The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-24
For the Conservative.

VIZ 49, INV Vi Az A0CctAOA III - -
not necessary for the Christians Reli-
| gion to be aspersed by the foul mouth
of Spiritualism and Infdelity. and her
tongue and pen be silent in her own
defense. Indeed it looks like coward
ice for it to be so; for it is now, as it
was in the days of Paul. there are GER
tain "vain takers, whose mouths must
be stopped, who subvert whole house
holds teaching things they ought not
for filthy lucre's sake" and the "Eits
ness hat was true in that case as in
this -see Tit. LIST, II. In the first arti-
Gle that fell under my eye, the princi-
pal thing was an objection to a Provi
dental train of events, closing With
the idea that man was the authc: ofhis
own providence and blessing, hence we
would not have to thank God as tho
he "fed US as we feed oxen"
1 wonder if Mr.. Hamilton erer
thought ofwhere he got the power to
thank; or does he think he created
all the thankful power he possesses,
and does he thank himself that he is
not a big a fool SIS the county has
charge of. or is not here o power he
should thank some one for beside his
all-important self And in his posi-
ton he takes on the reviYing Of the
Free American SOIL" he knocks
down a cob house of his own building,
for there is norman who is silly en-
ough to think that . providence is go
ing to be exercised in his favor who
will notmake use of the al that
Providence has placed in his hands,
but, as the old fable runs, Jupiter
helps them that help themselves" =
But now if God has placed the. recup-
e~rative powers in the soil, guiana, and
bonedust, and gave man the powers to
combine them and bring forth their
utility for his use and comfort, is it
not as much praise to the author of
our blessings as though lie fed US as
we feed oxen2
The next thing Mr.. Fl. does is to tear
down the Christian Religion and offer
US another. But he seems to have the
sraciousness to want to retain q part of
it for his religion but the query is,
what part will he accept Ifhe re-
jects one part has not some other Doc
tor as good right to reject the part he
accepts ?-and the third to rise and re-
lject both, and so on till we have as me-
ny gods "a they had in Athens But
does he not know that man must have
an infallibility somewhere 9-and 1t
this rate where viii We find it 2 or will
Mr.. II. set himself up as that point?-
But, stop sir the Pope has got alarger
vote than you a get, and with an Oh
der claim to infsllibility, and you are
not willing to receive him, and thus
cut loose here, we are out on the sea
of speculation without any point at
which TO sail, and ii viii be surely
Point lookout,
And point leok-in,
Point hotpoint,
And point-again
But here, l think, the Doctor cries
Reason Where ! who has It? How
much more has the Doctor than our Ia
theirs had ? How much more las he
than philosophers of yore ? land it has
never taught our race anything but
i lolatry, the history of which is foul
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Iforbear to dwell longer here, but
present some revelations to show that,
let Spirituslists have what they may
reason they have not, / have in my
possession revelations of every grade,
from curing sick cows, baking buck
wheat cakes to the lofty visions OF hea-
ven. In Judge Edmons' and Nr. Dex-
tors book, called Spiritualism, we have
a description of hesven from page 9Ste
las. / WAS going to make some quota
tons, but will just state what the Spi-
rits have revealed andit was from the
third and fourth heavens. They have
a caTslcade of men and women (de-
scribing their dresses and color of
their horses followed by dogs, from q
shaggy poodle to a sleek gray hound.
1t also reveals gardens, with vegeta-
bles of every description /; four saw
mills in operation I; ducks, chickens,
turkeys, and geese, trampIng round /;
women in their kitchen and household
operations all going on pretty much
as they do here.
And, as to the being and attributes
of God, they are varied and contradic-
tory. Mr.. Davis, of high repute and
pretentions in his Hsrmonia, vol. 2, p.
27S, says: "Aind, matter, God, and
his body, are universal and eternal
Judge Edmons says, Spiritualism, vol.
page 23s; 'God himself is the product
of developed intelligence" q believe
they deny Him in toto now.) No re-
lance here, nor anywhere else in Spi-
ritualism. Mr.. Ballou says in his work
on Esprit Manifestations" page s d 9,
that implicit reliance cannot be placed on
these revelations as absolutely verita-
be" From Mr.. Gridley's Astounding
Facts" We have . case where "the spir-
its by deliberate and persistent effort
killed q woman that her husband
might marry another, previously inn
pressed on his mind"
Noinoi Mr.. H., if you tear down
the Bible you must give US something
more reliable than the foregoing. A
book that has done as much for US as
the Bible we cannot give up thus
You may draw q line, by the Bible, and
for it l will place all the good and
pure our earth ever had. The philan-
thropist, whose deeds Of noble toll and
daring self7sacrifce have eYer-shrined
| their anna in the harris. of buuaa1i