New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-06
AR. HIGGTySoy on SPIRITUALISM

pin cipay Of Spiri,ualis,s which holis s meetings AZ
Dodvorth's Hal. IL the morning b. spoke on tue
Theory in the evening the Facts of Spjrtus.i,m.
lie Connected 10y remsrkiu, upon the llsity Of
the ordinary objections 70 Sprtlslism. Trey ,ay
thst makes men insane bat, .or 50 affected ten
sle Il sdc tuly sane They Soy that the uit rsnces
through mediums poor an wesk. How should
ICY 10 ctl,ernise Tie answers as good a. the
questions. No great discovery "a brought To pertec-
ton in enc year or two. SpituA. IN a bleak aud
barren pastue What, then, must be the condition.
If that the f,rces of which the sheep end lambs
ere oorta.iy leapias, into this bleahness AMI
bsrrerress
In he course of his remark. on the iusuficiency of
the preva'irg belief, or irbeef, the spesker told
s-ory C Harriet Beeoher Stowe ani one Of her little
cirls which Is note WORTH. TIE little girl, he ssd,
cane 20 her mother Jay and asked her il it Wa
ever right 20 get angry! oh, no. OF coarse not,
vas the answer "But,' said the lis,le girl 1T says
in Ito Bible that God Is angry vito the wicked"
q Or. that il another thing; he "a obliged to be an'
gry." What, God Hgei thought he couldn't
he obliged 20 do nythug. "los, he IT, according TO
his holy law; you viii understand j. when you ,et
older: you must wait TIL then The little Child
vtutol % answer; tteu she wes quiet aud Thought
fu ior a minute, and then, With bright look, she
aid 20, mother | understand It now its because
Col isn't a Christian"
M. Hgginson proceeded 10 discuss spiritual com
muIication. Tho progrss OF our age WAS remarkable
for tie quality Of It's fics. From the discovery by
Calico o:tLe pressure OF the atmosphere, how far had
We advanced WHAT step TO steam from the brute
muscle Il the horse Tleu The imponccrables cleo
tricty magnetism and their combinations and appi-
GATORS then the discovery OF human power akin To
q is-a sriri,usl electrlity-the power IT man over
man, Of soa over soul. As the earlier steps
had ignored yisblc matter for invisible, then the
Invisible forces for the imporderable to now the ul
porderable forces themselves, seemed little compared
t. this new spiritual 10 sen.i spiritual Agency. All
Il IL he'd 10 tho development OF rev capacities sid NO"
powers; all these things were remarkable not Tor the
quantity of kno. ledge atared but for quality,
ct for the fact AT had more poWerhan before but
th.t twas stl carrying up uto higher and higher
'eci0p, where II seemed US though the very heavens
would be sealed, and rs though at last we might
touch, the dembodied souls. Thus high the asplra'
ton o ranged Whcu the answer was given, new
and Il wonderful knowledge came not thing eAcep.
,ona out Of the range u all previous teptenc.s OF
thoygh but erownng M previous tenaenc ce ne
bot little evidence for the existence OF spiritual cont
r'urication after ali the facts We had hsd;
bul NE could not understand how there could hs
srele person in the least acquainted with the
prosress thought for the last fifty years, who did
not that everything pointing in that direction.
ard by oil present Sp r,uahsm should prove dream,
I
were ns IN the eve of the discovery, and that If we
had tos vet reached il we should come 10 il OF
couite there would be persons who could not 20 on,
but NUT stop, at some given point: there would 10
persOns who would not believe in ythng which they
could %, see or feel they beloved IN the air because
Il DtW their hats of; they had begun 10 believe 10
steam especially If they had ever seen explosion;
and 20 me Of them had faint tnth 10 electromagnetic
ism although many did not believe thas a
telesraptic communication had ever come away
from the other side OF the Atlantic, aud
supposed that the messages of Queen Victoria
ard President Buchanan were pleasant hctiDn'.
We rarely found now -a-iays who did not be-
Eeye that tic sun reyolyed around the earth but we
found many who did not believe that there was such
thirg as magnetic power or clairvoysnce which was
i,st az certain. We must be cautious but il was
thing to be cautious In receiving q new fact and
another ling to be increduous to the possibility of
lis happening He supposed that there was no fact
20 Absolutely mOmentOu3 TO the human soul - the
personal conviction Of immortality. All the suIeriGs
from all other causes winch existed on earth put 10.
g.her not equal 10 tho suffering which proceeded
even now from doubts md al,Ietlef on the subject
ot Immortality. Although ii had been his duty
o. sympatbiZe With the soUowing and to search cut
tie suffering, lie had never seen any sTei worm nau'
ing which lad lot this element in it. Aud although
TIE habitual tone Of religious thought IN the churches
was favorable 10 happiness IN this respect, Il was
certain that the exceptions were barge enough 10 con
stiiute fearful body Of human doubt and suffering,
and that thOse who believed IN i'm mortality often
greater sufferers than t6ose who disbelicved H. lie
u Ct tay or two ago, IN religious pamphlet, quo
tstiOn fl. An early writer, describing his hopes,
do0tts ana fears about immortality. ms, tse edilof
said was the result OF Pdganlsn. But ~ liz read II
be recognized step by step and point by point, jst
tie seIne sorrows and doubts aud distress that
h lad had laid before him again aud again
by the children Of Christian families, and there was
rot poiut Of dread or SUFFERING in il which he could
not have matched by personal conf ence- to himself
n years past from those who had been trained 10
Sunday Sci ools aud had even found tlcr way Al last
into pulp.i- lie had sat beside death IN varied
shapes, aud the worst sorrows he had ever seen To-
accompany in the dying or the survivor had been IN
Christian households, and many Christian church
members. Tie might fesr death, but Theology
made il mech fearful. IL had done more 10 root
GU. tn. natural faith to drive away the ins'inctiye
hope in nmofts y team could BE- met and cong lered
On the other sde By tresLses on the resurrection 81
Jesus though they be accumulated tai they ~ the
Aston Library. The church hsd tried 20 XII TIE
natural faith in Immortality and substitute the u.s.
torica ore, and the rcsuit Ead been more dsas-
trors than ell the spssmodic, hopeless fithless
-reks Of al the sefs.yled atheists IN Christenaom
Mr. liiggiLson gave graphic description oi Tue de-
pr, sson which weighed down efey1viy aDoal
Christian funeral ard the effect which u hsf upop
him and the wonderful different effect wnlcn vas
Produced BY funeral in family Of Spirt aalisis.
When s per-On had bad that experience, he sail I
was hard 10 convince him that TIE work Of Spiritual
.sm was ANYTHING bot a blessei one. The more i'm
nor. Ant The 81 results were the more important It was
that they should be attained by ALL SPntuali-rn rest
3D. after ALL upon certain facts, aud theee iacs must be
thoroughly verified There were few forms OF Spiritual
ismwhich furnished absolute evidence. The experience
at meet pubic speakers 10 the effect produced upon
their eoIts, by occasions and audiences, by crcum-
stance il ne and spheres would render them
slow 10 believe there any positive argument 10 b,
founded upon speaking rnedumship IN favor OF drecr
spiritual communication; becauE. everywhere new
sILCres Of knowledge had been introduced and he BAD
known veIy rare Instances Of that Even the mos. e.
oan.nt If SPEAK irg mediums, Mrs. Hatch, was not IN
fsse in her statements Of facts beyond The reach o.
her normal fsculties. Add instances had been known
Of persons as well qualified as che 10 grspple On me
Instant with que stion, to afrange L. 20 systema'ze