The Washington times., 1920-01-29

Will go, after q certain number OF
years.
Where do they go; whence do
they come? That is a question
"Ouija" does not answer. Why
does one baby grow up to die in
the electric chair, another to be
buried with honor and much
mourning! Is the difference in
the soul or intelligence of the new
born child, or is it a physical
difference in the brain, the ma
chine through which that soul
works? How much is settled at
birth, how much depends on sur
roundings and education?
\ Nobody blames a rattlesnake
for the poison in his fangs. When
he bites he MUST poison, being
made that way. No one blames
the powder if a cannon bursts and
kills the gunner. A cannon better
built would have protected that
gunner. Nobody, going through a
prison, understanding the mis-
shapen skulls, low foreheads,
heavy jaws, weak shifting eyes,
blames the unfortunate spirits
dwelling in those badly made
bodies.
When a defective cannon ex-
plodes, men try to manufacture
better cannons that won't explode.
Some day they will realize that
the remedy for murder, cruelty,
superstition and hatred is to be
found not in the electric chair,
but in the manufacture of better
human bodies in which the spirit
may work harmon;ously. The first
thing is to give the child chance
from the day it is born, and the
mother a chance before the child's
birth.
Ms.-Rinn-offers Five Thousand
Dollars to DR.. Hyslop or anybody,
that will, under scientific condi-
tions, prove the existence of spirits
or spirit communication. DR..
Hyslop says he is talking to DR..
Hodgson through a medium. Mr..
Rim has the last letter written
by DR.. Hodgson locked up in his
safe, and offers Five Thousand
Dollars if DR.. Hyslop's medium
can get DR.. Hodgson's ghost to
tell what is in the ghosts own
letter. The medium won't do it,
unless by arrangement with Mr..
Rim.
Spiritualistic phenomena, when
sincere, represent self-hypnotism.
1t pleases many whose lives are
dull to listen with credulity to the
pitiful drivel OF alleged distin-
guished ghostS. and, with profit,
many exploit this nonsense. The
universe as visible to human be-
ings, is made up Of matter. force
and spirit. Spirit to act must have
force and matter upon which to
exercise that force. That is why
cosmic wisdom. that has no time
to fool away on hysterical medi-
ums, ties up the spirit in material
body, with power to use force on
matter and thus realize itself.
II you could isolate" the ghost
Of Michael Angelo, as scientists
isolate the comma shaped bacillus,
that ghost would probably have in
it all the paintings Of the Sistine
Chapel, the wonderful marble
David, the bronze Pieta, and the
dome of St. Peters.
But until you give Michael An
gelo's ghost a body, and supply
that body with chisel and hammer,
or paint brush and paint you have
no picture and no statue.
II matter and force were not
necessary to manifestation of spir-
itual power. if spirit could talk
to spirit, imagining landscapes,
harmony and beauty without time
or space, Divine Wisdom wouldn't
have taken the trouble to make the
universe with its suns, planets,
comets and nebulae. The whole
universe might have been the size
of a pinhead, with a central God
and all the spirits, occupying no
I space, inside that pinhead, talking
their heads of.
Don't waste time on spiritualism
unless you are absolutely sure
your time isn't worth anything.
In the latter case enjoy yourself
What strange foolishness sends
men to ignorant, illiterate, fraudu-
lent mediums in search of ghosts
and spirits? For all of US, rs
Carlyle says in "Sarto Resartus," !"
are but ghosts, dressed up, talk
ing to each other for little while
here, then vanishing. You who
read this had no earthly exist
ence a few years ago and will
have none a few years hence. You
are only a ghost, temporarily
''materialized."
The doctor who takes a new
baby out of the realm of nowhere
and starts it going interests an
Intelligent man more than the
swindling, clumsy medium, ring
ing a bell over the top Of cabi-
net, hammering a most earthly
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