Progress, tfye Universal LaW of JMaiCire: T^oug^t» tbe Solvent of I-1er Problems. VOL. S. ■ HICAGO. AUGUST 6. 1892. NO. 141 of going to hor house and bringing “Labor,” a poemootn of some length,ion the KATE FOX JENCKEN. flowers for hor room. Friends from subject of which was suggestedI to M rs. FAMOUS SPIRITUALIST. other places wero In tho habit of visit­ M ay n ard : Her Reception in .Spirit-life. ing hor also, so that It was unusual to "Tonight I will »Ing you a »ong of the »ea, Career of the Late Mrs. May­ find no visitors at tho house. And tell you the story It'» telling to me, “ Uerfrlonds among tho Spiritualists For I never bend over the wild »oleum wave« T o t h e E d it o r :— No. 139 duly r e ­ nard, of White Plains. wero tho very best people. They wero But I long for the secret hid down In their ceived, filled to overflowing with good, sensible men and women, and not fa­ cave«. wholesome mental and spiritual food. natics. Unlike un ordinary Invalid, she There is a slight error in what you Slio Alleged llml President Lin­ exorcised a gracious influence on all “The unceasing murmurs that rl«e from It« coln Wits Influenced by ller breast published from me—too trivial to visitors. I recollect a party not long Are telling of labor and constant unrest; correct, except by so doing will bring 91essagCH—ICurncst in the l-'itifh ago at tho houso. It was a gathering of And it» cold hand», all sparkling with jewel» out some facts interesting to your — lied ridden lor Several Years, merrymakers, person* of various re­ of »pray, readers. Mrs. Jencken and her two but She Never Complained. ligions. Wo passed in and out of the On the white «and» arc beating the long hour» sons wero living alone at 009 Columbus room where Mrs. Maynard lay. Ordi­ away. Ave. Her death was so sudden and un­ narily, the presence of an invalid on expected It made her sons so nervous T o t h e E d it o r :— A lato number of suoh’un occasion would be a restraint "Oh! the wondrous treasures I »aw In the »«al tho Now York Nun contains an oxcellont And the Icason« the;' taught In tbclr murmur» they would not remain in the house the upon tho pleasure, but it was a cause of first night and I was obliged to remain communication with reference to Mrs. to me general comment that Mrs. Maynard Was this that I give you—that labor alone alone with the corpse, and no communi­ Maynard, who lutoly passed to Spirit­ seemed to enliven us all, in spite of her 1» the mean« to develop the treasures we own. cations were received. Mrs. Safer and Ufo. physical suffering. All her expressions Mrs Robertson kindly took charge of White Plains had a remarkable fu- wero so pure and noble that even non- "In the ocean of life there’s a far brighter gem nerul and reraurkublu gathering on Than ever encircled a king'» diadem; the dressing of the corpse, and while bollevors wore inspired by her faith. And fur richer blessings are hidden, may he, doing so communications were re­ Thursday, June JO, when Nettle Col­ She wun an intellectual medium. Shu burn Maynard, wife of the postmaster, In some lonely spirit, thau In the deep sea. ceived, making certain requests in re­ would go into a trance, and, apparently, gard to Mrs. Kane; tho truthfulness and was laid to rest. Mrs. Maynurd had be unconscious of what she said or did ''Hul labor unceasing, ami close watchful care value of the communication was verified been known to nearly everybody In tho during the trance. I must believe that 1 » needed for progress, all hallowed by prayer; village, although she had been confined in one hour afterward. The following Bho was unconscious, because she said And the deep tides of nature are working for day I called upon the well-known me­ the thought that though all these things to her bed as a helpless invalid for a afterward, that sho had no recollection aye you enunotbo, you are such, really,in tho number of years. She had hud a very To faBhlou tho temples that never decay.” dium. Mrs. F. Mayer, 100 East 78thstreet, of what had huppened. She would re­ the Independent slate-writer and clair­ OUR NEW BIBLE. sight of God? A diamond Is no less a wide acquaintance within a certain circle cite poetry and messages from the W hile very young Mrs'. Maynard went voyant. A message was received from diamond because it has been mislaid outside of White Plains. According to spirits. Of course I do not mean to say and passed oft through ignorance as soino of the leading Spiritualists Mrs. on tho platform and lectured on Spirit­ Horace Greeley and J. Fenlmore Cooper, It Contains Divine Lessons. that she actually received communica­ stating that all those literary gentle­ common glass. A tulip seed is no lets Muynard was the most prominent wo­ tions from spirits of tho departed, but I ualism. In her hook sho says she was the sheath of u llowor, bccause_ through man in spiritualistic circles that Amer­ man that assembled at the residence of Evory Spiritualist Should Rond It. believe that she thought she did. an unlettered girl at that time, but that the Rev. Dr. Greswold, tho Episcopalian mistuke somebody has labeled it as com­ ica has seen. It is said that she was a Why should a woman overcome with the spirits controlled her so that sho mon timothy. A silk fabric is no less medium of remarkable powers, and that clergyman in Broadway, soon after the physical torture which no money could talked most eloquently. Sho seems to arrival of tho Fox sisters in New York, CHAPTER X. the product of tho mulberry-feeding she won tho confidence aud esteem of alleviate, attempt to deceive her friends have met a number of prominent public for the pur|>oee of investigating the re­ T o t h e Ed it o r :—! present you n worm, hocauso somebody has wrapped investigators. The belief in her earnest­ on such sacred matters? How could a chapter for your new Bible. Every It in a brown paper parcel and valued it ness, honesty and purity of motives won men. How sho impressed them may markahle phenomena, namely; Mr. woman whose dally speech was noble, Geo. Bancroft (the historian), Rev. Dr. Spiritualist should read it, and study it, as domestic jeans. W hat you are, you for her a following that no other me­ refined, aud full of exquisite sentiment, never be known, but how she thought and ponder its contents well, and assim­ are, and there is no power on earth can dium could boast of. It was that, also, she Impressed them is set forth in her Hawke», Dr. J. W. Francis. Dr. Marcy, lie to her friends, aud oven to her hus­ Mr. N. P. Willis, Mr. Wm. Cullen Bry­ ilate all its sublime thoughts. It em­ gainsay it. Other folks may ignore it which induced Spiritualists of promi- band, about herself? Hor trances were book. Her acquaintance with President anates from the pen of Amber in the in you; half the world—nay, all the Lincoln, which inspired her book, ant (the poet), Mr. Richard P. Kimball. exhausting, and therefore increased hor Mr. H. Tuckerman, Gen. Lyman, and £r, nitty Journal: world may full to see it, but if nobility, pain. She know she had only a short brought hor into greater prominence Only after a man has wintered in this and strength, and sweetness are there than any other incident in her career. Mr. Bigelow, of the Ereniny Post, and a time to live. At her silver wedding sho vast host of intelligent human beings, world can he make good timber. June you are worth just that much to God! said she would live only a few weeks, If her view of it is believed, the Presi­ zephyrs do notbring forward great trees; Blessed thought, Isn't it, you poor, over­ dent was u Spiritualist and was greatly were present at the reception o f K atie and reminded Mrs. Richmond of their Fox into Spirit-life, exerting a peculiar it takes repeated tussles with the nor’- worked clerk, with your brain always in agreement of thirty years ago. It was influenced by communications from the casters of December and March to de­ a muddle with the dry details of a busi­ spirits obtained through her. She sayB magnetic influence, that brought the Impossible thut that woman could have new-born spirit to consciousness: and velop the fibre from which a ship-builder ness you hate? Blessed thought, isn't been acting a lie all her life. I cannot he attended several seances given by would choose the timber for a masthead. it, you dear, tired woman with more her In tho latter part of 1S02 and the then it was that sho first beheld her pretend to say what caused her trances, mother and husband, then other mem­ When I hear people bemoaning that burdens to carry than a maple tree has or what they amounted to. I only feel winter of 1863. At some of these ex­ they have a hard time, it seems to me leaves? No matter how impossible it Congressman Somes of Maine, Gen. Dan­ bers of her family; also Mr.