Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-17
AUSTIN CORRESPONDENCE.
AUSTIN, December Il, 1873.

science, morals, literature and religion that
'-the time has gone DER When a man may
in all things be ALL" That III these days,
although we do not produce Raphaels, Titians,
Murrillos, Christopher Wrens, Shakspeares,
or even Ben Jonsons, we know more of
theology than Luther Calvin, John Knox, or
even that great persuasive reformer, Henry
the Eighth, of blessed memory and fat sides !;
and that we have advanced far on the road to
perfection. L have some doubts upon the
subject just now. There is, at least, pre-
sumption that after having put off this mortal
and put on Immortality we shall have attained
higher grade of perfection, and that eve
shall know as we are known"
go, ~ad some power the gifde gle u.s.
To see oursePs as thers us 4
Prayed Burns, with an eye, no doubt, to that
state. We have always adhered to the COM
Portable doctrine of progression, in view of
our present limited faculties but recent ex-
perience has somewhat modified our opinions
and confess to mental suspension, like
hahomets coffin, some where between
heaven and earth. What shook our faith
was this Not long ago we listened to lecture
on the origin of revealed religion, purporting
to be dictated by the spirits, and delivered by
test medium who, in trance, was simply
a medium of communication We have no
doubt as to her being in a trance, for no wo-
man or man, in their sober, waking moments,
could possibly give vent to such string of
pure nonsense, vulgar English and uninspired
pronunciation in an hour as did those spirits
through that fair medium. 1t has always
been an article of our faith that when we
have I" shuffied off this mortal coil we shall
also have shuffled off our local vulgarisms, or
at least our diatectic peculiarities but that
lecture convinced us that we have all the
while been in error, and that in future we
shall be the same ignoramuses we are to-day.
The lecturess demonstrated to the entire salts
faction of her audience "a bit of history of
which we confess we have always been ignor-
anti viz-that Abraham, who led the tribes
down into Egypt-and this was stated with
strong spiritual emphasis-was a sun worship
per, and that Moses, undoubtedly school
boy at, and perhaps graduate of the Uni
versity of Heliopolis, there imbibed the same
doctrines, which he afterward embodied in
the Hebrew worship. In that case Moses
must have been playing truant when he
struck the burning bush which no doubt gave
him a foretaste Of the bijrhing in store for
him. We learned a thousand other things
from those spirits which proved clearly that
not only the Pentateuch and the whole history
of the Theocracy, but Christianity, its off
spring and successor, both had their origin in
a series of theological systems so far in ad
vance of the Bible or any other history that
not the memory of man nor the earliest rec
ords can possibly reach. These all began
with ''Braymay 1--WE give the spiritual pro-
nunciation as near as We can spell i) running
down through ages, since long before creation.
We have been theological student, and
even a Sunday school teacher, for the Lord
knows how long, but we confess that neither
the s. S. Union scripture lessons, Barnes
notes, nor Jaoobys nor ''any other thing
ever gave us such ideas as that medium gave
us from Bearo,t Bru1,sen, Query, Chew. Bun
SEM, David Hume, very humble inf-no,
Christian, and some Frenchman's translation |
of the Vedas-we could not catch the name, |
for, as Ingolds6y says, French names only |
bother one than we ever imbibed from any
other source i'll the same time. The conclu-
sive and incontrovertible proofs, produced |
from conternporaneous Roman writer's, utterly
unprei JUDGED men, as to the low origin of
Jesus of Nazereth his uneducated life, the
vuigarity of his associations, his connection
with the Hebrew Monastic sect of the Essences
pronounced by those Spirits sscenees), the
ignorance, filth and utter degradation of his
such as Peter and John and Paul
the first intimation We ever had that Paul
was a disciple-and the news that CUnstan-
tine first introduced and established by edct
the doctrine of the Trinity, quite did for ali
our old time notions. There was one asser-
ion We are bound to controvert, even though
made by lady and under the influence of
any spirits ever poured from decanter, ga
spirit of heaven, blast of hell, or (gob-
ETY. damned namely, that the worship of
he bull, Taurus Ohey called it Apis, we
hiuk), originated in Egypt. That, we claim,
pure perversion. We have been in good
many countries and witnessed good many
orms of religious worship, and seen gods of
III sorts but we have, to the best of our
ecoilection, never met with the bull in his