The New York herald., 1873-11-02

not anord us any groun0 OF evidence from
mercy SHOWS By MS hearty eaa ap the ne
Holy Thing, called the Son OF God, which animates,
lives on and regenerates his nature. He does not,
| however see Jesus as he is; and, consequently,
his understanding is often afflicted with erring
! concets.
the return Of Jesus into the religious believing
world seems TO be strongly indicated BY the signs
| taught in the writings OF Emanuel Swedenborg
must greatly assist in opening the sealed mysteries
| OF the press and freedom in preaching led on by
| scientific Investigations in every department OF
ton Of the Son Of God Tor spiritual. divine Love
/ and Wisdom into His temple OF regenerated hu-
manity. "Eyen 80 come, Lord Jesus"
| Which Church s-Free Service.
| To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In your issue OF last Sunday, October &C. l
read with astonishment an unwarrantable state
ment by one who signs herself "Isabella Langston."
She asserts in very indefinite way that on &C.
/ count OF the manner In which the pews Of our
! churches are monopozed by the moneyed por.
| tion OF the congregations the poorer thereof
obliged to remain in the street until the 'seat
owners pleased TO admit them. What an
alarming assertion Who has ever known the pew
| owners to have the right Of keeping poor people
out of church, have never known it; never heard
OF it; and II Isabella knows such church
| she would do WELL think, to make IT known; and
since she has failed to show where such state OF
| evil exists will show Isabella where 1t does not
| exist Will fling her groundless accusations from
the door OF my church, lest her hailucination may
| have prompted her to nsinuate In this direction.
| Now, il Isabella will come to any OF the
| churches to which belong (Roman Catholic)
Will guarantee that she Will not be obliged to
main In the street, but step right in and take
! a seat, and If she should happen to be without her
! pocketbook she may rest easy and not be afraid OF
| election. Yours, very respectfully, w. BANKS.
!Spiritualism and tho Opposition-A
Nine Days Wonder Twenty-Five Years
| Old.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD
More than a-quarter OF q century has elapsed
since the phenome nal Illustrations OF modern
Spirtuasm began to attract attention In this
country and Europe. 1t was then predicted, alike
by theologians, scientists and infdels, that 1t
would be "a nine days. wonder" Most OF those
early false prophets have departed this life, and f
they now exist at all we may presume that they
believe IN and have intercourse with spirits.
Naturally enough there are many people whose de-
bilitated souls completely entombed in
concretlon OF sensuaity that their conversion to
Spirituasm is necessarily delayed, and may not
occur until some mortal shock breaks the
! shell and llberates the imprisoned spirit OF me-
cessity the change will come to ALL sooner or later;
| but those whose strong affinity for grovelling lille
makes them prefer the 'grub state" Will OF course
| be the last to take wings. = They remind
us OF poor old Jonah, who got mad because his
gourd-the growth OF night-perished in the
morning. while great Nineveh was saved from de-
struction. 1t was bad enough to have the gourd
wtther, but saving the city at the cost OF his rep
utation as a prophet made him so mad that he
wanted to die. diagnosis OF Jonahs case shows
that he suffered from nervous irritability, which
may have been greatly aggravated by his extraor-
dinary pers at sea.
/
Their gourds spring up suddenly grow rapidly and
die easily. but their prophecies all fail The Spirit
ual Jerusalem, far more populous and glorious
than Nneveh stands firmly on everlasting foun-
| dations. The Lord, for some wise purpose, no
doubt, not only permits Spiritualism TO live, but
causes IL to grow stronger every day and to make
amazing conquests throughout the world. 1t
already embraces many of the more distinguished
authors in England, France, Germany, Italy and
other European countries and large share OF the
dominant classes in every part Of the world. In
| England 1t Is also represented by the Queen and
many OF the cher nobility; in France 1t has found
representatives in the deceased Emperor and his
household the late President OF the Republic, and
| among the more distinguished minds in every ma
tionallty and all the higher walks OF life.
The cheap means employed to assist the Spiritual
bull went at the spirits headforemost, but made
no breach in the ranks the crucifx was repeatedly
tried but to no purpose-lt neither laid the ghosts
nor taught the tables to mind their gravity; exor-
cism, by the tree use OF holy water, only proved to
tions OF councils the prayers OF the saints and the
anathemas OF the clergy OF Christendom were all
what a sorry spectacle do the active opposers OF
Spirituaism present to-day For fifteen years
they have not been able to say anything new.
During this period all their vain attempts to solve
to physical forces and laws IN have ys'"Dsn utterly
failed and to-day we have nothing to re.
neve the dreamy monotony OF the old
story OF deception and deusion."
The poor drivellers keep talking loosely not so
|
ances OF the Spiritualists-their long hair Clean
figures" "sadayerols iacesm ex;
They rarely refer to the subject without some un-
generous Ming at persons names or characters.
species OF crime for the sake OF exciting popular
prejudice and ndgnauons ''' 1t should be
government and Institutions recognize the the
equal rights OF all classes OF men,
are m al 90 epeGi s M
What possible right, then, has any man to despise
the honest convictions Of his neighbour The man
who does this Is neither gentleman nor good
citizen. Society can only be securely maintained
by the cheerful recognition Of the rights OF every
individual, by the mutual OF ali the parties
| to the social compact and by reciprocal inter-
change OF the ofices OF common civiltfy.
o,on hs, hsve ee inat ootn science ana re-
the great moral and spiritual problems OF the age.
! The domain OF science must be enlarged so as TO
embrace proper classification and exposition OF
| psychological phenomena and laws, and our rever-
ence must be greatly Illuminated, unless we
determined that ignorance shall continue to bo
The mother Of devotion.
And yet the pretended representatives OF science
and philosophy boldly dispute numberless facts,
Witnessed by millions in all ages and countries.
These facts have been recognized and demon
strated by the very same means and methods pre-
scribed by the masters In science. They assume
that the human senses are the proper ana only
channels through which all evidence must be con-
veyed TO the mind. Why, then, do they arroRantly
dispute this evidence when IL supports the claims
OF SpirituasmS Why do they abandon their own
principles, close their eyes and ears, and, like
heightened children, attempt to away from the
iactsS While they refuse TO investigate fairly
they rudely sneer at the deeply settled convic-
| who most reverenty cherish the remains OF the
dead VINO recognize the silent speech OF sacred
rclics-~ne they arbitrarily Insist that the spirits
who have put on immortality shall keep silence for
ever. We have saints In ali the churches who