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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 22 (October 30, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2095
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-10-30
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: :1 PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LI“v’Eei BREAKING THE w'A.Y FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS... V01. X.-—~No. 22,-Whole No. 256.’ NEW YORK,’ OCT. so, 1875. .24 PRICE TEN CENTS. /an. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall "be ﬁnisheoZ.—St. John the Divine. ‘ Whereof I was made a minister topreaeh the searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.-—Pau1. .41. m7 MUSINGS. NUMBER TWO. Individuals are, to a great extent, what surroundings make them. In a general sense, the same climatic and other sur- roundings always give rise to the same leading traits of char- acter and disposition, and to a great extent control physical characteristics. Thus, black eyes are essentially tropical. They and the accompanying ﬂashful disposition, possessing more of ﬁery impulse than of calm endurance, are more uni- versal andpossessed in a higher degree within the torrid...
Show more:1 PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LI“v’Eei BREAKING THE w'A.Y FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS... V01. X.-—~No. 22,-Whole No. 256.’ NEW YORK,’ OCT. so, 1875. .24 PRICE TEN CENTS. /an. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall "be ﬁnisheoZ.—St. John the Divine. ‘ Whereof I was made a minister topreaeh the searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.-—Pau1. .41. m7 MUSINGS. NUMBER TWO. Individuals are, to a great extent, what surroundings make them. In a general sense, the same climatic and other sur- roundings always give rise to the same leading traits of char- acter and disposition, and to a great extent control physical characteristics. Thus, black eyes are essentially tropical. They and the accompanying ﬂashful disposition, possessing more of ﬁery impulse than of calm endurance, are more uni- versal andpossessed in a higher degree within the torrid zone than any Where else. Proceeding northward it will be found that the most powerful nations, intellectually, have arisen within the temperate zone, a comparatively narrow circle of the earth’s surface. Here are found in the greatest abundance the brain and nerve sustaining elements, and beyond its limits nations similarly endowed, possessing such clear conceptions of the universe around them, and whose endurance partakes of the nature of the watching stars above, do not exist. The singular make-up of the Esqui- maux, with his muddy brain and alﬁnity for grease, is pe- culiar to the latitude in which he lives, where all surround- ing nature beats in consonance. In emigrating from a colder to warmer climate, changes are visible in succeeding generationshﬁrst in the color of the eyes, next the ‘hair, until the whole physical and mental con- stitution undergoes a change. It is plain, then, that in order tQ_produce any widespread change or reformation in the char- acter of the race, we must change the conditions under which it is developed. Saying nothing at present of our ulti- mate power over the conditions imposed by external nature, it will be found that, aside from these, man is the victim of conditions and systems which, though potent in molding his character and determining his motives, are artiﬁcial in their origin. All governments, and social, political or industrial orders existing at any given period of time, are simply human arrangements; it therefore lies within man’s power to affect in them any desired change or improvement. We have been living under a system of things that engenders selﬁshness; that puts a premium on it by making it the road to power; inculcates reverence for a partial God; teaches virtually that mankind is a countless host of isolated and independent indi- viduals having no vital relations or interests in common, thus making it lawful and right not only to aggrandize one’s self ‘by monopoly in the natural wealth of this world, regardless /of the poverty of others, but fosters the delusion that the same is true of the world beyond——that any one who will may ascend its glittering hights regardless of the fate of the less fortunate ones in the depths below. In a word, a system of religion and of laws that develops selﬁsh- ness in the’ individual _by making the interest of every one consist of selﬁshness. Under such a state of things, is it strange that selﬁshness and all of its concomitants abound? It is impossible that it should be otherwise. Now all of this must be changed. And the principle must be recognized that just as any disturbance in the waters of a lake will rufﬂe the adj cining waters, or that just as the orbs composing the starry host above are sympathetically related, so that commotions or perturbations cannot exist at any given ‘ point without extending there inﬂuence throughout theuni- versal realm, so in the realm of humanity, not only the in- most life, but the material interests of every individual are interwoven with that of all the rest. Systems must be erect- ed in accordance with this idea, recognizing the unity of the race. But the isolated family system. which so dwarfs the human sympathies, and the existing property system that permits individuals to monopolize the world’s natural wealth, stand directly in the way of such a consummation. Jesus of Nazareth gave to the world many sublime com- mands, but which are impossible of application in the present stage of humanity’s growth. Indeed, for individuals under our present arrangements to attempt to reduce to practice many of his precepts would be as futile as planting corn on a waste of blackened rock. - Such individuals would be re- duced to utter bankruptcy in a month——livin.g, stalking mon- uments to the spirit of folly which possessed them. What,then, does this prove? That the Nazarene was “ an advocate of im- possible theories,” “ an imbecile” or a “ sky-scraping vision- ary ?” Not at all, for, although many of his commands may be iimpracticable at certain times and seasons, it does not follow that they will be so forever; and just as this primitive and blackened rock is sure in nature’s processes to be crumbled into soil, so, by the disintegration of artiﬁcial systems now going on, conditions will be prepared for the practice of these high commands, where the life of man shall approximate to that of the lillies. ‘ , i Does any one say that it is impossible to inaugurate the right conditions; that the prevailing monarchies, aristoc- racies, oligarchies, monopolies and money powers stand, as insurmountable barriers in the way? To urge this objection is to maintain that the powers of evil, darkness and oppres- sion are more than a match for the powers of light; that the God of justice is either in his second childhood or some other form of mental imbecility——powerless to help his votaries in this universe of ours. It is a "murmur” which proclaims one’s utter faithlessness in the potency of right, and all such murmurers should be remanded back, to wander another forty or a thousand years in the wilderness of doubt and slavery. V It may have been impossible to accomplish these things in the weary ages of the past, but earth and spirit land, which have in theselater years clasped hands across the intervening gulf, have not done so without a purpose; and as sure as this is an accomplished fact, and as sure as a higher and a mightier civilization exists in you bright world above, just as surely must its contact with this result in this grand con- summation. This, then, is my spiritualism. Not that which stops with the demonstration of man’s spiritual existence and the return of the spirit after death, and- which, immers- ing itself in the beautiful, “ sings ' continually of the glories to be while it ignores the miseries that are,”v but that which, accepting these facts as a basis of ac- tion, recognizes them in all their mighty bearings on the existing conditions of earth; that Which recognizes duties and responsibilities as well as ﬂowery paths interwoven with the spirit’s destiny, and prepares itself to meet the wilder- ness and bitter waters which it knowsmay lie between the present scene and the promised land which lies beyond. Wnsrronn, Mass., 1857. A. D. WHEELER. “ADDRESS OF HON. ‘E. G. RYAN, AT MADISON, JULY 5, 1875.” ~ From the Racine County (Wis.) Argus. Picking upapaper the other day, I read over one of its columns the above heading. I had often heard of the eloquence of this learned gentle- man, but had never before happened to gain posses- sion of one of his published speeches, and therefore prom- ised myself a rich treat from its perusal. It proved to be really avery able address, containing many views in whichlfully coincided, but having supposed him to be a liberal minded, as well as a cultured gentleman, my surprise may well be imagined on ﬁnding in it a statement that the women of the present day seemed anxious to take men’s places and do men’s work. I cannot give his exact words, for, realizing my utter insigniﬁcance as -one of a sex which, by the laws of our country, are made to occupy aposition lower than the one accorded to the most ignorant of our white male citizens, or the most brutal negro, I felt it would be presumptuous in me to oﬂ“er any comments on the ex- pressed sentiments of so eminent a man, and not expecting to refer to it I destroyed it, hoping thereby to be able to for- get that Ihad ever read the speech. I ﬁnd, however, that memory will not be thus coerced, and with all due deference and aproper appreciation of the diﬂerence in our relative positions, I here assert that women do not wish to take men’s places or do men’s work. They wish to do their own work; work that men have assumed the right to do for them for ‘centuries, and which they have done in so bungling a manner as to have caused the overthrow of countries . and, peoples in times past, as it will ultimately be the means of the downfall of our own, unless the justice demanded by the sensible, thinking women of our country, for themselves and sex, is accorded them. The learned judge compared the rise, maturity, decline and sometimes extinction of nations, to the birth, maturity, decline and death of individuals. Now, though every living being must, some time, seemingly cease to exist, I can see no good cause for. the decline and downfall of nations, provided their governments are founded upon principles of strict jus- tice to all, and those principles are fully carried out. I can, however, very well understand that if one half of the popula- tion of a country assumed the right to make laws for the government of the other, the half. thus subordinated would become less and less self-reliant and less careful of the right performance of the duties that naturally devolved upon it, while the dominant half would thereby be enabled to cor- rupt the other, and thus an entire nation become so weakened that its dissolution would become only a question of time. Even here, in this so—called land of liberty, “ the hand- writing on the wall” is seen in the great increase of crime and general decrease of virtuous principles arising from man’s boasted superiority to woman, his assumption of the right to make laws for her to obey, and. while claiming to be her protector, more often making her his prey. . How can a government expect to be long lived while prac- tically giving the lie to its fundamental and most vital prin- ciples that “there shall be no taxation without representa- tion, and that every citizen shall have the right to a speedy trial by a jury of his peers.” . I will here say that as the word his is supposed to apply to women as well as men in all the penalties imposed by law, it is only fair to presume that it will bear thesame interpre- tation in regard to its beneﬁts or where it is supposed to protect. . ' That. women are- taxed without representation and held equally amenable with men to all the laws no one can deny, and that they are not allowed a trial by a jury of their peers is also a well established fact. How can these rights be justly withheld from them? Are they not citizens? If not, why compel them to support the government through taxa- tion? ' « ‘ “ The women of Boston paid more taxes last year than all the men who voted for the elected Governor Gaston.” So says Williaml. Bowditch in-his pamphlet on the ,“ Taxation of Women in Massachusetts.” Yet they were obliged to remain inactive, while ignorant, drunken, impecunious male citizens were permitted to go to the polls, and though they might not have voted a direct tax on the property owned by these’ women, they helped to elect officers who, perhaps, were inimical to their interests. Aside from the injustice of denying women a social and political equality with man, there is another evil connected with this question not often considered. It is an admitted fact that the inﬂuence of woman is very great; but it is not as generally understood that in not being held accountable for it she is thereby rendered a. most dan- gerous element of society. ' That the irresponsible power of woman has seriously eﬂected the destiny of nations all history proves. Madam Pomp-adour. at whose beck the most powerful nobles of France could, without one word of warning, be hurled inta the" damp, noisome, vermin infested dungeons of the Bastile, there to fret and fume and pine till death relieved them of their miseries, and before whom even the wary Richelieu was obliged to be more wary lest she should ﬁnd an excuse for compassing’ his destruction, affords one of the many illustra- tions which might be oﬁered in proof of this fact. People do not as often stop to study consequences while inﬂuencing others to -perpetrate certain acts, as when they expect to be themselves the actors, and know they willﬂbe held accountable for their deeds. So long as women are denied a voice in governmental af... fairs, so long they will fail to "see the necessity of informing themselves (as even men do not till they become voters), in matters pertaining to them, therefore their inﬂuence in re... gard to political questions, under these circumstances, can have none other thanva disastrous effect upon the country. It is unfortunate that while women are not held as citizens; to the extent of being permitted to exercise their right to me, elective franchise, they are regarded as such so far as being compelled to pay taxes fer the support of the government, 2‘ i2?"tl{iDIIULL & Ci_eAFLIN’S WrEEKLY. Oct. 30 1875. This-leads political demagcgues to appeal to them for aid, whenever they have any partisan measure to secure, by creat- ing in its behalf a blind zeal in the people. The more eﬂ‘ec- tually to secure this end they appoint special times to ap- pear before the people, being careful to urge the attendance of ladies. It being as natural for women as men to feel an interest in any thing relating to the affairs of their country, they gladly accept‘ the invitation. The meeting opens with the introduc- tion of the speaker, who, with a patronizing air, many incli- nations of his head toward the ladies, and with a smiling face, proceeds to expatiate upon his theme and proves to be possessed of a certain kind of gassy eloquence. _ He ﬁnally makes an appeal to the ladies, in which he ex- plains to them their natures and the peculiar duties which must necessarily devolve upon them on that account; in- forms them that they are regarded as angels by men, and their inﬂuence over them is boundless. As he proceeds, he becomes enthusiastic, and declares that “ Woman’s inﬂuence is of far greater value to her than the ballot, which, pos sessed by man, gains him the respect of his fellows, protects him from tyranny, and makes him a better husband, father and citizen, but in her hands would prove but dead-sea fruit. Worse—it would cause her to betray every trust vreposed in her, and lead._her even to discard her own children.” . , He begs the wives and mothers to inﬂuence their husbands and sons, and the young ladies to prevail upon the young gentlemen of their acquaintance to vote in behalf of the measures he has presented. Some of his lady auditors, having been so circumstanced in the early years of their lives as not to have had all their in- dividuality destroyed, fail to appreciate either his compli- ments or advice. They reason, that if capable of inﬂuencing men how to vote, it would be better to use their inﬂuence direct, and with less waste of time by doing their own voting. Others, reared to think nothing in the world so de- sirable as the admiration of men, and that no opinion was of any value unless received from them, accept his views with- out question. and, not content with inﬂuencing the male members of their own families or acquaintances, make prose- lytes wherever they can. In due time the measure advocated becomes alaw, and people ﬁnd, too late, that in permitting their feelings to run away with their judgments, they have not only brought dis- aster upon themselves, but upon their country. - Previous to, and during the late War, there were certain questions at issue between the North and South. Had these issues been fairly met all our diﬂiculties might have been amicably adjusted, but instead of that the preachers of the different denominations, North and South, became warm partisans in behalf of the supposed interests of their respec- tive sections, and so far from preaching the doctrines of the meek and lowly Jesus, they delivered inﬂammable political speeches from their pulpit-s. They especially appealed to the lady attendants of their churches, telling them they owed it to themselves, their country and their God to wield their in- ﬂuence in behalf of the cause represented by them. Thus incited, and having had no experience in the political affairs of the Government, what wonder that they became warm enthusiasts in the cause they had been led to espouse, and that the mﬁuence of the Northern and Southern women wrought that which their votes (had they enjoyed the right of suﬁrage) would never have done—-almost the ruin of the country they loved so well. It is said that a Chinese woman, upon being told by a mis- sionary that she, like her husband, had a soul, was so much amused at this to her extraordinary intelligence, that she could hardly wait the coming of her lord, so anxious was she to have a good laugh with him about it. The idea of woman’s inferiority to man, and that he pos- sesses the right to decide as to the sphere in which she shall revolve, is almost the only relic of barbarism to which civ- ilized humanity still clings 5 but when_ a learned Judge ‘adheres to it so rigidly as to lead him to express those senti- ments in a public speech, I am reminded of a remark made ‘ by a well-known lecturer in regard to the persistency with which people are prone to cling to their early prejudices. Said he: , “Give me the control of the young of the rising genera- tion, and I will prove to your satisfaction that they can be educated to worship frogs.” . Nor is this all—it will take as many missionaries to convert them from this as from any other belief seemingly more rational. ';ELIZABE’1‘JE[ ll. WENTWORTH, Racine, Wis. THE MARRIAGE LAW A PROTECTION TO VIRTUE. BY WARREN CHASE. Three cases of this great protection are before us in one paper, the daily Cleveland Leader of September 25, two of them in the highly Christianized State of Ohio, where mar- riage is protected by a license, purity by Christian morals and public opinion. In one case aman took his wife and a young lady out to ride, and in an obscure place left his wife to hold the horse while he took the girl into the bushes to ravish and kill her (as he did the latter if not the former), and then threatening to kill his wife if she exposed him; but he was caught and lynched, the mob not waiting for the law. Served him right, though we hate murder and lynch law, but by his wife’s testimony he deserved all he got, for crimes committed before this. What a protection marriage is to virtue in such men! Give such men a victim to pla.y on and then let them prey on other women who by poverty are de- pendent on them, or who may be caught by force! The second case is a man—if it is lawful to call him a man——who courted 2. young ladya few weeks, and then got a Catholic priest to cement the God-bond that no man and no act but death can break, even though solemnized without license in Ohio. After enjoying her society for a week or two he abstracts from his trunk all his clothes, etc., and the marriage certiﬁ- cate of the holy priest, and absconds. The following is the glosing paragraph of the Leader upon it; “ Then opening the trunk they found that he had taken all its contents, even the certiﬁcate of marriage received from the priest. When leaving he said he would return the next morning and took occasion to bid his wife a most affectionate adieu. Since his departure it is alleged that not a word has been heard from him, but that the young wife has learned with a sorrow nigh unto insanity, that he does not intend _to return and has departed for some unknown place. It is now reported that he leaves in the eastern part of this State, two or three wives and a number of little ones who have never yet been trotted upon his knee or have had an opportunity to call him father. But itis to be hoped that this rumor is false, and that he will soon return to his young and amiable bride in this city and make ample amends for the great wrong he has done her.” It is rather to be hoped he will not return or ever more be heard of among the women of this world where marriage en- ables him to cheat and deceive so many that he could not cheat without it. What aprotection this marriage certiﬁcate of ‘a God-ordained priest must have been to the virtue of the girl, if not to his. She is not now soiled in character as she would have been by associatingjwith him without the permit, and the law will divorce her although the church will not. Then she can marry again and be pure as salt. The third case, the darling daughter of a millionaire father, falls in ove with a minstrel piper, and after getting very intimate, - and as the story runs, associating with him, runs off and is brought back with a round turn of the marriage law. Even here in Ohio are to be found some pure and holy Spiritualists— some pure froniimpotence, some from excessive sexual in- dulgence, and some to cover their own vile conduct-—who throw dirt and abuse at all who question this holy (?) institu- tion. “ Let the dead bury thefdead.” Virtue still lives out- side of celibate priests and holy and consecrated women! [Written fori?Woodhull & Claﬂin’s Weekly.] A sunsnrr MESSAGE. IBY JENNIE LEYS. Athwart the purple sun set-bars, Whose glow f oretells a fair twilight, A circle of resplendent spars Sweeps from the sun’s half-hidden light; And each my points to misty stars That wait but for the deeper night, To prove how suns are multiplied a thousand-fold When one departs and seems to leave us dark and cold. So when some radiant sun of love . Sinks ’neath the heart’s horizon here, And e’en G: d"s faithful, changeless love Seems far removed, so dark and drear Is life,—then best the heart may prove,. Through soul-rays made by grief more clear, How hum an joy is magniﬁed a thousand-fold By Heavenly love that only deeps of loss unfold. Shine far, 0 blessed rays of Truth, Where’er heart-break and pain abide! 3 Point to th’ eternal love and youth That crown all souls, who, puriﬁed, Attain God’s utmost gift of ruth- The Heavenly Bridegroom or the Bride- And know a sacred, deathlesslove ten thousand-fold -Beyond all other loves the universe can hold. Don pure, white wedding-robes, O souls! The Bridegroom cometh—Earth’s “ I am! "’ Lo, from the world the darkness rolls! The Heavens shine with the oriﬂamme That heralds the great feast of souls- “ The marriage supper of the Lamb! ” Then world with world shall blend in love ten thousand-fold Transcendin g all the bliss by olden seers foretold! LETTER TO THE “BOSTON INVESTIGATOR.” . PARKMAN, Ohio, Sep. 25, 1875. Enrrons WEEKLY-—I sent the accompanying article to the Boston Investigator, inclosing stamps for return postage if not accepted for publication. It was promptly returned, without note or comment. I subsequently wrote the editor, asking——not as a right, but simply as a favor-—his reason for rejecting it; and also whether he would allow me brief space in his columns to criticise that portion of his notice of Mr. Pike’s pamphlet relative to the character of the marriage in- stitution, and received for reply, that to allow anything further on the Denton and Pike discussion would seem like bigotry and a wish to injure those gentlemen. This answer ignored my second question——which was the main one—en- tirely. I therefore concluded that either the Investigator was getting timid in its old age, or regarded the social question as being only worthy of an occasional squib or fling—or, at best, an occasional criticism of the doctrine‘ by some corre- spondent, who, if he knows anything of the principle upon which the marriage institution, as such, is opposed by the advocates of social freedom, is very careful to withhold such knowledge from his readers, with a few favorable editorial comments on the same, equally as innocent of any concep- tion of the real principle involved. Yours truly, J. H. P. MR. EDI'roR——Your paper of the 14th inst. contains an edi- torial notice of Messrs. Pike and Denton’s pamphlet, entitled “ The Fallacies of the Free Love Theory,” etc., with a brief reference to a former allusion to the same in the last preced- ing number. In what you say with regard to a certain pro- fessed Liberal, who not long since refused to stand on the same platform with another prominent and able public speaker on account of diﬂerence of opinion, adding that “if anything can be the death of Liberalism, it is bigotry,” I think you make a pointed and palpable “ hit,” conveying a sharp, but needed, if not deserved, rebuke. I have seldom felt more of surprise—not to say pain and regret—-than upon reading Mr. Pike’s note explaining the reason of his refusal to speak at the Paine Hall dedication, as published in the 1nvest'£ga.to'r—it being the first intimation I had received of the fact. I was surprised at nothing in Mr. Denton’s note of Jexplanation, in reference to the same occasion but the ex-l ceedingly coarse and offensive language employed in stating the ground of his objection. Though not having the honor of his personal acquaintance, I have observed during a few years past——from reports of his speeche and other sources of information—that he seemed to be tending in the direction of a practical illustration of the fact that a narrow and bigoted spirit is not necessarily incompatible with the ac- ceptance and proclamation of liberal ideas, and electing to occupy thetliberal side of certain questions of public contro- versy. Mr. Pike’s public reference to the matter, as was to be ex- pected, was respectful and gentlemanly. Either he must have greatly changed during his two or three years residence in New Jersey, or he could not be otherwise than respectful and gentlemanly. Indeed, a dozen years of personal ac- quaintance with him, bordering very closely upon intimate friendship, almost forces upon my mind the impression that something other than the promptings of his own liberal and generous nature must have inﬂuenced him to thus imitate one of the worst phases of the old Puritan character. A And permit me to add that I am more inclined than otherwise to the impression that he has——unconsciously, of course, or pos- sibly on the ground that the end justifies the means—allowed either some foreign inﬂuence or some fair-seeming expe- diency to govern, or at least give unworthy counsel, in the production of his “ Fallacies of the Free Love Theory.” Whatever of “ nonsense ” there may be “connected with so- called free love ”—and it must, I think, be admitted that there is not alittle—you say truly, as it seems to me, that “there is a principle involved which neither Mr. Pike 1101' Mr. Denton seems to understand.” Certainly, judging from the sentiment expressed, and the course of argument pursued in his pamphlet, Mr. Pike has very little conception of the principle of the so-called “Free Love movement. The whole theory of the lecture, the Whole force and direction of its logic, and every illustration em- ployed, proceeds upon the gratuitous assumption——utterly unreasonable and baseless, and even in the nature of the case, absurd——that the principle of “Free Love,” as applied to the relations of the sexes, recognizes the absolute and un- conditional unrestraint of animal propensity and sexual passion, whether.of law or logic, or the rule of the higher affections or the moral faculties; andjabsolute unprotection of alliaifectional and sexual rights as well. How a man of Mr. Pike’s genuine ability, broad philan- thropy, and almost extreme liberal tendencies, could manage to get his own consent to assail a movement suggested by the best and most enlightened intelligence, in accordance with the highest recognized principles of progress, and inspired by the deepest longings and the holiest aspirations of the human heart, from this low level, and publicly characterize its ten- dency from the stand-point of the narrowest, most illiberal and most unprogressive conceptions of the age—except un- der inﬂuences and impressions as suggested above—is to me one of the chief marvels of this marvelous age. If there is one feature of the doctrine held to be more vital than an- other, or is made more prominent by its leading advocates, it is that which involves proper restraint of mere animal pas- sion and the protection of sexual virtue. ' Nor is the truth of this statement, nor the importance-of the fact itself, in any way affected by the fantastic vagaries of some who favor, nor the lecherous and lustful promptings of multitudes who oppose it. The “ Free Love" idea simply recognizes the foundation principle of American civilization, as set forth in our immor- tal “Bill of Rights,” in its application to freedom of the affections in sexual relations, just as free thought and liberty of the conscience recognize that principle in its application to untrammeled intellectual effort and attainment, and re- ligious association and worship; and tolerates as little of lust and license, and infringement of individual and social rights. What use people will make of their rights, when allowed to exercise and enjoy them, may, in its proper place, be not only a legitimate but a very important question. But, as a question precedent to their recognition and maintenance, it has no right to a hearing. To assail and traduce a movement aiming at an application of freedom to important rights and relations of humanity on the assumption that confusion and anarchy will follow, and chaos come again as a consequence, is an old trick of despotism and bigotry, which the enlight- ened intelligence of the last quarter of the nineteenth cen- tury ought not to imitate or tolerate. At all events, it is one that ought long ago to have been “ played out ” among pro- fessed Liberalists. But I fear I am transcending the limits usually aliowed to Investigator correspondents. Having commenced by ex- pressing my approval of some parts of the editor’s notice of the pamphlet under consideration, I had designed to close with a brief criticism of other parts of the same. But as space fails—having incidentally given more attention to the character and purport of Mr. Pike’s lecture than I at present intended——I trust that he (the editor) will not consider him- self slighted if I defer that part of the programme to a more convenient season. J. H. PHILLEO. Psnnmnn, Ohio, July 26, 1875. No'rE.—It may be just and proper to say that, having seen Mr. Pike since the above was rejected by the Investigator, he informs me that what was published in that paper relative to his declining to occupy the platform with Moses Hull was but a part of a private note to the editor, and does not properly represent his position on that subject. THE CHANGE. Such utterances as the following, . made in 3- SeI‘m0i1 preached on July 25. by Rev. Florence McCarthy, minister of the Amity Baptist Church, Chicago, show wl; at avast Ghallga is going on all about us in the religious world, however little heeded or understood by the majority of the community: “It is agreed on all hands that the Christian Church is approaching some great convulsion. Tendencies in the public mind which cannot be the effect of design or effort, because they are epidemic and as yet unintelligible, indicate ,/\. 1’ ;. Oct. 30, 1375. WOODHULL acLArL1n*s WEEKLY 9 some universal upheaving like that of the sixteenth century as their objective point. The unexampled interest of the human mind in religious speculation, the contempt with which ecclesiastical tribunals are regarded, the growing im- potency of creeds to inﬂuence human belief, and the merci- less exposure of hypocrisy and licentiousness in the pulpit, which is a part of the current reformation, all point, like the handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace, to a moral earthquake, in which all existing religious institutions are to perish, and on the crater and crags of which a new and better religious vegetation is to grow. I love to anticipate it. I am _a natural iconoclast, and reverence nothing simply for its age. I luxuriate in the thought that the sects and the creeds, being in their dotage, are slumbering on the brink of eternal obliteration. For I see in it, not the fuin of Christianity, but restoration; and, saturated with that impression, I be- hold without alarm the gathering storm. and feel without dread the premonitory breaking of the earth under my feet. So far from it, I lift up my unterriﬁed voice to the heavens, and cry ‘ Amen! Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.’ “One of the religious evils of which Ihave long been weary, and which I hope and believe Will perish in the coming earthquake, is the professional Christian ministry. The men who occupy the pulpit of to-day are, as a class, unworthy, dishonea t, insincere, selﬁsh, corrupt and useless. They make a trade of religion; they believe only what will pay in money; they are afraid to denounce sin; they live, many of them, in effeminate luxury and elaborate idleness; they are morbid, jealous, bigoted and cruel; and the sooner they are cut out of the body ecclesiastic, and the sore place burned with moral lunar caustic, the better it will be for their hear- ers. These evils press upon my mind constantly, and I feel moved to speak to you concerning the kind of ministers of the gospel which this wicked and sorrowing world needs.” Mr. McCarthy, it appears, is a lawyer and earns (3) his own livelihood.—'.l"'he Indecc. THE UNITED HOME. Woodhull and Claﬂiws Weekly—Suﬁer me to introduce through your columns ournew departure from the broad road and deep ruts of money hoarding and domineering that run into fraud, avarice, theft, robbery, piracy, war and slave- holding prostitution, generating criminals, disease and death, with all the ills that haunt us after death. By the light that shines within us we have been brought to a complete halt on this “ broad road that leads to death,” and struck off for the narrow way that runs on the line of equality and equity into liberty, love and eternal life. To move forward in this way we have formed into a United Home, wherein to learn our united oneness with each other and our God. The United Home through equality has ﬁxed a standard of wealth to each person as near the average per capita of our national wealth with all the people as can now be made, for the transition from the old to the new order of life. It anchors its members who are average and above average in wealth, at that standard as the limit of their Wealth, and takes all their surplus of wealth and labor to help persons to average who are now below. Thus it becomes a natural and transitional leveler, an equalizer of the wealth of the world, by carefully removing from the new order the extreme inequalities of riches and poverty, with all the avarice and hoarding antago- nisms that now lie between these extremes of life. It plainly and practically reiterates the words of Jesus to the rich man: “ Go and sell that which thou hast and give unto the poor,” until all people are made equal inheritors of the wealth of the world. ' Thus the United Home system of equality and equity naturally harmonizes the inequalities of life, causing the rich to balance up the poor, the wise to give light to the foolish, the strong to give strength to the weak, the good ‘to enchant the bad, and the woman to equal the man in all the functions of her own being, that perfect liberty and love may be enjoyed by all the human race. Socially as well as ﬁnancially, the United home members are to be equal. N 0 system of license to marriage, prostitution ' or otherwise, can be had from our Home. We neither marry or make matches, but demand a sacred respect to judgment, conscience and creative love obligations by all the penalties ﬁxed in our divine natures; so that all whom God hath joined together as equals, through creative love and sexual function, may not be separated but live their true life. The United Home will care for its aged, inﬁrm, women with child and the children. It will care for, govern and educate those children and lift them to average. It will make the intrinsic merits of its home and harmonies an attractive force and power among the people who enter its life, and thereby utterly disgust them with the false and fraudulent social and ﬁnancial system of the present age and orderof life. ‘No mind can see the contrast of both orders without learning a higher wisdom and reaching a better life. Let all who feel interested in our work address, with stamps, our corresponding secretary for further information . ' Geo. B. Farley, Gilmore, Benzie Co., Mich. I am, as ever, your brother, A. P. Bowman. BEGINNING TO SEE THE DIFFICULTY. A SAN FRANCISCO oAIN—A-CASE FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY. [From the N. Y. Sum] On Saturday the Bittenbender brothers,G—eorge and Edward, quarreled over a trivial matter. An interchange of unpleag- ant words followed, and at length George struck Edwal-d_ Smartin g under the insult and injury the latter at once pro-. cured a pistol, and shortly afterward met George on Wash- ington street and shot him through the temple. The mur- derer turned and ﬂed, but bystanders pursued, captured and turned over the assassin to the oﬁcers of the law. The vic- tim expired within seven minutes after the shot was ﬁred. On his way to jail the murderer, who is only 19 years of age, confessed, without perceptible remorse, that he committed the crime, and asked no mercy of his captors. It seems from the statement of Jacob Andrews‘ that the mother of the Bittenbenders is now an inmate of the Penn- sylvania Insane Asylum, while her husband, the father of the boys, committed‘. suicide in Pennsylvania some years ago by shooting himself through the head. That there is a strain of murderous insanity in the blood of the Blttenbenders there can be no question, but it is singular indeed that the peculiar madness should exist in the minds of both father and mother. If inquiry should reveal the fact that the ancient Bittenbenders married among themselves, as was the custom a century ago in rural Pennsylvania, then the existence of insanity in both father and mother would not appear so strange. If, on the contrary, it should be revealed that families not bound together in blood relationship were represented in the marriage, then medical science would be compelled to solve a new problem——a question whether com- panionship with insane persons begets insanity.——San Fram- cisco Bulletin, Sept. 15. “SHALL DEBATE WITH _MOSES HULL ?” Under the above caption there appeared an article in the Osceola Sentinel, of Iowa, from the pen of F. W. Evans, a divine teacher (i) of that place. From the tone of the article in mention it would appear that the Rev. Mr. Evans is much exercised on the subjectfand fears that he may be forced into debate, or that he must otherwise back squarely down from the contest. ' - ' ‘ He says: “ Until the Spiritualists of ‘Osceola indorse Mr. Hull, and the community express themselves as favorable to the proposed debate, I shall decline entering into_a discussion of Spiritualism with Mr. Moses Hull in Osceola.” He then has the impudence to say: “ But if the Spiritual- ists of any other place will indorse him, and the community of that place will pay the expenses of the debate, I will meet him, be the place where it may.” Who ever heard of such conditions being prescribed for a to every human being? Evidently Mr. Evans has little of philanthropy in him, else he would come forward, and if en- tertaining false doctrines, be undeceived of them; or if Mr. I-Iull is advocating immorality by his teachings, to denounce them, rebut his arguments, and save the people from their destroying inﬂuences. Mr. Evans further says: “I am not willing to be the means of introducing into the community the advocacy of the abominably licentious and corrupt character of Free Loveism.” V It is very apparent from his remarks that Mr. Evans has but little knowledge of the doctrine or science of Social Free- dom else he would not “ dub ” it “Free Loveism ” and howl about _its “licentious ” and “ corrupt ” principles. Mr. Evans continues his profound. writing by saying that Mr. Hull now lives with a woman “whom the laws of God and the rules of Christianity and virtue recognize as the Wife of another.” This is, indeed, very fair and -Christian like in Mr. Evans, to first say that he will not debate with Mr. Hull and then to stigmatize him in this manner. What does he know of the laws of God more than thefable gentleman he so readily slanders? By what right does he assert that the laws of God require any man to act as he—-—the Rev. Evans—deems for the best? Taken as a whole Mr. Evan’s letter is a grand display of his ignorance and pedantry, couched in unreason- able terms and decorated with bad grammar, worse rhetoric, and entirely devoid of logic. “ N,” Emtnox, 111., Sept. 18, 1875. MONTIETH, ALLEGAN 00., Mich., Sept, 6, 1875. Dear Weekly—Find inclosed $3, and forward the WEEK.LY to —— , whom you may count as one of your subscrib- ers. It does my soul good to ﬁnd there are so many who dare call things by their right names, and more so when I re- cognize in some of the writers of the WEEKLY people with ‘whom I have aided in the work of abolishing the African slave trade in America: a time that then tried women’sVas well as men’s souls; when a woman (Abby Kelly Foster) dared, Victoria like, leave her peaceful home in Massachu- setts and giveher all to the cause of freedom ; a time when to be a true Abolitionist was to be spit upon, dragged out of barns (for not often could we get a chapel to lecture in), rot- ten-egged and maligned, abused in every possible manner by what were called respectable people, mostly church members who will tell you to-day they were always Abolitionists. In my opinion the time is not far distant when they will say the same of Spiritualism and Social Freedom. I wish there were thousands just such brave women as Helen Nash, and such men as Warren Chase, D. W. Hull, Parker Pillsbury and many others I might mention. Parker, do you remem- ' ber at a certain time of coming to my house on the ledge in Solon, Ohio, when we went to the centre of the town to ob- tain a house, if possible, for you to lecture in? Knowing it was of no use to ask the Methodist, we went to the Disciples and asked for their house, when we were told we could have it, but not until the worship of God was ﬁrst attended to. They were careful to so prolong their services as to, if possi- ble, debar us from a hearing, which we obtained nevertheless, in which they were told there was some God service in free- ing the negro. He now owns his own body, but still Ameri- can slavery lives. Now, Parker, as you have fought long and hard in the anti-slavery struggle, I hope you may live to deal out your blows quick and heavy until every woman in the world shall be free from the marriage bond that makes her but a slave to man. ’ 9, I am no peculiar friend to Jewish Bible Theology, neither am I on very friendly terms with the Bible God; but if there can be found a better deﬁnition than Woman for the Garden of Eden, let us have it. To me nothing can be more plain and l31'l1'°11fl11- SAMUEL A. DUNWELL. CHORUS of ladies to comely curate who is ascending the ladder ‘'0 hang d6001‘&ti011S-“ Oh, Mr. Sweetlow, do take care! Don’t go up! So dangerousl Do come down! Oh!” B60130‘? (S3T03StiCa11y)—“ Really, Sweetlow, don’t you think you’d better let a married man do that?” debate on a liberal subject, and that too one of vital import V K I N D W O R D S . rnom ours connnsronnnnrs. O. G. ‘Chase, Jamestown, writes: “ Please continue the WEEKLY to me. I cannot do without it. Inclosed ﬁnd sub- scription for a friend. I want everybody to read the paper.” J. T. Haughey, Paola, Kansas, writes: “ Please bear with me a few days longer. I have discontinued all other papers that I may be able to pay for the WEEKLY. Am in the lee- ture ﬁeld doing my humble part in disseminating the same heavenly truths taught in its columns, and have adopted the principles in my life, hence am one of God’s poor. Hea.ven’s smiles bless you as you are blessing humanity.” J. D. C., Hartland, Mich., writes: “Accept assurances of my cordial co-operation in all that the WEEKLY is trying to ac- complish. There has never been a’ thought or sentiment expressed in it too ultra or radical for me to entertain or ad- vocate. The light of day is breaking in the which the world is going to see, feel and know as it has never done before. All honor to the heroes in the cause of reform, especially to the dauntless Victoria, who is thrilling the world with her elo- quent utterances for which coming generations, yes, and many who now live, will re_nder her the praise of their eman- cipated. and redeemed souls.” Mrs. J. P., Illinois, writes: “Please pardon myseeming neg. lect in renewing my subscription. I was absentall summer in attendance upon my mother, eighty—one years old, who is very feeble, and on my return a daughter of mine was sent home by her husband, ruined in body and mind (ignorantly, . perhaps), but, I believe, through his sensualism. These cares and the attendant expenses are my excuses. I prize the WEEKLY very much, and my aged mother takes great inter- est in your Bible explanations. We are both longing for equal rights and woman’s freedom.” Hannah J. S., Ohio, writes: “ Pleaseﬁnd inclosed six dol- lars for two subscriptions to the WEEKLY, which is a power of inspiration that I do not feel able to do without. In the light of its inspiration I can have faith in the dawn of a brighter day for woman, when the true love of justice shall be the load- star of every soul.” Mrs. M. S., M'1ch., writes: “There seems to be a great deal said about your late departure, but I fail to see any diver- gence from your ﬁrst purpose. You have often condemned so- called Christianity, but never the Bible, to my knowledge; and the love that Jesus taught has always been the corner-stone of your free love-principles; and who can read the ‘ Elixir of Life’ you gave to the world a few years ago and not see there laid down the principles of eternal life; so, if there be new that it is not apparent to me.” THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. Editors WeeZcly—I would suggest that our Centennial year of 1876 be made a year of jubilee to all who are in prison for any crime whatever. Let Congress next winter pass a reso- lution enjoining the President, in conjunction with the "Governors of all the States, in ,a royal proclamation giving pardon to all in prison, and setting all free on the morning of the 4th of July, 1876, and thus do something worthy our great centennial year. ’ Yours, for humanity, J. B. CAMPBELL. “SHOOT THE MAN.” I Yesterday evening a small man with nervous look called at the Central Station, and after some hesitation remarked: “I vhants to know if somebody can shoot me? ” “ What do you mean! ” inquired the surprised captain. “ I ghant sphokes goot English; but I don't some dings around here like,” was the reply. “ If I can help you I will; go ahead with your story,” said the sergeant.” “ Vhell, one day vhen I goes up Shefferson avenue mit my vife Susan, a poy on der gorner yells out: ‘ Shoot dot man! ’ I drembles -all over, and Susan vas shust as white as milk.” “And did anybody shoot at you?” “Neine. I see no gun; der poy had no pistol. Nix fustay about dis peesness.’’ " The sergeant grinned a little, and the visitor continued: “ Last veek, vhen I vas Bates street up mit my dog, a man shtands on der gorner gries out: ‘ Oh! ho! shoot der dog!’ lice shoot my leedle dog vhen der ish no law? ” “ I guess he was joking.” “ Can a man shokes on such dings as dose? Ich denke‘ nicht. Ven I vas by Glinton street last Zunday mit a horse and buggy, somebody at my vife says: ‘ Shoot dot fat voman mit der dollar shtore shewelry on!’ I see no shokes about dot. I likes to know why mein vife shall be in der shtreets of Detroit like some dogs killed?” “ This ‘ shoot’ is used by the boys as a slang expression,” explained the sergeant. “They don’t mean to ———” “And vhen I shtands by mein door last night,” interrupted the visitor, “ some leavers go py on der odder side, und one feller yelt out like dunder: ‘ S-h-o—-o-t dot leetle Dutchman mit a pipe!" I shumped avay pooty quick, and der loavers go like dis; ‘Oh? haw! haw!’ Vhas dose dings right? Vhas dere some shokes in dot? ” . “They meant it for a joke, and if you will let me ex-—” “ I vhant no shokes on dose dings,” interrupted the man. “ But let me-—” “ Ish dere any aldermans here? ” inquired the visitor. “ No, no aldermen.” ' “ Vhell, I goes to the zity hall and puts dose dings mit der gouncil. If somebody shall shoot me, and shoot mein vife, and shoot mein dog, I shall zee some law right avay of quick.” / The sergeant sought to explain, but it was no use. The man walked out doors and replied: “ If somebody vhants to shoot me I shall ﬁnd queak owut about it.”—Detroit Free Press. » a departure, you have glided so quietly from the old into the - Vas dat right? Ish dere some more dog license? Can der bo- ’ 4 W I S Woonnuni. ta CLAFLIN’S_ WEEKLY Oct. 30, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE In ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - $3 00 One copy for six months, - - -. - . ‘ . 1 50 Single copies, - - . . . . 10 ' GLUE RATES. Five copies for one year, - -. A . . - $12 00 Ten copies for one year. . . . . . 22 00 ‘Twenty copies (or more same rate), .1 - - . 40 00 Six months. - - - - - - One-half these rates. v ‘ FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION man 3:: runs: ro run manor or run mnnroan mews oomramr, LON DON, ENGLAND. 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That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.——-Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pare, then yoeaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy «and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- 39ocrisy.—-James, iii., 17. ' And these signs shall follow them: In my name shall they cast out devils,‘ they shall take up serpents ,' and if they drink any deadly thingit shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall reeooer.——Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, ocr. 30, 1875. VWE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid- Our ~ friends should lose noopportunity 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. ———~————<»<>-oo-——-——-- THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. ‘For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.-—-Sr. Marrnnw. ii., 2. if . 1}‘- This ﬁgurefis allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants 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 trnth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. We adopt this7diagram as emblematic of our future work and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth which we hope and trust may be shortly realized. NATURAL VS. ENACTED LAW. Then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him: Why walk not thy disciples according to the traditions oft? e elders? Jesus answered: Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites: This peop’e houoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the com- mandments of men. For laying aside thejcommandment of God, ye hold the t.radition of men. Full well ye reject -the commandment of God. that ye may keep your own tradition. Making the word of God of none effect through your own tradition which ye have delivered.—,Sr. MARK, vii., 6, 6, 7. 8 and 13. One of the most heinous chrages that the so-called con- servators of public morals and of “ social order” lay to our Charge is, that we are attempting to bring the holy law of marriage into disrespect and to have it abolished, and there- by make every woman a prostitute and every man a liber- tine. Those who make this charge are mostly professing christians who assert that they believe in the divine inspira- tion of the Bible, and yet in that book it is written in the plaincst of terms that God’s laws and commandments, in- cluding his holy marriage laws, are written, not on parch- inents,,but in the minds and on the hearts of men and women. Now, what if the law which God has put in the heart and I mind come in conﬂict with that which is made "on parch- ment? Which is the higher authority? We will leave this for these same christians to settle, because they cannot de- cide save in one way ; for to decide in any otheris to decide against the Bible. ‘ We have said frequently that we have no particular ﬁght with legal marriage, and no special objection to it (except that it is useless) only where it conflicts with the higher marriage that God has made, which man cannot put assunder by all the laws that he can write, though he may attempt to, and seemingly succeed, when he compels two to live together who im their hearts and minds are married by God’s law elsewhere. There is no escaping the inevitable conclusion, that those who do live together and consort, who by the higher law, are married elsewhere, are, in the sight of God’s holyhlaw of marriage, living in adultery. Every act of commerce -that obtains between people who do not love, or who love elsewhere, is an act of prostitution. In the eyes of God and nature, legal virtue, unless it com- port with the natural kind, is vice. The law cannot make a thing virtuous and right that is not so in and of itself without respect to the law; so neither can a law make any- thing bad and wrong that, in and of itself without respect to the law, is not bad and wrong. These are self-evident truths, and need no argumentsto sustain them. For our part we know of a no worse deplorable condition into which Women, especially, can fall, than to be legally enslaved to men for whom they have no love, and while living in this shameless state, to pour out their venom on the poor, despised sister who, probably through some heart- felt act, was cast on the World—a result of ignorance of the relations and functions of sex—and who being shut out of society and refused all honorable ways of making a liveli- hood, is forced to the street or to the brothel. .We do not hesitate to speak strongly about allrsuch women. We do not believe it possible for a pure-hearted and noble-minded woman, or man either, to speak despitefully about a sister who is so unfortunate as the one we have mentioned. When a noble and pure woman sees one of her sisters thus unfortunately situated, her heart goes out in kindness and pity, and with a desire to alleviate her situation. Every woman should remember that none of her sisters live in the street or the brothel from choice, while thou- sands live in unholy legal marriage, equally as impurely, of their own free Will. Indeed, it is common to hear young Women talking about the settlements that they must have, - with perfect shamelessness. They openly avow their will- ingness to sell the use of their bodies to a man for acertain price. Can there be anything more shameless than that? Can there be anything less virtuous than that? Can there be any lesser degree of prostitution than that? And yet it is ' paraded on the house-tops, and proclaimed in church, and sanctioned by the prayer of the “Man of God.” 0 Virtue! where hast thou hid thyself that the fair daughters of earth have no more knowledge of thee than this! The use of law is entirely perverted when it seeks to set aside any of the natural instincts and sentiments. It would be just as proper to legislate upon any of the other passions and sentiments of man as upon his social love nature. Love is not dependent upon the will of the subject even. If he who loves or is indifferent have no control ever love, how shall it be proven that it can be controlled by law? The law might as well say that a man shall never become hungry or thirsty, as to say that he shall not love, save in a single way. Another fact should not be lost sight of. It is natural for men and women to love somebody. If the one to whom they are bound by law be not the one, then it is almost cer- tain that there is another elsewhere who is the object. And love is a master that will not endure isolation. ‘ It will make itself known in some Way. So let not those men, or women either, who know they have a legal partner only, console themselves with the idea that, “If he or she do not love me, he or she does not love anybody else.” The old love sel- dom is put off until the new is already duly installed. This is in accordance with nature, and in and of itself is right and natural. B , 4 . , . Men and women who are bound to a living death and made to cling to it by a relentless public opinion are, by the force of their own souls, driven elsewhere to seek sympathy for their hearts, even more potently than by the power of their physical instincts. The compulsory force of $110? 1%W has resulted in engendering a most abominable mass of mor- biﬁc lust in the race-—a lust that neither knows nor cares upon what it expends itself so that it is satiated, and which is fast uprooting all the instincts that draw the sexes together, save the one of which it is the perversion. The attempt to supplant the law of God written in the mind and on the heart is responsible for all this disease-engendering lust that is sweeping over the race, and preparing it to be an easy prey for some fell destroyer that will come upon it like a thief in the night. ‘ » People descant upon purity and virtue without the least conception of their ﬁrst principles. To the pure all things are pure; to the vicigus and depraved even the purest things are vile. It is this class of people who cannot conceive that there can be any purity at all where there is freedom to be impure. It is this class who imagine that were social freedom the rule of intercourse between the sexes the world would be turned into a vast brothel. They have no concep- tion of such a thing as purity for purity’s sake. They aﬁect to believe that if it were not for the law all would be de- bauched. Of these Jesus well said: "‘ In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men,” and thereby V“ making the word of God of none effect.” I A‘ purity that is worth the ‘having will be pure whether there be a law or not; but a purity that is only as deep as the law, is in vain before God. I ' It is considered generally that they who restrict their re- lations to the limits of the law, let those that obtain within those limits be whatever they may, are virtuous, are pure; and that those who have no legal license must contract no relations at all in order to keep unspotted from the World. A person who is virtuous simply because the law exerts its force upon him, cannot be trusted in any condition in which, for any reason, the force of the law might be stipend- ed temporarily. It is a fact of common observation that children who are under the severest and strictest discipline at home, are the wildest and most reckless when relieved from those restraints. The children of hard-shell religion- ists are examples of the effect of severe restraints, while the very best children are those who are trusted with the largest degree of freedom and placed upon their honor to do the best things. This principle is to be seen in all the varied af- fairs of life. The most hardened criminal, if trusted, will prove honest and faithful. Appeal to the sense of honor and it will always respond. But it may be suggested that St. Paul said that the law is our schoolmaster to bring us to the better condition. We do not dispute that law has been useful, or that it is still useful in this sense; for if there are people still so low in the scale of manhood and womanhood as to require the law to keep them from doing evil,- then they are the ones for whom the law may properly be a schoolmaster. But those who have graduated from the school no longer need a master. Shall such as they be com- pelled to have one because all have not yet graduated ?' Shall every body be forced to remain at school until every body has been fully prepared to leave it? Let those who re- quire a schoolmaster have one, but let those who have ac- quired the principles of the doctrine of Christ go forward unto perfection, as Paul says, (Hebrews, vi., 1-2). Virtue and purity are, in their common acceptance, re- stricted to the very narrow limit of the sexual relations. And as we have said, those who are legally correct. are possessed of these attributes. But what does Jesus teach upon this point. It is always well to bring these time and lip-serving Christians to their professed master for condemnation, and in«no sense are they more fearfully rebuked than upon this point. Jesus said: He that looketh on awoman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Judged by this rule, who are not adulterers ? Why, clearly, those only who never look upon a woman to lust after her. But does this aim to break up all the relations between the sexes? By no means. It aims simply at all re. lations that are not strictly in accordance with nature. And now what ones are in accord with nature? This is easily answered. Only those are in accord with nature that are brought about in strict accordance _with the law of sexual attraction, the central and governing power of which has been put by God in the female. It is hers to rule in this do- main; it is hers to determine everything that is involved in _ this question ; nay, more radically deep than this even :—it is hers to generate, to rouse. the instinct into action. Here we arrive at the basic law of commerce, the law of natural attraction, calling for its natural association. Judged by this law only those are not adulterers in whom this in- stinct is never aroused, save when it is appealed to by its na- tural counterpart, and then not to answer its own demands but to meet the demands of its counterpart. We know that this is a terrible truth to tell the world, but it is one that it needs to be told in tones that shall reverberate in the ear of man, until he shall learn that, in this domain, at least, he should be the servant and not the lord. Suppose for one moment that this condition of things were in existence? Is it not palpable ‘that there would be something worthy to be called purity and virtue? Were thisso it would not matter into what relations the sexes might be thrown, they might live together, eat together sleep together and never a lustful thought enter their minds or an unnatural passion ﬁre their bodies. This is natural virtue and natural purity, and only they are wholly pure and virtuous who can endure this test. This is the test by which we would. have every one try himself; this is the purity to which we would have the {face attain; this is the i i l 1 ‘I: >5 A«., L... Oct. 30, 1875. woonnutr. a ()ilAéF'LIN’S wnnxtv. . v 5 virtue by which we would have the world govern its social relations. It was this condition in which the allegorical picture of the creation places man. Adam and Eve were naked and were not ashamed. They were not ashamed be- cause they had done nothing of which to be ashamed. But when they had eaten the forbidden fruit of the tree that stood in the midst of the garden; when they had done What was wrong and thereby begun to be able to contrast good and evil, then they became ashamed and covered those parts with which they had committed the wrong. It was not be- cause the parts themselves ought to have engendered shame, but because their eyes could not endure their sight without _ engendering lust within them. And so it has been till now; - and so it is now.’ Certain parts of the body are covered be- cause the thoughts of the people are so vulgar and degrading about them that it is necessary that they be shut out from sight. This may be called strong doctrine, but if it be it is nevertheless true. It is true in a common sense view, and it is true in the Christian sense of “-To the pure all things are pure.” Hence the very means by which the Christians seek to show their purity are their severest condemnation, since to them all things are not pure. The road to purity lies by the way of freedom. People must have the oppor- tunity to be pure because they want to be, and not because the law commands that they must be. When this condition is attained then the world will be ready for an immense stride toward gaining eternal life. .4; V?’ THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES. We have frequently said in these columns, and elsewhere, that an opposition to marriage that is legal merely is not so much on account of the evil eﬁects upon the parties in- volved directly, as upon those who are involved indirectly. So far as the people themselves are concerned we acknowl- edge their right to marry whom they please and to live to- gether even if they pull hair and scratch eyes one-half of the time. We admit the right of women to marry men whom they despise, because they have money, and to pros- titute their bodies by commerce in such marriage. We ad- mit that they have a right to live year after year in such un- holy conditions, a.nd to become diseased through and through by the enforced lust 0" which they are made the object. Aye, further, we admit that it is woman’s right to permit herself to be debauched by unholy commerce until its results mark her as a victim for the grave. No one can judge of another’s conscience by his or her own. Every one has a right to judge by her or his own conscience. We say we admit the right of women to be made slaves to lust by the law of marriage; but we have a right in the name of humanity to endeavor to show them the terrible results that follow such unholy relations. We know that almost the whole of the misery, vice and crime by which the race is cursed isqto be attributed directly to this enslavement of women in legal marriage. We know that parents who do not live together because they love each other well enough to live together without the binding force of law, are not ﬁt people to have children. ' People have a right to suffer themselves if they choose, but they have no right to entail misery upon unborn generations by raising children in their unhallowed lust. If mothers would but stop and think for a moment of the terrible responsibility of maternity, it seems to us that it would rouse them to throw off the slavery of undesired child-bearing. We are too well aware of the deep and dark ignorance that prevails about the laws of transmission and heredity, and of the still deeper darkness that hangs over the more subtler affinities of the soul. The few who have some knowledge of these things either have not the courage to make it public or else are in some Way interested in having it kept- secret. And so the world goes on spreading, misery and wretchedness, and all the . time wondering why it is that there is so much iniquity and suffering in the race. If a farmer should not only permit the daisies to grow upon his lands and their seed ripen and spread naturally, but should take pains tospread it over his whole area of land he would soon expect to ruin his farm. But in the matter of children, parents go on sowing the seeds of discontent and corruption, and then expect that the re- sult will be perfect and healthy children, and wonder why God curses them withthe opposite sort. It seems to us that it is getting to be time for these great truths to be heralded- broa.d.cast over the land; it seems to us that it is time that the pulpit and the press should make their respective au- diences cower before their terrible denunciation of this un- holy state of things. 4 rible condition, and hundreds'are asking for a way out of their misery. We have spoken of this at this time because recently we have received letter after letter from all direc- tions, portraying in most vivid colors the sufferings that they are made to bear as the victims of unholy commerce. Some plead piteously for escape, but see no avenue by which to make the attempt; others desire to know how much longer it will be until some great convulsion may be ex- pected to come and in its desolation set them free. The brutal revelations that some of their letters give are enough to make the stones cry out in protest against a system under which such things are possible to be enacted. Talk of the horrors of , negro slavery! we assure our readers that the sufferings that the poor blacks were compelled to undergo were as nothing, either in extent or in severity, compared with what the white slaves in legal marriage suﬁer continu- ally. , they have not the courage to do this, then there is nothing Women are beginning to feel the ter- And yet these distressed women, or many of them, think it would be wrong for them to sever the relations that doom them to this bondage. They imagine because their minister has told them so, that marriage is holy and must not be broken. Then there is another classgwho have not the moral courage to do What they know they ought to do. They know to separate from their brutal husbands would be not only to incur the wrath of Christian society, but also to throw them upon their own resources for support. Indeed as the prospect, terrible to contemplate, but it is one that ought to be incurred. If any one love not the truth better even than his or her own life they are none of “my disci- ples.” This is the teaching of the Master, whom these same Christians profess so loudly with their lips. Jesus taught that we must leave father, mother, sister, brother, wife, husband and children for the sake of the truth. So We say to all these suffering inquirers, that without considering or stopping to think what may be the result, it is their chris- tian duty, to say nothing about their duty to themselves, to at once and forever step out from their sexual bondage. Every woman who has any regard for truth, for virtue, for honor, for purity, for personal cleanliness and health should at once declare her freedom sexually, and never permit herself to be approached again for such unhallowed relations as are these of which complaint is made. If that can be done for them. They must remember the words of the poet: V“ Who would be free himself (herself) must strike the blow.” It is in view of this condition of helplessness of woman that it seems almost an impossibility for her to attempt her freedom until some steps are taken for her support when she shall do so. Here is a strong argument for community life. This is woman’s greatest hope. Her reliance upon the individual man must be transferred into reliance on the universal man. Were the industries so organized that wo- man should have her equal place and proﬁt therein, still she would not be an equal, because it is upon her that nature has conferred or imposed, as it may best suit individuals to regard it, fthe function of maternity. Certainly during the gcstative and lactative period no one will pretend to say that woman can be man’s equal in a pecuniarily productive sense; and yet during those periods she is laboring for man more than she is for her own sex. Is it not natural then that woman should be made equal to man during these periods by some just social regulations? 1 We know that as yet we have made the demand for freedom only; that is, have asked woman to declare her freedom and maintain her right to chose when and when not she shall become amother; have asked her to regain her queenship in the domain of sex. But this is not far enough; after freedom there must be justice, and justice’ means a great deal more than has been contemplated, save by the veriest few. It means an equal interest with every other person, man, and woman, to all the products of all other persons; and this means what Jesus taught and his disciples ‘practiced, as it is recorded of them after the resurrection of Jesus: “ That they had all things common.” With these teachings and practices of Jesus and his disci- ples before their eyes, Christians oppose all movements to attain to a like condition, with all their might. Such is the diﬂerence between ancient and modern Christianity. "Woman must demand a return to the primitive kind, and then she can be free indeed. ' 4 A g -my-vwpw CLERICAL CHEEK. _ Under the heading of “Painful Occurrences,” the New York Sun, of October 18, gives an account of the delin- quencies of two Western clergymen, the one being the Rev. Dr. Hanner, Sr., and the other the Rev. J. V. Beekman. The former was adjudged guilty of the crime of immor- ality and suspended for one year by the Tennessee Confer- ence, at Fayetteville, and the latter confessed himself guilty of the crime of intemperance and tendered his resignation to the Christian Church of Marca, 111., of which he was pastor. / These cases would not have been presented, to the notice of our readers had not both these clerical worthies (or unworthies). thought ﬁt to comment themselves upon the positions in which they stood before their respective com- munities. The Rev. Dr. Hanner, Sr., through the mouth of his counsel speaks as follows: A When Bishop Wightman pronounced the sentence Dr. Kelly, counsel for the defendant, said: “ I left Dr. Hanner at his room too much overwhelmed by his emotion to appear in your midst. ‘X’ * ~* “With regard to the folly which he admits in writing the letter, and which has cost him such pangs of agonizing repentance, he desires to say to the younger members of the Conference, ‘ Look upon my agony, behold my stricken old age, and learn to avoid the very appearance of evil.’_” This exhortation is short, but we submit that under the circumstances it would have better if it had been omitted. After being adjudged guilty, silence would have been com- mendable. The Falstaﬁian proceeding of making “ diseases, commodities ” is highly objectionable. But the other self- convicted delinquent, the Rev. J. V. Beekman, takes advan- tage of the opportunity given him for confession and repentance to preach a sermon against the crime of intem- perance that would ﬁll a column of the WEEKLY. This is absolutely monstrous, and a decent respect for propriety mons from malefactors, and feel on reading the above "accounts verymuch like a Weste1'n. traveler, whose dinner was brought him on a very dirty? plate. “Friend,” said he to the waiter, “if you’ll be kind enough to bring melthe dirt on one plate and the meat on another I’ll mix for my- self.” So say we in this instance, and I‘eC0mII1e11d the Clergy to keep their exhortations separate from their delinquencies. ._________.o»o—«-4>——-——-«- THE RICH AND POOXR. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectured on\Friday evening, Oct. 15, on the above subject to a crowded aludience at the weekly meeting of the Liberal Club, at Plympton Hall, New York. The N. Y. Herald says: “ The distinguished lady was introduced to the audience- by Mr. L. Ormsby, ﬁrst Vice-President. Mrs. Stanton looked supremely well. The grand aureole ‘of bright, sil- very hair above her noble forehead was brighter than ever. She has, perhaps, the finest and sweetest face and the most euphonious voice of any woman that has ever appeared on the platform of Woman’s Rights. But she has even more than that. She possesses a clear and active brain, and a heart that ever beats with a warm throb for all human suffering.” * . We are glad to reprint and indorse these well-merited compliments to Mrs. Stanton. In the course of her lecture she anathematized land monopoly and deplored that “ none but the wealthy own land in the heart of civilization, and hence we have vice, ignorance and crime among the poor, who cannot aﬁord tobuy a single square foot of the soil.’ She also very ably defended the position held by Wendell Phillips and Gen. Butler as monetary reformers, and alluded favorably to the plan of progressive taxation advocated by the latter. In continuation the lecturer de- fended strikes and agitations as right and proper, and con- demned “ bloody revolutions as out Of time.” Mrs. StaI1t0I1 concluded her earnest and eloquent‘ address amid prolonged applause. __ THE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis 0. Claflin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will jL\°tl1 engagements in various parts of the country as their regular trip Shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: ‘ The Mystery of the Sealed Book. God, Christ, Devil. The Garden of Eden. The Two Worlds. Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. Christian Communism. , The True and the False Socially. I The Destiny of*the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. _ The ﬁrst seven of these subjects form a regular course, and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery. - Applications for the course, or, for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull speaks in Lafayette, Ind., Oct; 22; Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 23; Richmond, Ind., Oct. 25; Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 27; Toledo, 0., Oct. 28; Sandusky, 0., Oct. 29; Cleveland, 0., Oct. 30. If any change in dates is made it will be announced in the local papers. ‘ ——---=-=-—--¢O¢~o¢>--—--——- ANOTHER ILLEGAL ARREST. John A. Lant, of the Toledo-Sun, is still persecuted. After being released on bail to appear before the U. S. Court the third Monday in October (the 18th), he was again arrested on the 14th, on the ground that he had forfeited his bail in failing to appear before the court on that day to answer an indictment found against him by the Grand Jury in the same case. Mr. Lant insisted that his bail did not expire until the 18th and demanded his release, but was coolly told by the District Attorney that he could remain in the custody of the Marshall until the mistake, if any, could be adjusted. Mr. Lant persisting, the,District Attorney ﬁnally examined the bail bond and told him he was dismissed. This shows the animus of the prosecution-—that it is not justice but malice. . The trial is set for Friday, Oct. 22, before Judge Benedict of the U. S. Court, A _ WOMEN IVNVCOUNCIL. \ In these momentous times, when the grandest issues-—in- dustrial, ﬁnancial, religious and social—-are agitated, it is melancholy to read of the “ dishes_of skimmed milk” pre- sented to the world by the Women’s Congress lately held at Syracuse, New York. Here is its termination, as extracted. from the reports of the N. Y. Herald of Oct. 16, which, after giving the long list of officers for the ensuing year, closes as follows: “Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, of Geneva, presenteda paper, which was read by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, on ‘ Science in the Kitchen.’ She advocated training « schools to teach the culinary art. Mrs. Diehl, of Chicago, read a paper on ‘ Kitchen Chemistry,’ prepared by Mrs. M. -L. Varley,»of Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Livermore read a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Beecher, commending Kindergartens induces us to exelaim, againstgt. We do not admire set» . “ The Congress then adjourned sane die.” and favoring their establishment in every city and village,” ’ I 6 I woonnnrlb & CLAFI,IN’S wnnnnr.‘ Oct. 1 In the absence of the proprietors of the WEEKLY we ..c..... Were she the character that many would represent her to be “ Thou art my cattle; ” when the shepherd gives place to the ‘hardly know how to comment. upon the momentous gubjeetg in their jealous ignorance, even then her teachings should doctor. and the Slleepfolfl (to Sayeheepfolll l5 to Say Shambles) which engrossed that u Con/g/reSS_,, But fortune favors the not be discarded. “Do as they desire you, but not as they to-the school; when there is identity between political hon- brave, and we ﬁnd in the jvj K gm, Of the day on which do,” is an old and oft quoted lesson, and were eifrepy man ancd 6813’ and Sgelavl lgoueety When Erontisri are eﬁ'a)((:)e1dabI;e;vs€r)e7&i)1I1 ' - ~ . ._ . . woman in the land to follow the teachin s o ictoria . Ila Ion all I13 1011, all are So up 6 Ween g 3 the ab0V17{e proceedings took place, a Brahmln prayer, -which Woodhull in the Music Hall, on the two evgenings when she when every man makes a kind of internal Fatherland of his We thm . may be llsed with advantage’ under the Clmum‘ spoke, there would be more purity, more honesty and more OWII Problty, theulluet es day ePPeuI‘S Peace app‘-’e1‘S—¢l3«y by ‘stances’ In the Umted S‘/mleS‘” ‘ I the rising of the sun, peace by the rising of right. Such is “ 0 God. help the ‘women of the land, help our wives, 1113,1115, ' mothers, Slslers allfl, daughters. Father, Thou knowest how miserable ls tllell‘ C//ondition. Intellectually and socially they are in the midsft of darkness and sorrow. Grant that they may lolu We in our pilgrimage to the heavenly land, and happiness in the land. , She is a power, a power that talent and genius always is; the future- and probably guilt under the shade of gold, assumed piety or reprehensible pride, may be a littleltimorous of the truth. .--.—.—— OGDEN, Utah, Sept. 31, 1875. Editors Woodhull [dc Claﬁ15n——Inclosed please ﬁnd P. O. 4; w"V" Share those p,/reoious blessings of knowledge and faith Which Thou art showering upon us in these days. —=————Q‘> MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. , COMMENTS OFTHE PRESS. From the Racine (Wt's.) Journal, Sept. 29. VICTORIA C- WOODHULL IN CHARACTER. EDEN VILLA, CAIRNS ROAD,? NEW WANDSWORTH, LONDON, Sept.,' 1875. I Dear Weekly—’Tis pleasa nt to ﬁnd amongst the strangely inconsistent arrangements of society, at least one institution that approximates so near to that which is right, as to afford us almost unqualiﬁed satisfaction in its working. This much I think may be said of our postal service. By that well- appointed service I have, from week to week, with great reg- order for $3 for renewal of the WEEKLY. I am sorry I cannot get you any new subscribers. I am continually advocating the principles advanced by the WEEKLY, but the effect is as water on a goose’s back, to say nothing of the slander and misrepresentation. I cannot even lend my paper; and if perch ance I do get persons to read an article, they abuse the proprietors instead of discussing the subject. . For myself I am much interested in the reforms Mrs. Woodhull appeared at Belle City Hall on Saturday ularity, the pleasure and proﬁt of your esteemed correspond- and other matter it eenmine, and woum rather go without and Sunday evenings last and was greeted” with respectable once. ' I my dinner than the WEEKLy'; and if prayers were of any mzldiences. Her subject, “ The True and the False Socially,” The WEEKLY for August 8th to hand, the ﬁrst thing that avail I Weum pray that it might not orgy eentinue, but be in- was well handled. Too much that she discoursed of was true caught my eye on opening the paper was “Money.” Well ere-‘med in its eireuletiou and enlarged to its former size; “to the letter, as any cosmopolitan can testify. Though some knowing the importance of the subject, and how confused eontinue 13111 ins grand purpose engross the attention and of her theories may be “ broad gauge,” there are both truth are the general ideas concerning it, and how little it is receive the support of every honest man and woman; till its and poetry in the acts and speeches of Victoria 0. Woodhull. primarily understood, not only in England but also in reforms be established, and humanity in general, and the She portrays vividly woman’s duties, and at the same time. America; not merely in the mind of the workers to whom 11135533 in particular, be lifted to a higher plane; till the mirrors man’s crimes, and places before the thinking mind it is of vital importance. but also among those who ought to hypooricy and swindling operations of Church and State are nature naked. or in such a shape that “ oven the Wayfaring be the leaders and teachers of the poop1e.——I thought I also corrected; the equality of the sexes established; a genera- mou, though 3» fool,” may comprehend it. She may be should like to have my say on the subject with your permis— tion of a higher order born and educated who will have no luughefl at 3115- Tldlouleol by many, but there ls method in her Slou; fol‘ Whlle money llolde Such 3- feeolhatlhl-Z‘ POWeI' oVe1‘ hindrance placed in the way of their progression in the madness» and there may yet some good Como out of Nazoreuh society. drawinsboth old and young into the general scram- grand order of nature; till the intelligence of growing man There are Some Portions of thlﬁ lecture that We ouuhot 611- ble, they in} their intense anxiousness to obtain Q money shall form conditions by which the grand mysteries of the ‘dome, yet Whlle We oollcleuln some We Gommelld Olllle-1' POT“ eamlot Stop to luqulre What it ls 01‘ What it Ought to be. One spirit world shall be revealed by angel friends without the tlohs, and really think that Proﬁt W0l1l‘l haV° rellultell to thing that greatly tends to Confuse the mlllfl 01‘ 11I1deI‘StaI1d- use of ropes and cabinets and the extinguishing of lamps; till many that were not more if they had taken her e0lVi<=e- ing is ttho common practice of calling money. capital. If we angels mingle with men, till the poverty and misery of ignor- F,.,,,,, the Kenosha (W,-3,, U,”-0,, gem 30, 1875 ’ can once set‘? clear idea of What money is We shall the better ance be lost in the great sea of intelligence that must eventu- r.‘li:::‘::?..::r;;:.;i:::. .: ;:::::..::f:.°..2“°.:::.:.ies; a“g.:;:::.;§:;“,:r.:° °* “e“”3‘3.:‘f.“_:h‘3:::“"' . . ._ . . 3 ' 7 " ' evgnfjértffejfijigfﬁg lgg€;::§h1:1111:1$::;1Oiliﬁelﬁﬁiiz Executive of_ the nation to facilitate exchange of products, ' f t ' d th b f h and the False, Socially.” It is due her to say that the lecture iglggiigfymagﬁigzuugﬁf 1112:; tOa,I:;0:§nfu:e:1::;0:I:O:n$e§ ' ht h b ‘ ' h h b . ' . . . . :11? chﬂzvien :1f:£:::rdg;1:_;::1: 3%: S3 c?:tE;‘Zn1:1:§’I::::Iy1:1; with the word capital. Capltal 1s the stock, machlmery or . V . . . . . tools, the product or means to the product of his or her . 1“ We-ii’ ellmleete the ’g“°"a“°" exlstmg WM regard l° labor. Now, that which is to facilitate the exchange of this THE IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION OF SPIRITUALISTS Will ' Efﬁgctfigfbvlizii gggggrr?’ gélilzgregiizljgogftgiz S‘%,‘,,‘,f:“j‘;:1;I‘:::: Said oapital _iS money, it GroVe1”11u1eut0I‘EXol1eque1' note, ‘<1 hold their Seventh Annual Convention at Iowa Falls, Oc- g y _ '_ _ thing not in ltself valuable, but a representative of value. tober 22d 23d and 245511 1875, A11 speakers and mediums of her clamor for astandard of masculine purity as exacting Th G ,7 11 Id . th ,3 _ ’ _ _ ’ , _ _ as any st andard of feminine purity now existing was ap- 6 Ovemmen S 0“ lssue 3 no 6 or notes for Value are cordially 1I1Vlted to attend. As this Wlll beagrand reunlon J v ' ' - ' ' - . . . parent to all The rearing of children she thought should be recelvfad by It. for tile nait 1011' To 1uuStmte'_Supp0se of the Splrltllallsts Of IOW3, and bllslness Of Vltal lmportance ‘ _ ‘ o _ _ _ the railways, with their rolling stock, were to be national- . . - - - undertaken with a better sense of the responsibility and ized the game might be purchased with Exchequer notes will come before this convention, it IS hoped that the K duties to be incurred. The ignorance of physiological laws Whiéh would at Once put afew hundred minions into air: Spiritualists of the State will come out and show to the 4 ‘Which is the cause of the W01‘1d’S miseries ill the Shapes of culation to the immense beneﬁt of the community Without world that we stand on a platform that is indeed free. The idiotic and deformed Progeny, the fellure to dleeohtlhue Pro-= borrowing. 3, douar, and, therefore, Without burdening the friends at the Falls have promised to do all in their power to creation when organisms are uncondltlonedfor bringing forth present and future Workers with interest and debt. Of make it pleasant and agreeable to an who may attend It lmalthy °h11dren’_'thes8 were the them” of the Speaker S course the Government should in all cases acce t its own would be well for those that can to take blankets with them is est condemnation The llttlenesses the narrow con- p ’ ft: roilgd _e S aha enerél short Si htedn'e;S.. of her OWL Sex notes for dues and taxes. Now, for the security of the work— and otherwise provide for emergencies. ‘m° °_“ W _g _ g _ , "_ _ ers, and that conﬁdence should be undisturbed, it is right . EDWIN GATE, President, she denounced with a bitterness which 111 its l1ne could not and proper that the Nam.OnaMSsue_the currency of the nation 1 We“ be surpassed‘ She is 3‘ Woman perhaps 35 years of age’ —should rest on a ﬁt and proper basis. The present accepted by no means unattracmve’ coarse or Sensual 1” her general basis is gold, which is unﬁtted and unsuitable as the standard DR- SLADE, the olulueﬂt Test Medium, may be found at ePP°““e“°"~ and “O” “Pleasing ifntﬁer S2719 °fd"dd“’5:“° glad of value or basis of the currency. A basis ought always to his ofﬁce. No- 18 West Twenty-_ﬁrst street. near Broadway- Elgiﬁffb 0“; of hf; legtuae ions): 0 ciaflse f:1rs:e ailiuggaluiogg be equal to the superstructure placed upon it. Now, it must ' n 0 so ' - fl mgs S 6 un em I. .8 . . ’ . g be Patent to eVe1‘y thlukel‘ that the gold Poeeeesod by any NELLIE L. DAVIS requests engagements West and South in less ungenerous criticism of the ministerial profession and - - . _ - . . . _ _ Ch . ,6. no . 1 th 1 i 5 16“ would have been nation 13 nowhere equal t° slmh 3 functlon ’ ll‘ 15 too hmlted for the autumn and winter. Address her at 235 Washington ra e m ress on . . . . . . . , . , ’ f “S lamfy "1 gslne S’h _ ugdoubtedlv on a Worth mm‘. in its quantity, too variable 1n its value,ltoo easily man1pu- street, Salem, Mags, ff“ mam “Vow 9' e 15 ~ V lated and shipped from country to country to the exclusive sion. _ _ . . , . b"_n‘?ﬁl’ 0? the dealer In Such money‘ There may be “hundred WARREN Cl;-[ASE will lecture 111 Independence, Iowa, Oct. F the State Gazette Green Bay Wes. Oct.9 1875 11 th e 1, d b t-, 1; - mm V ’ ,s I:EC,,.U£,E ’ ' ml long In 6 mun 13,7 0: ay’ 11 °‘m0rr°W It ma}? be to 17; Oskaloosa, Iowa, Oct. 24; Eddyville, Iowa, Oct. 26, 27 V M . VICTORIA WOoDHULL * - the interest of the bullionlsts to transfer much of this gold and 28; Ottumwa, Iowa, Oct. 31. He will receive subscrip- An audience numbering about two hundred and “ﬁfty to other countries, causing an unsettled. state of the market ions for the WEEKLY. gathered at Klaus Hall Friday night to hear Victoria C. and great disturbance in every other lnterest. I therefore _____, ’ ' . t ’ 1' b'tt ld b'f. thtd' : . - -""°°‘““‘“ S “°’°”“’° °“ W31 ‘iii’ '1‘ c.1"£?f.°3.“lf§§ Z."i’.°.‘.i§2I.' iciiﬁ .-£1.53, bZif...?$33 ‘T‘§.’ZZi'.§f at .5; if: .Z2‘llZ§‘.’f“‘° M- 1* ORR’ 11 The U*“°“ Rm °1“P“am~ L°“d°“» ldeas were Well known’ an H61 er _ t 1 Oi, f and éhirdl it ma be dféfted Oubygf th 7 t d 0:11’ S.W.,England, will receive and forward subscriptionsjor the i .« nor the language she used W.” a Surpmsaf 0 a’ arge p Ion 0 . d y’ . . e Colin Ty an t “'5 WEEKLY. He would be _glad to correspond with all friends her hearers. Mrs. Woodhullis an attractive woman, endowed with ‘rawn from circulation. Gold 18 therefore treacherous, of the cause in Great Britﬂaim Those who have friends in with rare gifts of speech and manner, and charms an gold is deceptive, only answerling the money—dealers and England that would be inteI.eBted,are,.equested to give them auollehee and alWa‘73.l1°ld3 the“ °1°.seSt atllentlon‘ uguer 5‘ purpose‘-not lhe Worker S‘ What then have We that his address, or send him theirs. Copies of the WEEKLY can » , shall at all times ‘and circumstances an b th ' ‘t - . . From the Lu‘:rIa.Z(::a;)l:cILI7:, (?c::i)tpn() Oct. 9, 1875. breadth and Stability as a good and sufﬁcizflirbasgs fgfolu: always be had at his place. One copy, one year, 16 shillings money? I answer, without hesitation, the land—either in Thle lady, 110W of Amerloeh and El11'0P‘33l1 fame: lettured the form of tax or rent. The land that ought in no instance in Music Hall on the evenings of Saturday and Sunday last. to be private pyopeﬁy’ in the sense of any other acquired Public opinion is divided as to her merits or demerits, and property, Should be hired of the State, and the rent ﬂowing oe1‘teluPI‘e.lu<ll0e5 WW9 existed l3h1'°“gh°“l‘ the °°‘ml’1'V in 1'9‘ into the National Exchequer therefor, would form the only gard to her. We had our own, and were not afraid to acknowl- tax necessary for the State, and Woum b9 3 good and sufﬁ_ edge them; and yet less afraid to inquire and find Out cient guarantee of the Exchequer note or general currency. whether we were correct or not. If Victoria C. Woodhull with Such a greenback you could not only purchase your l3e(al1d- We l13V9 110 T9330“ now to suppose Otherwise) that railways, but sustain a system of national education that character Which She1'ePl'e5el1t5l191'Self from the 1'°5l71'“-mto bev would at once place you far a head of every nation on earth. we simply admit that she has as bright a mind as to-day exists Sugcess to the American currency, ‘on this continent, and that the cause she espouses has an able Yours, faithfully, advocate in herself. Her audiences, on both eveninge, Were good, Got!‘-Poeed of a number of ladies, notwithstanding an under-current of ignorant inﬂuence that was brought to bear to prevent such 1: BUSINESS EDITORIALS. u_..._:.. ._ , @"Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been eighteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ~., ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- * est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You ‘who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44 _.. ...._~.u.» ’ W. N. ARMFIELD. The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : PEACE—HOW TO SECURE IT. EXCERPT FROM A LETTER OF VICTOR HUG'°’S' The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- an attendance. Her subject the first evening was “ The Peace is not a superposition‘ Peace is a resum Om, no ‘ hull . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . $3 00 True and False, Socially,” and ill treatlﬂg the Subject She more decrees peace than one decrees the dawn. When the ,C011Stltl1tl0llal Equality, by To nie C. Claﬂin. . . . . . . 2 00 ll made a, ﬁerce attack on the unpardouuble lguor-W009 Wlll-°h human conscience feels itself in equilibrium with social The Principles of Social Freedom. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . 25 now prevails in relation to the laws 0'1 life reality; when the splitting up of people has given Way. to the Reformation or Revolution, Which ?.. . . . . . . . . .... . . 25 [Here followed a Seven-0011111111 5-lgeﬂt Of tha two l-9°l7m'eS9 unity of continents; when the trespass called conquest, and The Elixir of Life ; or, Why do We Die ?. . . . . .' . . 25 l the report closing thus]: » the usurpation called royalty have disappeared; when neither The Sea-,.e_C1-OWS of geXua1 S1,“,-ery _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 The lady’s appearance on the stage is plain and modest. an individual nor a nationality is bitten into by a neighbor; Tried as by Fire; or the True and the False Socially. 25 " Her mind is her only ornament. Throwing away the bor- when the poor comprehend the necessity of labor, and when Ethics of Sexual Equa1ity_ _ _ . . _ O ‘ H _ O . ‘ . . . o _ . . _ . . ' . 25 rowed blaze of gold and fashion, eaastlug Baslde the cloak of the rich comprehend the majesty of 1t; when the material The Principles of Finance _ . . . . . . . . . . . . I ' ' ‘ . . . . . . . I . 25 tinsel that so often covers ignorance and illwbegotten pride, part of man is subordinated to the intellectual part; when she assumes to don the mantle of truth. the appetite allows itself to be bridled by reason; when to the In her peroration she, in aﬁecting and eloquent terms, re-= . old leW Zwendre succeeds to the new 13W 00m13?‘6n0lW’»,' When ferred to the persecutions she had already endured, both lmtorhlty l0etWoeh hllhde 1S_l03SeCl 011 the l13»I‘moI_ly betWeeI1 A from the press and the public generally. 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THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST CONTAINING New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing at Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the I History of Sixteen Oriental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biograph}/_of Satan ”.€l7ld “The Bible of Bibles” (cmnpriszng a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence’ in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental lahornecessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-he.-.=.clS—follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like Sure arrows, to the mark. C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the Clergy. Chap. I.—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 the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.-—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods!» Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the SavioI"s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. '7.-Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant Savior. Chap. 8.—'-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.——'I‘itles of the Saviors. Chap.1:1t0.-The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birt . ‘ - Chap. .—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ . F Chap. 13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs -_of Di- vinit . Chap. 13:i.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.-The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. l6.—Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. 17.—The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬂxion. Chap. 18.——Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—-Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. . Clgip. 21.-The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathen ii in. Chapg22.——The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Divine “ VVord ” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very aneiently 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 Origin. Chap. Q8.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-How 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 Lhrist. . - Chap. 31.—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems. _ _ _ Chap. 32,-Three Hundred and Forty-six strikm Analogies between Christand Cl‘lSl‘lna. ~ 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 Absurditiesof the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.——Physio1ogical_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 Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. . . _ Chap. 41.-—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Christ. 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M. 1.00 A M.; “ Jackson_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. 11;. 13.30 “ F “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 - “ Chicago ................ .. 8.00 “ ; 8.45 p in ,Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 5 30 A M 11.50 A M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a in Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.55 P M .. . . Ar Prairie du Chein.. .; . _. .. . . .. r 8.55 p m Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . ., . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A M A_r La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A M’; 7.05 a in fAr St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P M ' Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A M. lAr St. Louis ................. .. 8.15 A M Ar St. Louis .............. .. 8.15 1». M. 311:: Sedalia ..... .......... .. 5.40 1- M Ar Sedalia ................ .. 6.50 .1. M. . .. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ .. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Galveston .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck...” . . . . .. 12.01 P M. .. k, “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ C01t11nbuB..... 6.30 ‘ .. ,f “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. “ Little ROCK . . . . . . .. .. ;Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. 11- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M. “ Omaha....., ....... ... . . . . .. 11.00 P. in. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. ‘. “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. _ “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . , , . _. 12.50 P. M , "l “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ . . ,4 “ San Francisco ............ .. “ San Francisco ....... .. 8.30 “ . .‘Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M- Ar Galesburg ........... .. 4.45 P M. . ;, ‘‘ Quincy ........... ...... .. 11.15 “ “ Qulncey . . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. .45 “- St. Joseph ..... ........ .. 10.00 “ - .. “ St. Joseph_..... ....... .. .10 A. M. .. gr.“ Kansas City ........... 10.40 1-. n. “ Kansas C1t1’- .......... .. 9.25 “ , ;...~ 0 “ Atchison........ . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ p “ Atchison ........ .. .. 11.17 “ ts: Leavenworth. . . . . . .. 12.10 “ —“- ‘° Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. . §j‘_Denve1'_._,.;......f;.’_LL,_;; .... .. 7.00 A. n ,1 “ Denver .......... .. I Eii15I1AIM;c—j—Day:G(}SExpress_froiﬁ Jierseylﬁllaily ,exi:)e t Suﬁgy), an connec in a uspension ri ge W1 man s a ace <Iay in time to take the morning trains from there. 011.20 P. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-10-30_10_22
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-10-30_10_22
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 23 (November 6, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2096
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-11-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: __*k._,_ __ . M... . -,_....-.,._... -_--.. ... _‘_.......__.__.._.,._g,~_..§,..,.__ réisuilcifarcsszFREE 'rr~I0UGrHT2 UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _.__.._¢ BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. _Vol. X.-—No«. 23.-Whole No. 257." NEW YORK, NOV. 6, 1875. PRICE TEN -CENTS. . The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seveuth'augel, the mg/stery of Goal shall be _/im'shecl.—St. John the Divine. , ’ "W/tereof I was made a 9m'm°ster to preach the un- searchable riches of ,0hrz'st,_aml the mg/stery which fromxthe begz'um'72.g;, of the worlcl hath been hid in eoez.-—1>au1. S —-<-¢-————-—-~ “MISTAKEN AFFINITIES ”——A REVIEW. T BY HELEN NASH. One of the hardest things for a woman to bear——a woman who has in some degree learned wisdom and gotten under- standing—is th_e assumption of the ordinary masculine mind concerning “ Woman’s Sphere.” A woman may be supposed to know something of the needs and capacitiesof her sex after...
Show more__*k._,_ __ . M... . -,_....-.,._... -_--.. ... _‘_.......__.__.._.,._g,~_..§,..,.__ réisuilcifarcsszFREE 'rr~I0UGrHT2 UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _.__.._¢ BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. _Vol. X.-—No«. 23.-Whole No. 257." NEW YORK, NOV. 6, 1875. PRICE TEN -CENTS. . The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seveuth'augel, the mg/stery of Goal shall be _/im'shecl.—St. John the Divine. , ’ "W/tereof I was made a 9m'm°ster to preach the un- searchable riches of ,0hrz'st,_aml the mg/stery which fromxthe begz'um'72.g;, of the worlcl hath been hid in eoez.-—1>au1. S —-<-¢-————-—-~ “MISTAKEN AFFINITIES ”——A REVIEW. T BY HELEN NASH. One of the hardest things for a woman to bear——a woman who has in some degree learned wisdom and gotten under- standing—is th_e assumption of the ordinary masculine mind concerning “ Woman’s Sphere.” A woman may be supposed to know something of the needs and capacitiesof her sex after having given to the subject earnest and careful thought and such time as the heedless of her sex devote to a false and fatal adornment (?) of their persons for the delectation of the weak and foolish of the opposite sex; for there are weak and foolish men and boys just’ as prominently predominant as weak and foolish women and girls, and considering the ad- vantages in resource of the male sex over the female ’tis a sad comment on the masculine capacity that such is the fact. There are some few and most rare men who can write and talk about womanhood without offending the instincts and intelligence of those of the sex who do know something of the theme. But they are men who set manhood and Woman- hood side by side, not one sex under the feet of the other with a vain assumption of superiority for themselves and a dogmatic‘ dictum for women; they are men who draw for women no offensive arbitrary lines stamped with the Social Seal, but who rather regard womanhood from its possibilities in justice and in equity, not from the standpoint of miserable effects of miserable causes. A When the ordinary man who dabbles in an ink-stand and pours forth his fulminations in our popular periodicals gets upon his society legs and views the opposite sex with his so- cial eye-glass, womanhood is sure to be judged, but whether wisely, tolerantly and in a spirit of candor and fairness I leave it to women of heart, soul and mind to determine; for such women know well enough that the bombastic egotist, ’ who draws an orbit for the sex to revolve in, knows just nothing at all ofhis theme beyond stale platitudes and an- cient maxims worn thread-bare and exploded—rendered obsolete for the use of brains and common sense. In the N. Y. Times, of Sept. 5. there appeared an article tak- en from the Saturday Review and headed M'tstalcen Ajﬁmties, which title, after a careful perusal of the whole column of solid matter following it, I failed to see the relevancy of. T_o the general reader said article would doubtless appear very learned, quite profound, extremely‘ analytical, of fair and logical proportions; for the tout ensemble of the entire effu- sion wears the peculiar air of condition common to articles of its class‘ gotten up to pass current in “ high-toned ” peri- odicals. ' . " V “Ah! my young ladies, what a showing up of womankind was there!” methinks I hear ‘some commonplace masculine general reader exclaim, with that gusto characteristic of male vanity and satisfaction. “ There’s a man, girls, can tell you just what you look like, just where you are drifting and just what you need to keep you in proper check and trim! Look out how you deport yourselves before him, for he turns you inside out, girls, and reads you like a book 1” Well, Mr. Podsnap, perhaps you can make the “girls ” swallow that, but not awoman who has come toany just con- clusions concerning the needs and capacities of her sex. Women can be just ’ toward men who manifest any sense of justice toward them. It makes no difference how candid and fair in tone a man’s article on women may appear on the surface, if it be ﬁlled with bigotry and prejudice and egotism and masculine assumption in all its undercurrent; if it be based upon false premises and erroneous deduction drawn from social fallacies, the sha should be shown up for what it is worthintrinsically. Men who presume to draw the lines for women from old and disappearing standpoints, unmind- ful of possibilities and unconscious of equity, deserve to be 9‘ well shaken before taken.” Women who think know as well as any._Jenkins who ever scribbled that modern girlhood is a sham and ashame—I say nothing of modern boyhood——and women know, too, what common men persistently ignore,that womanhood, innate, is not responsible for its modern phase; they know the false social system is alone responsible for the vitiated womanhood of to-day; for that “blurring of the lines of demarkation ” so lamented by the writer in the Saturday Review. All thatis decried in girls and women of the present day is but the out-cropping of that ignorance which passes for inno- nence, and which renders womanhood incapable of discern- iment and keeps-it the foot-ball of society, the jest of blase men of the world, the badly managed theme of masculine writers for popular periodicals. The remedy for the evils that drag womanhood under the contemptuous notice of ordinary men does not lie, as all such men suggest, in remanding woman back to a past period of her development, when our “ grand-mothers” were so celebrated and revered. No! it lies in letting into her soul more light, more knowledge; it lies in setting her more ﬁrmly on her womanly feet; in getting her into an equitable self-poise, enabling her at all times, under all circumstances, to com- mand the respectful consideration of men, not because of her weakness and her inferiority, but because of her strength and -equality. i " ” ' ‘ ’ *3 l Women have learned just enoughin these days to prove the axiomatic truth, thata little knowledge is a dangerous thing; they have taken in just that shallow draught that does intoxicate the brain. Wisdom is Liberty, but knowl- edge is not wisdom till we have drunk deep at the Pierian spring. As with a little knowledge, so with a little liberty. Women to-day are just far enough let loose from “ old-fash- ioned ” restraint to mistake liberty for license, ﬂippancy and brazen impudence for knowledge and independence, and to make shallow thinkers and timid people think womanhood is going to destruction; hence the puerile efforts of the gen- eral man to give woman a backset. There are minds so constituted that the dimness which ever enshrouds inﬁnite possibilities, frightens, as the dark does a child, and sets them, shrinking, back into old condi-_ tions. Few are so rarely gifted as to press faithfully on in the dimness that ﬁlls the pathway with dangers unseen. Those faltering souls that look back upon Sodom are legion. Only unfaltering zeal born of truth preserves the faithful. Those women and girls who are the most conspicuous ex- amples of the strictures of the_modern Jenkins, are not ex- amples of what we may expect if womanhood is emancipated from its social lies and forms, and free scope given to all its powers and possibilities. Neither are the possibilities of manhood thoroughly tested until the full ‘capacity of womanhood is developed. The ig- norance that is imposed upon woman for innocence, the re- straints that hem her in and hedge her about, are a much greater drawback to womanhood than men stop in their headlong career to) estimate. The establishment of equity between man and woman, the blotting out of all arbitrary “lines of demarkation,” can alone bring them into harmo- nious relation and recognition, can alone correct the false liberties of men that lead to license, the fatal restraints of women that result in incapacity. The rare type of womanhood that has in some degree got into self-poise is not the type complained of in the article in question. She who represents the rare type is never forward, bold nor offensive; it will not take the most obtuse man long to learn her status, for she soon takes the measure of him; and very soon the common man begins to comprehend where he stands with that woman, and he gets out of her way perhaps with a shot in the back. Such a woman does not fear men; not because she has not got sense enough to know that “men are mighty onsartain,” but because she never doubts her capacity to “paddle her own canoe ;” and she never fails to impress an intrusive and obtrusive masculine with that fact. There are men, de- spite the “great discernment” of the sex, who, nevertheless, sometimes fail to trace the “lines of demarkation” when those lines are not at all “blurred,” on the principle that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. To sum up the entire matter for the beneﬁt of all assuming and superior lords of creation: modern girls are ‘quite good enough for modern boys,.and modern womanhood is not in any immediate danger of contaminating modern man- hood which cuts a sorry ﬁgure when it -presents its claim .2‘ to take into its doubtful bosom a girl or a woman who has not had the “bloom rubbed off before the fruit was ripe.” My dear sir, where would you go for your certiﬁcate if women were as particular about the bloom on the male apple? That little matter of the “ bloom on the fruit” is a fruitful source of many mistakes. Men as well as women are such wretched victims of social fallacies that that ignorance which is the greenness of the fruit, is gobbled without question; and men marvel not when the core of the unripe apple sticks in" their throats. Gentlemen, learn wisdom and get understand- 'ing, so that in your frantic eﬂorts after self-gratiﬁcation you will at least cease clubbing trees where the apples are green. All these arbitrary “lines of demarkation,” allthis assump- tion of men over women but lead to perplexities and inhar- monies, while they rob both sexes of their equitable birth-‘ right, cramp manly and womanly capacity, resulting in all the ills that ﬂesh is heir to. One sex must complement and , counterpart the other in equity which is the divine justice of wisdom and understanding. Men are equally sufferers with women while foolish and fa- tal. customs warp boyhood and girlhood into the abortive manhood and womanhood of the present “ highly civilized and reﬁned era.” The true balance is in a, jeopardized state. Only the light of knowledge guided by wisdom and under- standing, the equitable and eternal male and female princi- ple, can put men and women into self-poise and, conse- quently, into harmony with themselves first, when, as a nat- ural result, harmony with each other must follow. ANNIHILATION. There are four things in the universe each of which is of it self, in its order, inﬁnite in extent and inﬁnite in duration, none of which can exist without all the others; indeed, three cannot exist without the other one as you will‘ see by analysing each and all. These four things are, viz.,sMatter, Time, Space and Intelligence. “ i butes which in turn are each inﬁnite in extent and in dura- tion. To intelligence belongs life, or the attribute life princi- ple. At this point intelligence, as developed through the hu- man organism, takes note and makes record thereof. Thus we ﬁnd that life produces motion, motion produces change, change producesfprogress”,progress produces humanity. Hu - manity is the plane upon which westand to comprehend and apply the forces in nature, which nature embraces all these four things or principles; and it therefore follows that he who comprehends and applies all the forces in nature, in harmony with each and all, is master of the situation, thereby con- quering the last enemy to the human race, which is bodily death. * i e To arrive at this completion orperfection an inﬁnite stage of progression must have been passed, following in the order of evolution from the lowest to the highest; the smaller and weaker giving place to the greater and stronger as well as passing into new forms out of _ the former, which was less reﬁned or advanced. Thus we see the mastodon, with all the animals of the carbon- iferous period, are to-day extinct. Yet they were and are the basis of our present animal as well as our human exhibit. The inferior gives place to the superior, and in its particular identity, or individuality, becomes extinct or annihilated. Thus the lower animals, not having suﬂicient of- the eternal forces in nature embodied in their present formation, do not perpetuate themselves after death only as they are assisted by the order of man, which is above them, and whq in his individuality possesses so much of the eternal essence, or soul of the whole, as to retain or attract some of théelements which preserve or obtain a partial, it not full existence after death. Thus, such higher order of humans may, from time to time, aid the lower animals to recover a consciousness on the other side of death, but, probably, not to remember to any great extent ;the events of. this earth life; less, doubtless, than what they seem to remember of the yesterday of this life while passing through it. ~ “ The phosphate of the bones of animals,” says Prof. Mapes, “is a. good fertilizer and food for plants, but the p‘h’6s- lphate of a stone is comparatively worthless as a fertilizer, al- though the chemist can ﬁnd no differencein -the phosphates, which shows that the element in the -stone had not passed through the superior or higher order sufficiently to become -endowed with the power to impart food to the higher, when this lower is reduced to its elemental condition; and that To each of these things or principles are connected attri- ‘ :2 ~ if woonnntr. s OI.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. Nov‘. 6, 1875. elemental property found in the stone and the animal alike becomes as it passes through and upward into the higher possessed with an endowment not found in the lower, but peculiar to the higher, which higher endowment of property cannot be recognized or made« cognizant to the lower order. Thus man, in" his present and spir- itual condition of endowment, makes a complete link, connecting the animal and the human- together, both here and on the other side of death; but that link does not prove the complete immortalization of the human any more than it proves the completed immortalizati.on of the animal or stone, in the sense of identy or individuality; and as a large per cent. of the human is as low in the attributes of justice and harmonization, as an individual exhibit, as are manyof the animals, therefore, preserving the relative position of the a link or chain in the progress of the manifestations of, matter, the great body of the human race are, relatively, in the scale where the higher animals are, and have as little power to perpetuate themselves on the other side as the ani- ' mals have; and as the lower is in the order of development absorbed or utilized for the higher, it follows that all the human race, which have not sufﬁcient of the eternal essence of rimmortal life within them, will become food for the higher, and thus fulﬁll the Scripture, which says that “ to him that hath shall be given, and to him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Indeed. absorption is taking place on this side of the grave to a manifest degree; and as that absorption becomes com- plete, the individual loses his or her identity. N ow. in these latter days, when the great battle of Gog and Magog is raging, and the wheat is being separated. from the chaﬂ’, and the sheep from the goats, the roof is being taken from the top of the house, and all our conditions are being exposed, those of uswho cannot stand the reﬁning ﬁre andexposure to the blaze and ﬂame of truth,must necessarily be destroyed both here and on the other side, and those of us who understand and apply the forces of nature in harmony with the highest reﬁned condition of our planet will survive, and those of us who cannot will be as effectually burned up and annihilated as the consumption of matter by amaterial ﬁre. This last blaze of light and truth, which is coming now to the earth, Will change our material bodies, and those of us who can stand the change will become immortal here and never taste of death; while the spirits on the other side, who can pass through the same ﬁre, will be our partners on this side, clothed with the garments of new and immortal life. This is the law of evolution, not only of matter, but of mind through matter. No matter is lost; it only changes; so no intelligence is lost: but the manifestations and forms of mat- ‘G1’ are constantly changing, putting on higher forms, and as ligence makes its manifestations through matter, it fol‘ lows that when the instrument is changed, the manifestations of inteltigence change to correspond with the instrument; and although you can see the connecting link between the higher-instrument and the former lower ._instrument, yet the lower instrument. is deceased and has given place to the higher. So with intelligence, organized into identity through the instrument, it, the lower ,manifestation of intelligence, deceases and gives place to the higher. So with the intelli- gence manifest through the human; it ceases unless we can retain it in the old instrument in passing through this trial of reﬁnement, which reﬁnement destroys the old instrument or body, but out of which springs a new and more perfected body that puts forth more perfect exhibits of intelligence- which intelligence is as much higher than the former intelli- gence, as is the new reﬁned body or instrument higher than the old body. MADOX, of Maine. Aug., 1875. [Written for Woodhull 8.7 Claﬂin’s Weekly] THE SOUL AND LOVE. " LOVE. “Such a world 1 Such aworld !” What’s a-wrong, sweet dreamer, now ? Are the days not new delights ? Do not the stars shine out 0’ nights As of old, as of old, Just to light up azure eyes, , Just -to tint the purple dyes . Of your glossy braids ? * Little feet go softly by, Little hands weave mystery With the cunning of caprice. Gold braids and beads of jet Flush the cheek of,Willamette, In the soft threads deftly woven Of the love no love hath spoken, Thoughts in weaving by the score, Love’s ditty sighing—nothing more 2 $0ULa Now the heart’s grown sad with loving, _ ’Tis a gladness oftvdisproving Happiness once inly felt: Restless heart, and eyes that melt To tears, which sorrow oft discloses. Surely love is heavy-freighted, When two twin-hearts overweighted Rush to feast their ﬁll on roses. Time strews thorns beneath their feet. Dear heart—say, may soul thee greet, Else, all will waste to nothingness ? I’ll tear the Vail aside, sweetheart, And enter in. I’ll bear a part , ofjoy, or grief, ortender11ess,»too great To live on ﬂesh, or wear a robe of state. ‘Twill perish so, in hands so warm With life-blood, in whose holy charm The purest kindling of the spirit’s glow Fades out, and wastes, like melting snow. Nay, nay; come back and drink the Waters, Scarce tasted by the sons and daughters, A Of thexrich vine land’S g10Wi11g Vintage- Sweeter yet your heart shall be, Sweet—heart’s divines ecstacy; In the soul’s empyrean pleasures // You shall surely ﬁnd your treasures—‘ Limbs so lithe, and bosom, hot with pressing. Turbulent, sets all aglow with love’s caressing, Lighting azure eyes made only for the smiles Of angels, into all the tempter’s wanton wiles. I’ll spare thee crushing weight in coming years, And save thee many sighs and many tears, if, but lhy snow--White Vail is torn aside, And I am called to stay forever at thy side; Bidden to glorify the face of coming bride With love that steeps the heart in bliss, Revelliug in the nectar of a kiss. LOVE. « Not yet ! Oh soul 1 Not yet I ".i‘would fade the glow of cheeks, and leave the eyes a-wet With sorrow for all losses, When love shall meet with crosses Which soul begets to ﬂesh, and breaks in twain The golden meshes of the lustrous chain. Thoul’t stay away till love grows Weary ‘ Of the dance, revel, a11d the touch of ﬂesh, And. days that ﬂit like golden mesh Wove into shadows. Life is but a shade, And the tired soul must ﬁnd it dark and dreary And grow despondent-ere its peace is made. Nay, nay, I will abide as now awhile, And drink the sweetness of thy joyful smile That ﬂits like April cloudlets overhead. The soul must wait—and wait—till love is dead. SOUL. Must wait ? Oh, wherefore wait to let love die ? When in the souls crypt, all deep-treasured, lie The glories of its coming state; The dawn of brighter morning, all elate With breath of an immortal life, its own, Yea, all its own, if Lcvc stands waiting to atone? Wherefore die ‘3 The passion’s waking, Glowing kiss, The tender pressure of the body’s bliss, The heaving bosom, and the breaking Of the fetters at love’s touch; The Soul is not dismayed—if loving much. It ﬁnds in love its life, and gives its life to love, Commingling both. Nectar distilled above The primrose cup, whose sparkling crimson eyes Send upward-glancing odors to the skies. Sweet-heart, let love be free; °’l'.will whiter be for every ccstacy And thrill of passion’s wild control, If over all stands guerdon of the soul: Palm-crowned, it meets its God in me, The Soul and Love attuned in sympathy. CHARLOTTE BARBER. ll/IARRIAGE AS IT IS. - BY WARREN CHASE. L, In a wide and long experience of travel and close observa- tion, with critical examination of this important subject, We have found a great variety of conditions with but few perfect harmonics in the marital relations of life. Although often accused of separating families we have never participated in producing a single separation in our long experience in the social controversy. Where we have found a complete separ- ation morally, religiously, socially and sexually, we have often assisted——-sometimes one and sometimes both parties—- in securing a legal separation, feeling assured that there could be no union and no happiness for either in continuing the bondage. Where there have been fractional inharmonies such as could be overcome we have often assisted in the removal of them and the reconciliation of the parties. But we have so many and such a variety of totally irreconcilable inharmonies in married life that we long since became fully satisﬁed that our system of marriage was radically wrong and working more evil than good, and sought and found what we sincerely believe is a remedy which would preserve all the good in it and avoid most, if not all, the evil conse- quences of sexual mating as it is now carried on under the law. In public our system has never, to our knowledge, been at- tacked, and in private hundreds of persons of both sexes have given their approval of it, and yet neither the press nor pulpit nor the rostrum has taken it up to defend it. It is the written and recorded civil contract of the parties with the entire removal of all marriage and divorce laws, leaving the parties under the general law of partnership in civil con- tracts, where both parents and children can be far better pro- tected and provided for than they are by our present com- plicated system of family relations that involves most of our large estates in expensive lawsuits at the death of the male owner or partner. But’ at this time we take up the pen to describe one kind of domestic life in which we ﬁnd a great many living, or trying to live. A man of strong physical, men- tal and moral qualities, ardent and highly magnetic tempera- ment, positive and passional, but honest and conscientious, and striving to be what he calls virtuous, pure and devoted, ﬁnds, as such men seek and are almost sure to ﬁnd, a dell- cate, sensitive, conﬁding, undevelopcd,childlike, loving, nega- tive and magnetically susceptible woman, much younger than himself very often, or may not be. Of course such a Woman is at once attracted and almost wholly controlled by such a mind, and begins to admire, to love, to almost wor- ship the ardent and loving, man, andtrusts in him with the conﬁdence of a child in its mother. Then comes the marriage, or as soon as all legal obstacles are removed-—-for it often re- quires a divorce ﬁrst. She is now his property by law and reli- gion and the closer union begins its unequal work which soon prgves the entire destruction of the sexual passion in the wife, even before it is really and naturally developed, and she becomes as sexually dead as a child in its 1hother’s arms. What is to be done ? He loves her and she loves him, but by his ignorance and inability, or indisposition to govern his passions he has destroyed hers and she is no sexual compan- ion ‘for him, and he is not to her the loving husband she sought or thought she was marrying. VVe ﬁnd thousands of families living thus, trying to deceive the public and their friends and striving in vain to adapt themseiyeg to each other ; and thus i.n misery they will live till the wife dies to make‘ way for another, or till the husband runs away, socially or sexu- ally, and gets a divorce, and she, sickened and heart-broken, decides that all sexual life is misery and all social harmony a myth.‘ Children are often born in these relations, and if strong enough to live till they can draw life from the outer world, grow up with the passions unnatural in one or the other extreme of development. They are usually the objects of intense love in the mother, for as she must lose the love she had for the father it is doubled for the child. Her‘ body is a living, if not a daily, sacriﬁce, and her life one of penance and devotion to a system that has become a Moloch on which are sacriﬁed in our country thousands of victims annually, and those‘ among our ﬁnest and -best specimens of female purity, beauty and love. Chattel slavery bore no comparison in enormity to our marriage slavery and the sacriﬁces it re- quires of the good and pure. But it is Holy, and it is sacri- ligious to touch it! GEMS FROM FOURIER. SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE. RELATIONS on THE SExEs” CONTINUED. CORRESPONDENCES—GROUPS AND ELEMENTS. Major Group. Friendship—uni-sexual affection, the cor- responding element of which is, Earth. Ambition-——corporative affection, the corresponding element being, Air. Minor Group. Love——bi-sexual affection, corresponding element -of which is, Aroma. Family—-con—sanguineous af- fection, the corresponding element being Water. (Vol. IV. p. 3-39.) ' [REMARK.—-Is it because love corresponds to “Aroma,” or the essences of things—soul, spirit—that many of those who recognize spirit as superior to matter, ask freedom in its manifestations ?] O" Alternative Dorzimot-nee of Groups. Anterior phase, or infancy l to 15 yrs friendship-blossom Citerlor,——adolescence 16 to 35 “ love—ﬂower Central phase, or virility 36 to 4-5 “ love and ambition Ulterior phase, or maturity 46 to 65 “ ambition—fruit Posterior, or old age 66 to 80 “ familism—-grain. The pivotal [essential] character of each period is always drawn from customs regarding love. For instance :—a lead- ing characteristic of the Fourth period, or Barbarism, is the absolute slavery of woman; of the Fifth period, or civiliza- tion, exclusive marriage and the civil liberty of the wife. The consequences [in the Civilized period] of infidelity [sexual] are the same when a woman is sterile, as when she maintains her own child, not attributing it to a man without his consent. If the law had permitted to women the free exercise of love in these two cases, we should have seen this falsehood in love relations [which he claims causes necessa- rily fraud and falsehood in all other relations of life] diminish, and We should have been able without inconvenience, to adopt the divine freedom. Thus Civilizees, by reason of their tyrannical spirit toward women, have failed in securing the passage into the Sixth period [Guaranteeism] whither the law I have mentioned would have conducted them. [REMARK.——'l‘here seems a atural correspondence, on a large scale, between passional and alimentive starvation. The same co-operative household that will emancipate from sexual tyranny also secures alimentive abundance by saving two thirds or more of household work and thereby enabling women to become direct producers of wealth and be self- sustaining. “ The emancipation of woman from sexual slavery ” and “ the end of her pecuniary dependence on man ” can only be exceptionally accomplished in the isolated house- hold, but in unitary and co-operative life it will be the rule. The initial stage or germ of this life is termed by Fourier “ Guaranteeism,” and constitutes the essence of the “Grange” movement, which is Co-operat-ion—-mutual protection against speculators and monopolists. Entirely dissimilar in origin and purpose as is the Granger movement and that for Per- sonal freedom, they are seen in the light of Fourier’s philos- ophy, to be steadily working to one end. In order that society may “guarantee ” a tolerable minimum to each and all of its members, the wicked, wanton waste of the isolated household must give place to the economies of domestic co-operation; and this last can alone render Personal freedom generally possible.] ’ Civilizees, with instinct of falsity, have chosen for the piv of the social system a group essentially false—the conjugal couple; false by the number, limited to two, by the absence of freedom, by the divergencies and disagreements of tastes. (VI. 57.) . Before admitting even a half freedom in love it is necessary to introduce counterpoises which even Harmonians cannot create under ﬁfteen or twenty years of practice. (VI. 154.) Doubtless the conjugal system generates a world of vices. * >%= =1‘ ‘4'= * * * All these disorders are no motive to abolish marriage, but to establish it onea regular scale com- prising seven degrees besides the “ ambigu ” and the pivotal. To speak only of the ﬁrst and second degrees, is it not evi- dent that a sterile marriage is a weaker bond than that which gives a child? This is a distinction between the ﬁrst and second degree. *1‘ * =1‘ * ’’v‘ *1‘ * * Before even knowing the ninedegrees to establish in marriage, it is necessary to know and organize that state of things which will furnish counterpoises and guarantees against the abuse of freedom ——an abuse not foreseen by the sophist Owen; he desired to emancipate at once, as if we were in Otaheite and elsewhere, where custom and prejudice have established counterpoises. * v'v' * * ='r‘ ‘4" "F * Love and paternity are the last passions which can be subjected to the regime of truthfulness —-a diﬁiculty totally ignored by those wh0,1ik6 OWGII [not Robert Dale, but his father] make of the freedom of the pas- sions as rash an experiment as that of the philosophers of 1791 on the abrupt emancipation of the negroes. [REMARK.—E1sewhcre Fourier censures these same phi- losophers, and other leading minds of the day, for not taking advantage of revolutionary times to proclaim sexual free- dom, and thereby completely vanquish opponents in church. 4.-x x’‘’' ‘‘ Nov. 6, 1375. WOODHULL & (lLAFl.IN’S wsaatre 3 and , State. His “ counterpoises ” are replaced by better ones, generated under the auspices of modernspiritualism, viz. : A development of the Spiritual nature which causes sensitiveness to spheres, harmonious or discordant, and a reﬁning inﬂuence which puriﬁes and ennobles the sexual relations, lifts them above the plane of lust, and reduces to a very narrow limit, sometimes to practical monogamy, the number of possible lovers, etc., and all this on the basis of the most absolute spontaneity. ' Fourier’s position in this respect has much resemblance to that of the celebrated mother who objected to her ,son’s going into the water until he could swim. ' A The intense demand for personal freedom will prove to be one of the most potent causes in leading people out of a civili- zation, in which that freedom is but exceptionally possible. into a social order which shall combine purity therewith. His comparison of sexual with negro emancipation does not strengthen his position. The not very gradual eman- , cipation in the British West Indies was quite orderly, though somewhat detrimental from a purely commercial standpoint. Asudden emancipation in the French VVest Indies in 1848 ap- pears to have taken place without serious derangement or disorder; and no evil results of consequence would have attended negro emancipation in the United States but for the white demagogues and fanatics who forced on the freed- men, unasked and unqualiﬁed, politicalpowers, which could only be used for mischief. It is not reasonable to suppose that th~‘e”pe'rsonal " emancipation of woman will be attended with lone-twentieth part of the disorder consequent upon the civil and political ’ emancipation of the slave. His cautions, in this respect, however, are worthy of careful consideration. That which is so interwoven with our innermost an.d holiest nature. should not be lightly tampered with, nor roughly handled; but the changes demonstrably requisite skilfully, guardedly and ‘gradually evolved from existing ,condit_ions.] ; Vestalates-two-thirds young women, one-third; young men -——is an order where virginity is maintained to 18 or 19 years of age. Members oflthe “ Demoisellat,” reversing those pro- portions of the sexes, deliver themselves earlier to love. Means in Harmony of maintaining an equilibrum in popu- lation are four, viz: V 1. Vigorof the women. , A 2. Gastrosophic (greatly varied) diet. 3. Phanerogamic customs. 4. Integral exercise or instructions. In‘ civilization, vigorous women in cities are often sterile, while delicate ones are fruitful. In -the country vigorous women are fruitful because of an aliment gross and little varied, mostly conﬁned to vegetables. In Harmony the varied and reﬁned diet, combined with far greater vigor in women than can exist in civilization, will tend to a degree of sterility that will maintain due equilibrium. (VI. 339.) True association will in time modify, graduate, and not suppress marriage, and will only touch it by degrees in the next generation. (VI. 473 ) AN HOUR WITH THE WEEKLY. ( Continued.) V “And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering, for it was without number.” By what right did Joseph gather corn into the king’s store- houses? By the right of consent from the king and his peo- ple to__such action. By what means did he obtain that con- sent? By representing to them that the public welfare demanded it. Why did the people believe that Joseph could better take care of their interests than they could them- selves? Because they knew nothing of individual sover- eignty; they had no conception of the principles of self—gov- ernment. Joseph signiﬁes, “he shall add.” He was a capitalist. The » Government was in trouble; the king had had mysterious dreams. Joseph cajoled the administration and the people into the belief that their only salvation was in him. Uncle Pharoah took the bait and gave to him power and riches; whereupon our ancient capitalist began immediately to ac- I cumulate into his own keeping all the surplus products of the Egyptians. The seven years of plenty ended, and Joseph held under his control all the proﬁt of the labor of these years. “ What blind, deluded fools! ” do you say? The Egyptians were under monarchial government, and had been for generations. What do you say of the American people, who claim to be free and enlightened, exercising the functions of self—govern- ment? From 1865 to 1872 were seven years-bf inﬂation. Why did you allow the modern Josephs, during? that time, to ob- tain control of all the surplus of the country? “And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharoah for bread; and Pharoah said unto all the Egyptians: Go unto Joseph, what he saith to you do,” What! Couldn’t the Government relieve the pressure of the “ hard times? ” N o. The incumbent of the executive chair directed them to go to the capitalist, and to do just as he said. In 1873 the panic came; and the people looked to Washington for relief. The enlightened, free-born and self- governing American people, their wise representatives and statesmen and the executive functionaries of their Govern- ment were bound hand and foot by a few moneyed dummies, and Uncle Sam was obliged to inform the sovereign people that he could do nothing for them but to refer them to their captors. . A “And Joseph opened all thestore-houses and sold unto the Egyptians.” . The capitalists were very gracious; assured the people that , this wasa “ big country; ” that no one need suffer; that there was a superabundance ; opened their numberless store-houses and very magnanimously offered to sell them all they could pay for. Truly, what public benefactors theicapitalists are. “ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of, Egypt it * G for the corn which they brought.” ' . The capitalists sold to the intelligent American laborers their own products, until they got all the money into their possession; and what next? “And when money failed in the land of Egypt "5 * all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said: Give us bread, for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth ?"’ Vffhen their money was gone the laborers said to the capi- talists: “ You have got all our money and all our products; rather than let us famish in the midst of this plenty, you will surely give us employment whereby we may be able to keep the wolf from our ﬁresides.” Here are your independent, intelligent, enlightened American producers beggars at the doors of the drones, supplicating for the donation of the very bread they have themselves raised! Did the capitalists supply them according to the tenor of the request? Not they. “And Joseph said: Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle if the money fail.” I We will exchange with you if you do not wish to starve ; pass over your personal property. “ And they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and he fed them with bread, for all their cattle, for that year.” N ow Joseph has got all the personal property of the Egyptians into his possession. How conducive to the “ public welfare!” Money gone, personal property gone. . What did the pro- ducers next? Read on.» ,_ ,- . “ When that year was ended they;came‘- unto him * * * and said unto him: * * * Thereis not aught left in the sight of my’ lord but our bodies and our lands. * * * Buy us and our land for ‘bread, and we and our land will be serv- ants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that We may live and not die, that the land be not ‘desolate.”, I . The great “Adder” had get complete control; ‘the pro- ducers had become disheartened through their degradation and offered themselves voluntary slaves unto him. “ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharoah * * >1‘ So the land became Pharoah’s.\ The land became an auxliary of J oseph’s power. “ Then Joseph said unto the people: Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharoah.” The people themselves were instruments of his power. “ And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the ﬁfth part unto Pharoah.” Contribute a ﬁfth part of your labor to the increase of my power. The capitalist enslaved the whole industrial force of the land of Egypt. This was the way he provided for the “ public welfare ;” and for these public acts of disinterested benevolence the serfs exclaimed, “ Thou hast saved our lives; let us ﬁnd grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharoah’s servants,” or “ slaves of thy power.” Here you have i‘t—-the producers completely duped! The capitalist was their Saviour! “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians; greater is Joseph, governor of the house of Pharoah! I Howﬁcan the laborer be redeemed from his bondage when he thinks that he is already redeemed by the capitalist ? It would be ingratitude on his part to desire a less dependent position. He has mademoney his idol ; he bows before it in worship. The capitalist is the producer’s Pope. Labor has accorded to him the attribute of infallibility. Is the capi- talist blameable forithis’? By nor means. The producer is alone accountable, by making money his God, and its holders its vicegerent. The laborer is continually apeing the man- ners, customs and fashions of his monied neighbor. The laborer, by his own act, has brought this slavery upon him- self; his veneration has induced the act. The representative laborer has in all ages been ﬁrst to proclaim his own in- feriority; he is a moral coward; if he is dimly conscious of the wrong, he has not the courage to openly avow that “ his soul is his own.” (“ It belongs to my moneyed master.”) rise dares not so much as to complain; he fears to attempt to remove the cobweb shackles that bind him. If he makes a strike in the name of freedom, he does it by the coercion of some capitalist who has a new scheme ‘to accomplish for the acquisition of power. In my next I will point out the means of deliverance, but I boldly venture the assertion that not ten per cent of the laboring male population of this country dare to openly endorse it. EDWARD PALMER. r40-—< [Frromithe Chicago Tm'bune.] THE BACHELORS. YOU'LL CATCH rr roe THIS. CHICAGO, Aug. Z8.—I notice in your paper this morning quite a number of letters from the young people on the sub- ject of matrimony. This question seems to agitate the younger portion of our community, as I see that the quiet sheet, the Inter-Ocean, contains quite aT“number of these effu- sions from young and probably inexperienced enthusiasts. I trust you will permit me to give expression to my ideas on this subject in your valuable paper. The average'young- man of this city is opposed tofmarriage for many reasons, and these reasons I shall try and give as plainly as possible, so that I may not be understood as giving false opinions on the subject. Of course the principal and all-absorbing reason is “money.” This enters into the question at the very outset, as no young’ man of common sense will think of marriage without, in some way, counting the cost of this expensive luxury. The modern young man looks at society around him, and what does he see? Young girls dressed to death, painted, frizzed and furbelowed, and their weak forms strained, laced and contortioned out of all shape; extravagant to the last degree; dancing, ﬂirting, eating latesuppers, keeping late hours and waking in the morning with their health all broken down. Then dawdling about the house till evening again, and then another round the same as before. Now, are these girls ﬁt for wives and mothers? N 0! Emphatically, N 0 I This is what the young man sees around him. ‘ Now these girls are well enough ‘to talk to for 9. moment, but not to marry. They require too much capital for a good investment, and ayoung man is not going to drop three or four pegs in society because he can't support his wife in the one he moves in. No. Better remain single, and wait till he can support a wife in the same society from which he takes her. This is the ﬁrst reason-—-“Financial.”.‘ The second reason is that the modern young girl is so much of a butterﬂy that our young men would not trust themselves to marry them. They might succeed in winning one of her, but they cannot depend on them, they are so ﬁckle. They must continue in that whirl of society to which they are so , used, and this causes continual wcrriment on the part of the young man, and after a short, time breeds infelicity in the home of the young couple. ‘ ' The third reason 1s the health of the modern belle. She continues the dissipation of the day to such a length that when she comes to marry she is all broken down, and is unable to bear the troubles of motherhood, and requires constant at- tendance of a familyphysician, and thus entailing a very severe expense on the young man of to—day; and they (the belles of the day) are entirely adverse to the propagation of the race, as it would not admit of their free movements in the fashionable centre, and would hamper them greatly. The fourth reason is their entire inability to keep house, they having spent their rtime dawdling about their homes, not learning or caring to learn anything about the home gov- ernment; and when they come to be a young wife they are wholly unﬁt to manage a. house, and thus {are unﬁt tobe a young man’s wife. They know nothing about a kitchen, and have to leave its entire management to some hired help, thus allowing much waste. They know absolutely nothing about economy, and the young man is out of pocket. These, Mr. Editor, are a few of the reasons why a young man cannot marry, and the number of young bachelors is constantly increasing. These are ‘‘ stubborn facts,” and so the young men of to-day retire to their own amusements, leaving matrimony to novices who do not study the philoso- phy of the thing. L When a paper of the high literary character and moral standing in the country that the Chicago Tribune enjoys can publish such articles as this, there is cause for rejoicing that the evils of our social system are beginning to have considera‘-.~ tion, and that there has been‘ a paper somewhere that has persistently insisted that these subjects should be publicly discussed, until it has become possible. This article, as well as several others that we shall copy hereafter, are from the pen of one the ablest and most promising young men of Chi- cago, who writes , under the above nom-dc-plumc.—ED. WEEKLY. PALLIATING AND PLAUSIBLE. S. S. Jones, in a. criticism on the doctrtne of “ euthanasia,” says: g - In the course of human events Sickles decided to shoot Keys. Stokes to put an end to Fisk, the negro to brutally kill the Van Ess family in New York, Newman to waylay Prof. Evans and Prof. Webster, to secretly destroy the life of Par- ker; for them we can imagine palliating circumstances and plausible excuses, but he who coolly and deliberately orders the death of an incurable, or administers the poisonous dose, is equally as great a criminal as the murderer—-he abridges that life which the ordinances of nature gave, and which they sustain, and which they ought to know when to withdraw‘ from the physical organization. ‘ . < 1 g V Here is richness for you. A man in the full vigor of health may bemerushed beyond the possibility of recovery, or fatally stabbed in the bowels, and the human surgeon, who would administer an anesthetic of suﬁicient power to terminate his (sufferings, even though earnestly requested to do so by the dying man, would be “ as great a criminal as the murderer.” - On the other hand, one may differ from his neighbor in. a business transaction, and kill him and have a “plausible ex- cuse.” Two congenial souls, naturally formed for loving, may blend in sweetest accord, creating the only marriage that the angel world, or the deliberate judgment ‘of the hu- man can ever regard as more sacred than a common contract, ' yet if ,the union happens to cross the imaginary rights of . some social despot wholly incapable of eliciting a woman’s I love and wholly unworthy of it, hemay waylay the naturally . fortunate but conventionally doomed man and shoot him, and then stand over the prostrate form of the seducer, cut- ting and slashing him with the murderous knife. -But then it makes all the difference in the world whether one is “ re- spectable ” or “infamous.” R. P. LEWIS. WI-IAT DO YOU THIN OF ‘B The right of “self-government ” is. but another name for “individual sovereignty.” It belongs to each person. It is freedom , inalienable and inherent in each one, and its very existence calls for free earth, air, water, food, clothing, edu- cation, home, government, and religion. For these things in- dividual sovereigns do all their labor, and they are the real objects of all work. Sovereigns know no wages for work. or salary for oﬂicials, or money for a measure of value. They V destroy all these, and make everything free to all. Free postage, transportation and telegraphic communication. Aye! free everything to everybody, everywhere, is indivi- dual sovereignty or self-government to all the sons and daughters of earth or heaven above. I A perfect liberty, self—government or sovereignty cannot be enjoyed by ruling others. It can only exist by leaving all free to rule themselves; while we rule ourselves only. Men, women and children, rulers and the ruled, stand alike as po- tentates in the realm of self-government. ‘As our own per- fect liberty is only secured in the complete liberty of all others, it becomes our great duty in life to labor for the liberty and welfare of all that we may enjoy our own in per- I fection. There can be no clashing of interests where every- thing and everybody is free. Such is the on-coming future as she casts her light on A.’ P. BOWMAN. “QUIETS the prejudice of relatives, stops the tongue of scandal and takes the pith out of the gossip of the vulgar rabble.” I My God! is that Warren Chase? My soul sinks/Within me, and I am sick at heart. Does Mother Grundy own Vifarren Chase? I have far more respect for those who go‘ to a priest and get legally married than for such catering to an insane public opinion. ' SEWARD MITOHELL'— HARRY B. FREE. 4 LWOODHULL Jr oLAr1L1n’s WEEKLY Nov. 6, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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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 WEEKLY, 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. « j@_¢ THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship hi1n.~—Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of ' leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the ‘ earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It I also represents still another and more important truth which has not. yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words,‘is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. ‘We‘adopt this diagram as emblematic’ of our future work and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth which we hope and trust may be shortly realized. THE ALLEGORICAL CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE. For it is written that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman. But‘ he who was of the bond woman was born after the ﬂesh ; but he of the free woman was by promise; which things are an allegory: for these two [children] are the two covenants ; the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Jerusalem (woman), which now is, and is in bondage with her children; but Jeru- salem (woman) which is above is free; which is the mother of us all.- GAL.. iv, 22 to 26. . And not as Moses, which put at Vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to Ihe end of that which is abolished; but their minds were blinded; for unto this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day. when Moses is read the vail is upon their heart.——II. CORINTHLANS, iii, 13 to 15. And he said unto them [his disciples], Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God; but unto them that are without all these things are done in parables, that seeing they may see and not per- ceive. and hearing they may hear and not understand. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these’ are they by the wayside where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise that are sown on stony ground; who’, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness, and have no root in themselves, and so endure for a. time; afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. . And these are they which are sown among thorns: such as hear the word, and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the %ust% 0; other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh un- I‘11l vu . And these are they which are sown on good ground: such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth Iruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty and some an hundred.-—Sr. MARK, iv, 11 to 20. Nobody who knows anything about the Bible from person- al examination will ever pretend to deny that throughout it is written ﬁguratively, poetically or allegorically; [and yet scarcely anybody can be found among those who profess to be its accredited expositors who will accept the logic of these facts. They will read the parable of the rich man and Lazarus with all the severity of which asceticism is possible, telling you in the ﬁrst place that it is a parable, but, never- theless, all the while picturing the torments of the rich man in hell ﬁre, and thegbliss of Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom. So they take the parable for the reality, and let the reality, which contains a nrost important lesson, escape them alto- gether. And so it j' is with the whole Bible. Even in Jesus’ teachings, it ‘is said that he did not teach save in parables, but they are all swallowed literally, and are fast strangling the people who have some common sense, into the consciousness that they have been feeding their religious na- tures on the pictures merely of that which should have been their food. It is not our purpose now to enter into a consideration of what may be the hidden meaning of the ﬁgurative language that we have quoted from the Bible, but to say that it is a fair example of the rest. But consider for a moment what a different character St. Paul’s explanation puts upon that old story about Abraham. That story is still taught by Chris- tians as literally true. They ignore the fact that Paul put an- other face upon it. Paul says that it doesn’t mean at all that Abraham had those two children—the one by a bond-maid and the other by a free woman——but that they are the two . covenants and refer to all children born, those born in sin and iniquity being children of the bond maid, while those who are born free from sin are by promise of the free wo- man. Thus it seems that Abraham has been made to bear a great deal of unjust odium innocently, which a careful read- ing of St. Paul might have saved the Christian world from casting upon him. And if this part of the story about Abraham is an allegory, may‘ we not rightly hold that the rest of the story about him is of the same character ? In- deed may we not say that it is just probable that Abraham himself is an allegory and means something else ; and that the story about his twelve sons, and about Joseph being sold into Egypt, has a hidden meaning, about which St. Paul says, “ the vail remaineth untaken away.” One thing is quite evident, and that is, that the miraculous manner of the delivery of the Jews out of Egypt—of the parting of the waters of the Red Sea to permit them to pass over on dry land, and of their closing in upon Pharoah and his host to destroy them, is an allegory. Wliat all these al- legories may refer to can never be known certainly until the key to the great and ﬁnal mystery is in the hands of their readers.‘ With this once understood, the Bible from begin- ning to ending may be read with the vail taken away, “ which vail,” St. Paul says, “is taken away in Christ.” That is to say, when any have received Christ and learned of him then the vail is name ved ; is removed because having realized what his mission was, all things that relate to it become clear. Paul evidently understood all this, since he said, “ Though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- stand all mysteries and all-knowledge,” etc. Then the key to all these allegories and mysteries of the Bible lies in knowing what was the end and aim of Christ’s mission. There is some single great and all-pervading, all~permeating and all-important fact to which all these things refer. If the Bible have any signiﬁcance at all that is worth consider- ing, it cannot be said that it is a hotch-potch of a little of every thing. Some one grand and central idea is fore- shadowed throughout, or else it is a hotch-potch about which nobody can obtain any clue, and to which it is im- possible to ﬁnd either beginning or ending, head or tail. Asidefrom setting forth the condition from which salvation was, and is, needed, nobody can dispute that all its force. and beauty is centered in the mission of Christ. All the prophets speak of it continually, and the whole burden of the Gospels and Epistles is most patently of that mission; therefore, it mustbe concluded that all the allegories and mysteries refer to the same thing. They do refer to the same thing,’ as will be made evident in the course of time. In the beginning of the Bible there is the allegorical pic- ture of the human body (elsewhere in the book; called the allegorical or ﬁgurative. Temple of God) or the Garden of Eden——one of the most beautiful and.trutht'ul pictures of which it is possible to conceive. It sets forth that in the midst of this garden is the tree of life, of the fruit of which its possessors were commanded not to eat. .But all the world eat of it and die, as it was declared that they should. In the ending of the book this tree of life is again spoken of ‘ as being the fruit which was for the healing of the nations, but in con- nectionwith a pure river of water of life, proceeding out of the throne of God. Now this river of life in the beginning is represented by the fruitful river Euphrates, the waters of which in the allegorical picture in Exodus (iv. and vii.) were turned to blood. These were all the waters in Egypt that were turned to blood, the principal river Euphrates of the Garden of Eden, and a truthful but a sorrowful picture. it is indeed. “In Egypt” does not mean in the land known in geographical terms by that cognomen; but it means in the darkness—the people who were in ignorance in those days, and who are so still, are, allegorically, in the land of Egypt; and whoever is delivered out of the land of Egypt, goes across the Red Sea (the sea of blood) on dry land; and those who are in darkness that attempt to follow them are sub- merged in the waters and perish——that is die.?~ ~ Now here we have the introductory key-‘note to the whole Bible. Everything relates to the Garden of Eden, to man’s (not woman’s) expulsion from it, and to the changing of the waters of the fruitful Euphrates, which should be waters of life, into rivers of blood, which become the destruction of the race. 1 - This is the condition into which the whole world is plunged. The Euphrates river runs ﬂoods of destruction instead of waters of life‘, and it is from this condition that r Christ came to save it; to save it “by a new and aliving way,” as St. Paul said: to open the door into the fold through which all who are saved must pass. Saved how? That is the question, and the“ only question. If it can be determined positively, what it means to be saved by Christ, then the whole mystery is solved. It is true that the Bible is allegorical and ﬁgurative throughout, but these ﬁgures and these allegories all relate to something that is not either ﬁgurative or allegorical, and when that something is spoken of in the Bible it is not This must be clear, it seems to us. The thing about which all the ﬁgures and all the allegories are used is not ‘itself of that character. It is a fact in and of itself, standing out distinctly from all the pictures that are made of it and among which it is bound Then there is some single fact set forth in the Bible in plain terms, in terms which mean literally as they read, and which do not need to be intcrpreted;'which are neither allegorical or ﬁgurative; which plainly and clearly set forth in Words just what is meant. But until the real mission of Christ is discovered to the mind, it cannot be determined which of the presentations are real and which are alle- gorical. Is there any way to determine between these? Most assuredly there is. If there was and is a Christ, he had a mission. Now whatwas that mission? The mission cannot be allegorical. All the allegories relate to that mission. Hence, if it can be determined what that mission is, then it can be also determined what is not allegorical in the Bible. Isn’t this clear? It seems so to us. Well, that mis- sion is set forth as the salvation of the world. Salvation from what? Here is the point. Saved from what? Saved for what? Saved in what? The Christianssay saved from hell and saved into heaven. But they ignore the doctrine of the resurrection in this programme. If this doctrine is true, and there is to be a resurrection, then the life that is, after physical death, is not the ultimate condition in which the world is to exist. We repeat, if there is any truth in the doctrine of the resurrection, then the saved condition must be that in which the people who shall be resurrected shall ﬁnd themselves. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life,” and declared His mission to be, “ To bring life and immortality (hitherto in darkness, of course,‘) to light.” He also said (St. John vi., 47, and on,) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that bclieveth on me hath ever- lasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. He that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” It will be noticed that whenever Jesus spoke of this subject he introduced it by saying, ‘ ‘Verily, verily, ” ‘meaning truly; which was as much as to say, now I speak to you not in parables, but mean just what I say, In every instance, we think, when Jesus spoke of eternal life—-—-of not dying——he used these Words, and he said distinctly that to be saved with the salvation that he brought was, not to die. “ Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead, but he that eateth of of this bread shall not die.” He spoke of a fact. They are dead. There is nothing allegorical about that. But “he that eateth this bread shall live forever.” Thereis nothing allegorical about that. It is a fact stated most emphatically. Again, the absurdity of saying that the salvation of J esus, was to be saved from hell—the hell that Christians picture, of ﬁre and brimstone—may be clearly demonstrated in an- other way. They do not pretend t_hat to be in hell is to die and be blotted out; on the contrary, they say that it is a. never ending torment, in life. So far as existence is con.- cerned, whether it be in their heaven or in their hell, there is no difference. It is life in both: life and suffering in the one, and life and bliss in the cther.':Tl1‘en where is the death that is to be escaped? Plainly death is not allegorical in lg...-::;» ~murderer as well as a self-murderer. Nov. 6, 1875. : WOODHULL a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 the sense in which Jesus used it, nor in the sense in which St. Paul used it when he said “ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” Nothing can be made more clear than that the distinction between the life and the death of the Bible, is that of life in the body and the death of that body. Nothing but the body dies; nothing else can die. Then why talk of death to the soul of spirit! These are immortal, and that to which they aspire is an immortal body-in which to live, and to have an immortal body is to be saved as Jesus came to save the world; is to be saved from death, or,t0 be resurrected from death into life ; and to have this is to obtain admission into the Garden of ‘Eden, and eat properly of the fruit of the garden; is to enter in and live in the holy city——the New Jerusalem—in which the tree and the river of life mingle their fruit and waters . and become the healing of the nations, so that there shall be no more death. HOMICIDE AND SOCIETY. Under the above heading the New York Ifemld of Oct. 22 laments the social disorders of the age in this wise : “ The frequency of crimes of the same character and degree in certain seasons has often been remarked, and just now the old observation is’ veriﬁed by repeated homicides caused either by love or jealousy. On Wednesday Jacob Standar- man was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the murder of his sweetheart. and about the time this poor cul- prit was doomed to the galldws another wretch attempted the life of a woman who had rejected him, and succeeded in tak- ing his own. There has been a singular development of mur- ders or attempts at murder, followed by suicide; but the fre- quency of these peculiar crimes is to be found in social causes. Scarcely any other motive would have induced Stan- derman to become a murderer, and the same vengeful feel- ings of disappointment led Revere into the double crime, which, had it entirely succeeded, would have made him a Society is partly re- sponsible for the frequency of these crimes——the loose notions of morals and the freedom allowed to the relations of the sexes being the sources of this, as well as many other evils. Prevention can only come with the severe punishment of all offenders, and the enforcement of sterner rules of morals and of social etiquette. We must take a backward step, and not only surround our women with the sanctity of purity, but protect them and ourselves by making the sacredness of home and virtue inviolable. We have gone too far in the freedom of social intercourse, and it is time that we begun to learn the methods which society adopts in older lands than ‘our own.” To these the New York Sun of the day following, Oct. 23, adds the following horrible incidents of a similar char- acter: , “ As the ferry boat James Rumsey was about starting from the foot of Barclay street just after midnight yesterday morning two men and a woman entered the cabin, and the woman and one of the men bade the other farewell, showing much emotion and wringing each other’s hands. As soon as the two had gone away the third ran to the bow of the boat, leaped the iron gates and jumped into the water. While climbing the gate he asked a bystander whether the water was cold, but..did not wait for an answer. The body was not recovered.” “ SKQWHEGAN, Me., Oct. 22.-—A shocking murder and sui- cide occurred in the town of Mercer to-day. Mrs. Walton, the divorced wife of Hiram Walton, who has been living with Greenleaf Tracy, was shot and-ikilled-t»-byi’I"racy in a ﬁt of jealousy. He then ﬂed to the woods and shot himself. Both were dead when found.” ‘ Jacob Sanderman shot a woman simply because she re- fused him as a lover; Revere shot himself for a like cause, after having ﬁrst paid his respectful addresses to the object of his love by knocking her down. The other two cases when searched into will doubtless present similar phases of diseased affection. We claim that murder never results from love, except it be self-love, which is jealousy. The reason such cases are multiplying among us is because we are now in a transition state, and the position of woman is undeﬁned and unsettled. We object to the Ha7uld’s ruling, which calls upon us to take a “backward step,” and ear- nestly entreat the world to take a forward one instead. Man cannot “surround our women with the sanctity of pu- rity ” better than by acknowledging the power of woman in aifectional matters, and withdrawing every male law which prevents what the Herald calls “ our women” from insti- tuting better regulations themléelves. As things are, all male brutes hold themselves to be, in power over women, and hence daily brutalities and almost daily wife murders stain the pages of our presses. All this damnable anarchy is the result of male domination, and there can be no hope for a better condition of affairs until woman stands equal with man before the law, and the personal sovereignty of all women in all cases, whether as mothers,—wives or daugh- ters, is held by it to be equally sacredwith that of fathers, _ husbands and sons. M <77 THE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll engagements in various parts of‘ the country as their regular trip shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: 5 The Mystery of the Sealed Book. God, Christ, Devil. ‘ The Garden of Eden. The Two Worlds. ’ Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. Christian Communism. ‘ The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. The first seven of these subjects form a regular course, and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull speaks in Cleveland, 0., Oct. 30; Paines- ville, 0., Nov. 1; Akron, 0., Nov. 2; Mansﬁeld, 0., Nov. 3; Springﬁeld, 0., Nov. 4; Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 5; Hamil- ton, O., Nov. 8; Columbus, 0., Nov. 9; Newark, 0., Nov, 10; Zanesville, 0., Nov. 11; Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 12; Steubenville, 0., N ov. 13. If any change in dates is made it will be announced in the local papers. ———--—¢w«voe—-—-—————- MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. COMMENTS on THE PRESS. [From the Democrat, Madison, Wis., Oct. 15, 187 5.] Mas. VICTORIA O. WooI)iIUI.L expressed her sentiments to . a large audience at the Opera House last evening. We noticed 3 several dozen ladies present. ' Mrs. Woodhull appeared in a plain black dress; at ﬁrst her face presented a paleish hue, but after a time it ﬂushed up, her eyes gleamed, and her" appearance became attractive, She came in front of the stage, and at first referred to manuscript, to some extent; but when she warmed up in her address, she made no reference to her notes. She -is elo- A quently expressive; her voice is silver toned, and her manner graceful. She told a great deal of truth, but she has her own. Way of telling it. I She did not utter a word which could not be spoken in any circle.» If some of her expressions were toned down a little, it would be better, perhaps, and-yet if she should attempt to be anybody but the Victoria Woodhull, she would not draw so large a crowd. ‘ [From the Chicago Times, Oct. 16, 1875.] Long before 8 o’clock,.on last evening, the stairway leading ’ to McCormick Hall was crowded with counter—currents of humanity—-the one ﬂowing up, delighted; the other pouring down, disgusted. The seats had all been taken at an early hour, and many hundreds were compelled to forego the privi- lege of listening to Victoria 0. Woodhull. [From the Chicago. Tribune, Oct. 16, 1875.] VICTORIA WOODHULL. McCormick Hall was crowded to repletion last evening to hear Mrs. Woodhull lecture on “ The True and the False So- cially.” The audience was largely composed of women. The lady appeared on the rostrum about a quarter past 8 o'clock, dressed in a plain black dress, ‘white collar and cuffs, a bunch of roses on her breast being all the effort at ornamentation. [The Tribune gave nearly a column report of the lecture.] [From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Oct. 16, 1875.] Mns. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL lectured at McCormicl4:t Hall last evening on “ Social Evils: Their Cause and Cure.” If the audience assembled because they believed and sympa- thized with her doctrines, and not from mere curiosity,‘ Mrs. Woodhull ought certainly to feel ﬂattered, for the fol’-7 means the abrogation of forced pregnancy of ante natal] . , , - _ lowing was not few. Every seat was ﬁlled, and there was barely standing-room. Nor was the crowd composed of the ., outcasts of society. Audiences not a whit more respectable and reﬁned have gathered in the same hall to hear Theodore Thomas and the celebrated lights of the rostrum and concert room. At least one-third of those present were ladies, and among their number were many who rank high in society and who are not noted as riders of hobbies. Among the gen- tlemen were ex-governors, railway superintendents, and eminent divines. If any came and took their seats hesita- tingly, fearing that they were to be seen in bad company, Woodhull was given an unexpected reception in one of the retiring rooms of the hall, just previous to going on to the business men, lawyers and newspaper men. Victoria, on this- occasion, was asked if she would deliver her lecture at some- hall which should be provided this evening, entitled “ The Garden of Eden.” This lecture is considered by Mrs. Wood- hull the chief work of herlife, and in the preparation of which she claims to have expended a vast amount of thought and study. ,Mrs. Woodhull did not return a decisive answer to this request. but improved the opportunity of enlightening the audience somewhat upon the subject of her injuries and tribulations during the later years of her rather tumultuous existence. In her’ remarks Mrs. VVoodhull alluded to the ﬂattering reception she had received on the occasion of her present visit to Chicago, and took the opportunity to call the attention of her hearers to a few points in her career which she deemed especially worthy of notice. When she had com- menced the advocacy of her peculiar doctrines she said she had been thrust to the chilly borders of society by a ﬁerce- and remorseless public opinion. She had not faltered in her I work on account of it. Herself and sister had been ﬁve- years in Broad street, N ow York, and had made and lost for- tunes. They had spent another fortune in establishing the dragged through the ﬁ1th°and {hire of a detestable and rotten society. The_had been plundered of their wealth by, those who proclaimed themselves their friends. She had endured abuse, suffered-ccntumely, outrage and persecution until her soul was faint and her brain on ﬁre. Still, she had persevered, until now the misty vapors were rolling away, and like Noah’s dove she had found a place to rest. She said her ideas in regard to the relations of the sexes had been es- pecially perverted and misunderstood. And she read from one -of her printed speeches the following extract, as showing what her true doctrine on this point is: - . “ Promiscuity in sexuality is simply the anarchical stage of _ development wherein the passions rule supreme. When spirituality comes in and rescues the real man or woman from the domain of the purely material, promiscuity is simply im~ possible. As promiscuity is the analogue to anarchy, so is spirituality to scientiﬁc selection and adjustment. Ther efcre 1 am fully persuaded that the very highest sexual unions are those that are monogamic, and that these are perfect in pro- portion as they are lasting. N ow, if to this be added the fact that the highest kind of love is that which is utterly freed from and devoid of selﬁshness, and whose highest gratiﬁca- tion come from rendering its object the greatest amount of happiness, let that happiness depend upon whatever it may, then you have my ideal of the highest order of love and the most perfect degree of order to which humanity can attain. An affection that does not desire to ‘bless its object, instead of appropriating it by a selﬁsh possession to its own uses, is not worthy the [name of love. Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good; which is constantly giving instead of desiring.” - and out of marriage; means the emancipation of Woman from. her own body; means the end of her pecuniary dependence upon man, so that she may never, even seemingly, have to- procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors ;: murder, of undesired children; means the birth of love» children only, endowed by every inheritedvvirtue that the highest exaltatioh can confer at conception, by every inﬂu- ence for good to be obtained during gestation, and by the. wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, industrially,. intellectually and sexually.” Mrs. Woodhull did not deliver the lecture announced for" She did deliver a lecture embodying her ideas on the subject of true wealth and its distribution. The change of pro- gramme by the speaker was not alluded to or explained. The they were soon at their case,’ for in every direction could be seen others of equal rank. "Throughout the whole lecture the closest attention was paid to the speaker, and, although the applause was frequent, upon no occasion wasa sentiment responded to with a hiss. When Mrs. Woodhull appeared upon the rostrum many were doubtless surprised in not being able to discover about her anything of dress or manner to revile. She was modestly attired in black, with hair gathered back and hanging loosely. Her style of speaking is earnest. and such as to impress her auditors with the belief that she is convinced of the truth of all that she says. [From the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 17, 1875.] The notable Mns. WOODHULL delivered her second lecture in McCormick Music-Hall last evening to a large audience. Following is a sketch of her discourse: [Here followed a column digest of the lecture.] [From the Chicago Times, Oct. 17, 1875.] A LECTURE NOT DOWN IN THE BILLS. On last evening Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull appeared, for the seventh time before a Chicago audience, for the discussion of these social, moral and political questions with which she has so long been identiﬁed. At a period not now very re- mote Mrs. Woodhull made her ﬁrst appearance on the ros- trum of Chicago, in a city where she had dwelt in poverty, and endured “ the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” Since that inauspicious day times have changed, and from the stand-point of the fair speaker on last evening times must have changed _for the better. Such vast audiences as assem- bled on Friday and Saturday evenings to listen to this priestess in the temple of Truth have never before been gathered together for a similar purpose in the history of- this city; and in point of intelligence, respectability and num- bers they were such. as would have been ﬂattering to the feeling of any speaker in the land, however distinguished and reputable. . A Oh last evening. before the lecture commenced, Mrs. theories advanced were somewhat communistic, but they ,were_pertinently and :,foreibly expressed, eliciting frequent applause. The lecture was read from a pamphlet, in a clear the audience. The lecture contained no hint or allusion to the peculiar social ideas ‘of the speaker. Some portion of those present were, doubtless, disappointed at the change of programme, but they sat the lecture through. [From the Daily News, Aurora, Ill., Oct. 19,1875.] There was an intelligent audience, three times as large as-" Anna Dickinson had when she was here, at the Opera House last evening, to listen to thismost remarkable woman of the» age. She had chosen for her subject, “ The True and False-,. Socially,” and under this caption she exposed the lamentable ignorance which prevails in every household upon the laws of life. She spoke many plain truths and many excellent moral ideas do not suit her hearers, and . she possesses those per-- sonal charms of beauty of form and feature which are almost a necessary adjunct to the highest degree of talent, and an imposing appearance and a graceful manner, a full and pleas- ant voice and an animated delivery. But above‘ all she knows how to make the tritest truths ring with the freshness of im- is not only earnest but honest in all she says. —-—-——--¢«>~..~_,._.__ ‘ TITUSVILLE, PA.,1875. Mns. Wooi>nUL:L: Dear Sister: Although a stranger to you, and one who has- of duty, or rather impressed by some higher power or agency, to write to you and‘ express’ my sympathy for you and with the noble sentiments and principles which you are so cour- ageously advancing and defending against the whole world as it" were. It is true there are a few, a very few, who are capable of understanding and appreciating your pure and ‘truthful teachings in part, but, like the disciples of Jesus, platform, which was participated. in by several respectable’ weekly newspaper which boila their names. They had been 1 "Sexual freedom means the abolition of prostitution both in. sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of.’ . last evening, which was" “The Mystery of Life and Death." and unexceptional style, and was attentively listened to by 1 and practical sentiments. Her dramatic and tragic talent is. irresistible. She is at all times interesting, even when her passioned oratory. N oljody who sees her can doubt that she never seen or heardlyou speak, yet I feel impelled by a sense - 6. , I I woonnutt & OI.AFLIN’S‘WEEKLY. they do not see and feel and know the real heighth, depth, and grandeur contained therein. But how can we wonder when we consider how the public mind has been educated in this respect. Social equality and freedom have been hooted down and denounced. Whenever the bounds of propriety established by law or custom have been broken over “ The woman Thou gayest to be with me” she did it. “I have done nothing wrong. I am all purity and innocence. Do not throw any stones at me, but out with her. She is not ﬁt to live. Stone her to death!” “Woe unto you Scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites; ye can discern the face of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times.” “For the day cometh that shall burngas an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the .day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts; that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that love my name shall the sun of truth arise with healing in his rays‘, and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet.” Ever since I ﬁrst heard of you I have watched for and read with interest whatever I could procure of yours, and have in every instance understood and approved. When your Nov. 2 paper appeared I was favored with a copy. I read it, and the ﬁrst effect cannot be better described than by comparing it to a thunderbolt, the shock of which had destroy ed two of my idols. I read it again, and I said these words do_ not convey her true meaning.‘ This is not a common shallow stream. It is deep; almost unfathonable! In read and'pondered until the meaning came; and then I knew and understood the beauty and grandeur of those principles of vruth,-justice, and freedom that you have so valiantly hurled against the strong battlements . which have been so long reared to encircle, protect, and defend the stronghold of vice, oppress- ion, fraud, and wrong. And now I am resolved to defend those principles and you against all opposition as far as my words and inﬂuence extend. And there are others. Never was there a truer prophecy uttered than yours: “ You may succeed in crushing me out, even to the loss of my life, but from the ashes of my body a thousand Victories will spring to avenge my death by seizing the work laid down by me and conveying it forward to victory.” ~ I had resolved to write to you, proffering my love and sympathy, and that of one or two others. "To-day two strangers (both women, whose names you will ﬁnd in this marked) came and requested me to write, so that they might sign it. If you receive this, and it appears of enough conse- quence to you, please answer and tell us in what way we can beneﬁt you. Yours in the cause of truth and right, Mns. L. '1‘. AKIN’. T BREAKING THE SEALS. Allitrue friends of the cause of human -good must rejoice ‘that Mrs. Woodhull is still alive and doing so much to en- lighten and purify the minds’ and hearts of men. The arti- cles on the Bible and the lecture on “Breaking the Seals ” are all strengthening and highly educative. For many years the f,subscriber has understood that the Garden of Eden was referable to the human body, and that all persons living were born in the same garden that Adam and Eve sprang from; that the garden is a condition of phys- ical life, not a geographical location. I understand this a great deal better since the revealments given to the world by Mrs. Woodhull through her recent writings and lectures. She explains in detail that which I had only a casual or general knowledge of. My attention was drawn to this matter by the late Seth Paine, of Chicago, whose knowledge of principles was absolute and his views on all subjects similar to .Mrs. Woodhull’s. He was a man of wonderful brain power, and the mysteries of the Bible were revealed to him so that he became famous among those who knew him, as a competent interpreter. A proper understanding of the Garden of Eden is indeed a matter of paramount importance, and Mrs. W. must be en- couraged to go on and open up the common understanding with reference to it in its physiological and spiritual bearings. It should be made a plain, teachable matter, a point of knowledge that all should attain to as a matter of course. The “divinity made man, male and female, and called than name Adam. It' has hitherto been “understood by almost everybody that Adam meant man only, and not woman. But- the fact is that woman is also comprehended or embraced in that term. The result of misapprehending _or limiting the term Adam in its meaning has proven a fatality. On the strength of such understanding the male has always, without any natural right to do so, assumed to be the head of the female. and has dictated her sphere and “ roped her in ” in a false social system which he had framed for her from the beginning. He has always denied her equality on account of her sex, and because he did not consider her as much of a hu- man being as himself. For asimilar reason the blacks of the South were denied equality by the whites on the ground of _ color. So the conception of God and right that men have had all along has been awkwardly limited because of sex and color. He has been so addled in his short- sightedness that he could not tell the difference between a man and a thing, and so for a long time in this country he made human ﬂesh and blood a matter of barter and sale. ‘ Chicago, Sept. 26, 1875. OGDEN WHITLOGK. UNIVERSAL BROTHER AND SISTERHOOD. Dear Weeklgc/—The idea of a brother and sisterhood and the need of it was, in a general way, shown and presented to your readers recently by Mrs. Woodhull in one of her articles on “ Bible Mysteries.” There is room for such a society-—a universal brother and sisterhood—whose primary object should be“ to ameliorate the condition of humanity in every possible manner,” and to unite mankind in one common brotherhood. There are Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Red Men, Patrons of Industry, Laborers’ Unions, and many other societies seeking to unite ‘v-ee- fraternally, and for common interests, the different classes of society; but it seems none of them are comprehensive enough; they are not cosmopolitan, do not embrace all man- kind, but take in only a select few. One of the missions of the Universal Brother and Sister- hood will be to unite all these different brotherhoods, and mankind who cannot now gain admittance to their secret re- treats, in one common brotherhood. This is a grand and glorious work to be commenced. Any one who is at all familiar with the interior and better side of all the various secret orders that exist to-day know that their prim- ary object is fraternal association——to do good. A universal brother and sisterhood, in seeking to ameliorate the condi- tion of humanity, should labor to discover and then an- nounce and then maintain the rights of humanity. Is there any need of such an organization, some asks? Yes, all know that in union there is strength. The fact that man from time immemorial has sought. in some manner or other,to form stable associations-—politica1, social or religious——goes to prove that it is necessary to form a universal brother and sisterhood. All business associations are evidences of this fact. Spiritualists, liberalists and reformers of all classes have done much in an individual and isolated. way for humanity, but by uniting their efforts they can do much more. Are they ready to unite? I think they are, and believe they will. I know there are minds among us that can elaborate a plan of organ- ization whichvwill be acceptable to all, and I hope they will take the matter in hand. Then let us be up and doing. Don’t sit still, waiting for some one to put the ball in motion, but those who are favorable to the idea of a universal brother and sisterhood come out and let it be known. I believe there are enough in the United States imbued with this idea to go to work without delay. At all events let us agitate the sub- ject. I would be pleased to exchange ideas with any of the brothers and sisters (those who entertain these now I deem worthy of being called briothers and sisters) by letter at any time. My address is Central Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Yours, for progress, G. H. KREIDER. WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT? Seated in quiet" abstraction and deep meditation in my own individual watch-tower, separate and apart from all credal organizations, casting aside all preconceived theoretical opin- ions, deeply regretting the troubles and difficulties of man- kind incidental to their gradual ascent up the spiral pathway of eternal progression, and earnestly desiring to ﬁnd some method or avenue to avoid them, I was suddenly aroused to semi-consciousness by an invisible knocking on the door, ao- companied by the following vivid impression: “ Mortal, you are aware that_ for nineteen centuries you have had the pure and brilliant light of Christ shining down upon you, ren- dering confusion worse confounded by its dazzling e1ful- gence and great elevation above the practical grasp of unde- veloped mortals. We new purpose to unfold for your in- struction God’s clear, pure, unadulterated light, eliminated from the proliﬁc womb of nature, rendering transparent all her hitherto dark and mysterious avenues, ﬁrmly resting on the basic rock of eternal truth, radiating its divine, majestic inﬂuence as the tree of life casts its leaves for the ‘healing of the nations.’ Remember it was long since promised that this spirit of truth should be sent to lead you into all truth and foreshadow things which are to come. I will now en- lighten you respecting that mental telescope presented to your spiritual perception in a night vision years ago. “Its body is composed of matter, its lenses of spiritual sub- stance. Beware! that the material part be kept perfectly clean and well burnished and the spiritual lenses carefully and accurately adjusted, else you will see things more dis- torted (if possible) than through the dark and muddy media of church, State_’and professional craft. “ Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. Adieu.” Returning to full consciousness, preparing my telescope as directed, and bringing it to-bear with the axis of vision, I saw nought but Egyptian darkness as black as Erebus. Pres- ently gleams of light appeared, continuing to increase until Lucifer, the son of morning, lit up the Eastern horizon with a light rivalingthe meridian sun. Anon. a beautiful female (typifying Herodias) dancing before the king (our Govern- ' ment_), which so pleased him that he proposed to grant; her request, even to the equal half of his kingdom. Instead of which she modestly requested the head of John the Baptist (the churchs’ head) in a charger. I was much astonished at this apparently bloody and unnatural request. Further ob- servation revealed the important palpable fact that by this ruseshe effectually opened the door and removed the main stumbling-block to her entrance and taking possession of the equal half of government, to which by birth she was justly entitled. WATCHMAN, FREMONT, Ind. V [From the N. Sun, Oct. 23. 1875.] THE END OF THE SCANDAL SUITS. A NOLLE PROSEQUI ENTERED IN THE CASES OF BEECHER AGT. MOULTON, THE PEOPLE AG-T. MOULTON, AND THE PEOPLE AGT. TILTON. District Attorney Britten appeared before Judge N eilson Yesterday and, holding a bunch of indictments in his hand, said: If theCourt please, it has been my practice while perform- ing the duties of District Attorney of this county, whenever there was an indictment pending, the trial of which would, for any cause, most surely not result in a. conviction, nor in any public beneﬁt, to move for anolle in the case. This prac- tice is founded upon a principle which I believe to be mani- festly just and without exception in its application. The facts invoking it being clearly established, whether the accused desire to be tr_ied or not, or whether the accuser /fade sires that he should be so tried can have no legitimate influ once upon a District Attorney representing not individual interests but those of the aggregate people. * * * Prompted exclusively by these sentiments, I movelthat a Nov. 6, 1875. nolle prosequi be entered in the case of the People agains Moulton, which is an indictictment for an alleged libel against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ‘F =’v‘ * * i‘ * Justice Neilson’s reply was; _ The motion is granted. I think it proper to say that, re- cognizing that the questions involved in such cases rest largely in the judgment and discretion of the prosecutor represent- ing the people, in this particular case the views expressed and the course proposed to be pursued by the District Attorney are proper, and commend themselves to our judgment as a fair and just exercise of the discretion necessarily vested in him. The clerk will make the proper entry. Mr. Britton——I make a similar motion in the case of the People against Moulton, for alleged libel against a lady of this community. ' Judge N eilson~—That motion is also granted. Mr. Britton—I have still another motion of the same kind in the case of the People against Tilton for alleged libel against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ' Judge Nei1son—-That motion is granted likewise, and the proper entries will be made. * “ A The scandal is thus taken out of the courts, except so much of it as is involved in the indictments for perjury against Joseph Loader and John J. Price, the upholsterers. These Indictments are to be tried next month. I , Mr. Moulton was out of town yesterday. A member of Plymouth Church last evening spoke of the District Attor- ne_v’s action with pleasure, and added that Mr. Beecher was very magnanimous not to press the indictments, and had acted like a Christian gentleman in allowing Tilton and Moulton to go free. “ Now,” continued he, “ if the Sun will only let us have peace we will be content. I can’t under- stand why 125,000 people want to read that paper.” This quashing of the indictments amounts to an admission of adultery on the part of Henry Ward Beecher, while it adds nothing to his reputation as respecting the sanctity of an oath. PENNSYLVANIA JUSTICE ! Robert Sinnickson was arrested a few months ago at the Bushkill Community, in Pike County, on a charge of tres- pass, and conﬁned in jail to await trial which came off at Milford, September 29 and 30. The verdict of the jury was, “ Not guilty; defendant to pay one-half the costs." It must be very gratifying to Mr. S., after enduring the indignity of arrest and suffering a conﬁnement of four weeks and more in the county jail for an alleged offense of which he was found not guilty, to be allowed the privilege of contributing one-half the expense of his trial at a place twenty miles dis- tant from the scene of the disturbance, for his freedom. ‘ Mas. ISABELLA Bnnonnn HOOKER preached to a crowded congregation at the Bridgeport Universalist Church, last Sun- day, on “The Ministry of Angels.”-—N. Y. Sun. ng. A evwyv V BUSINESS EDITORIALS. ’ Moonr AND SANKEY are coming to save the souls of all poor spiritualists, inﬁdels, free religionists, etc., etc. at small expense, but the Wakeﬁeld Earth Closet Company will save the soles of the ladies and children, the sick. aged and inﬁrm from the dangers of ice and snow, mud and slush while on their shivering journey to that ancient nuisance in the back yard which is misnamed a privy. Moody and Sankey’s work may last a season, but the Wakeﬁeld Earth Closet will last a life-time. Now is the time to buy. Send to 36 Dey street, New York. DR. R. P. FELLOWS: Dear Sz'r——I once more communicate to you my success in using your Magnetized Powders. The last twelve boxes you sent me were received, and I took them according to direc- tions. They have done me good. The pain in my side and back is removed. The rheumatic affection of the arms is re- moved, and I feel much relieved. Always respectfully, MARKESON, Wis... Oct. 14, 1875. IRA N. Mason, M.D. One dollar per box. Address Vineland, N. J. THE TYPE-WRITER can be operated with any ﬁnger of either hand, and the writer can sit in any desired position; hence it is manifest that the drudgery of writing with the pen, whereby a. single set of muscles is used, and a constrained position necessitated, is overcome. Editors, copyists and others whose time is largely occupied with writing, need have no fear of pen paralysis, loss of sight or curvature of the spine from using the machine. It is little else than recrea- tion to use it for any reasonablelength of time. See adver- tisement on next page. ‘ The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. 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But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-he»tds—follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. CONTENTS. lcrgy. Chap. 1.-—Riva1 Claims of the Saviors. Chap‘. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conceptionoi the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.~Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.i Chap. 6.——Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. '7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant Savior. Chap. 8.——The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. , Chap. 11.-—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.-—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- ti,-pn in Infancy. _ _ _ ,Chap.13.—-The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . Chap. 1);.-—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.-The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.-—Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Ch ap. ‘l'?.—The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci— ﬁxion.‘. Chap. i8.——Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 2().~Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chan. 21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathen Ori in. Chapgzz.-The Holv 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.——Oi-igin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. . _ Chap. 2”/.——Tne Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Origin. Chapi°28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—How 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 hrist. ' Clgip. 1-l1.—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems: . _ _ Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Chi-ist_and Crishna. Chap. 83.——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 DOCt1‘1l]P 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 Metonyniic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. " Chap. 41.-—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Christ. Chap. 42.~—Chi'ist as a Spiritual Medium. ‘ Chap. 43.—Conversion, Repentance and “Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.——The Moral Lessons of Religious. History. Chap. 45.—Conclusion and Review. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-11-06_10_23
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-11-06_10_23
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 24 (November 13, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2097
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-11-13
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: _. _./..____ -.. - - .« ..h.-i.,,.««.—-.= ‘ -n J .PROGrRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMNIELED LIVEei .... ‘ ‘ﬂ BREAKING THE win? FOR FTJTURE GENERATIONS. "Vo1.’X.——No. 24;.——'VVl:ole N 0. 258 , i\lE‘fVV YORK, NOV. 13, 1875. PRICE TEN GENTS. The truth shall malee you _/ree.—Jesus. In the clays of the cotce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnz°shed.————St. John the Divine. ‘ Whereof I was made a 7nz'nz°ster to preach the searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Goal.-—Paul. m TO HELEN NASH. I certainly did not intend. to wound you so sorely; but you may be sure they are “the wounds of a friend,” which are "faithful.” For I recognize in you a fellow-laborer, whose heart I would encourage and whose handsl would strengthen. Nor did I intend to misquote, and thereby to any extent wrong you; and I think, so far as the misquotation goes, I have not to any great extent done so. For you say, “In nearl...
Show more_. _./..____ -.. - - .« ..h.-i.,,.««.—-.= ‘ -n J .PROGrRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMNIELED LIVEei .... ‘ ‘ﬂ BREAKING THE win? FOR FTJTURE GENERATIONS. "Vo1.’X.——No. 24;.——'VVl:ole N 0. 258 , i\lE‘fVV YORK, NOV. 13, 1875. PRICE TEN GENTS. The truth shall malee you _/ree.—Jesus. In the clays of the cotce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnz°shed.————St. John the Divine. ‘ Whereof I was made a 7nz'nz°ster to preach the searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Goal.-—Paul. m TO HELEN NASH. I certainly did not intend. to wound you so sorely; but you may be sure they are “the wounds of a friend,” which are "faithful.” For I recognize in you a fellow-laborer, whose heart I would encourage and whose handsl would strengthen. Nor did I intend to misquote, and thereby to any extent wrong you; and I think, so far as the misquotation goes, I have not to any great extent done so. For you say, “In nearly every instance when I have been approached, etc. ;” A and as “nearly every instance” establishes a rule which “exceptions prove,” I merely used the word “whenever” for . brevity’s sake. Nor do 1 think “ the qualifying clause makes a vast difference in the meaning as I have put it. For when- ever men approach women from the motive which you sug- gest they think or care very little whether they are the “avowed advocates of true principles” or not; and I think by this time most men, if they have not already, will soon ﬁnd out that the advocates of such principles are less open to such approach than others. You speak of my “intense personalities ” to you. Please remember that I said, “ What I am here saying I do not in- tend as anything especially personal to you, but am trying to explain principles which are alike applicable to all persons.” By this mean that such is the law of spiritual growth that when we feel called into any department of the great ﬁeld of reform, while we think we are only smiting outwardly at public evils, we are as really, though perhaps unconsciously, smiting inwardly at private evils in ourselves where all pub- lic evils have their roots. It took me long years of warfare to find out this truth. I regret that you should think that I cast at you innuen- does of any sort. I should feel myself debased were I even capable of doing so. You say that you have the misfortune to be misunderstood. Well, it does seem hard, and yet I long since learned that “Souls whom God hath called to sway eart,h’s ‘rudder and to steer the Bark of Truth, beating her against the wind Toward her port, must bear the mean And buzzing grievances, the petty martyrdoms Wherewith sin strives to Weary out I The tethered hope of faith; The sneers, the cold, unrecognizing look Of friends, who worship the dead corpse Of old King Custom, Where it I Doth lie in state within the church.” So, as this is the. lot of all g’enu.ine reformers, let .118 cheer- fully accept the situation. You will see, then, that your “ random shaft, ” did not come home to me personally; hor have I “taken up the cudgels for men generally.” I leave “» cudgels ” and all other imple- ments of mere combat, to th_os.e who are under the dominion of discord. I merely speak for an impartial treatment of both sexes. Yes, truly did Christ apply hard names to those who “ devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long pray- ers ;” but against the passion of sex, or its exercise, he uttered no word of judgment or condemnation. And now, let us waste no more time in setting ourselves personally right. As an individual, I may be far from the highest and best, both in my thought and feeling, onpthis sub- ject; but that will not affect the eve,rl,a‘st_in_g_‘principles of, truth upon which it is based‘. And I/do hope you will not consider yourself as personally uiider discussion ;: as I shall only say. what in my opinion will follow outwardly, from certain inward states, of the aﬂ;‘ectio_ns._ During nearly forty years I have made this a subject of doe?’ earnest, thoughtfuland conscientious inquiry; and during six years past, I have had in preparation, and which I hope soon to bring before such as are ready to receive them, several essays on The Ministry of Sex. And as what I have already there written will very nearly convey what I wish now to say further; on this subject, I here transcribe some passages from one of these essays. . “ Let us, therefore, reverently approach this inner Sanctu- ary, the Divine Inmost, the ‘Holy of Holies ’ in our own souls. And let us come with unshodden feet, and a due preparation of heart and life; and bring to its contemplation thoughtful minds and sanctiﬁed affections; for ‘the true Shekinah is man,’~and, as ‘the pure in heart shall see God,’ and, as God is here, in us, with His loving, creative and sup- porting power, whosoever fails of seeing Him in a fact so grand and beautifulas this of sex, may know of a truth that he is not pure in heart.” * it * “1f the creative power is unreﬁned, rude, coarse, the offspring of this power must take on the conditions of the passions involved in its conception and forma- tion; and so must be coarse, selﬁsh, lustful. Ohasten, purify, reﬁne, elevate the creative power, and its products must follow the same conditions. bring forth evil fruit; nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.’ Make the tree of man good, at his central and creative power, and his fruit shall be good also. effective work of the social scientist and reformer lies here, at the root of the whole matter.” * * * “ When we shall come to a full recognition of this Divine presence. this Immanuel within us, and shall know of K a truth that woman ts,the incarnation of God’s sacred mystery of motherhood, even our own mother, and man the no less sacred mystery of fatherhood, our own father, that we are in very deed the offspring of God, and so partakers of the Divine character, how shall we shrink and shiver at the bare thought of degrading our highest and holiest powers and aﬁ’ections to the base level of property which we may own and traﬁc in under the regulations of our own statutes and devices. And this reverence and chastity must relate more especially to the act of sexual communion.” >1‘ * “For the Divine love operates and is manifested in woman, and the Divine wisdom in man. And when understood and comprehended, this communion will ennoble, bless and sanctify our whole being. Until then we may degrade and profane ourselves thereby.” “Paul speaks of those who, in the outward, symbolic sacraments of the church, ‘Eat and drink unto themselves damnation, not discerning the Lord's body.’ So when men. and women, discerning no Divine presence within them- selves, come to this vital communion with profane and unsanctiﬁed aﬁections and prostitute ‘ life’s holiest sacra- ment’ to the gratiﬁcation of a lustful appetite, they fall under judgment and shame. And. then, instead of searching out the cause of this degrading revulsion, they condemn the sacrament itself.” “ But the conduct of this communion in its highest spiri- tual exercise lifts the soul into that conscious fellowship 6f love and wisdom wherein their forces unite and blend for the most grand and beautiful of all ends and purposes.” * 4‘ * , When we have attained to a full spiritual culture the com- : bined willﬁholdsfeach passion under its\absolute control; and the sexual passion being thus subordinated to the soul’s high- est needs, its purely reproductive o"ﬂ"1ce is held in reserve for ithe best possible conditions for generation. For;,, as I, have already hinted, the sexual force has a sacramental, as well as areproductive, use, and the one does net involve, or ever suppose, the other. “ But when sanctiﬁed to, its; sacramental. uses it becomes the most loyal and willing, servant of; benevgolence, vene- ration, spirituality, andtruth and-beauty, in all their fosms and elxp.rossions,' a_n_d.so givestone, vigor. and strength to all the moral andspiritual faculties, an_d,assu.1=e~s» their devotion to the highestand noblest purposes of’ life: for the two ele- ments are thereby interblended in a sweet and divine union. Indeed, in such states. of«- the affections the heavens are open- ed, and,one. can. say of a truth, ‘ I have seen God,’ for the Divine life is therein revealed; and thereicomes to the soul . such a sense of benediction as to sanctity all feeling and make the love of wrong and sin impossible.” “ For, to the chastencd, reﬁned and unselﬁsh soul who feels his kinship with all life and a brotherhoodin, and a fellowship with, all mankind, there is no other power, which can bring him into such vital and intimate relationship with all things, as this power of sex through its livihg communications. For, as all life flows fpom it, so‘ all life centres in it. And so who- sqetgerjeuters chastely and reverently into sexual commun- ......-,=»:a‘-.:.; ..t~...—.....‘— -4... . For ‘a good tree cannot ‘ So the only ' : K" ion does really discover that this is none other than the house of God and the very gate of heaven.” “ Nor is there any sacrament of wine, baptism or prayer, so sacred as this communion of sex when each participant feels the_ Divine life in his and her own soul inﬂowing and inter- blending with the other. Hence by this living communion with God through the . fellowship of sex comes, as ‘above stated, the redemption and salvation from all sin.” These extractswill help to illustrate the best thought and feeling on this subject to which I have yet attained. And what we all need is something which will strengthen our aspirations in this direction. And Ithink the drift and tend- ency of the discussions on this subject are toward the higher sunlit plains above indicated. So let us “ Far within Old Darkness’ Hostile lines advance, and Pitch the shining tents of light.” Lonnve Moomr... IS THE DAY BREAKING ? BY WILLIAM FOSTER, JR. “ It breaks, it comes, the misty shadows ﬂy", A rosy radiance gleams upon the sky; The mountain tops reflect it calm and clear; The plain is yet in shade, but day is near.” The terrible question of the relation of the sexes in some form will up, in spite of the ‘efforts to repress its discussion. The human mind cannot be checked in its career in search of ‘truth, but will assert its prerogative in spite of the church and State. The editor of the WEEKLY has passed through an ordeal but ahair’s breadth this side of death—calumny, the dungeon, sickness—because she had the virtue and boldness to open. the cancerous excrescences which had fastened themselves:-. on society, seeking to remove them, that the body politic: might become whole and pure, be in the best possible condi- tion to evoke the best results, and give us men and women... ﬁtted for the great duties of life. It is hard to be forced to. endure such trials and tribulations, but such has been th.e~~. fate of the reformers. Out of their martyrdom has come the: seeds of progress, that vitalizing power which has carried.- causepafter cause to victory. Since she struck a blow for’ Social Freedom, and summoned the popular sexual phi-‘- losophy to judgment, there has been a decided change, an. ‘advance, freer thought running out in various channels, all; tending to elucidate the question in some of its phases. There are bolder words now on the marriage system, which is a prophecy of reform, a discarding of the element of.’ slavery, and a basing the unilon of the sexes on those laws of reciprocity and adaptation which grow out of sex’. "Marriage has lost much of its sacredness as a legal institution. Then again the nearing of children, including procreation, is no longer a, question too delicate to be discussed. The. church for long centuries has been preaching regeneration as the essential agency which. was to make the world, or the mengand women in it, better, but without effect. This theo- Qlegical idea is now, well nigh exploded, and it begins to be un- ‘derstood that generation is the starting point, the mediulgm, through which salvation-must come. The subtile lawa,of:,:= *'heredity.'transmit evil as well as good, if evil be present, he there ever somuch praying and psalm singing. The,,w»orld4-I ‘_fha's. been aware of this so far asanimals are concerned.'and . ifor;- some ‘two centuries has studiously sought to,._ improve ‘horses, cows,’ swine, etc., and even vegetables. Gr;rnd"results , ihave been accomplished, the character and; qt,-,1a1—ity of;:~ our domestic animals having been essentially battered-. Dur-.. ing all this time nothing has been done to improve the human. race. It was too delicate a subject to even think .abcut,;. much more to write or talk about. It is not so novs,,,how.. over. There is quite a 1iteratnre_ on the subject, dcvelopedsz within a very few years,’ The subject,__ too’, is p_rcsented.,on;+l public occasions, and discussed without creating. excitements. Last week; the farmers of Franklin County, Mass, had their annu;al,gathering.' ‘At the dinner, instead of * having-a set or- gator, they trustedto improvised speaking from among them- "selves. R. N. Oakman, ex—County Commissioner," being called upon, squarely “hit the nail on the head.” He said,.. I we had societies whose object was to propagate cattle, and: ‘ what was now needed, was a. society to propagate our own... species. We hav,_e stock shows, let us have baby shows. The... race is d-eteriorating, becausefthe duty of ‘propagating is slairked. Another ‘farmer, ID. 0.’ Fiske, being called upon,“ 2%://;/, Ml t3 WOQDHULL & 0LAFLIN’S W'EEKI.a”if. I‘Iov.§l3,E§;18’i'5. followed in the line of the first speaker, and in the course of his remarks specially addressed himself to the women pres- ent. The report of the meeting did not indicate that there were any protests or an exhibition of prudery because of this plain talking. The Springﬁeld Um'on.,‘ commenting on the report of the meeting, well said: “ Such talk grates on the pseudo modest ear, butthe sooner the false delicacy which hastens with bell and czindle to exorcise this ghost of society is itself laid, the better for the future of the American peopleand the world.” . . Bravo! words ﬁtly uttered—-a most just rebuke. Progress has been made, we may be sure, when such utterances are boldly made in a leading daily paper. It is a good omen. Let us all, therefore, take courage and keep the question of the im- provement of the race up for discussion. It is the question of the hour, and should be paramount to all others. Not that it should be made to monopolize public, attention; for there are other important questions which must not be ignored, such as the currency and suffrage. It can be dis- cussed now with more effectiv_enesS than heretofore. Let it be done then faithfully, in all its length and breadth. , “ Get the truth» but-once utteredpand ltis like A star new-bornthat drops into its place, ' And which once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth cau_sh9.ke.” Pnovmnscn, Oct. 7, 1875. AN HOUR WITH THE WEEKLY. ‘ ARTICLE N0. Iv. ,.As stated in the preceding article, the laborer has brought this state of vassalage upon himself through the inﬂuence of veneration. Veneration has governed him, whereas he should have made veneration subservient. Whatever ingre- dient enters into man’s composition should be his servant, and should be an agent to work in all departments ofliis be- ing. Worship of the unity of all things; instead, however, venera- tion has led mankind to laud the few and denounce the many. , Veneration, properly directed, places all nature upon one grand plane: it is the universal equalizer. . The ﬁrst step for the laborer to take toward accomplishing his deliverance, is to direct veneration to the leveling of all humanity; not by lowering the wealthy, but by raising him~ _ self‘; compel his veneration to serve himself inrecognizing his equality with the capitalist. Do not wait for others to discover and publish your Worth, but set your own value high enou h and others will soon accord to ou your 'ust merit. ‘ g 7 Y J Say to the capitalist, “I am your servant no more; I am my own master; I do not ask to ﬁnd grace in your eyes, but de- mand of you my just due, for I am my own savior.” The next step for you to take is, to pay no more tribute. Joseph has defrauded you long enough; pay no more double tithes. Third. Retain in your own hands the just remuner- ation foryour labor. Fourth. Make yourovvn labor the standard of valuation, and by that standard remunerate the services of others. Fifth. Bear only your due share of a public burden. Sixth. Secure your proportion of a. public beneﬁt. N ow let us apply these rules; make labor honorable, pro- ductiveness the criterion of prosperity, and usefulness the standard of merit. The capitalist and his money thus fall into disgrace, and are excommunicated unless they con- tribute to the public prosperity by enhancing production. Repudiate all unredeemed coupons. No more interest on the public debt or any other debt. “ We must maintain the integrity of the government,” do you say? “ We must honor its drafts and obligations.” Do the coupons perform any labor, or contribute to thepublic welfare , by increasing pro-- duction? No. Then no honor is due to the coupons, re- scind them at once. ‘ , Demand, your just due of the capitalist. During the late war you saved the Government, the capitalist and his prop- erty, besides yourself and yours. You have got your pay for saving your own share of the Government, but have you got . your pay for saving the capita%ist’s share therein? You pay your own bills in saving your own life and property, but have you got your pay for saving the life and property of the capitalist‘? No. ii-luman life has no money standard of value; therefore, the capitalist must forever be your debtor on this score, but he can pay you for saving his property. How much does he owe you? That proportion of thecosts that his property bears to the whole. Compel the capitalists to pay their debts to you. Let all public debts be paid by dir'ect gaxanion upon all property; and let a sufficient levy be so laid as will liquidate them in one year. ~ As the producer holds the first title to the product, pay: what you owe to yourself before you pay your indebtedness to others. Compensation should be reciprocal. Pay no man ouch wages for his services as will enable him to accumulate ten dollars to your one; or to live in that prodigal manner that demands the expenditure of ten times the amount that temperate welfare docs. Man, therefore, should direct veneration to the. ofa sum sumcient to support in aﬂiuence a vast horde Of‘, revenue oﬂicers, and besides, compels you, the producer, to" pay all the public expenses. ‘Your sugar costs you two cents ;a pound additional; you have six months to sweeten, while your rich neighbor has but three, you therefore use twice the, amount of sugar that he uses, and ~.pay,twice as much revenue. -directly as he pays. His means for support are demlved from", his interest money; be perfor.m.s no productive labor, and he’ :is daily accumulating wealth; therefore, in the end. Y0“ I .,must pay for the sugar that he uses. By doing away with the; .revenue tariff system, you dispense with about ,tyv.o.-thi1'ds of‘ .'the annual current expenses ‘of the Nationalafaloéveirnnnenti '2per..cent.. of what retnainﬁo , on But,” gays one, -“that will never do; we need a tariff to protect our industrial interests. We cannot competeiwith foreign nations.” Here is $0111‘ Speculating mania again. Cannot; American productions -furnish subsistence for Amer- tlbesides diminishing your own liability in payinggabont i;weneEy§ Who is it that ﬁrst raises the protection cry? None other than the capitalist; increase of the tariff increases his proﬁt, but not yours; the lower the tariﬁ the more slowly does he accumulate, andyour net gain is nothing the less. “ But.” says another, “ if you Erernove the;ftariﬁ’ and cut oﬁ‘ the proﬁt of the capitalist. you injure the laborer, because through this proﬁt the capitalist is induced to give employ- ment to the laborer.” This is labor paying tribute to the capitalist; the laborer goes to the capitalist to get employ- ment for his hands. VVithout' tariﬁ‘ the situation will be reversed, and the capitalist will come to the laborer to get tions that the laborer will make when he knows his business. Money will be dethroned and become the servant of its right- ful lord—La.bor. ’ Representation is the greatest public beneﬁt. Labor is not properly represented in any department of government. Let laborers, in all cases, ‘throw their votes for labor. Let our municipal officers beiaborers; let laborers have caucuses of their own instead of letting a few ringleaders select from their own number the delegates to make the nominations. To—day more than 99-100 of the aggregate of ofﬁceholclers in this country have no direct interest in the welfare of the laborer. “ This looks very well on paper,” you say, “ but how can we accomplish it ?” I answer—By the ballot, thrown without fear or favor; and if such action results in a. demand for the use of the bullet for your defense use it. EDWARD PALMER, A SONG OF LOVE. BY Mas. H.‘AUGUs'I‘A WHITE. Of all the ﬂowers that bud and bloom Not one of greater beauty grows, Of rarer iexture, fairer hue, Or sweeter odor than the rose. Of all the passions souls may feel, In this or Aiden world above, »Not' one is so supremely good, Inspiring or divine as love, Unfettered, natureguided love. A blooming rose may captive be In secret valley, guarded well By sentinel grasses, yet perfume Of roses, will its presence tell. So love, though prisoned in the breast By jealous vvatchfulness and care, In vainly guarded, and reveals Through speaking eyes its presence there. "Tis well it should, ’tis well it dare I For if wild blossoms that must grow Where passing winds the seedlings bear, Contrive their presence to disclose By casting fragrance on the air, Oh, how much more should human love, Which, too, must go where nature wills-- E motion that itself is God, Sweet, sovereign balm ‘for earthly ills- . ' Give voice in freedom to its thrills l SEXUAL ETHICS. . BY ELVIRA WHEELOCK RUGGLES. I think, ‘as between the sexes, the laws of nature are re- versed in actual practice-—that is. in legal marriage, and out of it, too, man makes the advances, sexually; indeed, if of the baser sort, demands gratiﬁcation whetherwoman feels any response or not. N ow this is worse even than ordinary prostitution. As I study sexual nature in its highest and best estate, wo- man should always invite and never yield to communion; and it seems to me that the difference in the conditions of man and woman plainly indicates this law. Man’s natureis always responsive, while woman’s is precisely the reverse. . , . ‘ This is why man s nature is so easily aroused by the least show of feeling on woman’s part; while she must intuitively feel, not only the adaptation but the inner-soul attractions to experience a natural, spontaneous emotion. To be ure, a man may create a sort of artiﬁcial stimulus in wbman’s na- ture that will sometimes cause her to yield to his solicita- tions, but this is neither sweet, natural or healthful. To be perfect and blessing-giving it must be as spontaneous with women as among the lower_animals. where the female inl vites the male; only, of course, inﬁnitely reﬁned and pirftu- alized above the lower order. a ‘ If woman were permitted to follow "her own instincts in this matter, and would never yield herself save when natu- rally attracted, prostitution and every form of sexual vice and disease would have an end,.ancl neither man nor woman would be starved as now in this department of their beings. Woman cannot help ‘her lack of ready responsiveness to man’s inordinate and unsuited demands,» because it is her na- = \ture to be comparatively exclusive and non-excessive by vir- The present system of tariﬂ‘ necessitates the expenditure: we of her natural queenship in the realm of sex. She is the true guardian of sexual purity and health, and did custom and law permit her to exercise her sovereignity in the sancti- ibies Of 10‘V9y170 lllvlte Whom her own heart should elect, inde- pendent of all forms or bonds _other than the law of reci- and happiness. ‘Were she thus free _to act, excesses and abuses could not exist, because the law of sex in womanhood is adverse to them. Women understand this if men do not, resconsiveﬂess of his b0iHg.,b609e118.e it is natural that he should be Pmpared to at all time,s respond to the sacred call be attracted to him, is no proof that he “cannot have some one, supreme attraction-—a love transcending allothers in power and perfection; and the same is true of woman. jsan producers? But let us .take_,anothgr yipw of,this,matter' .I believe in the sexuality of soul, and think it is the fame-' emptoyment for his money; and these are just the condi- - procity. this world would soon blossom into an Eden of love" On the Otherl‘ hand. man cannot help the activity and ready of womanhood. Because of this, he ,more,nat_um11y bgﬂgmes. .promiscuous.tha,npwomarqbut for all.that,in_.his noblest estate, . ‘I148 is capable 0.? 3-S-D1‘0fQ11,B.d and devoted love as woman. Be-5 Gaiiﬂe he may 1'—6Sp»0D—.d. Sexually, to diﬁerent ones who nine insti that at once, recognizes a true aﬁinity of sexﬂand '§§<;ii:l,r.and the law of woman’s nature protests against sexual relations that are of the body alone. The sex-life of her soul must ﬁrst be thrilled by love’s_ho1y powers before she can permit the living temple to be consecrated to love’s bo- liest uses. ‘ Oh, manhood and womanhood, understand you this, nor ever after ‘prove faithless toﬁthe truth within your souls, but rise the redeemed inherit-ors of eternal life. JANEsvII.LE, Wis. From the Chicago Tribune, Sept 9.) , NOT A BIT SCARED. You say in your last Saturday’s issue, over my letter, “You will catch it for this.” Now, Mr. Editor, 1 expect I shall get some telling hits from the young ladies; but what I said is true, “alas, too true.” Still, if any of your fair correspond- ents can convince me to the contrary, I shall feel only too grateful to the Tribune as being the means of clearing my vision of the only too apparentstate of affairs among the city belles. I have had a large circle of lady friends in this city during the past ten yearsgand I can surely say that I am unable to ﬁnd even one who is free from the censure of my last week’s letter. Most of these same belles wou.ld not ad- mit that such a thing was true of them, and most of them would be exceedingly surprised if they thought I wrote the letter of last week. Still my opinion is but the same held by very many young men of the city—young men _who are ready and willing to support wives could they ﬁnd one ﬁt for them. I do not mean by this to say that young men are faultless—-by no means—-yet many of our young men who are faulty are so only temporarily, and good wives would make them a credit to our city; as it is, many young men are fast throwing themselves away in useless lives because there is no health in woman. Read the effusion in Saturday 1ast’s issue. Why, the girls are pretty much all of the type I have spoken of, with the exception of “ Nancy Spry.” Now, Miss Nancy, if you got left in the grand rush for husbands some twenty»ﬁve or thirty years ago, do not be hard on the young men of to-day. They are probably light-headed; perhaps we are; but, then, What would we be if we had such a‘ mate as your own sweet self? You are no doubt a nice country old maid; that's not exactly what city young men want. We want pure, intelligent young ladies, who will make good wives and mothers, and save us from wasting our lives away on the fast and worthiess pleasures of the day. I hope, Mr. Editor, that your paper may be the cause of bringing about a better understanding among our young folks. There seems to be too much sham in all grades of society. Girls are led to believe that to dress is the ultimatum of their lives, and they strive to outstrip their neighbors in all the accomplish- ments that dress can give. Why, I have known girls to talk dress, dress, for four or ﬁve hours at a stretch, and when young men think of this they are frightened at the expense such girls would entail on them. Then, when we look at the constitution oi’. the society girl, is it not a fact that they are wearing themselves away; can itﬂnot be plainly seen? Why. a Miss ———, whom I knew a few years ago, when she ﬁrst came out, was a nice, fresh young girl, with oh, such deli- cious color. I saw her dismounting from her carriage yester- day in front of one of our dry-goods palaces. She had been to Europe to recover her health. I hardly knew her. Her checks were sunken and painted; she was thin and wan, but elegantly dressed. She told me she was married to So- and-so, a_ rich old man, one of our old nabobs, old enough to be her father; but then “she doe as she pleases,” she said, with a smile, and she went in to spend his money freely. This is but one instance of many, only many do not get the rich old man. I have had one or two_,friends ask me why I did not look for some pretty country girl. The reason is that the country girls are almost as bad as the city belles, for, even if they have never moved in that society, they have read about it, and the moment you bring them into the city they are un- ceasing in their eﬁorts to mingle and keep up with the city belles, and whatever is good in them soon becomes “lost to view, though to memory dear.” I trust, Mr. Editor, we shall have some discussions of the other side, and I am willing to take all that I catch by speaking my mind freely on this sub- ject, HARRY B. FREE. LETTER FROM PARKER ‘PILLSBURY. , SOUTH NEWBURY, Ohio, Oct. 25. 1875. Editor Woodhull «ll: C'laﬂin’s Weekly_—My ﬁeld, like your own, at present, is the West; and were not our West almost synonymous with World, we might hope to meet at some point, which would surely afford me great pleasure, inas- much as I have never seen. or heard you in public in all my travels and yours. ‘ The newspaper accounts of you and your labors in the ﬁeid make me quite ashamed of my ownlittle audience and the interest my work awakens‘. I am glad-enough to have it so; and rejoice unspeakably in all your successes. May they be magniﬁed and multiplied. . I I have headquarters for fa few days here in Newbury with our brave, tried and trusty friends, Darius and Sophia Ober Allen. Trained in the school of Wm. Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Parker, they will follow true light Wherever it leads. Though among the most quiet and unobtrusive per- sons in the world, they never lose any opportunity to sow the seeds of truth and right, as well abroad as at home. A And _ though living in a remote little town, where the scream of steam .engines is never heard, and where, almost, the robin’s nests must be counted to make up the villages, still they are widely known by their good words and works. as well in Newlﬂngland as at the _West. And your fearless VVEELKY is indebted to ‘them for many a subscriber a.u,(__i, testimony to its unflinching adh.eren,ce to its pliitilcipleﬁa in t,I‘iﬂ1S and P8?" secutions, as well as in its present more __prosperou.sbcohdLi_- _A tions. M V V I am glad you do not enlarge your paper. It is now time “ $1,311 3513,11 _yoice_;” n1orepQi3ent‘than all political and secta- rian whirlwfinds, earthquakes and ﬁres that 6,V6_1‘ Sh0Qk 0111' 'Amer'ic‘an~Mount'Horéb“of_ ‘state and éﬂhurch. And with Cillll‘ I Nov. 18,[1_875. \ peerless Helen to keep her argue-eye on your generally able, faithful and truthful correspondence, as well as ﬂashing con- tinually her own emanations all around the sky; and with almost all your contributions distilled down to essence or quintescence; none writing at aliunless having somewhat; important to say, the WEEKLY is already Sun enough for all our present,_mora1, mental and spiritual system. And long may it shine! f , ’ . ‘ I am glad, too, that you do not overlook our present indus- trial and financial condition, as a people. Dr. Franklin taught, and everybody once believed, that industry, economy, temperance and a complete knowledge of our business. in any laudable calling, would insure a decent livelihood to man or woman. But this very week, here in Ohio, I have seen men and women, skilled in their occupations, truly upright, moral and every way virtuous in character, and‘ yet wholly _out of employment, only so far as willing to Work for their ,- , A -_,,board and bed, exclusive of clothing or even washing! "Nor is it enough to ask, why don't they taketo agriculture? That is not their trade. And farming is a trade and requires capital. too, as much as any business on earth. As well ask ‘why does not the failing farmer (and there are many such) take to building sawmills or steam engines? The unalterable truth is, our society is so constructed, our business so conducted, our Government so managed and ad- ministered, that the laborer is down, like an unlucky bullock fallen in a railroad car, with all the rest trampling him un- derfoot; and there seems no eye to pity, no arm to save. The Government, costing unknown millions every year, does little for the producing people-, except to tax and punish them. And so administered, it matters not whether it be Gold or Gm enbacks, contraction or inﬂation as ﬁnancial“ pol- icy. Either could and would be so manipulated as to hold the poor at the mercy of capital, making the rich more rich, the poor more poor and powerless. It is not gold or greenbaoks we most need. It is not money, more or less—but manhood, honor. integrity among those who rule over us. Without these virtues in our rulers, the poor must and will perish. or save themselves by inevita- ble Revolution. PARKER PILLSBURY. snx FOR PROPAGATION. BY WARREN crmsn. ' There is a strange and strangely defective theory which has of late spread among a respectable class of our citizens, that sex and its uses are exclusively for propagation, and should be used in conjunction between the sexes only for that purpose. sons of morbid sexual powers, largely produced by sexual abuse of some kind, of wives and widows whose sexual pow- ers were destroyed by abuse soon after marriage, and hence become disgusted with all but the maternal feeling; others who, by private self-abuse, have destroyed all natural feel- ings, and hence seek in theory adapted to themselves; others inheriting morbid -sexual conditions; others who have de- stroyed their powers by excessive indulgence, and still others who‘ have had no experience, but see so much evil in its abuse that they ignore its functions except for perpetuation of the species. On this subject the lessons of nature are all about us and within us. In the lower orders and species of organic life propagation seems to be the sole object of life, as many of them ripen, deposit their seed, and die; and most of the lower species of animal and vegetable life seem to be extremely proliﬁc, and the great scripture command to be fulﬁlled by ‘them to “ increase and multiply,” but death soon follows the scattering of seed in many of them. As we come up toward man and reach the vertebrate or mammal we see propagation decre-ase,.term of life increase, and still copula- tion confined, at least in the female, to propagation. ‘Yet even here it is plain that sex is not by nature designed ex- T clusively for the purpose of extending the species. ‘When we reach the human race, at least the most reﬁnedend ad- vanced of thevspeciejsg We ‘discover sex loses its exclusive quality of_propa.gation,_and, is evidently adapted to a still higher, holler and far more durable purpose than extending the race. Neither sex is conﬁned in its-"desire nor capacity to adesire for offspring. lA1though it does often begin in fe- males with capacity» for maternity, yet itidoes not expire with the .capacity,fnor ‘even with death, as we are fully assured; and yet, after a shortfperiod in this life, the capa- « cityis forever gone of nourishing germs of being in the body. The sexual ﬂunionof parties that are consecrated and adapted to each other has no connection‘ with oﬁspring, and although we wholly repudiate and despise the vulgar use and sensual abuse so common in our country of the sexual organs, by which our society is terribly demoralized and diseased, yet we do contendthat the-sexual nature has a far more exten- sive and important mission than propagation, although we ‘ would not detract "from the sacredness of that holy act. There is a conservative power in the sexual contact which, when properly regulated, is the most reﬁning, elevating and ennobling of any act oflife; but abused, it is equally destruc- tive; and this picture. 69 common, _fu_rn_ishes the arguments for repudiatingall but the propagation. In thehighest and holiest and purest social life. the sexual blending of the truly conjoined pairs is above all obj ects exceptthe mutual absorp- tion of soul in soul, and even the existence of sex maybe for- gotten for a time, as we have no doubt it is in spirit life. Man, like the animals, rises from the lower and sensual nature, but carries his sex with him and enjoys in the higher life, above and beyond the power of propagation, what he could never reach in it. The momentary act of propagation bears as little relation to the higher intercourse of the sexes as the life of the May-ﬂy does to the Info of man on earth. So we read nature. WHATS "i‘H_E MATTER? The Chicago Times, of O. t. 25, heads a column as follows: . “ Divorces by the Dozen -—-All other Court Business Sus- pended to Accommodate ’:3uft‘ering Petitioners-—The Mar- ‘ riage Contract Rapidly Becoming a Mere Mockery.” Then follows a column 0: details of a score or more bf 13?? Most of the advocates of this theory are per-- 0 A plications for divorce, three-fourths of the applicants being of the female persuasion. That cases of this kind are increas- ing with astonishing rapidity it is useless to deny. Whether thisgstateof aﬂairs is to be regarded as cause for lamentation or. rejoicing I "will not stop here to inquire. What most in- terests the social scientists is to know thecause of all this up- rest and commotion. To my mind the problem is capable of but one solution. The race has outgrown, or more properly, is rapidly outgrowing, the old social condition, and ;these ripples upon the surface of domestic life are but the pre- cursors of the mighty upheaval which sooner or later'will overturn the present marriage institution with all its abomi- nations of legalized rape and sapctiﬁed lust. Woman 13 beginning to feel the degradation of her position, and deser- tions and applications for divorce are the out-cropping of the smouldering ﬁres that burn beneath the gilded surface of a sham morality and a hypocritical respectability. For two hundred years the negro on the southern planta- tion were his chains in meek, quiet submission. At length the very air he breathed became instinct with ‘liberty, and the “ peculiar institution” was doomed from that very hour. What then signiﬁed Dred Scott Dechions and Fugitive Slave Bills? The soul of humanity is more potent than human en- actments written on parchment, and with bleeding feet the trembling slave marches toward the promised land. ﬁ So the uprising of the sexual slaves of to-day in solemn protest against an unholy institution is a sure prophecy of its impending doom. Whether man in his desperation will be driven to procurea Dred Scott Decision declaring the mar- yried woman has no rights the legal master is bound to re- spect, and the enactment of Va ~. statute making it a penal offense to shelter and feed the fugitive from lust and rapine, remains to be seen. Should such be the case it may be neces- sary as a means of self protection to institute underground railroads to convey trembling victims to places ofsafety where the arm of power may never reach them more. I But whatever may be the road over which we may travel, the goal will ere long be reached. The absolute freedom of woman is the only gospel of salvation to the race. Through her freedom comes an enlightened and puriﬁed motherhood; insuring a desired maternity and a mother’s welcome, which is the inalienable birthright of every human soul. D. M. ALLEN. [Written for Woodhull & Cia.ﬂin’s Weekly.) WHO ARE THEY NOW ? A loving soul, by men denied . A resting-place, was cruciﬁed \ For telling truths to pomp and pride. Who are the Christs tc—day ‘P Self-righteous Pharisees were shocked, . To see Truth’s mysteries unlocked, _ And thus their gilded pathways blocked. Who now on corners pray ? The Tories, when men’s souls were tried. Stood cringing by the tyrant’s side, And Liberty’s behests denied. Who now to power how 1’ At risk of liberty.aud_ life. The noble few began the strife, . “I And won the field With ‘glory rife. ’ Who are the heroes now ? » . lixcrnszon. I Tmm-roN, N. J., Octoebei.-,22, 1,875., . AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED A'1"_‘A Lyra woiusn surrxmoni coNv_r:N_r'roN _1N“ SAN FRANCISCO, BY ELIZABETHIHUGHES. We can hardly estimate the importance of the Woman ques- ticn, of which suffrage only forms a part. and by no means the most important part. It is the question of the age; and every day, every month, every year, increases its importance and signiﬁcance. Hitherto woman has been the conserva- tive power that has held things in their places; to-day in the largest church in the land she has become an element that has shaken the ediﬁce from roofito basement. It is a question whether suffrage can be _accorded to woman inthe orderof things that exists at present-whether, indeed, there will be time to do it. Events arerushing along very swiftly, and we are discovering that themechanism of Church and State is not quite so seaworthy as it ought to be. Itresembles a steamship whose wheels are going -on one side and inert on the other, and ‘which. while in that condition, is about to encounter a severe tempest. There will be hardly time for the adjustment of the political Claims of woman before the storm will be upon us. The goodly ship must go to pieces.‘ But on some enchanted isle, the magicians of __the future. under the inspiration of woman, shall build and launcha’ better vessel on calmer waters. . Woman is the moulder of man. The mother’s heart stamps his destiny.‘ So is she- the nursing . mother of the new JGovernment,--o-of. the new order. __ Not independent of ..man, but more than ever de_pe'ndent upon__ him, and he uponher. The true, the Divine _goyernmen,t._mu,_st.»include woman, for it ce_annot,be' born without her. The ‘ih‘spi-m.‘tioxi‘a5sd unfoldment of ’wio‘man .is,th5e wine ofthe kingdom, of wliich_C_hr'ist' spoke when he said that if this "wine should be poured into old bottles (that is, the bottles of existing i.nstitution‘s)’ the bottles would burst and the wine would be spilled, but new wine must be put into new bottles, and then both are preserved. The time has not yet arrived when the divinest wine of the kingdom. the true inspiration of woman. can be poured into new bottles, bottles worthy to contain it, and which can hold it. The present masculinestate of things, which is founded on force, the male element, must intensify its antagonisms, and from the sheer necessity of the case will have to come up to the point of a military dictatorship. The thickening complications of the next few years will leave no room for any visible ad just- ment of our ‘claims. This suffrage movement is simply an educational one. ‘It may obtain to a very limited extent,,as in Wyomiiig, but it will he the exception that proves the rule. The'women of the future have got to be created and educated, and then they can create and educate the men of the future; and the men and women of that tuture, working WQQDHULL dc CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY‘. » 3‘ in harmony together, will create new institutions after the old one—sided fragmentary ones have been swept away by the inevitable tempest. I see the serried phalanx, the glit- tering bayonets, the terrible artillery, the strength and power of man arrayed in his might for the last supreme effort at. government by force--the last and greatest embodiment of‘ the idea that might makes right. It is beautiful and fearful, but the divine idea of justice, of the right of minorities as well as majorities, of the essential power and force of love and truth is stronger than that, and must eventually super- sede it, and when that time is ushered in God, through women, must speak and will not keep silence. ? In the following lines, the word. “that ” is used to exemplify its various signiﬂcationsz Now that is a word which may often be joined, , For that that may be doubled is clear to the mind; And that that that is right is as plain to the vi.ew As that that that that we use is rightly used too; And that that that that that line has, isright, In accordance with grammar, is plain in our sight. I A Glut. at Putney, N. Y., recently nailed 600 grape boxes‘-I in one day often hours, driving 10,000 nails and handling: 3,000 pieces of wood. A g b - IN the great exposition at Pittsburg a ludicrous attempt at modesty was made last week by the authorities draping the J, stuffed gorilla exposed at that show. This was done, it is stated, in the interests of virtuous tastes. It’s about time that this sort of modesty should be thrown with physio to the dogs, and that human beings should get a little ordinary common sense into their craniums. The officials who draped that gorilla should be exported at the national expense to heaven, in company with the Delaware coroner who insisted on holding an inquest on Barnum’s Egyptian mummy some months ago. There is room for both parties there.-—Cap?3tol- WHY HE SIGHED. I do not mourn, sweetwife of.m.ine, Because those ruby lips of thine, That marble brow, Were kissed by one who might have been,‘ Had I not chanced to step between, ' Thy husband now. I do not grieve because thy heart. Ere cupid touched it with my dart, For him would beat; Nor that the hand which owns, my ring, " Once wore his‘ gift, a. “ Mizpah ” thing-— It was but mete. I sigh not that his arms were placed Some score of times around your waist, . So sweet and slim, Ah no, my love ! the woe you see Is mine because you wedded me Instead of him. BITS OF FUN. Joan Brrmrncsu says he will. take the stage this winter; also, the railroad cars, when they run his way. .-J.osHUA was theﬁrst man to stop his newspaper. He stopped the daily sun. It was because the war news didn’t suit him. GOING up in a ‘balloon is not particularly hazardous. The danger is in coming down. I ’AME‘RIOAl\7 catsup tickles thepalaies of the Japanese. They - have tried to makesomething like it of cats, but failed. ‘ “PUTS” and “calls” may be properly deﬁned thus: You put your money./in the hands of a broker for the purpose of speculation and call for the proﬁts in vain. - ' - « AN exchange saysthat aMichipran. man dreamedrecently-_— that his aunt was dead. The dream proved true. ‘He tried;-;,; the samedream on his mother—in-law, but it didn’t work. . owner, who gave him— a ﬁve-cent piece. The boy‘ looked at the coin an i:nstant, and then, handing it reluctantly back, audibiy sighed as he said, “ I can’t change it.” “ EnrANr,Tu1mr13r.n ” (after contemplating vigitorpfor some ..;' A BOY recently found a pocket-book and returned it to its 3 — . time): “O.‘Mr. Bropwn, let’s have a game! We"ve'got ‘at; , whacking big sponge up stairs! I wish you’d sponge on ‘Pa. now; it'd be such fun! He says you always do at the club '-——-l i l”—'—(Tableaux.) AN irreverent correspondent of the Westﬁeld (M.ass.) Times, who went to the great Barringtou cattle show, says he was never so impressed with a sense of “the eternal ﬁtness of things ” as when. after the Rev. Mr. Smith. of Otis, had won the spoons in a trotting race, the band gave with peculiar emphasis the melody of that popular hymn. “diearer, my ‘God, to Thee.” / ‘ OLD Winston was a negro preacher in Virginia, and his ideas of theology and human nature were often very original. - 'A,..<zentleman thus accosted the old gentleman one Sunday: - ‘>.‘ Vvinston, I understand you believe every woman has seven devils. How can you prove it?” “ Well, sah, did you never read in de Bible how seven debbcls were cast out’e-r Mary Magaiin 2” “’ Oh, yes! l’ye read that.” “ Did you ebber hear of ’em bein’ cast out of any odor woman. sah ?” “ No. I never did.” “ Well, den, all de odders got ’em yet.” THE man who spoke of the Indians as a dying race should emigrate.’ In 1864. they cost the country $2,620,975.97; last year $8,032,762.93 was required to support them. Either the funeral expenses were inconceivably high or the man erred.—-Prromrlence Press. A SILVER City .(Nev.) young lady, who has a passion for . pretty babies, to a little four year old angel who has a bran new sister: ,“Isay, bub, won’t you give me your baby sister; I love little babies ?” Young lady (winking at her young man): “ Why, sonny~—- why won’t you give’ the baby to me?” Hopeful (indig- na ntly): “Fy, he’d ’tarve to death; your dress opens be-. nine.” Eainful silence for the next ﬁfteen minutes. 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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 13, 1875. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of"the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. ()ur 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 whrld, as the sun comes upon it, bringing ﬁrst the break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.——Sr.‘ Msrrnmw. ii., 2. /1 \‘, /1 \ ' , ,-/ i‘--..\ \\ V''\\ x\ y ,2 . " This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to‘ the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants 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 trnth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. We adoptthis diagram as emblematic of our future work and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth which we hope and trust may be shortly realized. AN APPEAL. The exigencies of the situation are such that we deem it necessary to depart from the rule which we had adopted, to wit: to make no more personal appeals in behalf of the paper; and to once more urge its friends to come to its aid, and its delinquent subscribers to renew their subscriptions. When we last appealed, we concluded that if the merits of the paper itself were not suﬂicient to insure its support; if the truths, to the advocacy of which its pages are devoted, should not be essential enough to the people to secure it the necessary support, that it would have to stop. A It is no pleasant task, after devoting years of unremitting labor, and spending a fortune in advocating a cause which we know to be essential to the future welfare of humanity, to have to make personal appeals year after year to insure its progress. We, of course, feel this deeply ; and have per- haps erred in believing that there were enough others who appreciated the work that has been done, to make it un- necessary for special applications for assistance. But our pride must suffer again in this respect; and we must con- sent," however much against our wishes, to say to the friends of the truths which the Weekly has been and is advocating, that it needs their .assistance——needs the renewals of all those who have permitted their subscriptions to run, unpaid, over their time, and the contributions of those who are suffi- ciently interested in the truth, to feel like having its progress continue. , A ' Pecuniarily the paper has, save for a. few months after the attempt to siippress it was made, always been a tax upon us; but the .truths for which it has been the medium were deemed to be of sufficient magnitude and importance to demand of us whateve1' pecuniary sacrifliccs, besides per- sonal labor, which we could contribute; and we have never hesitated to makeitlie one or to extend the other. And we feel, now more than ever, that it would be almost a crime to permit the VVEEKLY to stop, even for a few months, without exhausting every possible resource. ‘We are at the very verge of some great commotion which will startle the people from their lethargic condition into a realization of the precarious situation in which the life of the race is standing, and force upon them the necessity of living more purely, better and nobly. It is this conviction, amounting with us to knowledge, that lies decided us to write this article, and to call the attention of our friends. We have been doing and shall do all we can; but the lec- ture ﬁeld is not so fruitful a source of revenue as in years before. It requires greater : exertions and more expensive advertising to get the people out. Besides there has been a relapse into indifference and stupor from the intense excitement that the Beecher-Tilton trial caused, which is operating for the time adversely to the advocacy of the doc- trines and theories which are related to the principles in- volved in that trial. Moreover, we were driven into the ﬁeld early by the necessities of the situation, and were lec- turing nightly during the hottest term of the ;1jsu_mmer, the exhaustion fromwhich has caused a continued annoyance from the weakened lung of our last year’s sickness. This weakness not only detracts from the eﬁectiveness of speech, but actually interferes with the ﬂow of inspiration which would otherwise come to the aid of the cause. So we must ask our friends to make good what we fall short from these several causes. _ A We would say, let the assistance come in any shape that may suggest itself to our various readers, either in further subscriptions, in prompt renewals, in purchases of books, speeches or photos, or in direct contributions, neither of which can be either too large or too small in amounts, to be gratefully received and thankfully acknowledged in each issue of the paper; and let us be made to feel that the cold- ness and indifference with which those who will not toler- ate anything that involves the discussion of the Bible as a valuable book, have met our presentations of its hidden truths, be made more than good by the zeal and warmth of the opposite class which is willing to admit that there may be undiscovered good in many things that have been in current use for ages. , In conclusion we wish to say that this will be the last emergency over which the WEEKLY will require to be as- sisted. The culmination of what has been foreshadawed recently will have been reached either in victory or in de- feat within the next twelvcmonth. May we not feel that it will not be defeat through want of the little aid that is now needed; and that the issue may be such as to make every one rejoice who has been instrumental in any way in help- ing on the glorious consummation. V. O. W. & T. C. C. 44. 4 V ‘yr I LOVE AND LUST. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed; then when lust hath conceived, it brgnget forth sin, and when sin is ended, it bringeth forth death.—JAMEs 1., 14 and 15. There has been so much said and written upon the words love and lust and their relations to each other, that it may seem like entering upon subject already worn tlireadbare by discussion; and yet there are scarcely two words stand- ing over against each other that relate to any department of life or action about which there is really less logical under- standing or conviction. It was not until veryrecently- say within three years»-that any 00D1m011‘59115@ WGWS at all began to be entertained about the distinction between them. That there is a wide distinction is too palpable to be denied; and yet, a yery great deal of what has passed, in the gene- ral estimation, for love, has been really lust, while the con- trary has been equally true. These two words are the names for principles which are coextensive with the universe, and in the human being are the same as in any and in all other grades of crea- tion. Love is the attraction that exists between two or more objects. To love is to be attracted ; to be attracted is to love. To love, then, there are required two objects that have an attraction for each other. As it is impossible in the material world for two objects, which have no attraction for each other, to unite or cohere, so it is equally impossible for two people to love each other who do not have attraction eachlfor the other. There is but one kind of attractive power in the universe, and it is this power that holds the planets in their orbits, the grains of sand together to form the rocks, as well as the sexes in every form of life. It is true that the attraction between no two separate orders of life is the same in its effects, neither is the music pro- duced by different kinds of instruments the same in effect ; but the same air produces all varieties. "So it is the objects through which attraction is exerted that regulate and de- termine results. Having laid down these general basic principles, we will now come nearer to the question at issue. There are, be- sides being various orders of attraction and repulsion, each connected with some distinct order of life, also various kinds of love in each order of life. All forms of demand ‘ and supply are exempliﬁcations of attraction; but the de- mand for food by the stomach is one kind of attraction, while that of the eye for beauty and of the ear for harmony of sound are other kinds of the same general principle. We say these are all one and the same in principle, although known by different names. But there are also different kinds of love in those forms of attraction which are com- monly designated by that term. A mother’s_ love is differ- ent from a friend’s, and a friend’s is different from a lover’s. The latter kind is that of which we are to consider. The questions before us are: What is love and what is lust in the relations of the sexes? A Love, or attraction between the sexes, is dependent upon some general natural cause. Thousands of people who love each other cannot tell why they love. Indeed, the best and purest love can never be fully explained. If the cause of love were generally known, its manifestations would be treated in a widely different manner from what they are. Every human being is made up of a trinity of positive and negative forces, and these may be termed the generative, or basic forces, the vital or sustaining forces, and the mental or the cognizativc forces. All of these forces are con- tinually fed by the means by which life is maintained, and are as constantly giving off their respective emanations into thesurrounding atmosphere. Whenever two people come into each other’s sphere these emanations meet and blend or else are repellant. In the former case the individuals feel friendly toward each other; in the latter they feel the oppo- site. Now, these conditions are in no sense whatever the result of any predete.rmined or present desire of the mental faculties of the individuals; but are determined by the action of a law over which they have no power or control. It might as well be said to the oil and alcohol that are cast into Contact that they shall not blend together, as to say that the cmanations of two persons that have affinity for each other shall not do the same; and it might as well be said to oil and water, whenthrown together, that they shall blend, as to say the same to individuals whose « emanations are repellant the one to the other. ’ Now here is the test by which to determinegwhat is love and what is lust in the relation of the sexes, , All relations that are maintained by force or by any powzeri, other than natural attraction are lustful in form. Weicanpour oil and water together, and by continually shaking them they can be made to mix ; but it is a muddy mixture after all, and one that separates the moment that the agitation ceases. So we may shake the sexes into contact by the power of law, or of public opinion ; but the union they make is as muddy in kind as is that of the oil and water, and it is dissolved equally as quickly when the external pressure is removed. So, then, all persons who have commerce in marriage, who would not have it if they were not held together by the law or other power, are living in lust. So, again, all cornmcrce whether in or out of marriage, that obtains for any reason other than for that of which we have spoken, is lust. It is in this sense that commerce purchased for any consideration is lustful, and for the same reason is a woman a prostitute who marries a man who has money, whom she would not marry if he were destitute of wealth. These, we are aware, are unpalatable truths to -the world, but they are truths that need all the more to be told because they are unpala- tablc. - The world is waking rapidly to the consideration of the relation of the sexes. It is already awakened to the fact that. the female companion of the male roue is no worse than he. This sentiment, expressed on the rostrum, invariably meets with a quick response from the audieiice. This is evidence that such audiences are ready to be taken a step further and to hear a still more important statement of the truth. The man who, for any consideration, purchases the means to gratify ~ his lust; that means being an object which has no natural attraction for, and gives no natural response to, the subject, L I. V w . Nov‘. 13, 1375. if \ WOODHULL e ()LAIi‘LIN’8 WEEKLY. . . I . 5 \ is not a whit worse, nay, is not by any means as bad as is he who vents his lusts upon a legal victim for which he gives no consideration. The former is a bargain and sale—an exchange of what the parties give and accept, as equivalents for them———but the latter is not only a clear theft, but often times deliberate murder as well. Nay, it is even more and worse than that - it is the propagation of misery, vice and crime; the conferznentupon unborn generations of all those capacities which, springing into action when their subjects shall be grown are the degradation and damnation of the race. ‘If there is lust and prostitution in the brothel, then there is a thousand fold more in legal marriage. Knowing these truths as we know them, it would be sim- ply criminal for us not to proclaim them. It is because they are truths that we are opposed to legal marriage. All unions of the sexes that require the force of law to maintain them, are hot-beds of lust, and produce nothing but curses for the world. Aunion of the sexes that ought to be maintained, would continue, whether there were law or not. So then, in any proper View of the subject, the law is superﬂuous. If there could be any law that would not be actually hurtful in its eifects, it would be one relating to the property rights of women when separations should occur. In the present competitive order of industry, this, perhaps, is necessary, but for any other purpose whatever, the law is a justiﬁer of lust and an enemy to love. In the beginning we spoke of the three separate forces of which people are constantly both the objects and the subjects_ ' Each of these three may have aﬁinities for different persons. It is this fact that is the cause of so early decay in the real unity of so many married couples. To a great extent the sexes, when they do not do so from other considera- tions, marry from an aﬂinity between their sexual natures, which does not extend to both the other depart- ments of their being. A love that is merely sexual will soon burn out. Those who are aﬂinities in other things than sex, seldom marry. So"; it is in this domain that we must seek for the cause of so much of the unhappiness that now prevails. ‘Where the sexes are brought together through the afﬁnities between all the departments of their beings, then we ha.ve the constancy and happiness of which legal marriage is the form or shell only. We are, then, forced to the conclusion, that all the abom- inable mass of lust which is burning in the bodies of the people is an unnatural passion, or, in other words, is a disease, from which the pure, physically, are free. A na-I tural passion is never engendered save when the reproduc- tive emanations of the sexes come into afﬁnitive contact. This distinction should be carefully drawn and as carefully preserved. Passion is not healthful or natural that exists 1 without having been called into play by the reciprocal ac-‘ tion of the same in another. It cannot exist and seek an object upon which to expend itself. It must be the result of coming into contact with an object which calls it forth. Or, to make this still more clear: As we said, every human being having any reproductive capacity is constantly throwing off emanations from the organs of that capacity, but this giving off is not passion. It only, becomes passion when the emanations are met by those of another for which they have an aﬂinity. When this occurs then a natural de- mand and supply is iandicated; and when this is consum- mated, it is an exhibition of love; or, which is the same thing expressed in other words, it is the culmination of at- traction. All relations of the sexes that are not a result of just this process are lust and notlove; and are exhaustive and death-dealing in place of being restorative and life-giv- ing as are the other kind. This is what is meant by the words of the text, “ But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed; then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin; and when sin is ended it bringeth forth death.” When a man is drawn not by his own lust, but by the attractions of another, he is not en- ticed; then when this attraction hath conceived it is not sin; and when it‘ is ended it bringeth forth life and not death. But it will be objected that under this rule there would be no permanent unions of the sexes. How can it be said that there would not since there has never been opportunity for testing the question? But suppose. there should not he, would that affect the truth of the principle upon which the truth is predicated? Can there be any power anywhere in the world that can make a selﬁsh desire for gratiﬁcation of a sexual passion anything else than lusts?‘ No! It is im- possible, simply! Then is there any powe_r_~_in the world that can make a mutual desire for the same anything else than love? No! That were equally as impossible. Then we have the test of what is love and what is lust. Where two people are attracted together they will remain together of their own free will so long as that attrac- tion——that love—continues-. ‘When there shall come in contact with the unity thus formed, a stronger attractive power for either of the subjects to it, then that subject will be drawn away, not by its own lusts, but by the stronger attractive power. The same natural law holds in this re- gard in the relations of the sexes that obtains in all other departments of nature. The steel ﬁlings will adhere to the magnet to which they are attracted until a stronger one is brought to bear upon them, when they will leave the weaker for the stronger unless retained by some third and opposing power. .. ’ All unions that can be broken up are in the evolutionary and not the ultimated condition, and until there shall be per- fected men and Women. to form. unions, there can be no per. . object. Love is begotten by love, and seeks tolbless its ob- fect ones formed. The logical conclusion then to which we are driven is, that while the evolutionary period continues, the best unions are those that maintain themselves, and the worst are those that are maintained by some external force and as corollary to this: that all commerce between the sexes that obtains in unions that are maintained by force—~by law or by public opinion——-is lust and prostitution, while. that which obtains of mutual attraction is an exhibition of natural aiﬁnity, which only is worthy to be called. by the sacred name of love. There can then be no mistaking lust and love. Lust exists and seeks satiation regardless of its ject. Lust is self-love. Love is love of another. Lust knows nothing but its own gratiﬁcation; love thinks not of self at all, and is consummated only when it receives a blessing by ﬁrst bestowing one. Lust means impurity, disease and death; love means purity, health and life. Love is life, for to love is to live; while to lust is to die. 4.). #? THE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. ‘Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll engagements in various parts of the country as their regular trip shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: The Mystery of the Sealed Book. God, Christ, Devil. The Garden of Eden. The Two Wo1'lds. inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. Christian Communism. The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. The ﬁrst seven of these subjects form a regular course, and a.re a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, or for single lectures, maybe made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull speaks in Hamilton, 0., Nov. 5; Cincin- nati, 0., Nov. 6; Columbus, 0., Nov. 9; Newark, 0., Nov. 10; Mt. Vernon, 0., Nov. 11:, Wheeling, W. Va, Nov. 12; Steubenville, 0., ' Nov. 13; and in Pittsburgh, Nov. 14 and 15. If any change in dates is made it will be an- nounced in the local papers. 44- A 77* THE KOBOLDS ARE COMING—OHO Z OHO Z \ Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, under the heading of “What Spirits are among us ?”—lately discussed in the Banngzr of Light the above subject. The article, however, was ﬁlled mainly with dissertations ou the subject of Ko- bolds, or Earth Spirits, in which miners generally believe, and which, in England, are called by them “ Hammerers.” She says : “ I have visited the mines in Germany and Bohemar Wold, where I have heard those knockings, seen the lights, and should,have unhesitatingly attributed such phenomena to the spiritsof deceased friends of the miners, had I not also, not once or twice. but many times, seen little stocky looking things in the shape of men, very small, and either black, red or metallic in color—little chunks of creatures, whom the miners were accustomed to see and call by aname which, translated, signifies “_ea.rth spirits.” Again, on visiting a miner’s cottage in Derbyshire, Eng- land, her attention was called, and, she continues- “I did look, and there, to my astonis hment. and (I must confess with a thrill of deeper awe than I could account for or control) I saw a row of four-lights as large as the veritable ostrich’s egg. which adorned the mantel shelf of the humble shanty. These lights were directly behind me. and I did not see them till attracted by the woman’s explanation I turned round and faced them. They were bright, globular in form, vapory in substance, and nebulous, thickening toward the centre, and deepening in color almost to a dull red. The faint outline of a miniature human form appeared in connection with each light. They were of different sizes; none of them, however, were higher than four feet. They jumped up and down, and threw out something which resembled hands. to- ward me, and as they moved‘,’the lights danced and shim- mered. — These Wonderful thni ngs at length retreated into the solid wall behind them, and the place where they had been was illuminated only by the light of the wood ﬁre.” ' the interior of the earth as well as the exterior, or to believe that the air, the ether, and the sea are not full of spirit life. All our researches teach us that such is the case. It is well known that the ancient Magi and the Alchemists of the mid- dle ages gave full credit to the existence of -such spirits. ‘We have before us a “ Tragedy,” entitled the “ Magian Meroth,” which has been submitted to us for publication, and the advertisement of which appears in another part of this paper; from it we make an extract which illustrates what we have asserted. It is taken from the ﬁrst- scene in the fourth act, in which the Magian Meroth evokes the Spirit Moloch. Place-The observatory‘ of Meroth’s palace, overlooking the Nile. Time-Tjlﬁdnigitt. Meroth solus. ’ Mun ——No breath of air. And smooth as Isis’ check The starlit river mocks the spangled sky, A Glowing with borrowed beauty. Calm as death The waters sleep. No tinkling ripple wakes With its light fall the ear, or mars the face We see no reason to discredit the idea that spirits tenant I Of natures mirror. Solemn is the scene. ‘Tie Immortality embracing Time. 0 fora cher-ub’s wings to soar aloft _ To gain that glittering Crown; or power to plunge Into the azure depth of Nilus’ wave, * To seize such priceless‘ and eternal spoil; Lo! Where the sparkling Serpent’s silver folds Revolving glitter in the lucid stream, Or where, reﬂected clear, th’ ecliptic’s arch Studded with stars innumerable, girds , The vault of heaven, and, in the zenith hung, The shining Scorpion laves its brilliant scales. Mine hour draws on. The heavenly charioteers Approaching blend in one their rival orbs; And their conjunction heralds forth my fate." (Meroth 7‘eti7'esﬂfom the casement into the circle.) , ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF EARTH; l\I.a:u.-—“Ye Genii of the. Earth 1 who reign beneath « Deep in the pond’rous centre. Unto whom ‘ The caves of earth are haunts; whose subtle paths Through this revolving mass are all unknown To us———benighted beings. Ye, who watch With ever—wakefu1 eyes the priceless gifts Of earth, or spangle caves with diamonds And purest stalactites, in fancy forms Innumerable Ye, who know the veins, And trace the rapid silver to its font. Ye, who in earth’s dark womb work nature‘s ends, And dwell, in sovereign state, on golden thrones Shrined in your adamantine halls of light, By peerless jewels sunned, Hear yo my words, And by this oﬂering be your wrath appeased." OBLATION. The metals‘ ﬁrst, in order due, In glitt’ring glory shine, The sacred salt, the sulphur blue, Fresh from the sparkling mine; The basalt rock, the limestone white, The relics of the past, Whose forms, in petrifactions bright, The works of art outlast. _ Nor be the dark ground newt forgot, A subject to your sway, The mole, who dwells where mortals rot, And lives where men decay. Let these appease your anger dire; Be these the victims to your ire. ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF AIR. MER.——“ Powers of Air 1 whose forms ethereal ﬁll The azure vault of heaven. More potent far And subtler than the rulers of the earth. Whether ye guide the planets as they roll, Or hurl the shining meteor through the sky, Affrighting matter with your aéry play;' Or whether, far beyond our bounded ken, Ye track the distant comet’s burning path, Where the purged ether knows no stain of earth, Beyond the bounds of thought. To you I call, And by this charm your indignation shun." (Meroth burns a grain of myrrh.) CHARM. This vapor was bound in a magic chain, _ It mounts to its home thus freed by ﬂame; By the genii of earth ’twas pent in a grain, But, purged by ﬁre, ‘tis loose again. The prison is broken, ., The captive is free, , ‘ I charm by this token Your anger from me. In spiral wreaths, it rises fair, Propitious be, ye powers of air. ADDRESS TO THE WATER SPIRITS. M1m.—“ Ye Spirits of the Sea. 2 to whom the depths Of ocean, with her myriads of strange forms, Her shells of every hue and every shape, Her monsters, and her mysteries are known. Ye Spirits of the vasty deep—who dwell In coral halls and amber palaces, All rich inlaid with the bright stone which stains’ ' The sparkling crest of the wild wave with blue; Where, on your thrones, with the sea-diamond decked, With changeful opals and with pearls begemmed, Ye sit and rule the dwellers in the deep. Obey this amulet of pow’r divine. SPELL. t See the gem which erst has shone O’er the brow of Solomon; , This the p1ace,——and this the hour.-— Mark-—and tremble at its pow’r. - ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF FIRE. EVOCATION. , MER.—-“ Spirits of Fire 1 sons of light and heat, Ye have deﬁed me, ye have mocked mine art; _ “ A But ye this night I summon !—By my star, ' Triurnphing and triumphan‘t——by this sign—- The sign of mighty Hermes !—by this charm Which Endor‘s seeress wrought in Ramah, when She woke the prophet from his peaceful sleep. Ye answer not. Is it for this I’ve sacked the stores of eld ? For this I’ve traversed wildernesses, rich In na.ture’s ample stores; her gardens wild, Ere then unsoiled, unstained by human foot ? For this I’ve paced our arid sands, beneath That glowing sky where ghastly madness glmts From Afric’s burnished sunbeams ? Is"t for this In foreign lands I’«ve roamed afar to gain, . The knowledge of their wise, nor feared to meet K The hot simoon’s all-blasting breath, on which ‘ Death rides alone—triumphant ? By a spell More potent far I’ll shake your glowing thrones. . Twice hast thou answered——'be the bond fulﬁlled. Moloch.! arise ! appear l-—-He calls thee, who On Zion’s holy hill, by the usurped, Passed through thine altar’s ﬂames his ﬁrst-born son; Thy presence I compel. Flesh of my ﬂesh-r Blood of my blood~—the living record lasts; And by that sacriﬁce I summon thee New to appear, and answer .1 /6 , ‘ woonnunr. .5 GLA_FLIN’8 WEEKLY.‘ Nov. 13, 1875. “(Tlzefallért angel llloloch appears.) We omit the dialogue which here occurs, which has ref erence to incidents in the play; ‘ I I ' ‘ To us a drop of water is a_world_; [and the world does not bear that comparison to inﬁnity which a drop of water does to the ocean. The astronomer tells us that the moon has no atmosphere, but he is not wise who from that assumes that the moon has no inhabitants. The ﬁsh might with equal right say to the man, “You cannot exist where you are; there is no water,” as the man assume that existencercannoj: be maintaiiied in the moon, because there is no visible at- mosphere surroundingit. No; it is far wiser to believe, if we cannotlprove, that all space is occupied; that the limit- less ﬁelds of ether are full of inhabitants; that the depths of the sea are tenanted by more numerous indwellers than the land. _ We only occupy about a third of theihouse of the world, very probably, the kitchen department; the other two-thirds are not likely to be either vacant or tenanted by less worthy occupants than ourselves. Such being our ideas, we have read with much satisfaction Miss Emma Hardinge Britten’s late dissertations, published in the Bon- ner of Light, on materialization, etc. A We were lparticularly struck with admiration of her description of the Kobolds or Gnomes——red, black and coppencolored, who work in the mines. We are glad that she has seen the little devils at their labor, and can verify as to the truth of their existences. For ourselves, we hail everything of the kind, from the realm of Oberon to the domain of the giant of the Hartz Mountains, as absolute verities, very much more so than the daily commonplaces we meet with in this work-a-day world. We love the dainty Ariel——“ Art;” and have some consider- ation even for the deformed Caliban-—“ Labor.” True, the latter is an ugly whelp that is apt to bite his best friends, but we love him and would do him good, notwithstanding. When he has had to bring in a little more wood, and his back is a little more galled under his load, he will probably be amenable to reason. We hope‘ so, and shall toil on cheer- fully in his cause, trusting that overwork and starvation will assist us to enlighten him in the matter of his rights. But these are speculations. Emma Hardinge Britten’s “Ko- bo1ds” are facts. She has seen them, and, by-the-bye, very opportunely too, for in the same‘ paper that contains her ex- perience regarding them appears an advertisement of a book concerning them of which she is the sole agent. Singular, in the front page the Kobolds, in the terminating leaf the ad- vertisement of the book. How apropos! Charming! ‘ Re- joice, ye Theosophists, the day of your redemption draweth (nigh! But we do not admire the terms under which the book is to be issued. Only ﬁve hundred copies at $5 each, and then the platesto be remorselessly smashed. As Abra- ham pleaded for Sodom we feel called upon to remonstrate. O hard-hearted Seeress! peradventure there be six hundred subscribers that desire the book, wilt thou -not spare the plates for the sake o'f_tl1c surplus hundred? ’Peradventure there be ﬁfty—or even tenéwiltithou not yield to their im- portunity? Only fancy, a book containing information on all the spirits that are above the. earth, in it and under it—— going, going, and the bidders cruelly limited to ﬁve hundred! O sapient lady, have mercy! _ Entreat "the Austrian Michael Scott that stands behind thee not to be so hard-hearted. We implore thee by ’ I ‘.‘ That .sacre(_l wine T _ p . ,_ Whose precious__drops‘preserve from fell disease‘ The house"of,jlife;,"’7 ' by the art of Tubal-Cain.-; by the holy Kabbala of the Jews; by the Eleusinian mysteries; by,-the eternal ﬁre of Rosicru- cius; by the three sacred hairs in‘, the beardbf the prophet Mohammed—- rever,se,,thy.,fearful ‘order, and leave not :”the millions, outside of . the selectediﬁve ihundred, in the dark- ness of ignorance forever. » I - ' ' A Vt” MRS. WOODHULL IN THEFIELD. ooMMENTs 013' THE PRESS. [From the Herald, -A‘wrora.,. I ll., Oct. 23, 1875.] MRS. pywoonnuin. {L The auditorium of the Opera House was about filled on Monday evening, by_an.audience of respectable and substan- tial citizens, assembled to hear the lecture of Mrs-: Victoria C. Woodhull, on the “ True and False, Socially.” The speaker fully sustained her claim to be one of the most eloquent fe- male orators of the day. _Her deportment on the stage is modest and ladylike, "her language chaste, and her voice_musi— cal in the extreme. . The discourselwas‘ fullofl passages that were delivered _with a. _te1ling'aa_r,nestness, and rewarded with hearty applause. As. to the lecture itself, it seemed to have been misnamed. It related rather to sexual evils than to those existing in society itself. Mrs. Woodhull told a_ great deal of truth, but her only remedy for the [evils she depicted was the spread of intelligence. Free love, woman’s rights, and other radical schemes for the regeneration ofsociety, with which her name haslbeen connected, were only slightly and incidentally touched upon. Mrs. Woodhull may effect much good by arousing attention to the importance of the subject presented. ‘ [From the Daily J oumal, Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 23, 1875.] v I THE WOODHULL LECTURE.“ , The lecture of Mrs‘. WOQDHULL V last night was listened t'o attentively by a respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen. The house was not “filled to overiglcwing with men and boys drawn there by a vulgar curiosity,” ‘out by thoughtful men and women, who heard with marked attention, and applauded many of the statements made. If any one went to’ in the Opera House to find gratiﬁcation for a prurient appetite?“ that one came away wofully disappointed. If Mrs. Wood- hull is to be measured by what she said rather than by the idea popularly entertained of her, she must be set down as a woman with a vivid conception, utopian though it may be, and to the advocacy of which a being—possessed devotion lends eloquence. Lafayette last night heardlsolid and sub- stantial truths, abrupt and ‘wide indeed on their fronts, and perhaps unwelcome to many, but none the less truths and re- lating to vital matters. When a* truth is uttered it avails nothing to avoid its effect, let the source from which it comes be what it may. Mrs. Woodhull graphically depicts social evils, but whether the remedy summed up in a higher in1_ell.i- gence which she suggests, will prove adequate is a ques-mm that admits of serious discussion. One thing "is certain, tlzat the appeal she makes, and the diffusion of intelligence which she so earnestly urges, can be productive of nothing but good, although it may not prove a panacea. It may be just the thing to decry and denounce ‘Woodhull, but we can see nothing in her lecture to condemn or which the most chaste and reﬁned cannot unblushingly hear. [From the Leader, Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 23, 1875.] VICTORIA VVOODHULL has come and gone. Her name is as familiar to intelligent readers as thoseof Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, or “ any other man.” Her lecture on Friday night was listened to by a respectful and respectable audi- ence, and were it to be repeated, every nook and corner of the Opera House would beoccupied. [From the Bee, Lafayette, Imi., Oct.23, 1875.] 1 WOODHULL. The lecture of Mrs. Wo'o;oHULL at the Opera House drew out a fair audience of ladies and gentlemen. She spoke for an hour and a half. The audience was not a mob of low- minded people who had “ no respect for her,” but was 601E1- posed of intelligefnt, thinking people, and the few who went to the Opera House expecting to hear a. vulgar “ harangue” were disappointed. The burden of her song was not "‘ fpul,” and her words of truth were applauded. She uttered no word that would cause the virtuous mother to blush, and none will deny that if what she said was practiced the world would be made up of better man and women. She made an earnest and eloquent appeal to mothers to get acquainted with their daughters and sons, and teach them to live in a God-like manner. There was nothing in the lecture to con- demn, while there was much in it to commend, and we ven- ture the prediction that if she were to return to this city and deliver the same lecture she would be greeted with the larg- est audience that ever assembled in the Opera House. [Items from the some paper] The “ boy ” stood on the burning deck. “Young man,” give the woman a show. ,, Isn’t it singular that some young men will insist on dying with virtue ? The “ young man ” put his foot in it, and Mrs. Woodhull told him so. _ . The Courier made a raid on Woodhull. Woodhull made a raid on the Courier, and the universal verdict is that Wood- hull got the best of it. " . [From the Gﬁzette, Terre Haute, I.,,d_' Oct. 25, 1875.] Mrs. Victoriac. Woodhull, who has been theifmost fearful- ly maligned, abused, hated and scorned woman in some lo- calities, and the -most enthusiastically loved in others, of any public woman in America, command ed the attention of a moderate audience at Dowling Hall, on Saturday night. Her subject if not already known might be easily guessed. It is the one subject in the advocacy of which she has conse- crated her life. She has thrown her startling ideas into the abodes of sanctimonious piety, and frightened from their lurking places the greatest hypocrit es in the land. Whether right or wrong, she is certainly in earnest, certainly imbued with Hercules’ energy, and an unlimited conﬁdence in the truth of her" ideas. No one can fail to be impressed with her sincerity. - i I s - - - I [From the Da.13ly_.N ews Fort Wayne, Ind, t3ct.,28, 1875.] In pursuance to announcement, VICTORIA C. 'WO0DHULL delivered her, lecture at the Opera House last evening. At an early hour the throng began to arrive, and by the time Mrs. Woodhull made her appearance on the stage (8 o’clock), the house was densely‘ packed. Those who labored under the impression that her audienceiwould not bea. reﬁned one,b_ut on the contrary. be composed;-of the scumpf society,-,-were much mistaken. We doubt if Colerick’s Opera House‘: has ever co,ntained_'an‘,audience‘composed of a betterlclass of peo- ple than assembled there last night. -to hear Mrs. Woo.dhull’s? lecture. Whether this. was from” idle curiosity .to_ see her, or whether it was from a desire to hear from her own lips the things that have been imputed -to her a_uthorship,«we are uni able to say. In either event, Mrs. Woodhull has no cause to cerned. _’ .. . She made" her appearance onthe stage. neatly dressed‘ in black, and at once began her discourse. Her voice trembled T - slightly at the start; butlas sheiwarmed up with her subject, she displayed an impassioned oratory that drew the applause of the audience. She was very dramatic and vehement’/in her action, and gave evidence of long study and patience in her mission of reform. .. MEROTH ‘THE: _MA'e:A’1~'I., ’ A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. _ _ T T T °‘ And the magicians of‘ Egypt didso with their enchantmentsﬁ’ 7 The above is the title of, a “tragedy in blank verse, indited by a gentleman of foreign extraction, now ,'s_ojo'urningWfor‘a brief period, in the U,nited,St,ates. It was written by.,inspi- ration, and introduces the subject of super-mundane, mun- dane, and sub:-mundane Spiritualism. The scene is laid in ;Eg.'YPt, in the City ct Memphis, and the are 404.: B. C. In it the historical characters of Alcibiades, Socrates and Euclid are introduced, and the “ ars magica. ” as practiced in Egypt exempliﬁed. The terms under which it is proposed to pub- lish it are as follows: 1.. The work in question, in the hands of the publisher, may be looked "upon by the public as a marketable commod- ity, but it cannot be exchanged by any purchaser for any ‘ other production of equal value. 2._It will contain about 200 pages, ﬁlled with concentrated harmony and wisdom. It ‘will be in form octavo, and issued bound neatly in boards at $1 75 per copy. 3.’ Only ﬁve hundred copies will be likely to be subscribed for, and therefore only 500 will be printed. The type will be reumrselessly pied——after it has been stereotyped. 4... The periodicals of the day will be permitted to enliven their pages with copious extracts from the work, and to de- scant upon the same in terms -..-‘C the: hi.g'cest commendation; butit is not submitted to them for criticism—-—no, not for an instant. 5. There will be exactly and only ﬁve hundred copies of the work printed—-at first. Of these, one will be for the author, and the other four hundred and ninety-nine are in- tended for that number of bond-ﬁde paid up subscribers. On these terms alone will the tragedy be issued. Our printers, who are as dogmatic as bishops, conﬁrm us in the propriety of this last resolution. I - CONTENTS: Act I. Scene 1.—-A caravansary at Memphis. 2. A room in Euclid’s house. 3. Ditto. 4. A salon in Meroth’s palace. 5. The hall of the Magi. This act terminates with the re- sponse of the oracle: " Two victims to the Gods the destinies demand Ere Nile’s blue waters rise o’er Egypt’s prostrate land; When in her waves you cast your beauty and your lore, The pestilence shall cease, the famine leave your shore ! “ Act II. Scene 1.—-Pentagonal Hall of Divination in Merotl1’s palace. 2. Ditto. 3. The gardens of Isis by moonlight. 4th and 5th ditto. _ Act III. Scene 1.——A room in Euclid’s house. 2. A hall in Meroth’s palace. 3. The boudoir of Eudora in Euelid’s house, 4. Interior of the temple of Isis. This act terminates with the death of Eudora, the heroine of the tragedy, who chooses» the fatal lot--on which the statue of Isis becomes illumined, and Meroth points to it, exclaimingz “ The oﬁfering is accepted I We are answered ! " Act IV. Scene 1.——The observatory of Meroth’s palace. 2. A Hall in the same ; a room in a Lodge near the same. This act terminates with the burning of the palace of Meroth. Act V. Scene 1.——The portico of the castle of Arbaces. 2. The hall of the Magi. 3. A road in the suburbs of Memphis- 4.. The interior of the grand temple of Osiris. The tragedy closes with the death of Meroth and the acceptance of the sacriﬁce by the "God. “ Now as our beauty and our lore are given, May Egypt be once more beloved ofheaven; All is performed which the just Gods have willed,--’ The destinies appeased,—the oracle fulfilled.” ' Such is a brief notice of the contents of the above work. It published in the United States the terms will be as above stated; but if rejected. here and accepted in any barbarous country, the agent will hold it to be his Christian duty to advance upon them, and take advantage of the ignorance of the savages. In the meantime the tragic muse i waiting like Peggotty in David Copperﬁeld, for the American public to write on its cart-—“ Barkis is wil1in’.” For of course all depends on the alacrity with which the subscriptions tumble in.-3 ‘ ‘ R. W. HUME, Agent. N. B.—Plea.se to remit by,P. 0. order or registered letter to R. W. Hume, oﬂice of Woodhull .8: Qlaﬂin’s Weekly. P. O. ‘Box 31,791, New York City. This privilege will be stopped at the 499th subscription-—-probably. R. W. H., Agent. BUSINESS Enrronrnns. DR. R. P. FELLows: . have taken them as directed, and I have yﬁso much improved that I can eat well and sleep better than I have. for years; do not have, those nervous pains as I ;did before taking your Powder; have more strength in my limbs. I have been up on crutches for the last three days. I feel almost young- heart‘tréubles me nothing as it did before. ' ' 7’ . ' Yours. respectfully, THEODOCIA BLAIR. ROWLEY,‘.IOWa;, Feb. 2,.-1875. . . I Shewrltes. under date of Aug. 23, thatjshe can Vnowwalk cure and_s_hould encourage others who are aﬂiioted to send forthe powder. $1 per ‘box, addressﬁfineland, N. J. _ . The Books and Speeches ofA‘Victoria Cf Woodhull and complain as far as numbers and respectability“ are ,con-;.'.Tem.ﬁ3’Cl4 16155531 Win ﬁereéfiafibe ‘furnished? ep°S,t3g° Pads" at the followingliberal prices . , The -Principlcsiof Government, by Victoria 0. ‘Wood- _hul1...... ........................ ...... ..ss 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie O. Claﬁin . . . . . .. 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which f?.. . . . . . . . . . . . T. . 25 The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ?. . . .. . . . 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tried as by Fire; or the True and the False Socially. 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality. . . .. . .. .. .. . . 25 The Principles of Finance. ..... .;.. .. ...... .. .. .. .. 25 Photographs of V. C.Woodhi1ll, Tennie C. Claﬁin and Col. Blood, 500. each, or three for . . . . . . . . . . . . Three of any of the ‘Speeches 500., or seven for. . . . 1 00 no copy each, of Books, Speeches and Photographs for 6 00 liberal discount to those who buy to sell again. from the time of Moses to the present age is exhibited and , Dear Sir-—Iv have received the boxes of M-agnetized Powder, . again. I Myﬁngers are more limber, the swelling is gone; my without the-aid, of, her crutches. . Thisrris truly a remarkable; ‘Breaking the Seals; or the Hidden Mystery Revealed 25 ,“‘. 4‘)... Nov. 13, ran. Have you seen the Wonderful Type- Writing Machine? /._ V No more pen paralysis! No more spinal curvature because of the drudgery of the pen. .The Type- Writer -has found rapid acceptance wherever intro- duced, and has fullysustained the claim that its work is twice as fast, three times as easy and five times as legibleas that of the pen. It paragraphs, punctuates, underscores and does ﬁgure work—in a word, all things necessary to the production of a perfect manu- script. Any size or quality of paper may be used, and the most satisfactory results obtained, at a saving in time and strength of at least one hundred per cent. The Type-Writer “manifolds” ﬁfteen copies at once, and its work can also be copied in the_ ordinary copy-press. READ THE FOLLOWING INDORSEMENTS. What Mr. Jenny, of the New York Tribune, says about it: » NEW YORK, June 10, 1875. DENSMORE, Yosr & Co.: G_‘en.tlemen——I am an earnest advocate of the Type- Writer. Having thoroughly tested its practical worth, I ﬁnd it a complete writing machine, adapted to a wide range of work. The one I purchased of you several weeks since has been in daily use, and gives perfect satisfaction. «I can write with it more rapidly and legibly than with a pen, and with inﬁnitely greater ease. Wishing you success commensiirate with the merits of your wonderful and eminently useful in- vention, I am, respectfully yours, E. H. JENNY. OFFICE or DUN, Biiiinow & Co., COM. 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PILKINGTON, of California, has written a i=1r'il;:.in'«.r Pamphlet with the above title, A perusal of mass of facts will better post and fortify the ‘Lib’- 133.‘:-ll mind as to ecclesiastical pretensions and the per- secutions of the Church in all ages, than many a more bulky and ambitious work. Li, eral friend. no ﬁtter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this instructive’pa.mphlet. Anx- ioiis to s read the truth. we have reduced the price‘ of ’ this wor (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on fine white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages.“ ' . ' 4 ' ‘ ’l INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, . . 'Publisliei‘s, Worcester, lmss. E-lllliilllllll lllﬂillli BIBLE I . C>:DH;U iii. 8% 0 LA F 1.1 N . iWf:E:7E k L ii. 9 NEW ANN.OUNCEMENTS. VVOIMAN; The Hope of the World. A Poem read at the Woman’s M-ass Meeting, Harmony Grove, July 4, 1871, and at the great Suffrage Meeting in Baltiinore, Feb., 1872, by A. Briggs Davis. 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CONTAINING I N cw, Stwrtltng and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin pf all the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, mid furnislitng (1. Key for unlocking many of . its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the Q History of Sixteen Oriental Cruciﬂcol Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan ” and “ The Bible \ of Bibles ” (comprising a description of‘ twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous‘ indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—-as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-he:.ids—-follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. CONTENTS. Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the Clergy. Chap. 1.—-—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Proph’ecies by the ﬁgure of 9. Serpent. Chap. 4.—-Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. . Chap. 5.-—Virgin Mothers and Virgin—born Gods. Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. , , Chap. 7.——-Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant - Savior. . Chap. 8.—The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.-—-Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.-The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. , Chap. 11.——Christ”-s Genealogy. . Chap. 12 —The VV01‘ld’S‘ Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. , _ Chap. 17-‘$.——’I‘he Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- vinit . Chap. 1):1.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.~The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16,-Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. i.7.—-'1‘heAphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection‘ of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chap. 21,-The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathen Ori ‘n. Chapg22 —-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. * V ' Chap. 25.—-Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. ‘Chap. 26.-Originof Baptism bylWater, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ . Chap. 27.—’I‘ne Sacrament or ‘Eucharist of Heathen Or‘ in. 1g .‘ . . . Chap. 28:——"Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-How 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 Oh ' t. Chap1C“:531..--Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems: ’ _ - _ _ Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and _Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33 -—Apol10nius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.~—The Three Pillars of the Christian "Faith-— Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. . Chap. 35.——Lo‘gical or Com_ino-n-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. ‘ 3 _ ' . Chap. 36;—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.—Physiolog'ical"Absurdities of the Doctrine. of the Divine Incarnation, _ _ _ Chap. 38.-—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Ch ' ‘t. . Chap1:1§9.—The Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Cliap._4~.O.—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. _ _ . Cl1ap._41.——The Precepts and Practical Infe of Jesus Christ. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-11-13_10_24
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-11-13_10_24
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 25 (November 20, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2098
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-11-20
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: hr-nun. -=-man; r _g._.4 izer Og-BESS 2 BREAKING THE WAY son FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.-No.’ 25. ——-Whole No. 259.- FREE THOUGHT i, UNTRAMNIELED NEW YORK, NOV. 20, 1875. PRICE‘ TEN GEN TS. ../‘ The truth shall make you f7'ee.—Jesus. In the dag/s of the "voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be ./L’-m'she(l.--St. John the Divine. ‘ TV/tereof I was made a m-inister to preach the un- searehable riches of C7/vrist, and the mg/stery which from the begi7zn.73ng of the 2e07'lal hath been hrlcl in G506]. —Pau1. ‘ >4Q.—= DUALITY, TI-IE BASE OF PERFECTED‘LIF.E. In the spiral ascent of man, the legitimate decay of his generative power is a true index of his spiritual unfoldment, proving beyond the cavil of" a doubt that the era of human generation needs pass away, to be succeeded by one of greater spiritual discernment and attainment; one which cannot obtain while man is .in a disorganized sexual condi- tion or in a state of individualized sexual inh...
Show morehr-nun. -=-man; r _g._.4 izer Og-BESS 2 BREAKING THE WAY son FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.-No.’ 25. ——-Whole No. 259.- FREE THOUGHT i, UNTRAMNIELED NEW YORK, NOV. 20, 1875. PRICE‘ TEN GEN TS. ../‘ The truth shall make you f7'ee.—Jesus. In the dag/s of the "voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be ./L’-m'she(l.--St. John the Divine. ‘ TV/tereof I was made a m-inister to preach the un- searehable riches of C7/vrist, and the mg/stery which from the begi7zn.73ng of the 2e07'lal hath been hrlcl in G506]. —Pau1. ‘ >4Q.—= DUALITY, TI-IE BASE OF PERFECTED‘LIF.E. In the spiral ascent of man, the legitimate decay of his generative power is a true index of his spiritual unfoldment, proving beyond the cavil of" a doubt that the era of human generation needs pass away, to be succeeded by one of greater spiritual discernment and attainment; one which cannot obtain while man is .in a disorganized sexual condi- tion or in a state of individualized sexual inharmony. The desire for, and the act of, generation in the human being in- dicates the preponderance of the animal instincts, which by a free and natural development, will ﬁnally become inopera- tive, under the inﬂuence and guidance of those more exalted powers which are charagt-eristicﬁof a pot-generative plane. Nature dictates terms to man—her noblest product-—and he in response proves his claim to individuality by a stubborn ‘yielding of allegiance to her. On whatever plane of develop- ment he,_may be, he is still forced ever onward, along a line marked out for him by a superior ruling power of the uni- verse. Human power increases when the positive and negative forces—the male and female principles——assume the relation of equality in the individual; when man is no longer the emblem of wisdom a1one,nor woman the emblem of love alone, but when each individualized human entity becomes a unit or a perfected form. Not aunit by virtue of consociated aﬁinities or assumed counterparts, but by the perfect blend- ing of the elementary principles of life in each individual—a div,ine germ manifested in the ﬂesh. Human life or any other life, only attains its perfected state when sex-life dis- appears from that special form, inducting it into a down- ward’ career resulting in extirpation. Perfection in any phase of life is its culminating period, when integration as a preponderating force ceases and that of disintegration com- mences; when the life forces of sexuality are equalized and merged into a unity of being, and new forms are gestating in the womb of time awaiting a future birth or a new evolution. a Human life, asa modiﬁed ﬁnite form of universal life, has necessarily its stages of growth, culmination or perfection, and decay. These are the inevitable characteristics of all ﬁnite, limited or individualized expressions of life, and man’s superior scope of intelligence does not and cannot destroy these conditions of all ﬁnite life; they are imperative in their demands, and nothing short of Inﬁnity can control them. ‘Sex is an unbalanced condition, an imperfect or inha1'mo— nious relation of the two fundamental principles of life, de- termining the forms of all materialistic substances, and, in the cycle of earthly events, is a mutation of time. Its forms and functions are of divine origin, therefore orderly; its 00- alescing powers leading on from one degree of reﬁnement to another, until the ﬁnal limitof sexed conditions or of indi- vidualized life is reached, when all is again merged into inﬁ- nite perfection or sexless purity. The ﬁnite reaches the inﬁ- nite and is absorbed. The annihilation of all ﬁnite forms—the product of sexual activities——is the commencement of a new cycle of sexual adjustments and the consequent perfection of the dual principles embodied in life. Marriage, or nature’s free sexual union of individuals, on whatever plane of human development, is nature’s cardinal, method of infusing harmony into the discordant elements of human growth; it is the equalizing feature of man’s growing perfection, and is sacred or otherwise in ratio to its adapta- bility to the ends" demanded by the projecting, perfecting and absorbing power of the universe. All man—made laws, which arrogate to themselves the power to regulate the functions of nature’s divinest laws in her efforts toward a sexual equilibrium or a divine harmony in human life, are a usurpation of power and a desecration of means thatcarry desolation and woe in their track and invite an untimely éiﬁgeltll F30 ill? P_3.1W3=1‘_3’» ignorant and blinded devotees of a false or unnatural system of social ethics. All legally enforced - marriage systems are death sentences to virtue, and well trod- den pathways to degradation, crime and misery,» and the disintegrating goals not only of the physical body: but 0‘ the soul atoms as well. ’ Man's highest obligations to the divine laws of his being as a sexed individuality, require that he should so associate with individuals of the opposite sex that such association will unmistakably tend to develop that sexual force within him which is by nature latent or undeveloped, whereby there iwill be an increased blending of his dual natures into a unity of being, or man perfected. This can only be accomplished in its most complete form through the spirit 01'. P1'0gI‘8SS1V° freedom, unmindful of the false customs and arbitrary usa- ges of society, and unrestrained by the weak efforts of man to subvert nature’s divinest process by his unjust and selﬁsh made laws—laws that are not alone detrimental to woman.’s . welfare, but by the universal law of reaction invade with a ruthless hand his own sphere of thought and action, thus doubly retarding human development. In this connection we desire to say, that all male ministers of the gospel, so-called, or public spiritual teachers, are, asra class, in usurped positions, which positions would be much more naturally and ﬁttingly ﬁlled by his heaven-ordained sisters, who are, by virtue of their natures, his superior spir- itual advisers. . Then, let every pulpit in the land, every ec- clesiastical desk, be purgedof its usurped power and accumu- lated theological virus by the free admission of pure wo- manly virtues and her digniﬁed and exalted aspirational and inspirational powers. Through the evolution of greater spiritual powers the time is fast approaching when woman, as in some of the grand prehistoric civilizations of the past, will be recognized as the spiritual head of the church, pre- paratory to a dual system of church government. Much prog- ress has already been made in this direction, as evidenced by the history of Quakerism, Shakerism, and more recently by that of Spiritualism. Woman cherishes the highest intel- lectual development of man, but unaided by his superior power of wisdom—-the male dominant f;1culty——she is power- less to effect the transition, the grand revolution of the in- coming age. Until her dual sex powers are fully and syste-V matically developed, harmonized and co-ordinated in action, she will need the helpful hand of manto guide and give power to her efforts. . I Woman in her present enslaved and impoverished condi- tion cannot fully realize her naturally inter-dependent rela- tion with man until she is placed in such positions of trust and responsibility by the evolution of ‘her powers as will effectually try her integrity of purpose and power of regener- ation unaided by, and irrespective of, the ‘male element in than our noble standard-bearer of grand, living truths, that have been, and are now being, so opportunely and clearly elaborated through the maturing forces" of her intellect——the unknown, and to most minds, the unfathomable Victoria C. Woodhull. ' 0, Victoria! the tried ev angelist of this truth-discovering age, the martyr heroine of the times, couldst thy hands be still more unfettered to execute the decrees of a righteous God, thy powers of endurance would be greatly augmented, thy voice be heard stirring thousands of human souls where now but hundreds are reached, and thy earnest notes of tri- umph be echoed and re-echoed through the spheres of mul- tiplied virtues and transcendant hopes, hastening to, thy standard the puriﬁed ones of earth and strengthening by the bonds of love the enchanting power of thy soul. 0, thou consecrated redeemer of humanity’s wrongs! I beseech thee. underithe sweet inspiration of this hour, to be loyal to thy convictions of right, ever ﬁxing thy steadfast gaze upon the illumined sphere of human redemption, determining in thy race for life to be. the ever consistent friend ofthe down- trodden and oppressed. 0, ‘Victoria! couldst thou but see the bright phalanxes of re deemed humanity that are now marshaling beneath the banners of Truth for a renewed and desperate conflict between the dark conservatism of the past and the spontaneous, living forces of the present, thy soul and in the blessedness of thy gifts well bestowed. destiny invites thee to a higher plane of action, where thy words, which are new but the bright silver of the plain its rightful sphere of action. And no one, I assume, is more L familiar and appreciative of this truism in its widest sense would still be made stronger in the faith of a righteous cause‘ Liberator of thy sex and the hope of an oppressed people l_ will be transmuted by thy heroic life into the pure gold of the mountain, giving, thee power to shake the rotten institu- tions of the age from centre to circumference, from founda- tion to dome, until their vitiated forms are tumbled in pieces and thy inspired words are heard organizing the elements of reconstruction and leading them on to victory. Thyhand can- not be staid by the minions of a corrupted power are thy al- lotted work is done; therefore the prophecy is now made and proclaimed: That thou shalt wreck theinstitutionalisms of to-day,bringing confusion into the ranks‘of those who are high in the nation’s honor,and who are still pressing forwardin the pursuit of worldly power and the iniquities of wealth, drench- ing the nation in the blood of the corruptions of its people to evolve out of social chaos the germ of a new republic more replete in the elements of justice, order,-economy and equal- ity than our new devitalized system of an imperfect repub- lican government. Thy destiny on earth is wrapt up in the destiny of this republic; and ere its shadows are remanded into the sphere of national experiences thy spirit will have taken its ﬂight into higher realms of being, from whence it i can descend with increased power to_ inspire and vitalize the cohorts of liberty who in their mighty efforts, imbued with grand spiritual truths, will sustain the freedom of the press and of the age. Oh! mighty power! that is developing thee for this move- ment, can it be that this nation will survive its unjust, its un- righteous course in the withholding of rights .heaven—born in every individual who aspires to a higher life? Can it be that we are to be martyrs to the truth and yet be unsustained in our eﬁorts to erect a new Republic, wherein the principles of self-sovereignity will be fully vindicated and established? The dark powers of hell are silently and clandestinely uniting the enemies of all social, political and religious reforms for a grand onslaught on the pioneer workers of a new civilization and their liberal adherents.'l.‘he few noble and heroic souls who dare utter the truth and conform their lives thereto, under a sense of self-conscious duty, will be made to suffer the keen martyrdom of progressive thought, andby nature’s decrees be made theiinitial powers of a new republic, yet undreamed of by the thoughtless masses. »We are aware of the signiﬁcance of the times ‘which heralds’ despotism, persecution, martyr- dom, and for a time, the fruitless; efforts of the true and noble advocate of _a broader, deeper and more comprehensive sys- tem of government than we now enjoy. But the darkness now so ominously gathering will, in God’s own good time, precipitate the light and unite the scattered elements of a new social organization, when the tempest of free thought will purify the atmosphere of despotism and inaugurate a new reign of justice to man—both male and female. In our hopes for the future we now labor and wait.‘ D. S. CADWALLADER. ORIGIN OF THE TERM FREE LOVE. A Ed-itors Weekly-—Testimony from one’s foes in his favor is always the strongest testimony. A point has just fallen under my notice which I thought might be of especial interest to you now in connection with your Bible articles and free love. Though I do not attach the importance to what the Bible writers said or intended to teach that you seem to, still I am aware that more of the Bible’s meanings must be seen before its limitations as a teacher can be realized, and superstitious reverence for it be displaced by a rational regard for what it ‘ really is. , - - I hold nothing as the more sacred because it originated long ago, and found a place in that book of fragmentary inspira- tions; nor do I revere so-called conservative writers as best . authority. But the great mass of the people do, or think. they do, and therefore evidence from. such’ authorities and the Bible will weigh most with them. Most of this great “ respectable” class consider the term Free Love as a synonym for vileness. They “often, as I have seen in their writings, call it a “ vile term”—-a term of “ nastiness.” Such ones may be surprised to ﬁndthat their great conservative, religious poet, Milton, attributes the term to King David in his inspired momentsl of prophetic Psalm- singing, in his translations of some of David’ Psalms, see 279 page of Levit and A1len’s edition. He begins the trans- lation of-—I give his title-— ' I ‘ (April, 1648.) . . L “ Nine of the Psalms done into metre; wherein all but what is of a diﬁerent character are It he very words of the text, translated from the original.” 3 - 1. \_ nursin_g. The adult ones may be safely left alone. 9 ‘ , A WOODHULL & CLAFLlN’S VVEIEKLY. Nov. 20, 1875. Verse viii. says, addressing God: “ A vine from Egypt thou hast brought, Thy free love made it t/Line, And drovest out nations, prowl and kazgr//Lt, To plant this lovely vine.” VERSE IX. “ Thou didst prepare for it a place, And root it deep and fast, That itbegcm to grow apace, /ind ﬁlled the land at last.” The italicising is Milton"s. sf? BEECI-IVERISMS. SELECTED BY HELEN NASH. .When Christ went anywhere, there were the old righteous Pharisees watching him and criticising what he did; when Christ went anywhere there were the mousing, sneaking Pharisees seeing if they couldn’t get something to publish in the papers. If a man is built so that he has certain powerful instincts, and he attempts to kill them or crucify them—if he sets to work with all his energies to ferret out those parts of his nature which are necessary to his life, it is not possible that he should be free from doubts and troubles and difﬁculties with reference to his religious welfare. Our appetites andpassions are all of them to be controlled, used, sanctiﬁed—-—not killed. Natural laws are like our post—oﬁices, only they never ad- vertise. If any man has a letter there he can get it by ask- ing. . I have noticed that Gcd’s Providence is onﬂthe side of clear heads. It is not to be wondered at that we have such imperfect views of God, when we remember how we come by them; that we derived them from cateohisms and creeds and con- fessions of faith, which were rammed into us at the expense of losing our suppers and dinners on Sunday. _ Here and there God makes a reservoir-man. and other men draw at him and take their supplies fromhim. We are not obliged to sit in our minds with all the doors open, nor with all the windows open. We have a right of reserve, of self-inclosure, of refusing to let men know what we are, what we think and what we do. . I do not’ deny the right of a man to be converted in just the way that is best adapted to his nature. Every man has that right. God. has a right to make seed sprout as he pleases. If you want (‘to make a man exquisitely vain and selﬁsh, let him make a pottage of himself and stew himself andstir himself up in a journal. The man who writes a journal al- ways has one eye on the printing press. . There are a great many things which men register in their journals as the work of the devil, that are nothing but the work of a disordered stomach. , ' Do you believe that there is such a thing as a hot-house where they Gan ripen human souls as they ripen pine—apples in these northern climes. . _VVhen you get an apple that is half rotten, the other half being as good as though the whole were .sound, then you can get a Christian that is rotten on one side, who is as good on the other side as if both sides were good. I should be sorry to think there was a man here who had not got a saint. I have one. If a man has come to that point where he is content, he Ought to be put in his coffin; for a contented live man is a sham. ' Christ as a doctrine will unite churches ;f_Christfas the eman- cipator of those in bondage will divide the whole Church; Christ putting shingles on the roof of the temple ‘of Christi- ianity, as men have fashioned it, will be received; Christ changing the foundations of the temple will be rejected. Our infant thoughts and yearnings are the ones that need And yet .we put overcoats and girts and surcingles and harnesses on our heart-feelings after they get to be strong and robust. A man of mere taste is a whipped syllabub of creation. There are a million natural laws of which we know noth- ing. Vile are gradually learning them as we ﬁnd out where beams are in the dark—by feeling a thump, by discovering that there is something in the way. - VVe must not be in,a hurry, when a man falls, to say; "‘ That man is a corrupt old hypocrite.” 0 He was as tender as a woman—or rather, I should have said, he lacked the toughness of a woman; for, slender and shrinking as women are, when troubles come they are almost the only persons who are tough of heart. They are tender of skin, but inside they are strong as iron. ' Do you know that the way for men to build themselves up is to be ground to powder? ‘ . It is likewise to be remembered that no man has a right to prophesy good as a consequence of deception. ' Love sits as (-}od’s vicegerent in the soul, and I will not ﬁght with my brethren. H ' It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to take. - He was declared to be a gluttonous man and a drunkard—— God in Christ wa slandered as a glutton and a drunkard, and for no other reason than that he refused to be an ascetic, and went into life and participated in the innocent festivities of the social board. _ The private rights of a public man should be guarded as sacredly as the altar of a temple. ‘ I have seen persons so violently indignant at missteps in others, that I suspected all the virtue they had was at the window. ’ I regard all the agitations of the day as being so many plowings, which are necessary as a preparation for the har- vests that are to wave on the world’s farm. _ ‘ No matter how bad you are-—the worse the better. Old Martin Luther said: “ I bless God for my sins.” He would never have had such a sense of the pardoning mercy of God, C. S. VV. man, and yet it so happens that that is his occupation. Wherever there is a devil there is a priest to back him. I think mobs are God’s providential asses, which he makes harrow up the ground in seed sowing, and I think there is no means by which a plentiful harvest is more eﬁectively in- sured. I am sorry for any State that never had mobs. I be- lieve New Jersey never had a mob.‘ . Men have despised the body too much, but after all when God made the body he knew what he was about. as You have no more right to overtax yourself than you have to overtax your horse. A merciful man is merciful to his beast—to his own body. _ ' What a shame that it should be left for war— . . . to illus- trate what ought to have been illustrated by the church! A good Christian needs to be born again, but it is very ne- cessary that he should have been well born when he was ﬁrst born. ' I think that he is the best man who has the most boy in him. I -Never, when you see a thing to be right, stand shaking and quaking, and say: “ But then." That “ but then” is a devil. damned. If and but have destroyed more souls than any ﬁend in hell. 3, You will never need for -a corrupt minister. There is a church for hell as well as for the sanctities. _ But the woman’s eye that had been cleansed by her way of living, had a discerning power which, it seems, had yet to be given to the others. When a man has a case to be tried, he wishes to come be- fore that court whose verdict will suit him. Although a cracked friendship, like a cracked tumbler, may be cemented, the moment you put it into hot water the bot- tom will fall out or it will come to pieces. - It IS the lieiglit olfjcowardice to borrow a paper on the sly to read, which, for fear of Mrs. Grundy, the reader dare not purchase at the newsstand or receive from the post- oﬁicc. ’ A PHILOSOPHIC DISSERTATION. CHICAGO, Aug. :26, 1875. To the Editor of the 1ntm'-Oceom-—The question of matri- mony seems to have gone far into the minds of your young readers, and has brought out very many opinions from all parts of the great Northwest. But they allhave the same ten- dency to point to the ﬁnancial problem of life. Of course/that has the greatest part to do with it, for the old saying, “ When poverty comes in at the door love ﬂies out of the window,” is trite but nevertheless true. Still there is a great deal of philosophy in the art of marriage, and the young men of to- day have, by constant perusal of the daily papers, become quite philosophic. For instance, they know that constant association with any object breeds afamiliarity,‘and this same it takes a peculiar perfection to be able to stand. Once you become familiar with any object you look for variety, and in looking for that ﬁnd many faults. These, unless you are of an easy disposition, magnify themselves into mammoth" pro- portions, and should satiety come you ﬁnd yourself in a “ sea of troubles.” “Then,” think these young men, “ how are we to swim out.” Bound by the “law and priest,” “ church and state,” they must bear it. These things make young men pause at the brink and look down into that abyss. A young man can, alone, make a living, but how few can do so when hampered with a weak and helpless woman, or rather girl. Is it not better that mothers should keep their daughters with them, and make conﬁdants of them till they are fully com- prehensive of life’s perils, struggles and sufferings? How few young girls know anything of the sorrows of their sex when they take that irrevocable step; and if that step be taken with a man who is poor, or a‘ worthless young wretch, how much harder to bear, then, those same cares and troubles. -Much of the misery of the present day is 'caused by rash and nasty marriage. I do not mean to infer that it is all the girls’ fault. No, no. Far from it! The young man of to-day is of the genus “ fast,” and, being of a philosophic turn, thinks that as he earns his money so shall he spend it. And at every turn snares and delusions meet him, and, though he be philosophic on the marriage question, he is not so on all other questions, and he naturally falls into the pitfalls by the way, and is in consequence not ﬁt to have‘the care of a young and tender girl till he has had time to see the philosophy of life and turn from the tempter and recuperate the manhood he has so nearly lost. Thus it is that young men are unﬁt to marry. “ That boys will be boys” is as true of young men, and, even if they marry they do not leave sowing their “ wild oats.” What misery this entails on the young wife Heaven alone knows? Let the young man and young girl each strive to be at some future time a model mate to the other, and they will reap the beneﬁt thereof in their old age by seeing a genera- tion grow up around them that they will be proud of. That’s more than the average parent of to-day can say. Just look at the rising generation. Great Heavens, but it is sad! Sta- tistics go to show that two-thirds of them are diseased. It is horrible to contemplate such a state of aﬁairs. Now, what a risk a girl runs when she throws herself away on such a one -—fully as great as he does by marrying on nothing. I hope that they both will draw back before going too far. Do not let us raise another generation more horrible than the present one. Let us improve it by thinking of the present state it is in, and striving to cultivate our own lives so that they shall be able to bear the onerous duty of bringing into the world a ‘better race of our kind. V Mr. Editor, I hope that my short homily may be the cause of making some of your readers, young or old, to stop and think. Let them think long and well. “ Straws often turn -the currents of mighty streams.” Then why should not this poor. straw of mine he the means of causing one poor soul to ponder on this question ? If such it happens to reach, I shall ed to this profession. He is an upright and honest and good WHY DO YOU ASK ME TO LOVE YOU SO ? WHEN YOU I(l\‘(5W! BY J. o. s.isns'rr. Why do you ask me to love you so? When you know That the cold, dark sea of the waiting West, As it prays’ the sun to uncloud its breast, As it hails the glint of the morning light, Is a crimson set in a silv’ry white- Wheu you know I Why do you ask me to love you so? When you know That the bloom unfolds into joy all day, When the land is bathed in a sunny Spl‘2‘l y; That the wand of faith by a loving art Will invite the swcetsfrom the ﬂoral heart-~ . 4 When you know I Why do you ask ineto love you so‘: * ‘»Vhen you know That my being {springs to a health that’s new, T\-Then immersed in the font of the angel dew; That a beauty grows from the honey sips Of the hearts that print on the open lips—— I When you know.’ Why do you ask me to love you so? VVhen you know That the gushing up of my soul’s deep wells Hath enllowered me o’er with the immortelles; And the over-soul is the heavenly blue, Where the iills of light are coming through- When you know / \\'hy'do you ask me to love you so‘: When you know That I change to song the impassioned sigh By the silent touch of my heart close by; That I voice the best all my love for you When you hover round with a dove-like coo- When you know .’ Why do you ask me to love you so‘: V When you know, That you could not ask for tho love-felt vow, if it were not pulsed in our hearts just now; That the heart that trusts as it pleads and weeps, Halli the love of mine in its holy dcop.~:—— When you kizow .’ Ur].l£1\'lLljL’l.All, Wis, Nov. 1874. It is petty larceny to read a paper fol"Whicl1 others pay the cost of printing. A NEW SOCIALISTIC INSTITUTION IN VERMONT. A number of young persons in Springﬁeld, Vt., have associ- ated themselves on a plan based upon principles much fur‘- ther reaching than the soloften tried and unsuccessful co—op— erative plan, but based somewhat on the socialistic principle, though so modiﬁed as to secure its success, by keeping out lazy and selﬁsh individuals. They have established an institution which they call the Industrial Works, and this establishment furnishes all the ' members with constant employment at fair wages, and a. _ pleasant home at a small cost, which is meeting with a success so marked as to attract the attention of all thinking people. The members of this association are all young peoplevwho are willing to rid themselves of all bad habits, work steadily. dress economically, and save aeportion of their wages; no . others are taken. All the men who join are required to fur- nish a small amount of capital, and to save one-fourth of their wages, which must be invested in the capitalhstock of the as- sociation. Women are not required to furnish any capital at theoutset, but must save one-sixth of their wages and invest it in the business. Those who do not comply with the re- quirements of the association are expelled, and those who wish to leave can do so at any time, and can withdraw their capital by giving six months’ notice. The wages paid to each member are ﬁxed by a Board of Directors,- and are propor- tioned to their skill and ability. They have a large dwelling or home where the members live and enjoy many privileges and comforts not usually found in families or boarding- houses. All pay a moderate price for their board from their wages. They have two new factory buildings, a good water privilege and considerable machinery, and are engaged in the manufacture of toy and house-furnishing goods, for which they ﬁnd a ready sale. They commenced business a year ago with ﬁve hands, and are now working forty-ﬁve; their sales for last month were over $3,000, their pay-roll for the month was over $1,200, and the saving of wages which was added to the capital of the company was over $800. The average amount saved from the wagesof each man in a year is $150, and of each woman $50; many of the members have saved much more than this during the year, but this is all that is required of them. The aggregate amount saved by the pres- ent company i.n a year will be nearly 5§5,000.—-The Manufac- turer and Builder. ‘ ‘WILLrAMs'r'oN, INGHAM Counrr, Mich., _ October 37’, 1875. Miss. VVooDnULL-We should have sent you a copy of our contract of marriage before this but we have been on a plea- sure trip, and have been very busy, so please excuse this delay. I We now send you a copy which was published in the Jack— son Daily C’ZtlZ€7t‘ of the 14~.th. The editor, in his comments, has expressed ideas that will tend to lead unthinking minds to a wrong conclusion. lWe, of the ages of 64 and 44, consider that we are qualiﬁed to come to a correct conclusion as to the merits or demerits of the ancient institution called “Holy Matrimony.” Heaven save us from such holiness as is sanctioned and winked at by church and society. , . Holy marriage! Look behind the mask and what a'scene presents itself to our view. For the past twenty-five years if he had not himself b,,_een sinful. ‘ another man ﬁnds himself lawyer. He is not at all adapt- feel that I have done one good deed at least to my bl‘0th6I‘8 and sisters at large. H- F» B. matter of course. I. could have cometo but one conclusion, I have been an observer of this “ sacred institution.” As a. ( gumm \&r-uur-- \ . Nov. 20,1875. , woonnum. E e1_.AsL1N's WEEKLY.’ 3 and thatis that it has been and is a powerful system of oppression. May the coming generations be saved from the miseries of the past. - ' Yours for truth and justice, ‘ ELIZABETH ANGEL. [From the Jackson Daily Citizen, Oct. 14.] MARRIAGE AT_WlLL. ’ THE NEW DEPARTURE IN SOCIAL RELATIONS DEMON- STRATED IN JAcKsoN—-—ABRoeATIoN or THE MARITAL vows. ' ’ A curious marriage was consummated in this city on Tues- day by Justice Potts, in which the parties were joined in matrimony to last only during their own good will and plea- sure,ignoring entirely the “What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.” This is the first time, we believe, that a marriage has been consummated——not solemnized—-in J ack- son by simple contract between the parties, and pronounced legal. It may be legal, but we doubt it very much. If it is, we wish the parties much joy until either or both of them . can ﬁnd more enjoyment apart; b.ut if it is not, the Justice _ has committed the error ofallowing a man and woman to live in adultery without let or hindrance. The following is a true copy of the contract under which the parties were married: JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 12, 1875. We, Allen A. Angel, of the town of Williamston, Ingham County, Mich., and Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, of the.City of Jackson, Mich., do protest against the old and barbarous system of marriage, as it holds woman in subjection to man, and requires woman to surrender her individuality; also re- quires persons entering into the marriage relation to agree to do that which they cannot possibly know that they can per- form. ‘ But. as society requires of those who enter into the mar- riage relation an acknowledgment of existing laws, we there fore submit to the behests of the law so far as to make our union legal, that we may avoid all unnecessary annoyance. If the union and harmony that now exist between us should continue through our natural lives, than this contract is to remain in force; otherwise to be null and void. A. A. ANGEL, - E. HUNT. Do you—Mr. Angel and Mrs. Hunt——still _adhere to the above marriage contract, and are these your sentiments? This being your minds at the present time, I therefore pro-‘I nounce you married. Subscribed before me this twelfth clay of October, 1875. JAMEs PoTTs, As Witnesses: Justice of the Peace. N. H. .SToNE, SAPHRONIA STONE, CLARA BARNARD, ORVILLE STONE. The" following toast, delivered by a party present, was very acceptably received by the liberal minds. “ Here is success to the bride and bridegroom; hoping that the most beautiful of all moons, called “ honey-moon,” may never set or -go down, but that it may shine brighter and brigher as it grows older until it shall ‘appear anew in the summer land on the other side of the river, called death. And it is still further hoped that the ship, called court-ship, may continue to sail on and on, never casting anchor in the harbors of jealousy, discord or disunion. May this ship’s banners ever be unfurled for the equality ‘of the§_sexes and social freedomlf’ AN HOUR WITH THE ‘WEEKLY. (C ONTINUED.) In my last article I advo cated repudiation to a certain ex tent; but to accomplish repudiation to only that extent can give but temporary relief. so long as we retain our present system of regulating industrial relations. We must repudi- ate this system if we would have permanent prosperity. “ Business is depressed,” is the cry throughout the country, “ and therefore there is little demand for labor.” I ask for the reason why business is thus, and am told that money holders will not invest their money in industrial capital, because they have so little conﬁdence in the ﬁnancial soundness of our money relations; or, in other words, money is of more conse- quence than labor; labor is insolvent, we cannot accept its security. Another says: “There is not currency enough to meet the demands of our industrial interests.” Both an- swers virtually declare that our industrial interests are de- pendent upon the caprices of money; and our system makes these declarations, to a great extent, true ; therefore, the system is wrong. . Why? Because money has no intrinsic value; money, per se, is » powerless to produce -- anything. Money alone cannot open and work a mine; it cannot till the ' soil; it cannot change raw material into articles of useful- ness; it cannot build a house, producea barrel of flour, make a garment, heal the sick or impart knowledge. It has no power except by proxy, and yet it invades every department of nature and demands its recognition as king. , Now, let us lay money aside, so dispose of it that it,is no longer called into use. Will this course annihilate production or the demand for labor? N 0. It cannot annihilate the de- mand for food, raiment, habitation and knowledge. Drawing the purse strings has not caused the depression. What has? The lack of demand for productions of the ;money-holder. The supply exceeds the demand. Our country is overﬂowing with breadstuffs and with manufactured articles. Why, then, should you, the producer, lack if there is a surplus? Because you have not received the surplus proceeds of your labor; they are in the hands of the non-producer. This very sur- plus, by overstocking the" market, has destroyed its own source. gnu must “root hog or die” until this surplus is consume ,when your labor will again be in demand until you have again overstocked the market. This shows that the producer should pay no _tribute to the non—producer. De- mand andsupply should be kept, in equilibrium. As labor must regulate supply, labor must keep this equilibrium. Let labor be more evenly distributed; let ever person who is able render an equivalent in labor for what he or she re- ceives. Let ijlabor be thus distributed, and. four hours per diem of each adult will supply the physical demands of the human race. Whoever labors three thousand hours in a year, and reaps no net income therefrom, has wasted and contributed to the support of the non-producer one half of his labor. ' Displace the present system with one wherein all who are able shall mutually contribute to_ the support of the whole. .Don’t’start back horriﬁed! This is communism. Let pro- ducers form a government by themselves, and leave the drones of society to “paddle their own canoe.” _ _ I EDWARD PALMER. SECRETS OF THE STUDIO. YOUNG WOMEN AS MODELS FOR ARTISTS.-—AR’I‘ IN PHILA- DELPHIA. ' [From the Pltiladelphfct Sunday Press] V It seems a strange, but nevertheless it is a true fact that there are many young ladies who earn their livelihood by act- ing or posing as live lay ﬁgures for the art academies. At ﬁrst glance it seems dreadfully shocking and vulgar that la- dies should appear before a party of young men perfectly nude. It is a queer mode of making money, butwere it not for these ladies, there would not be any of the ﬁne ﬁgures which are christened Dianas and Venuses, but are only such so far as the shape and comeliness of form or of the sub- ject goes. In conversation with a prominent member of the Pennsyl- vania Academy of Fine Arts, a reporter of the Sunday Press learned most strange things concerning the world of art. He said that it was extremely difficult to obtain young ladies ‘who would adopt this business, and only upon the most sa- G16 1 promises that there individuality would not be re- vealed do they consent to take the position. » “Indeed,” said the gentleman, “this rule is so well en forced that there was one lady who appeared before our class at the old academy for four years before I came to know who she was.” These nude live ﬁgures only appear before the Life Class of the Academy for sketching. Formerly they came before the gentlemen alone, but in the new building both ladies and gentlemen will study together. No one except the members of the class are ever admitted to the room where they are studying from a ﬁgure. and only the best artists are taken into membership in this mysterious body. The method of study pursued is something like the following: The lady proceeds to a room adjoining the- class-room, especi- ally adapted for her. At a given signal she appears before the assembled guests upon a platform, masked and shrouded in drapery. She is then placed in the proper position re- quired for the study, and soon the cleft handlers of the brush proceed to depict her form. She is never allowed to be spoken to by any of the members of the class. and should any of the bold ones break this rule they are immediately and forever expelled. 1 Indeed the whole proceeding so soon assumes. an air-of busi- ness, that the artists, according to their own statements, for- get that the lady who is exposing her charms to their gaze is alive. Of course, there is a shock experienced by the new comer in the class the first time he is present at the meeting, but it soon wears off. The ladies who follow this strange mode of procuring a living are in every instance respectable. They are generally led to it by being reduced in circumstances, and lured by the tempting offers of the large pay which is given for their work. Oftentimes ladies of wealth who are proud of their charms, and whose vanity exceeds their prudence, act in this capacity for some skillful artist.- In the celebrated picture of the “ Nine Muses,” which created such a ‘furore a few years since, the ﬁgures there represented were of _ living sub- jects from different parts of the globe, one being reported to be the wife of a wealthy resident of New York, and. another of a large merchant of Chicago. , It is related of the Parisian artists that they seem totally unconscious of the presence of the model until she is ready to leave, when they strain every nerve to ascertain, if possible, who she is. But some of the holder of these girls calmly sit d.own before the class and proceed to lace up their shoes with as much nonchalance as if they were at home. MR. BEECHER IN TEARS. [From N. Y. Sun, N 012. 8.] Yesterday was Communion Sunday in Plymouth Church. Mr. Beecher drew tears from two-thirds of his congregation, and with difficulty commanded his own voice as he spoke of the new life that lay before Plymouth Church. He took for his text Mark xv., 5: ' But Jesus ‘answered nothing, so that Pilate marvelled. After dwelling upon the wondrous forbearance of Christ, Mr. Beecher concluded thus: “I have always preached from the heart, and on the last great day I shall not be afraid to let the Judge read that heart .to see whether I have ever preached His word from motives of ambition. That part of my ministry does not trouble me.” ‘ Here Mr. Beecher stood still and silent before an audience whose attention was almost painful. The tears streamed from his eyes, and for nearly a minute he neither moved nor spoke. Then he continued, in a voice faltering and broken, but growing stronger as he proceeded: “ I think throughout my whole ministry I have not preached or spoken a single word that I shall be afraid or ashamed to account for before God. But here I must stop. I cannot take up the question of pride; I cannot say that I have suffered indignities from others and have been glad. I have not had that gentleness and forbearance which was characteristic of the Master, though I have struggled very hard. Can I render to Christ an account of all he has given me? Havel done all God gave me power to do? ]. should have been a richer man and you must have been a richer church if I had been a better man--if I had been able to say to you as Christ said to Peter, when the apostle in his zeal smote the servant of the high priest, ‘ Put up thy sword,’ or to act as Christ acted before Pilate and his -accusers,,an- swering nothing. I have not had that heroism, that exalte- tion from the Holy G host; and I humble myself before God that, because there has been so little of Christ in me, I have produced so little of Christ in you. In a few moments I will join with you in a participation in the Lord’s Supper. I feel disposed to begin again, and to form a higher and nobler covenant with God. Will you begin with me? Will you workwith mein the spirit of Christ, so that others may be brought in and feel the blessing be of our.Saviour?” THE BIGI-—IT TI-IING. Dem" “Wee/uly—I ha‘ve read “ An Appeal” in the last pa- per, and hasten to send you an enclosure of ﬁfty dollars, for which please send the WEEKLY six months to as many as‘ that sum will pay for. I would suggest that youvask in the WEEKLY for the names of such persons as desire to read it but are unable to subscribe for it, and send the copies to them. Trusting that your appeal may reach the hearts of those who are able to extend their assistance, and that they will see that the herald of the strongest mental and spiritual food that-ghas ever been given to the world," is well supported, I remain your friend, CORA A. SYME. 116 Dean street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘ : It is a petty system of sponging to rely upon borrowing your neighbor’s paper, when you are equally as able as he to pay for one. It is :conteinp1;ibly mean to receive and read a paper for six months, and when asked to pay to reply: “Stop my paper,” or to refuse to take it longer from the-post-oflice, without first paying up what is due. ‘ I NEW BOOKS. ‘ “WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ; or, The ' lse and Abuse of the Reproductive Organs,” by Prof-. »Burt G . Wilder, of Cornell University. 212 pp., 12 mo., price it]. 50. Boston: Ester &; Louriot. New York: Chas. P. Somerby. Theability of this author is unquestioned- The language is plain and simple. The illustrations full, copious and accu- rate, and the facts given are sound so far as we have ascer-» » tained by a hasty perusal. The book is brought out in good style, an.d deserves a wide sale as thebest thing yet attempt- ed on this most important subject. AN EARNEST DEMAND. WANTED.———By a middle-aged man (bachelor), as associate and co-operator in practical reform, a strictly truthful and honest girl or single woman, who can almost fully approve of the doctrines of social freedom, as explained and advocated by Victoria 0. Woodhull. Applicant should send to the ad- vertiser, in her own handwriting, before March 24th (next year), a biographical sketch of her own life, not omitting to mention something about her religious faith or convictions. Should she in some matter of importance entertain very dif- ferent views from Mrs. Woodhull, she would do well to state her own views on such points. ' Address G. Z. W., care WOODHULL & CL.A:sL1:N's WEEKLY. P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. ADDIE L. BALLOU, who for the past season has been en- gaged to speak before the” San Francisco Society of Spirit- ualists, delivered her closing lecture at Charter Oak Hall, Oct. 31, at which time a series of complimentary resolutions in her behalf were unanimously adopted . 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That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through jhar of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.~—-Paul. ‘ The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, fall of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.———James, iii., 17. - And these signs shall follow them In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents,‘ and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.—Jesus. _ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1875. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, 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. . » ——~——-—-4»-«cw-~——-——-— _ THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come’ to worship him.-—Sr. Marrnnw, ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY isnow devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants 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 ‘-and as symbolizing the possession: by man of the whole truth which we hope and trust may be ghortly realized. ;:-- TO Tnosn wno ARE DELINQUENT. To each one of the two thousand whose names stand upon our subscription lists past due, we address this article. Many of you have been our readers for from two to four years. If there is one among you all who can say honestly, that the several years’ subscriptions you have paid have not beneﬁted you and yours as much, if not more, than any like sum expended in any diﬁerent way, then that one ought to say to us at once, I do not want your paper any longer. ' But if this cannot be said; if it is felt and known that a beneﬁt has been received beyond that which has been obtained from other sources costing much more pecuniarily, then there should be no time lost in renewing your sub- scriptions. ‘ through these columns : First, we labored to show, and did show, as we think, conclusively, logically audie- gally, that under the Constitution of the United States there is no distinction recognized or permitted among citizens not convicted of crime; that is to say that, constitutionally, wo- men are as much citizens, and in the same way, as men are, and as much entitled to the ballot. It will be remembered that we were the first to put this plea forward, and that it has since gone through all the courts up to the Supreme Court of the United States. To be sure, it has been defeated there, but so are all new questions when they come ﬁrst before the great tribunals. Ultimately the law will permit no legal dif- ference between the sexes; and when this shall be, the result of the work which we inauguiated will ‘be reached. Having presented all the arguments there were to present upon the question of woman’s legal status, we left the spe- cial consideration of that questibn to be taken up by others, and went forward to the great -‘problem of industrial just- ice. We put forward all the various phases of this question, and showed that it is impossible to attain to complete equity so long as the competitive system of industry is maintained. Men and women are born with unequal capacities for pro- duction, and hence there can be no such thing as equity in competition. This is a self-evident fact upon its face; but we argued it over and over until it seemed that there was nothing new to be said about it. The conclusion inevitably to be arrived at is, that until the great human family shall be inaugurated there can be no equity among the people. Having gone sodjfar we camejnext in order to the individ- uals themselves, and laid down the proposition that every person has the right to own and control his or her own body, so long as in so doing the same right in others is not in- fringed. Under this basic proposition we have maintained that it is wrong for any, either men oruwomen, to legally dis- pose of this personal control——to deed away their birthright. The body, besides being the sole property of the individual, is the instrument whereby God creates its kind. Hence, while no man can assume control over the body of another, rightfully to compel it to do his bidding or to minister to his desires in any way against the will of its owner, it is still a duty which the owner owes to his or her God to so preserve its creative capacities that its products shall be good—shall be such as will be blessings instead of of curses, to themselves and to those in whose midst they are to live. We areaware, painfully aware, that there are no incon- siderable number of our readers who have not yet accepted this question of social order so far as to reach this point. Some do not see their way beyond the mere fact of per- sonal right; and they cannot bear even the limit of educa- tional processes to be put upon their freedom to use their bodies and all its functions, as the occasions of life and their many desires lead them to do from time to time. It is unpalatable for them to be told that they have no right to reproduce themselves when their bodies are loaded with disease and morbid desires, and that the higher right of all over their own personalright, ought to prevail, not by com- pulsion, but by reason, to prevent the production of chil- dren when not ﬁt to do so. In place of the intense selﬁshness that freedom develops in some, we have striven as well as of itself, and which scorns to please itself at the expense of another’s misery; a humanity that is blest when it blesses; that -lives to do good rather than to get good. We believe this to be the true rule of life, and as much more capable of conferring happiness than the Oppo. site as it is possible to conceive. Still, we wish it distinctly to be understood that we do not claim that ' there is any rightful power anywhere in the community to compel any one by law or force, to cer- tain lines of personal conduct. Nay, we proclaim at all times, in the stoutest terms, against just this assumed right that is now attempted to be exercised over the people. The basic principal is freedom to do just what the individ- ual shall elect to do with another or others who elect to join in the acts. This is basic; but if any one think he has a method of life which will bring more happiness to the indi- vidual and _more beneﬁt to the community than that which another lives, it is his or her duty to the community, not less than to the individuals whom they would change, to en- deavor to persuade them to make the change. This is the method by which all progress is achieved. If it were not that some discover new truths and better modes of life there would be no progress. Then they who ﬁnd a new truth and conceal it fcolnmita sin against the world. It is these Go with us over the truths that have been presented. to introduce that love of humanity which thinks of others . who, having lighted their candle, hide it under abushel insteadof placing it upon the candlestick to give light to the whole house. ’ On the other hand, it is true that all growth is evolution- ary, and proceeds by law and method. It is true that those who can see in personal freedom only a better opportunity to gratify their desires and appetites are in a stage of devel- opment below those who grasp it as a means of doing good. But how shall the former be brought up to the latter unless some one hold the truth of the latter up so that the for- mer shall see it, and by the constant sight induce them to grasp after it. Since we became satisﬁed that the basic principle of free- dom was so ﬁrmly ﬁxed in the hearts of the people as to make it impossible to ever root it out, we have gone beyond its special advocacy to teach the highest truths of which We have conceptions. If there are some who have embraced the idea of freedom who do not yet see the higher facts to which freedom must naturally lead, may we not ask them to not hastily repudiate the channel through which the truth they have has come to them; may we not ask them to remember that when we ﬁrst put forth the claim for the right to love whom and when one may and can, that there were still fewer who recognized that basic right than there are now who recognize that it is better and nobler to love to do good than it is to get good; that it is nobler to love and thus to do him or her good than to love them because they pan confer good. In other words, a love which desires an- other merely to gratify its selﬁsh lusts, without a care about the good or the ill. such gratiﬁcation does its object, is not love, but a low order of lust. A true love, a love that is worthy the name, is that which wishes its object to be blessed, even if that means to yield it to another. Anything short of this is selﬁshness and not love. Freedom in prac- tice doesn’t mean the right to appropriate whatsoever means of gratiﬁcation to one’s self, but it means the consummation of a mutual desire for the same things in which all parties get a blessing. Ilence we are now advocating the way to the highest orders of living to which the mental capacities have attained; and we ask all those who have been at all enlightened upon the basic principles, upon which this living must be based, to stand by us in our eﬂforts. We ask those who have learned through these columns any better ways of life, to help keep them open to do still more good. VVe_ ask all those whose children have been taught to keep the temple of their bodies from evil, undeﬁled from sexual vice, when their parents were not parents enough to warn them them- selves, to help sustain this medium of proper life to the young; and we ask specially all wives whose abuses have been lessened, and whose eyes have been opened to their degradation by any word that we have written, or by any word that others have written in these columns, to see that they are maintained until all women shall come to a knowl- edge of the truth. And ﬁnally, we ask each and every one whose subscrip- tions are past due to go immediately to the post office and secure an order for the $3, or in case that sum is not at hand, then for $1.50, and remit to us without ‘delay. To delay doing the right thing is always dangerous. Remem- ber this, and do this right thing which we propose without delay. Think “not upon the order of doing it,” but go at once and do it. -,—~< Q+—~< THE WAY TO DO IT. In another column will be found a letter to which we have given the heading, “The Right Thing.” We must ask the pardon of our friend for publishing her communica- tion, which we know was;not intended for the public. But its suggestion is so good that we are sure she will not take offense at the publicity given her, when she remembers that it may be the means of inducing others to do the same thing. Mrs. Syme neither courts nor desires publicity for her deeds of goodness. An invalid now for many months, in a quiet way she extends assistance to this and to that charity or cause, to the extent of her means, and gets her payment in the knowledge that she is doing good. In furtherance of her proposal, we ask for the names of such persons as desirethe WEEKLY, who are really unable to pay for it; and we shall give the preference to thenames of women. We hope that all of the recipients of this grace. ful donation may be of the sex of the donor. If each of the friends of the WEEKLY, who can do so just as well as not, would follow the example set by Mrs. Syme, the circu- lation of the WEEKLY would soon be doubled. All the contributions received under the appeal, that are not otherwise ordered, will be applied in the way suggested. Whose name shall stand next on the list to that of Cora A. Syme? EXEGETICAL. ’ We have had a communication from an esteemed corres- pondent, known to our readers by “ S,” some weeks, the character of which is such that we did not feel like publish- ing until we should ﬁnd time to make some remarks upop it. In ordinary cases we should not withhold a communication of this character; but in this, which is one in which our scrip- tural interpretations are questioned upon a vital point, we feel justiﬁed in so doing. Moreover, to properly and ex- haustively remark upon this issue would require us to go in- to questions which we are not yet {prepared to do publicly, l l .4 I ‘u’ J. Nov. 20, 1875., WOODHULL J5 oLArL1n"s WEEKLY. , 5 and to do which would make a draft upon our time and strength which is impossible of us now, engaged as we are every night in the lecture ﬁeld preparing the way for the ' public introduction of this whole question on the rostrum. But we will ,,brieﬂy and imperfectly reply to some of the points involved,‘ leaving the deeper and more important ones for consideration at some future time. EXEGETICA.IJo “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin,.for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God.” lst Epist. John, iii., 9. The seed spoken of in the text is not the physical seed of the man. * The seed is the word of God—the seed of God. of which the Son of Man was the sowex-——the word that was in the begin- ning and was G-od. The word is truth, and truth is the redeemer and preserver of men. All who are begotten of God, the word, come into life—-eternal life, through the truth, or Christ of the word. v “ Sanctifv them through thy truth.” said Jesus. St. John, 17-17'. “Thyword is truth,” and Jesus was its living ex- pounder, representative and illustrator. - By the truth in man man is preserved from sin. “ This is eternal life that they might know Thee the only true God,”‘etc. The knowledge of God, then, the word, the truth, is the only scriptural eternal life into which man is inducted by Christ the truth. ‘I Of course, in this sense man passes from death into life—- death. scriptural death, being his natural condition, into which he is naturally born. Such is the process. unveiled of its mysticism, by which Christ the truth immortalizes man, and in this condition his triumph over death, the last ene my, is perfected, through “ Christ, the truth, thus put on.” In St. Paul’s 1st letter to his Corinthian brethren (Chap. xv.), he affirms that the mortal and corruptible must put on immortality and incorruption, conditions effected by Christ, or eternal truth, the only immortal and incorruptible One, or thing personated. * It is amazing to ﬁnd even those profoundly versed in Cabalism and the allegorical, symbolical and metaphorical characters of the Testaments, falling. notwithstanding, into the most absurd entanglements of the letter, the letter which the same apostle affirms “ Killeth, While its Spirit giveth life,” eternal life. S. STEUBEN. 0., Sept., 1875. We take direct issue with “ S” in his introductory para- graph. “The seed” is the word as used in the Bible, and especially in the parable of the sower, who is Christ. But John was writing to his brethren of the Church, whom he called the Sons of God; for in the introductory verse to this third chapter he says: “ Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God.” It was to these that he wrote the words of the ninth verse. It seems to us that it would be utterly contra- dictory to say that the truth remaineth‘ in a man, and that he does not sin because it remaineth in him. The truth is to be sowed by whoever possesses it. It is not to be hidden under a bushel, but set on the house-top to give light to the whole house. The parable of the ten talents is conﬁrmatory of this view. The talents are given to be improved and not to re- main shut up in the man. Besides, the words of John are “ his seed remaineth in him,” not “ the seed.” The truth can no moi'e be said to be the seed of one man than of any other who may possess it. “ His ” refers to something that is peculiar to the individual——that belongs to a person as an individual and not to something that is common to all individuals. It is quite true that there is a spiritual as well as a natural side to all the truths contained in the Bible or elsewhere, and our correspondent has, in our estimation, made the mis- take of holding that there is no truth in the natural world; that is, in nature or the palpable. We had occasion some weeks ago to show (and we think we did show) that life and death in the Bible refer to the life and death of the body; that is on its natural side, for there is no death save of the body.. In the continuation of the same subject, in the ﬁfth chapter, John says: “ If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.” Now we cannot see how this language can by any possible con- struction be madc to apply to “his seed,” as standing for the truth; but it can be very readily seen how it may apply to “‘ his seed” admitting that all sin has its origin in the fact that it does not remain in man, in the present customs of the sexes. If “S ” knew the condition‘ that is to take the place of these customs, he would see how it is death‘ for the seed to not remain “in him.” He would then see that what John relates of Jesus as haying said, “ out of his belly shall ﬂow rivers of living water,” will be literally true, and he would also see what “the truth” referred to by Jesus, is. Of course the truth is life, and to have life is to have this very physical fact which is the sealed mystery of the Bible. It is easy to say -that the truth is the'word, and that the vdord is life; but if we press as Pilate did to know what is truth, what is the truth, the whole truth, we then have quite a different matter to answer. It is the whole truth that giv- eth life, both physical and spiritual. We do not suppose that there is a person in the world so poor that he has not a truth, but it would be preposterous to say that any have the .truth, which is the ‘last and ﬁnal thing to be revealed, and which brings life and immortality to light. It was in this sense that Jesus was “the way, the truth and the life.” He had the mm and he had life——a life that he could lay ‘down and take up at will. “All that a man hath will he give for his life ” means his physical life, to lose which is death. This is not allegorical, but means just what it says. Jesus r as The mortal are not the dead——physically so—~but those subject to death. also said 2 “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to. take it up again.” This manifestly related to his physical life. “This he said signifying what death he should die,” is not allegorical, but referred to his physical death. Then life and death in the Bible mean of the body, or phys- ical life and death, and we do not think their is any escap- ing it. In Genesis i., 12 we read: “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb-yielding seed after his kind, and the tree- yielding fruit (observe the punctuation), whose seed was in itself, after his kind.” Now, by reading the 29th verse it will be seen that the fruit of this tree was not given for food: “Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed (observe the punctuation; it is not every herb, bearing seed; or herb that bears seed; but every herb-bearing seed) which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree-yielding seed.” (Observe the punctuation——a tree—yielding seed, not a tree that yields seed; but seed that yields a tree, or tree-yieldin g seed. The language of the verses is cabalistic in the high- est degree.) Now, the tree whose seed was within itself, which was not given for food, was the tree which stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden, as set forth in thesecond chapter of Genesis. This is the tree that, in J ohn’s vision on Patmos, stood in the midst of the street of the river of life. . And this is the tree the seed of which remaineth in itself, as John said, when one doth not commit sin.o Thus, one may have the spiritual side of the truth——that is, may know the truth, intellectually, as did the Apostles, and still not have its natural embodiment, which is physical immortality. This is what John referred to in the same chapter, at the 2d verse : “ Beloved, now we are the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” That is to say, that the Sons of God who did not commit sin, when the conditions shall obtain in which Christ shall appear, again will be able also to appear with him. And for this reason John goes on to say (verse 3 : “And every man that hath this hope in him puriﬂeth himself, even as he (Christ) is pure.” Now what is it to purify one’s self ? lVhy, clearly to cease com- mit sin. Paul also meant the same fact to which we refer Romans viii., 22 and 23), when he said: “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain to- gether until now; and not they only, butiourselves also, which have the ﬁrst fruits of the spirit (the intellec- tual knowlcdge)—evei1 we ourselves groan within our- selves waiting for the adoption-—to-wit: the redemption of our “body.” It was the body that was to be redeemed. Paul had the ﬁrst fruits of the spirit, but not its perfected fruit which would redeem the body from death, and, there fore, he was groaning with all the rest of creation for it. The truth avails but little unless it be outwrought in some act of which it is the inspiration and which is its embodi- ment. To have the truth without its consummation in action is to have its ﬁrst fruits only. And so it is with the truth in question. . Thus “’S” is right so far as he goes, but he goes only half way, and is therefore half right. He has half the truth, spiritually, in the same way that the Oneida Perfectionists have half the truth, practically. A statement of the truth and its intellectual grasp and accept- ance are the spiritual side of a question; but to reduce the truth to action, to make it the rule and guide of life, is to have not only the spiritual, but the natural side of it. It is those who have these who shall never die, and it is those who, being dead, have the spiritual only who can be resur- rected. As we have said in previous numbers the allcgories of the Bible relate to some fact which,°of itself, is not allegorical, and this fact is the one in question——that of life and death. Until this be demonstrated by living representatives, no one can have more than Paul ha.d—the ﬁrst fruits of the Spirit- and these must be held by faith until the demonstration come. Then what shall be seen will be no longer amat- ter of faith. With us it is not merely a question of faith, because we have seen this in the spiritual condition, and know as well as we can know anything that has been only’ spiritually revealed, what this truth is, which is to bring life, by triumphing over death. We should be glad to" say a great deal more, but it would not be received, because we have no proof to oifer; but this we may say: that before another year shall pass away the truth will be revealed fully to the world, and all at which we have been only able to hint, made clear. _Until this time shall come we ask our friends to bear with us as patiently as they can. We do not think that any of them will credit us with insanity, and we should certainly be insane if we were to follow what we are following without the most indubitable proof that it is true. We have that proof, but it is of such a character that it can- not be given to the public yet. Those of our friends who have followed us through all the trials and toilsof the past four years will, we think, believe us when we say that the things to w_hich we refer as about to come are to be the legi- timate fruit of the work that has been accomplished, which it has been ours to be accounted, of the spirit, worthy to give our feeble efforts to help inaugurate. Let those hold to their faith in us and in the mission to which we have the honor to be attached as servants, and stand by it, its organ, and us, until the consummation come; then they shall see their reward and be satisﬁed. Remember, before another twelve-month! ’ s ’ Is IT ASKING TOO MUCH? , If we could make the paper upon which the WEEKLY is printed ; if we could set the type with which it is printed; if we could do all the work attending its publication, then we should be glad to send the WEEKLY free to everybody; but since we can only do the things to which we arelimited by time and capacity, we must ask others, who are interest-I ed in the truths that are published in it, to help us. We give all our time, all our talent, and all our working”capacity.. We ask others to give a trifle in the way of support. ' We give all the days of the year to this work ; we ask others to give three days of each year to it, or the result of three days labor estimated at one dollar per day, and as much more as they can. Is this asking too much ? If it is not, those who are in arrears will answer bysending-us their renewals at once. If it is asking too much, those who think so will please say, “Stop my paper ;” but when saying so please to not forget the time for which they are in arrears. In one of these two ways we desire the question, “ Is it asking too much,” to be answered before December the 1st, by every one who is delinquent on our lists. ‘A4 * wvw THAT SVVEET BY AND BY. Capitalists ought to sustain Spiritualism if the address on Sunday, Oct. 30, through trance Speaker Lyman C. Howe, to ‘the Society of “ Progressive Spritualists,” as reported in the Ivwestzgator, is to be credited as proceeding from a well- , developed'spirit capable of instructing mortals in the form, and not from one of the multitude of lying souls from whom nowadays are received so many worthless and‘evil,comniu- nications. As a medium, in answer to a question on the subjects of capital and labor, he is said to have replied as follows: ' _ V J ' “Capital was labor’s best and only friend. Ninety-nine out of a hundred laborers would be arbitrary and exacting. The‘ capitalist was generally a man of prudence, the laborer generally prodigal. Superior sagacity would take ad/yan‘ tage of opportunities. In. the ‘ Sweet By and By’ the millionaire would be accounted as the benefactor of the race.” ‘ We confess we should like to know the name of the spirit who is answerable for this; the name, nothing moreﬁlt could not have proceeded from the spirit of Abraham Lin- coln, who, in his ﬁrst Congressional message, asserted‘ that “ laborwas the mother of capital;” and in his last speech to the serenaders on his second elevation to the presidency, declared, “ Gold is good in its place; but living, brave and patriotic men are better than gold.” It is an insult to sup- pose that we are indebted for the above remarks to the spirit of the Great Nazarene, for he anathematized riches and rich men on almost every opportunity; so much so that we are told his disciples stood aghast to hear him, and inquired in trepidation, “ Who, then, can be saved?” No, it is certain that such an attack never proceeded from any spirit who is a friend and well-wisher of the human race. As things are now, we do not hesitate to pro- nounce its ﬁrst statement false, that—“Capital is Labor’s best and only friend”——on the contrary, we are‘ free to as— ‘ A sert that bad systems havemade capital, as things now are, the antagonist of labor, and, are sorry to add, the successful antagonist; so much so that we believe it devours four—ﬁfths of the yearly returns of the toils of producers. The next assertion may be correct, viz.: “Ninety and nine out of a hundred laborers, should they become capitalists, would be arbitrary and exacting. But why conﬁne that statement to laborers? The possession of too great wealth makes ninety and nine out of every hundred human beings arbi- trary and exacting. Most people who earnestly desire to accumulate money can do so, by starving their souls. The man with the mud rake, in Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress, collected plenty of mud, but he had to keep his, eyes ﬁxed earthward to do so; there was a crown over his head, but he never had even a desire to see it, much less to secure it. The next sentence cruelly taxes laborers with prodigality, and praises the prudence oflcapitalists; we submit that in a city where the masses of toilers can only obtain $1.40 per day, it is folly to make such a charge against them. Mr. Commissioner Acton, the best police agent the city of New York ever had, thought differently. In his last communi- cation he declared that, “In the lewd dance houses and places of ill-_repute in the city, Fifth avenue was more than represented.” As to the statement that “superior sagacity would take advantage of opportunities,” we have no objec- tion to that, provided it can do so without robbing laborers. At present, evil laws create those opportunities; our system of inheritance, ﬁnance and traﬂic, must all be remodeled . before the man who does the work can get his full pay; but we have no doubt he will eventually get it here and else- where. -But the cap sheaf of .Shylock’s assertions through, Lyman C. Howe is to be found in the “ Sweet By and By,“ when “the millionaire will beicounted a benefactor of his race.” Hear it, ye capitalistspand cast in your lot with conservative Spiritualists. In Christian churches you can never hope for more than toleration, unless you build. them and run them as the mill-owners do in Massachusetts. In them, “sell all thou hast and give to the poor;’’ that terri- ble “camel” business; and that “whip of small cords” are all against you. Come, then,.to the arms. of the con- servative Spiritualists, they will make things smooth and easy for you, through spirit authority, here and hereafter. 6 wooinnuni. a cnsnnrnis WEEKLY. IS IT ABOLITION OR SUBSTITUTION? We are repeatedly asked if the new developments to be . made in the relations of the sexes are the entire abolition of commerce, so that the requirements of the sons of God, to not “commit sin,” save for reproduction, may be complied with._ We thought we had said sufﬁcient to make it per- fectly plain that the new truth about this is by no means the abrcgationof the intimate relations of the sexes. - If there are any who are in doubt_about this, to them we say emphatically, that it does not mean any such thing; and to ‘all, that it means a new and high use of these relations by which to attain a condition that can be reached by _n6 other way. We desire to say further, that, instead of the . abridgment or curtailment of the happiness that results from these relations in their highest and purest conditions now, it will extend and intensify this happiness a thousand f_old. But the truth must not be desired for what it will bring, but for its own sake. Until this truth shall come there can be no salvation from death; there can be no doing the “greater things than these” that Jesus did, which he promised should be done; there can be no perfected and permanent blending of the two sexes to form one complete union, which union is typiﬁed as the Church of Christ by St. Paul. At the same time, it will be so far a departure from the present practices that there will be no sin com- mitted ; to commit sin being to do anything that tends to destroy life; while to eat of “the fruit" of the tree” that stands “in the midst of the garden,” is to surely die. A In reply to another question upon this subject that is fre- quently received, we would say, that it is not those only who have not arrived at the age of puberty who can be saved; all can be saved, old or young, who have complied with the conditions: to love the ._Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself; and who can ﬁnd their counterparting mate; and those who die having done the former, but failed to ﬁnd the latter, can be resurrected at “the second coming of Christ.” We ” should be glad to say a great deal mo_re, but we are not per- mitted. We speak on this only as “ the spirit giveth utter- ance.” Or-—-4 THE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂinlwill receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll. engagements in various parts of the country as their regular trip shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: ' _ , The Mystery of the Sealed Book. God, Christ, Devil. ‘ The Garden of Eden. The Two Worlds. _ Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The’Human Body the Holy Temple. Christian Communism. The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and . The Rights of Children.‘ - - The ﬁrst seven of these subjects form a regular course, and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblicaliltevelations, and cover the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box'»3,79l, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull will speak in Steubenville, 0., Nov. 13, Pittsburgh, Nov. 14; Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 16; Canton, 0., Nov. 17; Youngstown, 0., Nov. 18 ; New Cas- tle, Pa., Nov. 19; ‘Salem, 0., Nov. 20; Massillon, 0., Nov. 22; Greenville, 0., Nov. 23; Meadville, iPa., N ov. 24; Corry, Pa., Nov. 25; Erie, Pa., Nov. 26; Buffalo, N. Y., Nov; 2'7. If any change in dates is made it will be an nounced in the local papers. . V >—+Q>——<———~—~—— MRS. WOODHUL, IN THE FIELD. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. [From the Akron, _ 0., Daily Argus, N 01:. 3.] . EDITORIAL. Solomon-/says, “ he that answereth a thing before he hears it, showeth himself a simpleton.” This language will apply to that class of bigots who prejudge and condemn a person upon general hearsay without instituting a personal investi- gation. It is a Scriptural as well as a philosophical doctrine that we should “ prove all things and hold fast that which is good.” We-make these observations in view of the lecture delivered by Victoria C. Woodhull in the Academy of Music 1331; night,which waslistened to by quite a large and respect- able audience. embracing only about forty women, her sub- ject. -being the “True and the False, Socially.” We Wonder not that she .is called “ Queen of the Rostrum” when she holds her hearers spellbound, apparently without an effort, from her first appearance on the stage until she utters her last syllable. Possessed of a ﬁnely developed physique, standing erect as a queen, completely self-possessed, her large, restless eyes peering in every individual face, as though ‘addressing each hearer in person, her own soul catching ﬁre at the inspiration of her own words, and all the energies of her nature being roused up by the vast importance of her , theme, she pours forth such a stream ‘of eloquence--fervid, liquid. electric——-as to compel even the admiration of her ' most malignant 0I5P9591'5- Her eulogy upon the person and character of J gsus, as an inspired: teacher and as an exemplar of every possible virtue, is the most beautifulin its wording and execution we ever iistened to. ’ But woe be to the hypocrites and the roues who sit in her presence; and how she pours down red-hot shot and shells and chain lightnings upon the heads of married men who keep prostitutes, and upon abortionists and infanti- cides, and upon lecherous debauchees, and upon men and and women who abuse every law of their physical organiza- tion, and especially upon that self-righteous class of people who prescribe her without giving hera fair and honest hear- ing. [From the Leader, St. Charles, Ill., Oct. 22,1875] MRS’. WOODHULL AT AURORA. I We had the pleasure of listening to this remarkable lady fast Monday evening at Aurora. We Wish we had the room and the ability to give her lecture entire, for we know it con- tained many solid truths which could not fail to better all before whom they might be placed. But as it is impossible for us to do this, we shall simply speak of the woman as she impressed us—-and as she is. ' Mrs; VVoodhull is a reformer in ‘every sense of the word and that she is a thoroughly honest one is shown in her deep earnestness—-by every word and action. She spoke one hour and a half in Aurora the other evening, and not one word fel from her lips which the purest lady in the land might not have listened to with perfect propriety; aye more—-might not have listened to with proﬁt. The major part of her audience, numbering between four and ﬁve hundred, was composed of ladies, and we venture the assertion that not one regretted being present. Mrs. Woodhull is not only argumentative and forcible, but-a wonderfully elegant and eloquent speaker. At times her language, action and utterance, are perfectly majestic. Indeed, we never before heard a speaker with such apthorough command of all the accessories of perfect ora- r . » ~ t0O5i1r belief is that she -is a pure, noble-hearted wcmuan, engaged in what she, at least, believes to be a worthy cause. If you ever have an opportunity, reader, go and hear her‘, and then judge her. She made a friend of every one who heard her the other evehing, and Aurora hasn’t a. house big enough to accommodate Ethe audience which ‘will assemble to hear her the next time she speaks in that city. She only asks a hearing, and surely this is a reasonable request. You can accord no less. [We are indebted to the Fort Wayne Gazette for the fol lowing notices from the papers of Richmond, Ind.-EDs.] “Lyceum Hall was crowded last evening with an intelli- gent ‘audience to hear Victoria C. Woodhull. She com- menced her lecture in a clear, well-trained voice, with no ap- parent effort. Those who went with the expectation of hear- ing something that might raise a blush were greatly disap- pointed, and instead of ﬁnding there low comment, learned truths that were intended to carry conviction to the erring. The orator, for she is a natural one, carried strength with every word she uttered, and while her subject was a search- ing one, sheimpressed every one with the sincerity with which she pursued her path of duty. “It was taught by Paul, ‘Know thyself,’ and Pope says, ‘The proper study of mankind is man,’ but Mrs. Woodhull treats upon these subjects with a signiﬁcance, application and force not to be found in the books, nor expresed by any other lecturer we have ever heard.”-—F7'ee Press, Richmond, ' Indiana. Those who skirmished on the borders of the lecture ﬁeld to ﬁnd out whether or no it would be entirely respectable be- fore going in, were reassured by the,,sight of one of the most Intelligent audiences ever assembled in Lyceum Hall, and those who went with the expectation of hearing a morsel of vulgarity were disappointed. There was not a word uttered which any true souled man or woman could not indorse. The impassioned and eloquent utterance of the woman was convincing of her earnestness of purpose, and that she is possessed of rare power as a speaker cannot be denied.-In- dependent, Richmond, Ind. [From the Gazette, Ft. Wayne,'Ind., Oct. 28, 187 5.] The lecture;of Victoria C. VVoodhull of last evening, at Colerlck’s Opera House, was well attended, and the audience was one of intelligence and respectability, such as any speak- er might feel proud to address. _ Mrs. Woodhull is medium in stature, with brown-black hair, complexion between a brunette and blonde, and has a quick, nervous, but pleasing address. She speaks as one who ﬁrmly and emphatically believes in herself, and in the truth and integrity of what she is saying. The “True and the False, Socially,” was discussed with a degree of common sense and vigor, that was only exceeded by its purity and goodness of purpose. The audience could well afford to listen to Mrs. Woodhull. _ _ A . [From the Sentinel Ft. Wayne, Ind., 0013.28, 1875.]. The celebrated——we might say the notorious--Victoria Woodull made her ﬁrst appearance in Fort Wayne last even- ing at the opera house, when she delivered her lecture en- titled “ The True and the False, Socially,” to a very fair and decidedly respectable audience. The number of ladies pre- sent was not proportionately large, but some of the best in the city were there, and evidently did not _ regret going. Mrs. Woodhull appeared upon the stage dressed very plainly and neatly in black. - Her appearance is that of a superior woman mentally, and in the art of clearly"and forcibly ex- pressing herself she is not excelled by any female speaker who has preceded her in this city. She carried in her hands a roll of manuscript, to which, however, she paid but little attention. I There was quite a large attendance at Mrs. Woodhull’s lec- ture on Tuesday evening last. Judging from the frequent applause of the audience, her theory on the “ social ques- tion” was nottoﬁensive to theirideas of either morality or good breeding. On the contrary, we venture to say that none present could take the slightest exception to the propriety of her language or to the soundness of her opinions, upon the subject discussed. Of reﬁned and graceful appearance and an eminently pleasingvmanner, sheilcreates a favorable im- pression upon all; and her oratorical powers and intellectual abilities rank her among the best speakers of the age.--Fox Lake (Wis) Representative, N 01:. 13. Nov. 20, 1875. V An audience of three hundred people listened to Mrs.- Woodhull’s lecture on Monday evening. The subject was, “The True and the False, Socially,” A great many people who would like to have seen and heard her, staid away be- cause they have a wrong idea. of its nature. From what they had read and heard, they expected she’ would say things unﬁt for the ears of reﬁnement. ,Nothing could be further from the reality. It is true she touched a great many delicate points, but did it in such a manner _ that no one could take exceptions. And they were matters with which no one can become too familiar.—-Becwer Dam (Wis) Citizen, Oct. 12. ’ ~~~—-~-~-4-«>---—- MEROTII THE MAGIAN. (]1P.Ictracts from.) rm-1 AIDS or TIME. (Merotl1.) Me7'.—- Think you that age Alone brings on our end ?—that years alone May stamp our ‘brows with wrinkles?—No, Arbac-es; There are more powerful agents far than these. And the heart-sick weariness of hope deferred" W racks in an hour more than days of tell; The labor of the o’erstraincd mind outwcars In minutes her frail habitation more Than months of mcaner care. The shocks of fate In moments often do the Work of years;- And I have known them all. run REWARDS or C}IARI’l‘Y. (Meroth and Calmar.) II/[e7“.—A precious recompense! Deluded boy. ' When you do know the changeful multitude, ' You’ll think yourself best paid by its reproach. 0aZ.—In its prosperity perhapsfl might; But, oh! now. There’s not a prize on earth I’d sooner strive for than the poor man's pray’r; Benevolence receives her pay on earth. ll[e7*.—Aye, beggars’ thanks—the service of the lip; Love in the mouth and envy in the heart. But you are young; you’ll not believe me now, Nor learn from one who speaks unwelcome truths; From one who’s read in the black leaves of life The fearful secrets of the human heart. But age shall teach what now you will not learn, And force you. to confess my judgment just, And ratify its justice. 0al.- , Never, never! What molten gold is priceless as the tear Of joy on sorrow"s cheek? What gem so rich As the bright smile which, with a peerless ray, Suns the sad brow of rugged misery? They beggar earth’s best treasures; nay, they pass As current coin in heav‘n! LovE’s nnnonss. (Eudora—Solus.) E'ud.—That hope is vain.—He will return no more. If I could see him once—-but once again, That we might part in. peace; that I might steal, And, miser-like, hoard in my memory His last, last glance of love; that I might hear Again these vows so full of harmony—- “Of heavenly melody,”—that music’s self Ceased with their silver tones, and charms no more This weary-sated ear. That I might feel , The thrilling pressure of that hand, whose touch Entranced my frame and ﬁlled my soul with love. Ca11 he be gone? Are these delights a dream? Oh! that I had not seen his noble form, Nor sunk beneath themagic of his eye. What do I say ?—Ingratel I would not part Wlth one fond look—one well remembered vow-—- Ah, ‘no! they are my treasures, my delights, My Wealth-my all. ILLUSIONS or YO'U',l‘l—I. ( Meroth——Solus.) 1 Yes! there he wanders, by the cedar grove, Bis fav’rite haunt; in meditation deep O’er some imaginative paradise Created new by spangled fancy’s pow’r. Such are the visions and the hopes of youth, Which, like the luminary of the night, Tinges with its own beauty all the scenes Its rays delusive reach. Ah! trust them not, Their garish—tinselled gilding but deceives; That peerless sky will soon be overcast With sorrow’s clouds and grief’s soul-withering gloom, The glittering landscape fade, and nought be found But herbless Wastes and wilderncsses dire. Wake from thy trance, fond youth, ’tis all a charm-— A baseless shadow,—-a delusive dream— A mockery of ne’er performed hope, Deceiving to betray; more distant far From life’s stern truths and cold realities Than is, from the parched traveler’s scorched lip, The shining surface of the false mirage. .4; 4 V Irv» BUSINESS EDITORIALS. PROJSKLISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms _ N o. 329 Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. 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This Poem will be especiaﬁy interesting to readers of the WEEKLY from the fact that its leading idea- viz., that of the Deity, corroborates the View of woman and the explanations of Bible mysteries now being given by Mrs. Woodhull. It shows how woman is to gompass man and bring in full salvation and redemp- ion. The vision of the “woman clothed with the sun and having the moon beneath her feet,” has a prac- tical fulﬁllment in the “last days.” While opposing its idea of Deity, the Baltimore American said: “ It is a production of much merit.” With title-page, border, references and extracts. Price 10 cents per dozen, post paid; 75 cents per hundred. ' IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass. . W Send for large Catalogue. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, CHRIS1/A ivrrr BE]? ORE CHRIST. ' CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Ewtroloroliincmr Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Olriiental Origin of all the Doctrines, Prlnclgolcs, Precepts and Mtvacles of the CHRISTIAN ‘NEW TESTAMENT, and _furm'shlng a Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the g Illstory of Sixteen Oriental C1-notiﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Bl0g7'aplty of Satan ” and “The ‘Bible of Bibles " (C(/7'77.]?7"l8’l’rI._(] a. description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads—follows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows,’ to the mark. C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Addiess to the Clergy. Chap. 1.-—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.——Mpssianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent._ Chap. 4.——Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.——Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.~Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. 7.—Angels, Slieplierds and Magi visit the Infant Savior. Chap. 8.—The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.-—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. 11.—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—-The Wei-ld’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ g _ Chap. 13.—-The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- vinit . Chap. 1y4.~The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this Vlforld. Chap. 15.—-The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.——Sixteen Saviors Crueiﬁed. _ Chap. 17.——’l.‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—-Reappearaiice and Ascension of the Sav- Cli(2iIpé.21.~The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathen O -' ' . ’ Clialpglgé ——The Holv Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.-—The Divine “VVord” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 2-t.——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 lioly Ghost. '_ Chap. 27.——’l‘ue Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen O" ' . Chalp:g}21S.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—~How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. _ _ Chap. 30.—Sacred Cycles explaining tlie_ Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Oh ' t. Cliapr.1S1.—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems‘. _ _ _ Chap. 32.—~Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ_and Crishna. C 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.——Philosophiea1Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ _ Chap. 37.—Physiological. Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Inca_rnatio_n, _ _ _ Chap. 88.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Oh ' t. , , , _ Chap1:l§9.--The Scriptural View of Chl.‘l_Sl’:’S’D1V11’l1l’,Y. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-11-20_10_25
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-11-20_10_25
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 26 (November 27, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2099
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-11-27
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: ’ -.'‘V""'I‘‘ ("I " rt, . v '1 ~s PROGRESS 2? FREE THOUGHT: I ‘UNTRAMMELED LIVES 3 Bnnaknvefrnn WAY son srrrnns ennnnnrionfs. V01. X.——No. 26.—-‘Whole No. 260. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——Pau1. ABOUT GOD. It unspeakably lightens the burdens of life to believe in an almighty God; to be ﬁrmly grounded in the faith that,what-- ever comes, all is for the best; that a master-hand is at the fore. ' ' p - The need of such consolation has been, and is, so great that the human mind accepts the faith eagerly, and shrinks from evidence to the contrary as the body shrinks from a hurt. ‘It is terrible not to see sufficient evidence upon which to base faith in the kind intention toward...
Show more’ -.'‘V""'I‘‘ ("I " rt, . v '1 ~s PROGRESS 2? FREE THOUGHT: I ‘UNTRAMMELED LIVES 3 Bnnaknvefrnn WAY son srrrnns ennnnnrionfs. V01. X.——No. 26.—-‘Whole No. 260. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——Pau1. ABOUT GOD. It unspeakably lightens the burdens of life to believe in an almighty God; to be ﬁrmly grounded in the faith that,what-- ever comes, all is for the best; that a master-hand is at the fore. ' ' p - The need of such consolation has been, and is, so great that the human mind accepts the faith eagerly, and shrinks from evidence to the contrary as the body shrinks from a hurt. ‘It is terrible not to see sufficient evidence upon which to base faith in the kind intention toward man of any such power- ful in telligence; but to be convinced against your will that the intelligence that would place man, weak, ignorant and undeveloped, upon the earth to shift for himself among NEW YORK, NOV. 27, 1875. suppressed rather than permitted to go on constructing worlds on the same plan to all eternity? If force, that is the property of matter,’ is the power that has created the world, there is a no less deplorable state of things, only no one is re- sponsible; and if the survival of the fittest is the law by a slight variation of the cosmic forces may send us back to barbarism or to total extinction, rather than forward to the perfected civilization of which we hopefully dream. $ People say “ This is a very good world after all; there is more pleasure than pain; it is _better to live than not; few wish to die.” Admitting that the world might be worse than it is as well as better, it is hard to understand how one having a fellow feeling for man and’ beast, and a power of putting himself in other people’s places, can be happy, or can consent to endorse the world as the perfect work of an Almighty God. They i. may say, as the preachers do, that God’s ways are not man’s ways, and who are we that we should judge these things? We desire to humble ourself in the dust; to confess that we are ignorant and foolish; that our reasonings, our inspira- tions and aspirations are as folly to the powers that may be. We do not profess to know that the world is a terrible fail- ure, but only to judge that it is so from the signs that have come under our observation thus far. If there bea great, good God, he (or she or it) knows how gladly we would believe the -terrible forces by which he is surrounded, must be analog in his 1Qy,mg..1;'u,;d,ness,.if it were possible from our stanq- gous to the mother 'w he would leave her two-year-old baby to play, unwatched, with ﬁre, sharp-edged weapons and wild beasts. - One cannot help thinking that it was man’s right not to be created till he could have been given power over all destroy- ing elements; or otherwise, that the earth should have been adapted to his weakness. The powers should have restrained their creative activities till man could have been so placed that every need of his nature could be satisﬁed. The cry is, oh the selﬁshness, the deceit, the cruelty, the lust of man! For more self-preservation his hand must be against every other man’s. Who can say that selﬁshness would not die out if it were no longer needed, or rather that under“favorable circumstances it would not be equivalent to honesty and faithfulness, and be the necessary indicator of suitable adap- tations for promoting the growth of perfect individuality? To illustrate: Consider every man to be in charge of him- self; that it is his business to understand himself, his own needs, capabilities and weaknesses better than any one else can, and’ better than he can understand those of any other person. Suppose the world to be so organized that every hu- man being could have all needs supplied and free use of all his faculties without interfering with the rights and happiness of any other person—would it not be as dishonest for him to neglect or sacriﬁce his self-interest in order to attend to another person’s as it would be for a stew- ard to neglect the estate of which he has charge and to meddle with the business of another estate in charge‘ of an equally competent steward? As ﬂowers grow in a garden, each selecting from earth and air the special elements needed for its growth, interfering with no other but building itself up to perfection, so should man grow in his higher sphere. Who can say that the perfect condition, instead of being that each must live for all others according to the doctrine of self-abnegation, should not be that each stands independent, self-poised, his own individual self, attracting and being at- tracted because ofﬁhis freedom and perfect “ otherness.” So far as a government or social organization requires the sacri- fice of any member’s best individual good, so far must it be from perfection. ' ' Therefore, when man is accused of selﬁshness and other sins, it may be accusing him unjustly for the shortcomings of ' the God who placed him half made upon a half-made world. The Laplanders believe their dreary country the best possible, and we have been like them in thinking our world perfect, and that only man is vile, because we dared not question Grod’s doings. I The scheme of evolution is a fearful one, making earth an immense torturing machine to man and beast; it is worthy the planner of a hell paved with infant’s skulls. When one thinks, or tries to think, of all the pain that is suffered on the earththis one day, itcan only be compared to a hell. Would not a benevolent power feel that the cause of it should be point. , N. MAYNE. “ MISJUDGMENT.” “A lot of men tarred and feathered two soiled doves in Fairfax a few nights ago—served them right.” The above paragraph we ﬁnd in the Burlington, Vt., Clip- per, of Oct. 21st, a. paper published almostbeneath the shadow of some ten Christian churches. “ Who art thou that judgest another? to his own Master he standeth or falleth.” Do you, my brother, who weekly send forth ‘a paper which may sway many minds, consider well your words; and think you they are always ﬁtly spoken? Is it noble, is it manly, for one who owes his existence here to a mother, to be casting ﬁlth at the sex which was generous enough to give you birth, because. forsooth, some of its members choose to walk in diﬁerent paths from what you, with your little comprehension, con- sider right? If, as you claim, our two sisters spoken of above were “soiled,” who made them so? Surely, they could not have fallen from their high estate alone and unaided? Isn’t it high time that this contemptible barrier between soiled women and pure men was leveled, and a grander, broader platform erected upon the ruins of the old? Do you wish to see your name handed down through the long years to be, as one of a party who, with treachery and deceit, lured woman, with her trusting nature, to walk with you amid muddy wa- ters, and then pointed the ﬁnger of scorn at her soiled gar- -ments, forgetting thy own pitiable condition? Is it possible, that one with all the advantages of free schools, respectable parentage, moral society, and a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, takes no heed of the beautiful lessons which nature is striving to unfold to his darkened vision? 7See you vorable conditions; and thou, thou who sctteth thyself up as ateacher and a prophet among men, are unable to analyze the more simple grades of life? Alas! how much more art thou unﬁt to pluck out the mote which is in thy brother’s eye. Perhaps, in the years to come, thou wilt see that woman’s fall consists, not so much in obeying the demands of her nature with those she, loves, as in prostituting her body and dwarﬁng her soul by dwelling in legal marriage with those whom she loathes. FRED L. HILDRETH, Ayer, Mass. From The New York Sun, N 022. 13. REOPENING THE SCANDAL. MR. AND MRS. RICHARDS TO GO ON THE WITNESS STAND. Judge Henry A. Moore, of the Kings County Court of Ses- sions, yesterday granted the motion of Mr. J. T. Mareau, counsel for Joseph Leader, and appointed John W. Taylor, Esq., of Newark, N. J ., a commissioner to take the testimony of Joseph H. Richards, the brother of Mrs. Tilton, and Mrs. Richards, his wife, in reference to the adultery of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. "The announcement of the decision, although. expected, created a stir in Brooklyn, inasmuch as it r which the present condition of the world has been arrived at,- not the fragrant water-lily, an outgrowth of the most unfa- PRICE TEN GEN TS. . I. seemed to assure the reopening and thorough reventi.1ating of the scandal. ' \ ~ A reporter found Mr. J . T. Mareau, Loader’s counsel, pre- paring interrogatories for Mr. and Mrs. Richards, which with the cross-interrogations of the District Attorney, will be sent to the Commissioner. He said that Loader’s trial. would bring into evidence all the testimony that was excluded from the great trial. He expected to subpoena Miss Susan B. An- thony, Mrs. Martha Bradshaw, Mr. Henry C. Bowen, and in case Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton were called, and the People could not make out a case without their testimony, their ad- missions to whomsoever made would be pertinent testimony. By proving adultery he thought that he could best show to the jury that his client did not commit perjury in swearing that he had seen Beecher and.Mrs. Tilton in a questionable position. He thought that Loader was innocent, else he should by no means interest himself in the case. Loader was poor, and theexpenses of the trial promised to be large. The case would be tried, he thought, in January, and would per- haps last a month. An eminent New York lawyer would be employed to conduct Loader’s defense. None of the counsel who appeared in the scandal trial would assist. While Load- er’s defense might vindicate others, it was designed to acquit him. He thought that he could never be convicted of perjury. Mr. Mareau thought that he might need another. commission to take the testimony of a former servant of the Tilton fam- ily, who lives in Jersey City, and who, he had heard, knew of "many occurrences similar to that which Loader witnessed. Loader is out of j ail on bail, and is at work at his trade. Price, the confessed perj urer, is still in jail. The «testimony of Mrs. Bullard and Mrs. Stanton may be taken to complete the de- fense. . MRS. MOULTON DEMANDING HER RIGHTS AS A MEMBER_.c1z- THE CHURCH. The appended letter Was sent last evening to Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, clerk of Plymouth Church, for its members to consider: To the Members of Plymouth Church. _ BRETHREN—HaVing been summoned by the Examining Committee to meet the Church on the evening of November 4, at which meeting. the committee notiﬁed me that they shouldpresenta recommendation’ to the Church to drop my name from the roll of members on account of absence from the service of the church, I appeared accordingly and pre- sented my protest against any such action. In this I declared what I now repeat——that “ I am not an absentee in any proper sense of the word, nor does the rule of the Church in regard to absentees contemplate any such case as mine. Myabsence is an enforced one, and is caused by the crime of adultery- committed ,by Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of this church, with one of his parishioners, which I know to be afact through Mr. Beecher’s confessions to me, and through the confessions of Mrs. Tilton, and through conclusive evidence of the crime from other sources. I appear before the Church in loyal obedience to the summons which I have received, and I hereby declare my disposition and desire to discharge all the duties devolving on me as a member that are con- sistent with my knowledge of the adultery of the pastor and his false swearing with regard to it.” Notwithstanding this protest, and after it had beenread, the members of the Church present adopted the recommendation of the commit- tee and dropped my name from the Church roll, without con- sidering the suﬁiciency of my reasons for being absent from the sacrament, without arraigning me for any unjust accusa. tion against, the pastor, and" without giving me a dismissal to any other church. I am, therefore, so far as your‘ action can do it, deprived of a standing in the Church of Christ, as it seems to me without fault on my part, and certainly with- out any proper trial by you. b I cannot feel -that this is right, and I ask you to join with me in calling a council of churches before which you may state your reasons for your action, and I may state mine, and which shall impartially judge between us. I am one and you are many. But I believe in God and His’ justice, in Christ and His kingdom. ‘I am qu-ite ready to be properly rebuked by such a council if I ought to be for not attending your services and sacraments, while I certainly desire that my christian character and standing in the church should be vindicated and restored if that is right. If you do A not notify me of your consent to join with me in calling such a council within four weeks, I, shall understand that you de- cline to do so, and that I must proceed to ask a council my-. self to consider these matters, which are of such great impor-. ti/2/3/?/,2 O, V. 2. 4 I woonnum. &“ 0LAFLI_N’S WEEKLY. r Nov. 27,.18'75. tance to me and to those to whom my good name is dear. But it will be far more agreeable to me to have you join me as one who has anxiously tried to do her duty as well as she 000115; amid great difficulties, in referring the whole case be- tween us to a common tribunal. Respectfully yours, BROOKLYN, Nov. 12, 1875. EMMA O. Monncron. _.44a A v wv ‘VICTORIA SPRINGS, November 1, 1875. Inthe Nation, of October 14., appeared this “ notice ” in an article referring to the opening address of Sir John Hark- shaw at the late Bristol meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Mr. Elisha G-ray, of Chicago. had brought out what he calls his “ Elcctro Harmonic Apparatus,” which seems capable of indeﬁnite extension, and promises to throw quite into the shade Paganinfs performances upon a single string. He has just pmved by actual experiment between Boston and New I York that four messages «can be sent simultaneously in one direction over a single wire, and is now engaged in doubling his aparatus so as to transmit eight messages at one time. It is conﬁdently believed that sixteen messages are practicable, and that even this limit is far from being aﬁnal one. The transmission, too, may take place in opposite directions without in'terference. The principle of this wonderful inven- tion consists in communicating to the wire the vibrations of an electrotome or “sounder” tuned to a certain pitch. At the other end a “sounder,” correspondingly tuned, catches up these vibrations and hums responsively, and the interrup- tions (maoie by breaking and closing the circuit) which consti- tute a. message are repeated with equal ﬁdelity. What remains to be discovered is how many composite tones a wire will transmit; or, in other words, how many soundcrs, each of a diiferent pitch, can be employed. But an inyention which already, we may say, multiplies by sixteenihe wire -mileage, not of a company merely, but of the world, is certainly worthy of mention at the next meeting of the British Association. In a little “book,” which I intend to publish within the next year, “ The Law of Harmony and Discord in Nature as expressed by the Musical Scale,” will be treated ; but I will announce in advance, that the same law exists, and regulates the relations of thehuman spirit, especially of the relations: of the sexes—un1versal man related-to universal woman—in “ Octaves,” as their voices are related. But individual man and individual woman occupy positions relatively all along the scale, and are concordant or discordant by the same law as are thenotes of the musical scale. Those corresponding to one ” and “three ” on the scale are friendly. “ one” «,,..,,~1 “ ﬁve ” are intimate friends. “ One ” and “ eight ” are “ con- jugal motes,” complete counterparts, representing the true marriage of aﬁ":*ction——those whom. God hath joint man can put asunder. I wish further to announce that men- tal and spiritual telegraphy exists between oozjugel . “octaves” when in perfect tune-complete a,c.co;»d_.a,,d g-0 kn(iw howto put and hold ourselves in tune is to possess the elixir of life. The cares, accidents and discipline of this physical state of existence, especially in our false and allt-ago- nistic state of society, are like the stress of changin g tempera- ..ture upon the strings of a. musical instrument, sliding up and down the scale, requiring continual tuning. But if we under- stood this law of relationship, and would learn to take as good care of husbands and wives as an amateur musician takes of his instrument, this world would be ﬁlledwith the sweetest and most enchanting melody. /Moreo ver, every hu- man spirit has its major and minor key, the voice and man- ner invariably indicating to the Psychometric seer the state of the soul———whether happy and joyous or sad and sorrowful. Victoria’s promised revelation, for which she is now prepar- ing the minds of those worthy to receive the Mystery of Godliness—-how they may obtain eternal life in the body, and rise above the effect and control of all physical disturbances- if it can be reached and become a living reality, the problem of always keeping in tune, and up to concert pitch, and the possibility of establishing a perfect system of mental and spiritual telegraphy, will be solved. M. V. YERRONNA, A MANLY RETRACTION. My dear Col. Boo¢l—To-day I called on Mrs. Woodhull at the Grand Hotel, this city, where I found her a great suffer- er, but never more able to defend herself, personally, or her cause. With no circumlocution, but with perfect directness, she said: “Mr. Orvis, it is remarkable that you should havo called on me when I wanted most to see you. I am told by numbers of persons that you are circulating the report that Stephen Pearl Andrews is the author of the books which I have published, and the writer of the editorials of my paper. Now,I want to know what induced you to circulate such falsehoods. What was your authority for such statements?’ “ Yes,” I replied, “ I have made such statements, and my au- thority «for them has come ‘to me from more than one source. But the authority which I supposed was reliable (for I have never seen it contradicted) was the reports which I read in the papers of Mr. Andrews’ sworn testimony on that subject, given in the Beecher-Tilton case.” “ “ But; Mr. Orvis, you saw the denial of that testimony in my paper after the testimony was rendered. Mr. Andrews has not written an article for my paper for three years, and never more than two not over his own signature, and all re- ports to that eﬁect, of which you speak, are base fabrica- tions. I neither accept Mr. Andrews’ religious or social views. He believes that social freedom will ultimate in no lasting monogamic attachments between the sexes, which is denominated prozniscuity. H »I believe just the opposite: that as men and women grow perfect in freedom their real attachments will be stronger, and more lasting and-pg}-fest than any law can compel them to be. We hold views in common only upon the basic right of frcedom—-the right of every individual to own and control his or her own ‘bod y, and the evil of transferring that ownership and control in “ Well now, Mrs. Woodhull, I am sure that the impression ‘on my mind, made by the report I read of Mr. Andrews’ tes- timony, was that he was the author of several works publish- ed over your name, and much of the editorial matteriin the I WEEKLY; and I have never seen or heard till now of the dis- claimer which yousay you published in your paper. But I see that I have done you none the less a great wrong. It was my duty, as it is the duty of every one in such a case, to know by direct information’ from yourself, the truth or falsehood of the statement, before repeating it; and feeling the wrong I have done you, I am desirous to do what I can to repair it. What can I do most elfectuallyjsoward it? ” ‘ Her reply was: “Make the reclamation as broad as the in- ury. ‘Give a resume of this conversation to the WEEKLY.” "* That I will do with the greatest alacrity, as the least re- compense I can make to a great and injured name and cause.” " _ . N ow I wish to add, ‘that as early as the meeting of the W0- man’s Suﬁrage Convention in New York 1n 1872, and at the very time Mrs. Vifoodhull was giving her constitutional argu- ment on the enfranchisement of woman, there was a rumor that her argument was written by a lawyer; and he Mr. An- drews. Reading the report of Mr. Andrews’ testimony in the Beecher case, and never having seen Mrs. Woodhull’s denial of it, I supposedthat no denial had ever -been made, id and no and that a denial was not deemed necessary. But I have done Mrs. Woodhull a great injury neverthe- less. Reformers cannot afford to make the labors of one an- other more arduous. nor in malice or weakness mar an- other’s good name. Please give this insertion in the WEEKLY, and oblige, yours faithfully, JOHN ORVIS. CINCINNATI, Nov. 6, 1875. nnimnxs. Mr. Orvis is certainly mistaken about Mr. Andrews’ tes- timony at the Beecher-Tiltoi'1’trial. There could no such construction rightfully be put upon that testimony. We say this to do Mr. Andrews justice. He testified that he had the editorial charge of the VVEEKLY during one of Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture tripsybut that did not constitute writ- ing the editorials; for the facts are that none of the edito- rials that appeared during the continuance of that trip were written by Mr. Andrews, as they are all dated at the places where they were written. Neither did Mr. Andrews tes- tify that any of Mrs. Woodhul1’s books were written by himself. Mr. Orvis must have carried the idea that he had gailicred elsewhere, into his reading of Mr. Andrews’ testi- mony. We are well aware that there have been many tongues busy to detract from the inﬂuence of the editor-in- chief of this paper, purposely to injure it and her, and to make it more diﬂicult for her to sustain it and herself in the aclvanceol positions to which she has gone forward. As a more matter of personal merit she is indifferent about such falsehoods; but when they stand directly in her pathway anddestroy the sinews of strength which she needs to con- duct the warfare {hat she is making upon the old and rotten institutions of the present, then it becomes a duty, as well as a necessity, for her to scotch the snake that would bite her in this underhanded way. At one time these rumors were in the mouth’ of almost every friend to the cause which she championed, as if the wind had scattered them every- where. The disclaimer to which reference is made was not directed against Mr. Andrews’ testimony, but was written in response to a letter from John M. Sterling, published in the same number of the WEEKLY. The whole case was thor- oughly gone over in that disclaimer, and Mrs. Woodhull’-s position, personally and as a reformer, clearly set forth. Those who may wish to refer to it will ﬁnd it in N o. 237 of the WEEKLY, bearing date June 19, 1875.. If every one who has helped to spread these falsehoods were as ready to re- tract his or her share in them as Mr. Orvis has shown him- self to be, the severity of Mrs. Woodhul1’s labors would be largely decreased. ~ A- A V 71‘ To the Editor of the Weekly——-I am, as you know, a labor reformer, and your rebuke of the statements of Lyman. C. ninety-nine out of a hundred laborers would be arbitrary and exacting; the capitalist was generally ‘a man of pru- denoe, the laborér generally prodigal; superior. sagacity would take advantage of opportunities; in the sWS.3e.t_.bye- and-bye the millionaire would be accounted the benefactor of his race,” interested me much. I exhibited the above ex- tract to a brother reformer shortly after I purchased the WEEKLY'containing it. After reading it, my friend said, “Lyman C. Howe is what you call a trance speaker, is he ——i-mt '2” - ‘‘’Yes,,’’»replied I~.~ -“Speaks withhis eyes shut, don’t1 he, and shakes himself before he begins?” To those state- ments I also assented. “ Well,” continued my friend, “1 can do better than that with my eyes open.” The same evening, when I got home, I found two of my young children playing a game with fancy cards representing a battle between the frogs and the ducks. The former seemed to be a low working lot, while the latter were an could not help confounding it with Lyman C. Howe. It was the representation of a very obsequious bird, dressed in coat and pants, bowing low and holding its hat in its claw. Un- der it was written, “A Toady of the Ducks.” ’ But, sir, permit me, as a spiritualist, to assert that the ideas put forth by Mr. Lyman C. Howe are quite foreign to the teachings of spiritualism. If they were not, we should’ soon have our meetings and hold our conferences where the man dreamt he--“was in the song, viz ; “In marble halls.” But surely this ﬂattery of men of wealth deserves -a.' hymn any manner whatever to another, or in permitting it to be V50 X0 With ilk I PI‘0P0S6d 150 Write-0116. but» 111)’ muS6’bI‘<5k6 transferred.” / ' her heart at the end‘ of the third verse. Here it is-to close : " ..li, ., Howe that “Capital-was 1abor’.s best and only friend; aristocratic family. One of these cards took my fancy, for I‘ Come all ye millionaires, where’er ye languish; Come, and with Lyman most fervently kneel; Hither———ye,camels-—and leave all your anguish, . While through Howe_’s big door you can merrily reel. Off, off, ye laboring prodigal pirates, We go for those who “ sagaclously ” steal; No whips for such as lend money at high rates, Who, in their pockets, the dollars can fee]. In the “ Sweet bye-and-bye ” their praise will be sounded, When Gabriel tools his big horn through the world; While scalawag workers will all be confounded, And into perdition remorselessly hurled. —Zo1LUs. ?___. EXTRACT S. We extract the following sentiments from a sermon re- cently preached in Brooklyn, N. Y., by Rev. J. W. Chad- wick, of the Second Unitarian Church, against modern revivalism as represented by Moody and Sankey ; and against the general plan and purposes of Christian salva- tion: - “ The salvation of the soul is the salvation of the body. But the salvation of the body is as different from the popular salvation as the true soul is different from t_he phantom of the theologians. The popular salvation of the body, is the salvation of its resuscitated ruins from the penal ﬂames of hell. The true salvation of the body, is the salvation of the body in this present life from defect, and weakness, and dis- ease, so that we may be able to present it a living sacriﬁce, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. To be sure it is not wholly unconcerned with bodies that are to be existent in the future; but this future is to been earth- ly one, and the bodies are not to be resuscitated corpses, but the sweet ﬂesh 0 f infancy, the latent possibilities of which are, to some considerable extent,determinable by parental faithfulness to the laws of physical health.” “ Let who will ﬂing up their hats and cry ‘hurrah’ for those who are to—day the most prominent expounders of a. creed opposed"at every point to this, the creedfof ‘ otherworldliness’ whose soul is an abstraction and whose method is catas- trophy; be it our task and joy to set our faces as a ﬂint against these things. by speech and pen and life to counteract so far as in us lies, their baneful inﬂuence.” [I*Iealthful, manly preaching this. EDs.] -——————-4-oo-————-— QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE NORTHERN WIS- CONSIN SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE. HELD AT OAK- FIELD, WIS., SEPT. 24th, 25th, AND 26th, “Y5. Meeting called to order by President Orvis, Friday, P. M., and necessary cornmitt:ees appointed. Friday evening dei voted to conference. Speakers, John Collier and Eivira Wheelock R.ug,o:les. Business'Comrnittoe, Bro. Wheeler, Dr. Brown, Dr. Phillips and wife, and Mrs. Foster. On. ﬁnances, Mrs. Laura..lonc=.s, Mrs. Bristol, Bro. Putnam. Remainder of evening devoted to conference. Sa.tur.‘lay. 9 -Qfclock A. M., conference opened by President Orvis relating how and why he became a Spiritualist, giving waukee, compared the teachings and theories of theology with Spiritualism, and was happy to ﬁnd the beauties of the latter surpass those of the former. Mrs. Cunningham knows Spirituallsm is true, yet she would stay in the church as long as possible for the purpose of enlightening the members. Bro. Scovell,of Princetomspoke at length on the communistic idea of living as being the only true one, and the only way thchighest development of the race could be attained. Bro. Collier gave a very interesting account of the English. Co-operative manner of living, and closed. by saying that brains will always control hands. Lecture by Mrs. Ruggles; subject——-“ The Gospel of Truth.” dent in the chair. Conference opened by Dr. Brown giving his idea of communist life and free speech ; has not had the privilege 01’. free speech in Milwaukee for the past three years (in Spiritual society) until recently. Bro. Collier thought it a good thing for some one to tread on our toes occasionally. It has a tendency to liven us up. Bro. Pratt..of Milton Junction, made some pertinent remarks on Love. Bro. A. B. Severance came to the convention to enjoy himself. Did not intend to speak; believed in Spiritualism embracing all re- forms; if not broad enough for that, was not broad enough for him. The main object should be in comingto our meet- ings to try andibeneﬁt others as Well as ourselves. Lecture by Mrs. Dr. J. H. Severance. Gave that class of Spiritualists a. severe rebuke who would prescribe free speech on all sub- jects that tend to elevate the human family. Enjoined. upon Spiritualists to so live that they would avoid all sickness. Considered it just as much a‘ crime to be sick,’ as to steal; son for being sick. The thief should no more be punished in consequence of being born with a predisposition to steal, than the person that is sick ‘for being born with a predisposi- tion to sickness. The criminal should be treated with the utmost kindness until he grows out of that condition. It was a ﬁne eifort and well received. by a. large and intelligent audience’. ‘ Adjourned till evening. ' Saturday evening conference opened by Dr. Brown on the necessary preparations for the Centennial. Thought Spirit- ualism should be represented in all its phases. Thinks Spir- itualists should agree on what it teaches. Dr. A.. B. Sever- Prof. J. R.Bucha-nan es'l:ablished the science of Psychome- diseases are - carried from one ‘locality '-‘to another; viz. , through the magnetic emanation from diseased. bodies. Lec- ture by Bro. Collier on the inconsistency of having some one to throw our sins on, and thereby escape the just consequen- ces of our acts. ’ Sunday, 9 A. M., conference opened by Bro. Norman Pratt on the beauties of Variety. As there are no two leaves in the forest alike, no two ﬂowers or blades of grass alike in any particular, neither are there two persons alike in their con- stitucnt elements . The Finance‘ Committee proceeded to raise necessary funds to defray the expenses of the meeting, which was readily accomplished . Bro. D. S. Woodworth gave some ﬁne remarks on the right of each individual to live out their highest convictions. Dr. J. H. Severance read a. beautiful poem on Charity. Lec- ture by Bro. Collier on Portraying Spiritualism in all its beauty as compared to-Christianity. Sunday 2 P. M.. conference opened by Bro. Brown on ‘the Centennial question . The question of - holding the next quarterly m'eetin_g came up. Decided on Rmon as the place -and the 17th, 18th and 19th of December. 1875. as the time. Lecture by Dr.rJ. I-I. Severance. prefaced by Gerald Mas-—3<-y’s poem entitled “ ’_'I‘is Coming; ’Yes, ’T1s coming.” Speaker considered any truth that was not worth living was good for "nothing for her. f ’_.I.‘hought‘it_ impossible under present condi- some ﬁne and interesting experiences. Dr. Brown. of Mil— . Saturday, 2 o’olock P. M., meeting called to order. Presi- tlie thief was not more to be blamed for stealing than a per- - ance spoke on Psychometry, or Soul Reading. Related how . try.’ Mrs. Dr. Severance gave her theory ofhow contagious . 62 r._ l 1, v I Nov. 27, i875. WOODHULL &,CL.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. m _ 3 tion of society to carry out our social freedom—physical health necessary to have stamina to carry out any reform. Let us commence to—day to so live that we may have perfect bodies. What we eat makes our thoughts. American people throw away all that part of food that goes to make bone and muscle. Wheat contains 85 per ct. nutriment while beef contains but 25; unbolted ﬂour will sustain life indeﬁ- nitely; ﬁne ﬂour will sustain life but a. short time. Another point, animal food with the spices we eat goes to build. up the animal propensities, while unbolted ﬂour and fruits feed and build up the spiritual. There is no use in the human family having pain : pain is nature's protest against violation of natural laws. We should educate our children physically as well as mentally. It is highly necessary they should have plenty of fresh air to breathe; Final1y,§,would have all Spirit- ualists live strictly in accordance with physiological princi- ples. Mrs. Ruggles then gave one ofthe finest discourses on “ Love” I evelghad the pleasure of listening to. Sunday evening conference. opened by Bro. Severance on what is termed evil inﬂuences, and bad effects from a belief in Spiritualism. Bro. N . Pratt related experiences in regard to leaving hi.» body (for seven days), and being shown through the spheres, during which time no sustenance was taken into his system; corroborated by Mrs. Jones (at whose house Bro. Pratt’s experiences took place), also by Dr. Phillips. The phenomena took place in Omro,“ Wis. Bro: Collier then gave the closing lecture of the convention; 'subject—“Death in a new dress.” ’ Bro. Collier is a. gentlemanly appearing and very fine speaker: but let me say right here to Spiritual societies, if you tion’t want radicalism. don’t engage Bro Collier, you can’t muzzle him. It is useless to speak of Mrs. Ruggles. she is too well known among our people to need it. Go on, Bro. Collier and Sister Buggies. G-od speed you in your noble work. A vote of thanks was given to the people of Oakﬁeld for entertainment, to the speakers, and the choir that furnished music through the meeting. The meeting was a success in every way, and one of harmony and good feeling through- out. ~ Adjourned to meet at Ripon, Dec. l7th, "75. Isaac ORvIs, Pres’t. DR. J. C. PHILLIPS, Sec’y. THE WHITE DOVE. The Muscatine (Iowa) Trt'bunc of Thursday morning, the 26th ult., gives the following particulars of a case that calls to mind Dumas’ “' Memoirs of a Physician.” It says: f‘ Some months ago a Muscatine young lady accepted the situation as a teacher in a school a few miles from the city. Returning home recently she was taken sick a.nd’a physician called. An examination by a physician revealed the fact that she was about to become a mother. The terrible opinion fell like a thunderbolt upon the parents; but it smote the heart of the girl with a grief and terror and amazement which no language can describe. She could not and would not believe her physi- cian. Her pale lips asserted and reasserted the most positive innocence of any and all circumstances leading to such a. re- sult. She as solemnly affirmed her ignorance of her condition until thus informed by the physician. ’ “ On inquiring into her relations with the family boarding her it was ascertained that there were two grown up sons, but there was no circumstance showing the least improper inti- macy between either of them and the teacher, or between her or any other party in the neighborhood. Her deportment in the district had been most scrupulously correct. "That she must have been drugged was the only remaining explanation of the case. To this solution examination was directed, and the girl stated that on one occasion one of the sons above mentioned advised her to keep the door of her ' chamber locked at night. Up to that time she had not locked her door, but did subsequently. No other circumstance was elicited to throw any light upon the mystery. “ The farmer with whom she boarded was summoned to the city, and, being informed of the case, was greatly astonished, and professed the deepest sympathy. He could not believe that either of his sons could be guilty of the crime; nor did he think them at all qualiﬁed, by their knowledge of drugs, ,for its accomplishment. It has since been learned that one of the sons had spent some months in a drug store, and We conclude our story of the crime by mentioning that the child, at its birth, was taken by thefarmer to his home for adoption. “ We come now to a page in the history of the girl’s ex- perience which the superstitious and believers in omens will itdeclare to‘ be more interesting and signiﬁcant than what has i been written. = n. = V t. u.; I :s’ “ After? the. ‘birth of the child the young mother solemnly raised her ,1rand and called. God to witness that she knew ., nothing of, its cpn_cep,t,iol}.»or fatherhood. In spite of these _impre,ssive. a,s§,eypr_a,‘tmn§ pgore or less suspicion still clouded the girl’s.innocenc.6'-. I ,,hiIs suspicion was of a nature that in,- volved "qu’estio'n's of medical s‘cie_nc'e. But last Sunday a new witness appeared the cash.” 1The‘circumstance of the testi- '.n'zi‘ony?‘i7s '1'ellatedT'h’by" aireyéiwitness, a lady-of ﬁfty yearsidf age,"£'1id».rela,tion‘-of} as». family, and esteemed as one of‘_ tili"e‘ mostrespected members of sgciety. Sunday afternoonﬁwl-tile? a number were in the sgickkrolcm, a white dove appeared at "ii .win dqw, .and,beat its ‘bill againistthe panes in avain endeavdr‘ lto}, epter. ‘Barred, ‘(from ' admission at thispoint thebird disaﬁ by entered and made its Way directly to the sick room, when it ﬂew to the bed, perched for a. moment on the foot-board, and then made" its way toithe prostrate head of thepoor patient, where it nestled in perfect security, and was only removed by hand! How will the world view this singular incident ? ls it a judgment from Heaven pronounced in favor of the innocence of the girl? You may laugh at this idea, but you must concede that the visitation of the white dove was un- natural——su‘pernatural. Neither this bird nor any dove had ever been domesticated at the house, or had their cote in the neighborhood. The visit was no sequence of anything going before. It was a ﬂash of light from darkness, and to darkness it returned. To our understanding it is like aray of darkness; it has no light, and is on1y—mystery. The white dove, for ages, has been symbolic of purity. It is so treated in the Sacred Word. Had it this meaning for her, who had no wit- ness for her innocence, and whose situation was as much a mystery to herself a to her friends?” In.‘ is difficult to tell how much 9. fish will weigh by looking at the scales. » ‘ ' . ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT. DEAR MRS WOODHULL: In the last number of the WEEKLY I see you are calling for aid, and as I hope others of their abundance will show them- selves generous, I will of my mite contribute something to aid the VVEEKLY. You solicit persons to purchase your books and speeches. I have long wanted them, but hardly felt that It could purchase them; but I read that as we would do unto others so willwe be done by, so I have concluded to do without some things that I had thought necessary for the coming winter, and send the money to help on the WEEKLY. If each one of its readers would deny himself or herself something and add that mite‘, to help you on, all would be the happier for it. 1 am awidow in ‘my sixties, and make my living at the ends of my ﬁngers; but I am never happier than when trying to aid somebody. I have been a 1'eader of the FVEEKLY ever since its ﬁrst publication, taking it myself until my sister, Mrs. Hannah Kinsman, came to live with me, she subscribing for it instead of myself. I am deeply in- terested in it; especially in your elucidations of Scripture. I think the blind have been leading the blind until both are very near the ditch. I can see no way for the redemption of the present race. Extinction from the face of the earth by war, famine and pestilence seems to me inevitable. There may be a few Noah’s and their families who may escape to begin anew the peopling of the earth. I have been a reformer for thirty or more years, and in the capacity of Waiting upon the sick, giving instruction to the ignorant I have tried to do something to elevate and beneﬁt my own sex. But in the midst of my labors I have often felt that they were so wedded to their idols that I might as well let them alone. My heart aches for my degenerate sisters. V They seem mad that they may be destroyed. Though their bodies are wasted with disease, and they suffer untold agonies, yet no- thing can induce them to‘ set fashion and folly aside and yield obedience to nature’slaWs, by which alone they can re. gain health and happiness. Were it not for the unoffending, unborn children. Who are to be cursed by the sins of the parents, I might let them alone in their sins. I look over my large circle of acquaintances and ﬁnd sorrow instead of con. jugal love and happiness,s_tamped upon their faces. You say wears on the verge of some great commotion which will startle the people from their lethargic condition. 1 have felt for months past that something of this kind must come, but but could not satisfy myself what it would be. I have been trying to have my lamp trimmed an.d burning soas not so be found outside in the dark. A ' 6 Would you object to communicate to me what you /know on the subject. I think it would not be casting pearls before swine. I am a seeker after truth, to obey its teachingh. Do not do it unless you feel perfectly free to do so. _ Inclosed I send you $20, and $6 20 from sister, Mrs. Hannah Kinsman; $3 20 are are for her next year’s subscription for the WEEKYL, the other $3 for you to hem carry on the WEEKLY. - A Please send me a complete set of books and speeches and credit the remainder as help for the WEEKLY. ' May God bless and prosper you in all things is my prayer. I MRS. DR. ABIGAIL L. Woomr. Eaton, Preble 00.. Ohio. MRS. VVOODIIULL IN THE FIELD. ‘ COMMENTS OF -THE PRESS. From the Daily Dispatch, Columbus, 0., N 01;. 10. ~ WOODHULL. ‘ A very respectable and good-sized audience, one-third of which was made up of ladies, assembled in the Atheneum to hear Victoria Woodhull discuss some of the features of so- ciety that are generally tabooed in public places.- That which went mostly against the grain of some of her hearers was her attack upon the churches, and upon the Young Men’s Chris- tian “Assassination” Association. It is difficult for one to listen to anything against the religionthey have been taught from infancy to believe as ‘being right. [Here follows a columnprdigest ending thus :] Thelectureoccupied one:_l;1our and forty-ﬁve minutes, and received maﬂrked attention. A great many things were said that cannot enter into a newspaper report on account of the great length of the speech. ' In winding up, she grew “eloquent, spoke with all the ‘ear- lncstnessishleidduld Vcoidmand; spoke, she said, in defense of ,h?brsel4.f=as' aamother whb~'had._been‘-V almost crushed for doing ,;_vvha.§.,she conceived’ t;o’,,be.;l1‘e'r duty‘; spoke like a woman at ,“bay,,)c,o_n,frohted:by,'theg.rigid customs of society; spoke as ‘thoughyshe was d,e.ter'm.ine,d ,“to ﬁght it out on that line,” and appealed’ to the world, not to visit upon her daughter any ijonydezmnation that ‘might “arise on account of judgment plause, when Mrs. Woodhull ?came upon the stage, was re- strained. At the close it was hearty, and general; possibly on account of that admiration which springs up in ’ every heart when the under dog inrthe ﬁght is making the contest lively for its competitor, and possibly on account of the sentiments expressed. From the Ohio State J ouwnctl, Columbus, 0., N 01). 10. VICTORIA C‘. WOODHULL. , The parquette and dress circle of the” Atheneum was ﬁlled last night by a quiet. attentive audience, about one—third of whom were ladies. Many respectable heads of families came in, stood near the door at ﬁrst, then edged gradually toward the parquette, and then, seeing other respectable heads of families comfortably seated near the platform, boldly march- ed "way down front.” Proxnptly at eight o’c1ock Mrs. Woodhull appeared at the back of the stage, and walking to about the centre, com- menced her lecture. I ' Our want of space forbids an extended abstract of the lec- ture. Shfflcc it to.say that the lecturess uses old-fashioned Saxon to express heruideashdashes at _naked truths without \ any by-play, and calls things by their right names. Mrs. that would have made her a fortune upon the tragic siege. At times she grows terribly earnest and ﬁres off her words as if they were red hot and unpleasant occupants of her mouth. As General Sherman was supposed to say of Mark Twain’s funny map of Paris, so say we of Mrs. VVo0dhul1’s lecture, “ I never saw or heard of anything like it.” From the C73nci—nnctz' Enquirer, Tuesday, Nov. ‘7. Cincinnati enjoyed a novelty last evening. Victoria 0, Woodhull, the most generally known woman in America,. appeared upon the stage of a lecture hall, and for two hours talked to two thousand people upon some subjects that many men have lacked. the moral courage to face publicly. The Opera House was crowded long before the curtain rose at eight o'clock. Every available seat found an occupant early, and the late comers were forced either to stun-d or ﬁnd seats in cl? airs brought in or, more unfortunate still, to stand. And the character of the audience was good—-away above the average collections which usually fill our theatres during the run of a popular drama. The major part were men who came to listen with an expectation that they were to; hear sornet.hii:=.g uttered by this wonderful woman whichfivdould furnish them with food for thought through many a day. They were not disappointed. One-fourth of the people in the house were ladies, and they were ladies of the best fami-2 lies too; ladies who were not too cowardly to come out to a. public place and listen to a lecture which in their hearts they long since had a desire to hear. We venture to say that they went away well pleased with themselves at having had the “grit ” to go. l About ﬁve minutes after eight o’clock the curtain rolled slowly up. and Mrs. Woodhull made her entry through a scene door, in the rear "centre of the stage. Her “appearance was erected’ with applause, which was half smothered and broken suddenly off as if her audience were not quite sure of the person they were honoring with recognition. The W<)od- hull was plainly dressed in a plain brown dress and suck, with a black satin train and trimming. White_,cuif's and a. jaunty linen collar were the only decorations to offset’ its plainness, if we except a. scarf of grayish colored lace tied arouncl her neck and fastened in front by EL red re:-re. The He:-h‘:;i'i' ’was‘co_u=.bed plainly back from her horribly, inteliia gen't face, and rather carelessly allowed to hang upon her shoulders in a half bunch. ‘ The lecturer didn’t lose any time in useless cou.rl:e.sies or su‘perﬂ=r.ou.s chilies. She advanced directly to the footl-ights and opened her mouth. From that instant till ten o’c’2ock she kept up a constant flow "0I:“-WOPdR as only a woman can ‘elk. Her manner ‘through ‘>155’-.n1 was easy, her gs stares graceful, her voice strong, her articulation almost perfect, and the expression of her face sometimes, when she got warmed up to her subject, grew almost spiritual. ,. We are sorry, after hearing the lecture, that circumstances will not permit us to give a fuller report. ‘ [Here followed a two and a half column digest, ending thus:] Z I In this style of argument, improving as she went, and ‘ culminating in a grand climax of thought, the lecturer pro- ceeded for two hours. Much of what she said was wildly ap- herself from the stage at she close of the lecture. COMBINED LECTURES AND SEANCES.‘ Dear Weekly——Allow me to say that 1 am actively engaged in the dissemination of Spiritual, Christian truth as I find it in and out of the Bible, andnfeel much in sympathy with the views expressed in the WEEKLY, and am/ very anxious to find opportunities to express the faith and hope which is in Vme by facts as well as theory. I have therefore obtained the assistance of several of the best°mediums for tests and phys- ical manifestatious, not only that thereare in New York pared to demonstrate, as well as preach, the great and yet primitive truths which are now the growing demand of the age. We believe in the speedy coming of a “ new dispensa- tion,” whichymust necessarily supersede the old which, like an old pot-atoe, is dying and passing away with a “great noise,” truly as the young shoots of thenew come forth to estafblish a new commercial earth and religious heavens. Our terms shall be reasonable to suit the stringency of the times. The manifestations which wepshall be able to give are the bringing of flowers, birds and other objects, inddepcndent letter writing and independent spirit talking, giving the most indisputable proofs of. identity; also striking and won- derful manifestations upon the piano. Societies and parties will please address ‘ THOMAS Cook.‘ Care of S. A. Lindsley, 209 West Thirty-second tr-jt., New York City. V To DO business a man must have dollars and sense. WHAT'S in a name? D. Seaver drives a St. Louis milk. wagon. » A fac’ simile of the high 0's in music is reached by treading gently on a cat’s tail. ‘ ' " . PATRECK proposesvto get over his single blesscdness by pro- posing to Bridge-it .- A WESTERN editor insists that he wrote the word “ trous- '3lf3§E,lll ” as plain as a pikestaﬁ in connection with certain bridal presents. The printer, howevenvulgarly putit “trousers.” SHE tried to sit down in the street car, but was pin.n.ed back so tight she could’nt. Old -lady ‘penned overher specs. iml asked her, “ Howlong have you been afﬂ=cl.e<l"ti1at may ?‘ ’ l“ne young lady blushed’ and made “ a break,” sittiiig down sideways and holding her knees together so tight that she looked as if she had on a one-legged pair’ of breaches. Old lady noticed her sitting in this sidewise, cramped posi- [mom and whispered, “ Bi1e,'I s’po'se;-,I’ve had ’em ‘tha1“nQ;;y-. self .” I ‘ Woodhull possesses a voice, an enunciat.ion and a manner . =*lres~‘s was tight-ﬁttiiig, tied back and cut narrow the ~;r‘.-wet. ‘ plauded, and not a person left the hall until she had bowed . and Boston, but in the known world. I am therefore p1"e- I 4 l q I WooDHULLi/it _CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY \ Nov. 27, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. one copy for one year, - $3 00 one copy for six months, - - - - - - 1 50 Single copies, - - - - - - 10 CLUB RATES. - Five copies for one year, - - - - - $12 00 Ten copies for one year, “- - - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months, - - - - . - - One-hall’ these rates. , I I FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION CAN BE IADE TO THE AGENCY 03' THE AMERICAN NEWS 00llI’AI\'Y, LON , DON, ENGLAND._ - One copyifor one year, - - $4 00 One copy for six months, - - - - 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. 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' , The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then joeaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without joartiality and without hy- p0crisy.—James, iii., 17. ’ . And these signs shall. follow them : In my name shall they cast out devils,‘ they shall take up serpents,’ and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.--Jesus. r u.’-" NEW YORK, SATURDAY, Nov. 27, 1875. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, 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 I break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. —-—--—-—-——-qp>—o-4>---———----- THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED STAR ‘IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.—ST,. MATTHEW, ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the eart.h and spirit spheres -in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important trnth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few I words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. Weadopt this diagram as emblematic of our future Work , SP,IRITUALISM—-ITS CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. N0 1. That there has been a general apathy in all movements for growth and reform gradually ﬁnding its way into’ the hearts of the so-called radicals of the country, there can be no doubt. Especially has this been true since the beginning of the Tilton-Beecheiytrial. Its‘ development and culmina- , tion without any legal decision having been reached, were the principle causes for this result. In this proceeding the great principles which underlie the social relations were ac- tually on trial, and the people, feeling them to be so, much more, perhaps, than they felt that Mr. Beecher was being tried, were carried onward to the highest pitch of expect- ancy as to What direction the results would give those prin- ciples;—-whcther they would condemn the old and evidently worn-out form in which these relations are now cramped, and justify in some degree the changes that are being de- manded; or whether they would approve the former and condemn the latter. In this pitch of expectancy, the failure of the jury to agree left the unthinking people to fall back to a point even beyond where they stood before the trial be- gan. Moreover, theAmerican people are peculiarly a sensation- loving people——a people of impulse rather than of matter- of-fact or of thought. In this trial there was a mass of the most sensational matter developed that had ever found its way so extensivelv before the whole public, the intense character of which, was heightened immeasurably by the reputations and the‘: social and religious positions of the parties involved. The veryfact upon which a change in the governing power of the relation of the sexes is demanded by the most radical of all’ the reforms, was the fact which was constantly stated in? the questioning of the lawyers, both for the plaintiﬂ andgthe defendant; and in the testimony of the Witnesses “sexual intercourse” was the key-note to the Whole trial, while the real point in the trial was to deter- mine whether a prominent— the most prominent—clergy- man’s ideas of social ethics would permit him to utterly ig- nore the constraints of the social system as at present main- tained, and to practically adopt the new truth. Had this or the opposite conclusion been reached, legally, it would have been followed by active movements in the thoughts and conclusions of the people. There would have beena dividing line established, upon one or the other side of which nearly all people who study or think at all, would have ranged themselves. In other words, there would have been two parties to the question, formed among the masses of the people who hitherto had come to no decision about it; and the apathy, of which there is general complaint among the movers in all shades of reform, is the result of this failure to reach a decision ;by which a tendency would have been communicated to the thoughts of the masses of the people. ‘. But it may be said that this does not account satisfactorily for the same condition which is also apparent among those who had already embraced reformatory ‘principles; who had already acquired a tendency to radical thought. Of this we are fully aware. But there is a satisfactory reason for this apathy, nevertheless. It is a well-known fact which has been often demonstrated in the history of progress, that there are always “ flows and ebbs ” in the tides of progress as well as in the tides of the ocean. The exhaustion of the force of one ﬂow is always followed by its ebb; or a time when the power that had been exhibited, seems to be in. operative. This is true as a general proposition. But there is still another potent cause for the present apathetic condi- tion in advanced radicalism, which, so far as we are in- formed, has never been considered or taken into the estima- tion of the causes that move or» retard the spread of new ideas. It is this latter cause to which we desire especially at this time to call the attention of Spiritualists, ‘in order that they may comprehend the reasons for the apathy among themselves. — ' individuals who set and keep reforms in motion. There have always been “leaders” in all advancesin thought and ple, lcss decided in action, or less developed in the idea itself, learn to follow. This may not be a palatable fact to contemplate, but it is true for all that. And it is also true that these people, who are called leaders and who really are so, having successfully established the ideas uponvvhich they are recognized, and become in a sense popular as such, either do not choose to encounter the trials, deprivations and severe labors’ of a “new departure,” or else become fossilized in the old, imagining——vainly, of N course——that nothing further than they have attained is needed. In this way the leaders of one grand advance movement become the the blocks over which the next one in advance of them stumbles. This fact is strikingly exempliﬁed in the person- net of old abolitionism. Its movers -fossilized when that movement‘ culminated in the abolition of slavery, and those who fought so gallantly, both by voice and pen, for the freedom of the negro, are not now found ﬁghting the same way for the emancipation of the next subjects for freedom; and what is true of distinct movements is also true of de tached parts of the same movement;——and here we reach the ‘issue that we are considering, that of Spiritutalismi and its associate parts in the grand movement by which the two worlds areto be interblended to form “ a new heaven and a new earth.” I - - It cannot be successfully denied that it is the very few- principles, as well as in conquering’ armies, whom the peg." Eight years ago the writer of this article said, in conver- I sation with the then recognized leader of the Spiritualistic movement, that “ Spiritualism has run against a stump,‘ which cannot be avoided or got round, and over which only a few of its advocates will dare to look much less to. jump, and behind which most of them will cower and hide.” Let us see if this has not been found true. A Spiritualism, as deﬁned by those who are endeavoring to maintain it inviolate from all “side issues,” is the fact of communication between spirits bodied and disembodied, and to discover and promulgate the laws upon which this c<_)m- 'munication is based. The ﬁrst essential fact in the investig- ation of spiritualism is a “ medium.” Without a person who is called by this name no communication has ever been made. If there were no mediums there would be no communica- tions, and without communications there would be no spirit- ualism of the kind that the class referred to are endeavoring _ to promulgate and maintain. It seems then that the very things for which these well intentioned persons labor, are dependent upon the physical condition of persons of whom, by reason of some peculiar- . ity, the spirits can make use to manifest themselves and to prove their identity. The logical conclusion then is, that the condition which makes certain persons susceptible to spirit control is a desirable one in which to be. Indeed, there is no class of persons more sought for than are the mediums. While the leaders and teachers languish for want of support, and their most prominent paper “ wants more subscribers,” and ask, “ Why this apathy among spirit- ualists?” the mediums, who have won reputations for hon- esty, were never more constantly or proﬁtably employed. There is-virtue then in the fact for which spiritualism is claimed to have come into the world. But why are the few mediums sought after so eagerly? Is it because they are so few in numbers ? If there were more there would be still a great demand for them, for genuine things‘ never come save in response to an active want, which may, however, be either expressed or only entertained. But if all persons were to become mediums, then the busi- ness of the few, or the class, would cease. Would it be a desirable thing for the world to have each person subject to be controlled by spirits and, therefore, to have the personal knowledge of the fact, which it is claimed IS so all-im—, portant? ,We take it for granted that no spiritualist will dare answer this in the negative. We have never yet seen a spiritualist who did not desire to become a medium for communication with the spirit world. Then Spiritualists would have all become mediums; and mediumship they tell us—'and we accept their statement—- depends upon some peculiar physical condition of the per- son. Then this peculiar physical condition is, from their standpoint, a desirable one to have, is it not? Most assured- ly it is ! Nor is there any doubt that the condition is specially a physical one, since those with scarcely any intel- lectual development and no training, are mediums ; and since morality doesn’t have anything to do with the condi- tion, as many very “immoral” persons are excellent mediums. There can be no question then that mediumship depends wholly upon some peculiar physical development orunfoldment, of the character and laws of which but little is as yet known. But it is fair to conclude that, since the con- dition is a desirable one to have, it is to be obtained, by some needed change in physical life, by which that life will be improved. Can this be escaped ? We think not! Then it must be admitted that the changes required to be made must , be either in the physical habits, methods of life or in some constitutional change dependent upon the condition in which life is generated; or perhaps in part upon all of these com- bined. But we have already observed that those whose physical habits are reprobated as immoral, are sometimes excellent mediums. So it seems to be certain that the con- ditions of mediumship depend largely upon ante-natal cir- cumstances; that is, that mediums are born mediums, or with the capacity to become mediums. g, If this be so, and we do not think that it can besuccess- fully contradicted, what ought to be the very ﬁrst thing, ac- cording to those facts, in which Spiritualists should interest themselves? Should it not be in the establishment of such conditions for-reproduction as will produce mediumistlo children? Will those Spiritualists whohold up their hands in horror at the mention of the social question, and those who are endeavorin g to reserve Spiritualisrn purely to “ those questions which are germane to itself,” and free from all “ side issues that ambitious persons are endeavoring to load upon Spiritualism ” to. carry, please answer this question? Here is the issue that you have yourselves made. Now come up to the mark and answer your own proposi- tions! Let the Banner of Light, the Spiritualist at Work, the Religio-Philosophical Journal-—let Brittain, Britten. Peebles, Tuttle, Newton, etc., etc., answer before they spit more spitefully upon the social question as “ a side issue of Spiritualism,” lest in so doing they tread on the cornerstone upon which Spiritualism itself stands. We hold and assert that it will be proven that it is the attitude which these pa- pers and persons as the leaders of Spiritualism have as- I sumed toward the Social question, that has caused the apathy among their followersof which they complain. It is the discredit that they have cast upon the discussion of the social question that has prevented the mass of Spirit- ualists from gladly promoting that discussion. The masses of Spiritualists are ready for it and would have engaged in I l i' 1. Nov. 27, 1875. WOODHULL & 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . P ,5 it eagerly had it not been for the cold water thrown upon it by these. So the leaders in one plane of an advance move- ment have become the stumbling-blocks to making another movement, upon which the life of the one to which they hold depends. Every one of the leaders of Spiritualism per se, as they denominate themselves, knows that there is some- thing wrong in the relations of the sexes; something, wrong in the causes by which a diseased and half made up race of V children, is constantly being born. But they lack the courage to admit and discuss the wrong publicly. Within ﬁve years Mrs. Britten has admitted that social freedom was right for those who are advanced enough to make good use of it; but she never loses, nor never since that time has lost, an opportunity of which we know, upon which to cast a slur either upon the question itself-or upon its advocates. But all these will come to judgment soon. Even Lyman C. Howe, the very exempliﬁcation of spiritual purity, is obliged to ﬁght back the radical spirits to prevent their control of him, since, when he gives way to them, he becomes more radical than “Woodhull ” herself. Ask Philadelphia_ Is it to be wondered at that there is no life in Spiritualism when its professed trance-speakers discard the inﬂuences that would compel them to speak the truth, and palm oﬁ upon their audiences their own reh ashings of threadbare worn subjects? Where is the vigor and the real trance, speaking of ten years ago? It has gone; forced into the background by the “ respectability” with which a class of Spiritualists have attempted to clothe themselves. Where are the impassioned oratorical trance-speakers of the early days of Spiritualism? Will Spiritualists answer? And where are the spiritual societies? Gone dead over the husks with which they have been fed. while the really inspired ones have been left to starve almost, or turn to other means to obtain a livelihood. The very question upon which the agitation and understanding of which, Spiritualism itself depends, is shoved off the spiritual rostrum. Then is it necessary to ask, “ Why this apathy among Spiritualists ? ” We think that no astute ob- server of the present condition of Spiritualism need to ask that question. The editor of the Spiritualist at§Wor7c has told the whole story in the last number of that paper. Of course he puts all the blame upon poor Jones, but hear him: THE TREE-PURE SPIRITUALISM—-AND ITS FRTIIT. When the R. P. Journal opened its batteries upon the Social Freedom question, we saw prophetically what would be the result, and pointed out to the editor just what would come to pass. When the R. P. Journal began its crusade against Woodhull 82: Co. spiritualism had a stronghold in every large city in the Union, that is, in the form of public meetings. Now, only New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington maintain meetings. Boston has not been disturbed, but each of these cities named,ha's lost, and none are having as'large audiences as they had before the R. P. Journal commenced its crusade. The State Associations in Iowa, Minnesota. Wisconsin, and Michigan have suﬁered terribly. In Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska. and Illinois, the State organizations are dead, killed by the bitter and abusive policy of the editor of the R. P. Journal. The Northern Illinois Association and the Northern Wiscronsin Association of Spiritualists have withstood this champion of virtue (1?) and maintained itheir footing, and yet these organizations have been depleted by the false statements made by the paper referred to. And now we are reaping from his sowing. The First Soci- ety of Spiritualists, in Chicago, whose purity has dissolved the Lyceum and suspended its meetings, is virtually a dead letter; but here comes into Chicago the Woodhull, and ﬁlls McCormick’s Hall to rspl,ction. And on Sunday “the Gentle Wilson” ﬁlls Grow’s Opera House at 25 cents a head. Now let the pure and immaculate editor of the R. 1’. Journal or its “Fun is Phunny” correspondent try his hand before a Chicago audience and give. to the world the results. ~———.-————-ao—vo>—-————— LIFE OR DEATH. Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer of London, is now delivering a course lectures at the Lowell Institute, Mass. The ﬁrst of these was given Nov. 7th, and was en- titled, “ The Birth and Death of the World.” It was illus- trated by about ﬁfty views illuminated by means of the oxy-hydrogen lantern. The report of the N. Y. Tribune, to which we are indebted for the extract, concludes as follows: “As regards the development of life after its ﬁrst begin- ning on the earth, he adopted unhesitatingly the doctrine of biological development, as the only natural sequel of astro- nomical development, and touched on the probability, or at least the possibility, that the future development of life on the earth would lead to the existence of higher forms of ani- mated beings than any at present known. There was some- thing melancholy in passing on from hopes such as these to the following decay of life upon the earth, and the gradual coming on of the time when her surface is to be the abode of death.‘ A series of new illustrations, presenting the condi- tion of planets and other orbs in various stages of their pro-, gression toward cosmical death, illustrated this part of the subject, and even more awful, nay appalling, wasthe picture of the tremendous time-interval during which the earth will circle around the sun as an inert mass—_not only lifeless at the beginning, but no longer possessing that potentiality of life which existed in her substance before life appeared upon hersurface. The reader perceives that the great scientist here gives to us two .1-.onclusions——1st Progression “to higher forms of animated beings than any at present known”—— and 2d, The gradual extinction of life upon _our planet and de- struction of the world itself. As reformers we arrive at similar views of our case bya different method. The re- forms the Weekly has demanded —— industrial, ﬁnancial, religious and social—are,imperative, if the human world is to progress, and if it does not progress, it must retrogacle. It cannot maintain an existence in civilized countries long under existing oppressions. At present, under our indus- trial method, for there is no system about it, the millions of producers are dominated over and robbed by the thou- sands of tralﬁckers, who in turn are the slaves of a few hundreds of ﬁnanciers. This arrangement must be totally reversed, and both" ﬁnanciers and traﬂickers be ruled and rewarded as agents of producers. Another point. The unwrought gifts of nature, viz: the land, mines and water- courses, must not be ‘assessed at money values, and enter into competition with the labors of man. Communities must recognize that they are only agents to control the proper usage of thesame, that their permanent alienation lies not justly in the power of either peoples or govern- ments. In ﬁnance, the only case in which the action of money should be recognizable by law is when it operates in change for labor.” Its right to increase by interest should not be enforced by law, nor should loans and sim- ple money transactions ever be permitted to have a hearing in our courts. Whilst national debts exist, schemers will be better rewarded than workers, for in the volume of money consists its power to create idlers, and consequently to rob and oppress the masses who toil. In the religious world the battle is already commenced in the denial of the usurped claims of all priesthoods, and in the assertion of absolute liberty of conscience; before which the man-made gods of the past are, we trust, destined all to kiss the dust; whilst, in social order, our claim, based upon nature, reverses totally all present systems, by demanding the withdrawal of all male edicts, ecclesiastical and civil, and the admission of the sovereignty of woman in the do- main of the affections. It is questionable whether our race has virtue enough to bear the above changes, which are all imperiously demanded, and without which present oppressions will continue to ex- tend their ravages. Now, many of our most populous cities are retrograding——like New York, whose death rate is one- third higher than its birth rate ; and countries, like Massa- chusetts and France, which may be said to have ceased to increase. Not only that, the very structure of the animal man, within the past century, has been attacked, and den- tists, as thick as the locusts of Egypt, have appeared not to save, but to assist nature by the manufacture of artiﬁcial teeth for humanity. Under existing circum- stances, there is little hope, ’we will not say for the improvement of our race, but to arrest its further deg- radations. The surroundings of the masses of humanity, the overtasks that are demanded of all toilers, the scantiness of their rewards which forbid them in many instances to obtain means for decent human existences, and act as bars to mar- riage and consequent increase, all conﬁrm us in the thought that Prof. Proctor may be right in his latter conclusion, and warn us to prepare for the termination of the race of the mammal—-man. But, thank heaven, there is a bright side to the professor’s picture. The civilized world is agitated in all quarters with universal i'eforms.ffjAll the old systems of the past are changed and rotten to the core, and in the overthrow of human slavery, the last and most, we have already obtained one mighty victory. Let us then hope on, and with hope let us continue to strive earnestly for the right. We know what is requisite for the production of a worthier race of human beings than at present exists. The material base of this new order may be said to have been laid by our scientists, artists and laborers. The intelletual shaft of the column we ﬁnd in the public schools, which have been so generally instituted, and whose excellence is admitted by all civilized nations. . When the wretched de- bris of outworn religions shall have been swept away we shall be able to crown it with a moral capital worthy of the new state of society, and progress, as the learned professor told us, “to higher forms of animated lifethan any at present known.” ------4»-ooa-———.---— WHEN IS THE TIME OF THE END? Dear Sister and Fellow Traveler: Grace, mercy and peace rest your soul and give you cour- age; for the darkness of your weary way will soon brighten and gladden the heart, and illumine the dark corners of the earth. I write to correct a misapprehension (so far as my understanding may be taken for authority on your part about the truth regarding those things which appear to be hidden from the common understanding under the types of prophecy and revelation) you seem to. make respecting the evidences that the seventh aiigel’s voice has been heard. You ask is there any evidences that go to show that the voice of the seventh angel has been heard, and reply, yes, there are, and refer to the time, times and a half of Daniel’s pro- phecy as a measure of the whole time that should lapse from the time of the vision to the revelation of the mystery when the revelator says distinctly, the mystery shall be ﬁnished plain that the mystery will be revealed at or during the time of the sounding of the sixth angel’s voice and ﬁnished at or before the sounding of the seventh. If we will. look at Rev. -ix., 13,14,§we shall there see that your teachings demand just [what the sixth angel was instructed to do, via: Loose the its only proper function, viz: “that of a medium of ex-. when the seventh angel shall begin to sound. Now, it is \ four angels bound in the great river Euphrates, "5- 8-. insist upon a free discussion of all the phases (Which I think will be four when they are developed) of the question concerning the tree and river of life which is now held to be so rePl115iV'6 to the common sentiment that all cry out againﬁli it» When” bound, etc., as the revelator says. Hear him: four horns (power or authority institutionalized) of the golden altar (hymen’s altar), which is before God (or as held by the religious) saying to the sixth angel: Which had the trumpet (or charged with the duty of heralding the news Of the plan of the movements): Loose the four angels which CW6 bound in the great river Euphrates.” ' . I suggest that these would be a better exponent of the lead.- ing views and primary objects of the WEEKLY than the“ verses that stand now at the head of the leading column of either the title or editorial page, and that you substitute the latter with the former, either with or without the explana- tions, or add them to them in the future issues of the paper. And now, while I am on the subject of corrections, permit me to say that Abraham had not twelve sons as you affirm in your 6th November article he was accounted to have; it cannot be found in the record, neither was he a mylihmal character at all any more than was our’Washin.gton, whose root was in him. Those were real individuals, hiSt01‘i° characters around whom history wraps its web, both Wa-FP and woof, and unrolls itself into the movements and 111638- ures of advancing society as naturally as the weaver @1063 his web from the beam when it is ﬁnished. The mistake was a mere lapses ltnguae perhaps, but such slips of merri- ory will give the enemy the advantage over you and you the chagrin of a confession. The spiritual scales should be held above suspicion, for thou shalt yet be weighed in a balance and perhaps found wanting——some little help at least. LA ~PIERRE Co., Mich., Nov. 9, 1875. J .' B. HERSEY. REMARKS. In reply to thecriticisms of our correspondent we would say, in the ﬁrst place, that it seems to us he is wrong about the time the mystery is to be ﬁnished. to be ﬁnished by the sounding, or the effects of the sound- ing, of the sixth angel, where were the need for a seventh angel to sound? The ﬁnishing of the mystery was to be and will be the beginning of the end of time. To be sure the loosing of the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates———the fruitful river of the temple of God, or of the Garden of Eden—-was to and has ledgup to the voice of the seventh angel, whose voice shall proclaim that the mystery is ﬁnished, and as a proof of this the mystery will be revealed to the world. So long as the mystery re- mains a mystery, so long as it is not revealed and proclaimed, so long will the seventh angel be held from sounding. The last mystery to be revealed is the mystery of life and death; and whenever that shall be proclaimed by which this mystery’ will begin to be revealed, and the voice of the seventh angel mystery remains a mystery. The Revelator says, “The mystery of God shall be ﬁnished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” Now what did he declare to the prophets? It was this: “Go thylwjay, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” The time of ﬁthe end evidently means when the fruits of the great mystery shall begin to be obtained. . The time of the end will be to everybody that time when each shall pass beyond_the condition of sub- scrviency to time and the things of time, by becoming su- perior to them all; that is, by having risen superior to death, which rising, will come as the fruit of the revelation and practice of the great mystery; or, in other words, the salvation of the ﬁrst man. and woman from the power of death——death having no more dominion over them—-will be the beginning of the sounding of ‘the seventh angel. In regard to the error, about Abraham, we have to say that the manuscript from which it was set in type, read, or should have read, “And that the story about the twelve sons, and about Joseph being sold into Egypt,” etc., etc., instead of as the article reads, “And that the story of his twelve sons.” I As we did not see the proof of the article after it was set in type we cannot tell exactly how the error of printing “his” for “the” occurred. That it was an error, twelve sons. ‘Errors ought always to be guarded against in all things, but it is a pleasure to us to have the errors we make pointed out, and we are never chagrined by a confes- sion that we are fallible and liable to make mistakes. We consider, however, that errors in facts are comparatively unimportant beside errors in principles and inner truths. If we are weighed in the scales of the former and found wanting, we hope that we may not, at least so often, be weighed» in the scales of the latter with the same result. ’[No'rE.—We have, divided the communication of our correspondent. The latter part will appear hereafter.- Ens] 4; #7 THEN AND NOW. It is not many years ago when it was impossible for many of the facts that are recorded in another column as, “A Fifth Avenue Love Story Culminating in Suicide ” to have occurred. They are suggestive and instructive, and point to a most radical change in the sympathies and sentiments ever it is attempted to be spoken about. It isath9r9f°T9; N “ And the sixthvangel sounded and I heard ‘a voice from the I I f the mystery were _ ' shall be revealed and solved, then the seventh angel will... begin (only begin) to sound. When the mystery is revealed- toa single soul it is thencefortli no longer amvsteryhbutr will continue to sound so long as there are any to whom the“ as it appeared, was patent on its face, since everybody . ' knows that it was Jacob and not Abraham who had the who, through mere thoughtless indifference, drove a sensi- recognition of the truths and principles to the advocacy of the issues of the day, prominent among which is that be- 6 WU ) WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S “WEEKLY. Nov. 27, 1375. «of the community. “Then ” there could have been no such tribute of respect paid to the remains of a woman who had lived and died like Mingee Roane; nor could there have been found many men like Mr. Whitney who, under the trying circumstances related, would have had the courage to stand by his position as he did in this case; nor any clergyman brave enough to conduct the services of such a funeral. t will be remembered that, no more than three years ago, there could be found but one minister in “these two cities” who dared to conduct the funeral services of a member of the dramatic fraternity. But the “Little Church Around the Corner” has taught the clerical profession a lesson which it seems they have not been slow to learn. Yet most of all, is there a healthful moral strength exhib- ited in the action of the father of the disconsolate man tive woman to her death. We copy no more than one-half the article from the Sun, but we give it even this large space for the purpose of pre- senting two particular features of the case, the prominent one of which is that to which we have ﬁrst referred-—the ‘-too common in differencethat is -shown between those who really love each other devotedly and thoroughly. The evi- dence of this man’s love for this woman is too convincing/to _*-permit of its being doubted; but the evidence was exhibited too late. Had he given some of it when she craved it, as with aching heart and tearful eyes she pressed his head to her throbbing and tumultuous breast, racked with the tor- ments of doubt, she had not been driven to despair. Hers Was a life that depended upon his love wholly, as must all lives that are morally strong enough to take the position that she took, so long as the present customs of society pre- veil and are enforced. To lose his care and protection, which soon follows the loss of love, was to her to lose every- thing, and be cast on the world helpless and hopeless, with no avenue open for sustenance save that which leads to misery and degradation through compulsory prostitution, but which in many cases, as it would have been in thiscase had it proceeded that way, would have been endured by a body holding as guileless a heart and as pure a soul as ever beat in wom‘an’s breast. This sad story is a touching lesson to any man and every ‘woman, too; for it is not men alone who are careless and "indifferent to the love that is bestowed, unrecognized and unappreciated, upon them. No, thousands of the life failures of men are caused by the thoughtless indifference- sometimes studied carelessness——to the yearnings of their hearts for recognition and for the food upon which they «can alone ﬂourish." Many a drunkard’s and suicide’s grave is ﬁlled by men who were driven to despair by the heartless indifference of those whom they loved and who really loved them. The heart is a sensitive thing. The slightest touch of indifference or of undeserved cruelty will make it throb and ache almost ‘to madness. Then how careful should all be of this tender but beautiful thing, given of God to make life happy and beautiful, and without which it is a weary, dreary: desert plain. The other lesson we desired should be taught by this in- . stance, we have alluded to in the introduction. We mean the decided change in all the departments of social life that has made such a case as this possible. Is it a change for the better; is it an evidence that humanity is triumphing at last over modern Christianity; is there something in it that shows a greater regard for the inner and less regard «for the written law; is it a land--mark in the path of progress, 10- cating the place where the tyrant——'public opinion-began to lose his power over the souls, hearts and consciences of the people ;—or, in short, is it the beginning of the coming which the columns of “the WEEKLY were dedicated and have been religiously devoted? If it be, then let none who feel it to be any or all of these, fail to put forth their ut- most efforts to maintain and spread the inﬂuence that has had its share in producing such a change. ----—--—-oo—+o4>-----—=—— THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE. From the Rockland, Mass, Standard we learn that Rev. Jesse H. Jones, of South Abington, has been elected a rep- resentative to the State legislature from his town. We are pleased to see such men as Mr. Jones elected to the halls of legislation. He is a thoroughgoing reformer on many of tween labor and capital. /He is also a preacher of the truth, as he sees it in the Bible, and in the great movements that are to be inaugurated soon in the world, he will undoubtedly play a prominent and useful part. We have never seen Mr. Jones, but we take this occasion tosay that we know enough of him to fully warrant much more than we have said. ,_ >*w“~* TO THE TIMID. We hasten to say to that class of our readers who, from fear of the non-permanency of the WEEKLY, are holding back from renewing, that the very great interest which our appeal has developed, may be taken as a certain indication that it will not be permitted to want for support, and con--. sequently that they may send in their renewals, and feel that they will continue t_o receive the Wnnxmr during the coming year. In the meantime, let every friend to human- ~p<IV' means will allow, to spread the gospel among the poor, re- membering, as Jesus said, “The poor ye have always with you,” but not him always; and also in your abundance re- membering that many who are destitute, have labored as much and as hard as you, and that the difference between those who have and those who have not, is often a result of circumstances over which neither had personal control. ._ 41;. 4 7 qrw CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WEEKLY FOR WEEK ENDING NOV. 14. Cora A. Lyme, Brooklyn, N. Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50 00 J as. H. Haslett, Port Huron, Mich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40 00 A Friene, Brooklyn, N.Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 00 C. '1‘. Crosby, Chicago, 1lls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15 00 Mrs. A. L. Woody, Eaton. 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Send in the names to use it. -Let the friends of the cause of humanity every where increase this amount and the list of readers that will grow up under it. Any of our readers who know of worthy peeple who would be glad to receive the WEEKLY, but cannot afford to subscribe, will oblige us by forwarding their names. We hope and trust that there will be sufficient interest mani- V fested to send a large number of these missionary papers into the country, so that the poor shall have “ The Gospel preached unto them. 4 [No'rE.—This list does not, of course, include names of those whose remittances have been credited on their own subscriptions; or thosie who have ordered speeches, etc.] —-—-—~>—+e»-—<———— A FIFTH AVENUE LOVE STORY CULMINATING IN SUICIDE. Miss Roane came to New York from Richmond, Va... about four years ago, leaving two brothers in her native town, and a. married sister in Baltimore. Twelve months ago she met Mr. Thomas B. Whitney, a wealthy‘ brewer. He engaged a handsome suite of apartments in the Fifth Avenue Building, furnished them elegantly, and began to keep house with Miss Roane. . On Tuesday night Mr. Whitney, having fallen asleep on the bed in the centre one of their three spacious rooms, was awakened by the report of a pistol in the adjoining room, and hurrying in, he found Miss Roane lying on the lounge, her hand pressed to her breast, from which the blood was ﬂowing. A large navy revolver lay on the ﬂoor beside her She tried to reply to his inquiries as to what had happened, but was unable to speak. He called the servant to watch her while he ran to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and summoned Dr. Anthony Ruppaner, but when he returned to the rooms with the physician the girl was dead. The servant said she died within a few minutes from the time he left her, after vainly striving to speak. ' ’ »Mr. Whitney was deeply affected, and at times could hardly control himself sufficiently to give his testimony intelligibly. “Mingee,” he explained, was merely a pet name, the young Southerner‘s real name being Elizabeth G. Roane. On Tues- day evening he was with her at 180 Fifth avenue, where they dined at half past six. Mr. Whitney was fatigued, and after dinner he lay down onthe sofa, and his companion despatched the colored girl to buy some chestnuts. After the servant had gone out Mr. Whitney went asleep. He was aroused by Miss Roane, or “ Mingee,” as he always called her, who put her arms around his neck and said: “Tom, you don’t care for me any more.” She was excited and distressed, and he replied: “ Mingee, I’m tired; don’t bother me now.” He got up from the lounge, and going into the other room lay down on the bed and was soon asleep again. Within a few minutes she awoke him a second time. She was more nervous and disturbed than before, and said. excitedly: “ Tom if you don’t get up and talk to me you’ll regret it forever.” Mr, Whitney sleepily replied: “ Oh, Mingee, don’t bother me; I’m very tired,” and turning from her he was asleep again in a few seconds. How long he slept after this second awakening he was unable to say. A pistol ﬁred in the ad- joining room startled him from his sleep, and, springing from the bed, he rushed in. “Mingee” Roane was lying on the lounge, the blood ﬂowing from a wound in her breast. She looked at him as he entered. ar=.(l struggled hard to speak, but she could only pant and gasp for breath. He ran to her side, crying: “ My God, Mingee, ,3;'l’z!.“-J4) you shot yourself? ” but still no answer from the dying giirl. He pulled her dress aside, and saw the marks of powder and blood on the left breast, and a large, ghastly bullet hole. He rang the bell communi- cating with the servant’s'room overhead, and leaving the colored girl in charge, he hastened to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and returned with Dr. Ruppaner. The physician felt the pulse, and dropping the lifeless hand from his own, said: “ It is too late.” The girl had been dead for some minutes. Mr . Whitney and Dr. Ruppaner went together to the Thirtieth Street Police Station, and related the occurrence to Captain Steers, and that officer accdfﬁggianled them to the room in which the dead girl lay. “I rfeyer saw so lovely a face as hers was immediately after death,” said Dr. Ruppa- ner. “ She had not suffered at all, and her features were as composed and lifelike as though she was asleep.” After giving his testimony last night Mr. Whitney broke down and sobbed aloud. “ She was frequently low-spirited,” he said, “and if I showed the slightest coldness or neglect toward her she burst into tears. On the other hand, if I spoke a kind word to her she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me. "She often told me that if she lost my affection at any time she would not allow herself to live-. I do not believe ity eontributefroin one to one hundred dollars, as his or her Lany two persons ever lived more happily together than we did, norcould there be a stronger bond of affection thanlthat which bound us.” Dr. Anthony Ruppaner said that at about 8 o’clock on Tues- day evening Mr. Whitney rushed into his omce, excitedly ex- claiming: “Doctor, I’m in great trouble; my companion has shot herself.” When the physician arrived at 180 Fifth avenue he found Miss “ Mingee ” dead, and the body already cold. It would have been almost impossible, he said, for any one to inflict the wound in her breast except herself. It was under the breast, which had been raised to permit the ball to enter, and the muzzle of the pistol had been held so close to the person that the chemise was scorched and blackened with gunpowder. The remains of “Mingee” Roane were buried yesterday. After the inquest on Wednesday night numerous friends of the dead girl called to see the body. Yesterday morning the body was prepared for biirial and placed in a polished rose- wood coffin, the handsomest, the undertakers said, that they had ever furnished for a funeral. The inside is lined with white satin, plaited to resemble a rising sun. The mountings are of massive solid silver, and on the plate are the following Words: “ Mlngee Roane, died Nov. 9, 1875, aged 21 years.” Mr. Whitney arrived early, but not before numerous visitors, chi: ﬂy ladies, had been denied admittance. Mr. ‘Whitney seemed utterly broken down, and for a long time was unable to control his emotions suiﬁciently to st-rew the blossoms selected from the profusion of ﬂowers that had been sent by his friends. The chief mourner is probably thirty years of age, about the medium height. and rather slight and delicate. He is something more than good looking. His father, a handsome, digniﬁed old gentleman, having been summoned from his home in Philadelphia on Wednesday, stood yesterday with his son beside the cofﬁn. He had con- tributed largely to the elaborate ﬂoral display that covered the lid after it had been closed, and encumbered the room in which the funeral services were performed. There were crosses, broken pillars, harps. crowns, and anchors, con- structed of tuberoses, japonicas, lilies, camellias, and violets, all with cards attached bearing the names of the givers. One superb column stood four feet high, and beside the coffin lay a great’ cross and an anchor valued at $50 each. There were many friends, but not a single relative of the dead girl at the ceremony. ’1‘eIegrams"had been sent to her kinsfolks in Baltimore as well as in Richmond, Va., but elic- ited no answer. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Nathaniel W. Conkling, pastor of the Rutgers Presby- terian Church. After the services, Mr. Whitney pressed his lips to the cold forehead, the coﬁin was closed, and the funeral ccrtege of ﬁve or six carriages moved away to Greenwood Cemetery. 4; -1*? THE LECTURE SEASON. _Victoria C. Woodhull _and Tennie C. Claﬂin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll engagements in various parts of the country as their regular trip shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: The Mystery of the Sealed Book. God, Christ, Devil. The Garden of Eden. The Two Worlds. inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. Christian Communism. The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. The ﬁrst seven of these subjects form a regular course, and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull will speak in New Castle, Pa, Nov. 19; Salem, 0., Nov. 20; Indianapolis, Incl., Nov. 22; Greenville, 0., Nov. 23; Massillon, 0., Nov. 24; Linesville, Pa., Nov. 25; Meadville, Pa., Nov. 26; Erie, Pa., Nov. 27; Corry, Pa., Nov. 29; Batavia, N. Y., Nov. 30; Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 1; Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 2; Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 3; Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 4; Little Falls, N. Y., Dec. 6th. Our readers will note the change in dates from last week, made necessary by the pressing demand that called Mrs. W. to Indianapolis. If any change in dates is made it will be announced in the local papers. _A V « Tonnno, 0., Nov. 4, 1875. I shall never be too glad or grateful for my opportunity at Painesville. 1 had seen you and admired your private con- versation once or twice before, in the parlor with your friends, but had never before listened to you from the plat- form. . _ Fortunate for this poor world will it be when it can hear, bear and proﬁt by, the inspirations uttered by you ,in that Painesville lecture. And happy and blessed are you in your commission so sacred, your work so divine. - And honored indeed am I, in the decline of my life labor, to have seen and heard you, and to be able to subscribe, with admiration of your talent and devotion, dear Mrs. Woodhull, Your very sincere friend, as well as fellow worker, PARKER PILLSBURY. 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Liberal frieiid. no ﬁtter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this ll).Stl'1lCLlV’B pamphlet. _Anx- ious to spread the tflllh. we have rediiceti the price of this work (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on ﬁne white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 » 1a.1-ge pages. INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass. woonuuint a cLAFi~.iN*s WEEKLY? K NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS. VV O1\+€EAlVf; The Hope of the World. A Poem read at the W‘oman’s Mass Meeting, Harmony Grove, July 4, 1871, and at the great Suffrage Meeting in Baltimore, Feb., 1872, by A. Briggs Davis. THIRD EDITIBNTIOW READY This Poem will be especi‘al‘ly interesting to readers of the WEEKLY from the fact that its leading idea- viz., that of the Deity, corroborates the view of woman and the explanations of Bible mysteries now being given by Mrs. Woodhull. IT. shows how woman is to tcjompass man and bring in full salvation and redemp- on. The vision of the “woman clothed with the sun and having the moon beneath her feet,” has a prac— tical fulﬁllment in the “last days.” While opposing its idea of Deity, the Baltimore American said: “It is a production of much merit.” With title-page, border, references and extracts. Price 10 cents per dozen, post paid; 75 cents per hundred. IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass. @ Send for large Catalogue. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST. CONTAINING , New, Startling and Eoctraordi'na.r;u Revelations in Religious H lstory, which disclose the , Oriental Origin of all the Doctrirz.-es, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEVV TESTAMENT, and _furm'shtng (1. Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprtstiig the l History of Sixteen Oriental Cruciﬁecl Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan” and.“ The Bible of Bibles " (comprislrzg a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the v vried information contained in it must have bee .- severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no ineaiis a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-he-ads——fol ows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O N T E N‘T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Addiess to the Clergy. Chap. 1.—-—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—'.-‘liessiaiiic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecics by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—~Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. ~- - _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘= Chap. 6.—Si.ars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ Chap. ’7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In"? ant Sa ior. Chap: 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. ’ Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.-The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. l1.——Christ’s Genealogy. - Chap. 12.~—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ Chap. 13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinity. Chap. 14.—~The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.—Sixtecn Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. i7.—~’1.‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci_— ‘ ﬁxion. _ _ Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.~—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe "Ori in. 1 Chapg2:2.—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Ori in. Chap. 23.——’1‘he Divine “Word”_ of Orienta Origin. Chap. 24.—Tl1e Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. . Chap. 25.—Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, ‘of Heathen Origin. . . Chap. 26.—0rigin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, \ and the Holy Ghost. Chap. 27.—Tne Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Origin. i~ Chap. 28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—Ilow 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 Lhrist. Chap. 31.——Christiai1ity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems‘. Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33 ~Apol1onius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.-—~The"l.‘hree Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracies, 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.~Pliysiological 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 Mctonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. _ _ Chap. 41.——The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Ch ' vt. Ch8.C.i‘I:1:2.——Chl‘lSt as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.—Coiiversion, Repentance and “ Getting Be- ;;;ion” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.~The Moral Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45.—~(.‘onclusion and Review. Note of Explanation. Printed on ﬁne white paper, large 12mo,.380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 cts. Send orders to WOODHULL do CLAFLIN, P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. DR. SMYT‘E-IE’S “ PATENT» . ' . H Huuseluilll lliiegar—lllaier. Makes Vinegar by a new process in four hours. ADDRESS: DR. 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I wish every family in the land, rich and poor, knew experimentally how indispensable this closet is for -cleanliness, healthfulness and solid couifort in a country home. Itespectf lly, G. H. BENEDICT. Emporium, Pa., August 31st, 1875. * * * It has been a great convenience to my children. day and niglit, during the severe winter 93*. ecially. I keep it handy for use in one of the up- per bed-chambers. ltespectfu lly, . W. J. CRAIGER, M. D. Matawa_n:~ N. J., August 31st,1875. Wakeﬁeld Earl]; Closet Co.--Sins3——Your ilarth Closet 1. as given perfect satisfaction; in daily use for two years or more, has never been out of repair. ‘In , preference to out-door travel, or even wai'er—closets; no oferzsive pipes to get out of order. In sickness, or even perfect health, would recommend it in preference to any known mode. Yours truly, J. S. WFITLOCK. P. S.---The ladies would. part with any piece of fur~ niture in the house._rather than the Earth Cl<‘)Tse§. W is rssrl ~ resp=.:cts superior. o v. . Nyack, N. Y., August, 31st, 1875 Wakeﬁeld Earth Closet C0.——We have used one of * your Earth Closets now for near thre r 6 ' has provedto be quite equal to our eX()l)gCel3a£l[tSi3Ollzf’n do _not hesitate to say that where there is imperfect drainage and the lack of water closets, the use of the- Earth closet seems indispensable for both health and comfort. . And where members of the family are very" young._ or where they are weak and in delicate health we believe that one of your Earth Closets will mord‘ than Day for itself every year. Our feeling is that we could not think of doing without your invﬁfritlbn A. MCELROY WYLIE . Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Nyack, Y New York, Sept. 1st, 1875, Having used Earth Closets for some ears an - ing their great superiority for househol3d pmpo§ie1§11o9Q;’r the ordinary appliances for similar ends I can cor dially commend those of the Wakeﬁeld Compan r 1; the practical consideration of people who have gm-°.l tary reform at heart. H. S. DRAYTON 1 H Ed. Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated Y.1,ﬁ”é°e’i-5‘t."1‘§.i,Fi‘s’l‘§." Hyglenlé Institute .°f Démswlle, N. We have used several of our Ear '- about our Institution, and zheerfullyhagdgfdtgttilltfnd the ﬁrst place, so far as our experience goes and ‘t lem been not incunsiderable. For all purposes of ne T ms freedom from smell, and non-liability to get ouzl ISISS’ pair, they are unsurpassed. re You rs very truly, J AMES H. J Aei:soN, Secretary From D. R. Locke (Nasby), Editor Toledo Blade New York, Sept. 1st, i87'.?,, I have used one of your best Wakeﬁeld Closet tr three or four years at my residence in Toledo .,§n(lS ~§(-H every way satisfactory. I consider your gysfem way equal to the Wa=er Closet system, ahd in smug _ It saved me the expense of *3. w thl closer, with trouble of bursting and obstructed’ ‘a "II and my friends in the country were glad to keglpest supplied with dry earth, on condition - of receivi»pon'1e exchange the product of the closet from time to ‘m . Yours respectfully, D. R. Locinge. We have similar letters fro many others: DR. SAMUEL LYNES, Norwalk, Conn, J P. T . - . . , mes: We Gamma Mm-y REV. J. B. DRURY, Ghent, N, Y, N.DX13_- A- 0- VAN EPPS, “ Valley House,” In the following, among Binghamton, F. A. SOULE, Pussaic, N. J, A. S. LosEE, Brooklyn, N, Y, We could multiply such indorsem nitely. 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"“mﬂ -Fl I>:<‘D3:“ " EEO . pg .' .1 '5-Q34 -Q55 .,.;,9—iQ 1' gas us. 5 . . _ - v-<10-6-A mm; most of the Paiiieiairids York Tmmné. pomt without the slightest ClrClllIlI6‘C‘l1f;IOll='s 6 Worth the price the; {their handwriting, state age and sex, and.inclose$2. Nov. 27, 1875. HORT AND FAST LINE "ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTAB- lished and Popular Route via . The ERIE RAILWAY to SUSPENSION BRIDGE; The GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA to Detroit; The MICHIGAN CE1"§"l‘RAL to Chicago; The CHICAGO, BURLINGTON and QUINCY to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha and to all points in the great North and Southwest. ' ' Through without change of cars, from New York to Chicago. One change to Omaha, and that in the Depot of the Michigan Central in Chicago, from which the C., and Q. departs. The hours’ time consumed by travelers by 02 her routes to Chicago from the East or West in transferring from depot to depot, is saved by passengers by this route to get their meals-—an advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes it the most popular and the best patronized line of travel across the Continent. THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, anl general information may be obtained at the Company’s I ‘omce, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. 7 ;Via Erie & ' l‘£¢[ich."’ Central Condensed . Time iTet1oilel. WESTWARO FROM NEW-YORK, &if.Great,Western:i R; R’s sTATioNs. Express. Iaﬁgzflew sTA'rroNs. R Empress. Lv 230. Street, N. Y .... . .«.. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 P. M. ; ? " Chambers street.... ...... .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street......... 7.00 “ . 5 “ Jersev Citv...‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersev City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ E \ “ Horiiellsville .............. .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville .......... .. 7.40 “ Express. ‘ “ Ruiraio .................. .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Buffalo ................ .. 11.45 “ Lv Suspension Bridge ....... .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. . 1.35 “ 9.50 p. in Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11220 “ “ London ................... .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ “ London ................ .. 5.55 “ 2:35 a. m. . “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit 10.00 “ 7_‘.00 ~ “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. M “ Jackson ............... .. '1.00«A. M 11.30 ‘~ “ Chicago . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 p in Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 30 A M. 11.50 A M, Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5,30 a. in. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . 8.55 1’. M. . Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . .. 8.55 p in ‘Ar La Crossc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7 05 a in ;Ar St. Paul .................. .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul ...... ..... .. 700 A. M. iAr St. Louis ................. .. 8.15 A. 1:. Ar St. Louis ..... ...... .. 8.15 p. M. %Ai~ Sedalia .................. .. 5.40 r. M Ar Sedaiia ................ .. 6.50 A. M. . .. i “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ .. _‘ "‘ Galveston ._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. Ar BiSmarCk......-. . . . . . . . . . .- 12-01 P- N. . “Columbus ................. .. 5.00 A. M. “ Columbus ...... 6.30 “ “ Litt_le'Rocl: ............... .. 7.30 1». M. ‘ . “ Little Rock ............ .. Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M- . F’ Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.00 P M . “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. , “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A M. . 4‘ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. , “ Cheyeune..... . . . . . . , . . .. 12.50 P. M. «“ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .. ...., “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ “ San Francisco ..... , _ 8.30 “ Ar Galesburg ................ .. 6.40 A. 11- Ar Gaiesburg’ .......... .. 4.45 P. M. g “, uincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 .“ “ Quincey... . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 “‘ “ St. Joseph . . . . . ........ .. 10.00 “ , “ St. Joseph..... ....... .. 8.10 A. M. “ Kansas City ............... .. 10.40 P. M. “ Kansas City. .......... .. 9.25 “ '...: “ Atchison...... . . , . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ “ Atchison .............. .. 11.17 “ 1}" Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.10: “ " Leavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. §;_“Denver. 7.00 A.M. “ DeI1V€r.. .... Througliif isleeping" V 9.1'5\A.*M.——Day Express from Jersey City ‘(daily exce t Sunday)_, with Pulln_ian’s Drawing-Room Cars and connectina at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s P ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following day in time to take the morning trains from there. 1 7.20 P. M.-—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chicago Without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., the morning trains to a points ~West, Northwest and outhwest. Car’ Arrangemerits 'ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take CONNECTIONS:OF'ER1E RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND/BRANCHES OF (Michigan: Central &, Great. Western . Railways. 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For Newark at 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 8, 9, 10, 11 A. M., 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:110), 4230, 5, 5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:10, . 12 ' 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8:10, 10, 11:30 ‘ M., and night. Sun- day, 5:20, 7 and 8:10 P. M. For Elizabeth, 6, 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 8. 9,10A M 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4 10, 4:30, 4 5 , 5:20, 5 6, 6:10, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8:10, 10, 11:30 P. M , and 12 night Sunday, 5:20, 7 and 8:10 P. M. For Rahway, 6, 6.30, 7:20, 8, 10 A M., 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 4:50, 5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:10, 6:3 7, 8:10, 10 P. M. and 12 night. Sunday, 5:20 and 7 P. M. For Woodridge, Perth Amboy, and S uth Amboy, 6 and 10 A. M., 2:30, 4:50 and 6 P. M. 1- — For New Brunswick, 7:20 and 8 A. M., 12 M., 2, 3:10, 4:30, 5:20, 6:10, 7 P. M., and 12 nig t. Sun ay, 7 1 P M For East Millstone,‘ 12 noon, 3:10 and 4:30 P. For Lambertville and Flemington, 9:30 A. M., nd ‘ . M. P Fnqr Phillipsburg and Belvidere,’ 9:30 A. M., 2 and ' For Bordentown, Burlington and Camden, 7:20 and 9:30 A. 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Reforms regulating the relation of capital and labor, such as shall secure to labor, the producer of capital, the control of capital. 4. Reforms regulating the relations of the sexes to each other, such as shall secure to every member of each sex the eiitirc_control of their own person, and place prostitution, in or out of marriage, for money or any other cause, out of the question. Any thought calculated to beneﬁt humanity, whether coming under any of the above or an other propositions, will ﬁnd a cordial welcome in the columns of HULL’s CRUCIBLE. HULL’s CRUCIBLE Joins hands with all reforms and reformers of whatever school, and welcomes any ideas, however unpopular, caculated to beneﬁt hu- manity. Those interested in a live Resformatory Journa are invited to hand in their subscriptions. ’ TERMS. One subscription, 52 numbers.. . .. . . . . . . $2 50 H “ 26 “ 1'50 “ “ 13 “ ...... .. 055 A few select advertisement will be admittep on rea. sonable terms. Anything known W be a humbug, a dnot as represented, will not be admitted as an a vertisement at any price. All Letters. Money Orders and Drafts should be ad. dressed‘ MOSES HULL as 09., ' , 871 Vnsnmeroli BI.-.. Béston
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-11-27_10_26
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-11-27_10_26
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 27 (December 4, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2100
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-12-04
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: “~ Ha-‘Jr .... -PROGRESS 2 "or conversations elsewhere.- w FREE THOUGHT it UN'rRAMMEL'r3D Lrjvme 3 4 ‘I BREAKING ‘THE WAY pron FUTURE eENEnATIo1\is Vol. X.—No. 27.-—Wl;ole No. 261. NEW YORK, DEC. 4,1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. I... The truth shall make you’ free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel,‘ the mystery of God shall be _]‘lnisheol.—St. John the Divine. K Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning ‘ of the world hath been hid in Goal.-—Paul. VICTORIAC. WOODHULL AS A MEDIUM. 2 BY ALLEN PUTNAM. To the Editor of the Banner of Light: , Sm—'I‘he career of Mrs. Woodhull, ever rapidly changing its phase, ever forceful, and ever_antagonistic to some prev- alent laws, habits, or opinions, presents rare points for ob- servation and study. Emerging from relative poverty and obscurity, and aided but little by education or any mundane helps, she suddenly ﬂashed upon the World as its ...
Show more“~ Ha-‘Jr .... -PROGRESS 2 "or conversations elsewhere.- w FREE THOUGHT it UN'rRAMMEL'r3D Lrjvme 3 4 ‘I BREAKING ‘THE WAY pron FUTURE eENEnATIo1\is Vol. X.—No. 27.-—Wl;ole No. 261. NEW YORK, DEC. 4,1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. I... The truth shall make you’ free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel,‘ the mystery of God shall be _]‘lnisheol.—St. John the Divine. K Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning ‘ of the world hath been hid in Goal.-—Paul. VICTORIAC. WOODHULL AS A MEDIUM. 2 BY ALLEN PUTNAM. To the Editor of the Banner of Light: , Sm—'I‘he career of Mrs. Woodhull, ever rapidly changing its phase, ever forceful, and ever_antagonistic to some prev- alent laws, habits, or opinions, presents rare points for ob- servation and study. Emerging from relative poverty and obscurity, and aided but little by education or any mundane helps, she suddenly ﬂashed upon the World as its more effi- cient agitator than it had often witnessed. The woman her- self we have never seen nor heard ; but, like most readers, we have become quite familiar with her name, and possess a general acquaintance with some of her prominent views, ut- terances and ‘labors. Our knowledge and impressions con- cerning her have been received mainly through printed pages and the lips of many whose acquaintance with her was ob- tained from either her performances on the public platform There, however, is a single marked addition to our sources of inferences pertaining to this indefatigable and eﬂicient iconoclast. Many years ago a. mediumistic lady of high intelligence and culture, of estimable character and deportment, and formerly an extenive contributor to the columns of the Banner of Light. told us that in a trance or semi-trance stateshe saw above her head, in large letters'of brilliant light, the name Victoria C. Woodhull, and sensed, or fore-sensed, that a fe- male bearing that name was an approaching power that would act widely and deeply upon our world. If our memory is not at fault this was nearly simultaneous with that clairvoyant lady's ﬁrst knowledge of the name then presented, and of its public mention on the Atlantic coast. That unique prophecy, no doubt, has long had much inﬂu- ence in disposing us to refrain from expressing or even draw- ing any cmclusions hastily in reference to Mrs. Woodhull’s purposes, or the wisdom and beneﬁcence of her utterances ever since she came to the Atlantic States and waged her fer- vid and agitating onslaughts far and wide. To this hour we have persistently refrained from applying to her a traducing word, though she has often strayed widely from our views of propriety, usefulness and wisdom. Forew-arned, we have chosen to wait and witness future development of results be- fore passing judgment either for or against her. Probably the same prophecy has all along allured us to, read with quickened attenticn,iand critically as possible, her strong, ‘stirring, lucid lectures and writings, from which most" people have drawn inference that she is an advocate of free lust, and of promiscuity in its gratiﬁcation. She ever has denied the legitimacy of such an inference from her statements; and we have ever felt that her words and the structure of her sentences as we found. them in print justified the denial. Her prominent topic, viev\ed’in disconnection‘ with a distinction she ever has made between lust and love, has caused many of the loose in morals, of the devotees to lust, and of the impure in thought and desire, to applaud and exalt her, as do also some of the purest members of‘ societywho comprehend and apply her distinction; at the same time her course and utterances influence most of the hypocritical and aﬁectediy squeamish claimants of personal purity, and also a very large share of the very purest class among us, to shun and denounce her as a pestilent one devoted to turning the world upside down. ~ V . Prom the - start she distinctly avowed that she was desig- nating by the word Love, a high, virtuous and eunobling at- tribute, as distinct and as distant from base ﬂeshly lust as heaven is from hell, and we have no remembrance of ever having seen anything from her in reference toone’s right ‘to ‘exercise it freely which conflicts’ with her present deﬁni- tion, viz: V " Sexual freedom means the abolition of prostitution both in and and out of marriage; means the emancipation of wo- man from sexual slavery, and her cominginto ownership and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuniary dependence upon man, so that she may never, even seem- ingly, have to procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors; means the abrogation of forced pregnancy, of ante-natal murder, of undesired children; means the birth of love-children only, endowed by every inherited virtue that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by every in- ﬂuence for good to be obtained during gestation, and by the - wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, industrially, intellectually and sexually.” She says too: “ I am fully persuaded that the very highest sexual unions are those that are monogamic, and that these are perfect in proportion as they are lasting.” Notwithstanding her explicitness only few hearers or read-, ers, whether pure or impure, have paid such attention to her expressed distinctions as cause them to grasp and adhere to her avowed meaning. The loose and proﬂigate want the championship and approbation of one possessing her com- mending and persuasive powers, and therefore such, together with some of quite different character, praise her lustilv and extol her to their utmost ability. Simultaneously both those ‘who hypocritically seek to appear to be and those who are honestly apprehensive that her course and teachings are in- centives and licenses to increased immoralities and lewdness, strive vigorously to defame and put down one whom the lat- ter class deem a powerful corruptor of the public morals, and whom the former think it creditable to bark at and bite. i . Vifhat consequences of her early, distinct and bold discus- sions of the sexual relations remain apparent at the present hour? We state one of them thus: She won to herself sym- pathy, admiration and countenance from vast numbers who had already broken, and even more who were, desirous, of breaking, away from some prevalent opinions, laws, customs, or from some special positions which most gallingly restrain- ed their freedom of action. She gained the ear of scores of thousands whose attention common religious teachers and moralizers had never been able to win, so that hosts of these are now more ready to receive anything—yes, even most wholesome instructions-—from her, if she have such to give, than they are from almost any other person on our continent. Her name and peculiar fame draw to the lecture room more members from classes reputed to be most in need of instruc- tion and reformation, because of the interest in herself which her former public teachings have awakened in them. This is ~no.small aid to the expansion of her usefulness if she shall become an acceptable teacher by the more inﬂuential and respected classes of the people. . Will what are called the better classes ever welcome and countenance her as a public moralizer and reformer? Her ‘indefatigable persistency in maintaining that the special love whose freedom she advocates is high among the most elevat- ing aﬁections of the human heart, together with lapsing time, has inﬂuenced many to conceive it possible that in spite of her bold presentation of tabooed subjects, and her iconoclas- tic assaults in many varied directions, her motives and her ultimate aims may have all along been much broader, higher and more philanthropic than either her admirers or her npponents have deemed them. Are there now any apparent signs that her indomitable and unﬂagging perseverance through ten years, more or less, in spite of buffetin-gs. seem- ing failures, ﬁtful alliances, reverses of fortune, imprison- ments and reproaches, has begun to impress the public mind that her motives may be far other than such as actuate the seekers of pleasure, of applause, of ease, of fortune, or of de- basement of the public virtue? If the papers in the Western towns and cities, where she has recently been lecturing, have furnished correct reports and given honest opinion s, she has attracted around her large audi- ences, embracing theibetter class of citizens extensively, and has won very general approbation from the most reﬁned, re- spected and inﬂuential citizens in many, if not all, the places where she has delivered her lecture upon “ The True and the ‘F-alse—Socially.” The tone of editorial comments in very many cases is quite hearty in commendation of her demeanor, powers and performances, and no apologies or drawbacks are appended to favorable notices. Her hold upon the public there seems to be extending up into the highest ranks, and already to embrace yery many of the class who long: have shunned and dreaded contact with her magnetisms and views. If the present apparent tendency of public thought concerning her, in the region where she has recently been speaking. shall be continued and shall spread, not many years will elapse before her name will draw around any ros- trum on which she is announced as speaker. crowds that shall embrace representatives of more classes in position, culture, inﬂuence and character than will that of almost if not quite any other person in our land. _ T She is a power, and not a small one . T \’Ve say she, because i common usage, and the limitations of man’s ordinary percep- tions, make it almost necessary to speak of whatever instruc- tion or persuasion comes out through the physical form of any human being, as emanating from and being the production of that,form’s innate, indwelling, mental and emotional person- ality. Mrs. Woodhull may, for aught that we know, be her- self very able--may be a highly talented human being. But she avows, and we believe, that, in the main, her higher, bolder, more startling and yet coherent productions are passed through her brain by keen, expanded. disembodied intelligence. ‘Consequently we are surveying her as the instrument of some super-mundane being or beings, and not as a’ self-controlling actor and speaker. Not knowing her personally, we have nothing to say either for or against her‘ as a woman. ' Obviously she is mnchused asfa medium by some keen-eyed, far-searching, comprehensive. logical and potent intelligence bent upon attracting the‘ attention of all classes, and upon subjecting our political, religious,‘social and other systems to its own keen criticism and severe censure on the broadest public stage attainable. It is only as the instru- ment of such that we are noticing her. . Uf her labors‘ in reference to the political and industrial equality of woman with man. and the sexual relations, she says, “ that for all these years of toil, suffering and revile- ment we have obeyed and been instructed by a higher power. Every important movement that has been made, every new truth that has been advanced. has been somade or advanced under the direction of spirit guidance, and sometimes in al- most blind obedience on‘ our part, but not often so.” She claims that all her previous labors under control have been an orderly series of steps toward the one in which she is now engaged, viz.: a new interpretation of the Bible, or what she terms “ The culmination of events.” "This relatively recent phase of hrr labors, or rather these recent interpretations of the Bible through her, we thinkythe » These, however, are what.- specially prompted us to pen this article. Since the 17th of r April last nearly every issue of .WooDnU1.L AM) CLAF- LIN’s WEEKLY has contained three or four colunlnsbased ‘ Banner has not yet alluded to. upon and pertaining to absolutely novel and yet very sugges- tive and surprising exegeses or explanations of the" Bible. We became quite familiar with the language of that book in‘ youth, and in our young manhood devoted some little time to more critical study of it, and to perusal of the productions of able Biblical -commentators, and yet never obtained the slightest glimpse of such meaning as is now professe dly educed from it, and apparently with as little forced"‘construc- tion, or departure from the most obviou's,’plain and common signiﬁcance of words, as is found in many a widely accepted exegesis. - The ﬁrst novel basic point presented, is that the Garden of Eden was not a particular plat of ground, but was the human body, especially the female body. Starting thus, she applies very many biblical statemenls to the body, and to this pres- ent life, which all Christians of whatever sect have ever been accustomed to apply to the spirit within the body andtoa future life. We omit attempt to outline the views presented in her paper. We- are far, very far, from being yet ready to adopt the interpretation put forth through her. We have read it only piecemeal as it came to hand from week to week, and many parts of it_’_only quite cursorily, and therefore are not sufﬁciently familiar with the larger part of the positions and explanations therein presented to [j usiify us in either ac- cepting or rejecting them. ' , What now engages our special attention and induces us to write, is the apparent evidence of non-mundane leading along the course she has moved while reaching her present, standpoint. We can hardly conceive that any mortal, even the seemingly eccentric, versatile, Ishmaelitic Mrs. Wood- hull herself, if intending ultimately to draw the, world’s at- tention to the Bible as the fountain from which issued the streams of her teachings, eloquence and persuasion, would- ? 197/Z. '1 i, i u 1 2 _ ,3 revolver under his pillow. T _ 5 VVOODHULL & ULAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Dec. 4, 1875. have labored ﬁrst so‘ as to gain the, ear of such as relatively‘ placed little or even no value upon that book, discoursed for years upon topics deemed improper for public elucidation anywhere, formed a heterogenous mass of temporary aﬁ:iilia- tions with different sets of reformers and agitators. and as soon as the attachments of any oneset were ﬁxed upon her, drawing off from that and setting her face in some other di- rection. Judged by any common standard her course was ‘consummately foolish, yet when regarded as but a medium- which is all that she claims to have been throughout all her public_labors—-one may fancy that her controller has displayed much adroitness in securing a. very broad hold upon at least the curiosity of the nation prior to attempting to put forth through that instrument his new reading of Christendom’s familiar Bible, and his as unqualiﬁed claims that ,it enfolds and is permeated by divine wisdom as any sect or individual hasever ascribed to it, but wisdom whose genuine signiﬁi- cance no mundane expounder has ever heretofore perceived. The-position of the matter is essentially this: Her work now is to show that true biblical meaning is the basis on which all her former, as well as present, public teachings rest; to draw the attention of Bible reverencers to a new exegis of it; to set forth their duty to receive her teachings because of ‘ their reverence of the source from whence she deduces ‘ them; also to show those Whoihave heretofore been both ready receivers of her views and discarders of the Bible as a storehouse of any superior wisdom, that the very thin gs they have received gladly were drawn forth from that old discard- ed book. Thus she challenges renewed attention to it by both those who cling to it, and those who have cast it oﬁ‘,,the former that they may ﬁnd new doctrines therein and adopt them, the latter that they may ﬁnd their existing beliefs therein, and value the records therefor. , Such an eﬁort by any one not already famous for intellec- tual and persuasive powers would be nearly inoperative. But from one widely known to manifest both of those classes of powers, it may evoke much discussion, produce much agita- tion, and ﬁnally draw into harmonious co-operation in labors for social and other needed reforms, many who. are striving in antagonism against each other. , ‘ §The prophecy concerning her—the strangeness of her past course—the uniqueness of her present position—her persist- ent, unfaltering steps onward, her deep abiding conviction that she is mainly but an instrument used by supernal intel- llgence-and the apparent turn of opinion in her favor at the West-all conspire to incline us to wait and watch her a while longer.—Banner of Light, Nov. 20, 1875. , EAST RANDOLEH, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1875. Editors Weekly—Mrs. M. A. Leach, Randolph, N. Y., and D. Huntington, East Randolph, N. Y., send $ 3,00 each for "renewals. Please credit the same. The money has been in my possession some time, and should have been sent before, but I have been trying to get some new subscribers, also try- ing to induce some of your former subscribers to renew, but they say that you have gone over to. the enemy’s ground, etc. Not feeling interested in the Bible articles themselves they do -not stop to consider that the spirits may, and do, make the Bible an instrumentality through whichto reach a class ofin-I dividuals that can be reached in no other way, and thus help thejwork along. There is a large class of persons who believe that spiritualism is to be the salvation of the race——the light of the ~world—and yet they manifest an overwhelming desire to dictate what the spirits shallfsay and do, and just how they shall say and do it. In fact, they have an intehse longing (seemingly) to assume control of the whole spirit world. They also believe they are to progress endlessly, and yet never change their views. ‘At least that is the inference, for whenever mediums promulgate doctrines that threaten the overthrow of their pet theories or institutions, they straightway give them over to diakka, and slander and perse~ cute them with more than religious zeal. With all their boasted liberalismﬁth-ey cannot tolerate anything that does not run parallel with present laws and customs. I believe your mission is heaven-ordained, and fully as important as that assigned to any human soul. I have faith in the wisdom of the spirits that control you, and for one am willing to let them do the work in their own way. They have obstacles to overcome of which we have but a faint conception, and they ﬁnd idiosyncrasies in all mediums that give tone and coloring more or less, to whatever is transmitted. If people would uphold mediums more, and censure. them less, they would better conditions for communication, materially, and reach results more satisfactory both to spirits and mortals. “"1 had no intention of writing this much, but of only giving you a fewjwords of sympathy and encouragement. Go on in the good cause, and may God and the angels bless humanity through your labors. Ever yours for the whole truth-, though the heavens fall, MAY HUNTINGTON. Liberty is not a privilege, but an inalienable birthright.—-C. BRlNToN. Progress is irresistible. First the seed, then the swelling bud, the bursting leaf, the blooming ﬂower, and the ripening fruit. From the germ cell evolves all the various phases of organic existence. In intellect, that last and highest form of terrestrial development. comes the connecting link between matter and spirit, for mind born in this world‘ matures in the world beyond. Yet scholasticism has sought through legal codes and social ostracism to hold the outgrowth of human vitality within the grooves of past ages, while ecclesi- asticism has ‘used the cord, the dungeon, the rackand the ingot to stay free thought; but that latent spark of divine life which dwells within all souls bursts, when quickened by ‘the central life of all lives, these impotent barriers of con- " servatism and bigotry, and emerges into that beneﬁcence of action which must over follow obedience to the laws control~. lng our exitence.——C. BRINTON. ’ . A WOMAN cured her husband of staying out late at night by going to the door and whispering through the key-hole, “ Is that you, Willie?” Her husband’s name is John, and he stops at home at night now, and sleeps with one eye open and A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, The Constitution of the United ‘States of the World provides for, and secures to, the female citizen equally with the male the right to vote, and the privilege of being voted for; and Whereas, N 0 such right has been held, and no such privi- lege has been enjoyed by the female citizen generally hith- erto, 1 Now, therefore, I, Wm. S. Flanders, President of the United States ‘of the World and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do issue this my proclamation, de- claring that from and after this date all female citizens shall hold and enjoy unmolested the right to vote and the privi— lege of being voted for equally with the male citizens in the United States of the World. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand,‘ on this the"eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1875, and of the independence of the United States the one hun- dredth. [Signed] WM. S. FLANDERS. HYPOCRISY. Dem‘ Weeklg/—-Out of the very midst of society, I am en- abled to communicate what is goingon there. Every week the WEEKLY makes its appearance in our city, but a few papers only ﬁnd the way through the postman; the restare quietly taken out of the private letter boxes and hastily hidden, so that no one may see the herald of truth and freedom, Now only the fourth of the readers of your valuable paper are subscribers; then from hand to hand your journal wanders, not for want of money but for fear of de- tection, and ‘so finds its way even into all parts of the coun- try. Here is a husband; he reads it in a loud voice to his wife ;’ he has a good conscience. There is a married lady studying the WEEKLY in a corner of? her private room alone by her-— self, and a sigh of her aching heart tells us she suﬁers; yet "she never will tell society the miserable life the man-made law obtrudes on her. The other day I met a young man about twenty years of age a street-car on his way to busi- ness very much absorbed in reading the WEEKLY, but he carefully turned-the paper over to hide the heading; never- theless I recognized my dear friend. There are clergymen, lawyers, physicians, private and business men, all reading it, who never acknowledge it. A Now, dear reader, I am discreet, but at the same time wish to know why, if the WEEKLY is ordered by you week by week, month by month, as I really know it to be, if you do not ﬁnd truth and enjoyment in it; and if you do, why hide it away and deny it? Hypocrisy, I think, is the most detestable sin in the world, but it is the key to the midst of society where it prevails more than anywhere else. I don’t claim the WEEKLY to be without errors and faults, but only think which of us is without faults to cast the stone. Society has accepted the WOODHULL &; CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, and I have witnessed it. Time is not far distant when it will be read and criticised as openly as it is‘ at the present enjoyed pri- vately. I am glad to speak of what I have witnessed, and can no longer refrain from,.doing so to the public. SAVANNAH, Ga. ~ F. S. . ASHAMED or THEIR MOTHER. BLooMINGroN, Il1., N cv. 15, 1875. I step into church, and the Rev. Mr. T. gets up and, with lengthened visage, proclaims to the assembled natives “ That ante-natal conditions have frequently stocked the rising generation with such a preponderance of evils that the best post-natal condition possible will not suﬁice to counter- balance them.” Ilisten to Dr. 0., and in his “Course of private lectures to gentlemen only,” he remarks, _“ That the fearful loss of power through excessive venery, masturbation and nocturnal emissions has left the average vital force of man only one— third as large as it ought to be at the present time.” I look into the Illinois Schoolmaster and I see an article copied from the New England Journal of Education, wherein is men- tioned the great success which an institution is having in teaching young ladies the Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene of their sexual organs. Andgl also lately heard a curipathic physician of long standing remark that “Rape and sexual excess in marriage, following so closely upon the heels of sexual inactivity out of marriage, caused the death of more married ladies than all other causes combined.” Now, ladies and gentlemen, what is the matter? Who has stirred you up to this thoughtfulness about your repro- ductivegorgans? Our New England brother was very care- ful to remark that the parties engaged in teaching these young ladies were above reproach. And so with the other parties who dare to speak upon this sexual subject. they all think they mustdo penance somewhere by saying that such and such parties, who have skimmed the surface of the sexual maelstrom, are of the highest respectability. ’Tis the old story, told again and again, “Can any good come out of Nazareth ?” ‘ s The world placed the hemlock to the lips of Socrates, and then sought to steal his wisdom from his remaining manu- scripts. It fastened a superstitious ghoul upon the back of Galileo which rode him to prison and crushed him into re- cantation, and afterward claimed his genius as a brilliant emanation from the Catholic Church. It cruciﬁed 23. Christ too soon; and the egregious blunders it makes in attempting to follow his teachings will remain until they are rescued from church monopoly and rendered again in their pristine purity. It chained and gagged a Columbus, and then like a pack of ungrateful‘ bandits it walked in and enjoyed the fruits of his toil and genius. Now, gentlemen and ladies, who rejoicein free speech, free press, and free thought, shall this ingrati- tude always remain? Will you forever crucify the reformer and enjoy the beneﬁts of the reformation? Or will you step boldly to the front ;and say what you ought to have said months ago: . i That Victoria 0. Woodhull made it possible for the subject of sexual purity to be agitated in the world; That through her own unaided efforts she has awakened an interest in the proper production of the race which will not terminate until the maximum of human vigor and lon- gevityshall be realized‘; * _ Thereby acknowledging her as the rightful mother of the race regenerate. J. FERRON. TO THOSE wHo ARE DELINQUET.” The editorial under the above heading in WEEKLY, dated Nov. 20, is one which every reader should peruse with the closest attention. » . As it is a recapitulation of the grand leading ideas of re- form set forth by this brave exponent of truth from the com- mencement of its labors to the present time, it is well for us to read and reread it carefully that our minds may be deeply imbued with the importance of the great and glorious work it is accomplishing. It is also well for each read er to refer this editorial to some one who has not had the opportunity of reading the paper, that others may learn the mission of W OODHULL & C‘-LAE- LIN's WEEKLY. 4 From my earliest girlhood I have so anxiously looked for- ward to the time when such a periodical would be published, and my love for the WEEKLY has been so deep that I would lay down my life, if necessary, to have it live. The editors know that my “ widow’s mite ” has been ready at every call. I can wear an old dress any time instead of a new one, and feel that my spirit is more beautifully robed because I have paid for the WEEKLY. Now, dear readers, I have written these thoughts on the strength of that heading; but it don’t apply to me. and I do not intend it shall, and if it applies to thee, thou hadst better see that thy conscience is clear before thou sleepest . SADA BAILEY. Editors Weekly—As I am unable to reply to all letters ask- ing how I look at Mrs. Woodhull’s position on Jesus and the Bible,,I think you will generously permit a few lines more in the WEEKLY. I I. The Bible, including the plain and direct reported words of Jesus (see St. John vi, 47), with some parts of the Christian theology, clearly sustain Mrs. Woo.dhull‘s afﬁrmation, that the mission of Jesus was to save people from natural—from literal death. [J. H. Noyes has taught this over thirty years] Mrs. W’s idea that obedience to a higher sexual natural law abolishes death is new, so far as I now remember. If she can teach and persuade men to more fully obey nature’s best sexual laws, she will do great good. 2. I am positive that the Bible is in error on this point, and that Jesus was misreported or in error as to his own mission. I am sure physical death is as natural and as much a friend as our birth. If possible, it is more sure. Jesus told his disciples, and they believed, that in less than one hundred years he would return. Mr. Noyes insists that he did come back as he promised; I am as positive that there is no evidence of its fulfillment. Many things which they_ promised and looked for have not and are not to happen. Of some, the time has passed; others areagainst nature. I ask no space to argue these assertions. I desire ﬁrst to get Mrs. Woodhull’s full statements on these matters. Some. thirty years ago I was surprised to hear a very good man, of large intuitions and no study, say: “ He was not sure that such a man as Jesus Christ ever had a literal existence on our earth.” To-day I am not sure of it. It is not important. If Mrs. Vlfoodhull has I truth for us, the source from which it comes cannot lessen or add to its value. In this age truth must bear its own weight with no regard to authorlty. Time and experience will settle all points on which the best of men and women now differ. I am still reading Mrs. Wood- hull with care. AUSTIN KENT. P. S.~—During the eighteen years of my conﬁnement I have not suffered more at any time than for some weeks in the past three months. I am some better, but I ask the prayers of all friends that I may have an early, and, if possible, a less tedious exit from the body. A- K- NoTE.—-Some two or three years ago a good brother--a great medium—-was privately advertising a coming book, of most important sexual revelations. It was to cost ten dol- lars. This was cruel to the poor. I am quite sure it has never been printed. Mrs. Woodhull now tells you that inside of one year you shall be put in possession of the whole truth on this matter. The WEEKLY for that time will cost you_but three dollars. That is encouraging. Then let all who feel an interest in the matter try to sustain the WEEKLY. I confess to a desire to get all Mrs. W’. has on this subject. It may be very useful, and not result just as she thinks. Nor is it likely that wisdom will die with me. A. K- STocKHoLM, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1875. THE WOODHULL. M HER LECTURE AT THE ACADEMY LAsT NIGHT. The audience that assembled at the Academy of Music last night to ‘listen to Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull, gave her their {respectful attention all through the lecture, heartily ' applauding many of her sentiments, giving her the loudest applause when she concluded. The Woodhull is undoubtedly a most talented woman. She is a very ﬁnished, eloquent orator, and knows how to express her thoughts so as to carry them straight to the hearts of her hearers. Many of her audience doubtless went to hear her to gratify a DI‘l11‘le11i3 curiosity, and these were disappointed, for the lady uttered 7 nothing calculated to raise,‘_a blush on the checks of a pure- minded woman. She was imodestly attired in ‘black, and there was nothing in her appearance or manner suggestive of sensationalism of any sort. In beginning her speech she read a selection from the Scriptures, the sixteenth, seven- teenth, and nineteenth verses of the third chapter of ﬁrst Corinthians: _ “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the ....n‘-L.-..~..__:I&..;~\‘ A; -.~. V - : .. ' - : If , Ag. ‘~:.4‘*~F~"~ - , 193%’ \ Dec. 4, 1875. WOODHULL & (.)LAl§‘LIN’S—WEEK‘LY. , A I 3 spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple of God him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy whichytemple ye are. For the wisdom of this world is foolish- ness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.” The ﬁrst part of her address was devoted to a review of the progress of civilization, from the earliest ages down to the present_ time. Coming down to the present she inveighed againstlthe corrupt condition of society, and at this point introduced her peculiar views on the subject of reform_ What she ‘wanted was for society to mete out to the seducer the same treatment they gave his victim. “ If you go to any of your ﬁrst families in Pittsburgh to-day,” she said, -“you will ﬁnd a mother who will talk to you about her son, a gay young man, who has sown his wild oats, and is now going to marry a beautiful girl, and become a model husband. With whom has he sown his wild oats? V With some other woman’s daughter. And what is to become of her? Will she become a model wife and mother?” The speaker continued in this strain for some time. At another,place in her speech, de- ﬁning her position on the “socia1~evil”i question, she said: “I respect the woman who sells herself on the streets of Pittsburgh to-night, for a’ pittance, as highly as I do the woman who, surrounded by a retinue of bridesmaids, in some fashionable church, sells herself for life for one hun- dred thousand dollars.” I-Ier delivery was so earnest and impassioned that none but the evil—minded.could draw vul- gar inferences from her utterances. She claimed that one great reason for the great amount of criminality and insanity prevalent in the land, was the improper education of ‘chil- dren by their mothers and fathers. She spoke of a child innocently questioning his mother concerning the origin of - life and the falsehood it commonly gets in reply. Then the little child goes out on the streets and gets the facts from some foul-mouthed boy, and instantlyhe has vulgar thoughts on the subject and knows his mother has, on account of her false speaking to him. If that mother instead of answering the child falsely, had said “I carried you, my darling, close under my heart for a time, and then went down very near to death to bring you into the world, at the cost of a great deal of suffering to myself, and that’s why I love you so dearly, why I want you to be a pure and noble man’——would that boy respect his mother the less,” Mrs. Woodhull concluded " after such an explanation?” Parents do not gain the conﬁdence of their children in these matters, and the child grows up with these vulgar thoughts and ideas, which should never be connected with the sub- ject. The ’proper generation of mankind was a subject, she claimed. proper for discussion in the parlor, the pulpit and the platform. The concluding part of her lecture was devot- ed to a defense of herself from the assaults of her opponents. What she wantsis that society shall demand the same purity in man that it does in women, and then there will be no more divorce. ,The above gives only a few of the leading points of her lecture. She will appear at the Academy again to-night, to lecture on “ The Naked Truth,” when she will probably be greeted with another large audience.—_P'1Sttsburg (Pd) Leader, Oct. 16. TO PARKER PILLSBURY, ON HIS SIXTY—SIXTH BIRTHDAY. BY mas. BRIDGES. Sixty-six years in doing good To black and white, to bond and free! A soul from its grand habitude Weighing the past and yet to be. A. spirit, knowing naught of fear . Amid the wrecks of human life! Who, with supremely tranquil cheer A rescuer, walks the angry strife. , Prophetic is the far outlook Of such a soul, inspired as thine; Yet in its goodness, great to brook All weaker lives with grace divine. The statesman, scholar, and the friend From far, in bright and mete array, * Their lore and eloquence will blend, To celebrate your natal day. And humbler lives that you have blest, Will prophecy with grateful tears Honors of Truth’s supreme behest To crown your grandly Waning years. The “Noble Army/,” earth writes “ dead,” Apostle, martyr, saint and seer Who have been living just ahead Through many a long but vanished year; All recognize, as spirits can God”s “ new name ” on your shining brow; -» The regal, ripe and honest man ‘ This world has thus far failed to know. , Only the few yet understand;- And they may never ﬁtly tell How in your inspirations grand, The living Wisdom loves to dwell. Nor how their souls from yours have caught Life’s pure, sweet waters’ cooling ﬂow; Nor how, once to your presence brought, Thatpresence from them, ne’cr can go. And so we utter no adieu; No parting word is ours to tell; Lives, having once stood near to you, N Find no more need of a Farewell. VINELAND, N. J., Sept. 22, 1875. v A LADY called on her milliner the other day to get the character of her servant. The respectable appearance of the latter was beyond questioning. “ But is she honest?” asked the lady. “ I am not so certain about that,” replied the mil- liner; “I have sent her to you with my bill a dozen times, and she has never yet given me the money.” A GERMAN ON THE RAMHAGE. The Herald of Nov. 15 copies a statement from the Cincin- nati “I/7~z'e Presse,” that it is the intention of the Germans to capture this country next year at the centennial, and that when the preparations are all ready, the Crown Prince of Prussia will make his appearance with a ﬂeet,and effect the conquest_of the United States. For ourselves, we are far more afraid of Germanin our public schools than we are of Bismark and Moltke. COLDWATER, Mich., Nov. 14, 1875. Dear Weekly-Consistency is said to be a “jewel,” hence I have searched for it as for a“ pearl of great price_;” but, if I may be allowed aslang phrase, “I give it up.” After a somewhat extended experience, and much ob- servation, I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that “ liberality and toleration” are obsolete words that may as well be stricken from the English vocabulary. Almost every one, even among the most eloquent advocates of “freedom,” seems tethered to his own post, and woe to him whose chain has more links than his neighbor’s. ‘ I had fondly hoped that those who had suﬂicient moral back bone to openly declare their faith in the saving efficacy of “social freedom,” in the face of the jeers and contempt and social ostracism of those who had never taken pains to inform themselves of the doctrines we advocate, would, at least, have the good sense and the consistency to tolerate those who have discovered still higher truths in the pathway of progressive development. I But like all who have gone before them, they, too, fancy they have reached the topmost round, and so kick down the ladder and hold in derision those who believe there is more and better things in the storehouse of Inﬁnite Wisdom yet to be revealed. I confess to no little disgust at the flippant and contemptuous remarks so often made in regard to the “new departure,” as it is termed, and the Biblical exegesis given in the editorial columns of the WEEKLY. Men and women who have bitterly complained, and not unjustly, of the narrowness and bigotry of professed re- formers who have “ dealt damnation round the land” upon all who did not see through their spectacles and moralize with their consciences; now, in turn, with equal illiberality, berate Mrs. Woodhull, because she sees, or thinks she sees, divine truth in a book which they have utterly repudiated. A few days ago I met a, much valued friend, who has long been a theoretical social freedomite, who, after two unfortu- nate and unhappy marriages, in the face of his own expe- rience, in the teeth of his own theories, and the kindly warnings of his friends, a third time staked his all on the turbid sea of matrimony—with what results I will hot here venture an opinion—who gravely inquired, if, in my judg- ment, “Mrs. Woodhull had anything more to do in this world?” , , My deliberate opinion is, that until there is more, charity for those who differ from us, more toleration of views which mayieven seem absurd and fanatical, there is work for the true reformer, and the VVEEKLY cannot, MUST NOT be allowed to cease its ministraticns of truth ‘to such as are ready to perish. Until there is a clearer apprehension of the meaning of the word “freedom,” the prophets of the Most High must continue to stand upon the outer parapets of our earthly Zion, lifting up the voice of entreaty and supplication to such as may be saved from the arrogance and bigotry of the age. D. M. ALLEN. ..1.._.._..... THE LEAVEN WORKING. J ANESVILLE, Nov. 18, 1875. Dear Weekly»-A noted Methodist preacher recently came a hundred miles to talk with me about your “new depar- ture.” I leaned him some of my Weeklies on the promise that he would read the leading articles and write me what he thought of them (he had never before seen the WEEKLY) and here is his answer: ‘ . “I do not remember to have read anything that awakened so much mental reflection or opened to my mind so many new ,cha.rmels of thought as those leading articles have done. “ Truly, we are living in a glorious progressive age——an age in which science and the arts are marching onward with gi- gantic strides toward perfection, and the soul of man created I as it is on the principle of eternal progression, is constantly panting for deeper fountainsof enjoyment,.wider ﬁelds of knowledge, and greater heights of glory, and if this be true, who, I ask,.but an Inﬁnite Being can prove ‘an all-sufﬁcient This to ime, coming as it did from a Methodistminister, sounds well. One item of news: our State has just voted to amend the Constitution so as to allow women to vote and hold office in school districts. It is reported that every county but one gave a large majority in its favor. Is not this astep in the right direction? I am very much in hopes that V. C. W. will come this way this winter. Myself, with many other friends, want so much to see and hear her. .3, VV_ H, UNION, CIVIL AND CONJUGAL. The undersigned, this second day of November,~A. D.1875, enter into a business partnership, under the name of Miller 85 Strickland, on the following conditions, to wit: That all -earnings and profits arising from our individual or joint la- bors. whether in departments of literature, art, mechanics, agriculture, or trade, shall be shared and held equally. Believing that the divine principle of love, drawing to- gether two kindred souls, is the only binding law in the con- jugal union of the sexes, and the only law making right such intimate relations, we are also happy to confess toeach other, to God and his angels, and to all the world, the existence of a mutual affection Known by that name; and we deliberately portion for our common humanity.” » j‘o’iI1"h’eart and hand in this most sacred of unions, hoping and praying that the tie that binds us may last through life, and survive the grave. . Should this union be blessed by offspring we jointly and severally pledge ourselves, our assigns and administrators, to foster and support them during the dependent years of their infancy and youth, supplying their physical wants and rearing them in the principlesof virtue and knowledge to the best of our,'ability and judgment. ‘ This simple form of conjugal union we are constrained to adopt from the deepest conscientious convictions of right and duty; and we sincerely regret that condition of society which, if we would be true to ourselves, makes it necessary for us to oppose the opinions of a majority of our fellow crea- tures——-disregarcling the laws and customs which they assume to make for the control of an affection between the sexes, which we believe is, and of divine right ought to be, free. (Signed) LEO MILLER, (Signed) MATTIE STRIGKLAND. CHICAGO, 111., November 2, 1875. THE PRICE .OF‘MILITARY eLoRY. From “M§7*oz‘la the Magian.” The Emblem of Glory, in shape a beautiful female, armed and veiled, to Alcibiades, the Grecian. ‘ Youth! If thou wouldst seek my smile, Let nought else thy steps beguile; Love nor fear thy steps mislead, lf, from me, thou’dst earn the mced. Seek not, scorn the lust of pelf, Thou must love me for myself; Meaner passions yield to me lf my beauty thou wouldst see; I, to thee, must be divine, If thou’dst worship at my shrine. ‘ Fear not thou to seek me when I am hid from meaner men. In war’s ﬁerce and stormy blaze, Oft my glittering veil I raise; In the battle’s brunt thou’lt ﬂnd To my lover I am kind; v In the carcase-crowded breach Clasp my form—’tis in thy reach; Plant thy standard in the gap, I am wooed in Danger’s lap. —.l’erils oft, by land and sea, Wait on those who follow me; Heed them not, but forward press, Think what prize thine arms will bless; Famine gaunt may guard the door, Wasting plague and tortures sore Wait thee on thy rapid race Speeding to my fond embrace; Death may threaten—scorn his power If thoukist earn my matchless do ever; When thy brilliant course is run, What is Life, if I am won ? “THOU SHALT LOVE THY N EIGHBOR AS THYSELF.” SOUTH EXETER, Me., Nov. '4”, 1875. Dear Friends of the Weeldgz/~Loving our neighbor on paper is very cheap, and costs but little. Only about four cents and a few minutes time. But those who really and truly in word and deed love their neighbor as themselves love them in deeds. I think my subscription does not expire till the last day of this year. I But our brave standard bearer has made “ an appeal,” and , now who will respond. I would very much like to know how many letters are on their way now ﬁlled with ‘_‘ the sinews of war.” 0 that I could express my feelings. The‘ VVIJEKLY, the paper that brings us “the bread of life” every week, the very thoughts of which ﬁll us with joy unspeak- A able, must such a paper make an appeal for aid! 0, dear friends of truth and good will to man and woman_ every- I where, can we see such apaper go downfor the want of help? Who will make a sacriﬁce of some darling object, and send that sacriﬁce to aid the paper which, to some of us, is “ the I chief among ten thousand and the one altogether lovely” ?' Who will buy fewer silks and less satins, trimmings and ﬂounces, and pay more for the greatest educator in the world? I Who will bless their children and children’s children, by keeping this most important of all other papers before them? Who will throw away their cigars or whiskey and take the money to aid thebrave WEEKLY ? Who will buy a little less costly coat, a little less fashionable hat, that our noble pioneer may never be compelled to make another “ appeal” for aid. . l inclose $5 00 for the WEEKLY for, 1876. Yours, for a practical love of my neighbor as myself. I v ' SEWARD MITCHELL. v Woodhull and Claﬁiws Weekly: . Having noticed in the last WEEKLY an offer from a lady to those who are unable to take the paper, I bonsider ita noble and generous act on the part of the lady, and hope that the money so invested may reward the donor in bring- ing many souls from darkness to light. 1 will send in my name as one who is unable to pay for the paper, although I should be much happier were it in my power to be the giver instead of the recipient. The WEEKLY is all the spiritual food in the world of whichI am permitted to taste, and then I have to borrow it. I am an invalid,my mother is blind, my father almost helpless,§and I their sole dependence at ~ home. dens of life were it not for the sustaining truths which I glean from the WEEKLY. Sometimesit is so long before I can get hold of a copy that I feel almost ready to devour‘ its contents so starved for the bread of life do I become. Per- I Fear I should sink under the accumulated ‘bur- - haps ere this »reacnes\you the money will all be used up, if so, I, and any are more’n‘eedvy, I shall be glad they have received it, and will bless -the heart that prompted“ the deed of glove - for humanity. /1313: H.A..isNi:aA.L,- Qjswego 00., N. Y, ' 4 l _ . ‘ woonuunmue oLAFLIN's WEEKLY TERMS OF SUBS(lRlPTION. 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I All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull "&" C'laitin’s Weekly, P. O. Box, 3791, N. Y. 0ﬁice.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. é ?ElV If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see death.-—-Jesus. . I To him that ooercometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manna.-—St. John the Divine. ' That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.-——Paul. ’ y The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.———James, iii., l 7. And these signs shall follow them: In my name shall th-y cast out devils; they shall take up 86’)'j9G72l8,' and they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall rocover.—~Jesus. ‘ “‘ - ‘ "N . NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC. 4., 1875. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of, the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention , of those whom theycan 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 ; '0R,‘TH_E SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.»-Sr. MATTHEW. ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which -the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants 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 -- accident. SPIRITUALISM ; rrs CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. (No. II.) In our previous article we attempted to show the cause for the decline of interest in Spiritualism among the masses, as exhibited in the failure to sustain its journals and meetings as the journals and meetings of a great humanitarian move- ment ought to be sustained. Vile attributed this failure to the position which those journals, and those who have at- tempted to‘ control, and, to a great extent, have controlled .the meetings and local organizations’, have assumed toward - the social question. This question is, more than any other question, intimately related, as we also showed, to the ﬁrstz steps to Spiritualism. Treating as it does of the physical con- dition ‘of the people, it is the key-note to all manifestations. It would be no more foolish to ignore the instrument through which sweet music is expected than it is to ignore the physical condition of the people whose happiness, it is held, would be promoted by being mediumistic, and capable of being acted upon and used by spirits as channels for communications. Going still further back, to the making of the instrument, it is no less foolish to ignore the material and method of constructing and circumstances and con- ditions of construction of the instruments whom the spirits are expected to use than it would be to ignore the same things in the production of musical instruments. It is a well-known fact that an instrument made from silver, will produce quite a diﬁdrent tone from one made of brass, though of precisely the same form. The same is no less true of ﬂesh. “ Silver” ﬂesh and “brass” ﬂesh make mediums who will produce very different Spiritual music. Moreover, it is a commonly attested fact, stated by spirits themselves through the best mediums, that, in some cases, efforts extending through severa.l‘generations were put forth to produce persons possessing certain capacities that were required by the spirits with which to do certain works, and that these efforts were applied t6 the parents of the desired children. ‘ A John Brown or a Margaret Fuller is not amere They were “ raised up of God,” precisely as de- clared in the Bible, to do a certain work, and the same is true of all those who make decided impressions on the world in any way. . 4 The discussion and understanding of the relations of the sexes in those departments which relate to reproduction are, then, the mostgimportant of all things germane to spirit- ualism ; and they who place themselves in the way to hin- der them, or to make it more difficult for those who are en- gaged in them, from performing their tasks, are enemies to the real interests of spiritualism. Instead of tabooing the most intimate and sacred of all relations, they should put forth every effort to have them more thoroughly compre- hended. There should be no fact connected with these re- lations that should not be analyzed and its laws discovered, taught and reduced to practice. Instead of this being a vul- gar thing to do, it demonstrates that/those who think it vul- gar are themselves the vulgar things. “As a man thinketh, so he is,” is as true today as it ever was, and it always was and will be true. Thinking that the sexualquestion is a vulgar one does not make it so. It only makes it evident that there are people who make a vulgar use of the most divine and, what ought to be, the most sacred of all the facts of life. It is not a vulgar thing to discuss the laws and facts by which an immortal soul is created; it is not vulgar to talk about and understand who are proper and who improper people to reproduce themselves; it is not vulgar fortwo people contemplating a union of the sexes, to discuss whether they can produce good children; it is not vulgar for the sexes to converse upon and study anatomically, all parts of the reproductive system, nor to understand every process by which the life- forces mingle, in the most holy of all creative acts, to form another life; it is not yulgar for _the daughter to be taught the mmutest details about the wondrous powers that are being developed in her, making her God’s own creative representative; making her the tabernacle; the holy temple, in which He performs His highest creative purposes. No! a thousand times No! and let the negative be repeated, at least -by every woman, until it shall come to be known ity and the indecency lie in their being ignored by the peo- ple who go on producing their kind in utter ignorance and thoughtlessness. The people who do this are the true repre- sentatives of vulgarity. ‘ We never speak of these things without remembering’ vividly, a circumstance related to us some years ago by the female attendant at one of the museums of anatomy, where there were Wax ﬁgures of women in all stages of gestation, from the moment of conception to the full time of gesta- tion. She said: ‘ “ One day there came into the rooms a woman having with her two ‘children, a boy-and a girl, whom I afterward learned were twins, about eight or nine years of age. She’ came straight to me and desired to beshown the ﬁgure of a female with twins at about the full ...gestative period. I showed her directly to such an one, she taking no notice of any other ﬁgures. On arriving at the ﬁgure, she said: ‘My darlings, you see those little babes folded in each others armsrin the body of this ﬁgure. " It was like that that I car- ried you in my body. You were made just as you see‘ those ﬁgures, and I suffered intensely to bring you into the world. that none of these things, nor all of them combined, con- tain any of the elements, of vulgarity. But that the vulgar- \ Dec. 4, 1875. Now don’t you see why, as I have often told you, you should love each other so much, and neveribe angry and quarrel? I brought you here to show you this, because you could learn how you were made better by seeing than by my descgibing it to you.’ ” “ix My informant continued, “ Until that moment I never really comprehended what it was to be a. great, a grand and a really virtuous mother. I retired to another part of the room and wiped the tears from my eyes I could not restrain from shedding as I Wondered what a change would come over the people if every mother would teach her children as this mother- was teaching hers.-” And such mothers as this one was, and such as those who are endeavoring to make all mothers do the same, are those upon whom Emma Hardinge Britten and others of her class cast slime to gain the plaudits of the Liberal (?) clubs. Time will show who are the vulgar ones'—-those who devote their lives to bringing woman to a. realizing sense of her duties and responsibilities, or those who attempt to cover them with the ﬁlth and feculence of sexual debauchery because, forsooth, they dare to talk before the public and in the columns of the press of the proper modes of genera- tion, and believe t hat women may be virtuous without the aid of laws to make them so. It is such Spiritualists and such Reformers as these who stand barring the pathway over which, in spite of them, thank heaven, the spirit world and this are soon to be united. Woe be to those who shall persist in staudingin the way until the movement shallbeging ————-————4+—o—+o-»——————— LIP CHRISTIANITY. When John sent messengers to Jesus toinquire whether he was the prophesied of Messiah, the Nazarene answered; “ Go and shew John again those things which ‘ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, andthe lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.” Here are ﬁne doings to one preaching, and the latterlimited to the poor, who had then and have now most reason to rejoice in a faith which required poverty, as in the case of the rich young man, as a ticket of admission to its church. If Messrs. Moody and Sankcy mean work, the whole struc- ture of our industrial system needs revolutionizing in order to make it consistent with the demands of Judaism much less Christianity. If the mouths of the millions of workers who produce the wealth of our community are not muzzled, they are likely to have little or nothing to put into them this winter, which amounts to the same thing ; and Moses says : “ Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.” Again, corporations, cities, and even States, not unfrequently‘ now virtually rob the poor by withholding for months the scanty remuneration awarded by their Op- pressors for their services. The Bible says, in two instances : “ The wages of him that is hired shall not remain with thee till the morning.” It is the same with ﬁnancial reform. The base of our present infamous money system is the legalization of usury, which Moses utterly condemned in three separate sets of laws. While these oppressions exist, religion that fails to rebuke themﬂcannot be pure, and there- fore for a text on religious reform we oﬁer the following ' from Isaiah : "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear : your hands are full of blood.” We can hardly expect the Evangelists to understand the real sexual and social purity that is demanded by the advocates of social reform; but if legal marriage, with its villainous discriminations against woman, is not needed in Heaven we see no reason that it should be permitted on earth, and there- fore submit the following statement of Jesus for elucidation upon that subject: “For, when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels which are in Heaven.” All these lead to “ doings” which would improve the present state of humanity. They exhibit ancient Judaism and ancient Christianity ; as to modern Christianity, that appears to con- sist in nothing but roaring “Come to Jesus” and singing “ Hold the Fort !” I --————-—-¢o~¢»o>—————-——- THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL. There seems to be a great error in the minds of some of our readers asrevinced in the numerous communications regarding the recent editorial course of the WEEKLY. They seem to think that we are wedded to the literal language of the Bible, and are desirous of making “this ” text tally with the meaning of “that” one. Now, there can be but one certain method of arriving at the common meaning of any or all of the ﬁgurative language of the Bible. If it be ﬁgura- tive ; if it be an allegory ; if it have a hidden meaning ; if it have a veil over it, as St. Paul said, when it is read, before any one can know anything at all about it, certainly he must know what the fact is for which the ﬁgures and allegories stand representative. If it’ be admitted that the Bible is a divinely or a spiritually inspired book, having a common truth at the bottom of its varied language, then it must be also admitted that everything that is contained in it relates to this common truth, and that its several different parts are but different parts of the same truth; that is to-say, if‘, Moses, in his description of the Garden of Eden, meant a certain fact which he typiﬁed by the tree of life standing in the midst of the garden, then whoever else speaks of the / s‘ 5 ‘in the Bible is a Dec. 4, 1875. s woonnunr. & CLAFIiIN’8 WEEKLY. 45 tree of life, or the tree in the midst of the garden, must refer to the same fact or truth to which Moses referred, or else there is no unity in the Bible. - Or again, if when the prophet asked of the Jews, Where were their fathers, and replied, Are they not dea.d? meant that they were physically and not spiritually dead ; then the death of the Bible means physical death, or the death of the body, and it was this death that Paul_declarcd “shall be : destroyed;” and consequently also, that when Jesus spoke ' of not dying,,not tasting of death, shall never see death, he meant the same death that all the others meant when it they used that word. There is a peculiar signiﬁcance about the language that Jesus used when speaking of this death. He taught generally in parables; but when he said, “ Verity, verily, I say unto you,” he meant just what his language indicated, and in speaking of theifact of death being over. come, he always prefaced his words byyerily, verily. We have no desire or intention to be drawn into any dis- cussions of what may be the meaning of this or that language of the Bible, as compared with, or tested by, any other similar, or supposed to be similar, language. Proving any- thing in the Bible by its contexts or relations to that with which it stands connected is no proof at all. At many places in the Bible there are bold txruths interjected in language that seemingly relates to what the words ought to mean with their surroundings, while the real truth is that its meaning has no relation whatever to anything standing near it, it having been thus interjected to preserve its symbols. Many read passages in the Bible, and refer to other passages which have been set down by the translators and commentators as referring to the same things, and argue upon the basis of the judgments of those who marked the passages as being related. We repeat again that, to interpret the Bible in this way, is to not arrive at any correct understanding about it. Before an allegory can be interpreted, the fact upon which the allegory is based, the subject of the picture, as it were, must be found and comprehended, for if a certain thing be known to mean a certain fact, then the allegorical effect of the language is destroyed, and the allegory becomes a fact to those who understand it. Again we wish, if we can, to impress our readers with a right idea of truth, and to show them that to say that the truth will make one free or save one, amounts to nothing. Anybody, aye, everybody might say that and repeat the saying, all their lives long, and still be in bondage and un- saved. We know that the truth about health will guarantee it if it be lived, but the statement of that fact will lead no nearer to the guarantee. What is required to be known is, What is the truth, and how shall it be used? No truth ever yet did any good until it was known and reduced to prac- tice. A statement that there is a truth about any given phase of life, is like a mechanical idea born into the brain, but not yet outwrought in form. So long as it remains in the mind, so long as it is not externalized, it is incompetent ‘ for good. Nor is religious truth different from any mechan- ical truth? All this talk about coming to Jesus and cast- ing your burden upon the Lord is the purest nonsense; it is simply religious monomania. What the people want is to ‘be shown how to get to Jesus, and what it is to be at one with him. Practically, revivalists might just as well sub— stitute the moon for Jesus, and harrangue the people into the idea that by mere volition of the will they can go to the moon and be saved by the idea rather than the act of going, as to make them think the same about Jesus. If the exhorters instead of exhorting the people to go, would set themselves about to show them how to get there, ﬁrst getting there themselves, andproving it by the “signs,” then they would begin to do some practical good in the world. All the Apostles declare most emphatically that “ Faith without works is dead;” and so is all of this talk about the truth, dead, unless a showing be made of what is the truth. Then, the way to interpret the Bible properly is to ﬁnd out what it means when salvation is spoken about; is to ﬁnd wh.at it is to be saved, and what the salvation is that Jesus came to bring to the world; in a word, what is the truth? If this central, pivotal fact were known, then it would be easy to give a correct interpretation to any given passage of the Bible; since, let the ﬁgure be ever so ob- scure, or the allegory ever so cabalisticallyclothcd upon, it can refer but to the one central fact—the truth. Now, did it ever occur to anybody‘ who is attempting, or who has attempted, to interpret the Bible, that the truth is not in the Bible at all; that the truth is outside of the Bible——- in the world; in men and women, and that what is mere statement of that truth _..an allegory, a ﬁgure, a pen-and-ink sketch? Just look at the fact for a moment. The Bible is merely a book containing words. Now, words are arbitrary things and have signiﬁcance and meaning only as they are given to them by custom and usage. Hence, no matter if the Bible‘ be. the absolute word of God, as it is claimed by some to be, it is, after all, only a statement of the truth, and not the truth itself, which must be obtained before it can be of practical " beneﬁt. But to show what we mean by some other fact. A given aﬁirmative law, for instance, means nothing until it is ex- empliﬁed or outwrought by action, through physical form. Words cannot contain more than a picture of something—- cannot be the thing itself. Nobody seeing a painting of a landscape, would pretend to say that the painting is the land- scape; but the same people who would not commit this absurdity, commit an equally great absurdity when they say or think that V“ the truth” is contained in the ‘Bible. The fact is that the truth is outside of the book, in nature, that within the bookibeing merely its verbal statement, and some one has got to ﬁnd that truth, and then the picture of it which is in the book can be interpreted and understood, and not before. The great value of the Bible, then, consists in this: It is the preserver of a picture of the truth about life, which long since ceased to have existence in the external form of man. ' , Now here is the great mistake that all.Christendom has made. In their blind reverence for the Bible, they have overlooked the truth about which the Bible treats, merely. ' They have worshiped the picture, the allegory, the ﬁgure, leaving the truth itself unnoticed in the heart, soul and body of mankind itself. They have, as it were, hung up in their houses, and in their churches, ‘the painted picture of Christ and worshiped that, forgetting that Christ is a living reality to be attained by everybody, before he or she can ﬁnd the salvation that he came to bring to the earth. And just here is where we differ from all others who have attempted to interpret the Bible. We are not attempting to show what the truth is by the language of the Bible, but we are endeavoring to show’ what the truth is, and that the Bible is a correct statement of, but standing secondaryto, it. We have discovered or been shown what it is to be saved; what it is not to die; what it ‘is to destroy death;\wha’t it is to eat of the fruit of the tree, and drink of the water of the river of life, so that there “ shall be no more death; neither sorrow nor crying, neither any more pain.” All these are physical facts; truths in nature; truths to be outwrought in form, of all of whichthe language of the Bible is a mere statement in words, or a pen picture of no more practical value to the race, when disconnected from the truth for which it stands, than a painting of a basket of fruit would be of practical value to the-starving man. If a man be going to die, the Bible cannot save him. If he wish to escape death he has got to do the physical. thing that will enable. him to escape. Now we have stated, as clearly as it can be stated in words, that the great ﬁrst cause of death, is the two varieties of waste, which the sexes suffer in their most intimate relations; in one sex having become chronically and constitutionally hereditary, and in the other so strongly ﬁxed and transmitted by the force of habit as to have become next to incurable. -Now, the truth which is to bring salvation to mankind is the outworking in man of what is set forth allegorically in the Bible, by which these wastes are to be utilized and transformed into recu- erative power, and no longer thrown away. But at this point the question will arise, What is this truth of which you merely give the statement? If it has been shown why can- not it be imparted? In Masonic language we might reply, ,‘As we did not so receive it neither can we so impart it.” Besides, if we were to rely merely upon the statement of the truth, we should stand in the same relation to those to whom the statement should be made as that in which the Bible stands to the Christian world. It would be a state- ment of the truth merely, and if received at all would be received asa matterof faith and upon a belief that we had. stated the truth. When it shall please Him ‘-‘ who ruleth among the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth” to show the truth; when by the culmination of the great law of progressive enfoldment, there shall come two beings before tne world who shall exemplify this truth, who shall be living embodiments of it; who shall have been saved and shall have the signs of belief laid down by Jesus, follow them; then it will not have to be received on faith or by allegorical representation, since what one sees and knows is no longer a matter of faith or of skepticism. This much, however, we can say: The servants of God in spirit life, through whom this truthis’ to be revealed, declare that “the time of the end” is at hand, and that within a given period ‘_' it ” shall be ﬁnislied by the marriage of “the Bride and the Lamb,” “the Lamb” becoming the ﬁrst evi, dence of the resurrection from the dead, or the second coming of Christ; and the Bride being the ﬁrst realization of the conquest of death in the person of the living; and they together, being the living proof that the spirit world and this have begun to unite, to be no more wholly sun- dered again forever. . —--------co-0-om , From the N. Y. Sun. A MILLIONAIRE’S ERRATIC LIFE. ‘The cross-examination of Mrs. Mary Ann Foster was re- sumed yesterday before Surrogate Ooiﬁn. She» testiﬁed that after a long courtship Singer gave her a document pur- porting to be a copy of a divorce from his wife, but that he refused to marry her, saying that if he did so she would have him in her power. The ceremony was not performed, and‘ she lived with Singer as his wife for twenty-ﬁve years. Mrs. Foster identiﬁed a document that was shown as the complaint made by her against Mr. -Singer in 1861. It con- tained a long listgof Singer’s inﬁdelities, and charged that about a year prior to his arrest, in her residence in Fifth avenue, her husband beat her almost to death, assigning as a reason therefor that she had placed in her bedroom a box of matches without a cover, and that when her oldest daughter, Vouletta, -then a woman grown, remonstrated with him he also beat her, so that they both lay insensible together for many hours, and her husband, becoming alarmed, was obliged to call in two physicians. Edward De Logue was employed by Isaac M. Singcras watchman in 1859. He used to drive the millionaire out everyday, sometimes with the contestant and their children, and frequently with other women. Somelof the latter he used to take into the carriage at street corners, and others he called for at their houses. On such occasions he-rarely drove along Fifth avenue, but frequented Seventh and Eighth avenues. The women at whose houses he called he always took back to their homes, and the others he left, as he met them, at street corners. J T T REMARKS.‘ , What a story does this tell of modern society! How many million and lesser“aires” do the same thingthat Singer did? Ask the hack-drivers, the hotel-keepers, especially of the " suburbs,” and if they tell the truth as they know it, their story would confound the world, and skake the rotten institution of enforced legal marriage to its bottom, foundation. “ Used to drive him out frequently with other women, seine of whom he used to take in at the street corners, and drive in Seventh or Eighth. avenues instead of Fifth, and he dropped these same women at the corners of’ the streets.” ‘ Multiply Mr. Singer by almost the whole number of men of his age who are able to do so, and pretty nearly a. competent idea may be obtained about the extent of the sanctity of marriage; and it is this class of men and women who decry social freedom. Of course, they are , not free-lovers. ,They are unworthy the name. Genuine free. lovers are not ashamed of the company they keep, nor do they pick up or set down their companions at the corners ‘ of the streets. To what a hot bed of hppocritical lust do these facts point! Some months ago we were talking with a very prominent, influential, and highly respected phy- sician, of one of the largest cities in the country, about this condition in marriage. He acknowledged that it was frightful to contemplate. With all his knowledge of it, however, he said that a few days before he had beensurprised. A mid- dle-aged, unmarried friend and he were talking ofthe ‘same subject, the friend remarking that the deception and hypocri- sy among married women was really alarming. “Why,” said he, “I have twenty-one appointments with married women myself to-day.” The doctor indicated his want of belief in the assertion. “ Come with me in my carriage, and I will prove to you that what I say is true.” He did so, and when the calling began was instructed to watch such and such windows. This he also did, and at nineteen out of the twenty-one saw his friend at the win- dow indicated in such change in his apparel as to no longer admit of doubt that what he had told him was true. Nor is this case exceptional in fact, although it undoubt- edly is in extent. The whole of society is powderposted with just such hypocritical living as this plainly indicates. Is it to be wondered at that this class are horror-stricken at. the growth of the idea that condemns" such rottenness as this? Is it to be wondered at that those who would expose this rottenness, so that a healthier condition may take its place, are called by all the vil-e names that the language contains? To the women and.-the men who form this class, marriage is a cover behind which they hide their physical and moral deformities. In freedom all this would be changed, and every one would stand before the community clothed with _ a reputation woven out of his own inner character. So it appears, when we get at these new hidden-away facts, that it is marriage and not its abolition that is a license for sexual debauchery; nor can the sticklers for “the divinity of things as tl1ey_are,”and for “ the sanctity of the marriage relation” get away from it. Indeed, it will soon come to be, that those who cry out against personal honor in free- dom as the safeguard of virtue, will be asked, “What have you been doing that you want to hide 1?” that as Victor Hugo says: you “ are taking to cover” on this point. Nor can this come too soon for-the good of the race. VULeAnirY.—To us there is nothing more vulgar than a large display of jewelry. Some women, calling themselves ladies, wear no less than a dozen rings on both hands, he- sides bracelets on their wrists (and ankles too for aught we know), and other outlandish things suspended from their ears. These last would laugh a woman of some other country, who wears a ring in her nose, to scorn; but we would like to ask what is there in the dilference between the ears and the nose that should make wearing of jewelry in the one proper, and in the other improper or unwomanly? We never see a woman with her ungloved hand but we sigh, A Poor woman ! How unfortunate that you lack so much in value within that, to cover up the deﬁciency, you have to adorn yourself so much without. But many are not satis- ﬁed with the wearing merely. They are only content when that wearing is made manifest. Thousands’ of ladies ('9) on seating‘ themselves in the cars or other public places, un- glove the hand that wears the diamonds, and if they sit where the strong light can strike them, they engage in ﬂashing their ﬁre in the faces of the company to let them know that . they have “them of the ﬁrst water.” Rest assured that a woman who can do this is vulgar at heart, and has not sense enough in her head to balancethe outside show that she makes, and that she strives to make up in display what she lacks in merit. and virtue. There are some rare women whoiwear jewels and are utterly unconscious of them, and never think of them as a matter of display, but simply as of taste. On such women everything is always in taste, and whatever , , they may wear is always in perfect keeping with their share ‘invited to the feast.’ 6 j , WOODHUIIL & .CL.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. .« Dec. 4, 1875 actors. A beautiful woman who is unconscious of her beauty is a hundred times more potent than another who constantly ﬂaunts her charms. Vanity is all one and the same in character, whether it relates to dress or to form or feature. The person of a beautiful spirit and mind is always beautiful, while one who is merely beautiful without, may sometimes be fiendish both externally and internally. These are some of the distinctions between the natural and the artificial——the beautiful and the vulgar——in character and in dress. 41.,‘ ..§ ‘cg w my “ BY THEIR FRUITS, ETC.” ’ I [From the Spiritualist at Work] “ Abusive language on the platform or in the press is not freedom, but the worst kind of tyranny. 'Pio Nino never breathed forth a more outrageous order than that uttered in the call of the secretary of the Minnesota State Annual Con- vention of Spiritualists, viz., ‘VVc say to any and all those tinctured with the doctrine of social freedom, you are not And behold, out of near one thousand members belonging to the State organization in Minnesota, thirty—eight answered the call, and seventeen of these left ; twenty—one pure spiritualists remained! “ This reminds us of a call on the Lecture Bureau from a society of Christian young men out West: “ Send us a ﬁrst- class lecturer, one who is not tinctured with Spiritualism or Woman’s Rights, and none other.’ The answer came, ‘We can send you a ——— fool ; all others are tinctured.’ ” REMARKS. I E. V. W. has evidently begun to make his paper work in real earnest. He foresees the signs of the times and inter- prets them correctly. In another portion of the same‘ ar- ticle, from which the above is extracted, he says, in sub- .stance: “ But here comes Vloodhull into Chicago and packs 1/£cCormick’s Hall, while he (Wilson) ﬁlls Grow’s Opera House at 25 cents a head.” He might have made the com- parison more pointed still had he added to the packing of fMcCormick’s Hall the fact that more than one-half of the audience paid 75 cents, and the remainder 50 cents. Let the ones upon whom he calls show their strength and see if they can pack any hall with a free lecture, or anything else. As Wilson justly concludes, this tells the story as to what the people want-5000 in McCormick’s Hall to hear discussed A the very things against which poor Jones has been butting his head for three years. Is it any wonder that he has but little brains left.” ._44LA Vrwr “ THE POOR SHALL HAVE THE GOSPEL,” «Ste. ‘ We call the attention of our readers to the fact that there are thousands in this country, situated as is the writer of the communication on 3d page, to ask them if it is not a hu- manitarian duty for those who can, to see that such needy ones are fed; aye, if it is not a thing that ought, to give more satisfaction to the soul to do, than aught else that can be done? I M %~f “ I derideand tread underjfoot the whole doctrine of Orien- talism in regard to woman. I accept with growing faith and conﬁdence the great Western doctrine, the occidental truths, that men andlwomeu are, while not alike, equal, and that there is no perfect man until he has his companion in woman, and no perfect woman who has not her companion in man‘, and no perfect family that has not over all this one head, made one from two, and that that which is true of the household will be true, ultimately, of human society. ” While Mr. Beecher preaches such basic truths as these from Plymouth pulpit, we can afford to endure uncom- ‘plainingly the slurs which he attempts to cast upon the advocates of the only truths that can make one from two in the household and one from many in the larger house- hold of the human family. It was very proper that Mr. Beecher, in connection with these sentiments, should com- pliment Lucy Stone, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Howe. It is these women who “follow in the footsteps of such men ' as Henry Ward Beecher,” as they declared three years ago. It was quite proper that Mr. Beecher should publicly recog- nize their merits and virtues after -their very ﬂattering ad- miration of his own, and their declaration that they will follow in his footsteps. Mutual admiration societies may have an immense task before them yet before they will be beyond the necessity of “bearing each ot.her’s burdens,” as commanded in the scriptures. A ————-—-——¢o«>ob---—--——— TEE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis C. Claftin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll engagements in various parts of the country as their regular trip shall bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon the following subjects: a The Mystery of the Sealed Book. , God, Christ, Devil. The Garden of Eden. The Two Worlds. - "Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. . Christian Communism. _ The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. The first seven. of. these subjects form. a regular course, and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole groundsjof the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. W'oodhull will speak in Meadville, Pa., Nov. 26; Erie, Pa., Nov. 27; Corry, Pa., Nov. 29; Linesville, Pa., Nov. 30; Batavia, N. Y._,».IJec. 1; Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 2; Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 3; Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 4; Buffalo (Sunday), Dec. _ 5; Little Falls, N. Y., Dec. 6; and probably Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 7; Pittsﬁeld, Mass, Dec. 8; Westﬁeld, Mass, Dec. 9; Holyoke, Mass, Dec. 10; Springﬁeld, Mass., Dec. 11. If any change in dates is made it will be announced in the local papers. ' CONTRIBUTIONS TO Erin WEEKLY FOR TWO wEEKs ENDING NOV. 20. Cora A. Syme‘, Brooklyn, N. Y, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $50 00 J as. H. Haslett, Port Huron, Mich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40 U0 A Friend, Brooklyn, N.Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 00 C. T. Lrosby, Chicago, 1l1s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15 00 Mrs. A. L. Woody, Eaton, O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 00 John P. Lennert, ’l‘erre Haute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 00 Mrs. Hannah Kinsman, Eaton, 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 00 B. A. 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M15755 Out of this there have been appropriated 18 six months’ subscrip- tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27 00 Subject to appropriation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 158 00 We republish the names of last week on account of sev- eral errors contained in them. -434 uﬁwgy V MRS. VVOODHULL IN THE FIELD. [From the Daily Enquirer, Tuesclay,fNov. 9, -1875.] vroronrs o. wooDHULL. Mrs. Woodhull delivered her second lecture last night to about eighteen hundred persons assembled in Robinson’s Opera House. Although her audience was not so large as it was Saturday night, its tone was really good, there being many ladies present. Three of the proscenium boxes were occupied by families. The appearance of the stage was the same as it was Saturday night, and the lecturer was dressed exactly as she was then. There is nothing ﬂashy in this wo- mau’s attire; on the contrary, her dress is exceedingly plain, though neat. Not a piece of jewelry is visible anywheye on her person, not even a ring, and a black guard does service in holding an invisible watch safe in her possession instead of a gold chain. But a woman with the ﬁne ﬁgure and graceful manner of Mrs. Woodhull needs not the aid of fine clothes and glittering jewelry to show them off to advantage. [The Mommy Cotmer, Chicago, Oct. 16, 1875.] BRAVE VICTORIA. 1 MRS. WOODHULL‘ADDRESSES A ‘cnownnn HOUSE AT MC- couMrcK’s HALL. Victoria. Woodhull’s address at McCormick’s hall last even- ing was listened to by an immense concourse of people. No seat: was left unoccupied, and many persons were standing. The lecture can only be likened to a mountain torrent long pent up, which at last bursts its bounds and carries a fearful pressure upon everything in its course. This woman, in the two hours of continued discourse, attacked, in turn, the church, the government and the individual. The ﬁrstfor its hypocrisy and pretentious, the second for its tyranny and usurpations, and the last for his follies and weaknesses. [ The Commercial, Ptttsburg, .Pa., Nov. 15, 1875.] Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull lectured at the Academy‘ of Mu- sic last night to a. crowded house. [The Daily Post, Ptttsbuvg, 1-"a., Nov. 15, 1875,] Mrs. Woodhull delivered her lecture on the “ True and the Fa1se”_to an immense audience at the Academy of Music last evening. The house was literally packed with an audi- ence that seemed to hugely enjoy thelccture, judging from the enthusiastic applause. [Datly Gazette, Ptttsbgzmr Pa., Nov. 15, 1875.] Mrs. Woodhu11’s' lecture, at the Academy of Music, on “ The True and False, Socially,” attracted an audience that ﬁlled every one of_ ‘the very large number of seats in the theatre. A L’ 1:” he 1).i.-.'pu.t(:h, f’£tt'sbwrg, Pa., Nov. 15, 1875.] wooni-IUILL. - Mrs. Victoria 0 .'Wo<)dhull appeared last night at the Acad- emy of Music and dtnivered a lecture, to a crowded house, of an hour and a half in length. Her hair was brushed straight and smooth back from her forehead. She was dressed in black, with white collar and ﬁschu, her garments being out with only it slight tendency to the pull-back fashion. She spoke in a clear, musical tone. and enforced her points with dramatic action, [which made her manner impressive and earnest. On opening, she delivered as the text the 16th, 17th and 19th versesof the 3d chapter of First Corinthians: “ Knew ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit.of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple ,of Grodhim shall Grod. destroy; for the temple of God is holy. which temple ye are. For the wisdom of this world is fool- ishness with God. For it is written he taketh the wise in their own craftiness.” A [From the Evening Leader, Nov. 15, 1875 .] WOODHULDS LECTURE. Those who went to hear the Woodhull deliver a. alacious -lecture last night were disappointed; not only disappointed, but roundly rebuked. They only heard a woman of very marked ability, perhaps the moat eloquent of all the woman lecturers in the country, discourse on a very delicate subject with marvelous tact, and with not the remotest approach to impurity of word or thought, tell the people several plain truth, it was good for them to hear from some source. [To be published by subscription.] MEROTH THE MAGIAN, AN INSPIRATIONAL POEM. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, illustrating the “ Ars Magtca ” as practiced by the ancient Egyptians. Scene, Memphis, Era. 4.04. B. C’. oontrnnrs: Act I. Scene 1.——A caravansary at Memphis. 2. A room in Euclid’s house. 3. Ditto. 4.- A salon in Meroth’s Palace. 5. The hall of the Magi. This act terminates with the re- sponse of the oracle: “ Two victims to the gods the destinies demand Ere Ni1e’s blue waters rise o’er Egypt’s prostrate land; When in her waves you cast your beauty and your lore, The pestilence shall cease, the famine leave your shore!” Act II. Scene 1.——Pentagonal Hall of Divination in Me- roth’s palace. 2. Ditto. 3. The gardens of Isis by moonlight. , 4th and 5th. Ditto. Act III. Scene 1.—A room in Euclid’s house. 2. A hall in Meroth’s palace. 3. The boudoir of Eudora in Euclid’s house. 4. Interior of the temple of Isis. This act terminates with the death of Eudora, the heroine of the tragedy, who chooses the fatal 1ot——on which the statue of Isis becomes illumincd - and Meroth points to it, exclaiming: “ The offering is accepted! We are answered!" Act IV. Scene I.—'I‘he observatory of Meroth’s palace. 2. A ball in the same; a room in a Lodge near the same. This act terminates with the burning of the palace of Me- roth. Act V. Scene 1.—The portlco of the castle of Arbaces. 2. The hall of the Magi. 3. A road in the suburbs of ‘Mem- phis. 4. The interior of the grand temple of Osiris. The tragedy closes with the death of Meroth and the acceptance of the sacriﬁce by the God. I . .“ Now as our beauty and our lore are given, May Egypt be once more beloved of heaven; , All is performed which the just Gods have willed,—— The destinies appeased,——the oracle fulﬁlled.” To be issued in form 8vo, pp. 200. neatly bound in cloth at $1.75 per copy. Five hundred subscribers required. Address R. VV. Hume, P. O. Box 158, Long Island City, New York. —-———-——-—a:%o—<®»o9-————————-—————- BUSINESS EDITORIALS. ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of disease——a small book of forty pages Sent; free on application to him at No. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. A SIN CERE INQUIRER. A gentleman, between the ages of twenty-ﬁve and thirty, with steady employment, desires to meet with a lady of sim- ilar age and circumstances with a view to forming a union based on freedom, equality and justice, for social and do- mestic purposes. He believes in ‘the right and duty of wo- man to maintain her personal sovereignty under all circum- stances. She must hold the sameviews. Address F. E. .I., Care Woonnonr. St CLA1u:.IN’s WEEKLY. . A middle aged gentleman wishes to make the acquaintance of a lady, or ladies and gentlemen, who ts free to go out to the World, or before the world,.and live the “ New Departure ” of Mrs. Woodhull; one who has been educated in the school of experimental suffering to endure all things, hope for all things, justify all things, and condemn not; with a view to establish a “ new era ” upon the earth. v , Address in conﬁdence, CHRISTIAN, Care WOODHULL 8t CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Tqe Books and Speeches of Victoria 0. Woodhull and Tennie C. 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Anx- ious to spread the truth, we have reduced the price of , this work (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on fine white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages. INDEPENDENTTRACT SOCIETY, , Publishers. Worcester. Mass. NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS." "VV’O1\/I..A.I\T;_ The Hope of the World. A Poem read at the Woman’s Mass Meeting, Harmony Grove, July 4, 1871, and at the great Suffrage Meeting in Baltimore, Feb., 1872, by A. Briggs Davis. THIRD EDITION NOW READY This Poem will be especially interesting to readers of the WEEKLY from the fact that its leading idea- viz., that of the Deity, corroborates the view of woman and the explanations of Bible mysteries now being given by Mrs. Woodhull. It shows how woman is to Eiompass man and bring in full salvation and redemp- on. The vision of the “woman clothed with the sun and having the moon beneath her feet,” has a prac- tical fulﬁllment in the “last days.” While opposing its idea of Deity, the Baltimore American said: “ It is a production of much merit.” With title-page, border, references and extracts. Price 10 cents per dozen, post paid; 75 cents per hundred. . IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass. @ Send for large Catalogue. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, ' C'H'RIS1/ANITY BEFORE UIJRIST. A CONTAINING N ew, Startling anal Eailraordmary Revelations in Religious History, wlilcli. disclose the Oriental Origin. of all the Doctriines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnislulrig a Key for unlocking many of its Saorecl Zvlysterles, beslcles comprising the 5 History of Sixteen Or-dental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Béograph_i/ of Satan " and “The Bible of Bibles ” (comprising a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves Will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the ﬁeld which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the viried :information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that in is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the aut.hor—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads—fol ows a definite line of research and argument to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O N TE N T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the - Clergy. Chap. 1.——Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.———Pr0phecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. . Chap. 5.——Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods} Chap. 6.—Siars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. , Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the‘In~'ant Savior. . Chap. 8.-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.—-Titles of the Saviors. l Clgip. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble irth. Chap. 11.——Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.-—The Woi-ld’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigm in Infancy. ' Chap._ 13.——'I‘he Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . ‘ Chap. 14.-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this ‘World. Chap. 15.——Tlie Saviors are real Personages, Chap. 16.——Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. ﬁxion. Chap. 18.——Descent of the Saviors into I-Iell. Chap. 19.-—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. » Clgip. 21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe rirriu. Chapi.j22.—~The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.——'I‘he Divine “VVord” 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. Cléap. 27.——’l‘ne Sacrament, or Eucharist of Heathen )ri0'in. oha.p?’2s.~Anoinung with on of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.——tlow Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Chap. 30.—-Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of tlﬁ: Gods, the Master—key to the Divinity of Jesus I, rist. ‘- Chap. 31.——Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systemsj Chap. 32.——Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Aiialogies 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.-—L0gical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. Chap. 36.——Phi1osophicalAbsurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ Chap. 37.——Physio1ogical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, ’ -‘- Chap._38.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Chap. 39.—-Tlie Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Chap. 40.—-A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. ‘ Ohcap. -ltl.-—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus ‘hris . , Chap. 42.—-Christ as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.—Conversion,‘Repentance and “ Getting Re- gion ” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.—-The Moral Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45,-Conclusion and Review. ' . Note of Explanation. . Printed on ﬁne wliite paper, larva 121310, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 2.0 cfs. Send orders to WOODHULL 85 CLAFLIN, P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. v DR. SJSIYTI-IE’S PATENT H - u liiiseliulil Vinegar-lilslier. Makes Vinegar by a new process in four hours. » Aimnnss: D R . 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Having used Earth Closets for some years and know- ing their great superiority for household purposes over the ordinary appliances for similar ends, I can cor dially commend those of the Wakeﬁeld Company to- the practical consideration of people who have sani- tary reformat heart. H. S. .l)RAY’l‘ON, Ed. hrenological Journal and Life Illustrated. From Our Home Hygienic Institute of Dansville, N". Y., Sept. 1st, 1875. i We have used several of your Earth Closets in and about our Institution, and cheerful-'y accord to them. the ﬁr-st place, so far as our experience goes. and it has been not inc-snsiderable. For all purposes of neatness, freedom from smell, and non-liability to get out of re pair, they are unsurpassed. Yours very truly, J AMES H. JACKSON, Secretary.’ From D. R. Locke (Nasby), Editor Toledo Blade. New York, Sept. 1st, 1875. I have used one of your best Wakeﬁeld Closets for three or four years at my residence in Toledo, and it is every way satisfactory. I consider your system every way equal to the Wa=er Closet sysieni, and in some respects superior. It saved ‘me me expense of a water clo-er, with trouble of bursting and obstructed pipes, and my friends in the country were glad to keep me. supplied with dry earth, on condition of receiving in: exchange the product of the closet from time to time. Yours respectfully, D. R. LOCKE. We have similar letters from the following, among many others: Du. SAMUEL LYNES, Norwalk, Conn, J OHN P. THOMAS, Supt. ofthe Carolina Military'In- stitute, Charlotte, N. U. Rnv. J. B. DRURY, Ghent, N. Y. Gno. VV. CHARLOTTE, Proprietor Atlantic Hotel, Beaufort, N. C. , ND? A. C. VAN Errs, “ Valley House,” Binghamton, F. A. Social, Passaic, N. J. A. S. Losnn, Brooklyn, N. Y. We could multiply such indorsements almost indeﬁ- nitely. The above ar_e certainly strong enough to con- Vince the most skeptical of the entire feasibility of the DRY EARTH SYSTEM. and ‘the superiority of our patents. For further information address, enclosing stamp, TEE VVAKEEFIETIE ‘EARTH CTIESET CGMPANY,‘ A 36 Dey Street, New York. receipts they ever saw.—E. ll.‘ Bronson. \ Sent by D£ail:ri"o1' $1. rniiriiiiirioiv g;vi'riioU'r PAIN; A Sonic of Birectioris for Avoiding most of the Pains andl ‘ ' ihaiigers of Chilci-bearing. EDITED BY M. L. EIOLBROOK, M. 1)., Editor of Tris ‘HERALD or Hun . Contains siiggestions oi’ the greatest value.—Tv1lton’s Golden A e. A work whose excellence surpasses our power to commend..——- ew York Mail. . . .‘ . _ - 1 , ! ,« ‘ The price by mail, $1, puts ii. within tnc leach of all. Eiilliid in sisiiiri'iii."lT*riEii i-iuuii an ’ BY Ii/E. L.’ HOLBROOK, M. D. The book is for the most part uncommonly apt, coming to the point without the and is more to the point than many larger works._~Z\_/'ew_ York T?"lb'll?’L€. _ one of the best contributions to recent hygienic l1terature.—-Bos_lon Dcnlz/_ Ac_loerl‘z’$er. What is particularly attractiveabout this bO0K is the absence of all hygienic bigotry. One man’s mother andanotlier man’s wife send me word that these are the most who iiisi suit, I am delighted with it.——H. 15'. Baker, M. D., of Michigan State Board of Heallk. Lady Agents “i7Va.y;me,{3i, JOSHUA luriieiir, I . EN; COLETA, WHITESIDE CO.T, ILLINOIS slnscrnnurrns: ‘ BUTTER, CHEESE, AND PURE BREED BERKSHIRE SWINE. " Cash ordeirs solicited. Bur-icnrincns.-—Eirst National Bank, Sterling, Ill.; Patterson & Co., Bankers, Sterling, Ill.; E. Brookfield, Banker, Rock Falls, Ill.; First‘National Bank, Kasson, Iniinn. A SURE CURE FOR GOITBEl Sent by mail for Five Dollars. A cure warranted in all cases, or money refunded. Address, DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Marshall, Mich. T TRUE LOVE’ What it is and vviiat it is nine. BY A. Bniees DAVIS. With an Appendix. This is 5. am hlet of . Sound thinkers have already adgiittgd it to 1‘£2L?llIgaV§ielL‘I:a the able_sti_nte1lectiial efforts of the age. Its views on the .great_ theological absurdities of denominational Christianity, on Socialism, and on Love and Marriage are at once novel and sound. The work is a challenge to thinkers the world over. All minds seek Ilf’ rest in absolute truths of religion, life and love sh-ould read this little book. ’l‘he Appendix and Poems are worth the price of the book. 'l'he ﬁrst edition being nearly exhausted an- other is in preparation. « ’ In this work is shown the only possible hope for: Communism on this earth. No reader of Mrs. Wood-- hull’s late articles can afford to remain ignorant on what is here boldlyﬂung out to the thinking World. Send for Catalogues. Price, post paid, 10 cents. Address INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, ' Worcester, Mass, H I I a I (,9 _, . .- . 2333 sent see aog <¢E_,..-4 . .. ;;iw.E "‘ S3 . ? vita! ‘hao ‘ Q4 ' ‘-‘ raga. 833 -3 :2: ‘- Pan --:2 - ' - 4:248 be: .8942 slightest circuinl~oention ——Ohri.?l7'.a7i. Regitrifer, lesome and practical their handwritin , stat . dz . . JOHN mar 2f’2:T’og‘:‘}l:§.“‘v'3.§_§_-....;g?.’ },;‘,,:§;2{°,‘;.‘?,§,i; p..-” --»~—-7 vs; -- .-.- -—~~ wo;oDHULL &'i§§$fCLAFLIN’§Sji§;WEEKLtY Dec. 4, /1875. euunv CENTRAL Alished and Popular Route via .« The ERIE RAILWAY to SUSPENSION BRIDGE; The GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA 730 Detroit; The MICHIGAN CENTRAL to Chicago; ~ ' The CHICAGO, BURLINGTON and QUINCY to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha and to all points in the great North and Southwest. Thl-ml-gh without change of cars. from New York to Chicago. One change to Omaha, and that in the nepot of the Michigan Central in Chicago, from which the C., B. and Q,. departs. The hours’ time consumed SHORT AND FAST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT,BY_.,THE OLD ESTAB- bv travelers by orher routes to Chicago from the East or West in transferring from depot to depot, is saved — hv passensrers by this route to get their meals;-an advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes it. the most popular and the best patronized line of travel across the Continent. ‘ ‘ ’l‘nl=.oUen Trcrrnrs to all important towns, anl ,eneral information may be obtained at the Company’s office, 340 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), ew York. , ‘ ‘ “ ' ‘:5’ 4 Condensed Time .Ta."l51e. A WESTWABDTRUM NEW YORK, Via Erie & Mlehiitcentral &ﬁGreat;.VVestern‘:;R;”:;R’s TQUTE. SPIRIT COLLEGE. ._..._.1.: MEDIUMS DEVELOPED, L HE ALERS INSTRUCTED, AND LEGAL ‘ DIPLOMAS GRANTED THEM. Address Prof. J . B. CAMPBELL. M.;D., 136 Longworth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. What Young Pecple Should Know. THE REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION IN MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. By PROF. BURT G. WILDER, of Cornell University. With twenty—six‘Illustrations, $1 50. Address - . CHAS. P. SOMERBY, Freethought Publisher, 139 E. EIGHTH STREET, New York. SAVE YOUR‘ MONEY. c. L. uuNn—uRs0N & cuss E ,%,l,,,,,,, PURCHASING AGENCY, - srmrons. repress . A srmrrons. Eltpress. . .’ W No. 335 BROAD WAY, ~ N. Y. 'Will Purchase Goods of Every Description, and mi 29:1 Street N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d St eet N. Y ...... .. 6.45 P. M. - . .' . . ‘- cil.-.mbel~s’street .......... .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambrers street ....... .. 7.00 “ 2, Q transact any Bnsmess for their Llberal Friends and “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._. 9.15 11.15 , Jersey City ............ .. 7.20 ‘: 1 the Public in the West and elsewhere. Persons liv- H . . ' ‘ - 5 _ _ u ls‘.?l‘z‘..‘.‘l’.‘.1.“.V.’11.e.'."_'.i'.'.':::2::::: 13:32 A. .. 3528 « « %§&%iE?Y.“.1?.:::::::::::: 13:22 ~ EW’° mg at :1 d*:tan°e f.*'°m the “We: °f T"“‘.1" “an S“: Lv Suspension Bridge ....... .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. . 1.35 “ 9.50 p. in f1'°m TW°ntY to Fifty Per °.9nt~ by Purchasing thIf°“=‘%h Al Hamilton .................. .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton .............. .. 2.55 3' 11.20 “ Ug_ -‘ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ *‘ 2.35 a. m. .1" - 3)ei’ir'0it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 1(1).00 “ Detlrioit ..... . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ - ' 'ac's*:n.....‘ .............. .. . r. M. .00 A. M. ac. son ............... .. 1.00 A. M. 13.30 “ ‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 p. m. FOR CIRCULARS’ Al‘ Milwaukee ............... .. 5.30 A. M. 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee ........... .;. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. m. A AND REFERENCES. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.55 P. M. . . . . Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . .. .. .. 8.55 p. m 227“- Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . ..— . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar LaCrosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M 7.05 a in Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 I’. M. A1‘ St. Paul . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. H" Al‘ St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. -8.15 P. M. V I . Ar Sedalia ................... .. 5.40 x»; M. Ar Sedalia ................ .. 6.50 A. m. ' ' :“ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison ............... ., 8.00 “ ’ V “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ _L... ‘‘ Galves'ton.......... 10._00 “ ' Ar llisniarck ................. .. 11.00 P. M. ..... Ar Bismarck..." ......... -- 12-01 P- M» I ‘f gotlgmplusi ............... .. A. M. ;...’ :: golumﬁus ....... .... .. 6.30 “ BERKS . " i c 00' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . P. M. itte ock ............ Ar Ulll'ilZlgt0l1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M- Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.00 P. M. A 7 “ Omaha ................... .. 11.00 1-. Mr “ Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. M. ' . *‘ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . “ Cheyenne .............. .. 12.50 P. M. ....'\ @553 PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURERAE "‘ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' “ Ogden ............... ..~ 5.30 “ THE “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . “ San Francisco ........ 8.30 “ .. OF Ar léalcsburo‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.4V 7'. A G 1 b . . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 . . . «~ . 11. 4 A M 2: :.::.:%%... . 9... 5. r Improved Metallic LBW’-1'69 ' “ tit J0SGP!1-- “ ‘St. Joseph... 8.10 A M ' . “ Mrlsns City. “ Kansas City. ...... .. 9.25 “ ,. v ‘ “ Atchlson.... “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ “ ‘ Leavenworth ‘- Leavenworth .. ...... .. 12.40 noon. , “ D0HV'el'-.~.--- “ Denver... ...... ....../- - 21 A ThPO1.1gl:?, isleeping’ Car Arrangements “#15 A. T4-_—D11Y. Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pul1ma.n’s Drawing-Room Cars and conuectln at_ Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. In *5-b-‘A f0110Wl11g 9-Sf 1'11 time to take the morning trains from there. 7,-90 1’- M.-—Ni,7,ht Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pu1lman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chlcago \f«'1th0V;t change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., §1V111g passengers ample time for breakfast and take the mommg trains to all points West, Northwest an outhwest. , — ‘\. .. ,CONNECTIONS:0F_'ER1E RAILWAY.WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF Michigan’. Central} &; Great, Wcsternfgﬂailways. At an. Catharines, with Welland Railway," for Port Colborne. . At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Branztford and with Godericb branch Grand Trunk Railway. . At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. ,, Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port ‘Stanley, an wdaily line of steamers from there to ' Cleveland. ' A ., At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De ti-olt, Lansing & Lake Mlchl an R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit 65 Bay City R. R. Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. to Toledo. At Wayne, with“Flint &'Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc.‘ . At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale as Eel River R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Bankers, Waterloo ' Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and ‘Indianapolis. At Jackson, with Grand River Valley Branch, for Eaton Ra ids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncla, Pent- watcr, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for omer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. £.“l"l.‘é’e‘f‘§..'£‘§§.i‘.; it-.t’é?.‘.’i‘.§ &A?.‘?.gt’$.’i‘ilZ ?'i‘a“°x’i%‘°" L3‘“i?ga°§"°””°' S“g‘§?‘? W3“°““'.if““““”' l°”"’£5°”‘i ‘ . o a" e, an ‘ , ' Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Gin. R. R. tg%incin11a.ti. , agmaw R or one“ 6’ Water 00’ at At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. ’ A Kal mazoo, 'th S th H B h t . t‘ < , “ . . R R. for Ciam Lakgvtind igilermediaetré sgI.t[i(c>n,s. 0 gsguv$ﬁli°§2a,Sn%¥%f1ﬁv§P&eﬁ. Is? “rim G Rapids & ma ht Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. ‘ ' A At Niles, with South Bend Branch. ' an Hg.’-e]_?‘3;';“'1i};}‘1éf;*t12<l’tai;V11i§i1 Chicago 85 Mich. Lake S.IR.~R‘._‘ror St. Joseph,Hol1and,’ Muskegon, Pentwater and W041‘, Digchisan City» With Indianapolis. Peru, a ‘chug ,n 3.; Also with Louisville, New Albany a Chi: At Lake, with J oliet Branch to Joliet. At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. -. I VALUABLE DISCOVERY.-—Dr. J. P. Miller, a $ ﬁ N w ,. practicing physician at 327 Spruce street, Phila- . ~ , d l h ,h d’ dth tths 1: ct fcranberries Cured Without the -Knife Op Pfain‘ mid) lllgmpascohldiiltirizde curzs hlfadicllfe, eoither bilious, ' u . dyspeptic, nervous or sick headache, neuralgia and @ a F W f’ nervousness. This 1s a triumph in medical chemistry, , ’ — amdl sugerers all ovéer thfiu co;lrg(t)ry age oli;lel'mgTl1J13eI '. 3‘ '. re aresiin ' sa censa ox. ‘ A S1 ECIALTY FOR TWENTY YFLARS. Dioaiator iselaggelfy known aI1)1d highly respected.——.Phi.’a- For seven years PE)?‘ deipkia Bulletin. Diseases of Women in a rré55°iro?l§ .hi(I)E31:3.sitCeS.tf18'P‘o11;i'é1(:j' I: PROF. J. M. COMINS, M. D 345 ‘ Lexington " A.<v«enu.e.,, NEW YORK. ' . . . "F R ‘Y. . Power has been 2:‘ t . , . » . 3 describe the men€§1v:il31n:pi§}ti1.§ii'i3,‘}f§,§ bf-mra°'1.er’ to sons, and sometimes toindicate their fll.'llil.' ir1¢e:g,0(‘1 tﬁifr‘ hes. locations for health, ha.l'mony am -DuSinesS_ { Persons desiring aid of this sort wiup]; ,,,5,, Send me . . _ O 7 " ' O «- ig,(ee§;gm,.Ee Your 0% Printing . I @ Prc ss for ca.r'ds,’labels, envelopes E “dab -9 $ etc. Largersi.z'e.s forlarge work. ‘Ea — I‘ ' Busine.-ssli1Iend:ot.’irei1'printingand ,advertirsing, save money and increase vrade. .Allria.teuz- Pirinting, delight .. —_‘-. 1-_ilpas.;ime1’or spare hours. BOYS ' ,i - hgve ggeatfluél anﬁ make ’ ' "l. . rin'n. en-wosam_ PH“ W3’ ﬁatp ;lie%r«esses type-etc,:t€~the Mfrs al :P1.'58§e.-5 KRIS; EEK 416 G0. Masses. Econ. .____._...._.. ‘s SIGN PAINTING‘ AND ENGRAVING, , IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. No. 413 BROADWAY, New York. N. B.——The injunction against the manu- facture of the Improved Metallic Lettered Wire Signs and Banners having been raised, I am now making them at greatly reduced prices. « __ﬁ§I am painting Gold Sign Boards, 2 ft.§wide, at the low rate of $1 per runlling f00t. b031‘d thrown in. All other Painting at equally low prices. I invite you to call and examine my samples. C. KS, , 413 BROADWAY. NEw'YmaK. T-RIA_NGLE ruvslcmus. All diseases growing outof false conjugal relations will receive especial attention. Our combined medium hip, shut from the outer world in our cabinet, will generate a compound element, Magnetizcd and Spirit- l' alized, that will prove an elixir of life that we can impart to our patients. _ MAe.Nnrlznn BELTS for all parts of the system. BATTERIES for the head, hands and feet. Paper, Powders and Liquid Medicines prepared, Electricized, Magnetized and Spiritualized in a single or double Triangle Cabinet as the patient may desire. The Guardian Spirits of every patient will be requested to accompany the Medicine and aid by their inﬂuence. Three strong Healing Mediums will sit in the cabinet with an electric apparatus when the medicines are pre- pared. We shall observe all inspirational conditions that will ‘insure a full flow from our Spiritual Battery, and require the same of our patients. The age, sex, married or single, with some of the prominent symp- toms and conditions of the system. will be required. 1:?‘ One Dollar for a single prescription. Sent by mail or express. A Stamp must accompany all letters. Address, DR. GRAHAM 85 C0., P. O. Box 75,’ [_Ir0q_'|10iig Iroquoia 00.. minoiﬁn its ram§0f The Keenest Satire of Modern Times. ’ A Satire in Verse on the Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER, and the Arguments or his Apologists in the.‘Grea.t Scandal; DRA.MA. TI S PE RS ON XE. Rev. H. W. Beecher ................ . .Theodore Tilton. Deacons of Plymouth Church . . . . . . . . . .F. D. Moulton. 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M., 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, :1 :30, 5, 5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:10, : 7:30, 8:10, 10, 11: ., and 12 night. Sun- :20. 7 and : P W9 5’ 3.». ac "3*U (O we a mm mm 3 S @- Azg. '- ps . bro 0: o »- rs (It 0 :5 V-4 5:; ::_<Z'oo ole W A ,..:> E so D :2- )—l zo ‘.5 03 :3‘ C?- ‘For East Millstone, 12 noon, 3:10 and :30 P. M. For Lambertville and Flemington, 9:30 A. M., and P. M. For Phillipsburg and Belvidere, 9:30 A. M., 2 and . M. . For Bordentown, Burlington and Camden, 7:20 and 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 2, 4, 4:10 and 7 P. M. For Freehold, 7:20 A. M., 2 and 4:10 P. M. For Farmingdale and Squad, 7:20 A. M. and 2 P. M. For Hightstown, Pemberton and Camden, via Perth Amblouy, 2:30 P. M. For Hightstown and Pemberton, 6.A. . Ticket oﬁices 526 and 944 Broadway, 1 Astor House, and foot of Desbrcsses and Cortlandt streets; 4 Court street, Broolrlyn; and 114, 110 and 118 Hudson street, Hoboken. Emigrant ticket office, 8 Battery Place. FRANK THOMPSON, D. M. BOYD, J r., General Manager. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-12-04_10_27
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-12-04_10_27
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 02 (December 11, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2101
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-12-11
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: v- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! ‘UNTRA_.Miv:rEnE»D LITVESI ,..___a BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS... Vol. XI.-—No. 2.——VVl.ole No. 262. s NEW ‘YORK, DEC. 11,1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. / The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. I In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the my/stery of God shall be ﬁn2'shecl.——St. John the Divine. _ VVhereofI was made at mz'~nz'ster to preach the un- seccrchctlﬂe riches of C’hrz'st, and the mystery‘ which from the beg/inm'ng of the world hath been had tn, God.--Paul. Hr NOTES FROM LOIS WAISBROOKER. STEAMSHIP CITY or NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 1875. Dear lVeekly——'1‘wo weeks ago this day I left Boston des- tined for San Francisco via Panama. Spent the following Sunday in Providence, and made the acquaintance of your friends Paulina Wright Davis and Isabella Beecher Hooker, the latter of whom was visiting at the home of the former. I learned while in Providence from one who had spent some portion of the last year in Paris that t...
Show morev- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! ‘UNTRA_.Miv:rEnE»D LITVESI ,..___a BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS... Vol. XI.-—No. 2.——VVl.ole No. 262. s NEW ‘YORK, DEC. 11,1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. / The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. I In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the my/stery of God shall be ﬁn2'shecl.——St. John the Divine. _ VVhereofI was made at mz'~nz'ster to preach the un- seccrchctlﬂe riches of C’hrz'st, and the mystery‘ which from the beg/inm'ng of the world hath been had tn, God.--Paul. Hr NOTES FROM LOIS WAISBROOKER. STEAMSHIP CITY or NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 1875. Dear lVeekly——'1‘wo weeks ago this day I left Boston des- tined for San Francisco via Panama. Spent the following Sunday in Providence, and made the acquaintance of your friends Paulina Wright Davis and Isabella Beecher Hooker, the latter of whom was visiting at the home of the former. I learned while in Providence from one who had spent some portion of the last year in Paris that there is a medium there who has read or known but little of “ the VV.oodhull,” who is having similar revelations of the “ Bible mystery,” “ The fall of man,” etc., as are being put forth in the WEEKLY. I went from thence to Philadelphia in time to be at the’ Radical Club and present the claims of Mr. Dinsmore’s pamphlet, Economic Science. (By the way,I hope the friends will continue to send to him for the same to .Concord avenue, Summerville, Mass.) The Radical Club makes itself felt in Philadelphia. Returned to New York City in time to sail on the 30th of October. I For the ﬁrst threedays it was rough, the waves frequently breaking over the top of the ship; but since then it has been quite pleasant, though very warm. Of course, there were some qualms of stomach if not of conscience. It is strange how much trouble there is as to what shall be done with women. What a ‘.‘ necessary evil” they are! Our periodicals teem with articles on the subject. Only yester- day I picked up the Galaxy or Harper’s, in which it was se- riously proposed that gentlewomen of decayed English families should go out to domestic service as a means of sup port. The increasing number of this class of women that each succeeding year are left without the means of support, and the condition of the marriage market were freely discussed and ﬁnally, as America was so much more democratic in its social life, it was proposed, or rather suggested, that such should come to our country and go into service here. Ha! ha! ha! how do you like that, -ladies of culture without for- tune? Won’t it be nice when they come to compete with “ Biddy ” for the chance to get bread and butter! and if Biddy starves, or herchildren cry for bread, it will make, no difference. And what a sop to codﬁsh aristocracy—~an aris- tocracy of money without brains or culture. Oh, this Christian civilization! VVhat a sham! Well, it is doomed. Old things must pass away and all things must be- come new. From my soul I pity those who are trying to ﬁt woman to the present order of things. Mistaken reformers, cease your efforts in this direction and see if a condition of things or state of society fitted to woman’s nature———to the divinity of womanhood—cannot be secured. Then, indeed, will the seed of woman bruise the serpent’s head; then, indeed, will be brought to pass that saying: “ Death is swallowed up in victory.” - We have between one and two hundred cabin passengers on board, and as I_write they are busying themselves in various ways. among which are reading “ Breaking the Seals,” “ The Elixir of Life,” “ Helen Harlow’s Vow,” and I ﬁnd some very intelligent thought upon this “ Sexual Question.” There was quite a discussion raised in the steerage the other day from a WEEKLY ,I took down there, some going so far as to 535’ that you ought to be hanged, and Mr. Bowles from Provi- dence, the gentlemen to whom I took the paper, defending you till he silenced, if he did not convince, his opponent. So you see that you are everywhere. I am particularly pleased with your rendering of the words of Jesus, “ Whoso looketh on a woman,” etc., in your editorial ofOctober, 30. Iknow lthzitgmen and women can even sleep together “ without hav- ing a lustful thought en.te1' their minds or an unnatural passion ﬁre their bodies.”- . “ You draw all my forces to my brain” will be the prevail- ing rule when freedom shall obtain, and unnatural, lustiu passions will cease; while the natural would continue to grow more sweet, pure, holy and strong. Oh, how often have I thought of your words in Chicago: “ That act is my religion,’ and as I think. they continue to grow deeper, grander in their signiﬁcance. Well will it be for the race when it shall cease to have alow thought in connectionwith sexual matters. But I must bring this rambling letter toa close. I have much that I would like to say. but this warm weather ener- yates me, so I will wind up by promising more when I reach the land of gold. THE HIGHER COMMERCE. BY PROF. J. H. cooK. St. Paul says—-nature says-—“Thzat was not ﬁrst which is spiritual, but that which is natural (physical and animal) and afterward that which is spiritual.” In the order of nature’s levolotions and revolutions, the coarse, low, gross and animal precedes—prepares the wayfor and makes possible the ﬁne, pure, high, mentai and spiritual, Physical commerce,,inter— change of material products, labor-saving inventions, inter- nal improvements; canals, railroads, telegraphs,letc., prepare the way for and produce the conditions of mental and spir- Uitual life and associations. As the atoms and organs of the human system are indissolubly united by nerves of motion, sensation and respiration, through which all sympathize with and are effected by each other, so that (in the words of 1st member suffer, all the members suffers; or onemember be honored, all the members rejoice.” so the civilized world, and. the United States especially, are fast becoming united and bound together by those means that correspond and are an- alogous to the structure, arrangement, and modus operand?) of man’s complex organism so “fearfully and wonderfully made.” The lower human brain acts» convergently toward the earth; the time and scope of its action is limited; it is dark, gross, selﬁsh, and thinks only of “me and mine,” knowing not that “ it is more blessed to givethan to receive.” On the contrary, the upper brain, where alone grow "‘ the fruits of the Divine Spirit,” is divergent and unlimited by time or space. As this upper human‘ brain by growth and develope- ment, gains the ascendency over the animal brain, it must have that space tolact in, and that freedom of action to which the animal brain is not adapted. A distinguished scientist says “intellect is mobile,”,and I will add that love also is mobile. Both wisdom and love being free in their nature and character, and a “law unto themselves,” their products and forces create the higher commerce and “ shall not live on bread alone.” Their motto is,virtually, “give me liberty or give me death,” orqin other words the world’s life and slavery are death to them. As society now is, minds which are developed into the higher “ good-tree-life,” into the glorious light and liberty of the gospel, “ cannot ﬁnd in any one place that response thousands itinerate and read, sing‘, act lecture, etc., that now and then, here and there, they may ﬁnd responseto their higher life and aspirations, and get new aspirations, and fresh and vital magnetism. The world’s life in the present form of society cannot satisfy and respond to the wants and aspirations of those who are developed above the inaterial and an_imal life. What little society has for such minds is meagre and transitory. It seems to me that a. true spiritualist must necessarily be a communist. To me it is the only form of society that can represent and culti- vate the higher sentiments and supply both the body and mind of all its members. Fully developed, complex minds, need both city and countrvlife and products combined- need the society of high and free minds constantly that they may “ grow in grace.” “ Each for all and all for each,” is, to my mind, the only way to save the world, produce an improved humanity through an improved parentage, and form ‘—‘ anew heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Spiritualists, if you wish to live and prac- tice your own doctrines and sentiments, if you wish to bless and spiritualize humanity, you must combine your means and your minds, and guarantee to each mutual support anh sustenance in every sense. What the world calls “inde- pendence ” is a poor and precarious condition to the spirit that seeks the “ true riches” and a manhood of good deeds and perennial j oys. , . Cor., 12 chap.-—a most signiﬁcant chapter) “Whether one sympathy and appreciation that they need, and hencei [From Buclclefs History of Civilization in England.] Many of the clergy persist in attacking the pleasures of the world, forgetting that, not only. the world, but all which the world contains, is the work ofthe Almighty, and that the instincts and desires which they stigmatize as unholy, are part of His gifts to man. They have yet to learn that our appetites, being as much a portion of ourselves as any other quality we possess, ought to be indulged, otherwise the indi- vidual is not developed. If a man suppresses partof himself, he becomes maimed and shorn. The proper limit of self- indulgence is, that he shall neither hurt himself nor hurt others. Short of this everything is lawful. It is more than lawful; it is necessary. He who abstains from safe and mod- erate gratiﬁcation of the.senses, lets some of his essential faculties fall into abeyance, and must, on that account, be deemed imperfect and unﬁnished . Such an ‘one is incom- plete; he is crippled; he has never reached his full stature. He may be a monk; he may be a saint; but a man he is not. And now, more than ever. do we want true and genuine men. No previous age has had so much work to do, and to accom- plish that work We need robust and vigorous natures, whose every function has been freely exercised without let or hindrance. A CORRECTION. Editors of Woodhull and CZaﬁ'4in’s Weekly: My attention has been called to a passage in your last, dated Nov. 27, in which several Spiritualist papers and per- sons, including myself (or some one by the same name), are called upon to “answer before they spit more“ spitefully upon the social question as ‘ a side-issue of Spiritualism,’ lest in so doing they tread on the corner—-stone upon which Spir- itualism itself stands. We hold and assert that itlwill be proven that it is the attitude which these leadersof Spiritu- alism have assumed toward the social question that has ’ caused the apathy among their followers of which they com- plain. ” I Now, though I do not count myself a “leader of Spiritual- ism ”—having been for years too far disabled, physically, to lead anything——yet some of your readers ‘understand that I am one of the persons referred to. If so, I wish to say that the reference is quite wide of the mark. ‘ I challenge any one to quote a line written or spoken by me within the last twenty years, which justiﬁes the intima- tion thatl have “spit spitefully upon the social question,” or have counted it “a side-issue of S_niritualism.” On the contrary, in the very last address made by me to any consid- erable body of Spiritualists-—namsly, at the anniversary meeting in Philadelphia, in march, 1873, published in the leading Spiritualist papers at the time——‘-‘I used this explicit language: , “I can regard no question bearing on human well—being and progress as foreign to Spiritualism, or as a ‘ side-issue ’ thereto. All speciﬁc reforms are but fragments of the grand ‘spiritual revolution of the nineteenth century.” This was but a reiteration of the conviction I have held and advocated ever since I came to comprehend the bearings of Spiritualism. And as regards the special point made in your article—— namely, the importance of pre-natal conditions to the future of’Spiritualism and of the race——I will state that my last published work (1875) is an “Appeal to Men in behalf of Human Culture through aWiser Parentage.” And I may add that ‘my last unpublished work (not yet ready for the press) is a practical treatise on “ Pre-Natal Culture.” But while, in common with,all thoughtful men and women" who have considered the subj-ect, I. have long seen that the question of right social relations lies at the basis of all per- manent reform, it is true that I have given my earnest pro- test against the coarse, shallow, illogical, irreverent and sometimes indecent manner in which the social question has too often been discussed ‘before Spiritualist assemblies, to. the disgust of all people of reﬁned sensibilities. I have also protested against those loose, ill-considered, unguarded de- mands for “freedom,” which give the impression (whether correct or not) that those who make them are only seeking enlarged opportunities for sensual indulgence. ' & I feel sure that human improvement does not lie in the di- rection of ‘coarseness or unrestrained sensualism, but rather in the opposite——of culture, reﬁnement, self-control, and en- lightened spirituality. I * 5 I I have found that the plain truth in-Iregard to social and £2, ’ woonnnLL a Ol;.Ah‘l.ll:i’l3 WEEKLY. Dec. 11, 1875. " sexual matters may be spokenyeven before mixed audiences, in so serious, elevated and delicate a manner as to interest all and offend none whose good opinion is of any value. If this is what is meant by “spitting spitefully uponthe social question,” I shall have to plead guilty, though I see no ‘ relevancy in the language of the indictment; but I shall be V61? likely to do so again, on occasion. Yours for truth, ANGORA, . J ., N ov., 1875. A. E. NEWTON. ~ EXPLANATORY. ‘ It is one of the many unpleasant things about our labors that we are obliged to devote almost the whole of our time to other things than the conduct of the WEEKLY. All that we write we are necessarily obliged to write hurriedly, and frequently we never see the article again until it appears in the columns of the WEEKLY. This, in connection with the fact that our chirography is not of the clearest and plainest that it is possible to have, is_ the reason that some errors both of coustruétion as well as fact, creep into our editori- als. One of the latter kind occurred in the WEEKLY of two ’ weeks ago, which does injustice to Mr. A. E. Newton. The Preceding communication from him in reference thereto we gladly insert. _ VVe had no intention of alluding to Mr. Newton, and the name that should have appeared and which we did intend when it was written was Denton. We -are always glad to correct any such errors, and in this in- stance Weqtrust that the agrieved party will acquit us of in- tentional wrong, since we make the reparation as broad as the error. In this connection we wish also to speak of another mat- ter. Some of our Cherished friends and correspondents have articles at our office which have never appeared, who feel that they have been neglected. But they should re- member that we have been almost continually absent from NeW.York for nearly two years and that the communica- tions for the paper have not passed ;through our hands. While we weuldnot have it understood that we should pre- fer onelclass of correspondents over another class whose articles are equally worthy, we do wish to be understood_ to . say that we have not had personal supervision of ,the selec- tion of “articles for publication for many months. A month ago Col. Blood, the ,Managing Editor, resumed the ofﬁce control of the paper and will hereafter give his per- sonal attention to the duties of that position. '-' ——*— “ MARRIAGE AT WILL.” “ But as society requires of those who enter the marriage relation an acknowledgment “of existing laws, we therefore submit to the behests of the laws.” 7 D—n “ society,” and its " existinglaws ” too. “ Submit to the behests of the law.” What law.?——human or divine? , ' .. E .The “ behests of the law;” it was the “ behests of the law" that carried Jesus to the cross, John Brown to the gallows, Victoria 0. Woodhull to prison. - If professed reformers bow to man-made laws, let us not , condemn the world for doing the same thing. R SEVVARD l\f1TeHE1.L. _ REMARKS. We agree with one part of the -criticism of our corrres- pondent, while we differ with him upon another part. _ What we aim to establish ﬁrst, is freedom for.the individual to act as he may please in those things over which he has rightful control; and second, having ﬁrst effected this, then toteach the best use-to make of his freedom. Now, freedom means the right of one person to remain still in bondage to the law if he choose to do so, while it also means the right of another who shall choose that, to cast oif all restraints of law as,we ourselves did in our social rela- tions years ago, and as our correspondent and many others have done since. It is true that we want the ‘assistance and inﬂuence of all persons who do not believe that the community has any rightful power to spy over and attempt to regulate the relations of the sexes, and wish that they might have the moral courage to face the world by living their convictions; but we must remember that public opinion is a terrible tyrant, and it is not every one who is convinced of this in his or her heart who has the courage, to ﬂing the gauntlet in its face. We claim for ourselves theright to regulate our social relations to suit ourselves, and we will not permit any one to interfere, and we accord the same right to everybody. If some still feel that they must pay tribute to. the requirements the law, let them do ‘so and reap the reward, of so_ doing, which they surely will. We can advise, ‘but we have no right to insist that they shall not. A social freedom that should be enforced, would be social tyranny. * . 1*" tr WHITE LILIES OF TRUTH. ’ FROM THE WORLD or THE UNSEEN—-A PSCHYCOMETRIZATION. Whatever we say at this time will be given irrespective of the medium’s preconceived opinions. There are‘ few persons living on the earth to-day whose magnetic aura is as ﬁne as- this ‘one, and she is known outside, in the spheres of spirit life, as being such. She has passed entirely outside the sphere of selﬁshness into the plane of universal love, there- fore her magnetism is of the diffusive kind. The reasoning faculties of this brain are ever open to the higher inﬂux of truth from the spirit life. Standing in the front ranks of re- form. st c, with uncovered brow, receives daily baptism from the fount of Divine Truth. Indeed, this lofty soul has come to be’ enrapportwith the spiritual essence, that pervades all matter. To be a little more analytical of thisbrain, we men- tion these pecu_l_.iarities; the spiritual and affectional natures of spirituality that to come into the presence of an individu- ality is to determine his exact spiritual status. So carefully have they analyzed the subject of the affectional, and so com- prehensive is their knowledgeof the same, that one glimpse of an individual determines precisely the development to which he has attained, and in beholding him sees the opaqueness or the transparency of the spirit that inhabits the temple. This person is organized to suffer intensely or to enjoy «in the largest capacity. It has been Said of her-that she is incapable of» giving to the world the grand truths she is giving daily from her pen. This is absurdly false. ,She catches the living inspiration of the hour as the ﬂower catches the sunshine, and though the drudgery of writing is given to others, at this moment the spirit-world is concentrating its power upon her to lift this world out of that slough of disease into which it has been sunk by a ‘sensual priesthood, and the dt:p.l‘x)l‘itbl.e ignorance of the -still more ignorant masses. One word in regard to the parentage of this individual; The father was highly intellectual and affec- tional; the mother highly spiritual; and looking backward, We ﬁnd the foundation of her existence was laid during a time of great spiritual exaltation on the part of the mother. Consequently, in this germ life were «snwrupped those forces slumberuponrthis gravest of all questions. The supposedly virtuous person of the time will tell you that the animal part of our nature is the" lowest; that it is something for which we needto blush. This woman in her great earnestness of soul, stepsto the front, and proclaims that this department of our nature is the ﬁrst and grandest, because its mission is to create life; therefore it is godlike, because it is God himself that sets in operation the creative forces. In the coming years, when the curtain of the past shall be swept aside, and Victoria 0. Woodhull stands revealed in the white light of inspired truth against the dark background of the iniquities of the time, then shall be accorded her that place which she is destined to ﬁll in the world’s history when it is emanci- pated from error. " H. W. Boozrzn. GRAND Rmerns, Mich. THE “ "WAY WARDS ” OVEREIAULED. 0 wing to a recent illness, I have but just had the pleasure of reading in the WOODHULL & OLAELIN‘s WEEKLY the article “ Not a Bit Scared.” I gegret that I did not see the preceed- ing communicatlon; but enough, however, is contained in the subsequent article to lead me into a, knowledge of the sentiments of the ﬁrst. It would seem that Harry, and many young men like him, are perfectly willing to marry if they can ﬁnd women “ worth having.” Poor fellows! Now, I would ask if Harry and the rest of his fraternity are properly qualified to ﬁll the responsible oiﬁce of husband? Young wo- men are beginning to demand husbandly qualiﬁcations, and are as cautious of accepting young men with “ temporary faults ” as young men are women afflicted with the same ﬁl- ﬁrmities. It is quite absurd for men to assume that a person holding inferior rank, such as that of wife to husband, and whose mind is deemed to be naturally weak by them, would have much control. over the one to whom she is under sub- jection. It is an indisputable fact that those poor dupes who promise to honor and obey have but little tn-ﬂuencei over their perverse masters. The common duties of wives are most too arduous to attend to the reformation of “ Wayward young rnen.” “ Good men are going to the bad” according to Harry, because they are afraid to marry lest they might have cause to repent. Poor timid young man, how often’ mustlhis knees h.ave smote together in contemplation of this fact! Why not hazard the risk, Harry, like young women, and ap- ply your theory of reconstruction? It is a poor rule that will not apply both ways. If good wives would make “faulty young men” good citizens, would not good husbands make faulty women good cit——-»by the way, not citizens, nor one of “ we the peopl.e ”; nor does she come in there—wel1, as he did not say husbands, I fear we shall not be able to apply the rule. A good citizen is not always a guarantee for a good husband. Young men permit young women to make no claims to that honored title which elevates them to the atti- tude of independent sovereigns. Nevertheless, with all their mental weaknesses, they are requested by themto perform a twofold task: ﬁrst, make a good citizen of the man she would marry, and then, if she desired a good husband, she must manipulate him into that also. But the poor “ Vfaywards” can have no other than. the young, beautiful and unsophisti- cated girls, those who have not yet attained to an idea beyond the art to catch a husband, whose only visions are of the bridal "veil, the attractive look, brilliant complexion, youth- ful ﬁgure and rotund face, beneath its pearly folds, with not one thought of the future where the reality of married life presents itself in her own. emaciated form, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks, her left arm encircling a crying baby upon her hip, another hanging to her skirts, while she is standing be- fore an ironing board trying to polish with a hot iron the shirt bosom of her no longersuppliant lover. but legalized master, i who makes the poor creature thinkthat she subsists only‘ through his sufferance. “ Girls talk dress,” says Harry. ‘What else do the free in- stitutions of this maieocracy leave for them to discuss? Who but men lead girls to believe dress to be the ultimatum of their ‘lives? “Not a bit scared,” eh! i Why Harry, from his own confession, would make us believe that all the young men at once assumed the attitude of Wild Orson at the mere mention of dress by young girls. But don’t be alarmed, my dear young fellows. Young wives take a bridal wardrobe with them when leaving for a husband’s home, and when that begins to look threadbare most of them ﬁnd employment at the various occupations for women (possibly rolling the segar that you smoke or cutting the tobacco you chew), and earn not only their own dress, but their babies’, and often their husband’s shirts. Now, poor “waywards,” “look jubi- lant! this must be jolly news. Furthermore, this frightful frivolity '.‘ dress ” soon gives way to the thousand demands of a woman’s married life, not including those‘trying efforts stand out in boldest relief. So highly developed is this organ- Which were destined to arouse the world from its trance-like ‘ at calming nightly "‘ squalls ” produced by little aching stomachs, while the “ good_citizen,” like Bruin, lies curled up in his warm nest. " . ‘ Would Miss , whom Harry knew so-well, have lost her health if she had married one of his pdor, “faultv ” young men instead of the rich old man? Which part of the sequel does"he think affected her health the most-—the man or the money? The late Horace Greeley declared marriage to be woman’s legitimate business. If that be true, then why not permit her to make her business equally as proﬁtable to her as any busi- ness pursued by men? s — Not even a pretty country girl will the “ waywards ” take, because they are not invulnerable to the temptations of fashionable complaints any more than boys. VVhy add the adjective “pretty” when the burden of his complaint is a want oft-he more enduring attribute “good.” Ah, '0h01'9’-°5 the rub. To look pretty is why the poor creatures dress, and paint, that they may more easily catch these poor “ way- ward,” down—hill gallopers. Apply the brake, and make them good “ citizens.” “ Pretty” is the only trap that will catch ’em now. Bah! Harry B. Free, Betties will B. DAIZY JAY1\‘E- MASS MEETING or SPIRITUALISTS AND LIBERALS or MINNESOTA. A large audience assembled at Harrison’s Hall, Minneapo- lis, on the 12th inst., pursuant to call. The meeting was call- ed to order by-E. V. Wilson, President pro team. The officers chosen for the mass convention were as follows: President. Mrs. Dr. Severance. of Milwaukee; Vice-President, J. S. 'Wales, of Minneapolis; Secretary, Mrs. M. C. Marston, of St. Paul. Business Committee: Mrs. E. ‘V. Hanscom, E.‘ T. Lov— ering, of Minneapolis, and VVarren Smith, of Graham Lake. The oiﬁcers proved themselves both prompt and efficient. The work of each day was well laid out and performed with the utmost harmony, and with the co-operation of both visi-- ble and invisible workers and audience. ‘ The speakers from abroad were E. V. VVilson, of 111., and Mrs, Dr. Severance, of Milwaukee. These speakers are too well known to'need mention, and yet we should not do just- ice to public opinion here did we not commend them. Hear- ing and meeting them for the ﬁrst time, we were hardly pre- pared for the almost ceaseless ﬂow of the highest, purest and most chaste language from the exhaustless mental storehouse that Mrs. Severance possesses, nor the staunch independence of E. V. Wilson. His power of delineating character, giving names, dates and circumstances——in fact his power as a test medium, cannot be rivalled. Minnesota prides herself on her home talent, and at this convention all parts of the State were well repreresented. VVere we to touch upon the merit of this home talent, we should not know where to begin or where to stop. We must, however, speak of Warren Smith, of Graham Lake, who is just now entering upon the work as a public lecturer. Mr. S. is a man of culture, of fine talent, and is a speaker who is zealous in the work of reform, and we bespeak for him a warm welcome wherever he may go. The only difficulty we experienced at our meetings seemed to be a want of time. The sessions were not long enough for the expression of earnest, honest thought that would surge up and overﬂow in words of cheer and encouragement to each other, and pledges of help from many who, 'f01‘_the ﬁrst time, identiﬁed themselves with reform movements, accepting the spiritual philosophy as the basis of all truth embodying the principles of liberty and progress f0I‘ the Whole h“1_1“"11 race. There have been several Spiritualistic conventions held at the City of Minneapolis, but none so largely attended or so highly commended by the secular world and press as this mass convention where no distinctive ism or creed was made the basis of the call. Not a note of discord was heard within or without. The following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted by the convention as an expres- sion of opinion under present development and conditions: Whereas, The Spiritual element of ou,rState having recent- ly presented conditions of inharmony and conflict; and, Whereas. We deem these conditions to be the outgrowth of underlying causes antagonistic to the teachings Of Spirit’ ualism; therefore be it Resolved, That we accept the harmonious philosophy 33 embodying all truth, and as truth is inﬁnite in extent and variety, Spiritualism as its representative cannot be em- bodied in a creed or confession of faith. Resolved, That the right to investigate and critise all sub‘ jects—political, religious and social—-is sacred, and we pledge our best efforts to preserve this right inviolate. ’ Resolved, That human organization is of inﬁnite diversity and gives an inﬁnite variety of human character. and hence we freely accord to the individual all liberty of thoughiuword‘ -and action compatible with the rights of others. Resolved, That the relation of the sexes finds its highest expression in monogamic unions, founded on love, and that motherhood is the highest and holiest ofiice incident to human life. Resolved, That it is our duty to disseminate that knowl- edge of the laws of generation that will enable parents to transmit to posterity better physical constitutions and a higher order of intellectual and moral endowments. Resolved, Tgat withholding from women the right of suf- frage is a stigma on the wisdom ‘and justice of the nineteenth century. ' ‘ Resolved, That by precept and example we should do all in our power to secure the early eradication of- intemperance from our midst. Resolved, That our public schools should be strictly secular in character, and the introduction of sectarian teacliiiiizs therein is an outrage and an insult to the iI1’0<311-‘-$161100 Of the ‘nineteenth century. _ ‘ Resolved, That the exemption of 5lB4.00,0O0,~0O0 worth of church property from taxation is gross injustice to the tax- payers of Union, and calls loudly for reform. Resolved, That we invite" the co-operation of all men and women, regardless of taste or opinions, in applying 311656 Aze- xv Ill ,..«>,=r-». Dec. 11, 1875. WOODHULLL as OLAB‘LlN’B WEEKLY‘. Y T ‘ j _ l 3 principles of practical reform to the elevation of the race. Resolved, That the unjust and, miserably partial laws recently enacted by our State authorities in relation to the dower of women should be annulled, and to secure this end we should petition our coming Legislature at an early day after its organization. - This mass meeting has proved a complete success in every sense in which that word can be used. Many have accepted the truth of the spiritual philosophy who were unbelievers before. Harmony has been established in the liberal and progressive‘ ranks. Never before has the press published the daily proceedings of a Liberal Convention with such marked courtesy as has been manifested at this three days’ meeting. . Willing hearts and open hands were ready to meet all reason- able demands. The expenses were $l86.25 and the receipts ‘$186.35. The officers were each waited upon by prominent citizens for the purpose of continuing the meetings for one week; but the best that could be done at this time was a pledge given to meet again in June next, when either a much larger hall or a grove will have to be secured to accommodate the people who are anxious to know the truth. On the last evening between two and three hundred were turned away for want of room, and that, too, with an admission fee of twenty—five cents, and while Messrs. Vlfhittle and Bliss were proclaiming the b eauties of the bloody atonement near by. Indeed our audience was largely increased by the gratuitous advertisement that they gave us in such choice language as “ those blasphemous reprobates the Spiritualists, who neither stood in fear of God or the devil.'’’ We sincerely hope that the Gospel meetings may be in progress when next We meet in convention, for it helps to awaken thought, and when once in earnest the people will come to the liberal fold for spiritual food. With a vote of thanks to Prof. Ludwig for the use of a fine organ the Convention adjourned to meet again in June next, . M. O. MARSTON, Secretary. AN INTERVIEW WITH MRS. WOODHULL. . [From the Pittsbwgh Pa., Leader, N on. 16.] Through tne courtesy of afriend I had the opportunity of meeting, last evening before her lecture at the Academy of Music, the lady who is more known, more talked abdut and more talked against than any woman in America. More than one urged me not to go. But two or three, whose opin- ions“‘I very ‘much respect, urged me to go. One of these latter knew her intimately, and regarded her as a very able _ and pure minded woman; and knowing how I felt on some subjects, and my desire to know the trutli, urged me to got As I have said, I did go. , It is of the smallest possible consequence who I am, if I only speak the truth as it hes in my mind. I am gladl went. If I have an opportunity I shall go again. That she is a person of remarkable keenness and ability, no one who has met her or read any of her writ- ings can deny. For the successful assertions of the right, the perfect, absolute right, of woman to appear on the platform, she deserves the utmost credit. Of course, in the use of that right she should be held to the strictest accountability——but in this not one whit more than men. The politician, the demagogue, the lawyer, the clergyman, the circus clown, the singer-—every one that undertakes to collect the people for instruction, for the public good, or for amusement, should be held to the strictest accountability for the use, especially in a country like ours, of this glorious privilege; and so. especial- ly, should the journalist, be it man or Woman. We cannot put the standard too high. All these classes produce or may produce an effect on the masses that is simply appalling to any sensitive right—minded soul. Let all speakers to the pub- lic and all writers for the press keep this constantly in mind. The day of reckoning comes apace, when all shams and false gloss will be done away. , , That sometimes her judgment is quite at fault maybe admit- ted, but that is by no means saying that she‘ may not have the most noble views, or the most important truths, and that in the main her statements may ‘not be most reliable, and her presentations of the duties of the hour, especially "the duties of parents to their children and to themselves, may not be of the most vital importance to the very life of society. Williain Lloyd G-arrison, Wendell Phillips, ,.John Brown, Horace Greeley and Theodore D.‘Wi1d were just as unpopular in their day—just as bitterly re viled and maligned as this woman. Ten years hence this woman may stand as high as the highest of them. This will depend, more than , anything else, on the question whether she really is a pure woman in the truest and best sense of the word-—-whether she speaks the truth——when she speaks or writes about Theo- dere Tilton, Henry Wa1'd Beecher or the social evil, or what- ever else she may write or talk about. The men that I have named, at one time spoke as ﬁercely against the church and the clergy as this woman does, yet who now casts them out as vile on this account. Of course, some in the church and the ministers will never forgive them. But now that slavery is abolished, who recalls their bitter jibes and ﬂings at religion and religious men. Every decent man and woman is on their side, and yet the facts show that in many things they were wrong. And just so it may turn out to be with Mrs. Woodhull. When to woman has been awarded the right of suffrage, as it certainly will be: when the debauchee hides his infamous and ,vile face in the ‘slums instead of daring to hold up his impudent face in society; when our young men are noted for their purity and noble manhood instead of for the opposite; when the community come to indignantly reject the papers from their houses and their stores which contain thoseloathsome advertisements of euros for disgraceful diseases, paid for at two times the rate of decent matter——then may this woman, if really-pure and good, stand alongside of the worthiest of her sex—far higher than Anna Dickinson herself, whom I once heard speak in this very city, just as plainly andwitb no more power than Mrs.,Woodhull last night. All will depend on her living ten years longer. VVho has convicted her of false- hood in the Beecher-Tilton case ?~——and yet, where is the religious paper in this land that has had the manliness’ to give her credit for her honesty and truth in this thing? With such a’face as she has»-—-with such grace and power to control an audience as she -has_—with truth on her side and ordinary providence, she will, sooner or later, carry the mass of the community with her. I don’t wonder that this Beecher scandal is still kept fretting and seething. The truth will come out. It is better that it should. If innocent, he will yet be made to appear so in theminds of all reasonable people. I have heretofore believed he was, while a most unwise and imprudent, still a pure-minded, outraged, per-‘ secuted and innocent man, and feeling so, I have done all in my power to bring others to the same opinion. For a few weeks past I have begun to feel differently. Mrs. Wood- hull’s lecture and my talk with her has not dispelled or tended to dispel this impression. If she, after all her oppor- tunities of knowing Theodore Tilton, and his wife and Mr. Beecher most intimately, really in her heart believes him to be guilty, I am sorry for him. A fearless, intelligent woman, able to write and speak as she can, and with such a face and so much the air of earnestness and desire for the good of the race is a tremendous power. She may be Wrong in many of her doctrines~—and go to too great length, but this mistake will be forgotten and forgiven, as is the case with some of the anti-slavery men, soon, but she will exert a most im- portant inﬂuence, and that, I hope, will be for good. FAIR PLAY. MOTHER. CONTRIBUTED BY onson KNIGHTLY. I have a spark within my soul That baffles reason to control; That spark is love; its radiant light Shines brilliant through my soul to-night. I love the hills I used to climb, And all the stars that on them Shine; I love the rocks, I love the rill That gushes from the rising hill; I love the school-house, church and bell, And social scenes remembered well. Sweet days of childhood, valcfand flower, And every,green and shady bower; But s weeter still the sainted dead That took my infant hand, And guarded well my youthful steps And led me up to man. I-Ier memory glides along 1ny dreams Like softest music over streams, And as my life shall pass away, Dissolving in its last decay, And I shall lie in this cold earth, Far from the one that gave me birth, Then may our spirits blend together , Like an infant and its mother. J , 13, IL Cluistmas Evc,1858. [From the N. Y. Sum] QUESTIONS FOR PLYMOUTH CHURCH TO ANSWER To THE EDITOR on THE SUN—-SW: 1. Previous to the late great trial, did Henry “Ward Beecher donate to the Theological Seminary of Yale College, New Haven, five thousand dollars? Is this the reason of the sudden change of the opinion of the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, D. 1).? Why is this generous do- nation kept quiet? 2. If Plymouth Church dropped Mrs. Moulton and Mr, West from the roll for non-attendance. why did it recently give a letter to Miss Florence Tilton, when it was well known’ that she absented herself long before Mrs. Moulton? 3. If Henry C. Bowen has slandered/his pastor, Why does not I'lymeuth_ Church try Mr.‘ Bowen, especially after his saying, “ 1f guilty. 8h0l11d10D£€ ago have been tried?” 4. Will Joseph Richards, who since the trial has been “ out ” by almost all his former friends in Montclair, N. J... do now as those “true friends ” request? It if; said 11913 at present very. popularhand engaged evenings in receiving calls andadvice as_to his not testifying before the commis. sion recently appointed. 5. If “Usher’j Murray calls Dr. Storrs the “head devil” of Brooklyn \m1n1ste_rs,_ cannot “Tearful” Shoal-man can a council to cast out this devil? NUX VOMICA_ -2 [From the N. Sim, N 0?). 26, 1875.] A THUNDERBOLT PLYNIOUTFI CHURCPI PULPIT, ‘ Plymouth Church was artistically ‘decorated yesterday, and every available foot of space was occupied. Mr. Beecher announced as his subject “ The Common Schools of the Country.” People must change their views on the policy of conducting the common schools. There should be no class of distinction among the pupils. “ Your dunces and mine,” said he, "‘ should sit side by side on a level with one another. There must be distinctions, but they should be such as the spelling book, the arithmetic and the copy book make,.and not what wealth or social position de- mand. ’l.‘he,cornmon schools should be so comfortable, so fat, so rich, so complete. that no select schools could live under their drippings.” This ‘sentence Mr. Beecher delivered with enthusiasm,_ and it drew out a round of applause, and the preacher enjoyed it. He was afterward frequently compelled to pause, because of new outbreaks, and after an unusual manifestation he said, “two years ago the utterance of that sentiment would not have met with the approval of your feet, which it does now." ‘ « He spoke of excluding the Bible from the public schools, advocating it earnestly as the only fair policy. If was not fair, he said‘ to compel a Jew to pay taxes to support schools where the New Testament, in whichhe does not believe, was read every day to his children. Neither was it fair- to his Roman Catholic brother to tax him to sustain a system of public education in which the Protestants’ Bible was con- spicuously used. It _was not right either, should Catholic. gain the ascendency in affairs of State, to tax Protestants in support of schools Where the Douay version of the Scriptures was read to thepupils. “ Fair play.” cried he, “ is the mottos ‘ But,’_said some, ‘will this not make our ‘schools godless?’ Yes, in one sense, just as a hat store or furniture establish- ment is godless. The schools are not religious ‘institutions and Should not be made fso, any more than a store . What would you think of a man’s going into a furniture manufac- tory and asking the proprietor, ,‘ Do you make bedste-ads? ’ ‘ Yes,’ ‘ Do you make Biblesil ‘No, sir.’ ‘ Well, then, 1 .won’t patronize you. Your concern is a ‘godless one.’ ” The corngregation laughed at the ‘illustration. I‘here were persons, Mr. Beecher explained, who thought our forefathers were godless because the Word of God was not in the Constitution. The same persons contended for the Bible 1'1 We Public schools. This was Pharisaism run mad. There were mother’s work, church work, and common - school work in the education of a man; and each was sepa- rate from the other. He believed in inculcating principles of honesty, kindness, virtue, charity, and the ‘like, the funda- mental principles of true morality, but not sectarianism or even Protestantism. These were topics that belonged ex- clusively to the different churches. and were not properly a part of a common school education. Besides having the school houses comfortable and particular religions-excluded, thepublic should see that proper Commissioners of Educa- tion are appointed. “I know of cases near here,” said Mr. Beecher, and his voice dropped and his face assurncda serious expression, “ where Commissioners have hired female teach- ers, and have made their employment depend upon their wil- lingness to surrender their bodies to gratify the lust of their emyloyers. -Then stretching himself up to his full stature and stepping backward from his desk, with a stamp that shook the dust out of the carpet, “This is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost of intelligence.” ’ ' , _ , Children ought to be taught something of themselves as Well as of geography and grammar. “ While We teach them about the hills and valleys and gulf streams of geography we should also teach them about the hills and valleys and gulf streams here,” said he, slapping his hand on his breast. The press of the land. he S3.id,'W3.S coming over to the po- sition of excluding the Bible from-the common schools. They would help swell this enthusiasm that was as essential to the success of the measure as fermentation was to make wine. Education was essential to the best welfare of the State, A nation uneducated was like an iron mountain of unwrought ore. - - . If Mr. Beecher knows who the Commissioners are to whom he alludes, and who the teachers are who retain their positions in the way mentioned, why does he not take measures to secure the impeachment of the former and the removal of the latter. If he speaks without this knowledge, he is a traducer of the School Board as well as of the female teachers. After this public declaration from Plymouth pul- pit, no School Commissioner and no female teacher i.n Brooklyn is free from suspicion. Let each demand of Mr. Beecher, “.Is it I ‘E until the ones to whom his remarks ap- ply are left standing alone. ANNO UNCEMENT; When Jesus came preachingythe doctrines of nature and nature’s God (see i John vii, 16: My doctrine is not mine but his that sent me), he was compelled to go unto I the Gentiles, the despised‘ and lowly; for, as he said, “I came unto mine own and mine own received me not;” and now that the spirit of truth is again coming (see John xvi., 12) to «earth they who are chosen to make it plain by angelic power and inspiration, must needs go and do likewise. Thus Thomas Cook, an unpretendin-g instrument in the hands of the great divine spirit of nature, who is seeking for opportunities to testify of the faith ‘which has been given him, has sought and found the opportunity of preaching the gospel according to esus and Paul in Harry Hill’s Variety Theatre on East Houston street, near Crosby. Mr. Cook spoke there on Sunday evening, the 28th, and win speak there on'Sunday evening, Dec. 5. Subject: °‘ What was the religion of Jesus?” The New York Herald sent a representative to ‘report, jwh9~___s_ays: “Last evening there gathered in Harry Hill’s Theatre one of the most respectable audiences that were ever seenin the place. * * There were a large number of brokers and broker’-s’s clerks’ present, , who came there evidently to see hats smashed and some fun and they were astonished at the earnestness of the Rev. Cook." THE undersigned has translated, and will publish early in Decem_ber, 1875," a translation of the works of the ce1e.. brated French author, P. J. Proudhon, which, should it meets with a favorable reception from the American public, will be followed by the publication of the remainder of his writings. The ﬁrst volume is entitled “ What is Property? or, An In- quiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.” It will be a large octave volume, handsomely printed in large ‘type, on heavy toned paper, and will be sent, postpaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of price. Price, in cloth, $3 50$ full calf, blue,.gilt edge, 35.6 50. Remittances‘ may be made by postofﬁce money order payable at Worceg- ter, Mass., by draft on New York, or by registered letter. All orders should be addressed to BENJ. R. TUCKER, Princeton, Mass. . A A G-ENTLEMAN when making his will added a clause that his wife should remarry, which he explained was to be as- sured that there should befone person at least daily to deplore- his death. A SMALL boy, in New Haven made a sensation for a short time by quietly transferring a card bearing the words .“ Take One” from alot of handbills in front of a store to a basket of oranges. GIVE a boy a market-basket of grocerieslto carry home and . he will swing it across his spine, bend half way to the ground and groan with agony; but give him that weight of base-ball bats and he will skip along as merry as a potato-bug in a ten- acre lot. “H0w“is it,” said a Jay street woman to her husband, "that you can’t come home nights in some kind of season?” “You got me into the way of it,” was his gentle reply. “ Be- fore we were married you used to throw your arms about my neck at three o’clock and say, ‘ Don’t go, darling, it is early yet,’ but \if I now happen to stay out till two, it is a terrible affair.” MR. BLIVENS, an old bachelor who is much absorbed in politics, visited the widow Graham the other day just after reading Grant’s letter, and asked her what she thought of a third term. Now, the widow has been twice married, and in response to the question she made“ a rush for the astonished Mr. Blivens and taking him tightly in her arms, exclaimed, “ Oyou dear, dear maul What a happy woman I am !”’ At last accounts Mr. B. had locked himself in his wood house and was endeavoring to explain things to the widow through the keyhole. - I » A 4 WO0DHULLj§j&,GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY Dec. 11, 1875. ,TEIilVlS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - $3 00 one copy for six months, - - - - - - 1 50 Single copies, - - — - I - - 10 CLUB RATES. Five copies for one year, - - - - $12 ()0 ‘Pen copies for one year. - - - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months, - - - - - -; 0ne-half these rates. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION out an nuum To run AGENCY’ or run .AliIEB.ICAN Nnws oonrsnx, LON DON, ENGLAND.” One copy for one year, - . — . - $4 00 One copy for six months, - - - p - 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per line (according to location), - . From $1 00 to $2 50 Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. Special place in advertising columns cannot be permanently given. Advertiser’s bills wi be collected from the oiiice of this journal, and must in all cases, bear the signature of Woonnum. & CLAFLIN. specimen copies sent free. Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. , All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull ct‘ C'laﬂin’s Weekly, P. O. Box, 3791, N. Y. 0ﬁice,111 Nassau Street, Room 9. If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. ‘ To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hiddenimannar-—St. John the Divine. That‘ through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.———Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy:-J ames, 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 recover.-—Jesus. , 1 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 1875. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, forone 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. \ -----—---—¢»o—4&>——-———————-- TIIE 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 him.-—Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2. e._.; This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. {It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the . earth and spirit .sphe1'es in a common brotherhood, and the «establishment th.ereb_y of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced,‘ lint which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. We adopt this diagram as emblematic. of ogur future work SPIRlTUALISM;' ITS CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS. No. III. It has been a matter of surprise to us for several years, that there are so few Spiritualists who attempt to de- duce any conclusions from the logic of the events of Spirit- ualism. The doctrine of evolution, or progressive unfold- ing, was never more pointedly illustrated and proven than it has been in the development of especially the phenomenal phases of Spiritualism. First there came the little raps’ which have been followed by almost every other conceiva- ble method of manifesting power and intelligence. Finally materialization has come to be the touchstone. Mediums for materializations are most in demand. It is this which is considered to be the most satisfactory evidence‘ of spirit existence. Indeed when the spirit ..of some well-known person, say Abraham Lincoln, shall come and take on a physical formand be recognized beyond all possibility of a doubt, by any considerable number of people whose truth- fulness cannot be questioned, there will be an end to all doubt—spiritual life and the possibility of return will be as well established as is the fact of the Electric Telegraph. Now, do Spiritualists desire that such a demonstration and consummation shall come; do they want the whole world‘ to be convinced in this undisputable way? If they do, then they should set themselves about to procure the conditions in which it can be done. The only evidence there is that people are really in earnest about what they say, is that their acts accord with their expressed wishes. They not only have the .“faith,” but they have the “ works” also; andgthe latter prove the genuinencss of the former. 3 VVe have said befqre that Mediumship lies at the base of the whole striictuie of Spiritualism. Mediumistic condi- tions are the great‘ requisites by which its facts must be -established. The little raps which ﬁrst broke through the vale of separation, came because there were physical condi- tions surrounding the pcrsons through whom the spirits produced the momentous sounds, that made it possible for them to be produced. Now, what were those conditions? Were they physical, mental or moral? Were they condi- tions that were contained within the organism of the medi- ums; or were they conditions in the magnetic sphere of the mediums produced and maintained by the mediums? ’Were they in the mediums or in their environments? It will be admitted by all that these conditions, let them have depended upon what they may have, were not a result of the will power of the medium, exerted specially to pro- duce them. Hence they were not the voluntary productions of the mediums. The raps were, and still’ are, results of physical concussion. They are produced by some power exerted upon some matter; they were caused by motion in in matter; matter not visible to the physical eye of course, but none the less matter. Now from whence did that mat- ter, come; and why were the spheres of particular persons chosen in which to produce these sounds? Why may they not be produced at all places just as well and as readily as at certain places; why. not in the presence of all individuals as well as in that of some individuals; in a word why are they not common to all people in place of being conﬁned to a select few? ’ It seems to us that it is impossible to escape the evident reply to all these queries. The reason that manifestations can be produced -only in the presence of certain‘ people who are mediums, is because of the effects which these peo- ple produce upon the atmosphere; the inﬂuences which they communicateto it make it possible for the spirits to use it to carry out their purposes. So, then, the conditions that are requisite to communications reside in the surround- ings of the mediums, and not, at the time of their use, in the mediums. - But are the emanations from mediums ; are the particles of matter that their bodies cast off in their insensible per- spiration and in their respiration, different from those cast off by other people? No! and yes! No, when the chem- ical character of the matter is considered. Yes! when the life principles that those elements have acquired by having been passed through the laboratory of the organization of the medium is the point in question. The same law holds good in this case that holds in all other cases where the same principles are involved. The chemical properties, or the properties of elemental matter, that can be analyzed and formulated by chemical analysis are the same for all matter, let it have passed through whatever organization it may have passed, or through none at all ; the same whether obtained from the body of the man or from the original rocks. The structural unit of nucleated protoplasm, which is the basis of all organic life, is the same for all or- gapisms; but the relative effects which are produced by these units when obtained from different forms, vary as widely as do the organisms from which they are obtained. So, then, if the elements of which matter is composed are not changed by reason of passing through various grades of organic form, then there is something resident in them that does change; and this fact is not altered whether its explana- tion be attempted upon the materialistic or the spiritualistic theory. The fact that a structural unit of one specie of -animals, deposited in the femalejof anotherispecie, will not produce a representative of either of the species involved, is not changed’ by saying that the res‘ult is due to matter as the basis of physical life, or that it is due to something resident in matter of which the latter is the external clothing or expression merely. One thing is certain, however, and this is, that it is not the matter of which a structural unit is. composed, that determines the form into which it shall here- after develop, but that it is the life principle that is resident within it.* Now, the law to which we have called attention is not only applicable to the matter that has passed through dif- ferent species of organic forms, but it is also applicable to different grades of the same species, and is the basis upon which the law of heredity rests. The character of the man is notlhis physical organization, nor the elements out of which it is formed; but it is that subtle thing, that im- ponderable essence that pervades it, of which neither the scalpel nor the crucible can take hold. It is upon this power, whether it be called a property of matter, or whether the matter in whicl1 it manifests itself be called its external expression .that the capacity for mediumship depends; and it is because some persons communicate to the matter which passes through their organism a highly spiritualized essence that makes it possible for spirits to take hold of the matter and use it for their purposes after it has been cast off into the atmosphere. I * Much more might be said upon this highly important and interesting matter, but this is not the place to say it. A STATEMENT OF THE NEW TRUTH. In further consideration of the subject introduced last week under the caption of “ The Spiritual and the Natural,” we desire this week to give, in as brief a. manner as possible a resume of the principal points that are involved by the now truth, to the allegorical unfoldment of which we have devoted a large part of the IVEEKLY since the middle of April. And at the outset we wish to distinctly impress it upon the minds of our readers that we have not advocated these truths because we found them in the Bible, ndr be- cause they are contained in that very remarkable book ; but that we have advocated, and, as plainly as the circumstances of the case would admit of at the time, have stated these truths, because we found them in nature—-in man and woman—found them exempliﬁed and realized to the extent of what may be rightly called absolute demonstration. It . was then discovered to us that these thingswhich we had found were the mysteries concealed within all the allegories and ﬁgures of the Bible, and that they explained and harmon- ized everything about that book that had hitherto been in- explicable and paradoxical. Under these circumstances, to have taken any other course than we did take would have been not only to be false to the new light that had been given to us, but also to be foolishly ignoring and leaving unused so powerful a weapon against the very thing with which we were waging an unrelenting warfare. We knew then, and we know now, that the Bible is to be Wrested from the things which it is now supposed to support, and to be made a lever of progress such as has never before moved the world ; that it will necessarily carry over with it to the new truth thous- ands who have been really honest in their worship of it as the basis of their former views, while from the fact that it really corroborates and inculcates the views which they have obtained logically from observation of nature and by experi- ence, it will also’ regain many admirers from among those who have cast it aside as utterly useless ; and hence, instead , of being antagonistic to the new, actually shows that what they had supposed to be new to this age, to have been known, and prophesied about, thousands of years ago, as that which should come to be the salvation of the world. We repeat that we found the facts in the human race that are bound up in and sealed as mysteries of the Bible, During the last ten years we have studied the social problem in every possible sense and form. We found a hundred facts clearly demonstrated in life which are so utterly opposed to the present pretended standard of virtue and purity, that we were forced to the conclusion that all these things were really unknown to anybody, or else that those who had discovered them were not suﬂiciently cour- ageous, morally, to speak them out. Indeed we came to know that the class in whose hands the lives of the people are deposited in good faith for safe keeping, let their respon- sibilities die before they would tell them the truth; and that they would quietly look on and see the rising generation run blindly into destruction without raising a single voice of warning. VVe sought after and found fact after fact that proved beyond all possibility of cavil that, in regard to the law of the relations by which the two sexes are bound to- gether there was absolute ignorance. We questioned the best informed and most popular physicians of the country about certain things, and not one of them could give us any competent explanations. They could give us no clue to the mystery of the differences that exist in one sex of the different species of animals including man./ They could only say “these things are so, and so far as we know have always been so, and that is all we know about the matter.” But we_found, after" awhile, that although these things had been almost universally true and were so still of both sexes, there were exceptions to the universality, so marked and distinct as to point unerringly to some unknown func_ tional law. There are some women living now who were never polluted as described, by the Prophet Ezekial in the XVI. chapter; and .by perseverence we traced this phe_ nomenon back to its cause and found that a very uneggplected and, even to "us, most startling fact laid at the foundation .-u\u..\, ,."-,. V . «’?<I.—‘- 1 4/ 17%). .2 . \ v .«/ _.-;—’>-> » connecting wire. Doc. 11, 1375. - J.‘ woonnutn l & oLAIt‘L1n*s ‘WEEK,L§‘.» 5 of it-—a fact which if new declared to the world in plain terms would shock its pretense of virtue to the very center, and cause it to cry out anew, “ Crucify him! crucify him!” ‘with all the vigor of centuries ago. But here were the living truths standing before us. What could we do with them? We had set out to learn what was at the bottom of all the disease and misery with which the race is aﬁiicted, and right here, at the outset, were met by a fact which gave the solution to nearly all of that with which one sex is cursed. Here were women, advanced in years, who were still in the prime of life and the most perfect health—not half as aged in appearance as are four-ﬁfths of the married at thirty. These women were not under the curse of Eve. Their sorrows and conceptions had not been multiplied; their desires had not been unto their husbands; and no man had ruled over them. (See Genesis, iii. 16.) But strong as was this evidence, we sought for more con- ﬁrmatory facts, and found it to be true that the sorrows and conceptions of woman-her trials, suiferings, bodily inﬁrmaties—-are precisely in proportion to the amount of waste of life which she suffers monthly. Now this may be astartling assertion, but are women so dumb and blind that they will not learn anything by the common facts of their sex? Let them look about among themselves and learn that what we say is true—the less waste the more ro- bust health—the greater the waste the greater the physical trials and suﬂerings of all kinds. The ﬁrst deﬁnite and unescapable conclusion to which we were driven by these facts, was that this waste which is almost universal among women, is a disease; and, without any hesitation, we pro- nounce it to be so. . Although we had here arrived at a very startling and won- derful conclusion, we were destined to discover stillmore startling and wonderful facts. Not only was it positively demonstrated that this is a disease that may be escaped, but that it is one which, under certain circumstances, may. be cured. In discovering this, the _last vail that remained between us and the ﬁnal mystery was removed, and we stood face to face with the last truth that there is in regard to hu- man existence : that truth which is destined to unlock the gates of death for those who have already passed its portals, and to close them never to open for those who possess it, here. VVomen suffer and die prematurely on account of this dis- ease, this wasting-death. They must live, having its cur- rents turned into giving-life streams,’ and reversing the course of that flow; instead of ﬂowing outward as rivers of death, they must turn inward as pure rivers of waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God (see Revelations xxii, 1), and man must live by giving vital- ity to these currents, as he gives vitality to the embryotic life, and thereby be enabled to partake of the tree of life, which stands in the midst of the paradise of God (see Revelations ii, 7) and in the midst of the street and on either side of the river of life, bearing its fruit every month, and whose, leaves are for the healing of the nations (see Revelations, xxii, 2)‘ This was the same tree that stood in the midst of the Gar- den of Eden, whose seed was within itself, of which “ our ﬁrst parents ” were commanded not to eat, but having done which the curse came. This curse is the disease with which the people were afliicted when the rivers and springs of Egypt were turned to blood, and when Pharoah and his host were engulfed in the waters of the Red Sea. The chil- dren of God are the only ones for whom the waters of the sea part to allow them to pass to the land of promise safely. This, in brief, is the allegorical statement in the Bible of the facts which we have discovered to exist in nature; in man, male and female. There is atruth then regarding the relations of the sexes, which, when made known and lived, will be the regenera- tion of the race. Little do Christians realize how nearly true the question was which Nicodemus put to Jesus. Let but a single word be expunged and another changed to complete the sense and there will be a perfect statement of the truth. It is this truth that lies half concealed in all the ﬁgures of the Bible. It crops out into almost full sight in the conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well, in Samaria, and then again it is forshadowed clearly by Abraham’s servant and Rebecca at the _well, ‘in which 'Rebecca let down her pitcher and gave the servant to drink. In examining ‘into these beautiful things, it must be remembered that they are but pen-pictures of the truth, which is allegoricallypresented by the language in which it is drawn. Beneath the external ﬁgure must the truth be sought, and never in the literal meaning of the language itself. In studying the subtle and interior relations of the sexes, it should always be remembered that they represent the positive and negative sides of the creation. They stand in the same relation to each other, and are governed by the same laws as electricity. They have their positive and negative batteries and poles. That there may be a perfect communication between them the opposite poles must be brought intoactual contact through the medium of the Then the current passes from the posi- tive pole over-the wire to the negative pole and is returned through the common medium, any defection from the per- fect condition, either completely destroying or weakening the communication. Another analogical fact to be observed is this: The positive current does not pass over the con- necting method of communication,‘ because it is sent; but because there is a negative condition at the other end that attracts it. The objective point of all electrical currents is that one which is most negative to its source. The electric belt that descends from the positively charged cloud in which it is conﬁned, strikes that point to which it is at- tracted, not a point to which it was directed. We refer to these laws in this connection to show thatthe negative forces in the universe are really the governing power in these subtle electrical and magnetic conditions; and, con- sequently, that in the relations of the sexes, woman is the’ rightful queen. Under the curse in which she lives, this queen- ship has been wrested from her. The result has been that the general curse has fallen on her as well as on the ‘man. Abraham’s servant said to Rebecea, “Let downthy pitcher that I may drink.” And she replied, “Drink, my lord.” But Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, “If thou knewest who it is that saith to thee give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water.” — A The realization of the truths to which we refer, which are to open to the race undreamed of glories, and become its savior from death because its savior from all forms of sin, is a physical fact. Nor is it one that is to be attained by any negative process; by simply refraining from doing the things that now are done; but it is to be gained by affirmative action; by the doing of a thing which is to supersede the things that now are done, which produce results that all deplore. It is not a matter of faith; with all the faith that one may have, there must be also works to prove the faith. So those who have inferred that we have meant that the bad which now prevails must simply cease with nothing new and good to take its place,.have not inferred correctly. There has got to be a positive action ; a doing of certain things; a conformity to the law of the relations of the sexes, in place of the misuse which now is next to universal. And when this shall be done, the curse that follows woman now will be withheld, and in the blessing she will receive she will bless the giver more,_and in this giving and receiving it will be realized that it is the two who perfectly unite who form a single whole,iand exemplify ihe saying that “ What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” The proposition then is, that when the act by which the wastes in man and woman are to be utilized and saved shall be revealed;and lived, then the disease to which we have re- ferred will pass away, and in its place will come a pure river of water of life. As the act called sin by John is the basic sin of all other sin in man, so is this disease in woman, which came as a result of that sin in man, the basic cause of all the ills from which she suffers. these two primal causes will remove the cause of death, for death is caused by sin, and is the devil of the Bible. When the conditionmto--which..we refer shall be attained, and the two prime causes of all other ills removed, then there will be no inducements to commit the lesser sins with which the World is ﬁlled. When “born again,” when born of the Spirit, and into the Spirit, the Spirit of man will rise to the control, and be no longer the abject slave and subject of ‘the body; and this it is to triumph over death, for death is of the body only ; and to triumph over death, is to have realized “ the truth” that Jesus came to bring to ligh-t. _A V‘ PERSONAL. Ool. J. H. ‘Blood .' I was surprised beyond measure and pained beyond ex- pression to see in the last WEEKLY the remarks appended to an extract from the Spimtualist at Work, entitled “By their fruits,” etc. V permitted such a thing as that to appear when you know so well that it is entirely at variance with my oft-expressed method of treating these ‘who choose to be vulga"r,iand to rail at and abuse me or the cause to which I am devoted. I wish you to say in the next paper that I entirely disap- = prove of noticing anything of that kind; and, least of all, of noticing it in such a way as to put myself in comparison with them. I desire to do my work the best I can under ‘ the guidance of the Spirit, and if it please God to bless my efforts, let the glory be given to Him, who ‘blesses me by appointing me to do His service. It is in this spirit that I work, and it is in this also that I wish-at all times to meet the attacks and revilements of those who diﬁer from me, as well as to regard the fruits that may result from my labors. I trust that the columns of the paper that bears my name at its head may never again be sullied in the manner to which I refer. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. ERIE, PA., Nov. 27, 1875. I know of no better way of presenting the criticism of the editor-in-chief of the VVEEKLY. upon the appearance of the article in question, than to publish her letter to me, in which it is stated, which I do gladly, and add that whatever reprobation of it there may have arisen in the minds of any of its readers on its account, belongs to me alone. It is proper that I should state, however, that I entirely agrees with Mrs. Woodhul;.l'7i>n her criticism ; and so long as,I have anything to do with tlie conduct of the WEEKLY, shall pre- serve the purity of thought and heighth of purpose which it has been at all times her desire to have exempliﬁed in" its columns, which it is right for me to admit was transcended by the appearance -Qkf the article to which she has 'ta1_{en ex- ception. I J. H. Bnoon, -acknowledgment for the remittance. The doing away of ' I cannot imagine how you could have . EXPLANATORY. It has always been ithe [practice of the WEEKLY to, in some way, acknowledge the receipt of money, let it have been received for whatsoever purpose. All contributions are published in the paper; for all remittances for subscrip- tion receipts are intended to be sent, while for speeches, books and photographstlieir reception by mail is asuﬂicient. If from any reason any of our subscribers or readers have any cause whatso- ever, real or apparent, to feel aggrieved at any seeming neg-- lect on our part in relation to these matters, ‘If they will. make it known, We shall gladly make any proper repara- tion, explanation or rectiﬁcation. THE REACTION IN LONDON. In his lecture on Religious Reform, R. W. Hume said -that “the present aspect of Protestantism was not satisfac- tory to its well wishers ; that revivals exhibited rather the ﬂush of fever than the ruddy glow of health; that the re- action from such spiritual debauches not unfrequently left those who indulged in them less virtuous than before.” If the following from the. “ Londonderry Cov'enanter”—for which we are indebted to the New Yorl{'JIerald—be correct, something more interesting to the clergy results from such evangelical inebriation. Speaking of the present time, it says: “The (London) prayer meeting has dwindled down almost to nothing. Where thousands assembled when Moody, Sankey and the American organ were ‘present, only from ten to twenty are to be found. ‘The requests for prayer, which took so long to read that they had to be classiﬁed, have/all but ceased A large increase of church member- ship was expected, particularly in the North of London, around the Agricultural Hall, where the meetings were so crowded, but instead, the ministers report an actual decrease of the numbers of those seeking membership in the churches.” ~ Then come the following heartfelt moans over the enor- mous sum which the revival is said to have cost, taken from the same article: ' ~ . “ During the past two years about a quarter of a million (pounds sterling) has been expended on the work of these Americans. We look for results in vain. If the game had been expended on the ordinary means of grace some solid and lasting results would have been obtained-. To use a homely adage, so far as regards this mission of" the so-called evangelists, the British churches appear tohave: reason to complain that with them this revival business is; ‘«‘ all talk and no cider,” or “ all talk and no sacramentali wine,” which amounts to the same thing. Verily, aftemhe. above exhibit, we commend our Protestant brethren andi sisters to abide resolutely by “the ordinary means of grace” whatever these may be. Paul says, “ Godliness is proﬁtable unto all things, having promise of the life that new is and of that which isto come,” but this revivalism, looked at. from a clerical standpoint, appears to be useful neither for" future nor present occasions. - In conclusion, we take the liberty of presenting our . readers with the little bill of costs which is taken from the same paper, which terms it I . THE REVIVAL BALANCE SHEET, . $2.750 00 1 Subscriber, £550 7 d0 500 17.500 00 12 do , 250 15.000 00 40 do 100 23,000 00 36 do ’ 101/9 1,990 00.. 209 do - 10 10,450 009 39 - do 5% 1,810 353 469 do 5 ’ 11,725 on 27 do 23.6d. 14 S)/', 15 do 1s.0_d. -75 $84,243 00 A very nice little sum, contributed, as our readers will perceive by the amounts, mostly by Mamroou’ for the fur_ therance of the cause of modern Protestant, Christianity. In ancient times it is said that; Judas earaﬂed the bag, but if there be any Judas in the company of our modem evange_, ‘ lists we submit it would be well for him to carry a sack in, stead. ' I »>~—¢.vb—-r-I--—-_—.._,..____ CIIAUNCEY Bxnnns. From the Omaha .Hemld,in a column report, we learn that this “ Spiritual Prophet, chosen from his ﬁshing boat, to be the coming man,” is creating quite a - commotion in the West. In the Herald’: report there are - many public tests recorded as performed, which, in the language of the reporter, “are not to be easily accounted for on any mundane theory.” Chauncey Barnes is in many respects, arremarkable person; undoubtedly is an honest and conscientious medium. His public tests are similar to ' those given by E. V. Wilson; and are fully equal to them, Nor is it too much to say that he is a thorough devotee to the truth as he sees it; he never hesitates on any oocasioﬁ we proclaim all that he-knows. He, follows no line of policy; but always does What he thinks right at the time, fearless of consequences, which course has led. some to shun him, as “not safe.” But for all this he has a mission, and is work. ing in his own way to fulﬁll it. He goes from Omaha to Salt Lake City-,'f and thence to San Francisco, atwhich places we hope he may sow the. seed of .“ the New Dispensatioliff‘ plentifu1ly._ , . * 6 - A WOOVDHULL «St CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. THE LECTURE SEASON. Victoria C. W'oodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will receive applications to lecture anywhere in the United . States. They will go into the ﬁeld early, and will ﬁll engagements in various parts of the‘ country as their regular trip shall bring them into itsrespective parts. They will lecture upon - the following subjects: The Mystery of the Sealed Book-. God, Christ, Devil. The Garden of Eden’. The Two Worlds. _ , Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science. The Human Body the Holy Temple. K Christian Communism. The True and the False Socially. The Destiny of the Republic. The Principles of Finance; and The Rights of Children. The first seven of these subjects form a regula.r course, and are a. clear and comprehensive argument, establishing beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover the whole groundsfof the Sealed Mystery. Applications for the course, ‘or for single lectures, may be made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered. Mrs. Woodhull will speak in Meadville, Pa., Nov. 26; Erie, Pa., Nov. 27 ; Corry, Pa., Nov. 29; Linesville, Pa., Nov. 30; Batavia, N. Y., Dec. 1; Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 2; Syracuse, N. 17., Dec. 3; Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 4; Buffalo (Sunday), Dec. 5; Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 6; Little Falls, N.Y., Dec. 7; Pittsﬁeld, Mass., Dec. 8; North Adams Mass., Dec. 9; Northampton, Mass, Dec. 10; Westfield, Mass., Dec‘. 11 ; Springﬁeld, Mass. (Sunday), Dec. 12 ; Holyoke, Mass, Dec. 13. If any change in dates is made it will be announced in the local papers. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VVEEKLY. 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N ov. 15, 1875.] The rain on Saturday night preventeda large audience ' from gathering at the hall, yet if Steubenville had been sifted for the express purpose of accomplishing such a result, it would not‘ have been possible to present a more select or in- tellectual audience thanassembled onthat evening to listen to Mrs. Woodhul1’s views on “ the True and False, Socially.” Before the lecture began Tennie Claﬂin made her appear- ance on the stage and rendered a poem in a manner that im- {pressed the audience’ that she has ﬁne dramatic ability. [From the Logansport Star, Oct. 22, 1875.] Mus. wooDHULL’s ORATION. There was a fair attendance at the Opera House last even- ing to listen to Victoria C. Woodhull upon “ The True and the False, Socially.” There were quite a number of respect- able ladies present, and while there was a fair’ proportion of lay members of the churches there was a conspicuous ab- sence of divines. In short, theaudience was in point of in- telligence as ﬂattering an one as ever greeted a, lecturer in this city. The speaker was listened to with rapt attention, V, and now and then as she forced home some unpleasant ttzuuth, was encouraged by bursts of applause. Her tones are clear and penetrating, but her utterances are so rapid that little room is afforded for the graces of elocution. She does not employ the aidof gestures until she warms up with the earn- estness of her thoughts. Then she exhibits true oratorical. ability and dramatic skill. Her style, however, is always animated, rather giving the impression that she has so much to say that she must speak quickly and economize her time. ,.She§handled her subject, the social problem, without gloves, / . ., V presenting the shame, superﬁcialties and inconsistencies of the present order of things in their true colors, tearing aside the Vail placed over them through false delicacy. [From the Canton (Ohio) Times, Nov. 18.] A \ EDITORIAL. Victoria Woodhull lectured at the Opera House on Wed- nesday evening. Her audience was an appreciative one, composed extensively of ladies, who went to hear the “truth,” and they heard it. Mrs. Woohull is an excellent speaker and presents her argument in such an earnest manner that the most ignorant can fully understand her meaning. ‘She comes down to solid facts and "endeavors to impress upon her au- dience the necessity of raising children to lead pure and virtuous lives. Mrs Woodhull has been viliﬁed and abused by bothpress and public, but if we understand her correctly it was because she told truths, that all know are truths. but do not like to hear them. VVe trust that Mrs. Woodliull will againrvisit us, and if she does, we can safely assure her a jammed, crowded house. [From the Banner, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, N ov. 19.] EDITORIAL. 5 Mrs. Woodhull lectured at Woodward Hall on Thursday evening. VVe have no doubt nearly every lady in Mt. Vernon was anxious to see and hear what she had to say; but con- ceiving that it would not be “respectable” to be seen in the Hall on that evening, many concluded to keep away. They certainly missed a treat; for instead of anything that would bring a tinge to the cheek of the most reﬁned and sensitive lady, the lecturer championed the cause of woman, and in “thoughts that breathe and ‘words that burn,” uttered great truths that mankind as well as womankind might proﬁt by. Many have qformegcl a wrong impression in regard to Mrs. Woodhull. She ut‘ters nothing immoral or impure—nothing that would not graice any pulpit or rostrum in the land; and we venture to say if she visits Mt. Vernon again there is no hall in the city large enough to hold the audience that will turn out to hear her. She is the best female-orator we have ever listened to—far surpassing Olive Logan or Anna Dick- inson. ‘Her voice is clear and .musical, her enunciation full and distinct, her gestures graceful and her elocution earnest and emphatic. She has a wonderful command of language and never uses an improper word to express her ideas. , [The Canton Repository, Nov. 19.] Mrs. Woodhull delivered her lecture at the Opera House on Wednesday evening to a large audience. About one hundred ladies were present. The lecture was peculiarly a good one, and was delivered in good taste. Mrs. W.’s voiceis excellent, and her graces of elocution are such as to command the at- tention and secure the admiration of her audience. After the ﬁrst half hour she laid aside her notes, and for an hour poured forth a streamvof oratory that was as remarkable for its substance as for its vehement and earnest delivery and extraordinary rapiditvand power. She certainly enchained her audience throughout. There can be no doubt of her wonderful ability, nor that it is of a high order. That her views of social reform, so far as the general laws of procreation and of personal habits of both sexes are con- cerned, are the correct views we also believe. They are in accordance with the highest standards of science, as ex- poundedand admitted by the ablest scientists of the times. To proclaim them and to impress them npon the country she thinks is her mission. To do this, it seems to us it is not nec- essary to attack the churches and religious bodies of the day as she does, though she insists that they stand arrayed against all progress in this direction. ' [From the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, Nov. 23, 1875.] Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull was greeted last evening, at the Academy of Music, by a large and intelligent audience. Many of our best ladies and gentlemen turned out to hear what the persecuted but talented genius had to say on the subject of “ The True and the False, Socially,” a theme sup- posed to be extremely congenial and likely to reﬂect her ex- treme notions, whatever they might be. She was plainly and neatly dressed in black, was easy and graceful in her man- ners, and was pleasant and musical in the tones of her voice. As she warmed with the subject, her excitement showed itself in a flushed face, which gave her a handsome. and very young appearance. “ I don’t want you to build a monument to my memory when I’m gone, but I do beg you to let me, without calumny and persecution, build my own monument while I live. I would rather be cherished in the hearts of this people for the sake of theliving truth in an be rich in jewels and stocks; and it is in the hope that my plain, earnest language may lead some here present to be pure men and women that I now bid you good, night.” (Great applause.) [From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 7, 1875.] VICTORIA c. wooDHULL AT noBINsoN’s OPERA HOUSE, 01 NOINNATI. Robinson’s Opera House was ﬁlled last night with an atten- tive audience to hear Victoria C. Woodhull’s lecture. When the curtain rolled up, disclosing a parlor scene set with fur- niture, Mrs. Woodhull entered by the centre entrance, not unlike Lady Macbeth reading the letter. [From the Indianapolis Daily J carnal, Nov. 23, 1875.] MRS. WOODHULL. Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture at the Academy of Music, last evening, attracted an audience which, both in respectability and size, was not inferior to those which greet , the distinguished stars of the theatrical or musical world. The lecturess was attired in a black dress, and after the first ﬁf- teen minutes discarded her manuscript and talked to the audience directly and forcibly. Her manner is peculiarly earnest. She spoke for an hour and a half, -closing‘ with a strong and glowing advocacy of her much persecuted views, pleading forcibly for the recognition and love of society, and ﬁnally bowing herself gracefully from the stage amidst thun_ ders of applause. ‘ Dec. 11, 1875 THE POWER THAT MOVES THE PEOPLE. COLONEL J. H. BLOOD, MANAGLING EDITOR WEEKLY: Dear 0oZonel—Yours of yesterday just to hand, contents noted. Mrs. Woodhull undoubtedly had reference to Rev. A B. Bradford, of Enon Valley,'Beaver County, Pa., on the road between here and Pittsburgh. He was here and attended her lecture, was once arPresbyterian minister, turned to be a strong anti—s1avery man before the war, and ﬁnally drifted . out of the church, became a free-tinker, then a Spiritualist, and is now a “ Woodhull” man. Mr. Bradford is a man of splendid abilities and a thoroughly radical reformer. Mrs. W. had a fair audience at this place. Her lecture conquered every he _ the hall, and turned enemies into admiring and loving friends. There has been a perfect revo- lution in sentiment since her lecture. ‘ I never saw the like of it. Men and women who had hitherto denounced her and regarded her as an enemy to good morals, 1 etc. in spite of all the pleading a little band of half dozen of u us could do, cannot now say enough in her praise. She. is the most wonderful woman on earth. She comes and conquers, and goes to conquer still. She is perfectly irresist- ible. God and the angels protect her, and all of you. _Y our friend and brother, CHARLES BoNsAI.L. I regard Emerson with some admiration, yet qualiﬁed by" the evident source of his wisdom, inasmuch as it reaches,‘ not the heart and soul, but, like the ﬁne-out diamond, glit- ters to the eye and sense, but not to the spirit. His intellect is ﬁnely and chastely displayed, and in the tournament of a cold philosophy he is the chosen gladiator, and carries off the honors; but in a. soul-sense he does not begin to equal such men as Che.-pin or John VV. Chadwick, and the presence of the man would never inspire me to anything more than to emu- late his culture and turn the pages of the countless ‘volumes of erudition whichare every day friends to him. CHARLOTTE BARBER. ——<®r—-: BUSINESS’ EDlTO.itIALS. ALL families and invalids should have Prof. P-aine’s short- hand treatment of disease—~a small book of forty pages Sent free on application to him at No. 2323 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. ' WARREN CHASE will lecture in Olathe, I{an., Doc. 5, 6, 7 and 8; in De Sota, Kan.. Dec. 9, 10, 11 and 12: in Council Bluffs,- Iowa, Dec. 15, 16, 17 and 19; in Ogden, Utah, Dec. 23, 24, 25 and 26; and in San Francisco during year 1876. His address will be Oakland, Cal., after January 1 till further notice. Mus. H. AUGUSTA WHITE, late superintendent of Dawn Valcour Community, having been developed as a superior clairvoyant, bya band of advanced spirits, will soon give readings at the Co-operative House, 308 Third avenue. Advice given on business and social affairs. I-Iours from 10 to 5. THE New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of’ Progress will hold their annual convention in Library Hall, Newark, on Saturday and Sunday, December 11th and 12th, 1875. Three sessions daily at 10, I2 and 7 o’clock. Election of officers and other important business will be transacted. Among the speekers engaged are Prof. R. VV. Hume and Mr\s. Anna M. Middlebrook. All are cordially invited. ‘ D. J. STANSBERY, Sec’y. L. K. COONLEY, President THE Northern Wisconsin Spiritual Conference will hold its next Quarterly Meeting in Ripon, Wis., on the 17th, 18th and 19th of December, 1875. Mrs. Dr. Severance is already engaged for the occasion. Other prominent speakers will be in attendance. Let all come up to the work, and not leave the burthen for the few. The meeting will be called to order at 2 o’clock P. M., on Friday, the 17th. ISAAC ORVIS, Pres. ' DR. J. C. PHILLIPS, Sec’y, Northern ‘Wis. Spiritual Conference. OMRO, VV1S., NOV. Zélth, 1875. A SINCERE IN QUIRER. A gentleman, between the ages of twenty-five and thirty, with steady employment, desires to meet with a lady of sim- ilar age and circumstances with a view to forming a union based on freedom, equality and justice, for social and do- mestic purposes. He believes in the right and duty of wo- man to maintain her personal sovereignty under all circum- stances. She must hold the same views. Address F. E. J., Care WOODIIULL 82: CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. A middle aged gentleman wishes to make the acquaintance of a lady, or ladies and gentlemen, who is free to go out to the world, or before the world, and live the “ New Departure ” of.Mrs. Woodhull; one who has been educated in the school of experimental suffering to endure all things, hope for all ' things, justify all thihgs, and condemn not; with a view to establish a “ new era ” upon the earth. Address in conﬁdence, CHRISTIAN, Care WOODHULL do CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.—Th6 leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter- changeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, comprising the most eminent politicaleconomists of the age. One page devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. 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Serpcnt._ Chap. 4.——Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of ti G d . = Chalfi. 5f)——SVirgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.i _ Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Sav1or’s Birthplace. ; _ , Chap. 7.,—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant S ' .. ' _ Cli:pV.1‘S).1~'l‘lie ’.L‘wenty~ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.—Titlcs of the Saviors. Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble P‘ th. Chalp. 11.—-Christ’s Genealogy. ~ Chap. 12.-——'l’he World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- ti on in Infancy. _ _ V _ Chap. 13.—'l‘he Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- ‘ 't . - 1y4.~The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Personages. . Chap. 16.~—Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Chap. 17.——’l‘l1e Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁ ' . I 011$? l18.——Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.~Rcappearance and Ascension of the Sav- ClI?t]1::)S.h2I.—-T118 Atonement: its Oriental or Ileathe O -' ‘ . Ch2tl1i.Org:Z.—Tlie Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The,_Divine “VVord” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ _ Chap. 25.—Absolntion, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ _ Chap. 26.—Orig1n of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ , Chap. 2”/.—-'l‘ne Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen. Origin. _ _ ._ Chapz.:f28.—-Anointing with Oil of Or1cntal_Or1g1n. Chap. 29.—How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. _ . Chap. 30.——Sa cred Cycles explaining the Advent of the Gods, the Master—key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. , ~ Chap. 31.-—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oigiental Systems.I _ _ _ Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and __Forty~six striking Analogies between Christand Crishna. 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Persons liv- ing at a distance from the Centres of Trade can Save The Frame The Keenest Satire ,of Modern 1 Times. \ . ecsll. A. Satire in Verse on the Rev. HENRY WARD BEECIIER, and the A1-guments ot his Apologists in the Great Scandal; DRAJIATIS PERSONJE. Rev. II. W. Beecher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Theodore Tilton. Deacons of Plymouth Church . . . . . . . . ..F. D. Moulton. Chiefs of the great journals . . . . . . . . .}Y_3i°nd_hu11‘ ‘ ‘ “Jonathan,” one of . Lawyer “ Sam.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { Mrs. E. R. Tilton. ' the people, etc. THE INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY have now ready ll1 llne covers. the above STARTLING AMPHLET, show- ing in vivid colors RE AI. LIFE : “ BEHIND THE SCENES ” in the greatest scandal of any agel The “ ways that were dark, and the tricks that proved vain,” are here exposed to the‘ glaring light of e (la . Thelnimitable arguments of “Jonathan;” his pri- vate opinions publicly expressed, are like nothing since the “ Bigelow Papers.” The readers of WooDnULL AND CLAELiN’s WEEKLY will ﬁnd in this brochure the great principles of Social Freedom pungently set forth without the slightest iluniincry. In short, it will be read everywhere and by every- body, in cars. on steamboat, in the woods of Maine,. and on the Western plains, in cabin and in_castle. peI:I;B%E 1}(l)l.‘ep€)l(1 by mail, 15 cents per single copy; WANTE D.—-First class Canvassers, to whom spleI1-- did commission will he paid. sTATioNs. Express. sTAT1oNs. Eacpress. Lv: 23d Street, N. Y ..... 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, ‘N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 1:.‘ M. , "9" Ghambers street . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. 7.00 “ l "‘ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ Jersey Cit . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ ‘ “ lloruellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ Hornellsv le . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 Expmss. “ Buﬁalo . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Buffalo... . . . . .._ . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ —----- Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A.‘M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. . 1.35 :‘ 9.50 p‘.‘m A: Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 ‘; 11.20 " Loiidon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 ‘ 5.55 “ ‘ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.5.: 2.85 a. m. “ l)etroit.... ......... .. 9.40 “ 10.00 " “ Detroit ................ .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ {E ,]'a(;](5Qn,,____,_ , 12.15 P M 1.00 A. M ‘: Jackson ......... .... .. 1.00 A“ M 11.30 ‘~ Q ‘_‘ Chicago . . . . . . . . .. . . . 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ ‘ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 8.4.1 1). m. Flt Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 5.30 A_.‘ M. 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. in. .7117 ‘l’rair 8.55 P. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . .. 8.55 p. in. A1 lfilrcssc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 8:11.‘ T\“E“;s7,.‘1>;m1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A M gll-5~"\‘r St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. . Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 I’. M. . . Km Sedalia ...... ......... .. 5.40 2-. M. Ar Sedalia ................ .. 0.50 A. 1:. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ E‘ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.00‘ 1-. M. . . . . Ar Bismarck.. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.01 P. M. . . . . ‘* Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ Columbus ...... 6.30 “ l Little Rock ............... .. 7.30 1». M. “ Little Rock ............ .. iii]: Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A M- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M ‘ “ (»ma1ia..' ................. .. 11.00 1-. M. “ Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. M. “ Clieycnne . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . , “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .. 12.50 I’. M $"0gdcn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Ogden----_ - - - - - - - - - - - -- 5-30 “ ’ “ San Francisco ........... .. “ San Francisco ....... .. 8.30 “ Ar Hnlcsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M- Ar Galesburg . . . . _ . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 r. M. “Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 “ “Qu1ncey............ 9.45 “ . “ Joseph ..... ........ .. 10.00 “ - “ St.Joseph_ -------- 8.10 4- M.» l “ l{aiis:1s City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M. “ Kansas City ---- - -- ---- -- 9-25 “ '--~-‘ " /\tchison............ . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ ,, “ Atch180!1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ . “ Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.10 “ ~ . . . . " Leavenworth - ~ - - - - - - - . . . 12-40 I\0011~ - - . . . ;“ Denver-.. . . . . . 7.00 A. M . . ‘f Denver.. .......... .. V , Througliff {Sleeping Car Arrangements 9.15 11.2.1.-Day’Express from Jersey City (daily exce t Sunday), with Pullma_n’s Drawing-Room Cars 'a11dcci1ncctin at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in the following (lay in time to take the morning trains from there. ‘ 7.20 1-. M,-—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Cliimgo without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF .llliel1iga11.. Central & Great, Western ; Railways. At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Gait, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. 7 At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway. , At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an '- daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also Dc troit, Lansing & Lake Michi an R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City It. Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. I . to Toledo. At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. . At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel _River R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Banker’s, Wﬁ.ter}QQ' Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis. At Jackson, with Grand River Valley Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, Pam. ‘water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch. for Lansing. 0W0§50» S8-glnaw, Wenoua,_Stand1sh,— Crawford ancliiiterniediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne, 521-91‘ ‘:5 Saginaw R. R. for J onesville, Waterloo, }."'\ri ,“Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Oin. R. R. to Cincinnati. At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. A Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to G. Junction, South Haven, etc. ‘P. R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L. S. & M. At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. ‘for Paw Paw. ‘ At Niles, with South Bend Branch. 1 L . ' At New’BuflEalo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwawr am‘: ' all lntcrmediate stations. Alt llgchigan City, with Indianapolis, Pen: & Chloe! B. 3. Also with Louisville, Ne w Albany 6: Chi; cavo \.. .. . 3 At‘ Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet. At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. CANCER 1 Cured Without the Knife or Pain. ‘ Diseases of Females A SPECIALTY FOR TWENTY YEARS. Allxgolyvith G. Rapids & ‘lnzl, VALUABLE DISCOVERY.—Dr. J. P; Miller, a practicing physician at 32'? Spruce street, Phila- delphia, has discovered that the extract of cranberries an hemp combined cures headache, either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous _or sick headache, neuralgia and nervousness. This is a triumph in medical chemistry, and suﬂerers all over the country are ordering by mail. He prepares it in pills at 50 cents a box. The Do_ctor is largely known and highly i*espected.-Ph2'la- delpkia Bulletin. For seven years Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in a New York Medical College. PROF. J. M. COMINS, M. D, 3 45 Lexington Avenue, l5T’E"VV, YORK. ‘ E . . A ‘ 5 xcelsley-E0 Your dwn Printing an-table $0 Ea:1f.::;aa.3:‘1::1..::*::.*:.:.I:r L’ - ‘Business Men do their printing and =5‘ ,; \ advertising, save money and lllcltease v" .1'.1'ade. Aimateur Printing, delight .. T .\ J V‘ ?.‘:%‘i CI-IONIETRY. Power has, been given me to delineate character, t 1 ~ ,, A iulpastiine for spare hours. BOYS describe the mental and s iritual capacities of )er« have greatfun and make money fast ~1U.l'.lL<, and sometimes to indicate their 1'uture and t eir Pﬁnﬁr,'* atprinting. Send two stampsfor full ‘£1-53 locations for health, harmony and business. P 5 catalogue presses type etc, totheMfrs from Twenty to Fifty per cent. by purchasing throu g1‘, SELLS AT SIG-HT! U5‘ :,,f____ Address all orders to Y _, ‘ _ ' _ 1 , INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, ISEIVD 1‘ OR CIRCULARS: PRICE LIST Box 37, WORCESTER, MABS.T§l AND REFERENCEgV. A. Bnisss DAVIS, S00. and '1‘reas./., 2-27’tf. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. THE GREAT TRUNK LINE Q, . AND UNITED STATES MAIL-ROUTE. “ Trains leave New York, from foot of Desbrcsse and Cortlandt streets, as follows: Express for Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, the West and South, with Pullman Palace Cars attached, 9:30 A. M., 5 and 8:30 P. M. Sunday, 5 and 8:30 P. M. ~ For Baltimore, Washingtonand the South, ‘Liinited Washington Express of Pullman Parlor cars. daily, exec t ‘unday, at 9:30 A. M.; arrive at Washington 4:10 .M. Regular at 8:40 A. M., 3 and 9 P. M. Sun- day, 9 P. M. . Express for Philadelphia, 8:40, 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 3, 4. 4:10, 5, 7, 8:30, 9 P. M., and 12 night. Sunday, 5, 7, 8:39 and 9 P. M. Emigrant and second class, 7 P. M. For Newark at 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 8, 9, 10, 11 A.*M., 12 M., 1, 2,72:30, 3:10, :40, 4:10, 4:30, 5,5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:10, :3 ' IMPROVED Paul _l_r_e Signs. 0. MONKS, PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURER OF THE ~ Improved’ Metallic Lettered 6:30, 7, 0, 8..10, :30 P. M., and 12 night. Sun- day, 5:29, 7 and 8:10 P. M. For Elizabeth, 6, 6:30, 7 20, 7:40, 8 9, 10 A M , 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 4:5 5:20, 5 40 0, 0:10, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8:10, 10, 11:30 P. M-, and night Sunday, 5:20, 7 and 8:10 P. M. For Raliway, 6. 6:30, 7:20, 8, 10 A. M., 12 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4 10, 4:30, 4:50, 5 20, 5:40; 6, 0:10, 0:30, 7, 8:10, 10 P. . and 12 night. Sunday, ,5 20 and 7 I‘. M. For Woodridge, Perth Amboy, and South Amboy, 6 and 10 A. M., 2:30, 4:50 and 6 P. M. For New Brunswick, 7:20 and 8 A. M., 12 M., 3:10, 5 I G N P A 1 N T I N G gag, 5:20, 6:10, 7 P. M., and 12 night. Sunday, 7 To} East Millstone, 12 noon, 3:10 and 4:30 P. M. For Lam bertville and Flemington, 9:30 A. M., and P. M. For Phillipsburg and Belvidere, 9:30 A. M., 2 and g . AND . ENGRAVING, IN ALL ITS BRANCHE . No. 4 1 3 BROADWAY, Newv Yorlz. For Bordentown, Burlington and Camden, 7:20 and 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 2, 4, 4:10 and 7 P. M. For Freehold, 7:20 A. M., 2 and 4:10 P. M. For Farmingdale and Squad, 7:20 A. M. and 2 I’. M. For Hightstown, Pemberton and Camden, via Perth Ambgg, 2:30 P. M. For Hightstown and Pembcrtoii, 6 A. . icket oﬁces 526 and 944 Broadway, 1 Astor House. and foot of Desb-rcsses” and Cortlandt streets; 4 Court street, Brooklyn; and 114, 116 and 118 Hudson street, I-Ioboken. Emigrant ticket oilice, 8 Battery Place. FRANK Ti1o1virsoN, . M. BOYD, J12, @ General llianager. General Passenger Ag’l. HULUS CRUOIBLE. A VITIDE AWAKE SPIRITUALISTIC '8: SOCIAL REFORM JOURNAL. N. B.—The injunction against the manu- facture of the Improved Metallic Lettered Wire Signs and Banners having been raised, I am now makingthemgat greatly reduced prices. I am painting Gold Sign Boards, 2ft._wide, at the low rate of $1 per running foot, board thrown in. All other Painting at equally low prices. I invite you to call and examine ’ my samples. c. WlONl<S,_ 413 13120.4 DWA1’. :NEW you K. TEiA.usLE Srnvsicilus. All diseases growing outof false conjugal relations will receive especial attention. Our combined medium Ship, shut from the outer world in our cabinet, will generate a compound element, Magnetizcd and Spirit- 1‘ alized, that will prove an elixir of life that we can impart to our patients. MAGNETIZED BELTs for all parts of the system. BATTERIES for the head, hands and feet. Paper, Powders and Liquid Medicines prepared, Electricized, Magnetized and Spiritualized in a single or double Triangle Cabinet as the patient may desire. The Guardian Spirits of every patient will be requested to accompany the Medicine and aid by their inﬂuence. Three strong Healing Mediums will sit in the cabinet Prominent among the Reforms advocated in IIULIJS CRUCIBLE are the following: ‘ 1. Reform in Religion, such as shall do away with many of the outward forms and restore the power of godliness. 2. Reforms in the Government, such as shall do away with the rings, cliques and monopolies, and , all matters concerning the government of the people into the hands of the people. 3. Reforms regulating the relation of capital and labor, such as shall secure to labor, the producer” of capital, the control of capital. 4. Reforms regulating the relations of the sexes to each other, such as shall secure to every member 01 each sex the entire control of their own person, and plac_e prostitution, in or out of marriage, for money or any other cause, out of the question. Any thought calculated to beneﬁt humanity, whether coming under any of the above or any other propositions. will ﬁnd a cordial welcome in the columns of HULL’s Ci>.I_JcIBLE. HULL’s CRUCIBLE Joins hands with all reforms and reformers of whatever school, and welcomes any ideas, however unpopular, caculated to beneﬁt hu- manity. _ Those interested m_a live Re.'ormatory Journa are invited to hand in their subscriptions. _ . . . . TERMS. with an electric apparatus when the medicines are pre- pared. We shall observe all inspirational conditions Olle 5ub501'iPti011» 5-‘? 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-12-11_11_02
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-12-11_11_02
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 03 (December 18, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2102
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-12-18
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 1 T:E1:0UGHT,! UNTRAMMELED Liyfmsss l A .7. ‘W BREAKING . THE VVAY FOR FUTURE‘ eENEE_arroN“s.. I --‘No. >3.——.VVh,ole, No. 2633;; NEW YORK, D/EC. 18,1875. I i>E1cE1'rlE1vicEn'rs. if I The trnth shall make you free.-I-—-Jesus. ] In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Gael shall be _fo‘nz'shecl.——St.- John the Divine. ' . Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hathbeen hid in G‘ocl.«——Paul. ’ I mg 4 V wr*'* AIPROPOSITIQN. To the Friends of Woo.dhull and Clajli/n’s Weekly: I havebeen waiting some time to see if some one more capable‘ or able than myself would not present some plan in which "I mightjoin by which the publication of the WEEKLY may be securred beyond peradventure for‘ one year; but » as none have done so, I do not feel that I can delay any longer presenting one that seems to me to be practical, and that will secure-the desir...
Show more1 T:E1:0UGHT,! UNTRAMMELED Liyfmsss l A .7. ‘W BREAKING . THE VVAY FOR FUTURE‘ eENEE_arroN“s.. I --‘No. >3.——.VVh,ole, No. 2633;; NEW YORK, D/EC. 18,1875. I i>E1cE1'rlE1vicEn'rs. if I The trnth shall make you free.-I-—-Jesus. ] In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Gael shall be _fo‘nz'shecl.——St.- John the Divine. ' . Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hathbeen hid in G‘ocl.«——Paul. ’ I mg 4 V wr*'* AIPROPOSITIQN. To the Friends of Woo.dhull and Clajli/n’s Weekly: I havebeen waiting some time to see if some one more capable‘ or able than myself would not present some plan in which "I mightjoin by which the publication of the WEEKLY may be securred beyond peradventure for‘ one year; but » as none have done so, I do not feel that I can delay any longer presenting one that seems to me to be practical, and that will secure-the desired result. If I understand rightly, the WEEKLY suffers by loss of subscribers and failures to renew promptly, because its editors have had the courage and honesty to print» in it ‘what they have conceived to be important truths, and which, if they are truths, surely are important, when by following a course of policy and catering to prejudice and public favor they might have gained popularity and support. Now, to me it would make little diﬁerence whether I fully ac. corded with all the views thusexpressed or not. The principle involved in the utterance of. the truth for the . truth’s..sake is one that ought to be sustained wherever found, - and I am sure it is not found in the conduct of reform jour- nals so frequently that the question as to which shall be supported can become a matter of choice. It’ I understand rightly, also, the editors of the WEEKLY devote to its support not only all,the funds that it receives, but have yearly contributed large sums from their lecture earnings for that purpose, besides giving their own personal services without recompense. If this be true, and I believe it has been so stated in the paper editorially, then it is fur- ther evidence that they have full faith in the work in which they are engaged, and furnish perhaps the only known case in which a. paper is at no expense for its editorial conduct. Moreover, Mrs. Woodhull’s health, upon which success in the lecture ﬁeld depends entirely, is very precarious, and, from my own observation, I believe to be liable any day to , fail her so much that she may be unable to remain in the ﬁeld. Should this occur, it would seem "almost certain, that she would be unable to maintain the WEEKLY. Now, this I believe would be a disaster which those who are earnestly devoted to the promulgation of the truth; those who have some care for the welfare of the race andsare not wholly bound up in their selﬁshness, ought not, through supineness or inaction, to permit under any circumstances. I belong to that class which labors with its hands, and: am, therefore, limited in what I can do by the means to do; but I have this proposition to make, and I request thatit be published in the,WEEELY at an early date: If within three months there shall be found nineteen per- sons who will signify their willingness to contribute to a fund to secure the publication of the WEEKLY for one year, one, hundred dollars each, I will be the twentieth, to make ‘ that fund to two thousand dollars, which I calculate under the most adverse circumstances will secure the end proposed. Wlithin the year, we are assured by the editors, that develop- ments will be made which will afterward secure all needed support in the ordinary way. I for one desire that the year of grace shall be bridged over, and make the above, proposi- * tion for Athatpurpose, and propose when the ‘required‘_n11in- her ‘of subscribers shall be obtained that the sub- scription , be paid’ over to if the WEEKLY, and by its .editors pledged to its mlpport, to be drawn, upon only as the necessities of the WEEKLY demand; and, for the information of the subscribers, that such ne- cessities and drafts be communicated to them at the end of each month, as the former arise and the latter are made. Let every reader and friend of the WEEKLY consider this subject well, and send intheir names at once; and should the number who are Willing to subscribe reach one hun- dred or any other number greater than twenty, then the amount of the subscription shall ‘be reduced: proportion-_ ate1y, ‘ * DAVID EDGAR. GREENVILLE, I’a._, Dec. 1st, 1875. , . - A. REJo,I.ND1_é1R., Dear Sister Woodhull-—..-In thusiaddressingg you, I am aware that I take a very exalted and precious privilege. yet as there- arc no words in our language, known to me, that so adequately express my own cherished sentiments and feelings, I could not refrainfrom their use. “ I feel, therefore, that you will pardon the liberty taken’. I ‘ V The publication of a short article of mine ‘in the Weekly for the 20th inst., and accompanying remarks; are the Prompt- ing causes for the cﬁering of the further views that I now propose to present. . . The apparent dogmatic character of the vitally opposing aﬂirmation of the first paragraph of my article, did not so present itself to my mind at the time of its inditement, and ’I- can now only thank you, that you so kindly and without animadversion overlooked it. It is my intention to make this rejoinder very brief, for the good and suflicient reasons suggested by yourself, the prin- cipal of which are, that you have not the time to devote to such an extended discussion as this subject would entail upon you; and that the time for the demonstrative proof of your utterances will not be delayed beyond another year. I un~ derstand you now to reaffirm that continence or the retention of the physical seed of man is the prophylactic against sin, and such is the meaning of the writer-of the epistle. cited; and this being a vital point in your theory, you take issue with that of your correspondent which aﬁirms that the seed of the text is truth, and that truth in man is the preventive of sin. That John was writing to his brethren of the church or body called the sons of God, is true; but it should be noted that the sons of God are to be found in all stages or degrees-‘bf developmentwfromvchildhoodto manhood; and John at 18th verse of same chapter addresses the same sons of God as his little children. In the second verse to which you refer also, it is quite. evident that those addressed, though sons. of God, were llchildiren, and of course had not attained to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 3d, 13th) and therefore could not understand and realize the perfections of the perfect man: nor would they until transformed through the operation of like faith into his image or likeness—the puriﬁcation of the 3d verse, which you also quote, is like growth, progressive, and the pureness is an adjunct of such growth’ and its results. In further commenting upon thecontents of your first par- agraph, allow me to remark that the preventive truths or seed remaining in man is of such character and quality as does not preclude its unlimited dissemination, since it cou- stitutes the element of which the miraculous bread is made, and that you know is ‘vastly increased in quality by its break-.. ingand extended distribution. , Again, the truth——Scriptural truth—is all embraced in the faith or doctrine of Jesus (which relates to his needed trans- formation, and isintended to effect it), and this is a. posses- sion,by gift to every one W110 has it. y ’ It HIS seed had this speciﬁc meaning.(I don’t affirm that it haslno other), that it is the seed of God, and HIS seed is THE seed of the text. Divcst or deprive man of this seed and you will not ﬁnd in any other, salvation from sin, and espe~ cially not in -the physical seed of man; for the motions of this seed in man uncontrolled by the intellectual grasp of the truth has resulted, almost, in his utter damnation instead of his? salvation. My'.gs_is_ter- niisconceives me, as is evident in that part of lher'.-criticisrn?"in which she concedes the possession of one- half ofpthéi truth, viz., its spiritual side or aspect; for no man living "sees or -feels more comple_tely_th_an myself the absolute neces‘sity,;to_thc full enjoyment of the truth, of its embodi- ment in words and deeds of its own suggestion. Truth out- side of wordor deed or thing could. not have perceptible ex- istence‘, and is comparable only to the idea of apersonal God outside of matter, which is unadulterated nonsense. Modern christianity ('3) mistakes and substitutes the deeds of the law for the deeds that embody the faith of ‘Jesus, whatever pretentious they may oppose to this assertion, It is easy to make assertions,.I know, but it is quite a dif-= ferent matter to substantiate them. I ‘ ,When your correspondent speaks of the truth, he always‘ means the truths (when discussing religious questions) em-I braced in the faith of Jesus. and these, besides being few and simple and ‘effective, are always accessible to the asking, seeking and persevering mind, and would have been sense- lessly‘ presented if out of the reach and 1'-angeof m?a.n’s com-l prohension. ~Pilate’_s question had not this limitation, and was, therefore, unanswerable. Your correspondent is fully aware that there is a natural side to all truths, and that the natural side to each truth is the fact that stands as the evi- dence of the existence of such truth; nevertheless, he holds’ that the natural is of less value in the economy of exist-, A (mass than the spiritual’ or truth it represents, even as ‘the.’ letter of the law is inconsequential, save as the mediumi through which its life-giving ‘spirit may be imbibed. Irev peat, all truths that have any appreciable value must have an embodiment in corresponding facts or deeds. Otherwise, they would be like modernuChristian professions. Sin is the transgression of any law, but the sins that John speaks of- unto death and not unto death—-are violations of the law and the spirit of the law—the latter is the sin unto death, andlthe first the sin not unto death. (Moses broke the whole lawln its letter, but observed it in its spirit)—-these being symbolized by the

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