The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-07-23

| bequeath you-make corn, grapes, ap-I
pies, pears, for the oncoming hosts, for
the new men and women, better and fair
er than we, when we have gone to fulfil
our destiny in another condition OF being.
So goes the grand march. There never
was time when just that thing did not
take place. What is true of the world
to-day, 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. 4.... ees.a.g. s.a,sy... ..ar "
,i3a.,; THE LIFE WE DO NOT SEE.
Now we say the cedar is dead and
gone-burned up, nothing left but it's
ashes; but 1 don't think so. 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 existg" Yes; 1 say that a 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. '.. Ill ...
A CURIOUS FACT RELATED BY HERsCHEL.
Sir John Herschel, in his scientific lee
lures, says: II 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 dan
ger to the workmen employed, about
whom had felt very uncomfortable. It
happened to meyat the approach of even
ing-while, however, there was yet pref
ty good light-to pass near the place
where. the day before, it had stood, the
path I had to follow leading beside it.
Great was my amazement to see 1t still
standing, projected against the dull sky.
Being perfectly aware that it was a mere
nervous impression 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 &C.
cur, to produce that effect upon the nerves.
How could a NERVOUS impression" pro-
ject a house, and make it as real as the
brick and mortar dwelling had been?
Psychometry explains this most Salts
factorily. 1t was not fancy. What was
it? I 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, life-like scenes of the Nile val
ley, long ago. I give to the sensitive per-
son little fragment, it may be, from a
rock, a wall, tomb, a ruin:-it is speci-
men; don't tell him (or herr what it is,
or where it came from; 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
sides of the valley, and describes the rock
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 POWER 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, I have tried by
thousands.
LET Us NOT FEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH
You say those statements are extrava-
giant. But there are hundreds of extrava-
giant things that are true. 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 MAJ
principle. Somebody thousand years
ago said something, or I should not be
saying this tonight. If Nature is bold
enough to teach me truth, ought tt
be manly enough to tell that truth to my
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 thu
I hold that nothing dies absolutely. ]
hold that everything that exists has. al
existence in the spiritual world. Tha
building is not only a house; it has it,
spiritual, counterpart. ....- :.
WHAT WE SEE IS THE LEAST PART OF TIL