Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-28
WHOLE NO. 1915.

with awe-stricken voices, if papa
must always stay in that deep grave =?
will tell you what good it does,
and then ask yourselves if its ten
dences are for good or evil. It meets
the wants of the brain and the heart:
it gratifies the intense longings of
the soul; it holds out hope, a GER
tainty, to all, and teaches that the
lowest may yet attain the highest
round of glory. 1t teaches as that
as we live here, SO must we enter
that home over there; that daily we
are, by deeds done in the body, pre-
pairing for ourselves "Home not
made with hands, eternal in the
Heavens" and therefore that it be-
hooyes each and all of us to live the
purest, sweetest lives here. Thou
sands have been made happier by it's
teachings and from the knowledge
gained through these spirit commun-
inSs, they have learned certainty of
a conscious future existence and that
the purer and more unssl sh we live
here, the better prepared we will be-
for Joy and usefulness in the realms
of Spirit Life. 1t teaches us Lore.
the one element which contains all
the sweetness of life, is eternal, that
the death of the body intensifes and
spirtuulizes, but never destroys it.
A person said to me, a few weeks
since, after one of my addresses be-
fore the Blue Ribbon League, Mrs.
Lowe, 1 cannot help thinking that
you have been, at some time, direct
iy or indirectly, a sufferer from the
cause OF intemperance, else you new
er could write and speak in the i'm
passioned way you do upon the sub
ject." No, dear friends; so far as
earthly ties are concerned, have
never suffered from intemperance in
the slightest degree, and when I
write the addresses which some of
the temperance friends have been
kind enough to tell me are the very
things most needed, I take no credit
to myself, for, while l write them in
my normal state, I feel and know
that I am surrounded by those who
haze suffered and are still suffering
in their anxiety for their darlings
here ON earth. l know that loving
mothers stand by my side, inspiring
me with their mother-love to plead
with their orphan boysg n1
for the guidance and blessing 81
these angel friends. so will I guide
and guard, as best I can, their loved
ones here. This is part of the good
which Spiritualism does. It has
made me better, truer woman, q
fonder wife, a more devoted mother.
1t came to me years ago, an oasis
of Hope in the Barren Desert of
Despair when all that life held dear
on earth to me, was taken from me,
and in my utter wretchedness and
woe felt myself drifting away from
health and reason; it came to me o
sweet messenger of hope and saved
me from self-destruction. 1t has
comforted me when oil else failed to
comfort, and it will do the same for
each and all you. eff ye seek,
ye shall 6nd." eff We ask ye shall
receive" The gates which once
were only aiar, sA>ll be opened wide
for you. Spiritualism has bridged
the river OF death, has made Science
and Religion clasp hands and unite
hearts, and that, you must admitf is
something long sought for and
needed.
To the Spiritualists and Mediums
who are present, only word of en-
couragement and love to you and
then 1 have done. Do not let your
hearts grow faint, when you are
looked upon with suspicion and
doubt, grieve not when those
who we feel should join hands
with Us in our work, revile US.
Rather lift up your hearts to God,
and in an earnest, soul-inspiring
prayer, say, " Father, forgive, they
know not what they do" I cane as
a medium, n stranger, among you.
to help you so far as lay in my pow
er, and ere l leave you let me say
this: Mediums, be true and generous
to each other. Let no jealousy abide
in your hearts. There is work for
all of US to do. Let no slander ever
be on your tongues. The outside
world has enough of that for you all,
though you were as pure and unsul-
lied as the angels. Spiritualists, en-
courage your Mediums by your words
of loving sympathy and appreciation.
Oh, you know not how their hearts
ache when their motives are i'm
pusned and their actions misunder-
stood. Remember that to be good
Mediums they must be passive and
and receptive, and the same passive
ty which renders them susceptible to
spirit control, makes them sensitive
to material influences. If you with
hold your sympathy, how can you
expect the world to give them any?
init l.