Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-07-28
From the Independent
Is Henry Ward Beecher a SPir.
ituai Medium.

| from the Independent.
Is Henry Ward Beecher a SPir.
ituai Medium.
Ills OWN STATEMENT
A great many people there are who de-
not know what they believe, on many in
tricate subjects. There are many, proba.
bly,, brought up to believe great many
things, which, if keenly examined, they dc
not believe. But, neither Of these posi-
tions is SO perplexing as that of finding
ones self believing firmly and religiously
what be had always supposed himself to
reject, so that he is living in double state,
running parallel; state of unconscious
disbelief, upon The very same subject
These remarks are suggested BY the para
graphs which are flying about the country
papers as to our BELIEF in Modern Spiritu-
alism. 1t seems a Mr.. Chase declared
that we were real spiritual medium, and
preached by help obtained Of spirits. We
have seen this quoted scores of times, and
we have before US Michigan paper in
which Mr.. Everts, in some explanations
about his remarks oB Mr.. Chase, says:
81 am myself medium, and | always
know when / am in magnetic state, and
if Mr.. Beecher is one, it would be impossi-
bic for him to go into that state unknow-
ingly. Mr.. Beecher breaches about the
same doctrines as other Spiritualists, and
so doing, is also medium. II he be-
lieves as be breaches, be certainly is be-
lever in Spiritualisrn."
And, again:
"If Mr.. Beecher, then, is medium, and
his conditions are such that he can hold di-
rect communion with tbs spirits of depart
ed men, and that said spirits do influence
him to speak as he does speak, he certain
" must be conscious of such fact"
We are sorry to inform Mr.. Evarts that
we are quite unconscious of having had
any personal intercourse with the departed
spirits of men; nor, from the fruits of such
alleged intercourse in other cases, have we
any particular desire to do SO. We have
noticed, attentively, for some years, the
messages sent hither, as it is said, from the
other world, from some Of the most emil
nent names, and we are satisfied that, If
they are genuine, then either death has
has been great injury to them, or else
their wisdom is much damaged by refrac-
tion In being transmitted to this sphere.
We are far from denying that these
messages did not come from the dlsembo-
died spirits of Jefferson, Frauklin, Wash
ington, Johnathan Edwards, Napoleon, Ba-
con, Voltaire, Webster, Calhoun, &c, DC.
But we may be permitted, we hope, to
mourn over the results to which greatness
comes, aud to throw new and melancholy
light upon the meaning of the Scripture
which says that the first shall be last
Certainly, L there is lower depth of i'll
sanity that cut of which these new spiritual
philosophers speak, our surprise must wait
for some augmentation of being before it
can gain any further expression.
But we do not interfere with other peo-
ple's business. We do not attack the
faith of any man in modern Spiritualisn.
But when they insist upon II that we do
believe in Splriiualism Ourselves; nay, that
We are mediums, aud, unless dishonest,
conscious mediums, We do think that we
ought to overhaul our faith, experience and
Consciousness, to see what We are. Now,
if any spirit, or any corps of associated
spirits, are employing US line by which
To telegraph truth from that sphere to this,
They are doing it without our knowledge
or donsent. We protest against the oper-
alton. And, as we can imagine no way
in which to take The law against them for
trespass, we take the newspaper. And we
here bring no railing accusation against
any or sundry spirits that have quizzed Mr..
Chase or Mr.. Avery; but we expostulate
with those mischievous sprites that amuse
themselves at the expense of these sober
and honest gentlemen. 1t is not fair. 1t
would not bs regarded as square in The bo-
dy. And, as for using US as a go-between
on such ludicrous errands, the spirits know
very well that it is on the sly, If at ALL
And. if it is not stopped Immediately, We
will find out some way 10 cut the wires.
The only that connects us with Spiritu-
alism is the publication of every sermon
which we preach in one or the other of the
Spiritual papers. But this is their arrange
ment, not ours. If they can stand our
sermons, we can stand their papers. And,
as yet, we have seen no messages from the
spirit-world alongside of the sermons which
put US to blush. But this putting every
sermon into type is handling minister
rather severely. 1t gives him no chance
to preach his sermons over again. 1t
keeps him TO the necessity Of good sound
work for there is many a snowy sermon
that would do well enough if only heard,
ths would i'll bear careful reading. But
if Spiritualists choose to build paper pull
pits for Orthodox preachers, why should
we finch at mounting them before an au-
dience of hundred thousand peoplea
Steam on Common Roads.