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Q U A U ro s i ;u i e s . BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, SaTUIIDAY, FEB. 4, WliO. VOL I —NO. 23.V
L IT i'JjiS WIL.LLPJ WAKINGr U t’.
' liY Ill'.V, I’ II , SliAUS. .
8omc hav^ though Lli.it i.i i.ie daw.iing, in our bein g’*flC-ll- bt ^ |o t\,
God is nearer Intl.: In n than their parent* everknow*
AmI thiit, ii you li?tou Hhurply, hotter things than youCUD ti'iu il,
And a *oit of m\.>tio w i.d om , tr.tklc through their c a n - !«»► }<piv ii
How it is I n im it:i; i.« rr . t.ut I knew a li f tW lii ld ,V ho, ;uu<>nu i i • Ui)iiK‘ ami riuvri* aud the bet:*, wad run
ning u i!<l,Ami hiMMiit .- o n s iiii iii ii' i' even ing with his ringlets oVr
hid .-y s, 'And hi* ii i. w w tor.i i'i p ic-c ', chasing bees and butter
f lie s
•‘Now I ’ll ;:«i t > !m l, drai mother, for I ’m vc y tired o f play !” *
And lie paid hi- "Nnw » !;iy m e,” in a kind o f c a r e le s wav.
And ho dtank the o »»»| in «■ water from his little silver cup, And said g yly "• il'k tii it s m o rn in g , w ilt th e A nge la
ti ik c m r ttji ?”
Down hr* pau\ »vit!i r<» rtii-h laughler in hi* little trundle b d
Aud the ki nlly (1 >,1 of Clumber showered the poppies o ’or his In-ad
hat C(j il l jn mu h i- spe king strangely ?” asked his IiU-dug ni>t!i"r th u.—
“ () ’tw as n >tii i ’ >w: h i- p .it: h* > what Can lie of angel* k en ?” 1 ‘ *
There he li-**, hon >-\ve<:t au l placid \ und hi? breathing conit'< and
' l.ikc n zephyr in -vnig < ftlv. nnd his cheek Is I ke a rose ; l)at she Icin d her ear to li ten tf his ureathing-could be
h e a r d - “ Oh,” sh mu ui'in'd, **if t!i angels lock my dai ling at
hi* word
Ni.rht within it- I.d ling im n tlr hath the fderpers both be- gn iled ,
Aud witliin i t < wift einb.aeitig* lest the mother and her cud I ;
Up th e ‘■ ti'lit 'i frmn her drea u;hig, for a Kund l.ath Btru ’U !i tr e i — ^
AnJ it com.-4 fr -at ii ,l «.• Wdhe lying ou bin trundle near,
Vp bIic sp -ingeth , for i t : t« i'.e-* uptm her troubled cai again , -
And h is l) i-a tn } iu louder Cm i Iu k travi Is fion: Ins lung* in p tin.
And his ey-‘- are liv in g it|t'vard o:i h jtic fa e beyond the lo* in
And the b:aekne>s o f the /-iioiicM* from Uis' check hath chaf'd tile b! i!»rn.
Y*t som ewhere 1 know , on the unseen shore, Uhey w atch, and btckun, uml watt lot mu.
And 1 r-it and think when the Min.-ei** t'uid Is Hashing iu i iv o i, and hi.I, nml t-lioje,
I dhall one day bland by t..e waters coltt,Ana li-'t to tiie aouud of ciu: b i.ttman’s nar.
I *ha.l u ateh fir a glcaui of the Hupping ^ iil ;I shall hear the boat as it gam s tin* mi nnd;
1 shall pa>8 rrom s i-h t wit'i tb e b.'aiuia.i pale, l'o IJi« better shore '.«t li.e t pi it hmd } •
I ahull know the Lived who haxegone before, And joyiu ll) s u e e t will tlu* meeting be,
^ la n over t'ie r iv tr , the peaerfnl river,'I lie angel of death h Waiting loi me.
Never mo-v hU ,;N i.v 1 lav me'” will bel^ai^f.'^ui uioth.• cr’p kHrf,
Never ni"r-: among t!,e i L vn will he chase the humble-bee ;
Through t'n’ iiirht -he \\avln -d her darling, now despairing. n r.v i i i > to ; ‘ ■
And aboiit in-* or • tk of morning did the angels take himup.
O V E a H I E R I V E R .
Over the riv»*r thev hrek • i * m e,‘ ' .LoVe I n n»- nli • om -M.tu ( In* other S“lde :
The g l-a n «»1 L ;ei su-'w. r.ibt’S ! nee,Hut ill I ' vo«.!- ..r drouh-'l by the rusliing tide.
There’s nn ■ w ill rinylet- •<! s .nny gold^And eN f t 'if cfl w ti in nf he.ivrn’s mvn blue ;
l i e do;* ed :u the tw li^iit gt :iy and c’(dd,And the p le u i>t hid hun irt^ii mo. tul view.
W e taw not aiurt 1- that met nun there,The g tin of the e ily «.■ cmild not see j
- Over the rivfp, ove. ih nvr , ,1 My bruiber sta id " aiti.i^ to wt-bnne me.
Over the river’t!ie boatin in paleCarrieil an ither—the hou>. hold pet—
Her brow.i m i s u av d i.i the gentle ga le ;Darling .»iinni* ! I see h iry e t!
Bhe closed on hei b >-nm-fi'ji' dimpled hands,And feai le-i-ly enteied t'ie phantom bark ;
W ow nt'hed it gl de lr«un ’he -liver vands,And all our >u i-lii ie g e*v strangely dark.
Wo know 4lio is safe on ihe further >idc,AVhcre all the - m is im-d and angelh be ;
Over the rh'or, the mystic • ive>*,Mycluldh »«d’s id.»l is waiting for tnc. '
For none return from tlnac quiet shores,Wlio cro<4 with t : ii »oa'ui iu col.I and p a le ,
We hear tin dip o f the g dd» n oars,And entcli a giimp e of ihe snowy s a i l ;
A ndlo* they have panned frmn our yearninp hearts, ' Tliey crosj the 'Stream and are gone for nyc,Wo may not suude l e v -il apart, '
Tbat hiiles fr*»ui on • J-:ot b t ’i«* gates of day.W e only k'onv that ll d r b i 1-8 D > more
I all w ith us o ’er life ’» doruiy sea )
( L ' o r v f j p i j n i i f n c f .
C R E A T I O N A N D T H h i A S S U M E D
F A L L O P M A N .
I1V JOHN W. KVKUTS.
In treating upon tins s.iliji'ct, in tin* pns’tion
of ii lxasoiicr iiisli'inl of a slu’ptic, ii will re-
q lire mo to (iive u ri'spectlul lii'm inj;. on ihe
Dm t ot mysL'lf, to ii 11 pri'vnius adviincud authori
ty. But. ut the .siiim.' time, 1 am un'iilling to
aUiihuti' to an;, man any }> real im- autlioiitv
than that which I claim for myself- that o*
rt1.'soiling ai'coi d in g . in tin- oidcr nf thiiigs.'
i lie Mosaic account of the creation of
things, and the first appearance of man,is the
oi.lt one which the present age of civilization,
seems to he willing to accept as hearing histor
ical testimony; and it has been a c iininon
thing for historians to content themselves with
this simple plan. (As a parenthesis, here 1
will avei that t is is the cause of history being
so nnpiiilosnphical.as ibis.)
Even science, through alo n g and continued
reign of kingly despotism, has never, until
lately, bud the courage to *ake a position in re
gard to creation, witln ut lw'ving down before,
an I becoming reconeilod'tfli.uie most intol-r-
I ant dogmas that the Church and .State were
able tii'invOnt.
In the darkness of history, and the murky,
hut luring tendencies of science, gi oloiry has
stepped in, encouraged reason to tear down
Ihe rites of intolerance, and taught us the sim
ple lesson of creation, l i u c k x ai d m u n i i n i c i i l s
are silent, liut.truthful preceptors, lo the for
mer we find the marks made by God, aud in
the hitter those of mini.
In this essay I design to iHiistrate the law of
ciealion, and to show that oi l th im jx re r t i re nn u h n i i t u t h r o u y h the pi-oiji-esxiec elements- nf n a t u r e : the result of which reasoning will
prove that the idea of a momentous creation
is the offspring of instinct, and that the f u l l o f
m a n is an ignoiant assumption. . . .
It would be a vain en leavor to search the
fabulous notions of decayed nations lor light
upon this subject. To study them would lead
the historian into darkness and the philoso
pher into mystery. The principles of nature,
as discovered in the order of creation, are sul-
licicnt to prov*' that the elements ol mat ter are
controlled by cre tivc intelligence; and also to
establish, beyond the skill O f skepticism, I lie
course which this intelligence has taken in
causing all tilings to appear—earth, \egota-
llon, animal life, ami man !
The Great Alchemist of -Nuture hath so ar
ranged the Universe that one supreme, eternal
inw, governs all things, and permeates all be
ing. The operation of this law is seen in ns
many different aspects as there are different
phases " f the different tilings in th e Universe.
Kacli flower and tree, and man and beast, live
upon this law by a legitimate'combination of
the elements ot Nature. One eternal transi
tion characterizes the action of N atu re’s law,
as seen in the elemental world. Immortal
identity ie the great infinite principle tlmt ex
ists in the combination, the dissolution, and the
reorganization of ail things.
Iiow grand, and huw sublime, is the scene,
when we b eh o ld the Uifferent places of materi
al transition! Observe the past, present, and
future ot a grain ot corn : front an identity o!
be ng corn through au unlimited past, it pre
serves its identity as torn through future time,
as eternal as the uncreated elements ! Or oo
serve the varied conditions of your own mind,
dining the short period ut' your consciousness
on this earth, and how peiftcily does it pix“
fe. ve its different altiihutes of identity, as it
pusses i'roni one condition to unoll e r : the god-
nie is prese veil ; and it proves itsell immor
tal : it proves that material uTnl ' elemental
identity aie as eternal as the'law of life- g ra v
ity ! '
When wisdom has reached that condition of
i.evelopement as to be capacitated with the
power to create an element, aud when love
has reached that condition of purity us to have
the power lo ussimil ,te the elements created ;
when these two principles have arrived at that
point ot perfection as to be capable of acting
| e.ich oiher’s part of attraction and distribu
tion, of love and assimilation ; then we have,
in the embodiment of these two principles,
the G reat F irst Cause; the Author of Al,
Things; the Creatur of the Universe; the
Kterual Good ! ..
Creation’s plan is consistent with itself.—
The whole fri/x lcm o fH ju u d exists up n h a r
monious principles. If the principle of h a r m o n y in the laws of the L’irfveisp was li>stf
then At.I. is I ,nsT ! nor could there have been a
Univer>e without it; and, were there such a
tniug as annihilation, the principle of iuhar-
mony would be the first cause lo produce i t ; —
for, without harmony there is discord ; where
there is discord theic is puin ; win re there is
pain there is d e c i j ; and where there is decay
there is death! . , ’
Harmony is th° primary ptinciplc of all
life. Tiie inccbnnisni of mankind is so uni
form that the anatomy of*one man is that of
ihe whole human race. The niech mi.sm of
every species of animals is repi esenled by one
of ils kind. 'The mechanism of one biiVd is
that of m y r i a d s ; und one fish will am wer for
;ts kind throughout tin- ocean's depths,
Kverv species of animate life works upon
the same principles that all animate matter is
bro ught into action upon— the principles of at
traction and repulsion. .• W e repel all things
that are nnt adapted to our nature; i. e'., every
thing ■) tnai does not gravitate to the central
I AM of a thing of life, is repelled from i t :
everything that does not belong to'an^organiz-
ation cannet come to it. We attract all things
that are our own—we nltract nothing else.—
We -may retain lliings ft r a time, that we have
obtained hy extraordinary pow<'r, but we can
not retain them forever. We may’'retaln
things that we should repel; and. until we re
pel such tlim-rs, we cannot attract those things/
which we should not repel. Tbe bucket that
is fulLcun hold no more. , Take out u thing
that is not wanted, and you c:\n.piitin a thing
that is wanted. Why is a millio laire in des
titution? Why in utter want? Because he
has not his own: others hive what is his, and
be lias wliat belongs lo others. He has lost
his own in the interior cxti ava;uince o f the
.•poor man of learning.” The poet’s exterior
to make the oak. Man cannot exist where the 1 flesh; but that they should also “eat the hert»
elements of matter uie such as mini cannot j 0 f the field." “ In tho sweat of thy face shalt
take up into.his organism. The moon ot this thou cat b n a d , t i l l th o u re tu rn v iito th e g r o u n d *eailb will lie the .habitation of man whenever
il lias i.ltraeted to, itself the elements which
help to c o m p o s the human body. W heat con
tains the phosphaie of lime ; but the unpro
c e s s e d phosphates which we dig from the
rucks will not help make wheat. Progressed
matter can lind association only witii progress
ed nn.tterl Thus it is with progressed mind :
it cannot associate with mind ou the sensuous
plane. Tlieie is no attraction except where
there is a want in the MIC; anil no repulsion
except where the uu is throwing off something
not its own. ’ *
Having now portrayed somo of tiie beauties
of creation, and dwelt sulliciently long enough
upon the laws of life, I will turn to thut part
of the subject which claims an explanation of
the reaction of the_great fundamental principle
of the universe—that of prngresfK.n— and
show that no such reaction can take place, ex
cept in a relative sense. If there is any such
thing as evil, then there can be such a thing as
a fall, liut if “all partial evil i r uuive,sal
good,’’ then eveiy fall is a gradual rise in the
scale of being. Geology teaches that there
was a time when man did not exist up.in this
earth; a u d i t even goes so far ns to prove
that neither animal nor vcgetiible life of any
kind could have possibly existed in its early
stiigos of development. This is t^ t i m o n y
that/ the theorist cannot run over without yield
ing to its authority. There is living proof to
show that man has existed in q, condition but
little superior to that, of the beast. We can
find specimens of the human form in all of its
stages of development, from civilization to
barbarity, and from barbarity to brute crea
tion. With such testiiriony us Nuture is con-,
stantly displaying before the vision of man,
we must, after awhile. In come tame to lie. sub
lime instruction. We have a teacher always
■liy our side, to guide and direct us in the de
lightful walks of life, if we would only accept
of Nature's kind intention, bhe, and the god-
me, these two, can deveh pe a mighty being—
a beii g, “ wondeifully and feurlully made.”
• I will now turn my attention to a book,
termed the “ Hible,” for testimony against the
doctrine of hi'inaii depravity. I will refer to
the original testimony upon that subject, as
found in tbe honk called ‘'Genesis.” It is the
only testhn'Miy that there is in tiie book that
has the least show of -uuthiuity upon it. All
else upon the subject is but comment upon
what 1 shall here refer to.'
The impri ssion that man is a fallen being
has hecti generally trceptcd all over the
jeaitli; hut what seems the most .strange is
that it. is founded upon a few passages in the
"Bible,” which have never been read hy its
devotees in an understanding way. I will here
•liat bread ull of our earthly existence!-- . good!” ,
“And tho Lord Qod said: Behold th e man i»
become an one of u s ." To rise t,b the majesty
'of a God would not be falling in any being |
and to become like the “ Lord God,” arising
from a state in wisdom, must have been a deft- &
niie progress, and not a “ full.”
“ Now, lest lie put forth his hand, nnd take
also o! the tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever, th e n fo r e the L o r d U ix l sent h im f o r th f r o m the g a rd e n o f E d e n ." W hat was il for P
Why, “ lest he should take of the tree o f l i fe 10
From tear that man would live I rever ! W h a t
a rensjti! God Almighty afraid of a thing of
liis own creation! B ut thus it was that mar»-
was turned from tho garden of Eden because
God feared he would rise and live forever as a
God. '
In the above mtinner^lo I jlispose of the
subject; and the ideas in relation to human
depravity are so obsolete that they are only ri>-
ferrcil to in u ridiculous relation.
G id foresees the working of his designs.}
and therefore, everything in the Universe takes
place according to his order; To s i n against
God would he to frustrate his desig n s; and
if the will and authority of ,God are suscepti
ble to frustration, it must appear evident th^K
the Univeise would he in a continual chaos,
iind the governm ent of God an anarchy. I
shnll content myself with t,he happy b-lief thaf
Infinite Wisdom is at the helm o f the Uni
verse ; and that all things were to be as they
have been, as *they are, and as they shall b?
throughout all Eternity .
New York, Jun. 2 1 st ., 18(30.
M kssus, FjPitohb .-— Last August in tiie
Supreme Court of this State, I obtained a
divorce from my wife, (A da L, C o a n ;) the
proceedings were conducted in private* in compliance with an agreement with her t h a t
she would drop my name and assume her
-maiden name after the divorce; b u t as she is
now advertising in the B a m u r " a s a medium
utider the name of Coan, I writo this hoping
you wili <lo me the justice to publish it in th s
‘•Aok,” t i n t my friends may know th a t I am in no way responsible for her acts, and um in nt)
way connected with her.
" Yours, ltesjiectfully, '
• W m . B. Coan.
A m u sin g A isk cd o te— D an iel W oh6tet used io rmntn the following anccdo.o o f
penury is caused hy the millions "which his in
terior is retaining. The rich man may retain
for a time, the wealth of the Indies; b u t the
law of gravity is such that it is bound to hold
every tliii^j eternally in its proper sphere !—
Kclative gravity may hold the shining ore
to a man's bosom ; but there is a universal
F ather S em i, th e inini(.ht\ o t h is b o jlm o d . A s w as th e custi m in thos'o day*, tho o ld gentiim un used to wear b u c k sk in breeohes in co ld w eather, uijd gettiu lg (m l h is pair one Sunday n .o in ing frotv w) a ttic in which
make a few quotations, and comment upon ’ l , l* had h**'1 h “ " * i v 8 «*». ‘ , , , ! louiid a neht of wasph id them . B y o ih -
them ui such a manner that “he whoever may , ^ , al)(ir hQ JUCBeBdt.d iu reroovi llg , he
1 ta('- ’ . intrudera, t\» h e supposed* aud started for“And the serpent said unto the wom an: c h u ic h . JutA ns he w as in the in id d ln o f
Ye shnll not surely die; lor God doth know th e (•ervi.es, kouvb o f th e in sects Still ID- thiit in the day ye eat theieof, then y o u r eyes inaiuinjf, g a v e him a p ie ic e , « h ie h ca u sed it h u ll he o pened , a n d i/e sh n ll be a s G o d , lcnow- btiu to ju m p an d sla p his th igh .. Suvh in g g o o d a n d e v il .” (!) M an is here raised ta t iea tm e n t lulur.iuted th em , and the more a higher place o f existence. “ And unto Adam j be ju m p ed and slapped, the in o ie th ey
hou hast hearkened Hluu«- ‘lih ti cougrejjunuD b egan - to th ii®lie (God^said .: Because thou h a st hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of
the tree of which 1 commanded thee, saying
thou shalt not eat of it, c u rse d i s th e g r o u n d f o r th y sa k e .” Here we set; \* ry plainly thpt.
gravity w hicli will attract it to the earth for- j God does.npt curso Adam, hut he says, “c itfs fd , cvor | j i s the g ro u n d /” “Thorns also, and thistle# shall
Creation is the attraction of tbe element of i t .b . in g forth to thee, a n d th o u s h a lt e a t th e Nature to some positive' centre.. W h e n the J herb o f th e f i e ld ." It is not commsnd.ed th a t
ncurn is planted in the ground it t rg ins its at- J man shall ent thorns o r d thistles, hut that h e
t r a d ive operations. It does not uttract those " s h a l l e a t the h erb o f th e f i e l d ! * I t is tho
particle* which would be tuken up by the ma-i highest teaching of *he Harmonial Philosophy
p i e ; it xil l repel all matter th a t will nQt h e l p j th a t the roost progxes^etl njpn sltpttlj. ttOt eat
he was i}rnay, but ho soon explained tiro trouble by mying, "My hearers, don’t ilw alarmed ; iho word of the J^ord is in , 017. mouth, but the devil is ia oiy breeches” . .
C u r e t o r H y d r o p h o b i a . - — A o o r tc * - -
ponc'.ent of the P rovidence Jo u fsu l >K?K- in regard to th is : . ‘‘E a t tKe jfipt'n fdiaotSC; o f a sparagus raw , sleep wM ptMpWlioBF>. w ill bfc in d u ced , nnd thediawuie. be cu r*d .” T h is tcm fdy proved1 efl®Muar' to a m an in G reeqe after th e ja jrvT jvn tf had co m m en ce^ " . , ‘
2 T H B 8 P I R I T T J A . X . A . & E
. 9 M m 4 Meordlnf In Aot of Congrrtt In tho jroor MW In tha Clork’VOfloi of tM DUlriot Court of
Ma>Mahw«tt)< -
DHOULA BEL;—OB THE—
B Y 'JFH B R O S IO R T J O IA N .
B O O t F I B 8 T.
. ‘ [CONTINUED.]
CHAPTER X II.
Tbe events ju st recorded were revealed b r the woman, just as she reoeived the ao- count in sfter years from a mighty one who attended tho council of the Moments, arid bore the reoord thereof to her listening ear. There is a mighty truth contained in what has just been read. Ponder upon it, dear
' reader, nr.d lenrn. * * * *Let us now record the events ip the Ca
nal street house.Flora continued her iiarrative, saying:
“The morning sun shone bright and ..clear through the windows of my room, but tho ourtaius were cosely di awn about my bed. As 1 oponed my eyes I heard a familiar
* voice 8ny to somo person else in tho room, “W ell, doctor! whut do you think ?”
• The bccond person replied, in answer tp the question, “ She has a very high bruin fever, ftnd i ust have experieno* d something
' yhty terri 'le. thuB to affect her, and bring her to death's door in twelve hours!”
i “And what became of you »ft«r your illness ?” a*ked thu man, ■ r whntev.:r it wps thnt had found an in tm cd >n o Flora’s room, on that uuik, tempestuous night, during which tho cvuHtsof the punt were related to him by tho lonely woman, lie till ra t on the sido of the bed, with his trangely j< w -lleii fingers resting upon the
head o f tiro sleeping in ant, which occasionally gave proof i>y u laugh un i orow ih.it it still dreamed. Of what omld it be dn anting? The three invisibles were a^o still oooupying the siuie positions they di 1 when last the reader saw them, while Fl>ra a so sat in the sum • pluce she.had when he began to relute her story to the mnn in red, who, by his own statement was of -
- CfiB pauvres pucux. plfini de bwaventures,Ne po.leul ritii quc de* chorea fu.urca.*
“I will tell you,” sho replied briefly :— “I lay on my bed three weary, long and
Sain-murked months; and when 1 was suf- oitntly recovered to.bear it, was told thut
some farmers fiom the JNoek, oil thi-ir way to market, long before day-light, had taken the road by the old stone-mill, and when exaotly abreast ol it, they were startled by aloud shriek which wus evidently, from its tone, that of a man, and wnioh wus almost instantly followed by another, unmistakably thut of a female, at the very acme o f/righ t and terror. Alarmt d, they hud pulled up, and utter fastening thoir horses to the fencC, bud leaped it, und ran with all possible t pi ed in the direction of the ■3rcaniH. They entered tbe mill, and one of them stumbled ovei un object whioh prov d to be a dm k lantern with tho slide olo.-ed, which thoy op-tied, nnd found the lamp still burning, an'l evidently with per- ftuned oil Availing themselves of this timely und unexpected a:d, ’or the night was very dark, they we■ robed the interior of ■the mil), und fouud the body of a young (girl, evidently just tnurdoicd, for the blood
. .was yet streaming fr..m her head. Tney iflOO;), upon inspection, however, bcuaiuo• convinced of their mistake m that respeo',: for tbe wound was n t deep, and the blood• flowed from u number ol'emall eioatriues, as , : i f 8he had f»lion against the rough points• of the mill-w.ills. . They took her o u r into i the'open air und tho dew, and cold -om re- 'tived tier. The fiint tiling sho itid after• Opening her eyes was to stiro wildly ab >ut,1 wring her hands, and exclaim, ‘Whero is t h e ! oh,! where is ho! my son! my i-ou! ■Oh! thut hi rrid serpent !. oh, thut serpent!’ and instantly relapsod into the
(Moon.' These words astonished the farm- -ers, for the girl was evidently but a ' child ■of *ixteen’, therefore could not be suppos-• ed to be the mother of a son ; and an for ^serpent^, it is we I-known there are but few• on the is'und, these lew being o f a. harmless< natuiv, and none a t till bung ever seen in ’the immediate vicinity of Newport ; con-
1 -neqiiently they eoncluotd thut she was dei ranged, ai d. w ere speedily convinced they ' were right by un old, veneiable-lookiug
'. man, woo entered tho mill^ weeping bitterly -and orying out ‘My daughter is kilted ! my
< >«ild is dead !’ They soon gave him comfort on that point, aud he thou stated that abe was subject to these fits; that she had
•left home tha t night in a state of high tx* citem ont; that he, her father^ had, utter a
( long s e a i eh found her in the Old M ill; that .’•<» be og discovered she had at first attempt
ed to stab him w ithn knile, whioh ouused i him tg shriek, and aferwards, in atteinpt-
lag to tsoape from him had ttuok her head< tgainst the wall, and falling as ahe did so,
r full of mytUo lore, of nought but future thlof«a uero. ' '
0 * her scream attracted the farmera, but he, being igoorant'of their close proiiiqity, had started off for help, hut in turntogjiU head he had aeen the light moyiog about in the will, and therefore had cdroe baok, know* ing belpihad arrayed. Thia story, coining M it did from the lips of a gray-haired old man, was'too plaueihle not to be accepted aa true bv the farmers, who, at tho request o f the'father, agreed to convey tho senseless girl to her home, to which he give th(?o ample directions, and, after plaoing a well-filled purse in their hands, left them, as he said, to find and fetoh a physician to his dear daughter's aid.
“About twenty minutes thereafter,” continued F lo ra ,' "a luu<t knocking was hoard at the door by the members of my family, none of whom were aware of my ibsence.”
“ I say,''’ cried the man who knocked, “comedown and open tho. door; here is somebody as belongs here, as is sick,—a girl what’d been murdered half to death somehow or o ther; and she’s bleeding badly !”
Every soul in the house was up in a minute, the doors were thrown open, and,
“Good heavens!’’ exclaimed a member of my family, “ it is Flora. W hy, how came this 1
“ W e don’t know, ma’am, how it happened. The old gentleman, her father, say* ashow she’s wubjeot to tiieso ere fi s.’’
“ Old geutiemun !—Father !— F its !— why-,.what do you mein? She never had a tit in her life, aud her fa'her has been dead these fifteen yeurs! Why, what does it all mean ? Surely there is some foul play here.” .
‘■Not as we knows on, ma’am : but sar- tain it is, wc expected the uld gent as was a orying, couldn’t bo anybody else . nor her father; more’n that, ho went hisself fora dootur, ma’am, und paid us for bringing the pretty corpus us like to ha been, here to her hom e!” ■
Not muoh further time was spent in questioningfs(or the girl wus bleeding badly from thiTwounds ou her temples; and ho after tellingwhen und how they found her tbe oountrymen took their leave, remarking as thoy did so, hat it was “a strange piece of business^’ “ Yes! it s irtin ly is queer, r a y t h e r , Ben, but then wa are well paid for our trouble,” said one to tne other, “ for the old chap, whoever ho is, gave me a tidy little bag of jingles; and as I put it in my pocket, I heurd the well-known onink of the •yaller boys, and I fi-lt tho doubloons pluin as pre.ichin ; mrne’n that, I’ll bet a plug o’ oavendish, its the beat night’s work wo ever made, or will m.ike this side o’Jordan!’’
“Well, Peto, s’puse wo count the shiners an’ dorvide the npile!”
“All right, my fino feller, here’s the d ust!” said the other, produoing his handkerchief, in which ho hud taken the precaution to wrap the purse. He unwrapped tbe treasure, and by the light of the lantern gazed at it, and instantly chmged color;— and well he m ight; for instead o f the purse of golden coin, he held in his hand nothing but a blood-btained rug in one end of which was a knot. I t wus untied, an 1 l a ! the contents were three pebblo-stunes and a rusty n a il! A t that moment the lantprn fell nnd went o u t; they looked and fell for it, but it- never could agaiu be found!
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Let us leave tho farmers to their wonderment and surprise, und turn for awhile to other, parties in, t.iis strango history— o f
f a d s . .
“Doctor °Jones! Dootor Jones! get up instantly and oome dj.wn to Carson's JJlocli, iu Hazard's Line, hext door to the Grum- mar School, for there'n a murder been attempted, and queer doings going on !”
These words, coming to tho worthy physician's ears a t such an hour of tho night, operated like magic. Hastily he leap/d from between his comfortable sheets, threw up the window, aud s^w standing upon his doorstep a female whom he well know.— J'wo minutes sufficed for his o l d j i c q u a i n t
a n c e to inform him that a terrible assault had been made upon u young girl, and that his presence wus urgently required. Whilo the doctor dressed hiuisolf tuo female m cb -
senger disappeared.In less than ten minutes the good-hearted
M. D. knocked at the door of tbe house where the young vioiim was lying.
“ Why doctor, how glad I am that you have cotne !” said the good woman who admitted him, “ because poor Flora has had a terrible fit and full, and has bruised herself horribly!’’ ’
“Why what are you talking about ?” said the astonished doctor. “ I thought you said an awful assault had been committed on her, and that sho was all but dead
“Mo! doctor,’’ replied the wqman, in her turn surprised beyond measure. “ Why, I novor said such a thing in mjf life ! When pray ?”
j'W hy,” replied the other, "about fifteen minutes ago, when you stood on my doorstep, as I talkod to you out of the window !” * ■, “W hy, dootor Jonea! you surprise me !
I have not boen outside wy doorstep since tight o’olock l*<t evening ; and F.ora has
just been brought home half dead in that wagon whioh you see yonder ju « turning the first corner*—apd that over five minutes •go.”
"W ell, I could have sworn it was you ; are you oertain of all you tell mo, madam ?"
“ I am ‘dootor—upon my honor I speak the truth.”
“ Humph,” said the dootor. “ By Ju p iter i t i t v e r y strange!” * * *
Slowly my health was restored. Many were the questions put to me as to the cause of my illness, but remembering the caution of the old man, I sternly refused to tell it, but gave 6 vasive answers. Finding I would not speak upon the subject, it was dropped, and by all 6ave( myself, after awhile forgotten, # # *
Oooe, alter some months had elapsed, as I lay on my bed wide awako, I saw an angelic 1 oking boing enter my chamber, who told me that ho Was tlio Lord of light, and th it in my hour of greatest need he would appear to aid and assist mo, but not until I w as“ U-udv for Him,” and this night I took you to be that angel, and that is why 1
said “ I am ready Lord!’’ * *
•‘Some few years rolled away. M y fe-' male rivals effectually destroyed my peace of min i—especially after tho adventures of the Mill. I saw no more, of the old w izard, )e t have ever beon conscious that I was never left alone, but that invisible beings at ended me for good or ill by night and by iluy The memory of thoso two uw- tul nights was ever like uiy shadow, present ; and Hcarce g day elapsed that I did not mentally recall the whole scenes.— Years rolled away; great changes took place in my person and my fortunes. At length ciicumstan os induced mo to marry. A f imly grow up around me, and poverty succeeded tu gonipotcnee, owing to changes in tiie habits of my husband, who was kin I and ten ier at first, but when the pains uf cbild-beuring had failed the roses frum my cheeks, and. maternity had worn deep, long lines of care upon my brow, he sougLt the society ol others, and left mo to suffer in penuiy, sorrow and neglect. Surely, L need not rehearse to you that bitter, bit'er story ; Suffi e it to say, that I became lonely and to a decree unsooial. I compared my present pover'y with my past affluence, and 1
have to this day reserved tho remnants of my wardrobo as precious souvenirs of. the pleas.nt. days I once enjoyed.
“ Night after night, when my children slept, t have crept softly down tho stiirs and hii'd nvs to a city of thei dead— i oem etary not far from where I dwelt. There I would sit for. bourn on a tomb, und unseen by mortal eye, assuage my grief in floods of tears. I'was tdo proud to weep iu pres enoo. of the living, for it hath ever seemed to me tnat I naturally hated tho living, and loved the departed to tho samo extent.; because from t h e i r invisible sympathy I found the true.st balm for sorrow. 1 lov ,'d to .think that the souls of the mighty ones of days lang syno wore near me, and th it hy them was I beloved in %pite of the Carolines ou my brow. '
“ I had u son, whom I lost, and in that, loss I oiiuld but recognize tho fulfilmmt of the propiotic pan6 rami of tbo Willov in the oid mi I.
"My hnsband’ 8 neglect increased with years, and he m>m?tiin)3 left m.i for mon In together, till what little affection I had for him grotf colder by (Jeirees. Wtio can blame me? Affection is a tiling that quickly dies unless it be tenderly nursed. Tiim Mt.iat.oi [ began to oist around m i to provide for my children. William and Caroline died early ; Harriet I had sent to- Ver- gennes ; Omoe to Burlington, and llann ih to Aliddlebiiry, all in tho State of Vermont.— My daughter M irtiiii I placed at scrvice in Skuneaieies, New York, and her sister M ny near her; and having done tais I t It resigned to whatever it might please G id in nis meroy to inflict. The cuul on th it bed is not quito two years and o.ie in inth old. My husband returned afieran absence of two- yeara-! I mot him with g adn.:8s, aud fondly o'ung to his neck, thinKing that this time I would retain bun forever by my sido. Vain h ip j ! Tae next ntgiit he was absent from h >tno, nor' have I ever seen him since. A tnon'h afterwards I found myself likely to buc ime a mjiher again, and now comes tho most singular part.of my story.
“ About the timo that I made this discovery, Hay asleep one night and waiull o f a sudden around by a great bluzo of light in my room, iu tho midst of whieh I bo.ield a benignant looking being, who said to mo “ Woman ! 1 love you, wilt thou lovo me?” I answered “yes." It disappeared, but oame again each night for three mouths, since which 1 havo mourned its absence.— Theneumo another spirit, who sail, “ Woman, 1 know much, wilt thou learu l” I answered “yes.” For months it taught me many and s'range things, and I felt that from the ono I drew much lovo, from tho other much of wisdom, and that I did infuse bo h into the boing of, my unbora child,
“ 1 asked the names of these two beings, and the first called htmseif “The Stranger,”
and the seoond told me his nutne wns- “Dhoula Bel.”
CHAPTER X III. •
4‘ ’T i l « i t n t n y e t a l e , B e r n a r d o — b y my f a i t h a a ♦ r a n g e t a l e } — a r i f h t r u r t o n i h h t o r y , a n d w e l l . t o l d , t o o , A y e , m a n , w e l l t o ld .* * — D i L A i tC E L L a s .
The woman Flora finished her narrative, leaving only an episode connected with the paternity of her lust child untold. She then turned towavds the singular being, to whom the tale had been repeated, und who she had forgotten, had, on his entrance into her chamber, announced himself as Dhoula Bel —to observe what effect her reoitul had produced.
The attentive reader will have observed that, although tho events of this first book, up to the present chapter, cover a period ol many years, yet that mainly, und in another sense we havo written only the hi>tory of three hours, namely, tire period thut elapsed sinco we first saw her pacing tho solitary chamber in tho C rnul street Iwu^o, on the stormy night of December, J 827, till she completed the rapid sketch of her past career to, uud at the mpiest of the singular personage who claimed geniseicncc and ge- nipotence as to the Future, hut who knew, accor sing to his own statement, nothing whatever of the Pa-t, except wherein that was connected with t'ie pre ent and the future, by a singlo tlmvd, which thread related solely to the business concerning the Neutral men—thi ir condition, hopes', fates und prospedts.
For a minute after she cc sed to Rpenk, the wizard, if sueh we miy call the being robed in red, rested his heat! upon his hand, and appeared to be musing.
Presently his lips began to move, and in a low—very low und tenderly cadenced voiue, but without look ng op, or in any wise changing his posuiun, he slowly chanted :
CHANT OF TIIE KliD GNOME. ,
“ Thou haafcjughetl, and ►ufrorciriongp :Thou hu>t tuld me .ill tuy griff
lrutit um, daughter, f»u ti.y w ion g ,1 t<> tliec vrtll bring relief.
Trust me, daughter— ell I,know tht* anguish deep within thy breust
W ell I murk the mlent flow of briny tears. I know thy rc&t
Is hroken,—heart aches bear thee down, sorrow li .verst, b liss denei la thee, aud the hard and iron
‘ crown *Presses o n th y w caiy brow, aud crushes theo to earth
e ’en n ow .Thou th in k ’st no joy r.-mai s for .thee ;
. Poor child ! thou lo i|g>t to bt; frye Thou deeui’at the heaven g |j >m-euih.oudcd *, th ii.k ’at no
star w ill ever I)cam.All thy hope.-aro ovordou lo 1; specter j h.i’in t thy every
dream. .T hou art lonely and b^niglttvd ; every path is strewed
with stones—Paths where others h are hueu lighted,— music-ehcvred.
but for thee groan*. ..Y et remember the d.irkness must come to an nnd,The storm flnd its calm , and ilion llntl .1 friend,—Y et lie'll rob tticcof lite. uml nleul thy la>t breath,Uul give com fo.t lor strife, and n llea teii lor Deutli. I h e ie ’d a s t tr beaming out. o*er ih<* hill, by the sea—*1’w ill ligh t thee to la .d* "f th*i n* ble unit free—'I he home o f the uap.iy, up i i tlio bri^ut sky.Tnen bo not d istressed j 't rfill t»e rig.it by and bye I”
“Ah !” paid FI 'ra, “could I but believe and realize thy glowing (iicture. my sorrows would ond, provided I nad au equal assurance of tho welfare of my b >y, after my life’s madness is ended orover.”
To t his he replied, ‘•Diobt not that he also will be happy. I will swear to protent and guide him safely, if of thy own free and unbiased will, he is pur. nto my bauds, and under my guardianship!”
The.'C words were s^ iken in a low but very anxious voice, ii seeuud for the first lime since they had been conversing, that ho trembled with anxi tv for, mo words iii answer lliat might fill fion tho woman’s lips. Other eyes Ilian ins were at the same tiine bent eagerly utiun her face, and she felt a peculiar f.eedom from ail extraneous b as and influence at th it moment, such as she had never felt bjtor ■. It was plain that neither he nor tie others present, dare disobey the Great I jiinc im.
“ l'hiuk well of it, m u deeid* i nly after mature dmioeration,” s a d he, resuming.— “ Tnou hast tlio p iwcr to yield o r . not, us best suits thy m ini. And tnat tboj wilt decide wisely I well believe. Thou hast nearly completed thy pi.grumge of sorrow. 1 havo come to let thee kno>v .t, and that I havo long desired to aid ilieo; und will if thou ■•wilt givo the guardianship of tliy youngest ohild to me, in w lom, daughter, thou boholdest thy fa.-t frienl, Dhoula BjI, ur* ier one of tho three forms in which ho has visited thee. In me behold one, who, liko thyself, is destined to en -.ountea strange vicissitudes; but wnose luture differs fro.ii t nne ; wnose power is greater, und who hath thy interest deeply ut heart. I atu compelled to inform thee now, a s I h a v e b e
f o r e , that two great an l ini^tiiy powers oo- exist in this Uuiverse,— .vlnoa by no moans includes the totality of Being,— and that by these Powers, 1, being a representative of tho Principle of Knowledge, have been selected for a purpose regarding not only thy sleeping child yonder, but the entire human race, present and to come. V o i e l a l
m e J a i l p i t i e ; und I will holp you, if you W ill permit me. We aro not ulono in this room, for thero aro other eyes which gaze up .n us h ere ; there are other eurs whioh listen ; other lips whicti cun speak, and oth- or hands to punish tho sorvauc who would do thee wrong, by telling ttiee un untrue tale. My mission ta Day Aud to thee is
ono of neither absoluto pood nor positive evil. I t is one greater than either, being thut of Knowledge, ue the three other, but to theo invisible beings now in this room, cun testify. Those beings are, in eonie re- speots, less powerful than myself, but'in others more so ; becaiiBo not being so highly organ zed, my affinities to matte- are stronger; bence I enn uttraot by the power of my ’’ ill certain electiical and carbonic particles, which are ever flouting in iheuir, and whioh are given eff from certain human bodies when they ure of u peculiar olecirioal and chemical construction. These particles cling to my invisible body, un I thus render it opuke for the timo being—a feat easily performed by spirits ; but the process differs w.tli them in certain respects from my own. Theirs is a shell, mine u solid body—theirs is mostly a ooating^fiir the tune, while mine is a complete structure in all respects. I nttract lung particles from human lungi, hoirt from heart, enl so on throughout. 1
um prevented from i jnring you, by these other bfings, even if I hail un inclination to do so, whieh of conr.-e [ have not.”
Ho spoke the truth, for the nvo bright invisibles smiled a.-se t ; while lie in red give un im(iatieiit g-s ure, as if lo say that it was indeed bunu.th his dignity to seek to injure a mere mortal.
“Not long since,’’ pursued Dlinula Del, “ I said liiut 1 had appeared to ) 0 U under three different forms. Ifou shall havo tho proof. Now la m I )houla B I, as you see ; but j ust turn yuur fuo.t toward 'lie floor and g zo stea lily upon tnat daik green .-pot up on thn rug :or a minuteor two. nor look up until I shall tell y ,u to do so.”
These words, affected Flora greatly. Sho knew not what to s .y, ilimk or do, n >w that 8‘ic fouul the web of mystery c l o s i n g about her more und nine e'o ely. She however resolved, now tnat d ir was imuieshed in it, to go on until ilie end; a id m fuitherance of this resolution, obeyed tbe wizard, and fixed h :r eye firmly upon the green spot on the oarp.it rug. T >e wiz ml was behind her. Probably not half a minute elapsed before she heard a voice siy io h ;r, in tones as soft as the suinuiei’.s sigh, '‘T.itn! Woman, I love thee ! lovest iiiou me'/"
The sound of that voice fell on her ear like the sweet music of the sky ; for well nhe knew Irom whom it came; well remem- . bered sho those >ilv iy, gonle tones,’ and with a cry , of gladness sue immediately raised her head, and sa v til it although both (ilobeand ti ipoii st od where she l.ist had noticed them, yet tne m zud was gone, and in his stead, standing at the tiirtliei' end of tho room, enve oped io a thin, b it resplendent cloud of ligl.t, tne a nno mysterio is baing, to all appeal'd-, ce, by whom she bad beon so often visited, during the tn>t three months after her husband left her, an i somo few months previous to the birth of the child then sleuping ou the bud. It was tho samo being .who had so completely w'on her heart, aud chained her Sjd i i in it m igic bond of love, divine and (iuie ; uud who liai, when he left her, at the,end ot' ninety days, called himself “Tue i>:ra ger." And now again, there he stood, smil'ng bonnily.yetsorrow- fully upon h ir. a s s ic caught his benignant eye, a full ti te of eniLtion swept across the str ng.9 ol her soul, awakening music the iu. sweeter tniii ttic cidcncos of adying ui^tiii.igii e. 'i\iro.v:ng herself passionately up ii lioi- ka: t> be ore tho beauti* ful vision, s ic exii.iirn >1. with .ui overflowing heart, 'O , lie ivc i! i th ink thee ; for my life, my Ii^nt, jny nne ti is como again !”
But the’iovely li„i ig befjie her waved his llan 1, us if in I.ken ot slignt displois- urc ut her utiuade ><f ad ir itiou ; and said,
.in a tone of voice, wii.ne liquid uielody fe!l upon lur soul l.k.i r.no drops on the sun- scorohoJ Aral), *•'Vounnp nn in ', woman ; adore ou.y the Uwelier in tne Dome!”— pointing upward wi Ii a waul wiiuii he carried iu ius rig’ll ban i— ,iin on.y thy good (jreuiu•>; inw in s-ooo is to thy soul ; I am thy te tter pai t, ana lien ;efortti s uill leave thee to Djs iny u.ii u l i j l ; 1, too, haveau err.uiJ to tuy sou throng.) thee, us well us he who Iruiti loti tnee out now, to return again and finish tus m.ior wi ll theo arid uu.ie. 1 ,' too, have a my-nciy to impart to theo- I h.ve listened iu tin rejital thou gav’st the aosfctit, one, thougti unseen by thy clouded eyes. Tnrongii th o, thy son aud the records yet to oe written of thy soul-cxpeiience, si.u 1 a priu ipie be illustrated to tue minds of in ;ii o i earth. I t is this ; that man does not make himself what ho is, but is ioitiie l, mentally, moiuily, social y, pnysioully, in ex.ct accordance with tho conditions wii.elr suiTJund him before birth— while y«u iu tuo niotuei’s womb, and afior he becomes u cittze i of tho world.— Tnese conditions ulfcLt me real bemg— the immortal principle ivuhm, luvorably or the reverse of this ; us ure the surrou/idingsof tha mother of eucu baje ; and when man understands this irum, ho will be happy ! but until ho does, tuorc can be uo peace on earth, good will among uien !”
“A ui it must be Kiioyu ere happiness Oin reign where strife aud misery now hold tneir pestilent cou: t. Man’s external or body is oniy real lor a season. Its nature is traus.tory and uusubie; tho inter
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T H E S P I R I T U A L A G 1 3 3nal, or spirit, only is real, bocauso it is scmpitorn il. I .toll tlieo, woman, and through thio the wido world, that tho amount and kind #of mental power and moral force of character is not, as many think, doterminod by the size of any given human brain, but by contour and refinement, which also determines the kin I of motivo—tho hidden springs of action which underlie—and prompts man to. all his outward manifestations. There exists certain external signs—which by tbo properly initiated can be read—by which are infallibly indicated, tho conduction not only of the spirit within the body, but the general and particular physiological condition aa well of the subject as tlio parents who brought them into being. Show me a child and I will tell yon what tlio parents are. Clairvoyance is a natural -power pm - taining to all mankind.
"Rian is the imago of Qod. Go! is infinitely clear-seeing.* and man’s natural heritage is a finite or limited clairvoyance when he comes into its possession by propo? attention to his education. S j, therefore, there arc two motho Is hy which to arrive at a knowledge of tho character of any human being. The first is external observation, or scientific analysis ; the other, bv a psychical investigation— i synthesis of the spirit itself, whioh is obtained, when by means of magnetically quiekoncd elairv.oy- ancc—another name for Intuition, whether by foreign agcncies or self-induced, a sympathetica! rapport is cs’ablishod between the observer and tbe observed. By this procesj alone c;in man discover the great truth that Contour, or Symmetry, and the attenuation or refinement of ihe atomic particles composing the entire frame— which in every case depends upon the de- greo of happiness enjoyed by the m itlicr previous to tho birth of her child, and the happine&tf" of her general and particular s u r r o u n d i n g s —invariably indicate and determine,tlio mental calibre, moral status, and physical stamina—which never depends upon mere gross c jarscncv1* of struc turc—as many persons of feeble frames live longer and endure far more hardships than thousands of rougher mould—of all who live upon th.; earth. Men must leirn through yon and your son, that the springs of human action. or first motives aro triune or three-lold, and that s:li'-lovcis the first member thereof—that it lies at tin very center and is the prim il source of all human action—■'-tie Ibial point a ound which all the f’acnlt.os revolve. But where it predominates tin much over the other two members, the man is limited, warped and crumped. It should be the center but never t li j t y r i u o i al g o v e r n o r of others. The second member is Fraternal Love. W hen it has its proper aud legiii- inato scope and influence, the mind is brighter, smootlur,' and altogether more expansive. Tho soul is quickened into lifo and vigor, and the menial manifestations nre broader, deeper, fairer,, and the spirit yearns for sympathy, while it imparts a genial .warm'U to all around. Universal Love is t h ! third member ol the trinity. At present it is nascent in almost ail hearts, but will spring into lilb ere long under tlio influence 'of man’s Sixth Sense—a si-nse not yet (levelo; ed. As either.of these primal loves predominates at mao's generation or procreation, so will he m tin legitimate result. This m iy be an unwelcome tru th , but it. is truth nevortneless. It is a la\y of Nature. of God; for behold, as the tree fillcth so it lietli. As is the seed, so will be the product. As are the parents, so will bo the child ; bat above all, a l l . Ai.r„ as is the in n 'h e r , s.) will be the offspring. Like never attracts, hut always produces like. Ihe fact is accepted by mankind as illustrating a principle so far as liors;s, p'gs and oxen are concerned ; and why not.be eqi.iby true ol human beings? A couple tnvc tour children. Isaac is a t od; J.ihn a lecherous debauchee; Ilcnry a mo lei ol intellectual peifcctncss ; and Mary the very soal of moral sentiment au-1 seal ol alL'ciion.— llow comes this to be. so ? llow . hceou i}.. lor it? 1 answer: surely the parents,particularly tae maCbrnal one mint bo blamed. They, through their cliildren give an incontestable proof that the followin'* states of mmd obtained in the parents when each of the above beings were called into existence respectively; namely: Number one is the emoo iimciu ot mental (intellectual) blankness of mind. Number two is i n c a r n a t e , v i v i f i e d l u s t . Number three af mental activity, and number fm r ol tho e m o t io n a l lo v e principle. Tnis through you is a hint lo the peop-e of the world. May they take it kindly. For lo! on an absolute^ knowledge and observance of these primal laws of life, depends the happiness or misery of countless myriads of the human family yet to be Nor must it be forgotten that every faculty uas a three-fold mode of actum : an inverted, a passive or in rin il, ani an extreme, perverse, and consequently -abnormal or unhealthy one. Tue t-vo extremes aro wrong; the central one only is ngnt. Auotucr truth it is part of my mission to enforce
upon you. It is this: All souls como d irect from Ood in essential form"; pure, serenely beautiful, and holy beyond thy comprehension, Most men in Christendom believo that man is all uncloan ; that his heart is tainted naturally, and desperately wicked. They also believo Ood to be a merciless tyrant, who made a burning lloll in sport of power so to do, and amuses himself by eternally damning his ohildren — his own divine handiwork and masterpiece thereto. All this is falso, and a direct libel on the great Creator. Such doctrines havo exerted a bileful influence on the human race, retarded its moral growth, impeded its onward progress, orushed its ever rising aspirations, blasted its fondest hopes, and enveloped the human mind in the appalling folds of-a darkness most terrific. Thoy must be outgrown and cast aside as utterly worthless ore m m can attain his perfect stature and stand forth as he should, in the bright garniture of wisdom, and tho similitude of his Creator— God 1 Fear must give place to the attraction of love or he -must ever remain unhappy. Having so long been told by those who knew better, that his nature was corrupt, to the extent of requiring a God’s blood to cleanse and purify, man has at last come to mainly believe it, and there fore acts accprdingly, solacing himself with the idea that ho can’t be worse than he finds himself, an I therefore might as well give a loose rein to his perver.so and perverted faculties; precisely as a child, who being told every day that he is a thief, at length resolves to make good his claims to the little thus conferrol, and actually learns to steal. Titis o u 'h t not to be; nor will it, when the Truo Harmonial System of Philosophy, b ise 1 on a correct Anthropology is understood—and practiced. M m must learn the rudiments, first of I t i s naturo, and then he will begin to move iu the right direction. Amongst these primary truths is this, namely: that all essential souls are perfect in q aality, but are inactive of themselves, until matter shall quicken them, and send the divine sparks of Intelligence on their mission of untold magnitude and importance either for good or ill. All that man can do is to furnish the means, and provide the conditions plr-sica' for the incarnation anil con- scions development of theto essential souls. The Eternal Coaler of tho Infinite Uni- v or etc tun—tho .inellahle, thrice glorious Over-Soul of All, breathes forth these no ill essences— spirit-monads, »s human beings exhale the carb jme gas from their lumps, or the damask ro.-c its perfume — The very air is full of them, and thousands sum m nl every human being on every earih within the miterial' system of the Universe of universes. "
' “ ‘If this be so,’ you ask, ‘what thon was the origin of the first human beings, who as you say, serve only as the laboratories wherein the necessary elements for the inearnition, embodiment, hypostasis, and development of these essential or nion- a la l spirits is prepared and compounded?’ I answer : you have questioned. well an i wisely ; and even so will I solve the knotty pro iletn for you. Mark one thing well. Man was not ma lo literally of clay, dust or matter, as many have been taught to th ink ; nor could any combi iiition, compound or extract tit material elements ever constitute the thing oillel Soal. B nause matter contains nothing witliin inself akin to mind. It is always and ever will be nothing but the, patient or a c te d o n , while soul is ever the a c t o r . Tne refi ied es-en- c e s , extreme attenuation, or ultimUo sub- linntion of matter, constitutesSpirit, which is .but tlio vehicle of Suit, and the medium whereby only can it come into ielation with that-which is s i infinitely beneath itself in point of excellent purity. '
W ITH Itf AND W IM J t/r -
’lis midnight’s solemn hour. _ Ila rk ! the deep-toned hell peals forth tho knell of the departing day, aud ushers in the morn ; the stars, those ‘•gems ot heavi n” spangle the azure cope. The morn just piercing the fleeclv tissue cloud% tinges yon grey tower with her pure beams. The streets are hushed—naught is heard save the quiet murmur of the rinplmg waves as they gently kiss the pebbly beach and softly whisper their good night. Truly seems it gazing on a scene like this, as it no tear could diin the eye, no blighting sorrow crush the heart.
But hark ! what means that wnil of anguish in yon stately mansion ? Ah! the rider ot the pale horse hath entered there; for neither bolt nor bars nor regal splendor can forbid his entrance, nor tenderest affection stay his progress. The strong man is laid low. Sad sorrows flit softly around the couch of the sufferer, and bending near wait for his parting blessing. “Weep not for me” he said, the angels h a v e sent their ‘‘pale-browed brother” to bear me home, my Father calls me, fare jc well.
How sweet to remember there is a world f r o m which,death and sin the cause of doath is forever excluded.
^ CapitalA TERRIBLE WOMAN.CIIAPTHR 1.—THE BALL OF THE
- O PER A — A CURIOUS RENCONTRE.
I t was in November, 1851. I had been wandering over the continent for years, with no particular aim or oojeet —I had nothing, in fact, to do in the world, except to kill timo, until that old mower- down of humanity should be ready to kill jne. That generally tedious and desperate avoeition had been for tnoroj than a year,- however, a good deal lightened by a course of political events in France. Most ^of my friends in that kingdom wore, like 'm yself, sturdy republicans, and lean afford to c uifess, now that I havo no apprehension of finding a ‘ in o u c h a r d ” always at my e1- bow, I was pretty deep in their soerets and their schemes. •
So it was in November, 18.51, that I catii'i back to Paris, and reinstalled myself in my old lodgment au premiere, Hue St. Ilonore, No.------
The evening of my arrival, the first B a l
d e V O p t r a opened its fasoinations to the miltifariouj throng of pleasuve-seekers who crow-1 its dore and intoxicating hall. Unmasked, and in simple habit of “ gentil- homme,” I dropped in about midirght.— The ball was at its height, or rather under fuli headway for that giddy elevation which it commonly reaches about the smill hours. - I idled about, and bore with proper fiegm tho assaults of an indefinite number of travestied young women of the q u a r t i e r l a t i n , not less malicious than beautiful—till I grew weary of being tbe but, of a persiflage, agreeable enough tD n ivices, b u t ' stale to an old habitue like myself. Wearied with it, after u little whiiO, therefore, anil recognizing none of my friends any whero among the surging and whirling crowd, I went a..d sat down in one of tho boxes, resolved to watch the scenc below awhile, and then go homo and to bed, like a good boy, before daylight.
I had r.ot been long seated when a second person came in also, and sat down in the opposite corner of the box. I looked, of oou se, an 1 saw tin t it was a woman. Women being the “ feature” of the place, however, ami 1 in rather a crusty humor, I took no farther notice of her. I e x pected that, as usual, she would launch at mo some of tbe ordinary challenges to conversation ; but I was mistaken. So, after wiiting sometime iii a dead pause, I began to feel a little curious to know what c.uild be tin; reason for such an anomaly as a silent French woman at tho B i l d e V O p e r a
1 drew back in tbe nox a liitle, thorclore, and fell to examining her carefully. Sho was comp'etely enveloped in a black domino, an I closely masked. There she sat, half i-crooned by the curtain, and peering down fixedly on the moving crowd beloiv—and motionless as a statue. A delicate and rounded hand, perfectly gloved in white kid, rested upon ilic'ledge of the box.— That, was all, however, tin t could be seen, by which to form a surmise as to her character or looks. There was not a bow of ribbon about her dress, nor even astiay curl peeping out beneath her hood, to mark her for recognition. Neither, as sho sat there, could you form any idea of her figure beyond tbo fact that she was certainly not a large woman. Even her oyes showed through the hides in her mask on y like two little jioints of Si^ht; for tho holes wero smaller than usual, and evidently meant to conceal their size and character. There was, in fact, not a shade pf coquetry about her dress or herself And tlmt fact piqued my curiosity in a manner which the must elaborate attempt at fascination would have failed to do. Directly, however, sho drew from under her domino'‘her other hand, and this held in it a littlo handkerchief. As she raised it, apparently with un involuntary motion of lnibit, to where her iips should- be, but tho mask win, she was attracted by something in the crowd below, and leaned over the front of the box. As she did so tho handkerchief foil from hor hand. Her agitation at this was so m irked that I rose instantly, and said :
“ There is no necessity of being agitated. I f Madame will remain horo, I will bring it to her in a moment.’’
The lady bowed, and I went off on my errand. I lrad no diffnulty. A gentleman, who had picked it up, was stun ting at the fame spot, and returned it to mo a t onco.— I went oaek much more slowly than I hadi.'eseended, and took Jhe chanoe of examining tho fairy wob of lacs by tho way. It was a marvel of manufacture, and perfumed with one of thoso delicate, half-scents whioh I own always suggests to me an idea of gool taste and:distinction in the user. There was neither cipher nor mark upon t, but tied in one corner was a little gilt
key. Taat accounted for tho lady’s agita- .ion. There could be no mistake about it*
use. It wan tho key of a “ Hrahinah" lock, and that lock I roolvel at oi-eo vfas on the lady’s writing desk, i f that key could only have talked !— but it was only a gilt key, and no key to the mystery of tlio lady, or the lady’s writing desk.
I regained tho ‘doge;” shut tho door, and presented the resoued “ cstray.” She received it, nnd thanked me in a very low sweet voico. I thought her aceent was a little foreign—not, in fact, cxaotly ‘‘Paris- ienne,” —but the voico was certainly charming. A t any rate, the ice was brokon; anil as the lady d.d not offer to speak, I did. So I said :
“ You do not como here, I see, fair masque, for the 6amo purpose as the common crowd. Yen are not gay. You aro, in fact, sail and d i s t r a i t . Aro you afraid - of this noisy crowd, or of me?’’
Tho lady turned half towards me, nnd said in the same tone of voice, but through which, 1 fancied, pierced a touch of irony :
“ I know you too well, Monsieur, to bo afraid of you.”
‘‘A h!'’ said I, laughing, “you are a fortune-teller.”
“N o,!'said she, in the same low, half- mockiiVg way. “ Th it is not necessary.— Without being a witch, I can e.-vsily convince you of my knowledge. For instance: you camo to Paris to-day direct from Rome. You wero uccornpaniod only by your servant, a negro, very venerable, gray, and pompous. You drove first to tho Rue Vau-iirard to call upon a friend. From thero you went, to the Mi'dstry of Police anti registered your name, and received permission to reside in Paris. -It was a wise act.” ' '
This was said with an emphasis that made me shiver a little, and fancy tlmt perhaps the “ iron” band of the police was under that paiticular '■•gant d e v e l e u r s . ’ ’
“ From there,” she continued, “ you went to your apartments, llue St. llonoro, No.—■— , and—” .
“ From there here,” gayety I did not feel ;
IJreak it—even in thought—apd this is oar last meeting.
Whon I turned she wis gono.
C H A PT E R II .— A CRIM INAL AT TH E CONFESSIONAL.
said I, .affecting a for decidedly the
‘But in your i 'o le ofady know too much prophetess you ought.to know the past and future, as well as to-day. Wc have met before 1”
“ Yes.”“ W hcro?” '“In Italy, in England—every where.” “You aro my good or evil genius?”“That will be as you make it.” .“ How c a u l control it?” said I hastily. “Too good genius Ins b.:en with you,”
Siiid she, slowly aud almost solemnly, “for three years.- I l i a v o determined to project you. I have done it.”
Iio w 7” said I, with a little anger; for .1 hato to be mystified, and began to think she was currying the joke too far even fer an opera ball pleasantry. “ How and where ?”
“ In Rome, when you conspired with Mazzi- ni. You were discovered. You reoeivfd a note, warning you of your danger, and (led in time. That note was mine. A tthcbljody field ofNavarra. You fought and fell. Insensible, you were carried from the field to a neighboring ‘Poderc.’ My servants carried you— it was by my orders. Whilo insensible, or wild with tho fever whioh followed, I nursed you—it was my mission.”
I began to be in a new fever.“ If,” I cried, “ I am under so many ob
ligations to you, you will not bo so cruel, so heartless as to we ir that mask any longer. You have told truth enough to mako me believe all true you toll mo. Let mo at least learn to know who I owe so much to.” \ #
“Mr. Heyward,”— I started again, for ihat was my nains indeed,—“ Mr. Heyward,” she said coldly, “doo3 not know mo. I t is not probable ho over will. - My face would be strango to him. This I tell him upon my Inner. But he cannot see it.” . ’
“But, Madame” —‘ '“Sufficient sir,” she shad, haughtily; “ such
is my will. Know, however, that I came litre to-night purposely to meet you, and to tell you that oil condition of obeying mo implicitly we meet again.’’
“Madame,” said I, now completely under the dominion of this strango creature, “ I promise implicit obcdience. Allow me to fieo you again—often again—and no sfave shall be moro absolutely obedient.”
“ Do so,” sho said, “and I promise you”— “ A littlo love?” said I, with a pardon
able impulse of vai.ity yielding to tho suggestions of tho.place and time. -
“No,” she repliod, in a quick, hard tono, altogether different, “The love of man to woman is a - thing oommon, and generally worthless. I promiso something better—-- friendship and protection. You will need both.” .
Here sho roso, and said :“Mr. Heyward, f must now leave you.
I forbid you to leave this box until fifteen minutes after myself. You havo given me your word, as a gentleman, to obey mo. Keep.it, and you will havo reason to congratulate yourself on your good faith, _
From the opera ball nnd its strange adventure I went homo thoroughly excited, and a littlo alarmed— alarmed for two reasons : first, tho woman knew too much about mo; and second, I felt too much interest ed about her to be oomfonable. I was resolved to see.her again, and probe the matter to the bottom—to find out all about her, and make her tell mo all she knew about myself or— what “ or ?”— That I didn’t fill up. Full of my p u rpose I haunted every public place ,for a week, in vain; notu sign of my tormentor was to ho seen. Perhaps l him seim her, really, a thousand times during that period, and did not know her ; for I had seen only a hand gloved, and Paris is full of littlo hands and perfootly-fitting white gloves.
So tlio last day pf the week I came baok to my lodgings, weary and savage, threw my oane one way, my hat another, and lastly my eyos on the table—and a three-cornered note. I pounced upon tha note and tore it open. I t containod two lines :
“ My carriago will cal] for you to-rifajht, at ten o’clock. Lu G ant B lanc .”
From that hour till ten, 1 confess, seemed ten ages; but ten camo at las., and so did tho carriage. I shall not undertake to desoribe tho curious mixture of .sentiments with whioh I took my placo in it, and found myself bosido a gigantic negro ; but I was iu for the adventure, whatever it might result in, and braoed my nerves for all haps and hazards. But, in truth, I really did not apprehend danger as ono of tho results, of tho adventure. Tho lady had professed to havo dono me too much good at odd times—such as in 11 >me, at Navarra, &o.,— and 1 believed her too well to be at all alarmed. -My agitation, therefore, was rather tho nervous excitement of hope than fear. During tho/ ride, the negro was as silent as his mistress had been. Tho carriage wai closed; tho curtains draw n; I oould not sco whero we went. Only, after a while, I knew, by the sound of tho wheels, that we nad left the pavement of the city, and were riding over a country road. At last, after an hour’s ' ride, tho carriage stopped at the garden door of a largo country house. The night was pretty dark, and I could merely see by tho outlines, and those vague and waver* ing in the obscurity, that it was a handsome chateau, apparently quite old. My guido opened tho gate, and led tho wayr by another side door, into the houso. . Following him olosoly, I camo to an inner dbor, which he opened, und, closing behind me, locked, and left mo standing alone. I listened, nnd heard him descend tho stairs and, I fancied, go out of the houso.
Then I began to look around mo. Tho chamber into whioh I was introduced was furnished luxuriously, and dimly lighted by an argund lamp, in silver frost work, hung in tho centre. A profound silence reigned everywnoro about it. Direotly, however, a door, conooalod by curtains of pink silk, opened, the drapery was put side, and tho unknown entered—m a s k e d .
I was ubout to throw myself ut her feet, and utter somo of tho common plaoes of passion, which all this scenc naturally suggested; but she drew back haughtily, apd, with tho air of a queen, motioned me to a scat. I obeyed { in fact, I could not help obeying, her air was so impo ing. Sho also sat down oppnsito me, upon a small Grecian couch, and faint us the light . was,I oould now see that, wliatovcr her face might bo, her figure was as faultless as the white-gloved hand which first attractod me. She was in demi-toilette, and a Spanish waist and full sleeves permitted to be seen an armi and neck white and round— all that lover the most passionate, in fact, or critic tho most fastidious, could desire.
I nttompted to bo gallant and affcotion- ate. Sho stopped me instantly— got harshly, bot decidedly—saying :
“ I tolij Mr. Heyward, when wo met last,, that I knew him ; I Sent for him to-night- to prove it, not to hear professions of love.. Those aro the common coin of our daily lifo. I have something marc important far.. you.”
“ Madame, or Mademoiselle,” said I, “ whichever you may be* for Heaven’s sake toll me what you know of mo, and believe me, my most sincere desire is th a t you may know or think nothing which will prevent your accepting from mo more than a common profession^------”
“ Of love 7” said she. •I bowed and laid tny hand on my heirt.“M. Heyward,” sho oontinuod, “I am a
woman of condition. I am joung . My life has been irreproachable, and—I will bo frank with you—I Jove you. S tay!— npproaoh me, offer to rise, even, tp l I bid you,, and I disappear.”
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I n m a k in g th is an nouncem en t, I d eem it
dus to m y se lf lo s ta 'e (xince m an y of th e
re a d e rs of the A o e seem to hav e m is ip p re -
h e n d i'd th e fa c ts )— th u t sin '0 th e chango of p ro p rie to rsh ip above a llu d ed to , I havo
Aad' n o oontro l o f o r—E C igonsibiiity (y r e ith
e r th c e d ito r ia l, m echan ical o r b u s in e ss do-
p s r tn ie o u o f t h e pupur. M y sorv icos have
been lim ited to th o c o n tr ib u tio n o f a ap ee i. fled a m o u n t of in a tto r W eekly, o v e r my
own h ig n a tu re — boyond w hich I have had
b o p a r t in p re p a r in g its c o n te n t? . In fac t,
I havo h a d no o p p o r tu n ity oven o f e x a m in
in g th e p ro o f-sh ee ts o f my ' ow u u rtio los,—
in consequonce o f w hich th ey liavo o ften a p
p e a re d in a sa lly inutiiate.1 c o n li t im i , m u ch
to m y m ortifica tio n , i f no t to th e m is le a d in g of i e id e rs .
I t is ult-o b u t j u s t th a t I a d d , th a t thc
general management, of tho p a p e r . sinoe tho
• t r a n s fe r , h a s afforded m o l i t t le s a 'in a c t io n ,
a n d m uch d isa p p o in tm e n t. I h av e , h o w ev
er, p a tie n tly b o rn e w ith w h i t I h u d no f o w e r to re m e d y , h o p in g th a t th e pu b lish
.era w ould be ab le to ovprcom o th e d ifficul-
■iiea w hich hedged u p th e ir w ay, a n d fu lfill
th e e x p e c ta tio n s th ey h a d r a is e d . Tho
p re se n t p ro p rie to r is now c o n fid e n t th a t ho is on th o ovo o f acc o m p lish in g his in te n
t io n s , am i fu rn ish ing , a 'p u p e r o f th e f irs t• c la ss . T h a t ho njiiy su cceed , is m y 'm o s t
' e a rn e s t w ish — as i t d o u b tle ss is th u t o f a ll
th e old friends o f tRo Aon. I t 'is, however,
h is d esig n to make it in somo m easure the
e x p o n e n t of a new i>sue or movem ent,
w h ic h has already beca to toino extent fore
sh a d o w e d in tliesc colum ns. O f th is I
k n o w too little as y e t to bo prepared to
id e n t if y myself with it, o r even to express
an opinion upon, i ts m erits .
A s re g a r d s the S p iritualistic m o v em en t,
in general , ihough its p re s e n t position as a
M o r a l , Social an d Theological R efo rm , is
(tot all t h u t Cbuld be wished, or th u t nmy
bo reasonably anticipated ere long, yet i t is
m a t t e r for congratulation t h a t i ts basis
fact— the existence and c om m unioating
p o w e r a t disembodied sp irits— is firmiy es-
ta b ished in the eonviotions of a largo p o r
tio n o f th e intell igent a n l j well-informed
c la v e s , a n d is s ilently but surely leaven
in g the e n tire public mind. T h a t the ben-
ofioent p ro v id e n tia l ends intended in' this
w o rld -w id e movem ent will in d,ue tim e bo
w r o u g h t o u t , and through heaven-directed
in s tru m e n ta l i t ie s , I cannot d o u b t .
W h e t h e r any fu thor p a r t in the p u b l ic
advocacy o f Spiritualism will devolve on
MS, o r w h e th e r m y w ork in this field is
d o n e , ill be d eterm in ed b y the fu tu re .—
N ev e r Laving s o u g h t the notoriety, tho
w c i .b v " sponsibilit ies, the c ru s h in g and
pe tiiaril u nrem uncrated toile o f editoiial
(ervico in this u n p o p u la r cause, a release
will be most, thankfully accepted, i f D u t y
gran ts it . I retire p i th tho sustaining con.
soio^sness o f having labored long, ear-
H08 'ly and honestly, to t h e e x 'e n t o f my
;ne^i)M a n d abilities, to furnish a Spiritualis-
tio povirnut which should be creditable to
th g ,ea,t movem ent of our d p y — jphich,
a l i k e in i t e litu a r y , moral, philosophical,
re lig io u s an d practically reform atory to n e ,
should re p i; "ent the best plm-es o f (his
g ra n d rev o lu tio n , 'ijho failure of^fiealth,
a n d th e look o f thnt substantial co-operation
jIThich m i g ^ t h a y e p e c n reasonably a n t h i -
puted, in te rru p te d ibc»e l»b"rs some months
►i»3o. T h e p a p e r passed from my control,
an d the rent in^knijurn I t is surely not
g r e a t ly to (he cred it of tho reputed.milliont*
o f believers in Modern Sp^rituali-wi, th a t no
' publi m i e n devoted to i ts advooacy hus
been a b le to obtain a c o m p e te n t sup p o rt
w ith o u t resort lo e xtraneous and sometimes
questionable uids.
T h e undersigned is not u n aw are that b e
tween th e S piritualism advocated by him
self, a n d much that u n d er this namo, i>
prevalent throughout the co u n tr y , there ex
ists an “ irrepressible conflict.” B i t w heth
er his future positfbn shall be u puolio or
a privuto ono, he hopes e v e r to rem in an
earnest, advocate of " l h t i o n a l S p i r i t u a l i s m
a n d P r a c t i c a l R e f o r m ' '— an uncotiiprotnis-
ing opponent o f all superficial, spusuulis-ic
and u /npiri tual tl ieirios-wiiich m iy be pro
m u lg a te d in tho name of*Spiritualism N o
system can be worthy o f t h a t title, or ot
value to the w r r ld , which does not tend
practically to purity the individual from all
selfish a n d fleshly lusts, and to elevate hu
nian suciely io the angelic stato.
Tho sundering o f a connection so long
held with the Spir itualistic press, g ives ri.se
to em o tio n s that oannot heio be ex p ress d.
I n these y ears of toil and endurance in be
h a lf of a n unpopular cause acquaintances
have been formed and frien Iship* c e m e n te .
which, I cannot doubt, will c o n tin u e in
‘ The Land of tho II reafter.”
I will a v a il myself of the p re s e n t occasion
only to say , th a t the re m e m b ia n c e ot n u
merous deeds o f kindness from friend*
whose unly b o rd o f obligation was interest
in a common cause— leeds and wonts whieh
h a v e tended to lighten b u rd e n s that seemed
otherwise in s u p p o rtab lo — will go w ith me
th r o u g h life as a perpetual source o f grati
tu d o and s trength . E ar Ii h a s “ m in is te r
in g im pels ,” us well as he iven. May their
n u m b e r .increase till earth -shall be fully per
v aded by the sp irit of heaven !
F ir m ly believing in the ult im ate triumph
of t r u e S p ir itu alism , and cordially wishing
to all tho - .enjoyments which flow from
s p i r i t u a l i t y of h eart and life, I have h o t to
a d d , Ai>iku! A . E. N e w t o n .
S o m k u v ii .lh , M ass., J a n . 2 7 r h , 1 8 0 0 .
E X P L A N A T O R Y .
W e a re sorry to no obliged to apologize to
the r to d e r s of the A ge for its non-appcar-
ance in its proposed enlarged and improved
fortji this week. Thoso who tire acquainted
with up b e s t , ‘k n o w th it w o had every rea
son in tho worlJ to suppose th a t the ptom-
iso wc ' m ade in th is respect a month ago,
would bo amply redeemed with this num
ber. T h e y k n o w , too, that every f oult.y
we possess has been taxed to the utmost to
accomplish a consummation so devoutly t"
be wished, B ui m an proposes and God dis
poses. .
B u t while wo very much regret that we
wero induced to make promises, to oui
readers whioh must cause them disappoint
ment, we aro consoled with th c knowledge
t h a t w liat wc at first regard' d as an tin-
mixeil evil , is now shown to have been the
deliberate result of an unseen intelligence
far ab o v e tlmt. o f our own. W e feel con
te n t , therefore, to labor on until our efforts
aro crowned with_tliat succcsh which paiient,
earnest tf lo i t m ust alw ays achieve
Somo g o o d friends ot t h e 'A g e co m p la in
o f th e m y ste rio u s m an n er, m w hich thu p a p e r has bean con d u cted to r som o tim e
p a s t. Well, we con I css th ere is a m ystery
a b o u t i t —»-a m ystery wmcti has involved the
w r i te r h e re o f in i ts to ils fo r m ore than
se v e n y e u r j . T lm t m ystery lie has been
v ain ly try i '- g to so lv e , to p e n e tra te , u n til
now , w h o n ho feels th i t th o so lu tio n is
Well n ig h n ached. And w hen wo become convinced th a t wo c an n o t un i'avel fho web, wc in te n d to m ak e “ a c’lcun b re a s t o f i l ” to
th c p u b lic when we aro sa tis f ied , i t will
unravel itso lf , ^ n d w hen th a t is done, we
believo a n d know thajt we i-hall havo done th e w orld nn e s fc n tin l jwr.yicc, e ith e rd n de
v e lo p in g u n im p o ita n i m ovt m e a t, o r in ex
p o s in g a s tro n g jj.nd p re v a len t dcluai.Qn.
jBtnir wiiih us th en , J i ie n d s , a l ittlo lo n g
er. T ^ .e o n u m b e rs m oro w ill co m p le te a
h a l f VQlumj o f th e A g e s in c e o u r co u n tc -
tio n w i 'h i t . W ° h av e no reu s n to d o u b t
th a t we s h a l l then be a l j e to p re se n t o u r
rea lers wtih a jo u rn al whieh will tie credttu-
hlo to us and th e cause it represents . Wo
sbull have som ething moro definite to say in
o u r next. .
_________ ; ____ A -
SCRA PS FRO M G O E T H E .
I’LAOIAIUBSI.
“ H ow absurd !” says G oethe in s p e a k in g
of the dhanges o f plugiaristn which a r e of
ten bro ught against writers. “ W c m i ^ h t
as well inqiire, When wo see a s t ro n g in
about, the oxen, sheep, and swine whi -h he
has eate n , ai.d wnioh have co n tr ib u te d to
Ilis strength . •
“ 'V e have faculties indeed, to begin with;
b u t , for unfolding them , we may tljaok a
th o u s a n d influences o f the g re a t world,
from whieh we ap p ro p riate w hat is su itab le
to us. I owe much to the G reek s a n d
French ; I am infinitely indebted to 'S h a k e -
spearc. S terne, an d G oldsm ith ; b u t in say-
n g th i ' , I havo not pointed o u t all the
sources o f my c u l t u r e ; th a t would bo an
endless as well as an unnecessary t>sk.—
W l n t is im p o rta n t is to h a v e a so u l t h a t
lo v e s t r u t h , a w l re c e iv e s i l w h e n i t c a n f i n d
i t ! "
, K A I U U I i , '
[W ill our reflecting friends ponder welI
ypun what, follo-ws. ' I t s t r ik e s us ttiat i t is
, u l l 'o f tru th . • *J
" N a t u r e u n d e rs ta n d s no jo k es;* she is
alw ays tr u e , earn est an d sev ere; she :s ul-
w.iys l ig h t , and all f.iiling an d erro r uiust
belong to man. She disc aim s tho in a d e
q u ate ; only to th e a le q u a to ; tr u e and g e n
u in e will she reveal her my.-teri'es.”
THE DIVINITY.
‘■The i in d '- r s ta n d i i ig can n e w r scale tho
lof iest heignts. Man m u s t rise th rougho oth e hig h est reason to appro ch the D ivin-
i y which manife-ts i is e lC in ihe p r im i
tive phenomena, physical, and m oral, iic-
liiud which it d.veilj and which piocecds
from it.
“ D i v i n i t y works in the living, and not, in
the dead, n the iif.COM I no and c i i a n o i n o ,
and not io the becom e .md eh i n j e d . T h erc-
ore l t i i s o o a.-piring to tho Divine, deals
with the becoming, and the living, b u t the
undeistaiulm g with the beeoniA the already
siiff-ned, waicli i t can apply i o use. 31in-
eralogy is the science li.r the un Icrst.in 1-
ing, for piac ieal lile. i ts subject is the d ead ,
which cannot, rise a g iin , and gives no room
for synthesis.
“ The subject o f meteorology, on iho con
trary , is living, what, we sec dai y working
and i h inging ; so this scionee supposes sy n
thesis only o g re a t an accum ulation of
observations is needed for this, th a t n u n is
not yet. prepared. .
“ We s tc jr by hypotheses, by imaginary
islands, b u t the proper l iy p j 'h ^s is wil prob
ab ly remain an undiscovered c o u n tr y ; and
I do nor, wonder, when I seo how difficult
it, ia to obtain a Nynihe>is a b o u t suidi small
tilings as*])lants an d co'ors.”
‘W hile .w e are.children we a're sensualis ts ,
idealists when we love, an d a ttr ib u te to iim
beloved object, qualities whicii she-does not
p o sso s. Jj >vc w a v e r s ; we d o u b t her fidel
ity, and we are skeptics before we think of.
it . T he rest of M e is indifferent; we let
it go as it will, ;>ud, like In d ia n philoso
phers, with Q uietism .'’ ...
KNOW THYSEI.P.
I t has from tli-J olden tim e been said r e p e a t
ed ly , th a t mau should strive to know himself.
To this singular requisit ion no man either
has fully answered or shall" a n sw er. Man
is by sense a n l custom lead outw ards into
tho world, und lias a great, deal to d> t h a t
he niay know a n d . make use of this, l ie
knojvs hinisolf oniy Irom jo y and sorrow,
and only in th s way instructed . what to
seek, ami whut to shun.. Man is uad a r k e n
ed heiti^ ; he knows not whence he comes,
nor whither lie g o e s ; aho knows li tt lo wf tho
world, anil loss o f himself. I kno,w n o t
myself, and may G od protect ipo from i t !
But this [ can s iy, and in my fortieth y ear,
ivh.de living in I ta ly , I became wiso enough
to know this much of myself th a t 1 had Dot
a tulent. for the plastic a r ts , and th a t this
tendency o f mind was a fulse one. ‘
MAN AND T I IB CREATION.
“ Tho teachers o f whom I Hpeak wouUl
t h in k th e y had lost th e ir divinity, i f ihe-
did nut a d o re him who gavo tho ox h o rn s io
defend him self with. B u t lot them perm*:'
me to venerate h im who was fo g reat in
tho magnificence o f I l is creation, ns after
m a k i n g a th o u s a n d fold plants , to c o m p r e
hend th e m in o n e ; and a lter a th o u s a n d
fold a n im als , lo m«ke th a t one whi h com*
prehenHs th e m a l l— M an.
F a r t h e r , they ven erate hiai who gives
thc brast his 'o l d e r , an d the m m meat an d
d r i n k , as m uch as ho can enjoy. B u t I
w orship him w ho has infused into the
World su ih power of production, 'h a t i f o n
ly a n iid io n th p a rt of it, shnuld p -ss < u t of
life, the world would swarm with creatures
to such a degree th a t war, pestilence, firo,
a n d water oould n o t prevail u g i in s t them.
T h a t is m y God.
M n s . P e a b o o y . — T his 1 .dy is fist, g i i n .
ing an e x te n d e d re p u ta tio n as a powerfu
healin g medium. Some of her cures a* r e
lated to us, aro tr u ly wonderful. L et any
o f o u r frwn 1-t lvIi i k u ) v of I n >e •afu c a -
es,” o f disease, procure the aid of Mrs. P .
W e can testify to h e r rem arkable powers
as a clairvoyant,, b u t have fortunate ly had
no occasion to teSt her as a healing inedi
nm , whioh is her strong point . More c n-
verts are b e in g made to S piritualism th r o u g h
the astonishing euros performed by medi-
u m s ’than by all the lecturing and w r i t in g
of tb e d a y , powerful as these instrumental
ities arc . ^
I f we rig h tly u n d e r s t a n d the doc
tr in e s of the a u t h o r of tho Sermon on the
‘ F a ll o f M m , ” and those of Mr. liv-erts to
be found in a n o th e r p a r t of this paper,
th e r e is no substantial disagreement betw een
th em . T h e essay o f the la t te r gentleman
is vvell worthy o f careful st idy. Shall wo
hoar from the w riter often ? £
E h U a t a . — In 'he article in last w e e k ’s
p a p e r , entitled “ Sund iy Meeting iu Brom-
ticld H a ll ,” 2 6 ' h line, for ‘Me i” read “ a n d , '1 ’ • 7 whieh very m ateria lly alters the sen-e. A l
so, in '40th line, for “ a b o u t” read “ a fc o t .”
Co . v t k n t s o r S i ' i a i T i n r , 11'-:ohtkii FOll 18 f l ) . — C d e n d a r for 1 8 ' i ). S je ik"i\s’ V i n uiaii, O vc t in- ; . S . m i t u d Tl imiry, W h it S j i r i t n i l istn II ts Done , Thc S a i l ’s Au t h o r i t y , I / -vin^ Inspin i t i on , I t '
un ion of F r i ends . T r uu It i f i i rai , In livi lo il Kr.'i!
d a m, S p i r i t u i l i s m and tho Bible, Cm S p i r i t m l i - i n S a n d Alon", Tlio Sp i r i t u il Di spens itimi, \1 (finins Dffni ide I, Ait i tat i i in, Kv li t a l i s a i R ^ o r n i s . S - n r e h tliu S i . riptures, Anj;el Helper s . O' - e i t Mitels, Sp i r i t
u i l P r og r e s s , T r u e M t r r iugn, Vi<ion of p. -ogres' s, Sp i r i t ua l Theo r y , S , ) i r i t n d [ n t e roour se , Tr i ll a te i
Tr i u nol i , Di vine fj-ivii. Spe- ikars , Places o f M,-et
ing. Mil l i mns , J m r n - i l s , P i b h a i t i u a s , S. ;hools , Spi r i t u . i hs t s iu Vuier im S r m n r r y .
A limited auppli- of this Fourth Annual R o is
ter, is s ill on Il iad ,-m l mil li.iiniil?! fro < of
po^tngo, on:i copy for ten cents, fourtjun for on -
dollar; one him InvI for fire dollars.
Address, Uriah Clark, Auburn, Now York.
A P )KM.— We Invi! r j i e i v o l f rom Mr. W S
H a ywo o d a poem del ivered hy h i m at the c e l e b r a tion o f tiie 1 On " I l un d o r nd t h A n n i v e r s a r y e f t he
i nco r p o r a t i o n o f Wes t mi ns t e r , M i s s . ” T h o u g h it does no t come u p to tho legl iest roach o f j o t ic
a r t , y e t i t oonta ins iron! rl iyinn, whis l i e inhady gnnd
oo-miiou l en s e t hough t s . Tho poe' ri , ui a wonl , eont l i ns muob q u a i n t a n d h u m d y wisd ni. I t is
ih' i V ' nd u o t i on o f Mr. I I ' s pen. We h ive huikc lii o ve r wi th a good J o il o f s i t i s f i c t i o u a a d c d i f m
tion. - .
To Comu:spoNi>K„VTS.— OurSioritic friend, “ Kx
celsior,” who writes s nirtly, shill app'ir, if he
will give his roil namo. We want t-j know our
corres mnduirs.
Bro. Siiaw’s floors will appear in due season.
A n A n g e i , a v i t i i B o o t s o n . — T h e re is
no accounting for litt le c h ild re n ’s inventions
and explanations of th in g s. Two li tt le
pr.att ers were looking o u t o f a window at u
weathervano on t e top <if a stecp'c o f a
U nivcrsalis t C hurch. T h is weatlicrvune
whioh was p u t u p there to t d l which way
tho w ind blew , was in tho shape of a ■< tin
with boots on . Th\) children wondered
w h at it could be. “ I t is a n angoL!” says
ono “ N o ,” said thc othor, “ it can’t, be an
angel, because ungels havo wings, au d a i-
gpls d o n ’t tvear b o o ts .” “ Oh !" said the
first , ' ‘I’ ll tell you what it is, it's a U niver-
8a)jst, tj.tigel wjt.h boots on, going to heaven
.o nfoo.t ,” .
Disapaip.tirent i,s fhe sorrowful child o f t h e
elate hope. Wc all experience thc birth.
I N T R O D U O T J i i Y L - J C T lJ A tE d O N , S P I R I T J A L I d u I
ITS RLMQIOUB, I'll.UIOAI,, AND social
BIONlKlt’AKCl-:.
L E C T U R E I .
I f there is an y ono th in g tlow-a-days;
inore evident th a n atto h-*r, . t is th a t tho
entire Keligious, Politic • I, and Social S y s
tems of tbo age, are a f f l :ted witu tno triost
irilliminatory s p e c i e s of rheum atism .
T h e darts ami t - i n g e s o f this exceeding
ly rheum atic ^ ta te of th ing - a r e flying from
1 mb to i i m ', f o it muscle to tiiUscle, and
a te pi oi ing t ■ th v iy vit Is. Tne dif
ferent schools of phy-ieians who have a t
tended upon this p ticnt lor m any cen tu ries
past , all seem to nc-ord in th e opinion th a t
there is a m an ifi t disea-e here, o f very
long s tanding, b u t (hey d ffer widely as to
its orijtin and ult im ate e m s e s . ' Tl.o r e m e
d ie s hitherto applied in t ds case partak e o f
tne character, as I believe, o f too ex tern al
application, so th.it it is not mirprising, if
this be the real mode o f m a c 'ie e a opted,
th a t th e malady still r-g es violently, and
th a t the Religious, P o lin a il, and Social
systems aro still in a painful, still .Ting ^ren
dition. T h e re was a rem edy brought to
light, however, some l i jh i e e n h u n d re d
years sinee, wiueli,' if prop -r>y applied, an d
adm inistered with salH to it li, would
su r e y eifec , n- 1 nolit-ve, a hale, hearty ,
healthy, and r u d d y s ta te ,
I allude "to (Jiii'isilauity ; a n old and
som ew hat antiquated prescript ioo tu b e sure,
and ono that has been tried and adm inis
tered for ages, wi'bout, resulting iu any real
recovery. T n eie has also been r m up such
enormous bills of Ices, and siien eXliorb.taut
salaries have been p iid for a t ten d an ce upon
th iscuso, ‘hat not a few aro n nv dispo-cd
to dismiss the physicians, lay aside thc old
prescription, an 1 try souicining a ltogether
d.IF rent. ,
I confess myself more conservative than
this, nnil advise t h a t we still ,-id.icie to tha
olu prescription. Tnere is a measure, how
ever, which has b :en proposed, q tile recent
ly, and to winch I give my hearty, entire
assent and appi ov il. Indeed, a i | my hopi3st
a i l ,my coi.fi lence in removing lliis exceed
ingly rheum atic s t a t e . of Society, Poli tics,
•ttid Religion, are founded u p o n the a d o p
tion of this new measure w inch lias Been
p ’dposcd. 9 -
It is, to call in other co u n sel— counsel
from a higher school, a m o re elevated
sphere of practice. I propose as this
counsel those who receive constant instruc
tions immediately from the Cr eat P h y s i
cian; those who liave tln'msclves been en-
t 're ly healed of this disease, who therefore
u n d ers tan d its p i t ology, its p r im try causes,
and know precisely ho v to ad mni ter t h i s
hitherto inad.q-iate U hri' tian a n t i d o te .—
And, I elu 11, my Masters , th is counsel i-i
a l r e a l y a t the door, have made the a larm ,
and now seek to be adm itted into this o u t
ward l i o f g e , by ‘ •three dis tinct ta p s ! ” —
This counsel professedly ci-.tncs with
vouchers from t ic G reat fli^li P n o s t , with
true words, w,th nn.ni.stakaulo signs, and
" a fte r strict exam ination, and. J^'gal inlor-
tnatioii)” on my part , I am ' p r e p i r e d to
hail them as worttiy brothers a n d fellows,
from the C e l c ' t u l T a b e rn iclo ! “ Behold I
s and a t the door and knock ; i f any man
hear my Vui -e, and open t h - d i o r , I will
cotne in to him, and wi 1 sup with him, an d
he w ith m e .”. «My h e a rt is str ick en with Fadness, as I
behold the church "ii e n th. I see how it
barf suffered trial, h a s strugg c t a n l fo u g h t
for ages with sin and error, till now it is
weak w ith y e i i s , covered ivith wounds,
shorn of its s tren g th , nnd how it, has bc-
c une a by-w or I a nong the nations. Sian
has been led ro u n d and roun I th e a l ta r o f
God, w ithout yo approaching it . IIo now
needs some more comp :tent in s tru c to r , who
s-hall teach him h >w to advance, a t the o r
der o f the G eat l l i g ’i P r ie s t , and b r in g
him lo tho light, IVis have, it is truo, tho
II,oly Bible in o u r midst, and pao i rev o lu
tion of tho in igh’y press b rin g s forlh
another volum e of t i n t Second W o r d ,
which is being boroe on the wings of overy
wind, and read by every nation ai)d tppgue.
But, alas ! who comes w ith c o m p - te n t au?
th o r ity to open t h a t B o o k , und explain its
h id d e n m c a n iii i 7 N a tio n s . clinrclio-4, h o c ii.
n o ig h l>or-, l>r<>th t n , f'atierK an d sons, m o th
ers a n d d.iug H or4, s 'r iv o a*i I w ar over im p ig e s , nnd in d u lg e in p e rp e tu a l (Jtm riels b v e r i ts teach ings.
Every apecies (if bitterness, ha'red, ani- tdosity( nn I contest is engeii lered for this Want of 'Competent until n ity u>i 1 wisd.nn to unfold the real meaning of G id's Word; and this contest is carried into tho very heart of society, into the sinotm ry, the house of ((raver, an I into that pUee, where, of all others, harmo'iy a i j affjetion should d well, the ilom siiis e ir ’le. N ir h n there over h j« i, o ris t.li to iv jj, t ie slightest prospeot of b-jiti r, f,ir us bu n in wisdom ia able to eff'Cf, ill ! unrest rcliot' fro n this rending, tearing si ite of things, wiich no.v preys upon the whole rel'gio is world.
W o must ad nit.'this counsel, brothers and fellows, for they come with competent, skill and authority from-tin Most High, to administer thi.i Curi.-tian antidote, uud lieal mmikipd.
As fur the Political world, every one knows that it could bar lly be made more wretched, chaotic, and di-otsed. Even in the very b e s t and freest governments, political virtue, real devotion lo the ititei'i'tts of the State, is almost. a wonder, and a rarity of the rarest occurrence. There are not only rtiinois of .var.all round the "lobe, hut, that war must surely aud inevi-O * Jtably como— a war between cas es; a war waged tor a tolerablo, supporta'de existence ou one hand, and to maintain its despotic hold upon th" body aud soul of humanity, on the oilier hand.
Nor i* this tlie worst of ir.’ No human foresight can tell when this war will end, or what will lie' the result, whether it will r.igo like a ( ‘input for an a ' \ im i iverish ing and devastating the whole cirth, o" continue but for a 1 i'tie season, giving mankind but a gentle shock ; or wiieiher it will finally result in the elevation and emancipation of Imujani'y, or in a deeper, Btroug r hold of tyranny, upon tlie n "ck of inaiv. ,, . ■
B ut fttipp :se, as the m >re s.argu’ne hope aed expert, thut it should tc rm n ite in the estiblis'une ir, of It ipu'd.cism -through >ut the earth Still man wul lie as sclllsli as ever ho wa\ as av<rieious, as grasping, as lustful for power, as unwilling lo labor, as ready to support himself in luxury, out of the toil and poverty of his neighbor, and thus there will be as much hullo-v prelcnce, as much conspimcy against thu general good, and as much effort to hoodwink and ride over the masses, as there, now is in every State, bow iv’er fioo and enlightened
All this is but the lesson taught us from d iy to day, by the expji’ienca i f o ir 'own Nation. Are we then to hope and look for tne Political redemption o! mankind through Republicanism? For my part I never have loosed for this, and probably never shall.
Our-own government, with till its virtues, its freedom and suff-agcs, has been
' to me, an I i; a sulli dent. ;e-sou here. We may, therefore, pul. the best e'instruction upon the pre-eut and prospective aspects of the Political world, tli.it it is pi ssiblo and reasonable to do, in the absence of a more competent authority, wisdom and purity, than humanity affords, ami then we can expect notlimg fro m ti cm, iu comparison to wliat ought to be done, and must be done, to relieve mankind of its political yoke, and p'ai.t the germs of ri. bteous
• government throughout the earth. *(Ve can cxpect comparatively nothing from these indications, unaided by nn authority, an energy and puiily, emanating constantly and directly from a hUher sphere of thought and wisdom, a mure iiniivdia-te proximity to that Divine J’rc.-enee fioin whence louieih ail right, “ull power and might.” "
Admit, if you please, as I havo already suggested, that. Christianity, the Holy Scriptures afford a complete untidoto for
, this vast Political malady, und still there will remain for our consideration the vital question, whether, from the. experience of tho past ami present, there-is not atv* abso- lnto necessity for a higher than human tkill and wisdom in administering this remedy, and my most emphatic answer to
t is inquiry is wo must cill in control from the ►pirit-world, to aid ub. even in the Political . redoinpnon of mankind. And again, I say, my Masters, thin counsel already knocks at the door, and wishes to he udmi'ted into this outward Lodge!
T h a t whieh now presents itseli as tho
greatest ami most radical evil in sooiety,
growing out of the im p u rity and selfishness
o f m an k in d , is the in c c s sa n t w ar of inter
ests whi ’.h rages th ro u g h o u t lhe whole so
cial s t r u c tu r e ; a war w hich exist'1, not
o n :y as between the different classes, differ
ent trades, an d different occupations, b u t
b itw een thu. members o f th e satri'i ela-s,
trade and occupation ; a war wh ch exists,
not onl) between neighbors, b u t between
brothers and sisters, often waged even over
the lifeless reniuins of a deceased relative ;
ami finally, a war of in terests, which ex;sts
even between the sexes ; a n I wh'ch, b it for
the meekness, gentleness and submission of
the fairer, wo .Id long ere this have resulted
in actual conte-t, and th e a n n ilm ent of the
most sacred o f hum an tics .
I t has become a maxim, ‘-CoinDCtition \s
the life of tr a d e ;” the real significance of
which, is, that the only possible way for men
ami cold , until you ran pinm so him that Society, the C turoh, or the Government shall fulfil thoso offices of affection tu those he so dearly loves, don’t, for the B i k e
of God pud human compas-im, don’t blame him for making money, any way j yes, any way, at any time, aud a t uny s a c r if ic e .
I confess thut, in view of such a state of things, us Society now pro ents, in view of such trying a'ternatives, whieh the existing Seeial organization forces upon its members, I can seo or acknowledge, no real an I charitable meaning, to that conventional phrase, “ right and wrong hut in ail tne catalogue of criimna s and evil existence*, I feel to denoin.ee Society, as it no.v is, the greatest rascal iu the wholo column !
Ilere is war, between man’s temporal nature aud his religious being, war between love and obedience to his Maker, and bis affection for his wife ami children : aud this contest, this trying alternative, is incessantly, force I upo’n him by the very posit on in which Society places him. Do .we, then, ask why men are s -ifish 7
I-, it a. matter of surprise that Christianity lias not made, and cannot mako mankind .pure ? Is the fault in tho prescription? I answer, liny ! It is more in the Sue al structure. It is in that wur of interests between classes, trades, occupations, brothers, sisters, nnd even sexes.
It lain that ro a r in g , cut-throat strif', iu whieh one amasses a fortune, while another loses his a ll; in whi di this m m imtlti - plius his estates, monopoliz s the proiucts of the earth, sells them for gold, and locks the gold in his iron safe, while another fails to obtain enough of earth's mirluee
to
to live, as things 'now aro, is to prey upon, and laceiato each other! And do man’s physicians expect to cure him Of sin, do they think to mako men honest, pure und benevolent, so long as every selfish instinct of their natures, is constantly whetted and sharpened from day today, so long.as every generous sentiment of their hearts is being seared and withered by the very positions und circumstances in which so iety compels them to exist, or not to exist at all? O f
wliat real sigeifi •ance, is the doctrine of fraternity and universal brotherhood ? of what J to ph-mt his foot-upon and muoh less practical utility is all the breath and .words i eusuie him against absolute want, aid out in enforcing such a docttine, when, j u ,lt whut silul| bc ^ nQ ,v;,|, society ?— uri'lcr the present social uig.inization, men I ] j (MV js this dislocated state'of things to bc might as well attempt to live withiheir heads | removcll ? n „ w ja thu whole tide and .-cv, red from their bodies, as to act toward jj lenj onoy of Sl,ciaI ,ife so to change each oilier as brothers really ought to act ? ; (|uh. dil.cctl0n a!) I)Qt , 0 rCfil,,t in „ ViI!,tl!r
Ministers and lii'inan plijMeiutis may . evil, but in a harmonious a’nd healthy aQ- seold and b'amc men for placing u h'S1" '1'[ j iu n id the Hysteai 7
estimate upon Money than upon Religion j 'jfhe.se are questions to which, as I fo ! -
ind Morality ; because they will toil from j omul j- believe, no human answer can be .Monday morning till faaturiay night, , Earned. No ex iting Social, Political, or struggling to keep up their indn idual in- j Xiuligious theory affords a cine to tho solu- terests even with the rc.-t. of the world, en- (inii ()f these problems. Without Bome
deuvoring to collect toge'her a goodly pc,i- tioti of that which they kno.v, and the world knows is the only possible thing, as lhe world now is, which will savo themselves and families from pain, pauperism, imtl perhaps absolute disgrace.
Ministers and human physicians tiny s'old at men for Religious p. oerastinalion, for neglect of Divine Worship, for disregard of the Sabbath, for lack of Christian philanthropy. ,
15ut what, shall that husband und father do ? • ■ • ■
l ie knows not but in another twelvemonth. perhaps in another week, tl at fuithfurcnmpunion of hi,-, youth, those lit tie and hclple-s children, may be left, without his arm to protect them, his hinds to give I hem clothing and bread. Who will do this when he is gone? ■ Who will ensure them a foot of earth to stand up on, und a roof to shelter their heads ' f ’om the. storm? Society will not do this; the C h u r e h will not d o i t ; tbo Government will not do it.
These institutions may givo them the pauper’s portion while tbey live, and when they die, a piece of earth, “ .-ix feet due East and West” perhaps, to stretch their bodies upon, and hide them from tho gaze of men.' '
W hat then shall the husband and father tlo? Surrender his companion and child-, ren to sueh a fite? or toil and struggle, at the sacrifice of every other human end, to obtuin that which will savo his family from poverty and a miserable lifo, were lie to be called to leave them, without n competent means of livelihood, llo knows money will do all this, and that notiing but money will do it. Then I say, ministers and teachers, until you cun give that husband and father a prospect, that his wife anti daughters shall have food to eat and clothes to wear when ho can n,o longer help them ;that they shall no t'he driven to tho poor-house or to prostitution to avoid huuger
key to unlock the mysteries, set hidden, of the written Word, w.thout a higher authority, a knowledge of man’s interior constitution and without a divino energy, such as omy saints and spirits possess-, who receive command immediately from the Grand Master of the Universe, I can perceive or enterta:n no well grounded hope in the Religious, Political and Social redemption of mankind oneuith. Wo must interro- gite the guardian spirits of our race.— We must heat ken to thoso voices which now are whispering to us from the other side, the Jordan of death, appealing to our hearts, our f.ith and confidence, for perm i s s i o n to counsel and unite with mtn in erecting the temple of universal' industry, righteousness and pease.
Uut there is another necessity which I conceive weighs with exceeding weight upon all true human progress. It is the necessity o f 'a moro complete and absoluto demonstration to man, of the. immobility of his existence; and this need is the gnater from tho iueontcstiblo fact that there can be no true tlieoiy of lldigiun, Politics, or Society, which docs not icfer to, and is not founded upon, a clear and constant perception .of this one idea.
Perhaps I shall be censured, for even the intimation, that the Setiptures are not already sufficient to this end. But censure or no censure, I nm not disposoi to overlook facts— facts iu this and in every community, in this and in eveiy age. I allude to thoso serious, candid doubts, which very many have always entertained relative to tbo ruth aud authority of I t iV e ^ a t io n , and tho reality of a future stat'e of. existenoo. However satisfactory the evidences- of a risen Savior, to a majority of minds, a very large minority exists, and always h a s existed, who cannot ad',nit such testimony ; and the number of these serious doubters proportionally increases, as humanity is further removed from that ago, in which it is allege 1 man’s im uorUlity was miraculously uttested.
H itw h it is vastl/ moro tiuil this, the furl that oven tlio religious portion of mankind, do not aet with any decree of consit- tence with the idea of their futuro immortality, is sufficient evidence thut evon they need n more abiding conseioii'nesfl, a more cmis'ant and absolute demonstration of tho spirit’s und,ing nature. ■
Wnile thoy aot oon-istently with the ends of this life, alone considered, they come f u r short of consistency respecting th it other life, o f which it is thought they aro su‘- fidently demonstrated already. Tho truth is, I apprehend, that, the future und the present existenco must be equally certain, if wo would linve mankind uet wi'h refer- t nce to both, us men generally do with ref- etence. to thus. Th is it is perc • v«l, that net only 'he true 11 • igious d s i y o‘‘ ou - ward hum aniu, but ulso its t .u i Political und Social destiny, infinit ly depends u ;> n a more satisfactory, indeed, upon a constant: and complete demonstration, to the outward as well as inward senses, of a futuro im mortality. '
Here then, is another reason of no snm'l importuned, why we should earnestly i-cck that reliable and intelligent communion wiih tho spirit, whioh shall enable us to receive light, purity and energy, adequate to the tusk of man’s Social, Political and R eligious redemption. And it is from these multiplied necessities, which we have seen rest so heavily upon our. race at the present day as well as from many other things that might be named, that many are led to hope,
'ai d'from their own personal experience and investigations even to know, that the timo has at length arrived, when we can hold intelligent and reliable iiitconursc, wiih those of our.departed race, who have been admitted into that celestial Lod^e, whose light is fully tevealed, at the command of thf Great Presiding Architect of tho Universe t Tnis intercourse, I term Spiritualism ; and its great importance to man, in a Social, Political, and Religious point of view, I havo propisod as the subject, of a series of L'oturcs, of which the present is the introduction. Indeed, I would not seek to disguise,’ that my expectation now is, by tiie exclusion of every selfish aim so far as possible, to spend the remainder of my days in endeavoring to establish those great prin- ciplosjtyf Religion, Government, and Society, which nuny have been able, and hope 11 bo able to draw o u t . from Revealed Christianity, through the aid of Spiritualism. Nor would I hes tatc to say, that 1 have ceased to hope or repose confidence in any of all of tho sects and ns'ociations of tho day, so fir as their ability is concerned, to ren lor humanity any farther essential aid. Thou.di I am far from’ being blind to the good done,’ and that will continue to be done, by many Rel’gious, Political and Social organizations, now existing, and feel disposed to givo full" credit for this, I am nevertheless fully persuaded, •that all this work will bc dope over again, ero mankind will havo recovered ill any good degree, from its multitude of diseases
With these views of things, as they now are, and so far as mere human wisdom and power are concerned, seem m ist likely to continue, I havo felt the pn priety, and even the necessity of severing all tios, which bind me to sect. or party, and this I have already done ; declaring' myself a free tnan, to think and act as God enjoins, aeknow-. lodging no authority, save that which He imposes. I therefore appear hercaftor in .the character of a Mini-ter. of the Gospel, in so far as that phrase signifies an humblf Reform er; a signification, which, as you will doubtloss allow, does not always at- taoli to the clerical Profession. I am now fortunately able to look upon all religious, and political, and social sects with an unbiased view of their respective ol linn upon man, with an impartial feel ing and rogird and am equally prepared to yield assent to thoir truths, or expose their errors, according to my best abilities.
Tho seots and parties of tho day, all ap pear inadequate in their theories and conceptions, and as utter y impitent, so far as their ability to effect any great und porma nent change for tho better, is to be regarded a criterion of their viitucs.
Religion, as it has now beuorae, I fi\t\&t regard as mere hollow preteuee.
The best Political irstiiui)oiigof tbo >ge( . ure, in my view, inadequate to the wuntf uud nucrssi io* of man. 8 otety manifests >
its disease to the very heart, and is illegtti- mate, pestiferous in almost overy part of ' its structure. And yet, how can I feel to blaine tlieso sects und parlies, when my heart is wei^hea down with the conviction, 'hat ciicnm-tanccB-incident to this duiker state of our being, have rendered nimpossi blc perhaps, lot them to have done nn re lor the world’s good. As before remarked, a painful sense of the trying alternative*! forced upon men, and the war between the 'r temporal and their sp.ritual good, which Society has imposed upon them, leads me to attach none but un uncharitable, mis- formea meaning to that conventional terra U )> o n g , as it is generally applied.
But in ussutning the positions which I do, aud expect to do, b fore m« fellow im-n, I am fully conscious, that I subject myself tO' opposition from almost every direction, to- Cveryspecies of misrepresentation, to u falsification of my motives, in d to the effected soorn of’ those, whose vanity exceed tlieif sound und liberal sense.
I am con-oious also, that so far ag mjr temporal pros ects are concernod, I lose ull save a bare subsistence for myself and- family, by disconnecting myself from those scctional interosts, whieh bupport a salaried Ministry. ,
On the other hand, I am assured that in this and in every community throughout the land and world, thore aro thoso in all the walks of life, whose utmost, deepest d e sire is, to obtain more light. .
Their true heroic natures prompt them to. make constant inquirios of the spirit within und without, as to what Qod meant hy mun, as to what lie wishes to say and do on earth, aud that heroism will prompt them to act, whenever the timo arrives.— Upon the kiud and generous conlributions of ?ueh souls, I feel that I can safely ri^y for nil that will^bo found necessary to ju p - ply my wants from day to dny. I can go to them without delicacy, conscious that. I ask not for me and mine alono, but in bo- half of humanity, whose sacred cause I hereby forever espouse, and add my humble name and talents at the foot of. those, who freely think, and freely speak, and' freely act, to benefit mankind.
Tho plan whioh I have proposed to my- . self, in a few consecutive Icctures, on the subject of Spiritualism, considered with reference to Religious, Political, and Social theory, may be made known in few words.I havo already received through the medium of Spiritual intercourse, and hopo from lay to day to continue to rcceivc.such important intimations respecting prevalent errors, not only in thcoryt but in conceptions popularly deemed, of all things most sacred, suoh intimations of radical defects, in existing Social, Political and Religious Systems, - and havo been caused to experience and realize such vital and essential truths, connected with Religious, Social, and Political ends of man, as will enable me, I trust, so to point out important defects in prevailing systems, so to present higher and more Spiritual suggestions of wisdom , and ovo, as to render you much better prepared to act a^d to labor toward the progress and regeneration of our race. I t will hardly bc expected of mo, thut I shall entirely avoid those errors in theory, conception and practice which may appoar to mo to exist in the world, however authorized they moy have become, hy time, sanctity and popu* lar asgtent. ^Indeed, I fear that truth .and’ conscience will force me to attack quite unceremoniously at times, many customs, and prevalent conceptions, which are held exceedingly correct, sacrod, and essential to tho general good. But in speaking thus, I will endeavor to use thut candor, and I,feel, that my heart contains that regard and f r a ternal sentiment toward all men, as at.least to extort from the most bigoted and'prejudiced an acknowledgement o f my manly and Christian binoerity, if. not correctness- and soundness of judgment an i theory. Ii find, in fact,so many, apologies for mankind,, for what is generally, tormed erroneous and' wrong, so many apologies, derive I from a consideration of the ttyiiig alternatives aad
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6 T H E S P I R I T U A L A G E
. [OontlwMf froa *r« P»fe.J1 sat down again, more and mors put-
■led. . ^»‘I a m fraok with you,” she continued;
“are you «o with me ?”*‘By 'Heaven !** I oommoheod.“ No oath!" she said, quiokly—“ no
oath, sir, or you maybe t w i c e forsworn.” i “ W hat doyou mean?” I cried. “ How can I be forsworn? I love you— madly, foolishly. I have loved you from <hat first hlght—loved without evor seeing your face. True, I cannot conceive it to bo less beau- tifu ltbao a lly o u r j jealousy, or what you please, does permit me to form an opinion of. But this mystery, this strange vagueness, mixed with so much I know to be teal, at once troubles and charms nie. I hear you speuk, and the tones of your voice pro so gracious, bo full of music, that i t seems to me I never heard before a melody comp»rablo to that voice. You move, and ihe careless grace of every chango enchants too. A t last, you oompleto my intoxica- Mop by<telliu#n«j that you love m o; and when, carried away with so muoh happiness, I would throw mysolf nt yout feat, you Recall my. promise—you check me— ypu are cold, haughty, distant: you are •n o longer the boing you feign,- but a strange contradiction, whose only reakpur- , pose seems to be to torment and mystify tno.” ' ’ •
“And why not ?” Bhe replied, bending forward, and fixing thoso points of light, which shone through the eye-holes of her mask, upon me as if they bad power lo penetrate, and dart their light into my very soul—“Why not ? I confess I lovo you.I have a right lo do so, for I am freo and - honest. You offer me love in return—you, who are neither. What kind of love, M. Ileywurd ?” ■ " • ^
“ Of my whole heart, my soul, all my being!" 1 cried, enthusiastically.
“ Indeed!” she continued, in tho samo tone of mingled passion, anger, and mockery. “He tells me that. Ho offers to make mo ull these. And because I, a woman who loves him, who havo loved him for years, and, unknown, unseen, unsuspected, havo followed bim day by day, guarded him in danger, nursed him when wounded, sick, without a friend— I, who Confess that my lovo for him is my life—I, who own so muoh of wounyi’s weakness as to admit thiit to converso a littlo with him, to see at lust, face to face, the man for whom I have.done ur.d felt all this, I take those strange means of meeting— ho offers to make-me his—what, sir, what?’’ bho eioluimeed, rising, ond standing bef ire me with /olded arms, her bosom swelling, and hor bead thrown baok, tho very impeifomi- tion of superb scorn—so perfect that, ul- though the mask hid it, I knew, as well its if 1 'saw it, how her oheek flushed and her lip curled—“Wliat? You dare not answer. Married, James Heyward, six yean* ugo, in the United States. Your wife is still alive thero, and yet you daro to talk to mo of love, and offer me— what? what, as the reward of mine?—• Dishonor, remorse, infamy ! Seo, James Heyward, the difference between us; my love, in all its devotion, all its disinterestedness, has been the Jove of—a woman ; yours, in all its selfishness—a man’s.
She s;it down, and leaned her beud upon her bands.
I also sat tor a little while, silenced nnd confounded by theeiicigy, the charaoter, u( onco tender and daring, passionate and full of principle, of this “ terrible woman.” But, alas! everything the did, from its very unusunlness, from being out of thu common track bo utterly, only fascinated and chained mo the moic hopelessly at her feet. A nd us she sat there, so motionless after her iiei ce.accusal, sho. seemed to me to be, ns it were, a judge, having tho right to coi demn, the power to pardon, to whom
. 1 was Uuuer an al Solute necessity of lying opeu all my past lifo, as a defence of what 1 had done und thought since that first evening a t the opera ball. I obeyed tho impulse, ut d told the story o l'm y life;
' "as truly as to Heaven, I do confess tho viocs of my blood.”
CH A PTER I I I .—MY CONFESSION.
I t vill bo remembered that, at the conclusion or the last chapter, I felt myself absolutely compelled to lay open all my .pastlifu to the “terrible woman” whoso iu- dignation I bad so unexpectedly aroused. Thus 1 commenced:
“ You say that I am married : 1 confess that it is so. I confers, also, all the wrong I havo aoue you in my thoughts ; but yon
, do not know how greut my exouse------”“ I buve.not aiked you to excuse, to de
fend yourself,” i'be said, mourufuliy, and without ru lin g her heW: ‘ I have asked only how you dund to insult, to humiliate m o ; and I waB wiong to ask .even that, for I ha've invited i t—i have laid myself open
‘ to it by my own weakness."“ You w II let me nmko what reparation
l e a n ,” said 1 '; “ if not for yourself, ut (east lor me ! You are too generous to ro- fuse.” •
She bowed her head slightly, as if lo say “ Oo on, sir, if you insist upon i t : I must bear it.”
“ Madamo,’’ said I — .“ I am am an orphan, and I h a v e n o h u s
b a n d !” Said my mysterious tormentor, in a low but very marked tone.
“ Pardon me, M a d e m o is e l l e . You say you know [ am married, and I admit i t ; but, so strange has been my life since that event took place, that somoiimcs'it passes from me entirely, and always, indeed, rather an uncoipfortable dream than a reality of life. Six years ogo I was married. I was an only son, and my futhera widower. His character wus violent and imperious. Our plantation adjoined that of Colonel Pinkney's, who was alto tho father of an only child—a daughter. This young lady was seventeen, awkward, thin and sallow, nnd still further cursed with a timidity and shyness wbicb put herself and everybody who cumo near her into a state of peipetual mis- cry. But it ploused our fathers to insist up on our inarn'age. I had simply disliked the young lady beforo, then I begar. to hate bet. I t was wrong, perhaps, but I could not help it. I had no option given me ; I must either marry her, or risk my impetuous parent's ourse, and be disinherited by him.—I marriod as a man goes to the gallows.— The ceremony over, I jumped on ray horse, rode to the next town, took the cars (br Baltimore, thence to New York, and thence by the first vessel for Liverpool. S'.nct then I have lived in Europe. 'My allowance, which is princely, has alway3 been paid by my father; but he has never written me a line. My own letters have not been noticed, and from the hour I was married I have seen noiiher my father nor — my wife. Judge, Madame, whether 1 am not excusable in sometimes—espeoially when tried as you havo tried me— ‘orget- ting that I havo neither the right 10 love nor to bo loved.”
I was ngitutcd, and spoko rapidly and warmly. In truth, this woman had acquired such an empire over me, that, whpther she spoke or listened, my thoughts centred upon her wholly, and took shape and color fur my momentarily increasing desire to penetrate tho niystevy with whioh she so obstinately surrounded her.-elf. Confessing that she loved me ; rela ing lo inj constant ly just enough to stimn'ate curiosity mid deepen interest-; revealing now new beauties by a toilette as studiously enqnetish asi her dr< ss at tho ball of the opera hud been plain and billing ; yet still, as then, refusing to lift lor a moment tho closely fitting silk musk, und disclose a g'imp-o of the face it covered, the charms of figure, cur- linge, manner, conversation, the dilutions quality of her voice, all she hi J and all she discovered, alike added fuel to the flame and at once so pleased and exasperated me, that I was not fur ti moment in my right senses, whether present or absent from her And she knew it ; she practised on it. My weakness was her strength ; my infatuation her glory; for 1 was infatuated to that point tlmt, although maddened almost by her arts, and eapabic of the wildest, actions I dure not approach her if the mere motion ot’ her hand repelled me— I dare not disobey her, n i mattej- how strange or despotic her commands or her restrictions.
Thus, when 1 had finished my confession,I waited like a criminal to hear her decision — sitting silently and still, without a thought, of rebellion—no matter what it might be. After a pause, she said, slowly :
“ Upon vour honor, as a gentleman, you have told me tho whole truth ?’’
“ Upon my honor—my soul — I havo!" “And this—this girl—your wife— was—
so repulsive, so awkwaid,. ugly, thut your heart revolted from her?”
1 bowed assent“Spe k, sir,” sho said, almost harshly.,
“ you havo words at will. This girl —this wife—rutlier than even see her daily, you preferred exilo an i an aimless life?"
" I did !” saiii 1, emphatically. .My tormentor broke into a littlo sharp
mi cking laugh, wh ch rasped.on iny nerves like the filing of saws, and went ou : ..
“You excuso yourself well, sir ; but il is with the common sophistry of your sex.— Grunted that ull the ciroumstanees ot youi- relation are truth, and I accept them us such, havo you not deceived yourself iu the inotivo of this aversion to tho girl—your wifo? Bo frank; aruyou not one of those to whom marriage to any one seems an odious und galling chain?—to whom the oath and duty to love only ono woman, and keep youiso f to her alone till death separates you, appears suoh an infringement of yipur manly liberty—your heroic man’s right to havo all tho pleasures of the world, without its sorrows or self-denial— thut the touch of the marriage ring upon your finger transformed to hate wliat, under other circumstances—circumstances bent and fashioned to suit your wayward will —might havo been love ?”
“N o !” 1 oried, impetuously. “ Thatgirl was a horror to mo. Nothing could conquer my invincible rcpuguunod for her. It wus not the act of mariiuge, it wus sh alone who transformed me from whut 1 might
havo been to what I am. From that mo- ncnt I have avoided woman; I nuve never
lovo t u n t i l ---------”
“ W hen?"“ I saw you.”“And you wish me to believe this ?”“I am rcudy to prove it," s 'd I desper
ately, “ with my life, if need bi.”“You wear upon your finger a curious
ring,” said she.I looked instinctively to where she point
ed, and there, to bo sure, on the second finger of my left hand was my engagement- ring, a curious piece of gold-woik, representing two hands clasped and holding between a single diamond. Given me Uy my wife before that accursed marriage), I had always worn it out of a kind of pity for the girl, since, abhorrent as sho was to mo, I could not help confessing, in my heart of hearts, that her case was littlo happier or moro fortunate than my owi).
“ Yea!” 1 stammered.“ Do you value it very highly ?” said she,
carelessly.“N o!” said I ; and 1 told the truth.“Let me see it,” said she ; “ it is unusu
al.”I took it off and'handed it to her. She
took it, roLe, and walked nearer to the dim light, as if to examine it. A t that moment thero camo a knock at the door.
“E n te r!” said the lady.And my conductor, the gigantic negro,
entered, an I spoke a few words to her.— Then they both ,wcnt out, sho saying only as she disappeared :
“ Wait and tru s t!”I sat, 1 know not exactlyhow long, af
ter she left me—it must, have been half an hour, perhaps mure. At last the door reopened, and my ebony conductor re-appeared. l ie approached me, and placed in mv hands a small package.
“But tho lady,” I exclaimed.“Has lett the chautcau,” he answered. “ And whither has she gone 7” I cried,
the blood rushing to my fnen, and my heart contracting with a vague sentiment, of fear.
“She will be in Pans before us,” said ho laconically. “ 1 am ready to re-conduct you.”
'Ihcre was nothing for it But to let myself bo us blindly led bade as I had been brought there, and so I did. " ...
We left the house; the night had grown darker, and I could seo still less of its.appearance than on my arrival. I entered ilie carriage, siink biok into my corner, and •fell into a fit, uf abstraction which lasted un’il we stopped at tho door of my lodg- ingj. Tho carriage rolled away, and I was left, standing, stupi-l ujui again bafllid, but more than ever inlatif ited, on the step of n\v own door. I looked after it till night hick it, from me, anil then sprung up stairs, passing iho concierge in a way which must havo given him an idea that r,n escaped lunatic from Bicetrc had got into the house, instead of tbe ordinarily quiot, Mr. Hayward, locked myself in my room, and tore open tbe packet which had been placed in my hands by the negro.
It contained a small jewel-box and a ro te . In the jewel-box was a ring in the form of asm ill serpent, holding in his mouth an emerald—g ee:., a symbol of abandonment.I awn the idea plca-e I me. The note, however, did not exactly suit me. It was wiit- ten in one of those beld English hands, all of which look- alike, and have no character to mark them as ci’her masculine or feminine. and ran thus:
“ I wil l keep y o u r r ng. T i m you c m h ive no olij e t io t i to, n i you sot. no speu i t l va lue on if. In e x c h a n g e I .“•■ml ymi a symbol . It is for y o u r wis'lmn to kI r — il will oc also wis loin to w e i r , it. R.-un'iiibei', I seo yo-*- ill ways— I m ay he e v en looking a t yuu while yuu read th i s .”
I st artel, and looked burr oily 'around the room, ,almost persuaded that from some dim nook or corner those little black d ia mond points of light, which had jilntored ihnugli her mask so maddeningly, were peering oat at mo in reality. The note went nil :
¥;.“ Wo nli ill, at any r.i'e, mcil dnily, as wo have
wot xo often in tlio last month—in the street, uf mio'cty, at tlio opera, theatre, everywhere; hut, when your uoo l demands it, we shall also meet as wc mot to-uijrhi—I say your good, for perhaps, iu your vuuity, f,,r you me a man, you suppose our meeting to-nij'ht was but to please a n i m n s fancy. \ ou are nrstaken. Hememhej:—think — ind you will know why you were lakeu from I’ ir s this night. To-ni(flit, your companions met in the Rue do IJehler. At elevt n o’clock they wore arrested hy the police. Not a man es-iapeil. At eleven o’clook you were at my chateau, and you cscupcilj
•‘T hu W i i i tk U l ovb . ”
I crumpled up tho note in my hands, and fell into a bitter train cf thought. I t wastrue ; that night the society of ----------, a,lrepublicans, and swbrn to check tbo grow ing ambition ot Louis Napoleon, had fixed as the night on \yhich to meet, in the Hue de Heliiur, und formalize a plan of—insurrection, in short, if th ■ t extreme resort should be the only remedy, the only barrier remaining between liberty and despotism. I had promised to bn there— my oath bouhd me to bi} thero. My honor was compromised. What opinion woul.i they have of m e? Might they not even believe tha: U was I who had betrayed them? And Ui
this a woman—a woman whoso face I hod not even seen—a syron who bewitched mo by hor voice—probably a secret agent of that very ubiquitous policointo whose hands my brave and unfortunate companions had fullen— had lured me ; she hud turned • from the path of honor and duty, and branded me forevor'whh tho ineffaceable mark of cowardioo and treachery. I passed a b i tter ond sleepless night, alternately cursing myself and her.
C HAPTER IV.—A WOMAN’S R EV E N G E .
Towards daylight I fell into an uneasy sleen, from which I was awakened hy unusual sounds in the streets. I rose hastily nnd looked out. A troop of cavaliy, followed hy a section of a battery of artillery, passed at full gallop— venire a tc rre ." There could be no mistake about the sign. There wns trouble in the good city of P aris—pel haps an cneule, perhaps a revolution.
It was the 2d of December, 1851 . I dress ed myself in feverish haste, and thrust my pistols into the pocket of my coat, and rushed out of the house. It was about nine of the morning. All Paris was astir, nnd troops moving in every direction.
As the day wore on, the result so well-kr.own —the coup d ’ c ta t of Louis Napoleon— was developed in all its cool and malignant atrocity. The people weie defeated, and his artillery proclaimed-the terrible fact that against a battery of a hundred guns, in position, and covered b y . even a mere handful ol veterans, a popular revolt is madness. It wns a repetition of the 18tb. Brum«ire,'and his great uncle’s triumph over the “Sections.”
T hat was the result to the >world of that d a y : to me it wns very different.
In the thickest of the fight I threw myself recklessly. I t was nol bravery— I pretend to no superior amount of that quality— which impelled or supported me. I was simply tired of life and disgusted with myself. I desired to wipe out, by some desperate act, the recollection of the woman of the opera who had so tormented me, lind my neglect and failure to meet my republican companions on the evening before; therefore, wherever there was the most, promising and lively chance of being knocked on the head, I put my miserable head in the way of being knocked. _ Death, however, alter the custom of that intractable monster, seemed studiously to shun' inc. At last, as the sun went down on that, scene of pitiless carnage, I got what I sought, and went down with him. A bullet in the -boulder, and a sharp bayonet thrust— it seemed to he in my breast, but I was not certain— stretched me senseless, and all the rest was ‘mere oblivion. -
llow long I lay there I know nol, nor how I was taken ilway; but with the first faint gleam of returning consciousness I was aware that I was n o longer lying in the open street, among a crowd of the dying and the dead. I felt that I was upon a bed. At lirst I (lid not even try to open my eyes, but lay loi:g and quietly with them closed, striving to rally my thou jilts ithd recall the scenes of the day which I supposed to he ju s l passed. My confusion was that I had been taken up, and curried with the luckier wouiuh (1 to the Hotel ]) ieu. On the contrary, it appeared to be a large, old fashioned apartmeni, richly furnished in the style of Louis XIV, and breathi.ig every where, of wealth and luxury. I was puzzled, but too weak and sick to think very hard, aud would have sunk away into a dozv, dreamy s'ate again, but something stirred in the room—somebody crossed it and came and leaned over me. I looked up —i was again in the bands of that terrib le w o m im ' The samS ’ mask was on her face—tiie same points of light shining through the ey e h o le s; but now she was dressed as a Si ter of Cnarity.
She caught my eye, and'in-tantly holding Uj) her linger adaioni.shingly, Miid :
"You must not speak— the doctor forbids it. You nre safe, aud in hands which have nursed you once before, aud will nur-e you till Heaven sees lit to 'm a k e them no longer necessary to you. 1 linosv your impatience of character, and, to prevent your disobedience, I will tell you what I know you would most wish to usk. You have oeen hero three days, always, until now, insensible. In three days more, the doctor *says, you will he able lo talk, perhaps to move. Now sleep.” ‘
And she sat down - by the bedside. I did not turn to see— I had not the poiver to do so ; but [■ knew she was tlu're. 1 could hear her regular breathing, aud once 1 thought I heard a sob.' It must have been fancy : that woman sob, and for me!— no, no! . he could not weep, except, perhaps, if fate should mercifully take me beyond reach.of her power to torment, to kill me by inches. T in t was what she was watching there for. She would not even allow me to d ie : she would snatch me fiom the very jaws of the grave, and tiring me back to life to haunt and- torture me. Why, why, should she?' Wlia could I have done to her, that she should follow me so pitilessly with her Oeuelits, her protection, her maddening.mystery. And so, thinking dreamily, dizzily— so, »bnost bating lur , and yet peii' trated with a strange feeliiu of tenderness and happiness to lind her beside me— willing, almost, to have her kill ine as she pleased, so it was she who killed— I fell away into a deep sleep.
The next.day nnd th e day following, and still the third and fourth days were tne same : constantly a dreamy half-sieep, and the consciousness of that tenible woman's being always near me, compelling me to gel better nnd better. When I thought at-nll, that was the one fixed, unvarying train iu which my thoughts moved. Sho was compelling mu to get well, to live in spite of myself, in spite of fate. And what for?— what for? To make a wandering Jew of me - ehe always tallowing me like the curse? And I could not help myself— 1 was
i powerless. The spelt was on me. 1 felt, I I knew if that was her purpose she would fulfil
it, and I —submit. Thus all the while, hour
after hour, she was there, nn inexorable fnte a voice ond filmy shadow in my dreams—a presence half 'imaginary, half real in my hulf- dreamy waking. She seldom talked herself; but when she did, her voice was lower and softer than I had ever heard it.
My scrvnnt, too—“iny boy,” ns we of the south call them always, even when timo has sown a grizzle oil the case, und age and a frosty pow nre strangely at odds'with the idea of boyhood—he wns there. Horn on the same day as myself, upon the same plantation, lie had been given to me, and belonged to me ; not in th a t aeceptation'of the word which to northern ears conveys merely nn idea of property; b u t belonged to rile body and soul—or I belonged to him, ju s t as you please to phrase it. Indeed, I believe the iatter to be the truer statement of the f a c t; lor “Pomp,’’ independently of the fact of his being a much finer and more fastidious'person than myself, wns clearly -persuaded in lrs own mind that he owned me, und was responsible for my out-goings anil incomings from the cradle to the . grave. Those who buy sevvicc with money' may be well served, servant fashion ; but they' neither love nor are loved. “Pomp,” fine g e n tleman as he was, had no fineness where I was concerned ; and all bough a religiously cowardly rascal about his own sable skin, was brave as a lion if mine was threatened. Now, however, as always, he seemed so much a part of myself, thut I attached no idea to his being about me, nor how he came there, a n y m o r e Ilian to finding my own arms and legs in their proper place. It was the presence of that terrible woman which occupied all my thoughts. Even the daily visits of the doctor never d iverted my thoughts from her a moment. The doctor, to my mind, w as only a part of her plan, her machinery for compelling me to live.
And so a week', two weeks, wore on, till I got strong enough to sit up in bed, aud my wouuds c 'ascii to pain continually—or.ly reminding me of th e past by occasional burning and nervous itching as they healed. 1 hen another week, nnd I was well enough to he put into a great chair nnd wheeled to the lire, ant. to the window, which overlooked a park, beyond which n qunint old village lay sparkling in the ciisp sunshine of winter.
Now I began to talk— doggedly and sullenly at firSt, and then in a gentler way ; for my masked owner \.as so kind and gentle, and bore my hardness so meekly, that spite of my anger nt being made to live whether I would or no, I could not help being touched and softened by her forbearance.. Then she told ire how, on that terrible 2d of Dccembcr, 1 bad been followed all day, by her orders, hut had fallen at last among such a crowd of dead nnd wounded, that 1 n e \e r would have been found but for the “ serpent i ing” upon my linger— the ring she had sent, and warned me to weir , ahd by which she had directed her agents to identify me, if necessary. Of course. 1 knew it. Only another proof of her diabolical in genuity, in governing my life or death to suit her hidden purp sc—only ano'her proof uf what a ten ib le woman she w; s. And her agents had found me by that “.lerpcnt ring,” and biought me back to the fascination of tbe beautiful serpent who enveloped me w*lth her deadly coil. They had brought me, she told nvj, and I was there in her chateau—leagues and leagues away from Paris—alono, afid in her power. Well, I c u e d not. 1 was past that. Let her do now what she pleased with me: it was all one to me— good or evil.
And so again another week wore on, and I was well enough to walk ah ut, leaning on a cane. Then for change of scene they took me —I following docile enough — about the old chateau, day altered.>y; she ul-vuysby me.— And strangely, as it seemed to me, she discarded, and refused to be brought to any reference to tho past or to ourselves, but diew me on ill conversation about books and men, displaying, as she did so, a completeness of information and brilliancy of wit and faji -y, which marked her as a woman of umiMial capacity, and fascinated me more aud more every hour.
At last, one day, as I was .sitting iu tho library, reading,'‘she came in there. I knew it was she, although I did not raise my eyes to look. It was n it necessary for me to do so.— She never came neai me, whether I heard her step or not, hut 1 knew, by some strange sympathy or repulsion—which it was I could not deline.-r-that she was there. So when she came in I did not look. Neither did I,- when she catne also arnlsat down lacing me, and v e ry ' near. I kept on reading my book till sho said : '
“Janies H e y w a rd !’’ .The address was so unusual—so brusque,
that I started an ! looked up at once; and when I did so, the book'dropped out of my hands upon the floor, and I sat staring at her like tCgreat awkward.scbool-hoy the first time a pretty girl challenges him to kiss her. F o r there she sat looking me in the eyes— and she was u n m a sk e d . Unmasked ! and beautifuT be-« yond even what my dreamiest and most fanciful hopes or desires hud ever pictured her.— There she was—one of those faultlessly b eau tiful American .women, compared to whom the beauties of aU other climes on earth show dull and full of bleurshes. Tnere was tbe smooth brow ; the arched eyebrow; the great dreamy intellectual and at the same time passionate oyes, indefinite iu color— a kind ot grayish-hazel— the mouth arched like Cupiu’s bow, and at once tender and imperious; the nose straight and cleanly cut a> the Greek type, only with a little piece chipped olf the end—ju s t enough to take away ihe classical severity of form without detracting a whit from its perfectness or g r a c e ; the complexion not fair nor dark, but dazzling in its purity, nnd tinged all through with a, warm Hush of life—and all around the brow and checks a cloud ef dark auburn curls, irregular, careless, perfect.— Great Heaven! what u terrible '*'oman—how terribly beautiful .she was, ns she sa‘, there.
I looked, aud looked—that was ull I coulill do. Perhaps some very clevei people think they could have done soinetning else better. ■ Perhaps they might; I couid’t. I could only look, and as I looked confess, that if that woman
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as k e d me to murder half mankind, offering me aa a recompense only tlio Ijheriy to look at her »o daily— 1 should do it without remore.
And «he_»at as compost'd and quiet as if it w as not'A bit strange tlmt «lie should be such a terrible woman. Only after a moment or tw o she said placidly, and with a kind of gent le irony :
“You like me, then, without n mask. You approve of me, J mes Heyward !"
Ih e n I burst oiit with u torrent of passionate declarations, and would have thrown myself at her feet; but she said quietly:
‘‘Stay, sir !— 'the law hath another cluim upon, you.’ Head this!”
And she handed me {i paper. I rend it with dazzled eyes and a brain on fire. I t was my marriage certificate— the marriage certificate of “James Heyward and Gertrude H unter Pinckney, of South Carolina 1” *
I was like one struck with palsy ; or a convict taken in the height of his rage und rebellion, and thrust umler the sh >wer-lmth. R e covering from the shock, rage took the place of everything else, and I made a motion to tear the fatal paper.
‘‘S to p !”' said my inexorably tormentor.— “Tear that paper, and you’ll never see me again in tl.is world.” .
“ Why ? Why should I not tear it ?” I exclaimed, wildly. “ W in should 1 not destroy it, her, u.ysell'-- everything connected with this horrible chain, this nightmare o f my life j this fatality which stands between me and all caith- ly happiness ?” •
“ Hecmise,” >aid she, slowly, at the same tirne : rising and standing befure n o with folded a rm s—erect Inughty , commanding : ‘Hecause,I am GerliMile l’mekoey— your wile!"
I covered my face with my hands: there was something in the look, the tone, which awed me. I saw it all :>ow. Il was perfect.I who ha I left her, w n to b • in turn left, after I had been taught to 1 ive The revenge was exquisitely diabolical—il was worthy of a wo
' man. •And she went o n ,- in the same cold, quiet
tone, with, scarce tin inflexion of voice nnv- where : "You married a poor, confiding girl j ono who knew nothing of life or men; You say you had no option given you j your father forced you. B it \ou never told her that.— And yet you knew that little silly girl had loved you almost from her cradle. liuKshe was not beautiful j she was thin, and sallow, and awkw a rd — ”
Oh, the infernal malignity of her triumph, in recalling and repeating my own wonls, as she stood there now so superldy beautiful, and knew that I was mildly in love with her!
“She was sliy and timid ; she was repul-ive hideous, to your delicate taste, your exifcting will— and you left her. You disgraced her in the eyes of a prnud community. , You left her to hear their scandal at second hand ; to find herself the common talk of age and youih — nn aband med wile. All unioned for what ?— You know; f . r n wliiin— a stubborn and cruel wilfulness. And y it she had to hea>' it hinted at, girl as she wis.t ' .ere might lie reasons why James Heyward I.-ft bis bri le the very evening of their marriage—there might be some c r im e !” ■
“S j a r c m e ; spare me,” said I, humbly; “I never thought or dreamed that such things could beth o u g h t by otheis.”
“N o ! lor you are a man. And the poor girl cried herself sick, and lay upon her bed for weeks and months between life and death, after you left, her: nnifctheu she said, he has gone from'me because I am ignorant; and she had books brought t> h e r ,m e n before she was able to leave her bed, and began to study.— And when she was well enough, she had masters got for luu'.nnd labor d day and night to make herself equal to what she fanc:ed other women must be, whom their hush n Is loved and cherished. And she suceeeiled. Thenher old father died; not ........ sorrow, JamesH eyward—you had no part in that. She was so dear to him in her sorrow tlmt it changed his nature, and he never spoke harshly to her after that n i g h t ; and if y< u bad come hack to. take her from him he would have killed you.
•But be died ! and s h e — s h e — followed ihe husband who abandoned her, to watch unseen over him, to be a spi ci.il providence always
.beside him: ev. ri'wbeie—in dai.ger, sorrow, sickness—everywhere, except iir happiness and scenes of enjoyment .these she left to him nlone. And now—” _
“ Now,” said 1, gloomily— “ now, having humbled m e ; having conquered my f t v e ;
• enslaved, infatuated me— your revenge is perfect ; aud you, proud ri the beauty which you know to be matchless, are ready to drive me away forever— or le.iv; me, as 1 left you.— Well, I have deserved it ,m adam . The criminal is before you, defenceless. Sentence him!-’ '
Now, do you know what that terrible woman did P She rose and left me. She overwhelmed me with scorn. She drove me from her with contenqrt, a i d bade me never even dure to speak her name'^
N o ! .She laid her head upon my bosom, and sob-
l e d and laughed—and told me how she had loved me wi;h a love stronger than death and more jealous than the grave, every minute of time through nil her weary years of watching over me; und now the worse I was thc more that love grew perfect and unselfish; and how htyr whole revenge for all my cruel coldness and desertion world be, to love ine better, all my life, than I could love her if I would let her.
Let h e r !Oblige mo by finishing this story yourBelf, for
I am a changed man. 1 have no time to write. •My time belongR to my wife, and which is more, I h v e i n s u c h a terror of not loving her enough, a n d of ever saying or doing anything to lessen h e r love for me that I urn not going to say a word abo^t our life after thnt, o r hint another W ord about the “ ’I c n i b l e W o m a n .”
BAH0NES8 DE 8TAEL
EP* He who goes to bed in anger has the devil for a bed-fellow. . A wag knows a married man, who, though he goes to bed meek and gentle as a lamb, is in the same predicament
Anno Louisa Germaine Neckor, daughter of the; celebrated M. Neoker, was Loin ut Paris, 1700. Fianre, nt this tinr.e under tho reign of Louis XV., \vun 'ust verging on to that terrible revolution unparalleled in history. The amhi'ious wars of his predecessor, together with his own profusion and fiscul management, had burdened the perple beyond endurance ; and though no public manifestations of the prevailing sentiment had as yet been made, still tlieie was n cloud, dark and po' tenti us. looming up in the horizon of tbo French government, which subs' (j .ently burst in umniti . gated fury over the land of her nativity. •
M. Noeker, tho father of Anne, was a man of sterling worth and ability ; and, in tho reign of Louis X,yi., waB appointed minister of finance. His influence was felt for good over a wide extent of country.— Discovering his daughter ut an early age to be possessed of extraordinary talent, sho afforded her every advantage for obtaining a liberal education. I le r understanding was peihaps somewhat after the masculine order, but this fact was doubtlcss^oA'ing in a great measure, to the ago in which the lived.
No female of ancient or modern times has excelled her in native strength of intellect, especially as manifested in an eleg'Hit and profound philosophy. She was manied nt the age of twenty to Paron de Stacl, n native of Sweden. The evn from which her public career may properly be dated was three yeais subsequent to her marriage, when she published “Letters on the character of lioii'Seau these, though well written, showed plainly tho masculine cast of her wind.
At this period in her history tbe French Revolution commenced, in which she took an active pint. A t Paris she engag'd in political intrigues, and many times assisted in concerting plans which involved the most com-ummate skill, as well ns a thorough knowledge of tho complicated affiirs of tho nation. The ciuse which sho espoused was grea'ly offensive to. 'B inapirte, whose star was then on the asi'endaiit ; and fearing that her rapidly increasing influ ;nce m i'lit prove detrimental to liis interests, he banished her . from the capital. She first repaired to Germany, next to Italy, and twice visite 1 England. Her strange and eventful life closed in 1817. The highly finished pioductioiis of her pen have heen justly c lebrut<d; among which may be particularly noticed “Corienne, or Italy,’’ a beautifully written novel, and her book on ‘•Thelnfluen e of Literature upon Society .” She appears to have been a strenuous advocate of the so-called new philosophy, ond devoted a l.n ge portion of her time and tul-“ cuts to its promulgation. Although steru, masculine, and unyieliing, wc cannot but admirS ihe high tine of morals inculcated by her character and writings.
[Wdvcrly Magazine.
A letter from Nico-ift, in tho island of Cyprus,
gives nil account of n terrible iiiundiitiuii winch
reoently took phoo there:—“ On the lOili «f November the weather I eoatue
cloudy, and the wind blew with great violence,
and the thunder and lightning were piust violent.
At nooti the rain began to full in torrents, nn<) in
a a b o r t time after the river overflowed its bunks.
The inh ibitants not having time to shut the gates,
tho water rushed iu with fearful impetuosity, and
inundated thc town. Tho baiaur soou had six
feet of water in it, and to add to tho niisturtune,
the gate at the end of the town opposite to where
the water lush'd in became cltfftd, ond there
being thus no outlet for the torrent, nearly every house was soon filled. Towards evening the gate
gavo way, and thu water b ^ a n lo gradually
subside. No fewer than forty-seven houses and
one hundred and fifty shops were undermined and
fell; fotir men, eleven women, and a child
perished beneath the ruins. CotiBiderublo it jury
was done to the meryhuudiza in tho bajiar —
Upwards of ope Hundred mules also porished, and
the total lcsS oannot be estimated at less than two
million piastres. ’ ’
Disapointirent iB the sorrowful child of the elate hope. We nil experience the birth.
When you advertise your business make no half-way work of it. Business is like architecture—good columns are a good support.
Whatever mars in poetry, is a fault; whatever pleases is a- beanty 5 for poetry simply
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Mr. Mai.xtitdd w ill net m A gent for'the S im irtM LA u k .
M E S .E .B . D A JJJ?0IlT H , r ^ m iu e r and IVeperi- her fur the sick ANo healing :md dtNoloping uml trance m edium. Address >»<>• III tiieen >t . JJo^tun.
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Mrs. DKAN, Writing, Trance nnd Test m edium, will continue to give fittings at No. 3i) Kiliot street, l ohton — Special attention g iv tn to clairvoyant medical exiuuinu- tiona. n lG tf
Mra. It. II. BURT, Writing ami Trance Medium, Noj. 2 Columbia street (trom liciiord street), lloura irom 10 to 1, aud Trom 2 lo 7. 'I—3m
Mrs. IjIZZIK KNIGHT, Writing Medium, 11 Montgomery piuue, up one ditflii ol stairs, door No. 4 Hours tf to 1 aud 2 to 6: Terms 6U ceuts a seance.
Mra. HMIT1I, No. 43 Y lio t street, a successful Healing Medium; ulau, VYnting, Developing amJ 'Jest Medium aud Spirii-Secr. Circle*, tiuuday, und fc'riday evenings.
Mbs. Eli.un K. K c iu u n s , Clairvoyant Medium, N o lii bouth itUfSell B tieet, Uubion. le iu is CO cents for c.ouminnicatioji or exam ination of dittcuhe. Utf
Mrs. HITMAN, Clairvoyant und ll^alii g Medium assisted by u trance Writing Medium, lias taken roonii ul 117 Aanuver street, l.Osiou.
Tckmh—tfor examination of patient, $1.001—2 If. u a ciiinmuuieaiiou, 60 cis.
Mrs PiiCALLld Clauk,, Healing Medium and Clairvoyant Kxamlner^ Under rpirii direction, tihe has prepared a great variety of Medicines for thu cure ol disease, which have proved emiueutly successful. Oillce at 14 bromlleld street, up Blairs. 1 2 if.
Mas. i*. C la u k : Dear Madame— Allow me to thunk you , and the power widen directs yon in healing lie ai'jk, uud to express my unbiassed convictioua that Lotnetilciue that I know of can ul ad compare with your Touic Uitters. Ho* eiuly I waa very unw ell, and buffered extremely from a )ld uud general debility uf fcjaiein, to that I feured a fit f bickne*a. Happily fjr me, a m end presented mu a but e oi your T on V Hitlers, aud it eured me iu a very short D ie . tt ' V H R \NiHJLlMl.anHBBBBHMBBMMHOTMBMBiMMli MMMMM a V
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epart of an Extraordinary Churoh Trial; iw-Uia a Uttailed Recount ■ i ov n» hchning J estimon^, mIv* en by tieciarians againttt all leading Relotm an«l Relorm- ersj with the Summ »ry t* oc^edniga on the part of the Prosecution, aiiled by several Herpcelnble (lillteos, utter au Irregular Run<liti>m of the Verdict.—Couaervatives versus I’rogressive*.—-iMiotograplncnlly Reported unit I’rejmr^l n»r Publkation by Philo ll»rme« Price 16 cents per copy, and «J»?nt to any part of the United States free of po tage. Quantities in wholesale, with reasuiiable diacoujjt, sent to onler. Anuress the I'uMisher, iielu Marsh, 14 Urotnlield street, RoHton.All the Hooks and Pumphht* of Theotlrtre Parker, tho irks of A J . Davis, anu ull other Reform Publications, t sale as above.Sr|)t. i i , 1859. , t
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tiorpel 'Ueiure Paui a u d C nruli.u iiy .. Ity Ueorge Htearus. P n i« t l . 0 0
Twelve Xessagei from the spirit of John Quin oy A d a m s , througiiJutt^ph U. buies, jleUluai, U> JO smh DritfUum. 404 puKes, bvo. Price $1.60.
Message# trom the Superior State. Communicated Dy Jonu A iu rray turou^i John M. bpear. rrioe 60c.
The Pilgrim age of Ih om ai Paine. U- lUnunond,JlCUlUlM. /Oo
Voioes from the Spirit World. Postp Uedtmn.-P n cc ooc. . L
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The Progressive Life of Spirits After Death —trice 16 ceuis '
A Letter »® Chestnut Street, Congregational Church, Aliua. tsy Jui n Adkins, i ’ricti 16g.
A. Eivulet from tl\e Oouan ol I r a th . au muirctmguitrruuvc ul tna aavuu. tuieut ol a d^irit from itarkueBB Into tight, Hy J . 8. Adams. 25c.
Book tor Skeptics, trice M centa.Fam iliar Spiriti and Spiritual M anifestation!.
oy ur. ttiKou t^Lu, with a Ucjily by A. lllugliam .— I’rlcel6«. .
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Pneumatology. By Stilling. Kdlted by Eev. George liusii. tric<- ioc . ■
Celestial Telegraph. By L. A. Cahagnet. Price $1.00. Night Bide 01 Mature. Uy CaUuiriuo Crowe. Prioe
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Xiiiany’s 8piritualism Explained; In Twelve Leo- lurea *l.tKi
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’.Scenes in the Spirit W orld ; by UudsonTutUe. Price2 o cenu
T u an y’s Monthly. $2 .00 p e r a n n u m .T h e X x e lig io u u l jn a n n o o u * ^y il* Robinson*, with
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Xhe Approaching Crisis. By Andrew J. Davi».— Price ikv.
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Lyrio of the Morning Land. ThomaB L. Harris.—Price 70o.
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A Book of Thrillihg Interett for the Yonag .' TilK PHEMATUKK DKCAY QV YOUTH t
Just pabUshod by Os. BToNtf, Physician to the Troy Lung . aui Uygkuio justftute, a treatlie on the i.arly Decay ot Air A/wan Youth } the vice of self abuM, and its dlrefbl cuiuequeucei \ bcmiual Heafcoess, fterrous and dpinal Debility, iftid uther dlseate* of tbe ite*ual organs in both Male aud Kmulo.f he abj.ve work 1« one of the moet thrlUing Interest to the
Vouug oTbota bexvs \ Oeuiltpg some ut the j&o»L tbriUing : caeca aoa UiOMk uts, in tbe practice ot the Author, pointing out the great oau*es tor such <U«Uae m d decay of AmexlcaaVouth. , ‘ i
Tbe Book Is written n chaste anguage and should be read by every Parent and Gu»niian that baa the least solicitude or the srell-being of olfspriug aud youtb. i t will be seat by ail iu a tfjjioJ envelope to oojr part of (be couutry, (r«e of charge, ou receipt of two (a cent) stomps for postage.
O * in view ofthe awlul desirujtion of human life and healtii, by marasmus or premature eabaustiuu and decay of the uervous vystem, caused by sexual diseases, sucli as the . vice uf beli>abuse, tiemmal weakoeest bpermatorrhutt, byplullsaud vlruleuiad’cctloiiS, Gleet, Impotence; Lcucor- rbuur aud titeriUty, «nd organic diseases of tbe liiuueys, and in view ol tbe deceptions wnicb are practiced upon the unfortunate victim* ol such diseases by quacus aud ^ose pro teuders, the liirectord ot the i'roy Lung aud ilygieuij Institute have mstiucied their atieiidlug physiaau to treat lbi« all-^erviiUiug class of nioderu mulaaies s j productive Pulmouaay consumption. Tbe Institution U provided with tne aius oi the uiuii improved practice o 1 smuoe./lMigland, aud me Oneuul oouutries In order to insure the utmost and sp.euy success. The most scrupuious'regurd to conft. deuce ana ilueiity will be guaruuteed every pailciit «ud ap piibttut Tiie medicines useu by the lustuutiou ara guaran tecu tree Iroln 4ieicury, iilnerals *»na poisons of every CQ lure. The most wpproveu medicines, of recent discovery impoiiea irom inuia anu Japau—and couccuimed iu tbe futrn 04 jciatrac^s aud AlkitloiUs, areaione useu—our remedies will uot'cApose, nor sicken nor debilitate unuer any dr* cum&tauce. Tbe iuntiiutiou has the honor ot treating as pa items some of the most ulstlnguueed uieu lu tho United* btuies. PaUenu cau a t all times be treated by letter and cured at botuc, ou receiving a lull statement oi their nymp- toms, aud mtdiciues can be sent by mad or express to uny part ot thu lluiteil States and the C'auadas.
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AH ASYLUM FOE T H E AFFLICTED.IlfcALINu ny laying on of handa. GHAKLKti A1A1N,
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Ihoee aendlng locka of hair to Indicate their diseases, should euoione tor thc examination, with a letter stamp lo prepuy tbeir postage. Also, state leading symptoms, age and vex. Odloe hoars from V to 12 A. M., aud trom i > P. M.
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X H E BICE. A B E H E A L E DWITHOUT MKU1U1NK. JAMKS W. UitUENWOOD Healing aud developing Aledium, Boom. No. 16 :Xrcuiont street, oppuelte the Museum. Offloe hour, trom b A. M to 6 P. M. Other hour, he will visit the sick at their houses.
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TO l e c t u b e b s . :Tbe undenigMd benbjr (Ites notice that he b authcriM
iOKli the-MWiriof tf*spirit #oiM, painted by the late*- itodger. w^lta In as entranced state. There are over thlrtr joeue., with a pair of dUK^ring view laoterm, Said t*«>. equal to aUy Uk tbe VkMeiiBiatth A food lecturer wou t And thl. a ran oppwtmnlty to adrann hli own ^the cau e of BpiritMSsm.' lor (tartlw1«rtth>war».I * ■ send one ol Mr. Kodgen’ dfoidm to *njfeotle«Ku v |p may desirei ssisai# « im l^ a g o n iU * pf t l»of the soene*. Ant iafonMlta (n " * * * « «•how inf them and U n V n u *> “ *•> ,
V. * . IW W KUtf,' toporte ,»» >
8 T H E B P I H I T U - A . L ^ Q- E
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[Continued from #tta (»Jei| .’ clrcamo'Bnce , f*oroed tipdn iMito In the ek*1 Js'fntf ntufe o f tMttgn, thAt i t is tio t in me to
'‘‘f M i iv M those In u iin iw iirw l U ffns, who 1 life,. my4filf. art> on lU hle to error.V o;falli- < ble in natiire. T h a-. i t will not b e ■ difficult
1 fo r me to use oharity in w ord nnd deed,1 toward the fables of my fellow be n?s.
And ho'fc it. t< not improper, as I dosifo ' to rt'iiiiirk. with special reference to itiose,' with whom I h«ve been connected formerly*’ b y e c c le - ia s jlc a l flew, t h a t in w h a te v e r I m ay
‘ feel it'my duty to *ay nnd do. my wurds mid tc f n w i I h iiv e n o re fe ren ce - to th e m , e x c e p t
! in th e w ay o f p r -m o in g th e g e n e r a l Rood'oT man; and especially "’ill this bethecn-e,n n le ^ it should happen, contrary lo my ex- pectnti n* and hopes, that circumstances
. 'should foroe me to aut somewhut iu selfdefence.
The sect t o which I formerly belonged.■*8 well as all other sects aud parties wil ever claim my synpithies for its vii tues. as * ell an <lem nd my opposition tu its errors nnd faults.
B ui before closing these remark-, I wish to offer a few suggestions, specially tieniun- cd f .r those who ire partially or ful ,y c *n- vinoed of the real renity, and sup.’dmo im- port.nee of Spirituilism ; and thus will doubtless sympithfoi and oo-openuo with me, in waole or in part, in the advancement °f iho.«e interests which Spiritualism contHmplates y i I is destined to promote.
Ir shouVlliA deeply and constantly im- pressel upon your minds, th-it tbuse things which ii'itv, nio>t ot all otlieis, verj mu h need saying an* doiusr, cannot a n l will not be s»id mid done, without entire devotion to truth, »nd the most heioio action cn your
. part. That you aro to investigate patiently and unweariedly into the wisdom of love is but a eolemii.duty imposed upon all.
Hut. with referet.ee to tho good contained «nd contemplated in Spiritualism, those who rcp'ise confilen.:e in its reality, h >ve a gpeoi.l, individual, ajid bacred mission to accomplish.
F iiendsof Sp'ritualism, your constant m»tto is, and must be d e v o t io n a n d a c t io n !
JJor is thia devotion and action to lie im as- trcd hy what you may esteem to be your own private interests.
You may settle it in your minds as a 4 x d laot that no compromise with exiting theories and conceptions, no disposition still to .retiin your present ennueotionu with sects and parties, will satisfy the demand* of Spiritualism, upon your abilities tu be, say, and do. You must put yout- eelvts iu a perf ctly eligible position to act.and speak f.eelyjn behalf of t his ,ause. in a position to give it your whole sytnpa-_ thies, or you will not bo deemed wortny to havo the least lot or part in the matter. If there is any one things which Siiiri’iinlists need more fully to realize and consider, it is thut they ure nut to fold their-hands, expecting to have their Guardians of the Ce- leMi.l Tabernacle contribute to their mero
; amusement or.gaiilLation. The utility of this matter is to bu immediately' sought,
. and then lo be j>r< moted at every sa-.'ifio.o
. of our mi,ro selfish individual interests.—1 Constantly b«»r in mind then, that you aro i not to be li t i f f with a few seasons of pleas; ant spiritual in'cronurso, nor to be content • with the mere gratification that thi-* thing is a re n iy , not to expect oui Guardi- 1
ans'nrc going to ollect the regeneration of m -n und things, wi'hout your aid, but that jou must net, us well as talk, act, as well
..*< think beautiful thoughts, aot, us well as 'listen to and behold wonderful mmici-ta-
tiuiB. The standard of christian d ty and dev 'on generally, recogniied os sufficient for pructic.il purposes, is no longer suffic- i in t lor your standard. Nothing short of
• th e saoriftue of all things for Christ’s holy . euuse.'wiil answer tho demands of this sub- jeoi upon you. A u i s t y o u r s e l v e s , are tho
> «m|ihutio words of those who seek to iiiu .mankind now in attaining its ttbd Religious, Political, »nd Sooial destiny, lle-
u#e/nber those' words; “ Assist yourselves, rind- theo wo will help y o u !”
: 'With a devotio'n and action such as this, rBi.iritualisYs'xna) hijpe for all. thitigs. For there u i«> > “<l»oniy, a purity,a Mtsduui and l o v o enlisted in this cause, far tx e edmg th.it which frail hujnan nature now affords.
Amid tho storm of deedi* oil earth, there is a still rmOl vqiee (tently whispering frum behind the v e il; amid the rnarof time and the discords of life, a sweet concor iant note is sounding from tho sphere* above; and now the gentle Spirit moves up, and down from earth t‘« heaven, and toils and fpins in its crystal palaee( to weave a muntie i t peace and charity, I'or poor and nak. d hu- mant*y. Up. heroio sons and daughters, b ithe your «eary breasts in the morning light, and unfold your hearts to cateh its g ilden ray.
Speak the thought* that burn within you, and utter the feeling that rises in your bos-
T h u s ohnnts o u r gentle G u ard ian S p ir it ,
and says; -‘go out, yo sons and d a u g h te r s ,
reap the bl s-ful h a rv e s t of e xis 'ence , for
my h*ai t is full, a n d ho.>o .mid peace de
scend. L o v e ’s e ternal sea ebbs a r d ; flows,
and moves o u t and in. alonn the s lu m s of
time, ana throw it's h.irmonial ► p ™ ^ up .11
the parched earth. , '
8 liritui'lists, |p t y o u r henrts be filleil
•with the conoord o f wiblom and love. Bi-
not. indolent in pain, hut active with uiHy-
ing p easure T " in k not. of self o r i-ttfi.sh
ends, when your highest happiues ' is in p r o
m oting the highest good. Seek to do and
be, w h a ' G ut would now express by man.
Be more truly royal in y o u r feelings, sen
t im e n ts and n atu res, than to fear th e op-~
pro'ir um, which will doubtless be c ist u p
on this cause, ns upon all new m e , .s u n s ,
how ever effective they may -uSm quifiitl)
liec me, ui.d lunvtver popular, w h en they
achieve the v x to r y .
W hile most people imagine S p ir i tu a lism
long since exploded, you know its reality ;
yon know that, thousands and tens o f thous
ands in our land nre being n um bered u-monj
its firm aud unfl nehin^ a d v o cate ' . You
know, therefore, that, victory is i . u r ’-, niao’.-.,
G od’s and C h ris t’s, sooner or la te r .
L e t this knowledge, and a .noble sense
o f vour d u ty p ro m p t you to in v e s tig a te , to
act, to reap th e golden harvest of uxis tencr.
. V □
O n tho m orning o f J a n u a r y ^ ,0
whole pircntnferenee of Paris s to p p e d o u t
a milo ai d d rew within its embraces th ree
h undred th o u s a n d now in h a b i ta n ts . P a r i s
now contains a ’population o f a ,m illio n und
a half. W h e n . ompleted tho new city will
be 8 0 m iles in circum ference with 9 2
gates. T h e old octroi wall is to he con
verted in 'o a boulevard and p la n te o with
tr e e ' , and w ill constitute the larg est s t re e t
in the w o rld . T ho peoplo living b etw een
the old at d new wall have been a c c u m u
lating lor some time great, q u a n ti t ie s of
wine and o th e r articles suhjc'-.t to city ta x ,
wi'h a view of lieing provided for years
.liter 'hey » re annexed to the c ity with a r
ticles th u t h i v e escaped the o c tr o i . 1 his
evasion o f th e law has aw akened the a t -
ie111io11 of th e auth irii.ies, but th e r e seems
to be no rem ed y for it. The c ity revenue
wil) be largely dnni .ished th e fi s t y ear by
tilts ingenious d " d tt ,! ol the law.
Spiritual liUflings in Boston.iWISS MOl't.TON win hold clrcfcn ifi tlictlrit room on
tiie KtL'ot-d floor, f lo . 171, corn er'o f C ourt ti Sudbury atrectu, B o .to ii, every Monday u ig lit, for tm nce »|ieok i i i j ! i vory Sundny »ud M cduemlay n lg lit, for iMircellu- ueoua cnBiuiunlentioim | nnd every Fndny for devit» |)- ui^ut, c.iuiiu inciiig at 7 1 1 o ’cloek I*. M. Aduilp«lmi 10ct». She w ill iiUo g ive private h itting- for the ilevelopuielit o f uimlluuli (lor whieh her p o n e ts are cpeeinlly adapted,) 'ur ivl ieti elio w ill require tu be p.iid a reason- nlile c.iuipennation.uccoiding to cirouuistancei). lu lf
M k b t i n i i s a t N n. 14 I I i i o m k i e i . I ) St .— A Spiritualist meeting is held ever) 8uin|uy m orning, u tlO 1 2 o ’clucki and ulleritoon at 3.
A ClonlereDco M eeting held every Mondiiy evening, c 7 1-2 o’clock.
Jnnoim cfinnits.
A cargo ol two nun I red atid t ' ' i rty-sev-
cn tuns ot h u m a n bot.es lately u n i t e d in
Enjlaml from Sevastopol which are to bo
ci'iive.i ted in t o m t n u r e ! T n e l i r t i s h h o
lier niav lie cheered to th in k th a t i t is
sweet, lo d ie fur his eountry, b it one wou'd
think he woulil not be much comfortod
with th e th o u g h t th a t his ties1.' may be
given to lhe v u l iu ie s , und his bones
bro ught h ack to un English i.uiigli 11.—
^o in e o f them no douht, how ever, "oib
leave, a n d in th e shape o f bones come
n-ck to ih e ir country for tn e ir country s
wood. W e -lioul I th in k h it s n d i C<ni>-
tiao tuitions as E i^l m , F iatiee. and Rus-
-ta, in g lit hy tieaty soiemniy s p u e lie
bones ol t h e i r so diets.
UU^IC
The Buliscrilier h ss received by iuipressinn from w.hat purportM t » L»e a F r ncti i t , am i t 't l iu r s «»f th e **pi» i t - uu l .-'plieics, t o ’ic h tu Iro.l pit-’c.-s o f in t*n-hiiut,»lu o f w l n v h in tn** tu es ca lk 'd *»Lf O ru in l N a p o -
I you” “ 1’ i '^ p r i t F i’iin c ttis ” w ith b a s s uiru»geim*.i ta ior tho I 'i;tu t), O r g . in . u iu l M clotliiiii. o tc , o i t lio am ip lo a i r o f tlic u tio v e , i 'l c m iu o c tio n w ith t v o u ih r tu rn :- CiiUotl th e a ilatiM if- vV;u- S i^ i iin o r ,'1 an d th*? “ S io u m F r i^ u t t s ’ f ud ip t-d to th e V iolin , I'’:u to , l 'i f o , ( . l a i i o i l o t . o t i ., ( th e - a m o ln U d v p>OM-ntcd to th e l .u i |io n » r o f th o F m ic h ) u n it b eo i* t;ii iotl on u p p lic ttion to M ow-ra. O liv e r i ) i t on i t Co , No ^77 'i ir tl ii iu lo u s i , H«>m o ii, 1** ice
pet huadiod cop ies, or G cts. per finale copy.‘ M( K F l.I^K :
S ]). & 41. W. SMITH,m anufactiirors o f
O R G A N U A it M 0 M U M S ,PEDAL BASS HARMONIUMS,
ORGAN K E L O D L O N S , AND MELODEONS,N O . 511 W A S H KNG'I ON S I , H « i m O N .
r i ’ llE DHUAX U AltM M l'M ia d e f ig in ii botli foi x (Jinn cli and I’ll lor; contains four s e lls ul le id s
elev. li le g ls te is in (s op s,) and eupul.leot g:eat power, and yet In Ule use o f -lie stops, nia) lie p la jid as si It a- the .’Killian liui |i . The I’ei foi in e l, lit is optlnli. can iinilate the l'lu te, l-'ife, (.'lari, net, or l la iit l i . .) , -n per- feetly tll.it one «ou |.J supposi-tlllll th e) we. e li.-liilng ti eitln-i o f t. e ab m c in>l. ninelits sepa a le ly , nr i uu.lui e the Hluile, and t li ll- tfive the etlect o[ (jliAMi OltUA^ —111 an ele"anl rusew nod case loi S-'W).
•rilK I’UD.M. HASS II.VUMOM l M is u n a .ged «itl> tw o m an u a l-or banks ,kf K eys, tin* low est set illi.i'l. g an oet.ive lllghei than tile other, and may be Used separately, and to il- n et in "lie case t» o d istin ct in -ti utmTits; oi lt\ ti.e Use <>l tne coupler, the I o banks o i Keys lu lie played ill lh e sam e tiuie by tlle .llse in the tinut set on )), l liis coniiee.led with the K ub-llass, " i l l p o- iluce the etiecto t a tinge o igali. and is sutlU-irntly hea\y to llll ii holl-e that seals fiou i lOi.O to l.')UU pe soils.
T il l: u lK i M LI.ODi <IN is d es ig i.u l lor parlor aud 11 ivate u e. The co listiuction is sluillm to ti eChinch Instillm en t, being ariangcd with two banks nt fu ith er notice. VI ill speak in the su: .ounilin
and uheli used togeth er, by m eans o f the coupler -
NEW BOOKS.
W kston, January 18th . , 1800 .
M essrs. E ditors: — I will steal a few mo
ments from my home-studies, to express to
you the sincere pleasure and great satisfaction,
which 1 experience, to perceive the high mor
al tone and truly spiritual tendency of the Agk
since the new year has begun. Y >u seem to be
fully awake, and deeply feel the ho’y task and
sacred mission, which rests upon your piper,
to form tho character of your r-aders , and
lead them higher and higher towards the sou Cl-
of all li),rht _.
Hut especially do t take, pleasure in peril-
sing the articles on “Goveinment,’’ wherein
the most progressive thoughts' and highest
truths are set forth in an earnest, simple way,
which, without ostentation or c'iiinor, readily
calls out the most lively Rynipathy with, and
conviction nt the necessity of practically adopt
ing tne views expressed in the lectures, ere the
first pillar of the Kingdom of God on the Earth
can lie built. ,
The mission of Spiritualism, truly is to lead
us to a Harmonial Life and Government. The
muterial character o f the past Century, with
its Pantheism, its lake.varmtiesa and .rivolitie*,
is being succeeded by a l iv in g relisjion, based
upon a strong ami powerful faith in the Di
vine Guidance an I Providence, in » re c o in .-
tion and deep felt reality* of the existence ot
he i-pirit world, with its mis ions ol Angels,
in a true love and reverence for the inspired
Jesus j)f Nazareth, in place of the cnti e re
jection, or blind subjection to Church creeds
and Dogmas.v
And nf all this, Spiritualism is the Herald
nnd H arb in g er!
Through it, we verge from childhood into
vigorous youth end manhood.
Tiue I am at the present tim e.'n o t a Spirit
ualist in the sense the terni is generally under
stood, hut I acknowledge that Spiiitualism led
me to he a Christian ; it was the means of my
k n o w in g nnd fe e l in g , the truth of the U.ble>
where, before 1 in \e s 'ig a t o' Spiritualism, I on
ly believed in the Bible—the Redeemer— yes,
the .Father.
Accept my hearty congratulations of .the
season, and the well'1 wishes of yours in the
bonds of true Christianity, L. P .
IT IK T IllN K K It. lly A J llav is . Price $1.1'llK A I(U \.N A OF N.Vl'Ultii lly Iludsoil Turtle—
l’rice $1.fOlM'F-V LS ON T ilK IMI'NTUIUF.S OF ANOTHER
WOiU.D Uy U ibort D.ilo Owou. $1.25(iO l) \ S H id I’llJY lU L N C E S. lly W . M Fernald.—
I*, ice $1. ^THK S F IU IT rA l. n i:( iI3 1 i:u , for I860. Fnce 10 ..T i i l l t r v - i NVO V\ ON UHUi i or thu sk ill displayed In
too .Miracles o f Jcmw 13y Prol. M. Uurias, IMce 2‘i cont". *
MIK WAY OF SALVATION calmly cotisiderfil *, heiug . ii l’ p i^ u re of th<: Kund.imi’ii'al l)n*-t ino» o f l,van gelical Chri*temioui. It) J. S. 1 / >e and. 1’iico 8 ct-. The above are jn.-t published nnd f »r nule at uholcoalc
or retail uy HeU AUi .->h, U il:o.ntield «t. ISomIou.ni>3tf
i> e ipiihte of a^^5toat \o lu u ie c»I power a t llte C huicu ii^ lm u ien t, »»lu it u-ed illiou t tlu* l*edal>.
Ah'***, every vm ie t \ o f M l j U ' b l . t ^ S fm I’Ailtir uho I’lircliar'Oi> u.a> elv upon iiii-ti nuiehU f. t>ui "in uian
ulat'loi y beintr ilt.ide in the uioht cou. plete and tliorongh ui.iiiiiet tiiniiiL' resum ed ’the s-paciou:* lm .ld u .a -, f>l 1 \N .i>iiiiii?t"ii S n e e t , we h a \e eveiy la e ilits loi uiaitufac m in*; u m p o - .s , ami em ploy none hut tin muM e .p o nenceti «orhn.ei». In ohoi I, u e u ill p. e o iu eun l»iui(*i> an ii^ t. uuieiit eijual if not Mipe, i- i t«* :.h> man m a .tu r e i, i.i.tl um a ntte entl-o anti l e i l e t i Mit^iaeU«m.
M il-ie l’ea in e » f. l.oatlei>td* Choi>h» an«l olltei •> inter e>ted iu u n i'ir u i . i t t u ia r e it fp o i’ttu lU inM tid to \i.*it. ou. m om s ui .t.i) tim e, and exam ine or te.-t the in ?l.u ment* on ex lu iiitiiin for sale at their plea>nre. ,
A a ''till lu .tu e . yuarantee to the im ldie a to lhe excelle iiee «»t the Meloileoii.- ami (lur»»'.»iiiuuin f.m n our m.im .laettuN, ««• In g leave to refer, h> pe uibM tni, io the f.illmwiij! i’im o Foite maiiufactm ern nt H olton, n l o Iia\e exam iueil our In^truuionls, and m il i ' e their opinion when ealled upon :
C h iek e iii^ Sc S o u s Wui I’, h u ie ix m ; b en . Ilew s;I la ilc t & Cuui 'ton , lWowu & Allen. \ \ ood w a»d it t vj ................ _ .. .. w .
^ . ' u V l i . A l ' x ^ A N tV i S M u N t l M r u i ' v n i i . - - for w ick eveniup . * hV be attend, d to. /d d ic
[All | ’cr«on» on non tind as Bpcakeru.ui dei th it htlul are requestt^l to um their io flu n ic c in favor o f precur lii(? tubncnberH for, aud extending the ciicu laU on o f , tboAor. I *
Min** 1’mma H arpincr w ill lecture in Philadelphia Providence, I’o illam l, &r.. nfter Kebrim* y, when hIiu re* turn h to New Yo k lorn w eek to form hpring engage uients. A p ily to B FeU ithA venuo N ow Y oik .
Miss Uardin^e lectu es in Cinciuu.ttti the two flnt Puntlays iu February *
M ih- IIosa T . A mkj»V will lerture inC lucngo and M ilwaukee during the uiontbs of May aud June Friends on the route desiiiuK her t-mieet* on the t*a!.bi.ih or week cvcni’.ign, w ill p lease adthe-t) her during tin* present n onth care of 1). L l'o- le , 0>wrgo, N . \ ; hiti addrosi g en era lly ,:^ Aden et., Ht>ht«kn, Mu-s.
Mi.-B A. M. Mli-Lil.KinicoK will lecture in Meaiphln, Tenn., 4 Sundays in lob ; St. I.nui». I Btmdayy in M arch; Terre lla u t , 2 t in t ‘‘ inii.ay- iu A p iil. Applica- li"n.< for week evei ings >\ ill t e ’attended to Addr t»s in M emphis, care o f 1. E. fh u d w ick t t . I unis, eai’c c f A. M illet beignr. .
K S. \\HEiU.nR will receive calls to lertn te on the principles o f natm al Spiritualism . Addm i*, Utica, New Y ork,
N. l*uANk WlilTK will h etu n - in Tu*). N. Y ., tlnovgb F eb .; Plym outh, Mas- , M aieh ttit and l l t h ; Quincy, Mat cl) 16th aud :fnh i lo x lx ro * Api I Ihi , l.u w e l April 8il> a.r 1 oth ; Ijoiltvoiili i la li . New \ aU .A p ii Cind and SMithj l’roxid nee, K I., May 0 Ii .uid l-t li j VV l.iuiitntic Conn ,'Ma\ 20i.li and 27th; Oi.\\eg«i\ N Y .. th uu liJune. A ppliactions tor week eve.tiugs aituressed as above will be a iti not'd to.
j .firs. A. P. TttoMr.soN, rianr»*-P)u a lu r on liiblo s u b ject*.' Address I.owt 11, M ass.,tili fu; ther m.tiee.
j Mrt<. A. P. I'lHiMi’soN n ill l leclu te at I au ren ce , Mali.**.the first SaUbath in le lu u a r y .
Mrs. A. P. Tn.iursi'N ui; y be jttldref-sed nt I.tiwelM illtow ns on
the Sabbath if d ish e d . *
C in iU .K S A. II \Y I KN. Trane- S it-a ’ lnz M edium .w ill receive calls to lecture. Address at thin ollice. '
F L. W ai 8W okth t-ptak? Ji.n. U t, n D< 'phia, ltd . 8th, in F.lkhart, Ind ; l.'itn, in sttij^ i . Mivb.; -2d , In t dr ian , M ith .; I eb , h a lt ,e Ci e* h . Mi el. j I . \h , INtUai.d “2 Itb. Kockfoi (I, III; nreli-till, 1 h h , 1Mb and iloth , |.)t)lif-, Mich. Addi ef» a-* ab-.vt,-.
' S iiss A. W. SFHKit I » ill fp'-ak at I)a\< npojt. low n, Ift, Sunday in Ja n ., a t Cin in n .i.i, ^n.i , m tl i'-d mi pays, at Terr lla u to , Ind.. 4ili. au*i &tb. sm ulay-. and ..t Chicago through February.
II. P. Faikfikld will spenk in Stafford, ('t , Dec. t8th ; (ii New liedfortl, Sun, ay, Pee ’2.r)tli . in Pmllatid, M e., th e tw o lirst tiabbath- in J-muaiy ; in W ildm antic, C’t., the tw o la st $ubl».itli- ol J.mu.iry ; aiid in Urldg. port, C l., the four fcumluv - ol M .ru n -y . Apj licationd
’ at tho
BOSTON E P lIH lU A i C0NFEKENCEThe lloston tpitHualCoideimcfVTili be heldeverv \Ve«ln«8-
tlay evening, ^cintiieiiciug at 7 1 2 o ’c lo (k ,p ‘ the bl'thlTl'* t. •m;k H a l l , for the di*cust>iuii ol (juefcliona conmcted with Spiiitual tin aiiUrelorm. tiHt
P e r » o i i > w i i o n i d i t o h i r e M e h i d e t m x ' a n d l l a i u . t . n n . n . w i l h a v i e u o i | . u e l i a > i n s ; a t t h o e n d o l t h e \ e a i , c a n
h a v e t i l e r e n t e m i t t e d a.*, p a r t p a j u i e u t o l t i i e p u « e h a . - » e m o n e y . T n i > m a t t e * i s w o t u y o l > | e e p . l n o t i , a s i t
e n a b l e - I h o . - e w l i o i l e s i e a f a i r t o t o f t h e i n s - l . u m e i i U b e t o i e p U i e h a r i n g , t o o b t a i n i t a t t h e e x p e i ^ e o f t h e i
m a n u l u c t n r e t .*<, t o t h e e x t e n t a t l e a > t « ) f u \ e a i ’ t« i c u t .O i i t e i s ' l o m a n y p a i l o t l l i e c o u n t i ) o r w o r l d , M * n t I
t l i - e c t t o t h e m a n u f a e t o i ) i n l l o > t o n , w i t h c a > h t u > a t i > - | V j ( . j , , j t y t i i e a b o v e p l a c e d , f . u - t o y i t - f e . e i . e e , w i l l b e p r o m p t l y a t t e n d e d t o a n t i a s ' •f a i t h f u l . v e x e c u t e d a s i f t h e p a i t i e * w e i e o i c ^ i t , o r
e m p l o y d a n a g e n t t o s e l e c t , a n d o n a s r e a M » n a l > l e t e i u i s .
111ICK LIST.S c r o l l l e g . I I - 2 o c t a v e . £ 0 0 ; S c r o l l l e g , f> o c t a v e , $ 7 3 ;
P i a n o > t v l e , f) < n ? i a x e , S l b O j P i a t n » s t ) l e , e x t i a l i i i ? b , . )
o c t a ' v e , £ 1 1 0 ; P i a n o s t ) l e , c a i v c d . k i k $ l - r>i P i a n o s t ) l e ,2 n e t . - o f i c e d - , l f>0 , P u w i t T M y l c , 0 o c T t r v x ^ M . i t ) ; O i y a n ^M e l o d c o t i , S ‘2 0 0 , H a r m o n i u u i , S ^ r M l i r t H l i i l l J i a - ? ;
l i a r o n i n u i~ l l i u o t i a t c i r T . a l a l o g u e s e n t f r e e o n a p p l i c a t i o n t o
S. 1). & 11. W. SMI I’ll,t il l W .V a lllN G l’ON STltK K l', llO S T u N .
an'O ly . • rn2!i ly .
M r s M A I t Y A . K I C K l U t , T r a n c e M e t l i u i n . r o o m s , M f >
H a n o v e r s t r e e t H o » - t o u O l h c e H o u r s I r o m 1) A . M . , t o (>
L» M T e r m f o r p r i v a t e « i ' t i n g > i f , 0 0 p ^ r h o u r .
W ^ N T t i D _l l y a f l p i r i l u i l L e c t u r e r a n t i L x a m i n e r , s u i t i l d e r o o m s " -
l m u i * h e d . H e i s n o t a l w ’i . y s I t e i e , b u l . x i . e c i s t o e x a u i -
i n a n . i g ' v c P - y c h t - m e t i o l o a d i n g - w h n h e i s i n t h e
v i i y . ’l h e r e n t m i l ^ t n o t b e l a g e , h e n c e a r e t i r e d s l i c e t ,
w i t h a r e c e p t i o n o r ■■v. u l . . t g , a n I a u e x a m i n i n g l o . n n i >
w h a t i » l i e e t l e d . P l a i n n e s ? a n . I e c o t n m i y a n : t h e o b j e c t H .
A d d r e * “ U o M c l n o i A N , ” a t t h i s o l l i c e , s t a t i n g l o c a l i t y
H l h t U ' t t l l H .
N o w Grao*i‘onber-' W a to r C u r e u n d H iD e s ip a - i h i c l i u t i t u l e , (n e a r t t i c a , N .Y .)
Tld» cf-taldishm eiil lias been in sncce^^ful opi rntion for th e past iw e h e y e a r s . and unUei' the con tn I ol the p u s- ent PliNsieian d u iii.g ih t w lo le tiu .e , hidi is a lo:i|jer pt-i iod than an}'tiin iliir iin-tili.tuin I ut h been conducltd by the a m ie ihdi\ idunl in this country.
1',1,1'CTUtriTV, (M-NKHal and Am m a l ) ie our grentcf-t apent in cut it>g tl c ilh w bich tiet-h is heir to, but experi- r ie iu eh a > oeuionsntit*tl tl nt il is m ci t-Miiy to i.m!cr- e lam ltlie u se ol w a tir lo i it n ^ft fi.< cesfliil ;i] i li'.aiieii
'llio se w ho believer iu cu ie by the lin in g on of handt*, w ew ill* id d that man) o f our m ost iinp oil.,n t •curca have been etfectetl iu pai t by tutch uicans. -
For particulars, addrcaa . 11. I10I.1.AN1), M. I) ,New (Jrat IFenheig, N . Y,"
W m * H o l la n d , Clairvoyant and Klrctrnpathic P h y sician. Carelul aud llmrough exam iuatioua made in ev cry ca^c. . 121, Iludsun pt.
n 20 . 3 d iob .
Mr. S a n i l ’B P a m p h le t , givinS aa acc.mnt of the Uh- y -•»]) .rt b.ivx and n Ii eiatiou ir »nt ja il by the sp 'n U . is r»r Mtlenuth apii itual Honk ti tore ol 1 ela S .m s l i . l l I I m. i i i I I i ' KI s lr . i t Hoston.
N I ’ u a n k W i i i t r w i l l l e c t u r e i n T a u n t o n , M a s - . , J a n .
29t . , ; r .n y S V ., tliroiiKh Feb. J I’lyin-.uth, »«» M ar.J i l l a n d 1 I l h I ’ b a s e u d d i c » > a s u b u v c f , r W e i k e v , n n i K s ,
All of Mrr. Mettler’s Colobrated fln irvoyant • J em ojies tor Sale aB lo llcw :
H e - t o r a t i v e S y r u p . l | t s . . $•■! , Oi l i l l i l l l s § 1 ,.P,I , I ’ ; i l m o i l i ,
t l l ' o ; N e i i t r . 1 ' 111 u M i \ t , i r . ‘ , TiO e l s . ; l . l u i r f i - r ^ l h U i a ,
S t l c t i . ; l < y s . n t e r y O u l d i a t , S t ) c t f l . ; l . i l i i u i e l . t , * 1 ,0 U i
(Jiuitp. nt 2-' cts S. T . M u n s o n , Ull Fulton st. N. Y ., Whol'v-ale^ and
ltelail Agent
New a u d V a l u a b l e * W o r k B -J u s t P u l l i s h e d .
(ion IN His 'pitowiM nck— *iy F kus *i.u—* *..rkI.a-r«’C. ivrd the h igh est cotnm cndatioin from the h*>c ml ( ’liristi in, Spiritual, and Secular press throughout
the Counti y. I r ee f 1,00.
F o o t f a l l s ox t h k H oundahirs o r A n o tj ik r U on i.n — hy Robert P i le Owen Price $1 ,-5 .
Titr: l i t t n k it ii— *y A. J DavU P iice $1 CO.
T uk A i h a n a o r N m u n t—by H udson lu U le . P iice
S' o:i•All o f the ah'iv*e u ny be obtained, at wl.olesale nnd re
tail, o f S. T. Ml'NSUN, licueral llook Ag nt I4 i I ulton st , N. Y
o f Ihla Marslt, P os-
NO.A £ . CHILD. M. D., L en tist.
15 TUF. ON I' y l’KDKT, Bt BToN . M \SS.
A JtrvENiLK P un.— A little five-year older being shown an almanac a few days since, having on the outside leaf a vignette, representing a d r o v e o f oattle, was asked what kind of a book i< was? “ W hy,” replied he quickly, “I • .ouldcallil t c a i l l t l o g u t t "— [P togresaiveA ge
SKETCHES FROM NA1URE; FOB UY
JTTVEMIE FEIEND8.
By FltANoa MOWN.
Price in cloth, 38 ct« . In cloth, g ilt , 50 cts . For snip by 11F.L\ M A11S11, 14 UioDifleld street. til4 t f
Footfalls on tbe Eoondary of Another Wordl, w iih N u n ative llln itia tii nt liy Hi bi i t Hale O uen, f .ii-' l Member of Congieas and American Minister t.i Na^ileH. An cxeetdingly Interesting Hook o f 5‘J8 p age. 12mo. l’rice $ l . ‘J5—p.istaee 20 cents J u ft[lu b - lislied .u d for sale by llela Marsh, 14 Biomfleld Street.
n 21, If.
MEDIUMS IN MAINE.Mrs.I/Nich, llrew er, Wriliiitj and Traoee M.'itiuin Mr. llri liitiiill. UeTf.ist, pcwcrlul tleiilnin .Mediinu illr, A. 11. Pierce, llcifust, Triincc-Spcakinit Meilluoi. l.ibson Sun'll, llaoideii, Trance 8peakiuj{, llciiiln^ and
Lecturing Medium. 'Mr. Caleli I tnioias, Camden, powcr'ul t’reseribini;, Pe-
scribing and llc a lin s Meaium, by tiie laying on of lia .ds John 1\ C oiion , bearap^rt, Uapping anjl 1’i.ysieai A.u-
diu m.Joseph N . llodu cs. Monroe TrcBcribiug, 'Irance-fpetik
ing aud l/x tu n n g Medium. * ’ >U. 1). Hopkins, OMtown, Trance-Speaking Medium. lloi>au M. Sm ith, Hampden, Trance trpiaking Medium. 8unnn W . Jackson, Hampden, Happing Tipping aud
H ealing Medium.. UuRtfoll Severence, lln d ford , powerful H ealing and
Trance Medium -MUv Kmedtie Cunnlimbkm, Bradford, Trande Speaking
aud P icserlbing Menium.Mra. Kren, Augm*U, W riting and Trance Mrdiuui. j l 1,. L ovell. Yarmouth, C lairvoyant. H ealing, 1 ranee
Speakinif and l.erturinir Medium. ,Mr«. tliiKKellilluckflctd, Trance-Speaking nnd Leclur
lr.g 'Icdium.M in. A. C Cram, Steven.* P la in ., VPrkti)?, Trancc
8peaking and Lecturing.Medium.Iknj. <Mton, Monroe, rromrlWnt »Iwi Trtne* Me4 « n
above places aud dates
Mhs J. W CuutilKii will leelurc in Portsmouth, T rc. l l th ; l.avvrence, Dec. 2.'jth, ;it d Jan 1>1.; liu n lirg tcn ,8 h; Moodus, C t., evening- «»i M)tn l- th , Cliickopce, l f i t h , - J O t l i ; I’niiiiai., f t , 1, b fiili-, lo x b o io , li lh & llitllj Marbleliead. ililh . Ml. will speak e v i n
Aikile.-H, llox 815,
Low ell, Mass.
Mih . R. II. n n t T will givflectun-H on every thing pertain ing to Spiritual aim Pi nciieal li e, llelipion iitid Mela ],hy^ic8 under the lnllui'i.ee uf kj iri!rt. A dd ichslhe a^uve ut N y^yrColuuibta ^ti’d t, iio>tou, :.Jn-.s. lft tf
OF.OROK ATlvINS w ill red ive calls to lecture on tbe Sabba h. Address; No. ;i W inter street, ltoaten.
LlNDLt’.Y >1. Andukws, Superio. l.« ctiiier, wiil travel i« the douth uud W est thU FajJ anil W Inter Per-ous de siring his Hervices may addicss him vither at Yellow Springs, Ohio, or at Menduta, 111., until funher notice f
given. '
Mra. C. M. T cttlkchu tn'addresRed at et*t Minuted, C on n ., d u iitn the wnuer, ami any iriend cimmunicating to her lin in g her present tu.ite «.! he.ilth, #hicn i exceed* n^ly delicate, w ill he gr.itefuHy ree.tiveil and let those who can send any metJ^aye M ■ oi ih e sp ii it spheies that may
aid lo t lie e r aud 8tuiiB tl.cn her,
J H I,ttvHt.AM>, will Jee^ture in O sw ei o. N . ^ during Ihe m onths o f Nov & I tb ; and iu l io -o n the tlnee Hrtt Sundays iu Jan. Will I- e tu ie wet L evenin'*' iu the \iciu* it) ol the above named places.
Addiesrf at 14 lSiouiileM st . ton. - .
ChkistiaN Lin da ,T rance SptMking Medium, vvill rocelvft calls to lecture in any p ir l »l t us west ru c mntry. Address Christian Linda, ciu e ot ll* uj. Teutonic, box W l, A l
ton, 111.J im s C. C lukr, and. his danglitei m s ik , will nnfiwer
calls tJi 1 'Cture m n l |t i-e IC-.i.l.i««- on Sunday or other even ing-. AdilrefH No. 5 Hay rire. t, or at this O ffice - Mr. C. will act as agent lo ijh e Aidu
M. P. l'AiitriKLD may 'be m liiv s^ d nt Greenwich ^il-
lage, Muss.Or. J amks Coopkh, o f 1 i llefon ta iu c, O hio, ain-ffcr*
calU to lecture in tiance »>late .
J ames II. Hiiki’AUH, speaking and S erin s > eilium w ilt a in w er calls to le'Ctme >> lie n , \ n II. >■ l i i . n d . m aydcB lie. Post Ollice Uil.iresH, b i.m ii Acuni t l i . N. l i
N S MtEKNLKr.r is r, a.'y t.. a iise er ta il i to lecture on tile Sabbath. Adilre.a l« i« e*l, Mass. .
II I' (jAHDINEIlofHnfti.il, « ill answ er calls to leetlir . on SundajB and week day e\eu in t;s.
M is s 11 11 A m e i iy , ' a -3 Allen s t r e e t . B o s t o n , T i a n e . S p e a k i n g M e d i u m , wi l l u n s u e r c a l l s (or s p e a k i n g c n th* S a b b a t h a n d a t a n y o t h e r l im e t h e f r i e n d s . m a y ,lc:' i r f -
A d d r e s s h c r a t 32 A l l en s t i c c t , l l o s tu n . £C> S ‘‘« " , s •
iitlend h iucraU .II L UowKBH't N atick , M ass.w ill give leeturew on Ppir-
i t u a l i s m a n d i t s p r o o f - , fo r I n t u i t i o n , fo r s u c h c o r n p e n .
s i i t lo il a b o v e e x p e n s e s a s g e n e m s i V nni> p i o u i p t .
C 11 KTEUBINS speaks o n Sundays tin oubIi the year ntAnn Arbor, M ich ; and «i l l answ er calls to leetu r* i»
that v ic in ity iir th e w eek .A C ltuB iN S O N , t r a m e speaker, wil l n c e iv e t a i l s V.
Iccture. A d d ressa t Kali lt iv e i, Mass.Rev J ohn ^i e M'On t w ill leeivc calls to speak on f f l r-
ilu a lis in . A ddiess WeBt J ledfou l, Mass. .
He n ja m in D an po rtii wil l i c i e i ve calls to preath •»Ancient a n d Modern B piiitua li-« i syno iijm ou s with tfcoG o s p e l o f C h ritt, aa h e uiulci s ta n d s it. Addiens at Mt‘«-
tu u . ^
LIFE OF CAPT. JOHN BROWNB Y K lUi.'A TH .
This exceed ingly Interesting hi. ffraphy o f the U b»0 of K an sas and I lA a r e R ’s Km,b y is iio,v ready. It i» beautifu lly illustrated and e n ib ll lish c d with a Unc portrait o f
I th e old R o m a n . P iice $ i,00I 8 . T . M U N 80N , 8 o U Agent for H Y ., 113, lu lU in t».