DEVOTED TO R A T T O N A T j R ' P T R T ’T T T ATJRM AND PRACTICAL R E F O R M .

NEW SERIES. BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859.• w i n

YOL. II_NO. 4.

W O M A N A JfD H E R W O R K .BY REV . DR. CH APIN .

The relation between man and woman is the most beautiful expression o f the g rea t law o f nature . W oman is sim ply the equal o f man— nothing more, nothing less. W e have no righ t to determine w hat is woman’s sphere by any a rb itra ry preju­dices. ■ I cannot recognize any such fa^t as mari’s rights or wo­m an’s rig h ts ; I only recognize hum an rights. W om an’s orbit ia the orbit o f her hum auity, and hence she ought to be m an’s -equal— equal before the world, before the law, as she is before God. A nd le t uo one be disturbed by visions o f strong-miod- ed women with spectacles, lecturing on K ansas. The question is w hat is tru th , and not w hat are the im aginable consequences. M an may run against God’s will, but cannot a lte r it. I urge th a t woman should actually be something more than she has been held to be. She has been placed above the scale and cast below i t ; she has been man’s slave and his empress. In one placo you m ay see her the poor drudge o f the wash-tub or tho needle, working to support a drunken husband ; in another place we see her in some parlor, listening to the confection­a ry o f small ta lk furnished by some dandy. Society around us is but little more than a modification o f these two pictures. W h a t we want is some way o f deliverance for woman from being a mere slave, and something more substantial than those accomplishments which make her a m ere gewgaw.

W oman ought to be rendered less dependant upon man. O u r present sta te o f society too often so trains her as to make m arriage an absolute necessity. I am glad i f there is some advance in this resp ec t; I am glad i f women and clergymen a re regarded as som ething else than respectable paupers. W om an can become w hat she should be, and do what she should do, only by a genuine education. I cannot see why there should be a very sharp discrim ination between the edu-

■ cation o f boys and girls. I f a certain kind o f learning will develope the intellect o f the boy, why not o f the g irl ? You m ay say woman cannot be a Newton or a Shakspeare. W ell, i f she can’t she won’t, and sa where’s the harm ?

W hy should a woman with a liberal education be less fitted for the duties o f a wife or m other ? I f in the cultivated mind there is reserved force for emergencies, why should woman be debarred from th a t blessed skill th a t unlocks the treasuries of tru th and opens communion with the d istan t and the dead ? In m any oases woman is brought up, not to a self-reliance, but sim ply to make a settlem ent for life. W e all have a horror o f female gam blers ; but how many women are really gamblers for a lucky match ? D o we wonder there is often the gam bler’s loss as well as his hazard ? In the world’s version it is not charity , but money, th a t covers a m ultitude of sins. The rich profligate receives the hand o f v irtue and beauty . B u t there would not be so many serpents in the parterres o f fashion if there were not Eves in the garden to listen. In rude ^jciety woman was bought and sold as a slave, and some o f our manners a re not muoh better. C hristianity teaches us th a t woman has a so u l; but many men ac t as though they had none to give. Women have a righ t to a proper culture, not as wo­m an’s rights, bu t as human rights ; as m an’s equal and com­panion, she requires a train ing which will develope every hu­m an faculty. The true way to find the sphere o f any th ing is to educate it to its highest capacity. A genuine culture will produce nothing th a t will overrun its divinely appointed lim its. W om an’s work will follow spontaneously from woman’l^ n a - tu re , and will accord with the qualities o f her being. I t will not therefore be strong physical work, bu t where clean, deli­cate work is neede^, where emotion mingles w ith thought, it will be her work in the future, and still more fu ture opens into civilization. W om an’s truest work is o f home and its sancti­ties. L e t us not f e a r ; these offices will still be the heart o f the wife and m other. There are m any women for whom this sphere o f home is enough. B u t i f woman is enslaved and de­graded a t home, where shall she have honor ? In this sphere

_ I claim for her a large and liberal culture. I s i t o f no conse­quence who is to discharge these offices— who is to teach and tra in the life, the h eart o f fu tu re m an? A m ong women there a re two classes, whom homo duties do not absorb, and they claim / som ething to do. T hey comprise those who are not forced to work for a living, and those who are. In behalf o f those, I say a large field is needed for woman’s work. Con­sider w hat ought to be done for th a t class o f women who m ust w ork o r perish. W h a t a re they to do ? T hat is the ques­tion. -

I might specify m any forms o f labor, such as some parts of watch-making, o f telegraphing, o f the work o f new spaper offi­ces, and countless others, a ll o f which are adapted to woman’s natare and her capacity. The claim o f th is class o f women is simply the claim o f the ir hum anity. T hey m ust have th is work or perish— perish in one or two ways— physically, e ither from lack o f w ork o r scantiness o f it . Think o f the poor widow who makes shirts a t five cents apiece— and I suppose the man who pays i t covers the New Testam ent w ith th a t, five oent piece. She can perhaps m ake one a day. Is not that

reducing hum anity nearly to starvation ? Think o f those noble womeu who virtually say, “ L et D eath have us, so he takes to God our womanly purity u n ta in ted .” Thank. God for the wo­men who die honorably and only perish physically I think what saints they m ake in Heaven, with the ir sweet faces, from which all the trouble is glorified away. W hat did those men, whom the world call heroes, more than those noble women, who, clinging to the ir conscience, died a t their posts? This ought not to be so. Then should she work for all, and least o f all, should work be denied her because she is a woman ? and y e t this is really the fact. W e reverse the D ivine law which tells us not to oppress the weaker, and turn and oppress them simply because they are weak. To some men, the shirts they have made m ight be the sh irt o f Nessus. I wish these old scrougers who pay five cents for m aking shirts, m ight be haunt­ed with women’s ghosts, who should bear the inscription, “ M ore work and better p ay .” B u t there is another class who perish m orally. W e must not shrink from all the facts, and it is a fact th a t w ant o f work has a g rea t deal to do with driving to shame tho 20,000 women in our city who waik our streets, whose smile is only seen by the gaslight. B u t the shame is not all with them. Sham e upon him who offers the price of dishonor ; shame upon those honorable women who smile upon the victorious debauchee ;"sham e upon ourselves i f we flourish any prejudice which depreciates the value of women. L e t all these shames blend with the shame o f the poor lost girl, and lighten a little the curse th a t bears too exclusively upon her. H ere a re these two classes who m ust have work or else honora­bly or dishonorably, perish.

B u t there is another class o f women, who are not compelled to work, concerning whom one o f the noblest women of our day (M rs. Jam eson) asks i f a more enlarged social sphere can­not be allowed woman ? I can merely say, th a t this field is indicated in the philanthropic institu tions o f onr age. I t is exemplified in women like E lizabeth F ry and Florence N ightin­gale. One o f those poor soldiers o f the Crim ea said, th a t her shadow seemed to do him good as i t passed over his bed.— W hat a compliment to her was th a t o f another poor sick man, who said to her, “ I believe you are not a woman, b u t an an­gel.” How much better is th a t than the homage o f the draw ­ing room, or trium ph o f a flirtation. How m any a woman m ight be an angel to the poor hollow eyes th a t followed her from a siek bed. L e t us rem em ber th a t this is not an attem pt to draw woman from her sphere. B u t let us consider how m any claim s there are out o f th is sphere. L e t us not fear any ridicule which m ay be cast upon us. R idicule is the feeblest weapon tha t can be used ; i t proves the lack o f heavier a r ti l­lery ; i t fires scattering shot, aud does not h it the m ark. I t is ra th e r a fearfu l p ic ture, to 'b e sure, o f a masculine woman, scheming in W all street, or shouting iu Tam m any H all. B u t when called to step forward to the line, who shows more m an­liness, more courage, than w om an? Look a t the m aid a t S ar­agossa, look a t G race D arling , and a t th a t noble woman who a year ago brought home the ship o f her poor disabled husband ; she may have been out o f h e r sphere, but she circum navigated the globe. I am inclined to believe th a t a woman starv ing in the streets, is-fully as incongruous as a woman in the Senate or the Forum .

The true idea o f civilization will never be unfolded till wo­man has been placed upon an equality with man. In the cabin o f ‘the M ayflow er; in the w ar o f the Revolution, when the wives loaded the muskets, there were such men, because there were such women. The grandest transactions o f history are unfolded, when she stands nearest to man as an. e q u a l; and when C hristian ity shall have reached its highest point, her h eart will be near",his hand. L e t woman stand upon the ground o f her human natu re , then there will be no discordant music in the m arch from the paradise which they left together — to the paradise which they hope to obtain.

I n te r io r G row th .S p iritual tru th m ust find som ething in crur natures sim ila r

to i ts e lf before i t can take effec t; the roots feel the ir way into the earth in search of nu trim ent, homogeneous and corres­ponding, each root for itself, th a t o f w heat for one substance, and th a t o f sorrel for a n o th e r ; so tbe tru th feels its way into the heart. A s music addresses and develops the musical sen­tim ent, so evangelical love and tru th address and develop the sentiments o f love and tru th . In this way the S p irit o f T ru th acts, gains access to the heart, makes sure th a t the floor will hold him,— then commences an onslaught on the unclean spirits, drives them out w ith old A dam a t the ir head ; brushes aw ay the dust and cobwebs of m eanness; opens the shutters and lets in the ligh t o f God, and the clear shining o f the S un of Righteousness.

F o r g i v e n e s s . — The brave only know how to forg ive; i t is the most generous p itch o f v irtue human nature can arrive at. Cowards have done good and kind actions,— cowards have fought, nay, sometimes conquered ; bu t a coward never for­gave ; i t is not in his n a tu re ; the power o f doing it flows only from a strength o f soul conscious o f its own security , and atiove all the little tem ptations o f resenting every fruitless a t­tem pt to in te rru p t its happiness. '

IM OGEN’S JOtTBNEY.THE MESMERIST AND THE C L AI R V O Y A N T E.

D T C H A R L E S .M ACKAY.

How dost trave l, Imogen,W hen the trance upon thee lies ?Lo! I shed the influence o’er thee—How dost travel to the skies ?

“ On a wonder-working steed,Like the steed in the eastern ta le ;I m ount his back—I try his speed—I guide him over hill and dale;Deftly ever I hold the reins,And sit in the saddle haughtily ;O ver the m ountains and over, the p lains,O ver the land and over the sea.”

Im ogen, I know thou wanderest A t thy pleasure th rough the a ir ;C anst thou tell what thou hast witnessed,Aud t hy mysteries declare 1

“ Much I see lo v in g ly ,—I feast on the beauty of the earth ,In its sadness, in its m irth ,In its decay, and in its bloom,I 11 its splendor, in its gloom;To every clim e, remote or near,I soar in my saddle and never fiu r

“ Much I see m ournfully ,—W ant, and ignorance and strife,

. And the agonies of doath and life;In tem perance mowing its victims down In countless hosts through city and tow n;And hapless infants, newly born,Cast on the world to sham e and scorn;Taught to He, to steal, to sw ear, •N u rtu red in ha tred an d despair,Ti ained in obedience, reckless, and b lin d ■To the worst passions of their kiud.

“ M uch I see ind ignan tly ,—The prosperous evil, the suffering good;And battening, fa tten ing ,Faw ning, ly ing, God denying,Pestilen t ingratitude. 1Sons bringing sham e to a fa ther’s cheek.And daughters doing their m others w rong;The strong man tram pling on the weak,The weak nmn worshipping the s tro n g ;The white man selling the black for a slave And quoting S jrip tu re in his defence,A nd giving the money— the holy k nave—In support of p u lp it eloquence;H arsh in tolerant B igotry Tnking the name of C harity ;And Vice, iu a m asquerading dress,W hite robed like v irg in loveliness,Sitting in V irtu e ’s seat, unchallenged, •A nd passing herself in all men’s sigh t As a ra d ia n t crea tu re in form and featu re ,A visitant of love and lig h t;— .T yran ts ru lin g , wise men fooling,And stolid Ignorance preaching and schooling;All this I see most m ournfully , ,Aud haste to descend to the E arth again , •And rest on the level ground with m en.

“ B u t in my trance of yesterday I was travelling far aw ay;F a r away in the a ir upborne,I , clear-seeing Im ogen,Lost m yself in the dep ths serene •Twelve hours eastw ard of the morn.The full round E arth beneath me lay A large b righ t orb of silvery grey ,The bi-centuple o f the m oon; 'I heiard her rolling on her way,H er tidal oceans pealing a tune,Sea with sea, harm oniously, ,Through the dread Infinity.A nd a living voice spake to my soul,As I watched the m ighty planet ro ll;—An angel of another sphere,An alien and a w anderer here;A nd sp irit to sp irit, mind to m ind,—I to him , and he to me—We spoke together bodilessly,On the deeds of hu m an kind.

“ ‘ O h, lovely is your w orld ,’ he sa id ; -‘ Behold the glory round it spread;

Behold its oceaus, how they shine,Suffused w ith radiance div ine; .I ts teem ing continents behold—Its m ountain sum m its fired with gold;I ts gleam ing poles of p u rest w hite, -I ts tropics bathed in fru itfu l lig h t;A lovely world, a gorgeous p lan—How fares the brotherhood of m an ?” .

“ ‘ The brotherhood of m an ? ’ said I ,M ingling a whisper and a sigh ;—

A la s ,th e E a rth , though old in time,Is young in wisdom. Brotherhood ?—There is no land in any clime W here even the word is understood;—Look below a t yon fa ir isles,L aving themselves in Ocean’s sm iles,—They ru le the E a rth , yet cannot teach The sim ple tru th th y words convey,—.Though ever th e few dissuade, and preach,E ver the m any fight and slay .’

“ ‘ Blind c rea tu res ,’ said the voice to me,‘ I f they know not C harity—

B ut surely they have learned the t ru th —T hat God is love— and grow ing wise,They study from their tenderest youth T h at holiest o f m ysteries!’

“ ‘ They know it n o t,’ I m ade rep ly ; .‘ O f all the swjirms th a t live and die

Upon th a t wide revolving ball,The pettiest faction of them allIIus heard th a t t r u th ;— and of those few,Though hundreds th in k , the un its do.Alieus, foes, estranged from b irth ,A re the nations of the ea rth ;One to the east o f a m ountain cope.H ates the one to the western slope;One to the left bank of a river,Pursues with its deadly w rath forever The one th a t prospers on the r ig h t,A nd works forever to its despite;A nd to the e a r th ’s extrcm est bound, B rotherhood is nowhere found.’

“ ‘ B u t is there none,’ said the voice, ‘ to show The wrong, the sham e, the g u ilt, the woe,The fearful madness of such crim e ?I s there none with a soul sublim e To open their hearts th a t they m ay see T hat Love is the law of infinity,T he dom inant chord of the m ighty seven T hat form the harm onies of heaven V

* M any to teach, bu t few to hear.Though scant the boundaries of our sphere, T ru th goes slowly.over the zones,A nd stum bles over pebble stones.The laziest worm th a t ever crep t,A lthough a t each remove it slep t,W ould m easure the g irth of the rolling ea rth Ten tim es o’er, in a tithe of the tim e I t takes slow-footed T ru th to climb T he dense obstructions in its course,I ta iae i by folly, fraud or force,A nd circle it once from pole to pole;N ever y e t, thou w andering soul, .H as one g rea t T ru th pierced th rough the c rust O f universal hu m an d u s t.’

“ * I t cannot be ,’ said the voice again ;* W as there never born ’mong men

T h ’ incarnate G od?’ ‘ A las!’ I sa id ,‘ Look a t the E a r th — behold i t spread

I ts countless regions to the d ay ;Behold— I ’ll show thee in the ray ,E v e ry jitt le speck of land Wher&-fhe t ru th has made a s tan d —I oould cover them w ith my hand .

See y o n little continent,And.close beside it o ther two O f aspect more m agnificent,A nd large dimensions, looming th ro u g h .An atm osphere of ra d ia n t b lue; l'h e sm allest spot alone has heard The g rea t and civilizing word T h at God i3 Love; and even there

. M en hate each o ther, and declare '• Fierce w ar for difference o f degree,

Aud shadows of divergency O n m inor points, and dogmas dim .T h at w hether we cling to or let fallIs o f no account in the eyes o f H im ■W ho gave a law beyond them a ll.

“ • Ignorance i3 the lord below;— .H atred , B igotry and S jornDo his bidding, and sca tte r woe .O n th e climates o f the m orn ;Do his bidding and high behest On the regions o f the west,Obey his rules from n orth to south,And take their orders from his m outh.

“ ‘ Farew ell!’ said the voice of the a p p e r a ir ,‘ I ’ll change my trac k , I ’ll go not there ;

To o ther p lanets I will roam ,W here Love and Knowledge find a home.’

“ Farew ell!” s lid I , “ thou w andering sprite ,. I m ust re tu rn to earth ere n ig h t,

A nd bear for aw hile, as best I can ,The cold, du ll ignorance of m an .” •

• Now thou’r t wakened, Imogen,Dost thou know where thou hast been?

“ N o ,” Ehe said, and rubbed her eyes,A nd looked a round h e r with surprise ,

“ I have slept— and I have heard—Something— nothing— who can tell 1

W aking memory knows no word,A nd has no sense of what befell.

B u t when again th y fingers pourThe influence th rough me, if i t chance

T h at I can summon up once more . The lost ideas o f my trance,

I ’ll tell thee tru ly w hat I see,Wise or foolish, as m ay be.”

D o w hat good you can. I f i t be b u t little , do no t ta ink i t will m ake • no g rea t difference any m ore than though you had not done it. I t will make a difference. One ray o f ligh t — the sm allest even,— makes a difference in a dark place.

I N N O C E N C E V I N D I C A T E D .a s t r i k i n g c a s k o f s p i b i t - i m p k e s s i o h .

A rth u r Howell was an in tim ate acquaintance o f Friend Hopper. H e was a cu rrie r in P hilade lph ia , a preacher ia the Society o f Friends, characterized by k indly feelings, and a very tender conscience. U pon one occasion, ho purchased from the captain o f a vessel a quan tity o f oil, which he after­ward sold a t an advanced price. U nder these circumstances, he thought tbe captain had not received so much as he ought to have ; and he gave him an additional dollar on every bar* rel. This man was rem arkable for spiritual-m indedness sod the g ift o f prophecy. I t was no uncommon th ing for him to re la te occurrences which were happening a t the moment many miles d istan t, and to foretell th e arrival o f people, or events, when there appeared to be no ex terna l reasons on which to ground such expectations.

One Sunday morning, he was suddenly impelled to prooeed to Germantown in haste. A s he approached the village, he m et a funeral procession. H e had no knowledge whatever o f the deceased; but it was suddenly revealed to him that tha occupant o f the ccffin before him was a woman whose life had been saddened by the suspicion o f a crim e which she never com m itted. The impression became very strong on his mind th a t she wished him to m ake certain statem ents a t her funeral. Accordingly, he lol lowed the procession, and when they ar­rived a t the meeting-house, he en tered an d listened to tha prayer delivered by her pastor. W hen the custom ary servioes were finished, A rth u r Howell rose, and asked permission to speak.

“ I did not know the deceased, even byname,” said h e; “ b u t it is given me to say, th a t she suffered much and nnjost- ly. H er neighbors generally suspected her o f a crime, whiok she did not com m it; and in a few weeks from this time, it will be made clearly m anifest to the world th a t she was innooeni. A few hours before her death , she ta lked oo this subject with, the clergyman who attended upon her, pad who is now pres­e n t ; and i t is given me to declare the communication she made to him upon th a t occasion.”

H e then proceeded to re la te the particu lars o f th e in te r­view, to which the clergym an listened w ith evident astonish­m ent. W hen the com m unication was finished, he sa id , “ 1 don 't know who this man is, o r how he has obtained inform a­tion on th is suh ject; bu t certain it is, he has repeated, word for word, a conversation which I supposed was known oaly to m yself and the deceased.”

The woman in question-.had gone o u t in tbe fields one day, with her iu fan t in her arm s, and 6he re tu rned w ithout i t . She said she had k id it down on a heap o f d ry leaves, while she w est to pick a few flow ers; and when she re tu rned the baby was gone. The fields and woods w ere searched i n . vain, and neighbors began to whisper th a t she had com m itted infanticide. Then rum ors arose th a t she was dissatisfied w ith h er marriage, th a t her h eart rem ained w ith a young m an to whom she was previously engaged, aod th a t her brain was affected by this secret unhappiness. She was never publicly accused, partly because the re was no evidence against her, and partly because it was supposed th a t if she did commit tbe crime, it mast have been owing to aberration o f mind. B u t she became aware o f the whisperings against her, and the consciousness o f beiag an object o f suspicion, combined w ith the mysterious disappear­ance o f her child, c a s t a heavy cloud over her life, and made her appear m ore ao d m ore un like her former self. This g Im

confided to her elerjgymao, in the interview fh o rtly preceding her d e a th ; and she likewise told him th a t the young man to whom she had been engaged had never forgiven h er for not m arry ing him.

A few weeks a fte r h e r decease, th is young m an confessed th a t he had stolen the babe. H e had followed the mother, unobserved by her, and had seen her lay the sleeping infant oa its bed o f leaves. A s he gazed upon it, a m ingled feeling o f jea lousy an d revenge took possession o f his soul. In obe­dience to a sudden impulse, he seized the babe, and carried i t o ff hastily . H e subsequently conveyed i t to a d is tan t village, and placed it o u t to nurse, under an assum ed nam e and history. T he child was found alive and well, a t the place he indicated. Thus the m other’s innocence was made clearly m anifest to the world, as the Q uaker preacher had predicted a t h e r funeral.

I often i^eard F riend H opper re la te th is anecdote, and he alw ays said th a t he conld vouch for the tru th o f it , aad for several o ther sim ilar th ings in connection w ith th e m in istry o f his friend A rthur.-—M rs. C hild 's l i f e o f H opper .

N o t T im e E n o u g h .— We complain that we have no time. An Indian Chief of the Six Nations once said a wiser thing than any philosopher. A white man remarked in his hearing that he had not time enough. “ Well,” replied Bed Jacket* gruffly, “ I suppose you have all there i s !” He is the wise* and best man who can crowd thc most good actions into :— E m erson.

L igh t, w hether i t be m ateria l o r moral, is the bestrefcnssrj for i t prevents those disorders which other remedies 1 cure, b u t sometimes confirm.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859.

* “ T H E C A U S E .”Some well-meaning friends o f Spiritualism appear to enter­

tain quite too lim ited and superficial ideas o f the scope and aim o f the g reat movement o f our time in which we are en­listed. Such are ap t to be nervously sensitive about “ the good o f the cause,” and fearful lest its respectability will be com­promised or its progress injured, by the defections o f false friends, or the honesty and frankness of true ones. F o r ex­ample, i f we candidly give a “ rccanter” credit for any portion o f tru th , or fail to 'join in sweeping condemnations against Bach aa have made themselves obnoxious, or venture a criticism npon w hat we regard as an error or folly of Spiritualists, somebody becomes a larm ed ' lest we are about to betray “ our glorious c a u s e a n d forthw ith we find ourselves objects o f painful solicitude. '

W e are glad to receive expressions of opinion irom all sides o f the Spiritualistic house, and shall endeavor to gather some addition to our store o f honey, even from-the most pugnacious th istle among our opponents. B u t it should be distinctly under­stood by all, b ^ i w ithin and w ithout the ranks o f S p iritual­ism, th a t an earnest and intelligent Spiritualist can have no “ cause” to support, save th a t o f eternal tru th and absolute right. W hatever of these is discovered among opposers and exposers, must be acknowledged and endorsed ; and whatever o f error and wrong is perceived, must bo rejected, however tenderly i t may be cherished or devoutly reverenced by any as an integral part of “ our beautiful faith .” True S p iritual­ism excludes no tru th , and embraces nothing but tru th , w hat­ever th a t may be.

One chief occasion of the present sifting process— that which has rendered it necessary to real progress— is that some Spiritualists have been too anxious to buiid up a “ cause,” and have not scrutinized with sufficient care the m aterials with which they have builded. One o f the most prom inent of the recent “ renouncers” adm itted to us th a t he had taken the ba- sis-facts o f the spiritual movement on testim ony, with no pos­itive knowledge. Hence, in process o f time, as every rational m ind must, he began to doubt, and found tha t his buildiDg rested only on sand. W e honor him in th a t case for getting out o f it as quickly as possible !

Persons coming to us with difficulties and perplexities have sometimes said, “ I wouldn’t tell these things to outsiders for the world— it would hurt the cause.” This style o f expression we do not like. I t too strongly resembles the cant o f sectarian religionists, who manifest a greater love for the “ cause” than for the tru th . In their anxiety to sustain a pleasing theory, and to make proselytes to ‘‘our side,” none should ever allow tfiemselves to exaggerate facts, or to suppress counter circum-

- stances, in order to make out a strong case. A ll faith th a t is bu ilt up in this loose manner is unsound, and we may expect th a t i t will come tumbling down in the day of tria l. I t is w orth no more than tha t of modern churchdom, which consists m ainly of assumption piled upon assumption, w ith 111110-or no substantial basis.

The only safe way is to be entirely frank and rigidly honest w ith yourself and others. Thus only can “ the cause” be really promoted. I t can enjoy a healthy growth, only as peo­ple become tru ly spiritual, and in love with v ita l spiritual tru th . N othing is gained by endeavoring to proselyle those who are unwilling to accept tru th for its own sake, and a t whatever cost,— who are not hungering and thirsting for true wisdom and practical righteousness. Such persons, even if intellectually convinced, will be likely to pervert the tru th to some selfish and unworthy end, or to basely abandon it in the hour of tria l. Food crowded upon an unwilling stomach is ap t to lie undigested, doing more harm than good— perhaps producing nausea, and ending in rejection and disgust.

O ur own convictions o f the rea lity o f spirit-communion h a v e not been an iv ed a t by any hasty process, nor do they rest on any slight grounds. They do not depend a t all upon the honesty of public “ professional media.” H ence, i f all th is class were shown to be impostors, the fact would have no influence upon our convictions. W e have been compelled to believe by evidence addressed to our own senses, which renders i t impossible that we should do otherwise, while reason is in the ascendant. B u t our convictions do not and should not answer for others. W e ask no body to accept Spiritualism any further than its facts are demonstrated to his own senses, and its principles to his own understanding and con­science.

P lan ting our feet firmly on this tru th , we, in common witii all earnest souls, are searching for the good and-the true in all directions. Spiritualists have no sect to build up— no party to maintain— thut requires the disgui.-e of any tru th , or the toleration of any error. W hile they should trea t with due re­spect and weigh with all candor thc views of any who may differ from them— and avoid as far as may be the appearance of evil and the liability to niisinterpolation— yet they should

• allow no mistaken regard for the interest o f the “ cause” to regulate either their acts, or the expression of their opinions.

L e t all Spiritualists be true to themselves:—to the ir own highest convictions of right and duty, regardless of blame or fame— and “ the cause” may be safely left to take care of it­self.

A G o o d C o m p a riso n .— A correspondent remarks, w ith much tru th , respecting certain “ recanters” of Spiritualism : “ I wish they could realize tha t they have ju st entered upon the mis­sion o f Spiritualism , and are doing more for its advancement than they ever did o r ever could'while expecting the loaves and fishes, as a certain concomitant of their labors. Such recanters m ay be com pared to noxious weeds in a potato patch which ren­der more real support to vegetation when pulled up and thrown into th e furrow s to decompose, than they ever did while cast­ing unhealthy shadows over the legitim ate crop. W ould it no t be charitable to assist a few more o f the same sort to re­

ca n t?”

H O N E S T Y O P T H E P E E S S —A S A M P L E .A we(a)kly cotennporary, which boasts an “ immense” cir­

culation, undertakes to inform its readers what Spiritualism is. I t commences by saying tha t “ sp iritual philosophers have a language of the ir own. W e do not pretend to understand it.

. . . We confess tha t we can make nothing of i t but w hat the prin ters express by the term p i,” etc. I t then proceeds to dem onstrate its w ant o f understanding, or its positive m isun­derstanding, by the following statem ents : -

“ Spiritualism and Mormonism identify themselves very closely, somehow, to our imagination. They are alike, aDd yet unlike. Both propose to reveal a new au d improved system of religion, b u t not in the same m anner. Both do it in a m anner, though, not excessively com plim entary to C hristianity ; both cultivate a very poor opinion of the m arriage re la tion ; both reduce woman to a base condition in the social system ; both sanctify Bensuality, a n d place the prom ptings of the anim al n a tu re above the cooler dictates of reason.”

This w riter evidently drew more on his “ im agination” than on facts, for these statem ents. O f Mormonism we bave noth­ing to say ; b u t as regards Spiritualism , no statem ents could be more diam etrically opposite the tru th than are these. I t proposes to reveal no wholly new system of religion, bu t clears old systems from error, fog and mystery, and thus gives them new force and b e a u ty ; i t establishes the essential tru th of C hristianity , and is therefore highly “ com plim entary” to it i f such a phrase be perm issib le; so far as it has to do with morals, i t leads to a vastly higher and deeper sanctity o f the true m arriage relation than popular m orality ever dreams o f ; i t elevates woman to an equality if not superiority in the social system ; it abhors sensuality, and places the intuitions of the pure spiritual n atu re above both the promptings of the animal and the dictates of mere sensuous reason. Could anything then be more foully false than the above representations? The w riter would have shown more discretion in waiting till he was capable of understanding something o f the subject before un­dertaking to enlighten his “ immense” patronage. H e adds, by way of salve for the wounded :

“ And yet there may be good and honest Spiritualists; we are not aware th a t there are no good and honest M ormons; bu t we incline to th in ^ th a t, i f so, the abstract doctrines of neither may be credited with the production of the phenom ena.” .

S p ir i tu a l is ts w e re n e v e r so a b s u rd a s to a t t r ib u te th e p h e ­n o m en a o f S p ir i tu a l is m to “ a b s t r a c t d o u tr in e s .” O n th e con­t r a r y , th e y c r e d i t th em to a c tu a l liv in g sp ir it-b e in g s . A g a in ,

“ A ju s t m an by na tu re will be ju s t, and a m oral one will be mor­a l, whether he believe in Andrew Jackson Davis and Brigham Young, or contemn both these celebrities. B a t will Spiritualism or Mormon- ism make a m an ju s t and m oial who is not so by force of original men­tal constitution ? T hat is the question. T rue C hristianity will do it, bu t will anyth ing else? We ‘ guess’ no t.”

R eal Spiritualism (we do not mean merely the “ Harm oni- alism” of M r. Davi?) includes all the saving tru th and redeem­ing power embraced in “ true C hristianity ,” to which it adds the force of present dem onstrations from the spiritual world. WThy, then, should it not possess a vastly augm ented power for human elevation ? W e do not “ guess,” bu t we know i t does — to those who receive i t rightly .

T H E M A N S F I E L D C O N T B O V E E S Y .Since our la st reference to this m atte r, M r. C. H . Collagan

has published in the Courier a reply to J . V . MansCeld. H e denies complicity in any degree w ith M r. M .— alleging tha t his sole object, after becoming convinced of the knavery o f the la tte r, was to lead him on till sufficient evidence should be ob­tained to prove this knavery to the public. H e either flatly contradicts or explains away much tha t Mr. M. alleges against him, though he fails to dispose of one im portant item — namely his w riting to M r. Mansfield th a t i f the la tte r would pay his demand, he should consider th a t he had “ no right to do or say anyth ing fu r th e r .” This certainly looks more like love o f the dollars than the promptings of a tender conscience. There is some awfully hard lying between the two. The publie m ust judge for itself on which side it is.

One D . C. L illie, o f N orth Easton, communicates to the same paper a statem ent th a t a le tte r sent by him and other parties to be answered by spirits, was opened while in M r. Mansfield’s possession, and a bogus answer returned. I f this is no nearer the tru th than a charge against the S p i r i t u a l

A ge., contained in the same letter, it is not of much account. The following note published in the Courier will explain w hat we mean.

B o s t o n , Jan . 0 ,1859.

To T i l t E d i t o r o f t h e B o s t o n C o u k i e u : D. C . Lillie states in your paper of yesterday m orning, that the S p ir itu a l Age refused to publish a le tte r of liis about Mr. Mansfield, because “ it would blast.his repu ­tation fo r life.” I t is true we were so far unlike some of our city co­tem poraries as to decline publish ing crim inal charges against any man till satisfied of their t ru th ; and we did ask evidence to substantiate such charges before m aking them public.

T hat evidence was not produced. On the con tra ry , M r. P ra t t , M r. L illie 's associate in the experim ent, culled a t our office and retracted the accusatious, and in the presence of witnesses expressed himself fully satisfied, after fu rth e r experim ents, th a t Mr. Mansfield’s powers were genuine; and voluntarily w ithdrew the letter which we had before re­quested him to leave for publication, should circumstances justify it. The tru th , gentlemen, is all we ask, let i t blast whom it may.

Respectfully, L e w i s B . M o n r o e ,

Editor S p ir itu a l Aye.

The Courier, lawyer-like, endeavors to bolster up its witness by an argum ent, which needs no reply. I t concludes with the following characteristic slur :

“ T hat such a convicted swindler as Mansfield— convictcd of playing upon the tenderest sensibilities of the soul for the love of gain ,— should be sustained by the S p ir itu a l A ye and its conductors, shows plainly enoutrh how little real belief they have in Spiritualism , and how pure­ly m ercenary is their adherence to the cause.”

M ay it pleast! the Court, an accusation is not a conviction, however strenuously a brazen-faced advocate may endeavor to make i t so appear.

M r. T o o h e y i n C e n t r a l N. Y .— The Phoenix (N. Y .) R e ­porter speaks highly o f a course of Physiological lectures re­cently given in th a t place by our friend J . H . W . T o o i ie y .

A t the conclusion a series o f resolutions, commending the lec­tures and the lecturer to the confidence of the public was u n a n im o u s ly adopted. B ro. Toohey i s to speak to the S p irit­ualists in Oswego on the 30th inst., afte r which he will give a course o f lectures in Physiology. H e intends soon to visit S y r a c u s e , and reply to the assaults of one Rev. M r. Backus, ■who has been preaching against Spirtualism .

N E W P U B L IC A T IO N S .T w e l v e M e s s a g e s f b o m t h e s p i h i t J ohn Q u i n c y A d a m s , througli Jo­

seph D. Stiles, to Josiah Brigham . Bo3ton: Bela M arsh.

This is an elegant octavo volume o f 459 pages, published a t the request o f the reputed spirit author. M r. B righam is a highly respectable citizen o f Quincy, Mass., a townsman and friend o f M r. Adams, when in the earth-life. In his preface .he gives a detail o f the facts connected with tbe production of this volume, which are certainly curious. The medium, being a t M r. B righam ’s house, is first controlled to w rite a short communication to his (Mr. B .’s) daughter, in the peculiar trem ulous hand-w riting o f M r. Adams, t.nd embracing a p roof o f knowledge beyond the medium’s own. H e afterw ards ad­dressed M r. B righam , in such a manner as to in terest him in the investigation o f Spiritualism , in regard to which, till then, he had been entirely skeptical. Soon after th is the writing was commenced and continued through four years, the medium being in an unconsciously entranced sta te while writing. The whole manuscript bore a strikingly exact resemblance to M r. A dam s’ peculiar chirograpby in his la ter years. F ac­similes o f both are given in the b o o k ; also o f writings signed by M rs. A dam s and G eorge W ashington, through the same medium, and which are singularly faithful im itations of the chirograpby o f these two persons when in the earth- life.

The “ Messages” purport to be a history o f M r. A dam s’ re­ception and experience in the spirit-life, embracing addresses made to him by numerous worthies who had preceded him, w ith responses from himself, and reflections on various topics. The whole, by the au thor’s request, was revised for the press by A llen P utnam , Esq., of Roxbury. B oth Mr. B righam and Mr. P utnam seem fully convinced of the authenticity o f the work. The la tte r, in his preface, refers to the messages them­selves as containing, to his mind, strong internal evidences of genuineness. H e says, however,—

“ In most communications sp irits get em barrassingly blended with their mediums. In th is work, M r. Adams only a t intervals shows him self fa ir ly : he gets mixed up , d ilu ted , and y e t the production, es­sentially , is from him . '

The literary style of these pages though not uniform , is prevailing­ly smooth and perspicuous. Though sometimes diffuse and abounding in adjectives, it is never m ystical nor meaningless. Looking a t the language and thought together, we find some passages th a t are little better than commonplace and prosy; others th a t come near to being wearisome repetitions; yet very m any— most— of the paragraphs are lively and interesting, while not a few rise to genuine eloquence, and command general adm iration .” * * * «« We arc here fur­nished with some very good poetry , and , besides these qualities, there is a rem ainder th a t bnfflis my critical sk ill.” * * ' ‘ My propo­sition to suppress a large p a rt of the poetry he [the sp irit] declined giving his assent to.” '

Y et he considers th a t—“ As a whole, the book is pervaded by a novelty, life and power, and,

being produced by him a t a g reat disadvantage, will do no discredit, in considerate m inds, to the ripe scholar and active th inker who in­spired the pen.”

“ This narra tion is essentially an appeal from the heavens to every soul to free itself from the dwarfing influences of even common sectari- ism and common church creeds.”

On examining the book, we find good reason for these c riti­cisms and qualified commendations ; and we wonder not tha t the reviser was anxious to suppress the “ poetry .” In fact, so m arkedly is the style throughout th a t of an uncultivated youth, and so different from w hat we should expect from the “ Sage o f Q uincy,” the “ O ld M an E loquent,” tha t it is diffi­cult to believe he had any hand— or anything more than a hand — in it. I f he, or any other o f the “ rad ian t im m ortals” who are introduced, really furnished the essential ideas set fo rth— and this we will not undertake to dispute— yet in express- sion they have surely got so “ mixed up and diluted’ w ith the medium, th a t i t is qu ite impossible to make any distinction. W e judge th a t the book will not improve the general rep­utation o f sp iritualistic literature, nor carry conviction to minds skeptical as to spirit-intercourse. Y et its production under such circumstances presents a weighty problem to the candid student of psychical laws. W hence did i t come, i f not from the source claimed ? L e t him answer who can. Possi­bly the work may serve to call attention to and illu strate the laws, as yet lit tle understood, o f the transm ission of thought through media. ' •

P r o f . B r i t t a n i n M i c h i g a n .—The G rand Rapids D aily Eagle reports a t considerable length the lectures o f our associ­ate in th a t place. H is efforts are spoken of as evincing great ability and effect upon the community. The last, in which the objections to Spiritualism were canvassed, was, “ listened to w ith almost breathless attention, though the speaker occu­pied nearly two hours and a h a lf in his argum ont.”

' T ru th may have its fanatics as well as error.

T h e P ito v iD E N C is o f G o d in H i s t o r y : A lecture delivered throughand by L. J u d d P a r d e e , a t the Melodeon, Boston, Sunday M orning,Ju ly 25th, 1S53. Boston: Published by Bela M arsh.

This is a w ell-printed pam phlet of 32 pages. N ot every m ind has the power to penetrate tbe external of the complica­ted and seemingly chance-directed dram a o f human history, and distinctly perceive the agency o f the D ivine H and therein, or the wisdom, beauty and m ajesty o f the mighty plot th a t is being enacted through human instrum entalities. M r. P ardee here shows tha t he has had some glimpses behind the veil. H is style of expression, however, is peculiar, and often obscure. Those who can, through his outre garb, see his meaniog, will in this lecture behold the outlines o f gigantic thoughts, and find suggestions of mighty import.

T h e G r u e n M o u n t a in S i b y l has made its appearance, and is a great improvement on its predecessor. I ts tone is liberal and catholic ; and we doubt not the modern “ Sibylline leaves” will be more w orthy of regard and preservation than were the ancient. E dited and published by A . C . E stabrook and W . Scott Abbott, Sandusky, V t., a t $1 .50 a year in advance.

P . S. The following note ju st received from the proprie­tors o f this paper indicates th a t the new enterprise has met w ith a perplexing obstacle. Those interested will take notice and govern themselves accordingly :

S a n d u s k y , V t., Jan . 15, 1859.B ro . N e w to n —D ear S ir : Please say to the readers o f th e Green

M oun ta in S ib y l, th a t the subscription list of said paper was stolen by some fiend in hum an shape, on las t evening. This is to notify them to be on the lookout for the impostors! Pay no a ttention to their calls for money, or o ther m alignity they may p u t forth.

Y ours tru ly , E s t a b r o o k & A b b o t t , Proprietors.

T h e S p i r i t G u a r d i a n is the title o f a new candidate for the support of Spiritualists, hailing from B angor, “ away down east.” I t presents a good appearance, and its editorials exh ib it considerable facility in thc use of the pen. Geo. W . Brown, P ublisher ; $2.00 a year in advance.

T h e C r e s c e n t A g e greets us from the far west. I t is a small but spicy sheet, claim ing to represent not alone’ the Spir­itualists bu t the L iberalists in general o f Rockford, 111. P u b ­lished monthly a t 50 cts. a year. T he editor’s name is not given.

T h e H o m e G e m is a small monthly paper for the juveniles, ju st commenced by M rs. A nne D enton Cridge, a t Cleveland, Ohio. Price, 12 1-2 cents a year.

W e w ill only add th a t i f these new enterprises base the ir hopes o f success on the supposed liberal support hitherto accorded to the S piritualist pres3, we fear they will be disap­pointed. '

S c b i p t u b e I l l u s t r a t e d by m oral and religious Stories, for little chil- d ^ n . By Mrs. L. M. W illis. New York: Published by Joel Tiffa­ny , F ou rth Avenue, for the use of Sabbath Schools. .

F i b s t B o o k o f t h e C h r i s t i a n R e l i g i o n . B y T. L. H arris . New Y ork: New Church Publishing Association, No. 147 Broome St.

H E s rE R , t o e H o m e - S p i r i t . A simple story of Household Labor and and Love. By Elizabeth Doten. Boston: Abel Tomkins, and Brown T ag g ard an d Chase.

S t u d i e s o f C h r i s t i a n i t y : or Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers. A series of Papers, by Jam es M artineau . Edited by W illiam R. Alger. Boston: Am erican U n itarian Association, 21 Bromfield St. 404 pages, 12 mo. ’

A t h a n a s i a : or Foregleams of Im m ortality . B y E dm und H Sears. Fourth Edition. Boston: Am erican U nitarian Association, 21 Brom ­field st. 340 pages, 12 mo.

T h e L i f e o f T h o m a s P a i n e , A uthor of “ Common Sense,” “ R ights of M an ,” “ Age of Reason,” etc., etc. W ith critical and explanatory Observations of his W ritings. By G. V ale, E d ito r of the Citizen of the W orld. Boston: P rin ted and Published a t the Boston Investi­gator Office, by J . P . Mendum. 192 pages, 8vo.

T ue P h i l o s o p h y o f L i f e . By E. W inchester Loveland. Boston: Bela M arsh. New Y ork: S. T. Munson. 12mo., 532 pages.

The above works have been received from the publishers, and will be noticed as soon as m ay be.

C o m s p o n k n a .

‘F R E E L O V E ’ F R U I T S O F T H E L A T E R E V IV A L .A friend residing in New Jersey , whose word we regard as

good authority , in lam enting the want of in terest in S piritual­ism in his vicinity, gives the following forcible reason there­for :

“ The natives of th is p a r t of the kingdom of New Jersey are grossly m aterial and actively sensual; therefore any a ttem pts to procure sub­scriptions to the A oe have th u s far failed. You will not wonder a t it when I tell you th a t w ith in the circle of m y acquaintance— which is not large— there have been bom dur'm g the last two m onths, tw enty- one illegitimate chilnren , among the young female converts of last w in­te r ’s revival, in the M ethodist Church. This Will give you a faint idea of the state of society here .”

The following item is also to the point:F ree Love.— A M ethodist cla«s leader in T roy , N . Y ., h as eloped

w ith one of the sisters of the Church, who was converted du rin g the la te revival excitem ent. The runaw ay husband has left a wife and th ree children beh ind—so says one of our exchanges.”

W e do not present these facts as bearing specially against our M ethodist friends,— though they would do well to modest­ly remember them when inveighing against the “ immoralities of S piritualism .” They simply illustrate a law— a weakness, i f you please— of human nature, not peculiar to any sect or people. W hen persons o f both sexes are brought closely to­gether in social and sym pathetic relations, as in revival m eet­ings and “ praying circles,” there is always more or less lia­bility to such results among the inexperienced and the un­guarded. W e have known observing and cautious pastors to discourage the popular “ revival m easures” on account o f this liability. The self-righteous uncharitableness o f our sectarian denouncers is receiving a ju s t rebuke, and from a quarte r they little anticipated. “ L e t him th a t is w ithout sin,” etc.

S u n d a y S c tio o l B o o k s .A correspondent asks— “ I f we should establish a Sabbath

school can we be suppliSd w ith suitable question and library books for such a school? Such books w ill be called fo r, and where can they be found ?”

W e are pleased to know th a t attention is being turned in this direction among Spiritualists, bu t regret to say th a t this need­ed departm ent of Spiritualistic lite ra tu re has thus far been almost wholly neglected. The demand, however, will soon create a supply. (O ur notices o f New Publications indicate a beginning in this direction.) There are doubtless numerous volumes among the Sunday School publications o f the more liberal sects, as well as among the miscellaneous issues o f the press, which would be unexceptionable as library books ; bu t our occupations allow us no tim e to make the extensive exam­ination necessary for a selection. V ery probably, too, there may be question-bocks which could be used to advantage till a suitable one, tak ing a broader range in the realm o f universal and practical tru th than most question-books venture on, shall be prepared. "We invite suggestions from readers who may be acquaiuted w ith such works.

W e would add, however, th a t an intelligent and tru ly spir­itually-m inded teacher need not hesitate to use any sort o f a te x t or question-book, or even to proceed w ith none a t all. There is some tru th everywhere, and a com petent teacher should be able to so present the tru th th a t the pupil w ill ac­cept it iu preference to the error, wherever found.

M rs. H a y d e n in N e w Y o rk .O ur New Y ork friends will be pleased to learn th a t M rs.

W . R . H ayden has made arrangem ents to spend a few weeks in th a t city, where she will give an opportunity for the investi­gation o f th e sp iritual phenomena which occur in her presence. M rs. H . is so well and favorably known, th a t she needs no rec­ommendations from us, either for her wonderful gifts as a medi­um, or for the s tr ic t in teg rity and womanly excellence o f her character. She carries her own recommendation with her, in her ingenuous manners, urbane disposition, and a reputation which stands w ithout a blemish after occupying for years a position which is open to the assaults o f the unprincipled, the bigoted and skeptical— th a t o f a public medium. W e especial­ly recommend those who have been perplexed by bogus mani- festions to v isit her, and learn, for instance, w hat a wide dif­ference there is between the genuine manifestations and the bungling counterfeits o f knaves and tricksters. Mrs. H . re­ceives visitors a t M unson’s rooms, No. 5 G reat Jones street.

' C ase o f In w a r d P e r c e p tio n .W e find the following in Mrs. Child’s Life o f Isaac T.

H opper :A singular case of inw ard perception ' occurred in the experience o f

h is [H opper’s] own m other. Iu her D iary, which is still preserved in the family, she describes a visit to some of her children in Philadelph ia , and a d d s :—

“ Soon after th is , the Lord showed me th a t I should lose a son. I t was often told me, though without sound or words. N othing could be more intelligible than this still, small voice. I t said, Thou w ilt lose a son ; and he is a pleSisant ch ild .”

H er son Jam es resided with relatives in Philadelphia, and often went to bathe in the D e l a w a r e . On one of these occasions, soon after his m other’s visit, a friend who went w ith him sank in the w ater, and Jam es lost his own life by efforts to save him. A messenger was sent to inform his paren ts, who lived a t the distance of eight miles. W hile he staid in the house, reluctant to do his m ournful e rran d , the m otherwas seized w ith sudden dread, and heard the inw ard voice say ing ,__“ Jam es is drow ned.”

She said ab rup tly to the m essenger,— “ Thou h a s t come to tell me th a t my son Jam es is drowned. Oh ! how did it happen ? ”

He was m uch surprised , and asked why she thought so. She could give no explanation o f it , except th a t i t had been suddenly revealed to h e r mind.

B e l i e f i n S p i r i t s . — As far as we can ever look into the mists o f an tiqu ity , and trace the history of the Teutonic na­tions, we find a universal belief in the existence of fam iliar spirits, known among the peasn try o f different countrieg by the nam es of nickers, brownies, poulpicans, hobgoblins, and elyes.

Im posture, F a n a tic ism a n d F a lla c y in S p ir itu a lism .In the deliberations o f tb e sp iritu a lis tic savans, on tb e casses o f fa l- .

laay in sp iritua l com m union, a n d th e ac tual problem of whether spir­its com m unicate w ith earth a t a ll, (a question which appear* to be raised ju s t now a t th ? instance of a few persons who have encountered trickery in the commercial p a r t o f S p iritu a lism ,) i t Beems to m e th a t the m any hum an motives for the practice of im posture— bu t still moro the ■prevalence o f th e most astounding fanaticism —does n o t receive i ts due share of consideration. I find very m uch stress la id npon w hat th e sp irits ooght to do and yet fail in doing, together w ith w hat tb e medium* ought to be, and are n o t; b u t y e t very little is said abou t w h a t hum an n a tu re really is , and w hat the world o f hum an n a tu re h a s a righ t to expect from itself.

F o r instance:— two years ago, in th e very commencement of m y own investigations, I m et w ith a gentlem an whose en tire fa ith ia th e spirit­ua l philosophy was based upon the com m unications a n d tests received from a certain spirit-UDcle, by whose shrewd and excellent advice th e hum an nephew was accustomed to regu la te a ll h is business transac­tions. A fter looking dubiously oa th e philosophy w hich th u s surren­dered th e chief function w hich distinguishes h u m an ity , individuality, into th e hands of a power wilhout th e p lane of h u m an action, I lost sight of th is gentlem an till w ith in the last five weeks, when I met him in the ranks of the m ost b itte r antagonism against the “ fallacy o f spirit-com m union.” Upon in q u iry into the cause of th is great change,I am told th a t whereas the m orta l uncle had promised to leave the nephew a certain sum of m oney, which he failed to do, the spirit-oncle had promised to assist the nephew to tbe possession of th is sum, and failing likewise, the said nephew declared th a t Spiritualism was a hum­bug. T rue, he could not m ake me un d erstan d why the spirit-unde B h o u l d not be qu ite as faithless in prom ises as the m ortal, or by w hat law a sp irit passed from the im m ediate details o f earth ly affurs should tran sac t business be tte r th an when he was personally engaged therein. His uncle was a boaster, he sa id , on e a r th , an d therefore he could quite understand the non-fulfillm ent o f his earth ly prom ises; b u t tha t was quite a different th in g with sp irits . W hy i t w as so different he could n e t inform me. Possibly because both the law of the communion and the condition of the sp irits being points upon w hich humanity is ju s t now most profoundly ig n o ran t, hum anity deems itself called upon to declare w hat ought to be, ju s t because i t does not know what ij.

In the same category I find innum erable persons buying damaged goods of honest tradesm en, for sound ones, sw earing by th e respectabil­ity and honor o f wholesale sw indlers called m erchants, law yers, and stock-jobbers,— laugh ing a t the p ractical jokes of the capital good fel­lows of their acquaintance, repeating the petty thefts, cunning false­hoods and irresistibly d roll acta of malice and deception of th e ir little ch ild ren , as evidence of th e ir precocious ab ility to deal w ith tbe world in the w orld’s own co in ; and ye t, when swindling', deception, false­hood or malice is m anifested by the very sam e m erchants, jobbers, t ra ­ders and children—when w ithout change o f h e a rt they have simply changed th e ir coun try , and p u t off the cloak of a n earth ly body for the coat of a sp iritua l one, in d ignan t hu m an ity cries ou t, “ diabolism or im posture ,” — th a t is to say , sp irits of bad m en an d ill-instructed ch ild ren cannot m anifest their rea l na tu res w ithou t being evil spirits, unless, indeed, the whole system is a fallacy.

I need not point to the case o f C hrist’s being unab le to perform th e same m ighty w orks in h is own lan d th a t he d id in C apernaum , the illu stra tion is so often cited by Spiritualists tha t one would tt-mV th e world had never afforded them any o ther evidence th a t condition* were necessary for the production o f resu lts ; nevertheless, oat of two- th ird s who have p u t th e ir hands to the sp iritu a l plough and turned back, we find i t is because the sp irits have no t produced certain effects; no m atte r w hether the causes existing were adequate to their produc­tion or not—w hether the S p ir itu a lis ts themselves understand the caus­es o r could appreciate them i f they were presented— or, as it often h a p ­pens, w hether there were any causes existing a t alL

As to the fact of im posture being practised , for m y own exceedingly sim ple p a r t, I should look upon the absence o f im posture in meet mer­cantile transactions, as a g reater phenomenon than the bodily descent of a whole arm y o f Holy Ghosts. How m any of th e real bona f i i t m edium s of the day have devoted themselves to the exercise of their gift for the simple love of the cause! A nd has th e w orld the smallest r ig h t to expect such devotion from them ? The m anifestations, as a general ru le , have fallen ■unsought upon the subjects of them ; as an in ­variable ru le they a re externalized th rough th e p h ysica l and not tbe m oral conditions of the m edium ; a n d w hat is there in the m r r i« n of any a r t , science, or mode of occupying tim e w hich is exclusively to benefit others, which should exclude the m edium s of to-day from occu­pying th a t tim e in earn ing th e ir bread therew ith? W hy should any one set of hum an beings become v ag ran ts , beggars, or s ta rv e , th a t tbey m ay thereby confer the resu lts of an unsought g ift, their tim e, vitality , labo r, upon the w orld, free of cost? I f this be a gospel which should be given to the poor, w hy should th e poor be the g ivers? W hy should wives, ch ildren and dependants s ta rv e , in order th a t the m edium s (who, from the Galileans dow nw ard, were alw ays o f the poor,) should vaga­bondize about the world begging th e ir b read in o rder to gratify those who do not w ant to pay fifty ceuts for the privilege of in su ltin g , cross­questioning and never thank ing them for the knowledge of im mortal­ity .

The old law of caste, which in Ind ia and Ju d ea separated religion from science and life practice, gleam s ou t in all its superstitious defor­m ity in the m urm urs of those who complain th a t sp ir itu a l mediums do not come under th e law of o rd inary day-laborers, and therefore have no r ig h t to be h ired , as they would ra th e r inflict upon the world legions o f m endicants, who, like the F r ia rs o f old , became the most fru itfu l sources of im posture, degradation an d public abomination-

i They would ra th e r draw th e iine o f dem arkation still s tronger between th e holy and unholy, and pretend th a t honest labor an d the inter­change of g ifts is profane, and beggary , m onasticism and levitism sacred, than sanction the system o f pay ing m edium s,— leaving it to he inferred th a t the mediums are e ither too sacred to be paid , an d should therefore be set up in tem ples to be w orshipped, o r else a re too unwor­thy to be paid, and therefore should not be employed a t all. A nd here opens to us one of the sources bo th of fallacy and im posture in thia cause,— of fa llacy , because w hilst the world persists in deem ing one p a r t of God’s law sacred and ano ther profane, fanatics w ill alw ays be found whose veneration is large and whose perception is small, who will go forth as m arty rs aDd apostles, u n d e r th e fu ll persuasion they have a wondrous mission to perform , which sanctifies them above the o rdinary hab its of low, vu lgar comm ercial h u m an ity .

E ither time should be paid for as an article of trad e , or set apart a s the p roperty of the com m unity. In the first case you have on the one side the advantage of an effort on th e p a r t o f the medium-trader to study the law , accomplish him self in his calling , and thus present an acceptable a rtic le ; while ou the o ther hand , you have all the disadvan­tages of an over-reaching m ercenary , who, desiring to obtain the p ro f its of liis trade, has not e ither the in d u stry or abili*y to m aster its de-

ails, and therefore resorts to im posture; while in the second case you have the old sectarian im piety of deem ing th a t all th a t concerns th e eternal life of m an is too sacred to come in contact with commerce, leaving poor commerce and science,— th e rea l gospel, as I take it , i swhich we may best arrive a t a knowledge of th e works o f the C reator,__forever unvitalized by th e influence of religion.

I am quite aw are o f the fru itfu l source of im posture which a craving for the dimes of th e world proves in Sp iritua lism . For instance, con­ditions a re absolutely necessary w ith the best of m edium s, for the pro­duction of the ex ternal phenom ena. F o r m any m onths I sat as a test- m edium myself, and know th a t the slightest change in the atmosphere, the quality of a m eal of w hich I had p a rtak en , th e subtle aura emana­tin g from the place, fu rn itu re a n d even dress of m yself and my sur­round ings, were a ll influential in affecting the conditions. When I add to these the m inds, m agnetism s, thoughts and purposes of every per­son th a t approached m e, and my own en tire ignorance of how to clas­sify these th ings or conform to the w orkings of a law of which I fe lt th e force b u t had not the understand ing of, I was not surprised , how­ever, I m ight be mortified, to find th a t while a t one time I was able to give w hat both m yself and my sitte rs would acknowledge to be takable tests (sometimes every requ isite tes t) of spirit-preaence, a t o ther tim es I could obtain noth ing b u t a mess of folly and error, winch, while i t manifested effort outside o f m yse lf, was e ith e r proof o f nothing b u t folly and e rro r, o r else an inab ility to create conditions which did not exist. Nov? in cases where a dependant wife an d hungry little onts are w aiting for the fifty cents th a t the reg u la r test-mediums are to re­ceive in exchange for p resen ting intelligence which they have given be­fore— b u t somehow, they know no t w hy—cannot give now, is it toe m uch to fear th a t medium s who have been simply p h y sica lly , not r a lly gifted, m ay be tem pted to impose?

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T H E S P I R I T U A L -A. <3 - E .I n presenting th is hypothesis I w ill not be m isconstrued. I am not

defending Im posture, b u t sim ply pointing to the hum an and ordinary sources from ■whence i t m ay be expected to arrive. H ere, however, we p resen t a tem ptation , n e ither stronger nor weaker than th a t which in­duces the tradesm an to sell dam aged goods or the m erchant to swindle. T here a re m any others equally potent—the love of notoriety, the love o f imposition, or the same deliberate villany which influences the man •who cheats a t cards o r uses filse dice. I acknowledge th a t a ll m anner o f imposition has been and is now practised in Sp iritualism ; and yet, strange lo say , I am no more impressed with the falsehood of sp irit- com m union th an with the belief th a t sound goods, uses in commerce, an d genuine dice do not exist, because there are counterfeits. On the co n tra ry , I am fully impressed th a t the counterfeits never could have arisen except upon the staple foundation of the genuine article.

One of the strangest paradoxes in th is system of im posture, to me, appears the foot th a t w hilst m ountebanks and conjurers a re so exceed­ing ly expert in performing tricks th a t place the a r t of ju g g le ry h igh in the scale of hum an ingenuity , the deceptions in Spiritualism should usually be so cium sy and so unscientific th a t the chief difficulty is to find the credulous in th e ir au then tic ity . A nother and a still more strik ing paradox is the invariable ru le of charging a ll th is mass of manifestation o f sim ply hum an Spiritualism , upon the law of super­hum an S p iritualism ; or ra th e r resolving th a t as the inheren t tendency to roguery w hieh exists in every o ther b ranch of hum an effort, where rogues as well as honost m en take p a rt, is perm itted to appear in Spir-

' itualism , hence th a t there can be no t ru th in Spiritualism a t all. Ad­m it th a t th ere is a g rea t deal of roguery in hum an n a tu re , an d we th in k you will a rrive a t the root of the ev il; adm it th a t while Sp iritu ­a lism , like a hot-house process, externalizes the real n a tu re , and forces in to prom inence w hat was only la ten t before, there is no “ ism ” nor no mere precept of good men or good sp irits which can supercede the n a tu ra l law o f grow th in the p lan t of the hum an heart, o r convert rogues, cheats and mercenaries into unselfish, high-principled ph ilan ­th rop ists , u n til the good seed planted in their hearts has had time to unfold in the due order of experim ental practice.

I t was m y purpose to speak of the immense am ount of fanaticism ■which in my w andering mode of life I perceive harnessed to th e over­laden p a c k - h o r s e Spiritualism . I find, however, th a t I have trespassed too m uch on a B p a c e which c a n doubtless be better filled, and w ill re­serve m y rem arks on th is subject for another occasion, only asking leave to add a few closing words on the vexed question of fallacy in sp iritu a l communion.

H as it never occurred to those really earnest seekers who love the cause no t as a cause, b u t as a tru th , to apply the universal test to some of our m ost accredited mediums— nam ely, the a lm ighty dollar? I have the highest respect for Miss K ate Fox and Mrs. Brown. I name these ladies because I am informed they have been already subject to th e strictest possible sc ru tin y , and the phenomena occurring in their presence seem to be more varied and incapable of sim ulation th an m ost o th e rs ;— I nam e them , too, because a personal acquaintance w ith them has tau g h t me to respect them so h ighly th a t I do not fear offending them by the proposition I am about to m ike. I am m yself poor enough iu th e gifts of fortune. I refuse to avail m yself o f the oppor­tu n ity now open to me to grow rich by my capacity as a sp iritual lectu­r e r , no t because I deem m yself too holy to do so, b u t simply because th e generality o f committees in the towns I visit are generous, unsel­fish, and no t very wealthy w orkers, and do not deserve to be fleeced w ith exhorb itan t dem ands on the p a r t of mediums. Besides, I am not asham ed to confess, in these days of recan ta tio n , th a t I love my spirit- friends more and more, and have so m uch occasion to be g ratefu l for the gloriouB ligh t of Sp iritualism ,that I have ceased to set a very exalted opin­ion on the world’s goods beyond w hat the decencies of life req u ire ; which, in my fanaticism , I am very certain will be m et, in answ er to my hon­e st efforts, th rough the blessing of God and the aid of the sp irits ; and y e t, even in th is unprom ising condition, as regards dollars and cents,I am perfectly w illing to be one of tw enty persons to ensure to Mrs. Brown o r Miss K ate Fox five hundred dollars apiece, if e ither of these ladies can and will come forward and publicly confess to a system of im posture revealing and proving to th e perfect satisfaction of all be­holders, how the m anifestations claim ing to be sp iritu a l were made by them , and th is so conclusively th a t each beholder sha ll be able to prac­tice them f o r h im se lf, and th a t the explanations th u s rendered shall cover the entire ground— nam ely, every phenomenon andaZi! the in te lli­gence th a t has been m anifested through these phenomena. I do not p retend to say th a t Buch a disclosure would affect one single honest me­dium , or advance one Btep tow ards exploding Spiritualism ; b u t it ■would be som ething to know th a t w hilst there was no departed sp irit who m igh t not manifest a ll the phenom ena, still, there were hum an sp irits who could so perfectly sim ulate it th a t we should no longer have an excuse for saying the intelligence and phenom ena manifested a t the sp irit circle could only be accounted for on the hypothesis of commu­nion w ith departed sp irits ; added to th is, such a revelation would open to science such an immense range of intelligence which the hum an m ind of th e medium could comp.ass in the name of Spiritualism , th a t I for one should th in k the lesson cheaply purchased with m y five h u n ­d red dollars, though I m ight work for i t like a galley-slave;— p art with if , I would, however, cheerfully , under the conditions proposed, be­cause, as I deem m yself in Spiritualism to have found a pearl of price for which I could afford to throw away au g h t else, were i t the whole w orld, so I should grudge nothing to compass by honest means the ex­ten t e ither of the tru th or the fallacy. Commending my offer to the consideration of the seekers, doubters, recanters, &c., &c., and the few suggestions I have offered on the causes of fallacy to the stu d en t of hu m an n a tu re generally , 1 am a believer in sp iritua l comm union, a p ractica l experim enter on its benefits every hour of my life, and a still constan t laborer in proclaim ing th is t ru th to others.

S r . L o o is , Dec. 2 7 , 1858 . • E m m a I I a h d in g e .

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" T h eM elo d eo n M eetin gs. 'M r. N. F . W h i t e , of Seym our, C t., spoke for the first tim e in th is

vicinity a t the Mtrlodeon, on Sunday l;ist. M r. W hite is a young m an of pleasing address, and claims to speak in a state o f unconscious trance, though with open eyes aud every ex ternal appearance of con­sciousness. The style of his addresses is h ighly o rnate and poetic— often Inerg ing^in to stately verse and m usical, well-finished rhym e— sometimes, indeed, burdened by a redundancy of figure th a t obscures the point. I t is impossible to do justice to his discourses by any th ing less th an a verbatim report. We can b u t sketch a m eagre outline.

The topic in the afternoon was— The W ants of the Present Age. I t was rem arked th a t every successive age, under the action of the grand law of Progress, has aspirations for som ething higher and better than the preceding. The food of the past is as unadapted to its w ants as is th a t o f infancy to the period of youth and manhood. The p ast had its conceptions of Deity. In one age, fiery M ars held the ascendancy— in another the goddess of B eauty was worshipped—and again Bacchus with his sensual tra in occupied the throne. B u t th e p resent age is satisfied with none of these. A rt now has its votaries and its resplen­den t achievem ents, and Science its revelations and its trium phs. These were portrayed in glowing term s. Science now seems to have reached the very apex of m aterial advancem ent. I t seeks to picrce the veil, and to reveal the glories of the sp iritua l realm. I ts ears have caught the stra ins which come pealing down from the celestial spheres. Mys­tery no longer satisfies the expanding m ind. N ever again will it be satisfied with the d ry bones of an effete theology. Sym pathizing hearts on the sp irit-shore stand ready to offer the living bread to supply the hungry soul. God has no m ysteries to conceal from hum an knowledge. The idea th a t He has, bad its b ir th in the insufferable egotism of men who deemed th a t incomprehensible which they failed to understand.

The evening discourse was on The Destiny of M an. In every crea­ted intelligence there exists a desire to know its destiny Iu the earlier ages of the hum an race, th is desire did not extend m uch beyond the

.earth-plane. The anim al predom inated in m an. B u t as his sp iritua l n a tu re began to be awakened, i t beg in to aspire for knowledge of the Beyond. This God-created desire is the power which has moved the car of P rogress.

Each age has left on record its theory of hum an destiny. This was doubtless the best it could conceivc; and had it rested content w ith pu ttin g it on record, i t had been well. B u t the past has attem pted to se t the seal of au thority on its conceptions, and has u tte red maledic­tions against all who doubt.

Deity m ust have h a d a purpose in the in troduction of hum an exist­ence; b u t life would be worse than in vain were i t to u ltim ate in e ither an eternity of hopeless woe, o r of idle, useless enjoyment. The la tte r can never satisfy the aspirations of the soul. I f introduced to a heaven of ignorance and inactivity , i t would desiro to plunge down into the lowest abyss in order to enjoy the pleasure o f clim bing up again the ladder o f Progression.

The progress o f the race from early ages of ignorance and barbarism was eloquently described, and m an’s fu ture m undane advancem ent was p ictured forth in glowing language. B u t not on earth is the goal of destiny to be reached. In the sp iritu a l existence, m an enters upon a new and endless career. B u t who sha ll portray th is ascent of the ce­lestial m ountains? Language was well nigh exhausted by the speaker in endeavoring to shadow forth the glories of illim itable progress.

Some of the religious sects will claim th a t they are believers in pro­gress; yet they cling to the conceptions and the au tho rity of the past. This is inconsistent w ith the doctrine of Progress. The old bottles, shrivelled and weak, a re unfit to hold the new wine. Progression is a doctrine of the present age. Conservatism itself progresses, even while protesting against progress. I t occupies the ground to-day which yes­terday it denounced. The m ouutaiu of lim itless a tta in m en t is before us, and never will the hum an soul rest while it sees a h igher to be a t­tained.

The lec tu rer seemed to have in view alm ost solely the intellectual and artistic phases of progress. H ad the g ran d requisites of m oral and sp iritua l purification, so essential to tru e advancem ent and a lofty des­tiny , been m ore d istinctly set forth , the discourse would have been more complete—though it was every way a rem arkab le production.

M r. W h i t e will again occupy the platform on Sunday n e x t

F a ls e h o o d R e c a n te d .W i l l i m a n t i c , C t., Ja n . 13, 1859.

B r o s . N e w to n , B r i t t a n & M o n h o e :— Gentlem en,— Mrs. C. M . T u t­tle and m yself have recently visited W insted, C t., and o ther places on o u r w ay, and find o u r cause generally prosperous, and the S p ir itu a l Jlge read by m any. We tru s t it will be by m any more, ns some spoke of sending for i t soon. O u r a rriv a l in W insted was ju s t in time to m eet and confute a false a ttack made by a reckless m an (a ba rb er by tra d e ) , who, i t is Baid, has heretofore belonged to every creed and k ind of c h u rch in c u r lan d — to-day outside of all. H is nam e is L. P.F ran k lin . He m ade the a tta ck alluded to in a D ebating Club, upon th e question , “ Is Spiritualism t ru e ? ” In his over-zeal against the t r u th , he m ade the pretence th a t he bad acted for M rs. Tuttle in set­t in g fo rth the subjects for he r lectures, and gave the hearers to under­stand th a t collusion an d deception had been practised both by Mrs.T u ttle and himself. The W insted H e ra ld came out in an article against u s , believing it had got hold of another “ g laring exposure o f you w ; th a drop from the g rea t ocean of life.

Boston C onference .—Question for discussion n e x t M onday eve­ning: “ Is M odern Spiritualism a m atte r of fa ith , in contradistinctionfrom know ledge?”

Spiritual ilia nifcsito its.

A S p ir it C o m m u n ic a tio n . .The annexed comm unication given th rough a m edium in Boston to

one who was en tire ly a s tran g er to her, w ill have an in terest to very m any of ou r readers:—

M y D e a b ------ :— According to prom ise m ade th rough yourself, Icome to th is m edium ; m aking use of he r as an in strum en t to convey my though ts to you , and if possible, keep the cord of sym pathy pcrfect as i t ever has been; for in my looking back, I see you still the same— th a t is, you w alk alone, even when surrounded w ith others. Your yearn ing heart goes out in vain for the full and tru e response to its innate capacities for love and sym pathy. Some there are who can and do afford a small sip of the waters of life, bu t not the full d rau g h t which the longing sp irit deserves. Nor can the 1 >nging cease; you m ust stil] feel the deathless th irs t and wish to fiud the flowing waters of e te rn al life. B u t despair n o t; the fountain exists, and no t one can smite the rock and unseal the liv ing spring bu t yourself. Tire not in the journey. A rid wastes lie between you and the land of perfect love and life. There a re some clouds in the heavens, some springs in the desert, some trees of fru it on the oases which here and there dot the sandy waste. Life is a strugg le, a scene of active conflict, b u t there is re s t an d victory as the sure resu lt.

You are not the one to fa in t and m u rm u r, b u t resolutely nerve yourself for w hat lies in your onw ard course. Nor do you so much need words o f sym pathy, as hearts in which sym pathy lives, and from i t flows in rivers of life— such you shall yet have. T rue Wisdom clings not to the past, nor lives alone in the present, n o r reposes in the dream s of the fu tu re , b u t eclectically gathers from the three branches of the tree of knowledge, a ll the elements which will enable you to fully appreciate the g rea t w ork of H um anity. I t is the germ ination of a seed which will expand into a beautifu l tree , whose form, and foliage, and fru it, will bless and gladden your soul in days to come, and feed

a deceptive medium . ” B u t we called the barber gentlem an to an ac co u n t; and the resu lt was, as you will Bee by the H era ld of 7th Jan . in s t ., th a t he was asham ed of his false statem ents a t the debate, and did, b o th in the pap er and in p u b lic m eeting, re tra c t, an d exonerate Mrs. T u ttle from any deception or trickery . The opposition papers grasped

' a t th e charge like devouring wolves, and spread it, as they alw ays do a ll falsehoods; b u t no t one will see the recan tation , m uch less notice it. O u r fiiends m ay like to know the t ru th o f the m atte r, and hence we Bend you the facts.

This same m an was quite favorable and disposed to investigate last sp ring , when we were first a t W insted; and on our being attacked by one of th e ir Reverend m inisters, he (F ra n k lin ) th en defended us, and in an article in the W insted H era ld of 18th Ju n e la s t, used the follow­in g language: “ The lady (M rs. T .) , or the sp irit, took tho subject chosen by the committee and handled it in m asterly style for two hours— a question th a t has puzzled the b ra ins o f the best men of every age and clime, viz: “ M an’s m oral agency.” The audiencs was inv ited toquestion or debate, and m any had availed them selves of the invitation . One w orthy citizen— a model C hristian— occupied the floor for h a lf an hour in questioning, to th e en tire satisfaction of him self and the a u d i­ence.” .

This was M r. F ran k lin ’s language a t th a t tim e, and no fau lt was found as to a m arked difference in any questions o r subjects as alleged in his debate-speech. In the same debate, he cruelly a ttacked an d mis­represented a worthy woman, a healing medium —M rs. H am ilton—be­cause o f tests having been w ithheld from him a t a tim e th a t he de­m anded them , when thus demanded they alw ays fail.

Yours tru ly , M. H . T u tt le .

pThe extracts from the W insted H era ld and o ther papers accompa- ®yipg the above, sustain M r. T u ttle’s statem ents respecting the re trac ­tion and exoneration alluded to.__E d ] -

D e a r ------ , the experience of the past w ill a id the wisdom of thepresent, and as the fu ture unfolds you w ill be guided in your decisions — Love w ill whisper its counsels— caution give its w arnings—V irtue m ake its appeals, and vice be stripped of its disguises,— and the heart will v ib ra te upon its thousand cords w ith new and un to ld mel­ody.

There is a sym pathy which angels can give and w hich buoys up the downcast soul in i ts tria ls , b u t still i t does no t meet fully the requ ire­m ents of earth ly existence. I t w ill answer for the purely sp iritu a l of hum an n a tu re , b u t the n a tu re o f m an is complex and it demands equal complexity in the n a tu re w hich shall give i t sym pathy.

, M an has always sought blessings of m a n , no m atter how firmly he may believe in God or how earnestly he may tru s t in Him.

Such being the n a tu re of things, those who are forced to seek in the sp iritu a l alone for solace do not have th e ir expectations m et. I t is well to th in k of the unseen and real, bu t not so as to absorb the m ind en tire ly ; for there m ay be blessings on earth overlooked and lost while we are gazing a t the heavens.

T hus you see i t is well to look to earth ly duties in th e holy fulfill­m en t of which you come into closer connexion w ith the angels.

These few thoughts have been w ritten to meet your m ind a t the pres­en t tim e; seeing your tria ls better th an any earth ly eye, I endeavor to m inister to the same.

Now jo in w ith me in re tu rn in g th an k s to the G reat G iver for all His blessings.

As the seed-time is followed by th e abundan t ga thering in of the fru it o f the lan d , so w ill thy blessing, F a th e r, shed lig h t and love o ’er the darkened places of th y children , ligh ting them into thy k ingdom . W ilt thou be to him whom m y soul loveth a shield; keeping off unholy influences from his p u re n a tu re ; and m ake him a tru e child of God, a n d the blessing Bhall be in th e fu l f i l lm e n t o f a ll h i ly n a tu ra l laws. * m.

ftch) gork aifo finnttg.C o n fer en ce a t th e L y c e u m , C lin to n H a ll , A s to r P la c e ,

F rid a y E ven ino , Ja n . l l t h .

Question: The T rance, w hat is its rationale, and its relation to Spir­itu a lism , and sp iritu a l m anifestations?

Dr. O rto n subm itted to the inspection of the audience a series of w ritings, in different languages and colors, executed by Buggies, the medium of the late D r. H are. H e sta ted th a t on T hursday he received au invitation p u rporting to come from Prof. H are, to spend the evening of th a t day w ith Ruggles. He did so, and received several comm uni­cations as from the Doctor, th e one of most public in terest being th a t his w ritings on sp iritua l subjects left unpublished, were no longer in existence, having been burned.

The colored w ritings referred to purported to be addressed by a de­ceased T urkish gentlem an to his son now in New Y ork, and consisted of ten pages of note-paper, the m ajority o f them closely and a ll hand- someiy w ritten , in A rm enian, so-called,— for he was not acquainted w ith the language,— and in L-itin, F rench , the Phonographic charac­te r , the Hebrew , and English. The a lte rna te lines, or words, or ch ar­acters of these w ritings, vary ing on the different pages, were red, while the others were black— the whole claim ing to have been executed w ith the same F ab er’s black lead penciL The en tire w riting occupied th ir ty or forty m inutes, was perform ed in th c presence o f the speaker, b u t no t u n d e r circum stances to enable him to certify of his own knowl­edge th a t only one pencil was used.

M r . ---------- : He could speak positively on the point o f color. Hetook black-lead pencils and paper to Ruggles, aud leaned over him while he was w riting , and saw black, red and blue letters and words made with the same pencil. He was positive— there could be no m is­take about it. The comm unications through Ruggles were most m ar­vellous. He received one from his bro ther iu the spirit-w orld, who E t a t e d t h a t in answ er to his wish, he had examined the Guano Islands in the Caribbean Sea, nnd went on to give him a p a rticu la r account of them . He described the G reat and L ittle Swan Islands, B ird and Rock Islands, the Island of Aves, and several others, giving th e ir dimen­sions, the am ount and quality of tbe guano on them , t h e i r produc­tions, an im als, etc. The G reat Swan Is lan d he pronounced the most valuable, and said th a t i t was covered w ith guano from eleven to five feet deep, of most excellent quality . He gave the chem ical analysis of th is guano, which the speaker had verified and found correct, by the tests of the Assay Office, as well as m any of the o ther facts re la tin g to these Islands, which were confirmed by the records of the A tlantic and Pacific Guano Company. TweDty-three pages were w ritten by Ruggles in eighteen m inutes. A F ifth Avenue m illionaire pronounced the whole m atter a hum bug, when he told him to w rite and seal his le tter, and he w ould take him to Ruggles. He did so, and the five questions the let­te r contained were imm ediately and satisfactorily answered in his presence, m aking him a convert on the spot.

M r. P a r t r i d g e : Mesmer, in m odern times, m ay be considered thefather of trance. I t is an abnorm al condition—a combination of will and physical force applied to a subject by contact or m anipulation. The subject thus influenced becomes unconscious of physical pain and ex ternal su rroundings; nnd after coming out of the sleep, has no recol­lection of w hat occurred du rin g its continuance. There a re m any de­grees and shades of trance and its phenomena. On first en tering it a person m ust have th e aid of o thers—in his opinion— of one in the form and one out. The m agnetizer he considered only as a channel for the operation o f a sp irit, who was the real agen t in the production o f trance. After hav ing been in it once, a person m ay go into it , a t least pa rtia lly , w ithou t the aid o f a m agnetizer. In some cases the sp irit of the subject becomes d o rm an t, and the physical organs are used by n sp irit as though they were his own. In deep trance, comm unications are generally reliable. The unconscious condition of the speaker, and the claim of the intelligence to be a sp irit, go to susta in the super­m undane origin of such communications.

Dr. G r a y : W ill th is explain the phenomena of somnambulism ? Am an who was a sleep-walker, got up in the n ig h t, saddled h is horse, took w hat money he had , and rode into the forest and left them there, ty ing his horse to a tree . The property was only recovered by follow ing the m an in his n ex t sleeping excursion, wben he took a bee-line di­rectly to them . W hen awake be was totally unconsciousof the m atter.

M r. P a r t r i d g e wns of the opinion th a t this m ust be considered the work of sp irits , probably w ith some valuable end in view.

Dr. G r a y : Then take ano ther case. A wefk or two ago, a youngm an in a som nam bulic sleep threw himself out of a fourth-story win­dow, and of course was killed. W as th a t also the work of sp irits ?

M r. P a r t r i d g e replied th a t in th a t case the control was probably im perfect, and an accident occurred. Som nambulists have been known to walk the ridge-pole of a liou=e, and e v e iy b d y understands th a t if they are then d isturbed by injudicious a ttem pts to rescue them , they will fall. The influence which sustains and directs them is delicate, and liable to be broken in various ways.

I. B. D a v is : Would you include insanity in the same category?M r. P a r t r i d g e : No. Insan ity is a disease, nnd its q u an tity in a

com m unity is not to be determ ined by the num ber of persons in the Insane Asylums.

Dr. G r a y : The trance may be defined to be the to rpor of the nervesof sense, accompanied by lucidity of the intellect. T hat is the differ­ence between trance and coma. Sensation rem ains in coma, b u t in te l­ligence is gone. The nerves o f the system may be divided into im port­ers and exporters. T rance is a torpor of the im porting nerves; coma a torpor of the exporting nerves, with obliteration of m entality so far as we can observe. W hen trance exists fully , notw ithstanding the exter­nal senses are paralyzed, the person can h e a r, see, feel, taste , smell, with infinitely more acuteness th an in his n a tu ra l state, even objects in the ex ternal world. H is mind has a mode of doing tins which we arc to explain i f we can. M r. P a rtrid g e sa y s ,a sp irit comes and tells the m an. This double-headed hypothesis th a t a sp irit can see, and th a t a m an cannot, was not sufficient to his m ind. Some can read a book when placed on the stom ach; others, when it is brought in contact w ith the head. His theory was that the exporting nerves take on the duties of the im porting— th a t the solar plexus, or second b ra in , reads, instead of the optic nerve. This, however, would not explain the sp ir­itu a l p a r t of tbe phenomena. To explain these we m ust presum e the presence of spirits. By coming in rap p o rt with a person in a trance, tak ing hold of his hand , the entranced p a rty sees, hears and tastes th rough the o ther’s organs. Pierce him and he will not feel it. Touch the o ther with a p in and he will scream. By the same law he may come in rap p o rt w ith a sp irit, nnd see sp iritua l things. W ithout the use of the sensational powers of the sp irit he could not do this. l ie has to come in rap p o rt w ith the spirit as w ith a m an, and see through his organs—his physical organs; for the sp irit continues to have a physical body forever. Interpolations occur in th is way. He may cease connection w ith the sp irit for a moment, and come in rapport w ith some one else— a person in the form—and an incorrect answ er will be given. This was his hypothesis to account for lying sp irits , and was altogether more ra tional and scientific than the other.

There never had been a religion founded, w hich could no t be traced directly back to a person in a trance state. So its relation to Sp iritual­ism was most intim ate. We were ju s t coming to understand som ething of the laws of trance. N um a Pom pilius received twelve tables from a female sp irit, which laid the foundation of Rom an law. The Greek, Jew ish, aud other religions a re also full of it. In ancient classic times no th ing was done w ithout consulting a woman in a trance s ta te , w ith her physical powers closed, and the sp iritua l open. In m any cases we have not the tru e trance, where a person uses his nerves to see and h ear a ll he discovers. M ania a potu was not tru e trance. He had witnessed m uch of i t while Resident Physician a t the New York H os­pital. I t i s a resu lt o f the abuse of the nerves of sense. The images seen are a ll subjective. The papilla: of the nerves, which yield and form actual images o f .the objects seen in n a t« t“£l sight, become m ad, and form themselves into m ultitud inous and hideous shapes w ithout reference to ex ternal objects. In -trance, the eye may be dug out w ith­ou t a lte ring the vision. In the d ru n k a rd ’s case, the nerves ru n an awful rio t, particu la rly a t n ig h t, a t the accustomed hour of repose; and unless the good physician can induce a sound sleep, he will rem ain a prey to h is illusions u n til death closes the scene.

T rance, in his opinion, when opened to the degree of sp iritu a l sigh t, requ ires the presence of a sp irit. The two m ust come in rapport. A m an cannot see sp iritu a l th ings w ithout th e aid of sp iritu a l organs th rough w hich to look. Then, as he has spiritual senses, he can see, hear, feel, e tc ., by v irtue of those senses.

M r. W eston related some in teresting facts, a fte r w hich the debate on trance was continued by Dr. O rton, Dr. Hallock and D r. G ray— the views of the two form er being substan tia lly as reported las t week.

The question for the n ex t sessson is, “ The Philosophy of the Circle; its U3es an d abuses.” J .B .O .

Various Jffcms.

The H a tc h Case.— B. F. H atch hav ing broken th e term s of th e compact of separation from his wife, and persisting in following her about and annoying he r, she has commenced a su it for divorce on the ground of ill-trea tm ent. The allegations in he r com plaint before the court p ic tu re her husband as one of tho d irtie st and most d isgusting of “ free-lovers,” as well as one of the m eanest of husbands. He rep ­resented, before m arriage, th a t he was a p ractis ing physician in New York, w ith a business w orth §10 ,000 a y ea r, and th a t he could supply his wife with a ll the comforts and refinements of life. A fter m arriage she found th a t he did no th ing as a physician, and th a t he depended on the exercise o f sp iritu a l gifts for a living. She consented to go into the lecture business if Dr. H atch would provide for h e r m other, bu t he has never given he r more than ten dollars, a n d she has w anted the necessaries of life, having previously depended upon her daughter. He was very niggardly tow ards his wife, g iving he r presentable outer gar­m ents, b u t refusing to allow her flannels, and often compelling her to walk to and from her lectures in inclem ent w eather, to save coach hire. When exhausted by he r e ffjrts, he refused to procure her more delicate and nourish ing food, of w hich she was m uch in need. H e frequently neglected to provide board for her, b u t accepted inv ita tions to p rivate houses, where he stayed till the welcome was w orn out, and she sub­jected to the mortification of knowing th a t i t was so. He provided her w ith no pocket m oney, and allowed her no discretion in money m atters. His penuriousness descended to the sm allest th ings, and he would count over th e clothes she h ad prepared for the laundress, an d find fau lt th a t she had sent too m any.

B u t Mrs. H atch brings g raver com plaints th an these. In New Y ork he introduced her only to abandoned m en, one of whom, Dr. Lyons, was obliged to fly the c ity to escape lynching by exasperated husbands and bro thers . A bout th ree m onths after th e ir m arriage, Dr. H atch boasted to h e r o f his infidelity to his form er wife, and of an illicit in­tercourse w ith o thers; and he gave h e r to understand th a t his power and influence over females Was such th a t he could have illicit in te r­course w ith them , saying th a t “ had he acccss, no m arried woman could w ithstand his powers o f seduction.” M r. H atch was gu ilty of unm entionable immoraliti£s in her presence to the dam age her health and delicacy. He introduced her to the society of a female of aban­doned charac te r, was in tim ate w ith such female, and was guiity of fam iliarities with he r in his wife’s presence. He caused M rs. H atch to associate w ith h e r and trea t he r as an equal. He kep t the m in iature of such female among his p riv a te th ings, thereby wounding his wife’s delicacy, an d causing her to be suspected of keeping association with an abandoned female; a t o ther times Mr. H atch has been gu ility of in­decent and im m oral practices, so as to render i t unsafe for he r to co­hab it w ith him. M r. Hatch is a m an of large size and great physical streng th , and has in his employ-some persons of vicious hab its, who, Mrs. H atch believes, are p lann ing to carry her off by personal force and inflict some serious in ju ry upon her, and she is subject to constant anxiety aa to her personal safety. On these grounds Mrs. H atch asks for divorce, and she m a k e 3 out a s trong case, a very ra n k and flig ran t one.

I t is w ith g rea t reluctance th a t we give publicity to this m atte r; bu t when the Doctor comes forw ard to m ake such sweeping charges as he prefers against Spiritualism and its professors, i t is due to the public to know som ething of the antecedents o f the witness who vo luntary as­sumes the stand to give testim ony against a larg e and respectable class of people.

S et F ree .— Seven Spiritualists were excom m unicated from th e Con­g regational church a t Lee, Sabbath before last. *

W hy was P h a rao h ’s d augh ter like a broker ? Because she got a little prophet from the rushes on the banks.

dMitajj Jjtoticcs.

Gone to t i ie sp ir it-w o rld . O n T hursday Gth in st., G race, an in ­teresting d augh ter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Mc.nson, of New York, was welcomed by he r a lready departed friends into the spirit-w orld, her disease being croup.

The closing sceue o f th is ch ild ’s earth ly existence was deeply in te r­esting. As th e h o u r of her change drew n igh , she saw anxiety and grief depicted in the countenance of h e r p a ren ts and others who su r­rounded her bedside. Perfectly ra tio n a l, and sensible o f her situation, she begged of them not to grieve for her, for, said she, “ The angels tell me I won’t die— th a t I will m erely pass away, bu t will live still, ju st as m uch as ever. I w ill love you ju s t as m uch as I do now, and will often come to see y o u .” She seemed to be entirely insensible to the terrib le distress which her body was app aren tly undergoing, and most of the tim e seemed to be conversing and p laying w ith sp irit-ch il- dren and o ther invisible friends, whom she called by nam e; b u t when­ever she was spoken to by hor paren ts or her a u n t, she would answ er with perfect ra tionality . She described to them the m ansion she was to occupy as her fu ture home, and said th a t when they came to the sp irit-w orld they would en jiy i t w ith her. Such “ death-bed scenes” are instructive to all who have h earts to appreciate them ; and we ten ­der both our condolence and ou r sym pathetic rejoicings to the family who have been bereaved of a sunny form in the ex ternal, b u t who have gained a representative in heaven.

In R ockport, M ass, on the Oth in st., o f heart disease, M r. W illiam N orw ood, J r , , aged GO years. ■

The deceased was suddenly cu t down, hav ing enjoyed unusually good health du rin g the w inter and up to the last hours of h is life. Accom­panied by h i s wife, he was on h ; 3 way to pass the evening in the socie­ty of a friend, when he was obliged to stop a t a n ear neighbor’s house, where he soon expired w ithout a s tru g g le . He was fully prepared for the sum m ons, having had frequent w arn in g s; and death had no terro rs to him , as th rough its portals he expected to enter thc shining m an­sions.

M r. Norwood was tho well-known, gentlem anly and kind proprietor of the “ Pigeon Cove H ouse,” th a t favorite reso rt of professional men and others du rin g the hot season; and m any noble hearts in Boston, N iw York and other ci:ies, will deeply sym pathise w ith the bereaved widow who walked by his side in faithful companionship during nearly tb ir ty -s ix years. Suddenly he was called an d the stroke is heavy upon the loved ones left behind, bu t i t was the F a th e r’s voicc inviting him to a seat in the H eavenly home. Res: thee there , dear B rother! M ay the rich consolations o f the Gospel fill as the dew of healing upon the widow, the only daughter (who is the companion of the Rev. H. C. Leonard of W aterville, M e.,) and upon all who m ourn this dispensa­tion; and m ay we a ll be renewed by th e rem em brance th a t, as “ in the m idst of Hl’<£ we are in d e a th ,” we should “ set our affections on th ings above.” j . ii. f.

P a s s e d t o t i i e s p i r i t l i f e . Ou Tuesday l l t h inst., Miss S a r a h E. M orse, 22 years, only d au g h te r of Mrs. S a rah M. Morse, of Portland , Me.

T hus has a dearly beloved d au g h te r and sister been called to m ingle with the pure ones above. One tie only seemed to bid he r s ta y ; i t was th a t a widowed m other would be left w ithout a d augh ter to comfort her. She had long been a believer in spirit-com m union and as con­sum ption wasted h e r earth ly form her faith strengthened. She saw and pointed ou t the sp ir it w aiting to convey her hom e; bidding her af­flicted m other and brothers an affectionate adieu she exu lting ly passed away.

H er life she adorned w ith p u rity and tru th . H er departu re has left a deep im press on the m inds of he r friends th a t spirits do indeed visit m orta ls in the flesh. C. C. Y ork.

O n e m o r e a m o n g t i i e a n g e l s . Sam uel C. Taylor formerly of Wood­s t o c k , V t., left h i s m aterial form a t C harleston, III., aged 44 years, on the 23d of Dec. He was w alking on the ra ilro ad track when a tra in was approaching, and stepped aside, probably th inking him self secure, w hen the tender B t r u c k him , and instan tly severed th e tie th a t binds soul and body together. He leaves a wife and two children a t I1L, and two a t WoodEtock, V t. M ay th e good F a th e r’s love protect and bless the bereaved ones and give them resignation to h is Divine will and dis­pensations. M. S. T o w n sen d .

Passed on. G eoroe A rn o ld Redman, only son of Dr. G. A. Red­m a n , passed on to m eet his angel m other, on the m orning of the 17 th in s t ., a t 4 o’clock, a t H artfo rd , Ct.

T H E S P I H I T tf A L A f l g .BOSTON, NEW Y O R K AND CHICAGO, JANUARY 22 , 1869.

L k t t e m R e c e i v e d — J I . B m i t l i , I l a w k e s k B r o , C A Leach, O S B i g e k n r , S Moy­er, E W K n i g h t , E l l a n c e , P K T V i l s O o , G W F a i r f i e l d , S S Lyon, W D » T i * , H » - r » - r

m a n , J H F a r n s w o r t h , A B W h i t i n g , W B e e s e , J W e b b , F Herbiln, j Jennia**. O B E m e r y , J G i l e s , j \ y F a r n s w o r t h , H L E a s t o n , H N H a r d I i . TiUoUon, O 8 Portae 3 ,

• J N P , J N B l a n c h a r d , Q P u f f e r , 8 M P«ters, M P R o g e r * , F Johnson, A S M o w o e ,

w S P o o r , S F H o y t , A M P a g e , J L a n d o n , B W l l a o n , W Anderson. J Howe, E l R o u s h , C W i i s e y , H C l a r k s o n , E H a r d i n g e , L B White ( a U right), A Albertson, 8 A

N o r t h r u p , J B D u n t o n , L H o i k , 3 B N i c h o l s , A J D a v i s , S A l b r o , A CStUei,B.Bo*e, E P G r a y , J M i s e r , H P F a i r f i e l d 2 , J A H o o v e r , B Carpenter, E s t a f a r o o k h Abbott, W A J o n e s , S B N i c h o l s , L W o o d s , D. B P a r k e r , A A Lee, J Small, I F B u rr . A H i n c k l e y , I I F M B r o w n , 3 U i n s h a w , T 8 F r i s b i e , J Savage, W P Stepp, F H 8nith . S E G r i s s o m , n N G r e e n e , G A W a r d , B B l o o d J r , 3 B B u s t e d , M L Flak, “-Leri," J I I M o t t , J B R a d w a y , H C W h i t i n g , W W Y o u n g , W H Williamson.

SPECIAL AHD PERSONAL.R e v . J o n s P i e r p o s t s p e a k s i n L o w e l l , o n S u n d a y , 2 3 d

F . L . W a d s w o r t h m a y b e a d d r e s s e d t i l l F e b . I s U , a t M i l a n , O ., c a r e o f Kichard B u r t .

M r s . C . M . T u t t l e w i l l s p e a k a t P u t n a m , C t . , I n Q u i o n e b a u g H an, a t the h o u r s o f r e l i g i o u s s e r v i c e , o n S u n d a y s , 2 3 d a n d 3 0 t h i n s t . ) a t ' W i l l i m a n t i c the first t v » S a b b a t h s i n F e b r u a r y .

A . E. Newtos, o f t h e S p i r i t u a l A g e , w i U s p e a k in the Universalist Chord, Xu!* b o r o 1, o n S u n d a y , 2 3 .1 i n s t . a t 1 1 A M a n d 1 P M .

M r s . M S . T o w n s e x d w i l l s p e a k a t W a l t h a m , J a n . 2 3 - 3 } Q u i n c y , S O t h j C m -

b r i d g e p o r t , F e b . 6 t h a n d 2 0 t h ; W a l t h a m , 1 3 t h ; C l i n t o n , 2 7 t h .

T h e B o s t o n E d i t o r s o f t h e A g e , A . E . N e w t o n a n d L e w is B . M o s s o b , villa s w e r c a l l s t o l e c t u r e i n t h e v i c i n i t y o f t h e c i t y .

L . J u d d P a r d e e * w il i s p e a k a t M a n s f i e l d , S u n d a y , J a n . 2 3 d .

M r s . J . W . C u r r i e r , t r a n c e s p e a k e r a n d t e s t m e d i u m , c o n t i n u e s to answer calls for l e c t u r e s . A d d r e s s , L o v r e i l } M a s s . 3 — t f

D r . H . F . G a r d k e r w i l l a n s w e r c a l l s t o l e c t u i e i n the v i c i n i t y o f Boston on veck e v e n i n g s . A d d r e s s a t t h e F o u n t a i n H o u s e .

J a m e s n . H a r r i s , i m p r e s s i o n a l s p e a k e r , w i l l a n s w e r calls to lecture on SnodJkys A d d r e s s B o x 9 9 , A b i n g t o n , M a s s . t!4* ’

M r s . M a r t M . M a c o m b e r , t r a n c e s p e a k i n g m e d i u m , w i l l a n s w e r r a n * t o l e c t o r * la a n y d i r e c t i o n t h e f r i e n d s o f P r o g r e s s m a y d e s i r e . A d d r e s s O ln e y v f l le , B - 1 .

M i s s A . W . S p r a g u e ' s e n g a g e m e n t s a r e — J a n . 2 3 d a n d 3 0 t h , W i l l i m a n t i c , Coon.} F e b . 6 t h , M a r l b o r o , M a s s . ; F e b . 1 3 t h , W o r c e s t e r , M a s s . ; F e b . 2 0 t h a n d 2 7 t h , Quincj M a s s . ; P r o v i d e n c e , r * . I . , M a r c h G t h , 1 3 t h , 2 0 t h a n d 2 7 t h .

A . B . W niT iK G m a y b e a d d r e s s e d a t B r o o k l y n , M i c h . , t i l l F e b . 1st.

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She is dying. H ush ! she is dying. The sunlight stream s ■through the plate-glass windows— the room is frag ran t w ith thu sweet breath o f the southern flowers— large milk white A f­rican lilies, roses a nightingale would stoop to worship ; Cape jessamines and camelias, w ith their large glossy leaves.

Through the open casement steals the musio o f p laying foun­tains ; and the ligh t tem pered pleasantly by rose curta ins of embroidered satin, kindles up gorgeous old p a in tin g s ' with a halo bright as a rainbow. I t is as i f fresher sunshine were fall­ing earthward on the bower o f beauty. The canary sings in his gilded cage— her canary ; and the la rk raises hia note h igh­er and higher on the perfumed air. W hy do you clench your hands till the nails draw the rich rosy blood through the thin quivering skin? W hy do you shut your teeth together, and has between them that one word— “ hush?” I t ’s a beautiful home, I ’m su re ; and th a t lady, w ith her fa ir head upon your bosom, is as fair as any dream vision of the pain ter. Surely nothing could be pu rer than th a t broad, high b ro w ; nothing brighter than those golden curls.

And she loves-you, too ! r A h ! yes, any one can read th a t in the deep violet eyes raised so tenderly to your own. A h ! that is i t ; your young wife loves you.

She linked to yours the existence o f an angel, when she knelt beside you a t the m arriage a lta r, and placed her hand in yoors.

For twelve long, golden, sunny months an angel has walked or sat by your side, or slept in your bosom. You know i t ! No mortal woman ever made your h ea rt bow before a purity so d iv in e! No earth ly em bracc ever filled your soul w ith the glory from the sta rs ; no earth ly smile ever shone so unchang­ingly above all such noisome things as you earth-worms call care and trouble She is an a n g e l; and other angels have been singing to her in the long days o f the pleasant Ju n e time.

“ H ush,” you s a y ; but you cannot shut out the anthem notes of heaven from those unsealed .ears ! Louder, higher, swell the hymns of the se raphs; and brigh ter grows the smile on your wife’s lips.

She whispers, “ D earest, I ’m alm ost home, and you will come by-and-by, and I am goiog to ask God to bless y o u !” Bat you cannot bear i t— you tu rn away, and the big tears gather in the eyes.

You had *held her there bn your bosom all day— all n ig h t ; are you tired ? B u t you cannot answer. Closer— closer you elasp the slight, fair f ig u re ; painfully you press your lips to the cold brow. She is dead !

W h a t is i t to you th a t the sunshine is bright ? w hat th a t its cheerful rays fall on tho broad lands— your lands? W hat is it now tha t she can walk on them no more? A nd w hat is death — her d ea th ? J 'ew people knew h e r ; no nation will raise a m onum ent to her memory ! B u t she was yours ; your all ! n o ; yours and God’s ; and your year o f jo y is over, and she rests on his bosom now in heaven. They have dug a grave for her. Spring flowers brighten over it, and the green grass smiles with daises and violets. Y ou go there, and sigh, and pray , and ask God if you, too, m ay come h6me ? and when no answer comes, your proud heart rises up in bitterness, and w ith the bold, wicked words upon your tongue, you p au se ; for your guardian angel looks down from heaven and whispers— “ H ush !”

A N O B L E B O Y .

The following touching episode in street life— life in P aris —is a beautiful gem, and should be in all memories surround­ed with pearls of sw eetest thought and gentlest sym pa­thy :

“ About nine o’clock in the m orning, a little boy o f twelve, whose jacke t o f white cloth and apron ditto , d istinctly indica­ted that he followed the profession o f pastry-cook, was return ing from m arket with an open basket on his head, containing butter and egg3. W hen he had reached the vicinity o f the ohuroh of St. Eustache, the little fellow, who could only with difficulty m ake his w ay through the crowd, was violently jostled by a stranger who was passing, so th a t his basket fell to the grouud with its contents. The poor lad, when he saw his eggs all broken and his bu tte r tumbled in the gu tte r, began to ery b itte rly and wring his hands. A person who happened to be in tbe crowd th a t gathered around the little fellow, drew a ten sous piece from his pocket, and, giving i t to the boy, asked the rest who stood grouped around him to do the same, to make up the loss occasioned by this accident. Influenced by his example, every one present eagerly complied, and very speedily the boy’s apron contained a respectable collection of coppers and silver. W hen all had contributed the ir quota, our young valet, whose distress had vanished in a m inute, as though by enchantment, warm ly thanked his new benefactors ibr their kindness, and forthw ith proceeded to count the sum he had received, which amounted to no less than th irty-tw o francs and twenty-five centimes. B u t instead o f qu ie tly put­ting this sum in his pocket, he produced the bill o f the articles he had lost, and as its total amounted only to fourteen francs, he appropriated no more than th a t sum ; and then observing in the group th a t surrounded him a poor woman in rags, the gallant little fellow walked up to her and placed the rem ain­der in her hand. C ertainly i t would h ave been impossible to show him self more deserving o f public generosity, or to ac­knowledge it in a handsomer m anner. The boy’s noble con­duct was greeted .with tho applause o f the crowd, who were de lighted to find such delicacy and propriety in one so young.”

A m using F ig u r e o f S p eech .— In Shrewsbury, M r. Pole- hampton, an English clergyman, sa t a t the bedside o f a poor old man, who, a little while before his last moments, made use of a most extraordinary figure o f speech in testim ony o f his gratitude: .

“ A h, sir, I am going f i r s t ; b u t you will follow, and we shall m eet again ; and won’t I flap my old wings as I see you a-coming through the gates o f p e a r l!”

R ev. M r. E-------, who lives near P ortland , was preparinghis discourse for the next Sabbath, stopping occasionally to re ­view w hat he had w ritten, and to erase th a t which he was dis­posed to disprove ; he was accosted by his little son, who had numbered b u t three sum m ers:

“ F a th e r, does G od tell you what to preach ?”“ C e r ta in ly , m y c h ild .”

“ Then what makes you scratch i t out ?"

A young lady who la tely gave an order to a milliner for a bonnet, s a id :— “ Y ou are to make it plain, but a t thc same ♦imft smart, as I sjt in a conspicuous place in church.”

I f you wish your life to end well, spend it well.

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P O O D A N T I P A T H I E S .

A lim entary substances are substances which serve as nour­ishm ent ; bu t a g rea t m istake is made when i t is imagined th a t th e ir nu tritive value can chiefly reside in the amounts o f car­bon, nitrogen, oxygen, and salts, which they contain ; i t resides in th e relation which the several substances bear to the organ­ism they are to nourish. M usic is not harmonious to the deaf nor is color splendid to the blind. T h e substance which nour­ishes one anim al affords n o nourishm ent to another, nor will any table o f “ nu tritive equivalents,” however precise, convince us th a t a substance ought to nourish in v irtue o f its composition, when experience tells us tha t i t does not nourish, in v irtue of some defective relation between it and the organism. T hat “ one m an’s m eat is another m an’s poison” is a proverb of s tr ic t veracity . T here are persons even in Europe, to whom a mutton-chop would be poisonous.

The celebrated case o f Abbe de V illedieu is a rare , b u t not unparalleled example o f animal food being poisonous; from his earliest years his repugnance to it was so decided, th a t nei­th e r the en treaties o f his parents nor the menaces o f his tutors could induce him to overcome i f f ' A fter reaching the age o f th irty , on a regimen o f vegetable food, he was over-persuaded and tried the effect o f m eat soupfe, which led to his eating both m utton and b e e f ; bu t the change was f a ta l ; plethora and sleepiness intervened, and he died o f cerebral inflamma­tion.

In 1844 a F rench soldier was forced to qu it the service be­cause he could not overcome his violent repugnance and dis­gust towards animal food. D r. P rou t, whose testim ony will be more convincing to English readers, knew a person on whom m utton acted as a poison : ‘-He could not eat m utton in anyform. The peculiarity was supposed to be owing to caprice, but the m utton was repeatedly disguised and given to him un­known ; but uniform ly w ith the same result o f producing vio­len t vom iting and diarrhea. A nd from the severity o f the ef­fects, which were in fact those o f a viru lent poison, there can be but little doubt th a t if the use of m utton had been persisted in, it would soon have destroyed the life o f the individual.” D r. P ere ira , who quotes this passage, adds, “ I know a gen­tlem an who has repeatedly had an a ttack of indigestion after the use of roast m utton.” -

Some persons, i t is'know n, cannot take coffee w ithout vom­iting ; others are thrown into a general inflammation if they ca t cherries or goosberries. H ahn relates o f him self that seven or eight straw berries would produce convulsions in him. T issot says he never could swallow sugar w ithout vomiting. M any persons are unable to ea t eggs ; and cakes or puddings having eggs in their composition, produce serious disturbances in such persons ; i f they are induced to ea t them under false assurances o f no eggs having been employed, they are soon undeceived by the unm istakable effects.

U nder less striking forms this difference in the assimilating power o f different human beings is fam iliar to us all ; we see our friends freejy indulging, w ith benefit instead o f harm , iu kinds o f food which experience too painfully assures us, we can ea t only w ith certain injury. To this fact the attention of pa­rents and guardians should seriously be given, th a t by i t they m ay learn to avoid the petty ty ranny and folly, o f insisting on children eating food for which they m anifest a repugnance. I t is too common to tre a t a child’s repugnance as mere caprice, to condemn i t as “ stuff and nonsense,” when he refuses to eat fat, or eggs, or certain vegetables, and “ wholesome” puddings. Now, even a caprice in such m atters should not be altogether slighted, especially when it takes the form o f re fu sa l; because this caprice is probably nothing less than the expression o f a p articu la r and tem porary sta te o f his organism , 'which we should do wrong to disregard. A nd whenever a refusal is con­s tan t, i t indicates a positive unfitness in the food.

O nly gross ignorance.of physiology, an ignorance unhappily too widely spread, can argue tha t because a certain artic le is wholesome to m any it m ust necessarily be wholesome to all. E ach individual organism is specifically different from every o th e r.j H ow ever much it may resemble others, i t necessarily in some points differs from them ; and the am ount o f these dif­ferences is often considerable. I f the same wave of a ir s tr ik ­ing upon the tym panum of two different men wiil produce sounds to the one which to the other are inappreciable— if the same wave o f ligh t will affect the vision o f one m an as that o f a red color, while to the vision o f another i t is no color at all, how unreasonable is i t to expect th a t the same substance will bear precisely the same relation to the alim entary canal of oue m an as to th a t o f another ! Experience tells us th a t it is not so. -

T h e S p i r i t u a l S e n s e s .

Some years ago there was a woman residing in the neigh­borhood o f L yons who seemed to have the quality o f one sense transferred to another. A very learned physician, a w riter in the Jo u rn a l de Sante , gives an account o f having visited this woman a t Lyons. H e says :

“ The woman whom I visited, and to whom I presented sev­era l sorts o f medicines, powders, simples, compounds, and m any o ther substances, which I am convinced she never saw before, told me the ir tastes, as nearly and w ith as much p re­cision as taste could pronounce. She described them , indeed, w ith astonishing exactness, and frequently when my own pa l­ate was confounded.

“ H er eyes were next bound with a thick bandage, and I drew from my pocket several sorts o f silk ribbands.

A ll those th a t differed in the original colors she im m ediate­ly told me. I t was in vain to a ttem p t puzzling h e r ; she made no m istake ; she passed the ribband m erely through her hand, and then im m ediately decided on its peculiar color. She could, in fact, discover the quality of anything by the touch or the taste, as accurately as I could do w ith my eyes.

“ The organs o f hearing were then closed, as well as the contrivance o f stuffing the ears would answer the purpose. I then commenced a conversation with a friend in the apartm ent and spoke in alm ost inaudible whispers. Sbe repeated with g reat power of memory, every word o f the conversation. In short, I came away a convert; in other words, I believed what I had seen./ t “ A philosopher knows the fallibility o f the senses ; b u t he

should know likewise, th a t science ought not to reject because it cannot have dem onstration.”

Spurgeon, tbe London sensationalist preacher, sometimes gets off a good thing out o f the pulpit, however stupid he may be in it. A London le tte r to the P o rtlan d S ta te o f M aine says : “ A brother m inister called to see him one day, rangthe bell, and when tho servant came to the door, the R ev. told him to inform M r. ;S. th a t a servant o f the L ord wished to have an interview with him . The message was delivered to M r. Spurgeon. ‘ H um , ha, servant of the L o rd ; tell the person I can’t seo him — I am very busy with his m aster.’ ”

ottrp anfr Sntliitunl.F o r t h e S p i r i t u a l A g a .

T H E W IN E OF HO PE.B T A N N E T T E B I S H O P .

L ift u p , Oh heart! lift up T hy choicest crystal cup ;F or the red, red wine of hope From th e grapes on the sunny slope O f the year, I ’ll press for thee;1/rink! drink! and happy be!

A w ny! I may no t taste;L et the red wine ru n to waste;Still m ust the drops th a t flow From the hills of m elting snow,H ills o f the P resen t, snows o f the Real Quench my tliirs t for springs ideal.

AT EVENTID E.W hat sp irit is’t th a t does pervade .

The silence of th is empty room!A nd as I lift my eyes, w hat shade

Glides off and vanishes in gloom T

I could believe, th is m oment past,A known form filled th a t vacan t chair,

T hat, here, kind looks were on me cast I never shall see anywhere!

The liv ing are so fa r away!B u t thou— thou seemest strangely n ear;

Know’st a ll my silent h eart would say ,I ts peace, its pains, its hope, its fear. .

And from th y calm supernal height,And wondrous wisdom newly won,

Sm ilest on all o u r poor delight And pe tty woe beneath the sun.

From all this coil thou h as t slipped away As softly as th e c loud 'departs

A long the hillside pu rp le-g ray —Into the heaven of pa tien t hearts. .

N othing here suffer’d , nothing m issedWill ever s tir from its repose .

T he death-sm ile on he r lips unkiBs’d,Who all things loves and all th ings knows.

And I who, ignoran t and weak,Helpless in love and quick in pain,

Do everm ore still restless, seek :The unatta inable in v a in —

F ind it strange com fort thus to sit W hile the loud world unheeded rolls,

A nd clasp, ere yet the fancy flit,A friend’s hand from the Land of Souls.

Chambers' Journal.

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The huroaQ soul is greater, more sacred than the state , and m ust never be sacrificed to it.

I f the sp irit ever gazes,From its journeying back ;

I f the im m ortal ever traces,O ’e r its m ortal track ;

"Wilt thou not, O bro ther, meet us Sometimes on our way,

And in hours of sadness greet us As a sp irit may ?

M E S. M ETTLEB sS M EDICIN ES.A U t h e s e r e m e d i e s a r e c o m p o u n d e d a c c o r d i n g t o M r s . M e t t l e r ’ s d i r e c t i o n s , g i v e n

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n e n t o f t h e S e c r e t i o n s , B i l i o u s O b s t r u c t i o n s , U n e q u a l C i r c u l a t i o n , S i c k a n d N e r v o u s

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bostle, 50 c e n t s .

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o c c a s i o n e d b y c o l d o r w o r m s . P r i c e p e r b o t t l e , 5 0 c e n t s .

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

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c e n t s .

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

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m o d i c C o n t r a c t i o n s , e t c . , e t c . P r i c e p e r b o t t l e , $ 1 .

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5— t f . S . T . M T J N S O N A g e n t , 5 G r e a t J o n e s s t r e e t , N e w Y o r k .

SPIR ITU A L BOOKS AND PEBIODICALS.C E N T R A L D E P O T , N O . 5 G R E A T J O N E S S T R E E T , N E W Y O R K .

O f l l c e o f t h e S p i r i t u a l A g e .

8 . T . M U N S O N k C o . , A g e n t s , s e c o n d d o o r E a s t o f B r o a d w a y , o p p o s i t e t h e L a

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u a l B o o k s , a l l o f w h i c h w i l l b e s o l d a t t h e l o w e s t p u b l i s h e r ’ s p r i c e s f o r c a s h . A l l p e r

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

t ^ e t o s e n d t h e i r o r d e r s t o M u n s o n k C o . , w h o w i l l g i v e i n s t a n t a t t e n t i o n t o t h e d e

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

S p ir i tu a l a n d E efo rm P ap ers a n d S e r ia l P u b lic a tio n s .B o o k s a n d o t h e r m e r c h a n d i s e o r d e r e d a t o u r e s t a b l i s h m e n t , n o t e x c e p t i n g M l s c e l l a

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

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

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

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a t e l y o n t h e i r a r r i v a l , a t M u n s o n k C o . ’ s , f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f r e g i s t e r i n g t h e i r n a m e s

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

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

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

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

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

S . T . M U N S O N k C O . , A g e n t s , N o 5 G r e a t J o n e s t r e e t * N Y .

T H E FOLLOW ING A E E NOW EEA DY.A d d r e s s d e l i v e r e d b e f o r e t h e l a t e C o n v e n t i o n i n f a v o r o f e x t e n d i n g t o W o m a u t h e

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h u n d r e d .

T r a c t s , b y J u d g e E d m o n d s , c o n t a i n i n g e i g h t i n t h e s c r i e s . T h e s e T r a c t s f u r n i s h

a s i m p l e a n d c o m p r e h e n s i v e s t a t e m e n t o f t h e F a c t s a n d P h i l o s o p h y o f S p i r i t u a l i s m

P r i c e p e r h u n d r e d $ 1 . 0 0 , o r 2 4 c e n t s t h e s e r i e

T h e o d o r e P A t i K E u ’ d S g r m o n s o n R e v i v a l s — T h e d e m a n d f o r t h e s e r e m a r k a b l e

d i s c o u r s e s c o n t i n u e s u n a b a t e d . M o r e t h a n 2 0 , 0 0 0 h a v e a l r e a d y b e e n 6 o l d . P r i c e f o r

t h e t h r e e d i s c o u r s e s , 2 4 c e n t s , o r $ 0 p e r h u n d r e d .

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

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

c r e e d s , b u t r e c o g n i 2 i n g T r u t h , c o m e f r o m w h e n c e i t m a y .

2 4 — t f S . T . M U N S O N , N o . 5 . G r e a t J o n e s s t r e e t , N e w Y o r k .

J U S T P U B L I S H E D . .

ANOTHEB IM PORTANT BOOK B T A . 7. D A V IS !T h e s u b s c r i b e r h a s j u s t i s s u e d a n e w w o r k , w r i t t e n a f e w w e e k s s i n c e b y H r . D a v i s

I b p r e p a r i n g h i s m a t t e r f o r t h e P h i l a n t h r o p i c C o n v e n t i o n a t U t i c a , b e w r o t e o « t nt

e r a l s u g g e s t i v e i d e a s r e s p e c t i n g t h e C a u s e a n d C u r e o f E r i l , o r h o w t o M c

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

t h i n k e r s a n d p h i l a n t h r o p i s t s . T h i s n e w p r o d u c t i o n i s e n t i t l e d

T H E HISTOEY AND PH ILO SO PH Y OF E V IL ;W I T H S B G C K S T t O X S F O R M O D I K N .S O B L I S O I H 8 T I T U T 1 0 V 8 AM

P H I L O S O P H I C A L S Y S T E M S O F E D U C A T I O N .

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

b l e o f c o n t e n t s :

1 . T b e u n i t y o f t r u t h . 6 . T h e s p i r i t u a l t h e o r y o f e r f l .2 T h e a n t e - h u m a n t h e o r y o f e v i l . G . T h e h a r m o n i a l t h e o r y o f e v i L3 . T h e i n t e r - h u m a n t h e o r y o f e v i L 7 . T b e c a u s e s o f c i v i l i s a t i o n .4 . T h e s u p e r - h u m a n t h e o r y o f e v i L 8 . T h e w o r l d ’ s t r u e s a v i o u r d i a o o v c r c d .

9 . T h e L a n n o n i a l c u r e o f e v i L

T h e s e i m p o r t a n t s u b j e c t s a r e a l l c o m p r i s e d i n a b o u t 1 2 0 p a g e s o c t a v o . T h e w o r k

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

S i n g l e c o p i e s a t r e t a i l . 3 0 c e n t s * , b o u n d i n c l o t h , 5 0 c c n t s . O n r e c e i p t o f p n c e , t h *

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

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

A d d r e s s t h e P u b l i s h e r , B E L A M A R S H , N o . 1 4 B r o m f i e l d s t r e e t * B e e t o o - 4 1 — t*

W h i t t i e r .

D on’t touch the lu te when the drum s are sounding. A wise man rem ains silent while fools a re speaking.

Seek for a bosom all honest and tru e ,W here love once awakened will never d ep art;

T u rn , tu rn to th a t h eart like a dove to its nest,And you’ll find there’s no home like the home in the heart.

I t is b e tte r th a t ten times ten thousand men should suffer in their interests than th a t a r ig h t principle should not be vin d icated .— A tla n tic M onth ly . .

The soulIs strong th a t tru s ts in goodness, and shows clearly I t may be trusted . M a s s i n g e r .

N atu re has not conferred upon us a responsible existence, w ithout giving us a t the same time, the strength righ tly exert ed, to perform its duties. •

T rue happiness ( i f understood) Consists a ’one in doing good. Somerville.

I t is vain for a rogue in the grain to pass h im self off as an honest man. I t may be discovered in his countenance, even before we are acquainted with his actions. N atu re seems to have put a stam p on such characters to forewarn us o f our danger.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. B a i l e y .

SKETCHES FEOM NA TU RE,T O E M Y J U V E N I L E F R I E N D S .

BT FRANCES BROWN.P r i o e I n m u s l i n , 3 3 c e n t s * , d o . g i l t , 5 0 c e u t s . T h i s i s a n e x c e l l e n t w o r k , j u t p o b

i s h e d b y B L L A M A R S H , N o . 1 4 B r o m f i e l d s t r e e t , f o r s a l e a t w h o l e s a l e o r r e t a i l .

H EN B Y C. W E IG H T 'S BOOKS.M a r r i a g e a n d P a r e n t a g e ; o r , t h e R e p r o d u c t i v e E l e m e n t i n M a n , a s a m w M t o h i s

E l e v a t i o n a n d H a p p i n e s s . P r i c e $ 1 .

T h e U n w e l c o m e C h i l d ; o r , t h e C r i m e o f a n U n d e s i g n e d

P r i c e i n c l o t h , 4 6 c e n t s ; i n p a j > e r c o v e r s , 3 0 c e n t * .

A K i s s f o r a B l o w ; o r , a C o l l e c t i o n o f S t o n e s f o r C h i l d r e n , s h o w i n g t h e o b o w t o

p r e v e n t q u a r r e l i n g . P r i c e 3 8 c e n t s ; i l l u s t r a t e d e d i t i o n , 6 2 c e n t s .

T h e E r r o r s o f t h e B i b l e D e m o n s t r a t e d b y t h e T r u t h s o f N a t u r e ; o r , M a n 1!

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