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AN ADVOCATE OF* SP IR IT U A LISM .A.3 A SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.

V O L U M E 9 . CINCINNATI, OCTOBER 24, 1891. N u m b e r i t .

T H E B E T T E R W A Y .ISSC E D K V E K Y SA T U R D A Y BY

| > H E w a y P U B L I S H I N G C O ., S o u Unrest Cor. Plum & McFarland Streets.

A. F . M ELCHERS EDITOR

E D I T O R I A L .Rather extol the virtues of men than

expose their vices.

The and it

material for heaven is within ns, lies with ns to build accordingly.

T he World’s Pair at Chicago is to have a tower 1,120 feet high, from which our flag shall wave.

Now that France has become friends 'with the Vatican, German Catholics favor that country, to the displeasure of their fellow-conn trvmen.

kettle calling pot black. Republicans first advocated the Australian ballot sya- tem and censored the Southern states for not adopting it to secure an honest count. A democratic legislature of Ohio passed the so-called Kangaroo law. Now, the Commercial Gazette, o f Cincinnati, a republican paper, says, “the Australian ballot is an abomination” and "should never have been passed.” Politics are an anomoly—fitted only according to re* qnirementa—a law without consistency. May the third party prove one o f prin- ciples—from the voter up.

A preacher in Waco, Texas, in a ser­mon on Spiritualism, admitted the truth of the phenomena, but asserts that only evil spirits return. The Independent Pulpit wants to know if Moses and Elias are classed among the latter.

Dr. Talmage says that God began the work of creation bright and early Mon­day morning. This implies that he worked on the Christians* Sunday; for which he would have been arrested had ke lived in Tennessee at the time.

T he ownership o f Alsace and Lor­raine is far from being the Franco-Ger­man question, says M. De Blowitz, the Paris correspondent o f the London Times. He thinks if Germany were to give back Alsace to-morrow,France would hate her all the same, and still be deter­mined to revenge the overthrow o f 1870 Bat it is not in that direction that war will break out. Germany will not make war, because she has nothing to gain and everything to lose ; and France will not make war because, victorious or van­quished, the Republic would disappear.— Thus the indications in that quarter be­token peace again—by way of change.

Six men at Hnber's Museum in New York, are at present engaged in en­deavoring to break the world’s record by a fifty-one days’ fast. A rather hungry pastime-for this season of the year, when appetites are tin the increase.

‘What is the object of life?” was oace asked of a platform speaker. “ To fiad out!” was the reply. Aye, it is the duty of everyone to find out for himself, aad then apply the philosophy evoluted therefrom, to himself. Such makes the tree Spiritualist.

While in Congress, June 22, 1874, James A. Garfield said :

T ie divorce between Church and State ought to 1 be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that ■ o Church property anywhere in any State, or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any Church organization, to that extent yon im­pose a tax upon the whole community.

An n ie Besant, once a Materialist, was converted to Theosophy by having Ma­dam Blavatsky’s “Secret Doctrine” to re­view for a London editor.—In like man­ner, many might be converted to Spirit- nalism if the proper reading matter were tlirnst nnder their notice at the proper time, and something not too radical for Christ-believers nor too sentimental for Materialists. Bat facts generally consti­tute the' best- argument^'Specially as Spiritualism is founded on facts—phe­nomena—while the philosophy is but an agglomeration o f opinions, deduced by individuals according to needs at the time in their search for truth or happi­ness.

War with China is the present men­tal spectacular show held np tp view. Whether it will ever materialize is an­other and a doubtful question. Uncle Sam may have cause to call the Chinese government to order; but we shall hard­ly yet realize a celestial delegation visit­ing these shores with warlike designs on our government.

Ik her new book “There is no Death,’’ Florence Marryatt, daughter o f the ■ •relist, Capt. Marryatt, says the en­thusiasts and skeptics of Spiritualism do more harm to the cause than outsiders -the first in believing too much and ex­aggerating it, and the other in believing ewything fraudulent because one Nance happens to be a failure.

Since the Briggs controversy both Biion and Princeton seminaries claim aa increased enrollment o f pupils, and take this as a sign of public sanction of their cause. We, however, believe it to W simply the effect of the free advertis­ing they received, and eventually will bad to still more repudiation of Presby­terianism ; for there is nothing like ex­perience to see the good or evil in any- fcing- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The German Government has begun the prosecution of the editors o f the “Kladderadatsch” for ridiculing the holy cast of Treves by a cartoon headed "The Gull Snaring Pilgrims.” But as the “ re­sponsible” editor of this paper is a sort •f jury-mast especially employed to en- *are imprisonment for such offenses, it

not affect the regular publication **y, nor prevent the appearance o f an- •ther cartoon the following week, if ■ Ntssary. As fast as the “ responsible” •dilors are pnt in durance vile, others are •Ppointed to fill the vacancy. Such is

press” in Germany.

Repu blican papers stigmatize Demo- ***** as liars. Democratic papers ac- **** Republicans of never telling the ****&• Between the two it seems to be

Apropos o f the statement o f Bishop Xinde, in his paper read before the Me­thodist Ecumenical Council in Washing­ton, D. C , on the 15th inst., that “ the Ro­man Catholic Church is rapidly becom­ing Protestantized in this country,"comes the news o f a marked sensation in Church circles, in Columbus, this State. It appears that Miss Blanche Filler, a very accomplished lady artist, had ten­dered her services to a society connected with the St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church of Columbus, to aid in an enter­tainment at the Opera House, for chari­table purposes, and several rehearsals had taken place.

Bishop Watterson, the Roman Catho­lic, forbade Miss Filler to appear, and ordered her withdrawal. When applied to by a number of prominent Catholic citizens, for a reversal of his order, he replied that “ the Catholic was the only true religion, and that it was against a principle to help build up that which was untrue.” Will the leaders o f the Me­thodist Church, drifting towards Rome in their methods, please take notice that they are not to be met half way.

Henri Rochefort says that be appre­ciates the personal liberty and freedom from official surveillance above all else in England.lt is not like inFrance,and where policemen are constantly prying into others’ affairs* He also says the judges in the courts are so free to act according to the dictates of justice and law regard­less of the wishes of the government. Everything is so secure under the laws of England. Even Sunday belongs to the people—not to the Churches. Labor organizations parade with music and banners at will. He also praises the marked lack o f official supervision in London.—That is more than could be said o f free America ju st now. I f not policemen, we have private detective systems which are becoming a nui­sance. I f not directly by government dictation, there are cases where prisoners have been convicted before tried, through suggestion from government officials. And though Sunday does not belong to the Churches here, they rob the laborer of it to a large extent by prohibiting theatrical amusements, etc., on that day. Shall a monarchy teach a republic of freedom ?

An important and far-reaching move­ment is on foot, having just held its in­itial representative meeting o f commis­

sioners in the old Independence Hall, in the city of Philadelphia. It takes the name o f the Humane Freedom League. There were seventy-five members o f the com­mission present, six o f them being ladies. The president o f the commission is Judge William W. Arnoux, o f New York, and Dr. John C. Redpath, of In­diana, is secretary. The chairman o f the local commission in Philadelphia, in welcoming the delegates, voiced the pur­poses o f the organization, which are “the attainment o f justice, a broader manhood, the abolition o f national theft, called annexation, the abolition of war, and the substitution o f arbitration and fair dealing.”

Several papers were read, addressed to the peoples o f the world, inviting them to send delegates to a congress to be held in 1892, to further the object o f the organization. The Rev. E . E. Hale, E . P. Powell, editor of the New England Magazine; Dr. Burgess, o f Col­umbia College; Col. Ethan Allen, of New York; Col. Parsons, o f Virginia, and Dr. Redpath presented papers. A committee o f one from each State was appointed upon organization, and a white flag with the national flag o f each country, in miniature, in the centre, was adopted as the ensign o f the League.

The names o f these gentlemen give the movement character. Its principles are .both broad and just. It promises to be one o f the living, active agencies so characteristic o f these closing years o f the nineteenth century, and to us gives evidence o f the introduction o f wiser and higher influences and forces into mundane affairs. We can be counted in this 'movement. _ *, -r__ __ _ v

pie, there would probably be no difficulty to, its attainment. But as it is, we must either wait, or build on something that is | not (subject to alterations or amend­ments—and that is the phenomena, though it be o f a mental order.

Y O U R V O T E . P L E A S E .

It is respectfully suggested to the readers o f T h e Be t t e r Way to send, by postal-card or letter, the name of their choice as representative to the World’s Fair, in order to ascertain the voice o f Spiritualists in this matter, the result o f which will be published from time to time for the benefit o f those in­terested.

P H E N O M E N A A N D O R G A N I Z A ­T I O N .

The phenomena o f Spiritualism will some day constitute the aggregate of our cause. The so-called philosophy o f the present will be relegated to book­shelves as curiosities o f a past decade— as the dogmas o f individual m inds; while instructions and spirit advice, needed for the day and times, will be transmitted in connection with the phenomena. This will be done, either directly by spirits at seances or circles, or through me­diums on the rostrum when giving spirit-descriptions, psychometric read­ings. or other phenomena not yet de­veloped for public purposes. Straws show whence the wind blows. Mediums 1 who have something phenomenal in connection with their ministry—whether in the shape o f “ tests,” inspirational music, or improvisations—have the strongest attraction, and will continue to have, however much many may hope or try to make themselves believe to the contrary. Without phenomena there is no Spiritualism; and instead o f decreas­ing, the phenomena will continue to in­crease. It constitutes Spiritualism p e r sg, and all effects arising from it must accord with the cause—must be based on the phenomena; one of the strongest evidences in this direction being the failure to organize on a philosophic basis. Phenomena then is the watch­word—the principle on which to organ­ize, and those who will listen to the voice o f the spirit—reason intuitively— will see it thus. I f we have any philoso­phy in Spiritualism at all, it is not alto­gether original. What has been presented as such, is based on past ethics, with perhaps a higher comprehension and consequent application. Whether the spirit-world has intentionally held back a new code of ethics, and brought “cop- fusion” instead, must be inferred. Fact is that we have many Christs and god­heads now instead o f one as of old, and “every man for himself” seems to be the modern method of salvation. In this principle only is Spiritualism original as a religious system; and it is probably this universal inspiration to be self-re­liant (a phenomenon in itself) that pre­vents a material or worldly organization. I f a similar universal inspiration to or­ganize were to be poured upon the peo-

M E D I U M S A N D M E D I U M S H I P .

There is no denying the fact that the tricks o f the Charlatan have exerted a strong adverse influence upon scientific mihds, and prevented candid and honest investigation into psychic laws and phe­nomena. This repelling influence is all the more forcible when the fraud, simu­lation, or trick is performed by anyone known to possess strong medial powers. Scientists,in their work of investigation, demand utter truthfulness in statement and act, as the essential basis o f all in­vestigation.

In dealing with nature and its laws scientists start from the bed-rock o f es­sential truth. When, however, they en­ter the realm o f the psychic, incarnate in a human body with its environments, its conditions o f mentality, its moral powers, influence and forces, involving truth and falsehood, they commence their investigations with the adverse presumption that whatever is mysteri­ous, or not in harmony with known laws and processes o f nature, must be a false­hood in intent and outworking. They repeat within themselves David’s hasty speech: “ All men are liars.” One mis­erable trick played upon the scientific or credulous mind relegates the trickster to the region o f infamy, and, whatever the too credulous may say and do, scientists bavo no use for the trickster evermore. .(.wT^c blame these seekers after ulti- . mate truth and law in all fields embraced by the human conscionsness ? Truth is the foundation o f correct character. It is the only true basis upon which the family, the business interests o f the world, and all harmonious society is builded; while the liar, the falsifier, the fraudulent trickster and deceiver is the pariah and curse o f all these relation­ships. Imagine a Church o f liars. It would be an earthly inferno. Even one deceiving, lying, fraudulent character taints and poisons an entire religions organization. It is the fly in the pot o f ointment. Essential truthfnlness is the s in g qu a n o n , not alone o f scientists, but o f society.

Bat wby need any medium, or one possessing an organism and tempermen- tal adjustments adapted to mediumsbip, and through whom excarnate spirits can gratify their own desires by making their presence known in earth, so fat forget their relations to the spirit world and to all honest seekers after the truth, whether scientists or others, as to at­tempt to supplement their gifts by fraud and falsehood ? A medium should never forget that he stands as a representative o f the truth o f spirit life, spirit forces, and o f excarnate intelligences. Any falsehood, simulation, artifice, or sem­blance o f untruth when wilfully perpe­trated, or permitted to be perpetrated, degrades the person and the cause, and when detected, disgraces the person, be­sides throwing a cloud o f suspicion upon all honest mediumship. It does more. It relegates every demonstration o f onr beautiful philosophy to the re­gions o f doubt, in all scientific and hon­est minds. The more glaring the simu­lation and untruth, the deeper the con­tempt for the medium-falsifier, and the more active the opposition created in all candid and scientific minds to any ex­amination o f the subject.

The reasons for thus seeking to sup­plement natural mediumship by Wraudu- lent practices are, a personal vanity which craves notoriety, and a craving for money. The first named in most cases has its backing in greed. All will agree that when an honest medium devotes time and mediumistic powers to confer benefits, or satisfy the curiosity o f the individual or the public, the time thus devoted should have its compensation. Mediums, like ministers o f the gospel, are not lifted above the material plane o f life or the demands o f the physical. It is right that they should be compensated for their time. But an insane lust for making merchandize and of getting wealth out of mediumistic gifts is proba­bly the leading cause of fraudulent man­ifestations, resulting in the present rela­tion o f the Church, the religious ele­ment in society, and the antagonism of

many scientists and scientific societies to the philosophy and phenomena of Spiritualism.

Honest mediumship has been and is daily being vindicated. The psychic phenomena is fact, not fiction'. Intelli­gent personalities whom the world call dead, are living, acting, writing, and speaking their thoughts through mortal media. They prove the undying nature of love and other soul attributes. They confirm the truth that the human family in a unit in both states o f existence, and that our earth sphere of conscious exist­ence is embraced in the spirit realms of eternal being and action. Fraudulent mediumsbip may retard tbe growth, but can not prevent the ultimate triumph of this great truth on earth.

ing some more sharp morns into the sides of the male ecclesiastical exclu­sives, by saying that he “ regretted very much that women were not allowed to sit here as delegates. A woman had been elected to sit here. He referred to Fran­cis Willard, a woman beloved on both sides of the Atlantic.” This was the last feather which broke the back of the camel,Patience,and an American, Rev.Dr. Stephenson, arose to the point o f order, that“ the eastern section was not in order in reflecting upon the action of the west­ern section, which was perfectly compe­tent to manage its own business! ! ” Read that sentence over again, ye mothers, wives, and daughters o f the Methodist Church! Tbe leaders in the Methodist Episcopal Church o f America had for­bidden woman representation in this Ecumenical Council of the Church ! And their representative threw the glove into

thetournament about to open. But the English brother and the American sister —to nse the language of the ring—were knocked out on a point of order.

But Mr. Atkinson, M. P., arose and put a crown upon the head o f woman as man’s eqnal in rights, and struck tbe American bigots o f the Dr. Buckley school a staggering blow, by saying that “his own wife and her sisters had been, for forty years, ‘leaders,’ ”—class-leaders he probably meant—and “he would

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now being held in Washington, D. C .,,has had its “ Woman’s day,” and we have ™ g , the lance was poised, and awaited its proceedings with a lively in­terest A very fall synopsis o f the speeches is before ns.- Bishop Ninde, o f the Methodist Epis

copal Church, opened the debate. He said, that following the example o f Eu­ropean Methodists, a deaconess move­ment had been inaugurated in this conn- try, and there were at present thirty-one “ homes [Methodist nunneries, Ed.], five hospitals, and many yonng women were seeking to join the noble sisterhood. In . some quarters this movement had been ralher * * Ied ^ them than the Presi‘viewed with alarm. It was said to re­semble Papal methods.” Well; Bishop, doesn’t it? He then added: “ The Ro­man Catholic Chnrch is rapidly becom­ing protestantized in this country.”—Is the Bishop blind ? The Methodist, and some other Protestant Churches, are on the other hand,rapidly becoming Roman- Catholicized and are aping its methods to obtain and retain power as organiza­tions.

Bat the good Bishop announced that he “ was ready to borrow from the Ro­man Catholics or anybody any good thing which could be nsed to advantage. The deaconess movement was so free from priestly supervision and other re- pellant features, that it could not be truly said to resemble its Papal proto­type.”

“ Priestly supervision !” Who attached this sisterhood, as an organization, to the working forces o f the Methodist Episcopal Church ? Who gave it form, law, and rules ? Why the general con ference o f the Church. Who compose that general conference ? Will the min­isters—males all—permit an elect lady to sit in their conncil and aid in formu­lating tne laws o f this sisterhood ? No. That battle is on now, and the “ priests” o f the Church have thus far defeated wo­man delegates. In view o f this position why do you say. Bishop Ninde, that this new sisterhood is free from “priestly su- j pervision ?’’ Would it not have been wise to have offered the latest book of discipline o f tbe Church, instead o f the I assertion ? The Bishop has evidently I fallen in love with the new system o f Papacy, modified, but stil1 under the su- | pervision o f the male ministers o f the I Church, it is a step, not o f Romanism towards Protestantism, but o f tbe latter I towards Romanism. Does the Bisbop remember the old metric truism, so j often quoted:

"V ice is a monster o f such frightful mein.As to be bated needs but to be seen ;But seen too o ft : fam iliar with its face.We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

The Bishop was followed by the Rev. Mr. Watters, o f the London Mission Methodist Church, who gave a left-hand­ed rebuke to the male exclusives by say­ing that “ it would be far more fitting if a sister had been here to present her own cause. He hoped that at tbe council a woman would be permitted to take her place upon the platform and address the conference.” This statement elicited applause, but evidently Dr. Buckley, editor of the New York Christian Advo­cate, did not join in it. Mr. Watters fur­ther said that “ for fifteen years the Eng­lish Wesleyans had used tbe sisterhood as lay-workers. There were ten missions under the oversight o f Rev. Peter Thompson.” We cannot refrain from asking, wby these ten missions were not nnder the care and oversight o f M rs. Peter Thompson, or some other “elect lady,” and thus take them ont o f the cat- egory o f “priestly supervision ?”

J . H. Lile, o f London, followed, driv-

dent o f the conncil himself.” The ses­sion ended with the English brethren ahead.

Tbe afternoon session opened in an atmosphere decidedly spicy. The editor o f the Central Christian Advocate, St. Louis, Mo., read a paper upon “Wo­man's Work in the Church.” E e claimed that there was a ministry o f women in the Chnrch, in apostolic times; chat Protestantism had failed to assure the full measure o f help from its women; that it has been afraid of the charge o f following Papal practices, and that the Chnrch could not do the work before it without the aid o f woman.

Rev. Dr. Gorman, a Belfast Methodist Irishman, gave the American male ex­clusives some hard raps. He said : “Woman might bring all her graces to the altar but the power o f her speech. She might sing hymns, and work in the homes. She might teach her son to preach. She might, perhaps, help her

’ | husband to prepare his sermons, but she

motherhood. But motherhood was the divinest accent of peace, too often ab­sent from the masculine voice: That there shonld be need for the organiza­tion of woman for the regeneration o f woman, was a blot upon the Chnrch which should be wiped out Would you stop her ministery because she is a wo­man ? Let tbe pulpit be taken and the woman left.”

Several others pressed the claims o f woman, and then Dr. Buckley, in defense o f his position, took the floor. He brought Paul andhis Judaistic teachings to the front, but they were evidently not palatable to the audience. He was fol­lowed by Rev. Hamilton, o f New York, whose utterances were belligerent. Among other things, he said : “ I f the greatest expounder o f the Methodist Church had held that Panl must not conflict with Jesus, it was not for the men who sit here to force the conflict.” Rev. Dr. Reid, o f the Chnrch South, ask­ed for woman her ultimate privileges, saying that “ when a woman had brought a soul to Christ, she should be permitted to perform the rite o f baptism”—a senti­ment which elicited applause. Rev. W. F. Bourne, o f London, England, sent the liberal shaft home by saying, that “ he bad no patience with the narrow and bigoted version o f SL Paul’s words upon the subject I f literally rendered, they would prevent woman from being mar­ried in Cburcb, inasmuch as they forbid woman to speak in Chuicb.” Be carefnl, Rev. Bourne! yon will be tried for the "higher criticism” heresy, along with Dr. Briggs.

Evidently the liberals, led by the Eng­lish representatives, are in the majority in the council. American Methodism discloses a conservatism o f principles and measures which is so near Roman­ism that there is fear o f a wholesale fra­ternization, unless the progressives force their measures to a decided vic­tory. .

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N E O U S ID E A SDV W IL L A R D J . H U L L .

The greatest antithesis of the nine* teenth century is the Mosaic cosmology and the Copern ican astronomy.

Man has learned to resolve the I'ia JLactia into myriads of suns and world systems, figures the arc .of the tremen­dous circle described by the sun and its retinue . of worlds around its parent center Alcyone, constructs instruments line enough to enable him to view the process of world-building in the great nebular fields of the stellar universe, and with all this he grovels low enough to worship and build shrines to a pitch that served as a God for his savage ancestors. Here is the' relation between progress and stagnation, the juxtaposition of the enlightened few to the ignorant many, the labors of doubt and idleness of faith, and yet there is not a church spire in the land that does not pretend to be a sign of progress, and pretention is all there is o f it. When the Church claims to be in the vanguard of progress, it claims what every faggot and screw that ever drew moans and tears from the tortured, what every creed and every fable of all its past history and present status proves to be a false assumption.

Moses’ central idea was Jehovah, God of the Jew, who declared himself to be a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the parents upon the children even unto the fourth generation. There is in all the instincts of savagery noue more utterly heartless aud atheistical than this, and it has laid at the foundation of all pro-religious ideas from that day to this. It has even entered the field of economics and has found approval among the master minds of the earth for centuries. It is directly incorporated in the Malthusian idea of population and subsistence, which is so completely grounded in every department of juris­prudence, ethics, and economics as to be well nigh impregnable, and its upheaval and eradication remains to-day the great­est battle human rights is called upon to engage in. Every thought of liberty and progress is involved in it

Jehovah commanded Moses in these words: “Thou shalt have no other god.”The same fiend prompted Malthus years later to perpetuate man’s selfishness and pave the way for Darwin’s'doctrine of the survival of the fittest in the idea that “ the tendency of the population is con­stantly to bring people into the world for whom nature refuses to provide.” It requires but little discernment to per- cieve the relation of these ideas to the misery and degradation of humanity. Malthus’ idea has been bolstered up by many of the greatest economists just as Moses’ idea has had the sanction of the ablest theologians, and the perplexity of it is that men like Adam Smith, Will Ricardo, and McCulloch should have 6tumbled over the same bogs that have engulfed the foundation of every theolo­gy. That theologians should maintain that popery, priestcraft, and poverty are God-ordained and perpetual is a natural sequence, but that minds imbued with the intricate problems involved in human progress, and the alleviation of suffering should fall into the same line of thought, although from opposite premises, is a part of the antithesis of modern thought, and can not be accounted for on any hy­pothesis other than the extremes attend­ant upon great transitions like the one the present era is undergoing. It is a rnafter of profound gratification that the relation between the laws of produc­tion and consumption are being agitated, and the hidden rocks upon which so many have been wrecked revealed that their removal may follow. In just the

roportion that man is recognized as a rpir tual being, with an origin above, and a destiny independent of matter, and not as a product of evolution, the Mosaic and the Malthusian doctrines fall to the ground. As death becomes known as an event, which neither exterminates nor changes a single law of life, so the idea that the survival of the fittest de­pends upon those who are able to struggle for the existence fails to answer the queries of thoughtful men.

If the law of the survival of the fittest is applicable to man’s requirements there should be no insane asylums, hos­pitals, or prisons. It is because of man’s inhumanity, subjected as it is to

- debasing laws and customs, rebels at a sacrilege so monstrous, that unfortunates are not offered to the moloch of death, rather than to the mercies to the asy­lums.

Evolution meets its Waterloo upon the field of spirit dynamics. It can and does carry organic life from the primor­dial cell through all the intermediary channels to man’s physical organization. There it stops, and it stops, too, at the threshold of a temple to which every­thing it has done Owes cause and alle­giance.

Soul uncreated, eternal, seeking and finding expression through contact with matter is the premise upon which alone deductive reason can rear a philosophy capable of withstanding the negations of materialism and the affirmations of the­ology. And as this becomes self-cen­tered in the consciousness of the race the need of debasing doctrines, like those of Moses and Malthus will become nil. All things are necessary in time and circumstance, and so the childhood of the race was pleased with and feared by the

promises and penalties of a barbaric sys­tem. In the light of our day, however, they are useless, and their perpetuation serves only.to point to the persistence attending the incorporation of men’s thoughts upon principles and essences w'hicb, in their nature, are eternal and unchangeable.

It must be admitted that human na­ture, in its beliefs and proclivities, is much the same now as in the day when an ignorant oligarchy compelled Galli- leo to renunciate the heliocentric as­tronomy, and to the skepticism of the few is due the achievements which adorn our civilization. Skepticism lies at the base of progress. Show me the man who doubts, aud I will point out the ma­terial for a hero or a philosopher. It does uot appear strange, then, that up­wards of 2,000,000 people should in six weeks journey from all parts of the world •to view and worship a legendary gar­ment at Treves! It should not be a mat­ter of wonder that a je%uit should de­clare, as was the case in Chicago last j June, that the Pope has as good a right to direct the politics of the Catholic peo­ple in this country as he has to safe­guard their religion! It is not at all strange that the press dispatches should bear tidings of the national disgrace at­tending the openiug of the government town site of Chandler in 'the Sac aud Fox-reservation in the Northwest three weeks ago, when 3,000 men and women crazed by excitemeut and burdening the air with volleys of oaths, shouts, and curses, rushed on like maddened mani­acs, trampling over and killing one another to secure a plot of ground which, in the total aggregate, would not provide one-fourth of them with a lot! These are object pictures in the ever-revolving panorama of life entailed upon us from a musty past and teach as nothing else can teach, the cogent need of more bea­con fires upon the mount of progress wherewith to guard with vigilant eye the liberties of the people to the end that these casements of ignorance may be safely weathered. Never in the history of this country was there a time more imperative when breaches and gaps needed men to fill them. Never has there been a time when sacred liberty was more ruthlessly assailed by the minions of an implacable foe than these days that witness the bold and unblushing in­trigues of papal Rome upon the consti­tutional rights of this people.

Plato never could have been a Mal­thusian economist. The idea that all things sprung from spiritual founts of causation never entered the thought of him who reasoned that nature brings human beings into the world for no other purpose than to torture and de­stroy them. And Plato’s idea is to-day gaining the recognition which it de­serves and which 'could only come through and by the achievements of our time; for Plato, like all reformers, ideal­ists, and masters of thought, livedin ad­vance of his time. He is dearer to the nineteenth century than to the one he adorned, but which understood him not.

It is indeed time, for an idea which holds that salvation does not depend upon mummery and gold, and it is re­freshing in the extreme to note as I have recently in The Better Way that men like Andrew D. White, Prof. Francis Wayland, M. Levasseur, Wood, Beemis, Rev. Drs. Wayland, Savage, and many others are discussing the doctrine of Malthus, and urging the ground taken by Bellamy, George, and others, that “meat multiplies faster than mouths.” The extirpation of poverty, which lies at the root of all advancement among the masses, never can be accomplished while autocrats and aristocrats believe they are divinely appointed to live and rule. There is a sentiment in the mo­nopoly of nature which is yet to become recognized, and where it is recognized men will band together with the single and common purpose of utilizing her inexhaustible resources for the benefit of each and everyone.

Nature, then, is the true monopolist, and every banded body of men who usurps her stores for self-gain, or the upbuilding and perpetuation of individ­ual enterprise to the detriment of the whole body politic, is a band of traitors to the highest obligations to which man owes and gives allegiance.

We live amidst contrasts. The burden of thought is weighted down by them. Transitional epochs are always marked by them, and progress has its flow in the great tide of eternity at the periods of active existence. Therefore the ideas which all lovers of liberty hold dear; the principles of constitutional government, the maintenance of absolute separation of Church and State, the perpetuation of secular institutions, the protection of religious liberty, the maintenance of American unsectarian schools, all derive their importance from the fact that the encroachments of the arch enemy of progress (the Church) are steadily grow­ing in power and domination. Thus we perceive the field where duty lies, and the work laid out for all those who desire to see the fabric of liberty tran­scendent and immortalized in the pan­theon of progress. This work embodies the highest service which freeman owe to themselves. To be of use in combat­ing error and casting off the barnacles from the ship of progress constitutes the true navigator; not to stalk in gilt buttons and immaculate blue upon the

quarter-deck for the admiration of the thoughtless throng.

This era is one of work, and if the principles of freethought are to bo per­petuated, the vigilance, which is their price, must be exercised.

L E T T E R F R O M M O S E S H U L L .To the Editor of The Better Wav.

I know I deserve a scolding for not re­porting myself more frequently than I do. My excuse is overwork. I have spoken nearly every day and sometitqes twice, aud a few times three times a day since the first of July, and, even at that rate, have not been able to satisfy near all the demands which have been made on my time.

The Suudays of September were spoilt in the conservative old city of Detroit, and though one or two so-called Spirit­ualists manifested their interest in Spiritualism by exerting their influence against the meetings, the meetings were a success iu every way.

I was astonished during the month to receive papers from Cleveland, Cincin­nati, Iudiauapolis, St. Louis, and Chi­cago, stating that after all the prelimin­aries had been settled and questions agreed upon for a two weeks’ debate be­tween Moses Hull and Rev. Clark Bra­den, D. D., Moses Hull had backed squarely out. Of course no one who ever knew me would believe anything bf the kind, yet my friends kept me answer­ing their letters to find out the cause|of such reports. One dispatch went so mr as to say people were coming to the qe- bate from every part of the world.

Of course the only answer I could make to all of this was that it was a Clark Braden falsehood. No proposi­tions had been agreed upon; no time set for a debate; nothing had been done toward getting up a discussion beyond a friend writing to me and asking me if I would debate with a man whom the Christian Church would bring to debate with me. I answered that I would at any time when I could arrange my appoint­ments to do so. I would meet any man except Clark Braden, but as he had pub­lished criminal libels about me—false­hoods which he knew to be falsehoods when he wrote them—my self-respect would compell me not to meet him in discussion until he publicly retracted his falsehoods, or until I met him in a court of justice, where he, as the criminal, should be arraigned to answer for his crimes.

Mr. Braden’s friends, when I went to Muncie and presented my reasons, ac­knowledged that I was right, and I think decided that they had gentlemen in their ranks and would try to find one to con­duct their part of the debate.

On our way to Duluth Mrs. Hull and I stopped in St. Paul and held two glor­ious meetings. St. Paul and Minneap­olis are trying to induce me to speak ror them, devoting my whole time to the work in the two cities, but at present it is out of the question.

We are at present having a genuine revival in this city. The Unitarian Church is crowded every night. Mrs. George Sherwood, a wealthy and influential woman, got us to spend the month in this beautiful aud rapidly growing city.I send you a clipping from this morn­ing’s News, which will give your readers to understand something of the work being done here.

Dr. Schlessinger, of San Francisco, Cal., dropped down amongst us very suddenly and is doing an immense bus­iness. He is the best test medium I know. In fact I never knew him to fail.

My appointments are for November in St. Louis, Mo., and for December in New Orleans. Though I have dozens of calls, I have made no appointments for next year as yet, except for campmeet- ings. I have partially promised to go to Fort Worth, Galveston, and Anderson, Texas, to Chicago, 111., and Detroit, Mich., and to Duluth, St. Paul, and Min­neapolis, Minn. In Duluth they want Mrs. Hull and me fifty-two Sundays in the year, but at present we can not en­gage so much time in oue place.

Yours, • Moses Hull.Moses Hull, the well-known lecturer on

Spiritualism, spoke for two hours and a half to a large audience in the Unitarian church last evening. The best praise that could be paid Mr. Hull would be to say that he kept his audience interested from beginning to end. He is a remarkably fine speaker. As an inter­preter o f the Bible he is excellent and his argu­ment to show that Jesus was a medium was masterly. He started in by saying that dis­tance always lends enchantment to the view, aud the blind faith of latter-day Christians iu the miracles of Christ and their disbelief In the manifestations of modern mediums, he likened to the disbelief of Christ’s contem­poraries in His works. They in turn said: "We are the disciples of Moses; ” going back several thousand years; seeing not with their own eyes, but with the eyes of other people. "The followers of Moses preferred onions to manna, while the Christian of to-day believes it was a choice morsel of food. A man who be­lieved in Jesus and his miracles was in danger of being turned out of church, which, in those days, was a disgrace—not a compliment, as it is to-day. They called Jesus a fellow, while they worshipped Moses." Mr. Hull then pro­ceeded to show that the Greek word, which is commonly construed "mediator,” is, when lit­erally translated, '‘medium of communication,” and "Holy Ghost" is "spirit power." His ar­guments were ingenious and his audience ap­peared to be in sympathy with him. The word "Christ," lie maintained, meant "medium," and when Jesus was baptised by John he was formally made a medium. Here the speaker quoted the well-known passage from the third chapter of Matthew: "And Jesus, wheu he was baptised, went up straightway out of the water, and lol the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the spirit o! God descending like a dove and lighting upon Him." Mr, Hull said all that was seen by the multitude was a man

being baptized. Jesus saw all those manifesta­tions of God iu his mind's eye and felt the spirit of divine power or mediumship enter into him. He then went on to show how Jesus sometimes failed and had to try again and again. There were three simple remedies what he used, namely saliva, clay, aud magne­tism. He did not rnise the dead, but like all mediums, he knew the child was not dead, but sleeping. He went about to restore her to con­sciousness, as any modern Spiritualist would, that is, by clearing the house of all doubters, so that the conditions should not be spoiled, lie maintained that Jesus always took his pa­tients whom he wished to cure away from the crowd and worked over them in secret. He did not do those things to show that he was God, for he was not, but as auy honest medium of to day would do in order to save life and do good. He was not able to come down from the cross, though the scoffers cried out: " I f you are the 'son of God, come down.” He was beaten. The conditions were spoiled. There were too many doubters about. The Spiritual­ists do not care to win bets, but aie seeking for the truth in a quiet, uuobstrusive way. Mr Hull took occasion, before closing, tc give the sensational Spiritualists, like Baldwin and the man who goes about the country impersona­ting Slade, a most bitter denunciation, saying that they were playing upon the credulity of the public, posing in one town as Spiritualists and in auother as exposers of Spiritualism.

After the speaker had dosed, Mr. Ensign, father o f Judge Ensign, made a few remarks, explaining why he was a Spiritualist. During the lecture Dr. Schlessinger, the well-known medium, was giving manifestations of his power to a select few, who had tickets, and visited him two at a time. Just before the close each one o f them was asked to relate his experience with the doctor. They all agreed that his manifestations were beyond their com­prehension, though Captain Smallwood ex­pressed himself as not entirely satisfied. He thought he saw a loop-hole for fraud, though he wished to be understood as not claiming that there was fraud, but simply giving the doctor to understand that he was not convinced.

Mr. Hull will speak in Odd Fellows' Hall to­morrow morning and in the Unitarian church in the evening. Whatever opinion one may hold of his philosophy, it must be admitted that the gentleman is a clear reasoner and an eloquent talker._____________

T H E C A S S A D A G A F R E E A S S O C I A - T I O N .

H U D SO N T U T T L E .

Recently I received from Mr. G. F. Lewis some printed slips containing criticisms on the Cassadaga Free Asso­ciation, its methods of business, and character of its leaders, most defamatory and misleading.

I will not endeavor to analyze the mo­tives which actuated the writer in mak­ing his charges and accusations. He has taken pains to give the printed mat­ter wide circulation, for which reason and the injustice which he has done the asso­ciation, and is doing himself, I feel called to give a few facts well known, which of themselves refute the charges made by Mr. Lewis. I say he is doing himself injustice because no one can knowingly or unknowingly injure another without injury to himself.

In the organization of the association an able lawyer of known ability and in­tegrity was employed to supervise the by-laws, leases, etc., that the necessary forms might be complied with and the organization be in every respect legal.

So far as there having been a great number of empty cottages this j'ear, I was informed that only two remained unoccupied, and that because they were inferior and unfurnished. In rambling over the grounds I saw no other unused cottages. A large number more could have been rented had they been at the disposal of the association.

The postoffice was moved during the latter part of the meeting from the hotel to the ticket office at the gate, because so many people took advantage to come on the grounds and remain, under the pretense of wishing to go to the post- office. When the postoffice was at the gate the mail could be handed to those outside the gate as well as within.

If there were cottages for sale below cost I was not fortunate enough to find the owner. The cottages are, as a rule, built by builders and held for sale; the two empty cottages were held by them.

Any reflection against the character of the officials is uncalled for and un­generous. The checks are such that misappropriation of the funds is impos sible, aud the books are open for all members to inspect.

The shares are ten dollars each, and although the number purchased is not limited, only fifty shares are allowed to vote. This is a grievance loudly com­plained of, it being claimed that the cot­tagers ought to be allowed to vote and not money. By owning a share they can do so, and it is presumable that those who reside on the grounds have sufficient interest in the movement to contribute that much to its success. This is a wise provision, the necessity of which will be readily apparent

From the time that seven noble women went into the forest of giant hemlocks and cleared away the underbrush for the camp, until the present, the Cassadaga movement has been carried on by the self sacrifice and devotion of its officers aud members. In fact, those most inti­mately connected with it are above re­proach, and accusation against them is most damaging to the accusers.

The insinuation Mr. Lewis makes against the moral character of the gen­tlemen and ladies assembled at Cassa­daga is most unworthy of him, and one I think he himself will regret. A sweep­ing charge made without specifications is difficult to meet and goes unrefuted on its damaging course. It is an insult thrown in the faces of the thousands who assembled. The perfect order and correct deportment was most admirable and subject of constant remark.

Let Mr. Lewis and others who stand back, doing not the least to assist, yet

detracting and fault-finding, take at least oue share of stock, and by identi­fying themselves with the movement become able to rectify auy wrongs they may find.

The property of the association has become valuable; its debts are growing less; iu fact, are nothing compared with the value of the property in hand. It has made a deep mark on the age, and its influence is destined to become vastly greater. It has past the years of experi­ment and become the rival of Chautau­qua. ________________L E T T E R F R O M M R S . R. S . L I L L I E . To the Editor of The Better Way.

I wish to say a few words through your excellent paper in regard to a few new workers who are impelled to take up the work of advocating the truths of Spiritualism from our public platform. It was my intention several months since, when in Haverhill, to mention the fact that there resided in that city a gentleman well qualified in every way, and one who also feels the prompting from the spirit side, impelling him to devote himself to the promulgation of these doctrines. I refer to Richard A. Grieves, of No. 6 Water Street, Haverhill, Mass., and I hope that managers of spirit­ual meetings, who have not yet completed their list, will give him a call. Many of your readers have heard the voice of Willard J. Hull from the Cassadaga plat­form and North Collins and other places, while some of his most excellent lectures have appeared in the columns of The Better Way and other spir­itual papers. Mr. Hull has for some­time occupied the spiritual platform and at the same time held a responsible bus­iness position, until bigotry, in one way and another, brought to bear an influ­ence, causing him to decide to lake up the spiritual work entirely, and starts out this fall to fill the entire season. Engagements have been made by him until, I think, the first of May. Societies needing his services for Sunday work can address him, Buffalo, N. Y.

Another I wish to speak of is Miss A.E. Sheets, of Grand Ledge, Mich. I have had the pleasure of meeting Miss Sheets several summers at Haslett Park campmeeting. She is a medium, her brain being used for inspirational dis­courses, which I discovered were of a most excellent quality, combined with the rare graces and excellent qualities of womanhood, makes one feel glad that such are being called out by the spirit. Miss Sheets was at work last season through Michigan and some parts of the West, associated with a test-medium, Mis. Jackson. Both, I was informed, did excellent work in their respective spheres, and both are leaders of rare merit and whom I do not hesitate to recommend, and I mention them at no solicitation from either, and in fact with­out their knowledge; but because I feel the cause needs such, and thus heartily welcome them and bespeak for them success. There are others coming un­doubtedly, but these here came under my close observation in niv wanderings the past few months.T H E S C H O O L A T C A S S A D A G A . To the Editor o f The Better Way.

Our school at Cassadaga opened last week with a much larger attendance than its warmest friends had dared to expect. Various sections of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York are represented by an earnest intelligent body of young peo­ple, all of whom are bent upon securing a liberal education. The enthusiasm manifested by them, in the face of the many discouragements and opposition our school has had to meet up to this time, is ample proof that there is a de­mand for a progressive school at Cassa­daga.

Classes in telegraphy, stenography, and book-keeping have been organized and will be under the tuition of a practi­cal teacher. Besides these classes we shall take up the regular academic course of instruction, aud give students the privilege of studying the languages, an­cient and modern, if they so elect Prof. W. A. Mansfield, already eminent as a psycographer, will give instruction in physical culture and * elocution to such students as wish to take up those very desirable branches. Altogether the Cas­sadaga school offers more inducements to Liberalists to send their children to it than any other institution of the kind in the whole lake region. The health of the students will not be endangered, and the uplifting influences of the camp will redound most beneficially to all.

The efforts put forth by the origina­tors of the school should appeal to’all liberal minded people. Money is needed to erect buildings, purchase parapherna­lia, and to pay the instructors. The sac­rifices made by a few devoted workers should be recognized, and rewarded in spirit. Spiritualism can not afford to let this movement perish for the want of sympathy aud substantial aid. The school is bouud to succeed, and success will come through the hearty co-opera­tion of all friends of Cassadaga aud of education. Send in your contribution, frieuds, be they great or small, aud help a good cause. Spiritualists of America, this is your great opportunity! Arise and make it your own, by giviug liberal­ly to this cause. Your money will be placed in good hands and will be ac­counted for, dollar by dollar. Send your contributions to either H. D. Barrett or Mrs. M. H. Skidmore, Lily Dale N. Y. who will receive them for the school.

H O W B I O P L A S M P R O D U C E S O R ­G A N I S M S .

D R . J . R . IH 'CIIA NA N .

How active bioplasm produces the structures of the body is explained by Dr. Beale as follows: “Men and animals, all their tissues and organs, their forms and structures, result from series of changes, which commence in a portioa of matter too minute to be weighed, which is perfectly colorless, and which appears perfectly structureless, even If the particle of bioplasm be magnified five thousand diameters, not the faintest indication of fibres or particles exhibit­ing any special arrangement—in fact, not a trace of anything having structure —can be discerned.

“The speck of living matter, however, absorbs certain substances and increases by assimilating matter it selects, and changing it into matter like itself. Thus it gradually grows, and when it has at­tained a certain size, perhaps one two- thousandth of an inch in diameter, it divides, or small portions are detached from it, each of which grows like the primary particle, and in the same way gives origin to successors, from which tissues are at length produced. Form and structure result from the death of the bioplasm, and no matter that is alive possesses either."

Thus the solid tissues of the body are, as it were, the apparatus vitalized by the unseen bioplasm, which is itself fluid matter inhabited by life, itself a power, intangible and mysterious as gravity. The structures which it forms, by devel­oping cells, and the globules and fibrillx of the nervous system, through which it controls our voluntary movements, are truly wonderful.

The ultimate relation of nerve to mus­cle is simply that of contact, and conse­quently that the transmission of the vital force or influence from one fibril to another, is substantially the same as the passage of human nervauric influence from the hand of operator to the subject by which so many vital influences are produced and muscles are contracted. The same thing is seen injthe brain, the spinal cord, and the ganglia. A great number of the ganglion globules, or cells of various degrees of maturity, which abound where large nervous masses are found, have no fibrous or tubular con­nections, and consequently exert their influence only in contact with the deli­cate fibrillae and nerve tubes among them. * * •

I think it quite certain that influences are continually passing through the body for which we can not trace definite routes; and the power transmitted by the nerves traverses a homogenous semi­fluid substance, not as a liquid or gas, but as an indefinable power transmitted by contact or continuity of substance. What right have we to suppose that this transmission of power is abruptly ar­rested at the surface of the body? All sensitive persons know by their personal experience that it is not

As the search for life ends in the mys­tery of a bioplusmic fluid, so does the search for its principal seat in the ner­vous system end in a delicacy of struct­ure which is beyond the reach of the microscope. In the lowest organisms the nerve substance is beyond discovery —even leading some physiologists to suppose that it is diffused through the substance of the body.—Alcyone.Written for The Better Way.

G O D A N D O U R R E LIG IO N .W . P . H E A TH .

“Can man by searching find out God ?” We all comprehend the fact that an over­ruling omnipresent power exists, that governs all things by fixed, unchangeable laws, an unseen, subtle life-essence per­vading all animated creation, and why not as well call this power God, as any of the more vague and lengthy appella­tions iu vogue ? It would certainly save a vast amount of pen-work and printer’s ink. Aud furthermore, why not let the matter drop here and lend our energies to some good we can accomplish, rather than waste our time and strength trying to grasp an idea that is utterly beyond the comprehension of the human soul while in the material sphere. “No man hath seen God at any time."

It seems to me that Spiritualism might rise to the dignity of a religion; that we might have at least a small platform away in some corner of the religious world where we could all meet together with Charity in its fullest, broadest meaning as a password. Let us have at least a semblance of a creed and one so liberal that all can accept it. The trouble with all former creeds has been that they were based upon man's ideas, which are ever changing. Let ours be based upou natural, unchangeable laws. It will* then be the same “yesterday, to-day, and forever." Who will write us a creed ? I will illustrate my ideas by giviug mine:

We believe the universe to be governed by an omnipresent immutable power that rules by fixed laws, and that true happiness can ouly be attained by con­forming to them; that sin is either wil­fully or ignorantly working in opposi­tion to these laws, and through their working must inevitably meet a just punishment. We believe the Bible to be a book embodying many ancient ideas of the almighty power, of creation, and religion. We believe it to be a book containing many gems of truth aud his­tories of spiritual phenomena, as under­stood by authors iu aucieut times. We believe the soul of man to be immortal aud progressive aud that the so-called dead cau, under proper conditions, com­municate with the living. We believe death to be merely a necessary step to a higher condition—the changing of the material for a spiritual body.

OCTOBER 9 A. 1801 T H E B E T T E R W AY 3

w r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a y .

PHENOMENAL WRITING, r i t ' t . I . A I .B K B T .

In your issue of October loth, you copy sn article from the Chattanooga News entitled "Occultism." This en­courages me to write you that I am ac­quainted with the medium (whose modesty prevents me making the name public at this time), who, though bnt re­cently developed, I hope will do much for the enlightenment of the South by the automatic writings coming from a

I source beyond the medium's knowledge* The caption of the News' article, "Oc­

cultism" was given by the editor of that paper and may have a tendency to frigh­ten off some of your readers, but having had opportunities of witnessing the writing and reading the productions, I am of the humble opinion that the mat­ter is of general interest to the readers of Spiritualistic literature. The controlling spirit is an ancient Egyptian having lived several centuries before Christ, who for the present purposes has assumed the name of “ Nina."

No doubt, there will be found many conditions in the beginning (and I copied the writings just as they were given), but this is purely the fault of the undeveloped coudition of the medium, and promises are made by Nina that if the medium will devote a certain amount of time to the former's purposes, the de­velopment will be a rapid one, and the medium's reward shall lie in the knowl­edge given to humanity—a fountain of knowledge where the multitude may drink and be refreshed.

I send a few pages that followed the article you have already published, and if you find them worthy to grace the columns of your valuable and widely read paper, I shall be grateful for the encouragement thus extended to a new medium, by their publication.

"Although I said in my first lesson, that the soul is but an emanation from that great centre soul—that has neither beginning nor end—yet the soul is an entity, and the germs of its attributes are implanted in the material body, in order to permit the proper expansion and development of the former, the same as the seed is first planted in the earth to produce the possibilites that lie dor­mant within it

The soul of the tree, the plant, the fldWer, the fruit—all that constitutes' vegetation—lies unseen wilhin'tbe germ, and must wait for material conditions to bring forth its forests, its groves, its gardens, and orchards. The fable of the 'Hnchanted Forest,' with which you are familiar, is founded on this principle of 'soul in everything,’ and so well under­stood in former days, wheu this very fairy tale was applied as an illustration ia their daily lessons by the ancient teachers.

To iuculcate these lessons of natural law, the flowers were made to represent pure souls, and the weeds the darker souls. Thought and speech were giveu them in these so-called fables, and often the pure lily was represented as bowing its innocent bead iu pain and shame,when an evil thought was wafted towards it by the ugly, poisonous weed that bad its hbnte near by. Here I am obliged to make another digression, the use of which you will recognize further on.

That the Zodiacal signs have a direct influence upon the twelve portions oi the bainan body which they respectively re­present, is an accepted fact to a number of your people of to-day, but that the symbolism of these twelve signs is the "j divine method of communicating to you laws of life, here and hereafter, is known to but very few on your plane of exis­tence. The science of ancient Egypt understood and demonstrated these laws through the symbolism of the Adiacal signs, and while a small portion of this ancient learning is being un­earthed at the present time, it behooves you to take cognizance of this funda­mental knowledge of the heavenly mys­teries, which existed before the Biblilical p r o p h e s i e s .

Since the sun, moon, and planets of your system move in the area of this zone, which extends throughout the eat ire circuit of the heavens—your bodies being influcuced by the entire Mlar system—infereulially and primarily —the material or outer form is influenced by the Zodical signs. But to resume.

The human mind in every thought throws out emaustious which assume material form, though visible only to the iaterior sense. These forms are soulless, bnt intelligent, aud are seen and recog­nized by the world of spirits as entities belonging to you individually. They become a portion of the aura that sur- rounds you, which being material and fetened on you, is thus readily read by fbe sensitive possessing the gift of psy- tbometry. Ob, bow careful would you le of the least of your thoughts, could y o but realize that they stand as raa- fcrisl objects by which your soul is meas­ured!

Your good thoughts shape themselves Hrto intelligent forms robed in purity, Ain to angels, and as they grow in num­ber and strength, these soul emanations •ske their corresponding impress on |®ur material bodies. Therein lies the Neret of the physiognomist's science, Ybich reads your character, like an open fc*ok, from the contour of the face, the •bape of the hands and feet,and other por-

, Hons of your outer selves, employed in <* display of the five visible senses.Such

pure thoughts, like guardian spirits, ever exert their intelligence for good to their possessor,and bring peace and happiness, because sorrow and strife can not enter where they exist. Hence, as I have said, belonging to your material and spiritual bodies, as emanating from the soul, your thoughts, if high and noble, make clearer your inner vision, warning you against sin and temptation, while on the other hand, evil and sinful thoughts dim the inner vision aud prepare your soul for the influence of spirits in darkness. Thus the miser’s vision is destroyed by his thoughts of gold, and be sees not the angel that is near, and tramples under foot the flowers that lie strewn iu pro­fusion close by his path.

Thoughts are like emanations from the flowers, and by them the soul is known, as flowers Are known by the odors. These emanations (thoughts) o f the soul, after the mortal body has laid down its func­tions, are attracted to their proper sphere, where similar emanations have gone before, and there united in one grand and powerful intelligence, find their place for eternity, to live as a sin­gle embodiment of an immortal truth.

N i n a .

R e p o r t e d f o r T h e B e t t e r W a v .

A FEW F A C T S .At the Brooklyn, N. Y., Progressive

Conference, the following interesting points were noted by our correspondent, E. F. K. She writes :

Oar meeting opened promptly as usual, at 8 p. m. President Bogert in the chair. The first speaker o f the evening was Mrs. Holmes. She delivered a very able address, full of deep study, in­spiring and uplifting thoughts, her sub­ject being "Spiritual Phenomena.” Take- ing the standpoint, that the grand old book, the Bible, was full of Spiritualism, mentioning among others, the books of Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Saul, Elisha, etc. Maiutaiuiug, that if this history be re­liable, phenomena did occur at those times, but that these facts were directly ignored by orthodox preachers, yet taken up again, by Spiritualists as p foundation to stand upon, and while refering to the Allen letter, in which the question is asked, what are they going to do now ? The speaker maintained, that as loug as we will disbelieve testi­mony, disapprove of inspiration, noth­ing can be left but phenomena, but what is the clergy going to do, i f all the teach­ings of the great Nazarcne are to be ignored ? They have not been anxious to investigate spiritual phenomena, aud yet if the spirit-world o f the past forty years have produced enough phenom­ena, it will certainly develop character, and bring us face to face with contend­ing laws.

Dr. Simmons, an associate and com­panion of the well-known slate-writing medium Dr. Slade, gave a very interest­ing account of some of the phenomena produced during their travels in Europe, iu the cities of SL Petersburg, Berlin, and Leipzig, saying that while Dr. Slade was only the possessor o f one good com­mon school education, the writings on the slate would come in six different languages. The speaker gave a very in­teresting account o f seances taking place in the presence of Professor F. Zollner, also of Baron Hoffman, and it is to be regretted that we cau not give his remarks in full, as we are requested to make our reports as short as possible. But one seance, taking place iu America, ought to receive mention. It was at Louisville, Ky., where the two gentle­men, Dr. Slade and Mr. Simmons, held a seance. After its close, they left the chairs in a circle around the grate fire, retiring for the night, the two occupying one bed. Soon after retiring, Dr. Slade be­came entranced, and in a very’short time one spirit after another appeared, and took their seats on the chairs before the grate fire, but the control of Dr. Slade, "Owassa," made himself known by say­ing, "1 will soon drive them out, for they are all skeptics.

Our Vice-President, Mr. S. S. Gordon, taking the platform, described a seance of Mr. W. S. Davis, repeating in full what has been said before this, about all the startling phenomena comiug through this medium. Mr. Gordon saying, that if there was any fraud possible to be prac­ticed, he would very much like to see it done, having had independent slate-writ­ing also, the audience at the seance pro­posed the subject to be written ou the slate, which was duly carried out, while Mr. Davis was enclosed in a bag, which was large enough to enclose his whole figure, and was aside from that tied with a drawing string over his head, the knots being sealed together with sealing wax.

Mr. C. R. Miller read a statement of Mrs. Annie Besant, in which it is claimed that since the death of Madame Blavat- sky, she had received writings coming through the latter’s hand. He had re­ceived messages comiug from oue calling himself Fiahbough, also from the Rev. Dr. Bethune and one of Dr. E. II. Cha­pin, the latter remarking, that while he was speaking over the remains of a lady resting in a casket before him, the in­spiration came to him, by a spirit stand­ing at his side, for it was on that oc­casion, says Dr. Chapin, that I was im­pressed with the grand truth of im­mortality. The message comiug through Dr. Chapin, was from the same lady, Mr. Miller pioduciug the origiual manuscript which waq that of a delicate female hund.

ARE T H E S E S P I R I T S ?The Concordia Hall was crowded Sun­

day evening with a critical and curious audience, intent on witnessing the me- diumistic performances of Professor Jules Wallace, the Australian medium.

The professor's tests were numerous aud interesting. After delivering a brief biographical sketch of his own life, the gentleman sang a couple o f verses of "Mother, Kiss Me in My Dream" in a clear, well-modulated voice. Stepping to the front o f the platform, in a seem­ingly natural coudition, the professor shouted:

"Is Letta here ? Will wauts to converse with her."

A womau's shriek rang through the hall. The professor jumped from the platform and ran in the direction of a lady dressed in mourning, who occupied oue of the front seats, seizing her hand he continued to deliver the message from her departed one, which the lady between her sdbs acknowledged to be true.

Another spirit was hovering around, and the medium instantly called out that Billy Edwards wanted to speak with a party in the hall. The spirit’s conversation was readily recognized by a gentleman sitting near the middle of the house. Billy sent his love to all his old pals and reported himself greatly pleased with the spirit world.

"You got that hand shot off in a drunk­en row in the West Indies by a Creole,’’ said the medium addressing a gentleman who appeared to suffer from the loss of. a hand. He acknowledged that it was just as the professor had said.

The medium continued addressing certain people in the audience, calling them by names, and publicly telling cer­tain peculiarities about their past and present life, and namiug their departed friends. Finally he fell on the floor in a semi-trance from exhaustion.

One o f the most interesting features o f the evening, and one that created con­siderable excitement, was the announce­ment by the spirit o f Mrs. Grundy, who was drowned in the river here some time ago, that she met her death at the hands o f Chris. Hines, who had since gone to Germany.

Joslyn, the music dealer, was informed by the spirit o f his mother that he an­ticipated a change ’in business affairs. He acknowleded it to be correct. When the medium told Mr. Galbrandson cer­tain things relating to his marital affairs, that gentleman at flrst didn’t relish it, but he had to acknowledge the corn.

I f Wallace be a fraud, he is certainly one o f the shrewdest that ever struck town.—Washington Spokesman.

A M O D E R N P R O P H E T .T o t h e E d i t o r o f T h e B e t t e r W a y .

The doubting Thomases o f Seattle, Wash., have had another opportunity to witness the remarkable gift o f prophecy, possessed by that excellant instrument for the spirit force, Harlow Davis. Num­bers o f local prophesies have been given aud fulfilled, but we make mention iu this article o f that only which will be of interest to the public at large. About ten days ago, while holding his usual circle, he predicted the suicide o f Gen. Boulan­ger, saying it would occur iu a few days. The death of Boulanger by suicide, was recorded in the daily papers, exactly one week after the prophecy. Many journal­ists and local physicians who have in­vestigated his gifts, presumed at flrst to call it mind-reading, but in the face of the prophesies which have beeu given, they have been forced to coufess that there is something entirely beyond their comprehension. We who were present during .the evening on which the prophecy was made cheerfully tes­tify to the same. Eva Jones, George Bergstom, John Yarno, Etta Yarno, Ivnr Langland._____________

A M O D E R N M O S E S .There is now in Springfield a man po-

sessing wonderful powers a9 a juggler, necromancer, or Spiritualist. If he is a mere trickster no one o f the many intel­ligent citizens of this city who have vis­ited him, as investigators, can yet sug­gest the cause of the astounding pheno­mena witnessed, lie carries with him no artificial appliances for working these wonders. A lawyer's desk yields as read­ily to the service of the alleged spirits as the most consecrated furniture. No dark rooms or mysterious cabinets are required by this aged stranger in giving his tests. The unseen “ guides" by whom Dr. Schlessinger claims to be controlled shun neither daylight nor the ordinary habitations o f mortals. Wonders have been wrought which no lawyers, doctor or newspaper men of Springfield cau ex­plain. Many tests have beeu given with­in the past six days, aud in no case has the medium failed to undergo most rig-

| id trial demanded by his hearers. Mind- reading does not seem to account for all the remarkable thiugs done. To tell one what he does not know aud never had in hia mind goes beyond the domain of psychomelry. Now this is something worth investigating. If it can be showu that Dr. Schlessinger is a trickster, using the arts o f jugglery, he ought to he ex­posed. He who trifles with the most sa­cred instincts of human nature, the ven­eration which the living have for the dead, is the basest of impostors. The ministers generally denounce such per­sons as Dr. Schlessiuger os wicked trick-1 sters who purposely dupe the credulous. How man}’ of the clergymen of Spring- field have giveu this m u i i a test ? What1

do they know of the manifestations so denounced to their communicants? Why do they not go in a body to the medium and expose his tricks? Wheu Moses and Aaron went to admonish Egypt in the interest of the oppressed IsrcaliU s* King I'baroah called his magicians, the spiritual guides o f that cultured realm, and commanded these servants to dupli­cate the miracles of the messengers of God. The sages of the Nile did not dodge this issue. They had the courage of their convictions, and met the test bravely. They answered each challenge of the wonder-workers from abroad, aud duplicated most successfully the miracles wrought iu their presence. They cast down their rods aud saw them take the form o f serpents. It is true the reptiles of Egypt got the worst o f the test, but the conduct of the magicians was at least tuauly. They exhausted the resources of their art in good faith so far as the rec­ord shows. Now, why will not our Springfield preachers show as much faith aud courage as those Egyptian priests and meet this wonder-worker on their own ground. lie is here in their very midst, doing things that nobody can yet explain. He will no doubt give all the ministers o f Spriugfteld a full test aud enable them to expose, i f they can, the trickery by which other persons have been deceived. Let us have a fair trial of this matter. If Spiritualism is true the churches ought to know it. If the dead can communicate with the living, then the question o f immortality is settled. If these claims o f Dr. Schlessinger and bis associates ore false, the ministers will strengthen their own power over the world by demonstrating the fact. Let us have the test first and then the denunci­ation o f the imposter on the street cor­ners.— Springfield (Mo.) Democrat.

T H E V E T E R A N S P I R I T U A L I S T S ’ U N IO N .

In your issue o f October 3d, editorial mention was made o f a veteran Spirit­ualist who has labored long in the cause, is iu ill health and does not expect to recover, and suggesting to the Veteran Spiritualists’ Union that something be done to relieve the immediate necessi­ties o f our unfortunate, brother. No sooner said than done, for on the same

i day a benevolent friend o f the Union visited the Banner o f Light rooms and learned the particulars of this case from Editor Luther Colby, who himself at once paid into the special fund o f the Union the sum o f fifty dollars, while a like sum was contributed by the kind visitor, making a total sum o f $100. The recipient in this case will be Dean Clarke, who will receive twenty dollars At;.once and the remainder in monthly installments of ten dollars each.

Dr. Clarke— familiarly known to Spir­itualists in the East— has for several years past been located in California, tbe latter portion o f the time at Bonny Doon. The state o f his health has been such most o f the time as to preclude his lec­turing or performing any medical work ; and he is much in need o f pecuniary as­sistance. At last advices he was located at 1055 Market Street, San Francisco California.

The Veteran Spiritualists' Uuion is youug yet, but is doing a good work, aud up to date has $600 for special fund cases — fourteen life members and over 170 names on its membership list.

Those who have given to the Union may well feel encouraged in their liberal well-doing, for letters received from some o f the donees and personal visits from the others all manifest such a thank­fulness and gratitude that it can not be expressed here iu writing. The contri­bution of a little money even will be the means of doing great good, aud wbeu distributed under the auspices of the Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, with its efficient board o f fifteen directors, we know it will be rightly dispensed aud prove to be au important factor iu ma­terially and spiritually uplifting our worthy poor.

Our ideal scheme for a Spiritualists’ Home is still being considered, with a determination to carry it to a successful practical issue. For thi9 purpose we need money, aud it has been proposed that anyone paying $2,000 or more for this purpose shall have the privilege of going to the home themselves for life if they shall desire so to do, without pay­ing any -further admission fee; or if they should uot want to go themselves, may elect a suitable person to go in their stead.

We are now ready to receive funds from any quarter, o f auy amount, from a penny postal, representing the widow’s mite, to the certified check o f thousands from the millionaire. We believe iu faith and works, in principles and people that live for the purpose of embodying them. It ia comparatively pleasant to coutribute

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M a t t e r , l i f e , m i n d , s p i r i t ; W b a t t b e s e n s e s t e a o b o f t h e w o r l d a n d t h e d o o t r l n e o f e v o ­l u t i o n ; S c i e n t i f i c m e t h o d s o f t h e s t u d y o t m a n a n d I t s r e s u l t s ; W h a t I s t h e s e n s i t i v e s t a t e ? M e s m e r i s m , h y p n o t i s m , s o m n a m b u l ­i s m ; c l a i r v o y a n c e ; S e n s i t i v e n e s s p r o v e d b y p s y o h o m e t r y ; S e n s i t i v e n e s s d u r f n g s l e e p ; D r e a m s ; S e n H i t t v o n e s * i n d u c e d b y d i s e a s e ; T h o u g h t t r a n s f e r e n c e ; I n l l m l d a t l o n s o f a n I n ­t e l l i g e n t f o r c e s u p e r i o r t o t h e a c t o r ; E f f e c t o f p h y s i c a l c o n d i t i o n s o n t h e s e n s i t i v e ; U n c o n - 1 s c l o u s s e n s i t i v e s ; P r a y e r , I n t h e l i g h t o f s e n ­s i t i v e n e s s a n d t h o u g h t t r a n s f e r e n c e ; l i u m o r - s - i l l t y — W h a t t h e f u t u r e l i f e m u s t b e . g r a n t ­i n g t h e p r e c e d i n g f a c t s a n d c o u o l n s l o n s ; M i n d c u r e : C h r i s t i a n s o l e n c e , m e t a p h y s i c s — t h e i r p s y o l t l o a n d p s y c b l o a l r e l a t i o n s ; P e r ­s o n a l e x p e r i e n c e a n d I n t e l l i g e n c e f r o m t h e s p h e r e o f l i g h t .

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o f M a n a n d t h e R e l i g i o n o f J o y . N o t s e rv ile t r u s t t o H i t C o d s , b u t k n o w l e d g e o f t b e la w s o f t b e w o r l d , b e l i e f I n t b e d i v i n i t y o f m a n e n d h l a e t e r n a l p r o g r t - x s t o w n r d p e i f a c t i o n le t b e f o n n d a t l o i o f t h e U m . io io .n o r M a n a n d t h e My M e m o l K T l f i o t hh i r t n u d l u J l t ' e w o r k .

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N o . 1 . — T b e R e l a t i o n o f t b e S p i r i t u a l t o t h o M a t e r i a l U n i v e r s e ; T b e L a w o r C o n t r o l , N e w e - ’ I t l o n , e n l a r g e d a n d r e v i s e d , b y M . F a r a ­d a y . P r i c e 1 5 c e n t s : p o s t a g e 1 c e n t .

N o . 2 — T h e O r i g i n o f L i f e , o r W h e r e M a n C o m e s F r o m . T h e E v o l n t l o n o f t b e S p i r i t f r o m M a t t e r t h r o u g h O r g a n i c P r o c e s s e s , o r H o w t h e S p i r i t B o d y G r o w s . N e w e d i t i o n , e n l a r g e d a n d r e v i s e d , b y M . F a r a d a y . P r i c e 10 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e , 1 c e n t .

N o . 8 — T h e D e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e S p i r i t A f t e r T r a n s i t i o n : T b e O r i g i n o f R e l i g i o n s , b y M . F a r a d a y P r i c e 1 0 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e 1 c e n t .

N o . 4 — T b e P r o c e s s o f M e n t a l A c t i o n ; o H o w w e T h i n k , b y M . F a r a d a y . P r l e e 1 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e , 2 c e n t s .

N o . 6— J e s u s C h r i s t a F i c t i o n , F o n n d e d u p o n t h e L i f e o f A p p o l l O D l u s o f T y a n a . H o w t b e P a g a n p r i e s t s o f R o m e o r i g i n a t e d C h r i s t i a n ! -

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b o a d s , 7 5 ; p a p e r , 5 0 ; p o s t a g e 5 c e n t s .R o m e , N o t B e t b e l e h e m , t h e B i r t h - P l a c e o f

J e s u s . E x t r a c t f r o m N o . 5 P r i c e 1 0 c e n t s .W h o W r o t e t b e N e w T e s t a m e n t . E x t r a c t

f r o m N o . 5 . P r i c e 1 0 c e n t s .N o . 6— O b s e s s i o n o r H o w e v i l S p i r i t s I n f l u ­

e n c e M o r t a l s ! b y M . F a r a d a y , p p . 2 8 . P r l o e 10 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e . 1 c e n t .

N o . 7 — P r o g r e s s i o n ; o r H o w S p i r i t s A d ­v a n c e I n S p i r i t L i f e : — T b e E v o l n t l o n o f M a n , b y M F a r a d a y , p p . 8 3 . P r i c e 1 5 c e n t o .

N o . 8 — D i s s o l u t i o n , o r P h y s i c a l D e a t h , b y M . F a r a d a y . P r i c e 6 c e n t s : p o s t a g e , 1 c e n t .

N o . 9 — T b e R e l a t i o n s o f S c i e n c e t o t h e P h e ­n o m e n a o f L i f e , b y M . F a r a d a y . l O c t s . ; p . l e ,

B O W L E S P A M P H L E T S .

N o . 1 — E x p e r i e n c e s o f S a m n e l B o w l e s , l a t e e d i t o r o f t h e 8 p r i D g f i e l d ( M a s s . ) R e p u b l i c a n I n S p i r i t L i f e , I n c l u d i n g L a t e r P a p e r s . C a r ­r i e E . S . T w l D g , M e d i u m , p p . 9 1 . P r i c e 2 9 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e , 2 c e n t s .

L a t e r P a p e r s f r o m S a m n e l B o w l e s . C a r r i e E . S . T w l n g , M e d i u m , p p . 2 7 . P r i c e 1 0 c e n t o .

N o . 2 — C o n t r a s t s I n S p i r i t L i f e a n d R e c e n t E x p e r i e n c e s o f S a m u e l B o w l e s I n t h e F l i n t F i v e S p h e r e s , C a r r i e E . S . T w l n g , M e d i u m , p p . 1 4 2 . P r i c e 5 0 c e n t s .

N o . 8— I n t e r v i e w w i t h S p i r i t s , b y S a m u e l B o w l e s , C a r r i e E . S . T w l D g , M e d i u m , p p , 2 0 7 . P a p e r 5 0 c e n t s ; d o t h . 7 5 c e n t s : p o s t a g e a c t s .

N o . 4 . — O u t o f t b e D e p t h s , i n t o t h e L i g h t P r i c e 2 5 c e u l s , p o s t a g e 2 c e n t « .

E d 8 . W h e e l e r I n s p i r i t L i f e — M a t e r i a l i s a ­t i o n ; T b e T r u e a n d F a l s e ; R e i n c a r n a t i o n a n d I t a D e c e i v i n g S p i r i t A d v o c a t e * ; T b e W a r o f W i l l s I n S p i r i t L i f e O v e r t h e S p r e a d o f S p i r ­i t u a l i s m o u F a r t b , a s s e e n b y E d S W h e e l e r s i n c e h i s e n t r a n c e u p o n S p i r i t L i f e . p p . S L P r i c e 1 5 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e , 2 c e n t s .

E l s i e A l n s l e . a v i c t i m o f S o c i a l W r o n g , t a p C a m l l u e L e e H e n t z . S a r a h L . M c C r a c k e n , s c r i b e , p p . 1 0 8 . P r i c e 2 5 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e , 1 c e n t s .

T h e H i s t o r y o f J e a n s a n d t b e M y t h i c a l G e u e s l R a n d T y p o l o g y o f E q u i n o c t i a l C h r i s t - o l a t r y , b y G e r a l d M a s s e y . T h i s b o o k I s writ­t e n t o s h o w t b e I d e n t i t y o f C h r i s t i a n i t y with t t i e A s t r o l o g i c a l m y t h s o f E g y p t . T h e e v l - d e n c e I s t a k e n f r o m t h e m o n u m e n t s o f E g y p t a n d f r o m t b e E g y p t i a n “ B o o k o f t h o D e a d . "

G e r a l d M a s s e y p r o v e s I r r e s l s t a b l y th a t C h r i s t i a n i t y I s a b o r r o w e d c u l t f r o m t h e a n - o l e n t E g y p t i a n r e l i g i o n , p p 2 4 0 . P a p e r 6 9 c e n t s ; d o t h 7 5 c e n t s ; p o s t a g e 8 c e n t s ,

A S p r a g u e ' s E x p e r i e n c e * I n t h e S p h e r e s , 2 0 e T r e e a n d 8 e r p e u t W o r s h i p . P r i c e 1 6 c e n t o . S t a m p s p o s i t i v e l y r e f u s e d I n p a y m e n t f o r

a n y o f t b e a b o v e b o o k s .

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P R O F E S S O R J. S L O V E L A N D ,

A c o u r s e o f s e v e n l e c t u r e s d e l i v e r e d at ML P l e a s a n t P a r k C a m p M e e t i n g d u r i n g A u g u s t ,

1888. A l s o a n a d d i t i o n a l l e c t u r e o n t h e

large sums to worthy objects; we would all like to do so ; if we con not, we must do the best we can. "LIGHT MORE LIGHT.”

PERPETUITY OF SPIRITUALISM.P r l o w , d o t h , 9 1 , 0 0 .

"We believe iu a happy combination o f practical faith and work ; in theory as well as practice; in the Genesis as well as iu the Revelation o f unending life. It ia not necessary that wc should all see or think alike, but it is possible oud im­portant if we, veterans, would co-opernte, that we should see and believe in the came good aud use; that we should be in touch with the perfect cause, providence or destiny, which so shapes our etuis ns to ultimate the perfect good and demon­strate the fact that God is not only with but in all mankind." Wm. IT. Banks, Clerk ol the V. S. U., 77 State St., Boston,

— Banner of Light.

P rlo e $ 8 .0 0 -4 1 9 P a g e s .F O B B A L B B T T H E W A Y F U B . O O .

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SP IR IT WORLD,By The Members of The Spirit Band oi

M IS S M. T. SH E LH A M E R .A v o l u m e o f 426 p a g e s , n e a t l y a n d s u b s t a n t i ­

a l l y b o u n d I u c l o t h , f i . o o ; p o s t a g e , 10 c e n t s . F u l l g i l t , f 1 .50 ; p o s t a g e f r e e .

A s p e c i a l e d i t i o n h a s b e e n I s s u e d w h i c h I s e m b e l l i s h e d w i t h e i g h t i l l u s t r a t i o n s , r e p r e ­s e n t i n g s c e n e s i n s p i r i t l i f e .

L a r g e c l e a r p r i n t a n d n e a t l y b o u n d . A n la v a l u a b l e a m o u n t o f s p i r i t u a l i n f o r m a t i o n a n d

e x p o s i t i o n i s c o n t a i n e d t h e r e i n : a n d i t s h o u l d

n o t a l o n e o c c u p y a p r o m i n e n t p l a c e o n l i b r a r y

s h e l v e s , b u t b e w e l l r e a d a n d d i g e s t e d . S e n d

n o s t a m p s .

______________F o r B a l e a t t h i s O f f l o e .

STARTLIN G PA CTS— O F —

MODERN SPIRITU ALISM ,D R . N . B . W O L F E .

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F O R S A L E A T T H I S O F F I O B

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tolerate his? Differences are thus all removed and all effort is centered in that

<TH1 RR,lvrF.I? \YAY I w *‘ch is ever before us—the unknown n is s u e d EVERY Sa t u r d a y I «nd unexplored in the realms of the

T H E W A Y P U B L I S H I N G C O .. P R O P R I E T O R S , I s p i r i t u a l .S o u t h w e s t C o r . P l u m a n d M c F a r l a n d S t s . ,

C i n c i n n a t i , O h i o .M . G . Y o u m a n s . P r e s i d e n t ,

i. H . W r i o i i t , T r e a s u r e r ,. C . S r o w K U . S e c r e t a r y .

Cincinnati October 24, 1891

T e r m s o f S u b s c r i p t i o n .

T o e B e t t e r W a y w i l l b e f u r n i s h e d u n t i l f u r t h e r n o t i c e a t t h e f o l l o w i n g t e r m s , i u v a r i - a b l y i n a d v a n c e :O n e y e a r . . . . . . . $ 1.00C l u b s o f t e n a c o p y t o t h e o n e g e t t i n g

u p t h e C lu b ? . . . .6 f x m o n t h s o n t r i a l . . . .T h r e e m o n t h s o n t r i a l . . . .S i n g l e c o p i e s . . . . .

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This seems to the writer to be the solid foundation on which we may now build with our united effort, while the time may come, and that soon, when an­other form of organization shall follow, wherein we may successfully adopt the platform of a positive knowledge of the beyond aud inter-communication there' with.

REMITTANCES.R e m i t b y P o s t o f f i c e M o n e y O r d e r . R e g i s t e r e d

l e t t e r , o r d r a f t o n C i n c i n n a t i o r N e w Y o r k . I t c o s t s t e n o r f i f t e e n c e n t s t o g e t d r a f t s c a s h e d o n l o c a l b a n k s : s o d o n o t s e n d t h e m . P o s t a g e s t a m p s w i l l n o t b e r e c e i v e d i n p a y m e n t o f s u b ­s c r i p t i o n . D i r e c t a l l l e t ' e r s t o T h e W a y P u b ­l i s h i n g C o .. S . W . c o r n e r P lu iiiogtS t r e e t s , C i n c i n n a t i , O h io .

u m a n d M c F a r l a u d

T h e B e t t e r W a v c a n n o t w e l l u n d e r t a k e t o v o u c h f o r t h e h o n e s t y o f i t s n i n n y a d v e r t i s e r s . A d v e r t i s e m e n t s w h ic h a p p e a r f a i r a n d h o n o r a ­b l e u p o n t h e i r f a c e a r c a c c e p t e d , a n d w h e n e v e r i t i s m a d e k n o w n t h a t d i s h o n e s t o r i m p r o p e r p e r s o n s a r e u s i n g o u r n d v e r . s i n g c o l u m n s t h e y a r e a t o n c e i n t c r d i c t e d -

W e r e q u e s t p a t r o q s t o n o t i f y u s p r o m p t l y i n c a s e t h e y d i s c o v e r i n o u r c o l u m n s a d v e r t i s e ­m e n t s o f p a r t i e s w h o m t h e y h a v e p r o v e d t o b e d i s h o n o r a b l e o r u n w o r t h y o 'f a c t i o n .

W h e n t h e p o s t o f f i c e a d d r e s s o f T h e B E T T E R W a y i s t o b e c h a n g e d , o u r p a t r o n s s h o u l d g i v n s t w o w e e k s ' p r e v i o u s n o t i c e , a n d n o t o m i t t o a t a t e t h e i r p r e s e n t a s w e l l a s f u t u r e a d d r e s s .

N o t i c e o f S p i r i t u a l i s t s M e e t i n g s , i n o r d e r t o i n s u r e p r o m p t i n s e r t i o n , m u s t r e a c h t h i s o f f i c e o n T u e s d a y o f e a c h w e e k , a s T h e B e t t e r W a v g o e s t o p r e s s e v e r y W e d n e s d a y .

N O T I C E 1A l l c o m m u n i c a t i o n s p e r t a i n i n g t o e i t h e r t h e

e d i t o r i a l o r b u s i n e s s d e p a r t m e n t o f t h i s p a p e r , ■ T l e t t e r s c o n t a i n i n g m o n e y , t o r e a c h u s , a n a o n u c r w h ic h c o n d i t i o n o n l y w e c a n a s s u m e r e ­s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h e s a m e , m u s t b e a d d r e s s e d , a n d m o n e y o r d e r s m a d e p a y a b l e t o .

T h e W a y P u b l i s h i n g C o ., S o u t h w e s t C o r n e r o f P l u m a n d M c F a r l a n d S t s . ,

C i n c i n n a t i . O .O b i t u a r i e s f r e e t o t h e e x t e n t o f t w e n t y l i n e s .

T e n c e n t s a l i n e o v e r t h i s a m o u n t , f o r w h ic h t h e s e n d e r i s h e l d r e s p o n s i b l e .

R e j e c t e d M s s w i l l n o t b e r e t u r n e d w i t h o u t p o s t a g e a c c o m p a n y i n g t h e s a m e — n o r p r e s e r v e d b e y o n d t h i r t y d a y s a f t e r r e c e i p t .

S T 7 G G E S T I O N S F O B C L U B S .T o f a c i l i t a t e t h e h a n d l i n g o f o u r 15- c e n t t r i a l

s u b s c r i p t i o n s , i t w o u l d b e o f i m m e n s e a d v a n t ­a g e i f t r i a l s u b s c r i b e r s c l u b b e d t o g e t h e r a n d

r e m i t t e d n a m e s a n d m o n e y a t o n e t i m e . T h i s o f f e r s a s p l e n d i d o p p o r t u n i t y t o o u r f r i e n d s , w h o a r e i n t i m a t e w i t h t h e s c o p e a n d m e r i t s o i T h e B e t t e r W a y . t o i n t r o d u c e t h e s a m e i n t o h o m e s a n d f a m i l i e s w h e r e a s c i e n t i f i c - s p i r i t u a l

S p i r i t u a l i s t p a p e r h a s h e r e t o f o r e b e e n e x c l u d ­e d b y r e a s o n o f h i g h - p r i c e d s u b s c r i p t i o n . T r u t h

a n d p u r i t y i s t h e b a s i s o f o u r w o r k a n d w e n e e d t h e a c t i v e a n d i n t e l l i g e n t c o - o p e r a t i o n o f a l l i n t h e s a m e .

W r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a v . *

OUR “ DILEMMA."H. W. BOOZER.

Brother Loveland’s promises are that the Columbian Exposition will accept no representation which is not that of some organized body. Now it strikes the sub­scriber that if a man had a successful flying machine and desired its admis­sion, he would not be obliged to form an organization of persons to have it admitted. If not, why should a system, which claims to have demonstration of man’s continual existence after death, be required to have the representation of more than the one person making this claim; and if the Spiritualists, with nei­ther organization nor protest, aquiesce in the choice of so able a man as Mr. Tut­tle, why should the exposition refuse to accept him? Is there anything in the organization of the Columbian Fair which makes good Brother Loveland's position ? I ask that we may know the premises, and not to oppose organiza­tion, which is certainly our great need.If it is a necessity, this “dilemma" may be a very God-send to impel it

The great obstacle lies iu tbe diversity of opinion and feeling among thinking people who are strongly individualized,All propositions that have been publicly

•offered, save from the present writer, have been on a basis of belief. The least these parties can do to avoid differ­ences is to throw up all other issues and unite on the belief in a spirit world and the communion with this. To illustrate how divergent views make obstacle to harmonious action, take the two postu lates which come next to the above car­dinal points, viz.: the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. These both being fundamentals with Unitar­ians, Universalists, and liberal Chris­tians, they present nothing distinctively belonging to Spiritualism. The name of an overruling power at once brings dis­sension, while the human brotherhood however well accepted theoretically, is practically a myth in a competitive state of society.

The great objection to organization on a belief in our two fundamentals con sists in the fact, that in so organizing we can obtain the ct>-opcration of but few of the many interested in the sub­ject—those only who show their colors,A large number of investigators, who do not lack backbone, will not unite with us simply because as investigators they have not as yet arrived at our con­clusions, and, being persons of their word, will not assume the profession of a belief or knowledge which is not yet theirs. A platform can be made which will carry all interested in the study of occult things; one based on nd belief, but on action instead—the act of seeking to know all that each can know of tbe subject of Spiritualism.

O r g a n i z a t i o n o n t h i s b a s i s p l a c e s t h e

e n t i r e b o d y i n t h e n a t u r a l p o s i t i o n o f

l e a r n e r s f r o m t h e s p i r i t o p e r a t o r s a u d

d i r e c t o r s o f t h e m o v e m e n t , s o t h a t w e

m a y c o - o p e r a t e w i t h t h e m ; r e m o v e s a l l

o b j e c t s o f d i s s e n s i o n a n d p l a c e s e a c h

m e m b e r o n h i s g o o d b e h a v i o r t o h i s

W r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a y .

PROQRESS AND PEACE.G .S . PIDGEON.

I T h e l i b e r a l i t y ' o f T h b B e t t e r W a y i n

p u b l i s h i n g c o n t r i b u t i o n s o n r e f o r m t o p ­

i c s i n d u c e s m e t o s u b m i t f o r c o n s i d e r s

t i o n a f e w t h o u g h t s o r a n o u t l i n e o f

m e a s u r e s , w h i c h ( I b e l i e v e ) , i f f a i r l y a p

p l i e d , w o u l d g o f a r t o w a r d s s e c u r i n g a

m o r e e q u a l a u d e q u i t a b l e d i s t r i b u t i o n o f

w e a l t h a n d t h e p r o d u c t s o f l a b o r .

My plan is this: The law for raising revenue for all public purposes should provide:

First—An exemption to every taxable citizen of property of the value of $1,000, free from taxation for public purposes. All assessed value above $1,000 up to $50,000 to pay tax at a fixed rate; all above $50,000 to pay twice as much. To illustrate, “C," a tax-payer, has property of the assessed value of $60,000. $1,000 is exempt under the above provision and therefore deducted. He then pays on $49,000 say half of one per cent, and on all above $50,000 or $10,000 one per cent, a rate twice as great as on the $49,000; the total tax to be equal to the whole amouut required for public purposes. Such a law would favor the poor and the middle classes, and equitable and just in requiring the rich to pay a larger percentage of the cost of maintaining and administering the government than the poorer sort and than they now do. If not, why not ?.Second—One annual or biennial assess­

ment to be made by the state or govern­ment and to serve for all local .and mu­nicipal, as well as State and county taxes.One collector for alt taxes iustead of sep­arate assessments and collectors, there­by dispensing with one set of assessors and collectors. This is done in some States and should be in all. All prop­erty to be assessed at its fair cash value with the privilege to the owner to fix the value of all uuimproved land.

Third—Any adult citizen making oath that he was not then a freeholder, but desirous of securing a homestead, should have the right to purchase any unim­proved lot or tract of land at its assessed

alue, as shown by the last annual assess­ment ; the money to be deposited with the county treasurer, one-half at the time and the balance within one year for the use of the owner. Tbe quantity of ground, whether in a town or city, or igricultural land, which might be so

taken, to be fixed by law sufficient for a homestead. Railroads, water and gas or light companies and perhaps other quasi public corporations should be per­mitted and required to make such rates and charges as would pay rnnning ex- penses, repairs, and a reasonable interest on tbe assessed value of the property of the corporation and no more.

Wealthy corporations and tax-payers might object to such a law. I think it can be shown that justice may be done as well under the provisions of such law as any other. This would give a reason­able basis for rates and charges, as against the public or people who employ and patronize railways and other public corporations. Tbe law to allow the land­less to buy a home by taking any unim­proved lot or tract of land at its assessed value would be just and good policy.

; No injur}’ to tbe owner since he (the owner) can fix the assessed value at such sum as he is willing to pay tax on. The owner would get his price and the peo-

e an opportunity to own their own homes. Land sharks who hold land at

ve to ten times its assessed value would find their occupation gone.

Requiring railroads and other public corporations to fix charges, so ns to pay running expenses, repairs, and a reason able interest on the assessed value of the property would be right. This is the value on which taxes are paid and should be the value on which the public are taxed for interest and current expenses.

Tbe application of the above princi­ples for a series of years would make change in the unequal distribution 1 wealth and lead on to other reforms. To attempt too much is to lose all, iherefo when some party shall adopt a platform of one, two, or three objects of prime im portance, leaving other matters for fu­ture action, they may hope for success. The embodiment of the foregoing ideas in the tax law would avoid or obviate tbe need of government ownership by doing justice to both parties in interest. The railroads, etc, and the people also

“ TH EO SOPHY VS. SP IR IT U A L­ISM ."

T o t h e E d i t o r o f T h e B e t t e r W a y .

In The Better Way of October iotb: I read with interest a communication from Dr. J. D. Buck on "Theosophy v Spiritualism." With your permission will say a word about one of liis state­ments. Speaking of Theosophy lie says “It teaches, not as a creed, but as a log cal necessity, the doctrine of Re-incarna tion, which many advanced Spiritualists teach under another name, viz.: Re embodiment." As one who feels he can speak somewhat by the card on this sub­ject, permit me to say that I know of none who teaches "Re-embodiment/ What is taught is “Embodiments"—a very different thing, as I shall try to show.

There is a school of Spiritists who teach Re-incarnation, with all that the term implies, and they taught it years before Theosophy was heard of. The thought or doctrine of Re-incarnation is, therefore, so far as tbe western world is concerned, distinctly of a spiritualistic, or spiritistic origin. The teaching of Embodiments" also ante-dates the prt

sentation of Theosophy. Now a word to distinguish the two.

Re-incarnation, whether we interpret through Spiritism or Theosophy, muit

be held strictly to its implications, and it limits existence to a single plane a any particular time. Whatever there js of individuality is incarnated to ends of personality, is then by so-called death released and restored to individuality, Is then re-incarnated, and so on and «/ libitum. “Embodiments," on the other hand, make a clear distinction between soul or being and its expressions, and, what is more important to us finites, it distinguishes between different expres­sions. In other words, each human ex pression stands by itself and is never re-embodied, but what happens is that the soul puts forth another expression, forges another link to the chain, of which you now are a component part This link that you are related to all other links is in a relative sense the moral re­sultant (Karma) of all previous expres­sions (links), but in the last analysis is the result of the soul’s desire to express itself to higher and ever higher issues. The consciousness of one link is never lost in the consciousness of another link to the degree of self-effacement. There is inner participation in re-curring em­bodiments, though not in the form of personality, but as individuality. Front a human egoistic point of view it is nat­ural to seek to avoid re-incarnation, aa it is said the Hindoos do; but embodi-1 ments present no such bete noir\ the rather, it is a pleasurable theme to dwell upon; the thought that as spirit (on the inner side of existence) you further by participation to higher and ever higher expressions of soul by human embodi­ments.

The contention of the Embodimentists is that the idea of Re-incarnation is based upon a very crude, and in tbe last analysis, a false psychology. From the point of view of embodiments there is no embodiment of soul per se, since soul is an unconditioned element, as to con­dition it is to destroy its substantive in­tegrity. What is embodied is tbe primal expression of soul, i. e., spirit, a phan­tasm—a phenomenon in the realm of existence. This phenomenon realizes itself in the consciousness of soul, the self-existent background, as a synthesis . . experiences, and as nothing more. Now to re-incarfl&tfe this phenomenon means one of two things—either you re­peat the exact experiences in another embodiment, or you entirely obliterate the personality of each expression by essaying a new one—for unless you do this it is plain there is no re-incarnation —that is, to say, there is obviously no re-incarnation if the personality main tains its identity in spirit while anothei incarnation is taking place. Theosophy treats personality as a shell that event­ually drops away, the real existence be­ing the individuality. This may readily be admitted without in tbe slightest de­gree impairing the validity of spiritual­istic phenomena, which are not supposed to trauscend personality. And if you contend that this personality is not the real individuality, cur answer is that the individuality is a transcendent unknow —that we communicate with all that was known to us in the flesh—and that we may hope to make the acquaintance the inner reality when we pass into its realm.

But the trouble with Theosophy my mind lies deeper. It not only merges personality in individuality—which as process of evolution and elemental fu­sion is entirely legitimate—but it com mils the unpardonable offense of de­stroying the individuality also, or else the term Re-incaruation has no mean ing. Let us see how this comes to pass. Personality being swallowed up in the victory of individuality, only one ele-

1 incut or status remains to deal with.

I uncorrupted iu its own sphere of being, I same aurora has • been seen from the and lends to tbe formal, ephemeral liu- polar localities forty degrees north. Noman expression only the intuition of being.

In this critical age the survival of any thought depends on its consistency to fundamental postulates; and any discus­sion that does not concern itself with those and drifts into non-essentials, or what is worse, concerns itself with per­sonalities, is always to be deprecated. To my miud Theosophy is part of the great spiritual movement that is now upon the world. If it does no more it performs an important office iu bring­ing to the notice of the western world forms of oriental thought it is import­ant to know, and the more so at this time, as these forms bear a close resem- blance to forms of thought now nativi to our soil. This native thought I re gard as a higher presentation than its oriental predecessor; at any rate it is form more consonant with western thought, and is, I believe, destined to have tbe "right of way" over a* mod that must ever remain an exotic. If in any degree or particular I have mis­stated tbe Theosopbicposition touching Re-incarnation, I would ask Dr. Buck to set me right. F r e d e r ic k F . Co o k .

s u p e r s e d e t h e d e m a n d f o r a g r a d u a t e d

i n c o m e t a x . I f t h e a b o v e v i e w s m e e t I T h i s , i n t h e l a n g u a g e o f T h e o s o p h y , b y

w i t h a p p r o v a l w i l l s o m e r e a d e r k i n d l y R e - i n c a r n a t i o n , i s s u b j e c t e d t o a " b a t h

s u g g e s t t h e b e s t w a y t o b r i n g a b o u t a

s p e e d y a p p l i c a t i o n ? L e t n s h a v e p e a c e

a n d p r o g r e s s . _________________ ______

Notloe to S e c re tar ie s . S e c r e t a r i e s o f S p i r i t u a l i s t S o c i e t i e s a r e r e ­

q u e s t e d t o s e n d u a t h e n a m e * o f t h e i r r e s p e c t ­

i v e o r g a n i s a t i o n s , w i t h t i m e o f m e e t i n g o r t h e

h o l d i n g o f s p i r i t u a l s e r v i c e * , a n d l o c a l i t y , i n

n e i g h b o r , f o r i f h e d o e s n o t t o l e r a t e t h i s I o r d e r t o h a v e t h e m c o r r e c t l y I n s e r t e d I n o n r

p e r s o n ’ s v i e w s , w h y s h o u l d a n y b o d y | c o l u m n o f s o c i e t y m e e t i n g * .

o f o b l i v i o n . " O b v i o u s l y , n o w n o t h i n g

r e m a i n s , f o r i f y o u g r a n t t o t h e i n d i v i d ­

u a l a n i n n e r l i f e o r c o n s c i o u s n e s s w h i l e

i t i s s e e k i n g i n a n o t h e r i n c a r n a t i o n t o

a c h i e v e h u m a n c o n s c i o u s n e s s , i t f o l l o w s

t h a t i t i s i n n o v i t a l s e n s e a n i n c a r n a t i o n ,

a n d e v e n l e u , a r e - i n c a r n a t i o n , b u t

s i m p l y w h a t E m b o d i m e n t i s t s c o n t e n d i t

EARTH VIEWED FROM IT S MOON It is evident that to a lunar observer

the disk of earth appears to be equal to about sixteen areas of the solar disk. The solar disk, as seen from earth, is on the average equal to the lunar disk seen from the same point, for, in the solar eclipse, the disk of the moon covers the sun in a total event of that character, while it fails to cover the sun in an an­nular eclipse. Therefore, the apparent sizes of the bodies must average about equal in size to a terrestial observer. Again, the solar disk will appear to the lunar observer just equal to what it seems to be when seen from earth, because the distance from the sun to the moon averages equal to the distance from the sun to the earth. Furthermore, the di­ameter of the earth is equal to about four lunar diameters, and of course the areas of their disks vary as the square of their radii, and this makes the terrestial disk about equal to sixteen lunar disks, and, of conrse, if the lunar disk is equal to the solar disk at a given distance, then the terrestial disk will seem to be about sixteen times as great at the same dis­tance.

The enormous disk of earth must be blue in color to the lunar observer, be­cause earth atmosphere is blue, and all things seen through it seem blue. Even inter-stellar space seems blue through this medium, and the illuminated parts

the moon cannot be distinguished from the space that abuts i t Bright, di­rect and reflected light is not affected ap­preciably by* its passage through our at­mosphere; therefore, stars, moonlight and distant illuminations are not noticea­bly blue from that cause.

It may be well to examine sunlight to see why it is not made blue in transit, and as the moonlight is sunlight re­flected, the explanation will do for both, and, in fact, for all. To a terrestial ob­server of the sun there is visible an il­luminated cone, the apex of which is in

s eye and the base on the solar disk. Reducing this cone to dimensions that the mind can grasp, we will adopt a scale of 9,000,000 miles to the inch and imagine or construct a cone ten feet high whose base is one-half an inch in diameter. Now, if the mathematical point or appex of this cone be blue, five ten-millionths of one inch thick, which

the proportion roughly, considering the atmosphere to be forty miles high,

will be seen why sunlight so easily overcomes the color of air. If, however.

construct a cone to illustrate the view of earth to a lunar observer, we must, to a height of ten feet, have a base of two inches in diameter, with a blue coat one-sixtieth of an inch thick (a very thick card is about that thickness). Here the base of the cone is blue in­stead of the fine point, and every ray travels through the whole thickness of the atmosphere of earth twice. Tbe whole terrestial disk covered with its blue envelop is seen at once, and, if we know it to be true, the air colors distant objects blue to the observer on earth it must color earth blue to a lunar eye.

I do not forget that when earth is ‘full" to the ntoon the moon there may be a white spot or spots where the di­rect solar rays are reflected to the moon but that spot cannot equal the apparent area of the solar disk, or rather one-six teenth part of the apparent terrestial disk.

Of course, when the moon is eclipsed to the earth the effect of the lunar obser­ver would be solar eclipse. Then the blue air should be visible around the edge o earth slightly like that seen about tbe moon in some cases of total eclipse an known as the corona. At such times as the aurora should faintly illuminate the dark side of earth and perhaps slightly be reflected on the eclipsed satellite.

If we consider aurora borealis and its data, comparing it and them to nebula and comets* tails, we must believe that earth has on the side opposite the sun veritable streaming appeudage of bright luminous effect. Authorities, after dif­fering infinitely in results, now declare that they are ignorant of the heights to

.which the phenomena reaches. Hum-

one knows their height, because our at­mosphere may abut out a great part of distant effects, and moonlight and twi­light probably neutralize the higher ef­fects to all observers. Tbe question is, does the lunar observer see a tail stream­ing after the earth? And considering the dearness that tails of comets exhibit 100.ouo,000 miles distant and visible nebula unknown millions of miles in space, I assert that aurora borealis should be and is a bright and beautiful trail after our great mother's glorious garment.

There are many colored stars and plan­ets. Mars is red, Venus is white. Many stars are blue; in one group all are blue. N. Y. Times.

AN E A R N E S T A P PE A L.Br o t h e r an d Sis t e r S p ir it u a l ist s :

The undersigned are moved to say a word to you about Mrs. Margaret Fox- Kane. As you are aware, she is one of tbe Fox sisters through whose medium- ship, when little children, the blessing of Modern Spiritualism came into the world. It need not be disguised that in their malurer years these sisters have been morally no credit to tbe cause they were (by spirit agency) selected to rep­resent Why this is so it is idle, at least in this emergency, to speculate about; for, whatever the conclusion, it could not affect our duty towards them as hu­man beings, to say nothing about a rea­sonable probability that they are more sinned against than sinning. Tbe plain fact now is, that while the one sister is

a manner provided for, the other, Mrs. Kaue, stands in sore need of assist­ance. She has been ill for months, un­able to earn but the merest pittance, and a few friends, having knowledge of her condition, have stood in tbe breach and carried her through her trials to the present. But they, like most Spiritual­ists, possess only moderate means, and now feel that it is time that the task be distributed over a wide area—in fact, so wide as to include Spiritualists every­where—that is, to say, those who are moved by the gracious spirit of forgive­ness and charity to do their parL

We feel to ask you to help in giving Maggie Fox Kane a fresh start. She ought to be in better lodgings than an

rdinary tenement house, so that she can receive visitors under proper condi­tions for sittings; she needs fit clothing ; and finally money is required for rent, for food, and for incidentals.

To further the ends here set forth, we have constituted ourselves a committee to receive contributions, and we shall, from time to time, give an account of our stewardship, as well as acknowledge all sums received by us.

Fraternally,F r e d e r i c k F . C o o k ,

79 Fourth Avenue, New York.T i t u s M e r r i t ,

323 W. Thirty-Fourth S t, New York.

As tbe apple is evolved from the blos­som, tbe blossom from the tree, tbe tree from the seed, or as the moon from the earth, and the earth from the son, and the sun from the nebula-, and the nebu­la? from the primordial fire-mist that once filled space. 9o has the animal man been evolved through successive changes and progress, from tbe primor­dial fire-mist We must distinguish the physical or animal man from the man as a spirit, manifested in the flesh, but it appears to me tbe evolution theory is ia perfect harmony with Modem Spiritual­ism.

i s — a n e x p r e s s i o n f r o m b e i n g o r s o u l I b o l t s a y s t e n d e g r e e s , w h i c h m e a n s a n y

( t h e t r a n s c e n d e n t a l e g o ) , w h i c h r e m a i n s ' h e i g h t a c c o r d i n g t o t h e d i s t a n c e . T h e

W r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a v .

T H O U G H T S AND FR A G M E N TS.JOHN WETHKRBEE.

Looking at the world around us, or at the universe as it now appears to us ob­jectively, it seems to present to the in­quiring mind three aspects for thought, and this triangular manner seems to cover the whole ground, and it would seem as i f one of them must be righL The three forms presented are:

First. That things have always been substantially as they now appear. Slight superficial changes on the surface

the earth, but this material universe has been eternally and substantially as

e now behold it.Second. That there was a time when

this solid world and universe did not ex­ist, when there was nothing. Space and the universe to fill it were created by the fiat of Infinite Intelligence, that then

as the beginning. This is the Bible doctrine, or what the Scriptures teach.

Third. Is the theory of evolution, hich is now the scientific conclusion

and generally considered the true theory by all thoughtful, intelligent people, both among religious people as well as those of agnostic tendencies.

It seems to me this third aspect is the true and rational way of looking at the cosmogony of the universe; that pri­mordial]}* it was a fire-mist filling space, homogenious in character; being in mo­tion these were so to speak ganglionic centers, which were or became nebula? which in time became suns, and from suns planets and satelites, and each have been improving in conditions until now, and will continue to do in the future as

the past. At a certain period, ages ago, man appeared, and with his intelli­gence is the keystone of the arch, and has been evolved from very low begin­nings, aud has reached in the course of ages his present exalted condition.

Suppose we now look at man in this same triangular way, as we have at the universe. The three aspects then will be:

FirsL Man dies, and that is the end of him. The mind is but tbe blossom of the physical organization which, when dissolved, vanishes. Death is the eud. This is the materialistic theory.

Second. Man dies and is raised from the dead, as is taught in the Bible. This is the resurrection theory.

Third. Man never dies; is a spirit as­sociated with matter; his body dies, his spirit has shuffled off the mortal coil, and survives consciously the dissolution of the body as an immortal and progres- aive being. This is the evolution theory.

MUCH NEEDED WORDS.The writer of an interesting little ar­

ticle on “Cousins German," in Cornbill for September, maintains that however much inferior the German language is to tbe English in many points of view, it contains three words which are much needed. The first is "backfisch," to de­scribe a girl from fifteen to eighteen years of age who keeps a diary, and

' climbs trees secretly, blushes easily, and has no conversation. Tbe second word, which is even more needed than "back­fisch," is “btimmeln." One who hum­mel s is an aggravated edition of onr lounger. The most indispensable word of all,however, is ‘‘schwa-rmen," of which the writer says:

“ The best definition of this word seems to be the falling in love in a purely im­personal manner with tbe artistic or in­tellectual gifts of any more or less dis­tinguished man or woman. It is possi­ble, for example, to “schwa-rmen” for ac­tors, singers, authors, doctors, militaiy commanders, preachers, and painters. A German girl can schwa-rm for any and all these, whether they be male or fe­male, and openly vow the same withont even her mother taking alarm. A man can schwa-rm, too, but tbe objects of his schwarmerei very seldom happens to be of his own sex. Now, English peo­ple are not a whit behind their German cousins in the practice of “schwaerming," but they have no term wherewith to ex­press their enthusiasm which shall never be liable to misinterpretation. There­fore, it is much to be wished that the words backfisch, bummeln, and schwa-r­men may be introduced into the next English dictionary."

P E R SO N A L S.Contributions accepted : M. A. L., A.

G. W., A. B. R., M. J. M., M. E. C, E.W.G.Dr. N. H. Eddy has returned to the

city and is located at 125 East Fifth streetBrother G. H. Brooks has removed

from Madison, Wise., to Elgin, 111., where he may be addressed at 38 Lawrence street

“Luckenough Waltz", by. Minnie Fun McKelvev, is as pretty as the composer. Published by A. Hauser, 17 Clybourn Avenue, Chicago, I1L

Among our contributors this week are Willard J. Hull, Hudson Tuttle, Moses Hull, H. D. Barrett, Mrs. R. S. Lillie, Lyman C. Howe, and others of note.

The Daily Times of Muncie, Ind., says: 'Miss Lizzie Bangs, tbe noted indepen­

dent slate-writer, will be in the city this evening, and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Moore while in tbe city.”

Brother F. N. Foster is demonstrating spirit photographing tn Kansas City un­der test conditions in full view of an au­dience with experts in photography present. Frank knows who ~his spirit friends are and does not fear investiga­tion.

Mr. J. Frank Baxter serves the Union Society for the last time this season next Sunday. Those who have not yet heard this eloquent speaker and really mar­vellous interpreter of the spiritual side of life should avail themselves of this, the last opportunity.

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N otice to S u b s c r ib e r s .• W W a t c h t h e t a g o n y o u r w r a p p e r a a i t

i n d i c a t e s t h e t i m e w h e n y o u r s u b s c r i p t i o n e x ­

p i r e s . R e n e w i m m e d i a t e l y i f y o u d o n o t w is h

t o l o s e a n u m b e r o f y o u r p a p e r . W e c a n n o t

u n d e r t a k e t o n o t i f y e v e r y s u b s c r i b e r o f t h e

e x p i r a t i o n f u r t h e r t h a n t o p r i n t T H E D A T E

O F E X P I R A T I O N O N E A C H Y E L L O W

T A G W I T H Y O U R N A M E . I f y o u c a n n o t

a f f o r d t o r e n e w f o r a y e a r , s e n d i n a h a l f y e a r l y

a q u a r t e r l y s u b s c r i p t i o n .

T h b B e t t e r W a y b e i n g t h e c h e a p e s t S p i r i t ­

u a l i s t p a p e r p u b l i s h e d a n d t h e a v e n u e f o r t h e

b e s t a n d l e a d i n g m i n d s t o e x p r e s s t h e i r

t h o u g h t s , i t s h o u l d b e r e a d i n e v e r y f a m i l y

c i r c l e . I t w i l l b e s e n t o n t r i a l t h r e e m o n t h s f o r

I S c e n t s . ________________

How Is T h i s ?W e o f f e r O u e H u n d r e d D o l l a r s R e w a r d f o r

n o c a s e o f C a t a r r h t h a t c a n n o t b e c u r e d b y t a k ­i n g H a l l ' a C a t a r r h C u r e .

F . J . C i i b n r v f t C o . , P r o p ' s , T o l e p o , O .

W e , t h e u n d e r s i g n e d , h a v e k n o w n F . J . C h e ­n e y f o r t h e l a s t f i f t e e n y e a r s , a n d b e l i e v e h i m p e r f e c t l y h o n o r a b l e i n a l l b u s i n e s s t r a n s a c t i o n s a n d f i n a n c i a l l y a b l e t o c a r r y o u t a n y o b l i g a t i o n

m a d e b y t h e i r f i r m .W e s t & T r u a x , W h o l e s a l e D r u g g i s t s , T o l e d o ,

O h i o .W a l d i x o , K i n n a m A M a r v i n , W h o l e s a l e D r u g ­

g i s t s , T o l e d o , O h i o .

OCTOBER 34, 1801 T H E B E T T E R WAV.

Correspondence.N ew Y o r k , N . Y .

T h e r e w e * a l a r g e a t t e n d a n c e a t A d e l p t a t H a l l i n t h e a f t e r n o o n . M r . B u n c e o p e n e d t h e m e e t ­

i n g w i t h a f e w w e l l - c h o a e n r e m a r k s , a n d c o n - g r a t a l a t e d t h e p e o p l e u p o n t h e p l e a a n n t a r r a y • f s p e a k e r s h e s a w b e f o r e h i m .

M r . J . W . F l e t c h e r w a s f i r s t c a l l e d f o r , a n d

t o o k « p t h e q u e s t i o n o f t h e K c u m e n l e a l C o u n ­c i l n o w b e i n g h e l d a t W a s h i n g t o n , a n d r e f u t e d t h e s t a t e m e n t t h a t “ n o m a n c a n b e l i e v e i n s c i ­

e n c e a n d t h e g o o d n e s s o f G o d . ” I n g r a p h i c

l a n g u a g e h e p i c t u r e d h o w m u c h m o r e b e a u t i ­f u l t h e w o r l d w a s i n t h e l i g h t o f s c i e n c e t h a n

t h e o l o g y , a n d c o n c l u d e d b y s a y i n g t h a t w h e n

h u m a n i t y h a d j u s t i c e t h e y w o u l d b e e i t h e r d e ­p e n d e n t u p o n t h e g o o d n e s s o f G o d , o r t h e c h a r t

t y o f t h e w o r l d . H e w a s l i s t e n e d t o w i t h g r e a t i n t e r e s t .

M r s . J u d g e S m i t h s a i d s h e w a s a l w a y s r e a d y t s s t a n d u p f o r t h e t r u t h , t h a t s h e k n e w t h a t

S p i r i t u a l i s m w a s a t r u t h , a n d h a d r e a l i s e d i t s

g r e a t p o w e r .

M r s . A u g u s t a P l e t c h e r , i * s p e a k i n g o f t h e

t r u t h , d e c l a r e d i t w a s n o t g i v e n t o a n y o n e

s o n l t o k e e p f o r e x c l u s i v e u s e . b u t w a s i u t e n d e d

t o b e p a s s e d o n f r o m o n e t o t h e o t h e r u n t i l t h e

p u r p o s e o f g r o w t h h a d b e e n a t t a i u e d , t h a t w e

m u s t a l l s t a n d w i t h o p e n h e a r t s r e a d y t o r e .

c e i v e , b u t t o a s k i n d l y a n d g e n e r o u s l y g i v e .

M r s . D r . G o o d w i n , u n d e r a s t r o n g i n f l u e n c e ,

s p o k e o f t h e g r e a t w o r k g o i n g o n i n t h e

C h u r c h , a n d p a r t i c u l a r l y o f a s e r m o n B i s h o p P o t ­

t e r p r e a c h e d i n S a r a t o g a , i n w h i c h h e , i n r e a l i ­

t y , a c c e p t e d t h e a p i r i t u a l p l a t f o r m , s i n c e h e

a s s e r t e d t h a t “ t h e s p i r i t u a l w a s a r o u n d u s

• e v e r y w h e r e , a n d o u r a s c e n d * d f r i e n d s w e r e

b e n d i u g i n l o v i n g b e n e d i c t i o n . ”T h e i n t e r e s t i n g s e r v i c e s c l o s e d w i t h a m a g ­

n i f i c e n t r e n d i t i o n o f “ L i b e r t y , ” b y M r s . A g u s -

t a C h a m b e r s .I n t h e e v e n i n g M r . F l e t c h e r s p o k e o n " T h e

p o s i t i o n o f t h e P s y c h i c a l S o c i e t y . ” H e r e ­

n e w e d t h e v a r i o u s e f f o r t s m a d e b y s c i e n t i f i c

w in d t h e ^ l o g i c a l i n v e s t i g a t i o n s , a n d s h o w e d n o w

f u t i l e t h e y h a d a l l b e e n , b e c a u s e f r o m t h e b e ­

g i n n i n g i g n o r a n c e o f a l l l a w h a d b e e n t h e r u l ­

i n g p o w e r . T h i s n e w s a c i e t y . i f i t w a s h o n e s t ,

w a s c e r t a i n l y t o h e w e l c o m e d , s i n c e i t r e p r e ­

s e n t e d t h e m a s t l i b e r a l e l e m e n t i n t h e C h u r c h ,

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w o r s e i n t h e l i f e t o c o m e , i f w e a r e b a n i s h e d f r o m h i s p r e s e n c e ? W i l l i t b e m u c h o f a p u n ­

i s h m e n t ?I f G o d i s a n a l l - p o w e r f u l , o m n i p o t e n t b e i n g ,

w h y d o e s h e p e r m i t s i n a n d s o r r o w t o e x i s t ? I f

h e c o n l d p r e v e n t a n d d o e s n o t , i s h e a g o o d b e ­i n g ? I f h e i s g o o d , b u t c a n n o t p r e v e n t i t , i s

h e o m n i p o t e n t ? I f n o o n e a t a n y t i m e h a s s e e n G a d , h o w d o w e k n o w t h a t H e e x i s t s ? H a s G o d

a t a n y l i m e e v e r m a d e h i m s e l f m a n i f e s t t o

m a n ? I f s a , h o w ? D i d H e s p e a k t o m a n ? I f s a , h o w d i d . t h e m a n k n o w i f i t w a s r e a l l y G o d ?

B i d t h e v o i c e t e l l h i m s o ? I f i t d i d , h o w d i d h e

k n o w t h a t i t t o l d h i m t h e t r u t h ? I f C h r i s t i s G o d ' s s o n a n d h a s g o n e t o s i t a t h i s r i g h t b a n d

f o r e v e r a n d e v e r , a n d G o d f i l l s a l l s p a c e , w h e r e d o e s C h r i s t s i t , a n d w h a t d o e s h i s t h r o n e r e s t

a a ? I f C h r i s t m a d e h i m s e l f a s a c r i f i c e f o r s i n , d i d t h a t ! m a k e s i n a n y t h e l e s s ? I f I c o m m i t a

m u r d e r , a n d . y o u g i v e y o u r s e l f t o b e e x e c u t e d i n m y p l a c e , d o e s t h a t m a k e m e a n y t h e l e s s a m u r d e r e r ? I f I a l l o w e d y o u t o s u f f e r i n m y

p l a c e , w o u l d i t n o t b e a d d i n g s i n t o s i n ? C o u l d

I b e h a p p y i f f r e e d b y s u c h a s a c r i f i c e ? I f G o d i s * t r i u n e b e i n g , i s H e a n e n t i t y w i t h t h r e e

b o d i e s , o r a b o d y w i t h t h r e e h e a d s ? I f G o d t h e

f a t h e r f i l l s s p a c e , w h e r e d o e s h e s e n d G o d t h e s p i r i t ? O u t s i d e s p a c e ? W h e n C h r i s t r e t u r n e d

t o t h e F a t h e r , w h e r e d i d h e h a v e t o r e t u r n i f G a d i s e v e r y w h e r e ? I f G o d i s e v e r y w h e r e a n d

f i l l s i m m e n s i t y . H e m u s t b e a f i x t u r e . A n d i f a f i x t u r e , h o w c a n H e h e l p u s ? A n d i f H e c a n ' t

h e l p u s , w h a t g o o d i s H e , a n d w h a t d o w e w a n t w i t h a G o d a n y h a t f i I f , a s a s t r o n o m y t e l l s u s , t h e w o r l d s w e r e e v o lv e d f r o m g a s e o u s m a t t e r

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c r y s t a l l i z e d f r o m t h a t b y n a t u r a l p r o c e s s e s , a n d i f f r o m t h e a t o m s t h e w o r l d s w e r e f o r m e d ,

a n d i f h e l d i n t h e i r p l a c e s b y a t t r a c t i o n a n d r e ­p u l s i o n , b y c e n t r i p e t a l a n d c e n t r i f u g a l f o r c e , a n d i f t h e y r u n t h e i r e t e r n a l r o u n d s b y w h a t w e c a l l l a w , w h i c h i s a n e t e r n a l p r i n c i p l e i n n a ­

t u r e , t h e u n i v e r s e o f m a t t e r n e e d s n o G o d . N o w i f f r o m t h e a t o m t h e m o n a d t h e f i r s t t h i n g p o s s e s s i n g l i f e ) i s f o r m e d , a n d b y t h e l a w o f e v o l u t i o n c o v e r i n g c o u n t l e s s a g e s b y t h e " s u r ­

v i v a l o f t h e f i t t e s t " f r o m t h i s m i n u t e s p e c k

t h a t t h e s t r o n g e s t m i c r o s c o p e s c a r c e l y d i » c e r n s , m a n h a s b e e n e v o l v e d , a n d i f i t b e t r u e

t h a t m a n c a m e u p f r o m t h e m o n a d a n d m i c r o b e , a n d w a s n o t o n c e a n a n g e l , t h e n h e n e v e r f e l l .I f h e n e v e r f e l l , h e d o e s n ' t n e e d u p l i f t i n g , d o e s n ' t n e e d s a v i n g , d o e s n ' t n e e d G o d .

N o w i f w o r l d s h a v e e x i s t e d m i l l i o n s a n d m i l l i o n s o f a g e s a g o , a n d i f t h e f i r s t o n e h a s b e e n

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

a d u p t h e g r e a t l a d d e r t h a t f a r , d o e s i t h a v e t o s t o p ? I f n o t , a n d m a n i n h i s s p i r i t u a l n a t u r e g o e s o n a n d o n u p t h i s n e v e r - e n d i n g l a d d e r , m i g h t n o t t h e s e b e i n g s g o u p t h i s l a d d e r t o t h e

a n g e l , a n d m i g h t n o t t h o s e w h o p e o p l e d t h e f i r s t w o r l d s t h a t w e r e e v e r e v o l v e d , h a v e g o n • a a n d o n u p f r o m t h e a n g e l i n t h e e t e r n a l c l i m b o f p r o g r e s s i o n , u n t i l t h e y c o u l d p r o d u c e a l l t h e p h e n o m e n a t h a t h a v e l e d u s m o r t a l s t o b e l i e v e t h e r e i s a G o d ? O r h a v e t h e y g o n e o n u p f r o m t h e a n g e l s t e p b y s t e p u n t i l t h e i r o w n

- p e r f e c t i o n h a s d e i f i e d t h e m , a n d t h e y h a v e b e

| C o rn y g o d s ? I s t h e B i b l e t e x t t r u e , t h e n , t h a • s a y s " t h e r e a r e g o d s m a n y a n d l o r d s m a n y

a n d i f t h e s e c h i l d r e n o f m e n h a v e t h u s p r o ­g r e s s e d a n d b e e n p u r i f i e d , g l o r i f i e d , a n d d e l f i e d , d o w e n e e d a n y o t h e r G o d t h a n t h e s e ?

S . T . S r i . d i c k .

I note J. Clegg Wright’s "Answers to Questions" contain some thouglit\pcr- tinent here. Let me preface his remarks hy stating that I personally know him he an unconscious trance-medium first-class development I can not say that these remarks came through the trance condition; in other words, from a spirit guide, but I do affirm that I have heard his guides speak as radically, llis gnides are intellectual and who can affirm that they do not know as much of God as any spirit; there is sound logic in all they say—at least all I have heard them say or read after them, and logic seems to me more sensible than theorizing. Here let me quote Mr. Wright.

"All the gods that men have ever adored have been created by the imagi­nation.

"It is the work of civilization to get rid of the gods. It is one of the primal works of Spiritualism to get rid of the gods, and that is the most practical work he for A s to-day.

"You may speak of Jupiter or Jehovah or any god, but none of these gods could put a linger upon .the phenomena of na­ture and stop that.

" G o d is not a thing in this universe; Cod is a prio.i deduction of the human mind ; God is a supposition only in the best reason, and in dealing with God as

a supposition, his qualities, his capabili­ties, his resources, and his plans are all hid. We can call this deduction of the reason 'God* if we will. Ido not think it wise to call this power God.

"A God,or a being,or a principle which can think is a personality. Thinking belongs to personality. The non-think­ing God is a force. God must either be a person or a force."

I have not taken space to present his logic on these statements further than the sentences show logic. I hold with him that "that which can think is a per­sonality." Does he not say true when he states that there is no God who could put a finger upon the phenomena of na­ture and stop that ?

I have read A. B. Richmond’s "Sun­light of Spiritualism," in a recent Pro­gressive Thinker, and while he makes some notable points, and claims no per­sonal God, yet he argues for a thinking God. To say "Supreme Intellect,” has reference to a thinking God. To offer invocation—prayer and pleading—is to address a thinking personality, as I un­derstand it If that has reference to the many advanced spirits I could agree; but I uotice the invocations of our mediums are often addressed to“Our Father God.” That implies an individual intellect

Were I to embody my prayer in words it would run- something like this: Oh Nature! Mighty and beautiful are thy workings. I see thee in all things—the mountains, forests, heavenly bodies ; all things that fly or swim, walk or creep; all that we breathe, partake of, or view; in all that lives or moves, or stands a solid, apparently unchanging mass of matter, lifeless, yet grand. In the waves, the clouds, the streams, the lands, I feel thee within, therefore I adore. My heart

receptive to thee for aspirations, but my prayers are offered unto those of thy handwork who have grace enabling them

aid those whose aspirations would lead to lofty deeds and desires. May the

ngel friends, who are wise and good,aid me to do that which my soul voices in unspoken longings.

No doubt but that many would laugh my prayer, but it seems to answer my

needs and understanding. I can not bring my mind to the point of compre­hending a thinking God who, with all the amount of work on hand, could pause

answer prayer for me. But you may say my reflections do not run back far enough, there was something before spirits had advanced.

I find the farther hack we look for God the more we see a lack of that perfect intellect we would naturally suppose a God endowed with. If once all-wise,

rer all-wise it would seem. If evolution stands in hand for the "God-intellect," why may we not all become gods ? That being the case, does not my prayer have weight, reason. And there again arises the unsolved question: How did God originate.

I never read the words of one who writes for me without a feeling of grate­fulness, therefore I thank E. W. Baldwin.

et I do not clearly comprehend his statement that" force is intelligence,love, motion." Force is motion; love I know to be a powerful emotion, but the intel­ligent claim I do not grasp. I do "make iod to represent all the combined scien­

tific forces.” Nature is the whole: nature is force—where intellect begins I do not know.

When I use the term "God," it is not from any love of the name. In fact the word has stood as a mouth-piece for so many who practice evil, yet rely on their belief in such a beiug, that it grows more distasteful daily. I use it because to many it stands for good, since Spiritual­ists have given it that attribute. We get it from the Bible. I can not reverence that book. I have read its history and much of its pages. I confess I never yet have waded through it page after page. Even when a church member, "saved by the grace of God," I would grow so disgust­ed as to feel that I sinned more by read ing it than by letting it alone. I have read it more since I forsook Christian ity, but without the same fear when ! have been shocked at its wording. I am not inclined to the word God, but must use it occasionally until the mass of hu­manity grow to an understanding of some purer term as applied to a power that seems to "hold the world in place.' To me

" N a t u r e l a m o t i o n ' • m o t h e r ,T h e s p r i n g w h e n c e o r d e r f l o w a ; t h a t a l l d i r e c t A n d k n i t s t h e c a u s e w i t h t h e e f f e c t s . "

The human mind, so long taught to believe there was a personal God, prone to ding about a force, human, that originated intellect far back in the dim uncertain ages. A force originated in tellect but proof is lacking as to its be ing human. What originated life? E olution ? What gave the power that causes a grunt ? Is there intellect in grunt? Out of the grunting sound may not evolution have developed the fou dation for intellectual powers ? Progress through evolution, both on material a spiritual planes of existence, may hav worked wonders. Once intellect became a habit, a part of human entailment could not evolution have brought along with man to that remote period geneology which history gives us? don't know. Nature is a wonderful par­ent.N a t u r e I g r e a t p a r e n t ! w h o s e u n c e a s i n g h a n d R o l l s r o u n d t h e s e a s o n s o f t h e c h a n g e f u l y e a r , H o w m i g h t y , h o w m a j e s t i c a r e t h y w o r k s I W i t h w h a t a p l e a s i n g d r e a d t h e y s w e l l t h e s o u l I T h a t s e c s a s t o n i s h ' d ! a u d a s t o n i s h ' d s l u g s !

W r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a v .

Autumn Leaves.MRS. GRAHAM.

T h e l e a v e s a r e s w i f t l y ( a i l i n g ,T h e t r e e s a r e g e t t i n g b a r e ,

W i t h b u t a p a t c h o f g r e e n n e s s

V i s i b l e h e r e a n d t h e r e .

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S t r i p s t h e l e a v e s f r o m t h e i r q u i v e r i n g b r a n c h e s , A n d h u r r i e s t h e m t o t h e i r d e a t h .

T h e g r o u n d I s t h l c k - s t r c w n w i t h t h e b e a u t i e s , W h e r e t h e w i u d h a s e n s t t h e m d o w u ;

T h e s c a r l e t a n d g o l d o f t h e m a p l e s ,A n d t h e b e e c h e s c o p p e r y b r o w n .

O h I b u t i t s e e m s r u t h l e s s a n d c r u e l ,T o t h u s t r a m p l e u n d e r t h e f e e t ,

W h a t h a s g i v e n s u c h e x q u i x i t i v e p l e a s u r e ,A n d a f f o r d e d s o c o o l n r e t r e a t .

W r i t t e n f o r T h e B e t t e r W a y .SPIRITUAL THOUGHTS.

MRS. CUL1A LOUCKS.I might begin by saying: I lived in the

long-ago. But you might understand that simple senteuce as meaning that I am now a ghostly presence disconnected from the surging, realistic life on earth to-day, and therefore, too ethereal to think modern thoughts or dream of the fruition of hope— hope which always signifies future accomplishment. Ghost­ly I may be, but not the fleshless, blood­less nonentity you may thiuk nte to be. While I think for to-day, I live for to­morrow—the eternal to-morrow. I bor­row from the past a relative proportion of pre-historic life aud spin from the dis­taff of developing intellectuality, the silk­en, maguetic threads of thought, always weaving them into a shining web for the dawning to-morrow—that which never comes, but toward it are we forever go­ing.

Yes, I lived in the great past, I live in the present, and shall live in the future. Already are my potent powers of being projected from an idealistic self-hood in­to future possibilities, active with re­generative thoughts that must go with breath and motion. There glints along the electric chord of memory evanescent pictures of the far yesterdays, things I have lived and known. The far yester­days, multiplication of figures beyond human comprehension, would not num­ber those yesterdays. I was a ray of light in that great and mysterious past, always gathering from the forces about me. I live in harmony with the univer­sality of life. Millions of vibrant chords within my centralized being send forth tender harmonies whenever the higher spirit of a human nature, forgetful of self, does a kindly deed to a forsaken and neglected brother or sister, or when one mourns, a simple flower’s untimely death. There lies in the deep depths of memory, a picture of lofty palms. A tropical sun shines over them. A silvery sea encroaches upon shining sands. Mistily, another picture unfolds, and I am thrilled by connecting harmonies from a distant, golden orb of light in the life-filled ether above. My soul’s concep­tion grasps the anterior connection, re- cieves and knows its affinity to the pow­ers, however far that be, but the present environments debar from memory clear impressment of what that distant world is to me, past or future. Well, I can wait till the vail between grows thin­ner. I must wait till time shall have wrought change—development. If I am

real, earthly, material being, to you to­day, Chen I am a spirit of the yesterday

past time, and a pre-natal being which the future shall bring forth. Life never dies, never is killed. Death is a sem­blance of tbe silent change constantly going on. "The wind bloweth where it listeth and no one knows whence the spirit of man conictb."

Man has ever been a reality in some form. A germ of creation gathering

gher power in the new birth accorded him.

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columns, Mrs. Lena Bible requests us to make the following corrections: She

rites: “ When I introduce the quota' tion from Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

should read 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton peaking of her examination of the Bible

for the purpose of discovering the status of women under tbe Jewish aud Chris Uan religion.’ In print the words 'of hci

xamination’ are omitted. Then you have printed the quotation: 'We found nothing grand in the history of the Jew or the morals inculcated in the TcstO' ment,' the last word should be 'Penta' teuch’ instead of Testament. And c o u p

meuting on the quotation I say, 'and in deed there are multitudes of people to day who believe that to accord womeu equal rights with men would be flying n the face of providence,' you have pru

dence in place of 'providence.'And finally in that portion of the ar

tide referring to the Spiritual Badge speaking of the sunflower always appea ing to me, encouraging to renewed effort to keep facing the s u n of truth, ism o: truth is printeal iu place of'sun.'"

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itualiam offends, but the uonaenae talke in its name, tbe frauds and follies th deface it, the unprovable pretention that people put forth in connection with it. These have been chiefly rcaponsib! for any unpopularity that has fallen upo

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its reply in th e ch aracterization o f such b y the bishop : “ T h e abom in ation o f d es­olation in th e H o ly P lace.” I t Is n ot quite so serio u s as th is . In the first place the q u e stio n in g o f th ese wom en im plies a w an t o f tru st in a creedal m ec­hanism . In th e secon d place, th e daw n­in g o f a con sciou sn ess th at no o u e is b etter fitted to g ra p p le w ith the “ eternal q u e stio n ” than th e in d ivid u al in whom th e y rise . T h e y w ill soon learn what has been so b ea u tifu lly expressed by F re d e ric k W . R obertson in the “ T rium ph o v e r H in dran ces” : “ N o man ever trod e x a ctly th e path (religious) th at oth ers tr o d before him . T here is no exa ct c h a rt laid down for the vo yage. T h e ro ck s and quicksands are s h i f t in g ; he -who enters upon th e ocean o f ex isten ce arches his sails to an u n tried breeze. ‘H e is the first th at ever b u rst in to th at lon e­ly sea.’ E v e ry life is a life . E v e ry d a y is a new day— lik e n o th in g th at ever w en t before, o r can ever fo llow after. N o b ooks, no system s, n o forecast, no se t o f ru les, can p rovide for a ll c a s e s ; every <ase is a new case. A n d ju s t as in an y ea rth ly en terp rise, th e con d u ct o f a cam ­p a ign . th e b u ild in g o f a b rid g e , unfore­seen d ifficu lties and u n exp ected disas­te rs m ust b e m et b y th a t in exh au stib le fe r tility o f in v e n tio n w h ich b elo n gs to th o se w h o d o n o t liv e to G o d secon d­h a n d . W e m u st liv e to G o d first-hand.”

A creed is b u t th e m easu re o f a w o rth ­le s s treasure. A ll creeds are n o th in g b u t a -vehicle fo r th e fu rth eran ce o f p ro g res­s iv e th o u g h t a t its ou tset, a n d w h en th e h u m an m in d h as advanced b eyo n d th e h o u n d s o f its lim itatio n s, i t h a s served it s m ission. T h is is tru e in a ll th in gs. T h e p o litica l party-m an to-d ay dem ands a n absurd th in g w h en h e a sk s a fu rth er lease o f life for an in stru m en ta lity o f e x ­p re ss io n , w h ose so le reason fo r such a d em an d is based upon its perform an ce in the past. T h e d e c lin e o f an in stru ­m en t is n o t an in d icatio n o f th e d ecay o f th e prin cip le th at h as used it and has progressed b eyon d and above. W e w ou ld lik e to call th e a tten tio n o f a ll su ch creedal p essim ists to a p aragrap h from the N ew E n g la n d M a ga zin e : “ N ocen tury ever pu lsated w ith n o b le r p u r­pose or m ore v ig o ro u s en d ea vo r than th is nineteenth. T h e a p p a ren t d r ift in g o f onr moral and in te lle c tu a l l i fe fo r th irty years past has b een n o t o n ly in appearance. W e are in th e la s t decade o f the cen tury ; even ts d o n o t cro w d so m uch as ideas. T h e se w ill h a sten o n to fulfillm ent. T h e y c o v e r e v e ry fie ld o f hum an en ergy. E d u ca tio n is a t th e b o t­tom o f a ll hop e aud p ro g re ss ; a n d o u t o f education has ju s t been b o rn th e e n th u s­iasm called “ U n iv ersity E x te n s io n ,” : term than fa ils w h o lly to c o n v e y to th popular m in d th e n o ve lty a n d th e g r e a t­ness o f th e p u rp o se co n ceiv ed . N o t less gran d and n a tu ra l as a r e su lt o f the past is th e c o n cep tio n o f a “ W o rld -w id e D em ocratic C h u rch .” T h is is o n ly th e application o f rep u b lica n ism to th e o lo g y and re lig io u s effo rt. I t m ea n s th e d i placem ent o f a w o rld -w id e m o n arch ica l C hurch b y a C h u rc h b ased o n p o p u la sen tim en t an d in d iv id u a l lib e rty . I t i possiple. T h e p o p e h im s e lf b e g in s to desert th e m on arch y. H is re c e n t en c yc lical is a p la in e ffo rt to re a d ju st th e o ld C hurch to m odern p ro g re ss.

T h e dem ocratic m ovem ent in E urop e is g a in in g everyw h ere. T h e am eliorat­in g influences o f individual th o u gh t and actio n are a stro n g leaven th at is per­m ea tin g e v e ryth in g and everyb ody. T h e la test co lle ctive w o rk in th is direction w ill be th e S ocialist co n gress w h ich w ill b e h eld in E rfu rt, G erm an y. T h e ir de­m ands com prise u n iversal su ffrage w ith ­o u t d istiu ctio n as to sex ; a secret b allot; p rop ortion ate representation ; v o tin g on S u n d ays o r h o lid a y s ; th e paym en t o f m e m b e rs; th e popular r ig h t to in itia te o r reject leg is latio n ; p o p u lar co n tro l o f th e S tate, p rovin cial, and com m unal ad­m in istration ; annual vo tes on taxatio n ; a popular decision as to peace o r w a r ; th e creatio n o f in tern ation al arbitration trib u n als ; th e r ig h t o f free sp eech and free m ee tin g s th e a b olitio n o f S tate su b ven tion s to C h u rch es ; th e secu lariza­tion o f sch ools ; free education ; un ivers- I al m ilitary in stru ctio n , m ilitia rep la cin g I th e sta n d in g arm y; free ju stice ; th e e lec­tion o f ju d g e s by th e p eo p le ; gra tu ito u s m e d ic in e ; S ta te-su p p o rted d o cto rs ; a p ro g re ssive in com e ta x ; th e a b o litio n o f in d irect taxatio n ; e ig h t h ou rs for a d a y ’s w o r k ; u n b ro k en rep o se fo r th irty-six h o u rs w e e k ly fo r ev ery w orkm an ; S ta te su rv e illa u ce o f fa ctories, m in es, and o th er in d u strie s ; th e form ation o f lab or b u re a u s; th e co-op eration o f w orkm en in th e a d m in is tra t io n ; u n iv ersa l S tate in su ran ce ; p ro h ib itin g th e em p lo ym en t o f ch ild ren u n d e r fou rteen yea rs o f age ; the p ro h ib itio n o f th e tr u c k system , aud the r ig h t o f w o rk m e n to form coalitio n s.

T h e S u p rem e C o u rt o f M in n e so ta h as reversed th e d e c is io n o f th e lo w er courts, and filed a d ecisio n fin d in g d e a l­ing in gra in il le g a l and vo id . T h is w ill give th e o p erato rs o f th e tw o la rg e boards o f trade o f D u lu th and M in n e a p ­olis an o p p o rtu n ity to re p u d ia te th e ir contracts w ith im p u n ity , i f th e y d esire , vh en on th e w r o n g s id e o f th e m a rk e t, except w hen th e y h a v e real w h e a t, o a ts and other c o m m o d ities . T h e fin d in g o f the court is as fo l lo w s : “ C o n tra c ts fo r the sale and d e liv e ry o f g ra in a n d o th e r com m odities to b e d e liv e re d a t a fu tu re <b»y are not p e r se u n la w fu l w h e re p a rties in good fa ith in ten d to p e rfo rm th e m -according to th e ir term s. B u t c o n tra c ts in form for a fu tu re d e liv e ry , n o t in te n d ­ed to represent a ctu al tra n s a c tio n s , b u t merely to pay and r e c e iv e th e d iffe re n ce between the a g reed p r ic e at- a fu tu r e d a y , •re in the n ature o f a w a g e r o n th e fu t­ure price on th e c o m m o d ity a n d vo id . The order o f th e lo w e r c o u rts is re ­versed.”

A t th e fo u rth d a y ’s sessio n o f th e M e th o d ist E cu m e n ic a l C o u n cil at W a sh ­in g to n , D. C ., R ev. W . F . D a v id so n , o f E n g la n d , tu to r o f b ib lica l lite ra tu re and e x e g e s is in R ich m o n d C o lle g e (E n glan d), g a v e an a d d ress on th e su b je c t o f “ T h e B ib le aud M o d e rn C r itic ism ,” o f w h ich th e fo llo w in g is an a b s tr a c t :

B ib lica l c r it ic ism is now a science. I t is a very young science, though not younger than m any of its strong and th r iv in g s is te rs . I t is s t i l l young , however, and its fram e is by no means fu lly formed and set, but i t c la im s to be treated as a science and m ust be reckoned w ith as such by re lig ious teachers. I t im p lies fu ll and free in q u iry in to everyth ing that concerns the B ib le as a series o f lite ra ry documents. The text, the date, the authorsh ip , the s ty le , the subject-m atter o f the various books, inc lud ing th e ir bearing upon h isto rica l and scientific subjects, so fa r as the^Bible touches upon these, a l l these are leg itim ate subjects o f in q u iry , and the exam ination in to them has been so m inute , so carefu l, so e labo iate , and to c< reprehensive that it has been erected in to science, w ith m any im portant branches.

I .i t t le o r no d ifficu lty o r difference o f opinion arises w ith regard to one great d iv is io n o f B ib lica l c r it ic ism —that know n as low er o r text­ual c r it ic ism . A be liever in the very h ighest doctrine o f verbal in sp ira tio n can not object to the operation o f a scienee w h ich determ ines as accurately as possible the tex t o f the Scrip t­ures. Nay, l i k e the la te D r . T re ze lie s , he should be the most anxious to promote it , that he may have the ip s iss im a verba o f the o rig ina l m anuscript as n early as possible before h im . Nevertheless, there have been tim es when the idea o f so h an d lin g the received text has been thought scandalous, p lasphem ous. T h e very versions o f S crip tu res have been endowed w ith n fa ll ib i l it y ; the vowel po ints o f the Hebrew ext—a device o f the seventh centu ry . A . D .—

have not been held to be a part o f insp ired rev­e lation , and it is not m any years s ince a fierce attack was made upon the New Testam ent re­v ise rs for hav ing ventured to depart from the rad itional text. I t is , however, now genera lly

recognized that te x tu a l c r it ic ism on the Old and New Testam ent is desirab le , inev itab le . T h e process o r asce rta in ing accurate ly and sc ie n tif ica lly the precise o rig in a l text is d iffi­cu lt and com plex. lu the New Testam ent the methods to be adopted and the re su lts thus reached are accepted by scholars w ith fa ir ly general consent. In the case of the Old Testa­m ent, however, m uch le ss progress has been made. M any circum stances retard the in vesti­gation, and, w hether we l ik e i t o r not, i t m ust be confessed that a t pres* n t the exact c r it ica l value o f the trad itio na l text rem ains to be de­term ined . T h e varia tions , however, o f reading both in the old and new te x t , though num er­ous, are so s lig h t and com parative ly un im port­an t as affects doctrine that the C h ris tian Church is content for scholars to pursue the ir laborious w o rk o f determ in ing these minutiae w ithout an y a la rm or d isturbance o f m ind .

B u t i t is o therw ise w ith h ig her c rit ic ism where the a ttacks on C h ris tian b e lie f are bolder. B u t agreem ent is stead ily growing, and, ta k in g the d ifficu lties in to consideration it m ust be adm itted that the h ig her crit ic ism especia lly h is to rica l, now approaches a science and it s re su lts m ust be fra n k ly m et by th preacher. R e lig io u s teachers m ust not in te r­fere w ith sc ien tific w o rk on its own plane, bu m ust ca re fu lly watch it . Science m ay meddl w ith the c a sk e t ; it can not m ar o r even reach the subtle perfum e w ith in .

The Church m ust beware o f setting it s face reso lu te ly against scien tificC h ria tian c rit ic ism I t m ust not take up a position that m ight soon prove untenable. C r it ic ism has been o f real benefit to the C hurch . T h e ie are dangers beware o f. Such are the'.rationaltstic assum p tions o f some c r i t ic s ; the hasty adoption o f hypotheses w ithout suffic ient proof.

F o llo w in g th e se rem a rk s th e re w as v a r ie ty o f o p in io n s c o n c e r n in g th e rela t io n s h ip o f th e h ig h e r c r itic ism to th e B ib le . R e v . D r. D ew a rt, o f T o ro n to sa id h e d id n o t l ik e a n y th in g th a t h in te d th a t fa ith w as to g o on i f s c ie n c e co n tra d ie te d it , fo r g e n u in e w as actu al tru th H e c o u ld n o t a d m it th a t C h r is t w. p ro d u c t o f e v o lu tio n . T h e R e v. F ra n k B allard , o f E n g la n d , said th a t i f a m an d id n o t b e lie v e in sc ie n ce h e d id n o t b e ­lie v e in G o d had b een said b efore, b u t it w as e q u a lly tru e n ow . H e had been to ld A m e ric a w a s tw e n ty y e a rs b eh in d E n g la n d in th is m atter. L iv in g m en a n d w om en c o u ld n o t b e u n d ersto o d w ith o u t sc ie n tific k n o w le d g e , an d th at k n o w le d g e sh o u ld b e w elcom ed . T h e r e w a s d a n g e r o f th e C h u rc h p la y in g th e o s tr ic h , aud b y h id in g its h e a d .tr y iu g to ig n o r e th e th in g s o u tsid e . H e d id n ot b e lie v e th a t u n b e lie f w as a m a tter o f th e h ea rt. H e sa id th a t h e h a d le tters fro m ea rn est, th o u g h tfu l s k e p tic s th at w ere as fu ll o f lo n g in g a n d d esire for th e tru th as a n y e v e r seen . D r. B u c k le y ,

th e “ illu strio u s” anti-w om en suffragist, th o u g h t that re lig io n was n ot a m atter o f in duction , d eduction , o r observation, b u t o f faith and heart. S cien ce can not g iv e an y help u p o n th e fundam ental question s o f relig ion . C h ristian ity was as false as the w ild est su p erstition , u n ­less th e b irth o f C h rist w as th e result o f d ivin e operation upon a wom an w ith out th e agen cy o f m an. T h e R ev. Jam es T rab tree, o f E n g la n d , th o u g h t i t very desirab le to estab lish the greatest frien d ­sh ip betw een re lig io n and scien ce, lu any d ivorce b etw een them it w as re lig­ion th at w ou ld suffer. T h e re lig io u s u n b e lie f aud u n settlem en t o f th e tim es w as d u e to th e attitu d e o f som e theolo­gian s tow ard th e n ew lig h t o f science. T h e C hristian fa ith and its records should n ot sh r in k from th e m ost search in g critic ism , i f th at c ritic ism b e m ade b y a se e k in g heart. W e o n ly exp osed o u r­selves, as th in k e rs and teachers, to rid i­cu le i f w e assum ed th a t a ll th o se w ho critic ised u s d id so o u t o f a bad heart. T h e C h ristian creeds w ere for the m ost part ou tcom es o f co n tro v ersies, w h ich w ere d ee p ly in te re stin g to th o se w ho en g a g e d in th em . T h is a ge cla im ed the r ig h t w h ich o th er a g e s had had to p u t its ow n co n stru ctio n upon tru th .

C h airm an A r th u r sa id th a t h e had n eve r h eard in a M e th o d ist A sse m b ly a d isc u ss io n w h ich cau sed him su ch deep fe e liu g as th e o n e h ea rd th is m orn in g. H e had h eard w o rd s u sed, th e m ean in g o f w h ich w as e v id e n tly n o t c le a rly u n ­d ersto o d b y th e sp eakers. W h a t was e v o lu tio n ? T h e u n ro llin g o f a th in g from itse lf. G iv e th e flow er th e sun and rain and i t w o u ld u n fo ld itse lf, b ecause there w as p o w er a t th e root. B ish op K e n n e r th o u g h t th a t creatio n in th e m in d o f G o d w as sh o w n in th e B o o k s o f M oses. H e d ep recated a ll a p o leg etic v iew s o f th e creatio n .

T h e R e v. L lo y d Jo n es, o f W a les, as on e o f th e y o u n g m in is te rs a cc e p tin g e v o lu ­tio n , sa id th a t h e d id n ot ta k e th e a g n o s­tic v ie w o f ev o lu tio n . I t w as n o t a q u es­tio n o f w h e th e r G o d "Created th e w orld, b u t h o w h e d id it. I t w as n o t w ith th e h ea rt th a t m en b e lie v e d in G od . I t w as n e cessa ry to e u lig h te n m en ’s m inds. H e d id n o t b e lie v e th a t b ecau se a m an h e ld c e rta in d o c tr in e s a t va riau ce w ith h im s e lf h e w as a b ad m an. H e w as g lad to g e t o u t o f th a t ru t, an d p o in te d to W e s le y ’s o w n v ie w o n th a t p o in t. A n y m an w h o h a d read a te x t-b o o k sh o u ld

n o w th e d ifferen ce b etw e en th e in te l­le c t an d th e h eart.

B is h o p F o w le r , o f S a n F ra n c isc o , h e ld th a t a g r e a t h o s t had th e c o n v ictio n th a t th e so n o f God- h a d p o w er to forgive. T h e J e su its n e v e r a r g u e d ; th e y insisted.

n le ss M e th o d is ts c o u ld d e fe n d th e ir g ro u n d th e y m u s t su rre n d er. T h e re fo re h e w elc o m e d c ritic ism . H e h a d sh ip p ed fo r an e te rn a l vo ya g e , an d i f h e w as on ra ft th a t w o u ld g o to p ieces in th e first sto rm h e w a n te d to k n o w it h o w . T h e r e

as n o th in g to fe a r o u th e fro n t line. T h e r e w a s g r e a t w a tch fu ln ess.

T h e R e v . T h o m a s A lle n , o f Sh effie ld n g la n d , sa id th a t a ll th e fa cts o f th e

u n iv e rse w e re n e v e r g o tte n in to a th e o ­ry . I t w as n ecessa ry to u n d e rstan d th e te m p e r o f m o d ern sk e p tic ism . I t ro se from th e h a b it o f lo o k in g th in g s fa ir ly

th e f a c e ; in th a t i t w a s a h o p efu l Ign . I t w as a n e c e ss ity o f o u r age.

T h e r e w as a s tra n g e te n d e n c y to turn fro m th e su p e rn a tu ra l to th e n atural W e w e re in th e m id st o f a g re a t reactio n C a u tio n and s tu d y w e re n ecessa ry , or th e h o ld o f th e C h u rc h c n th e g r e a t su ­p e rn atu ra l th e o r ie s w o u ld b e sh ak en .

T h e R e v . D a v id B ro o k , o f E n g la n d , a id th a t E n g lis h p re a c h e rs fe lt th a t i t

w as l ik e k n o c k in g th e ir h ead s a g a in s t a s to n e w a ll to re fu se to a ccep t certa in sc ie n tific fa cts . I f th e re h a d b een a lo ss n th e b e l ie f o f th e th e o r y o f m ech an ical n sp iratio n o f th e B ib le , th e re had b een

a g ra n d g a in in th e d e p th o f lo v e foe C h rist . T h e B ib le b ecam e m o re in te r­e s t in g in th is v iew .

M r. L . L . M cL a re n , o f C an ada, said th a t w h ile s c ie n tis ts co n fin e d th e m selv e s to th e d isc o v e ry o f th e la w s o f n atu re, th e re w as n o th in g to say . T h e c o n flic t b etw een sc ie n ce a n d r e lig io n had com e from sc ie n tis ts w h o w ere u n satis fie d w ith th e ir w o r k , d id n o t k n o w th e “ A B C ’s ” o f th e r u le o f ev id en ce, an d w ere to ta lly in cap ab le o f d ra w in g a con clu sio n . S c ie n c e had b een c o m p e lle o to abandon m o re p o sitio n s th a n h a d re lig io n .

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e v e r y v i s i t o r a t C a s s a i l a g a a n d e v e r y S p i r i t u a l ­i s t a a w e l l . E x p o s i t o r y a r t i c l e s b y J . o . B a r r e t , H u d s o n T u t t l e . E m m a R o o d T u t t l e , L y m a n c ! H o w e , M r s . R . S . L i l l i e . M r s . C o r a L . V . R i c h ­m o n d . W a l t e r H o w e l l . H o n . A . B . R i c h m o n d , J .J - M o n e , l i o n . S i d n e y D e a n , W . J . C o l v i l l e a n d C h a s . D a w b a r n . o n t h e p r i n c i p l e s o f S p i r i t u a l ­i s m , s k e t c h e s o f a l l t h e p r o m i n e n t c a m p s i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s , t h e h i s t o r y o f C a s s a d a g a i n d e t a i l a n d b i o g r a p h i e s o f C a a s a d a g a ' s p i o n e e r s • r e t o b e f o u n d i n t h i s w o r k . T h e b o o k c o m - * > r i s e * * 5 0 p a g e s ; i s w e l l f i l l e d w i t h h a n d s o m e e n g r a v i n g s o f t h e g r o u n d s a n d l ( « k c a n d w i t h p o r t r a i t s o f t h e l e a d i n g s p e a k e r s a n d w o r k e r • 1 C a s s a d a g a .

B e n t p o s t p a i d o n r e c e i p t o f p r i c e , * 1 . 50 , t o a n y a d d r e s s . R e m i t b y p o s t o f l l c e o r e x p r e s s m o n e y o r d e r , p o s t a l t n o t e o r N . V . e x c h a n g e . D o n o t s e n d l o c a l c h e c k s . A d d r e s s

B A R R E T T & M c C O Y , M e a d v l l l s , P e n n .

PEREN N IAL H AIR RENEW ER.A B S O L U T E L Y U N F A I L I N G .

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“ When we lo o k b ack o v er th e se p o st y e a r s in p ir itu a li sm ." sa id th e sp e a k e r la te r , “ th ere a one th in g abo v e a l l o th ers, fo r w hich we h o ald be th au k fu l. a n d th at i s th a t no person

a r body o f in d iv id u a ls , h a s ev er b een a b le to d irec t a n d con trol th e m atter , b u t a s in au g u ­rated s o i t h a s rem ained , a n d i s . w ith th e p e rsisten ce o f fa c ts a u d tru th .it h a s m atch ed on

M atte r in g , a n d to-day. h e e d le ss o f o u r fa st id ­io u s ta s te s , i t m arch es s t i l l v ic to r io u sly on, c a l l in g an y o r a l l to fo llow . I t h a s recogn ised no m ortal lender, a n d w h ere in in sta n c e s on e h asco m e to th e fro n t to fo rm u late , d ic ta te , an d co n tro l i t . S p ir itu a lism h a s b id h im . yes.forced h im . to re tire . S p ir itu a lism h a s acco m p lish ed a g re a t deni, a n d i t h a s b een , d e sp ite g r e a t o p ­p o sitio n , abo v e fe a r fu l co n ten tio n , a m id d is ­c o u r a g in g c o n d itio n s, a n d n oth w ith stan d in g th e ap a th y o f .th e m ajo rity o f w ealth y an d in - •u e a t i a l in d iv id u a ls w ho a r e S p ir itu a li s t s . T h e S p ir itu a li s t s sh o u ld b e o rg a n ise d , b u t c a re sh o u ld b e ta k e n n ot to a tte m p t an y o rgan ira- t io a o f S p ir itu a lism . S p ir itu a lism can ta k e c a re o f itse lf . S p i r itu a li s t s need th e cu r in g for. a n a tio n al o rg a n isa tio n i s dem an d ed tor protection , for re sp e c t, fo r re d re s s , fo r forcefu l action , an d tor m ore effective p r o m u lg a tio n ."

We h ave n o t g iv en a co n n ect-sy n op sis o f th e lec tu re , fo r Mr. B ax ter , a f te r m a k in g h is a rg u ­m ent. c losed w ith a c o n c ise su m m ary , which b e st a n sw ers o a r p u rp o se in th is report.

“ L e t m e re c ap itu la te . " sa id he, “ w h at 1 w ould h ave yon b ea r in m ind. S p ir itu a lism d e m a n d s:

" F ir s t , n c a re fu l c o n sid e ratio n o f th e p rac ti­c a l h e a r in g s o f i t s te ach in gs.

“ Secon d , a sc ru p u lo u s d isc r im in a tio n b e­tw een w h at i t a b so lu te ly teach es, a n d w h at c e r ta in u ap rin c ip led , th o u g h tle ss , a n d so m e la w le ss ad v oc ates a s s e r t a s i t s te a c h in g s .

“ Th ird , th e estab lish m e n t o f n a tu ra lly re ­v ea led fac ts , th e ex a c t tru th in accord an ce w ith th e fac ts , a n d a sacred devotion to e v e r la s t in g principle .

“ F ourth , a tru e m anh ood o r w om anhood on th e p a n o f each rn d iv id u x l.S p iriiu x list. an d esp ec ia lly so i f a m edium .

“ F ifth , n s t r ic t acco u n tab ility ftom each for a l l h is deeds done, w ord s sp o k e n , a n d jlb o u g b ts en tertained , s in c e a n e q u a l r e sp o n sib ility n a ­tu ra lly o b ta in s w ith each h um an so u l.

“ S ix th , a p a r e p la tfo rm ; n ot on ly exem plified In i t s .tea c h in g s, b a t in liv e s a n d ch arac ter o f i t s teachers a n d th at. too. w hether th ey b e free­w ill. in sp ira tio n a l o r tran ce in stru m e n ts , yea . w b etaer.th cy be m o rta ls or sp ir it s .

“ Seventh , a ju s t an d su re p ro tectio n o f medraakship,-mBd unqualified ren u n c ia tio n an d d en u n ciatio n o f a l l kn ow n icb arla tan ry . m on n teb an k ism , a n d fraud perpe tra ted in ita s iev ed nam e.

“ E igh th , th e e s tab lish m en t o f tra in in g -ro o m s fo r th e c h ild ren , o f en qu iry-room s for th e y o u n g a n d m e n ia lly grow tu g o f a l l a g e s . Ly­ceu m s for friendly d isp u ta tio n an d de b a te , an d h a lls or h o u ses o f i t s ow n for le c tu re s an d il ln s tr a t io a .

“ N inth, n ot o n ly in d iv id u al effort, b u t co­operative action , from a h arm o n io u s brother- h aod a n d sisterh o o d , th at i t m ay n ot on ly a t ­tra c t th e atten tio n o f a p a r t , b u t com m an d the ad m iratio n a n d r e a p e d w hich a re ju s t ly d u e ftnm a lL

“ L e t a s then find our n eedfu l p la c e s a n d g o to w ork L o ok for th em c a re fu lly , th in k c are ­fu lly , re so lve c a re fu lly , y e s , ao lem aly . fo r then w ill era a c t m an fu lly , o r w om an fu lly , a n d in uuch n way aa to accrue to the honor o f S p ir it­u a lis ts . the trium ph o f S p ir itu a lism , a n d to th e h a p p in e ss o f hn aaan lty ."

A pplause , g ra te fu lly contributed , greeted the sp ea k e r a t th e d e w o f th is ex ce ed in g ly in ­stru c tiv e an d w etl-tiarad lec tu re . A s a bene­d iction h e sa n g “ L et n a d o th e b ea t w e can . w hich w as a lso ge n e ro u sly app lau d ed .

T h e even in g se rv ice s w ere program m ed aa th o se o f th e m orn ing—O rch estra l m u sic , con­gre ga tio n a l s in g in g , followed by rec ita tio n an d so n g by Mr, b a i t e r . T h e p rac tic a l good th at M odern S p ir itu a lism h a s accom plish ed m as M r. B u ste r 's even in g them e. I t w as | a v ery exh austive treatm en t o f the su b ject* a n d listen e d to atten tively , au d U s fine p o in ts I app laud ed a s ap p rec iated S p a c e fo rb id s e x ­te n d ed sy n o p sis , an d to do ju st ic e to e ith er M r. B ax ter or h i- lectu re re q u ire s a l l verbatim .

Mr. B ax ter waa naked I f he really m ean t p ractical good, su ch good a s cou ld b e pocketed a u d carried aw av “ Y e s ." sa id he. “ ju s t th a t. 1 know m oat people r il tm a tc th e u tility o f a th ing hy th e a a o n a t they cun ge t o a t o f i t for th e ir own p o ck ets . B a t I 'll ag ree to fill a l l yonr p a c k e ts w ith S p ir itu a lism '» p rac tica l good th in g *, pro­v id ed eo n 'll b rin g for m e em pty p o ck ets . I f they a re fu ll a lread y with p re ju d ice *, c o n c e its farm ed o p in io n s , an d se ttled th eor ies to the ex clu sio n o f a u g h t I a s ; d e sire to p a t In . it w ill he im p o ssib le far i t ns a law o f n a tu re that no two th in g s can occupy the sam e sp ace a t th e | sam e time.'

H opin g be h ad u n b iased lis te n e rs and u npre ju d iced h earers, he proceeded and show ed p la in ly how notw ith stan d in g , a a yet. th ere had been a o o rg a n isa tio n o f S p ir itu a l­i s t s . an d l a it s n u d r r s p h a se s It w as le s s than fifty years o ld . y e t l a th at tim e It h a s led lhows a a d a ftom m ate ria lism to n belie f in im m o rta li­ty ; i t h a s su b stitu ted know ledge for fa ith in the m in d s o f m ill io n s ; i t h a s n ot o n ly b rid ged the r iv e r o f death , but ligh te d th e w av t i l l ao g lo o m is there ; it h a s s ta in su p e rst itio n and d e stro y ed d o gm as . i t h a s cap ta in ed h isto rica l m y ste r ie s an d revealed B ib lica l se c re ts , it h a s w acouragvd hum an ity to ac tio n an d a sp ira tio n in ste a d o f d isc o u ra g in g i t w ith th eor ies o f in­ab ility . deprav ity a n d en d le ss m ise r y : it has proved a gran t m oral teacher an d in centive the C h urch to th e contrary n o tw ith stand ing . T h is p x ia t he te llin g ly illu stra ted . lu fac t, a l l th ese p a in t s were elabo rate ly argu ed an d estab lish ed w ith fa c ts an d fig u re s. I t ham g iv en a new im p e tu s to free i t o u g h t: It h a s g iven n ot only m a n . b u t w om an, a broad er freedom , an d s t il l

se e k s to em an c ip ate a l l , a s i t ev e r h a s. w hether b la c k o r w hite, m a le o r fem ale , r ic h o r poor, who a re su ffe r in g fto m m en ta l, so c ia l, o r ph ysl-

I c a l o p p r e s s io n ; i t h a s g iv en th e w orld new In ­v e n tio n s ; U h a s revea led h id d eu la w s ; i t h a s w arned in d iv id u a ls o f d a n g e r ; it h a s h ea led th e s ic k w hen h um an age n cy h a s f a i le d : an d i t h a s en te red , i f not led . every re form ato ry m ovem en t. Then th in k o f th e h o sts o f g e n i­u se s in m u sic , o rato ry , lite ra tu re , a r t . r e lig ­ion . jo u r n a li sm , sta te sm a n sh ip , a n d re form — in d isco v ery , re search , a u d in v e n tio n —w ho de­c la re th em se lv e s c o n sc io u s o f h ig h e r po w ers th an th ey th em se lv e s p o s se s s , th a t , in sp ire th em .

Mr. B a x te r w as very le n g th y , b a t u n av o ld a b ly so . th e c o n d itio n s o f th e e v e n in g m a k in g it p o s itiv e ly im p o ss ib le for h im to b e inA uenced to g iv e sp ir it-d e sc r ip tio n s u n t il a la te h o ur, w hereby h e w a s n e c e ssita te d in o rd er to hold h is la r g e a u d ien c e in a tte n tio n a u d q u ie t to fill in th e t im e w ith il lu s t r a t io n a n d fu rth er e lu c id a tio n o f se v era l p o in ts . M r. B ax ter e x ­p r e sse d h is h eart-fe lt th a n k s lo th e au d ien ce for i t s p a tien t w a it in g a n d en d u ran ce a n d th e m a in ta in e d in te r e s t to th e la s t , to rece iv e an u n expected , y e t th o ro u g h ly a p p re c ia te d , roun d o f a p p la u se , a s m u ch a s to sa y “ w e sh o u ld not h ave s ta id w ere w e n o t w ell p a id ."

A fter th e le c tu re M r. B a x te r s a n g “ My s p i r i t fr ie n d s a r e n e a r ." a n d a t th e c lo se s lo w ly a ro se fto m th e o rg a n , g iv in g u sp ir it-d e sc r ip tio n in th e a c t o f r i s in g ; th e so n g h ad b r o u g h t h im in to th e c o n d itio n n e c e ssa ry to d is c e r n th at w hich l ie s b ey o n d th e m a te r ia l.

T h e first d e sc r ip tio n co n cern ed tw o fem ale sp ir i t s —o n e w ell-know n to C in c in n ati S p i r itu ­a l i s t s . a n d on e w ho often m a n ife s ts a t th e ir se ­a n c e s . W ith h er c o m e s o n e w h o w ish e s to sa y to U r. N . 11- K d d y . in th e au d ien ce , th a t sh e h a s no m ore h ead ach es. S h e w ish e s to b e re c o g ­n ise d a s N ettle Kddy. T h e d o c to r in q u e stio n w as p re se n t an d p u b lic ly an n o u n c ed th a t th e sp ir i t w a s h is d a u g h te r an d th a t th e sy m p to m s o f h er la s t il ln e s s a s g iv en , w ere p e r fe c tly cor-

; ree l. B efo re c lo s in g , th e first-m en tion ed sp ir i t sa id o th er s p ir i t s w ere w ith h er. w h o g a v e th e n a m e s o f Jo se p h . T h o m a s, I sa a c , a n d A b ra­h am . S ev e ra l p e r so n s p r e se n t w h o k n ew th e fa m ily record p ron ou n ced th is n s c o rre c tly g iv en .

1 now se e a g ra v e su rro u n d e d b y so ld ie r s .sa id M r. B a x ter , a n d fro m th en ce m y m in d w an d ers to th is h a ll . 1 h e a r th e n a m e o f H- M . R o b in * so o .an d b efo re m y m e n ta l v is io n a r e tw o en vel­o p e s re sp e c tiv e ly d irec te d to K lta M . a n d G eo . R o b in son . M sd iso n v ille . T h is s p i r i t se e m s to b e a id e d bv o n e J . C. R oth . I n co n n e c tio n w ith th e la t t e r n a m e I a l s o h e a r T o b ia s a n d F e te r .— S ev e ra l p e r so n s p r e se n t n o d d ed a s s e n t to a l l o f th is a s g iv e n . I t c o n s t itu te s o n e w ay th a t sp ir ­i t s id e n tify th e m se lv e s, a n d th o se in te r e ste d m u st co n n ect th e p a r t s th e m se lv e s. In fac t, so m e s p i r i t s can n o t d o a n y b e tte r—n o t y e t h a v in g le a rn e d th e a t t o f g iv in g t e s t s in severa- b ly .

N e x t cam e a M r. G ree n a n d a M r. T h o rn , w ho b oth g a v e d e sc r ip tio n s o f th e tr h o m e s a n d b u s ­in e ss , b e s id e s g iv in g in i t i a l s a n d d a te s , w h ich w ere ack n o w led ged by p e r so n s in th e au d ien c e w ho know o f th e c ir c u m sta n c e s , a s b e in g c o l­le c t .

N ex t c a m e a m an w ho g a v e th e n a m e o f G e o rg e D aed er : s a id h e d ie d in N ew p o rt in an a tt ic —on a sta irca se .w h ere h e su ic id e d b ecau se o f m e lan ch o ly a n d g lo o m th a t en sh ro u d ed h im a t th e tim e .

M r. an d M rs. Jo h n D obson th en an n o u n ced th em se lv e s. S a id th ey w ere in te r e ste d in tw o la d ie s liv in g in th is c ity g i v in g n a m e a n d n u m b er o f s t r e e t . a n d s a id th e ir n a m e s w ere L u r i e a n d A n n ie . T h is w a s re c o g n ise d b y m an y a s b e in g co rrect.

T h en M r. B ax ter sa id h e sa w a a o ld -fash ion ed Tramc h o u se , g iv in g d e sc r ip tio n o f th e s a m e : i t s lo c a l ity ; n am e o f fo rm e r in m a te * , o f w hich o n e se em s to h av e h a d th e a m b itio n to liv e to b e o n e h u n d red y e a r s o ld . th o u g h s h e d id n o t q u ite reach it .—In v e s tig a tio n s in c e h a s proven th e te s t to b e p erfec t, th o u g h , p e r h a p s , o f too p r iv a te a n a tu re for p u b lic a t io n .

1 now se e a m an in a c a r r ia g e , sa id th e seer , w ho th ro w s u p h is h a n d s a n d ju m p s o a t . Now 1 se e o n e in a s i tt in g -ro o m a n d th e n a m e o rA dolph S-----ia sp o lle d o u t g iv in g n a m e in f a n .H e se e m s to h e a ttra c te d to a D r. A . M -----. 1a lso se e | t j V . s t re e t , a n d h e a r th e n a m e s o f L eo n ard . C h arlie , a n d W illiam g iv e n . 1 now see a firm 's n am e g iv in g i t . T h e n a m e a n d co n n e ctin g c ir c u m sta n c e s w ere re c o g n iz ed a s co rtcc t .

A s a c lo se a a e ld e r ly p e r so n c a m e , g a v e a b en ed ic tio n th ro u g h th e m e d iu m a n d a n ­nounced h im s e l f a s I*. B. A y d ato tte . N o re aso n w a s g iv en for h is a c tio n , b a t i t m a y b e p re­su m ed th a t th o se w ho kn ow w ill u n d erstan d .

A b ea u tifu l so n g b y M r. B a x te r , fin ely ren ­d ered . c lo sed a m o st in te r e s t in g sean ce .

N ex t S u n d ay c lo se s M r. B a x te r 's en g a g e m en t w ith th e t 'a i o a S o c ie ty , to b e fo llow ed b y the H an. S id n ey D ean.

T h e L a d ie s ' A id m t t W ednesday. O ctober u th . a t th e u su a l h o u r in th e a ftern o o n . A ll th e o fficers p rese n t, w ith M rs. M cC rack en p re sid ­in g . T h e la d ie s w ere very m u ch in te re sted in fin ish in g u p th e o ld a n d th e b e g in n in g o f new b u sin e ss , A very liv e ly b u t p le a sa n t a n d h ar­m o n io u s se ss io n w as h eld , co n c lu d in g w ith a sean ce , d u r in g w h ich t e s t s w ere g iv en , au d the la d ie s honored w ith a v is it from “ W h istlin g J a c k ." th e con trol o f o n e o f o a r new m e d iu m *. " W b tiU iug J a c k " i s c o m in g a g a in soon to m ake a c a ll upon na. M ean tim e th o se la d ie s who sta y a t hom e a te m is s in g so m eth in g very p le a s­in g T h e a id i s on e o f th e very b e st m e an s o f b eco m in g acq u a in ted w ith e a c h o th er. C om e o a t . la d le s , an d en jo y y o u rse lv e s once a w eek.

O ne o f th e p le a san t so c ia l ev e n ts o f th e s e a ­son eras a su rp r ise p arty g iv en M rs K o H are in

| h onor o f h er b irth d ay . A bout fifty people w ere ro y a lly en te rta in e d M rs. H a r e 's d a u g h ters h ad so a rra n ge d ev e ry th in g th at th e p arty waa a co m p lete su cce ss . F e a s t in g a n d d a n c in g were k e p t n p u n til th e “ w ee sm a h o u r s ," an d a l l le ft w ith m any w ish e s for th e co n tin u ed h a p p in e ss o f th e w orthy co u p le a n d th e ir p le a sa n t fam ily .

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M rs. E lis a b e th S tr a n g e r , le c tu r e r a n d te s t m e­d iu m . C a lls w ill re ce iv e pro m p t a tte n tio n . Ad­d r e ss q i M cC onnell s t r e e t . G ra n d R a p id s . M ich.

K. L ax h b ro ok e is e n gage d a t D ay to n , O hio, to le c tu re d u r in g th e m o n th o f O ctober, a n d can b e a d d re sse d a t .\u W est F if th S tr e e t fo r e n g a g e ­m e n ts .

M iss A. K . S h e e ts m a y b e a d d re sse d G ran d L e d g e . M ich ., F . O. Box . >.vj by p a r t ie s w ish in g to e n g a g e th e s e r v ic e s o f a n in sp ir itn a l sp e a k e r . W ill a tte n d fu n era ls .

M rs . I d a P . A . W h itlo ck w o u ld lik c to m ak e a r r a n g e m e n ts for w eek-d ay le c tu r e s n e a r B o s­to n . M a ss. A d d re ss M ad iso u P a rk H o te l, S te r ­l in g s t r e e t , B o sto n , M a ss.

F lo re n c e K . R ich , tra n c e m e d iu m , o f B oston , w ill sp e n d th e w in te r in L o s A n g e le s . C a l. On th e w ay w ill v i s i t T o p e k a . K a n s a s C i ly . Denver a n d M in n e ap o lis fo r sp ir i tu a l w o rk .

A. W. S . R o th erm et, M- D .. i s now iu K a n s a s C ity , M o., a n d w ill re m a in th e re u n til fu r th e r n o tic e . L a t e in th e se a so n he p r o p o se s to m a k e a t r ip to w ard D enver a u d C a lifo rn ia .

C a rr ie C . V an D u see , o f G en ev a , O., w il l s t a r t fo r th e P ac ific s lo p e in th e e a r ly sp r in g —g o in g f ir s t to O rego n , th e n to C a lifo rn ia . W ill ta k e e n g a g e m e n ts e n ro u te . A d d re ss n s above .

G eo . A . F u l le r , M . D .. o f W o rceste r . M ass, h a s th e fo llo w in g d a te s u n e n g a g e d betw een now a n d th e y e a r iSqz: N o v em b er rrd a n d N th a n d D ecem b er N th ; w o illd l ik e e n g a g e m e n ts fo r th e sa m e . A d d r e ss h im , 41 P o r tla n d stre e t .

M rs. A n n a O rv is . th e g i f te d in sp ir a t io n a l sp e a k e r o f C h ic a g o , i s now f i l l iu g a n e n g a g e ­m en t w ith th e S p i r i tu a l i s t S o c ie ty o f Law rence. K a n s a s , a n d i s o p e n fo r e n g a g e m e n ts fo r N o­vem ber. S o c ie t ie s in K a n s a s a n d M isso u r i sh o u ld t a k e a d v a n ta g e o f h e r p re se n c e .

M r . J . F r a n k B a x te r i s e n g a g e d d u r in g th e S u n d a y s o f O cto b er iu C in c in n at i, O . ; S u n d ay s , N ov. t s t . in B r o c k to n ; N ov. $ th in E a s t D e n n is ; N ov. 15th in H a v e rh il l , a n d N ov. a d a n d 39th in L y n n . F o r w e e k e v e n in g s a d d r e s s h im i$i W a ln u t st re e t , C h e lse a . M a ss.

H e le n S tu a r t R ich in g s i s e n g a g e d in B u t­le r , P a .. O ctob er >$th a n d 25th : In B o sto n for N o v em b e r ; iu P h ila d e lp h ia fo r D e c e m b e r ; in N ew Y o r k fo r J a n u a r y yd, 10th, a n d 17th ; in N o rw ich , C o n n ., fo r J a n u a r y r tth a n d y ts t . an d in G ra n d R a p id s , M ich ., fo r F e b r u a r y , M arch , a n d A p ril.

L y m a n C. H ow e i s sp e a k in g in D e tr o it d a r in g th e S u n d a y s o f O ctob er, l i e i s e n g a g e d to se r v e th e tw o-day q u a r te r ly m e e t in g a t W ater- v le it . M ich ., N o v em b e r 14th a u d 15th. H e sp e a k s in P it t sb u r g . P a ., th e S u n d a y s o f D ecem ­b er . a n d G ra n d R a p id s , M ich ., th e five S u n d a y s O f J a n u a r y . H e i s y e t fr e e fo r F e b r u a r y .

VV. J . C o lv ille s p e a k s in P h ilad e lp h ia S u n d a y . O ctober ;jth; in N ew Y o r k a n d B ro o k ly n d u r­in g N o v em b e r. S u n d a y s , 10.45 a . u . a t A d elp h i H a ll. N ew Y o r k , j p . m . a t C o n serv a to ry H all, B ro o k ly n . H e i s o p e n fo r e n g a g e m e n ts b e g in ­n in g D ece m b er i s : e i th e r w ith so c ie t ie s o r as a re sp o n sib le m a n a g e r fo r S u n d a y s a n d w eek­d a y s . A d d re ss , $ t 'n io n S tre e t . N ew Y o rk .

W illard J . H a l l i s e n g a g e d a t In d ia n a p o l l s fo r N ovem ber, a t B o sto n fo r D ecem b er, a t P h ilad e l­p h ia fo r J a n u a r y , a t N o rw ich . C on n ., fo r F eb ­ru ary , a n d a t C in c in n a t i lo r M arch a n d A p ril. W ill a l s o a n sw e r c a l l s fo r w eek ev e n in g- le c ­tu r e s w h ile in I n d ia n a p o l is a n d o th e r p laces . A d d re ss D ew itt s t r e e t . B u ffa lo , N . Y .

E d g a r W. E m e rso n h a s th e fo llo w in g e n g a g e ­m e n ts for th e y e a r 1S91: N o v em b er 1st a n d SUt. F itc h b u rg . M a s s .; N o v em b er i j l h a n d r id . New B ed fo rd . M a s s . : N o v em b e r 19th. H av erh ill, M a ss.; D ecem b er bth . L y n n . M a s s .: D ecem b er U th , P ro v id en ce , R . I : D ecem b er 10th. S a le m , M a ss.; D ecem b er ir th H a v e rh ill, M ass.

W. F . Deck i s le c tu r in g a t N ew B o sto n . I l l d u r in g O ctober, a n d h a s cre a ted m u c h ^ n te re st h is a u d ie n c e s fa r o u tn u m b e r in g th o se o f th e ch u rch e s. H e sp e a k s d u r in g N o v em b e r a t W ash in g to n . D- C . O w in g to b u s in e s s c o m p li­c a t io n s h e h a s p o stp o n ed h i s C a li fo r n ia t r ip u n t i l n e x t se a so n , a n d w ill m a k e a lim ite d n u m b er o f e n g a g e m e n ts in th e E a s t a n d m id d le W est. D ecem ber, J a n u a r y , a n d p a r t o f M arch a n d A p ril a r e d is e n g a g e d . A d d re ss a s ab o v e . W ash in g to n a d d r e s s , cu re G . A . H a ll, a s s e s so r » office . _______________________

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done bj a direct vote of every man and woman over the age of eighteen. But why elect *hcm at all ? Are not senates- unnecessary evils ? For one, judging hy study and long experience, I pronounce them useless and expeusiw encum­brances, patterned after the British House of Lords, which is to-day a by­word and a reproach to that country, and. no doubt, that a large majority of the people there favor its complete abolish­ment. Shall we permit that country to lead in governmental reform? Let us begin by abolishing State Senates, one by one. or, to use a milder term, by con­solidation of the two houses into one.

It is said that the Senate prevents has­ty legislation, and that is about the only excuse there is for allowing them to cumber the ground. If Senates prevent hasty or crude legislation occasionally, they are also more frequently in the way of useful and needed legislation. They divide legislative responsibility, so that no one in particular is to blame. Oue branch of the assembly can tack on amendments to a meritorious bill from the other house till the author won't know it, or will disowu it.

We all know that it is a common prac­tice to fasten amendments to a bill for the express purpose of defeating or putting off ita consideration until the “honors- hie body” has to adjourn. I have said nothing of expenses in maintaining two bodies in place of one, nor of conse­

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A N O T H E R . W O N D E R F U L C U R E

Made in Maquoketa. Iowa, by Dt. A. B. Dobson and his band of spirit itoctors.

j My wife who had been sick for several years with a disease called by physicians scrofulous consumption, was taken worse aud doctors were employed for months; she all the time growiug worse and at last given up to die, her physicians stat­ing she could uot live three weeks. Then we called I>r. Dobsou; he came to see her (at this time she could only speak in a whisper); her face and arms were cov­ered with large running scrofulous sores; she was a complete skeleton, coughing and raising all the time.

He told her he believed the spirits could cure her (of course, she or I could uot believe that she ever would recover). However we commenced giving her his so called spiritual magnetized medicines, and instead of her dying in three weeks she was out of bed, and in a few weeks, out riding in a buggy. It has uow been Over a year.aml she has never had better health, with the exception of some stiff- Bess in the knees, she is well. She gained in flesh and never weighed more than she does now, and has an excellent •ppetite. I call this a miracle, and Dr. Dobson was the person that performed It by what he calls his spirit band. We jtre not Spiritualists, but we know Dr. Dobsou personally; he is one of onr ownsmen, having lived here for many

Years. He is an honorable man in all his dealings and a very* popular man in Maquoketa, and we can truly recommend him to all that are sick and suffering. We can't help but believe he has a power outside of himself that can cure when other doctors fail.

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"Those advantages might be obtained, and at the same time all the neccessary safeguards secured, iu a comprehensive system of Colleges or Departments."

Mr. Lomax proposes that, as succession duties are levied varying from three to ten per cent., so the cost of this sys­tem of free law might he met by levying | XHJE^LLEY^CENTRE^HOT^GUN a similar percentage on money or pro-1 perty recovered on his suggested scheme.A Court of Censorship also is to be em­powered to inflict a fine on any un­founded, vexatious, or malicious claims.

E l l a W h eeler W ilcox co n ie s o u t s t r o n g ly in su p p o r t o f K « te F ie ld * ' id e a th a t b ac h e lo r* ov er fo rty sh o u ld be tax ed , a n d th a t th e tax sh o u ld be u sed for th e su p p o rt o f m aid en la d ie s —E x c h an g e .

All right, and the ladies who reach the j age of thirty-five without marrying, j should be taxed for the benefit of young j mothers—say mothers under thirty.— |Com. Gazette.

And divorced men or women, who are released without chtldreu to support, should be taxed for the benefit of troth— doubly taxed for shirking the duty takeu upon themselves when entering the mar­riage state.

Though a taro-edged sword, cutting into Materialism as well as Orthodoxy when radically applied, there is one thing in Spiritualism that never offends, and that is the principle on which it is founded—the facts which constitute Spiritualism itself—the phenomena. Ap­ply this when argument becomes warm It is the best alleviator for all ills of the brain, whether of materialistic or ortho­dox infection.

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