The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-08
spirltualists on Their Muscle.

Many respectable persons have eaten good
breakfasts Tor couple of days past uncon-
scious that the spiritualists were in session at
Cleveland-just as formerly the world went
round and the very cardinals did not know it.
Such happy ignorance, however, could not last;
and men must take note betimes that the
spiritualsts have met in convention, that they
have duly considered their relations to society,
and that they propose to fight. No fgurative
fighting either; no shadowy wrestling with an
angel, in such unfixed localities as that where
tn patriarch tugged the night through, and
had q bad fall near daylight; no such imma-
teral combat at all will satisfy these believers in
spiritual power. They propose to use muscle
To prove their doctrines orthodox,
With apostolic blows and knocks,
well delivered on the breasts and sconces fan
unbelievlng community. Their doctr'nes have
been wrapped in mystery for years, but it is
now intended that they shall be raped into
men with quite another sort Of rapping than
that which astonished all the old doors and cell
ings and tables in the house near Rochester
some years ago. Undoubtedly there will be a
rapid change in public sentiment; for ifan eager
apostle of this new faith comes at one with the
arguments that McCoole SO successfully applied
to Aaron Jones, who but would choose to be-
lieve rather than discussf This new platform
of the spiritual Church was not without its OPP
ponents in the Convention. Indeed, it
seems that former convention had
had enough pug noses in it to make
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opposing physical resistance to any attempt
that might be made on the part of the Christian
sects to encroach upon or suppress spiritual
ism !" and a motion was made in the present
Convention in depreciation Of that proposal.
This brought the e citing men to their feet, and
the consequence was that the former doctrine,
with added emphasis, was shown to be the sense
of this important body.
III natured people might draw from this plat
form of the believers that their appeal to the
e ,sh implies failure OF the spirit. 1t might
be argued that before spirituaism begins to
f,tten our noses, burst our cheeks or infict
indiscriminate damage on our visual organs, it
ought to exhaust all its legitimate means, as
tipping our tables, especially when the dinner
is on them rafting the wilderness Of tin pans
about the house, particularly when our tired
eyelids are just shutting us in to that first sleep
that ends wearisome day. There might be
much pros ,lyting power in such events, APP
pl,d to society at large; more, perhaps, than
IN delivering half dozen shot ones in what
the poets of the P. R. variously designate a
nuns "potato trap" his " box Of worries" or
his "guzzler." We must, however, make allow
ance for the loss of patience on the part of men
who find, after years Of labor, that the world
stubbornly will not believe, and want the s IT
isiaction o, giving it downright pounding.
1t is to be remembered also, that all new reli-
gions dae their greatness and their power from
the time when the dreamers take back seats
and tie fighting men come forward. The world
might hardly have heard Of Mahomet-the cpl
lepti, husband Of rich widow-if certain Of
his adherents had not taken up the fighting
programme Who knows but the spirit mongers
may have history yet