, 1874-10-18
SUMMER-LAND.
Iho Next World According to
.Scers and Spirits.

a pfxscc rs Real rs This Oae-Citfes.
Streets, Houses, soctal Arranre-
Aseats-Distanc>. G5.oo0,NOo,0Oo OF
Mlics from This Earth.
From The Neto York tPortd.
'sunaner-Land is the name giTon by the
seer Davis to that bourne from whonce-it was
| popularly supposed before the day OF spirit
rapping-no traveller returned. In other words,
it is the heaven Of the Spiritualists who believe
in Mr. Davis teachings. Upon searching
6Dlritualstlc literature there is found proyox-
ing difference OF opinion among the oracles ~ to
the character, composition, and location of tho
spirit-iand- They all claim equal gifts of seer-
! ship, and yet fatty contradict each other. Tor
instance, Andrew Jackson Davis has been able
to discover an lEnmeuse range OF spiritual ter
ritoxy in the milky nay, Inhabited BY the souls OF
those who hayo lived mortal lives on tho planets
Of our system. while others, wise men 10 The pro-
fcssion. haFo had it revealed to them that the
spirit world Is all around us-that. indeed, We
nre living i'll it now. aud unable to behold its
manifold beauties and tue spirits Of those whose
bodies we have buried in the dust because our
senses IRE clouded by oar heshly envelopes.
When ue cast away olr body as we tako OF
our clothes at night, We Sea all. Tlen n5aiu
the learned Spirlsualists Disagree Us to reucaraa
tion or tho theory OF the dwelling Of tho soul in
successive ealth-boaics until complete putitic2-
tion is reached. Kardec and the millions Of his
followers on tho Continent Of Europe aro re-
ipcnrnaEonsts. But Andrew Jackson Davis de-
| clnres TINT reincarnat;on is hailuciaatioa in
| vented by DiaEAa, or m1scnleyou5 spirits. What
! shall NO believe when these doctors disagree? II
spirit-lanQ is EeaI place, and spirits Of intc'N
geuce a:o permitted to tococaulupicate lnformation
to Us, it seems strange that there should be aly
Variance in the description. What would wo
| think if . thousand sensible people like Bayard
Taylor should return from visits to the interior
OF Africa, aud tell ua that the people there we're
80 feet high, and carried their beads under their
shoulders. while another thousand should como
| back at different Times, and Say that the Same
people there were feet high. and wore no heaGs
at all? But these travellers would not glyo each
| other tho lie moro fatlv about place about
| which there ought not tn be any mistake, than
Davis and Knrdec. md fifty other eeers, d. about
| the world tho soul iunab;ts after mortal death.
| SUNDERLAND sEEs Is ! yIs1oS.
The Sumncy-Land to be described in this
| article, for the benefit OF tho curious IN such
things, is that believed In by Andrew Jackson
| Davis aud his followers. Liae SYedanborg, AIR.
Davis i,ss seen this spirit i'll visiona- He
! has written yolaminous!y on the subject. and 1t
nlus: DC fessed that it IL necessary to strug-
1T al Intelligent idea Of the country lie attempts
| to sketch. The sDecnlations Of tbs soer, bow-
ever, arc intel eslDG, and no apology il ucces-
sary fof giving go much space to an exposition OF
| belief which is shared 10 ly many thousands,
| ii not millions, of cur fellow-couutrrmen. Be
| fore going into dcsc.iptiou of tho summer
| Land, Mr.. Davis statement of the manner iu
| which the spirit quits its earthly tenement by
the process called death viii be entertaining:
sr,nosa =, bnr,an hejnr 10 na lriro in the
da,th1h-I hefore Toa, Parsors Irssent nos
| seeing anything Of ssthn beautiful processes
Of the interior" IRE grief-str;clen aud weeping
The depa,tiu Que, It may be supposed, is .
| ia cornar ~ tho ronn of snrrov sianas ono
| 1he secr> Win sens throurh the outward
pDhenonenn n-esented bv the dyinq ona. To the
emzwnrd senses tne fceE arc thcre. tue head GU
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