I F H . y ’s l c a l L i f e — T ! h . e P r i m a r y ^ D e p a r t m e n t I n . t h . e S c h . o o l o f H u m a n F r o g r e s s .

ML II. /M IN D AND MATTER P u b lis h in g H ouse,} 1 No. 713 Kansom S tre e t, P h i ln . ,P n . J PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCT. 23, M. S. 33. P * NO. 48.

For Mind and Mailer,ASPIRATION.

BY MBS. sAl U B L. MECRACKEN.

When the soul, with its weary longing, Turns from all earthly scenes,

' - • And lifts Its spirit wings to soar In flight for better things;

When we gaze on this world’s curses,~ The bitter and the dire,

The things which call for Progress’ blind And Time’s refining f i r e -

Borne on the thought-waves from above, Comes aspirution grand,

To do whate’er the God of love .Can make us understand;

To gaze out on the world of causes,Upon its shoreless sea—

To find the wliys and wherefores Of this world’s misery;

To strengthen all the heavy laden,The weary heart to chceiv-

To dear the sky of darkened thought Which binds a spirit here;

To clothe and feed the needy,And give the hcnling balm—

Of soothing word and kindly smile,Will bring a holy calm.

Then let us bend our footsteps >To aspirations mount,

And drink from the (lowing river .Where God is called the fount;

And the angels of loving mercy Will give their willing hands,

To aid us up the starry path That points to better lands.

We know each new-born ellbrl A strengthening power will give,

And light from an immortal lire Within our souls shall live,

Dee Moines, Otl, 11th, 1880.

THE CRUSADE AGAINST SPIRITUALISM.

The Katie King Imbroglio.

I1Y J. M. ROBERTS.

[Continued] '

CHAPTER V,I.' The, So-called, Exposure of -Katie K ing,

On the 18th of December, 1874, twelve days after' Mr. Owen and Or. Child sent Out their, cards to (he Banner of Light, the Inquirer, of Philadelphia, published a reporter’s statement under the head­lines “ K atie King—A Burstod Bubble—A Full and Complete Exposure of a Miserable S w in d le - Facts from an Original Source.” In closing the introduction to his subject, the writer said, “ F i­nally, however, a gentleman of this city, possessed of time and means, a cool head and a clear mind, determined to trace the matter out. H e did so most successfully and from him our representative obtained the following facts concerning his opera­tions and their results.” This gentleman of means and [ensure was none o ther than Wm. 0 . Leslie, tho hired tool of prom inent and wealthy members of the Young Men’s Christian Association,of Phil­adelphia. T hat he was a man of leisure so far as being employed in an honorable business, a t tha t time, seems very certain, or he Would not have hired himself out to serve the enemies of tru th in the m anner he did in th is instance. That he was wealthy is not likely or he would not have sold him self as he did,

T hat Leslie was fully aware of the terrible crime in which lie was engaged is certain. H e had a t­tended nearly all the seances given by Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, and had been estimated by them as among the ir honest and sincere, patrons, A t the Tenth street house lie was a constant a ttendan t at the seances, and could a t ■-ny time have settled th e question as to w hether Mrs. W hite was the personator of "K atie K ing.” He had m onths be­fore gone to Mrs. W hite and told her tha t he and his employers thought she was “ K ntie 'K ing” and offered to give her $1,000, if she would say she

_\yas. H ad there been one particle of honesty or sincerity about th a t pretence it is impossible to believe th a t lie, Leslie, who was so anxious to earn his money by casting odium on the mediums would have sat there night after night with "K atie K ing” coming out of the cabinet to where he sat w ithout setting the m atter definitely a t rest by seizing the form and seeing it was Mrs. W hite. H e knew it was not Mrs. E liza W hite or any other

, m ortal being. H e was present a t the seance on Ju ly 5th, when "K atie K ing” came iii the most rem arkable m anner, appearing and disappearing out in Hie open room, and a t the close of the seance aided in tearing the cabinet down to see w hether there was any secret entrance to the cabinet and joined in signing th e certificate with Robert Dale Owen, Dr. Child, and seven other persons, stating th a t no mortal being could have personated the sp irit on th a t occasion. H e was also present when th e genuine photograph of “ Katie K ing” was ob­tained and publicly certified to the genuineness of th e spirit form th a t stood in his presence for th a t picture. The reader can, therefore, judge of the fearful guilt and er me tha t Leslie, in this instance, perpetrated. I would not go to spirit life w ith th a t guilt upon my soul for all this earth possesses. This is the man whose exploit we are about to present.

In the Inquirer’s report of the affair tha t paper sa id : “ The first interview ” (with Mrs. W hite)was a failure; the supposed Katie protested th a t she ‘did notrbelieve in Spiritualism, declared she had seen the> manifestations but once, and so far as she knew they were all right.” Compare th a t w ith the extract from Mrs. W hite’s letter to Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, w ritten the previous August, before given, and note the correspondence between them . T he inquirer’s narrative continues: "These assertions, however, did not satisfy the earnest

inquirer after tru th , and various schemes, devices, plans, and promises, were resorted to in hope of discovering some of the many ‘presents’ that had been made to Katie. * * * Through patience, perseverence, and certain considerations, one pres­en t was produced. This satisfied the gentlemen he was in the right place. More patience, perse­verance, and promises, and out dropped another,” &c. I f this part of the story is true, it shows one of two things, either th a t Mrs. W hite most reluc­tantly sold herself to bear false witness in the m atter, or that she was cunning enough to m ake Leslie’s employers pay her w elbfor her lying ser­vices. In either case her weak and immoral na­ture is rendered apparent.

The public were nex t told that, “The object of the gentleman’s (!) efforts, was to so narrow down the evidences of fraud tha t he m ight bo able to ‘Knock the bottom’ out of the humbug at a blow, and here was the object attained. * * * The presentation of those (the presents) could not fail to convince the persons who had given them to the spiritual Katie, th a t the latter had a place of deposite, on this planet for her valuables, so tha t course was determ ined upon.” The especial ob­ject which Mr. Leslie had, is here set forth with foolhardy frankness; and 'h is plan of proceeding disclosed in a way to expose the motives tha t gov­erned him and his associates in the ir nefarious schemes.

The Inquirer sa id : “ All who are acquainted wil h Hon. Robert Dale Owen and Dr. H enry T. Child, of th is city, will not hesitate to say th a t they are honest, upright, truthful men, but like the rest of humanity, they were liable to bo deceived.” T hat tha t was lamentably true of Mr. Owen,'his mis­placed confidence in Dr. Child and Wm. O. Leslie, too sadly demonstrated. The Inquirer continues, * " The party who had made the discovery* (Leslie) consulted these gentlemen, (Mr. Owen and Dr. Child) showing them tho ‘presents’ which Katie (Mrs. W hite) ■.■had':..kindly loaned him. They having been identified with the manifestuEfons from the first were considered, when the fraud was discovered, the proper parties to denounce them (the mediums).- One word from them casting doubt on the reality of the thing would have more effect upon the people than fifty exposures gotten up by outside parties. Moreover the Spiritualists who were the real victims, were supposed to have ■unlimited confidence in . th e integrity of these gentlemen.” H ere we have the dam ning confes­sion that the conspiracy in which William O. Leslie, Eliza White, and their employers were engaged, was to entrap Mr. Owen in to discrediting the phenomena with which he had been so fully idoivtified and thus strike a blow a t Spiritualism, which would be more damaging than fifty expo­sures gotten up by outside parties. We need look no further to discover the true inwardness of the horrible outrage w hich these Christian conspira­tors committed in the deception and fraud wiiich they practiced upon Mr. Owen. ‘

W e are then told by the Inquirer that, “ In or­d e r to make the conviction absolute on the part of those who had hitherto-endorsed the manifes­tations, tha t the ‘materialization’ was a most bare­faced humbug, the gentleman [Leslie] improvised a seance. Procuring a suitable apartm ent to which lie invited' a num ber o f K atie’s friends, the gentleman [Leslie] prearranged w ith the lady. [Mrs. W hite] who now acquiesced in his sugges­tions [lady and gentleman w ith a vengeance!] for her appearance dressed in the gauzy fabric and other trappings she used to disport herself in a t Holmes’ shows. She:did so, a sort of cabinet being, hastily improvised, and the exposure was rendered complete, beyond cavil or dispute. * * W ith commendable promptness they [Mr. Owen and Dr. Child] sent to the Banner o f Light, t h e ’ cards recently copied into our columns announc­ing their withdrawal of their confidence in the manifestations.”

Such was the account of his exploit which Wm,0 . Leslie made public through the Inquirer, which from tha t time became fully identified with the conspirators in the ir scheme to destroy Mr, Owen; its Christian editor—Mr. Harding—becoming a principal actor in the most diabolical journalistic deception that was ever attempted. We will al-; low Mr. Owen to explain how lie was lured into the trap set for him by the conspirators. Five m onths after Mr. Owen had been trapped-by his enemies, in the Banner o f Light, of May 1st, 1875, he offered the following excuse for his weak and irrational course. H esu id : ,

".I was a t first sight repelled, ra ther than at­tracted, by the Holmes, as Col. Olcott seems to have been by the E d dys; but I did not suffer such an impression to prejudice me. They came to us endorsed from England as ‘ powerful mediums,’ albeit in the course of my investigations they were followed by rum ors no.tas to their professional but the ir personal conduct in tha t country. [The ru­mors here referred to were afterwards acknow­ledged to be most unjust and unfounded,] I had several friendly letters of w arning also from earn­est friends here, who doubted th e m ; and I heard of course of the alleged exposure a t Blissfield in M ichigan; but I found no proof of these things. A nd as I had exacted what seemed severe te s ts ; had seen the cabinet partition between the seance room and the adjoining bed-room taken to pieces again and again, [on one occasion as soon as the sitting closed]; had seen the bed-room critically exam ined by four or five investigators just before the sitting began; its sole mode of exit, a window, effectually closed by a heavy bo lt; th en its door

without being seen by him-; and as all these pre­cautions did not at all arrest the [apparent] ma­terializations, I thought it due to the Holmeses to stand by them through good and through bad re­port ; and to express in strong term s my convic­tions of the genuine character of the phenomena.

“ I f I had not thus publicly and unqualifiedly vouched for them, no evidence short of that which would avail in a court of justice would have in ­duced me to publish my doubts of the ir fair deal­ing as mediums in any way. As it was, when ev­idence bringing moral conviction that there had been spine fraud was brought to me in the early days of last December, I deemed it my bounden duty not to arraign them as impostors, still less to bring against them a railing accusation; but to say, ‘circumstantial evidence had induced me to withdraw the assurances which I had given of the character of the manifestations which I had wit­nessed last summer.”

That was the explanation which Mr. Owen-gave of his otherwise most singular conduct. He closed that explanation with the following:

"T hese are the chief facts on both sides of this vexed case ; stated, I trust, w ithout malice. After carefully weighing them I reach two conclusions:

“ 1. T hat the Holmeses undoubtedly have, un­der certain conditions, considerable powers of ma­terialization. ■

“ 2. T hat they have dishonestly supplemented their powers to!a greater or less extent.

“ As regards what I have witnessed through their mediumship, I do not undertake to draw the line between the genuine and the spurious.”

And, yet, that was just wlmt any man in his rational senses, placed under the same circum­stances as Mr. Owen, would have done o r at­tempted to do. A t least Mr. Owen should havo pointed out what part of his published testimony he had reason to believe was incorrect. That lie did no t pursue, that rational course was doubtless owing to tho fact that lie could point to no part of what he had published lhat was not perfectly cor­rect and vindicatory of the medium's. This would seem to be admitted in tho following closing .sen­tence of his attempted explanation. He Btiid: “ I rejoice th a t this case, as a whole, instead of justi­fying suspicion touching the possibility of the phenomenon, known as spirit materialization, fur­nishes s tisiUctory proof of its reality.” Could any testimony more conclusively refute the alle­gations that Robert Dale Owen, ever repudiated any part of his published testimony regarding the “ Katie K ing” and other spirit materializations through Mr. and Mrs. Holmes? And yet how common a thing for men and women, calling them selves Spiritualists, to cite the sad fate of Mr. Owen as disproving spirit, materializations. Should there not lie an end of this propagation of a monstrous untruth. In so far ns the perfect-vin­dication of the mediumship and integrity of Mr. and Mrs, Holmes is concerned, we m ight rest the

for them on this acknowledgment of Mr.

of himself and Mr, Owen, to pay Mrs. W hite ten dollars each for her services. Dr. Child told me himself* that he had made such an arrangem ent with Mr. Leslie, and that he and Mr. Owen had paid twenty dollars to him for his bogus exhibi­tion. W hether Mr. Owen was ever defrauded out of that ten dollars, I do 'not know, but if so,-Dr. Child was responsible for the outrage. I t is not the least significant fact th a t the sham seance was not given at th e residence of Dr. Child w here Mr. Owen was sojourning, w here lie - would have had a chance of properly testing the tru th of th e m at­ter, and where lie would have had the righ t to in­sist that the sham performance should have been , given under the same or sim ilar test circumstances to those which attended the manifestations that were to be impeached. I t is another notable fact,' in connection with that mock seance, that out of the seven persons present, six of them, W illiam0. Leslie, Robert Dale Owen, Dr. Henry T. Child, Mrs. Child, Jacob L Paxson and Mrs. Buck waiter, were present a t the seance given by Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, on the 5th of Ju ly previous, when “Katie King” appeared over and over again in the most convincing m anner—when, at the r request, they were perm itted by the mediums, to take down the partition between the two rooms, and critically examine itr-and who at tha t tim e signed the cer­tificate, before given, in which they say, “That

. the said examination has convinced us beyond all possible doubt that the said partition was faith­fully constructed by the mechanics who put it up, and tha t the admission of any person through it was utterly impossible,’’ Anil yet these six persons pre­tended to see, in that mock performance of Eliza W hite, the repetition of w h a tjh e y had so em­phatically and unqualifiedly pronounced a s “u t­terly impossible;” Their readiness to bo con­vinced in the latter case, is in marked contrast with their extraordinary precaution to avoid being deceived in tho former one; and can only be. ac­counted for by what Leslie avowed in h is pub­lished statement, which was that the mock seance was improvised to secure the co-operation of Mr. Owen, to enable him and his confederates' to knoclc- the bottom out of the 'hum bug Spiritualism. By the hypocritical, and treacherous co-operation of Dr. Child and his friend J . L. Paxson, Leslie was only too successful.

In order to show the shallow absurdity of this scheme of deception, hear what Mr. Owen says of it. In his letter- of May 1st, 1,875,. he writes con-

ease

throughout the sitting outside th a t door in the passage, so th a t none could pass up or down stairs

Owen in their favor. I t is all tho more valuable

corning i The incidents of the ‘mock seance’

in as m uch as i t was made notwithstanding the< i HC'iioinpmiied the actress, al [ego i t was she,” . . I nterrible influence that was exerted upon him by Dr. Child, to prevent him from doing so.

I t will be remembered that simultaneously with the publication of Mr.. Owen’s card, Dr. Henry T. Child published his card of a sim ilar import. W hy did Dr. Child take tha t course? Most certainly not because he had any reason to question the mediumistic integrity of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes or the sp irit Innnifestious which occurred through th lm . W em uB tlook for h is motive in another and very different direction. „

I t has been shown in the preceding chapters thaj. Dr. Child knew not only th a t the presents tliat had been given “Katie K ing” had never been taken away by her, but that Mr. O wen was ignor­an t of th a t fact. He also knew tha t Mrs. W hite had obtained possession of those presents, in the m anner stated by Mr. and Mrs. Holmes. He fur­ther knew tha t it was Mrs. W hite’s intention to use them to obtain money from whoever might want to h ire or purchase them from her. He had hired Mrs.. W hite to stand for a counterfeit spirit photograph; had published and sold photographic

Kictures of her ns genuine pictures of "K atie !ing;” had illegally attached notice o f‘Copyright

to those Bpurious photographs; nnd he wns in constant expectation that his dishonesty would become known to his friend and guest, Mr. Owen. Such were the circumstances wheh. Wm. 0. Leslie called upon Dr. Child and Mr. Owen a t the form­er’s residence and told them that he had procured the trinkets from Mrs. W hite. The effect of that disclosure upon the minds of Mr. Owen and Dr. Child was very different. Mr. Owen naturally trusting, unsuspicious, and easily influenced by friepjls, was am azed.' Dr. Child, guilty, intriguing and treacherous, thought only of saving - himself. H e had wickedly deceived Mr. Owen as to his good faith and did not dare to- inform him as to tbe true state of the case. From that mo­rn en> he was doomed, for he a t once joined Leslie and Mrs. W hite in their scheme to dishonor, if not to destroy Mr. Owen..

Leslie had succeeded thus far beyond his most sanguine expectations in the execution of his scheme. He now proposed to convince Mr. Owen that Eliza W hite had been the only “Katie King” lie had ever seen. In this part of Mr.. Leslie’s plan Dr. Child co-operated, and by feigning to know the tru th of Leslie’s allegation, th a t Mrs. W hite was the genuine and and only “K atie King,” Dr. Child induced Mr. Owen to accept Mr. Leslie’s invitation to attend and w itness Mrs. W hite’s

(December 5th,) at which were present th ree gen­tlemen and three ladies besidb myself. Every one of these—and they were all frequenters of last Summer’s seances—agree with me in this tha t tho face whi :h appeared at the aperture, seemed tho selfsam e which we had so often seen in June and July last. There was close resemblances, also in demeanor and gestures, but the vanishing and re­appearance were clumsily enacted. I t is proper to add that we had no proof that the actor was Mrs, U7ii(e;' nor did Mr. Leslie, th e gentleman who

another place Mr. Owen wrote, “She (Mrs. W hite) studiously concealed, from me a t least, not only her name but her face. After what General Lip- nitt calls the 'in tick seance,’ a person declaring herself to be the confederate answered, very .plan-' sibly, to myself nnd a-few others, various questions touching the mode of enrrying on the (alleged) deceit. .B u t she was doubly veiled, so th a t not a feature was visible.” ■■ Such is the account which Mr. Owen gives of the character of that mock per­formance. I t is naturally very confounding to reflect that Mr. Owen, who’ was supposed to bo possessed of a rational mind,’ could have been de­ceived by such absurd doings, buj. this will not bo so ditlicult to understand when we have given our nex t paper of th is series. - . .

[to he continued.J

locked and sealed ; and a gentlem an rem ain ing isham performance. In order to m ake Dr. Child ♦Bi-nnoBnuf tBo oi«inr» nntoU/i tBof An™ in A ppear to be acting in good faith, in th e matter,

Leslie proposed and Dr. Child agreed, on behalf

Speoial Notice from "Bliss’ Chief’s” Band.

MK; Red Cloud, apeak for Black foot, the great Medioiue Chief from hnppy hunting-grounds. l ie say he love

white chiefs and squaws. He travel like: the wind. He go to circles. Him big: chief. Blaokfoot want much work to do, Him want to show-him healing; power.. Make slok people well. Where paper go, Blaokfoot go. Go quick. Send right away. No wampum for three moon. .

This spirit message was first published in M ind and M atter, January 10th, M. 8. 32, w ith the announcem ent th a t “ M agnetized Paper ” would be sent to all who were sick in body or m ind, tha t desired to be healed, also, to those that desired to be developed as spiritual mediums, for th ree m onths for three.3-ct, stamps. The three m onths have now closed w ith the following result:

3,405 persons have sent for the naper by mail.1,000 persons have received i t a t the office; arid the hundreds of testimonials th a t have been re­ceived of its wonderful work in h ea lin g th e sick and developing mediums, Drove tha t Red Cloud and Blackfoot have faithfully kept their promises. T hat all may have, an opportunity to test the m erits of the paper, the price for the future will be as follows:—1 sheet, ( jmstage paid,) 10 cents, 12 sheets, $1.00. Send a silver ten cent piece if you can. Address, Jam es A. Bliss, 713 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

A Proposition.I am prepared and will send to any one address,

direct from my office, one sheet o f "B lackfoot’s ” Magnetized Paper, postage paid, every week for one month for 40 cents; tw o m onths for 70 cents; th ree m onths for $1.00. Address w ith am ount enclosed, Jam es A. Bliss. .713 Sansom- S t, P h i l a ^

2 M I N D A N D M A T T E R . [OCTOBER 23, Mr 8.33.]

CHILDREN’S COLUMN.

“ MADE OF KISSES.”

BY A. .

“ What you made of, Maggie, dear?" ■Maggie turns from Rover,

With the strictest reverence. '(Just her grandma over!)

In the truest, bluest eyes, ■Back of sunny lushes, *

While the earnest answer comes,11 Made of dust and ashes." ■

‘‘ Wlmt you made of, Johnnie, lioy ?"Boy stands still a m inute;

If there’s any mischief round, ‘He's the one that's in it.

“ I ain't dirt!" His hrown eyes gleam,And he archly readhes

Toward the basket's winy hoard,“ Guess I'm creamnwd peaches,”

“ What you made of, Taddle, yet?"Taddie’s eyes are glowing,

Two white hands push back the curls,Two white teeth are showing;

And the smiles, they twinkle round Like n bund of blisses;

“ ’Cause they takes ’em all the time,'Sped I's made of kisses.”

—fAttic Corporal,

Nearly Drowned.The sun shone straight into little Jack Lawford’s

eyes one bright May morning, as if to say, ‘W hat are you doing in bed. at ibis tim e of day, you lazy fellow? Look at m e !’ and woke him up.

I t was to be a busy day. Jack had got to help bis father m end the nets, fetch water for his mother, and do manv other little odds and ends; besides which the lady up a t the great house had promised him sixpence if he could bring her a prettier basket of shells than his'little sister, and he was all eagerness to he oil'and try his luck.

Jack was just ten years old, a sturdy, well-made little fellow, with cheeks much redder than a great many apples, and eyes that looked you straight in the face, and said he wasn’t a bit afraid of you.

All the morning he worked hard, only getting up now and then to see if there were any of those great black clouds about ready to eat up his old friend.the sun, and frighten his mother intovkeep- in g h im at home all day, But there wasn’t one,- •only, a little mist rising far, far away. So..,after d inner was over, the two children took.theif hats and started oil’.

“ Take care of Mary, Jack, and mind the tides,” said his mother, as she stood at the door with baby in her arms."

“ Oh yes, mother, I ’ll m ind,” was. the answer, and off he ran with a H urrah 1 that bade fair to wake baby, and drove the old cat out of her slum­bers, up to the top of the cupboard in a fright, and kept her there in a very shaky state of nerves for some time to come.

“ Jack ,” said little Mary, “ if I got the sixpence do you know what I ’ll buy ? ”

“ Don’t be silly, you won’t get it. 'Why you hardly .know a shell when you see i t ! ” was the answer.

They walked on in silence for a few minutes, then Mary began vqry meekly, “ Jack what will you buy with it—when—when you have got i t ? ” ■“ I t’s a secret,” said Jack, and speaking low,-

“ Mind if I tell you, you m usn’t tell anybody—not father, nor mother, nor anybody. I f you do I ’ll, —I ’ll never toll you anything again, Mary.”

“ O h ! ” was all Mary could say, so overpowered was she at the awfulness of the threat.

“ Well, now, m ind you don’t. I t ’s a—no, you’re such a little chap, you k n o w ; I don’t th ink I can

'te ll you. O m y l there’s the jolliest, fattest old crab!. I ’ll take him home to fa th e r!” and off lie darted after it. leaving great pools behind him for foot-nrints as lie ran along the wet sand. ‘

“ Oh, Jack,” said little Mary coming up quite aghas't, “ it’s got claws I ”

“ W hy, of course it has! didn’t you even know th a t? ” said lie. “ You’re not afraid, are you, M ary?”

“ No,—y e s ; I th ink I am ‘a little, Jack,” for the old crab didn’t quite like being kicked, and tum ­bled over on its back, and looked very much in ­clined to pinch the fat little red lingers that were trying to hold it,

“ Girls are such cowards,” said Jack. “ Let us go on looking for shells.”

On they went, they hardly knew hpw far, for the clear sand spread out all around them) and the bright waves sparkled in the dazzling sunlight. One shell after another led them farther and further. Much too busy were they to mind the low quiet pause all along the sea line that told of the turn o f the tide, or the busy wavelets as they crept slowly on, closer and closer evor time, so slowly and quietly you could hardly see, unless you watched very close indeed, whether the tide was coming in or no t; but none the less surely,— inch by inch, little by little, on they came, nearer every in s tan t; now almost washing the children’s feet, then dancing away again in disgust, for both backs were turned to them, and both pairsof eyes were in ten t upon the shells and sea-weeds at their feet.

“ Jack, look!” cried little Mary at last, “ what a beauty bit of sea-weed th a t great wave gave m e!”

Jack bounded to his fert as if lie had been shot. “ Run, Mary, run,” he cried, seizing her by the hand and trying to drag her on. “ The sea is com­ing u p ! Q uick! or we shall be drow ned! Quick, qu ick !” ' - ,

Mary felt very much as if she should like to cry; bu t Jack was so rough; he had upset all her shells, and wouldn’t let her stop to pick them up; she was tired too, and could -not make out why lie wanted her to go so fast.

“ Jack,” she began in a tone of remonstrance, but.he only dragged her on the faster. The waves were a t their feet now, very near the cliffs indeed, and th ere was a weary way yet to go before they could be safe. The water was coming in faster every m inu te; first their poor cold ankles werecovered, then i t got very nearly up to their knees,

began to see that little Mary could go on no longer. W hat should he do ? O h ! if he onlyhadn’t turned his back just then, if he had only remembered w hat his m other had said! But it was no good thinking of th a t now. Jack was a very silly boy in some things, but he was clever

enough in others; and he was a brave boy, too. So he looked all about him , first a t the sea, but it was creeping on,—faster, faster, and there wasn’t a hope of climbing them. One little ledge sjtuck out, but it was only a little higher than the beach itself, far below high-water m a rk ; while above it the great chalk cliff rose,—a huge white mass w ithout break or bend.

I t was just better than the sands, however, and there Jack determ ined to 'go . B ut how ' to get Mary up, tha t was the puzzle; even if she had been old or strong enough, her poor little feet were slippery with wet, and her hands shivering with fright and cold.

“ I ’ve got i t !” ho said at last, w ith a bit of the old spirit th a t the sea seemed to have quite fright­ened out of him coming back; “ you must get on my back, M ary; qu ick!”

H alf dragged, half scrambling, she was hoisted up at last, and Jack, after many a slip, landed her and him self safely on the ledge. At any other tim e he would have throw n his cap up in the air, and shouted “ H urrah ” a t the top of his voice, but the terrible danger had sobered him, and he sat down by his little sister, put an arm round her waist, and holding her very tight indeed tried to forget those dreadful waves, and think of that great and good God who he had heard always took care of and loved little children.

Mary was sobbing bitterly. “ Oh, Jack,” she cried, creeping closer to him, “ I am s o -s o cold a n d 'so wet, and I want .to go home to mother. Jack, I don’t like being here in th is nasty place, the big waves frighten me Bp. Oh-! please take me away. I will get on your back again and hold on so tight. I want to go hom e;” and th e 'p o o r little girl nearly whined herself to sleep on his shoulder from cold and tiredness. .

Jack was very nearly sobbing, too. I t was growing dark, and those horrible waves, like great green monsters, were creeping on. He knew they could not be* much longer, and a sort of horror seized him . But just thon, far away ahead, he saw a white thing, walking, as it seemed, on the sea, and coming towards them.

Now, Jack had heard in Sunday school of how One did walk on the water very, very long ago, and he thought, silly little fellow! tha t tha t Great One had foreotten him and Mary all th is time, and was at last coming to help them, l ie didn’t know how near He always is, or perhaps he would not have been so frightened before. But the great white th ing came on, lo o k in g asif it had wings, and as it. drew nearer Jack saw clearer w hat it was. ‘

A boat at la s t! with the rising moon shining full upon her sails.

Then lie begun to wonder wlmt be should do to m ake them see him ; he couldn’t wave a handker­chief, because lie hadn 't got one; he couldn’t strike a match because lie hadn’t that either, and if lie had 'had it, it wouldn’t have been much good, for lie was'wet through, an d ,th e matches would have been so, too. He called, but there was no answer. The wind was getting up, and the waves made such a noise they drowned his voice, So he tore off his jacket, dripping with wet as it was, and the moonlight cu u g h tth e white lining as lie held it- up, waving it w ith all his might. And; the men in the boat saw and came, closer, closer, till the keel grilled against the cliff, and they were saved.

Jack remembered nothing more till lie woke up nex t morning to find him self warm and comforta­ble, lying in his father’s arm-chair, in a bundle of blankets, before the kitchen fire ; with his little sister just as usual, pulling pussy’s ears at his feet, and his mother bending over him, half lovingly, half reproachfully.

For a long time after neither Jack nor Mary ventured near the sea. W hat the lady at the great house did without her shells, I don’t know, and her friends at the cottage were much too frightened to get them for her.—Chatterbox.

COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY.

BY (!. II. 1’KCKIIA.M

k W hy should not the Norse Mythology have: the gentle JIanna as well as the Christian mythology the Babylonian Anna. Both have a common root in the Chaldculi scope of the heavens. Tbe H e­brew or Abrahamic mythology comes out of the Chaldean Ur or land of Fire, and the Sun or B urn­ing Bush was the Godhead of those days from the way of the East. On the same wise in the Norse Mythology— '

“ 'Twus the Hiuno will) which Odin sanctified ■ -God Buliler'H and Hanna's l i i l t h *

as quoted by Anderson from Longfellow. As Pen­elope was the Heaven in Iloiner, and the Spirit moved to the music of Ezekiella wheels w ithin wheels, so the Norse damsel—

“ .Span and span, and tho gold thread ran Into lmir, tho’ Lokc thought it a pity;

.Site span and wing to tho uledge hiunmcr'H clang This strange wild spinding-wliocl ditty."

The weaving of Penelope, the sewing of fig- leaves for Adam and Eve, the making of Joseph’s coat of many colors, and the seamless coat of our Savior, were all in the song of Moses and the Lamb, or " The strange wild spinning-wheel ditty ,” in accompaniment with Daniel’s cornet, flute, and saebut, dulcimer and harp. The warp and woof of the web which all th e ancient poets span and wove, stretched from east -to west, and was ren t by the variation of the seasons, and so th e vail of the temple was rent, and the earth did quake a t the crucifixion of our Savior. - This was th e mode of fulfilling Scripture when they parted h is raim ent among them, and'for his vesture they did cast lots. “ W hat more touching scene can be perceived than the death of Balder?” W hat more touching, too, than the death of Adonis, to whom. Syrian damsels and Zion’s daughters sang am or­ous ditties all a Summer's day. Adonis, ydkrly wounded, or slain from the foundation of the world when pierced his side, and forthwith Lame thereout blood and water, which ran purple to the sea.

W hen the Holy Ghost came to the Biblical Es- dras he directed that some things be published, and some things be shown secretly to the wise. W hen he drank from a full cup his heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in his breast, for the Spirit strengthened his memory. The cup would seem to have been the same as th a t which Joseph used in Egypt in the divination o f the Lord—'“ The cup w hereby my Lord d iv ineth .” The two hundred and four books which Esdras and the Scribes wrote in forty days, the first w rit­ten were to be published openly tha t the w orthy and unw orthy may read, but keep the seventy last th a t thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people; for in them is the spring and understanding,the fountain of wisdom, a n d ^ h e stream of knowledger

W ord in duplicate or seven times sealed, and thus did it judge the quick and the dead; for the W ord of God ii' quick and powerful, and sharper than any ‘two-edged sword, piercing even to the divid­ing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the jo in t and marrow, and is a' discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hea'rt. The same sword of the Lord turned every way to keep the Garden of Eden closed from interlopers. .• Some two hundred years before our era there arose 'a sect of come-outer Jews, who were wor­shippers of the Sun-Christ' from* the way of the East. They became" the early Christians from their ascetic habits and spiritual mode of living. “ Deriving their tenets, from the East, they be­lieved in the Persian dualism, regarded the Sun as the impersonation of the Supreme Light, and worshipped it in a modified way,” says the “ Keys of the Creeds.” -St. John used the Persian ma­chinery for his divine revelations, as one of the brethren of the Essenes. “ Forsaking civilization for the wilderness, they renounced all the pleas­ures of sense, and devoted themselves to the cul­ture of repentance and pious mysticism in the furtherance of the Kingdom of God on a broader basis than th a t contemplated by the Law. They had all property in common, and refused th e ordi­nary sacrifices, deeming themselves the only ac­ceptable sacrifice they could offer to God.” This to them cleanliness was a goodness of great gain, and so “attached vast importance to baptism, and, in virtue of the solar basis of their faith practiced the M ythraic rite of the Eucharist,” or Lord’s Sup­per. Hence the angel whom St. John saw stand­ing in the Sun cried with a loud voice to all the fowls th a t fly in the midst of heaven to come and gather themselves together unto the Supper of the great God. Such was the Lord’s Supper in those days as founded upon the solar basis when Wisr dom was justified of all her children. “ Perhaps it has not occurred to you that the Sacrament of bread and wine is traceable to such a source; yet how naturally does the eternal work of the Sun, daily renewed, express itself in such lines as

Into Dread his heat is turned,Into generous wine his light,

And imagining the Sun as a person, the change to ‘•flesh’ aiid ‘ blood,’ becomes inevitable; while the fact that tho solar forces are actually changed into food without forfeiting their solar character, finds expression in the doctrines of transubstan- tiation and the real presence.” Thus we may see how the Sun-ciirtst or Saviour could feed his thou­sands from heaven, and the fragments be gathered up so that nothing was lost. AVliat but ignorance and superstition keep the churches forever cling­ing to the earth plane, and wallowing in the hor­rible pit and miry, eby ,instead of finding the way. to the stars where, the Sun-Jesus is enthroned in excellency on the sky, the Supreme L ij'lit that should light every one tha t coineth into the world? W hy sit" the people forever in the dark valley and shadow of death, when in open vision light is so ready to spring up ? W hy not go into tho kingdom in the sight of all Israel and tho Sun? Now is the accepted time and the day of salvation, to know the tru th , tha t the. truth-m ay make all free. A las! th a t the churches have so much dwarfed the minds of the people tha t they can no longer follow the wise men from tho East, nor see from thence the coming Man who was) and is, and is to come, the Alpha and Omega and Amen.

“ O when shall they see Jeans.And reign witli him above,

And from llmt flowing fountain,Drink everlasting love,"

had five compilations-before they reached the ir present formation, so that God’s word is made up with here a little and there a little from all the various sources; hence the Hebrew and Christian Messiah is always in line with the Sun shining unto the darkness tha t the darkness did not compre­hend. Jacob’s well was deep, and the tru th lying at the bottom did not often show itself so clearly that th e woman of Samaria could understand it in its parables and dark sayiiigs. But very few even' unto th is day are able to open the Book w ritten w ithin and on the .back side apd sealed with seven seals. I t requires a good deal of following on to know the Lord in his way from tile East before their is sufficiently of open vision to behold his Star as seen by the wise men of those days.

According to Berossus, as quoted by Lundy, the Fish-Christ in the name of Pannes passed the night in the deep, for he was amphibious,-and thus like Jonah could pass thro’ chaos or abyss of waters. The mythical Jesus, like Jonah in the whale’s belly, was the same old Fish-god in the apt sign from heaven. “And this being who re­veals and teaches man knowledge, comes from.. the abyss of infinite’and fathomless mystery, and after doing good to men, retiring again into it, is no other than Christ Jesus the Son of God and Saviour of the world, the sacred Fish of early Christianity. W hether' Clement or his master Pantenus, .first suggested the Fish as a sign of Christ, according to th is old O riental mythical type, it is not easy to say. The fact is unquestion­able, w hatever its origin or significance.” I t ap­pears th a t it was the Christ-Fish th a t saved the young Tobias for the seven times wedded maid, the Sara or heroine of seven husbands whom Asmodeus. the evil spirit, had killed before they had been with her. The name piscina given to the baptismal font, of which the water, the element of fishes, purifies us from all stain and becomes the means of salvation, is derived from the Fish symbolizing him by whom we are nourished, healed and redeem ed; or as St. Augustine says, “The broiled fish is Christ,” or as another puts it

“The fish friedWas Christ Hint died."

So that we may eat the body of Christ in various transubstanliations.

1880.

from that large cup of the heavens which the Sun- Christ and the Virgin so bountifully fill with wine, for the Son hath trodden the V irgin, the daugliter of Judah in a wine press, and th is his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness, or the Sun of righteousness with healing in his wings. “Absolute perfection as imagined by religious genius necessarily becomes personified,” and as the Sun was the most perfect of all the heavenly host, so did lie Stand for the various conceptions of the soul to make the king­dom of heaven within according to tho fullness of the God-head bodily. I f the worshipper was or­ganized on an inferior piano of being, the God presented him self in a somewhat questionable shape, the same as we see in all the ignorance and bigotry of the ages, The ideally good have a very nice aspect of the God, but the low and gross of mind or brain, the persecutors and calumniators of all beyond their own bleared vision, are those coiled in the Dragon’s tail, and have much pro­clivity to the realms below as seemingly past all surgery and incapable of inheriting the more ex­cellent way,

“Precisely as Christ, the Ideal man, was as we have seen, the natural sequence and outcome of the character and history of the Jew ish race, so was Catholic Rome the natural sequence and out­come of Pagan Rome,” and so were all flie reli­gions, the evolutions or outcome from the common root of the m atter in the old Nature worship, the physical and the spiritual interblended. “Pro­jecting man and the system of which he is a part, into the infinite existing in the imagination, we arrive successively at’ the ideas of God and the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Atonement, Immor- tiility,‘Satan, Heaven and Hell.” (

The Sun in the sign of the Fishes became the fisherof men for tho’on somewhat short commons during Lent, there would soon be more bountiful food from heaven. The first Christ must fast forty days before he can lie at hom e in the house of the Lamb—to be hungry and to be tem pted by the Devil to m ake bread out of stones. Before the true bread can be sent from heaven, before the paved work of the Sapphire Stone can be lurn&l into bread, the Saviour must pass th ro ’ many wafers, and m u s t cry with the psalmist, “ Save me, 0 God, for the waters came unto my soul. I sink in deep m ire where there is no standing. I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.” But he in due season escapes from the clutches of. the under-world Devil by thy right hand 0 Lord God of hosts. Says Lundy, “ I can­not disguise facts. Truth demands no concealment or apology. Paganism has its types And prophe­cies of Christ as well of Judaism. VVhat, then, is the Dag-on of the old Babylonians? The Fish-god or Being tha t taught them all their civilization. W here did the Jews learn to apply Dag to their Messiah? A nd why did the prim itive Church adopt it as a sign of Christ? Mr. George Smith finds some 2000 years before our era the Sun and Zodiacal m achinery in full operation in Babylonia or Chaldea, and on that basis w ith some lively, stones from Egypt, did the Jews build God’s word when their God was from the way of th e East. W hen Dag or the Fish preluded the Messiah, it was w hen the Sun or Son of man was bn th e same war path against the hosts of the Dragon. Ewald

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A Friendly Difference of* Views.i To the Editor o f Mind and Matter:

N ew Y ork, Oct. 18By inserting in your paper the articles of

Stephen Pearl Andrews upon the Gospel of St, John and the Book of Jonah, you have done a deed which must result in benefif tb hum anity a t large. The m ore one reads'o f th a t which pro­ceeds from his scholarly pen, the more one feels the loss which the world sustains in consequence of the reluctance which' publishers have to put before the ir readers anything which doe's not fall in with the commonly taught (though but little believed by those who teach) elements of Chris­tianity. These papers of Andrews however speak for” themselves, and you have so judiciously no­ticed them in your last issue that, a t the present time, I need say no more about them . I t is upon a different subject tha t I now h av e my pen in hand, but I could not help, in th is my first epistle to you, thanking you for the service which you have performed in p u tting these expositions into circulation.• Your issue of October 2d did not reach me until a week late, or 1 should have written this before. In th a t num ber you comment upon the action of the Liberal League in the matter of the Comstock Law. By opening up-your columns to the discus­sion of subjects without the pale of Spiritualism, you have greatly enhanced the value of your paper, and it is to be hoped that you will continue to iiotice m atters belonging to Liberalism gener­ally, as well as those of your specific branch. I must, however, say a word or two respecting your comments on the proceedings of Messrs. Wake- man, Leland, and Bennett, in the m atter at issue.

In my opinion you h av em is ta k en the point which is maintained by the action of those gentle­men and the League. No one will be found to deny tha t anything which will encourage vice and im m orality should be suppressed. The question ; iiifdispute is, by what means can th is suppression bo the mpst surely and effectually encompassed ? I t seems to be a characteristic of the human mind, that it will Seek after those things from which it is .b y force endeavored to be restrained. We,loyUj JUl cIlUA/tlVUl l/U IU UL 1 l/Wtl HilR/Ut tf L|therefore, find that the surest way to repress any vicious tendency, is not to pass a law against the performance of the act to be discouraged) but to leave the consequences of its committal to society in the aggregate. A man is much more punctili­ous in m atters of mere honor than in those which are taken cognizance of by the courts of law.

Again, by such an enactment as tha t in question, it is left too much to the discretion of one or two individuals, to say w hat shall be considered inju­rious to the public morals. I t places in the hands of a few who may indeed b eae tu a ted b y righteous motives, an engine by which they can crush their fellowmeiijifqr the expression o f m ere differences of opinion. The.great body o f the.people is much more certain to act justly iri the defence of its own morality than is any man, or any selected few. And its action is sure to be more efficacious.. The ^repeal of the Comstock laws would, therefore, in ­asmuch as they are powerless to effect that for which they were enacted, be a benefit to society, which can ‘safely be trusted to deal with inflexible justice and stern judgment, with those who shall in the smallest degree infringe its unwritten, yCt unm istakable) mandates. .

J ohn Storer Conn.[W e presume our esteemed correspondent had

not seen our reply to Messrs. Leland, W akeman and the T ndh Seeker, in our issue of the 9th ihst., when he wrote as above. We cannot see how the act in question interferes with “ the expression of m ere differences of opinion,” and would be glad to be shown to the contrary, if it does.—E d .]

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SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS.

ALFRED JAMES, MEDIUM.

M rs. M ary .Nice!*'G ood A fternoon :—I was not a sm art old wo­

man, bu t I was just smart enough to know what was right. There is only one thing I am sorry for and th a t is thatJ. had not been born a man, for I th ink I wouldHiave done a good deal more good than the men who lived around the place where I settled. I am an old pioneer woman, and I was down on agents and sewing-machine men. I did not like to have them bothering around my place. I liked freedom—I liked elbow-room to turn around in and I wanted no gossiping neighbors. That was my reason for going West. I lived to see §6 years of th is life. I d idn’t like any humbug nonsense. I liked to think for myself. All le v e r had to do with religion was, because I knew no better. You talk about your women suffrage; but I ’ll say to these women, just hold on a bit until you get on the other side and you will find that that’s the country where a good many men will be m ighty anxious for you to give them a helping hand. I find I must come here and give you a good, solid, honest testimony and to say this, You’ll find who are the humbugs and who ain ’t when you get over here. W hat you th in k is right, here, you will find all wrong when you come to be a spirit. You can just say, th is is from Mrs. Mary Nice, the first white woman in W est Liberty, Iowa. I thank you for th is same honor and chance. I passed on something like seven months ago.. I was an ignorant old .woman, but one, I th ink, th a t had good common sense. My husband died long ago. ■ ,

[This "spirit was evidently of Irish extraction, for there was a perceptible brogue all through the delivery of the communication.]—E d .

John Curry .G ood A fternoon :—Like the woman that has

just been here, I was inclined to the Catholic reli- ■ gion, but, during my mortal life, 1 was placed in a position tha t showed me how little a person’s reli­gious convictions weighed when his or her personal interests were endangered. That is, 1 was a crier in the U nited. States Court, at Wilmington, Del,, and I had a good chance to study life and if 1 did not profit by it, it was my own fault. I have seen Catholics, Protestants and Jews commit perjury w here the ir personal interests were at stake, and so I became possessed of th is idea tha t self-pre­servation was the first law of nature, no matter who suffered. That was the first thing that made me waver in my allegiance to Catholicism; not hilt .what I called for a priest in.m y last sickness, bu t tha t was the result of psychologizing influ­ences around me w h en ! was weak and my friends around me strong and in health. In that wav I was made, in my dying hours, the slave of the ■prejudices I acquired" from m y ancestors, I t is mv principal business in coming here to-day to toll people if they want to die as they have lived they should have no person around them on their deathbed. T hat will always lead them from their honest convictions, and they will regret it as long sis the ir spirit exists and -from what I can learn tha t is forever. .So this is.a warning to my rela­tions and friends to save, Ihem from becoming miserable as spirits. My .name is John C urr^ ..

M ordec.v i.Stewart R oihnson.G ood A fternoon, Si r :—Sir, this life beyond the

grave is to me as deep an enigma as it was when I was in my mortal state. T hat man or woman who th inks "that death solves the riddle of life knows nothing. While the mortal life has its lim itations the spirit life has no limitations what­ever. I t is its incomprehensible vastness that staggers me. All that you see in the mortal life is duplicated in the spirit life, You will there see all the different grades o f life th a t you see here. There are as many busy priests and ministers there as here, who say : •“ L o ! here is the way,” and others saying, "Come my way,” until in tlje con­fusion of this spirit Babel, you ’sigh and say, “ O h ! for th a t rest; tha t I expected to find boyond the grave.” You seem to be lost for a time, and then the inherent energies of your sp irit awakes, when you find that reason is as much a savior in the spirit life as it is in the mortal one. I t is, sir, but too true that the way of spirit happiness is straight, yet, few there be who find it. There is

. this difference between the m ortal.juid the spirit life. The spirit through a superior clairvoyance sees the inherent tendencies or desires of your spirit, and where there is one m ortal who has perceptive powers enough to detect th is in your m ortal state, there are thousands of spirits who look you th rough ; and they say, “H ere is another adheren t to njy particular doctrine or theory, and here they trap you and give you a rest on the road to progression, b u t th a t rest ia hell, This commu­nication, sir, is from a well read man, who entered spirit life with a thousand ‘ may-bes,’ that is with fhe, idea that such and such things may be true, bu t w ith no definite course m arked out fo r 'h is spirit; S ir,in coming here to-day I seek a definite opiect—a definite objective point for my spirit efforts.- I f I cannot do th i s ! will be betrayed into a hell, by these smooth-tongued, canting, hypo­critical spirits. -1 must obtain from you that which will lead to success as a spirit, if I can. I am told th a t you will tell me th a t spirit vacillation is death to sp irit life. This, I know'. I lived and died in A nna Arundel county. M aryland. My name was Mordecai Stewart Rooinson.

[This spirit seemed to be in the greatest fear of being deceived by spirits who sought to win him to th e ir ranks as sectarians. H e seemed to have no settled religious leanings; and i t w aslh is fact that caused him so much doubt and uncerta in ty 'as a spirit* H e was advised to work for the enlightr enm ent of those very spirits who were seeking to hold him back, and tha t he could have no more useful object than that. H e seemed to realize this and left, promising to act upon our counsel.]—Ed .

M rs. A da C. C lark .G ood A fternoon :— I seem to be in that m ysti­

fied condition tha t I do not know what to do. I don’t know how to proceed. I w ent away from here relying on the m erits of a Saviour. I t has failed to bring me either happiness or any light how to proceed. In fact my life as a spirit is like a dream, misty, vague and indefinite. I hear voices. I hold conversations, and yet these fail to enlighten me. There is an old saying—

“ Where ignorance is bliss,’Tis folly to be wise."

B ut ignorance w ith me is not bliss. I t is monot­ony and it kills the aspirations of my spirit. * W ake up thou, dream er,’ says a spirit to me ‘ and

I will take you where you will see your way clear­ly, because this step is necessary for your conver­sion to the true principles govering sp irit l ife ;’ and through this spirit I arp brought here. I know her not, but she has tha t illum inated ap­pearance which surrounds spirits of intelligence. She says there are two kinds of theology—one is the dead and the other the living—and asks me if I want to drink of the waters of everlasting tru th and happiness. I have answered, “ Yes, indeed I do, for I am so befqgged that I don’t know which wav to go.” I am left with only an expectant feeling of some one to redeem me. This bright spirit tells me I must redeem myself. “ Teach me the way.” She said, “ Come with me,” and she brought me here and told me to state my condi­tion, and after I would receive the explanation you would give me, she would bear me onward to the realms of spirit happiness. I have obeyed her.I have been three years a spirit. I died a t P rovi­dence, It. I. My age wras thirty-six years. My name was Mrs. Ada C. Clark. This sp irit now tells me* her name is Conant. She says- she could not tell me before I took this step. She calls her­self a missionary. I was a Presbyterian Congre- gationalist.

[W e advised this spirit td think only of becom­ing a spirit missionary, as was the b right spirit who had brought her, and the way she sought would open before her in suoli grand sublimity- that she could not then conceive it. This was one of many desponding spirits brought to us by the angelic Fanny Conant and sent on h e r spirit career rejoicing. God prosper her beneficent la­bors say we.]—E d .

SrEusim is (A Grecian Philosopher).Sir :— You see the effects of false teaching upon

mortals, when they reach the spirit state, moBt vividly displayed here to-day, and this state of affairs will continue until man learns tha t reason is the true Saviour. How many times among the groves of ancient Athens, have I tried to make men th in k ; but the school of philosophy was too dry for them, They preferred those transitory pleasures which soon pall and sicken the senses, and that bring young and vigorous manhood to an untimely grave. Pause, sir, and th ink for a moment of the millions of sensualists who have passed to the spirit life, and rem em bering their power of obsession, and look abroad upon the state of humanity to-day, and can you wonder at the results. There m ust be, before there is any spiritual progression, a great physical regeneration. F irst purify the temple in which the sp irit dwells, and then you will have such a flood of spiritual light as never before was known. As you wisely state at the head of your paper, the physical life is the primary school in the great study of the law of development; and until this physical life is philosophically and scientifically understood, there will be a lack of knowledge, and of th a t k ind of knowledge that leads to important results. There are not more than ten per cent, of spirits living, to-day, in mortal bodies, who really try to under­stand why they live and what they should live for. I pause here to say that all the troubles of the,m orta l life are brought, on by the failure 6f people to think. .If .they would--follow the old Grecian precept, “Man know thyself,” evil would have grown far less than it has done, and the good would have been more nearly trium phant. But, as things a re ,m ank ind have one bitter experi­ence on to p 'o f another for they refuse to think and to try to live in accordance with the laws of nature, and they sutler both in this and the spirit life. The advance of knowledge has been so great in this last century, tha t people who rem ain igno­rant, do so simply because they are too indolent to learn. Before I close this communication, I want to draw a picture of the difference between the advent of a well informed spirit and an ignorant one in spirit. As the former had been a th inker here, he passes to spirit life a th inker, and he has the force within- his sp irit to th ink himself free from false teachings and erro­neous ideas, and his progression is im m ediate and rapid. On the o ther hand an ignorant spirit chases afley everything that happens to take his fancy .' H e runs now this way—now th a t way following all kinds of evjj^-all kinds of foolishness —and worse than all, is psychologized by, every spirit who knows more than himself, and in that he fails for an untold num jM of years to reach anything like happiness. In This you will find the . gist of this communication. W hen here my un­cle’s idea was too idealistic for me. I preferred a natural philosophy—one in conformity with na­ture to an idealistic heaven, or what m ight be term ed spiritual bliss. My heaven was of a prac­tical kind, and I th in k I have found practical happiness as a spirit. I lived about 350 years be­fore, not Christ, but Christianity-. ; My nam e was Speusippus. I was a nephew of Platoi

[W e take the following sketch of the life of Spensippus from the Nouvelle Biographic Gcnerale. —E d.]

- “ Speusippus, a Grecian philosopher, was born a t A thens and lived in the fouYth century before Christ. H e was the son of Eurymedon and Po- tone, sister of Plato. All th a t we know of his life is that he accompanied his uncle on h is th ird voyage to Sicily, and tha t he conducted h im self at .the court of Syracuse with such tact and modera­tion as to cause the sarcastic Tirnoii in attacking his doctrines to spare his manners. Athemeus and Diogenes Laertius have accused him ,of being avaricious, subject to fits of anger, aud voluptuous, but these reproaches do not seem to be well founded. Plato chose him for h is successor, and Speusippus directed the academy for eight years from 347 to 339. T here remains nothing of his numerous tyritings, of which Diogenes Laertius has given only a very incomplete list. H e com­posed almost all h is treatises in the form of dia­logues. On the Pleasures, On Riches (against Aris­tippus), On Justice, On Government, On Philosophy, On K inds and Species. In these different works Speusippus took as the point of his departure the doctrines of Plato, bu t he did riot follow them in application, and approached much more closely the moral philosophy of Aristotle, his contempo­rary. Notwithstanding these agreem ents in their philosophical views, Aristotle attacked Speusip­pus on several points. This philospher endeav­ored to give more precision to certain theories of Plato., Thus he distinguished more clearly the th ree parts of philosophy—dialectics, ethics and physics, He endeavored also to give the separate essences of numbers, of space, of the soul, that Plato had attributed to the same principle. As the principle of things, he disagreed w ith his mas­ter in not identifying it with good and in regard­ing it as a kind of abstraction. But h is doctrine is too little known to be given in detail. I t is sufficient to say of him that, if, in his ethical theo­ries he approached Aristotle, in metaphysics he did not less approach the Pythagoricians, the the­

ory of num bers held a great place in his philo­sophical conceptions.”

[We have not time and space to give the ex­tended criticisms we have examined in choosing the above sketch, and which all tend in the most remarkable degree to identify the communicating spirit as having been in reality the sp irit of Speu­sippus the nephew of P la to .. We know the me­dium through whom the communication came knew nothing whatever of the name, much less the circumstances that we have given above con­cerning him. We do not know how these com­munications from ancient spirits strike our read­ers, but to us they seem of transcendent impor­tance. Fam iliar With them as we have become, we are none the less amazed at the revelations* they are m aking of long unknown or carefully concealed information concerning the most preg­nant and im portant era of the world’s history in all the past. Read and ponder these communica­tions, for they are replete with instruction.—E d .)

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SHALL WE HAVE A HOME FOR W0RN0UT MEDI­UMS ?—THE QUESTION BEING SUB­

STANTIALLY ANSWERED.

Letters From Annie C. Rail, Dr. B.- C. Featherolf, Mrs. A. G. W. Carter, E. Manning, and

Hon. Thomas R. Hazard.

Who Speaks Next?

The fund towards founding a Home for Worn- out Mediums slowly, but surely begins to accumu­late. Mediums from all parts of the country are beginning to realize th a t it is possible to found such a Home and are sending us letters of encour­agement. T he movement will be a success if ev­ery Spiritualist will do his or her part. The lady who originated the idea has the strongest endorse­m ent as being the right person in th e right place to carry on such a work, until the proper .officers are elected to take charge 'of the details. We take the liberty to make a few extracts from a private letter received from her a few days ago. She says; •

“ Lam quite sanguine of success, though I have already heard from the croakers; but they are mostly dyspeptic—their stomachs do not digest the food, and the ir brains partake of the disease; but we must keep our hands to the plow. I have a few names, and 1 will'send them, th a t they may figure in M ind and M atter. I will say that the first dollar given, was by Joseph Kinsey (of Cin­cinnati) ‘ For Annie'C. Kali’s Home for Mediums.’ We had a little laugh over it th e n ; but I am of the opinion tha t it will not be any 'th ing to laugh a t: when we see a comfortable home established, it will make m any a weary heart glad. The names I send you only give a few dollars, but no doubt it is seed sown in good ground. 1 want to see this matter come right before the world—an actual en­comium to the Spiritualists of America to have a Home for Mediums. W lu it! m illions of Spiritual­ists and no Mediums’ Home? No, th is must not be. Yours for the cause, A n n ie 0 . K ali.,”

G enerous O ffer of D r. B, L. F eatherolf.

Tamaqua, l ’a., October 4th. 1880. Dear S ir :—The call of Mrs. ltall for a homo for

aged, sick, or wearied mediums, meets my fullest approval. 1 believe it could be accomplished with an endowment fund of ten times the amount she calls for, if every one who has received benefit through mediumship, would contribute a mite for the benefits derived in the physical, without say­ing anything about the blessings received spirit­ually. I will subscribe to pay $10,00 for the Home, when $5,001) has been subscribed. I will also make six sets of teeth, first-class work, worth $25.00 a set, for $15.00 a set, for any Spiritualists desiring to aid the object, and donate the whole of the m oney, $90.00 to the Home. Yours frater­nally, B. L. F etherolf.

L etter from K. M an ning .Harrisburg, Franklin Co., O., Sept. 27, M, S. 33.

B ro. K oherts:—I t gives me .much pleasure to see the suggestion of our beloved sister Annie C. Rail, of Cincinnati, Ohio, in regard to establishing a home for our worn out mediums is meeting with favor. You m ay put me down .for one whose in ­fluence nnd money shall be ready for that noble undertaking. In view of what all our best m edi­ums have suffered from the vile tongue of slander and persecution should it not enlist the sym pathy and the m eans of every true Spiritualist in favor of all true mediums, so that they will feel that there are a few Who will not forsake them. As we can only look for messages from our ascended kindred and friends from the chosen instrum ents of the Most High, who have been targets for every malicious and- evil disposed person to cast their firey darts and lies at their vital parts for the sole object.of th e ir total destruction. Is it not enough to make the heart of every true Spiritualist bleed with sympathy? I f there is any one who calls him or herself a Spiritualist, and will no t stand by th e chosen of heaven, they are not w orthy of their calling. Go on, Brother Roberts, protect our m e­diums; your calling is a blessed one, and may you lib long spared to battle for the right. * * Yours truly, ’ . E. M anning .

L etter from J I iis. A. G. W . Carter.V . Cincinnati, Oct. 12, 1880.

friend- Roberts:—Mrs. A nna Carver Rail, of our city, is one ofHha_Live workers whose heart is most thoroughly imbued with the necessity for a Home for tired and worn out mediums. To this end she has sent forth a call asking the attention —backed by money—of all interested in the cause of Spiritualism. You may put m e down for $1. Why. should Spiritualists be tardy in responding to this call? Every medium and Spiritualist should see to it tha t we have a’Home w orthy the object. Let me say right here, th a t Mrs. Rail’s parlors are open every Sunday afternoon to those who are hungry for spiritual food. The fountain is free to all. Last Sunday I was present and heard a very able discourse from F ather Pierpont, through the mediumship of Mrs. Rail. Mrs. Fletcher also gave sweet messages for spirit chil­dren. Mrs. Mosser, an independent slate w riting medium, was also present. By the way, Mrs. Mosser is gaining a Btrong hold in the hearts of the people here, Cincinnati does not support lec­ture^ but it does feel proud of its many good me­diums. Sincerely,

M rs. A. G. W, Carter,

L etter 'F rom ttie ' ,‘ M ediums’ F rien d .”

.... Peacedale, R. I., Oct. 3, 1880.Mrs. Anna C. Rail— Dear M adam :—Your letter

of 21st ult, was received just after I had left home for this place, where I am staying a few daysv As regards Vour query concerning some materializing medium visiting Cincinnati th is Fall, I would say, tha t I am not at present posted enough in regard to the m atter to give a definite reply. In fact, I have been for the pastSum m er very much isolated from mediums. I shall probably remain here for several weeks to com e.' As regards your project to institute a Home for impoverished aged medi­ums I will say, I should be very glad to contribute according to my ability towards the establishm ent of a good institu te of the kind could it be made practicable. -But you no doubt are aware that the raising of a suitable fund is but a part of such an enterprise. I t requires able, honest and efficient persons to properly care for and appropriate the funds when collected for the object in view and to conduct the institute when founded. My present impressions are that individual contributors would do as well to venture what they have to give to such mediums as they seem all in need and allow them or their more intim ate friends to appropri­ate the donations to their benefit w ithout the amount being detracted from by the expenses ne­cessarily incurred by the establishment and con­ducting of a public institute. Should yon, how­ever, succeed in raising and properly appropriating the necessary funds to establish such an institution as you propose on a stable foundation, should I then be living, I th ink I m ight be willing to con­tribute to its funds a larger amount than you now propose to receive from individual contributors.

Yours truly, T homas R. H azard.

Since writing the above, we have received a later letter from A nnie C. ltall, and will give our readers the benefit of a few extracts from i t :

" Enclosed you will find a letter from our dear sister, M. T. Siielhamer. I send it that you may write an article and introduce her suggestion. [The suggestion of Miss Shelhamcr was that after all the money was collected that could be obtained, . then there should be a few thousand slips printed on paper the size.of a brick, and the words ‘good for ten cen ts’ or something of the kind printed across the face of it, and sell them for ten cents each—each paper to represent a brick in the building.] I th ink the idea a grand one. Just th ink of the idea—tickets with a nice red brick, w ith ‘ To Build a Mediums’ H om e’ on it. I t would be novel, nnd a t ten cents a ticket, almost every person would take from one to ten, aud thereby each have an interest, in the Home. They might lie advertised in-the Banner o f JJght, M in d and M atter, Voice o f Angels, and other .papers who are friendly to mediums. Miss Shellmmer says try this when the donations come slowly; but iny impression is to a t once put it before the pub­lic in tins nov^l m anner. I know the blessed an­gels are looking on to see who are coming first to. this wedding feast. Possibly we shall have to go into th e 1 hedges aud ditches;’ if so, let us go una­wares, in tattered garm ents—we may find our best- helpers, angels in disguise. 1 have’solicited Mr. Benj. E. H opkins of th is city to act as. treasurer. Mo is a reliable and well known Spiritualist, a n d '.. has consented to take the position until other a r ­rangements can be m ade.

" Your sister in the cause," A nni e <J. KAll.”

The suggestions o f Miss Shelhamcr and Sister Rail meet w ith pur hearty approval; but we would - first advise them to see to i t that an organization of some k in d is formed in the city of C incinnati, and that im m ediate steps should be taken to se­cure an act o f incorporation from the Legislature. ' of the State o f Ohio. W e trust, the friends in C in­cinnati w ill Bee that this most important sugges­tion is carried out.

H ome F or W orn O ut M ediums.

W e, the undersigned, pledgo ourselves to give the amount set opposite our names, towards found­ing a H om e for w o rn , out m elium s, when said amount pledged shall reach, the sum of live thou­sand dollars.Joseph Kinsey, Cincinnati, Ohio................................ J 1 00•J. ]1. CainphnU, M; 1), V. I),, Cincinnati, Ohio........... 10 (X)Janieo A, Ulins, Philadelphia. Pa................................ 1(1 00-Phebo Cross, New Lennox, ill.......... ......................... 1 (X)Mr, N. AV. Brown, Nederland, Colo........................... ! 00Mrs. N, W, Brown, " " .......................... 1 00Mrs. Mary K, Williams, Nederland, Colo................... 1 00Thomas Atklnaon, Oxford, Ind, (Paid).......... ......... . 1 (X>1). L. Fetherolf, Tamaqua, l ’u..................................... 10 00B. L. Kctherolf, oiler of profcaaiqnal services............. iK> 00Mra. WilllnmB, Cincinnati, Ohio,............................... . 1 00Miss Jcnnlo Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio..,......... ......... 1 IX)Mr. It, O.. Kerr, Augusta, Ua....................................... 1 00Mrs. H. 0. Korr, " " ................. ..................... 1 00Miss M. T. Shelnnmcr, Boston, Muss....... ................... 1 OtrRobert Anderson, ' " " ........................ 1 00'John Winterbnrn,''Cincinnati, Ohio........................ . 1 0t>A, V. Goodin, Cave Springs, Mo............ .................... 1 00Benefit Materializing Seance, given by Mr. and Mrs.

• Jas. A. Bliss, Sunday Kvenlng, Oct. 17th, (Paid)... 10 20Thomas AtkiiiBon; Oxford, Ind,; (Paid)...................... 1 00C. B. Peokham, Nowpert, It. I., (Paid).:.................. 1 00Mrs. A, G. W. Carter, Cincinnati, Ohio................... . 1. (X)

Another Discovery.Prof, Swift, Astronomer of the W arner Obser­

vatory, a t Rochester, N. Y., discovered another large comet on the evening of October 10th. T he fact was noted in the associated Press dispatches, bu t some im portant and interesting details which could not be telegraphed are herewith given. The new celestial visitor is in the Constellation o f Pegasus, righ t ascension, 21 hours, 30 m inutes, declination North 17 degrees, 30 minutes. I ts rate of motion, is quite slow, being in a N orth ­westerly direction, so th a t it is approaching th e sun." I t lias a very strong condensation on one side of the centre, in addition to a starlike neuclus, which indicates th a t it is throwing oft an ex­tended tail. From the fact of its extraordinary size, we are w arranted 'in presuming th a t it will be very brilliant, and the additional fact tha t i t is coming almost directly toward the earth, gives good promise th a t i t will be one of the most re ­markable comets of the present century. T h is is the fifth comet which Prof. Swift has discovered, and the increased facilities which Mr. H. II. W ar­ner, the popular and wealthy medicine man, has given him , b y erecting a magnificent Observatory for his benefit, promise much more for the future. There is a possibility th a t further developments may prove th is to be the great comet of 1812, which is being constantly expected, in which event astronomers will have an unusual opportunity to test the spectroscope for the first tim e upon these eccentric bodies, and ascertain certainly w hat they are.

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WILLIAM EMMETTE COLEMAN.W e doijvii to notice this weak-minded egotist,

for the'purpose of showing w hat Spiritualism was .fast becoming, under the lend of such conceited nothings as himself, and others of the same class.

. In a letter of reply to J. II. Mendenhall, published ■°dn the Bundyite “ Organ,” th is nincompoop refers

to M in d a n d M a tter in th e following wholly im­pertin en t terms. Speaking o fa letter of Mr. Men­denhall to this journal, Colematvsays: “Allow me to correct a few of the many misrepresentations of my views and writings concerning evil spirits, ob­session, materialization, etc., found in an article by .T. H. Mendenhall in the Journal o f Ju ly 10th.A large part of that article, as well as the greater portion of a lengthy one of his, on the same sub­ject, published in a notorious gutm-spiritual week­ly, are devoted to the task,” etc. Lest the readers of the Bundyite "organ” should not know to what paper th is sap-head refers, we will inform them tha t lie refers to M in d a n d M at™ , the paper tha t has alone shown to the world the moral nakedness of just such hypocrites in Spiritualism as him self and the whole Bundyite fraternity. W e do not wonder tha t wo have become some­w hat notorious in - th e estimation of those whose guilty consciences wo have seared as with a red- ho t iron. W e do not, yet, despair of effecting a perm anent cure of a most loathsome moral infec­tion, w hich has been to some extent introduced into the spiritual lines, by Col, Bundy and his followers, of whom W illiam Emmettc Coleman is the most serious case. "

In th a t dogmatical1 sp irit th a t characterizes the public utterances of Col. Bundy and his disciples, Mr.-Coleman says:

“ The lower circles of th e second sphere are filled with low, undeveloped^ evil (so-called) spir­its. I t is not the existence of evil spirits in the spirit world which is d en ied ; hut tha t tlieyviire perm itted a t will to flock to the earth to obse\s the children of earth, tem pting them to commit crime, practice vicious habits and causing insanity,I do most emphatically deny. The lower spirits of the Spirit world are under the guardianship and guidance of higher spirits and every evily- disposed individual in sp irit life is under the superintendence of those who have the power to restrain him or her from preying oil humanity e ith e r 'o n ' eartli or in sp irit life.”

To support these dogmatic assertions, Mr. Cole­m an lias not adduced a single fact; nor does lie tell his readers from whence he derived his infor­m ation in regard to this matter. . I t has been the just reproach of most of those who have set them ­selves up as competent exponents of the teachings of Spiritualism, tha t like M r. Coleman, they have absurdly supposed that th e ir oracular utterances or writings would substitute the facts involved in th e ir unsupported theories. Mr. Coleman, in the above b rie f extract of a long article, assumes four things for which, we venture to say he • lias not a particle o f certain knowledge. First, h e assumes there are distinct spheres in spirit life, which have no im m ediate connection, aiid are no t blended perceptibly with all other conditions of the spirit world. Second, he assumes that there, are higher and low er circles in each o f his assumed spheres of sp irit life. Third, lie assumes that evil spirits, or evilly disposed spirits, are not perm itted to return to th e ea rth to obsess its inhabitants, to 'tem pt them to commit crime, practice vicious habits, and to cause them to appear insane. And fourth, he assumes th a t the low erspirite of the sp irit world,

•are under the guardianship and guidance of

higher spirits, who restrain them from preying on humanity. Now this is assuming a good deal, es­pecially when the whole current of teaching from the spirit world is in diametrically the opposite .direction. So far as our experience and investiga­tions have been carried, and they have been lim ­ited by no pet theories or individual bias, spirits teach the very opposite of what Mr. Coleman here assumes as being true. F irst they teach th a t the conditions, or spheres, as Mr. Coleman calls them , are as numerous and varied as are the individual beings who people th a t vast region in nature. Second, they "teach th a t there are no distinctions of rank in the sp irit world, but th a t all are sub­jected to the same routine of development, and subject to the same natural law th a t is so clearly manifested in th e m ortal growth of each spirit being. Third, spirits teach, that each spirit is re­quired to grow and advance in sp irit life through its own inheren t Spirit force, and tha t it is not subject to the overuling force of other spirits. I f this was n o t the case, there would be an end of the growth and ' development of ■ undeveloped spirits. I f such spirits were subject tp such guar­dianship and guidance, the w.hole responsibility of their thoughts and actions would he on their spirit guardians and guides and none whatever on them selves.' I t would indeed seem as if Mr. Cole­man, and other followers of Col. Bundy’s Bundyite" departure, were influenced by priestly spirits in and out of the m ortal form, to seek to perpetuate in spirit life the domination of a few spirits over their fellow spirits, in the same m anner th a t the priesthoods of the various religions which have prevailed upon the earth, have ruled their fellow 'inert. I f spirits teach anything, they teach that individual responsibility is as unavoidable in spirit life as on the eartli. This being so there can be no such guardianship and guidance in spirit- life as that groundlessly assumed by Mr. Coleman. His fourth assumption is equally untenable, viz: “That the higher and more developed spirits have the power to restrain those from doing harm who are less developed than themselves.” I f that were so, then is all the evil which spirits cause, either in the mortal form or out of it, the work o f the- higher spirits who do not restrain and prevent that evil. This would he to destroy the moral law of the universe, which is as perfect and.necessary in the mental or spiritual world, as is the law of gravitation in the physical or m aterial world.

For facts Mr. Coleman has undertaken to sub­stitute his theories, which are as arb itrary and groundless as are his conclusions. H e says: 1

“A correct understanding of the laws of spirit con­trol, and of the nature of existence in the spiritual spheres, the nature of mediumship and the dis­tinction between mediiims and sensitives, the in ­fluences to which sensitives are subject, botli from those in the body as well as put, the nature and influence of disturbed, perturbed and irrational psychological conditions, hallucination, dementia, etc., scientific knowledge upon these points leads to a clear perception of the nature and causes of the peculiar phenomenon generally attributed to the influence of evil spirits.”

H ere we have Mr. Coleman indulging in the same dogmatical disregard of the logic of known facts. Not a single fact does this imperial egotist deign to refer to show that there is any distinc­tion between mediums and sensitives, iior. does he attem pt to state what his supposed, im agined ant) assumed distinction is. W e know of none, and defy Mr. Coleman, or any other assumer of scientific knowledge in relation thereto, to state the difference. Mr. Coleman evidently seeks to convey the groundless idea tha t a different law of psychology applies to spirits out of the body than applies to spirits in the body. T he whole teaoli- ing,of the facts of Spiritualism are against such a theory, th islife being hut the initial state of one continuous eternal spirit career. Bitt -that Mr, Coleman should profess to be a Spiritualist,.or an exponent of Spiritualism,when he thus placed h im ­self along side of those charlatans in. neurological Science, Drs. Hammond, Beard and Carpenter, the bitterest and most unscrupulous foes of sp irit­ual tru th anyw here to be found, only dhows to what an extent a weak man’s egotism will carry him. I f Mr. Coleman had the manliness displayed by them , lie would openly acknowledge, h is’ hos­tility to Spiritualism, as established by its p h e ­nomenal facts. Mr. Coleman a sk s :

“ Are the social states of tha t higher realm [spirit life] beneath those^of th is undeveloped planet?”

He answers: “ They must he, if the loose theo­ries of the believers in obsession are correct. B ut thank G od! we know tl ia tth e y a re n o t true—th a t order reigns supreme in the spirit world—tha t the inhabitants of tha t world and of the eartli are fully protected against the intrusion of m alignant and viciously-inclined spirits by the wisdom and love of the denizens of the'superior circles. I f all spirits were allowed to follow the ir , evil natures, what chance for improvement and progress would there be? I f such were true, they would continue to grow worse and worse^more arid more deeplyingrained in vice and crime. The prevention oftheir continuance in such courses is the first step to improvement and reformation. They are re­strained, kept in check, in love, by those anxious to reclaim them from their low estate. The laws of the spirit world are universal—there are no ex­ceptions, and each human, being reaching tha t sphere, without exception, is a t once the subject of such watchful guardianship and loving guidance as is best adapted to extinguish the fires of crim i­nality arid vice, and kindle a sacred flame of pen­itence and desire for im provement.”

Mr; Coleman does not tell us how he knows all this or any part of it, and therefore we may justly conclude he knows nothing about it. T hat spirits do universally, sooner or ia ter,find reason to tire of their earthly desires and attractions, and to

seek for something higher and better, we can well believe, for such is the general teaching of return­ing spirits; bu t that th is is the result of exterior influences o ther than th e ir natural surroundings we know of no facts from whicli to reach such &• conclusion. The m om ent the spirit leaves the mortal form the conditions in which it is placed are so m aterially changed tha t it is naturally forced to forego much that was gratifying to it in the 'mortal life. No longer finding it necessary to provide for mortal wants, arid ignorant of the needs of sp irit growth, ignorant and evilly dis­posed spirits seek in vain to.resume the enjoy­ment of the ir former earthly gratifiealions. This is an impossibility, so long as they rem ain in the condition of a disembodied spirit. To enjoy those earthly gratifications w hich constituted the only happiness of whicli they had any conception, they seek their former haunts and there coming in contact w ith psychological sensitives tliev realize that they can, in a measure, temporarily experi­ence their old earthly gratifications by availing themselves o f the physical organisms of such sensitives for that purpose. The m ore positive and powerful the sp irit influence exerted upon mediumistic sensitives by such earth-bound spir­its, the m ore nearly does the complete obsession of the sensitive by the spirit appear, and when this is anyth ing like continuous, the state of, what is called, insanity, on the part of the sensitive, is established. Spiritualism not only demonstrates this long acknowledged fact, hut it points out the remedy w hich can alone relieve hum anity from this grand hindrance to human happiness. The higher and more advanced spirits inform us that they cannot prevent' or remedy this evil except through the co-operation'of, properly informed mortals; and hence the necessity they labored under to devise the means which constitute Mod­ern Spiritualism, as the only remedy -for this greatest curse of hum anity. H igher and more developed spirits uniformly say tha t it is witli the greatest difficulty .they can penetrate the dense and dark surroundings of the spirits tha t are in their natures nearest to the gross material condi­tions of the mortal life. I t is our constant expe­rience to have ignorant and dark spirits brought to us by sp irit missionaries from tho brighter and higher conditions in spirit life, their power to aid and assist th e former being entirely dependent upon the ir return to eartli and „.their reception here of information th a t their spirit benefactors cannot im part to them. M in d and M atter has, for nearly two years, been 'filled w ith facts all showing th is most iinportahfftruth, u tterly anni­hilating the false and groundless -theories of Mr. Coleman to th e contrary. Mr: C. would scarcely have'the hardihood to deny tha t there are thou­sands, aye; millions of lying spirits who return to eartli, control mediums and teach that which any person of common sense knows to be false. Does Mr. Coleman dare pretend tha t all th is lying and deceiving by controlling spirits is -permitted and sanctioned by high and'.beneficent spirits, who have th e .p o w er to .restra in it? W e know he durst not;' for should lie do so, he would fimj lijmself answered to the contrary by the common experience of investigators of spiritual .phenom­ena. Then, if the h igher and more advanced spirits cannot prevent all this lying and deceiving by untruthful spirits, what evidence is there tha t they have any more power to prevent the vicious and crim inal iniluencesof other spirits, who control m ediums'to enable them to accomplish:more seri-- 6us vices and-crimes?. The fact is, th a t Mr. Cole­man’s theories, so far from being based upon the phenomenal facts which" arc the only foundation for Spiritualism, arc utterly refuted by those facts; and Mr..Coleman-stands in the category of being the obsessed mouth-piece of obsessing spirits, or of espousing their" cause .in defiance of facts and common souse. I n either case lie cannot be re­garded as a friend of Spiritualism.

Says Mr. Colem an;“ The spirits that obsess hum an beings are"

usually of th e earth earthy—diseased'mental con­ditions, deranged psychological states, unbalanced' brain forces. Sometimes what is called obsession may bo due to imperfect Control, semi-developed mediumship, a lack of assimilation between the mentality of the control and that of the sensitive or medium.” (Here Mr. Coleman acknowledges that there is no. distinction between a psychologi­cal sensitive and a medium, although lie had ju s t before said th a t to understand the difference between sensitives-and .mediums leads to a clear perception of the causes of obsession). “So far from render­ing people insane," says Mr. Colem ari,“They do all they can to relieve t h e m ental perturbations of those so aillicted,’

In this way Mr. Coleman proceeds stringing one .assertion a f te r another, w ithout one fact to show that there is a particle of the correctness of wliat lie asserts. I f lie supposes that any person will accept th a t k ind of dogmatizing for learning, or to set at naught the positive facts which contradict those assertions on every hand,we can only say he is insane or badly obsessed. Perhaps lie is both, as he says insanity and obsession are one and the same tiling. Every medium who*is controlled in any way by spirits to do or say anything, is for the tim e obsessed or possessed by th a t controlling spirit, and th is without regard to the nature and character of the controlling spirit. The literal meaning of th e word obsession, i§ the besieging o f the organism of mediumistic sensitives by the familiar and attendant spirits who make use of them to accomplish any. m undane object or purpose. I f obsession is insanity, then is every medium a victim of insanityr in a8 much as th e ir acts and utterances would then he th e ir own, and

the result of the insane workings of th e ir own mind. But Mr. Coleman surrenders all reason for his th e o ry when he say s: “Sometimes w hat is called obsession, may he due to imperfect spirit control, semi-developed mediumship,” &c. I f persons are made insane by partial spirit control, why not insane by complete spirit 'control ? But, the fact is, Mr. Coleman under the pretence of being a Spiritualist, ig an enem y of Spiritualism, takes sides \frith-the Beards, Hammonds and Car­penters in their bitter opposition to the teachings of spirits as given through their chosen mediums.

Mr. Coleman then goes on to cite Andrew Jack- son Davis, as denying the tru th of obsession by evil spirits, or the malefic influence of wicked spirits upon mankind. So much tlyj worse for Andrew Jackson Davis and h is dogmatic assum p­tions. Facts knock sm ithereens out of h im and his oracular pretensions. The man who was ob­sessed and fooled as was Mr. Davis by h is “rol­licking Diakka” should have learned enough wis­dom to be a little-less dogmatic in his. outgivings, Mr. Coleman is no more fortunate in citing the oracular outgivings of the guides o f W. J. Colville in ffapport of his theory. One of those outgivings is as follows:

“ W e who are tliriim m ediate guides of th is me­diums, would not be able to control him, unless his guardian angel were to perm it it—w ithout the sanction of the guardian angel, the guardian spir­its could not influence. The guardian spirits have not attained angelic life, and are subject to the higher will of the angel guardian.”

H ere we have a spirit professing to teach tru ths ■ of an angelic origin, who undertakes to draw a distinction between angels and spirits, and to show that those angels whose duty it is to guard their mediumistic charges hand them over to the discrim inating care of umingelic and very hum an guardian spirits who obsess them and undertake to teaeli all kinds of error in the face of natural facts which meet them at every step. Mr. Cole­man is very willing to avail him self of the services of just such unangelic spirits to fasten upon me­diums the disability of insanity, or the responsi- « hility for all the falsehood, deception and crime practiced ■through their organisms by the spirits who, w hether with or w ithout the sanction of angelic spirits, cause. Hliem to say and do th ings' whicli, if not so externally controlled, they could not he made to say or do.

Those mortals or spirits who seek to place on the helpless m edium s the responsibility whicli rests solely with the 'controlling spirits is not a friend of Spiritualism, whatever lie or she may profess to the contrary. - A person to be morally responsible for their acts m ust he free from all external control, and therefore not the medium- istic instrum ent .of'controlling'spirits. T he mo­m ent persons become developed as mediums and liable to the complete control of spirits, th e ir re­sponsibility is at ail end, whenever under that complete control. I f the control is only partial, the responsibility is divided between the medium and the spirit. Any other principle of adjudging mediums is most unjust, and unw arranted upon the part of any Spiritualist.

Mr. Coleman helps his case no better w hen ho cites tho spirit control of Mrs. Maria M. K in g .: ' Judging from what we have seen of the oracular dogmatism of that control in tho published w ri­tings of Mrs. King, we infer lie sets as little store 1 by natural facts as does Mr. Coleman 'himself. • The vaporing of spirits, however pretentious, are not of a particle more importance than th e vapor­ing of mortals. Tho value of their utterances tie- ■ pend upon their accord witli truth, and th e ir ac­cord with tru th depends upon their accord witli the facte which make up the common experience of mankind. .

But, to show the mental capacity of M r. Cole­man, and 'bring him down from the h igh horse which lie has mounted witli semi-idiotic swagger, we qu’ote the following sentences from his truthful pen:

“ Orthodoxy insists on its one dev il; it cannot do without its own peculiar devil, and Spiritual­ists, who claim to laugh at the orthodox for their foolisli clinging to the devil, outdo by far the folly of the orthodox. Instead of one devil, th ey have untold myriads, millions of "devils, little and big, wise and foolisli, old and young, and all rushing daily and nightly to the earth without le t or hin- derance from any higher power in the universe.”

W hat business lias any man te pretend th a t lie is a friend of Spiritualism or a Spiritualist, who can tli us barefacedly lie about Spiritualists and seek to render them contemptible in the sight of sensible people. "There is not one w hit m ore truth in the other assertions of Mr. Coleman, w hich we have been noticing than in this one, and every Spiritualist must know th a t nothing could he more untruthful than this slander. W e defy Mr. Coleihan to name one Spiritualist who believes in devils at all. Spiritualists, without exception, know that spirits, however ignorant or viciously inclined, are not devils, hut human beings, who will, when the proper teaching is given them , be­come co-workers in all th a t will tend to human progression and universal happiness. T h a t Mr. Coleman does not know this, or knowing it, sees fit to lie about it, shows th a t he is no' Spiritualist, as he falsely pretends to be. Such untrutlifulness and hypocrisy,if not stupid ignorance, is a travesty on common sense, and an indellible disgrace to Win, Emmette Coleman, if he is not wholly desti­tu te ofqshame. Mr, Coleman is a Bundyite, and like his compeers, a traitor to truth . Decency de­m ands that he should subside.---------- -----------

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capable of telling any tru th , we again quote him. "-H e says:

“ Let i t be understood tha t I fully accept the fact of the reality of materialization in full form of spiritual beings. I am positive of its truth , alike

■ from my own experience and the combined testi­mony of careful, scientific observers, in various parts of the w orld ; and when any person foolishly and recklessly charges me with being an enemy

-.of materializing mediums .or a denial of the fact of materialization, he or she either knowingly or

. unw ittingly utters an untruth . No firmer friend of. true mediums lives than I a m ; but as for pre­tended mediums, swindlers and charlatans, I shall ever oppose and denounce them.”

Now, Mr. Coleman, tell your readers, if you dare, what materializing mediums you know to he true and how you know them to be true; and then w hat materializing mediums you know to he pretenders, charlatans ami swindlers, and how you know them to be so. You have, to our cer­tain knowledge, most falsely slandered Mr. and

. Mrs. Holmes, Mr, and Mrs. Bliss, the Eddys and Mr. Bastian, and I believe you have most foully slandered Mrs. Anna Stewart and Miss Laura Morgan. That you did not equally slander Mr. M ott was a surprise to us, as you had as much reason for doing so as you had in the cases of th e distinguished materializing mediums I have nam ed. Nobody cares w hether you accept the fact of spirit materialization or not, it is a m atter of no consequence one way or the other. But it is of some consequence to silence the groundless slanders of mediums in which you have so freely indulged. Mr. Coleman, you are not even a "quasi Spiritualist;” you are a Bundyitc enemy of mediums, of Spiritualists, and of Spiritual­ism, and vonr pretence to the contrary is the sheerest hypocrisy. ̂ Subside. ,

IS THERE TO BE NO END OF THE WAR ON ME­DIUMS, BY THE R.-P. JOURNAL, BUT '

WITH ITS DESTRUCTION?• We are induced to ask the above question, in

view of the continued misrepresentations of me­diums which appear almost weekly in the Bundy- ite “ organ,” the R.-P. Journalt If Col. Bundy is •capable of treating an assailed medium with the least? appearance of daftness, is it not about time ho should begin to give some evidence of i t? IIow long .will Spiritualists continue to. make themselves paHiceps erhninis in the libelous slan­ders of mediums, which fill .the columns: of tha t Bnndyite “ organ,” by, in any way, countenancing the vile conduct of tha t editorial hypocrite ? Ma­lignant and untruthful as have been his attacks upon mediums in the past,, and ever since lie gained control of the /owrmd, through the delib­erate ly planned m urder of his father-in-law, Stevens S. Jones, lie has never displayed a more reckless disregard of editorial propriety, than in the attack made in his paper, last week, upon Mrs. Espcrance, an English medium of the high­e s t distinction. Col. Bundy does not pretend to have any ground for th is outrageous attem pt to bolster up Bundyism, other than the manifestly untruthful statements of an anonymous writer, thus strictly conforming to the fundamental rules -of/n's new ism, of which he claims the Journal is the “ organ.” Among the canons laid down for

' the guidance of his Bundyitc disciples are, first, in attacking mediums, select those who are the most •esteemed and trusted ; second, attack all mediums w herever you can find an opportunity to do so w ith any appearance of im pun ity ; third, the less you know to the prejudice of assailed mediums, be all the more reckless in your efforts to injure them , etc. We do not say tha t this is the written law of Bundyism, but it is the observed law, a dis­regard of which would bring down the anathem as of Pope Bundy I.

In our issue of October 2d, we published, from the Medium, and Daybreak, of London, England, the full statem ent of the annonymous public ac­cuser of Mrs. Esperance, in regard to what oc­curred a t the seance at which a ruffianly brute, named W arnes, had grabbed a spirit form and al­most killed the medium. W e at the same time published the statement..of Mr. W. Armstrong, who was present, which completely set at rest all grounds to believe, tha t Mrs. Esperance is not a

■ genuine and faithful medium, and demonstrated beyond ail question tha t the form clutched by Warnes was a genuine m aterialization.' W e also a t the same time published the letter o f Mrs. Es-- perance to Mr. Burns, editor of the Medium and .Duybreak, stating in a manifestly truthful m anner the terrible and perilous experience to which she had been subjected. 1 W e defy any honest and un­prejudiced Spiritualist, or even anti-Spiritualist, o ther than the adherents to Bundyism, to read those statements, and our accompanying com- m entsthereon, and reach any otherconclusion than th a t what Colonel Bundy calls “ The Exposure of Airs. Esperance” was her complete vindication as a most rem arkable medium.

Col. Bundy, with all this full before him , care­fully conceals the fact of Mrs. Esperance's perfect vindication, by Mr. Armstrong, and others who endorse his statements fully, and selects such por­tions of the hostile statem ents of the accuser of Mrs. Esperance, as would serve to give his readers an entirely m istaken view of the facts of the case. The animus of th a t accuser, whoever he may be, for he did not see fit to write over his own name, but under the assumed sobriquet of “ Resurgam,” may be inferred from the fact stated in the Me­dium and Daybreak, th a t he told Alrs^Esperance he had been-inform ed by spirits that he was her

" ‘affinity,” and h is overtures in thatdireetion were summarily rejected. I t is the statement of this

discomfited suitor th a t Col. Bundy avails him self of to prejudice the public against Mrs. Esperance, and to keep up his reputation as an "exposer” of mediums.

W ithout taking any notice of any counter sta te­m ent Col. Bundy, under the headline “ The Facts in Airs. Esperance’s ‘ Exposure,’ ” says:

“ In this case ‘Resurgam ’ writes that from the beginning of the seance nothing bore the usual m arks of genuineness. Before the invocation was over he was surprised, for three reasons, to observe something purporting to be ‘Yolanda’ at the spirit compartment of the cabinet. These reasons were, first, that the appearance was prem ature; there had not been time to collect power essential to the materializ'tion-; secondly he liad not felt as a sitter in the circle, the same sensation which he usually felt of being drawn upon for power to etl'ect the materialization, a sensation which in his previous experiences had been so unm istaka­ble tha t at the moment of the pM ended appear­ance o f 1 Yolanda ’ he was in the act of rem arking tha t the spirits were not yet at work collecting the power. Thirdly, the pretended apparition was so much taller than ■‘Yolanda,’ that he made a note in his book, that t h e ‘ fo rm ’ was like 1 Yolanda,’ but taller, I-th ink .

“ There was also, pn the appearance of the form, a scantiness of blothing and, a prodigalityin the display of contour and of fleshl especially‘as the medium held out her w hite skirts for trinkets to be thrown to her,’ tha t seriously arrested the ob­servation of ‘Resurgam,’ and must have instantly caused such skeptics as had any design to test, the medium’s honesty to conclude that tliis was. their time.

“ Hence as the medium passed around the circle distributing flowers, she no sooner came within reach of Air. W arnes than he seized her, and a struggle ensued in which the medium screamed, [ kicked and lbuglit somewhat more vigorously and humanly than disembodied spirits are wont to do. At the same time ‘ Resurgam ’ went into the me­dium’s compartment of the cabinet, examined her empty chair, empty dress and empty shoes, and satisfied himself th a t Airs. Esperance was not there, but was in the arms of Warnes, and that ‘ Y olanda’ for that evening had not been visible. The light in the m edium ’s opened compartment at th is time was sufficient to show the time by the watch.”

These are the statem ents upon which Col. John.;C. Bundy joins the rejecLed suitor of Airs. Esper- perance, iii .publicly charging her with dishonesty.' I t is difficult to determ ine whether this conduct on his part is more the result of knavish dislion-* esty thaji consummate stupidity. Wo incline to believe it is the result of both. I t is not pretended tha t “ ltesiirgam” had any other reasons for his outrageous treatm ent of Airs. Esperance than those cited by Col. Bundy. That they were such as would induce any honest or well informed Spiritualist to. discredit Airs. Esperance, no one bu t Col. Bundy and his Bundyite sattelites would for one moment pretend. ' “Resurgam” and Col. Bundy were too in ten t on dishonoring Airs, Es­perance, not to see tha t he, "Resurgam," had made a most miserable botch of his work as a modium- istic exposer. W hat does “Resurgam” know ubotit how long it takes for spirits to collect the power essential to m aterialization? Only last evening, we attended a seance given by Airs. James A. Bliss at which a gentleman, an entire stranger to the medium, went into the cabinet with her, she being entirely dressed in black, and when he came out lie had not taken th ree steps from the cabinet be­fore the curtains p a r te d a n d the full form of a female spirit, bearing no resemblance to the me­dium, and dressed in , the. purest-white garments, from head to foot, stood before twenty or more persons. The gentlem an said when ho left th e ’ cabinet, the medium had not moved frotn her seat, or in the least changed her attire, and there was no form in the cabinet when he came out of it. In this instance, the materialization required but two or threa seconds. At the close of the se­ance, a female sp irit form came out dressed in pure white to the same gentleman, took him by the hand, and led h im into the cabinet w here tho medium sat on h er chair dressed as she was when she entered the cabinet, and in an instant that tangible spirit form had disappeared. W e have had the samo experience with Airs. Bliss as have hundreds of others, so tluit count in the indictm ent against Airs. Esperance amounts to nothing more than to show- the ignorance or malice of her accusers.

The second reason of "Resurgam” is too prepos­terous to m erit any notice. Nothing could be more absurd than for "Resurgam" to pretend that ‘Yolanda’ could only appear by drawing her power from him. The, manifest prejudice under which he attended tha t seance would suffice to account for anything he might feel or do to injure the medium. T hat the form grabbed was taller than “Yolanda,” is a m atter of opinion only. “Resurgam" is forced to admit that, at the time, ho made a note in his book that the formed grabbed was like ‘Yolanda.’ Undoubtedly it was like her for it'was her and not the medium, whose form is adm itted by "Resurgam” to be very unlike the spirit form tha t was grabbed. W ith an honest unprejudiced man, tha t of itself ought to have been sufficient to establish a strong presumption in favor of the medium. AYith Col. Bundy and “Resurgam” it weighs as nothing.

How " Resurgam,” knows how vigorously and humanly a disembodied spirit can scream and kick and fight we do not know, nor does “ Resurgam ” tell us what he knows about it. But th a t a ma­terialized, embodied sp irit foym can protect him ­self and his medium we know, for we saw such a spirit knock his assailant flat upon the floor, in the presence of a room full of people, and we saw the blanched face of tha t fear-stricken m an as he beseeehed to be perm itted to re tire from the room from which he fled in u tter dismay.

W hether "R esurgam ” w ent into the cabinet and saw what he says he did or not, wo do not k n o w ; but this we do know, that he has not told any one what became of the empty dress and shoes which he says he saw there. W hy did not this accuser of Airs. Esperance call som eone of that room full of people to see those articles of ap­parel, or bring them out so some one else could see them ? He certainly will not have the impu­dence to pretend it was to avoid hurting the feel­ings of Airs. Esperance, or hum iliating her after all his abominable treatm ent of her. As he did neither of those very reasonable things, he cannot blame us if we believe he lies about the matter. If, as he pretends, Airs. Esperance had taken oil’ her dress and shoes to personate “ Yolanda,” and was out in the room doing so when the form was grabbed, it was incumbent upon him to have told us when and how she became reclothed in those garments. Air. Armstrong, who took up the pros­trate form of-"Y olanda,” or so much thereof as rem ained of it, after the villain W arnes had been choked by a woman until he released his Hold of it, says tha t having seated that form upon the chair without any movement tha t would admit of undressing or dressing, the form and white robes tha t covered it were transmuted into t^he form of the 'inedium , an d 'h e r dress precisely as she was when she entered the cabinet. As “ Resurgam ” has not dared to toll us anything on th is essential point, and as Air. Armstrong has done so, w ithou t. tho contradiction of any one who was present, he . and not “ Resurgam” is to be believed on that

i point.But we are not left to decide a simple issue of

veracity between “Resurgam” and Air. Armstrong. The former was forced to admit (hat Airs. Esper­ance was in a compartment of the cabinet, which had no communication with the compartment from which the spirit form emerged, and tha t it was a physical impossibility for her to have en­tered or emerged from the compartment which the spirit- form emerged from. That.fact, alone, is sufficient to show that Airs. Esperance did not, and could not have personated, as falsely alleged by “ Resurgam ” and Col. B u n d y ; and shows that Air. Armstrong told the facts just as'they occurred. The fact alone, that notw ithstanding that violent struggle by “ Yolanda,” to release herself from the clutch of Warnes, there were no effects of it appa­ren t upon th6 medium's person afterwards, ren ­ders it almost certain tha t it was not Airs. Esper­ance that was grabbed. Tho facts testified to by Mr. Armstrong remove all possible doubt about tho matter, and show positively that. “ Resur- gara’s ” attem pt to - make effective the outrage committed upon her was as false as it w as futile.

But we should not do " Resurgam ” or our read­ers justice, if wo did .not allow him to testify to his own shame, as that testimony is given by his endorser, Col. Bundy, He say s:

“ That there is a really genuine ‘Yolanda,’ I am as absolutely certain as I am of my own separate identity, and-1 will give abundantly of incontesta­ble evidence and proof of that fact as I also will of tho unrivalled genuineness of much and nearly the whole of the mediumship, but whilo, as a friend—a true friend— [italics his]—of Mrs. Esper­ance, I have done, and ever will give the best tes­timony in her favor that any medium on earth ever could receive, yet, on tho other hand, no friendliness on iny part, and no grateful feelings I may and do .entertain towards her, shall ever, cause mo to he any party to a wrongful imperson­ation of a spirit fonp us occurred on this occa­sion.”

I t is charity to th is nameless man to suppose ho is the medium ho claims to be, and was under the obsession of a lying and malicious sp irit when he wrote that, or, that he was tomporlirily insane, for no person possessed of reason or common sense ever wrote in that, inconsistent and irra-- tional way. To know the absolute genuineness of the mediumship of Airs. Esperance, and tho absor lute fact that the spirit "Y o lan d a ’’ materialized through her, and then, for no better reason than he lias assigned for his slanderous accusations of that lady, to charge her with the dishonest per­sonation of that spirit in th is only instance was tho act of an insane man. He knew that it was a physical impossibility for Airs. Esperance to have personated “ Y olanda” -by any power she possessed, and that to do so, her whole body would have had to pass through tho gauze partition be­tween the compartment of tho cabinet in.w hich Mrs. Esperance sat and the compartment from which the spirit emerged, and he knew, as ho ad­mits, that that gauze partition was neither broken or moved in' the least; and yet he overlooks this natural impossibility, and is governed by theories and circumstances which, if reasonable or real, ought not to weigh a feather against tho medium in tiie mind of any well informed observer of spirit manifestations. But a still more glaring evidence of insanity or lam entable spirit obses­sion, is tho declaration of “ Resurgam " that he is a true friend of Airs. Esperance. I f he is a true friend of hers, we ask him and his endorser, Col. Bundy, whether it is-possible for Airs. Esperance or any other medium to have a persecuting and destructive enemy. In his folly, "Resurgam ” feigns an honesty th a t he denies to Airs. Esper­ance, with what appearance of justification we have amply shown. I f honest, his honesty is that of a fool /

But neither “ Resurgam” nor Col. Bundy are honest in their jo in t assault on the good name and fame of Airs. Esperance. Both of them carefully conceal the fact that Airs. Esperance gavo that s e a n c e under the most absolute test conditions. W hy that concealment if they were honest ? LeT

them answer if they can. Col. Bundy, as if to sink, him self as low as possible in the guilt and cow­ardice of his correspondent, sa y s :

“ In Airs. Esperance’s case there was apparently no reason to apprehend that the seance was drag­ging to a failure. No time had been given for a success.. Alorcover, in the same case there is no shame or consciousness of guilt in her m ind at her defeat. W hat a queer m ixture of naivete and brazen effrontery, but w ithout one particle of con­scious offense, is manifested bv Airs. Esperance after h er seizure as related by ‘Resqrgam.” * *

“ We have frequently seen crim inals arrested, but we never saw one, who, even in the audacity of crime, thought his arrest a violation of the offi­cer’s duties, or who would retort,, while conscious of being caught in the act, ‘ And you call yourself an officer?’ And yet Mrs. Esperance, so far from outstripping criminal classes in im pu­dence, had enjoyed the. previous rospectof those with’ whom tliis exposure brought her in colli­sion.”

Spiritualists, we again ask you w hether the hu ­man monster that penned th a t vile abuse of as grand and honest a medium as can be found in England or elsewhere, has a righ t to recognitioft as a Spiritualist, which he most hypocritically and falsely claims to be? I f “ R esurgam ” or him self were honest and sincere Spiritualists they would never thus dare to keep'upon their now deadened consciences,"!he load of injustice and guilt which they will have to confront and answer for, either hero or hereafter. These hyoerites judge Mrs. Esperance from their own guilty and-dishonest standpoint, an- act of injustice that is without a parallel among the ■meanest and basest acts of the l’harisees tha t curse and blight the cause of Spir­itualism with their hypocrisy.

Having committed the outrage we have just de­nounced Col. Bundv in a separate article admits his injustice, but adheres to it. Wo have only time and space to cite a few of the Bundyisms it contains.' l i e says:

"T he recent seizure of Mrs, Esperance in Eng­land, while engaged in personating tho m aterial­ized spirit ‘ Y olanda’ seems to be proved by an overwhelming array of candid'testim ony. [This is lie No. I j Moreover the proof nearly all comes from Spin uahsts who are as certain that the pre­vious app -,iranees of ' Y olanda’ were genuine as they are ifi.it- this one was not. [This is lioNo.2.] Tho.chief-duty that remains is to admit the impo­sition in tliis instance with the genuineness of much of the medium’s previous work.” [This is lie No. A] „ '

Airs. 1'hperanco was not seized in England whilo personating inspirit and no testim ony th a t is enti­tled to credit, in tho least, has ever been adduced to show such a thing. “ Resurgam ” is no more a Spiritualist than is Col. Bundy, and not a w hit moro honest or truthful in his protenso th a t ho is. I t is not the chief duty of Spiritualists to accept anything as truo that either of them would say to tho prejudice of any medium. In this instance-it is^their chief and most positive duty to reject tho lying statements of this brace of hypocrites and slanderers. But read this w hine of Col. Bundy, in apprehension of tho lash which ho well knew wo hold in readiness for his morally mangy back, He says:

“ Theunprem oditatod and unsophisticated char­acter of the facts in Airs. Esperance’s case, renders the theory that she was acting under spirit control while practicing a falso personation, possible and plausible. Wo do not say it was probable. [And why not, pray, if you were willing to give a wrongly accused medium the benefit of the “/pos­sible and plausible” doubt?] But it should have been quietly and carefully tested. [And why, pray, did not your sole authority for your slanders of Mrs. Esperance “ Resurgam ” make tha t test? Wo answer for him. He did not daro to do it, for his chance to wrong Mrs. Esperanco would have been at end.] Ibid she sat outside the cabinet, and there disrobed in preseneo of her audienco the theory of spirit control and virtual somnam­bulism would probably have occurred to every person present. [Ah 1 indeed. And why did not

■ tha t theory occur to “ lleBurgam” " a true friend ” of Airs. Esperance, under the circumstances he related? Wo answer for him , that ho could not then have done all ho could do to injuro the wo­man for whom ho lyingly professed a friendship, which was tho quintessence of enmity J I t was - the fact th a t she undressed within, the cabinet that- made out tho case against her in--tho minds of those present.”1 Airs. Esperanco did not undrossin the cabinet, for

when the grabbing was done, “ Resurgam ” says ho hastened to tho cabinet and exclaimed, " I t is not tho medium—she is here.” . I t is truo he says this was only done ns a ruse de guerre; bu t it was a ruse de guerre that shows " Resurgam’s ” dishon­esty in a way he cannot escape from ; for if Mrs. Esperimee was not in the cabinet when h o so ex­claimed, lie lied, and if she was there when lie entered tho cabinet, he lied, when he afterwards said she was not there. H aving thus contradicted ■himself on an essential point of this case, lie is un­worthy of belief in tho m atte r; and as he is the only witness in relation to th a t one point, there is no evidence whatever against Mrs. Esperance, and th is under the plainest ru le of evidence,

One more quotation from Col. Bundy, and we will close. He says :

“T here may have been a stage in the history of sp irit materialization w hen the use of the cabinet for the medium was necessary, though we doubt it." (The bigger fool you are if th a t be true.) "But mediums whose developm ent has passed out of th a t stage, serve the cause of Spiritualism, a t least so far as people on this side the veil is concerned, much the most effectively.”

W e pronounce th a t to be positively and abso­lutely false in every particular, and defy Col. Bundy or any one else to show th a t there is any ground for that unqualified falsehood. W here is th e m edium accessible to the public, who gets sp irit materializations w ithout a cabinet or in a darkened room, which serves the purpose of a cabinet? W here is lh e re a medium who usesno

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6cabinet for form materialization, who has served or is serving the cause of Spiritualism more effec­tively than the mediums who do. .We ask you for only one instance of that kind. I f you cannot refer to such a medium, for once he truthful

V\enough to confess the recklessness of your asser­tio n s . I f you can do so, inform your readers where

a they can find the mediums who do not use cabinets and yet who get spirit materializations. Col. Bundy, your editorial untruthfp'lness 'is fast be­coming proverbial. People will soon come to say, “ H e lies like Col. Bundy” instead of “He lies like Tom Pepper,” when they want to characterize the most monstrous falsehood. T he story goes that “Tom Pepper” was kicked from H ides for his

. untruthfulness. W hat became of him nobody seems to know, They will know as little about Col. Bundy’s, editorial whereabout if he does not soon repent and give fruits m eet for repentence. Truth-loving people should and will drop him, if he does not mend his editorial ways.

EDITORIAL BRIEFS.. Mrs. F. 0 . Hkyzbr, lectures for the Brooklyn

Spiritual Society, 398 Fulton St., every Sunday at 3 and 7.45 Pi M.

Op h e l ia T . S amuel, trance lecturer, will be in Chicago, Illinois, the last of next month. H er address- will be West Randolph street.

H on. W a r ren Chase lectured in Crane’s Hall, Santa Barbara, Cal., on Sunday, Oct. 3d. Subject, "T h e Relation of this Life to the Next.” ,

J . 0 . B arrett , will enter the lecture field again in December. Societies that may desire' his ser­vices can address him at Glen Beulah, Wis.

W. L. J a c k . M. D., of Haverhill, Mass., will soon be a t Biddeford,’Maine, from there he will return to Northampton, Mass. A t Biddeford, he will stop at No. 11 Birch street.

Sp ir it u a l H armonies.—This new song book of Dr. Peebles’, containing 100 hym ns and spiritual songs, also readings appropriate for lyceums and funerals, is for sale at this office. Price 20 and 25 cts., the latter in boards.

B k n j. E. H opkins, ot Cincinnati, Ohio, a well known Spiritualist has consented to act as Treas-

j r e r pro tern of the “Mediums’ Home” movement. Contributions may be sent to Mrs. Annie C. Rail, No. 482 West Liberty Street, or to Mr. Hopkins No. 72 West Third St., Cincinnati, Ohio.'

W. L. St iles , o f Passumpsic, Vt., inform us that Miss Barbara L. Allen, a private.mediuin, was his gueBt last'August, and 'that lie received many good tests through her. Also, tha t Henry B, Allen, the yvell known physical .medium, held three dark seances at h is (Mr. .Stiles’) residence a week ago and tha t were very satisfactory to him .

T h e Spiritualists of V erm ont will hold their Quarterly Convention at Last Wallingford, on F ri­day, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29,30 and 31,1880. The following speakers have been engaged: Mrs. Nellie J. Kenyon, of W oodstock; Mrs. Lizzie Manchester, of Royallon, Vt.; Dr. H. P. Fairfield, of Stafford Springs, Conn.,and Mrs. Hannah Morse, of Albany, N. Y. These, together with home talent, they expect to make a good convention.

Mbs. E lsie Cr in d l e , th a t faithful and thor­oughly tested materializing medium, of San Fran­cisco, Cal., left that city Thursday, October 7th, for a short journey through the Eastern States. W e shall be glad to welcome Mrs. Crindle to P h il­adelphia, in order that our subscribers may wit­ness the phenom ena through one of the mediums Col, Bundy has sought''in every possible m anner to discredit. .

A lfred J am es will lecture at Marshalltown, Pa., October 21st, 22d and 23d. After the elections at Columbia, Pa. H e is open for engagements any where w ithin one hundred miles from Philadel­phia. He expects to extend his field of operation to any distance this coming wihter. Mr. James is authorized to receive and forward to this office subscriptions for M ind and M atter , Address him a t 111 South Second street, Philadelphia, Pa.

W e have received a notice this week from the post office departm ent, th a t the paper addressed to J; K. Morange, of Pittsburg, Penna., is not ta­ken out, b u t remains a t the office, giving as a reason a t the bottom “dead.” This is the first that we have heard of the deatlf of Bro. J . K. Morange, (if i t is so) who was a faithful, outspoken Spiritual­ist, and a subscriber to -Mind and M atter from its first num ber. Will some V our Pittsburg sub­scribers ascertain the details of his departure, and forward them to us for publication.

T m Western L igh t,,o f St. Louis, Mo., is a re ­m arkable production, and shows what women can do if they have the opportunity. This paper is edited by Mrs. E. J. Polk and Mrs. Annie T. An­derson of th a t city, and although we called the atten tion of our readers to i t once before, we feel th a t we cannot say too much in bringing it to their notice again. I t is devoted to Liberalism, Spiritualism, and for the uplifting of woman. Go on sisters in your noble work, you have our deepest sympathy. Send for a sample copy to Editorial Ro’oms, Hotel Ilun t, N inth and Chestnut Streets, St. Louis, Mo.

S piritu a lists ’ H ome, P h il a d e l p h ia , P a .—Mrs Jam es A. Bliss, the wejl known materializing me-

' dium , has leased a beautiful house in the southern section of th is city, and fitted it up as a Home for Spiritualists who are travelling through the city, w ho can eave large hotel bills and a t the same tim e enjoy the Bocietv of Spiritualists and home

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comforts. Materializing seances will be held every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday evenings, in the par­lor. Board, $1 per d ay ., How to get th e re : Take T hirteen th street cars; tell the conductor you wish to stop at No. 1020 South T hirteenth street and he will give you full instructions. For further particulars address Mrs. Jam es A. Bliss, 1620 South T hirteen th street, Philadelphia, Pa. -

F r ie n d s , you who have read M ind and M atter and who appreciate the importance of the mighty work it has done, and.is doing, to advance tru th— you who understand the pressing need tha t exists for an ably conducted, fearless, and truly inde­pendent Spiritual paper, such as we have labored n ight and day to convince you we are conducting —you who desire to assist in widening the chan­nel through which tru th , as i t comes from the higher life, may be made manifest to the w orld ; we urge you to aid us, as far as in your power, to increase the circulation of M in d and M atter . We make th is appeal to you in no selfish spirit, but in the heartfelt desire to benefit hum anity by the promulgation of tru th , w ithout which there can be neither true freedom nor happiness.

M rs. E lsie Cr in d le , th e famous materializing medium, of the Pacific coast, our San Francisco correspondent, under date of Oct. 6th, informs us she has completed her arrangem ents to leave tha t city, a t an early day, for a professional visit to the A tlantic States, in tending to make a short stay at several populous points on the line of her travels. Our correspondent is not only ardent in his appreciation of Mrs. Crindle as a me­dium, w ith numerous phases of a high order, par­ticularly tha t of materialization, whicb has brought lier prominently before the people of the Pacific States, but, also, of the lady herself, as truthful, intelligent, cultered, retiring ami abundantly equal to the performance of a great work in the field of Spiritualism, if properly encouraged and assisted by the press and leaders of the movement. We trust her visit will be both useful and pleasant. ’

We have in hand, and w ill.publish next week, the opening article of Stephen Pearl Andrews on the subject “ Recent Original Researches and New Views in Mythology,” We feel fully warranted in saying that a more im portant revelation or re­vival of long lost knowledge has never been made, than th a t which Mr. Andrews is engaged in laying

‘■ ^ b e fo re the readers of M ind and M atter . We feel it a duty to urge upon the attention of our readers th is learned and beautifully written series of pa­pers,ifiTd hope they will do all they can to circu­late it among their friends and acquaintahees. We will also publish in the same number No. X of the no less able production of: G. B. Beckham, on “ Comparative 'Mythology.” I f possible, we will also publish next week, a long but ably written paper by E. A. Chapman on “ Spiritualistic Barna­cles;” also a letter from Salt Lake City by Mrs. Lois Waisbrooker, entitled “ Things as I See T h em ;” and other valuable contributions th a t we have not space to mention. On behalf of our readers we thank these friends for their able ser­vices in cause of tru th .

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M rs: J ames A. B uss opened her seances a t her new home last Sunday evening. The large par­lor was full of anxious investigators, and the m an­ifestations were exceedingly interesting, all taking place in a strong light. Almost every person in the room was called to the cabinet, and while there, recognized many of their relatives who had passed away many years before. Helen Snyder came to the aperture and called every person who had ever seen her in her earthly form, and showed herself plainly to them . A ll of the persons thus called promptly adm itted tha t the form thus shown them, was the veritable H elen Snyder, who testified so falsely against Mr. and Mrs. Bliss in their noted trial. One gentlemau who had been a constant attendant at Mrs. Bliss’ seances, in com­m enting upon th is manifestation sa id : “ I have attended more than a hundred seances with the Blisses, but'until I saw the spirit of Helen Snyder, never could say th a t I ever recognized a single spirit th a t I ever saw who had lived in the body, bu t th is was absolute and I could bu t acknow­ledge it.” After many interesting manifestations, a lady clothed entirely in white appeared a t the

T u rta in xrf the cabinet, and called quite a num ber

of the audience to form a circle in front of the cabinet. W hile they were thus standing, • she extended her hand and took one of th e num ­ber by the hand and .drew, him in to the cabinet, and, while standing by his side, put his hand upon the head and shoulders of th e me­dium, so that he m ight be assured tha t she was sitting in her chair. Having satisfied him of that fact, she put his hand into that of the m edium ’s and vanished. The gentleman, still holding the hand of Mrs. Bliss, came out of the cabinet with her, and upon being asked/ W here is the sp irit?’ sa id ,‘ She has vanished.” ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bliss in­sist upon a close examination of their cabinet, both before and after each seance. The proceeds of th is seance ($10.25) were sent to the treasurer of the fund for building a Home for aged and worn out mediums. Mrs. Bliss will continue to hold her materializing seances every Sunday, Tuesday and-F riday evenings, at her residence, No. 1620 S. T hirteenth street, a t 8 o’clock sharp.

Organization of a National Secular Association.Public Call:

An informal meeting will be held at the parlors of the Grand Pacific Hfttel, in the city of Chicago, on the 15th day of November next, at 2 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of organizing a National As­sociation for the specific object of secularizing the State. The association to be formed on a basis broad enough to admit members regardless of their religious or non-religious opinions, and nar­row enough to exclude all “ hobbies ” not germane to the question of State secularization.

To this Conference is invited one delegate from each auxiliary Liberal League that approves of this movement; one delegate from any o ther so­ciety in sympathy with the proposed meeting, and one delegate from apy neighborhood or town, where ten or more persons reside, who favor this call, but where no secular organization exists.

Robert. G. Ingersoll, Washington, D. C .; Rev.M. J. Savage, Prest. Boston Liberal U n io n ; Prof. J. E. Oliver, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; Rev. Charles Grames, Toledo, O .; Robert C. Spen­cer, Late Chairman Ex. Com. N. L. L. for Wiscon­sin ; Robert Peet, Sec. Pittsburgh L. L., Allegheny City, P a .; Hon. A. Krekel, Judge U. S. Court, Kansas City, M o,; B. F. Underwood, Thorndike, Mass.; E. Campfield, Chairman Ex. Com.N. L. L., for Kansas; lion . Jam es M. Pratt, Member Illi- nois Legislature, P ra tt, 'I I I .; John W. Truesdall, Pres. Syracuse L. L., Syracuse, N. Y.; A. G. Hum­phrey, M. D., Pres. Galesburg, L.tL.; Thomas Du­gan, Sec. Albany N. Y. L. L., Albany, N. Y . ; C. .1., Herbold, Sec. Cincinnati L. L,, and Chairman Ex. Com. for Ohio; Rev. Samuel P. Putnam , Y. Y. C ity; Dr. J . M-. “Monroe,.;Ed. “Seymour Times,” Seymour, In d .; C. W, Steele, Sec. and C. P. Hod­man, Pres. L. L. No. 34, Enterprise," K a n .; John Stone, Pres. L. L. No. J 70, Dallas, T exas; Carl ,)o- nitz, Ch, Ex. Com. N. L. L , for Arkansas ; F. A. AViclielman, Chicago, 111.; Clayton F.W oods, Ch. Ex. Com. N. L. L. ior Nebraska; Wm. E. Parker, Ed. “Evening Star,” Kansas City, M o.; G. I I . AVal- ser, Ed. “L iberalri-Laiqar,'M o.; George Chaindy, Vice Pres. N. L. L., Evansville, Ind.; A. A. Brown, Liberal Lecturer, Worcester, Mass.; AlonzoLucky, Sec. Rantoul L. L., Rantoul, III.;. E. D. Stark, Pres;L. L., No. 21, Cleveland, O.; (j. P. Farrell, Pres. Washington, D. C., L. L.; C. Dunning, la te Chair­man Ex. Com. N. L. L., for Michigan; AV. 11. AVaketield, Sec. Kansas State L. L.; David Eccles, Sec. Kansas City L. L ; Chas. A.AVardan, Auburn,N. Y .; Rev. J. H. Burnham, Vice Pres, N. L .‘L., Saginaw City, Mich.; Edwin M. Searing, Esq., At­torney at Law, New Arork City; S. B. McCracken, Editor “Rational Appeal" and Chairman Ex. Com. N. L. L., for Michigan; AVm. Escus, Cape Vincent, N. Y.; AV. S. Bush, AVashingtoii, D.C.; J.M . Shell­ing, See, L. L. 182; Manchester, Io w a ; S. Black, Cape Vincent, N. Y . ; AVm. Chester, Sr!,: Pagosa Springs, Col.; F. A-. Kerns, Sec. AVyoming, L. L., AVyoming, 111.; Peter Tanner, Albion, N. Y.; AV.in. R, Lazenby, See. Tompkins’ Co. Liberal Club; M. Newton, Ellsworth, K ansas.; E. E. Taylor, Richmond, Ara„; Joseph Singer, Chicago, 111.; F rank H art, Doylestown, P a .; Edgar M. Sellon, Sec. N. Y. State Freethinkers’ Association ; D, L. ‘Boulell, Ltikc City, Minn.; G. B. Fleming, Sec. L.L. 201, Angolia, Ind.; C. C. Richardson, Sec. L. L. 134, Tipton, Ind.; A. L. Brainard, Sec. Cattaraugus County L. L., Salamanca, N. Y.; P. Ilim rod, Esq., Lyons, Kansas^ Dr. J . C. Miclmer, late Chr. Ex. Com. N. L, L. for Iowa, T ex as; Allen Johnson, Sec. L. L. 170, Dallas, T exas; II. L. Green, late Ch. Ex. Com. N. L. L.; O. AV. Cadwallader, Esq.; Vincennes, Ind.; lion. S. B. Clark, late Chr. Ex. Com. N. L. L. for Kentucky, AVilsonville, Ky.; Prof. V. B. Denslow, L. L. D., Chicago, 111.; Prof.P. II. Philbriek, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa • Hon. Samuel Brook, Alliance, O hio;E. II. Gibbs, late member Ex, Com. N. L. L., for Iow a; Daniel H. K idder, Esq.; North Groton, N. II.; J. M. Roberts, Editor of M ind and .M atter, and many others.

P .S .—Tickets of admission to this Conference will be furnished the delegates, on application, by II. L. Green, Temporary Secretary, Salamanca, N. Y. The Grand Pacific Hotel will entertain delegates a t the rate of $2.50 per day. The Parker House, at 187 AVest Madison street, Chicago, for $1.25 per day. .

. Dr. Dobson’s Liberal Offer.For the purpose of extending the circulation; of

M ind and M atter, I make the following offer to any person sending me $1.25 and two 3-cent stamps they will receive M ind and M atter for six months, and I will answer ten questions of any kind and exam ine any diseased person free (by independent slate writing). Send lock of hair, state age and sex and leading symptOns.

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A Most Valuable Offer— Spirit Obsession Diagnosed.B rother R oberts Y ou may say in your paper

that I will give a free examination of persons who would like to know w hether they are obsessed or not, if they will subscribe for M ind a n d M atter six m onths or one year. Any person accepting this offer must send a note from you to tha t effect. All applications by letter m ust contain a lock of hair of the applicant, age,,sex, etc., and one three- cent postage stamp. Address B. F. Brown, Box 28, Lewiston, Maine. This proposition to remain open until further notice. B. F. B rown.

[AVe regard the abo^e proposition "of Mr. Brown as a most im portant one to the affiicted apartlrom th e interest we have in it.—E d .]-------

[OCTOBER 23, M. S. 33.}

Harry C. Gordon’s Liberal Offer., P h il a d e l p h ia , Pa., M arch 1st, M. S. 32.

To any persdh who will subscribe for M ind and- M a tter for One year, through me, I will give a. free Slate Writing Seance and one admission ticket, to my week-day materialization seances.

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A Chicago Medium’s Generous1 Offer., No. 7 Laflin St. cor of Madison St..

To those who will subscribe through me for M ind and M atter one year, I w ill give a sitting: for spirit tests. This offer to hold good.for s ix m onths from date. Yours Respectfully,

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Dr. R. D. Goodwin’s Grand Offer.H aving been a constant reader of your valuable

paper, and believing it should be in the house of every progressive family, we m ake the following offer, to stand good for one year. AVe will correctly diagnose any disease, or give one treatm ent to- any new subscriber to your paper, on their send­ing the price of one year’s.subscription, w ith post­age and request for our services. Address Dr. R.D. Goodwin, Kew York Eclectic Institu te, 1317 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo. For advertisem ent, see seventh page.

A Mediums Valuable Offer.■ G rand R a p id s , April 20; 1880.

Dear Brother .-—Seeing tha t through the columns- of M ind and M a tt er , a work can be done to th e advancem ent of spiritual progress, I thought I would m ake th e following offer. .A ny person sending me $2.15 and two three cent stamps, I will give e ither a medical exam ination or business consultation, and will forward th e same to you to secure to them M ind and M a tter for one y ea r .

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A Vitapathic Physician’s .Kind offer.D e a r F riend of H uman P rogress :—I have not

tim e to seek subscribers to your valuable p a p e r; but I will offer th is inducement to every person sending me two dollars (my usual price) and with it a lock of their hair, age, sex. etc., with postage stamp for an sw er; I will m ake for them a full examination of their case—give diagnosis and ad­vice, and will forward their two dollars to you to

Siy for them a year’s subscription to M ind and atter.This offer rem ains good for all time.

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B ro,R oberts:— You can say in your paper th a t any one subscribing for your paper through me,, and sending stamps to prepay answer, will receive a psvchomctrieal reading; or should they prefer a medical exam ination, by giving two or three lead­ing symptoms, (to facilitate) will receive the latter. Send lock of hair. Dit. J . C. P hillips,

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M ind and, M atter—the best ■■Spiritualist paper we have—1 make this offer: Any one sending- me two dollars (my regular price), and with it, a lock of hair, giving age, height, weight, sex, tem- poi:atureof sk ina iid feet.; with two postage stamps lor answ er; 1 will give them a thorough exami­nation of their case; also full advise as to what course they had best pursue; and I will send you the two dollars to pay their subscription to M i nd and M atter. Let all letters of th is kind be ad­dressed to me in your care.

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PHI LADRIP i l l A SPIRITUAL MEETINGS.

J UKI: CONFERUM K every Sunday nflt-rnoon lit 2-30 lit No. Ill South .Second Street, Test circles every Monday,. Thursday and Sunday evenings. Developing circle every Wednesday evening, Arrangements can be wade by trav­elling mediums to give seances Ac., in this hall, by address­ing A. James, care of M in d and M a t t e r , 713 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penna. . -1

A CONFERENCE AND CIRCLE willl be held every Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, at the Thompson St. Church, below Front. Public cordially invited.

KEYSTONE ANNOTATION OF SPIR ITU A L- INTN.—Spiritual Conference every Sunday, at 2R P. I1., at Hall corner of Eighth and Spring Garden streets. Free to everybody.

FIR ST SPIR ITU A L CHUKCII of the Good Samari­tan, at the N. K. Cor. Kightli and Buttonwood sis., 3d floor. Speaking and test circle every Sunday afternoon and eve’ng,

SPIRITUAL MEETINGS IN NEW YORK CITY.

T H E SECOND SOCIETY OF SPIR ITU A LISTS,of New York City, hold rcgulnr meetings every Sunday morning at 10.45; 'And Evening at 7.45, at Cartiers Hall, No. 23 East 14th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Union Square, Speakers engaged, Dr. J. M. .Peebles, September 5,12,19, 20; Ccpluyj B. Lynn, October 3d and 10th j Abbey N. Burnham, October 17, 2-1, and 31. Alfred Weldon, Prest.,'Alex. S, Davis, See., E. P. Cooley, Trees., 256 West 16th St,, N. Y. City.

PHILADELPHIA MEDIUM8.

JAMES A. IILINN, Trance, Test Medium, will, until further notice, give private sittings for Healing, Developing and Communications, every Tuesday and Friday afternoons from 1 to 6 o'clock, at Boom 9, 713 Sansom Street. Short consultation free, Treatments and sittings $1.00, Develop­ing Circle every Monday evening at 8 o’clock at his residence No. 1620 South Thirteenth Street. Admission 25 cents.

MRS. JAM ES A. BLISS, Materializing medium, Will until further notice, hold a Select Materializing Sennce every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday evenings at 8 o’clock, at her residence, No. 1620 South Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Private Seances by special arrangement. TakeThir- tcentji street car,, greeii light, to Baltimore depot, exchange for one horse car to 1620 South Thirteenth St.

M rs. H o h lo c k . Trance and Test Medium. Circles Tues­day, Thursday and Sunday evenings, a t 8 o’clock, No. 1146 O’Neil street, between Front and Second streets, below Girard Avenue.

Dr. RoxUaaa T. Rex. Healing and Test .Medium, 446 York Avenue, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Diseases. of women a speciality. Consultation free. Consul­tation by-letlcr, enclose three 3-et stamps. Developing circle Tuesday evenings.

D r, l l e u r y U. G ordon, Materializing and Slate Wri­ting Medium, 691N. 13th st. Select seancts every Monday, and Friday and- evenings, at 8 o'clock; also Tuesday at 3 o’clock. Private sittings daily for Slate Writing testa and communications.

M r. a n d M rs. T. J . A m brosia , Slate Writing, Clair­voyant, Trance and Test Mediums, 1223 North Third Street. Circle every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, also every Tuesday at 2.30 p. m. Consultations daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.

A lfred Ja m e s , Trance and Test Medium and medium for materialization. Letters answered by mail. Terms $1.00. For seances &c., see Philadelphia Spiritual Meetings. Private sittings daily at 111 Souili Second St.

M rs. A. E, D eH iias, Clairvoyant examination, and magnetic treatment. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 12 m., and 1 pJn. to 4 p.m. No. 1231 North Fifteenth st., Phila.

M rs. K a tie B. R obinson , the well-known Trance- test medium, will give sittings daily to investigators, at 2123 Brandywine street.

M rs. C a rr ie Crow ley, Trance Test Medium, will give select sittings daily from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., at No. 821 Ells­worth 8treet. #

M rs. I d a W h a rto n , Trance Test Medium, No. 423 Wharton street. Circles Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Sittings daily. ------- --------

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W CHOMETRIST AND CLAIRVOYANT.Come in person, or send by letter a lock of your liair, or

hand-writing, or a photograph; lie will give you a correct delineation of character, giving instructions for self-improve­ment, by telling what faculties to cultivate and what to re­strain, giving your present physical, mental and spiritual condition, giving past and future events, telling what kind of a medium you can develop into, if any. What business or profession you are best calculated for, to be successful in life, Advice and counsel in business matters, also, advice in reference to marriage; the adaptation of one to the other, and whether you are in a proper condition for marriage; hints and advice to those that arc in unhappy married rela­tions, how to make their path of life smoother. Further, will give an examination of diseases, and correct diagosis, with a written prescription and instructions for home treat­ment, which, if the patients follow, will improve their health and condition every time, if it does not effect a cure. \

DELINEATIONS.HR ALSO TREATS DISEASES MAGNETICALLY AND OTHERWISE

T e r m s :—Brief Delineation, $1.00. Full and Complete De­lineation, $2.00. Diagnosis of Disease. $1.00. Diagnosis and Prescription, $3.00. Full and Complete Delineation with Di­agnosis and Prescription^JTi.OO. Address A. B. S e v e r a n c e , 19-tigind Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

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J . ■V. M A N S P I G L D ,T e st M e d iu m , answers scaled letters at 61 W est F o r t y -

S econd St r e e t , N e w York. Terms, $3.00 and four 3-cent stamps. Register your letters.

~~ JAMES A. BUSS,LETTER MEDIUM.

'Communications by letter for persons at a distance. Terms $100 and three 3-ct stamps. Oiliee, 713Sansom Si., Pliila. Pa. |

3 D x . H e n r y C . G - o r d - o n . ,Physical, Trance nnd Slate Writing .Medium. Select Mate­rialisation Seances every Tuesday afternoon at 3 o ’clock at 691 North Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia. If.

POW ER is given John M.‘Spear to delineate character, to describe and prescribe for disease of body and mind. Per­sons desiring such aid may send handwriting, slating ago and sex, enclosing slam.ned and addressed envelope, with one dollar. 2210 Mount Vernon St., Philadelphia, Pa, ftf.

HEALING MEDIUMS.

C. J. Rftlchnrd, 262 I.ongworlh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, will until December 1st, send two sheets of his power­ful Magnetized Paper for the cure of disease, for twenty-live (25) cents. v3-2

DR. KOXILANA T. REX’S

UTERINE PASTILES AND COMPOUND TONIC,F or D iseases op W omen.

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, MRS. M. K. BOOZER,Medium for Medical Diagnosis and Psychomelry, 115 Lyon street, Grand Rapids, Michigan'. Mrs. Boozer cures all forms of Chronic diseases. Diagnosis made .by lock of hair or patient's lmnd-writing. Diagnosis, Silling or Psyohometrl- nation, $2. Examination and prescription, with medicine, S3. The cure of the habit of usingtobaceo aspeeialty—the appetite, •often changed by one treatment. Terms, $5 per treatment.

DR. DUMONT C. DAKE,Magnetic Physician. Office and residence, 147 Clinton St.,

'Brooklyn, N. Y. Fifteen years experience in the exclusive and successful treatment of Chronio Diseases.

MRS. FANNY W. SANBURN,Clairvoyant, Healing nnd Test Medium. For diagnosis oi disease or lest, send lock of hair, giving age and sex. Terms, •One dollar for examination or test, and 50 cents extra when medicine is required. Residence, Main street, Hyde Park. •Address, lock Box 319, Scranton, Pa. 2-50

MRS. LIZZIE LENZBERG,Successful Healing Medium. Relieves in most enscs.

•Communications while entranced. Will visit patients. References given. Hours 9 to 5, or later by appointment, '310 West 30tli street, between 8th and 9th Avenues.

J. Wm. Van Namee. M. D.. Clairvoyant nnd Mag­netic Physician. 136 K. Twelfth St„ New York City. Exami­nations made from lock of hair $1.00. Psycomctrienl reading of character $2,00. Magnetized remcdiessentforall diseases. Will answer calls to lecture before SpirituaTSocleties, Liberal Leagues, Temperance Societies, and nltend Conventions nnd Funerals within reasonable distance from- home on inoder*

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$ 5 to $20 per day nt homo. Samples worth $5 free, Address Stin so n it Co., Portland, Maine.

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READ! READ!!B L ISS’ |

Collection of Spiritual Hymns, especially designed for jC a m p I M I s e t i x i g - s ,• -••*,■■ C i r c l e s , S e a n c e s , r

a n d H o m e T 7 s e ,Contains 27 of the most popular spiritual hymns, that are familiar to all, will lie sent FREE to every purchaser of a sheet of Blackfoot’s Magnetized Paper. (See Special Notice from -l Bliss'Chief's" bund on another page.)

Societies, Circles and Seances will be supplied with these Hymn Books at tho rate of $1.50 per hundred. Send two 3- cent stamps for sample.,

Address* JAMES A. BLISS.713 Sansom St., Philada., Pa.

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The Dawning Light.This beautiful and impressive picture representing the

BIRTH PLACE OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM.In Ilydesvillo, N. Y,, was carefully and eorreolly drawn nnd pnintod by oiir eminent American artist medium, Joseph John. Angelic messengers descending through rifled olouds, bathed in floods of celestial light, nro most successfully linked and blended with this noted house and its surroundings, of road, yard, tho well nnd its onken bucket, slinde trees, orchard, the blacksmith shop with its blazing forge, and the Hydo mansion resting against the hill in the distance* Twilight pervades the foreground in mystio grades, typical of spiritual conditions in the eventful days of 18*18. A light for the wandering pilgrim shines from the windows of that room where spiritual telegraphy began to electrify the world with its “glad tidings of great joy." Luniinoujj floods of morning light stream up from the cloud-mounted horizon, illuminating the llonling clouds in gorgeous tints, nnd then fulling over the angel baud nnd the dark-clouds beyond.

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The Orphans’ Rescue,Engraved on Steel by J. A. J. Wilcox, from Joseph John’s Great Paintings.

This picture represents, in inoBt beautiful and fascinating Allegory, a brother nnd sister ns littlo orphan voyagers on the “River of Life," their boat in “angry waters," nearing the brink of a fearful cataract shadowed by (Vowning rooks, while the spirit father and mother hover near with outstretched arms to guide their boat through the dangerous waters to a place of safety. In concept ion mid execution, this picture is a rare gem of art, and worthy of the distinguished Artist medium through whom it wasgiven. Size of sheet, 22x28 Indies. Engraved surface, about 15x20 inches,

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AN ART POEM IN ALLEGORY.

Life’s Morning and Evening.Engraved on Steel in Line nnd Stipple by J. A. J. Wilcox. A river, symbolizing the life of man, winds through a

landscape of hill and plain, bearing on its current a time-worn hark, containing William Cullen Bryant. An Angel accom­panies the boat, one hand rests on the helm, while with the other she points towards the open sea—an emblem of eternity —ami admonishes ‘'Life’s Morning," to live good and pure lives, so, “That wlion their barks shall float at eventide," they may bo like “Life's Evening," iltted for the "crown of immortal worth," and depart peacefully, "Like ono who wraps tile drapery of his couch about him nnd lies down lo'plcasiint dreams." A hand of angels are scattering flowers, typical of Cod’s inspired touchings. One holds in his hand a crown of light. A little flower-wreathed seraph drops roses mid buds, which in their descent, assume the form of letters mid words, that whispers to tho youthful. Pilgrims on the shore,“ Be Kind.” Near the water’s edge, mingling with the sunlit grass, in flower Idlers we read, "God is Love," Just be­yond sits a .humble waif, her face radiant witii innocence and love, as she lifts the first letter of “ Charity "—“ Faith1’ and

• r‘IIope" being already garnered in the basket by her side. Over the rising ground wo read, " Lives of Great Men," and Longfellow’s poem, " A I’sahn of Life.” lifts the veil, mid wo road beyond the limits of the picture; "nil remind us wo can mnke our lives sublime.” Further on to the left, "So live," admonishes us that wo should thoughtfully consider tho closing lines of Bryant's Tlmnntopsis. “Thy will be done" has fallen upon the how of tho boat, nnd is the voyager’s bright uttering of faith. Trailing in the witter from the side of the boat, is the song of the heavenly messengers. “ We'll gently wnfV him o 'er."' The hoy, playing witii his toy boat, and his Sister standing near, view with astonishment, tho passing scenes. This is n masterly work, restful in tone, hallowed in sentiment, Size of sheet, 22x28 in. Published at $3 •

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“Nearer, My God, tb Thee.”Engraved on Steel by the Bunk Nolo Engraver, J. R. Rice. This picture represents a woman holding inspired pages,

her hands clasped, and eyes turned heavenward, i t is a night scene. The moon shining through the partially curtained window, does not produce the flood of light which falls over the woman's lace. This light is tvpieal of that light which flows from above and dispels tho olouds from the soul in its momunls of devotion. Size of Shoot, 22x28 inches. Pub­lished at $2.50. Reduced to $2.00. J*"*

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Homeward; or, the Curfew." The curlew tolls the knell of parting day, The ploughman homeward plods Ills weary wjiy, “

The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea; And leaves (lie world to darkness and to me!"“ Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight."

An Illustration of the First Linos in. Grey’s Elegy.---- —;:o:—----- -

■The F o llow ing Is a co m pan ion p iece to “ H o m ew a rd ; o r, th e Curfew .”

Farm Yard at Sunset.The scene is in harvest time on the banks of a river. The farm house, trees, water, hill, sky, nnd, cloud's form tho

back-ground. In the foreground are the most harmonious groupings, in which nro beautiful nnd Interesting bendings of a happy family with the animal kingdom. A man is unloading hay in the ham. Horses released from harness aro being cared for by tho proprietor, Grandpa holds a hahy boy, who fondly caresses “Old White’! the favorite horse, that is drinking nt the trough: The milk maid stands by her best cow. Among the feathered tribe, a littlo girl is in slight warfare with a mother lien, lint carefully watched by the faithful dog. Oxendriven by a lad are approaching with a load of hay. .A youngster on Iho fodder sued is preventing his oat from preying upon tho doves. Cattle, sheep, lambs, colt, ducks, geese, doves, and tvtlier birds, nro artistically grouped and scattered throughout tho picture. Tho mellow light of tho setting sun richly illuminates this eloquent “Art Poem," of thrifty and contented American farm life, Com­petent judges consider it by far the liesi Farm yard illustration over-produced. The publication of tills work will gratify thousands who have desired an appropriate companion piece to “Homeward." Klein copied in Black and Two Tints, in a high grade of that Art. The very artistic tinting has produced the most perfect and pleasing sunset effects. Size of sheet 22x28 inches. Published at the low price of $2.00.

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HECENT ORIGINAL RESEARCHES AND NEW VIEWS • IN MYTHOLOGY.

BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS, .

First Paper— Introductory— Concluded.Usually, if not universally, in barbaric thought,

th e other self is supposed to referable the material self with which it is customarily associated. For example, th e Australian, not content w ith slaying his enemy in battle, cuts off the th e righ t thumb of the corpse, so tha t the departed .soul may be incapacitated from throwing a spear. Very differ­en t is this from the modern philosophic conception o f the soul as immaterial *, * * In this, as I have elsewhere urged, ‘we see how sim ple and consist­en t is the logic which guides the Bavage, and how inevitable is the genesis of the great mass of be­lief^ to our m inds so arbitrary and grotesque, w hich prevail throughout the barbaric world. However aibsurd the belief tha t pots and kettles have souls may seem to us, it is nevertheless the only belief which can be held consistently by the savage, to whom pots and kettles, no less than hum an friends or enemies, may appear in his dream s; who sees them followed by shadows as they are moved about; who hears the ir voices, dull or ringing, when they are s tru c k ; and who watches them fantastically dancing in the water as they cross the stream.’ This is exemplified in the argum ent of the > Algonquins, who insisted to Charlevoix th a t since hatchets have shadows as well as men,” therefore the shadow or soul of the hatchet m ust accompany the soul of the warrior to the sp irit land.

“Now, w hen this general theory of object-souk universal among uncultured men, is expanded into a still m ore general theory of indwelling spir­its, we have before us a set of phenom ena which go very far towards explaining the personifications of mythology. To quote again from my work on

„ the subject: ‘ W hen once habituated to the con­ception of souls of knives and tobacco pipes pass­ing to the land of ghosts, the’ savage cannot avoid carrying the interpretation still farther, so that the wind and water, fire and storm, are accredited w ith indwelling spirits akin by nature to the soul which inhabits the human frame. T hat the mighty sp irit or demon by whose impelling will the trees are tooted up and .the storm-el puds are driven across the sky should resemble a freed

. hum an soul, is a natural inference, since uncul­tured man has not attained to the conception' of immaterial force acting in accordance w ith uni­form methods, and hence all events are to his m ind the manifestations of capricious volition. The various theories of an embodiment show how thoroughly the demons or deities which caused disease are identified with hum an ghost-souls. On the one hand, in Australasia it is a dead m an’s ghost which creeps up in todhe liver of the impious wretch who has dared to pronounce his nam e; while conversely, in the well known the­ory of demoniacal possession, it is a fairy from Elf-land or an imp from hell, which has entered the body of the sufferer. In the 'close kinship, moreover, between disease possession and oracle possession where the body of the Pytliia or tlif Medicine-man is placed under the direct control of some great Deity, we may see how, by insensi­ble transitions, the conception of the hum an ghost passes into the conception of the spiritual nuinen or divinity.’

“ Thus, by a somewhat circuitous process, we have at last reached something like a consistent and satisfactory explanation of the true nature of mythology. On the one hand philology has shown th a t a m yth is an attem pt to explain some natural phenomenon by endowing with human feelings and capacities the senseless factors in the phenomenon, as when the ancient Hindoo ex­plained a thunder storm as the sm iting of Vrilra by the unerring shafts of Indra. On the other hand, a brief survey of barbaric superstitions has shown how uncultured man, by th e best use he could make of his rude common sense, has inva­riably come to regard all objects as endowed with souls, and all nature as peopled w ith superhuman entities shaped after the general pattern of hu­manity. Thus is suggested a natural mode of genesis .fo r the personifications of which my­thology is made up. We see, moreover, th a t these personifying stories are not parables or allegories, b u t sober explanations o f natural phenomena. W here we have reepurse to some elaborate scien­tific theorem, the ancient was content w ith telling a m yth. Thus the study of -mythology is by no means to be set down as a profitless comparison of ridiculous or trivial fables. W hen pursued on the wide scale indicated in the present article, it is a study of the greatest and most serious importance, since it throws light of no uncertain chffidcter on the thoughts and mental habits of prim itive men, as well as on countless superstitious beliefs'nnd customs w hich have survived in relatively high’ stages of culture. And, perhaps, there is no better evidence of the profoundly philosophic character of contemporary scholarship than the pains which i t is taking to investigate m ethodically the le­gends and sayings which formerly were either

•thought unw orthy of serious study or were but treated as subjects for idle-and arb itrary specula­tion.”

These extended extracts from the Cyclopxdia in­dicate the/fact, as already intim ated, tha t the stu­dents of m ythology are, somewhat unconsciously, referring to very different epochs in the mental history /of m ankind. W hether we go back in time, o» w hether we go outward from the centres of civilization, in space, to the fringes of barbar­ism and savagery which encompass them , the effect is the same. The Algonkifi of our day is v ir­tually several thousand years behind the Greeks, a t the/m ost ancient period a t w hich we have any certain history o f them ; and from the Algonkin stage of G reek culture, whenever th a t was, to that of tne polished and greatly enlightened Greek people, from Hom er to the school of Alexandria, is an immense gap in the course, o f hum an social evolution. One of the pictures which Mr. Fiske has furnished relates to one, and th e o ther to the o ther of those periods.

The point of novelty and importance, which I have now to announce, and for which all tha t has been so far said, in this introduction, is m ere pre­paration, is, th a t at some point, interm ediate be­tween the Greek-Algonkin, or ra ther th e Paleo- Cosmik-Algonkin (the Old-W orld-Algonki n—Asia- Europe-Africa), and the classic Greek mythology (and the allied mythologies of o ther nations)—be­tw een these as a first and a th ird stage of m ytho­logical growth, there was a rem arkable and h ith ­erto completely (for us) hidden or buried stage of th e same grand serial development, which we may how call th e fecond or interm ediate stage of the

mythological ca reer; end which is now to be ex­hibited as m atter of new discovery, and critical investigation.

(The first of these stages embraces what I have denom inated Simple Nature M yths, or Nature. Myths; this second stage embraces Science Myths; and the th ifd stage Art-nature M yths. W e have, therefore, to do, in the following exposition, neither w ith the stage of mythology which Mr. Fiske has so carefully expounded as the origin of mythological conceptions, nor w ith the far /later stage of mythological completion and art-culture treated of by MaxMuller, Cox, and others, and ex­plained by Mr. F isk e ; but with a middle phase and distinct stage, having neither the unthoughted spontaneity of nature, with the early savage, nor tbe free and fanciful play of poetic genius, in the disposition of already accumulated materials; but which was reflectively and deliberately wrought out, by the early scientists and philosophers, and purposely injected or interpolated into the thought of the world. They, i t I b true, did not intend to contribute to the building up of the fabric of m y­thology and popular superstition. T heir purpose was exactly the opposite. They sought earnestly to find and secure the true foundations of know­ledge. They were the positivists of the day, and. they doubtless hoped to overthrow th e popular system of belief. T he result was partly a success, in as much as they really founded the then new science and philosophy of the world; which has never since ceased to exist and to grow; and partly, for long centuries, a failure, since in fact the ir labors became a new and powerful buttress of the older doctrine, which i t in turn helped greatly to modify, and of which it grew to be the traditive head and chief factor; w hile,itself, it was so over-laid by the huge mass of naturismal "materials previously accumulated, tha t as-science, and as’originally propounded, it has been com­pletely lost sight of, for ages, awaiting rediscovery, at our hands, and .at this late hour.

The case was sim ilar to tha t of the introduction of a new religion or a new civilization in to 'th em idst of an old one, which remains as its environ­m ent, and reacts upon it; to modifv it, and change it back into the shape of the old. jliach party pre­vails in a sense; while each is largely deflected from its own true purpose. I t will be shown that the chief features of tne great final and far reach­ing Aryan system of mythology arose out of the earliest discoveries of science; while the minor features and modifications of the system were con­tributed by the older and cruder phase of my­thology; and these last mentioned so far predomi­nated, tha t the scientific features while remaining leading, as mythology, lost all recognition, in that form, as science, and are now the buried city which it is our present business to unearth and expose to vjew. ,

The very existence of any strictly scientific ele-. ment. in mythology has been so little dreamed of or suspected, while yet the proofs of it are so copi­ous and convincing, that it would be a waste of labor and time to argue.the m atter, The best and only necessary argument will lie in the exposition itself. -■

A slight amount of technicality w!ll simplify the m atter of referring to the three different periods of the inception and development of mythology as above sketched and described. Lot us call the stage of .Simple- N ature Myths the Naturismus of Mythology; that of Science Myths the Scientismus, and tha t of Art-Nature Myths the Artismus.

The Naturismus of Mythology extends from Animism, or the belief that all nature is alive, and from the first promptings of the infantile m ind of early human society to personify external Nature, and from the resultant pure Algonkinism as sketched by Mr. Fiske, up to the existence of a quasi-scientific and tolerably well digested system of Natural Mythology, culminating in the estab­lished worship.of the Sun and Moon, of the Great Features of Nature, of Fire, of the Sexual Organs, as epitomizing Nature in the continuous processes of reproduction, etc.

The Sdentism us of Mythology began with the beginnings of the development of the science of pure mathematics, and especially in its geometri­cal branch, and more especially in the considera­tion of the wonderful properties of the Circle and the 'S phere ; and in the symbolism to which the earliest true scientists were compelled to resort, in the absence of. any proper lingual technicalities, for, the expression of their id eas; and extends up to the somewhat full development of. the science o f astronom yj'a period which we may limit, theo­retically, by the institution, by .diagram and tech­nical namings, of the scientific Zodiac.

The Artismus of Mythology begins with the completion of the Scientismus (saving the inevita­ble overlappings), tha t is to say, with the epoch of the Zodiac, and extends through the poetic and classical period, followed by so much.of mythology as has been imbedded in the theologies and litera­tu re ofdater times, lasting, in a sense, even to our day. W ithin this period is especially developed the effort to express myths, by appropriate sym ­bols, w hich Hegel regards as the origin of Art.

The institution of the scientific or astronomical Zodiac, noted here as the beginning of the latest period is, itself, so far back in time, that, even when the Ptolemies reigned in Egypt, three h un ­dred years before our era, there was no memory or tradition even of its origin. The very shortest period that.w e can assign, therefore, to the latest stage of mythological developm ent (the Artismus) 'is th ree thousand years, recurring backward from the p resen t-tim e ; and probably four thousand years would b e the truer assumption. Of the length of the two preceding periods we can do little more than form conjectures. Still, it may be decided) on principle, that the scientific period, as a transition from the natural to the artistic, was a period of a comparatively short duration, and th a t the first period was almost certainly longer than the two later periods combined. I t may relieve the m ind of the reader to have som ething definite suggested as to the probable continuance of those th ree periods, and so, without claiming anything like scientific accuracy in the m atter, le t us assume the following estimate:

1. For the Naturismus of Mythology.................. 7000 years.2. -For the Scientismus .............. ;...200O "3. For the Artismus “ .................. 4000 "

I t is the second of these periods to w hich we are about to give specific a tten tio n ; but not to the whole of it. I have spoken of i t as having begun w ith the development of mathematics, especially geometry, and th e ir perversion to mythological uses, and as having ended w ith the complete or­ganization of astronomical doctrine, and its m yth­ological perversion. Of this latter period (the astronomical) I shall have comparatively little to say. O ther w riters as Higgins, in Anacalypis, Du­puis, and others, formerly, and now. especially, your learned contributor, C. B. Pecxham, have already largely dealt w ith it ; and the w riters on

the artismology of mythology have supplemented them. In other words, the presence of a concrete scientific element, dealing with the heavens, etc., in mythology has been discovered and exposed.I t is then the abstract scientific elem ent (m athe­matical), alone, which is new, and which will be the main burden of the following exposition. In respect to time, we may say, therefore, that, is the first 1000 years of the m iddle or 2000 year period ; suppositionally from 0000 to 5000 years ago.

Certain other lim itations upon the scope of our investigations must be made.- Sir George W. Cox, in his Mythology of the A ryan Nations^ discrim inates • between inventive and what he calls traditive dei­ties (1). The first, he says, owe their existence to invention, due to the imaginative necessities of the poets and otherianciful w rite rs ; an invention which has also “ been busy in depraving and de­basing the ideaof even those which are traditive.” By the traditive deities he -means those who had their origin farther back, in some deeper and more significant form of. thought, who have de­scended by tradition through the ages, and whose existence as deities constitutes the substantial framework of the whole mythological system. I t is specifically with these traditive deities th a t we have now to do.

We have given attention to the time w hen the scientific .element in mythology was probably evolved. A word now with regard to the place where. The most recent scientific investigations tend to concentrate the attention of the learned upon a region north of the Himalayas and east­ward towards the borders of China, and around, especially, a certain school or early university at the old city of Balkh, in what is now known as Toorkistan, as the probable fountain head of that great central current of the world’s civilization, of which we in America are, as it were, a t th is day, in some sense, the extrem e front wave. This po­sition, or Kashgar, or Khokand, a little further north, still far east of the centre of Asia, m arks a position more centrally located than any other, as related to Asia, Europe and Africa, and might, therefore, on purely theoretical grounds, be fixed upon as the early focus of their jo in t currents of social and intellectual culture. But in addition to this, scholars, M. T errien de Lacouperie, and others, are beginning through the mediqm of deeper philological research to establish at least a faint shadow of early historical connection be­tween China, and the far East generally, with Babylonia and the West, through the mediation, as they suppose, of an Archaic centre of civilization at Balkh and its vicinity. More will be said on this subject in my own subsequent etymological labors.I t sullices to say that from this point, a northeast­ern branch of emigration and influence would readily pass north of the Caspian Sea into North­ern and Central Europe,-yielding the Sclavonic, the Scandanavian and the Teutonic forms of the common mythology, and a southeastern branch into southeastern Asia, (from India, inclusive, West.), southern Europe and Africa.

Thr.oughafurtherlim itingoftliescopeofourpyes- ent inquiries, thev will be confined to the several sub-branches of this southeastern drift of develop-, m ent; the Hindoo, Assyrian, Syrian, Egyptian, Latin or Italian, and Greek forms of mythology. Among these, the precedence is given to Greek ideas and forms, as those which received the com- pletest elaboration, and for another reason ; that in treating of John, Jesus aird Jonah, a very considerable attention has already been be­stowed upon the Semitic sub-branch of" mytholo­gy. I t will perhaps be found occasionally conve­nient to use the term Pliens, suggested by Inm an, to designate the Phenicio-Syrians, or the people, generally, living around the eastern extrem ity of the M editerranean Sea.

lit conclusion of th is introduction, let me refer to a very natural and probable criticism, to be anticipated as likely to be made upon some of my etymologies, I t may be thought by distinguished and cautious etymologists, that I occasionally overstep the established limits of difference be­tween different languages, and admit of h ib rid ity ; or assume affinities between different families of language, as, notably, between the Semitic and Indo-European branches, which are not s •ientifi- cally established, and authorized. I beg them, however, not t o ‘suppose th a t I am ignorant or unaware of any of their points. I know very well what is linguistically orthodox, and w hat is sus­pect in this departm ent of learning, according to existent authorities; bu t as already intim ated I have new light of my own, to guide me, and to be offered to others, on the subject, which from the order of presentation of the several allied branches of investigation, cannot be formally presented here; but which, no doubt, being present to my mind, somewhat color the character of the ety­mological portions of my whole treatm ent of my­thology. The objection if such arises, will, it is hoped be removed by the later publications that"

.are contemplated and have been alluded to. I merely ask attention, for the present, to the fact that the utmost difference exists in the propriety of making a compound root-word to be part Greek and part Latin, or part Sanskrit, and part Latin or Greek, according to the period of time referred to. W hat would be a highly unscientific procedure in this respect, if assigned to a time subsequent to the complete separation of Those sister languages fropi their paren t stock, is perfectly legitimate, if referred to the ir nascent state, or to the older mother tongue back of them. Although such li­cense has not been taken by etymologists, or if so, only in a very slight and casual degree, it- is i th ink, quite certain th a t their own premises au­thorize i t ; and th a t there is a considerable field of transitional etymology of this kind, as between language and language, to be traversed with good promise- of yielding interesting and im portant results.

Another point of novelty affecting my etymolo­gies is th is : I find, as a fact quite well established to my own mind, and which I shall do something in th is series of papers, to elucidate, th a t the reli­gious technicalities and Divine Names of the whole then known world, a t the time they were estab­lished and promulgated, were derived from some common source, quite as Greek and Hebrew have permeated our modern world with their theological term s; and, so constituted a common technical language, peculiar to religious subjects, and in ter­polated into all the various local languages; so that w ith respect to th is class of words, we are not to be hindered, in our investigations, by the ordi­nary restrictions imposed upon scholars. Some­times, of course, these term s were translated, in­stead of being transferred; frequently they under­went considerable alterations, according to the genius of the particular language in w hich they were imbedded, and sometimes they were replaced by native words, somewhat allied in m eaning or

form ; bu t despite all these accidents, they still retain so much of their original and common char­acter, th a t i t may be said th a t they are the rem ­nan t of a single and peculiar technical nomencla­tu re—not un like the chemical language, or the musical language of our day, w hich traverses th e boundaries of all countries, and is, substantially, th e same everywhere, le t the local idiom be what

.it may. All th is leaves still untouched the strictly mew Idiologieal method, in Etymology, already, also, alluded to, and which will in due time be duly expounded.

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