The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-14
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AT O'Clock on Sunday evening quite large
auuiehce assembled to hear the concluding portion
OF Judge EDMoNDs lecture.
The lecturer began by saying that in the morn
ing he mad spoken OF the mighty movement which
was now gong on,-of its instrumentalities,-the
objects and purposes it had in view, and its effects
upon the human mind. This evening he proposed
to continue his remarks, by endeavoring to show
how to use these insrumentalites and the necess;-
ty of knowing how to use them.
1t is asked why this great movement has M,
come to us before? He would saw that mast his
tory, both sacred and profane, was full of it, the
Bible was full of it. The theory was not new s for
as regards us-ln our time it is new Eighteen hun
dred years ago it appeared in Judea, and lasted
three years; and He who had PROMULGATED il was
prosecuted to DEATH Spiritualism also was annar-
emu IN the ideas of Paganism. One hundred and
nlty or Two hundred wears ago, when it appeared
upon the Continent of Europe and in this country II
was looked upon as wtchcraft and thousands were
burnt to death, who had become converts to it's
influence. For fifteen hundred years, it has shown
i i IN the Catholic church. They have canon
lzed and used it in promulgating great truths as re-
celved from beyond the grave. We have heard of
us influences here, in our land but we could
not avail ourselves of them until we knew
now now 10 deal with it; and that knowledge
has come to through poor and OBJ
scure family in an interior town of our coun-
Try; they were the instruments by which we
were TO learn how to deal with this spiritual power
(lhe lecturer here referred to the For familyl
Inc lecturer then spoke of the plans and purpo-
ses this theory of spirtualism was designed to
carry out in our midst. He said the same laws of
good and evil prevail in the spiritual world as up
on the earth-the same law which governs your
intercourse on earth-governs your spiritual in
tercourse. One of the most important questions
he said was to know how far these spiritual mani
iiestations are to be relied upon. The same pas
sons for good or evil found possess the spir-
it after DEATH as they did in life. The spirits often
warn us to receive their information with care and
caution We must in receiving such spiritual infor
nation be guided by our own Judgment; we must
yield to no authority, acknowledge the
supremacy OF no power but our reason. The spir-
it's mind will affect the information in some
degree; the Ignorance of the spirit will affect the
communication; it may speak of matters with
which 1t is not conversant. and in that way error
grows. In receiving spiritual information we must
guard against the mischief OF precOnceved opinions
Inc lecturer said that sometimes he had been dis
turbed by the fabrications of mediums, sometimes
by their numerous contradictions and sometimes by
communications most Extensively low and vul-
gar lie referred to the case of medium
IN New ork, whose communications were extreme
~ disgusting, and often offended the ''circe:' at
tempts were made to stop her but without avail
The lecturer then said, shall we reject all spiritual
manifestations because of these corrupt and dis
gushing communications? Go into court of JUS
tlce, and because you will find false swearing in
some OF the testimony, land in my experience said
the speaker, have seldom case where there
was not some false swearing,) will you reject the
whole OF the testimony?
As a man must depend on human testimony to ar
rive at the truth in worldly affairs so in spiritual
manifestations, must be allowed to weigh well
the testimony from the spirit world. The speaker,
then said: it is not always easy to tell what spirit
Is making revelations to u.s. whether it is the spirit
of one living or disembodied spirit or from the
spirit medium to know what spirit is thus commu-
nIcatIng to us requires more knowledge and re-
search than we now possess. He related a case,
when he first commenced communing with the spir-
Its; he said there came to me once the spirit of a
man whom had known twenty years before man
OF singular disposition, Of most eccentric character,
very strange man. His spirit talked with me
through medium; spoke of occurrences which
had taken place during our boyhood, ofthings known
only to that person and myself | had not seen
that man for twenty years, and thought he was
dead, and that his disembodied spirit had been
communicating to me- | afterwards met the man
alive He ase spoke of the failure of
the Atlantic Telegraph, and said that the
spirits had told the cause of the failure; that
1t was owing to the prevalence of mineral
causes at the other end; but when oues-
toned as to the remedy for the defect, they
had replied that was not their business but ours.
The lecturer said the spirits often prophesy to us:
sometimes their prophecies come to pass: again it
Is otherwise. He said, spirit communicated to
him, concerning the late Russian war, two years
before the war broke out. The inquiry mig be
made, why did he not say this before? He would
answer, that he sought to make proselytes: that
ne desired to study and investigate; he cared not
II he stood alone upon the earth believer in this
ers great theory of spirtuasm All that its follow
desired is investigation The scientific man instead
OF sneerlng at the theory should investigate it
oh that we had some GalileO, or Newton he said
10 investigate the cause and the candor to till it.