New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-05


In the New York Evening Post, of the 71st, we
find the following: gN
large number of invited persons last evening
met at the residence Of Mr. Taylor in Clinton avenue
Brooklyn, to bear Mrs. Hatch, who gave what pur-
ported 70 oe the answers Of spirits to questions pro-
pounded by the aadienee. Horace Greeley, Rev Mr.
LOngfellow and Dr. Buddington asked ali the ques-
tions, with one or two exceptOns.s
Dr. Hatch, after his wife passed into the trance
state suggested that the three persons named pro-
pound the questions, to which Mrs. HATCH or the
spirits, replied in q more democratic spirit We
would respectfully suggest that any person present.
wishing to ask question, have foil and entire liberty
to do so"
Mr. Greeley inquired If the soul enters necessarily
upon higher existence by passing into the spirit
world? Answer--Yes, with some notifications
Then does the suicide better his condition? An
swer, in substance: While the snicde seems 10 you
to be the arbiter Of his destiny as he appears
not to be il to that he was destined to
commit suicide. 1t does not therefore follow that
you t6reeleD will commit suicide it appears to US
that such is not your destiny.
Does the criminal who, by bis own misdeeds has
justly brought upon himself the sentence of death,
by committing suicide escape the penalty of his
crime2 Answer, in substance He escapes the pub
eity Of the gaows, the SCOTS of the crowd the ig-
noHlny of the halter But he cannot escape the pen
atty Of his crimes, for he cannot escape from himself
He wakes up and finds that he is still himself; he s
stll suffering and perhaps more intensely the Just
punishment OF bis crimes.
Is it better for little children to die young? We
believe that for those who die, it is better Bat il
does not, therefore, follow that it would have been
better for you (Greeley) or any one living, have
died young. But If The time should ever come when
only men and women shall leave this e heaven will
be desolate there will be no little children there.
Dr. BuddingtoR inquired, in relation to scronla the
conditions that produce it, etc The reply was that
scrofula the result of eating swnes flesh If the
seroulous matter deposited upon the lungs in cases Of
hereditary consumption (Which was represented as
species of scrofula) which breaks ont upon the
skin in cutaneous diseases, be anayzed, it will be
found 10 contain the same elements as the fat Of
swine Jews, it asserted, never die of consump-
ton and the reason is, they never eat swne's flesh
in which they are above the Christian.
! Various theological questions were propounded-
among Others whether the spiritual teachings to
be accepted If they not in accordance with the
teachings of Christ; to which it was replied that
nothing to be received contrary to the spirit of
Christs teachings; but that Christs followers might
have failed toapprehend clearly his sayings indeed,
that they did in some respects fail ; that those
writers that knew Jesus personally higher au-
thorty than those who did not that Panl, for
instance, had not high inspiration as the first
three Evangelists. The Gospel of John was not as
correct as the Gospels of Matthew Mark and Luke.
Why mott Ans--Because John did not write it
and because it clearly appears TO every correct stu
dent OF history that it not written under thirty
years after the cruefxion.
What evidence have You that ii was not written
until thirty years after the death Ct Christi Ans
We draw this from the history Of the Nieene Council
and the combination Of events set forth by various
profane historians.
Mrs. Hatch, as usual commenced and closed heH
discourse by prayer. Her elocution pathetic and
distinct, and her answers, though sometimes irrele
only indicated in this sketch the general outline Of
the conversational DISCOURSE