Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-09-08

mountains grew"
1t was like talking to a child, yet to
c child with keen perceptions beyond
the ordinary person Of mature age.
"How do you know all this?"
eve read it in books written by
great men who spend their lives
studying the great truths of nature
and who teach us what they learn"
"Who teaches them?'
"SopeS6kp are lifted by the God, Of
whom -fs1sye Just to,d yon, with a
great mental power. They are able
to reach out into the darkness of ig-
norance; and light it with their dis
coveries. To them, the secrets of
earth unfold themselves. And so,
one man is great in his own way and
small in others. Another man is
great in another way, and while all
men may be able to teach something,
so all men may learn something Of
others"
''You know everything"
'No. l know comparatively moth
ing, Kaumai. l am not student. /
love my case. But 1 read, and talk to
these great men, and learn what they
have to teach"
"And in your world, out there"
she pointed with her finger as if to.
ward some distant land-"are there
no priests and priestesses? Is there
no Observation-Disclosures"
''There are men we call priests and
ministers, Kaumai, who preach the
word of the Almighty, and teach peo
pie how to be good, and how to live,
so that when they die, they may be
assured OF welcome in the heavenly
land where God and his son Jesus re-
side, aud where we go, in the spirit,
after this form of ours is cold in
DEATH
"How grandr' she murmured, her
bosom heaving with new emotions.
"But our priests and ministers do
do not go ahead like lot OF fools, as
your priests do here. They walk
about among men. They meet us in
our homes. God does not require
that in our worship of Him we must
hide ourselves in the mountains. The
world-the universe-is His grand
temple. Anywhere in it we may
worship Him. We build churches,
and meet in them to listen to the
teachings of Gods ministers, but they
clme before us as men, as friends,
not as these maniacs here, who seek
only to devour."
"And in that world, are there many
like your sister and like me?"
"rhere are none so beautiful as you,
Kaumai, but there are women, good
and beautiful, without whom the world
would be desert. In oar lives, wo-
men are tenderly loved and cherished,
and are priestesses of good in their
own homes, but are not sent out into
a wilderness, with a rotten belief
drummed into them as you have been.
Kaumai, you have been misled. You
have been taught untruths, for the sell
fish interests of crazy set of fools. ;
1.-THE Observation-Disclosures is pow
erful 1t has many members in the
world"
"rhe world never heard of it. You
have been misled again. Only a few
lunatics of Hawaii are iu it. 1t is not
n power anywhere but here.
A look OF doubt, of uncertainty came
into the lovely face.
"You have been to Haleakala?"
fGVoo Iar,a l,oot, tl,,.,Y,n ,n,b fba old
crater. There is no Pele there. Nc
temples, no priests, no priestesses.
You have been deluded, Government
does not know of any such being.
Government is the rule of order, and
now, in Hawaii, it is a rule of the peo-
pie. There is not even a queen.
Every person has an equal right touse
his Judgment in making up what we
call the government. There is no per
son absolute in power"
''If what you say is true, L would
like to live in a world like that
"Then why may you not, Kaumai?
Why may you, my sister and myself
not leave this horrible place and &c
among my people? You will be well
come there.
The priestess rose from her chair
and walked nervously across the cham
Der. She peered out into the darkness
aud listened intently for something.
Then she returned and sank weariIy
into her chair.
"What you suggest is impossible, "
she said. ''First, 1 cannot accept
what you say as absolute truth, and
destroy the belief 1 have held all my
life at one blow. 1t has been taught
me that priestesses of Pele are immor-
tai. How would an immortal priestess
be receiyed?"
"You are not immortal, Kaumai, save
as 1 have already told you. We are all
immortal, inasmuch as our souls live
after us. Our bodies die; our spirits
live. That is Immortality"
"Ah, You teach beautiful thingsl /
would like to go with you and tes
them. But it is impossible.
"Why is it imIossible?"
"Because 1 cannot leave here. My
authority would be gone the moment
gave up the worship of Pele. These
people know me only as know my
self, a priestess of Pele. As suel
they obey me. As Kaumai, the WON,
an, [ would be seized and be placed
by the side of your sister to await ;
sacrifice. -
''But I can appeal to the govern
ment 10 send aid and destroy thes'
people and save us"
"You could not leave this plac
alone. Neither could I. If 1 am t
die, as you teach me, then l must di'
here, So must you, So must you
sister. -
tBut, Kaumai, listen. This is hor
rible, to remain here, when we coul'
go out into beautiful world and be
come part of it. To what purpose d
we end our lives here?"
''To no purpose. if what you say
true. 10 the glory of Pele, if whq
the priests say is true.
"They are a lot of maniacs, "
"How am l to know that?"