The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-09
Spiritun1islla.

Spiritualist and medium, to respond
through your columns to an editorial mp
pearing in the Rutland Herald of Deccni-
Der 18th, stlgmatizing all Spiritualists be-
cause of The theory of one man employed
as q missionary in Massachusetts.
have been medium to receive spiritual
communications, over twenty years, conse-
qucntly, in making investigations, have not
been obliged to consult other mediums to
prove the gcnuinencss of modern Spiritual
ism. The fundamental principle of the
sprituali>jic phenomena is demonstrated in
the proof palpable of conscious, immortal,
indivldualized existence, when the spirit has
left its earthly tcnn nent, with the power
return and demonstrate its presence in an al
most endless variety of phases Tie ulti-
mate of this phenomena being the education
and unfolding Of the spiritual nature of
mortals. With til, universe as their sphere
of action, their power is everywhere mani
tested from the lowest phase of mind con-
trolling matter, to the highest inspiration
flowing from God through angels, to hu-
manity.
During the twenty year that have been
controlled as medium have never known
spirit through my mediumship give adj
vice to do wrong or sanction vice. When
spirits have controlled my hand to give
messages, over which the yoltion of my
will had no power, the only requirement
being passive condition, my hand grasped
by an unseen influence, and page after page
written to prove the identity of the control
ling intelligence, not word has ever been
written inconsistent with the purest chris
tian life, or antagonstic to the vital ele-
ments of purity and virtue. While moth
ers, sisters, fathers and friends have writ
ten volumes of advice, pertaining to the
welfare of those bound to them by tics of
nature, or fratcrnal love-
When entranccd | cannot speak for my
self, but those who have listened to the
controlling spirit inform me that every SEN
timent expressed is in harmony with the
purest teachings, and the advice given, al
ways of a nature, if needed, to raise the
individual morally and spiritually.
Spiritualism is no more responsible for
the character of its voteries than the Bap-
fist church in Rutland for the card playing
and wine drinking which may be practiced
by some Of its members.
Principles are unfolded as the human
family are prepared to receive them, and
are not effected by the imperfections of in
dividuals. Stereotyped theories, and arbi-
trary theological dogmas have always been
arrayed in direct opposition to any new de-
yelopmcnts, consequently new discoveries
or inspirational truths given through sus-
ccptble minds, are at once mathematical
as humbug or the devil.
The experiences of Jesus form no excep.
ZION to this fact. His character was as
sailed, His ancestry questioned, and He
put to death by the ruling powers of His
time, but the truths he uttered are eternal
The history of theological innovations has
been recorded with human blood The
medical as well as theological world
has always opposed innovations, and its
progress has been slow. Harvey, who dis
covered the circulation of the blood, was
deprived of the right to practice medicine
in his own country, and was compelled t
leave his native land to cscape.the persccu
ton pouredupon him. Ambrose Par, wht
first introduced the ligature and tied tn,
artery, was denounced With the most reck
less violence, for daring to suspend lif,
upon mere thread when boiling tar hat
stood the test of centuries. The use o
Peruvian bark IN England was denounced
as Papsh remedy, proceeding from tn,
father of all Papists, the devil. DIR. Jenner'
discovery of vaccination was received witt
ridcule and contempt. He was prosecute,
and driven from his own country, Will
religion and the bible were used as weapon
OF warfare against him. Erkman of Frank
FORT attempted to prove from scriptur
that vaccination was The anti Christ.
Tie blgoted, narrow minded and indC
lent, may assume that they have reache
the boundary of all human knowledge, an
that all revelation ceased when the propl
cts died. Self-satisfied ignorance may en-
shrine itself within the sphere of its blind
ed cgotism, still the history of the pas
proves incontestably that only through sue
cessiye developments has the world rcache
its present plane of intellectual moral an
spiritual progress
Spiritualism may be denounced as an il
ovator, as heresy, humbug, or the dev
1t lives and makes the advent of dspenst
ton as definite and antagonistc to th
creeds, dogmas, customs and theories of III
past, as the beautiful teachings of jest
were antagonistic to the Mosaic dispcns;
ton of arbitrary, blood-thirsty and SELLS
power.
The editor of the Uerdid seems to undc
staad the meaning of integrity of sexisl
better than l claim to know, having sec
the words in point connected with Spiri
ualsm before. MARY l.. ,JRwETT
Rutland, Dec. Z, 1874.