Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-03-25

EaaouHuautiy sustained +py iaGts. 4 answers
to questions mentally pat, according to that
work, and the testimony Of others given
through other publications, hays been re.
ipeatedly received. There is II, gaiin.say:
ing the testimony oulhis poial escepl. BY a
wholesale denuneia ien ef aiLlhes Witnesses
!o,l lhat point If fsachcoAna icasions ean
be established the inlerYenlion of spirits Is
q set,ied case, Wheiher eslab blished OF pot,
isa maater for every enquirer % decide lof
TO those who are well assured that the
whole matter is the result of 1imposture,
We would recommend The course Of an ec.
centric friend Of ours as an example desery-
ing to be followed. - -
4 make it rule says he, to believe
nothing marvellous unless its occurrence be
assigned 10 a period remote in the Past, Or
very distant in The Future. The Past and
Future, if only Indefinitely removed, are
the native home Of transcendent wonders.
Thus l>believe chat some Of the saints that
slept, aWoke and came into The holy city,
and appeared unto many" when Jesus was
crucifed. | believe that Jesus was seen
by his disciples invested IN body SO con-
siituted, that itscould enter a room when
the doors were shat; and that Paul, on his
prosecuting journey 10 Damascus, also saw
the risen Jesus. believe these things be-
cause they transpired in very remote Pc
rlod-so remote, that very little evidence is
required 10 sustain them. So, too, believe
IN the General Judgment, the physical con-
aagration of our earth, and the solar sys.
teln-and The re appearing Of the dead.
But, then, it must be recollected that these
things are TO occur in q very distant Future.
And that Future is SO distant, that such
facts might be anticipated as probable on
very slight testimony. At the same time,
| am free 10 confess, that if had lived in
PauPs ,day,al could not have credited the
resurrection Of Iesas, on i'aul's testimony
Butremoved as he is, eighteen centuries
frem my own day, have not The leusl
ground to cavil nj any Thing he might tes-
llfv 10. The immense interval of lime by
which l am separated from slfim, fendets
his testimony credible. = ri =, y
Now that these Rochester phenomena
are occasioned by the intervention of spir.
its, is an assertion that lacks one essential
requisite Of credibility. The facts on which
that hypothesis is based, are taking place
in our own day, and nc, eighteen centuries
ago. Now, then, i ask, can they be cred
tied on any testimony? IL len thousand
men Of intelligence and honesty, should
come, forward and testify to the movement
Of articles in broad day by INVISIBLE hands
and loahe answering sos volumes Of menta
questions, / should KNOW they were all de-
ceiyed. Such things belong only to the
Past and Future; they never occur in the
Present. l have short way Of disposins
offacts like those, said 10 be transpirine
in Rochester and Auburn. set them all
downao The account Of intelligent mill-dams;
or attribute them TO cunning castaneti
hidden under ladies' aprons. A well.in
structed >mill,dam, or reckless castanet
whose early education has been neglected
or an undisciplined and inpertinent grea
toe, like The Rev. DIR. Dodd's, in my iodg
ment, might answer any amount Of naenta
questions 7,sss5 s'@' 51}1 as OMEGA.