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C O N T E N T 8 : THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN SCIENCE. can reveal; but there hi something that no that all space is God’s space; but all space I his pen and sent forth thoughts like gleam­

FIRST P a g e . —Gems of Thought; The Signs of the microscope can discern, and it is that is powerful space, and there is just as much I ing stars on the side of freedom, while T im es in Science; Richard Realf. I An Interesting Address, delivered by the which perceives beautiful sounds. It is power as space. Oh, if an artist had eyes | flitting about like a wild gazelle, always Rev. 8. B. Calthrop. the very invisible of the invisible, partly S e c o n d P a c e . — Glim pse 1 in Spirit Land— No. a; A to sketch that inch of space, how glorious I being found where danger and “ border Remarkable Median; The Slate-Writing Gift; Ma-[ (The Chmiian Register.) spiritual; for the ear is the organ of man's it would be to sketch the dance of atoms, ruffians” were thickest. He met John teruiiration Points; The Final Religion of Earth; spirit. to see them touch each other, to see the The new theology that is scientific is Brown, their hearts echoed reponsive M ore Light; Spiritualism Defined, etc. Then there is alteration in the human beautiful vibrations going on. * Fancy the chords, and it was very natural that the , THIRD Pack.—The Church vs. Spiritualism; The Free finding itself, and will find itself, by the voice. Think of the- difference between atoms of hydrogen dancing eight hundred hero of Ossawatomie should take him : Platform Nuisance; Experience Department, (Spirit very law of its being, greatly different from the savage’s howl and the voice of the million times a second and never jostling into his confidence. Form; Dr. Slade); Spiritualism, etc. the old theology. I wish to represent to­ master of song. The human voice is now one another! Oh, the perfection of that His pleasing manners, emotional and Fourth P age. —1 Editorials) A P le a for a ■ Little Sense; j night not godless science, but theology, capable of giving all shades of dignity and dance! The artist would show us that poetic temperament, with a womanly ten­ What has he Gained? Seeking for Light; Primitive wonder and grandeur and worship, and wherever there is power there is beauty. derness, would never lead any one to sus­ Christianity; Second; Once More; Psychometric religion, informed and ennobled by sci­ this difference is a part of the invisible The theologian goes a little further, and pect that he was at all times ready to Readings; Self Sacrifice; Loose an d Taut; The N e w ence. And the first thing we have got to Society; Just the Same; Help; Considerable; Editorial work of the divine creation. Look at the asserts that wherever there is space there is sacrifice his life for the poor slaves. Brown N o tes. take up is the conception of the evolution brain. Take the brain of a savage and justness; and science is beginning to back chose him Secretary of State in his cabi­ compare it with that of a Newton, and you him up. Wherever there is sgace there is net of officers to march on Harpers’ Ferry. ifth ace II of life on the planet. We then lose at F P .— Editorial Notes; Spiritualism in Atlanta, shall see no difference in the texture, a reaction equivalent to the action, and that He was reported killed in that enthusi­ Georgia; Psychological Experiments; M rs. F. A. once the idea that God ever created an Logan at Unity Church; P ea rls from Ingersoll; W a s it little in the form, in the convolutions, but will hold true everywhere. If you behave astic raid, but a few years after he was Spirit Power? Passed On; Professional C ards; Adver­ organism without an organism. That is, microscopic identity in substance. You meanly to space it will go back on you. found doing valiant service for freedom tisements. the new Genesis says, “ The Lord said, can not put your finge^ on the difference; And, now, Christianity says the final word, ]with pen and sword in the Union army. Sixth P age.— Mind and Matter; Optimistic Observation; Let us make men.” He did not mean and yet it is the difference between knowl­ —Wherever there is space there is love;L His long career as a frontiersman and his Core for Atheism; F. W . Evans on Spiritualism; edge and ignorance, between the animal let us make men up there in the infinite and so the end of scientific theology is to army life told heavily on his once beauti­ P*oud of his Sister, etc. past and God’s mighty future. So the di­ fill space with God, with wisdom, might, ful face and physique; but his spirit, mind, heavens, but down here with the poor lit­ Seventh Pace.—A Wonderful Light; Professional Cards; vine emphasis in creation is increasing beauty, glory, truth, righteousness, and remained as tender and sweet as ever. Publications; Advertisements; etc. tle fishes. The Lord said to his small power all* the time, fitting the organism love. So we may feel that scientific the­ He became connected with the Pittsburg Eighth P age.—The Morning, Noon, and Twilight of creatures, which men to-day despise, We for a bright and beautiful, a noble, a joy­ ology is guiding us into the midst of God; (Pa.) Commercial, made speeches for the Life; Anti-Typical; Calling the Angels In; She was will build man; and He did. Then the ous and blessed life. That creation is go­ and, if we want to know about him, we Republican party, was a popular lecturer "Somebody's Mother;" A Waif’s View of Wealth; first thing the scientific theology has to do ing on all the time. You can feel it. If have only to examine a cubic foot of space in New England on many reforms, and Advertisements, etc. is not to tolerate evolution, not to patron­ any one says to me, “ But I can not, I do around our own heads. This view gives contributed to the leading magazines some ize it; not only to accept it, but to be part not see this creation going on,” I say to the conception to the mind of man that of the finest poems in the English lan­ GEMS OF THOUGHT. and parcel of it. It has got to accept the him, Put your mind on noble thinking the universe is one vast telephone. It is guage. Married in 1865 to a lady much idea that God built men through the and being, and it will go on without your wonderful to me to talk to my friend across older than himself and so unlike him in Truth alone conquers. lower animals. This is the only way in knowing it, whether you wake or sleep. miles of space, and hear his voice. But thought and feeling that harmony was im­ which you can justify the divine effort. The inspiration of Israel was a heart in­ that is only a symbol of what is going to possible, he applied for a divorce and Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in There was a purpose from the first dot of spiration; and, from time to time, a new happen. For years, I believed that my got it in the lower courts; but the Supreme the mind, that nothing can draw out, life down to this age, and it is impossible thrill of inspiration enlarged her religion mother’s prayer reached me instantly, be­ Court set it aside on some frivolous techni­ Through harmony of body and spirit in a world like this to build organisms and thought, until we get the perfect Ser­ cause God was between her and me, and cality on the day he was to be married to the soul may bloom into perfect manhood. without organisms. The higher is built mon on the Mount. But that is not the took the message; and I think now that a young lady in Utica, N. Y. This wasa out-of-the lower, and sometimes with pain method of sejencev.,which i^ to take the between my mother’s prayer and me there heavy blow, added to his already sad life, How divinely beautiful is' the counte­ and sacrifice to the lower. The cross of lowest things and cUmo up. If you want is no space. She is with him asTamalsd, which came near'killing him. He parti­ nance through which a grand soul shines. Christ begins down there. We must say, to adopt the scientific method in living, and there is no time between the thought ally recovered and wrote again with great then, that man’s body had to be take the law of Christ, and see if it will and the feeling. No space, be it that of usefulness and beauty; but his life was Each form of worship that hath swayed made, and it has been made by the make your home better and sweeter. The twenty galaxies, can ever separate hearts broken, and he wandered over to Califor­ The life of man, and given it to grasp effort of the lower animals to get incoming of a mightier creation yet is pos­ that love. nia in 1878, with his heart full of tears, The masters' key of knowledge, reverence, and laid down in that sunny clime and Enfolds some germ of goodness and of right something they had not got. The prey sible, when each individual and family —Lowell. I wanted to run away, and so got swifter shall try this test.' It is a purely scientific Richard Realf. passed on by his own hand to a sphere limbs. The catcher wanted to catch, and test. Try, and see if it does not fit the where such great minds I hope are better Above all things always speak the truth. so got more powerful muscles. Man has facts of life. [“ C.“ in Liberal.] understood. The night before he died he Your word must be your bond through a deep debt to every animal behind him. The most touching picture we can make Since i860 no name in American litera­ wrote “ A Poet’s Death Song.” life.—-HaliburtoJi. It is beautiful to me to think that the of such a test is of some poor old woman ture has had a sweeter sound to me than Grope not in shades of yesterday but effort of creatures I despised has done ot seventy, who has lost husband and the one at the head of this article. In E q u a l R i g h t s .—Remember that all this for me; and I, in the days of my children, and lives poor and alone, in her lift the soul into the realm of to-dayfs The Woman's World, of Nov. 15, 1885, I men have equal rights. Remember that benificent sunlight. ignorance and pride, gave them never a one little room, bare and comfortless, the man who acts best his part—who loves thank you. It is going to be written on with walls of plaster, and the plaster break­ Helen Wilmans, the able editor of that his friends the best, is most willing to help The man who seeks freedom for any­ every society of the future for the preven­ ing off at that. And so, lonely and sad, paper, prints two of his poems. Mrs. W. others, truest to the discharge of Obliga­ thing but freedom’s self is made to be a tion of cruelty to animals, “ Friends, you somehow the gospel hews came to her; seems to have been thrilled and touched slave.—D t Tocqueville. tion, who has the best heart, the most feel­ are desecrating your own benefactors.” and now, when she is old, it does not for­ with a tender pathos, like myself, at the The creative emphasis at first was laid on sake her. After the hard day’s work is ing, the deepest sympathies, and who This existence is but a stepping stone the body, the muscles, stomach, liv.er, done, and she has bread enough for the first reading of “ Indirection,” by this freely’gives to others the rights that he to another sphere, but the entrance to the heart, and lungs. These grew royally. morrow, she takes her old, worn Bible, great soul. She says she read this poem claims for himself, is the best man. I am temple of life.—Samuel Watson. And, mind you, this is one debt we owe and tries, though she does not know it, first about fifteen years ago, and yet re­ willing to swear to this. What has made this country? I say, again, liberty and Love inspires, wisdom guides, faith to the animal world; and he who trades this experiment. There is nothing in the members its effect upon her perfectly, and j on his animal capital, and neglects this room, except the walls and stove and labor. What would we be without labor? opens the gate, and self-sacrifice leads the that “ it seemed that my hitherto dark­ way into the city of peace—the City of early effort of God, injuring the powerful floor, that she can see. But to science I want that every farmer while he is God.—D r. J.M. Peebles. play of these organs, desecrates God’s there is power there, gravitation, chemical ened life was suddenly flooded with light; ploughing the rustling com of June—while work. Then the creative emphasis was power, and a thousand forces; but she light that has never left me from that houf mowing in the perfumed fields, to feel that The one secret of life and development, no longer laid on the association of joints, does not know it. She tries to feel that to this. * * * j began to realize that he is adding to the wealth and glory of is not to desire and plan, but to fall in muscles, nerves, but to make the brain there is something there that can just help I was coeval with the Eternities. I per­ the United States. I want every me­ with the forces at work—to do every mo­ cavity. And the theology of the future, her in her needs; that she can lie down meated all; all permeated me.” She chanic, every man of toil,-to know and ment, duty aright.—McDonald. which is scientific theology, will see that upon her pillow, and wake in safety. And, wanted to know who he was but “ not feel that he is keeping the cars running, the brain cavity was made out of some again and again, the poor, lonely heart is another word came from him across the the telegraph wire in the air; that he is Straws swim upon the surface, but pearls making the statues and painting the pict­ lie at the bottom. Showy parts strike poor creature that had not a brain at all. comforted. She sees the lost ones safe space which separated us, and no word It had perhaps one vertebrae a little and present in God, and lies down, and concerning him, until one day, years after ures; that he is writing and printing the every common eye, but solid ones are only books; that he is helping to fill the world to be discovered by the most accurate ob­ brighter—not much—than the rest. The wakes encouraged for the morrow. That I had read his first poem, I picked up a next step was to chain three or four of is the best kind of experiment. It is pure newspaper containing his last one, ‘A with honor, with happiness, with love, and servers of the human head and human law. * Remember that our country is heart. these into a sort of little box, and that science. If you want to try that experi­ Poet’s Death Song.’ ” took generations and generations of pains ment, try it. You say you can not pray. My friend, Mrs. Wilmans, wanted to founded upon the dignity of labor and the There are rare cloudless days which At last, you find in ydur head the mark, Then think the best thought you can by know something of the great mind that | equality of man. Remember this, and come into our lives, when the soul seems that have come from the fish, for they yourself before going to bed; and you will could send off such beautiful sentiments the second century will be far grander to break its fetters and mounts toward made the first effort in that direction; and I find that there is, somehow, something in in such harmonious music. To gratify than the first.—Col. Ingersoll. heaven—soars outward and upward in the you have now got this cavity which you j the air that backs you. her, and another mind in full sympathy great universe of space and mingles with call the skull, and something in it, more Again, theology has said that God is in­ with hers, but a stranger, and far across S i l e n t I n f l u e n c e .—If a sheet of the stars. or less. [Laughter.] finite; and, now, science has proved the these beautiful prairies, I give a brief paper on which a key has been laid be ex­ Divinity is the center pivot upon which The theology of the future adores this infinity of space. Science says that all sketch of this man who was very dear to posed for some minutes in the sunshine, divine plan, and worships at its shrine. It space is filled with power, and here she has | me. all advanced circles move, and, by the | and then instantaneously viewed in the power of love, all are bound; it is the traces the divine plan, and kneels. But, helped us beyond what tongue can tell. He was an Englishman by birth and | golden cord which unites our world to when this organism is once made, you no­ Formerly, space was empty; and the re­ had been connected intimately with many dark, the key removed, a faded spectre of other worlds and to all spirit-surroundings. tice that the creative emphasis comes to ligious mind could not imagine how that persons of distinction in that country, par­ the key. will be visible. Let this paper be —-J. B . Ferguson. another place. It now begins to refine could be, if God was infinite. But science ticularly with Lady Byron. His untimely laid aside for many months, where noth­ the oiganism. The outside creation is shows that space is full. Take one cubic and sad death in Oct. 1878, called up ing can disturb it, and then in darkness be . Every natural fact is symbol of some left very much as it was; but the inside inch of space upward. Through it, I can many memories of the soldier, lecturer laid on a plate of hot metal, the spectre spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature grows, and we pass out of the distinctly see Sirius. That means that through that and charming poet, whose soul was at­ of the key will appear. This is equally corresponds to some state of the mind, visible to the more and more invisible inch the light of Sirius is coming through tuned only for the beautiful in art and true of our minds. Every man we meet, and that state of mind can only be de­ qualities. That is the point. We now space. Fifty thousands waves of yellow nature, but which, as is often the case, every book we read, eveiy picture or land­ scribed by presenting that natural appear­ have two fine eves. God made eyes by light, forty thousand of red light, about met with rude blasts and thoughtless crudi­ scape we see, every word or tone we hear, ance as its picture.—Emerson. light shining on innumerable organisms— sixty thousand of blue, and sixty thousand ties of our unthinking world. His life leaves its image on our brain. These shining on and on, until better eyes were times sixty thousand more are in that was a strange and romantic one, but he traces, which, under ordinary circum­ What the perfume is to the flower—its space. Then there is Arcturus that brings was ever found sustaining the oppressed stances, are invisible, never fade, but in soul essence—beautiful thoughts are to the made from the effort to see. Now, God keeps refining the eye, giving it finer ob­ more light, and there is Vega, and twenty and suffering of whatever sex or nation. the intense light of cerebral excitement, human mind; they clothe our entirety million stars known to science; and every He came to this country in 1854, and start into prominence, just as the spectral with an invisible mantle—sweet and fra­ jects to look at and making men observe them. Have you any idea of the differ­ one of them is sending through that inch was at that time possessed of great beauty image of the key started into sight on the grant when expressed in good deeds and ence between the man that sees the divine sixty thousand times sixty thousand waves, of person and mind, which drew to him application of heat. It is* thus with all the kind words for suffering humanity. splendor everywhere and the man that and they do not jostle or displace each many of the choicest people in the world influences to which we are subjected. The science of mind explains cause and sees nothing but daylight and dark ? The other. That inch is filled beyond all ex­ of letters. He devoted himself to literary effect, lifts the veil of mystery from soul angelic eye—that is, the perfect man’s pression with power, and every inch of work, writing numerous essays for amelio­ jT h e discovery has been made in Colom­ and body, reveals the scientific relation of eye—is coming fast, when all the divine space is filled in the same way. Once again, rating the condition of the poor. He re­ bia of a shrub which exudes a juice hav­ God to man, unwinds the interlaced am­ splendor in sunrise and sunset and night that same inch feels the pull of the earth. sembled Lord Byron much, which, with ing so powerful an effect in arresting the biguities of being, sets free the imprisoned of stars shall be seen in infinite delicacy. It takes a long time for light to come, but his friendship for Lady Byron and his flow of blood that laige veins may be cut thought, and explains the divine principle So the ear is being trained to more and gravitation goes through that inch in no poetical talent, caused idle stories that he by a knife and smeared with it without of man and the universe.—Science and more delicate gradations of sound. There time at all. So science has told us that was related to the great poet. In 1856 causing hemorrhage. The plan! is called Health. is a physical alteration that the microscope space is infinite. It does not quite say he was found in Kansas, where he dipped “ aliza ” by the natives. 2 GOLDEN GATE. [March 6, \SS6. "More Light. I noticed that each member of the so- The Slate Writing Gift. lieved what I saw, who happened to be I I caety had a chair resembling some musical favorably located. Mr. Albro, who is a I GLIMPSES IN SPIRIT LAND. I instrument. 1 remember one represented superb manager, took very kindly to this I la flute. The stands for music were man's scruples, or doubts, particularly I Of all the delightful portions of country XMM o r 0 S m t ic H en arnon Trance I formed of branches of trees on which when he said he had a brother who was a the present writer ever saw, this along the V talon. I was placed a large shell as a rest for the skeptic, that he would like to bring there, 1 south of the bay of Monterey by far ex­ music. These stands were supported on but he did not want to be criticised by I D ear Sir and Br o t h e r :— Replying tc,_ cels. Especially is this true of the grounds NO- a . I three legs and entwined with foliage. him for any over-estimates. It was arranged ■rv.‘ medium was first controlled this The floor was mosaic, in floral designs. your kind favor of the *ist, would stale that I then, at his request, that during a seance about the Hotel Del Monte, and what is Mr. Milford might sit in the rear end of c r tf iin g by my friend E. She spoke of I As you walked over it, it seemed to have I my guides promised me if I would come I known as the Pacific Grove. Nature has the room where he could see all the space | been very lavish of her gifts of “ things of t h e reidines of spirit life. She said that I a springy elasticity that made it pleasant I to California, that I would be the recip-l I to walk upon. The beautifnl garden that lent of new developments. I had previ-l (about four feet) between the cabinet and beauty,” and suplemented by the art of i t seen ted to her that she• had been in the closed folding-doors, while his brother surrounded this building was Ailed with lously been a medium for clairvoyance, II I man, these places have become the elysian sp irit tife for many years, for it had be-1 trees, shrubs, and a great variety of could sit in the circle front, so together to bowers of the Pacific Coast. I presume, c o m e 10 her so real that she looked hack I flowers in full bloom, and gave off to the I clairaudience, trance speaking, imperson- be sure of no confederacy. On a succeed- sir, that you have visited this portion of upon earth as unreal and changeable. passing breeze a musical perfume, entranc- I ation, mechanical writing, also a magnetic II ing Thursday atternoon this plan was car-1 God’s heritage, hence any attempt at de- ried out, and considerably more. I had script ion on my part would be as un­ Said she, we can look upon what we I ing and delighting the senses with its I physician and psychometrist. What else I melodious harmony. bee n introduced to and was seated by the I necessary as it would needs be abortive, have as ours, and there exists no uncer­ I could I hope for or expect, having been so brother when Milford took his seat in the I While walking through the grounds re- After the medium had returned and re­ I abundantly blessed ? My phases, as you I tainty it can not be taken from us. Our lated to me the above, my friend E------rear. The seance at this time was about I ferred to, I could not help but think what houses are for us and just suited to our c ame, and in our conversation said to me I will see, had been mostly on the mental U half through. After this arrangement Mr. a pjty that all this should be given to self- I plane. I had been promised slate-writing I Albro said he would try to make the ex- I js^ purposes; the rich, the very rich may wants, and do not cease to be ours until as follows: “ The institution we have and spirit photographs. For the latter I had we no longer wish them; but:i_we_someyJ visited is situated on an island, the whole >eriment extra satisfactory; so he said to enjoy these grounds fully, and they only, times feel the desire for a change, and | of which is occupied for the homes of the sat many hundred times with but the the other Mr. Milford, who was left sitting I And then I had a vision of suddenly be- members of the society, and they devote I faintest success. Two years ago 1 got by my side, “ Come up to the cabinet, I coming immensely rich, and buying out then we have other houses suited to our some little slate-writing, but it left me, and new desires. 1 do not think, said she, themselves to the cultivation of music. nd Mr. Albro lighting a wax taper match I au these grounds, and turning it into one To give you a better idea of our beautiful I gave up trying further on account of my told Mr. Milford, the skeptic, to go inside 1 grand orphan asylum and home for the tKar {t is well for people to always live health, and came to California in hopes of in one place on earth, or always to pur­ land, I must tell you we have many beau­ and held the match so that the whole in- poor> an(j «< a8 j mused the fire burnetii.” tiful islands in the midst of broad, electri­ perfecting my physical and spiritual powers. side was distinctly visible, and found sue one business. Change leads to pro­ Now how did I get the development ? Pacific Grove, prior to the present pur­ gression. Men should travel more; they cal streams which encircle our hemisphere, absolutely empty except the darkly-clothed chase, was leased by the M. E. Church as —for our home is a hemisphere,—and on We formed a circle of congenial friends, medium sitting on a small chair in the] would get new ideas and would And them­ and met twice a week, numbering ten to a camp-meeting ground, and the same de­ selves with enlarged views as a conse­ these streams we can travel from place to corner of it. The man not only looked nomination still has control of the moral I place. There are many streams that con­ I fifteen persons. We sat in the dark. We in, as I did, but he went in. When he quence. I have notice men, when I have sat for whatever would come. We sat welfare of the locality, at least; so I was been about earth, intently devoted to some j nect our hemisphere with the planet, came out immediately the curtains parted informed by Mr. Johnson, the gentle­ bringing from that planet the disembodied around a long table—had also a cabinet. ind two female forms, clothed in white, business when their thoughts are confined! One or two persons would go in the cabi­ manly superintendent in charge of the to one or two ideas. Their brains that life, and carrying back new electricity to distinctly appeared and also came out into grounds. One of the special edicts of that have capacity for development have be­ give new life to maturing plants and ani­ net, according to direction. Not always the room—one of them into the middle of religious body, is that the parlors used for come stunted in their growth and develop­ mals there. For it is the law of nature to the same persons. Half of our number the room. The fact that they were hu­ religious services by every denomination, ment. Many men worry and trouble supply the necessary assistance to every were already mediumistic, and were con­ man looking and living forms, visible to shall not be used by Spiritualists for lec­ themselves to acquire more money than animate thing so that it may live to full trolled to describe and personate, etc. all presons present, was as unmistakable tures on Spiritualism, or anything pertain­ they need. Fortunes laid Up for children do earthly maturity before it passes to an­ We always had a dozen or more slates on] as the fact of persons being in the circle ing thereto. This was learned for the not b:n;fit them beyond what is used for other sphere. And what may seem the table, each person generally holding] as spectators, and equally unmistakable first, last week, when application was made their education. Boys are better for not strange to mortals, we look up over our his own slates. We began after a time to that the said- two human-looking forms for the parlors by a Spiritualist, for two or inheriting property. All around you can heads and behold a sky studded with stars have some signs of materialization—spirit were extemporized out of the vacant air. three lectures on that subject. That the see thosj who have been the most usefull as you see them upon earth. These lights, clouds of vapor, and very indistinct To the skeptical Milford it was proof pal­ Spiritualists of Pacific Grove, and there are • in the world are those who have had tol bright stars in the skies of Spirit Land are forms, apparently floated about the room! pable, for his brother, who was seated in several of them, should be subject to a struggle against adversity and make them­ the bright celestial homes of the spirits We had been sitting thus for nearly six! the rear, said nobody entered the cabinet rule so senseless, to say the least of it, is selves. All men are better for having that have passed beyond the planet months, some of our members, myself] on the back side, for he was on guard to be regretted by all liberal minded; and struggled. There are many qualities in spheres; here, grouped by the great law of among others, had become discouraged! there and there was no other possible way I think, will scarcely prove to the interest man that nothing but adversity can bring] attraction, live, in purer heavenly life, the and frequently staid away from the circle except the spiritual one; and you can now of the company owning the grounds when out. Notice a man who has had severe] great and good spirits that have passed on when one evening, after a -very harmoni count both of (he Milfords as among the once known to the public. struggles; see how much more calmly he] before us. ous sitting, we were directed to place all the! anny of believers—at least believers in Notwithstanding the above edict, the takes life. The storms through which he “ It is thought by some that spirits live slates in the centre of the table on top of] the evidence of their senses. One was an people of the Grove have eat of forbidden has passed have prepared the way for the about and near earth. They can stay each other, and everybody’s hand on the old Spiritualist; now the other is a new fruit, and still live, to wit: Last week, topmost slate. We hedrd the writing and] calm. about earth for. a long time in one of those one. Friday and Saturday evenings, two lec­ At the sitting there was considerable de-j currents of electricity, but they do not to our great joy on turning up the light found] I will add also another interesting cir­ tures were given respectively, on “ Spirit­ lay before there were any manifestations. generally stay long. Indeed, they are that nearly every slate had a message on it cumstance which has now got to be quite ualism as a moral power,” and, “ The The writer had been talking with the me-| obliged, from time to time, to return to We did the same thing for several" sue] a common one, at Mrs. Helen Fairchild’s Phenomena of Spiritualism,” these being ■dium about unimportant matters, waiting] their homes to refresh their bodies and ceeding evenings with more or less success^ seances; this of which I am now speaking the first ever given on the grounds, and it for what might come, when the medium] attend to their general wants.” But the question arose, who was thd was the first one. At about the close of is to be hoped are the dawning of better said, “ I hear beautiful music, so beauti­ medium ? After some experiments we the seance the medium entered the cabi­ days for the Spiritualists of Pacific Grove. ful and so distinct. You must hear it] A Remarkable Medium. discovered that the power resided in a net and saw her influence was about leav­ Here resides Mrs. L. G. Waterhouse, a yourself. She was now controlled by E. combination of three persons—two ladies ing, adding, “ If a spirit now appears I name known and revered by many peo­ and a gentleman. They could get the again, who said to me, “ The music she E ditor of Golden Ga t e : would like for Mr. Wetherbee to come up ple of the Golden State as the founder of writing together, but none of them separ­ and examine the cabinet.” One then ap­ heard was from where I wish to take the The daughter of the late E. V. Wilson, the Woman’s Home in Sacramento, to medium to-night; it is from the perform­ ately. After a while two of us could get pearing, I went up; of course it retired which institution Mrs. Chas. Crocker and ance of a society of Germans.” There are now in New Orleans, La., Mrs. Wilson it together, but not alone. Finally I suc­ before I reached the curtain, but I went Mrs. E. B. Crocker were the first and many musical societies in spirit land. All Porter, who is temporally residing in this ceeded in getting tire writing for different in and went wholly round the sides, and most liberal doners. those who have had a desire to obtain a city, (New Orleans), is giving some excel­ persons, but havd'not yet been able to when having done so the medium said, Mrs. Waterhouse is an earnest active get it alone. I can hear the writing and knowledge of music, as well as an ability lent tests, not alone priyately but in pub­ “ Why don’t you come inside ? ” which I Spiritualist, fully realizing that she has no the raps when sitting alone, but it becomes then did; found it empty except the me­ to perform while on earth, but who have lic on Sundays, at Odd Fellows’ Hall. occasion to blush for her blessed faith. been unable to gratify their wishes here in visible only when in company with others. dium. I lighted a match and so made it It was through the kindness of Mrs. Water­ their spirit homes, are able to more than She is also a good reader, and altogether So far I have not failed to get the writing absolutely certain; then I stepped out and house that Spiritualism got a hearing in realize their fondest wishes. She now she is quite interesting to Spiritualists. whenever I feel the inspiration to sit for stated to the persons seated before me my Pacific Grove, for, being herself refused ■told me the name of the society was But what is uncommon otherwise than others. Thus my experience is that it is experience, that not a person was in or the’ public parlors for* the purpose, she -Safina, situated on * an island called her phase of a trance medium, is her abil­ best to sit in circles in the dark, and to around it. I noticed the members of the willingly gave the use of her residence, Opaqui, or the island of the musical re- ity to handle Are, while under the control stick to it until some one, or more, of the circle were a little amused, and so I looked an(j invited her friends and neigbors to at .freat. of an ancient Are worshiper. This won­ number is developed. I never could, have behind me and there was a white-robed tend the lectures given there. If all the The medium now remained unconscious derful and novel manifestation of spirit gotten it without the aid of those with female form standing at the cabinet en­ Spiritualists of like influence in the State Tor some time. When she came to her power deserves mention at more length whom I sat. I believe that the younger trance, near enough for me to touch. It would be as loyal to their faith as this normal state she related as follows: than the writer can devote. This lady members of a circle will be most likely to was certainly a very expressive way of tell­ lady what grand forward marches Spirit­ I have been to hear some grand music. can, while under that unseen ponderous get the development. I have been prom­ ing those present that when I was stating ualism would make, and what inroads on We \ isired a large octagon building situ­ power, handle Are with her bare handaiwith ised some other beautiful phases in con­ with such positiveness the emptiness of the strong holds of error. ated in the center of a beautiful square. impunity, hold paper in the flames and it nection with the’writing if I will obey my the cabinet, that very careful people can Dear Editor, will you not .sound the It was of a white marble. In the front on will not burn, hold lace and articles of guides, who have enjoined me to abstain be mistaken. My excuse was, I was not trumpet in our Spiritualistic Zion, and '•each side of the entrance was a Ane, large wearing apparel in fire without even from giving too great publicity to my me- counting beings of another world, “ whom call forth our mighty men and women of :lree, one of which was shaped like a harp, scorching. After many operations simi­ diumship until 1 be more fully endowed now you see and now you don’t.” Of valor ? Hopefully yours, the strings being formed of a beautiful, lar, her hands and arms were examined, with the power. I sit nearly every day for course I am understood. Certainly the P a u l a s . fine vine over which a breeze was quietly and not even the fine hair thereon was some friend or other, but I dare not dis­ medium was very condusive of the mate­ blouing, producing a beautiful melody singed. She also passes her face through obey the injunctions of my guides until my rialization and dematerialization of these Spiritualism Defined. like an aeolian harp. , We entered this no­ fire, and holds heated lamp-chimneys to development is perfected, then I shall not forms. Jo h n W e t h e r b e e . ble building through large folding doors her cheeks, hugging, kissing red-hot glass hesitate to “ let my light shine.” I be­ B oston, February 2 1 , 18 8 6 . Spiritualism is the only form of religion that opened outward. There were in as if it? were a sweet cherub. During her lieve many mediums have been ruined by that substitutes reason, that “ beam of the stay in New Orleans, which will probably following the unwise counsels of over- this society one thousand members. They T h e F in a l R eligion o f E a r t h .— infinite light,” for sacerdotal authority. be until Summer, she is acccompanied by zealous friends who were anxious to have e a Spiritualist. Reader, I Chicago, shows that Mr. Storey, the far litv manifested by the would not you, if you had had the same iKFti church, and experience? famed editor of the Times, was a firm be­ ruUrlv by th* pritest lugod toward Vet, in the years of my young man-1 liever in Spiritualism, and that he fre­ Spine.ual ism. is obvi*MIS t<) the most f«w . tin hood, 1 grew to doubt the very existence quently resorted to their healers for relief observer. Fromi tlbe s< holarly and rrc of all past ages, all going to prove that of any immortal part to our nature, | from bodily pain and to their trance me­ >n having been raised in the strictest line of intcIU•ctual lights of the Romibh, Episco- materialization has occurred thousands of diums for spiritual comfort. His letters at Orthodox, and 0ther eventually viel orthodoxy. When 1 began to reason a date three or four years before his death pal. evangelicai act. It is Spi times, in thousands of different places, upon the many inconsistencies of that I churches, down to the TalImages and oust be the ul and under conditions where fraud or de­ belief, my judgment rejected it as totally are saturated with references to the disem­ other 1tallow tapers, a11 an rith rare ex- 1 almost hea unworthy of credence; and naturally 1 bodied spirit which came and ministered .j — ception was out of the question; but cepdoins, in severe armi sc; g denuncia- on why the < letgy especial! drifted to the other extreme of doubting to him. Mr. Storey’s faith in Spiritualism reference to what occurred in past ages to suggests that the number of believers in tion o i' this new religion. No vitupe ration ppoac us, for 1 do not like t< the existence of mind as a separate entity. i to so respects la persons whom we never saw, and of whose j But I was convinced of the truth of im- | this doctrine is by no means confined to severe, no riclicuU» toe rorthy motive; it too > gross, no ut it must be clear to them n- existence wc have but little or no positive 1 mortality by another materialisation, quite (those who make open profession. Many con ten ipt too acrid, tio ext>ress their horror 1 ;ni is true, the __;eir evidence, is by no means satisfactory to as remarkable, and, to me, quite as con-1 people believe who are afraid to let the Hidemnation of a faith that fuu salaries are gone I do not mean to im- us at the present time. Col. lngersoll vincing a the one 1 have just related, | world know of their belief, because of a but that must be withheld for another popular idea that it detracts somewhat tablished itself on such lou ua- ply that all of th m, or even a majority, said a little miracle right here and now tkxis, and in the hearts ins, the are governed by >rdid motives, but they irticle (from one's influence to have it so said. | arc all human, and the means by which would do more for Christianity than all (There ere believers here at Sterling who past forty years, the « averts coming they earn their daily bread may be a the logic of all the doctors of divinity Doctor Slade. (do not attend public services, ana who alike from the r u n k sof ^ _infidelity tnd the stronger factor in their creeds than they who ever lived; and so I think about ma­ | say nothing of their belief publicly, but fold of the church. would be willing to admit. To such as terialization. . A single case clearly Much has been written concerning Dr. ho consult mediums in private, and who in hours of confidncc declare to their in­ It seems singular that th 'ho accept, make this the principal “ call ” to preach, shown to have taken place in the present Slade's mediumship, hut 1 do not suppose without questioning, the stories of angels argument and fact alike are wasted. timate friends that those they knew in life, They will never see anything in Spiritual­ time will go farther to convince the peo­ one tenth part of the manifestations occur- ind that are now dead, return to them,, appearing to Abraham and Lot, the ap­ ism until they are left stranded by their ple of this age of its truth than all the in­ ing through him ever comes before the and in hours of silence and solitude come pearance of Samuel to a woman of Endor, hearers, whom, if Spiritualism ever estab­ stances which could be cited from the public. From my own experience I am nd minister to them. It has been esti­ and his prophetic communication to Saul, lishes a paid clergy, which God forbid, pages of history. certain the most brilliant phases frequently mated that as many as six millions of peo­ ple in America are of this faith. Quite a the materialisation of Moses and Elias on they will have a “ call" to occupy some 1 Many do not believe in that form of occur with no mention whatever. The the mount, that “ many bodies of the rostrum, provided th e ir efforts can secure spirit manifestation, and I am free to say ,\rgc number reject any and all of what saints which slept, arose and came out of I one. W. that if I had not had absolute proof of it, description that 1 have read falls far short lire termed outward manifestations, such their graves and appeared unto many,” I if 1 had not in my own experience had at doing the phenomena justice. is slate-writings, materializations, etc., that Jesus himself appeared to his disci- The Free Platform Nuisance. least three of my senses appealed to and When the Doctor visited Salem, Ore­ but cling firmly to the opinion that the pies and others in a manner strikingly II convinced of the fact, I, too, would be gon, several years ago, I availed myself of dead come back to earth and hold com­ similar to modem materialization, should I [l'he New York Beacon Light1 1 speak* out in no unc very doubtful as to the genuineness of munion in words that can not fail to be k on the free platform nuik nee. It says: the opportunity of several sittings, all of bold up their hands in holy horror when I __L that most magnificent of all manifestations understood. Whatever the merits or de­ they are confronted with phenomena of I Why will Spiritualists continue to fritter of spirit power. But in that particular I which were truly wonderful. Accompa­ merits of Spiritualism, despite the fact that a similar character at the present day. away their strength and resources in the [have■been been much favored,Ffavored, having nianyi nied by my wife, I first visited the re­ I there are impostors who go round and with Why should intelligent men, who some-1 silly and disgusting harangues and oratori­ times witnessed it in wonderful perfection, nowned medium in the evening, and was an tricks of sleight-of-hand deceive the un­ times seek to stimulate their hearers to I under conditions where there was no one entire stranger to him. The first commu­ wary or the simple, it is none the less true cal tournament that have so long disgraced nication we received, written between two run the Christian race by alluding to their I our divine cause ? to commit fraud. that there are thousands and thousands being “ encompassed about with so great II My first experience in this phase dates I slates, was addressed as much to the Doctor who are honest in their faith and believe Must the millions of noble, pure and as to ourselves, and was written by his a cloud of witnesses,** 1 e. spirits, who do cultured men and women to whom the back to my childhood, the year 18 4 5 , as does the Christian or the Mahomedan, not hesitate to comfort the mourner with three years before the manifestations oc­ translated wife, and it affected the Doctor or the Buddhist, in his faith. Spiritualism truths of Spiritualism are dearer to tears. Then came a communication, the assurance that their “ lovedand lost than Hfe itself be forever disgraced and curred at Hydesville. I was then living has assumed such proportions and so with my father on a farm on the frontier written on a slate I had just cleansed with many respectable people are in its ranks are often present in sympathy with their I scandalized in order that the half-dozen a wet sponge, from an old partner in busi­ weeping mends, and who base their^ belief I shallow-brained nincompoops who gener- of the State of Iowa. Our house, like that it can not he dismissed with a sneer, in immortality upon the ressurrection ofr- that of most of our neighbors, was a rough ness with myself, in which the spirit nor can every one who accepts it be called ally hover about every Spintual “ free ros­ alluded to a circumstance known only to one man eighteen hundred years ago, and trum " may pour out their loathsome vaga­ log cabin standing out on the open a crank. Many most sensible people are on testimony that would be ruled out of prairie. The ground for some distance him and me. Then occurred a series of in its ranks, and it is unquestionably grow­ ries, or wrangle by the hour with one questions and answers, I writing the ques­ any court in Christendom to-day, why another, to the disgust of every intelligent around the house was quite level, and ing. Its teachers are many, and they should such men sneer at and scout the was covered with the short prairie grass tions on one side of the slate and then adopt all known methods for the purpose or decent hearer ? putting a short bit of a pencil on the other abundant evidence of the present time Who that has had any considerable ex­ indigenous to that country. There was, of widening and extending their influence. that establishes beyond reasonable doubt however, a small clump of hazel brush not side, holding the slate on the top of my perience with “ free rostrum " conferences head, then just touching the ends of myl the facf of co-communieation with our| can wonder that sensitive, refined men far from the house. I suppose it was The above from the Sterling Gazette is friends in the spirit world, and their occa­ about eighteen or twenty feet long by half fingers of my left hand to those of the very similar in tone and substance to arti­ and women, who seek to guard their repu­ Doctor's right hand when the pencil would sional bodily reappearance? There are tations and the reputation of their families, las much in width, and was, perhaps, three cles appearing in the country and city thousands of respectable, credible wit­ [or four feet in hight. With the exception commence writing, bringing convincing secular press all over the land. If to be a hesitate to identify themselves with socie­ proof of the personal presence of my nesses to such phenomena, whose testi­ ties whose rostrums are every week prosti­ of this bunch of brush there was nothing Spiritualist is simply to believe in the pos­ mony on any other subject would be re­ to obstruct the view in all directions for friend, this process of communication con­ sibility of edmmunion between the living tuted to the use of these windy cranks ? tinuing for some time much to my gratifi­ ceived, and carry conviction to the minds It is just the “ free rostrum” nuisance several hundred yards. Now for the ma­ and the spirits of the departed, then the of any intelligent jury. None of these terialization : cation. Then followed many other phases Gazette is undoubtedly correct when it that beyond all other causes combined, of manifestation, such as an accordion objectors deny the immortality of the soul;J has kept our great cause from making One bright sunny afternoon in the Sum­ places the number of believers at several oi) the contrary it is with them a basic be-| mer of the year mentioned above, some­ playing with no visible hands touching the millions. It is also undoubtedly true that that progress to which its intrinsic worth keys, the needle of a magnetic compass lief. Why then should they deem it an and unanswerable phenomena entitle it. thing went wrong with me, and I came many hesitate to make public acknowl­ incredible thing that this immortal part out of the house crying lustily over some reversing its point, the lifting of Mrs. edgement of their belief because of the If all the sewers of this great town were Reed in her chair some distance from the should be able to communicate with the made to empty their filthy contents on the fancied injury, and I went, as I had often disreputable character of some whose dear friends it left behind when it jour­ done before, and sat down behind the floor, then setting her down very lightly, names have long been associated with surface of Broadway, instead of in the no visible hands touching her. A chair neyed to the invisible world ? rivers, the effect would not be more dele­ bunch of hazel brush, perhaps thinking.I this belief and whose lives have been im­ There are some obvious answers to could “ enjoy” my cry better if quite was taken, at the request of the Doctor, moral—bad. Another reason why many terious to the health and comfort of the from the side of the table and set over these questions, and the first is, the great inhabitants, than is the noxious nonsense alone. I had not been there many min-| fail to declare themselves Spiritualists is majority of objectors, and I think it not utes when a voice—a strange one—ad­ against the wall and again returned to its that the general public class all believers that flows from the sewer-like mouths of place beside the table. The Doctor then too much to say ally have never seriously J our rostrum cranks, to the welfare of our dressed me. I looked up, and there with frauds, impostors and cheats, who honestly and patiently examined the sub! right beside me, not more than three feet] took a slate and reached it under the leaf feed and fatten Upon the morbid curiosity cause and the comfort of its reputable sup­ of the table asking me to take hold of the ject. Fortified, as they fancy themselves^ porters. distant, stood a fine looking old gentle­ of the ignorant and the gullible, and along to be, in their belief, any demonstration! men with a long, flowing white beard.| end of the slate, which I did, when he with fortune-tellers, gypsies, astrologers, Public Spiritual conferences are of ques­ withdrew his hand and placed it on top of from the outside that appears to them of] tionable utility at best. It would seem How well I remember his strange appear­ and all that horde who live by their wits a hostile nature, arouses them to act ail ance, as wearing full beards was not fash­ the table when some one seemed to be and thrive upon deception. There is still that Spiritualists should settle all their dis-1 still holding to the other end of the slate, once on the defensive, without stopping] putes and differences among themselves, ionable then, and this old gentleman was another class, much larger in every com­ to inquire into the nature or character gfj among the first, if not the very first person,! the Doctor saying to me, “ Hold on to munity than the unthinking would guess, and when they go before a skeptical and the slate; don’t let it go," when the slate the attack, and they instinctively resist! antagonistic world present a solid front; I had ever seen with a beard. He said:] who regard the subject, or at least their It is plain that to continue in such a course] “ My child, you should not cry so about was jerked out of tny hand and appeared own experiences and belief, as too sacred! but if they are determined to invite all on the other side of the table reached up is to insure defeat in the end, provided their enemies in to hear them discuss theirl such trifles." I wondered where he camel for general discussion or conversation. the enemy is the stronger. It would be from and how he knew what I was crying by a hand showing the fingers extended If all these are to be classed as Spiritual­ wisdom on their part to delay hostilities] family differences, precautions should be on the slate. Soon the slate was returned taken to prevent a set of tramps and about. His voice had a wonderfully] ists, then undoubtedly the number is long enough to “ consider whether they! tender and sympathetic tone and won my to my hand; then a hand appeared on great. Whatever the number, the discus­ cranks from bringing the meetings into dis­ my vest reaching for my watch which it will be able, with ten thousand, to meet] repute. attention at once. I wish I could re-[ sion of the subject by Joseph Cook in his-. him who cometh against them with twenty took from my pocket and placed it in my Until this nuisance is abated our cause member all he' said to me during the next Monday lectures three or four years ago thousand." five minutes; how I must be a brave little] hand still holding the slate. At this I j doesn't seem to have settled the question can never make that progress to which it firmly grasped the hand when it dissolved Again, the lamentable fact that amongl is entitled. man, and meet all my troubles—and I in the minds of many even in the those who profess to be Spiritualists, and would have many greater ones than the within my grasp. This and many other churches, but has rather aroused curiosity especially mediums, are so many frauds The Christian Advocate (Methodist) present—with courage. If I did so it] equally astonishing things were done. and provoked discussion, until in response: and impostors. Undoubtedly some hon-J finds, “ with sorrow and disgust" (which would take away the greater part of their The August following I met Judge to the accumulating evidence of what est inquirers h&ve been repelled from! we consider quite natural), the following pain. He said he would always help me] Harding of the Third Judicial District, many are firm in believing are undoubted further investigation through becoming item in a secular paper: to bear them if I did this, and if I did and was telling him what had transpired, proofs of spirit return, a spirit of investi­ victims to such characters. Then the The Methodists of-----had a full house not do it I would always be unhappy. when the Judge remarked, “ I believe gation is springing up all over the land loose views as to morals held by some] and a grand time on Christmas eve, at the In short, he shpwed such an intimate that is all true; in fact, I saw enough and the demand has become so strong, Spiritualists, even in prominent positioysl church. Many presents were distributed acquaintance with my inner nature and while I was at Washington (he was once upon men of science, and of well trainedi have greatly prejudiced the cause. Thesq from the tree. Every widow received a character that, child as I was, I wondered U. S. Senator), to convince me that Spir­ minds, that within the last year or two facts are deplorable, and it behooves package of candy. A few married and how he came to know me so well, for I itualism is true; but," says he, “ don’t say societies have been formed for the investi­ every honest, pure minded Spiritualist to] youn£ ladies were disguised and sold to had never seen him before. How often any thing to Tom's wife, lor if you do she gation of all that class of phenomenal present a stem and steady front against all the highest bidder. The gentlemen were in the years immediately succeeding this will go into conniptions about it and it which are popularly, though perhaps un­ manner of imposition and impurity. I not very spirited bidders, as the highest event did I wish 1 could see him and hear will do no good." (Tom was the given justly, classed under the term “ spirit am glad that the G olden G ate stands price realized was only forty-five cents. his sweet, musical voice again. He name of my old partner.) I said I had manifestations." Such a society has ex.— “ straight up" here. The purchaser, with his prize, was pro­ talked to me in this strain for perhaps four not thought of doing so, and in the after­ isted several years in* England. One has But the principal reason why Spiritual­ vided with a ticket for the amount, fqr or five minutes, and then either he or noon I was again with Slade, when my been formed in Boston, another in Kansas ism is resisted by the church is, undoubt­ which they received lunch together in the something else drew my attention away old partner was again present and wrote City, and another called “ The Western edly, because it explicitly denies the cardi­ basement." from him for an instant, and when I on the slate: “ Now, friend Reed, I want Society for Psychical Research," was or­ nal doctrines of that institution. Now to b The Advocate lays on the rod with con­ looked back again, not more than a you to tell uncle (Judge Harding) that he ganized last May in Chicago, and includes . a person who has been “ brought up in siderable vigor: second afterward, he was gone. I looked is mistaken,—it will do good; and I want in its membership clergymen, physicians, the faith " (and the writer speaks from ex­ “ It is beyond our comprehension how in every direction for his retreating form, you to pledge me your word and honor lawyers, college professors, journalists and perience), one who believes in a “ jeal­ any Christian can think such performances but cquld see nothing of him. I searched that you will see Ritta and inform her that business men of all shades of religious be­ ous" and “ angry" God, in original sin appropriate to a church. The singling every foot of that little bunch of brush I want her to be sure and come to this lief and disbelief. This society, like tfier and a great deal of it, in endless punish­ out of widows to receive packages of candy over and over, but found nothing of him. : medium, for I have matters of importance others named, proposes to enter upon a ment, in vicarious atonement, et id omne is in execrable taste; but the selling of For months, and even years afterward, that I wish to communicate." (I did not patient, thorough and scientific investiga­ genust a faith that remorselessly tramples married and young ladies in disguise to the I puzzled my brain over his mysterious know at the time the pet name he called tion. What they will accomplish remains upon those doctrines comes with a shock highest bidder, with whom—though he disappearance without avail. I said noth­ his wife, but learned from her that Ritta to be seen. The British society in the- and horror that arouses all one's prejudices may be a person of unworthy chpracler, ing to any one about it because I did not was what he called her.) I also received three or four years of its existence does and mental forces to instant opposition, who never comes into a church except for know what they would say. One day, a communication from an old friend of not seem to have exhausted the subject, believing B§ one honestly* does, that his some spree of this sort—the “ sold " lady some four or five years afterward, I acci­ mine (Hon. E. N. Cooke, late State and there seems to be plenty of room for time-honored views are not only the true is to go to lunch, is down to the level of dentally overheard my grandfather telling Treasurer of Oregon), written on a slate I investigation by all the societies named.- and saving ones, but that the opposite are the lowest skating rink." of a similar circumstance happening to had purposely purchased for the occasion And iust at present few who have care­ from the devil and simply damnable. To Should such entertainments become him, and his words, not intended for my and taken with me, privately marked, in fully investigated seem to be satisfied with consider them even appears wicked; for common in the Methodist church, they ears, first led me to suspect the real char­ which communication was a declaration the materialist's reference of the whole has not the church from time immemorial would soon drive the skating rinks out of acter of my venerable visitor. that took several years to verify. This subject to sleight-of-hand or mental hal­ pointed out the only true why; and can it existence.— Christian Register. Since then I have seen him many times; was written in his own hand writing so lucination—or to the old orthodox idea, be possible that so many great and good never so clearly in materialized form as nearly that any one familiar with it would that it is all of the devil.—Ogle County^ men of the past and present have been Nothing discloses real character like the on that first occasion, but always having recognize it at once. Surely, Dr. Slade is (Itt.y) Rrtss. mistaken ? It is not strange then that so use of power. It is easy for the weak to tire same kind, fatherly, benevolent look a wonderful medium. C. A. R eed. many fair-minded and good men can not be gentle. Most people can bear adver­ which he then had. In keeping his P o r t l a n d , Or., Feb. 13, 1886. It appears from a letter sent to the- be brought to investigate Spiritualism, be­ sity. But if you wish to know what a promise he has always made himself either House of Representatives by Secretary cause that would imply that their views man really is, give him power. This is seen or felt, and many times both when I In Clark county, Kan., during the late Manning, that the expense of decorating might be erroneous. Considering the i the supreme test. It is the glory of Lin­ have been .in any senous trouble or afflic­ storm, a herd of sheep crowded close to­ the public buildings on the occasion of the strength and tenacity of long-established I coln that, having almost absolute power, tion. Indeed, I have come to love him gether during the blizzard, and the snow death of General Grant was $2 ,4 4 2 , and faith, the cause of Spiritualism would I he never abused it, except on the side of like a father or an elder brother. He is | melting for a while, and then freezing after­ for the death of Vice-President Hendricks mercy.—Day Star• seem to have small hope of ultimate tri- to me as real a personage as any one I ward, fastened the entire flock together. $5,475- CxO L DEN O ATI [M arch 6, 1886. sa r Sa c r ik k » Some time ago we | mg in d ami sB itim —si ama *■*** PRIMITIVE KRISTIAN l GOLDEN GATE. Ic written regarding the organisation of i | sadist a t hi» children preferred the a m f i ot wealthy minister* for the |mrn I »htp at a sottfelns sake; awl h* a »tiling n r PUbfl*M c m S Jm dte ;tlmsm Can Jdi w lean fortunate clergymen. It k intention y s in a | all the world ifeoU kssa R* * a”good one. and it b to be hoped By killing Slhay did ha —da the wrong < 11 || \ r t lokt. In the South and West of Bw ||sarfy Sam Ffanciuo, Cm * I wife's conduct? Did he win buck he* las th e Ka&tern ZN • O N C E M O R E . States there are nun) men the I add in l i t n m tn t degat* to has oww hapf* whose pnrpoae is so siinccre and 1 ,ho L L Olnut. • • lotto* aa* Mononaa. | Not |S ail. True, he hee rid the world Xu A L another wrlief U ao H a. Miwrtia P. Owaa. - • . • AoSSHO. honest that they IB r year after yeai | creature who was, yolsp a unworthy to uif account of niatcfiAUiii£ pnetioi aa which w the spiv- R. B. H UoHSl Agent- itual welfare of th flocks with little I bm waa that the beat thing fur him to «l» f no reiua- claims to have witnessed recently n several deration for thel eryjees. In R 1 beat tor i n victim 1 county, Turn —frr_T“ -uinum. p m Ro a* m* *a—; K a casket*. in the presence of one of thee several Kansas, there is a minister who ridesride forty miles nth*. Club* at five ■ in. Hal. we are tokL ha honor waa at stake t h a t letter and preaches four sermons every Sunday for a K | honor, that nothing but blou i n l i t %tiu«w* now tarrying in that city. Th win salary of two hundred dollars. Georgia has a I only has the right to interpua plea of this tort written more especially to commend s I me­ baptist minister who has for a year and a half I whose own honor ia unsullied It ia pnnibk that sm to public notice. served a church as punctually as possible, walk­ All letter. Id be lifeMl [ Brown waa a vestal saint in this respect.anapcci. Wel i t _do Where there is much divided opinion upon the IS » .Street. S io From I not pretend to know. Even then, are think he ing twelve miles each Sunday to do so, and, as cstioo ol the genuineness of any medium far I would have proved himself n truer man, —truer to compensation, received but four dollars. Some SATURDAY, MARCH 6. 1886. [ himself, to his children, to society, had he taken dic •Ch­ c materialising phase of the phenomena—as is illiberal liberal might suggest that they arc good this sinful woman, and ia the manliness of a no­ I Prolane history, so-< illed, is silent upon the sub- e case with the medium our correspondent refers for nothing else, who would thus toil for a pit­ tance. But their works prove the spirit that act­ A PLEA FOB A LITTLE SENSE. ble nature, sought, by wise counsel and gentle I ject, with but one i iccptlon,—that of Josephus, tc —the admission of evidence, pro or con, not admonition, to save her to herself, and to a life of uates them. The Church has not nearly done its The very first wane of the Go l d e n G a t s , ah I —and that is supt wed to be a pious interpola- trictly of a test character, is only calculated to purity. work, and its honest shepherd should be better though a hounding in choice Spiritual matter, I ttoo of the church. tir up strife. In all such cases the G o l d e n How much better that this unhappy pair should supported. ommend theni- original and otherwise, waa denounced by a w est­ have gone their separate ways—as they will, Of the facts in his history that C a t s intends to maintain a "masterly silence,” ------♦ - ern contemporary aa a failure, becansc it con­ doubtless, now do—without the shedding of blood. I selves to our reason, and that tally with our anj permit everybody to think as they please, — L o o se a n d T a u t .— Verily are the churches falling from their trust in Providence into ways of tained a grand discourse from Dr. Swing on the I knowledge of the order of nature, are that be I al jcast until we can speak from positive knowl- I worldliness and frivolity. Various are their-de- SEEKING FOR LIGHT. was a son of Joseph and Mary, born in very ledge of our own. ** Natural Evidences o f Immortality!" That we J vices to attract attendance by outside sheep, should copy, with a word of approval, the nttcr- An intelligent and prominent business man humble circumstances; that his early youth was No genuine medium for form manifestations doubtless deluding themselves into the belief that nceiofa Christian minister, even though in the line I caj|etj at our office, a few days ago, and stated remarkable for intellectual and spiritual gifts, I caa blame us for this; and surely we are not ask- I the end justifies the means. A church in West- of proof of our beautiful philosophy, was enough that he was earnestly seeking for light on the analogous to those often witnessed in these I jng too much of any such, who would care for the | field, Mass., is giving chromos to induceoutsiders I to attend its evening service. If this were some to bring us under the ban of at least one fellow- modern days, where the Ups of children, under I endorsement of the Golden Gate, that they sat question of spirit return. He had read exten­ ) backwoods town with n practical pastor like spiritual inspiration, are madeto express the I j s f y us on this point. And here we will under worker in the Spiritual cause! sively on the subject, and thought it impossible . — Samuel Jones, it would go as a matter of course; Now comes another contemporary, edited by that so many intelligent people, as Spiritualists wisdom and lore of the sage; that he was trained take to say, that any materializing medium who but f()r % ;Ncw Englan(l town to create such a re­ one of the ablest*writers in the Spiritualistic fickl were known to be, could be deceived. But he in the vocation of his father—that of a carpenter will come to our parlors, and in the presence of port looks as though Puritanism had lost some- —Bro. J. M. Roberts, of Afind and Matter—and must know (or himself. To this end he had Then follows a number of years in which little or the writer and his wife, and a few others wc may I thing of its spirit. But while the border churches in a column article, sharply criticises us for urging many mediums, but had received no satis- nothing is heard of him, but during which period select, all of whom shall be Spiritualists, friendly arc thus pandering to ithe secular fancy, the intc rior large and wealthy societies are striving to he doubtless practiced his trade among the peo­ to the medium, and either believers in materiali­ Spiritualists to be "magnanimous and chanta- I factory evidence of the truth he sought, draw the reins on sinners without any coaxing, ple and in the country towns in the vicinity of hie to those 6f other beliefs, and also for suggest- I Our friend is not alone in his failure to receive zation or willing to believe—and there submit to by agitating the Sunday law question and work­ ing that Spiritualists should cultivate those readily positive evidence of the all-important fact his birth. such rational test conditions as we will provide— ing for their enforcement. The Mayor of Phila­ At the age of thirty the real work of his life delphia has issued a proclamation warning citi­ graces of "character that would enable them to •of spirit return. Many others have searched long conditions in nowise inimical to the known laws zens against violating the Sunday law of 1794* " treat their opponents with courtesy and respect.*’ began. And here wc see so much in the phe­ of form materialization,—and then if spirit forms and diligently for the light, and while most of This Sunday agitation business leans more to a nomena of Modern Spiritualism—of the practice appear we shall not be slow in declaring it to the It would hardly seem possible that any one them have been abundantly rewarded at last, revival of old than the making of new laws for could find anything to object to in these modest some have faltered by the way and given up the by others of the wonderful gifts which he pos­ world. the Sabbath. But the tide of free humanity can sessed, and which he said should "follow them suggestions; and yet our storm-tossed brother, search. Materializing mediums, who make their own never be turned back in America though it may who never seems so happy as when he is swing­ It is a fact well known to all intelligent Spirit­ that believe,” and "even greater things should conditions in their own homes, and insist upon be tinged with crimson. they do,"—that wc can readily understand that ing the knout of fierce denunciation, regards ualists that much depends upon the individual no interference therewith, may naturally expect to T he N ew Society.—The first meeting of the such an attitude towards an opponent as highly he was a grand medium of spirit power for the be discredited by many. In all such cases wc be­ seeking for evidence, whether he receives it or Board of Trustees of the Golden Gate Religious uplifting and redemption of humanity—not in lieve it is best for each investigator to judge for reprehensible. 1 * Why Spiritualists should be sin- not. Some persons can obtain long and con-| and Philosophical Society was held on Sunday the sense of a vicarious atonement for a race lost "gled out,” he says, "for that admonition is not vincing communications written between sealed himself. Surely, we are willing to leave the ques­ lost, immediately after the morning services, at and condemned to eternal vengeance, for nature "quite clear to us; nor can we understand how and bolted slates, without the contact of the tion an open one, always holding our minds open the Temple. Present, F. H. Woods, J. B. Chase, and reason teach us, and returning spirits affirm Abijah Baker, W. R. S. Foye, M. B. Dodge, J. " those of other beliefs need either their magna- hands of the‘medium, while others, without the for further evidence. the truth to be 'that humanity was in no such Personally, we require no proof as to the gen­ M. Mathews, Mrs. H. A. Robinson, and J. J. "nimity or their charity.” precaution of sealed* slates, can 'barely obtain a Owen. A temporary organization was formed by lost condition,—but just as every noble, out-, eral fact of form materialization. . We know it to Spiritualists should be the "salt of the earth.” few unconvincing words, and perhaps nothing the election of F. H . Woods Chairman and J. J. reaching and sympathetic soul is the savior of his If we can not expect the practices pfeourtesy to­ at all. be true. Hence, it is for no purpose of being con­ Owen Secretary. Permanent officers of the Board wards an opponent,, and the manifestation of a In some persons the spiritual perception, or fellows. vinced upon this point that we invite materializ­ were then elected as follows: President, F. H. We are told that Jesus went about doing good, Woods; Vice-President, Mrs. H. A. Robinson; gentle spirit, at their hands, then we know not faculty, is largely developed. In others it is ing mediums to demonstrate their gifts to us. It Secretary, J. J. Owen; Business Manager and teaching purity of life and conduct, healing the is simply for their own advantage—that we may where to look for such graces of character. We almost entirely wanting. Or, if possessing well- # Treasurer, M, B. Dodge. The Board then ad- sick, and ministering to the spiritual needs of be able to speak of their mediumship intelligently. should remember that the opinions and,beliefs of developed spiritual natures, some there are who adjourned for one week at the same hour and others are as sacred to them as ours are to us, and are surrounded by an impenetrable magnetic, at­ those who believed, in ljijn-rrjust as thousands of We would not be understood as questioning the place, for the consideration of a code of by-laws just as much entitled to respectful consideration; mosphere, or aura, that renders it impossible for pure and noble men and women have done in all integrity of any medium who refuses to comply for the society. Over one hundred names have been added to the roll of membership of the new society. and whether they need our magnanimity and past ages, and are doing to-day. He was poor with our request. That is their privilege. In the spirits to approach them. Or, it may be, It is expected soon—possibly by the first of next and lowly;’at times having "not where to lay his such cases we are simply an agnostic—we don’t charity or not does not absolve us from the recog­ the eagerness of the investigator, and the positive month—that the society will be able to throw open head.” He was scoffed at and reviled by the nition or exercise of the common amenities of life. condition of his mind destroys the nice condi­ know. Until we do know we shall respectfully the doors of the Temple free to the public. The new While our facts are full of meat for hungry tions essential to spirit manifestation^ These ob­ proud religionists of his day; just as those who keep silent. society starts out with every prospect of success. follow his example in these modem times, and souls, and when presented in a proper spirit to stacles are frequently met with, especially in the PSYCHOMETRIC READINGS. practice the gifts which he said should be given u st t h e a m e others—even to those wrapped np in the mantle earlier stages of investigation. . J S .—In the estimation of many to his true disciples, are scoffed at by the haughty We have heretofore taken occasion to speak of persons the world is always getting more wicked, of old beliefs and superstitions—seldom fail to To all such we would say, keep trying, and the remarkable psychometric gifts of Mrs. H. F. and bigoted religionists of the present day. and they sigh for the “ good old times,” when attract attention, yet will the invitation to an in­ success will surely crown your efforts at last. Robinson, of 30 8 Seventeenth street, San Fran­ people were simple and innocent. The Baptist Compare the life and teachings of the gentle vestigation thereof be repelled with disgust when Read up the literature of Spiritualism. Form cisco. Recently, we have had repeated oppor­ Weekly has heard so much of this that it deter­ Nazarcne—the sweet-souled and beautiful Jesus presented in’a rough and ungainly manner. circles of harmonious persons and sit regularly tunities for further investigation in this wonderful mined to take a look back and see just how mat­ phase of spiritual prescience and power, as un­ We can not understand why a Spiritualist should —with the gorgeous, man-made Christ, worshiped ters stood in the newspaper world of forty years one or two evenings a week. Seek for the folded in her organism, and find it such a mine of not be courteous and charitable—why he should in our costly churches, and what a contrast is ago. Its satisfaction with the present is increased highest and best in your own lives, and let your marvelous truth,, as could not*fail to awaken the[ by finding the same complaint of failing respect consider it necessary to beat his arguments into presented! The class of people among whom he aspirations be for the good and true. You will earnest consideration of any thoughtful person for the ministry, of the growing worldliness of the heads of his opponents with a club. Neither thus develop your own spirits, and thereby come ministered—the " publicans and sinners "— who might be led to examine it. the Church, and of hostility and indifference to can we see any good reason why Spiritualists more readily en rapport with your spirit friends. would be strangely out of place in the magnifi­ In one instance we placed a letter, written some ■ the gospel, etc. In fact, there was the same evi­ should not quit their wrangling, their backbiting cent palaces we see on every side erected to his sixty years ago, in her hands, concerning the dence of the increasing wickedness of the world Mediumship is yet but little understood. It is writer of which, who has long since passed on, and their narrow jealousies, and work together worship. forty years ago as. now. If the same investiga­ not an exact science; or if it is, it is subject to so she could have had no knowledge. She held the tion had been carried back two or three hundred harmoniously for a common good. All there is in his life and practices worthy of many conditions, that definite results, in our letter in her hand for a few minutes, when she years, the world would have been found quite de­ imitation—all that makes him a model for the« If our Spiritualistic contemporaries do not like present state of knowledge, can be predicated described the person the letter was written to; praved and lost. If we could get as minute and world to copy,—is his* great, losing sympathy also the surroundings of the writer, various mem­ our way of editing and managing the Goldj*n with no degree of certainty. It often occurs that widespread details bf the good that is being done Gate, they should remember that it is our way, for sinful men—his tender heart of compassion bers of his family, and especially oris who had every day the world over, along with the bad, we the most astonishing manifestations are obtained caused him much anxiety of mind, and still con­ not theirs—that they have not a dollar at stake in for all in afflict ioq, or bowed down with grief. should lay less stress upon the latter and be more when least expected, and when the conditions are tinues to do. so, giving details which no one but a thankful and hopeful for the former, and do more the enterprise, and that the wisdom of our policy Herein is the sum of all his teachings to the apparently least favorable. And again, when no psychomctrist, or some one thoroughly familiar to increase its measure. is best manifested in the general appearance and element of success seemed wanting, the sennee world: Do good to. others. And in just so far with the facts, could have done. as men practice this precept they arc his disciples In another instance we placed two photographs tone df the paper, in its rapidly increasing circula­ has been barren of results. iiE L P .—The cow-boys are one of the modern tion, and in its assured success. —true Christians. --one of a male the other of a female, and both terrors. By reputation they are all that is bold, We can not force conditions. We must be remarkable characters,—in her hands, the faces, With thi« plea for a little sense in behalf of the The real mission of Modern Spiritualism to the wicked and murderous; but in real character and patient and hopeful; and especially should wc >f course, being held downwards. She named I nature they are known to possess human virtues teachers of our philosophy generally, and th: ex­ world is to teach "peace and good will to man; cultivate a spirit of receptivity,—-.a childlike trust he sex of each readily. That of the male was! and sympathies, which they chiefly manifest pression of the hope that a broader and more and confidence in our angel visitants. It is a to cultivate spiritual gifts; to heal the sick; to Victor Hugo, and the reading was as follows: toward each other. They never desert a comrade 9 catholic spirit may inspire the gifted pen of our grand and glorious truth, as millions of intelli­ cast out the devils of ignorance, superstition and[ ■ Masculine, full-chested, deep-breathing man; erect and who comes to grief. Lately one of the fraternity majestic in bearing; positive, self-reliant, independent completed a term of three years' imprisonment in esteemed contemporary in the future, wc drop the gent men and women have demonstrated to their intolerance; to welcome in the good angels of spirit, who never bowed bis head to man but worshiped .God the Joliet Penitentiary, and on taking his leave subject. soul’s satisfaction and delight. our belter natures; to lift the soul into a purer because of his majestic power— the power he recognised in himself; too proud to do a mean action; a man not en­ was handed a package of one thousand dollars in atmosphere, a higher spirituality, and to seek WHAT HAS HE GAINED. tirely understood because he could not assimilate with all currency, sent ns a gift by one of his colleagues. —During the last year there has been great ever for the best in our own lives and the lives of classes; bom to rule, but not by martial force; ought to ad­ But for this aid the ex-prisoner might have gone There was on trial in one of the courts of this dress vast assemblages nf people, his words would'carry alarm created over numerous cases of supposed our fellow beings. into the same or worse course that first sent him City, last week, a murder*case—that of the Peo­ weight of conviction; an argumentative character, but hydrophobia; bui Dr. Shrady laughs at it. He This is primitive Christianity, and it is the wants facts, cold facts; genial, tender and aflV.c:ionuto; to prison. Wc believe there are more persons ple vs. Brown, in this case the defendant, Brown, declares there have only been three cases of gen­ round, full faced, rather heavy built; perceptive faculties! sent to penitentiaries for second and third terms was arraigned at the bar of so-called justice for] kind of Christianity the world most needs. Let uine hydrophobia reported in the United States in well developed; high forehead, full through the front brain; than those who go once and stay out after re­ killing the man Shay for enticing his (Brown's) us have more of it. penetrating voice; has wielded a mighty influence; always the last ten years, and that he does not believe lease. They come out poor in purse, and poorer wife unto her dishonor. Both of these men had ready to light error and to strike a blow for right as hu rea­ there has ever been a true case in the State of son taught; and would strive to make others feel as he felt still in the public estimation, in honor and in­ families of grown-up children. Shay had not] S e c o n d .—Dr. Talmagc says that divorce "is New Jersey. on great subjects; could laugh deep and hearty; loved fam­ tegrity. Confidence is given slowly, if at all, been living with his family for some two or three] the first course on the menu of hell.” If it is to ily and home." and often it is so tardy that many a poor, de­ years, and was known to be a man of loose mor —A Washington Territory subscriber, sending play any part at all in that state, we should give The lady was not n public character, but well spairing trian sinks into crime that he never knew als and dissolute habits, although, after receiving! us a year’s subscription for a new subscriber, it a second place, the cause or causes rendering says: " I have read your paper from the first known to us, and entirely opposite that of Victor before, and the world says, " I told you so.” his mortal wound, bis wife and daughter kindly such a step necessary is surely the first. Two Hugo in character. She gave n most accurate and tenderly nursed him until the end. issue, and am very much pleased with it. I have persons should take each other for better, and not bfcen reading Spiritual literature for the last description of the lady’s leading characteristics, —Mr. S. N. Asplmvnll, wife and daughter, of On learning of his wife's infidelity Brown] for worse. If they find it to be the latter, they especially when she said the whole was summed twenty years, and like the Golden Gate better Minneapolis, who have been spending the winter armed himself, sought for her, and, finding her atl are creating a hell, both present and future, for up in "self-sacrificing, and always solicitous for than any other paper I have had the privilege of in this city have taken their departure for the a restaurant in company with her .paramour, pro themselves, when both might cultivate a little the happiness of others.” rending.” happiness if apart. The obligations and re­ East. They will visit Boston before they return cecded to murder him, inflicting upon him a death] Wc had a delightful hour with Mrs. Robinson sponsibilities of matrimony are too sacred to be home. Mr. Aspinwall has taken an active part in wound with B pistol shot, from which, after a few —Surprisingly careless are some of our cor­ as she traversed the vast realm of soul, and wc Spiritual work during his stay here, lecturing, weeks of lingering agony, he died. The rour respondents. One sends us an envelope, post­ lived out otherwise than in harmony and mutual could but feel that this heaven-given power to love. If the opposite conditions prevail, the sin healing, and writing for the Spiritual press. He dcrer was arrested, as usual, and placed upon bis marked lx>s Angeles, containing a postal order read the Vsoul of things” is devoutly to be of continuing in the marital bonds is doubled is a solid man and thoroughly in earnest. On ' trial, and after the usual amount of sentimental for Si.2$, "only this and nothing more.” An­ wished ” for. gush about wounded honor, emotional insanity other sends us an envelope, postmarked San with every child that may unfortunately lie horn Sunday the Society of Progressive Spiritualists, and the like, was acquitted. (something), containing a postal card with our in so unhappy conditions. The necessities for A man get* rich by meanness and poor because he is gen ­ in recognition of his services, and of his devotion Now, what has this man Brown gained by this own address and a number of postage stamps, divorce are deplorable, and we believe if there e r o u s . — T u b R a d i c a l . to the cause of Spiritualism, ordained him a min­ homicide I He has clouded two homes with last­ and not a word else. Our friends should remem­ were no laws granting them, that the causes now lie sometimes gets poor by selfish indulgence, ister of the Spiritual gospel. He takes with him ing shame. He has advertised himself to the ber that wc are yet subject to earthly conditions. leading thereto would rapidly diminish, and by whisky and beer-drinking, and by constitu­ the best wishes of the G o l d e n G a t e , and many world as one who could not hold his wife's abid- We can not read their thoughts. finally become very few. Contracting parties tional shiftlcssncss. friends. jftarch 6, 18 8 6 -1 GOLDEN GATE. W as it Spirit Power? TO FRIENDS OF THE GOLDEN GATE Spiritualism ia Atlanta. Caor r i*

■ flef, n siii si mM w v Caw. m * SottfD Qlr find nh«V iHMih. first time in o t f Me saw a) llLi^T>CUC StJUKTi j With WotSC y 0811 B* K ell w as being o t 1 o f Spirit!aafiam partially dormant H e n e M Chamr. After alia i was bat kin* * moan** 1 r u n a a n girl, to t d clairvoyant physician throshuul. 1 o l e a ■ c=t «fo*a .Vrbc hoodaaJ the gl<*? l i Lain even in g a cvm ple of gen* taken by stranger* \V TV garnirked p a v e , mi Mr., R.. a hardware te a m act**ra. N o I K otaa ib o i . and Mr. B-. ft druggist o f gen* fgi as that of an Or »h two1 miles west of mv ham fur's. fr« to -< ia iy. she m leaders. oe* railed upon him for ft sitting. But fa Atlanta, t They H D r' with horse and cu tter, as it liar. The? »------. i. ■ - \ Vinter and good sleighing, hitched I _ts litt le cm came almost instantaneously mum m ated. I friends. Much cm u torse in front of the house, went in I The girl last mentioned, was the easiest ■ml requested a clairvoyant interview with ! £itc to oatli i who try hard to ho to subject to put into the psychological con­ mat m firijm ie doct r. He complied with their 1 j around which they > m i < d . Mr. G. dition of any person that I ever saw—in I ishes anoI was soon under control. He I h agreed that each share of the capital less care. W. Kates, w ho hahas at all tidnes labored (act the whole family were naturally clair­ I t 1 h a rd and long t' Spiritualism, is at present voyants and mediums, having been bora I had been in this condition an hour or so I stock o f said Company subscribed for shall entitle when a noise was heard outside, and one far «»yw«* uecdngs now being held. as they were, in the tropical isles of the I the heddev to an annual dividend < local p ap er. Light fv r Thinkers, says: “ G. j impressible and subject to medial in­ lentitied to a copy of the p ap er free, so long aa te w put on their overcoats and were about to What of the appearance ot" Samuel to Saul in H. Brooks lectured in Atlanta, last S u n -! fluences. D r . O . F . S h a w . the corporation together with all the day, on * Death,* The lecture was re­ follow, when the doctor, being still under the presence of the woman of Eador? And also S a n ta C r u z , F e b . >8 , i$S 6 . profits and advantages which the ownership of plete with food for thought. The con-1 control, said to them: “ Don’t get ex­ of the appearance of Moses and Elias on the Mount trust between teachings of Spiritualism and I cited, all will be well and you will not have said stock may bring. (The paper at $2.$0 per afTtutfipnliaa ? And what, too, of the thou­ Mrs. F. A. Logan at Unity Church. tradition, on this subject, were ably m a d e . to walk far. Your horse will stop about annum—the lowest price it which it can be sands ot* *pirits that arc returning to mortals in Such lectures are of the greatest import- . half way to the school house, which is lit these latter days? up, and when he sees the lights he will afforded—being equivalent to ten per cent of | ance— for the people should be led out of I At Unity church. Sunday evening, psy- j fear for nature's edicts and placed into stop." The school house was about a j $25.) For any less number than five shares a EDITORIAL NOTES. proper attitudes with life. To listen to chometry. psychology and various phases I half mile distant, on the way home, and I I pro rata reduction will he allowed on subscrip- such a lecture is to be the recipient of truths of mediumship were discoursed by Mrs. was well lighted up, a meeting being held I tx to the paper. Thus, the holder of bat one Logan and others in such a manner as to I there upon that evening. The gentlemen —The present number of the G o u x l n G a t e I calculated to develop the hearer and make rill lerpetaal redi ctionof fifty is exceptionally rich in choice original iter. his comprehension of self broader and elicit thought from their listening auditors. f c . . - . , . , ____ ^ , cents on his annual subscription. That is, he W e can heartily commend it to the penu f all grander. Bro. Brooks is winning friends . .. , . . of faith m the doctor s power to stop the I h ere by his practical discourses, and is One incident was a little girl, ten years horse that Simon of old had when he re- will be entitled to the paper for Si per annum, progressive readers. old, who passed into the trance condition fuseuisville (K y.) re-union, anniversary j so pretty, with harps and flowers, in such The late Rev. D r. Chapin, referring I *rhis of incorporation can not fail to com- don. The number is particularly Californian in celebration by the Southern Association of a beautiful place; and Mrs. Wilson, too; I once to a time-stained newspaper, called Imend >tsdf to every Spiritualist who has the vd- its contents, as it should be. We have the Spiritualists will occur at Louisvilk, Ky., and she wants her dear little baby to come it, “ a pennant fluttering at the masthead | fare of the cause at heart. writers upon this Coast, and an inexhaustible sup- M arch 28 th to April 4 th. The location and live with her.” (A neighbor who bad of a subm erged generation.” As no more stock will be sold than will be p.___ly ofc _topics.__. „Hence, we delight , IU., .in seeing • . the of , this , . re-union, . . * and ...the „time__ it ~ occurs, . . . died and left an infant to the mercy of necessary for the needs of the business—which >7 , . . 7 . .. . - I should and doubtless will attract Spiritual-1 O v e r la n d a home product m all things. I. c_ - -1 , strangers.) The beautiful visions of this PASSED ON. will not be likely to exceed, in any event, over I ists from every section. There is always I little girl, artless and innocent, g av e th e ------I fifty per cent of the nominal capital—and as the If one had to choose between oranges and cab- m uch interest taken in these gatherings I broken-hearted mother more consolation to the reality of spirit life, January 3, *886. be conducted on the most economical huge* as a single article of food, there would be and most probably a large number will be than she had ever received from any other Christopher McGinnis, aged serente yean . He and sister I * • „ * no hesitation in taking the cabbage, and the lat-1 attendance. ^ In Atlanta there are quite M. were converted from the Catholic church by the sudden I principles, there will be no probability of, or source, and the skeptical father could but development of sister M. as a medium, over thirty yean I necessity for, future assessment-,. The sale of the ter is of little market value beside the former, j a number of private mediums of no mean shed tears of rejoicing that his son was in Every paper in the land has teemed with reports ability, though publicly, m edium ship is **°- The spirits, through her, with the aid of brother M.. I reserved stock would be ample to meet any con- the beautiful Summer Land to which all did *0* lservice 10 “h * « * ■ *** city in those early I ti cv that 'might possibh* arise. But. w ith of the frozen orange crop of Florida that was I bard to find. I think here, as are hastening. days, and many there are to-day who date their awakening I . * , caught in the cold wave, but two or three lines fhe southerners say would be an excel- to these truths by evidence given through her mediumship. I management, there wfll be no necessity to draw upon this reserve. On the other hand, express all the regret felt over the sixteen thousand tent place for a good physical m e d iu m - She always had the sustaining aid of her husband. He Pearls from Ingersoll lived a respected citizen and consistent Spiritualist to the from the present outlook ami the encouragement cabbages that were also frozen as hard as ice in W! \ ° COU,df g,v e " a ilin g te sts, in e v ita - end o f the mortal. M r s . P. W . S t e p h e n s . t. - __ ,. ,, , , ble evidence of immortality. the paper is receiving, we confidently believe Georgia. They are so big and homely! „ , . J . , _ , The moment you drive the devil out of Dunng my short stay m Atlanta, I have that the time is not for distant when the business theology there is nothing left worth speak-l —Sir Joseph Hooker has resigned the director- m ade m any friends whom I shall always re- PROFESSIONAL CARDS. will pay a fair cash dividend upon_thc stock, in ing about. The moment you drop the] ship of the Kew Botanical Gardens, near Lon-1 member, and though not being deeply in addition to that already provided for. devil the yhole “ scheme of salvation ” I n R . R. BROWN ft CO., don, which position he has most worthily held I love with the climate or soil of the sunny has lost all its interest for mankind. You I This is no vagary of on inexperienced journalist, since the death of his distinguished father in | south, I must confess the people make up must keep the devil, because with no PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND ELECTRICIANS, but the firm conviction of one who has had a 1865. This resignation has caused much regret, I in hospitality what the country lacks; and quarter of a century of successful experience in devil no priest is necessary. Main Office, 846 Mission street. San Francisco. not only in Europe, but our country as well, I must say, though a stranger from afar, journalistic management. You can order the Thesc wonderful Magnetic Healers will diagnose diseases where this faithful worker for a beautiful and the kindness of the friends whom I have We do not say that we have discovered without any explanation from patients; diseases of women stock by mail just the some as in person, and all—that our doctrine is all in all of truth. a specialty; rheumatism positively cured; all rectal dis­ valuable science is widely known, loved and J bad the pleasure and honor to m eet, make eases cured, such as ulcers fistula in-ano, fisburspeuritus will receive therewith a guarranty of free sub­ honored. He no doubt gives place to a compe- Jme feel at home, even in Georgia, We know no end to the development of polypus recti, stricture, etc., which is the cause of consump­ scription. tion and decline, depletion of the nerve forces etc.; elec­ tent successor, whose name does not yet appear, j ^ shall leave for W ashington, D . C ., on man. We can not unravel the infinite tric treatment given; cancers cured without cutting: guar­ While the paper is now placed beyond the pos­ Wednesday next, and while there hope to com plications of matter and force. The antee to cure all cases they undertake: medicines can be sibility of failure, still its future usefulness will' San Francisco, though young, is noted for its I be able to write something that will be of history of one monad is as unknown as sent to the country, with instructions how to use them, after diagnosis is given b y lock of hair, fee $3. Consulta­ depend, in a large measure, upon the liberality of many artificial attractions, to which is soon to be I interest to my many friends on the dear the universe; one drop of water is as I tion free. Office hours, 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.. and 6 to 8 p. m. Dr. R . Brown ft Co. are also sole agents for its patronage. All Spiritualists who can afford it added another of a character that will instruct as old Pacific coast. M r s . M a y M o z a r t . wonderful as all the seas; one leaf as all D r . B e r l i n ’ s H v d r a s t i n U t e r i n e S c p p o r t e r s | should not only take the paper but also secure well as please. This is the aquarium that is to the forests; one grain of sand as all the For the State of California. These Supporters are doing I some of its stock, which will be a safe and be built in the San Francisco bay by Mr. Sutro, stars. wonders in curing displacement and ulceration of the womb. I Psychological Experiments. All ladies afflicted should call on these Doctors and have a I profitable investm ent, and will be one hundred and twenty feet in di­ Whoever has quit growing, he is ortho­ talk with them, and if you can be cured they will soon^ * effect that cure. Agents wanted for these Supporters in The Board of Trustees named in the articles of ameter, and contain every kind of sea artemone, E d it t o o r G o l d e n G a t e : dox, whether in art, politics, religion, every town in the State. Main Office. 846 Mission street. incorporation (which have been duly filed) con­ mosses shell fish, and every marine curiosity that Having been a student and close ob­ philosophy—no matter what. Whoever San Francisco. Every Tuesday and Friday at corner of Broadway and Seventh, Oakland. Nor«-tf sists of the following gentlemen: Amos Adams, can be obtained, and the structure accommodate. thinks he has found it all out, he is ortho­ server of psychology and the occult phe­ M. B. Dodge, R. A. Robinson, Dr. Robert Such and kindred works are those that live, after dox. Orthodoxy is that which rots, and nomena, for a period of thirty-two years, PASS THEM ALONG Brown and J. J. Owen. President of the Board, the man is gone, to things of this world. heresy is that which grows forever. Or­ 1 thought, that a recital of two cases of thodoxy is the night of the past, full of Hon. Amos Adams. —Ten thousand dollars is never an insignificant We printed large extra editions of all the earlier | psychological experiments, would be of the darkness of superstition, and heresy is numbers of the G o l d e n G a t e , many copies of I NOTICES OF IMEETINGS. sum, and sometimes it is princely. We imagine interest to the readers of the Golden the eternal coming day, the light of which which we have yet on hand. As interesting sam- it would be highly acceptable and useful to any pies they are just as good to send to those who | G a t e . In the cases referred to, I con­ strikes the grand, pure heads of the intel­ new order or society just winning its way to pros­ lectual pioneers of the world. have never seen the paper as the latest edition.F O PIRITU AI. SERVICES by the Golden Gate Religious ducted the experiments according to the We will send these papers in packages, postage -3 and Philosophical Society, at Metropolitan Tenple, perity. A clergyman of Nashville, Tenn., “ offers under the ministration of the celebrated and eloquent in-, principles of cerebral psychology, as dis­ I take a handful of dirt in my hands, paid, to whoever may wish to scatter the good spirational lecturer, Mrs. E. L. Watson, Sunday, March to give ten thousand dollars to any believers in seed, for fifty cents per hundred copies—package vth. questions answered at tt o'clock a. m. Lecture In the frith cure who will cure by frith a disease covered and given forth tq the world by and into that dust I put seeds, and arrows of fifty copies, twenty-five cents. the evening at 7 :4 ;. Subject: *' The Gospel of Good; or from the eternal quiver [Homeric!] of the the Bright Side of Things.” The Children's Progressive which a respectable practitioner pronounces in­ that most profound of all discoverers in Lyceum at 11:30 p. m. A cordial invitation to attend is sun smite it, and the seeds grow and bud curable." This is a fair, sober and tempting offer, I FORM OF BEQUEST. extended to all. lAnthropolical science, Prof. Joseph Rodes and blossom and fill the air with perfume and will, without doubt, be taken up by some Buchanan, M. D. While stopping with a in my sight ? Do you understand how C P IR IT U A I.IS M .—“ Light andtnd Truth."—AtTruth.” - Washingto zealous persons—provided his name and address is To those who may be disposed to contribute by Hall, 35 Eddy street. Every Sunday evening thcr. family who had been bom and reared on this dust and these seeds and that light will to the spread of the gospel of Spiritualism will be a conference and fact meeting, closing with a test obtained. seance by mediums of a variety of phases. Sunday even­ and this moisture produced that bud and through the G o l d e n G a t e , the following form ing, March 7th, opening discourse by J. J. Owen. Subject: the Sandwich Islands, I saw a native Ha­ *• What is Religion ! ” Closed with tests by Mrs. Whitney. —The Mexican government, though behind us that flower and that perfume? Do you of bequest is suggested: waiian girl of sixteen Summers, who had understand that any better than you do in its laws and many civil institutions, is yet “ I give and bequeath to the G o l d e n G a t e PR O G R E S SIV E SPIR ITU A LISTS.—The “ Progres- been brought from the Islands by the the production of thought? Do you un­ 1 sivc Spiritualists” meet in Washington Hall, No. 35 •head in point of public schools, of which it sup- lady of the house, who was a missionary's Printing and Publishing Company, of San Fran­ Eddy street, every Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock p. m. port* ten thousand, equal, it is said, to many of derstand that more than you do the cisco, incorporated, November 28th, 1885, in All subjects relating to human welfare and Spiritual un* daughter of culture and refinement. The thoughts of love that you see in the eyes trust, for the uses and dissemination of the cause foldmcnt treated in open conference. All are invited. Dr. onr colleges in their abundant facilities. Public girl is possessed of a mild and sunny dis­ T . B. Taylor, of the Glen Haven Sanitarium, will lecture, of the one you adore ? Can you explain of Spiritualism, ------dollars.** Sunday, March 7th. Subject: “ Is this a Free Country or schools are called the bulwarks of freedom by position—and she being a good subject for a Despotism ? ** general sentiment; but there are individuals who it? Can you tell what matter is? You N. It.—The Free Spiritual Library in charge of this So­ psychic experiment, I proceeded to put have not the slightest conception. PSYCHOLOGY AND MIND CURE. ciety is open to all persons on Sundays from t to 4 o'clock look upon them as a tax imposed upon the State her into the magnetic or impressible con­ p. m. Contributions of books and money solicited. by the poor for the benefit of their children. If] The College of Physicians and Surgeons of dition. She readily yielded to the ^psychic Here is a shoe-shop. One man in the "THE OAKLAND SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION.— this be true, it is the only instance wherein pov­ influence, and I then stimulated the som­ shop is always busily at work during the California, offers a golden opportunity to all men I Meets every Sunday, at a p. m., at Medical College and women desirous of following a thorough, Hall, corner of Clay and Eleventh streets (two blocks west erty won a victory over wealth and power, and nolent and clairvoyant faculties of the day—always industrious. In the evening practical course of Psychology, Psychometry and from Broadway). Public cordially invited. Direct all deserves to be maintained. brain, and she became almost immediately he goes courting a good, nice girl. There Mind Cure, to qualify them for the cure of communications to G. A. Carter, 300 Eighth street, Oak­ land. ______lucid. While in that state, she visited are five other men in the shop who don't diseases. Course begins about January 15th next. —The German government is very considerate of her native Isles, and discribed personal do any such thing. They spend half of An early application for certificate of matricula­ TvO SPIRITS OF DEAD MEN AND WOMEN tion requested. Fee, $5.00. Apply immediately D Return to Mortals? Mrs. K. R . Herbert, a. spirit public feeling and sentiment in the matter of get­ occurrences which were subsequently veri­ their working hours in loafing and their Medium, gives sittings daily from is to 4 r. M., (Sun­ ting up its postal cards. The latest improve­ at office of the College, room 6, 127 Kearny day excepted), at No. 41B Twelfth Street, Oakland, fied by letter. Afterward at each suc­ evenings in dissipation. The first young street, San Francisco. Cal. Conference meetings Sunday evening; Developing ment reads as follows: “ Only a few lines to­ cessive seance a few passes or waves of man by and by cuts out from these others Circles, Tuesday evenings. Public are invited. * 1101S day.** Then the space left for the message is fol­ the hand, were all that were required to and gets a boot and shoe store of his own. SPIRITUALISM. T IBERTY H ALL SPIR ITU AL SOCIETY meets every lowed by the printed formula: “ God be put her into the superior condition, and, Then he marries this girl. Soon he is L Thursday evening, at 7:30 o'clock p. m., at Liberty Hall, Brush street, near Market street local railroad station, thanked, 1 am in good health, and hope to hear while in that state I could, direct her able to take his wife out to. ride of an All who are desirous of developing as mediums at Oakland. AU are invited. _ Admission,, free. Dr. I'oul- you are also. The weather is ------; write Clairvoyant vision to any person or place, evening. The five laborers, his former for “ Independent Slate-Writ ing,” which is the son, Lecturer. Marshall Curtis, President. soon, and give my love to all. In haste." and she would describe such persons or companions, who see him indulging in this most satisfying, convincing, and unquestionable little luxury, retire to a neighboring saloon phase of spirit power known, send for circular, CPI RITUAL SERVICES.-Mrs. M. J. Hcndee, the America is not yet grown so demonstrative, and places accurathly, and she soon became with four cents, to Mrs. Clara L. Reid, Inde­ eloquent inspirational speaker, will lecture in Grand perhaps never will, but it might make its postals so that she could see and describe sprrits an d p a s s a resolution that there is an ex­ Armory Hall, 719 Thirteenth street, corner Broadway, Sun­ pendent Slate-writer, No. 35 Sixth street, San day evening,!March 7ib» at 7:30. Subject, by request. alittlc larger if nothing more. that were around me while in her normal ternal struggle between labor and .capital. Francisco. * '* How do we Build? ' Admission, ten cents. GOLDEN GATE. [March 6, 1886. F. W. Evans on Spiritualism. Mind and Matter. I find mult with ourselves tor so ci I nursing their complaints instead of them- Cure for Atheism. I ing. Nevertheless when the wd I selves. They never get well. Really they think more of the complaint than Iu h. k." in Spiritual oflcnng.l I W hen the little harmless raps came, at m S . W. — O I borrowed for the time from sc they do ol their health—more of their The New York Sun says, in a recent I Rochester, they were, at first purely physi- [eke—the prejudice that we’ve I weakness than they do of strength. Say editorial: “ Many of the professors in our I cal—no meaning. They amused children to them, “ Come, now, think of being In a Boston course 01 incuii»n? I fcctcd with fur the tune being, colleges are atheists, or, as it is now fash-1 and perplexed men and women. When which I a n n w undergoing, the chief chances are that our thought so well and strong,** and they're riled imme­ ably colored may reach the friend ques- diately. They'd rather talk of how many ionable to say, agnostics; ” and it exempli-1 manna first fell to Israel, the people asked OKttph] iks o f his class questions tion and ******** him or her a sc ere rcling gripes they’ve had during the last twenty-1 fies the statement by referring to Professor I “ What is it ? ” Of the raps, people said hy, when two stores are like these: “ W of uneasiness concerning us. I four hours, and where it most twisted Summer, of Yale College, who, it asserts, | “ Whence come they and what do they opened on the n me street, and near each them, and how many different remedies So says our metaphysician. He says is teaching, “ with cruel emphasis, that the mean ? ” Soon intelligence was shown, a o th e r , and both alike as to quality of also that thousands of people give way be­ they’ve tried, or how many doctors they’ve scientific doctrine of the * survival of the 1 question was answered, affirmatively or goods kepi, doe 1 one succeed and the fore the constant pressure and fretting of had or expect to have. Well, what does envious, jealous or otherwise ugly thoughts this lead to ? “ As a woman thinketh, sol fittest ’ should be applied to human society I negatively, one, two or three raps. Next ocher h3? Whj • will one be crowded directed on them by another or others and is she.” What is she perpetually think­ with all its logical consequences.” I came the alphabet, slow, tedious, but by with customei s and the other be ba!__ of get so discouraged by it as to be at last ing of? • Swellings, pains and aches. This it justly denominates an “ utterly it intelligent communication was estab­ them?" Thi is he answers: “ Because What thereby does he or she get ? Morek *—r. . able to make no further efficient effort in theory.** “ It is n o t," the one store kee p< rr has an inviting mind, and what they want to accomplish, but that and more of them. You may say, “ Oh, | lrr^^b|OUS lished. But with whom ? Some said, writer says, “ love and good will to men, I the ocher hasr 't. Because, separate and there's no need of their being so flattened yes, it’s all very well so to talk when with evil spirits, and proved it. Others ’__,1_____ I out by it, for the reason that if they did you’re well; have a pain or ache yourself brotherhood, the exaltation of the weak, apart from b jsrness, one said it is the waterfall or the knee joints, | but even suspect the cause and resist it and see how you feel.” True, 1 know and the community of feeling and of in­ and proved it. Next came trance speak­ really likes to__ s wpeoplT^and be agreeable and the;r mjnds against it, this resist- that, and you all kow how it is yourselves. terest inculcated in the gospel of Chris­ to them for the sake of making them feel | once would turn the evil thought current I know this also, that the more one gives ing, exhibiting knowledge, mundane and I aside. He says also that all ugly thought way to pain, the more pain they have; the tianity; but it is the glorification of strength super mundane, entirely beyond the pleasant, and the other doesn't. Because —every one for himself, and the devil take customers feel the thought of the inviting | poisons the blood of the person who more they set their thought on strength capacity of the medium or of the audience. | thinks it and is the real cause of disease, the more strength will come to them; the hindmost.” A nd lastly comes the formation of visible mind agreeably, and that of the uninvit­ | and that the cleaner a person's thoughts that the very thought and sound of health The prevalence of the sentiments and temporary physical bodies, representing ing mind disagreeably. Because, accord­ | the purer will be their blood, and that and vigor has an invigorating effect and principles which receive this sharp, and we deceased friends and persons—materializ­ ing to the present school of Boston meta­ | there is for human beings a condition at- influence, and that whether it regard think, just animadversion, is due to two ing and dematerializing in plain sight, con­ causes: first, and mainly, to the irrational physics, thoughts are things, like many!| tamable in which no disease could affect health or business, the more despite all founding the Thomases and to the entire and erroneous dogmas upheld by the pub- 1 ocher things that can’t be seen or touched, J them. He asks us if we ever saw a sour untoward circumstances we set our men­ satisfaction and great joy of understanding lie exponents of institutional Christianity, but nevertheless they are very line, im -1 or crabbed nature, or a gloomy or de- tal magnets to the bright side, the more believers. in opposition to the simple and rational palpable, intangible, airy, subtle things, | spondent one, tacked on to a healthy do they draw the bright side toward us. If, then, profane and sacred history tes­ teachings of its Founder; and, second, to and all of us have within us an almost un-1 body? ^He calls all kinds of thought that So far I am a convert to this system of tify, and it is confirmed by modern human known and certainly unnamed sense that I gives pain evil or impure thought, even to metaphysics. the undue prominence of intellectualism experience, that the visible can be con­ feels these things as they come from the | grief—for grieving at any loss, either of in the prevailing thought and systems of trolled and manipulated by the invisble— people about us, and this feeling will be I tnend or property, will injure the bodyl Optimistic Observation. education of the present time. “ Ministers that men may be cast into a fiery furance agreeable or disagreeable according to the I just as quickly as the thought of revenge of the j gospel ” cling with unreasoning, | and not even be singed, can thrust hands nature of the thought felt. The store-1 or jealousy. Those people who are con- [T h e following, signed “ Optimist," which we clip from a superstitious tenacity to theological views, into fire and not be burned, be thrown into keeper who feels mean inside, who doesn’t | tinually fretting and worrying arc, he sdys, Guroy journal, shows the liberalising tendency of that class interpretations of “ holy scripture,” and I a den of hungry lions without injury, can of papers, which, until lately, were disposed to ignore all care a straw whether you are suited or [ really fretting themselves to death, and in promulgated doctrines that could have been divide and hold in check the waters of a occult subjects:] promulgated and accepted only at a period not, or who only cares to suit you for the | themselves manufacturing blood poison, An estimable and intelligent lady who mighty flowing river, divide the Red sea, sake of the custom he may get of you, just as much as are the jealous and envi­ of human history when mankind were wanting money to pay tribute, can take it edits a column in a local newspaper, speak­ afraid to investigate and think for them­ won’t make you feel, and can’t make you ous. Ugly thought hurts at both ends of ing of the influence that women have to from a fish’s mouth, cure all kinds of dis­ feel, as pleasant as the one who, with all the lineHboth he who sends it and he or selves, being content to believe any state­ eases by simply laving on of hands, and correct the evils of intemperance, and ment or teaching, however monstrous, that his desire to draw*custom, has a genuine she who g etsit^ JBut it’s certain to hurt deprecating her lack of power to make recall the departed soul into the dead wish that the ham, butter and eggs you the sender. was imposed upon them by arrogant, tyran­ body again, does it not give some color to them realize it, says, “ I wish some strong, nical, and ignorant priests, who lived and buy of him will do you good, and rather There is a way out for the other fellow. bright angel stood before you.** * * * the wild expression of Jesus, “ Whatso- than they should not, would at heart pre­ Good-natured people sending out good- fattened on the blindness of their deluded, | ever ye shall ask in my name, believ­ This sounds well and comports with our servile devotees. fer you should buy them elsewhere, though [natured thought help themselves and religious philosophy, that ing, ye shall receive,” be it to kill a fig he lose your custom.” everybody else. Many an old-school phy­ This state of things, to an unfortunate tree, or move a mountain. Jesus and his/ sician, he says, does the patient more “ * Only a film of breath extent, still exists, though it is fast passing disciples knew the history of Mt. Zion as-a Our metaphysician asserts«that genu­ Divides the life of life from the life of death;” ine good will and kindly feeling is nothing good by his cheery, good-humored, hope­ away; and althought Popish priests and trembling mountain. more nor less than an agreeable, impalpa­ ful thought than he does by his medicines. jthat spirits from the “ mysterious realm,” Protestant clergyman are very loath tol When materialized forms speak in audi­ ble substance always being sent out from Our preceptor does not make a wholesale radiant with love and wisdom, may, under acknowledge the fact, an era of spiritual] ble voices, uttering words of knowledge, the person who possesses it, and that it onslaught on any of the schools of proper conditions, stand before us and illumination and freedom has arrived, be­ as did Moses, Elias and Jesus, then van­ makes all who come within his range feel [ medicine. But he does go after doctors not only tell of the .evils which surround fore the radiance of which the darkness of ished into thin air, are we not justified in superstition must inevitably flee away. better. If this theory be true, it is get-1■who care at heart little for their patients, us, but of the beauty and grandeur that concluding that God is preparing to meet ring metaphysics down on something like j He puts them on the list with the uninvit­ await those whose lives entitle them to a The clergyman who recently, in a letter man face to face, and that the secrets of solid ground. Hitherto, metaphysics has ing storekeeper. He says they carry into crown of honor. But would the writer to the S t. Louis Globe Democrat, remarked all hearts will be revealed. If man’s sins been based on foundations built of air. the sick-room a kind of thought that kills above quoted believe in a “ strong, bright —“ There is no Christian denomination be set in order before him, as the primary That is to say, no metaphysician has the patient, or at least makes him worse. angel,” if it stood before her? Or would to-day a part of whose membership is not cause of untimely frosts and other abnor­ dared to assume that thought was as much Because there is no real sympathy in it. she pronounce it an impostor or the devil? tinged with Spiritualism,"—without doubt, mal disorders in the natural elements, in­ substance as is a tree, only infinitely finer. That is the reason why one doctor will We ask the question because there are stated only the fact. Indeed, the indirect jurious to human beings, just as science is But our metaphysician goes further, much kill and another cure, though both may hundreds and thousands of intelligent and influence of this spiritual light has, proba­ I unfolding the relation of cause and effect further. Indeed, I dare scarcely tell how give the same treatment. Sympathy isl conscientious people, so bound by the bly, been greater than the direct, es­ between men’s physical sins and the far he does go. He says that clergymen the best of healing salve, and sympathy,! shackles of creeds and imprisoned in the pecially in view of the atheism, agnosticism, plague, the cholera or fevers as really as are popular and draw for the same reason backed by lots of will, will do far more dungeon of orthodoxy that they enjoy no and irreligious radicalism, prevailing to so of all wars and fightings, do we not see a that the storekeeper does. Th^t is, if thel than pills and powders. “ As a man religious liberty, and perceive not the sun great an extent among the devotees of way out ? Elias, a man of like passions minister be really glad to see his flock, bel thinketh, so is he," is the sum total of our of progressive spirituality. There are phenomenal 'Spiritualism, and the mere with ourselves, prayed it might not rain, they few or many, he sends out to them, [metaphysician’s pill, and he gives this a hundreds and thousands who worship the intellectualists aad rationalists who, ac-| and it rained not for the space of six from his pulpit, agreeable thought.. If he strictly literal, practical application. He lowly Nazarene, and yet would be the cepting the senusous demonstrations of | months. Then he prayed for rain and it be a perfunctory, mechanical sort of asserts that the quality and strength of a first to deny Him were He to appear upon spirit manifestation as apart of their scien­ came in abundance. preapher, who has in reality no interest in man’s muscle, the solidity of his bones, the earth. They believe the miraculous tific, intellectual systems, are deaf to. the When a man, individually and collect­ his calling, and is only in it because, be­ the clearness of his complexion, the happenings of two thousand years ago,| teachings of the inner spirit. ively becomes good, no evil, spiritual or ing an “ apt scholar" and able to load! strength of his digestion and the firmness that have been translated, revised and in­ Spiritual intuition has been too long, physical, can ever befall him, for the ele­ his memory heavily with so-called facts!lof his nerves are built up more out of his terpolated, but anything to-day that par­ and too much ignored. The discursive, ments of which he is composed, and in and figures, his pa concluded he shoqld [thought than anything else. If a man or takes of the marvelous is considered un­ demonstrative faculties and processes of and by which he exists, will all work to­ the human mind, based upon senusous go into one of the “ learned professions," woman will be always thinking weakness worthy of belief or investigation. Who­ gether to perfect his happsness. or thought that for the honor and renown or of weak things, they will themselves bel ever has the temerity to avow his belief in perception and mere ratiocination, have of the family one of the boys should weak. If they are always dwelling amidl Spiritual philosophy is a dupe or a fraud, been cultivated at the expense of those Proud of H is Sister.—The Chicago higher processes of the discovery of truth shine (or try to) in the pulpit, and there­ bones and skulls and ghastly sights and or, as the illustrious Pixley puts*it, “ a TYibune relates the case of a young man fore put him through a perfunctory course sounds, or in the belief that everything knave or a fool.” I believe in the good which depend upon the deeper, subtle! perceptions of the immortal soul. Milton who was regarded as a phenomenon be­ of divinity, when the boy would rather and everybody about them are totally and diffusive influence of Christianity; have been a blacksmith, or a blackleg, or evil and depraved, they will look it and but creeds, bigotry and vanity have kept saw this distinction, as is evinced in the cause he took his sister to all the best the church back, and she lags away be­ lines— entertainments, and actually devoted him­ something of the sort, why, then, as the feel it, because their minds are magnets “ Whence the soul, metaphysical or rather natural result, he attracting elements of like in character to hind science in the march of Progress. self to her during the lecture and opera Reason receives; and reason is her being. season. Being praised for his unusual can only when in the pulpit send out a what they are thinking of, and building And must we say that she has tried to pull Discursive or intuitive.” such unseen elements into their bodies. science back to keep her company ? But attention to his sister, the young man blacksmith, or blackleg, or otherwise Richard Hooker referred to this faculty This, to me, now accounts for the rigid, the world is growing familiar with the laws promptly and proudly replied. “ No, order of thought, no matter how much he 1 when he said: may try to cover it up with good words raw-boned, sour and severe look of the which govern us, even if Galileo was there’s nothing wonderful or extraordinary and sentiments. He says also that our majority of the deacons of our church in forced to recant and Harvey regarded as “ Faith, beginning here with a weak apprehen­ about it. She is the only woman I know thoughts can reach people a long way off, I the days of my youth. They had built chimerical. Mounted upon a ray of light, sion of things not seen, endeth with the intui­ in whom I have the most thorough con­ tive vision of God [and spirits] in the world to fidence. She is always the same, always and so may theirs reach us and make us|jthemselves up physically out of the dia­ traveling 192,000 miles per second, the come.” feel pleasant or unpleasant, as they arel bolical view of things they had unfortu­ astronomer travels for ages, through the pleasant and affectionate, and, to tell good or otherwise, and is any amount of] nately been all their lives taught to think boundless realms of space, past Suns with Lord Bacon, whose fame depends so you the candid truth, I am afraid she’ll this sort of unconscious telegraphing isl both of themselves and others. That is, I their systems, comets whizzing in their largely on his explanation of the proper go and marry some of those imitation men constantly going on about us. their thoughts being things and substance! eccentric orbits, and notes the size and methods of acquiring demonstrative truth, around here, and be unhappy all her life. Say that a person is jealous or envious of this gloomy, ghastly character, built an distance and peculiarities of them all. I was by no- means unaware of that other She has nobody else to look to, and I’ll take or otherwise down on you, and doesn’t outside in appearance comformable to The geologist digs down in the earth, and! kind of truth which is dependent for its care she does not have to look to anybody want you to succeed in any enterprise, such character, just as by galvanic action reads its history. The physiologist had apprehension upon the spiritual nature of else. I suppose some day a genuine man then you will feel that thought; it will de­ the metal in unseen form takes visible! counted the bones and muscles in man[ man and its application with other spirit­ will come along. If he’s a genuine man I press you, yQU won’t know why or where­ shape on the mold or model which attracts and discovered the functions of the vitafl ual beings. Thus he says (in “ Advance­ won’t object. Until he does come, she’s fore. It’s just the same as though one of it. If the model be ugly, the shape willl organs. The process of digestion from ment of Learning): ” good enough for me, and if I ever find as those diabolical so-called friends ever be ugly. The kind of thought you sendl the inception of food into the stomach “ All knowledge admits of two kinds of infor­ good a girl, I ’ll marry her.” The example stood in front of you while engaged in out to a person, far or near, that kind of] until it becomes tissue, has been traced! mation: the one inspired by divine revelation, the is most commendable. A young man some undertaking, saying: “ You'll fail. thought you generally get back in return.! The relation of the animal to the vegetal other arising from the senses.” would do well to seek his sister’s society It’s all nonsense you’re trying to do that. It is blow for blow, a contest of mental ble world, one breathing the exhalations A large or exclusive development of until he finds another lady as good as his You ain’t got it in ypu!" And the possi­ pugilism, and, no matter who wins, of the other, has been discovered. Elecn spiritual intuition, unrestrained by the sister. ble misfortune is that the thought of friend both will get pounded and hurt. If you tricity is used for the almost instantaneous logical faculty, leads to mysticism, which Again the Golden Gate comes freighted or enemy may«at last discourage you and can get yourself in a frame of mind so as I transmission of thought. The telephone is the opposite extreme of intellectualism. blind you as to your real ability. Because to think kindly of the meanest man -you enables us to talk to people hundreds of What is needed is the due development with a valuable cargo. We are glad to see a current of thought that you live much know, so much the better for him and miles away, and the phonograph willl and use of both faculties—the “ discursive that W. Emmette Coleman occupies a amongst, or even a current that is directed you. You conquer him eventually with “ bottle up ” a speech for centuries. And and intuitive,” by means of which the position with regard to Spiritual phe­ on you, may make you see and judge things this unseen slave; more, you bring out of still the motto is “ Onward.” The ban­ mind of man may be able to grasp both nomena nearly identical with our own. exactly as the person sending it sees and him the goodness that’s in him by wishing ner of progress waves in the van of sci­ kinds of knowledge—that which concerns There are phenomena “ due (1) to the judges them. Say you live or associate he might have it. Of course our teacher ence. The way leads through realms un­ external nature and that which pertains to action of peculiar powers and forces resi­ among people who are hostile or prejudiced doesn’t say we must do this. He doesn’t known and mysterious, and the achieve­ the spiritual universe. The atheist and dent in the human organism indicative of against some particular friend of your own expect so much from us at first. It’s easy ments of the past foreshadow the possi­ the agnostics are, as regards spiritual truths its possession of a supra-mate rial nature, who is absent—one whom you know to enough to say we love our enemies, but bilities of the future. Discoveries have and existence, in a condition analogous to of faculties transcending those of the ordi­ be square and honest. Do your best you we know that in nineteen cases out of been made inimical to orthodoxy. There that of color blindness; and they can not nary physical man; and (2) those due to may find your view of that friend more or twenty we don’t, and to try to love them, was a time it would have cost a man his believe that other persons can conceive the direct action of unfleshed intelli­ less colored by their prejudice, and his or that’s forcing things and crowding poor life to have proclaimed what% astronomers what to them is invisible. As we make gence." The G o ld en G a t e calls atten­ her possible little failings or peculiarities human nature. The spirit may be will­ and geologists now teach. But “ truth the cultivation of the spiritual nature more tion to the fact that every advanced and so magnified and exaggerated that you ing, but the flesh crawls and squirms the crushed to earth will rise again,” and now general, this mental condition will become advancing phase of the marvellous phe­ will find yourself at last seeing him or her more we try. There’s only one way, the scientific principles which orthodoxy more rare, and the monstrous systems of nomena of Modern Spiritualism has been in the same light and with the same preju­ says our preceptor, and that comes of the knocked down in their infancy, have philosophy whilch now attract so much at­ in fulfillment of the predictions of spirit dice, though m the depths of your soul steady desire to be able to see the better grown to vigorous maturity, and the church tention and excite so much admiration intelligences communicating through me­ you feel or fear you may be wrong. Ybu side of the vile worm of the dust, whom not only denies the assault, but claims from those who are merely intellectualists diums. Early in the history of the mani­ meet that friend after a long absence, feel we hate, and thus steady desird will, in them as allies. And so it will be in the will give way before others based on acom- festations we were promised the material­ his thought, and though you may never time, bring the ability to see the better future. But I .have wandered slightly prehension of both sides of man’s nature ization of forms, the independent voice, acknowledge it to him or her, you are side, and, so seeing it, we shall com­ from my text and am trespassing on your and of the universe. Then no partial direct writing, and other phases, all of ashamed inside at the injustice you have mence to like it, and the more we like it generosity. Allow me to close by hoping truth, such as “ evolution ” or the “ sur­ which has been fulfilled.—London U?kt been doing the person in your thought, the more power has our thought to bring that the progressive and intelligent women vival of the fittest,” will be so applied as F e b , 1 3 t h , and lucky are you to have only done it in out thfe better side of the worm, so that of Gilroy, who dare to advocate the rights to extinguish the higher spiriual truths of your thought and not in words, because at last it will grow and eclipse the worst. of their sex, are courageous enough not the universal gospel of “ love and good The (greatest publishing concern in the it’s so hard to keep the tongue from say­ There is a beautiful consistency in the to be frightened, and honest enough not will to men,” human brotherhood and world is the United States Govern­ ing in some way what our present view or man’s theory, and I think many of you to accuse it of being a devil or a fraud, divine fatherhood, for these belong to that ment. The number of volumes issued prejudice may be of anotner. We may will see it when you put your minds on it. should an angel or a spirit appear before higher soul condition that characterizes the Now there’s the people who are always them. annually amounts to about 2,500,000, of condemn them apologetically, and even eternal world. which 600,000 are bound.

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All forms of tion than one of Bro. Owen’s essays.—GiIroj\ by the aid of which nicdiunmtic persons may obtain written produced. Standing a mile south of it, PSYCHOMETRIST, METAPHYSICIAN AND MAG­ Advocate. D iseases and D eform ities successfully treated. and looking due north at the tube, from NETIC HEALER, TEST AND BUSINESS communications from their spirit friends. A great blessing a Home for Aged and infirm People. Board MEDIUM. The volume is made up of short editorials on| to those unable, for any reason, to visit public mediums. with or without treatment. Building Lots and small which the burning gas was issuing, we saw thoughtful topics culled from the columns of the Pencils, 50 cents each. Owing to difficulty in mailing the sky lighted to the distance of twenty _ Sittings daily. Automatic writing developed in one sit­ author’s newspaper, which tell of studious ap­ F a r m s for sale C h e a p . Immigration solicited. High degrees or more above the horizon. 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Owen’s ability as a prose and verse writer is unquestionably of a high order, and in thus similar threads of fire are sometimes seen Sittings daily (Sundays excepted), from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Private Developing, daily. Select Developing class, Ttiues- grouping a number of his best productions into a CUT OF LADIES* VEST. in brilliant displays of the aurora borealis, day and Thursday evenings. compact a Ad handy little volume, he has con­ but none can, in beauty and variety and ferred a favor on many of the Mercury's readers, intensity, rival this wonderful pyrotechnic No. 1244 Mission Street, San Francisco. who, like ourselves, have read and appreciated display of natural gas on which our won­ the “ Sunday Talks," and from them, perhaps, This cut illustrates our beautiful and neatly fitting Combination Vest for Ladies. have keen led to form a higher- and more enno- dering eyes gazed on the night of Jan. 30th, M RS. EVANS (nee HANCE), I bling idea of the mission and duties of mankind. 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The contents are as all purposes of a thick, heavy vest, or creditable to Mr. Owen’s literary ability as the phere near the surface was hazy, or only waist combining all the pleasant fea­ Sam F rancisco. handsome looking volume is to the taste and re­ tures of the Corset, while at the same very light, and nearly white, fleecy clouds, sources of the Merettry printing establishment.— time it is a complete protection against if any, were visible. 1^1 RS. REID, 1S. F. Call. malaria in all its forms, and a posi­ The articles in "Sunday Talks" are written tiv e curative agent of great power for A n y a n d A l l diseases of th e Thorax August Neapolelyozkonszizauka, a Pole, MEDIUM FOR INDEPENDENT SLATE m an easy, flowing style, enchaining the reader, took out amarraige license at Wilkesbarre, WRITING, and teaching grand doctrine. One lays down and Abdomen. No lady or gentle­ man with impaired health or weak­ Pa., the other day. 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___ 1___ ._ A VV ur*s View o r W ealth.—A licule ADVERTISEMENTS. I ttu l wail i n once At the house of fa SOUTH PACIFIC COAST I gpnfl lady, aad iKe childish eyes that had P 4 WKKQKK TRAINS LEAVE STATION, FOOT to ftaoh so sharply after daily bread « v k Ml M arket Street, ao c ra aiDR, a t Ai • i i l p a t « M k a im M M M 0 A A M . dally, for Alvarado. Newark. Con- V M l S* MMI Mb Mn% fltonam’Mauafc. I d u d ed hj tipti if splcmdor rrn every hand. ■ O U Uv«tll«, Alilus tiD U C Im , HAN JOSE, 8 TIM E SCHEDULE. fas «h oka pnuum* m. a ewfaMkro tc tw L-v» Galua, Wrights. Oleuwuod. Felton, biff Trees, I “ Can foa get eve rything you want ? ** bouUler Creek.T ANT I CRUZ and ail way stations. *M gl« AMB^aMh I •* Yes, I think so," was the reply. “ Can CHEAP LANDS FOR SALF Q A p. M. (except Sunday) express: ML As » a 2 ,O U Eden. Alvarado, Newark, Ceuirevlll©, PassengerI trains will leave and arrive at Passenger I you boy anything you’d like to hare ? ** Aiviso, Agneu >. santa i lara, SAN JOSE. Um Gatos, Depot (Tovrnscnd SL, bcL Third and Fourth), Francisco : 1 The hdjr answered, “ Yea." And the to B oulder C reek and Santa Crus. Oh re » romwA. nap—— I d id , who was of g meditative turn of 4 . 3 0 L Id tnUrroodiatojEointa. try Suml ty, Hunter’s Train to I Commencing OcL IS, 1886. arrive 4ft ret* m 4 U \ M l rewnreg mind, looked at her half pityingly, and 4 . 0 0 _i, stopping at all way station*. s. r. K V a A* gfowuf ik l^ H W V said wonderingly. “ Don*tyou\jtnJ it dull /" SAX LUIS OBISPO CO. ( J C EXCURSION TO SANTA CRUZ and bOl’L- VI has «nd» fame ** «AmRre ER CREEK, and RUtoSAN JOSE, ou Sat­ f 6.40 a. m. 6.28 a. ra. I To the little keen mind accustomed to urdays and Sun lay*, to return on Monday Inclusive. 8.30 a. m. * L10 a. bl fault t— w* mb iy i A t rev«* dto. •1 ,1 1 to SANTA Cl -AKA and SAN JOSE and re­ 10.40 a. m. 9.03 a. a . live bird-like from day to day, and to re­ • L80 p. m. .San Mateo, Redwood and. •10.02 a. m. JUml ream* *H > fas Aery s u jf M turn. Sundays only...... Menlo P a rk ...... joice over a hole supply with the delight All through train s connect a t Felton for Boulder 4.80 p. m. L36 p. m. 1 'm w bkit fait «ny Mi Creek and points on Felton and Poeeadero Railroad. • 5.15 p. m. + 5.02 p. a . bora of rarity, the aspect of continual ivflSO A cres of Choice Fruit Land's* 6-80 p. m. 6.08 p. a . TO OAKLAND AND A LA XI EDA* Urn any. ttg** m Hfct’s rerefare***» !■ > i plenty, and desires all gratified by posses­ Lao a. m.i 9.03 a. m. $505 $6.S0. $7.00. 7.80. 8.00. 8.80.9.00,9.30,10.00,10:30 10.40 a. m. ..Santa Clara. San Jose and.. *10.02 a. a . 4 faM lfa«iM farfiilVM >fckfai sion, contained an idea of monotony that Within six miles o f the celebrated Paso | 11.00, 11.80 a . M. Y1200. 12.30, Y1.00, LSO. V2.00, 2.80 • 3.30 p. m. ... Principal Way Stations... I 3.36 I*, to. i f a u t o h l f a w W isfic't ev th o yMk> LOO, 3.SO. 4.00,4.80, 6.00, 6.30, 6.00, 6.SO, 7.00, 7.80,8.80 I 6.08 p .a . seemed almost wearisome. Many an Robles Mineral Springs, and near the 9,80. 10. AS. 11.-to r. a. 4.30 p. m From Fourteenth and Webster Streets, Oak- 10.40 a. m. ■ Gilroy, Pajaro, Castrovllle. •10.02 a. a . | owner of a well-filled purse has found life • L80 p. m. ..Sulinns and Monterey.... LOB p .a . [44 dull." and pronounced in the midst of proposed railroad from San Francisco to 1 land—$530.$6.00, $6.30, 7.00, 7.S0, LOO, L30. 9.00, 9.80, 10.5', 10.80, Tll.Oa 1L30 *. M. ? 12.00.12.30, tl.OO, 1.80, 10.40 a. m. .Hollister and Tres Pinos. •1L02 a. a . luxury that all things are vanity; but the San Luis Obispo. About one-third is 2.00, 2.30, L00, 3.30. 4.00, 4.30.5.00, 5.50, 6.00, 6.30, 7.\0, • 3.30 p. m. LOS p. a . 7.30, 8.30, 9.30, 10.45,1L45 P. M. iWatsonvIUe. Aptos, Soqueli hand that knows how wisely to distribute valley land, through which the “ Huer From H igh Street, Alameda—$5.16. $5.46, $6.16 10.40 a m. (Camp Capl>(tola), and Santa] LOB p. a . 6.46, 7.16, 7.46. 8.16, 8.46. 9.16. 9.46, 1 ',16. Y 10.46. 11.16. • LSO p. m Cruz. and scatter abroad the bounty possessed Huero ” creeks runs, the balance rolling YU.46 A. M. 12.16, Y 12.46,1.16.1.46, 2.16,2 4*'., 3.16, 3.46, will never be without interest in life, will ■ 4.16. 4.46, 5.16, 5.46,6.16, 6.46,7.16, 9.16,10.31, 11.31 p. M. 10.40 a. m. ..Soledad and Way Stations../ 6.08 p. m. ■faM *rf*m kiaf land. No irrigation needed as the rain tSunday excepted, * Sunday only. M « M t a never miss the sunshine that abides for Ticket, Telegraph and Transfer offices, 222 Mont­ • Sundays excepted, f Sundays only (Sportsmen’s kind and unselfish hearts.— The Quiver. fall is snfficient. No better climate in the gomery street. San Francisco. train.) V« ««M MM ■ d M fa i • L. FILLMORE, W. T. FITZGERALD. the apLencor of i State; being twenty miles from the coast, Trains are run on Paclfio Standard Time for* And sAmteem M ' Superintendent. G. F. fa P. Ag’t. nlshed by Kandolnh fa Co. And f a M I B O (|a in Here is a free translation of a letter in is free from the cold fogs and bleak winds And victory pafe* Stnge connections are made with the 10.40 a. m. Latin, by John Calvin, in “ Mossheim’s that prevail near the coast, and is free ADVERTISEMENTS. train, except Pescadero stages via San Mateo and O ^ m ^ u i f a w i K how incomplete! Miscellanies,”—good church authority, Redwood which connect with 8.30 a. m. train. Snot fktigfa step* apw at M i anogbc it M K from the intense heat of the interior which we take from The interior. Its Special Round-Trip Tickets—at Reduced Rates—to H i h M i f a i l M i bloMMMt at your (mC ~ valleys. Send six cents for postage, and receive Monterey, Aptos, Soquel, and Santa Crus; also, | f a f a f in pass and afar goal h u t M l been m o . brutal and reckless spirit is plain, and free, a costly box of goods which will to Paralso and Paso Robles Springs. A aiaM ffafag by tbs a t| as pain and death. needs no comments. He writes of the P r i c e , $ 1 2 . 0 0 P e r A c r e ! A— _____PRIZE. help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from EXCURSION TICKETS And MMQ) fsamOhag out io paths of MU death of his victim, Serve t us: “ Lest worth­ first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the And many (Badikf there with bated k m d u Here is an opportunity to buy from six to workers, absolutely sure. At once address. T rue fa Co. Tor Sunday, only, ), less fellows should make a boast over the Augusta, Maine. | f a «m m "i peide M i MU m m S hope to win. senseless stubbornness of this man as if he twelve acres of land for the same price For Saturday, e Sold Saturday and Sunday only; Sunday and New York City. 9.00, 19.80, laOOL 110.30, 11.00, 111.S0, 12.00, LOO, 2.00, Address, T H E CARRIER DOVE,[ 3.00, 4.00, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30, 6.00, 6.S0, 7.00, 8,00, 9,0ft . As banishes care’s disturbing din, WOODS, ROBINSON & ATHERTON, laoo, 11.00, *12. on And then—we will call the angels in. Oakland, California. 'pH E NEW THOUGHT To WEST BERKELEY—*6.00, *6.S0, 7.00, *7.90, 18.00, •8.30, 9.00, laoo, 11.0ft 11.00, 2.0ft 3.00, 4.0ft *4.Sft 5 Oft The day that we dreamed of comes at length. -DEALERS IN- Is a Weekly Spiritualist and Reform Journal, issued *5.90, 6.00, *6.30, 7.0U When, tired of every mocking quest. A TREASURE FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. every Saturday morning, at Maquoketa, Iowa. Persons wishing to keep posted as to the most advanced TO SAN FRANCISCO, DAILY. And broken in spirit and shorn in strength, Liberal thought of the day, and wishing to know of the “THE RECORD OF A MINISTERING ANGEL/1 doings of Spiritualism, and to have a record of the most re­ From FRUIT VALE—*6.23. *6.53, *7.28, *7.53, *8.23, We drop, indeed, at the door of rest, STOVES AND RANGES! *8.53, *9.28, *10.21, *4.23, *4.53, *5.23, *5.53, *6.2S, *6.53, By Mrs. Mary J . Clark. liable of its phenomena, particularly in the West, are in­ And wait and watch as the day wanes on— vited to subscribe for TH E NEW THOUGHT. It con-1 7.25, 9.5a But the angels we meant to call are gone. All thoughtful persons interested in the great question of tains twenty columns of reading matter, set up in new type I rom FRUIT VALE (via Alameda)—*5.15, *5.45,1545, Kitchen Furnishing Goods, the higher life, ot the life to come, and of the ceaseless rela-| Subscription price—One year. Si.00; six months, 5 0 cents;J 9.15, *3.15 8he was “ Somebody's Mother.” tions of the living and the dead, will hail the advent of this three months, a$ cents. From EAST OAKLAND—*530, *50ft 59ft 7.0ft 7.9ft book. In the pages of this “ Record of a Ministering Address all letters, whether containing subscription or 500, 530, 9.00, 9.30, 10.00, 159ft 11.00, 1LS0, 12.0ft Angela” Mrs. Clark has ventured with free and fearless not, to CURRENT fa HULL, Maquoketa, Iowa. 12.9ft 1.0ft 1.9ft 20ft 29ft_9.00li.9ft 50ft 59ft 50ft The woman wa* old and ragged and gray, TIN ROOFING, steps into regions as mysterious as they are sacred. This 590, 50ft 6.9ft 7.0ft 7.57,557, 9 57,1557. And bent with the chill of Winter's day; book will bring comfort and hope to the sorrowing ones who PLUMBING, From BROADWAY, Oakland—*537, *507. 537, 7.07, The street was wet with the/ Winter’s snow, have followed the cold forms of loved ones to the grave. ’pH E ROSTRUM. 7.37, 507, 537, 9.07, 9.97,10.07,1537, 11.07, 11.S7. 12.0T, And the woman’s feet were aged and slow. The work has already met a cordial reception, ts-mo., 1297, 1.07, 1.97, 207, 297. 507, 597, 4.07, 4.S7, 507, And GAS FITTING. beautifully bound in cloth, price, one dollar, can be ob­ A Fortnightly Journal devoted to the Philosophy of 597, 507, 6.97, 7.07, 506, 9.06,10,06, 11.06. She stood st the crossing and waited long, tained wholesale and retail of the author. Spiritualism, Liberalism, and the Progress of Humanity. Alone, uncared-for, amid a throng MRS. MARY I. CLARK, From ALAMEDA—*522 *552, *522 552 *7.22 7.5ft ja 16-301* Utica, Illinois. A, C. Cotton, • • • Editor and Publisher. *522 552 9.22 9.52 11522 1592 111-22 ll.&ft 1122ft Of human beings, who passed her by. MANUFACTURERS OF 1252 11.22 1.52 252 522 552 522 4.52 522 55ft Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye. All communications to the pages of TH E ROSTRUM 522 552, 7.52 552 9.52 10.52 gPIRITUALISTS; must be addressed to A. C. Cotton, Vineland^ N. J. From BERKELEY—*515, *54ft *515 545, *7.15, 7.4ft Down the street, with laughter and shout, T i n , I r o n a n d C o p p e r W a r e . Price, per annum, in advance, $1.00; six months, 50 •515. 545,19.15, 9.45 11515 1545, 111.15* 11.45. 124ft Glad in the freedom of school let out. v Send to cents; three months, 25 cents; dubs of five, $4.0 0 : dubs 1.45, 245, 545, 4.15, 4.45,515, 545,515,54ft 7.4ft 54ft of ten, $7.00; specimen copies sent free. Came the boys, like a flock of sheep. 9 4ft 1545 “ LIGHT IN THE WEST,” All orders and remittances must be made payable to Hailing the snow, piled white and deep. A. C. COTTON, Vineland, N. J. From WEST BERKELEY—*545 *515, 545 "7.1ft DAIRY WORK A SPECIALTY. 7.45, 545 1515 545 1545 11245,1.45, 24ft 24ft 4.4ft Past the woman, so old and gray. 314 Chestnut Street, : : : Sc. Louis, Missouri, Hastened the children on their way. *515,545, *6.1o, 545, *7.15 'THE CARRIER DOVE, Nor offered s helping hand to her. For copy of a 16-pa go semi-monthly devoted to the philoso­ CREEK ROUTE. So meek,- so timid, afraid to stir, phy of Spiritualism, $1.00 per annum. Work Promptly Attended to and Satisfaction Guaranteed " Behold I bring glad tidings of great joy.” From SAN FRANCISCO—*7.15, 51ft 11.1ft Lift 21ft Lest the carriage wheels or Horses’ feet M o t t o -" Let there be light 51ft Should crofrd her down in the slippery street. The Carrier Dove b published monthly at lj |H Broad­ From OAKLAND—*515, 515,151ft 121ft 21ft 4.15 At last came one of the merry troop. 1 8 0 ); T hird St „ San F rancisco. ( 1 8 0 way, Oakland, Cal. Subscription price, $1.00 a year. The gayest laddie of all the group. J_JOW TO BECOME A MEDIUM Edited by Mrs. J. Schleasinger (residence834)6 Broadway*, * Sundays exoepted. | Sundays only. assisted by Mrs. J. Mason (residence 963 Chester Street), He paused beside her and whispered low, A f l T p T —Send ten cents pottage, and we will In your own home. to either of whom communications may be addressed. " I’ll help you aero— if you wish to go.” * * 1 • mail you free a royal, valuable, samplel " Standard Time ” furnished by Randoltn fa Ca, 1 will send you a i6*pagc pamphlet, containing full in­ Jewelers, 101 and 108 Montgomery St., San Francisco. Her aged hand on bis strong young arm box of goods that will put you in the way of making more money at once,'than anything else in America. 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