Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-25
w.-i.f.r spIrIsnaI Investigates.
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A Lsrgs nuElber Of invited persons met at the
res5denee Of Mr. TayfOr, IN Cfnt0a avenue,
Brooklyn, 70 hzar Hrs Hatch. who gave what
Ullrrorfed to be the answers OF spirits % queS-
ions pEOpoGnded By the audlenee Horace
Greeley, Rev. Mr. LongteltoE ana Dr. bO1elDg
ton, asked al the questions, with one or two
Dr. Hatch. after his wife passed into the
trance state suggested that the three persons
named PROFOUND the questions. to which Mrs
Hatch, or the spiTirs, replied IN more demo
cratic spiTit-AWe would respectfully suggest
that any person present, wishing to ask queS-
ton, have full and entire liberty to do 50"
Mr. Greeley inquired Il the soul enters neees-
saTily upon = higher existence by passing into
the spiTit-Horid? AnsWer-fes, With some
notifications.
Then does the suicide better his condition.
Answer In substance: While the suicide seems
to Won to be arbiter of his own destiny, 70 US he
appears not to be so; il seems to Us that be was
destined TO commit suicide. II does not, there
fore, follow that you (Greeley) viii commit sun
eide; It appears 70 US that such Is not your
destiny.
Does the criminal who, by his own misdeeds,
has justly brought upon himself the sentence
of death, by committing suicide, escape the
penalty of his crime? Answer, IN substance:
he escapes the publicity of the gallOws-the
SCOTS Of the croWd-the ignominy OF the halter
Bot he cannot escape the penalty OF MS crimes,
for he cannot escape from himself He wakes
% and finds that lie is still himself he IS still
suffering, and perhaps more intensely, toe just
punishment Of his crimes.
Is II better for little children to die younGs-
We believe that for those who do die, 1t IS bet
GER But It does not, therefore, follow that it
would have been better for you. (Grecley) or
ffvSp 10 have diad RlL
che time should ever come, when only men and
| women shall leave this life, heaven viii be desc
late; there wili'be 40 little children there.
DIR. Buddington inquired, in relation to scTof-
ola, the conditions shat produce 1t, &c. Toe
reply vas that scrofula was the result of eating
| swine's flesh. If the scrofulous matter deposit
ed upon the lungs in cases of hereditary con-
sumption (Which Was represented as species
of scrofuIa,) % which breaks out upon the skin
in cUtaneOus diseases, be Analysed, 1t will be
found to contain the same elements as the tat
| of swine. Jews, iC was asserted, never die OF
------r&=--, II, LiIey never eat
SWINGS fesh-in whicd they are above the
Christian.
Various theological questions we're propound-
ed-among others, whether the spiritual teacn-
ings are to be accepted If they are not in &C.
cordance with the teachings of Christ; to winch
il vas replied, that rOliing WAS to be received
contrary the spirit of Ghrist's teachings; but
that Christ's followers might have failed to APP
pretend clearly his savings; Indeed, that they
cid, in some espects So Gaii; Chat those writers
who knew Jesus personally are higher au;hori-
ty than those who did not; toat Paul, for in-
stance rad not nigh an inspiration as the first
| three Evangeiists. The Gospel of John was not
as correct as ;be Gospels Of Matthew, Mark and
Luke.
Why uot2 Ans.-Because John did not
write il; but because it clearly appears to
every correct student of history thai it was
not written Under thirty years after tue Cruel
hxion.
What evidence have sou that IL ~as not
written antil thirty years after the death of
Christ? Aas.-We draw shis from the history
of tie Nicene Council, and the combinations Of
events as set forth by various Profaae histof-
| ians.
Mrs Hatch, as usual commenced and closed
her discourse by prayer. He elocldon was pa
thetic and Gistirt, ard her answers, though
sometimes irreievent aaG diFuse, were o-iliaot
aud ready. We nave only indicated in this
sketch the general outlines of he conversational
discourse.
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