Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28

Bartholomew, was looked upon In the spirit
land ! Who would not love to know what
/ Letit;a Landou and Mrs. Hemans and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Broutea
were about? News of them all would be
vastly more entertaining than the twaddle
Mr.. Claiming did utter in his spiritual
oration.
His reason for not mentioning any Of tho
persons he associated with "over there
that they were too much regarded down here
lin short, overrated. is very queer one.
Does he mean that we have thought too
much of our heroes, lavished too much
glory upon Washington, Lincoln and
Grant? Does he mean that Shakespeare
and Bacon and Newton have been unworthy
TO their fame? But, as If Mr.. Claiming had
suddenly remembered that such reason
Woulu fail to satisfy his hearers, or the
world, ne told them finally, it was impossi-
pie Tor them to have a knowledge
of the daily life o: the spirits, because, he
adds, people critieise us" Well. for
gracious sake! who would have thought
tnat the spirits would care for the criticism
OF the earthly worms below? Mr.. Claiming
was not worried much by criticism when in
his earthly form; why should it make him
so sensitive 'over there" where be is safe
beyond the sorrows and the sighings, where
the shafts of SANDER are poIntless, and re-
VlllDgs, however rancorous, could give no
sting. 1t seems especially strange for Mr.
Channlng to refuse to tell about the doings
OF our heroes In the spirit, in view of the
fact that, famous as he was on earth, he was
almost pigmy when, upon entering the
spiritual existence, he was measured BY the
height of others. So he says himself.
DELIGHTFULLY."- UNINTERESTING.
Altogether this whole revelation of over
SIX columns by Claiming through a med
lum is intensely uninteresting and wholly
dehclent in what people most want to know
about the great beyond" The world will
be none the better or wiser from the fact Of
his coming down in the spirit for half a day
In chicago. 1t he wanted to hold on to his
earthly laureis, he should have STAYED at
home above the eternal vaults and PLAYED
his harp and sung Hosannas with Jenny
Lind and Malibran and Charles
Wesley. In place of such dis
course he would have been better
employed learning spiritual truths
rom those whose minds were to him a light
in his earthly career. Now he says they
are his teachers, and they recognize him as
a brother. II turn to them as guides for nv
strength; they hold out their hands to me
as an equal" This is what he said in his
speech-but he will not tell who these are.
AerhdpS IL may De matter that some Will
care to know from Mr.. Charming, that
what may be the next great struggle in na-
tions, or commerce, or society does not pos
sess him so much as it does some of the
spirits he meets, but that which does inter-
est and preyade him is the advancing
TIDE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE,
and that wherever human lives are placed,
under whatever different conditions, this
knowledge is most valuable" This may be
SO; but the address that Mr.. Charming gave
during his recent descent in Chicago will do
little, it is to be feared, to advance it.
We shall await the next spirit upon the
rostrum of the Growing Triumph" with
impatience, and hope it will be some plain,
sensible spirit, who will talk in good, sound
English and give some reliable informa-
ton.
While waiting. by the way, we should not
perhaps omit to say that anyone-according
to the editor-who does not subscribe IL
cents week for the Thinker will rank as
Small potato" in the spirit land. With
this shocking state in view, it would plainly
be saler to subscribe. 1t would be stubborn
and perverse generation indeed who would
turn deaf ear to such inducements.
BESSIE BRAMRLE