National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-14
The Question Answered from nm Alleged
True Spiritual Standpoint.

True Spiritual Standpoint.
To the Editor Of THE RErunLIcASi
There are in existence two great forces, two vast
armies Of beings who exert them; two worlds
worlds Of condition, not spaco-in which they are
excrted. These forces are In direct conflict One
is reposed by the infinite law in those whose lives,
In the spiritual heavens or on earth conform to
such law-being devoted to others good The
other Is exered by those who live worldly or self
ish lives whether in the neither world or this, I'M
der the laws of society. Let II be noted that mind
is the man. that the death Of tho natural body
does not change his condition, but his situation
only. The process Of dying Is simply the passing
OF tho spiritual out of the natural body. The man
takes with him nil the appetites, affections, ten
denotes to which he Is mentally prone. If tho
ruling ones of these are evil where shall he go?
Can such person become an inhabtant Of the
heavenly world2 Can the spiritual heavens, by
amy possibility, be
PEoPLED BY BAD MEN2
The answer to this obvious. The infinite law has
provided no worlds but Heavenly worlds. Hells
were not in the contemplation of the divine mind,
80 to speak. This natural world Is Heavenly
world, and that II Is not In Heavenly condition
is because its intelligence Is enslaved by appetite.
Not so much by appetite that inhercs in the
natural body, but more and chiefly by appetite
that survives. 1t could not be that the divine In
telligence In man Is not competent to overpowcr
evil endencies-apnetites aflections-rule has no
world to 20 to. What shall he do but remain herc2
lie does so-no longer to be governed by the laws
of society,"" no longer nmenNble to them, no
longer TO be punished for crime. He cannot vic.
late the laws OF his being as when In the body, But
the means designed by Infinite law for only good
aud beneHcent uses lie can avail himself of for
bad. 1t Is of this universal privilege of spirits of
all classes, grades, and conditions IN both the
higher aud neither worlds that Gutcau and thou
sands like him are victims.
NATURAL MANS MORAL TENDENCIES
cannot be changed by spirits. He draws TO him
| to good man, nor can any good spirit approach
bad man unless by conversion of the will he Is
invited or by suppression of the will permitted.
The will of the individu1li Is the sole law of gov
eminent In spirit life, invlolatc aud by NIL in
vlolable. Whatever good man mcditates there
usually his own guides, often others besides when
| q universal good is sought. Whatever evil he
medates there thosestronger In the love ofevil
out one or the other of these influences. No
| human incident or event ever happens In which
spirits, men who have departed this life" are
not particpants-save in those legitimate offices
for the discharge Of which the mind retircs to the
animal brain, from which there Is no opening to
| the spiritual realm. When man loses limb, al
| though Impaired for the uses of this world, he
supplies by artificial means the loss or lives on
without III but If he lose all his limbs, organs, his
entire natural body, with the spiritual needs Of
this life unattained, what is he TODD
INFINITE GOODNESS HAS PROMPTED
and infinite law supplied the remedy. In order
that he may amer death yet live this indispensable
life, by which alone he can be qualified to live any
higher, he Is provided with the ability to use un-
aware to them, the faculties and organs of others
| In the body. He Is competent to possess himself
of the minds and organs Of those in the natural
| body who are congena to him; to whom he is
drawn by like tastes, affections desires; and thus
from infancy TO age the natural world supplies the
spiritual with the sole means by which any prog
ress toward the Gels stial life, or Celestial Land is
to be attained. OF hese means the spirit whose
nppetites are vicious avails himself. What In
Bible phrase Is called possession the prevailing
spiritualism calls obsession Guiteau is doubtless
obsessed at times; at times otherwise, influenced
and has been so since his Will first developed in
| earthly life, by spirits or men-one or more
none other could he be made available for their
uses. He is hence. morally, no better-no worse
than his deity or devil, and rs capable of commit
provocation or cause. 1t would therefore be no
ohense against the moral law, as recognized by
society, to take Guteau's life. The moral law PEI
Sc 1t Is not necessary to consider here. Let II be
conceded that the phenomenal murderer Of
President Garfield deserves to hang; that there are
no reasons, legal or moral, why he should moi
hang, and then we are met by the more moment.
GUS questions, Is II policy to hang him?
III HE BE HUNG WHAT WILL HE Do2
Is his execution OH the gibbet to produce in hin
moral reform? Is he to be less like his deity o.
devil when dead? VIII he not, indeed, be exactly
another such person and go incontinently at The
same work lie will be emancipated from the
restraints of the social laws and come wholly into
subsection to the laws ofhs being. lie will hence
indulge his natural tendencies, for which his OPP
portunites will be thousand fold those here. IL
these will be superadded desire for revenge upor
society" whose victim he will discover himsel
to be- for we must come face to face with the
great fact at last that society makes oil its crimi
nails. By its capital punishment and all its san
culinary Deeds whether done by authority or a
acts Of individual viS frenzy, II PerpcHates Grim,
where only help is to be sought-at the hands o
the friends and lovers of the human race over GU
heads who watch and strive and weep unrecOguiZet
San XNToSIo, TEXAS Jan. &. - ''0' '''D