The New York herald., 1867-07-22
SplHITuAllsTlc DISCOURSE.

Andrew Jackssn Davis ON - Coming T. EVENTS,
large and highly intellectual audience, made up In
great part OF ladies' present al Masonic Hall last
evening to listen 70 Mr.. Andrew j. Davss lecture be-
fore the Society of Spruasts Tho subject chosen by
tho speaker was 'Coming Evons." Mr.. Davis COM
menced by saying that all mankind might be considered
followers OF the poet Pope far as that author had
cnuncsted the doctrine
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, hut always TO be blest
The Imagination was capable Of rendering nan happy
unhappy Imagination misdirected borrows troubles,
peoples with impossible and ,mpracticaoe sur
roundngs, while II properly directed 1t adds to our
pleasure No such thing as an opera or an ora
torio, no such thinI as beautiful picture could
be brought into existence but tor tho of the magna
tive faculty The artist in either Of these cases saw or
heard his work fully completed before he took tho rst
step toward ts production. rho Imagination this
aud such ike matters was the clarvoyance Of the intel
ecual faculties and the power OF the mind was 70 FORE
cast coming events The law of dspensatlon was tho
law spiritual Development. and upon this was founded
the beautiful spTiuaIistic theory. II was not, how
ever tho spiritual doctrine though falsely alleged so to
that by progression from the lower orders
of creation The ebimpanzee existed long before tho
human race, IL was true and he was as Inferior
famires of the beautiful summer land The mar
supal organism existed before the mammarial and
this latter from II in consequence OF new prin
cpe entering into the reproductive powers in nature
Nh Davis went on at some length to show that although
the successive types oil race seemed 70 grow OUT Of ne
predecessors, they were really separate and distinct
organisms foroshadowed by those that went before
The Saurians, with their ballike arms were as mucn
prophets OF the future were Daniel or Ezekiel
prophets of Divine Truth when uterng their inspira.
lions Nature changed Its types only when the lower
order ready for the reception Of The new principle
shat caused higher and grander development The
same course OF reasoning might be applied to religion
Christianity was new typo that took the place of
Judaism. Was it final type' This the pre-
vailing doctrine that was preached in the splendid
pagodas thar were scattered over tho Island Of
Manhattan. This is just reasonable as would
have been the doctrine that Judes the Of the
universe, that belief In tho Of New World
gnS vi ION n m a
people Of this country we're In transition period in
iigon well as in politics. We about entering
on o epoch, and what was commonly known a. the
Rochester Knockings was the beginning OF new rei.
gion.
The speaker dwelt this idea at some length, and
predicted tha the present system Of Christianity, hav-
Ing served the pdrpose OF It's institution, would give
way 10 spirtoalism. Even now, the introduction OF
music and ceremonial into religious showed
the ministers losing their hold the people,
and the time was approaching when VIC would oil
acknowledge the trnth Of the spiritual theory.