The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-26

'"N hnNi "ii NOulu udFC DcCU clear, anu
the splendors Of Spiritualistic "immortal-
ity' would have blazed upon his benight.
ed soul, like the sun Of noon.
Then too, there was Socrates, who
speeulatcd in darkness about the immor-
tality of the soul, but without the light,
why did not some "light spirit" we
are told-O, astounding information
that there arc "dark spirits" did
not "light" ono draw unto himself"
this honest, old sage, and so afford him
: occular demonstration, or what it may be
J called, in which these Spiritists deal, Of
the truth "of immortality. Beside, was
it not little Singular that since Socrates
had u "demon" or spirit attending him,
for he tells US that he did, one "that had
attending him from childhood and which
he always consulted before he undertook
any thing of moment" was it not very
odd that that spirit had not given him
ia knowledge of Immortality" when, ac-
cording to what spirits, eight or dark
old or young, gray or grizzled, now
tell us is their first and special function
to teach, the first doctrine of their darling
ism. That the attendant of the ancient
heathen philosopher, was like modern
ones, seems reasonable, for he declares
further, that by this "demon" Tor spirit
"magicians that is, mediums, sup
pose like James and Jambres and the
Endor Witch and all modern mediums,
perform all their amazing feats, calling
up ghosts and departed spirits from the
shades, by which "thcy are able to make
stools aud taJles prophesy, and by which
"they gain such mysterious knowledge,
that Caster and Polux, two famous
twin brother divini,ies, Announced at
Rome, the victory of Per>cus, King Of
Macedon the same day it was fought"
Are not these exploits marvellonsly
akin to the wonderful thing5 by which
Spiritualists now sustain their claims 70
be the true religion -? Don't it look as il
"the trangible something" some people
see in this miserable delusion, was, after
all, nothing more than the cast off mems
truous rags Of the birthday Of pagansm
And lcok like it it may, for it is nothint
else. And so these people, who claim tha
they "haye investigated Spiritualism
thoroughly once year, travel down up
and the State to this Mecca of their conven-
tions, to pedde off these filthy and latter
ed garments, in place of the pure robes
Of Jcsds righteousness. There would in
decd he no accounting for their taste, II
we had not; in our former article, fshed
up out their ce>s-pooi of abominations
the dirty GODS. from whom they take
their cue aud get their inspirations.
'.rnr -upcr,titions, idle headed cid
Received, aui u deliver to our age"
These rag.
For the only thing which rcdccms them
from universal obloquy, and prevents
their foul aspect and stencil from being
seen and smelled is, that these skeptcs
cloak them with some half-truth, stolen
from the Bible and from Christ. And
this idea, that they parade about "mmor-
tality," was stolen in that way and from
that source. For, as have shown, and
as my intelligent readers well know, that
Socrates, Notwithstanding he had faml-
liar spirit, and was a Spiritualist of the
ancient times, las pagan he must needs
have BEEN yet, though he had his mind
turned strongly toward the idea that the
sou! was immortal, he did not and was
not able to raise it above hopeful spec
ulaton-a doubtful though desirable by
pothcsis And why not Why should
not Spiritualism, lift is in its very nature
designed to teach and demonstrate such
truth why should it not have revealed it
to him, since re are told that it sis an
other name for revelation p Why did
no light emerge from the invisible world
on this subject, until only in those coun-
tries where the Bible was, and among the
people to whom the Oracles of Jehovah
were committed And why has modern
Nccromancy revealed the truth of immor-
tality,-if may allow myself for argu.
ments sake to say so,-no where and at
no time, except when the Bible has been
circulated and read, and where it were
as needless for such thing to teach it,
as to carry water to the ocean, or light TO
tho sun?
Some have talked about my arrogance,
but where was ever greater, really display
ed, despite seeming humility, than TO
assume that these modern Sorcerers were
the especial and exclusive revelators o!
this Bible truth? But even in this, they
give US but half truth. For it is the
immortality Of the soul only that they
maintain, The resurrection of the body
they decry, as much as did their pagan
prototypes to which Paul preached on
Mans Hill. The uniform testimony of
the "spirits is, not only that the spirit es-
capes at death from the body, as the but
terhy from the chrysaslis. but that the dis
embodied state Is the final and perfect
condition the body at best being mere
drag. "Our grave-yards, says Denton
in his, "ls Spiritualism True page Al
"arc not the dwelling places of the de-
parted nor all our coffins the bedroom
in which they are to sleep till trumpet
blast shall wake the dust, and call it forth
to life again. There We lay away the
shards, the cast of casesof humanity etc
Says a. j. Davis, page 80 of his auto
biography, ITO our inmost principles
there is no death The IIarmonia Phil
osophy is the gospel of Nature and Rea-
SON. Our page 90 of the "Phiosophy
Of Spiritual Intercourse he aflirms that
death is the resurrection and quotes in
proof, from ! Cor. Is; at is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory' thereby
handling the word of God, as they ever
do, when they handle it at ali, deceiyHHy.
Were they but to make confession, their
spirits | mean, the language of Shake
speare would serve their purpose well
"And thus eothe my naked yllany,
With Old odd ends tstolen forth of holy writ
And seom saint, when most play the devil.
And so these pious Spiritualists, who
write, as If they talked with n sanctimon.
ious whine, about 1.-The simplicity and