The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-01-23

day signiicl great pcrod Of time if the
others did.
Equally consistent is he in reference
to the New Testament. Upon us it must
be all binding Does he thus enforce it
upon himself2 1t says, stake no thought
for the morrow LEND, hoping for
nothing in return" preach the gospel,
without money, and without price"
Glove your enemies "Return good for
evil" &c.
Does he carry out all those injunctions?
Well may he, after all his dicta to others
crawl back, and hide himself behind the
Esprit OF Christianity" and if he
possesses that spirit, the language he uses
in reference to Spiritualists and Spiritual
ism fails to show it.
l will give him credit for being better
versed in the sayings of Mrs. Woodruff
than | am, if the quotation he ascrbes
to her is genuine. | have never seen
anything of that character as the words
are there rendered, from her or any other
spiritualist. We despise impurity Of
every name, and we can bide it no better
in the teachers Of the people, than we
can in tho lowliest. We believe, that,
for all these things we must suffer a sure
penalty, that we "can not SOW and an
other reap our sowing" or anothers
merits do away with our responsibilities.
For this reason, if for no other, we wish
to keep the "insido of the platter clean,
that we may be white before the angels
He SCOTS at our talk Of immortality.
When my father comes to me and tells
me Of his home in spirit life, | have a
knowledge Of that life which I can not
ignore.
When my sister comes and tells me Of
her sickness and her death, hundreds Of
miles away, and Of which | had no preyi-
GUS knowledge, and also tells of her home
among the angels, why am | not to be-
licvc the latter statement, when ! have
proven the first to be true
When the form Of my daughter stands
clearly revealed to my vision, clothed in
garb ofimmortal brightness, and speaks
precious words Of hope and consolation,
have knowledge of immortalty,which
neither theories, nor anathemas can dis
turb. | look within my own soul
seaIchingly, and the voice Of God whisp-
ers to me, sit is we'll Then | can say
80 death where is thy sting o grave
where is thy victory?'
l will give a short quotation from John
Wesley, which may be found in his jour-
nal vol. Sd. If am a Pagan, a Heather
or Pantheist, he was as much Of one
He says, in speaking of some manifest
atoms through young woman named
Elizabeth lIobson, There are several OF
them which can not comprehend, but
this with me is very slender objection,
for what is there that do comprehend
of the things | see daily? What pre-.
tence have then to deny well attested
facts, because cannot comprehend
them ~ Again he says,-"l Willingly
take his opportunity Of entering my
solemn protest against this violent COM
plmcnt which so many that believe the
Bible, pay to those who do not believe it.
They well know whether Christians know
it or noH that the giving up Of witch
craft, is in effect, giving up the Bible.
And they know on the other hand, but If
one account of the intercourse of men
with separate spirits be admitted, that
their whole castle in the air (Deism,
Atheism, Materiaism,) falls to the
ground" He then proceeds to give an
account ofsome Of the strange experiences
Of this girl. She had, from her childhood
seen the spirits fpersons when they died,
or just before, and frequently afterwards
She says II observe all little children
and many grown persons, had bright
glorious light round them. But many
had a gloomy dismal light, and dusky
cloud over them Sho epools of cooling
the spirit of her uncle with whom she
lived) just before his death and her great
grief and desire to see him At length
he visited her, and for long time she
saw him every night, aud during an ILL.,
ness he would stay with her all night and
if she wanted anything he would fetch it
and put it in chair beside her. When
he would 60 away she heard inexpross-
ably sweet music. She gives long ac-
count Of her visions ofvisitors ofthis kind
and her interviews with them In his
comments. he says, They read our
thoughts and "ilow often are spirits
present when We do not think Of it," |
suppose the peculiar manifestations which
occurred in.his own and brothers families
gave for him an unusual interest in like
phenomena oyey where, nor is he an ex-
ception to every great religious rciormcr.
When Spiritualism first began to make
itself felt in its modern form, the bug
bear which bigots were continually cry
ing was insanity" We were filling the
asyums with lunatics. Spirituaists,
always ready to accept the TRUTH in
vestigated the matter, and 10 nine tenths
of the inmates Of these places, were per-
sons brought up, and fully believing in
the evangelical religion as taught by the
churches Bigots found that it was their
own fire and birthstone" doctrines which
dethroned reason, and lapsed in to silence
on tnat point. Next, they come out
with a great cry that We were breaking
up domestic happiness destroying families
because few had obtained bills of d.
vorce, but this, too, when looked into
carefully, proved as i'll founded as the
other, for in proportion to our members
there were far Fewer divorce cases among
us than any where else.
Now, Bigotry, gnashing its teeth in i'm =
potent rage, at being in reality powerless
to harm us, sleeps down all its own
knowledge of vileness and superstition,
and heaps the distilled "broth" upon us,
thinking thus to put off the day of our
triumphant victory over their sophistry
and hate, but their labor is vain Facts
stand immoveable, and all their fulmina-
tons fade before investigation. We know
where of we speak, and challenge the