Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-19

the divine and human, between God and
man. That man in his holy state was,
so to speak, directly connected with God,
by means of what might be likened to a
spiritualr spiratory umbilical cord which
ran from God IL mans inmost or celes-
tial nature, and constantly suHused him
with airs from heaven. whereby his spir-
itual respiration or life was supported :,
and his entire nature, physical as we'll as
spiritual, kept in Il state of godlike pnri-
ty and innocence, without however, any
infringement of mans freedom That
after the fall of man this spiritual respi>
rators connection between God and man
was severed, aud the spiritual intercourse
between the creator and the creature
brought to an end, and hence spiritual
death That the great point Is to have
this respiratory connection with God re-
stored That Mr. Harris and those who
are cooperating with him have had it
restored, and are in the constant enjoy
ment thereof. That it is by this divine
respiration, and by no other means, that
a human being can get irrefragible tam
gible, salts factory evidence that God is
God, and that man has or can have con-
junction with God.
WHAT THIS NEW RESPIRATION DOES.
This divine respiration Eve give Mr.
Harris own language as nearly as pos
sible) retains all there is of the natural
respiration as its base and fulcrum, and
builds up and employs it for its service.
Take an illustration The good man, for
example, who possesses mere natural res
pIration, seeks God in prayer but when
he rises to heights of communion where
language is drawn up to thought, then
thought stilled in the quietude of love,
there is hardly breath left in the body.
He comes down frl,.s his altitude from
lack Of lungs in which to breathe. The
step beyond is respiration end and the
exit Of the spirit from the abandoned
frame
But with the new respiration which
God gives to SIR Harris and his fellow
worshipers, it is claimed that the phe-
nomena are Numerically the reverse
Highest prayer with them is attended not
with breathlesSnesS but with breath ftl~
ness, and the nearer one approaches the
Omnipotent object of his worship, the
more copious becomes the river OF that
diviner atmosphere, which, pushing thro'
the spirit, expands and invigorates the
breast. There is in every act of true
worship wedding in the breast, the
heavenly atmosphere sliding down into
the bosom of the earthly atmosphere and
impregnating it with Its own eternal quail
tiles
In the new respiration, God gives an
atmosphere that is as sensitive to moral
quality as the physical respiration is to
natural quality; and this higher breath,
SC bo
bodies of the virtuous, wars against dis
ease expels the virus of hereditary mall
aides. renews health fr0h its foundations,
and stands in the body as a sentinel
against every plague When this spirit
ual respiration descends and takes pos>
session of the frame, there is thenceforth
a guiding power, positive inspiration,
which selects the recipients calling, which
trains him for it, which leads him to ia
vorable localities, and which co ordinate
affairs on large scale. 1t will deal with
groups as with individuals it will res
distribute mankind it will reorganze
the village, the town, the workshop, the
mandatory, the agricultural district, the
pastoral region, gathering human atoms
from their DEGRADATION, and crystolizing
them in splendid unities
Man, whose breath is in his nostrils, is
as the flower of the field to-day brilliant
in the summer sunshine, tomorrow with
cred in the autumn blight. He labors, and
an unknown race enters into his Inherit-
uHUc. lie - tho architect OF obortire
fortune, gathering possessions from the
universal waste and anarchy of man
The fortunes of individuals, Of families
and Of nations are house built upon the
sand they fall, they arc swallowed up
in ruin. But in the divine respiration
all is different Men. families, peoples,
who shall breathe in God, will by Him
labor, endure, achieve, obtain prosperity,
diifuse the riches Of art, letters, religion
and civilization executing as he plans
their work being permanent on the foun-
dations Of his decree
This is fair statement of sle doctrine
Of open respiration, as held by Mr.
Harris and his associates.
THE COMMUNITY VIEWS ON LOVE AND
MARRIAGES.
Out of this Fundamental doctrine there
flowers forth another principle which is
dear to the community, and which we
will try to state in Mr.. Harris own
language. 1t is this:
Ia heaven the basis OF social order is
martial order, and so is must be in this
world. There all the senses are COM
pleted and included in the sense of chas-
thy, and so 1t must be IN us world
That sense of chastity is there the body
for the soul of conjugal desire, and so
it must be in this world There. the cor-
pOral ement of passion is excluded from
che nuptial senses, and so it must be in
this world. There, the utterly pure alone
are permitted to enter into the divine
state involved IN nuptual union, and SO it
must be here below The sense of chas-
tity' Is the touch-stone Of coniugal fit
ness, and is bestowed in this wise:
When the divine breaths have so pres
yaded the nervous structures that the
higher attributes of sensation begin to
waken from their immenorial torpor.
and to react against disease a sirth sense
is as evident as hearing is TO the ear, or
sight to the vision. 1t is distributed thro'
the entire frame. SO exquisitely does it
per ade the hands that the slightest touch
declares who are chaste and who are UNI
chaste And this sixth sense Is the sense
of chastity. 1t comes from God, who IS
the infinite chastity
Within this sense Of chastity nuptial
love has its dwelling place. 50 utterly
hostile is it by nature to " hat the world
understands by desire and passion, that
the waftings Of an atmosphere bearing
these elements in It's bosom affect it with
loathing, This sense of chastity literal
" clothes every nerve. \ living sensi-
tive garment. without spot or seam, 1t in