Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
ever more, or to sing hosannas SO everlast-
inglv as has hitherto been supposed.
Pleasures for Scenery Lovers.

ever more, or to sing hosannas SO eVerlast-
ingly as has hitherto been supposed.
Pleasures for Scenery Lovers.
1t is something to know that in the spirit
world there are all the diversities of rocks
and rivers, mountains and rivers, towns and
cities, forests. mineral deposits, precious
stones and all the work which they i'm
ply. Fleas, mosquitoes, alligators, snakes and
all of the hateful things that infest our
Edens are not represented, bpt the higher
forms of animals are found there the same
rs on earth. The qualities of matter-at-
traction, repulsion, gravitv-operate as
usual, but there are no impurities. nor ofien-
sive gases, nor foul odors In short, the
heavens. above the third, are pretty much
like the old earth, save that all things are
more beautiful, nearer perfection, and bet
ter adapted for happiness by reason Of hav-
ing the bores and nuisances, and thorns and
hornets nests subtracted.
1t will be mystisying to many, after what
has been told, that the spirit world envelops
the earth, and that it forms, the sphere OF
degraded, disembodied spirits who continue
to hang around for various periods of
time, bu: who will eventually enter
the paths of progression, and get
above their degradation Some of these
depraved and debased spirits dwell in the
lowest sphere for generations and some
times centuries. These mean spirits, says
the author, 'infest our public convevances,
they frequent low dance houses, liquor
saloons, gambling houses and the slums.
They subsist on the emanations from earthly
food and particularly enjoy those found in
dirty restaurants and unclean kitchens.
They hang around a gluttonous person, and
if he has medal powers they impel him to
eat for two-himself and the invisible spirit
L H. thAtr
paying for it. Barrooms are full OF bad
spirits loaing around, waiting for an oppor-
tunitv to 'obsess' men who drink, and urge
them to indulge more and more until both
the men and the spirits become helpless.
Bad Spirits and Matrimony.
These degraded spirits, who hang around
the ''earth sphere" because not good
enough to go to the first heaven, also take a
tiendish delight in marring marriages. They
are at the bottom OF the mistakes that un-
happy men and unfortunate women make in
selecting their partners for life. They in
huence people into evil courses and cause
them to commit the most wicked deeds.
Orthodoxy holds that this is the work ofthe
devil, but the new revelation is to the effect
that earth bound spirits, who havn't got
enough '.get-up" about them to reach the
third heaven, keep themselves busy by such
'goings on"
1t is comfort to know that the spirits in
the higher heavens exercise restraining
and corrective authority over these villain
Gus low-down ghosts and that they will,
sooner or later, succeed in elevating them to
higher moral and intellectual planes.
Progression is the grand law of the
spirit world" The first step higher may
not be taken for ages, but, we are assured,
it is done eventually. In connection with
this piece of news, it is something of solace
to hear that missionaries from the upper
and shining heavens come down TO the low
er spheres to convert the naughty and de-
graded spirits, just as earthly missionaries
go to Asia, or Africa, or the Cannibal ISL
ands. The sufferings of the less guilty
these are the great majority, we are told
are rather negative than positive, and they
are generally advanced to the third heaven
in short time.
The Assassin of Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth, as relates Robert
Dale Owen, is now advanced into the higher
heavens because, as it was clearly under
stood. he was ''obsessed' by q malignant se-
cession spirit when he murdered Lincoln,
and therefore was not morally responsible.
When spirit gets bad name below, lie
has the privilege Of changing it when he
reaches the third heaven, but Booth holds
on to his, which shows he thinks he has no
reason to blush for it. Mr.. Owen, who fire.
quent1y meets Lincoln and Booth in the
heavens, does not tell whether they speak
as they pass by.
This book would be more interesting if
the author would let the world know some
thing about Horace Greeley at present
whether he edits paper up there, and what
are his views upon silver, and upon the
tariff and free trade. 1t would be pleasant
to know that Andrew Jackson and his be-
loved Rachel were happily keeping house
above the stars. and that he and Henry Clay
had settled their difference, and had little
games together.
However, succeeding chapters of the rev.
elations may give US knowledge of these
and other things that most people desire to
know concerning the 'great beyond" AT
any rate we are to learn in what section of
the heavens the bigoted sectarians live,
something about the Irish heavens, the
American heavens, and so on-but this is
enough for one time.
Prcarr RI