Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-24

Today, is true OF all past time. You will
see, then, that death is no curse. You
will see that the common notion, that
death was imposed as curse, is utterly
false.
THE LIFE WE DO NOT SEE.
Now we say the cedar is dead and
gone-burned up, nothing left but its
ashes; but l don't think so. l believe
the cedar that is burned to ashes is not
gone. You say the pyramid that is de-
cayed is gone. Some of them have been
gone so long that the tooth of Time has
left nothing. But say there is nothing
of the kind "Do you mean to say that
they exist9" Yes; say that pyramid
that has decayed, gone, blown away in
! dust-is. here still. All the trees that
have lived on this planet are living some
where. There are persons endowed with
certain senses-the psychometric sense
that can cogniZe them; that have eyes to
see things that existed in the primal
ages; that can listen to winds that blew
millions of years ago.
A CURIOUS FACT RELATED BY HERsCHEL.
Sir John Herschel, in his scientific lee
lures, says: ~ had been witnessing the
demolition Of a structure familiar to me
from childhood, and with which many
interesting associations were connected
demolition not unattended with dam
ger to the workmen employed, about
whom had felt very uncomfortable. 1t
happened to me, at the approach of even
lng-while, however, there was vet pref
ty good ight-to pass near the place
where, the day before, it had stood, the
path had to follow leading beside it.
standing, projected against the dull sky.
Being perfectly aware that it was mere
nervous impression l walked on, keeping
my eyes directed to it, and the perspec-
tive OF the form and the disposition of
the parts appeared to change with the
change in the point of vision, as they
would have done if the structure had
been real"
THE NO EXPLANATION, AND THE REAL ONE.
"Herschel's explanation of what he
saw-"a nervous impression"-is really
no explanation at all. TO make a nerv-
Gus impression something must be, or oc-
cur, to produce that effect upon the nerves.
How could nervous impression" pro-
ject house, and make it as real as the
brick and mortar dwelling had been9
Psychometry explains this most salts
factorily. 1t was not fancy. What was
it? say it was the building. I say there
is something to everything that death
cannot touch. My experiments in psych-
ometry demonstrate that everything has
a spiritual counterpart. We have interior
senses by which we can recognize it. A
specimen from Egypt calls up to the eye
OF the sensitive when placed upon the
forehead, lite-like scenes of the Nile val
ley, long ago. give to the sensitive per-
son a little fragment, it may be, from a
rock, wall, tomb, a ruin.-it is a speci-
men; don't tell him (or herr what it is,
or where it came from; I don't even know
myself where it came from-and only
ascertain afterwards by looking at the
printed number pasted on it, and then
looking for that number in my written
catalogue, which will tell what the frag-
ment is-where it came from. But the
sensitive goes on, without being told
anything about it, and describes, perhaps
the scenes on the populous banks of the
Nile in PharaOh's time, or the rocky hill
oAOOo VI NdIACyi
hewn sepulchres, and the artists there at
work with chisel, or with brush, carving
and decorating the wonderful figures cut
out of the rock in the heart of Egypt
three thousand years ago.
AMAZING BOWER OF PsYCHoMETRY.
The sensitive goes back, not only to
gigantic tree ferns unrolling their fronds
in the worlds primal ages, and sees rep
tiles rushing through the waters, or lying
dead on the shore, but even sees cock
reaches run out, when the dead carcass of
the hugh reptile is turned over by one of
the land-slides on those torrid hills of
mighty rains. These experiments, and
Others of similar nature, have tried by
thousands.
LET Us NOT FEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH.
You say those statements are extrava-
CANT. But there are hundreds of extrava-
CANT things that are true. l know these
to be true. People say you shouldn't
tell such extravagant things, the world
isn't prepared for them yet. But what is
ever going to prepare the world, if the
truth is never told it? The world would
be babes forever, if people acted on that
principle. Somebody thousand years
ago said something, or 1 should not be
saying this tonight. If Nature is bold
enough to teach me truth, I ought to
be manly enough to tell that truth to nv
neighbor. Applause. There are deeps
infinitely deeper, and heights infinitely
higher, than rny that have yet been ex-
plored. We all ought to look at an at
tempt to sound this great ocean, whose
deeps can everywhere be recog-
nized by the clear thinkers of the
world.
hold that nothing dies absolutely.
hold that everything that exists has an
existence in the spiritual world. That
building is not only house; 1t has it's
spiritual counterpart
WHAT WE SEE IS THE LEAST PART OF THE
REAL MAN.
The more investigate this subject of
psychometry the more clearly this theory
is impressed upon my mind as the only
possible way of accounting for these facts
But when we have gone so far as that, it
is very far from satisfying the human
soul. When we have gone so far as to prove
that person who lived thousand or a
million years ago, can be seen by the
backward-journeying psychometer, Just
as he was, amidst his surroundings, and
all his life of that day is brought before
us, that does not satisfy the warnings of
our spirits. We want something grander.
We want proof positive that we, our in
dividuals selves, shall still live, as in
dividuals, when the monuments we have
reared, and the mountains we now see,
are alike levelled under the universal
law of decay -change-death. / am in
/ nlinad to think fhaf thoao dna;roa of 4ha