The Worthington advance., 1882-09-14


at spiritual emancipation, DO not ''re
member those who are in bonds ..
bound with them," dc not teel called
upon to lift up standard IN the com
munity, around which all who would
have reason and the will OF God pro
vail may rally and sustain e,.ch Others
hearts. -.
1t is gratifying to the ADVANCE ia Sc,
Il religious or church paper occasional
ly which endorses our position, eul
methods and our work so heartily
The Register has evidently read thu
ADVANCE to some purpose. 1t secret
ly aJmires our opinions and our way o.
expressing them, and calls on others t
do likewise. 1t admires plainness ant
lirectncss Of speech and says: ''tl,at 4
right; we need call a spa.le spade, ant
bigot 4 Oigot, and 4 dead church &
corpse But the Register does
not dare do 80 itself. 1t encour.
ages others to make the fight and
wants more ADVANCES, one ut least il
every community, but it cannot join
with us save in far-away, dignified
sort of approval Of our course.
''Only a small minority says thu
Register, ''havc the courage Of Their
opinions True. And this is just
what we fight for. Not to organize d
religious movement or q church, not
even to bury out of sight the corpses
of the dead churches around us whicl
smell to heaven il their decay, but t.
ihfuse if possible into every soul will
whom we come in contact the spirit
and the wish to express his or her Opin
ions upon religious as we'll us Othel
matters. Those newspapers which ig
more religious subjects for fear Of Of
Tending the bigotry of their subscri
bers are moral towards. Those liberia
men III communities who turn thei,
wives and children over to the priest:
and churches and never express reli
gious opinions Ut home, are moral cow
ards and unwilling enemies to thcl1
own. The great john Stuart Mill lie
fore he died said the time l,:.l come fo1
every person who had an opinion upol
religious subject to express it. Some
correspondent says of james G. Blame
that his religious sentiments are so sa
cred that he does not express them, AMI
allows 40 intrusion into that s,.cret
domain. Bah! Blaine may be a supe
rior politician, but hs is not 4 hun
dredth part Of the man that Col. III
gersoll is, who expresses his opinions
That expression cost him the govern
orship of Illinsis, the ministry to Eng
land and il seat in Congress, and draw:
down on his head the rage Of the big
OTIS and the personal blackguardism O
the Clark Bralens.
AS for the ADVANCE, it nails to it!
masthead this creed, or platform, ant
will stand by it come wl'a! may:
Free thought. free speech, and fre'
press.
Truth for authority and not author
ity for truth.
Tolerate anything but intolerance
Horace Mann's motto was "Edu
cate, educate, educate" Wendell Phil
lips motto WAS: "Agitate, agitate, agi
tate"
The ADVANCE motto is: Educate
educate. educate; agitate. agitate, agi
tate; tolerate, tolerate, tolerate"
The brightest IntelIectS Suffer Most
Young men who have lei Il life o.
exec IS and dissipation, reform! Give
to 'e to the stomach, regulate the liver
and bowels. strengthen the urinary or
gans, relieve those dull pains in the
limbs, rid yourself If that feeling o
nausea, billiOusness, lang,l"r and ner
vous debility; give tone aid strength
to each organic function. by using
Browns Iron l;itttrS; then will you tx
periencn Il genial warmth and awaken
ing life il, place If that dead feeling ol
decay; and dyspepsia, milky urine, etc.
no longer undermine your coustit uti0n
Delay is d;.ngero,
Spiritualism ut W"rthnngtoh ha7
been having Il fast. Geo. +. Colby.
the trance and test medium. delivered
two public lectures there. 1t i.
claimed that through e. medium OF
Mr.. Colby persons may communicate
with their friends VIII" are now inl.;.b-
itiny the spirit land. 1t is also claimed
that WHEN lie is under the control ri
certain spirits he can give us III accur: t
descr,ntiun Of our past life and an out
line Of our future together with Su:g s.
tiOns for the lettering "f our cOmlit ION
If this is true it is wonderful. but it is
too wonderful to be true; it is too Won
derful to bc N.leved.-Sibl.y Gazette
And yet Er'. 1Iawxhurst believes Il
piece Of history that was written eight
cen centuries ago hy mere men. He
has no proof that the events cvt occur
red or that the writers were men Of
veracity. That old account says that
spirits app ;sr+'' and talked with men
that Muses. and Elias. who had l'een
dead for centuries, appeared and talked
with Christ and two diclr!es on a ,nomn.
tain. That account says that Jesus.
after he was killed, materialized nine
different times, and that l,o talked,
walked and ate with the diciples. That
he appeared suddenly among them ut
one time when 1.-THE doors were closed
and he ''vanisled cut Of their sight"
showing that he was in a spiritual body,
\ materialized form, as we call it. That
old account also says that such metli
ums rs Peter aud Paul healed the sick
by commanding them to rise, or by
touching them, and even hy touching Il
handkerchief and then having the
handkerchief applied by other parties
Now, Bro. II. believes all this on
merely human testimony whicl, was
written nearly 1900 years age.
We come forward now and say that
we have seen exactly such miracles -
or ''smi'ernatural" occurrences in our
own day: that We have seen and heard
spirits and have talked with them
that we have had scores of tests that