Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-30

:" zee the power of God if il is moi the Holy
| Ghost, what is it % Those who ace spirits
say positively "we knou. 4" My friend thought
Spiriualists should be more modest. and not
speak so positively. They cannot accommo-
date him for they speak that they do know
and testify that they have seen.
My opponents thecrizing about Spiritual
bodies is death blow to his own theory
that Jesus and Elijah went up TO Heaven bod
lly. He claims that spirit and its body are
immaterial. then showed that. according TO
science, if they are immaterial they are moth
ing: the soul is nothing. according to his the
ory. and his God is a nonentity II. on the
other hand, his God is personal one he il
local, and consequently finite for personali
ty and infinity cannot cO-exist in the same
being.
Mr.. Haddock's whole effort was directed to
condemn Spirituaism by isolated cases of
immoral teaching and practice. meihod that
the founder OF his own system condemn.
cd. and | gave Wesleys own words page 2U5
Watson's Life of Ve&ey showing that ho
4" thinking man should :: condemn srhoIe bod
ies Of men IN the limp. :" In this" said W,s-
ley,' can neither read the gentleman, tho
scholar. nor the Christian" Watson SAYS,
Through the corrupt nature OF men. evil often
accompanies good. and he said they were not
10 be confounded one with the other nor
was Christianity. he said. to be held rsspou-
sible for the evils of the early days of Meth
Odism and no one. he clamsed. ought Ia ..ar-
gue against Christianity itself because of
them, Yet. this is precisely Mr.. Haddock'S
course He then tried To make it appear that
corruptions in the church exist in spite of ihs
church, owing to- the badness of the heart
but the corruptions among Spiritualists were
the direct result of their tearhings. / gavs
him another small dose of Wesley, Wesley
IN tl.,N 10 ,FJ
unites men to God, hence, according TO Meth
Odism, the or eater The sinner the mOrt perfect
the union with God. Perhaps that doctrine
explains why Wesley damaged bis own chat
acter as a minister. His admirers explained
matters so as to give them smooth look -
They said the 8 bad construction put upon
some of the sentences in his letters to pious
females" were only e" strong expressions of
christian affection In these later days
such expressions are called /" Free Love" sem
timents. But it worried my friend that
should go back to those times so 1 confined
my remarks TO the church as it is, quoted
from his own Methodist papers and books by
which I proved that the Heaven born
child" Christianity, makes good morals of
but little account that men may be viciO =.
defrauders, robbers, free-luSteFs Poiyganaists,
ia favor of the restoration OF slavery, because
it's abolition was in opposition TO the Bible.
ETC., etc. showed tnal tnelf WDOle system Dt
forgiveness for sin was an incentive to crime.
an ! that the world has not beer made bet
ter by Christianity. as system, but worse.
Proved that instead Of Polygamous and Frre-Iovs
communities being the result of pitualis1, they
ted befnre modern Spirit ualism known aud in
Christian cOun ries mainly the direct fruits OF
the Bible and Christianity. Proved that the Mormons
believe in Christ, the Bible Faith, Repentance. Bap
tism Prayer, etc etc, that the Oneida FTee-LoVers
sprang from the Methodist Perfectionststhe sacti-
fed, who believed that they could not sin, mat
ter what they did. Proved that our aecasers
holier than we are, and that il they VIII go about
purifying the mselves that they will have busy lfa
without trying to pluck notes from out Of Spiritual
lists eyes. Proved BY Wesly that the Atheists
themselves were much afr I'D 81 the t-uh OF these
stories of ASPIRATIONS ape is OF a whip -
Proved that millions in the world ackno weege Spir
ilualism as worthy of confiience and support; al
though admit ted that the mere fact Of reat nnn
bprs embracing doctrine is proof Of ITS trutiu
ness but is proof of confidence in l.. Proved that
If good schools and colleges are an evidence Of the
value of religious system, then the Ca hOlic reli
gion is the b st in Chrsienion. for ii has
client schools and colleges chan the p estatt and
thousau ds of PIo+es'aat families aeknowledg" tho
by sending their children to tbs Proved that
Spituaiism accomplished in twenty years WHIST chris
tiantv with all its Boosting has failed to do IN ages:
Spiritualism has demonstrated INSTRUMENTATION
between two worlds; destroyed the fear OF death
among II who have know ledge Of its truth inspired
thousands with oyousness that nothing else could
give; eonfaunGed Atheism BY its voluminous facts.
such Wesley said 80 do real service to true religion
and sound philosophy" Modern Spiritualism,
died in America will penetrate every home and be-
come the religion of the whole human This il
my steadiast conviction. Brother Hadddek thinks ke
is doing Gods work he that he believes God has
called him to the work and ends il aid to him.
The Devil, that he believes in must then, be my help
er. We prepared 10 meet him and his God aTy-
where in Wisconsin, Minnesota, ELSEWHERE la The
Union, in public discussion.