The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-03

they had their own speakers at hand
who could admister so much more sat
tisfactorily to their spiritual needs, 4
The singing was nothing TO brng oi-
we had a hand, or rather voice IN II.
And manifestations" Of the departed
were quite as incomplete and unsatis-
factory, although we took no part
therein-because we couldn't
Then we all listened for an hour to
Mrs. Ballou. What a speech she gave
us! Astounding in beautiful rhetoric,
and hedged all around with philosophy
and logic, the speaker, in womaniy;
voice, and with modest mein, diseoursed
as learnedly as did Socrates in the hey
day Of his wisdom, and with such eio-
quence as Cicero might envy, were he
to-day a denizen of the terrestrial sphere.
We edon't much wonder that ministers,
as class, are so averse to admitting
women to the pulpit. The dry hash
that many of them deal out to the COM
munity would soon be at a discount If
the unspoken eloquence of certain lady
members of their fiocks could once find
utterance.
Spent the night at the hospitable
home of J. F. Beals, Esq, who is build
ing grist mill on Parrot Creek ada
cent to the grounds; and this, aside
from the fact that he is genial neigh
Dor and his wife an agreeable hostess,
makes him q prominent citizen OF the
vicinity, whose success in mill-building
is matter of generalintere
Sunday morning dawned, gloomy,
cold and misty, but we all repaired to
the grounds at nine o'clock. The num-
bers were by this time considerably
augmented and continued to increase
until three z. NJ, after which they grad
ually decreased in about the same pro
portion. !.
AL. CleaveIand, the noted trance
speaker, treated his hearers to disser-
tation upon the social question, which
was principally disclaimer against the
"promiscuity" doctrines Of some of tina
would-be lights of their faith. '' 'c'-'
We did not learn the maine or nativity
of the invisible influence who claimed
to s'controp him, but the doctrine wa
a ascathing rebuke to licentiousness. Tit
tones of the speaker were decidedly
camp-meetin'- ish, and we confess tina
we fail to discover that depth and bril-
liancy to the few discourses we hav,
heard from his lips which his admirer
appreciate so deeply.
The author of the ''Voters' Book o
Remembrance" being called upon, de
Hvered an address, and we, being ais
called for, spoke for half an hour upoi
, the "Elevation of Humanity"l Othe
short speeches and then dinner fol
lowed, after which a two hours 1ectur
, from Mrs. Ballou was given to the mul
titude, in which every subject and frag
ment of subject, from the Revolutionar
days to the present, received due notice
/ commendation, criticism or ridicule, an
proving a versatility OF talent in th
speaker that fully sustained her highl
wrought effort Of the previous evening
e No pen can do the speaker justie,
D Ours will not attempt it. Suffice it I
p say, that while we do not endorse all, {
half her doctrines, we'veneyer yet hear
! two men who could equal her in argI
( ment or eloquence. Evidently Il
t woman has been a deep sufferer in b,
. short life; but suffering has only quicl
: ened her womanly regard for even IL
: lowest OF Gods children, and taught n
;. to feel that sympathy for the unfortl
nate and sinful which was 50 beaut
fully wrought in the exemplary life
the great Man of Sorrows.
: In theevenlng, after speaking was ov
d and Mrs. Ballou was gone, those OF us wi
e remained around the glowing can
II fires were requested to form n s'circle
/, under the shadows of the bending tree
II "Positives' and negatives" were d
II vided according to the judgment of
IS lady who was used TO the business, an
Y we all sat down according to direction
n but no ghostly yisitant appeared and
le Influence" but fleas disturbed us;
it we gave it up and repaired once more
;, the house OF our friends. We spent tI
lie night within hearing of the, singh
al waters in the adjacent gulcb, and to-
5. the morning train for Portland, load
II with boquets Of wild flowers, and with
> goodly list of new subscribers to Il
re NEW NORTHWEST in onr pocket. ira
ie Why don't some of the managers
A. Christian camp-meetings invite US
ic their groves, we wonder? .....-