Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-18

either case the facts are to be admitted
The future exists, the magnetic circle
is formed; we admit the revelations oil
magnet SIN only because magnetism
never erfs. But all means of reading
the future are doubted because the
machinery is imperfect, and often the
revelations erratlc. But the magnet.
ic telegraph may be demoralized by
putting it in connection with the earth
and so destroying its circuit And
SO is the mind demoralized by its evil
burthens, and its connections wholly
or in part cut offfrom the high source
where knowledge of the future is kept
in store
We have said, the future eristS, il
We may so use the present tense to ex-
press what appears to be but is not
future, for in real sense what is to
| be will be and now is
That God deals with man and
things by means of CORE spondence,
unbounded space or spirit the medium,
what else we may not conceive, APP
pears 50 probable that, however much
we may profess to doubt, perhaps
none feel to deny. We grant much OF
the future is wisely concealed from
man, yet the line between the known
and unknown is surely varying line
To the prophets much was known, and
at an age when men seemed no better
nor wiser than now. And in their
age revelations were made through
dreams. In our age particular per.
| sons have minds constituted as of old,
| passive and free mediums for the spirit
or magnetic current. That such per-
sons are at times in fit state for com
! manication with the source of all
knowledge is just as probable now as
ever, and the fact of such incidental
use is just as reasonable and rational
a. the results Of rnn5netiana. 40 euuh
times the gross senses being in pas
sive state or in deep sleep, the sense
OF the immortal spirit, perhaps acted
upon by the divine medium, perceives
without organs, what exists, what is to
transpire. Somnambulists see and
hear not with natural organs, and are
guided from dangers not by the ord-
nary means for securing safety. They
perceive clearly, but by agency not
natural, that higher sense which never
sleeps, never errs, and, we conclude
never dies.
Human agency hitherto has failed
to control or utalise the immortal
spirit, and we can only conceive the
divine as able to put it in connection
with the future, and then only by de.
stroying wholly or in part its connec-
ton with the gross nature The
psychologists and spiritualists have ex-
hausted their genius and failed to put
any human soul in artificial eonnec-
ton with the divine system, 50 as TO
reveal the future. Priests have pre-
tended the like; but there is perhaps
not person Of science living who be-
leives in the present existence Of such
power. But that instances of true
revelation OF events to happen do
however occur we cannot entertain
doubt, but only rs described Nor do
we yet claim that persons so mental
ly constituted as to reveal events by
dreams are the special subjects Of di-
vine favor. But only that such pos
sess the mental passiveness when
sleeping which allows the soul to free
ly perceive without the aid Of physical
organs. The soul cannot sleep, bat
is in bondage, and during its bondage
to the gross senses of man, it is con
stantly more or less hindered in its
perceptions of the future.
If the human soul may, by any
means during its connection with the
body, enjoy moment Of freedom, and
II uulnlS sucn lreedom IL porceTcs
and communicates unlawful knowl-
edge to the mind, it only proves the
scriptural atfirmations that the soul
when freed from the body shall possess
a degree Of acknowledge unlawful to be
known by men. St. Paul anirms to
having learned things unlawful to be
told. Very often the subject Of
trance and somnambulism have ut.
terly refused to report some things
seen and learned during their parox-
ysms, SO that humanity, with all its
grossness, Is very near to and at times
almost or quite in connection with
the fountain Of al knowledge, and it is
not at all Inconsistent with reason, oh
seryatlon or common sense, however
mysterious. And is it even strange
that the soul within us, being in such
intimate relationship, should refuse
when opportunity offers, to be a mon
tor and guide to the mind? And it
is highly probable the soul is ever in
possession Of its quota of wisdom,
whatever during its partnership with
the mind the bondage and degrade
ton. For ignorance is no attribute
OF the soul, whatever may be the state
Of the mind.
The case Of the miner at James
town is again referred to: he dreamed
that by drifting thirty feet north a
certain discovery would be made; his
mind had been advised of the fact in
a dream; he doubted but dwelt upon
the thought, and then submitted his
case to a doubling jury of about q
dozen persons; the jury was sufficient
" intelligent and free from bias, knew
it was only a dream, but upon discus
sion with accord advised Harry to
drift north thirty feet, as a test OF the
truth or falsity Of dreams. Every mi
ner knows that Harrys chance fol
striking mineral by the change Of di
rection was but as one in a thousand
or ten thousand. He drifted north
thirty feet, report said just thirty
measured feet, and found mineral al
the spot and in quantity to cores
pond with a dream revelation. There
was no plot, fraud or collision, and NJ
inducement for the like, but rather tht
contrary, as the drifting north to ties
dream involved labor and expense
There was but just faith enough il
dreams for the jury to advise test t