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Banner of Light V23 N12 6 Jun 1868 BANNE Light (i3,00 PEE YBAEJ . (SINGLE COPIES,} VOL. XXIII 1 In Advises. > BOSTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1868 < Eight Oenti. -> NO. 12. Tor the Banner ofLIght. Christ's sake; vfe oould not reach tho stony heart not ask of us to any over wordy, unmeaning pray- A NEW_SCIENCE, LIFE’S TBUE BELIOIOX. of Jehovah unless we presented Jesus, tho sin- era, and yot it did not excuse us from praying; . ; ___ BY N. FJtkNK WHITE. offering and sinner’s friend. but to have a prayer in thia religion waa to put it Tn the -Veto York Independent ot the 9th of April The Religious Status of Spiritualism. Let nd one say he (the .lecturer) condemned in practice—feed the hungry, give kind deeds .in it ia told that Mr. Stoplmii Pearl Andrews, of tliat (Tlie following beautiful poem, composed In spirlt-llfe, and Christianity. ' It was a good religion; it. had its the place of words alone, and to aid in bringing city, claims to have discovered nn entirely now glren through the mediumship of onr friend, N. Frank White, A LEOTVBB BY WABREN CHASE. mission, and that mission wm to atbuStriliebetter up those of our fellow creatures who needed our science, ns exact and profound as logic or mathe-; was delivered nt Mercantile Hall, Boston, Sunday, May Sd>. .■■V ■ -Ja*L ■ ■ • -■....... - feelings of tbe heart—to awaken nnd.develop tbe prayers. By the divine command of this new Being at my house during the following week he was en­ (Reported for tbe Banner of Light.J matjes, npd even moro far-reaching mid inclusive tranced. and, at my request, the poem was repeated, that I human affectional nature beyond and: above the dispensation our prayers should go down to those than either of them, or any otlier science. Ho might transcribe It for publication. Bro. White considers tho On Sunday evening, May 10th, Hon. 'Warren demands of mere animal appetites and passions. below us, in acts of mercy, not up to those above affirms that there is, in fact^ only one science, of poems thus delivered by him not Inspirational tn tho strict Chase addressed the First Spiritualist Association, Previous to its advent these higher capabilities us who did not peed our notice. Here was the the principles of wliicli all tho special sciences sense of that term, but lather ns verbally Impressed upon his at Mercantile Hall, Boston, on tbe above subject. could not be called ont—there was nothing for tho central idea of this new religion—this rational nre merely particular modifications or instances. ■ tnlud by thc spirit author.—H. B. Sronan, 68 Pleasant street.} His remarks were attentively listened to by the world to love religiously. appeal to rational minds. While wo might give “ Heretofore,” ho says, “ there hns n’t been a sin­ An ancient hermit—so tbo legend runs— audience. We give below a synoptical report of Christianity, in its embodiment, was essentially Christianity tbo credit of being the pioneer, Spir­ gle universal principle known in positive science, A stern reoluse, within a desert wild, the lecture: Catholic. The Protestants were only those who itualism was destined to be tlm managing and nnd hence science is yet iu the chaotic or frag­ Wrinkled with age and browned with many suns, He (the speaker) had said in his afternoon dis­ had rendered their protest against the arbitrary perfecting power in the moral vineyard. No mentary stage of its development. The new Chanced in his wanderings on a little child, . course thnt man was by nature a religious being, construction placed by tho Romish Church upon longer wero we called upon to present atonement, science Is to supply tills defect, nnd to base all the The resting caravan from which it strayed, Just as he was by nature a thinking being, or an certain religions authorities. But when Michael no longer to seek a foreign God-power to wipe known sciences upon an <i priori knowledge of The kneeling camels and tlie sheltering tent, active being. It was not difficult to arouse in him Servetus, and others, protested against Calvin and oiit the stains from onr moral garments, but tho exact scientific laws of universal application, Were all forgotten, as it careless played, the emotional element in youth. It was easy to his teachings, then tbe Protestants wore ready to truth wns presented to us that “God helps those whether in the department of matter or thnt of Like gleam from Paradise to Hadds lent. train the devotion of tbe child to the worship of a put them to death for protesting. While tho Pro­ who help themselves!" mind." • With mute surprise the hermit watched the child, visible object, an image representing the power testants disclaimed Catholicism, they yet claimed But it might be said by some, if wo took awny - Now the above does seem to indicate some­ Then made the holy sign and stood in fear, beyond. From this fact, Paganism, the first stage to be within tbe pale of tbe Christian Church, and this Christian religion nnd Bible, tho world would thing similar to a science we, as nn investigating For memory, by the magic scene beguiled of religious thought in the world, derived its pow­ were working for tbe same ends; though they set become horribly depraved aud reckless. This circle, have also discovered in our last twelve From the deep trance of many a vanished year, er. Then came Judaism—the next step in ad­ aside the pictures on canvas, by wliicli tbe Catho­ same argument wns urged against Jesus in his years’ labors—wo, five of us, throe males aud two Brought up afresh bright visions of the past, vance-appealing to the moro matured ideas of lic sought to reach the heart of tho people, yet day, by tlie pharisees and Sadducos, when the females, assisted by tho (ns they called them­ And much he feared—whnt his stern creed had tho race, and showing a new religion, introduced Their preachers presented pictures in sermons, selfishness of these leaders of the Jews was so selves, nnd proved by tlioir works tbeir claims to taught— by Moses, in which he presented a different God used words instead of the painter’s brush, and remarkably displayed that tho Nazaieno declared be) “ Arch-archnngols sent." These minds taught That for his soul some subtle snare was cast, from those worshiped by tbe Egyptians, in that he strove by tlie powers of description to appeal to tbeir the harlots in the streets should go into the king­ our circle, through tlio organism of David Corliss, To hold it from the purity it sought. was called a living Gpd, while those they adored hearers’ hearts. Who could look on tlie beautiful dom of God before them. In our day nnd In this ns their medium, tlio science of universal being, were not living entities, .but only symbolic repre­ paintings of tho Mother and Child that adorn tlio new dispensation, we were not loosened from embraced in tho unfolding nnd development of But self-rebuke and holy sign were vain— sentations. In the trial for the mastery the Egyp­ cathedrals of the Romish faith, and not love them? moral obligations, but had our religious duties universal positive nnd negative self-existcnt.eter- Themetnoried pastenme thickly crowdinground, tian priests wrought miracles, so did Moses, and Who could listen to the sermonized story of tlie brought nearer home to us, We did not set aside nnl principles, which principles nro tho primary Vntil the treeless wild, tho desert plain, tho Jews said that the God of Moses transcended character and sufferings of the incarnate God our moral natures by cultivation. Were tlie noble iniiotc properties nnd qualities ot all elementary Changed to tbe old familiar childhood ground; -the Gods of Egypt; but their experiments failed to among men, without a similar awakening of the reformers, represented by Theodore Barker, less existence, nnd will eventunlly unfold nnd bring And he, that stern recluse, with fastings worn, convince the Egyptians. This state qf affairs affectionhl element within? If tlie beholder, or religious than tlio followers of-Lyman Beecher? them nil Into proper nnd perfect order; that these Ridged with the scars that his own hands had was,however, sufficient for Moses and the Jews— hearer, in either case, did not love tbe character Did a man cease to becoi-.o moral because ho positive and negative principles of course nro im­ made, who proceeded to engraft on their Jehovah tho represented, it was because the lovo principle was ascended'to a superior plane of thought and be­ manent witli three elements of cause, 1. Predom­ Bowed down by age and penance lie had borne, ceremonies borrowed from tho Pagan, and many of dormant in the soul. lief? inance, to rise from the first or previous position . Now once again, in fancy, laughing played. the attributes heretofore held sacred to tbe Egyp­ Such was Christianity—a religion of tbo affec­ Tho religion of Spiritualism was as fnr above or condition; 2. Volition—determination; nnd 3. tian deities, and to copy from the worship of those tions. But man did not see witli his affections! Christianity, as that was superior to Jiidaiifrn, Power to execute or move them into final divine, Once more he leaned upon a mother’s knee, . deities many ritesand mysteries. Yot in this new the eyes are not in tbe heart. “ Lovo is blind.” and those who sought to bind it down to tlio level which is perfect order. And listened to her gentle counsels given; religion there was progress.
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