The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1869-06-25
A Literary Curiosity.

THE following address, with editor
ial cOmmcnts,-a portion of the spirit
ual expose programme-was in type
for last weeks paper, but owing to the
death of Mr.. Evans, its author, was
omitted. At tho request of number
of persons who listened to its delivery,
we publish it to-day. 1t is q very ingen-
ious compilation of obsolete and seldom
use,i words, which upon careful defin-
| ition, will be found to contain II smooth
| and readable lecture. AS II curiosity
in word. building, it is worthy of pres
ervation, and will be read with interest
by every student of the language:
Ladies and Genttemen:-
Antecedaneous to the inchoation of
the exhibition which it is our imitation
may afford you so much rejection and
oblectation, it seems to be the beneplac-
iturc of my compurgators that i should
imprimis, entertain you with an isOgo-
gical paucilOquy on the moliminous
subject of pneumatology. Having no
eognoscence whatever of leXicology,
polympathy, or enigmatology, 1 shall
scrupulously avoid all appearance of
macrology, neolOgim, and teratOlOgy,
lest might weary your longanimity;
and, hoping not to be regarded as su-
per -polypragmatical, shall with becom-
ing pucidity, and without any precog-
itation, make an extra c0natus to emu
bilate your psychological endowments,
by at least semi-pellucid apOdiXsis, If
not an intervosseal indigatiod Of that So
called spiritual ingannation which has
recently occasioned your obstupefaction.
There may be in this coagmentation,
asinegoes who would suggilate us as
nullifidians, skip jacks, slang whangres
slubber- e.gullions, and mere sermOcin-
ators as hopeless pyrhonists and pseu-
do testificators, who, bisson to the great
psycomachy, seek only to sphacelate
the feelings of the true spiritual solifi-
dian. Such aspersiOn alphabetically di-
aphaous, as well as catachrestical, and
could have been incubated only in n
demOnocracy. No, "with malice toward
none, but with charity for ALL" we, as
true neOnOmians, yet rs mediOcrists
connussant of our myopy and assum
ing that you viii free your minds from
all prosopolepsy, we shall with as little
compercndiatinn and as much com
pendiosity as possible, proceed to divul-
gate phenomena which are utterlyi mex.
plicable by any law of anthreposophy.
| Unterrified and unquassated by the
general cry of "DiabOlism! Diabolism!"
we invite your attention to the nervo-
magnetic manifestations about To be
given, and with the most perfect adio.
phOry, we ask to be issitiously ad
vigilated, assured that after witnessing
the phenomena you will be "unani-
mously" of the opinion that they are
not the result Of aretolOgy, etiolOgy,
dactylology, ath0gnomy,physianthro-
py, opthalmoscOpy, baculomctry, rhab-
domancy, longimotry, altimetry, hy-
drostatics, gymnastics, dynamics, hy-
drodyaamics, or the centrifugal forces;
but that they can be eclaircised only by
the sempiternal principles of C clome-
try, trOchilies; and WilsOnian pneuma.
tOlogy.
The obfuscation Is not designed to
conceal any tergiversatiOn, but is mere
ly an essential incident TO one of the
many cryptic and mysterious '.Of spir-
itual control' which must be mOriger-
ated. If you preserve proper obmufes-
cence and eutaXy, and debonnarily re-
frain from all transcursion, and cachin-
alton and stentorophonic mussitation,
we thrasonically caticinate the extra
vasation of all nebulosity and proletar-
ian misereance, and the ingress of the
most thOrough-stlck plerophory of the
apodictical principia of the neOtoric
phr0ntistery.
"There are many kinds of spirits'-
spirits mundivigant, omnipercipient.
multipotent, omeletical, belligerant,
multiloquous, polymorphous, multis-
cious, pedaneous, pennanted,an qued'
libertarian. But the time would fail
me to give photography of the won
derful characteristics of these several
species, and to eclaircise the anagogica
manifestations peculiar to their multi
tudinous noctivigations-su as lipo
thomy, metoposcopy, elairvoyance ant
physiognomics. q
Therefore, through trepidotion OF ex
travation,I will, without any anaoep
haleosis make tinatude to my exor
dial sermocination, there being NJ
dubiosity that you will be better enter
tained autopically than auricularly.