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thoughtfulness, why should a soul be re to one single passage os samples of hun­ my mind, the power of evil and design-1 Sickness, Insanity and crime are on quired to surrender, give up, or ahan dreds of others. This passage Is found Ing spirits in and out of the body to do' the Increase, and ignorance figures as A BATTLE. don that which is supposed to be th e In the 14th chapter of Duleronoroy, and great mental mischief. This is a point I PRAYER AND FAITH CURE. the universal cause. A large and in­ characteristic that distinguishes mann I reads as follows: "Thou »halt not cat that all sensitive persons should guard I creasing class cannot be reached by It Is Between Reason and from inferior animals? If man is the of anything that dieth of itself. well, and thus maintain family bar-< "Thy Faith Has Made Thee hygiene or sanitary efforts, because of only animal which the AllwUe Creator "Tinnì shall give It unto the stranger mony. their ignorance- Is It not very wise and Fanaticism. ha» endowed with power to reason, that Is iu thy gules, that he may eat it; My daughter conceived the idea, or Whole; Go In Peace." kind in the Spirit-world to come to our would it not bo criminal in Him to re­ or thou mayest sell it unto an alien." was inspired with it, that her father de­ relief by using the wealth, strength and A n O p en L e tte r to Ills Kirst- nounce it? You will observe, my sweet­ Now. if this scripture is to be read luded that she should accompany him I An Apology 1'or Bread and Wine sympathy of that grand, good woman to Iw rit. heart, that I use the words: “ If man is Ulorallv. I must say that God, who in­ in his travels, and wlillo he would lez-j and a Devil. heal and uplift the class that most need the only animal that can reason?” hut I spired Moses to write such a law, is lure and heal the sick she would be my help? We think so, and have no doubt wish you to remember that this I deny, meaner than any Digger Indian of whom public medium, and on pain of refusal a about the wisdom of the Spirit-world. [Nole and explanation. | Mrs. M. D. yet knowing that your theology claims history makes mention, for he, the Dig' curse, equal to the Pope's bull against T o t h e E ditor:—As healing Is one of Spiritualists will generally object to C., U the oldest of my seven children, ger, eats of his rotten meat himself, but the corner-stones of Spiritualism, an­ that man alone reasons, I give you the Spiritualism, was pronounced. cient or modern, It is no doubt wise to the Devil and bread and wine methods. four of whom reside in this country and benefit of the argument. Moses directed that the Israelites should To show the fallacy of such a mental Some will throw all of the methods of and moral state, as all will see, I will I keep ourselves receptive to all phases three in the “ Land o' the Leal.” My Still further, as Col. ingersoll has la­ not eat of diseased animals that had dependent upon the Spirit-world for the faith-eurists overboard at once and first born was my pride, my joy, my conically stated it: "If God did not }n- died of the disease, but might "sell it to set out, first, that I do not now. and pow>.-r and demonstration. We have cry " bosh'.” T hat m ight be wise if they hope. She wa- x> precocious, so far in lend man to think, why did he give him an alien,"—that is. a foreigner. If a never did believe in the existence of a only time to give vour readers facts as would give us something as effective as advance of other children, of my own or a thinker?” Birds have wings that butcher, in these degenerate days (?) literal hell and tormenting devils. we saw or heard them related; there a substitute: but if they will stop and anybody's else. When she was four they may flv. Reason is as much an a t­ sells tainted meat to anybody, what does 2. My daughter's mediumship wo» the law do with him? Puts him where tore. .Th.The suin'».*«. years old she asked permission of my tribute of the soul as the wings of a never equal to such a programme, con­ our brief letter, Mrs. Williams, of Port-1 first assistant teacher in the Winne­ bird are essential to the perfect speci­ the dogs wont bite him. And If Swe­ sequently she could not have been other heal the sick physically, mentally, denborg. by spiritualizing ibis fond pas­ land. Ore., is the wife of Judge Williams, bago Normal School and Collegiate In­ men of the carrier-pigeon. And, finally, than a detriment instead of a helper. a prominent and much-esteemed citizen, morally aud spiritually, and this can stitute. to go into his department, and on this point it seems to me that even In sage can get any thing sicttt out of it. he 3. No such feeling or sentiment ever only be done bv adopting methods should have a patent for his deodorizer. and able jurist, and was chosen by to gratify nor childish aspiration he al­ the Scriptures the exercise of reason U had a lodgment in ray heart, even General Grant a» one of his Cabinet. adapted to the class desired to reach. lowed her to sit in a class of children commended, hence we have: "Search Now, I wish to emphasize what I against the vilest of the’ vile, and how It is plain to us that Mrs. W. is con­ wrote touching tie character of Jesus, much less against one as precious as the Mrs. Williams is a woman of command­ trolled by spirits who have not outgrown about ten to twelve years old. Before the reason of things.” ing appearance, nervous organization, she was six years olu she was a first- But, my daughter, right or wrong, tour "Redeemer," and in this emphasis apple of ray eye. proud and high-spirited. At the time their former convictions, or else are -uf- class reader and passed an elegant ex­ live or die. sink or swim, survive or per­ 1 reaver that I disclaim ail thought of 4. Had »uch an episode ever occurred, her husband was one of President Grant's flcientlj- broad and comprehensive to amination in general geography. ish, I cannot be true to myself and say irreverence. I only quote without com­ not all the viclssitud*-» of time and eter­ advisers and one of the leaders of Wash­ adopt and use the means and methods When she was about nine, she wrote a that I believe that which contradicts my ment, just what the book says, if it is nity could have obliterated its memory. ington society, for some reason she lost best adapted to the class attracted to her little story that was a'terwards pub­ reason, the facts in nature and the ob­ irreverence, charge it not to me. but to Again, ray sweetheart objects to my her sight. This was sad and humiliat­ meetings. That scores are healed is lished as a’ literary curiosity in the ivun- servations of mankind. So. if to be the book, as you read it literally. The use of the Bible phrase, "wrath of God.” ing to one of her make-up. Through bevond question. jbl< O" *0*01*10 *i fl*. When she was about saved and counted among the remnant passages that I quoted are as follows etc. Does not the book »peak of "His the influence of a sister she was induced Mrs. William» declares that she sees twelve years old she developed wonder­ of those that shall have part in the first " And he looked around upon the multi­ anger?” yea. that "the anger of the to try the faith cure after others had I God and Jesus,_ and___ holds------daily converse,y ful phases of roediumship. embracing resurrection, it is essential that I should tude in anger." This is stated as a fact. Lord shall burn to the lowest hell." failed, and upon her knee» she promised h th ° ill clairvoyance, clairaudienee, automatic accept the "God of Moses” as the God of An older book than the New Testament, For the great day of His wrath is the universe, and Jesus Christ as a mi­ the Bible, is claimed to be divinely in­ come, and who shall be able to stand?” God if he would restore her ‘sight she Sh|£ * M* D * writing, etc.: but her health failed and would devote the remainder of ner life l _i „nifivmf«.-** lbcy cannot her principal guide said she was too raculous conception; then, my daughter, spired, and says, quite philosophically: There are lots of such passages, and you to healing and the promulgation of the nf lbe ®krgy h.*v.e young: they would withdraw their con­ with all mv paternal love, l shall have Anger dwelfeth only in the bosom of must take them just as they read. And to accept the orthodoxy of the couplet, | fools."fo Now, it may be that Jesus was according to this rule of interpretation, truth of these methods. She was lm- Urii?h«, trol of her "till she got her growth and j mediately healed, and ha» dcvotedlv v en{.i . ..j soirltual nr^Thri rt** would come again. So thev did: but' '-hat ?ou people, even "in this eolight- n.not angry very long, consequently it was no lie, as you suppose, that the kept her promise. This wa» over five I enw iW e Christian Sci- when they came again thev* found* ‘ the * I| enedent-d asrc,age. ¿itijrsing with,with all tnthe e pious ze»tzest of *anger did not Swell" in his bosom. serpent told Eve in Eden—when he said: years ago. and every day since her | ' certainly is a similarity door closed, or nearly so, because she martyrs to wit: I But the book says something more on “Thou shall not surely die:” for she and I “Y u"?i* J'Z I between her work and'the healing of the had not the courage to face the ridicule. “ Parents and children there shall part: I this subject, and'one thing is this: "God her husband both Lived many yesrs been thronged by the multitude invited Je^h Nazarene.azarene. Shebhe does not u»e use She was handsome, smart, courted by Shall part to meet no more." is angry with the wicked every day.” after eating the apple, notwithstanding clay, and seldom laj-g on hands, but to come and be healed without price. draws heavily on faith. the best of society, and popular, and But I shall hope that if this ever was | Now. the literal of all this, in plain Eng­ God had said, “For in the day that thou AU are welcome, and no charges made. finally there was no open door. a law of the Infinite, there has been a ' lish is. while Jesu= was sometning of a eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die!” The Williams's mansion.at the corner of This is a noted case—institution—of Then in the city of Baltimore she be­ change in the programme since there "fool,” God, his Father, is a greater Finally, my daughter thinks, aye, 17th and C street, is one of the noted faith and prayer cure, and we hope it came a member of a dramatic club: have been so many societies organized one. for if He is "angry with the wicked knows thut Spiritualism is the greatest places of the city. Meetings are held may become sufficiently notorious to played the leading lady in the “ Two for the prevention of cruelty to children, every day," anger must dwell in His and most fatal delusiun that has ever cause a thousand other good, earnest, White Slaves ” for -ix nights in Ford’s and other animals. I bosom. " befallen the world, and that eternal I wealthj- and clear-headed women to open theatre, and under his management s e t Now. I have very imperfectly ex­ i must add one or two things more. destruction is to be the portion of all la2ted from ^ - o'clock p >t. The their homes and follow the example set forth above. the city in a blaze. The city dailies pressed my appreciation of reason as There is reference made in the New who witness and accept its great facts 1parlors are seated with chairs similar raved over her success, and Ford spent one of the crowning glories of man: and Testament to three or four circum­ Let me say in closing,' that It is quite This healing and uplifting the masse» lo our public balls, comfortably »eating is the kind of religion we believe in. and half a day in trying to induce her to if this letter should seem to be lacking stances in which he was the prime probable, my darling, that your father about two hundred. We were informed make the stage her profession. Her in thb element, because of my dls-1 actor, that never appeared a» amiable would not have accepted the truth of there is a growing demand for practical that on some occasions four hundred workers in this direction. If we desire husband and mother objected. Later jointed statements, and should it appear i as one might look for in the " lamb”— what is called Modern Spiritualism, had been present. A grand piano, hymn on. when a widow, she became a "society acking in that continuity of cognates “like Jesus: as, for example,_ when he when he did, if he had not found it an­ books, rostrum, table, and communion to spiritualize the world, we must first belle ” in Washington, D. C., played that should characterize such a claim, l made a scourge of small cords, and got tedated on almost every page of the Old remove the wolf and sickness from the service, seemed to be the necessary home. Perhaps the best healing meth­ havoc with the hearts of Senators and hope that vou will not be too severe in after those poor jioveriy-strioken Jews „ait Now Testament. To enumerate furnishings at one end of the parlors. Representatives, but more recently, your criticism in view of the fact that I that were trying to turn an honest penny these many, many scripture», would ods have not yet been made public: we The singing for nearly a half notir at are inclined to think so. Over a year strangely and unaccountably, from this now, after thirty-five days of untold | by selling doves, etc., in the outer porch make my le’lter too lengthy. But take the commencement of the meeting, in dizzy eminence she “ tumbled to the physical suffering, since the well-nigh ! of the temple. If they were violating your concordance, and carefully exam­ and a half ago my spirit friends gave which all were invited to join, and led me to understand that the present meth­ racket" of Second Adventism, and is fatal operation was performed, I am the laws of the municipality, would it ine all the passages in which the words, by the chorister and pianist, seemed to now a most sacredly-consecrated devotee only able to sit up a few minutes at a not have been quite as dignified in the "angel," “ spirit." etc., occur, and see ods (old and new) would soon be super­ harmonize and prepare the audience for seded by more universal and less objec­ to that branch of ’ the great family of time, and am writing this letter during abstract if he had been to the Chief of what you make of them. I think that a prayer and short exhortation by Mrs. churches that has in it less common those short intervals. | Police and notified him of the violated you will come to the same conclusion tionable- methods in the near future. Williams, followed by more singing and I mean to give the fifty thousand readers sense, reason and philosophy than any In your second letter you gave me a ordinance and have the hucksters re­ that good old Lyman Beecher did when a brief explanation of their views, and other of ail the catalogue of fanatics, severe reprimand for what you seem to i moved to some place less objectionable he examined the book on the same sub­ of T h e P rogressive T hlvker an out­ the object and uses of the bread and line of the new and better. and she is now suffering untold agony think wa» a lack of reverence for your I to the :esthetic tastes of law-abiding ject. "The truth is. brethren.” he said, wine, which they are taught to believe for fear her "darling papa” will be •Redeemer." I did not mean any disre­ .lews. But when I think of this case "if you take Spiritualism out of the Bi­ Dr. M. E. Congar. is the literal body and blood of the dead 7M> Ettis St., Sad habits, jutst. owing to the very sudden death of you would have no doubt, if you couit very harsh towards her old father. You ' pher with as much pleasure as I would fore. this spell that now binds the eyes etc., are the works of "the Devil, and read her beautiful letters of sixteen believe in the “literal word," just as we I If this and other records were not found of her mind will be broken when the Mrs. Lena Bibie, and "then the serious must be overcome if they would have illness of L. R. Sandford, the President pages, full of heart-sohe and filial love have it in the Old and New Testaments, in the book: such as “ cursing the fig- fitful dream of life on this mundane health and happiness. The bread and To save her, and others in like mental This I conceded to you, in replv to your j tree," that was possibly the lawful prop­ sphere is over, I subscribe myself your of the local society. Though public work wine wa» passed to all present the day is in abeyance, the private work of our states, from torture and from mental first letter, was right.' ‘ If the ' e Bible is of I erty of another: or, if it were growing ever faithful and loving father. we were there. Including a large num­ death, is the object of this open letter. any real value as a guide to faith and bv the wByside, wavside, as Dr. Adam Clark T. B. T a y l o r . M. D. mediums and spiritual families still goes ber of children. At this ^joint of the on. and the cause is having a stead v and My time is too short and strength too practice, it must be read and taken just thinks it was. probably, and thus apolo- j San Jnte. Cal. meeting our interest increased. Mrs. limited to write private letters in er- as it reads, word for word, without any gizes for what might be construed into healthful growth. I8:*2 has seen the or­ Williams requested all to join in brief ganization in this city of a wonderful fen.«o: hence, knowing that through T he explanation of priest or prelate: for just a violation of the property law of the The Octopus in Mexico. statements of experiences and of the P rogressive T h in k e r the facts and the moment you open the door to any state, yet if he that plants a tree is a society modeled upon the celebrated Di­ M. R. Gordon, of Denver, Col., speak results. alectical Society of London, England. arguments contained herein will reach spiritualizing of the divine word, just benefactor of his race, what of him that,, , . . . , ,, . - We give the substance of one which thousand*, in place of a single pair of that moment you open a flood-gate to causes a "fig-tree to wither away?" $1 of the Octopus in Mexico, says The local society meets every Sunday The destruction of a whole herd of One who has never been there cannot seemed to be the most pointed and im­ afternoon in a nice hall at 32 Monroe eyes, I beg jour Indulgence. endless quarrels: hence the hosts of con pressive, although all were impressive tUetin£ opinion.** and bloodshed. suffer- swine belonging to other parties would|rea‘“ ° “ovr , ,, I. actually Ave., which is just in the center of the and seemingly honest. A plain-looking city. By the constitution of this useful THE OPEN LETTER. leg and death: as for example the inqul- come under the same category; and as | on” occasion, in the town of Vllle man, about thirty to thirty-five vears of slttoo In various countries: the Barlhol an uncompromising temperance worker, De Rose Albes, only about thirty miles society no subject can ho debarred from My Darling Dacg h tek :—As I wrote from the Texas border, Mexicans wor­ age, arose just in front of us. His first full and free discussion, on account of you privately, your first letter reached omew massacre: the thirty years' holy I never could just appreciate his "first sentence proved him to be German, of war in Europe, etc., etc. Your people miracle"—the turning of water into shiping a wax doll, which was upon its any prejudice pertaining to iL Mem­ me the lay after l had submitted to the knees in the attitude of prayer, and in a the stern, unprogressive stamp. He bers and strangers have equal privileges fearful operation in orificiai surgery are the only consistent Christians that wine, when the crowd was already stated in as good English as he could I know of: that is, if they really do ac- "well drunken." But you greatly mis- glass cabinet. The priests tell them in each and every particular, both in that came so near terminating mv mor-, _. . . - , . - ... that it b an angel that came from command that his wife had been sick tai life. Your letter filled me with deer cept the Bible just as it read» without understand my spirit and temper, If you the government of the society- and in heaven, and some day they will like it. and in the care of a German physician speaking. sorrow, that one so good, so noble and ^Uho“1 S*“ * •?**«*»• *UPR?8* v*,' 1 de*l,Uf.lhe °f .giving his name) for many months, and pure. should suffer such agony for fear buljust as It read-. rhU is right.If the »reth. Not so: on the other hand I If I had made any demonstration to the Any person can volunteer to address contrary', it is only to be submitted what had submitted to two surgical opera the society upon any subject he or she that I would be "weighed in i balance Blblc U I?1" “ “ • divine guide. If, hrve a very high appreciation of hU might have happened. Our guide in­ lions without relief: a third was booked, may please. Every Sunday, all these and found wanting, ' wten "Christ every one U allowed to put hb own in- character. « set forth in the New Tea- hut the wife dreading the third experl comes to make up hb eweb*” that I teri>reUtion on the word, every one will lament, with the exceptions named formed us not to »ay odc word. They are read out. and from them the subject take offerings of broken glass, tin, brass, ment, and learning through a neighbor for next Sunday is chosen by a popular vour earthly father, would no{'be "found f°.hU°w"r*3r V”1 tbat mcao. "con- of Mrs. Williams' meetings and the I beg to call your attention to another etc., to this idol of wax. These things vote. Subjects remain upon file with the remnant that should be saved ” that fusion doubly confounded which b just I know to be facts, for I have seen them wonderful cures, she stole away and the Secretary, and are read every Sun- I would be left to come up in the second *h*1 hlL!'^ ,mc “ll Blb'e *»° statement or two which, I am sure, attended u meeting: was healed, and so when my daughter shall have read as with my own eyes. dav until they are chosen. resurrection. an*l then left "to be coo- I LLi®“ »woI,lc1 enthused she could not keep the good The rules" grant each of these turned by the anger of the Lord. ' Now. | r,' ve*W wiU of God *nd ln' extensively as her father and many oth­ news from her lord and master—husband fallible in its guidance, why stick to the ers, she will be only too glad to revise. The Truths of Spiritualism C o m e essayists thirty minutes to o|»en their my sweetheart, in addition to the g. p * “ “ —although »he expected his ridicule subject. Further time is granted if letter that I dictated, because I wa» not | literal interpretation, no matter what First, " the Bible b the only book that to Stay. and extreme opposition, and she was not 1 havoc It plays with the freedom of the gives us ary clue to man’s final destiny." necessary; then the speaker Is subjected able to hold my pen. let me say in this J. R. Alter, of Stuttgart, Ark., write». mistaken; „a ,„Rlong quarrel was • the— —result. ... to a running fire of criticisms for from way. first of all. that I love you with all will, with science, philosophy, etc. No The sacred books of the ancient Per­ I t la very cheering lo old time Spirltu- He said he was so mad that she was matter if it does place you in a worse sians, Pb*t-nlclans, Chinese, Greeks and one hour to one hour and a half. No the love of an affectionate father, and if alista, that have come up through the such a fool as to think she was healed; speaker is allowed more than live min­ I could comply with conditions suggested dilemma than Lorenzo Dow placed Cal­ so on, are full of teachings on the sub- heat and smoke of the battle, to learn of but she insisted that she was well, and vinism in the following couplet: | ject of man’s immortality. The Brah- utes; then the original essayist has I would, for your happiness and comfort the proet>crlty of our cause, as shadowed they finally agreed to visit their phy fifteen minutes to reply lo objections of mind, if for nothing else. But as it “You »bail and you »han't, you will and you I mans Buddhists and Grecians have forth by the IHh anniversary all over siefan together, have an examination, w on't. ' elaborate svslcmsstems otof philosophyp! on this and close the subject. U impossible for me to do so, even to the country. The people are now be­ and U he pronounced her cured he would Whenever any discussion lacks vim, save my darling firstborn from what Yoa'll lx daraarU U ton in>1 c lUmmsl 11 subject. T he truthtru th is.is the literature of give up and go to meeting with her. joo don't.'* i all nations teems with Information on ginning to learn that the truths of Spir­ the chairman instantly calls upon some threatens her mental life, to say noth­ itualism have come to stay. Our pros­ The doctor made the examination and ready speaker, or more than one if But it makes m<- feci sorry |or Moses, I the philosophy of the life that now is exclaimed: “ What have you been ing of your mental anguish caused by if he wrote Genesi», while Hugh Miller. and that which is to come. I perity has been the more wonderful necessary, and it is an unwritten rule apprehensions as to the ios»of my soul,— | Lyle. Hitchcock, Denton and other And not only so. but the teachings of when we consider how little the people, doing? She is well.” that the person so called must Instantly this Is proof to me that what my beloved readers of the rocks sit by and laugh a universal literature on the destiny of as a rule, know at>out a spirit, ana spirit This full confession by this type of rise and make a five-minute speech, no daughter demands U more than a rea­ control ana manifestation. The election man, without gloss,polish or reserve was matter os to whether he wishes or not. scornful laugh at your picture of the six man is far more uniform than your very convincing to e very one p resell t. sonable God would require. But no day» of creative works: while ship Bible; as, for example, it is almost uni­ of officers for the society here occurred A great variety of opinions are always matter who requires it, whether God or last Sunday. Everything was harmoni­ He was glad he came to Mr». Wllllnr expressed, and the subject always re­ builder« audibly smlie at Noah's ark, its versally held that man is a trinity,body, meetings; his home was now a belter man. angel or devil, &s a condition of freight and [*»»«.• ngers, and schoolboys soul and spirit, and that he Is by nature ous, and we look forward lo good results ceives a careful analysis, and many "salvation," it is impossible for one of for the cause here.” home; he loved his family more; Kt did aspects of the questions under discussion wonder what kind ot a “fox” Herod was. immortal. This last you Adventists not desire todrink or use tobacco: Ke was my mental make-up to comply with the whether a red fox or a gray one. Ar.d deny, and prove it by the Bible, whereas are presented with more or leas force conditions named: so, if you are rirjht I sick, but did not know It: but he was now and clearness. The majority of the so ail through, your iron clad rule all other CnrLlians hold lo natural im­ The Vein-ruble Johnathan Koons. healed, and be thanked God. I am Jm wii Thb plain ac*l positive which, from your stardpoint, I adroit is mortality. SoevenatthL point there speakers are liberal thinker* of various statement of the case, of Itself leads me The venerable Jonathan Koons, now Many gave similar testimony, and all shades of belief and professions and the the only correct one, involves you in the is a clash, a glitter of steel, a crashing seemed in dead earnest and Bure that to the conclusion that the conditions of most monstrous absurd l lies that can be uf sabres, and tight to the death. 80 years of age, reside» at Taylor's Hill, local Spiritualists are Dot backward in "salvation" referred to by you in your 111. Hu formerly resided in Ohio, and they had now reached the whole truth. attendance. It is certain that societies conceived of. To avoid these absurd­ Second:—My darling is laboring under Tbc class that attend these meeting» are able letter, and as taught by your church ities and make sense. as immense amount a strong delusion on another point that, then his home was a sort of Mecca for of this kind can do a great work, and be and. indeed, by ail the churches, are un­ from the lower strata—the hard-work­ of tinkering, patching, mending, mak­ to her father, is the strangest and most Spiritualists—the physical manifesta a wonderful blessing to any city, and reasonable. unreal, and have no exbt- ing people, the "fishermen”of this age. that is the reason, Mr. Editor, and dear ing-over, doctoring, etc., have been unaccountable of all else. I am sure It tlons being wonderful. He writes to us Mrs. Williams was formerly an Episco­ ance in fact You require, first, that I done by what are called orthodox tink­ must be a species of insanity; of hypnot­ readers, that I have taken the liberty to surrender my reason. Thb l could not as follows: " Last night we had a seance palian, and although she is now doing er»: but all haring failed. Swedenborg ism. or voodoulsm, by an invisible, at the residence of my son. N. M. Koons just exactly the work the Bible requires bring this matter before your notice. do if I would, and would not’do U I spiritual operator: call him angel, spirit Anyone who is interested and wishing could, because it U as much a part of me and the new church people came to the We had the pleasure of witnessing beau­ of all Christians, not one of her former rescue and wholly without authority or devil, as you may choonc. I refer tiful spirit Mghls, and Listening to Ihe associates. In the church or out, has further particulars may address, as love, memory, affection, anticipation, have pulled and hauled, stretched and now to the strange fact that my sweet E. C. A. LfTHER. or any other part of an individuality heavealy music of spirits, performed darkened her doors since she has healed strained the “divine word,” to "spiritu­ child, whom I have always loved, and over the heads of the audience, on a and commenced her charitable work in 31 Jfonroc Are. th at Uvea forever. alize” it. And so. sweetheart, the too on whom I doted with great assurance, Then, again, even if it were possible harmonica, tambourine and dinner bell. her own home. Mrs. Williams has for a human soul capable of reasoning to many cooks have spoiled the broth. should conceive the Idea that her father There were trumpet voices, the adopted two children, and accepted the When you are belting on an absolutely renounce, condemn and forever Ignore To enable you to see this subject in its had pronounced a curse upon his first­ speaking of spirits to their loved ones in donation of an Infant left at her door sure thing save out fire cents tor car­ this crowning element of immortal true light, let me direct your attention born. This conception only proves to the circle." since she was healed. faro borne. APRIL« 23,1892 2 THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER. tlmt can nltn'l the interest« ami condition of Certainly an Inspiration. The Cause at Colorado Springs. OUR ABERRATIONS. the moc, will l>e fully raoognlttitl. SPIRITUALIST KITCHEN NOT FREE I'llOM SPIRIT LIFE. To Tit* ICniTOii:—It must have Ituon nn in­ To Tit* E d i t o r :—Tite advocates and friends I LLVST RATION. spiration—the Invention of tho Cherokee of progressive thought in tills locality tnol in eocKRoAcnes. A Conference with Spiritual The Uloet notable feature of spirit-life 1« alphabet. Sequoyah must have been a me­ significant number» Sunday, April 3d, to com­ That Spiritualist* are the most moral peo­ the universal pence nnd Imrmony that prevails. Beings. dium. The invention seemed to have hurst in memorate and celebrate tho advent of modern ple iu the world no Spiritualist will deny, but If I enter ru tutsetiihhige or u private house upon him at once, .lolitt Paul Itocook «peaks Spiritualism, at Parker's Hall. can we n o n rrubmenu declare Hint Spiritualists the same licnutiful orvler is visible. Ou one Wo say modern Spiritualism beoauso we ore W ritten Tlin>iiith firn Mutui of nil Kmliu'nt as follows of litis nlpbnhct and its invention in tire1 Just as moral tut they ought to lie? Arc occasion I called on n friend who was nearly tho Inter Ocean: aware of the fact that u belief in spirit inter as old ns myself in this higher life, nud she wc in nil thing» perfeoHy consistent with the (The •eric# of (m|>cr« ne «re about U> l»ublUh were “ As the first alphabet, and so the fountain communion 1» interwoven in over)' mythologi­ teaching» of Spiritualism? Arc wo not prono received mo with the observation that lior cal cosmogony the mind of man has over OOtmiiunltfttrO* ‘ * ftvuu' “spirit »Irli life In thothe nrcclMtiircclev forniforru In of all languages, is supposed to have origin, to reject the truth when it does not harmonize which they ire now MÊÊÎÊiirc»nitc o? ej Daw in logical sequences to the “ philosophy of posure takes place, do we thus denounce him? the angels. There was a time, not far dis-1 widespread reputation. The gathering was continued existence" because your befogged No, indeed! The great moss of those calling taut, when this topic was not one of oracular full of life tuid animation. Poems were read, inouiulity lias not, or docs not, extend the themselves Spiritualists—the ones that make demonstration, ami when it was left to he in- orations delivered, and a grand orchestral en. operation of nature’s principles into her in­ the greatest haste to ornament themselves witlt ferred rather than accepted; and many hy-1 tertainmont provided. The air resounded visible domain. Agaiu we say, think of it! badges—rally around the ill-used medium, potheses «ere extant in all fotttts of faith in I «¡ih musical sounds, and the audience were because we are going to suggest that the evo­ patch up his torn wardrobe, get out bright regard to matt's condition after death. Kvcn roused to the highest point by the stirring nd- lution of nil planetary bodies is molecular. new bills for him, give him a "benefit," and the Christian system did not reveal the state | dresses. The poets were crowned with laurel, The development of the succeeding stratus of then turn their guns ui>on those who believe«! <>f man in tite promises of cternnl life to and tho entire multitude frequently rose to rock, the growth of vegetable nature, the col him wlten he stood a self-confessed humbug. those, who were saved. The Scaiitlittaviau their feet iu the rapture nnd enthusiasm of the oring of fiowc-rs, and the recurrence of the sea­ In their outbursts of verbiage they do not con­ heaven was a place where the dead spent moment, and yet when the excitement was sons, is in accord with molecular changes. fine themselves to any part of the rei going, their time in the presence of beautiful women, highest there was no display of disorder, no Not only this, but heat and sound, motion, but they proceed to descant upon the had per­ mid in drinking ami eating to excess. The feeling that needed restraint, for all were color aud electro changes are all in molecular sonal traits of the one who discovered the MahomoLm had a heaven full of sensuous under tho obedience of the uoble and impas­ —CJ rytlim. Thought aud speech, motion, vocal trickery. Like Alcibitulcs, who resorted to t- , W - CA gj- extreme measures to turn tite title of joys, and the Asian people hail a deity who sioned dictates of the soul. .<3 o or physical, in their imprcssioDai charactcrare Athenian gossip from himself, Utev seem will­ abserbe I the souls of the just and good. Hut When the work of spirit-life becomes TIIF. CHEROKEE ALPHABET. also molecular, and when we claim the opera­ we now obtain clear views on this subject hy tion of this principle in the relation of con­ ing to do almost anything to keep the public wearisome, it is immediately abandoned for Although scarcely ha.f aceutury lias elapsed direct communication from those who partici­ something more pleasing. On one occasion sciousness between visible and invisible attention called away ftom the real point. pate in the atfairs of that life, who live and since his death, a tnist of uncertainty already spheres, we only claim wbat is fundamental Now. what if tliat exposer's life is uglier and 1 was engaged in directing the operations of surrounds his birth and life. But somewhere move in its activities; who carry on its work a large body of women in a particular study. and what is natural to all spheres of time and more speckled than a prize crazy-quilt, does very near tite beginning of this century this and progress, and share in its joys and splen­ I had been much engaged while on earth in space. Witlt all of this data at hand, the that prove that the medium, who admitted his remarkable personage was born in the Che­ dors We can scarcely estimate the import­ the science of |tomology, and was at the time friends of Spiritualism and investigation here dishonesty, is not a fraud? We certainly rokee Nation, and educated in its customs, in ance of this revelation. It is the completion of which I speak instructing large classes thought they had just cause to celebrate the ought to believe him when he owns up. fact he never knew any other than the Che­ of the Christian doctrine, and the full com­ of my own sex (I am a woman) in regard to advent of so great and important truth. After Those of us who are clinging to Spiritual­ rokee language, which, until he began to re­ plement to the teachings of the New Testa the ¡¡principles of fruit-raising. 1 soon found a few introductory remarks by your corre­ ism by the v ery teeth to keep ourselves out of cord it, was like the other Indian dialects— ment, giving to them the solid structure of tlmt, however much I might know on that spondent. we had read a most excellent poem the dark slough of materialism are in pursuit reality. When men arc convinced of the fact subject, I bail not the subtle faculty of teach­ purely oral. l)3- Mrs. Dr. Kimball, wife of the president of of facts, nnd we are not interest«*! in scamlaL | 'Sequoyah’s grandfather is said to have of another life, ami when they understand its ing, and I retired from my position with per­ the society. The sentiment of the poem was This persistent evasion is daily weakening the been a white man, but there was no evidence nature, methods and conditions, there will bo fect self-respect, and my pupils were kind in keeping with the occasion, and was ably cause, and subjecting us to just ridicule from of it in the personal appearance of the grand­ no more unbelief, no more denial of God's enough to sympathize with and honor my rendered. Next followed a song by Mrs. outsiders; and more than tliat—it prevents in­ place iu the universe, or of His power and feelings. son. Sprague, one of Colorado's mo9t cultured vocal­ telligent people from investigating the subject 'The story goes that at a council of Che­ loving kindness. It will then be seen that Thus, harmony is secure in every relation, ists. A warm round of applause was given If Satan himself should give us proof that we rokee chiefs, in their town of Saunta, an old this is but a rudimentary state of existence, and every one is satisfied with his position, tho singer. are being deludetl, it would not be wise of us reservation cast of the Mississippi, there was a and, therefore, crude, irregular and full of or he leaves it and takes up with another The president of the society, Dr. Kimball, to reject it simply because Satan has a bad debate on the comparative strength and future what appears to be contradictions and cvilB which pleases him better. gave us a very interesting talk upon “ Why he reputation. The fact would be just os truly a inseparable from sueb a preparatory form of of the red nnd white men. The strongest was a Spiritualist." Tho doctor's manner and fact as though it had been given by Gabriel. argument advanced in favor of the white man life, and that the life hereafter evolves a Thoughts for Earnest Reflection. measured delivery, together with a fine phys­ Mrs. Aber, in a re«N;nt numlter of T he P ro­ was his ability to use the “ talking leaf,” and higher and better state, where the inequali­ PUSSY WANTS A CORNER. ique, elicited from the audience the closest at­ g r e s siv e T h in k e r , says: “Let us give the so send messages to a distance. Sequoyah ties of this one will be remedied, aud man­ tention throughout. Then followed a poem truth to the world in a bold, unflinching man­ This life is like a monstrous plank listened silently, and then burst out as if by kind restored to his full inheritance of hap­ Out in mid oeean sailing, by Mrs. Jenkins, read with earnest and almost ner," to which sentiment I shout, “Amen!" an inspiration: ‘You are all fools! The thing piness and improvement forever. All crowded full of living men, dramatic effect, which also elicited a grand and add tliat it is just as difficult for me to be­ And ne'er a fool of rallitig. is easy! I can do it myself I’ In the beginning of the movement there round of applause. Then we again listened to lieve that a perspiring, tobacco-perfume«! “Thereupon ho is said to have picked up a were few persons who would receive spirit» There, ail are struggling for the best, a fine solo by Mrs. Sprague. spirit, weighing one hundrexland sixty pound*, And each one to his notion; flat stone, and with a charred twig from the manifestations with any respect, ami even The instrumental part of our programme can materialize in a moment, as it is that our In this great struggle often some council fire, to have made certain marks upon those who were inclined to give them credence Are pushed oil in tho ocean. was most acceptably interpreted hy Mrs. W. Christian friends are still eating the body and it, each of which, he told his fellows, repre­ felt almost like apologizing for their belief. R. Roby. In tho language of a local critic, driukiug tho bltxxi of a murdered God. ti hen And some will find the lucky plum, sented a certain word; lie also told them that This was not to be wondered at, for until thou Like little Jackoy Hornet"; this lady “kuows just how to build up and I can be made to believe that it is necessary it was supposed that ail communication be­ Some always struggle for a place, to-morrow, or a month from then, he could and for a spirit to wear green goggles to protect his For pussy wants a corner. sustain the vocalist." Although the society tween litis and the other world had been in­ would tell them these words without hesita­ ltore is not large, it has succeeded in attract­ eyes while iicing photographed, 1 shall be tion ns soon as he saw the characters on the terdicted hy the solemn act of God himself. Somo have the claws to hold on tight, ing the attention of some of the best minds in ready to iiclieve that a Jonah once upon a time However rough tho sailing: stone. studied the interesting process of whale diges­ It was not deemed proper for humau beings And hold the plank through all tho fight, this section, and it is surprising to note the deep to inquire into the mysteries that shrouded With ne’er a foot of railing. “From this beginning Sequoyah conceived undercurrent of sympathy manifested by the tion, at short range; and 1 shall look upon a and perfected the Cherokee alphabet, utilizing the world of spirits from human gaze, and Somo things are very light to boar, free-thought and independent public towards free church fight ns morally elevating, when­ the erics of wild beasts, the call of the mocking any attempt to do so was profane, if not sacri­ As light ns ocean bubbles, this growing philosophy. If we were in Ute ever I am ready to 1 am 1 a metlium who amuses legious. When it became known that spirits To bear with greatest fortitude; bird, the shrill exclamations of children, the Itis (or her) admirers by twisting human noses. 'TU other people's troubles. realm of prophecy, we would not hesitate to «lid communicate, it was thought by mnny that softer tunes of tho squaws, and the notes of say that ton years more of discover}' and If our "dear spirits ” cannot find more refined Somo get a very liberal streak; tite rotund orgnn of the adult bravo for Itig and better-tempere«! postal agents, the prob­ it was a dovioo of the Devil, and came from Though you may deem it funny, analysis in tlio psychic research will under­ the ‘•pit.” The religious world was exercised 'TU very easy to bo free vocal sounds. When he thought he had gath­ mine the theological dogmas and orthodox ten­ lem of a future life will lie likely to remain in a remarkable manner. Instead of lmUmg With other people's1 money. ered nil the different sounds, he attached to dency of thought nil along and ou ItoUi sides unsolved. How a rei-eut affair wltich we have the«« tokens of the future life nnd these mar­ Wo olton got the lucky plum each a pictorial sign or image— birds and of the Rocky mountain range, and among tbc in mind does blur our fanciful picture of a velous revelations of man’s immortality with Through somo poor "brother's sorrow; beasts and inanimate objects alike furnished foremost in the ranks of progression will be broad-minded benignant woman whom we The failure he endures to-day him these signs. joy and reverence, os confirmation of the Brings you success to-morrow. found tho Society of Progressive Spiritualists considered so richly giftetl! No amount of “ And so tho Cherokee alphabet was fin­ money can make such conduct respectable. hopes and promises of divine truth, they de­ 'Tlssuoh a complicated world of Colorado Springs. W. M. Lockwood. nounced them as the most outrageous false­ Where you and 1 are staying, ished, tbo vocal sounds wore reduced to writ­ Yes, let us say what we think unflinchingly. hoods, alike dangcrous^to religion and morals, Wo fool Inclined to think a bit: ing, nnd in uu incredibly short time tbc entire The 44th Anniversary at Minne­ There is no doubt whatever that Christian and they called upon all the faithful to repu­ Now, brethren, lot’s bo praying. Cherokee Nation learned and used it. basements are very filthy, and need cleansing; Oh, you, who'vo found the luoky plum, “There are oighty-fivo characters in Sequo­ apolis, Minn. hut lot us not forget that the Spiritualist kitch­ diale and abhor them. The truth was not Litre little Jackoy Horner, sought for iu the phenomena themselves, but yah's alphabet, and by appropriation from llto To th e E ditor—There' was n mast inter­ en may not be entirely free from cockroaches, Make room for somo |K>or starving one; esting Sunday evening meeting belli hero in was supposed to consist of deep. Insolvablo "Foot1 pussy wnnts a corner!" Cherokee Legislature a newspaper called the and that it will be more advmitag«>ons for us mysteries, lieyond the reach of human sagacity. —M. A. Sutf n, Advocate, is now printed and circulated in that honor of the Forty-fourth Anniversary of to siietid our time in (touring a stream of hot the advent of Spiritualism, uuder the aus­ The history of the cause continued to interest ^ ------language." suds into their lurking places, titan in finding The 11th Anniversary in San Francisco. That Sequoyah wns a medium, nnd inspired pices of Mrs. r . D. Prudon, and tlio So­ fault with the Itauds which are willing to work many minds, and to call oat investigation in ciety of which she is the head, assisted hy various places. Some of these inquiries were To t iik Editor:—On the 30th of March witlt the fundamental principles of litis alpha­ the hose. There will be time enough to eall Prof. J. 11. Thompson, who, it see in 9 to the oiliest meeting iu llto city hold their an­ bet, no otto can well doubt. Tito discovery attention to tho filth of others when our owu conducted in a purely impartial spirit, and me, puts Ids shoulder as well as his head to others in a spirit of hostility little calculated niversary, • Mrs. Briggs Voy, the President seemed to come to hint spontaneously. premises are iu a state of purity. Alpha. Ute wheel of ull refilling progression. Fpon RrrrA S. Anderson. to ascertain the truth. The opponent« were of the society, was greeted with a Hue. intel­ the plntform wns, ns 1 will call it, nn altar of ligent audience, ami should lie congratulated ■ 1 —— — doneonlia, Kan. not slow to lay hold of all the unfavorable freedom, though “ it might have been" “ to points, all the unfortunate circumstance«, all upon her success iu obtaining such talent as To Whom it May Concern. tho unknown G als" (whom we ignorantly Grove Meeting. Ute unfavorable result«, and all the instances delighted tho audience Hint evening. Tito Where os, Mr. Frank T. Itipley, of Boston, worsldpt; but I* that as it may, It represented of detected fraud and imjtosilioit; nnd these meeting was opened by a speech from Mr. A. having occupied the platform for the St Paul the United Status, nnd Uiat is good enough Tito Annual Grove Meeting of the Clacka­ were paraded in reports of eounuittees, lu Leo, followed by mosle, mid thou Dr. Dean Spiritual Alliance fur six month» Inst past as for mo. However, it was beautifully draped mas County Religious Society of Spiritualists Clark read an original anniversary (wont, newsj>a|ier articles, nnd in platform addresses, speaker and test medium with signal ability, with llto stars and stripes, and covered with will be held at Now Km, Oregon, lightning which was well received. Mr. May (formerly till a widespread prejudice was create«i, and therefore, lie it rare flowurs, all of which were in the not of Friday, June 10, and bolding over three many were turned aside from looking into the a Kulihi), Mrs. Slopcr, Prof. Tatum ami /{etohcil, That tite Alliance unanimously Itcing homo aloft by a suow whito dove, The Sundays. Tite board of managers will ar­ matter by reason of tho clamor which confused otliura made brief s|tecches. Tho meeting endorses Bmthur Ripley ns gentleman, n relia­ was interspersed with most excellent music. programme of llto evening consisted of a range for speakers nnd mediums, and for the debate and throw tho whole subject into dis ble test medium ami speaker, ami most heart­ lecture, nnd both vocal ami Instrumental repute. We now come to a period in tho his Then Mrs. Scott Briggs Voy, while appreciat­ ily recommend him to Hie Spiritualist public. general welfare of atlcnduuto. The society ing the advent of the raps, «(toko of llto phe­ music, o|tening with “America" and ciosiug tory of the movement when the clouds have M. T. 0 F lower, President witlt “Tite Slur Spangled Banner," which has a comfortable hall in tlio grove of firs boon dissipated and men begin to sue outside nomena of years before, in Iter frank, cosy Sins. E H. Hall, Secretary, which so gracefully ornament tho grounds; manner, which always pleases those who at­ was sung by Mrs. Prudon, nil joining in Ute nnd beyond till tho doubtful point* in the J ohn Sauer, Treasurer. chorus. There were about 180 present The also a good hotel which will be managed for case, and notwithstanding the indiscretion of tend iter meetings. St. Paul, Minn, evening closed witlt a peace nud harmony post tite accommodation of visitors. I will say friends, and the disreputable arts of many Mrs. M. Waite entertained the audience that while we have good u*t mediums, botii witlt tho best of tcsls, all of which were recog­ all undurstaudiug. May It Inst till tho next professed advocates, there is a great body of "Spiritual Songs," by Mattie E. null; anniversary. W. 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I Souri is toearod at one seance. the Indians, thnt all animate nature Is endowed girl who was obsessed hail been sick in her astonished ladies, "ltepont. vo reprobates of creasing tlie rapidity of molecular action, while with spirit life, but here it prefigures and pre­ Fruah-cut (lowers were mysterionaly brought hell." With the challenge the women fled in darkness is passive, negative, and allows mat house for some time, bnt was really on the ami placed on the table. Exquisite music was sents a grand analogy of an immortal life of point of death when Smith married her. I terror from tile demented man, who was clail ter to remain undisturbed in form. I.igbt and man, the greatest ol God's creatures. Other played on the piano and harmonica by master iu a priestly robe. heat are active, creative, and destructive agen­ see by this evening's paper that the couple so spirits. Many communications were written analogies arc presented iu the diurnalirani nunand nu-an j r0manticallv married have left for a western Ttie scene took place immediately in front cies, while darkness is simply negative or neu­ nun! resurrections of nature, in with pem.il on pH|H'r, and some flue drawiugs of Captain Frank K Vales' School of Fencing tral in its effects. sleeping and b „here the husband is a railrorailroad con­ were made by the spirits. waking, in the decay ami growth of the vege ductor. lie declares himself perfectly con­ ou Michigan avenue and Sixteenth street, and To illustrate: Why can not a photographer table world. “The flower dieth nod withercth At the seance of February 15, 1891, four tlie doughty Captain, who was a personal ac­ produce a portrait of a person without the in­ tented and they are both doing well. I spirits appeared; two of them wrote the names away and coutinueth not," but the living germ should think the article in question i» worthy quaintance of the women, rushed out to pro­ tervention of a dark room? Part of Ids work still remains, and is capable of repeated resur­ of 1‘lutO amt Cleopatra. Mr. Bourker asked of appearing in T he P ro gressiv e T h in k e r . tect them from the insults of tho fauatie. must necessarily be done in the dark or no re­ rections—emblem of man, who passes, not Cleopatra if she had ever known him. Sho lieing such an uncommon occurrence that it Cherntte did not like the interference of the sults will follow. The positive impression is expires. replied: ••Without doubt. When thou wast might interest a number of your readers. little athlete, SO raising his hand above bis made on a sensitized plate by the action of “ Spirits, if real, belong strictly to the realms an Egyptian." head lie struck an attitude of imprecation and light, or, rather, the action of the actinic or The event seems to have made- quite a stir, Mr. Bourker continued: “ What rank did I of miracle.” If all that we can not materially one of the other papers ignoring the occult exclaimed: “God is my father, and he will chemical rays of light, but its development or handle and uuders'und is miracle, why, then, hold in my incarnation iu Egypt?" or spiritualistic explanation, giving tin; people kill you, you thief!" completion requires a negative condition, in all is miracle. It is just as easy for me to “Thou oust my fan iiearer," she replied. This wns too much for the gallant athlete, which those rays are entirely excluded or no to understand it to lie simply a leap-year trick “ How many times have 1 been incarnated conceive of an existence lieyoud that phase of on the young lady's part, to obtain a hu-Land; and hardly had the words been uttered before picture is produced. When tlie conditions arc evolution called death as it is for me to under in the human form." ¡m|uirvd he. his quick right hand shot forth and landed a complied with the desired results follow, but but the event was witnessed by quite a number "Six times, in ditferent nations,” responded stand how l live and move and have my being of |>eoplc, so that such a silly1 explanation, stinging blow ou the swarthy face of the tall the conditions aro necessary to success. But here. What is it that makes the heart temper­ she. carries very little weight with the tliiukere. and powerful crank Cherntte did not resist, Mr. W. forgets or ignores the fact that the ately boat time and produce its healthful All during this seance the spirit Glinka but on tho contrary picked up his black leather, second portrait produced in Mine. Best's pal­ The spiritualistic thought is slowly but. surely- plated softly on the piano. The spirits, near music? It is not done by any will power or making progress everywhere, bnt being yet eross-surmouuted helmet, which hod fallen into lors was done, as is averred, iu full view of the volition ou our part, and so with other of the c'ose of the seance, placed their hands on in its infancy and very little understood by the the mud, took warning aud fled up the avenue three witnesses present. man's unconscious aud involuntary functions. each sitter s head, and said: “ May God lie masses—in fact, even by the most learned— as fast ns his legs would carry him “ Why did not madam pass the portrait to It is a cause that exists independent of as well good to thee. ” The forms having registered no doubt it will take some years before it is Cheruttc was bom in Cuba, and came to her guests to convince them that the paints as above and beyond us Millions of myster­ their names, I he seance closed. Chicago fifteen years ago. liis career here at were imdried?" placed upon a proper basis, whereby to At another seance, while the piano was ies surround and are incorporated with our grow into the great scientific religion of the fust was said to" have bordered upon that of Their sense of smell, as was stated, already daily existcuce. closed, one of the spirits played on its strings future. the desperado; but he became suddenly seized was cognizant of that fact, and it is generally I'oets ace supposed to possess the greatest as if it were a harp very beautifully, as an ac­ Hoping yon are progressing finely with with the idea that he was the Messiah, and known that touching or handling a freshly intuitive knowledge, and as interpreters of companiment to the harmonica, which was your great powerful baby, T he P ro g ressiv e from that time to this his career has been an painter! picture is liable to mar its beauty. God and uature are as great in logic as in in played by auolher spirit. T h in k er , and increasing its breathing power exemplary one, barring his officious propa- SriBITS WORK QUICKLY. spiration. Shakspeare says: “Thy life is a Ou the l-tli of April, at the regular seance, with every week of its age, I remain youra gondism lie dresses in a long, black priestly miracle," and Edward Young: a lady spirit sang and played on the piano, robe, gilded at the waist with a black cord, “ How can spirits do in a few seconds or sincerely, G. R . W a t t s. while a male form sat ou the knees of Mr. from which bangs a large ebony crucifix. minutes wbat it would require an expert in the Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live for­ Puebla, Mr. Bourker and Mr. Schwichteu- ever— Above this is a clerical collar that buttons be­ flesh as many hours to do?” To th e E d ito r:— l send by today's mail s berg, and a lady spirit in the lap of Marie Is It less strange that thou shouldst live at all? hind, and a black clerical tie. But his head­ I will answer this question Yankee fashion, copy of the Fargo Daily Republican, in which Miaskow, ka. This is a miracle and that no more; dress is odder still. In place of a bathe wears by asking another: How long does it take a A miracle with miracles enclosed Is man: you will find an account of an event which The spirit Glinka came and sat near Mr. a black leather helmet, surmounted by a huge child to master the A B C of knowledge, and Wo nothing know but what is marvelous, will interest every one, I believe, who has in­ Bourker, caressed him on the shoulder, made brass pontificial cross. From this helmet a why should not a child be equally expert in all Yet wbat is marvelous we can't believe. vestigated spiritual phenomena. I know the the sign of the cross and disappeared. A black leather “ bavelock,” or cape, falls to his things as a full-grown man of experience? The venerable poet, Walt Whitman, says: lady, Mre. Smith, personally, and am inti­ spirit called Galerian assisted at the close of shoulders. He earns a meager livelihood as a The theory is that progress or evolution in mately acquainted with J. H. Cornwell, who the scauee. and as he walked around heavy Ido not understand the least realitiesof life,how waiter in restaurants, and all his spare time he knowledge, science, or art does not cease at then, can I understand the realities of vouches for tlie truth of the statement of chains clinked on the floor, ns if attached to devotes to promenading the avenues and warn­ death, but continually advances. And it ¡9 death? Lena. I know all parties to be of good his ankles. ing tlie passers-by that unless they repent at claimed that advanced intelligences in Spirits To me every hour of the light and dark is mir­ character, and all stand high in this city, and At most of the seances the sign of the cross, acle: every inch of space is miracle; ouce and believe in him they will be doomed to life can gather the whole meaning of a printed of the truth of the statements contained in. crescent, stars and sun would be exhibited, Every spear of grass, the frames, limbs, organs the torments of the lake of fire and brimstone page by slightly passing their hands over it of man— tbe article there can be no doubt. according to the religion of the spirit mani­ that is never quenched.” Notwithstanding his As another illustration: Why was it possible All of these to me are unspeakably perfect mir­ F . J . T hompson. festing. fanaticism ho scorns to be a conscientious fol­ for Paul Murphy to play six games of chess at acle. the same time without seeing the board, aud And again: lower of the gospel of love which he professes A spiritualistic seance was held at Mr. NECROLOGY. to defeat six expert chess-players? to preach. But this we know, our loved and dead, if they “What constitutes a spiritual body? Wbat Hamlin's house, on Second atenúe south. The funeral of Dr. Chnignenu, who died Messiahs have become too numerous through­ should come this way— There were two married couples present, one- are its chemical and material constituents?" Should come and ask us, “ What is life?" not one last January, in VUleneuve, France, was con­ out the country to attract much attention. of tlie couples being the residents of the house. ducted by tile Spiritualists. Ue had been a Some are perfectly harmless, like this black The finer fiuidic elements of the physical body. of us could say. Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be; Mr. aud Mrs. Hamlin, the other couple, their leading man for many years in bis city, hold­ Messiah, aud will give away their last cent to God gives it life before it leaves tlie physical body, and it conforms to the physical body in Yet, oh! how sweet it is to us, this life we live friends, a young man aged aliout 30, named ing many positions of trust, notwithstanding relieve suffering, while others break up fami­ and sec. George Smith, and a young woman aged the fact that he was an avowed Spiritualist lies, rain linppy homes, teach a philosophy its perfect state or condition, and to the clair­ voyant these spiritual counterparts are as ETERNAL SPRING IX HIS HEART. about 20, named Lena Oestud. The young lie was S3 years old, and a most excellent that has not even a modicum of common sense, man was formerly a resident of Fargo, but man. The Mayor and the inhabitants of and are a nuisance generally. But they must plainly visible as are the material forms. That marvelous genius, Victor Hugo, a "How can such spirit organisms exist in the short time before his death said: for three or four years has been away front VUleneuve turned out to do honor to his be tolerated. They are the legitimate out­ the city, lie was stopping at the bouse in name. growth of creeds and sects, or perhaps an evo­ physical body?" The spirit body permeates “ You say that the soul is nothing but the the physical body, and is absorbed by it, as resultant of bodily powers. Why, theu, is question for a visit of a day or two. while The following, a» per his request, was read lution of perverted thought, aud will arise ou his way from the East to his home, west of at his tomb, after a prayer by the Mayor's occasionally until humanity generally are ele­ say a sponge or lump of sugar can absorb my soul the most luminous when my bodily water without increasing its bulk. (lowers begin to fail? Winter is on my head, Fargo. Lena had made her home for several wife, Madame A. Gravat, and an “ Allocu­ vated to ahighcr plane. Anti-Christ. years with Mr. and Mrs. Cornwall, of this tion," or address, by the Mayor, M. Emile “ Now if Lincoln. Darwin, Plato, etc., still but eternal spring is in my heart The nearer live and communicate with mortals, why in the I approach the end the plainer I hear arouud city. She was a friend of the occupants of Gravat. Parnell, Paine and Talmage. the house, Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin, and hap­ “ ¡Munition.—Delivered by Spiritualism To the E pitor:—Speaking of Parnell's name of reason don't they tell us something me the immortal symphonies which surround definite about their present mode of life, the me. It is marvelous, but it is simple. The pened in there that evening. Lena and George from the terrible doubt which for a long time death, Talmage says: “ The last forty eight had never before met each other. The couple oppressed my mind and thoughts os to the ex­ hours have reminded me of the beautiful Spirit-world, its location, etc?" They do, as tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. Mr. W may readily learn by reading the works It closes with the twilight to open with the who occupied the house proposed to have a istence of God and the immortalitvof the soul, habit in human uature to speak well of the seance. This was agreed to. A pine bo:ird enlightened by the study of this doctrine, and dead, omitting their faults and extolling their of Judge Edmuuds, Andrew Jackson Davis, dawn. The thirst for the infinite proves infin and others. ity." on which had been marked the letters of the numerous evidences of the presence of virtue. However vehemently and perhaps the alphabet, and a thin piece of hoard spirits, 1 declare that I believe in God and ustly men are denounced for their principles “If Spiritualism is true, all of our best That greatest scientist and philosopher of poetry, learning, etc., would come from the liis age, Benjamin Franklin, says in a letter to about 4 by t> inches in size, with a square his goodneis and justice. I am equally firm or their behavior while they are in life's battle, bole cut in tlie center, wns brought out. The in the l>elitf of the immortality of the soul or when they became exanimate, anathema ceases. Spirit-world." As in fact they do,and it needs his sister on the death of his brother: no ghost or spirit from tbe other world to “This is rather an embryo state—a prepa­ thin board wns placed on the larger board. spirit, which is separated from the material See how the pens, tlie types, the tongues The fingers of the parties preseut were placet! liody at death. I believe also in successive that were full of attack for Mr. Parnell have prove it ration for living. A man is not completely What is that subtle and mysterious essence born until he be dead. We are ipiriU. That lightly on the thin board, and it moved over incarnations of the spirit or soul, which is per­ become lenient, if not positively appreciative, the other board, stopping at intervals so that mitted by the justice of God for the advance­ I think this is l>cautiful. As long ns a man is called thought? Is it evolved from the brain bodies should be lent us in acquiring knowl­ like electricity from the dynamo? Was it edge or doing good to his fellowman is a kind certain letters would show through the square ment of those spirits who have tho need of alive he can answer back; but if when his lips hole, Tho combination of letters directed Sliukspcurc’s brain, independent and self-act­ and benevolent act of God. When they be­ such incarnations in order to arrive at the arc closed for the last silence yon assail him, the company to form a circle. They did so. state of purity which expresses their perfect the war ¡6 unequal. It is ignominious for one ing, that enabled him to come unfit for that purpose and afford us pain instead of pleasure, it is cqunliy kiud and ho- joining bands Right here it is proper to re­ goodness. to attack the lifeless. It is the dead lion of Know almost every grain of Plutus' gold, mark that a young woman named Mary, to “ I desire equally that after my decease ray the fable kicked by an ass. Whatever a man's Find bottom In the Incomprchensivo deeps, nevolcnt that a way is provided by which we can get rid of them." whom George was engaged, died several years interment shall be under the nuspiccs of the faults, when he has passed off cease your ex­ Keep place with thought, and almost like the ago. Hardly had the circle been formed when Spirit mlists and the civil law, and that these gods, coriation. Only swine will root up a grave To thoughts unveil tn their dumb cradles? Imperious Cn.-sar, dead and turned today. Lean began to give nervous twitches—she was declarations shall be read at my tomb. 1 de yard." Might stop a hole to keep tho wind away. evidently powerfully affected in some way. sire that a spiritual prayer shall be said at my Oh, that the earth which kept tho world In awe. This applies, we suppose, to every deceased It is evident to all who have thoroughly in­ Should patch a wall to ox|>el tho wintcr’s.flaw. Soon. Lena in a peculiar manner, said aloud tomb by the lips of my friend. These arc my person but Thomas Paine, for of all the villi- vestigated bis history that it is doubtful if Is it possible that the brain, mind, or spirit something like the following: “ Mary says wishes. J. A. C h m o x e a u , D. M.” tiers of tlie great man since his death, none has Shakspeare received even all the elements of a which conceived “ Hamlet"—lirnt mighty mas­ George must like Lena." ncr convulsive been more despicable than tho Rev. Mr. Tal­ common school education, and students and twitches increased: “ Mary wants George to mage. The man who says this of Parnell ha9 critics would be more ready to believe that terpiece of the human mind—tho incarnation SPIRITUALISM IS ATHENS. of wisdom and the cx|x>nent of tlie most pro­ marry Lena," exclaimed the young wurnan, assailed the memory, the reputation of Paine lloiner wrote the immortal dramas llmt bear his and still later, • 'George and Lena can never Through the efforts of M. Lcfukis, Spirit­ without truth or mercy. He bns attacked the name than that any of Shakspenre's contem­ found and subtle thought, should go out like ualism is spreading wonderfully in Greece. be happy unless they get married." The con­ lifeless; he has excoriated the man after ho poraries did. If tho brain is entirely inde a snuffed candle, in darkness and destruction, From time to lime the press of that country or resolve to an atom of tlie earth, too base of vulsions of Lena began to assume the tip- had passed off; be lias kicked the lion; lie pendent aud self acting, how is it that poets peamneoof hysteria. Tho performers began has contained articles in fuvor as well ns has rooted up a graveyard; and now lie lias can not write ¡w well nt one time as another? us to lie remembered even? against it No’ a thousand times no! It is a spark of to get frightcucd and brought tho seanco to :i fitly described himself. E xactly. But no, they must wait for conditions—for the There is in the capital of Greece a young fervent heat, as well as radiaut light, emanat­ close. This seemed to have uo effect on divine nlfiatui—the holy Ore. Shakspeare says Lena, us she kept repealing tilings that she poet, M. I’olemi, who possesses the highest An Important Article. in his sonnets; ing from divinity itself, and can never die. phases of mcdiumsliip, and has convinced The spirit spurns tho clay-cold soil, the food said Mary told her, and she insisted that “ Cave Dwellers of Men" is the subject of a many skeptics and scientific men in Athens. Was It his spirit by spirits taught to write of worms, and joys to live in tlie realms of Marx’ had hold of her and would not let her copiously illustrated article by Mr. W. II. Mr. Lcfnkis, ou his last visit to Athens, lmd Above u mortal pitch that struck me dead? light, where uo corruption comes. That is go till she and George were married In Larrabeo, which will appear in the May Pojih- the pleasure of attending one of M. Pol- ever}- way possible the people tried to calm hir Science Monthly. It relates not only to It is pretty well known that the moth and home, and home is heaven. emi’s sconces, ul the residence of M. Souri, If there was nothing beyond “ this bank Lena, but her hysteria iucreased aqd they the ancient cave-dwellers of America and the the butterfly undergo u complete metamor­ editor of the famous Greek humoristic journal, phosis, and in attaining its perfect conditions and shoal of time, "our life hero would seem to were up all night with her. The next morning the flomùit. The editor was a great skeptic, old world, but describes also the way in which uicu stupendous farce, aud death an appalling (last Monday), Mrs. Hamlin went to the modern troglodytes are living iu several parts or slate it is continually undergoing change, and the manifestations astonished him, as well tragedy. home of Lena, aud Mr. Cornwall returned of Europe to day. Terms 50 cents per, num­ and goc9 through three different stages of be­ as the other aide journalists, physicians and ing. Its organs and functions in its rudimen­ In conclusion 1 would like to ask my quer­ with her to the house of Mrs. H. Lena knew ber, or $5 tier year. Address, D. Anpplclon ist one question in turn: If he snw the phe­ him and talked all right about other subjects, savants present. A Co., a Bond S t, New York. tary or larva state nrc entirely different from The spirits manifesting were able to read tile the perfect insect. It crawls ou its belly, has nomena Hint 1 have described, with his own but she insisted that she and George must be eves and under conditions which would pre­ married or she could not live. Mr. C. sug­ secret thoughts of every one present, no mat­ Those who feel an interest in sustain­ a masticatory mouth, eats enormously, casts ter whether he or she were skeptical or not, its skin, with the entire lining of the alimen­ clude the possibility of fraud, wbat would lie gested that George go out of the house and and write in any language, reveal where any ing a free-thought paper, thnt is not crowded tary canal, from five to ten times, and in some his conclusion? I ra G ale T om pkins. slide away. He tried to do so, but she would know of it, and be worse. He suggested that hidden object was, and produce loud raps. with advertisements, should introduce T or species increases 72,000 times in size; before A Lecture on tho “Morality of Dancing.” they administer a powerful drug to make her When the circle was seated around the table, Progressive Thinker to their neighbors and attaining its full growth it undergoes a com­ ns the table arose or tilted, a phosphorescent plete metamorphosis. It ceases to eat anil be­ By M. A. Collins, in reply to a challenge by unconscious, and this suggestion was acted light npi>carcd under ¡L Many other remark­ friends, and got them to subscribe. Sent 13 gins to weave its own shroud of silk, within Sam Jones. Price 10 cents. For sale at upon. Mr. C. went ami got a doctor. He able manifestations took place, so that M. weeks for 25 cents. which it incloses itself. It now throws off its tliiB office. Continued on Uh page. APRIL î», 1892. »THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER. r Anniversary Kcports. ». ini|iosi(i F ervor. A 1‘liigliirlst. For some reason the programme of tho T H E PHOliKKKSI VK Til INKER. Imlliimiisill* Association of Spiritualists, We devoted tho whole of ourWST Priestly Fraud. There must I«- something wrong In a Tho learned Dr. Tulmugo Ik now celebrating thu nth anniversary, aid not last week to annivorsary 0XUlcitto gvttuig up of the reported crucifixion of Jesus. So The weather was »Imply horrible. I his tt>® club) . . . - - II *' Thu Jews bad a law prohibiting labor ary report, It has no interi»t whatever Dr. Doun Clark has finished a five did not diminish the brightness of the Thirteen weeks .... - « cl* lie wished to imitate the dear Savior In blHglo copy .... - - - »ct* on the Sabbath. It was local to Judou, expiation of hla owu guilt. The victim in these reports; they are entirely foreign months' service at Napa, Cal. He gave Inner. Tho oxoreLes opened with sing­ ■tMITTAXCm. and really bad no force outside the hours the nanieof Protohko; he lives at to Its work. Not a alnglo speaker send» excellent satisfaction there. ing, followed by a lecture of twenty Iìemlt by poitofBe® Money Onl» r. ll« gt»ter.Ml ! euer Jewish hierarchy. Christiana Insist Koeiilgsborg, I'russla. Tho pros» ills- his appointment« there to be given to G. F Perkins Is now at Teuton, N. J., minute», and an ample lunch and u social cr draft on i'Mcag*i ..r New \\-rk. 1 1 I, putchesglvo tho dotails: where he will undoubtedly do some hour. The room was handsomely dee* o 15 c«bU to gat draft» ca»be.l on i»**al twnk«, #o lesus abrogated the old Levltieal law the World; not a single medium adver­ orated by ladles belonging to the G. A. Mad ttictQ BfiJru you wl»h that ainowot u« ducted iTx'UI and set up new ones: certainly ho said "T he victim procured some stout cm-d tises In Us columns. Comments uro most excellent missionary work. iLe amount »ent, UlM 't all letter» to J. U. rrancl». and tied his own logs In such u way that Nick Booker, I ts Now St., Oshkosh, It. No. to LootnU S t. CUlcafo> III. . ______nothing requiring an observance of the It wotlid ho very difficult If not impossible unnocossurv- Wls., writes: “ A large number of Mrs. F. Green writes: “ in celebrat­ CLUIlSt IMPOKTANT SUGGESTION! Sabbath. On thu contrary, ho and his to raise himself after hi- hail lain down. Spiritualist« of Oshkosh, Wl»., have ing the Ilth anniversary of modern At there ar® thoiiMnil* who will at flr»t lentun* disciples disregarded It. Some three What he did afterwards can only lie Tliunk.« to (lie FrlentlK Who many times expressed a wish to have a Spiritualism at Denver March 31, Judge only twruty flte crn li ftirTiiB l,*m i» i» » P * Tu i u i b judged from his condition when found, good test uieillum come here; that they liolford delivered a very Interesting thirteen week», wo would »uggc»t ti»tfci*o who reecho hundred years after the death of the R cm cin licr th e 1*. T . a »a mp|o copy, to solicit »etera! other» to uultewltb acher, Constantino, a pagan king, who as no ono was present nl tho horrible would willingly patronize such a medium. lecture. Julos Wallace, Mrs. Uartholmes tin >ii. thusfra ab|a to iwmlt from bi '•* IW| w cren affair. Ills feet had boon fusioned with In this city there are 25,000 inhabitants, and I’rof. Gray gave some very excellent nn»rr than the latter i«m. A Inner Dumber »>f lltua at that time hud not embraced Chris- aiuoutiU will make a large »urn total, ami thu» »'»trini heavy nulls to a hoard. Then lying on We tender the best thanks from the with no Spiritual Society. Wo have a I[tests, with munto, dancing and refresh­ the Held of our labor and UMifutt»»»*. Tho Baine *ug linnlty, Issued un edict requiring the his back he had hammered a null warmest spot In our hearts to Mrs. Ruth {feat number of Spiritualists, but we 1 ment*. Mr. Wullnco wui tho recipient gc*tloo will apply In all can » of renewal of auh*crl " venerable day of tho sun" to be ob­ tluough his loft hand with the right, tloQB-aolldl olhera to aid In tin* good work. You wl A. Eastman, of Mnncelona, Mich., for u lack u leader, if such a medium wants of a lovely floral ship under full »all: also eiperlence Modimeulty wbatexer lu Inducing Spiriti! served as a day of rest, Christian nulling the left hand firmly. The right to come here for u while, please write floral burn presented by his developing alhta to »nbacrlt*® for Tim |»icot*itr»*iva l uiNKim. club of ten: to N. L. Fowler, Vineland, for not one of them rati alT» r«l to ho » itbout the valua grasiK'd the idea, set up tho claim that liund remained free, and In this tho mo and I will let the people Know." lass us a token of tlielr love and esteem. hie Information luifutried lh< M u rack week. *»d at munlne took a knife and repeatedly N. J., for u club of twelve: to our friends •he prie* of oaly about two cent» p* r week. Jesus rose from the dead on that day, ut Lowell, Mioh., for u club of twenty; James I{lluy, of Marcollus, Mioh., stabbed himself in the breast. lie writes: "I am kept busy giving seances. I*. S. Burdick wrllcB from Texas, Take Muticô. and treated it thereafter os a sacred day. bceumc unconscious from pain and loss and to R. F.Baldwin, of Granville, N.Y., It hail no connection with tho Jewish of blood, and was in this condition when People are writing me from all ovor tho Mich., that the anniversary was cele­ tW~ At eïPtratlon of mbtcrlprlon. If not renewed, for aolubof twenty two. There Is nothing United States, and two from Canada, brated tlicro with a good attendance the paper !» «il*cutillmml So olila will be aeut for ox- Sabbath. It was not substituted In his wife returned. She culled for help, tra nunitxr». and It took great exertion to pull out tho that gives the publisher of u radical asking im- to visit them, or for sittings. from abroad. Among the distinguished fjc* j# yon do not receive your paper promptlr. place of jt. It was a day sacred only to paper so much backbone ns a liberal Two or throe Irotn your city are corning [makers from abroad were the Hon. L. write t>> ua, and « rrota In addre*» will l e niviupUy the sun which gave Its light and warmth nails and release tho victim. lie wus to my home for a sitting to-morrow ' Moulton, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; corrected, ami tnlMlug number* »upp.lcd gratia. bathed in blood, and was ut first supposed supply of these clubs. Our friends all night." IV ~ Mhencreryou dc»ln'the ad«lr«*M of your panel to tho world. To this day, under vari­ to bo doud, but gradually recovered over the United States seem to agree Miss Coru Fuller, of Vicksburg. Mrs. ► •banged, alway» give the addre»* of the place towblcb ous names, tho sun has been worshiped Willard J. Hull speaks for the Society Lora Worthington directed the musical k 1» thru M-nt. or the change caaaot ba tnada. consciousness. While his wounds are of with us on that point. part of the fca»t. ns a God. a most serious character it Is believed of Union Spiritualists. Cincinnati, O.. A Bonntlftil Harvest fur 23 Coat*. Every law now extant relating to they are not necossarily fatal." during tho Sundays of April. Hu will he* you want a more bountiful barve*t than wo can accept culls for week evening work from give you for 26 cental Ju»t pao»e and thluk for a mo­ Sunday observance, among all civilized (¡race S. lloyce. Secretary of the ment what an intellectual feast that »mall lnve»uiieut Tho Boaril. General S6rv>ey. points In that vicinity. He Is open for Fraternal Spiritual Society of National will furuhh you. The kubKTlptbui Price of Tim Tito nations, can be traced hack to tho royal engagement* the three last Sundays of City, Cal., report* that the anniversary r>r.K»sirc Tuixincii thirteen week» 1» only twenty n»* decree of Constantine, where It was con A rural congregation in Indiana gave Juno, and first part of July. Address cents t For'or that amount you obtain one hundred nun its pastor the choice of shaving or was celebrated on the 31st of March. fourr M eses of Mid,solid, ausubstantial,---- »ouldelating . and neoled with sun worship. The Spiritualistic Field—Work­ during April, 408 Baymillon St., Cincin­ The hall was tastefully decorated with mlnd refreahlng reading matter, equivalent to a medi- resigning, and the pastor left town, nati, Ohio. urn »lied book! The clergy cannot bo ignorant of this Everywhere tho whisker is successful.— ers. Doings, Etc. evergreens and (lowers! The exercises heathen origin of their sacred Sunday; C. T. S. Cook speak» llutteringly ol commenced at ten o’clock In tho morn­ News. iSF-Rcmember, everyone, that, on account the Spiritualist Association of South SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1892. and yet, so soon as they ascend their of our large edition, we go to press early Mon­ ing, with a social until lunch time. At It was a brave man forty years ago day morning. Short Items only will be in western Mich., at Texas. It was two o’clock the programme was opened pulpits—well designated “ coward's cas­ who so far disregarded tho custom of tho sorted If received on the previous Saturday, uddressed by Hon. L. V. Moulton, of “ ‘ singing, followed by opening remarks tles," because they will not allow any times as to allow his whiskers to grow. We take pleasure In publishing the movements Grand Rapids. Miss Cora Fuller, of by Pres. P. T. Griffith, then introducing one to call in question the truth of their In the reign of Queen Elizabeth every of lecturers and mediums. Meetings, which Vicksburg, an accomplished elocutionist, Mr». Edith E. R. Nickless, who de­ statements; having statute laws specially are polng a grand work, are of local Interest gave a recitation before each lecture. livered an able address reviewing the beard over two weeks'growtli was subject onlv, hence we cannot publish long reports Mrs. W orthington furnished some fine progress of modern Spiritualism. Mrs. enacted for their protection—they begin to an annual tax. Tho long beard char­ with reference to them. They are too numcr ous for that. A few lines explanatory of the vocal and instrumental music. Norris, an old pioneer Spiritualist, gave to quote the alleged command of God in acterized the barbarian and the Jew; her experiences back beyond the Roch­ but Constantine, in his great zeal to good work being done, are always acceptable. Tho First Spiritualist Society of Kan regard to the Jewish Sabbath, and A great deal can he said of a meeting In u sas City, Mo., tender to Capt. W. Win ester rappings. A welcome from the thunder their maledictions on all who advance the “ Redeemer's Kingdom," dozen lines, giving a “ general survey" only gett a testimonial endorsing him for his unseen closed the afternoon exercises. that being his own, the beard was of the glorious work being done. efficient services, and expressing its After supper the meeting opened with fail to “ Remember to keep the [Jewish] doomed to destruction. The Normans Sabbath day holy." If that law has any high regard for him as a man. music, and Mrs. Miller's control, Starr when they conquered ling-land in tho A friend loft here a notice of a new King, gave a stirring welcome: music atiditv it relates to the Hebraic Sab- Ilth century not only shaved but com­ meeting on the South Side. It was mis­ S. M. Smith, of St. Louis, Mo., relates laid. If ho will send another, it will be and talk from Mrs. Morrill, Mrs. Wilder, buth, and has no connection with Con­ pelled their defeated subjects to copy how a mesmerist cured his wife of sore Ethel Griffith. Bcauleh Dimrock, Mrs. their example. The restoration of the inserted with pleasure. eyes; her hair, almost, white before the stantine’s pagan Sunday, which the treatment, has now turned nearly black. Schmidt, of San Diego; Bcauleh Smith, beard in recent times was violently Bishop A. Beals has an engagement Maud Royce and Rosie Llventon em­ Christians adopted, as they did the opposed by the clergy, but there are Ho also hypnotized her son, curing him heathen festal days and heathen sacra­ at Oklahoma City, O. T. Ho can be ad­ of the rheumatism. braced a choice and pleasing variety. some who have the courage of their con­ dressed there during June. The utmost harmony und good fooling ments. victions, and now Insist on following Mark Dennet writes from Beverly, prevailed. Every time a preacher quotes a “ thus Nature, for which wo commend them. Mrs. Mott Knight has moved from Mass.: “ We had Mr. Joseph D. Stiles, her former residence in New York City, of Weymouth, with us April 10. In the saith the Lord,” in favor of Sunday ob­ to 252 West Thirty-sixth street. The Columbus (Ohio) Church of Spirit­ servance, he is guilty of a shameful Before the Commissioners. evening the hall was packed to over ualists observed in due form the anni­ llowing. The cause of religious truth fraud, and merits the displeasure of all The National Commissioners on the Frank T. Ripley will he in Wisconsin versary of Spiritualism in the United A SPIRITUALIST?” during May, and iu Michigan during is evidently progressing.” States. Addresses were delivered bv who listen to him. An intelligent court, World’s Fair had the Sunday question June. He closes his engagement in St. Mrs. M. A. Clayton, of Albany, N. Y Mrs. Elizabeth Coit and C. C. Pomeroy. ONE OP THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS presided over by an honest judge, with before them the other day. Commis­ Paul the last of this month. The church was filled to its utmost OP MODERN TIMES. BY MRS. N. C. writes: “ Our 44th anniversary passed jurisdiction in the premises, would sioner Lowell presented a bundle of Mrs. S. M. Allen, Springfield, Mo. off very satisfactorily here. About 150 capacity. The ecclesiastical bigots’ at­ MAYNARD. EVERY SPIRITUALIST IN­ quickly “ unfrock" the offending cler­ petitions in favor of the closing, and writes: “ Permit me to announce to the sat down to the banquet. The tables tempt to butcher the Constitution of the AMERICA SHOULD READ IT. gyman, as courts now disbar lawyers for stated that 2,725 of a like character were readers of your most valuable paper were loaded with good things which all United States received special attention, and the blasphemy of priests und Con­ falsely and persistently citing a repealed on file. Says the report, as given in the that I will accept a few engagements as enjoyed, and the feast of reason and the (low of soul was something long to be gress in printing the name of Deitv on law. inspirational trance speaker and plat­ THE WORLD’S FAIR. News: form test medium, to come and serve remembered. Mrs. Vickinson, of the coin of the Republic, was not over­ The only hope of continuing Sunday “ A howl of opposition arose. Com­ the cause in their respective communi­ Boston, is with us this month. She looked. Shall the Gates be Opened on as a holy day consists in tho false teach­ missioner Haines got the floor. ‘ This ties upon the following terms: That the attracts good audiences, and is well is a great question,' he cried, ‘one which Sunday. ing of children at Sunday-schools, and societies or friends of our cause desiring liked. Mrs. Marie Irving, who is a From D. B. Herbine. an efficient is agitating tho commonwealth from my medlumistic services furnish me a great favorite here, will be with us agent at Indianapolis, we learn that the in keeping the masses ignorant of the center to circumference. I am opposed To th e Editor:—The following is an true history of the origin of the day, a hall or church to speak in, attend to through the month of May. and that Indianapolis Association ot Spiritualista to the closing of the Fair on Sunday or and pay for advertising, give me enter closes tho season for lectures until the celebrated the 44th anniversary on Sat­ editorial from the columns of theChicago thing it is impossible to do in this age of any other day on account of such fanati­ Herald, which seems to pithily express tainment, and charge ten cents ad 1st of September." urday and Sunday, April 2 and 3. The general intelligence. cism. People have signed these petitions mission at the door to lectures, and give exercises consisted of the usual pro­ the reasons why the World's Fair should because they dared not refuse their Brother Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minn., be open upon the “ Lord’s Day:" me the total proceeds, be that much or writes: “ Moses Hull, of Chicago, lec­ gramme of music, addresses, recitations, We Take Pride iu Our Messiahs. clergyman, or because some nice young and psychometric readings. Mrs. Cutler "Persiersistent misrepresentation Watf of the lady brought them around. [Laughter.] little, and 1 will take my chances for re tured to our society at the town hall on probable course of those in authority muneration. The above does not apply the 5th, (ith and"7th of this month. is at present serving the society as Chicago has the greatest of all things, There is a little minister in our town speaker. over the World's Fair has been char­ Its grain elevators are the highest, and who has done a lot of this and I go down however, to such as are financially able Never before was there such interest acteristic of the fanatics who keep up a to guarantee a regular salaiv, but to its World’s Fair buildings the grandest into my pocket and help pay his salary. manifested here in Spiritualism as at theatrical -clamor about Sunday within such only as would be glad to have pub­ his meetings. We hope to have Mr. The Liberal Spiritual Society, of Oak­ ever built. No finer streets in the Laughter.] But I don't believe a word its gates. he says. We have set aside a day lic mediumistic demonstrations, lee Hull with us again in the near future. land, Cal., which has been organized “ It has never been proposed by any world can be found than here, and even for the discussion of this question and tures, etc., but have not the ready After reading spiritual papers and but a month, had an audience o? 350 to friend of a rational Sunday that any one the slums of London can’t excel in should not consume the time of the means to secure mediums of that ability magazines for twenty-five years, and celebrate the 44th anniversary. The connected with the fair shall work more filthiness the Bridgeport section of Commissioners further. I move to lay With many kind wishes for tho prosper­ with due respect to all other papers, exercises consisted of music, readings than six days In the week. ity of T h e 'P r o g r e s s iv e T h n k e r .” our city. As to our Messiahs, they, too, the whole matter on the table.’ ” T h e P r o g r e s s i v e T h i n k e r suits me and addresses. Among those who as­ “ It has never been contemplated that Mrs. C. Y. Gunn, writing us from the best of any I have read, and here it sisted the able President, A. Plimley, any productive or industrial work of any are first-class in all respects. One, a seems to fill the wants of the people.” and the gifted Vice-President, Joseph H. Its Fame Has Beached India. Oakland. Cal., tells of the wedding of kind whatever shall bo done Sundays at colored man, a waiter in a restaurant, is Mr. P. Winters and Mrs. K. Williams Dorety, in the exercises we notice the the fair. The Dayton (Ohio) Progressive one of the finest specimens of a Messiah Modern T'nouylil, a liberal paper pub­ ‘ The parties are both mediums and are (Spiritualist) Alliance holds regular names of such eminent Spiritualists as “ Art galleries all over the civilized we ever saw. His general appeurance is lished at Bombay, India, in a recent doing a good work on tho Pacific coast. Dr. N. F. Rawlin. Dr. Dean Clarke, world are open Sundays. Even London, meetings every Sunday evening, 7:30 p. impressive, and to ladies whom he wishes issue gives a lengthy review of “ Re­ Mr. Ben. M. Barney, latoly ordained a M., at Knights of Honor Hall, 110 E. 3rU Prof. F. C. White and others. We are dull, exclusive, intolerant of the poor minister of the spiritual philosophy sorry the report did not reach us in whom it provided until recent years to convert to his methods he is very searches in Oriental History." Among St., Dayton, O. Liberal lectures, selec­ time for the anniversary edition. officiated. The ceremonies were full of tions from progressive writers, recita­ with only rum-holes and worse dens after aggressive, so much so thatan indiscreet other good things it says: interest to all, and Mr. Barney’s address church Sundays—even London, with its white man lately knocked him down. tions, vocal and instrumental music will “ The welcome reception accorded to to the contracting parties was full ol be provided for the entertainment of Rose L. Bushnell sends us a short ac­ aristocratic government, now opens the Did this Messiah resent the affront? No! this volume of over 100 pages by the instructive wisdom." Ourcorrcspondent People’s Palace Sundays and lets the He knew that hell-fire would finally friends who attend. Seats free. count of the anniversary exercises at poor have something to see besides general public speaks loudly as to its in conclusion says: “ T h e P r o g r e s s iv e Summerland, but too late for last week's punish the aggressor: that was sufficient real merits. T H IIN K E R is always for sale at our so Thank you, Bro. Cokayne, for the shame and filth, something to hear ’or him. He is not our only Messiah— We unhesitatingly recommend Dr. large number of subscribers you have paper. The programme throughout was besides curses and obscenity: something cioty, and is highly appreciated: we very bright and interesting. One of the wo have Dr. Teed. A kinder and more Brown's work as a scholarly examina know by the way it is purchased. Loni sent us. Indiana is coming to the front. to do besides getting drunk, lighting and loving man—to ladies—never lived. C. H. Gates writes: “ W hile we do features was the laving of the corner­ being draggod to prisons. Tho Queen tion of a subject that is being every­ may it live to accomplish tho good wor! stone of Liberty flail, a building in­ They—those in attendance at his where discussed. His book displays it has to do. I t is always a welcome not deem it wise or necessary as a rule herself formally opened tho palace in heavenly resort—like him, too; the likes to publicly endorse our mediums, yet, tended for meetings of progressive the East End. keen reasoning, is written in u style to visitor to our home. We could not do thinkers, by Prof. Loveland, assisted by are very mutual, and very agreeable to suit general readers, and deals a hurd without, as indeed we do not intend to." in view of the troubles of Mrs. Maud “ The commission has deferred action those who arc interested. Tho gentle­ Lord Drake, we do most heartily give prominent Spiritualists of that commun­ on this question until next October. blow at orthodox superstitions.’’ Dr. J. H. Randall will lecture in ity. Mrs. Bushnell expresses herself as men whose wives have left them, to be T h e P rogressive T h in k e r Is still to her our expressions of confidence as a There is no room for doubt what its final known to them no more forever, like Greenbrier, Tenn., April 23, 24 and true-hearted woman and an able and being more and more charmed with tho decision will be. We open the Art able to supply this hook, mailed to any Sprlnglield, Tenn., April 2(1: Decatur Teed, too; but their affection is of the address, on receipt of 81.50. trustworthy medium." beauties of the colony on tho Western Institute of Chicago Sundays. We open pickle kind, very wrathful and unreliable, 111., May 1. He will make engagements 9011st, where even sternest nature ean he the reading-room of the public library and may take expression somctlmo in to serve societies and camp meetings Mrs. A. C. Witman, of Manitowoc, made to respond to tho fostering and Silndays. We do not condemn the an embrace of Teed that might prove Silly (Questions. whorovor desired. Address 289 Califor­ Wis., writes: “ We have had the great kindlv touch of man. worthy workers of Chicago exclusively dangerous. nia Avenue, Chicago, 111. leasure of having that splendid ma­ The editor of the Investigator has pub­ Slum, Lizzie Bangs, in our midst for a to gin-mills Sundays. Chicago would not be complete with­ lished an open letter to the elorgymen Edward S. Pope, of Indianapolis, Ind., “ We shall have during the fair a short time, and had perfect proof of her Speaking of tho 44th anniversary at out its Messiahs. The colored Messiah of Boston, in which he propounded tho has our thank9 for his interest in behalf hundred thousand people a day,probably is perfectly harmless. He is a genuine true medlumship. She has won the Oakland, Cal., Mrs. Marion lv. La Ran- following questions: of T h e P ro g r essiv e T h in k e r . He esteem and respect of all that have had in addition to our own citizens. Is it philanthrophlst—giving to the needy all writes: “ Your paper is a thousand sieur says: "The principal feature of within reason that they shall be excluded that he can make and trying to gain 1. W hat do you mean by God? the pleasure of her acquaintance. I the morning was an address by Dr. N. times bettor than tho so-called holy know I act In accordance with tho wishes from the art galleries of the fair Sundays heaven by good deeds. He does not 2. How do you know there is a God? Bible. I think the Bible Is the worst F. Rawlin, which surpassed anything of and left to the degradation and insult of endorse the astronomy of his rival 3. Whore is heaven? of those sitters whom she has given the kind I ever heard. An original book against women that wus over such sure proof of a spiritual hereafter, rum, gambling and other vices ? " Messiah, Dr. Teed. Dr. Teed, too, is 4. What is the Bible? printed, condemning the best part of poem by Dr. Dean Clarke, read by him­ In connection with the foregoing very benevolent. He is exceedingly 5. Did God write the Bible? In expressing my warm thanks In their self, was very telling. Mrs. R. Cowell creation—woman Sly mother was a name.” sensible remarks,permit me to quote tho generous with other people’s money: in Only two clergymen have replied, and woman, and just as good as I am; why made some very good remarks, and fol­ statement of Col. Davts, the Director fact, he is a philanthropist in that direc­ they are Unitarians. Is it possible tho shouldn’t she have had equal rights with C. H. Gates, of Kansas City, Mo., lowed with a few fine tests. A good General, in answer to the question, tion. Yes, as.to first-class Messiahs preachers of cultured Boston aru going us.” writes: “ I would be glad to have you poem was read by Mr. Clover, and pun- “ What do you think about a Sunday Chicago takes the lead. The Messiahs to ignore these trifling questions? publish a list of our newly elected ;ent remarks from other speakers, fol- fair ? ’’ asked by Congressman Dockery. of Rockford, Detroit, Cincinnati, Phila­ They could answer each In monosylla­ G. F. Perkins writes as follows from officers. President, Horatio Gates; Vice­ fowed by congregational singing, closed He says: “ Ido not believe a wide-open delphia and St, Paul can not be bles: 1. Why, God. 2. Because tire Trenton, N. J.: “ We held a very suc­ President, Mrs. J. C. Smith; Socrelury the morning's meeting. In the evening, fair would be proper. Yet from a moral compared with Chicago’s Messiahs. Bible says so. 3. Just above tho clouds. cessful meeting hero Sunday. We will C. H. Gatos; Treasurer, Mr. F. D. At­ Prof. F. C. White gave some of the standpoint people ought to be allowed to Chicago leads in ail things. •1. A big book. 5. Yes, of courso. stop a few weeks with tno Trenton kins. Our meeting for the purpose of most remarkable tests 1 ever heard. visit certain buildings Sunday. I believe Association* This is quite a lively city, electing officers was u very harmonious Truly Spiritualism is golden: Its ways a department of public worship should very pious on Sunday; but few people are Something Mysterious. ono, and wo all feol assured that with ure ways of pleasantness, and its pains be opened on the grounds and maintained The Unseen Universe. caught laughing on the Sabbath." the help of those on the other »¡do of lead to peace and truth.” during the fair. The liquor interests of That cures are often effected In The first number of a magazine bear­ Tho Dubuque Ti tn/rnph says: " Mrs. life our society will continue to grow this city would subscrlbe4100,000tohavc mysterious way, is an acknowledged fact. ing the above name, and edited by the Orvis is a lady of fine stage preseneo: and spread tho truth to all classes in tho exposition closed Sunday in order to Prayer, faith, bread pills, a little colored proficient in Delsarlc, fluent aid choice Kansas City.” Mrs. Sarah Soovell sends us an account crowd tho visitors into their saloons." peerless Emma Hardingo Britten, has of the anniversary exorcises at Joplin, wulcr and other simple methods have In language, an excellent elocutionist, Mr*. E. Duther, of Philadelphia, i'a., Just think of it’.—the religious fanatics just oomo to hand. Of courso It 1» over­ and altogether the equal of any lady who Mo., on the 3rd of April, In which tho of this country, who want God in the worked wondrous cures without any flowing with valuable articles, and we trance medium and psychometric reader, friends from tho surrounding towns ac­ has ever uppeared upon n Dubuque speaks for the society’ in Indianapolis, Constitution and insist that this is and apparent cause. The latest roranrkabic hope she will meet with the greatest rostrum." tively partlcl|>atad. Throe sessions were must be a Oirixlum government, Hand cure comes from Detroit, Mich. A man success in this venture. ind., during the month of April. So­ held, morning, afternoon und evening. and glove with the very clement which who had been violently insane for years G. W. Perkins writes as follows from cieties wishing her for May can make Mrs. M. T. Allen, of Springfield, Mo., most tends to the moral degradation of was given an extraordinary dose of Trenton, N. J.: " We hold our socond term« to suit their society. Address and Mrs. Scovell, wore tho speukors of the people. Comment Is unnecessary. medicine to quiet him. He slept for Wcnllh of Blessings. Sunday’s meetings undor tho auspices of Mrs. 1C. Luther, 507 Mississippi St., In- the day. J. Madison Allen took Mrs. Col. Davis further stale» that if tho four days, and when he awoke ho was The Forum for January, 1892, stated the First Association of Spiritualists dlanapoll*, Ind. Allen's place In the morning. Mrs. J. ates of the fair arc to he open Sundays perfectly sane. Indeed, wonders will yesterday, and,being a very large attend­ Harlow Davis writes as follows from C. Gaston, President of the society, did never cease. that Pope Leo XIII. has an annual ance and' successful In every particular. f c- would add 83,000,000 to Ills estimate salary of 410(1,000, n sum more than throo Tho people turn out here to public Oakland, Cal.: “ I Intend to make a her utmost to make the occasion a of the gross receipts to be derived from limes greater than that paid to tho meetings very well, but not so much to trip through Southern California after success, and it was »omost emphatically. the exposition. May 1. Any societies wishing my PROGRESSIVE Why Chinese Oppose Missionaries President of the United States. From private sittings, as there is a small army Sample copies of THE Ministers, priests and preachers draw of parasites who travel as mediums, service* as a platform lost medium can T h in k er wore circulated, und It Is annually from the pockols of tho people Modern Thought, published at Bombay this it appears that playing an inter­ address me at 2002 Market St., Son hoped that the good It did will India, says tho trouble between the which drain tho pooketbooks of tho approximately 880,000,000 for working mediate between man and God Is a credulous, to the expense of upright Francisco, Cal.” measured by the subscriptions It on Sunday, and yet »here are many of Chinese and the missionaries grows out pecuniary success at least. How Is It and honest workers." Mrs. Mattie E. Hull is in Cleveland, receive. these selfsame exponents of speculative of tho U-achlng that to lie a true Christian with the toller and the servant-glrls- Ohio, sho will answer calls to lecture opinions and assumptions who affect to who contribute this 4150,000? Their Geo. H. Brooks has changed his res­ u jierson must forsake father and mother idence In Elgin, ill. His address now until further notice* in any town within Wilson Duncun, of Dos Moines, low believe that It would be sordid and and cleave only to Christ; that us tho wealth consists in blessings from this one hundred miles of said city. Address has sent us many subscribers for Impious to put the argument on the basis well-paid pope. 1» 144 N. Liberty St. Mr. Brooks Chinese lovo their parents they cannot her until May I, in care of Chas. l*ecds, P rogressive T h in k e r , and onw w of pecuniary profit. How can one have It la slated that Pope Plus IX. was lectured at Richmond, TIL, April 10; 15 Robinson Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. patience with such rank hypocrisy? obey the requirement, hence their dls possessed of 4113,000,000, mostly Invested Clmtsworth tho-nth. He will be ut Ster­ the general agency for the world A. Sr. Grii fen. like of tho Western religion. In British uonsols, when he died. ling, the 24th. Continued on filth pnge. large. Ho shall have It. APRIL 23, 1899. THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER. 5

He Was Very Much Puzzled. tom of roliglon came from this world, tionnto to its mass, and inversely to the it is easy to understand how they may uml In It you will find not only the good- squaro of its distance.” he converted into each other, and how A VISIT TO PIIOF. OLNEY H. RICHMOND. nea» of man,hut tho Imperfections of man OCCULT MATTER. There we have it mathematically closely they are related. Tho nerve­ not only the-lovo of man, but tho malice deduced; the infinite mind acts on mind: force obeys tho general laws of radiant of man. Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Tel­ mind over matter—who longer can deny force the same as those radiating light. When I have done an Injustice even the mastery of universal will ovor the I heal or sound. The nerve-force «-on- to an enomy, I am always ¡flail to make Let me toll you why the Christians for) epathy or Thought Trans­ amends. Four different persons who so many centuries neglected or nlmsed elemental forces of r.ature? Tlie science slantlv radiates from each organ of tho have called upon Prof. Richmond for the insane. They believed the New ference. of man,therefor«1, proposes a new method brain, and vibrates “with a magnetic astrological readings liad stated to mo Testament, and honestly supposed that for studying these questions, ami this force directly proportionate to its mass that all the delineation he gave was the insane were filled with devils. Aiul Tlielr Iteliiilon to the Scfcneo direct method will he richly rewarded and Inversely to the square of Us dis­ fiy tho discovery <>f a complete system of tance,” and thus passes from each person with a deck of cords. Therefore I men­ DR. BUCKLEY. ol'M ental Healing. tally relegated him to the domain of all laws in the nature of man little dreamed ’ll all directions through space—wasted In regurd to tho contest between Dr. of by modern physicists. It will reveal in anger or excitement—the substance fortuno-toRors, and had no desire to «eo Hockley, who, as I understand it, is u In u conversation with that eminent him. To-day an event arose which in detail tho means hy which man shall that wu* given for the "healing of the doctor of theology—and I should thinknk I physicist, Dr. Robert Greer, on tho ox- I quickly attain a destiny as full and nations.” Every person is constantly seemed to make it necessary for us to such theology stood in need of n doctori*—I Iiioltlon witnessed at the beautiful home meet. 1 shrunk from it because the magnificent as the visions ot ancient surrounded by this nerve-sphere, and it and the 'I\hpile on top of these, all of those ployed music for the cure of mental dis­ tions which tho true physicist for his on another pile, and so on until the wasted. They have disappeared in one, power in this way : it is then right for eases. The order of the day for his dls special purposes mentally annexes to tho to reappear in another form. The the sick or weak i>erson to make himself deck was complete, or all the cards ciples exhibits a profound knowledge of GENERAL SURVEY. green, are not to be co-ordinated with together, and l had no idea where the entire quantity of matter and of motion as passive as possible. A million plated the relations of body and mind. The Continued from 4tli page. the green, which is given immediately. remains always the same in the universe. batteries, in the form of tactile seven were. After that the Professor early morning was divided between gen came in, cut the cards again three times, J. H. Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minn., All thought involves a relation be­ We cannot take any atom of matter and corpuscles, stand waiting at their fixed at regular intervals, then I' cut them tie exercise, conversation and music. writes: “ We had your Moses out here tween subject and object. Every rela­ by any possibility divest it of motion. stations in the skin, ready to vibrate in Then came conversation, followed by tion presupposes a comparison oi its For example, no atom of m atter was swift response to mesmeric impressions, again and put the cut underneath. gymnastic exercise and a temperate diet. among the Presbyterians, and the way Finally he picked up the deck and dealt he hulled them out was a sight to see. terms, and this comparison is not estab­ ever found that did not possess gravity, and to carry the vital waves of life Afterward, a bath and supper with a lished if tho subject and object belong or the power of movement towards other power far inwards to each drooping and them in seven rows of seven each, the sparing allowance of wine; then reading Some said he sot Spiritualism on the odd three making an eighth row. Then highest plane they ever saw it. I sup­ to different worlds. The subject is un­ atoms. exhausted organ of the svstem. he consulted a book and turned around music and conversation concluded the pose they meant on the Bible, for ho doubtedly found in consciousness; the The atoms of matter differ from those “ Hypnotism ? ” B osh! A name day." object must he there also. All the in­ of spirit in three particulars—in their trumped up by the “ Profession,” who the eight of spades, seven of spades and So “Asclepiades was celebrated for his quoted it liberally in behalf of Spirit­ so on with al! the others, without the ualism. and now the good folks are genious arguments to escape this con­ forms, in their size, and in their ’ _ never originated a single technical term treatment of mental disorders. Ho rec­ clusion are vain. Every atom has incessant vibrations, arid that was not intended to mystify, in least hesitation or slightest error. ommended that bodily restraint should astounded, and the Spiritualists are I thought: this cannot he sleight-of- ready to swear by Moses. A relative of When Hegel calls thought objective, those are a part of its inherent nature. their «baseless hedging for dollars. hand, but may be mind-reading. As if be avoided as much as possible.” It is ours who says he always saw things he means just what he says: “That Each kind of atom is «distinguished by “ Telepathy, or Mental Telephone,” in response to my incredulity, he pro­ also stated that “the philosophy and arts quite plainly with his eyes closed, but there is no special, apart faculty of its own peculiar kind of vibrations: says the name ’adonted by the English of Greece spread to Rome, and’ the first thought belonging to and operated by a Prof. Richmond: “The atoms are not Society of Psychical Research for akind posed another test of seven cards. To special treatise on insanity is that of thought it simply imagination, may be­ guard against a trick that might be come a good psychometric reuder. He mind existing separatly from the outer passive, but spontaneously sell-active. of thought transference or feeling trans­ based on a system. I said I would take Celsus, which distinguishes varieties of seems an adept already." world.” What he means by objective All the great movements of the universe ference, discovered that “ the’ nerve /otrr. which’ I put in my pocket, not insanity and their proper treatment." thought is the meaning: the significance are produced by combining these atomic force may extend its influence between “Over the arts and sciences of Greece Charles Carter, of Lancaster. Ohio, of the fact itself. By methods of thought vibrations. The distinction between those who are great distances apart, and knowing what they were myself. After writes: “ Please say in your paper that consulting his books again and referring and Rome the errors and ignorance of wo wish to convey simply the processes any portion of matter and its motions, is convey expressions of thought and the Middle Ages gradually crept, until there uerer teas such an occurrence as in which this meaning of fact is evolved. just as well defined in the ultimate atoms emotion more exact than by words. In to the index he turned to the page in­ an exposure of Spiritualism. It is dicated and there, at the top, was a they enveloped them in a cloud worse There is no such thing as transcenden­ as in the largest known bodies." these eases of mental telephoning, the than Egyptian darkness. The insane absurd to talk of it. It is an assumption tal thought,or pure thought—thought by We do not propose to treat with all messages are transmitted hy means of group of four cards: five of spades; ten without ground. Spiritualism never was of hearts: nine of clubs and nine of were again consigned to the mirae’e- itself, and there is no such a thing these vibrations, only so far as to show currents or strata of spiritual substance, working ordinances of priests or else and never wilt l/c exposed. Prauds may either as fact—crude, irrational, disas­ their relative bearing on the case in the , spiritual atmosphere. These spades. I then drew forth the four he exposed; truth never!” cards from my pocket and found them totally neglected. Idiots and imbeciles sociated,chaotic fact. The world of fact, point. A group of atoms might have currents are more easily established the same, just in the order I have were permitted to go elotheless and Thomas Lees, of Cleveland, Ohio, indeed, is a cosmos and no chaos, for the a collective polarity which would bo dif along roads where the ’ two persons named them. homeless. The frantic and furious were writes: “The Cleveland Progressive laws of form are an essential and the ferent from that of any one of its atoms, concerned have traveled, as in disease, I now wondered if I was hypnotized or chained in loathsome dungeons and ex­ Lyceum gave a Ladles’ Dress and Neck­ most characteristic feature of the world. it would be produced by raodifirations of or a familiarity of its every phase as dreaming, and to make sure on that point hibited for money like wild beasts. The Tie Social, Friday evening, April 15, in O urpure, i. e.,merely formal thought, is the dominant atom of the others. The evinced hy the skillful physician and 1 put all the records in my pocket, won­ monomaniacs became, according to cir- Royal League Hal], C ase building. an abstraction which serves the purpose vibrations of sound, of light and heat, healer. Again, says Merton, “ wo dering if I would find them white paper | cumslance, the objects of superstitious Last Sunday, the 17th, Mattie E. Hull of comprehension. come to us in radiant waves; so is this speak of the nerve force as itself travel­ after reaching home. But no: there is I horror or reverence. They were re­ lectured in the same hall.” Prof. O. H. Richmond in a recent true of spirit. The waves which proceed ing, but it is more exact to say that the the list in my own writing and the same garded as possessed with demons and conversation said that language was not from atoms of matter aro different from nerve-force imparts its vibrations to a list in his writing. Wbnt does it mean? I subjected either to priestly exorcism, or Edmund Pickup, of Cowell, Mass., necessary to thought; in other words, those of spirit; the one is subject to tho spiritual atmosphere, and that they aro The Professor says it is the result of cruelly destroyed as wizards and witches. writes: “ Mr. Oscar Edgerly, of Now- that one could think without forming law of gravity, the other is not. Tho sent through this by continued waves or magnetic forces whereby it may be This cruel treatment of the insane con­ buryport, Mass., after several months' words in the mind. Granting that this waves of spirit-atoms may unite with pulsations. In a physical telephone, a knnwii just what will happen. Thus it tinued with little or no alleviation down successful work in the West, has r eis so, - _yet______one cannot_ think___- without___ „„ _____ form-_ . cmjLteach „vllD,other, »uuimund atxiordlng w nu^iu.uoi.sui lo the law of person speaks in one end, and the was known three thousand years ago to tho end of the last century in all the turned, and today has occupied our ing mental pictures, however kaleido- Intensity, they may produce waves large current of magnetism passes along the that on March 9. 1*92, I would come to civilized countries of Europe.” _i“‘*platform, r'-!—giving - lectures------and'* ----- tests, *•’'1his scopic they may appear in the panorama enough . to . balance . -those . of . gravity und wire and reproduces a similar set of the temple and draw those four cards: Let me quote a description of these Irish control (John McCarthy) being of the brain, and language is cortainly to produce the same effect upon matter. 'sound-waves at the other end, when the therefore, shuffle and cut them as 1 Christian asylums. Public asylums in­ enthusiastically received. We under­ necessary to memory in transmitting Thl9 law of intensity is a general one for person Is listening: and so in mental might, I could not miss drawing them. A deed existed in most of the metropolitan stand that Mr. Edgerly returns West in these mental photographs to others. all the forces of nature. The atoms of telephoning, the spiritual current philosophy so strange, presented so sud­ cities of Europe, but the insane were the fall.” One may not always be capable of cloth­ spirit possess forms quite as distinct and reproduces the mental vibrations at the denly, is more than i can accept without more generally, if at all troublesome, ing these pictures with words suitable persistent as those of matter. This, other end of the line. confined in jails, where they were The Southwest Spiritual Society holds further consideration, but i know the services at Tasking's hall, 3012 Archer to convey their beauty and grandeur to says Prof. Mapes, “has nothing to do The will of the operator in mental facts as I have stated. chained in the lowest dungeons or made others, yet in the sensory fad the words with the question of their possessing healing must have perfect control over the butts and menials of the most de­ avenue, at 7:45 Sunday evenings.’ Mrs. I had been observing Mr. Richmond Emma Nickerson Warne speaker. went with the pictures and were to the weight." If spirit atoms have FORM, these out-going currents, and must be very carefully and became satisfied that based criminals. In public asylums tho camera, so to speak, what the sensitized they must of necessity have SPACE. For able to direct them in mastery and he was born under Jupiter, with Sagll-I inmates were confined in cellars, isolated Reporter writes as follows from St. plate is to the picture, and so is the con­ we cannot conceive a form, a circle or tender sympathy with the exact condition tarius rising, and if so, he must be in cages, chained to floors or walls. Paul, Minn.: “ Frank T. Ripley lee- cept matter, being that which produces triangle for instance, without there be­ of the patient. To do this an exact honest and honorable. So I said if he Those poor victims were exhibited to lured and gave tests to a large audience sense impressions; and there are no such ing space between its two sides. It knowledge of medical therapeutics as would tell me his birthday I would tell I the public like wild beasts. They wore for the St Paul, Mlnu., Alliance, last ghosts as pure matter or pure thoughts does not follow that the ultimate atoms well as those of heallng.and above all an him very near hU hour of birth: he said I often killed by tho ignorance anil bru- evening, April 10. These are the clos­ in reality. can he divided because they havo parts, exact knowledge of the nervous system Feb. 22, and I replied thnt he was horn tallty of their keepers. ing Sundays. Mr. Ripley and his guides Modern logic, as far as we conceive it ray friend Abe Hoffman to tho contrary and human anatomy. Of such on one I -oon after midnight. He then gave his I «mil particular attention to the fol­ are doing a good wort here.” to be right, is by no means an overthrow notwithstanding. know of none more skilled than the good data: IS44, Feb. ±2, at 1:45 a . m . lowing paragraph: “Such was tho state K. G. Archbold, Toledo, Ohio, writes: of the old formal logic, generally called Divisibility has nothing to do with the doctor above first quoted. 1 have just made hi- horoscope, and of the insane generally through­ "Mrs. Carrie Firth lectures and gives Aristotelian. It is simply an amend­ size of a thing. If it had, then a cubic G eo. P. McIn t y r e , Secretary, found it very remarkable, so much so out Europeat the commencement of this tests and a more earnest worker would ment made in order to exclude an foot of steel would he more easily divided The First Society of Spiritualists. that I shall add it to my list as an exam­ century. Such it continued to tie In be hard to find. She is a true torch- erroneous interpretation. And so is than a mellow apple. Now Hoffuiun will . pie for teaching ray pupils, and if in England so late as 1815 and in Ireland as hearer, leading them that will listen to modern mathematics not so much an come hack at me with that old“ehc»nut," every way agreeable, shall be pleased to 1- 11, us revealed by the inquiries of Par­ light, truth and liberty." evolution as an extension of the old and say, “we can imagine the ultimate COLLEGE OF THERAPEUTICS. publish it. with a delineation of the na liamentary Commissions in those years Euclidian system. It Is a revolution atom to bo divisible because it has two respectively." Mrs. W. H. Floyd, of Colorado only against a certain unclear conception The 14th session begins at Kansas City, tivity, in T he P rogressive T h in k e r . Springs, Col., writes: “ Mr. Lockwood sides,” Is to pul together words without li.'" Lexington St. W. H. CUANEV. Dr. Tyler is entirely welcome to all of mathematics, and demonstrated al­ moaning. An iron hall has two sides a* Mo., on the 1st of May, 1892, and contin­ the comfort these facts can give. and wife have spent a week at our home. most daily at the Temple of the Magi P. S.—I omitted to state a curious (act. They are very much liked, both in our much a* a melon has, but you cannot out ues six weeks. The course of instruc­ Mrs. Richmond, who, by the way, is a Not only were the Greeks and Romans by Prof. Richmond. open the ball with the melon. Spirit tion as heretofore qualifies for practice and Egyptians as far in advance of the homes and in the lecture room. Mrs. very pleasant, intelligent Lady, informed The relativity of knowledge, whether atoms may be just as hard and firm as of the healing art, including Psychomet­ Christians in tho treatment of the men­ Lockwood gives readings, and gives we conceive of it as the relativity of the those of matter. Again says Prof. Mer­ me that her husband had »aid to her, good satisfaction. The Professor's loc- ric diagnosis, Magnetic and Psychic shortly before my arrival: ‘‘Prof. tally diseased, but even tho Mohammed­ . , , , , .object to tho subject in general or os an ton: “17 we pile up a mass of atoms to Chaney will bo here to-day.” N either ans were in advance of the Chrlstluns tures arc very scholarly and scientific. I appreciation of the fact that all knowl- any height whatever, it is evident that Healing, and Eloctro-Thera peu tics, all about *00years, and in addition to this Ile presents the spiritual jihllosophy In I c.qku j,jvog ond ,-an give information of they will notall be in contact throughout guided by Therapeutic Sarcognomy and of them had ever seen me. and no one a new light to his9 hearers. [ ratltllnn. ,.nlt. , 1, wi. l.,n.l In f hi, ...in. but myself could have known, by tho or­ they treated their lunatics with great relation* only, does not leail to the con­ ail their surfaces. They will only touch the anatomy of the brain. Fee for tho dinary means of knowledge, the event kindness. G. \V. Kates and wife will accept calls clusion that knowledge is ¡imms-iblo. al certain points.” Whut fills up the in­ The temple of Diana of Ephesus was a for April, May and June. Have some The relativity of subject ami object, course, 925; diploma 95. Address Dr. J. which caused my sudden and abrupt termediate spaces? Science is obliged It. Buchanan, 1402 Broadway, Kansas visit. W. H. C. refuge for insolvent debtors, and the open dales for Western camps in Au­ therefore, is a fundamental feature of to conclude tnat in all interspaces, fur | Tueseium was a refuge for slaves. gust. Would like to hear from societies knowledge, and we Bhail understand that through the universe, there Is a sub- City, Mo. Again, I say that hundreds of years in the West, to serve them next fall and it must be so if we «:onsider that reality stauce which is tho most highly elastic A SaU AceUlcut. I before the establishment of Christianity winter. Address them, 2231 Frankford itself is a great system ol relations’? of all elements; it transmits the waves Senator Hoar was recently confined in there were in India not only hospitals Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. The Interconnection of all thing* appears of force in all directions, but is not its<-If a dark room for six weeks, with ban­ Mrs. Laura DeKnevott, an c^ ’ I and asylums for |ieopie, buleven for an to be eo complete that if we intend to composed of separable atom*. This is dage» over the eyes, because of a severe and respected medium, met with a pain- ¡raais. Tho .„roal real mistaketniBvake of tiiotho Chris­Chris cxnluln or understand one single fact the Ether, and thus the universe 1» com­ attack of acute Iritis. This was caused ful accident on Sunday, March 20, at 87 1tian clergy is that they attribute all It’s mighty hard to know sometimes fully and exhaustively in all its relations, posed of the three great classes of sub­ by an overstrain of the eye when en­ S. Morgan St., this city, at her duugh-1 goodness to Christianity. They have what to do In this world. A pretty girl past, present and future, we should be stances named Matter, Ether and Spirit. gaged in his duties as Senator. tor's residence, Mrs. 'Sarah Calkins, always been engaged in maligning hu- is praised, but a young man is blamed obliged to give a complete description of Each of these has some distinctive char­ She fell and fractured her left hip and man nature—in attacking the human | for being fresh. the universe. Wo might address in tho acteristics, and also others which are The only man who makes much cap­ dislocated the socket, Physicians set I heart—in efforts to destroy all natural | Every age and generation must be as same way anything else—an atom of common to all three. Again he says: ital out of what he doesn’t know is the the limb the next day. Since the oc-1 passions. ( free to act for Itself In ail cases as the hydrogen, a grain of sand as well as the “Thu old’.sages imagined that spirit hud expert witness. cur re nee of_the accident, her life has I Perfect maxims for the conduct of life 1 ages and generations that preceded it. sun, the action of a tiny speck of Irritable no properties which also exist in matter." Having fun is like buying catfish: af­ been despaired of, owing to her feeble were uttered and repeated In India and The vanity and presumption of govern­ protoplasm as well as the soul of man. But in forming this notion they had to ter you have cut tho hca«f off there is health and age, which is 75 years.ytairs. UpU p to China hundreds of years before the Chrls- ing beyond the grave is the most ridicu­ Says Prof. Richmond: ignore the validity of al) the facts in the not much left. Every virtue was lauded and ¿Ate, the family aro more hopeful of her Uan Era. lous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man “Every particle of matter In the case, and they constructed an hypothesis recovery. Boston and St. Louis papers1. every vice denounced. All tho good has no property in man, neither has a None but the brave dcserre the fair, universe acts upon every other partlcie I with nothing for a base. When we oon- please copv. G. G. W. V an Horn that Christianity has in It came from the generation a property in the generations and none but tho brave can live with SU II’. Madison St. I human heart. Everything in that sys- th at are to follow. ‘ with a magnetic force directly propor-1 eider that tho forces all consist of wav«», some of them.

t APRIL **. 1802. (THE PROGRESSIVE zVnniversary Report«. TJIK PROGRESSIVE THINKER. Im position Oil Illtl'IllgCIIOO— ICc IIiJ oiih F ervor. A Plagiarist. For some reason the programme of tho Priestly Fraud. Indianapolis Association of Spiritualist», We devoted the whole of our paper Thoro must be something wrong In a The learned Dr. Tulinugc 1* now celebrating the Iitb annlvoreury, did not last week to anniversary exercise»- I'uM I.UJ er«rjr »tlUT'llf .I \<>. au Loutula Mitrt. h\ stem »crl|illnn. persistent it would ho just cause for his It 1» not safe to place and confidence In “ Never In the history Of our Association T*nFs»miMtT»T*i*i*pw«ittM firsUirJ uni» | disbarment. It would l>o a »poetos of I offering it in explanation. The latest A Striking Fact. wo* there u more successful entertain­ W. K. Gordon inform» u* that at hethar bvUce. si 01« (»Ilous Ids Isrsiisbijr 1» I frill,(| which no Intelligent judge would craze was an attempt at solf-cruclflxlun Tho Jlcligto-I'hilttj'Ojjhicttl Journal did Denver, COl., anout fifty person* assem­ id n o M i ment. We now fed that the cause is t>o* j f t - • - - - - in tolerate for a moment. •The miserable wretch had buun leading not puhl!»li this year a single Annivers­ progressing as never before." bled lo celebrate the llth anniversary. L luí« oí tro raciipj lo Ib* •»•«> rifili:# up of tho reported crucifixion of Jesus, So The weather wn* »imply horrible. This Ife* rl«b) - - ' ' The Jew* had a law prohibiting lubor ary report, Il ha» no Interest whatever Dr. Dean Clark hu* finished a five Tìilrtern wreka - • - - - ïku he wished to imitate (lie door Savior in did not diminish llie brigbtne** of the 6 1 aft« CÁjfj -----­ tun on tho Snbbulh. It was local to Judea, expluliou of hi* own guilt. The v ictim In t h e s e reporta; they are entirely foreign month»’ service at Napa, Cal. He gave inner. Tho cxereli«-» opened with sing­ it bu i T r * and really bud no force outside tho liears the mime of Protobko; he live» at to Its work. Not u single speaker sends excellent satisfaction there. ing, followed by a lecture of twenty K«mlt by PofltotHcr M'»«ry OMrr. KftfMtrtd letter, Jewish hierarchy. Christians Insist Koenlgsherg, Prussia. Tho press dis­ his appointments there to be given to G. F. Perkin» Is now at Tcnlon, N. J., minute», und an ample lunch and a social t r.i ran oti I’hlcaf** **r » « r \t>rk. Il In-«» W *0 I) tirina lo f«t «¡rafia ««tlit.l oil kw«J bank*, ao «»n I Jesus ubroguted tho old Levllleul law patches give the details: the world; not a single medium adver­ where be will undoubtedly do some hour. The room was handsomely dec­ •#bce no difficult; w tM tflff U» todBOlBI Spirilo* served as a day of rest. Christians nulling thu left hand firmly. Tho right to come here for a while, please write a floral harp presented by his developing aliata lo aol«erlfoe for Tua l**o*irr - a n a Tiiin ***. hand remained free, and in till- the club of ten; to N. L. Fowler, Vineland, * r ool 1 be <1 ibt in t an aduni t" foe h Itboui the valúa grus|nd the Idea, sot up tho claim that me and I will let the people Know." class as a token of their love and esteem. fole Itif'tmatfoui luifatrird ito r»la t u b week, and al inunlac took a knife and repeatedly N. J., for a club of twelve: to our friends •h» eric* of ooly about two cent* p* r week. Jesus rose from the dead on thut day, stabbed himself in the breast. He at Lowell, Mich., for a club of twenty: James Riley, of Marcellus, Mich., writes: “ I ain kept busy giving seance». Take Nolire« und treated itthoreofterasl sucred duy. became unconscious from pain and loss and to IS. F.Baldwin, of Granville, N.Y., L. S. Burdick writes from Texas, It had no connection with the Jewish People are writing mo from all over tho Mich., that the anniversary was cele­ IF" At rinfranco nf »ufo»crfi>flun. If noi renewed, of blood, and was in this condition when foraclubof twenty two. There is nothing United States, and two from Canada, Ibc paprr la din-.¿tin uni No follia wUJ be arai fur c i Sabbath. It was not substituted in his wife returned. She called for help, brated there with a good ' attendance tra number«. und It took great exertion to pull out tho that gives tho publisher of u radical asking me lo vl*lt them, or for sitting*. from abroad. Among the distinguished IT ~ If you do not rerotui>tJ the sun which gave Its light and warmth nulls and release the victim. He was corrc-ctcd, and mlMlng number« aupp.led fraila. supply of these clubs. Our friends all to my home for a sitting to-morrow Moulton, of Grand Rapids, Mich.: bathed In blood, und was ut first supposed night." |F * Wbrueverrou drrlrr the atliln *« of your paper to the world. To this day, under vari­ to bo dead, but gradually recovered over the United States seem to agree Miss Cora Fuller, of Vicksburg. Mrs. llianged, alwaya flit* tbe addreaa of lb* placa tow bleb Lorn Worthington directed the musical K la tben acni, or lb* cfoao fe cannot foo ttiaüo. ous names, the sun has been worshiped consciousness. While his wounds are of with us on that point. Willard J. Hull speaks for the Society a» a God. a most serious character it Is belloved of Union Spiritualist*, Cincinnati, O.. part of the feast. A B onntiM Harr«**! fur iîôCVuia. Every law now extant relating to they ure not necessarily fatal." during the Sunday» of April. He will Doyoa want a morr bountiful harreat ifoan we tan accept calls for week evening work from fiv e you for » ertila» Ju*t panar and think for a mo* Sunday observance, among all civilized Grace S. Royce, Secretary of the Riant wLat an intellectual fva»t that amali Inveatuimt T he B e ard . G eneral SCirVev. point* in that vicinity. He Is open for Fraternal Spiritual Society of National will fura tab you. The *ul**crlpiltin Price of Tun I'nc nations, can be traced back to tho royul engagement* the three last Sundays of City, Cal., reporta that the anniversary Thixkk* iblrtem «ceka la only iweoi) n decree of Constantine, where it was con­ A rural congregation in Indiana gave etnia! Kor H al amount you obtain one hundred and its pastor the choice of shaving or June, and first port of July. Address wa* celebrated on the 3Jsl of March. ur of‘ aotld. . a ucotanllal,ufo, axMjl elnallng and nected with sun worship. The Sniritnalistic Field—^Work­ during April, 1«H Baymillen St., Clncin- The hall wa* tastefully decorated with Fulnd-mreabUbln* reading nutter, equivalent to a medi resigning, and the pastor left town, nati, Ohio. tun-alied book! ______The clergy cannot bo ignoiantof this Everywhere the whisker is successful.— ers. Doings, Etc. evergreens and flowers. The exercise« heathen origin of their sacred Sunday; A V it's. CJJ-Rcmcmber, everyone, that, on account C. T. S. Cook »peaks flatteringly of commenced at ten o’clock in tho morn­ SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1892. aud yet, so soon as tlioy ascend their of our large edition, we go to press early Mon­ the Spiritualist Association of South­ ing, with a social until lunch time. At It was a brave man forty years ago day morning. Short items only will be In­ western Mich., at Texas. It was two o'clock the programme was opened pulpits—well designated “ coward's cas­ who so far disregarded the custom of the serted If received on the previous Saturday. addressed by Hon. L. V. Moulton, of by singing, followed by opening remarks tles," because they will not allow any­ times as to allow his whiskers to grow We take pleasure In publishing the movements Grand Rapids. Miss Cora Fuller, of by Pres. P. T. Griffith, tneo introducing one to call in question the truth of their in the reign of arent cause. The latest remarkable hope she will meet with the greatest rostrum." sjieaks for tho society In Indianapolis, tively participated. Throe sessions < must bo a Christian government, Hand cure comes from Detroit, Mich. A man success in this venture. Ind., during the month of z\prll. So­ G. W. Perkins writes as follows from held," morning, afternoon and evenir and glove with the very element which who bad been violently Insane tor years cioties wishing her for May can make Mrs. M. T. Allen, of Springfield, Mo., most tends to the moral degradation of was given an extraordinary dose of Trenton, N. J.: “ We held our second terms to suit their society. Address medicine to quiet him. He slept (or Wealth ol' messing«. Sunduy's meetings under the auspice* of and Mrs. Scovell, were the speakers of the people. Comment is unnecessary. Mrs. E. Luther, 507 Mississippi St., In tho day. J. Madison zVllen took Mrs. Col. i)avls further states that if the four days, and when he awoke he was The Forum for January, 1892, stated the First Association of Spiritualist* dlanapotis, Ind. perfectly sane, indeed, wonders will yesterday, and,being a very largo attend­ Allen's placo in the morning. Mrs. J. gates of the fair arc to bo open Sundays never cease. that Pope Leo XIII. has an annual ance and successful in overy particular. Hurlow Davis writes a* follows from C. Gaston, President of the society, did he would add $3,000,000 to nis estimate salary ol 915fi,0(XI, n turn more than three The people turn out here to public Oakland, Cul.: “ I intend to make a her utmost to mako the occasion a of the gross receipts to be derived from times greater than that paid to the meeting* very well, but not so much to trip through Southern California after success, and it was xi most emphatically the exposition. Why Chinese Oppose Missionaries. President of tho United State». From private sittings, aa there is a small army May 1. Any societies wishing my Sample copies of T h e P r o g r essi' Ministers, priests and preachers draw Mixlem Thought, published at Bombay, of parasite* who travel a* mediums, services ns a platform tost medium can T h in k e r were circulated, and it annually from the pockets of the people this it appears that playing an inter- P,. « - address me at 2002 Market St., San India, says the trouble between the mediate between man and God U a which dr*l.ndrain l,h.°tho P<*^etbook*pockotbook* of the hoped that tho good it did will approximately 180,000,000 for working _ _ i * Francisco, Cal." measured by tho subscriptions it on Sunday, and yetAhero arc many of Chinese and the missionaries grows out pecuniary success at least. How I* iand honest t workers.' - “xlHinso of uPrlffht receive. these selfsame exponents of speculative of the leaching that to be a true Christian with the toiler and the scrvant-glrlsx Mrs. Mattie E. Hull is In Cleveland, opinions and assumptions who affect to who contribute this $150,000? Their Geo. H. Brooks has changed hi* res­ Ohio. She will answer calls to lecture a | »orson must forsake father and mother idence In Elgin, 111. His address now until further notices in any town within Wilson Duncan, of Des Moines, believe that it would be sordid and and cleave only to Christ: that as tho wealth consists in blessings from this impious to put the argument on the basis well-paid pope. is 144 N. Liberty St. Mr. Brooks one hundred miles of said city. Address ha* sent us many subscribers for Chinese love their parents they cannot It Is stated that Po|x> Pius IX. was lectured ut Richmond, HI., April 10; her until May 1, In care of Chas. Leeds, P r o g r e s s iv e T h i n k e r , anil onw of pecuniary profit. How can one have 15 Robinson Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. patience with such rank obey the remilrement, hence their dis- possessed of 9113,U00,U()0, mostly invested Chatsworth the lTth. He will bo at Ster­ the general agency for the wor A. S! tike of the Western religion. < in British consols, when be died. ling, the 24th. CootlDued on flftb page. large. He shall have it. APRIL 28 , 1 8 0 2 . t h e progressive t h i n k e r

donate to its mass, und Inversely to the it is easy to understand how they may He Was Very Much Puzzled. tem of religion came from Ibis world, squuro of its ili-tance.” be converted into each other, und how and in It you will find not only tho good­ OCCULT MATTER. There wo have It mathematically closely they are related. Tho nerve­ A VISIT Tl> PROP. OLNEY It. RICHMOND ness of man.but tho Imporfeationsof man deduced; the infinite mind acts on mind: force obeys tho general law» of radiant —not only the-love of man.but the malice mind over matter—who longer can deny force the same us those radiating light, When I have done nn Injustice even of man. Mesmerism, Hypnotism. Tel­ tho mastery of universal will over th<- heat or sound. Tho nervo-forco con­ to un enemy, 1 am always ¿lad to make Lot me toll you why the Ghrlstluns for epathy or Thought Trans­ elemental forces of nature? Tho science stantly rad lute* from each organ of tho amend-. Four different persons who so many centuries neglected or abused of man,therefore, propose* a now method brain, and vibrates “with a magnctlo have called upon I’ref. Richmond for the insane. They believed the Now ference. for studying these question», and this force directly proportionate to its moss astrological readings had stated to me Testament, und honestly supposed that direct method will liebo richly------, ------rewarded. ------and inverselyEP to the square . of Uadis that all the delineation he gave was tho lnsuno were filled with devils. And Tbolr Iteluiioii to tlio Hcfenre by the discovery of a complete system of tance," und thus pusses from each person with a deck of cards. Therefore I meu- DR. BUCKLEY. or,‘Menial Healing. laws in the nature of man little areatned In all directions through space—wasted tally relegated him to the domain of all In regurd to tho contest between Dr. of by modern physicists. It| will ‘ ‘ reveal ‘ in ‘ anger or excitement—the substance* -*«**« fortune-tollers, and had no desire to see Buckley, who, us 1 understand it, is a In a conversation with that eminent in detail the means by which man shall that was given for the “healing of the him. To-day an event arose which doctor of theology—and l slioulu think physicist. Dr. Robert Greer, on the ex­ quickly attain a de*tiny as full and nations." Every person is constantly scorned to make It necessary for us to such theology stood In need of a doctor— hibition witnessed ut tho beautiful home magnificent as the visions of ancient surrounded by this nerve-sphere, und it meet. I shrank from It because the and the 'IXhijram, I have nothing to say. of tho Editor of THE PROGRESSIVE seers. corresponds exactly to his or her own ulmosphere of fraud and trickery is There is only one side to that contest: Thinker, when l ’rof. Sixtus gave such Thu advancement of the human race character. distasteful; but Brother Francis, of THE and so fur as tile Doebtr heretofore criti­ striking demonstration* of his hypnotic In postages bus not been guided solely Through these spheres wc either P rogressive T h in k e r , assured me cised what is known us the "Christmas powers, und, after going all over the by the caprices of «tatesmen and kings. attract or repel tbose*areund us. Wo that 1 would meet an honest, upright Sermon," I huve answered him, leaving possibilities that may reasonably lie by fluctuating Impulse» of men. mentally Impress others and are im­ gentleman, and that a line from him but very little to which I care to reply oxpocted from its gcnoral uso in the The mighty drama of human history pressed by them. would Insure me u courteous welcome. in his fast article. Or. Buckley, like science of healing, he said: lias been an Impressive and majestic Says Merton: ' These pulsatlngbrain- He gave me the line and I was received many others, brings forward names Wo have at every hour to clutch »recession, moving forward under tie wnves, these swift lines of thought like an old friend. instead of reasons—instead of arguments ourselves by tho throat and cry, 'Stay? omlnion of eternal laws. These laws and feeling, sometimes reach a few Admitted to the temple, I saw much Milton, Pascal, Elizabeth Fry, John How­ Who art thou? And lo! while we ask of growth and advancement ore not feet, and sometimes many miles. Bui thnt was new und curious as connected ard and Michael Faraday are not argu­ our protean self the question, we have only an inherent part of the nature of whether extending a great or less dis­ ments. They are only names: and in­ with astronomy, but no signs of tho Spitrks from Col. I ngorsoll. become another. Wo seek perpetuity man: but they also control the physical tance then, around every person. Is this charlatan. The great planetarium was stead of giving the numes, Dr. Buckley of existence for something ever becom­ world, and their center, as Dr. Greer vita! sphere of silent power, reflecting not only Instructive, out grand and should give tho reasons advanced by ing other. Wo seek personal Identity puts it, is in the life of the universe. ami transmitting every mood and im­ beautiful. I asked for an explanation REV. DR. TYLER. those whose names he pronounces. Jon­ after death, hut we have no personal Says Dr. Merton: pulse that sweeps through the soul." athan Edwards may have been a good of u group of curds which l next saw, und The Rev. Dr. Tylertakes it for granted Identity before death: how then can we Seven great forces carry on the Prof. Charles Dawbarn says: “We pho­ ho gave it very candidly, showing' their man, but certainly his theology was in­ have it afterward?'" universal operations of nature. These tograph our thoughts and persons upon symbolical meaning a- understood by that ail charity aad goodness are tho famous. So Father Matthew was a good This conception of ourselves is not are gravity, heat, chemlc force, mag­ everything we come in contact with." the ancient Magi, which I knew to be children of Christianity. This is a mis­ man, but It w-as impossible for him to he intended as a denial of immortality; on netism, electricity, light and vital or Again says Merton: “When two friends correct, for the ancient orientals, in take. All the virtues were in tho world good enough to convince Dr. Buckley the contrary, wo believe that life is spiritual force.” All these were known approach each other, there Isa beautiful developing from the use of hieroglyphics long before Christ came. Probably Mr. of the doctrine of the “Real Presence. ’ immortal. He says: in some of their manifestations to the old play of colors as the nerve currents from loan alphabet, retained many of their Tyler will be convinced by the words of Milton was a very good man, and he Matter without free life is inert: Egyptians. But it was not until modern them meet and blend, one after another, symbols. The heavens were divided Christ himself. He will probably remem­ described God os a kind of Brigadier moved only from without. The dead times, when the genius of Gllbeit, of and when the two friends become fixed and mapped out before there was any ber the story of tho Good Samaritan, General, put the angels in uniform and body is simply matter without life. It Franklin, Dalton, Gaivani, Young, in position, the wave« returning to each alphabet; hence, every constellation had and if he does ho will see that It is ex­ hud regular battles but Milton's good­ ' not the blacksmith's arm that is Faraday, Mayer and others had investi­ give a new series of luminous harmonies. a symbolical meaning—often several actly in point. The Good Samaritan was ness can by no possibility establish the strong; without nerve-force it cannot gated these agents, that we came to Sometimes the currents from some meanings. Cards, now used only for not a Hebrew. He was not one of “the truth of his poetical and absurd vagaries. raise an ounce—cannot raise itself understand how the forces were mu- organs _ of the brain will blend, and that playing games, wore all astronomical chosen people." He wag a poor, “miser­ All the self-denial und goodness in the Whence the nerve force? From the tuully related and their intimate nature. J from others will not. In that case, the svnibols. The stars do not form the able heathen,” who knew nothing about world do not even tend to prove the ex­ ganglionic gray cells of the spinal cord They are now regarded as different two ‘ friends * ' * can only partly sympathize beasts, fowls, etc., pictured on a celes­ thccn tho ball with tho melon. Spirit tion as heretofore qualifies for practice and Egyptians as far In advance of the homes and In the lecture room. Mrs, Thorolntlvlty of knowledge, whether very pleasant, Intelligent lady, Informed Lockwood gives readings, und gives atoms may bo just ns hard and firm as uf the healing art. Including Psychomet­ me that her husband had said to her, Christians In the treatment of the men wu conceive of it a- tho relativity of tho those of matter. Again soys Prof. Mer­ tally diseased, hut even tho Mohammed good satisfaction. Tho Professor's lec object to the subject in general or as an ric diagnosis. Magnetic and Psychic shortly before my arrival: “ Prof. lures are very scholarly and scientific ton: “ If wc pile up a mass of atoms to Chaney will be hero to-day." Neither ans were in advance of the Christians appreciation of tho fact that all knowl­ any height whatever, it is evident that Healing, aud Electro-Therapeutics, ail uboul Tuoyears, and in addition to thl Ho presents the spiritual philosophy In edge gives and > an give information of of them had ever seen me, and no one a new light to his hearers.” thoy will not all bo in contact throughout guided by Therapeutic Sarcognomy and hut myself eould have known, by the or­ they treated their lunatic» with great relations only, does not lead to tho con­ all their surfaces. Thoy will only touch tho anatomy of tho brain. Fee for the dinary means of knowledge, tne event kindness. G. W. Kates and wife will accept calls clusion that knowledge is impossible. at certain |sdnl»." What fills up the in­ The temple of Diana of Ephesus was for April, May and June. Huve somo Thu relativity of subject and object, course, Î25; diploma 85. Address Dr. J. which caused my sudden and abrupt termediate spaces? Science is obliged R. Buohauan, 1402 Broadway, Kansas visit. W. H , C. rotuge for Insolvent debtors, und the open dates for Western camps In Au therefore, 1» u fundamental feature of to conclude that in all interspaces, far Tucseiurn was a refuge for slaves. gust. Would like to hoar from societies knowledge, und wo snail understand tlint through tho universe, there is a sub­ City, Mo. Again, 1 say that hundreds of years In the West, to surve them next full and It must ho bo if we consider that reality stance which is tho most highly clastic A Sail Accident. before the establishment of Christianity winter. Address them, 2251 Frankford tUcif Ih a groat system ot relations? of ail elements; it transmits the wave» Sunulor Hoar was recently confined in there were in India not only hospitals Avc., Philadelphia, Pa. Tho Interconnection of all thing* appears of force In all directions, but is not itself a dark room for six weeks, with ban­ Mrs. Laura DcKnovett, an elderly and asylum, for people, hut cren lor an- and respected medium, mot with a pain- lmillB Tho „r<Æl ,n|BÜàkl. o( to bo so complete that If wo intend to composed of separable utoms. This is dages over tho eyes, t»ecauso of a severe imals. The great mistake of tho ChrU- explain or understand ono single fact the Ether, and thus tho universe is com­ attack of acute iritis. This was caused ful accident on Sunday, March 20, at 87 ilari clergy 1* that they attribute all It's mighty hard to know sometimes fully and exhaustively in all Its relations, what to do in this world. A pretty girl posed of the three great classes of sub­ by an overstrain of tho eye whon en­ S. Morgan St., IhL* city,. at her duugh- >»K goodness to Christianity.- They >y have past, present and future, wo should be stances named Matter, Ether and Spirit. gaged in his duties as Senator. 1er'» residence, Mrs. “Sarah * ”Calkins " always been engaged in maligning hu Is praised, hut a young man is blamed obliged to give a complete description of Each of theso has some distinctive char­ She fell and fractured her left hip and man nature—In attacking tho human for being fresh. tho universe. We might uddross In tho acteristics, and ulso others which are Tho only man who makes much cap­ dislocated the sockot. Physicians set heart—in efforts to destroy all natural Every age und generation must lie na same way anything eUo—an atom of common to all three. Again ho says: ital out of what he doesn’t know Is the the limb the next day. Since the oc­ passions. free to aet for itself In all cases as tho hydrogen, a grain of sand as woll us tho “Tho old!soges imagined that spirit h'ad export wltnoss. currence of the accident, her life has Perfect maxims for the conduct of life ages and generations that preceded It Bun, the action of u tiny speck of irritable no properties which also exist in mutter.” Having fun is like buying catfish: af­ been despaired of, owing to her feeble were uttered and repeated lo India and The vanity ami presumption of govern protoplasm as well as the soul of man. But In forming this notion they hud lo ter you have cut the head off there is health and age, which is 75 years. Up to ChIna hand rods of yours before the Ch rls- ing beyond tile grave Is the most rldiuu Says Prof. Richmond: Ignore the validity uf all the facts in tho not much left. dale, tho family are more hopeful of her tla.ii Era. Every virtue was lauded and lous and Insolent of all tyrannies. Man recovery. Boston and St. Louis papers every vice denounced. All tho good has no property In man, neither has a “ Every particle of matter In the case, und they constructed un hypothesis Nono but tho brave deserve the fair, please copy. G. G. W. Van Horn. that Christianity hua in It camo from the generation a property In tho generations universe acts upon every other purtlcie with nothing for a base. When we con­ and nono but tho bravo can live with 1J/, W. Modisf/n SI. human heart. Everything in that sys- thut are to follow. with a magnetic force directly proper- sider that the force« all consist of waves, some of them. THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER. APRIL M. l«t»J

1 whoso zeal to force the whole world to recog. “ of |Msqile will stay away for conscience sake, SHALL THE GATES OPEN? idzo their Snored day overrides all the exigui­ “ and will thus be deprived of all its benefits.” EXCELLENT BOOKS! tie s of the occasion. Numbers 7, S and Hare Those who desire to stay away for conscience I not worthy of notice. sake are at perfect liberty to do so! If tboy They Are for Na.o at This Office. The Ladies of Clyde, Ohio, W ant “ Visitors to the fair greatly need a weekly refuse to go iu on week days, because others It Kept Hermetrically Sealed “day for absolute rest, and the Chicago |>oopl0 have gone in on Sunday, let them stay away 1 t.L ABOUT DEVUS. BY MOSES HUH. on the Sabbath. “need it." altogether, and give the world an exhibition of I A » ' : • if * I Tri«» ISC«ttU> No doubt they do, and also all tliu tollers iu their intolerance and bigotry, IGF OF FF.4SOX. F y THOMAS PA IXE. whatever field of labor, but they probably “Wo believe from the above reasons If the [ a book «h»i ill ilMMl4rn4 Tri. ••»■«« >,'• They Are lu Harmony with Saloon-Keep know enough to take a day which will best “ exhibition is open on the Sabbath it will be a A FEW PL A nr WORDS RF.GARPIXQ / / Church T*>ull-n It contali»« i*|.üble »utUtk» lly Mob* or* ami Brothels. suit their convenience. They are not obliged “ financial failure, uuil p curse to tho coun- »ri H Wmtbrook. I'rlco ¿cenia. to visit the exposition on Sunday or any other “ try." n /fl/.E MARY/ L WORKERS, F Y ALLEM day, unless they so «lesiro. The assertion that the fair will bo a failure J. J rumai». A. Il A ttarrekiui Ns»k rrbU EVERY LOW OROOOERV 18 IN FAVOR OF CLOS­ Your eleventh reason Is ambiguous, and I and curie, if not conducted ns you demand, JD/BI /;• OF F /FL ES. F Y Kfi R SL Y CRA l ES. I j li win «rii jai i « n u ) Tri. « 91.79. IN'«} THE FAIR, SO H U T -MORE POISON refer it back for restatement is a statement i tldnk upon more reflection ptEATH A XD AFTER //E S. BY AMORE W CAN HE. SOLI)— PARTICULARLY you would not thus publicly make, lint In­ I-S JicluoD pgVla. tk*uethlng you «Lotti«] rood. Trice Tl “ If clonal, Sunday excursions will not bo cent*. ARK PENS OF PROSTITUTION IN “ fostered; If open, every railroad will bring asmuch as you have played the role of a T~)/ MAXOS OF A lt PROGRESSIVI m ix ns FAVOR OF CL08INO THE “ them, train hands will Ik? compelled to labor, prophet, 1 to«» will assume the prophetic gift A ~ S for • T » Cl risit«n. non MviarlAii itortrlD«. «ltd « w ytof of It»** ftiKiffit rriiflou# io*.# liy It.'v. » 'W tgtorr Taint-hlci FAIR ON SUNPAY. "and probably millions of young people eu- l believe whether the gat«-« are open or dosed wOKibtftf ra d tu rrwi. Trice » «mu “ ticed iuto Sabbath • breaking and ¡minor- on Sunday it «vill be the grandest success the EffiOM SOl't to s o f t . BY FM.tr.I ROOD 2 ^ TatUa. A “ 4111110» *- - « Ml t- - .. . of . . . . Uurlv. 1’rlno To the \V. C. T. U., Clype. O.:—In the “ allty.” world has over known. It »vill augment tho Rfjmrtrr, of March 10, '¡>2, you have publicly Nearly every railroad centering Into Chi­ fraternity of nations. It »«'ill help to break CYFTY YF ins ix rut arenar or bom b. addressed to me tweutv-six reasons why the cago bus fur years been running; through trains down and destroy the narrow nnd moss-grown J tw n<-. « i... > i,ini.i>u. .i rtii.i a . .... - ,1c. World'» fair should not he open on Sunday. nud local excursion trains on Sundays, If this walls of caste, parly am) creed. It will help h a « . ►.«. r r l c f . » . n to bury in oblivion tho remembrance of holy r 'o s r n r . o f x a n r e . b y m . l. shf.r m a n They were no doubt called forth by au article is such an offence against God and morality, L F » c l Wm F L»„r. A tm .lt rq>IM* win, wpirttnwi tru lla. written by me on the subject for a Chicago why has uot the \V. C. T. U. insisted that it wars and the h!t>od of nameless martyrs, ami Trico (1 OQ paper. My article was not sent with any ex­ should ho nbuted long ag«), instead of making it will reveal to tho world, in n light never piORDAXO FRCXO. /f/S /.IFF. WORKS, I J worth martyrdom, «tul WMi«am«*t . tir » fr. tfe pectation it would be republished in this vill­ it a reason for closing the Columbian Exposi­ seen before, the manifest progress aud destiny Prcettiloàs r* Magar In««. Kirriimi fur referent r prtre is «bU . of the American Republic. age. During thirty years' resilience hero I tion? Many of these trains are now run for Jjr/STOR/CAL AXD CRITICAL REVIEW OF have tried to avoid religious controversy, the benefit of church goers who live in the With assurance of high personal regard, 11;' i i'*tl u liUluttluat U, t; \ç Brown. newspaper notoriety, or iui(losing myself ho suburbs. Why do you not insist that church­ I am Most respectfully yours, M !>» Trier IS ertila. * A. B . F h e n c ii. f JO lY TO MESMERIZE. BY PROF. J. tY. fore the public in any manner not especially goers shall go into the city ou Saturday night 1 L C*e«ttirri»t« In Amer­ calle<| forth by my follow citizens To be and remain until Monday morning, and thu9 . A£r,rDt nj*>trrw mirarli # r t plained by fUrtturrUm. Ax. bvitoihie work, Prtca, popr, M onti thus honored by you is a compliment 1 «liil save the poor “train hands" from desecrating Reasons That W ere Given. THEY ARE IMMORAL. not anticipate. The ladies of Clyde are far your sacred «lay? One night, after tea, Mnutor .lohnnto and Suo IMMORTALITY, OB FUTURE ROATES AXO Sat down at tho tablo their probloms to do. l jlw.lllf,»dwelling p:« Hr-, -.1 ___«I 1'. • ' «■«. «I D. A ! I« fftKtoallfag. Trice00 rr&u. “My string's In u knot!" baby cries with a shout, could have greatly improved them, aud offered the largest labor organizations iu the United I cut from the Crawfordsvillu (Iml.) l{< view, T m r.BAl t / CTURFS. B Y A R. FRF..VCR something less objectionable,‘ ' '' However, I States have already passed resolutions «le- "Quick, S«ndo, my darling, help clear his snarls as follows: Th. »• •,« »..ns 111. :r , . Ut,l In «.,1,1 | ‘Ttr ,, tu t,” will notice the reasons offered in this tract, as moudiug it, anil others will do the same. Said the mother's kind - voice: so what could “ The Catholic priests of this country are T IFF rx THE STOXF .IGF; THE HIS FOB) you have seen fit to adopt them as a society “If they did desire it, this is a World's Z , of At'. " • “ . «■>,"< ...... Al Arrmi,. An-«,illn. sho do, waging a bitter war on our public schools. Itl»t,.-Ti i«f m .n »»rlttrn ttir,.uxli Hin m M l.ir.klilb uf C |-|*. and present them to me. Your first reason is “Fair, not one f«»r Illinois, and the interest of But lea«'e mathematics and eope with the shoe. Ir jr . \ »tu « liM iid r v b 'l t.M * W o rk . l* r lc c a» t c o u . V . * as follows. “ the world should decide the question." Ono moment, no more! Then back to her book, Oceusiounlly one of these clergymen, more T iff. A.vo i a r o r r x t h e s p i r i t - w o r l o . O'er the points once gained, again she must look. zealous than the others, gives vent to his 1—f !»f Mrs llâ rf T MidliâBHT. Il » lio u d i lb fâcta U tr ie r “It would be flagrant national violation of Tins is an important reason against your Trice fl X». “ God's law, and expose us to his righteous position. Shall 400,000,000 dictate to 800,­ Meantime, unmolested, her dear brother John, maliguity. Rev. Father MoCannn, of Joliet, Tho first problem finished.to tho next plodded on. ^ OF THOUGHT GATHER F. O “ wrath! ’ 000,000, or one-thir«l of so-called Christian III., preached« sermon not long ago, in which " , »rojn Uw Tret of UD FrtresM b» baïuuiltr IM -r«h if.» Quick as flash Susie worked; the circle Inscribed; u« R X uirnfwul tJcUmt inr.rjbü!.. * ) £ . Are you quite certain you know just what people dictate to two-thirds, who accept other lie declared that if parents sent their children And scarcely the new proposition bad tried, to the free schools they would be ‘eternally 'HE VOICES. B Y WARREN SUMNER BAR. “ God's law" is? Has it been clearly revealed religions, just how this exposition shall be When again spoke the mother: “It come# to my 7 low. The Volf-r. ro n u ln f .--ir.« i [ m i.* ,.*!, .0 ; to you just when and how his “ righteous conducted? The majority of our own people mind damneiL' Said he: force. They mm moei rtccilebt. Trice |I A wrath" will be made manifest? When, whore want them opened. Are you not a little arbi­ That .Johnnie's blue coat wants a button behind. “ 'The American public school system is im­ 'UE COOS. B Y COI. R. C. IXGERSOLL. moral, unjust, nnd unconstitutional, and the 7 A puD pblrl of 40 r*IW*. W ons lu W ilzlt îagvU . ilic e a , and how did Go«l tell you he would be angry trary in insisting your views shall govern the “ He can't go to school without it, you know: cenlx Come, Susie, my dear, please let tho books go! if the gates were opeu ou Sunday? Has he whole world? result of education in those schools is paupers, "'Twill take butasecond, with fingors so nimble; lunatics and criminals. You might as well ryrstDF. T/ÍE GA TES; AXD FR committed the secret of his infinite mind and “Ample provision will bo made, and holt- \-/ U lrt eiut âkrtrhr*. îlT b beoti of »pirli lQlrlllgrt^e Then,t jump up,up» my child, get your scissors and send your children to the jails nn«l peniten ih r niniiuinthlp uf Mery Tb«berra* bLtlLwutr. An ricei!«c. volle. heart to the W. 0. T. U. of this village? How “tlays secured for laboring people at other thimble. Trice II & tiaries at once, as education in the public came you to be his wise interpreters and “ times." “There, that's a bright girl! and now run along! jy/YSICAL PROOFS OF AXOTHER LIFE. special confidents? If your society is a divine But first, bo quite sure j’ou fasten It strong." school ends there.' I L ritrr» to ttte ir r h r r t CummlMloft. 11» Fmr.rl« J. LtpptU. How do you know that holidays will be Ao llluatrmte«] [«Ainpblel. u ^ rtb IU w tlght In r /« i Trtce » oracle, you do the world a great injustice that sceurctl for laborers? It is estimated there arc This one she made fast: but. alas! for the thread “Great God! wlmt twaddle! Impudence cent*. you do not proclaim it at once, that the licalhen ten to twenty thousand children in the city­ Just lost In her book, It had slipped from her unlimited—sntan rebuking sin. Statistics PSYCHOPATHY, OR SP/R/7 HEAL/XC. A head. show that the greater number of our criminals I «T in of Iruobt frti ibr rrULloo*»t lhr «ptrlt to Iu enrn orc*n- of all lands may come and consult you ns the tramping ten to twelve hours per day, doing l«m. end thr Inier-rrUihtn of hamto brine« vfth rrfrrrntel^ Again she reviewed: worked rapid and well, had their early training in Catholic schools. hreltb. 4l«***o end brails*. Tf the «Plrlt *>f p r flrn*«ma!o Greeks did their Pythoness. If you are so errands and all kinds of menial service, whose Though how oft called away: indeed, I can't tell Uu»ti. thr«»vj*h the mMlum«r.lp of MU. C ora I. V lilrhnv-o.«» A familiar with the will of God, perhaps you can A greater number of the inmates of prisons, book diet every beelrr. phy«IrUa end &Mrkaft)Ui «hould rr»d wretched lives see no holidays. They are de­ The number of time# that this sister Sue Price #1 50 explain why he bus not revealed to all his de­ prived of opportunity to read, and their weary Was summoned by all, “little nothings" to do. poor houses nnd asylums have been turned While, uninterrupted, Johnnie sal, feeling sad out of parochial schools. How many tem PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL UTTER sires regarding the Sabbath. Why did he not feet rarely cross the threshold of the great 1 coer««. Ity A n-ift Uc**oa luvt». a mrt wvrk. It ¡-* call the natural world to “ halt" ou this so- churches. Tbo exposition should be open for That a sister so careless of study he bad. perance Catholics arc there in this city? lettci £fr«t tnrrlt. Trice II B called sacred day? The birds sing, Bowers them every Sunday, and tickets of admission Till, bis lessons all learned, be sprang from tho Where did that young hoodlum, who spends a pESEARCHES IV ORIEXTAl HISTORY,, table, good portion of his time behind the bars, and l \ embrmrlfi* em bntf log the originoi «»f tbe Jew*, tbe ri*e and der bloom, storms gather, and streams course on, provided. With an air that savored of—“We boys are able." of ZoroerirlA&liim and‘ the derivation of C’hrMImoltj; M «Mrbfm who recently robbed a man in ‘growler ’ alley, ••tiled: W'b«T»ce our Arrmi ...... fty G W. Krowc. If. D. wholly regardless of sacred days. Moreover, Your seventeenth reason is intlefiuite, and Now, tho house being still, and the hour being On* ml tbe m« «i vmiambfv work» mxrr pablUbetL Trie* 11.50. when it is your sacred Sabbath here, in some at most a p«x»r apology for demanding the late. get his education? Of course 1 nit1ly ln«r*lr«tl'»T>RllT t.yt.T Mr* M«rtmM*rtm M Kle*KM Ton will not beo-tco ?-Ionday. Even in our nntion the man in San We want to give the world an object les­ When the door opens quick, her father steps in, butu great many of the criminals arc ¡availa­ wemry «bile rc« O |fti«*if«m. i p»»l »rul prv«f r>t- l»y J M. Pueble*. M. I*. An rt> The 6r»l day of the week is not the sacred to close the exposition on Sundays. You want And sow on tbe buttons burst off in his (»lay, ' eye opedu of (otr rr«Uog *nd Imttructlr» fmeu. Trice «100. day of all America. It is not so recognised by to give the world an exhibition of your »acral Or why buby's luuglcs ho couldn'tclcur out, given. The good priest will pardon him, Or help now nnd then In tho running about— CTATUroi./SM, OR ARTIFICIAL SOMXAM many, whose religious zeal is no less fervent tiny, I cannot doubt it. There is no zeal while the application of a little holy water *-3 NtjMim. lilthrrtii rvlln] nirunrrlims or mnlmml magnetf»m In short, if sho snid all tbe things sho could say, ny Wm. P*k«*r y*hnr*iock, M !>. A very *ug*T*uv« worm. than yours. It is estimated that in New York like religious zeal. But there are other people will purify him. This is the way he can lio Crl leal mind« «i.ouid read It Price 91.50. Woman's rights there would bo, if no other, to taught. The Catholic church is working city alone there are 250,000 Jews, who own in this world who feel precisely as you do. ■ i p « y - c e l e cox tr a or c r /o x s o f t h e b ib i f real estate to the value of $209,000,000, and to regain her lost power. She «Iocs not waul « 3 U l Prvftfwltloft*. Ihfolnclcgl, moral, historical mnJ The fair Jewess, who dishevels her hair and But, next day at school, at the head of her class— Ire each pymrd *mnn*thHy and o**mt!v#ly by quouilon* frva» uave invested in trade $27,388,000, yet it is weeps over the fate of Jerusalem, would like Ahead of each boy and ahead of each lass— her children to attend our schools for fer frer pturc. without ( o n n n L "Price J ‘ * *“19 ceot*. “ not their aacr» «1 day. Nor is it tlfe sacred day to exhibit her sacred day. The veiled devotees Up stood little Suo, and her points proved as they would get iu the habit of thinking of the Seventh Day Adventists and many oth­ clear for themselves ami become free. Catlio . erhoou? Py lUchmrd P w a tM tt c. !ii* uhack fui; of the prophet of the desert would be glad to As though she had studied for many a year. | ufs\ laUtcilcctuâi rur*L Trier 10 em u. ers. Moreover, we may safely say that in de­ emphasize their day. The half clad monks, licism hopes to be strong cuough some day HISTORICAL Both shoulders Johnnie shrugged, and said with to rule tho United States. Protestants should TUDIF.S IX THEOSOPHY; fiance of all statutes three-fourths of the citi­ hiding in the solitude of the Asiatic moun­ a grin: 5__ ; and prmcilcal. A manual forth«* Inopie. n r w J. Cow in * zens of the republic do uot regard the day with tains, would smile with delight could they put "Vet girls are no students; they glance and awaken to a sense of the danger that threatens Vi uablc to thOM lnv«*«tf*»tlng theoaophy. I rlcr 91 50. any particular religious sanctity. To abstain on exhibition their day. But I beg to inform tuko in our free land. ‘Eternal vigilance is the price 'PUB MYTH OF THE GREAT DELUGE. from trade and lal»or in compliance with a Tho wholo of a theme, ere tho ‘great minds’ of liberty!” ' 1 bomrthlng atouid harr to rrfrr to. Ity Jatnca M. Mo ray fair inquisitors the World's Fair is not to begin." Cant». Price 19 em u . statute is no evidence they regard the day as be in any sense a religious exhibit. No pro — Mrt. Alfred May, The Review is apolitical paper (Democratic) 'j y i E CHILDREX'S PROGRESSIVE LYCEUM. sacred. Nor can it l»c proven that the open­ vision has been made for a religious depart­ I am afraid we will be overpowered by the A manual, wttk dlrrctl»a« for tbr *irrafil»tl<« and m*aa*v mneat eat of gunday _ mchoot*. By . Andrew JacatM.« f*a*la. x*m«Uuaff ing of the gates on Sunday would desecrate ment, and no grounds assigned. It is to be The Last Scenes at the Death of Catholics some day. It seems as if the lodeaprsalblc. Trier » cent*. the «lay. conceded a religious department could be Her Father. American people cannot get their eyes opened jy/E SPIRITS' IVORX. tVHAT / HEARD. ••We are a Christian nation, and wish to made very interesting for those who do not as to the priests' wickedness. I look forward 1 *aw, i•od rot ■« ru w iin u»r- nr H. i. iujdKB. » t»» “honor our Lord and the lord's Day, and the To t h e E d i t o r :— A letter from a friend each week with great anxiety for J’our good |wn>|ilil(t «list WUI w«U r»y PfOiMl. trie* II t o l l read history. To make it complete, all the in Massachusetts describes sorno of tho last “consciences and sentiments of the people paper. B e l l e K . S hannon, 'f y IE RAPE UTIC SARCOGXOMi. THE AP- world's religions should be represented. Place scenes at the death of her father, from which 1 Mlc.ilon of S«r«*«io'T. tbs S<-lrot*of thr Sosj.«''*'“ “ would be outraged. *’ there side by side the Vedas, Shastros, Koran, nodr. io uw Ti,.r.r..ei. mf««resr “ J Tir.tm.ru « W I quote: Mmtal DlMMM by n»can«of D f itn r tlf . Nriraara. We deny that the “consciences" of the am Book of Mormon and our Bible; also paint­ ||*rm.Mpa*fa. with a Krvlcwof Aothcdr* on An!m*l M**tt*M*»w “Ho talked, sang, laughed, an«l called to A Vision. and M iiitr, and prcvrntailoa of Xew louram rai» for Elogro- jority would be outraged, and call for the vote. ings of Pagodas, Mosques, Cathedrals, Therm penile*. By J.vepb Ib^em finchaean. M. D. A perfect Catholics, Jews. Seventh Day Adventists, Uni remembrance things that hod been forgotten I stood close by the Wonderful Band, tnlna of rare knowledge. A large work- Price B CO. Churches, nnd Salt Lake Temple. Bring by every ono In the room, and always of the And looked far over tho tide, tarians, Univcrsalists, and all »»called liberal bronze idolB from Japan, the Tooth of the And I saw tho bright and beaulliul bund 'jy /E REL/GIOX OF .VAX. BY HUDSOX dead aud gone. Tell your father ho sang with 7 Tuttle. HI* work* are alwajr* Intcturiy lntere*tlng. I'fk * Christians, are not demanding iL The major­ Sacred Buddha from Ceylon, resting on a gold Who stood on tho other side. •ija FJi Wheclock (who has b«jeu dead for more ity of those outside of any sect want them lotus leaf, with the daily offering of flowers; But tho arms of my darling held mo fast, 'jy /E WORLD'S SIX?BEX CRUCIFIED SAir- than forty years). At times he rose up in bed, And his lips to mine wore pressed, open. Do you propose to gauge the cantcience also the sacred stone from Mecca, and the 1 torn. By Rrr*ey Grave«. Tou*hou»d read It, ami bv the* or chair, and shook hands with old friends nnd And I turned from tho angels ami closed my eyo«, wiser. Trice 91.Vi of the whole nation by your personal and pri black veil from the Caaba. Then display there And nestled close Ui his breast. neighbors, dead for years, «billing them by HE QUEST/OX SETTLED. A CAREFUL. vate convictions? all the holy wars of history. Let a bust of _ e-otnpaH*on of WbllraJ and modrrtj gplrltaailm , Uy Moae* name and answering questions, when not a Tho gl(»am of their pure and shining robes Hull. An Invaluable work. I*rlce «1 00. “It would be an act not neutral but hostile Peter, the hermit, be put there, and by bis wor«I had been spoken by any one in the Was beautiful to see, “ U> religion, and a national attack on the side another of the invincible Omar, and But tho soft lo«'o-light In my darling's eyes ‘jy /E REUCLOX OF SPIRITUALISM. ITS room. A phenomena and pblkwophr. By R«v, Samuel Walaoo. “ rights of conscience and the law of God." Hamza, tbe lion of God. John Calvin should Was dearer far to mo. Thl* wntk wa* written by a ru-^lern havtof. ■ grand and uoulw Uncle Mark, he said, staid with him, and I hoard tho sound of their voices sweet m i l Prlca 91 XU We deny that it would be an act hostile to also l»e represented, In marble or bronze, nnd Just over the rolling tide, religion. It la simply contrary to yonr view» by him Sorvctua, in the agonies of death. Nor when my brother endeavored to dissuade him 7 y/E SOUL, ITS MATURE. RELATIOXS from the notion, he said: ‘Don't you think I But I listened with joy to tho sweetest tone# I and ExpreMlun* In human Embodiment*. Given through of it, and nothing more. It would not be an should Cotton Mather be forgotten. Also Of tho doar ono by my side. Jr* Cora L V, lUrhm.md. by her gtildra. A bot.k that rrrry* kuow my o«vn brother?'” bt«dy abauld rrad who are Interested Iu re tccamatluo. I'ricn attack on the rights of conscience, but a con­ place ou exhibition a representation of whip­ Their loving arms woro outstretched to me, IUU cession on your (tart to the will of the major­ ping at tln> cart's tail and hanging witches. When tho holy angels moot us, As thoy beckoned mo away y y /F SCTEXTIFIC BASIS OF SPIRITUALISM. ity, if opened by your consent. The religious opposition to the progress of As we go to join Lho band, From the darkness and sorrow and cares of earth. A Hr I-jw« Satrv* ul A work of pn><«>«tu| rrtearrh. by owe Of Shall we Know the friends Ibut greet us To tho joys of tho endless day. tba ah ¡cat m«a of the mgr I'M«* *1.50i ¡ a u « « VO irn ta. “ Believing that religion and the Sabbath science could also be made effective, with Is tho glorious tdpirll-land? But, clasped in my darling's tender arms, TEWS OF OUR IfFAVKXLY HOME. BY ••are the foundation of our national pros|»er- Galileo in prison, and a bust of Bruno. Then Shall we see the same eyes shining Close folded to his breast, AuAtrw Jakw ii Ifavla Highly la I err »tin*. Toriago X “ ity, we do not wish to discard them. to ranke our own exhibition more interesting On us an In days of yore, My soul grow full of a holy calm, cetvla.r Tflc>» T9 c cut*. Wo are not obliged to attend on Sunday if to our heathen neigbltors, let the W. C. T U Shall wo feel the dear arms twining And joy and peace and rest 7J/A YSIDE JOTTIXCS, ESSAYS, SKETCH: Fondly round u» as before? Y y cm. pain» meA wmm». gmth«!mi fpjm the highway*, by. the gates arc open. You can worship just repeat one of our church fairs with a public I laid my haml on his shining hair, wav* and btdgr* of life. Uy Manic L UulL It 1* most exce.lcnL the same and no one will molest you. lottery, wherein cakes, rings, quilts, etc., are in the land of ancient story, And kissed him o'orand o'or, Prlcw 11 tu. And I turned away from tho angel band “The perpetuity of our government depends «lealt out for the glory of God. And to still Where the spirit knows no care, JJ/IIITE MAGIC TAUGHT IX THREE In the land of life and glory, Who stood on tho shining shore. YY drrn»A** a bou* t»f 171»71 pagra.pafra. By The Ptuefc»*T M 1* “ upon the morality of the people. To »ecu re iu ire lH-uiitifully exhibit our love for the Sab­ Shull wu know each other there? Bo tho Joys of heaven o'er so bright. really a very Intwrratlng and *ugg>«:!«». work. Pries; t u n . ‘ ‘this, a quiet Sabbath and church going should bath day, give the world an exhibition of tho Harpslrlngs, touched by angel lingers, And the carlh-llfo o'or so drear, SHE BECAME A SPIRITUALIST\ “be fostered. This opening would l>e one of public uiieliooecring on this “blessed day” by Murmur In my raptured ear, God grant that this world niv homo shall bo IV'Ztrelrv* Iretnre*. IBy Ahhy A. .tod**«. TW* book should Evermore their sweet voice lingers, Whllo my darling lingers hero. he read by every Krirltuall*t.‘ ' Trice n.uo. i«j«iagc lOccnu. “ the heaviest blows ever struck at public and the pastor in the pulpit, calling for bids io pay We shall know each other there. “ private morals.'' off a church debt, not forgetting tho ever-pres- JÄ/AS ABRAHAM LIXCOUT A SPIRITUAL- eut and always hungry contribution box. I ka G a l e T h hm pkin s. Vicksburg, Michigan Camp. y y iB fo r.C «riM lU reU lU m » ftr»m tho Mfo of a Trance You cannot secure a quiet Sabbath by clos­ Mrdlum By Mrs >etil« Cviburu >l«jn*r j Thl* curioua Look Numbers 19, 20, 21 and 22, offer no reason Vlckshurg camp nicellug will be belli at mTth^mSSÜf**i f i jfSW S1 lu th«nje I* novel Ita ing the gates of the fair on Sunday, but the truth *PP*rrnt. It b»* a pruuller I •»■ring upon the utoai b o b m l reverse would l>e the result They should be worthy of notice. Ffuser s Grove from Aug. 12th to Aug. 29. S ì fan.oua partlrljaoi— The 4-ltli Anniversary Deerfield, Mich. the iD'Wt aotrd Amrrican. ft I* baard on truth ani fact and opened iu the interest of quiet and morality. In reply to yonr 23d reason, I will answer tberefrwr will lt»a from thl* tlgt* forth. Th« putdlahrr h o nut Mrs L. Palmer gave us a grand disco arse Gooff speakers ami medium# will lie present. •Mrrdcar«.rr«^arrhov ripet-ao I« Iu Vertflcailon and nrofinlc You cannot force people to church by closing that Judge Wait informs us that only the on tho beauties of this glorious philosophy English and a few American exhibits were Tbe s|»cakers already eugageff ore Mrs. Helen knowkn'n»*a» og that It Ì5?»rwill »T*UU,U*baar iLurougb ***«taamluathin. »aJIdlty of rewaniiv^ |i f e o ! S S £ the gates. To turn them loose in the city at our anniversary exercises. Stuart Kicbtngs. of Boiton. Mass., and ihm. d««trine17.'ÄTV. or v**”erred ,u* or *ect. IIit I*u a« fnnataablaZ""xVi” picture--a V.T!r tv.,_ 01. - closed on Suudays at tbe Paris exhibition r H n 'l l 'j P " * refill*. iL, «U» with all the saloons ami theatres open, would The speaker entreated the Spiritualists to I,. V. Moulton, of Grand Rapids, Mich. be the heaviest blow at morality that could The 24th is not iu any sense a question of t a si. s. Manager. A r m I j cs, iso«. THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER T

A Singular Dream What is its Sig­ tiou, "What is the llrst cause?" hut ho Here this ethereal hotly dissolved as abruptly Mediums and Co-workers in the nificance? interrupted me before I could frame the words, as it materialised. Some would call this ex­ East. THE OUTCOME WAS HAPPY. and replied: traordinary dream a spiritual vision or mani­ Mr. and Mrs. 0. II. Perkins have been Continued from 3d |wigc. 1 know n umn of good learning mul judg "l see that you are anxious about that old festation. Whatever It may lie, 1 am so well nielli, with whom 1 Ixs-nino intimately ac­ doing a good work, lecturing and giving sit­ administered a hy|>odcrtnic injection of mor­ question, ami sock to learn of me that which 1 pleased that 1 shall ho glad to hid auothcr tings ill Brooklyn, N. Y., this winter. One quainted. Wo used to discus* religious, othl- do riot myself know. All knowledge is not similar visit a most hearty welcome. phine, hut it had not much apparent effect. of our oldest pionocr modiums, of San Fran­ Pretty soon another doctor appeared and he cal and metaphysical subjects, ngreeiug to­ our prerogative. The first cause Is the only W. F. W h itn a l l. cis«), who has done a pioneer work ill the ■all knowledge' that there can he, mul if all Lakewood, Ohio. advised onothur injection. This was given gether iu Uio main. Imi frequently uttering our fields of Christian Spiritualism, Mr. N. J. and quieted her somewhat. contempt for muoli of the religious philosophy knowledge were given us, we would ho equal Kavelin, is on his way East, lie will ho a with Uu* first cause. It seems this first cause Of Life and Death. Mrs. H. ami George talked tho situation extant Ho was my eonior by »orno eighteen welcome addition to our ranks. must ever remain superior to whatever it We talked of life mul (tenth. She said: over. George tohl Mr. Cornwell that he was year», ami expected dissolution sooner than Prof. J. A. Mead, the California astrologer, satisfied that Lena had had some communica­ causes, hence, it is unknowable or even un­ "Whichever of us Iwo llrst dies has kindly come to our assistance by giviug a myself, so he m ulo me the promise that "when thinkable. Why, I do uot know, unless this ho Shall come back from among the dead tion with Mury in some way, for Lena s|ioke he die I, should he ‘live again' (which was And touch his friend these mysteries." course of six lectures, lie has done a grand of things that he absolutely knew were known the reason; hut there is a bar set to our knowl­ work, aud wo appreciate his services. He always a matter of great doubt tons both),and She died last night, and all this day only to Mury anil himsulf, and ho furthermore edge. Out of this probably originated the starts ou his return West April 15. Parties it were |Hwsible to ever meet me here on earth ideas in the allegory of creation. I swear that tilings of every kind said he would marry Lena; as lie was satisll«! Are trying, trying to convoy wishing to make ougagenu Is for lectures, ad­ so as to make his Identity positive, he would "As soon as man began to grow out of igno­ that that was the only thing that would save certainly do so." Nearly two years ago ho Some message to iuy troubled mind. dress him at Batavia, Kane County, Illinois. rance, and rise above the instinct of the ani­ her life. Lena after a while went to sleep, T h e P iioiiressivk T h in k e r Is a welcome vis­ died, at the age of seveuty seven yean, .lust mal, which lie was, until a ray of Intelligence I looked up from mv te a rs erewhllv; another doctor in the meantime having visited a few hours previous to Ilia demise ho rea» That white rose dying In the cup itor to our society. We hold our meetings the house and administered medicine. 8he allowed him his superiority, mul, recognising Was giulng at mo with her smite— every Sunday evening, at 7:45, in Lincoln sured me in the promise of a visit, 1 ‘could he this truth, Ix'gan to thirst for more knowledge awoke at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, and at It blushed her blush as 1 looked up. Hull, 130 Moody street. H arvey S w a n . do so intelligently. " Since then 1 have boon ivilh a desire to probe his origin and destiny, once began again to talk about what Mary Aud when the wind rose at my door Il’iferfoirn, .\hm. eagerly bopiug. yet positively disbelieving that evidently it occurred to him that as bo was said; that Mary still had hold of her, aud it was possible, Yesterday I ao exproMcd Itolmnorod with a plaintive din above the beast, and also that as some men Like »ouio poor creature hogging sore said she would not let her go till they were uiyself to an acquaintance of his—one who re­ were superior to others, there must bo some To bo lot In. I lot It In. An Old Methodist a Medium. married. She insisted on George going to garded him highly, as a true mail and steadfast one above these. Still unable to form a cor­ To the Editor:— Mr. King, n gentleman get a license. He promised her he would friend, ami that they "had never met another It blew my light out; round my head rect idea of the superior person, and the mys­ II whirled, und swiftly In my ear aud a strict, honest Methodist all his life, and and pretend«! to start for it. But intuitively like him. " she seemod to know that he wus not in earnest tery so great, lie was led to realise that all Jlnd whispered something ere It tied; a great lighter of the Spiritualists of this hast evening a neighbor called in, aud we knowledge was not given to men. The writer It had her voice, so low, so dear. ami wus violent again. But finally he (lid spent an hour or two in discoursing on the vicinity, was persuaded this last winter by of Genesis or Creation, although crude in his The looking-glass this livelong day start in earnest for the license and she became different theories of spirit life. This may have conceptions, incorporated this opinion into his Has worn that curious, moaning air; some of his neighbors to sit with them, os quiot at once. Ho procured the license of lieoti the cause of this remarkable dream. I story. He infers that there was peril attending 1 fool It, when l look away, Spiritualists have been known to do, merely to Judge llolxsrts Monday between 3 and G Kotloctlng things that are uot there. was sitting at the table after my friend left, too much knowledge. 1 might interline here and pass away the loug, dull winter evenings. o'clock. Mr. C. was asked to secure the serv­ reading and writiug, as is my* usual custom say that bad wo known in earth life what For hours no breath of wind has stirred, The first night ho went into a trance, niul his ices of one of the pastors of Fargo, the re­ evenings, when to all appearance at the oppo­ we now know, perhaps uoltung would Yet bends the lump's llume as If fanned; control 1«1 him into a small room, when al­ quest being made by Lena herself. Mr. C. site side of the table sat uiy venerable friend, The clock says o'er and o'er a word, went to a clergyman's bouse, told him tbe have prevented our self destruction, bopiug But 1—0 God! —can't understand. most imm«liatcly out came spirits of all Mr. Kinney. Being much surprised, 1 pro- thereby the sooner to have obtained this pres­ sixes and ages. The medium was completely story, and at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening uoiinccd it a dream, and tried, by great men­ — Orrlrudr Hall. ent bliss. This story that after creating man unconscious, mid on being told what was he pronounced the marriage ceremony. Lena tal effort, to awaken myself. He spoke gently, from a few atoms from mother earth (the seen, ho could uot believe the statements. ivdk perfectly calm and rational, and since saying: "Don't put yourself to any trouble The Insane in a Hypnotic State. fundamental basis of all beluga and thiugs), he While he has made lots of converts, and is still the event has been contented and says that by imagining that you aro asleep. This is not •breathed into it—this dust—the breath of life, To the E ditor:—Grand Army Hall was making them, bo hardly knows what to be­ Mary has let go of her. George, who seems a vision, hut areal visit. If 1 am not Julius aud it became a living soul,’ or life, and filled last ovontug with an audience that had lieve, us he knows nothing of it. He feels, a manly fellow, seems well satisfied over tbe Kinney, 1 «taut to assure you that l represent was placed iu a beautiful garden, with every assembled to witness the exhibition of second however, like taking hack some of bis ter­ outcome of the affair. all thè reality that ever existed of Unit laxly. conceived loveliness of tree, fruit aud flower; sight given by llurlow Davis. A few minutes rible thrusts nt Spiritualists when lie hoars Don't y ou remember wo used to read that the also an especial Tree of Life, and oue of after 8 o'clock Mr. Davis mounted the plat­ uot only strangers hut his wife, a woman “ Christianity a Fiction," by Dr. J. H . corporeal body contained about eighty per Knowledge. This Tree of Life is still a form and preluded his exhibition by some beloved by all, toll of the return of friends Mendenhall. cent, of water? Well, at the disintegration of strange statements with regard to lunatics. Iu mystery. By the Tree of Knowledge is ex­ long gone to the spirit-world. A Spectator. this body, bow easy for the water to pass into pressed the idea that wo must not know all, the course of his remarks ho said: "A large Sod us, Mirk. A POEM SHOWING THE TRI E ORIGIN AND MYTH­ spare by evaporation, and through condensa­ percentage of persons supposed to bo insane and lienee the command to let the fruit of this ICAL CHARACTER OP THE CHRISTIAN SAVIOR, tion and other changes, resume its liquid form tree alono, with a threatened danger if it was and who are placed iu asylums are in reality and return again to a larger body of water. A Notable Society and Its W ork. AND TUE FICTITIOC8 NATURE OP MANY OP THE disolx'yed. However logical or illogical the not mentally wrong, but In a hypnotic condi­ E ditor P rogressive Thinker:—A sug­ MOST EMINENT HEROES AND HEROINES OP And it is just as easy to comprehend how that writer may he, he attempts to symbol the tion. I visited one of the asylums recently by some similar process, or different evolution, gestion has becu made to me that 1 write lip idea that too much knowledge would uot ren­ at the request of several persons in this city, HIIILICAL PAME. the twenty jx*r rent of carbon, or solids, could for publication in your paper some account of der the imaginary Aral pair, or any of their with a view to ascertaining whether two young be converted into some other visible form. the doings of the Society of Progressive Spir­ progeny, happy. After man bad tasted this men from Oakland were insane or whether they This poem gives an account of the various Matter cannot lie destroyed. Nothing is lost. itualists, the only incorporated society iu San forbidden fruit, the story goes, his maker were uudor hypnotic influence. The authori­ gods worshiped in different parts of the world, Destruction, so-called, is only the friction of Francisco. This society was iucorporat«! on turned him out of his delightful place, and ties refused to allow mo to operate on them, from the earliest date of human history, among change from one form or condition to another. March 27, 1884, and lias held continuous told him to go and earn every comfort or lux. but they showed me through the wants. Then whom are: the Lord of all as given in the Force bolds a reciprocity with other forces, Sunday mectiugs ever since that time, except­ urv lu* had, or do without them, aud to bring I came in contact with one of the men, and Veda, Vishnu, Krishna, Buddha, Milhra, maintaining a balance or equilibrium. KarIll's ing oue month in each year, when ive take a others into the same life of drudgery and toil, although 1 was not allowed to speak to him, Adonis, Bacchus, Cadmus, Osiris, Ammon, wonderful laboratory is constantly making vacation. For four years we held confer­ Aud lest he fail to obey this latter in still l saw that he was uot insane, but merely Bel, Odin, Manco, Tohi, Boreal*, Samonica- changes through its secret chemistry that no ences and mwliums’ meetings, which were al­ junction, he was given a certain attribute in a hypnotic condition. There are from forty dum and Quetzelcoatl. The origin and history intelligence of man can comprehend, much ways well attended aud most interesting, which should forever impel him to do so. to fifty jiorsons whom 1 saw iu the same con­ of all these gods are almost identical with that more explain. Kach atom that composes our president, Mr. IL C. Wilson, who filled K verything in vegetable and physical world dition, Surely somethiug ought to lx? done in of the so-called savior Jesus Christ, who is mother earth has some specific desire, with the that office for four years, being especially possesses a like, or similar prompting power, the matter." shown to lx? the sun. It explains the story of power, to execute, however small it may seem, gifted as a presiding officer. There was never known under various uamos as applied to After giving several striking and accurate Adam and his little family; Cain and Abel; the purpose of producing a variety of life. a lack of speakers, and the best mediums of different natures: germ force, instinct, love, tests, Mr. Pails asked a colored woman if she N’oah and his family; the ark and the flood; When we understand this, how beautiful ami the city gave tests at these m«‘tiugs—notably, lust, or passion. So the iucreaso goes on, did not remember a John Carter, who died Abraham's offering of Isaac; Jacob and bis appropriate is the term ‘mother earth. ' When Mrs. Breed, tlie wonderful rapping medium, never stopping at reason or judgment, nor some five years ago. The woman was greatly family ; Elijah going to heaven in a chariot of my soul, or spirit, left my body, of winch 1 whose tests were marvelous; Mrs. Scales. Mrs. showing the least regard for others' feelings surprised, and she said she did. He inform«! fire; Elisha, etc.; Samson, bis encounter with was fully conscious, and freely consented, Aitker, Mrs. Melissa Miller, and our old or rights. It is remarkable that woman's her that on Friday, at a quarter to 1J o’clock, the lions and his defeat by Delilah; David, even observing all the details of burial. 1 pioneer medium, Mrs, M. J. llendee, who is very chastity renders her more an object of she was talking to a lady friend about a lottery bis exploits, bis troubles with Saul, and his seemed not in the least to part with my iden­ still iu the field as an active worker after a ser­ man's brutality. Strange that indirectly her ticket. The subject said the assertion was dalliance with Batiisheba; Solomon, the wise tity. I do not know through what phenomena vice of twenty-five years. Among some of the virtue is tbe incentive that attracts and often correct. man, his wives and concubines; Daniel, tbe 1 assumed my new relations. I only know speakers were Judge John A. Collins, after­ brings her to ruiu. Yet it must bo conceded Many tests wore given, but the most inter­ prophet, in the lion's den, his vision of the th atl have a new existence; I bat l retain a wards our president, a grand, Progressive man; that she yields her virtue from choice, if only esting of all took place shortly before the m«*t four beasts, etc; Jonah swallow«! by the memory of earth scenes; that 1 can go from Rev. J. Parker, KiL Fair, Dean Clark, Eliza tin* choosing he to please the so-eallcd lords iug closed. Tho picture of a gray-bearded old whale; Ezekiel's vision of the four living point to point as on earth. 1 used to send Fuller McKinley, and many others, who from and masters. Few there he that follow a life man, who had shot himself through the back creatures, a wheel within a wheel, afterward my thoughts from oue place to another in week to week fed the hungry ones who were of shame from choice; hence, their mother­ of the head, came to Mr. Davis, aud he asked dream«! by John tbe re vela tor; Dives and such rapid succession that often thought earnestly seeking food for the soul. In the hood is impaired by such a life. So it be­ a mau in the rear of the house whether he Lazarus; the lake of fire and brimstone; the seemed to be in various places simultaneously. early years of our society's existence a free comes a matter of fact that propagation is due recollected him from the description he gave. kingdom of heaven, or borne of the saints; What was then imaginary journey of the mind Tho man could not recall such a person, so Mr. spiritual library was established, beginning the god of Israel; the twelve tribes and tbe now appears to lx* a reality. The thought in to virtue, not vice. You look with shame or with donations of books to tbe number of frown upon many things that you call crimes Davis went further. "Don't you remember a twelve apostles, etc. These subjects are earth life was like the reflection in a mirror. sixty-five, and now it has grown to number or unmitigated evils, but if you knew tbe plan miner by the name of John Fit/pa trick?" he treated in a manner which shows their inti­ I saw myself and others as I see an object iu said. "He shot liimsdt in the back of the nearly two thousand, and is free to all; it is a mate relation to starry lore. The heroes and the glass, forgetting in a moment bow myself of all you would call them blessings. Under great boon to investigators, as well as Spirit­ the higher development of intelligence we can head alxmt so von years ago, hut before he died heroines of biblical fame are clearly traced to or the object looked. Now all is reality ; not ualists, and very many avail themselves of the see iu all the hand of beneficence. Like a he buried a box of money two feet under the stars. ajlx>ing perishable, but a living, otornal entity. privilege. Our present board of directors, of child that rebels at his parents’ commands, ground. Some time ago you hunted for this This comprehensive poem not ouly vividly Superior intelligence pervades all, so that the treasure, but couldn't And it." Like a flash whom M. B. Dodge, Esq., is the president, portrays the mythical character of Christianity, remembrances of earth's scenes are held with a wanting this or that, as the whim is on, and thinking a season of lectures on Uu* philoso­ secs no cause why he should he denied; but the man remembered tlio circumstances. but shows conclusively the astrological nature letter judgment 1 cannot descritto clearly to phy and scienUfic side of Spiritualism would later on, when learning the wbys and where­ Oakland, Oal. of all religions, ancient and modern. In its you many of the facts or trulli» discovered lx> acceptable to the jxxiple, engag«! Prof. fores, he is content with their tilling, fully descriptive linos we read bow the ancient bere. We do not require sustenance, rest or Charles Dawbara to deliver a course. He people of the earth gathered their religious sleep, but live in a state of |x*rfret and con­ realising that they were correct occupied the platform for one year, giving "So we, after seeing the results of our life symbols and tbe names of their gods from the stant happiness. Our reflections aro attendevi 10,000 FIRSTEDITION. many valuable aud interesting lectures. Our suu and stars. For tbe l*eneflt of those who with no regrets. All the ills of life, aud all acts, can understand why so many seeming next speaker was Moses Hull, a very accept­ evils were permitted. The ultimate of them are not familiar with the subject of astronomy tile mistakes made white in the mundane The Convent of the Sacred Heart. able speaker. He drew good audiences, so and heathen mythology as treat«! by the spite re, appear as nothing; memory brings with all was for the lx*st that we wore obliged to take a larger hall. "Whichever way you look upon what trans­ ancients, there are explanatory notes given in it a veil that covers them all. so that recollec­ Re lectured for us six mouths, aud then was connection with the poem, which are of great tion brings no sting. This new body, a transi­ pires. turn and shift the responsibility as often I have tho pleasure to announce to tho obliged to leave for the East to fill eugngo as some new thought may suggest you are still value in defining many thiugs in heathen tion or evolution from the earth body, seems friends who have so generously and xealously meats. mythology4, bearing upon the religions of inipcrisliable, a something Uiat will endure in the dark, and as far from correct reasoning seconded the undertaking, that the "Convent For two years [vast wo have becu favored by as at the lx*ginuing of your philosophy. The mankind, that have heretofore been shrouded forever, it appears tangible, and yet no of tho Sacred Heart" will lie ready for deliv­ haviug Dr. N\ F. llaviin as our speaker, who lowest wreU'h may arise to the highest honor. in mystery. The late J. M. Roberts, «litor object, however opaque, resists it. It is more ery by the 25th of April. It will make 1!>2 was for thirty-five years a Baptist minister, but of Mind and Matter. wrote the following like a principle, a truth or an emotion. I can Mr. VYhitnali, the man who said th a t ‘what­ pages, and tho priutiug, paper, aud general was always (as he now realizes) au inspira­ ever is, is right,’ came as uear solving the estimate of the value of this poem: no more deaerila* it Umn 1 can tell you by what make up, l hope, will meet the expectations of tional speaker, and when the truth of Spirit­ problem of evil, crime and error as will ever " The remarkable metrical analysis of the law or impulse I am permitted thus to com­ the subscribers. ualism was present«! to him through Uu* grand ix* reach«!. Thoy are only questions pro­ astrological and astronomical origin and nature mune with you, or why all of Utosc who are in The risk in sending silver coin or currency miHliumship of Dr. Louis Schleaingcr. his posed, and may lx* answered direct: ‘There of all religions vers«! in this poem, we regard the some state of existence cannot or do not by letter is so slight, that 1 suggest sending in orthodoxy fell off like a cloak that had envel­ is no such tiling ns evil! They are all unfin­ as a most important contribution to the already put themselves in communication with the that way rather than taking the extra expense op« I him, and he stood forth a free man. Then ished good! Kvil, crime and error, or oven large a«*umulations of facts which prove that I friends they left on carili. Judging from ex­ for post-ofllco orders or postal notes. it was he stepped out of the ministry, threw right, so regarded to-day, change to-morrow. ’ Christianity is a fiction of the most stupendous perience and wlml 1 can see, Hu* interests of Those who wish to distribute the book as a aside position, and was anxious to promulgate When viewed at a different angle they loose proportions; we also regard it as displaying earth life are not brought here at all. When­ missionary work, or to act as agents, may ad­ the truUi as he knew it, and for two years he their identity; seen by different eyca they liear a converwancy with the sot-all«! sacred mys­ ever 1 look back in recollection to tin* years dress os below. Subscribers will please accept has been giving some of the grandest and a different nsjxx't, felt by other lu-arts they teries of old that invest it with the highest a.KHit there, Uioy seem os among the past, and this as tbe noli«* 1 promised, and the grate­ moat original lectures that have ever been produce different aensationa, and all vanish in value." Of little account. They are as liahyhood to ful thanks which l would, w ere it possible, given to mortal» upon such a variety of topics, the sunlight of truth as softly as the dew " Christianity a Fiction," is priut«l on fine childhood, or as childhood seemed to me after individually express to them. Address all tending to enlighten aud advance human­ leaves tbe flower. heavy paper and neatly bound; price 50 cents: 1 bad reached manhood. All acts, g>xxf or H ensos Trrri.it, ity. Dr. Uavlin is a pleasing speaker, at "Revenge is regarded as something terrible! postage 4 cent». Oriental Publishing Co. bad, were Uic result of surroundings, aud Berlin Heights, Ohio. times rising to heights of sublimity, when lie Yet, it ‘tastes sweet" to the avenger! Com­ Philadelphia, Da-, | \ O. box 446. mattered little to tbe Uien |x*riod of manhood sees with clairvoyant vision the scene* which mon law is founded on revenge) ‘Eye for eye, So all the acta of accountability iu mature life Michigan Items. he depicts so forcibly, and is oblivious to his were the results of conditions, the outgrowth tooth for tooth, life for life,' are justice's de­ The Chicago and West Michigan Spiritual­ mands. Nothing less than tliis satisfies it J ustice surroundings. As tho doctor is engagixl at Hindoo Hymn. or expressions of that ever existing desire to ist and Religious Association held a apodal knows no forgiveness, aud says clearly it will tin* Clinton, Iowa, camp-meeting, he leaves The snowflake that glistens at moru on Kallasa, live (which begins manifestations at berth), and meeting at Iugrahm'a Hall, Colonia, on the the society in July, and ex|xx‘ts to lx.* absent uot answer. Korgiveuess is knowu only in the Dissolved by tho sunbeams, descends to the to exist with as little effort or expenditure of lOlli instant. Sullivan Cook, of Hartford, two years. Wo hope that as many of the nlaln: 'higher law' of lovel Realities never change. force or energy as possible, and arc now re­ was tin* speaker of the day. In the forenoon Eastern societies as can will make arrange­ Then mingling with Gang* It flows to the ocean. They are the same from whatever stand|K>int garded in Uic light of my higher intelligence as the and ion«* was small, and the speaker's ments to hear this gifted speaker. \Vo are And, lost In Its waters .returns not again. you look at them. You people of earth are the tx*st that 1 could then do ; and l cannot thoughts somewhat seattered, as no suhjix't sorry to part with him, hut feel ptcas«l to On the rose-leaf at sunrise bright glistens the from present understanding observe that it has heginning to see tills principle, Your country was ehosen. At tuxra a picnic dinner was have him go where his woik will lx* more ex­ dowdrop is ringing to-day with these notes: ‘Love, any further effect upon my present life ex­ served in the hall Mr. Suit», with his violin, tended. We hope to welcome him to our That In ranor exhaled falls In nourishing rain; thought and the good ouly are real.' And cept, perhaps, the growth of intelligence aud Mr. Kills, with his dulcimer, made good, platform again ou his return. Spiritualism Then In rills back to tianga, through grown fields when these melodious sounds are divested of meanders, Umuigli experience. 1 am not yet prepared jolly music, and tho timo went merrily until has a gxxxl hold on the |xx>ple here. There TUI onward it flow» to the ocean again. to tell you whether those who progressed most all discoid, a music will be heard that will the afternoon meeting was cnllnl at half-post are several in«*lings held by different individ­ in intellectual or moral achievements on earth charm the world! The hour is marching on; 1 o’clock. Mr. Cook look tho rostrum. The uals ou Sundays and through the week, so that A snowflake still whitens the peak of Kallasa, the plan* are well laid! Sometime the neces­ But tho snowflake of yesterday flows to the are any brighter or bolter here or uot. It ap­ 8iihj«*l was * ‘Thought." The speaker handled all can find some pin«* that is congenial. Our main; pear* that such a compensation would lx* some­ sity of strife and intuutnony will cease, and it nicely, and without glove«, lie Ulustrat«! Pacific Coast Spiritual paper, Tkr Otrrier fkuv, At dawning a dowdrop still hangs on the rose- with one accord Imperial Goodness will reign thing like a reward given to a youth for some Its various phase« by indulging at times in the' the only one publish«! in the city, finds many leaf, as queen, and all humanity will become her But the dowdrop of yesterday corns« not again. good behaviors iu his childhood. 1 haven't humor of Josh Hillings, the sarcasm of i'aiuc, reader* among the thoughtful, scientific and discovered any apparent lack of wisdom, or loyal subjects! and the logic of Horace Greeley. The audi­ philosophic minds, while the Eastern Spiritual The soul that Is freed from the bondage of nature. very much difference in Uic intellectual ap­ " I have fulfill«! ray promise to visit you; ence were interest«! and attentive. papers are well patronized. Escapee from Illusions of joy and of pain. new 1 must return to my own sphere. Good And pure as the flame that Is lost In the sunbeam. pearance of any." D. Boynton, President Mas. L. B. W h it e h e a d . Ascends unto God and returns not again: Here 1 attempted to ask him auoUior ques- bye." C. 1L Lxwts, Secretary. •Sna /Yusctjco, (W. It comes not. It goes not—it come* not again. Al'KII. 23, 1892. 8 TUB PROGRESSIVE THINKER. hastily rovouled myself to them. Thol Ilio full extont of tholr power would al- were genuine. It would take up too MR. FRED EVANS, amazement und joy was Indescribably wuy* servo thè pale fuco sqiiuw uud much space and llinu to discuss tho evi­ yn iv o r /.d -R/ n o w m d m i d i - great. pampinose dence of ouch witness, except to say that 7 for pat» ( (M 'lt l'f llj o f lud»'|*#ivdfI»* TAifilER OF WFfc. Soon as possible I Inquired for my Vo were now relieved from our novel, Dr. Noble und Mr. Mile» wore the most w f illi.g l»mr.< liuUfa. to it. A pnf. nnadullcrstsA mineral "***/• I*aiii|u of vitality and Renerai debility. nlzed her with head bowed upon her child continued" on as before, that being urllolos used for tho purpose of decep­ Imi (lolla liow (<» alt. Kor particular* «end I'» cenia A Writ* for frwt pumphlot oonUminit full In ai«iM|i* for • In alar. a ioli«« »ge, »"X. r ie ., In >our * »uul cular«. TcMlmonUI« *nd Photo En- bunds, gu/.lng down on the face of our much the easier way. tion, although a complete search was Il handwriting. Ad«1rr*B all lellrra lo sleeping boy, with suoh u pathetic and At tho oloso of each day, a s tho sun made at tho house anil In tho station rcd U tter« concerning ritB D KVANH. K water, to J. P. PtMkf. heartbroken expression as lo stir the was beginning to sink from sight behind after the defendants were brought there. l'JIJ Mi ,\l)lairr #ir«"«»|» hau f Mito laro, rall/ornli». i 3 34 8. Main 8t-, Wllkcg-BgrTO, P i. very soul within me. To see her usually the tree-tops, great logs vroulu be rolled Thu prosecution submitted two authori­ beaming countenance thus transformed, together, and a glguntlo fire made, the ties: First, 133 Fulled S t a t e s Supreme I )R. R. <.REER% TUA NOT&D / / hplrli 111 .»le» Thtrljr >r«r*' proethe. w lllirll at once evinced to mo the fact thnl a blaze of which a-wended fur up lowurd Court report, page (Hu, Davis vs. Ilo* «lek buw e.» gei wcll. ami ilio «eli bow noi lo CTRICITY very marked change hud taken place tho zenith, und lighted the forest for a Beoson. This was a ease that came up lm «lele r.|v« lomo» (ti full, «gè a mi m , murrini or DI l TIIUMAM AITl.IANCF.Bcur« with her, both mentally und physically great distance around with a rudiunco on habeas corpus. Justice Field doliv • inule, «mi orie iraiiin« atmpioiit. and rncloar «|. A i »»hrn drug« f»ll. I.ung am! Sirlnc Bat­ tinto (ili. It. liti» KR, m 1.« Malta* «tre» t, ( (drago. ______lertea. Galvanic Inaolra, Kidney and. that during the months which hud In so brilliant und Iridescent as to seem re- ered tho opinion of tho court, in which BUmiach BatieHea.and Fcrnnle flattery Buppori tervonod since my exlto begun she had lleoted from celestial regions. It en­ he held thut Congress had passed a law WOODIIO KUOAItVPTI'H CKBAM. K Gold Modal and Diploma by the A.ca l- become restless and nervous, Indeed al kindled within our two " tom post-tossed prohibiting polygamy, II nevrr falla lo cure Calairli. 1.« Grippe. A*t»jma, enif of Science. Parlt, France. » rite tmr souls " emotions at once so sublime und Tho first amendment to the Constitu­ lironclittla, horn Thr»iat. Neuralgia, lleuda« ti*». Huma, Pam phlet, f.lheral term« lo ngent«. Addreo* together unlike her usuul self. horca, Kruptloiia «lid Piles IniUllt rrllnf and por T U B T H O M A M IIA T T F It V C O ., Finding the door of her room standing lofty thut temporarily wo wore lifted tion declares that Congress shall itiancnt curo. Warranted In avery r«*i». lly imill fl#»r 417. f!anilnir(cumail*in and kfrinry trould« a to precede mo und thus prepare her for until our foot seemed to tread otysiun exorcise thereof. Tho learned Judge, In (11 roa canatip«tIon. Ili muli orni. Two «beri« of IN LENA BIHLE’S STORY OP PIONEER imigm'llrcd puper for Jienlth ami davrloptniHit r ur t the startling surprise of my preMnoo) fields, and our lips quail as Invigorating Ills decision, says it wus never Intended vtllli em'li n iin'djr. Aguila anuir,1 Liberal (crina, flSTRflb LIFE. or supposed that the amendment could herid for circulara. Or. 0 . .1. hunmloirir. Oakland. that I might for one brief space centum elixir the fragrant aroma of rare and California plate the scene before mo. which 1 did dolicato Mowers. lie Invoked an a protection ugalnst logls with anticipations of dreau, for I feared Recollections of thoko forest Illumina­ lullou for tho punishment of nets Inltn IF YOU ARE A SUFFERER (HAGNETIG REMEDIES. tions at that particular period uro leal to the peace, good order und morals T bs ffrnmlrit ayatrm of apiril-rrmolir. ever lest tlie intense joy and surprise which 1 given Into the hand of man to cute ami mini - A MYSTERIOUS FAMILY my sudden appearance would occasion stamped Indelibly upon my momorv. of society; again, the judgo says, how­ 'EY s r /K /T POWER. SEND LOCK hllate nil form , of ur covery, and was ready at once to render tlons, and will hasten. tho Constitution of this State guarantees of niedlutnthlp. and a »ample of The bower, all for IS All doubts (If 1 had previously enter cent». 1*4 ACUTE, CHRONIC tallied uny) us lo the happy results' "Of us all the assistance that lay In his (To lie Continued.) to every citizen the free exercise of his ray enterprise, were dispelled when not power. religious opinions, unless the evidence /V R /I U A U S rS VISITIN G CHICAGO ...... neryous DISEASES one of the tribe recognized mo, notwith­ Before midnight I had sent him, with shows beyond a reasonable doubt, that 5 can find coxy room«, eoual to thoae at hotel«« with u liberal supply of food, to my Indian this was a place of amusement, in my Hplrltuallat: mlly. at 3o John'« Place near Union -THE electric coronet.. standing they had often watched the Park CATAfXKit’E KENT Fit EE progress of my work with exclamations friends, ami Lion, by the swamp. I did IMPORTANT DOCUMENT. opinion, the ovidence fails to show that of surprise at’ my wonderful Ingenuity, not moot my sister until the following fact. The defendants are therefore dis' VIE B U N D M EDIUM , MR. FRED T"t Ckowi Euctmic Co. 127 La Salle St. Chicago ch arged . 7 A. Heath, give« reading« by letter In order that as they termed it. day. Groat suffering was plainly visible all may hnvc n chance to teal hi* power# he rrmket AN A8TONIHHLNG OFF Kit! They were intensely terrillcd at my in hor every feature. Her once bcuutl One That Will Go Down In thl« remarkable offer: Bend ten cent« In «liver, with sudden nppoarunee, persistently declar­ ful hair hud become thickly threaded Thus ends a remurkable case. The lock of hair and «(amp and h«* will «end you a trial History. fact that Jennie Moore sustained herself rending. Addrc««, Fred A. Heath, 144 Abbott *tr«(et ÇFND ing that a spirit hud come to them, with white. Poor heai't-brokon Fanny! Detroit. Ml«:!». 12*1 J , i .J .lIREE irCENT STAMPS How I pitied her, and so much desired against the combined official inlluenco of Io® _ ** r* m r» , e i * leading ■ririt>u/m whoso strange mien and peculiar habili­ Justice Woodman's Decision. K A ELTED p e b b l e s p e c t a c l e s and youyour dl«ea«e will be dtagn>»e.lfrceby_____ «pirli power. ments they believed signified that to possess power, so that I might lift the tho City, and against tho subtile inffu IVI rextore lout vl«Ion. The apeciAolea that I «end are Dr. A. B. Dohxm. Ban .li>«e."caU great burden of sorrow which seemed to ence of John C. Bundy and the Jesuitical calamity must he about to befall the In a nice wooden box. 8tnte age and how l«mgyou have DR. CARL SIXTUS. tribe. The old chief alone had divined i)e slowly crushing her young life. How­ TO th e E ditor;—It seems to me that horde that is trying to ruin her, shows worn gl&a*e>. Or «» nd me your addn a* and 1 will «end ever, I did not venture an allusion to tho the decision of Justice Woodman in the that she has the true metal, and for this full direction« and !lluatrat»*d circular. How to he fitted r)/SEASES TREATED BY VITAL the truth, and finally succeeded in re­ by tnjr new method of clairvoyant «íglit. Price of j lectrlclty i( ■ • and --!!rpuot|«m. - Develop« latent p*y- storing order and confidence by disclos­ distressing subject while in her pres case of the city against Mrs. Jennie struggle against the demons of darkness ■peciaclc« 1.10. Addrea«. D. F. Poole. Clinton. Iowa, tf chiral power«. Commended by mediral mm. the ing the identity of the (to them) myste­ ence, as I had been cautioned in that di­ Moore, the materializing medium of she Is entitled to a crown of never-fading Conauli uf Denmark. Sweden an>1 Norway, al*» the flowers. A n t i -F r a u d . dally pnp-r*. Cou*ultatl««n by mall 41. jfo. IT* La rious visitant. rection. She was seldom known, I was this city, murks an important era in our A GENTS WANTED TO SELL THE Balte Avenue.i Cbtrago Hour* 2 to 3 p. m. |j; Their superstition quickly vanished, told, to refer to that night of horrors, history. Not only did this brave woman Sunflower Jew el, the B««lg«» of K* • rgtiltloo. L!’* and was succeeded by wild, fantastic aud would quickly withdraw from the have to fight the city itself, but also Col Passed to Spirit Life. crai discount«. C. D. Haine« Co . Kocheater, N. V.{99tf dancing and terrific whoops, until the society of those who did; consequently J. C. Bundy, who, it is claimed, was the Dr. W. F. Krebs, of Staunton. Va.., THE SIGN OF RECOGNITION. forest and hills rang with their hilarious the occurrence of that fatal transaction instigator of the persecution—not prose­ formerly of Woodstock, Va., who de­ demonstrations of mirth, while mean­ was seldom ugitated in the family circle. cution! The daily Press speaks of the parted this life for the higher on De­ W ear the* Radge time they were loudly crying, “ Me I realized that the utmost caution was ease as follows: cember 13th last, at an advanced age, think you do brave: yes, you git squaw, indispensable to ray safety while!■ I Spiritualism scored a triumph in Jus­ after a brief i’lness, for some tears had ND BE IN TOUCH WITH THE you do. For you is a wurrior, brave and should remain beneath my father's roof, tice Woodman's court when a decision retired from all business, but during his A eat «ptrltunl fraternity, governed by universal or in the vicinity, as not a doubt now ?he Sunflower turn* It« face to the Sno of Truth, good." was made in tho Jennie Moore-Gothard career as a disciple of the writings of a ftt emblem for Splrltoall*ta. It 1« a beautiful Jewel. But dear Lion's instinct could not' for remained in the minds of any of the in­ affair. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Gothard Thomas Paine, and as mesmerist, phy­ Price f i . Profit« d«.*voted to the cau*«v AddreM C. D. H aines 26 St. Clair 8 l . Rochuler. X. V. 93tf a moment be deceived. No disguise habitants but that I was surely the had been arrested on the night of De­ sician, merchant and Spiritualist, he could conceal from him his loved mas­ heinous wretch who had committed the cember 23, at their residence, 757 War­ felt aud knew that his faith was knowl­ ter’s identity: he knew me in my new atrocious murder which had blighted so ren averauc, charged with obtaining PROGRESSIVE THINKER AND SPIR. many lives. Even the few who were at edge, founded on eternal and profound JT Uanl Boole« for ,» le by TUu« Merrill. »Ill W. su b dress at once, but feeling thut something monoy by false pretenses. The raid was facts, and nothing in the shape of •IreeL Sew York. was In the wind, aud seeing aud hearing first inclined to feelings of commisera­ not productive of results, and was im creedal tradition could move him to an the demonstrations of the company, evi­ tion and donbt were so no longer, since I stij-ated by F. M. Williams, E. C. Miles, opposite conviction. While always dently desired to add his expression to had acknowledged my guilt, they said, A. P. Williams, and also, it is said, John ALL WHO WOULD KNOW THEM- ready to take up the weapons of argu­ x L «Plven.an»! dontlnv «hoatd «end for the William« the rest, for he ran round and round by fleeing the country as I had. C. Bundy, publisher of a Spiritualistic ment and reason with his fellow-citizens Fiyctiologlcal Chart. Addre.i« with «tamp for Infor­ after his tail for several moments, as Richard so mourned the untimely journal. The defendants to tho charge mation. Mr«. M. E. W illiam s, ZU W. ir.th «trcct, X. in the faoo of church opposition and Y . City. iu2tf though life depended unon ills accom­ death of his brother and companion, and were taken first to the Warren avenue individual bigotry and inexperience, he plishing the feat of catching it. became so much more than ever devoted station, and subsequently the Desplalnes was liberal enough to allow others to Finally, one beautiful morning lu the to his church, and its requirements street station, where they gave bonds HERE IT IS NOW. enjoy their own theories, with or with C'lRST ISSUE 10,000, ENGRAVED month of May I started for dear old (though he had always been a canting for their appearance. In court the out evidence, and his fervent spirit and Virginia, accompanied by four brave Christian), as to excite the pity, sympa­ following morning—after a long argu JL Magazine. "Light 0» A ok*»," edited near tho jolly good laugh will ever linger in tho P. O. on Lookout Mountain. Tt»nn. llluatraUon-. Indians, and Lion, who seemed jubilant, thy and admiration of all the people: ment in which various witnesses were Cn*ca»li’«, Scenery, Kook«. G\rn*. Sublime dctcrlp- barking and smiling about: and I verily while for my apprehonsion there had examined, the preponderance of evidence memory of nis remaining daughter tlona by tbo editor. Dr. A. J. Swart«, and other«. 6rnd believe he realized we were going home. relatives and friends, until they see und four cent« In »umpa; he will «»»nd a copy. It «bow« been offered a great reward. I felt it was largely in favor of tho defendants hear him again. A short while before the "Healing Ko»*m;" four chair* for two ladle* and It was a day in which it would seem incumbent upon me, therefore, as I peueoublo and luw-abiding persons (wo gentlem en healer* ok of his ascension he made an agreement patient»* nnmes at focal point. It give» term» for dU* that all nature must inspire the heart valued the happiness of myself and dear doing a legitimate business, and not at with the writer that if he passed over taut Spiritual treatments nnd oil you n».’»*d to know with confidence and hope. Our path­ ones, to remain in close* hiding, and '' in conflict with the peace and pros­ Send the »tamp« and you will me something. 12Mf way was thickly strewn with fragrant limit my stay, also, to as short a length perity of the Slate of Illinois. The soon he would communicate, and a few THE PSYCHOGRAPH wild flowers, while the prolific foliage of of time as was possible to make neces­ days after tho event he made his pres OR prosecutors, whoso action can only be ence distinctly manifest, through i /CLAIRVOYANCE AND LUCIDITY forest trees, whose massive limbs over­ sary arrangements. ascribed to the ceaseless warfare of the L-k cun he re idlly developed by the u» eof the Orien­ DIAL PLANCHETTE! gifted medium who know nothing of his tal Magic Mirror. For price», etc., addre»» with hung our heads for many long miles of Accordingly, on the third night after well-known Spiritualist mentioned, or to «tamp to P. Davidson, Jr., Loud«vll!c, White Co.. 0». travel, alTorded grateful protection from my arrival, having completed all plans, a desire to place themselves on record departure through natural means. This Instrument haa now been thoroughly tejted by J . F . S n i p e s . numerous Investigator*, and ha« proved more witUfac- the scorching rays of the midday sun, as with my father and old Joseph, as to as full-Hedged attorneys, seeing defeat tory than the pjanehette. both lo regard «0 the cer­ they also did from rain and storm. where my wife (whose face was now staring them in the face, asked for con­ f WOULD LIK E A GOOD. RELIABLE tainty and correctnea* of the communication*, and a* Mrs. Anna Macombor passed to spirit- X Phyalelnu healer preferred», to a*»l»t me In n mean* of developing medluraahfp. Many who were We at length reached our destination shining with expectancy and revived tinuance on various pretexts, only to be Specialty work. City o f 4u.mn. A resident "Si reari». not aware ..f their roedlumDtlc g i f t without anything special occurring. hope) should meet me, and how such doomed to disappointment at the last. life in the 80th year of her age, at her In the county » year«. The ffnewt OIBee* and beat «Ittlng«. l>c»'ii aMe to rrceii»» a«tonl«hlng comma- Leaving my faithful companions (In­ homo in Berlin, Ohio. She was one of location It» the city. Will sell half Interest to light alcaUooa from their departed (rteoda.__ goods and substantial articles of cloth­ Tho following is tne decision as rendered the courageous band of pioneers who >arty. He m utt believe In printer*’ Ink. Addrea* Dr. C«pt D. It. Ktlward«, Orient. N. V, write«: I bad dians and Lion) in the vicinity of a ing as would be most needful m ight be by Justice Woodmun: C. G i 'T im ir r , room* 3, 4, 5,15. over pO«tO(Bce, K»«t communication« (by the Mchainiphi from mjjy converted the wilderness of Northern Saginaw, Michigan. I# other friend«, even from the okl «etUcr« wbo^e grav® swamp which was not far from my fa­ conveyed to a sale distance, where my Before discussing the evidence in this »• (TO.wn In lb, «M )»n1. B p I W ther's premises, I proceeded on the jje- Indian friends could obtain them with­ case, I will start with this proposition, Ohio into the harvest fields of tho pres­ been highly «alDfactory, and proved lo me that Splrlt- maindcr of my way unaccompanied! out danger of detection, I donned again that although wo recognize the right of ent. She was beloved by a lui'ge circle E A DINGS BY SOLAR BIOLOGY...... in I* lodeed true, and the comroanlcatloB* have though not until nightfall, remembering of friends, and her neighbors will deeply K s given my heart tin* greatest comfort Id the acv^ere loaa my disguise, and amid the tears of my tho State to legislate as to tho secular full written delineation of character, lo Du. II00T0N, I have had of «on. daughter, and their mother. the old proverb, " Discretion is the bet­ dear, anxious friends, exchanged u education of the child, wo deny the feel their loss. Hudson T uttle gave the Dr Eugene t rowoll, wh»»*«* writing* have made mi address to tho large ussembly, und Mrs, S3 Ash -St., Waltham. M au. \& name familiar t«» tbo**% Inten-Mt.-d m psychical m aU am ter part of valor." Still I did not appre­ hasty farewell (which with somo of the write* a« follow«: " I am m uch nlcaaed with tbo . right of the Stato to proscribe rules reg Einmu Hood Tuttle guvo an appropriate rtj- hend danger of detection. little party proved a final one), and ulatlng tho religious opinions of Its cit­ P S YCHOME TR V. CONSUL T WITH I cbagntpli you lent me. and will thoroughly trot it tne reading. At tho grave, tho funeral iM 1 nn.t...... »¡>(»»>T»»ppurtunlty t »III II > I IDmay »> u«»».bate. •• It -LJ 1« _ very1 J _« "V lo g . it J- a I entered the old familar grounds by once more left my old home for a more izens as long us they do not conflict with JL Prof. A. II. Severance In all matter« pertaining to principle and «■* instruct Ion. and I atn «are tnu«t be far an unfrequented wuy, which led mo over congenial ollrno, where my adopted peo­ morality and decency. In tho case lit service lately published in THE PRO­ radical life, aud your «plrlt-frlend«. Send lock of more aen«Ulve 10 spirit power Uian the’an«[now In aac. tho fatal spot where little more than GRESSIVE T h in k e r was read by them ..air, or handwriting, and one dollar. Will aniwei 1 believe It will generally auper*gdo the latter wnen ple, with hearts honest and true, bar, tills defendant Is charged with vio­ with Blurlling effect. three question« free of charge. Send for circular*. Ita *nperloY nierlta btcnm e known. eighteen months previous Herbert Nolos awaited me, and whom 1 knew would lating city ordinances, Nos. 140(1 und Address, m 4th street. Milwaukee, Wl«. A. P. Miller. Journalist »nd poet. In an editorial n^ had been murdered. An Involuntary stand by mo to the last. 1108, relating to places of amusement. lic e of the Instrument lu l»la J**pjr* JSjffjffSr Passed to spirit-life from Samaria, - (Minn > A dvaxc K, aay«: "The I *• J*,n shudder passed over my wholo being os On leaving, my kind old fathor gave The city has tho right under Its charter JDLVE BIRD, MAID OF THE SENE prorement upon the idanchette. haring « dllal • I«* the terrible event, with all the vividness me a generous supply of money. The to pass an ordinance for the collection of Mi'S. Enoy Luis, May 9, 1891, in the 80th / - ) oi* weave» magnetic garland» prophetic of life (••r*. with a few wonl*. «0 that very IltUe POWf ■ T year of her ago. She was a good mother In Earth Trail*. Dive* name and sentiment of «oui «KparwntlY re^julre-l to gtre th* cotnmunleatloog of the past heart-sickening pain and kindness was repeated as often during u lee from all places of amusement mate aud guide*. Pen phuto uf your spirit wigwam, l i e do tint br*ltate to rec*»mmrnd 1« to all who sorrow, recurred to my mind; not that the subsequent years as It was deemed within its corporate limits. und companion nnd a hard worker in •hlnlng on laide laud« beyond «hadowy glens where te*t the uueatl-m whether aplrlta can return and com behalf of tho spiritual philosophy. She never the hungry wolf or bear follow In trail» of the it ever had or could be clfaced from tho jrudent. For the transaction of any Tho query then arises: Wus this a re­ Itotnele*«. Send «I, name, age nnd addrc«*. Dr. M *e- rnjttltenRe of its dupes? spiritual philosophy. Mrs. Litvina Ireenwood, (W Hanover «treeu Maneheater, X» II. IJ4 | veal might he of such a nature as to fill Palmer officiated at the funeral of both. 'THIS'HIS VOLUME CONTAINS THE ever on the alert, lest something bo said Spiritualism, when materializing of pj/RITE TO DR. I J. C. PHILLIPS 1 tH»«t Poem« of the author, and a»»me of her tutwt me with consternation and muddonlng or done that should escape their vigil­ spirits Is part of its ceremony, furnishes■ i l l A. H. GlJiSON. an unparalleled psychometric reading, ex popular eoDga. w ith the m usic njr em inent j u m p e d * grief. Then the thought occurred to mo amlnathm or adtlcc on buslneas matter«, mclualng Among the rotm i which have attracted wide notice ance, and thus they again fail to ferret a vast und.fei'tlle field for fraud. In ~ ul lock of hair, gli lug age and aex. one dollar and three are: "Budding !lt»*o." "Ituldcnta o f Life t'udrr th* that I was becoming exceedingly out the criminal's place of concealment, nnist every instance which Inn come t*r SPIRIT HANDS ^ ¿cent stamp* -»lUfat tlou guaranteed. 514 W. Van lilue Lana," "Panma Smith's Prophecy,” "Fn*m tb llitr«*ti «treet» L'hlcago, III. I? High und* of llraveu." "Tl. - Cll of borrow,” "tMilIl nervous and weak. I must rally. "Oh! from having let slip another op|>ortuntty under my observation they have been r\F MY MAGIC C/RCLL NAVE AC- guardian spirits whoso faithful ministry qny at Full la al SIcjron." "The Iloly Mold of Kent, just within tholr grasp. the clumsiest kind of frauds, and do not LXcumplDhcd wiindonul cur»»« thruiigh mi Mag- Ä/fRS. I. E. TOTLIEF, SPIRITUAL etc. has sustained me thus far, forsake me Lion’s delight at seeing my wife and urtlird corni»-Minti for *«>rv <*>«•*. and ni) «nlrlt r«»im» The Mu*lc Include« "The rnwen Cltyt" "riarl deserve tho name of slelght-of-huud die* for (li" Cuiorrli; «ufllcUmt of ra d i io ln*i ninety I V i Healer. Absent treatment* a specialty. M*g bel." a June Song: *'Wa Shall M ni our Friend* in the not now," was the pray boy again beggars description; ho tricks! day». Hrni fur «1, |Nj«iugr fr*»«’ humph pm kage« «if nellxi'd neper« «••«! for 00 Treatment* free Morning" 1 M eet!* a at the Orv *bd Gttra." Immediately a voice which I recognized licked the face and hamln of little Louis; Therocun be no difference of opinion all IliriH», *»'iit for 1«) « aut*. puaing«» free. Il, F. I'ihu. k, Eureka Spring«, Arkan»»«, It* Many «»f tho Poem» ere adtnlnthly adapted f»»r recita­ as that of my grandmother (who you Union, Iowa. isuf tion, and were u«r A talented writer, a ml •»»»• of Prcaldent ^»a^ said, “ Fear not, all is well," So with re­ glad lo sco you, I don't know what to do Tho penalty under the ordinance is Ulto 111 f t * « it u t * und miiunotlc pli)'«h'lfin Paruly«U, ton street, lto«toii. Mao«. t»rlghte*t ach»»lar* —Clianaanlng Argo* newed courage, 1 udvunccd to my with thyself." My wife laughed and wholly inadequate to thu enormity of i:ii»MiiMii(li*m nnd nil norvmia dorangomont*. Ah*t»m l.'t.Jp*j«»L who*« writing* are familiar to many.— ‘mattinini«. Mugnotlxod piipnr und powdur« by mall, ADIES, YOUR TAINS WILL ALL r•rtrvdt Adierit*er. Mr*. Tuttle I* well known na father's house and entered it by way of cried all in a breath, while watching tho olronso. We now come to that por­ »•»nd ago «uv mul «yiiiphim«. llluliu«t roforotuu* vanisti, nudo poffCCt cure follow the m e Of my ■ poopoat, ami antbor or many rxquDita aaog*.~Bai the kitchen, whore 1 found old Jane, tho him, and all her caresses wore returned tion of the evidence in tho cuso, that |(on«oiiiihio torni». tun SpiritualisedL Flannels. Four piece* that will la*l Fvtv Spectator. Ilrr poem« arc worthy to bang Ilk»* n black cook, busily engaged preparing you four weck«, ulte dollar. l>. II C llam ia*. Spirit- hantier on our walla to n t nil ua dully to our b e tte with Interest. portion of tho testimony whloh rotates ueah’r, llotihe»ler, Mluueaoia. 1 refliK'd. setting It»*-.f to m usic.—Pn>grc«|v# necessarily appeal to man's better na­ tin» aid of «plrlt power, Dr. S. H. Williams, Luke Dene Turben. ¿Ili Collage (¿n.»c Ave . Chicago, 111. W ' ltlnk» r. Strong, tru e and b ea u tifu l.—Mm. Sun* A. made our Journey's end. Through It all Bundy, who testified for the prosecution, va. WI«. Pndnnrood* Ciorlbel Is exquisitely beautiful.—D. 1». ture. When the old servant discovered our generous brothers (suoh in deeds of and who wan most elaborate in dlsouss Home, the trembling old man leaning for sup- generous kindness at least), seemed to lng this subject, was positive us to tho Tl»« volum e contains page«, I* brantlftiltT printed TESTIMONIAL. «nd hound, and furnishes a Quo Holiday CUiL J’rlte rt upon his cuno, she exclaimed: " For vie with ouch other In manifesting con­ phenomena of Spiritualism, YES YOU CAN F. POOLE, CLINTON, IOWA, 41 .*», post-paid. f t Lord's sake! muwu, who bo’s ye? sideration for tho "nice white squaw's Now, In regard to the earthly phuso B: IVaae send me one package of your spirit F»*r sale at this nfnee. Wliur did yo's come from? Buuh ye look comfort. She must be fixed good," they of this ease. Was this a place of umuso- r'R T WELL. SEND 91 SOR A BO T Itcmedlr*. >1« past experience has found It Invalu­ V i tln of Ri.txia or Lira. A «pirli remedy. Purclj able. Krspectiull) four», W. II Wright, Whitewater. BLE OF BIBLES. BY KERSEY weak und tuhod." said, und their words were soon reduced tnenton the night In question? vegetalde, and Magnatixtsl. Poattlvely renew« tifa Wisconsin Iff * Thoaaand« rejolce -over healtb restured. For bloud. m It will well pay perusal. Price #175 And when I requested to be allowed to practice. For, after forming u litter, The evidence on the part of the prose­ Ilver, and ktdnny alimenta (bere (a no bettnr rentedy T IEE OF THOMAS PAINE. I FIS /N- to see hor master and mistress, tho sym- unu [during hor thereon, two of them cution shows that a collection was takon madn. Seuil f.»r clrculor, Dr. E. K. Myers Cllntoc, I tensely Interesting. Price •),<«». lowa. i t i A WONDERFUL OFFER B Y A POW- m thu tie old creature led me without would carry her n considerable distance; up, and In nearly ovory Instance a dollar Y l erful clairvoyant and magnetic healrr. 8rud f iicsitatlon to the sitting-room, whore then leuvo her and return to assist the was paid. Tho prosecution claims that 4-cant stamp*. lo* k of balr. age. «ex, «ud one Iradlttg LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE. si nipt.-io. and 1 will «end you a full and correct dlag- before a cheerful fire—for tho nights other two with our several packs of the payment of this dollar was the regu­ 'TV!ER A PE ( * TIC SA PC 'OGXi >M I . THE nital* of your cas*’ Addrc»*. Dr. W F. Lay. II01 AUTHOR OF ••COMMON SENSE,' wore yet cool—sal my father and goods. lar admission fee, ami was compulsory* 1 appili tiiimi thl« most «hu* 1 patriot and religious rw emotions sufficiently to reply, without friends who were on their way to meet show that fact. A number of witnesses I send tlive «prant «tamps, age and sex. Short jva>- former should read thl* lume Price fl. Posing« *m and y »••age, and presentation of New Itiatru- elminetrlo reading »f youraelf or friend hi el* Full demonstration, to tho Interrogations ad­ us with imnles. They at once saluted us testified thut tho spirits which ap|H>ured mont* for KWuttro Thcrapnuth'». By Joseph Kode« IV ceni*. Far «alo at thU oOlco. Hucliniinn, M. I> A perfect luluu of rare knowledge. reading. MU, present and future. «I. Dr. M- B. Xlch»ls. dressed to the supposed old man. with suoh whooping, fanciful gestures, in tho cabinet were impersonated by A largo work. Price 99.UU. \n West diottro» strv'ct, Chicago, III. IM PSYCHOPATHY, OR Ji*7JcTTÌIF.ÀT- 1 quickly observed the uud change maneuvers, and so forth, as to quite Mrs. Jennie Moore. .A ?.r.r,'r* "O'"— «» t'1» lUIMIim. of th. The defense denies that, and produoos which hud boon wrought In my dear frighten my wlfo und child. They / TOW TO MESMERIZE. B Y PROF. 'POWERFUL SPIRIT MAGNETIZED Vf H u n ,.» V.J.VfJLÎ’L ' Î . V *1"1 Intfr Iti-tauloo Their faces bore deep traces from fifteen to twonly-livo witnesses 1 I J. W Cud well, one of thu most aucçr«ful nies _ paper. Ileal« all dlsenso». TosflinuutMls from ;.i" «“"Ä 'TrTÄ iv irÿ Vf° ÈsatïiïüzT parents, le a r n e d in time, however, to consider moríala In America, Anolrut und modern mirarle« c& Maine to t.allfornl«. Bend fth cent« to Orln Woodbury Uff. n()UII IW «Jttiiu w iv ii who wuro prosent on this and othor oc­ of Intens them as true and trusty friends, who to plained by tneatnerlfem. An luvalunhlo work. Price, W*»«t Karmlugtou, Mulue, fur a p«ck«gn with dlrro drew I sprang and locked tho door, then casions, who swear thut tho seuneos paper, ft»» cent*. non, m ÄiTidiÄi rrtL iï.*îr' p‘,J,*,“Un «WftimaÄ