The Irish standard., 1909-12-04
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
of which the deceased was member
had charge If the arrangements.
VIEWS ON sPlRITIsM.
Given by the Noted Father Lambert
in Frosman's Journal,

Given by the Noted Father Lambert
in Frssman's Journal.
Eusapia Palladino, Spirist-medium
from Naples, Italy, has recently ar
rived in this country. She is credited
with being more gifted in her line
of business than the average medium.
She may possibly arouse as great in
terest in the shady subject of Spirit
ism as the celebrated Fox girls did
some sixty years ago. The latter,
however, confined themselves to what
was called spirit rapping, and as long
as the admission fees held out, did
not bother their heads about the phil
osophy of the thing; nor did they at
tempt to establish cult or religion
on it.. says Rev. L. A. Lambert, LII.
D., in the N. Y. Freeman's Journal.
After giving exhibitions pretty we'll
over the civilized world they fell into
innocuous desuetude and disappeared.
While we believe that most that
goes on in the seances of mediums
consists in fraud and magicians' tricks.
yet there Is residuum of truth and
fact remaining; enough at least to
suggest a problem worthy of serious
consideration for those whose minds
are not fixed in divine faith by the
teaching Of the Church of Christ.
There are a vast number of people
who do not know what they believe
concerning the. mystery of existence
and their own destiny. If the reader
considers this statement too strong,
let him move about little and cate
chise men as he meets them on ques-
tons of religion and philosophy and
he will be astounded at their super
frivolity. At least he will find many,
a majority perhaps, who wear good
clothes, and even white ,neckties, and
speak good English, who will frankly
admit that they know it all, and need
only to be tapped for the benefit Of
those who don't know anything. Let
our reader begin his investigation on
this man who knows it all-the aver
age man he meets. Let him begin
with some simple question.
For instance: How do you know
that you exist? The reply will be.
prompt: 1 know. with certainly that
exist, and you know that I do CT
you would not talk to me. Tell him
that you did not ask as to the fact
(real or otherwise) of his existence,
but, How do you know that you exist?
1t is your knowledge that is in ques-
ton, not your existence. Drive him to
give an answer sto your last why and
how You will find AksXill pot SO far
till his legs give .put. =. ..asa sg..>
Now it is this vast class of learned
ignoramuses full of conceit of their
own smartness that is always ready
and eager to swallow any new thing
that attracts their attention.
The resurgence of Spiritism-the
belief and practice of ancient heathen-
ism--is just the thing to attract those
we have described above: She is called
a prophet, and she will doubtless prof
it by their credulity.
But. as we have said, there is somc-
thing left in the way of truth and fact,
after all the fraud is eliminated. The
existence of the counterfeit is proof
of the existence of the genuine. Where
there is so much smoke there must
be some fire.
The truth back Of it is, that there
are non corporal, non-material intel
LICENCES, both good and bad; and the
fact is that some Of them have mani
tested themselves and interfered both
to the benefit and to the detriment OF
mankind. The Holy Scriptures give
US examples of both kinds of inter-
ference. 1t is the common belief Of
the race. It Is fact worth noticing
that the writer's of the Scriptures, in
stating the cases of persons possessed
by evil spirits, never express or imply
surprise at the fact. They cited them
as they would cite every day facts,
and cited their expulsion by our Lord
as proof Of His power. 1t was this
manifestation of power over evil spir-
It's that caused wondsrment. But why
were they not surprised at spirit pos
sessions and obsessions, as they nat
urally would be at new and extraor-
binary facts? The explanation Is SIM
pie enough. The people of that time,
both Jew and Gentle, believed in the
| existence of spirits and experienced
their power Of interference. The
writer's of the Scriptures therefore
stated facts of possession by evil spir-
its just as they stated other ordinary
events. without surprise, or fear Of
being doubted.
We were personally acquainted with
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