Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-02-24

i MODERN SPIRTTUALA63G =
Il & s,an lf4s - 7Isss - 81
Theldcesr;ne of depssted sDsffI. pseurl
4 ing 10 visit the seenss 11d - = ~.
were desr 70 tIseus daring ahes At3y3 eI'
Ii.senc., thcaeh Il has bath d<l1rna T.
itshe absurd supesstisicss Of ths 49, s1 y
iiself is awfslly solemn snd sutlins. Z
belief oeeAis kisd would, Z sA01ld dit
be uew insentive 80 virsos reaasriiI<
US cirenmspect even IN our u1sst ssef51
mcn,snts. IRON the idea that @lhope -
once lovsa and honore.l we're iasi1ihI VIZ
nesses Of al our sctisns.- Wasl tag -
Irss.g. -
I believe that the sfeas fcslm o. IL
s s'ls zsss = Min si,sss; r. e = ~ !
there. the mother no. oniy is the guar
dian Of her children whom she loves, hu,
foresees that bad associates and evil influ-
ences threaten them, and draws them
Rack and shields them from tie iuipend-
ing danger. r.-Fcn Ward Beecher.
We believe. on the authority Of Scrip
ture, that spirits are capable Of entering
human bodies. OF spe L;pg through them
and acting in them, and hence We believe
in the possibility of spirits operating on
matter in the way of rapping ont the let
tiers Of the alphabet. or in the way of wri-
ting with the penoil.-Dr. Campbell, ia
British Standard.
| That the dead are seen co more I will
not undertake to maintain against the
concurrent testimony of all ages and all
nations. There is NO people, rude
or uaiearned. among whom appari-
tons OF the dead are not rotated aud
believed. This opinion, which prevails
as far as human nature is diffasei, could
become universal only by its truth: those
that never heard Of one another would
not have agreed in tale which nothing
ba. experience could make credible. =
That it is doubted by single cavaliers can
very little weaken the general evidence !;
and some who deny i! with their tongues
confess it with their rfears.-.SImulJ John.
son.
! merely mean to say what Johnson saii,
| All nations have believed that from the dead,
\ vi<iiant at Intervals appears.
And what is s;ranGest upon this strange head,
! Ia, that, haics er har tie reason rears
GGin't such belief, there's something stronger
still
| In its behalf, let those deny who will
| Byron.
SpiritualiEul IS so universaI-numbers
SC many hundreds Of thousands ofpersons
Of all grades Of intellect and truthfulucss
as its fo,iowers-that to d;sbel:cve them
utterly would be equivalent to igrsring
all human testimony. There are pleuty
Of men and women OF the higk-ssrsisse
and culture who believe in it-who isAvc
tested its claims themselves. with persons.
and under circumstances, that made COL
lusion an impossibi.i:y.- Chicago Re
publican.
As to the power Of holding intercourse
with spirits emancipated from our prssen.
sph re. Wa sec no reason why it should
not exist, aud do some reason Why it
saop!d rarely be developed, bu. uouc VII :
1t should not sometimes. These spirits are,
VIC al beGeTe, existent somehow; and
there seems to DC no good reason why a
pcrsoa in spiritual nearness to them, whom
snch intercourse cannot agitate or ongross
so that lie caunot walk steadily in his
present path. should not enjoy il when
Of use 20 him -Naryi irt Faler.
All houses wherein men have lived and died.
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
| The harmless phsntouis on their erran,e glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors
Henry w. Lonefrllo,o.
II is my duty TO- say to you. that the
need was netcr greater Of n new rev.
| ciation than now. From the views I have
already expressed. you will infer tue sad
conviction which have, | believe with
numbers, OF the universal decay and now
almost death of faith in society. The
Church seems to tot,er to its fall-almos,
all life is extinct. think no man can
60 With his thoughts abou. him into one
Of our churches, without feeling, that
what hold the public worship once had on
man-is gone or going. Il has lost iis
grasp oa tue atFacsieas OF the good, and
the fears Of the bad. The prayers aud
the dcgmas OF our church are wholly i.o-
lated from any thing exsant in the life
aud busiHess of tho people. .-RaIph VOL
do Er,<rsoa.
Interesting facts are being developed
in relation to Nayeleon III. aud his as.
ISOLATION with Spititualism. Il Is mat
ter ofsome imror.snca to the Bible stu
dent to know tha. The most -distin guishcd
rnou arch OF earth has become Spiritual
ist, as well as many others of the most
noted rulers on our planet Horlfs eri-
sis (ddcsatt&.)
/ think person who Is thus terrified
with the imagiraticn Of ghosts and spec
tres much more reasonable than one who,
contrary to the reports of all historians,
sacred aud profane, ancient and modern,
and TO the traditions of ak nations, thinks
the appearance Of spirits fabulous sud
groundless. Could not / give myself 40
TO this generci testimony Of mankind,
] should 70 the relations Of particular per-
sons who are now living. and whom can
/ rot Gis,russ in other matters offacs.--ad-
disc1s. e
As tie manifestations have spread flu
house to house, from city to ci,y, from
one part OF ,ae country to the other,
across the Atlantic into Earope, I'll ror
the civ;lised wotid is compellst to &C.
knowledge iheir reality. however 6;rc.se
/ in accounting 70. them--as the.ic mani.
I ses,a,ioas cont;nue 10 increase IN variety
and pcwer. 50 that all suspicion Of trick o,
imros.ure becomes s;mply absurd and pre-.
postsrous-and Is every attempt to fnd Z
/ so,u.;on for them in some physical thcp-