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VOX,. II. SA N F E A N CISCO, SA T U R D A Y , JA N U A R Y 18, 1868. NO. 2.L I T E R A R Y .

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“ M illions o f s p i r i tu a l c r e a tu r e s w a lk th e e a r th U n se e n , b o th w h e n w e w a k e a n d w h e n w e s le ep . ’

— M ilton .A m y r ia d a n g e ls h o v e r a b o u t th i s e a r th b e lo w ,A n d in a n d o u t th e th r e s h h o ld s th e i r fo o ts te p s com e a n d go, W h ile in o u r v e r y b l in d n e s s th e i r fo rm s w e do n o t k n o w .

T h e y s in g to u s in m u s ic , th e y s m ile on u s in d re a m s ,T h e y s p e a k to us in ech o es th e w o rld ly s p i r i t d ee m s B u t c h i r r u p in g o f w ood b i r d s a n d c h a t te r in g of s t r e a m s .

T h ey m a k e l ig h t in o u r c o r n e r s , th e y p u r ify o u r a i r .T h e y ta k e o u r h a n d s u n c o n sc io u s , an d g u id e u s u n a w a re :T h e p re se n c e o f th e i r m in i s t r y is s w e e tly e v e r y w h e re .

T h ey s i t u p in th e n u r s e r y , a n d k is s th e b a b e s to s le e p ; A cro ss th e h o ly h e a r th p la c e th e y jo in th e i r h a n d s to k ee p T h e l ig h t o f lo v e u n d im m o d b y th e te a r s p a in e d h e a r t s do

w eep .

T h e y lu rk a b o u t th e s ic k -ro o m , a n d t r a c e u p o n th e w all Q u a in t le g e n d s fo r s t i l l m u s in g s w h e n tw i l i g h t sh a d o w s fa ll, A nd p le a s a n t th o u g h ts a n d w o rd s th e y h e lp u s to re c a ll .

T hen s te a l th e y n e a r t h e b e d s id e , a n d h o ld o u r p a s s iv e h a n d s , A n d ta lk to u s o f s t r a n g e th in g s t h a t h e a l th s c a rc e u n d e r ­

s ta n d s ,Till h o m e lik e to th e so u l g ro w fa r -o lf h e a v e n ly la n d s .

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

RATIONAL IASFECT OF SPIRITU A LISM , A N CIEN T AND MODERN.

NUMBER TWO.

B ut w ith th a t ris ing civilization, and th e ac­quired knowledge of th e m ethod of transm itting though ts and ideas inscribed upon the parchm ent rolls, came also a desire to exaggerate and deal in the fanciful ; and hence the innum erable array of ancient legends and fables so m ixed up w ith scraps of tru th fu l history, th a t it is a ltogether be­yond the ability of th e m ost em inent scholar of th e present day to unravel or separate tru th from fiction. For, a t th is very early date, there were gods w ithout num ber, possessing a vast variety of powers, passions, and a ttribu tes, far, very far above th e capacity of m an to equal, or even to u n ­derstand. The Phoenician had his deities, and m ade them the personified powers of N a tu re ; which finally grew to the shape of beings, regarded as hum an—m ere men. T he Phoenicians worshiped N ature, and for each and everyth ing in N ature there was a god ; even to th e flu ttering of a leaf in the gentle breeze, or the m urm uring of th e w aters runn ing in a brook. The Kohnds, in India, were not inferior to the Phoenicians in the num ber and character of the ir gods ; they had th e ir sun- god, and an earth-goddess ; a moon-god, a war-god, a god of thunder, a god of b irths, a god of the small-pox, a god of grain , and hosts of other k in ­dred gods. They professed a relig ion consisting of the worship of local deities, some supposed to be benevolent, some m alevolent. T he Persians ven­erated rivers, trees, m ountains, herds of th e resur­rection, stars, spirits, feruers. Spirits of the de­parted were feruers. A ll-the stars are considered m etam orphosed Indians, by the inhab itan ts of the Caribbean Is lan d s. and Patagonia. The ancient Chinese religion was th e same as all th e earliest forms of society—the worship of th e visible pow­ers of N ature or of th e stars. They sacrificed to the Shin, th a t is, to the superior spirits of every rank, and to th e ir virtuous, deceased ancestors, and ad­dressed the wind, rain , thunder, diseases, etc., as divinities. Comfucius says : “ Shun then offered th e sacrifice called lu i to Shangti, he presented a pure offering to th e six venerable ones, he looked w ith devotion tow ard the h ills and rivers, and glanced around a t th e host of Shin.” Ju d g in g from th e m ere scraps which have come down to us of th e g rea t fact underlying a ll the earliest devel­opm ent of hum an kind, we can arrive a t no other conclusion, th an th a t a perfect uniform ity of ideas and practices everywhere prevailed, w herever a com m unity of hum an beings were found on the earth . If a difference is anyw here observable in th e earliest hab its and customs of men, in resrard to the ir notions of w hat has come to be understood as religion, or worship, it is a difference of kind, not of character. I f the converse of th is proposi­tion were true, the whole m atter would necessarily be en tirely out of harm ony w ith all other known law s of m ind and development. “ The Hindoos be­lieved the stars to be spirits, called Gandliarvas, and considered to be heavenly choristers. A t the close of th e year, d u rin g the last five days, the Persians celebrated th e Festival of All Souls. On these five in tercalary days, the souls of the dead come again on earth and visit the ir friends.” ‘‘ At th is festival every one m ust pray tw elve hundred tim es a day, P u r i ty -a n d g lory is for the just, who is p u re ; and th e prayer, T hat is th e w ill of Ahuramazda, w ith o ther prayers.” “ Noxious ani­m als m ust be killed, en terta inm ent and dresses prepared for the pure spirits, and they m ust be invoked w ith prayers—custom s w hich have evi­dently the same origin ns th e banquets of the dead am ong the Hindoos.” D unker says these rites and ceremonies were all as faithfully and devoutly ob­served, as the services of any relig ious sect seen in modern times. J. M uller rem arks, th a t “ festivals in honor of the dead were celebrated by the Amer­ican tribes every eight or ten years, and even by th e Aztecs and Tlascalans in Mexico.” According to Philo, the A lexandrian Jew, “ the air is filled

w ith invisible inhabitants, spirits free from evil, and im m ortal. T he best of them are th e angels. God uses them as inferior powers and m inisters to benefit m ankind. T he angels were th e souls of the stars.”

“ W h e n th e m o rn in g B ta rs F ang to g e th e r ,A n d a ll th e so n s o f E io h im (G o d ) s h o u te d fo r jo y . ”

The Septuagint gives the verse differently :W h en th e s t a r s w e re b r o u g h t f o r th th e y a p p ro v e d m e ,A ll m y a n g e ls w ith a lo u d v o je e .”

Hom er m akes the gods favorable or hostile to different persons, bu t adm its of no divisions into good and evil deities am ong the gods. T he Greeks believed in the existence and presence of bad spir­its, and specters ; and dream s w ere held to be significant of som ething real. “ T he ancient Irish worshiped the sun, stars, and the w inds.” ( V a l­ian cy , E ssa y on the Celtic L a n g u a g e .) “ T he Gaulsworshiped n a tu ra l phenom ena, th e elements,' and heavenly lum inaries, stones, trees, winds, rivers, thunder, th e sun, etc.” “ The ancient Germ an and th e Scandinavian religions were based on nature- worship. T hey adored spirits of every kind, in the sun, moon, and stars ; air-gods, water-gods, etc. The Esquim aux, th e Greenlanders, th e people of Siberia, and the Polynesians, worship spirits. The B aktrian Hindoos worshiped spirits of the sun and moon, the air, th e heaven, th e w ater, th e rivers, the winds, celestial singers, nym phs, and demons, patron deities of the villages, and th e souls of the ir ancestors. The Peruvians, Mexicans, Romans, Greeks, Assyrians, Arabs, Hindoos, Babylonians, T artars, Persians, Massagetae, E gyptians, and Hebrews, adored the sun. T he prim itive M agian religion was the worship of th e heavenly bodies. The old Canaanites adored th e sun, moon, and stars. Am ong th e Hebrews, they were the sons of E l (the sun).” {Schoolcraft.') J . x>. p i e r s o n .

IS S P IR IT M A TERIA L ?In th e B a n n e r , two prom inent lig h ts of Spirit­

ualism took directly opposite g round upon th e above question. "Without a ttem pting to decide w hen doctors disagree, I consider th e subject w orthy a few suggestions and h in ts. In discussing abstruse problem s, we often g e t confused by a ttach ing different m eanings to the sam e words. W here ideas have been confused am ong word, m akers, words them selves m ust necessarily be indefinite. T he first step in discussions of th is character is, to define term s. To say th a t spirit is not so gross m atter as to be cognizable to th e m ass of m ankind in a norm al condition, is a plain proposition, from w hich few w ill dissent. B ut to say th a t spirit is not substance, is to’ say it is a non­entity , or th a t it does not exist ; w hich is sim ply nonsense. If we define gross-m atter as a ll th a t part of the universe w hich is cognizable by m an in his present conditions of existance, and spirit- m atter as a substance too refined for such cogniz­ance, and em bracing th e balance of th e universe, several questions na tu ra lly arise from such a statem ent.

Is th e substance of both these entities composed of identical constituent elem ents ?

Does a part of the elem ents of w hich e ither of these substances are composed enter into the com­position of the other ? .

Are all the elem ents of e ither identical wTith part of the elem ents of th e other ? :

Does either of these substances pass into the other? or, in other words, Is th e relative propor­tion of these substances in th e universe a fixed condition, w hich has alw ays been 'the same, and w ill always continue to rem ain th e same ?

These questions are easily asked, b u t probably it is impossible to give an answ er th a t can be verified, in the pre'seni condition of hum an know l­edge. My impression or opinion is, th a t spirit- substance is identical w ith gross-m atter in some stages of its existence—has been m ixed w ith it, perhaps, m any times, and evolved from it by th e ceaseless progress of th e g rea t laboratory of the universe ; th a t, w henever spirit-substance becomes sufficiently refined to form a hom e for an individ­ualized spirit, and to form a sp irit organism capable of th ough t, affection, action, then , by the inherent attraction of the elem entary particles of the spirit-substance, such organism s are formed, by law s as sim ple as those by w hich a crystal is formed w hen the proper elem ents are held in solution. Geology and N atu ra l H istory afford a strik ing analogy to th is view, in th e fact th a t organism s inhab iting th e earth have, for hundreds of thousands of years, progressed to h ig h e r forms, as the conditions of th e earth and atm osphere have so changed as to adm it of th e ir existence. W hether individualized spirit organism s are formed in th e spirit world, and afterw ards seek a physical body, or are formed about th e same tim e th e body is, and both grow and m atu re together, are questions of not m uch practical importance, and ra ther beyond the ken of intellectual vision. The Mormons hold th a t there are m yriads of infantile spirits anxious to be born w ith a physical body for fu rther developm ent; and th a t those who do m ost to furnish these bodies are the greatest ph il­anthropists. Skeptical Gentiles w ill th in k th is an after-thought. I can scarcely realize th a t a spirit, who had once enjoyed th e freedom of spirit life, could be satisfied w ith th e clogs of a bodily organ­ism. I t seems to m e m uch as if th e free birds of

the forest should seek to throw off’ the ir p lum age and be clothed w ith th e shells of bivalves.

I am- unable to see th a t th e power of the w ill over hum an conduct has any bearing in the m atter, as i t is w ell know n th a t a strong w ill is invariably accompanied by a la rge physical organ near the apex of the brain. T his is as it would be, if there were no organism beyond th a t of the brain;-as .the M aterialists hold.

This view, th a t spirit-substance is, in its ele­m entary constituents, identical w ith those of gross- m atter, or a t least some of them , before such spirit is throw n off, seems to accord w ith the simplicity of nature, and find analogical support in th e pro­gressive developm ent of science. The more n a tu re ’s processes are understood, the more we are able to refer them to fewer general .laws. L igl is found to consist in undulations of th e e ther pervading all space traversed by ligh t, caused by a peculiar m otion of th e surface of a lum inous body. H eat is likewise a physical a g e n t; also electricity ; also anim al and spirit m agnetism . I t is now p re tty w ell understood th a t th e vital principle is b u t a nam e for the w orkings of a liv ing organism .

If spirit is not substance, how is it possible to affect the vision—spirit-vision, if you please—-of seeing m edium s ? how is it possible to m ake a spirit photograph ? or how is it possible to sit or stand to a m edium -artist for a portra it? These spirit phenom ena are quite w ell a tte s te d ; how shall we account for them ? T hat finely attenuated spirit-m atter should have a connection w ith gross- m atter, and, under certain conditions, produce effects upon it, is a reasonable proposition, quite in accordance w ith recognized facts. Gross-matter has gradations of fineness, u n til it is past recogni­tion by our senses. B ut w hen we go beyond the m aterial to the im m aterial and shadowy, th e m ind can establish no connection w ith th e p a lp ab le ; such a relation is inconceivable, and, to use a term in vogue w ith E ng lish philosophers, it is abso­lu te ly un th inkable.

I t certainly is an indication of th e correctness of -this view, th a t, of th e four chief constituents of our physical bodies—carbon, n itrogen, oxygen^ and hydrogen—three of them are gaseous, and refuse under g rea t pressure to be reduced even to liquids. These elem ents, then , a re ju s t such as they would be, to best fit th e gross-m atter of our physical bodies to be acted upon by th e spirit- m atter of our spirit-bodies, or for both to live and act harm oniously together u n til th e dissolution called death. J o h n a l l t n .

S P IR IT AND M ATTER.“ W l.e .1 B ish o p B e rk e le y said. ‘ th e r e w a s n o m a t t e r , ’

A n d p r o v e d i t — ’tv ra s no m a t t e r w h a t h e s a id .”

And if sp irit be not m atter, it is im m ateria l to m e w hat m ay be said on th e subj ect. I f spirit be not m atter, pray w hat is it ? So I asked myself, w hen I read th e “ dissent in toto " of the E ditor of the B a n n e r from m y m ateria l Spiritualism . T ill then, I claim ed th e nam e “ Spiritualist ” ; bu t since I cannot serve too m asters, cannot be a M aterialist and Spiritualist a t th e sam e tim e, I m ust forego Spiritualism in favor of M aterialism , since it has a prior claim, and I have never under­stood spirit entity as separate and distinct from m atter. T hat w hich theological m etaphysicians define spirit to be, viz., an im m aterial essence, is> to m y m ind in its present state, inconceivable and absurd. And I hard ly have the patience necessary to investigate th e ir m eaning, w hen they te ll us how m any thousand angels m ig h t dance on the point of a cam bric needle w ithou t jo stling each other !

W e receive ideas th ro u g h the m edium ship of our senses ; I am not aw are of any o ther channel th rough w hich we can receive them ; if there be no other, from whence do we receive the idea of th e im m aterial ? Has any one ever been able to represent to th e m ind a clear notion of an im ­m aterial entity ? I cannot. , I do not desire to be led into a learned disquisition on the properties of m atter, for th e best of reasons, lack of a b i l i ty ; nor am I anxious to answer such trifling, caviling questions—w hich im m aterial philosophers are apt to ask—as, “ Can you tell th e w eight of a hope ?” ‘‘ Can you m easure a th o u g h t by th e yard, or motion by the gallon ?” W e cannot separate the qualities of m atte r from m atter, and then trea t them as m atter. W e cannot separate the idea of tho u g h t from th a t wliichXthinks. I cannot con ceive of though t, w ill, hope, or fear, as distinct entities ; and if I am to understand spirits in the same sense as w ill, though t, or any of the other a ttribu tes of th e m ind is understood, there is no th ing left for me bu t a to ta l unbelief in spirit distinct from organic existence.

“ M.” says: “ No m an has yet conquered th a t stubborn problem of m etaphysicians, which is, to determ ine w hether spirit and m atter are identical in constitution.” I did not say th a t had been done, nor do I know th a t electricity and lead, or any m atter, are identical in constitu tion ; bu t th is I said : “ Spirit m atter, like all other m atter, < isgoverned by laws peculiar to itse lf ; and its opera­tion, as w ith all m atter, is dependent upon con­ditions peculiar to its sta te of being.” This was stated, not so m uch as m y own idea, for I have never chem ically analyzed sp irit,' so as to know w hat' its constituent properties are, b u t as the

teach ing of Spiritualism . To show th a t I have not m isrepresented sp iritual doctrine, I w ill give the following extracts from acknowledged teachers of the philosophy : “ The sp iritual elements, suchas the earth emanates, w hich go to form the spirit­ual spheres and enter into th e organization of spirits, are realities. They possess a ll the p ro p e r tie s o f eartJi m a tte r , w ith new ones w hich they require by the ir refinement. Carbon is represented by a spiritual,carbon, oxygen by a sp iritual oxygen, etc., th ro u g h th e long catalogue. Hence we can be organic beings as m uch as w hile on earth , and our organs can perform th e ir functions, and . be supported by elem ents appropriate to those func­tions .”— H u d so n T u ttle 's A r c a n a o f N a tu r e , Vol. II p. 130. i

True, on the next page, he sa y s : “ "We u tte rly discard the usual classification of sp iritual ele­m ents, which places th e im ponderable agents w ith them , or m akes them m ateria l elem ents.”

B ut the classification does not affect the a rg u ­m ent. “ A rose by any o ther nam e would smell- as sweet.”

Says S. B. B rittan : “ The idea of an invisiblecreation, peopled by beings far m ore ethereal th an the inhabitan ts of earth , is supported by strong presum ptive reasons. . . . I f m atter or substance, wrhen unorganized, m ay be so subli­m ated as to elude the senses, on th e physical plane of th e ir exercise, (and th is is never disputed,) it m ay be rationally inferred th a t they so exist in organized bodies. . . . If, th en , there [is a wide realm , w herein unorganized m atte r escapes our sensuous observation, there m ust also—to complete the Creation—be an organized world, peopled by beings who are invisible on account of th e extrem e tenu ity of th e elem ents th a t en ter in to th e com­position and structure of th e ir bodies.”—-M an a n d H is R ela tio n s, pp. 556, 557.

Says A. J. Davis : “ The body, finally, is alm ostdisconnected from th e spirit w hich gives i t an im a­tion ; and then th e body is a dw eller in the rujdi- m ental sphere, and th e spirit is an inhab itan t of the inner life, or sp iritual world. A nd w hen th e m om ent of dissolution occurs, th e sen sa tion or clothing m edium of th e body is a ttrac ted and absorbed by the spirit, of w hich i t th en becomes the m a te r ia l form.”-—n a tu r e 's D iv in e R eve la tion s, p. 644.

A gain : “ Furtherm ore, w hen you rise to seeth a t th e law of g rav ity is not m erely physical, bu t sp iritual also ; th a t th e law s th a t regu la te m ech­anism and chem istry are sp iritual as w ell as phys" ical and m athem atical, th en you have attained to some perception of W isdom .”— M o rn in g L ec tu res, p. 44.

Lexicographers te ll u s spirit is a substance. And if we tu rn to th e word “ substance,” to dis­cover th e essential difference betw een substance and m atter, we find the first word used to explain the other. “ T hings w hich are equal to th e same th in g are equal to one another ” ; therefore, th ings which are equal to one another are equal to the same th in g ; w hat, then, is the essential difference betw een substance and m atter?

There is g rea t presum ption on th e part of th e Spiritualist, as a scientist, considering God as any­th in g ; w hether He is spirit or m atter, i t m atters not. Do we know of His existence as a Being-—a personal Being—“ the inform ing and energizing Soul of m atter ”—a Being who th inks and acts as an individual? No class uses th e word “ G od” more th an do th e Spiritualists ; b u t it is extrem ely difficult to know w hat they m ean by it, in the m ajority of cases w here it is used. A. J . Davis ventures one definition : “ I m ean by ‘ God ’ th ehighest T ru th , th e h ighest Principle, the h ighest V irtue, the h ighest idea of w hatsoever is Central and Perfect. T he embodim ent of these concep­tions—the crystalization of all h igher though ts and in tu itions—is ‘ God.’ ”— M o rn in g L ec tu res, p. 24. Now, in w hat consists th e difference betw een th e theism of Mr. Davis and the Atheism of Shelley, as defined in th e following extract from “ Queen Mab ” ?

“ T h e re is no G od !N a tu r e c o n firm s th e f a i th h is d e a th g ro a n s e a le d :L e t h e a v e n a n d e a r t h , l e t m a n ’s r e v o lv in g ra c e ,H is c e a s e le ss g e n e ra t io n s , t e l l th e i r ta le ;L e t e v e r y p a r t , d e p e n d in g on th e c h a in T h a t l in k s i t to th e w h o le , p o in t to th e h a n d T h a t g ra s p s i t s te rm 1 le t e v e r y se e d t h a t fa lls In s i l e n t d e q u e n e e u n fo ld its s to r e O f a rg u m e n -. : in f in ity w i th in ,I n f in i ty w i th o u t , b e i ie c re a tio n ;T h e in te r m in a b le s p i r i t i t c o n ta in s I s n a t u r e ’s o n ly G od ; b u t h u m a n p r id e I s sk il lfu l to in v e n t m o s t s e r io u s n a m e s To h id e i t s ig n o ra n c e .”

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agree w ith you, Mr. Editor, in settlem ent of the question of th e natu re

spirits, or of the existence of God, as non-essential to m an’s happ iness; and I go a step further, and say, th a t even a know ledge of spirit existence and a fu ture life is non-essential, unless it be th a t th e discussion of those questions removes fears a rising from superstitious ignorance. A ll know ledge is useful to the discipline of the m ind, p reparing it for the reception of a h igher order of happiness, belonging to a more advanced m ental condition. But a p ig can be happy, and live w ithout perplex­ing though t. (See M att. vii. 25-34.)

j3ESOP, J R .

A m a n o f sen se sh o u ld n ever be asham ed to own h e has been in th e w rong , w h ich is b u t sa y in g h e is w iser to-day than h e w as y esterd a y .—Sw ift.

T h e London churches are introducing the harp in their choirs.

The A n tiq u ity o f th e H um an Race.Much discussion has recently been had npon the

origin and antiquity of the human race. The latter portion of the subject was elaborately treated by Professor AgaseizLafc-a recent meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History. The Professor said that, fifty years ago,, both the- learned and unlearned believed they possessed a trustw orthy chronology of human history. Historians struck the”first blow at this assumption by ' their researches infs*-.the suc­cessive dynasties which had ruled over Egypt. Their lead was quietly followed in the different departments of science, until now we are forced to cast aside the ancient beliefs and construct our chronology from a new and independent basis. Twelve years ago, Ferdinand Keller of Zurich, by his examination of the lake deposits of Switzerland, brought to light proofs of the existence of races of men with new characters of civilization. These discoveries astonished the world, and have since given rise to a new science, new societies, and new museums. Humanity is now connected with geo­logical phenomena. Formerly the presence of such large mammals as the Elephas primigenius, Rhino­ceros tiehorinus, Bos primigenius, and TJrsus spetaeus, was considered the dividing line between geological and human history—-now the extensive researches of such able 'naturalists as Lartel, Von Baer, Rutimeyer, and Brandt, have proved that these •quadrupeds were once contemporaneous w ith man. The question is, whether we can establish a suc­cessive chronology of events since the appearance of these animals upon the earth. Brandt has at­tem pted to show th a t they were living within the historical period, and has argued therefrom that the native cattle of Europe were developed from the Bos primigenius. The argum ent for their recent extinction is drawn from documents hitherto partly unknown, because w ritten in the Sclavonic tongue; these represent the existence of Bos primigenius in the forests of Lithuania and Poland np to the eleventh and th irteenth centuries. The presence of Cerous megaceros In the marshes of Europe np to the fourteenth century is also made probable. There is no doubt that the fauna of the diluvial deposits and of the European eaves consisted of animals, some of which, at least, had. a circumpolar geo­graphical distribution, and that the southern limits of animals now living in the polar regions was once much greater than no w ; remains of the reindeer have been found all through France to the Pyrenees, and in Southern Germany. We .find that these mammals had intim ate relations with the ice period, and it becomes necessary for us to investigate the extent of the ice fields a t the time when tile glacial . period was at its hight.- Professor Agassiz believed that the changes in extent which our ice fields have undergone during successive periods would furnish us with data of our chronology. In America the ice , fields, a t the tim e of their greatest extension within definite limits, reached the thirty-second degree.-of north latitude. In Europe they extended as far as the plains of Lombardy. Subsequent to this came a ' limited glacial period, in which the- Southern-and M iddle'States were freed from glaciers, but from- Maine westerly the country was still icebound. During a th ird period the ice retreated to the northern shores of Lake Superior .and the slopes o f ' Mt. Katahdin; while in a fourth period, the one before the present, the continent was clothed with vegetation up to the hilly parts of Canada. I n - answer to*the question whether we had any means of connecting chronology with these facts, it m ight be stated that none of the cave animals or the large mammals which have been mentioned have been , proved to exist prior to the time of - the greatest extent o f the ice fields; and, as it can no longer be doubted tha t man lived contemporaneously with these animals, he believed tha t w ith the waning of the ice period began the era of primeval man. In the successive epochs of the ice, indicated by the retreating Ice, we have a relative chronology; hut when we ask for more specific statem ents of age, we find ourselves at once at a loss for an answer. —E nterprise, V irgin ia City.

— - ■ -THE .T u r q u o i s e . —Fanciful opinions have been

entertained respecting this well-known gem. Mr. Emanuel says:

“ Many persons believe that the turquoise indi­cates the wearer’s state of health ; and the fact that turquoises do va*y their colors, in the most unac­countable manner, may have something to do with this old superstition. The Orientals thought it lucky, and that it would bring health and fortune to the wearer.”' The same writer supplies us with the following story, for the tru th of which we cannot vouch, but which is none the less amusing :

“ One of my relatives,” says somebody, “ pos­sessed a turquoise set in a gold ring, which he used to wear on his finger as a superior ornament. I t happened that the owner of the ring was seized with a malady, of which he died. During the whole period in which the wearer enjoyed his full health, the turquoise was distinguished for its unparalleled beauty and clearness; but scarcely was he dead when the stone lost its lustre, and assumed a faded and withered appearance, as if mourning for its master. This sudden change in the nature of the stone made me lose the desire that I originally entertained of purchasing it, which I might have done for a trifling sum ; and so the turquoise passed into other hands. However, no sooner did it obtain a new owner, than it regained its former exquisite freshness, and lost all traces of its tem porary defects. I lelt greatly vexed that I had lost the chance of procuring such a valuable and sensitive gem. ”

T h e F e a r o p H e l l .—M any theatric preachers am ong the M ethodists successfully inspire th is terror, and live comfortably upon th e folly of th e ir h ea re rs .^ In th is k ind of m adness th e poor pa­tien ts frequently commit suicide ; a lth o u g h they believe they ru n headlong in to hell, w hich th ey dread.! Such is th e power of oratory, and such is th e debility of th e hum an understanding.

Those who suffer -under th is insanity are gen­erally th e m ost innocent and harm less people, who are th en liable to accuse them selves of the g rea t­est im aginary crimes, and have so m uch in te llect­ual cowardice th a t they dare not reason about these th in g s w hich they are directed by th e ir sp iritua l advisers to believe, however contradictory to hum an apprehension or derogatory to the Crea­to r o f a ll th ings. T he m aniacal hallucination at len g th becomes so painful, th a t th e poor insaneflies from, life to become free from i t .......W hereth e in tellectual cowardice is great, th e voice of reason is ineffectual; bu t th a t of ridicule m ay save m any from those m ad-m aking doctors, th o u g h it is too weak to cure those who are already h a llu ­cinated. Foote’s farces are recom mended for t.Tnw purpose.—D a/rw in 's Z oondm ia , Yol. II.

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vered, and there are crow’s feet npon my forehead, and m y 6tep is not so firm and elastic as of yore. But they are mistaken. That is no t me. The knees are weak, but the knees are no t me. The brow is wrinkled, bu t th e brow is n o t me. This is the house in which I live'. But I am -young; younger now than Lever was before.”

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.4 ® - A ll c o m m u n ic a tio n s d e s ig n e d fo r p u b l ic a t io n in th i s

p a p e r sh o u ld b e a d d r e s s e d “ E d i t o r s o f th e B a n n e r o f P r o ­

g r e s s . ” A l l l e t te r s in r e g a r d to t h e b u s in e s s o f th e p a p e r sh o u ld b e a d d re s s e d to “ B e n j a m i n T o d d & C o.”

“ Modern Demonology,”Tliis is tlie term by w hich tb e new Presbyterian

organ in tb is city, tb e O ccident, designates mod­ern {Spiritualism. W e are not disposed to quarrel too m ucb and too persistently about m ere term s. Only w ben words are used to characterize our philosophy and faith, w hich m isrepresent and per­vert tb e facts, do we object to tbe language adopt­ed by our opponents. In tb is case, we are more tb an w illing to accept tbe nom enclature bu rled at us w itb so m uch bitterness, because it is neither inappropriate nor un true. M odern Spiritualism is tbe same th in g in essential characteristics as an­cient Demonology. And now we ask our oppo­nents, W h a t are you going to do about it ? W h at was there in Demonology th a t bad any repulsive features, or th a t b rough t any in ju ry upon m an­k ind ? Tbe O ccident adm its, th a t, in tb e form of Neo-Platonism , tb e comm union w itb tbe spirit w orld was of an elevating and-inspiring character. But, forsooth, “ the spirits did not tip tables nor' p lay tbe banjo in darkened rooms,” etc. ! W onder- ful discovery of tlie astu te w riter in tb e O ccident / Did he know th a t tbe banjo was a m odern inven­tion, and th a t Cuffee was not th en on tb e field of action? N either did tbe demons of old “ drench sleeping children w itb ditch-w ater.” Perhaps they bad no occasion for so doing. I t is tb e occasion th a t gives rise to every event in tbe sp iritual, as w ell as in tb e m aterial world. E very act on tbe p a rt of a m an, w hether in tbe spirit or in connec­tion w itb tbe body, is m easured by its necessity. I t became necessary to aw aken a fam ily in Stock- ton to tbe rea lity of spirit existence, and there was no other m ethod by w hich it could be done, except tb e extraordinary and before unheard-of expedient of th row ing w ater by unseen bands, in full view of several witnesses. Tbe experim ent was none tb e less successful for its extrem e oddity.

T be comparison, however, w hich tb e new organ of Presbyterianism institu tes betw een tb e Spirit­ualism of the ancient philosophers and our m odern philosophy, is unjust, because i t m akes no allow­ance for tbe changed condition of society, and tbe progressive developm ent of tb e race. M ankind, even in tb e h ighest order o f development, are no longer tb e contem plative and reflective beings they were in tb e tim e of tb e N eo-Platonists. T bis is pre-em inently tbe age of dem onstrative facts— physical facts as w ell as spiritual. M an can no longer subsist upon fa ith alone. W orks m ust be perform ed in order to form a basis for faith to rest upon. T be physical m anifestations of modern Spiritualism are in answ er to tb is necessity. They come in proof of tb e rea lity of an im m ortality of tb e soul independent of tbe body, and as such a re received by a ll Spiritualists.

In rela tion to a choice of term s by w hich we w ould prefer to be designated, we w ould say to tb e conductors of tb e O ccident, and to a ll others, th a t no application of opprobrious epithets w ill enable our opponents to do aw ay w itb tbe facts of Spiritualism , or to form a reasonable and consist­ent theory to account for the ir occurrence. A t tbe same tim e, we cannot object to tb e tit le g iven to our philosophy in the bead ing of tb is article, for tbe reason th a t there is no th ing in it to be asham ed of. A ll spirits were ancien tjy called dem ons, bo th good and bad. Socrates bad a “ fam iliar sp irit,” or d a im o n , (which is tbe Greek form of tb e word,) whose consoling companionship and good advice were a complete foil to tb e shrew ish tem per of bis wife, Xantippe. Cicero {D c D ix in a tio ) speaks of tbe deemon, (tbe L atin form,) as being tb e inspir­ing, informing, and consoling companion (guar­dian spirit) of m an. Iam blicbus says “ there are good and bad spirits, (demons,)” who com m unicate w itb men. Porphyry says tb e sam e th in g . All th e ancient w riters upon tb e subj ect of communion w itb tb e spirit world, includ ing m any fathers of tb e Catholic Church, speak of sp irits as demons. Now, tbe w riters upon “ Demonology,” as they term it, in order to get rid of tb e necessity of adm itting th a t these very demons are tb e spirits of our departed friends, have been obliged to invent a theory, identical w itb tbe superstitious dogm a of theology, th a t there is a class of beings created in tb e spirit world expressly to m islead and torm ent and distract m ankind upon earth ; and tbe theolo­gians add th a t these are tbe “ angels th a t sinned.” W here they obtain reliable inform ation of tb e fact is not a t present know n ; nor w ill they vouchsafe to enlighten us upon th a t point.

An “ angel ” is a spirit, and a “ spirit ” is a . demon, in tbe most radical sense. Tbe term s are used interchangeably and synonym ously by an­cient beatben authors, and by tbe w riters of both tb e Old and New Testam ents. W ben Peter, hav ing been released from prison, appeared a t tbe bouse of M ary, m other of Mark, a damsel who came to tb e door, nam ed Rhoda, said, “ I t is bis a n g e l"-—m eaning bis spirit—supposing be bad died in tb e prison. “ Take heed th a t ye despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto you, th a t in heaven th e ir angels (their spirits, after leav­in g earth) do alw ays behold tbe face of my F ather w hich is in heaven.” (Matt, xviii. 10.)

W h a t is said, in tb e paper under consideration, about tb e form ation of a Spiritualistic C hurih in tbe U nited States, and tb e slanders of public m e­diums also contained therein , w ill be exam ined and replied to in our nex t issue. M.

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M a r g a r e t P o x K a n e .—Tbe N ew Yoxl^Efoyp1 asserts th a t tb is lady has given up her faith Spiritualism . I t is safe to say tb e assertion is true, any th ing such a paper m ay say to th e c tra ry notw ithstanding. a

Redivivus.A lthough opposed to revivals in tb e creedist and

sectarian sense, it is w ith unfeigned pleasure th a t j we notice a revival of interest, not only in tbe phenomena, bu t in tbe philosophy of Spiritualism , th roughou t tbe S tates of tb e Pacific. T bis new interest bad been predicted th ro u g h various m edi­um s several m onths since. B ut we were not prepared for tb e redoubled energy w itb w hich tbe inhab itan ts of tb e unseen world are a t present endeavoring to m ake th e ir power and presence felt am ong tb e people of tb is portion of tbe earth . Not only are tbe powers of healing m edium s here considerably increased, bu t tb e physical m anifesta­tions m ade by our spirit friends are more frequent and effective tb a n ever before. One day we read of extraordinary events tak in g place in a fam ily of respectable people in Stockton, entirely ignorant of Spiritualism , and w itnessing sp irit m anifesta­tions for tb e first tim e in th e ir lives ; and anon wo bear of two or th ree families in different parts of our own city hav ing a visitation of tbe same kind, only, if possible, still more sta rtlin g and convinc­ing. Tbis revival of physical m anifestations, occurring a t tbe same tim e w itb tb e advent of a new lecturer, whose discourses upon tbe pbiloso. pby of Spiritualism are listened to, each Sunday evening, by a la rge and interested audience, m ust draw to tb e investigation of tbe subject m any m inds tb a t have been b itberto skeptical or in­different, and th a t investigation wall inevitably resu lt in convincing them of tbe rea lity of spirit intercourse.

Tbe evidences of tbe increasing powers of m edium s at tb e present tim e come to us from all quarters. A young m an has recently arrived in Oakland from Oregon, who has become a clair­voyant of extraordinary abilities. He is also a trance-speaker. In b is norm al condition, be is afflicted w ith a stam m ering u tterance ; bu t, wben entranced, b is articulation is distinct and clear, and b is style eloquent and beautiful. He detects disease and points out its locality in tbe system w itb unerring certainty. T be nam e of tbis rem arkable m edium is John C. Kelley. l ie will shortly re tu rn to Oregon for tbe purpose of lectur ing in tb e trance state.

Tbe public stances of Mrs. Foye are more fully attended tban ever before, and tbe dem onstrations on these occasions are still m ore satisfactory, if possible, tb an they have been in tb e past.

One significant fact m ay be noticed in tliis con­nection, which, more tb a n any th ing else, is an evidence tb a t Spiritualism is tak in g a deep bold on tbe m inds of tb e people of tb is coast. I t is t b i s : tb e venal secular press, tak in g tbe cue from tb e sectarian relig ious papers, and from tbe diatribes of tb e clergy, is now m ore peculiarly v iru len t and satirical regard ing Spiritualists and th e ir doctrine tb an for some tim e past. Tbis phase of opposition to Spiritualism has been pretty m ucb lived down a t tb e E ast, and Spiritualists there are now in a m easure exem pt from v iru len t personal a ttacks from tb e daily press. But, a t th is extrem e of tb e continent, we have yet to go th ro u g h tb is unwelcom e experience a t tb e bands of tb e ignoran t, tb e bigoted, and tb e w illfully opposed. T be idea is not yet obsol ete, tb a t a cause can be p u t down by persecution and personal annoyance of its adherents ; and hence we see not only tb e uneducated, bu t those wl; r> im agine them ­selves “ thorough ly ” educated, try in g to th row discredit upon w ell a ttested facts by satirizing tbe witnesses and rid icu ling th e ir testim ony. All tbis, however, m ust be expected, and borne w itb fortitude. Those who know w hereof th ey affirm have no occasion to fear tb e result. T ru th w ill most certainly vindicate itse lf in tim e, and those self-sufficient critics, whose van ity exceeds the ir know ledge a hundred-fold, w ill be overwhelm edw itb confusion. at.

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M rs. F o y e ’s Seancs.T he second seance of tbe new series took place

on Tuesday evening last, a t D asbaw ay Hall. T here was a fair attendance of deeply interested inquirers, and tbe m anifestations were, as usual, satisfactory and convincing. One test was rem ark, able fo r , its suddenness, and was unexpected and s ta rtlin g to its recipients. A n elderly gentlem an and lady -was s ittin g near tbe platform , listen ing a tten tively to w hat was going on before them , when they were suddenly startled by th e read ing of a comm unication from tbe gen tlem an’s father, signed w itb bis name, a very singu lar one indeed. They bad not sent any nam e to tb e table, or asked for any com m unication w hatever. Both were strang ­ers to Mrs. Foye. And yet tb e sp irit w rote by Mrs. Foye’s band, addressing* tb e old gentlem an as “ My son,” and sign ing b is nam e in full as “ P ine H opkins.” W h a t have tb e skeptics to say to th is?

A gentlem an in tb e audience created some am usem ent by declaring tb a t be bad never yet found a m edium who could te ll h im bis m iddle name. I t is quite probable th a t tb e whole spirit w orld is not in a state of anxiety to reveal to him a fact w hich be already knows, if be is so unfortu ­nate as to have a “ m iddle nam e.” Our advice to h im w ould be, to endeavor to suppress b is “ m iddle nam e,” or, a t least, to cease to b rin g in to ridicu­lous prom inence tb e fact tb a t be has one. He also stated tb a t be bad sought inform ation from Mr. J . V. Mansfield, and bad been deceived, and bad paid for being so. Several persons in tb e ba ll were ready to defend Mr. Mansfield from unjust aspersions ; bu t Mrs. Foye cut short tbe discussion by rem ark ing tb a t she w as not there to defend any m edium , bu t to exhibit her own particu lar phase of m edium sbip, and to inv ite and challenge an investigation of tb e phenom ena occurring th rough and by m eans of it. Tbe gentlem an who did not know bis own m iddle name, and wished to be informed by a spirit, th en subsided, and tbe m eeting adjourned.

The next seance w ill take place a t Dasbaway H all on Tuesday evening next.

------------—S t a t is t ic s o f I n s a n i t y ..—Out of 3 ,211 persons

who have been confined in tlie Indiana Lunatic Asylum during a series of years, only 71 are sup­posed to have become insane from an investigation of Spiritualism , w hile 2 4 2 lost th e ir reason “ from religious excitem ents and anxieties.” An exam i­nation of tb e statistics of our own Asylum would reveal facts still more favorable to free investiga­tion. ? M.

Mrs. Grordon’s Third Lecture.Tbe lecture on las t Sunday evening was well

attended, notw ithstanding tbe rain, and th e ladv’s rem arks were quite as w ell appreciated by lier audi­ence as either of her previous discourses. Tbe subject chosen was suggested by a person in tbe audience, and was beaded, “ W h at is tbe Moral V alue of Spiritualism , compared to tb a t of tbe System of P opular Theology ?”

Tbe lecturer first in stitu ted an inquiry into the results tb a t bad accrued to m ankind from so-called Christianity, and endeavored to im press upon her bearers a know ledge of tb e facts of religious history for tb e last e ighteen hundred years. Her conclusions from these facts were in strict accord­ance w itb tb e injunction of tbe Nazarene h im ­self—“ By their fruits shall ye know them .” She said tb a t such a th in g as a tru ly Christian gov­ernm ent does not exist upon tbe earth . Tbe very basis of m odern society itself is unchristian . Tbe results of religious proselytism and church organi­zations m ay be seen everywhere. B eneath tbe very shadow of tb e church spires in every city are dens of debauchery and crime, and tbe relig­ious devotee is jostled upon tb e very church steps by tlie crim inal and tb e sham eless debauchee. Poverty and destitu tion exist in more repulsive forme th an ever, and drunkenness and prostitution are a t tb e very door of tb e churches. W itb such fruits as these before us, after e ighteen hundred years of preaching, w itb a lL the appliances at tbe comm and of tb e Church tb a t w ealth and official favor could furnish its teachers, tb e lecturer said she could not ju d g e otherw ise tb an tb a t tb e sys­tem of popular theology was a failure. T be very jirinciple a t tb e foundation of all tbe religious teachings of tbe past has operated as a discour­agem ent to m ankind. Tbe people have been told tb a t there was no hope for them except th ro u g h the atoning blood of one p e rso n ; and tb a t tbe belief or acceptance of th is dogm a was tbe only way to salvation from a terrib le fu ture. A m an of strictly m oral life, a ph ilan thropist, a doer of good works and not of evil, a ll bis life, according to tbe popular theology, cannot bs saved from an eternity of misery, unless be accepts tb is dogm a as true ; w hile a m urderer, a t b is last m om ent on tbe scaffold, a lthough lie m ay have been a ll bis life a doer of evil, provided be acknow ledge a belief in the efficacy of tlie atonem ent, goes straightw ay to tbe bosom of God and tb e society of the pure and tbe ju s t. Such a doctrine, she said, could not bu t have a depressing effect upon tbe m inds of all men. An inab ility to believe is considered as tbe w orst crim e against God th a t a m an can be capable of. The doctrine of to ta l de­pravity, also, is a discouraging view of m an’s con­dition and prospects. T be very idea presupposes an inab ility to progress and become b e tte r ; and here is w here th e supposed free grace of God comes in, in tb e sacrifice of b is son, to enable men, by believing in tb a t sacrifice, to be saved. All who cannot receive tb is doctrine are “ dam ned.” Tbe lecturer said tb a t tb e n a tu ra l view of m an’s condition shows tb a t tb is is tb e very w orst m ethod tb a t could be tak en to w in souls from error and ignorance ; for it begins by te llin g h im tb a t they can do no th ing of them selves, and ends by asserting tb a t they m ust believe an im possible th in g before God can do an y th in g for them .

Mrs. Gordon compared tb e en ligh ten ing and enlivening doctrines of Spiritualism w itb tbe gloomy theology of tbe Church, and felicitously illustra ted tbe difference, in its effects on tbe m inds of men, betw een our philosophy and tb e form er. She m ade a m ost beautifu l comparison of tb e pos­sible results to m ankind of a faith in th e continued presence of departed friends, as w itnesses of every action of our lives, and as w arn ing m onitors against evil deeds. H er argum en t on tb e side of Spiritualism , as a reform ing and preventative be­lief, and a h indrance to crime, was conclusive and appropriate.

Tbe necessity tb a t existed for rehearsing tb e history of tb e dead past, in order to exhibit tbe deform ity of old theology to tb e m ental vision, m ade tb is th ird lecture of Mrs. Gordon un in te r­esting in a certain degree to Spiritualists ; b u t to neophytes and skeptics it was perhaps necessary as an introduction to our philosophy. T be phe­nomena, and tbe scientific and relig ious conclu­sions deducible from them , are more a ttractive them es to us ; and we tru s t we shall have tbe privilege of bearing Mrs. Gordon upon these as often as tbe general public can be induced to fore­go tbe desire to have her rake open tb e ashes of tb e dead and buried religion of tbe past. M .

** -o- ^M a r r i e d .—In Grass Valley, January 8 th, 1S68,

by Justice Palmer, B e n j a m i n T o d d , E ditor of the B a n n e r o f P r o g r e s s , San Francisco, to Miss M a r i a n M a r s h , of Grass Valley.

*• O n e m o re u n f o r tu n a t e ,R a s h ly im p o r tu n a te .

G one to ” — h is fa te .

W e offer our heartfelt sym pathy to our associate, in b is misfortune, know ing w hat tria ls and trib u la ­tions aw ait bim .

“ A h m e ! w b a t e v i ls do e n v i ro n T n e m a n w h o m id d le s w ith ” —

m atrim ony! For tb e w ily stranger who b a thinveigled our friend into tb is m ishap, we have nowords of pity, or of prophecy. “ Sufficient untotbe day is tb e evil thereof.” M.

T h e D a ily O ritic folks m ust not republish our cuts and th ru sts at tb e D r a m a tic Chronicle, “ ro ll­ing them as a sweet morsel under th e ir tongues,” as they thereby become liable to tbe suspicion of a m ean jealousy of th e ir neighbors, arising from business competition. No sucb motives influence us tow ard tbe unfortunate people of tb e C hronicle ; our flagellations are adm inistered for tb e same rea­son tb a t was form erly given for w hipping a dull schoolboy, viz., as a correction to a slow or per­verted intellect. M .

M a d a m e C l a r a A n t o n i a continues to receive investigators of Spiritualism , and those desirous of tbe advice of th e ir spirit friends, a t No. 14, Geary street, near K earny. H er clairvoyant powers have been satisfactorily tested by us. M.

T i i e P r o g r e s s i v e L y c e u m w ill m eet at Dasba­w ay H all on and after to-morrow, Sunday, Jan . 1 9 th .

F o s t e r ’s C a l i f o r n i a L u s t r e is a most won­derful production for rem oving stains and ru st from all kinds of m etals, and even from m arble.

Logic and Rhetoric.M any persons are discussing th e relative m erits

of tbe discourses of Mrs. Gordon and of Mrs. H ardinge, as th o u g h either of these tw o speakers furnished a standard by w hich we m ust ju d g e of tbe abilities of every other. Some assert tb a t tbe fervid eloquence and rhetorical display of language in tb e efforts of Mrs. H ardinge are absent in tbe lectures of Mrs. Gordon ; w hile others are better pleased w itb tbe logical clearness and directness of tbe latter, tb an w itb tbe more flowery exhibi­tions of oratory on tb e part of tbe former. I f we were called upon to decide tb e case, our opinion would be expressed som ewhat in tbe following style :

Logic and rhetoric are seldom cultivated as m ental acquisitions by tb e same in d iv id u a l; and w hether tbe oratorical efforts of tbe lecturer be inspired by tbe unseen intelligences, or be simply tb e resu lt of lier own reflection and study, ber m ental caliber or development m ust be of a char­acter precisely suited to tb e particu lar style of discourse intended to be delivered. Now, tb e poetical tem peram ent, so fully developed in Mrs. H ardinge, is exactly tb e one m ost favorable to flights of fancy and eloquent perorations, sucb as we beard so frequently from ber lips. Rhetorical flourishes, however, do not alw ays have a founda­tion of fact from w hich to take the ir flight. Take, as an exam ple of rhetoric, a passage a t random from tb e works of even tb e m ost careful and e legant w riters or speakers. Here is one from Dr. C banning tb a t w ill answ er tb e purpose:

“ The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any pretensions to an oppressive greatness ; one who loved life, and under­stands tbe use of i t ; obliging at rail hours ; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. ”

A logical analysis of tbe la tte r portion of tb e above paragraph disposes of it's rhetoric a t once, and w ithout rem orse ; for i t is obvious tb a t tem pers are not “ golden,” and tb a t tb e steadfast­ness of anchors is not proverbial. W ben, there ­fore, we would seek to m ake a distinction in tbe characteristics of different speakers, we m ust recollect tb a t tb e rules of logic and of rhetoric are not tbe same, and tb a t no ju s t comparison can be m ade betw een two distinct styles of oratory, each of w hich is governed by different rules. W hile we should say tb a t Mrs. H ardinge was an eloquent speaker, and a rhetorical oratress, we should keep in reserve our opinion tb a t she is excelled in logical sta tem ent and critical analysis of opinion by Mrs. Gordon. T bis is g iv ing to each th e ir due, w ithout in stitu ting depreciatory comparisons a t tbe expense of either. m .

Tw o P a s s a g e s o f S c r i p t u r e .— T be following incident is said to have tak en place a t tb e cruci. fixion of Jesus :

“ And they gave him to drink, wine mingled w itb m yrrh.” (Mark xv. 23.)

“ They gave bim vinegar mingled w ith gall.” (Matt, xxvii. 34.)

I f “ a ll Scripture is given by inspiration of God,” here is an instance in w hich God failed to inspire tw o individuals alike in regard to tb e same fact. A nd if inspiration “ is profitable for correction,” w hy w as not tb is m istake corrected before it b ad circulated am ong m en, instead of being received w ithou t question for over eighteen hundred years ? M.

“ P r a y e r M e e t i n g i n H e l l ” was tbe subject of Elder Knapp’s sermon, delivered at Stockton on tbe first of January.

W e know of no m an be tter qualified to get up sucb a p ray ing m eeting tb a n E lder K napp ; be can beat old Satan him self a t it. Indeed, so m ucb does K napp w ant a bell, in w hich be m ay g e t up prayer m eetings, tb a t, finding none in tb e next life, be w ill try b is best efforts to m ake one. H is prayer m eetings on earth m ay be considered as types of tb e be ll be looks forward to in tbe world to come. I t was very appropriate tb a t K napp should have commenced h is insane career on tb is coast in tb e city of Stockton. M.

A n g e l s .—It is well enough tc call a woman an angel, bu t to say she “ dresses like an angel ” is not so proper. Our ideas about angels are not very clearly defined, but surely they do not wear chignons, crinoline, and “ palpitators.” We don’t know if they have feathers, but, a s t h e y h a v e w i n g s , suppose they have.—D a i l y C r i t i c .

I f “ our ideas about angels are not very clearly defined,” bow can we be so definite in our descrip­tion of themTas to say “ they have w ings.” Sucb th in g s as w ings, w hatever m ay possess them , are alw ays “ very clearly defined.” Go to, you’re no critic. m .

T h e spirits may'refuse to tell us anything worth knowing because we “ think we know it all.” But why don’t they tell Andrew Jackson Davis, or Mrs. Gordon, or the B a n n e r man, or some of the meek and teachable disciples, ‘ something that is worth know ing” ? That’s the question: and the B a n n e r man dodges it.

No, be don’t. They have already told m any people m ucb tb a t is w orth know ing by those wlio are capable of understanding and appreciating it. B ut egotistic ignoram uses n ever w ill be benefited by tb e wisdom of others, though all tb e rest of tbe world be filled w itb it. M .

A M e m p h i s p a p e r says it will “ present to its readers on each Sabbath an editorial suited to the day,” and begins with an essay on graveyards.

T bat is no worse tb an w hat is done by tbe ortho­dox clergy, tbe staple of whose sermons on Sunday consists of death, bell, and tbe devil.

The Banner o f JProgress (organ of the Spiritualists) has closed its first volume.— Oakland News.

Please announce, also, tb a t we have opened our second. m .

T h e B i r t h -d a y o f T h o m a s P a i n e w ill be cele­brated by a g rand ball, a t W ashington Hall, Charlestown, Mass., on tbe evening of tb e 29tli of January , 1868. m .

A m a n near Jacksonville, 111., reprimanded a teacher very severely for telling bis little girl that the earth was round, that it revolved, and that it was smaller than the sun.

I t is asserted tbat magnets lose almost their entire power in the vicinity of graveyards, and electrical machines are similarly affected under the same cir­cumstances.

Beecher says people who th ink it wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, do not hesitate to black their neighbor’s reputation on week days.

They err widely who propose to turn men to the thoughts of a better world by making them think meanly of this.

A. Close Argument

T be following is tbe reasoning of tb e H o u n d Table, upon the celebrated communication from tb e son of Senator Simmons, of Rhode Island, pub­lished in our last issue. I t is a logical and beau ti­ful argum ent throughout, and cannot be over­th row n by th e opponents of Spiritualism, -nor weakened by any objections tb a t may be brought forward by tb e skeptic :

“ Tbis case we have given as a fair representative of a class of cases—as one among a thousand similar ones which have been testified to by tens of thou­sands of witnesses, whose candor, truthfulness, and common sense touching any usual occurrence would not be disputed for a moment. Then, we may be allowed to offer it as the particular subject for con­sideration, ju st as if it embraced tbe whole matter seeking discussion and decision. We think it better so than otherw ise; because any one, more especially one who is not in the habit of arguing, can do his cause fuller justice while confining himself to partic­ulars, than he can when going ofl into generalities— he is apt, in the latter way, to lose himself and his argument.

“ Well, what exactly is the pitch of the cause be­fore us ? I t is this : I t in effect is affirmed by many thousand witnesses, who ordinarily would be reckoned trustw orthy by any court in Christendom, that a certain piece of information has been imparted to them in a certain way. There is not the shadow of a reason for supposing that they—the witnesses— were not in full possession of their every-day senses at the time of the phenomena.' They had broad day­light and every other facility for those senses to be normally impressed. The communication was written by no visible hand—by the hand of no one of them ­selves present. The chirography is that of no one pres­en t; but it does bear a full fac-simile resemblance to that which they have been familiar witb, of a person whom they had known previously, and whom they knew at the time to he away from among them. There was no possibility for the substance of tbe communication through common means to be known to them at the time it was given. That substance was proved afterward, upon normal evidence, to be the actual substance, both in general and in detail, of an actual event. Then, here is shown, unm istak­ably, an act, committed by no discoverable natural instrum ent, and presided over by an intelligence, by mind, which is outside of, apart from, distant from, anybody within the neighborhood of the committal.

“ And now comes np the point which we desire to hold out to view, and upon which, as upon a pivot, all discussions touching the m atter ought to turn. I t is th is: W here and what is that intelligence?Those tens of thousands of witnesses have been led not hastily, -but gradually, after careful sifting and weighing of evidence, to the conclusion that it is no other than the spirit which has dwelt heretofore in the body now departed. They find confirmation of their belief in their Bibles, which tell them distinctly of departed spirits not ouly, but of the returning of the same to earth. In that conclusion they are fixed firmly, rightly, according to sound law, until such time as their opponents shall array evidence equally strong to sustain their own contrary theory, whatever that may be.. If they maintain that intelligence to be, for example, electricity, they are bound to ex­hibit to tbe actual eyesight the producing battery and the conducting wires, and to reveal precisely how it happened that the battery came into posses­sion of ju st those materials out of which to brew electricity, such as should be identical with the knowledge posessed by a particular body before it parted with its spirit. If they hold the intelligence to be mesmerism, i t 1 devolves upon them to point out the mesmerizer, to explain how he manages to throw from his own mind into that of another in­formation which never was in his mind, and how he handles the •pencil. Hence the burden of proof is upon the negative. Let her or him who will take the negative bring forth the proof.”

J u s t i t ia M ortals—(Justice to th e Dead).In the accounts of suicides so shockingly preva­

lent among ns, there is a diversity of statem ent cor­responding to the different views and information of the writers. But one is never absent. The victim is invariably represented as laboring under temporary insanity. No m atter what elaborate and methodical preparations he may have made for his departure from the world, or what reason he may have given for the act, temporary insanity is as coolly assumed as if it were the only possible explanation. And, in fact, it is popularly so regarded. • The only.'evidence of mental derangement usually given, hoVrever, is the commission of the act itself.

Om itting m ania a p o tu and other cerebral disorders arising from disease, we seldom hear of temporary insanity in ariy other cases than those of suicide; and it seems a little singular that this transient malady should always term inate in self-destruction, when its perm anent form so seldom does. The tru th probably is, tha t in very few instances of fe lo de se is there any mental derangement whatever, and the plea, by which we seek at once to explain and extenuate the fault, is usually an exhibition of bad reasoning and mistaken charity. The idea of self- m urder is so repugnant to most of us, that we can imagine nothing but insanity which would induce us to commit it. But we forget that to others life may not be exactly the thing it is to us. “ Each heart knoweth its own sorrow.” -

Self-preservation may indeed be the first law of nature ; but when we remember that every other law of nature is constantly violated by people in the full possession of their reason, i t4 s not inconceiv­able that this may also be set at nought.

Another popular theory is, that there is some­thing essentially cowardly in self-destruction. Rash, foolish, even criminal, it may be, but cowardly it certainly is not. Its commission requires a courage of the same kind as that which impels the soldier to face the cannon, but greater in proportion to the certainty of death, and higher inasmuch as there is no glory to be gained and no ignominy to be escaped. The common plati­tudes about sneaking away from tbe troubles of life are hardly sufficient to convict of cowardice one who faces unfalteringly the King of Terrors—who deliber­ately chooses the doom which we all pass our lives in striving to avoid.

The suicide may be a rash, a hardened, ora criminal man, but he is not usually a madman, and seldom a cow ard; and our judgm ent of his fault should be tempered by tbe thought of his great sorrow—greater than we can know, because greater, to bim, than we have ever felt. We may dimly know the nature of his grief, but we cannot know either his power to endure, or the thoughts of life and death—the views of his relation to man and God—which he hides away in his heart.— Californian.

-------------- 4 ---- ;--------- -S t a t u t e L a w M o r a l i t y .—Some m en im agine

th a t to m ake m en m oral no th ing more is required than acts of the Legislature. T he notion was happily h it off by ex-Governor Seymour of New York, in a speech he m ade a t Brooklyn recently :

“ I once,” said he, “ asked a gentlem an if he believed in th e system of coercion so completely, th a t if a m an w ould not d rink for ten years because th e law w ould not let him , he would be a tem perance m an thereafter. He said he did. I said, ‘ Suppose you m ake a law so perfect tha t he w ould not be gu ilty of any misdem eanor whatever, would yon not consider th a t better still ?’ He said he would. ‘ Suppose you m ake a law so perfect th a t he shall rise, retire, labor regularly, read his Bible every day in his bed-room, and go to church twice a day every Sunday, engage in no immoral conversation, and be subjected to no tem ptations— would not th a t he the perfection of your system ?’ He adm itted th a t it would. ‘ W ell, my friend,’ said I, ‘ if you go down to Sing Sing, you w ill find a thousand m en there, living under your system, and if one of them escaped to-morrow, and your house was burned, he would he the first m an you w ould arrest.’ ”

S e r g e a n t M o r r i s o n , who i s in command of the Government work at Goat Island, near Isewport, is 83 years old. He was a schoolfellow and playmate of Robert Burns, and “ Highland M ary” was his sister.

The musical performances in a fashionable London church take up so much, time that the sermon has sometimes to be omitted. The audiences probably lose nothing.

A r e v e r e n d g e n t l e m a n was before the Police Court in St. Joseph the other day, for being most irreverently drunk.— Omaha H erald.

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Physical Manifestations.A. E. Carpenter furnislies tlie B a n n e r o f IA gh t

w ith the follow ing account of wonderful spiritual phenom ena, w hich he w itnessed in th e fam ily of W . W . Currier, of H averhill, Mass., the m edium being th e daugh ter, Miss M ary E. C urrier :

T here w ere some four or five persons present be­side th e m edium . Previous to tak ing our seats, we had the privilege of exam ining the room th o r­oughly , in w hich were the piano and other m usi­cal instrum ents, consisting of a gu itar, violin, m u­sic-box, harm onica, and horns, all ly ing on th e piano ; several bells were on the floor, and a tam ­bourine was suspended from th e ceiling. The guests were seated upon two settees facing each o ther in the corner of the room. W ith hands joined, a ll were in such position th a t no one could leave th e circle w ithout the know ledge of th e others. Miss Currier, the m edium , was seated a t th e piano a t the other side of the room, directly opposite the circle. The door was then closed, and th e room m ade alm ost to ta lly dark.

(I suppose it w ill be u rged by some th a t dark­ness was required only to enable th e m edium to practice deception. To such I would say th a t w hen they can produce a person th a t can do, u n ­aided, w hat was done at th a t seance, th ro u g h the m edium ship of th a t innocent young g irl, I w ill confess th a t it is bare ly possib le th a t they m ay be righ t. I have learned to tru s t to m y senses of hearing and feeling, as avenues th rough w hich to gain knowledge, as w ell as m y sense of sight. I have know n m any learned blind persons who gained th e ir know ledge m ainly th ro u g h these senses. B ut th is is deviating from m y narrative.)

As soon as the door was closed, Miss C urrier commenced playing upon the piano. In stan tly the bells commenced ring ing , keeping perfect tim e w ith the music. There were some dozen or more bells, and evidently they were nearly all used. One would be taken and then dropped for another of a different tone, which chorded more perfectly w ith th e piano—the young lady playing the a ir and accompaniment, which required both hands. Que­ry : W ho played the bells ?

After th is performance tho m edium was en­tranced by the spirit of a little Indian girl, who gave us all a joyful greeting. Mrs. Currier then rem arked to mo th a t “ the spirits w ill now play th e piano w ithout M ary’s touching it.” This was tax in g my credulity ra th e r heavily, bu t I listened all the more a ttentively to hear the new perform ­ance.

Suddenly th e piano was played w ith skill, and w ith a power and style so entirely different from th a t of the medium, th a t I was at once convinced th a t another person was m anipulating th e keys. I have listened often to good pianists, bu t I never before heard such beauty of expression, brilliancy of execution, sweet melody, and sonl-stirring h a r­m ony as greeted my ears from th a t instrum ent, m anipulated, as I believe, by angel fingers.

W hile the j>iano was being played, we could hear the medium, at different tim es, clapping her hands in approbation, and yet there was no break in th e m usic ! This was conclusive evidence th a t th e young lady was not p lay ing the piano. Tunes were played upon the strings of the piano w ithout using the keys. This is a very difficult task to perform in the dark, especially w ith the top of the piano closed. In fact, it comes very near being a “ physical im possibility.” W hile th is was being done, the accompaniment was played on the key­board.

The music-box was then wound up, and could be heard playing w hile floating rapidly about the room, the piano playing an accompaniment to it, and so delicately th a t we could scarcely d istinguish one from th e other.

The most rem arkable and in teresting m anifest­ation was the playing on th e harm onica by the little Indian girl. This instrum ent is very difficult to use, and the m edium cannot play th e most sim ­ple tune w ith i t ; yet a variety of tunes are per­formed in a perfect m anner, w ith piano accom­panim ent.

Then the tam bourines were taken by our colored friend “ John ,” who proved him self to be very pro­ficient in th e ir use. The m anifestations were continued for an hour or more, du ring w hich tim e several other th ings were done of m inor im ­portance, w hich I have not mentioned, th a t were very interesting, and gave evidence of spirit power.

These stances, as a musical exhibition, are h ig h ­ly entertaining, to say no th ing of th e added in te r­est produced by unseen intelligences.

Miss Currier will go into th e circle room alone, leaving the door open, and commence to play on the piano, w hile tho Indian g irl plays upon the harm onica, and both can be heard p lay ing very sweetly together.

One afternoon, Miss C urrier and m yself w ent into th e circle room, and she sat down a t the piano and I took up th e violin, and we commenced playing together. The door was open, and the room was sufficiently lig h t th a t a ll objects could be plainly seen. All a t once the bells commenced to ring an accompaniment, and continued to do so for some leng th of tim e, in the same m anner as they had done before in the d a rk ! T hus I had the evidence of sigh t added to th a t of hearing, m ak ing the x^roof still stronger, though I was per­fectly convinced before.

W e are told th a t these th ings are of a low order, and unw orthy of our attention. I beg leave to differ w ith those who hold to such an opinion. T here was no th ing in these m anifestations th a t th e most refined taste could object to, and there was certainly very m uch to admire. As for myself, I can say th a t m y soul was th rilled w ith deep joy as its harm onies were awakened into responsive life, by the sweet strains of music which were draw n forth from those instrum ents by the blessed sxnrit-minstrels. In w hat more beautiful way can th e inhabitan ts of 8£>iritdife m anifest them selves to m ortals than th rough the strains of heavenly m u­sic? There is no th ing th a t so stirs the very soul- centers of our being in aspiration after a purer and better life, as sweet harm ony of sound—and yet we cannot see i t ! Let us not reject th e evi­dence because the ear alone is appealed to, but allow the spirits to come in th e ir own way, w ith ­out accusing the m edium s of trickery, because they (the spirits) require conditions!

The Eddy Mediums.These mediums, bearing upon every lineam ent

of th e ir countenances indications of candor, sincer­ity , and in tegrity , sit not only w ith in bu t outside th e cabinet, the m anifestations upon the inside continu ing the same. The hall is always lig h t.

T he show ing spirit hands and faces, w ith m usi­cal m anifestations and tests given to skeptical com­m ittees adm itted in to the cabinet, are perfectly astounding. T here is no other medium, as we are aw are of, except Mrs. Iluntoon (Mary C. Eddy), th a t sits in the lig h t outside the cabinet, w ith a skeptic appointed by spectators to hold her hands, and yet g e ttin g these rem arkable m anifestations in pres­ence of tlie whole audience. Blessings from m ul­titudes on earth and in spirit-life are continually showered upon these m edium s, so conscientious and faithful to tlie ir missions.

At a private stance in th e afternoon, we were perm itted to not m erely shake but to handle and hold the sf>irit hands, constructed from th e em ana­tions, magnetisms, and vital forces of the m edium s and surrounding spirit substances. W e held th is s p ir i t h an d in ours till it softened, d isintegrated, and vanished from sight. T he law , th e sp iritual chem istry by which positive spirits do these th ings, is natural, and, when comprehended, perfectly beautiful.

Mb . I b a A l d r i d g e , eon of the late colored tr dlan, has gone upon the Melbourne stage.

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A n y o f t h e a b o v e l i s t o f b o o k s w ill b e f u r n is h e d to th o s e in th e c o u n t r y w h o d e s ire , on a p p l ic a t io n a t t h i s office. T h e m o n e y fo r t h e b o o k s , a n d p o s ta g e , m u s t in v a r i a b ly a c c o m ­p a n y t h e o r d e r

S r X Z U T V A L I S M .

MRS. LAURA DeFOROE GORDON,T H E T A L E N T E D

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SAN. FRANCISCO,W h e re th e y c a n h e c o n s u lte d , a n d w h e re a ll d is e a se s w ill b e t r e a te d , b y th e i r c o m b in e d la c il i t ie s a n d p e c u l ia r m o d e o f p ra c tic e .

I t is u n n e c e s s a ry to s a y m o re th a n , a s th o u s a n d s w ill t e s ­t ify , t h a t b y i t th e v i ta l o r p o s it iv e a n d n e g a t iv e fo rc e s o f th e s y s te m b e c o m e e q u a liz e d , a n d w h a t s e e m s m o re w o n d e rfu l is, t h a t d ise a se s c o n s id e re d in c u ra b le a r e f r e q u e n t ly c u r e d b y o u e o r tw o o p e ra tio n s .

D r. S p a rk s h a s h a d tw e n ty y e a r s p r a c t ic a l e x p e r ie n c e , a n d e x a m in e s th e H u m a n S y s te m w ith o u t a s k in g a q u e s tio n , a n d lo c a te s d ise a se s a t s ig h t a s a c c u ra te ly a s m o s t p e r s o n s r e a d p r i n t , a n d w ill fo r f e i t $ 1 , 0 0 0 if h e c a n n o t te l l th e n a ­tu r a l T ra i ts o f C h a ra c te r a n d d e s c r ib e th e D ise a se s m o s t l ik e ­ly to o c c u r in o n e ’s life .

M o s t C h ro n ic D ise ase s a r e c u r e d w i th a fe w o p e r a t io n s , e x c e p t in g

P a r a ly s i s , D e a fn e ss , B ro k e n B o n e s , D is lo c a tio n s , B a d C u r v a tu r e s o f th e S p in e , E p ile p s y , a n d C o n su m p t

a n d th e y a r e o f te n c u r e d o r g r e a t ly b e n e f i te d . D ise ase s w h ic h a r e m o s t c e r ta in o f b e in g c u r e d w i th a fe w o p e ra tio n s a r e , W e a k S p in e s , L o ss o f V oice , D ise ase d L iv e r , K id n e y s , H e a r t , F a ll in g o f th e w o m b , a l l k in d s o f S e x u a l W e a k n e ss , W e a k n e ss o f th o L im b s , L o ss o f V i ta l i ty , D y sp e p s ia , R h e u ­m a tis m , B ro n c h itis , D ia b e te s , N e r v o u s D e b il i ty , N e u ra lg ia ,

IN T E R N A L U LCERS, W EA K LU NG S.D R O PSY , W E A K EY ESST. V IT U S ’ DANCE, C A TA R R H ,A LL DISEASES OF T H E B R A IN , TU M O R ,INV O LU NTA RY EM ISSIO N S, E tc ., E tc .

D u rin g th e p a s t y e a r h e h a s e x a m in e d a n d o p e ra te d u p o n Over 15,000 Persons,

a n d fo r th e s a t is f a c t io n of in d iv id u a ls , h e w ill g iv e th e n a m e s o f a fe w w h o h a v e b e e n c u re d b y h im ; ( a n d th o u s a n d s m o re

b e g iv e n ;) y e t th e m o s t r e m a r k a b le c u re s o t m a le a n d fe m a le c o m p la in ts a r e w ith h e ld in p ro fe s s io n a l co n fid en ce , w ith d u e d e fe re n c e to th e d e l ic a c y o f th e p a t ie n t s .

T e s t i a l i o n l a l s .T h is is to c e r t i f y t h a t I h a v e b e e n tr o u b le d w i th C h ro n ic

R h e u m a tis m , d e r a n g e m e n t o f t h e L iv e r a n d K id n e y s , fo r five o r s ix y e a r s , a n d m o s t o f th e t im e co n fin ed to m y h o u s e . 1 h a v e b e e n d o c to ie d b y m a n y e m in e n t p h y s ic ia n s , p a id a f o r ­tu n e to th e m , a n d b e e n g iv e n u p a s in c u r a b le . W as c u re d b y D r. S p a rk s , fiv e m o n th s a g o , w i th s ix t r e a tm e n t s , a n d h a v e a t te n d e d to m y b u s in e s s e v e r s in c e . I c o n s id e r i t on e o f th e g r e a t e s t c u r e s on r e c o r d . A . J T E A L ,

C o rn e r F i f t y - F i r s t s t . a n d T e n th a y e . , N . Y .

J a m a ic a , L . I . , F e b . 23d, 1867.T h is is to c e r t i f y t h a t I h a v e b e e n a ff lic ted w i th d is e a se o f

th e K id n e y s f o r liv e o r s ix y e a r s , a n d b e e n a g r e a t su f fe re r . I c a lle d u p o n D r. S p a rk s to t e s t h is s k il l , o f w h ich I h a d o f te n h e a r d . A f te r r e c e iv in g a p e r f e c t d e s c r ip tio n o f m y d is e a se a n d fe e lin g s w i th o u t a s k in g a q u e s tio n , I d e c id e d to c o m ­m e n c e th e t r e a tm e n t , w h ic h h a s p ro v e d a p e r f e c t s u c c e s s — I w o u ld n o t ta k e o n e th o u s a n d d o lla r s fo r th e b e n e f it I h a v e r e ­c e iv e d . H EN D R IC K E . REM SEN .

T h re e y e a r s ag o I w a s a t ta c k e d w i th a s e v e r e p a in in th e b a c k , w h ic h h a s b e e n a lm o s t c o n s ta n t u n t i l r e c e n t ly . I t p r o v ­ed to b e D ise a se o f t h e K id n e y s . I h a v e b e e n d o c to re d b y th r e e d if fe re n t p h y s ic ia n s w i th o u t th e le a s t b e n e f it . H e a r in g o f th e w o n d e r fu l c u r e s m a d e b y D r. S p a r k s , I c a lle d u p o n h im ; a n d d e c id e d to t e s t h is s k i l l in m y c a se , w h ic h h a s p r o v ­ed a p e r f e c t su c c e s s . I a m f re e f ro m p a in , a n d c o n s id e r m y ­s e l f p e r f e c t ly w e ll . I w o u ld n o t ta k e fiv e th o u s a n d d o l la r s fo r t h e b e n e f it J h a v e r e c e iv e d . O. T. CORNELL.

R o n d o u t, M a tc h 2 0 th , 1866.

J a m a ic a , F e b . 1 8 th , 1867.T h is is to c e r t i f y t h a t I h a v e b e e n o b lig e d to u se c r u tc h e s

fo r n e a r ly f if te e n m o n th s — c a u s e d b y a f r a c tu r e o f t h e a n c le jo in t . M y lim b h a d b e c o m e le s s t h a n h a l f i t s u s u a l s iz e a n d n e a r ly lo s t i t s fe e lin g — I h a d a lm o s t d e s p a ir e d e v e r h a v in g th e u s e o f i t a g a in . I n t h i s c o n d itio n I c a lle d u p o n D r. S p a r k s , a n d a f t e r re c e iv in g t h r e e t r e a tm e n t s I c o u ld w a lk w e ll w i th ­o u t m y c r u tc h e s ; a n d h a v e h a d no u s e fo r th e m s in c e . T h e y a r e n o w fo r s a le . O T H N IE L EV ER ITT.

J a m a ic a , F e b . 22d , 1847.T h is is to c e r t i f y t h a t I h a v e b e e n su ffe rin g f ro m d ise a se o f

th e K id n e y s , a n d G e n e ra l D e b il ity , to r f if te e n y e a r s , a n d a t t im e s co u ld n o t w a lk a c ro s s th e ro o m . I h a v e n o w r e c e iv e d o f D r. S p a rk s fiv e t r e a tm e n t s (w h ic h a r e u n l ik e a n y th in g I e v e r s a w o r h e a r d o f ,) a n d m y h e a l th is v e r y m u c h im p ro v e d , a n d I w o u ld n o t ta k e f iv e h u n d r e d d o lla r s fo r th e im p ro v e ­m e n t . ’ THOM AS F O S T E R .

T h is ts to c e r t i f y t h a t I h a v e b e e n a g r e a t su ffe re r a n d co u ld n o t w a lk w i th o u t m y c a n e fo r m a n y m o n th s , c a u s e d fro m a n in ju r y r e c e iv e d in th e m in e s . W a s c u re d b y D r. S p a rk s in te n m in u te s , a n d w a lk e d w i th o u t m y c a n e , a n d f e l t a s f re e f ro m p a in a s I e v e r d id . J . BROW N,

S an F ra n c isc o , Cal.M r. A. C. C LA R K , S an F ra n c is c o , Cal. H a d L u m b a g o fo r

m a n y m o n th s ; co u ld n o t s ta n d e r e c t . C u re d in fiv e m in u te sM rs. J . P EM B E R T Y , V a n c o u v e r ’s I s la n d . C u re d o f a s e v e re

h e a d a c h e a n d v io le n t f e v e r in te n m in u te s . W as in a p ro fu s e p e r s p ir a t io n in s ix m in u te s .

M rs . M . L A T H R O P , O reg o n . D ise ase o f th e h e a r t a n d s p a s ­m o d ic c o n tra c t io n o f th e s to m a c b . C u re d in te n m in u te s , a n d h a d a n a t u r a l , r e f r e s h in g s le e p , w h ic h s h e h a d n o t h a d fo r w e e k s b e fo re .

M iss J . E . R EED , S a c ra m e n to , Cal. N e u ra lg ia in th e fa c e , p a in v e r y s e v e r e fo r m a n y d a y s . C u re d in f iv e m in u te s .

M r s . F . S E A M E N , 41 D e a r - s t r e e t , B ro o k ly n , N . Y . L o ss o f v o ic e . C u re d in s t a n t ly , a n d co u ld s p e a k w i th p e r f e c t ea se .

M iss L A U R A M ILLER , S c h e n e c ta d y , N . Y . A v e r y h a d c a se o f C h o rea , o r S t. V i tu s ’ D an c e— c u re d w i th t h r e e t r e a tm e n ts .

M is s B A R B A R Y A N G E R , S c h e n e c ta d y , N . Y . H a d u se d c r u t c h e s f o r D e a r l y t h r e e y e a r s — c u r e d in fiv e m i n u t e s , a n d w a lk e d a w a y w i th o u t a n y c r u tc h e s .

M rs . S. BELL, 66 M c D o u g a l-s tree t, N . Y . P a ra ly s is , S p in a l d if f ic u lty a n d F e m a le W e a k n e s s . H a d b e e n d o c to re d b y tw e lv e d if fe re n t p h y s ic ia n s w i th o u t a n y im p r o v e m e n t— c u re d w i th fiv e o p e ra t io n s .

M iss K A TE P A K M E I.E , P o u g h k e e p s ie , N . Y . D o u b le c u r v ­a t u r e o f t h e s p in e , (3~}£ in c h e s c u r v e ) G e n e ra l D e b il ity , a n d sa id b y p h y s ic ia n s to b e in t h e se co n d s ta g e o f c o n s u m p tio n . H e a l th p e r f e c t ly r e s to r e d , a n d sp in e n e a r ly s t r a ig h t , w i th fif­te e n t r e a tm e n ts .

M rs. J . L . R Y D E R , S in g SiDg, N. Y . N e u ra lg ia fo r m a n y y e a r s , a n d p a in m o s t in te n s e — c u r e d in te n m in u te s .

M r s . J . T. C LA R K , E lle n s v ille , N . Y . D ise ase o f th e L iv e r , F e m a le D ifficu lties , P ro la p su s U te r i , a n d G e n e ra l D e b il ity — c u re d w ith th r e e t r e a tm e n ts .

M rs . G. H . M ILLS, P o u g h k e e p s ie , N . Y . C h ro n ic D isease o f th e L iv e r , D y sp ep s ia , a n d F e m a le W e a k n e ss— c u re d w i th a few t r e a tm e n ts .

M r. G. CULLEN, S ta te n I s la n d . S tif f k n e e jo in t , c a u s e d b y a w o u n d in th e a r m y . H a d u s e d c r u tc h e s fo r fo u r y e a r s . W as c u re d in te n m in u te s . S h o u ld e re d h is c r u tc h e s , a n d r a n do w n s ta i r s w i th o u t sh o w in g th e le a s t s ig n o f la m e n e s s , sh o u tin g , “ I a m c u r e d 1”

EDITORIAL COMME1STS.

D r. S p a rk s , th e g r e a t M a g n e tic a n d E le c tr ic H e a le r , is m e e t­in g w ith h is u s u a l su c c e s s h e re , a s h u n d re d s a r c b e in g t r e a t ­ed b y h im a n d m a n y c u re d a s b y m a g ic .— I .ong I s la n d D em o­crat.

D r. H . S. S p a rk s is m a k in g g r e a t c u re s h e r e i f th e s ta te m e n t o f p a t ie n t s c a n b e re lie d upoD . H is ro o m s a r e th ro n g e d w ith in v a lid s . T he r ic h a n d th e p o o r a r e a l ik e b e n e fite d . T h e re is so m e th in g v e r y p e c u lia r in h is t r e a tm e n t o f C h ro n ic D is­e a se s . H is le c tu r e s a r e w e ll a t te n d e d , a n d h ig h ly c o m p li­m e n te d , b e in g v e r y in s t r u c t iv e a n d c h a s te .— J o u r n a l.

D r. S p a rk s is m a k in g a s to n is h in g c u r e s h e re , a n d fu lly s u s ­ta in s h is w o rld -w id e r e p u ta t io n in h e a lin g tb e s ic k , a m o n g rie f i a n d p o o r . H is ro o m s a r e th ro n g e d w i th p a t i e n t s .— L ong Is la n d F a rm er.

LECTURES.D rs . SPA R K S ®*BENTON w ill, u n t i l f u r th e r n o tic e , g iv e a

c h a s te a n d m s t r t t e t iv e P r iv a te L e c tu re to L au ies e v e ry W ed­n e s d a y a f te rn o o n a t 3 p . a r . , a t D a sb a w a y H a ll , on P o s t s t r e e t , o n e d o o r a b o v e K e a rn y . A l s o , a t tb e s a m e p lace , th e y w ill le c tu r e e v e r y W e d n e sd a y e v e n in g , a t a q u a r te r be fo re e ig h t o ’c lo ck .

M S - ADM ISSION— G en tlem e n , 25 c e n ts ; B oys, 10 c e n ts ; L a d ie s , f re e .

T h e se L e c tu r e s w ill b e i l lu s t r a te d b y life -lik e p a in t in g s .D r . S p a r k s c o rd ia l ly ' i n v i t e s a il p e rso n s su f f e r in g i n b o d y o r

m i n d , a n d t h o s e w h o a r e i n t e r e s t e d iu t b e i m p r o v e m e n t s in M e d i c a l S c ie n c e , to c a l l o n h i m a t h i s r o o m s . Office h o u r s f r o m 9 a . m . to 3 p . m ., a n d 6 to 7 r . m . T h e p o o r a r e t r e a t e d f r o m 6 to 7 p . m. , " w i t h o u t m o n e y ' a n d w i t h o u t p r i c e , ” C lea n ­l i n e s s r e q u i r e d . SEND EO R A CIRCU LA R. ,

M S ~ S p ec ia l a t te n t io n p a id to t h e t r e a t m e n t o f W o m en and C h ild re n .*=©&

CONSULTATION FREE.F 42

T HE B A N N E R OP P R O G R E S S

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SATURDAY, JA H U A R Y 18, 1868.

LY C EU M DEPARTM ENT.“ ADgel3 w h e r e ’e r w e go a t te n d

O u r s te p s , w h a te ’e r b e t id e ,"With w a tc h fu l c a re th e i r charge d e fe n d ,

And e v i l t u r n a s id e .”---CtlARLES WEST.KY.

N O T I C E .

T i l e C h i l d r e n ' s P r o g r e s s i v e L y c e u m of San Francisco w ill assemble on Sunday, (to-morrow,) January 19tli, a t 2 o’clock, a t Dasliaway H all, Post street. Friends of tlie Lyceum are cordially invited to be present.

The Boy and the Philosopher.

“ H o w o ld a r t th o u ?” th e s a g e b e g a n ;■ T h e c h i ld , a ro u s e d f ro m p la y ,} - T o ss in g h is f re s h -p lu c lte d f lo w ers a s id e ,

S p ra n g to h is fe e t, a n d g a ily c r i t d ;“ I a m n in e y e a r s o ld to -d a y —

W h a t lo n g , long y e a r s I H ow I do w ish T h e y e a r s w o u ld p a s s a w a y 1”

A b l u s h o f c o n sc io u s e a r n e s tn e s s ;A th w a r t h is b r ig h t c h e e k r a n ;

“ T h o u ’l t A n d ,” th e sa g e w e n t on to s a y ,“ W hen m a n h o o d co m es, a s h o r te r d a y ;

W h e n ag e , t h a t l i f e ’s a s p a n —W h a t c a n e t th o u w ish fo r n o w , m y b o y ?”

“ I w ish to b e a m a n .”

“ W h a t w o u ld s t th o u do, w e r t th o u a m a n ?”“ I w o u ld a t r a v e le r be,

A n d e v e r y c u r io u s t b i D g I ’d k n o w ,A n d o v e r e v e r y la n d I ’d go,

A nd o v e r e v e r y s e a ;A n d I w o u ld v is i t n a u g h ty k in g ? ,

A n d th e y m ig h t v i s i t m e .”

“ B u t k in g s s p u r n co m m o n m e n .” T h e b o y L ooked u p w ith f la sh in g e y e —

“ I t h o u g h t t h a t k in g s w e re good, g r e a t m e n ;B u t I w « u ld b o a m o n a rc h th e n ,

A n d h a v e a p a la c e h ig h ;F o r n o n e I s a w in a ll th e w o rld

S h o u ld bo m o re g r e a t th a n I . ”1

“ B u t g r e a tn e s s is n o t h a p p in e s s ;M y s o d , a n e m b le m se e :

H o w h u m b le g ro w th e s e lo v e ly flo w ers !, H o w p e a c e fu lly th e y p a s s th e i r h o u r s 1

W hile y o n d e r lo f ty tre e ,■ T hat b r a v e d th e l ig h tn in g in i t s p r id e ,

W a s s c a th e d m o s t f e a r f u l ly .”

T h e b o y u p o n th e b la s te d o a k G azed lo n g in e a r n e s t th o u g h t ;

“ I ’ll p lu c k th e s e f lo w e rs ,” a t le n g th h e c r ie d ,‘ A n d th e y w ill d ie aS th o u h a s t d ie d ;

A nd so o n e r, w ill th e y n o t ?A n d n e ’e r a t r a c e t h a t th e y h a d l iv e d

' W o u ld s ta n d to m a r k th e s p o t .”

’T is t r u e , ’t is t r u e , ” th e o ld m a n c r ie d ,In a c c e n ts low an d m ild ;

“ T h e h a n d o f m a n , o r H e a v e n ’s d ec ree ,A lo n e ca n b o w th e s ta te ly t r e e ;

T h e f in g e r o f a c h i ld ,O r s te p o f s e n s e le s s b r u t e m a y p re s s —

T h e flo w er is c r u s h e d o r so ile d ?

“ A n d h u m b le h o p e s , a n d h o ly jo y s ,W h a t b u t a d re a m a r e th o s e ?

A fa b le , f ra m e d b y a r t f u l p r id e ,To k e e p th e m a n y sa tis f ie d ;

W h ile th e c h o ic e f e w , w ith ea se ,G ra s p th e h ig h t r u s t im p a r t ia l H e a v e n

A s f r e e to a l l d e c re e s 14

“ P re s s on ! m y n o b le b o y , p r e s s on I A s r i v u l e t s f o rm th e flood,

T he th o u g h ts t h a t sw e ll th y s im p le h e a r t ,M a y g u id e th e e te th e lo f t ie s t p a r t ;

B u t bELF m u s t b e w ith s to o d ;A nd k e e p th y b o y h o o d ’s f a i th u n c h a n g e d —

The G reat are a ye the: Good / ”■-------------- «»--♦--*>----------------

Jennie Histoe’s Lilies.THE STORY OF COUNTRY MAIDEN.

BY A FRIEND OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

“ Consider the lilies how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin, nor yet gather into barns. Xet your heavenly Father feedeth. them .”

C H A P T E R V I .“ the darkest hour is just before dawn.”

For many days after the visit, described before, Jennie was kept at home by the severd illness of her father, who had been brought home by the po­lice, much injured by a fall he had received when in­toxicated. He told Jennie afterward, that he was going toward a saloon, when he heard a lady, in one of the homes he passed, singing that touching song, “ Father, come hom e,” and, thinking of his own child, was much affected, and resolved to retrace his s tep s; but he had hardly gone two blocks, when he was seen by two of his acquaintances, who urged him b o strongly, that he consented to take a glass at their expense ; but, not being satisfied w ith that, he drank more and more, until he was no t able to walk like a man, and, lowering himself to the brute level, he fell down a cellar-way, and was brought to his garret bruised and greatly hurt. Jennie tended him with careful assiduity, and to buy him food she sold all her m other’s clothes, which she had saved until now. But she knew it was right, so to the pawn­broker’s they went.

But, notwithstanding all her efforts, intemperance produced its general result, and Jennie was father­less ; but she had the satisfaction of hearing Mr. Ris- toe say, half an hour before his death, “ I was all wrong, and you were right; it is ju st that I should sufier. O, do you think that God and your m other can forgive me for wastiug my tim e—making a beast of myself? O, Jennie! good bj’e ! I am dying! I was crazy all that long time ! may God forgive me !” He struggled for breath, and Jennie kneeled by the bedside, and, with folded bands, said : “ O, dear Father in heaven ! O, please take my poor papa to that beautiful land where mamma is ! he is very sorry he ever was led astray. And O, blessed Father ! O, holy God ! if you do not let them go there now, let him be raised to that place after a wThile !”

* The prayef from this pure child’s heart—shall we say it was unanswered by Him whose ear is ever open to the cry of those that seek Him ? Let us drop a veil over Mr. Ristoe’s life for the past five years, and remember him only as the kind and honest man he was on the farm ; lor his spirit has gone to give account to God, alone, for his mis-spent hours, and we m ust obey the divine command : “ Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

Jennie’s u tte r loneliness, now, w ithout a relation in the'world, or a friend but Waldo, can be imagined but not described. Not a cent in the world had she, nor a morsel to eat, nor aught to buy her cotton to make her crochet work. Sad and lonely did she sit there in her desolation, thinking, “ What, O, what shall I do ?” But she is not forsaken, for the God who loves all His children has sent an angel to guard this little oue, and even now, a firm footstep is heard on the stair, and a knock on the door. Jen ­nie sorrowfully said “ Come in ,” when who should enter but Waldo’s tall uncle, Mr. West ? He started back as he beheld the outline of a figure on the bed, but quietly said : “ Waldo wondered why you did did not come for so long a time to see him. He has missed you sadly, and sent me to learn the reason of your absence. 1 see now, poor child !” Jennie had not shed a tear before, but now she sobbed vio lently, and said : “ O, what Bhall I do ? papa is dead, and I am all alone !” “ Do not trouble yourself, lit­

tle child,” said the uncle—who was a rough-looking, but very kind man—“ do not trouble yourself. I dare say your father is better off now than when alive; and you shall come and live w ith Waldo and myself. I will attend to everything here. I have heard of your kindness to Waldo, and I want you to help him get well.” This was indeed joyous news to the weary little girl, and seizing Mr. W est’s hand, she pressed it convulsively to her lips, and said: “ God bless you! O, how good you are!” “ Pshaw ! nonsense, child,” said the gruff, kind man, “ I want you for my little housekeeper.” Accord- ingly, after the last sad ceremonies on her father’s body were over, Jennie went with a light step to Waldo’s home, with his uncle. W aldo’s joy was so great, in the thought of having Jennie for his con­stant companion, that he could not keep quiet, but insisted upon getting up, to eat, in his large easy- chair. The uncle looked on while Jennie carefully arranged the pillows for the sick boy, and then gently smoothed the hair off hiB noble brow. The night seemed to make Mr. W est sad ; for he arose and left the room, with something like a tear in his eye. A little bird whispers to me that he was once the hus­band of a being, who watched over this great man as tenderly as little Jennie does over her adopted broth­er and dear friend. His wife is now with the bright spirits, and so is a dear little boy, who for ten years

.was the idol of this once stern but devoted parent.

C H A P T E R V I I . •THE COUNTRY.

Jennie had been a week with her new friends—a week of quiet happiness—when Waldo told her he had a secret to disclose. His radiant face led her to surmise that it was of an agreeable nature, and so it proved ; and, to Jennie’s unspeakable delight, she was told she should see the country once more. Waldo proceeded to say tha t his uncle had become very wealthy by the development of a valuable mine he partly owned in California, and that he was soon to move to the suburbs of a beautiful town on the Hudson. The children were wild over the idea, and when they were established im the villa Mr. West had purchased, their joy knew no bounds ; and Mr. West, with the old housekeeper, Maggie, could not help joining in their mirth, and laughed as loud as Waldo, who said they had room enough now to do as they pleased. The place Mr. West had selected was indeed a lovely s p o t! The house was a mixture of Swiss chalet and Gothic in style, and one side was covered with the beautiful Australian vine, with its exquisite pink and white bird-like blossoms ; on the front steps—in large white vases—stood two well-developed orange trees, brought from the very place where Waldo’s babyhood had been spent. I t seemed as if his cup of joy was overflowing when he beheld them. But their favorite lily was not forgot­ten. I t was placed in the large window of a sitting room, which was intended for Waldo’s studio. From' j ,this window there was a view of the nicely shaven lawn in front, Bioping gently down to the river, which was bu t a few steps to the garden gate. Large elm trees stood on either side of the white shell walk, and under these former “ monarchs of the for­est ” wer,e placed rustic seats of all descriptions. Here the three, now happy inmates of the villa, often sat and gazed w ith admiration upon the lovely scene before them. In the morning the “ day king ” would 9hower sunbeamsjdown upon the rippling water, till every wave seemed golden, and dazzling was the brightness against the white sails which were seen flying, “ bird-like,” over the sparkling river. In the evening, the “ Queen of n ig h t” would assert her sway, and her calm, soft light seemed to shed a holy, peaceful influence over the beholders, while Nature, feeling her gentle magnetism, was hushed and still. O, what happiness there is in living a life of purity and love at all times ! Jennie had fought so manfully the battles of adversity, that now, when peace and jB^ were given to her, her soul seemed full; while daily she grew in beauty of soul, mind, and body. They called her the Sunbeam ; and well did she deserve the name, for the grave, stern uncle yielded to the influence of the love, which seemed to surround her like light, and he waked up to happi­ness on earth, while he took great delight in telling the eager, listening children of his travels—for he had been in many lands. Waldo had heard many of these tales before, and having read of the countries, appreciated these conversations, and remembered better than did Jennie, who was always on the look­out for “ dear W aldo’s comfort” ; and in watching him, and arranging his pillows, she sometimes missed a word or two. As they grew older, and gradually their childhood forms developed into the youth and maiden, W aldo’s great mind expanded also ; and although he was still very lame, yet his face was so noble, his countenance so intellectual and pure, that none saw him tha t did no t exclaim : “ What a remarkably handsome young m an!” His talent for painting increased, and many were the sketches which adorned the walls of their home, and even graced those of the neighbors. W aldo’s power seemed wisdom, and Jennie’s, love ; so, when their childhood was past, they both saw, and felt, that God had made them to be as one. Therefore, with the uncle’s consent, these two were united in the ^holiest and most sacred o f earth’s ties—-that of mar­riage. The ceremony took place in the grandest of cathedrals—God’s own temple of nature—where the blue sky formed a canopy, and the towering trees arches. As a married couple, Mr. W est wished to support them, but to this Waldo would not consent. His great talents gave him equal power as a lec­turer, an artist, or a writer ; so he always had enough for his dear wife, and for many poor needy ones, to whose wants they both ministered.

Day by day these two grew in the love and har­mony born of God, and closer grew the two hearts made one. Their cup of happiness was filled to over­flowing, when, during the month of April—when the lilies bloom—a little daughter was sent to cement the bond of affection still closer. The little creature seemed more like a being of air than a mortal. She had beautiful flaxen hair, and large, dark, sad eyes; wonderful eyes, like her father’s, that, as she grew older, seemed to look away off into the dim distance, as if she would see what was beyond. But the most remarkable feature about her, was her pure, white complexion ; so pure and white was it, that in honor of the still cherished flower, they named her Lily; and as time passed on, and her character developed, Waldo and Jennie said to each other, “ How rightly is she named ! for a purer spirit never lived on earth.” She was also so frail and delicate, that a breath of unkindness seemed to make her sensitive sp irit quiver and bend, as the lily is tossed by the tempest. So exquisitely were her heart-strings tuned, that even when so young, not a shade of thought in o th ­ers escaped her notice, or failed to find—if harmony

an̂answering note in her child-soul. The father and mother often feared that the wild symphonies, which earth-sorrow plays upon the delicate instru­ment of spirit, would crush this one so frail ; but month succeeded month, and still the Lily was left to the fond parents, the doting uncle, and the many admiriDg children, who called her “ augel Lily.” She possessed a most remarkable talent for music, and when only four years old, her little hands would wander over the keys of a piano, and the melody

brought forth drew tears from all listeners; for always there was a 6trange, sad chord woven in with that which was so joyous. The children from far and Wide came to see the gentle “ child-angel,” and when a word of anger, or any inharmony, occurred, she would not say a word, but her sad eyes would fill with tears, and, 6lowly walking to the piano, she would play soft and sweet airs till all evil feeling was charmed away, and peace reigned. One day, when she was sitting looking away off, in her peculiar dreamy way, her m other gently said : “ What is mydarling thinking of ?” “ O, mamma!” she replied,“ I was only looking at this beautiful boy.” “ What little boy, my dear one?” “ Why, that little hoy standing right th e re ! He looks ju s t like God ; all so bright, and a white dress on ; and such beauty eyes, that look at me and say, “ Come!” On this occa­sion all were affected to tears, and many thought the angel had called their little sister. But no ; an­other year rolled by, and Lily was the same—the pet and darling of all.

CHAPTER V III.THE VISIT AND ITS EFFECTS.

One day after Lily’b sixth birthday, Uncle West said he was going to New York, and insisted upon taking his pet along to hear the opera of “ Somnambula,” which was to be well rendered, in the Academy of Music, by the most accomplished artists from Italy. The child’s pleadings to hear the music could not be withstood, and consent was g iven ; but with heart­ache on the part of the m other and father. When they reached the great city, Mr. West sorely repented having taken the little country maiden with him, for the noise, the rush, the many people, seemed to overpower the frail being. But particularly did she shrink from those sights of woe so common in the great whirlpool of life. Lily wept and sobbed when she beheld a drunken woman, and sighed over the “ poor little children.” Her only request when asked, “ What would you like to have?” was: “ Pleasebuy all these little pins the poor girls have.” The amused uncle bought several hundred, but wondered wben be saw that Lily always gave them back to tbe child-saleswomen. Wben asked her reason for so doing, she said: “ Why, you know, dear uncle, mamma once sold these kind of pins ; and she some­times was hungry, and I guesB these poor girls are too .”

The opera seemed to please her, hu t not as her uncle expected ; for he supposed she would be car­ried away with joy, as the performance was splendid; therefore he said : “ Why, Lily, you do not seem to enjoy the music ; is it not beautiful enough for your delicate ear?” “ O, yes, dear uncle !” she replied^ “ but I hear such beautiful music all the time ; and above all this noise I hear something telling me there are so many poor, poor children here, who always cry and never sing. O, uncle ! take me home ; I can’t stay here.” So, as fast as steam could carry them, flew these two back to the villa by the river. But even in this retreat, Lily’s frame quivered from the shock received from the vision of sorrow in New York ; and this, together w ith a cold she had taken, caused an attack of fever. For many days Bhe moaned and moaned, and her little form was wasted to a shadow. Finally, tbe father and m other were told by tbe faithful doctor, that the Lily m ust go to her native climate—heaven. “ Oh, mamma ! pap a ! uncle ! do not weep,” said the dying child, to those about her bedside in an agony of grief; “ do not weep; tbe little boy says ‘ Come,’ and I see such a happy land ; O, so beau tifu l! Hear tbe m u­sic, mamma, hear i t ! O, so many have come to take m e!” and suddenly a rushing sound was heard that stilled every sob, and distinctly to all listening ears came the sound of such melody as never entranced a spell-bound Mendelssohn’s audience.* I t commenced with a gentle sighing, as of wind through the autum n trees, and gradually swelled un til it re­sembled a brook running over stones; but soon human voices became distinct, and with one grand, grand rush, and perfect harmony of sound, the spirit of the fadeless Lily was borne upward to the realm of Flower-land. The deeply attached parents, and the fond uncle, could not mourn, although they missed her presence, O, so sad ly! For every night for two weeks, at the hour corresponding to the tim e when she was borne away by angels, the three^ assembled in the room, heard again these divine strains of music, made perfect by tbe addition of tbe sweetest voice ever heard by mortal. They were all sure that this voice was that of the angel Lily—the child-musician. And the weeping Jennie said: “ Dearest uncle and husband, Lily is taken to the place where her head will never droop again ; and we have one more treasure to draw us to the land where there is no sorrow. I fear we were so happy before, that we did not look forward far enough, and keep before us continually tbe r e a l i t y of the other world, which is really our home. We still have our lily of the valley left, and it will remind us tha t out of sorrow cometh joy.” Mrs. Leslie’s words only seemed the echo of the thoughts of the other two, who had learned to believe as Jennie did, and were sure their Lily was only absent from them, and soon they would be on the “ shining shore,” where she would welcome them. And with those thoughts, and the performance of good deeds of love, charity, and good will, did much happiness come to the fam­ily; much peaceful, chastened joy; many summer days; and hand in hand they walked steadfastly on­ward, w ith uplifted eyes, toward the everlasting hills.

Dear readers, we have followed Jennie and her lily through many tangled pathways, and have seen how the noble sacrifice of the girl shadowed forth the unselfish willingness of the m other to return to God the precious gift he had bestowed upon her, trusting Him in a l l things. Let me tell you, dear readers, what a being as pure and beautiful as the lily has told me. That is, no m atter how sad, how despondent one may be, without friends, w ithout relations on earth, they are never alone, for bright angels are around them, ready to bring balm to the wounded, consolation to the bereaved, joy to the sorrowful, and help to the weak. But my whisperer adds: “ We m ust open aq avenue of faith in our hearts, and plant it with the flowers of love and char­ity, before they can enter, for their garments are pure and white, and they cannot soil them by con­tact with the muddy thistles and briers of hate, un­belief, or ill-feeling.” Strive, then, dear children, to entertain holy guests in your mansions of heart and mind, and do not let dark ones enter, for then will you be better prepared to enter into tbe beautiful land'God has ready for you beyond. He will bless you, and angels will smile upon you.

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The London P u n c h gives a domestic scene called “ The Tables Turned,” in w hich a little g irl and her m am m a are in th e drawing-room , a nurse ju s t entering. N urse—“ Did you ring , m a’am ?” N augh ty L ittle G irl—“ N o ; I rang . Take m am m a away, please. She’s very cross and dis­agreeable.”

“ A h !” said a pious Sunday School teacher, “ ah, Caroline Jones, what do you think you would have been w ithout vou'r father and m other?” “ I suppose, mum,” said Caroline, “ I suppose, as I should ha* been a horphan.”

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