VOL. II. the editor of the Texas Spiritualist, recently, as A Christian gentleman, and the Banner of L'ujht

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1 VOL. II. IFJtryscal L f e T le 3?rm.a ry L e p artraert n. tle S c lc o l of H u n a n Progress. / (M IX!) A \l) MATTER P u b ls h n g llo u so,) Xo. 7PI S anson S root, IMla*, P a. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY,.1 IN E A, II. S. S. -, NO. 28. For Mnd and Maler..LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER. JIY 1IO U AC K M. H K IJIA H D S. Let tm lovc oe another when llowers are n bloom. Let us love one another n wnlc 8 chll gloom, I.et us love, one another when for lne smles far, ' l.et us.iove one another 'md gref and despar. Let us love one another wherever we go, Let us love one another whle we tarry helow, Lot us love one another from morn untl even, Let us love one another, and lovng (lnd Heaven. 8t>rlngflfld, 0. The Warfare o f Scence.. R okrt k Landnc, Cal., May T>, I.RSl), To the Kdllar of Mnd and Maler: Perhaps the followng, taken from the ] <>ndue Scrnar Mohthh for February, IK7(, may he of ad ll showng to your readers some of the rdculous postons that have been taken by that class of relgonsts whch some of our Sprtualstc would-be leaders would lke to have us ape; also, the terrble prce that has been pad for every stop forward n the path of progress. A Texas edtor spoke of I lrmnpl of s enco ranst tlu* clams of the vl-. gonst (Chrstan.) What was lost not. lo relgon (but Chrstanty) by the obstnate gnorance of her adherents n ths battle. Smply Ibs, (hedrvngaway from ; her hosts of the best men n all countres, OnA le-other hand what was ganed by t le warrors of scence for relgon (not Chrstanty), Smply a-far more enfoldng concepton of the ; world, a far truer concepton of the power* that made and sustans t. Whch s the more consstent wth a great, a true relgon, the Cosmo- gony of Cosmas, or that of Jsaav-Newton whch presents (le'nobler food for relgous thought at the datrbes of Lactantus or the astronomcal dscourses of Thomas Chalmers. : The next great battle was fought on the queston : relatng to the poston of the earth among the heavenly bodes. The doctrne that the earth s ; the centre and that the sun and planets revolve around t, was old and of the hghest respectablty.. : On May 21th, 1r>111, less than dolt years ago, Kopernk had a copy of hs book put nto hs bands.! Hut le was on hs death-bed,'and n a few hours le was beyond the reach of those mstaken conscentous men, whose conscences would have blotted hs reputaton and perhaps destroyed hs! lfe. The hook was taken n hand by the proper the edtor of the Texas Sprtualst, recently, as A Chrstan gentleman, and the Banner of L'uht hastened to copy the nsult nto ts columns, In ; authortes and solemnly condoned.. To read t the followng, where the wrter uses the wopd was to rsk damnaton, am the world accepted'the relgon, 1 have n places substtuted Chrstanty, decree. -. c, : ---- Thus makng the poston taken by the wrter true,. Nor were Catholcs alone n ths. Both Luther ll a measure, Otherwse l ls as publshed, n sad aqd Melan-lhon condemned the new scentfc monthly.. A-. Ians W xsuookk:.. doctrne..the.former, sad, The. fool wshes to My thess'whchyhy a..'hstorcal study of ths] reverse the entre system- of astronomy; btsa? warfare, 1 expect to develop, s (le followng: In 1-cred scrpture tells us that Joshua commanded the 1 all modern lslory, terfercnee wth scence n rutn to stand stll, not, the earth, And the latter, the supposed nterests of Chrstafy, ro matter I mld as le was, was not behnd. Luther n lsconhow conscentous -such nterference "may have t damnaton.! been, lps resulted-jn Jhe drect evls, bnth lo rel- Galleo, wth hs rude telescope, verled the gon and scence, nvarably, " And, Tm (le other theory of Kopernk. 11 s persecutons are fam.l- I hand, all untrammelled scentfc nvo.stgnlon,.not ar to the reafer, the thnker, Hut. though Gal-q qattcr how dangerous o relgon some o f ts leo Tell, champons pressed oft. Campanclla-, full" stages may have seemed, for the tme to le, has of vagares, as le was, wrote hs apology for (lafnvarably resulled n llc hghest good of relgon leo, though for that, and other hereses, relgous (not Chrstanty) and of secnee. f say,' nvarably.! I. mean exactly that. It s a rule to whch hsorv shows not one excepton. ' It seems lo me,frends, that the above statement unat be logcally true.- Cod s truths must agree, and poltcal, le seven lmes.underwent.tortures;. Then Kepler lends scence lo greater vctores ; thnks and speaks lke one nspred. Ms huttlo. s severe; le s sometmes abused, sometmes' rdculed, sometmes mprsoned, l rntcslnnts Jt whether dscovered by lookng wthout upon (le! Syra and Cat Indes at Home press upon hm ; but world or wthn upon tho soul.,, - Newton and other great'lelders follow, and to Hut logc s not hstory'! Hstory s full of n- scence remans the vctory, terfcrenccs of (le workers nono lcld of nvest- Vet the war dd not wholly end ; the Church guton, wth the workers nlc ollcv that have ' stll clamed authorty over (le nvestgatons of cost the earth dear; and strangest of all, some of Iscence as lac as 1772, when the famous EysUal^ the drcsl of these have been made by the best, of!expedton for sccntlcdscovery under Cnpt.Cook' tnen, men actuated by (le pfresf of motves, and saled. DC Prestly was reected, notwthstandng seekng the noblest results. These nterferences ' hs lfncssas sccntlcaulhortv,because (teclergy and tle struggle aganst them make up the war-!of Oxford and Cambrdge declared hm msould fare of scence, show through what eonllets she I n hs vews of the Trnty; and ths whom Sr. has won.her laurels. Joseph Hanks (ad especally nvted hm. The frstgreat, Tattc-eld.between relgon n May, LS2(,.whon the people met to unvel (Chrstanty)'and scence lo whch I shall.refer, s Thonvaldse s statue of lyopernk, the people exthftt of geography- the smplest elementary doe- kneeled n relgous servce, hut not a prest could trne of The earth s slmpe and surface, 11he nduced ^to.appear... Andas Inters 185!),,at the, When a few thnkers hazarded the suggeston funeral of Alexander Von tjumholt, one whose That the earth s round, s h globe, tle greatest labors were amohg the greatest.glores of the connul most earnest of melt Took frght at-once. To I tury, and whose obseques were tle most mposng them the dea of tle.earth s rotundty seemed! that Berln had 'ever wtnessed, stll, except tle fraught, wth danger to the Scrptures. offcatng clergyman and a few who were consd- Ftlsebus and Lactantus tred to pul- the.new 1 cred unorthodox, the clergy- were not repredea down by rdcule, and when to the globe sented, /. theory-was added the ea of there beng nlah- ' Now what has the party who would subordnate tants on the opposte sde of He earth, Lnelrtus, (he methods and ams of scence to theology done? Augustne and others gave drect battle, and They, They have gyen to Chrstanty the: _severest' too, falng to crusl out the new deas, the oppo- blows t has ever receved ; they have made large neats thereof bult, n the sxth century, a great numbers of the best men lafo t. On (le other fortress and retred nto that. Ths fortress was l hand, what lum scence done Ibf relgon? Wd nothng less than a complete theory of tle world I have Kbpernk escapng persecuton only by bult upon lteral nterpretatons of Scrpture, and I death; we lave (ordano llnmo burned alvo as ts author was Cosmas Indcopleustes,! a monster of nquty; (alleo mprsoned and Accordng' to Cosmas, the earth s a parnllclo- humlated as the worst of msbelevers; Kepler gram, Hat and surrounded by four great seas, At I lmted alke by l rolcstant and Catholc, Wo seous or mponderable. tle.outer edge of those seas rse mmense walls!have these.'gvng to relgon great hew founda-, ' Wthout sprt, matter would ho a myth or eoasc dosng n the whole structure. These walls sup-1 lons, great, new tumblng conceptons, a great to exst, for n ashes, the sprt, of.ashes nheres, port tle vault'of the heavens, whose pdges are new revelaton of Cod. cemented to the walls; walls and vault shuttng n Under lle old system, we lave that prncely as? the earth.and all the 'heavenly bodes. Tle whole tronomer Alfonso of Castle, seeng the poverty of oftlns theologc,. scentfc fortress was bult most, (he Ptolemac system, ycl. knowng no other, carefnlly/mdl was then l-hoghtmost scrpturaly'!startlng t'hroe wth the blasphemy that, f le the founder, wth other nterpreters, of hs tme, had been present at. creaton, le could lave sugnsstng that the form of The,tabernacle n tle I gested abetter orderng of tle heavenly bodes, desert was after (le pattern of the unverse, and! Under the new system, we have Kepler, moved-, quotes tle grand poetc passages of Isaah, Job, lo the.depths of hs beng wth relgous awe and and those found n tho Psalms of.davd, and what real soul-worshp, exclanng, Ido thnk tluf s su'd ngeness, takes such expressons, as' thoughts of (lod,, He that sttoth upon'the crcle of Ihe earth, Unt! We next take the Scence of Chemstry. _Here ptrctcheth oat tle hoavens' lke a curtan, The 1 the most, cleend Weapon used by relgonsts' pllars of heaven,"the wndows of heaven, etc. :((Jrstans) was the charge of sorcery, of unlawful. Tgs oblong-box lke unverse, s dvded nto ] compact wth tle devl. ThcVatalogUvof che'k Two compartments, one above the otheyn- the sts and physcsts, thwarted by rgd scrptral nfrst of those men lve and the stars move, n the!terpretatons and hv the charge of magc, wold upper oe are the angels, whose man busness s.fll volumes. Albert of Hollstudt, better known to push the sun and planets to and fro. as Albert the Great, who stand s fdrh as 'thegreat--.outgrowth of ther own condton, whether good ' At tle dose of hs-argument n support of hs est. scholar n Germany, n the thrteenth century, ; ^r e.vl, pleasant or otherwse as ther earth-lfe theory, Cosmas bursts forth nto ruptures, declarng that Moses, the prophets, evangelsts and It seemed to be the receved dea that as soon Analogy would- seem to warrant tle dea that fell under ths latter charge. 1ms been guded by wsdom and purty. apostles, agree to the truth of hs doctrne. as a man conserved the love of studyng the works ; And ths theory sustaned by the greatest mnds of Hod, hs lrst step must he a league wth tle n the church, stood frm for two hundred years, devl. and then a bshop, Yrglus of Subbng, asserts We pass by a host of nferor names and next hs belef n the exstence of tre antpodes. Hut take Roger Bacon. Hs work as t s now revealed the church ralles to put down de heresy, and sx to us was wonderful. By hm, more than by any hundred years more pass away when two men other man of the nddle ages, was tle world put publcly assert ths doctrne. The frst of these, on tle most truthful paths to scence tle paths Peter of Ahano, escapes punshment hv natural whch have led to the most precous nventons, death, the second Cecco de Ascol, an old man of; Clocks, lenses, burnng specula, telescopes, were 80 years, was burned alve, gven by hm to the world, ether drectly or nd- Columbus was the next warror, and thus on tll rectly. He, too,; was charged wth beng n comafter twelve centures, the war enlds n a complete pact wth Satan; and when about to perform a few experments for some frends, all Oxford was n an uproar. It was beleved that Satan was lot loose. Thnk of p;ests, fellows and students rushng about, ther garments streamng n the wnd, whle every where resounded tle cry, Down; wth the conuror!" The whole artcle s too long for your columns, lnt we can see how one theory after another 1ms: gone down, and tle Man (lod wll dsappear hvund-by. '. h. W. ^ We Cordally Concur. Boston, Mass., May 111, 18S0. Edtor Mnd and Matter: Your ssue of May 8th contaned a very approprate reproof of the Paul I rvsm, whch sometmes attaches tself lke barnacles to tle bottom of the sprtual shp. As t clngs to tle base, t may le termed the lowest order of Sprtualsm. 1do not know Mr. I latch, 1ml from the record, 1.beleve he las taken tle course best calculated to develop the hghest order of proof, that,- though a man de he shall lve agan." Mr. Hatch has taken hs relgon lo hs home and to hs heart, flled wth sacred memores of a beloved daughter, The home altar s ever the altar of truth and love; and wthn Hnt sacred'precnct Mr. 1 latch has been blessed beyond the lot of hs fellow-men, n the return of hs heart's dol to (le scenes of her. earthly oys... 1have long advocated that the truest. Sprtualsm was that, found n- Ihe homo crcle: Dreed from dle curosty and (he 11 Paul Pry. ealouses, of coarse, and blunted natures. Why should any person, mlch..less a Sprtualst, who should le actuated by,- feelngs of the hghest respect lor famly les and home crcles, seek lo thrust hmself, unhdden 'an' uhveleome gtesl, wthn the portals ofs prvate resdence,once lllclod by Ihe ascenson, but now blest by tle return of a beloved chld? _ Mr. I latch las shown a marvelous sprt, of hosptalty, Iml Ths s Ihe best of reasons, why that, hosptalty should not n1 rudely forced to nclude tle rude and suspcous, wth, ther-.attemlaul sprts, and Thus turn that home of heavenly harmony nto a hell of dscord. r If t s true that tle home of Mr. htch "s holy ground, where angel feel may tread, then s le the guardan, chosen to keep and preserve the same nvolate and see llal none trespass theren, wlo-lave not a passport from Ihe hgh court of harmony.and love. It s n le mped that sprts art1 ll. least free Vom tle control of the morbdly curous and garllous. If they are, then they lave the rgd to choose ther audtors when they return to earth. What rght las any Sprtualst to nvade flc home of hs neghbor? What rgd, las le to demand that, a votng, beautful and senstve sprt shall enter the. show-busness- to gratfy tho dle curosty of strangers, If the daughter of Mr, H. las returned lo lor parents, that s a truth sacred to them and ther frends, and n noway concerns strangers. If any Sprtualst desres to know the trdh of sprt return Ibf.'hm seek f n rs own crcle of frends. Tf satsfed of the truth of the demonstratons among hs own frends,' le need not trouble hmself about fletraud occurrng-n other places. If there s fraud, keep as far from t ns possble and you wll escape contamnaton. When every man ceases to thnk fraud, then fraud wll no longer exst. Yours for truth and home crcles. F. L. K. Sprt nnd Matter. Sprt s The actve prncple n matter and although t cannot ho seen, t exsts n everythng, whether anmal, vegetable-or. mneral Hat, gas- and n dust, the sprt of dust. The varous states resultng from Changes n He condtons of sprt and matter are natural and do not destroy ther dentty as sprt and maltor. They are Ihe same, although they nay have been changed n appearance, by certan causes'beyond Ther control. Sprt s mnd, or ntellgence n all tlngs, whether much or lt I lo whle, matter s the.more coverng that gves t form. The wll s a pecular (mcton of the mnd, oh of every sense am faculty n the. bran, and slle ' nherent"power.that moves all matter..from the1 verest mte to the mghtest-engne' that; courses' over mountans of ploughs across tle sea. Whle, death and all other changes whch sprt and matter are suhefto nduce a more relned.condton n other spheres and surroundngs, whch are tle nl exstng tlngs undergo smlar changes and are subected to laws adapted to ther natures whch cannot le evaded, consequently they must he ust and truly what they should be. W. B. Fankstock, M. D. Lancaster, Pa. John II. Brewer, Frankln Grove, Lee Co., 111., renewng' subscrpton, wrtes: I have receved your paper regularly nnd lke t very much.. May you be blessed more nnd more n your holy labor. Amen. The Lberal League Movement Organzaton and Co-operaton. < 1IY II. L. lltkkn. There never.wts a tme n the hstory of ths country when Lberalsm was such a power as t s to-day, and for the reason that ts frends are partally organzed. The- Lberal League movement s the lrst attempt to.organze the Lberals.of tle Unted States that las ever proved a success, We now lave nearly two..hundred auxlary Lberal Leagues; but we must le content wth nothng less than one thousand, And these must he lve workng Leagues. In all parts of tle country there are local organzatons Hud lave not as yet connected themselves wth the Lberal League movement. These should do so at once. A -large maorty of these socetes are sprtual assocatons, whose prncpal obect s to promulgate sprtual prncplesaml doctrnes and advance lberal vews generally. Hut every member of these socetes, I am'sure, beleve thoroughly n the Lberal League platform, and would lke to see t engrafted nto tle consttutons and laws of tle country; and hv becomng Lberal Leagues, these socetes could not 'only advance the Sprtualst deas, but could also assst, ths great movement n favor of the entre secularzaton of the State, * -Therefore, allow me to urge upon those varous local assocatons He great. mportance of attachng themselves to the League movement. All that s necessary lo accomplsh f s for any such socety to pass such.a resoluton as tle followng, nnd. Hum send t, wth lve dollars, (le charter fee, hr Prof, A. L. Dawson, I!) Lafayette Place, New York Cty, for a charer from the Natonal Lberal League /o.w/rd,.that ths Socety, desrng to eo-opetnlo wth the-natonal Lberal League n the ftftlernuceof ts general and specfc obects, hereby declares tself a local auxlary Lberal League, aecordug to the true ntent of he Uoslfuton of sad Natonal Lberal. League. ' I un pleased to learn that n many places those local otgazatous are consderng'the subect of takng out dallers us auxlary Lberal'Leagues, and-permanently connectng themselves wth tle greatest^ reform movement of the age, whch was approprately born on the fourth day of July, IS7U, tle centennal annversary of our natonal exstence.. 1 am gratfed to kuo\/llut our sprtual frends n Pollux, Indana, hlly apprecate Ihe stuaton, and are about to enlst n tle great,-lberal army of I'mnnen and women. I hope every Sprtualst- socety n ths country and every other Lberal assocaton wll follow ther example, The followng letter speaks for tself: ( o.aax, Ind., May 2-1, Mn, 11. L, Gkun : Enclosed fnd slump wth whch, ploaso send by return mal a copy of tho Consttuton and By-Laws of the Natonal Lberal League, together wth any other papers or crculars llustratng the obects and ams of the Lberal League movement, * Ever snce (le Congress of Lberals at, Cncnnat 1 lave been urgng and tryng to nduce the frends of Lberalsm-here to soml for a elartor and organze ns an Auxlary Leuguo, nnd I lavo at last succeeded n arousng n them a desre to, know somethng doflnto of ts prncples and purposes, and 1 lavo boon ntrusted to correspond, wth you relatve thereto. We huvc been an organzed socety of Progressve Sprtualsts here for tro last year or so promulgatng and dssemnatng the prncples of progressve Lberalsm, etc,, whch s al well enough, so far as t goes. But. wnd, we need s eo-operaton and unty of acton wth the great, Lberal element scattered broadcast throughout He land, so. that we may not, only know our own strength, hut. make t, known, felt and feared by or. 'opponents who would lke, f possble,-to throttle free-thought, and strangle f n ts Inepency. Organzaton and co-operaton by Lberals I beleve s the only way to hold bgotry n cheek, for by these lnetlodh wo.wll show them that we aro a power sulleent to compel them to wthhold ther vandal hands from the sacttl Temple, of Free Thought. ; ' - Hopng to hear from'you at. your convenence I- 'subscrbe-'myself yours n tho--.nterests of luu nanty.:. TIbn. B. IIeyden, Cor. See. Frst Socety of Progressve Sprtualsts. Yearly Meetng- Frends of Progress/ The thrty-second annversary of the 'Waterloo'.yearlv meetng wll le heldht the usual place ; cnr 'Waterloo, N. Y,, on Saturday and Sunday, ; June 5 and O', at 10 o clock AfM. Amng, as ths I meetng does, at the promoton of Truth and Moralty, and solvng the great problems of human' lfe, t neleates'the study of scence and the laws of the unverse, stll hopng for the better day : when men s actons shall le governed by these laws. All are cordally nvted to attend. Mrs.! Amela Colby, II. L. Green, Geo. W. Taylor and I other speakers are expected. Musc n attendance. By order of tle ' ComJttek ^ ^ Mrs. Dr. A. A. Jordan, Worcester, wrtes: I am much pleased wtl your paper and wll (lo all I can to obtan subscrbers for t. v

2 - * \ v f ' ',.. v. '",: 1 : - '. ' - ^ \ t \. IK a M IN D A N D M A T T E R ; '[ JUNE 5, M. S. 33.] CHILDREN S COLUMN. Wll*:RE THE CHILDREN A*RE. uv M. I), mu NIC. Out n the fellh, wlerc. the dases are growng, Far from tle ety away: Out n the meadows where breezes ure blowng All thro the glad summer day. Where-the bees hover pver The red and whte clover, And yellow-wnged butlertlcs'soar. From /lower to (lower, '. Thro' many an hour, Tll the brght day of sunshne s o'er. Out where the sunbeams are flckerng and fallng Down thro' the old forest trees, Whero sweet brds are ever ther truant' mates callng, And Ieaffes.rustle low n the breeze; Where the brook sngs ts song, Runnng galy along, Past the grasses and ferns bendng low O er the rpples so brght,. - Sparklng m the sunlght, As t scatters ts ruys to and fro. Out n the wealth of the summer-tde glory, Under the tender blue skes, -Whle nature s tellng ts Own wondrous story, - To glad human hearts, ears and byes; Growng strong day by day, * At ther wld, merry play, Are the dear lttle chldren wo seek. Rompng here rompng there Fndng oy everywhere,.gatherng dmples n'chn am n cheek. Our Kttens. I1Y HELEN NOItTHAM. I urn gong to tell you about our kttes. I guess you don t know there are four chldren that are Helen s Babes; well, there are at ths. house, anyway. Walter s seven and one-half years old ; Charle s sx; Robbe s three, and May s the baby. One day ths Sprng we heard t nccr nose n the cellar star-way. So we opened the door and all of us peeped n, and there, n a basket, we found that our old mother Tabby-cat had brought. four.dear lttle kttens one for each of the chldren!.charle sad, I never s posed a cat knew how to count!, but. our cat understands arthmetc very_well Pap; helped her a lttle wth her subtracton, so that she knew exactly how many kt-. tens to brng to four lttle folks'lke ours. Well, you can t guess, unless you have some lttle kttes of your own, how-much lme all.four ' of the chldren spent sttng down by that basket of kttes; talkng about what ther names should be; takng them out to see whch was the prettest; and all that,. _ I. saw Unt the, old cat was gettng nervous about; t; and l was thnkng I d put her away f or a whle lylcre the chldren.-couldn't fnd her to worryder; but I forgot, to tell her my ntentons and ddn t move her. So she thought she would make a move herself; and whle I was rockng May to sleep one. mornng, she.came and told me all about t-; how delcate the kttens were; how troubled she was for fear ther spnes would be affected, or ther eves pul out; or some other terrble thng happen to them. She Ha d she was perfectly wllng the chldren should play wth them, but thought t was her duty to wee that they were not nured. She talked so loud and ea'rneslly that I thought she would surely wake May, and 1 consdered t my duty to see that my baby had ts mornng nap. Yes}yes, I sad, go out and I ll see about t. She had heard me say that to the chldren and knew she had my consent, and so, wthout further delay, she made the change n localty,and I. soon, heard her quetng her babes under the houseway under, where none of us could get even to look at her. - 1 Well, we concluded tle kttens were as bad as lost, for we.supposed whenever they came out from under' the house they would be so wld we could take no comfort wth "them. But about four weeks from that tme, somethng else happened.funny about those same kttens. One eve, ust as the chldren were gvng ther good-nght ksses, to our surprse Tabby umped through the open wndow, and what do you suppose she had. n her mouth? Why, one of her luttens, to be sure! She put t down on the floor by us as much as to say: There! I thnk these kttens are strong enough now to bear beng played wth; so I have brought them bhek. She m-e-o-.w-ed and m-e-o-w-ed, and walked about, and lad the lttle ktten down near one and another tll we had to assure her we were glad, very glad to see her. Then she took the 'klte n her mouth agan and off she trotted up slgrs. In a,few mnutes she came down and went out of the open door, only to return soon through the wndow wth another klte n her mouth, whch had to be nfrodued all around the same as the other. Ths performance she repealed tll the four were brought n and put to sleep up stars. Next mornng, t was not very late before the four lttle folks were seated by the four lttle kttens, and talkng as fast as when they frst arrved. - I shall name mne Tabby, sad Walter, 'because she looks must lke old TablJy. And mne, sad Charley, I wll call Johnson, for I have hot forgotten or dear lttle yellow and whte Johnson we left n Calforna. Ths Calforna ktte, by the way, receved ts beautful name out of complment to a Mrs. Johnson, a frend of Charley s. Well, sad Robbe, guess I ll call mne Con-, te; I d ust lke to cull t Conte hs baby name for a favorte cousn. And the other one, sad Walter, shall be May s, for she won t know hers s the homely one. Why, t s so homely all gray and black t ust makes our maltese and whte one look all the pretter.. Oh say, Walter, sad Charley, lets call her Zebra, for she looks ust lke one, wth those black strpes all around her body. But I had to call the chldren down stars, for fear that old Tabby would thnk t advsablty-to move agan. All came but Robbe, and went outof-doors to play; and Robbe was so good I con- I eluded to let hm stay whle I was busy n the ktchen.! Out n the front yard was a-tub flled wth water for the flowers. Not long.after thechldren'had. I gone out to play I heard lttle feet patterng through the dnng room and a voce sayng: Mamma, I ve washed these lttle cats all nce and clean; they were-ust as drty as they could be. Old Tabby was tryng to wash them wth spt on her tongueand on lookng up there stood - Robbe wth two drppng kttens ll each arm, ; whle lttle streams of water were runnng from ther noses and toeses. Poor thngs! I wped them as dry as I could, and wrappng-them-n an ; old shawl, put them near the fre to dry. Baron P6llbnbuch, a promnent Sprtualst n Austra, lke Prof. Zollner n Germany, s deeply engaged n promulgatng the truths of Sprtualsm. He has publshed a number of works recognzng the phenomena, and s about to ssue a volume enttled The Intellgent JVorld. W. J. Colvlle wll speak n Washngton Hall, (Sprng Garden and Eghth streets, June 8th and 9th, at 71 P. M. Subect, on the evenng of the 8th, movement wll take tangble shape. The desgn s to nvte a representatve from every cvlzed! naton; when from all portons of the planet, n 1883, great numbers from all natonaltes wll be ' n attendance at the World s Far n New York. : It has been ascertaned that n nearly all parts of our planet men and women of.nfluence, who have : means and who know the Englsh language, would I be glad of the honor to come'as delegates, to a The Future of ths Republc as Vewed from the ; conventon of such magntude. It s qute probable that f there should be a general assemblng of Sprt World. On the evenng of the 9th he : wll answer questons from the audence. Old Tabby had come n and stood watchng me Mrs. J ambs A! B lss and nfant medum (Sunshne) left Phladelpha for Hllsde Home last, wth an anxous eye, lookng as f she was almost sure they d tll be down wth dpthera or croup, but they ddn t have ether; and they dd frsk JThursday mornng.,, She does not propose to gve around so lvely when they were dry, that Ido seances, but wll spend tle tme at the Home to! ' K : ], ' ( n e t ' e m b,()0(l;. recrut her strength preparatory to gvng seances Such tmes as we all had watchng those kttens! _,,, 1 /.?. "!'Every eve they had a great race,-to make.them-1 ^e Medums Camp-meetng at Creedmoor, sheddng of blood dspensed wth for all comng seep better, I suppose old 'Tabby wth them.! Park Grove. ' ' tme. M rs. Cora L. V. R chmond and husband are the Wm. Eddy at M.orava. guests.of Mr.and Mrs. S. P.Kase, 1601 N.Ffteenth G enoa', June I, street, where a recepton wll be gven them 5n Away they go under the stove and out one door and n another, upon the back of the lounge, over the table, under the stove agan rollng and tumblng. They were the greatest gymnasts tl/at ever were seen! Why, I do beleve they were Frday evenng, June 4th, and next day they wll all Turners! sal for Europe. Whle abroad Mrs. Rchmond s The chldren sad they played crcus and they surely had need of all ther knowledge of quck address wll be care of J. Burns, 15 Southampton motons when ther mother brought a lve mouse Row, Holborn, London, W. C., England. to them to gve them a lesson n mouseng. How they would hunt and worry the poor mpuse n ts race for lfe the mother quetly watchng or gvng a warnng p-mr-r m-e-o-w mar-r-a! f there seemed to be The kttens were worth mc/re than Toys to the wth th(j grbund8 and werc all phased wth the clldr nldren, for they vold go wthout havng to be,,, wound. nuud.up; and they dd not break nor get lost; prospects of the proposed Medums amp-mee tng beng a great success. On Monday last a small*pcc party vsted the Creedmoor Park Grove to look over the grounds and select stes for tents, etc. The weather was J anger of the mouse gettng away, delghtful and all expressed themselves delghted and when the chldren played keep house' th.ose-kttens were ust splendd. If vou don t thnk, so'ust try makng a doll of one of your kt tens. They would open and shut ther-eyes and We have receved from Prof. Buchanan a proposton to gve authentc hstorcal evdence of the exstence'of Jesus.of Nazareth, through the col the ntellgent mnds of all natons, am f they should conclude, after mature delberaton, to ssue ; n address to the world suggestng, among other thngs, a Court of Arbtraton to settle all dsputes, that by the dawn of the twenteth century all mltary establshments could be dsbanded, and the Edtor Mnd and Matter. Thnkng, perhaps, that some of your readers would lke to know the whereabouts of Wm. Eddy. He< s stayng at present wth hs sster, Mrs. Brown, at Morava, N. Y., where le would lke to see hs many frends. R. (I. Lvngston. R occ'ord, 111., May-31, I860 Edtor Mnd and Muller: In ustce to Dr. W. J. Clark, who has been actvely at work wth.me here for the past nearly, three months, and for the. nformaton of those who are unacquanted wth hs remarkable' gfts as a seer, hearer and healer, as well as one of the best, most earnest and fluent lecturers n the Lberal feld.. I feel called upon to say, after careful and a crtcal observaton durng ths tme, that I fnd hm... to be possessed wth the most remarkable clarvoyant and claraudent powers. And as a magnetc healer unexcelled by any-medum I have ever heard or read of. Dr. Clark wll be at the'belvdere Camp-treelng and have the'entre management of the exercses. ' Speakers now postvely engaged for the camp-meetng at Belvdere, Boone Co., HI., for June 17th to 21st: Moses Hull, Boston, Mass.; E. C. Walker, Iowa; Dr. A. J.Clark,. Ind.; W. F. Jameson, and Mrs. Julet II. Sever cry and go to sleep so natural; better than the fnest wax doll that was ever manufactured, umns of M nd and Master. We cheerfully acceded to the proposton and hoped to have had When the mothers were tred of holdng them they were all able to creep and amuse themselves whle the folks In the play-house were takng the frst nstalment thereof for ths number. It tea and dong ther work. has faled to come, but we trust t wll be forthcomng for our next ssue. At other tmes the kttens were harnessed nto t wo teams of lttle horses. Walter sad they were Narr.va Iyoung colts, for they ddn t know whch way to M. D. R obnson, the only daughter of l go at the pull of the rens, and when htched to our ftthful medum, Mrs. Kate B. Robnson,.of the lttle paste-board wagons, would ether le ths cty, was unted n the bonds of matrmony to I down or run away; but then that was all the ance, M. I),, Mlwaukee, Ws.; Mrs. Smpson, the Mr. George F, Gowen of Boston, Mass., Thursday/ more fun. J flower medum, Chcago, and other medums wll Are some of you askng f t wasn t cruel to let.may 27th, by the Rev. Joseph May, pastor of the be -there Jo gve demonstratons of: ther medal the chldren torment the kttens by such unnatu Frst Untaran Church. The weddng was a very I powers, - F. F. Fo..et, nl treatment? No, I thnk pot; for the kttens brllant aflr: the brde was made the recpent 1 - * were ther own pets, and the way they Oh of many valuable presents, and, after many happy Book Notces. dear-ed! and poor kttled! them, f by accdent they were hurt showed that they were careful n greetngs, left-wth her: husband for her future [The. Health Manuel Bv_ Edwn D. Babbtt, J), ther play wth them, and were cultvatng a love home n Boston. May ther marred lfe prove a I M. Publshed by Babbtt A Co., No. 5 Clnton' for anmals, the possesson of. whch wll never, Place, N. Y. happy one s the best wsh we have for them.... make a bad man nor woman of any boy or grl.' AVe fnd n the I leal H Manual, a work of rare J Lake P leasant Camp Meetng Often as the summer days passed I would-be ext August [ excellence, flled wth gems of scentfc thought, amused by callers sayng; promses to be-one of the pleasantest and -most- Barked by deep fcwareh.nto the mystc reang. Dear me! lour chldren and fve cats 1 don t >,. l p scence. The aspratons of a thnkng mnd s nterestng that has ever taken place. A large ho-; see how you lve! But do you know there are tel has been bult whch has ffty good-szed sleepng rooms, and wnch can seat lve..hundred n ts ' two sdes to everythng, and so many people never! see but one? * r Of course.our kttens gve.me a good deal o f: spacous.dnng-room. The restaurant at the de- carred ol ward and upward by the perusal of. such a work. It s true there are many who would fal to see anythng but fanatcsm n ts pages'; some mnds are so compactly stored wth I trouble lke any other kttens, They would go gnorance that there s no room for one advanced pot can accommodate three hundred at once; [where they were not wanted, and knew that thought, nor for one ray of.lght; but the- thnkng mnd grasps at the beautful probabltes of new cottages have been erected, and more hnd cream and cold boled ham was ncer than skm mlk and cold pork, as well as folks do; and to cleared up. Tckets wll be sold by the leadng seemng mpossbltes, and tres and tests them my great annoyance would help themselves to ralroads at half rates. The formal cam])-meetng untl all thngs seem possble. Dr, Babbtt has f dantes, f left h ther way, as freely as human proved hmself to be one of ths class; he has read wll begn August 8th and close August 29ll. bengs. the advanced works of master mnds n the past, Promnent medums and speakers wll be present I But the chldren were amused hours at, a tme ; and wth true benevolence gves thp.segreat teachers credt lor the nstructons receved from them; and the play-spells they had wth those kttens n large numbers Voce of Ameh. ; they wll never forget, Am the many tmes the and not stoppng here, he has thought for hmself 'Tun Medums Gamp-meetng, to open n Greed-! chldren came to me wth eyes dancng, faces and added to the mmortal page of hstory these moor Park Grove, on the Delaware rver, July 1st, Hushed wt h exctement, and all talkng at once,.,.... thoughts, fortfed by facts and correct obse.rva- n ther eagerness to. tell the wonderful story,. P^oubch. to bo the most nterestng cllort ol any I turns have panted pctures s n my memory tlat-j trust! n that lne elsewhere beng made, The gatherng. Dr. Babbtts trkes unreletmgly at.the old rouwll never be J ' tne of medcal practce, gvng the rght hand of effaced. Y o w k Folks -Rural.! fellowshp to those who truly seek the good of EDITORIAL BRIEFS. Tun Ilarmonal Socety of Sturgs, Mch.,'meets; June 18, 19 and 20, H arry B astan has been fllng a week s engagement n Ithaca, N. Y. Mas. Nette P ease Fox wll speak n Masonc Temple, N. Y., durng ths month. M l H arry P owell left New York Cty lor Rochester, N. Y., Saturday last, where he ntends to hold hs slate-wrtng seances R ead advertsement on seventh page headed Blss Magnetzed Planchette. Orders are comng n from all quarters for,ths lttle nstrument. The Vermont State Sprtualsts..Assocaton wll hold ts annual conventon at Plymouth, June 11,12 and 13. W. II. Wlkns, Secretary, South Woodstock, Vt. Ask your newsdealer to keep M nd and M atter on sale. He can le suppled drect from ths offce or through the Amercan News Company of N"ew York -Ct-y, at wholesale rates.. M rs. S mpson, of Chcago, the flower medum, contemplates vstng England soon. Her manfestatons occur n daylght, and skeptcs have no chmeras to hang ther doubts upon'. Dr. S lade s expected n Ghcago, III., n about a week. He vsts.'sprngfeld and Quncy before gong there... Hs agent, Mr..Bradshaw, has been ' n Chcago makng arrangements for hm. ; of the country s best medums for all phases, s alone a great nducement to all who seek pleasure sufferng humanty. In tlsstrke at drug posonng le s supported by such men as Rush, Coop and study combned, to attend. The grove s one of the most delghtful portons of.,god s earth, and er, Mott and otherf. He also proves by an elaborate argument that physcans n all ages have we do-not, feel surprsed that extensve preparatons are beng made already by large numbers of the bottom of the glass, whle the refned and en chosen the law of weakness, usng the dregs at people from all parts of the country to be present, ervatng substances are allowed to escape ther Ths camp-meetng wll be the successful one of notce. - - In ths work we fnd the blendng beauty of the.season, We wll gve detals of ts nostatharmony advocated; tones, tastes, colors, and tractve features p a later'ssue. forces, when properly unted and concentrated, make one grand whole, showng the true phlosophy of cure. By ths law of harmony the forces are eqalzed and dsease annhlated. Every well regd physcan knows that, dsease s a loss of meetng and basket pcnc, n the beautful Ismd I'^l'dlbrnn of the natural forces. Hence, any! G rove M eetng and B asket P cnc. The Mcl- : gan Mutual Beneft Assocaton of Sprtualsts and Lbcralsts wll hold ther second annual, grove law brought, nto clent upon the human economy, Grove, at Schoolcraft, Mch., on Sunday,"June 13, : by-whch these forces can be equalzed and harmonzed, proves tself, beyond a doubt, the law of at ft) A. M. J. 11. Burnham, of Sagnaw Cty, and ; 1 Mrs. R...Shepard, the well known and hghly health. gfted nspratonal speaker, wll address the meetng. Mrs. (He Chld Denslow,of South Bend, wll The bass of ths law has been effectually demonslratod by IheMheory and practce of E. D. Babbtt, to le found n the human aura, by the I furnshnusc for the occason, An admsson fee wll power, by the layng oh of hands, and by the. of Id cents wll be taken at the gate to defray expenses of the meetng. Specal excurson trans the head of chrombpathy. applcaton of harmonous colors treated under 1are'expected-to run on the. dfferent, ralroads, no* Ths hook should he n the hands.of every physcan n the land, who s not loo bgoted 'to add tce of whch wll be gven by posters.,t. II. to hs store of knowledge, and well deserves the Burnham, Brest.; Mrs. Ida A. McLn, Sec v. I notce of the readng and thnkng masses, Prce n paper ot) cents, or bound n musln, Conventon and Ca.mc Meetng ok Mchgan stamped n llack, 81, poslepad. * * Lera ls The Lbera sts of Mchgan wll hold n conventon and camp-meetng on the' far - The, IJ/ht <f Aea, or,.the Great Renuncaton. grounds at Lansng, tlecaptal of the State, com- By ld wnarnold. J. K. Funk A Co., 10 and P Dey Street, N. Y, mencng Saturday,, June 26th,. and.closng Monday,, Mr. Edwn Arnold s an earnest, sncere Sprt July oth L le camp-meetng wll extend through ualst, but n a somewhat quet way; and f any the entre tme,"and wll... be devoted to socal pur of our orthodox frends, who exhbt more anx poses, to the dscusson of reformatory and lberal T he Onset Bay Grove Assocaton wll hold a Jqcs, and to a general agtaton all along the Basket Pcnc June 17th, at whch an opportunvty Lberal lne. The conventon proper wll-meet wll be gven to nspect the grounds and engage on.saturday, July 3d, and be n sesson on Sunday lots or cottages for the ensung camp-meetng, the 4th. Its general work wll be the dscusson, ; whch wll hold from July loth to.august 18th. -[ an, perfectng of plans for the dssemnaton of ; ety about the popularty.of a man than they do about the soundness of Is arguments, doubt ths fact, they wll have that doubt removed by readng hs poem, The Lght of Asa, whch s so much sought after n ths country and n Europe. It s unmstakably orgnal, and remnds us of Morrs s Earthly Paradse. It descrbes the lfe and character of that noble hero and reformer, Voce of Angels., : lberal thought, and encouragng the formaton of \ Prnce Gautama, of Inda, the founder of Budd whose fath s professed by four hundred! T he theologcal terrors of the church have been : lberal Leagues. Address S. B. McCracken, Man- hsm, and seventy mllonsof the human race, from Geyv : a subect of comment for thnkng mnds for lnn- Id11? Secretav, Detot, Mch. Ion to.swedsh, Lapland. Paper, 16 cts. Ths s [ dreds of years, and a good example of t s World's Peace Conventon. lor some tme [ one of a standard seres of books publshed by ths ; shown Melancthon s memors of Martn Luther,' 1there has been a movement on foot n Washng- lnn, on clean whte paper and plan type, meet- he says: Whle he was astonshng nstances of great alarm would suddenly affect hs whole frame earth, for tle purpose ot betterng tle condton, essays on Gethe, Burns, Schller, and m as almost to frghten hm to death. ophumanty, and durng the comngautumn the. Mrabeau, on the Athenan orators, etc.

3 [JUNE 5, M ']' M IN D A N D M A T T E R. ' THE PRESS-MAY EVIL SPREAD AS WELL AS GOOD. IW W. B. FAHNESTOCK, M. D.. G a p n g s c a t c h n g, s o a r e a l l'u e lls T h ll m a n s s u b e c t t o a n d t w e r e w e l l, 1! edtors of papers, magaznes, Perodcals, and all other means That news convey, would stay (le prntng of All dre accounts of plagues and other'lls Of murders, rots, sucdes and crmes,- As well as all gallows scenes, robberes And mnor deeds that mal s gulty of. ' f ths were done and followed up by all Itd of example, man would better prove, As these dread pctures were from hm wthheld- 'And as more pleasant scenes are held to vew, More kndly feelngs,'motves amu-esolves, Would emulate hs soul and make hm strve To mtate md avt a belter part.. 1( from the press, the pulpt and the stage - Ths hnt were promulgated far and wde, The man who now s sulkng deeper down n uffny, Mould soon regenerate >.And dsenthralled, rse n hs mght mce more.above degeneraton, and agan, ]!.e what le should le a true man ndeed'.. Some wrongly mpressed, may thnk and argue That such defects n man should be upheld.to terrfy, and thus prevent spell deed. A false concluson, as the growng scenes Of degradaton, vllany and I'huds Fully demonstrate, and lotdly appeal. To those who thus, whether from love of gold,. Or mstakm vews, stll make these evls, Publc, md thereby causerepetton, Of the lly that heller were hot so. We, therefore, n the nunto of manknd plead That these mstaken notons be reversed, And Unt nstead of magnfyng lls, Hereafter, they wll publsh them no more. J,anmtcr, / «. SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS. ALFRED.JAMES. MEDIUM.- Godfrey Du Boullon.-' Good Afternoon, S r : When n.mortal-lfe I was a mltary man. My actons nfluenced by what? By the fanatcsm of belef. The brghtest ntellects that 'have ever been born on ths planet have been obscured by superstton. 1 was one* who sought to, tght for lberty, but, my dea of lberty was of a very lmted character, Lberty to mc meant the rght to beleve as the relgon of the cross dctated, and the person who dd not conform to the requrements of that relgon I deemed unworthy of lfe on ths planet. Sr, 1 was a solder a man whose heart, beat for what? For what I consdered to be rght. If I was wrong t was the outgrowth ol the day n whch I lved. I drew ny sword n the servce of truth, and never, ntentonally dd I sully t wth dshonor.' 'Lfe wts a strange engma n my day. Ast sprt 1 would say solemnly that then! s n lft* nn eternal lfe that overshadows every acton,and I set! ths -lsa fnalty, whatever the msconceptons of the soul eternal happness wll be the end, Out of my soul, thou accursed error that, would lead me ether mortally or sprtually'to endorse that whch s preached for relgon tt. the present, day. As a solder 1 was a fanatc as a relgonst.1was swerved by prests but as a sprt 1 ask -that eternal nf-cnce to' cofne here to-day and arrest-the rascaltes of the teachers of (le.so-called word. 1 was known when here ts Godfrey 1.)e Boum.on, Duke of Lorane. [We take the followng sketch of the lfe of Godfrey doboullon from.the Avermn Kwchmlu. M).]. Godfrey do Boullon, the hero of the 'frst crusade, was horn ysouth Brabant about KlGO, ded n.'jerusalem Jttly R He was the son of Eustace II.of Boulogne, brother-n-law. to Edward the Confessor. In 1(170 he succeeded hs maternal uncle, Godfrey, the Humpbacked duke, of Lower Lorane,n a part,of hs possessons, le espoused the cause ofalu: Emperor Henry IV. n the memorable sfngtrle wth Pope Gregory VII., slew the rval Emperor, Rudolph of Swaba, n the buttle of Molsen (10X0), and a few years later planted Henry s banner on the walls of Rome, whch he washe frst to scale, n reward for these servces le became duke of Lower Lorane. The dea, however, that he had commtted sacrlege by volatng the cty of St. Peter sat heavy on hs Joul. As soon as the crusade was'proclamed, he mortgaged hs hnds to the bshop of Legs, n order to procure funds for the enterprse and set out n the sprng of 1000, wth hs brothers Eustace and Baldwn, for the Holy Land, tt the head of 70,000 foot and 10,00(1 horse* French, German and Loraners. Godfrey, who belonged to both the French and German natons, and spoke both tongues wth ease, soon became the vrtual leader of the whole vast expedton. He was not tall, but hs strength was prodgous. It s sad that wth one blow of hs sword he clove asunder a horseman- from head to saddle, and wth one stroke would cut ol an ox s or camel s head. When n Asa, havng one day lost hs way, he found one of hs companons I n a cavern engaged wth a hear; he drew the. beast s rage upon hmself, and slew t, hut the ser-1 ous btes he receved kept hnt* long n hs bed, Alexs (Jonnenus agreeng to provde (te western army wth supples on condton that the crusaders would, expel the Turks from hs domnons, Godfrey conquered Ncea and n 1098 Antoch, where hs solders were short of provsons, the Greek emperor havng faled to keep hs promse. They reganed ther courage on the supposed dscovery of'th.e lance whch perced the sde of the Savour on the cross; anl after a sege of thrty-eght days Godfrey, wth only 20,(101) men remanng of hs army,captured Jerusalem July 15,1 ODD. He tred, lmt n van, to restran the excesses of hs solders and a fearful massacre ensued. Elected Kng, he refused to assume a royal crown on the spot where the Savour lmd. been crowned wth thorns, and acceptng only the ttle of.duke and admnstrator of the Holy Sepulchre, surrendered It to the patr1- arch of the kngdom of.icnsatpavllc he '' Watched over the defence of the cty,whch was threatened by a vast.egyptan army, 'Godfrey, soon (lct, probably of wre and anxety, after'havng founded a monastery n the valley of Jehoshaphat. He was' bured on Calvary, and was succeeded by hs brother Baldwn I., who assumed the ttle of Kng of Jerusalem. Godfrey s explots have, been celebrated by Tasso. [The communcaton s perfectly consstent wth the characterstcs of the great Crusader. He has lved to realze that relgous fanatcsm tnder the name of Chrstan zeal s as wckedly foolsh as any other phase of fanatcsm. We would rather he the humble and msunderstood edtor of Mnd and Matter than ths great Chrstan solder. Edtor.] D r, John Cochran. S r t: n : In my mortal lfe I dd not consder us deeply aatought to have done the thngs relatng to the great after-lfe. I have been (I am sorry to say t) a trator, for popularty's sake, to the best mpulses of my nature.' But I come here to-day. A. Vox Humrolt. smply to show that deeds not belef and words Good Afternoon What s truth? has been are the only passport to eternal happness. I the nqury n all ages by all generatons of mancome also to say that I lved n a country where -knd. Truth to me as a sprt s that whch urges sectaransm was the rule, and where a man dared ; me forward after eternal happness. I mght eone not express frankly hs actual opnons. Wth the greatest respect am love toward all my mortal assocates, and the overshadowng nfluence of my ''sprt, toward my relatves whom 1 wll help at every.opportunty that oltu's, wll say J was known as Dn. J ohn Cochran, Dallas, Texas. [We avoum thank any frend for nformaton concernng that snrt. Ed,] Mtl.ES CoVKItltAI.E. Goon D ay, Sr : \o'man that,.ever lved was more anxous to propagate what, 1 called relgon than myself. Whal proof had 1 of the truth of that whch I preached? Nothng more than what my magnaton conceved, n ths mortal'lfe 1 thought I was rght. I do not beleve there s a sprt.n, the mortal flesh to-day that Wllngly does wrong. Jfyn\Tn and women do wrong they are forced to t bv crcumstances. 1 tred to roe-. tfy those scrptures that you read to-day, l) t s.i dd hot.undersland them myself I had to aval mvself of the assstance of others. What.has been the to a closer analyss of ths queston.'f I -had pursued t postvely, hut there has been no mnd : upon ths platter that could Ibr an nstant conceve of the endless combnatons that matter assumes. What s matter? answer, the hook on whch nfnte ntellgence stamps ts acton. Wlut s truth? I answer, the realzaton of the vltmates of matter. What s the dualty of all questons that are asked? and you can answer, that s the fnalty and ultmate of all lfe. It s ths that each ndvdual docs. Lke the mountan stream as t Hows onward to the sea, each one brngs hs or her contrbuton towards the unversal result. I can tell you ths as a fnal truth : there s no dllcrcncc n 'the -sprt-lfe between the most learned and the most unlearned, except that of greater or less ntellgence; but mark lts, that : dllerenee measures the responsblty of the sprt. In concluson 1 would say, Oh! mortal man, f you desre happness, seek for truth. A. Von llntnobt. (I race Courtenay, (Countess of Devon.).result? Dl'erent translators have translated Good Kvknnu Sr.' Lfe as t s expressed n 1them to sut, ther ndvdual vews. There s no your day s the same as n.mne. We had all the he sent to all who were sck n hotly or mnd, that ; bshop, prest, mnster or chaplan, to-day, that faults all the fraltes, and about, half the vrtues ( desred to be healed, also, to those that, desred to Idare deny ths asserton, that the serptures have that you of the present day haye. In the mortal be developed as sprtual medums, for- three l 'been translated to correspond wth the vews of,. lfe 1*was nn arstocrat. I was used to beng served 1 months for three 3-ct, stamps. The three months the translators rather t hm the true meanng of all( obeyed, no mat ter what my wshes mght the text. I attempted to set these scrptures be. I do not. clam that I was good, but 1 was rght, and I employed lngusts to nterpret them, born wth a gentle dsposton, and I never desred to tyrannze over my so-called nferors. My hut whether-ths was correctly done I do not know. Even as a sprt I tun blnded by expectng' salvaton through another's merts. My best age, 5uT I have found n sprt, that I had a ms mortal lfe-dd'.not reach much beyond mddle and most earnest wsh s for the propagaton of son n my dsposton that ever leads me. I truth and the eradcaton of error, Wth the hope retan as^a sprt all I possessed as a mortal. I that all relgous dfferences wll soon be harmonzed throughout, the world, I am 1 ths nccount l am a mssonary to the lower realms retar a desre to help the poor to rse* and on ^ Mles Coveudale, Bshop of Exeter. n sprt-lfe. I do not beleve n that knd of [AVe take the followng sketch from the Eun- advancement that leaves our frends and assocates dowdu Brtannca. Ku.'} n the mortal lfe to suffer, n order to gratfy the "Mles Coverdale (1488 lot!)), the celebrated so-called heathen. Tam anxous to see caste done translator of the frst complete Englsh Bble, was away wth, and eael and every ndvdual dsplay 1 born n.yorkshre n He was educated at ther nobleness of soul. 1 have found that relgon, n the sprt-lfe, has nothng to do wth Cambrdge n the house of the Augustne Irars, and,, after havng been admtted nto that order, eternal happness, but. ths s postvely the fact was ordaned prest at Norwch n On the that good acts'wrte your angelc eptaph n the promulgaton of the reformed opnons tt. Cambrdge, Cuverda-le was among the frst to abandon Countess of Devon. future, lfe.. I was known as (trace Courtenay, hs allegance to the Church of Rome; and probably fndng t unsafe to reman n' England be such a person as Grace, Courtenay, Countess of [We have no means of determnng whether went abroad, and, accordng to Foxe, asssted Tyn- Devon, ever lved. All (hat we have been able to dlc n translatng He Bble. There scents, however, some reason to doubt Foxe s statement-, followng facts: Regnald do Courtenay was a!fnd n (le Brtsh Peerage on ths head are the whch sfmtrelv unsupported -by corroboratve descendant of Pharammul, founder of the French evdence. Coverdale remaned n perfect securty Monarchy. Hs.mmedate ancestor was Allton, untl 1535, when he publshed hs own translaton who, about.'the year,1(1(10, fortfed (le town of wth a dedcaton to Henry VI1L, who had now Courtenay, n Gaslnos, n the Isle of France,d come to an rreparable.breach, wth the Pope, from thence took hs surname. He went to England l'rmf France n-the regn of Henry JL Hs Ths Wts the earlest translaton of the whole Bble nto the Englsh language, am the Psalms, soll) Robert dccourtcnav, marred Mar)-', daughter n t are those whch arc now used n the Book of. 0(- Wllam de Redvers, Earl of Devon, and' n Common.Prayer.. Although t s not an mmed Hugh de Courtenay,.llm great-gnndson of ate verson of the orgnal (the ttle hearng llmt t Robert Courtenay and-mary Redvers, became the s truly translated out of Douche and Latyn ), f representatve of the Redvers famly. Ths Hugh has many merts, Much of the rythmcal flow Courtenay was summoned to-'parlament,.us a- and fnely-balanced cadence of tho authorzed, Baron, n 1299, md n 1335 was allowed the '.'Earldom' of Devon n consequence of 1's descent verson may be traced back to,coverdale, Wth from the sancton of.. tn-. kng, Coverdale. went to, Pars, the former. Earls.- Wth longer-or shorter.-nters n- lp.'s to s'lpcnnl.end t he publcat on p a new Vll[s of depost on t he house of CotH lenty l^p eonedton; but a decree of the Inquston broke dp turned lt hold thc Tank of the Earldom of Devon..tluv prntng establshment, and consgned the - E d. ] sheets already fnshed to the (lames. A few copes, however, havng been sold as waste paper, Bkkyllus were preserved ; and these wth the, presses whch (Bshop of Boslru). Goon Day, Stc Lfe s a barque that s over were transported to England, were used n prntng Ummr s or llr lmt Bllc, under the superntendence of Coverdale, whch was publshed n After 1540 Coverdale seems to have agan resded abroad Ibr some tme. He returned to England after the death of Henry (1547) and was apponted almoner to the queen dowager Catharne Parr. In 1551 Coverdale was apponted to the see of Exeter; and1n consderaton- of hs poverty the customary payment of the frst fruts was remtted,to hm. On the accesson of Mary le was thrown nto prson, and released only on condton of leavng hs natve country. He receved the grace of exle, nstead of executon, 'through the earnest ntercesson of the kng of Denmark, whose chaplan, Mac Alpne, was hs brother-n-law. On the nvtaton of the latter, he repared for a tme to the court of Denmark, but afterwards retred to Geneva, where, ho was assocated wth other Englsh exle n executng the Geneva-translaton, (n hs return to England, nearng ts destnaton, and the deeper t s freghted wth truth the more certan and ubso-!lute s ts progress..in the day n whch I lved : these Chrst,nns brought forth [he dogma of ther I god-man. The queston that, comes home to me at ths lme s: have my expectatons been realzed? I answer, upon my hope of eternal happness that. I know nothng of the person descrbed n the Chrstan-Scrptures. I heard of such a person when n my mortal-lfe, but as a sprt, 1 cannot brng to you one crcumstance, one fact to substantate the dea that such: a man ever lved.' Schsms were at, ther heght when I was on earth; They fought,contended,argued; n fact dd everythng to prove that ther.pecular-deas were true. I endorsed some of those vews because-1-knew' no better. My opnons were certanly tnctured wth the dea that, a future god-man would appear.' I wll here say, that Mahomet, the Araban prophet, taught that whch he thought was true. after the death of Mary, he was not renstated n Trut) sceth nttrally to adhere to some mnds;- hs bshoprc; and n 1503 he declned the,see of there are other mnds that et-'nttot, receve t, they Llandaf)'. le held for some tme the rectory of are so narrow and contracted. I found ths to be St. Magnus, London Brdge, but resgned t n the ctsq; as a sprt, that all natons are controlled The rest of hs lfe was spent n translatng by the deas that, are nstlled nto the mnds of from... the works of the. Contnental Reformers, and.. chldren;.anl although Chrstanty was taught n n the publcaton of tracts for the spread of the lnyday, yet I have never been able to reach a Reformaton. The dale of Coverdule sdeath s l>ont etherms a mortal or Rsprt where I could uncertan, but he was bured n the chancel of the! satsty myself o the truth of the exstence ol such church of St. Bartholomew, Feb. 1 9, a person, dvne or otherwse, as Chrst. In condu- [llere we have the sprt. Of Mles Coverdale, re-; Hon, I ask you to he Itrm determned that you turnng lnn, confessng that he and those who ; wll, not allow any person or persons to.lerlere were engaged wth hm n translatng the bble sprtually or materally wth your ndvdual pro- Me cclntock '&St, tong s..jucydomlfo. of Kccksmt- cut Lkralur'. Vm.] Beryllus, bshop of Bostra, n Araba, thrd century. Our only defnte knowledge of hm s derved from a passage n Eusebus, whch says that le held that Or Lord dd.'not exst n the proper sense of exstence,-before le dwelt among men; nether had le. a 'proper'"dvnty, only-that dvnty that dwell, n hnt front the Eat her, Eusebus goes'on to say, that Orgen, by dscusson wth Berylltts, brought, hm back Ip the fath. There has been much dscusson of late as to the real nature of the heresy of Berylltts, [No one can read the foregong communcaton n the lght of that bref account of hm and not nto Englsh, beng - gnorant of the ' orgnal - gross, le (nn n ths. Greek and Hebrew, 'languages, rectfed the translatons of the scrptures nto other languages than the Englsh, to sut ther- vews of what t, ought to be. Another remarkable feature of the communcaton, s that Mles Coverdale, a devout, Protestant Bshop and Bble compler 'and publsher, although n sprt-lfe over three hundred years, s stll expectng vanly to obtan salvaton through the merts of unot her. AVht a lesson for Chrstan zealots! J unes B. AValkkr. Hood 'Afternoon : I don t know much about ths lfe. I m a poor weak fellow. I don t know how to get the nformaton 1 Want to send to my fat her to hm. Me s dsconsolate over my death whch took' place several months ago. I can't comfort the old'man, for 1 don t, n realty, know much about ths after-lfe. I am nformed that my comng here s to do me good. I have a great Thank von for ths chance to state my vews on the queston of the exstence of the Chrst of the Chrstans. 1 was an Aral), and lved n A, 1X280. Bekylu's, Bshop of Rostra. [AVe fnd the followng account of Bcfylhs n desre to get hack here and ths s the only means 1 feel that t s authentc. It would seem therefore I can employ. There s no oler way that 1can that Beryllus, a learned Araban Chrstan bshop, travel from the sprt to the mortal. But as 1 was as bte as the thrd century, dened the dvnty ol cut ol'suddenly, and when hopng to lve to he of full age, my father and mother were*deeply greved over ths. I would say to them, that f f had had the proper sprtual bass to start from here, I would not he where I am to-day. I would say to them, that t s not belef but acts, that makes ther sprtual happness. Ths s to ny father and mother. My name was, * J e n k b B. A V V l k e r, Eenn Lynn Staton, North R. Road. Chrst.' After nearly sxteen hundred years hs sprt returns, and denes hs exstence as a human beng. A wrter n the lhlml Remtory, vul x., page 13, says: Eusebus charges Beryllus wth havng held that our Lord and Savour dd not exst as a dstnct person, before the ncarnaton; and that the dvnty of the Father (not hs own) dwelt n hm. The bshops n hs neghborhood, t seems by hs account, had many conferences wth Beryllus, but were unable to convnce hm. AtJength a Synod was convenced, at whch Orgen was nvted to be present. He succeeded, as the statement s, by hs learnng and eloquence, n wnnng Beryllus over to hs favorte hypostateal vews. Eusebus say s that 'the acts of ths Synod were extant n lfs "tme. The same wrter says of Beryllus: That he was a man of learnng, the author of lettersand other wrtng.-,'s sul, enty vouched for by the testmony of antquty. Eusebus says In1 had nspected 'many of hs wrtngs n the.lbrary of Jerusalem, But all, bs wrtngs are lost; and we know hm only by the hstory whch hs opponents have gven of hs sentments." But the most- curous and nterestng thng (o'us s how that eohuneaton came to be gven through Allred James, a man -who had no knowledge whatever of the exstence of such a Chrstan bshop as Berylltts, f t was not gven by the sprt of that herarch-, En.] Specal * Notce from "B lss Chef s Band. IC, led Cloud, (.peak for ltlekfoot, the pret Medcne M Chef from happy lmmmp-uronmls. He say le love whte ehel's am spaws. le travel lke the wnd, lle-o to ereles. Hm ha chef, llm-kfoot want : uch work to do. Hm waul to show hm healnt; power. Make sck ln-ople well. Where paper no, Hlackl'oof no. lo quck. Send rght away. No wampum for three mam. Ths sprt'message was frst publshed n Mnd a n d M a tter, January 10th, M , wth the- announcement that " Magnetzed -larper would have now closed wth (he followng result: 3,405 persons have sent for the paper by mal, 1,000 persons have receved t at the offce; and the hundreds of testmonals that have been ro-.. ecved of ts wondorl ul work n healng the sck and developng medums, prove that Red Cloud and 'Blackfoot have fathfully kept- ther promses. That all may havo an opportunty to lest the " merts of the paper, the prce for the future wll be as follows:! sheet, (postage pad,) 10 cents, 12 sheets, $1.00. Send a slver ten cent, pece f you cart. Address, James A. Blss, 713 Sansom Street,. Phladelpha, Pt ^... A Proposton. 1 am prepared and wll send to any one address, drect from my otlee, one sheet of " Black toot s Magnetzed Paper-, postage pad, every week for one month for 40 cents; two months for 70 cents'; three monlls for $1.00. Address wth amount enclosed, James A. Blss, 713 Sansom St., Phltnla. Chts. M.-Brown, Gle.hun, Mane, wrtes: "I lke tle lone ol your paper very much, and could not, do wthout t under tny consderaton whatever. There are a few Sprtualsts n ths vcnty that do not, lke your paper; they thnk that von : are a lttle too.harsh on Bundy. They say : that Brother Roberts, quarrels wth -Bundy too much. Now Brother Roberts,-I--would' lke to gve my candd opnon upon-the mutter, whch perhaps snot worm much, lmt every man and woman has a. perfect rght to ther own opnon, and a perfect, rght to express t, upon all proper occasons, Snce the startng of- that_beaut 1 fll' lttle sheet, Mn> and M a tte r, you havedone wonders, I am not the only one that, tolls you of t, daly yon are recevng from your many frends, letters urgng vou on n your noble work, ant le the young lawyer that look hs dyng mother's, advce not to undertake a ease unless he knew that t wus-por-- feclly honorable, 1 wll say to -.you. as he thought, he heard hs mother say from the sprt-world, "Rght, my brother, rght, The brght sprts who chose you to carry on the glorous work whch yen have been and are now dong, could not n my humble opton have chosen better.' 'I beleve Unt you, sngle handed are a mutch, yea, more than a match for Bundy and all-hs-mnons. My advce to Bundy s ths, do not.try to run the character of every medum n these Unted States, for t s an utter mpossblty. It can t bo done Bundy dear, remetnuer ths that f all the-medums whch you attacked are legtmate offsprngs of sprtual development they are safe, am tll your whngu about fraudulent medums has been for naught, for truth s mghty and;wll forever stand. Another thng Mr. Bundy, f medums are false ther actons wll condemn them wfhou,t..(j,fr nterference of any one. Gve them t-ope. enough ' andhey wll soon hung themselves. Perhaps I:, have already weared you so-1 wll close wth well wshes for your future prosperty, Martn Zerlm, Geneva, Fllmore Go., Nebraska, wrtes: " Please accept thanks for.publshng my letter of nqury n your paper-of Aprl 24th, n regard to tho-sutlcrng of medums, and repled to by GharlcN Thompson, n M nd and Matter of May 1st1 le has gven 1110 more ray of lght by statng the experences of others, for whch I tun very much oblged to hm for the knd Hym- puty that prompted hm to reply 1to me. Yot he revealed to me very lttle' lhut I already dd notk-now or had some dea of. I had practced self;-. manpulatons, some, hut had dscontnued them, and strove to break the force of those ntleneoh by wll power alone. Perhaps hero was my mstake. But. I ask, s there no rest br slerng medums, s there no means or condtons known h,y whch we'may free ourselves from all those, had ell'eetsor nllteces, so that when sufferng-from cfutl dsease, we tay he restored before recevng any sufferng from surroundng tlltences? To speak planly, can a healng medum develop, so as to entrely avod or prevent beng attacked by the stf'orngs of others unawares, or,only receve'these sufferngs when he wshes to know the 'condton of hs patent, so ns to gve the proper treatment? Ths H.the pont n the subect I want to tnderstad perfectly '-fjossble. If the only remedy s the one that Mr. Thompson recommends, then I would eonstally be employed, poundng and-rubbng myself, anl that- n my present.' home anl surroundngs, would gve me a good 'chance of beng lodged n the thte asylum. Yet 1shall try t-and run the rsk. Untl I get. more lght on the subect,- 1 am wllng to work but not to be constantly sufferng. I would ; lke a restng spell for a change. Now Mr. Roh- : erts, why not pattern after the prests mt enough to call for "the experences of the brothers and : ssters, n ths ease that we may compare notes 1and experences, and no doubt much good mght ' be done and much sutlerng releved. I am well r' awre of the delcacy of ths subect, but all should be wllng to work for each other s beneft and nstructon. I do not want to advertse myself hut. want nformaton, and I know of no means better than through M nd and Matter. So let us hear, from others. Mr. Edtor, please accept thunks for the fve extra copes sent to me contanng my I artck. I thnk after harvest I can get a few I subscrbers. Your types spelled my surname wth a Y...be when t should a Z.

4 BtfT^m«^^^mr^nmntt^.. ^BMJP^WlBWBPWpBBP BW^«WBPW^W^WW^^wWpyWBHB^Bpy#l^m>rw r»p,ef»t»^t>'wrw>»«mr»'«>w</, / ^»<>-y.->^^«r.^,.>^»- -..»N<-^«-.- f ' v- -..^g-, *-.»~<>,.,.v4r~.*>»-.«*f* ^ «.*-**, "* '*» *. ' -*r'r r. r '**^^'* 1, '"*7 *.... \ur y ;- _ _...lrr ^ w*nrrt,,n^nr*>ff>. r.. '*, I r llrt*w N l ^ M H T D A N D M A T T E R. Phladelpha, Satdbday, J unk 5, M , V&F Entered at the Post Offce at Phladelpha, Pa., as secondrclms maler. ^. PUBLICATION OFFICE, Second Story, No. 713 Sansom Street, PHILADELPHIA. J. M.-Ro b e r t s Publsher and Edtor. DR. J. V. MANSFIELD, THE WORLD RENOWNED WRITING MEDIUM, wll answer sealed letters at No. 01 West Korty-Second St., - New York Cty. Terns, and four 3-cent stamps. Regster your letters. In s tru c to n s to T hose W ho D esre A nsw ers to Sealed L e tte rs. In wrtng to the departed, the sprt should be always addressed by full name and the relaton they bear the wrter or one soletng the response. Heal your letters properly but not sttch.them, as t defaces the wrtng matter. The letters, to secure attenton, must be wrtten n the Englsh language. < 4S*Oflcc R e g u la to n s a n d Ite<m renontsy& # One Seance of an hour, wth one person n s presence, One " " 'A hour. " 3.00 WHAT IS THE MISSION OF SPIRITUALISM? To answer that queston t s necessary to determne wth certanty what Sprtualsm s. In ts more lmted sense Sprtualsm s the ntellgble ntercourse between sprts n mortal organsms and sprts that have, through the natural change called death, reached a condton of exstence that s mpalpable to what arc called the physcal or materal senses of ncarnated sprts or mortals. In ts broader sense t s the manfestaton of natural laws that operate n realms of creaton-, of boundless space and of nfnte duraton. To.know what those laws are, t s necessary to study ther operaton n the natural course of events, and by conformng to them, to open the way. to an ever-ncreasng manfestaton of ther operaton. Already n the short space of thrty years, by pursung the course suggested by returnng sprts, manknd have been put n possesson of a vast accumulaton of fa'elsthat pont unformly to certan conclusons and to no others, These conclusons arc, frst that the ndvdual conscous lfe of man s not lmted totle comparatvely short perod htmnhalfts a materal organs't, bn that t s contnued 'after death, or what s calleddeath, ndefntely. Second that, sprts enter the lfe after death, wth all the habts of thought, desres, preudces,' ]ottns,enntcs,oys,sorrows.and asratons wlcl anmated ther earthly lves and gave them ther mental am moral ndvdualtes whle here. Thrd that dsemboded sprts can and do return to (he earth, and by psychologcal, power do ntuem-e or control to a greater or lesser 'extent the thoughts and actons of those n mortal lfe to whom they are naturally attracted..... ' Fourth that to prevent (le return of departed sprts Iy mortal or sprt' "power s mpossble, there beng no break nor dscontnuance n De great sprt ml chan of exstence that roaches from the center of causaton to ndvdual man. Ffth that llu: coarser sprt natures arc nearest to De mortal plane of lfe, and therefore exert a more powerful nfluence on human actons than do the more refned and exalted sprts. Sxth that sprts cannot, at wll, conc to mortals; nor can mortals, by ther wll,.brng themn' earth. Sprt, ntercourse, whether, between dsembodd sprts, or between sprts and mortals, s subect to condtons that Admt of no avodance. Seventh that such beng the demonstrated fact, nether belef nor dsbelef, fath nor doubt, nor acceptance nor non-acceptance of that truth, las anythng to do wtl the nfluence exerted, for good of ll, by sprts or mortals, We do not beleve that there s any experenced nvestgator or observer of the phenomenal facts of Modern Sprtualsm, who wll queston' the correctness of anyone of those general conclusons. If there s, we would be glad to hear from hm or her to the contrary, wth the reasons of dssent thereto. Fnll shown wheren those general conelsons are erroneous or defectve, we wll regard them as nvulnerable, What then s to be the msson of the knowledge whch those. general conclusons exemplfy? Wc cannot postvely say, n as much as that wll largely depend upon the condtons through whch that knowledge wll have to fnd or force ts wav.- If manknd possessessed the wsdom to follow wllngly, the laws of Nature as ther gude, we would have nu dllculty n dscernng the outcome of the flood-of sprtual lght that.s beng poured upon the attenton of mortals, When manknd wll acqure wsdom enough lo seek to follow the teachngs of Nature, rather than.to seek to control and set bounds, lo the operaton of her laws, they wll recognze and conform to the sprtual'.laws of ther beng. When that tme comes the ams and obects of man s mortal lfe wll not le to acqure power and dstncton and wealth and luxury and ease, at the expense, of the prvatons, sufferngs and sorrows of ther fellow men. When that tme comes the great am and obect of mortal effort wll he to develop and promote the happness of. the whole human race. To do ths, men wll realze that- the natural purposes of the mortal exstence s to prepare ndvdual man for an endlessfe, wheren earthly honors, dstnctons and advantages are of no aval. Why s t, that n proporton as manknd have advanced n cvlzaton and learnng, that the anmal tendency to selfshness has more than kept pace wth the development of ther mental MIN'D A N D M A T T E R. [JUNE 5, M ] and moral attrbutes? We can only account for to every human soul. Lke all the lfe sustanng t on the prncple that the sprtual tendences of I elements n nature, the lght and warmth of Sprman have been lost sght of or gnored n the tualsm s for all humanty and not for a favored great career of progrmw.u6h has attended the last fve hundred years. Indeed t s not too much to say that n busness, moralty has been dscarded n socety ustce has been gnored and n r«- THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. WHEN IS IT TO BE Ths was the subect _ gven by the audence, to few. Lke the Sun that dspels the cold and pre- Mrs. F. 0. Hyzer, at Lverett Hall, Brooklyn, N. valng darkness,,o'f wnter, and causes all nature Y., March 21st, last. In speakng to the queston to reoce amd the blossoms of Sprng and the propounded, Mrs. Hyzer sad: I1 rends, I thank frutage of Summer; so, Sprtualsm trumphng you for the queston you have propounded to me lgon sprtualty has been substtuted by selfsh- over the darkness of creedal gnorance and the! to-nght. However olten I may have spoken upon ness. The tme las come when human progress benumbng frgdty of dogmatc theology wll ths subect, t s ever new to me, Me. may, cause every latent germ of good n the human therefore, conclude that Mrs. Hyzer, n descantng soul to sprng forth and grow and brng forth frut upon that subect, (ld so ndependent of. sprt n such abundance that no human soul wll be left! nfluence, and that the vews she expressed were must move on n the drecton of the sprtual n man s nature, and further and further away from the selfshness whch las so long predomnated n human affars. to famsh for a sngle day, or hour. her own, am not those of controllng or nlluen- If t s true, as We clam, that man does not de, Upon ths blessed msson Sprtualsm has but eng sprts. If I have weared, my - lstenng that he remans the same sprt beng that he was entered. The mmedate work, before t s to demonstrate the dvne source JrOm whch t comes, ntensty of demand upon my nspratons, Jet*. frends, the); must pardon ther Own over-, 'before leavng the form, that le can and does re tunylo. nfluence mortal actons, then the msson ; and the mmedate obects whch t s sent to ac- Wc (potc from 1he reported dscourse as publshed n the Hauntr of Lght of last week.. prlualsm becomes of'nconcevable mport- complsh, Grandly and wonderfully las t entered ance. Its msson wll be not only to tt people ' upon ts career, and wth a power and wsdom not Whether Mrs. Hyzer expressed her own vews for the sprt-lfe, but to ft gnorant-and unpro- of earth how resst lessly t s movng forward over", or those of nsprng external nfluences, wll grossed sprts for a sprt state that they would the. mghtest'of eartlly obstacles. AVIerever t make no dll crcnc'e, so far as the obect of ths never reach wthout the nstructon that Modern. appears the chans of-superstton, gnorance and ; crtcsm s concerned. They relate to matters Sprtualsm affords. For thousands of years, speculatve theology has been resorted to prevent general ntercourse between sprts and mortals, wth what result we most panfully see. Untold mllons of Iranan bengs have passed to sprt-lfe wthout the fantest percepton of the laws relatng to that lfe, and preudce are dssolvng, and men, women and chldren, released from the confnement of false educaton and rratonal customs, arc breathng the soul-nvgoratng atmosphere of truth and that wc* regard as deeply concernng.sprtualsm, and therefore arc enttled to our especal attenton. Mrs.. Hyzer confesses, n the outset, that the queston admts of no certan answer, for she says:- "If one could stand before you to-nght clothed n the shnng rament of an archangel, and answeryour questons arbtrarly by sayng, The second reason. Not among the pampered chldren of wealth and those borne away by mundane advantages, s ths so manfest, but among the poor, the wholly unftted to advance beyond the plan of. humble, the sorrowng and the sufferng ones of! comng of Chrst wll be n. 1880, or n any other the mundane lfe. Hundreds ofmllon.s of such earth, s ths flc case. To the. latter, never.was year to be, gvng you the comparatve data of the sprt bengs hover over mundane humanty nca- the wsdom, the ustce, the goodness, De power, event, n what manner could you assure yourpal) c of helpng themselves or dong anythng the beauty, the lovelness of the Great l1rst Cause,..psclvcs of the truth o f the statement. And yet hut harm to ther mortal brethren.- so manfest as n De lght of-sprtual llunm-' Mrs. Hyzer went on at consderable length to an- Tle msson of.modern Sprtualsm*s, there- Don. Lfe lo them s no longer a weary plgrm- fore, two-fold. Frst, to cease addng to flc mn- age, for they know the blessed reward that wll her of sprt wrecks, by mpartng to mortals, the ' attend ther every transent sacrfce for truth and knowledge necessary for ther sprtual welfare, 1 humanty. 'through the channel of communon between them Sprtualsm pleads for your co-operaton. It and returnng sprts; and, second, lo nstruct the needs t n order'lo hasten the day when t wll latter as to the great work to be done, and De means to be used n enlghtenng and elevatng those sprts who' now lve a burthen to them- 'you to cease -calumnatng, 'persecutng, opposng selves, and a curse to those on whom they throw ther baneful nllcnccs. How arc mortals to be prepared for the. sprtlfe? We-assert, wthout fear of successful.contradcton, tlat ths can only he done by mortals proftng-by, De experences of those who,. havng passed throhgh lhv experences through whch wc arc parsng, have realzed De mstakes of ther mortal lves, come back to.warn others to Slum De same mstakes. Is (her -any-man or woman anddseduragng the chosen medums of the workng sprt hands. It asks you to foster and help them n.ther thankless labors for Deadvaneemet of truth, for through Dem alone can the truths, of Sprtualsm be 'made'.manfest to mortal, comprehenson. Wll you respond, as.you should? f yo 'dtf not, long wll t le before'the only real savour that ever appeared auongorals wll 'le recognzed. Not n Ancent Sprtualsm;' nor n s.wer that, concernng angelc thngs, whch she admts that an archangel s answer would throw no lght upon. AVc thnk Mrs. Hyzer made a marked dgresson from her subect, when she spoke as follows: Wc Cnot Tal to see llmt there lre loaluy nay persons callng themselves Sprlnlsts, who arc followng alter be enabled lo clfcd ts perfect work." It mplores every form of leht-medunshp, ll Hcrcl of more evdence..,, r,, of (le mmortalty of 1le soul; and whlcphenomena multyou to place no obstructons III ts way. It begs ply Urn phenomena of nler-sphcnehl communon upon hs reason, le n atlt uneerlau, and, from dotbln; hs morhdty ll Ural, pushes hs nyfc.slpfton of evdence untl the morn pnlpuhle heeomea llu: demonstraton of the (mll for whch le s seekng, Ihe more he comes to doubt the realsm of hs own normal senses. Ho often has le Ihtm/M hmself eonvneed, and found tmself nsluken regardng (le Drmess of hs belef, l.s reasonng facultes have collapsed from too constant- huntng and coolng,und at length have so fully, ceased to serve hm Unt le may clasp hs angel chld lo hs yearnng heart,'teel le. kss of love upon hs brow,, hear, the sweet melody o ler voce,and yet, before the outl revolves. agan upon ts axs, Ill's poor depleted senses Tear'1 they-have nelher seen, nor touched, nor heat'd (le precous treasure of hs yearnng; father-love.". How could ths sckly,'morbd, stale of the mnd have been prevented'.' Only by blockng or supportng the wheels of the nvestgaton of lls transcendent revelaton of tle love and wsdom of Hgh Heaven, Chrstan' Sprtualsm,, appeared tlat Savour, but-llt every''restng pont of the 'great -route.through the lares ' ; and brumbes and fnjetnsl and (hornsof past superstton so-ndtlerent to hs'0r,hef-wd)fttre^u.t<ljta'pp..&shr. ^^^lh.<m»'..8plrt}ajlsn;:j!(}. only Sprtual sm.. and dogmatc opnons, by nly of spcthl phenomena wth as to be-ndfferent to the certan result of human that las ever been publcly acknowledged and actons,.as made manfest n Do experence of promgaed by ts mundane frends. others? We thnk not. The work,.then,- to be lot t he mr unted work to help, as we may, done s to convnce De-people that they.can have n carryng forward, the Sprtual Movement, Tor the beneft of the experences of those who have n no other way s human reform and progress passed to the sprt-lfe to gude them n ther possble. Why eternally preach and nculcate search; fot eternal happness.. To know that..sprts. charty, love, honesty, vrtue, temperance, ustce, camand do communcate ther experences to us, truthlulness and.-benevolence, and do nothng to s not enough ; that knowledge must be pruct- trost tlo causes whch produce the opposte of cally appled n human affars t every depart- Mll those nculcatons. It s"comng lobe a matter menl of human effort. To know that whch s better understood each day that a largg proporton true s not enough. That truth must be emboded "I the prevalng vce and crme s the result of n the lves and actons of manknd, f t s to sprt nfluences exerled upon mperfectly baladvancc and mprove ther condton. What tlc muted mnds. What s beng done to dscourage, do the experences of returnng srfs teach? t lt: noreaso of tloso nnoctnt vtfms of Ierel- They teach that to he happy n sprt-lfe, we,must I.Wry mperfectons? What s beng done n the le -truthful, ust, benevolent, chartable, mercful, W!y of ratonal educaton to counteract De leredlovng, self-sacrfcng, forgvng, hopeful, asprng, tary mperfecton of so large a proporton of-the perseverng, wse, humble, cheerful-,.-and-devoted chldren born nto the world? AVlat s beng to dong all good, and to avodng all bad actons. done to releve these poor neglected brothers and Why s t so hard for mortals to accept and proft ssters from the nfluences of obsessng sprts? by tfatt sprt teachng? Sprtualsm answers, nothng, and because nothng s beng done n those drectons; she clams We unswelvbecause De teachngs of thousands of years, before the dawn of Modern Sprtualsm,- to nsst upon a change of polcy n the drecton had been drected to nculcatng De dea that of reform. Ste tells you to heed her' teachngs man s happness was not the outcome of hs per- md-thus learn tho.ways of wsdom. Lotus not only heed her, teachngs, but turn to and help to propagate them by every avalable mea'th. Strve to De utmost to gve nstructon to sprts as well as mortals who are gnorant of those natural laws that most deeply concern ther welfare, and whch arc always manfested n Du* phenomenal facts of Mordcrn Sprtualsm. In that way, as n no other, you wll gan the goal sonal efforts to attan to truth, to.act-rghtly, and to promote generally De good of the race: but was solely dependent on the arbtrary wll and nterventon of others who held hs destny n ther keepng. So rooted n the humble mnd has ths most perncous error become, that men have habtually grown to dsregard the planest teachng of common experence, and to lve and act as parts of a vast system of machnery, that s moved by the power of human selfshness, and guded by,the wll of a ednpar,at.vely small class of selfconsttuted human leaders. So long as ths slate of affars contnues, humanty-can make no general progress.towards the great end of sentent lutng, ndvdual happness. We know that but few, comparatvely, are wllng to accept De most thoroughly establshed truths of Modern Sprtualsm. Chrstans of all phases of sectaransm, whle professng to beleve ' n De eternal lfe of man, wlfully reect, the evdence that, demonstrates the correctness of ther belef; whle those who have no such belef most rratonally reect natural phenomenal fads that would not leave a partcle of doubt n ther mnds wore they brought to bear upon any other subect than that n whch ther preudces are centered. Fven Sprtualsts who arc forced to acknowledge the realty of those phenomenal fads are so mbued wth the general tendency of tme honored preudces that they are seekng n every possble way to arrest the occurrence of those fads, ' "And bend the supple hnges of the knee, That thrft may follow fawnng,'' at the foot-stool of hoary error. But there those facts are, and there they wll reman untl the charms of truth shall lure manknd to absndon ther gross sprtual darkness and follow her. The msson of Sprtualsm s to unvel truth to unversal phenomena, through a deep: and eonlmmmy unfoldng system of phlosophy of correspondences, (le golden magnet of -whch should draw nto ts magc crcle all demonstratons and systc.nspf known scence, nl" developments of al relgons, all harmonesof pool ry, nl revelatons of unversal lfe and hve, however radant. I her splendor, however smple and humhlether proportons, Thus 'unt-; /.cd \vl -'-unversal trt.h, ts speea demonstratons are held fast.lnked n the bulds of- ereumstnntml evdenee ol: (le absolute Heulreshtnee whom we call the Inltle, (Ireul Frst Cause, or Hod,. -Thus Truth folds us to.her bosom, anl from her materal embraces (here wll never le an exle, or a wanderer gong forth from hs dvne nhertance of a love of IIIe Wow/ that- caxloth out all fear of Ihe Evl from Ihe peace or untyltf feelng wth ntellect whch maketh hm greater Ilan lueflmt aketl a cty,'' We gve** above paragraph from Mrs. llyzer's dscourse n full, n order that our readers may see how many words may be used wthout expressng one clear and lucd dea. Mrs. Ilyzer may have a very clear dea of what she ntends to say, but we very much nclne to thnk -that she faled to develop t. We know that n De cty of Brooklyn, where Mrs. Hyzer s laborng to show forth some rays of dvne truth, that there are a good many people callng themselves Sprtualsts, whose rratonal and nconsstent conduct approxmates to fhcylenented condton'"-whch slp depcts TnnTTfey arc, fortunately, almost w holly; confned tp that localty, Wc do not thnk a great many Can bo found anywhere else. Doubtless some of Mrs. llyzer s audence were persons whose depleted senses warranted her n suggestng the the blockng the wheels of nvestgaton, We can only say t.o Mrs, Ilyzer that the.persons who seek to block the wheels of nvestgaton as to the realty and truth of sprtual phenomena are not. the frends of Sprtualsm, however much they may pretend to he so. If they profts to be Sprtualsts, and thus seek to arrest the acquston of knowledge concermg t, they arc worse enemes of your hghest happness..... to t Ilan f they openly opposed t,. It s ust Tun Smthsonan Insttuton, De Medcal Mu- such talk asflsof Mrs. Hyzer, on the part of soscum, and the lbrary of Congress, n Washngton called-sprtu d lecturers, that s brngng dsgracy ' Cty, arc really of no practcal use lo thousands.of, and shame on De cause they assume b< represent, laborng men and women n the Dstrct, who are I f t were true, t, would be bad enough, hut beng forced to tol sx days n the week, to keep gaunt. most, untrue, as every well-nformed Sprtualst hunger from ther homes, and who fnd these.: knows, t becomes ntolerable, great publc benefactons closed lo them on Sun- Wc assure Mrs. Ilyzer sbe makes at very great day, by the sncere, 1ml mstaken zeal of a Chrs- : mstake when she magnes that Modern Sprtual- -lau communty. These Chrstan people act and sm s passng over the great route through the' reason as though these tolng masses, afwr the relgous ceremones of the day are over, needed tares and brambles and underbrush and (horns of past superstton and dogmatc opnons, The no oler nstructon or pleasure, So they cut great car of sprtual progress s not rollng Dal, them olf entrely from what, would prove a valuable source of nformaton to Dem and ther chl and Kddle, and.mrs. Hyzer and'other promnent way. We know that FroJessors Brttan, Buchanan dren. We therefore thank Mr. Cox for Ids recent resoluton, provdng that the above mentoned nsttutons be kept open on Sunday. The poor have long had an nterest n ths matter, and t s wrters and lecturers, who clam to correctly represent Modern SprtmDs, are tryng to drag t out of the open road of munre nto the wlderness ol past supersttons and dogmatc opnons; but full tme that every lover of humanty should help we-do not see tlat they are accomplshng ther open every avenue of nformaton, and useful desgn, nor do wc thnk they wll. pleasure to 1 le laborng classes. It D unust and Why do publc lecturers and wrters labor so wcked even to bar them from the government's persstently to dscourage the nvestgaton of the store houses of knowledge, because the only day phenomenal f;<t< of Sprtual'n, and yet clam they have to vst tlo.se places comes upon Sunday. that they are the frends of the troth that can By openng them rn ths day we wll be teachng them, how to spend t better than they do now! alone be made manfest by those facts? It s ; and how to make a wser use of ther lttle spare! nether consstent nor sncere; Has the tme not tme and surplus cash. We say open all these ; arrved when ths work of dscouragement and places on Sunday n all our ctes and vllages obstructon should cease? The persons who manfest such a dread of Sprtualsm becomng humanty and to clear the way for her vstaton : throughout the land, the sooner the better. the

5 \ J U N E 5, M. S. 33.] M IN D A N D M A T T E R. common possesson of all manknd, have not advanced one wht beyond the pont attaned by the presthoods of every relgous system that has ever exsted. It s not the general class of nvestgators of sprtual phenomena that need to stop at every restng pont of the great route through The sweet reverence, the clngng love the dear sympathes whch my soul las been taught through'all ts mortal- lfe to feel for the crucfed seer of Judea, snce the day when twenty-seven years ago I was born to the atmosphere of communon wth angels, has grown ntensely broadened n! ts sweep, etc. Now we would lke to know what authorty Mrs. Hyzer can produce to show that Jesus was a ; known. Why are they not made known? Wo wll thon know where the truth les.) Prof. Buchanan contnues: We never for a moment suspected that any one, even wth the duplex lens of mcroscopc clarvoyance, aded by the double reflectorsof a lvely magnaton, would ever dscover a ventage of Chrst ansm n the work of the organzers. Chrst s nether named nor remotely referred to n ther consttuton. * * * In all that has been put on-paper by the commttee on organzaton, there s not so much as the - I.1.,, ' e most dstant alluson to the church; to the necessty for ts the tares and brambles and underbrush and that he was a man, that le was crucetl, or, contnued exstence, or for the observance of any relgous, thorns of past superstton' and dogmatc opnons;" but those who are far on that great route,"''fnd so befogged that they seem to have lost ther way. IIow much better t would have been for them f they had nvestgated more and thought less of blockng the wheels of nvestgaton. Hut let us see what answer Mrs. Ilyzer made to the queston t o whch she clamed t o be speakng. She sad : that he was n anv sense the exemplar and ren * deemer of any one. No one any longer pretends that there s a partcle of authentc hstory of such a beng-as he s represented to have boon. The most tht any one can say of the books whch, purport to have been such a hstory s that they.are supposed to relate to somethng of whch no one knows anythng wth certanty. Why Mrs. Ilyzer should, thnk those nnnuthentc narratves and manfestly,lcttos stores as useful helps n the search for truth, she does not degn to tell us. and we utterly fal to see. Now we ask of Mrs. Hvzer Shull we ml leave (le. u n Jesus Ihr awhle, and search fur the spn'/ uf (he Ih-sl and blood, the (tlrst nr mmonted frs t horn of the nvorslv'ovng l.l'e whch we c.',1 ( n d 1 thnk we may well cry.ml to-day wth Mary at the sepulcher, They have taken away mv I,mat, anl 1 know not where they have lad hm. Truly we have so long contended over the merts and demerts, the possbltes and mpossbltes, of the word or /lersonltl, that we have faled to chersh and lve the sprt of I he word whch gveth lfe. So tong have we reasoned or tred to reason obectvely n relaton to the hstory o f Jesut, that we Imve faled to realze subectvely the lvng, soul-redeenng Chrst. Let us. I,,,,, tred tn r>,> to-nlghl, then, cease for a whle all contenton or speculaton 111 " U,UhLOm' C' lllcl1 t0 U L l regardng Ihr pe)lre of copy, and search for the orgnal of has therefore so befogged 11)0 SlJbeel MS to leave lle pcture n (he realms of subectve truth, or lfe wthn v at, as an avowed advocate of that whch s alone true n connecton wth Sprtualsm, she-wll frankly shte whether she regards Jesus Chrst, as a ertteled seer, or only as the prncple of truth as developed n man. She las tnt as both, and ourselves. Let os, f we can, fnd Chrst or (led or eternal facts wthn, and then we can udge far hetter f there he need of such a character as that of Jesus. If we fnd the need n the laws of our.beng, we shall see the ustce and law of ustce by whch the need should have been suppled; md contenton wtl regard' (o/tle exact data relatng In (he tme or ereumstanefe of that supply wll grow less fn- nmble, snk nto comparatve negaton, allowng smple correspondng Jslory a graceful pose of rest, whereupon she can sleep hcl ween the lds of the Bble' as quetly and naturally as a chld nestled n the bosom of mother-love.'.' nothng clear. If Jesus was a mm and seer, as Mrs. Ilyzer as.sume. st one, tme le was, we want 1 to know whether she beleves le wl; con.te a! second tme lo earth as a man and seer? If be s 1 only the personfcaton! of. the abstract, prncples'! of truth and knowledge, have those prncples ever! n any' sense been absent, from humanty, and /f! We'WQultl lke to lnd, f possble, some ntell- hot absent bow can they return.' Mrs. Ilyzer.; gble meanng lo that attempt to defne who and : elosed her dscourse wthout answerng the quos- what the Jesus s whoso second comng Mrs. lon propounded, or (browng any l.gbt whatever Hyzer undertakes.to prognostcate. AVlmt can! upon the subect, Mrs. Ilyzer mean when she talks about leavng 1 We dffer n our udgments and vary n our, the man Jesus, and seekng for the 'sprt of the tastes, perhaps, wsely. We cannot for otr lfe see I flesh and blood, (le Chrst or anonted frst born of bow such lecturng as t hat of Mrs. Tlyzcr s s ever ("rod? Why may we well cry out to-day, They lo take the place of the phenomenal facts of Sprt-; have taken away my Lord,and I know not where! ualsm, f the latter s ever to be of any aval to they have lad hm? Who las taken hm away? I the greatmasses of manknd. We ntend to make Who was he? In what, sensewas he the trsl-horn Jt a specal part of our work lo crtcse the publc of God? What; s The lvng, soul-redeemng!.chrst? How tre we to fnd Chrst or God or eternal facts wthn? AVJm-t earthly or sprtual need have wo of stcl a character as Jesus? We would not for the world block the. wheels of n-, vesfgatpn " nto ((lose.matters, as well as all otlers that relate lo, the k mwledge of I rut h. Ths man Jesus,.(hat. Mrs.-Hyzer asked her. hearers to leave, to run alter Chrst the frst-born of God, was noulcn the frst-born of God. If there was no man Jesus what reason, have we to-beleve ' there was a Chrst and f there was- ax'lrkt or anonted; frst-born.who and wnd, was le? Where dd he lve? What las le to do wth us?- AVlmt have we to do wth hm? There may he some meanng n that, hut. we confess that, we see.none, It s t play upon words, and 110 doubt appeared to Lte'co'fdnded'"lstener' to''contan a great deal of wsdom; but'extract from t, f you can any ntellgble meanng. Mrs'. Ilyzer says: "Tlmsd/oemnl fcenncs the.sacrfcal fulfllng of the laws of progressve mfohhnct, mol now that I mve found the lrny Chrst, or self-redeemng Lny the glorous son of vrgn maler overshadowed by the nvsble (lenns ol Lte, o r the Dvne, Artst of form,'! fnd no dtledty n correspondng Ibs prncple to (le lfe of the one who frst taught f lo manknd, or at least to the one who alone transcrbed t.n Ids lfe to me, the frst-born type of the soul s resurrecton from theself-deslruetonof mutaton Jesus of Nazareth. Thus corresponded, we see, how dal h sacrfced to Hmself lo appease ls own necesstes of alraclon and repulson,-" Mrs. Ilyzer does ml fnd t so easy-to leave the man Jesus as she thought when she undertook lo save Chrst, tlu anonted frst-born. Hut let 11s follow her a lttle further; she says: When Chrst and Chrstanty slmll cense to antagonze, and the lght shall have become ncarnate n menus t was eghteen hundred years ago n untl, we shall have become so wetfncquuntcd wtl the lfe at Chrst that we cannot eon- tend regardng hs-pcture.though t he mmed Buddha,.lesus or Mahomet. There we shall see the nature of the need of a great gude or example, lo move on before us lo demonslruto I le practcablty of the deal of a dvne lfe ncarnate n humanty n model brought outward, dolled n llesh, to show how pure and (od-lke anl unselfsh and usl the sprt can hold Itself n (day; and we who have been taught through hstory to look for ths embodment, of the deal of the dvne man ll Jesus, more closer lo hm stll, as unfoldng lght reveals the exquste lovelness, the artsle perfectons.of the correspondence between Chrst and Jesus; and wtl a new oy and an nteser reverence and low, we repeat agan and agan the'sweet.words, 'Our lelecuer, Jesus Chrst, " llcwt! wo soo Mrs. Ilyzor agan tryng.lo make f appear that Josu.s was not Chrst am yet sbo repeats agan and agan that they are one and the same person or thng or prncple or example. Why ths umble, of nconsstences. We would lke Mrs.Ilyzer to answer ths queston.' In what sense can any one regard another as hs or her redeemer that s n any souse attrbutable lo Jesus of Nazareth Jesus Chrst, ( hrst. Jesus, Jesus or Chrst? Sprtualsm teaches, fl teachesanyflng, that cad'human-soul must redeem tself from any and ( Very error,or wrong of whch t' may have been gulty. It says nothng whatever about- redempton'through tny other neuf.s, Why then wll -sprtual, lecturers get down n the slough of dogmatc sectaransm andyeek lo fasten upon Sprtualsm the verbal mystfcaton and preso change come 'along,' sr, devces o heartless teachngs of'those who talk about blockng the wheels of nvestgaton nto the phenomenal facts of Sprtualsm, and those who want to keep posted as lo the drll of-sprtual allrs. wll do well to follow ts n ths Held of sprtual nqury/ Help us to extend our crculaton. Wegre determned ttl Sprtualsm shall not be made responsble ;Ibr the -.(.logmafzng vagares of those who nsst1on blockng the wheels of Sprtual progress.! DR. S,B. BRITTAN IN HIS TRUE CHARACTER.! ' tnder the head-lne, -"'Pleadng In the Inde.-,ncut, Dr. Brttan las at; last degned to respond to the querros whch-the'statement-.of Andrew 1 Jackson Ihvs, made some weeks-snce, gave rse to,' Our readers wll remember that we have been for weeks, callng upog ofessors'. Brl tan, Helana and Kddle to nform' the- publc as (0 He move-'[ ncut n whch they, are secretly engaged to eon- trol the sprtual movement. I'mf. Brftun had ; publcly-alluded to that movement; desgnatng t The New Relgon, and sayng t Was takng shape n New York. Prof. Buchanan las snce publshed a.leettu'e enttled "The Old Relgon 1 and the New Relgon," and nssts that le s n mmedate converse wth Jesus and God, and an- ' thorzed and quallcd to represent and speak for them n connecton wth the Sprtual Movement, Tlur contnued slence of Dr. Brftan left t, to le nferred that Mr. Davs dd not very ncorrectly state the nature and obect-of "'The. New. Relgon." - We therefore-have mpatently wated-to know from those who were engaged n shapng The New Relgon,".n New York, ust what the proect s. AVe would care.less about the matter, hut for the fact that Dr. Brtlan clams to he the authorzed mouthpece of Sprtualsm n hs self- assumed capacty of Kdtor-at-Large. It s true he represents no one n (hat capacty, hut there are those-who thnk that Prof. Brtlan does hold some legtmate representatve poston n Sprtualsm, and they may he msled by hs assumpton of authorty, that he does not possess, Fndng hmself ll hst compelled to speak, Prof. Brtlan seeks to escape answerng,by evason and a chldsh attempt at wtcsm. AVe have' heard a good deal about per/onlles n ournalsm, and we have had sanctmonous dsqustons from Prof. Brttan hmself on courtesy and good breedng. AVe propose to show how ncapable Prof B. s of practcng what ty preaches. AVe very 11 lct fear that The New.Relgon" wll he no mprovement on the old, n the matter of honesty'and mo- raltv. Speakng of Mr. Davs s publshed'.stale-- men! regardng The New Relgon," Prof. Brl- ltn says : ll reachng hs corlsons our frcnl rests ol Ilt«; te.-t- ooay of some one who s not.l'uhnrl lo Ila Traler. II s well; the wtness may a'csrrve hs. ueoyllo, Let. us he gracous am wave the cross examnaton; whle we le.m.from experence that scentfc phlosophers mll posllesof Nature; as well as oler people; may proftably scrutnze,,,..... D nuv. n tu 11 n m ll 1 p on ]>rl*stly (ItMVl VUI'S ol tll Ml* lellow-npn? M rs. 1l y/.or >(he sounrs of lher nfonnnlon, speaks of Jesus Chst, as delneated n what s called, the-.scrptures, as hut the pcture of somethng that was represented as well by Buddha and Mahomet a.- by Jesus. That beng so we had better drop all reference to these varous attempts lo ncarnate lght and truth. Lght and truth are Could rof. Brl I an more oll'ensvev nsnuate that Mr. Davs wrote falsely when le sad he -had been credbly nformed as to the fact lat P r o f e s sors Brttan, Buchanan and Kddle, and oler promnent Sprtualsts were tryng logve shape to that whch had been vod. But we wll not prncples n nature that admt of no ncarnaton stop to consder the-.queston of veracty whch and to talk about ncarnatng them s to talk Prof. B. rases wth Mr. Davs by hs unrourtems about that whch s a natural mpossblty. Mrs. nuendo. AVe pass on to other choce specmens Hvzer shows how lttle the lght and truth of of ournalstc courtesy a la Brttan. He says: Sn'tnalsm lasavaled to free her mnd from the Thea.^umpt..Uhatthe n,n'enmnl provepuul. llustrates. tn* fuel that The drft of nl thougltlul hpnlwlms espesectaran shackles (hat have been fastened Upon lully the nfluental lender* before mentoned!* nm*- t In- Ue nfl»e(ce» tlofmalc theology when -she savs: 1 facts. (Wc wll see about that when the.facts arc made rte or ceremony. No one s requrel to accept the pecular vews am dogmatc opnons of another. Not even by mplcaton docs the proposed consttuton lmt the freedom of.the ndvdual, nor n any way nterfere wth Ids fath, phlosophy or worshp. It olers-no thrty-nne artcles, nor any oler mnnher, expressve of the relgous convctons of ts members., It wl, therefore, le found to tolerate a larger lberty than s enoyed wthn the Kpseopal ursdcton-, of whch an rreveren member once sad he preferred t to any other churolfhccau.se t never meddled wth ether 'poltes or relgon. "But the sources of consolaton, to he derved from He freedom of the consttuton of the new socety, are not yet exhausted. The canddate for admsson to membershp may he 1 aga', Jew, (,'hrstan or Mussulman. le may Imve one thousand gods or ml even one, ns may le determned by the nclnaton of Ins mnd. 1 ls theology may embrace seven heavens or seventy thousand;, all the hells of I'.mle,.Mlton, md Swedenborg, or none at alt beyond the present lfe. Moreover, he may beleve n Mr. Kersey <.raves Sxteen Crucfed Savours, multpled by as nnny more as le may be-able to fnd n Istory or evolve from hs own brans. Whoever.wants a larger,lberty than ths wll not la* expected lo on the assocaton. * * * Tn* qualfcatons for membershp'n the new organzaton, whch are really requred, may he thus brefly expressed: An honest purpose n seekny ndmsson md flln'- shy; hnhls o,t lfe md t yenrrtl leynfh nl teleh emmamds resyeet; ad t sncere desre to (flm'a truth md yromote the tr.lfnre of mnnknd." Now, Prof. Brttan, wo ask you, f that- s all your secret lnovcnott amounts to, why do you desgnate t The New Relgon.? What, feature of a relgon has such an.assocaton as that whch yon have beo'wlfven by the force of.popular-opnon to avow as the one n whch yon arc engaged? To call such an assocaton The New Rolgon s smply to deceve. AVe know that Prof. Buchanan, one of the most actve men n The New Relgon, s seekng to.formulate a relgon that he calls Chrstan.Sprtualsm, and ths ho clams to be dong on the authorty of a lvng and, to hm, present Jesus Chrst. AVe thnk these gentlemen would have a much better clam to honesty and far dealng f they would publsh tle.r. so-called proposed Consttuton. AVlmt do hey propose and how do they propose to do t? That s what Sprtualsts want to know.. If He proposton s such a mu* as Prof. Brttan leaves us to nfer, t s tn* most absurd proposton that was everset forth by then havng.one-partcle of practcal common sense. AVe cannot place the dscernment of.prof.-brtanland hs. assocates at so low Mt'n estmate't's' th suppose they would expect anyth ngusefd to. result I'mm such an ncoherent proect. We shall certanly wat for further nformaton, wth ncreased mpatence, and shall not rastt to-denounce the nsncerty of men -who evade gvng nformaton' oh.matters whch so ntmately emeerns the mantanancc of Sprtualsm, and yet who clam to be leaders n Sprtualsm,.' '. AVe,now come lo a part of >r. lct Ian s letter to fh o Jo n rta l (hat-shows the real nature of the mal. Those who have thought they understood hnt correctly; wll lml that he s not the mld and gentle scholar ltey have fanced hm, hqt'a hypocrtcal, untruthful.and selfsh mal. Not'darng to mme us, for fear of the lash of ustce, whch le knew we hud- n store for hm, he ndulges n tns followng srrlots 'tsmnt ons regardng us. le says:. ' ' Wc have Sam* unhappy people among us for whom we are.sutably sorry. The menton of the relgous dea n ther hearng nspres a knd of frenzy nr delrum. I scarcely need remnd He reader Hnt the Ihroal Phlosopher s not one of tn's class, te beleves n The lealful relgon of Nt.rc,' and le Is too ead ever to become delrous. Nevertheless there are several poor vctms of the mana, timl oppose al relgons. II nmy.soothe these md releve oler nouomouu's people tormented by morbd apprehensons of the loss of ther own precous mlepedene to In* assured tlnt the prnm ftet-evdence s (lull the organzers lre all. athests, n as much as then htrtrno (Itd n ther Consttuton., Npv, \vu solemnly lllrm ths In he Ila fuel. Is not Ibs enough In brng pence lo troubled souls; lo allay tlt* nervous.rrtablty of re.ne.mble Itttles of holl sexes, am! to nsure the safely of ournsttutons. Now, dear rctdmywe ask you whether the man that penned that s ether a decent man ora truthful one. No one has thought of decryng relgon n any aense n whch that word can apply to the heartfelt,convctons and consstent lves of mortals, Wlnt s deprecated bv ourself am'every other fathful.and unselfsh frend of truth s the desecraton'of the word relgon, when appled to schemes of soll.slness, n whch ambton, love of gan ttl'd cast! arc flc obect and am of ts con- cocters. AVe very much I'car that then* s no more regard for God, and hs turbutes of rght, truth and ustce, n the hearts nf the organzers, than n'ther consttuton, and.that s as near nnfln'g as may he, whch lynf. B. admts. We suggest to Rrf. H. that le las tm reason to feel ealous of 'ourself.on llc score of beng, a nnrm hlt Uah of flu* male gender. W* have, to such penchant for wearng-gowns as lu* and hs assocate professors seem to have, and ths tc wll lnd hcfor the ssue s settled whch le and they have rased wthn the sprtual lnes. -Tha we do not go old of our way to stck a personal ssue wth I'mf. Brttan, hut only'defend the stand we'.have rghtfully taken aganst a most, ttn- war'antallc attempt, ol the part of hmself and Its assocates, to brng the sprtual movement under ther control, read the followng. I'mf. B. savs: Tlt: paragraph 1 havehml Oceanan to revew, legaflel an.a crtcsm, s certanly vely mld n term*-, mll gentle enough n sprt, lnt t s ol'n-elevon tcmlcncy as appears l <>111 (le Use whch las already been made ol' l." (Wll I'nl'. l'llan deny 11 ml le refers to the n-e we made of tlml paragraph'.'i I am not dspused In attrbute any such ntenton lo Urn. Dvs. But llel'tlh s, hs words ae taken a- a text by acrmonous crtcs; by bran lng scolds, whose dsease las become chronc; and, t may le, by ferce demonacs. We are rudely avaled as enemes of lelgos lberty, gulty of a studed attempt lo demoralze Sprtualsm by foundng a new seet n theology and relgon the eery l/ap lln weler Ins been rontenln /nnt fr fntl /trs." Reader, the underscorng s Prof, Brltan s. He delberately makes that statement n the face of tle fact that wthn a few weeks past he nformed the publc, through the Banner of Luht, that The New Relgon was takng shape n New York. What new relgon dd he mean? Or dd he mean anythng? AVe have asked hm to state what he meant by The New Relgon, and he ether cannot or wllnot reply. If le cannot, what are we to conclude, f not, that he s demented? If le wll not, why not? Ether he stated what was not true when he sad The new relgon s takng shape n New York, or he states what s not true when he says he s now contendng aganst such' a relgons scheme. AA hch s the truth?.i mf. Brtfan s avowal of hs Athesm s no more.consstent than hs prevous dsavotvals of nfdelty. AVe begn to queston whether I mf. Brttan knows what-he.s about. But let us.follow hm further, le says: Some of these bellgerents threaten us wth perpetual wav. 'They are determned to gve us no peace unless we seek t by persurul humlaton and repentance, or purehase the same at the cost'of our honest convctons. What these malgnants vrtually demand s submsson to ther authorty. We shall probably reman mpentent. We cannot ue- eept the gndanee of those''vallanl knghts whose chef occupaton s battlng wmlwlls, and wrestlng fearfully wth phantoms evolved from ther own dsordered brans. ' AVe scorn to notce st'd yt total perverson of, - truth, t s WQftly of tn* arrogant tnt ruth fulness, of an Kdtor-at-Large, who, mtatng the forlorn knght of La Mancha, sets hmself up as the only worthy champon of Sprtualsm. There was only one man that could have been found who was loot enough to assume such a preposterous undertakng. That man was Prof. S. B. Brttan. AVe never knew wl.at Prof, Brttan was professor of; but we shall conclude', after ths, t s of sprtual knght-errantry. But to he serous and pass on : we assure. Prof. Brttan that we ask nothng of hm, but. that he wll not attempt to trammel Sprtualsm wth hs Quxotc salles, AVe have now to do wth a phase of Brttansm that.we would be glad to be spared the handlng of, but we have no choce about t. AVe lnd t thrown n our wav, and we do not ntend to let t contnue to ollend (le sght. AVe want the reader to understand.that every word of the followng malgnant and hate-nspred scurrlty s amed at ourself. AVe publsh t as the very best way to ;sho\v what "The New Relgon s to be, whch Prof. Brttan s gvng shape to n' New York. He says: "Some people feel delghted when they fnd.a hone to pck, t enables them tn show ther teeth; If we Imve furnshed nne for a lme, those may gnaw the same.who lko :.the occupaton. Ths-hone s perhaps larger than 'some; at tn* same tc t may la* leaner and less nutrtous than that magnary:imm*-tor whel ol -memorable Occason TIM Mother llhhuxl Went lo a clpboard,' Yet on such I'otal.clo envous hnsy-balh's ll lschlev-. ns nyllers xvll oler -people's allrs eolum* n.subsst. It s not strange that Ihey grow' lean n sprt and wolll-lt n dsposton. The pt opens, n,the path of all sptel'nl souls, anl mages wth glarng eyes aml'gory locks lmtnt fho pt.s- dce of the.nnu who laleth ls brother.' - twv want you 16 I know, dear render, that 1 rof. Brttan knows whl he s talkng la.v; There lre u of erverled mnds, Whoso hearts - ; are full of btterness; men of lase feelng, vulgar maners, rude speech lml malcous purposes \vhn:tow dscord and I str up strfe. ( V'-ery true, ml you are-a perfcc specmen ftf ; the class, I rnv lh'lln,)." Such neu," says Trll', lb, 11 are un - only- regardless of the socal amentes ubnrl ohlgf- Ions nf.lfe; Iml lmy are dsturbers of He pence of socety. ; A mnu lmy h* a sant and le slng hv n seorpon. Kven'l. gml-llymay pestera lon; whle-out of lfe fathless bosom, n serpoul may lt! ls vemaums head and strke-. 'A! everythng tlnl glstens far am whle.' " M'lle lfe lene realtes of all the past arc reproduced', n oar tme t s no less true that the unclean phases am) (ls- lorlcd I'ealres uf He world's moral hstory and sprtual ex- perenee, are beng repealed n our presence. The gates of I leaven stand aar whle hell yawns at nnr feel. There Is a realm nf He nfernal Hnt nlerpenelrales our sphere and especally belongs to ths world nf cunllct'ng nterests and selfsh passons. Cerberus keeps hs kennel and harks at every well-helavel traveler, le stretches Idmself hefnro the gates of the Lmbus Ftmrnn and demands Ills bone n 1 the shape of everlastng eonlenlo. Tn* dsorderly'forces of the world are over recruted from henealh. Uprsng from He pt-ghastly and terrble, begrmed wth smoko from the! nl'omul tros-tloy como!! ' Cotonlon hold, wth ron lungs, And slamlor wth her hundred tongues.' Well, lot Cerberus the (log growl, am hark and gnaw the same old hone of eontonln; (hr such n smth Is (le const- 1 lt on of the ereatre and the manner of Ills lfe." TIh1 man who wrota-that malcous slrncof mpertnent personaltes s Samuel B. Hrttan, a man-who pretends to le the Etltor-at-la^o representatve of Sprtualsm, and who, n that pretended capacty, has, wth the ad'of the Banner of Lth,'swndled honest, sncere and earnest Sprtualsts out of hundreds of dollars,tor. whch ho has ovcn them no equvalent, and never wll, le las had He audacty tomnomee that le spdv; shape to what, le ealls "The'New Relt'on, another scheme to-swndle-honest and unstspeelnw Sprtualsts, and theren ohlaf funds to floursh on, as lplt prest of " I he New Relgon. Our ll'eure has been dal we have delecled the ll- ; tended fraud, and rendered l a falure. For ths we have ncurred the mal'nanl hatred of ths hast* and sellsh hypocrte. If we.had any cause before to doubt He correctness of our opnon re- lardnt' He dshonesty of mf, Brtlan, n hs attempt to lead the sprtual.movement, wo have. not. a parlele now, I mf. Brttan wll Imve to take la place wth Col. John G. Bundy, as a would-be trator to Sprtualsm. le Wll lnd.the end of hs slrny: nme sooner than dd Col. If;, for wc are greatly mstaken'f theh a n m r of Ifhl serves much longer as a boh to ls kte, am wth tle,hntnn./ attached to ls fa.l he wll never rase t- fool 'from the slough of selfshness n whch he las fallen. We know who we are dealng wth and how to deal wth.llo.,lf von don t beleve t, wat and see. That- New Relgon s about as'near defunct as s the olleal yeleped Fdlor-at-large. AVe plv I mf. Brtan nt Iter than blame hm. le s gettng old, lu* s poor, le s proud, he s sellm and naturally a I harsce n ls dsposton,, f n* were lo act dl'erently, le would not Ik*conformng to ls natural nclnatons. If le thnks we can le annoyed at anythng le can say of us, or at us. In* s mstaken. We arc dong what We know lo la* our duty as the fathful edtor of a sprtual pper, and nothng wll swerve us one bat's breadth from the course we are pursung. We have no hatred or unkndness hr any one we envy no man and wll ntentonally wrong no one. AVol;now that we are the peer of any honest, sncere and truthful man, whether others so regard us or not; and I mf. lrttan's attempts to make ns appear otherwse wlt, not aval, as tme wll prove. AA'e may not. le understood-now, hut the tme wll surely come when all tlngs wll le made rght. AVe can allbrd to wat for that tme, and wll do so, defendng truth aganst all who would lmt ts operatons or monopolze ts advantages.

6 6 M IN D 1A N D M A T T E R [JUNE 5, M. S.33.}" CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALISM. In the Relgo-Phlosophcal Journal, of last week, was publshed an explanatory artcle from the pen of Dr. J. Rhodes Buchanan n regard to the purport and meanng of the term Chrstan Sprtualsm. Dr. B. sets out by sayng:, The expresson Clrslm Sprtualsm, s one of the most obectonable forms of loose phraseology, am one whch I would carefully avod but for the fact that t has already become current and las gven rse to so much msconcepton as to necesstate an explanaton. One would reasonably thnk that so obectonable a form of loose phraseology, and one that has gven rse to so much msconcepton would be ncontnently dropped by so scentfc a man as Dr. Buchanav clams -Jo le; but not so. For those reasons he adheres to ts use all the more tenacously. That s certanly nether scentfc nor theologe,and he wll pardon us f we say glarngly nconsstent.' Dr. B. says: The word Chrstan s commonly appled to the churches therefore, that Sprtualsm operated n any way I before t exsted s smply absurd. But Prof. B. shows hs utter dsqualfcaton for1consstent 'dogmatzng n the followng manner: " "Hut thn system (Chrstanty) clams to be founded on the teachngs of Jesus Chrst, and professes wth gross ncon-, slstcncy to rtrounze lmn as Chrstanty. It s certanly a reasonable vew to regard tbe teachngs of Jesus Chrst as the proper embodment and foundaton of-clrstanty, and as these arc radcally antagonstc to the career, the' prnc- pes and practces of Chrstan churches, the queston arses whch s the more correct applcaton of the term Chrstan, to apply t to the teachngs of Jesus or to the nsttutons and practces of ds followers. The former s the true, orgnal Chrstanty, the latter s apostaey or perverson. To ds- tngusl them apart I would.call the former prmlx Chrstanty and the latter Church Chrstanty, or as some eon- ; cecly express t, Clurclanly. 1( Was nconsequental 'dogmatzng over carred to a greater extent by tbe narrowest-mnded occupant of the Roman Catholc papacy or by the ty, and wll always be taught by those sprts who are edtoral representatve of Sprtualsm. In order hghest n the sphere of love, and wll therefore survve tn; to show that ournalstc personaltes, as they are destructon of the false Chrstanty of the church.! We thnk t s hgh tme that a name that has I termed, le as much, even f not more, at the door ] accet what facts? The fact you accepted p your been used to desgnate a relgon of selfshness, of the great edlor-ut-argc, Vrof. Brttan, as at our.. tyranny, persecuton and bloodshed, had better own humble edtoral portal, w,e wll quote Prof, ecclesastcal founders "and leaders cf any other le spurned by every honest man and woman who B. s reply to Judge Coombs, n last week s P.-P. form of Chrstan dogmatzat on? What does Prof. Ibeleves n the relgon of hmanty and ustce, Journal. le says:,. Buchanan' know about the teachngs of Jesus Chrst' At least sare Modern.Sprtualsm the humlu-! "!n your ssue of the Kll nst. I fnd am nl obect of n-! mdvcrson and wat are supposed (o be my pecular vews, or of 'prmtve-chrstanty.except as he has derved hs knowledge through those very Chrstan! wth the prest made relgon called Chrstanty. Judge Coombs. The honor of the gentleman's cquuntucc, lon of beng dentfed, n any manner whatever, t He subect of adverse crtcsm.!)} u Washngton correspond cut. I learn from your edtoral paragraph that my crtc s churches that le dogmatcally asserts are 'apostates lke the'order of knghthood, las never been conferred upon But let us see what knd of a beng Prof. Buchanan to and perverters of the true orgnal ('hrstanty." seeks to make the head, am synonym of that Has the world not been long enough cursed wth, greatest'embodment.of truth, Modern Sprtualsm. le says: relgous dogmatzng that Prof'. B. must he tryng! to fasten t upon the only movement that was ever In gvng reverence and love to Johuh, to whch In; n enttled, I do not dmnsh my reverence forolhera who were nsttuted for the perfect enfranchsement of ht- nanty from the hoary folles and wrongs of dog-: matc selfshness? Prof. B. says: " Prmtve Chrstanty n a noble form of Sprtual relgon, presented by the grandest of nspred medums, and s the same relgon whch s comng from heaven lo-day n the utmost freedom and lcauy through nnumerable medums. Is that not dogmatc enough to he worthy of Pope Leo XIII.,. Cardnal McCloskcy, or Arch-, bshop.wood? We thnk t s,and that Professor Buchanan mght have suffcent-, regard Tor thetoleraton of enlghtened Sprtualsts not to nsult them wth such groundless assumptons. Where' s there a partcle of evdence that.prmtve Chrstanty was a form of Sprtualsm at all? Where s there a partcle of evdence that t was presented by an nspred sprtual medum? Where s there a partcle of evdence that any relgon s comng from heaven to-day through nnumerable medums? We affrm, wthout a qualfcaton, that no relgon ever came from heaven through one of the grandest of nspred medums or through nnumerable small-fry me-, dums. We nsst that Sprtualsm s n no sense a relgon, and never can become so, nasmuch as t s but the development of natural laws and phenomena whch, untl March 31st, M. S. 1, were wholly msunderstood and.reected ts the work of supernatural demonac causes. That the phenomena that conslftle the bass of sprtual knowledge to-day have taken place n tn; past there s not a partcle of doubt; but they dd not orgnate wth Jesus Chrst, nor were they regarded by any such a-person ts the work of human sprts, s postvely certan, ts there s no recognton of any such pretence on the part of the wrters of the hooks comprsed n the Chrstan Scrptures, We call upon Dr. Buchanan to stop domatzng, and to produce the proof of tle truth of hs arbtrary averments. If we are not entrely mstaken, Prof. B. wll fnd that he ean-, not adduce such proofs, and that hs-averments amount to nothng. Prof.'Buchamm says : "It may, perhaps, le lnked by home, wbv n-e the term Chrstanty at nl, f t lend to such eofthon by ts opposte meanng? I reply that the rldgon of Jesuseanot wth proprety be gnored \yhen we are ndvoeatng tbe same prncples of whch be was tbe great teacher and martyr. The ethcs whch I derve from the scence of man, whch phlosophy sanctons, and whch are nculcated by the medums whose nspraton comes from the hghest sources the etles of heaven the ethcs whch Jesus' as one of the loftest sprts, s to-day mpressng on senstve souls, cannot be regarded now. as somethng new developed by modern sprtual communcaton. It s (le same relgon whch was llustrated n the lfe of Jesus, and whch although t hts stood above humanty as an deal, seldom realzed n lfe, has been n the smple language of the New Testament, for so nanv centures an nspraton to nl who n Europe were Strugglng to realze a dvne lfe on earth. Te name Chrstanty has been dentfed wth.the deal heavenly relgon, although t has also been usurped by those who have degraded t! We ask you, dear reader, whether t s possble to crowd nto one short paragraph more dogmatc nssprtnn asserton wth null not not a nartcle puruue u of excuse exensp or or usmu ustfca-, an(>w tl I'orwth w]mt what measure udgment ye mete, ye udge, t shall ye be shrll measured be udged, to you ton for t? Who are the we whom Dr. Bu-1agan , I,..,... l And why bcholdest thou the mote that s n thy brothers 1 chanan says are advocatng the same prncples eye,ut COnsderest not the beam that s ll thne own eye? Iflf whch Tests Chrst was thp erp<t teacher and ' Orhow wlt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the ; of Modern Sprtualsm, We nsst that M odern... * Sprtualsm s somethng new, and s the antthess of what Prof. B. alleges s prmtve Chrst It seems to me. therefore, loo late now to change the language, Snce the. relgon of unlmted love t o God md mn, wll probably always contnue to be called Chrstan-'-! but nwardly they art ravenng wolves. I Ye" shall know them by ther fruts. Do men gather grapes of thorns and fgs of thstles. Therefore by ther fruts ye shall know them. I me, and Jean only 'nterpret the gentleman s sprt by. hs words, - We are not accustomed to look for flppant com- Imenls and c.r-ptrlc representatons from udges. We untl-'! rally expect trcn' to le ust, Candd and thoughtful men; to see all sdes of the same subect, and to udge dspassonately, But we may no longer'antcpate hci treatment at'the bands of the udcal personage, whose mpetuous temper prompts hm to summon us to udgment wthout so much n mmc I'csp-cls bn superors, beng more profound n phlosophy ul learnng. I would nune especally Pythagoras, Had the uc of the undersgned and (le reported referas watng for the verdct of the ury. Hermes, Bddbu md Krxlum, but whle I-reverencc cad of, cnees to the F,dlor-at-l.arge been expunged from your corthese for the. wsdom, worth and grandeur of Ids nature, and respodent s epstle before ls publealo, I should scarcely ceognze them as standng n the same llustrous constella- have suspected that any vews of mne were under dscusson lon wth Jesus, I am especally attracted to hm as the truest, n that letter, so utterly does He wrter msupprelenu He anty. It s nether prmtve, secondary, nor any We propose to try Prophet Buchanan whether other grade nor phase of Chrstanty, havng no re- he be a true or false prophet by hs fruts. Ihus.exposton of my phlosophy of the phenomena, Iaton to anythng that hears the desgnaton of Tar we have found only cant, hypocrsy and ms-. etc. Prof. Brttan wll not deny that he dd gve Chrstan. Prof. Buchanan so admts-when le representatons. We strongly suspect that le s an exposton of hs phlosophy of the phenomena on the occason reported by Mr. Nchols for says: The expresson Chrstan Sprtualsm s one of those aganst whom we are cautoned to he one of the most obectonable forms of loose Iaware. ' the Journal. Judge Coombs quoted the report phraseology. You never told a greater truth, and showed that Mr. Nchols at least understood IS HE FRANK AND CANDID? Prof. B., and our advce to you s that, for the Prof. B. to entertan and exress the vews attrbuted to the latter n hs report. Prof. B. does not Our readers wll remember that n Mnd and and creeds whch defy Chrst, aud o all followers of ortho- sake of consstency, f for nothng else more mportant, that you drop the loose and untruthful say he was wrongly reported by Mr. Nchols, nor dox theology. In that sense t represents a system e-sen- Mamn of loth nst. we notced the crtcsms of tally supersttous,hostle to human progress, and dentfed Judge Coombs on the remarksmade by Prof. Brtexpress. Professor II»»k* of tl,c ell.ta o f, m r, M,erals«on, M b x n ts career of eghteen centures wth an appallng amount can t be nferred from what he now says. Tlur of despotsm, cruelty and bloodshed..such u system, though! t may be and has been amelorated by Sprtualsm s essea- scence; He etles of plnlusoply; He ethcs n- ^ Brool)yn S )fh,m) 1.-n,,el. tv ak re, rld report of Mr. Nchols represented Prof, B. to have tally false and therefore doomed to destructon, whch s even now swftly pprouchng. - - culcated by medums; the ethcs of heaven; the declared that the tangble materalzaton of tv and publshed through the R.-P. Journal,'by S. B. We would suggest to Prof. Buchanan that not etles whch Jesus taught; but cares nothng sprt form was mpossble; that f a vsble sprt Nchols, presdent of that assocaton.. Mr. Nchols form appeared t would he purely etheral and obectve to the vson, but ncapable of beng only s the word Chrstan commonly, appled to ' about the only ethcs that has. any value to man-v declarng that the tangtlu the ethcs rf of hafnrft nature rlsnbvwl dsplayed mn e fcvftrv very manlesta- manfesto. ^. mltorn]!aton..... of - a 8prt. form wa8 mpossble the churches and creeds that defy Chrst, but t can be specally appled to nothng else wth any of natural law. Wll Professor B. tell us what an! touched or felt; and that f human forms appeared and that when any form purportng to be that of proprety or ntellgble meanng whatever. What, deal relgon " s? VWeare of opnon that an and were capable of beng touched that they were a materalzed sprt was sufceqtly dense to be Sprtualsm has had to do wth ameloratng : deal relgon s-no relgon at all. If Chrst! not sprtual appearances, hut the result of human r sensble to touch t was necessarly the result of Chrstanty' we would lke Prof. B. to explan. anty s only the desgnaton of deal relgon, t s trckery. Ths Judge Coombs dened' as beng human trckery. Prof. Brttan must have know Chrstanty had exsted for eghteen hundred ' not the prototype or forerunner.of Modern Sprtualsm. Modern Sprtualsm s not a relgon, and contrary to hs own experence and observaton what Mr, Nchols had publshed as a report of hs and.ffty years before anythng whatever, was remarks before the Brooklyn socety, yet he took. sad or known about Sprtualsm as contradstngushed from Chrstanty, and every other exactng of all branches of postve knowledge. so far from beng deal, s the most absolute and no steps whatever to correct any erroneous nterpretaton whch Mr. Nchols had gven of what he teachng as to the after-lfe of man. To say, : There s no room for sentmental dealsm about had sad. t. Agan we call uponn Prof. B. to produce the Judge Coombs, who has had very extensve op proof that any such beng as Jesus, the hero of the portuntes of observng the natural phenomenon Bbletegends, had an earthly or sprtual exstence. If Prof. Buchanan has any knowledge of known~ ;ts"kpmtv materalzaton and who knew how entrely at varance wth facts'were the averments attrbuted to Prof. Brttan, was prompted such a beng, he derves t undoubtedly from that I source; and we want h p to produce the frst lne to protest aganst Prof. B. s attempt to dscredt of those Narratves that says le was a sprtual the most postve, proof that could possbly be medum and controlled hv dsemboded human gven of the absolute truth of sprt exstence and sprts. We awat hs reply. Prof. B. says: return. Ths Judge Coombs dd wth sarcastc ndgnaton n v'ewof'prpf..brttan s clam to be the lovlest; and best of all the exponents of dvne relgon. If Jesus was a man bearng any analogy to Pythagoras and Apollonus of Tyana, there s no authentc hstory of the fact; that he was such an deal or magnary beng as Hermes, Buddha and Khrsna s certan, and as they had no earthly personal exstence, nether had the deal or magnary Jesus. If'Professor'Buchanan nssts that Hermes, Buddha and Krshna were not mythcal bengs, we would lke hm to show to the contrary. We wll close ths crtcsm upon the nconsstent nculcatons' of Prof. B., by showng how lttle clam he has to he.consdered a truth-lovng, ustce-lovng and far-mnded man. If the effect of Chrstanty upon a mnd such as s that of Prof. Buchanan, s to render hm a msrepresenter and falsfer of the vews of others who do not see ft to follow n hs narrow wake of bgotry and hypocrsy, the sooner t s regarded as the curse of curses the better for true progress. Professor Buchanan says: There s a desre to nee Sprtualsts elevated to a hgher plane of lfe to nee them embody n ther lven a practcal relgon, lke that of the great Nuzurcne. To advance nuel a eonsmaton, would be real, progress t would be elevaton. The nun-progrennven are those who arc ndll'erent to Mch elevaton of lfe, and would conne ther Kprtuulnm to nlerentug marvellonn pl'olena, and lntelng to nprtnul rbapnoden or vague npceulatoh. The real pro- grennven are those who hal wth delght, the return of sprt nature of my poston. I have never dsputed the oecrrene of what are called materalzatons, On the contrary I cordally accept the facts. I have not lme and space, here and now, In enter nto any exposton of my phlosophy of the phenomena,-even f your correspondent were n a mood to consder the subect n a calm and thoughtful manner, whch, certanly, one s not authorzed to nfer from wat le las wrtten... J must le excused for declnng!! forma) controversy wth.any man, whose obect even seems to be an assault upon the ulvlal, and not the elucdaton,of He truth. I fnd no fault wth Hro. Nchols/ who dd hs work conscentously.h hs endeavor to report the general drft of a'lengthy lecture ll a bref Synopss. No one could 'have made u smlar report that would not laye Teft abundant, opportuntes for.captouscrtcs to totally msnterpret the speaker's vews) on a controverted, topc about whch the pomlar mnd s n swell a nebulous slate, Durng t perod of.thrty-three years, the undersgned las wrtten much n defense of Sprtualsm, and n'opposton to the vews of ts enemes every where, It wl.sur rse people wholuvc read any consderably porton of wat I nave wrtten, that Judge Coombs should represent ne as dsposed to dogmatcally dctate to Sprtualsts,.what they are to beleve and -'dsbeleve. On ths subect your correspondent not only speaks wthout nformaton, u nd n arrogant tone, but le flatly contradcts facts of common observaton, and falsfes the whole record of my publc lfe, hm no doumutkt. I never attempt to proselyte any 011c, by any means, except the logcal dscusson of facts and prncples; nor have J so much uh asked your correspondent, or any oler mal, for ds endorsement of my reasons. Judge Coombs nssts that 1 am llogcal, an n a mthcrsupetcllous sprt, admonshes me to gveplace to my successor.. Perhaps I shall become more consstent and logcal, after I shall have enoyed the beneft of a full course of nstructons under my present teaelgr. I am not dsposed to undervalue te learned counsellor's advce, merely because le demands no retaner; but for He present, (le ICdlor-at-Irge must respectfully, declne to abdcate hs post. H. H. B." We care nothng about (le personal ssne whch Frof. Brttan makes wth Judge Coombs; but as frends n materalzed forms, and'n every other method of, p, mw, nf01..tu, u communcaton) and who would struggle to realze n earth-, J (JlllUsC U1C same Utterll)U.H lfe, He harmony; frendshp, and oo-opernon of te leav- attrbuted to Prof'. B. that, Judge Coombs dd, we only spheres, wlc cultvatng Sprtualsm as an exper-! mental and ever progressve scence." Teel l no more than ust to gve the former a lcar- We demand of Prof. Buchanan to pont out the 1 nk- The ssue whch Judge Coombs made wth persons or any of them, at whom he ams that ^ro*'' Ih'ttan was not a personal one, but one emmost false and unfounded asserton. We know of hetly concernng the truth of Sprtualsm. For no man nor woman n the Sprtual movement to f the appearance of tangble sprt'torms s not a whom such an nsnuated slander Would apply, fact, then there s not a fact or.phenomenon that Dr. Buchanan seems to 1e of thatclass of whom I proves (le truth of Sprtualsm. If that pheom- Col. Bundy, Prof. Brttan, Wm.Eumetle Coleman,; cnon can he accounted for and explaned away on Gles B. Stehhens, Hudson Tuttle, Lyman C. Howe, ny lhcr theory than that of sprt causaton, Emma Hardngc-Brtten, and a few others are H1011 H,,ro s no other supposed sprtual plenomspecmen Sprtualsts. le acts and talks as f he n,,n IhM cannot, he explaned away upon the same thought no one wll gve hm credt for good n- 1or 11 smlar theory. Judge Coombs was therefore tentons and personal worth unless he can show '''fc'ld >» callng upon Prof. Brttan to state hs pohow had other people are. As other people are not bad ether n (her natures or ntentons le feels hmself constraned to msrepresent them. Ths self-rghteousness and hypocrsy wll pass for nothngwth those who wll watch the pous antcs whch Prof. Buchanan s tryng to cut, hut n so bunglng a manner. As Prof. Buchanan pretends to be such a stckler for the nunctons attrbuted to hs medum-god, Jesus, we would remnd hm that among those nunctons are the followng: " Judge not, that yc be not udged. ston on that crownng evdence of the truth of. Sprtualsm. Instead of answerng the argument, of Judge Coombs aganst the poston of Prof. B., as reported by Mr..Nchols, or statng wheren Mr. Nchols had ms-reported the substance of hs lecture; or statng what hs vews on a controverted topc about whch the popular mnd s n such a nebulous state ; Prof. Brttan tres to make Judge Coombs crtcsms a personal matter, n order to avod makng a wrtten publc statement as to hs vews on the subect of the tangble ma- teralzaton of sprt TormB. Ths attempted evason of Prof. Brttan s unworthy a man who clams to be qualfed to represent Sprtualsm as Edtor-at-Large/ and who las the assurance to I 01 WHICH JLSUs urst Was tlt great leatutr atu ; note out 0f thne eye; and behold, a beam s ur thne own martyr? We know very well that Professor Bu-; eye?., clam that he does occupy /such a representatve, J.... ^,. '.... Thou hypocrte, frst cast put the beam out of tlnne own chaan, f he s teachng the prncples attrbuted cye. un, poston. then shall thou sec clearly to oust out the mote out Uo Jesus, s teachng the prncples of demon-; 0 ^ ; ^ ; ^ oera. y(, would- that,, en should do to All that Prof. B. has degned to reply to Judge ology, whch s thevery opposte of the teachngs you, do ye even so unto them. ;, ',,. Coombs and our own scathng revew of hs declaratons s: I have never dsputed the, f,, Beware of false prophets whch come n sheep s clothng, occurrence of what are called materalzatons. On the contrary, I cordally accept the- farts. I have not tme and space, here and now, to enter nto an and the experence of thousands of as competent observers of sprt materalzatons as Prof. Brttan could possbly be. But what we especally desreto note n ths connecton s Prof. Brttan s barefaced attempt at evason. He says: I have never. dsputed the occurrence of what are called materalzatons. Wll Prof. Brttan deny that he has dsputed the occurrence of tangble materalzed sprt forms? That s what Mr. Nchols'sad he dd-do publcly before the Brooklyn Sprtual Fraternty; and that le has not dened. Is such am Artful Dodger worthy of the confdence of the! frends of Sprtualsm?, AVhat show of proprety! s there n such a man clamng to be the Edtor at-large exponent of Sprtual phenomena and I facts? We can see none. On the contrary, says Prof. B., I cordally accept the fads. You I Brooklyn harangue was that any tangble human I form purportng to be a sprt; was a lnmar trck;!that s the knd of facts that led you to mpeach: the honesty of every medum n whose presence or through whose organsm tangble materalzed sprts do. appear. That las been the case wth every materalzng'.medum n the world. Nomore deadly thrust could be made at Sprtualsm by a drect foe than ths attempt on the part of * Prof. Brttan to destroy the value of the phenom enal facts whch arc the only bass of Modern Sprtualsm. When wll Sprtualsts learn that Ithe worst enemes to Sprtualsm are (hose who clam to he ls especal and only qualfed expo-! mnts? The very pretence of leadershp n S>rtualsm s enough to mpeach the honesty and good fath of the pretenders. It would requre the dogmatc assertons of u hundred thousand such edtors-at-large as Prof. Brttan to so much as rase a queston as to the actualty of the appearance of tangble materalzed, sprt forms through scores of edums throughout the land. Well may Prof. Brttan seek to escape the responsblty of hs utterances before the Brooklyn Bundytes. He dd not knowhow glad Mr. Nchols and Col. Bundy were to have an opportunty to commt Prof. Brttan to ther polcy of dscredtng phenomenal Sprtualsnl, or le would never have walked nto that trap. Thence forward Prof. Brttan may he counted wth Col. Bundy, Emma Hardnge-Brtteh, Wm, Enmette Coleman, S. B- Nchols, Wm. It. Tce and other foes of materalzng medums. He has chosen hs company, let hm enoy t. All the frauds n Sprtualsm are not confned to the oor medums who are compelled to lght ther way through a hostle world ; our experence has been that the most glarng frauds that have.beev commtted n the name of Sprtualsm have been perpetrated by those who accuse and seek to dshonor and dscredt them. Ths wll not, always be so, fpr truth wll preval and wrong wll de. '.S. 0. Bancroft, 5:12 Jetlcrso St., Mlwaukee, Ws., renewng subscrpton wrtes: The reason I have not wrtten before to renew my subscrpton, was that mv cye sght was so that t was wth great clflculfy that I could read, but after readng the last two numbers, I made up my mnd to contnue t sx months longer, and f I cannot road t there are others' that. can( and lke to read them, hut for some cause or another, whch I do not know, do rot take l, though they are abundantly able to do so. How a Sprtualst can do wthouttakng some sprtual paper I cannot magne. Fhd enclosed SLIIH for next sx months. PHILADELPHIA SPIllITUAL MEETINGS. T n ; UKYSTON: ASSOCIATION OF S P IR IT UALISTS. wll bold n ('(fcrccd every Snmlny ltenoon lt 2p o'clock, at He Hall corner offsprng Garden and Kgllh Street. Everybody welcome. T IIE FIR ST ASSOCIATION' OF SPIR ITU A L ISTS At Academy Hull, Htl anl Sprng Garden Streets, every Sunday at loa. m. and 7 p. m. FIR ST S P I R m f t, CHURCH of tbe Good Samartan, at te N. E. 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Further, wll gve an cxann dou ol dseases, and correct dagosls, Wll a wrtten prescrpton md nstructons I'm'home treatment, whch, f the patents follow, wll mprove ther health and condton every tune, l t does not elleet a Hre., dulm; vnovs. IIB ALSO IIM'Als DM \sl s MM.M 111 \l.l V \M> Ol III IIUM l'ltlms- Hue! Delneaton,'I u,l. Full and Complete De ntenton, $2.00. Dagnoss of Dsease, s.00. Dagnoss and I rese plon, SI (10. Full am Complete Delneaton wth Dagnoss and l csnplon, '5.00. Aldess A. H Mxttxxl., l* (rund Avenue, Mlwaukee, Ws. v. n ^ E ^ n srsf E L D, Test M'.wum, answers sealed letters at Gl West Forty- S econd Htheu', New Y oke. Terms, and four 3-cent stamps, egbter your letters. JAMES A. BLISS, TEST MEDIUM. Communcatons by letter for persons d a dstance. Terms $1.00 and three 3-ct stumps. Ollee, Sansom SI., Phla. Pa. IDr. H e n r y C. C^ordon., Physcal, Trance and Slate Wrtng Medum. Select Materalzaton Seances evey Tuesday afternoon at 3 o clock at 691 North Thrteenth Street, Phladelpha. tf, Mmc. L. W. Spencer, Unconscous, Test,' Busness - nnd Healng Medum, K. Water St., Ml. Room I. Madame Carter Pho'tognphcr, I5K West Madson St,, 'Chcago, 111. Sttngs made by appontment. Mrs. H.V. Ross. Materalzng medum, S3 Carpenter street, Provdence, It.. Arrangements for Seances can be made n person or by mal. I MRS. I.I//.IE LENZBEUG, Trance, Test and Hus- ness Medum, 38 Fourth Avenue, New York Cty. Sttngs J daly, from 9 to 12 a.m,, md 2 to 5 p.n.'!englsl and German. POWER las been gven me over undeveloped sprts and eases of obsesson. Persons desrng ad of ths sort wll please send me. ther handwrtng, stale ease and sex, and enclose and two 3-eenl slumps. Address MRS. M. It. STANLEY, Post Ollee Hox DOS, Haverhll, Mass.' ' tf ' MRS. II. J e n n e ANDREW, Clarvoyant md Test I Medum, anl Psychometrc reader. Send age, sex, lock of I har and 50 cts,, Hox 31, New Brtan, Cornu If. DR. A MBS. I'YTIUGH D VOUtHI. BOsness Clar- I voyonls, Trance md Motcrolztg Medums, KHMason St., Mlwaukee, Ws, A' WEEK, $72 outft free. 812 a day at home easly made. Costly Address TnuE&t eco., Augusta, Mane.. n a u k o m e d u m s. n^eh,s. D a. e. s. c k.a. o -,. Clarvoyant dagnoss o f dsease by lock of har. Address I MILS. 1)I(. IC.S. CRAIG, 7 13 Hansom Street, stalng age,.sex and leadng symptoms, enclosng and 3 ct. stamp. To anyone sendng me. 25 cents for He frst (lrcc.months, I wll send free of postage, one of my Magnetzed Plasters garan-. teed to releve pan wherever located. Ollee hours from 9 to 12 a.m,, 2 to 5 p.m., t- D lt. ROXII.ANA T. REX'S UTERINE PA8TILE8 AND COMPOUND TONIC, Knt Dseases ok AVome.n. 'Consultaton free, by letter three 3-ct stamps. 1 asl.les per box, by mal postage prepad. Compound Tonc sent to any address by express 81.25, charges prepad. Send slump for pamphlet to 110 Yol k Ave, I hlndephtn, Pu. \'3-27. MRS. M. K. BOOZER, Medum for Medcal Dagnoss and I syclomelry, 115 Lyon street, Grand Itnpds, Mchgan. Mrs. Hoozer cures all forms of Chronc dseases. Dagnoss pade by lock of laror patent s hand-wrtng, Dagnoss, Sttng or l syelomelrzalon, 82. Examnaton and prescrpton, wth medcne, 83. The cure of the habt of usng tobacco a specally the appette often changed by one treatment. Terms, 85 per treatment. DR. DUMONT C. DAKE, Magnetc Physcan. Oflee and resdence, 117 Clnton SI., Brooklyn, N. Y. Ffteen' years experence In the exclusve I und successful treatment of Chronc Dseases.. MRS. FANNY W. SANBURN, Clarvoyant, Healng and Test Medum. For dagnoss of dsease or test, send lock of har, gvng ngc and sex. Terms, Ono dollar for examnaton or test, and 50 ecnls extra when medcne s requred. Resdence,. Man street, Hyde Park, Address, Lock Box 319, Scranton, Pa, 2-50 DR. D. J. STANSBURY Wll, darng the next 30 days, send a Free Medcal Dagnoss ' and Prescrpton to all sulvorng from Nervous or Clrone Dseases, who apply n good fath, nclosng lock of Imr, age, sex, and leadng symptom, wth stump for return postage. Address No, 110 West 3(tl Street, New York Cty, N. Y. To The Afflcted. Are von Hollerng n mnd or body? or do you wsl advce ; on busness? Then nonsut DR,.I. C. PHILLIPS, the reln- tle Psychometrsl, Clarvoyant and Magnetc Healer, of Omro,' Wsconsn. Send letter contanng lock of Imr, or photograph, or both. If for dsease gve two or three leadng symptoms, (to facltate.) Bref delneaton and two 3-cent slumps; Full delnelon and two 3-cent stumps; Dagnosng dsease und prescrpton and two 3-cent stamps; Magnetzed paper and two 3-nonl stamps; Magnetzed nedersscnl hy express.when desred..svdv faelon (Inaranleed. Dr.,. C. Phllps, Omro. Wnnebug Co.,, t Wsconsn. A// wrtng nn before Aprl 15III wll gel a reltclon of.one-half above, rale*. Mrs. C. M. Morrson. M. D.-Tho wonderful healer and clarvoyant." Thousands acknowledge Mrs, Morrson's unparalleled success n gvng dagnoss by lock of Imr, and thousands have lnen cured wth magnetzed remedes prescrbed hy her Medcal Band. Dagnoss by teller. Enclose look of patent's Imr and Gve tn: name, agend sex. Remedes sent hv mal (o'all/parls of He Unted States und Canadas. Crcular'Contanng testmonals and system of practce, sent freo on applcaton.' Address, MRS. M. C. MORRISON, M. D P. Hox 2519, Boston, - J. Wm. Van Nftmee, M. D., Clarvoyant and Magnetc Physcan, Pembroke, Genesee County, N.,Y. Examnatons made from lock of Imr Psycometrnal readng of character $1.00. Magnetzed remedes sent for nl dseases, Wll answer calls to lecture before Sprtual Socetes, Lberal I/mgues,-Temperance Socetes, and attend Conventons and Funerals wthn reasonable dstance from home on moderate terms. Madam M. J. Phllps, M. D., and Healng Medum No. 55 Wndsor st., Hartford, Conn. Cancers and Tumors cured n every ease, where the vtal organs are not destroyed. She treats all knds of Acute und Chronc Dsco0'*!. Requrements arc, whole nnme, age and descrpton of case. Send 82.00, am receve medcne for two weeks hy mal. C. J. Rapharl, Healng Medum, North Wayne, Mane. Magnetzed Paper s a specalty wth me for tlp cure of dsease. Prce per package, $1.00; renewal, 50 cents. Mrs. L. A. Pasco, 137 T r u m b u l l s t., H n r t f o r d, Conn., C l a r v o y n n t a n d M a g n e t c H e a l e r a n d P s y c h o m e t r c r e a d e r. R e f e r e n c e g v e n w h e n, r e q u r e d, AN OCCULT MYSTERY. WHO "CAN SOLVE IT? A new phenomena) means of curng the sck. Safe, relable, astonshng, successful. Sent free by Dr..1. II. Moseley, HI South Eghth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. v2-30. I I J # To New Yearly Subscrbers, and Old Subscrbers renewng ther subscrptons to M nd and M atter for one year we wll furnsh ' A FREE PREMIUM Consstng of a choce from the followng of JOS DP 11 JOHN S Beautful Parlor Pctures. P u b lsh e d a t $3.00 p e r copy b u t.snce reduced n p rce to $2.00 each. THE ORPHANS RESCUE, Engraved on Steel by J. A. J. Wlcox from Joseph John s Great Pantngs. Ths pcture represents, n most beautful am fascnatng Allegory, a brother anl sfter as lttle orphan voyagers on the Rver of Lfe, ther boat n angry waters, nearng the brnk of a fearful cataract sbadowc 1 by frownng rocks, whle the sprt father and mother hover near wll) outstretched arms to gude ther boat, through the dangerous waters to a place of'safety. In concepton and executon ths pcture s a rare cent of art, and worthy of the dstngushed Artst medum through whom t was gven. Sze o f sh eet, 22x28 Inches. E ngraved su rface, ab o u t 13x2 nches. THE HOMEWARD CURFEW. An Illustraton of the frst lnes n Gray s Elegy Desgned and Panted by Joseph John s. Many competent udges consder ths The Mast or Work of that dstngushed Artst Medum,,In successful combnaton of Rural Scenery and exalted Poetc sentment thas certanly never been excelled by brush of Amercan Art. Sten-coped n black and two tnts n a hgh style of that art by the well-known, and Emnent German Artst THEODORE H. LEIBLER. 'Ths form of reproducton n art s pecularly well adapted to ths subect n some respects the best effects are secured by t Sze o f slccl 22x28 n c h es. T nted su rfa c e 17k>x21 Inches. THE DAW NING LIGHT. Ths beautful and mpressve pcture representng the "Brth. Pla ce of Modern Sprtualsm, n Hydcsvlle, N. Y., was carefully and correctly drawn and panted by our emnent Amercan artst medum, Joseph John s. Angelc messengers descendng through rfled clouds, bathed n. floods of.celestal lght,, arc most successfully lnked'and.blended.wth ths noted house and ts surroundngs, of road, yard, the well and ts oaken bucket, shade trees,orchard, the blacksmth shop wth ts blazng forge, and the Hyde manson restng aganst the hll n the dstance. Twlght pervades the foreground n mystc grades, typcal of sprtual condtons n the eventful days of A lght for the wanderng plgrm shnes from the wndows of that room where sprtual telegraphy began to electrfy the world wth ts glad tdngs of great oy. Lumnous floods of mornng lght stream up from the cloud-mantled horzon, llumnatng the floatng clouds n gorgeous tnts, and then fallng over the angel hand and the dark clouds beyond. Whle these pctures nterest and fascnate chldren and youth, they, successfully meet the demands of cultured mnds, renderng then ft for ether the nursery or parlor, of the cottage or palace, and the portfolo or gallery of the connosseur n Art. As these works tre of dfferent shapes the" panful monotony often observed n too many matched works on the wall s happly obvated. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Copy. Ono year. wth ehoet?. of One of the above named pctures. $2.1B t.(< a Two U «'. 14 a m - 2,75 «U ; a a Three U - a 3.05 a Sx months; tt v One a a U a u a a Two a a 1.(15 It u * a \ " Three t * a u. (1 ^ ' l Three ubftm tr u One a a 1.00 (4 (4 Two a u «a U t Three. H a u a - : 1.70 P ostage on boll) p a p e r anl Det lre In p rep a d by us, mll (le la tte r safely enclosed n P lease (onvn'r to m e......m ouths for w hch 1.enclose N am e... A ddress,.. D ate,... SPIRITUAL DUPLICATIONS. Banner of Lght. TMK Or.DICST.IOUHNAI, IN THE WOULD DEVOTKI) TO THE SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY, JHHUED WEEKLY. At No. 9 Montgomery Place, Boston, Mass. COLBY & RICH, P ublshers and P uohuetorn. s tro n g p asteb o ard ro lle rs. If von wsh to Htbscnb! formxn and Ma'tcu, (ll tp ths blank, cut t from the paper am.forward to ths olflcc, to J. M. ROBERTS, 713'Snsun SI., Phladelpha, Pcnm....cop.. ol MINI) AND MATT E ll lor. I d e s re (or a p rem u m He p c tu re e n ttle d flfcfbtamps.tnkch n payment.-when not convenent to send Money, Post-Offce Order or Check Isaac B. Rch, Luther C'oly, John W. Day, Busness Manager. Kotol. Assstant Edtor. A ded b)j a large corps of able wrters, THE BANNER's a trst-elss, eght-page Famly News-^ paper, Contanng forty columns ok ntkhmtno and n- stcctv K kka n no, embracng, A LITERARY'DEPARTMENT. REPORT OF SPIRITUAL LECTURES. ORIGINAL'ESSAYS Upon Sprtual, Phlosophcal and Hecntllc Subects. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. SPIRIT-MESSAGE DEPARTMENT. CONTRIBUTIONS hy the most talented wrters n the world, etc.,.etc. " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE. Per Year, Sx Months, " T hree Months, ' T H E S P I R I T P ; RECORD. A XVKEKLY JOURNAL. PrUl.ISllKI) CNIIKII THE ACSI'ICLS OK THE FIRST SOCIETY OF SPIRITUALISTS o p Ch c a g o. ContanngDscourses and Poems through the medumshp of Mrs. Cora 1,. V. Rchmond, md other matter pertanng to the Sprtual Phlosophy. Subscrpton Terms $2.0(1 per year; $7.00 for Fve Copes, - one year; 5 cents per sngle mmln r. Advertsng Terms Thrty Cents a lne nonparel, lrst nserton; 20 cents for succeedng nsertons. Address, GRIFFEN BROTHERS, Publshers, 104 LaSalle St., Chcago, III. T H E W O R D. A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF REFORM E. II. IIevxvood, Edtor. Terms, 75 cents'annually In mtvuuee; 5 copes $3.30; 10 copes $6.00; 20 copes ; 50 copes ; IODeop.cs $ Sngle copes 7 cents. Subscrbers who wsh to contnue, wll please remt n tme, for the paper s not sent except on payment n advance. Address T H K W O ln. ' Prneeon, Mon. C E L E S T I A L C I T Y. A Weekly Sprtual Journal devoted to the nterests of 1 Sprtualsm. Yearly subscrpton, $2.00; Sx months, I Sngle copes.f cents. Address, P. L. O. A. Keeler, Edtor, 377 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. SPIRITUAL PUllLlCATItm. The Texas Sprtualst. A Monthly Publcaton Devoted to the Cause of Human Progress and the Elucdaton of the Sprtual Phlosophy. 0. W. Newham,.... Edtor and Propretor. C. T. Booth,... Assocate Edtor. TIHtMN, $1.00 PHIt YI-LIK #9* Ono copy free to any one sendng ns ten Huhserhurs at regular rales. Correspondents wll please forward ther favors as early n the mouth ns possble. Address all eunnuetllous to, THE TEXAS SPIRITUALIST, Hempstead, Texas, TTEEE p r o g r e s s. A mothlv ournal devoted In Temperance, Progressve Thnght and Socal'Reform. J. WM. VAN NAM ICE, M. D Edtor. Slserplon prce 73 ecnls per year..clubs of lve or morn HO cents ter year. Address all cnmmcalns to Dr. J. Wm. Van Naaa A Co., Panlnoke, Genesee Co. N.Y. AN'NorNuHcyr THE VOICE OF ANOKLH, edted and managed hy sprts, now n ts thrd volume, enlarged to nvelvn pages, wll le ssued sem-monthly at the Far Vew House, North Weymouth, Mass. Prce per year, n advance, Slv5U; postage,. 16 cents; less lme.n proporton. Letters und matter -for the paper (to receve attenton) must le addressed (postpad) to He undersgned. Specmen copes free. I). (!. DICNSMORE, l'lh. Voce of AtgrE (h/xpa week n your own town. Terms and 85.outlt free. Address H, Hallett k Co., Portland,Mane.. tpouadd ADVERTISEMENTS. WAN TED u person to assocate wll Dr. II. C. Gordon, to hold seances and gve sttngs. Address <11)1 North Thrteenth Street for txvo weeks. learn the great Vtapathc System of lleultl and Lfe and Power, und get the Dploma of He AMERICAN HEALTH COLLEGE. I-cgal n all States and Countres. Send stamp for hook of partculars, to P ro f..1. II. C am pbell, M. D. V. D 200 Longworth St., Cncnnat, Oho. FOR SALE. EVl'IIOMA.N I*AIX ITS Portrat, coped from the Ol Pantng n the Natonal Museum. Independence Hull, also lle Portrats of Cln*. D arw n. P rof. T y n d all, and D. M. Ih 'u e tl. who was unustly mprsoned for crculatng Cupd's Jokes,' a small pamphlet through the U. S. mal. Prce 0 Cts eael. K, HASKELL, ' 711 Sansom Street, Phladelpha. $5 to $20 ]>er day at home. Samples worth $5 free. Address Stnson & Co., Portland, Mane. Send 10 rent* for n copy of BROOM'S PAPER," contanng the great French work of Godn's Socal Soluton," to WALTER BROOM. Vneland, N. J., CAMP MEETINGS. MEDIUMS CAMP MEETING. -The Medums and Medums' frends of Penwylvonn, wll bold u Camp Meetng under He auspces of the Co-operatve Assocaton of Sprtualsts of Phladelpha at ( ItEEDMOOIt DARK GROVE, stuated ahout l>mles above Phladelpha, on the banks of the Delaware Rver, commencng July,9th, and endng; August 1st. Promnent speakers have been engaged to oeeupy the rostrum, notable among them are Dr. R. C. Flower, Mrs. Nelle Pease Fox, Mrs. Kate 1!. Robnson, and many others. Medums for all phases ol sprtual manfestaton wll he uon the ground and hold sennees nghtly for Materalzaton, Physcal, Trance and Clarvoyant tests, among those that have announced'ther ntenton to be present are \\ m II. Fddv. Mr. and Mrs..lames A.- Itlss, Dr. Harry Gordon. Keeler and RoHtnel, Jesse Sheppard, Mrs. F. P.hntr, Alled Janus, W Il.m Powell, Mrs. S, A. Anthony >-ml many others, such an array of nednumsto talent s seldom gathered tqgcthcrs. For partculars as to charges for tents, hoardng, Ac.,' apply to Mrs. Dr. K, S. Crag, Secretary, or Mr. James A. Blss, 7l.t Sansom st. Phlada.ePtt, Medums and ' p kes who na> wsh to \st ths (.'amp Meetng horn a dstance Mll he heally welcomed hy the.'assocaton... 1Sprtualsts Camp Meetng The " Frst Assocaton of Sluahsls ' of Phladelpha, wll hold a Cam)) Meetng at N eslm ny Tals G rove. Wlletsst t on, on He Hound Book R. R. Route to New York, IS mles from Phladelpha, eonmenengon the 1 (t 11 of JULY next, and contnung to the lath of AUGUST. For partcu-, lars as to ehmges for tents, hoardng, Ac, Ac, apply personally or by letter to MR FRtXCTSJ 1CKl'T'KR, General Superntendent, Xn 613 SPRING GARDEN ST, Phladelpha, nr, when n sesson, to hm lt Oakforl, 1. ()., Books County, l emm. Speakers of both sexes, emnent for talent upon the publc platform, wll he engaged. 1 ADVERTISEMENTS. Ths lttle nstrument s desgned especally to develop wrtng medunslp, also to he a relable means of communcaton wth the spt t world. The advantage clamed over oler l lmelptttuyow m the marke, are as followa; Frst, TTe paste-board tk, nstead of varnshed or oled xvool Second, Eael nstrument s separately magnetzed n the cabnet of the noted Blss me ums, of Phladelpha, and I carres wtl t a.developng nlhu-cc from Mr. Blss and Ills sprt gudes to the purchaser. Prce 50 cents eueh or $5,00 per dozen. I Address JAMES A. BUSS, 713 Sansom Street, Phladelpha, Pcnm. I DR. GRAHAM S MAGNETIZED CATARRH SXCI T\ (sprt formula,) s guaranteed to cure promptly ; the most complcated eases of Catarrh, lnlluenza, Hay Fever ' &e. It s a purely vegetable compound, cleanly and pleasant n l.s'ell'eel.s. Prce 25 cents per bottle or 'lve bottles for $1.00. Sample holtls 10 cents anl 3 cent stamp wth full drectons. DR. GKO. t. GRAHAM, 315 N..Gay Streel, Baltmore, Md,! THE UNIOM REFORM CONVENTION I Meets n He Ton'll Hall, Prnceton, Mass., July lll, 5th and. (lh, Sunday, Monday unt Tuesday. Stephen Pearl Andrews, I Prof, A. L. Rau'son, T, (', Leland, A. II. Wood, Davd I Wlder, Josephne R. Slone, A. D. Wheeler, Angelo T. Hoy- wood, Dr. J. 11. Swan, K. 11. Maywood- and oler spankers are expected. If,. XTLvD B R E X L ^ CEIILT-A.. Ths s a beautful tree, and makes n splendd shade. Package of seed sent for 25 cents. Address -- It ALEXANDER KING, San Pedro, Houston Co., Texas DR. R. C. FLOWER, THE G R K A. T H G A I, TCR. Master of tlo Now Art of Honllng! Kng of Consumpton and Cancor!. CANUMRS of nl knds. CONSUMPTION n all tssltur's, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS. Throat and Catarrhal trouble; II FART DIFFICULTI MS, hnlit organc! and functonal. I F FM AL F* I >1F FIC UI,T IFS, I and dsnrdnrs of all ages and standng.! IvIDNFY AND BLADDFR DIFFICULTIES, - Irr( S um'tlv(' of causes, age or standng, Sl FRMATORRlIFA, and all ts attendng lls and dflenltea. I SCROFULA, wth ts multtude of terrors. lmlfs.ofall knds, nclndngchronebloody Ples III I FILM ATISM, PARALYSIS, and all knds of Seftte trouble.' DRUNKENNESS, from any cause and of any length of standng. Ollee amt Resdence, 1310 F lbert Nf. Consultaton free. Ulnrvoyunl Examnaton $2.00, Praotlee conflnod to the oflee und Insttute except In desperate oases, when vst* wll le made. Oflee hours from 9 to 12a;m. from 2 to 4 p.m. Oases examned elarvoyantly from locks of har when eennpmloned wtn $2.00, and a statement of, age, sex, heght, weght, complexon, lemperature of skn mm feet,, TERMS' FOR TREATMENT-Patents lvng at home, and beng treated through the mull, we charge from $12 to $35 per month tho ordnary charges beng $15 to 820 per month. Tlls ncludes all needed remedes, wth ftll droo-' (ons as to"hvgene treatment, det, exorcse, etc. R. 0. FLOWER, M. D., Flbert Street, Phladelpha; Pft. DR. J. WM. VAN NAMEE S Celebrated Mngetlc Ng'r Coated E lver IMUs, An uvalmlle remedy for (,'oslveness, Hlllloustoss, Lver Complanls, Indgeslon, Ileadaele and Htuunol dflcullos, Used n the practce of many of our best physcans. Purely.' vegetable am prepared from the best and purest arllele to be obtaned, No fnmly should le wt lmt them. Put up n'ln'ge loxes desgned for famly use, and sold at $1.00 per hox, 9 cents extra for postage f sent by mal. 'These plls are not a patent'medcne hy any menus, hut regularly prepared by a praeleal physcan for general use n pruottoe,, For Sde at ths Dfflce. ' A RELIABLE CURE. An Infallble cure for CHILLS AND FEVER, and arklmls of malar dseases.' Preparatons accurately compounded und prepared ready for mxng.,.prce of packages $1.00, , S2.(K) and $2.50. Ths s a speedy and permanent cure. No need of anythng else and no danger of return of the dsease. Address, U. L. IIENTZ, 1313 Falrmont Avenue, I llmlel])lla Pa. _ Y 't a p a t llc ELealng- In sttu te, 3t)S I'lrsl Street^ l.mlmvlle. K en lu ek y. I-'or the cure of all classes of dsease. Fot1 nformaton address wt l three 3ct stumps WM. ROSE, M. D. MRS. WM. ROSE, V, D. tf Otw Frst St., Ismsvlle, Kentuoky. ' magnetc and vtal tr ea tm en t. Send 25 cents to DR. ANDREW STONE, Troy, N. Y.. oarr LttxandHY(H;MeIxsTT(TK,aud obtan a largenndhghly. lluhtrated look.on tho system hf Vtalsng Construcllvs TreoJment. AMERICAN HEALTH COLLEGE. Ml MEDIUMS, HEALERS, and PHYSICIANS, slonldx1 Vlnpathe system of Medcal 'practce. Short practcal In streton am hghest dploma. Send stamp for look of explanaton and references to PROF. J. B. CAMPBELL, M. D V. I)., 2G6 Lonowoth St., Cncnnat, Oho, Send for the Annunl Announcement of the Amercan Eclectc Medcal College Of Cncnnat.-Oho, for IKSd-Sl Fall and Wnter Sesson wll begn September 13; 1**0. Sprng Sesson wll begn February 1 IfWI. Low fees. Progesve and Lberal Catalogue free, WILSON' NICELY, M. D Dean, P. O. Box, H08, Cncnnat, O. Please send us the names and address of Reform, and Eclectc Doctors, as wc would lke to send them the Announcement. _ ', SPIRITUALIST# or others wantng transent or per- : raanent board where they can nttend Sprtual seances and be wth Sprtualsts, can And most desrable quarters at No. ; 691 North Thrteenth Street, Phladelpha, at very reasonable ' rates, tf

8 -YJWY'-IWU P»F»*M T '' '*«.'"? ^ >...»'"-M >W«.,* *ot> lf,, K IM y ^ ^ 8 ;M m D A N D M A TTER. [JUNE 5, M. S. 33.J THE NEW EVANGEL. BY BELLA Bl SH. O l, l o n e a n d w e a r y m o r t a l s, Ever reachng for the good, / See how long txforc your portals The angel love lmfh stood. Hear her meekly pleadng wth you, Go seek her shnng face; Hear her sweetly sngng to you, Love must redeem the race. Oh, rse and hd her enter, She s the heavenly guest, Of every good the centre, She alone can gve us rest. Ask not that all earth's teachers Should tread the self-same road, For countless as hs creatures, ' Arc tle avenues to God. Not one shall fal of reachng, A haven of rest at last;. Though some through error s teachng, May feel Hs furnace blast. God's truths are all eternal, Only human errors de; Am souls n realms supernal Wll see wth clearer eye.. Oh, what fetters wll be rven, Wlml ancent wrongs decay. When all can walk toward heaven, Each n hs chosen way. Not shackled by opnons, ', Not hound by ron creeds,. How free wll be thought s pnons, How beautful men s deeds 1 For gfts of hghest mert, Are not the world s to gve ; We may all be rch n sprt No matter where we lve. And f our souls nhert The fath that looks above, Who may keep wth angels holy, Tle sacrament of love. Ths voce of hope and gladness, I send dear frends to you ; May t keep your hearts from sadness, And.teach you to be true. True to tle lght that angels Are sheddng on our way; Am to love the New Evangel, Who walks wth us to-day. Bdvdcrc Semnary, A'../. I or Mnd fnd Muller. THE BIBLE AND SPIRITUALISM. - <> - J V T H O M A S ' J t r l M O N O. You understand that all matter of ntellgence that.comes to us from any nvsble ntellgence, must come through the ntellectual functons of some human vsble.medum ; and that t always was so and always wll be so. The prophets and seers and wrters of the Old. Testament were all medums, and very good medums for that age, and for the development, of (bat perod, of man s moral and ntellectual.growth. And (bey gave as good and ntellgent hstorc rendton.of' the tme, the world, the actons of men, and of t he gods, as could-be gven n that growth of manknd ; begnnng- many thousand years ago, and contnung wth tme, These, makng allowance for the fact that they used other languages to express ther thought, than our own, consequentlythe orgnal languagemust be translated nto our language. Therefore the orgnal has been manpulated by a'presthood for years, and made thereby to express'the vews of the translatng presthood. I have great confdence n the old prophets, for I beleve they generally thought they were expressng the mnd of the great nvsble God, whom they reverenced and hold n awe; am who, they beleved, was present wth them, utterng Hs mnd through them. I have much less confdence n those who have been manpulatng the Bble snce the orgnal wrtng, But the comng of Jesus bs labors, bs teachngs. and bs apostles opens up a more and brghter era n bblcal hstory and teachng. The world was then over four thousand years old, and the pace of manknd had vlstly mproved, as appears from the development of the prophets. ^ the a( recceved from suncror sprts, was able to dscover the nward--thought and qualty of manknd..- le, selected twelve men, who were called hs dscpes all medums, whel le dscovered; and ths fact determned hs choce, hence they all became teachers,, lecturers, or workers n the cause. Now hear tle powers and dfferent knds.and It s sown n dshonor, t s rased n glory; t s sown n darkness, t s rased n power It s sown a natural body, t s rased a sprtual body. There s a natural body, and there s a sprtual body. 45. And so t s wrtten, the frst man Adam was made a lvng soul; the second Adam was made a quckenng sprt. 46. IIow be t, that was not frst whch s sprtual, but-that'-whch s natural, and afterward that whch s sprtual. 51. Behold,' I show-you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 53. For ths corruptble must put on ncorrupt ton, and thsmortal must put on mmortalty. * * * Death s swallowed up n vctory ! death, where s thy stng? 0! grave, where s thy vctory? The reader wll proft by readng the whole chapter. Death s often called sleep n the Bble, and!st. Paul calls t, We shall not all sleep, but we ' shall be.changed n a moment, n the twnklng of an eye, at the last trump." * BLACKFOOT S WORK. G o o d f o b W e a k L u n g s. Hautsport, Canada, Aprl 17,1880. James A. Blss Dear Brother. Many thafks for the paper sent. I appled t to a< daughter who has weak lungs and t dd her much good. Your oblged sgter, Lousa Davdson. Saw the I ndan. I, Georgetown, Col., May fd, Mr. James A. Blss Dear Sr The paper you I sent, dd me, I beleve, some good. I also saw the I Indan clarvoyantly. I send you^l ; pleage send me a 1sheet of Magnetzed Paper every week as! long as the St wll last. Yours respectfully, K. M autmanx. of us, n talkng wth novces, s not mmedately confronted wth the dctum of the Bble? Why not then meet them those of ths stamp and show them that ths truth of ours fnds ts bass n ther own recqrds? Were the world ndoctrnated wth ths communon, t mght rely less upon the past; but, as at present, we are nvolved wth t, and can certanly make somethng of the lght of the example that t affords. It should matter very lttle wth us from what source we get any good. From hm who beleves the Bble to be a myth, to hm who. would welcome an organzed Chrstan Sprtualsm, there s a mddle ground that we may dspassonately occupy. Sprtualsm must depend upon the famly, upon the ndvdual; organzatons of any knd are ts worst enemy. Tle world has had clques enough through alf ts hstoryald we trust that no such movement at the fost as you allude to can be possble. That there, are elsewhere under ths name nfluences the most undermng at work can planly ' Thanks Buck foot. be seen ; but Sprtualsm, lke each of our lves, I Brother Blss: Please fnd enclosed stamps and ^... gans ts... best ^... power.through ^ struggle and effort-; please forward some more-of those papers, as I I and thus wll your work succeed f you keep on 1am much beneftted by them. J now thnk they wt unfalterng step Ths means ndvdually we shall not all sleep,! wll make a sound man of me. Tell frend Black-, George Barrel!.. that s, my whole beng wll not sleep (des), but I foot bg chef to accept my thanks for the good ; t wll be changed. My body only wll de, and [We reply, we are for naked Truth, and she does I bs papers have done me, and I hope he wll come my sprt go up to meet God n tle ar." Consder now that St. Paul a medum, next n ' to see me. Yours n truth, not admt of her followers beng all thngs to all A. Hudgens, men. development to Jesus presentng to tle people, Kd.] near two thousand years ago, ths vew of mmortalty, of humanty, of the ways of lfe and of death. Exactly n mparted, what sprts are teachng us now, those who have bad years of experence n sprt lfe. Sprts of Unt age comma- by mpresson or nspraton through Haul. In another age and language, orgnally much Receved Untold Beneft.... Bronson, Mch,, Aprl ), James A. Blss Dear Sr ; 1The magnetzed pa- per came to band n due tme. I have receved untold beneft from ts use; you have my unfegned thanks for your knd offer made to the publc. Enclosed fnd stamps for more paper. through : "2 ' ten or r lmore r ftranslatons e "? before... f ereachng n : : V, «y a *, D. S l IIAGI'E the Englsh language. I thnk t wonderful that messages from the sprt-world gven man should so far agree wth, those of that age as recorded n. Goon for Eu,ETe F ts. the Bble. Lewston; Mane, Aprl 7, 1880, Great allowance {should be made for tle dstant James A. Blss Dear Sr: Hama, two or three perods; for the changes of human thought and expresson, and especally for the translatons. I months ago I sent to you lor1some m gnolzed paper for a poor fellow who was afflcted wth wll, throw no doubt upon the ntegrty and ablty of the translators, but they were men subect to epleptc fls,and le thnks hem better,and wshes uncertantes of men to-day. a, renewal of the paper, f t. s necessary to keep Suppose an honest conscentpus Baptst lakes the orgnal for translaton, won t he understand baptze to mean mmerson, and so render t? Suppose a Calvnst translttes t, bow readly he Releves- Pan n.the Hde. fnds fore-ordnaton and reprobaton!, * South Deerfeld, Mass., Aprl 20, Hand the orgnal to a good, learned Old-School I ''-'AfrsllM M n ls r.some three weeks ago I Orthodox Presbyteran for translaton, be wll sent to you for a sheet of magnetzed paper wlel ' fnd mortalty establshed; le wll fnd three "" receved and wore to shreds, and am sure that Materalzatons Through the Medumshp of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Blss. On the evenng of (le 10th nl. I attended wth, half a dozen lades and gentlemen a seance of Mr, and Mrs. Blss, n the offce of Mnd and Matter, n Phladelpha. Mrs. Blss look her seat n the cabnet, a young man, who had the msfortune to be blnd,-played the organ, when, after a few mnutes, the forms of dfferent persons began to appear, some of whch had a halo of lght encrclng them. A gentleman, a lawyer by professon, from the nteror of Pennsylvana, was called up from hs seat by a lady. She came out from the cabnet and met hm several feet from t, and took from hs band a loquet of flowers whch he held, He recognzed her as a frend who bad passed away about a year ago Several other forms, male and female, appeared tp the effect. Yours truly, ^ n successon, leavng no doubt n the mndof any ' Box 28: X. W. Bonnef. ntellgent, unpreudced person, of ther beng persons who lad once been nhabtants of Ibs eartl'and now resdents of a hgher lfe. 1 sat slently all ll quetly for nearly an hour, thnkng lttle of sprts or sprtual ntercourse,and not, expectng'any frends from the other sde, when I was called up by sore. one desrous ft seeng me. glds gods all n one person ; le he wll.(md fnd The the oldest one p lmlped the pan n my sde. I ntended lo send As.J. m.yn.walked..up to the cabnet tle curtan was: " stood 1)( thnkng who t mght le, and makng.manknd, and then makng contrasts wth f0ymore,but sckness'n my amlyprcvetcd ne...hwevse w l Mr. I Jllss, who: sat n a char a them for good behavor, and creatng.. avfrr. pun-. I ncgleclcd negle.'myself, to ease for others..send ne.',, smenls for. bad eon duel; a hell for snners, and J another sheet. short dstance mm,,,,!, off, r and farther away from tp;,cabnet than myself. Presently the curtan waspullel, Mas. M. K. W r g h t. a personal devl to.keep the tres up-and to tor- «meat Them ;--he wll.fnd-god:angry wth the, asdennd. a -gentleman wll! full, flowng;* dark wcked every day. Then le wll fnd one of the Beneft to the Eves, har ad beard, dressed n a neat ttlng sut of nnocent Gods (lyng uf the cross, makng an, -... ~-Westmnster, Mass., Aprl 7,188'0. black clothes, of lne texture and mmaculate atonement for snners, to satsfy hs partner.gods. Mr. James A; Blss: Please send me another lnen stood before me. J recognzed hm dstnctly at, frst sght, and nstantly, wthout a mo Tle tsl dyng torthe unust. _ " I sheet of your magnelzelpapcr, I never had any- Take the orgnal to an Adventst for transla- tlng do my so much good. I mght call ments-thought, sad: Why, Doctor, s ths you? Jung do ny eyes so mc goo. J. lmgnt cal), am very glad to see you, ndeed 1 He made a lon, le wll' fnd no mmortalty for man, untl he makes t by belevng what they-preach that the ;. 1'0IM. lu but another slce!, ^aeeful )uw, and wavng Ids band n a lan.- - Xv 1 nake t KW.e 1 have used only one sheet as.-.]lr-wuy, closed the curlan. It was only for a mowcked: wll le burned up, consumed -wth the! y(, *»/>< f01. /->t Imyself, t. m<o l Long.A lo lu may n r the la Great.I'Hl SSprt h l l cshne b m /1. V7. k... whole earth, root and. branch.. G through you upon poor mortals, brngng you and yours many blessngs. Then take the-bble of foregn language to the Unversals!.-.fo; translaton, amt t wll be lke takng soled clothes lo a laundry ;tbe translaton yvll come out cleansed ol'all the ugly const ructon and roned out smooth as a shrt-bosom.' ' So contnue untl every creed has made ts own nterpretaton. I apprehend that Kng James translaton by forty-seven learned men, who met by bs selecton and appontment n 1607, and labored three years n brngng out the verson of our present, Bble, were of the varous belefs that have been drawn from the Bble,and upon whch creeds and churches have been founded. Tome t seems very much as ths, tle dfferent persons engaged n t compromsed and yelded to support, for every relgous system and all church crtcs of-fath founded-upon the Bble seem to be about equally well supported by dfferent parts of He Bble and texts of (Scrpture/. - Nevertheless, there s manfestly to every candd student of (le Bble, especally the New Testament, who reads n order to get tle truth and qualtes of medhnnsl.p as gven by St. Paul, one! of tle dscples and leadng ncdum. Frst,re' 1,1 l«rnohy wll, tself and sensbly frst CS dnthans!, twelfth eh pter Ld the followng ^ 1. Now concernng sprtual gfts, brethren, I ' wrll k',l11 kl! 'v of ny oc[raq-! 1 buluve l; wouldnothaveyongnora.l., I beleve that every person of( common under- 4. Now there are d amtes of gfts, hut the I H,U',l n«'.ho Wl11,(llveKl h(:nkc'.veh of 11 l.l*r.ec,,n: same snrt 1(!(31ve<' 1K)llonK preudces, ol every knd-, and 5. And there are dverstes of operaton,,, but wth,l'n'1 l,l'r!kf f, lu nd ln,-t her.1 (J',,er W0'1.ll t s the same God that worketl. all n all.! f rch / or1kl,,;u,:!1l! JruthH pewovergly, wth h.s 7. But the nutnfeslatons of the sprt s gven. K!"«le,to hll,( «bjcc,.>w? I H"urt-ly hml tl.c to every man to proft wthal. ' tn H f lk of»pntua, truth as there s a God 8. For to one s gven, by the sprt,the word ' (,k1 V- r W 'T: m of wsdom; to another the word of knowledge,! ^ e, 1 lm Wn 8 by the sanm sprt. b (-«rlft.n.lv fnd d.vne muntud lfe and truth, ns 9. To another fath, by (le same sprt; lo an- 1-v!,n ^ ll1,,»'1,h(; f111' h> / o lowl8»p «Htream other the gfts of healng, by the same sprt. l,f Wlder' -1 m'u loft>'!l1"1 llol-v wll, not 10. To another- the workng of mracles; lo an 1 on" 10111,1111 n darkness, they lead drectly to other prophecy; to another dscernng of sprts; lght and.truth, whle all error and falsty leads to another dvers knds of longues: to anotler the,,,,,,.,, nterpretaton of tongues.. 're'-v!lu,"f-',ll:d 1 a 1 1,, l I I >:-.r«11. But all these worked, that one and the self- ' 111 lllh1,1,11,1 a,( llu.1h,«nor,1,t,,f 1 ark; same sprt, dvdng lo every man severally as le 10^ ^ '( J'! ( ;; ll^-wd 'rk "book Reader, t <1,l) dsrobe Ul-0,s wll. Several years ago,standng n a crcle, one even- 1 Sncerely yours Mrs. A. F. Sawtkll, Releves Pan n.s oeldek. Lal orlo, Dd.,'Aprl 5, 1880.! James A. Blss Dear Sr: Enclosed you wll : fnd twelve postage stamps, Ibr whch please send me four sheets of magnetzed paper. J wsh two for myself, one for my lather and mother each. L have tred one and so las mother for a pan n her shoulders, she thnks t dd her a great deal of good, The one J tred.was for my stomach. I thnk t releved me very much. Esther J. Bsn-v ment, however, before be agan pulled.t. asde and agan stood before me as perfect n Ibn am lfe-lke, as of old,-when walkng nd llrng amd (le beautes ol'mr tve blls and valles. I tbe sad, Doctor, 1would lke to shake bands wth you! He bowed and smled, sgnfyng bs wll-' bgness to do so, and then apparently summonng all bs strength, le stepped toward be, grasped ly band am gave t a long, fervent and vgorous pressure, as natural and wth as much force as le was callable of dong when lvng upon earth. I then held wth hm a bref conversaton of fve or ten mnutes, when be agan grasped my band wth-' stll.more--fervency and vgor, f possble, and manfested great pleasure and grattude gt our meetng. : Ths man was my brother-n-law, Dr, E, R. Dodge, a surgeon f the Unted States Navy durng R e le v e s W ea k n ess and D zzn ess n H ead. olr lllu,* ;;'»»»» «' refned and cultvated,. y - r,. tastesan d hgh asprato.ns, and though not. an.jlrrsburg, 1* lan k lm,o.,d ho, acknowledged Sprtualst, le was a mal o f ad-,. 7,....,, m.», - 1 ' vanced tlought on many subects. As I. sudtbovc James A. Blss Jrend and Brother: Enclosed was1'not expectng hm.or any one else, and lad I send you twenty-seven cents or more magne- 11()t thought of hm, perlmps, n months,^ hut I retzed pupe. My-wfe was loubled wth a weak- COgnzl( q,m.asqucklyas I would had I met hm ness and dzzness n her head, when sl.e tred I onbue K(reelsof l lladelpha,after one of Ids long the aer frst, slc thought t would do he sone, H!S ()n 1() 0(.t,lM There was no mstakng good an. she las been steady m le use of t and! h',.*9there WUHt]1(! Hamc style n the arrangeher head wmuch bette. I want to ty some noe,ne t ],8 glossy beard and har; (le same style on her, also to \hc some of t for developng. I!UU neatness n bs dress,and the same long, thn, frequently hear sprt musc. May heaven bless w,[ e strong, hand, as unlke Mrs. Blss as you and your noble Indan hand, also your other twq, n(]h (;0lll(1 ;vou b band of workers. Botbe, (.qud I only shake tbu Heancewas about closng, le came and you and sster Blss by tle band, Very truly, sad to me that he was not understood whle on E. Mannng. earth, a fact whch I had long snce been convnced of. I was very thankful for ths message - The Bble and Chrstan Sprtualsm. from hm at, tho last moment, for I was a rt le Sprngfeld, 111., May U, tme turnng over n my mnd tle very subect of whch le spoke. Alas! how many men and Edtor Mnd and Matter: women are msunderstood and msrepresented, In your vour ssue ssu'e ol of May 1st you comment, very, for want, on the part of the people, and often on severely on a new scheme to subvert^ Sprtual- the part, of ther nearest frends and relatves of a sm. -Tha Sprtualsts are dvded Jn opnon proper, knowledge of Sprtualsm, mesmersm, on tle relgous bearngs ol ther lall s a truth ;.psychology, and kndred subects.: -When I see that we need_not queston. Tle Bble and Chrs- ths, and tle sufferng and sorrowcaused n conthn Sprtualsm are necessarly brought nto the I sequence; 1.am moved to make an earnest and arena. But for organzatons based upon any of ardent appeal to many of my frends who have (le relgous schools of the past, we are satsfed large, amounts of money, lo nduce them to use Vll'll'.-oc >1 ml mn vrnr ml'nl uml ntn l lm ltlln that Sprtualsm wants n.mn.mm, none u of mthem; u m mm and we» HOllH some 01 of ll t III n JlllVlllg payng IOV for S speakers ICllKerS 01 of Ml talent, and exmporlanl, sub- ) '., *k ' \ k) 1 c L I doubt f ts lyceumsre notof a.sectaran tendency, permce to promulgate-these all nn ng, of.some eght or ten gentlemen and lades,,1,1,1 m um l(oym....., llt r t a, p, a y,m l;, ;? ; ; d" ' and yet-lhs the medum of the evenng at my left, hand, am I I >llerwse provded for. But how are we to reach t ""'. M.u.m. e Mrs. II., F.M. Brown, whom all Sprtualsts know E. R. Evans, of-durand, III., wrtes: Enclosed great and sublme subect of Sprtualsm, s more to admre, standng at my rght; the gentleman please fnd order for 82.15, for whel send your the _churches, and Unt, large qlass throughout a.maler of experence than of argument. Candd. Chrstendom who lake refuge and fnd rcupeclabl- mpressve, and logcal arguments are of course,ly uudertler wngs, llavngsncehs ntroducton ; necessary, and J approve of them ; but, tlcrc are medum was fully entranced and began talkng n an unknown tongue to any one n tle crcle. At. the close of each sentence, Mrs. Brown rendered t nto our language promptly, untl a message was gven of consderable length. Tle medum was Dr. Lathrop; the crcle was n Chcago. The sprt explaned that le was an ancent Hebrew and the language was Hebrew, of whch.mrs. Brown knew not a word. No doubt many of your readers have seen and heard the lke. Is t not remarkable that Paul, near two thousand years ago, under nspraton, should gve so perfect descrpton and characterstc of our present medumshp, and there should be so complete a sameness n qualtes? It could never be, were t not that the power, genus, and nspraton, were te same n purpose and desgn paper lo Mrs. Adelade Young, to the above ollee. I am takng your paper wth Mrs. Montreth. I lke t very much. If.Sprtualsm s true t s worth defendng, and f the nqdums are genune they ought to le sustaned and upheld, and I lke your paper for the reason that t does ts work so ably.' I have been a Sprtualst for many years. I used to take the ll.-p.jnurnul,but dropped* tsome ter for sx months' Accept my thanks for knd (a-: that ther communcatons were not of a very hgh vors. I read the R.-P. Journal and fnd some good thngs n t, but many that are really dsgustng. I am n sympathy wth you and regard your efforts n defendng all medums as laudable and rght. Tle poor Afrcan could not help: beng a slave, nether can a medum help beng controlled; at n both ages. Agan, see how Paul talks n the xv chapter of least I cannot. When t comes, t comes as natuthe 1st Cornthans, 42d, verse. So also s the ralasthe blossoms n sprng, and I am no more resurrecton of the dead/-it s sown n corrupton! responsble for what s wrtten than the tree or..t s rased n ncorrupton.! shrub s for the color of the flowers t sends forth. at Ilydesvlle up lo ths perod ganed ts adherents from the waysde, or other than from Chrstan nsttutons, Sprtualsm n ts further progress must meet tlese-conservatve forces on ther own grounds. It seems to'be clearly taught n sprt communcatons that the Hebrews, or Isa very large number of persons who could never le convnced bf the great truths of Sprtualsm by the; reasonng of any one, though they blght have the mpassoned eloquence of a Patrck Henry and a Wendell Phllps combned. For the last ffteen years I have seen phenomena after.tme ago. For premum send " Orphan s Rescue.! " ere guded as we are at ths day by sprt phenomena, that I know-as well as I know we 1 nfluences, although n ther dm understandng can.send messages by magnetc telegraph were John C. Rowe,'Jr., Utca, X. Y., wrtes : En-, Jehovah, or Cod, was supposed to be the oracle closed you wll fnd $1.35 to pay for Mnd and Mat-. In ther barbarous state we may well consder order. Conng to the tmes of Jesus, many.sprtualsts recognze hm as tle greatest of medums and hs adherents as medums strugglng along wth many dffcultes, but manly heroc persons dealng wth questons of ther tme, as our medums and propagandsts are heroc n ths day, dealng wth questons of our tme. Sprtualsts cannot then, f these vews are true, dspense wth the Bble, wth Bble Sprtualsm; more especally wth that of Jesus. Who s there the work of dsemboded sprts. All these have come through medums of varous grades and condtons n lfe, carryng convcton to my mnd, when no amount of human testmony could have accomplshed t. In vew of these facts, s f not tle duty of every Sprtualst, especally, to be thankful to our medums, gvng them our kndest and most earnest sympathy, to throw around them every avalable safeguard for ther protecton from adverse and depressng nfluences, and to be exceedngly cautous how we condemn them. J ay Caapel. June 1, M. S. 33.