

-The lecture was listened to by the large audience, a large
proportion of whom wcreladies, with rapt attention, and
the speaker was frquentiy interrupted by loud applause.

While Mrs. Woodhull. in dealing with a. subject which jg
generally ignored in_ the pulpit and on the platform, calls a
spade a spade, there was nothing that fell from her lips
which could justly shock the sensibilities of the most refined .
On the contrary, there was around it an elevated, moral and
even religious tone. The subject is one that is demanding
the attention of all who are interested in social ethics, and
who is there that is not interested in a matter that so vitally —
affects the general welfare of humanity? Her‘ views are in
advance of the day in which she lives, but there were but
few if any present last evening who could differ from her
and even if they did,‘;they derived an intellectual pleasure 1;;
listening to the keen, clear, earnest thinker. who thoroughly)
believes in the mission she is advocating. They heard some
plain truths, it is true, some of whichcame «home to mam
but they were told by a fearless woman, who has an abiding

 

(From the St. Louis, [Mo.] Journal, Feb. 2, I876,

Victoria C. _WOodhull lectured last evening in Armory
Hall upon “The True and False. Socially". A large audience
was present representing in character the best element of
the St. Louis social world, a large proportion being imam-
gent ladies; proving that the strictures of the press through-
out the country on this irrepressible and unconquerabia
woman have had the effect to enhance the public interest; in
the social theories she advances.

Mrs. Woodhull has a fine stage presence,
in most excellent taste. She were last eveni
broadcloth, with demi—train, elaborately tri
silk. Mrs. Woodhull’s elocution is almost faultless hm.
voice at times ringing out full and clear as she promulgates
some grand idea, and again sinking into a whisper. every
syllable distinct ‘and clear as if it were a thing hewn out of
marble. Her manner upon the rostrum is. quick, nervous
and excited, and yet her gestures are always well-timed.
She has a not unpleasant peculiarity of walking rapidly from
one side of the platform to the other, and again, when in.
tensely engrossed in her subject, of pressing her hand to her
forehead and weeping back her luxuriant hair.

At the conclusion of her lecture Mrs. Woodhull held an in-
formal reception in the room adjoining the hall, and a ‘large
number of ladies and gentlemen shook hands with and con-
gratulated the great social reformer.

and she dresses
ns =1 heavy blue
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(From the St. Louis. [Z110-] lRe.publt’can, Feb. 2l,m1l876.l)l'7 I «

Victoria C. Woodhull’s lecture d
Armogy halllaistbnight. A woman
attire in an e a crate toilet ulled far back. i -
her throat and a New Testarngnt in one hand. i‘3Iietihl]egtS;::-egg
at length made her appearance on the stage, where she im-
mediately became very much at home. Opening the book
she read the subject of her discourse from I. Corinthians °
chapter 3; verses 16 and 17‘: "

“Know ye not that ye are the tem 1c of God a
SP'}rIi1t of God dwéalléalth ihn You.” P ’ nd that the
* ‘ any man e e t e temple of God, him sha -
stroy; for the temple of God is holy, which templlel $602.36»
Mrs. Woodhull gave a vivid description of her sufferings
and feelings while in durance vile, and asked thepeople that
had helped gmacadamize such a pathway for herself and sister
to strew a few flowers in their way now. I

[Each of the above St. Louis, Papers also ‘contain a lengthy
digest of the lecture.]

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BUSINESS EDITORIALS.

 

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If a man lceepeth my saying he shall never see
death.——"Jesus. - ‘

To him that ooercometh, I willyioe to eat of the
hidden 77’tCt7’l7lCl-.-=—Sl3. John the Divine.

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 l?_I/2e-
time subject to Zzoiidag/e.——Paul.

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without pacrtiality and without hy-
poc7°isy._—-James, iii. , 1 7.

And these. signs shall follow them .' In my name

; shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents;

and  they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recoue7'.—Jesus.

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 1876.

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WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets

’ of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num-
bers of the VVEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our

friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to
the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful
study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand-_
ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re-
vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be-
fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the
break-of—day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian
splendor.

THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;

on, THE SIX-POINTED srnn IN THE EAST.
For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
-lmfsr. MA'r'rnEw, ii., 2.

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This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition Of
which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been c1earlY
shown in our present S€1‘l.E_S of leading articles that it repre-
sents the coming blending together of the inhabltants of the
,»earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the
establishment thereby of the universal human family. It
also represents still another and more important truth which
has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in.a few
Words is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself.
We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work

A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING‘, ETC.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is l1e.-—PROVERBS xxiii, *7.

For one believeth that he may eat all things; another who is weak,
eateth herbs. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

I know, and am fully persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing
unclean of itself ; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to
him it is unclean.

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not
charitably. ‘

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby

thy "brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is Weak.——R0mans xiv. 2, 5, 14,

,15and2l. . .’“

And the voice spake unto him again the second time. What God hath
cleansed, that call then not common. .

But God hath showedvme that I should not call any man common of
unclean. E

01’ a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every

nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with

him.——THE Acrs x-15, 28, 34 and 35. ‘

For.I delight in the law of God, after the inward man; but I see another
law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing
me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.——Romans,
vii~22 and 23.

The universe exists, and is in constant motion; andthe
motion produces as constant change. It is impossible that
there should be motion of any kind in any part of anything
that goes to make up the universe, without the effects of
that motion being communicated to every other thing.
Every movement in the atmosphere by what we call “ the
winc ” is proof positive that every other portion of the
atmosphere is moved to restore or keep the equilibrium ; in
fact “the wind” is the means by which the equilibrium is
maintained. Wlrenever there is a contraction of the volume
of the atmosphere in any part of the world, caused by
cold, the warmer pprtions vfromi all surrounding quarters
«rush in to reestablish the balance; or when any part of it
becomes expanded by heat, it rushes outward in all direc-
tions, the violence qr rapidity of the movement, in either
case, being in proportion to the suddenness and degree of
the change in the temperature. ~ There is no division any-
where in the atmosphere. It is all one; but there are all
varieties of movements going on within it all the while.
And what is true of the atmosphere is also true of the earth.
There arerno absolute divisions in the matter of which the
body of the earth is composed. As with the atmosphere so
it is with the earth; as its different conditions in various
places, depend upon the different motions that are set up
within itself as a whole,  do the various conditions of the
earth depend upon the motions that have been made in the
original matter as a whole; and there are no exceptions to
this rule, even up to and including man. From the time
that the first combination of two different elements (accord-
ing to the elemental theory); or from the time that two
atoms combined together (according to the atomic theory)
up to the highest, most perfect, and most complex organic
structure that there is existing, there is one continued line
of change caused by motion in the matter that has been
thus evolved. And it must‘ be remembered that each new
combination which has been effected, has been a result of
those which have gone before it. Nothing, at any time, has
ever been interpolated into creation that had no previous
cause. Thus creation is one continuous line of change on
change, of growth on growth, from the beginning till now,
and ever will be.

The evolution of the material universe, it should be re-
membered also, has not carried all the matter contained
within it forward with equal rapidity. The primeval rocks
from which the sands and soils have been decomposed, still
comprise a very large portion of the solid body of the earth.
There was a time, however, when there was nothing higher
in the scale of organized matter than the rocks. These are,
as it were, the foundation upon which creation is built; and
upon which layer upon layer, story upon story, has been
erected. It is even questionable whether the highest addi-
tion that now exists could stand, should the foundation
rocks by some processbe removed. May it not be possible,
nay, is it not certain, that the foundations of creation are
as necessary to the “upper works” as is the foundation of
a building to its continuance as a structure. And yet the
vegetable world is a higher order of creation than the rocks;

and the reptile and fowl still higher orders than the veget-

able; and the animal a further-on development still.

The human animal, man, standing on the apex of creation,
looks backward down the ascent that has been made and
sees himself the culmination of all this mighty work carried
on through all these mighty rounds of ages. Witli man,
however, the old order of growth culminated. Hitherto
the progress had been in complexity of organic form. Each
new order of creation possessed some new function or organ,
or some new functional or organic capacity. All of these new
additions to the complexity of organic structure may be
clearly traced, and the line of evolution formulated, from
the first structural cell upward and forward until it ends
in the delicately formed" and beautifully arranged and
adapted hands and feet and fingers and toes of the human
body. But all the matter of which the universe is com-
posed has not been raised into human bodies. There are
still existing, with some possible exceptions, all the links
that comprise the chain of development reaching from mat-
ter “without form and void” to man. In other words, there
is still a place for everything, and may it not be also added
that everything is in its place, while the rounds of growth
continue to make their mighty circuits, every year adding
th the mass of matter that has become imbued with human
life, by having been passed through the human body.

Standing on the apex of creation, all below and around
man is becoming permeated with a new power by reason of
his existence; and nature is constantly receiving her recom-
pense for having in her economy developed him. Man
produces a modifying, an elevating effect upon everything
which comes within the circle of his influence. The very
air he breathes becomes possessed of a new power because
it has been in his body. All this we have frequently men-
tioned before, but we wish distinctly to call attention to it
here and now, because it furnishes a view of evolution that
few have ever given its proper weight in the divine econ-
omy. It is not generally recognized that the whole -mass of
matter of which the earth is composed, and all of creation
below man into which matter enters, is gradually becoming
humanized. Not only is man discharging himself into the
amosphere by each exhaling breath, but in the insensible
perspiration, and in all his bodily secretions and cxcretions
there goes a principle to enrich and lift the world to higher
possibilities. Of course, this action is not to be perceived
in the individual man to any considerable extent, but there
is, nevertheless, a constant flux and reflux between organic
and inorganic matter by which the latter is charged with
the highest powers of the former. Indeed this is the
method by which God is reconciling the world unto Him-
self; that is, is making all matter capable, gradually, of
ministering to the highest needs of man, with and in Whom
He is eventually to dwell. '

We have been thus explicit in pointing out the methods
by which matter is being fitted to be subservient to the
highest needs that it is to fill in the divine economy of the
future, so that we may teach a lesson by analogy further on
that might not be recognized unless it had an illustration by
which it could be enforced. The same law of evolution
of relation and economy, prevails in all departments of na-’
ture. This law of reciprocal action and reaction is not con-
fined to the material universe. It enters into the new
order of growth that was set up in man, when he appeared,
It is plainly to be seen that nothing in the material universe
can stand alone. All the surroundings, all the antecedents
and consequents, are necessary to each distinct creation and
to all the individualities of each, as well. All former crea-
tions had to exist before the later could exist; and the 1ater
are dependent upon the former to maintain their existence.
So there runs a line of interdependence through the whole
circuit of creation. No part can say to any o.the1-, *4 I have
no need of thee,” for all are parts of a united, common
whole, which wouldlnot be a whole if any part were miss-
ing or even were misplaced.

Before leaving this part of the subject, it should be noted
that so long as anything remains in the economy of nature,
it remains to do a needed work, and if it disappear, it is
because that work is done. The time, no doubt, will come,
when it will be impossible to find the material out of which
to construct a tiger with his ferocious disposition. For the
character of the tiger depends upon the organism through
which its life finds its expression. N 0 other form of animal
can be made to imitate the tiger; and what is true of this
variety is true of every other. Each forms a connecting
link in evolution which, when it shall lift what is behind
it, to its level, or to its place, and connect it with that which
is before it, it will drop out and leave the new connec-
tion to do its further work. The species of animals, rep-
tiles, etc., that have become extinct, are illustrations of
what we mean. They became extinct because there was no
further use for them to serve in the economy of nature; and
being none they disappeared. The same as We lay aside a
thing that has served its purpose, so has God laid aside the
things which He has made which have served His, purpose;
and so will He continue to do, until the world shall be
reponciled unto Him.

We can now rise into the domain of man ; into the new
order of development that was set up by his advent on the
earth. It may be diflicult to draw the line in creation and
say, here the animal ceases and there the man begins.
Originally man was nothing that he is now, save in form,
and even that has changed materially in someimportant
parts. The shape of the -heads of the people of enlightened
nations is widely difi'erent-from that of original tribes. But
here, even, the original is found to reach down to the pres-
ent in exceptional cases even among the most advanced
classes. Generally speaking, however, the shape of the
heads of the people generally has changed as the people
have advanced intellectually and spiritually. There can be

no doubt that the evenly balanced head; the head with the

animal, social, intellectual and spiritual faculties evenly de-
veloped, is the most perfect bead; is the better head to have
than one in which either of these departments is below the
average of the others. ~ The development, therefore, in man
has been in brain power; in intellectual and spiritual direc-
tions, this growth causing a change in the conformation of
the head, to meet the needs of the enlarged organs that it
contains.

Now it will be observed that those people wlxosh-E52753
are nearest perfectly developed, whose heads are rounded out
and full instead of sharp and angular, have the most evenly
balanced characters. And what is true specifically of the
head, is true in a more general sense of the body as a whole
—~the bodies that approach nearest to perfection of outline
and of general form, providing other things are equal, con-
tain the nearest approach to perfect characters. No one can
conceive of Christ as any more deformed or imperfect in

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it must be that the degree of perfection or imperfection that
is indicated by the acts of individuals, is determined by the
perfection or imperfection of their forms, through which
they are made manifest. It is impossible for some to steal,
while others have no power to refrain from stealing. It is
impossible for many to be driven to a condition in which
they could take the life of another, while there are a few
among the whole who place no value at all on human life.
But the many have no right to complain of the few, further
than to provide protection for themselves against the defects
in their organizations which make them dangerous. The
person who cannot keep from stealing is more to be pitied
than is he from whom he steals ; and certainly thesame, in
a’ still higher degree, is true of him who by reason of the
sins of his parents is made liable at any time to be provoked
to murder, than is he who falls beneath his fury. All these
evidences of imperfection in human character—all these
evidences that the blood—thirstiness of the tiger is not yet
burned out of matter, or that the secretiveness of the fox
will manifest itself in man when the fox is made the basis
of his character—go to show how careful all should be who

assume the responsibility of adding to the population of the

world.

It is not true, however, that parents are wholly responsible
for the defects of character with which children are en-
dowed. Save as between the two they are only indirectly
responsible. No person living can stand up amid the people
and say I am alone responsible for what I do, and say it truely.
No one can be so completely divorced from things around,
assto make this possible. In the first place every one is a
natural result of the conditions in which he or she was pro-
duced, and in the second place this aggregate of results is
open to the influence of everything by which it is surrounded,
and is made to act in given directions, in proportion as
these influences are strong or weak in.those directions. N 0
one is his own master or her own mistress, but, on the con-
trary, persons are the slaves of the influences in which they
live, conjoined with their inherited tendencies. In all com’-
munities there will be individuals both above and below the
average of goodness of the larger majority, but the degree
of goodness which the general average of the whole of any
community represents, depends not upon any individual of
the community, but upon the community as a whole, and
the general progress which any community makes does not
depend absolutely upon any of the individuals who may
seem to do most to cause it toevolve in goodness, but upon
the commonlaw of evolution, working upon general princi-
ples which lie behind all men and all communities, ofwhich
all men and communities are the agents only. As in the abso-
lute sense there can be no such thing as personal responsi-
bility, so in the same sense there can be no such thing as
personal merit. True, man -may perform a part in some
grand cause that may prevail, but, after all, it is because he
was prepared to do so, and because the work was ready to
be done. He neither makes himself, nor yet the material
with which the work is to be performed.

But there is a modifying power in man that seems to go
beyond the limitsof adherance to evolutionary law, and to
act independently of it, and this fact has led men to adopt
the idea of personal responsibility. Everybody is conscious
of a power within that says to the inclination: “ This is
wrong. See thou do it not,” or, “ This is right. See thou
do it.” But in recognizing this power a collateral fact is
overlooked, and this is, that the degree of the restraint from

,,doing the wrong, or constraint to do the right, depends

wholly upon the conditions of which we have been speaking,
and vet undoubtedly the progress that man has made in the
line of evolution, of which he is the speciahreprescntative,
has been so made by virtue of this thing that stands behind
the inclinations and tendencies of his animal economy as
monitor and umpire—-as the judge ; and this is the contest
between the devil and God——the good and evil-—the carnal
and the spiritual-—in man. ‘He is the field in which the con-
test wages; in which it has waged since this the voice of
God began to speak in man. There are no evidences that
this still small voice finds utterance in any form below the
form of man. The beast pursues the bent of his own nature,
and he is contented or uneasy as this bent finds satisfaction
or is deprived of it. No one considers it a crime for a tiger
to devour a man. It is his nature thus to-do, and God hath
made him so. How much more a crime is it in the man who
is a human tiger-—who has no voice of God within him to re-

» strain him from the crime?

But it must not be forgotten that the standards of right
and wrong, change to keep pace with the development of
this power over human action. “That is right and proper
in one age of the world comes to be wrong and improper
in a succeeding age. Neither should it be forgotten that,
while there is seemingly a common standard of right and
wrong, which finds expression in the laws and customsof
a people at any given time, that this is only seeming, for
behind this external standard every individual has one of
his own by which he directs his life. Now, here is the
disputed ground between those who contend for the
written law, and. those who contend for the-. higher
law. V The higher law to anyone is the law within
him which tells him that this is right and that is wrong; let
the written law be what it may, whether really a higher
standard or a lower than the one existing in the indi-
vidual. It is he who acts always nearest to the dictates of
the lawwithin him, whether it be in accord with the law
without or not, who obeys the law of God. For he who

acts ‘fully up to the law he finds within him, lives the life
that is natural to his degree of -evolution. “ Let every one
be fully persuaded inhis own mind,” said the profound St.
Paul, ‘ And if anyone being fully persuaded in his own
mind that a certain thing is right for him to do, no matter
if the whole world be against him and call it wrong, it
is right for him. Then here we find the rule that should
govern life; here we find the rule that would govern life if
all arbitrary and external influences were removed. If a
man do what a law or custom requires which is in opposition
to this judge within, he will be damned; he is condemned;
and p it is this inexorable judge‘——this God within—that
passes sentence. '

In presenting this we must not'be understood to say that
any given act which may be done with the approvalof this
judge, must be the highest. N ot by any means. There is
a highest standard and a lowest, and there are standards all
the way between the two, and those who live by the highest
are the nearest to perfection. But this does not alter the
former proposition. Degrees of goodness are a necessary
accompaniment of the law of growth. All people do not
grow alike, and, consequently, all cannot think and act:
alike, and think and act rightly. Everything is true, or
should be, to the standard which its actual development
represents, and there are as many different standards as there
are degrees of growth between the starting point and the
highest yet attained. So it comes about that “what one
thinketh so he is,” and so also that what one is “ fully per-
suaded in his own mind” is the best thing for him to do;
is the best life for him to lead, really is the best for his pres-
ent condition, and without doubt, most prcmotive of fur-
ther-on development, For, if one attempt to live a life that
some one wants him, to, which is above his natural standard,
such an one is liable, aye, is almost certain to back—slide,
because the seeds of the old life still remain in him, and will
spring up and grow as soon as the pressure that carried him
upward is removed. Whe1'eas,. had he been ‘left to exhaust
the conditions of.the lower, and to be guided by the judge
within, instead of one without, he would have developed
regularly instead of spasmodically, to fall again.

When applying this rule of life to social things, it must
be held that whatever one is fully persuaded in his or her
own mind is best; is the most in accord with nature; is the
highest, that life is the best for him or her, and if led, will
not only contribute most to present happiness, but also to
the most rapid growth. For all growth must be of the in-
dividual. N 0 one can grow for another, save in this way,
if it be an exception: every one has an influence on all by
whom surrounded, and those who really, in the absolute
sense, oecupy the most advanced positions in real goodness,"
purity and morals, both by word and deed, disseminate
their goodness, purity and morality everywhere, and by so
doing enrich the soil beneath; by so doing sow the seed of
their own standard in lower grounds; inoculate their good-
ness in the life of those who are fully justified’ in their own
lives upon a lower plane, and thus, unconsciously to
them, lift them higher. What is needed now is freedom for
these forces to act; emancipation for the people so that
they can thus act. Truth never ‘need ‘fear error if left free
to combat it; nor need the higher ever fear that the lower
will triumph, if each be free to grapple with the other.
Evolution and not retrogression is the law of nature; and
when nature is left free to act her part, the movement will
be always up and never down. People might as well legislate
that the weeds shall not grow in the garden as to do the
same about the weeds in the higher garden of the human
body. The true way is to cultivate the good seed, not by
compulsion, but by attraction; by love, which is another
name for attraction. In this way the higher will always
draw the lower to it by the natural ‘power of which it is
possessed; by virtue of its being the higher, while every
form of force serves only to break this magic influence.
Let every one be “fully persuaded in his own mind” how
he should, live, and then adhere to it, in spite of all external
influence; and let this cover the whole range of life. Who-
ever does this not only will have the approval of his judge,
which is the God within, but will make the most rapid
general progress, because he who lives such a life as this
ensures; is always ready to learn and adopt the better way;
is never bound by any external thing to any idol; and,

finally, because such a one is honest; is not a hypocrite, and

has no need to/seem to be other than he is.

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WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH LABOR?

, Probably at no time since the establishment of this country
was there so much unemployed labor as there is now. One
person in every eight in all the large cities with nothing to
do, and consequently with nothing to eat; and the same is
true, to a greater or less degree, of all the country. It is a
disgrace to civilization, that, in a country which can be made
to yield even treble the crops of breadstuifs that it does

there should be a million people suffering for the want of a.

loaf, each, of bread a day. That the resources of the country
are ample to feed ten times its own population, and at the
same time that there are immense numbers of men, and es-
specially women and children suffering for bread, discloses
the fact, as it was never before disclosed, that there is -some-
thing wrong somewhere. Of course, there is a great deal of
talk among the “ wise,” and especially do the finance tink-
erers talk earnestly of the evil whichithis or that amend-

ment to our currency, will effect. But in spite of all this

frfotli, there are causes behind it all out of which it rises,

woonnunr. & GLAFL-IN’S WEEKLY. ,   is

which are scarcely recognized by these doctors of finance.
It is true that a thousand things which these tinkers may do,
may aggravate or mitigate the symptoms of the disease, but

they are tinkers merely

Logically, the question of equity in industry, and of a.
proper medium for efiecting its exchanges, have no relation to
each other. If a man, or a body of men, set down anywhere

in this country, is permitted to make free use of that by which
they may find himself surrounded, he will not only be able
to provide himself with food and raiment, but his family
also. The reason then that thousands cannot do this, is be-
cause there are some kind of improper restrictions exercised
somewhere, that destroy the natural right possessed by every
man. If it be true, that a man by exercising his natural
right to lab or, can provide himself and family with enough
to meet their needs, then a body of men can do the same;
and if abody, then the whole, if they are properly organized .
These are self-evident propositions. It follows then since
many men cannot do this under present conditions, that the
fault lies with the system of organization under which the
industries are conducted. And no tinkering with the
finances, nor any strikes for wages, or. for hours of labor,-
can ever settle this. Alleviation in securing better wages

or better hours, may assuage‘ the symptoms, and put oil the
day of the final overthrow, as all compromises with wrong
serve to do, and to retain the real oppressors longer in their
power, but they can never remove or touch the real causes
of the misery that need to be abated.

It seems to us that there is one cause of present stagnation
that hasbeen quite overlooked. Take the world as a whole,
there are not so many more people in it than there were a
a hundred years ago, as may at first be supposed. Nor do
these same people consume so muchsmore than they did then
as‘ might be supposed. They require just about the same
quantities of food that they did formerly; and wear about
the same amount of clothes. But now look upon the other
side, and see how large the increase in production has been,
both in food and manufactured goods. The same number
of laborers working the same number of hours now, by the
aid of labor-saving inventions, produce sometimes ‘a hundred
fold more than they formerly could have done without the
aid of machinery. Whatever may have been the increase in
consumption, the increase in production has been ten times
as large, at least. All of this increase over consumption,
has been accumulating in the markets of the world, until
large amounts of capital_ are swallowed up in them, and as

as the capital is all invested in these surplus stocks.

This fact may be seen‘ probably more clearly, if the illus-
trations be made of agricultural products. If the agricultu-
ral industries of the world produce yearly double what is re-
quired“ to feed all her people, it is clear that such overt pro-
duction could go on only until the merchants should find
themselves with all their capital invested in produce, , for
which there were no consumers. Then they would cease to
purchase of the producer, and he would be left with his crops
on his hands. Much the same condition of things as this
would be, exists regarding manufactured goods. In fact,
the condition is largely true regarding the direct products of
the soil. With the increased facilities of production, there
should have been a proportionate decrease of the -hours of
labor, but no reduction in the wages of labor. ‘The

a family than that of a hundred years «agolwlould produce,
and yet a day’s labor produces sometimes a hundred times
more than it did at that time. From year to year,
merely, this increased production is not felt; and it has not
been largely feltttill now, because the increased‘ methods of
commercial intercommunication with various parts of the
world, have distributed this over-production among the
nations which have not been blessed by increased facilities
for production. Butnow these new sources of demand have
all been opened up, and their present requirements filled.
Their marketsare overloaded, and the reaction of all this,

to be severely felt, for almost the first time. The conse-
quence is that the merchants have got all theproducts of the
labor of years on their hands, while the laborer, now idle,
has nothing with which to purchase.

Now the solution of this whole problem is patent on its
face. If these people who have succeeded in smug-
gling the products of labor into"'their hands, were the agents
merely of the producers, and'not the owner of their products,
then labor when unemployed by reason of prdduction over
consumption could be maintained during such reactionary
periods, whereas now they must be subsisted if they are
permitted to subsist at all, by the charitable bestowment
upon them of the very things which their labor orig'inal‘ly
produced. For such injustice as this there can be found

of the vexed question of finance, wages, or hoursof labor.
The cause lies deeper than they can reach.
What the world needs to secure is the greatest good and

greatest number merely, '_but for all. e ‘The policy of
self-aggrandisement has been pursued until one-half the
worldis starvingand naked, while the other half has got an
immense accumulation of goods upon its hands with which
it does _not know what to do; or, in its"own»language,
“We cannot purchase any further because there is no

market for what we have.” iThisltells the whole story,

 

the real seat of the disease they can never reach, because ‘

a consequence the manufacturers cannot goon producing,

price of a day’s labor willnot produce any more support for I

upon the producing centers of civilization, is now beginning‘

no remedy in any solution that may be made or attempted ,

the greatest degree of happiness and comfort, notifor the ~

6 p Z‘ , woonnunna cr.A1vL1N*sswEEKLv.

G N ow, what is wanted in place of the present system of in-
dustries is a system which will leave the producers in pos-
session of their products, so that in any event of failure to
produce, or from temporary reaction caused by over-produc-

ii tion, they may not be left to subsist from charities, in which
system all the classes who are now the rulers of the producer,

inasmuch as it is they who say we will or we will not pur-
chase your products, will become their servants or agents

i to effect the exchanges between the several branches

of industry. In such a system there would be no Stewarts,
with millions of the products of labor stored in their immense
warehouses, which no laborer could obtain without payinga
price. We then should have Stewarts to oversee the accumu-
lated products of labor, and, in times like these, to deal
them out to those who otherwise would suffer. In place of
the spirit of selfish greed, we need that of the “ Good-
Samaritan,” by Whom Jesus attempted to teach his pro-
fessed followers a lesson that they will not learn.

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ARE THEIR EYES OPENED?

The Y. M. C. A. have heretofore never had any difiiculty
in getting Congress to pass any bill that they have asked for,
to assist them in the so-called “ suppression of vice and
crime.” All they have had to do was to send their suppliant

agent to Washington with a box of the latest seizures of

obscene pictures or books, and a prepared bill, and the job
was done. Probably there were not a dozen Congressmen
who would ever hear such a bill, sought to be passed read.
They simply didn’t care anything, about it. They knew
that a. powerful Christian Association asked that it be done,
and they have done it without a question. They did not
perceive in the artfully drawn law how they were being
entrapped into trampling upon the Constitution ; or rather
into‘ passing a law, that, while it did not in specific
language, infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the
freedom of the press, was nevertheless intended by its pro-
moters to be interpreted so to do, and to be used for that
purpose.

When this same suppliant agent had us arrested, there
was no language in the law, which he knew as well as any-
body‘ else, that’ could be construed by any twisting into a
justification of proceeding against us, even had the paper of
which he complained been obscene in law, which it

. was not. But he, or those behind him, relied upon the

prejudices of the people and the public , opinion,
which they knew would support the Great Preacher
and the “Revered Citizen,” to justify his high—handed
assumption of dictatorship to the press in our case.
But inthis he failed, and when he saw that he was defeated,
his impotent rage knew no bounds. Everywhere he went
he openly avowed that he would never rest until he had
procured a law by which he could send us_ to the peniten-
tiary. Even before the culmination of his brigandish attempt
upon us, he went before Congress and had interpolated into

_ the law the word “ paper ” among the things that might be

proceeded against for passing through the mails. Congress
did not see that, by this word “ paper,” _its artful drafters
really meant newspaper. A paper is a too general term to
be used in statutory law to designate a newspaper, because
a ‘paper may be any other thing in paper form just as well
as a newspaper. But the trap was set to make_Congress
violate the Constitution, and, as far as the intention of the
Y. M, C. A. was concerned, they did pass a law abridging

. the freedom of the press, which the Constitution prohibits.

Not only did he procure this done, but he got the penalty
increased from one year imprisonment to ten, specially to
suit our case, and to appease his wounded vanity for being
defeated in his schemes to dispose of us at first. ,

But this unconscienceless agentof the Y. M. ‘C. A. finding

that this little word “paper” would not _carry himself

safely through the crusade against newspapers that do not
advocate the line xofimorals prescribed by the Association
which he serves, has found it necessary to go before Con-
gress again to widen the scope and the application of this
infamous law by which he seeks to obtain control of the
press and the power to suppress any paper that may fall
under the bane of the Y. M. C. A. This time he makes a
bold bid for the whole word, and asks that Congress insert
the word “newspaper” so that there may be no doubt
about his right, so far. as Congress can make it a right, to
prosecute newspapers._ One of the members of the Com-
mittee informed us while in Washington, that “if Lant’s
Sun had been a regularly issued newspaper he could not
have been convicted-;_but that in law, his issue was a paper,
without being a. newspapefi “N0 newspaper,” said the
Congressman, “can be attacked under this law; nor can
Congress pass, 3 law of such import, because it is prohibited

V by the Constitution.” When the late attempt was made to

rush-a new law through Congress, its members at once saw
the cat concealed in the meal, and some of the prominent
ezepresentatives proceeded to denounce the bill" in proper
germs as a dangerous innovation;upon the rights of the peo-
ple, and the bill was recommitted for revisal.

But behind the law, so far as it is intended by its promo-
ters to apply to newspapers, it confers a power upon this
agent of the .Y.  A., now a U. S. P. O. ofiicial, to
overhaul the mails and to break open letters that he may
deem Suspicious-.——a.p0WeI' that even the Premier of England
dare not exercise, and for exercising which, in the case of
an Italian rfifugee in England, one was forced to resign his

V Mfice, Pg,1-liament-would not permit even the British Prime
, Mmnisp-er 1,9 1;;-Wk thpispal. pf a letter belonging to a refugee,

was

who had sought shelter in England, but here in the United
tates, not only does the agent of a body of sectarian Chris-
tians assume to do what a’ British Premier dare not, but
Congress passes a law legalizing the infamous outrage. In
England the mails are sacred. In the United States they
may be tampered with by a mere scenter after obscenity.
How long will the people of this country -submit to such
outrages? How long will they endure the insults of a gov-
ernment whichexalts such men as this one into being a
censor of the mails and the press? Let the government
beware how far it trenches upon the endurance of this long-
suffering people, lest they rise and in a day resume the
rights of which, piece by piece, they have been defrauded.
Remember, people of the United States, that this govern-
ment, your Congress, your servants, have passed a law
which stands upon your statute books a blotch of infamy,
by which this man, who is beneath the contempt of an
American citizen, infers that he has the right to go into any
post office and open your letters; your daughters’ letters;
your wives’ letters; your business letters, to see if, per-
chance, you haven’t written something that, in his judg-
ment, may corrupt the morals of the person whom you have
addressed. -

Moreover, this agent of obscenity does not dare to attack
any of the greatnewspapers. He only moves against such
as he imagines he can rely upon the prejudices of the public
to sustain him in. It was this only that convicted Lant.:Had
it been Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, instead of Mr.
Lant, of the Toledo Sun, that had published the objection-
able matter, he would never have been proceeded against
in the first place, and could never have been convicted in
the second place. No jury could have been found who
would have brought in a verdict of guilty upon the evidence
that convicted Lant. It was because Lant was not a Dana,
or a Bennett, or a Jones, that he .was prosecuted to convic-
tion by the Y. M. C. A. Wlien George Francis Train was
in the Tombs, day after day the New York Sun published
column after column, equally ‘as objectionable to good
taste and public morals, as was this from the same source
for which Lant is now in the penitentiary.

This fact of itself ought to move Congress to immediately
repeal the law under which such outrages can be committed.
No law should be permitted to stand upon the statute books
of this great nation, which, in any case, can be used to op-
press the weak and the poor, but from which the influential
and the rich are protected by virtue of their position in
society, and their wealth. No law should be allowed to
stand a moment,,that is open to being made the vehicle of
any man’s, or any association’s, sectarian or social bigotry
and intolerance, to be vented , upon his victims by
working upon the prejudices of an ignorant jury, who have
no competent idea of purity or vulgarity in literature. A
law that cannot be enforced against the great and rich as
well as against the small and poor,» should never beenacted,
and if {enacted and found to work in this way, should at
once be repealed. Law should be for the protection of the
people, not for the oppression of the weak, or the vehicle
of religious or social persecution; and as this is the use to
which the Y. M. C. A. reduce the Congressional Act to
prevent the circulation in the mails of obscene literature, it
ought to be repealed, at least so much of it as may be inter-
preted to prohibit the sending of newspapers, books and
pamphlets in the mails, and upon which prosecutions for
sending them may be instituted. Newspapers should be
left free to discuss all questions relating to the welfare of
the race; even the sexual question in its minutest particu-
lars; and books and pamphlets, containing scientific or con-
troversial investigations jnto the mysteries ‘and the un-
known in sex, ought to pass freely through the mails.

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to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they
can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They
are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who
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the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which
misery, vice and crime shall have no place.

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price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has
occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the
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a day or two, when. all orders will be filled.—[MANAGING
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The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we
have just received the pamphlet edition, which, to meet the
extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, We
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Feb. 19, 1876.

READY FOR THE CONFLICT.

Bowen talks like a man reluctantlyenlisted, but-, once in,
resolved upon a square fight. VVe are rejoiced to secure for
the right a soldier of such grit. He brings himself up
with millions of ammunition, and will, no doubt, do more
to shake up the sea—sick followers of Plym0utl1’s Jonah than
all that have preceded him.

There is manliness in Bowen’s words, some heart and
brains. Good men ;will appreciate his straight forward
statement. We are tired of petty-fogging; it has been one
of the poisons that has brought on so much demoralization
throughout the nation. “ Down with shams !”

Parson Halliday very properly introduced Bowen’s “letter
missive” by prayer. He seems to have had an idea that the
“missive” would contain some sharp accusations against
the modern St. Paul. No doubt Brothers S. V. W., Joe
Howard, and others of that ilk will continue their whistling,
and try to keep up their courage; but sounding brass and
fog horns will not much longer protect their beloved Henry
VVard, nor will they frighten the besiegers any more than do

.Shearman’s tears.

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As we are soon to begin the preparation of an elaborate

statement of the ultimate truth of the New Departure, so

far as it is known to us, we desire that all persons who
have any singular, exceptional, or hitherto inexplicable
sexual experiences which they think may relate to this
truth, should write them out in detailed form. These com‘
munications, if desired, will be held strictly confidential, so
far as the writer’s names are concerned, but we propose to
incorporate such parts of them as have bearing upon the
truth, with the statement. This statement is designed for
those only who have expressed a desire to receive the whole
trnth, together with all its responsibilities, and will contain
in an appendix, a,‘,list of such persons’ names with their resi-
dences, through which they may come toknow each other.

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, There is :1 bill pending before the legislature of Ohio,
providing for the taxation of church property. Every one
W110 favors such a bill should send in a petition, with all the
names that can be obtained, asking that the bill pass.
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LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS.

 

Mrs. VVoodhull lectured in Memphis on Sunday, in N ash-
ville, on Monday, and in Chattanooga to-night (Tuesday).
And is to lecture at Atlanta, Ga., to-morrow night (Wednes-
day) ;at Augusta, Thursday; at Macon, Friday; and at Mont-
gomery, Ala., Saturday of this week. Route beyond there
is not yet known, but will probably be Selma, Jackson,
Vicksburg, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and other
Texan cities in regular succession. All letters about lectures
should be addresed to the United States Lecture Bureau,
Box 3,791, New York City.

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Bowen’s “Doxolager” will probably cause a fresh flow
of briny tears from Shearman, an essay from J 0 Howard (or
a squib from Jugg), a hundred fresh camilias from the
ladies of old Plymouth, and some capital stories from
“Henry Ward B., of Puritan stock,” who faithfully
preaches “the word to his flock,” and then the brethren
will vote an increase of salary, and request that brother S.
V. White’s name be dropped for making a fussy time about
nothing. Will somebody give the names of the male mem-
bers of that society who have not yet been prominently
connected with the defence of the “ Great Defendant ” and
its financial condition, officers, vestrymen? Let it be seen.
of wl-hm the rank and file consist. Those most prominent
were registered long since—Henry’s letters to Moulton did
that business—but his faithful sepoys! poor fellows, pity

them!
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THE -DAWN OF DAY.

Are we in reality to have more truth in the world?- There
is a vague idea tripping around corners, pitching into
churches, schools, theatres, warehouses, prisons——even law
ofiices find it frequently perched on their court calendars;
that we are “too smart”——that we “cant”——are “hypo-
crites ”——evcn worse, if that is possible—all false. _.

Are your readers expected to believe the New Departure
is to make a clean sweep of all this rubbish that has
swamped so many millions of good fellows ? Suppose we

begin by inviting that much-abused woman, Elizabeth R. .

Tilton, whom we fervently hope will yet have faith enough
in truth to clasp it, and demand the world’s approval. She
has carried the sins of Plymouth on her shoulders, and
besides, a load of masculine selfishness beyond endurance.
She has heroic qualities. The good in all directions will
welcome l1er—we pray she may step firmly to the front," and
fear not. SOME WOMEN IN CHERRY VALLEY.

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throughout its entire course the author—as will be
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CONTENTS.

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Chap. 1.——Rival Claims of the Saviors.

Chap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. _

Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent.
Chap. 4.~—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of

ti‘ G d .
Chalpj. 5f)—SVii'gin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods!

Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s

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Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant :

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Chap. 9.-—Titles of the Saviors.

Chap. 10.—-The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble

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Chap. 11.—~Christ’s Genealogy.

Chap. 12.——The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc-

tigm in Infancy. . _ . _
Chap. 13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1-
’ 't . ‘
 1}:1.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World.
Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Personages.
Chap. 16.——Sixtecn Saviors Cruciiied.
Chap. l7.—-The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci-
fi ' .
Cha}.£1:.()I118.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell.
Cha . 19.——ResurrectiOn of the Saviors.
Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav-

CHH¥)T'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe

ClE)ztl1l%[:]2..—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. _

Chap. 23.——The Divine “ Word ”‘of Oriental Origin.

Chap. 24.—The Trinity very anciently a current Hea-
then Doctrine. _

Chap. 25,-Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of
Heathen Origin.

Chap. 26.-——Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood,

and the Holy Ghost.

Chap. 27.—-The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen
Ori in.

Chap%28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin.

Chap. 29.——I:low Men, including J ssus Christ, came to
be worshiped as Gods.

Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of
the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus

’ Christ. =

Chap. 31.—Christianity derived from Heathen and
Oriental Systems‘. _

Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and Forty-six striking
Analogies between Christ and Crishna.

Chap. 33.-Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods.

Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith-
Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. _

Chap. 35.——Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc-
triee of Divine Incarnation. '

Chap. 36.-Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine

of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ ' _

Chap. 37.—PhysiOlogical_ Absurdities of the Doctrine
of the Divine Incarnation, . _ '

Chap. 38.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus
Christ.

Chap. 39.—The Scriptural VieW‘of Christ’s Divinity.

Chap. 40.—A Metonymie View of the Divinity of Jesus
Christ. -

Chap. -11.~—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus
Christ. _

Chap. 42.-—Christ as a Spiritual Medium.

Chap. 43.—Convei~sion,Repentance and “Getting Re-
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Chap. I-14. --The Moral Lessons of Religious, History.

Chap. 45.-Conclusion and Review.

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