The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-18
TALK ON sPIRITUALIsM.
Believers In the New Faith Attack the
Old Religious Doctrines.

The spiritualists held a meeting last
evening on the ground floor of Olympic
hall, on Second street, about twenty per-
sons, the majority women, being present.
AT the same time the Murphy Temperance
Union was holding meeting on the floor
above, and the flights of the spiritualist
orators into the unseen world were occa-
sionally interrupted by the applausive
stamping overhead of those who listened
to the denunciations of ardent spirits.
DR.. G. E. Chesboro conducted the meet
ing. and in his addresses dwelt on the
willingness of people to- be humbugged
and on the difficulty with which truth dis
lodged error in the popular mind. He
told story of woman whose belief in
Christian Science had been weakened by
the death of her SON, and who, having
lapsed into orthodox Christianity, had
reached the verge of insanity through
terror of the orthodox hell. He then dis
posed of death by saying that spiritualists
and scientists did not believe in it at all;
it was not a real thing at all. He then
told several instances of orthodox preach
ers who acknowledged to him their belief
in spiritualism, but were restrained from
openly confessing it by bread and butter
When spiritualists come together they will
burn hole in the dark secrets of the world and
let in the light, and angels shall come down
and walk with US.
After hymn had been sung, Herbert
CASTOR made a speech explaining that,
when false doctrine had been handed down
from generation to generation, it was i'm
possible to make people at once believe the
truth. Here the Murphyites stamped on
the door, and the speaker remarked:
"They are teaching them upstairs now'
He went on to show how the doctrine
of eternal punishment was losing ground,
quoting Canon Farrar's and Rev. d. c.
CARROTS denial of it. He ridiculed the
orthodox Judgment day." and said:
This is baby world. 1t has ICONS and 1ons
to live. 1t has to be developed: It has to 60 on
through the progression OF evolution. Spirit
ualism teaches eternal progression. All life
originates on this earth and we pass on, increas-
ing in power, knowledge and beauty. They are
teaching upstairs the evil of drinking, but they
don't tell you this. When a man forms an evil
habit like drinking or smoking here, tho desire
10 practice it Is intensified over there, and he
makes hell for himself until he outgrows the
desire.
The audience was then invited to ask
questions. In answer to an inquiry
whether spirits make any progress on the
plane of knowledge and experience, Mr.
CASTOR said they acquired certain expert
ences here, then drop this body and pass
over there.
Then you don't believe in reincarna-
tion?" said the inquirer, who seemed to
have been dipping into theosophy.
mo; that's a kind of roly-poly bust
ness" was the reply. "You never find a
man who has been reincarnated and knows
it. There Is only one case l know of;
that Is in Marryat's novel 'Snarleyow.'
The question then turned on Jesus
words TO Ncodemus: ''Ye must be born
again." and DIR. Chesboro explained it in
conformity with the theory OF evolution.
He said that the spiritualists hold that
the resurrection in the new life is new
birth; We are not born again till all that
Is material has passed away.
These ideas were expounded in great de-
tail by the two leaders long after the
Murphy meeting had adjourned.