New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-29


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minds the irresistible cssssos that tAsy Ass I've.
We shall. This tax Spintsslism has slesady Pc
'ormed On its Thousands and its tea OF thoasssds
more. indeed. in the last ten years. tasa By q tue
pupts in the srd--apd still the work goes brsveay
en-. God speed it for it 10 doing What msn's unsdsS
ressos hes for sges tired in vain 10 do and whS 70
this age Of fidelity seemed impossible 10 scc 'nPhsh.
Thus, too, is confirmed to us the Csrisiss rc''s-
ION. which 50 many have questioned or denied. NS,
indeed, tia, which secsAraaism gives us Dor tsss
which descsnds to US from the dark ages corrupted
BY .elfsbness or distorted BY ignosaace. ba, tax
which was proclaimed through the Spirtualisn Il
Jesus Of Nazareth ia the simple Injunction: Thos
".hslt love the Lord thy God, with oil thy heart,
"and with all thy .oul, and with oil thy mind TaA
sis the fret and great commandment, and the &C, nj
I" ia like unto il: Thou shalt love thy nsishbcr -
"thyssf On these two conmsndmsats hang sl tAs
81 law and the prophets"
e 6 As by the inspiration through foun mag OF 10
Nile there was revealed to man the sxiafsnos Of -
Gcd over AL instead of the many dsitiss 10 W. tAsa
worshipirg and - BY the inspiration Of him Who W.
born in Q naDger, there wss next revealed meas IN
merta existence beyond the grave, Of which svsa tAs
most enlightened had then but faint idea, % new
through the owy Of the earth comes further revs'-
stiop ceufrmatory of those, and adding the mighty
truth what 10 TIE existence in which that Immortality
is TO be spent.
Throughout. oil the mapifestatcns-in every foeo
srd in every language-wha,svsr the discrepAaoss'
uncertainties and contradictions on other topics,
on this Of the nature Of mans future exlsteece,
all coincide and harnonize. II comes in brokea
fragments Of scattered revelations, here . little
and there Q little, part through one and
part through another, but forming vhea gath
cred together, Q sublime whole from which We cen
surely learn the nature and condition Of the life -
which we shall enter after this shall have ended.
This, as understand it, is the great end and object q
the movement, all else being merely incident to Is.
But it has only begun and ts progress 10 slow; net
from want Of power to communicate, but from want q
capacity to comprehend. Much thst hes arssdy bssa
revealed has rot from this been received even
by the mcst advanced Sprtuasts and Of courss so<
given to the world. But the work is going Moro
is added day by day. And il will not be long before
enough will be received by all to open to their eonoep-
ton knowledge of our future existence, whose vaus
no man can calculate " hose effects no mea can -
| a2ine.
7. Enough, however, has already been given to
| show that mans destiny is PRoeRsss, oawGA.
upward, from his birth to eternity. Circumstances
may retard but cannot interrupt this destiny, and
mans freedom is that he may accelerate or retsrd,
but he cannot prevent. He may hasten, - did one
whose life on earth had been devotedto doing goodts
his fellows and who said to me that he he'd passed
| away in the full consciousness Of the change. had
| found himself surrounded and welcomed BY those
| whom no had aided while earth, and he'd paused
not one moment in the sphere Of Rsmorss; or be may
by life of Sin and selshness, retard II for period
long enough to satisfy the vengeance ewes OF 90
angry Dety-f such thing can b.
g. Our progress s to BE- alike in knowledge, In love-
and in purity Alike in eli il must be. And any cir
cumstance which causes US in any one OF these sie'
ments to lag behind the advance Of the others 70 sars
TO bring unfortunate in its train, though
not always unhappness. So clear, 90 universal V
this Injunction to progress in oil three Of these s's-
ments. that the heresies which spring up among 10
from our imperfect knowledge Of them need give q
no alarm Even the doctrine Of Free Love, revolving
as it 10, but which some misguided ones have a.
tempted to ost upon our beautiful faith, need cause
no anxiety for proaigacy in love is incompatible vita
progress in purity. And while the command Y
"Love ys one another, go ever attendant upoa 10
that other, "Be 70 pure even - your ksfhsr u
Heaven is pure"
Incidental to these more important points are mssy
minor considerations on which cannot nov dwell
BY careful attention they will oil be found consstsse
with these weghtier matters Distorted sometinss
by the imperection of the mediums through which,
the intercourse comes, and sometimes perverted p
the passions Of those who receive IT, carefully oossd'
cred and patiently studied until understood, css
safely assert after nearly nine years earnest sstsntoe
to the subject that there "a nothing In 6pntualDm
that does not directly tend TO the most exalted private
worth and public virtue.
True, to some II is . mere matter Of curiosity ed
to others philosophy. but to many Is nov, and 10
ALL in the end, will be religion, bscsuss eli reIigoe
is the science Of the future life, and because never
fails to awaken In the hssr that devotion which 10 e
once badge and IN attribute Of our Immortality
J.W. EDMOhDs.