New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-12
For tho New Orleans Republican.
TEE INVES rig ATOR AND THE
DPIRITUAL

The Boston Investigator, with intdel ca
liabilities, respectable as to primal make up
| and of great maturity, touches with dainty
fingers and profound indisposition to
break ground for an excavation, the embar-
RAISING subject of spiritualism. OF course,
intidelity is as much an organized creed as
any other, and hence has it's social interest
and prejudices to repel apostles Of Gentle
churches who seek to proselyte it, and keep
safe its bread and butter. The doctrine Of
infdelity is, We believe, that there is no God !;
that everything originated from nothing,
remains nothing, and is never going to
be anything. The prodigious swoop with
which spiritualism has come down upon
this theory of the incomprehensible esse
was calculated to bring commotion in
to the brain chambers of it's profess
sors. The Investigator was early startled
into saying soft and hopeful things into
spiritualistic ears, while in turn he was con
doled by the initiated into lfe's mysteries,
on account of bis unbelieving spirit. These
powers, SO wide apart-one with the whole
heavens contained within a chemists cruel
BILE, and the other comprehending all spaces,
worlds, phenomena to and through all eter-
nifty, within nature uncovered in each
others presence, and each has barriStered
the others cause against assaiants. Whence
this sympathy, this spontaneous alliance,
this Nothing hand in hand with Everything?
What marvellous utilization can have united
in one common bond of fraternity the apos-
ties of All Matter and those Of All Spirit
It is to be accounted for by very simple
explanation, to which are often referred
marvels moreincredib!e, to wit: it is human
nature. Nature, in respect to her humanity,
has endless ties, and those having for their
source a common selfshness, are not
the least powerful. Man and beast
are alike united by common
enmity as bya common friendship. Both
belong to the plane of the latter, by man
inherited, and are of convertible elements,
being subject to influences that control ex-
preston or manifestation, and are capable
of the highest rise-an open road leadiog
from the ground holes Of Mamalia to the
cities of the celestlais. As all sects in the
Protestant Kingdom, however virulent CO.
relatively, are in celestial harmony as OPP
posed to Papacy, so every other piously set
tied on the fact that both are evil-of which
WORD ueUN Is TepuleO 10 De cOrruptlOn-aS
infidels and splritua!ists undenlably are,
combined forces-ieaving the corruption
strike for good as they see it, dis.
covering in its photography that it is cor
rupted-so again to speak-irom God, or in |
other words. that i. is bad spelling. 1t is
this union by which the intellectual forces |
OF the two great Kingdoms of nothing |
and everything-the former profound |
with age and wisdom, and the |
latter melodous with youth and |
folly, are brought into the strife of opinion, |
the ancient walls of Christi. |
anity on either side, the spiritual deity, |
described as a principle, planting his invisi- |
BILE batteries within the Utmost circle of |
defenses, and leveling mortars of immense f!
intellectual cslibre against its massive |
stones. To be sure, poor infdelity is a |
pitful ally, giving little aid, yet greedily |
appropriated by the gawky scientist and |
out Of the purest inexperience,
not knowing that of ali the nothipgs that |
waylsy men in their walks.:o church, with
out preteIt or excuse. the nothingest Moth |
ing is the nothing Of intidelity.
SO let sp!ritualism convert itself TO q little |
and go it, as to infide!ity, alone.
Il is, at least, not mere puiler down of |
other folks houses without providing roofs |
'or them, and there Call be no doubt that,
20 far as philosophy can provide shelter,
after the homestead Is destroyed, il will do
Is saintlest and best. e. II.
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