Year: 1870

Descriptive Features of the Asse uibiaae- Man
as He Is and Is TO Bc-Inspired Discourse
by Mrs. Nellie brigham.


Ameeting OF Spiritualists, numbering about two
hundred, assembled in the above hall on yesterday
for the purpose OF carrying on their usual service
the chief attraction being the fact OF Mrs. Nellie
Brigham intended favoring the audience with a
spiritualistic discourse. The congregation was
chiefly composed of aged and venerable looking in
dlviduals, who made good use OF their time before
the service commenced by reading newspapers,
taking "snur," condensng s'toDacco quidsp and
sundry other devotional exercises.


There was also large sprinklmg of severe, staid
and sagacious looking matrons and maidens also
fair supply OF fAh


THE RISING GENERATION
of both sexes, evidently come with the intention Of
being initiated into the new doctrine.


The choir was composed OF the following 0Tttstes:
tralto and Mr.. p f. Farnsworth. basso. They COM
inenced the service by singing the following lines -


Oh, sacred presence, life divine,


We WIN not mock mock Thy siis nos Mans name


All souls in crcling orbits run


Around Thee as their central sun.


II would have been no harm II .'the spirit, moved
some OF The congregation to join in the singing, as
the different airs in highly artistic and hnished
manner, was rather limited, consisting OF only three,





large hall No doubt the spirits will the force OF
this after short time, and will open the mouths OF
some OF The congregation at least.


MIS-. NELLIE BRIGHAM,
rather young and very Intellectual looking lady,
dressed In brown silk, as became her grave and I'M
portant position OF medium, then came forward,
and delivered "a very ferv1d aud eloquent prayer,
supplicaing Chiefly thar grace would attend all their
meetings and always be among them, and success
favor their society and increase Their numbers. She
also drew contrast between the spritualists' form
OF prayer as compared with ordinary Christians"
CHI rCofttt
in order that the spirit might descend on her more
plentifully and make her the meditm Of good and
useful DISCOURSE The subject was


''MAN AS HE Is AND Is TO BE-


She went into very lengthy abstruse an1 almost
incomprehensibe discourse, beginning by saying
that as '.man was made from dust' IL was only rea-
sonaDle to suppose that all his inclinatons and all
his aspirations should incline to worldly matters
and be 80 absorbed as almost never to think OF the
soul, his attention being drawn to the latter by
inward consciousness Of spirit warning him OF the
dangers to come which should now be prepared for.
she then drew several very peculiar comparisons


THE SOULS OF MEN AND OAK TREES,
not rlpening or boSs0ming for few years perhaps,
and then spring1ng forth into lie by some unac-
cOuntabe reason. She then referred to the anciens
how in their ignorance or the world and what 1t
contained 1t being oftleir many theories regard
ing the earth that 1t was only sort OF shell contain
ing water.


ALSO AS REGARDS THE SKY
being reservoir kept by some individual VINO some
times opening his gates caused rain on earth.


So numerous and ETHEREAL were the flights which
this lady took into the realms OF fancy upon the
wings OF spirit agency that one accustomed to plod
the earth like ordinary mortals had naturally sug-
gested to him the wisdom Of the adage OF Esop
"that he who hews above his height Will get chips
in his eyes.n She held that although spirituasts
may be accused OF not living up to their sublime
theories they had yet sounded the true note Of pro
gress.


They were at present but tho scafrolding OF
building, the true features OF which would yet revea
started on the path which led to liberty, light ant
owe.