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Y O L. I S A N FR A N C ISC O , S A T U R D A Y , N O V E M B E
R 23, 1867 NO. 46
L I T E R A R Y .
S te a d ily , s te a d i ly , s te p b y s te p ,U p th e v e n
tu r o u s b u i ld e r s go,
C a re fu lly p la c in g s to n e on s to n e ;T h u s th e lo
f t ie s t te m p le s g ro w . .
P a t ie n t ly , p a t ie n t ly , d a y b y d a y ,T h e a r t
i s t to ils a t h is t a s k a w a y ,T o u o h in g i t h e re ,
a n d t in t in g i t th e r e ,G iv in g i t e v e r , w i th in
fin ite c a re ,A lin e m o re so f t, o r a h u e m o re f a i r
;
T ill l i t t le b y l i t t l e th e p ic tu r e g ro w s ,W
ith life , a n d b e a u ty , a n d fo rm s o f g ra c e ,T h a t e
v e r m o re in th e w d rld h a v e p la c e .
T h u s w ith th e p o e t : h o u r a f t e r U our H o l is te
n s to h e a r th e f a i r y c h im e s
T h a t r in g in h is so u l. T h o u g h w ith m a g ic p o w
e r H e w e a v e s th e i r m e lo d y in to rh y m e s —
S lo w ly , c a re fu lly , w o rd b y w o rd ,L in e b y lin e
, a n d th o u g h t b y th o u g h t ,
H e f a s te n s th e g o ld e n t is s u e o f so n g ;A n d th
u s a r e im m o r ta l a n th e m s w ro u g h t .
E v e r y w ise o b s e r v e r k n o w s ,E v e r y w a tc h f
u l g a z e r se es ,
N o th in g g ra n d n o r b e a u t if u l g ro w s S a v e b y
g ra d u a l , s lo w d e g re e s .
Y e w h o to il w i th a p u rp o s e h ig h ,A n d fo n d ly th
e p ro u d r e s u l t s a w a i t ,
M u r m u r n o t , a s th e h o u r s go b y ,T h a t th e s e
a so n is long , th e h a rv e s ^ A a tc .
R e m e m b e r t h a t b ro th e r h o o d , s t r o n g a n d
t r u e , B u ild e rs a n d a r t i s t s , a n d b a r d s su b
lim e ,
W ho l iv e d in th e p a s t , a n d w o rk e d l ik e y o u ,
W o rk e d a n d w a ite d a w e a r is o m e t im e ;
D a rk , a n d c h e e r le s s , a n d lo n g th e i r n ig h t
,Y e t th e y p a t i e n t ly a t th e i r t a s k b e g u n ;
T ill lo ! th r o u g h th e c lo u d s b ro k e th e m o rn in
g l ig h t W h ic h s h in e s on th e s o u l w h e n success is w
o n I
“ Katrina—Her Life and Mine.’’
S h e w a s m y p e e r :N o w e a k lin g g i r l , w h o w o u
ld s u r r e n d e r w ill A n d life a n d reasoD , w i th h e r
lo v in g h e a r t ,To h e r p o s se s so r ; no s o f t , c liD
ging th in g ,W ho w o u ld find b r e a th a lo n e w ith in th e
a r m sO f a s t ro n g m a s te r , a n d o b e d ie n t lyW a it
on b is w h im s in s la v is h c a re fu ln e s s ;N o fa w n in g
, c r in g in g s p a n el, to a t t e n d H is ro y a l p le a su
re , a n d a c c o u n t h e r s e l f R e w a rd e d b y h is p a
t s a n d p r e t t y w o rd s :B u t a ro u n d w o m an , w h o ,
w i th in s ig h t k e e n ,H a d w ro u g h t a s c h e m e o f
life , a n d m e a s u re d w e ll H e r w o m an h o o d ; h a d s
p r e a d b e fo re h e r f e e t A fine p h ilo s o p h y to g u
id e h e r s te p s ; >H a d .w o n a f a i th to w h ic h h e r
life w as b r o u g h t In s t r i c t a d ju s tm e n t—b r a in a
n d h e a r t m e a n w h ile W o rk in g in c o n sc io u s h a rm
o n y a n d r h y th m W ith th e g r e a t s c h e m e o f G od’s
g r e a t u n iv e rs e ,On to w a rd h e r b e in g ’s e n d .
•
I co u ld b u t k n o wH e r m o tiv e s w e re s u p e r io r
to m 'n e .I co u ld b u t fee l t h a t in h e r lo y a l ty To G
od a n d d u ty , s h e co n d e m n e d m y life .
J ja to -h e t-w u n a a iP s h e a r t , th r o w n o p en w
ide In h o ly c h a r i t y T s h e h a d d ra w n a ll O f h u m a
n k in d , a n a T o u p d n o h u m b le s t s o u l Too h u m b
le fo r h e r e n t e r t a h jm e n t— n o n e So w e a k i t co u
ld r e tu r n no grfe&tftil boon F o r w h a t s h e g a v e :
a n d s ta n d in g 's iQ d o s tly W ith in h e r sc h e m " , w
ith m e e k e s t r e f e r e n c e S h e b o w ed to th o s e a b
o v e h e r , y e t w ith s lroo jg A n d h e a r ty co n fid en ce
a s s u m e d a p la c e In s e rv ic e o f th e w o rld , a s m in
is te r O rd a in e d o f H e a v e n to b r e a k to i t th e b r
e a d S he to o k fro m o th e r h a n d s . A n d s h e w a s on e
W h o co u ld s e e a ll th e r e w a s o f good in m e —C ould m e
a s u re w e ll th e p r o d u c t o f m y p o w e r ,A nd g iv e i
t im p u lse a n d d ir e c tio n ; n a y ,C ould s u p p le m e n
t m y p o w e r , a n d h e lp m y h e a r t A g a in s t i t s
foes.
— “ J Z a tr in a p by D r . H o '.land.
^=L_^-X3ST-T h e c e a s e le s s so u n d o f th e s e e th in
g r a in ;
T h e d r ip , d r ip , d r ip f ro m th e so d d en le a v e s
;T h e w in d s a t w o rk in th e r ip e n in g g r a in —
T h e y a r e g h o s tly m o w e rs u e n d in g th e s h e a v
e s ; A n d r a in , r ip p lin g r a in .
F ro m fa r -o lf f a r m s a d u ll co c k -c ro w ;T h e b ro
o k r u n s r e d , a s if th e s p e a r
Of th e lig h tn in g w ro u g h t th e m o u n ta in w oe—T
hose g ia n ts , f ro w n in g a n d lo n e a n d d r e a r ;
A nd r a in , s h r i l l in g r a in .
L ik e s i lv e r s t r in g s o f a m ig h ty h a r pS eem th e
g la n c in g d ro p s ; th e w o o d lan d t r e e s
S how p a le -g re e n d e e p s w h e re th e w in d s b lo w s
b a rp - T h e w in d s d h a t a r e n e v e r a n h o u r a t ea
se
In r a in , r a n d o m r a in .
N o fo o tp r in ts o n th e s h e l te r le s s ro a d ;T o rn
le a v e s b e s t r e w th e g r a s s y w a y s ;
D a rk , lo w e r in g c lo u d s , a n d w h a t do th e y b
ode O n th is w e a r ie s t o f th e w e a ry d a y s ?
R a in , r a in , r a in 1
COMMUNICATIONS.
AN EXAM INATION OF T H E W R IT IN G S OF TH E ANCIENTS.
N U M B E R T W E L V E .
Some time during the two years of 1843—4, another able
researcher and practical scientist entered the field of Egyptology,
w ith rare credentials of merit, gathered from a sixteen years’
residence in the region of pyramids and monuments of ancient date,
a history which his mind was well adapted to trace out so as to
present them intelligibly to the view of all seekers after useful
knowledge of ancient peojfies.
Prisse d’ Avennes, a French scholar, had been successful in
rescuing from destruction the A ncestra l Chamber o f K a rn a c ,
the Tablet o f R am ses XIV, together w ith a num ber of other
valuable relics from the hands of the destroying Turks. Five of the
sixteeu years’ residence in Egypt had been spent in the Upper
country, where he had become a proficient Orientalist, which
enabled him to gather up precious fragments of an archaeological
character sufficient to bountifully fill his portfolios w ith
choice works. These discoveries had been performed by himself for
the most part between the periods of the departure of the French
and Tuscan Scientific Commissions under- the superintendence of
Champollion and Rosellini, 1830, and the ajjpearance of the
Prussian in 1842.
The important and persistent labors in Egyptology "by M. Prisse
were highly appreciated by the scientists of Paris, so much so
that, at tlie national expense, he was enabled to step into the
vacant place made by the demise of the renowned Champollion, and
tak ing up the folios of that great scientist, continue the work w
ith extraordinary abil
ity and devotion. He was also a contributor to the R eveu
Archeeologique, a classically standard vehicle to convey reliable
knowledge to those who come after our departure. There is yet
another name to be added to the list of benefactors to science
whose labors have been felt and acknowledged by many students of
Egyptology. A. C. Harris resided in Egypt for th irty years, and
became well versed, not only in Egyptian literature, but master of
several branches of ancient lore, which fitted him to increase the
already accumulated stock of archaeological fruit very
considerably.
“ No clap-trap pretensions to acquaintance with hieroglyphical
arcana recently made by theologers, who speak not any continental
tongue through which alone these subjects are accessible—no a d c a
p ta n d u m figments of the possession of Oriental knowledge when
men cannot spell a monosyllable w ritten in the Hebrew
alphabet—detract from the Memphite exhumations conducted at French
ministerial expense, by a Mariette ; for whose enormous discoveries
in the S era p eu m , as yet confined to reports, we wait t
impatiently. ’Twere well if, in view of the contemptuous silence w
ith which Egyptologists treat their publications, some w riters on
these m atters were to become r e a d e rs .”
It becomes a m atter of some consequence that the reader should
have presented to the mind an indication at least of the fountains
from which are■ i __drawn,the principal share of Egyptian
chronology, as we have it presented to us regarding the date of the
first Pharaoh, Menes ; seeing that this character must make some
prominence in the further elucidation of the historical record, as
well as to show a lack of connection w ith the mythical M es-
treeans, concocted by Syncellus, in tbe year A. d . 700. Nor yet,
except in a national point of view, w ith MTsRIM., (not M izraim ^)
of the Hebrew text, who has proved to be no otber than the
Egyptians, residents of MiZR, M u ss’r ; the Semitic name of M
uter.
“ E gyrt, {su p ra , p . 494.)A uthorities. R ates o f
Menes.1839, Paris—Lenormant: Oircueil M ycerinus,
IVth Dyn. (p. 24) Mycerinus, la date de 4186 b. c.Add Illd , A
fricanus...................... “ 214 “
“ lid , “ _____. . . . . . . . “ 302 ““ 1st, “ . . . . . . ___
... “ 263 “
Which makes the sum of .......................... .. .4,915 b.
c.r . c .
1840, P a r is— CifjtaiPoi.i.io.v-FjGEAC : “ L ’E g y p te A n c
ie n n e ” 5 ,8 6 7 1 845 , B e r lin — B o ck h : “ M a n e th o u
n d d ie H u n d s s te r n -
p e r io d e ”
...................................................................
.5 ,7 0 21S45, T u r in — B a r u c c h i : “ D :s c o r s l C r it
ic i so p r a la C ro-
n o lo g ia E sriz1, ”
................................................... 4 ,8 9 01 8 4 5
, H a m b u r g — B u n s e n : ‘G E g y p ten s S te l le in d er
W elt
g e B c h ic h te ,” ........... .3 ,6 4 31 8 4 6 , P a r is — H
e n r y : “ L ’E g y p te P b a r a o n iq u e ,”
..................... 5 .3 0 31 8 4 8 , P a r is— L e s u e u r : “
C b ro n o lo g ie d e s R o is d ’E g y p t e ,” 5 ,7 7 31849, B e
r lin — L e p siu s : “ C h ro n o lo g ic d e r J E g y p te r ,”
. . . . . .3 ,8 9 31851 , D u b lin — H in c k s ; “ T u rin P a p
y r u s ,” ........ ......................3 ,8 9 51 8 5 1 , L o n d
o n — K e n r ic k : “ E g y p t u n d e r ih e P h a r a o h s ,”
3 ,8 9 2 1854 , P h ila d e lp h ia — P ic k e r in g : “ G e o g r
a p h ic a l D is t r ib u
t io n o f A n im a ls a n d P l a n i s ,”
....................................... . . . . .4 ,4 0 0
Upon the authority of these names depend, chiefly, the tru th or
error, or both, of nearly all that is known at present of the
chronology of ancient E g y p t; th a t errors may be mixed w ith
tru th would not be at all surprising, when the number of centuries
embraced is considered, and the difficulty often found of agreement
between two scientists of the same or similar capacities and
opportunities. The cause of errors has been seen to arise from some
uncertainty regarding any chronological sum th a t may be desired,
to draw from the entire addition of reigns after the lapse of a
number of centuries. The probability of inexactness increases w ith
the num ber of partial sum s ; and it seems to have become a
settled point with Egyptologists to make an allowance of some two
hundred years admissible, especially in cases where the period
extends as far back as tlie X V IH th dynasty, succeeding the
expulsion of the reign of the Shepherd Kings. The difficulties
attendant on exactitude may be diminished in the future, by a more
accurate knowledge of the motives which produced pyramids, and
monuments, and temples, all over ancient Egypt. j . D. pierson
.
-----:-------- + —------ --------- .“ iE S O P , Jr.,’1 TO “ X A
N T IP P E ."
I thank you for your “ few words.” There is a pleasure in being
appreciated, and when the appreciation is accompanied by such
spirited support as your “ few words” rendered to my views on free-
love, the pleasure is enhanced. Consequently, I felt very much
pleased as I read your article. As I proceeded, I felt all the
benignity of an ambitious scribbler, who hears his first printed
article praised, till the placidity of my countenance was wonderful
to behold.
But, alas for hum an expectation ! Alas for the vanity of
literary ambition ! I had only reached that exalted state of
happiness, that my fall m ight be so much the greater—my
degradation the keener felt. Just th ink of it ! The cream of all
this mental exaltation was completely soured by a horrid epithet—“
a bachelor!” that excrescence of society—that conteirqitible thing,
despised alike by itself, and by everybody else—a standing outrage
upon society, and a perpetual insult to wo- manity.
“ O Hamlet! what a falling off was there !”And now, as I take a
second look at your “ few
words,” I see them in a new l ig h t ; and I do not agree w ith
you as much as I thought I did. That rem ark about shutting up love
in a pig-pen is very true, and a very pretty sentim ent; so also
tbe bottling up tbe sunshine and the wind ; but do yon not th ink
you exaggerated somewhat, when you
said there is nothing so free as love? Is there no passion or
attribute of the mind commensurate with it ? Please think that
over. For, as to infinite love, or boundless goodness, they only
exist in the sentiment of poetry, and read very prettily there ; if
either existed in infinitude, there would be no room left for
either hatred or evil to talk about, and reformers would bave
nothing to do. But I know, and Xantippe knows, large proportions of
both hatred and every other vice exist in the world.
And then you say that not “ one in ten of the marriages recorded
are based upon real love, and a knowledge of the proper
temperaments,” etc. W ell, well, th a t’s good ! W ho ever heard of
love paying any attention to temperaments, or anyth ing else in
reason ? Love and Reason ! W hy, alkali and acid are not more
opposed to each other ! A m an or woman, when in their righ t mind,
having the full use of their mental faculties and common sense,
with the aid of physiology, phrenology, and physiognomy, may
determine what kind of partner would be best suited to them ;
whether bilious or nervous, tall or short, dark or fair, etc. But,
ten to one, when under the guidance of Cupid, they can’t choose;
they are carried off by temperament, higbt, breadth, and
dimensions, diametrically opposite to their iirevious rational and
judicious choice. None are exempt from th is fallacy, when under
the regim e of C upid. Love laughs at laws as well as locksmiths. W
hether the victim be a philosopher or a fool, the result is the sam
e; as Frances W righ t in her charming little book, “ A Few Days in
Athens,” makes one of her characters say : “ Ah, friends ! laugh
and frown ; but sbow me tbe man, the wisest, the gravest, or the
sourest, tha t a bright pair of eyes can’t make a fool of.”
“ M arrying under false pretenses,”—that is good. And, being
good, I will let it stand approved as read, and proceed to the “
head and front of my offending.” I said I had never “ fully liked
or thoroughly hated” any one ; and for tha t I am called a
bachelor, or condemned to be one till I fall over head and ears in
love—till Cupid lead me? captive, body and soul, or till I can say
I “ fully” love. Now, Xantippe, let me ask you quietly, Has Mr.
Socrates proposed yet ? Or, are you “ but in the honeymoon of your
first love-emotions, the mere effervescence of the conjugal
compound ”? You m ust be, else you would never dream of this out-
and-out love. W omen are angels, and men are gods, before m arriage
; they are “ fully liked” to all intents and purposes ; but, as in
the case of Adam and Eve, after m arriage comes the fall, when
faults are better seen, and crimination and recrimination follow.
Between you and me, I have special reasons for sympathizing w ith
Socrates in his trials, as I have for pitying poor cynical Paul.
Cupid had, no doubt, caught Paul sometime or other, and had failed
to find a m arket for him, and sold him to the first purchaser, who
happened to be Spite—as tyrannical a master as Love dare be. But as
for Socrates, he found a m ark e t; he was sold—badly sold. No
doubt Socrates “ fully” liked Xantippe, when he “ popped the
question but a year or two of Caudle-lecturing drove him into
philosophy. There were no lodges or club- rooms then ; but he
founded a school, where he taugh t the morality of patience and
for- bearnce, the practical good of which he had learned at home.
On the banks of the Ilissus he found that quietude -he liked better
than a scolding wife. W hen Satan covered Job with boils, killed
his family, and destroyed his property, no doubt Mrs. Job would
bave suffered the terrible fate of the rest, but for tlie knowledge
Satan had of her power to test Job’s patience. But Mrs. Job and
Mrs. Socrates had reasons for their temper, if we had their side of
the story.
Oh ! about the “ handsome rival ” ! You would make jealousy the
handm aid of true love, would you? That meanest, most despicable of
all the passions, begotten of an overweening love of self, and
unbounded suspicion of every one else ! I cannot truly love her of
whom I am jealous, and of whose every act I am suspicious. I must
have unbounded confidence where I have unbounded love. “ Perfect
love casteth out fear.” Jealousy only arises from that love which
leads to lust.
Ah ! there is another point, which I had almost let slip : that
about “ obeying the m aternal instinct.” I t takes two to make a
bargain ; and now let me quietly, and as delicately as possible,
ask if we men have no paternal instinct to be consulted ? “ I t ’s
a poor rule tha t won’t work both ways,” you know.
Now I feel b e tte r ; and, on a tb ird reading, your “
few-words” are, on the whole, very much to my lik in g ; and I will
be very glad to receive a “ few more of the same sort.” But don’t
call me “ a bachelor” any more. H£SOP, JR.
T h e Sa b b a t h Q u e st io n .—An able contributor to the
Boston Commonwealth, over tbe signature “ E .,” considers “ the
next step” to be taken with reference to tbe Sabbath question. Tbe
law by which the Heading Room of the Public Library iu Boston is
closed on Sunday, and indeed by which all restrictions are imposed
upon the peojile on one day of the week more than another, does not
belong to this century, and is in no way in keeping with its
spirit; therefore, says “ E .,” “ we must take measures for the
repeal of the Sabbatical law at the next session of our
Legislature. Let all lovers of freedom hold themselves in readiness
to join in this movement next fall.” Amen! say we.
PROGRESS OF LIB ER A LISM IN SCOTLAND.
[The following interesting communication was originally written
for the perusal of our able contributor, Mr. J. W. Mackie, by a
friend in Glasgow ; but we have obtained permission to publish it
for the benefit of our readers. I t portrays very fully the social
state of the advocates of free thought in Scotland, and shows what
are the prospects of liberal ideas in thaa church-ridden
country.—Ed.]
G l a s g o w , October 13tb, 1867.* * ' * W hat are my views? I
look at
myself and otliers in tbe ligb t of Physiology and Phrenology,
and regard it as tbe duty of all to develop themselves fully. Tbat
man lives tbe h ighest life who normally exercises tbe most ^of bis
faculties. It is our duty, therefore to endeavor to make our
circumstances favorable for calling into activity our various
faculties. Those systems of education tbat draw out our powers—tbe
greatest number of our powers in tbe greatest degree—are tbe best
systems ; and tba t religion tb a t leads us to use those powers in
tbe most proper way, is tbe best. Systems of education and
religions, measured by that standard, come far short. Religions, as
they are, generally lead us to make a wrong use of our faculties.
They prevent progress instead of encouraging it. I t was tbe duty
of Protestants, at one time, to protest against tbe tyranny of tbe
Church of Rome. I t is our duty now to protest against tbe tyranny
of tbe Christian Church. There m ust be progress, and, sooner or
later, tbe delusion of tbe cross m ust be exposed. For I do th ink
it a great delusion tba t men should trust tba t tbe death of
Christ has bad anything to do w ith getting them salvation. To be
religious is to consecrate all our powers to their proper use, and
so to live as to make their action easy and natural. As to bow we
are to be guided into such a way of living, I do not think tbe
Bible of much use as a guide. No doubt many of tbe writers of tbe
Bible wrote w hat they felt to be true, and we may benefit by their
experience ; bu t it seems better to me to follow a more natural
guide, tbe promptings of our own inner being. "We do not need to be
taugh t to use our eyes, nor our ears ; these faculties, though
feeble at first, become gradually strengthened and perfected by
using them. Iu like manner w ith our otber faculties, if we were
but allowed freedom to exercise them freely. I bave some faith in m
an’s intuitive power, as it is called—tbat men brought up in a
healthy condition will gradually grow into tbe full exercise of all
their faculties.
W hat am I doing ? I will be able to give a more direct answer
to tba t question. I am acting as clerk in a wholesale boot and
shoe warehouse, for £50 a year, and teaching school in tbe evening,
to increase my income a little. I prefer doing tbat to teaching in
a school in connection w ith a church. You know I was put out of
tbe school I was teaching, because I would not promise to go to tbe
church, nor profess to believe in tbe confession of faith. I value
freedom' to do as I please on Sundays, and believe w hat I like,
more than a quiet, comfortable way of liv in g ; though I do not
despise tbat blessing either. I was a year, almost, without any
regular employment. In summer, I collected specimens of tbe wild
plants of tbe district, preserved and mounted them, and then sold
them. I also gave phrenological and physiological examinations, and
delineations of character. In winter, I lectured on tbe Sunday
evenings in Greenock—liberal religious lectures, under tbe auspices
of tbe Scottish Unitarian Association ; and I gave a, course of
lectures on Physiology and Phrenology, and intended giving courses
in other towns, but bad not money.to spend, and found tbat such a
way would not be tbe means of bringing in any money ; so I
collapsed all at once from a public lecturer to a city clerk,
hoping some day to become more prominent yet, but when, or bow, I
cannot tell. Since coming to Glasgow, I have been doing nothing in
tbe way of disseminating my opinions, except by living them so far
as I can. On Sundays, when tbe weather and season were favorable, I
went out w ith my vasculum to tbe fields and roadsides, to learn
from the Book of Nature, and took my wife and child out to let them
enjoy tbe beautiful. W e bave all along, since we were married,
lived on Sunday as we would do on any otber day. "We practice
reform in diet, and, to a certain extent, in dress. W hen I began
to wear my beard, few were seen w ith beards : now they are as
common as shaven faces, and men stare now readier at a bare, sbaved
face tban at one w ith a beard. W hen my wife began to go without
hoops* she was looked at by all ; now, many ladies have thrown them
off as an incumbrance ; so we feel it less difficult now to do in
these respects w hat we think right. Our diet consists of porridge,
syrup, potatoes, cheese, wheat-meal biscuits, or Graham crackers,
and fruit—whatever is in season. W e continually testify against
tea, tobacco, and alcohol, and warn against tbe pernicious
character of all drugs. I bave just a few days since been m aking
some inquiries about Spiritualism here, and bave been promised an
introduction to a medium. Tbe tru ths taught by Spiritualism are
familiar to us, but tbe phenomena are strange. I bave seen none of
them, but my wife was present at one seance. I t is certain tba t
strange things do occur,
but to me it is not so certain tba t they are tbe doings of
departed spirits. I will investigate, and if by it I can be led to
live a better life, better in tbe sense I understand it, then I
will take advantage of it. In tbe city we are unknown, and can live
among tbe crowd without attracting attention ; but in Greenock,
where we were living before we came here, we were well known, but
our opinions and habits did not exclude us from society. W e were
respected, and, I trust, esteemed, by tbose who knew us best. In
Greenock I bad tbe advantage of knowing many, and being well known,
for one occupying my station. I took a leading part in tbe meetings
of a Teachers’ Association, and sometimes in tbe meetings of tbe
Young Men’s Christian Association ; and latterly I became known as
a member of tbe Philosophical Society—a society having for its
membership tbe leading men of tbe town, both in intelligence and
wealth. By request, I gave a course of lectures to them, and acted
for some time in tbe committee.
From tbe above information, you will bave a better idea of my
circumstances. Notwithstanding my peculiar notions, or my
progressive principles, I could command tbe intercourse and respect
of the intelligent, till tbe Church deprived me of my means of
obtaining a living. But, though kept by tbe Church from earning my
living in one way, I can tu rn to another. Yet, to obtain a
comfortable way of living is tbe great difficulty we bave to
contend w ith in this country, at least as teachers, tbe Church has
so much to do w ith teachers’ salaries ; but there is very little
to suffer from tbe want of respect from those who know you. As to
tbe future, I cannot say much about it. It will be my aim to live
as well as I can, and therefore to try and make my circumstances
favorable to living as I tb ink I ought to live ; but in what way I
may do this I cannot tell, yet.
DAVID GREGORSON.
Mrs. F o y e ’s Seances in V irg in ia , N evada.V i r g i n i a
C it y , Nevada, Nov. 19tli, ’67.
E d it o r s B a n n e r : Last week Mrs: Foye gave her last
seance in this city, to an immense bouse —standing room was as lim
ited as seats. Lawyers, physicians, church-goers and unbelievers,
were all represented, giving tbe best evidence tbat tbe interest in
our great phenomena is rapidly increasing. To tbe great surprise of
tbe entire audience, Mrs. Foye introduced Lisle Lester, who, by
special request, bad consented to read a poem, entitled, “ No Sects
in Heaven.” Tbe effect was indescribable ; perfect quiet reigned
over tbe crowded assemblage, as tbe poem escaped from her bps, and
scattered its tru ths into tbe open ears of tbe listeners ; it was
a pleasant feature of tbe evening. Tbe seance was conducted by tbe
usual method of tests by rapping and w riting ; many of them
astonished the skeptics, and put them to their w its’ end. Of
course many tried to find tbe solution by every otber course of
reasoning but tbe rig h t one, and avoided tbat zealously, as if
determined to refuse acceptance of tbe tru th as long as
possible.
Mrs. Foye’s public seances bave been very inter-, esting to tbe
citizens h e re ; and, could they bave remained here all winter,
tbe interest would steadily increase. They bave made many friends,
and tbe expressions of regret at their leaving are really
heartfelt. Mr. and Mrs. Foye possess tbose fine social qualities
tha t endear them to all who bave tbe pleasure of their
acquaintance. Candid, and honest in conversation, careful to avoid
wounding tbe feelings of others who do not endorse tbe spiritual
faith, liberal toward all sects, and quietly seclusive upon tbe
subject of Spiritualism in tbe presence of tbose who differ from
them in opinion, they certainly manifest a dignified, laudable
bearing, which should at least challenge tbe same treatm ent from
others ; but
“ Alas! for the .rarity Of Christian charity,”
to say nothing of Christian politeness !I t is astonishing bow
many samples of old Puri
tanism still exists among tbe churches. W hile we admit tbat
ministers of tbe Gospel bave generally ceased tb a t horrible
ranting about “ bell and damnation,” “ eternal punishm ent,” a “
lake burning w ith fire and brimstone,” nevertheless, many of tbe
old notions still remain. Spiritualism they shrink from as if it
were a seven- beaded dragon, straight from the place they call
hell. Instead of try ing to j prove it false, or true, they prefer
to cling to their bigotry, and announce themselves as bigots by so
doing.
W e claim tbat any new phenomenon, any new opinion—in fact,
anything new—is worth tbe candid investigation of educated and
enlightened people ; and if a person’s religious or mental caliber
is of so weak and uncertain a nature, tbat it will suffer by such
an investigation, then we say tbe fault is w ith tbe brain and not
tbe subj e c t; and we advise all such people to keep as far away
from all new ideas and phenomena as possible.
W e believe tbe visit of Mr. Todd and Mrs. Foye has been highly
beneficial to tbe th inking classes, and created an interest tbat
will not soon die out. Mr. Todd’s lectures were well received, and
called together large audiences.
Of tbe success of Mrs. Foye it is unnecessary to speak, further
tban th is ; tbe manifestations produced were h ighly satisfactory,
tbe tests truthful and excellent. W hatever may be said against
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T H E B A N N E R OE P R O G R E S S
phase (or any otlier)’of Sx>i ritualism, by outsiders or
prejudiced editors, only serves as a very excel-, len t advertising
medium ; and the more a person or cause is persecuted, the greater
the interest of the masses. So, w ith Sxjiritualism, we want
investigation, research—jpersecu tion , even, if nothing else can
be had. Hoping much for the cause,
I am truly yours, in faith,D O U R L E L .
Successful Healing.
E d i t o r s B a n n e r -:—W hile sojourning in Sacra- - mento
in June last, I casually learned some facts
xhe early successes ol Hr. J . IV1. Grrant, of this city, in
treating diseases by the laying on of hands ;
i some cases of which struck me as tru ly rem arkable. Mr. E.
Baker stated to me tha t he had suffered for sixteen years from
severe pains in the chest near the heart and lungs. These pains,
probably of neuralgic character, were often so severe that he would
roll on the grass in the yard in agony. Unable to get relief from
the “ regulars,” he was entirely relieved in a few treatm ents by
Hr. Grant, and although nearly a year had elax>sed, their had
been no return of his difficulty.
A child of E. Woodard, ^suffering from cholera _ infantum, was
nearly despaired of by both parents
and the previously attending physician, but was restored in
twelve hours by Hr. Grant.
George Johnson was so afflicted w ith jjaralysis, and general
debility, that he had not been able to leave his bed more than two
hours at a tim e for six months. After a few treatm ents I saw him
jum p across a floor, going three or four feet at a time. >
If you feel, ns I do, tha t these evidences of healing xx>wer
belong to the public, you are at liberty to give them
jjublication.
j . A L L Y N .
S U t r H t u t t u r o f g J r a j j w s .
SATURDAY, NOVEM BER 23, 1867.
OFFICE, 5«3 CLAY STREET, UP STAIRS.
BENJAMIN TODD & CO.,P U B L I S H E R S AND P R O P R I E T
O R S .
B E N J A M I N TODD, W. H. MA N N I N G , EDI TORS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.A ll c o m m u n ic a tio n s d e s ig n e d
fo r p u b lic a t io n in th i s
p a p e r s h o u ld b e a d d r e s s e d “ E d i t o r s o f t
h e B.iXRER o f P r o g r e s s . ” A ll l e t t e r s in r e g a r
d to th e b u s in e s s o f th e p a p e r s h o u ld b e a d d r
e s s e d to “ B en'ja s ii^ T̂odd & C o.”
Brother Benson’s Personal Devil.
power and goodness of One, w hat room is left for another? Or,
in other words, if Goodness is infinite, Evil cannot, have even a
transient existence. And if the princixde of evil does not exist,
what need of an embodiment to represent it ? There is no escax>e
from these conclusions.
But, say the theologians, and Bro. Benson among them, “ Evil
does exist, for we see it all around us ; and the Bible sx>eaks
of and denounces it.” How do you know it is evil ? "Was not everyth
ing pronounced good by its Author ? And who shall dispute His w.ord
? Here is j ust where they bring in Satan as a necessary agent in m
arring tlie x^rfectly good work of the Almighty. In order to
account for the sux^osed existence of evil, it became necessary to
have some one to create it. Of course i t would not do to attribute
both evil and good to one and the same Being ; so Satan was
improvised, at first in the form of a serpent, to tem pt mankind
from their allegiance to God, and render tha t evil which He had
xnonounced good ; and the evil was made to consist in doing tha t
which had been forbidden by Him, as contrary to His will. A
supposititious being, w ith only a snake and an inferior fruit at
his command, through the ignorance of two finite x^etsons, could
thw art the will of an Infinite Being, self-existent from all
eternity, knowing all th ings from the beginning and seeing tlieir
end from tlience, present everywhere at all times, holding all
power in His hands, perfect in every attribute ! W hat logical, w
hat consistent theology is th is! There is no use in pleading the
actual existence of e v il; for, if it does exist, God is its
Author, and He is resxxmsible for its continuance.
As to the authority of Scripture for a beiief in the being of
Satan, it is of less weight than that of mythology for the
existence of its gods. It is not even consistent w ith itself. The
devil is everywhere in the position of a scax>egoat, ux^on which
to throw blame for failure, for sickness and pain, for the deeds of
m an when under the influence of the passions, for everything tha t
the ignorance of m an caused him to call evil. A notable instance
of discrex^ancy occurs in the relation of the fact of the num
bering of Israel, and the command given to Havid to do it. In 1
Sam. xxiv. 1, it is said : “ And the anger of the '^Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he moved Havid against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.” But in 1 Chron. xxi. 1, it is very
differently stated, as th u s : “ And S a ta n stood upagainst
Israel, and provoked Havid to number Israel.” 2 Sam. xxiv. 10: “
And Havid’s heartsmote him after lie had numbered tbe peoxile.” W
hy should it he so, if the L o r d had commanded it? In this case,
Satan x>roved an inefficient scax>e- goat. k
But Bro. Benson is anxious about the continued existence of the
devil. Hear him :
In the Portland P a c if ic C h r is tia n A d v o c a te is an
article m aintaining the old dogma of the exist' ence of a personal
devil, called Satan, and claiming for him every power short of
those attributed to God Himself. A few passages clipped from th is
astonishing sx>ecimen of religious fanaticism will suffice to
show the ground of the argum ent and its absurdity at tbe same
time. Bro. Benson says:
“ Various terms are employed in the Scriptures, all of which
relate to the same character. Satan is a Hebrew word, and literally
signifies an adversary— one who opposes and contends. In the garden
the enemy is called a serpent—that is, he took that form or
appeared in such shape.”
Here we have the doctrine of the transm igration of souls
endorsed by a Christian ed itor! For if Satan is a personal being
and can take on any
_ form he pleases, so can any other spiritual being, even m an h
im self:
*“ Those who would sublimate and etherealize the Christian’s
faith have contended that Satan and all cognate terms are employed
simply to indicate an evil or wicked principle. They deny the
existence of a personal devil. But why, or on what authority are
such denials made? Surely the Scriptures give no warrant for such
conclusion. In every portion of God’s word Satan, or the devil, is
spoken of as a person—as much so as Moses, John the Baptist, or
Christ.”
And so, because an idea is sometimes personified in language,
this astute theologian will have it tha t the personification
actually implies the existence of an embodiment of the idea in a
personal b e in g ! If this rule of construction were applied to
all writings, beatben as well as religious, what an indefinite
number of ideal personages would immediately be clothed w ith forms
and become identities! W e should have the nine Muses embodied and
walking the earth or traversing illim itable space ; Terpsichore
would indeed “ trix> the ligh t fantastic toe ” at all times and
in all places ; Euterpe w ou ld be at all hours blowing her musical
cornopsean ; the cooing songs of Erato would be beard through tbe
livelong night ; Melpomene would recite her tragical experiences
whenever she could find listeners; and Thalia convulse her hearers
with m irth at all times. All these would be tangible and visible
goddesses, appreciable to tbe mind and sense, as x̂ersons always
are. Skaksjpeare’s inimitable x>ersonifica- tions of Ariel and
Puck and Titania are ju st as much entitled to be considered living
personal beings as tbe “ S a tan ” or “ adversary” of the
Scriptures. They talk and say wise things just as glibly* as did
tlie old serx'jent himself. A large portion of the Hebrew
Scr5x>tures is conceded to be Hebrew x>oetry*. W e do not see
why qualities and principles should not be found personified in
them, without the necessity of having a veritable person to whom to
attribute the xj°ssession of those qualities. J ustice is
frequently personified ; yet we do not hear any one claim that
there is a personal being possessing that quality solely ; so is
Mercy, and Charity, and Faith. And yet theologians will still
insist on having a personal devil, active and intelligent for evil,
to represent in person the mere idea of evil itself. How absurd
this is, m aybe seen from its effect on the minds of those who are
brought to believe it.
Jesus said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Heaven and earth and all the stars and planets are the habitation
or house of God ; hut if it be admitted that there is a rival ruler
in the house, who can thw art at w ill the desires and designs of
its Infinite Inhabitant, how long will such a divided empire last ?
The very conception of an Infinite Being, who is all Goodness and
Love, excludes the x>°ssibility of the existence of any other,
and especially of one who is all Evil and Hatred. W hen all
infinity is filled with the
“ A method of biblical interpretation which will eliminate Satan
from the Christian’s system of faith, will equally serve to dispose
of any other important doctrine in the sacred oracles. I t will be
found too, that those theologians who ‘ explain away ’ the
existence of Satan as a person, also virtually discard very many
other cardinal Bible truths. But what of Satan ? He is said to be a
fallen angel—an apostate spirit—one who kept not his first estate.
But of his origin and history we may not now speak.”
Yes, it is best n ever to speak of tliat of which we know
nothing. W e predict tha t Bro. Benson will never give us the
history or the origin of Satan. Even the writers of the Bible have
not dared to attem pt so much. Poet Milton soared to “ bights
unattem pted,” and" essayed to write in verse the life of Satan ;
but none but a poet could have done it. Poets do not deal in facts,
but fancies.
After conceding th a t the power of Satan is limited—-that he is
not omnipotent, omniscient, nor omnipresent—Bro. Benson goes on to
say :
“ But his legions do his behests, and, having received, impart
his own spirit. As to methods of sxfirits passing through space, we
have no opinion, because the word gives us no light on the
subject.”. . . . “ He possesses no knowledge of the workings of any
human spirit till there is some action or manifestation which gives
him a clue to the inner man. Yet unsaved souls are easily
influenced and led and deluded by ‘the Prince of the power of the
air.’ He is the spirit that rules all who will submit to his
scepter. There is but one devil—those terms that are plural are
improperly translated. But legions of lesser sxfirits are in the
service of their master.”
W hat, then, does this passage m ean : “ Thedevils also believe,
and trem b le” ? W e should like very well to know where Bro.
Benson obtained his information as to the legions of “ lesser
spirits.” Certainly not from the Bible. Probably from Milton and
Pollock. No other brains have ever originated such an idea, except,
perhaps, those of Swedenborg. ar.
M e d d l i n g w i t h t i i e C i v i l L a w s .—The
Methodists have lately j>assed resolutions in their General
Conferences, to petition the Legislature to pass more stringent
laws on the subject of m arriage and divorce, and to incorporate
their inter- preta-tion of Old and New Testament rules on tbe
subject into those laws. They wish not only to prevent divorced
persons from m arrying again, but to disallow tbe m arriage of
others who have committed adultery. In our ox>inion, the less
attention the Legislature gives to the peculiar views of any sort
of religionists on these matters, the better. Marriage is a civil
contract, and the Church has no rightful authority over it ;
neither should the control ho surrendered into sacerdotal hands.
The laws regulating m arriage should he subject to modification,
like all laws xj^Uaining to individuals, according to the
necessities of the times, and in accordance w ith the progress of
the race. “ In haaven,” said Jesus of Nazareth, “ they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.”
And in his “ Lord’s Prayer,” he prayed that the will of God may be
“ done on earth as it is in heaven.” ai.
H i s t i n g u i s h e d S p i r i t u a l i s t s .—Several
editors of the daily x^ess continue to x^ooli-pooh at tlie
statements of our lecturers in regard to the Sxpiritualistic
sentiments of Victoria, Louis Napoleon, Lincoln, Chase, Colfax,
Wade, and others. The manner in which these editors receive these
statements shows how ignorant they are of the history and progress
of Spiritualism in the United States and Europe. Proof can easily
be furnished, whenever necessary. ar.
A L i v e M o u n t a i n N e w s p a p e r .—The Downie- ville
M ountain Messenger is all of that.
Eev. Mr, Stebbins’ Sunday Evening Discourse,
There axqpears at xjresenf no flagging of the interest
manifested in the meetings at the Metro- XPolitan Theater on Sunday
evenings, to listen to the sermons of Eev. Mr. Stebbins. These are
rather x^ractical than doctrinal, and are more thickly interspersed
w ith common-sense ajuflica- tions of Scripture texts than are many
clerical discourses, which x^eopie who attend church are
comx>elled to listen to. The sermon on last Sunday evening,
however, contained some disxmted X>oints in mental
p>hilosoxphy, concerning which we are obliged to differ w ith
the Eev. gentleman, and which we will state presently. The text was
Beut. xxii. *6 : “ W hen thou buildest a newhouse, then thou shall
make a battlem ent for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy
house, if any man fall from thence.”
The idea attempted to he eliminated from the text by analogy
was, tha t man should protect themselves from falling from virtue
or up>riglit conduct by erecting battlem ents or walls of safety
around themselves, in order tha t they may not, in an unguarded
moment, “ lose their balance,” and fall from their great moral
higlit to the ground. The Jews, he contended, saw the necessity of
a material protection to the roofs of their houses, in order tha t
children and incautious persons m ight not be in danger of falling
off them to the ground. The security this “ battlement ” gave
enabled them to walk about the roof in perfect freedom and “
unrestraint,” and to feel that they were safe from any results of a
want of caution. The analogy which Mr. Stebbins wished to establish
was, that those who have so provided themselves w ith a moral wall
of safety are incapable of falling, though walking among moral
dangers in perfect freedom and unrestraint. He said that the secret
of the failure of hum an virtue is, that the men who fail have
never subdued any eternal th ing to their possession. Men plead
that conscience is at once their guide and protection. But a
distinction is to be made between a good and a bad conscience. Men
and women, whose consciences are the abodo^of tbe highest moral
principle, are protected, and free from danger ; they have battlem
ents surrounding tlieir bouse-toxis, and can walk about in defiance
of tempitation. Tlieir honesty naturally “ goes itself,” it is not
“ x>racticed honesty.” He who has elevated himself iqjon a
x3r°tected moral house-toj) into a higher moral atmosxfliere, is in
no danger of falling below, or of being affected by what is below.
He is secure both from temptation and its consequences.
Tlie above is of course but a synopsis of tbe Eev. gentlem an’s
remarks on the te x t ; but it conveys tbe gist of the'argum ent,
and enables us to present the jioints upon which we dissent from
the conclusions of the sx>eaker. If a m an could, as it were, at
any and all times, suddenly seize himself by the suspenders and
transport himself into a higher and purer moral atmosxfliere, than
that in which he finds himself frequently placed by circumstances
beyond his control, he m ight then be secure from contamination by
or involvement in the fallings and failings of his fellows. But
this method of transm igration is impossible ; and he realizes In
his own position that occupied by each one of a row of bricks set
ux> on end, tbe knocking down of tbe first of which toxfffles
over the whole row. Our interests and feelings are held by each so
much in common w ith every other—hum an nature in individuals is so
like hum anity in general—that even from sympathy we may become
offenders among those who cam- mit offenses. It was only the
Pharisee who could occupy tha t elevated plateau,- above his
fellows, whereon he could stand and say, “ Lord, I thank Thee that
I am not as other men, nor even as this publican.” But we see by
the reception given his prayer and thanksgiving, and tha t accorded
to the petition of the hum bler publican, that hum ility teaches us
the best lesson, which is, that
“ To err is human; to forgive, Divine.”There is, in fact, no
such elevation and xiro- tection possible, as shall secure a man
from tlie influence of circumstances upon bis conduct. It may be
x>ossible to mortify or moderate the consequences of our acts by
erecting barriers or walls of safety, like the battlements of the
Hebrew house-tops, to x^eveDf accident, and give us a sense of
security ; but no develoximent of tbe moral nature is xu*oof
against a deluge of adverse circumstances, or a seven-times-keated
furnace of affliction. Neither does any man know what he would or
will do, when xflaced in precisely similar conditions w ith those
wherein others failed. He does not know, for the best of reasons,
namely that he has never been tried. Against the force of
circumstances no hum an poiver can successfully contend. No man is
strong enough to defy the powers of earth and air, and all others,
combined To be successful against any of them singly requires all
the strength that any man £>ossesses. It is in vain for
jjreacbers to call their fellow-men to account, as the Pharisee did
the publican, for real or supposed offenses against a suyq^osed
fixed standard of morality ; for what is set down as righ t by men
in one age is sure to be adjudged as wrong in another, and vice
versa . W as it wrong to steal a slave, and set him at liberty ?
One set of men formerly adjudged it to be so. But a whole nation of
slaves have been set at liberty by a nation of freemen, and it is
not considered by the majority as a theft. If it is not now,
according to the preachers, it never w as; for tlieir standard of
righ t is fixed, and immovable by circumstances. But tlie x^cpular
adage exxiresses the true philosoxfliy of the m atter in the
phrase, “ Circumstances alter cases.” And, whatever the preachers
may say, men cannot alter circumstances.
W e o b serv ed a d ec id ed im p r o v e m e n t in th e l ite
r a r y ch a ra cter o f th e h y m n s s u n g o n th e Xiresent o
ccasion , o v e r th o s e x>reviously in u se a t th e s e m e
e t in g s , an d lioxje ou r ta s te m a y n o t a g a in b e
offen ded b y su c h n a m b y -p a m b y n o n se n se a s is so
fr e q u e n tly c a lle d r e l ig io u s jjoetry , b u t w h ic h
is r e a lly a n in s u lt to th e in te lle c t of e v e n th e m
o stordinary m an in the assembly. m .
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W e read in some of the daily pax?ers that trouble is
apprehended in Virginia. May we understand by this rem ark tha t
the trouble has been arrested ? m .
Flu rry of the Methodists in Oregon. Slow Progress.Since the
lecturing tour of Mr. Todd in Oregon,
and the seances of Mrs. Foye in the xJrinciPal towns of that
State, the Methodist preachers and X>apers have been roused to
unwonted activity and vigorous denunciation, wliich proves the
effectiveness of the camjjaign against Popular Theology inaugurated
by those pioneers of Sxjiritualism. Everywhere the clergy are
bellowing about tbe tbe sanctity of Sunday, tbe infallibility of
tbe Bible, the immorality of Sjjiritualists, etc. W e read that the
Eev. I. H. Hriver—whom Mr. Todd vanquished in discussion at Salem,
when the driver became tbe driven, and left the field in h igh
dudgeon because tbe moderators would not allow him to transcend the
rules of debate—has ju st dedicated a new church at Eoseburg.
Brother Benson, of tbe P a c if ic C h r is tia n A-dvocatc, takes
the rex>ort of our National Convention at Cleveland from the
venal secular press, and on that bases tile most flagrant slanders
and insinuations against the "whole body of Spiritualists. He
quotes from tbe rej>orted speech of an individual, and holds the
mass resx^onsible for i t ; in fact, considers the charges made
against the many, by a single irresx>onsible person, as
demonstrated truth. He then undertakes to depreciate our numbers
and influence. This is what he says on these X)oints:
“ I t is believed that the number of Spiritualists in the United
States does not exceed ten thousand; and they possess no more of
the elements of unity and cohesiveness than a rope of sand. There
is in some sense agreement in their belief that spirits, good and
bad, visit the living, and communicate both truth and falsehood.
There is agreement in nothing else. Every one believes, says, and
does whatever is good in his own eyes. Each one is a law unto
himself.”
W e again exhort Bro. Benson to read Bro. P au l’s edifying
epistles, and now more particularly the first Exflstle to Timothy,
verse 5, and further on: “ Now the end of the commandment isc h a r
ity ou t o f a p u r e h ea rt, and of a good conscience, and of
faith u n fe ig n ed : from which some, having swerved, have turned
aside unto vain j angling ; d e s ir in g to be teachers o f the
law ; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
But we know th a t the law is good, if a man use it lawfully ;
knowing this, that the laic is not m a d e f o r righ teou s m en ,
hut for the law less a n d disobedien t.” And again, Eom. iv. 15 :
“ W here no law is, there is no transgression.” And Eom. v. 13: “
Sin is not imputed when there is no law .” And 1 Cor. xv. 56 : “
The strength of sin is the la w .” And Eom. ix. 31, 32 : “ Israel,
which followed after the law of righteousness, h a th n o t a tta
in e d to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought
it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the la w .” And
Gal. v. 14 : “ For all the law is, fu lf i l le d in one w o rd ,
even in th is : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Brother James, also, in his Epistle General, chaxfler i. v. 25,
26, sa id : “ But whoso looketh into the x’erfeef toio o f lib erty
, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, hut a
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
maintniriAri 1 nunseives lor tlie good oraerforget the R prvi^
entire ceremonv, he does not
who kind-fln-ntnin *?.rce» under command ofthe Vroceedin’crl PTn
fk thurpose be “ sacred” that tempts the appetite of such an one ?
If our religions journals would be consistent in tbeir temperance
views, they should oppose the use of wine unqualifiedly ; or else
concede that a moderate use of a “ rare and costly” article, made
plentiful and cheap by extensive culture, might operate to do away
with the greater evil of indulging in deleterious drinks.—Sail lose
M ercury.
“ one ” becomes a “ thousand ” after a time. Our increase does
not depend upon forced revivals, nor upon labored discourses, nor
yet ux>on widely circulated books and pax>ers ; but upon tlie
devel- oximent of universally witnessed pbenomenal facts, uxion
tlie origin and metliod of production of wliicb one man is as
capable of judg ing as another, x>rovided he is free from
prejudice and bigotry. These last m ast be cast aside and utterly
forgotten, before the mind is in a condition to consider the facts
and p)hilosophy of Sxjiritualism in sincerity. Free, inquiring
souls readily perceive the tru th and beauty of our
xflfll°sopBy> and accex>t tbe x>henomena upon which it is
based, so soon as they witness them, as a sufficient ground of
belief in Spiritualism. I t is not expected that the bigoted
Methodist or Baptist, whose mind is Xireoccupied by xireconceived
opinions, will at once accept either the facts or philosophy,
especially when they so evidently contradict past beliefs.
Something absolutely staggering is needed to arouse the dull
faculties of those who blindly cling to tbe religion of the x5ast,
before they will awake to a brighter and more cheerful faith.
Meantime, the selfish and hyxiocritical, whose luxurious ease
aud subsistence depend upon the maintenance of the present
religious belief among tbe xieoxfle, particularly of the orthodox
sects, are unusually active in the propagation of the old errors,
and in the denunciation of the newly discovered truths. Their
organs teem w ith the most abusive language in regard to
Spiritualism and its adherents, and false and libelous charges are
made and reiterated until many believe them as true and just.
But
“ E v e r t l i e r i g h t c o m e s u p p e r m o s t ,A u d e
v e r is j u s t i c e d o n e .”
Another campaign of our speakers will he made in Oregon in the
spring, when another fluttering of the unclean birds, and a shaking
of the dry bones, of Old Theology, w ill take place. We
.shall endeavor to have these th ings occur, as before, when the
Methodist Annual Conference of Ministers is in session, so as to
afford every facility for oxien investigation and discussion of the
facts and xfliilosopliy of Sxjiritualism, to which we con tinue to
challenge its opponents at every opportunity. Bro. Benson, in the
mean time, had better read his Bible more attentively, and with
less Xjrejudice, and he may become a convert to Spiritualism, more
of which doctrine is taught in that book than he has yet dreamed
of. M.
T h e editor of the New York In depen den t speaks of having
attended a funeral service conducted by Sx>iritualists, in the
following term s:
“ The redeeming point was, that all the services seemed
penetrated through and through with cheerfulness, a simple and
hearty faith in a triumx>hant immortality, that did one’s soul
good. Whatever their errors, these people seemed to have firmly
grasped that one xjoint of living faith. I t set us thinking,.till
we blushed for the inconsistency of Christian Church members. For
who has not attended some funeral service in his own denomination,
when the gloom of desxjair seemed to rest over all the assembly,
and when every word spoken by the minister only seemed to draw the
pall down deeper? What gloom of heathenism can exceed the
dexjressing sadness which prevails on some of those very occasions
when, if ever, the human soul needs all the wings of faith ?”
R e v . A. P. H e n d o n of Los Angeles writes to the
California Christian Advocate: “ We have commenced to build a house
f o r God in this place. I t will be of brick, 44 feet long by 34
feet wide, and will cost some $2,000, when finished.”
The Chinese of this city, a short time since, built a “ house
for Jo sh ” on a xjfincipal street. In both cases, the sincerity of
the builders is not disputed. But wliat littleness of comprehension
of tbe Infinite is involved in tbe exxjression and in tbe act ! God
lives in “ a temple not made with bands, eternal in the heavens,”
the Scriijtures tell us. Yet these fanatical religionists believe
they are doing Him service in rearing costly edifices of brick and
stone to His honor and glorification. And yet it is not these, but
“ the heavens,” that “ declare the glory of God.” M.
T h e cry all over the land is, “ Spiritualism is dangerous ! I
t is disastrous!” Heed the cry, for it is true. I t is dangerous
and disastrous to what the Xje
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T H E B A N N E R O F P R O G- R E S S .
Testation.W e find in tlie P a c if ic H y g ie n is t an
article un
der tlie above bead, by Dr. J. W . Redfield, wliicli contains
some telling points in relation to tlie popular d rug medication of
tlie day, 'which, like popular theology, has been “ weighed in the
balance, and found w anting .” W e make a few extracts from Dr.
Redfield’s remarks, which follow :
“ "With too many people taste is the test, the touchstone-which
determines the wholsome or unwholesome qualities of things. If we
were governed by infallible instinct; if we were not rational and
accountable beings, and, in the fallible exercise of our reason and
accountability had not perverted our gustatory sense, it might be
well for the five senses to sit in council on all questions of
diet, elect Taste their umpire, and abide by her decisions. But the
‘ i f ’ alters the case. We are notoriously creatures of habit, and
our habits become ‘ second nature,’ a poor counterfeit of the
first, rendering false testimony on the subject of diet, as of
everything else. True, the perversions and bad habits of which we
complain are the result of the ambition to become wiser than the ‘
evidence of the senses’ can make us ; the upshot of it being, that
we become as wise as ‘ the three wise men o f Gotham, who went to
sea in a bowl.’
* -x- . -x- * * *“ Undoubtedly, along with the second nature
re
sulting from our own evil habits, should be taken into account
the third and fourth natures resulting from the inexorable decree
of Primal Nature, which compels her to 4 visit the iniquities of
the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children,
unto the third and fourth generations’-̂—in regular succession,
from the great primogenitor down to the last of his posterity,
There is, of course, a proviso to this, which obligates her to ‘
show mercy to thousands of them that love her and keep her
commandments.’ That is, of those who love Nature and obey her laws,
and who receive their reward, the thousands who suffer the'penalty
of past disobedience will have part of the penalty remitted, not by
the expiation of their crimes, but by the merciful interposition of
the power called the vis m edicatrix N atu ra . This is the ‘
mediator between God and man,’ between the law and the culprit, so
far as the depravity of the body is concerned, and so far as this
influences the condition of the mind. It is the true ‘ balm in
Gilead’ of the great Physician, potent in the cure of individual
diseases, and of social maladies as well.
‘ T h is g r a n d sp e c if ic w ill p re v a i l W hen all th
e d o c to r s ’ o p ia te s fail.’
“ The Nature who administers this medicine to the individual,
and to society, is the Divine Nature in him and in all the members
of societ)7 in their sympathetic relation to each other. But she
takes special possession of the physician who deserves the name,
who is what the name signifies, N ature s assistant ; who works as
she does, rejecting poisons and correcting disorders, not by
poisonous and disturbing agencies, but by healthful food and all
hygienic influences. In this sense Christ was the ‘ Great
Physician.’ He cured the sick' not by the violation of Nature’s
laws, but by conformity to them. John the Baptist and Christ and
his disciples were Hydropath- ists, Purificalionists, spiritual and
corporal; and, in the humble opinion of the writer, they were in a
general way models of hygienic living. Christ was the founder of
the true school of Medicine, as he was of Religion—the first
principle of that being sym pathy, and the first principle of this
being charity. He made himself one with his patients and laity, in
relation to the physicians and priests of his school.‘ I was sick
and in prison, and ye visited me,’ not administered drugs and
absolution. As lie did not himself wish to be disgusted with
nauseating drugs, or
, depiuved of sensibility, so he did not wish others to be.
„
“ I t is sayiug a great deal for taste as the test of what is
wholesome or unwholesome, that all drugs are rejected by it
instanter. But there are beverages and articles of diet that would
be classed with drugs, and rejected as such, if taste were not
perverted. This sense is therefore unreliable. We say7, non dis- pm
tandum de gustibus, and seek'elsewhere a sure criterion of what is
healthful and what is otherwise. Nature has endowed us with moral
sense, common sense, and more sense than common, and intends that
the external senses and the sensual and animal nature shall be
subject to their supremacy. At present they are carrying us through
the transition stage, from the perfection of instinct to the
perfection of knowledge concerning the laws of life, and the diet
and curative treatment suited to the human constitution in its
states of health and disease. They7 are dangerous weapons in the
hands of tyros, but they will carry us safely through the contest.
We must net let either over-confidence or timid distrust turn them
against ourselves, but must aim them ever at our enemies, ignorance
and the disposition to ‘ cast loose rein upon the neck of headlong
appetite .’ I t is too late for the self-constituted guardians of
the people to caution them with the motto that ‘ children must not
meddle with edged tools.’ We must break the leading strings of
blind faith and conservatism, and boldly strike out for ourselves
in search of truth by the conscientious exercise of reason, the
philosopher’s stone that can turn all baser metals, the crude facts
of scientific observation, into gold. Taste and smell, and the
other external senses, are not the tests of the wholesome or
unwholesome, but their evidence is the ore to which the true test,
that of reason and moral sense, is applied.” -
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“ You Have Taken Away My Savior.”
The above sentence is taken from a letter recently received from
the wife of a Methodist minister. She had heard me give a lecture
on “ We fin d zohat we deserve.'” If we deserve heaven we have i t
; if we deserve hell we have it. The consciousness of meriting
heaven is heaven. The consciousness of deserving hell is hell.
Christ’s character and blood are not of the least use to us so long
as our feelings and actions. toward our fellow-beings arc such as
to engender hell in our own hearts. Personal character, not the s a
c i u f i o i a l , blood of man or beast, must decide indiv idual
destiny. Salvation comes to me by m y own righteousness, not by the
righteousness of Christ. I cannot be saved by the merits of Christ,
any7 more than he can be saved by7 my merits.
In saying this the good woman (for she is good, true, and noble)
thought I took away her Savior! My reply is: In matters of religion
or theology, what can be taken away ought to .be taken away. T ruth
is indestructible; error alone is destructible. The Savior that can
be taken away7 ought to be taken away. The Savior that is born in
Bethlehem and cradled in a manger, may be, and certainly w il l be,
taken away—as a sacrificed offering for the sin of others ; for no
truth is more self-evident than this : that the blood of one man
can never atone for the sins of another, nor can the merits of one
ever be a substitute for the merits of another.
No man can be true, just, honest, pure, righteous, meritorious,
and noble for another. Only b.v being good can the results of
goodness be ours. Only as ■ice are iu a heaven-state of mind can
heaven come to its. That Christ was in a heaven-state is of no
consequence to me so far as my destiny is concerned ; but, am I in
a heaven-state of mind and heart ? Christ’s merits saved him, but
can save nobody7 else. When Christ’s m erits become mine, when I
love as he loved, forgive as he forgave, return good for evil as he
did, when his spirit becomes mine—in a word, when I become a Jesus,
a Messiah, a C h r i s t to mankind, to publicans and sinners, as
he was, then shall I merit salvation as he did, and receive it. Be
a C h r i s t and HAVE CHRIST.
3Ly Savior must be born in and %oith me. MySOU L IS T H E O N LY
M A N G L E IN W H IC H MY7 S A V IO R CANBE b o r n a n d c r a d
l e d . No Savior can be born any where else for me. A Savior born
any where else than in the individual soul, will and must be taken
away. Christ, as a Savior to others, by the sacrificial offering of
his blood or his merits, is a m y t ii , a d e l u s io n and a
hindrance to human growth in knowledge and goodness.
Here is my one great issue with Christendom: E a c h o n e i s s
a v e d b y h i s o w n m e r i t s , n o t b y t h e m e r i t s o
f C h r i s t . —Ile n ry G. W right, in the Danner o f L
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M is c h ie v o u s S p i r i t s -—At a spiritual meeting in
Boston some time since, a person applied through the medium for the
spirit-of Lindley Murra.y. The reply in the affirmative being
received, the question was put: “ Is this the spirit of Bindley7
Murray7 V” Imagine the feelings of the person asking the question
at the reply : “ It are.”
A m a n u f a c t u r e r in Boston lately remarked that he had
in his employ thirty girls, whom he did not pay as much wages as
their board amounted to. He was asked how he supposed they managed
to live. “ O,” said he, “ they are sharp enough for that.” If the
Devil don’t get such employers, it will be because he is cheated
out of what belongs to him.
T e m p e r a n c e L e c t u r e .— The failure of Dr.-Stone to
fu lfill his appointment, on Tuesday evening, operated to filfu ll
the lecture room of the M. E. Church, where, according to previous
announcement, on the same evening, the Grand Worthy Patriarch of
the Sons of Temperance of the State of California, his Grand
Associate (Mrs. Cutter), and the Grand Treasurer, would address the
people. The Grand Worthy P., a philanthropic-looking elderly,
gentleman, on taking the stand, stated that he was no speaker ; but
he nevertheless gave us, in good language, a brief history of the
rise, progress, decline, and subsequent rise of the order, blended
with some appropriate general remarks, occupying not more than
fifteen minutes. He then introduced his Worthy Associate, Mrs.
Cutter, who, it was said, would be the big gun of the evening. She
commenced by* heaving a figurative brick-bat at Mrs. Laura Cuppy,
and then scratching, supposititiously, at the eyes of the large
numbers who are pleased to attend upon the lectures of that
lady—which seemed to be entirely7 uncalled for in a discourse on
the subject of temperance. Her allusions the “ Old Man Millard,”
who invited her to ride to “ any7 part of the city for one bit,”
and also Miss Stanton, a reform-lecturer, were anything but in good
taste. They7 were doubtless intended for w it; but we are quite
certain a large number of her hearers failed to appreciate it.
However, as a slight compensation to her audience for inflicting
upon them the silly stuff constituting the body of her discourse,
she concluded by reading a very tolerable poem in a very7 passable
manner.—San Jose 31crcury.
C o n s p i r a c y .—Dr. J. R. Sproul was week before last
convicted of having attempted an outrage on the person of a child
eleven years of age. Sproul denied his guilt, but accepted the
consequence of the charge and conviction with great cheerfulness,
regarding the affair as a fulfillment of certain persecutions
foretold by his intimate friends from across the line. Last
Tuesday, having succeeded in deceiving a jury to bring in a verdict
of guilty, the young girl made a confession in which she admits
that her evidence in Court was false. She had been induced to make
the charge by a woman whom she regarded as a friend. The little
girl ib perhaps too young to comprehend the nature of her offense,
but her female adviser should be held to a strict account. An
accusation of this nature is the ugliest charge that can be brought
against a man, and the most difficult of being refuted. Vile women,
who seek to avenge a real or fancied wrong by a trumped-up charge
of outrage, should be made an example of. A chief reason why in
many instances the law does not sufficiently protect the innocent
of the weaker sex or punish deceivers, is the facility with -which
false accusations can be sustained. From the nature of the case the
oath of the injured party7 must be the main reliance of the
prosecution, while the accused, the only other person who knows the
truth, is in a position in which his statement is of little or no
value. The law recognizes the moral right of a prisoner to plead “
not guilty,” and any oath he may take in support of that plea is
held in light esteem. All the female has to do is to stick to her
story and she can cover the most respectable man with odium, even
if she fails to procure conviction. — Golden N r a.
O p e n i n g o f a P u b l ic L i b r a r y .—Mr. Henry Bill,
of Norwich, recently7 gave his native town—Ledyard, Conn.,—§1,000,
to be appropriated to a free library. He has since added $3,000 to
this gift, and public- spirited citizens having co-operated, the
library is ready to begin operations with a catalogue of over one
"thousand books. The last General Assembly published an act of
incorporation, and the institution is to be known as the “ Bill
Library.” I t was thrown open on Monday, 7th ult., and will
hereafter be open every Saturday and Sunday. On the last mentioned
day the opening will be partial, to permit the Sunday-school
children to avail themselves of a portion of the collection.
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th , b u t e v e n to i t s v e r y life . H e n c e , S p e n c e
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