The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-25
Observation-Disclosures

gained considerable notoiiety az IN"
ooapilol mover" rebukes the ~. Louis |
Times for "trining with the insanity OF |
Robert Dale owen and SpirituaiSm.
"IIc who sneers ut Spiritualem." says |
Mr. Rcavis. 'sneer- al the brightest |
truths, and the iair'st hopes of man.
continued conscious existence beyond |
the graves" and. he adds. 1.-THE statistics
Of the asylums of the country show that !
there are At least three persons made in
sane by trinitarian theology where there
is one made So by Spirltualism.''
Mr.. Reayls is a most peculiar man. tie
Is not insane according To the rrpresen-
tationS OF those who know him; Int his
peculiartics OF manner and expression
are So marked they amount. in the csli.
nation OF those who have no informa-
ton on the subject, to insanity Of
mild type. II he wished. lle
could not prevent himself from
Being Spiritualist. His mental
construction makes him one. Prof Den
ton, while in Cairo, advocated Spiritual
ism. and solemnly asserted that he often
met his dead sister on the street, 4 in broad
| daylight, aud shook hands with her that
the soul left the body by withdrawing
first from the toes. rcceang up the legs.
along the body. and finally concentrating
ball. which. ~ the breath finally lcf) the
lungs, shot up as if IL were little bal
loon suddenly let loose. lie assured his
| hearers that u son OF his. or daIgh-
ter. had witnessed more than one soul
take its departure into the other world in
this way. IL this is not lunacy. what is
lunacy. Mr. Reavis, we have no doubt.
lives. rs Prof. Denton does, upon terms
of intimate friendship and of daily
Misunderstanding and conversational comm,l-
Mon with dead people. When we called
to the attention of gentleman of this
city the assertions of Professor Denton
referred to above, he told us, with evil
dent seriousness. that we did not know
everything; that the electric tc,e-
graph had been sneered at, that Fulton
was called lunatic when he attempted
to apply steam in the propulsion of wa
ter crafts, that science gave satisfactory
evidence of new things under the sun.
and that Prof Denton had probably pro-
crossed further than we and knew more.
He evidently believes that live persons
may meet dead persons on the street. ~
in life; and salute and converse with
them, and that Prot Denton asserted Il
fact when he said his son or,laughtcr had
witnessed the process of the soul getting
out of the body by rctrcatng from tn,
toes and escaping from the crown OF tn,
head in the form OF "A luminous ball. TC
!, person who has not progressed" and
who takes the world us he finds it, ,ucl
belief appears to be the result OF pervcrt.
ed mental facilities. and is sometimes
'"'i'' insanity. Mr.. Rcavs believes
cue" stories puts In them all the faith
ie'' Dy u child in the existence of
santa Claus and the truth of the Arabian
Nights Tales.
we refer To these facts fol the purpose
vi e ,i,,,i i, whr more Chri. fans than
arn,'uai insanity is a i-.' ..s,DJ as,,nn''
does not often indulge IN yio,,S "syi''h's'
liz vents "fi fsaiff H. INTO nc xyato''E !!
mems OF Woners and Npips of COM
munion with te soul of those who have
gone before. re l.,isane among the Spir-
itualists do no,Yiten become noisy or yio-
lent. They arg OF the Denton kind. and
OF the mild class in which is found those
who have no doubt Denton's hobsob,,n
stories arc solemn facts. The Christians
who become insane are generally those
who, fearful of the tire and the birthstone
OF their theology, are RAINING away from
the devil. who is AFTER them with -
sharp stick" They are turbulent luna
ties, and must be restrained. They are
accordingly put into a>ylums, and
can be counted; but how can We count
the mild. spirit-sceing SpiritualiSts. eyi.
IDENTIFY cracked but so inoficnsiyc their
confinement in lunatic asylums is not re-
CURED: The fact l.. most of the Chris
tan iunatics are in asylums, while most
" Wv I''''N''"i i'HittNs mol, are with
us every day, converse in scattering
away about evolution and differentiation.
Huxley and Darwin, materializations |
and other manifestations, science and
theology. They know everything that
can be known about time and eternity, |
and while dealing with the most sublime |
ana solemn of mysteries, can glow with |
wonder ut the sound of horrible music |
made by spirit musicians in a dark room |
upon cracked accordion. and see in |
the cheap tricks of pctticoated swindlcrs !
conclusive proof that the souls of man
ana beast exist beyond the grave. And
yet these Rcavises, themselves the vic |
inns OF the moon, are always harplng |
upon the insanity occasioncd by Chris.
tianity!