The Worthington advance., 1881-09-29
Il RELIC

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Clark for relic which we value highly,
and which was procured during her re-
cent visit to her old home in New Y ork
State. This relic is simply a piece of
board and bears the following inscrip-
tion: ''Taken from the old Fox House,
Hydesville, Wayne Co., n. Y"
In this old house, just one generation
ago, occurred the original spirit rap
pings, from which Modern Spiritualism,
as a distinctive movement, began. In
one generation the movement has
spread over the world, undermined tile
Theology Of the churches, taken from
death its terrors, given positive demon
stration of future existence and Sc.
cured millions and even tens Of mill
ions Of believers. The old house in
which the rappings began still stands,
and the "Fox girls" one of whom
married DR.. Kane, the Arctic Explorer,
and the other married a distinguished
English gentleman, are still in the
PRIME Of life and doing good service by
their mediumship. NO other modern
movement begins to equal this one in
extent and Importance.
HOW LONG:
a correspondent writes us from Wa
verify, Iowa:
l lave long noticed items from your
paper which marked you as fearless,
outsp"krn Liberal. How long will it
be before all Of our secular press will
dare to assume indie. enlence of the
church?
Whenever the people do. lngcrsoil
says tile pews are in advance Of the pull
pit, but with singular good nature, or
stupidity, or something else, the pews
go on paying the pulpit for its ctTrte
theology and winking at each other
other when the pulpit is around. The
secular press, as u Whole, will kick
whenever lie people do and MT before.
The press generally is q reflex Of its
time; an editor holds the mirror up to
society. This is about all the average
editor does.
But there are leaders among editors
and just noW there are papers like ti,
Cilit;.@u Vilnt y :!i1.l Kew York Sun I hat
are not no:tgigeti To tie church. an,!
there is, here ait;i!ivrc, (, country news
paper which is free to speak its miiIu.-
All this is telling on the public.
.IHi-Hf)iiI.1 l. .Sf,Rl'J(
At Il special meeting nf til" village
council i,thi ut II o'clock \. NJ, >Sti;
n, t.r following WAS adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased al Inscru-
table Providence to deprive this Re-
public of It's head hy tte assassination
Of President Jas. \. Garfield there
fore, be it
j;ESrLviD. That in obedience to
the prrcialnat in,S of Gov. l'il!shury.
Of this state, and i'r-si.|::.t Arthur, of
the United States. W.. rsGu.St that all
business hu;,Sts and offices in tie vii
la"r l'n rlnS,sl on Mu'nav. September
rs. 1881. from two o'rln%k p, II. till
four O'Clock p. VI. il, conjunction viii!
the funeral services then to ln held at
Cleveland. Ohio.
And, further. That we request he
Masonic l.olge and Lodge ot United
Workmcn. OF this pl+ce to join il, pub
lie funeral and memorial services TO be
held on that day in the churches.
And, further. May it please that
Providence that has removed our be-
loved Chief MagistTate to sanctify to
the nat ion AZ large this seemingly great
evil BE it further
RESOLVED. That these resolutions
be published III the Wortlnington pa
perS.
d. SHELL. Pres. r. B. PLOTrs. Re-
cor,ler Azo,I FORBES and NJ. TWITCI!-
ELL. Trustees.
In accordance will, these resolutions
of the council, the business houses of
Wortllngton were closed after two
o'clock aHd appropriate services were
held ut the Congregational church at
tended 10y the Masens and the United
Workmpn in rcgala, and by a large
cnncourse Of citizens. The church was
draped in mourning and remarks ap-
prrpri;ite to the occasion were made by
the clergy and others, interspersed with
appropriate music. Memorial services
were also held at the churches Oh Sun
day.