The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
All! INDEED!

All INDEED!
The Watchuan, the leading Baptist
organ published in Boston,, said in a
recent article: ~
1--WE would discourage In the strong
est manner the dabble with Spiritual
ism on the part of most people. But
Christian men with the necessary train
inc Of mind should Investigate it SER
iously, aud reach some conclusion
which will he accepted AS the verdict
rendered necessary by the facts.''
Oh! All! indeed! Thank you! Shake! as
the western people say. From the far
west we greet you for admitting 50
much. But we beg leave to suggest
that you have spoken too late. Mill.
ions OF Christian Men with the necessa-
ry training Of mind have Investigated
and are convinced. Moreover, they
will not tolerate any of your pricstly
control or nonsense. You cannot keep
the people away from it aud leave the
priests to dole it out to them rs they
do their orthodox platitudes. In fact,
Spiritualisn,, and the spirit-world. have
given the priests and religious editors
the go"by and have gone directly to the
people. Like al independent candidate
for office, Spiritualism has despised the
regular nomination by the priests con-
vention, and has gone before the people
in an independent canvass. And it
has been elected by a large majority.
Spirtualism, the newly-elected candi-
date, laughs at your priestly and
churchly methods and scorns your sug-
gestions. This new officer promises 4
number Of reforms, now that it has
been elected. In fact, it intends to re.
form the religion, the politics and the
whole social life of the people. It intends
TO wash the inside as we'll as the outside
Of the world and make it clean. It in
tends to make Il treaty with the Celes-
t'als (not the Chinese,) which shall be
binding and effective, so that immi-
grafton from the spirit-world and full
and free intercourse with the inhabi-
tants of our globe, shall be as com non
and AS welcome as immigration now is
from Europe to America. And this
newly.elected ruler intends that your
Dennis kearnys(the priests and church
esq shall not succeed in their cry that
the Celestials must go.'' The new
ruler is already in power and you must
go' yourselves or gracefully recognize
the inevitable and stay.
| SENATOR CARPENTERS FAMILY.
The late Senator Carpenter was 4
Liberal in religion and >piritualist in
belief. Like 1ngersoll, he was free,
independent, true man, and no two
/ prominent men Of the country have ever
been more devotelly loved and Worship
ed by their families than Ca, pcnter and
1ngersoll. Tie Washington correspon-
dent of the Pioneer-Pr tells this Of
Carpenters son and daughter.
| The papers tell the story about that
BOY, saying when asked what he was
going To 40 fora living, 1 would like
~ u'1'0 - "'NN, UuI suppose l VIII
have to he SENATOR But why don't
they shed more light Oh his character
by telling how, after his father died. he
insisted on sleeping alone night after
night III the room that had been his fa-
thers?" land the daughter" said an
other, ''who made such an effort to con.
tr"i her feelings, why don't the papers
get hold ut the most touching incident
OF her great trial? She bore up until
they were about to leave their house
the other day, when ut the very last. the
servents made All attempt to drive t|,,.
dead senator's favoritc dog ont of the
house. The animal wonld not 90. r.
turning after every struggle to the door
OF the room where he had last seen his
| master. This scene was too much for
the daughter. and she lost all control of
herself. Again, when she went one
morning toa lawyers office to take the
proper steps III regard to tie lif. insur-
a'ce policy assigned to her, she met in
TIE language Of the assignment Il warm
tribute tn my dear daughter Lillian
writ II III her fathers hand. It was to
her like :. voice from the grave, and the
lH'roxysm Ut grief was such rs few Of
th?se present had ever witnessed. Sen
ator Conk'ing c!'"ked up the other dav
III making passing reference to Car
Eehttr's ntarhrSS to his associates. IF
he was so near to them. what must
have been his nearness to that bow and
girl"
Hon. Liberty Hall, of the Glencoe
Register, is coming up bravely to the
help of the Duluth Tribune and the
Worthington ADVANCE, in showing
up the absurdity of church theology,
In long article reviewing sermon of
Ole Of the preachers of Glencoe he saws:
MIR. Chandler then asked the question:
"Why are not all men religious?" Is It
not possible that all men are naturally
religious? And may it not be true that
one OF the chief reasons why men are
not professedly SD IS because the church
winch claims to be the special promoter
and guardian OF religion has made it to
appear so repulsive, so unnatural aid
lntolerable thing by substituting it's
creedS and beliefs for the genuine arti-
Gle! Before man can be recognized as
| religious he must subscribe to man.
made creed, and believe that the outer
door to Heaven is the door that opens
into some Of the Evangelical" church.
es. We wish we had the ability to so
present the facts us to make ministers
af the Gospel see that it is in great
measure their fault that there is so lit
tle faith in the power of religion to
make men better, by making it appear
to be wholly unnatural thing at war
with reason, with conscience, with the
natural affections and with everything
else that God has made.
RAILROAD PERSONALS
Gen. J. ". Bishop has resigned the
general managership Of the Chicago.
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road.
and associated himself with Lanc1on'
the road contractor of MINNEAPOLIS.
l.angdon and Bishop have the contract
OF building 2G8 miles Of road between