The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-03
THE sPIRITUALISTS.

Either there are not many Spirtualists at present
In the city, or the close murky warmth Of yesterday
induced them to stay at home or the charge of ten
cents admission to the meeting was too heavy draft
in these apathetc financial times or Warren Chase,
who was announced to address the meeting, IL not
very big spiritualistc gun, for very few pres
ent at the morning exercises yesterday OF this pecu-
liar school Of modern religionsts, at the Everett
Rooms, Of Broadway and Thirty fourth street.
To beggarly array Of empty benches the honorable
lecturer principally addressed himself but with
fervor Of eloquence worthy better audience and .
better cause
Ancient religious phenomena as contrasted with
modern spirituaistic developments was the theme
OF the lecturers discourse. indifferent conditions OF
the atmosphere produced different phenomena at
different tmes-now calm sunshine, now the de.
structive storm. now hall and snow, now whirwtnds
and cycloons carrying ruin and devastation OF
property and destruction Of life in their pathso he
argued there were differences In the moral and re-
n nS the moral and religious condition Of man. To
understand the subject thoroughly 1t was necessary
to carefully stuiy the laws OF cause and effect The
time was, and 1t Is so now with many ignorant
people, that the rainbow was regarded as an emblem
OF divine promise that the earth would never be
visited by another flood; that IL was regarded az
placed there specially by provdental interpositon
q marvellous miracle OF Gods prowess and promise.
ton OF primary colors in the prism, and this ancient
phenomenon has no special miraculous power, bue
only simple exhibition OF the simplest workings or
natures simple laws. In this connection those
ancient biblical stories Samson and his miraculous
eats Of strength Dane In the den Of ons the pillars
OF cloud and fire that led the Jews on the right
path during their forty years pilgrimage through
the wilderness, the three men Shadrach Meshach
and Abednego who escaped the burning heat OF tha
fiery furnace, the sun standing still, and 80 on
through all the phenomenal records OF the Old an
New Testaments, he pronounced mere Muncnausem
narratives and only brought out Sundays 70 play
upon the credulity OF ignorant church members ana
brighten Sunday school children. He compared them
to old and worn out and worthless guns IN Msenafs,
which look very Formidable to the inexperienced.
but are only so much dead weight OIL OLD
iron. Describing this ancient phenomenon as only
the debris OF olden superstitons and Ignorance and
big0try, he proceeded to speak OF modern spiritual
phenomena as the introduction OF new epoch In
civilization and religious advancement These phe.
nomena, he insisted are evolved from the Increased
development Of man and his moral nature. Cen
turtles had rolled on and only now were the mental
and magnetic conditions Of man being fully aud per-
fectly developed, mind and matter were working in
reconciliation. The material and the spirit world
were being drawn together In close and Harmonious
Communion. Human intelligence had reached q
higher plane the beatitudes Of higher human ex'
stence the converse OF spirits Ia the material nesh
with dIsembodied spirits had now been reached
Far higher developments than could now be cou'
ceived awaited them-a glory Of spirtualistic life
and Intelligence beyond human ken to imagine.