The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-17

depends on the experience and intelligence
of the people assembled. The ancients
did not recognize the Independent exls-
tence of the spirit. 1t has been said OF
man, "for dust thou art and unto dust
shalt thou return" thus showing the intl
mate relation that exists between the mater
ial body and the material work. When spirit
has controlled material bodies TO produce
movements and phenomena that have as
tonished the lockers on, they have said 1t
is the result of electricity. But electricity |
has no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no
mouth to speak in words that man can I'M
derstand, and no heart to feel. Spirit is |
mighty power in the world. We have |
another mighty power in the world-wa,cr. |
1t sweeps along in its course to the ocean |
and of itself accomplishes nothing, except |
to moistcn the earth and stimulate vegeta-
ton and cause 1t to flourish. But turned
aside and controlled by intelligence it is
made to turn the mill wheels and set the
epindIes and looms in motion that produce
the cloth to clothe the nations. But when
man turned the stream aside from its natu-
raj channel to control It for purposes of
productive industry the world does not call
it inddelity. The mosaic dispensation re-
presents the infancy of the moral nature Of
man, the christian dispensation represents
the youth of mans moral nature, and
splritullism represents the moral manhood
of the human race.
EVENING SESSION.
DR. II. d. Storer was The first regular
| speaker. lie said he had heard, and he al
luded to it in no spirit of unkindness, that
application was made for the use of the
unoccupied church in which to hold the
convention, and it WAS refused. 1t is the
manifestation of the spirit of caste, tbe
spirit Of II am holier than thou. The
mission of Spirtualsm is to break down
this spirit of caste 1t does not come to the
clergy; it does not come to the protested
minister of God. 1t comes to man, to men
and women in all stations of life, and de-
monstrates the TACT Of the immortality OF
the soul.
Mrs s. a. Wiley OF Rockingham was
The mex speaker She spoke in feeling
manuer Of the consultations Of spiritualsm
to the hearts of mourners.
sAruRDAY--MoENING SESSION.
The session was opened with a confer.
ence for the first hour. Mrs. Albertson OF
, Massachusetts spoke of her labors in Mount
, Holly and the interest that had been awak
+ ened in that place.
T DIR. f. b. Holden suggested, and it wa
t voted, that the Vermont spiritualists asso
citation, in convention assembled at Cut
tingsvile, send greeting to the Northern
i Illinois spirtualsls association, in convcn
G ton assembled at Rockford, ILL.,, the frs
+ two centennial conventions of the yevr.
It The hour for the regular convention hay
q ing arrived, Mrs. Kenyon of Woodstoc
c was Introduced as the first speaker. Sh
:. took for her subject, "The time has com
" for man to walk by knowledge and not b
faith"
The next speaker was DR.. II. Z. Fail
> field. He took for his text in Mathew g.
rs 33 and l3-11. DR.. Fairfield is franc
r speaker, and reads scripture with wonde,
,e full facility and remarkable accuracy wit
~ the book closed and his eyes closed. II
d effort was to illustrate the correspondent
j. between the material world and the spiri
y ual world.
10 AIIEkNODN SESSlON.
ar The first hour was devoted to conference
N Mr.. A. L. Hubbard, of Tyson Furnac
~ spoke on the subject of mo
sectarian schools Such school .h'
been started at Plymouth Unto
Two terms have been held and wi
le much better results than was anticipate
OF DR.. Fairfield arose and said that strang
re by his side had asked chow did you &
he into this :" lie wished to cay that he d
n. not get into it but it got into him
graduated from whale ship, never recei
Cd an education, was not Yersod in t
scriptures but could read it without t
book under influence, and could epe
Latin, Hebrew and Greek, and many OIL
languages. He spoke of the Importance
educating the young as all could not ha
knowledge ihparted to them in that Wa
ce. Mrs. Albertson made a strong appeal
the spititualists to sustain the medium
ard related many tests that had been
ceiyed in Mount Holly, and spoke of
on sudden development, as a medium, Of
little child, and the interest in the cause
spiliiualism in that place.
Dr. II. B. Storer was introduced as
speaker at the regular session. He gave
ly. sound and Logical address, and moth
short Of q full report would do him justi
'es. Adjourned till O'clock.