Telegram-herald., 1890-06-25
WONDERFUL SPEECH
IL Was Uttered Al GrsenWood Hal
Last evening.
IHE BSPRlIl0SM MRS. LILLE
she spsa<s Eioqusntiy ~ irhsst ka0-ins
nee sablset aslI az - ols~a ~ her
~ sns AudieAes A severe
Test a. De Cfssa Tonight

Greenwood Han Vas an oven last
evening, and a iargs audience consent
ed ~ bake for q couple " hours, Tor
tae saAe Of hearing Mrs. +. ;. Lille, Of
Boston After the singing OF a hymn.
tAe speaker was introduced by Dr. L.
-. Thomas. sac said.
Il am g.ad ~ meet you. IL q seven
years silce ! nave met congregation
ia Grand Rapids. But I have always
been conscious Or you" Hens fol-
lowed a and allusion 10 Dr. Thomas
ana wife, Eve VIII noS look -
the higher intslll sences fog the truth
Uh ch we seek Here followed a
prayer
The speaker announced that she
would speak ou tne very subject shich
n-sAt BE- assigned her by tie audience.
The nrst subject that Vas announced
Was, What s Truthr' The lady
stepped t0 the front directly, and said
~la tae oideu time. tne question vas
proro.ndcd % one wiser than /. Ia al
religious systems, aud among al who
hege vle.ded any influence, have oeen
here with thi. question, because man IS
a seeker aiter truth.
We stand here as an exponent OF
spuitlalsm. As a. i-m, 1 viii say
nothing, butas truth. The particular
truth sptak of IS spirit rtur p. see
The progress OF man. The truth is the
same forever. There is 20 new truth
except as % 10 form. The tr nth does
nol Change, ouly man changes
Man. capacity measures how much
oi che truth may be gwen hlm at any
our tme. 10 IS train As old as any
talt man may commune with man,
en..ld eel or unemb0dled But 70 was
nor always rcve8led that embodied man
and unembOdied man might commune.
For nearly everything that man en-
c0uutered above hlm. was supposed 20 De
God. The ancient Grecian mythology
was full ot gods.
let % ls true that there IS spirit re-
tgru-lt was always true. Only man
to-day sees the truth more clearly.
Asy0u united Europe aud Auierlca by
tle Wlre that was buried beneath the
ocean. so through the upward spaces,
wired ov suotler elements than those OF
earth, a telcgraphlc course was known
that kept up higher communIOus.
Toe speaker made some pfOphesIes
concerning what might be accom-
p.shcd IN tie future, and then Illus
trlted the materialstIc cOncep-
uous Of truth which have always
been held by men, by reason
of mans misIutgment. The elder
brother sad long ago that the kingdom
ot God il within you. With AL this
man has been struggling IL the past.
Man has not been ready Tor the truth.
But spirits nov say that heaven and
he'll are conditions, that spirits are
w Tatory. a teW years ago II you had
asked any man about God, ne would
have answered a fippanIy asif hehad
rust nad q conversation with God. But
tnat which Is called lu spiritualists inh-
deItv, is bat a stricter fidelity to truth.
and which stands revcrentIy by Us
side. and says. Il know not I'll | nave
learned more
Concerning some truth. We could
testify aud give oath. But would the
courts of Grand Rapids accept No,
they would say you are incompetent
witnesses and would pronounce you .n-
same. because they act upon the as
suupton of tne truth ot the saying
tu1r 'vno-0 t1keto away from the
words ~ tl book one lo. or little, his
ut.. .aaI. ue taken out Ot tho Lambs
roo< ol .Ie.
..Nn mau can say 90 Won tu.s or that
Ist.. ~ truth. There Wall re realms
uuevp.nr.d and to oe explored while