The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-04-19
COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1855.

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we'd by attending spirIls without any human
power. Alter this the story Of Mahommed't 4
coffin can be believed.
Now j, will occur TO us all that if The spirits
OF the dead are permitted TO resis, The earth
il will be for wise and benevolent purpose
for design commensurate with the Other
providences oj the Creator which We wit.
ness and experience every day in the world
of the beautiful aud the good around us. II
Q ssibted mother were allowed 10 return TO
the earthly home of her children it would be
TO hover over them and with her spirits wings
TO shield them from danger. II che could
| converse with them il would be in messages
! of the most lender love and kindest adm oni-
ton. She would inslil lessons of devotion
and duty and would guide and guard the
erring step OF youth, instead of breaking mir
rors and making chairs dance. She would
lead the mind upward 10 the contemplation OF
a higher and boiler existence hereafter, in
stead Of suppending dumb matter IN mid-air
as an object of mystery, astonishment or ter.
| ror.
II death does not sunder The lie that here
binds kindred minds in swee! communion,
their converse from sphere TO sphere will be
such as that, when, in silence, soul answered
soul through mortal eyes that 5eamsd with
a spirit, ill each forgot the fraiy of mankind
! and the hollowness of earth. II spirits can
revisit those who Were near and dear in the
flesh ii will not be only 10 crafty idle Curl
osiiy but TO enlighten and instruct-to prepare
the earthly being for fiji companionship
with the beings OF a higher and better exist
ence.
Some Of the spirits we read OF in the spir-
itual publications have worked conviction on
skepcs by such treatment as that at Austin
burg, and in other cases by pounding and
blows. These must have been the spirits of
the OLD uqusitors, and some Of Us can only
regret that they did not let US fud them sub
jecis.
The new philosophers prove to us that the
spirits exercise a great degree of muscular
| force and now il will occur strange to you,
as it often has 10 me, that if they are good
spirits this power should not be applied 10
some practical good purpose--as, for instance,
10 stopping lococomoiive when II runs off
the track--arresiing children when about 10
fall into accident or misunderstanding
| The hand of crime or chastenmg the offen-
ders agains; divine and human laws. The
only practical purpose to which have yet
heard that the new power has been applied
| is the cure of nervous diseases in ladies and
after reading the case of Perkins celebrated
metallic tractors and some other instances Of
that kind, our faith may we'll be shaken ex-
cept so far is electro o-magnelism has cured
some cases Of nervous disorder. But music
and light have also been efectually used in
the cure Of diseases.
believe there was Bank started al Chi
cago under the auspices of the spirits, but as
it suspended paymen, and its vaults had 10
be opened with crow-bsrs, Of course those
spirits were not genuine but "bogus," and
| The whole school must not be held response.
bic for the acis Of one bad scholar.
And let not Pennsylvanans he TOO vain
glorious OF their fame for wisdom. Iii SOL
EMMY recorded that once upon time an o ID
woman was pu, upon her trial for sorcery in
Philadelphia. Wm Penn was the judge be-
fore whom the proceedings took place and
he delivered grave and learned charge 10
the Jury, who reported that the friends Of the
old lady should go bail for her good behav-
ioL
Now the spiritual phenomena could no, be
designed 10 convince manhood of future
state of existence. If reason and revelation
If the instinct shown by the untutored saw
age when he prepares for his other hunting
ground beyond the stream of Time-if the
design of rewards and punishments which is
manifested in all nature, and yet often not
completed in this life--f all these are IN.
needed by any mind, and pass by as The idle
wind-ihat mind would not be convinced
| though one arose from the dead Indeed it
would do violence TO the free moral respon-
sibiliiy Of man TO force conviction against
such siubbonnsss.
Dut lei uS w JuouCo W tbo noucet iuFcSti-
CATION of this and all other subjects. II is
too late in the worlds. history TO dress out
any novel phenomenon with hoofs, horns and
tail, and ihereupon forbid any one TO go near
or look toward ii. Thirty thousand pulpits
and twenty thousand presses have waged
five years warfare against the whole subject
of spiritualism, and yet in that time it has
made one million Of prosely.es. The very
existence of counterfeit and hypocrisy i'm
plies the preexistenoe of sincerity and reali-
~. And 80 too do jugIery and mposure i'm
ply and demonstrate preceding verify. If
we investigate honestly there lie no risk that
we shall find anything supernatural OF dan
gerous-not whit more 50, ai least, than
electricity or some chemical phenomena
were once believed to be. Scientific re-
search will not show us any Thing in the
world Of spirits, but only little more of
earth.
Now il has been demonstrated that one
person can, under certain circumstances, ex-
er and maintain an underlined power over
the nerves, the motion, and over the percep-
tions and will of another. There certainly
is in the human organism an occult or la
tent power entirely transcending the bounds
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