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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. The blot may be erased, board and was lost. Lots were cast to supply dark. All was confusion on board, the boat was We have held many experimental seances with tion of God and the visible universe. but with the erasure goes part of the orig­ his place and Fred was elected. On entering the This ideal state, this actual revelation, inal texture. stopped and an effort made for their rescue. this medium, and have obtained through his galley to serve up the food, the dishes began to But they were lost in the darkness, and it was this manifestation of Deity preceded the guides some of the most remarkable manifesta­ statement of it, and the statement of it You can not do wrong without suffering clatter and skip about in an unaccountable man­ supposed that both were drowned. Evans bore tions. We have received as many as nine slatesful ner, and he fled in dismay to the deck; but could never have taken place had there wrong. Treat men as pawns and nine­ up the fainting woman and manfully struck out of writing at a single seance, and on other occa­ not been preceding revelation, where the pins and you shall suffer as well as they.— he soon overcame his fears and ^turned to his for the shore, which he reached in safety. For sions some excellent sketches and pictures, all o point of human thought ceases, which is Emerson. task, when he found everything quiet. this act the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane which have been produced independently, andf the statement of three times three, the It was during this voyage, in a fearful storm, Society voted him the thanks of the Society for Those that place their hope in another under conditions to satisfy the most skeptical symbol of God, the revelation of the Holy that a wave broke over the ship washing Fred his bravery, with a present of two pounds. The mind of their genuineness. world have in a great measure conquered overboard. A few moments afterwards, by the of Holies, the secret and divine meaning Society’s certificate, which he has framed, is one In these sean ces we have diligently sought to of the Circle, that which solves the Circle;, dread of death and unreasonable love of lurch of the vessel, or possibly by the aid of life.—A tterby. of his most cherished treasures. solve the mystery of the power that works where this meets human consciousness is- those powers, which ever attend him, he found Mr. Evans’ next venture was in an old bark in through him, or in his presence. His psycho­ the highest point of human thought.* You Whoever resigns himself to unhappiness himself again on deck and uninjured. In fact the cotton-carrying trade, which was wrecked in graphic control, John Gray, has demonstrated can not go beyond that in intellect; when flees from all contradiction and what is he seems, in his perils by sea, to liave borne a the mouth of the Mississipppi river. Next, in himself to us as a living personality, distinct and perfect thought ceases Faith must begin;: more opposed to his inward conviction charmed life, as we doubt not he did. The the position of Quartermaster, on board the separate from the medium. He gives us a his­ when the perfect intellectual statement is than cheerful society. storm raged with great fury for many days. steamship “ Arabic,” he made a voyage from tory of his life, when and where he passed on to made and the intellect of man has achieved The man who revenges every wrong During its progress, when the crew were all on Liverpool, via the Suez Canal, to India, thence to the other life, the nature of the work in which this majestic statement; that the Infinite that is done him has no time for anything deck working for dear life to save the ship, he China and Japan, and thence to San Francisco, he is engaged, etc. He tells us that he has con­ Circle is spanned and measured only by else. If you make your life a success you was sent into the forecastle on an errand. The where he was honorably discharged. He was trolled various mediums, finding his present me­ the three times three, then the Faith which can afford to let the dogs bark as you go place was quite dark, but light, enough for him afterwards engaged for two years as Quarter­ dium a better instrument than any he has hereto­ surpasses all intellect and human knowl­ by. to see a strange man standing there, who showed master on various steamers in the coasting ser­ fore used. Spirit* Stanly St. Clair, who first edge begins. Upon this extreme verge, him a knife wound in his breast from which the vice, running to Victoria and other ports, and came at one of our private experimental seances, upon this uttermost point of the human The fortitude of a Christian consists in blood was flowing. Fred noted his dress and ap­ making two trips to Alaska. This ends his is also a living personality to us. He says he intellect the divine inscriptions of the Kab­ patience, not in enterprise >vhich the poets pearance, but did not stop long to make his ac­ nautical career, which is quite enough for a ; was an artist in earth life, and his work, inde­ ala rest. Where man with minutest ob­ call heroic, and which are commonly the quaintance! He told his shipmates what he had young man then only twenty-two. He has some pendently, upon the slates, bears out his claim. servation and long experiment has traced effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. seen, and on the following day he was sent for not only the visible heavens, but in geo­ — D ry den. eight or ten honorable discharge papers, with Mr. Evans’future work will no doubt bring him by the captain and requested to recount his ex­ several personal cards of merit, which he highly prominently before the public, in other parts of metrical symbols all laws governing the ac­ tion of the mechanical earth, reduced to As a piece of glass, from the vicinity of perience. He was informed that his description prizes. the world, as he is the only medium of which we mathematics the starry heavens, made gold, acquireth the color of a topaz; so a tallied exactly with that of a Spaniard who was In 1884 he commenced the investigation of have any knowledge who can pprform such chemistry and alchemy respond to the fool may derive some consequence from stabbed and killed in a personal affray during a Spiritualism, his first experience being at one of wonders in the presence of a promiscuous audi­ divine threefold light, and even converted the presence of a wise man.—From the former voyage, and concerning which young Mrs. Foye’s public test seances given at Washing­ ence, and under like conditions. the essential elements of the earth into Sanskrit. Evans knew nothing. ton Hall on Eddy street, in this city. Ventur­ We may add in closing that Mr. Evans is symbols that accurately correspond to This voyage lasted eighteen months, and was ing in there one evening, from curiosity, with a The man who never failed is a myth. happily united in marriage with a lady who is her­ those sacred numbers, where, by long and Such an one never lived and is never a series of accidents from first to last. He was shipmate, his companion was dumb founded by self an excellent medium, and their young lives arduous pursuits, but steadily and posi­ likely to. All success is a series of efforts warned by the invisibles not to ship in the vessel hearing a name given known to no one present have already been blessed and saddened by the tively refusing all external aid, the mind in which when closely viewed, are seen again, and although the captain, who had treated but himself, with a description of the manner of irth and loss of a beautiful daughter. has mounted to the very verge of inspira­ more or less failures. him very kindly, urged him to do so, he refused. his demise, when, where, etc. Evans became tion and there rested like the winged dove Zimmerman says : “ Scholars are to be In her next voyage the ship was wrecked off much interested. He visited several mediums, in the symbolism of the Ancients, to re­ met with who are ignorant of nothing save Better to do what I can while it is called Cape Horn and all on board lost. all of whom assured him that he would be a ceive the token of life; there human their own ignorance,” and yet there were to-day; and if the edifice I create be but a Our young sailor’s next voyage was on the powerful medium himself if he would only sit for thought pauses. no Seybert commissions in Zimmerman's dog-hutch, it is more honorable to have “ Shatamuc” to New York. This vessel was development. He finally concluded to do so, and Just as in the philosophy of Plato the built a dog-hutch than to have dreamed of water-logged, and for eleven days the crew were after sitting every evening for about three months, time. sublime Cosmos is revealed in the three­ building a palace.— Carlyle. obliged to sleep in the rigging where they sub­ and when about to abandon the effort in disgust, H e a l t h - g e t t in g is a process of devel­ fold attributes, is made manifest in the es­ It was out of the cloud that the deluge sisted on a cracker a day to each man, and a he received the gift of independent slate-writing, opment, like the growth of a tree, or the sential qualities that express the presence came, yet it is upon it that the bow is set. little water which they had been able to secure. together with that of clairvoyance, clairaudience, raising of a crop of grain. We must sow of the Divine, and is revealed in the hu­ The cloud is a thing of darkness, yet God Evans is an expert swimmer, strong of limb, and other phases. the seed to-day, in right habits of life and man mind as a miniature. In this Cos­ chooses it for the place where he bends and perfectly cool in time of danger, qualities In February, 1885, he gave his first profes­ a correct regimen; and weeks, months, or mos where the universe is soluble by in- the arch of light.—J I. B onar. which have enabled him to rescue several per­ sional seance, since which time he has been con­ years hence, we shall reap the harvest. ( Continued on Third Page. [Written for the Golden Gate.] enthusiasm for the good of our cause, [Written for the G olien Gate.] place themselves in a condition to see. was instrumental in bringing those gentle­ A Spiritual Reaction Among Mediums. would belittle and blacken our most hon­ The Seybert Commission. They did not want to see. They only men out in London), and the manifesta­ ored and gifted mediums. touched Spiritualism at its circumference, tions of spiritual power were anxiously BY L. WALDEMAR TONNER. Some one has said that Spiritualism is BY HUDSON TUTTLE. and [in their report they do not seem to waited for. Probably twenty minutes the “ slop-bucket of the churches,” and think it requires serious thought, or more were passed thus tunefully, when a loud 1 have Jbeen deeply impressed of late I have often thought of this expression Henry Seybert made a mistake—worse than light ridicule. There have been rapping was heard in the room* where the with the subject of “ individuality in .me- when reading the letters and the senti­ than a mistake, a blunder—when he left many triumphant exposures of th^se same medium was. No one had the least idea ments that some of these self-elected a fortune to the University of Pennsylvania frauds, and the true Spiritualist is only too what it meant until I suggested the pro­ diumship,” and kindred thoughts. Mr. censors give vent to when they want to on the condition that, for the Chair of Phi­ glad to have the false eliminated from the priety of naming the letters of the alpha­ Ravlin’s article impressed me as being full draw some specially favored and honored cause he loves. Spiritualism remains bet. This was received with shrieks of of clear meaning and deep thought, and worker down to their own level of mental losophy thus founded, that institution of untouched by all these exposures. Its laughter, “ as if” said one, “ it knew how to him I am indebted for much wisdom mediocrity and spiritualistic cant. learning should investigate Spiritualism. science, philosophy and religion are be­ to spell.” Presently however, when the on the all-important question of medium- If a medium chances to rise a little in He was an ardent Spiritualist, but had yond the power of whatever fraud may intelligence began to manifest itself as such, the estimation of outsiders who really ap­ selfishly lavished time and money on me­ become attached to overthrow. the silence of death settled on the com­ ship, an^ its divers phases of mental and preciate his work, forthwith he is criti­ Those who have examined the slate­ pany, and the following message was ob­ physical development. VVe are without cised as worldly, proud and ambitious. diums who gave him astonishing phenom­ writing well know that this report is a tained: “ We laugh at all tests; look to doubt passing through serious times in re­ In their estimation a medium must receive ena*, and, during his life, not a dollar to gross misstatement of the conditions which your medium and see where she is.” gard to the progress of our most gifted no honors, no compliments, no special popularize or extend the cause. To f^one have repeatedly been observed, and the Instantly the gentlemen pulled aside the workers. There seems to be a wave of favors, no real sympathy, no real appre­ for this neglect, he delegated to others same may be said of it in regard to all the heavy draperies that separated the two ciation at any one’s hands, for that would what he ought to have done himself. The other phases of mediumship it pretends to rooms and the bright light which had been reaction toward the churches, and some be spoiling the medium forsooth! In the expose. Did that report rest upon its burning all the time in the back room of our best speakers have already ac­ opinion of this very progressive and char­ University wanted the money, and hence, true merits, no commentary would be streamed into the temporary cabinet. cepted calls from orthodox congregations. itable class, those who possess phenome­ so far as the letter compelled, the manage­ necessary. It stamps its authors with ig­ Every body rushed to the box but to the Hayden, Brunton, Houghton, Cephus nal gifts should ever remain slaves to a ment complied with the conditions of the norance and dishonesty of purpose unmis­ surprise of all it was empty, but sitting on materialistic public, and especially slaves takably. But the press, eager for news, top of it in her easy chair covered with net­ Lynn, Thomas Walker, Capt. Brown and bequest. The matter was delayed as long to the sweet wills of this same class who as possible, and then the* appointments and pandering to popular prejudice, have ting and without a seal or knot disturbed, A. B. French, have all left our ranks and pronounce a medium good in exact pro­ were such as would ensure the condemna­ seized the opportunity, and with startling sat Florence Cook the medium in a deep gone where they can better themselves. portion to the amount of free passes they tion of the subject. To any thinking headlines proclaim the publication of the trance. I use the term “ better themselves,” ad­ may receive as dead-heads to seances. Spiritualist the result was foreshadowed, report as a complete exposure of spiritual How did she get there ? She was in a visedly, for it is natural to suppose that It would be sheer folly to suppose for for the judges were suborned by their po­ phenomena and the death of Spiritualism. strange house; no noise had been heard one moment that our indivi dualized sensi­ sition, training, predjudices and education. The public is thereby grossly misled, and and the slats were as firmly nailed as they these brilliant speakers, possessing com­ tives, with capacity to reason and judge After a delay of years, the Commission the intentions of Seybert to extend the had been in the commencement of the se­ mon sense a'nd good sound judgment in for themselves in the daily affairs of life, was made up of the following gentlemen: influence of the cause he loved are per­ ance. Every one was filled with amaze­ worldly, as well as spiritual things, would 1 are going to submit meekly and calmly to Horace Howard Furness, the Shakesperian verted to its greatest detriment, so far as ment, and while discussing the marvelous not have gone back into the churches the impudent and petty tyrannies at the scholar; Dr. William Pepper, provost of can be by these false reports. It was an occurrence, Miss Cook slowly opened her eyes, and as she beheld the look of amaze­ without solid reasons for their actions. hands of soi-disant critics who take it the university; Joseph Leidy, anatomist; ill-advised bequest, which should be a upon themselves to call a medium to George A. Koenig, professor of chemistry warning to those who seek to forward the ment on the faces of her persecutors, burst All I can say is, that I presume they order for the simple possession of an orig­ in the university; George S. Fullerton, movement not to wait until death prevents out laughing and said, “ Why, how did I knew positively that they were making a inal idea, a single act of free agency, or a professor of moral philosophy; Robert their personal supervision of the work they get here ?” That was just the question wise move when they stepped from the successful termination of psychical work. E. Thompson, professor of history and desire to have performed. that each man was asking his neighbors. rostrum of the lecture room to the ortho­ The trouble is with a great many English literature; Coleman Sellers, civil B erlin H eights, June 26. “ See here,” she continued, supposing Spiritualists that they love to meddle too engineer; James W. White, Dentist; Dr. that some of you take and put me back dox pulpit. much with other people’s affairs. They Calvin B. Kneer,' and Dr. S. Weir [Written for the Golden Gate.] again the same way I got out;” but al­ But this remarkable reaction, which is scoff at the churches, while they them­ though there were several gentlemen pres­ Mitchell. . Not one of the appointees had “ The Tests the Spirits Gave.” seizing many of our most powerful speak­ selves possess neither charity nor manners, any knowledge of or belief in Spiritualism. ent who were would-be amateurs in leger­ ers, is also becoming daily more manifest spirituality or appreciation. I know it is They claimed that their time was so fully BY J . WILLIAM FLETCHER. demain'and very loud in their talk about in the ranks of our most distinguished true that many of this ranting class were occupied that thev could not give more the tricks they had seen performed in the mediums. Spiritualists are too prone to turned out of#the churches for very good than a passing hour to the subject, to in­ In this age of inquiry into the law East, not one of them accepted the chal­ make arbitrary and selfish laws to be reasons, and they seek the cover of Spirit­ vestigate which, thoroughly and honestly, lenge. So the mosquito netting was cut forced on all mediums who dare to ualism to hide their hypocrisy, rancor, was a duty the avoidance of which is most whereby the wonderful phenomena of open, the hands which were swollen al­ possess a single independent opinion of envy, selfishness, and general bitterness shameful. Horace Howard Furness, the Spiritualism are produced, we hear a vast most to bursting, were loosened from the their own. They lay down rules which of spirit. Failures themselves as human “ Shakesperian scholar,” was the head and amount about test conditions, whereby the cruel cords that bound them, and the me­ exist only in their fertile imaginations, entities, without hope here or hereafter, front, the body and soul, of the Commis­ so-called investigator seeks to protect him­ dium stepped down from her high position whereby all mediums of no matter what th_'y attack their brother Spiritualists, and sion. The others were mere deadheads, self against any fraud that may be perpe­ and mingled with the company. Now I age, sex, or condition, may be governed. if they fail on that score they attack in a a row of “ Stotan bottles,” counting for wish to ask in the fewest possible words, In studying this question closely for some covert and cowardly way some one me­ nothing, and really less than they counted trated by spirits in or out the body. which was the most remarkable test, the time past, I have arrived at the conclu­ dium who has brought nothing but honor for. Somehow inquirers associate the medium nailing of Florence Cook into the box by sion that these tyrannical and imaginative and glory to the cause. They are ever After three years, the Commission has very strongly with the manifestations pro­ half a dozen strong men, or the taking of laws which a certain class of phenomena ready, like harpies, to alight on some in­ brought out its first report. It is “ pre­ duced and are never weary of placing her out by the silent, unseen force which hunters try to force on our best mediums, eludes the sight of the most wary ? nocent head, where they pick and tear liminary,” and only the beginning, and yet their sensitives in a most trying condition is the direct cause for this spiritual reaction with poisoned talons at soul and body. its conclusions are final. If supported as B o s t o n , M a s s . , 6 Beacon street. toward the churches. The materialistic It suffices only that a medium may attain claimed, then there is no need of further which would preclude the co-operation of I June 20, 1887. selfishness • of this class is working the universal fame to lay himself liable to investigation, for Spiritualism is the greatest high spirits, if in the beginning they had greatest mischief possible to conceive some dastardly insinuation from the humbug of the century. It is a final report been disposed to act with them. with our grandest instruments. Single-Song Writers. green-eyed monster, envy and jealously. that is to be prolonged like a farewell ap­ The trouble seems to be here, that in­ It is hard indeed to tell where this thing In all other professions, in the law, in pearance of a distinguished actor who vestigators insist upon spiritual manifesta­ will end; but certain it is, according to the ministry, on the field of battle, and continually appears and reappears for the ,The following persons are known to ' the present signs, that the harmony and in the senate chamber, everywhere, last time. tions being produced in relation to mater­ fame from the fact that some one single spiritual unity • of the churches will brethren of the same belief and practice From this report we learn that a few ial laws only, instead of remembering that production from their pen has endeared swallow up, as it were, the inharmony and take a special pride in assisting and hon­ public mediums were called before the it may be necessary for them to rise to and immortalized their names; misunderstanding in the ranks of Spiritual­ oring the shining ones who give glory and Commission, and examined with more or spiritual conditions instead of demanding Thomas Gray (1716-1771), “ Elegy ism. In other words, the existing forms luster to their profession. The Spiritual­ less appearance of “ scientific” acumen. that spirits should come down to earthly of religion will enfold and harbor our ists alone, of all peoples, seek to detract They experienced great difficulty in secur­ ones. written in a Conutry Churchyard.” Lord George Byron says, “ Had Thomas most intellectual and sensitive mediums from the fame and honors which the ing mediums for the tests they proposed. It was a wise teacher who said that who are heartily tired of the strife, dis­ whole outside world, with one voice, con­ spiritual things are spiritually discerned, Gray written nothing but his Elegy, high They advertised for mediums to come be­ as he stands, I am. not sure he would not cord, grossness and selfishness so impu­ fers on the most prominently gifted. Let fore their owl-like body and show the but spiritual discernment is something that stand higher; it is the corner-stone of his dently displayed everywhere by so many me warn all such lovers of dissension and manifestations. investigators never think of cultivating. blatant Spiritualists. Indeed, the signs of discord that the church doors are swing­ He, no matter how ignorant, must pre­ glory.” The mediums did not come, (why should William Falconer (1730-1769), “ The a mighty reactionary wave have already ing wide open to admit those who have they?) and the report puts this down as a scribe all conditions and results are meas­ made their appearance in every part of ured by this standard. Instead of won­ Shipwreck.” long since found Spiritualism a hard and suspicious circumstance. Those they did James Beattie (1735-1803), “ The Min­ the land. Nor is this influence confined heavy road to travel. Over its doors are secure were, in several cases, not such as dering that we do not receive more re­ to America. In Europe not only the markable demonstrations of spirit pres­ strel.” written a welcome to our most cultured Spiritualists would have chosen. Slate­ August Montague Toplady (1740-1778), mediums but a good many Spiritualists and progressive mediums, who, if the writing engaged most attention, and Slade ence, the great wonder is that we receive have already joined the Catholic Church. as much as we do. Surely if ignorance “ Rock of Ages.” Spiritualists do not soon mend their ways was the principal medium. They were so Kobert Bloomfield (1766-1823), “ The For my part I think the term “ Spirit­ in their treatment of them, will accept exceedingly acute they at once discovered was^ver apparent, it is in the methods ist” is a good one to designate the that are daily being employed to settle the Farmer’s Boy.” the invitation and go where love, har­ the trick, and by means of a seance after­ Charles Wolf (1791-1823), “ The Burial curiosity seeker, the morbid test hunter, mony, sympathy, sincerity, charitable ward held with a “ professional juggler,” vexed question of man’s immortality. and all sorts of materialistic Spiritualists. What is needed to-day is not more Arab­ of Sir John Moore.” speech, enthusiasm, and hearty apprecia­ they learned all about it. They screwed This was pronounced by Lord Byron The word “ Spiritist” should be used tion await them. two slates together, and messages were ian Night wonders to excite curiosity and inquiry, but a deeper and more profound “ the most perfect ode in the language.” largely in excess of the word “ Spiritual­ S an D iego, Cal., July 1, 1887. written ( with Siade) while the slates Joseph Rodman Drake (1705-1820), ist,” because so much more common. were thus secured, but when the slates understanding of the things that do occur. [But when they get there, Bro. TonneF, I firmly believe if the students of this “ The Culprit Fay.” But mediums who are strongly individ­ were withdrawn from under the table the Fitz-Green Halleck ( 1790-1867 ), ualized, who are experienced by travel, they will be compelled to renounce their screws were not as tight as when they were philosophy were to enter the seance room angel guides, veil their heavenly gifts, and instead of tying and binding mediums “ Marco Buzzaris.” innately cultured, positive, and exception­ placed under the table. Hence slate­ George P. Morris (1802-1864), “ Wood­ as they now do, they were to say, “ We ally gifted, ought certainly to brook no and crystalize into indifferent saints, of writing is pronounced a fraud and a trick ! man Spare that Tree.” impertinent meddling with their work by but little account to themselves and the Letters were sent to Mansfieid and two impose no conditions, but we leave it with Charles Sprague (1791-1875), “ Ode on you as the controlling spirits to prove the ignorant persons, whose judgment is too world. Better the unjust treatment, with olhers, and answers received, but, alas! Shakspeare.” frail and fantastic to make their own lives the seals were broken. reality of your powers,” that better results independence, say we, than an evangelical would be obtained. A most striking il­ Richard Henry Wilde (1847), “ My successful, not to speak of giving good Maud Lord came before them, but the Life is Like a Summer Rose.” advice to their brethren. I have often gag in the mouth, and a chronic condi­ atmosphere of the Commission was too lustration of this fact occurred at the resi­ dence of Mr. Charles Hogge, Whitehall, Edward C. Pinckney, “ I Fill a Cup to been stunned, when reading the wild and tion of restful good-for-nothingness.— chilling even for her wonderful powers. One Made Up.” London, when in the presence of that utterly untruthful, not to say malicious re­ E d. G. G.]______Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane also came, Richard Henry Dana (1789-1879)* * The marks, that some of these envious individ­ and the rappings of course followed, but most remarkable medium, Florence Cook. Buchaneer.” A large company of persons, mostly strang­ uals, who boast of. their spirituality, will A C h ild Or a c le.—There is living at that did not satisfy the savants. They re­ Francis Scott Key (1790-1843), “ Star- commit themselves to when some really Bridgeport, Connecticut, a little child or- port that just such sounds are produced in ers to the subject, had been invited to as­ Spangled Banner.” successful and brilliant medium is the various parts of the body, as is “ well sist at an evening seance and were dis­ a:le—Miss Mosella Prout. A singular cussing a variety of ways whereby test Rouget de L’Isle, “ La Marseillaise.” subject of their envious tirades/ known to physiologists,” although the only John Howard Payne (1792-1852), One would think, to read the saintly freak connected with the child’s prognos­ “ physiologists” who ever made such a conditions might be applied. One or two of the party tried to be very smart and Home, Sweet Home.” and solemn diatribes directed against all tications is that she will mention nothing statement were the “ Buffalo doctors” who David Everett (1769-1813), “ You’d that is truest and best in our ranks by that foreshadows calamity, but upon all reported on the Fox girls more than thirty suggested a novel but nevertheless stupid experiment. The family were about leav­ Scarce Expect One of My Age.” these models of charity and spirituality, events that are productive of pleasure she years ago, and they have been a byword Reginald Heber (1783-1826), “ From that our very best mediums, the ones who will speak freely. Recently a Mrs. Smilh and a synonym for ignorance ever since. ing for India and the front drawing-room Greenland’s Icy Mountains.” was full of huge packing cases; these prob­ have carried our banner and planted it in asked the little oracle when she would When arranging for the second seance, Julia Ward Howe (1819—), “ Battle positions where but few could plade it, are hear from her husband, who is at Los An­ they intimated that the investigation would ably suggested the idea that the medium Hymn of the Republic.” the meanest, the most selfish, the laziest, geles: “ To-day at noon,” was the reply, be “ searching,” and as it had been previ­ should be nailed up in one of them like a Wm. Allen Butler (1825—), “ Nothing the proudest, and the most heartless pos­ “ and the letter will contain a post-office ously said that the rappings were produced hen in a coop and then see if anything to Wear.” sible for Spiritualism to produce. I say, order for twenty dollars.” At twelve by means known to physiologists, which would happen. Miss Cook was one of Francis B. Harte (1839—), “ Heathen is it any wonder that many of this class o’clock the postman handed Mrs. Smith modesty prevented from being investigated. those mediums that never objected to Chinee.” of mediums are turning their faces toward the promised letter. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Kane very properly withdrew. She anything, and her present broken condi- Emma C. Williard (1845-1870), the refinement, the hospitality, and the of the other week she told her mother to would have been untrue to herself and the jtion of health only serves to show how “ Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” appreciation of the churches ? To me prepare places for her aunt and uncle, cause she represented had she done other­ merciless some of these wiseacres can be. William Wetmore Story (1819), “ Cleo- it causes no surprise, and if anything it is who would arrive from Cornwall in time wise. According, then, to the inspiration of the , patra.” a matter of astonishment that all our sen­ for supper. To humor the child the pa­ With, materializing mediums the Com­ moment, she was put in a large easy chair, Horace Smith (1779-1840), “ Address sitives on an intellectual plane have not rent did as requested, and as the family mission was most unfortunate in its selec­ securely tied and completely covered with to an Egyptian Mummy.” gone there long before this. gathered in the dining-room the door-bell tion, and saw nothing but what it sought, mosquito netting which enclosed the chair Thomas Dunn English (1819), “ Ben Spiritualists may talk as much as they rang and the Cornwall relatives, hungry fraud. as well as herself; this was sewed together, Bolt.” please about working for the cause, and and tired,' were ushered into the house. This is all. The $60,000 has been tied to each chair leg and sealed, then Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863), other favorite stock expressions, but the On Monday Mr. Prout went trouting, and earnedl The “ preliminary” report has rolled into one of these packing cases “ Visit of St. Nicholas.” Spiritualist who criticises a medium for little Mosella, in fancy, followed him been made. The great subject—which which was just large enough to receive it, Joseph Hopkinson (1776-1842), “ Hail presuming to live in the artistic surround­ throughout his entire jaunt over marsh, counts its believers by millions, and has then slats were firmly nailed across the Columbia.” ings of his own home, to, rest as suits brook and meadow, exclaiming at inter­ been investigated and pronounced true by opening and the company, after eyeing the work of the self-appointed committee, the dictates of his own conscience and vals with childish delight: “ Oh, papa scientists such as Butlerof, Crooks, Varley, “T h e trouble with you, John, is,” said withdrew into the back drawing-room; his own inspirations, is an envious hypo­ has caught another!” Finally, the child Wallace, Hare, Denton, Zollner, and a lady to her husband, who was suffering crite, and a malicious meddler in other remarked that “ papa was almost home, many others to whom the professors of the the light being extinguished in the room from the effects of the night before, “ you people's affairs. Our ranks have too long and had eleven trout in his basket.” Five University of Pennsylvania are rush-lights where the medium was, ahd the curtain can not say‘No.’ Learn to say * No,’ been cursed with these envious gossips minutes later Mr. Prout appeared with compared with the electric flame—on this dropped between the two rooms, she was John, and you will have fewer headaches. and spiritual contortionists, who would eleven splendid trout, and when informed slight showing is proclaimed a fraud and a left alone to her fate. The company in ol his child’s predictions, declared with trick! Everything this egotistical commis­ the back room" began singing from the Can you let me have a little money this make the fairest and brighteat names ap­ morning ?” “ No,” said John, with appar­ pear worldly, selfish and vain; who, under amazement that they were all true.—Shef­ sion have seen may be fraud—what of it ? Moody and Sankey Collection of Melo­ ent ease. a veil of saintly perfection and spiritual field Evening Telegraph. They have seen very little. They did not dies (for it will be remembered Mr. Hogge Jv4y 9>, $§?•] GOLDBN GATE. 3

f Continued from First Page*) but there is no time, he de­ Thus the spiritual nature supersedes in [ Written for the Golden Gate.] feeble constitution as to render life a burden clares, in modern thought, or in modern every age the external form which man Shakerism. to themselves and of no benefit to society. tellectual propositions, each one is as per­ humanity to solve these ancient mysteries. throws around the image of God; the The candidates could then act understand- fect as the Kingdom, or the Crown, or Every time you measure a circle for Veil in the Temple is rent such time as BY DR. JOHN A U .Y N V ingly, and the history of this commission any mathematical or mechanical purpose, man crucifies the Christ that is within, the King of the ancient threefold triangle. B r o t h e r H. L. E a d s : —I thank you would gradually develop a moral sentiment Under this system of philosophy is the you apply the test of these ancient sym­ and sees not the glory of God shining in the people which would do much to supremest statement of life, is that which bols of material life. Every time you in and through his being, understands for a neat volume of “ Shaker Theology.” improve the physical condition of the peo­ exalts man from the senses to the spirit, solve any problems in chemistry you apply not His meaning in the visible universe I believe the Shakers are doing some good ple and banish hereditary disease. The from the negation to the positive nature of the test of the ancient alchemy. Every around. by living well and setting an example of best teachings of political economy would existence, and reveals the fact that every time you measure the distance between It is supposed to be the uttermost stress thrift, charity, and superior purity of life. not lead to a too rapid increase of popu­ the sun and any planet you apply the of the average human intellect when by moral attribute, every spiritual possession, A.nd such example is as much needed lation, but rather to the improvement of every divine conception is from within principles of the angles of light of which gradually piling up the postulates of the the moral, physical and intellectual condi­ the spirit. the triangle is the exponent. So that if material universe, it finally passes from now, and here, as it has ever been in any tion of the people. While the visible universe is the expres­ you have not the spiritual perception, matter to essence, from form to that period of the world’s history. While I> Communistic life is not necessary to sion of law the moral realm is the expres­ the intellectual use which you make of which is ethereal and is lost in a possible say this sincerely I-differ so much from secure the great advantages of co-operative sion of God. As in the Platonic system the symbols discovered by the ancients, hereafter. It is the extremity of the your theology as to the best Ideal of an labor and capital. Joint stock companies , proves that you appreciate the measure of average understanding to hope for im­ of philosophy the ideas are perfect, ex­ American, that this method is thought \ are doing this, and can do all that can not pressing the threefold nature of God’s rev­ utility, if you do not understand their mortality, but the certainty of it belongs as well be done by individual effort. If elation, expressing the threefold nature of divinity. to revelation. Where the mind ceases best to set it forth before the public and laborers would study economy, and avoid man as manifest on earth; so whatever re­ If the mind -may perceive God as the the spirit carries man in his flight; where yourself. This is not intended as a criti­ wasting their earnings in that which does lates to the same principle must be man­ intellect can state God; if the spirit can the intellect falters on the very verge of cism of your method of expression, but them no good, and invest their surplus in ifest or expressed in the same manner. be endowed with that unsurpassing at­ its discovery, whether on the wings of to show that your philosophy and theo­ legitimate stock enterprises, they could We mean by this, as you will see in many tribute that can see—as seers always have Platonian philosophy or whether in the logy are defective—do not cover the thus gradually reap the benefit of capital, ancient books this symbol, a circle with —the essential nature and understand more external, yet equally sacred, system as well as of labor. Is not this the solu­ the essential purpose in, its contact with of philosophy of Humboldt, where the whole ground of human necessities and three jads or points and another figure a conditions. tion of the labor problem ? tau which represents the unity of three. matter; if the spirit can go further than intellect pauses the spirit begins; where I have no doubt you experience a high The Nemesis of all who win, This is another Egyptian symbol for the this, can reveal to the outward under­ hope and external knowledge falter, faith By indirection or by sin three hypostases in the Divine nature and standing that God in the manifestations of takes up the divine theme and brings degree of enjoyment by withdrawing the Will surely reach the inmost soul their unity by the fourth, which means the the universe gives hints to the mind of certainty to the human understanding. forces of the brain from the sensual facul­ Before they reach a blissful goal. what is within the soul, then all the spirit­ It is supposed by philosophy that there ties, and directing them to the contem­ Action's hounds arc on the track three in one; and which under Kabalistic plation of spiritual subjects; so no doubt signification meant precisely the same that ual problems of the universe are just as is no limit to human thought, but we say Of all who truth or wisdom lack. did some of the monks in the monasteries The mystery of coming years the double, or implied threefold, triangle solvable as the material ones; you have there is a limit, and that limit is the May tone your hopes and soothe your fears, only to substitute spiritual perceptions for uttermost boundary of science and human of the early centuries of the Christian did. This is why within the temples of era, yet— Agnostic doubts will cloud the skies the Hebrews in the Holy of Holies this material postulates and all the questions philosophy which build from external For all whose souls can never rise F6r all that cowled monk could see. Above the fogs and mists of earth double triangle is never unveiled, except­ are solyed of man’s relations to the In­ postulates for things eternal, and are com­ Where human souls first had their birth. ing to the initiated, because the initiated finite. pelled to pause in their flight and say be­ I that celibate would not be, understand the sacred names symbolized What is done in modern philosophy? yond this we can not go; even there, I do not attach as much importance to Burning of the Museum of Confucius. in this double triangle, understand that it Instead of endeavoring to cultivate the at that uttermost verge, where human texts of Scripture ,as you appear to, for is the supreme manifestation of God in spirit or encourage spiritual perceptions, reason fails and human philo'sphy falters, the reason that I do not believe in their [London Telegraph.1 the universe. This is why also in the Pla- everything is proposed to be solved by where the intellect grows weary and even plenary inspiration, or accord to them A conflagration which took place * tonic system of philosophy the essential the mere intellect of man, so that that the imagination finally fails in awakening any higher inspiration than may be found lately in a remote village of China has de­ principles of the human mind could not which can not be traced by the intellect, the .powers of the mind, the spirit, with in some modern literature. Neither do I stroyed one of the most remarkable lite­ be stated except to those who were its and measured by the intellect is recog­ the brooding wings of the Dove, with the consider that the example of Christ en­ rary and artistic museums in the world. closest pupils and followers, simply be­ nized as having no existence. The finely holy symbol of immortal life, with the ables us to solve the problems now press­ The edifice in question was the ancestral cause that which was conveyed by the spun theories of modern philosophy, even divine power, that is God-like from within, ing upon the average citizen. It is not home of the family of Confucius, built spirit, that which was manifested by spirit, that which is called the Emersonian sys­ takes up the faltering attributes of the certain whether his parentage was divine centuries ago, near Loo, in the province that which was perceived by spirit, were tem of thought, are none other than in­ mind and bears it unto the realm of the or human, or how much of his sayings of Shan-Tung. In this building, genera­ alike incapable of solution to the mind tellectual substitutes offered to humanity soul. and doings, as recorded, were fabulous, tion after generation, the male heirs of alone, but when perception assists the in place of revelation. Revelation is the We have seen a philosopher, as he called but it is certain he knew not the per­ the great Chinese teacher have dwelt in explanation, when revelation has come, only possible means of arriving at spirit­ himself, pausing upon, the verge of the plexities and labor incident to rearing an unbroken line for 2,500 years, bearing when there is knowledge from within, the ual truth, as mathematics is the only material brink of human knowledge; he children under the sharp conditions of the title of dukes. With every other fam­ statements and propositions that relate to possible means of arriving at the measure­ had passed beyond the mortal form unto modern competition. To quote these ily in China, a nobleman’s rank must al­ Deity are just as perfect in their nature as ment of material things. The moment the mind, he had passed from the mind texts is at best only taking nature at sec­ ways be lower than that of his ancestor; any geometrical statements are perfect in you endeavor to solve the problems of unto the postulates of the universe; he ond hand, and it may be better to come for no true Confucian would presume to reference to mathematics, and all are in the spiritual realm with the intellect that had endeavored to form from out this directly to the teaching of nature under stand higher than his grandfather, father, perfect accord. moment the spiritnal realm is blotted out. system of thought that which would sat­ such conditions as may be found in and or his elder brother. In the illustrious Then take, if you please, modern sci­ When the ancient seers, and the rab- isfy himself concerning the processes of around us at the present time. “ House of Confucius,” however, the lofty ence which rejects the spirit of the uni­ bies, and all indeed who had recourse to material life and creation; and even the In 186 r, at a hotel in New York, I had title of duke passes unchanged except verse, and only pursues its experiments those systems of ancient learning, studied mind itself he had blown away into thin a conversation with Elder F. W. Evans of when emperor after emperor adds by royal concerning the physical or dynamical rela­ the sacred numbers and the names of the vapor, until it had become but a refined the Mount Lebanon Shakers. He invited decree some new phase of honor to the tions of matter and has nothing to do with numbers, but they did not do it as mean­ and triturated substance, made ethereal me to visit him at their village, and name and line of the famous philosopher. the statics, with the fixed, the immutable, ing that God is revealed in these numbers, and soon to pass away, and there, ere he seemed desirous to win me over to his The tomb of Confucius is a huge /nouna, the eternal, but only with that which is but that having been revealed, wherever plunged into annihilation, faith and reve­ views. I told him I did not see how any overgrown with trees, on tfie banks of the changeful and may be ruled by dynamical God manifests in the universe He mani­ lation had come and, taking possession, way of life could be the right one which River Size,, with carved animals on each changes. In this science fails, expressing fests in signs which these numbers re­ had set the philosopher free. When the did not admit of universal application. corner and groves of cypress trees ranged only the outermost function of existence present. For instance, if in creation, intellect fled the spirit came to the rescue, He said I did not understand it, and if solemnly around. The relics of his age, without entering the realm of philosophy, the first manifestation is a circle or sphere, where the outward sciences paused reve­ I would meet him when he had more and the rich tributes of worship paid tS which reveals the spirit of existence. So this is not God but is the expression or lation came in. It is in that realm where time he would explain it to me. Accord­ him by generation after generation, since that the highest range of the average hu­ manifestation of God. In the solution of science is inadequate, where the human ingly we appointed a time, and promptly 600 B. C., have all been gathered into man thought has not yet entered the king­ the circle or sphere are those angles that mind cannot enter to analyze the spirit, I repaired to the hotel parlors, but he did this “ House of Confucius,” lately de­ dom of the perception of the. Crown, or correspond to the rays of light which by that all spiritual truth belongs. He who not put in an appearance, and the matter stroyed. Here were accumulated precious the knowledge of the divine attributes re­ careful observation can be traced in three endeavors to drag a system of spiritual was never explained. texts on stone and marble and comment­ vealed, or veiled, in these symbols. Nor times three, which are symbolical of the perception through the intellectual quag­ Pondering" the matter over since, I aries of his books, wonderful carvings in has modern philosophy anything in com­ triangle and the names of God; by careful mires of existence will find himself, where have seen that if Shakerism is a sort of jade and alabaster, jars and vases of por­ mon with the sacred philosophy of Plato, observation and measurement it was found theology has found many souls, stranded escape. valve, a balance wheel of the celain, beyond all price, to say nothing of for modern thought keeps its philosophy that the rays of light, in all their; potenti­ upon the shoals and quicksands of- skep­ machinery of our imperfect condition of jewels and gold and silver work sent from and its religion as far apart as possible and alities, of planets when crossing the circle ticism and, finally, materialism; and he society, it is doing great good. all parts of the Celestial Kingdom, and makes science purely material, and the re­ are the exact angles described by the triune who endeavors to measure spiritual per­ Thrown upon my own resources in even by reverential “ outer ^barbarians.” ligion is rapidly becoming so. triangle, but in their primal rays the two­ ception by the mere external standards of early life," with feeble health, and without All, or'nearly all, of these treasures are Not so with the ancient revelators. In fold triangle. As the triangle was the intellect and materiality will fail in pre-' influence to help, it seemed plain that forever lost by this deplorable event, Egypt and among the Hebrew prophets, only means of solving the circle, so the cisely the same manner. life could be more1 easy and full with which has fallen upon China as nothing those who understood the meaning of rev­ three attributes of Deity are the mani­ Between body and spirit is the irrecon­ the advantages of a community system. short of a national calamity. No liberal­ elation, not only understood that revela­ festations in the universe, and are the only cilable difference that you can not meas­ After full consideration it seemed that in ity on the part of the emperor or people tion must first give the knowledge of God, means by which His presence can be per­ ure your spirit by your body; and though all but yours the management was likely can replace the vanished memorials of but the knowledge of the Name, of the ceived in the universe of matter. Take the spirit may not only measure but anni­ to drift into incompetent or dishonest that remarkable teacher. meaning of numbers, and the knowledge fof instance all created things, there is a hilate all there is of the body, the body hands and so come to ruin, while in-yours it of the divine attributes which those num­ threefold manifestation of God. has no control over the spirit excepting to seemed to me there was not that freedom Christianity and Mormonism. bers expressed. As you might write the The wise men of the East did not make be a shadow, for the brief season of earthly of thought and opinion which to me were , word God, and it might signify to you an the mistake of supposing their symbols, life, upon its eternal sunshine. As well indispensable. [Secular Review.] image of clay, but it would signify to the numbers, and letters to be God, or that might the atom measure the sun, or the Your societies furnish the only examples If the great success of Christianity, un­ divinely inspired mind the Infinite Ruler they expressed God, but only that these cloud that passes in the sky on this summer of community life which have not gone to assisted by the sword, may prove the of the universe, so man might write sym­ letters and figures, symbolized the manner day expect to eclipse the glory of all the decay with greater or less rapidity. truth of the Bible, surely the truth of bols of the Divine, or carve them upon by which they could make known to each summer days wherein the sun has shone. No doubt your people, being free from Mormonism may be proved by the spread wood and stone, or cause them to be made other that God had been revealed to The light of immortality is quenchless, the care, without working as hard, have greater of that faith, which, during the first thirty a sacred seal as did Solomon, without fully them. The moment you substitute the attributes of man which are quenchless physical comforts, and far greater means years of its existence, certainly gained as understanding the meaning of the symbols figure, letter or image for God that mo­ are within the spirit. to dispense in charity than people living in many converts as did the doctrines of they used; but this would not deprive the ment idolatry begins and materialism holds While it is possible to state any human families. And during the next century, Jesus within a like period. Joseph Smith . word God from expressing the Divine and sway. There is no greater idolatry in the thing, everything that is glorious and beau­ as the land all passes into private hands, began his ministry in the midst of the Infinite Love which the word implies. So world than materialism, for it is the wor­ tiful cannot be stated unless perceived; and population increases, the struggle for most intelligent people on earth, in the while human thought can only grasp the ship of the very outermost shell of God’s it will be an empty and meaningless sound, existence will become more and more se­ midst of a creed which, though dying, is material part of the universe that is cre­ expression. as are all the symbols and sounds of mod­ vere. far from dead, and in a rising civilization. ated by God, the spirit perceives the spir­ This age has very few seers and sages. ern science robbed of the spirit. Let us consider whether the condition Jesus began his ministry in the midst ot a Prophets are not usually scientific or learned itual part and understands that the uni­ Then remember when endeavoring to of society cannot be improved indefinitely rude people, a dead creed—in Greece and verse is related to God as is the raiment men. Time has ceased when the Kabala without a resort to celibate communities. measure the problems of the spiritual by Rome—and a rapidly decaying civiliza­ to man, or as the kingdom is related to the means prophets as well as wise men. It is safe to assume that not much more the mathematics with which you measure tion. The Mormons number eight hun­ king. Time has ceased upon the earth when than half of the population are fitted to dred thousand; they have missionaries in Let us explain a little more fully, since true inspiration is found in the temples of the stars, or when endeavoring to discover become parents and educate families. But the spirit of man in the crucible of the all parts of the world; they are ready to it is in the nature of all minds to con­ learning. You are calledupom to accept as a matter of fact those least fitted-^-that die for their faith, and they are spoken of clude that if a proposition can be stated the external service of learning for the chemist, or endeavoring to analyze him is, those who have the least power of re- by the system that the microscope re­ and treated by the “ Gentiles ” just as the it can be made comprehensible, that com­ divinity that was there enshrined, and in bection and self-control—have the largest early Christians were. . veals, that the perception which enables prehension is not promised when a state­ order to do this you must reject the families. This cannot be corrected by Every argument from the spread of ment is made, and that no systems of sacred symbols and the meaning implied; man to know of spiritual truth, to com­ force, but it can be by moral training and prehend the spiritual nature of his being, Christianity for the truth of the Bible can philosophy, and no systems of spiritual reject as much as you will God will reveal proper inculcation of principles in early be used with far more force in favor of truth ever offer to create faculties with Himself in some symbol before your very and to know God is a spiritual being, while life. In the present competitions and that nature may consent to state these Mormonism. A similar argument might which to understand them, it is simply eyes every day. exactions of civilized society, no couple be adduced to show that the Koran is a proposed to reveal to the human under­ The spirit of man does not pause here; things in human language for human use, dependent on their own exertions can do that the language is no more the truth divine revelation. It has been asserted standing that which is already discovered, he is not content either to waste his in­ justice to themselves and to their children that Mohammedanism owed its great suc­ that which is perceived. If by growth or spiration upon the barren fields of mere than is the color of man’s eyes the gauge and bring up more than three or four chil­ of his thought or his condition. Language cess to the sword; but this falsehood is cultivation, or a severe life of discipline, intellectual systems of thought,- nor is it dren. Persons inheriting wealth and supe­ means nothing unless it means the spirit completely refuted by Gibbon. The Mo­ any one can attain to this perception it is satisfied to rest in the arid waste of materi­ rior physical constitutions may be excep­ of what is to be conveyed; and all math­ hammedans gave all their newly-conquered well, but no system of mathematics offers to alism, but will have spiritual propositions in tions, but exceptions only prove the rule. subjects a free choice of the Koran, trib­ endow the human understanding with the their primal purity; and for this reason ematics would sink into oblivion, the Let this then be taught as a settled moral knowledge of man’s science would fade ute, or the sword—terms quite as liberal capability to perceive a mathematical there spring up prophets in the wilderness, principle. as those offered by Christian conquerors. proposition. No one proposes in present­ there did in olden time when the temples away, the stars to his mental vision be Let the State appoint and support in blotted out, and every sacred symbol on Besides, where did Mohammed get his ing astronomy to cultivate the faculty by of Jehovah had ceased to be sacred to each district convenient to the people an sword ? Buddhism has as many believers which astronomy may be understood. No the Most High; when the Holy of Holies the temples of Jehovah the world over advisory commission of three men learned would cease to have meaning, but for this as Christianity, and its teachers and prop­ one can possibly furnish to any human was desecrated in Jerusalem, outside of in physiology, to give their opinion to all agators, unlike the followers of Jesus, have understanding the keys to the solution of the temple among the unlearned, the light that, gleaming in and through the candidates for matrimony, as to their ca­ mind, makes the intellect but one window never resorted to the sword to convince the divine mysteries of life, but those new spirit of inspiration came, dnd John pacity to become parents of sound and in the temple through which the Light of unbelievers. But both Buddhism and keys, if the understanding is there, can be baptized in the wilderness and by the healthy children. A certificate of exam­ God is revealed unto man. Mohammedanism have a great advantage perceived and understood. river Jordan under the name of that ination by this commission should be as over Christianity, in that they have been The modern philosopher proposes to which was consecrated to Divinity, the indispensable to marriage as the license preserved pure as when first taught. bend his system of thought to the popu­ name of the Dove or Holy Spirit. Water The Supreme Court of Illinois has sus­ is now. The commission should keep a lar understanding;—anything that can not was the symbol among the ancients of tained the validity of the Chicago ordi­ full record of each case acted upon and She (parrot in one hand, dog in the be comprehended by the popular under­ life, and this baptizing by John was the the advice given. This advice, if unfa­ other)—“ Yes, Edward, we’ve got every­ nance which imposes a $250 license on standing can not therefore be true—he recognition of this knowledge of the inner­ vorable, is not intended to be compulsory, thing, I believe—but, where’s the baby ?” would sacrifice Plato and the gods, if most meaning of the symbol of life; while wholesale liquor dealers, and the city col­ but to show ihe candidates that they are He—“ Why, I gave it to you!” She—“ I necessary, in order that the modern Christ the Revelator came teaching in lector has issued to them a circular re­ unfit to become parents of healthy chil­ know; and I gave it back to you!” He— thought might understand it, and as for the temples to the wise men what they did questing them to pay their taxes from 1885 dren, or at least that the children would “ Well, by jinks! if I haven’t gone and the ancients their symbols might mean not know concerning their own symbols. to the present time. be liable to insanity, consumption, or such left it in the parlor car!” GOLDEN GATE. THE BORDER LAND, better advantages, and we may better aid those CLOSING WORK AT THE CAMP. T h e U n io n S p i r i t u a l S o c ie t y .— Since the in the prison house of flesh. Would that all re-organization of the Union Spiritual Society at A large audience assembled in the afternoon of A new day, and a new life! The subtle forces St. Andrews’ Hall, 111 Larkin street, three Published every Saturday by the “ G olden. G a t e mankind had this knowledge of spiritual des­ July 4th to listen to an oration from the controls P r in t in g a n d P u b lish in g Co m pany/ ’ at months ago, the popular Wednesday evening of Nature have, during the dark hours, renewed tiny, which indeed “ softens the sorrow of the of Mr. Morse. Miss Phelps sang “ The Red • J34 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cat. meetings have continued uninterruptedly. The the weary body, invigorated the mind, strength­ present and glorifies bur surroundings far beyond White and Blue,” and Miss F. Winchell of all hope, potent as it is.” last occasion was a particularly successfully one. TR U STEES J ened the relaxed muscles and fortified the will for Vallejo,' “ The Sword of Bunker Hill,” and at Mrs. Seal was even more than usually interesting. . MOS ADAhfS,* P r e s id e n t ; I. C. STEELE, V ice- the close of the meeting Miss Georgia Hall, its daily work. The time passed in sleep is Mr. J. P. Dameron, after a fifteen minutes’ ad­ P r e s id e n t ; ABIJAH BAKER, T r e a s u r e r ; “ HOW NOT TO DO IT.” “ The Star Spangled Banner,” the audience join­ D k . JO H N A L L Y N a n d J. J. OWEN. generally counted as lost in the economy of life dress, was voted an acquisition to the Society. No person is quite ready to accept the truths ing in the chorus. and work; but it is the best gain we make, in Mrs. Jennie Clark administered the musical quota, . J. OWEN, . . . E ditor a n d M a n ag er . of Spiritualism, or to investigate it fairly, so The controls of Mr. Morse surpassed all former M r s . M a t t ie P , Ow en , - Secretary and Assistant a living sense, and we would not long be in­ and the Society is to be congratulated on her R . B . H a l l , * ■ * - - General Agent. long as his mind is saturated with prejudice efforts, if such were possible, and the enthusiasm engagement. The declared object of the Society telligent, useful beings without it. against it, or is convinced that all mediums are and delight of the audience were manifested in T e r m s $2.50 per annum, payable in advance; $1.25 is to study the philosophy and phenomena of frauds. continued applause, and the universal opinion f or six months.. Clubs of five (mailed to separate addresses) Sound, refreshing sleep is not only physical Spiritualism. The preference being always given fro, and extra copy to the sender. Send money by postal ! A gentleman who says he is anxious to know expressed was that this was one of the most order, when possible; otherwise by express. renewal but spiritual exaltation, and the source to speakers and subjects whose tendency is to the truth concerning spiritual phenomena, but eloquent, patriotic and profound orations on our of every kind and generous impulse. But for the spiritualize to the exclusion of matters which 45T All letters should be addressed: “ Golden G a t e , who , nevertheless finds a special satisfaction in country that had ever stirred the hearts of the No. 734 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.” may be fairly considered under their separate darkness that bridges the days of our life, most the “ Report of the Seybert Commission,” (a American people. colors. The first hour, from 8 to 9, is occupied in of us would grow conceited with the importance copy of which he brought to us for the purpose At the close of the oration and after Mr. SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1887. discussing the philosophy, and the succeeding of obtaining our opinion thereof,) says that he Morse had regained consciousness, President of our own world, which seems so great and one in witnessing the phenomena presented, demonstrated the fraudulent character of the Wilson said that a pleasant and important-duty wondrous when illumined by the dazzling sun. which varies according to the phase of medium- THE “ FULFILLING OF THE LAW.” manifestations given through a well-known rap­ remained, and read the following resolutions When he leaves us in night, and the shining ship represented. An almost standard instance, ping and ballot test medium of this city, in the which were most heartily adopted; There is a beautiful significance to this Script- on account of nearly regular attendance, is the hosts of other worlds appear, ‘they call us to following manner; At one of her public seances . This Association having welcomed to this tural phrase. When man reaches that point in clairvoyant diagnosis of disease by Miss Anna reflection and inquiry, and wc forget all but the he wrote his own name upon the ballot which Coast Mr. J. J. Morse of England, and feeling the deep debt of gratitude and thankfulness we Johnson. Next Wednesday (13th inst,) W. J. his spiritual unfoldment wherein love dominates was sent up with the rest. The name was writ­ mystery that enshrouds us. Then it is that owe to him and the wise and noble souls who P. Dameron, a lawyer, will lecture on the ever his entire nature, and all passions, appetites, and ten near the edge of the ballot, which was beings of other spheres come to earth on missions inspire his sublime utterances, for their faithful interesting subject, “ Evolution.” Mrs. Jennie mortal errors, are placed under his feet, he has folded in such a loose way as to be easily read by ministrations during the entire session of our of love and knowledge, seeking those whose Claik will sing with a guitar accompaniment, the medium. The raps came in response to this Third Annual Camp-Meeting, then fulfilled the law of his being. Thus is it Therefore we, the California Spiritualists’ after which the medium will give tests from the hearts and souls are open to them and inviting ballot. He then asked several questions, all of said that “ the fulfilling of the law ” is love. Camp-Meeting Association, desire to express our rostrum or hold circles. The admission is free. their pure inspiration and instruction. , They which were answered by raps, stating when and full satisfaction and delight in the able services The cost of membership is twenty-five cents per The tendency of being is ever toward the talk to us in forms and symbols, giving us new where he died, the nature of his disease, etc. rendered, which now so happily close; month. Doors open at 7:30 p. m . Commence divine. Man is ever groping for the light~often He then stated to the audience that there was That we recognize the genius, courage, fidelity lessons each lime until a perfect system of com­ to truth, and love of humanity that has been at 8 o’clock. blindly and to his hurt, but groping nevertheless. not a word of truth in the- answers, as his own munion is established, and they understand all manifested in the wise and gracious ones who name was written upon the ballot! We were touch his lips with eloquence and zeal for that “C u r io u s .” —The “ unconditioned ” spiritual He can not help himself. He must strive, even that is given us. asked what we thought of such deception, as which is right and true; phenomena that occurs from day to day in one though his strivings are often in vain. It is only This spiritual instruction would come to all if that? We replied that it was just what might That in his own individuality we recognize a fitting avenue for these great and helpful minis­ part or another of the world, are chronicled by when he has learned wisdom that his efforts are they believed it possible and desiredjt. It is most be expected. Like attracts like. He sought to trations, and in his stern adherence to the duties the daily papers as “ curious’’ and “ unaccount­ at all likely to be crowned with success. deceive, and got deception in return. Whoever of his high calling, his gentleness of manner and satisfactory and pleasing, because direct, though able,” they in no case daring to pretend-to under­ goodness of heart we find a closer relation than The law of physical life is growth; then fol­ tries to practice fraud upon the spirit world, stand the cause, or to suggest an explanation. perhaps not more reliable for that. By whatever naturally attracts deceiving and mischievous that of teacher, and gladly welcome him as lows fruition, and then decay and death. The friend and brother; Spiritualism has done enough for the world in means, it is gratifying and cheering to receive spirits who will meet him on his own grounds. That we most heartily commend him to the love, the last thirty years, by way of instruction and ex­ Same law applies to man’s spiritual. nature, ex­ tidings from a land to which we are all hastening We assured our skeptical friend that that was sincere regard and support of all who love truth, planation, to enable it to distinguish its phenom­ cept that there is no decay or death. What not the true way to investigate the facts of right and justice, and the unfoldment of a high ena wherever found; but it will not, save in rare with the speed of time. A few more days and spiritual life; seems so is only the inability of the spirit to find Spiritualism. He should approach the subject many of us will lie down to that sleep whose That a copy of this testimonial be presented to instances, acknowledge that it has learned any­ reverently, with an earnest desire for the truth, expression because of the breaking down and de­ Brother J. J. Morse, furnished to the leading thing, seemingly afraid that it, too, may be called awakening will be on the immortal side. and wtih a hospitable and friendly feeling for the spiritual papers, and spread upon the minutes of struction of the instrument through which it “ curious ” and “ strange, ” like what it describes this Association. The sleep of life and the sleep qf death! Are medium. • of our philosophy and its immortal workers. A manifests. they not one and the same to the individual? No one who has studied the matter carefully ©r. C. C. Peet, who was sitting upon the case in question will answer for hundreds of its The gentle Nazarine gave to the world no will pretend to say that Mrs. Foye (there is no Only those who are yet awake on this shore feel rostrum, then rose to his feet and in a few apt kind, and is related as “ curious,” by a paper that articles of faith save that1 of a belief in the good reason why we should withhold the name of and expressive words presented another testi­ does not want to be suspected of possessing any the pang of temporary loss and separation, for the the medium referred to) reads all the ballots, or Eternal Good, and the divine duty of the prac­ monial of fifty-five dollars in gold. spiritual sense. Over Ihe face of a woman who spirit clings to its own and loves them still. In indeed any of them, to which answers are given. Mr. Morse almost overcome by his strong tice of brotherly love. How amazing that upon died in Virginia recently, was laid a white hand­ the border land of dreams we behold them, and She often gives names not written upon any emotions, his eyes filling over and over again kerchief folded four times. When it was removed, his simple teachings his followers should have life is no longer bereft, but blest by revelations of ballot—names which she sees written in the.air, with tears and commencing with a choked and there was a distinct picture of her face upon each erected such colossal systems of belief—Calvin­ or hears them clairaudiently—that are the most halting voice, most touchingly replied: that to come. fold of the handkerchief about the size of a ism, with all its horrors of infinite wrath; Ro­ striking tests ol spirit existence. I would like to say all that I have in my heart, quarter of a dollar. The' statement closed with TWENTY THOUSAND A YEARI The Seybert Commission is one of the most manism, withfcits papal infallibility and absolute but my tongue will not allow me to express it. the remark that “ spirits of camphor had been put I can not tell you, friends, how pleased and striking instances in history of “ how not to do on the woman’s face just before death.” The dicta; Mormonism, Shakerism, Seventh Day Ad­ To our finite mind it does not seem a more proud I feel at the resolutions that good Brother it.” They went at their task, seemingly, with difficult thing to save than to create. If the Wilson read and that you have so cordially spirits did it, but not those of camphor. Instead ventism; election,* probation, vicarious atone­ the purpose, not to prove, but to disprove the human family is the creation of God, he should adopted. I am a long way from home—nearly of awakening wonder and astonishment, these ment for sin, eternal torment, and various other facts of Spiritualism. And they have simply seven thousand miles—I came here almost a be able to save one soul, or a million, without things should lead to study and research, for they stranger, known only to you by reputation, and , vagaries of a crude and superstitious imagina­ proved nothing. They remind us of the six wit­ are all given with a hope of opening new avenues the sacrifice of useful lives, nor do we believe He I wondered how I should find myself and how nesses who testified that they did not see .the tion. demands it. Foreign missions, especially those I should be treated whjn I got to California. I of communion between mortals and immortals. prisoner at the bar steal the sheep. It weighed can’t tell you how I found myself, I can’t tell The new gospel of humanity is simply Christ­ of Africa, are established through mistaken ideas nothing against the positive evidence of the one you how I have been treated, because I know if of duty, and are just as suicidal as a dose of EDITORIAL NOTES. ianity stripped of its disguises. The believer in witness who did. I should try I would break down before I had poison would be taken in one’s own couutry. If finished. As I told my good wife yesterday this gospel recognizes no authority of church or only African missionaries were sent, the results aiternoon, it is the most satisfactory, ,lhe most —We shall' publish, next week, Mr. Morse’s J. J. MORSE’S PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL creed as binding upon his conscience. But he would be better in all respects; but even then a pleasant, the most acceptable engagement I able discourse, delivered at the Camp, entitled SCIENCE CLASSES. have ever filled in the United States. I feel I endeavors to follow the light divine that shines “ Spiritualism—A Challenge or Compromise.” greater'part of the missions would be'more ex­ have won your consideration and your affections. into his own soul, and reverently seeks to draw pensive than beneficial, unless conducted by their At the urgent desire of many who attended I have tried while I have been here—as I have —Judge Cdwles, of San Diego, a letter from always endeavored to do during my whole eigh­ own individual means, with a view of remaining Mr. J. J. Morse’s inspirational lectures since his whose pen appeared in our columns, a few months nearer, day by day, to the heart of God. He teen years of service—to do my duty, nothing in their native country to build up and develop arrival on the Pacific Coast, he has consented to longs for the fulfillment of the law in his own more and nothing less. ago, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 1st inst. its resources. But, as yet, five-eighths of the form a class for the study of the above science— I thank you with all my heart for the loving nature, and to live in daily communion with —Any of our speakers or test mediums going teachers sent to other lands are whites, whose to consist of a course of instruction divided into recognition I have received at your hands. East are requested to communicate with Geo. E, heavenly ministrants who have risen superior to lots are those of suffering and death; or, what is three sections of four lectures each. I was quite taken aback at the practical speech Wright, President of the Spiritual Society, sometimes worse, they become physical wrecks, of our good Brother Peet, and I find inscribed on all the hampering conditions of time and sense. The course of instruction will' embrace the this little roll fifty-five dollars. For this gener­ and drag out a weary life after their usefulness is Denver, Colorado. And this is the religion, and all the religion central truths o f '“ Mental Science,” “ Cerebral ous gift I can only return you my hearty thanks, gone. Science, ” ‘ * Spiritual HcaliDg, ” “ Theosophy, ” and also thank you for the kindness and sym­ —The total receipts of the late Camp-meeting the world wants—an abiding trust in the Infinite Dr. Ralph W. Perry, just returned from Li­ “ Temperamental Development,” and “ Psy­ pathy extended to my wife and daughter as well amount to (about) $2,006, and the expenditures, as to myself. Good, good will to man, honor and uprightne& beria, is probably one of these. He was driven $ 1,700; leaving a surplus of (about) $300. An chology,” enabling those who become students But after all I must tell you, as I have told in all the relations of life, and that gentle and home by the African or coast fever, while one of to maintain health of body," mind and soul. It other audiences a thousand times, who say all accurate statement will appear hereafter. his companions died and the other .was made in- these kind and good things about me, that I am loving sympathy that ever seeketh another’s will also indicate how the superior faculties of —We shall publish, ‘in our next issue, a full sine by the same malady. Dr. Perry was in the the mind, as intuition, impression, clairvoyance, only an instrument of a higher power; to them truest welfare. If Spiritualism does not mean your gratitude truly belongs. I am proud to account of the ordination of Mrs. J. J. Whitney employ of the Episcopal Mission Board, and was healing, etc., may be personally unfolded. all this, then we mistake its tendency and teach­ know that their wise words in California have as a minister of the spiritual gospel, accompanied stationed at Monrovia, named for our President The course will comprise the best inspirations met with such a deep reception and earnest with a fine likeness of that excellent medium. ing—then we have heard amiss the voicings of Monroe, of which he is certainly not very proud from the seen and the unseen realms of life, response in your hearts, as they have met in the angel world. now. Though established in 1832, it has but affording a knowledge of how to study human other portions where my journeying feet have —Reginald W. Nuttall, one of Victoria’s solid been. May their words find expression in your five thousand inhabitants, one hundred of whom thinkers and most esteemed citizens, honored us character in its varied phases in harmony with lives. with a call, the past week. He will visit the A M o n t h ’s O u t i n g .—Dr. Beighle, the little own the business of the town, while the others the laws of Physio*Psychological Science, as For myself and for my family, I tell you all, dear friends, we shall remember you with love southern part of the State with a view to loca­ healer, with the electric hand, has given up her live off of them. The mission is supported at a related to body, brain and mind. and gratitude. God bless you one and all. tion and permanent residence. cost of twenty thousand a year, and Dr. Perry The lectures embrace a reverent study of God’s anticipated trip East, owing to the great demand thinks the conversions do not go beyond five laws as governing our natural, intellectual, and A gentleman from the audience then stepped —Light for Thinkers, Bro. G. W. Kates’ here for her service. She, however, will take a hundred up to the present. spiritual natures, with regard to our affectional upon the rostrum from the side and made a paper, published at Chattanooga, ceased to exist short vacation and will leave the city July 9th Twenty thousand a year devoted to a spiritual filial, conjugal, and personal duties and re­ motion that a vote of thanks be extended to with its issue of July 2d. It, like The Spiritual for Mark West Springs, Sonoma county, , where mission in the United- States, or Europe, would lations—morally, intellectually, and spiritually President Wilson for the able manner in which Offering, transfers its subscription list to the new she will remain a week or more, and from there have enlightened the civilized world in the same —here and hereafter. he had conducted the services, which was heartily spiritual paper about to be issued in Cincinnati, she goes to different parts of the State, visiting time. Instead of confirming five hundred poor At the close of the course each student will responded to. and to be known as The Better Way. friends and relatives'. Early in August she will souls in superstition and darkness, it would have be presented with a Chart, wherein will be The closing meeting of the Camp was held in —Dr. J. K. Bailey, a well-known inspirational return to the city and open her office at some brought the light of eternal and progressive life marked the leading indications of his or her the evening, a good audience being present. lecturer and speaker, from Scranton, Pa., arrived conveneint place. She has scattered all over to the millions bound in the chains of orthodox personal development, as ascertained by the Mrs. J. Schlesinger gave an able address of about in this city last week on his way to Portland, this Coast grateful patients, who feel they are error. • lecturer. a half an hour's length upon what Spiritualism Oregon, whither he took his departure on the 1st How long is it to last, this diversion of means Full particulars as to place and time will be has done for woman, and Dr. Schlesinger fol­ indebted entirely to her for life and health. It inst. He stopped by the way in the southern is something grand to be the instrument for such from a noble end? There must be a horrid fas­ announced at Mr. Morse’s lectures in Metropoli­ lowed with tests, giving thirty-nine names, all of part of the State, lecturing in Santa Ana, and cination bordering the brink of Sheol when so tan Temple, San Francisco, which commence on which were recognized. Many of the names blessings to your fellows. Her powers were we believe at some other points. never stronger than at the present, and her office many prefer its temperature to the cool air of a Sunday next, July loth, where M. B. Dodge, given were accompanied with messages. is crowded all hours of the day with the suffering rational religion. Esq., the manager of the Sunday services held —A Chicago correspondent of the Banner o f O u r L e g e n d s . -r-In spite of all our great and L ight says: “ Mrs. Ada Foye, of San Francisco, portion of humanity seeking relief from all man­ Hope flies about the cradle and the grave alike; lives therein, will receive names of ladies and gentle­ petty ills and evils, we as a people and nation have “ who appeared before the Young People’s Pro­ ner of ills, through her magical treatment. The with the rich and the poor alike; adds brightness to the men as intending students, in the vestibule. made many tall strides up the steep hillsides of gressive Society on the evening of June th, G o l d e n G a t e wishes that the rest and recre­ smile, and softens the sorrows of the present; glorifies th? The terms for entire course have been- fixed 19 ation of these few weeks may be to her com­ surroundings and poetizes the magnificent. Hope is man’s at the extremely moderate rate of five dollars fer progression. The heights before us loom up so “jhas created quite a sensation on the South best friend, only to be quitted for her pale sister, Resigna­ formidably that we do not fully realize the dis­ “ Side. An audience of nearly three hundred mensurate with the rich fruits of her arduous tion, when Hope, turning away her radiant face, forbids all each student, payable upon the name being tance gone.over, until we stop and look back­ “ greeted the lady, who gave some of the most labors. endeavor, whispering softly, “ Submit.” handed in. ward. After all, we are near enough to our “ startling tests that have ever been given in this The above paragraph was selected from a mis­ Prompt and early application is desirable to CAMP-MeETiNG.—The Mississippi Valley As­ starting point to read the black legends in­ ‘ ‘ city. Mrs. Foye will again appear next. Sunday cellaneous column of an infidel paper, and it was ensure enrollment. Mr. Morse’s long continued scribed on the rocks of our rough way. One “ before the same Society, in Avenue Hall, Wa- sertion of Spiritualists commence their annual the first sentence that attracted our attention. service, and world-wide reputation as an in­ of these had its origin in the Boston Post of “ bash Avenue and Twenty-second street. Camp-Meeting the first Sunday in Augtst at There is a hope that inspires all in common, but spirational -teacher of great merit, ensures, of August 28, 1742, and reads as follows: “ To be —Dr. Buchanan’s ‘ ‘ New Education ” is being Mount Pleasant Park, Clinton, Iowa, and will it does not “ fly round the g ra v e ” of an In­ itself, interest and satisfaction to all who join. sold by the printer of this paper, the best negro translated in Japanese, and the learned Dr. continue through the month. W. J. Colville, fidel, so far as he knows, for he believes in noth­ Letters may be addressed to, and names will be woman in this town, who has had the small-pox Eadon says that the refined, esthetic, and know­ Dr. Samuel Watson, Prof. J. S. Loveland, Moses ing beyond it, and certainly not that he has also entered by J. J. ftlorse at his residence, 331 and the measles, is as hearty as a horse, as brisk ledge-loving people of Japan will enjoy intensely and Mattie Hull, J. W. Kenyon, J. H. Randall, farther concern in this world; but he finds him­ Turk street, San Francisco. as a bird, and will work like a beaver.” We are this great educational work in their own lan­ speakers; Mrs. Thayer, flower medium; Mrs. self a spirit after all, only transferred to a new making similar legends for the next century to guage. The “ New Education ” should be in Fairchild, materializing medium; Mrs. J. C. sphere of labor, while still interested in the old. The " investigation ” conducted by the “ Seybert Com­ mission” seems to have been a very lame affair, but the ponder over. At a recent trial of bloodhounds the hands of every teacher in our land. It Blodgett, slate-writing medium, and several The hope of the Spiritualist begins at the cradle, very best “ scientific” investigation will never amount to at the Convict Camp at Friors’ Point, Miss., a shows clearly a system which, if carried out, will other speakers and mediums will b e present. but it merges into knowledge before the grave is anything in explaining the phenomena, for the simple rea­ negro, not ten years of age, was released and ultimately regenerate humanity. He teaches Good tent, board, and private house accommoda­ reached, and the light that comes through the son that the devil is more acute than any scientists, and told that he might have his liberty if he could that the true development of the race lies in the tions at moderate expense. Good music, vocal narrow door is the glimmer of a new dawn, can fool them every time,—S ig n s of t h e T im e s . escape the dogs, The poor boy had three hours co-education of soul and body.' Dr, Buchanan and instrumental, will enliven all the meetings whose eternal day bids us to new and higher If the devil is allowed to “ fool” people in start of the hounds, but was run down before has no equal in the psycho-physiological realm. and social gatherings, and every effort will be “ endeavor,” for there is no death,” and no sub­ the way .claimed by our neighbor—if he is per­ he had gone twenty miles. The superstition has His “ Journal of Man,” published monthly, is made to insure the attendants, good, happy mission to a desolate /ate. There is nothing mitted to appear to the children of the earth as long been indulged that we had outgrown the barbarities of our days of slavery, but it is not devoted to the scientific study of the soul and tim e. M r s . M a t t i e H u l l , Vice-President. lost, and nothing to be resigned, in leaving this an angel of light—how may we know that Christ so. ^The State of Mississippi is still unregen- brain, and the most effective forms of philan­ himself, whom our neighbor, together with the All correspondence should be addressed, “ J. material sphere. All we leave behind of home, cratcd, and it seems qualified to disgrace the thropy. The “ New Education ” is for sale 'at PI. Randall, Secretary, Mt. Pleasant Park Asso­ friends and kindred, shall yet be ours forever­ entire Christian world, worships as a God, may whole country without any assistance, with its this office; price, $ 1.50. Also his “ Psychom- etry.” ciation, Clinton, Iowa.” more; our work and usefulness will go on with not be a manifestation of the devil also? antecedents yet undimmed. July 9, 1887.] GOLDEN GATE 5

Demonstration must always fail in part, when it attempts sion of many good wishes for Mr. Col­ determinedly ties, rivets, screws and seals setting forth violations of the Constitution “ That Parisian trick, the vanishing the unknown and the measureless. It is at home among ville’s future welfare. a pair of slates, and then, exultingly hold­ and personal rights: lady, that Herrmann does, is a great one,” material things, and takes all its steps with confidence. ing these slates before his friends, offers to 1. We have chaplains, civil and mil­ says Jones. “ H e covers a lady with a But in the domain of the spiritual it grows confused and Mr. Colville left Boston on Tuesday, silent. It can decide unerringly upon the qualities of a June 28th; his first engagement is at the wager with them that no spirit will write itary, paid out of public funds, thus taxing veil, and after a little maneuvring, removes triangle or the weight of the atmosphere, but is powerless Lookout Mountain (Tenn.) Camp; thence between his slates. all advanced thinkers without voice or rep­ the veil, and the lady has disappeared.” where the emotion holds the scepter. But, as Columbus he goes to Denver, Col., being due in He now repairs to a medium with a de­ resentation, “ That's nothing to a young lady in our could, when necessity demanded it, lock up his charts and San Francisco, Cal., in September, where fiant and insulting air of bravado, making 2. The exemption of hundreds of mil­ boarding house,” answered Brown, “ I sail by the stars, so there arc times when logic can be dis­ he will commence his engagement under the medium feel uncomfortable, and caus­ lions of church property from taxation; pense ilwith, and the soul can find its way by some heavenly have seen ten or twelve persons in the par­ g u id e .— R e v . R e e d S t u a r t . that prince of managers, Albert Morton, ing an antagonistic feeling to pervade the that is, paying their taxes out of common lor, and this young lady would come in, funds; again taxing us without representa­ And the fact of the existence of that “ hcav- Esq. The Banner wishes him every suc­ room. Is it to be wondered at that this sit down to the piano, and begin to play cess in his new field of labor. man does not attract any spirit to write for tion. and sing. In two minutes all the rest had enly guide'’ may be demonstrated not only to him ? No, he has repelled his spirit 3. Theological onths, and discrimina­ the spiritual perceptions but to the physical disappeared.”______Skepticism and its Effects. friends, broken up all the conditions of tions against unbelievers, thus violating senses also. The demonstration of spiritual harmony, placed a strong barrier against the essence of the provision that no re­ [ADVERTISEMENT.) things fails only with those who grope in the A lady (Spiritualist) of fine musical ability [Extract from a message through the medlumship of every effort his spirit friends might make ligious test shall be required for public of­ dark solely by faith, refusing to accept the evi­ wishes to teach in a family. Is competent to in­ Fred Evans on slates untouched by the medium as usual.] to prove to him their identity, and the re­ fice or trust. A witness is a public officer, dence that is fairly flooding the world. Why struct in English, French and Singing. Guitar * * * You put me to much sult of the sitting is an entire failure. He a conservator of the public peace, and as and Harp lessons included, with Painting and should science grow “ confused and silent ” in trouble last week in giving you manifesta­ now returns to his friends with, “ Didn’t such is entitled to the functions without Drawing. Good references for personal reputa­ the domain of the spiritual? Are we not as close I tell you the medium couldn’t fool me ?” the religious test; and yet in the United tion, and skill in teaching. For further particu­ to the heart of God in one direction as another? tions as your friends suggested. [That He loudly laughs, and tries to make them States Courts in this District, unbelievers lars, apply to Mr. Fred. Evans, 133 Octavia St. It is because science, so-called, is dogmatic, ar­ is, the sitter carried his own slates, washed believe he has “ investigated Spiritualism, are discredited and justice defeated by in­ rogant and ignorant, setting up its own concep­ and dried them himself, put them down and found nothing in it.” sisting on religious tests. In one case it NOTICE. tions of nature for what nature really is—-ignor­ Alas ! how many hours of joy he has sent one man to the gallows and another and took them up himself, the medium All Government business attended to promptly ing laws it does not understand, and denying missed by his bigotry and opposition. to the penitentiary, and both innoocent of never for a moment touching the slates or at reasonable rates, by J o h n B. W o l f f , 103 F evidence that it will not carefully investigate. But such are the facts that have come un­ the crime charged; at least the crime was seeing what was written.] But I hope Street (N. E.), Washington, D. C. tf Here is where the Christian Church is at fault. der my notice during my stay in the spirit unproved. you are now free to admit the possibility It will not, like the ancient Jews, have the world. 4. We have an Indian Commission, FORM OF BEQUEST. Christ unless he comes in a way to suit them. of direct writing under conditions, which I hope I have not tired you too much ; nominated by the churches, which super­ But as he came then, he comes now in spirit. place the slates beyond the medium's but these are lessons that all must learn vises Indian affairs and is a confession of To those who may be disposed to contribute by Wise are they who accept his teachings. “ Try before they are ready to receive much incapacity on the part of secular power, will to the spread of the gospel of Spiritualism control, and that you will not allow any through the G o l d e n G a t e , the following form the spirits,” said Paul, but our religious teachers Spiritual knowledge. May be my next and a concession to the church which is a one to influence your belief in spirit writ­ will be more interesting. practical union of church and state. of bequest is suggested: are wiser than Paul! They not only refuse to “ I give and bequeath to the G o l d e n G a t e “ try ” them, but they ignore them altogether, or ing. * * * 5. We have the Comstock Obscene lit­ Printing and Puolishing Company, of San Fran­ condemn them without trial. • I have been brought to see many mor­ Letter from Washington. erature, etc. law, which establishes an es­ cisco, incorporated, November 28th, 1885, in tals who were once happy in the belief pionage upon our mails, perpetrates crime trust, for the uses and dissemination of the cause o f Spiritualism, ------dollars.” C o l d C o n s o l a t i o n .—It is a very doubtful that their loved ones came back and E d i t o r o f G o l d e n G a t e : to punish crime; inveigles innocent per­ kind of glory and exaltation that makes one’s communicated with them, and who al­ As intimated heretofore, our Building sons into criminal acts; has ruined scores life and minutest act the theme and displeasure lowed their skeptical friends to dictate Association is in running order, and we of people otherwise law-abiding; has caused ADVERTISEMENTS. to them and suggest that they should try a number to commit suicide; prevents of millions. The daily reports of the condition are prepared to issue stock to ail who may o f the Czar, of all the Russias, are becoming to force their spirit friends to communi­ scientific education, and furnishes a cloak be inclined to aid this national enterprise, SPECIAL p h y s io l o g y , more painful as the struggle for deeper and more cate this way or that way, until they suc­ for attaches all along the line. FOR BOYS A BY perfect seclusion from-his enemies, goes on from ceeded in breaking all laws of spirit com­ in sums from five dollars upward. Our 6. Sunday laws in all the States and munion, causing their spirit friends to plan is to construct a building which will Territories of the United States compell­ MRS. E. R. SHEPHERD, a u th o r ok “ FOR GIRLS.' day to day. His nervous and irritable state no ing the recognition of one particular day, longer permits him to peruse the public prints, sorrowfully turn away, when they could make a practically free hall for Spiritual­ on which day the rights of hundreds of but he is sole subscriber to a sheet especially pre­ do no more. And what was accom­ Gives ever)' boy, vouth and man important and long plished ? Nothing—nothing but misery ists, for suffrage and other conventions, thousands are violated. There seems to needed knowledge. “ White Cross” workers will welcome pared for him, in which nothing less soothing —nothing left but a blank future—all and yet pay a dividend to the stockholders. be a common impulse to enforce with rigor this book as an efficient aid in the Social Purity movement. than a statement of the numerous blessings of bright hopes dashed to the ground. One Societies, as well as individuals, can take all Sunday laws, and to enact others more V FO R BOYS” is a book of 300 pages, handsomely bound his government, and the reverence of his sub­ of these had allowed his friends to prove stock. In this way we propose to guar­ stringent. in Levant cloth. Post paid, $2.00. jects, is permitted. That his nerves can be thus that he could stop his spirit friends from 7. There seems to be a tacit conspir­ Circulars and list of Health Books Free. calmed, is proof of his great weakness, and it antee the face value of the stock, if not acy between the doctors and the Chris­ V ery best terms to Agents. communicating. But he could not prove SANITARY PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO. appears that but a short time can elapse before by that that they do not exist. Alas! more, and thus prevent any final loss. tians to force legislation against “ natural jul9-3m* he becomes a mental wreck. Though he hear or the poor mortal was left to reflect as he In view of our position, the present healers,” and thus to abridge the right to JyJRS. S. SEIP, see not, the feelings that permeate the air he might, for he had cut off all avenues of status of the cause, and our responsibility employ whom we please to treat us. ( THE GIFTED.) breathes touch him as pointed steel, and these information, and put out the light of his for the great trust committed to our charge, 8. There is a National Association, ' invisible thrusts, no less than the repeated at­ own salvation. You see by this the with auxiliaries, embracing many promin­ Recognized and acknowledged as the most accurate tempts upon his life, are doing sure work, and it seems to me that every Spiritualist in the danger of going too far, and allowing ent men, with the specific object of forcing PSYCHOMETRIST, soon they will lay his form and power in the your friends to think for you. Hold fast United States should be in hearty sym­ a formal, legal recognition of the Bible Has resuned business, and “ W elco m e A l l .” dust. What then? that which is good, for it will make your pathy with the movement, and to the ex­ and the regular orthodox God in the con­ Letters answered. Patients successfully treated at a stay on earth happy. tent of ability lend a helping hand, and stitution. distance. V a l u a b l e B o o k s . —We have received from The mode of demonstrating through thus enable us to rear, not a temple to 9. Congress alone is forbidden to estab­ O f f ic e H ou rs, 10 a .m . to 4 p. m ., a n d 6 to 8 p . m. the Sanatary Publishing Co., 159 La Salle street, this phase, known as independent slate­ some unknown or monstrous god, but to lish any religion; but any State may at any ju l 9 1228 M A R K E T S T R E E T , S .F . Chicago, the following most instructive and writing, is a very sensitive one and easily the facts and truths we know. time do so. This is the intent and mean­ excellent works: “ Tokology, A Book for every spoiled, and would often be were it not for We do not propose to waste any money ing of this article. At that time they had jyjR S. DR. L. ATHERTON, Woman. By Alice R. Stockham, M. D., and the strong exertions of the medium's spirit on gingerbread work, but to erect a sub­ hot gotten rid of the idea of a state religion; MAGNETIC HEALER. “ For Boys: A Special Physiology. Illustrated. guide, to overcome all obstacles. stantial, commodious building adapted to hence Congress was restrained, and the By Mrs. E. R. Shepherd.” Of the former If mortals were only honest in their the intended uses, and supplied with halls States left free on this point. NERVOUS DISEASES A SPECIALTY. work, from a careful examination thereof, we can investigations and would come as little chil­ and offices to rent, as a means of suste­ Now add the arrest, fine and imprison­ -commend it to every woman as containing a vast dren, expecting the truth, they would get nance and the payment of a moderate ment of mediums and others, and you amount of useful information, important for her it and would be made happy. interest on the money. For $20,000 to have a pretty fair show of the situation. 817 Pine Street, San Francisco, Office Hours, zo to 4. to know. And as “ For Boys” it ought to be When I say they should come as little $25,000 we can get an eligible site, with Meantime little is being done to counter­ ______J“l9 ______1 in the hands of every boy and young man in the children expecting the truth, I do not a building upon it suitable for present use, act this status. Imperceptibly these ag­ £ )R . THOMAS L. HILL, land. Ignorance is the mother of such a brood mean with their eyes closed or with a and with great future possibilities. This gressions have beeji surreptitiously incor­ -of evils in the young, that the man or woman who willingness to be deceived, but with a sum ought surely to be raised among all porated into law, until we are bound hand DENTIST. foot, and heart. can and will take “ our boys” by the hand and pure and honest heart, for such a pres­ the advanced thinkers of the United O f f i c e a n d R esid e n c e , 1029 M a r k e t S t r e e t . ence encourages spirits from the highest States. Numerous bills are annually introduced San Francisco. gently lead them in wisdom’s ways, is a bene­ If every society and lyceum would make into Congress, and state Legislatures, and factor of his race. These books should he placed and holiest spheres of heaven. a moderate effort the task would soon be sometimes surreptitiously passed, as the Office hours, from 9 a . m . to 5:30 p. m . where they can do the most good. Whereas the coming with the distrustful feeling of being cheated, conveys that done. Our own people are doing well, Comstock law, and the law of Ohio against Consultation hour, 4:30-5:30. jul2-4w feeling to the medium, and through him and a number of outsiders are taking stock. mediums, making further encroachments. Farewell Reception to Mr. Colville. it is carried to the spirit world, thereby We prefer to distribute the stock over the The only existing defense association is J")R. A. W. DUNLAP.' [Banner of Light.] breaking the circuit of pure, magnetism, largest possible area, rather than to have of little value from paucity of numbers CLAIRVOYANT AND MAGNETIC HEALER, and causing the spirits to. lose confidence it taken by a few in large sums. We and means. It has an attorney at Wash­ 822 M issio n S t r e e t , The friends of W. J. Colville to a num­ in their ability to make known their pres­ would not object to a loan, giving the ington to watch Congress, but it can not Diagnoses disease without questions ; all kinds of disease ber which thronged the spacious parlors property as security until paid. pay even for his time. treated; root and herb medicine used: eyes, cancer, tumors, ence, feeling they will not be received as etc., successfully treated; has had twenty years' practice as of the Society for Ethical Culture, at 478 the loved ones they are, and that their There is, as I have said before, no hall When odious legislation is attempted, a Healer in this city. References at office., juh-4w Shawmut Avenue, assembled on the even­ endeavors to identify themselves are met here suitable for large conventions, and we should be ready to counter it at any point, and when men and women are at­ ing of Monday, June 27th, to bid him with derision. the halls we have are constantly occupied, pOUR W EEKS FREE I so that during the last lecture season we tacked legally for daring to be men and Another class of investigators, who THE EASTERN STAR “ God-speed ” on the occasion of his leav­ barricade their own spiritual unfoldment, found it impossible to get a hall for extra women, they should have the best defense, ing Boston en route to fulfill his engage­ are those who come to a medium for meetings. We are aware that we are not and every case should be carried to the Published Weekly. $x per year. Cheapest in price of wealthy, like the churches; nor have we highest court. To do this requires an effi­ any of its kind in America. Devoted to Spiritualism in ments on the Pacific slope. the first time and propose the strongest every line. Many choice floral tributes were re­ conditions they possible can to spirits the same zeal, or appreciation of the ben­ cient oaganization with auxiliaries in the FOUR W EEKS FREE I 1 efits we have derived from “ ourreligion/' States; attorney subject to call; special ceived by Mr. Colville on this occasion, who have never communicated before Address, at once, G lb n b u r n , M aine. and who are as ignorant of the laws of or the great trust committed to our charge agents to take charge of petitions and pro­ among them being a bouquet containing a for the benefit of the world, else we should tests and have them signed, and means to manifesting by slate-writing as the most 'pH K ALTRUIST white rose which could not fa d e, and bigoted investigator who insists on his do much more than we have done. Had pay the expenses necessarily incident Is a monthly paper, partly in Phonetic spelling, and de­ which proved the vehicle of quite a sum own conditions—conditions which the I the means, this appeal would consist thereto. voted to common property, united _ labor. Community of money, for which the recipient duly ex­ most experienced spirit communicant only of an offer to the public of the priv­ Our enemies are on the alert, active, homes, and equal rights to all. It is published by the Mutual Aid Community, whose members all live and work pressed his thanks, as well as to all pres­ often fails to overcome. ilege of participating with me in this great self-sacrificing, while we are supine and together, and hold all their property in common, all the work. sleeping; while the danger increases, and men and women having equal rights in electing officers ent, and those necessarily absent, who had For investigation of the ways and and deciding all business affairs by their majority vote. done so much to make his public labors in means of communicating, I will quote the Now a few words concerning the De­ the fetters tighten. There ought to be Fifty cents a year; specimen copy free. fence Association: The conviction grows enough in this presentment to arouse every Address A L ong l e y , Editor, 2 13 North 8th street, Boston, since his first landing in this following: A. visits a medium for slate- St. Louis, Mo. country, between eight and nine years ago, writing. He has never before had any stronger daily that we should have some liberal thinker in the whole land. And the success they had proved. He returned experience on spiritual subjects, and hon­ organized method of protection against yet it is only a generalized statement. I “BEYOND” thanks to the Spiritualists of this city for estly expresses his ignorance in the mat­ the encroachments constantly being made could fill your paper with details of facts. A RECORD OF REAL LIFE IN THE the warm welcome they had extended to ter, and asks the medium to direct him upon our personal and inherent rights. I shall be glad to hear, through the him when he returned from his Californian, how he shall act to receive some proof Few are aware of the extent to which we press or otherwise, from those who are in­ BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY European, and other journeyings in years that his departed friends still live. He have “ God in the Constitution,” or of the terested in preventing further vicious leg­ OVER THE RIVER AND BEYOND. gone by; and assured them of his grateful sees two slates washed clean and is told frantic efforts to get him still farther in ; islation and repealing that which now dis­ P r ic e - ...... - F i f t y C e n t s that is, to get their feet more firmly upon graces are statutes. . J o h n B. W o l f f . memory of them all. He also bore wit­ to hold them in his own hands. His For Sale at this office. ness to the uniform kindness with which mind is not filled with thoughts of trickery the necks of all who cannot pronounce W a s h in g t o n , D. C., June 29, 1887. or deception, but with an inward wish their shibboleth. he had been treated from the first by the NOTICES OF MEETINGS. B anner o f L ig h t> and all attached to that that it may be true that his friends can 1. The Constitution provides only one paper; also thanked by name many dear come back. With this receptive flow of formal oath, (for the President), and there GONE TO A HIGHER LIFE. thoughts he is unconsciously aiding his is no God or Bible in that. The provision pROF. WAIT’S CLASS NOW MEETS AT DRUID friends whose willing and valuable services *■ H all, 413 Sutter street, every Sunday evening, at as musicians, vocalists, elocutionists or in spirit friends to manifest for him, and a for swearing in members of Congress or ED D Y.—June 2211. from the home of his parents in Eu 8 o'clock. To bring the instruction within the reach of all, other officers, is by “ oath or affirmation,” the price for the Course of Twelve Lectures has been re­ the details of business had ever been his to few minutes later on being told to open cliil, Ohio, James Eddy. Mr. Eddy haJ been a sufferer duced to $2.50. Single admission, 25 cts. call upon when needed. the slates, that he positively knows were thus making the form optional. from a lingering illness (consumption), and for the last few clean when given into his possession, he 2. The Constitution provides that “ no months had been a great sufferer. Mr. Hudson Tutile gave The necessarily great pressure upon our the discourse. * • • A SSEMBLY HALL. ODD FELLOW S'BUILDING, space forbids any further mention of this finds them filled with loving and encour­ religious test shall ever be required as a qual­ Market Street (entrance on Seventh Street), every pleasant episode in the life of an indefati­ aging words, and signed by a hand that ification to any office or public trust of the B A R N ES.—From his*residence in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Sunday evening at 8 o’clock, Mrs. J .J , Whitney. Test United States.,” and by implication to Alvin Barnes. He was one of the pioneers, and had seen Medium, gives Tests from the platform. gable and eloqent worker further than to he knew when on earth, and he is thus the city expand from small beginnings to its present import­ made happy. He comes again and- any private act such as a “ witness in say that in addition to the remarks of Mr. ance. Mr. Hudson Tuttle conducted the faneral exercises. AKLAND SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION MEETS Colville, just noted, singing was partici­ brings his own slates, and they are also court;” also implying that such test may L. O every Sunday at Grand Army Hall, 419 Thirteenth filled with kind and loving messages from be made by a State. SCH U LL.—From his home at Hall’s Corners, Indiana, Street, Oakland, Children’s Lyceum at 10:30 a. m. Lec­ pated in by Madame Fries-Bishop, Mad­ April 24th, after a long and painful sickness, H. C. Schull. ture and Conference Meeting at 7:30 p. m. Dr. C. C. Pcet, formerly of San Francisco, will occupy the platform until ame Pinault, Mrs. Nellie M. Day, Miss the spirit world, and he forever remains 3. The Constitution provides that “ Con­ He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, September 28, 1842 further notice. Sarah Downing and Mr. Colville; recita­ happy by the knowledge he has gained in gress shall make no law respecting an e >- and at an early day moved to Indiana. Here he married tions of a high order of merit were pre­ this simple yet effective way. tablishment of religion, or prohibiting the Miss Leonora Palmer, and four children blessed the union. COCIETY OF PROGRESSIVE SPIRITUALISTS He was an active, brave man, an ardent reformer, and a sented by Mrs. Helen Stuart-Richings; Now comes B. He has already heard free exercise thereof; or abridging the free­ ,*3 meet every Sunday at 1 P. m . , in Washington Hall, 35 Mr. Rudolph King and Miss Etta Parr of the wonderful doings of these mediums, dom of speech or the press.” Spiritualist by nature. In his youth he thought himself out Eddy street. Good speakers upon all live subjects This is all that I can find on the sub­ of all creeds. Hudson Tuttle conducted the funeral ser­ pertaining to Spiritualism and humanity. A free gave piano solos; Miss Davis a reading; and laughs at and ridicules the very idea vices, and a very large number of relatives and friends Spiritual Library, of 700 volumes, open every Sun­ day' from 1 to 5 p. m. All are invited. Mrs. Julia Noyes Stickney, of Haverhill, of there being such a thing as spirits; and ject. And there is nothing whatever, di­ escorted the remains to the grave. * * « recited a fine original ode on “ Justice;” the idea of their being able to come back rectly or indirectly, authorizing the em­ TTNION SPIRITUAL MEETING EVERY WED- and Dr. Paxdn, of Philadelphia, and J. and write between slates, rap on tables, ployment of chaplains, or the adoption of nesdny evening, at St. Andrews’ Hall, No. ttx, and do other hundred and one things, orthodox funeral services; or the exemp­ Larkin street. Interesting addresses, followed by tests by W. Day, of the B anner, made remarks J.JORACE H. TAYLOR, appropriate to the final hour; others took seems to our clever friend preposterous. tion of church property from taxation, or the mediums. Admission, free. part in the exercises, which closed with The friends he has thus ridiculed prevail oaths with theological sanctions in the * CLAIRVOYANT AND HEALER, PU BLIC M EETINGS EVERY SUNDAY AT xi A. M. Occupies Tent ti, 011 the Spiritual Camp-Ground, and will the singing of “ Auld .Lang Syne,” the on him to go just once to a medium and shape of anathemas. * and Tuesday at 3 p. in., at No._i2o5 Market Street. partaking of a collation, and the expres­ convince himself. He agrees to go, and The following is a summary of facts, Diagnose and Heal all Disease^. Subject: ‘‘Health and Healing.” Miss E. J. Bennct. | Written for the Golden Gate.) and creditable, overflowing into the exo than to the inhospitable, the hospitality religion, because they enlarge the sphere PUBLICATIONS. Spiritualism and Religion. teric, and some see “ Gates Ajar,” “ Psy being a matter of feeling not of words. of man’s being spiritually. A man -may BY JOHN WETHER BEE. chical Waves,” and “ Hidden Hands,” by Again, what constitutes a fraud? If the be a good chemist, or a good astronomer, gUCHANAN’S JOURNAL OF MAN. spiritual people who are not Spiritualists medium is unconscious, a fraud becomes and still be an irreligious man. I do not PART 2 . The first number of this monthly (one dollar per annum), who perhaps, as I have said, like the one a spirit manifestation. Many are consti­ see how a man can be a Spiritualist and will be issued February, 1887. Devoted to the science of I am glad to be able to say that Prof. and hate the other. The author of the tutionally unable to get the experience be an irreligious man. I know there are man in all its departments, and to all human progress and reform, especially to " the dawn of the new civilization ” A. R. Wallace sustains me in the princi latter book wants it distinctly understood that comes easily to others, and credulity many, but there must be something out of arising from psychometric science and the revelation of the entire constitution of man, soul, L. Ain and body,—making pal point I make in the first part of this that she is not a Spiritualist, nor had ever has nothing to do with it, and the ignor­ gear. If the poet Young can say, “ An a journal entirely original for the most advanced, profound seen a medium. The Rev. James F ance of this is in part what I have referred undevout astronomer is mad,” much more and liberal thinkers. Remit by postal order, to article, in his address in San Francisco Clark endorses the character and the to. The latter join readily with skeptics strongly can it be said, an undevout Spir­ D r. J. R. BUCHANAN, since I wrote it, where he says, “ Now wi truthfulness of the author, and every Spir in raiding for the good they say of the itualist is mad. But anything that opens dec2« 6 James St., Boston. come to mental phenomena.” These are itualist inside and outside of the “ visible cause, and not believing in the testimony the eye to the wonders of nature points to 'pH E WATCHMAN. more interesting to Spiritualists, but gen supply ” knows that the author herself is a of better conditioned people, they act as Infinite Intelligence, and invites religious AN 8-PAGE MONTHLY JOURNAL, erally less interesting and less convincing first-class medium, and probably one of the dqg did in the manger—“ it is not hay thought, whether we deal in atoms and those who prefer church relationship to and the horse shall not eat it ”—but who molecules, or orbs and nebulae; and par­ Devoted to the Interests of Humanity and Spiritual!* to the outside public who are skeptical identification with the “ visible supply knows best, the dog or the horse ? ticularly so if our facts are among departed Also, a Mouth-piece of the American and Eastern (He had been describing the physical or ' Congress in Spirit Life. as seen in its various gatherings. All over the Christian world the subor­ spirits, and proving there is no death. It WATCHMAN,...... Spirit Editor. sensuous phenomena.) Even so able In speaking of the speckled char­ dinate societies, charities, fairs, social life seems to me that the bottom fact of Spir­ Published by ‘ writer and thinker as Epes Sargent took acter of this “ visible supply,” I do it and customs all co-operate in the interest itualism is the bridge that will lead to a B oston S tar and C rescent C o. but little interest in trance, or inspirational in an objective rather than a moral of their several religious sects, and were it scientific religion; and both Spiritualism sense. I dare say it is as good as the not for this framework of social sustenance and religion are institutions that will have mediumship. He heard the brightest 1090 Central Park Avenue, average church congregation or mem­ the bottom would have fallen out of the no end. , Millard Postal Station, : 1 Chicago, Illinois. lights on the platform, respected them bership. I do not know but the blood church long ago; by it, it will probably but could see no evidence of a controlling of the former is the better of the two. bridge the chasm of faith’s modern eclipse. PUBLICATIONS. HATTIE A. BERRY, j Editress and Manager. Arthur B . Shbdd, : ; Assistant Manager. power, as the factor of their teachings The humors may be epidermical on the Instead of being wrecked may be saved surface, for human nature is about an by the life boat of Modern Spiritualism Terms o f Subscription (in advance)—One year, $r.oo. probably could not distinguish them from 'pH E CARRIER DOVE. Six months, 50 cents; Clubs of ten, $8.00; Single copies, to average the world over. The success of that is heaving in sight; in fact its hope is cents; Sample copies, free, the genius often exhibited by uncultured An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, devoted to Spiritualism the church is largely due to its social life already permeating it. Is there anything and Reform. U . S. Postage Stamps will be received for fractional parts of people, of which history has recorded and associations, its respectability, its of this social, sustaining power building up, a dollar, (is and 2s preferred.) but he could say, and did, ‘‘ that the Edited by M rs. J . Sc h lesin g er . charities, which often take the curse off or sustaining our cause ? Not at all. The dSTRemit by P. O. order, drawn on C hicago, I I I ., or transit of a pencil proved beyond a doubt worst enemies of it are inside rather than Each number will contain the Portraits and Biographical by Registered letter. Payable to of frivolities; perhaps often assuming vir­ Sketches of prominent Mediums and Spiritual workers of to be guided by unseen force’and intelli tues without having them, while the “ vis­ outside of this “ visible supply.” the Pacific Coast, and elsewhere. Also, Spirit Pictures by HATTIE A. BERRY, gence is a phenomenon of infinitely more our Artist Mediums. Lectures, essays, poems, spirit mes­ ible supply ” of • Spiritualism is free, or I have referred to the new Spiritual Tem­ sages, editorials and miscellaneous items. Editress and Manager. value and concern to the world to-day careless of such assumptions. I am not, ple; a further brief reference to it may D r. L . S c h lesin g er, Publishers. 'pH E NEW YORK BEACON LIGHT, than the whole science of astronomy, you see, criticising our multitude, only help to illustrate more definitely my point M rs. T, Sc h lesin g er.. think he could hardly express a stronger stating a superficial fact. in this atticle. This movement has a An Independent weekly Spiritual journal, giving mes­ ‘Term s:—$2.50 per Year. Single Copies, 25 cents. sages from our loved ones in spirit land, and containing sentiment in favor of the phenomena and The Spiritualists claim to have proof religious twist in it, and the phenomena matter of general interest connectedwith Spiritual science. the secondary importance of preaching and do, of an intelligent environment com­ are the factors of it. The superb generos­ Address, THE CARRIER DOVE, Free from controversy and personalities. 32 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California. or of argument as a convincer of our im posed of the departed, our loved and lost, ity of its founder speaks well for the depth M rs. M. E. WILLIAMS, i Editor and Publisher. Terms for sittings, one dollar. New subscribers to the portant claim. As he was a thinker and whose eyes are on us. No one believing and sincerity of his conviction of modern "Carrier Dove," on payment of one year’s subscription, Subscription rates—One year, $2.00; six months, $1.00; $2.50, will be entitled to the first sitting free. three months, 50 cents. Postage, free. a scholar and a firm Spiritualist, he knew in that literally can help trying to live a spiritual truth. An ex-President of the Rates of advertising—$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50 thoroughly the value of thought, ideas golden rule life. If he or she is no better Ladies’ Aid Society, joining the Temple cents for each subsequent one. No advertisement inserted ^NDREW JACKSON DAVIS, for less than $1.00. For long standing advertisements and philosophy, culture and eloquence; and than the average Christian, or even worse, Society and probably not reaching so high special rates, address the publisher. _ Payments in advance. he knew, also, that the world outside of as many.are, it is, it seems to me, the per­ a point as she expected, undertook to Specimen copies sent free on application. News dealers (Seer of the Harmonial Philosophy.) supplied by the American News Company, Nos. 39 and 4s Spiritualism could match our 'platform centage of doubt or unbelief alloying their puncture its claims, by imitating its phe­ Chambers street, New York. lights, that did not claim supermundane All communications and remittances should be addressed1 belief. nomena, aided by a disgruntled medium His latest remarkable book, written and published within to M rs. M. E. WILLIAMS, power for their productions; not that he The central idea of Modern Spiritual­ who also was ambitious. I can hardly the past year, entitled, 2^2 West 46th St., N ew York City. doubted the claim for such influences, for ism is the key stone of the religious arch. understand the motive of these disturbers he had proved the reasonableness of it by That is, a continued existence. As Prof. except as 1 have above suggested, but “ BEYOND THE VALLEY,” piGH T FOR THINKERS. his experience in sensuous phenomena Wallace says: “ The modern philoso­ neither this temple movement nor the The Pioneer Spiritual Journal of the South. Issued weekly But he saw as any one would, that there phers can give no sufficient reason why we phenomena underlying it are tarnished (A Sequel to the " Magic Staff,) at Chattanooga, Tenn. is no evidence to outsiders that departed should practice the virtues if man is to be any by this fa u x fa s . I am not endorsing Explaining Some Important Events In his A . C . L add, : : : Publisher. G . W . K a t es, : : : Editor. spirits are the factors, and they* would ended at death.” In this age when noth­ this temple movement, perhaps I do not Private Life, have to be convinced otherwise—by sens­ understand it, but it being honest and Assisted by a large corps of able writers. ing will stand that is not based on facts, it is Is as gladly read, and will be as universally appreciated, as uous proof. By this it will be seen that evident that Modern Spiritualism is to be generous and religious I wish it success. any other volume from his pen. The publishers receive orders for_ it from all parts of the civilized world. _ " Light for Thinkers ” is a first-class family newspaper o f phenomena, not eloquence, converted the world’s religion. It may take a thou­ I consider it the most respectable flower It contains six vivid diagram-illustrations, and eight pages, devoted to the dissemmination of original him, as well as Prof. Wallace, and as well sand years, but its trend points that way. that has yet blossomed on the spiritual treats npon subjects autobiographical, and Spiritual and Liberal thought and news. Its columns will explains questions of universal interest. be found to be replete with interesting and instructive- as most every one else who had become a Whether it will bring the church into its bush, and I am not without hope but it reading. Spiritualist. general recognition so that its stream will will bear fruit and be a permanent joy. Terms of Subscription—One copy, one year, $r.so; One T h e P r ess, G e n e r a l l y , copy, six months, 75 cents; One copy, three months, 40 Now let us look at what I have called be more apparent there than outside is a It is an elegant and costly building and cents; Five copies, one year, one address, $6.00, Ten or And the numerous distinguished correspondents of the more, one year, jo one address, $1.00 each; Single copy, the “ visible supply,” or labeled body pol­ debatable, question that time will tell. elegantly equipped. Its society is not author in particular, have uniformly given to " Beyond the five cents; Specimen copy, free. itic of Spiritualism. It is a heterogeneous There would be wisdom in it and many very large, but very clean. It was sug­ V alley” a high and influential position among the many Advertisements published at ten cents per line for a single works of this author. insertion, or fifty cents per inch each insertion, one month body, undisciplined, without any head or great advantages both to the church and gested to the President, Mr. Ayer, that or longer. octz3*tf authority. The declaration of mental in­ to the world. As Rev. M. J. Savage says, he contribute the use of it to the several Price, Single Copy, $1.50; dependence is its most marked feature. I can conceive of evidence that would, spiritual societies for the grand uniorj cele­ For Several Copies, a Liberal Discount. The Trade 'pH E FREETHINKERS’ MAGAZINE, It is not a unit in anything. Its central be satisfactory, and if such evidence were bration of the late Thirty-ninth Anniver­ Supplied. To be published monthly after Jan . x, x886. claim is sensuous proof that man survives forthcoming, such as the great body of sary of Spiritualism. He was willing to Address the publishers of the “ Banner of Light,” the death of his body, and as a conscious Spiritualists testify to, it would not con­ ao so, if the services on that day were to COLBY & RICH, This is to be a f r e e magazine, from which no communi­ cation will be rejected on account of the sentiment ex­ invisible spirit, influences and more or less flict, but would be only proof positive of be free. The several societies saw per­ Comer Bosworth and Province streets, Boston, Mass; pressed. And the editor will reserve the right to be a s intelligently communicates with mortals religion’s every day assumptions.” The haps a thousand dollar profit by having a f r e e in the expression of his views as are the correspon­ In remitting by postoflice money order, or otherwise, dents. Each writer is to be solely responsible for his or her on earth. Outside of this there is no Rev. Charles Beecher, who is a Spiritual­ fee at the door, and so preferred to hire please make it payable to C olby & R ich . sepxz opinions. Each number will contain.48 pages and the price point of agreement, either in morals or ist, and wrote an interesting book on its Tremont Temple and make some money will be $2.00 a volume, 25 cents for a single number. Address, H. L. GREEN, Editor and Publisher, ideas. ‘ Everything seems to be in order, religious aspects, says it is what the church out of it, and the societies divided the NOW ON S A L E . ______Salamanca. N. Y and the variety amounts to disorder. That needs to make.rational-its divine revela­ gain. There were five of them; the Tem­ there is no head, or authority, is esoteric- tions. I think myself the church plant ple Society did not join the union. In 'pH E ROSTRUM. ally admitted, and none expected or de­ speaking commercially) of buildings and the division there was some little dissatis­ a A Fortnightly Journal devoted to the Philosophy of sired. It is a remarkable success for a" associations or religious machinery and faction, the Ladies’Aid Society not getting The Grandest Spiritual Work Spiritualism, Liberalism, and^he Progress of Humanity. A . C, Cotton. - - * Editor and Publisher.- forty-year-older as an idea. It is getting wealth, is too valuable with its social what it thought was its equitable propor­ Ever Published. to be world-wide as a movement; that is, power to run to waste, and all the church tion in this division and perhaps in the All communications to the pages of T H E R O ST R U M if we count both the “ visible supply” needs is knowledge of our facts to perfec t honors of the occasion. God and Mam­ must be addressed to A . C . Cotton, Vineland, N . J . Price, per annum, in advance, $1.00; six months, 50- and the larger invisible one, as the latter its arch, and it certainly is getting it. The mon hardly ever work well in partner­ Voices from Many Hill-Tops— cents; three months, 25 cents; clubs of five, $4.00: clubs silently permeates and tones up the relig­ human soul needs and must have religion. ship, at least when the latter is the senior of ten, $7.00; specimen copies sent free. —Echoes from Many Valleys; A ll orders and remittances must be made payable to ious thought of the day, and in its thus The gatherings, the body politic, or what partner. * A. C. COTTON. Vineland, N. J. expreessed and understood volume the have called the “ visible supply ” of Spir­ I have mentioned the Ladies’ Aid So­ * — or the— v world’s history shows no equal to it. itualism, what the world speaks of as the ciety and I may as well add a word further Experiences of the Spirits Eon and Eona 'pH E ALTRUIST I find in this “ visible supply” of la­ Spiritualists, is eminently irreligious. If in illustration of this article. I have noth­ In earth life and spirit spheres;| Is a monthly paper, mostly in Phonetic spelling, and de­ beled Spiritualists more or less pronounced, pious souls among the Spiritualists, hun­ ing but the highest respect for many who In Ages Past; In the Long, Long Ago; and their MANY voted to common property, united labor, Community homes;,, some of the best people in the world; belong to that old Society, claiming to be and equal rights to all. It is published by the Mutual Aid gering for religion, turn this “ visible sup­ IN C A R N A T IO N S in Earth-Life and on Community, whose members all live and work together, there are also some of the worst. How ply ” in that direction and succeed as some a charitable adjunct to the “ visible sup­ Other Worlds. and hold all their property in common, the men and women both having equal rights in electing officers and deciding all often I have heard good people say, “ I hope, it will grow larger and improve in ply ” of Spiritualism. But no one would their business affairs by majority vote. 50 cents a year; love Spiritualism, but I hate Spiritualists.” respectability. Mr. Ayres’ new [Temple know it was spiritual in its intent by at­ specimen copy free. Address, A Spiritual Legacy fo r Earth*s Children. A . L o n gley, Editor, I suppose the remark is made because so and its society is an attempt in that direc­ tending its v/eekly gatherihgs. I have 2 N . Fourth street, St. Louis, Mo. many are mixed up with it whose charac­ tion ; hardly a success as yet, but I hope, sometimes been pained to see with what ters and whose lives are not sweet, so indifference spiritual pabulum is listened This book of many lives is the legacy of spirt 'pH E PROGNOSTIC STARGAZER. with some faith, it will be. It certainly is Eona to the wide, wide world. many cranky-minded people, so many not popular with the body politic of Spir­ to by the large number during the plat­ The oldest Astrological monthly in the world. Single num­ side issues, some of unsavory associations, itualists, or with the platform lights as a form hour, and the rudeness of general bers, 10 cents; $x per year. . and so much of what may be called so­ class, probably because they could not, to ! conversation, while one is making an ad­ A book from the land of souls, such as was never before ear I t R ev ea ls t h e F u tu re 1 published. - No book like unto this has ever found cial scandal. A good many Spiritualists(they use a Lincolnism, “ boss the job.” The dress, unless it be an account of some its way to earth-land shores, showing that Contents—Astrological Editorials; Rise and Fall of Stocks; crop out everywhere), who are silent ones, motive of this movement was a good and frauds at some medium’s seance, then there has never been a demand for Fluctuations of the Market; Changes of the Weather; such a publication. ■ Remarkable Prognostications of Madame Polasis; Use­ unidentified with this “ visible supply,” generous one and born of spirit influence they are all ears and applause. Any one ful Information Concerning Conception, Birth and Des­ they may be considered cowardly. Per- defending our phenomena, relating won­ tiny of Children; Voice of Stars; Good and Evil Lines As I look at things to-day I can not help This book has been given by spirit Eona through for All Each Month; Future Experience for One Year; ' haps they are, and when it becomes fash­ thinking that the church will gobble Spir­ derful experiences, they lose interest at the “ Sun Angel Order of Light,” to Some Horoscopes, etc., etc. ionable and popular will show their colors. itualism rather than that the “ visible sup­ once; then one hears whisperings of . her soul-mate Eon, and through Address, THE STARGAZER, But this does not only partly explain it. ply” of Spiritualism will gobble the church “ credulity” and notices manifest uneasi­ him to the world. Box 3408, Boston, Mass. Social standing, respectability in a worldly ness. One don’t hear much Spiritualism but in the end Spiritualism will be the re­ 'pH E MEDIUMISTIC EXPERIENCES sense, has a great deal to do with this si­ ligion of humanity and draw all others to there, or see any Banners or spiritual T H E BOOK HAS lence. I know of a family of Spiritual­ it, and as I have said, Spiritualism means papers. Its officers and some of the ists who attended for years the spiritual in its proper sense a revival of religion. prominent members have heen among the G50 Large Sized Pages, JOHN BROWN, THE MEDIUM OF THE ROCKIES,- meetings. They belonged, also, to the There is a great deal of ignorance on late raiders on materializing mediums, and Is elegantly bound in fine English cloth, has With an Introduction by Prof. J . S. Loveland. . “ Parker Fraternity,” but never went there this subject among the individuals com­ the alliance and the results have not been beveled boards and gilt top. Will be more than once or twice in their lives; but posing this “ visible supply.” The late creditable either on the score of honesty sent by mail on receipt of $2.50. - This work is not a biography, but simply a part of the mediumistic life of the author. No claim is put forth of when asked once on an occasion, by a raids on materializing’ mediums have had or of character. I speak of late exposing Send amount in money or­ literary finish. To make the book readable and compre­ hensible has been the .only aim of the author and editor; person of some note, religiously, “ where more or less aid and sympathy from nom­ parties. Many of the individuals in con­ der or registered letter. and as the former had no education in early life, and has they attended church,” they replied, “ the inal Spiritualists, more than from outsiders. nection may have been good, honest peo­ acquired through his mediumship most of what he now Parker Fraternity.” They had not the Their motive being to clean out the frauds. ple, but one can not help remembering possesses, it furnishes another illustration of the good of Catalogues, giving contents of the book m a i l e d Spiritualism. Cloth, pp. 167. Price, $1.00. courage to say, “ Spiritualist meeting.” I , If that was their honest motive it might be the proverb that “ birds of a feather flock f r e e to every one. Please send you r name and For sale at this office. took the opportunity of saying in their unobjectionable, but I have proved it the together.” address. hearing, to the same inquirer, that I was a Our bottom fact has got too strong a d d r e s s a l l l e t t e r s ignorance of which I have spoken, and A , p)UTIES AND DANGERS IN SOCIAL LIFE. Spiritualist. I did this as a mild rebuke sometimes actual dishonesty on the part hold on the mind of this age for our light JOHN B. FAYETTE, to my friends, for they knew I was a Park- of the raiding party or some of them. to go into eclipse. As faith has in the Box 1362, Oswdbo, N . Y. P y Prof. Jones, is worth its weight in pure gold. It is divided in six chapters: Love; Courtship; A Talk to Young erite, and was at that time president of its I find a constitutional difference in peo­ church the most that can be done by juns-xy-gm* Men; A Talk to Young Ladies; Husband and Wife; and, fraternity. It is astonishing how many ple composing this “ visible supply.” inharmony or opposition is to diminish Marriage. Sent to any address on receipt of 30 cents. there are who roll our truths as a sweet Some have more and deeper experiences the volume of the “ visible supply,” but it N ®w INSPIRATIONAL SONGS. Address, M. S. W EBER, Publisher, morsel under their tongue, who keep it to than others. They all nominally agree in would have no effect on the invisible sup- j Farmersville, Pa. themselves. I have said a great deal about the fact of sensuous phenomena. With a ply. This silent volume is much larger BY C. PAYSON LONGLEY. this weak-kneed feature, but I do not great many ic is an early experience, and than the pronounced. Spiritualism as a Author o f “ Over the River," and other popular ^ REMARKABLE OFFER. Melodies. know as I now blame such much, when distance now lends enchantment to the concrete movement needs more harmony SEND TWO 2-CENT STAMPS, the motive for silence is a good one. It view. Such say there are no such medi­ or union of thought than it has to draw Beautiful Home o f the Soul. Come in Thy Beauty, Angel of Light Lock of hair, state age and sex, and give your name in full, seems to me from this and other causes, ums now as there were twenty years agoi, the world to it, and its prominent feature Gathering Flowers in Heaven. and I will send you a C la irv o ya n t Diag n o sis of your that there is a solstice in the last decade They don’t seem to see anything satisfact­ should be religious, and to that end per­ In Heaven We’ll know Our Own. disease. F r e e . Address, I’m Going to My Home. ?. C. BATDORF, M. D.. or two in the expansion of this “ visible- ory now and consider phenomenal Spirit­ haps churchy in its methods. It claims, Love’s Golden Chain. Our Beautiful Home Over There. Principal Magnetic Institute, Jackson, Michigan. supply,” and that the show of hands is no ualism trifling and materialization a dis­ as Mr. Savage says, to have proof of a Our Beautiful Home Above. greater to-day,,the meetings no fuller than turber of the peace and ought to be future life. Where the church sees it and Ohl Come, for My Poor Heart is Breaking. Once it was only Soft Blue Eyes. 'pH REE MONTHS FREE. they were a decade or two ago. But as I stamped out; forgetting that even a possi­ adopts it, it will be only proof of its every­ The City just Over the I-Iill. have said, Spiritualism in its modern as­ ble truth has a right to a hearing. The day assumptions. The Golden Gates are left Ajar. Weber’s Illustrated Magazine of Human Culture, de­ Two Little Shoes and a Ringlet of Hair. voted to Physical, Mental, Moral (\nd General Self-Im­ pect abounds, and the very air is full of it, real Spiritualists turn from such fault-find­ Some like to consider Spiritualism a Who Sings _My Child to Sleep? provement. Will be sent three months free to any one who and the church permeated with it. Spir­ ing ones. They are sure they are right science, rather than a religion. It is- a We're Coming, Sister Mary. says where he saw this, and sends us his or her address, to­ W e'll all Meet again in the Morning Land. gether with ten cents to pay postage, etc. This offer en­ itualist publications increase; its journals and know they are not credulous, and they science based on sensuous facts, like chem­ When the Dear Ones Gather at Home. ables all to give this new wonderful magazine a trial. $t.oe are everywhere, our thoughts are widely have found, at least I have, that the spirit istry or astronomy, but it is, from the Only a Thin Veil Between Us. per year, xo cents for agents’ outfit. Single song 25 cts., or 5 for One Dollar, sent postpaid Address, M. S.|WEBF.R, Publisher, read, our literature remarkably extensive world is more open to the hospitable heart nature of its facts, particularly allied to For sale at the office of the G olden G a t e . l Farmersville, Pa. Spiritual Forces. to further higher interests. We would I new or little known island, and opens PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ADVERTISEMENTS. use it as the pine forest uses the ground— trade with its inhabitants. When the {From a discourse by Rev. .Reed Stuart, delivered re­ to strike out roots into it, only that we may Woodlark Islands were explored, some ]yj RS. F. SAGE, M. D. cently in Battle Greek, Mich.] mount toward the sky,—or as, we use the time ago, it was found that an Australian -202 S to c k to n S t r e e t . S a n F rancisco . It is worthy of note that all the souls solid shore, only to push our boat off into firm had carefully charted the island sev- which have most moved the world, and deeper and clearer water. All physical eral years before and had been quietly forces and laws, when rightly seen, are trading there, all unknown to the other DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN have not so much stamped as furrowed but new steps in— | Pacific merchants.—Philadelphia Ledger. A SPECIALTY. their way of thinking and acting into their “ The great world's altar-stairs, Office hours, from 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 4, and 7 to 8 p. m. age, have set up the claim that ttyey main­ That slope through darkness up to God.” ADVERTISEMENTS. tained an original and immediate relation Seeing all the amazing displays of Power ]y[M E. C. ANTONIA, M. D. to some spiritual force greater than them­ in the universe,—which never fails and THE SCIENCE OF THE STARS! MEDIUM. Is a regularly educated and nevergrows less, which sphered the worlds, legally qualified Physician and selves. They have been, in their own Correct Diagnosis an J Successful Treatment of all Diseases. the most successful, as his which channeled the oceans and pinna-I The sublime system of Chaldean Astrology supplies to practice will prove. Cures ' estimation, merely passive instruments S fermatorrhcea and I mpo- cled the continents with mountains, which those properly initiated into its mysteries a complete Science which another used at will,—the harp t e n c y (as the result of indis­ flashes as lightning and rustles as falling of Human Life, by which all earthly events o f the past and English, French and German spoken. cretions of youth and excesses which must remain dumb until swept by present can be seen, and the future accurately foreknown. in married life, etc.), by an E x­ leaf; seeing man, as that Power, thinking 1 ternal Application of his own the passing breeze. They have all heard | and loving and weeping; seeing the way No man or woman who desires to succeed in life should discovery, which is entirely un­ 10 O’FARRELL ST., known to the medical profes­ fail to have the planetary influences operating upon them at sion. voices and seen visions which their con of history, with its groups of saints and he­ Near the junction of Dupont and Market Streets, S. F. roes and painters and poets adorning birth skillfully calculated. Such invaluable knowledge may It is a medicine to be dis temporaries could not hear nor see, and save not only thousands of dollars, but life itself. - Hours, 10 a . m . to 9 p. m . solved in water and then ap­ every age; seeing the way light and splen­ plied externally to the parts they set their course by these celestial HOROSCOPES OF BIRTH CALCULATED affected by paa and bandage, dor and liberty have been streaming upon J^JRS. J. J. WHITNEY, which accompanies the rem­ omens. Thus Buddha, thus Zoroaster the earth,—we may all hold back our And Important Astrological Advice given upon every event edy. It cures by absorption, in life—Business, Speculation, Sickness, Marriage, and which is the only reliable thus Jesus, and Paul, and Mohammed doubt, and reverently confess that back of The Wonderful method of curing the above and Luther have felt that they were agents it all lies a spiritual force which we call SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT. named complaints. Those who are ailing should send For Terms, Testimonials, and Explanatory Astrological for this outward application, if they can possibly do so, receiving their orders from One greater God. C lairvoyant and T est M edium as it never fails to cure in the most advanced cases. Circular, send a self-directed envelope immediately to the Now, reader, if you are one of the afflicted, send the than they. The word of Jesus, that he What else shall we name this Power well known Occultist and Astrological Expert, Located at t 120 Sixth Street, Doctor at once five 2*cent stamps for his “ P r iv a t e C o u n­ came not to do his own will, but the will which is, present in all things, which has R. A. STELLA, s e l l o r , "telling all about the above named complaints, S a n F rancisco. what the price will be for a cure, with strong, convincing of him who sent him, is the common come to exalt liberty and justice, which Box 222, T o p e k a , Kansas. testimonials sworn to. testimony of all such like souls. Socrates warms the heart of the philanthropist and Sittings daily, $ 1 .00. Address, Vineland, N e w Jersey, and say in said: “ Necessity is laid upon me; the makes strong the arm of the hero ? What B. J. SALISBURY. what paper you saw this advertisement. From the W o r c ester , M a s s ., D a il y P r e s s :—W e cor­ Word of God must be considered first.” is this which has led forlorn hopes, which -d e a l e r in - D r . LOUIS SCHLESINGER, dially endorse Dr. R. P. Fellows as an able and learned Mohammed, coming back from his com- has languished in prison, which has been physician, who has been so highly successful that his name — < Real Estate! 1- TEST MEDIUM. is blessed by thousands of those who found no relief in the munings in the mountains, said: “ God in martyr flames, which prayed in Geth- old medication, but were cured by the scientific method E l l is S t r e e t , S an F rancisco. originated by Dr. Fellows. octq-iy* is great. He alone is real. In devout semanes and suffered on Calvaries and S a n t a A k a , - L o s A n g e l e s Co u n ty, - C a l if o r n ia . silence, I will obey him.” Luther watched by beds of pain and death ? Office hours, from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and 1 to 5 p. m., confessed: “ I am not master of my­ What shall we call it but God ? Why (Sundays excepted.) self, God hurries and drives me.” The does not the sunlight fail ? Every year Inquiries from abroad answered promptly. Sittings—Evenings, by appointment only. Holy Ghost of the New Testament, the earth is flooded with it, and the na­ mav22-tf Terms—First sitting, $2.50, which includes one year’s the demon of the Greek prophet, the tions rejoice in its beams. Because the subscription _to_ the G o ld en G a t e or " Carrier D ove.” jH E W 'S Subsequent sittings for same persons, $x each. au28 “ trance” of the mystic, the “ Inner source yonder in the sky.does not fail. Light” of the Quakers, the “ illumina­ Why do not justice and love and pity fail RS. WM. H. KING, tion ” and the “ opening of the word” of on the earth ? .Because the Source of jus Photograph Gallery, M Established 1860. Swedenborg are all forms of the same tice and love and pity does not fail. TRANCE, CLAIRVOYANT ANDJjCL AIR AUDI ENT No. 523 Kearny Street, USED BY THE BEST PENMEN MEDIUM, Noted fo r Superiority o f Metal, .thing; namely, that each private life has But have we forgotten how to live on tJnii’ormlty, and Durability. S an F rancisco, : : : : Ca i an opening on one side to the universal friendly relations with the Supreme • And W. H. KING, M a g n e t ic H e a l e r , 20 Samples for trial, post-paid, 10 Cents. life. And, in whatever degree inspiration Power? Have we forgotten howto tap Residence, corner Seventh and F Streets; San Diego, Cal. IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO., 763 and 756 Broadway, N e w York. may come,—whether it be an ecstasy the wires which run from earth to heaven, What is the use‘of paying five and six dollars per dozen which catches the soul up to third heavens, and can no more receive messages of for Cabinet Photographs, on Montgomery and Market Will answer calls to lecture anywhere in the State. streets, when the very best work can be obtained at this jun26 and reveals things unutterable, reserved splendor from that high court ? Has the pTRE OF LIFE. for the select few in history, or only the voice which should come to us sweetly, Gallery foi half the price. A MAGIC CURE glow of emotion which oversweeps our like music across the water, been made si­ Children’s Cabinet Pictures taken by the instantaneous A MARVELOUS MEDIUM own dull souls when we witness a virtuous lent by the din of rude earth voices ? process for three dollars per dozen, and, no matter how ------FOR restless, a good likeness guaranteed. 5 F o r Psychometric Readings. R h eu m a tism , N e u r a l g ia , act or resolve, that henceforth our feet us listen again for its clear notes. It P neu m o n ia.P a f a l v s is , A s t h ­ shall walk in upward bending paths,—it is is certain that it has not ceased. As ever Send stamp for Circular of information containing pow­ m a , S c ia t ic a , G o ut, L umbago a n d D e a f n e s s . a signal that the tide of the sea of Life is the soul of God is ready to be poured into PROFESSIONAL CARDS. erful references and grand indorsements of wonderful tests. rising, and is surging up every inlet and the world through human thoughts and PROFESSOR CAMPBELL, Everybody Should Have It. 426 West 58th Street, New York, N . Y. bay of being. deeds—through thy thoughts and deeds G. G. BURNETT, : Agent, J-JORACE H. TAYLOR. 327 Montgomery St., S. F. Xi Nj man can think nor in himself perceive if thou wilt have it so. Still the Word ready to be made flesh, and again CLAIRVOYANT AND HEALER, Price, $1.00. Sold by all drug­ pRED EVANS, gists. tfSTCall and see.*®& A grace of being finer than himself, would dwell among us. The true Light Occupies Tent tx, on the Spiritual Camp-Ground, and will That beckons and is gone,—a larger life which lighteth every man that cometh Diagnose and Heal all Diseases. DR. CHAS. ROWELL, Upon his own impinging, with swift glimpse Medium O f f ic e —426 Kearny Street, San Francisco. Of spacious circles luminous with mind, into the world, is still streaming to ward our earth. jy[RS. SEAL, ‘—FOR— To which the ethereal substance of his own fields are scarce, bat those who write to Seems but gross cloud to make that visible, 11 God is not dumb, that he should speak no INDEPENDENT Stinson A Co . Portland, Maine,will receive more. MEDIUM, free, fall Information aboot work which Touched to a sudden glory round the edge.” 1 they can do. and liveat bome.that will pay SLATE If thou hast wandering in the wilderness Cures all diseases; also the use of tobacco in any form, them from $5 to $25 par day. Some have And, after making all necessary allow­ And find’st not Sinai, ’tis thy soul is poor liquor or opium; the cure of tobacco guaranteed earnedGOLD over $5 'L m r s - d r- beighle, Will give readings by letter. v'T he Islands of the Pacific.—IirfkU-P'A to be made. Cut this out and return to us- thoughts of truth and goodness, and life Character and Business, $i.oo, and stamp; Three questions, WILL DIAGNOSE DISEASE WITHOUT and we will send you free, something of beyond the sky; but it would be a poor dition to the two large islands recently dis­ 50 cents, and stamp. great value and importance to you, that QUESTIONS, will start you in business which will bring you in more money 2 13 M ed fo rd S t r e e t , S o m e r v il l e , M a s s . form of logic to doubt because sight is covered in the Pacific Ocean, a third, right away than anything else in this world. Any one can ap - m* denied us. The soul has its own forms says the London Times, has just been dis­ 44 Sixth St., room 22, (Manchester House;, San Francisco. 2 3 do the work and live at home. Either sex; all ages.. Some­ thing new, that just coins money for all workers. We will of reasoning when it is in the most holy covered lying less than one hundred miles start you; capital not needed. This is one of the genuine, from the northern coast of New Guinea. Hours from 9 to 5. CEALED LETTERS ANSWERED. important chances of a lifetime. Those who are ambitious place, and the veil is drawn between it and enterprising will not delay. Grand outfit free. and the court of the understanding. We It has been named Allison Island; is nearly N erv o u s D is e a s e s a S p e c ia l t y . MRS. DR. ELEANOR MARTIN, Address, T r u e & Co., Augusta, Maine, know when the sun is shining through the three miles long, rises from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet above the 73 West Lane Avenue, : : : Columbus, Ohio. rain-drops by the bow which spans the RS. M. MILLER, sky; and we know when Deity is shining sea, and has abundant timber. Several M Two Dollars and Eight Cents. OB PRINTING. mars-3m* through a soul by the color of its thoughts, stretches of fertile and inhabited land, MEDIUM, some of them much larger than Allison and that its acts are arched with the skyr Meetings—Tuesday, Thursday and«Saturday evenings, ]y[RS. SARAH J. PENOYER, curve. Island, have been found within a few and Fridays at 2 p. m. Sittings daily, $r.oo. The drift and tendency of these passing years at a distance of two hundred or three PSYCHOMETRICAL DELINEATOR OF 114 Turk Street, between Taylor and Jones. days, so steeped in material things, is to hundred miles from the New Guinea coast, CHARACTER. — JOB PRINTING! sever all relation with the^ upper and in­ and similar discoveries are made once in Sittings daily. Admission to Public Circles, ladies 10 .cents, gentlemen 25 cents. Readings, $x.oo. ; : : Enclose lock of hair. visible Power. We look downward for a while in various parts of the Pacific. the cause of things. Our tuition has Although the maps of the Pacific Ocean Address 128 North Second Street, are studded with islands, which appear to 'HORT-HAND AND CALIGRAPH TEACHER. been largely in things of the earth. We E a s t S a g in a w , M ic h ig a n . have been taught to suspect that the forces, be lying close together, vessels may sail feb26-3m* among these islands for weeks together MISS GEORGIA HALL, which reside in matter, and push up from We have now completed arrangements with one of the best beneath, are the sufficient cause of all without once coming in sight of land. So A/TRS. M. J. BROWN, At x6i Seventh Street, : : : : Oakland. things. It has been intimated that jus- vast is the waste of waters that not long N o . X14 Turk Street, city. Job Printing offices in the city, whereby we ticc, truth, virtue, reverence, are all de­ ago a crew which had been shipwrecked VAPOR BATHS SCIENTIFICALLY APPLIED. are able 19 fill all orders for • pendent merely upon a certain quality in the great island region of the Pacific J^R S. A. A. CONNOR, rowed north for forty days before they Chronic and Nervous Diseases Cured Without the Use of and condition of brain-cell, and that con­ METAPHYSICIAN AND D. M. Drugs. JO B PRINTING! Y— science is only the result of experience. reached Hawaii, the nearest land. A. R. Consultation, ; Daily. £ 3TA l l N erv o u s D is e a s e s a S p e c ia l t y .* ® !; We may gladly confess the value of much Wallace, who has traveled widely in the la the Most Satisfactory Manner and upon the Best The Vitalizing Cabinet-Bath, or Portable Hot Springs. of this teaching. It was needed as a Pacific, has expressed the opinion that Office Hours;—Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 1 to 4 ‘What is the effect?_ It cleanses the skin and opens the there are still a good many islands which o'clock p. m. pores, equalizes the circulation and relieves congestion, pre­ Possible Terms. correction of superstition. But we do serves health and prevents disease, purifies the blood by re­ not wish to be caught and held in the have never yet been seen by white men. 228 Page St., near Laguna, ! San Francisco. moving the impurities which accummulntc in the fluids and tissues of the body, and imparts vigor to the system, and Now and then a Pacific trader finds some Consultation, Free. dccn-tf rtoils of the material, but only to use it strength to the mind. decx8-tf **Golden Gate” P. and P. Company [Written for the Golcten Gate.] An Inspired Musician. immense congregation, composed of vari­ ADVERTISEMENTS. She Silent Strenm. ous denominations, singers, musicians, [Chicago Times.1 SOUTH PACIFIC COAST nobles and critics. The majority , were H .A.XXjR.O iLI>. BY STANLY FITZPATRICK. The exceptional and romantic career of drawn together to witness the most trying pASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE STATION, FOOT B y the shores of Time flows a silent stream— Jesse Shephard, the famous phenomenal ordeal of his career. The young artist x ■ of Market Street, south side, at A river that's wide, and deep and dark, Q A. M,, daily, for Alvarado, Newnrk, Centreville, singer, would appear, if recounted in full, sang his own music, and upon the first °* p u Alyiso, Santa Clara, SAN JOSE, Los Gatos, . And gliding down, like a midnight dream, notes ringing through the vast edifice Wrights, Glenwoodi Felton, Big Trees, Boulder Creek, The so.ul sweeps on in its phantom bark. more like a tale of fiction than a recital 4of all voices hushed and every one felt the SANTA CRUZ, and all way stations—Parlor Car. There’s never a gleam of a flapping sail, 2 • 2 0 M-,. (excei>t Sunday), Express: Mt. Eden, Alva- facts in the history of his musical triumphs deep religious inspiration of the moment; ~ rado,' Newark, Centreville, Alviso, Agnews, Santa TIME SCHEDULE. Nor ever the sound of a dipping oar, Clara, SAN JO SE, Los Gatos, and all stations to Boulder Nor sigh of the breeze, nor moan of gale, in all parts of the world. It is a common then, as the voice grew stronger, it seemed Creek and SANTA CRUZ— Parlor Car. . . -j-. P. M., daily, for SAN JOSE, Los Gatos and in- Passenger trains will leave and arrive at Passenger N or ripple of wave from shore to shore. thing to read of the success of self-made as if it filled every part of the church, t ‘Ou termediate points., .Saturdays and Sundays to Depot (Townsend St., bet. Third and Fourth), San men in business, and of how they had from altar to dome. Perhaps the most Santa Cruz. Francisco ; ______In what wonderful land docs it rise? S5 Excursion to Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek, and L eave S. F . }■ Commencing Aug. 20, 1886. \ A rrive S. wonderful part of this performance was, S2.50 to San J ose, on Saturdays and Sundays, to re­ » Is it lit by Love’s magical gleam? fought against fate and a selfish world for turn on Monday inclusive. 8:30 A. 6:28 A , that Shepard manipulated the large organ, • 8 ;xo a , Does it mirror the Inflnite skies? SI.75 to Santa Clara and San J ose and return —Sun­ 10:40 A. years before they had gained a firm foot­ and sang at the same timq, something days only. t l I J 3 0 A. San Mateo, Redwood, and 9:03 a # E ver the mists hang over its breast 1 •10:02 A . Q . - I . A. M. and 2:30 p . M ., Trains with Stage at Los • 3:30 F* ing in commercial life; but who ever heard pever before attempted by a singer. ■• 3:36 P- And veil the Eternal from sight; 0 • Gatos for Congress Springs. 4 : 2 5 P-- t 4:59 P,. Is it set with fair islands of rest. After this triumph, he was praised by the AH Through Trains connect at Felton for Boulder Creek * 5 : i 5 P- Menlo Park. of a self-made musician, possessed of nat­ and points on Felton and Pescadero Railroad. 6:30 P. 6 : 0 0 P. Or |ost in the horrors of night ? great critics, and complimented in every ural gifts both in vocal and instrumental t x i : 4 5 1‘- $ 7 JS0 P« tongue. People wanted to know where To Oakland and Alameda. . t 8 : t 5 P. Oh, say, has no traveler returned 9 » 3 A . music ? Young Shepard began at ^an 96:oo, g6:30, §7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30,10:00,10:30, 8:30 A . Who has launched on its billowless tide? he studied music; and what was the name 10:40 A . Santa Clara, San Jose, and •10:62 A . 11:00,11:30, a . m . 12:00 m. 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00,2:30, H ave those who are gone never yearned early age to develop extraordinary talent of his singing master. Madame Viardo * 3:30 P- ‘ * 3:36 P- 3!«>» 3*3°i 4 -°°» 4:3°» 5 :°°, S!3°t 6l°°» 6:3°, 7:oo» 7 S3°» 8:30, 4:25 P. Principal Way Stations. .6:00 P, For the loved who are left on earth’s side? Garcia, the sister of Malibran, and one 9:30, 10:45, n :45 P- M- t 8:15 P, for the piano, and made his first appear­ From Fourteenth and W ebster S t r e e t s, Oa k l a n d : D o the spirits who seek the unknown 10:40 A . Gilroy. Pajaro, Castroville, *10702 A . ance in public, before a critical Boston au­ of the famous teachers of singing in ■25:30i 2*>:oo, 36:3°! 7 :°®r 7:30, 8:<», 8:30, 9:00, 9:30,10:00, N ever waft us a sigh or a breath? Europe, received the new prodigy at her 10:30, xi:oo, 11:30, a . m . 12:06 m. 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, • 3:30 P. Salinas and Monterey 6:00 P. 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, s.oo, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, Watsonville, Camp Goodhall, Must they journey in silence alone dience, in 1868. Competent judges pro­ 10:40 A . *TO : 0 2 A , 8:30, 9:30, 10:45, 11:45 >’• m . O’er the dark, rolling River of Death? chateau and invited him to take part at a Aptos, New Brighton, Soquel 6:00 P, nounced the performance a remarkable From H igh S t r e e t , A lameda : 25:16,35:46,86:16,6:46, • 3:3° P- (Capitola), and Santa Cruz. select concert under her patronage. But 7:16, 7:46, 8:x6, 8:46, 9:16, 9:46, 10:16, 10:46, 11:16. 11:46, a . Oh, this wonderful, mystical stream— Monterey and Santa Cruz, t 8:55 r. one, but Shepard had no faith in his own this was only the beginning of perpetual M. 12:16, 12:46, t:x6, 1:46, 2:16, 2:46, 3:16, 3:46, 4:16, 4:46, t 7:50 A . {Sunday Excursion) This river that’s wide, dark and deep— 5:16, 5:46, 6:16, 6:46, 7:16, 9:16, 10:31, IH31 p. m . talent, and at once decided on going to musical triumphs, which, during the artist’s 3Sunday excepted. 10:40 A . Hollister and •10:02 A . It is lit by Love’s magical gleam— Paris and undergoing a thorough course of sojourn in Europe, seemed to have no Ticket, Telegraph and Transfer Offices, 222 Montgomery * 3 =3 ° p- Tres Pinos. 6 : 0 0 P. To Isles of the Blest its waters sweep: Street, San Francisco. 10:40 A . ■ Soledad, San Ardo and W ay Stat'ns. ■ 6:00 P. Those who have launched on its silent breast. instruction under one of the great masters. end. He received invitations from every I. FILLMORE, W. T. FITZGERALD, Superintendent. G. F. & P. Ag’t. a .—Morning. p.—Afternoon. And were lost in the mists of earth. When he arrived there, the young artist great capitol on the continent, from court •Sundays excepted. tSundays only, Are at home in the mansions of rest— was at once asked to a reception by Wer- dignitaries, impressarios, composers, and t'fheatre Train, Saturdays only. Have awoke to a glad new birth. Standard time furnished by Randolph & Co.______tel, the famous teacher of Jenny Lind, of the dilettanti. He next visited St. Peters­ pRED EVANS’ S T A G E C O N N E C T IO N S are made with the 10:40 a . And this beautiful river is spanned Neilson, and of Marie Roze, and invited burg, that most fastidious of all cities for m. Train, except P escadero Stages via. San Mateo and Magnetized Redwood, which connect with 8:30 a . m . Train.______B y the iris of hope and of love; to sing before the most fastidious and crit­ an artist to appear in. S PECIAL ROUND-TRIP TICKETS—At Reduced Radiant forms from bright Spirit Land ical audience in the world, composed of Young Shepard’s life in Russia was a DEVELOPING SLATES! Rates—to Monterey, Aptos, Soquel, Santa Cniz, and Pes­ Bear us the message of Noah’s fair dove. professors and their now distinguished pu­ veritable romance, and does not seem to cadero; also, to Gilroy, Paraiso and Paso Robles Spring 5.- W aiting we stand by the shores of Time, pils. to be analogous to the experience of any Unheeding earth’s clamor aad strife, FRED EVANS, EXCURSION TICKETS Longing to sail to that peaceful dime It was a trying ordeal for one so young other musician. Arriving there without and inexperienced. Wertel requested the friend or manager, he found all doors For Sundays only, S«gd Sunday morning, good O’er this wonderful River of Life. —THE— * (for Return same day. P A l o m a r , June 13, 1887. ■ newcomer to sing the most difficult aria in open at his coming, and did not have to For Saturday, e Sold Saturday aud Suuday only; WONDERFUL Sunday and A. Sacramento via Benicia - - - 6.40 P. When was there ever since our Washington singing. After remaining in Paris till the 8.30 A. “ via Livermore - - A man so pure, so wise, so patient—one 3 -0 0 P. via Benicia • - i t . r o a . close of the season he next appeared in 4 . 0 0 P. “ via Benicia - - - IO TO A* Who walked with this high goal alone in sight, Send for circulars, price-lists and terms, to The New Home 6,30 P. “ via Benicia - - To speak, to do, to sanction only right, ' London, a perfect stranger, unannounced Sewing Machine Company. * 1 .0 0 P. Sacramento River Steamers • - • 6 . 0 0 A. Though very heaven should fall ? and unattended. In London his concerts Ladies who desir^and never had a family can, by follow­ 8.30 A. San Jose - - . - • ■ • 3.40 p. ing my advice, insure the same The confidence of ladies t IO 30 A. *4 - • ■ ■ - - t 3.40 p. were given in the mansions of the nobility will meet with that respect and sympathy that only one General Agency and Salesrooms, 1 2 .0 0 M c f< - - - c 8.40 p. and with greater success than was ever at­ woman can show to another. 3.OO P 11 .... - •- 9.40 A. Y et what a deathless crown Private home for ladies in confinement, where they can * 5 00 P. 11 - - , - - • - 634 Market St., opposite Palace Hotel, - . Of northern pine and southern orange flower, tained by an unknown artist. be attended. A sure specific for female irregularities. 8 .3 0 A. Stockton via Livermore - Also scrofula eradicated from the system. 3.30 P- “ via Martinez - - IO.40 A For victory, and the land’s new bridal-hour, The young prodigy appeared in London SAN FRANCISCO. Would we have wreathed for that beloved brow 1 under the patronage of the dowager Count­ MRS. MARTIN, A for Morning. , P for afternoon. Sadly upon bis sleeping forehead now I • Sundays excepted, t Saturdays excepted. J Sundays ohly, ess Combtnnere, at her mansion in Bel- Ladies' Physician, . 324 Third Street. ARTHUR M. HILL, Manager. We lay our cypress down. juns*3m C—Take ferry train, and change cars at East Oakland. grave square, and subsequently under the Third Street Cars pass the door. Standard Time furnished by L ick O bservatory. O martyred one, farewell I patronage of the dowager Viscountess {TSTCancer positively cured without operation. Rheuma­ Tbou hast not left thy people quite alone; Gort, Lady Dunsany, and other society tism, inflammatory and chronic thoroughly cured. pNGLISH FACE POWDER. A. N.Towne, T. H. Goodman, Out of thy beautiful life there comes a tone July2-tf leaders. The most distinguished embas­ Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. O f power, of love, of trust—a prophecy sadors then in England were present, be­ Whose fair fulfillment all the earth shall be, sides members of the royal family, at a re­ R emoved Alive ENGLISH FACE POWDER L ocal F erry T rains. And all the future tell. in 2 hours. Hun- ception given by the Countess Comber- ______...... _...... dreds of people Beautifies and P reserves th e Complexion. mere in his honor. The artist’s fame was who are doctoring for dyspepsia and liver complaints, FROM SAN FRANCISCO, DAILY. T he S e c re t o f th e S a in ts. and general debility, are afflicted with Tape Worm or No poisons are employed in its composition, and it can now established in England and he was at stomach worms. T welve H undred T ape Worms be used freely without injury to the face. The guides from To EAST OAKLAND-—*6.00 6.30 7.00 removed by PROP. SH IPLEY, 930 MARKET 7-30 8.00 T o play through life a perfect part, once invited to other centers of music and the angel world evolved the idea that a harmless beautifier 8.30 9.90 9,30 10.00 xo.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 STREET, near the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco, of the complexion would be a blessing to the world, and it 12.30 1.00 j.30 2.00 2.30 3-oo Cal. Send for circular giving symptoms. Medicine 3-3° 4.00 Unnoticed and unknown, fashion. The question was asked on has been placed in all the drug stores of San Francisco, for 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 9.00 , To seek no rest in any heart every hand, “ Who is he, and where did sent by Express, C. O. D. jul2 sale. P^oe 95 cents oer box. .»„/20 10.00 xx.00 12.00. Save only God’s alone; he come from ?” It seemed as if a musi­ T o 23D Av e n u e , E A S T O A K LA N D -—Same as To East In little things to own no will, Oakland,” until 6.30 p. M ., inclusive, also at 9.00 P. M. cal genius had suddenly made his appear gPIRITUALISTS’ DIRECTORY, To have no share in great, T o F R U IT V A L E — *6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 S.JO' ance, from no one could tell where, and WORKING C L A S S E M W fl •2.30 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 9.00 To find the labor leady still. pared to furnish all classes with employment at home, the RECORDING STATISTICS OF SOCIETIES, To FRUIT VALE—(via A lam ed a) * 9 -3 ° 7.00 12:.oo And for the crown to wait; the mystery was all the greater, as none of whole o( the time, or for their spare moments. Business new, light and profitable. Persons of cither sex easily earn NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF SPEAKERS AND To A L A M E D A —*6.00 *6.30 7.00 •7.30 8.00 *8.30 the English papers had contained notices 9.00 9.30 10.00 $10.30 11.00 $11.30 12.00 $ Upon the brow to bear no trace from 50 cents to S5.00 per evening, and a proportional sum MEDIUMS, LIST OF PERIODICALS, E t c . la.30 of him, and the general public was ignor­ by devoting all their time to the business. Boys and. girls 1.00 I1.3 0 2.00 $2.30 3.00 3 -3 ° 4.00 4-3° O f more than common care, 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 earn nearly as much a; men. That all who see this may By G. W. KATES. To write no secret in the face ant of his presence in London. It was send their address, and test the business, we make this offer. 11.OO 12,00 For men to read it there. not until he had been giving concerts in To such as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar to Price, 25 Cents. To BERKELEY— *6.00 *6.30 7.00 *7.30 8.00 pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars and outfit *8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 $10.30 11.00 $ 11,304' 12.00 The daily cross to clasp and bless the mansions of the nobility for some time free. Address G eorge Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. For sale at this office. $12.30 1.00 $1.30 2.00 $3.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 With such familiar zeal that notices appeared in the journals. 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 A s hides from all that not the less* 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 After a season of extraordinary success in DR. JO NES' To WEST BERKELEY—Same as | To Berkeley.” The daily weight you feel; England he went to Baden-Baden, again In toils that praise will ne ver pay a stranger in a strange land. Here he QUEEN BEE NERVINE. TO SAN FRANCISCO DAILY . To see your life so past, was a guest of a nobleman, and he was im­ To meet, in every coming day, F rom F R U IT V A L E — 6.50 7,20 7.50 S.eo 8.50 Twin sister of the last. mediately made acquainted with the elite UNSURPASSED FOR THE RELIEF OF ALL ACHES AND PAINS. 9.20 *10.19 4*30 „ 4.50 5 . 2 0 5 .5 0 ■ 6.20 6.50 To hear of high, heroic things, of notables then congregated in that cele­ 7.47 9-5° F rom FRUIT VALE (via A lam eda) — *5.22 S-S« And yield them reverence due, brated German watering-place. It was in Will Cure in from One to Five Minutes, when Properly Applied. *6.22 $9.14 *3-23 But feel life’s daily offerings Baden-Baden that he achieved one of the • ------O----- F rom 23D A v e n u e , E A S T OAKLAND--6 .55 7-25 Are far more fit for you; most remarkable successes ever experi­ D IRECTIONS FOR ADULTS. 7 * 5 5 . 8.25 8.5s 9.25 9*55 10.25 10.5s 11.25 1 1 . 5 5 * 2 .5 5 x - ® 5 i .5S 2.25 2 -5 5 3*25 To woo no secret, soft disguise enced by an artist. His music both vocal For Neuralgia, Headache, or Toothache, one teaspoonful of the Nervine in one ounce of water. Swallow without 5*55 4i25 4-55 5-25 5-55 6.25 6.55 7 .5 0 To which self-love is prone; & 9\S3 and instrumental created a sensation ab­ sipping, and apply the Nervine to the affected parts by a pressure of the hand or finger; not necessary to rub. 6.00 6.3a 7.00 For Inflammatory or Muscular Rheumatism, take one teaspoonful of the Nervine in one ounce of water, and apply F rom EAST OAKLAND — *5-3° Unnoticed by all other eyes, solutely without & parallel since the days . 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10 30 IT.OO to the afflicted parts freely, and then use D r. Jones’ Specific Blood Purifier three tidies a day. XI ,12.30 T.OO 1*30 2.00 2.30 3.00 Unworthy in your own : For Epilepsy, Sprains, and Congestion, take one teaspoonful of the Nervine in one ounce of water, and apply to top .30 12.00 6.00 6.30 7 .0 0 To yield with such a happy art when Mozart charmed the cognoscenti of of head, ilinjat and chest freely. For Fits, the Nervine should be taken once a day for several months to effect a per­ 3.3O 4.OO 4.3O 5.00 5 * 3 ° 7-57 8.57 3.37 xo.57 That no one thinks you care, Vienna by his splendid genius. manent cure. _ / For Cholera, Cholera-morbus, or cramps in the Stomach and Bowels, take one teaspoonful in one ounce of water, and From BROADWAY, OAKLAND- 7 minutes later than And say to your poor bleeding heart, The season at Baden was exceptionally repeat in ten minutes, if relief is not obtained by first dose. from East Oakland. “ How little you can bear 1” brilliant. The Queen of Prussia and For Cancers or Tumors, apply several times a day, and use Dr. Jones’ Vegetable Blood Purifier. For Epitheolia, F rom ALAMEDA — *5-3° 6.00 *6.30 7.00 7 - 3 ° or Cancer of the Stomach, reduce the Nervine one-half with water, and take internally, and gargle the throat three 8.00 8.30 9.00 9*30 10.00 $10.30 11.0 0 $11.30 Oh I ’tis a pathway hard to choose, many of the prominent nobles of Europe or four times a day. 12.00 $12.30 1.00 $1.30 2.00 $2.30 3.00 3.30 For Tumors, Caked Breast, and Swellings, take teaspoonful in ounce of water two or three times a day, and 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 A struggle hard to share, were there, and Gabrielle Kraus was sing­ 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 apply to affected parts several times a day. 9.00 IO.CO 11.00 For human pride would still refuse ing with other great stars at the grand For Diphtheria or Croup, put one teaspoonful of the Nervine in one ounce of water, and take a teaspoonful every F rom BERKELEY— *5.22 5 -5 5 *6.25 6.55 * 7 - * 5 The.nameless trials there: fifteen to twenty minutes, and apply the Nervine externally several times a day. 9.55 $10.25 10.55 opera, yet the now intrepid musician, en­ For Granulated Sore Eyes reduce the Nervine with water one-half at the start, or as strong as can be borne, and 7.55 *8.25 8.55 0.25 txi.25 But since we know the gate Is low n . 55 $12.25 12.55 41-25i x-SSi 42.25 2 - 5 5 3-2S couraged by his previous success, did not wash the eyes three or four times a day. For Burns, use freely, and every few minutes, until pain subsides. If the 6.25 6.55 That leads to heavenly bliss, parts are raw, reduce the Nervine one-half with water or glycerine. 3*55 4-25 4 55 5»25 S 5 5 7 *5 5 refuse when the Bishop of Baden begged 8-55 9-55 IO,55 What higher grace could God bestow For Difficult Breathing, or Heart Troubles, take one teaspoonful of the Nervine in one ounce of water, and in all cases apply the Nervine to the top of the head freely. Saturate the scalp well. F rom W E S T BERKELEY—Same as ‘F rom B e r k e l e y .’ Than such a life as this? that he would sing in the cathedral at high mass in order that church-goers might PRICE, Jx PER BOTTLE, OR SIX BOTTLES FOR $5. CREEK ROUTE. hear the wonderful music. On the fol­ Get but the truth one 1 uttered, and ’tis like P u t up by Dr. Jones, 152 Fifth Street, San Francisco, Cal. F rom ^AN FRANCISCO—*7.15 9.15 11.15 1.15 A star new-bo'n, that drops into its place. lowing Sunday, Jesse Shepard appeared 3*, 5 5 *i5 F rom OAKLAND— 6.15 8,15 10.15 12.15 4.»S And wh.c i, one: ciicling in its placid s ju n d , before the great organ without a note of O f f i c e H o u r s , 9 t o i i a . m ., 3 t o 6 , a n d 7 t o 8 p . m . N o t all the tumult of the earth can shake. written music, and in the .presence of an jul 2-4W * Sifhdays excepted. t Sundays only.