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Progress, i\)e Universal LaW of f^atCire; T^oQghjf, tbe 3olVer)t of J ie r Problem s.

V O L . 7 . CHICAGO. D E C E M B E R 31. 1 8 9 2 . N O . 1 6 2

THE PSALM^OF LIFE.lA Lecture Delivered

BY DR. CHAS. W. HIDDEN A t Lake Pleasant Camp Meeting.

A THOUGHTFUL PRESENTATION OF TIMELY TOPICS—AN ADDRESS PREG­NANT WITH THE ELOQUENCE OF THE LIVING GOSPEL OF THE LIVING PRES­ENT.

[Copyright, 1692, by the author^Dr. Chas. W. Hidden of Newbury-!

port, Mass., delivered the opening ad­dress at the Lake Pleasant meeting, taking for his subject the -"Psalm of Life.” The speaker said:

Mr. President and Friends:—A psalm Is a sacred son(f, and, in' treating of life. I can conceive of. no better cen­tral idea than to oonslder it in the light of a psalm, for, from the oradle to the grave—nay, from the oradle to infinity, life is ope round of song, sacred alike to man aid to his maker, God.' True, there are parts of life which seem the reverse of sacred—there are times when discord greets the ear; but, when we re­flect that discord is not the fault of life itself, but rather a result of misapplica­tion of life and its duties, we must need ‘call a halt. .

Touch the notes ,of an organ [it ran­dom, and there is a manifest lack of har- monv; let the fingers of the praotlocc musician glide over the keys and mel* ody follows. A person lgaqrant of col-

’ drsmighiSiifier atlne thought qfnola- ing in his hands beautiful paintings; hut the artist separates the handful of

with a question. The question, like any fact, has but one side. Truth is truth. A fact is a fact, however you may view It. The fault is in us, not in the fact. The question has but one side. The seoond side, so-called, is only in the seeming. I t is the outgrowth of our faulty methods of training the mind. Inbred opposition and Inherent love of debate blinds us to tho truth.- There is no need to assume that life must oontinue to have its bright side and Its dark side. Life should be all bright—one continuous day, bright and sunny on both'sides. We have dwelt too muoh in tho past; it is time we awakened to the demands of the living present We are not our brother’s keeper; but we should be our brother’s adviser, counselor, friend. We ought, as a nation, to be governed by loftier purposes than the mere acquisition of wealth, social position or power. We should strive vwith one accord to make the people of this nation one vast fam­ily, equal in every respeot, and with mutual interests. Crime and' beggary, woe and want, can be and should be banished from thjs fair country of; ours. Life Bhould be made a psalm of rejoio- lag instead of a saddened requiem. The happy ring of laughter should replace sobs and moans, and want, like the wolf, be driven from the door.

The men who crowd our legislative halls should forsake love of place-seek­ing long enough to get their ears down to the common level of life, and listen to the mutterlngs which proclaim the advance of the mighty storm of conserv­atism and worldly common sense, which h jle an ed to clear away the mists and miasma of sojoial and poUtlcal.lUb. ‘ W s t l t a o tb right aboift and~'Ibok things squarely in the face. Bade and creeaal war of words should cease.

material, distinct colors are seen, and Bickerings should ba relegated to weak- governed and directed by wdll-trained lings—they-should no longer hold place• . {n th n m A ntal o to ro h n n cn r\f t h o m o nbrain and hand, paintings—poems in paint—are transferred to canvas.

The short-sighted man who stands upon the hill-top and "views the land­scape o'er,” looks down upon smaller hills, plains and depressions, and is very apt to liken life to the vision before him—Is apt to look upon life as made up of hills and hollows, with here and there a piece of smooth sailing.

But my friend, Prof. Allen, the dar­ing balloonist, tells me that a short dis­tance above the earth the hills and hol­lows disappear, and the surface be­comes one smooth, grand level, won- drously beautiful to look down upon, all sound fades from the jumble, discord and roar of the world, into rhythmic melody; there la perfeet blending of colors. All is smooth and level—all is joy and peace.

The fleecy clouds sail hither and yon at the whispered calling of the breeze; I the birds wheel and drift through the azure depths with a delightful sense of freedom; the air Is clear and pure, and sunlight tints fall down to earth bearing

• messages of love and good will.The tempest may oome; the earth

may be deluged by storm or flood; the air may be darkened, and heavy black olouds serve as background for the rat­tle and dlsoharge of heaven’s artillery. The lightning may seethe and flash and play at fantastic hide and seek In the gathering gloom; but just beyond the sun Is still shining, and the higher ele­ments move on as- calm and serene as though the tempest had never been.

There are people whose lives are one gladsome round of-sunshine and song;

.there are others who worry, fret and ’<aS| life’s hours away, without a real-]

i sense of the sacredness underlying g&iings over which they spend hours [

Njied sadness or pain; ana there are v lhers- whose heads are above

__ vtovel, and who utterly fail to bomtiue miserable by the little things of life—men and women who see design and ultimate clearness of purpose In everything, and who realize that life Indeed is a psalm which, properly un­derstood, practiced and sung, would make of this earth a paradise for mor­tals.

The need of the hour is the bringing to the front conservative men and wom­en trained to a knowledge of life as it should be lived, and capable of lmpert-

i ing such knowledge to the people. The of the so-called sin and misery In

f l a world is the two-fold agency of ig­norance, and the taking advantage of {ignorance by smart men for purposes of {personal aggrandizement or gain. There

understanding of life, ite needsu a mlsunt {and its duties, by the masses, and this condition of things must needs be re-1 'versed before we can^frope for special and desired changes f l th e social, moral and intellectual slay, of the people as a whole. W

We hate become so saturated with the Idea that because the day, for con­venience sake, is divided into two parts, day and night—the one light, the other dark—that life, like a question or like unto the day, must of necessity have two sides to It, a bright side and a dark side. But the day is a continuous whole, and, if we could look at both sides at a time, it is probable we should find the day, like the fabled shield, with brightness on both sides. The same

in the mental storehouse of the monl and women who are to mould thel world’s future. The difference between the religious “tweedledees and tweedlo- duma" of our fellows should no longer furnish the basis for protracted dis­putes; suffice it that they are our broth­ers. We need to rise above trivial I things—above• the shortcomings of the world. To benefit the world we need to trace out and perfect principles, rather than to waste valuable time in speculat­ing and theorizing; we need to cement friendships—to bring about a spirit of perfect content, instead of engendering a spirit of discontent.

Let us just grasp the idea that life is a psalm, and that like a psalm, i t has many parts. Viewed as parts, a psalm seems made up of discordant notes; blended by the musician, the supposed

I discordant parts are merged into a me-1 llodlous whole. So with life. Properly I understood all Its parte form a melodi­ous whole—a psalm, tho sublime har­mony of which rivals the music of the spheres.; As the musician is privileged to ana­lyze the composition before him, so it is my privilege to analyze portions of the|I psalm of life, revealing several of its I discordant parts, with a view to exclt-] ing talk, which, in the end, will tend to| the bettering of the condition of the people as a whole. In treating of life in some of its harsher aspects, I mean to use plain talk. Life to me is a sacred thing. Ido not believe hi covering it] with such a gloss that we cannot fathom Its true meaning. The demand of the hour is for plain talk. We need to talk direct, also. The time for indirect al-l lusions has passed. Let us talk, not over the heads, but to tho hearts of thel , people. Let us get down to the people,' side by side, shoulder to shoulder! heart to heart. Caste and cant have had their day. This Is the new, not the old! (world, and new ideas should be brought to the fore. The "high and mighty” and "I am holier than thou" sentiments need to be checked. I t Is an ezotlc.1 America does not furnish good soil for] Its transplanting.

What comprises a nation? Homes in the aggregate. Do we care for the homes of the people as wo ought? Are we really striving to prepare tho way

to follow after us? What of the homes of the masses, the poor—the real producers of the wealth of this nation?4 Ah I thereby hangs a tale of deep and abiding interest.

What Is a poor man? A slave. Not bought and sold openly in the market­place, but literally bought and sold as oest suits the whim of the moneyed bar­ons. Do not look now for a tirade •gainst capital worthy the average la­bor agitator. I am not ao agitator save in the sense that, being a child of the people, I see, feel and know their needs, and, having the courage of my convictipns, dare to stand before an as­sembly of my countrymen, and appeal to them for justloe in a country whose government is alleged to be of, for and by the people.

To this end I speak first to the Bptrit- nailsts of America, feeling—knowing— that similar thoughts are pressing, surging, burning into the brains of pro­gressive Spiritualists everywhere, and that to tho Spiritualists we must look lor the beginning of that moral upheav­

al which will, ere the present century oIosob, result la tho omanolp&tlon of wage-slavep.

Labor is the producer of wealth! wealth should bo the employer aud| friend of labor. Capital ana labor are tvyins In economics, and their Interests Bhould be Identical. The possession of wealth should not be the sole end andi aim. I t should not be allowed to bel hoarded in vast sums—to play the part of a robber in, clutching at the heart-i strings and tearing rout the hearth-] stones of the poor. The time will oome, | must come, when legislation will be in-] voked to cauSe the dissemination of I wealth to benefit the many Instead of] the few. Wealth, to play its proporl part in this life, should be judiciously circulated alwayB, to the end that Indus-] try may.be stimulated, not retarded.! Wealth, or capital if you prefer, must not be used to crush out the life-blood of] the people, simply that its holders may wax fat and increase their holdings. It Is wrong to allow senseless material to| be transformed into a blade keener thanj J Damascus steel, forever suspended above tho heads, hearts and homes of the people.

We are making a mistake in teaching our ohlldren to look upon- the aoquisi-J tion of wealth as the one thing to bo sought for in this life, and we are also making a mistake in regarding the holders of wealth as great men. The fact that a man is a holder of wealth, a miser in f&ot, does not imply that he is better than his fellows. .Wealth does not beget greatness. Greatness is In­herent. When the world needs men, stalwart leaders, they do not come from tho ranks of the wealthy. They oome from the or&dles of the humble and tho poor. Why? Because i t is a part of the divine plan to impress the world with the natural faot that brain and brawn are superior to mere wealth, place and purchased power.

No man oan take material wealth into the discovered country; and governors, generals and colonels do not count there. Vanity and pride will win no favors in the land of the afternoon. Merit and worth, not pride and pomp, will be the most highly prized in that bourne whence we are all tending.

How muoh better it will be when men coma to Jk 1-/1 niy sense that the judt-cious distribution of wealth, pays better returns in this life, rather than to be hoarded until death comes and then—to be wasted. Distribute your hoard of gold as you traverse life’s broad high­way, and you will never have cause to look back from the other life and long to return to make reparation to the hungry souls who are crying aloud on every hand for a bettering of existing [conditions.■Have you visited the homes of tho Struggling poor? Have you watched the faces of little children grow pale and wan? Have you observed the nalf- olad forms battling in the chill and storm for bread? Have you heard the splash and ripple as the waters close over the form of the one seeking solace from woe and want in the deep? Have you listened to catoh the rattle and thump of gravel and stone on the cheap coffin of tho "pauper whom nobody owns?” Oh, the needless sorrow, suffering and want among the masses—needless because there is land enough, home-building material enough, and hoarded gold enough in this broad land to change ex­isting conditions without the holders suffering loss.■ O h for a voice loud enough and strong [enough to be heard from pole to pole, from ocean to ocean—loud enough and strong enough toenohaln the attention and command the thought of a nation so liberal In temporary suffering abroad, so blind and deaf to continuous suffor- [ingat home.

Why is this condition of things al­lowed to oontinue? Why do the rloh grow richer and the poor poorer? Be­cause we misunderstand the needs of and our duty to our fellows. The old world Idea ofplaeeaud power has been fostered until we actually enoourago and applaud the men who amass and hoard wealth at tho expense of the bone and sinew—nay, at the expenso of the bodies and souls of their fellows. Fed by the intoxicating draught of flattery, men halt a t nothing to aohlevo what the world commonly calls success. What though hearts and homes aro blighted or crushed, so long as the world is willing to cheer and snout over purchased place, pomp and greatness.

But wealth and purchased power do not beget happiness—do not feed brain or mind. The man who has bent all his energies, mortgaged his very soul even, to achieve success,finds other and higher prizes still ever waving just beyond his reach, and sooner or later, somo fresher rival overtakes and passes him In am­bition’s cruel and never-satisfying race. Dissatisfaction, disappointed hopes—oh, how it all rankles the soul, shrivels and sours brain and mind, and sends men down to premature graves, feeling that, In their case a t least, life has been a failure. But the application of the lesson: Let the wealthy pause and con­sider well. The world is moving. The mind of man Is enlarging Its scope. The people are boginning to realize their power. Newer ideas are slowly but surely coming to the fore.

Another decade and men will be un­able to purchase place and power. The people will select, not tholr rulers, but their ohlef counsellors, advisers. The office will seek the man, not the man the | office. Offioe will oome as a gift from the people. Worth, not wealth, will be the open sesame to places of honor and trust.

No man should receive political pre­ferment who Is not thoroughly imbued with tho thought that this is indeed a government of, for and by the people.

So long os place and power ore knocked off by political4 auctioneers to thel highest bidder, just so long will dis­content prevail among the mosses, who reallzo when too late that they hovel been used as mere puppets in the hands of men who would dot hesitate to trample their most snored Tights in the dust, in order to retain their grip upon political and governmental patronage.

The time Is ripe to right about face in governmental affaire. Instead of costly

pulldlngs and monumonts representing state and national pride, our legislators should build homes and schools. In­stead of walling themselves in from the people, they should stand side by side with the people. In addition to the common schools, we need Industrial schools In the broadest sense of the term*—schools in which' our boys and girls may be able to master the trades, the arts and professions, not only thoroughly, but', economically. Wo j place too many barriers about our edu­cational institution's. I t will be a glad­some day to the people of this nation when education of every phase and in every department is free. We boast of free eduoatlon nt>w, but It is a half­hearted boast.'- True, the common branohes of education may be had free, but the moment a poor bov or. girl aspires above the "three R’s,” barriers are found which oan only be surmounted by a half-lifetime of indomitable will, push and energy, f

We have scholarships and trust funds, to be sure,;by means of which we fondly hope to educate the worthy poor. I say fondly hope'advisedly, for it needs but superficial, observation to understand that in the majority of cases it is favoritism', not merit, which opens the money-bags) Few indeed are the men who control educational patronage who can be made to understand that the poor and the lowly should be shown any pre­ference over the sons and the daughters of the well-to-do.

Why have we so many self-made men in this country? .Because boys of real worth.and merit could not have help when they needed It most. Self-made men are built of stern stuff. When men refuse them assistance they do not Bit down to moan over their fate. They are up and doing. Instead of allowing circumstances- to . shape them, they shape circumstances. Curses cannot hinder; sneers'do not falter; obstacles cannot stay. They are bound to win. But a t what a cost. A lifetime of spent energy; a self-made man, It is true, but more often a physical wreck on the shores of time.

Shallow reasoners point to such men and prate of the stimulus of a lofty am­bition. But what is ambition? A false growth. The animal in man. The in­born hatred of opposition, oppression. iNot the good, the softening, the re­fining. But the intense, tho passionate. Ambition is not a good thing to culti­vate in man. I t does not augur well for the future. I t burns men out too fast. I t blights their inner natures. I t leads them to mistrust all mankind.

Instead of fostering ambition, extend a kindly and helping hand to the boy within whose brain the fire of genius slumbers. Do not wait until the slum­bering embers have been fanned into a blaze whioh consumes body and soul,and then say, " I knew he would succeed.” ZiDo not wait until famo crowns the man with the sought-for laurel. Do not wait until the man is dead, and then seek to hide the fault of your neglect in Music, pomp and ceremonial. izExtend a helping hand when the boy [needs help. Encourage him to win, ana go down into your pockets to holp meet [the expense which the world has set as a price upon education.

The world is full of youth who need I help, and help they should have—for are they not the boys and girls who are to live after us? And is it not our duty to fit them for the vastly greater posi­tions of responsibility and trust whioh they aro to fill by-ana-by? The streets, the tenement houses, tno factories, the workshops, are crowded with boys and girls in whom nature has Implanted the seed whioh, carefully nurtured, will bring forth an educational harvest which will make tho world bettor, purer, nobler.

Let every man and woman of means within the sound of my voice weigh care­fully what I am about to say: Horace Greeley used to say that with his news­paper he made an orator overy year, w ith your wealth you oan make a man or woman every year. 1 Select some boy or girl from among tho worthy poor—a boy or girl who longs for an education. Do not take fright a t rags or tatters, or patched clothing. Bear in mind that the poor do not wear broadcloth or spangles. Do not lose sight of the ob­ject of your mission beoauso your boy or girl Is not surrounded by the nioo things of life. Tho poor aro not over­burdened with carpets, stuffed furniture, silver or out glass. If their homo sur­roundings are not of the best, reflect that bobbin-boys, mule-drivers, tannery slaves, and wood-ohoppers, have be­come the best beloved of the nation.

Take tho measure of your lad or lassie, and then start them off with a hearty Godspeed ovor that road whioh Is so roughshod as to cause bitter pain and heartache—the road to learning; the road to knowledge; the road, which rounds out, broadens and develops the mind; tho road whioh makes kingly men and womanly women.

If tho men and women within the sound of my voice should determlno to educate some deserving boy or girl, the result in a single generation would be marvolous. Their ohlldren and their children’s ohlldren would reap the ad­vantages of your good work. Tho ed­ucated ohlldren of tho masses have hearts brimful of sympathy, kindness

and lovo for tho common people. Give them the chance they crave, and tho time is not distant when all our Institu­tions will fill tholr God-given mission. Education will become the handmaid and the helpmeet of the many instead of tho treasured bauble of tho few. Let us begin ythe broad, liberal education of the masses now. The masses must be educated, or tho safety of the republic will be menaced. Once educate the masses, and the problem of tho amelioration of existing social and po­litical conditions will have been solved. Life to the masses will begin to seem a psalm.

Once thoroughly educate the masses, and by education I mean the purely secular, and the affairs of this nation will begin to be conducted on a higher plane. Homo, Instead of foreign inter­ests, will olalm our attention. The edu­cation of our boys and girls will beoome paramount to the education of heathen boys and girls. This may sound a bit selfish, but, in my opinion, charity be­comes golden when' exercised a t home.

Instead of sending missionaries, guns and rum, to foreign parts, to convert nations who are happier without these adjunote of a Christian civilization, we should banish rum here a t home, turn our guns into trenchant pens, and gently lay the missionaries on the back shelf of

| the past. ■What the world needs to-day is not

Christianity, but the practical exempli­fication of religion. Christianity and religion are as widely separated as the poles. Christianity brings not peace, but a sword. Religion is the kindly monitor, the wise teacher, the upllfter, friend. The costly churches and towering spires are the outward exemplars of Christianity. They do not breathe the spirit of humil­ity, the soul-inspiring and lofty outpour­ing of love and good will, which the early fathers so wisely taught. The pulpit is no longer the friend of the masses, and the masses know i t The pomp and parade of the churches de­ceive no longer. The human mind Is expanding. In Bplte of the obstacles thrown in the way, man is slowly and surely growing wiser, better.

The musical parts of the psalm of life are being brought nearer and nearer to- gether. Manilas notJallen. He is steadily climbing. to a higher estate. His feet have been planted on the rock of knowl­edge—a foundation safe, secure. Up­ward, ever upward man takes his way.

It is time the church began to under­stand the trend of human affairs. The time is ripe for teachers, not preachers, The pulpit should send forth, not echoes from the past, but thoughts pregnant and burning with the eloquence of thej living present. We are not living in the past. Yesterday has become history: "Each to-morrow” should "find us far ther than to-day.” We need not so much to know how the angels live, as how suffering humanity manages to ext 1st. The mission of the church should be to assist in bettering the oondition of men and women now living on the earth. Less of angels, and more of hu­manity. would cause the world to look with a kindlier interest on the ohuroh.

If preachers were toaohers Instead of autooratio "men of God,” they would be of more real value to the world. Preach era in these latter days have oome to be looked upon as human beings, and no closer in kinship with God than the humblest creature who walks the earth.I The preaoher is no longer looked up to as so olose to God as to be regarded as bis right-hand supporter, and chief ad­viser. Oh, ye puny representatives of tho Most High, oome down from the olouds; get close enough to earth to learn that people need bread, not pray­ers; self-sustaining labor, not disserta­tions on musty theology: a chance to live, not eloquent perorations on the way angels idle tholr time away emulat­ing "little German bands” up and down the shining streets of silver and gold. Away with musty tomes; away with myth and mysticism; away with thoughts hoary with age; on—on with the living gospel of the living present Give us deeds, not words. Preach and teaoh wise methods of living. Bring the pul­pit down to the people. Beoome coun­selors to our common humanity. Aid in uplifting tho people. Bring your mighty influence to the fore. Lei theohuron be a loader in harmonizing the parts of life within Us reach into a psalm.

To make of lifo a psalm we must inoul- cate a thorough knowledge of life and its alms; must, practically, revolutionize the existing order of things social, polit­ical, religious.

A stupendous task, you sav, to bring mankind up to an ideal oondition. Ideal bosh! The world’s idea of the ideal is a soft, namby-pamby man. But that is not the kina of man I am interested In. The man I want to see, and the man the world will live to see, is a big-brained, broad-minded, whole-souled man; a man of large heart and willing hand; a man on a level with his fellows: a man with a soul responsive to the needs of the race; a man who believes with all his heart and soul that this earth was made for man, and who brings the wealth of genius to bear in favor of making this oarth a heaven, instead of half hell, half heaven. The ideal! Is it ideal to long for good I and happy homes; happy wives; happy ohlldren; happy tasks; happiness from the rising to the setting of the sun; hap­py, gladsome music, allalong life’s jour­ney? If such a oondition of tilings boar­ders on the Ideal, and you and I know that it is the Only way to live, then God grant that I may live long enough to find the heart of the American people beating in perfect sympathy and rhythm with such an idealistic state of things.

Impossible, you say? They used to say, "nothing is Impossible with God.”

But I say, nothing is Impossible with the American people. Onco arouse tho Amorican nation to its duty, and its duty will be done. This nation will yet lead the nations of the earth in the practical exemplification of the greatest good to the greatest number.

Meanwhile, how best bring about the task before us—how best bring about, not the millennium, fdr there Is no such thing, but a condition of things border­ing on exact justice to the people.

Shall we begin with the cradle? Back of the cradle, back of the cradle, my friend. We need to begin today, .this very hour—you and I. The nation is an aggregation of homes, of families. Tho duty rests, primarily, with parents. Be as good and kind as you can be—to yourself, to your family, to the commu­nity in which you live. Avoid habits which debase and blight. Be good, and do good so far as your circumstances will allow. Have an encouraging word for everybody. See the good in every­thing. Strive to be bright and sunny always.' Do not talk about the bright side of a cloud. There is no cloud. The idea of a cloud In life comes from the past. I t Is a relic of other and super­stitious days. The talk of darkness and clouds does infinite harm. The oloud in life is a misnomer. The cloud Is in us, not in life. Like begets like. The dull and misanthropic bring forth their own kind. If you have an inheritance of that sort, weed i t out. You have no right to transmit it to , others. Strive to make people happy. Ring out the false. Ring in the true. Drop sordid impulses. Be of real value to the world. Come out from behind self. Be a man. Let all your impulses be manly. The

Check criminal and depraved repro­duction. allowing marriage only be­tween the perfectly adapted, and the re­sult will be the peopling of the world with as near a perfect race of men and women as it is possible for the human mind to conceive. There is no one de­partment in life in which there is today a more pressing need of wise censorship than that of marriage. When the time comes, as come i t must, when men and women come forth imbued with at least one idea, and that idea to be of benefit to each other and the world, social, po­litical and governmental affairs will be revolutionized, and the people of this nation will become as one people—of one brain, one mind, one heart, one life —a life of contentment, of joy, of peace.

When men and women of this cast of mind are born upon the earth, then good-bye prisons, asylums, dens of crime; good-bye pauperism, sweat labor, white slavery, cruel wrongs; good-bye breeding places of sin and infamy; good­bye suffering, want and woe; and wel­come, yea, thrice welcome, schools and institutions of learning—welcome sunny homes, happy wives and husbands, mer­ry prattling children—welcome honest day’s pay for an honest day's labor—wel­come the glad time of money enough' for all, work enough for all, bread enough for all—welcome, tha t hear­ty, disinterested benevolence which will one day characterize this as a nation of happy hearts, happy lives, happy homes. Welcome. that bright, glad day when from ocean to ocean ana pole to pole, from the heavens above to the fairest spot on earth below, there shall be a perfect blending of mutual interests. Welcome that bright, glad

future of the race is in our keeping. Let day when hearts shall be lighter, theus be true to our God-given trust. Let us leave the rforld better than we found it.

Let us preach and teaoh tha t life and living are sacred things. Let us so play upon the human soul—the harp of a thousand strings—that melody will result. Let us say to human selfishness in all its forms—“Get thee behind me, Satan!” Smile, do not frown. Say glad, not sad things. This life is not lor tears but cheers. W hat seems sad, an insur­mountable obstacle, perhaps, is only in the seeming. We say, death has robbed us of a dear friend, and that we ars sad. Then dry your tears, gobcl soup. There are no dead. Oar loved ones live, and they love us-with a love inten­sified by what seems a parting. They are not afar off. They are here. Their spiritual presence forever surrounds us. We have not received a blow. The sun is shining outside.

skies brighter, and when the very air we breathe shall thrill our being with the beauty, grandeur and sublime wholeness of that psalm of psalms—the psalm of life.

F A R M E R R ILEY .T lie M ecca o f S p ir itu a lism in

M ich igan .

A remarkable seance was given by | James Riley, of Marcellus, Mich., Nov. 16, J892, of which we can offer our read­ers only a synopsis. Seven spirits ma­terialized during the evening. The first was John Benton, Mr. Riley’s guide. He is a fine-looking man, six feet high, and finely dressed. He parted the cur­tains of the cabinet and stepped out in

_I full view, thanking us for the harmonyOpen the win- j that prevailed; He th$o went into the

dows of your soul and let the sunshine | cabinet, wound up a mnvic-box and in. The world is full of opportunities. | stepped out through the curtains with it The world Is waiting for you, my friend. _inLnis hands, and banded i t to me.Life is real. Life I s earnest. ’ Do not fritter i t a wav in tears. There is no room in the living, active present, for

■ T he next tha t materialized was a near friend of mine who died in Carthage, Mo. I knew him; I shook hands with

tears oVer wasted opportunities. We | him, and called him by name, and he make a mistake in sorrowing away mo- answered to it. I got a message from monte more precious than rubles fair, him on a slate. I give it to you:The man with a smile is the right man "Hello. Doctor. This is a pleasure, to in the right place. He is chief among ] be able to oome and thank you for talk- ten thousand. Ho is the savior of tho ing to Soph. I was with you at the

Happy parents implies happy mar­riages—true mating of kindred souls. Marriages, they used to say, were made ‘ heaven. But, judging from their

cemetery. I wanted so muoh to teU you I was not in the ground, but near you. W. Leroy.”

His name was Wesley Leroy, and hers was Sophia; but in all the thirty

fruits, some, marriages seem to have | years I knew him he called her " Soph.” been made in that warm country whose Now, when it is taken into consideration name has been changed in the revised that I was over forty miles from here, version. Why do we have ill-advised, among strangers where Leroy or his

lill-assortedm arriages? Because of I__lack of knowledge of the law of adapta­tion. The fault is not in our marriage system. The blame rests with the wedded pair. I trust the time will never come when the Spiritualists will do other than frown down upon railings I against our marriage system. The ut­terances of some of the so-called lead­ers of Spiritualism is pernicious. Only harm can ensue from the course pursued by some under the assumed sanction of [our name. The purpose and intent of attacks upon the marriage system is to pave the way for lioentious practices— to break down the sanctity of the home. Spiritualists, of aU others, should frown down upon any and everything which tends, either directly or indirectly, to break down the home—the bulwark of | the nation’s safety.■ W hen men and women come to under-1 [stand the law of adaptation, then we shall see exemplified in its perfection the law of selection. Then marriage will represent perfect equipoise—a perd feet balance, physically, mentally, mor­

tally. Then we shall nave no need of divorce courts, for ill-assorted mar- Irlages will have become an unknown muantity. This is the correct solution [of the marriage problem. Teaoh men (and women how to wed, when to wed. j whom to wed, and you will never have reason to find fault with a marriage system whioh is good enough, strong enough, pure enough for all who wish to live deoently ana in order.

In seeking to better the oondition of [the raoe, there is one phase of the mar­riage question seldom touched upon., viz:—inter-marriage among criminals and law-breakers. The mentally de-{> raved should never be allowed to bring orth their ldnd'. The species should

be allowed to beoome extinct.Legislation of a preventive nature

will oome, must come Into vogue at no distant day. And what will be the re­sult? The student of heredity, and the man who closely studies orison records, has an answer ready. The men and women who fill prisons, jails and asy­lums, are In tho main the offspring of the mentally and morally depraved. Let the species become extinct, and we shall be able to turn criminal and re­formatory institutions into hires of in­dustry—make such places producers, instead of tax-burdened receptacles of non-producers.

■wife was never heard of, who Is the one [to throw the first stone?

There were two ladies a t the seance, from Chicago; one of them had a nephew* in spirit-life. Before he died he made her a Christmas present of a nice grip Qf

lo r hand-satchel. She had it with her.[She sat where he could see ' i t if he came. He materialized, came through the curtains with the grip in his hand- handed it to the lady and then shook hands and disappeared. The father of the other lady from Chicago appeared. She recognized him. The gentleman from north of Detroit had two near and dear friends come, ladies. He got mess­ages from them both.

Among the pieoes that were sung to keep up the harmony and good feeling--';! was "Old John Brown’s Body Lies Moul­dering,” etc. When the last verse was [sung the curtains parted and the figure of an elderly man stood in full view. He was a stranger to us all. When we tried to olalm relationship with him he

I shook his head. Then John Benton' [camo to the rescue and said: "Dear earth friends, you wore singing 'Old John Brown’s body lies mouldering in tho grave, and his soul goes marohlng on,’ and i t has marched among you.” We all said as one, "Old John Brown’s spirit,” and we went to the curtain, shook hands with him and he disappeared. In about two minutes we were asked to turn the lamp down low; it was done, but we could still see objects in the room. Then Brown's spirit came in the room among us. He stepped to the bureau the lamp was on ana when he got in a position tha t the light would show to the best advantage on his free he turned the lamp up, and for one p S l [second we had a full and plain vien.^f John Brown's features. When he _• turned to tho cabinet, he went whe*rj Mrs. Riley was sitting, shook han<P* with hor, patted her on head and cheriM and he was gone. at<

I must describe one more scene.Mrs. Riley and her daughteewere i ing, “Oh, Where Is My BonTo-nigbG her son that she lost when young,' stepped out from the curtains and said: 'Hero I am, mamma.”Now, after giving Spiritualism

thorough investigation, I am oonvino there u a reality Id It, and that “ no death, and that spirits can an. return and make themselves knoa

(CONTINUED*ON F IF T H PAG1

ZULIEKA.-A CHILD OF TWO WORLDSD

C o p y rig h t-a ll rl|{lil« r u c m d .

P A R T f.

CHAPTER V.

The Moonstone.

TUB IMOUVHB.On Bod on la tho moonlight ami In tho shadow, half walking, half

leaping—on and on, nri If urgod by a mighty, Impolllog force or parpoao, tho amall llguro ipod.

Mo other form In all Uoylon would paai ao quickly, or make Buob grotesque shadows as, darting In and out, bidden by follago and clumps of trees, emerging again Into tho full moonlight, woro made by the form of Hiejoh, for to no one also could too quaintr flguro belong.

Away from Montrose Towers, Its gardona, Its verdure and bloom, through groves, tangles, shrubs, aromatic and beautiful, wilds and ravines, away to the bills.

Something precious did Hiejoh boar, for never once did bo unolasp his small loft hand, nor removo that hand from oloso to his heart There did ho hold it, closed firmly, as If It had been fast­ened there by somo outside mechanical force, or some Invincible | power.

Many a bird, startled by tho strango footsteps, twittered or soronmed; many a monkey leaped from Its hiding-place; many aj serpent darted as If pursued, and glldod away Into tho deeper sbado; bat neither beast nor bird nor roptllo assailed him; nor had ho mot a Uhoor or an Arab would thoy have approaohod him; nor could deadly miasmata or poisonous odors of vino or treo over exhale for him.

In bis own way Hiejoh hoard tbo song of tho bulbul; heard tho faint breath of tho night winds; heard voices afar off. or near.He sometimes thought, In bis own way, bo saw all tho marvels wroaght by the moonlight—nllvory blossom* on shadowy stopis, waving tbolr Inconso-cballcos to and fro; glistening leave*, shimmer­ing shining, glancing; masses of blossoms, waving like silvery plumes. In bis own wondering way, lili own veiled way, ho saw and heard and felt, but he did not understand.

Lately ono bad passed that way who saw, who porcelvod with open vision. Did Hlojoh soe like a soul Imprisoned?

One supreme consciousness pervaded him;/ono uttermost pur­pose Impellod him—that which he elaspod In his band.

To tho brow of the hill and boyond/entering a thick grovo of ooooa trees; on to the vary center of tho grove, until all things loft behind woro hidden—sea, rooks, ravlnos. moonlight

In a small pavilion burned a saorf)l fire; In a small bonso burned a sacred lamp. Hlojoh entered tho dwelling, and saw a form clad In a priestly garment, with tho turban of a rod use upon his head.

Ills back was toward tho door, but ho said:“Enter, Hlojoh. I have watched thy coming over since thou

didst leave the Towers."Hlojoh, breathless with his great haste, did not reply, but

prostrated blmsolf at the feet of the holy man.“ Lift thy faco and arise, Hlojoh; only at tho sacrod ultor must

anyone bend prostrate."Then the good man saw that Hlsloh's faco was pale—palo

through Its dusky oomnloxlon—and that ho was almost exhausted.“Thou hast been boro many times, Hlojoh, but novor at night;

the way was familiar, and 1 saw no dangor upon thy way. Did any harm befall thoo?

“ Still, my lamp over bnmeth, and tho lire at tho altar novor falls, Thou art woloomo, and bast oomo on Important business?" This was at onoo a question and an assertion.

The priest was somewhat bafllod, for niojoli could not yot ■peak. Ho still oontlnuod to clutch that which he bold In his hand, and hold it to his breast; he still was pallid and looked like one over­wrought with a great responsibility.

Again Hlojoh prostrated himself at the feet of tho priest, and again did tho latter bid him arise and disclose what errand had brought him thither.

As Hlejob, overcome with awe and omotlon rather than fear, ■'* juuee, be tried to speak bat could not,* 1 , B The holy man arose, unlocked a casket that held sovoral vials,] tandqPlnute, yot of peculiar shape. Into a small cup of water ho oaro- and aully allowed three drops to fall, stirring It with a email Ivory spoon, ohud “Take this, Hlojoh; It will restore thee." differ 1 moment pas sod, end Hlojoh, who had been weak and men Wimbling, exhausted and full of awe, soomod filled with a now four life.

An unwonted oourngo took possession of him, and he stood 1 i more erect than ever before as he advanced toward tho priest and

held out his left hand, diaalotlng In bis palm a large moonstone, the moonstone that belonged to the priest, his talisman, his own proilous and sacred amulet

Astonished beyond all measure as ho was, still the oountenanoe of the priest gave no sign. After an Instant ho recovered hie oom- pasuro, and sold:

“Thou art most faithful, Hlojoh, to bring this to mo, as I know;1 trusted thee. Thou dtdstflnd It where I placed It—In thy way— "

"On the garden-walk, beneath the haunted tower."Again the priest was startled. “ Yes, that Is tho place. Thou

■ayeet the haunted tower? la It occupied or possessed, then? What kaowest thou of the tower?"

By this time the reaction, and the restorative potion liven by the good man, had quite overcome Rlejoli with sloop, and luo priest gently lifted the light, limp form to a small couch, and allowed him to sleep for an hour.

The holy man then walked to the table, taking the position he was In when Hlojoh arrived. But Instead of studying his charts he covered hla foot with his bonds, and remained absorbed In deepestthought,

“ 1 might have loot it, never to have been restored; but no, there Is no Wind chance; all la ordered. I coultl not have lost It,"

Then he roused again:I W f; 'This explains why my chart was not oorreat to night for tho

House of Montrose, and why I could not trace the cause of the mis­take."

Then § new lies—or was It Inspiration?—possessed him.|“ « | • 'Why not try this experiment now tha stone la restored to me In

this m irac u lo u s manner; by the very band that aarvea at Montrose Towers; by tha very one whose life-Une I have- wished to study In this new light, at the most favorable time, when our Lady of tho He van Sphere! shlnea the most brightly? To-night It shall be.'

Ue moistened hie palm with an ammatlo liquid pooled from a phial concealed In his robe, He placed bis palm upon the brow and

oloeed eyes of JHojob. The sleeping lids unclosed, and Hlejob looked around.

“Thou art here, Hlejob, where all le peace, where no harm can befall tbee. I t le nearly tho noon of night; thou dldet oomo ell the way from Montrose Towers to bring the moonstone that I had plaoed In thy path. How didst thou make such haste to bring It to me?"

“ I know it belonged to thoo; I did not know bow it come there; and sometimes an I came swiftly along 1 thought I heard thy moons, as if thou tuulst Iwan robbed and wounded on thy way from oomo mission of mercy, And I know It must bo returned to thoo ere the light of day ahono upon It, or it would lose Its charm for thoe,"

“ How didst thou know this? Thou art very wise, Hlejob. Who has taught thee?"

“ 1 cannot tell how I knew; I woe not taught, It came to me here," and be placed his hand upon his breast

“ I t Is now near tho noon of night, and after awhile thou roust return; but ero thou gooet, and as a roost deserved reward for thy faithfulness, thou wilt come with mo to the Altar,"

“Mot as a rew ord, my sacred master; but If I may be permitted to rocolvo a blessing, to the Sbrlno I will follow thoe roost humbly."

“ And, Hlejob, wouldst thou llko to look Into the moonstone? It lstf)f all nights most propitious. Thou art not A fraid?"

“ My master taught mo never to fear. Tho upright and true of heart have no cause to fear; only the Impure and unworthy are afraid."

“ Thou robukeat me Justly, Hlejob; I know thou fcarost not,"Then did tho priest take tho precious stone—the gift of heaven,

tho “symbol of revealed truth,"and placing It upon a tablet of pure white, ho passed before Hlejob, bolding in one hand the white tablet] with tho stono upon It, in the other a burning lamp of Incense, and bidding Hlejob to follow, be ontorod a olooely-oovered walk—covered with tho sacrod pan and donae vinos—leading to the Shrine.

The altar-fire woe burning In tho center of a pavilion having [eight pillars. This was entirely surrounded by a dense m ass of the same vino. A portion of tho roof was removed, admitting the full light of tho moon, now at Its full, and the wolrd light of the lamp, of tho altar-flro and of tho moon, mode a most profound Impression upon Hlojoh, and would have completely charmed and captivated aayono having tho amallost gleam of Imagination,

The priest plaood the lamp upon a small dias, and they both knelt, lie then tqld Hlojoh to stand with hla back to tho moon­light, and facing him. Ho then held the tablet where tho moon could ablne full upon the moonstone. Hlejob, following tho exam­ple and motion of tho priest, knelt, and was told not remove his gaze from tho moonstone.

“Mote woll what thou scent If thy vision bo opened," said the priest.

The low voloo of tho holy man ehantod a monotone, and tho soft cadence foil upon Illojoh’a cars as a soothing spall.

Then did Hlojoh boo a lino of retrospect,— not Hlojoh, but tho innor soul of him—traced a past wherein ho had boon—a priest with holy office, with groat learning and much of knowledge, evory talent that tho mind could glvo and education unfold; a past whorein ho bad been strong of limb and beautiful In form—a warrior battling for bis king, receiving laurels and honors, such ns courageous heroes rccclvo, amid plaudits of tho populace; a past wherein ho bad spared no foe, and made no friends; a nearest past whoroln ho had betrayed a sacred trust, bud crushed with strong arm and power of mind those who were weak, and bod espe­cially failed In bis duty to ono entraatod to bis care.

Hlojoh fell prostrate upon tbo stone floor of the altar, and the priest kindly raised hla head upon bis knee, and sprinkled a few drops from tho small1 phial ho always carried in the folds of hla robe.

Illcjoh recovered, butat first did not recall wbat ho bad seen.A consciousness, an inward perception, pervaded, and possessed him, bat it was partially, nay, almost wholly, veiled to his outward understanding.

Then said tho kind priest:, “Thou bearcat a charmed life, Illojoli; for thoo thoro Is neither peril nor suffering; bat thou bast a sacred gift and a holy trust—thou canst foretell events; thou const warn otbors of dangor, and thou const guard and protect thy mis­tress and tho young babe, Zulioka; thou canst do this within tho circle of destiny; beyond that nono can pass; so tho moonstono doclarotb."

Taking up tho small incense cup, still burning, placing frag­ments of myrrh, fraoklnconso and sandal-wood upon tho altar-lire, tho prlost led tbo way through the vine-protected corridor Into the lowly room from whenco thoy had oomo,

"Thou wilt now roturn," said ho. "Canst thou Audi tho way, IJloJob, or shall I aocompany thoo?"

"Nay, I go alone; every Inoh of tho path le familiar, and thou, my sacred master, noedoth rest."

With a salaam as graceful as a prince would have made, Iliojoh withdraw, passing out Into tho night, into the moonlight, with a now life burning within tho form and brain whorein his spirit was no longor Imprisoned,

How bowlldorod and yot how awaro ho was; ho was tho same, yet not tho same, and as ho passed along tbo familiar way bo repeated: 1 ‘Within tho olrclo of dostlny."

Tho holy man sat by tbo tablo on which his chart was sproad. Ho covered his faco with bis hands, and plaood his olbows upon tho table. Ho often sat thus when In profound thought or study. Ho now had time to review all the ooourronooe of tbo night—bow ho had striven to read from thoeharfe of tho heaveni and from tho book of fate tho destiny of the Montrose household, of tho threo whose lives woro Inwoven there; how bo had failed, and tried again and failed; how ho had traced Hlojob'a coming, but not tho loss of tho moon- •tono nor Its reiteration by tbo lowly hand of this strango being; how he bad boon prompted to placo tbo sacrod stono beforo Illejob'* vision; to read wbat tho one who sees must nover reveal; how ao Hlojoh saw bo, too, bod seen, while gazing Into Hlojoh's face—a strango transformation; the email eyes grew largo and lustrous; the forehead grow broad and high, and was onwroathod with clustering looks and leaves of the bay-troo; the features beoamo regular and beautiful, tho form oreot, tall and full of strength; ho had seen tho warrior, ho also saw the king; he also saw tho rooluoe or holy man of holy orders.

lie saw In Illojoli, while looking at him, what the latter road In tho moonstone. He law more—that tbo llfo of Hlojoh was to bo more and more dovolod to thoeo at the Towers. More and more to. tho eorvlco of tho beautiful Lady Zolda; moro and more to tho pro­tection of Zulioka.

Then he aproad oat hla charts, plaoed hie moonitono upon hie breast, and traoed the lines of life of those at Montrose Towers until the banner* of tho day were hung over all the eastern iky, and the god of light renewed hie reign.

Then, end not until then, did the good man seek repose, for ho was wont to soy: "While It le night, although the planets and suns light soul* on their way, and the moon lends nor gentle rays to the weary or belated, still I most wait and watoh for thoeo who are In dinger, for those who are unprotected and In the darknoee." And now how doubly groatful was ha that he had boon watching and walling for Hlejob—and for hla prooloua moonstone,tho White Stone of prophecy.

noMiWAtn.“ WUhln theolroleof destiny," repeated HleJoh,aahe apod on hit

homeward way.More awaro of the glory of the night of litre; more enthralled by

the moon's lustrous light; more enchanted with tho song-birds' notes, no longer far away like eights and volost from tho post.

But, ohl tho voioos from within I There were angels and maesengore accompanying him around about; there were cohorts and loglona encircling and guiding him at with an army of light; thoro were heralds of prophecy declaring tho things to oomn; there wore revelations concerning those to whom hla life wss forever to be dovolod.

Through the bush that prooedad the day; through the luoenso- frolghted breath of the sleeping flowers; through sense-enthralling love alienee, a great load lifted from hla heart, a groat burden fallen

from hie spirit, be passed. He perceived, he felt, and now be could understand.

“ My lord Is great and wise and loving to my lady; I will serve him faithfully. My Lady Zelda is fair and most gentle, and moot clear of vision; I am ben to serve and protect if there is need, but my life, while It lasts, Is to Zalieka. I know I roost protect, guard, and give my life for her, 'within the circle of destiny.’"

TUB DOUBLB A WAK Bin NO.How he reached the Towers he never clearly remembered.

When be awoke It was day, and the sun was shining full upon him. IAt flrat be felt for the moonstone, so had this responsibility!

burned Itself into his consciousness; then, placing his band to his forehead, he slowly recalled the scenes of the night, unreal enough now In this fall glamour of tho day; recalled all that his brain could bold; all that this consciousness of clay could contain. Then he arose, prepared bis toilet with unusual care, and presented himself I before Armand.

“ You are late," said Armand, sipping bis cap of fragrant] mocha, bat with hla eyes Intent on some paper be was reading. He had recognized Hfejob's movements and presence. Then he added: “ Have yon been to your mistress, Hiejoh?"

After his salaam, which was far more graceful than usual, he arose and stood before hla master, saying:

“ 1 have not been to my lady to day, us it was far post the hoar for attending my master."

There was something so deep'and clear in the tone of Hiejob'a] voice, something so new and self-possessed, that Armand looked up from bis paper. He almost gave an exclamation of surprise as he said:

“ I have not noticed of late, having been oocapied with many things, bat how much better you are looking, Hlejob." He did not want to say bow much more erect, bow much taller and finer, how much fairer of face and larger of eye, bat be saw and noted aU this as he added: “ I believe the family physician la helping you.”

-■ “ My lord sees truly,” replied Hiejoh. “The Physician U\ helping me. Can I serve you, my master?”

leave at noon for Calcutta; see that my portemanteaa la] ready, and I shall want tho 8. 8. and fcrash to accompany me. To you, Illejob, I entrust the duty of attending your mistress in all ways that you can serve her."

“ My lord has no need to command what already la my sacred duty. I obey bis wishes ever."

Then Hlejob left to fulfill hla master's orders of preparation for his voyage to Calcutta.

Armand followed Illejob with his eyes, and noted especially hla moro erect form, bis even footsteps, and a new dignity of man-1 nor. “ Strange being,” be murmured. “ Zelda la right; he bean a] charmed life; she is always right."

T U B DK PA H TUBE.

On the morning of the following day Armand sailed for Calcutta.

A small transport In the government service, rather alow, but entirely safe, had been placed a t hla disposal, and as he wished to stop at Madras, the commander of the vessel gave orders to .that offoct

Armand was overwhelmed with attention as his carriage] appeared, for tbo people feared be was taking leave of thorn for a longer voyage, and they preseed around the carriage, not even will­ing to resign their places when It was explained by Hiejoh, who accompanied hla master to the quay, that he was only going to Cal­cutta, and would soon return.

Not only on acoount of his official position and his long resi­dence boforo and since his marriage but because both he and Zelda were universally belovod by people of all classes and conditions,

{especially by tho peace-loving Cingalese—would they mourn his absence when be must leave them for his long voyage.

Even now thoy could not be prevented from following him, strewing flowers and pan and palm-leaves on bis way.

Tho officers in command of the point were also at the quay, and met) of note in the mercantile world.

Among those taking passage was an eminent Bnddhtot; for Cey­lon, of all India, has preserved in Its purity much of the Buddhistic faith and teachings, while, as Armand had frequently had occa­sion to remark, India in Its length and breadth had relapsed into an Idolatrous Brahminism, or had lapsed Into a barbarous system of fotlsh worship that was neither Brabminial nor Buddhistic, unless where overrun with Mohammedans, their somewhat better system prevailed, or converted i?) to Christianity by the armies of England I the mild teachings of the Nazarono were placed in contrasting light to tho darkness of English conquest

Armand saluted the Buddhiit as the latter approached the quay to embark, and anticipated beguiling the voyage in conversa­tion with hla friend, whom ho had ever found moat onllgbtcned and liberal.

As their ship passed the neareet point to Montrose Towers a salute was fired in honor of Armand, and in honor of the graceful form of Zolda, who stood upon tho tower waving a snowy scarf, whllo abovo her bead was hoisted a small English flag, and one hear­ing the croat of tho Earl of Montroso, as woll as tho symbol of Cey­lon, wrought in gold by Zelda's own fair band.

Armand wavod, In answer, a anowy scarf, wrought in gold by Zolda, until a alight turn in the oourso of the vesool caused the Tow- era to bo bidden from view.

Armand watched tbo beautiful coast of Ceylon until It was no longer visible; watched the email Islands lying between its northern point or ourvo and tho mainland; dreamed of his beloved Zelda until nothing oonld bo seen of island or golf, and they were far oat on the waters of the Bay of Bengal.

TIIB DUDDIIIBT.Armand considered the mooting with his friend, the Buddhist,

very opportune. They had often held long conversations at Bom­bay, In Ceylon, end at Montroso Towere, where the Buddhist was ever a woloomo guost.

When not oven the faintest outline of the fair island oonld be •eon, Armand sought the Buddhist, who had withdrawn from all, os was hla wont, and was seated beneath an awning on the quarter- dock, contemplating tho waters of tho beautiful bay.

At Armand'a approach his friend gave him a friendly greeting. Armand recognized this greeting In kind, bntdld not offer bis hand, ns he know the proscriptions upon that anbjoot among those who are dovont followers of Buddha.

“ Slnco wo have conversed, my friend, there have been many ohangoi throughout India. Does my friend regard them with favor?" aakod Armand.

“ For India, yea; for the Buddhists, no. I mean by this, my frlond, that tho restoration whlali I nook, and that oar Lord Buddha onoo brought, will, 1 fear, bo retarded by tide new invasion of India. I suppose tho Christians regard it as a new civilization."

“ Does not my friend ao regard It?" asked Armand.“ I have etndlod with considerable patience and much Interest

tho olalma and souroes of tho Ohriitian doctrinos. I find nothing that le not taught In our sacrod books—in fact, both the Jewish end Christian works In the Blhlo zoom but fragments of Oriental lore, made too literal as the 'sacrod word;' while Jesus scorns like a crude copy—pardon me—of our Lord, or, at most, a possible A valor sent to enlighten tbs unbelieving Jews."

' 'But you oonfoss that the lustre of the brightness of Buddha's prosonco has been offaood, hla sublime teachings disregarded, and that in India he Is lose almost thau Jesus Is Id Palestine to-day?"

“ Alas, my frlond, that which you have just said la too true."“Then may It not be In aooordanoo with divine wisdom that

those Christians have oomo to India; may they not change, perhaps overthrow, tho idolatrous practices Into which, under tha Brahmins, tbo people have fallen, and possibly bo tho moana of extending a knowledge of Buddha's sublime teaching! over the nations of Europe, and over that young giant nation of the western world, America?"

“ Mv friend speaks with terror of oxtending a knowledge of oar Lord Buddha over Christian lands; does he then favor oar Lord more then the Savior of the Christians?"

<1 am no theologian," said Armand, earnestly; “b a t I am searching for truth wherever I may find it. May it not be that the Supreme Baler of the Universe, the Infinite Intelligence, :a e given to each nation and age a revelation—a Buddha, if yon please— according to their needs?" . . . -

“ But, my friend." said the Buddhist, “ when He has given us I ell troth, when the clear way of oar Lord Boddha la found to be the complete way, wbat more can be added? Besides, the Christians are cruel, and do they not also worship images—in Borne? So soon forgetting the 'spirit for the letter,' to quote their own Bible?”

“ B at tell me, my friend,” asked Armand, “ do you not expect Buddha to reappear? Are you not of those who think he will come again and restore India to the faith that is born of good works end victory over the Sesee?"

“ We do not expect him—Siddartha. My Lord Sekyamonia w as not the last Boddha. Again will be be clothed in human form, end bear these recreant nations onto a higher state. Yet every life mast pass through all the states that lead onto Nirvana. When he comes again may we be ready."

For many boars daring this voyage did Armand and the Buddhist converse. On the last day they were talking, as was their wont, of these deep themes, when Armand asked:

“Does my friend return soon to Ceylon?"“ I go to : Benares, end farther; perhaps we may meet again?"

sold the Buddhist.“ We may meet again, for I, too, mast go to Benares. May I

ask—and it is not curiosity that prompts the question— do you go as a pilgrim?"

“I do go as a pilgrim. Once in five years I visit the Sacred Tree and the Chaitya. Bat you will ask if this is not also image- worship?"

“1 was about to ask if I might accompany you, my friend? I do not ask your reasons for going."

“ I t will give me the greatest Joy if my friend will accompany me. And there, perhaps, we may converse more fully—when away from the gaze of others. I will then tell you why I take this jour, ney to Shrines that are deserted and despoiled of the presence of our Lord.

(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)

Mystical Numbers, specially the Number Twelve.INSPIRATIONAL DISCOURSE

B Y A N A N C I E N T S A V A N T ,

Given T hrough th e O rganism o f MBS. CORA L V.RICHMOND.

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pies that would solve the mystery of the circle. Each of these was named according to man’s comprehension of existence.

Men has bat three comprehensions of ^existence__time, andpast, and future. Time is present; the past and the future ore the things that have transpired, and are to transpire. This is all that man knows. The present to him may be equal to the other two; but all duration, all circumstances, every change and all that is possi­ble for man to conceive, most occur either In the present, mast have occurred in the past, or will occur in the future. There is nothing I beyond this. There Is no evading these three. They are all, and,therefore, embody all. Or take the three dimensions of space__length, breadth, thickness, and these express the primal elements of all natural science, proving that the three-fold power is there active, as the dual power is in all organic and creative life. As the dual life expresses creation, so the triune life expresses arrangement and mathematical order, inorganic, yet governed by law. That which is {essential In any form of being is dual. That which germinates Is dual; but that which exists, as a ray of light, or as a rock, or As a crystal, Is expressed by triangles, as formed by rays of light, must be measured by mathematics, not by creative life, and is in itself a separate and distinct order of existence. The Deity could not be measured in the infinite circle; no one oonld span the circumference; but the three-fold manifestation of Deity In future, present and past, can be comprehended by the finite mind. The triangle was made ■acred, was established as a symbol and synonym of worship; was one of the methods of expression in every form of being; was found 1 to be also expressive of lines of light in their creative capacity, and at oertain angles of the sun’s rays creation ensued; a t certain other and lesser angles, not equilateral triangles, the sun’s rays were unproductive, depending upon the position of the earth and the sun.

Under these circumstances the pyramids were created to indi­cate tho highest points of life—the exact position of the sun’s rays with reference to the highest fructification of tho earth, and this highest fructification occurring once a year, has its still greater expression and fuller power a t certain other periods that are cyclio, the longest period being somewhat over two thousand years, the shortest period being a little over a thousand years, the still shorter period boing two hundred and fifty years, or perhaps sixty, while the very shortest period Is the year itself, or the annual fructifica­tion derived by the presence of the sun's rays in the summer

[solstice.Theso natural laws, as you term them, were all worshiped as

principles, having their origin in deiflo mind; are worshiped so by those who comprehend that law is but a term, and that intelligence is the source of all law, always understanding that Deity Is only divided or only expressed In nambers for your comprehension, and not for His own existence; always understanding that whether dual or triune expressions are used for the Infinite, this dual and triune expression is but for human enlightenment, and not for His enlightenment You will comprehbnd that these* principles were broken to the human mind in exact proportion to its ability to understand them.

Three primary colon are discovered—red, yellow, blue. There are said to be seven gradations of those colon. We presume there will ultimately be found to be twelve, since the twelve would form the exact and complete spectrum, which in scionoo is yet not suffi­ciently complete to enable the mind to discern some gradations that are even visible and palpable in other ways. The power of seven as a mystical number Is formed from the combination. Although five was a mystical number, seven was the complete number, repre­senting what was known by the anoients of the solar system; repre­senting what was believed to be the complete expression of hamony in oolor end in sound; representing the mystical number of the oroclee.

Some of tho shrines were consecrated to seven. There were seven churches in the early Christian dispensation. There were, indood, to the number of seven special activities given, symbolic of feminine rather than masculine wisdom; symbolizing arts, sciences, and various degrees of culture.

But to no other number was there ever given the potenoy that there Is to twelve. I t is the one and two that make tho trinity. I t Is the twelvo that mikes both the trinity, or the triangle, and the square—four times three—and this represents the highest measure­ment known to any solouoo Id any age—the circle, the square, the triangle. Twelve was the circle; tho square and triangle arc included In tho twelve, as also the two figures represent the one and the two that formed the basis of existence. Under such circumstances this number woe mystical; was sacred; was deiflo; waa held alike by sage and priest to bo the representative number of tho spheres. I t waa believed, It Is bollcvod, and may be shown, that twelve represents moro nearly than any other the completeness of human life. The twelve algos in the zoiltao are dot for convenience, but represent the actual authority and power of oertain groups of planets through which the sun, or rather the earth, panes in the gradations of life that form the complete year.

(TO B l C O NTINUED.)

DECEMBER 31, 1803 3t u b p r o g r e s s i v e t h i n k e r

TWILIGHT MUSINGS.I have often heard tho remark made “ that

we are sure and positive of nothing in this, world but death and taxes." Often have I pondered over this mattor; onoe asked myself the question, “Is this truo?" Then I would I attempt to investigate tho power that peomocl to drive men, women and all living, breathing things on and on, from life to death, from the cradle to the gravo unceasingly. I realized that away back along tho ages, men and women had birth, to be succeeded by growth, man­hood and womanhood; then old age and death. ]All these had their lovos, their hatreds, their wars, their antagonisms and strifes, their joys and pleasures, their tears and sorrows, their hoped and aspirations. Then would come death, tho silent reaper, and out them down and they would pass away from the natural eight or vision; the curtain would drop, and peoplo would ask the solemn question, “Does death end all?" Or, “ Do men and women, the actors on life's stage, live on continuously, behind the veil that obseuros our vision?"This great question the world has been trying to solve for ages, and yet,, in a groat moasuro, the answer is unsatisfactory. I t is to help solve this, great mystery that my efforts have been directed for many years, for I knew that death would, suretyvcqmo, and I wished to put a little oil in my lamp that I might not be compelled to grope my way in somber darkness.

As far as I can, I* wish to let the light of my experience shine out in dark places, and thus act as a beacon to tho lost and bewildered, giving to them renewed courage as well as greater impulses to presB on toward the great] and glorious light just behind the hills at the end of life’s journey. Then, if my experiences shall induce others to greater efforts to search and seek out the answer to the great problem of human life, I will realize that my work has not been entirely in vain, and my life here has not resulted in a complete failure. So much for introduction to this article, so different from my usual musings at this solemn twilight hour.

A friend, who is a reader of The P ro gressiv e T h in k er , said to me: “Judge, why don’t you write up some of your experiences as an in­vestigator of the phenomena of Spiritualism, and thus let others know what evidence you have had (if any) of the fact of a continued life after what we call death?"

Then, with the reader’s permission, I will see what I can do in that line of thought and action. To begin, I will relate a positive fact, illustrative of Bpirit power to prove the con­tinuity of existence beyond the grave. This fact is beyond the question of fraud, and leaves no ground for a doubt in the mattor. Many years ago I began to investigate, the phenom­ena of SpiritualiBiU by holding circles in my own house. In a short time two of our sons were developed as trance and writing mediums.The oldest son was named ‘ 1 Edgar, ’’. and the youngest “ Harry." Harry was not more than ten or twelve years of age; Edgar was some years older. These boys were fine test' mediums, and gave to others some grand evi­dences of the fact that death does not end all, as asserted by some who know nothing about it and never'gave the subject a moment’s thought or examination. But the incident I will now relate was one outside of the common phenomena of every day occurrence of I spiritual character.

Some years ago (the precise time I cannot' now remember), there was stopping with us a man from Rockford, Illinois, named “ Samuel Smith;" he was a gtqd test medium. While under control one evening by the spirit of a colored man, our youngest boy, “Harry, "came into the room at the time. As soon as he| entered the finger of the medium was pointed at him, and the control said: “There stands a boy that will come near dying in a few days, but not by sickness. Mark tchat 1 toy! He will come just as near dying as you ever saw a person, and live. He will not die, though. Now take note o f this, for it will be the strangest thing you ever knew."1

As 1 had but little faith in a prophecy of this kind, I paid but little attention to the matter, and the medium returned to his home.

A few days after this, my well of water, which was about sixteen feet deep, became foul, the water having a bad smell, and I con­cluded to take out the pump and clean it out, after pumping out the water.

As I had to leave home in the morning on the early train, to attend to a business matter,I left the well in charge of Edgar, the oldest son, with the instruction that Harry, being the smallest, should climb down in the well, which was walled up with stone, and clean out the

•bottom, and see if he could find out the cause of the impurity. AU the morning before I left home, the words “There are damps in that well!" were in my mind, and I could think of but little else. Before I left I charged them to drop a lamp down in the well, and if it went out, that the boy must not go down. But my readers know how it is with boys—they oft- times forget, or think the direction of no use when they are anxious to get the work done quickly, and so it was in this instance.

After they had taken out the pump they dropped down a long pole, and with its aid, the boy Harry climbed down into the well Edgar then drew up the polo out of the way, threw it down on the ground, and commenced tying a small rope to the bucket to let down to be filled with the filth of tho bottom, which ho would then draw up and empty until the work was done.

While he was thus engaged, he heard Harry say: 'O^ni tick!" and looking down into the well he saw him holding his hands above his head. Being strongly medlomlstic, he was

^ controlled to drop down the little rope in His Kfrondv, which the boy grasped hold of and held

'to, while Edgar drew him up band over E l , to the top of the well, he being

po ten tly in a lifeless condition. Just as his | ad raised above the platform, his mother

bo was passing near saw it, and caught him the collar and drew him out entirely un­

limbs for a time he began to gasp and finally came to consciousness. Whon I returned homo in the evening, he could walk around, and by the next day he was all right again. In order to test tho matter of fire damps, or as the chemists would call it, i,carbonated\ hydrogen," Edgar caught a fowl and let it down in the well. As he did this he drew it up immediately and it was dead—died in a moment of time. Tho next morning I filled a pot with dry stioke, which 1 fired, the flame rising up near two feet. When this pot had descended into the well some six or eight feet, every spark was extinguished. I t was done as quick ns I could thiok.

Need I say that I let well-oleoring go for that time, so far as going down in suoh an atmosphere. That same ovening Harry was controlled to write by the samo spirit that controlled Mr. Smith, and wrotemcasfollowB: “Judge, I told you this boy would come near dying, but lie did not die, did he?" I asked: “Did you save him?" Ho wrote: “ I helped save him. We entranced him and kept him alive while down in the well, and made him hold on to the rope, and then we helped to raise him up.". Edgar said: “ The weight seemed but a trifle; he appeared to just pop up." Now I have related a positive fact, known at the time by the members of my family and near neighbors. I think there is no truth better vouohed for in regard to any occurrence whatever. Thon the question arises, how was this done, and under what powor?

Now, scientists explain all matters of this nature by referring to some kind of “force." Perhaps it was “psychic force” that saved my boy. I rather like “psychic force," for it seems more common and popular than “odic force." “od force," or oven “unconscious cerebration." Should I call the power “spiritual power," I run the risk of being called an ignorant, old, long-haired crank, tinctured with an element known as “free love."

Still, for. all this, the world moves in spite of1 scientists, and even if I make myself un­popular, I will take my chances in the matter, by saying that I believe the spirits that once lived in mortal bodies, having learned a law of chemistry unknown to mortals, brought this law to their aid (as chemists have learned to put out fire), and used this law in neutralizing the poison of the carbonated hydrogen gas until the boy was removed from its destructive influence.

Here is one fact for fraud-hunters to ponder upon. We have heard some of them offer to put up money that they could duplicate any­thing claimed to be done by spirit power through the agency of a medium. Let them try a case of this kind and show us the result if they dare. The best and cheapest way for them to get out of this matter, is to say that I lie, and that no such occurrence ever took place as I have related it. And as I do not care what they say, or whether they believe it or not, I am perfectly indifferent as to their opinion, so long as I know my to y ’s life was saved. I will now close these Twilight Musings.

M. P. R o s e g r a n s .

IS T H E R E A C R IS IS IN S P IR IT ­U A L IS M ?

SYNOPSIS OF A LECTURE B Y M RS. A D A H

SH EEH AN , BEFORE TH E PSYCHIC RESEARCH

SOCIETY, CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Mrs. Sheehan began her lecture by saying: I have horo a number of questions that we as Spiritualists should do more than talk about. There seems to be a crisls'in Spiritualism in this city, if not everywhere. There is a greater number of societies than usual, and peoplo are crowding to thorn. In short: lias

VIRGINIA’S MAGIC WELL,N IN E T E E N T H C E N T U R Y

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M arvelous Scenes Reflected.

To t h e E d i t o r :— Apropos of the article in the N. Y. Herald and its illustrated copy in tho Boston Banner o f Light, several weeks ago, a letter to your correspondent from the owner, Jno. J . Dyer, Esq., Handsom Station, Vo.,

. . _ states that the interest is unabated. Thousandsthe movement been actuated b y spirits from bnve already visited the well, and the constant the other Bide, or b y the desire of the peoplo | coming of curiosity-scekors has become such

Grand Rapids, Mich.To-day closes Mr. Colville’s two month's

engagement with our Association. Regrets from all sides are expressed that such is the case. While he has been with us, he has made many friends, and we hear so often:

Would that Colville could remain with us!"\ Much good has been, accomplished by his work. Idleness is a thing unknown to him, having a seemingly unlimited capacity of mental ability, backed by resources which' only could emanate from the infinite or spirit­ual He has occupied the time in Grand Rapids constantly for the people, imparting so forcibly | to them truths presented as they never heard before. Resolutions, given by those who admire him, only voice the sentimentB of the hundreds who have heard him. They set forth as follows:

“This Association desires to express in some manner its appreciation of the services rendered by our brother W. J . Colville during his engagement with us, and we are certain that such valuable teachings cannot fail to [abide in memory long after the voice that uttered them shall cease to resound on this mortal plane. Therefore,

‘1 Resolved, that a vote of thanks be tendered our beloved brother by this association, and in him we recognize one of Spiritualism’s grandest and most powerful advocates and earnest ex­pounders—and we heartily appreciate the good, efficient work done while with us, by his in­defatigable labors and unremitting zeal in the great and noble cause of liberal faith. He has cleared up the mist from many a dimmed vision and elicited exclamations of surprise and wonder from those who have listened and treasured up his words. 'Tis with regret that we allow him to depart; but we shall look for­ward with joyful anticipation to the time when he is to return, when his voice shall once more bo heard in our midst bringing joy and consolation to our hearts, and enlarging and beautifying life as only such teaching can do."

L. D. S a n b o rn .Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 18th, 1898.

The Old*Year.The old year, bowed with weight and care, With silver looks white and bare,Murmurs a sad and plaintive prayer.The echo of his silent tread Wakes the visions of the dead,Where many a hope and joy has fled.And fancy weaves in measured strain The music of the past again,Falling soft like summer rain.Like the sunbeam's gentle fall,Over ooffln-Lid and pall.Comes the new year smile for all.

—Bishop A. Beals.

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herb to know of these things, if they be truo?| We have u right to question, as it should not! bo actuated by or for anything but good. Weeding time is at hand—tho field is large and many workors are neoded. Yes, it is weeding time all tho time, with ourselves as well a3 others, so far as wooding time.in Spirit­ualism J s concerned. Spiritualists have sepa­rated themselves into many parties by reason of diverse opinions. There is not very much difference between this and tho olden time. It stands almost alone in the beginning/ like many other causes, ,and thoy were not settled until long after the death of the leaders. All are not ready to receive the truth; they must grow up to it, tho mental plane must be un­folded to understand. Spiritualism differs from the others, us it came by the raj) and met man on the piano of his physical under­standing by tho phenomena. There are a large number who came in at the door of tho rap, I and sat down to enjoy communion with their] dear friends who had passed on before, and were satisfied for a time, but after a while the things of the world began to make them ask advice as to their work here; but a few with advanced intellect began to ask as to the con­dition of spirits on the other side, and the philosophy. There are always a.' few in advance—the pioneers who must lead; thw mass of people wait and wonder.

We must learn that we are spirits herb andl must work, and not wait for decarnate spirits[ to come and do our work for us.

But a time is coming when Spiritualism rwill not be called by that name, but be accepted by all; there will be a spiritual atmosphere about us. To-dqy there is so little bf the spirit that will redeem the world. You must learn by coming in contaot with the powers of your own soul, and ,the unfoldment of your own inherent faculties. Be not discouraged, the forces from the Spirit-world are operating.

(Question: Can wo choose any phase of mediumship we wish?) In a measure we can; but remember it may be a short-sighted choice, and to-morrow we may not wish it—-like the choice of the child who knows not his own powers. Those who choose a phase for its pay and not for its spiritual significance have never heard the key-note of Spiritualism, and ore to be pitied; they are away beneath it. There is danger only in being mistaken. True Spiritualism will move us up to a higher plane. I t had first to comfort sorrowing humanity, but that has been done; it now has a work to do for the soul of man. The greatest danger is within its own ranks—the ignorance and stupidity of those who never look for anything

| but a personal te s tHave you not learned that the sensitive

individual is subject to the will of the operator, and that there are many on the other side who are still ambitions and pretend to know more then they have had time to learn? Bqt we should prove what we do get, and know that it is true, even if it rends Spiritualism asunder. If these communications were the all of Spirit, ualism, it is not worth talking about -Will you never learn the laws, and come, into harmony with your loved ones, and not keep asking idle questions all the time? The fact that you have children to educate, that there are men and women to save from evil ways, should stir you to some useful work, some organized plans. Instead you squander your money on every new medium who comes to town. You smile at the old religions where they take everything on faith, yet you take more on faith than any people I know. Am 1 too hard on mediums? No, I want to.protect them; but if they told you the truth when you came to them asking to hear from your in­nocent and pure children on the other side, and told you to go and cleanse the temple in which your bouI lives of its vices and evil habits, and then come and- there would be hope that they would and bould come and calk with you, you would go away angry and not care to do your part, that you may reach a higher plane and learn of things that would do your soul good. There is a higher piano of mentality to cultivate, psychometry, telepathy, psychology, etc. Understand these laws, and declare yourselves for tho truth and truth only. Do not expect to find the truth in those who tramp from one end of tho earth to the other for the Bake of tho dollars they can gather, but strike out boldly and earnestly for truth. Are you ready to enliaWor the battle of truth and to help emancipate others; to oome out into tho larger field above these opposing elemental conditions, where wo can be free and harmonious?

an intolerable bore that he felt compelled tol post a notice prohibiting visitors on the sabbath, and as a farther protection on week­days a too of fifty cents would be charged, and lin consequence his callers have been more considerate.HOolonel Dyer writes -that he takes no stock] fin tho supernatural/ but evinces a willingness to accept whatever theory will harmonize with truth (facts) and science. A suggestion was made by a correspondent, that, perhaps, the water of his well was charged with extra­ordinary curative qualities, and that his spirit friends were Liking this method to challenge his attention thereto. However this may be, he assures us that his family is remarkably healthy, and that none of them has suffered from any disability to amount to a two month’s doctor's bill the past twenty-five years. He will, however, take steps to have the water analyzed.

Ho was glad to learn that the American Psychical Society of Crofton, Mass., were about to send Prof. A. Dolbern there, whose report upon the phenomenon ‘will be watched with interest

For further particulars your correspondent was kindly referred to Mr. J . Martin McKay, who was for several days a guest a t the Dyer j mansion daring his summer outing. An early interview with Mr.* McKay was sought. He proved to be a very communicative and pleas­ant gentleman, who cheerfully answered all questions.

The Dyer farm is located about 40 miles West of Norfork, Va., on the first ridge or terrace from the coast. The well in question is about thirty yards from the dWelling, and about 40 feet deep to the water, through which six or eight feet below is revealed a bed of white sand. .Merely by accident some members of the family discovered that when a common mirror was held over the well so as to cast its shadow on the water, that the shade would form a sort of frame or back­ground in which would appear objects, animate and inanimate, which would dissolve and re­appear; often the same object, but in different posings; then to be succeeded by entirely new ones in wonderful variety, and the problem to solve seemed: Where does the mirror find these objects' to reflect on the surface of a pool 40 feet below? Drawing from his pocket his notebook, Mr. McKay kindly read off the items, as seen in this wonderful camera obscura, first premising that these were special dissolving views as seen only by himself alone, he being under the impression that some occult power possessed by others had some­what to do with the result; so, taking the mirror when alone, he repaired to the well, and duly recorded what was there disclosed.

Here comes a table or stand covered with I delicate lace, on whioh lays a lady’s gold watch | and chain; the bright luster and engraving on l the case is easily distinguished. Directly a lady’s delicate hand and arm, ornamented at the wrist with a gold bracelet, would appear, and assume the form of holding a pen and motion as if writing. As this disappeared there would come the profile of a middle aged gentleman. This would dissolve, and reappear in full face; then again in profile, as if anxious either to be thoroughly recognized or a t least well remembered.

Next came a tramp with badly-scarred face, and black and blue blotches thereon. His muddy slouch hat and badly-kept hair pres­ented a sad and God-forsakened aspect. After about 40 seconds this picture would dissolve, and give place to, say, a marble bust of Wash­ington or a lady’s bonnet, modern style, with bird and ostrich feathers, succeeded by the body of a delicate lady corpse; hands calmly

had left our family circle, among them the I face of my daughter who was more than my I life to me. How I did thank the dear heavenly I Father for the blessed, beautiful truth and I knowledge that they can pome back with lov-1 ing words and advice. Jesus says: Ask and ye shall receive. 1 prayed: If this is true | {that loved ones can return, let my child come] tom e. My prayer was answered. This knowl­edge is too precious to me to hide it, and I will not inpult the giver of all good by deny­ing it.” ' _______

Items from Cleveland, Ohio.

RECEPTION ELEO ANT.

As I entered, a few evenings since, the brilliantly-lighted parlors and halls of Mr. Charles Thomas’ house on Miles avenue, and found a large company of intelligent and happy people greeting a Spiritual medium, I asked myself the question, what the folks |

I would have said forty'yeare ago had neighbor | Thomas tendered a Spiritual medium a recep­tion I The presumption is that Mr. Thomas would have been ostracised from social and business circles. Here were congregated doc­tors, railroad officials, many good business men and fair women.

Mr. Frank Ripley, the test medium and inspirational speaker, has been interesting and entertaining the people of the Newlmrg portion of Cleveland on Sunday afternoons and even­ings. He has created an enquiry among a class of people who have not seen much of the phenomena and heard less of the philosophy of Spiritualism. For his good services in this direction Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and their daughter, Mrs. Tattle, invited many of their friends to meet Mr. Ripley at their beautiful home on Miles avenue. Good music, speeches, recitations, beautiful flowers, and a fine luncheon created a feeling of good humor and satisfaction. One of the finest attractions of the ovening was the sweet music rendered by Mr. Wm. Miles upon his harp. The instrument itself was a beauty (being a special order, a t an expense of two thousand dollars) and the music was as finely rendered as any we ever heard upon the harp. Mrs. Martin, Mr. Spencer, Miss Piersen and Mr. Buss gave some excellent recitations and readings. Mr. Ripley made a few fitting remarks, and the entertainment was in all respects a success and

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reflected much credit on the hostesses Mrs. Researches in Oriental History. Thomas and Mrs. Tuttle. Mr. Thomas is a BY O. w . BROWN, M. D.director and vice-president of the Lake Brady | o n e rot. ismo, 4 0 7 Pag** cioth, 3 / - s o . Association, is a great friend of mediums, and does much in many ways to spread the tidings of great joy among the people. Dr.Edwin Fowler, the treasurer, and Sir. Charles Palmer, also directors of the Lake Brady |Association, were a t the reception. Quite a sprinkling of prominent medinms; Dr. Rowley, the spirit telegrapher, and his lady; Mr. H.Chase, the spirit photographer, slate-writer, etc., and his lady were present, and others. .

W e say to Brother Thomas and his ladies that we coaid endure such an entertainment very frequently.

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SPIRITUAL WORK IN CLEVELAND.Daring this fall and winter more Spiritual

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_|l wish I could give your readers a fallshorthand report of the lecture, but the syn­opsis will show that wo are keeping our corner of the spiritual garden well stirred, that the sun and dew may penetrate and bring forth flowers and fruit worthy tho name of a higher {soul-culture. The invisible hosts are working with a silent force that is irresistible. Spirit­ualism is being shaken os well as tho rest of the religious world; the old beaten paths have worn Into ruts and holes, and the travelers are being jolted and jostled into a wide-awake state where they can use a little reason.

N. J. K.

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CONTENTS: D edication.Sketch o f the 'L ife o f A. B . French* W illiam D enton.Legends o f th e B nddha. M ohammed, o r th e F a ith a n d

W ars o f Islam.above gentleman is doing much to attract the ___ , „ .n - t . u Joseph Sm ith a n d the Book o f

Lyceums as officers, are doing much to aid these Lyceums. Mr. Thomas Lees and his sister Miss Tillie, Mr. I. W. Pope and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Frink are among this number.

a BIRD GOULD.The course of lectures inaugurated by the

attention of thinking men. Dr. Fred L. H. Willis is the next lecturer in the course. These lectures are held at Army and Navy Hall, centrally located, well lighted and heated.

D R . J . W. STREET.This gentleman delivered on excellent course

of lectures on esoteric philosophy, and was quite successful upon the size and quality of his class. The result of these lectures has

crossed on the breast, as usually arranged for been f te Establishment of a Theoeophicol lodge burial; nnd among other objects a three-pointed ^ ^ ci(y Mr c L. Hotze, Mr. ConlsonnaiMim fp lta n k o a n f S f n l n m o o flio A f NAVORI I _ . . *crown. Then beautiful wreaths of flowera came; some purely while, others in all their natural and gorgeous colors—hyacinths, calla lilies, lilies of the valley, etc. Mr. McKay further informed me that reporters from the JV. Y. World and Herald were there, and after experimenting with a series of mirrors after

Turnbull, and Mrs. Frank McNiel are the officers.

DR. W M . M AN SFIELD.

At the residence of Mr. Ed. Mennongh, 1426 Cedar avenue, may be found the above gentleman. He has given some wonderful

Mormon.Conflicts o f Life.The Pow er an d Perm anency o f

Ideas.T he Unknown.P robability o f a F u tu re Life. A nniversary Address.T he Egotism o f O ur Age.W hat Is T ru th ?D ecoration Address.

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reflect surrounding objects down into the well, and without success, of course retired “ much] discouraged."HAltogether this well bids fair to become as renowned as the famous Pool of Siloam, and it is hoped quite as effective as the one whose waters the angels troubled. One thing is quite certain, were suoh a well discovered either in Spain, France or Italy, then and there would character has bfeen engaged, and the music, at once be planted a model shrine or a splendid ** l®wn, 1® the best that the State of OBo

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cathedralIPaiAtnyfon, D. C. S. EL H a l l .

Convinced of the Truth of Spirit­ualism.

The Ladies' Home Journal has the effrontery to declare that “ there is nothing whatever in Spiritualism" and that “all Spiritualists are impostors. ’’ In reply, Mrs. M. A. Herring writes to that journal: _

“ In January, 1889, my daughter, an only |^ 7 eyes^of itecitizens! child, passed to the higher life. At the time m1 was a member of the Episcopal church and Poems, by Edith Willis Linn, the gifted her precious body was laid away with that daughter of Dr. 1^ L. H. Willis the well beautiful service. Very shortly after I began known lecturer. This eharming little volume to hear rapt in different parts of the house, is for sale at this office. Price $1.00. principally in her bedroom. I at first did not "Standing Up for Jesus;" or what the editor understand them, not knowing anything about of the Freethinkers' Magazine thinks of him. Spiritualism or mediums. Then I heard words Price, 4 cents; twenty-five copies for 50 cents, spoken in my ear. Saw faces of those who j For aide at this offloe.

affords. Mr. Thomas Black and his lady have become quite interested in this new under­taking, have subscribed liberally, and are now raising funds to build a cottage for Mrs. H. S. Lake.

P. L. O. A. KEELER.This gentleman had a few successful days in

Cleveland and then went East.From all this your readers can gather the

idea that Cleveland is neither dead nor asleep, but is pushing the truth progressive before

A ux ilia ry .

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DECEMBER 31, 189*fTHB PROORBSSIYB THINKER

THE PROGRESSIVE THINKERPublltlicd over? Saturday a t X o. H Loom!* S treet.

J. R. F rancis, E d ito r And Publisher.E n t e r e d at Chicago PoilvfltcoasMitcUitfsmatter

T erm s o f Subscrip tion .T its P a o s s a a a ir s Ts iv k b a w ill b e furnltbed until

fu rth er n otice, a t tb o following u r in e . Invariably In k d v u c o :One y ear - - - - - - - - 11.00Club* o f t en (a copy to th e one se ttin g ap

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CLUD8 ! IM PORTANT SUGGESTION!An there ore thousands who w ill a t ilrat venture

only twenty-live cen ts far Tu b Pb o o b k m iv s T s i n a n th irteen w eeks, w e would suggest to those who receive a sample copy, to so lic it several o th ers to un ite with thorn, and thus be able lo rem it from al to t to , o r oven m ore than (be la tter sum . A largo num ber o f Utile am ounts w ill m ake d large earn tota l, and thus extend th e flaid o f our labor and usafuincse. T h e sam o sug­gestion w ill apply In all r ases o f renewal o f subscrlh- Uoos--eoU cli others to aid In th e good work. You w ill experience no d lflo u lty w hatever In Inducing Spiritu­alist* to subscribe for T u u P g o a a ts a iv a T im rsu a ,

ter n ot one o f them can afford to bo w ithout th e value- lo Information Imparted therein each w ork , and at th e price o f only about two oeute per w eek .

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fmr pages o f solid , substantial, aonl-elavatlng and iInd-rvfreshing reading m atter, equivalent to a modi- m -alsedbook!

T a k e N otice .t r A t expiration o f subscription. If n ot renewed,

th e paper ts d iscontinued. N o bill* w ill h o sen t for ex ­tra numbers.

EV* I f you do n ot rece ive your paper promptly, w rite to us, and or ro te to address w ill he promptly sonrected, and m lu tn g numbers supplied gratis.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1892.

Holiday Greeting.

To th e Editor:—W hen complements were pouring in to you from all quarters on account of the success and continued improvements of Th e P rogressive T hinker , I withheld mine lest a surfeit of praise m ight neutralise tho effect of gpod intentions’, but now tha t congratu­lations are in order. I offer mine; and it is through no prejudice against Christ-

A Gifted O rator Speaks.T o t h e E ditor :—I am greatly

pleased w ith Mrs. Richm ond's story. S he is, indeed, one of the fow who scorn a t homo In every field of intellectual labor. Noarly a quarte r of a century havo I known hor. Before assembled thousands a t our camps and conventions, and also in tho parlor w ith frionds, she nover foils to please and instruct. H ers has boon, ana still is, a grand work. She brings toevery place a quiet dignity worthy of h e r position, and scatters withfracoful hand intellectual and splr-

tual gems, which g li tte r In tho pure ligh t of inspiration. H or work will livo a fte r h e r and speak her praise whon critics havo passed in to sllenoo. Go on in tho good work; m ake T h e P ro gress* iv e T h in k e r os froo as a ir and fearless as tru th . A; B . F re n c h .

Clyde, Ohio.We are constantly receiving words of

commendation for Mrs. Richmond. That hor story is the one great attrac­tion h t tho present time among Spir­itualists, wo know, and we are glad to rooelve words of praise for hor from ono so gifted os A. B. Freuoh.

EXIT 1892!W o rd s of Reflection Thereon

The Best Paper.To th e E ditor:—Brother Wordon is

an old veteran Spiritualist, having in­vestigated i t in infancy. Ho ooinmonced reading the Telegraph (if ho remembers correctly) published in Now York, and edited by Mr. Britten. This, ho says, was before tho b irth of tho .Banner 0/ Light. Ho also read the Banner of Light from the commencement until a few years ago. He also read the Jfciigio- Philosophical Journal while i t was edited by its foundor, but could not endorso Bundyism. He admired tho Spiritual Offering, and was a constant reader of it until i t was absorbod in tbo Better Way. Ho has read many other publications on tho subjeot of Spiritualism tha t havo had but a brief career; but ho says nono of them came up to the standard of T he P rogressive t h in k e r . Ho is now 80 years of ago. D. D. Gla ss .

Wo aro glad to chronlolo Brother Worden's opinion, given after mature deliberation of so many years. T he P rogressive T h in k er never falls to find something oaoh week tha t will prove of speolal Interest to its readers. Its large space, about ten foot square,

mas, Catholic though i t bo. but in ac- enabies i t to advertiso extensively,

s s s . u f t f O T . i ' s s i s “ in i B snew year. There are many con side ra- j the average lions I might mention as appropriate to i matter, this occasion, but I will confine myself -------

amount of Its reading

> Prom inent Medium.one rejoices to see more than I do; andI congratulate you as one of the honored instruments In bringing tha t day through your grand, good, prosperous paper; and I congratulate every reader whose privilege i t is to havo it; and the corps of able writers whooheerfully and

T o t h e Editor:—Inolosed please find five dollars, for whioh please send T he P rogressive Th in k er to the fol­lowing names and addresses. I have taken this way to make T he P rogress­iv e T h inker a small Xmas, in adding a

When this number of T h e P rogress iv e T h in k e r shall roaoh tho fireside of its thousands of readors, the last hours of the prosent yoar will bo ebbing away Into the eternal ocean of the past. How wonderful tho oeeap of ages be­hind us! The fast-passing years aro only drops in this infinite sea. No hu­man mariner oan follow the recoding waves whioh roll backward forover. Wo aro always confronted by two eter­nities. Our oarthly lives are a t best a minute island lashed by the waves of two ocoans. Each year whioh falls from time's eternal urn bears its own marks and writes its own history. The year now dying has been prollfio in evolution and revolution. Everywhere a sp irit of unrost has pervaded the masses. Man Is intellectually and Socially in the throes of a new birth. Events have followod oaoh othor in suoh rapid suc­cession, the most keen observer falls to note every ohange. Tho year 1892 has spoken in many tongues and in many voices. In the industrial world the voice of labor has boon hoard. I t has not been the wall of the suppliant or the groan of a slave; but it has spoken in the voloo of revolution and by the red lightning of war’s first wild muttorlng, spoken so loud and fleroe wealth's gilded thronos have trembled and toppled under its thunder-tones. This voice cannot be hushod into sllenoo. Its echoes will, roll along the oorrldors of tho great future until th e rloii shall oease to flaunt in the faoo of the poor tho gaudy purplo woven in poverty's wretohod loom.

The polltioal world has also spoken w ith tho wild vehemonoo of popular up­rising. Its voice has rebuked maohlne politicians and tho combination of rings. In this over-active arena a now Samson has revealed h is growing strength. Ho does not spring from the loins of oastern capital, but his limbs are hardening in the winds of western cyclones, and hia gaze grows fierce before tho rugged stoop? of the Rockies. The first eoho from the horn of the wostern hunter has been hoard, but the blasts whioh shall follow will shake the granite hills of New Eagland and ohange the sluggish currents of history.

During the year now passed woman has spoken as never before. Sex-lines are fading out, and her influence will bo felt more and more in the years dawning upon us. Nor has th e religious world boon less active. G reat minds aro

loss—our mediums. Second, a full and comprehensive survey of the whole Gold of action, where intolerance and super­stition aro attempting lo stifle and over­throw tho oonstantly-lnoroaslng and advanolng army of Spiritualism. Third, to give full measure of tho liberal thought, where similar quality draws it towards those who are oogerly seeking, along all lines, for tholr unfolding as holpers to tho raoe. Abovo all things. T h e P ro g r essiv e T h in k e r glories In the foot, thanks to its sp irit friends, tha t It is th a t anomaly In the newspaper world, a solf-mado and self-supporting paper from tho Initial number.

Tho nlohemlaal essonoes of the num­ber of the New Year, 1893, are three. Three Is tho number of the first per­fect form,, the triangle. Aro we to Infer therefrom th a t I t will be a year of con­structive and not destructive force. If so, then its readers will always be sure to find T h e P rogressive T h in k e r In tho front rank, striving to mako the most of all opportunities, and offering its roaders,fifty-two times a year, a 92.60 paper for 81.00.

How do you llko our platform? Can you subscribe to it? Can you send ua another subscriber to duplloate your in­fluence on our list? Don't you th ink we doservo just tha t kind of a Now Year's present? This means you who read thhf article, every single one. Then we shall all have a happy New Yoar—you in th e sending, and we in having a list of 25,000 subscribers.

U N P A R A L L E L E D O F F E R .

ity. for whioh you are greatly indebted peace, happiness and p ro sp erity ,* to the spirit powers who first projected I deserved appreciation, which is one of i t and strengthened and sustained you Ij1® sweetest things on earth , I am your in your arduous duties. I hope many ||flBof your well-to-do patrons havo mado Christmas presents of subscriptions to the paper to worthy poor, or invalids,!

sister and co-worker,Ol l ie A. Blodgett.

N ever before in the history of T h e P rogressive Th in k er have its ro-

also boon heard rebuking the folly of th e Agnoslio and th e bigotry of.. the scientist. I t has made more rapid strides during th e year now oloslng than over before. Our camp-meetings have everywhere been more largely attended. W orthy mediums have been

The story by Mrs. Cora L. V. R ich­mond, "Zulieka," has certainly proved a very decided and satisfactory h it. Wo knew tho qualities whioh th is rem ark­able medium possesses, and of course secured her services for Th e P rogress­iv e T h in k e r . W hile she is enabled to serve us and aid in making T h e P ro­

g r e s siv e Th in k e r tho leading S pirit­ualist paper, she recognizes the foot tha t she is roaohlng more readers than she possibly could in any o ther paper, and th a t is a partial compensation to hor for the arduous labor inourrod in writing the story. W e are not working for money, nor are we working altogether for glory: we are simply working ard­uously to leave the world better than we found it. • W e believe th a t we ore more fully accomplishing th a t end by calling to our assistance Mrs. Richmond. We now make th is unparalleled offer to all new subscribers: Wo will furnish the first five chapters of the story free, and thus enable each one to read i t from the s ta rt w ithout a break. L et eaoh one resolve to do a little missionary work in our behalf and thus sproad broadcast grand spiritual tru ths. Mrs. Blodgott, a most excellent medium, sends us five new subscribers to assist in inaugurating anew era by sending T h e P rogressive T h in k e r to those who are ready to seek the light.

R e s u r re c tio n o f tlio Ufurlod P a s t .The arohiDologloal discoveries of the

last hundred years have revealed a past to us whioh could never havo been known without thorn. Tho burled cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum have been mostly unearthed during tha t period, revealing tho absolute condition of great cities 1,800 years ago, their arts and manners, their appliances of oomfort and luxury, their temples and their I modes of worship, with the soolal sur­round Inga, a knowledge of which other­wise would havo remalnod very obsoure or wholly unknown. Layard exhumed the remains of burled oitlos on the Tigris, and revealed tho wealth of Ninovah, for 3,000 years ooverod by tho sands of tho desert. His discoveries, with those of others whioh followed, have carried us book to a tlmo almost coeval with tho beginning of history. Sohllomann and Ceanola performed sim­ilar labors in rovoiding Grecian a rt, for thousands of years hidden from tho oye of man. The explorers in ancient Egpyt have been so numerous, and the ir dis­coveries so great, I t would be invidious to name them. All havo accomplished wonders, and we owo them lasting debts of gratitude.

B ut a now name is just appearing, to whom tho world will be as greatly In­debted for discoveries os to any who have preceded him. He Is yet comparatively a young man, full of life and ambition, an earnest student, speaks many lan­guages, Including Persian, Arabfo, and several of the dialects of India. His name is Dr. John C. Sundberg, of Ban Francisco. He has asked for and re oolvod a commission as United States Consul for the port of Bagdad, lying on both sides of tho Tigris, 600 miles above its mouth, in the Persian gulf. Ho goes, not for the spoils of ofiloe, but to mako explorations among anolent ruins, so soon as ho can got leavo to do so from the Turkish government, of whioh thegrovlnoe of Bagdad is a p&shalio. The

mithsonlan Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, and o ther institutions of learning, have made arrangem ents with

T o B e T e s te d in th e C o u rts . South Side citizens have formed an

organization and applied to for an injunction to restrain tho World s Fair Commissioners from closing tho Exposition on Sunday.

Tho applloatlon-ls based on the assump­tion tha t Jaokson P ark Is publlo prop­erty, a placo of popular resort owned by the whole people. Tho P ark Commis­sioners, i t is alleged, hold this property in trust for the people and have no au­thority to oloso the gates on any day in the year. I t is further alleged th a t since they have not the rig h t to shut out the publlo from* the park a t any

I time, they havo not tho r ig h t to dele gate to any o ther body the r ig h t to close the grounds on 8unday. The gist of the claim is th a t neither Congress, nor a national oommlsalon, nor a board of local directors has tho rig h t to exoludo citi­zens and tax-payers From a publlo park

Lupon a oertain day in the week, and tha t the P ark Commissioners hold no author­ity to exercise suoh a righ t, to oonfer it on any other body.

The court has set January 3d for the tim e of hoarlng. • Col. Rao appears for the oitizene, probably assisted by Gen. John C. Blaoic.

G e n e r a l 3 C u ^ > e y «

The Spiritualistic Field­ers, Doings* Etc.

-W ork

T lie L a w to B e T e s te d , l i t is reported th a t a suit has been brought in the courts of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to test the constitution­ality of the laws of th a t S tate whioh exempt ohurch property from taxation. In th a t county alone It is estimated ton millions of dollars In property is never plaoed on tho tax-list, and thus escapes the burden of protection which rests so heavily on those not so highly favored. I t Is an indirect tax on all o ther property in the in terest of the church. An honest court m ust so view it, and declare tho exemption invalid.

F R E E ! F R E E ! ! F R E E H !Our aim has been, and is now, to do a

philanthropic work. The attainm ent or accumulation of money solely has never been our objeot. W e simply wish to

the government to meet nta expenses I leave the world better than we found it, w lth o moderate salary, and ho has al- and if th a t end is consummated we shallready gone forward to Interest the Padha, and engage In excavations as soon as leave is granted. His ocean voyage will end a t Calcutta. Thence he crosses India to Bombay, and will roaoh Bagdad early in the spring. All tho readers of T h e P rogressive T h in k er will wish the exploror bon voyage and a grand success In opening up the records of the past.|

feel th a t we have not lived In vain. Hence we wish to send broadcast the excellent story appearing In our paper by Mrs. Cora L, V. Richmond. W e mako th is liberal offer: Every new sub­scriber to our paper will g e t the first fivo chapters of tho story free. W hile we are spending our whole time in try ­ing to liberalize the world, we ask each

IWby explorations a t Bagdad, a S ty 1 w t u g ? * ” !*1 S i H S W * 1** O ll0W O01gh.bH .nt,? IU h .r ly h l .to ry £ 1 “ S n o - - -

or dear friends, ana those who havo not ceipt3 beeQ as larg0 as a t the presentents o ?ado lla rlo r a h a ^ d o lG ^ o r even timQ- There seems to be a spiritual 1 sought on every hand, and our lecturers a quarter, and so help on the good work, wave sweeping over the country, and nod w riters have done noble service.

Now le t us all work together on the Th e P rogressive T h in k er seems to This journal has been liberally momentous,year, 1893, cm which J have been reaping the principal benefits' sustained, and T h e P rogressive

i jjerjVC(j_ Th in k e r , standing by the grave of thoTho abovo letter from Mrs. Blodgett, year, extonds to frionds far and near,

one of tho very best mediums now before old and new, Its hearty “God bless youl” tho public, and a leading sp irit in -the W e may nevor look into your earthly Clinton camp-meeting, is only a sample faces? but whon tho last pulsebeat dies of many others being received weekly. | away on tho shores of th e m ortal, wo W e thank Mrs. B. for the in terest sho takes in tho largest spiritual paper on th is planet. She will find in tho future,

all parties expect ’ to farther the ir re-1 specilve causes, and le t i t be ours to promote tru th , justice, human freedom and fraternity. Wishing you a happy new year, I am fraternally,

R. Neely .W e are glad to receive greetings from

this venerable gentleman. He is crowned with the fruitage of many yf&rs, and stands forth a noblo speci­men of manhood, ever looking higher, as ln tho pasti th a t i t keeps in the frontand ever yearning to advance the world rank of progres3.to a higher plane. , . . .

Found the L ig h tTake a Spiritualist Paper.

T o tIie E ditor:—Your paper, T he P rogressive Th in k e r , foil into my hands In a mysterious way. I was out taking care of mv little ohicks, and when I came into the house thore were some papers lying on my tablo. I took them up, supposing them to bo some] so-called religious papers. I made a move to lay them ln tho stove, bu t one word caught my attention and stayed my hand. I sat down, and in a few moments there was a great light dawned on mo. I found i t was just what I had been look­ing for, for the last th irty years or more.I was so glad, 1 could hardly s it still long enough to finish reading them, for I wanted to go and tell some of my neighbors th a t I had found what I had been looking for so long; but I dared I willnot do tha t, for they are all Christian ohurch members; so I had to keep stlll.l They have been Insisting on my attend-1 log tholr oottage prayer-meetings: so now I will, provided they will allow mel to read a piece to them. I will com-1 menoe by reading in the number for Deoember 3: “ Seeking and Finding:" then I will go slow, ana I believe I will loon have some converts.

I am 87 years old, live all alone, read everything I can get, except religious works tha t I can't take tlmo to read.

Mbs. 8 . J . Kinokry. Santa Anna, Chi.This good lady, who has boon socking

snd praying for light, lo, theso many fears, has a t last found what she ■ought, through tha ' medium of this paper, ln some unknown way left In her house. L igh t often comes wheri least expected—after long and faithful search. A devout Catholio would fain regard suoh an Incident as a “ miracle," hut this lady, being moro enlightened and less blindly devout, is wiser and knows bettor. And having found the light, she feels Impelled to stand out as a missionary, to carry th e ligh t to her neighbors. T hat is the r ig h t spirit, and we trust she will find many ready to rooelve the tru th she carries to them.

To t h e E ditor:—Enclosed, please Qnd money order for $1.00 to contlnuo my subscription. If every Spiritualistic family ln tho land should tako one or more of the Spiritual papers, how the cause would boom! You have a good paper. May it live as long as it Is useful.

Most respectfully yours,CHARLES H. GO HUS. I

Yes, tha t Is exaotly what every Spirit­ualist family should do,tako a Spiritualist paper. If eaoh family would do th a t thero could be a hundred papers sus­tained instead of tho few now published. When Spiritualists shall have been raised to a higher plane wo th ink your wish will bo realized, and eaoh family

take a Spiritualist paper. Any

hope to meet you and greet you in tho upper kingdom.

Our zeal was nevor so g reat as now. W e realize the times are auspioious. W e shall aim to make our work more effective as tho years go by. Wo ask you to go with us. Make T h e P ro­gressive T h in k e r a welcome guest a t your fireside. W o vriU try to cost sun­shine around your house, and oxtond, in life’s dark hours,every kindly sympathy. Tho New Y ear is calling out. Wo must close. Its dutlos aro before us. Wo will try to bring to eaoh the honesty of purpose whioh Is always the handmaid of success.

To every reador of T h e P rogressive T h in k er , and all our friends and foes, we extend them A

paper when i t ceases to be useful should be suspended a t once.

—i -------------- —— ———md cordial greotlng, and wish Happy New Year.

A M a g a z in e o f A d v a n c e d T h o u g li t .W e desire to sta te to the readors of

Th e P rogressive Th in k e r th a t our aim is now, and always has been, to make our paper a magazine of advanced thought. W e cannot m ake it a spiritual directory. Mootings a re becoming so numerous ln all parts of the United States th a t only brief mention can be made of them. W e here sta te to secre­taries and reporters of all meetings, send your abridged reports to us and your long reports to o ther papers. A report generally o f , a local meeting ehould only cover one page of foolscap paper, and oven then thero should bo something of general in terest. A re­port containing from ten to twenty lines is always acceptable from each of the different societies; in fact, such reports arc desired. W e take speolal ploasure in giving such a summary of the move­ment, b u t long reports aro npt accepta­ble to th is office. Tho world is now I awakened ns never before, and articles j full of grand thoughts are awaiting pub­lication. Societies aro principally of local interest, and whllo doing a most excellent work—a work th a t is needed— if we gave full reports of oaoh ono ovory week, our paper would contain nothing else. Speakers and workors in the Gold receive a cordial weloomo to our ool- umna. W e are always glad to ohronlclo tholr movements.

Is lost, bu t the present foundations wore laid about the mlddlo of the eigh th oen- tury, where no traces were visible of former improvements.

During a low stage of water in tho summer of 1848, S ir Henry Rawlinson, while sojourning in the city, discovered th a t tho western bank of the T igris was lined w ith an em bankment of solid brlokwork, dating from tho tim e of Nebuchadnezzar. The bricks were each stampod w ith his name and titles. I t has slncobeon found th a t in the Assyrian geographloal catalogues of Sord&nap- alus, ono of the Babylonian cities -bears th e name of Bagdad, and possibly the new city has been bu ilt on the anolent site. Immense ruins are also found east of th e present city. L et us wait and watch carefully for th e discoveries sure to follow.

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The G reatest P aper.To t h e E ditor:—Inclosed find money

order for one dollar, to renew my sub­scription to the g reatest paper on earth , T h e P rogressive T h in k er . May you live long to aid in tho good work of up­rooting evil and destroying the seem-

MpTRemembor, everyone, that on account at our large edition, we go to prose early Mon­day morning. Short Items only will be In­serted It received on the previous Saturday. jWo take pleasure ln publishing the movements ot loctnrort and mediums. Meetings, which are doing a grand work, are of local Interest only, hence wo cannot publish long reports wltn reference to them. They are too numer­ous for that. A few lines explanatory of tho good work being done arealwaja acceptable.A great deal can be said of a meeting In a dozen lines, giving a "general survey" only of the glorious work being done.

Bishop A. Beals has boon very suc­cessful ln his work in New Orleans, La., having large audiences, th a t sometimes I tax the capacity of the hall. He refers feelingly to the many frionds whom he will soon have to leave, as he commences the first Sunday of the New Y ear a t Oakland, Cal. He especially refers to (Captain Jack Abbott; Dr. Benson, P res­ident of the Soolety; Mr. and Mrs. Cline and Mr. Brodle, the Correspond* lng Secretary; all of whom he mentions in words of generous praise and thanks fo r th e ir services in bonalf of th e cause, and for their kindness to him in special. H is address a t Oakland, Cal., will be

i 2007 7th street. Is open for engage­ments after February.

Frank T. Ripley lectures and gives testa a t Akron, Ohio, during the month of January. He oan be engaged during week evenings ln the States of Ohio, and Pennsylvania, on liberal term s. Address, care of 304 Mill street, Akron, Ohio.

From H. R . W ard ell we learn th a t [Mr. R. H. Kneeshaw, of Saratoga Springs, is attracting large audiences a t the hail of the F irs t S p iritualist Church,(Louisville, Ky. In th ree weeks he has doubled the attendance, and more than doubled th e receipts. H is excellent lec­tures are followed by suoh tests th a t those present know not whioh to adm ire most, the lectures o r th e tests. The Society is trying to arrange w ith h im to extend his stay.

Dr. W m. B arker, of Cornvllle, Maine, tells of reading th e “ same old hash" of Spiritualism ln o ther S piritualist pa­pers until h is appetite was gone, but getting hold of th is paper soon cured Inim, and now he enjoys the rich, strengthening and palatable menu set before him by Th e P rogressiv e T h in k e r . Nothing equal to i t to cure spiritual dyspepsia—as can be attested by thousands. L et every spiritualistic dyspeptic try it—le t all Spiritualists try i t—it is both a sure cure and a prevent* ive of spiritual nausea and loss of appe­tite. r

Dr. M. Hammond would be pleased to correspond w ith spiritual societies need­ing lectures ln the W est o r South. Ad­dress Dr. M. Hammond, 361 N orth C lark street, Chicago, 111.

The Spiritual Union holds meetings every Sunday evening a t 7:30, ln G ar­field Hall, 541 and 543 A rm ltage avenue,

l i t will have its next dim e soolal a t the home ot Mrs. P . Lee, 217 W alnu t street.— B i a I = aevening. December 29. These socials a re held every two weeks, to help the

R E T R O S P E C T IV E .

A Few Words from a Prominent Worker.

I cannot drop my non, Bro. Francis, without saying th a t it is my “ Impression" (and you know I am a medium) th a t much of the “ revival spirit" now mani­fested in Chicago, on Dehalt of S p irit­ualism, is due to your wonderful success (in connection with tho glorious P ro-I gressive Th inker . I t is phonomonal: 1 but, then, the Spirit-worla is back of yog. Tho work had to be done, and you must havo been the ohosen Instrument. Possibly, while I am in “The Lone S tar State," I may find ono spot where the P rogressive T h in k er Is not; If so, 111fjiut i t thore. I found i t wherever I went n the East. Ma t t ie E. Hu ll . 1

ft is an undisputed foot, o r a cardinal principle, th a t an enterprise th a t has succeeded from the first has a distinctive character of its own whioh gives it prestige. From tho first Inauguratioh of T h e P rogressive T h in k er , the in­come from subscriptions alone has en­abled us to pay our current expenses. Our paper being published in the center of a vast spiritual field, receives oon-

. I tinually an impetus from fne sp irit sideBf* J - R* Buchanan has left B a n n s f Uf Mrs. Hull is d<*ng R grand work

City, Mo., for Los Angeles, Cal. Wher- . . . . , . . _ * • .ever the Doctor g n £ he will have the wllh her lootUPM and poems, wherever best wishes of T h e P rogressive I she goes. May many blessings rest upon Th in k e r I her head.

Once moro T h e P rogressives T h in k er bids the old year adiou. W hatever It may havo failed ln doing was not because i t failed in trying, but] because the times and seasons wore not ripo for it. W hatever i t has accom­plished to benefit tho world; how much lit may havo lnsplrod Its readers for good,or quenohed the th irs t of the faint­ing souls who look to It for inspiration and onoouragement ln tho great struggle of life, is a m atter of gladness for us.

During th e year just oloslng tho in- creased Blze and a re-enlargement have been maintained. Notwithstanding tho enormous space to be filled from week to week, thore has not boon a single line of dead m atter, nor padding, nor stuffing, in any ono of the fifty-two issues. Every word has boon alive and filled its place in tho g reat army of ldoaa sent out from 40 Loomis street, every week, to battle against tho hordes of Ignorance and darkness, both seen and unseen.

I t has never refused its columns to a bright, liberal thought, no m atter b y 1 whom said or written, beoause i t was not labeled w ith a oertain brand. If a th inker Is In earnest, T h e P rogressive Th in k e r has a kind word, and so much of a send-off as its continually crowded space will allow.

I t has demonstrated its claim to be first and foremost, and the only real, representative Spiritualist paper Amer­ica has ever had. This claim covers: First, a defense of the otherwise defense-

L e sso n s to a n O n ly C h ild .J . R . McCoy sends u b somo excellent

thoughts given as lessons to an only child. He teaohes his child th a t ho will not have to face an angry God in spirit- lifo, bu t will have to face his own record, w ritten ln his own handwriting. A r ig h t life hero will be of use In tho h igher life. Do not be turned from w hat Is r ig h t by sneers and abuse. Vhoao from h igher life will aid you, and help you to aid others. P ity the poor and down-troddon, nml help those ln need, if you can. Never speak, look or th ink disrespectfully of tho opposite sox. Remember th a t you have an hon- eel, loving and good mother, and th a t you could not boar to havq h er abused or Insulted by any one. Have manhood ln you to respect woman in whatever sphere of life you find her.

The Best of Papers.1 always say a good word for the best

of papers, T h e P rogressive T h in k e r . I hope to bo able to send you 365 sub­scribers ln 1893. J ambs R iley .

Marcellue, Mich.Marcollus, Michigan, has becomo the

Meooa of Spiritualists In Michigan. I t could not bo th a t w ithout Mr. Riley,' who la the oentral figure of attraction. Everyone who goes there seems to oome away perfeotly satisfied th a t the mani­festations are not only genuine, but truly marvelous. Mr. UUey carries with him moro sunshine and genulno good feeling In hia nature than most mortals.

A B l is te r in g T r u th .I t always gives Th e P r o g r e s s iv e !

Th in k e r pleasure to note the evidence1 of good common sense in th e clergy. W hile free to blame, It means to be {equally prom pt to applaud, when appro­bation Is m erited.

On Sunday, th e 4th Inst., Rev. D. C. P o tter preached in th e B aptist Taber­nacle, New York, on the “Prevention of Crime and the P ittsburg Question." Road and rejoice th a t th e re is one preacher who dares assert h is manhood, even in an orthodox pulpit, against the vloes fori whioh his craft a re mainly responsible!

I Ho sold:■ ■ “ It is an old question, difficult, onel {sided. Tho ohuroh suffers from the] meddling of hor m inisters ln all sub[ jeota, and men devoid of practical sense and without oxporience commit us to the turm oil and folly. The P ittsburg! pastors have produood a situation dis-j graceful and heartless, and politics has become a meddler ln the morals of our city. Tho Soolety for tho Prevention of Crime, over which a well-known city pastor presides [Parkhurst], is simply scattering tho crim e It alms to prevont. Nothing is provonted, save ln the locality where tho society's raids a re mado. Driven out of ono place or s tree t the out­casts go to anothor less publlo or they w ait the chanoo of returning. The offort Is a t suppression, not proventlon. To first obtain ovldenoe of an incrim inating character against a disorderly house, porhaps by hum iliating and crim inal methods, and then haul the inmates to jail, causing them publlo shame and ad­vertisement, Is surely not proventlon of orimo. On tho one hand i t is abottlng, conniving at: on tho o ther it is simply distress and damage. W hore a throng of degraded women are dragged through the streets, put to Insult ana deeper d is­grace in a police court, fined or tempo­rarily lmprlaonod, nothing orlmlnal has been prevented. The unfortunates have only a deeper degradation, a sorer heart, a ho tter hatred against soolety and all the forces th a t brought about tho open show of tholr sin. They aro so much tho poorer, so much tbo moro mlserablo, more hardened, moro desperate and de­spairing. Their future Is by so much as they have sufforod tho darker; the ir reformation th e more hopeless. The minister’s plaoe is not w ith tho persecu­tors; It Is not with tho brutal accusers who olamor th a t she be punished for her sin. No man was ever ordained by a ohuroh to be a publlo prosecutor. I t Is his plaoe to proaoh mercy to the sinner, to call for repentance and not to spring traps to oaten, o r se t spies to betray."

W e commend theso words to the elorgy of all denominations, and everywhere.

within its grasp.Mr s . E. J . R ichard .

T h e P rogressive T h in k e r is the largest spiritual paper now published.' I t pays more eaoh week for putting its m atter ln type than any o ther paper, and while i t does those two th ings we are glad to learn th a t you consider It the g reatest paper on earth . By th a t It Is supposed you mean th a t It Is abreast of th e tim es on all subjects pertaining to the spiritual philosophy. W e propose, however, to go on improving Its pages as long os wo have charge of it.

All A long the Line.

Some one sends me a copy of your grand paper. I t has, indeed, made a{ wonderful advance "a ll along the line" during the past two years.

Yes, T h e P rogressive T h in k e r has made on advanoe all along the lino. Thoso who glanco a t Its pages now, tho largest Spiritualist paper printed on this planet, have but little oonceptlon of what is In store for our readors in tho futuro. The grand and bonofloent law of evolu­tion manifested throughout all nature, from the inseot to the archangel, holds good in referonoo to our paper—it Is constantly improving.

treasury of the Union.Mr. G. W. W alrond lectured a t Ham­

ilton on Sunday last. T he subject handed up was “ S p irit Environment, W hat Is It?" Hamad les, th e chief con­trol, gave a full analysis of the subject, and replied to questions connected with ithe spiritual philosophy. On January 1 the town of Guelph, Ontario, falls Into line, M r. W alrond naving been engaged to give two tranoe lectures th e re on New Yoar’s day, to inaugurate S piritual­ism in th is th riv ing little town of 10,500 inhabitants. M r. w alrond 's perm anent address Is Hamilton, Canada.

E dgar S. Mauvlllo can be engaged for physical manifestations, or seanoes

1 in th e ligh t. Address him : Box 206,| Central P ark , Chicago, III.

Mrs. A. E. Sheets w rites: “The Rock- I ford Soolety of Spiritualists, said to be tho oldest in th e Stale, having been in

1 active operation over th irty years, held llta regular quarterly m eeting December 10 ana 1 1 . T h e session opened up with fair attendance, whioh increased to a full house Sunday m orning and after­noon. A fter eaoh of my lectures Mrs. John Lindsay, of Grand Rapids, tho woll-known and excellent medium, gavo tests .whioh were in nearly every i t - stance recognized. Many names were given, and in the presence of Mrs. Lind­say and her gonial husband we oould but foel tho nearness of our unseen sp ir it friends.”

Mabel Kline writes from Now Orleans, La., th a t tha regular meeting thero opened with muslo. Invocation and song, followed with an address by Bishop A. Beals, on “ The Religion of Spiritual­ism." after whioh Dr. Mikeswoll, a slato* writer, gave some very good tests. Tho ball was crowded w ith investigators.

T h o T r a n s i t io n o f a N o b le W o m a n .A few days ago Mrs. Jenifer, tho

m other of the President of tho Illinois S tate Spiritualist Association, passed serenely to vplrit-llfe. She was a firm believer in tho grand tru th s of Splritu* lallsm, and whorevor she was—in tho family olrole o r elsewhere—she gavo expression to a benign, soul-olovating influence th a t was recognised by all. Reared ln tho belief of the Quakers, she brought to Spiritualism tho sterling Integrity and h igh sense of honor th a t belongs to th a t scot. 8ho had been ail­ing for a long tlmo, and was kopt on th is sido of lifo by the pure devotion and lovo of h e r children. A t last, how­ever, her disoase got tho mastery. I

I Verily, her reward will be great. Moses Hull and Mrs. Do Wolf officiated a t the Ifu n era l._______ _

R ic h I d T h o u g h t .The address by Dr. C. W. Hidden,

whioh appears on our first pago this week, is rich in boautiful thoughts and suggestions.

A H ie ra rc h y .Seventy-two museums, a r t galleries

and libraries are now opened on Sundays ln different parts of England, and others a re soon to be oponed; hut Eagland Is undor monarchical rule, while in the United States wo have a h ierarchy, under tho oontrol of the priesthood. We call th is a republic; but when aro tho peoplo consulted, o r tholr righ ts con­served, if in conflict with the demands of the olorgy?

Mrs. Jonnlo Moore, who has been holding seanoes ln Duluth, Minn., has returned to the oily, and oan be found n o w a t h e r resideuce. 767 W arren ave­nue. Sunday and Wednesday evenings she holds m aterializing circles.

M artha J . Keller, of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: “ I wish to oall your attention to a m istake in ray article on * Psyohom- c try ' whioh changes tho sense entirely. The sentence ‘1 do lay stress on teach; ing i t scientifically,’ tho word 'no t' w rs inserted between do and lay. I wish to emphasize the foot of teaching i t scien­tifically and not by guesswork, as too many try to do, anu fall."

Mrs. M attlo 12. Hull has every reason to be sangulno of auocess in F ort W orth. She was greeted on the occasion of her first lecture by a very la rge audiendo;

| many who had never hoard a word on tho subject said: “ I want to know more of this.'1 Hor address for the present is 220 8outh Rusk St., F ort W orth, Texas. Societies ln th a t S tate desiring h er serv­ices should w rite h er accordingly.

Mrs. Effle F . Jossolyn. of Grand Rapids, Mich., writes: “ During tho first two Sundays of December our ros­trum was occupied by Dr. J . I- Arnold, of Kansas. His lcoturo on 'How Con­scious Life Is M aintained, and Our F iner Relations to Lifo,’ was Interesting, and showed n scientific study of tho subject. IDr. C. O. Thomas, a b ro ther of our speaker for October, gave sho rt ad­dresses and testa whian were good. Mrs. II agon-Jackson speaks the last two Sun­days of the month. Mrs. Ada Foye opens 1893, speaking tbo five Sundays ln January. This will probably bo th e last opportunity of hearing th is wonderful medium In th is p art of the oountry for months, if not years, as she writes sho has been obliged to oanool many en­gagements and 'tu rn my faoe westward instead of eastw ard.' ”

J. A. Hall, M. D., of P ala tka, Fla., asks us to say to mediums of all phases th a t Florida will be full of tourists all winter, and he thinks they m igh t Im­prove In health and financially by ex­ercising th o lr gif tb ln th a t S tate . Many are getting deeply Interested ln S p irit­ualism. H is resldonoo Is corner of 3d and Orange streets, and he Invitee me­diums to oall.

DECEMBER 31, 1809

MUlB°l v etr «?pei1 Lo®n ard. of P ittsflo ld MU18, \ t . , So years-. of age, w rites u i n» m t ° “ hil0Ui0 r ,U.. donunoiation of Vor-

w.hloh ho e lv es af?ISn!.«’n « f ? eywaro Bimllar to thoso of C onnecticut. H o «aya tho legislator ^ h o would a t te m p t to ropoal thorn would rondor h im self liab le to bo " sp it on” by a com m ittee appointed fo r th a t purpose, besides being m ade tho victim of social ostracism .

J" A kers , jrcoord lng secretary . B loom ington, 111., w rites choorfullv of th o p r i o r i t y of S p lrltuu lism in th a t o»»y; and h as spoolnl words of praise for M iss Judson and h e r work, declaring th a t she is tru ly w orthy of n e r sainted p aren tag e . S he goes to Clinton, 111.,; and o th e r points in th e S tate , and in* tends to reach S t. Louis th e last of Deoembor.

F rom K ansas City. Mo., we b a re word by way of B ro th e r C. H. Gates th a t tho oauso Is n roeperlng there.

T H E p r o g r e s s i v e t h i n k e r .

■ H p H P H H A lte r speakl lo g of h is ln to re sl in our papor, whtoh h e th in k s no rea l, wldo-awaku, aspiring S p iritu a lis t can well go t along without,! h e has a word of encomium far G. H. Brooks, who Is doing a splendid work tho re . An Increased In terest seems to be m anifested on a ll sides as a resu lt of h is efforts.

T h e re a re some S piritualists of the sleepless so rt a t Chesanlng, Mich., am ong whom is tho secretary of the C hesanlng Progressive S p iritualist So­ciety , Mrs. W . M iller. Though the so oiety was vory q u ie t du ring th e sum m er and th e political campaign, It was merely restin g . Recently, however, i t has been beautifully aroused and revived by the presence find flno insnlrotioniu dll* courses of Mrs. A. E. Sheets, who is a favorite among all classes and is destined to become one of the foremost in th e lectu re Hold. T he B aptist m inister, w ith some of h is flook, listened atten tively to one of h e r addresses and his verd ic t was th a t ho was muoh pleased w ith m ost of it. T he Chesanlng soolety hopes to join w ith Saginaw, Owosso and o th e r so­cieties and secure h er services oftener Mrs. M iller says th a t the woman ques­tion has, by agitation, grown beyond precedent, w h e re onoe she was alone, no opposition is now made, and. many speak in favor.

Capt. Jack A bbott w rites from Now Orleans: "O ur soolety here Is In a healthy oondltion and doing a good work. B ishop A. Beals has been oc­cupying o ur platform for Novem ber and December. He gets be tte r and better. H e w ill leave behind many new and beautiful thoughts. H ls guides a re of a h ig h order, and give us food for thought, whloh is w hat we w ant In th is age of progress."

Mrs. S. M. Bartholm es, th a t excellent platform medium, w ill be in Aspen, C o la , w ith th e F irs t S p iritual church of th a t city du ring th e m onth of Jan u ­ary , 1893, a fte r which she will re tu rn to th e Den vor, Colo., Institu te of S p iritual­ism .

Mrs. E . Cutler, trance speaker and ^ psychom etric reader, speaks In Newark,F N . J . , January 15; th e la st Sunday of L December- in T renton, N. J . She will

m ake engagem ents w ith societies on liberal term s. Address h e r a t 35 Maple­wood Ave., Germantown, Ga.

From Roanoke, V a., M r. Dose sends h is subscription, and wishes some lec­tu re r of th e Moses H ull s tripe would

. .come th e re and "g ive th e benighted C hristians a lecture, th a t they m ig h t learn w hat Spiritualism and free th o u g h t are.'* Ho Is a m aterialist, bu t likes th is paper.

Miss Mabel K line w rites from New O rleans, La., g iv ing an account of a very a ttrac tiv e en terta inm ent given by the L adies' A uxiliary of th e New Orleans S p iritu a lis t Association on th e evening of December 14 for th e purpose of raising money to buy a piano. A fter an ad­d ress by A. C. Ladd, A tlan ta, Ga., there was a succession of vocal and instru ­m ental music, recitations, a dram a and tableaux. Dancing followed th e pro­gram m e. T he h a u was well filled.

Rem em ber, everybody, th a t we send th e firs t five chapters of Mrs. Richmond’s sto ry free to every new subscriber. Each one can have th e commencement of th e story, observe its connection and receive the grand tru th s which i t im ­parts.

J . P . M arsh, A. M., M. D., Is open for engagem ents to lecture In any p a rt of th e United S tates. H e can be addressed a t F lin t, Mich.

A "boiled-down" le tte r from C. B. M arsh, of D etroit, Mioh., commends h igh ly M rs Nellie Baade and h e r work. S he interests in te lligen t audiences every Sunday evening a t Rowe’s H all. Mrs. M innie C arpenter assists w ith inspira­tional songs. Fred A. H eath , the blind medium, gives good satisfaction w ith hls tr ia l readings.

Good news comes from M arathon Hall, of Omaha, Nob. T he F irs t Soolety of P rogressive Spiritualists Is holding its own, In splto of bad w eather and "Evan-

Mills

A clergym an who l* beginni th ink , w rites as follows of the "Occult Forces of Sox, ” by Lois W alsbrokor:"I am pleased with w hat I have read of tho book. Tho languago is boautlful, I and Is full of seal; on fire w ith love for tho suffering and the outcast. No one can w rite such a book w ithout having a r ig h t to tho respect and adm iration of all lovers of th e ir kind. I want to mas­te r It boforo I ox press myself fu rther upon It, and th a t will take a more tho r­ough reading."

A correspondent writes: "M rs. Dora Downing of Indianapolis, wishes to an nounoe th a t abo desires engagements for February and M arch as an In sp ira ­tional workor. Sho will hold circles for development of medlumlstlo powers.S he la a good woman, earnest, and lahaving good success In her line of w o r k . L ___________________________________H er charges a re m oderate and ahe do- T h r o u g h t h© M o d i u m s h i p Of sires to reach points especially th a t a r e 1 not reaohed by regu lar speakers. Ad-

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U nity Spiritual Soolety, of Santa Crua, Cal., is prospering, according to report I of F. H. P ark er. Mrs. M. E. A ldrlcn Is tho stationed speaker, and Is doing | successful work. C.V. M iller, m aterialis­ing medium, of San Francisco, has been | holding a series of seances, w ith satis-1 factory results. A fter being examined by a committee, and while the hall was I

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AN ADDRESS IJY SPIRIT HENRY KIDDLE IlErORB TIIR NEW YORK BP1RITUAI {CONFERENCE, AT CARNEGIE HALL.T o t h e Ed itor*—T he accompanying

address was spoken by sp irit Henry K iddle a t the C arrie M iller olrolo, held In my Brooklyn office on the afternoon of November 15. In strlo t and cheer­ful compliance with the requost of the v isiting sp ir it (Mr. Cole accompanying me) I wont over to New York City and read th e K iddle address to th e Carnegie

n m e o u ts tro n g o rn n d m ate rla llfd b ai] S p iritual Conference, presided ainples o M jrh lo h w ere g lyoa to | ovor by Mr> j . H . Newton. W hen I

stated tho object of our visit B rother Nowton gave to M r. Cole and myself a most hospitable greeting. I t would be Interesting to your readers and gratify ­ing to me If I had the leisure to report many in teresting inoldents connected w ith la st Sunday's visit to Carnegie Hall, b u t I m ust content myself w ith a brief report.

Of tho large audience (there was a ^ , full house) th a t listened to th e K iddle

■ B n jT a good t o r ln ^ g ou t new dd probably one-half were h ls old

grand cause of tru th and rig h t. L nd co-worker in. th e g rea t cause ofW onted, te s t mediums and speakorsi of I Splrltuulism , gave voioe to the general

good m oral habits. F or term s ana dates gen tl*nont of appreciation and approval apply ,to W m . K line, V ice P r w d e n t of I wHh which the sp ir it address was N.O. Spiritualists’ Association, 19 J Canal j greoted when he said: "B oth In lan-

quite ligh t, forms came to th e apertures on both sides of the cabinet a t tho samel tim e, and gave messages to those nearest —th e medium sitting outside th e cabinet, holding bonds w ith a m em ber of tho circle. A fter he wont inside the cablnot forms o ]aoo, sam |__ members of tho plrole.

ave a fair report. A l i wanted, who oan gl from tho rostrum .

G. L. C lark of th is olty writes: "T he N orth S ide S p iritual Soolety has secured the sorvices of Dr. G. W. C arpenter to lecture and Mrs. A lice T u rb e tt to give tests for the m onth of January . Services commence a t 7:30 P. M. T he Band of F riendship hold te st circles every Tues­day evening a t tho homes of those desir­ing to havo_them ?_This_Uttle_band_is| doing a

S treet, New Orleans, La.M r. I. F. and Mrs. L . A Spear, olair

voyants and psychom etrists, a re located a t Springfield, Mo. T he W est is rapidly advancing in Spiritualism .

iThanks, Mrs. W . M iller, for your in te rest In T h e P r o g r essiv e T h in k e r . M ichigan s till keeps to tho front.

Justicus, of S t. Paul, Minn., has a good word for O scar Edgerly, who is lecturing

in a m asterly m anner

guage and sentim ent i t was wholly char­acteristic of M r. K iddle."

jin response to th e allusion and eulogy of "A u ld L ang Syne" in the K ldale

ly, Mr. Newton gav fam iliar song whloh has such an abiding place in the memory and affection of mankind. As If by one impulse, the whole audienoe rose and sang "A u ld Lang Svne" w ith a fervor ana earnest­ness whloh made th e event memorablethere . H e analyze!--*** -------------------------- —.— — — n —

tho address of Rev. H arrio t, showing up w ith all who participated in i t . ■th e Inconsistency of his a ttack on Spirit- M r. Cole had declined to s it on the

Jiuticua says: "W e feel assured platform for manifestations, but stated■R sayoHth a t all who listened to Mr. E dgerly on th te occasion wont away feeling th a t Spiritualism had been fully vindloated."|

Mrs. F . C. S tin ihart, of Dabuque, la ., w rites: "W e aro ge tting along nicely here, and expect the ohlldren to have a fine tim e a t th e ir Christm as T ree, Sun­day next, whloh tho Doctor has gotten up for the children ."

Geo. F. P erk in s w rites: "W e a re now In Colorado Springs, Col., holding four m eetings a week w ith good success. W e will be nere un til January first. Denver S piritualists a re beginning to organize out of the ohaotio sta te in whloh they have unfortunately been plunged. Mr. F. Brady, form erly a B aptist m inister, has done, and is now doing much for the cause as P residen t and lec tu rer there and a t th is c ity also."

G. W . Kates and wife will serve t h e , S p iritual Society of Colorado Springs, Col., du ring January; th e P ittsburgh , Pa., Soolety during M arch; fo r February

appointm ents en-routo be-

th&t on some o ther occasion he would("live the sp irits an opportunity to write n presence of a Carnegie ball audlonce.i

Following Mr. Cole Mrs. Fox-Kane was called to the platform, M r. Newton s ta ting th a t " a n y one in th e audience was perm itted to ask a m ental question, whloh would be answered, yes or no, hy the raps."

Z] U nder these absolutely tost conditions for m anifestations many questions were asked and satisfactorily answered. I was among the questioners, and asked, not audibly, b u t mentally: " W ill my friend K ldale assist a t the publlo m ani­festation which Mr. Cole has ju s t prom ­ised?” "Y es," th e answer came, In raps, which were plainly heard . Im ­mediately Mrs. Kane took up a lead pencil, and under control of Prof. Klddlo wrote me a message, whloh was sub­stan tia lly as follows: "Y es, I will, and give eviae nee of my identity . K ."

Ch a s . R . M il l e r .[9481 Pacific Ave., Brooklyn, N . Y.

f ielist Mills" revival efforts. Deeply I ate resting meetings a re held, w ith ad-I

dresses by different speakers, and tests! following. Mr. Kinney, Mr." Hlokman, and Mr. Kemptor. te s t mediums, en­livened the proceedings.

K. C. W ill w rites an in teresting ac­count of somo m anifestations' of sp irit power recently, In Holstein, la . A young medium, 18 years old, possesses th ree different phases of mediumdbip, c la ir­voyance, healing and poncll-wrltiiig.

Mrs. J . I. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn., tells of tak ing five Lutheran Germans w ith h e r to hpar a lecture of Mrs. G. D. Pruden, who, sho lays. Is a splendid medium. Ono d ear old German lady who cannot read English wants us to "p r in t a few P r o g r essiv e T h in k e r s In German"—whloh we would be glad to do if i t were feasible.

From Mrs. L. L . Jackson, Secretary, we learn th a t the cause la flourishing in lndianapolls, lnd ., th e Society assuming la rger proportions w ith increasing in­te rest a t each mooting. Miss Salile E. Graham , Vice-President, ta lks and sings when under control In Latin, Frenoh, German, Spanish, and Indian . Those who know say sne speaks fluently In those tongues, of whloh she knows nothing In h er normal condition. A reporter who was present recently! seemed completely dazed on witnessing h er tests. A nother woman improvises, singing ns tho words come, to a sweet, plaintive air, one song afte r another. To Mrs. Mary Davis. 62 years old, the spirits bavo recently Introduced themselves in a wonderful manner—fru it, flowers and various articles aro brought on a slate and placed on a small shelf under the tab ic; bolls a re rung, no band touching Spiritualism has taken a firm grasp upon th e minds of many of tho boat citizens

they deslroL tween these above.

J . W . Dennis w rites from M arshall­town, Iowa: "S piritualism in th is b rig h t little town Is in a flourishing condition. Bro. Thoa. Cowan, th e P residen t, is a Iwide-awake w orker for tho cause. Hls {aids, Bro. Andorson, and Bro. Norman, aro excellent workers also. F . Cordon W hite, th e platform test medium, is en­gaged for January , 1893, and th is Society a re looking forward to a good tim e. My perm anent address is 120 T h irteen th at., Buffalo, N. Y. I am open for engage­m ents to lecture in any locality, will 'also officiate a t funerals._iMrs. Colla M. Dlckersen speaks for tho[Society a t Toronto, Ca., Jan .8 th and lfitb._|Mrs. Mary C. Lyman w rites us somogood thoughts, in a le tte r, concerning th e w orking foroes of the Romish church, and the r ig h t way to m eet and overcome them . She speaks h ighly of the work of [this paper in opposing Romanism: and says they ho ld a key to a knowledge of vibratory power—th a t th e re Is an ocoult Influence back of every Romish form of ceremony. Tho remedy is through tho wisdom of infinite law carried into effect by our knowledge of them . O ur victory will be won by our vigilance In building up societies with an Idea of psychological law. As they have w rought by tho power of fear, we m ust draw all unto us py the power of love.

B ro ther Thom as Lees, of Cleveland, Ohio, sends a notice of Christm as festiv­ities to bo held, whloh came to hand too la te for duo publication. W o have no doubt tho ohlldren of the Lyceum, and all others, had an onjoyable time.

E. F. Plokup, of Lowell, Mass., writes: "T h e U th of th is month we had Mr. B. H . Yelko, M. A., M. D., of Boston, to occupy our rostrum. In tho afternoon he took subjects from th e audience and In tho ovonlng he set himself th e task of proving th a t 'Religion Is Founded on Nothing, and Spiritualism Is Founded on Som ething.' A fter each leciuro ho gavo a number of tests, lie jls ju st the r ig h t kind of person to s tir up slutnborlng societies."

Dr. Peebles, who moved to San An­tonio, Texas, to build up a sanitarium of which ho is proprietor and pbysiolan, Is mooting with excellent success. Ho has many N orthern Invalids In his H ealth Palaco.

J . F. Barkley, of Snringflold, Ohio* w rites encouragingly of H ugh A. Moore. H ls soanoes there a re very satisfactory. H ls phases are: othoroalizatlon, Inde­pendent voices, and trum pet speaking. Pansy, ono of h ls controlling spirits, manages the seanocs, speaking in sev­era l different languages. Genuine medi­ums meet a welcome a t Springfield.

places. Address them as | t h e a d d r e s s b y h e n r y k id d l e .W hon in carth-llfe I had th e priv i­

lege of attending your seances for sp irit m anifestations. I noted as a stenogra­pher on those occasions, and often though t o r wondered how a sp ir it must feel whon m aking those verbal coromu- nlo&tions. '

If you will remember, In company Iwith Dr. Buchanan, Prof. O'Sullivan, yourself and others, I had th e privilege of listening to thoso able discourses by Claudius and others, spoken through

iMr. Cole. I also reported and com­pared th e Latin given by the Roman spirits and found i t both accurate and elegant, and muoh above w hat oollegl- ato Latin expresses today.

Now, as my tim e Is lim ited today and tho woather not very suitablo for sp irit­ual m anifestations, I propose to com­mence the discussion o f th e subject whloh has #been given mo hy your daughter, C arrie Miller, as soon asEotslblo. My subject is: "Spiritual

ilfo as I Have Found I t .”My departure from ea rth scenes pos­

sessed no reg rets for me; I bad p er­formed my ea rth ly mission, acquired th a t sp iritual knowledge whloh all should possess, and found my oarthly frame infirm and rooked by reaching noar th e ago allotted to mortal life. My family were left comfortable; my social and spiritual relations I hold dear, and the momorles of the oarnest endeavors, tho abiding faith and loving confidence of my spiritual associates, shed ligh t Into the dark world from which my sp irit was taking Its flight.

And now as I look In tho past and re- oall my ossoolatlona with you, Bro. Millor, and your earnoat endeavors a t sp iritual soanoes, and upon tho publlo platform, I cannot b u t feel th a t earth- Ilfo oven oan be mado beautiful, if carth-llfe beings will only perm it it to bo so mado.

I have found sp iritual life muoh as I had been tau g h t when a mortal by m anifesting spirits. I have found I t a socno of ootivo intelligence and oease- loss ondeavor, constant dovolopment and unondlng progression.

The spirit, unburdoned of mortal anx­iety and on res, existing In th e othorlo condition of sublimated spirituality, stands forth gigantic In th a t knowledge whloh has brought revolving populated spheres Into spoolnl oxlstence.

Relationship and tho tics of oarth- life aro not burled In a common gravo. T he sentiment of love, filial, paternal and fraternal affection are spiritual ele­ments whloh grow and flourish far more beautifully in the spiritual than oven In the mortal world, whore first they had the ir inoopt'on; henoo family and soolal ties a re more fully developed, and friends of ono life a re friends of anothor.

During my earth-life careor I had been saddened by th e tears of a weeping m other a t the tomb of a son, and felt th a t oould she have known and realized the tru th of Spiritualism, thoso tears of lamentation would have been tears of joy. And I have found th a t those tears should have been joyful, as th e loved son had not dooeasod, but stood In all tho glory and vigor of manlfood, ono of J tho integral parte of undying exlstonoe.J

More, I have found th a t th a t' son vlaf ltod tha t oarth m other, and by Impres­sion caused h er to seek tho ligh t of s p lr l Itual tru th a t the m aterializing seances, with a faint, unexpressed hope of hear­ing from her loved boy. And when the cabinet curtains were parted, there [ stood the loved form of h er son, who ut- to red endearing words, calling h er tel him, em braced h er , and th e re demon­strated the Im m ortality of the soul and the continued existence of a loved boy, In a manner th a t theological teachers have no vor since boon enabled to efface.

I have found sp iritual life to be filled w ith possibilities—possibilities th a t glow In the future, as b righ t orbs glow in tho blue e th e r of tho ea rth sky. I

Myriads of sp irits—ancient, modern, prehistoric and spirits of all ages and d im es, progressing toward th e ir indi­vidual goals, aided and comforted by stronger sp iritual brothorbood, encour­aged and sustained by th e sp irits of wls J dom and experience of ages, m arch on In solid phalanxes through eternity , 11 lum lnatlng and beautifying a life which is coincident w ith the oommenoo- ment of time, and must be contempora­neous with it.

Tho sp irit evoked by m ortals whon singing "A uld Lang Syne" is th a t sp irit whloh oest describes th e charaotor of sp iritual existence. F riends of oarlh- llfe ore not forgotten In tho Spirit- world; on th e contrary, a m ere regard Is developed into an abiding, manly and womanly affection. Though the ties of father, m other, sister an d b ro th e r, wife and husband are not dissolved In sp irit­ual existence, y e t th a t sentim ent of fra­ternal affection pervades all classes and conditions, and unites sp irits who aro m ortal In every age and country.

In conclusion I would assure those friends in m ortal life who have survived me, th a t th e ir relatives and friends, who have preceded them to th e g re a t world of ligh t, aro happy and contented, and s till possess those feelings of affcotion which mado them dear when mortals; th a t they frequently v is it th e ir ea rth life homes, g a th er noar th e ir mortal friends in tim es of peril and danger, sorrow and disappointm ent; whon an­o ther loved one has laid down its mor­ta l body, then a re those sp iritual friends near to welcome i t to th e new life and guide i t safely to th a t world where sorrow and trouplps. a re never known.

FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.]Kec k so u rg , Pa., Deo. 13.—Wm.

Newell has abandoned hls haunted house. He has turned the rlokety old structure over to the squatter-ghost th a t has recently boon sharing hls home. W hile the supernatural pbonom- ona enjoys undisputed possession of the old place, Mr. Newell, his pretty wife, and p rettier boy, a re reveling In the luxury of a new home, with a well-de­veloped and m ighty powerful "spook" os the ir nearest neighbor. Mr. Newoll'e now home Is a mouest bu t comfortable one. He constructed it with h ls own hands.' I t stands within twenty feet of the one just deserted. Mr. Newoll did"COME ON. PARD, THE

m m "DOGS WON’T

not, no says, qu it the old place through fear of th e ghost th a t insisted upon liv­ing with him. In fact he professes to be

■ W hy?" was asked." Beoause I nevor know him u

lie."Nowell was then callod In. JL_

resd 77is story." Row Is th a t story, was asked him." It's all right, sir, be said. He had

boon charging ovens, and Ills face wasTHIS IS THE HOUSE.

grimy and black, "Ju st go up t<» the house and see my wife; she will toll you tho story. I will take the short out, and will be there before you."

About two hours later I drove to within 200 yards of the Newell horn T hat was as near the place as a wagon oould get. Mr. Newell woe standing In hls doorway walling for mo. When I jumped from the buggy I seemed to dis­turb and untie all the dogs In the neighborhood, and for a time the air seemed full of howling bounds.

" Come on, pard; the dogs won't hurt you," Mr. Newell shouted, a t the same time rattling off fully a dozen names for the several dogs, and oach in turn bh ho called It hung Its tall and fell back perfeotly harmless.

Wo proceeded to business promptly W e examined the haunted house rather critically. The exact spot where the bed haa stood was pointed out. The corner In which the mysterious rappings

We

forit b ai

id to be dy* boys for Dr. jurg, and ho Lx hours be*

racrcTK

p la n night and a

OTEHT AOAIN8 T DESTRUCTION. j next day Henry Bacon began f down the foundation under tho but tho rappings began furious- i ho quit toe work. The rap- quit a t the same time. That ;bo orgsaetto was started again aln the rappings started. Baoon

whatipsiiO tl

d thr n t

>ape, bI ‘‘A 4a bro the young fa room. 1 bed-clot) fight, W bed-clot) ornd bcf<

gut

appear er here

F A R M E R R I L E Y .C o n t in u e d f ro m F i r s t P a g e

th e ir earth-friends. Seeing is believing and feeling is the naked tru th , and I h a ro done both. I found M r. and Mrs. R ilev very fine, unassuming, congenial people, and In my estim ation way above deception of any kind. They do all they can to m ake i t p leasant for th e ir | callers, which aro many.

J . W . D ic k e n s o n .

ra the r proud of the mysterious tenant. Ho m erely separated from th e phantom through an innate sense of duty to bis wife and babe, neither of whom took to [the ghost and th e ghost stories with his sublime ye t ghoulish interest.

The story of M r. Newell and the ghost was prin ted in The Dispatch on Monday morning. T he publication did not ex­cite m uch concern in Mr. Newell's com­munity. T here isn’t m uch of a commu­nity in th a t particu lar section to s ta rt w ith, and the people who do live there a re kep t so busy onopplng out an exist­ence th a t they don 't nave tim e to pester w ith papers. T h a t there is a ghost, and th a t W illiam Newell’s old house is tho goblin's home, is firmly believed by everybody w ithin twenty miles of the place.

ALL SHARE IN THE BELIEF.Men, women and ohlldren alike share

the superstition, and nearly every man on th e mountain side Is perfectly willing

always occurred was indicated. The very floor board was marked upon which this o r tha t man had alighted when he was thrown from the bed by the Intangi­ble something. The bed-clothing, which Mr. Newell, with both hands raised to h igh heaven, declared he and the ghost had torn Into shreds in an early morning contest, were displayed by their proud possessor.

A REMARKABLE STORY.

AS

SOMEWHAT SKEPTICAL.

t o t h e N e b u la r H y p o th e s is L a P la c e .

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T o t h e Editor :—A s Prof. O. H. Richmond seems well posted in astron­omy and qu ite willing to solve difficul- j Itlca for those less favored, I crave a l i t­tle space in your highly-esteem ed paper j fo r' the purpose of subm itting what seems to me to be proof positive th a t tho j nebular hypothesis of La Place, which Is generally if not universally accepted by astronom ers, m ust bo a g re a t orror.1 hope th a t the professor will find it onvonlcnt to favor us w ith an explana­

tion in due time.Tho nebular hypothesis, in brief, I un­

derstand to be as follows: The m aterial of whloh our solar system consists onoe occupied a vast region of spaoo In a super-heated gaseous condition called nebula; and in the course of tlmo, by tho process of cooling, tho vast fields of mat te r by tho foroo of attraotlon assumed tho globular form, and was necessarily glvon an axial rotation. Now we are told th a t th is rotation forma a ring of m atte r a t th e equator, o r whoro tho motion is greatest. This ring eventual ly becomes detaohod from tho mass as

FIGHT FOR THE COVERS.to testify th a t he has taken hls tu rn a t wrestling w ith the invisible foroo tha t

I has made ohlldren of them all. None of them has ever seen the demon. They only know i t Is there. They have held h igh carnival w ith It a t m idnight. They have reveled w ith the d Isom bod lea sp irit ju st as they revel in the spirits of the ir own make, and i t is hinted in a

And then h e told a wild, weird, re­m arkable tale. W hile ho talked he looked like one telling the tru th . In hls homely way he threw about hie story th a t sincerity th a t made i t de­lightful, yet with all i t seemed tinged w ith the impossible, unoommon and un­natural.

“The mountain aide is a mighty queer place,” Mr. Newell began. "Back near­ly a hundred years ago old Jim Jacobs lived in n hu t ju st where this now house

Islands. Jacobs was a herm it and a m urderer. He used to kill the drovers who passed through the mountains from P ittsburg to the East. He is said to have murdered more than 100 people in hls tim e. He would throw them over the rocks near here, rob them of their money and take the ir horses and cattle. I t Is told of Jacobs th a t he onoe attem pt ed to kill a man and his wife. He did kill the man, but the wife escaped. She made her way through the mountains and took shelter In Jacobs’ hut, whero

t Umo ho saw l i t Tho house

p and the oat oould not os* were unable to And It.

or t wo later Marlon Wilson, [Dr. Wilson, and a party ofi attempted u> sleep in the rapping* started and the began to move. In theii became wrapped In the and be was almost smoth-

__Wo oould rescue him.""W ell, now, Mr. Newel), did you ever

boo the ghost?" was asked."No, I did not. No oiio has ever seen

the ghost. But ono night, after every­body had been mured oil’, I went to sleep In the bed. This Is the bed right here," Mr. Nowell explained, pointing to the only bed In tho room, on which we wero seated. "I had mado up my mind to give the ghost u fight, and I was waiting for him. I had slept some, and It wee sometime in the morning when the rapping started and the bed­clothes began slipping off me. I grabbed the clothes and held on to them. I got my feet against the foot of the bed, and, sitting up, I pulled with all m.v strength. There were rollers on the bed, and not­withstanding all the pulling the bed never moved. Just when 1 was about tired out the olothee began tearing and I held on until they tore In two. Here are the pieces,” Mr. Newoll concluded, taking from the box a mass of tern bed- cloth log.

"W hat I toll you is true as holy w rit,” the gentleman went on. "You can see the men I have named. I have talked to a man in ML Pleasant and he tells me be can make the ghost a t any time. He is coming over some day to experiment."

OUT OF MANY MOUTHS.Henry Baoon and hie father, Charles

Bacon, who live on the mud pike on the summit of the ridge, had both attem pt­ed to sleep in the haunted room. They had not seen the ghost, but both said they had been thrown out of the bed to the floor, and both sold they had beard the rappings. Sherman Freeman, who lives near Bacon, had also slept in the haunted room. He told ms of haring been thrown out of the bod and bavin had hls clothes taken away from him? Lyman Gaut told me of his experience with the demon. F. Dell told of being with others a t the house, when they were pulled out of the bed, and Dr. W il­son. who assured me th a t he had no faith in the ghost and had no patience with the ghost stories, told me of hls having been called to attend Gaut, who was hurt by being thrown from the bed. He had been with Gaut for six hours and be was fearful th a t hia patient would die with heart disease before he got him out of the fright.

Frank Cries is the constable of tbs township in which Newell’s place is lo­cated. He told of having been to the haunted house, and In detail he corrob­orated the others visited by your corre- spondenL

These people are living, sensible men. Each one spoken to seemed in dead ear­nest and each practically told the same story. If it be hallucination, then all the mountaineers are affected in a pecu­liar way. If the story is'w ithout found­ation, then the authors are as false as Satan. If the story he true. It is mar­velously strange. No Inquiry or prob­ing can shake it in the minds of thost who have enjoyed an experience with the myth.—H erbert , in PitlsOuiy Dis­patch.

SOMEWHAT SKEPTICAL.(CONTINUED FROM 4TH COLUMN)

astronomers. Its equatorial velocity la the old m urderer found her when he re-1 only about 4,000 miles par hour. Should

another planet be thrown off from the [sun, as astronomers toll us is not improb­able, It would have to accept of an or-

qulet way th a t a j lb e r a l supply of theIjo frigh

visit into therhtful

iy u ____ _ ______the resu lt of tho cooling and shrink ing oonflrmed In the

ono is neoessary to produce the presence of the o ther. A m !z!_ mountains ju s t south of hero by tho Collootor of In ternal Revenue m ight satisfy the skoptloal and relieve those

prooess going on in tho oonlral mass; and th a t finally th is ring breaks and pulls Itself together In tho form of a globe and continues to revolve In on or b it and w ith a veloolty It reoolved from Its g rea t paront a t th e tlmo It became dotaohod.

W e now have a full-fledged planet,and OJ1 tno molluullu uuoso far as Is known a t prosont th a t planet m(t Qf the Choatnut ridge, about midway

Pnhost story, s farm o f . twonty-five

acres, ghost house and home, are, ac- | cording to Henry Bacon, considered the best authority in these parts, " book In tho brush, just two miles from Sol Sny­der's, and Sol Snyder is hls daddy-in­law.” Sol Snyder's place, by the way, Is on th e mountain road, on the very sum-

is the ono astronom ers call Noptuno.This g rea t oentral mass or sun con­

tinues to sh rink , continue* to form and p art w ith these equatorial rings, and said rings break and form globes or planets, whloh revolve In orbits and with voloolttos corresponding to th e d i­mension and motion of the sun’s equator a t the tlmo o r tim es of tho formation of the sovoral planets. Astronomers any th a t tho sun rotates on its axis In twen- ty-flvo days, seven hours and forty- | f i M k |

Now, Iftho oquatorlal region of

e ig h t m inutes.IV,

havo lmd a velocity a t tho tlmo of Nop- j oounty, and ho is held in hlg\i esteem by

the nebular theorv is oorreot.tno sun roust I

[between Greenshurg and SomorseL A paok of loud-mouthod, hungry hounds, a

lew sheep, a small drove of ohiokens Jund an expanse of rooky land tilted up un til It seems to stand on one end, tho ghost house, a log barn, h ls now home, w ith h ls wife and four-yonr-old boy, imake up tho lis t of Mr. Newoll’s posses­sions. He Is employed a t the Mammoth Coke W orks, looatod a t the foot of tho mountains, ju st five miles away, and morning and evening he walks to and from hls work. He la a steady, sturdy, Ihonest-looklog follow. He is a brothor of ox-Commlssloner Newell, of Fayotto

turned. She lived several days and when she evidenced signs of recovering Jacobs is alleged to have poisoned her.T hat woman b seen in these mountains to this vory day. Sho dashes through the bushes like a, frightened fawn and everybody up hete has seen her often.I t is told th a t h er sp irit In white robes overtook Jacobs one night and so fright-| coed him th a t he committed suicide.]■ B u t th a t has nothing to do with our

[ghost," Mr. Newell suggested. "Dave R itte r was the original owner of this Iplaoo, and i t is hls ghost th a t haunts [the old house. R itte r was a bachelor.The property was not very valuable, but [it was all he had. He was oourtlng a g irl up In Sumerset oounty, and just when he was about to get m arried this place was sold for taxes.

LIKE MODERN BRIDES."T he g irl refused to m arry him when

he had no property. He agreed if ahe would watt for him he would leave the mountains and make money enough to buy back his property. The g irl, they I planets are not born of the sun o r else toll mo, died while waiting. T hat was | the time of the sun’s rotation has not

bital velocity of about 4,GUO miles per hour. Quite a falling off from even Neptune’s speed, our slowest coach.■ w h a t is the m atter with this theory? |l can’t make i t work. I hope th a t Prof. O. H. Richmond or some other professor [will be able and kind enough to do so. ■ T h e contrary movement of the moons [of Uranus seem to dispute this theory. Professor Olney tells us It was not so a t the beginning, b a t tha t this contrary movement is due to a continual tilting of the orbits of said moons. I was glaa to accept hls explanation and then thought the theory without a flaw or blemish, but have slnoe discovered what seems to me to be an irreparable [break.■ i f the planets are born of the sun and I the sun’s rotation were uniform, then the years of the planets would be uniform, whloh Is not the case; therefore the

tune's b irth of some less than twolvo thousand miles per hour, and continued to ro tate w ith an aoooloratod veloolty down through tho formation of all tho pianola, till wo find Mercury having a veloolty of over ono hundroa and five' thousand miles an hour.

Following th is theory down to thefirosent time th e sun’s equator should isvo a muoh g rea ter velocity than a t

any former tim e; but taking tho rota­tion and size of the sun, as given by

(CONTINUED IN 7TH COLUMN.)

all who know him.Bill Nowell is one of tho best men

wo havo In our works," the superintend­en t of Mammoth works said to your cor­respondent.

"H avo you heard of the ghoat he has a t hls home?" I asked of the superin­tendent.

"Y es, I have hoard tha t story often.” A GOOD CHARACTER WITNESS.

F ' Do vou believe it?"'Woll, I don't go muoh on ghost

back in the forties. Then they tell me Dan R itte r cursed his luck and died too.| I understand he died recently very poor somewhere down In W est Virginia.

" I bought this place eigh t years ago. I decided to romodol tho house and make It comfortable for the w inter when I hoard of Dan R itter's death. Tho fir*t[ n igh t after R itte r's death was an­nounced, Henry Baoon, who was work­ing for me, was disturbed by rappings lln nia bedroom, whloh was In the garre t [of the old house. He was frightened at th e noise and he oame downstairs and slept on the floor. The next n ight Sher­man Freeman, Lyman Gaut, Marlon Wilson and Henry Johnston decided to watch for the ghost. They spent the evening downstairs. Everything was quiet overhead until about 9 o'clock, when someone started to play the organ- otto. As soon as a sacred tune was struck the rappings began upstairs, and the ghost seemed to be enraged. Two of tho hoys ran upstairs, but they oould see nothing. About an hour later tho boys went up to bed. They ollmbed Into the bed togetbor. They had scarce­ly gotten into tho bed when the rap- pings began and the bedclothing disap­peared. Then the rappings bcoamo more violent and one after the other the boys were thrown out of bed to the floor. Baoon made a desperate fight. He remained in bed the longest, and when he found hlmsolf being dragged out he jumped up and ran downstairs. | All the others savo Gaut bad oome down. Wo went hack and got him. H e1

| been uniform. If the rotation of the sun has been accelerated a t a rate sufficient to give the planets their orbital veloci­ties as measured by astronomers, then what has caused the sun to slacken Its equatorial motion from 105,000 miles per hour a t the time of Mercury's formation down to 4.000 miles per hour, its present

[motion? v E. ALDRICH.I Johnson’s Orock, N . Y.

\ P . S.—Should any of your contrlb» roollvlties see fit

| to explain the cause of the phenomenon of the difference In length of the fore­noon end afternoon, as It occurs through­out the year, It would be highly gratify­ing end edifying to me end doubtiaas u> many others.

■ T h e changes occur about as follows: [After December 24, p .m. longest; after April 15, a .m. longest; after June 15, P.M. longest: after September 1, a .m . [longesL If Instead of four transitions there were but two and they occurred at the equinoxes, I should fancy that I could see the why. But as It la, I am all a t sea. E. A.

The Liberal and Spiritual Soolety, of Oakland, Cal., through Joseph K. Dorety, sends "holiday greetings" to this office. The Soolety there has been favored with scholarly lectures by Professor Look- wood. Doctor end Mrs. S. N. Asplnwell, end Mrs. L. Fulton, have been enter­taining Its members. Connected with the soolety is a lyoeum of seventy-five members.

TUB PROGRESSIVE THINKERD E C E M B E R 31, 1892

DemonThe Continuity of Life 8trated.

I Lave been investigating Spiritualism for some time by a careful perusal every week of I Toe Progressive Thinker. The papers greatly interested me, bat I felt the need of visiting a reliable medium that I might speak] from personal knowledge. I live in Idaho! My business called me East I stopped over] at Chicago, and having made inquiries about! mediums, I was referred to the Bangs sisters,! and I called on them at their pleasant home.] The mediums made no boost of their remark! able gift, bat gave me, under the severest testl conditions, not only proof of their mediumialic power, bat evidence, absolute evidence that] my friends who have passed away from earth] still live and act as rational beings. Barely this is good news. I had a sitting for inde-l pendent slate-writing with one of the sisters. The test was made in a small room containing a few pieces of furniture, and in the center a plain sewing table I was requested to make! a rigid examination of the table and surround-j ings, which I did. I then washed the slates myself, and in my presence, my eyes never leaving the slates, the medium tied my hand­kerchief around the two slates, after having] placed one over the other, and suspended them from a chandelier. Two slates were also held) by the medium and myself over the top of the table. This slate-writing seance was in brood daylight Having convinced myself that there was no possibility of frond, I eagerly waited results.

Incredible and marvelous as it may seem, I] obtained messages from a number of myj friends, who did not forget to write their names. As I was a stranger to the medium, this wonderful spirit correspondence was as con­vincing as it was deeply interesting. Un­questionably here is a new and broad field for scientific research. If spirits did not write, who or what invisible power did? It is certain that the medium did not

In the evening I attended a dark circle, con­sisting of six persons. Both mediums (May and Lizzie) were present This seance was also quite satisfactory. My friends convened with me, and soft spirit hands caressed me; faces appeared, messages were written and placed in the laps of different members of the circle, and other remarkable manifestations added interest to the seance.

I would be untrue to myself if I did not ^acknowledge evidence so clqarly given, and I think 1 can safely advise Investigators to call on these wooderf ul mediums and be convinced of the great truth of a future rational existence. Could she, even by frond, if that bad been possible, write names she did not know?

Cumeron, Idaho. A. E. Snell.

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The Young Folks' Club for Spirit­ual Research.

A VISION FORETELLS A DEATH.

One day I called on Mr. and Mrs. IL E. I Porter, of 819 Kalamazoo street, Lansing, Mich. She is a medium, and told me this experience: “Two weeks last Saturdaynight, I saw, in a vision, my neighbor’s porch all covered with napkins; in the center sat their black dog. Then I awoke from my sleeping, and lay a long time thinking it over. I t made me feci sod, foe it gave me an impres­sion that something would soon happen to I them. In the morning, Sunday, 1 told the vision to my family, and said: ‘I t means something.’ At 10o'clock I looked oat and saw the doctor’s buggy at my neighbor’s door. A queer feeling came over me, and I felt I faint and sick. In a little while the lady’s I husband, Mr. Spinier, came to my door on an I errand. I asked: ‘Who Is sick?’ He re­plied: ‘My wife was taken very sick last night’ On Monday morning I said to my] family: 'I’m going in to see Mrs. Spooler; | perhaps I can help the sick lady. But be-] fore 1 go I will ask my spirit friends what; they think of her chances of getting well.’ II talk to my spirit friends just as I talk to you] mortals, and I always feel their presence and hear them-talk to me. I asked, ‘Will Mrs. I Spooler get wall?' The answer came, ‘Nol'l *Csa it be possible,' said I, ‘that Mrs. Spoo­ler is going to pose over to spirit-life?' The answer came, ‘Yes.’ By this time the doctor had been there again. 1 went in to see heron Mooday and again on Tuesday. While stand­ing by her bedside, she said: *Ohl Mrs. Porter.' I answered, ‘Yes, Mrs. Spooler, I hear yon; what can I do for you?’ In a few minutes 1 returned home In about an hour I felt a peculiar sensation, seeming to come from the dying lady, informing me that her spirit had left its body. I told my family that I thought she had passed to spirit-life. The deathly sensation I felt while in my own house coincided with the time of her death. In the afternoon 1 looked out of my window toward Mrs. Spanker's house;

Dr. I t S. MacArtbur thus refers to that infamous document sent out by Priost Stephan (representing the Romish Church) Just before election:

"The fact is now well-known that our gov-l eminent has been paying between three and four handled thousand dollars a year for the support of Catholic schools among the North American Indiana. How this money has been expended and where it has gone to is bard to say. Each year a larger sum is demanded by the Romish authorities, and each year there is I a weak and time-serving yielding at Wash­ington. At length, Rome found Commissioner Morgan in tho way of its unrighteous and shameful proceedings. He found, on entering his office in 1889, that a Catholic bureau had been intrusted with the large appropriations of government, and that the United States | authorities knew little else about i t The bureau of the church took the money, and gov­ernment accepted the condition of things. General Morgan determined that our Indian appropriations should be expended properly; that sectarian interests should not bo consulted; that the Catholics should be dealt with as were other denominations. This fair, manly stand, for which he should be thanked by every American, brought down on him the wrath of Rome, and from that day to this the most desperate measures have been taken to drive him out of office. In public and in private he has been assailed, and all that Rome could do has been done. Bat an honest President and an awakened Congress have prevented such gross injustice and cruel injury to our Indian wards from taking place, and General Morgan is yet in office. A letter designed to be kept secret, written by priest Stephan, who has been working this sectarian bureau in the interests of the Papacy, and directed.to Bishop Marty, has been given to the public. I t exposes not only the wrath but the purpose of Rome. I t shows that it is the intention of the church to force govern­ment to support its Indian schools. This purpose has long been known in Washington. That sterling old Massachusetts Senator, Mr. Dawes, has fought It at every inch of its progress, while some of tho Senators have wickedly bowed to i t Stephan shows his hold on some of oar pnblic men. ‘The late Senator Plumb called at our office and said he would assist us in our fight on Morgan, and Senator Ingalls gave me the same assurance. ’ Senator Plumb is dead, and Senator Ingalls is buried beneath the judgment of the people, who elected him to stay at home and take care of his farm, if he is fortunate cnongh to have one. Senator Manderson, we are told, ‘would lead the old soldiers against him; everything seemed to favor the defeat of his confirmation, when certain elements—I was told, the President—entered into the contest, which changed the whole situation. ’ What were the ‘certain elements,’ that entered into the con­test? Why, the President got bis eyes open. The Senate committee came into possession of facts, i The history of the whole plan to rob i the treasury was unfolded, and the little game of Stephan was blocked.

•The President was asked to withdraw the nominations of General Morgan and Dr. Dorchester. Priestly influence was brought to bear upon the President and the Senate, bat thanks to God the measure failed. When Archbishop Ireland was in this city a while ago, being cajoled and feasted by the National Temperance Society, eulogized by Dr. Cuyler and other Protestants, he was on his way to Washington to attend to this very business. Stephan himself tells of the whole plan, and how he failed.”

MRS. ADAH SH EEH AN ."The Orthodox Are Struggling Vainly

for the Existence o f Outgrown F aith ." This gifted speaker alludes to the trial of

Prof. 8mith as follows:The trial of Prof. Smith is creating wide­

spread interest, as it Is bringing to the sur­face the trend of thought in respect to relig­ious changes which have long been maturing. The orthodox are struggling vainly for the ex­istence of outgrown faiths, while the progress­ive faction recognizes the dswning of the era of reason, in which these trials are assisting |moro than all else to establish in the minds of people who fear to question the inspiration of the Bible for themselves, and hitherto have swallowed Genesis, heaven and hell, God and the Devil, vicarious atonement, infant damna­tion and so on through the chapter. Creeds have been changed time and again, now sects formed to satisfy the claims of larger reason, and science has come to be recognized as all- potent in a study of tho past.- Bibles cannot escape its searching gaze, established facto in science cannot be reconciled to the Bible. Men, and among them ministers, have thought, and so tho flat goes forth, "he is a heretic,” land the trial for heresy is on; zealots rise to tell God's will in the matter. The end comes;

j the thinker is expelled, and with him thou­sands are started on the road to freedom. The steady stream of fearless inquiry will go on. No hand, no threat, no trial can stay the search for troth. I t seems strange to me that men should be tried for thinking; stranger still that a man would try to stay in a church whose creed is too small for him. Nothing ooaid engage me to remain where I was crowded for thinking-room. However the lights of church are divided in opinion, the result of this inquiry will bring to the front other and larger questions than difference of opinions as to inspiration.

The church makes a mistake occupying precious time in trials for heresy, that result in tho expulsion of large, intellectual men of known moral worth and great power for good in the fight against the rad evils of the pres­ent day. This agitation, however it works injury to creeds, will assist in establishing a universal religion, bom of truth, broad enough for the broadest mind to rest on, and still lift­ing its horizon higher, beckoning men to new investigations, to deeper researches, fearing nothing. We shall find God and Truth nearly the same thing. Mas. Adah Sheehan,

Pastor for the Psychic Research Society.

Spread the Olad Tidings.Each week we are spreading before

, _ , U..L . ... „ on door I readers glad tidioga. While doing this work ■aw tome black and white crape, explaining . . . . , . .. , .. • . - . . . ■ sffi/1 onriosvriFinrr tz% a lo v u ta f h a a v w m w a salrthe meaning of the white napkin and blackdog which i saw In my vision. My intuitive] feelings, my spirit friends and that vision gave me warning of her death."

Allow me to add that Mr. Porter and bis family are respectable people, and well-known In Lansing. II. K. Martin, Secretary.

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Curious Inventions.Photography of the heavens has revealed

■tare Invisible to the naked eye or through the telescope, and now Mr. Edison is thinking of a phonograph to catch sounds unheard by the human ear. Once captured by the wax cylinders of the phonograph these sounds will be returned to the listener Intensified to a de­gree sufficient to make them easily audible.

A Few Jots from Dixie._|To the Editor:—In obedience to the re­quest of many friends, before I left Chicago,| that I should now and then report through your interesting paper, I take my pen not to Igive a detailed account, bat a general report of my movements since I left the little town up by Lake Michigan.

My only stop between Chicago and Fort Worth, where I am sojourning at present, was Memphis, Tenn. I was invited there, and hospitably entertained, by Allie Lindsay Lynch. Although her name has become a household word among the Spiritualists all over the country, she cannot bo appreciated until known in her own home. She not only writes for nearly every Spiritualist paper pub­lished in the United States, bat has editorial] departments in other journals; carries on a large correspondence; treats the sick who de­mand her cervices magnetically, and attends to her household duties.

Spiritualism is at a low ebb in Memphis. Indeed, there are so few who have the cour­age of their convictions that it was decided, |as my stay was to be so brief, that the two addresses I had been invited to deliver should be given in Dr. Lynch’s dental parlors. The invitations were by word of mouth, conse­quently* the gatherings were limited as to num­bers, and select in quality. I t was said to me repeatedly: "Such lectures are needed{here, and nndoubtedly would, In time, build up a large congregation.” So I would say {here, for the benefit of lecturers who are weighed down with a surplus of dollars, and who have the time and patience to invest in the cause and don't mind social ostracism, Memphis is jnst the place for them.

Seriously, however, I was assured over and over again that there were many Spiritualists Id the Bluff City who did not dare to acknowl edge the fact. Brother Francis, isn’t it strange that persons with their souls sobbing over the loss of loved ones will denounce Spiritualism, with their eyes full of tears be. cause they find no evidence their loved are living?

After a sojourn of six days In Memphis I resumed my journey, and reached Fort Worth many hours beyond the time wo were due. Our longest detention was in the wilds of Arkansas, far removed from any place where edibles could be secured, and had it not been for the thoughtfulness of Slater ‘‘Allie*’ in filling a generous sack with lunch, I would have been compelled to fast for at least twelve hours.

The royal reception I received from my relatives after I reached my destination more than made up for the diaagreeablenen of the journey. They arc Spiritualists interested In all that pertains to the welfare of the cause, which, of course, makes my work in this sec­tion of the country doubly enjoyable.

I delivered my first lecture before the Soci­ety of United Spiritualists last Sunday i*. »l , on which occasion the seating capacity was far too limited; more chairs will be furnished be­fore another Sunday. The society has been holding but one service on Sunday, bat after our next meeting I propose to bold an evening session in connection with the afternoon meet­ing. If a large attendance and close atten­tion are Indications of interest In a speaker, I

I find The F boobebsivb Thinker as much at home in this section as in the North. There are many progressive minds interested in the cause hero. I trust with the co-operation of my spirit-helpers to assist in leading the searchers after truth into a broader field of thought. More anon. Mattie E. Hull. |

£20 8. Rusk S i., Fort Worth, Tex.

The Cause at Albany, N. Y.To t h e E d i t o r :—We started the work of

the year with Mias Lizzie Ewer, a most earn­est and forcible speaker. Her lectures were very instructive; her tests convincing.

For the present we have Mrs. H. S. Lake, who is filling hot fourth engagement in this city. She began the present engagement the first of November; it will end the last of De­cember.

Mrs. Lake is creating more enthusiasm here than any speaker we have had. She is an agitator without being an irrltator. On Sun­day evening, December 4th, she spoke to a very large audience, her subject being, "R o­man Catholicism as Viewed in the Light of Modern Spiritualism. ” Her audience was held spellbound for an hour and a half.

Herpsychometrio readings are a perfect suc­cess; never failing. They are all given under strict tost conditions, she never knowing to whom the article belongs until after the read­ing.

Mrs. Lake's inspiration is of the highest order, and well-calculated to interest and in­struct all classes. Through her instrumen­tality there is good prospect of the Spiritual­ists of Albany boilding a place for the purpose of promulgating independent thought and spiritual troths. There has been a fund started for that purpose. We are about engaging Mrs. Lake for the whole of next year. Dr. Street follows her in January, 1893. He is also an eloquent speaker, and well adapted to follow her. With each talent as these and Prof. Kenyon and Mr. Grimshaw to follow, we think the Albany Spiritual Alliance most prosper, and Albanians grow wiser and better. Dr. M. Oabl.

Notes from Nellie S. Baade.E ditor P rogressive Thinker:—Last Sep­

tember we commenced a series of meetings in Detroit, calculating to continue them for a month or two, bat the interest has been such we have spoken regularly ever Sabbath since, and last Sabbath was considered one of the] best meetings of the season, and more interest is being manifested than at any previous time.

One hour before the lecture a conference is in session in order to give the home mediums an opportunity to give expression as thespirite may think proper. Last Sunday evening re­marks were made by Mr. Church, of London, Canada, a fine physical medium. Sister Minnie Carpenter closed the meeting with an inspira­tional song, which was well received. She is giving teste at her home 201 Third Street, Detroit.

Dr. Charles Day, of Dewitt, has been a guest at our home for the past two weeks try­ing to make arrangements for dates for a series of meetings to be held at Dewitt in the near future, as he is President of said society, and anxious to keep up the interest there; but as yet we have been unable to arrange for the meetings there, as the friends do not wish us to discontinue our meetings in Detroit at present; but we shall speak for the Dewitt Society the first opportunity. Last week, Thursday evening, about thirty persons met at our borne to attend a Spiritualist social, to raise means to carry on the meeting. A very enjoyable time was participated in by all present A number of friends from Windsor, Canada, attended, and one of the ladies is developing for a very fine clairvoyant and test medium. The receipts of the evening were much beyond oar expectations, and every one present seemed to feel that it was good to bo there. Nellie S. Baade.

Detroit, Mich.

A Kind-Hearted Newsboy."Down in Frankfort street, the other ooldl

day,” says a writer in the New York World, " I found a newsboy seated on a grating in the sidewalk, np through which came a little warmth from the basement below. He had something beside him covered up with a ragged and dirty old hand kerchief, and, as I sat down alongside, he cautioned:

" ‘Look oat, now, and don’t hurt him|’“ ‘What is it?’

Hi"He lifted the handkerchief with the great­est care, and there, on one of the iron bars, all huddled up and half-frozen, was a little brown sparrow.

" ‘Where did you get him?’" ‘In the street out there; got so cold be

was tuckered.’" ‘And what will you do with him?’" ‘Get him good and warm and let him go.

He's a little feller, and ortcr have a fair show.'

" I added my efforts to Jack's, and after a few minutes the bird began moving about In a lively manner, and giving vent to his satisfac­tion by a series of chirps. Jack lifted him up, gave him a toss in the air, and away he sailed for his nest under a high oornioe.

“ ‘Boys kin git 'long most anyhow,’ said Jack, as be shivered In the cold wind sweep­ing op from tho river, ‘but birds is snob litUe fellers that we’ve got to sort o' boost 'em now and then. He's all right and we're all right, and good-by to you.' ”

Thus it Is, even In the lowllsst walks of life, a divine spirit is manifested. Kindness to animals is one of the cardinal principles of Buddhism.

In the matter of Inventions, It Is a curious fact that Prof. Bell's latest device of import- ought to feel complimented truly, once, "the watorphonc," for locating leaks in Tho eodety of Spiritualists In Fi water-pipes, was suggested to him by observ­ing a plumber’s apprentice endeavoring to find e leak by mesas of a small steel red, whl<% be held In Me month and touched ecainst tho ! lrfpc-1

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C o m x i BcroxD—Ood as ■ Spirit —Materialists cannot undeaatnnd the God Idea. Argument o f the Atheist. Argument o f tbo Spiritualist. Tho Author's Experience.

C s i m a T en ts—The Del fie Location and Mode of Working.—The Location o f Deity. Can Infinitude have a Centre? Does Ood control the Universe through Law? How does God control the Universe? A. J. Davis's Theory of tho Ood Centre. The Dual Centra o f the Universe. Can tho Infinitely Fine act upon tho Coarse?

C a i r n s F o r u m —'The Nature o f Ood.—Is Ood i * Being of Intelligence? la Ood a Personal Being? Is Ood a Being o f Absolute Attributes?

C i m x s F ir m —Tho Del Be Greatness and Glory,— Tbs OreatDVM o f Ood. An Angel’s Conception o f tho Universe. Tho Greatness o f God. Anthropomorphism.

C n r m Sixrn —Moral E vil and Delfle P erfec­tion.—The Perfection o f God. Has God created Evil? la Man depraved? Is anything Innately Bad? Is aa endlcs. Hell possible? I f absolute Evil possible under Divine Law? Evolution.

Cwarren S gvn rn r—Delfio Law and Tinman Inter- emsBom—special Providence*. A supposed Miracle o f Healing, n ow Ood interposes to answer prayer. Prayer. A Form o f Prayer. Does Prayer Influence Ood7 Hudson Tuttle’s View of Prayer. Tbe Central Principle o f Del lie Action. Prof. Wallace's V iew of Prayer. Prsyerfulncsa 1* s s t « > r m ir t«f Goodness

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•DECEMBER 31 .892 THE PROGRESSIVE THINKERQOOD AND EVIL.

A Lesson from Life's Experiences.I' A Comprehensive View of Existence,

f As o'er the field of human life we look,I I t seems a weird and strangcl y-wrlttcn r And if there be a key by which to read It)I With all the learning of the past,

need it;) For good and evil, we're been taught,L Bare from creation's dawn a battle fough

That God had made a world and all that'i I And for bis glory let the Devil win ILH j- With cringing fear of dual foroe,I The human race has run its zig-zag course,1 | Believing that a God of Justloo (?) thus had

blessed| A few, and let the Devil take the rest I First, with fear of God and then the Devil, f The human mind personifies both good and evil; [•• While if the law of lifo was rightly understood, [ Evil Is but Ignorance of the laws of good.

And thus if life's experiences, wbate'or earth cost

Are rightly understood, there's nothing lost;As like a garment of whatever shade -Will show the fiber of what it’s made,Each fiber and thread in its allotted place Gives beauty or strength as we the purpose

traceOf him who planned the universal whole Of human life, a living human soul I Each to each entwined the links sustain The strength and value of the unbroken chain Of life's events, important each to each,In use combined their useful lessons teach.Thus toll and pain and weary, bitter strife Bat bear their part in one progressive life.Bide by side the bitter with the sweet Blend and mingle, making life complete.Nothing is lost; naught made in vain;Each serves a purpose on this mortal plane,And teach by opposites nature's plan.Through both good and evil the good of man. Thus, on and on life's tifle must sweep.The record of both good and bad of life to keep.If it were not so, to me His plainThe good might fade away, the bad remain.All that has existence or that lives Is so, by virtue of that law that gives To each a plane conditioned for its use.Good, when indireoted, Is evil by abuee;And thus we know that these may Interchange; That good and evil thus by law arranged— Different In degree, but one in kind—Is but the potent force of the Divine.Who eoulu know that light was light If ne’er had been the shades and gloom oi-night? Who oould know the beauty of the day But by thguJiadow that has fled away?Or, who i^Ud not grow weary of that orb so

With cea^Hss burning rays on every hand,If it were V t for the clouds and rain To deck living green the parched plain? What, tlum of life without this contrast given. Without tip clouds of night by sunshine riven? What woiMbe the human soul of worth, s If wilhoutVort or desert it blossomed forth? What, theSpf human life wonld be the goal,If, in ficldsyi pleasure, the human soul Existed only as a thing untaught

. By rich experiences from a life outwrought From haunts of vice and want’s domain secure? The human soul oould never know, much lose

endure,The world of worth by sorrow given,That makes of earth a paradise, hell a heaven.

▲ Thns one by one the gems outwrought WFram sorrow's depths shine forth In thought, J*To sparkle and with radiance shine,

human soul, a life divine!then, ye storms: you but portend a calm;

WgRftir fierce approach but proves of what I am, stem tby tide by strength attained

In life's hard battle and experience gained.— Thus, out of darkness comes the light,

And out of wrong buds forth the right;Each rich with growth of promise brings That points ns to the soul of things.And beckons, with the bow of promise bright, To higher fields of living light Attained alone by toil and strife,Without the which a higher life •Gould not be gained or comprehended.Bat in the depth of darkness ended.And thus would life of man and beast.Be on one common level cast;But for the cares that make us strol„.That comprehends the right or wrong,That eontrasts this with that, and knows That truth with fire immortal glows.And al^mpontrast must be seen,And g; mid ill be judged between.Thus, i^ P m law of compensation,

Quarterly Meeting of the Indiana State Association.

To the Editor : «—The regular quarterly meeting of the Indiana State Association, held at Rochester, Ind., December 16th to 18th |inclusive, was an occasion long to be remem- bered by all who had the good fortune to attend. The meeting opened Thursday even­ing with a lecture by Mrs. A. H. Luther, to a fair-sized and appreciative audience, and was followed by a conference and experience | meeting Friday morning, which proved of great interest to all. In the afternoon a lec­ture by Will C. Hodge claimed the closest at­tention, and in the evening Helen Stuart Richings gave a lecture on subjects presented I by the audience, preceded by the recitation of: a beautiful poem. She also gave a number of fine psychometric readings, and dosed by reciting “ Peter McGuire, or Nature and Grace.” The announcement that Mrs. Rich-! jings was to speak had the effect of filling the hall, every seat being occupied, while some were compelled to remain standing.

Saturday morning another conference, fol­lowed by a lecture in the afternoon by Will C. Ilodge, after which the business of the asso­ciation—reading of the constitution and by­laws, and stating the objects sought—was presented by the efficient secretary, Flora Hardin. A number of memberships were secured, and the people were made more fully acquainted with the purposes and work of the association.

Mrs. Luther lectured to a crowded house in the evening, and paid her respocts to ancient superstitions and a recreant priesthood as only she ran do. She was after the truth, no mat­ter who stood in the way, and the way she made the theological chips fly was a caution to old fossils generally. Sunday morning a lecture by Will 0. Hodge, upon “The Effects of a False Education,' claimed the undivided attention of his hearers. In the afternoon a medium's meeting was held, which, consider­ing the fact that it was the first effort of the kind here, and dependent upon home talent, was a success. The mediums participating were: Mrs. Henkle, Will C. Hodge, Mrs. Annabil and Mrs. Dora Downey. The an­nouncement that Mrs. Luther would speak in the evening upon “ Bread and the Homeless Millions,” literally packed the hall, while many were turned away for lack of room. I t was one of her best efforts, and we opine many of the hearers will have something to think of for many days to come. A t the dedication of the hall, only last August, the prediction was made by Mrs. Nickerson Warn© that in the near future it would not hold the people desiring to hear the truths as expounded by the teachers of the Spiritual philosophy. The friends of the association everywhere may congratulate themselves and the cause that the meeting was an unqualified success. Will C. Hodge remains tbo regular speaker for (he Rochester society, where all letters for him should be addressed. J im.

ETCHINGS.

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A Signal Triumph for Moses Hull.Moses H ull— Dear Brother:—-We, as an

Executive Board of Haslett Park, have just read with care your reply to our letter of Aug­ust 14th. We thank you for your frank, manly and gentlemanly manner in replying to every point that we called ou t Also that yon have met the whole subject in a friendly spirit, free from all personalities, malice or envy. Still farther, you have explained every point in the so-called Woodhnll letter so that no one can question your sentiments or misunderstand your meaning. While it is not for ns as an Elective Board, in accordance with our reso­lutions of August 14th, to endorse or con­demn any speaker’s sentiments, yet we feel that your opinions on this, as on ail other sub­jects, are honest, and the result of your high­est convictions; also, that you are desirous of teaching, helping and elevating humanity; hence, when it shall be convenient for you, or for the interest of the association, to make an engagement with you, we shall be most happy to welcome you to our rostrum. We hope we have your influence for the success of our camp the coming year.

Auxcomb, of Detroit, moved that Dr. Spinney be instructed to send this letter to Moses Hull. 8. B, Emmons, of Mendon, sec­onded the motion. The motion was bus taiued by unanimous vote.

E xecutive Board. Lansing, Mich. , Dec. 1 Jj.

| Mrs. S. A. Seery, Trumpet Me dium.

To the E ditor:—From the Fort Wayne I (Ind.) Newt, of late date, wo learn that Mrs. IS. A Seery, a “trumpet medium,” from Day I ton, Ohio, has created quite a furore of ex I citement in Fort Wayne, by the very remark- | able manifestations at her seances. Doctors.

All whffSraMvill find expression;Oft throu .weary sighs and tears Fruition A with unfolding years,And thus $earn the lesson grand,’Mid wea< w e s on every hand,That llfe .^B all its cares and crosses,Made upc^H its gains and losses,But mooUHlife as naught else could,And all thu ja end in universal good.As back we glance and glean the field Of life, and garner up the yield,We find the total what we make it.And, good or bad, as such must take it.Thus every action misdirected And every field in life neglected Brings its hours of pain and tears As harvest of those wasted years;Yet these are not without their worth.The retrospect is but the birth Of better things unfolding bright,Which breaks in splendor on the sight Of him wlmatrives as best be can To h e lp aq H n i his fallowmao.Thus step dj step the heights we gain,Perchance through tears and many a pain;But crowns thus worn outshine by far The glittering gems that kings may wear.

—E. N. Price.A Curious Phenomenon.

James Clareback has been engaged at Herrington Comers, ten miles from this place,

p lS T T h e body tad b i n d e r ground » » » « * * *troth about Spiritualism, attend her seances. Voices were heard giving some remarkable testa that were confirmed by various persons present. One voice carried on a conversation

35 years and in digging. Clareback struck a great deal of water. He reached the remnants of the outer box surrounding the coffin, andwhen he pulled them out of the way he was i , . n „ -.-r- ----- - ,greatly Mtoaiibed to Me what appealed to be 0 *nn“ w W td g U ta M . preMut, andMn. Herrington's body, a p p JS tly u n d b - : . . . comrer.bgtarbed and so lifelike m tooonriy to hi. “ * M y who .peak, thamind the belief that a living, breathing woman bring spoken throogbwas before him in two languages, at the same moment. A

When he mode on examination, however, h» £ " * ,™ bt thediscovered that it . . . not the body he saw ?°S“*h ThoiKtut. dttvote. nearlybut an exact photograph of it on tho coffln-lkL «“ * “ •He then ralmri the coliln and opened i t With " “ jh f i '* * cl,f r,Ql th*t1 ----- — * world is moving, and our cause is gaining

ground. Reporter.the exception of the head, it contained only a few crumbling bones. The bead, however, was perfectly preserved. The bones were w end with flesh which had petrified, the hole being aa hard as a stone, while the hair

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had grown to an unusual length and was very I body to enjoy i t This story, Zulieka, by abundant I Mrs. Cora L. V. Ricmond, will not only

The coffin-lid was exhibited to a number of prove interesting, but it bears with it a spirit- people. I t was made of cedar and oontalned I ual influence that will do you good. CInm­an exact and perfectly clear representation of I late the paper and act as missionary in the the deceased woman as she appeared when she I good work. Be good and do good is our died 35 years ago. Just how to account for I motto. Send a paper free to some one who this no one knows. I will enjoy Its pages. I t will be sent three

Elmira, N, Y. Gla u d o . | months tor 25 cents.

From the Pen of Moses Hull.To the Editor:—-What do you mean by

the aeries of surprises you are continually springing upon your readers? The conver­sion of your paper to such an Immense blanket- sheet of eight pagee ia a genuine astonishment to your readers. Please don't make it any larger; you are now surfeiting your readers with a gorge of red-hot Spiritualism. No one In my presence speaks of Tub Prooressivb Thinker except to praise.■ Well, I long ago promised to send you some

’etchings,'’ but thus far 1 have failed to do so. I did not intend to lie, bat I did. I pre­sume the main reason Is the one given by Topey: “ I 'spec’s it's 'cease I’e so wicked.” Tho fact ia tempos fugit. With lecturing, looking after my own magazine, answering lev ten , receiving callers, etc., the first thing I know the days have gone into weeks, and the weeks into months.

Well, my meetings grew larger and better, and the Interest deeper during my stay In Washington. I t seemed likes genuine spiritual pentecosti Mias Maggie Gaul's teste, at the conclusion of my lectures, so thoroughly demon­strated the troth of my arguments, that the people were convinced that a t least “ there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed o f ’ In the theologies of the age.

I attended a few sconces while In Washing­ton; one held by Mrs. Rom, which, if i t was not convincing, was certainly confounding tol the skeptic. I myself locked Mrs. R. in a! wire cage, and kept the key in my pocket, so that I am thoroughly convinced that if she I was oat perambulating as a spirit, she was at] the same time in the cage. Whether there were two or more of her, or what or who they were that came out and bowed and spoke to us I'cannot say; I can only say I saw forms come oat from the locked cage that claimed to be friends of persons in the seance—friends who had been called dead. One came to me and claimed to be a brother-in-law, and gave the name and residence of my late brother-in- law; bat I must acknowledge be did not look much like my brother-in-law. I t was not the medinm that came out, and I doujit whether it was my brother-in-law. i *

Drs. T. A. and Cora Blond have alyoung niece living with them, an orphan girllwhom they took to educate, who has developed the finest medium qualities, in certain directions,I ever saw. I was invited by herspirit guides to attend one of her seances. I t was very fine; I doubt whether anybody could witness what I witnessed there and not be convinced of the reality of Spiritualism. Besides writ­ing and pictures coming on slates, in a room where the gas was burning from two jets; when the gas was turned off, the room was several times partially lighted by spirits. After this was done, spirit-lights, which looked like a ball of fire, would appear ia the room; after a few moments they would rise to the height of from three to five feet, then bust, and reveal the most beautiful spirit-form im­aginable. These forms often speak to the sitters, and sometimes rise and float over their heads.

The month of December has been spent in Milwaukee. A new society has been formed there, with my old friend, H. C. Nick, as president. Mr. Nick was one of the chief workers in a society in Erie, Pa., where I preached eighteen months. Mrs. Nick, his wife, is a number one medium, but for some reason she, since her removal to Milwaukee, refuses to sit, except in special cases, for friends. Mr. Dennis, of Buffalo, spoke for tills society in November. Thus far the meetings have not been so large as I would have liked; there have been drawbacks, which are now being removed. This week they hire

hall by the year, and they intend to keep up regular meetings. I have been invited to return to them in February, and shall proba­bly do so.

For months I have been thinking of hold mg meetings in this city during May and

one. I f I finally decide to do so, Miss Maggie Gaul, who has few peers and no superiors as a test medium, has promised to come and assist me by giving testa. Of this you will know more later on.

I go back to Milwaukee for the last Sun­day In the present month. I spend January with the society in S t Louis. Will probably return to Milwaukee for February. March will be spent with the society meeting in the beantlf ul temple in Anderson, Ind., and April in Washington, D. 0. Mrs. Hull is spending the winter in Texas. She reports good and interesting meetings.

The quarantine which certain rule-or-ruin Spiritualists have been trying for twenty years to establish against me, seems to have fallen of its own weight, thanks to angela in and out of the body.

To-day I have attended Mother Jenifer's funeral. The good old lady was well-known, and as well loved as known, by nearly all the Spiritualists of Chicago. She was happy all her life, and the nearer it drew to a close the more anxious she seemed to be to go to the other side. Her great trouble was the fear that someone would mourn for her aa dead. Iler daughters and son are all Spiritualists, and while they miss their good mother they do not mourn as those do who do not know that

"Tbe dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eyes.

Yet holding unperceived their way Through the unclouded skies."

Sister De Wolf and the writer of this offici­ated on this occasion. Sister DeW .'s re­marks were very consoling, and right to the point Mossa H ull.

29 Chicago Terrace, Chicago.

Climbing Higher.In speaking of experience as a flight of

steps, “each step bringing us nearer the higher plane, far removed from the turbulent condi­tions belonging to the cruder plane* of life,” a young writer says: “The higher we climbthe lee* we notice the taunts and sneers that are flang after us, and we drink In strength from the clearer atmosphere we are nearing.” She closes her essay with the following lines, being her first attempt at poetry, and because we regard them as worthy the perusal of all your readers, we enclose them for publica­tion:

THE QUESTION SETTLEDA CABKFUL COMPARISON

Biblical and Modern [Spirit­ualism.

By MOSES HULL,Til OaaWM.— "Wbfct»," —|>1i

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There Is peace beyond the tumult,There is rest beyond the strife;

There Is love all love surpassing,And a broader view of life.

We are climbing higher, higher.And together soon will stand,

Where to all the ones below us We can lend a helping band.

Ever will this be our mission—To help all who seek to rise;

And remove the sealea of error From our comrades' blinded eyes.

Love will guide us safely onward,Love that ever Becks the truth,

And within our hearts will ever Glow the hopefulness of youth.

May wo ever shed around us Hope and kindness, love and cheer.

And within the hearts of lone ones Cause to dawn a bright new year—

A new year not free from sorrow,But where sorrow will be borne

By a courage that remembers Every night must bring a morn.

We have marked the first faint tinges Of the dawning in our lives,

And our faces are turned eastward. Watching for the grand sunrise.

If we idly sit while waiting.Clouds may dim that glorious sun;

In the hours 'twlxt dawn and daylight There la work that must be done—

Work we must not leave for others,For each have their burdens now;

And though small may be our efforts,We can soothe some aching brow;

We can wipe the tears of sorrow From a brother’s weeping eye:

We can make the pillow softer Where a sister's head must lie.Boundless is our field of action;

Will we then sit Idly down,And, because no great work offers,

Wear upon our crows a frown?No! well rise and do what lieth

Just within our easy reach,And well find each act of kindness

Will some lesson to us teach.And as we toll ever onward.

Higher will our sun arise,Till its glowing radiance touches

At the far-off western sides.If we bless each fellow-mortal,' Cloudless will our sky be found;And the love that is our blessing

Will shed blessing all around.True love—broad, deep and unselfish—

Guides and cheers us on our way;And the night Is passing from us,

In the east breaks lore's sweet day.. —D.

Justice at Last.To toe E ditor:—We are glad to learn

that justice has a t last been done a most ex cellent medium. The celebrated Tabor-Dorran damage case, which has been pending at Tex­arkana, Ark., for more than a year, has at last been tried, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff.

I t appears, from a statement of the case, that in May, 1891, Mrs. Mary A. Tabor, a Spiritualist, went to Texarkana and took up quarters on Walnut street When Darren, who was then mayor of the town, heard that she was giving sittings to persons desiring communications with deceased friends, he sent her word that she must come down to his office and take ont a fortune teller's license. The lady called on the mayor, and after ex­plaining that she was not a fortune-teller, de­clined to take ont any license. Later in the i day Dorren met her and her husband on the street, and told them to come to his court the next morning and stand trial on the charge of violating the fortune-telling ordinance.

They informed him that they would do no such thing, and that if he wanted them he most send the marshal after them with a war­ran t A few angry words followed, when the mayor told them to consider themselves under arrest, and calling to a deputy constable to assist him, the trio marched the Tabors to the calaboose and locked them in, Dorren saying, lit is claimed, as he slammed and locked the door upon them: “ Now, d—n you, let the spirits get yon out of this, if they can. ”

In the September following the Tabors brought a joint suit in the Federal Court for $25,000 damages, alleging false imprison­ment. When the case came up a severance was talked of and the suit readjusted, making one for Mrs. Tabor for $12,600, and the other for Mr. Tabor for a similar sum. A strong array of counsel was retained by both sides, and every inen of ground was bitterty con­tested. The case attracted greater attention than any ever before tried in this section. The case went to the jury and they returned a sealed verdict, which, when read, gave Mra. Tabor $1,600 damages. The case of Mr. Tabor was continued until next term. Mrs. Tabor is a woman of magnificent appearance, exceedingly Intelligent, and her demeanor on the witness-stand made a marked impression upon the jury and audience. She is only about thirty-five years old, but is known very widely, having traveled all over the United States, and claims to be a modium of rere powers. A.

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T o -t h e E d it o r : — Several p e rs o n s h a v e !Iieen hammering for nearly two months at my II paper on the Sunday-opening question of the Columbian Fair, but not one of my critics has seen the trend of my argument. I t is not a religions question; not a morel question; not J a legal question; but one of expediency. A very numerous, wealthy and influential class | of oar fellow-citizens are opposed to the Sun-1 day opening on conscientious grounds, and if I bey absent themselves from the Fair as viai- ]

[tors or exhibitors, or if they cover up their I exhibits on Snndsy, the exhibition cannot be “ | success. I t is a t least expedient that we re­spect their feelings (though they may be superstitious), and so have good feelings and j a fall representation. I t is simple nonsense to assume that we shut ont the manual labor­ing classes if we do not open the gates on Sunday. Few are so poor that they do not take several holidays in the year besides Son- day. And if the Fair is to be opened on Sunday to accommodate the poor, why not ■ make It Jree on that day? There are thousands j of people in Chicago who cannot pay an a d .! mission fee even on Sunday. What shall be | done for them? If we desire to carry o u r ; charity to the truly needy, let ns have no entrance fee a t all, and besides, 1st ns furnish paupers with car-tickets, and decent clothes for the occasion! Do yon not see that we most draw the line somewhere? When th e 1 bill was recently introduced in the lower house of Congress for the repeal of the Sun­day prohibitory condition of the $2,500,000 appropriation, great stress was laid upon the fact that large expenditures had been made by the commissioners, and they needed the gale- money tor reim imrsement! There, friends, yon have the whole secret. Money-making by gale-charges for entrance to a show is a t the bottom of this whole Sunday-opening excite­ment; and this gate-money is to be gathered from those who cannot afford to go to the Flair on any other day bat Sunday! I t ia amnsing to see bow many ministers of “ high and low degree” are led to favor the 8undayopening of the Fair for the benefit of the poor. . __ _ __ _____,Poor, innocent son la! how little knowledge; B « H ll aCbato. SToadwfaI fenceyMoTjSeoj*-

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th ey have of the ways of the great outside,! wide-awake world! Oar well-meaning minis-1 te n who have favored the Sunday-opening, never dream that they are being hoodwinked I by this pretense of regard for poor mechanics, and never suspect that the real object of the I Sunday-open ing movement ia to gather in the shekels—from the poor. Bat rest assured I that Congress-will not undo what i t has so wisely done.

The lower boose may take some com promise action, bat the wieer and more con­servative Senate will say no repeal! What Abraham Lincoln ia reported to have said comer in well here: “ You can fool all the people some of the time, and yon can fool | some of the people all the time, but you can-

I not fool all the people all the time.”Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for your I

and courteous remarks on my article in paper, and thanking also your correspondents who have criticised my views on this question j for their uniformly respectful treatment, I am always on the side which I believe to be right.

R. B. Westbrook.Philadelphia, Pa.

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tains the following:“ I t has been said, with how mnch of truth

we do not know, that nine in every group of ten educated people are Spiritualists, in the sense that they will not deny the possibility of communication with disembodied inteUi-f gences. Certainly many of the world’s leaders in thought and action have expressed a belief in the existence of spiritual phenomena.Abraham Lincoln and Socrates were as widely separated in mental characteristics as they were in years, yet both of them acknowledged and obeyed the direction of something not themselves; and many other great names might be added to these.

“Therefore, William T. Stead's statement, made in the current number of the Review o/\ *Reviews, that Alfred Tennyson was a Spirit- j u

jualist a n d Q ^ ~ occasion admitted| best and truest things he ever published under I Do «- ««ms ~imMmTp*r«McA muT *'a mthe direct influence of higher intelligences, of whose presence he was distinctly conscious.

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“I f a man of Tennyson's prominence a cent­ury or even a half-century ago had given i t out that he was nothing more than a medium fix­ing upon paper the thoughts communicated to u o w M C c m c d 1 9 U him by so-called spirits, a mere amanuensis of M v /W I v IV IC w M L n la L . the unseen, the whole world would have united i s u^L A & P COMPRRHRysiV K IS- in pronouncing him insane, and be would have era m m m a—m m . a m i * m m m been so universally discredited that he could mtnc n M M M V m M n i im m S never hope again to secure an audience. But | 3 ( m 2 £today we listen with interest to any man, m IZm 1'uto^XJS^MhoweverotaraM, that professes to liavc com- — i f j S merce with the invisible intelligences, whose m m m tw uieattw* existence is admitted by almost every one of — . .. ■ ■ :# s |thought and learning, and are prepared to J&OM ANISlf AND T H E H R credit the assertion that a Tennyson's works PUBLIC,are Us only by deed of g if t A w o r k THAT EVERY LOVER OP

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THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER. WUC1SM13ER 81,1807

OUR NEW BIBLE.

“BEAUT[FUL.”T H E SP IR IT -M O T H ER .

H er Ideas o f God—C ontrast Be­tw een H er Ideal a n d a God o f

th e Orthodox Type.

BOMB CO NSID ER ATIO NS O N THEOLOG­ICA L Q U E ST IO N S P E R T A IN IN G TO T H E |

£ R IG H T S O P M O R A L LY -C O N STITU TEDB E IN G S D E ST IN E D TO A N IMMORTALCONSCIOUS E X IST E N C E .

' I t is not the primary object of those articles to make a raid on orthodox the­ology, but there are some things in con­nection therewith, and also in connec-

vtlon with human origin and parentage, that seem to deserre further considera­tion. We would speak upon such sub­jects with all reverence for truth and the Highest: ever remaining true to our moral nature and its highest conceptions I of the Good, the Pure, the True, the! Beautiful—all of which are realized in our ideal of God—the God whom wo adore, worship, and love.

I t will shock many good orthodox peo­ple-people who, being educated thereto, think they must believe in the existence of the traditional endless hell of remedi­less woe (although it shocks their moral sense and traverses all the best natural feeling* and instincts with which God has endowed humanity), because they think the Bible teaches the awful doc­trine— but it is a question that may legitimately be asked: What right has any being, human or Divine, to create humai beings, or cause them to be brought into the world of existence, without their own option and without any knowledge on their part of the dan­ger to which they would be subjected, and put them (without their own option) to the risk—the awful, immeasurable risk—of an irremediable, endless dam­nation in hell-torments? AH, too, hingod upon a “belief1 in oertalndoctrines, etc., and the probation restricted to the com-' parativoly infinitesimal period of man's mortal life! We would like to have some good and strong orthodox theologian apply his reason, his common-sense, and his unsophisticated moral sense, to the honest consideration of this problem, and give the result to the tens of thou­sands of readers of The Progressive Thinker's “New Bible."

Quote not to us the reputed language of Paul: “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repllest against God. Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?" Our reply to Paul—not God—is: God is not a potter—humanity is not pottery. With deepest reverence for eternal truth and Justloe, and for a God who represents those immutablo principles, we answer: If the “lump of clay," when formed into a vessel, is possessed of mind and moral sense, and has a capacity for endless happiness or endless suffering, it has and eternally will have a right to “reply” and demur to the “right" of any being whatsoever or whosoever, to sub­ject said “clay” to such risk.

In all reverence wo say: The precept of the Golden Rule is binding in tno Bouse of moral obligation upon God as well as man. Would even a God (if it bo snpposable) be willing to be created with a liability or contingent possibility of spend tog an eternity m hopeless un­happiness and misery?

Call not this “blasphemous infidelity;” nay, it is the highest fidelity to the deepest ethical convictions of the God- created human soldi I t is the cry of outraged, God-given moral senso against remediless Injustice—as taught by or­thodox theology.

Olto not to us tho Instances of tempo­rary inherited ills from which men suffer —there is, there can be, no comparison between temporary ills that bo fall man, and whioh may sometime, hero or here­after, be remedied, and an interminable, remediless woe. Thera is no compari­son between the finite and tho infinite- no ratio between the momentary and the everlasting—and what may justify a temporary suffering for educational and remedial purposes, will not justify an endless woe without remedial effoot or purpose.

Wo say, as a matter of moral doductlon and import: The man or woman who believes in the dogma of endless damns tlon as a possible result of one's mortal

away under the rays of increasing moral land mental light—and to-day there are

■ few who would acknowledge a belief Ini . . | the dogmas as taught by tho “sainted Ed I

it Contains Divino Lessons. I wards” and his compoors of oarller days!I It “goes against tno grain'' of refined and humane moral instmots—it clashes with our senso of right—it shooks our| sense of justloe—all the sentiments eml bodied in our modern idea of “tho hul muni ties’’ ory ont In horror against It—I this dogma of remediless woe for humani bolngs, or even for a stogie human soul I

I So men do not— cannot—believe it; not oven thoao who call themsolves orthodox in faith believe it now as it used to bo believed by their orthodox “fa thers ."^

The old heathenish idea of a main ourslng God—what wonder that with such an exemplar and such a doctrine held over their heads, men fell into pro­fanity of speech and the objurgation of ourses against man and God and what­soever offonded them. If a “God” hates and ours os, why not man hate and ourse, also? Indeed, in vlow of the character of the dogmas of Calvinistio orthodoxy, does it not really seem as though the tanly fitting counterpart to a man-cursing | ‘God” vrero a God-cursing man?I No doubt this will seem almost blasphe­mous to the old-fashioned orthodox mind. Nay—it Is the voloe of the most reverent worship of God in whom idealized justice! and righteousness is personified—tho strong protest of man’s moral sense against the God-dishonoring dogmas of a false theology.

A theological disquisition in an artiole on the “Spirit-Mother” may seem like a “nose out of joint,” btifc wo introduoe i t to show by way of contrast the difference in thought and spirit between our spirit- mother—whose only thought and “pur­pose” is to bless, and not curse—and the imagined being to whom men of hate, cruelty, and undeveloped ethical con­ceptions, have transferred their own poor qualities, immensely enlarged and personified, and labeled the same with the high and holy name of “God,” or the Supreme “Good”—a being who, ac­cording to the orthodox theology, exists to create, to bless—and, to c u r s e w ith­out R E M ED Y , I N E N D L E S S H E L L TO R­M E N T S!

The publishing of these thoughts will have a place among tho Influences that will compel the churches holding those awful doctrines 10 take a step forward, in softening the tone of their cruel dog­mas, in gradually changing them to conform to the advancing sweeter spirit of humane thought and feeling, until, in the long reach of time, a sweeter belief will fill the world with a sun-flood of light and spiritual love never realized before.

Which is most Godlike, or “Good- like,” the unfathomably tender and mer­ciful spirit of an Abraham Lincoln, who would rather err on the side of mercy than on tho side of a cold, petrified, stony legality; or a sternly vengeful, re­lentless “Judge," who fools only the “solemn duty” resting on his orthodox conscience to mote out pitiless “justice” in the last and least item?

It is ovldent tho horrible dogmas of orthodox theologyNEVER EMANATED FROM A MOTHER-

heart!The voice that slugs sweet, loving, soothing lullabys to the children beloved, and croons them softly to the land of peaceful dreams and rest—that voice could never consign thorn to ondless woe; the heart that prompts a mother’s ever- watchful, lingering, loving thoughts and sympathies toward her offspring, could never consent to their enduring eternal misery—nor could construot such a the­ology and such a “God” as orthodoxy sets forth. Tho mother-nature, the mother-love undying—the whole mother- being cries out against so revolting a destiny for even the worst of her, chil­dren—of humanity's children.

O, tho untold anguish!—the lifelong death-agony, this horrid dogma has brought to millions of mother-hearts— thinking of their “unoonverted” chil­dren, dead and gone—and thoy have foil

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And they have gone through life bearing in their noarts the heavy leaden weight of pain imposed by orthodoxy—while the true, Goa-given mother-nature has as­serted itself in sighs, and moans, and tears or fearlessness—a protest of moth­er-being against such doctrines.

P assed to Splrlt-Iitfo .At her residence In Muskegon, Mloh.,

November 25, 1802, agod 07 years, Mrs. Marlnda Minor passed to tho spirit side of life. Anothor oarnost worker In our spiritual oirolo has gono homo. Sho had for a long lime mado the great prob­lem of lifo an oarnost study. This, to- gothor with witnessing many and various

Jforms of spiritual phonomona, a t length [fully epuvinoed hor that life Is never- ondlng, and that her loved ones could re­turn and manifest themselves as still living. This knowlodgo robbed tho grim monster Death of all his terrors, and transformed him into a white-robed Angol of Light that would opon up tho gate called Boautlful and usher her into tho life perennial. The funeral was at her luto rosidenoe and largely attended. She loved flowers,and a rich profusion of florai tributes wore presented by sorrow- ling friends, and surrounded her, as she would have wished, and while all were so lovely It would seem Invidious to: make a selection, I must mention ono, a pillow of pure white blossoms boaring In tho oenter, in purple violets, the one namo “Grandmamma,” the loving trib­ute of her four grandohlldren. The writer, assisted by Mrs. Cady, had obargo of tho services, which wore listened to with marked attention. At the oloso the casket was tenderly lifted and borno to Wood lawn cemotqry and deposited in a vault, to await tho oomlng of tho eldest son.

M r s . E l i z a b e t h S t r a n g e r .

Marla Hoffmann departed this life Deo. 5, in the 31st year of hor age,. from her home in Milan, Ohio. She was a lovely woman, and adorned the Now- houso, over whioh sho presldod. The funeral, on the 7th, was tho largest over held in this locality. After re­marks and prayer by tho Gorman min­ister, Hudson Tuttlo gavo an address full of sympathy and the tenderness and oonsolatlon of the spiritual philoso­phy. * * *

Passed to Spirit-life, from her home in La Grange, 111., a t the age of nearly 57 years, Mrs. Phobo Ann ICcose; Hor maiden name was Jones, and she; was born noar La Porto, Ind., Jan. 1st, 18361,'nnd in 1860 was united in marriage with Jonathan Keeso of Jay Co., Ind.,| who died in 1863, leaving hor with throe children, two having previously died a t

very early ago. Smce 1877 she has resided In Cook County, 111. Three daughters—Mrs. Rebecca Richardson, Mrs. Annetta Pillsbury and Mrs. Esther Furguson—survive and wore present a t the timo of her departure for the better world. Hers was Indeed a noble life, full of sympathy for those in trouble, with a word of encouragement for thoso who were discouraged, and full of charity for thoso who bad gone wrong. She bore her burdens with patience, lived to do good, and has gone to her reward.

Her Daughters.

We apprehend in God the perfect real­ization of perfect idealized Motherhood and Fatherhood. To us,GOD I S I N F I N IT E F A T H E R -A N D M OTHER

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Wo boo In God not morely the infinite Father, but the infinite Mother as well, with an infinitely tender, loving mothor-

vw> .T11 heart. Tho father, the mother, cannot being and existence, hasno'morafrigbt I ®ndlc“ Jy tho offspring they have to become tho voluntary Instrument In broughtln toan involuntary existencebringing offspring—innooent and help-1 loss—into the world, thereby subjecting! them, involuntarily on their part, to the risk of an endless nell of woe- they hare no moral right, holding such belief, to beoomo fathers and mothers! They trav{ erso the eternal, universe-binding, all- embracing principle of tho Golden Rule, when they beget children.

There Is In tho orthodox theology— and especially In the Calvinistio dogmas ^oncoming ''damnation,” “predestina­tion,” otc.v something so utterly abhor­rent and shooklnf to all human sense of justice and right that It Is probable no morally well-constituted mind could poB- «• biy accept them except under the com- pu'iury stress put upon the mind and m ■r.il sense that Is Implied by an educa­tion into a belief In tbo strictly ortho­dox theory of tbs Verbal Inspiration of tho Bible, Its "inerrancy," and tbo in­fallibility of its teachings os tel forth by orthodox. intcrprtUnI But day by day tho horrible old dogmas are melting

without banishing also tho sweet spirit] of fathorbood ana motherhood.■W e wish to show tho incongruity of the orthodox views of hell with the mother! nature, whioh would bo eternally out raged by suoh a destiny for ltsoffsprlngl If human mother-nature would be forever] outraged, would not God, from whom the mother-nature Is derived, be outraged as well? If salute and angels oould for­get the damned, as some suppose—can God forget?

The spirit-mother has In her loving mother-being no place for ourslng. She Uvea to bless—her “ love faUeth not, on- duratb all things, hopoth aU things”—It Uves on and loves forever. It is her be­ing—wherein sho Is partaker of God'i_ nature, unchangeable, “blessed forever."

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(A drrrtlieinent.)If tho following oure hud boon per­

formed in Bible times, It oortOlnly would! havo been oallod a mtraolo. wo will louvo tho father and the mother of the liltlo girl to toll the story:

Our llttlo girl, twelve years old, had tho diphthorlo, of a malignant type and It left her in suoh a state that it affected her mind and spine, and she was In suoh aooodltlon sho oould not talk walk or food herself. Sho was oontlnu ally in motion: hor hands, hoad and limbs oould not be kept still for a mo­ment. Wo oinployod the beat physicians, and they oould not do anything to re­lievo her, and udvlsod us to send hor to the University a t Ann Arbor, Mloh. As we wero preparing to send hor to that Institute, a Mrs. Potter, of Albion, oame to our house and gave us ono of Dr. A B. Dobson's circulars, stating tha t bo had cured hor, and she believed ho could oure our little girl. Wo said wo would not send Gertie to Ann Arbor until wo first consulted tho humbugat Maquokota, Iowa. Wo wrote to Dr Dobson, ho answering immediately, and calling hor disease a fearful ooso of St Vitus’ danoe. Wo lost no time in send-

of love and promise latest breath.

■Passed to the higher lifo, on Sunday, pec. 11th, 1892, Mrs. Mary E. Bigelow, wife of Horace O. Bigelow, a t Shepherd, Isabella County, Mloh., in the 69th year [of hor ago. She was tbo daughter of 'Zebulon and Sophia Soribner Phillips, iformorly of Riga, N. Y. The funeral [services wore conducted by L. V. Moulton, ■ G rand Rapids, who delivered one of She finest funeral discourses ever listened to from the standpoint of a Spiritualist. Mrs. Bigelow became a Spiritualist from evidences received through the medium- ship of Charles E. Watkins, about nine years ago. For two years back she and her husband visited the Haslett Park Camp meetings, which were on joyed very [much. As there was no organ ized society

“□her belief in this community, she ffound spiritual consolation In the Banner] \of Light, The P rogressive Thinker, and works of the library. Hor mind was richly stored by extensive reading. Her home was her temple; a faithful 'uardian, a spiritual companion, the

influence of whoso memory will silently and constantly remind us of a higher life jbeyond this material plane.

Horace O. Bigelow.

Born into spirit-life. Dee. 8, at 7:45 ■ m., a t the family residence a t Canton, p i., Mrs. Harriet Porter, wife of tbo late B. F. Porter. Sho was a Spiritual-] lit) firm and true, and hor passing away was beautiful and happy, with messages

■ o mingled with her ■ F unera l services were

[conducted at the home in accordance with her wishes, through the medium- [ship of Mrs. C. McCall-Black, Deo. 11.

Pasted to splrlt-llfe, a t Ashtabula, phlo, Dae. 2nd, 1892, brother Calvia Wilcox, aged 75 years. He was an old- time Spiritualist. Ho has been a hum­ble instrument in tho hands of the Splr- ’'•worid, and was used as a clairvoyant and healer for over twenty years. So- called death had no terrors for him. His transition was a calm and peaceful one. He requested that Mrs. Carrlo C. iranDuzeo, of Geneva, Ohio, should offi­

ciate a t his funeral. Ho leaves an aged oompanion and ono son to mourn his de­parture.

Dr. James Eugene MoKiUl, was born a t Albion, Mich., July 4, 1868. He Mused to the higher lifo a t Brady, Ulch., December 10, 1892, aged 21 years,

months and 0 days. He was a good Spiritualist and fine medium. He had been instrumental In making many con­versions to our cause. His modlumshln was such as to be in groat demand. Tho funoral servlcos wore oonduoted by Rov. D. H. Rlter. His remarks wero very appropriate. - O. E. Dent.

Isaac N. Hcddco, of Plymouth, was born Into the higher life from his home at Plymouth, Michigan, Nov. 22. He was 85 years of age, and a veteran Spirit­ualist. An aged wife survives him. to whom our philosophy is a oonsolatlon while she is waiting to join him. Wo were called to offlolato a t tho funoral, which occurred Nov. 29, a t the Opera House. The largo assemblage proved how greatly ho was respooted as one who End been among them over sixty ; rears as a business man and neighbor. Thus, ono by ono, the ripened sheaves are being gathered.

Mrs. A. E. Sheets. Grand Ledge, Mich,[Tbe above notice was overlooked, or

It would have appeared at an earlier date.1

J. C. Sanborn passed to splrlt-llfe, Doc. 2. a t his homo In Galana township, Laporto county, Ind. Ho had been a Spiritualist ever since tho rampings he­ron a t Hydosville. Having been sick or fifteen months he' nover complained, but always looked forward to tho meet­ing with nis wife and child on the other

ing for his so-callod spiritual remedies), ana in two woeks after she was perfectly well, and wo soon sent her to so hoof. This naturally created an oxoltementt and the sick Hooked to see us, asking who oured our ohild. We told thom[ and gavo thorn his address, and wo wrote him many fetters ourselves for tbo slok in our plaoe,until bis patients numbered hundreds, and many more wonderful! oures wero performed by him In this place.

Wo hoard Dr. Dobson was going to visit Jackson, and we wrote and asked him if ho would not oall on us, for wo did so muoh want to see tbe man who had saved tbe lifo of our llttlo pot. He said ho would. Wo procured tho best suite of rooms a t the Doneily house, andl told our friends that Dr. Dobson would be thore on the 14th of November for two days. He came, and so did the

Jsiok. His rooms were full all the time [duringhis stay. Over one hundred took his treatment. Our little Gertie met the doctor several times (she and we would naturally love the person that brought health to our child). W hether this oure was done by spirit power we know not, but ono thing wo do know, that our llttlo girl was,terribly afflicted, unto death's apor, atm now she Is as well as any membor of our family, and her gotting well has boon tho means of many more of this town sending to him and getting cured. If you have any doubts of tho above facts, write to us, or any responsible person of this iilaco,1 and we will willingly answer your letters. |

J . C. Kimmel. M a r y K i m m e l .

Mr. Kimmel is a prominent clothing merchant, and he and his wife aro mem­bers of the Presbyterian church of Mason, Ingham county, Mich.

Hundreds of suoh cases as this Dr. Dobson and his band are ourlng monthly, among them many old-school physicians.—Maquoketa Reoord.

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popular s o o n , w ith th e m usic b y em inent composera Among th e P oem s w h ich hard attracted w id e noUe* orei “ Budding Rosa,'1 “ Incidents o f L ifo tind er lb* Bine Laws," “Parson Sm ith's Prophecy," "From tb H lgb ltn d sof IIseven." “ T b eC lr e o f Borrow." “ BoHli gay o f F nlvta a t Slcyon," “ The H oly Mold o f Kent, etc.

Tho Maslo includes “ T h e Unseen City;" “ Clart bcl," a Ju n e Songt “ W o Shall M eet ou r Friends In the Morning"t M e e tu a a t th e Crystal Galea.”

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Punas N ortons— Mr*. Em m a Rood T attle Is m aster fa i In her prolldc poetical gealaar—The T w o World!

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