Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-26

Mas. F. o. HYzER's LEcTUREs.-Again this
gifted and eloquent lady was with US last
Sunday, and spoke at Chapin's Hall TO the
great delight and profit of her numerous
friends and admirers.
Her mornings discourse was the admira-
tion and remark of all but that Of the eve
ming We regard the elimacteric of all others
full to repletion of good, sound practical
instruction, while it also abounded in es-
thetic sentiment, interspersed pareh the,ioal-
ly here and there, with bold metaphos, lsT-
ing TO rivet universal and constant atte1,sh-
The audience seemed charmed with The tfld-
plicity Of the truthful utterances that lowed
like beautiful streamlets from some pssre1i-
al fountain, sparkling with life giving eaqf-
gy. And we could but be reminded shaf the
whole discourse throughout, though Dot %
intended, was splendid exegeeis upon the
seventh chapter of Romans She Wa arg
ing the importance of keeping in sthordl1a :
tion the body with ali the attends isain Af
evil tendencies, showing that it i,ass only
the ins trumentof the mind, as all materiali-
ty generally was the media of manifestation
of the immortal powers of the soul, and in
dicating by cogent arguments, the reason of
such destitution of real spirituality, and deep
inter-communion with angelic life, not only
in churches, but also among most of the
Spiritualists, so called, themselves. We say
that her discourse was an excellent eommen-
tary upon the experience Of the apostle Paul
in his warfare when he was led 10 exclaim in
utter dispair: 80, wretched man that am
who shall deliver me from the body Of this
death ?"
This was a battle between the feA and
the spirit-long contested, too, and not con-
fined to one age-and in the language of ee-
elesiastieal parlsnce, is the "christian war
fare, 4" and il is not difficult 10 see which has
the aseendancy. But Paul was not 10 be
worsted always, for he raises the jubilant
shout Of victory in the eighth chapter: "The
law Of the spirit Of Christ has made me free
from the law Of sin and death" Why? Simply
because he walked no more after the flesh,
but after the spirit" inspired by the noble
example Of Christ. Influenced and aided by
such q charmed and unusual life, instructed
BY his wisdom lluminations, he was finally
enabled to live the higher law Of spirit and
angel life, and realize the grand ideal stand
ard Of his mind. Thus overcoming carnal ap-
petite, subduing the devil Of inharmony be-
tween the flesh and the spirit, he stood forth
in his gOd-hke nature, his brow wreathed in
seven fold splendor with divine efulgence,
and his soul, like pure gold tried as BY fire,
rejecting the image of the Father
Although the speaker made no reference
10 the experience of st. Paul, still she was
discussing the same principles that never
change. If to progress in divine things in
Apostolic days, subjection of the lower to the
higher nature was necessary SO it is at the
present day. If to commune with angels
Gods beautiful evangels to the world in
the past,5his angels are the reapersl
it became needful to cruelty the ".lusts Of the
hesh," and keep the body UNDER 1.-THE same
must also be true at this time. If law gov
erned the "mOdus Operandi" whereby Paul
was caught up to the third heavens, and
heard unutterable things, then by the obser-
vance Of the same law, may mortals of
this age be blest with Z" ministering spirits
70 those who shall become heirs of salvation. !"
If laws and principles are not peculiar 10
times and places, but are allodial, the grand
freehold OF all the sons and daughters of the
Almighty, and are not held in seizure q lure
divine, - by few favored ones, then why are
not angel yisitations and inspiration perpet-
ual facts? This the speaker most clearly
and happily pointed out. The soul reflects
things according to the mirror of its own or
ganizatiOn. When this is askew, soiled by
miserable habits of dissipation and every
form Of excess in material grossness, what
wonder that such warped reflections of di-
vine truths and the divine image, should de-
fleet celestial rays, and turn mankind, and
angels, too, into demons, and the world into
a splendid humbug. For as HesiOd SAYS:
.1He that harbOrs evil in his mind
VIII from his evil thoughts, but evil fndn