Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1867-09-21

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longs 10 this raving and disappearing
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rrbuke to Judge Edmond, because he
sympa,hizrs with the other school. The
Judge had also declared that great num-
Der Of cultivated spiritists 1--WE DO not be-
lieve there can be a great many of them)
do not attend the meetings" of the be-
levers, and admitted that he very seldom
attended them. This lukewarmness on
the part of the Judge, seemed so much
like indifference to the cause" that we
can scarcely wonder at the rebuke. But
Judge Ednouds, is not the only one ofthe
faithful that has inc urred the hostility Of the
organ here; it is peculiarly bitter against
the one solitary representative of Spiritism
that we have ever heard upon this coast
who could BE- listened to by intelligent peo.
pie without weariness or contempt. The
individual referred to is lody who has
for several months been lecturing on Sun
day evenings, upon what we suppose we
ought, in courtesy to call, as the spiritis!s
themselves call it, "the philosophy" This
lady speaks with extraordinary huency.
and a considerable share Of elegance and
force of expression. The literary quality
of her matter is much superior to that Of
Emma Hardinge, though her elocution is
less powerful and ora.orical. She makes
no direct, or at any rate. no coarse and Of
feusive attack upon Christian belief. and
deals with religious and social topics very
much in the same manner as any inteIi-'
gent lady lecturer enamored of "progres.
sive idears," aud moderately familiar with
the writings Of Parker Ballow. Miss Cop
pie, Horace Bushnell, and the best Unitar-
ian and Universalist essayists ofthe day,
might do. without the slightest aid from
"the spirits" or from any supernatural
course. But though she tells nothing that
would require ghost to come from the
other world to announce, she presents much
of the freshest 1--WE do not say the sound.
est thought and speculation Of the day.
furnishing a more agreeable Intellectual
treat than most o: the sermons weekly
preached in the churches of this city.
But inasmuch as this lady will not iden-
tify herself with the vulgar, biaspheming
faction, nor 60 into the thaumatrrgic
branch of the business. and tiptables and
tell fortunes in public, nor unsex herself
by railing against tho Bible and Christi
anity, she seems to have incurred the saw
aye enmity Of the conductors of the cor
gan." who have prosecuted her in the most
cowardly and unmanly style in their pa
PR. The most ignoble feature ofths bus.
iness, however, is that one Of the main
grievances Of ths " organist" springs from
= consideration of "loaves And fishes" !"
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Bro. Todd, and the complaint 10 that che
ought to stop kctsrinG awhile and give
| Todd q chance. Soms time since this
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