The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-03-13
CHANGE OF OPINION.

From the letter of London cores
pondent we observe with positive satis-
faction that Il change of sentiment and
opinion, in regard to Spiritualism, is at
pre- emit taking place in even wider
measure than before in England, and
especially among the clergymen of the
Church of England. The method of
the advance of the great verify is repre-
scented to be silent but sure.-Banner
of Light.
Since Queen Victoria became Spir-
itualist and the Princess Alice a medi-
UNI, English ''society'' has lost a good
deal of its prejudice against Spiritual
ism and seances among the upper clas-
es are almost as popular now as tea
parties or dinners were formerly. Can
nan Farrar, probably the best scholar
in the English Church and author of
the best life OF Christ extant, is an ear
nest investigator and believer, and with
the superior intelligence and scholar
ship which characterizes the clergy of
the Anglican Church, we expect to see
them rapidly giving in their adhesion
to the greatest movement of modern
times. The recent Premier, Gladstone,
has / n been an:open defender of 81 IT.
itualism, and it may truly be said that
the best brains and best scholars of
England are now included in Spiritual
ism.
simultaneously with this news con-
corning the English Church, comes the
publication OF the experiences of Mrs.
Nichols, London medium and Catho-
lie. The Church has encouraged her in
her mediumship and she had, it seems,
the emphatic endorsement of the late
Archbishop Hughes, who told her that
God had given her that work to do, and
he encouraged her to do it.
CURED II1M.-The drug doctors are
making a fight in most of the states on
the magnetic doctors. They are secur-
ing the passage of laws prohibiting
magnetic healers from curing the sick
under penalty of heavy fine and impris-
onmcnt.
The ignorance of some doctors is pro-
digious. We knew young man who
lived down east, who had been ailing
for months. lie had lost his appetite,
couldn't sleep at night, and was grow
ing pale and thin. When he did sleep,
he raved, and he didn't seem to enjoy
anything but the love stories in the
Ledger, the ADVANCE, and the other
leading papers. Well, sir, one day a
young lady walked into the house and
found him lying on the lounge in great
distress, the pain being mostly under
the left ventricle of his jacket. She
diagnosed the case in an instant will,
that subtle intuition for which female
doctors are noted, and she came Elisha
on him. She threw her arms around
him, put her mouth upon his mouth,
her eyes upon his eyes, her nose along
side Of his nose, and 1.-THE flesh of the
young man waxed warm" to use the
scriptural phlaseology.
In short, lie was i cured young man
from that moment. 1t was a pure case
of magnetic healing. He began to fat
up. He whistled and sang, and ate
hash by the pint, and danced jigs on
the side walk, and married the girl and
never had Il return of his malady.
Go to, you ignorant, bigoted drug doc.
tors.
The ADVANCE has heretofore inform
ell its readers that the four great plan
ets-Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and
Uranus-are approaching their perihe-
liza, a thing which has not occurred for
1900 years, and that great atmospheric
disturbances, calamities, etc., may he
expected. Already we begin to have
premonitions of this great astronomical
event. The other day Senator Burnside
called Senator Conkllng liar; another
member said the same thing to Gen.
Garfield; Mr.. McGarrahan punched the
head of Don Piatt in the Senate lobby,
and numerous private fights occurred
among undistinguished people. More
over a lady Rugged a member of the
Minnesota Legislature and a man down
| in Iowa kissed his wife, a thing he had
not done for years. Such excuses indi.
cate unusual planetary influence and
confirm DR.. Knapp's; theory. -.
An exchange states the three degrees
in medical treatment thus: Positive,
! III; comparative, Dill: and superlative,