The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-02-12

Meeting for Spiritual Hnvestigation..-
Greeicy Questioning a Medium on the
Subject Of suicide.
A large Lumber Of invited persons last
evening met at the residence Of Mr. Tav.
lor in Clinton avenue, Broo2lyn, 10 hear
Mrs. Hatch, who gave wha, pmported
TO DO The answers Of spirits 90 questions
propouuded by the audience. Horace
Greeley, Roy. Mr.. L0ngfelow aud Dr..
Buddington asked al the questions. with
one OF two exceptions.
Dr.. Hatch. after bis wife passed iuso
the trance state, suggested that I've three
persons named PROFOUND the qa@s,ions.
TO which Mrs. Hatch, or the spirits, re.
piled in more democratic spirit I've
would respectfully suggest that any
person present, wishing toask question,
have full aud entire liberty 10 do so.
Mr.. Grqeley inquired IL the soul enters
NECESSARILY IPoB-a>higher existence by
passing into the spirit world 2--4AAnswer--
Yes, with some NOTIFICATIONS.
Then does the snicide better his oondi.
tion2 Answer, in substance: While tbe
suicide seems 10 you TO be arbiter Of his
own destiny, 10 us he appears not TO 5s
soi It seems to us chat he was destined to
commit suicide. II does not therefore
follow that you (Greloy) will commit
suicide; Il appears TO US that such is not
your destiny,
Does the criminal who, By hia own
misdeods, has justly brought upon him
self the sentence Of death, by committing
suicide, escape the penalty Of his orime2
Answer in substance; He escapes the
publicity Of the gallows-the scofe Of
the crowd-the ignominy Of tho halter,
But he cannot escape the penalty OF his
crimes, for he cannot escape from himself,
He wakes up and finds that he is still
suffering, and perhaps more Intensely,
the just punishment OF his crimos,
Is IL better for little children to die
youug2 We believe that for those who
do die, II is better. But it does not,
therefore, follow that il would have been
better for you, (Greeley) or any one liv,
ling, to have died young. But If tho
time should ever oome, when only men
and women shall leave this life, heaven
will be desolate; there will be no liItla
children there.
Dr. Buddington inquired, IN relation
to sorofulA, ihe conditions that produce
il, go. The reply was, that If sorofulous
matter deposited upon the lungs in cases
of hereditary consumption (Which was
represented as a species of scrofula,) or
which breaks out upon the skin In cuta-
neous diseasesbe, analysed, it win be
found TO contain the same elements as the
fat OF swine. Jews, il was asserted,
never lie Of consumption; aud the r. ,oa
is, they never eat swine's fesh--in which
they are above the Christian.
Various theological questions were pro-
pounded-among others, whether the
spiritual teachings are to be accepted II
they are not in accordance with the teach
| lings of Christ; to which il was replied,
that nothing was to be received contrary
to the spirit Of Chnst's teachings: but
that Christ's followers might have failed
TO apprehend clearly his sayings; indeed,
that they did, in some respects. so fail,
that those writers who knew Jesus per-
son,llv are higher authority than those
who did not; that Paul, for instance, bad
L OF as high an inspiration as the frst
three Evange.ists. The Gospel Of John
was not as correct as the Gospels Of Mat
thew Mark and Luke.
Why not? Ans.-Beoause John did
not write Is; and because il clearly ap-
pears to every correct student Of history
that il was not written under thirty years
after the Cruci6xion.
What evidence have you that il was
not written until thirty years after the
death Of Christ? Aus.-We draw ib's
from the history of the Nicene Council.
and the combination Of events as set
forth by various proCane historians.
+ Mrs. Heath, as usual commenced and
+ closed her discourse by prayer. Her
elcoution was pathetic aud distinct. and
, her answers. though sometimes irrelevant
and diGuse. were brilliant and ready -
We have only indicated in this sketch the
: general outlines Of the conversational
discourse,