Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-05-05
For the AGR,
SplrItuallsm.

Ny dear brothers and sisters OF earth
IhAve come to your circle this evening,
II seems wonderful and marvellous to
have the power 10 return after the change
called death, You know l was not q
believer IN this way OF coming back. aud
manifesting myself through another's
organism, Hut we meet with disappoint,
ments In earth and spirit life, Never was
I more pleasantly disappointed than when
I was welcomed by my wives aud chill.
dren TO my spirit home, This may seem
arrange TO my old friends In Woodstock
and elsewhere, They may say that this
Ia al allsgory invented for tho occasion
by some other person. They win mud
out their mistake after they have passed
through the change ~ ! have, will
say that ! affirm these things aud none
other have received'new light since
len my old worn out body, that was a
great burden to mo tho last few years.
Now am free from all those hours OF
pain aud suffering. How wonderful and
strange II seems 10 me TO return and talk
through tho organism OF woman. Can
this DO reality 7 or, am I deluied aud
blinded rs I was wont to say that the
SpIrltualists were , intend 70 move
very cautiously In my Investigations.
We must DO honest on this side OF lifo,
lot II DO for or against us. II Is q law In
spirit life that never has aud never will be
repealed. l spent much Of my time In
trying TO build up and sustain MY theory
OF the hereafter yet I failed to thorough
ly Investigate the reality Of the return Of
spirits, called 1t phenomena, mystor-
les. But now know that spiritual COM
munlcations are In accordance to a law of
God and are not mysterious. Since CON-
Ing here l have learned that every one
must save himself No being, human or
divine, can answer for anothers' sins
though no suffer qualification on q hun.
dred crosses. The shedding Of the blood
Of man or beast has no efficacy in giving
strength or happiness to any OF Gods
children. II always seemed that there
was something more needed to be added
to the Bible to make II harmonize with
tho Idea that II came from The Great In
finite Mind. have been told by those
who have been In the spirit life long
time that 1t Is man-made book. can
not wholly lay that book aside but the
more light receive the less worship it.
I am now blessed with wisdom from a
divine fountain. With my temperament
and education 1t Is hard to accept new
theories. always move cautiously In
yielding to new opinions. am glad to
return to my old friends and let them
know that there Is no death. That change
Is like passing from one room into an
other. When laid eff my old material
garment put on a beautiful spiritual one.
am now learning my A b c In spirit life
and my brother, Sebastian, is one Of my
many teachers. In many respects must
acknowledge that my views have changed.
Paul said that we must all be changed
We must put off the material and put on
the spiritual. l have done so. That
Jesus whom worshlpped have not yet
seen, but may meet him as expect TO
many other good spirits. l have learned
that he had material body. lie crossed
the same river and In the same kind Of a
boat that did. His body went back to
mother earth US mine Is fast going. In
closing this communication l ask my
brethren in the ministry TO lay aside their
creeds and investigate Spirltualism, and
not pass into the spirit life rs ignorant Of
Its realities as was.
RUSSELL STREETER.
Pho above communication was given to
Nathan Lamb through the organism Of
Mrs. Susan Holt, Bridgcwater, VT.