The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-28
Declaration Of DIR. Lyman Alb
bOtt Is a Surprise.
Took Occasion to Declare His
Views at Prayer Meeting.
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
Have Communication With
Friends ON Earth.
He Cannot Believe in Spirit
Rappings.


the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott in favor of
Spiritualism has aroused a great deal of
comment among clergymen in this city.
Many of them have known in a personal
way for a long time that DR.. Abbott en-
tertained these views, but the fact that
he chose his last prayer meeting pastor
of Plymouth church as the occasion to de-
clare them was exceedingly gratifying to
clergymen who believe that the spirits of
the dead have a means of communication
with those they loved on earth.
address. that the dead have gone far
our ken, but we are not beyond theirs.
But the more this faith comes to me, the
SpirituaIism;. the less 1 believe in rap
pings and physical demonstrations
The Rev. DR.. F. Heber Newton said to-
day:
beyond him in one respect have as poor
an opinion as he has. of the of spir-
theless, I do not share his contemptuous
IheG1dd9gs tqWaTd the whole m4Rement It
worth the attention of the scientific man
IF We can get hold of facts Concern
ing mans nature here WHICH make exist
ton, the value of such a demonstration is
Dr.. .Hodson's new book. Restricting the
ha ken hold N of ac from
psychic power which make the belief in
a continued existence after death no longer
Psychical Research society seems to be a
demonstration Of telepathy-that is. of
from physical media. That involves a
conception of mans nature that makes
him superior to death. because he is SUI
perior to mere physical organiza ton.
More pre- than thai" c2ntinued Dr. New
entifc Investigators after long study of
the subject hays bee9me CONVINCED Of
lies beyond the frauds of Spiritualism.
land and DR.. Hodson in this country. both
of whom have plainly stated the con-
clufion as to + Which they have been led
college professor who had fancied himself
a materialist announced me to me a similar
My friend Prof. Newbold of the Univers-
PsyehicaI Researeh society: III .sefentidc
men cannot say much longer that there is
say it no longer. / know now there is evil
de nee; Of future life. for have seen it
sis a decidedly new position for the sci
sntiffi.c; man and is very significant If
onstrate existence after death. it deserves
not contempt. but close scientific investi-
in Il g gsS s SCI mzssf 81 s sss
of the Messiah, 81 should be representing
myself what I am not But dc, believe
iect very thoroughly, long before the ex-
fstence of the Psychieal Research society,
1.-The result of my Investigate leads me
to the belief that the spirits of the dead
communicate with u.s. I have received
communications from people whom know
to have lived on earth. If anybody can Of
fer some other hypothesis than spiritual
communication, 1 shall be glad to inves-
tigate it, but have never heard of one.
It is a great question in the Christian
church today. I am preaching series
from primitive times to the latest revela-
The Rev. Mr.. Da Costa said:
The church has cOmDlete system of
spiritualism, expressed in the lines:
angels and living saints and dead,
But one communion make:
All join in Christ, their living head.
And of his love partake.
1.-THE article of the Greed which holds
the Communion of Saints is one of the
most comforting and beautiful thoughts
separate believers in Christ. The bond is
not severed. We do not know how the
communication is maintained, but we may
believe that we have communion with the
departed, that in going away they come
near: that birth Is Comprehension and
death expansion.
THE dead may prove as valuable as
the living. 1t is unfortunate that the
church does not make as much of this
thought as it might.
Through Christ the departed may be to
never think of friends as gone before
but rather as those who, in a higher and
holier sense than ever. are at hand