Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-05
DEFENDS SPIRITUALISM AS
IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

REDONDO, Dec. 2S.-[Editor Her
add: was pleased to read in The
Herald Letter Box of today DR.. HUI
manitas' effort to point out the in
consistencies of my letter of December
10, in which he charges me with intro
ducing miracle in proof of or to sub
stantiate my disbelief in the super
natural. I wish to say that / place
miracles along side the supernatural,
according to my way of thinking.
There never was such a thing as a
supernatural event or miracle and
never will be. The doctor asks what
1 know about that so-called miracle
Well, with all my egotism I am free
to confess l know nothing. 1 only
have the testimony of another But
my witness has been dead so long
did not suppose any one would ques-
tion his testimony. 1 could cite the
doctor to living witnesses much nearer
home of similar phenomena, but of
course their evidence would not be
taken. The doctor also says he takes
it 1 believe the phenomena of spirit
ualism to be in accordance with natur-
al law. Yes indeed, every phase of
phenomena of spiritualism is in ac-
cord and in perfect harmony with
natural law. Right you are, doctor,
when you say that natural law has to
do with material things, and there can
be no natural law for immaterial
spirit. To my mind talk about an i'm
material spirit Is simply materialistic
nonsense. 1 would like you to tell US
of something that is not material.
What does it look like? Where can we
find it and how does it feel. or can
we see, hear and feel anything that is
not material? Now, my dear doctor,
you ask me to explain by natural law
how these phenomena are produced. I
give it up I don't like to confess pub
licly my guilt of such gross ignorance
but there is some few other things in
nature that l cannot explain.
1t would be difficult for me to explain
by natural law or any other way so
simple a thing as magnetism; how the
magnet can move a needle through a
solid pane of glass or cause it to jump
an inch or more through space to get
to the magnet. We know this phenom-
ena is produced by the magnet and we
are satisfied there is nothing super
natural or miraculous about it, but
that it is done by the process of natural
law.
Notwithstanding we may not be able
to explain it satisfactorily to others,
spiritualism is the gospel of the higher
human life; it is something more than
mere communion with the departed,
DIS lIldl uillOuDlCuiy loi
spiritualism teaches the individual re-
sponsibility of every one and that we
cannot throw the consequences OF our
wrongdoing on the shoulders of an in
nocent person. It's object is to help to
make the world better: to help people
along the way of health, culture and
spiritual development, towards the
kingdom of universal brotherhood; it
is to help them to realize for them
selves that they are sparks of divine
life, which is individualised in the con-
seriousness Of men. That even the low
est as we'll as the loftiest, the worst
as we'll as the best are divine in their
essential nature: and when the little
day of this life is over and it's limita-
tions cast aside they shall in the land
Of larger life grow in grace and good
ness forever. The philosophy of spirit
ualism aims at the spirituaization of
human nature for the upbuilding of the
divine kingdom here on earth and urges
all men to live while In the flesh. so
as to earn for themselves all the hap
piness they hope for In the land be-
yond T. J.