the conclusion my mind has arrived. at, after years of the
I most earnest and prayerful search, into all the phases pre-
‘ sented, namely: That no soul ..ever yet in the flesh really

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HELEN NASH’S LETTER. ‘

' ‘  OMAHA, March ‘ 7, 1876.

Dear Weekly:._ 1- A ._
I am just now direct frdm home, Where I have been so busy
for the past two monthsfoypbr my Spring sewing, that I have
not found a momentls-, me to write a letter to you. And I
must.add. hfl#§7e{tiefore~proc’eeding to the subject in my mind,
that, while5iat‘hon1e:"i?5.E'3rlif§€$j,1the unexpected pleasure of enter-
taining that sta “ h f'"'- ‘T d of humanity and of the WEEKLY.
Para, cg  us  , W%g.;in:C3incinnati, dropped a line, to
our“ ttle s‘ age, hoping that it might catch me at

   

    
  
 

   
 

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home, which fortunately it did: for there is no one in the
ranks I should havebeen happier to meet just in the present
crisis of reformatory affairs, nor is there a riper judgment
or more experienced wisdom among radical’ minds than Par-
ker Pillsbury’s. I’m sure his visit——too short visit—With me
at my father’s house, has been profitable to my understand-
ing,’ and will linger a pleasure in my memory. ,

ll‘ As a matter of-course the tone of our conversation took its
key from the WEEKLY; what it is doing, has done and is
like to do. And of this the readers of the paper may rest
assured, Victoria and the WEEKLY have no firmer "friend or
more firm co-laborer than-he. Last week’s number had just
arrived when he came, so of course Viotoria’s decided stand
in regard to Spiritualism, or rather its base counterfeit, was
discussed. c

I do not intend to present the views of Parker Pillsbury
here; I might do him injustice, We. are so liable to miscon-
ceive each other. Besides he is so much better qualified to
speak for himself . , I — ’

But I do intend to express some of my own views and
opinions upon Spiritualism, which the present position? of
Victoria warrants me in doing. I am glad she has taken the
stand she has, though knowing full well what a hornet’s nest
she has set abouther ears; and I am glad to have the oppor-
tunity of freely expressing my views upon the theme. A

First, then, I am nota Spiritualist, though for years I have
tried to be. and have sought light from all sources, ave pro-
fessional, ones, with prayerfulness and earnestness. My po-
sition has thrown me a great deal in the society ofhonest be-
lievers, of whose worthiness my intuitive perception seldom
fails to assure me, as also of the unscrupulousness of the
frauds and} humbugs who pratice their detestable tricks
upon the earnestand honest seeker after light concerning the
mystery of death. ’ ' ’

M The fact that there are earnest believers in both the philo-
sophy and phenomena of Modern Spiritualism does not alter

communicated with one out of it! p ,

Call this a sweeping declaration if you will. Nevertheless
it is my conviction, and it need not affect the conviction of
any other soul. I could not if I Would, for Want of space, in-

me to this result in my own mind. Stilll believe my faith
is unshaken in the existence of spirit and of its immortality.
I have had individual experience of the possibilities of my
own spirit, quite enough to ground me in that faith. .But
henceforth I repudiate many professional Spiritualists, as
mountebanks and hum bugs, for the individual character. of
spiritual manifestations that is worthy human consideration.
So my ‘mind precludes the possibility of phenomena being

Let true and earnest Spiritualists present their beautiful
philosophy to the receptive mind till by the power of its
attractiveness, and a purely individual procesS,.it produces
the fruit of faith in the soul.

Victoria can not be more disgusted than I have been for

years with the evidences of humbug on every hand, even in

the columns of papers devoted to Spiritualism. And here I
am reminded that I have intended for a few days to take up
the cudgel in defense of a friend who has been most vilely
assailed by the Banner of Light, evidently in mental dread of
losing its occupation.

My friend will not defend himself, for he says the Banner
of Lights article is’only vituperative and utterly fails to as-
sail a single point in the article it assumes to rule out of the
realms of reason, with a charming Pecksniffian air and a
strong smack of Police Gazette style.

I allude to an article in the Banner for January 22d, which
has only just come to my hand. The paper starts in to com-
pletely “use up” Alf. Burnettfor an article of his that ap-
peared in a Memphis paper against Spiritualistic humbug,
and all the Banner‘ seems to make out of itis a mistake 
grammar, which occurs at the very opening sentence involv-
ing the simplest rule in grammar, and a mistake of common
occurrence where there is a. compound subject. Had it in-
volved a more complicated rule than the “nominative case
governs the rule,” say for instance, the infinite mode, future
tense, possessive case and superlative degree, ’tis question-
able if the versatile editor of the ~.Bmmer would ever have
seen it.

The mistake, however, which the Bannermakes much of,
in lack of sound argument to upset its opponent, was noticed
by the writer of the article as soon as he saw it in print, for
his letter Waslhurriedly written. Will the learned Spiritual
corps of the Banner point out any other grammatical error
in the aforesaid article; for, ifthe Banner is incapable of
illuminating the “dense ignorance” of the writer, spiritually
speaking, itmight edifyl him some on Murray’s Grammar.

I will only notice one point which the Banner seems to
make concerning Messrs. Maskelyne and Cook of London.
Mr. Burnett was associated with those eminent exposers for
some time while in England, and as he is an observing man
his ignorance of their modus operandt can not be so “dense”
as that of the learned “corpse” of the Banner. He could
state that he never heard of that standing offer of Spiritual-
ists to those gentlemen, but he has a faint recollection that

he did hear of a standing offer of those gentlemen to Spirit— i

ualists to produce .‘7phenomena” per "spook”l power which
they could not imitate per human ingenuity. What a pity
if the Banner has made a mistake! Its “spirit guides”
should have informed it more to the point; for ’tis a shame
that with such spiritual attendance the Banner should blun-
der or fall into the unspiritual and vulgar error of vitupera-
tion. That sort of thing should be left for us material mole-7
cules. ’ ‘

Now, because Isay most emphatically that I repudiate all
the phenominal phases of Modern Spiritualismas having

failed to prove their origin‘ to my mind, I hope no enthusiast _ ,

will proceed, on the principle of the. Banner of L2'ght,_-as

though my assertion were going, to damage the “business,” A

and so attempt to run my letter into the ground on the as-
sumption of a superior knowledge of. Lindley Murray. That
sort of thing is not aigument, and if it were, Mr. Burnett is
too old a correspondent to be unsettled by it. ' ’
But if any there are who have arguments to lofier, either
emanating from themselves or, in their belief, from ‘Tom
Paine or Davy J ones, I. will say that I am open to conviction,
though not to be won over by a single “phenomena” that I
have thus far witnessed. They may convince others, but not
me, and I can but look with pity upon those who are credu-
lous concerning What to me is but a trick or a result of known
laws of clairvoyance or magnetism. _
I must say that Lam at that point where I ca-n'*n'ot help
mistrusting any who trade in what they’ are pleased to call
mediumistic power, or who claim ’exemption from’responsi—

bility on that account. I Want truthj which may be at the

bottom of a Well, but it is not, in a dark cabinet thaway I

look at it. _ Any wayas long as it shuns the light Iam content,

to let it shun.‘ \HELEN _NAsH.

THE BASIC PRINCIPLES  SPIRITUALISM. . ,
' BY ALEX. s.. DAVIS.

We have much discussion concerning What constitutes
Spiritualism. However much persons may difier in regard to
its true meaning, I think it may be truthfully asserted that
spiritual phenoiuezia is no more Spiriti1a.1ism than a musical

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sound is music. Asuccession of musical sounds as the octave
or correspopding sounds producing a harmonious blending,
such as l, 3, 5' and 8, I say these do not constitute music
though component parts of musical science. I
I employ music for illustration, because there is a corres-
pondence between Spiritualism and music that will enable us
’to better understand what constitutes Spiritualism in its
more comprehensive signification. Music is defined to be
the science of harmonical sounds. Spiritualism may be de-
fined to be the science of the harmonical relation of soul and
spirit, mind and matter. In music there are arbitrary or
fixed rules to learn and observe in order to produce harmony
by the arrangement of musical sounds. The observance of
these rules is concord, or expresses harmony: jthe non-ob-
servance creates discord, or inharmony. These rules are not
man—made rules, which can be altered at pleasure, but ghey

‘_exist by virtue of an immutable law, which never can be

ignored without discordant results . To illustrate: Sit down
at this musical instrument, and while your finger rests upon
one, ‘strike at the same time ,two in the scale, or 3 and 6, and
you produce what is called adiscord.  it is so We know
not, but are compelled to accept the fafi-as it is demonstrated

.mine that the sounds are discordant? If you have the ability
to determine, you say your hear and feel it, producing a jar
so to s_peak—-a state of momentary unpleasantness. You
have made use of the elements of harmony, but they do not
sustain the proper relation to each other.

In Spiritualism we have What corresponds to the produc-
tion of music requiring the same strict observance of the con-
ditionsvessentlal toharmony and progress. .

With respect to music, let us pursue the anology still far-
ther. The existence of one musical sound is not music. The
existence of many musical sounds as represented by the oc-
tave is not music alone. The proper arrangement of notes

A upon the stafi’ to represent a tune is not music. The recog-

nition of the fact that a certain arrangement of musical
characters may be so used in connection with the voice. or
by the aid of a musical instrument to produce a tune, does
not constitute music,'or a person who recognizes this a musi-
cian. I -
Still‘ farther, the formal execution of the notes does not
necessarily constitute music, or make the operator a mu-
sician. After all the externals have been complied With,
there must" be a response of the soul of the performer, enter-
ing into the spirit and harmony of the sounds produced-=
Without this there can be no true musician. Music has a
soul,‘ and it must come home to the soul, and the life be '
made better for it.
The poet expresses the absence of musical appreciatio
thus: v
_ “The man that hath no music in himself,
, __ " "Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
/ ls fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”
Lotus consider for a moment what does not constitute
Spiritualism.
 human organization and the spirit occupying it, al-
though component parts of, do not make, Spiritualism.
The mind, with all the manifestations thereof, acting

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of physical body, propelled by the spirit or vital f/owes
‘Within-;'—these do not constitute Spiritualism, but aliéfl/ia"(lig-
pensable adjuncts to Spiritualism. The operation‘/of mind
upon mind, and the eflect of mind and spirit up6n matter,
whether the operator be in the form or out of the f, i*m,.-pm...
ducing mental and physical phenomenawthese d not con.
.stitute Spiritnalism, but, like the others, the m nifesbabiong
are component parts of the great science of lif I

 

of the physical body, or a belief in the interoommunicafion
_Withfthe departed, constitute all of Spiritualism, or a per-
‘son a Spiritualist who believes in the,.rea1ity thereof, It 1;,
all that has been named, and more than this, that makes up
Spiritualism and the true Spiritualist. A
Spiritualism, withalcl its conccmitants, is Universal Har-
mony. In its integral parts it comprises much that is appa,-‘.
rently discordant. and inconsistent, but this is owing to a
_Want of comprehension of the subject, or the improper join-
ing of elements, that have not of themselves attractive force,
or do not blend because there is a non-observance of the
law of spiritual chemistry. Music is the harmony of sounds,

l9‘.-lb 119 greater illlwiuopy can be predated than the §l¥l}l_1_lbav

to us through the sense of hearing. But how do you d'e'ter>-\,,., 

through its organ the brain, as well as all the manifestatiéng .

_,Neither..do_es a belief in a continued existence after death «

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. communion shows unmistakably that the human intellect,

  
 

...l._ but it extends to all correspondence to the opponents of so-

 personal knowledge, in "wilicsh young ladies of great promise
X of usefulness were sealed. and silenced as effectually as if

neous production of musical. sounds, out of the order of
their true harmonic relations. Again, as in music, we have a
gradated scale, or a systematic succession of sounds, forming
what is termed theoctave, with its steps and half steps, so
in Spiritualism we have its component parts, each represent-
ing a note in the scale; and perhaps I might venture to say,
there is a striking correspondence as respects the number of
those parts in the scale of progressive harmony. But these
component parts do not of themselves constitute Spiritual»
ism——the notes in the scale, by the use of which, in ac-
cordance with the law of spiritual science, infinite harmonic
and progressive changes and manifestations take place in
nature, giving us some idea of the true meaning of Spiritual-
ism. And what are some of the ‘basic notes, so to speak, of
Spiritualism: 1st, a physical organism; 2d, afispirit occupying
that organism; 3d, the mind acting through its function the
'lirain«; 4th", the power of mind to communicate with mind;
6th, the control of mind over mind and matter; 7th, the
birth of the spirit into spirit life; 8th, the ability of the spirit
to communicate and identify itself. Here we have the octave
in life—-the components that go to make up those mi‘.lltlfari-
ous manifestations, expressions and conditions of mundane
and supermundane existence, which we designate Spiritual-—
ism. We hear much talk about spiritual phenomena and
spiritual manifestations, as though all manifestations were
not spiritual. — »

The movement of the hand, or uplifting the eye, is a mani-
festation of the spirit occupying the body; and when that
intelligent force or spirit ceases to act through its physical
organism, it is no less a force, though compelled by the law
of change to seek some other mode to manifest itself.

A manifestation on the part of a spirit out of the body, so
to speak, is no more wonderful in fact than the manifesta-
tion of the spirit in the, physical body. It may be more
unusual, but when persons once become familiar and accus-
tomed to manifestations of departed spirits, they‘occasion no
surprise, nor are thought to be moremysterious than other
phenomena in life. That we cannot comprehend how it is
possible to be true, is no argument against the verity of
spirit communion, for we have no comprehension of causa-
tion in any department of existence.

‘We are compelled to accept the fact of present existence
upon the evidences of our senses, and whether that evidence
demonstrates our being as occupying a physical body in this
state, or its existence in another form and locality such as
claimed by the teachings of the harmonial philosophy, the
fact/that we are compelled to take cognizance of the evidence
indicates that it belongs to the same class of demonstrable
facts. In conclusion, to recapitulate, we have the evidence
of our senses to prove the existence of our physical body,

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really the property of others, and had no right to speak
or write without the approval of the owners. There are a
few exception where such females have husbands who do not
interfere with the social growth and intellectual development
of their companions; but such cases are’ rare, and are the ex-
ceptions to the rule. The more this subject of -marriage, as
it now exists legally, is viewed, the more its evil effects be-
come apparent, and it does seem as if there might be eyes
enough open to the evil! to secure the necessary change
in the laws, leaving it to the special contract of the parties
and subject only to the general law of civil contracts. It
‘might be accomplished at once, were it not for the sensual ad-
vocates of the system as it is, who, by it, secure victims for
their lust, and fear the change which would give the wife
equal liberty and equallegal protection and defence of prop-
erty. The women ought to own one halt the property as it
rightly belongs _to them, but we have robbed them of prop-

erty, freedom of person and freedom of speech, and thus,-

often by our accursed social tyranny, stop the development
or destroy the usefulness of many of the finest specimens of
the sex.

 

A CENTENNIAL WAIL.
BY ROBERT W. HUME.
[Read at the late Uonvention of the N, E’. Labor League, at Rochester
Hall, Boston]
I have a song to sing you, to the tune of old John Brown;
It sums the list of miseries which true hearts must put down;
So listen, while I tell the woes that o‘er our nation frown
' As we go marching on!

We had a farm unmortgaged, we held the same in fee,

On it we raised a billion to putidown slavery; _ .

But the money men they’ve fleeced us of a couple more, d’ye see,
' And still go cheating on!

'We fought to shield their property, but property don’t pay,

The man who did the battle’s work, he must the cost defray;

He’s the .moncy—holder’s guardian, and the money-holdcr’s prey,
- As he goes toiling on. I

Our fathers left us freedom; broke superstition’s chain;

But some have done their level best to put it on again;

Alas! alas! ’tis only true; they shed their blood in vain,
Though they Went couqueriug on!

From North and South, and East and West. our foreign friends have come,
Cur "liberty of conscience” to them looks very glum,
As, bending to the dust before the ancient Sunday drum,
They see us grinding on!

To save them from such insult, ourlprayers did not avail,
The hpgnluzg of " ourlibcrty” with them will ne’er prevail;

with its various functions and uses. We have the evider2ce"”Whi1€ Sucking T01'<1fl€mad&S they Supervise 0111‘ mail,

of our senses to prove the existence of the vital intelligent
force called spirit, operating within, bringing into action the
entire physical organism "We have the evidence of the ex-
’ v -2 sted through the mediumship
fjowments. We have the evi-
hat we can communicate one
we uscfof the mental faculties.
ower and influence of mind
7 atter. Vlfe have the evidence
of our senses demons--.  , he fact of the dissolution of the
physical body, when the.‘ change takes place called death.
And is this the end of human testimony with respect to our
existence? Or shall we extend our researches and demons-

trate that there is no such thing as death.

“ Therc’s no such thing as death-

In nature nothing dies;
From each sad remnant of decay
Some forms of life arise.” .

This is part of the mission of modern Spiritualism; and the
millions who can bear testimony to—day to the facts of spirit

   
  
    
   
 
  
  
  
 

      

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deuce c:len'lonst1“ating
with another by specs
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aided by the spirits, is ascapable of solving this question as
it is to solve the simplest problem in human existence. ,
And when we have learned the basic facts of Spiritualism,
, we then have the rudiments whereby we can attain a more
perfect growth, harmonizing self with self, and ourselves
with our surroundings, studying the nature of and recogniz-
ing the utility of all things; that whatever is, is part of the
divine order, that progress is the immutable and universal
law, and eternal happiness the great boon in reserve for all.

 

IS IT, AND WHY IS IT?
BY WARREN CHASE.

It is a well known fact that women who are the most
open, frank and fearless advocates of social freedom, are the
most attractive, intelligent and interesting company, and

' that their society is sought after, and their correspondence is
the most general and acceptable of any class of women. Nor
is this confined to the advocates of the same special views,

j'v«2,ial freedom in the opposite sex whenever and wherever
if gy‘ can receive it, and not have it known by those whose
m";§_€,‘g;ke they fear. This is not a sensual attraction, as some
suppose it to be, but largely of a larger and a purer nature,
as mwyphave ascertained by examination of the subject.
Sang»,-pm men seeking this society ‘often get terribly rebuked
and.s;:§’"‘ l7 hack, and not unfrequently are made wrathy and to
he ab .;slander and abuse the women .whom they found
sodiffie.  from what they expected or desired to find.
This fact  attraction is not confined to the married, ma-
tured and —is,1..i;e,.lei:tually developed females. but also extends
to young ladl.;l,es and girls, and such are not unfrequently
sought and secuiail. in marriage by men who shut their
mouths and seal their lips on social reforms and kindred sub-‘
jects as soon as-'thcy‘—§§ct the ownership and possession of
them. Many instances “of! this kind have come within my

   

   

 

 

  
 
 
 

buried under an avalanchmlas soon as married, not be-
cause their minds were changed, but because, having sold

themselves for a home andthe necessaries of life, they were

As we go slaving on!
You may tall: about the rum~shops, and o‘er them raise a muss: _
Our gambling dens are nasty, our churches perhaps worse;
But-our halls of legislation are the foulest spots for us,

As they go stinking ‘on.

Thus we from bad to worse advance. Oh. woe upon our race!
To seek to serve the people now and gain a sfatesman’s place,
Is but to fill an ofiice stained with crime and foul disgrace,

As we go marchiugpn!

Oh “ Free and Independent ” you rebelled against a tax,
And burnt up old King George’s stamps, and beat off his attacks;
Bur now we’re plastered everywhere. except upon our backs,
As we go toiling on!

“Oh Liberty, thou jewel!” sings either Jones or Brown ;

But none of us can move about, or pass from town to town,

But there’s a double set of spies are paid to mark us down,
As we go roving on?

some mangy, briefless lawyer, he noses us around,
Then posts Commercial Agencies with all that he has found;
And Y. M. C. A. ass’s they ruleus round and round
As we go moving on!

We dig gold for the Englishman, and keep it not on hand,

Foreigners own our railroads, the railroads steal our land;

And the “ Free and Independent ” hasn’t anywhere to stand,
So he goes wand’ring onl

We’ve used up all our credit, and are chin-deep in debt,

Our factories are closing up, our houses marked——“ To Let;”

We’ve pawned our mines to Symms’s hole, ‘and deeper_cannot get,
. * So we go owing on!

Within their well-stored shops in rows our tradesmen sit and grin
To see their money going out, and nothing coming in;
For none of us can make a trade, for none have got the tin,
So we go wanting on!

Our villages and townships have all gone up the spout, .

Our cities buried are in bonds. our States can’t turn about;

Our rates and taxes are so high that legislators doubt
They must stop taxing on!, A

Alas! Alas !—the bondholder, he truly rules us now,

For him we swing the hammer, for him" we guide the plow;’

The “ Free and Independent ” has nothing left him now
As he goes purseless on!

But surely from this fearful state we soon'must be released,
The goose that laid the golden eggs is dying at the least;
For labor’s arm is paralyzed, production’s almost ceased,

As we go staggering on!

There’s many a subtle scheme proposed to cure the working man,

Dethroning gold ’s by many thought tobe the proper plan;

The West and South against the East are looming up quite grand’
As we go toiling on!

If money be a tyrant, why, man has made it so;

It ought to be the people’s slave, and not the people’s foe;

To conquer it the people’s arm alone can strike the blow
As they go fighting on! '

Too heavy and too hard has been old Mammon’s iron hand,

But Liberty, though crushed to earth, is rising in the land;

No spirit of the darksome pit can her free force withstand
As she goes cong’rir.g on!

 

June 10, 1876.

With bloody tracks the soil is stained where her fair foot has trod;
The law securing interest has money made a god!
Withdraw it, and at once we break the stern oppressor’s rod,
Arid go triumphing on!

Annul it; andjour nation will at once its strength renew,

For on that villany accursed by Gentiles!‘ Turk and Jew

Stand all the shameless systems which rob men of their due’
As they go working on!

Thus shall we lay the usurer within his peaceful grave,

And take the camel out of him, his precious soul to save;

While o’er him we the Union Flag in holy rapture wave,
And go rejoicing on! '

So, Sisters dear and Brothers, there’s work for us to do,

To hasten on a happier time it is our duty true,

Then shall we leave a better world for all who follow too:
When we’vc done marching on!

?X:E'{6t1e’, Mohammad and Moses.

-a--—n-n

THE NEW DEPARTURE.
A BY J. s. L.

“ Behold! I make all things new.”—Revelatious, chap. xi., verse 5. .

“ And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter,
that he may abide with you forever.”——John xiv., v. 14. .

“ For Thine incorruptible spirit is in all things.

“ For she is the heart of the ‘power of God! and pure influence flowing
forth from the glory of the Almighty. Therefore can no undcflled thing
fall into her. For she is the brightness of the everlasting light,—the
unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness.
And, being but One, she can do all things; and in all ages enteringvinto
Holy souls, hath made them Friends of God and Prophcts.”—-Parts of
the 7th chapterof the Wisdom of Solomon.

The New Departure! I like the name: ’tis grand; ’tls
significant; ’tis suggestive. It reminds one of Columbus,
and his three little ships, starting out on an unknown sea, to
discover a new continent, or the daring little Mayflhwer and
her devoted band. Besides it marks a period in the History
of Spiritualism. Anterior to its advent, Spiritualism had
been simply destructive in character; it subsisted by com-
bativeness, it lived on the defeat of other systems, it was the
great reservoir of the anti-religious sentiment of the coun-
try, Atheism, Rationalism, Pantheism and Scepticism in
general. Whcan it discarded the cardinal dogmas of ortho-
dox Christianity, it rushed into the vertex of materialism. It

A shouted “ Oh Glorious Science! oh Iufiuitesimal a.nd Atomic

Deity ‘I oh great Gglsseous Substance!” etc. Good-bye moral
intelligence! Gooci-bye soul! Good—bye imagination! Good-
bye poesy! Good-‘eye religion! A man’s value was to be
determined by his avoirdupois weight.

But this moleculial mania could not last. It soon began to
decline. Then came the wonderful pilgrimage to heathen
lands." It staggered back to the dark ages. It gr-oped about
among different religions, searching for analogies to Christi-
anity. But running down one maiihine, never invented an-
other. \Vhat was the result of this ?  At fiust a feeling of su-
perficial fellowship, based upon a, common an thy t_ .- the
prevailing religion. This lasted‘ for a time; but when the
first fit of enthusiasm had subsided, the effects of this heter-
geneous combination began to make itself so manifest, each
man mounted his peculiar hobby, and with visor down and
leveled lance, rode ahead regardless of everything else. But.
10! he was soon met by another knight, as fierce and as bad
as he; and then they stood and shook their fists at each
other, till others, coming at right angles, separated them for a
time. And so the battle raged till. like the celebrated con-
test of the Kilkenny cats, there is little left now but their
tails. Where they once had overflowing halls, they have not
a single vestige of organization left, so that Spiritualism at
present, as a compact and united body, has neither unity.
harmony nor integral vitality. And as far as its practical
usefulness is concerned, as at present developed, its epitaph

may as well be written, “Died of injuries received at its own
hands.”

But out of this peculiar class of persons is to come the
chosen sons and daughters of God, who are to build the
glorious temple of celestial harmony. The flowers of the ages,
the antecedent prerequisites, are even now being brought
prudently forward by our faithful and heroic sister Victoria,

. to whom be al honor for her determined persistenceand

adherence to her soul’s ideal, through" defamation, distrust,
dissimulation,persecution, yea almost death itself, to keep
intact the sacred sanctity of the higher life. God reward her
according to her works. She now invites us to a new depar-
ture. She admits the defects of the Bible, but says, dear
friends, we have looked at these things a long time, now let us
look for its virtues, and from the depths of an overflowing
soul, I say amen! For although its leading truth and divine
mysteries come through imperfect instruments who distrusted
their meaning, yet concealed within its pages -lies the key to
all that is true and precious in moral and social ethics.

The most important thing we should discern is this immut-
able fact, which no amount ‘of hypothetical speculation can
invalidate: That this is not aforsaken and fatherless world,
but that it has a Creator and controlling guide, not a material
deity made of wood and iron and stones, the old "Pagan god,
with the eye-holes withered up, but an individualized will-—
a se1f—conscious identity, full of infinite wisdom and bound-
less affection; and when we have made this discovery, and it
has gone deep enough into our souls topurify our percep-
tions, we shall begin to see dawning upon our comprehension
that other mighty secret which has been purposely concealed
from the eyes of the foolish, but revealed to the wise in all
ages--sexual continence—without which no divine dispensa-
tion can ever be established, and which isbeing brought for-
ward to such as are prepared to receive, by our holy, saluted.
sister, and which is to be the golden alchemy that shall fuse
and melt the souls of the sons and daughters of God into ‘one
unbroken circle of celestial harmony and holylove.

! As the mighty results of this grandest of practical theories
looms up before me, I can but shout, Glory be to- God!
that there has been found one woman pure enough to

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have come except through the sensitive and “impressible
nature of woman. The apostles could only conceive of
continence through abstinence; they could indulge in a
holy kiss, and feel no sense of guilt or shame; but a holy
embrace never entered into their concept-ions, but such is to
be the lofty heights of spiritual grandeur to be-attained by
the chosen sons and daughters of God in this,‘the last and
crowning dispensation of God on earth. St. John in his
apocalyptic vision, saw ajhundred and forty and four thou-
sand men who had not been defiled with women. But the
elders of the new church are to be women, who have not
‘been defiled with men, and the last will not depend upon
modern ideas of iniquity. They will be women who have
passed th_rough the fire of purification and have come out
more than conquerors. through the mighty power of God’s
holy spirit given to them, in answer to persistent and patient
self,-denial and spiritual aspiration ; women whose eyes shall be
clear and strong as the noonday sun,from whose searching
gaze an impure man will shrink as this eye of his shrinks
the light; women who will not ask to have the Medician
Venus covered with a night—gown, lest they shall see in that
marvelous creation of art the reflection of their own putrid
imaginations; women who shall dare to call things by their
right names; women who shall dare to speak freely about
the Divine laws of procreation, for the same reason which
Emerson gave when he said, he dipped his pen into the black-
est ink, because he was not afraid of falling into his inkstand;
women uponwhose lives shall be written in characters‘ of
living flame, thus far canst thou go and no farther, here
shall your proud will be staid; women who shall be guard-

- ed, defended and assisted by a sworn and confederated band

of noble-hearted men, who shall hold themselves ready
when the signal for assistance is given, with their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor. I will say in conclusion,
that a new spiritual order is now being perfected, founded
upon ethical morality, practical purity and social equality,
which for unity of design, simplicity and completeness of
organization. beauty of symbol, and splendor of ceremonial,
will surpass anything the world has known, not expecting
Jewish theooracy or time-honored Free Masonary, which is
all that can be said at present. May the Guardian Master,
Divine Protector, and Holy Comforter, bring us into the
land of celestial harmony, where we may be saved by the
everlasting salvation of a holy and purified social order.
Such the prayer of one who is obedient to the same power as
Him, who said, “let Him who would be greatest in the
Kingdom of Heaven become the sex-‘va.u.‘t of all.

A LITTLE LEAv1'-mi‘ éhro. V,

At one of your late lectures, I azslriagi :a friend in the Hall,
why his wife was not with him, as he had promised? He sat
with his back to the entrance: and said he had reconsidered
bringing her; that she was well grounded in the Methodist
At that
moment his wife entered; she saw him, but sat alon . He
enthusiastically applauded all the “points,” and when you
had half done, he turned, and said, “Iwish I had brought
my wife.” After the lecture, I kept my my friend's atten-
tion to give her time to retire; but loi she stood at the door,
until he saw her. and then, like the Arab, quietly folded her

. (con)-tent. and silently glided away, while he exclaimed, in

wild refrain:
" Well! I’il be d—--d 1” Yours,
WILLIAM WINSLOW BENNETT,

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UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHY; OR, SCIENCE AND THE

BIBLE RECONCILED.

Never in the world’s history has there been a time, of
which we have a written. record, so full of purturbation from
conflicting religious and scientific elements as the present.
Not only are the schools of theology and thoseof science, so-
called, arrayed in hostility against one another, but opposing
and disintegrating influences are at work in both these de-
partments of mental or psychical activity. Religious senti-
ment is terribly divided against itself. Never more so in the
history of ages. Scientific men cannot settle upon any com-
prehensive system of philosophy, which has within itself the
solution of the great questions, (fundamental to the general
welfare) which are now agitating to the very foundations’,-ithe
structure of social life; for all knowledge whether relating

, to the universe in its .physical organism, or to the forces,

principles or powers which energize this physical economy,
resolves itself into the great question, “What are the true
relations of meniand women to one another, and to those
laws or principles by which they at least seem to be gov-
erned?” Science is both atheistic and deistic. The only

' logical deduction possible, however, from the physical basis

is that all organic ‘arrangement must ultimately become re-
duced back to unconditioned matter, its primordial state, and
to this terrible and inevitable conclusion, the greatest of
modern materialistic thinkers and writers is gradually, but
surely, leadihgithe sensuous mind. And the argument thus
far favors atheism. _

The deistic side of the question has no foundation, except
through the phenomena afiorded, in different ages of the
world, through spiritual manifestations, and this basis is
ignored both by modern science and Christianity.

There is observed a general uniformity in the operations
of law, and therefcan be no doubt that ‘all activity inthe uni-
versal economy of nature, has its origin in one common cen-
fare of energy. -

To trace the laws which move grandly forward, and ever
onward the cycles of evolution and involution, from effect to
cause, and from cause to effect, and thus to settle for the ex-
pectant and troubled masses the questions which now agitate
society, is the function devolving upon the philosophers of
to-day. I ' .

Physical science must constitute the foundation upon
which the great superstructure, spiritual truths and existence

shall be erected.‘ The religion of the future is to be elaibab-v__

lished upon the correlation of the physical and spiritual uni-
verse, and the first point to be settled is the physiology of the
most important natural organ employed "in the study of
physical phenomena and laws, This organ is the eye.

The natural anatomy of the visual organ can be learned in
any work treating upon human anatomy.

The laws of refraction and refiection of light are simple‘
and uniform. It is commonly known that in the anterior
portion of the eye-ball, a small double convex line is situated,
through which impressions are made upon the interior ser-
face of the eye-ball covered with a delicate and sensitive
membrane called the retina, which is an expansion of the
optic nerve. All objectivities seen by the natural eye are
pictured through this line in some manner upon this mem-
brane, and the mind thus becomes cognizant of natural
objects. -

Now, it is a well-established fact ‘that light, no matter
upon what theory we base our study of optics, in passing
through a convex Lens is refracted in proportion to the con-
vexity of -the surfaces through which it is transmitted, and
the greater the convexity to a given point the shorter the
focus. The convexity of the lens of the eye, is of such a
proportion that light in passing through it would be focal-
ized at a point near or quite in the center of the cavity of
the eyeball. Every ray of light in passing through the lens
from without would come to a point there.

It is also a weil—established fact (or at least so simply that
it ought to be) that from this point there is a radiation in
every direction, not simply toward every portion of the re-
tina,_but back through the lens itself outward, and in its pas-
sage backward through the lens obeying the same laws of
refraction, and therefore focalizing at a point just anterior
to the external surface of the lens, from which point also
there would be a corresponding radiation in all directions.
Accordingly there would be established, before any impres-
sion of external objects could be made upon the retina, a
rapidly circulating aurific current, and who shall say that
impressions communicated to . the eye do not depend as
much upon the radiations of the auriferous principle trans-
mitted from the ‘eye, as upon the entrance of the "‘ luminous
ether ” from without? ‘

Let us suppose, for example, that an object fifty feet square
is to make its first impression through the lens of the eye
upon the retina, to be conveyed to the mind. It is impos-
sible to conveive of any principle of the laws of light by which
there could be made to converge from every point in the
surface of the object, rays of light, or undulations of a lu-
minous ether, to a given focus accommodating the point of
convergence to suit any distance the eye may chance to be
from the object, without admitting the eye itself to be the
prime factor in the phenomenon of vi.~@s, But “ ‘firing.
what to every mind cultured to think is pair-it . that
the instant the eye is opened to the light, t‘ b
lished a polarity, from which there radiates anainiluence in
all directions, which must strike every objective point; with-
in the range of vision, we begin to reach so7:se%;hing tangible
upon which to erect a physical science, thatfwithout which the
eye would have no existence, not evenjn the imagination.

The instant the eye is opened, lighjrpasses through the lens,
and is focalized, as stated above, said reflected, and brought
to a. focal point in front of the lane, from which point the di-
vergence is made in every conceivable direction. Whatever
object any single ray comes. in contact with, is made to re-
turn its impression by a direct reflection following-the course
of the diverging ray and necessarily converging to a common
focus with every returning impression. And admitting this
to be true, the impression of the object would be inverted'in'
the lens, and reversed through the focus in the center of the
eyeball, and impressed upon the retina as it should be, right
side up.  this simple deduction made from apositive
knowledge oi? the operation of light. precludes the necessity
of calling into aid some imaginary operation of the mind to

  
  
   

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[To an GONTINUEDJ

an--as-—.-up

am... Zhe Philadelphia Times, May 24th, 1876.)
THE EMANCIPATION or WOMAN.

Victoria C. Woodhull lectured last evening in Musical
Fund Hall to a large "audience, on the subject: “The heel of
woman shall bruise the serpent’s head, and thereby the last
enemy, which is Death, shall be conquered.” She treated
the subject in her usual style, enlivened by striking anec-
dotes, keen hits and apt illustrations. She showed clearly
how mothers from ignorance and prejudice influence com-
ing generations for evil, where they are derelict in their du-
ty, and what a powerful influence they might exert within
what every one considers “woman’s sphere” for the good and
the true, and exhorted young men to so love and honor their
mother and so comprehend that their bodies are temples of
God that they never could forget their "own self-respect so
far as to be guilty of an unworthy action; and in closing ad-
ded: "My only crime is thatin my enthusiasm I have asked
for woman’s emancipation. I have so loved my people that
knowing, as Idc, what are the causes, I could not see them
dying and hold my peace.”

_......_-.-

(From The Item, Ph1Zla., May 24, 1876.)
MRS. WOODHULL’S LECTURE.
TELLING BLOWS FROM A FEARLESS WOMAN.

Victoria Woodhull lectured at Musical Fund Hall, last
evening, on the social question, to an audience that filled the
room in every part. The assemblage was of a highly respect-
able composition, a fair majority being ladies. Mrs. Wood-
hull stepped on the stage without an introduction, and, dis-
pensing with all formality, immediately began her lecture.
She was handsomely attired in a rich suit of brown silk,
but wore no jewelry. At first she spoke in a low, tre_mulous
voice, which gradually raised as she warmed up in her sub-
ject, and it'was but a short time before she impressed her
auditors with the conviction that however much they might

. have the spectacle when two men were in;-.i1':ling,g ‘fmthe P1'egi-

-I, for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements [in X},

hesitate in according her  prominent place as an orator and
a thinker. Her mind  ‘indeed richly furnished with
thoughts upon every subject which she takes up, and tie
matters brought forward are‘ always thoroughly matured g
and strikingly appli..caTole. Qi§:lei- language is choice and ele- i
gant, and ths richest words liirop from her lips into the best ~ \
places with afluency r~:§saily tn‘-ie‘lodi:>ns. Her highest powers
li ain these sudden ot:t%.>ur'si:s of passion, which form the K
grand charm of her i)‘£"£l.i.Ol‘;i/“.1. sinking the orator into the I it
woman, and making rhoiight 1 alter than eloquence. 

She said she would make  b"~ma.z_x body as sacred as the
“ temple of God,” which no  ‘.W(>iIl2l.ll would dare de-
file. To do this she wozu=.ld  ~ :noi;hei'.‘s.educate than»
children in the origin or? tliei ce, at home, and not
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'~ . ; daughters would know
hmsv to regard their bodies
4 abusing them. By this,
n filling early graves from
» , , and the innate purity of
young girls would driw: the ‘sediid from society that he now
so foully contaminates. {Ellie s. 2; believe in people rush-
ing in'to marriage like horses into ‘battle, and out of it; in mg
same manner. The loose di‘vorcei vs are as bad as loose mar-
riages; she wasa firm heilicveriri t it sort of marriages which
knows no divorce. She he ' ".;;a'l‘riage isone of the most

sacred acts of God: avail, ii‘ shephnd her way, she would
have it made a crimirral o:il"en.ce for two people, ignorant o t‘
each other, to marry. Sallie ‘believed  mothers teaching their
daughters the great 1'. .ll’.iillbllliT»i('é“‘¢ of maternity, so that
they would regard with awe the ‘i.-ll-1 ‘gt of bringing to fife
a human being after God's dwn i2:na,__. She would have every
mother the teacherof her Oli§i.:li'Ci.F“i‘ili, and, indeed, more,
the confessor oi.’ them. By doing iis she would do away
with unhappy marriages. When tli.is was accomplished
it would put an end to men runmim ’ ' g.«,:;11iDg thei1.mt19
difiiculties to other men’:-3 wives,  eel ing from them 7
that confidence that their wives alozn " mié. have. Rem- ‘
edying the social evil would purify L‘: . oféitics. There
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dency to see" one wonder, whether they were .«;;,~m_.§t3da1; is for
the White House or the Penitentiary, Tlil_l‘~'3 ' ‘ mg? of the
lecture was frequently interrupted with room ,~
and l at its conclusion the lecturer received. ax.
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1776-1876-1976, THE; GREA1’l‘  . ~ ,  , ,
. CAMl3~—-hi..iE1ll:’lTIN.(él.. « '  -  .
The Northern Illinois Assocjatiorrof Spiritualists will hold
a grand camp~meeting on the Winnebago County Fair
Grounds, Rockford, Ill., commencing on Wednesday, June;''’
7th, 1876. at 2 o’clock P. M., and will hold over Sunday, the N‘,
11th, five full day, during which every attention will be paid 
to the wants of those attending the camp-meeting. Tents ,
will be pitched on Monday and Tuesday-, the 5th and 6th of \
June. Provisions will be furnished at the lowest market V‘
price. The grounds are enclosed ,_with a substantial fence: 2,
the gates will close at 10 o’clock P. M., and open at 6 o’clock 
A. M., sharp, each day during the session of the camp—meet-« ii
ing. There willbe an efficient police force for maintaining ,
order day and night. , 5
The best talent in theland will be placed upon the platform A
as speakers, singers and mediums. , _ l
Meals will be furnished at the eating-room, on the grounds,
at the lowest possible rates. There will be no liquor or beer \‘;
stalls tolerated on the grounds. All temperance beverages
and refreshments will be furnished on the camp-groundg
under the direction of the Business Committee. I - I
The Fair Grounds will accommodate fifteen thousand 5
people. Full arrangments will he made for cheap fares on lg
the railroads connecting with Rockford, of which notice will i
be given in due time. - ,
There will be a news stand for the sale of Spiritual and . -X‘
Liberal literature. All hawking or peddling of goods of any \
kind will be prohibit n the camp~ground. ‘
Families with tents can enjoy every home comfort they
may desire. V
These grounds are beautifully shaded and watered, are of
easy access by rail or carriage, and are located in the vicinity
of one of the finest cities in Illinois.
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come with tents large enough for others be
Come with your souls full of love and your in
with wisdom. Come up to our first Centenni
ing and let us have a “feast of reason and  ‘flow
Our platform will be a free one, and free,/Q35,
erated; this, however, grants no license ‘ti, (fig)
rants the use of abusive language.
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To him: that overeometh, I will give to eat of the
hidden manna.--«St John the Divine.

That} through death he might clest-ray him I that
had the/1oower'of cleath, that ‘is, the clevil, and deliver
them mho through fear of death were all their life-
ti77ie,;§suhject to bo7iclage.~—Paul. I

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreateol, full of mercy
and good fruits, without par,tialitg,/ and without hp-I

ypocrisy.-‘—,James, iii, 17. g , _,,,,-/..

Anal these signs shall follow t H,   name
shall they cast out devils ,j_,_tah-ey"‘§/ all take up serpents,‘

 and ,:f ;,«;/M2,,,.{Zririle‘-arzy'loleadly  it shall not hurt

 ‘they silallglay hands omil the sick and they

,,-shall recover.—Jesu‘s.»—-- — ~  :-

NEW roux, SATURDAY,_JUNE 10.1876]

At the last moment and for want of space, we have de.

‘cidcd to leave over until our next, the admirable bill into-

duced into Congress by Gen. Banks, of which -we spoke last
week. It will certainly appear in the next issue. In the
meantime those of our labor friends who desire advance

‘copies of the bill, can obtain ‘them by calling at our office.

Had the General come forward with this bill earlier, and had
made, as he could have done, a strong speech in its favor.
and in favor of greenback currency, he would have been a
formidable Presidential candidate on the event of a “ bolt”

at St. Louis. A ,_

V‘-

THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;
on, run SIX-POINTED sran IN run nasr. _
For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
1,; ’,_—Sr. MA'!3THEWs ii»; 2- I

   
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

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y - fi - ‘' allegorical of the truth to the exposition o
WEE: ts: 1$V1;:E}gLY is now devoted. ’ It has been clearly

shown in our preseht Series Of leading 3» tides that it repre

- 51' 0‘ to ether of the inhabitants of the
gems the commg men ma g brotherhood, and the

th ,1 mt S he;-es in a common '

:::ab]?SI;,m:l:,t thelfieby of the universal human family. It
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also represents still another and m°r‘131_1n11p‘:11:3::druin : flecw
has not yet been introduced, W hlc-1; rm unto Himself
words, is, God in man I'eCOIlC1l1.Dg  6 W0

W e adopt this diagram as emblemttlc 9f 0“-17 “lure Wm"

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by. this time, discovered that our purpose in’ detailing the
various spiritual experiences of our lives, is not merely to
give publicity to the facts, per se, nor" yet to make it gener-
ally known that we have been the subjects of such experi-
ences; but rather to show, so far as they can be madeto
show, that these experiences are a portion of a grand move-
ment upon the part of those in the other world, to inaugur-
ate certain conditions in this, in which they make use of us
as their agents. So far from it being necessary for us to
point out the conditions that exist between the various ex-
periences through which we have been led, and to carry
them forward into the future, to show to what they legiti-
mately tend, it is only necessary for any one accustomed to
trace effects from causes, to consider What these experi-
ences have been, and to place them in tile order of their oc-
currence, to see clearly that they have a meaning, and also
to see what that meaning is. They are not fragmentary
and unconnected; they are not at one time the result of
one kind of influences and at other times of quite different
kinds ; but they all proceed from a single source, and
lead to a single object, which source, turning, voluntarily,
neither to the right nor left, has pressed forward to that ob-
ject, dcflecting to the right or left only as compelled by
circumstances thathad not been taken into consideration;
or else had not been given their proper weight. We do not
pretend that these sources have been infallible, having
turned everything which they have encountered to their
purposes; but we do pretend to say without fear of suc-
cessful contradiction, that from the moment the movement
was really inaugurated, they have made constant progress
toward the ultimate purpose-,~ which purpose is nothing
less than to press the world‘ to the end of this dispensation
and to inaugurate a new one, in which, first, immortality
in the flesh, and second, the; resurrection from the dead,
shall be attained. It was to perform our part in this pro-
gramme that we were prepared for and appointed to this
mission; and up to this time we are able to say that those
whom we serve are satisfied, with our labors and with the
general-condition of the whole movement; and we state,
confidently, that "before the end of this "year there will be
outward demonstrations made which will make its tenor and
scope clear. - ' I -

Notwithstandi_p.@1owever, allihe assurance that I feel,
indeed,’*tiu§§§<knbw’lédge that I have, I hesitate to attempt the
Ihsk of portraying that which I am about to present. To
do so in thxe cool and deliberate method of journalistic
writing; in measured sentences and selected wo_rds,Iis, I
know, to fai1.1‘_1t,te1'ly to convey tomy readers all or any
of"tl1e magical effects that were produced by the facts,
upon myself. Notlfiug-_sho1‘t of being wrought gradually
up to the height of the occasion by the inspiration of a
sympathetic audience, whose souls can be made to feel
themselves in the veritable presence of the scene portrayed,
can ever call out language thatwill convey any adequate
,,,,nce,,u'on of its force and meaning. In writing, one is
too far removed from those addressed‘, both in time and
space, to receive any immediate reactionary benefit or aid
from them; it is an act wholly of giving. at-the time; the
receiving, if any come at all, being after the effort has been
long ended. Therefore-, in-presenting.the.high1y—wrought
scenes involved in this vision, I must content myself with
the knowledge -that my readers cannot be "expected to enter
into their spiritual significance, or to what I feel about them,-;
and I must also realize that few will appreciate the motives

know must be only partially successful. N everthelcss,
being not “ unmindful of the heavenly vision,” I shall ven-
ture, and trust to the spiritual ‘senses of my readers to reach
to what my words may fail to convey.

It-will be remembered that in a“ former vision I have said

‘I that Ispent tlrewinter of 1865-66 in the "South. -Early in

3" (36 ” I was called first North to Chicago and then East to
New York, bya family Contingency, which has come re-
cently to light to have been a link in the chain of circum-
stances that was being then" forged. for future use. The
{Journey ended-«, by leaving me in the early summer in North-
ern Wisconsin, wherc, , at Green Bay, situated at the head

‘L . of -thehrge body of water bearing the same name, and at

Oshkosh, situated on the western shore of Lake Winnebago,
I spent most of that summer-. From the evening in New
Orleans upon which the vision of “ TheWI-JEKLY ” was flrst
presented "to "us, onward, I was almuostl constantly under
spirit influence, frequently being for ‘days in acondition of
cxaltation in which I sometimes scarcely know whether I
was in The Flesh or in The Spirit, and again falling to a
normal bodily state, and to an equal degree, being depressed
mentally. Thus oscillating between these two extremes, I
was scarcelyiever the same individual for two consecutive
days, My friends could not understand me, nor could I
understand myself ; and this in turn begat a condition
both onerous and irksome; indeed, heavy to be bourn.

After this had continued for some months I began to feel
a growing desire to know what it all meant, and to chafe
under the withholding of the information. Finally, this
desire grew to be so strong and fierce, that I would invol‘
untarily exclaim, “Oh, God! Show me what this portends;
show me if these things are to last much longer; show me
if my life have no higher purpose than to be tossed hithe;

I presume that most of the readers of the WEEKLY have, I

which move me to hazard an attempt which, in advance, I ,

and thither in this way; show me my future; show me
what I am expected to do!”

Upon the evening of a day that I had. spent in Chicago,
I was returning alone to Oshkosh by the way of the Green
Bay division of the Chicago and North Western Railway,
when this involuntary prayer was surging in my soul with
almost uncontrollable fury. I I felt thatl must know some-
thing; felt that I could no longer endure to live in this
state of suspense, day after day having the strange experiences
that came to me, and still seeming to not move forward th-
ward any definite purpose. In fact, mysoul was up iniarms
to be at “my work,” if I had any to do, as I was being con-
stantly told that I had and that I was undergoing the prep-
ar ations which must necessarily precede an actual departure
in the work, which necessity I could not then comprehend
so well as I do now. I argued within myself then,";1t11at
there could be nothing required of me that I was not"iivil1-
ing and able, with the help of the spirits, to perform, while
now I am fully conscious that there is much that will be
still required of me, for which I am not yet nearly prepared.
Then I was in the heat of youthful enthusiasm for the task
that was laid out before me, not knowing its magnitude nor
realizing its importance, but chafing at every delay and
deeming hesitation to move, an evidence of temerity and
want of faith in the success of what was to be undertaken.
Now, I even hesitate to move when commanded, fearing
lest my "preparation may be still incomplete and unfit to
overcome the contingencies and obstacles that I know lie
in the way that spreads out before.

It was in such a state of rebellion that I that night cast
myself into my slee ping berth. I had scarcely touched the
bed before Iwas made aware of the presence of several
spirits, which presence rapidly raised me into the spiritual
condition. I soon became “as one of them,” and this is
what I saw and what was done and what I did 2

I found myself with my father and mother, and all my,
sisters and brother on an eastward-bound railroad train.
When it arrived at a certain place, the name of which was
not disclosed to me, but which I knew was ninety miles dis-
tant from New York, I saw an immense concourse of people
assembled. I seemed to know there were fifty thousand of
them. They looked as if a fire had swept over them, leav-
ing them blackened and covered with dust and ashes. They
resembled the stra—g‘gle1's from a. defeated army more than
anything else with "Which I can now compare them, and be-
longed to every natitén of the world. There was no coher-
ence among them ; they were a swaying mass of utterly de-
morallzed people, men, women and children, who had in
some way been mysteriously drawn together, no one could
tell why or how, and moving hither and thither without any
purphse. There were, however, among them those who re -

alized the condition, but were powerless to stay the tide of _

dernoralization. Far away, in a southern direction, I obser-
ved agroup of people in hasty consultation. Soon, from
this group, there came toward the train ofcars, three patri-
archal-lookingmen. They entered the car -and coming to
me, said : .

“We have been de putized by these people whom you
see, to request you to organize them. They have been
looking for you, and will listen to no one else.”

f‘I cannot do so now,” I replied. “But after reaching
my destination and settling my family, I will return and be
at your service.’,’ I - I _ , . —

The train moved onward, andwe were soon at our jour-
ney’s end. Having properly disposed of my family I re»

turned to this place, the name of which was still withheld

from me. When I arrived,~the mass had so increased, that
where there were at first thousands only, there were mil-
lions now, a vast sea of heads reaching away in every direc-
tion as far as the; eye could see. The same deputationof
aged men, as before, met me at the train, and conducted
me into the into the centre of this mass and handed me
upon a small platformabout fifteen feet square, upon which
were no other persons. Immediately after I stepped upon.

the platformit was lifted two hundred feet into the air.

Awe-st1'uck,I gazed upon’ the scene. Stretching far away
into the horizon on ever-y,side——north, south, east and west
__1,hat mass of humanity sway ed and reeled as if drunken
with their -debaucheries. No ordinary means could ever

attract;the.attention of that. mass, of . demoralization, much

less command the mass. Some power coming in the-way
of ‘a thunder-clap, from out of an unexpectant sky, would
alone suflice. It came-; and this is what it was: . - r '

I said the platform was lifted two hundred feet into the air.
While I was regafding the scene, therecame out of the air
twelve old sages, and seated themselves regularly around
the platform. ’l‘heir faces shone with a dazzling brilliancy,
which compelled me to shade my eyes as I beheld; them;
and beamed with love and wisdom. Their beards were sil-
ver white, and rested on their knees as they sat, Each, in
turn, addressed some words to me, and then performed a
ceremony, the purport of neither of which am I permitted‘
now to reveal.

When this was ended, my attention was attracted to the
west. I saw the sun just passing below the horizon. The
sky and the clouds as they piled themselves bank on bank,
were lit up with a gorgeous splendor such as is sometimes
seen when the setting sun pours its parting rays upon the
remnants of the spent storm which skirt the heavens. I
gazed entranced upon the scene. One of the sages re-
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As I listened to these words, the western sky began slowly
to open about forty-five degrees upward from the horizon,
and to roll backward upon either side like a scroll, while
out of the background there came a giant spiriti-form whom
I seemed to know was the mightiest spirit in the heavens.
Calmly observing the scene, he said, as he sheathed his
sword: I

“Thus put I away the sword forever. ’Tis done! ’Tis
done! ’Tis done! You have long wanted to know who is
your guardian ansel. I am he.” _

And raising his arm and pointing directly at me, con-
tinued:

“Blessed shalt thou be if when this time come thou art
found not wanting.”

He then held up a scroll of paper on which was written:
‘ The world from 1876.” These words were but the title
page of what was contained within. He then said some-
thing more about my life, which he said should be “scaled
up” until this time should come, and retreating, the sky
rolled back and hid him from sight.

The platform descended to the earth amid the shouts and
acclamations, of the people, who had seen all that had passed,
and by it had been made orderly and tractable. They had
been organized without an effort. The old had passed
away, and all things had become new. A nation had been
born in a day. The world had passed into the new dispen-
sation. The kingdom of peace and goodwill, had de-
cended to earth, and “ we ” had become “as the angels
in heaven.” '

Still in the spiritual condition, I rushed to my Father, and
said:

“Oh, Father, Father! you do not know how God has
blessed me!”

As I said this, I sprang from my berth, and roused. all
passenger by crying out: Do you see that vision! Do you
see that vision in the heavens! For there it was still before
me as real as I have described it. The conductor tried to
pacify me, but having arrived at Oshkosh without having
done so, he accompanied me to the hotel;where mother and
sister were stopping, and gave me safely into their charge,_
thinking evidently that I had needed care. He returned to
his train, and I have never seen him since. I related to my
friends all that had passed, the vision still, lingering in my
sight, and impressing me with the reality -,‘ fund even to this
day, when in certain conditions, I can sti ' see that vision.
Can it be wondered that it has had a mark efiect upon my
life? Should I not be considered imperfiious to influence,
if, when I hear these words repeated in my ears : “ Blessed
shalt thou be when this time comes if thou art found not
wanting,” I should not be moved to any strife; be made
ready to do any battle; be willing to endure anything?
What their real significance may be, I shall not now pre-
tend to say; but that it will be demonstrated soon, I know,
for the time is at hand, “the seventh angel has sounded,”
and “the mystery of God” will be ended as He hath de-
clared to his servants, the prophets, shortly.

VICTORIA O. WOODHULL.

JOURNALISTIC COURTESY AND JUSTICE.

    

A common rule of all decent journalism is, that where
any one has been misrepresented either editorially or by cor-
respondence, in the columns of a paper, that one has a right
to be heard in defense, provided such defense is courteous
and to tbe point. We are sorry to say, however, that this
common rule is often ignored, when we are the subjects
of~misreprcsentation. We are lcdto speak of this. at this
time, because an instance of this injustice has just been fur-
nished us, by a Journal and an Editor from whom we least
expected such treatment; treatment that we are astonished
to learn that this Editor can feel that he can afford to extend
to anybody. But we learn every day that all the bigotry and
intolerance of opinion is not confined to Christians, so-
called; in fact, so far as we and the cause in which we la-
bor, are concerned, we must confess that we suffer most
from those who call themselves liberal, and who should be
liberal, than from the professedly conservative classes.
Especially is this true in journalism. The secular press,
which two years ago was almost universally closed against us,
is now as universally open. and ready to give currency to
our views, and to deal courteously and justly by us person-
ally; while the liberal press, which two years ago was open
to _us everywhere, is now more bitter and intollerant than
was ever the secular press. ‘

In the instance that we are now to present as an illustra-
tion, we should be glad if we had space to reproduce all the
matter which makes up the case, and leave our readers to
place their own construction upon it, but we have not, and
must content ourselves with outlining the case. About a

month ago there appeared an article in the Boston Im)estz'ga- i

tor, (an Infidel paper) in which our name appeared and our
social theories were referred to. The Editor commented
upon the article and stated what he supposed to be our views,
but admitted that he might not understand them correctly——
it is now evident that he did not, though he has had the op-
portunity to become familiar with them, by having the
WEEKLY as a reference, ever since it was published; of
which if he has not madeuse he had no right to hypothetically

. state anything about them—which we felt was an invitation

to present a. few of the points upon which our theories
hinge, in the Investigator’, not only to enlighten its Editor‘ but
ale .0 its readers, who have/been misled from time to time in

its columns about us. Moreover we confess to a desire to
be understood. We-have been maligned and persecuted,
and had all manner of evil things said of us, for what
we neither believe or practice, long enough. The point
raised by the article and comments alluded to, was in regard
to our ideas about marriage. The response to them was en-
titled, “What we oppose in marriage,” and the article itself
was an elucidation of this title, together with some reasons
why we make this opposition. Among other things we made
a distinct proposition, asking this question : If it be not

instinct of her body and sentiment of her soul rebels, where
between this condition and the opposition of free consent,
would it be right to compel her by law to submission? , And
to bring it directly home to the editor, we called upon him to
admit we were right, or else to answer our query.

But not only did he not do this at all; not only did he
utterly ignore the central point around which the whole
article pivoted, but he went on to comment upon the article,
in what, we are sorry to say, seemed to us to be from a. really
vulgar and discourteous standpoint. Utterly disregarding
the plain language of the article he treated it as if it were
wholly different from what it was, and as if our views are
what they hav e been held to be by those who have known
nothing of either them or us. Further, not only did he do all
this, but he cut the article in the middle thus dividing what
we opposed in marriage, from the principal reasons for this
opposition, publishing the latter part the next week. The
whole article would have occupied only about a column in
the paper, but the reason, given for dividing it was want of
space, while there were several longer ones in the same paper,
which were not defenses against previous misrepresenta-
tions of the paper, which articles by common journalistic
courtesy always have the preference. .

Upon seeing the first part of the article and the comments
made by the editor, we saw thatit was his intention that we
should not be understood by the readers of the Iizcestigator
if he could prevent it by calling their attention away from
the vital point of the article, and fixing it upon the sup-
posed popular idea , concerning us and our theories. Not
being willing to be made to appear in a worse light than ever‘
to the readers of that paper, and not waiting for the publi-
cation of the remainder of the article, we wrote again to the
editor, as follows:

WHAT I oo Nor OPPOSE IN MARRIAGE.

Mr. Editor: I see by your editorial remariimup-on the por-
tions of my article which you did me the injustic‘e“‘torpiih1ish
separated from its sequence, that you utterly ignore, not Only
what I wrote about, but what I wrote. I wrote 9-9011 “What
I oppose in marriage ;” but you have made an onslaught 1113011
me as if I had written in opposition to mazrziage. Since you
evade the issue that I raised in that axtivelea I beg YOU to P61‘-
mit me to show what I do not oppose in ma-l‘I‘iag8. With @119
hope that, from this standpoint, you will be able, and have the
desire, to understand what I mean.

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage, and it is because I
so believe, that I have plead so earnestly as I have for
woman's complete emancipation from legal marital thraldom,
knowing full well thatqs soon as she becomes thoroughly
conversant with the d/igvine law in which is wrapped up the
awful responsibllityflof creating “His image,” she will not
enter into the sacred relation with ‘so ilittle consideration as-
she does now’. ' '

The marriage of two divinely inspired souls! Therefiis no
more beautiful thing in the universe. Woman stands as
God’s architect, His vicegerent. Then should she not be
come intellectually I-Iis equal? ‘

So long as the streets of our cities are filled with children
debauched in every w‘ay;'sojlong as we have Piper's confesse-
ing to terrific crimes; so long as our young and beautiful
daughters fill the prostitute‘s grave, and idiots, insane and
vicious people curse the face of the earth, so long should
woman rebel against anygiand all conditions that keep her
hampered, so that she may, or can, not find out the law that
governs her own life—giving being.

When our daughters are no longer "prepared for "the mar—
riage mart simply as commodities to be sold at the highest
price; when we exact the same purity of man that he requires
of woman; when woman, in her matronly dignity and God-
like purity shall, by her intellectual power, crush the demon
lust, then sorrow and desolationéjandjmisery and vice, will
be banished from the face of the earth. '

Your remarks would lead one to believe that I do not be-
lieve in the marriage relation. What an error do you and
those who think with you make! It is I who do believe in
theinstitution‘ as a. divine provision, but law alone cannot
make it divine. There must be honesty, purity, intelligence,
goodness. all culminating in an all-absorbing love to render
this relation divine. Nor do I believe in the loose system of
divorces now so much in vogue. The prerequsites I would
require for marriage, would abolish the need for divorce
laws. It is only because people now come together ignor-
antly, that there seems to be this need. To me this business
is as reprehensible as the promiscuousness that runs riot in
the land.

Every mother, every woman before becoming a mother,

-should understand the law of procreation and should be

able, and should make it her duty to impart it to her chil-
dren, so that when her daughter’s hand is sought in mar-
riage, her first thoughts may be: Dare I marry; have I
lived correctly; am I fit to enter into a. relation that will
make me responsible for the ‘making or defacing of,Grod’s
image-——‘; whether I dare to attempt to erect that “ holy tem-
ple ” “ not madeiwith hands.” I _ I

Sheer at me as much as you may; slur my demands as
much as you do, Itell you seriously, that the points that I

right for woman to be compelled to yield herself when every

are the most vital in
body. I am sorry i
find suficient weig
ever ready to impu
ing of the words I u
as you have made a
or ideas conveyed i
must have emanate
your mind, which, i
marks about me, aft
from anything that I
I desire to say here
that I have ever made
gamic marriage as the
pure as it was lasting
everything I ever wro
Our jails, penitenti
brothels are filled with
ignorance, and reared ‘
are the natural outcom
woman is reaping the h
land with grief and shan
it a crime for people i 1
responsibility, and bear ,
the true origin, the cans
and here is where the pe
dies before there can be .l
question must be discus
completely understood; u
to bear an unworthy child
a curse to society; until 1;
riage as horses rush to bat
same manner; and you 11
records of your own Stat
which hot-haste and its co I
died could what I advocate I
universal knowledge upon t I
in their power to crush the a
the bottom of all the wron
rescue our young from unti .
what the God of Nat-»ure' i n j
of Gods.
The mystery that has been a
marriage and maternity tend
morbid curiosity and desireni
wild and satisfythcmselves in
Let then the veil of mock 1
mentality be rent asunder; le.
erected around the subject be
light of intelligence may be l
may reproduce “ our kind” w’ '
vices and miseries of the past.

have raised against “what I oppose in marriage” as it is,

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When this shall be accompl
t.lze_s_ong of the race redeemed
my Onslaught IILJULI iibe ignoran

Instead, however, of p - ,
editor in the next issue publise
articlefiwith further comments, makin _
of having received our second coinmun
succeeding issue, instead of replying p
vate request, he published the following,
to our readers, being willing to rest our
the editor, upon the evident intention of t

“Mrs. V. C. Woodhull, New York-—-Y
pages was promptly published; now you se
an appendix, and go over all the ground '
with the idle and captions complaint that
justice because for want of space we divided
cation. Madame! If this is the return you
you a favor, then we must say, ‘more in s
anger,’ that your ideas of courtesy, liberality
cussion, like those of love and marriage, are
from ours.” 

In the flrst place, we beg to reply that -the’ appen
notgo over the ground of the first article, but is ..
reply to points raised ggainst us by the editor, which

entirely foreign to the scope and intent of the first aric . 
and which we should -never have thought of writinglhadi

not the editor's remarks been intended to do us gross -in-
justice;' had they not been of a character altogether un-
worthy of so serious a matter as the one involved in these
issues. And in the second place, we beg to say that it was
not a favor at all that was done us; it did not come about as
a favor, but as an explanation, inferentially at least, if » not
directly called for by the remarks of the editor ‘upon the

communication of his Texan correspondent. Had those re-

marks not been made, we should certainly not have felt
called upon, and should not have written the “ten pages;”

and had the remarks upon the first half of the “ ten pages ” l  V

been based upon or made in criticism of them, we shouldjr
have had no occasion to, and should not have written he
“ eight pages.” If there were any favor at all upon ei/-’ther
side, so far as the ‘_‘ ten pages” were concerned, it was’ oer:
tainly done by us to the editor, by our endeavor to set him

right upona matter which he confessed he  and I

which his writings plainly showed that he did not, underfi
stand. Of c0urse,.however,we should have felt obliged,
had our “ ten pages” appeared as they were written, but
appearing as they did with the inappropriate and inapplic-
able, not to say uncourteous and ill-tempered, and we
should be justified in adding contemptible, remarks, we
were, instead of a favor, done a great disfavor; were done
an injustice of which we had a right to complain; had a
right to be heard upon»-a right which we would no more
think of denying to any of our correspondents, under much
less aggravating circumstances than those under which we
wrote i119 “eight P‘?<3eS»” But we did not descend" to

  
  
 
  
    
   
   
 
   
 
  
 
   
  
   
    
 
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
   
 
 
   
  
  
  
 
   
 
  
  
   
 
  
    
   
 
   
  
 
   
   
 
  
   
  
  
   
    
 
  
 
   
  
  
 
 
   
  
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
  
   
  
   
 
  
  
   
  
  
    
   
   
 
 
 
  
  
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
 
  
 
   
   
 
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
 
   

  

  

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- .ons ofiithe remarks
' of principles and
artainly avoid, what
* jectionable.

,’ we never attempt to
be called forth by
f “more insorrow
zople who are engaged
s wide as humanity,
;, ' with the stern reali-
be either pleasant or
let it be severe if it
) subterfuge attempted
animus is endeavored
aking that animus all
been had not the veil
But‘ it is with unfeigned
‘ than in anger” that we
courtesy, liberality and
lead marriage, “are very
‘Cf the Boston Investiga-
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in those set forth in the
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’ they treat, as any right-
ere reading of those from
he honor to hold, and the
efend whenever necessary,
this case, which, in part, at
— -.ht to do by what the editor
‘y, liberality” and the right
we ‘denominate precisely the
in in anger,” but because we
feel to be the truth about
t position of the Investigator,
‘ct’ to :see the great truth in-
oman’s emancipation from
idvocated in the columns of
ore important one of proper
a prominent feature‘ of that

E TRUTH.

ies that we are receiving as to

truth involved in ‘“' ’il""l.ie

    

' .l.£'s.'«"J‘.a
» ..nn.;.u. and immortality.
'1 ated, and to "now, hesitating
.) n" he reason that there is so little com-
t the truth is, and what it demands of
accept it. It cannot be supposed that a
tion from a living death to a deathless
small moment, requiring no sacrifices or

nquishment of present happiness, comforts
' t that so many seem to im agine that this
'e- a common affair, has held us back from
11. Between epochs there is always an
e in which confusion, anarchy or inertia
— ween the epochs in which man is to pass
to life, there willgbe an interval, described by
’rophet as “the abomination of desolation.”
- the demonstration comes, will be willing to
mim or herself into this desolation for the King-
J. eaven’s sake? We have said that the truth is a
‘. thing to have, but those who have conceived of what
le thing may consist, have a faint conception only of
one that must be encountered in the search for eternal
rue. Remember the allegorical presentation of the im-
possibility of Adam and Eve refraining from eating of
the fruit of the tree that stood in the midst of the Garden
of Eden, though they had not known its enticements, and
then conceive of the still greater impossibility of refraining
from the same eating now by those who have been always
accustomed to partaking without let or hindrance, and then
consider if possible who is ready to begin in earnest to seek
eternal life, and then imagine why we hesitate. Daniel
said, “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be
taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set
up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days;
' blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
jiuiindred and five and thirty days,” and remember that this
 to precede the finishing of the mystery of God.

 

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’ Fleisch of Ci,,cei.;cnati, Neb., on’ account of this fund are
hereby acknoyvleéiged. We return them our sincerest
thanks, both on our own behalf as well as on that of the
Spirits of whom we ;’t‘z'.e the servants, for their timely aid;
for their devotion to a concmon cause; for their disinterested
zeal, which, under the crircumstances, and in a peculiar
time. led them to not stay the-.i.r hands; but t0 001119 110b1Y
and bravely into the ranks wh«.2're we have stood these five
yearsi to not stand upon the order of their doing, but to do
at once. A cause with only a :f‘ew‘ such friends as these,
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to God and His Holy Angelsfthat we are accounted worthy
to be laborers in avineyard that is blessed with such sources
of support. There was never a. more truthful saying than
this: “ Cast your bread upon the waters, and it shall return
unto you after many days.” Let those who cast their bread
upon the waters of this cause, which are rolling onward to
wash humanity clean from all its filth and lewdness, rest
assured that it will return to them after not many days; for
the time of the end—-the present time-is near, the white-
ness of the fields even now looming up in the near future.

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readers will notice an advertisement thus headed, on 8th
page. Every Spiritualist should read it, and all not in posses-
sion of that excellent Steelplate Engraving, “THE DAWN-
ING LIGHT, Illustrating the Birthplace of Modern Spirit-
ualism,” should order it at once. I

The published price, 5932-00, was low enough for its size
and quality; but it will be noticed that, for various reasons,
it is now mailed, postage free, for One Dollar, and that, for
ashort time, all will get India tinted impressions, without
extra charge. This is a rare opportunity to secure a gem of
art, which, if on the wall of every Spiritual home, would do
much to benefit: and give dignity to Spiritualisrn.

The work is ‘not intended torcommemorate the services
of the mediums who once resided in that little famous
house, but as an historic enshrinement of the house and the
beautiful scenery surrounding it, and as a souvenir of the
Mystic Era of Modern Spiritualism.

Bible ipictures have exerted an all- powerful influence
throughout Christendom. Pictorial art can be made of
great utility to our cause, which is suggestive of an almost
endless number of beautiful and exalted conceptions for the
artist’s hand. It is high time that we should demand such
works. The artists are ready to execute them. For a full
description of this charming picture, read the key in the
publisher’s advertisement.

[The advertisement is unavoidably delayed till next week]

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9 itualhets of Minnesota are invited to meet in Mass
.. -....«s..>n_ in the city of Minneapolis, on Thursday, June
15, 1876 ter;~. o’clock A. M. The Convention will con.
tinue four days, closing Sunday evening. Several of the
best trance spe:;t.kr-rs and mediums to be found in the United
States will be present, and a “feast of reason and fiow of
soul” may be ex'pee$.:ml. All Spiritualists, together with
Liberals Of every name  klild, are invited“,
Per order of Committee, GEO, W, SWEET, Sec,
-—-«ma-as--é.e;..., V
CHARLES Li;-l., 
SOUTHERN TESTIMONY To if-.’i;.u ":1",-,:-.'r.
Editors Weekly:
In Washington a wealthy gentler.
are a spiritualist; let me tell you my 
Foster. After his first visit here (in W .
women were wild over the ‘ tests and messa, 
given them from their dead friends. And two i.’:ri.e'n.d,a and I
agreed that, if Foster returned, we would test hint  his
fraud; and, unless he satisfied us of the truth of his tlai.m_,
we determined to cow-hide him out of Washington. lv"7heri
he returned, we made our appointment, paid our fee, 
called at the time. _
“ He said: ‘John Smith is here.’ ‘Oh !’ said I, ‘Who is
John, and what does he want?’ ‘He is your brother, and
says, * * *’ giving me a. string of family secrets that as-
tounded me! He then turned on my friends, and in fifteen
minutes he had us crying like a lot of boys! Such a flood of
personal evidence and messages, as he rained on us. Well,
to make a long story short. we forgot all about the whips,
and fully got our money’s worth. ‘ It beats the devil.’ ”
In conclusion, I am not acquainted with Mr. Foster, and
hope you will furnish this further testimony to the truth of
Spiritualism. Yours truly,

WILLIAM Wnvsnow BENNETT.
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And look into my eyes,

And read the trust and tenderness
And -love that in them lies.

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It beats for you alone. -——MARY B. COLBY.

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Sixteen Crucified Saviors;

New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations

and fwrm'sht'ng a. Key for unloclnng many of
I its Sacred Mysteries, besides cornprtsing the
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Author of “The iBéography of Satan ” and “The Bible
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throughout its entire course the author--as will be
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definite line of research and argunientto the close,
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Preface; Explanation;(Introduction; Addiess to_ the
rgy.

, Chap..1.—§Iiva1 Claiiifrs of htlie Saviors.

, . “ Chap. 2.— essianic rop ecies.

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Chap. 4.—-Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of

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