Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-02
A CAUSE FOR STRIKES
Explained in q Novel Way by a
Pretty New York Theosophist.
W0RKMEN CRAVE FOB RELIGION.
Pittsburg the Center Of Q Tremendous
Tsychic Force.
NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF OLD DoGMAS

"Pittsburg is the center of the most tre-
mendous force. There is 4 great deal ofphen-
omena aHoat in this city," Miss Annie M.
Stabler, of New York, said last night in a
brief but pointed address she made to the
Pittsburg branch of the General Theosophi-
cal Society of the United States.
Miss Stabler is a pretty girl of probably
% years She is comparatively recent
convert to the doctrine she breaches, but
ahe Is just as earnest and sincere in her
cause as though she had grown gray in the
service. The young woman said she had
come to Pittsburg on private business.
The peculiar conditions she found prompted
her in inquiring about the theosophists,
and the meeting last night followed her In
PRODUCTION here. The meeting was held in
one of the anterooms of the Mercantile Lii
brary.
Old and Young Together.
Probably 30 persons were present, .
majority of whom were women. There
were, however, q dozen men in the gather
ing. The young man with his first concern
for religion sat with the old warrior, whose
shoulders were bowed with the weight of
years and whose hair was white as slackened
lime. Both listened with equal interest to
the peculiar teachings of the pretty girl.
The bulk of the women were past middle
age. Not few of them had embraced the
reconstructed religion in the evening OF
their lives.
Miss Stabler was neatly and plainly
dressed. She wore a brown frock with vel
vet trimmings. In her corsage she wore
pink chrysanthemum. She did not remove
her jaunty brown hat She was introduced
by A. NJ. Cow, President of the Pittsburg
branch of the Theosophists. In his intro
duction Mr.. Cow explained that theosophy
meant universal brotherhood of the human
race. He said the Pittsburg branch had in
the past been decidedly inactive, but he
was hopeful that revival was now at hand.
Miss Stabler explained that she was not
an authorized speaker for the New York
society. She promised, however, that
during the winter other and abler speakers
will come to Pittsburg. She told of the
comparatively recent conversion to
theosophy and with bewitching smile she
said she had never been entirely happy
until she had abandoned dogmas and had
begun to think for herself
Old as the Universe.
The lady referred to the fact that the
osophy was as old as the universe, and she
argued that the teachings of Christ had been
warped and twisted beyond recognition.
She said hypnotism was Just now demand
ing general attention, and she said that the
theosophists of old had predicted the exist
ence in the future of the present conditions.
History taught that a new theosophical
society had been formed at the beginning of
every century.
The pretty little woman said many more
things about her religion and then she
talked of the peculiar conditions she found
existing in Pittsburg. The labor disturb
ances had interested her and she explained
that people generally thought it was caused
by struggle for money, but she insisted
that all the trouble was caused by an unsat-
isied craving for religious knowledge.