Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-20
REV. 4. ]. MOORE DELIVERS ADDRESS
Second Day of Annua! Gathering
Shows Increasing .lnterest.-Three
Sessions Held Today-spirit Mes.
sases and Tests are Enjoyed.

noon, last evening and this morning
sessions were held and this afternoon
the interest continues undated. There
is large attendance. This morning
the following telegram was received
from Harrison d. Barrett, the presi-
dent OF the national association Mr.
Barrett was to have attended the con-
Ventlon but was compelled to remain
at his home in Boston, Mass, owing
to illness in his family:
greetings to convention, deeply re-
greet enforced absence. Truth forever
and triumphant"
The following reply was sent to Mr..
Barrett:
Our best thoughts toward you.
convention starts under fattering aus
pices.'
Session Last Evening.
The session last evening was the
most successful one yet held. An elo-
quent address was delivered by Rev.
Harry j. Moore, of Chicago, on the
subject, 'The Witch of Endor," and
this was listened to with the closest
attention OF the gathering. Spirit
messages and tests were given by Will
j. Erwood, of Lacrosse, Wis, and
Mrs. M. A. Burland, of Chicago. Mu-
steal selections were also given.
Todays Meeting.
The meeting this morning was of
great interest to, the members of the
society. Reports of the committees
were received and the chartered soci-
cites in the state presented their re-
ports. The session closed with con
ference. This afternoon the invoca-
ton was given by Mrs. Eva Mccoy,
OF Marshalltown, and the principal ad-
dress was delivered by Rev. Harry J..
Moore, of Chicago. Spirit messages
and tests were also given.
Address Last Evening.
Mr. Moore's address delivered at
the session last evening was of great
interest. He opened with an express
sion from the pen of Ella Wheeler Will
cox. His text was from FIRST Samuel
twenty-eighth chapter, sixth verse. He
spoke in part as follows:
TO my belief, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
says: After much investigation am
satisfied that the communication be-
tween disembodfed spirits is possible,
and is an established fact. OF scores
of experiments two only remain with
me as convincing evidences to me of
actual spiritual telephone connection
between the hidden world and this.
The two experiments remain with me
convincing and comforting, for what
can be more comforting to the human
mind than the belief that the dear ones
who have passed into the silence may
at times come nearer with words of
counsel and warming
"When Paul said. as will be found in
my text, The spirits of the prophets
are subject to the prophets, he simply
meant that all the prophets are NEGRO
mancers. ask the question, are these
laws binding or are they not? Ii they
are binding today they were binding
in the days of Jesus, and Jesus, with
Peter, James and John on the Mount
of TRANSPORTATION, communea with
Moses, who had died.
IF these laws are of men it only
proves that men in every age have
made very foolish laws. If they are
of God. as some people are inclined to
believe, say that God does not enact
laws against nothing. Therefore he
SiioSSSh laws against Z. IL
these are his laws and that something
was getting knowledge from the dead,
wherefore declare unto you that he
could not enact laws which were SUP
posed to prevent people from getting
knowledge from the dead If the dell
did not return.
The same law that declares that
We should be stoned for communing
with the dead enjoins all those wno
know of that fact to stone us unit
dead. Therefore if l go to Hades for
breaking one-half of the law, where
will those of you go who know that l
break this half of the law, who break
the other half of the same lawby not
stoning me to death? ask is it prob
able tht you will be freezing in the
next life while | roast, when you are
as deep in the mud as | am in the
mire? The only solution that will
save our opponents from their own
logic is to get into the spiritualistic
ark of safety by falling into line.
THE generosity of this woman was
made manifest by taking the fat calf
and killing it, taking flour and knead-
| ing it into bread, and setting it before
Saul, who had denied her the exer,
else of her mediumship and by so do
ing she practiced that Golden Rule,
1000 or more years before ever Jesus
gave expression to it. l defy the
world to prove greater act than this
woman put into practice. Some peo-
Pile will refer us to the incident of the
good Samaritan as analogous to this
incident, but in this case it was man
befriending man and the man that
he befriended had not injured him in
anyway. In the case of the woman of
Endor it was a woman befriending
man and that man whom she had be-
friended had injured her in every way
that he possibly could. Therefore /
declare that she is an ideal character
after whom every man, woman, and
child could fashion their lives. And
may the blush of shame assume
charge of the features of every indi-
vidual who attempts to traduce and
SANDER her by calling her the Witch
of EndOr'
.'The world will yet recognize this
fact, that she by putting into effect
the golden rule, did a good act, be-
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