A JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL REFORM, DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATION OF HUMANITY IN THIS LIFE, AND A SEARCH FOR THE EVIDENCES OF LIFE BEYOND. IJ. J. OW EN, E d it o r a n d P v i u s m b i V O L. I I TERMS (In A d v a n c :): $3.50 per annum; I M Q m 734 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1886. \ $1.35 for six months. ( /• C O N T E N T 8 : THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN SCIENCE. can reveal; but there hi something that no that all space is God’s space; but all space I his pen and sent forth thoughts like gleam­ FIRST P a g e . —Gems of Thought; The Signs of the microscope can discern, and it is that is powerful space, and there is just as much I ing stars on the side of freedom, while T im es in Science; Richard Realf. I An Interesting Address, delivered by the which perceives beautiful sounds. It is power as space. Oh, if an artist had eyes | flitting about like a wild gazelle, always Rev. 8. B. Calthrop. the very invisible of the invisible, partly S e c o n d P a c e . — Glim pse 1 in Spirit Land— No. a; A to sketch that inch of space, how glorious I being found where danger and “ border Remarkable Median; The Slate-Writing Gift; Ma-[ (The Chmiian Register.) spiritual; for the ear is the organ of man's it would be to sketch the dance of atoms, ruffians” were thickest. He met John teruiiration Points; The Final Religion of Earth; spirit. to see them touch each other, to see the The new theology that is scientific is Brown, their hearts echoed reponsive M ore Light; Spiritualism Defined, etc. Then there is alteration in the human beautiful vibrations going on. * Fancy the chords, and it was very natural that the , THIRD Pack.—The Church vs. Spiritualism; The Free finding itself, and will find itself, by the voice. Think of the- difference between atoms of hydrogen dancing eight hundred hero of Ossawatomie should take him : Platform Nuisance; Experience Department, (Spirit very law of its being, greatly different from the savage’s howl and the voice of the million times a second and never jostling into his confidence. Form; Dr. Slade); Spiritualism, etc. the old theology. I wish to represent to­ master of song. The human voice is now one another! Oh, the perfection of that His pleasing manners, emotional and Fourth P age. —1 Editorials) A P le a for a ■ Little Sense; j night not godless science, but theology, capable of giving all shades of dignity and dance! The artist would show us that poetic temperament, with a womanly ten­ What has he Gained? Seeking for Light; Primitive wonder and grandeur and worship, and wherever there is power there is beauty. derness, would never lead any one to sus­ Christianity; Second; Once More; Psychometric religion, informed and ennobled by sci­ this difference is a part of the invisible The theologian goes a little further, and pect that he was at all times ready to Readings; Self Sacrifice; Loose an d Taut; The N e w ence. And the first thing we have got to Society; Just the Same; Help; Considerable; Editorial work of the divine creation. Look at the asserts that wherever there is space there is sacrifice his life for the poor slaves. Brown N o tes. take up is the conception of the evolution brain. Take the brain of a savage and justness; and science is beginning to back chose him Secretary of State in his cabi­ compare it with that of a Newton, and you him up. Wherever there is sgace there is net of officers to march on Harpers’ Ferry. ifth ace II of life on the planet. We then lose at F P .— Editorial Notes; Spiritualism in Atlanta, shall see no difference in the texture, a reaction equivalent to the action, and that He was reported killed in that enthusi­ Georgia; Psychological Experiments; M rs. F. A. once the idea that God ever created an Logan at Unity Church; P ea rls from Ingersoll; W a s it little in the form, in the convolutions, but will hold true everywhere. If you behave astic raid, but a few years after he was Spirit Power? Passed On; Professional C ards; Adver­ organism without an organism. That is, microscopic identity in substance. You meanly to space it will go back on you. found doing valiant service for freedom tisements. the new Genesis says, “ The Lord said, can not put your finge^ on the difference; And, now, Christianity says the final word, ]with pen and sword in the Union army. Sixth P age.— Mind and Matter; Optimistic Observation; Let us make men.” He did not mean and yet it is the difference between knowl­ —Wherever there is space there is love;L His long career as a frontiersman and his Core for Atheism; F. W . Evans on Spiritualism; edge and ignorance, between the animal let us make men up there in the infinite and so the end of scientific theology is to army life told heavily on his once beauti­ P*oud of his Sister, etc. past and God’s mighty future. So the di­ fill space with God, with wisdom, might, ful face and physique; but his spirit, mind, heavens, but down here with the poor lit­ Seventh Pace.—A Wonderful Light; Professional Cards; vine emphasis in creation is increasing beauty, glory, truth, righteousness, and remained as tender and sweet as ever. Publications; Advertisements; etc. tle fishes. The Lord said to his small power all* the time, fitting the organism love. So we may feel that scientific the­ He became connected with the Pittsburg Eighth P age.—The Morning, Noon, and Twilight of creatures, which men to-day despise, We for a bright and beautiful, a noble, a joy­ ology is guiding us into the midst of God; (Pa.) Commercial, made speeches for the Life; Anti-Typical; Calling the Angels In; She was will build man; and He did. Then the ous and blessed life. That creation is go­ and, if we want to know about him, we Republican party, was a popular lecturer "Somebody's Mother;" A Waif’s View of Wealth; first thing the scientific theology has to do ing on all the time. You can feel it. If have only to examine a cubic foot of space in New England on many reforms, and Advertisements, etc. is not to tolerate evolution, not to patron­ any one says to me, “ But I can not, I do around our own heads. This view gives contributed to the leading magazines some ize it; not only to accept it, but to be part not see this creation going on,” I say to the conception to the mind of man that of the finest poems in the English lan­ GEMS OF THOUGHT. and parcel of it. It has got to accept the him, Put your mind on noble thinking the universe is one vast telephone. It is guage. Married in 1865 to a lady much idea that God built men through the and being, and it will go on without your wonderful to me to talk to my friend across older than himself and so unlike him in Truth alone conquers. lower animals. This is the only way in knowing it, whether you wake or sleep. miles of space, and hear his voice. But thought and feeling that harmony was im­ which you can justify the divine effort. The inspiration of Israel was a heart in­ that is only a symbol of what is going to possible, he applied for a divorce and Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in There was a purpose from the first dot of spiration; and, from time to time, a new happen. For years, I believed that my got it in the lower courts; but the Supreme the mind, that nothing can draw out, life down to this age, and it is impossible thrill of inspiration enlarged her religion mother’s prayer reached me instantly, be­ Court set it aside on some frivolous techni­ Through harmony of body and spirit in a world like this to build organisms and thought, until we get the perfect Ser­ cause God was between her and me, and cality on the day he was to be married to the soul may bloom into perfect manhood. without organisms. The higher is built mon on the Mount. But that is not the took the message; and I think now that a young lady in Utica, N. Y. This wasa out-of-the lower, and sometimes with pain method of sejencev.,which i^ to take the between my mother’s prayer and me there heavy blow, added to his already sad life, How divinely beautiful is' the counte­ and sacrifice to the lower. The cross of lowest things and cUmo up. If you want is no space. She is with him asTamalsd, which came near'killing him. He parti­ nance through which a grand soul shines. Christ begins down there. We must say, to adopt the scientific method in living, and there is no time between the thought ally recovered and wrote again with great then, that man’s body had to be take the law of Christ, and see if it will and the feeling. No space, be it that of usefulness and beauty; but his life was Each form of worship that hath swayed made, and it has been made by the make your home better and sweeter.