A JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL REFORM, DEVOTED TO TKa^uEVATION OF HUMANITY IN THIS LIFE, AND A SEARCH FOR THE EVIDENCES OF LIFE BEYOND.

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c o n t e n t s :

tn * T Pac*.—Gems of Thought: Questions and An* swep; Fortieth Anniversary in Chicago, etc.

Second Pack. - S elf-Cure, by A. F. Melcbers; A Spirit Replies to the Argonaut;" Professional Cards, etc.

T hmd Pack.— Immortality Obtained Without Death, by Hudson Tuttle; Public Tests; Spiritualism and The* osopby, by J. W. Harper; Letter from Leadville; Science of Spiritual Things, etc.

Fourth Pag«.—(Editorials) Editorial Fragments; Jesse Shepard's Answer; Mr. Colville’s Work in San Diego;

“ The’re Taking Baby;” A Prediction Fulfilled; Good Heathen, Good Christian; By the Seaside; Editorial Notes; May She Succeed, etc.

Firm Pack—Jesse Shepard Answers H u Critics; MadameDU Debarr; Dead Bones; Pamed On; Mr. Colville's New Works; Oakland Spiritualists; Notices of Meet­ings; Publications, etc.

Sixth Page.—The Church and Spiritualism—Their Com­parative Value, by L. M. Bowdoin; What Is Spirit ? Publications; Advertisements, etc.

Seventh P ace.—From the Sun Angel Order of Light; Luther J. Marsh; Advertisements; Professicnal Cards; Publications, etc.

E ighth Pass.—(Poetry) Why Should They Not I "Tw o Sinners;" "O ur Own;” Longing; Spirit*Life. Our Question Department; San Jose Psychic Circle; Shaks- peare and Bacon; Advertisements, etc.

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Nobility of soul is self-impelled to rev­erence .— Browning.

I f you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

T he heart has reasons that reason does not understand.— Bishop Jacques B . Bos- suet.

Industry has annexed thereto the fair­est fruits and the richest rewards.— B ar- rows.

A ct well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.— Lavater.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.— A rthur Helps.

T he injury o f prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.— Confucius.

T h e best teachers are those who learn something new themselves every day, and are not ashamed to own it.

Fear and awe are only weak chains to secure love; when these fetters are broken, a man who forgets to fear will begin to show the effects of his hatred:— Tacitus.

No one is a more dangerous enemy to all that is sweet and good in human life, than the one who lends to impurity the sanction of splendid talents. — Wendell P hillip s.

Culture without character is, no doubt, something frivolous, vain, and weak; b u t: character, without culture, is, on the other I hand, something raw, blind and danger* j ous.— M . Arnold.

L e t it be borne in mind that the cords of love, which bind hearts so closely to­gether that neither life nor death nor time nor eternity can sever them, are woven of threads no bigger than a spider's web.— George S . H illard.

A s a rule, the more thoroughly dis­ciplined and fit a man may be for any really great work, the more conscious will he be o f his own unfitness for it, the more distrustful o f himself, the more anxious not to thrust himself forward.

A monarchy is a man-of-war, staunch ron-ribbed, and resistless when under lull ail; yet a single hidden rock sends her to he bottom. Our republic is a raft, hard d steer, and your feet always wet, but totbing can sink her .— Anonymous.

I have sometimes thought that we can ot know any man thoroughly well while e is in perfect health. As the ebb tide iscloses the real lines o f the shore and ie bed o f the sea, so feebleness, sickness, ad pain bring out the real character of a tan.— Garfield.

T h e most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness. One who loves life, and understands¡the use o f it; obliging alike in all hours; above all of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker. Lessing.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

[Questions answered through the Bannerol Light by Spirit Frof. S. B. Britten :]

Q u e s t io n . — Is the spirit world, as seen by spirits, simply subjective— thought taking form— or is it both subjective and objective ? I f sub* jectivc, in part or in whole, can tw o spirits see the same things, as tw o mortals see alike a given object; or does w hat one spirit sees subjectively become cognizable to another spirit only by see­ing the thought-object, as projected by the spirit evolving that thought ?

A n s w e r . — The spirit-world, as far as I have come in contact with, it, and from the experiences o f others which have been imparted to me by those souls, is not only the subjective manifestation to each soul of its own interior thought, but also largely objective, containing within its borders objective forms which may be seen, han­dled and analyzed by many spirits, at one and the same time. Let us not forget that, this entire objective life of yours is but the extemalization o f thought. You may ques­tion my statement, and may say: “ How do we know that these trees and rocks in the physical universe, and these starry heavens, and the ocean waves beneath, are but the extemalization o f interior thought ? W e do not see the mind that has projected them; we know nothing of the intelligence, the wisdom that gave them birth." Very true; but we may reason frona well-known principles. As we gaze around in human life what do we behold ? Men erecting their temples and other structures for practical .use; artists projecting their thought, their idealization of their minds, into outward life, creating the beautiful landscape painting or the sculptured form. What is this but the ex­temalization o f thought from the mind of the architect or the carpenter, when we gaze upon the temple they have erected, or the materialization o f thought and ideality from the mind o f the artist; when we perceive the beautiful landscape pic­ture, or the marble statue form ? If thi& be so, if man has the power to project his thought into outward life, and through the workings of that thought in connection

I with the mechanical skill of his hand he may erect a temple or prepare an artistic production, then may not supreme intelli­gence, superior skill and wisdom, project from within its central heart that external form and manifestation of power which becomes objective to your sight, which presents itself in a lofty mountain or a grand forest tree? In the ocean waves that beat from shore to shore, and even in the starry worlds themselves that march in ceaseless regularity through space ?

Reasoning, then, from what we per­ceive in this mundane world of yours, and realizing that the spirit is entirely the man, and that from within these forms of me­chanical life are presented to your view, whether they be the work of the carpen­ter, the architect, the cabinet-maker, or the artist mind, may we not suppose that the same intelligence that designs and constructs here on earth, may, under other circumstances, in other worlds, still have the power to devise or design, and even construct, so as to externalize the inner thought, the conscious idea, into outward life, and to so clothe upon it with the ele­ments at command in the universe as to make it presentable to the sight of many others? This is so in the spiritual world, for 1 have seen it time and time again.

In our world, which is somewhat the counterpart o f this planet, but superior in construction and in development, we have our forms of vegetable and floral growth; we have objects of nature displayed on every band in most delicate loveliness. And why should not this be so, since there is ever evolved a spiritual power and grandeur that manifests itself in these glorious creations to delight the eye and instruct the sense o f man ?

T he spirit-world affords to man the power and the facility for developing that which is within his own nature. One of the great demands of the spiritual nature is that it shall outwork the powers it feels pent up within; throw off its surplus en- ergy, and display its wondrous vital force in some useful work; and so the spirit finds opportunity and is given power to express itself in crating and developing something practical in objective life for its own use, or for the pleasure of its fellows; therefore, we have beautiful buildings, works o f art, grand objects to appeal to the eye and to the ear, which impart pleasure to every department o f life.

We will a ffirm — myself and other spir­it*— that the spiritual world is largely sub­

jective, inasmuch as a thoughtful mind in full operation, may project from within itself such forms and fancies as appear ex­ternalized to itself alone, or only to those minds that come into direct sympathy with the mind that thus creates, and who can mingle with the elements of his mag­netic atmosphere. Such subjective forms, however, are not seen by the world at large; they afford means of instruction to the soul who can perceive them, who can indeed project them into his atmosphere; they afford, perhaps, means of enlighten­ment, of gaining knowledge, to such sym­pathetic spirits as can mingle with his at­mosphere and see with his vision. It is not possible for me to delineate to you on earth the modes and methods of such pro­jection, nor their purposes, because they are not analogous to anything in the physi­cal universe.

The mind of man is expansive, and when properly directed it becomes recep­tive to truth and to information in what­ever field these may be found; and so the intelligently working mind and heart that creates for itself and sends out its thoughts and ideas, may people its own atmosphere with living forms, so to speak, unseen by the world, but plainly visible to its own senses; thus he learns and perhaps gains experience how and where he may exter­nalize these forces and thoughts into ob­jective forms and bring them within the gaze and before the minds of those whom he desires to uplift and to instruct.

Q ue s .— What benefit or advantage is earth- life to a spirit ?

A n s .— Well, we might ask, of what benefit are education, experience, and a large and varied discipline, to a human being on earth? The child is placed here, and surrounded by varying condi­tions. Suppose that child was deprived o f the first elements of an education, and kept in total ignorance of the Alpha of life, do you imagine that it would ever come to understand the Omega ? I should say decidedly not. The child that does not learn the alphabet, and begin to study the first principles of instruction, can not read and spell and write when it arrives at the age of youth, is essentially an ignor­ant child, and certainly not qualified to step into the higher grades and depart­ments of school-life, such as our public grammar schools afford; then most cer­tainly the child who can not spell his own name, nor write it on a slip of paper, will not he qualified to step into still higher departments o f learning, such as your academies'or colleges may provide, but will be obliged to pass on from day to day, missing many of the beauties of life, knowing nothing of the realms o f knowl­edge, and the enjoyment of the study of literature, or the investigations in the world of intellect, which open before the inquiring mind.

And so we may compare the spirit of man. T o my understanding, man is placed on this planet in order to obtain accession to his information, and to ex­perience. H e may be like the child who enters the primary grade o f school, to­tally uninformed and ignorant of even the Alpha of instruction. He may have been placed here to gain his first experiences in active practical life, to become stimulated in mind and in his spiritual nature, to reach out for something higher and grander than he possessed. Rubbing against the experiences of this earthly life, struggling hard with its adverse conditions, wresting what information he attains from the world by hard labor, his mind becomes strength­ened, his inner faculties are deepened and intensified, and he is thus enabled to take a keener hold o f the things and principles that have appeared before his mind. Or it may be that the spirit has a smattering of knowledge, is not altogether unin­formed, but desires to acquire more, and must do so in connection with this life of earth before he is prepared to enter the higher departments of learning and o f ex­perience in the worlds beyond.

The earthly life may be, to his spirit, what the grammar school is to the youth, an intermediary between the primary de­partments of learning and the higher col­legiate school life; he must receive of its knowledge and its experience, before be can be qualified to pass onward, to grasp keener studies and pursue grander investi­gations, even though he may have re­ceived those first primary lessons which belong to the earliest stage of existence. T o my mind, mortal life is o f practical importance to the spirit; it assists the soul to expand itself» to send forth greater en­

ergy and power that may vitalize the spir­itual man, and cause him not only to re­ceive and study, but also to create, to mark out a pathway for himself that shall be so useful to him and to bis fellows as to cause them to rejoice that he has lived and been known.

Que s .— Is a ll life o f divine o rig in ? I f so, where originated the first cause of wrong ?

Ans.— I can not understand any life, or any projection o f life, that has not been of divine origin, for I do not recognize in the universe any power or creator that is the opposite o f divinity. True, we see around us on every hand evidences of great wrong manifested through life; we behold individuals living a vicious life, starting out with evil in their hearts and continuing in the ways of iniquity, and we may be pardoned if sometimes we grow puzzled over this strange state o f affairs and question whether such spirits as are constantly doing wrong on earth or in other worlds, have been started out by a divine creator or progenitor; and yet it seems to me this must be so, that the end will prove that in all things right and honor and goodness have maintained throughout the world their undivided sway.

We must remember that humanity is young, the world itself is not old, the planet has developed to its present condi­tion through great struggle and trial, it has grown upward and outward, its lowest stages of life afford a very gross, crude, tangled appearance; forms of life existed upon this planet corresponding with the wild growth of the world itself, and the earliest stages of human life present a most unlovely appearance; yet beauty, uniformity, order and law have developed from seeming chaos and strife.

What is true of the planet, and true of animal life, is also true o f humanity. There is constantly developing from even these lower forms o f human existence those unlovely, unsightly conditions of hu­man character, a higher type, a grander manifestation ot human life. It may not seem so to you who gaze upon humanity struggling, striving, warring with each other; but none the less is it true o f the race, and I hold that the manifestations of viciousness, of lawlessness, that you be­hold among your kind, in these years, and in the years past, are only evidences o f the great struggle and turmoil through which the race has passed, and is still passing, in order to reach a higher ground, a grander development.

I also hold that in the ages to come every human spirit will throw off that which is vile and unlovely; it must work out of that condition for itself; it will eventually do so, and develop from within those germs of beauty and of goodness which evidence the existence of the di­vine spark o f life, and which will by-and- bye blossom out in beauty of expression, in holiness and good works, revealing their relationship to the divine author of all life and love.

Q ue s .— T he Boston H erald asked the question, “ What are the strongest proofs and arguments in support of the belief in a life hereafter ? ” and twenty*tl)ree replies were made by clergymen of different denominations; but they do not satisfy many. Please give a spirit's view on the subject.

A n s .— The world o f humanity is so in­tensely practical at 4his date that it cries out for undoubted evidence concerning the immortality of man and a future state, testimony that may be based not only upon subjective principles but also upon physical grounds, such as will not only appeal to the innate sense of the spiritual man, but also to the external senses of the material man. Here and there we find a soul so sensitive as to be able to grasp, to understand, and to incorporate into its life those spiritual evidences, so called, of a future life, that come to that spirit through the finely breathed utterances o f the uni­verse around. Such a spirit gazes from side to side, and beholds manifestations o f life and activity on every hand, and he feels within himself powers and possibilities springing up that he knows can never be fully expressed during his sojourn in the mortal body. T o him the very existence of these powers, aspirations and possibili­ties, reveals the necessity of a future life for their expansion and their manifesta­tion. _ T o his mind, life must be continu­ous, intelligence must remain and exist after the decease of the mortal form, affection and memory must maintain; and if so, there must he provided means and ways for their development and further expansion. But to the great mass of man­kind this is no evidence of a future life;

they want something that will appeal prac­tically to the external senses as well as to the interior hopes, aspirations and desires of their minds, and so they demand testi­mony from those who have experienced another life, and who are strong witnesses in its favor.

Therefore, we say that Spiritualism alone can afford this practical demonstration, and present to the thinking mind— the practical, materialistic mind, if you will— that great weight o f testimony or o f cor- roberative evidence, brought not by one or two returning intelligent minds from beyond the grave, but by a host of wit­nesses that must shake the very founda­tions o f skepticism, and uproot those errors and misconceptions concerning life and its destiny which have taken growth in the human heart, and bring a tre­mendous battery o f truth to bear upon humanity, individually and collectively, that it may gaze, feel, breath it in, and 'row stronger beneath its power. This, towever, must be sought for and investi­

gated by every individual for himself.Neither your heart nor mine, Mr. Chair­

man, will bear the weight o f testimony; it must be experienced, breathed in and en­tertained by every human heart before such heart can be fully satisfied concern­ing the continuity of life and the realities o f a future existence. But I am glad to say the nineteenth century has opened the doorways o f immortal life to man, and it is his province and privilege to so gaze into the other life and come into such communication with its denizens, if he only seeks honestly and earnestly, know­ing neither failure nor disbeartenment. H e may not at first receive that for which he seeks, yet by-and-bye he will know and understand that life is eternal, and that man only begins his destiny upon the planet earth.

Fortieth Anniversary in Chicago.

E ditor or Golden Gath:

The United Society o f Spiritualists cel­ebrated the Fortieth Anniversary of Mod­ern Spiritualism on Sunday, April xst, at 2 :3 0 p. m . , at Madison Street Theatre, to an audience of five hundred,— the largest spiritual audience gathered that day in the city of Chicago, — Mr. Gohegan, the President, presiding.

Frank C . Algerton, the boy medium, was engaged to deliver the opening address. After the invocation, questions were an­swered by the medium, which highly in­terested and instructed the assemblage.

The subject for the afternoon’s discourse I was taken from the audience, and was, “ Spiritualism Forty Years Ago, and Spir­itualism Forty Years H ence." It was handled in an eloquent manner, and pro­duced a profound impression upon the audience, many skeptics and Christian« present wondering how a young man only twenty-one years of age, and without scholastic education, could speak so elo­quently and scientifically upon an im­promptu subject, showing a depth of thought far surpassing many of the noted ministers o f Chicago.

Mr. Algerton, although scarcely eighteen months upon the spiritualistic rostrum, is a most charming speaker, and convinces hundreds of the truth of inspiration. Among the prominent Spiritualists of Illi­nois and Missouri he is regarded as one of the finest trance speakers.

After the medium finished his discourse, the Hon. Judge Holbrook addressed the audience, eliciting hearty applause by his appropriate remarks. Judge Holbrook is a very forcible speaker, and his words cany conviction and truth to the hearts of investigators.

Tests were then given by Mr. Thomas, many of which were recognized by the audience, and thus three hours of profitable communion with the spirit world was had by an audience which numbered among it some, of the legal and literary lights o f Chicago.

The Society, which was chartered in November, is doing a grand work for the cause, and adding scores to the great number who can truly and joyfully ex­claim, “ O Death I where is thy sting? O Grave 1 where is thy victory ?

G e o r g e C a n n ,Sec’y U . S . S.

C h i c a g o , April 20, 1888.

O f great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.

GOLDEN G A T E [May s, iggg

(Written for the Golden Gate.]

Self-Cure.

■ V A. V. HKLCHKR8.

What self-culture is to the soul nature o f man, self-cure is to the physical, or material nature o f the same. One leads to a healthy inner or spiritual state, while the other leads to a healthy exterior, or physical condition. Now self-cure does not exactly mean a doctoring o f one's self during illness, or a practicing on others in the absence of a physician, but a consis­tent exercise o f the will for a positive ef­fect, directed at the disease existing in one's system, and accompanied by the innate desire or wish to expel it.

Imagining it to be worse than it really is, only enkindles it and aids it, and which reason tells us must have an opposite ef­fect when imagining the opposite. Imagi­nation is an action o f the .spirit, manifested through the brain functions, or mind, so- called, and is sensuous or partly material in its impulse. W e know that too much brain effort enervates the body, and an enervated physical condition is always detrimental to the same when afflicted by disease.

Thus a constant action of the spirit on the brain must enervate it, and communi­cate this to the body as well. I f disease exists, it will be affected by this alone, but when enlarged by the action o f thought it j is worse, the same increasing instead of j decreasing. Thought, as it is well known, creates, and therefore must have the power to uncreate as well. Imagining, which is equal to wishing or willing, that the disease is o f no consequence, often eradicates it in its infancy, and men who have had consumption in its infancy, but were ignorant of the fact, have been saved from death, through this disease, by their very ignorance. Having treated it lightly at the time, and overlooking it as a mere cold, virtually drove the disease out, and thereby committed an act o f unconscious or unwitting self-cure.

But wishing or willing a disease away is not imagination in its true sense, although it may be made to appear so by permitting it to manifest through the brain. Spirit action through the brain, or what is gen­erally termed brain action, is sensuous in nature, and not strictly intelligent or in­tellectual.

T h e only purely intelligent action in existence is that coming from the soul directly, felt as if coming from the centre o f the being just as the exercise o f one's will or sympathy is experienced in that re­gion. But that felt on the brain is either a creation of the spirit, or the soul in con­junction with the brain. Either one is sensuous, and due to the thought being perverted by matter.

Thus absolute truth can never be ex­perienced through the brain, and man must trust to his intuitive faculties for this. Such brain action enervates the body, and in worrying about a disease, whether for a curative effect or to imagine it worse, is indifferent— both aid it along. In the science o f self-cure, the brain must not be brought into requisition on any account. Perfect brain passivity, accompanied by an innate desire or wish to be freed from the ailment, has more effect on its removal than all the physics in the world: but it naturally takes time, and while medical attendance ends with a burial certificate, the soul's action eradicates the disease, and ends in contentment.

But severe cases may be benefited by a physician’s attendance, for physical suffer­ing can be removed by them, even if only temporarily,— this belonging 'to their de­partment, or the material. Causes belong to the spiritual, and can only be removed by the spiritual; and those who wish to be cured o f their diseases (not temporarily patched up) must exercise their will in conjunction to that o f the physicians. W hile the latter are attending to the ef­fects, the patient must attend to the causes, otherwise no absolute cure will be attained.

Thus self-cure is an effect o f the will, the soul’s action exclusively, and not brain action or spirit impulse. T h e latter can only manifest through the brain, while the soul is enabled to act independently o f it, and may be proven by a simple act o f I self-denial.

Trying to control an appetite with the brain adds suffering to it, while keeping this passive requires the impulse o f an­other force, function, or motive power, and, upon investigation, will prove to be an impetus, rising within or near the cen­ter o f the being; and as we know o f no organ in that region that has an intelligent impetus, we must conclude that it is a spiritual motive power, and which can be nothing less than the soul itself—-at the same time proving that it is enabled to act independent o f the brain, for it has the power to allay the action o f that organ or its functions. T o will, the soul must act intelligently, and such is thought.

Thus the soul is enabled to' think, as well as act independently. Soul thinking is an exercise o f the intuitive faculties, and when an intuition is received from the fountain o f all light, it is also per­ceived to unfold itself within, at the cen­ter o f gravity o f one's being, or the law center, where the life principle o f exist­ence is located in all conditions o f life, from a nebula or comet to man himself.I f not too self-willed (brain active), man could be entirely guided by intuition, as the animal is guided by instinct (animal intuition), and not only preserve his body

from much enervation through unnecessary brain effort, but would never err or make mistakes.

But be must first free himself from self- importance, his everlasting brain exercise in every detail o f life, as if God can not guide him better, or he can not be guided except by bringing his own reason into play. T h e highest truths are always those which come to us unbidden, and our highest impulses are those which come from within (supposed to be comiqg from the heart). T h e heart is but a material organ, and contains no intelligence, and yet we feel the love for others arising from this region. Love is the highest form of, intelligence, and again proves that we have an intelligent motive power in that portion o f our being, and reason (brain thought which now may be exercised) tells us that it must be the soul, the divin­ity o f man, which is centered there.

T h e only truly and purely intelligent principle in man is his soul nature, and as such certainly must be a superior guide to brain or mental action. Then why not utilize it or unfold it for practical use ? Reason is our material guide. Through it we leam to read, write, decipher, cal­culate, heal physical defects, and analyze the material generally; but to theorize, philosophize, study human nature, and analyze causes or the spiritual generally, we must trust to the soul; and to be guided for our best, we must listen to our intui­tions— our instinct, as it were.

But self-will, or brain intelligence, shuts this out, centralizing the life principle to a material organ (the material law center o f the being) and thus prevents it from acting on its own volition, or independ­ently, as it were— the soul being only in rapport with divine nature, God, when left to itself, by keeping the brain passive, or self down, as it were.

O f course, wonderful things are done | through the brain, or so-called intellectu- j ality, and will continue to be done as a material necessity, only we are endeavor­ing to call attention to the fact that still greater things can be done exclusive of this organ. a Not that a removal o f the same would aid the soul here. It might, if sufficiently removed to produce physical death,’ for then the soul would not be hampered by its action. But greater things can be done while in connection with the body, by simply keeping the same passive, or at least from doing too much intelligent action or thinking.

T h e brain is never passive as an organ, and would, perhaps, produce death if its physical motion ceased entirely. But when kept intelligently passive, but giving up to a sort o f resignation, acquiescence, spiritual submission, it will be discovered that an intelligent motion is perceived within, caused by an influx of spiritual light into the soul, which requires no brain effort to comprehend (except when desiring to formulate it into suitable lan­guage for the comprehension o f others), and consequently causes no weariness of the physical body, which strictly mental labor always does.

B y practice it becomes a habit, and not only takes the place o f reason in all man's material affairs, but develops a quality which we have termed soul-writing. We first create .a subject through brain action, and then w ill to write on it. Sometimes it requires a little effort to bring our inte­rior will power into motion, and if we can not succeed, we undertake some little manual labor which will create thirst, or a desire for water.

Denying oneself nature's thirst-quench­ing element requires an innate exercise of the will to suppress, and which con­stitutes an independent action o f the soul, or the soul made active. A s soon as this takes place, the intuitive flow begins, we obtain light on which our wish or desire is directed. Suffering pain pro­duces this motion without abnegation, only that too much of it impairs or affects the desire for writing also. We made both of these discoveries accidentally, and have since made practical use o f them for writing purposes— thus our inex­haustible resource for information wanted, and never troubled with physical weari­ness from writing, having after ten hours’ steady work felt as bright as when we begun; and more, utilize this means of freeing ourselves from peradventure aches or pains when not too severe to exhaust us before we can get well started— active soul motion eradicating pain, for it in­fuses the physical body with that life impetus of the universe, in which neither pain nor suffering exists.

Such is self-cure or healing by the power o f will, only that chronic diseases require a constant action o f the soul to prevent suffering, and a longer or shorter infusion o f spiritual impetus to drive it out altogether. We know this to be true by practical experience and therefore en­abled to assert it positively, and hope that others may be benefited by our experi­ence, but would warn against action brain effort in the attempt, for this is sensuous, and as well as it enhances the appetites by thinking o f them with the brain, it makes the pain or suffering more acutely felt also— brain action infusing the body with a semi-material, and not a strictly divine impetus which is soothing instead o f irritating or disturbing in its flow through the nervous system. It is a well known fact that mental or brain disturbances produce pain, but never alleviate it, whereas sleep has an opposite effect, and which neither can be obtained, until the brain becomes passified. But during sleep the soul is the most active, and proves that brain action is detrimental to soul action.

Thus if the habit can be developed

during the waking state o f the body, man obtains the benefit o f that light during the day, which he otherwise only obtains at night, and which loses itself in oblivion again as the brain becomes active. But once acquired, he may dream during his waking hours, and place his thoughts on record, and elucidate the visions seen at the same time, as fast as they occur. T he materialist may call this “ uncon­scious cerebration," but the one who de­velops it will find that the cerebrum takes no part in the matter whatever, and is thus theorizing from or through the brain himself, and brain theories are veritable imaginations.

T h e soul is not subject to imaginations; it either knows or it does not know; it does not speculate and can not invent. That it knows, it knows absolutely, for it only acts for a positive ‘effect. Nothing can attach itself to the soul from outside,' except it is pure intelligence or absolute truth. It naturally rejects all that is speculative or imaginary, and wbat it ob­tains by intuition comes from God or divine nature— causation. T h e soul is a part o f the original cause, and therefore in accord with the same, and if not hampered in its efforts to retain its vibra­tion or harmony with divine nature, will reflect its intuitions to man’s exterior mirror, the mind, and thus give em­ployment to his brain functions in formu­lating this light for the benefit o f others. Such labor prevents the sensual appetites from manifesting themselves to the brain, and frees man from the incessant combat with his animal nature, which also'requires the brain as the medium or agency through which to be appeased or indulged. Even hunger is hardly perceived when intel­lectually active, but as the stilling o f this call o f nature can not be dispensed with, it must be given some attention, and the brain must be permitted to act for a materialistic, or we may say an animalistic effect during this period or indulgence at least, even if it may be prevented from otheywise tempting the body for a sensu­ous effect, without injury to the same.

T he brain's inventive power and influ­ence on the body for material indulgences or pleasing and enhancing the appetites, has brought more diseases in the world than it has ever cured. T he soul, the divinity in man, is incapable of this. It never does, and it can not tempt or incite for material indulgences, for as soon as it is made active, it begins to philosophize or unfold intuitive truths to the being, and such have a purifying effect on man's physical nature and allays bis animal nature forthwith. But the spirit body is the evil genius. This is the appendage which manifests itself through the brain, and for which we accredit the brain as the motive power. But as the spirit constitutes the j mind o f man, it is indifferent, as long as we understand that it is not the soul which does the tempting or inciting to that which is sensual. However, we know now that the soul is the only true physician for the removal of causes, and that men­tal action is but a secondary motive power compared with the soul’s interior or central action. And further, that health and life is dependent on soul action, and that spirit action, if not kept busy or infused by intuitive truths, has an opposite effect on the body, and in which event he ceases to progress as spiritual or divine being.

Constant soul action not only keeps the body pure, but increases its own growth, and consequently its motion or activity over that o f the spirit body. I When superior in bulk, as it were, but! really in energy or force, the sensuous action o f the spirit becomes naturally allayed, and the soul has completed its mission in connection with matter. In! this state no effect is necessary to bring1 the soul into motion to counteract mental action, for it is already that way inclined, and enabled to infuse both spirit and body with divine impetus. This not only eradicates physical disease or ailments, but those o f the spirit as well— freeing man from all animalistic impulses, emo­tions, discords, and imperfections, and constitutes the highest form of self-cure I

T h e B aby B eaver 's D am.— “ I know o f a naturalist down in eastern Maine,” said a well-known Maine college profes-

“ who wouldn’t be convinced that beavers could build dams till he saw it done with his own eyes. H e is an awful incredulous fellow, any way. I bought a baby beaver o f a hunter who traps them, one day, and sent him to my skeptical friend. H e grew greatly attached to the little fellow and kept him in the house, but be often wrote me that his beaver didn't show any propensity at all for dam building. One Monday, washing day, his wife sat a leaky pail full o f water on the kitchen floor. T h e beaver was in the kitchen,— he was only a baby then, too,— and he saw the water oozing out o f a crack in the pail. H e scampered out into the yard, brought in a chip and began build­ing his dam. T h e naturalist was sum­moned. H e watched the little fellow, thunderstruck. Said he, ‘ Leave that pail there, wife, till doomsday, if need be, and let’s see what the little fellow will do.’ T h e beaver kept at it four weeks, until he had built a solid dam clean around the pail. M y naturalist friend is quite a beaver man to-day. T hey say, you know, that way down East there is a beaver dam that $200,000 couldn't build the like of. Oh I men don't know everhthing. T h e wasp knew how to make paper before we d id ."

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A Spirit Replies to the “ A rgonaut.1

[Spirit “ Wm. Bird,” through the mediumship of Elite Reynolds.]

Since the first dawn o f earth’s morning light when the »Creator’s fiat went forth, “ Let us make man in our image and endow him with power of discerning good from evil," the world's religious history, as contained in the annals of Chistianity for more than eighteen hundred years, and whose precepts have been handed to posterity by thousands o f the seers and prophets o f old, whose martyred lives ever stand as monuments o f glory in the memories of the mighty hosts o f the un­numbered dead, must certainly bear wit­ness, could their words reach humanity, o f the ignorance and bigotry o f one, at least, o f the so-called master minds span* ning the horizon o f the literary firmament of the Argonaut, who so bravely throws down the gauntlet o f ridicule and wordy bombast against the belief o f millions of intelligent men and women seeking and finding proofs o f everlasting life. His sweeping denunciation and ridicule o f the purest and highest aspirations o f the hu­man soul also reaches its slimy folds to­ward our Christian fathers and mothers, wives, sons and daughters, now living lives of purity and usefulness, happy in the knowledge that death is but the step­ping-stone to another life, the happiness of which can only be secured by deeds of peacefulness and kindness as taught by the life and memory o f Him whose words o f love have echoed and re-echoed over the hills and yalleys o f earth for centuries past. His school o f philosophy (the gospel o f Pixley to the contrary, notwith­standing) w as.at least “ honest and sin­cere, and he had the audacity to extend his inspired vision beyond the tomb.” In fact H e this day stands forth as an unmis­takable witness o f the presence and power o f returning spirits.

A ll reforms in the world’s religious history have met with the bitter voice of contumely, and the teachings o f Spirit­ualism have suffered from the attacks o f foes without and foes within, seeking to crush out o f existence the only phenom­ena demonstrating future life; but let our sarcastic enemies remember that there are intelligent, educated Spiritualists who do not rest their belief upon the foundation o f any particular phase of the Manifesta­tions, but collate the results o f individual experiences and accept or reject the phe­nomena in accordance with proofs offered through all the varied channels o f com­munication.

T he teachings o f wise and good spirits are and ever will be o f the most exalted character, refining and purifying in their influence, leading thousands to a higher conception o f the duties and aims of life, even if there are (as in all other systems of religion) apostates claiming our name, whose lives and morals are a disgrace to humanity.

Spiritualists can only smile at all such scurrilous attacks through the public press, and we thank the astute scribe o f the Argonaut for dethroning a mate­rialized spirit bridegroom, together with the alleged seven hundred witnesses to that proposed marriage ceremony in San Francisco, knowing that such perform­ances have not the endorsement o f any sensible, well-informed Spiritualist.

Let all Spiritualists and their opponents ■ remember that the first vibrations o f in­telligence from our side came to you un­sought and unheralded, and in spite of all obstacles we will carry on the work to completion«

T he physical phenomena o f Spiritual­ism— call the same materialization, or any other synonymous term— is the corner­stone whereon rests *he foundation o f our belief, and the initiatory manifestations so sneeringly alluded to by the Argonaut have not been, nor ever will be, “ swept into the sea of forgetfulness.”

Science and worldly philosophy have for the past two decades utterly failed to show that the manifestations are not pro­duced by disembodied spirits, for with these telegraphic messages comes intel­ligence and accompanying proofs that human life is taken up at the change termed death and carried on for ever and ever.

Whatever is true or false in medium- ship will find its level and stand or fall on its real merit, and all in good time the impostors and charlatans will sink into oblivion, and the grand old ship o f Spirit­ualism will safely enter the harbor o f prosperity without the help of the talented editor of the Argonaut.

L ife consists not o f a series o f illus­trious or elegant enjoyments; the greater part o f our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance o f daily duties, in the removal o f small inconveni­ences, in the procurement of petty pleas* ures, and we are well or ill at ease as the main stream o f life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent observation.— D r. S . Johnson.

• W e have social strengths. Our affec­tion towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply. I can do that by another which I can not do alone.— Em erson.

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Im m ortality Obtained W ith o u t D eath.

D r. W m . A . Ham m ond has obtained acheap and wide notoriety b y the notices given by the press o f his articles on im ­mortality. H e argues that as the average age o f man has constantly increased with the progress o f civilization, under the Roman Em pire being twenty-five years and about thirty-six to-day, with the ad­vancem ent o f knowledge and observance o f the laws o f life, this average will con­tinue to increase, and that there is nolim it o f the age to which man m ay attain. T h ere is no reason why a man must neces­sarily die. I f the functions are all pre­served in health, as they m ay be b y right living, then disease and death will be un­known. In conclusion D r. Ham m ond triumphantiy asks, W hy need we d ie? D r. Ham m ond first cam e before the public conspicuously during the throes o f the great war, when the nation lay gasp­ing and bleeding almost at the threshold o f death. A s surgeon general o f the army he had caused the most worthless and adulterated drugs to be dealt out to the suffering soldiers, thereby saving the difference in price for his own horrible gain. H is perfidy was discovered, he was court-martialed and disgraced, and when the great and good Lincoln was appealed to ;fo r pardon, after carefully examining the case, he said the m iscreant ought to be shot!

N ow if D r. H am m ond cou ld ask the thousands o f soldiers who suffered in the hospital and tent, with the flames o f fever, freezing chills, depletion o f dysentery, why they died , they might easily solve the riddle for him by saying: “ We diea at your hands, from the worthless drugs and abom inable adulterations you sold to the arm y.” T h e inner fibre o f the man is shown by the following quotation from his remarks before a recent meeting o f the Ninteenth Century C lu b , in reply to a paper read by Miss L yd ia Bell on “ M ind C u re.” A spectator might readily judge what his thoughts would be from the burly mass o f obesity which spoke. “ S o u l!” sneered the D octor, “ I don't know anything about a soul. Y o u can prove a m ind in the court o f justice. W e are proving m ind every day in court, diseased m ind and no m ind; but no one can prove a soul. W e m ay believe in a soul, but can not prove one. I f you destroy the brain, you destroy the mind. K n ock a m an on the skull, and let a piece o f the same press on the grey mat­ter o f the brain, and the man has no power to think, and never can think again until that piece o f bone is rem oved; let the surgeon lift that, and, lo , the mind appears again.”

Such is the man who, having no hope o f immortality after death , concretes the taking theory that physical m an m ay be­com e immortal. H a d the theory been promulgated by a spiritual m edium , as a communication from the spirit world, the secular press w ould have ridiculed it as an instance o f the lunacy o f Spiritualists and idiocy o f spirits. A s i t is, leading jour­nals publish w hole pages from various learned.and scientific men in serious reply.

It is, however, a sad com m entary on the despair to which the present coarse and materialistic view s o f nature has led its votaries. T h e most sensuous mind longs for immortality, an d w illingly ac­cepts any means o f escape, except the spir­itual, which it is too gross to com prehend. Win wood R eed , in his “ M artyrdom of M an,” has stated these physical grounds of immortality in a manner delightfully refined, a n d o f which D r. H am m ond s

the faint ec h o . ■But such an im m ortality, an im m or lity o f o ld age, is it desirable ? W ould be desirable for D r. H am m ond to go on th his load o f flesh from century to ntury, carefully com pounding his food

as to keep the plethora at bay, the er active, and guarding his mighty ain with an iron casque that perchance , “ splinter o f bone ” m ight press on the ey matter, and he cease to think ? Suppose the tim e should com e when (mortality had been gained how soon >uld population ex ce ed the food supply ? father long before that time it would

ive been exceeded.T h e population under favorable cir- imstances, even with hard labor, want id disease to com bat, doubles at least in ch generation o f thirty-three years- I Ice this as a starting point, not because is statistically correct, tor it is an esti- ate w hich errs in being too sm all, but fficiently accurate when com pared with •mitv. T e n generations would take 330 years,;or to 22 18, an d the population the U nited States taken now at 6£,ooo,- o , w ould then have becom e by this 30 o f increase 6 1,440,000,000. But as, cording to this theory, there are no aths, and as at the end o f each thirty- ree years at least as m any as are alive have id , under the old regim e, w hich, accord- , to the theory are alive, for none died, 8,820,000,000 must be added, making otal o f 190,260,000,000, as the popula- n 0f the U nited States in the year 2218. Continue this process for a few genera- ns more an d the organic material o f the >be would be all used in the making o f m an bodies, an d nothing would be left r their support, an d starvation, if noth- 1 else, would destroy the equilibrium rich D r. H am m ond so finely describes only necessary to gain and preserve in der to live forever.

G O L D E N G A T EIn his determined hatred o f Spiritual-

ism, D r. Ham m ond takes the theory of W inwood R eed , gives the author no credit therefor, and wins a cheap notori­ety with his startling presentation. T he theory will not stand a moment’s scrutiny, and is pleasing only to the sensuous mind that sees no hope in a spiritual future. It is true that could the equilibrium be­tween renovation and decay be preserved an immortal lion or ox could be as pos­sible as an immortal man. But with the imperfect conditions o f physical life such equilibrium can not be maintained, and the body, like a worn machine, with atrophied muscles, ossified arteries and valves, depleted circulation, and degen­erated nervous system fails, and at last is overborne by the forces o f decay. D eattf is the compliment o f life, and the *8* °* f*1® animal form is a fixed term under the most favorable conditions. T h e pant red tree m ay live a thousand years, >ut its doom is as certain as the flower which sprouts and blooms and dies in a summer. T h e cycle is completed. T he M ils are clogged with foreign matter, and the balance between leaf and root, the lungs and stomach o f the tree is destroyed. T h e end com es.

N ot here in the crude physical material are we to look for or expect immortality, but in the sublimated realm beyond and above the revelations of the physical senses.

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Editor op Golden Gate:

D r. W . E . R e id , a most wonderful test medium and magnetic healer, who has lately becom e a resident o f Grand Rapids, and who has been giving free half hour tests in slate writing, independent writing, and clairaudiance, by answering sealed letters in the pockets o f persons in the audience at the Sunday evening meetings o f the Spiritualists, held in Royal A rca­num H all, celebrated the Fortieth Anni­versary o f M odern Spiritualism by giving a public seance in Powers’ Opera House, on Thursday evening, M arch 29th.

T h e H on. L . V . Moulton spoke for an hour, giving an outline o f the advance­ment o f Spiritualism, from the knocking at H ydesville to the present time, when it is being celebrated now by anniversary celebrations over the entire civilized world. H e then Sho wed the difference between slate writing, as done by so-called exposers o f Spiritualism, and the genuine manifest­ations o f spirit power.

D r. Ross sang solos before and after the lecture, and was warmly applauded. Dr. R eid then answered a few questions by independent writing, but as one after an­other arose, and acknowledged that the answers given were apropos to questions in their possession, a feeling o f restlessness was observed among those who had come expecting to prove the impossibility of writing between slates riveted together and the seams filled with mucilage, to keep, as they thought, the spirits from getting in there.

W hen D r. R e id called for slates, at least half o f the audiencie arose and started for the stage. T here was no cabi­net and no darkness, but each person held his own slate right on the front o f the stage in full view o f the audience, with electric lights above and the foot lights below. I do not know o f a single pro­fessed Spiritualist who received any writ­ing on their slates; but at least fifteen skeptics, and they were among the promi­nent citizens o f the city, received com­munications. O ne o f these, from the R ev. J. Morgan Sm ith, who was for years the leading Congregational minister here, was recognized by several as being a fac­s im ile o f his peculiar hand-writing.

A s from sixty to seventy communica­tions were written, and nearly a ll recog­nized. W e look upon it as a great suc­cess. N otices o f the meeting appeared in aU the daily papers. I copy from the D em ocrat the following:

“ T h e passionate desire to ascertain if indeed there be mysteries o f life, when what we call life has left the form which we inhabit, was strikingly illustrated in Powers’ Opera House last evening, when the “ m edium ” phenomena were so stamped with the impress o f verity as to preclude the idea that they were the pro­duct o f colusion or clever legerdemain. T h e audience was not large, perhaps five or six hundred, and was notable rather for the absence than the presence o f the fanatical. It was an audience in which a goodly elem ent o f the solid appeared. A jocose skepticism was prevalent, but duly curbed by decorum. T h e knowing man, always to be found on such occa­sions, with his slates firmly riveted to­gether, stepped confidently on the stage, and listened with clearly indicated sur­prise as the audible sounds o f a p en al, where none existed, traced characters which proclaimed: ‘ “ G o learn me tenor o f the proclamation,” said Ajax to Ther- sites. W as it all a force in which deft trickery invoked the solemn and the tragi­cal to minister to greed? O r was it a proclamation that when the ghost has laid aside the clay by which it is shrouded, it can answer affirmatively the conundrum o f H a m le t? ’ ”

C h a r le s M . P o tt e r , Secretary Michigan State Spiritualists’ As­

sociation, 15 Spring street, Grand Rap­id s, M ich.

C a st forth thy act, thy word, into the everlasting, ever-working¡universe; it is a seed-grain that can not d ie .— Carlyle.

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S p iritu alism and Theosophy.

I have just been reading m y favorite o f all the papers extant— the G old en G a te . Am ong'all the good things, I notice a very ably written article on a subject that I have pondered over a great deal, and I have finally become very well satisfied in m y own mind on the question.

T h e article referred to may be found in the issue o f April 7th, under the title of “ Theosophy,” by J. W . M ackie o f T u ­lare. Friend M ackie has defined Theos­ophy as “ T h e communion o f man with his own soul;” which, in our understand­ing, would simply be thinking. H e de­fines Spiritualism as simply the communion o f spirits with mortals; which definition (in our opinion) falls far short of a proper rendering. From the word “ sim ply," we would infer that to talk with spirits is the mission o f Spiritualism in toto. How­ever, m y good brother premises that some Spiritualists may contend that Spiritualism includes his proposition, or Theosophy. H e has conjectured well. Y es, my friend,I believe that, as a rule, the Spiritualists are thinkers. But the question arises right here, How much o f our meditations are original, or where is the exact sepa- ratrix. between our own and the foreign impressions or inspirations ?

It is a superlatively big fact, in my humble estimation, that space and all matter that now exists, eternally existed of necessity. A s there are no bounds to the universe, there is, o f necessity, no central point. Each locality or object occupies the 9enter o f the universe as properly as any other. But to us it seems peculiarly strange that we, as individuals, have, at some anterior period, had a conscious ex­istence (in a central locality or heaven), somewhere in the universe; and having wan­dered or strayed from thence, and finally having entirely lost our identity or individ­uality, and having just recently regained the same, we are now working our way back home again; as Brother M ackie and many other thinkers earnestly advocate.

In the m&in, I heartily endorse the brother’s reasoning, and also concede his superior ability as a scholar. But if he deems this feeble effort in search o f truth a criticism, I hope he will accept it as a friendly one. W c admit that the question o f origin is a deep one, but we are in this stream o f life or existence, and if we can not wade through, we must float as best we can. W e must, o f necessity, think, and the exchange o f thoughts is sometimes beneficial. Our humble opinion is that there is no such thing as creation or in­vention. T h e whole display of variegation throughout nature is simply the working over o f the original, self-existent material. We all have, or should have, our ideas in regard to the great, silent, invisible power, universally denominated G od. With your generous indulgence, M r. Editor, I will venture my convictions in that direction.

In the first place, we all admit that the universe is a large one— so large, that if thought (the fleetest substance known) were to be projected in any direction, and just pressed forward in said direction with lightning rapidity, throughout eternal cy­cles to com e, it would fail to find a ter­minus, or a point where space and matter ceased to exist.

Our convictions are that there never was a time in the musty records o f etern­ity, that there were not countless myriads o f suns, worlds, and systems, moving through space just as they are to-day, and peopled as now. Some baby worlds, con­taining low, undeveloped mortals like our­selves, others older and more mature, containing a better developed type o f hu­manity. Scientists have'discovered and named several chemicals or ingredients that blend in certain ratio and quantity, that assist in producing the varied forms or materializations that surround us. We presume there are many more of these basic germs, or ingredients, yet to be dis­covered, that assist in the evolution, or visible production, o f all matter, from the lowest mineral to vegetable, animal, man. Also worlds, suns, and systems are brought into visible existence, with all their at­tending paraphernalia, by the proper blend­ing o f these necessary ingredients.

A s there are inexhaustible reservoirs of the lower material, it is continuously de­veloping to a higher, until it is sufficiently matured to unite in the formation o f a baby world. A s it matures through self- existing laws, and the required ingredients adhere sufficiently to produce higher forms or stages o f existence, it slowly moves onward and upward, until it evolves the crowning masteipiece o f creation, the self-conscious, individualized intellect or soul o f the human form.

But, says someone, you have failed to tell us who mixed those components. V ery w ell, I am free to admit that / am unconscious o f having any hand in the mixing myself; but pray, which is the more absurd of the two subjoined propo­sitions ?

First— A ll matter and space eternally self existed.

Second— A ll visible forms are produced by the self blending o f self-existent in­gredients; just as simple and natural as the evaporation o f a salt pool or lake o f water, leaves a bank o f salt.

W e recognize the feet that certain con­ditions or means are necessary to produce certain results. These requisites we term natural or self-existent law. W e frequently

hear the affirmation that law exists, and o f necessity there must be a law M aker.

Correct. W e cheerfully concede the feet. But pray, why should not self-ex­istent law be as rational as a self-existent law M aker ?

W e maintain that these basic germs are self-existent, and adequate to the con­struction o f all visible objects. W e can conceive o f nothing but matter in the universe. Our physical system is matter; our spiritual body is matter o f a more re­fined or higher gradation, and, as the I am, self, or soul, must, o f necessity, be something or nothing, (and we scarcely can conceive a nothing to be the crow ning1 something o f our most anxious inquiry), we are forced to the conclusion that the soul must be the highest developed m atter; that we are competent to consider.

A ll the G od that I am competent to | perceive is the sum total o f the ingredients, principles, and p>owers that exist.

Our conviction is that every manifesta­tion o f life contains a soul,— from the lowest moss, throughout the continuous chain o f existence, to human, individu­alized identity; which state, being once attained, is eternally retained. A nd we continuously march on, through endless cycles o f time, through the vast labyrinths o f eternity, soaring higher and higher in the stupendous fathomless fields o f de­lightful scientific research, yet unthought of or conceived by earthly mortal man.

C o lfax , W . T . , April 19, 1888.

L e tter from Leadville.

Editor of Golden Gate:

W e arrived in this city among the clouds, 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, just as Brother Moses and Sister Mattie H u ll, editors of N ew Thought, o f D es Moines, Iowa, had closed an engage­ment o f two months with the friends o f our cause here; and after giving three lectures, on three Sabbath evenings in succession, was challenged by one o f the learned physicians o f this city, an “ ag­nostic,” to discuss the question o f “ Im­mortality,” or, in other words, “ Does man retain a conscious existence at death ?” We accepted the challenge, and came off victorious, as several in the audience begged leave to add their testimony o f the wonderful phenomena they had wit­nessed, although not claiming to be Spirit­ualists. Our opponent even related a demonstration' o f spirit presence in his own quiet room while he sat reading at midnight. H is wife had retired, and, as he supposed, was sweetly sleeping, when all o f a sudden she screamed with fright, and exclaimed: “ Husband, there is a lady standing beside you with her hand on your shoulder.” She described one o f the Doctor’s deceased patients whom she had never seen in mortal form. T hus the evideuce and testimony was on our side o f the question.

Friends and skeptics desired a repeti­tion o f the discussion which will take place to-morrow evening in a hall more 111 the heart o f the city. On the follow­ing morning I shall start on an unlimited ticket for California, intending to stop in the principal towns on the Northern Pacific Railroad between here and Ogden City, U tah, once more to be in the home and enshrined in the love o f my only remaining, yet mediumistic sister, Mrs. E . N . Balcom. It is there our dear sisters, seven in number, and a brother with father, mother, and companions, can come and mingle their enfranchised spirits with ours, compensating in part for the loneliness ofttimes experienced among strangers. O f this we should not speak, as our time is so much occupied in com­forting the sorrowing, healing the sick, and aiding mediums in their development.

Maps and tourists have given a delinea­tion o f Leadville, geographically speak­ing, but to some o f the readers of your excellent paper it may not be uninteresting to note that the size o f Lake county is sixteen by twenty-two miles; its popula­tion 25,000, and 20,000 the population of Leadville. About 5,000 men are em­ployed in the mines adjacent in the city. T h e average monthly yield about $1,000,- 000. Wages high, and board $7 per week (without rooms) in the average* boarding­house.

For the past ten years the city has been more or less controlled by the drinking and gambling element, and their attendant vices, but recently the Roman Catholic priest, with the Protestant clergy o f the city and their churches, with some others, determined that the gambling dens should be closed. A t the annual election, held on the first Tuesday in April, they were successful by a majority o f five hundred and ninety-one, although the gamblers and their allies spent $30,000 to continue their nefarious business, while the friends of the movement only spent $800. T h e newly elected Mavor at once issued a proclama­tion, directing the Marshal to enforce the ordnance against gambling, and to-day there is not a gambling establishment in the city. T h e gamblers will take their exit to be supplanted by a better class o f citizens. Those unable to get away may spend their wages and evenings with their families, building up little heavens instead o f hells. M ay the time speedly come when all towns and cities will follow the same course, and man forget to weary a fellow mortal. More anon.

M r s . F . A . L o gan .L ea d vil le , Colorado, April 19, ’88.

H ow l it t l e do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.— Southey,

Science o f S p iritu a l Things.

I Given through a private medium for the Golden Oatc.J

T h e scientists are becoming daily more attracted toward, and anxious to investi­gate into this philosophy o f Spiritualism. For years they have scoffed at its prob­ability, and have withheld all desire to in­vestigate into its phenomena, considering that it was a phantasy o f deluded, un­balanced minds, and not worthy the con­sideration of m en ' o f science, and have devoted their time to investigating other questions that attracted their attention. But o f late years (one might almost say within the past year) they have been forced to recognize the fact that a great wave o f liberal feeling was sweeping over the land, carrying conviction that, while as a science it was but little understood or appreciated, there w as something in it worthy their notice— something beside table tipping, and the other physical demonstrations that were “ precursory symptoms ” o f something deeper and more worthy o f research. T h e y have discovered also that the idea was not con­fined solely to uneducated superstitious persons, but was investigated and believed in (because o f intelligent investigation hav­ing proved to the satisfaction o f the seeker after the truth o f the matter) by a for greater number o f the intellectual portion o f the community than was dreamed o f.

T h e “ leaven ” which has appeared to the superficial observer to be working so slowly ( if at all) has impregnated the mass* o f humanity to a large extent, and is, in these latter days, beginning to be visible in its broadening effect upon the religious views among those that hereto­fore had refuted by all means in their power, these “ false doctrines that threaten to overthrow the reason, and demoralize the principles o f the people.”

Look at the outgrowth in the Orthodox churches. See how many “ sp lits" are constantly being made. T h e offshoots find themselves too much hampered by the old traditions which they had been taught to revere, without bringing the test o f every-day sense to bear upon them, and which when once an inkling o f the “ reason why " o f many o f these beliefs forced itself upon their notice, opened too wide a range o f thought to be con­fined within the narrow bounds o f un­reasoning belief, but leaped the barriers and swept them away with resistless force into the broad open fields that lay be­yond. A nd just here many rush to the other extreme, and accept everything that com es in the guise o f “ liberal thought,” through whatever source it may be brought to their notice, having broken out o f bounds, their judgment is yet not responsive to the rein o f reason, and they run wild, until brought to a realizing sense that even in this broad field there must also be restraints imposed, and common sense and cool judgment are required to in­vestigate and discriminate between the pure gold o f progression and the ore o f much that is not “ Spiritualism,” in which it is often encased. T h e crucible must be used, and the probe o f thorough investi­gation be used unsparingly, in order to discover the wealth of knowledge and the gem o f truth that lies em bedded in the mass of seeming contradictions and super­fluous matter that surround it.

T h at this probe is used with so steady a hand, and correct divination of the object sought, is proof that as a science the value o f this philosophy o f life is beginning to be better understood and appreciated by that portion o f the world that hold the power to bring it, to the notice o f those through whose hands it can be most widely disseminated— the thinking, intelligent part o f humanity.

Blessed are those whose earnest thought and desire to uplift those who, having less capacity for understanding this great light that is opening out before them , strive to adapt their larger knowledge to the needs of those less capable, and admit (with all due reverence) the “ Spirit of G od ’’ into the hearts of the people through the means o f what some consider the workings o f the devil, and temptations o f the lower nature.

T o those whose belief in Spiritualism as the purest, highest form of religion— the teachings o f which appeal powerfully and wholly to the spiritual part o f m an­kind, to the highest thought o f which they are capable, is given a “ talent ” that should not be “ hidden in a napkin ” to wait the Master's return, but be used for the benefit o f all humanity, to uplift and uphold those who walk in the shadow o f doubt, the darkness o f despair, or the dense blackness of ignorance. T o spread the light o f advanced thought (backed by knowledge, and earnest desire for good) before those whose needs demand it, and be assured that in thus doing, they are not alone lending a helping hand to them , but laying up treasures o f progressive thought and action for themselves when their mortal shall have put on immor­tality. W m. G . C l a y t o n .

A p r il 23, 1888.

I f the church would take an upward step and teach that G od is not our step­father, but we are his real children, one and all, it would make us happier and better. W e should begin to touch each other and move fonrard together, and no one would feel like snatching the best thing within his reach for his own gratifi­cation.

T h e man who is vain of his wealth only proves that he thinks more o f his money than of himself.

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attempt to bolster up, those who have once been

fairly detected in fraudulent practices. Not that

we should not help all such into honest ways of

life; but we would let them find some other way

than that of the practice of mediumship. That

is something altogether too sacred to be trifled

SA T U R D A Y , M AY 5, 1S88.

EDITORIAL FRAGMENTS.

What an empty bauble is fashionable society

life. T o live to dress, to shine, to flutter butter,

fly wings in the sunshine of worldly advantage,

with never a heart-beat for the sorrow and suffer­

ing of others, for the overburdened lives, for the

"spirits in prison,” for the sin-sick, for the

souls struggling for the light,— ah! is not this to

live the life of utter misuse and worthlessness!

Better far a daily struggle for bread, with long­

ings all unsatisfied, if but the spirit be kept

sweet and tender, and the affections and sym­

pathies pure.

If, in the light o f the truly developed spirit, we

could look out upon the world o f humanity, with

all its imperfections and undeveloped condition!

— if we could see and understand the marvelous

springs of action, the secret workings and motives

that dominate human action— as we shall some­

time,— what a tidal wave o f sympathy for our

erring fellow beings would sweep over our souls.

H ow little we know the harm we do to the

erring one, and also to ourselves, when we 1

harshly condemn. It would humble us all in

our own conceit, if we knew as w e are known.

“ It is all the world to me, the comfort I de­

rive from my knowledge of a future life, and

from my communion with my spirit friends,"

remarked a worthy lady to us the other day.

This is the common experience o f all who have

entered the inner temple o f our beautiful religion

and have learned the better way of life. There ii

something in Spiritualism infinitely higher and bet­

ter than a mere belief in its phenomenal facts,—

and that is its religion. Until one experiences

this religion he knows but very little o f the real

comfort, and serene satisfaction that may be

derived from a knowledge o f spiritual things.

The enemies o f Spiritualism seem to have

rallied for a general attack upon its stronghold,

phenomena, determined to crush it out o f exist­

ence. Well, we will only say that they have

undertaken a greater task than they imagine.

No amount of fraud, or jugglery, or exposure of

alleged mediums, can have the least weight with

any intelligent Spiritualist; for it is upon

phenomena that he bases his philosophy. H e is

especially strong in that, and can not be argued

out o f it . It is only the unconfirmed investi­

gator, and the downright skeptic, who are

affected by one-sided and often unjust newspaper

reports.

The time has come when something more than

mcdiumistic gifts is expected o f those through

whom we would communicate with our spirit

friends. Spiritualists who respect the truth, and

who believe in uprightness o f life and conduct,

insist that their mediums with the other world

shall be alike decent and trustworthy. While, as

is well known, purity o f life and character are

not strictly essential to spirit mediumship; yet

they are essential to the character and quality of

the messages received. Reliable messages can

not be expected through unreliable mediums; the

stream will partake, more or leas, o f the quality

o f the channel through which it flows.

M y friend comes to me from the spirit side of

life; he writes me a loving message between

closed slates held in my own hand, and signs his

name in his old familiar way; he entrances some

medium and recalls familiar scenes, and awakens

old memories, known only to us two; some clair­

voyant sees and describes him accurately; he

controls the elements and temporarily presents

himself to me in tangible form, and I look

his face, and know of a verity that it is his own

living self. “ But that is not your friend,” my

Seventh Day Adventist brother presumes to tell

me. Then who U it pray? “ It is the Devil! ’

The Devil it is! God pity us for our ignorance!

rlth. L_

Did it never occur to you, dear reader, that

power, wisely exercised, is the greatest of har­

monise»? Now, property is one of the secret

springs of power, and perhaps the most potent

one. Take the cohesive ‘element of property—

of church edifices, universities, book concerns,

etc.,— away from any of the religious sects, and

what weight of influence would they have

world? They agree because they can not well

afford to disagree. Spiritualists, having none of

this unifying element, agree to little or nothing,

and that in so weak a way as to carry no weight

with it. Give to the Cause upon this Coast

temple erected for spiritual uses, with assembly

and seance rooms, a free library and reading

room, a book depository and a live press, and s

change like a new creation would come ovei

somewhat chaotic elements of Spirit­

ualism.

MR. COLVILLE'8 WORK IN SAN DIEGO.

JESSE SHEPARD'S AN8WBR.

What is there more shockingly pitiful or pain­

ful than the deliberate deceptions occasionally

practiced by unprincipled persons in the name

o f Spiritualism?— More pitiful and painful when

practiced by persons really possessing medium-

•istic gifts. There are too many good mediums

in the world to-day,— mediums who would scorn1

deception,— for Spiritualists to bother with, or j

W e publish elsewhere, with some reluctance,

sse Shepard'S answer to certain questions pro­

pounded to him In the last issue of the G olden

G ate, and for which we offered him the use of

columns. There is little to be said o f it

more than that it is a virtual renunciation of the

author's twenty years of professional mediumship

and work in behalf of Spiritualism, and of his

admission that his newly found religious associa­

tions are more to his liking.

O f course, Mr. Shepard can not reasonably

expect that any considerable number of his old

friends, the Spiritualists, will follow him into the

Roman Catholic Church. They, or at least most

of them, have no use for creedal institutions of

any kind. They need no pope or priest to stand

between them and their Creator. They prefer to

take their religion at first hands. Hence, it will

concern them but very little what Mr. Shepard's

opinion o f mediumship or Spiritualism may be. I

W e can but wish, for Mr. Shepard’s sake, that

he had written in a better spirit,and that he had not

evaded the main question we asked him concern­

ing the spirit nature of the singing produced

through his vocal organs. It is true that he ad­

mits in a general way that strange phenomena

have occurred in his presence, but he insists that

he was not a medium!— a distinction, in our

judgment, without a difference. Surely, if

Madame Sontag sang through him, as we and

many others have heard him claim that she did,

he was a medium for her music, and it seems to

us folly that he should seek to evade the issue.

W e did not ask him if be sought to impress skep­

tics of the fact, but was his claim that Madame

Sontag controlled him to sing true ? H e does not

answer.

Now Mr. Shepard seems to think he has been

greatly abused and villified, and, in a note accom­

panying his reply, be makes some fearful threats

of what he will do with these “ alleged mediums,

fortune-tellers, and would-be philosophers," if

they do not let him alone. He will, he says,

“ make their name a hissing contempt throughout

“ the civilized world.” W e hope be will not en­

gage in any such stupendous undertaking as that

would prove likely to be. H e certainly could

not use the spiritual press for that object, neither

would he find willing bearers among Spiritualists,

if be should take to the rostrum, as he intimates

be may. And as to the use of Catholic or secu-

x journals for that purpose, have they not been

hissing " at our mediums from the first?

But we have not seen any of the abuse to which

be refers. Surely, nothing o f the kind has ap­

peared in the columns of the Go lden G a t e .

Friendly criticism, actuated by honest motives,

not be construed into abuse, even if it does

go straight to the mark.

W e have nothing more to say, and may as well

part company with our old friend right here.

We do not question his right to think as he

pleases, or go where be pleases. While we do

not choose to go with him, we wish him ion

voyage. W e have other uses for our columns >

than in grieving over the apostacy of any one

man, however long and well he may have upheld

the banner of our cause. Christianity had its

Judas, and patriotism its Arnold, yet both Christ­

ianity and patriotism have lived to flood the

world with glory. So will Spiritualism, with its

blessed teachings and positive proofs of a future

life, go forward, a mighty power in the world,

conquering and to conquer.

W . J . Colville, in addition to other work San Diego, has delivered a series o f very interest ing lectures on ancient history, in the Baptist church. On Tuesday, April 24th, “ Atlantis, the World Before the Deluge," was the topic; Thursday, April 26th, “ Egypt and Her Mar­vels,” was the topic. Though the price of ad­mission was twenry-five cents, there was a very large attendance on both occasions, and the audiences besides were such as any speaker might well delight to address.

Arguments considered by many scholars almost incontestable were brought forward to sustain the truth of Plato’s tale and Donnelly's expositions o f the true site and conditions o f the real ante­diluvian world. No unprejudiced mind could well be blind to the great amount of information ranged in favor of the reality of Atlantis original mother country whence both Eastern and Western civilisation have alike proceeded.

Perhaps the most intensely interesting portion of the discourses was the light they threw Greek mythology and many portions of the Old Testament. No effort whatever was made reveal the interior sense of any scripture in these lectures,, only to account reasonably and historic­ally for the letter of the Pentateuch and the Homeric poems equally.

While stoutly defending the doctrine o f corre­spondence with reference to all the great inspired writings o f the world, the speaker contended that their letter had a historic base. The letter, however, is by no means literally accurate and many details is unsparingly sacrificed to the spirit.

The following points were particularly em­phasised, and declared to be verifiable by all students who would without prejudice sift ac­cessible evidence:

First— The account of the creation of the Red Race (Hadaama), mentioned in the second chapter of Genesis, refers literally to the great Atlantian people from whom the early conquerors

Egypt were descended, and of whom the Mound Builders of America were remote de­scendants.

Second— Paradise, Utopia, and alt other names ir some exceedingly beautiful and happy coun- y on earth are all reminiscences of Atlantis, ace an immense continent, but more lately Urge island of which the Azores Islands are

the remains.Third— Plato’s story derived from his ancestor,

Solon, and by him received from Egyptian priests, substantially true history of Atlantis, its ten

kingdoms and their rulers, the very place where Plato locates Atlantis having been discovered pretty much in the condition described by him through deep sea soundings o f many British and American vessels, notably the “ Dolphin

id “ Challenger."Fourth—The gods of Egypt and of Greece, a sii as of many other famous countries, wet

originally men who after their bodily decease deified, and these men were the rulers of

Atlantis.Fifth—The deluge legends of the Hebrews,

Assyrians, and many other peoples, were all founded on a recollection of the submergence of Atlanta, which wonderful event must have taken place between eleven and twelve thousand years ago, and was accomplished through the united action of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, violent storms, and the action of the sea.

Sixth— Noah’s ark and the other arks m tioned in detail outside of Hebrew writings traditions of the skillfully constructed boats, in which a wise and fortunate few escaped the well- nigh universal overthrow.

Seventh— The great Pyramid of Gizeh is prob­ably nearly thirty thousand years of age, and was built by the Atlantean rulers (called in Egypt chronology gods), during their long and powerful reign in Egypt.

The second lecture dealt especially with the condition of Egypt in ancient times, and particu­larly with the scientific and prophetic character of the great pyramid, which was declared to be a Masonic Temple, embodying in its perfectly ac­curate proportions a revelation of the profoundest troths concerning the universe, ever memorialized on earth. It was a temple of the sun without a doubt, but primitive solar worship was the reli­gion of the ablest minds and most illumined

e n on earth, and was, in essence, a pure and lagnificent spiritual, and in no sense idolatrous

system. The conclusion of this lecture dealt with the meaning of the scenes in thè Ufe of Osiris, considered by Christian apologists to be fore- shadowings of the advent of Jesus.

On Tuesday, May 1st, W . J. CoIviUe spoke on The Egyptian Scriptures, ana Their Influence

on Primitive Christianity." Great excitement, as well as interest, has been aroused in these re­markable discourses, which to many people are truly astounding.

•It may be interesting to know that our distin­guished friend, James G . CU rk, the eminent poet, composer, and singer, whose charming music gave such intense delight to the audiences at Louis’ Opera House, San Diego, Sundays, April 15th and 22d, at W . J . Colville’s meetings, has been receiving of late much well deserved recognition at the hands of the press, as well as from the public at large, who invariably crowd the place o f assembly whenever and wherever he gives one of his unique and truly inspiring entertainments.

T h e y ’re Ta k in g Ba b y ."— A correspondent (A lig h t relates the following as decribed to herby Miss H ----- , the daughter of a clergyman inEngland— “ a very truthful, not very imaginative woman,” and not a Spiritualist— as an experience of hers while sitting up with a poor woman in her father’s parish, whore babe was dying: “ There were two beds in the cottage chamber, “ one, a crib, in which a child o f three or four, “ the baby’s brother, had been asleep for several “ hours. Miss H — and the mother stood " beside the other larger bed, on which the infant “ lay at its last gasp. Suddenly an eager little “ voice called from the crib, and they saw the “ small brother sitting up, wide awake, and “ pointing with a kind o f rapture in his face. “ H e cried out: ‘ Oh! mammy, mammy, beauti- " ful ladies all around baby! B ea u tifu l ladies!

‘ “ Oh! mammy,-mammy, they're taking baby!• “ The watchers turned their eyes on the bed “ again— the infant had expired,”

for a few days, and then go to Chicago. Wher­ever she goes she carries conviction to hundreds o f souls, and lifts the gloom of the grave from many lives.

A PREDICTION FULFILLED.

A t about 2 o'clock on Tuesday rooming last, the “ Queen of the Pacific," one o f the finest and staunchest o f our Coast steamers, while on her way down the Coast, and when about sixteen miles from Port Harford, sprung a leak, caused,

s afterward learned, by the displacement dead light below the water line. The

captain made all possible speed for land, but the water rapidity gained upon the pumps, until the engineer and firemen, who stood bravely at their posts, found themselves working in «rater breast deep. *

On nearing port the ven d was found to be sinking so rapidly that the passengers were re­moved to the ship's boats, and all were safely landed, with no more serious inconvenience than the Ion of their baggage. The sea was calm at the time, or the most disastrous consequences would have followed. When within 200 yards of the dock the ship sank in about six fathoms of water, where she now lies.

A few weeks ago (Sunday evening, March n th ), at Odd Fellows' H all, John Slater, the platform test medium, predicted disaster to this vessel, j He said, in substance, and in hit nervous way,

large steamship at sea. There appears to be something wrong with her. H er passen­gers are crowded on deck and in great confusion.

see huge volumes of smoke;"— whether from her funnels or from the hull he did not say; passengers are in great danger. The steamer is going south. Her name is ‘ Queen of Pacific.’ "

lady, whose son was about to obtain employ- :nt on the ship, was advised net to permit him

to do so, as a serious disaster was about to hap­pen to the vessel. On several occasions he pre­dicted the same disaster, and positively declared that be foresaw the accident.

the skeptical world will -no doubt coi elure that Mr. Slater’s prediction was simply random guest, and that the sinking of the ship

only a coincidence. When it is remembered that there are scores of steamships running out

the port of San Francisco, it would seem to be something more than a mere guess that he should have hit upon the “ Queen ” as the fated ship. It

the vessel was not burned, as the predic- 1 supposed to indicate that she would be;

and yet the sinking of the ship from other causes comes close enough to chum attention o f the thoughtful.

GOOD HEATHEN, GOOD CHRISTIAN.

The belief hat often been expressed that no Chinese ever embraced modem Christianity from true conversion but for secret and ulterior motives, not to be gained as an honest Buddhist. The truth of this assertion will in a few years be proven or disproven, for Chinese are coming into prominence in church matters, and whatever their object, they will be given ample opportunity

i gain it.Negotiations are reported to be going on at

Washington regarding the admission of Chinese delegates to the Methodist General Conference. The more prominent among these is the Rev. Sia Sek Ong, who, it will be remembered, was

contributor to the Paris Exposition, and to the Centennial at Philadelphia. H e is a man of

extensive business relations and marked generos- Before he became a Christian he gave ten

thousand dolian to the Methodist mission, and another thousand in support of the Cocean mis-

A s a heathen he also supported a found­ling asylum of one hundred girls. Furthermore,

helper to the distressed in all public calamities— pestilence, famine, flood and fire sufferers all find his purse open to their neces­sities. 11 is difficult, indeed, not to call such a

Christian, whatever be the name o f the masters he follows and imitates. T o call him a heathen, were a compliment to his countrymen. Charily, the greatest of all Christian virtues, is

by gift of Nature. Aside from this, his learning and ministerial labors in Christian fields should secure him a seat ia the Conference of

church he espouses.

BY THE SEASIDE.

-M rs. J. J. Whitney met with grand success Kansas C ity . The papers there give fine

reports of her meetings. She left that city for Omiha on the first inst., where she will remain

On Saturday last, «re took our rapidly con­valescing invalid down by the seaside, to Camp Capitols,— to get her away from every thought and excitement of social home life for awhile— and left her there in the gentle keeping of that grand purveyor for the pleasure- and health-seeking world, Mrs. Frank Lewis, formerly of the *' Sea­side Home," Santa Cruz.

Capitols is located a few miles below Santa Crus, hidden away in a cosy little nook by the

with never a suggestion of foolish pomp, and :r a breath of unfriendly air. Here the «raves

make gentle murmur forever upon the white sands of the beach— a fringe of snowy lace to the green mantle of the hills. It is indeed a charm-

place for a quiet rest, and then Mrs. Lewis spreads such wholesome, well-cooked food before

admiring guests— rich, yellow cream and las­ts berries; tender, toothsome chickens,

broiled and browned to perfection; etc., etc., — that wc are carried back to a pretty conn-

home in the long ago.Capitols contains many scores of pretty cot­

tages, and many more of lesser attractions for use of campers. Most of these cottages are r empty, as the season is yet too young; but

few weeks hence the camp will be thronged with a lively multitude. Over-worked reader,

want a few «reeks surcease from toil? Drop a line to Mrs. Frank Lewis, and secure your room, and our word for it, you will not need this suggestion next year.

— Mrs. M. Eugenie Beste, the independent voice medium, will leave to-day for the East, stopping at several points on her way, and reach­ing Onset Bey in time for the Camp-Meeting at that place. She will remain there during the summer months.

EDITORIAL NOTES.

I — That able lecturer and energetic worfcw Paul, R . Smith, poseed through San Francises,

yesterday, on his way north.

— Mrs. Lena Clark Cooke has kindly consented to entertain the audience at the Union Spirits Society, Wednesday, May 9th. She will ^ of her experience as a medium for many ^ Doors open bee to all; III Larkin street.

I — There will be an entertainment at St. a*. draw’s Hall, i l l Larkin street, on Tuesday even, ing. M ay 8th, for the benefit of the Union Safi, itual Society. An interesting program, «fee social and dance and refreshments, prompt* > good time to all who attend.

— W .J . Colville will commence his second tara of work in Los Angeles on Monday, May 7 ^ j, Bartlett’s Hall, at S r . m . His clast in Spiritual Science will open at 640 South Hill street. Toe*,

[day, M ay 8th, at 2:30 P. m . On Sunday, Ray 3th, 20th, and 27th, he will lecture in 1. 0 . 0 . F

Hall, at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m . He will also tptak Pasadena on Fridays. A ll letters should he

addressed this month to 640 Sooth HiU street, Los Angeles.

I — The press dispatches state that Ex-fudge Daily, o f Brooklyn, a prominent Spiritualist, re­cently challenged D r. Talmage to a public dis­cussion of the merits o f Spiritualism. The Doc-

r, who is brave enough behind the ramputs of his pulpit,-where no one can make reply, refuses

[ to accept the challenge, and does so in a manner so meanly abusive of Spiritualism, as to make the very “ diakka ” in hades look dovrn upon him with unutterable contempt.

— Bro. I. C . Steele, from the rich dairy region I of Pescadero,— who is never so happy as whea doing a kindness to somebody, —sends usa tooth­some and thoughtful reminder of his friendly interest in us, in the shape of a two-story cheese,

I— a marvel o f creamy excellence, constructed evidently by a cheese-maker of rare artistic

[skill. I f this is a sample of the products of I Bro. Steele’s dairy, then should they certainly command a fancy price in the markets.

■ — An agreeable surprise was given to Mrs. Huston on Wednesday evening last. Her friends,

I to the number o f about twenty, assembled in the i evening for a parting seance, for full form materi­alization; but just prior to the commencement of the seance, a lady arose, and made a few pleasing and also regratfol remarks, at the necessity of losing the medium from our midst for the present.The lady then turned the matter over to a gentle-

present, who followed in the same strain, and closed his remarks by presenting her with a i souvenir as a token of esteem from her many 4 friends, both present and absent,— which was re- J ponded to by her in a very feeling manner.

I — Mrs. Ada Foye's Sunday evening meetings J I at Washington Hall are schools of instruction in j spiritual philosophy, as well as demonstrations 9 of spirit power. The first hour is devoted to J answering questions by the audience. Then

her wonderful ballot, and other tests. ¡ On Sunday night last the house was packed, as

usually the case. A s Mis. Foye's meetings are attended mainly by skeptics and church goers, and as there will be no regular Sunday evening spiritual lectures in the city daring the month of June, Mrs. Foye wiU continue her meetings during that month. They will not, in any appreciable manner, interfere with the at- 1 tendance at the Oakland Camp-Meeting.

— Dr. Aspinwall and Mrs. Huston left for the East on Thursday last. They expected to remain with us until after the Camp-Meeting, but the Doctor received business letters which called him home. H e tells us that, for the last month, every hour in the day, from 10 A. M. until 1 p . m., he has been engaged in his work of healing, and the development o f mediums. Mrs. Huston has as­sisted in the work, but her health has been very poor since coming to the State, owing to devel­opment and acclimation. We hope Jthese excel­lent instruments for the spirit world will soon return to us, with renewed strength and spiritual powers, for such as they are needed here, in feet everywhere, for the uplifting and elevating of humanity.

■ Our pioneer friend. Col. L í W . Ransom, of Oakland, now nearing his eightieth year, is suf­fering from cataract, which has nearly deprived him o f sight, bat from which, we are glad to know, he is recovering. Col. Ransom published the first spiritual paper on this Coast— The S p it- 4itu a l H erald, published in Marysville, Cal., in 11856. The paper lived only a few months. He was afterwards connected with W . H . Manning in the publication o f 7he Fam ily Circle, in this city, a paper that had some longer existence; but it was some years in advance of the times. The people were not yet ready to sustain a good spiritual paper. Col. Ransom was formerly one o f the leading journalists of California, a man or wide influence and large wealth.

Ma y Sh e Succeed .— T here is a prospect of New York yet having a Woman’s Hotel. The suggestion of its method of management is a good promise ot its success. Heretofore it has been the custom, with similar ventures, to ap­point outsiders to make rules and regulations; but such could certainly feci only cold sympathy with the class whom they (the houses) were in­tended to benefit. M is. C . Wheeler is the pro­jector of this last ventnie, and she proposes to have the new hotel managed the same as a club, with a committee of the inmates and stock-hold­ers. Mrs. Wheeler’s success in founding the New York Exchange for Woman's Work, and her ac­quaintance for long years with art students and workers in art, can not fail to have brought her

[into a perfect understanding with the necessi­ties o f young women whose fortunes musi_ he «nought out by their own hands and brains. None but a serious and steady worker can under­stand and truly help others who must went. Perhaps it might not be so easy for another, with less earnestness and executive ability, to raise the proposed two hundred thousand dollars, to buitd

fire-proof house, so arranged as to give each occupant a room with an opea fire-place and all other comforts, for sia dollars a week.

May 5, 1888.] GOLDEN G-A-TE 5Jesse Shepard Answers His Critics.

[We almost regret the offer we made last week of the use of our columns to Jesse Shepard, to answer a few simp'e question* that we propounded to him concerning his me- diumship. He writes in such a bad temper—so unlike what one might expect from a spiritually.minded man,—and goes so out of his way to say harsh things of other psychics—all of which is »0 foreign to the course of this journal, that we admit the following with much reluctance.—E d . G. G.J E ditor op Golden Ga t e :

Id your ed itorial o f A p ril 28th, you v irtually adm it that yo u la c k the “ moral courage ” to re­produce m y article from the R . P . Journal. N ot o n ly h ave you adm itted this, but you open your colum ns to lyin g attacks, falsehoods, and abuse o f me by those who are n ot com petent for serious argum ent, and now you ask me some questions, w hich you say “ m ay involve some m oral courage o n m y part to an sw er." A n d you add that I have no right to denounce spirit mediumship.

L e t me begin by sayin g that I have not d e l nounced it in the w ay in w hich yo u would lik e to m a te it appear. T h e whole tenor o f your edi­to ria l w ould m a ke it appear that I do not believe the facts o f mediumship. I have never denied these facts. T o m y m ind there is no such thing as “ M odem Spiritualism .” Spiritual manifesta­tions have been know n in all ages, an d the C a th ­o lic Church has produced am ong her saints more wonderful and m ore in structive spiritual powers than the present age has witnessed through any medium. B ut it is the abuse o f this thing called

m odem mediumship ’* that is to be deplored by all thin kin g minds. W e are asked to believe in fortune-tellers, divinations, and a l l k in ds of m um bling, and this kin d o f thing is cracked up as “ grand mediumship,” an d w e are to ld that the world is in need of it to m ake it better, more spiritual and charitable.

repeat, I do not deny the facts o f mediumship, but I do deny that com mon mediumship, as it is n o w practiced and preached, is doing the world an y good; on the contrary, it has done an d is doing great harm . I deny that the practice of professional mediumship is benefiting humanity.I deny that there is any good in a system that preaches fortune-telling and b lack art as a prime factor in the advancement o f modern civilization.I see no good to be got from running alter test mediums d a y after day, under the pretense of ceiving com munications from some loved o_ when, in a great m ajority o f cases, the real mo­tive is to obtain inform ation on the rise and fall o f stocks, gossip about love affairs, an d cranky

iuestions about the nature o f the spirit world.do not ca ll this Spiritualism . Its tru e name is

Spiritism, and it is far worse than an y material­ism that the w orld is acquainted w ith.

A s for my powers, I retain a ll that I ever r „ scssed, an d I have never denied the wonderful phenom ena that sometimes occurred in m y mu­sica l seances. B ut I wish it distinctly understood that I ta k e the higher ground o f theosophical philosophy in explain ing m y g ifts. A medium is one thing, a psychic is quite another. Marvelous spiritual m anifestations have occurred, and are occurrin g every day, in the presence o f persons who are not mediums, and who never w ill be.

T h e w ord “ medium ” is a term which fitly de­scribes an unreliable and ignorant individual w ith n o n atural pow ers o f his ow n . Those w ho love to rem ain in this kind o f spiritual slavery are free to do so; for m y part, I am done w ith it forever. I know o f no one to-day in the w orld, who can do any­thing o f real m erit, who openly professes medi­umship. T h e w ord “ medium ” is invariably as­sociated w ith the low est scale o f intelligence, an d I would not in sult the good taste an d the natural talent o f speakers lik e M r. Morse and M rs. W atson b y branding them w ith the epithet o f “ medium.” I regard such speakers as men an d wom en far removed from the position o f mere stick s an d machines, to b e set jum ping and ja b ­bering b y the first spirit that chances to sweep dow n and take possession.

Inspiration is indeed one thin g; to be a ma­chine is quite another. T o m y mind it is w icked as w ell as cruel to become the machine o f any spirit or class o f spirits. B ut this is what you an d other Spiritists would wish us a ll to become. I , for one, have had enough o f the tyranny of this k in d o f mediumship and m aterialistic Spir­itism . I claim the right to make a little prog­ress d ay b y d ay. I cla im the right to advance out of gross materialism in to a region o f reli­gious philosophy, where the ‘ ‘ communion of sain ts ” is preached an d practiced, in accordance w ith the precepts and principles o f true C hristi­a n ity . I cla im the right to jo in an y church I please, to reason as I please, and to think accord­in g to m y ow n understanding.

I believe in the Spiritualism as taught and re­corded in the B ib le. I believe that the Catholic C hurch has alw ays contained a true philosophy o f spirituality and spiritual inspiration, and it is nothing new for me to sing in the C ath olic Church. T w e n ty years ago I rendered my first solo in the leadin g C a th o lic Church o f S t. Louis, an d m y music was alw ays m ore powerful an d ef­fective when rendered in a church, surrounded w ith con dition s o f the highest reverence and harm ony— conditions w hich I never experienced in a promiscuous seance room . I do not blame

a M r. Colville , nor anyone else connected w ith Spiritualism , for seeking that harmony by attend­in g mass in a C a th o lic Church, denied them else­where. M r. C olville is not o n ly sufficiently sen­sitive, bu t sufficiently sensible, to appreciate the spiritual sublim ity, peace, and good-w ill manifest in the Church, as opposed to the discord, hidden strife, skeptical doubts, an d clashing interests o f the typical spiritualistic audience.

I have often said, and I repeat, that it is no honor to be a medium, and yet one o f m y wise critics has la te ly accused me o f w anting to be the greatest medium . I must therefore repeat again that I am not a medium, and must refuse point b lank to have an ything more to do w ith it . It is not my desire, inclination or am bition to be a great medium, or to practice mediumship in a n y o f its forms. . „

Y o u ask , “ D id Son tag, M ozart, an d Beethoven tin g an d play through me? ” I answer that I never asked skeptics to believe this, but I did ask them , an d expected them, to accept the music on its awn merits. I f the music was bad do you th in k that the mere mention o f M ozart s name w ould cause critics to accept the performance as a good one? D o yo u thin k that the mere an­nouncement o f such names as Beethoven, H andel and H a yd n would cause music lovers to p ay tw o d ollars for a poor concert? I never could prove an d never tried to prove that these musical spirits performed through m e. H o w U it pos­sible to prove such a thing, since the spirits themselves are not tangible? I can not prove my theories and con viction s to the world, and I am n ot goin g to try.

I t is claim ed now b y some o f the ram pant Spiritualists that Spiritism an d mediumship nave m ade me famous. There was never a more m ali­cious falsehood uttered. T h e people who have kept me in tyrann y abused m e, grossly deceived me. and l& n t m y spirit as w ith a yoke o f iron for tw en ty years, n ow claim w ith brazen audac­ity that they h ave made me w hat I am . The individuals who once pretended that I knew too much to be a medium now rise up and proclaim before the world in a loud voice: “ H e is a me­dium, and w e made him w hat he is. A l l this is in keeping w ith the im pudent assertion that I h ave grow n rich through mediumship. The

facts are that I w ould have starved to death long d not been for the cultured church

PeoP‘c “ d agnostics who attended m y séances ne sole purpose o f enjoying the music on its Tm entS‘ Spiritists when they found

that I was not a “ test medium ” alw ays let me severely alone, usually rem arking that my music was not o f a test nature.

A n d now these persons are crying out against 5 * *°5 the great crime o f singing in the C atholic enuren. T h e individuals who took no interest ln me or my gifts refuse now to le t me g o where 1 m appreciated. Could moral and mental lyr- an n y g o further? But M r. John W etherbee Z*I.A r accurately diagnosed the green-eyed m aiady o f the medium maniacs when he styled it

sour grapes.” M r. W etherbee added that all oth® w°n ld g o and do likewise if they

coûta. S trange contradiction o f hum an nature! Monstrous paradox! A man is denied hos- P b encouragement and appreciation among a people supposed to be his friends, and he is d * v ç a .n t o other spheres o f labor where he is ap­preciated b y utter strangers.

closing I want to say that malicious gossip _ , ® ander w ill not help the cause o f mediums . .J*P1£ t,sm -1 A ll sorts o f stories are circulated

I ° r c ®fc t ^ a t I have lost my powers, that my Inends are an gry because of my singing in churches, while m y life has been threatened by enemies o f religion who call themselves “ pro­gressive Spiritualists.” Th is is not the w ay to convince the world o f the truth o f Spiritualism, threats, intim idation, and lying gossip only seivef l ® add fresh discredit to a cause which

aas been, an d ever w ill be, unpopular.

M a d a m e D is D e b a r __The Eastern papers,for the last tw o weeks, have abounded with the accounts o f the trial o f this noted woman for an alleged conspiracy to defraud one o f the lead- ing law yers o f that c ity out certain o f properties w hich she induced him to make over to her for an asylum for indigent mediums. H is meddlesome heirs to o k the matter in hand and undertook to teach him what his confreres o f the bar have never yet discovered— that he was incompetent do what he pleased with his ow n. O f Madame Dis D ebar's mediumship we h ave no personal kn ow l­edge. W e have it from those whose veracity no one would question that pictures h a v e been produced b y independent spirit power in her presence, the conditions being such that deception was abso­lutely im possible. She m ay be a bad woman, and m ay have deceived Law yer Marsh, but we should w an t some further and better testimony o f the fact than that given b y the secular [>ress. W e do not believe in upholding decep­tion of an y kin d; a t the same time we are in no particular hurry to jo in the ignorant rabble in the business o f stone-throwing.

D e a d Bo n e s .— T he religious world ought to rest easy now . T h e bones o f that old Arch­bishop o f Canterbury, Thom as a ’ Beckct, have been found. T h ey were in a rough stone coffin beneath Canterbury Cathedral. A mark has been discovered on the crow n of the skull that is said to correspond with the sword-cut the Bishop received which took o ff the top o f his scalp. Thus is a ’B cck ct identified. W hat pains the world does take to prove the material side of things! I f h alf had ever been given to find the eternal part o f man, no attention would now be bestowed upon the decaying tim bers o f his earthly abode. N ot even those w ho live and deal in spiritual consolation can get quite aw ay from the bones and ashes (of this fleeting life. T h e problem o f im m ortality seems to be one that the m ajority o f m ankind would not solve if they could; but at the same time they have a curiosity in the m atter that they prefer shall not grow dull. N ot a ll who are convinced o f the soul’s endless being are brave enough to say so; there is a charm on the borderland of false that many persons do not try very hard to resist.

IN S P IR A T IO N .

Th e spirit picture used b y the Moore Manu­facturing C om pany, o f Seattle, W . T . , to call attention to “ Moore’s Revealed R em edy,” it really a w ork o f high artistic merit. It repre­sents an elderly gentleman, M r. Luther L . M oore, w ritin g under spirit control. M r. Moore occupies the foreground, seated at a table, his right hand grasping the pencil. H e has a vener­able, flowing beard. H is eyes arc not resting upon the paper, but are lookin g straight out into space, while his face is wrapped in an expression o f mental abstraction.

Standing im mediately behind M r. Moore, with one hand just above his head, and the other nearly touching his right shoulder, is the spirit form o f a w om an. H er arms and features arc exquisitely molded. H er face is characterized by a sympathetic earnestness and a d ignity and benevolence o f expression, conveying the idea o f great beauty, coupled w ith intellectual and spiritual endowments.

T h e shading is excellent, the spirit form gradu­a lly m elting aw a y and being absorbed by the dark background until the outlines are scarcely definable.

Th e picture is in accordance w ith the spiritual­istic idea o f “ inspiration.” This is the word the owners have appropriately chosen for a title.

M r. M oore claim s to have discovered, medium- istically, in certain barks and roots, peculiar to Puget Sound, a remedy for the cure o f most forms o f disease. H e says {nearly a ll disease arises from indigestion, a torpid liver, and im­pure blood, and tjiat his discovery, “ Moore’s Revealed Rem edy,” regulates the stomach and liver, an d thereby enriches and purifies the cir­culation.

M r. M oore appears earnest in the belief o f the the efficacy o f his remedy, and says that he rarely meets w ith a case o f sickness he can not cure.

1 O n.

I.of DClitO__S ___Anderson.

The subject of this notice was born in Missouri, and at *be age of eight years crossed the Plains with her parents and settled in Southern Oregon. Here she grew to woman­hood, and for many years was, if not the main stay, at least, a great support to her parents. She went to Wil­lamette University, at Salem, Or., and on her graduation,

profession of school teaching, which she followed imber of years. Finally, however, exposure to the

cold weather of that State, brought on bleeding at the lungs, and she was compelled to renounce her profession and go home- everybody ssid, to die;—but it was not to be

One day, after she had been at home nearly a year, and was lying at the point of death, she suddenly became developed as a medium, hnd saw standing over her an enormously large Indian. This proved her salvation. He

told her to quit taking doctors' stuff, get on to n wagon and go to the sea coast, and he would lake care of her. This

he has faithfully kept, and for more than twenty yean he has been her constant guide and protector. When

ir health returned, as he told her it would, he used her as healing medium, curing many cases where they had been

given up by doctors of the old school. For this she never made any charge, though often times she was called upon

make serious outlays of strength to as-ist the sick ones >0 sought her aid. In later years she became developed a fine test medium; but owing to her very sensitive

lure, gave but few sittings, and these only when her hus­band was present. She was of a diffident, retiring disfosi-

and of a very charitable nature. Many times has the writer heard her express sympathy for the poor and down­trodden, and wished she was in a position to aid them. Pure of heart, simple and confiding in her nature, none knew her but to love her, and withal, a mind of wondrous grasp. So fully developed was she that'no sooner bad she iassed out than she began trying to manifest, and on the ray to the burial of her body, gave the writer most con- inring evidence of her presence in the carriage with him,

and of her remembrance of a promise made to him some days before she passed out. 1 know my beloved wife is

still. E. G. A kdbkson.

R E D S E A L G R A N U L A T E D 98 P E R C E N T L Y E O R P O T A S H .

Sa n Jo se , A pril 5, 1888.P . C . T o m so n , & C o ., P h i l ’a :— I have made

three experiments w ith your R ed Seal Granu­lated 98 Per C ent C austic L y e w ith the following results: First, I used twenty-seven cans o f the L y e in twenty-seven gallons o f water, and sprayed twenty-seven trees w ith this solution. A t first it looked as if these trees were killed, but they h ave come out in full bloom and look strong and thrifty. I then changed and used one can to seven gallons of water, but found that this was a little too w eak, and finally settled down to about five gallons o f w ater to a can of the L ye, and this has com pletely destroyed all the scale. S . R . Jo h n s o n .

Th is 98 Per C ent L ye, it w ill be noticed, has only 2 per cent of salt, and as the soil on this C oast must have quite enough o f salt already, it follows that a ll salt used is a positive injury not only to the trees, but also to the land. W e are quite sure that R ed Seal Granulated L y e w ill de­stroy a ll kinds of insects, and is the cheapest and best of an ything that has ever yet been discov- crcd. C a ll a t your grocery store for Tomson’s R ed Seal Granulated 98 Per C ent L y e; or send tw o postage stamps to P . C . Tomson & C o ., 24S N orth Third street, Philadelphia, and we will •end you a book that w ill give you a ll the infor­mation that is know n in regard to k illing insects, and much more valuable information. api4-6m *

Hr. Colville’s New Works.

[Concerning W. J. Colville's new works, “ Menial Ther- jeutics, Philosophy and Phenomena," and revised edition ' “ Universal Theosophy," the author writes us as fol­

lows :JA s a great m any inquiries coutinually

reach me from various points an d many persons concerning the new literary pro­duction on w hich I am now actively en­gaged, I feel under the necessity o f re­questing a few inches o f space in your valuable colum ns to explain exactly my situation with regard to it. In the first place I am positively deluged with m atter for the “ Q uestion an d Answ er D epart­m en t.” O f this I do not com plain; in­d eed, I am very glad that it is so, as it affords m e an exceptionally favorable op­portunity for putting in perm anent form information on such subjects as are at present greatly interesting large numbers o f inquiring people; but however favora­ble to the ultim ate value an d success of the book this circum stance m ay be , it necessarily involves the expenditure o f m ore tim e an d effort than I can easily be­stow upon it, considering the m ultiplicity o f m y other engagem ents. T h is is one reason why I shall be com pelled to delay its publication until Septem ber, in which m onth I feel confident it will be issued in C h icago, as I can not get it out at a rea­sonable rate on the P acific C oast, in the style in which I desire it to appear.

Secon d, It is im peratively necessary that I should be within easy access o f the pub­lishing house at the tim e the volum e is in the press, as to prevent serious typographi­ca l and other errors I am com pelled to personally revise every proof sheet, an d as m y engagem ents in this State are such that I can not go E ast im m ediately, I must defer the publication o f this work till c ir­cum stances favor m y tem porary residence in C hicago. I have almost com pleted arrangements for spending the month o f Septem ber in that city , an d during that m onth I confidently expect to place “ M ental T herapeutics ” in the hands o f

j the subscribers.T h ird , I find the cost o f publishing and

electrotyping so large, a volum e will in­volve very considerable expense. I must therefore be assured o f $500 in advance, and to raise that sum without d elay 1 re­peat the offer previously m ade in these colum ns, that a ll readers o f the G o l d e n G a t e can send fifty cents a t once to the editor, who will put their names o n the subscribers’ roll. T h e book when pub­lished will be very cheap a t $ 1 , as it will be handsom ely bound in cloth , a n d will contain ab ou t 300 large, closely printed, pages. It will also be issued in one beau­tiful volum e, with a new edition o f “ Spir­itual Scien ce o f H ealth and H ealin g,” at $2. Im m ediate subscribers who read this notice can send $1 to M r. O w en, if they wish this large double volum e. T hese rates are actual cost price, without profit o f an y kind, an d are offered only as a means o f raising the need ed capital. T h is offer in com m on justice must be lim ited to sub­scribers to the G o l d e n G a t e . A ll other persons must send the proper subscription price o f 75 cents for the sm aller, an d $ 1.50 for the larger work, to M rs. Sadie G o n e,6 T u rk street, San F rancisco . T h e time for subscribers absolutely expires at the en d o f Jun e, by w hich tim e I e xp ect to have m y manuscript in the hands o f the publishers. V e ry R espectfu lly,

W . J . C o l v i l l e .S a n D i e g o , A pril 3 0 ,1 8 8 8 .

O a k l a n d Sp ir it u a l is t s .— Th e Progressive Spiritualists Association o f O akland met at Fra­ternal H a ll, Seventh and Peralta streets, last Sunday evening. M rs. Cow ell, o f Oakland, gave the opening invocation. D r. A spinw all, of San Francisco, gave a very interesting lecture of his experience in Spiritualism, after which circles were formed, and M rs. Huston, who accompanied D r. Aspinw all, gave some very good tests, which

, seemed to be fully appreciated by the audience. O n next Sunday evening, M rs. W iggins o f San Francisco |will lecture. M rs. M iller and Mrs. D e R oth o f San Francisco w ill also be present, and g ive tests from the platform, besides other of our local mediums who arc expected to be present

D R . A . B. D O B S O N V S . O L D S C H O O L P R A C T I C E .

H ic k o r y S t a t io n , M ontgom ery C o ., A rk .D e a r B r o t h e r : — I feel it a du ty I owe you

to let you know how I am since takin g your remedies. I hardly kn ow how to express my gratitude to the good spirits and you for the kind treatment I have received. I feel in better health than I have for many years. I must say I have been in the electric practice of physic in this country for more than tw en ty years and must say again that I know but little about the practice compared to yours. I will ask a question: Ca n I be made a recipient of spirit influence so as to enable me to see in to these things ?

Spiritually yours for more truth,B e n j . Jo h n so n , J r ., M . D .

O m e r a l , H olt C o ., Neb.D r . A . B . D obson— Dear Sir:— Y ou have no

doubt recognized my handwriting in numerous letters sent to you by M rs. Judith Binkerd of this place. She and her husband arc neighbors _ o f mine, and her minister. M rs. Binkerd asked me before I wrote to you for her, i f I knew o f a magnetic healer or spiritual doctor that I could recommend. I directed her to you and your | spirit band, and she requested me to write for her. Th e diagnosis was so truthful that she and her husband believed that your band could cure her; but when the first prescription came she was suffering so that it was thought she was dying, and no use to take the medicine; but her husband urged her to take it, and she did, with the happiest result. M rs. Binkerd has had a house full nearly a ll the tim e since she has been taking your remedies, and she says she feels as well as she did when she was a g irl; she

ow over seventy years o f age. She has recommended your treatment to a ll, and we hear the best kind o f reports from those who are taking your medicine according to the direction o f your spirit band.

Tru ly and k in dly yours,A . C . Ba r n e s .

F O R M O F B E Q U E S T .

T o those who may be disposed to contribute by ill to the spread o f the gospel o f Spiritualism

through the G o l d e n G a t e , the following form o f bequest is suggested:

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Q O L D U N G A T E TM ay 5 , 1888.

The Church an d S p iritu a lism — T heir C om p ara tive V ain e.

In the G o ld e n G a t e o f M arch 24th, “ A V o ice from the F ar E ast” puts forth this caution when considering the ways pro­posed to spread the cause o f Spiritualism -— that w e “ make no sudden dash, attack, on the religious opinions o f people, to overthrow them , and thereby provoke a hostility in the start, that will prevent consideration o f our philosophy. T h e suggestion is a good o n e, but if that “ v o ice ” had been with us in the last two years, it would have discovered that the G o ld e n G a t e , in its presenting o f this subject, had anticipated it— that the pol­icy has been rather to hold up the truths o f our cause, instead o f pulling down the house over the heads o f church members — that the work o f the iconoclast has been left lor others to do.

T h is , too, has been the policy o f our best speakers— M r. C olville, M r. M cKaigJ M r. Morse, and others. It has seem ed to be a uniform conviction that there was no need o f antagonizing the churches— that the better way was to show them the beau­tiful truths that had been demonstrated to us, trusting to natural causes to eliminate from their m inds that part o f their belief that was incom patible with the new light revealed by our phenomena and philoso­phy. G ive me the privilege o f “ leaving on tria l,” for a few months, the truths w( are in possession o f, and, as a natural con­sequence, the erfors o f old theology will quietly step 'out or be neutralized by these better, more com forting, an d reasonable truths.

I t is true there are some to whom the mention o f “ the church ” is like a red flag to a mad bull, but there is no o cca­sion for such a feeling. W e have in our philosophy such a good thing that we can I afford to be magnanimous, even i f some o f the clergy are bigoted and intolerant toward us. T h e y profess to be working to secure the same ends that we are after — to convince the world o f the truths of immortality, and to m ake mankind better. W e think they generally are sincere, and we know we are. W e think we are making better progress than the church in this work, and the results o f our labors in redeem ing the world from skepticism, in­fidelity, and materialism, leave no doubt as to which is the better way— yet i f they prefer to go by ox-teams instead o f on steam-cars with us, we must let them.

But in m any respects we can not afford to ignore the ways and methods o f the church. In many ways we can profit im­m ensely by their exam ple.

First,— T h e ir cohesive properties we should em ulate, so as to work together, and becom e a great arm y o f progress in­stead o f a straggling mob.

Secon d,— T h e devotion they show to their cause, and their willingness to con­tribute o f their means to its support.

W hen we consider the comparative in­trinsic value o f the two doctrines— old, dogm atic theology, and the new, cheering, life-giving properties o f the spiritual phil­osophy— and com pare the am ount con­tributed to the support o f the two systems, w e, as Spiritualists, ought to feel like hang­ing our heads in ab ject shame at the show­ing that we have m ade.

W hy, so rarely is it that a man o f means makes a donation o f a number o f thous­ands o f dollars for our cause, that when such an exceptional case occurs, it is con­sidered presumptive evidence o f insanity

A n d when a m an, in his «¡ill, devotes a considerable share o f his fortune to spir­itual causes, i f he have no near relatives to contest the will, an arm y o f second, fourth, or sixteenth cousins will swarm around his remains, to prove that he was “ unduly influenced,” or not in his right m ind; w hen, had a m uch larger donation been willed to a church or theological school, it would have been accepted by the world at large as evidence o f a level head!

N ow , w hy is this so ? Is it because Spiritualists do not value their belief as highly as church people ?

T h at can not be, for they all say there is no comparison between the two. Is it that we are more niggardly ? W e wouldn't j like to adm it that.

Is it because we don’t realize the utter worthlessness o f riches to bring us happi­ness in “ the Sum mer Land ?” Impossible, for messages are continually com ing from those who have passed over, impressing us deeply with this fact, and o f their re­grets that they did not, while here, place some o f their m eans where they could see to it that it was not diverted from its in­tended use.

B u t these regrets are o f no avail excep t as a warning to others not to com m it a similar fatal m istake, and put o ff too late an intended d uty, for they com e when their signature to a check would not be worth the paper it was written on.

In Boston we have an exam ple o f a man who has built, with his own means, a temple dedicated to this cause, and his name will be immortalized for, all tim e, so rarely does such a case occur.

B u t why is he almost alone, and left to carry o ff all the honors for such an object ?

T h is is a serious question for us to an­swer, and one that we must not dismiss till we have solved the mystery, and re­vealed to ourselves just where we stand. A n d it will apply not only to men who have wealth to leave, but to all o f us who have to labor for our daily bread.

L et us com pare what we are willing to do now for the support o f a precious be­lief, with what we did when we contributed to the support o f the church, which brought us no com fort, unless it was a nicely cush­ioned pew to doze in on Sunday.

T h is comparison will show us that we need to “ wake up ” and educate ourselves up to the point o f contributihg for the support of a good thing, at least as liber­ally as church people do for what we have discovered to be a very poor article.

W e all, rich and poor, need to com ­mence our education right now, and not let up till we see that we occupy the same position in regard to our cause that church people do to theirs, and then heartily thank them for the exam ple they have shown us o f devotion to what they believe to be a good cause.

I t might seem desirable to have some­one who is wealthy and liberal enough do for San Francisco what M r. A yer did for Boston in erecting a temple— do it all,— but I am inclined to think that i f there is som ething left for us all to m ake up, we shall set a higher value on it.

Anything that we all help pay for we take more interest in ; and if all Spiritu­alists who visit San Francisco occasionally could contribute something fo ra “ spiritual home ” there, for headquarters for all spiritual purposes— hearing lectures, a publishing house, reading-room, and li­brary, and holding seances for scientific investigation— it would bring us a rich re- j tum , not necessarily in dollars and cents, but in the enjoym ent we should find in having such a “ M ecca,” to which all Spiritualists o f the Coast could make pilgrimage when disposed.

W e need to take the same view o f our duties that or.e o f our sisters here did during the visit o f some mediums in Stockton a few months ago. She and her husband are hard working people: having no surplus dollars laid by. She told me “ some might think them extrav­agant for having expended six dollars on mediums in as many months; but whenwe belonged to t h e ----------Church, andeach o f us put a quarter into the plate every Sunday, no one thought so, though then we paid at the rate o f twenty-four dollars a year for what gave us a very small am ount o f satisfaction, com pared with what we now get.” T his person, you can see, is an “ educated ” lady, and we all want to enter upon a course o f just such 1‘ education,” and not consider ourselves is “ graduates ” till we take the same view

she did.S t o c k t o n , April 2 4 , 1888.

W h a t is Spirit?

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T h e above question was the one dis­cussed by the adult class o f the Children’s Lyceum Association, o f Portland, last Sunday morning. I t was interesting to hear the different views advanced, as no two seem ed to think alike, and scarcely any one had an y well defined thoughts on the subject.

B ro. Bennett took what he called the Scripture or N ew Testam ent view, and quoting from Paul, “ T h e re is a material body and there is a spiritual b o d y ,” claim ing that Paul intended to con vey the idea that while we had a material body, we at the same time had a spiritual body separate from it (the material body); that we would take possession o f immor­tality after the death o f the material body, and, strange as it m ay seem, Law ­yer H ew itt cam e to B ro. Bennett’s rescue, and claim ed the idea correct.

D r. N . C . Boatm an held that man was triune in his make-up, and was com posed o f “ soul,” “ spirit,” and “ body;” in other words, the G od-like “ I A m ” soul, the spirit signifying force, and body sig-

ifying m ateriality. T h e D octor did not clearly set forth this fierce war; but, as a whole, I think his ideas the best defined o f any o f the class, and showed that he had given the subject m uch thought.

hile I do not think it possible for us to fu lly understand what spirit is, I am o f the opinion that the question was only intended to ask, W hat is a spirit individ­ual ? T h at is a person who has or once had an earth life . T o answer this ques­tion intelligently I think is quite sufficient for one question for one train o f thought.

T a k e the individual “ I ” for the “ soul.” will not attem pt to define its primal birth

near o r far rem ote, but as a som ething in­dependent o f body or spirit, possibly hav­ing its origin in both body and spirit. T h e n spirit I would define as that subtle elem ent that gives the active life to the natural body, and fills it as the water does the sponge, and survives the change | called death, and is still the clothing o f the soul and home in which it dwells. T h is spirit has form an d substance, has objective being, and is as plainly discern­ible to those dwellers in the spirit realm , as are those around us, in material form, to us.

A n d thus S t. P au l, when he said, T h e re is a natural body, and there is a

spiritual b o d y ," in tended to con vey the idea as above set forth. T h is, I hold, is proven by every returning spirit, in what­ever garb they com e, or in whatever way they are ab le to reach our understanding; is proven by every living m edium , whether clairvoyant or clairaudiant; and that they not o n ly see and hear our loved ones on the other side, but can see our spirit forms while we ye t inhabit the gross material body.

I t is no argument that because we can not (as y$t) analyze the spirit, and tell its

com ponent parts, that there is no spirit ( l am speaking o f individual spirit). W e might as well say there is no electricity or no other im ponderable agents around us. I ^Ve have learned too much o f what spirit is not, to have a pretty well defined idea, and every professed Spiritualist ought to have outgrown all such ideas, as advanced by our Bros. H ew itt and Bennett.

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From the Son Angel Order o f L ight.

(Written for the Golden Gnte, by Spirit Saidie, Under •of the Oriental Band in the Heavens, to the chilcren of the 'Order of Light in Earth Land, through the Scribe of the Order, Mrs. E. S. Fox.]

Said ie sees great la c k o f unfoldm ent

am on g those w ho seem ingly w ould look h igh for truth an d light. A m on g those w h o com pose th e O rd er are those for w hom she labors u nceasingly, an d into w hose hearts h a ve com e h olier aspirations, a n d greater longings thereby. F a r out in to th e future w e w ill not look at this p re sen t tim e, b u t w ill con ten t ourselves w ith w h at the present m ay unfo ld . Into th is present are cen tered great hopes for t h e future— hopes born from out the past — w h ich, rea lized , will m ake o f m an an •exalted being; o n e in w hom is vested the pow er o f th e G o d -h ead — pow er w hich past teachings have taught the children o f m en exists o n ly in the Suprem e O n e, and which H is children m ust fear an d worship, rath er than em ulate an d gath er to them ­selves.

I t has n o t b een thought possible that m an m ay h a ve within h im self the power a n d possibilities o f an A n g e l o f L ig h t, ap ­proaching m ore an d m ore to that o f D e ity . T h is w ould have been con sidered sacrilege

•even to con tem p late, an d blasphem ous to b e lie v e ; bu t such are the possibilities o f th e race . T h ro u g h grow th an d unfold- m en t, m an rises h igher, an d still higher, in th e scale o f being, u n til at last he is a b le to atten d the bu ild in g o f worlds, — shall Saidie say ? W h ile creative power belongs alone to. the In fin ite , still there is silen t work w hich his ch ild ren m ay per­form , even in th e build in g o f worlds.

A l l nature throbs w ith on e great, har­m onious heart-beat, th e cen tra l heart o f w h ich centered in D e ity , as we say; ye t the •one tid e o f life runs through a ll veins, from D e ity through H is ch ild ren , an d thence through H is w orks. A n gels w atch the •unfoldm ent o f planets, atten d the opening o f life 's unfoldm ents, w atch the springing u p o f grass an d fern , m oss an d flower, u ntil verdure is seen in m any p laces, where b u t a little w hile since, naught bu t brown, sere barrenness was v isib le . A n gels who w ere m asterful thus w atched this planet in th e lon g, lon g ago . An gels w ho are thus m asterfu l minister to the life o f this planet •lo-day.

Y o u wonder m uch w hy earth unfolds so great a ba lance o f that yo u ca ll evil. ■ Saidie says this m ust o f necessity be so, ’in the nature o f things. E v il exists, and still is not e v il, for o u t o f a ll shall com e lastin g g o o d . W e w h o h ave watched with --great in terest the d evelopm ents o f nature, s e e an d understand m uch o f the w h y, for i t a ll lies in underlyin g con ditions. T h e re •are greater possibilities ye t unfolded within -these con ditions, than m any are aware of.

W ere earth’s highest unfoldm ent now reach ed , in the present state o f things, Saidie an d th e entire band o f masterful -ones w ould turn aw ay with sorrowful hearts, •and seek oth er fields o f labor. T h e re are m any fields w hich have greater seeming prom ise o f g oo d than the present, but S a id ie an d the band have for the ages tu rn ed o u r thought to this on e garden o f prom ise, even thou gh, for long ages, down to th e present tim e, our garden is still as

a n u n cu ltivated wilderness.T h e re h ave b e en tim es o f reformation,

i n w h ich a new doctrin e has sprung up a m o n g the p eop le, promising to outshine a l l th a t have before been given to human­it y , b u t such h ave had their rise án d fall, th e ir m orn, m idd ay, an d eventide o f de- -cline. Y e t Saidie has seen a .light far be­y o n d them a ll, w hich ye t was to illum ine the earth , m aking it a dw elling place for those w ho w ere ab le to bring light out o f

■ darkness, an d order out o f chaos. Now has com e a tim e in the history o f the p lan et, a s Saidie has to ld her ch ild ren , io r w hich she has w aited— a tim e in which h er heart rejoices, a certa in tim e prophe- c ied lon g ago by seers and prophets, who were then loo ked upon as alm ost G o ds by th e rude in habitan ts o f the tim e an d age. la n d m a rk s ye t rem ain , w h ich , when some

•of earth ’s present inhabitants arrive at the port whither th ey are sailing, they will find were th e w ork o f th e ir ow n hands, and .design o f their own brain. A l l through th e ages have there been incarnated spirits in ad vance o f those whose hom e planet th is is.

W hile Saidie has w a tch ed , as she says, she has not been a lo n e . O thers have b een w ith her, w ho have, for a tim e, worn garm ents o f m ortality in the various coun­tries o f th e earth , an d in various con di­tions h a ve liv e d , at tim es wearing regal robes an d crow n ed with the highest honors earth c o u ld g iv e , an d at others, becom ing inm ates o f lo w ly hom es, bearing the bur­d en s po verty heaps upon the children o f m en, to iling to m aintain an earth existence,

-even when th e spirit within struggled to tree itse lf from its ch ain s, an d rise to its own proper state an d con dition . T h » earth life has been as a dream o f night, rem em bered d im ly by the returning spirit, w ho has w aken ed to its own life again .

Sa id ie says m any o f y o u , h er children, have thus slept to w ake again m any tim es in th e ages w hich are passed, an d in this present tim e you are receiving m em ories o f the past, in written m essages from the other sid e o f life . Into this present, the je w e ls o f th e past are gathered, m aking -all together a tiara o f greater perfectness than before.

B u t there ye t rem ain m any crow ning jew els to gain , i f yo u w ould becom e m as­terful, would redeem yo u r portion of

° ” e > w ise; see to it that n o paste be offered in p la ce o f the bright jew el which yo u seek. T o becom e m asterful means not that yo u are ab le to perform the magi­cian s w onders, or deal in greatly m arvel- ous ideas; bu t becom e superior to matter, overco m e a ll that can be ca lled evil, and thus fit yourselves fo r w ork in greater fields o f life.

Sa id ie sees m any fields from which she g lean , but her work now is here.

T h is desert waste m ust ye t becom e a gar- d en , beautifu l an d good , an d m ankind reach a point in unfoldm ent far beyond the present, ere Saidie ’s work is accom ­plished in the land. T h e re will be a more grand hom e com ing than an y heretofore recorded, an d earth, with its inhabitants, must feel the great pulsations o f life in greater pow er than before. F o r the heart 01 the Infinite beats o n an d o n , and itsP o t i o n s must be felt through a ll the —-— ----- . -------- r ------. . . ---------, — , P Pc h ild r e n s v e in s , u n t il t h e y c a n k n o w a n d i chometric> healing, developing, and other phases.

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M r s . Mo r t o n : “ I feel that I have had a feast from the i f irit land. There is need of more workers in the field like yourself, and I fully ap­preciate your beautiful powers.” — S e l d e n J.

iNNEY, N ov. 20, 1S73.“ I have recently had interviews with the con­

trolling spirits o f Mrs. Albert M orton o f your c ity , during which they discoursed grandly and eloquently upon this and cognate subjects. - * • I found M rs. Morton one o f the most truly mag­netic and cultured mediums I have ever know n.” — T h o m as G a l e s F o r s t e r , Lecture, Tan i6 , 1S81.

“ M rs. Albert Morton is a lad y o f cultivated tastes, and richly endowed w ith sterling personal graces alike of head and heart, commanding the esteem of all for her unostentatious social and domestic virtues, as well as for her beneficent medial power, as exemplified in clairvoyant, psy-

understand an d know the source thereof, an d be blessed with a higher life.

Saidie gives these thoughts to her ch il­d ren. P on d er them w ell. Se e k to un­derstand the law s o f life , and harmonize your own lives thereto. P eace be with y °P - . S a id ie .

J . _B. F a y e t t e , President and Corres­ponding Secretary o f the Sun A n gel O r­d er o f L ig h t. O sw ego, N . Y . , M arch 14, 1888.

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M adam e D iss D ebar m ay be a mere ad­venturess an d confidence wom an, her spirit portraits the veriest daubs, and her professions o f supernatural power another variety o f frau d . B u t nothing appears to justify the flippancy with w hich M r. M arsh’s convictions are treated . M r. M arsh has for years been one o f the leading lawyers o f the State. H e has been accustom ed to silt evidence and weigh facts. I t is true he is an o ld man, but until now no on e has suspected that his faculties were weakening, nor is it now suspected excep t in reference to this par-

i ticular m atter. H e has a large practice, to w hich he d evotes his usual attention an d skill, and he holds a public office in which he exhibits the sam e intelligence an d ju d gm en t that have always character­ized him . B u t he says that this woman, D iss D e b a r, has produced paintings in his presence, under circum stances that made the interposition o f human agency impos­sib le . ' H e m ay be d eceived ; but his sin­cerity is not d isputed, an d his judgm ent should not be rid iculed. * * *

T h e explanation that spirit rappings are produced by the m edium ’s toe-joints is not satisfactory to anyone who has heard such rappings m ade under the influence o f non- professional m edium s, w ho have no pos­sible object in deceiving, an d who do not attribute the rappings to spirits. N or can that explanation be accepted by anyone who doubts the ventriloquial power o f toe-joints.

N o explanation has been m ade o f the m ovem ents o f heavy articles in response to the mere touch o f a m edium ; and while slate writing m ay be done by sleight o f hand so as to d eceive the most vigilant, it is d ifficult to understand how a sleight o f hand perform er can , by his art, make writing appear on your own slates, while they are locked in a drawer o f your own table and in you r own house, as some slate-writing medium s do. A s o f rapping, tab le m oving, an d slate-writing, so o f other m anifestations claim ed to be spiritual. T h e y m ay be jugglers’ tricks always, as they undoubtedly are at tim es; but it is worthy o f note that jugglers never perform them except in places adapted to trickery, and that people w holly incom petent as jugglers do perform them in places not at all adapted to trickery.

W hether these phenom ena, assuming them to be real, are spiritual revelations, o r m anifestations o f som e unknown nat­ural fo rce, everyone must judge for him­self on his ow n experience. B u t whether o r not they are o nly tricks is a problem that m ay be solved to the satisfaction o f candid m inds. I t cannot be solved, how­ever, so long as a claim o f power to pro­d uce the m anifestations is regarded as conclusive evidence o f fraud, and belief in their genuineness as proof o f id iocy.

S ix t e e n L o st , O n e Sa v e d . — A t a pub­lic dinner given to G e n . Harrison when he was a cand id ate for the office o f President o f the U n ited States, one o f the guests rather conspicuously “ drank to his h ealth .” T h e G enera l pledged his toast by drinking water. A n oth er gentlem an offered a toast an d said, “ G enera l, will you favor me by drinking a glass o f wine? ” T h e General, in a very gentlem anly w ay, begged to be excused. H e was again urged to jo in in a glass o f wine. T h is was too m uch. H e rose from his seat an d said in the most dignified m anner: “ G entlem en, I have tw ice refused to partake o f the wine-cup. I hope that will be sufficient. T hough yo u press the m atter ever so m u ch, not a d rop shall pass m y lips. 1 m ade a resolve w hen I started in life that I w ould avoid strong drink. T h a t vow I have never broken. I am one o f a class o f seventeen yo u n g m en w ho graduated at college to­geth er. T h e oth er sixteen m en now fill drunkards’ graves— and all from the per­nicious habit o f wine-drinking. I ow e all m y h ealth , m y happiness, an d prosperity to that resolution. W ould you ask m e to break it now ?” T h e effect on the com-

Though not specially claiming to be a test r_dium, striking tests of identity are often given through her— my own experience w ith her corre­sponding, as above, w ith that o f the many con­sulting her for advice and counsel.”— W m . E m­m e t t s C o l e m a n , R . P . Journal, Jan. 29, 1881.

“ Th e influences which surround this lady arc o f the highest and purest order, and my seances with her were complete spirit baptisms. In such communion we reach the heart o f religion.” — C h a r l e s B r ig h t , o f the Melbourne Argus.

' “ In this c ity there is no medium possessing higher or more benign powers than Mrs. Albert Morton; her own spiritual nature has reached such heights o f unfoldment, that on entering her abode you feel at once that you arc in the presence of divine influences— in a holy atmos­phere. One of M rs. Morton’s beautiful gifts is that of healing. She is guided in this b y sci­entific spirit knowledge; teaches the patient something o f the law at the same tim e she ad­ministers her life-giving balm. W ith the pene­trating eye o f prophecy she peers far into futurity, and w ith minute exactness reads the history o f ‘ com ing events.’ Added to these arc psy­chometric gifts o f a fine order. In these realms o f thought and action M rs. Morton is found a faithful laborer, — doing a grand work in a grand way.*’— G o ld e n G a t e , M ay 22, 1SS6.

“ M rs. Morton, the unsurpassed psychometrist and prophetic and healing medium.” — L u t h e r •Co l b y , Editor o f the Banner o f Light. ■

“ Mrs. M orton is one ol the most gifted me­diums I have ever m et.” — W . J. C o l v il l e , Ban-

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W e have no time or magnetism to expend on ere curiosity seekers, but extend a cordial wel­

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M r. and Mrs. Morton give special attention to written communications for those unable to be present. Those who wish can receive com­munications from their friends and guides with­out personal attendance. In the first letter for advice enclose a lock o f hair wrapped in clean paper, and ask any question as you would if present. W e solicit correspondence only from those who, in good faith, desire advice or com­munion with the spirit world. Confidence in the spirit guides and their mediums is essential, ‘ q order to receive the best results.

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Why should they not, on free and tireless wing,Visit us here, if, in their journeying

From the Free Country, where apart they dwell,They yearn for us, os we yearn for them,If but to touch their saintly garment's hem I

Ah I who can tell?

Why should they not? We wait at eve and mom For their return.

And our poor hearts ill brook their long delay, ,As, day by day,

We wait and watch, and listen for the tread Of those whom we coll " dead }"

Why should they not. from that mysterious change We miscall “ death,” gain larger, ampler range.

To serve, as God's high mioistore of good,To our poor humanhood ?Why not through slumbers speak

More Shan our wakened senses dared to hear?Why not, from sorrow's cheek.

With unieen lingers wipe away the tear?

Aye I <1° they not, with clearer sense discern What we so slowly learn:

The while, with kindly purpose, still They prompt to good and warn us of the ill?

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And, through the night,Do we not see their faces, calm and while,Pressed 'gainst the bars, which shut them into light, While, with fond hands, they beckon us away

Into their day ?

Why should they not? Oh I dim and unrevealed I The inner from the outer sight concealed I We wander still along the mist-hung river That rolls between us and the dread forever;And to its waves that kiss our shrinking feet Our vague, untutored questionings repeat;

And yet no soundBrings answering echo from the dark profound.

Why should they not? Oh, Universal IBid these strange queries of our hearts “ Be still 1”Teach us the trust which spurns the creed of fate,And opens wide doubt's interposing gate I Thou, the All-Father I We, Thy children, would,With upturned hands, receive both ill and good. Undoubting still, till crossed the narrow tide,All is made plain upon the other side.

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" T w o S in n e rs ."

There was a man, it was said one time.Who went astray in his youthful prime.Can the brain keep cool and the heart keep quiet When the blood is a river that is running riot ?And boys will be boys, the old folks say.And a man's the better who's had his day.

The sinner reformed, and the preacher told Of the prodigal son who came back to the fold,And Christian people threw open the door With a warmer welcome than ever before.Wealth and honor were his to command,And a spotless woman gave him her band.And the world strewed their pathway with flowers a-bloom, Crying, “ God bless lady and God bless groom I ”

There was a maiden went astrayIn the golden dawn of her life's young day;She had more passiop and heart than head.And she followed blindly where fond love led. ,And love unchecked is a dangerous guide,To wander at will by a fair girl’s side.

The woman repented and turned from sin,But no door opened to let her in:The preacher prayed that she might be forgiven,And told her to look for mercy in heaven.For this is the law of taith we know,That the woman is scorned, while the man may go.A brave mao wedded her, after all;But the world said frowning, “ We shall not call ? ”

—E lla Wheeler WlLCOX.

“ O u r O w n ."

If I had known in the morning How wearily all the day.

The words unkind Would trouble my mind,

I said when you went away,

We mFor tho' in the quiet evening

You may give me the kiss of peace,Yet it might be

That never for me The pain of the heart should cease.

How many go forth in the morning That never come home at night 1

And hearts have broken For harsh words spoken,

That sorrow can ne’er set right.

We have careful thoughts ft r the stranger, And smiles for the some-time guest.

But oft for " our own ”The bitter tone,

Tho" we love “ our own" the best.Ah, lips with curve impatient I

Ab, brow with that look of scorn I Twere a cruel fate.Were the night too late

To undo the work of morn.—“ Cornier-Journal.1

L o n g in g .

O for the power of days prophetic I To touch Time’s shadow and bid it stay;To stop the earth in its tireless journey.And make to-morrow be still to-day I

O but to hold in grasp unyielding The perfect moment that crowns the year, And undismayed to face the future With heart untouched by thrill of fear I

O but to launch on a waveless ocean,With wind that never should change or fail, With youth and fate and hope for cargo.To spread to the wind my snowy sail I

To speed, with never a backward glancing, Away from the old familiar shore.With sin and sorrow and pain behind me With naught but an endless light before I

To gather the friends I love beside me.With no stern Fortune to bid ns pan:No shadow to dim the sunny faces,No change to sever us, heart from heart I

To know no more—no more forever.The touch of pnmjpn, of want and care;To turn my face from the land I’m leaving And know that death stands powerless there.

S p ir it L ife .

A spirit life 1 so grand in its completeness. Amazed—I’m lost.

O wondrous lifcl so full of love and sweetness

Storm-tossed for yean upon a treacherous ocean, How welcome rest.

Yet looking backward o’er life's wild commotion, I see ’twere best.

The love I lost I found in angel's keeping,And liner grown,

And he for whom my secret heart was weeping Calls me his own

o , spirit life so good in its completeness

O, wondrous life to full of love and sweetness, Here's rest, sweet rest.

—Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, in “ True Messenger.

OUR QUESTION DEPARTMENT.

Editor or Golden Gate i

First— “ H ow may one protect himself against the evil thoughts or influences of others ?

T h e only sure protection is to be en­tirely freed from all abnormal states of thinking and feeling in one’s own mind. For, through the same law of attraction which makes “ like attract like ” in the material realm, mental states attract like states in the thought realm. A thought, o f whatsoever nature, goes out as a force, with more or less power, in ratio to its in­tenseness and definiteness in thought form; but can not find entrance into a mind, unless there is a state of thought and feel­ing which m akes an open way.

A ll seed germs o f disease, from what­ever cause, must find soil in which to iropagate themselves. T h e fruitful soil n body is where there are abnormal states

o f mind, such as grief, fear, doubt, self­ishness, uncharitableness, envy, malice, greed. A n y state o f mind which is either emotionally or intellectually ab­normal is a matrix, in which the like thoughts o f others will find vigorous growth, and without which they would find no entrance. One has risen superior to infection o f disease germs only when he is free from the prepared soil in his own body. O ne has risen superior to the influence o f evil thoughts when he has no longer, consciously or uncon­sciously, a weakness in that direction. H aving risen superior to evil thoughts in our own nature, we are out o f the reach o f such influence. So long as one suffers from the evil thoughts o f others, be should search deep down into the hidden recesses o f his own being, for the abnormal state that attracts such conditions.

I am quite prepared to be opposed when I declare that no one could be deceived if he were himself wholly free from deception, no one suffer from the selfish greed o f others i f he were himself wholly unselfish, no one fail to find lov­ing friends if he were filled with love for humanity. I do not think to improve upon the words o f the Master, “ D o unto others as ye would that others should do unto you,” (but only to accent them) when I say, T hin k not for another that which you would not have returned in fu ll measure unto yourself. Declare the G ood for yourself and others in your thought, word, and d eed, thereby fulfill­ing the Law o f Love. O nly in coming into harmony with this Law may we even hope to overcome evil. But if wholly attuned to the note Good, the not-good can have no power over us. T ry .

S arah A . H a r r is , F . T . S.B e r k e l e y , C al.

San Jose P sych ic Circle.

Editor of Golden Gate.

O n looking over a copy o f last week’s G o ld en G a t e , I was pleased to discover a short article, written by our friend, Mrs. Schwartz, on the anniversary exer­cises o f the Spiritualists in San Jose, and I can assure you it was an enjoyable time to all present.

A s stated, the Society has rented G . A . R . H all, and have generously tendered the Psychic Circle the use o f it in the day­tim e, for which we are very thankful to them . A n d though we intend to and do work hand in hand with them in the good cause, yet we are two distinct societies.

T o-d ay M rs. Crossett occupied the platform, answering very satisfactorily a large number o f questions handed in by the audience; after which a meeting o f 1 the members was called, and our annual election o f officers for the ensuing year took place, with the following result: F or President, Mr. Mark Silcox; V ice President, M r. J. R . W . T aylor; Secretary, Mrs. H . L . Bigelow; Treasurer, Mrs. M. J. Holtum .

O ur Chairm an, in speaking to our circle, said, “ W e have great reason to congrat­ulate ourselves in that, although our mem­bership has not increased greatly during the year, yet nearly all our charter mem­bers are still with us, and that not one o f our number has been called for by the ‘ shadowy angel.’ ”

N ext Sunday Professor Allen will speak to us on the subject, “ T rue W ealth,” and will answer questions.

Mrs. Champion has written for the Psy­chic Circle some excellent essays, which have since found their way to the columns o f the G old en G a t e .

Trusting we will have a continued in­terest in those things pertaining to our future, as well as to our present welfare and prosperity, I will say adieu.

M rs. H . L . B igelow ,Sec’y Psychic Circle.

S an Jose , April 29, 1888.

T h e G ood L if e .— T o live a good life is the debt which every man owes to the world. I f he does not pay it, his life is a failure. H ow can he pay it? Perhaps not by any eloquent words or notable deeds. But few have the gifts for great achievements. T h e y are required, there­fore, o f but few. But no life is so hum­ble that it can not exert the force o f a true, manly character, and spread around it the helpful influence o f a good example. W hether the range o f this influence be wide or narrow, matters not. I t is always important and powerful. T o live a good life is the one great privilege, the one su­preme duty o f every soul. N ot one who does this shall fail to set in motion great and blessed forces o f goodness. N o true,

good life is ever insignificant. I f it in­fluence, inspire and uplift but one other soul, it does a work over which angels re­jo ice. I f it brighten only the sm all circle o f a single home, it adds something to the happiness and goodness o f the world which can never be lost. T h e forces o f no good life are ever'lost.— H . C . Trum bull, D . D .

Shakspeare and Bacon.

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I E d . Blount. 1623.” It was a portly valume o f nearly one thousand pages, and must have taken many months, probably the best part o f a year, to set up in types and get printed off. T h e printing o f sim­ilar folios in those days was marked by anything but exemplary accuracy. But this volume abounds to such excess in typographical flaws o f every kind that the only conclusion in regard to it which can be drawn is that the printing was not su­perintended by any one competent to dis­charge the duty o f the printing-house “ reader ” o f the present day, but was suf­fered to appear with “ all the imperfec­tions on its head ” which distinguish “ proof-sheets ” as they issue from the hands o f careless or illiterate compositors; Most clearly, the proof-sheets had never been read by any man o f literary skill, still less by any man capable o f rectifying a blundered text. In this respect the book offers a marked contrast to the text o f Bacon’s works, printed in bis own time, which were revised and re-revised until they were brought up to a finished perfec-

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A. P. Miller, journalist and poet, in an ednonal ¡,Ai> the instrument in Us paper, the Worthington (Wm vanee,” says;

“ The Psychograph is an improvement upon having n dial and letters, with a 'sw words, so ‘ power* is apparently required togr ’Wo do not hesitate to recommend the question whether spirits can ret

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o all who care.