New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-18
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spIRfTUALISM rs. YLES'


:. Aa.t, are desperately duA dogs. How ne iou"' ~
vs he does not iporm us, but should be incoeu "
seree with him it not that there are suo'e
grounds for supporting that mott of the ia'en' luz
10 the universe had finally got itself ncAf"a.oN "
tam mundane worthless, who assi""''o '"' -.
evoRny ather than ghost, and belong W ''"' u,o
ard highly respectable class o. PuNv7'P aims
- III ,oh their dishes bottom up.
Vide the vel prtserVeo sP'0
show" at Cambridge r., o.uoois,;o, of
- ,a.dv IN make cheerful remuneration oi
49, :, the territory beyond jordan, IL MI byes
80, those earthly specimens OF Guinness ny
80. cation of il from beyond the cou1s which
A,o,d ,er that modern dep't OF science ana phioso-
NV where they maj ufa ;ture It to order. we en'ee
our hun bic protest against this charge of Mr. bye'.
Coming. too, from section OF our glorious onioh
where dulness is indigenous and, notwithstanding the
backwardness Of the season, has put forth grown
this present year which promises the richest harvest
that has been realized the days OF Salem ~'cn,
craft il looks though he may have already secured
a snail portion OF the green crop for home con-
sumption We think be slightly under It's narcotic
nfu,Lce when he made that last prescription lor tne
prevention and cure OF Spri'u ,lsm
10 be sure the drug be recommends ls wen Known
In tbs theological Meteria Medca, ana MS virtues
have be en- thoroughly exemplied IN many desperate
cases but strange to say M DYES can S;,;s%sis
ps<H.
q; i'm was furioOsy epidemic for q while, but from
which il has entirely departed through the efficacy
of his psnacea while not grain Of the blessed bal
sam finds its down has throat; but instead be
goes op from month month spreading the infection,
Tor no other apparent that can see than the
rather barren glory Of letting the world into the secret
Of how easy the disease may be cured II II VIII only
tsks hi medicine. Mr. Byes further informs US that
the drug which Sprituslism is known ID the
vulgsr by the name of BEING TREMENDOUSLY LET
ALONE" go.
doubt both no cal y nd
the value Of that drug We doubt its practicabilty
because, first Mr. Bylss himself can't swallow III;
and secondly from what indications We can gather OF
the condition of the public stomach most other
people pc.H not. 1t seems adapted only to such
uLfrtuI ate patients as are IN the collapsed stste
Of dulntss and they, bsog past all hope OF resurec-
tiop don't need il. We are dubious concerning
it, value for the reason that, on the authority OF
history, it creates disease worse than it cures WY
this il 20 We can't ray Whether, as the profound
Mrs. Nickleby remarked of the St Crispin sui ides
in Frai &C. it must b. "sOmething III the leather,
or whether it be a perverse tendency in human "a
tue to cOnound ali science we are unable - tell Du'
So il il. 49,
but little understood, that upon time " a delu
sion Ike Sprituslism," very like it, we may say,
infested certain villages as well az some large towns,
in that portion of The Eastern continent known as
Asia In one Uf these rural districts, called Galaa,
We believe they made tral of thor, me dy in 80 early
stage If the disease, that its effect was Observable
durIe the lifetime Of the historian and 80 hen6H-
dousiy has il been applied since, That IT not only
swept the "delusloR" from the infected districts,
but he towns and villages along with 1t, 80 that the
mod.rn traveller, instead OF hndl0g tnese once
renowned places the face OF the eaTth, finds only
their names On the pages OF hsst0ry.
Again We learn fr an the same old book that,
few wears prior to this Callahan administration of Mr.
Bylets sntidote 10 SpritualsIn somewhat consplc-
uous member Of the fraternity of what ne styles 'duH
dQgs' made his appes rance one morning by the sea
OF Tiberias" to ssuie fishermen, and bawled las Mr.
Bye. would probably say to one OF ihem three sep
Feed nv sheep!" Now, it is wensettled fact that
thu silly affair, getber With many others in the same
seriet soon be- gan to be let atone and so IRE
mlrdou.ly' have the, been " lei alone Of late by
ce,taip Christian gentleman of Boston and othe
places that the religious current sets in favor OF
selling bis sheep in place OF Jeea'"g 'hen-"in
what result may partly guess
Moreover if NJ. Byles muster the courage to con-
cult the ecclesiastical department of his "horary -
and we adnltj requires man OF nerve 10 90 IT, ny
Of its being the very Kennel oil gun dogs ne
NAV gean the inform alton in about way that
son after Christianity became thoroughly cured VI tns
"d.iuson Of spirituahsm, il be 'aue afflicted straight
WAY with every possible ism hat inverted pgSnuity
could devise or imagine. 81 dire was the afiiicoo
that il was found necessary in extreme cases to saw
the patiept in two in order to bis life. Some
doctors essayed the pnchng of the disease out with
pair Of red bot tongs At one time roasting ana Done
was a yery fas hlonabe prescription. From these data
ana a thousand others at hand we have drawn our
conclusion that Mr.. Byles's panacea does not work
well and that had it been taken little less "trenenc
don.iu" or better not taken at all, such medley OF
sbsudiy du Dess, cruelty and as causes tue
student ~ blush and set his teeth while endeavorlng
TO mater the philosophy church history never could
have eX sted. 49, .
The pieture of a sick monkey administering Nag
10 diving dog might be suspended from the walls OF
our hbi aries ~ the faithful exponent of thousand
Yeas Of the reign of ecceslsstlcis. Nor are Us ei
feete yet passed away. Christianity with its bowels
tortured by the stale nostrums of Gcumenical C0un-
CHS. Tbmty-nine Articles and Say brook Plat
kIms is rapidly passiUg Into the coma Of -rlasm
a. TO tah, and as necessary consequence 10 every
cDc.ivabIe abonicaion Us to practice. MIR. Byless
drug is no discovery; has been well shaken
and taken over and again, but 1t somehow has
the I ick of operating the wrong way.
But we wish 20 be serious for five minutes or So and
Will. ia the cd will take friendly seat with
Mir Byles in that library Of mis-. and by his per
mission, PROFOUND question or two. For instance,
We would respectfully ask, whether Nature through
Der own impulses within the soul of man, does not
suggest certain grave questions which TIA. library
can never answer Ono may feel tolerably safe
think i'll the conclusion that Mature would not suggest
spr, b. m and then withhold the necessary elements
for it, solution ask question that ought not 70
be arswere1 as soon ae We can make Il convenient
Nature 10 an ipcessant Spirit rapper, and she does
daily zap out questions which, if the library
She She does Ices gently insiHuate by rappIg no.
AID then on q mahogany box, generally
n, two to about sx feet long, that Mr. Byes with
the rest of us Fastening to the grand parade Of dull
degs which he 80 deprecates in the distance. Is it
NOT pertinent therefore, to inquire how dula dog"
he will be and would 1t not be wise thougn not aP-
par. ny sgre. able seeing bis books shed nothing but
dsrkoess upon that question, 10 take nearer vie"
for himself il for other reason than Just 70 ascer
tain ~hether or not they have been correctly repre-
senteo
It's beautiful, no doubt TO make the voyage from
ones easy chair to the enchanted island OF Mrao-
d." or to feel on ones cheek the breath OF Juets
passion il miDges with the night air beneath tne
flv.rtpped trees Of old Capul.ts garden but would
not knowledge OF the law that will explain I, u,
l. -. ftll