, 1879-05-07
THE sp1R1rY AND THE SCHOOLS,

1A6 QQHCHtlpuHl hllu pulIk!GAl uEeIcs "
Now York City nre just now III n whirl Of
amnzomont over the discovery that h1r.
HENRY K1DpLE, tue Superintendent OF
Schools, III an o,,s-apt.out Spiritualist. The
fac. seents to layo boen promulgated by tho
Superintendent hi1nsef, through the publ
cation Of book OIL "SpIritual Communities
tions," from which 1t appears that during
tho past year, by tho fundamentally Of his
son and daughter, lie has received communs-
cntions not only from Ills old friends but
from nll iho great mon Of the past, bogin-
ming with Bon IxuERsoLLs target Of abnse,
Moses, and ending with P1us TX. Such
master 1ninds aa pAu1, PETER, CALVIN,
suARsrEAnE, LUTHER, swEpESnona, FRANK
LIN, NEWTON, TuzononE PAaKLa, BosApAHrE,
aud WAau1Noroa have como down from
their far.ofR nights mud related to
him thoir regrets for tllelr sublunary
mistakes, their present experiences. and
their futuro expectations, IN very bad En-
glisl,, aud In style much inferior to that
which they usad whifo in the flesh, showing
tl,at the celestial curriculum OF education Ia
Batlly in want Of experienced teuchers and
woll-grndod schools, Or Tint tho snbjact is
altogether neglected. Not only this, these
master minds, instead OF increasing III depth
and britllancy, Soon 10 oo iaalhg out ana
| growing tmheollo aa time goes on IN mo
heavenly nights, Tor muoh TINT they havo
to say Is pacr'lo' and still more' with
NIL due reverence Tor theso colossal
ghosts, Ia bosh aud Bwaall. It ta not
very encouraging Tor ambitions mortals
who look forward to tho heavenly
stato rs one In which they will 60 on in"
| crcasing in Knowledge and expanding In
idoaa to discover from tho communications
inado to Superintendent RIDDLE that they
will DO likely to take the back track MS soon
| M they commence tho heavenly existence,
with fnfr prospect OF reaching lower
depth Of Ignorance than they could compass
In this world. Judged by tho communion
| tions In this volume, SuAKsrEAnE IL sopho-
more, DYnoS scloo!-boy, md PoE, though
no has boon doad Int few yenrs, is diotic.
1t Is somewhat curious, Judging by the
specimens, that tho rocts suffer tle most iu
thia rotrograding process. Nearly NIL of
them l,avo reacletl the plano Of Tho MINNIE
SIYnTLEs and Do111z D1,trIEs, while DyaoN
eau hardly cops with the Sweet Singer OF
Michigan in intellectual yigor or rhytllmical
oppression. The professors Of theology
mud teacboss of oreet1s now euuaoed
| in propacatiua thotr bcIiefs will nlso
bo discouraged to loarn that their
predecessors, almost without exception,
find when they nut OIL Immortality that thew
wero diatnotrioally wrong, aud that thoy
taught iust what they ought not to teac]l,
For instance, Archbishop 1luoury, in his ill.,
tcryiew with Mr. K1ppLE gets furious in hin
tlonunclattons Of himself, and tho medium
eays she seemed to SEQ him grinding his
teeth, olouchinu his flsts wildly gostfoulnt1nR
In tho ene,tah Of oonlrition, and otherwise
behaving In a very disorlerly ,nauucr for a
snirit who wo Ind innoiuod world occunv a
very prominent r,!aco with very largo harp,
rho Arohbishon says PRAY fnr ,ne.-vour
| courso,or from con-.and Have nm. M 1iko.
visa yo,,rae1ygp from further nninfnl rotro.