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Golden Gate V4 N25 Jul 9 1887 (J . J. 0 \VF.Ni E d ito r a n d M a n a g er , (TERMS (In Advance): $2.50 per annum;) M A « ^ VOL. IV. ( 734 Montgomery St. |UrN FRANCISCO, CAL., SATURDAY, JULY g , 1887. ( $1.25 for six months. J ^ CONTENTS: FRED EVANS. sons from drowning. In March, 1881, a laborer stantly employed. At that time his means were THE SUPREME CLIMAX OF HUMAN fell from the dock in Bramley Moore, Liverpool, exhausted, and it became necessary that he should F ir s t P a g e .—Gems of Thought; Picture and Biograph* THOUGHT. receive pay for the exercise of his gifts. ical Sketch of Fred Evans, the Slate-writing Medium; A Brief Sketch of his Life and Medium- and would have drowned but for the timely as­ Discourse by Cora L. V. Richmond. sistance of Evans, who sprang into the ice-cold On the 21st of June, 1886, Mr. Evans wrent A Discourse Delivered at Chicago, Sunday, sh ip . June 19, 1887, by Cora L. V. water and bore him to the shore. A few days before the Society of Progressive Spiritualists, S econd P a g e .—A Spiritual Reaction Among Mediums; R ic h m o n d . The Seybert Commission; The Tests the Spirits Gave: BY THE EDITOR. later a man fell from the Husskisson dock, where his guide, Spirit John Gray, produced Song Writers. Liverpool, whom he also saved from drowning in over thirty messages between a pair of sealed “ In those days,” said the king, tf a per­ T h ir d P a g e .—Continuation of Lecture by Mrs. Rich­ So much notice has been taken of this remark­ like manner. But the most noteworthy incident slates in the hands of a committee, chosen by the fect man shall understand the meaning of mond; Christianity and Mortnonism; etc. able medium in the columns of the Golden of this kind occurred in April of the same year. audience. perfect thought.” In March last, the editor of this journal went F o u rth P a g e .—(Editorials) The Fulfilling of the Law; Gate, that we are sure our readers will be Mr. Evans was a passenger on a steamer on an “ And when, oh king!” said the ques­ The Border Land; Twenty Thousand a Year; How excursion trip on the River Mersey. There was with him before a large and intelligent audience pleased to see what manner of man he is like; tioner, “ shall man arrive at perfect Not To Do It; J. J . Morse's Classes; Closing Work at a crowd of young people on board, who, on the in the City of San Jose, where under crucial test The Camp; Editorial Notes, etc. thought.” hence the very fair likeness we present herewith. return trip, and when nearing the wharf, be­ conditions he produced about eighty messages F if t h P a g e .—Skepticism and Its Effects; Letter from Fred Evans was born in Liverpool, England, came quite boisterous. t One of the gangway upon five slates—the slates being prepared and | When man is perfect, ” answers Sol- Washington; Farewell Reception to W. J. Colville; Ad­ otnon, “ even as God is perfect.” vertisements, etc. June 9, 1862. He is rather under medium fenders became displaced in their roystering, and held by a skeptical committee. A few weeks At the building of the Temple there was S ix t h P a g e .—Spiritualism and Religion, by John Weth* stature, is youthful in appearance, with pleasant erbee; Advertisements. features, and ot fine health and physique. He brought from Egypt the most sacred sym­ bol of God. Twofold were the manners S e v e n t h P a g e .—Spiritual Fojces. Professional Cards, was subject, in early life, to strange psychical ex­ Advertisements. of knowing God after the revelation came; periences which indicated his mediumistic nature, E ig h t h P a g e .— Poetry; An Inspired Musician; .Adver­ these were discovered in the Kabala. but concerning which he then had no knowledge. tisements. The Sephiroth were the ten sacred num­ At the age of thirteen he entered upon a sea­ bers. The sign which revealed the ten GEMS OF THOUGHT. faring life. H e 'was then a bright; active, mus­ sacred numbers was the seal of Solomon, cular boy, quick to learn, and perfectly fearless of or the double triangle in the Temple. Whoso judges harshly is sure to judge danger. He soon became thoroughly familiar amiss.—Rossette. You will see on every Jewish synagogue with his duties. No old sea dog could “ shin the six-pointed star; you will see in the Many of our cares are but a morbid way up” a rope quite as rapidly as Fred, and none Holy of Holies the twofold, and implied of looking at our privileges. was more ready to respond to every call of duty. threefold, triangle; you will understand that this contains the uttermost invention He that shows his-passion also shows his This period of his life, from the age of thir­ of human thought. enemy where to strike him. teen to twenty-one, was one of unusual hardship Perfect mathematics is perfect intellect. No fountain so small but that Heaven and danger. His first venture was upon the But this perfect mathematics was not for may be imaged in its bosom.—Hawthorne. bark “ Loraine,” which was wrecked in the itself alone, but for the revelation in num­ English Channel, and our sailor boy barely bers of the most perfect conception of the Trials wear us into a liking of what pos­ escaped with his life. His next venture was i name of Deity. sibly in the first essay, displeased us.— upon the steamship “ Teutonia,” which is un­ The name of God was never spoken, Locke. marked by any important event. His second but was called the Sherna the Shemoth, voyage, by the same steamer, was one of con­ the sacred letters which were placed at The only way for a rich man to be tinued accident and danger. A fearful gale was the points of the threefold triangle as sym­ healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to bolizing the attributes of Deity. One of live as if he were poor. encountered off the coast of Spain, the vessel lost her propeller, the sails were blown away, these triangles is the Kethor, or the crown, Mayhap it is wrong to call that death and for nine days the ship drifted at the mercy of the other is Malcus, the king or kingdom, which is rather the end of man’s mortality the wind and waves. In endeavoring to land in both together make the third triangle and than of his life.—P liny. small boats several of the crew lost their lives. its subtle attributes; meaning the Mediator. A harbor was finally reached, repairs made, and To the Ancients there was no personality It'isnot until we have passed through the ship set sail for Havana. Before reaching its in this Mediator, but the third triangle the furnace that we are made to know how makes the sacred number three times destination the propeller again dropped out, an much dross was in our composition. three, or nine and one which is the sacred accident which our young sailor foretold, and ten of the Egyptians. Every one of these warned the captain to prepare for, but his warn­ Envy, like a cold poison, benumbs and a young lady was crowded overboard.’ Mr. later the writer accompanied him to San Diego, points is not only mathematically perfect ing was unheeded. stupefies; and, conscious of its own impo­ Evans, who was standing in another part of the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, in each of in relation to the circle or sphere, but all tence, folds its arms in despair.—-Jeremy But without attempting to follow him in all of boat, on hearing the cry, “ A man overboard!” which places, before critical audiences, and in were perfect in their expressions of Deity; Collier. his voyages, or note the many important inci­ was suddenly impelled by a mighty impulse to like manner as at San Jose, he never failed to and so perfect are these terms, whether dents in his sea-faring career, we will touch only Misfortune is never mournful to the leap to her rescue. He did so, notwithstanding produce from four to six slatesful of messages, adapted in the Wisdom of the Crown or upon the more important points. soul that accepts it, for such do always see he was encumbered with heavy clothing? Seeing including several pictures of prominent deceased in the Crown of Wisdom, or any other se­ In a voyage on the bark “ Cynosure ” from that every cloud is an angel’s face.—S a in t a white object floating near, he seized it. It was Spiritualists. [A full account of this trip and of cret yet truthful explanation, that when London to Australia, the cook, who had been Jerome. the form of the woman, who, fortunately for the the public meetings held, appeared in these once this seal was set upon the human acting strangely for several days, after preparing brave swimmer, was insensible. It was 10 columns at the time; hence, we will not repeat mind and understanding there was perfect Character can never suffer a stain with­ the evening meal ready for serving, jumped over­ o’clock in the evening, and the night was very it here.] intellectual harmony between the concep­ out some loss.
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