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B T B E N J A M I N T O D D .

J u s t fo rty y ea rs of ago to-day !How sw ift the tim e h as flown aw ay. Since, in m y new -horn in fan t rest,M y m o th er clasped me to h e r b re a s t I

No though t of care was on m y brow , W here deeper lines ar/Tfurrow ed now ; No sigh of g rie f or sob of pain H ad left its scar on soul or b ra in .

No passions d ark and fierce and dire H ad sca thed the soul w ith fearful fire ;No b ligh ted hopes o r dark ling frown As y e t had w eighed the sp irit down.

tB ut since th a t hour of in fan t rest,Clasped fondly to m y m o th er’s b re a s t , W hat sorrow has m y sp irit know n, Endured in silence and aloDe 1

M y childhood’s hopes, so b rig h t and gay, In early life all died aw ay ;M y m anhood’s aim s, so high and b rave. W ere doomed to find an early grave.

B ut now on life’s m eridian line I see th e ligh t of Wisdom sh ine :I 'v e had no useless th rob of pain,No te a r of g rie f I ’ve shed in vain.

Then le t roy fa in ting sp irit draw H er wisdom from u n errin g law ,And own th ere is a Pow er divine T h a t ru les our lives in ev ery line.

W hene’er we reach th a t d is tan t shore, W here Time shall cease foreverm ore, Then will our crow ns im m ortal sh ine,By tria ls from the H and div ine.

C O M M U N I C A T I O N S .

S P I R I T U A L I S M .N U M B E R S E V E N T E E N .

“ When physiologists have learned from their study of gravitation and other primary laws how to confine themselves to true science, their subject will rise to the highest elevation that posterity ad­mits of—that rational prevision of events which is, as I have so often said, the end of true science—an end to be aimed at in biology, as it is perfectly ful­filled in astronomy.”-—Comte's Positive Philosophy, p. 324.

To be able to prophecy, to foresee results, bas al­ways been a prominent feature in the aspirations of m ank ind ; and, accordingly, as man has at­tained to this acquirement, so also lias been his power and prestige among his fellows. He who can best see the end from the beginning, must, necessarily, be the most successful in his under­takings. This is evident in our every-day trans­actions. On our power of prevision nearly all we do depends ; and, complimentary to our neigh­bor’s prophetical ability, we seek his advice when our own foresight fails us.

Beside the power of prophecy based on experi­m ental knowledge, is th a t based on theological faith, and entertained by those who believe in a Being or beings, who are above the influence of law ; law being subordinate to them, because it was originated by them. The operation of all things, according to their theory, is contingent upon the w ill of Deity, and, consequently, in Him only can trust be placed in regard to the future— from Him alone can come the certainty of the ful­fillment of prophecy, which has always, by that class, been considered a true test of divinity.

But there is another class, who believe in the supremacy of law. Convinced of the eternity and indestructibility of m atter, they cannot conceive of any Being prior to i t ; therefore, they consider the innate nature of all things, or law, to be be­yond the capricious interference of mind, whether deific, spiritual, or human. Consequently, a true understanding of natural law is the only key to prophecy—to a precise knowledge of future re­sults. Of course, these theories are diametri­cally opposed to each other ; they cannot subsist together; ju st as knowledge destroys faith, and ligh t darkness. And so, too, we find that the prophets or priests of theology have best thriven where ignorance has most abounded.

There has also been a neutral ground—an inter­mediate position between the theologian and the scientist. Upon this ground have flourished di­viners or fortune-tellers—a class of people who have attracted to them those repelled from the priest by bis spiritual pride, and from the profes­sor by his intellectual vanity. They have gener­ally been eccentric individuals, who, from choice or necessity, have lived in solitude, and then occu­pied their minds in studies, too paltry and trifling for the learned, and too impious for the theolo­gian. Says Auguste Comte :

“ We are too apt to treat as imposture exceptional sensations which we have long ec-ased to be able to understand, but which have always been well known to magicians and fortune-tellei’s in the stage of feti- chism. ”

Therefore, in rejecting, w ithout examination, the theories and statements of persons belonging to this class, based upon “ exceptional sensations ” experienced by them, the skeptic often exhibits not only bigotry, hut credulity as pernicious as that possessed by the most pliable of believers; and more especially in his readiness to accept whatever p re ten d s to explain them on other

grounds than tha t assumed by the magician. This is exemplified in the treatm ent the modern manifestations of Spiritualism receive from pro­fessedly free thinkers. Instead of patiently inves­tigating the pretensions of Spiritualism, collecting quietly and seriously all the fa c ts connected with it, and learning all they can, they too often put on only the appearance of investigators, and for­tify themselves w ith preconceived opinions and judgm ents, and a sturdy determination to deny and oppose at all hazards, and receive w ith avidity every trumped-up story prejudicial to Spiritualism, and such explanations as jugglers and others of that ilk can supply. W ould it not he more philo­sophic—more manly-—to treat Spiritualism, and other peculiarities of m an’s m ental nature, as they do other branches of natural philosophy ? The scientific investigator has no cause for fear, w heth­er his candid investigations result in confirming the spirit theory or destroying it. I t is also idle to ask, “ Of what use is it, supposing it should he true ?” As investigators, it is their duty to dis­cover facts, and collect them patiently and perse- veringly ; and, if they cannot use them, those who follow in their footsteps may discover a use for them. This is the course th a t has been pursued in regard to every other science. Geology, astron­omy, and even chemistry, have had to run the gauntlet of the sneering query of the utilitarian, ‘•Of what use is i t? ” Yet, indomitably and pa­tiently have investigators in those sciences plod­ded their way through difficulties and privations, deaf to the time-serving wiseacres who saw good in nothing but immediate results, and firm in their faith that no knowledge was useless, and no time misspent, which gathered even a little grain into the granary of tru th . W hy not pursue this course toward Spiritualism, and many kindred notions, confined at present to fortune-tellers, and dealers in magic and magnetic clairvoyance ?

There is a predisposition in the mind of man, when driven to extremes, to apply to (occult mys­teries for relief or advice. It is -aertr confined to the poor and the ig n o ran t; the rich and the leai-m ed also seek access to such information as can be afforded by the skillful manipulator of a pack of cards. Even in the city of San Erancisco, men learned in legal lore, in the medical art, and in the cunning intricacies of theological dispute, breathlessly listen to the oracular responses of the diviner, as he pores over and elicits the hidden meaning of the scattered cards. The fact is, he tells the tru th sometimes, and his patrons call again. I find the following in the “ Book of Days” :

“ Unlike the witches of the olden time, the for­tune-tellers are generally esteemed and respected in the districts in which they live and practice. And beside that which has already been stated, it will not be difficult to discover sufficient reasons for this re­spect and esteem. The most ignorant and depraved have ever a lurking respect for morality and virtue ; and the fortune-teller is shrewd enough to know and act upon this feeling. They always take care to point out what they term ‘ the cards of caution ’ ; and impressively warn their clients from falling into the dangers those cards foreshadow, but do not pos­itively foretell; for the dangers may be avoided by prudence and circumspection. Consequently, the fortune-tellers are the moralists, as well as the con­solers of the lower classes. They supply a want that society either cannot or will not.”

J. XV. MACKIE.

AN EXAMINATION OE THE WRITINGS OF THE ANCIENTS.

N U M B E R E IG H T .

I t was thought to be a monstrous assumption of archaeological discovery, when Charles Fourier, the polytechnic philosopher, in that notable and eloquent Preface to the “ Description de l’Egypte,” claimed a period of twenty-five hundred years before the Christian era for the monuments which he, and the corps of illustrious savans, of whom Jomard survived all the others, had beheld in the valley of the Nile; his forecast of the amount of time adequate to the construction of them—unnumbered piles as gigantic in their architecture as diversified in their sculptures, obtained but little favor with the scholars, and none with the public of Europe, from 1S10 to 1830. So with Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood ; bis announcement was met by ridicule and unbelief; and it is said that no surgeon, over forty years of age at the time of such discovery, but died an unbeliever in Harvey’s theory. Thus it happens, that, fort}’ years after the utterance of this chronological estimate by Fourier, and not­withstanding the victorious labors of the hierolo- gists, we still encounter cultivated minds, unwil­ling to accept, or incapable of comprehending, the general truth of his proposition.

Not less distasteful was this scale of 2,500 years at the period of publication, to the representatives of two distinct schools, known as the long and short chronologists. On one side was Dupuis, and those astronomers who had claimed no less than 17,000 years B. C. for the erection of the Temple of Dende- ra; and on the other, the disciples of the Petavian and Usherian cornxiutations of the chronological element in Scripture coincided in its rejection ; the former deeming it too restricted, the latter too ex­tensive for their cosmogenical theories.

“ And, in a controversy in which the first princi­ples of historical criticism, and a common basis of debate were alike wanting; before Young had de­ciphered the first letter in the hieroglyphical name of Ptolemy; before Champollion La Jeune’s ‘Precis’ broke the sj^ell in which the antique writings of the Egyptians had been bound for fifteen centuries ; at a day when absolutely nothing was known of the re­spective ages of Nilotic remains, the dogmatical

assertions of the latter were infinitely preferable to the hallucinations of the former.”

I t was a gratifying source of consolation to the philosopher Fourier, on his death-bed, in 1830, that Champollion had returned in triumph from Egypt, with a full and complete confirmation of the accu­racy of his prospective vision; but, ere the great founder of Egyptological science had the opportu­nity of arranging the large mass of materials he had gathered for his chronological structure, the 4th of March, 1832, found Champollion on his own death­bed, bequeathing the manuscript of his immortal Grammar, as “ my visiting card to posterity.”

During the same year another of the co-laborers, Rosellini, began the publication of the “ Monu- menti dell’Egitto e della Nubia,” in which, for the first time, the attempt was made to concentrate, in one great compendium, all Egyptian documents at that time deciphered.

“ Inhei'itor of the ideas, and associate in the labors of the great master, the Tuscan professor’s frame­work of chronology i*eflects Champollion’s views on Pharionic antiquity down to the close of 1S30. The practical result of the erudite Italian’s researches was the monumental restoration of the lost history of Egypt, back to the XVUIth dynasty, computed by him at B. C. 1822, and the vindication of the gen­eral accuracy of Manetho, back to the XVIth dynas­ty, at B. C. 2,272 ; confirmed by Champollion Figeac, with many improvements and valuable suggestions, mainly drawn from ‘ les papiers de m on frere.'

“ In 1835, Wilkinson’s admirable work, ‘ Topogra­phy of Thebes,’ presented a summary of the learned author’s personal explox-ations of Egyptian monu­ments during some twelve years of travel in the valley of the Nile. The epoch of Menes, first Pha­raoh of Egypt, was conjecturally assigned to the year B. C. 2,201; but the accession of the XVIIIth dynasty, placed at B. C. 1,575, corroborated by the collation of hieroglyphical and Greek lists, evinced the critical author’s appreciation of the solidity of Egypt’s chronological edifice, and of Manethonian authority, at least up to the latter era.

“ We thus reach the year 1,836, when B. C. 1,822 as the m axim um , and B. C. 1,575 as the m inim um , for the accession of Manetho’s XVIIIth dynasty of Di- ospolitans, were already recog,iiized by the world of science in general principle as established fa c ts ; and sixteen centuries of lost monumental history be­came resuscitated from the sepulcher of ages,through hieroglyphical researches that only commenced in A. D. 1822.

“ But there had been, in Egypt, times before! there were still extant the p yra m id s, with the chain of tombs extending for above twenty miles along the Memphite necropolis, unexplored; there were the unplaced kings recorded in the * Materia Hierogly phica, ’ the ‘ Excerpta, ’ and the ‘N otes’ of Wilkinson, Burton, and Felix ; and there existed in the museums of Europe, as well as throughout the

Galley of the Nile, innumerable vestiges, recognized by every qualified student of Egyptology to belong to ages long anterior to the X VIIIth dynasty, im­mensely older than the year 1,575—1,822 B. C. ; to say nothing of many biblical and classical texts, that attested the necessity for more elbow-room in the chronology of the ancient Egyptians. Every one felt i t ; every man who had beheld the storied ruins in Egypt itself asserted it, with more or less assurance, according to the elasticity of the social atmosphere he breathed; every hierologist knewi t . ” J . X>. P IE R S O N .------------^ ------------

W HAT DO SPIRITUALISTS BELIEVE?

Tlie above question having’ been asked m e m any tim es by as m any persons, perhaps th e following m ay serve to satisfy some of them and the readers of th e Ba n n e r .

As a Spiritualist, I would say tha t I know of but one article of faith tha t every Spiritualist can subscribe to ; and tha t is, positive and undeniable evidence that the spirit, soul, or intellectuality, of all who have cast off their earthly bodies, can and does place itself in communication with those still in m ortal organizations, and inform us concerning their conditions, enjoyments, and experiences, after casting off or parting with their earthly covering.

The following, however, are my own individual articles of belief, for which I alone am responsible .

F ir s t. The science of geology furnishes, to my mind, irrefragable evidence th a t this earth has been inhabited by the hum an race for at least twenty-two thousand years ; and a firm convic­tion of the fact warrants me in denouncing the Bible record of our fii'st parents’ creation, about six thousand years ago.

Second. I believe the Bible theory of the fall of man, or entailment of sin upon the entire human race by the transgression of Adam, to be a romance of the active brain of some mytlxologian, since adopted by theologians, and entirely wanting the support of science and reason. And, as the theo­logical vicarious atonement, or death of God’s only Son, is represented to have been provided by the Almighty for the express purpose of reinstating man to his original condition of purity before the Adamic fall, and as no such fall or entailment of sin ever took place, consequently there was no need of, or demand for, so great a sacrifice on the part of God, the Supreme Intelligence and Gov­ernor of all things. Therefore,

T h ird ly . I believe the atonement theory to have originated in the productive minds of designing men, who sought to lead the hum an race away from the true light, or God principle, which de­velops in every man. Further, I believe that the total depravity tlxoory, as taught by the theolo­gians of the day, is not only revolting to God, as the Creator of all men, but well calculated to

keep the hum an race from aspiring to tha t emi­nence of goodness and greatness tha t the God of Nature designed it to occupy ; for, if man he totally depraved, there is no germ of goodness in him. Such, a theory, firmly believed and wholly en­dorsed by the hum an race, it is plain to me, would be productive of evil, and only evil. I believe every member of the hum an family has inherited from the God of Nature a germ of goodness, that will eventually, by prover cultivation and pruning, bring forth good fruit, and only good. Each indi­vidual organization, independent of any and all others, not excepting Jesus of Nazareth, -must and will work out its own salvation, and finally be­come an accepted member of the great fraternal family of God ; and, as each individual has this duty to perform for him or herself, the sooner they set about performing good acts of mercy, charity, and kindness, the sooner will they be enabled to comprehend the design of the Father of all souls, and partake of the unalloyed happiness which awaits each and all.“ I believe tha t God is no respecter of persons, and is a Principle of goodness, love, j ustice, and mercy ; therefore, I cannot accept that part of ancient his­tory wherein God is represented as having sent lying spirits to induce or persuade Ahab out to battle against Ramoth-gilead, that he m ight fall in battle, as such an act would indicate not only a respect of persons, but also a want of power to get rid of Ahab, except through the instrum ent­ality, cunning, and lying of a second person. W hether that second person be a spirit of the in­fernal regions, called into council by God for the express purpose of aiding in prematurely bringing Ahab to j udgment, or a spirit j ust from earth, who retained some enmity against the doomed Ahab, the Bible saith not. (See 1 Kings xxii.)

Firm ly believing tha t God is a Principle of good­ness and justness, I cannot endorse the language used against the prophet, as recorded in Ezekiel xiv. 9, wherein it is positively asserted that, “ if a prophet be deceived, it is I, the Lord, who hath deceived tha t prophet ” ; and, because the prophet was so unwise as to Be deceived "by the Lord, “ X, the Lord, will u tterly destroy him from the midst of my people.” Neither can I endorse the exam­ples set by the Lord’s chosen servants, or those who were men “ after God’s own heart,” namely, David and Solomon. A life so devoted to licen­tiousness as theirs are represented to have been, is in direct contravention of the established laws governing our being. There m ust have been a mistake somewhere concerning such portions of the ancient history, or Bible ; either God’s inspi­ration could not have been a perfect control over the writers, or—which is more probable—God had little or nothing to do w ith such records.

The present teachings of theologians are con­ducive to the worst effects upon hum an society; for, as the child patterns after and drinks in the examples of its parents, so does the God and Bible worshiper, to a very great extent, not only en­dorse but follow out the teachings of God, as re­corded in the Bible. And, as the Bible plainly and unmistakably represents God as a Being of vengeance, and unmerciful to the last degree— even punishing eternally for offenses persevered in only a few days, and visiting the transgressions of one person upon the entire hum an race, and the sins of parents upon the children, and in many instances destroying whole armies or nations for trivial offenses—so are those likely to be who wor­ship such a book, and who serve such a God ; they have no charity for brothers or sisters of dif­ferent surroundings, but are ready and waiting to cut them off and send them to the Orthodox hell, th a t God may commend and bless them for fur­nishing Him with a chance to satiate His holy an­ger by witnessing their tortures, which shall never cease, and which were prepared by God Himself (for lie made all things) expressly for the poor unfortunate, who has never received any satisfac­tory evidence of a plan of salvation whereby he m ight escape such an awful doom.

Such theories being revolting to reason, and a libel upon God, I believe it is the duty of every Spiritualist, who serves a God of love, mercy, and justice, to withdraw support entirely from all Or­thodox denominations. W ithdraw not only your pecuniary support, hut also keep your children wholly aloof from thejr teachings, and especially from their Sabbath schools, where their young and plastic minds will become inoculated with doctrines which will embitter their entire lives upon this sphere, and perhaps cause them years of anguish, darkness, and remorse in the next. I know that I should be culpable, if I allowed my children, before coming to years of understanding, to attend any place where such pernicious theories are taught.

Although I may have said herein some things which may appear or sound too severe, I have no feelings of hatred or revenge toward our Ortho­dox brethren ; nay, I love them, one and all, and hereby cordially invite them to take my hand, and investigate with me the foundation of our beauti­ful and humane religion. Let us reason together in harmony, in peace, in fraternal love, and gather up all the tru th tha t is within our reach, come from what source i t , may, ever remembering that there are none so blind as those who will not see.

J. r . FORD.

Letter from Olympia.Olympia, W. T., Oct. 13, 1867.

Eds. Banner op Progress :—Thinking that pex-- haps a few items from this northwest part of Uncle Samuel’s domain might be acceptable, I submit such as I have.

The feeling awakened by the course of lectures delivered by Mr. Todd in this place is intense, and unlike ordinary excitements, which pass away on the first breeze which sweeps over, is growing in­stead of waning. The old seething-pot of orthodoxy is getting into a furious boil, emitting huge volumes of sulphurous, smoke-like steam, apparently direct from the infernal regions ; and his majesty, old Di- abolus, with his retinue of lesser devils, are held re­sponsible for the interruption. The “ faithful” think it very ungenerous in the Spiritualists to create such a turmoil, just as they were getting ar­ranged to enjoy a little quiet bickering among them­selves. The sudden and severe attack, which has prostrated old fogyism, is causing much serious alarm amodg its few, but steadfast adherents, lest their superannuated institution will actually collapse and become defunct. They are resorting to all the known remedies of their ancestors, and also of the more modern D. D.’s, yet, after all, the people will read, will talk, will laugh at the elongated faces of the extra pious souls, whose agony is so intense. Poor fogy ! you seem to entirely foi-get that

t[ E ver th e r ig h t comes upperm ost,And ev er is ju stice done.”

The same weapons with which we have been lash­ed for the last eighteen years are still used, but the edges are all worn off. The sting of “ free-love,” and its host of attendants, have entirely disappeared. We no longer care for them. The old adage, “ Set a rogue to catch a rogue,” is in this case very appli­cable. Those who are loudest in crying “ free-love” —the clergy—are, as a class, the most guilty of px-ac- tical free lust, o f any other distinct class of men. But they must have their “ say,” or their occupation is gone.

There is one fact worthy of note—one which prov'es beyond successful contradiction that the spirit of progressive liberty is growing, even in the churches, possibly unconsciously to themselves — and it is this : The Rev. Mr. Himes, P. E. of the M. E. Church for this district, preached a funeral sermon here on the 22d nit., to the memory of Miss Mai-}’ R. Hen- ness, who soared from here to the summer home on the Monday previous. He took for his text, “ Blessed are the dead that die in the LuriLfrom henceforth,” (Rev. xiv. 13.) He handled the ^subject for a short time in the usual orthodox style, hut he gradually forgot his creed, and soared off into a most beautiful strain of tru e Spiritualism . O, it did my soul good to hear such beautiful truths from a minister of Methodism ! He went so far as to say that “ bright angels were continually hovering around and guard­ing earth’s children ; that they are in our rooms, and that we could almost hear the rustle of their pinions as they fluttered about us ; that our departed friends were waiting on the bright shores, beckoning ns to come to the beautiful groves in their eternal homes beyond the river called death.” He further said: “ Had it not been for the angel influences, draw n

fro m the other world, he knew he would have been far, far down in the scale of moral existence com­pared to where he is even now.” These quotations are his exact words. A few years ago, such senti. ments falling from a Methodist pulpit would have created trouble in the camp, hut now they receive it, as one of them told me, as “ beautiful Bible tru th .” Who can deny that the angel world is making grad­ual inroads into the Church ?

Mrs. C. M. Stowe will commence a course of lec­tures here on the 18th inst.

With many wishes for the success of the Banner of Progress, and the universal spread of truth,

I am yours for truth aud progress.

A. Few Words to “ .ZBsop, Jr.”

Your article on “ Free-Love ” makes me wisli to say a word or two on the subject myself. Do you know that there" is nothing as free under heaven as love ? And I can’t, for the life of me, see how some people talk and write as if love could be as easily shut up as a pig in a pen. They m ight as well th ink of bottling up the sunshine, or the winds of heaven, as to try to set bounds to this attribute of Almighty power. Some seem to speak as if there were no other love but that which leads to m arriage ; and if this could be separated from the idea of lust, it would indeed he the polar star around which the others m ight revolve. But don’t everybody know th a t not one in ten of the marriages recorded are based upon real love, and a knowledge of the proper temperaments which can alone insure harmony as each grows and un­folds into more perfect individuality, or a right understanding of the h igher laws of x-eproduction ?

So lq^ng as people will m arry, as I should call it, under false pretenses, no one need be surprised if there should be still more divorces than there are now, for, when the riches, beauty, or whatever fancy induced them to slip their head into the matrimonial noose, is gone, why would they not as readily seek to get free ? Y ou will find that those who believe most in what they’ call perfect and eternal affinities, are but in tlie honeymoon of their first love emotions, the mere effervescence ofthe conjugal compound.

You say yon “ pity poor St. Paul ; so do I, and there are many modern St. Pauls in principle, who have as narrow views of woman’s sphere as he had, and would have her “ obey her husband in all things,” no m atter how unwise or injurious they m ight he to her health and happiness, and to ask her husband whatever she m ight wish to

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know, even if lie were a fool ; and sucli m ight be the case, since women have seldom been permitted to cboose their own husbands, or allowed to obey the m aternal'instinct, as to the proper time to be­come a mother. You say tha t you “ have never seen any one you fully loved or hated.” This proves you have never really fallen in love or had a handsome rival. You must be a bachelor, or ought to be until you can say “ fully ” in earnest some time, when you shall hear the same echoed back to you.

You rem ark that “ th e re a re some who have tried to enjoy the matrimonial state without in­curring its responsibilities.” This it is utterly impossible for any one to do ; for it is the assum- jjjg of these very resjionsibilities and. duties tliut brings its own reward of pleasure and happiness. W ithout these, it is try ing to. find enjoyment in rest, without toil, or in eating w ithout an appetite ; and can be, a t best, bu t a miserable substitute for those pure home joys where the sacred names of father, mother, sister, brother, husband, and wife, make a circle where angels love to visit.

X A N T IP P E .

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1867.

<( Christ and the People.”

I have ju st been reading this work of A. B. Child, and have derived from it both pleasure and profit ; it contains many beautiful aphorisms, b righ t as diamonds and as indestructible ; and, on the whole, it is freer from error than most meta­physical productions. But there are, to my mind, several false premises, and wrong deductions from analogies, tha t w ill not bear analytical proof or logical reversion.

He says, “ W here there is no hum an law, there is no transgression.” Now, as there are violations of N ature’s laws where there are no hum an laws attaching penalties thereto, they are no less sins and transgressions, and we are made to pay the most painful penalties, in exact proportion to the offense committed. Transgressions of the laws of life, by intemperance or injustice, are none the less sinful, though no hum an laws take cogni­zance of them.

Again, he says that “ resisting evil is like blow­ing against the wind ; only creating more of what you are try ing to suppress.” This is true when evil is resisted by evil, bu t not when resisted and overcome w ith good ; as wind may be resisted, not by blowing against it, but by building a de­fense and shelter from its pitiless storms. Neither will the analogy hold good when reversed, that resistance to good creates the more goodness, al­though without resistance there would be no pro­gress.

He also asserts, th a t “ there was never an act of sin or crime committed tha t could have happened in any other way, or been avoided.” This is down­rig h t fatalism ; and we m ight as well believe that we never do any act or kind of work w e choose, and tha t we are merely machines in the hands of Destiny. No doubt, our experiences are such as are best fitted to unfold our spiritual natures, and that they are often such as we in our short-sight­edness deplore, but such as superior W isdom per­mits, if not ordains. [Has not our friend begged the whole question here ?—E d .]

The adjustm ent or degree of freedom of the finite w ith th a t of the workings of the Infinite mind is not comprehended by us, and, perhaps, never can be ; but th a t we are punished and feel pain by wrong-doing, is evidence th a t we have the power to do righ t. L . h .

Eleven M illions.”I see some of the brethren are disposed to doubt

the tru th of the assertion, tha t there are “ between ten and eleven millions of Spiritualists in the United States,” and rather blame Judge Edmonds for using it ; but that assertion came from the ‘‘ infallible Church,” and, lest there m ight be some mistake, those Reverends announced that the Council of Bishops, who made the assertion, was a “ plenary council,” possessing “ that kind of in­spiration which excludes all m ixture of error.” Hence there can be no mistake in the matter. But those very sanctified gentlemen did not tell a ll of the truth . A very recent revelation says, that, in m aking up their count, they get at the number above w hat we claim, through the confessional— th a t’s the place for secrets !—where they learned tha t they had numbers of mediums in their Church ; bu t the fact is suppressed, and will be for a little while.

How very ominous, indeed, the fact, as stated in your “ news from Peru,” that “ the Popes, from Peter down,” were in greatest demand there at the circles. That those very reverend dead should come and partake at o u t communion-table—we being “ publicans and sinners ”—is, indeed, to the living Popes, scandalous and blasphemous. But soon the d ea d Popes will out-bull the living ones, and ring the “ joy-bells of creation” all over the earth, to the tune of

” Victory, victory, victory over death l1’Better that we should a ll attune our hearts and thoughts in unison therewith.

Yours fraternally, T. j . h a r v e y .

A Humbug’s Opinion.In an article on “ Humbugs,” in which the

editor of the P a cific C h r is tia n (?) A dvo ca te , a be­liever in the humbugs of our theology, denounces Spiritualistic lecturers and mediums in coarse and uncharitable language, we find the following :

“ The press m ight, to a very great extent, abate these nuisances. A bold and. outspoken condemna­tion of every humbug, with which the country is cursed, would soon render their occupation unprofit­able.”

How would a “ bold and outspoken condemna­tion ” of the hum bug of the Trinity, of the im­maculate conception of Jesus, of a personal devil, of the literal resurrection of the dead, of the atonement, of the senseless traditions of the Old Testament, and of those ecclesiastical “ hum ­bugs ” who advocate such nonsense, suit the A d vo ca te ? Those who live in the brittlest kind of glass houses should beware how they throw stones. o.------------ ^ 4 - > ------ --■—

M r . T o d d has been lecturing in Dayton, Nev., during the past week. He intends visiting Carson soon. It is his present intention to proceed to Los Angeles and San Bernardino in December next. Those wishing him to lecture in other places, in the intervening time, will please address him at the office of this paper. m .

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A n c ie n t an d M odern S p iritu a lism .

The Rev. Mr. W ythe, in his sermon w ith the above title, takes the ground that the Old and New Testament are identical in design and general principles, and th a t the New does not supersede the Old. There are argum ents in abundance, tha t m ight be drawn from the New Testament itself, controverting th is proposition, and establishing the contrary. But we do not propose at present to enter into the discussion of this proposition. W e will take either Old or New Testament authority as sufficient for the purpose of proving th a t Spiritualism has been the same in all ages, and th a t demonology, enchantment, sorcery, witchcraft, clairvoyance, magic, divina­tion, healing, prophecy, fortune-telling, interpreta­tion of dreams, visions, and all other forms of Spiritualism, were all akin to the modern develop­m ent of the same revelation. W e acknowledge the professors and practitioners of all the above as our ancestors, and ask the Rev. J. H. W ythe what he proposes to m ake out of the confession. W hat can he make out of it, except tha t Moses denounced them as rivals to him self in the performance of the same “ wonderful works ” before the people of Israel and the Egyptians ? W e find Moses enacting a law for the punishment of witchcraft when engaged in by others than himself and .his regularly ordained priests, ju s t as the religious law-makers of our day enact that certain privileges shall belong to the regularly ordained priests of the Christian Church, such as uniting in marriage, etc. Ecclesiastical bodies go further, and say, that none but the regularly ordained shall preach. W itchcraft, when performed by Moses and his priests, was law fu l; but the common people must not engage in it.

A great deal of misapprehension exists of the meaning of words. This leads to misunderstand­ing of the good or bad effects of certain acts. It ought to be well known, but it is not, tha t a w iz­a r d was only a w ise m a n ; and tbe construction of the word itself shows this. The substitution of the letter z for s in w iz a r d does not change the nature of the m an spoken of. And a w itch is only a feminine w iza rd , or w ise w om an . Now, as “ Moses was learned in all the w isd o m of the Egyptians,” it is supposable, nay, it is certain, that he practiced w ith and made use of th a t wis­dom to govern and instruct the Israelites. For, as before shown, whatever he did in the way of wonder-working was repeated by the Egyptian magicians w ith equal facility in most cases.

Moses, then, being a magician, and almost the only man, among the Israelites themselves, who could perform these wonders in their presence, it was natural th a t he should make laws forbidding others from exercising the powers they m ight possess by nature or acquisition from the Egyp­tians, in prophecy and divination, because be wished to make this “ wisdom ” a monopoly of himself and the priesthood he was about to estab­lish. Accordingly, much of the Levitical law is taken up w ith provisions against the exercise of these powers by any but those belonging to bis ordained order. The prophets who succeeded Moses exhibited the same spirit of jealousy that actuated him, and uttered fierce denunciations and penalties against their rivals. The gist of these may be resolved into one prohibitory law : “ W is­dom, m ust not be tau g h t or exercised by any w iza rd s (or wise men) except those regularly ordained, or who are acknowledged as such by the powers tha t be.”

If any proof were w anting tha t this was the exact state of the case in those days, we m ight again refer to the instances of Balaam and the woman of Endor, who are proved by the Scripture itself to have been as true and wise and powerful in prophecy and divination as the self-styled ‘‘ prophets of the Lord.”

But Mr. W ythe lays great stress upon his own assertion that divination and magic—which he calls and we acknowledge to be ancient Spiritual­ism—is “ most prevalent where heathenism has the greatest sway.” He says that “ the most talented mediums of the present age are mere babes in the art, compared w ith the j ugglers of the East.” All this proves, if it proves anything, that “ heathen nations,” so called, have greater and more abundant means of communication with the spirit world than the self-styled “ enlightened nations.” And we are rather inclined to a belief tbat this is the case, as it certainly was formerly. Self-righteousness closes the door against all com­munion w ith the spirits of the departed, as sacri­lege and sin, because Moses declared it to be such. But we find, even in the modern religious history of Egypt, that healing and other arts of divina­tion were practiced w ith success in the temples of Isis and Serapis, by tbe “ heathen ” priests; among other acts was th a t of Vespasian, the Roman emperor, who, under the instructions of the priests, “ made clay w ith spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind,” and restored his sight, just as Jesus is reported to have done in Judea. The divination in the one case was tbe the same as in the other, and the effect the same. Both were “ miracles,” or “ wonderful works.”

It is useless, however, to follow Mr. W ythe in his researches into the history of Spiritualism in ancient times, and among heathen nations, because we do not deny its identity with our philosophy and our practice. W e acknowledge Iamblichus, and Cicero, and Pliny, and Porphyry, and many others, as its apostles, and claim for them as re­spectful attention and examination as is insisted on for the apostles of Christianity. And on refer­

ring to the writings attributed to the latter, we find much to confirm and establish our belief in the identity of their faith and works w ith those of the so-called “ heathen ” world around them. Paul says at Athens, that he found an altar “ to the unknown God.” He immediately declares to them the knowledge he professes to have of God, saying that they ig n o ra n tly worship Him. This, although an assumption of superior wisdom, does not declare th a t they had none whatever. For, after the Gentiles had begun to be converted in great numbers, there arose a strife among them about the exercise of spiritual gifts ; many claim­ing the gift of prophecy who had tha t of healing only, and vice versa . Paul reproves them for this, and says there are diversities of gifts—one having the gift of healing, another of prophecy, etc. ; and he says each should be exercised by its possessor for tbe benefit of others and the glory of God. Now, the fact that Paul instructed them how to exercise their powers of divination proves that “ the hea then” were not excepted in the posses­sion of them. And this is the m anner in which Paul taugh t them to worship “ the unknown God.” They had hitherto ig n o ra n tly practiced those arts of divination, but he showed them how to exercise them in a way that would bless man­kind.

It is susceptible of proof from the history of religion in all ages, and among all nations, that precisely the same forms of divination and miracle- working as exhibited by Jesus and his apostles have existed from remote antiquity. The priest­craft and superstition of the Jews had for a time suppressed the exhibition of these powers among the people, ju st as the same causes have operated to suppress them in so-called Christian nations. And as we see the whole Christian Church now arrayed against, the prophecies and divination and acts of healing by Spiritualists, so were the entire priesthood and the religious teachers in the time of Jesus opposed to him and his disciples, and to all their “ wonderful works.” They would not hear them “ even for the works’ sake ” ; and the same class in our day deny the works, and the inevitable doctrine growing out of their perform­ance.

W e shall continue in our next article this ex. amination of the claims of “ the prophets of the Lord,” and institute a comparison between their divinations and those of the irregulars, or wizards —including, of course, the much contemned feminine diviners, (or divines,) the witches.

AC.

“ Glad Tidings.”

Perhaps our readers would be glad to hear the news in regard to the estimate which modern Christians place upon themselves and their condi­tion, as believers in the popular theology. From a little sheet called G la d T id in g s, issued “ for gra­tuitous distribution,” by the “ San Francisco City Tract Society,” we extract the following passages, forming a portion of an article in the number for October, entitled “ Justified” :

“ Christians, are yon justified? Assuredly you are, else you are not. a Christian. A Christian is an absolutely justified pV-rson. God has justified him.

“ What is it to be^justified ? I t is not only to be pardoned, but to be held guiltless (/) I t is to be not only forgiven the crime, bnt ‘m ade innocent o f it. O ne who is justified stands before God as an entirely in­nocent person, nay, more, as one possessing beauty and virtue. He is by God accepted and delighted in. God is not only reconciled to him, but pleased with him.

“ How are you, a sinner, justified ? In Christ, and in Him only. By one little act of trust you become united to Christ, as the branch is joined to the vine. Thus absolutely identified with Christ, what is His is yours. The Father looks on you, and, lo ! He finds Christ in you. He beholds Christ’s character all around you. His complete righteousness comes right in between God’s eye and your sins. He sees you as it were His own Christ. You become to Him what Christ is to Him. Therefore He loves and ac cepts you, for to turn you away or condemn you would be to condemn His own Son.

“ Remember, it is one act of true belief that puts you in Christ, where you cannot help being fully justified. Your fa ith m ay be very little, very trem bling, yet it does bring the full blessing of justifica­tion, for it carries you into Christ. A little genuine faith will justify your poor sinful heart as much as the strongest faith.

“ Remember, too, that God’s justification of your soul is complete, in stan tly complete. How can it other­wise be, for Christ, who covers your believing heart, is complete, and ‘ye are complete in Him.’ You have all Christ’s righteousness. What more can you have ? What more is needed to vindicate and beau­tify you before the throne of holiness ?

“ This infinite blessing of justification is in stan ta­neous. But your appreciation of the delightful fact of your justification may be not immediate. Still, doubtless it is your privilege to know now that you are a justified person. Have faith to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit, and He will witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. In this witness you will feel your whole justification.”

* * * * * * *“ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s

elect? I t is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ?”

According to tlie above epitome of Pharisaical doctrine, tlie murderer on tbe gallows, at tbe last moment, may have ever so little faith in the efficacy of the atonement made by the hanging of Jesus of Nazareth, an innocent man, when the criminal immediately becomes, in the sight of God, an in n o ­cen t p e rso n also—as much so as if he had not com­m itted m urder ! N ay, more, he is j ustified ! !“ W ho shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect ?” W hat have the servants of the law been doing for the last eighteen hundred years ? W hy, simply hanging innocent men ! For there is scarcely one criminal out of fifty tha t is not brought to some sort of repentance and whining confession of his faith in the popular theology, when every hope of reprieve is gone, and he real­izes that the moment of his execution is fixed upon and certain. The clergy and the Church will of course no longer oppose the abolition of capital punishment, after having come to the conclusion, as will he seen above, that every murderer who repents, and believes he is saved by the execution of an innocent person many years previous, has only committed “ justifiable homicide,” which isno crime a t a l l .' M.

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nual Meeting of the Spiritualists of Connecticut was convened at W illimantic on the first of Sept. A. T. Foss, Agent of the Association, made a report of his labors during the month of August, the first month he had been employed as their mis­sionary. Dr. Calvin Hall made a donation of one thousand dollars in aid of the cause. The receipts for the first month of lecturing exceeded the expenditures. The Association elected its officers for the ensuing year, and appointed A. T. Foss delegate to the National Convention. M.

God’s W ill Revealed.The Campbellite Baptists, or Disciples, at their

recent Annual Meeting near San Jose, passed a series of preambles and resolutions approving tbe work of the Americen Bible Union, in revising and retranslating the “ infallible ” Scriptures. Among the preambles was one, which we find in the P a c if ic G ospel H e ra ld , of the following pur­port :

“ God, by revealing His will in the Hebrew and Greek languages, has placed it on perpetual and im­mutable record, and thus made it both the duty and the privilege of his children to translate it directly from those inspired originals into every human lan­guage, and furnish it to every family of man.”

In what portion of the Bible can he found any commandment, m aking it the duty of man to translate the Scriptures out of the “ inspired originals ” into the uninspired and barbarous languages of the Gentiles ? No such command was ever given. Again, why did He reveal His will in the Hebrew and Greek only, and not as well in the Sanscrit, Coptic, Latin, or any other ancient language? But it is said the New Testa­ment was originally w ritten in Greek. ^Vhy not in Hebrew, like the Old Testament ? vVho is to translate the New Testament into Hebrew, for the benefit of unbelieving Jews?

The tru th is, this absurd claim th a t the Supreme Being has revealed His will to m an in any age, or in any particular language, exclusive of all other times and tongues, is one th a t cannot be main­tained for a moment. His will is constantly being revealed to man in the laws He has established for the operations of N ature ; and these need no dead language for their expression, having always a living language of their own, that all men, of. whatever nation or tongue, may comprehend and understand. This endeavor to embalm the will of God in a dead language, to be interpreted by the Doctors of Divinity as suits themselves, is a mummifying process th a t renders theology more repulsive to man, the more it is examined in the light of the present age.

Science is constantly revealing God’s w ill in Nature, and this revelation contradicts the pre­tended revelation in Hebrew in many essential particulars. W e m ust either ignore w hat we see w ith our own eyes, and comprehend by the use of our reason, or accept blindly w hat the priests of theology choose to tell us is the revealed will of God. For ourselves, we prefer the living language of the present, and the revelations obtainable now, to any tha t may have been made in the past w hether embalmed in Hebrew or Greek. The revelations of to-day may be heard and read in our native tongue, and received from the spirit world at first hand, without the necessity of trans­lation or revision. The Scriptures of N ature also exist for our study .and comprehension, and they are plenarily inspired, too. No Rabbis or Doctors of Divinity are needed to interpret their language They are an open book, wherein all may read of God and understand His will. They are a revela­tion without error or mistake, and need no revi­sion even by their A lm ighty Author Himself. Any attem pt to improve upon His work by man would be presumptuous, not to say blasphemous Let us endeavor to ascertain what these Scriptures reveal to ns, and be guided by them, and we can­not go astray. AT.

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A Donkey Loose.The P a c if ic C h ris tia n A d vo ca te is neither in a

pacific mood nor in a Christian way ju st now. Its holy ire is terribly excited about the visits of Spiritualist lecturers and mediums to Portland and the State of Oregon at large. W hen the fever of his madness is abated, its editor will perhaps see w hat an egregious ass he has made of himself. And speaking of him brings us naturally to the particular article in which he has made this fool­ish exhibition. He commences in this wise, in his issue of October 12th :

“ Humbugs.—It is a marvelous truth, that multi­tudes of people are ready, and, apparently, eager to be deceived, led astray, and fleeced of their honest earnings. Every buffoon, knave, and impudent dolt that passes ftirough the country is able to excite ad­miration and to deplete the pockets of people who ought to exercise better judgment. “ Go forth, my son (said a wise man), go forth, and see by what donkeys the world is governed!”

Considering for how long a period the world has been governed by priests, and by those whom they have set up as governors, the above is a refreshing confession, and undoubtedly does his soul good. The “ honest earnings,” of which the pockets of the people were depleted by tha t “ im­pudent dolt,” the sanctified Earle, to say nothing of silver bricks, given him to secure his early de_ parture from Virginia City, are now being enjoyed by this graceless revivalist in the security of his own well provided household, w ith reflections upon the innocence of the sheep whom he fleeced on the Pacific coast.

But to return to the donkey. He brags at everything having any relation w ith Spiritualism, and against some things, in the same connection, having no relation whatever to our doctrine. After abusing Dr. Bryant, and raving against mediums in general, and healing mediums in par­ticular, he talks feelingly of the impositions of a certain w iza rd , or performer of legerdemain, and of the lack of respectability of the circus. He winds up with an attack upon physicians not of the regular faculty, and belabors his brother editors of the secular press for puffing the latter, and for giving notices of the lectures and seances of mediums. He even goes so far as to say, that, if the patients of these irregular physicians die under their treatm ent, they (the irregular) are guilty of manslaughter. Suppose the same rule were to be applied to the reg u la rs—what then ? How many m anslaughters, and slaughters of in­nocent children, m ight be laid at the doors of the regular faculty! .We hesitate to enter upon this subject, for we cannot do justice to it in a single article, and our space is limited.

The editor of the A d vo ca te is evidently sick— sick of beholding the scepter departing from the hands of those who have held it so long, the donkeys so touchingly and sympathizingly refer­red in the above extract from his paper. If none of the Spiritualists in Portland, who are mediums with powers suited to his case, will take charge of him, and try to cure him of his malady, we will undertake it ourselves; and we promise to “ lay hands” upon his disorder w ith so much energy and earnestness, tha t no more such unmusical ravings will ever be heard from him again. M.

From the Crazy Sabbatarians.At a meeting recently, of the evangelical churches

of New Richmond, Clermont county, Ohio, the fol­lowing, among other resolutions, were passed :

Resolved, 1. That God has given us six days of the week for secular employments, and has reserved but one from secular purposes or idle amusements.

2. That promenading the streets on the Sabbath for amusement or carnal pleasure manifests a shameful disregard to the sacredness of the day, and disrespect to the feelings of the religious com­munity.

3. That the driving of wagons on the Sabbath, for secular purposes, and carriages for amusement and carnal pleasure, are deeds of wickedness annoying to the religious community and most offensive to God.

4. That the practice of visiting and receiving and entertaining visitors on the Sabbath, instead of going to Church, is sinful, and inconsistent with Christian character and profession.

The C a lifo rn ia C h r is t ia n A d v o c a te republishes the above set of resolutions, and, we presume, endorses them. It may be considered by them presumptuous, on the part of reasoning beings, to doubt that God ever did any of the th ings ascribed to Him in the paragraphs quoted. But, at the risk of differing a little from our “ infallib le" Methodist friends, we deny each and every specifi­cation made therein, as to what God may have done, and as to the effect upon Him of w hat we may do. W e go further. W e assert positively that there is no p r o o f extant tha t God ever made a n y day more sacred than another; or tha t He is offended at w hat His children do or omit to do ; or th a t “ amusement and carnal pleasure ” are not occu­pations of m an as pleasing in the sight of God as praying and grum bling.

This absurd practice of one se.t of men, setting up a standard of morals for the government of the actions of others, is about worn out. Sensible, tha t is, reasoable people pay no attention to such crazy fulminations, hut enjoy life iu their own way, regardless of the objurgations of bigots and fanatics. Fools only w ill be frightened into spasmodic observance of Sunday in the mode dictated by religionists ; namely, by putting on a long, sanctimonious visage, and going to church to wail over the wickedness of other people.

W e prefer to make use of Sunday in the way tha t common sense dictates. W e will make a day of rest from manual labor, as far as we are able, and devote as much of it as possible to recreation or amusement, in order that the powers of mind and body may be invigorated for the labor of the ensuing “ secular” days. W e ask no permission of any power, and make no apology to any, for thus occupying our own time ou Sunday, conceiv­ing tha t the righ t to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness includes the righ t to do on Sunday whatever may be rightfully done on any otherday. M.

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Wing-ed Angels.Faith and zeal are the 6oul’s two wings, whereby

it is made to resemble the angels, who are armed with wings, and called a flame of fire.—Pacific Gos­pe l H erald.

Angels a rm e d w ith wings! Pray, if the body is to be raised from the grave, and to become an angel, whence will it obtain its w in gs ? W ill they grow from the shoulders before or after the resur­rection ? or w ill its a rm s change to wings, so th a t “ armed w ith wings ” may be literally true ? But many people have had their “ w in gs ” clipped in duels, and in war, as well as by accidents: thosdr members are buried in the earth at points wide apart from the trunks of their bodies: w hat a spectacle w ill be presented at the resurrection, when arms, legs, hands, heads, and trunks shall be flying through the air w ith inconceivable velocity, to meet their correlative members and reunite w ith them ! And w hat disturbances w ill take place in the interior economy of cannibals, who have made so many, savory meals of the entire bodies of Christian men and women 1

Seriously, these Pharisees, believing iu a bodily resurrection, continually run into the plainest absurdities, both of thought and diction. It is almost a tax upon patience to point them out.

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Not every man who preaches has a right to shelter under the declaration, “ They that preach the gospel shall live of the gospel.” The apostle does not say they that preach, but “ they that preach the gospel” shall live thereby. Many a preacher claims, but without the right—preaches, but does not preach the gospel.—Pacific Gospel H erald.

Inasmuch as each different sect claims that theirs is the “ preached gospel,” it is of no im ­portance to the preachers what they preech; all are sure of a living at the expense of their dupes ; so tha t “ they th a t preach,” provided they suit their hearers, need be under no concern about “ the gospel.” m.

C u r i o u s R e s u l t s .—W hile the Irish and Ger­mans of California have had their prejudices suc­cessfully appealed to and aroused against the Chinese, women of the same nationalities have, in the city of New York, married Chinamen, and have lived contentedly w ith them in poverty for many years. Politics and politicians produce curiously contrasted results. m .

If the worst comes to the worst, we shall turn Spiritist, and adopt the simple and beautiful faith of the table-tippers, which makes things easy by dispensing with conscience altogether.—D ram atic Chronicle.

If that were true, the Chronicle- editor, J. F. Bowman, would have been w ith us from the first. m.

T h e S p i r i t u a l i s t s o p N e w H a m p s h i r e held their first State Convention on the 24th of Sept, last. The published record of the proceedings has not yet reached us. The call was signed by twenty-eight prominent Spiritualists. M.

M r s . L a u r a D e f o r c e G o r d o n is on the way to California, and may he expected to arrive in this city about the first of D e c e m b e r . She is by this time at Great Salt Lake City.

Mr . T. Hunt, a healing medium, arrived here on the last steamer, from the East, hut left on the steamer for China the next day. He is in the employ of the United States Government.

M r s . A d a H o y t F oy'E is still in Virginia City, Nev. She may be addressed at th a t place or at this office.

B u s h a n d B u d .— A prize contest came off in Placer county lately between a bush and a bud. The bush was victorious, as it always m ust be.

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T H E B A N N E R O E P R O G- R E S S

P H E N O M E N A L F A C T S ,

A Good Test.The circumstances under which the following

letter was w ritten were these : A short time since, Mr. Oliver Young, now residing at Dayton, Nevada, was living at Iowa Hill, California, where he lost his wife. A few weeks subsequent to the departure of his wife to the spirit world, a near neighbor of his, w ith w hom . he was on intimate terms, lost a little child. He called on the neigh­bor, and found him and his wife, sitting by the coffin that contained the form of their little one. Scarcely had he taken his seat w ith them, when loud raps were heard on the coffin. His friends were much startled at the sounds, for they were not believers in Spiritualism, and were at that time contemplating becoming members of a sec­tarian religious body. Mr. Young entered into conversation w ith the invisible spirits, and soon learned th a t it was his lately departed wife. At the request of his friends, he urged the spirit of his wife to go to a distant place, and find some medium who could in no way have knowledge of the persons present, and through th a t channel to send them a communication, tha t it m ight be a test to them tha t the spirits of the departed have power to communicate to those who still linger on the shores of time. A short time since, Mr. Young received the following letter, the state­ments in which, he informs us, are all true, as far as he is concerned : T.

Boston, March 17, 1867.Mr. Young:—S ir : I have been in the habit of

going to a spiritual circle for the last few months, and there have been very many communications revealed through the medium of our circle. Last night, there was a communication from a spirit, who gave her name as Sarah Young. She requested that we should write to Oliver Young, Iowa Hill, Cali­fornia, and tell him she had communicated through a medium here. And it was her request that we should tell you that she was always with and watch­ing over y o u ; that she was with you at the time that your house was burnt down, but could not save any of the things.

Now, Mr. Young, if you ever get this, and there is any truth in the matter, which there must be if there is any such a man, you will do me the kindness to answer by return mail.

If you would like for me to ask the medium any questions for you,.I shall be most happy to give you all the information in my power. I shall be pleased for you to give me some questions to ask ; for it will be a great test to me, and will also assist me in my investigations of this matter, which I am trying to solve, and give it the name it should have.

Please answer soon. You may addressEARL W. PLUMMER,

JYos. 5 and 6 South M arket street, Boston, 31ass.

Spirit Impression.The Monongahela (Pa.) R ep u b lica n says:“ Not very long ago the young and beautiful wife

of one of our citizens was called to her final ac­count, leaving her husband disconsolate, sad, bereft. She was buried in the adjacent cemetery, and the huBband returned to his desolate home, but not to forget the loved one. She was present with him by day in spirit and in his dreams at night. One pecu­liarity of his dreams, and one that haunted him, being repeated night after night, was th is : that the spirit of his wife came to his bedside and told him that the undertaker had not removed from her face the square piece of muslin or napkin which had been used to cover her face after death, but had screwed down he coffin lid with it upon h e r ; that she could not breathe in her grave, but was unrest on account of the napkin. He tried to drive the dream away, but it bided with him by night and troubled him by day. In despair he soue-ht the undertaker, Mr. Dickey, who told him that the napkin had not been removed, but urged him to forget the circumstance, as it could not be any pos­sible annoyance to inanimate clay. While the gentleman frankly acknowledged this, he could not avoid the apparition, and continual stress upon his mind began to tell upon his health. At length he determined to have the body disinterred, and visited the undertaker for the purpose. Here he met with the same advice and persuasion, and convinced once more of his folly, the haunted man returned to his home. This night, more vivid than ever, more terribly real than before, she came to his bedside and upbraided him for his want of affection, and would not leave him until he promised to remove the cause of all her suffering. The next night, with a friend, he repaired to the sexton, who was pre­vailed upon to accompany them, and there, by the light Of the moon, the body was lifted from its nar­row bed, the coffin lid unscrewed, and the napkin removed from the face of the corpse. That night she came to his bedside once more, but for the iast time. ThanEffig-him for his kindness, she pressed her cold lips to his cheek and came again no more.”

The Purpose oe-Spiritualism. —The religious idea of evil in God’s dominion, that creates and fos­ters so many sects and so much hell; the fancied idea that one ha3 no more and another less religious m erit; the ill-begotten idea of a personal devil; the inhuman idea that hell is for one more than for another, and that heaven is not for a ll; the vile idea, that makes so much cruel punishment in the moral world, “ I.am better than thou,” morally or relig­iously ; the childish idea that men can be governed by written commandments or the law of men ; the paradoxical Idea that revenge in the State and Church is practiced justice ; that^religion is pledges and pro­fessions, that virtue is outward demeanor, that my belief is right and your belief is wrong—all these ideas, in the fervent light of Spiritualism, will be consumed like flax in burning fire. Creeds, with their littleness and lightness ; virtue, with its weak­ness and pretense; justice, with its vindictiveness; organizations, pledges, oaths, promises and profes­sions ; the astute opposition to Spiritualism by little m en; the scorn and obloquy of lesser men, and prayers and sermons against i t ; the wind of opinion, the sham of reputation ; the stilts of the rich and the higher stilts of the holy—all these things are not hindrances to Spiritualism, but are as the idle wind to its onward march. Spiritualism will turn the hay and stubble of past devices and opinions under­neath the surface to enrich the mellow soil it makes to plant new truth upon.—A . B. Child, iji Banner o f L igh t.

A Significant Inscription. —An investigation of the spiritual phenomena took place some years since, at the Pavilion, in Boston, arranged by Dr. Gardner for the enlightenment of Prof. Pelton and other Harvard professors. The body of Prof. Felton now reposes at Mt. Auburn, and upon the stone erected over his grave is an inscription, which I think has a peculiar significance, under the circum­stances. The inscription is in Greek, and upon be­ing translated into English, is found to be the first part of the first verse of the fourth chapter of Reve­lations, which reads as follows : “After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven.” May this not mean that after public discussions of the question, and after the investigation , so called, by the Professors of Harvard University, Prof. Fel­ton looked for himself, and was convinced that there was a door opened between heaven and earth, and that he was not willing to leave his earthly body without putting upon record—though in an unknown tongue (to the common people)—a confession that he was convinced of the great truth of intercommu­nication between the natural and spiritual worlds ?

- ‘ ‘ Veritas,” in Banner o f L ight.

An old farmer near Lynchburg, Va., has had a standing bet of ten dollars with a neighbor for the last thirty years, that it would rain on the first Satur­day in August of each year. During the time, he has won twenty-seven out of the thirty bets. He will not explain what meteorological rule governs his action.

O b i t u a r y .

Passed on to spirit life from the City of Portland Oregon, Sept. 21st, 1867, Albert EL, son of R. a ! White, Esq., aged 22 years, 8 months and 11 dayB. His disease was typhoid pneumonia.

I t was our good fortune, while in Oregon, the past summer, to form an intimate acquaintance with the deceased; having been generously invited by his parents to accept the hospitalities of their home so long as we might remain in the State. He was in­deed a young man of great promise, and of uncom­promising integrity of character. He was kind, generous, and affectionate in his nature, and won the good opinion of all, being a universal favorite among his associates. Yet no temptation was suf­ficiently strong to swerve him for a moment from the path of rectitude and virtue which he had mark­ed out for himself. His health for some time had been quite delicate, and the symptoms indicated a lesion in the pulmonary organs; hence, when an acute attack came, he had not the power to success­fully contend with the disease, and sank under it. He will be sadly missed in the home circle, for there his affectionate nature found its fullest exercise. He was a confirmed Spiritualist, philosophically and practically. He had therefore no fearful forebodings with regard to the future; and when his spirit friends came to conduct him to the thither shore, he trustingly and confidingly sank into their arms, as sinks the babe to sleep in arms maternal. T.

E l e c t r o -T h e r a p e u t i c I n s t i t u t e . — By refer­ence to an advertisement in another column, it will be perceived tha t Dr. H. Spencer Sparks, an eclectic physician, has taken rooms over Congress Hall, Bush street, where he proposes to trea t all forms of disease by his peculiar system. The Doc­tor also intends giving free lectures upon Physiol­ogy and the Treatment of Disease, at Mechanics’ Institute Hall, Post street. The first of these will be delivered next Tuesday evening; and they will be duly announced for one evening each week thereafter. M.

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Progress. — In his address at the recent meeting of the “ Phi Beta Kappa” Society of Harvard University, Mr. Emer­son referred to the progress of the world, and the privilege which it was to live in the present age, with its enlightenment and culture. Our social science, the abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt, the suppression of intem­perance, the just rules affecting labor, co-operative societies for insuring life, our enlarged charities, and many other things were cited by the speaker in his peculiar manner as illustrations of the advanced conditions of our age. The spirit of the time is new. A silent revolution has been going on, one whose effects we now see^ The coxcomb has been pushed to the wall and has been taught that this country and this age belong to the most liberal prin­ciples, and that the day of rule by scorn and arro­gance is past, and that good sense has got into pow­er and rules. Men are now to be estimated by show­ing acts of good nature, civility, and Christian charity. The new claim sbf woman to a political status is an honorable testimony to the civilization which has grown here. I t is a civil status new in history. Now that, by the increased justice of law, she controls her property, she inevitably takes her next step to her share in government.

Garibaldi’s Platform.—In the Peace Congress, at Geneva, Garibaldi introduced a platform as fol­lows :

1. All nations are sisters.2. War between them is forbidden.3. All disputes between them shall be settled by a

Congress.4. The members of the Congress shall be ap­

pointed by Democratic societies of the nations.5. Each nation shall have but one representative.6. The Papacy, being the most pernicious, shall

be declared overthrown.7. The religion of God is adopted by the Congress,

and each of its members shall be obliged to propa­gate it on the face of the earth.

8. The priesthood of revelation and of ignorance must be replaced by the priesthood of science and intelligence.

9. The religion of God shall be propagated by education, and honest and republican Governments shall be established.

The M ontana Post says that an exploring party, which has been to the head waters of the Yellow­stone river, have just returned, and report seeing one of the greatest wonders of the world. For eight days the party traveled through a volcanic country, emitting blue flame and a living stream of molten brimstone. The country was smooth and rolling; low, level plains intervening between roll­ing mounds. On the summit of these rolling mounds were craters, from four to eight feet in diameter, and everywhere on the level plains were smaller craters, from four to six inches in diameter, from which streamed a blaze and a constant whis­tling sound. The hollow ground resounded beneath their feet as they traveled, and every moment seemed to break through. The explorers gave it the significant appellation of hell.

The Marriage Declared Legal.—A few days ago we mentioned a case pending before the Probate Court, in which the nieces of Mrs. Ann Phillips were claiming her estate, on the ground that she had not been legally married to her husband, inas­much as the marriage was contracted without a license having been obtained. The case was decided by Judge Blake, who held that the marriage was legal; although a marriage had been consummated in a manner not exactly in compliance with the statute, that fact would not invalidate the legality of the marriage. The decision of the Court, therefore, made the husband the heir of the property.—S. F. Call.

A Hard Question.—The Portsmouth Journal says that one of their citizens on a recent Sunday, seeing a Quaker elder in the field raking hay, re­monstrated with him on his disregard for the Bible requisition. “ Friend Samuel,” said he, in reply, “ thee is in, the wrong—the Bible is my guide.” “ How so ?” “ Why, does it not say—‘ If thine oxor thine ass fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, thou shalt pull him out?’ ' Now, Samuel, of what use would it be to pull him out if he have no food to eat ?”

The following description of the latest style for riding is from a Western paper: “ It is a Zouaverig, which allows the lady to sit astride her steed. A close fitting basque, tastefully ornamented with embroidery, with Zouave pants, made full like those of the Turks, and gathered at the bottom into bands which are concealed in the tops of high tight-laced gaiter boots. On the head, a 'straw turban, with a plain velvet band, and a tuft of flowers. Lilac is a favorite color, with black trimmings.”

Dr. Crosby, of New Haven, the man who in, vented the machine for making pins, has perfected another which turns out a perfect needle without touch of a human hand, except in the tempering of the wire. The American Fish-hook Company of that city, of which he is President, uses an invention of his which drops a hundred perfect fish-hooks each minute into a pail at one end from a coil of wire at the other.

The distance from New York to San Francisco, by way of Chicago, is three thousand three hundred miles. If a train should run at the rate of thirty miles an hour, including stoppages, it would require a little less than seven days to accomplish the distance.

Perhaps the best pun recorded was that inscribed on a tea-chest, viz: “ Tu doces.” These words are the second person singular of the verb doceo, to teach, and, when literally translated, become “ Thou Tea-chest.”

A nice old lady declares that she thinks it very strange that a little quicksilver in a glass tub can make such awful hot weather by just raising it an inch or so.

Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of the sewing machine needle, died at Brooklyn, on the 3d.

Ancient China.A resurrection of some Oriental literature is

very hum iliating to our western and nineteenth century pride, in showing how far the Chinese had gone in civilization when Europe was barba­rian and America unknown. They were burning coal before the Christian era ; they were printing A. D. 581, w ith black, and lithographing three centuries la te r ; yet another century, and they were using movable types of terra cotta. Porce­lain, water-tight compartments in ships, portraits for catching criminals—all these were known to them in those days. And it even appears that 919 years before Christ, these Celestials used leather greenbacks ! The Chinese had also the tradition of the Madonna and child. This symbol was the Tien-How, the Queen of Heaven, represented as nursing her infant son, who holds a lotus-bud in his hand, as a symbol of the new birth. There is a model of this group in porcelain in the E thno­logical Museum of Copenhagen.

T h e revelation of Providence is universal. There are no chosen people. That Thou hast given to one of Thy children, shalt Thou not give to all ?

O, weak and foolish man ! that thou reverest in one nation thou abhorrest in another ; tha t which thou adorest in the town of Salem thou rejectest in the vale of Ida.

The angels of the holy plain of M a m re are on the banks of the E u ro ta s transformed into g o d s .— “ T h oughts f r o m B e y o n d the T om b,” b y B a r o n V on Guldenstifbbe.

Persecution by a State Church.—Phocion Foster, a farmer of Somersetshire, Eng., not believ­ing in the Anglican establishment, refused to pay an assessment of 15 shillings levied upon him for the repair of a church which he never entered. Proceed­ings were taken against him in the ecclesiastical court, and the costs of the action amounted to £174, besides which the Bishop sent him an “ admoni­tion,” for which he was charged £1 15s. In default of payment he was thrown into jail, and is likely to stay there. His property is to be sold; he owes his lawyers several hundred pounds; and he is a ruined man—all because he has an obstinate conscience.

Cartes de Visits of Dr. Bryant may be ob­tained at this office—price twenty-five cents.

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F O R A LL C U R A B L E D IS E A S E S ,Has taken Rooms a t

Congress Hall Building, 314 Busli Street,SAN FRANCISCO,

W here he can be consulted, and w here all diseases will be trea ted by his new and successful mode of practice.

I t is unnecessary to say m ore tbaD , as thousands w ill te s ­tify , th a t b y it the v ita l or positive and negative forces of th e system become equalized, and w h a t Eeems m ore wonderful is, th a t diseases considered incurable a re frequen tly cured b y one or tw o operations.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS.Dr. H . S. Sparks is c rea tin g qu ite a sensation, no t only in

th is city , h u t in the country . H is room s a re thronged daily w ith invalids, m any of whom have used cru tch es and canes for years, h u t find no use for them a f te r receiving tw o or th ree tre a tm e n ts . There is som ething v e ry rem arkab le in his p ractice, or he could not do w h a t he has done in th is c ity and o th er places. I t would he well for th e m edical m en of th is city to inquire into the m a tte r, and see if he h as not some m ethod of trea tin g *• Chronic Diseases ” w hich is m ore ra tio n a l and successful th a n those in popular u se .— D a ily E agle.

Dr. Sparks, the g rea t M agnetic and E lectric H ealer, is m eet­ing w ith his usual success here, as hundreds a re being t r e a t­ed b y him and m any cu red as by m agic .— Long I s la n d D em o­crat.

Dr. H. S. Sparks is m aking g rea t cures here if th e s ta tem en t of p a tien ts can be relied upon, H is room s a re thronged w ith invalids. The rich and th e poor a re alike benefited. There is som ething v e ry peculiar in his trea tm e n t of- Chronic Dis­eases. H is lectu res a re well a tten d ed , and highly com pli­m ented, being v e ry in s tru c tiv e and chaste .—J o u rn a l.

Dr. Sparks is m aking aston ish ing cures here, and fully su s­tains his world-wide rep u ta tio n in healing th e -sick, among rich and poor. H is room s a re thronged w ith p a tie n ts .— Long Islan d F a rm er.

Dr. Sparks cordially inv ites all persons suffering in body or mind, and those who a re in te re sted in th e im provem ents in M edical Science, to call on h im a t his rooms. Office hours from 9 a . m . to 3 p . m ., and 6 to 7 p . m . The poor are trea ted from 6 t o 7 p . i t . , “ w ithout m oney and w ithou t p rice .” Clean­liness required.

Dr. Sparks has had tw en ty y ea rs p ractical experience, and exam ines the H um an System w ithou t asking a question, and locates diseases a t s igh t as accurately as m ost persons read p rin t.

The Doctor will lec tu re a t M echanics’ H all, No. 27 Post s t , on Tuesday Evening, Oct. 29tb, a t 7>£ p . m . S ubject: “ The H igher Developm ent of the Race, th e Cause of Disease, and the C ure.” The Doctor will give a v ery in stru c tiv e and chaste P riv a te Lecture to Ladies, a t th e sam e place, ev ery Tuesday afternoon in Novem ber, a t 3 p. M. L ectures free. All ladies a re cordially in v ited to a ttend .

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Confucius and the Chinese Classics ; o r, Readings in Chinese L ite ra tu re . Edited an a com piled b y R ev. A. W . Loomis..............................................$1 75..

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1867.

LYCEUM DEPARTM ENT.“ Angels w h ere ’e r we go a tten d

Our s tep s , w h a te ’er betide,W ith w atchful ca re th e ir charge defend,

And evil tu rn aside.” ---CHARLES WESLEY".

LITTLE THINGS.

B Y C H A R L E S SW AIN.

D o som eth in g f o r each other,T h o u g h s m a l l t h e h e lp m a y h e ;

T h e r e ’s c o m f o r t o f t i n l i t t l e t h i n g s ,Far more than others see.

I t takes the sorrow from the eye,It leaves the world less bare,

If but a friendly hand comes nigh When friendly hands are rare.

Then cheer the heart which toils each hour, Yet finds it hard to live ;

And though but little’s in our power,That little let us give.

We know not what the humblest hand,I f earnest, may achieve—

How many a sad anxiety A trifle may relieve.

We reck not how the aged poor Drag on from day to day,

When e’en the little that they need Costs more than they can pay.

Then cheer the heart that toils each hour, Yet finds it hard to live ;

And though but little’s in our power,That little let us give.

Short Hours for School Children.On this subject the Iowa State J o u rn a l com­

ments as follows:“ The prolonged confinement of children in the

school-room is injurious. There are parents who think the benefits of the school bear a direct ratio to the number of hours which the children are confined to the benches and their tasks. There are teachers who think it a virtue to prolong the exercises from six to seven or more hours. W ith all such notions away ! Especially are these ideas pernicious when applied to primary schools, and we are glad to see in our own State the dawn of a better day. In the model school connected with the normal department of the State University, during the years of its existence, the daily sessions never exceeded five hours, and during the last year of its existence the number was reduced to four. Under the latter arrangement two things were particularly observed by the teachers : First,the advancement of the pupils in their studies was more rapid than in the five-hour system ; secondly, the arrangement was distasteful to the patrops of the school, who wished their children cared for the entire day. During the last year the crowded condition of some of the primary schools in Davenport suggested the idea of divid­in g the school, part attending in the forenoon and the remainder in the afternoon, thus reducing the time of each set of children to three hours. W e have been informed tha t under this arrangement the progress of the children was as rapid as when they attended six hours per day.

“ W e have learned more recently that the Board of Education of Dubuque has adopted the half­day system of attendance in their primary schools. The method has the recommendation of economy, too ; for, with the aid of the same buildings, the same apparatus, and the same teachers, two sets of pupils are instructed; in other words, the p r o r a ta cost of instruction is reduced j ust one-half. . This, however, is its least important advantage, and we hope to see the system come into general use in primary schools. Three hours’ confinement is enough for the little folks, while four or five hours w ill suffice for those of a larger growth.

“ The evils of long confinement may be very much mitigated by good ventilation, comfortable seats, change of employment and frequent recesses. But, w ith children, physical development and health are of the first importance. A vigorous mind can exist only in a sound body. The preser­vation of health and its establishment upon a firm basis are of vastly more importance than the acquisition of school prizes.”

The Fringed Gentian.This flower, so beautiful, so full of the tender

beauty of spring, is always a wonder to me. I t looks every way like a spring flower, and yet it is the very last of the autum n flowers. I t would seem as if it forgot its blooming, or perhaps kept back its beauty, thinking of the time when the earth would miss the wealth of bloom th a t spring and summer bring.

The blue of this flower is as clear as the sky, and its soft, fringed petals have a wondrous charm. It is the poet’s flower, and many sweet things have been said and sung of it, but not half it de­serves. I t grows in pastures, and by the roadside, bu t it is not a common flower. The first one I ever found was near a poet’s home, whose life was so close to heaven that when she died she seemed no nearer to the celestial beauty of the heavenly life than when she lived.

Perhaps _that is the reason that the flower al­ways reminds me of spiritual things. It seems like the spiritual renewal of the spring’s sweet life, a coming back again of the departed beauty, and yet there is nothing frail or ethereal in the flower, like the Tiarella, or W hite Violets ; it seems more of earth than they.

The Gentian belongs to the fifth class, second order, and the botanical name of the Fringed Gen­tian is O en tian a C rin ita . It makes me think, in its autum n beauty, of the blossoming of some lives, of the fresh, youthful life and the beauty of character that glows and shines from the hearts of some old people.— L ove M . W iUis, in B a n n e r o f L ig h t.

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Th e Tidioute J o u rn a l tells a story of a dying man at whose request a dance was held the night previous to his decease, in the building whicli he occupied, for the purpose of raising funds to -pay for “ a decent funeral.” The receipts were fifty- six dollars. . “ Glory be to God!” said the dying man, “ now I’ll have a decent burying, and the children can ride in a hack.”

Two school teachers in Indiana fell out and had a fight. A great crowd was the necessary conse­quence. A nervous individual came up in breath­less excitement, and inquired of a wag the cause. “ W hy,” said he, “ they fell out about spelling the word ‘ bird.’ One said it was ‘ byrd,’ and the other contended that it was ‘ burd.’ ”

W hy was the giant Goliali very much aston­ished when David hit him with a stone ? Such a thine: never entered his head before.

A l i t t l e girl observing a goose with a yoke on, exclaimed : “ W hy, ma, there is a goose got corsets on. I t walks like sister Sally !”

If a man reap whatsoever he sowetli, w hat a harvest of coats and breeches the tailors will have one of these days !

T h e r e i s m a n y a m a n w h o s e t o n g « e m i g h t g o v e r n m u l t i t u d e s , i f h e c o u l d o n l y g o v e r n h i s o w n t o n g u e .

---------- ----------------E v e r y .d a y i s a l i t t l e l i f e , a n d o u r w h o l e l i f e i s

b u t a d a y r e p e a t e d .

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Progressive Lyceum Eegister.Boston. M ass.—Sunday a t 10 a. m ., a t 544 W ashington s tree t.

C. H . R ines, Conductor.B rook lyn , N . Y .—A t 3 p. m ., in th e C um berland S tree t

L ecture Room, betw een L afayette and DeKalb avenues. John A. B a r tle tt , Conductor ; Mrs. Fannie Cohill, G uardian.

B u ffa lo , _ZV. Y .—In Music H all Sunday afternoon. M rs. S. H. f fe r tm a n , Conductor ; Miss S arah Brooks, G uardian.- Charlestoivn, M ass.—At City H all, a t 10fi£ a . m . D r. C. C’ Y ork , Conductor ; M rs. L. A. York, G uardian.

A t W ashington Hall, Sunday forenoon. A. H . R ichardson , C onductor; M rs. M . J . M ayo, G uard ian .

Chelsea, M ass.—A t L ib ra ry H all ev e ry Sunday a t 10 a. m. Jam es S. Dodge, Conductor ; Mrs. E. S. Dodge, G uardian.

Chicago, III.—Sunday, a t C rosby’s Music Hall, a t 12K p. m . Dr. S. J A very , Conductor ; Mrs. C. A. Dye, G uard ian ; J . R. Sleeper, P res id en t L ite ra ry Circle.

C in c in n a ti —Greenwood H all, co rner of S ix th and Vine stS, a t 9 a. m. A . W. P ugh , Conductor ; Mrs. L ydia Beck, G uar­dian.

South B an vers, M ass.—In th e Town H all, Sunday a t 2 and 7 p. m.

S prin g fie ld , 111.—E v ery Sunday in th e hall.S prin g fie ld , M ass.—The F ra te rn a l Society of S p iritu a lis ts

ev e ry Suuday a t Fallon’s Hall.St. L o u is .—At Polytechnic In s titu te , co rner of S even th and

C hestnut s tree ts , a t 10K a m and 7K P- m.Taunton , M ass.—Sunday, in Concert Hail.Toledo. O.,—Sunday a t iO K a. m. and 7>£ p . m.Troy. N . Y .—Sunday a t 10K a. m. and 7K P- m ., in H a r­

mony Hall, corner of T hird and R iver s tree ts .'Vineland, N . J .—Friends of P rogress, Sunday a t 10K a. m .W ash in g ton , D . C.—In Union League H all, ev e ry Sunday,

a t 1 1 a . m. and 7K p. m.W oburn Centre, M ass .—Bible S p iritua lis ts , C en tral House

H all.W orcester, M ass.—Tn H o rticu ltu ra l H all ev ery Sunday a f te r ­

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70S V X A R THSOLOGS^Y.L E O T U IE=L ZED ,

Delivered a t E b b itt H all, N ew Y o rk , S eptem ber 10, 1865,BY BENJAMIN TODD.

1. O rigin and Character o f the Orthodox D evil.2. Positive L aw in Opposition to D ivine Providence.S. M an's Own R esponsibility in Opposition to Vicarious

Atonem ent.

Cleveland, O hio .—At T em perance Hall, 184 S uperior s tree t.J . A. J e w e tt, Conductor ; Mrs. D. A. Eddy, G uardian.

D etroit, M ich .—Conductor, M. J. M atthew s ; G uardian, Mrs.Rachel Doty.

D over a n d Foxcroft, Me.—Sunday afte rnoon , in th e U niver- sa lis t church .

Foxboro', M ass .—In th e Town Hall ev ery Sunday a t 11 a. m. H a m b u rg , Conn.—John S terling , Conductor ; M rs. S. B. An­

derson , G uard ian .H am m onton , N . J .—Sunday a t 1 p. m . J . O. Ransom , Con­

ducto r ; Mrs. Ju lia E. Holt, G uard ian .H a v a n a , III .—Sunday a t 3 p. m ., in A ndrus’ H all. J . F.

Coppel, Conductor ; M rs. E. Shaw , G uardian.H a v erh ill , M ass.—Sunday a t 10 a. m ., in Music Hall. John

R eiter, Conductor ; M rs. E. L. C urrie r, G uardian.Jefferson C ity , N . J .—Sunday afternoon in th e C hurch of

the Holy S p irit. 244 Y ork s tre e t Joseph Dixon, Conductor.Jersey C ity, N . J .—At th e Church of the Holy S p irit, 244

York s tre e t, Sunday afternoon.Johnsoh’s Creek, N . V .—At 12 m. ev e ry Sunday. Miss Em m a

Joyce, Conductor ; M rs. H. O. Loper, G uardian.L otu s, I n d .—F. A. Coleman, Conductor ; Eliza M. Huddle

sto n , G uardian.L ow ell, M ass.— Sunday In th e forenoon, in th e Lee s tre e t

C hurch.M ilw au kee —Meets in Bowman H all, ev e ry Sunday a t 2 p.

m . G. A .L ib b ey , Conductor ; M rs. M ary Wood, G uardian.M okena, III.—Suuday a t 1 o’clock, in th e village school-

house. W. D ucker, Conductor ; Mrs. Jam es D ucker, G uar­dian.

ATeuiark, JV. J .—Music H all, No. 4 B ank s tre e t, Sunday a f­ternoon a t 2 o’clock. Mr. G. T. Leach, Conductor ; Mrs. H a rrie t P arso n s, G uardian.

H ew F ork C ity .—Sunday a t 2 K p. m ., a t E b b itt H all, No. 55 W est 23d s tre e t , n ea r B roadw ay. D. B. M arks, Conduc­to r ; M rs. H. W. F a rn sw o rth , G uardian ; E. O. Townsend, M anager of D ram atic Wing.

Osborn’s P r a ir ie , I n d .—Sunday m orn ing a t P rog ressive F riends’ m eeting-house. Rev. Simon B row n, Conductor ; S.A. Crane, G uardian.

Osivego, N . T .—In Lyceum H all, Sunday a t 12K p. m . J .L. Pool, Conductor ; M rs. D ooiittle, G uardian.

P h ila d e lp h ia , P e n n .—Sunday m orning a t 10 o’clock, a tThompson S tree t C hurch, below F ro n t s tree t. Isaac R ehn, Conductor : M rs. S tre tch , G uardian.

P h ila d e lp h ia , P e n n .—Sunday, a t W ashington H all, sou th w est co rner of E igh th and Spring Garden s tre e ts , a t 10 a. m ., except Ju ly and A ugust, in w hich th e sum m er recess occurs.M. B. D yott, Conductor ; A rabella BalleDger, G uard ian .

A t new Hall in Phoenix s tre e t, Sunday a t 10 o ’clock. Prof.l. Rehn, Conductor.

P ly m o u th , M ass.—Sunday forenoon a t 11 o’clock. I. C arver. Conductor ; Mrs. R W B a rtle tt, G uardian.

P o rtla n d , Oregon.—M eets a t Oro Fino Hall ev e ry Sunday. P roviden ce , I t . I .—Sunday, a t 10 K a. m ., in P r a t t ’s Hall,

W eybosset s tre e t. Conductor, L. K. Joslin ; G uardian, M rs. A bbie H. P o tte r.

P u tn a m , Conn.—Sunday a t 10K a. m ., in C entral Hall Q u in cy . M as*.—Sunday a t I X p. m.R ic h la n d Center, W is.—Sunday at. 1 p. m . M r. H. A. E ast-

land , Conductor ; Mrs. F idelia O. Pease, G uardian.R ich m on d , In d .—In H enry Hall, at. 2 p. m . E li Brown, Con­

ducto r ; M rs. Emily A ddlem an, G uardian.Rochester, 2V. U —In B lack’s Musical In s titu te , (P a lm er’s

H all,) Sunday afternoon a t 2 K p. m . M rs. Jo n a th an W at­son, Conductor ; M rs. Amy Post, G uard ian .

R ockford , H I.—Sunday, a t 10}( a. m . , i n W ood’s H all. E. C. Dunn, Conductor ; M rs. Rockwood, G uardian.

R ock I s la n d , III.— At 10 o’clock, in N orris H all, Illinois s tre e t. W. T. R iggs, Conductor ; M rs. W . T. R iggs, Guar- d ian .

S acram entoy C a l.— A t Turn-V erein H all, Sunday a t 2 p. m. H . B ow m an, Conductor ; Miss G. A. B rew ste r, G uard ian .

S a n F rancisco, C al.—A t M echanics’ In s ti tu te H all. Post s tre e t, Sunday a t I K o’clock p. m . Conductor, John C.M itch- ell ; G uardian of Groups, M rs. W hitehead.

S prin gfie ld , M ass.—Sunday a t 10K a. m ., a t Fallon’s Hall.B. S. W illiam s, Conductor ; Mrs. M . A. W ym an, G uard ian .

S prin g fie ld , III.—Sunday forenoon a t 10 o’clock. Wm. H.P lanck , Conductor ; M rs. E. G. P lanck , G uardian.

S t. Johns, M ich .—Clinton H all, ev e ry Sunday a t 11 a. m . E.K. Bailey, Conductor ; M rs. A. E. N. R ich, G uard ian .<

S t. L o u is , Mo.—Sunday, a t 2K P- a t M ercan tile H all. Col. Wm. E. M oberly, Conductor ; Mrs. M ary Blood, G uardian.

A t Poly technic In s titu te , co rner of S eventh and C hestnu t s tre e ts , a t 3 p. m . M yron Coloney, Conductor ; H enry Stagg, Cor. Sec. r ^ .

S tu rg is , M ic h .—S unday a|t 12K P- w th e F ree C hurch. Jo h n B Jacobs, Conductor M rs. Nellie S m ith , G uardian.

Troy," N . V .—In H arm ony H all ev e ry Sunday a t 2 K P- m- Monroe I. K eith , Conductor ; Mrs. Louise K e ith , G uardian.

V in e la n d , N . J —Sunday a t 1 o’clock p. m . H osea Allen, Conductor ; Mrs. D eborah B u tle r, G uardian.

W illim a n tic , Conn.—R em us R obinson, Conductor ; M rs. S. M. P u rin ton , G uardian.

W orcester M ass.—In H o rticu ltu ra l H a ll, S unday , a t 11K a.m . Mr. E .R . Fu^ler. Conductor ; Mrs. M. A. S tea rn s , G uardian.

Spiritualist Societies and Meetings.P A C I F I C S T A T E S .

.B3F“ Price 25 cents.

We w ill send th e above, postage free , on rece ip t of th e p rice in cu rren cy or postage s tam p s ; o r copies m ay h e had on p erso n al application a t th is office.

FROM PACIFIC STREET W HARF,Connecting w ith th e

San Francisco and. Alameda Railroad.THROUGH TO HAYWARD’S BY BOAT AND CARS.

O nly T w elve Miles from W arm Springs.

NTIL FURTH ER NOTICE; THE HOURof d ep a rtu re , except on S undays, w ill be as follows :u

SAN FRANCISCO.7.30 a . SI.9.301.30 p . at.4.306.15 F reigh i.

SAN FRANCISCO. 9.00 A. SI.

11.15 l 30 r.-a t. 4.30 6 15

ALAMEDA. 5.10 A. M.7.409.351.35 P. M.4.35SUNDAY

ALAMEDA.9 00 a . u .

1 1 151.40 P. M.4 406.20

SAN LEANDRO.4.50 A. M.7.159.151.15 P. M.4.15

TIME.SAN LEANDRO.

8 45 A. M.11 00

1 20 p . at.4 206.00

HAYWARD’S 4 .30 A. M.7.009 .001 .00 P. M.4.00

HAYWARD’S. 8 .30 A. M.

10 .45 1 00 p . a t. 4 00 5 .45

Horses, Buggies, and all descrip tions of Stock can be taken on th e ca rs to and f r ''m H ay w ard ’s.

ALFRED A . COHEN,4 G eneral Superin tendent.

FROM THE FE R R Y SLIP,CORNER OF PACIFIC AND DAVIS STREETS,

Connecting w ith th eSan Francisco and Oakland Railroad.

SAN ANTONIO.5.30 A. ai. 6.457.509.50

12 .50 P. at.2 .50 4 00 5.15

SAN FRANCISCO.6.45 a . a t.7.459.00

11.152.00 p. at.4 00 5.15 6.30

U NTIL FURTH ER NOTICE, THE TIMESof d ep a rtu re w ill be as follows (S undays excep ted ,

when the firs t tr ip each w ay w ill b e om itted ) :OAKLAND.5.40 a . at.6.55 8.00

10.00 1.00 p . at.3.00 4 10 5.25

EXTRA TRIP SATURDAY NIGHT.Leaving San Antonio a t 6 30, Oakland a t 6.40, and San F ran

cisco a t I I 30A line of F re ig h t B oats for Oakland and San Antonio will

leave F e rry W harf, near foot of M arket s tre e t, daily (S un­days excepted), as follows :

SAN ANTONIO. OAKLAND. SAN FRANCISCO.7 50 a . at. 8.00 a . m . 9.00 a . at.9 00 a . at 9 10 a . at. 10.15 a at.

11.30 A. M. 10.25 A. at. 11.30 A. M.2.00 p . m . 2 10 p . at. 2 00 p . m .

JOS'* An EXTRA BOAT to le t for E xcursions.A. A . COHEN,

4 " G eneral S uperin tenden t.

SAN PABLO AND SAN QUENTIN FERRY.Through. to San Rafael via San Quentin.

FROM VALLEJO AN D D AVIS STREETS.f p i I E F A V O R I T E S T E A M E R

CONTRA COSTA,CAPTAIN................. JOHN T. McKENZiA1

Will leavo as rollows :SAN QUENTIN. SAN FRANCISCO.

8 00 A. M. ■ 9 30 A. M.11.30 1.00 P . M.

2 30 P. M. 5.00Connecting w ith S tages for San R afael, Olima, Tomales, and Bolinas, in Marin co u n ty ; and also w ith San Pablo. §For fu r th e r p a r tic u la rs , app ly to the Captain on board , or to

4 CHARLES MINTCRN, Agent.

S a n F rancisco , C a l—F riends of P ro g re ss . P res id en t, D r. H. J . P ayne ; S ecretary , D r. John Aliyn.

S acram ento , C al.—C hildren’s P rog ressive Lyceum , every Sunday afternoon, a t Turn V erein Hall, K s tre e t . Conductor, H. Bowman ; G uard ian , M rs. B rew ste r.

P o r tla n d , O regon .—F irs t Society of P rog ressive S p iritu a l­is ts , ev e ry Sunday. Benjam in Todd, L ec tu rer.

S alem , O reg o n —F riends of P ro g re ss . B enjam in Todd, Lec­tu re r .

A T L A N T I C S T A T E S .

B a ltim o re , M d .—The F ir s t S p iritu a lis t C ongregation of B al­tim ore on Sundays, a t S aratoga H all, so u th east co rner of C alvert and Saratoga s tre e ts , a t th e u sua l h ours. M rs. F . O. H yzer w ill speak till fu r th e r notice.

B a n g o r , M e.—In Pioneer Cfeipel, ev e ry Sunday.B oston, M ass.—M iss Lizzie Doten will lec tu re each Sunday

afternoon in M ercantile Hall, 16 Sum m er s tre e t, com m encinga t 2 K o’clock. A dm ittance 15 cen ts .

The P rogressive Bible Society, ev e ry S u n d ay , in No. 3 Tre- m ont Row, H all 58. F ree discussion on th e C h ris tian A tone­m en t a t 10K a - m - L ec tu re followed b y conference a t 3 and 7 p . m . M iss P h e lp s ,reg u la r le c tu re r .

S p iritua l m eetings every Sunday a t 544 W ashington s tree t. Conference a t 2K P- Circle a t 7K P- m .

B rooklyn . N . Y .—In th e C um berland s tre e t L ec tu re Room , Sunday a t 3 and 7K p. m .

Charlestown M ass.—F irs t S p iritua l Society, a t W ashington H all, ev e ry Sunday.

The Independen t Society of S p iritu a lis ts , C harlestow n, ev e ry Sunday afternoon and even ing , a t M echanics’ Hall, co rner of Chelsea s tre e t and City square . Seats free .

C ity H all, m eetings every Sunday afternoon and evening.Chelsea.__The A ssociated S p iritu a lis ts of Chelsea, a t L ib ra ­

ry Hall ev e ry Sunday afternoon and evening, 3 and 7K P* *n.The Bible C hristian S p iritu a lis ts , ev ery Sunday in Winni-

sim m et Division H all, Chelsea, a t 3 and 7 p. m . M rs. M . A. R icker reg u la r sp eak er. D. J . R icker, S uperin tenden t.

Chicago, III.—F irs t Society of S p iritu a lis ts in Chicago, ev e ry Sunday , a t C rosby 's Opera House Hall, S ta te s tre e t. H ours of meetiDg 10K a m . and 7K P - m- . „ . ,Sp iritual m eetings, for in tellectual, scientific and sp iritual im provem ent, ev e ry Sunday a t 10K a. m ., and Tuesnay a t 7K P. m. , a t th e h a ll of th e M echanics’ In s titu te , 155 South C lark s tre e t, room 9 , th ird floor, till fu r th e r notice. Seatsfree. _ „ . _ . ..

C in c in n a ti, Ohio.—Religious society of P rogressive S p iritu ­a lis ts , Greenwood H all, co rn er of S ixth and Vine s tre e ts , on Sunday m ornings and evenings, a t 10>£ an<i U £ o’clock.

Cleveland, O .—Sunday a t 10K a. m . and 7>4 p perance Hall. „ . . .

Dover a n d Foxcroft, M e.—Sunday forenoon and evening, in th e U n ivcrsalis t church . . , .

E a st Boston. M ass.—In Tem perance Hall, 18 M averick s tree t.lo x b o ro ’, M ass.—In the Town Hall.L o w e ll_Lee s tre e t Church, afternoon and evening.L yn n M ass.—S u n d a y ,-a f te rn o o n a n d e v e n in g , a t Essex H al’..H am m onton. N . J .—Sunday a t 10K a - ni. an cl 7 P- n i,, a t

Ellis Hall, Belleview A venue. xH a v e rh ill , JIass.—S piritua lis ts hold m eetings a t M usic Hall

every S u n d a y , a t 2K a n d 7 p. m.Jersey C ity , JST. J .—Suuday a t 10 K a - rn. and 7)4 r . m .. a t

th e Church of th e Holy Spirit. 244 Y ork s tree t.L o u isv ille , K y . —Sundays, a t 11 a . m . and 7K P- “ , m

Tem perance Hall. ^Market s tre e t, betw een 4 th and 5 tn .M o rrisa n ia , JST. V — F irs t Society of P rogressive S p iritu a l­

is ts. in the Assem bly Rooms, corner of W ashington avouua

m ., in Tern-

and F ifth s tre e t, Sunday a t 3 K p. m.N ew ton Corner, M ass —S p ir i tu a l is ts and F riends of P rogress,

in M iddlesex Hall, S undays, a t 2 K a!J-i * p. m.N e w Y ork C ity .—The F irs t S.-tief.- of S p iritu a lis ts ev ery

Sunday, in D odw orth’s H all, S0« > =.way. Seats free.A t E b b itt H all. 23d s tree t. ne«*». Broadway, on Sundays, a t

10 K a. m and 7>£ P- H. B. S torer . S e c re ta ry .Oswego, N . Y .—Sunday a t 2)4 and 7K P- iH Lyceum

Hall. West Second, near Bridge s tre e t.P h ila d e lp h ia , P a .—In the new hall in Phoenix s tree t, ev ery

Sunday afternoon, a t 3 o’clock.P ly m o u th , M ass.—The P lym outh S p iritu a lis ts’ F ra te rn ity ,

iD Leyden H all, th ree fou rths th e tim e.P o rtla n d , Oregon.—F irs t Spiritual Society m eet a t Oro Fino

H all ev ery Sunday, m orning and evening.A t W ashington H all, corner of Sth and Spring Garden s ts .,

every Sunday.S p iritua lis ts in th e southern p a r t of Philadelphia, a t No.

337 South Second s tre e t, at. 10K a - ha. an d 7>£ P- m -> atul W ednesday evening a t 8 o’clock

P roviden ce , R . I .—In P r a t t ’s Hall, W eybosset street., Sun­day afternoons, a t 3 , and evenings, a t 7K o’clock.

P u tn a m , Conn.—At Central H all, Sunday a t IV , p. in.Q uincy, M ass.—Sunday at 2X and 7 p. m.R ich m o n d , I n d .—The Friends of P rogress, every Sunday

m orning, in H enrv Hall, a t 10)4 a. m.Rochester, N . Y .—Society of P rogressive S p ir it” P is ts , a t

B lack’s Musical In s titu te (P a lm er’s H all), Main s tro e t, Sun­day evening. Public circle on T hursday evening.

Salem , M ass.—Sunday, afternoon and evening, in Lyceum Hall.

A R R A N G E D A L P H A B E T I C A L L Y .

PACIFIC STATES AND TERRITORIES.John A llyn, San F rancisco , California.M rs. Ada H oyt Foye, rapp ing and w ritin g te s t m edium . 124

S u tte r s tre e t , San F ranc isco , Cal.M rs. C. M. Stow e, le c tu re r and c la irv o y an t physician , San

Jo se , Cal.Mrs. Anna B arker, San Francisco.Benjam in Todd, San F rancisco , Cal.Mr. & M rs. W m . J . Y oung, Boise C ity, Idaho T errito ry .

A T L A N T I C S T A T E S .J . Madison A llyn, tran ce and in sp ira tional speaker, Boston. C. F ann ie Allyn, L ondonderry , V t., during Ju ly .M rs. S arah A. B yrnes, Loweli, du rin g June. A ddress, 87

S pring s tre e t , E ast C am bridge, Mass.Mrs. A. P . B row n, Eden Mills, V t . , June 30 and Ju ly 7; Wood-

stock, Ju n e 16 and 23 ; B ridgew ater, June 2 ; South Reading, June 9. A ddress, St. Jo h n sb u ry C en tre , V t.

Mrs. H. F- M. Brow n, P . O. d raw er 6325, Chicago, 111.M rs. Em m a F. J a y B ullene, 151 W est 12th s t . , New Y ork. M rs. A bby N. B urnham insp ira tional speaker, A ubnrndale,

Mass.W arren Chase, 544 B roadw ay, N ew Y ork .Dean C lark , insp ira tional sp eak er, B randon, V t.Dr- L. K . Coonley, Vineland* N . J .M rs. M arie tta F. Cross, tran ce sp eak er. A ddress, H am p ­

stead , N. H , ca re of N. P . Cross.Mrs. H e ttie C lark, tran c e sp eak er, E ast H arw ich , Mass.Mrs. Sophia L. Chappell, 11 South s t . , Boston.Mrs. A ugusta A. C urrier, Box 815, Lowell, Mass.D r. J. H .C u rrie r, 199 C am bridge s tre e t, Boston, Mass. A lbert E. C arp en te r, P u tn am , Conn.M rs. Je n n e tt J Clark, tra n c e speaker, F a ir H aven, Conn. Miss Lizzie Doten, Pavilion, 57 T rem ont s tre e t , B oston . George D utton , M. D., Room 25, Postoffice bu ild in g , N ew ­

b u rg h , N . Y.Andrew Jackson D avis, Orange, N. J .A. T. F oss, M anchester, N. H.M rs. M ary L. F rench , in sp ira tio n a l and tran ce m edium ,

E lle ry s tre e t , W ashington Village, South Boston.Dr. H. P . Fairfield, G reenw ich Village, M ass.S: J . F inney, Ann A rbor, Mich.J. G. F ish , Red Bank, M onmouth Co., N . J.Mrs. F annie B. F elton , South M alden, M ass.C. A ugusta F itc h , tran c e speaker, box 1835, Chicago, 111. Isaac P . G reenleaf, K enduskeag, Me.M rs. L aura De Force Gordou, D enver C ity, Col. Ter.Mrs. C. L. Gade (form erly Mrs. M orris,) tran ce speaker, 77

Cedar s tre e t , Room 8, New Y ork .N. S. Greenleaf, Low ell, Mass.Dr. L . P . Griggs, E vansville, Wis.D r. M. H en ry H oughton, W est P a ris , Me., u n til fu r th e r

notice.W. A. D. H um e, Lowell, Mass.L ym an C. Howe, in sp ira tional sp eak er, New A lbion, New

Y ork.Mrs. Susie A. H utchinson, Som ers, Conn., during A ugust ;

Cleveland, Ohio, during S eptem ber, O ctober, and N ovem ber. S. C. H ayford , C oopersville, New Y ork .C harles A. H ayden , 82 Monroe s t r e e t , Chicago, 111.Miss Nellie H ayden, No. 20 W ilmot s tre e t , W orcester, Mass. Mrs. S. A. H orton , B randon, V t.Miss Ju lia J . H u b b ard , box 2, Greenwood, M ass.Mrs. F. O. H yzer. 60 South Green s tre e t, B altim ore, Md.Dr. E. B. Holden, C iarenden, V t.Moses Hull, M ilwaukee, W is.Miss Susie M. Johnson, M ilford, Mass.Dr. P . T. Johnson, le c tu re r, Y psilan ti, Mich.W. F. Jam ieson, insp ira tional speaker, Postoffice d raw er

6325, Chicago, 111.S. S. Jones, Esq., 12 M ethod ist Church Block, South Clark

s tre e t, Chicago, 111.H arvey A. Jones, Esq., Sycam ore, 111.Wm. H. Johnston , C orry, P a .O. P. Kellogg, le c tu re r , E ast T rum bull, A sh tabu la Co., O. George F. K ittrid g e , Buffalo, New Y ork.Cephas B. L ynn, in sp ira tional and sem i-conscious tran ce

speaker, 567 Main s tre e t , C harlestow n, Mass.J . S. Loveland, S tu rg is, Mich.

"Mrs. E K . Ladd", tran ce le c tu re r, 179 Court s t r e e t , Boston. Mrs. F. A . Logan, Salina, Onondaga Co., Now Y ork.B. M. L aw rence, M. D., 54 Hudson s tre e t , B oston, M ass. M ary E. Longdon, in sp ira tio n a l speaker, 60 M ontgom ery

s tre e t, Je rse y City, N. J .Mr. H. T. Leonard, tran ce speaker, New Ipsw ich, N. H . Miss M ary M. Lyons, insp ira tional sp eak er, 98 E ast Jeffer­

son s tre e t, Syracuse, New Y ork.John A. Lowe. Box 17, Su tton , Mass.Dr. G. W. M orrill, J r . , tran ce and in sp ira tional speaker,

Boston, Mass.Loring Moody, Malden, M ass.B. T. Munn, Skaneateles, New Y ork.Dr. Leo Miller. Postoffice box 2326, Chicago, 111.M rs. A nna M. M iddlebrook, Box 778, B ridgeport, Conn.M rs. Sarah Helen M athew s, E ast W estm oreland, N. H.Dr. John M ayhew s, 50 M ontgom ery s tre e t , Je rse y C ity,

New Je rsey .Dr. Jam es M orrison, lec tu rer, M cH enry , 111.Mr. & Mrs. H M , M iller, E lm ira, ca re W. B. H atch , N. Y. Prof. R M. M’C ord ,C en tralia , 111.Em m a M. M artin, insp irational speaker, B irm ingham , Mich. C harles S. M arsh, sem i-trance sp eak er, W onewoc, Juneau

C ounty, Wis.M rs. M ary A. M itchell, in sp ira tional sp eak er, ca re of box

221. Chicago, 111.M iss Sarah A. N u tt, L aw rence, K ansas.C. Norwood, O ttaw a, 111., im pressional and in sp ira tional

speaker.A. L. E. N ash, lec tu re r, R ochester, N. Y.J . Wm. Vau Nam ee, Monroe, M ich.A . A. Pond, insp ira tional speaker, N orth W est, Ohio.J . L. P o tte r, tra n c e speaker, Cedar Falls, Iowa, box 170.D r. D. A. Peaze, J r . , D e tro it, Mich.M rs. Anna M L. P o tts , M- D., le c tu re r , A drian , M ich. George A. P ierce, A uburn , Me.Mrs. J . Puffer, trance, speaker, South H anover, Mass.L . Ju d d Pardee, Philadelphia, Pa.L ydia Ann Pearsall, in sp ira tio n a l, sp eak er. Disco, M ich. M rs. N e ttie M. P ease , tran ce sp eak er and te s t m edium , De­

t ro i t , Mich.A. C. R o-9 inson, 15 H aw thorne s tre e t, Salem, Mass.Dr. W. R ipley, B ox95, Foxboro’, Mass.D r. P . B. R andolph, lec tu re r, ca re box 3352, Boston, Mass.G. W. Rice, traD ce speaking m edium , Brodhead, W is.J . H . R andall, insp ira tional sp eak er, U pper Lisle, New

Y ork .M rs. F ran k R eid, insp ira tional speaker, Kalam azoo, Mich. A usten E. Sim m ons, W oodstock, V t.M rs. Fannie Davis S m ith , Milford. M ass.A bram S m ith . Esq., in sp ira tio n a l speaker and m usical m e­

dium , S tu rg is, M>cb.Mrs. Nellie Sm ith, im pressional sp eak er, S tu rg is, M ich.Dr. W m. H. S a lisb u ry , Box 1313, P ortsm outh , N. H .E. Sprague, M , D., in sp ira tional speaker, S chenectady,

New Y ork.Selah. Van Sickle, G reenbusli. Mich.Pr< f. S. M. S trick , insp ira tional speaker, P eoria , 111.J . W. Seaver, insp irational speaker, B yron, N. Y.Miss L ottie Small, tran ce sp eak er, M echanic F a ils , Me.Mrs. >f. E. B. Saw yer, Baldw insville, Mass.Miss M arth a s . S tu r te v a n t, trance sp eak er, Boston, Mass. Mrs. M ary Louisa Sm ith, trance speaker, Toledo, Ohio.H. B. S to rer, in sp ira tio n a l lec tu re r, 75 F u lton s t r e e t , New

York.M rs. H . T. S tearns, D etroit, Mich., care of H. N. F . Lewis. Mrs. M. S. Townsend, B ridgew ater, Vt.Mrs. C harlo tte F. T ab er, tran ce sp eak er, New Bedford,

M ass., Postoffice box 394.J H. W. Toohey. 42 Cam bridge s tre e t, Boston.M rs. Sarah M. Thompson, insp ira tional sp eak er, 36 Bank

s tre e t, Cleveland, Ohio.Hudson T uttle . Berlin H eights, Ohio.Jam es T rask. Kenduskeag, Me.F ranc is P. Thomas, M. D., l tc iu re r . H arm onia , K ansas.N. F ran k W hite, Oswego, N. Y., during Ju n e ; during Ju ly ,

Seym our, Conn.Mrs. M. M acom ber Wood, 11 Dewey s tre e t, W orcester,

Mass.F. L. H . W illis, M. D., Postoffice box 29, S ta tion D, New

Y ork.A. B. W hiting, Albion, M ich.M rs. S. E. W arner, Box 14, Berlin, Wis.E. V. Wilson. Rock Island during June ; G alesburg during

Ju lv A ddress, Babcock’s Grove, Du Page Co., 111.Alcinda Wilhelm, M. D., in sp ira tio n a l speaker, c a re of H .

N. F. Lewis, D etro it, M ich.P ro f. E . W hipple, lec tu re r upon Geology and th e S p iritua l

Philosophy, S turgis, M ich.Elijah W oodworth, insp ira tional speaker, Leslie. M ich . M rs. E M. W olcott, ev e ry Sabbath in D anby, V t. A ddress,

Dan by, V t.S. H. W ortm an, Buffalo, N. Y ., Box 1454.E. S. W heeler, in sp ira tio n a l speaker, 5 Columbia s tree t,

Boston.M rs. S. A. W illis, L aw rence, M ass., Postofflce box 473.Lois W aisbroker, M ankato , Blue E arth Co., M in n ., care of

th e Clifton Bouse.M rs. N. J. W illis, tran c e speaker, Boston, M ass.F. L. W adsw orth, Postoffice d raw er 6325, Chicago, 111.A. A. Wheelock, tran ce and in sp ira tional speaker, S t.

Johns, M 'cb.M iss Elvi ra Wheelock, norm al speakor, Janesv ille , Wis. W arren Woolson, trance speaker, H astings, N. Y.H enry C. W right, ca re of Bela M arsh . Boston.M rs. M ary J . W ilcox, care of Dr. L ark in , 244 F u lton s tree t,

B rooklyn, N. Y,M rs. M ary E. W ithee, tran ce sp ea k e r, 71 W illiams s tre e t,

N ew ark , N. J .A. C. Woodruff, Buffalo, N Y .M iss II M aria W orthing ; .nice speaker, Oswego, 111. Jo n a th an W hipple, J r . , in sp ira tio n a l and tran ce speaker,

M ystic . Conn.M rs. Ju lie tte Yeaw, N orthboro , M ass.M rs S J Young, trance lec tu re r, 203 T rem ont s tre e t, co r­

ner LaGrange, Boston.M rs. Fannie T Young, of Boston, tran ce speaker, 285 South

Clark s tre e t, Chicago, 111.

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.’STHROUGH LIKE TO NEW YORK,

C-AJEtRYIITGr UNITED STATES MAIL !T EAVES FOLSOM STREET W HARF ATI J 11 o’clock A. M. of the following dates for PANAMA,

connecting v ia PANAMA RAILROAD w ith one of th e Com­p an y ’s splendid S team ers from ASPINWALL for NEW YORK :

On the 10 th , 18th and 30th or each month th a t has 30 days.On th e 10th, 19th and 30th of each m onth th a t has 31 days.W hen th e 10 th , 19th and 30th fa ll on Sunday, th ey w ill

leave on S atu rd ay preceding ; when the 18th falls on Sunday, th ey will leave on Monday following.

S team er leaving San Francisco on th e 10th touches a t Man­zanillo. All touch a t Acapulco.

D epartures of 18th connect w ith F rench T ransatlan tic Com­p an y ’s S team er for S t. N azaire and English S team er for South Am erica.

D epartu re of th e 10th connects w ith English S team ers for Southam pton and South A m erica, and P . R . K. Go’s S team er for C entral Am rica .

The following S team ships will be d ispatched on d ates as given below :

Oct. 30—Steam ship CONSTITUTION, C apt. P a rk e r.Cabin passengers b e rtb ed tb rougb . Baggage checked

th rough — 100 pounds allowed to each adu lt.An experieuced Surgeon on b o ard . Medicine and a t te n ­

dance free.These Steam ers will positively sail a t 11 o’clock. P assen ­

gers a re requested to have th e ir baggage on b o ard before 10 o’clock.

Through tick e ts for Liverpool b y th e Cunard. Inm an and N ational Steam ship Lines, can he obtained a t office of the P. M. S. S. Co., San Francisco.

For M erchandise F reigh t, apply to M essrs. WELLS, FARGO & CO.

The splendid Steam ship COLORADO will be d ispatched on MONDAY, April 1st, 1867, for HONGKONG, v ia K anagaw a, carry ing passengers, m ails, and freight.

For Passage and ail o ther inform ation, app ly a t th e Pacific Mail Steam ship Co.’s office, corner of Sacram ento and Leides- dorff s tree ts .

3 OLIVER ELDRIDGE, Agent.

FARE AND FREIGHT REDUCED!F O R A L Y 1 S O , S A N T A C L A R A ,

A N D S A N J O S E .rp.IIE NEW A NO ELEGANT STEAMER

CJ O XB.T. C. WALKER.............................................................................M aster

W ill leave Pacific Street W barf,FOR ALVISO,

Every Tuesday,- Thursday and Saturday,A t 3 : 0 0 o’clock, P. M.

CONNECTING WITH A SPLENDID LINE OF COACHES FOR SANTA CLARA AND SAN JOSE.

F are to A lviso...............................................................$ 1 OOF are to Santa Clara and San Jo se .......................... 1 5 0Fre igh t to A lv iso ......................................................... X OOF reigh t to S anta C lara and San Jose ...................

This rou te is unequa’ed for com fort, and th e trav e lin g p u b ­lic have heartily endorsed Us reopening by th e ow ners of th e CORA. This s taunch and exceedingly sw ift-ru n n in g b o a t is elegantly fitted up as a Day Boat expressly for th is ro u te , w ith a large , a iry and luxurious saloon. P assengers w ill be landed in San Jose a t tho door of th e ir hotel or residence, and in San Francisco w ith in hail of s tre e t ca rs runn ing to ev e ry p a r t of th e city . To those who a re tired of th e cram ped sea ts , dust, smoke and stiffing atm osphere of ra il c a rs , and who p refer the health giving breezes and beau tifu l scenery of the B a y R o u t e , we offer all the accom m odations required b y business m en, w ith th e p leasures sought b y excursion ists ; and no expense will be spared b y th e ow ners or exertion om itted b y th e officers and crew of th e CORA to in su re th e com fort and good-will of our patrons.

RETURNING :Stages leave SAN JOSE a t 8:30 o’clock a. sr., e v e ry MON­

DAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, connecting w ith b o a t a t Alviso ; by w hich a rran g em en t passengers will a r r iv e a t San Francisco iti tim e for th e business of th e day .

F or freigh t or passage apply on board , or toP. CADUO.

jgeyA rrangem enns w ill b e perfected in a few d ay s for ca rry in g fre ig h t th rough to San Jose. 3

S U M M E R A R R A N G E M E N T .

S. F. AND S. J. R. R.ON AND AFTER "WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st,

1867, (u n til fu r th e r no tice,) T rains w ill ru n as follows : PASSENGER TRAINS* leave SAN FRANCISCO from th e New

Depot, junction of M ark e t and Valencia s tre e ts :For San Jose and W ay S tations a t 8.10 a . m ., 3.40 a n d 5.00 p j i . Leave San Jose a t 6.00 and 8.00 A. M ., 4.00 P. M.

ON SUNDAYS sLeave San Francisco a t 8.20 and 9 40 A . M , 4 20 P. M . , Leave San Jose a t 8.00 A. M ., 4 00 and 7.00 P. M.FREIGHT TRAINS w ith Passenger Cars a ttach ed L eave San Francisco as above daily , (Sundays excepted) a t 1.30 P. M. Leave San Jose a t 3.00 A. M.

T rains leave on sh arp tim e.EXCURSION TICKETS issued on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

and SUNDAYS, good for re tu rn u n til MONDAY MORNING ONLY.

SI. H I. N E W H A L L , President.R. P . HAMMOND, Suw’t. ' 4

CENTRAL FASIflO RAILROAD.ON AND AFTER NOVEMBER 39, 1866.

u n til lu r th e r notice, th e tra in s of th e C en tra l Pacific R ailroad will ru n as follows :

Going E ast.Passenger tra in s will leave Sacram ento a t 6:30 a . m., and

a rr iv e a t Cisco a t 12 ai.; also a t 2 f . at., a rr iv in g a t Cisco a t 7:30 p . at.

Going W est.Passenger t ra in leaves Cisco a t 6:30 a. m., and a r r iv e s a t

Sacram ento a t 12:30 p. a i.; also, a t 1 f . m., a r r iv in g a t S ac­ram ento a t 6:30 p . ar.

The m orning passenger tra in s connect a t A u b u rn . w ith stages for Y ankee J im s , F o rest H ill, Michigan Blufib and Georgetown ; and a t Colfax w ith Stages for G rass Valley, N evada and San Juan ; and a t Cisco w ith Stages for Sum ­m it C ity , A ustin , V irginia C ity, and all points in th e S ta te of N evada.

The 6:30 a . m . tra in connects a t th e Junction w ith th e ca rs of th e California C entral R ailroad for Lincoln and M arysville, and all points no rth .

All tra in s ru n da ily , Sundays excepted.C. CROCKER,

S uperin tendent C. P. R. R.G. F. H artwell, A ssistan t Superin tendent. 3

D A IL Y C O A ST L IN E .San Juan & Los Angfifea U. S. "NL. Stages.

■■ 0—D a ily W inter Arrangem ents for 1866 &1867i

P ASSENGERS FOR SAN JUAN, FASO Ro­ll les H ot Springs, San Luis Obispo, Santa B arbara, San

B uenaven tu ra and Los Angeles, leave San Francisco b y the M orning Train of the San Jose R ailroad, daily, and will tak e th e Coa-. bes of the Company on th e a rriv a l of the tra in a t tbe Depot in San Jose.

.aSp-Passengers c;.n lie over a t any point of tbe ro u te , and resum e th e ir sea ts within six days. Through tick e ts to Los Angeles, or to any place on the rou te, can be procured a t the San Jose Railroad Depot in San Francisco. F u r th e r in form a­tion , and ticke ts , can be obtained a t tb e C om pany’s Office, 333 B ash street, opposite O ccidental Hotel.

W. E. LOVETT & CO., P rop rie to rs .WM. G. ROBERTS, .Agent.

3 WM. BUCKLEY, G eneral Superin tendent.

S T E A M E R P E T A L U M A .FOR PETALTJIVE A. A. 3NTD SONOMA,

(VIA LAKEVILLE.) -

sxji\3.iva[E:F2,THROUGH TO BIG RIVER IN SIXTEEN HOURS I

Shortest and m ost p leasan t rou te to Geyser Springs I F A R E A N D F R E I G H T R E D U C E D !

F rom Vallajo s tre e t w h a rf, a t 9 o’clock a . m.

F o r SONOMA (VIA LAKEVILLE) ANDPETALUMA, connecting w ith stages from Bloomfield,

Bodega, D uncan’s Mills, Tom ales, S an ta Rosa, W indsor, H ealdsburg , G eyserville , Skagg’s S prings, Geyser S p rin g s, A nderson Valley, N ovato, Albion and Big R iv ers , Noyo, F o r t B ragg, U kiah and Long V alley.

The well know n and fav o rite S team erPETALUMA,

C. M. BAXTER......................................................................... CaptainIn o rder to b e t te r accom m odate the trav e lin g p u b lic , w ill

ru n DAILY as above. Sundays excepted.R e tu rn in g , will leave Petalum a a t 3 p. ar.J8E*?~Freight received and receipted for a t a ll h o u rs of th e

day , and tak en a t the lowest ra te .3 . CHARLES MINTURN.

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