Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-02-21

which / think is moralizing and
good, and to recommend earnest
Christians to 60 and see and hear
il, while ] also want to be free to
discuss whether the Wilbur Opera
Company that occupied the boards
here last week ought not to be
suppressed by law, and the persons
who put their advertising pictures
on the streets here prosecuted for
displaying such pictures. lam not
certain about this, and / have read
with great interest in the "Arena"
an article on that subject, an ex-
tract from which I will give, and
which alone will make a buzz in
our society.
But there is one thing I do know,
and that is if Judge Stevenson
never saw Emma Abbott on the
stage or off of it, he would not be
so competent a critic of her career
to which the attention of the whole
civilized world has been called, BY
her sudden death, as Mrs. Clark
would be, who personally knew
her, in the poverty of her girl
hood, and then heard her in
"Faust," when the musical world
was at her feet.
Some time since / loaned to a
devoted churchman my copies of
the North American Review that
had in them the discussion between
Gladstone and Ingersoll. Some
time after / asked him if he had
read them. He said he had read
all of Gladstone's articles but would
not read IngersolPs.
Some time after that an elder of
another church, who is Prohibi-
zionist, told me that he had seen
that man on one occasion pick up
all the Prohibition ballots that were
lying on the table at the polls, and
tear them up and throw them
away, the supposition being that it
was intended to show his contempt
for the Prohibition party, that was
80 sparsely represented.
That Christian I Prohibitionist
read my book and tried to get an
other officer in his church to do so.
The other man declined to do it,
with an emphasis. Its commonly
known that whisky was freely
used by his connivance. among the
negroes to elect him to the office
which he now holds.
So that it will not do to con-
clude that only those are good
Christians and Prohibitionists who
are willing to hear only one side of
a religious discussion.
The first article in the "Arena"
is by Alfred Russell Wallace, D.
G. L., LII. ID.
He is a member of the Society
for Psychical Research.
The writer believes in telepathy,
or thought transference, clairvoy
ance, hypnotism, planchette, and
all of the alleged phenomena that
come under the %s1nmon head of
spiritualism. His effort to prove
that these things are what their
advocates believe of them is a2'
strong a demonstration that they
are untrue as if he had written
against them. He only gives in
stances of persons who say they
have seen and heard these spiritual
manifestations, and gives samples
of the things that spirits had told
those who communicated with
them.
None of the information received
is of any Importance or value, and
is only such as people ordinarily
know without any supernatural
g guidance.
A most valuable citizen in Lex
ington recently said to me, "Y GU
cannot convince me that there is
no such thing as a materialized
spirit when l know l have taken
one by the hand"
In the same way man whom l
recently saw OH the grand jury
once told me that he knew water
could be found by a waterwitch
with a peach tree switch, because
he had seen it done, and l know
one of the wealthiest men in the
county who has been leader in
politics that claims to be water
witch.
Another article is by Hon. John
Welch, late Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ohio.
1t is against the authenticity and
of the cosmogOry of
Genesis, and argues that the story
ofthe creation as found in the
Bible is utterly without foundation,
and that the first eleven chapters
of Genesis were gotten by the
Jews from the Babylonians in the
first Babylonish captivity.
Persons who want to be informed
on this subject should read
this article in anticipation of the
article of Rev. j. w. McGarvey,
of this city, soon to appear in the
"Arena," in defense of the inspira-
ton of the Rihla