Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-28

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yet it is made an objection by many
so-called Christians to The reality oi
spirit intercourse, that spirits do moi
do what the Great FRS Cause never
aitelApts, namely: to manifest, re-
gardI9ss OF laws and conditions.
And l might as we'll ask Of our doubt
ers or Guestioners, who ignore the
evidence given in the Bible, why
conditiShs are necessary and must
be observed, to send a cable message
| from San Francisco to China? Or
why conditions must be observed in
planting our seed to have it bring
forth n rich harvest?
Way do not my friends come to
me direct? Here again, conditions
are necessary. You know if you
wish to receive telegra ohic mes
sage from some one in distant city,
it can not come to you direct. 7Wo
mediums must be employed, unless,
both the friend and yourself have
thoroughly studied and learned the
art of telegraphy. Yet you receive
the message and accept it as coming
really from the enc whose name is
signed, never saying, "Oh. if this
were my child she would say more,
would express herself differently"
You are quite satisfied with tho few
words which tell you she is safe and
happy and loves you. And yet
when these little teleemphic sounds.
Which wa call raps, are read and
written out by one medium, you re-
fuse tho message. you deny the iden-
.ity of the intelligence, and yet you
are possibly no more ignorant of the
law which governs the latter than of
that which governs the former.
However, firmly believe that it is
within the power, of every human
heart 10 hold sweet converse with
their dead, If only you study as
honestly and carefully the law of
spirit telegraphy as you would that
which transmits messages across
this material world. About ninty-
nihe out of the hundred who ask Uhy
thsir spirit friends do not come to
them, are persons who have never
mayle an effort to have them do so.
II + like inviting q friend to visit
yo,i and then locking the doors and
.windows against him, and saying
afterwards, why did he not come to
me instead of sending a letter.
Is it probable, or is it reasonable
to suppose that q pure, unsullied
spirit, who when on earth shrank
from contact with anything coarse
or vile, will control the organism of
a medium who is known to be both ?
As like attracts like, we believe that
spirit mediums will attract TO them
selves usually such spirits as will meet
and blend in reciprocal love and SYM
pathy with their own souls, and that
tile pure and undefiled in spirit life
will seek q material counterpart
through which to breath their mes
sages of love to those who mourn
them as dead; but, Wdging from
my own heart, I believe that the love
which would prompt them when here
on earth to accept of any means of
conveyance TO reach dear despair
ing FREUD though they might prefer
a palace car, would prompt them to
make use of any organism they might
be able able to control. And as
sunshine melts the snow and ice
from the earth and bids the violet
and daisy lift their heads and re-
ceive it's blessing, 50 I believe that
the influence of a pure and loving
spirit upon mediums less holy, would
WOO them back to viltue and purity.
" Why do messages purporting to
come from our spirit friends sound
so much more like the expression OF
the mediums thoughts, than those
of the spirits?" Did you ever taste
water that did not partake of the
earth through which it passes So
I think it is almost impossible for a
communication to come without in
some way being more or less affected,
in its passage through the mediums
organism. The bright sunlight is
dimmed in passing through dirty
window, and exalted spirit messages
and communications must be, in like
manner. dimmed i'm passing from the
brighter spheres of spirit-life through
the more earthly aura and sur
roundings of mediums. They have
not yet attained that exaulted
spiritual condition in which the
glowing thoughts of the angel visit
ants can pass unsullied through
them; but as Spiritualism advances
to loftier plane, new mediums will
arise who will be better able to bring
about us the loftier beauties of the
spirit world.
"Why cannot all Of these phenom-
ena" take place in the lightP This
question is so often asked me, and
generally by the unscientiflc investi-
gator. That many of the phenome-
ma of Spiritualism are more readily
produced in darkness than in light
and that there are some which can