The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-05-02

leads to trouble. The f0ndneSs OF the
clergy for kissing the pretty women of
their congregations leads a wicked
world to suspect something more, and
often it does lead to something more.
Any woman who is once kissed by a
magnetic man like Beecher, will want
him to do 50 again, }" and every body,
especially every clergyman, knows that
it is hard matter to get enough of
that sort of thing.
The lesson of all these scandals is
that the clergy ought to be good deal
more circumspect In this matter Of
''laying lips and hands'' on the fair wo-
men of their congregations.
THE SPIRITUAL BODY
The New Church Independent (Swe-
denborgian,) the Religio-Philosophical
Journal (Spiritual,) the Rev. Joseph
Cook (Orthod"x and Anti-Parker,
have recently been considering the
question of the spiritual body, or the
covering which the soul wears after
death. The independents, as we might
expect, quotes Swedenborg, who assum-
ed to speak ex cathedra. According to
Swedenborg the object CT the material
form, in this life is to ''el,able a man
to perform.uses in this natural world,
and to carry along with him from the
purer substances of the world some
fixed continent for spiritual things, and
50 to continue and perpetuate his life. "
We notice that the tendency of all
modern thought upon the subject, and
this includes the German philosophers,
is toward just what Paul declared, that
there is 4 natural body and there is q
spiritual body.' In this world the
body is grosser, the substance is thick
Ell. In the next world, called the spir-
itual, the body is finer. but it is still a
body with the same form and organs.
Beecher speaks OF the spiritual body as
material body of il little finer form. -
Spiritualism teaches that our present
material bodies are now filed and &C.
cupied by the spiritual body, every Or
gan having its spiritual organ or coun-
terpart inside of the material or out
side organ, and that at death the spirit
ual body simply slip out of the natural
body rs u man would get out of his
clothing.
It is little singular that in all this
discussion no one has mentioned the
name Of Edgar 4. Poe, the wierl po-
ct, who long ago maintained that spirit
and matter were the same, only that
what is called spirit is more ethereal
that what is called matter. In other
words, Poe distinctly held that both
spirit and matter are material. lie al
80 held 20 tho theory of an all-perval-
ing atmosphere, of the same substance,
filling all space, but thicker or more
condensed near the surface Of the PLAN
cts.
MARRIED. OV THE WING
The Jackson Republic is responsible
for this romance in real prairie lifc
We extend t. that farmer Il cordial i'll
vitation to come and stop with us the
next time he comes to town. Drop in
and stay night with us. Stay two
nights if agreeable. Never mind about
the team. Well take care of that. No
matter about your clothes. Come in
your farmer dress and make yourself at
home. We're not ''stuck up" A man
in poor clothes is just as good as 'any
other man." And, by-tle-way, when
you go to Jackson call and stay il night
with the Republic man.
But here is the Republics story:
a farmer who resides out near the
Iowa line had business 1T Worthington
the other day, and if reports are true as
they come to us that was Il trip of no
ordinary significance. Night overlook
him on his return and he sought lotlg-
ing in i cosy but humble cot upon the
broad prairie. lie found the house oc-
cupiel by Il lone bachelor, but as is the
case witt, all old bachelors he was hos
pitable and was willing to share Ills pri-
mitive board and lodging with the
stranger. The traveller discussed the
loneliness of his hosts condition and
urged him to set out some dear lone
one OF the other sex to share that prai-
rie home with him and thus make two
disconsolates happy. This was exactly
what that old bachelor acknowledged
was what would suit him, and he listen
ed with the greatest delight and inter-
est us the stranger delineated the Zine
points" OF Il certain domestic employed
by linn scarce twenty miles away, and
whom he was satisfied would be love,
honey, and u housekeeper to his bacllc-
Tor friend. 1t fact he agreed to broacl,
the subject to her promptly on his ar
rival home, which he did, found things
not only lovely, but she, too, was more
than anxious, 50 anxious that our
matchmaking traveller hesitated. III.
nialIy she agreed to balance accounts
and scratch off what was due her for
per diem if he would only transport her
to that lone prairie bachelor. Impulse
and business stepped i'll and he yielded.
Soon that over anxious twain were face
to face, and us Sturgeon expressed it
the other Sunday their gushing thoughts
us think of it; second, let us consider
| Ho" ~ t"Ilolln IL; CnlfO, let us 40 IL al
once" And away they sped to Wor.
thingtOn and came back man and wife.
all in less than two days. notice and
four hours acquaintance.
I IMMIGRATION PAMPI1LEr.-We have
received copy of the pamphlet issued
by the Board of Immigration. It bears
evidence of hasty preparation, but is
a capital document to send abroad new
ertheless, as it sketches briefly of this
Empire State of the west. On the
back is the following: ''This Pamphle
I will be sent to any address in Americ;