New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-08
rs HENRY WARD BEECHER A SPIRIT
UAL MEDIUM?
HIS OWN STATEMENT.
From The Independent Of Yesterdo


great many people there wbo do not know
what they believe many intricate subjects. There
are many, probably, brought up 10 believe a great
many things, w'ie6, II keeny exapoedI 'ney oO nO'
ing as that Of fndiog ones self believing hrmy aod
relipiously what he bao always supposed himself to
reject 80 that be is living IN dOuoe state, running
parallel; state Of UNCONSCIOUS behei ana stare o'
.consoiuus disbelief upon the very same subject.
These remarks suggested by the paragraphs Whch
are flying about the country papers a. to our oeief 10
Mode m SpnitusisIn. IL seeus Mr. Chase declared
that Iealspritual medium, ana preacher oy
helm obtained of spirits. We have seen this quoted
scores of times, aud We have before us Michlgan
paper in which Mr.. Everts, in some explanations
about his remaIks on MIR. Chase, says.
"a am myself a medium AID alSays know when
am in Magnetic state and If Mr. Beecher IA one, II
would be impossible for hm to 60 iuto toa state un-
knowingly. Mr.. Beecher breaches about the same
doctrines as other Spirituasts, and 50 dong Is also
medium. If he believes he breaches, lac certainly
is a beiever in Spintualsm'
And, again:
of Mi. Beecher, then, is medium, and his con
ditions are sucb that he hold direct communion
with the spirits of departed zen, and that said sprs
do influence bin to speak AS he does speak, he GER
tainy must be conscious OF such :. i'ct.
We are sorry to inform Mr. Evarts that we are quite
unconscious o having had any personal Intercourse
with the departed spirits of men, nor, from the fruits
of such alleged intercourse in her cases, have we
any particular sire 10 do We have noticed at
fentiyey for years. the messages sent hlther as
eminent names, and satisfied that, II they are
genuine then either death has been great injury to
them, or else their wisdom is much damaged by re-
fraction in being transmitted to this sphere.
We are far from debyitg that these messages did
not come from the dsembodied spirits of Jefferson
Franklin, Washington, Jonathan EiSards, Napoleon,
Bacon, Noltalre, Webster, Calhoun, Nc, &c: But
we may be permitted we hope, TO mourn over the r..
suits to Which greatness comes, and TO tbro. new
and melancholy hight upon the meaning of the Scrip
ture which says that the first shall be last. Certainly,
iftbere is lower depth OF inanity than that out OF
which these new spiritual philosophers speak, our
surprise must wait tor augmentation o, being be-
fore ii can gain any further expression.
But we do interfere with other peoples business
We do not attack the faith of any IN modern Spir
iualism. But when they Insist upon II that We do be
leye in Spirituahsm ourselves; nay, that ~e are me-
diums and unless dishonest, conscious mediums, We
do Il ink that ought to overhaul our faIh, expert
epce ard Consciousness TO see what We are. Now,
any spirit or any corps of associated spirits, are en-
yloyipg us line by which to telegraph truth hou
That sphere to this they are doing without our Know
ledge or consent. We protest against the operation.
And as We can imagine way in which to take the
law against them for espass we take toe ne sspaper
And here brog railing accusation against ANY or
surcry spirits that have qni7zed MIR. Chase or Mr.
Aver but we expos,ulste Sith those mischievous
sprites that themselves al the expense OF these
sober and houest gentlemen IL Is not iAr. 1t would
lot be regarded as square IN the BODY, >pd We dout
believe il so out Of the body And, as for usng Us
as Eobetween on such ludoTous erraEds, the splts
know very well that il is on the sly II a. all And, II
il is net stopped immediately, We will lind out some
way 10 cut the wires.
The only thing that connects rs with Spritushsm IS
the publication Of every sermon which We preach in
one or the other Of the Spiritual pspers. But tins Is
their arrab cement, not ours. Ii they stand our
sermons We can stand their papers Aud, as yet, We
have messages from the spritsorld aloogslde
of the sermons which put Us to toe blush. But this
putting every sermon Into type Is banding minister
rather severely gives hun no chance for poor ser
mons. 1t gives him chance to preach h's sermons
over again. Ii keeps hun TO the necessity of good
sound work;-for there is many showy sermoo tna
would do well enough if only heard that would i'll
bear careful reading. But il SpTituaiss choose to
build paper pulpits for Orthodox preachers, why
should We finch al mounting them before an audience
of hundred thousand people