The Worthington advance., 1882-02-23

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Of his departed loved ones was more
real to him than that Of those
who had been left behind. He further
said, L sleep Saturday nights for Sun
day. My best services are always slept
up-tO relieve you of that necessity. l
liz In the morning in that dreamy state
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my body seems to be asleep, and my
mind wide awake, and fashion my
sermons. II you could hear one of
them you would never want to hear
them az here delivered; they are so
much larger, and more symmetrical,
and often spring from my bed saying,
God help me; I will have y sermon to-
day!' But the moment want to inn
prison my thoughts in words, they are
gone; and 50 l say I have an expert.
ence Of the higher life, momentary
though it Ike, faint and feeble analogue
OF the disclosures that are yet to come
IN the other life'. Thus llr. Beecher,
from his own experience. cOrroborates
enc Of the great truths Of Spiritualism
that Of spirit inspirations; and we
possess proof of his having knowledge
of the true nature of this influence,
and of its being precisely what Spirit
ualists claim it to be. Henry Ward
Beecher. we believe. will yet openly
confess his belief in Splritualism. He
is one of the best inspiratiOnal medi-
ums living, and Of this he is not ignor-
ant"
Every true poet. land they are al
ways inspirational;) every true orator,
land they, too, are always inspirations
al;) gets his poems and his oratio,ls as
Beecher gets his sermons. The poet,
Pope, was III the habit of retiring and
covering his head, so as to shut out the
external world as much rs possible,
when he composed his poems, and the
time will come when his Essay on Man
will lie accepted by ali advanced schol.
ars and thinkers us AL authority and as
the most admirable system Of ethics
extant. These inspirational men, po-
cts, orators, mediums, ETC., are spirit
ualiy and mentally in more full and
! free communication with the spirit or
internal world than other men. No
doubt thoughts from Il higher order Of
spirits are freely impressed upon such
minds, and where the brain is fine,
nimble and under full control, we do
not doubt that the very words of the
spirits, III many cases, can lie given.
But as Il rule, poets and orators have
exactly the experience Of Beecl,er. IL
those glorious states OF exaltation and
connection with the other world, they
know how full, free, burning and be III.
tiful the thoughts are that come, and
how partial, circumscribed, cold and
dull they become by the time they are
brought out so that they can be express
ed to others. Nevertheless. these
states glorify the life. The memory Of
them is like the memory of Il day spent
on the heights, among tie Rocky Noun
tains or the Alps, amid pure breezes
and boundless sunshine and iln.neasur-
able prospects of beauty. Amid the
drudgery of business and daily external
life, the soul recurs to them with inter-
nal thrills and leaps of delight.
And these are only glimpses OF the
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yelled from US. or seen through a glass
darkly. Paul heard words which it
was not lawful to utter, that is, he
meant that the laws and limitations of
speech made it impossible to utter
them. In view Of AL this, how pitia-
bic are those persons, and how con-
temptible their sneers, whe deride
Spiritualism because they have low
spiritual experiences or have seen and
heard only its crude ami outward
phases.
GUITEA U AND ABRAHAM
EDITOR ADVANCE: In reading the
trial of Guiteau week after week we
have been forcibly reminded of the evil
consequences of teaching that the Bible
is & perfect book in which every page,
line and word is divine inspiration.
Prof. VIM. Denton gives Il very good
rule whereby people may know right
from wrong. lie says. THAT is right
which is for humanity's benefit; that
is wrong which is opposed 10 the we'll
fare of the human family" How
fraught with evil is the idea that the
Bible is the sum of all goodness, the
foundation of civilization and refine
ment. Can anything he more false,
when scarcely chapter can he found
between its lids, but what contains
some error. absurdity or contradiction.
In fact, there is very little valuable or
useful knowledge III it. This case of
Guiteau claiming that lie was inspired
by the Deity to take the life OF the
President, will have 4 tendency to re-
move the theological wool the priests
have pulled over the eyes of the church,
members, SO that they can see that
Gaiteau acted under the influence ct
his religious training. If he was sim
cere in what he says, he actually
thought lie was obeying God. And
why Should lie not think so when lie
had listened to the rthersal Of Aba
hams heroic act Of faith, in Sunday
school and from the pulpit OF tie most
distinguished actors of divinity. We
could mention many more atrocious
| Oy AiuIc NbIlu WHO were uIl-
der the same pressure that Abraham,
Freeman and Gniteau claim. The hid
den things of darkness in Guiteau y
character have been brought to light
pretty thoroughly during his trial. It
has been proven that lie is Il liar, al
adnlterer and Il murderer.
Now We want to know something
about Abraham, the father of the
faithful, the person that Guiteau las
mentioned SO often before the court.
We want to read some of the great and
wonderful deeds Of this Cody man in
the newspaper. because people reat:
newspapers with their eyes wide open,
and the uaind free to reason and com.
pare.
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characters we find that Abraham was
just as bad AS Guitean, though lie has
been lauded to the skies by Christians.
He did not kill his little sou, it is true,
but he had murder in his heart or he
would not haye taken him to Mount
MOriah, piled up the kindling wood,
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