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Spiritual Wives SPIRITUAL WIYES./> \ \ / 7 BY W ILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON. AVTNtfA OT -»««W A W « * /' " T*f HOLY LA**,-’ “ WILLIAM MU*," ITX. tomplrtr ta <&iu Hainau. LONDON: HURST & BLACKETT. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT k CO. 1368. / '/ s / / / / / / 'ry/// //'/// y f./f/, *" !’ f ,1\ .! ¡ \ fl ì t , * C j - r ■SeC. / i>Sc ■ / •lASVARO €011161 llSRASY PROS THE PHILOSOPHICAL LI6SARY OP WILLIAM lAMCt IMS is U N I F O R M WITH Tins VOLUME. N EW AMERICA, BY WILLIAM HEPWQRTH DIXON, n r r o t o r “ t o * a t m k *»»«," and avtmoa or «‘ t n i holy land/ 1 ''WILLIAM FINN," BTC. W ITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Omt Vwhaww. Crown *ro. TWrrf /»„/wr. CfoM, $2.76. Far aale fcy B o o k e e llc n generalljr, or will be k m bjr mail, portal in , M reccap* oF pnco, bjr the Poblithen. J. B. UPPINCOTT * CO. Pkilabklfmm. H A R V A R D |UN1VERSITY| kl R OAKY ©CT l»IM» A /N / -* t PREFACE. T h k subject opened in these pages is so far new, that scarcely any of the facts arc to lie found in books. Man in * his higher phase has hardly conic within the grasp of science, \ and the histories which shall illustrate his spiritual passions have yet to lie compiled. One chapter, in one such history, is diffidently offered in the present work. I have collected my facts in distant places; in the Baltic provinces, in the West of England, on the shores of Lake Ontario, iu the New England cities. In every case, I have seen the jioople and the places for myself. The names of many jiersons who have helped me will appear in the text: there arc others of whom I would gladly speak, hut may not. The strange pa|icr by Professor Sachs, which I give in the original, as the chief evidence used against Archdeacon Ebel in the great trials here recounted, was sealed up by order of the Royal Court of Berlin, ns a document affecting ¡icrsons of high rank. IIow that paper came into my hands, I must not say; it is authentic and complete; for that I pledge my word; and if either the authenticity or the completeness of this paper shall come to be challenged by any one having the right to do so, I may then be in a position to require, and obtain, permission to tell the story of how it appears in these pages. 6 St. J am k»’s Terrace, Ae» 1 ear’s Bay, 1868. iii CONTENTS CBAFTBR FAOR I. TUE JUNKER UOF • • • • . 9 11, AN ANGEL’S MESSAGE . • • 15 111. SERAPHIM KISSES • • • • • 23 IV. THE AMBER CITY . • 30 V. CHURCH AND UNIVER8ITY . 3S VI. NASSE MUCKER • • 45 VII. A GREAT APPEAL • 53 VIII. SPIRITUAL WIVES . • 01 IX. CELESTIAL LOVE . 67 X. A STUDENT OP THEOLOGY • 70 XI. THE PAUPER PARACLETE . 82 X II. ARCHDEACON EBEL • 91 XIII. A FEMALE CHURCH . 99 XIV. THE FREE SPIRIT . • 107 XV. TUE EBELIANS . 114 XVI. COUNTESS IDA • • 121 XVII. SANCTIFICATION • • • 128 X V III. DARKER DAYS • • 135 XIX. LAW COURTS • • . 142 XX. FINAL TRIALS • 148 XXL SENTENCE AND REVERSAL • • . 155 TI CONTESTS. rNArrm FAflU X X I I . T U K ABODE OP LOVE . 160 X X 1 1 1 . " W IT H IN TIIE ABODE . 169 XXIV. BEHOVED .... 174 X X V . T 1 1 E LAMPETER BRETHREN 179 X X V I . B R O TH E R PRINCE . 184 XXVII. CIIARI-INCn 190 X X V I I I . OOSPEL LOVE 198 XXIX. SECESSION 203 X X X . BUILDING TIIE ABODE . 208 XXXI. APTKR TRIALS . 215 X X X I I . TIIE GREAT MYSTERY . 219 X X X III. TIIE PINAL DISPENSATION 224 XXXIV. A GREAT REVIVAL 231 XXXV. FIRST BURNT DISTRICT 236 X X X V I. SECOND BURNT DISTRICT 244 X X X V I I . TIIE AFFAIR AT BRIM PI ELD 249 X X X V I I I. CONFESSION OP FATHER NOYES 254 X X X IX . GOSPEL FREEDOM 263 X L THE PAULINE CHURCH . 269 XLI. THE AGAP/E 274 X L II. EXPERIENCE OP TWO ELDERS 279 X L iif . w o r d e n ’s c o n f e s s io n 284 X L IV . STORY OP TWO L1VE8 . 289 XLV. PIOU8 COURTSHIP 295 XLVI. MARRIED LIFE 801 X L V I I . IN THE WORLD 306 X LV IIL ABRAM C. SMITH . 312 X L I X . RONDOUT CREEK 319 L. TIIE SELFISH SPIRIT 325 CONTEXTS. ▼h MSI IPAU3...........................................332 .............................................. 337 ...................................................342 IITUAL LOVE . 347 UNITIES ...................................353 IX 1 T IE 8 ......................................360 e x ..........................................3G6 JMER ......................................373 380 ARMONIA ......................................389 £ 8 ..........................................396 L ....................................... 403 i)8 • • • • • « 410 EVIVAL ......................................418 STELLUNG PER PIETI8TT80HEK »NIG8BERG . 485 SPIRITUAL WIVES. CIIAl’TKR I. TUB JUXKEll HOF. HU IST US kommt! C Gott sei Dank! Christus kommt! A man might have fancied that such pious cries as,— Lo! lie comes! God be praised! He comes! lie comes!! would hardly be considered by a Christian magistrate, living in a (ieVman city, in the ¡»resent year of grace, as likely, even when raised by a mob of boys ami girls in a public street, to have been raised against the king and that king's peace. A man might have fancied that a brave soldier, his brow entwined with laurel-leaves, would hardly think it needful to put such cries to the ban ; still less to stay them by a charge of that splendid force, which only a year ago gave liberty and unity to Central Europe, by breaking through the Kaiser's lines at Königsgrätz. But such was not the view of his duty taken by General Vogel von Falkenstein, when these pious words, and other pious words like these, were shouted by a crowd of citizens and students in the Hof Gasse and adjoining ßtreets of insular Königsberg last week. 10 x n m ir r A L w iv e s . VoKcl von FalkunMoimii one of those ready soldiers whom F a th e r FritZ would have cuffed and hugged,— one o f th e llomerie heroes of the Seven-days* War. Schleswig knew him; Hanover and Frankfort know him. lving George and IVmcc Alexander had to deal with him , poor fellows! Last year his hand lay heavy on the Hebrew dealers in gold and scrip; hut his sword was not more swill to smite the dubious city- friend and angry (be in open field, than it was prompt to crush, in case there should have been call lor force, both the j»ious believers and the wicked scullers who met last Monday in the Junker Hof, to announce and to dispute the immediate Advent of our Lord. He is one of those chiefs who like to have it said of them that they staud no nonsense. 1 dare say that, as a good man and true conservative, Falkenstein lias no wish to stand in the way of a Second Advent; but as a soldier, commanding the king's troops in Ost and West Preusseii, lie lias to think above all things of the public peace. If Christ must come again, he Mcems to be of opinion that His coming should take place in-doors, with awe and discipline, not in the «»¡»on streets, with a riot of citizen shouts and stu- deut brawls. Anyhow, on Monday night, these good folk* of the Amber City saw how soon a line of rifles, lKiriic by strong arms, and rattling over the Krämer bridge and down the Hof Gasse on the double, could put an eml to the ciy of “ Christus kommt! ” in the public street But how came a company of Prussian infantry, serving under the flag of Vogel von Falkcnstein, to be drawn up in line against students and citizens who were simply crying out for the Second Advent of our Lord ? Uarly in the prescut month of November, 1867, a THE JUSKKrt uOF. 11 few words in the corner of a news-sheet told these students of Königsberg, that three religious services were about tobe held on fixed evenings in the Junker Ilof, the City Hall; that during these sendees the impending personal Advent of our Lord would bo announced; that the true way of preparing men for this dread event would be made known. The doors were to be open at seven, the scats were to he free. No name was given. No witnesses were called. In the city it was whispered that these meetings were being got up by men of some weight, supported by the higher powers, who knew what they were doing, though it might not suit their policy to speak out. In Schöncbcrg's Winc-stubc,.— that den of the Lang Gasse in which the great shippers and factors of Königsberg cat caviare and discuss the news about one o'clock,—these meetings were said to have a political end in view, and to have been originally planned in the secret bureaux of Geheimrath Wagcner in licrltn. In the University you heard another talc. In the class-room and under the portico it was known that the Prophet of this new dispensation was a young man who had received his education and his doctor's degree at Königsberg, who had filled with high promise a Professor’s chair at Marburg, and was giving up his career for the sake of his belief in things unseen. The students called him a fool. Things have so turned out, that this shred of notice in the public papers has made a great stir in the Amber Land.
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