Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-30
SOME MIRACLES.
|entaI and Spiritual Sciences Of
To-Day, What They Teach.
|he Modern Increase of Crime and Its
Source Prediction of a New Cen
eration-New Creeds.
4sif Effects on the Men and Women OF the
Future-An Interesting Letter from Ella
Wheeler Wilcox.
itten for the Gazette.

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"a copyrighted 1881
The press men of the day seem united
every announcement of every phase of
mental, mind or spirit cure, of any ref
erence to clairvoyancy or mind reading,
and the believers in any of the modern
s miracles meet with derision and abuse at
their hands.
Every case of insanity or death said
to result from the pursuance of these
ubjects is reported, and widely COM.
nentcd upon, while the good results are
ignored or denied.
q A1et us try and discover what those good
&Eesults may be.
mighty spiritual wave is sweeping over
he land and carrying many great intel
pets into its current. (By spirit wave
20 not mean any reference to sO-calied
piritualism or communication with the
cad. l am not talking on that subject.
= wish it understood from the first when
leak of the spirit 1 mean the higher
I9aculties of mankind-the soul or mind,
r whatever it is that thinks, and hopes,
mo longs, and suffers, and rejoices apart
IND above our physical selves.
~ This spiritual wave is indicated by the
INST number of schools, colleges and
8&lurches which are being established
: throughout the land for the teaching and
preaching of these old but newly
awakened theories of the power of the
pirit to conquer all existing evils.
Before we mourn over the folly and
& 5ickedness of the rapidly increasing fol-
pwers of this movement, or ridicule its
FAILURES, let us see what its real tendency
and try and judge from past events
IA at the tendency and effect on the fu-
ie may be.
~ 1t is very well known, and the fact is
& zen sneered at, that women are the
LIST, to espouse these new theories. Hav-
Eng less worldly care to occupy their
|sninds, being repressed from natural and
Gree utterance of their feelings by the
acustoms of the world and endowed with
more fully developed spiritual natures
4 han men, it is not to be wondered ut if
women are the first to seek and seize any
& ew thought which seems to offer food
hid rest for their often starved and rest
rs souls.
was one of class of over 100 women
BIT fall to listen to the teachings of this
Tit or mind doctrine. The lectures
Nit higher ideal of God, n more
kEtiful conception of future life, Il
SD and more practical method of
God in this life, than 7 ever heard
&ny church pulpit. We were told
bod was greater than evil, that
: s. uled matter, and that it could
iyaIl forms of trouble, sickness or
brow in the world. We were made to
ink more deeply, listen more earnestly
strive more ardently IN the direction
hirit than ever before i'll our lives.
1i,,1 ant
the truth of all those remarkable
~ hents heard at those lectures. We
mot accomplished the miracles
mich we were told that
could and would accomplish.
kill admit, for the sake of argu-
3 ent, that no one of that number has
fulfilled the promise of the lecture room
visible result to the world. But now
5$fore you redicule us for our wasted
and money, and our perverted
ii Nh, let us see what benefit may come
q The world in time as the direct result
III hat lecture room. 1t is always safe
70 judge the future from the past.
Y Every intelligent person to-day admits
fIhat there has been an umusal era of crime
Eiuring the last ten years. Young chill !
siren commit murder and suicide, sons
4nd daughters kill their parents, parents
bay their children, and whole families !
Ore butchered with seemingly no cause. |
Never before since America was civil
4 ICED country has there been such 4 |
sariety of constantly occurring horrors.
When l was small girl ] recOllect be- |
pg chided and laughed at for expressing |
lmidity in passing through lonely |
Apoded way l was assured that no one |
s Ter harnsad-geod little girls, and that l |
!ts-sa lA46 go about anywhere alone. |
II day no girl-child or woman, is safe |
TO walk alone in any part of this civilized |
land, and our daily papers teen with hor-
rible outrages and sickening murders of |
inoffensive lnaidens.
Some thoughtful mind has suggested |
that this wave of crime had its source i'll
the late war of the rebellion. During
four while it ragged, and for fully ten
years afterwards, the minds of the
parents of the present generation were
filed with reyengeful and murderous
emotions. While fathers fought amid
scenes of blood, mothers read and reread,
and listened to the tales of
Unborn children received the
impress of those violent feelings, and
growing children were poisoned with the
same emotions.
The children born during those four
tteu years are HOW Tie lLGll anu NOlutI
and the growing youths of the land.
They received before they saw the light
the impress of the murderer. They need
only trivial misunderstanding or a fit of
melancholy, toN develop the propensity to
Kill somebody.
/ predict for the world twenty-five and
forty years from now generation of
spiritual minded, God-ioving and mir
men and women.
There are hundreds of classes forming
III over the land where the soul-creed Is
being taught and listened to. From hav-
ne been myself listener in one of these
.lasses, am prepared to speak with au-
hority. i watched carefully the effect
# those lectures on the hundred women
II my class There was not one
Who did not 90 forth with greater
to meet the daily ills of
ife, greater courage and hope to over
ome peril, greater reverence toward
Tod, and charity toward man. Itprom-
sed for this life what the churches prom
sed only conditionally for the next, and I
/ lifted them out of dependency and
forry by impressing upon their minds !
hat H'God ''means good, and that
heir own thoughts created the atmos-
here in which they dwelt: no evil
an come into our lives as the