Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-03
IN MEMORIAM.

spirIsuaIists Recall the Memory OF
the Late J. h. EIIis.--J. y. Loveland's
Address.
A memorial meeting for the late j. B.
Ellis, OF this city. was held at Library
hall, Moline. by the spiritualists of the
three cities at 8 o'clock yesterday after
noon. There was quite fair attendance.
including many from Rock Island. The
address, which partook somewhat of the
nature OF sermon, was by Prof. j. 8.
Loveland, the noted spiritualist of Cali
fornia. Prof. Loveland took for the subj
ject Of his discourse Thessalonians, 4:13:
For would not have Jon to be ignorant, breth-
rem, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not even as Others which have no hope.
The epistles OF st. Paul. from one
OF which the words of the text were TAX
en-, the speaker asserted, were the only
books of the New testament that are gen.
uine. Paul's epistles are genuine because
they are written by one whose name they
bear, and he sets up different doctrine
from that which, in the early ages, was
called christianity. Paul was ore OF the
profoundest spiritualists and philoso
piers. The doctrine of universalism is
clearly stated by him. and by his method
OF argument clearly proved. He was
perhaps the most difficult to be under-
stood by his contemporaries, yet the cas-
lest to be understood by those who made
his works and writings study.
On the subject of the redemption of the
body and the resurrection OF the spirit,
Paul always speaks of positive knowl-
edge. There is no accent of doubt in
what he believes. in his position on
this subject. He has claimed that
the dead are already raised-already
exist in the spiritual body. How are
the dead raised up? The pulpit teach.
ings for ages have been this body shall be
raised up, while the correct translation of
Paul's teachings are that what is sown in
a natural body shall be raised spiritual
body. In other words physical or a
natural body is sown and spiritual body
is raised. The natural body is the pres~
ent; the spiritual body is to follow. We
SOW the grain in the natural body, bury
1t and from it springs the spiritual body
for eternal life. The spiritual body CO.
exists with the natural body, so that
when we say we know those who lived
once, we have but repetition of the
teachings of Paul. When we talk with
the departed we demonstrate that we to-
day know as well as they did 1900 years
ago. All forces of life are moved by in>
visible powers. The most profound
philosophers and scientists are helpless
when we ask them how we think.
Abiding to Mr.. Ellis, Prof Loveland
spoke OF him as one who had given forty
years OF his life to experiments with
reference to the character and manifesto,
tons Of spirituslism. such as we have
seen since. He knew and understood its
mysteries, and members of his family
were since brought up in the same idea
and hope. He even knew of the future
as we'll as of the past, and had a pre-.
monitition of the time that he was to
pass on.
1t is that hope in which he had 80
much confidence that dissipates and
modifies our sorrow, on occasions such
as this, when We are called upon to
take part with the physical being Of those
we dearly love. Paul had taught this
same hope; it was the comfort to the
grief stricken, and there was nothing so
deplorable here on earth as those who
are hopeless.