A JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL REFORM, DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATION OF HUMANITY IN THIS LIFE, AND A SEARCH FOR THE EVIDENCES OF LIFE BEYOND.

V O L . V I . S A N F R A N C IS C O , C A L., S A T U R D A Y , A P R IL 18 8 8 . N O. 13.

I N D E P E N D E N T S P I R I T P A I N T I N G .

[From t life* size bust in oil of Core, spirit daughter of Mrs. E. \V. Bushy he ad, wife of Ex-Sheriff Bushy head of San Diego. Produced by independent spirit power, through the roediumship of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Rogers, of San Francisco. See 4th page ]

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F ir s t Page.—Gems of Thought; Spirit Picture; Thoughts on Theosophy, by Alfred Denton Cridge; The Golden Rule, by Ella L. Merriam; Philosophy of Jhayer, by Hudson Tuttle, etc.

Second Page.—-Facts and Fragments, by John Wether- bee; Gods and Devils; Problems in Life.— The Spirit Land, by Geo. A . Dclcrec; O rganizatson, etc.

Th ibd Page.— Philosophy of Prayer—continued; The Ap­plication of the Laws Governing Good and Evil Applied to Materialization, by Mrs. A. Whitmore; “ Progres­sive Colonies,” etc.

Fourth Page.—(Editorials) Editorial Fragments; Life; Lowly Callings; Closing Meeting in Los Angeles; Odd Fellows’ Hall; A Question of h Genius;” Independent Spirit Art; W . J. Colville in San Diego; Helping Its Own, etc.

Fifth P age—Editorial (Notes; The Means Predict the End; A Martyr and Hero; Our Question Department; Anniversary in San Diego; Pasted On; Notices of Meetings; Publications, etc.

Sixth Pack.— From the Son Angel Order of Light; Oak­land Spiritualists; Advettisemcnts; Publications, etc.

Seventh Page.— Practical Spiritualism, by A. F. Mel- chers; The Law of Correspondences, by Gustie F. Howe; Professional Cards, etc.

E ighth P age.—(Poetry) A Defense; NemophUa; The Winters; When the Baby Came; Cowardice. Psychic Force; Advertisements, etc.

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

[Gems by Charles J. Hull.]

T h e value of thought depends largely upon its clothing.

Each soul basks or shivers mostly in its own sunshine or shadow.

Individuality is the guardian of the soul, and it strews its pathway with thoms or roses.

H e who can outline the wisdom of the future, though unknown in bis own age, is truly great.

T h e soul speaks best in silence, when all around is unheard, and it faces the uni­verse alone.

Perhaps I can stave off the winter al­most wholly, if I hold on to the sunshine o f the children.

Hum an development is heaven's coin, and it will always be current everywhere for its face value.

T h e rank and file of the people are moving forward, and the doctors and min­isters must keep step.

Failing to express our love and esteem for a friend is like omitting to. pray. No one is injured save the silent party.

T h e unflinching courage o f painful en­durance must be a flash from the Almighty will, a gleam from the life immortal.

I presume G od will not allow me to j look into the future, until I have shown j some reasonable capacity to see the present.

T ruth is a safe conductor, and we need not fear to stop at any station that she makes, though it may not be on the old time-table.

A ll the heaven that any soul can con­template, or comprehend and enjoy, is without gate and padlock, and is wide open to the whole human family.

Our Father in Heaven is fast becoming to me a substantial, unseen, unchanging, quiet reality, beyond whose influence and parental care no child can wander.

W e can never fill the great mission o f life satisfactorily without helping others onward and upward. Human influence is immortal. W ould it were always of the very best stamp.

I have great faith in the future church, and I wish she would com e along. I think we are about ready for a religion that can blend the human race into a uni­versal union of intelligence.

Death is promotion; an opening o f the eyes; an introduction to the best society o f the universe; close communion with all whom we love; great ability to help others; and an uninterrupted possession and use o f all our treasures.

How few men leam that apparent fail­ures are the real harbingers o f the most brilliant successes. But few men really succeed in great enterprises until they have bought and paid for the right o f way, and learned to keep the road by night as well as by day.

[Written for the Golden Gate.]

Thoughts on Theosophy.

■ V ALFRED DENTON CRIDGB.

In endeavoring to enlighten my under­standing o f Theosophy, I hope no idea o f controversy was entertained by Brother Allen Griffith in the Golden Gate of March 31st.

T he teachers o f Theosophy by pen and tongue have created certain ideas con­cerning it in the minds o f the people, which I desired to have cleared up. The Fellow o f the Theosophical Society did not give much information upon the sub­ject, however.

I f Theosophy, like theology, is to be or has been made a maze o f hair-splitting quibblings, with assertions instead o f dem- onstratable facts for foundations to support vague theories upon, the whole to be made a life study before being understood (if at all), the masses will be either led astray by blind leaders o f the blind, or reject the whole thing. Truth needs not a vast

¡array o f marshalled words to introduce her; they obscure her beauty, and repel her would-be worshippers.

If India is not the original source of Theosophy, it is to a great extent the foun­tain-head at present. Theosophy may not be responsible for the material short-com­ings of the Hindoos, but that it has ex­isted side by side with them is, I think, more than a coincidence. Theosophy teaches us not to want what we can’t have; so does Christianity, in a certain degree. This idea o f contentment— whatever is, is the will o f God— the superiority of spirit over, and indifference to material condi­tions, taught by the early Christians, as by the Tbeosophists, tends, I think, to pro­duce a condition o f society exemplified by India of the nineteenth century, and Europe o f the eleventh.

T he defects in the religious philosophies 1 o f India and Europe aré apparently either the result or the cause o f the unjust, de­graded condition o f the masses, where and when they have been most powerful. I asked for information.

As the Christian refers to dead Hebrew, so seem the Tbeosophists to find refuge in Sanskrit. T h e ancient spiritually har­monious Sanskrit philosophers followed out, to a greater degree than is at first ap­parent, the lines o f thought of Grecian, j Roman, and more modern European sa- rants. Much that appears under the head i o f Theosophy, if the new terms and 1 phrases were more accurately translated. and impartially compared, would be found j nearly identical with Christian conceptions, creeds, and dogmas, already more defi­nitely expressed in intelligent English.

M any o f the translated Sanskrit sen­tences are like Dame Waddle's tea-pot— 1 able to hold the ocean, if you put in a ' pint at a time.

T o assert that spirit is superior to matter does not make it so. T o me the daily in­cidents o f home, workshop, nation, and mankind show that spirit, under certain conditions, is superior, as under other con­ditions inferior, to matter. Geologists were once divided in.to two hostile schools upon the question o f the most potent agent in the construction o f the world, fire or water. To-day the claims, *as well as the errors, o f both schools are recog­nized. It took both to account for the facts. T h e action o f the acids upon the empty stomach will revolutionize the moral and spiritual nature o f man, as it does o f beasts. T h e fate o f nations and religions has been decided by this material action.

T h e existence of error for centuries does not prove its truth. That argument proves the infallibility o f the pope and the flatness o f the earth. Neither does the acceptance o f a theory by accute minds prove its truth. T hey have accepted every dogma and theory promulgated àn ce Adam.

Re-in carnation may be a fact, but I have yet to see a concise, logical, scien­tific expoàtion of it, and would be glad to learn o f one if it exists. So far in my intermittent researches the idea that re­incarnation is but part of a vague Hindoo scheme o f heaven and hell is upheld, and the poetical assertions, unsupported by fact or definite information, o f Theoso- phists add strength to the theory.

I f belief in re-incarnation is one of the evidence o f a thorough knowledge o f

the subject, o f course I may never be thoroughly informed. But if in any case to be thoroughly informed it is necessary to wade through scores o f dry volumes, the masses can never be brought to a knowl­edge o f it. Truth needs to be viewed, as does the statue o f Venus, without drapery. What the advocates of Theosophy and ie-incamation require before they can expect thinkers and intelligent inquirers to more widely examine their theories and ideas, is more definite, concise and orderly presentations of fa cts concerning them, in plain, fully translated English. When that is accomplished, I believe the investigator will discover little truth that has not been taught by Christian theolo- gists, or is not already inculcated by Spiritualism. It may have the effect of broadening Spiritualism, and awakening thoughts in the minds of many upon I kindred topics, but while not hostile to it, I think Spiritualists are wisest not to either bitterly oppose or ardently assimilate with this musty, assuming offshoot of emasculated India.

[Written for the Golden Gau.l

The Golden Rule.

Better than all the sermons of the most learned and gifted ecclesiastics or the wisest teachers; better than the inconsist­ent theories and iron-clad creeds o f sect or clan; better than science or supersti­tion, is the “ beautiful Golden R u le.” So applicable, so reasohable, and so just in all its relations to and influences upon humanity, individually and collectively.

It induces no clashing o f opinion, nor vain arguments as to the duties and obli­gations o f our fellow-man, but each be­comes occupied and absorbed in the work of squaring and measuring his or her life to their best ability in its fullest, noblest, and highest sense.

What a beautiful picture to contemplate I What a glorious future to anticipate! For just so surely as the world is now awaken­ing to its innumerable possibilities and real design, just so surely will they come to see, understand, and desire this, the wisest, best, and only means of obtaining all that is highest and most enjoyable in this and the future life.

T h e bright, shining ‘ *Golden Rule!” not created, established, or represented by any person, or body o f persons, how­ever sincere, zealous, or politic, but in- bom, imprinted in indellible characters within the soul to be reflected and exhib­ited in the daily walks and works o f its adherents.

What a sovereign o f peace, harmony and unselfishness! What a conqueror over the ills and evils o f every nature and degreel What a universal balm for the woes and miseries o f humanity, and so easy to follow, so delightful to observe, t o 1

those who are .willing and anxious to gain true happiness themselves and impart it to others!

Our own preachers! Our own teach­ers I Our own saviors 1 “ Without money and without price ” can we obtain this in­fallible guide through the mazes o f earth’s ofttimes toilsome and intricate journey to the golden gates that will admit us into the unexplored country o f whose delights and treasures “ human eye hath not seen, or ear heard; neither hath it entered into the heart o f man to understand!” But we must be honest, just and wise in our use o f this divine instrument, lest by er­ror and spiritual ignorance our temporal habitation will become .imperfect in de­sign and construction, unbalanced and unstable, to be again reconstructed at the expense of valuable time and labor.

Do unto others that which ye would that they should do unto youl and I promise you that as your conscientiously and wisely builded edifice assumes loftier and more beautiful proportions, surmount­ing gradually but surely all the obstacles lying in our upward pathway, this life will seem all the moré valuable and beautiful for its immortal significance, its disciplin­ary experiences, and its true and enduring benefits, and the approaching on, .a full and Complete recompense for the brief and trivial sufferings that sometimes shut out from view the boundless expanse of eternal ages yet to be explored and en­joyed.

Los A n g e l e s , Cal.

She Wab Not Prepared.— “ Are you prepared for death?” the clergyman asked, ‘with a tremor o f emotion in his voice, as be took the sick woman’s hand in his own. A shade o f patient thought crossed the invalid’s face, and by and by she said she didn’t hardly believe she was; there was the little bedroom carpet to be taken up yet, and the paint up-stairs had hardly been touched, and she did want to put up new curtains in the dining-room; but she thought if she didn’t die until next Mon­day, she would be about as near ready as a woman with a big family and no girl ever expected to be. That woman got well.

“ T aken D own.”— W e heard the other day o f a young minister who was “ taken down ” very handsomely by a bright little girl. H e had been called upon quite un­expectedly to address a Sunday school, and to give himself time to collect his thoughts, he asked a question: “ Chil­dren,” said be, “ what shall I speak about ? ” A little girl in the front seat, who had herself committed to memory several declamations, held up her band, and in a shrill voice asked, “ What do you know ? ” .

Power, unless managed with gentleness and discretion, does but make a man the more hated; no intervals of good humor, starts of bounty, will atone for tyranny and oppression.— Collier.

I Written for the Golden Gate.]

Philosophy of P rayer.

When Preàdent Garfield lay tortured by the wound which in the end caused his death, the prayers o f a whole nation arose as one united voice for his recovery. From sixty thousand pulpits petitions to the throne' of grace ascended. There were days set apart when all united in appealing to G od. Preàdent Garfield was eminent in the church as in war and politics, and if prayer ever received an­swer, it would seem that it ought to be in hi«? case. Y et the good man, the scholar, statesman and theologian died, just as he would have died had no petition been sent to the throne o f grace. T h e ocean ship, freighted with passengers, is broken through by an iceberg, and slowly filling settles down into the waves. W ildly the best and purest men and women pray to God for help, but the ship is not thereby sustained or delayed a single moment her final plunge into the abysses o f the

1 sea.On occasions of great public calamity,

where drought blasts the harvest, locusts devour the fields, or pestilence rages, days are set apart for prayer. Every minister of the gospel and every layman daily prays with utmost fervor. Y et the rain falls not, the locusts devour, and the pes­tilence pursues its way without shadow o f turning. Prayer in such cases is as hope­less as it would be if the maker should stand on a railroad track, and, when he saw a train approaching, pray God to stop it. It is a petition for the imposàble.

In one way it yields results often o f an astonishing character. I f the maker is àncere, the attitude o f prayer harmonizes and strengthens the faculties and enables the individual to bear with greater forti­tude the vicissitudes o f time; to bear, but not avert impending fate. How many captives chained in dungeons have, in imitation o f the apostle, prayed fervently with perfect faith that their chains would fall off, and the bars o f their prison door be drawn aside, to meet with no response. How many zealous martyrs have been led to the stake, praying to Jesus for de­liverance which came not. And Jesus himself, in the hour o f bis mortal agony, prayed to the Father, to be answered by silence, and to find bitterness and mockery, a cross and crown o f thoms, where he had expected a throne and the glittering scep­ter o f the nations.

T he once all-powerful belief in the ability of delegated men to control events and elements by supplication to the D eity, which made the “ medicine men,” the priests and jugglers, the tyrants o f man­kind^ has now in civilized countries dwin­dled into the intercessions for moral help, and an occaàonal prayer for phyàcal changes, as for rain in times o f drought, the staying o f grasshoppers, or the approach o f disease.

It is difficult for the gospel minister to give up entirely the role o f “ medicine men,” and cease to pray for the sick in the misty hope that G od will answer. It is almost as troublesome for the preacher to let go bis hold on the weather, and not follow the Indian's rattling gourde shaken at the sky, with prayer for the same object.

This is the degradation o f prayer, and the prtacher clasps hands with the jug- gler. That this pretense is yet main­tained is made most remarkably apparent m a work on prayer recently published.. An incident in the life o f Preàdent Finney* o f Oberlin College, copied from its pages, will amply suffice to illustrate this anach­ronism, a belief o f savage roan forced into the highest civilized thought.

T here was drought in Oberlin, and the thin, hard clay soil o f that region suffered severely from a total failure for three months of rain. Clouds promised the desired moisture, but hovered over the lake, and poured out their waters there. T his they did day alter day, raiàng thè hopes o f the anxious, and then drifting away.

Finney, who was a narrow enthuàast, was walking in the street one day when a friend met him and said: “ I should like to know wbat you mean in preaching that G od is always wise and always good, when you see him pouring out that great

( Continued on Third Page.)

GOLDEN GATE.[April 14 18

r the Golden Gate..

Facts and Fragmenta

It was a sublime occasion. How glad I am that I was present. It was the funeral services o f Brother W . A . Dunk- ley. H e was a local celebrity, though a silent and unostentatious one; a well' known face for the past thirty yean among the Spiritualists. H e has been an officer in the Temple Society o f Berkley H all, and for many yean its treasurer.H e was, in every sense of the word, a good and spiritual man. H e bad just rounded bis three score yean and ten, but hardly looked it, and it would seem as if he had a decade or two of yean of usefulness and happiness before him. His health, however, had not been good for some time, but so uncomplaining ¡that no one noticed it. But a few months ago he had to yield to his disease, which was a kidney trouble, and thus ended his useful career; and on Sunday last, March 4th, he went to his rest. Here was a case where it could be said literally, as well as poetically,—" The chamber where the good man meets his fate

I t privileged beyond the common walk O f virtuous life, quite on the verge o f heaven.'

For his chamber seemed really there; he gave evidence o f it, and others realized it, also.

Those present on this funeral occasion, and that means as many as could be packed in that large hall, and hearing what was said of his last hours, o f his mental clearness, the presence o f angels, or spirits of the departed to his spirit vision, of his readiness to go, o f his phi' losophy and understanding of what was before him, felt that his exit must have been a pleasant one, and as “ only just over there;” and as these popular words were sung in solo, which opened the ser­vices, they seemed to impress me as they never did before with their literal truth in connection with him on this, as I have said, sublime occasion.

When the music o f “ Just over there ended, Mrs. Lillie arose and made prayer to the angels. It was very appro­priate, very rational, and very elevating, quite putting into eclipse the prayers usually offered to an incomprehensible In­finite, which are as often addressed to the congregation as to the Unknown, but there was something so intelligently and rationally sublime in the way she ad­dressed the invisible, supervising powi “ as beautiful angels,” who are now around us unseen. T hey did seem like real presences, and who are the hearers o f our prayers.

When Mrs. Lillie closed her invocation, a solo followed, loud and clear, the r& frain being “ Only a Step Beyond, Only a Step,” and so full o f the departed seemed the hall that all sensitive people present must have felt that it really was “ only a step ” “ just over there.” Mrs. Lillie then addressed the audience, spoke o f his life, his philosophical turn of mind, Socralic in his faith, that it was only his body that was going to die, bright and clear beaded to the last. She read a short colloquy between that ancient phi­losopher and his friends as his sands of mortal life were passing out, which seemed to fit the case o f this departing brother. She also said, which was a very consoling fact, that during his last twelve hours the spirit world seemed a little opened to him, and from time to time he would see and recognize some o f the loved and departed, and that while she and other mourners were around his bed, hearing his last words, it was noticed his eye turned a little upward into vacancy as he recog­nized some of the departed o f the long ago, sometimes mentioning the name and ad­ding, perhaps, “ it is a long time since I saw you.” A s bis mind was clear it was evident that these visions were real facts, and not the illusions o f decay.

Mrs. Colby Luther followed with a strong, solid address, very proper on the occasion, and then Captain Holmes, the President o f the Berkley Hall Society, made some appropriate remarks, closing with a few verses o f original poetry, which were full o f tender feeling. These ser­vices were in the forenoon, and occupied about two hours, and the large ball was

•packed full. T he large gathering then passed individually by the casket for a last look o f what was once Bro. Dunkley. Although this was a solemn occasion, as we look on a dead face for the last time, it was so interesting that it will be long re­membered, and certainly by the writer of this fragment. I

I was at my neighbor Epes Sargent's, house, to see some physical manifestations in the light! I do not propose to relate them, but will mention an incident. A recess in the intact wall o f the room was curtained from the floor, to a height of about five feet, which made a dark enclo­sure a foot or more in depth. I can assure the reader that nobody was behind this curtain. W e had put a few musical instru­ments and a bell there. T he medium sat in sight in front of this curtain, and we listened to some music and bell-ringing, which certainly were produced by spirits. Hands appeared over the curtain and through it. T hey interested us more than the music, because once or twice they wrote messages, and one instance of it is the incident to which I have referred.

A hand appeared which was for me. It came through a slit in the curtain, and

I touched it by permission. It was in every sense a human hand made o f flesh, blood, and bones. It was not the medi­um’s hand, nor was it connected with a human body, for there was no human body behind the curtain for a connection. As one of these hands had written and thrown out a message, I asked if this hand would, and the raps said yes. I held a block o f paper, and I gave the hand a pencil, which it took, and wrote a message while I held the block. It was signed

illiam. I knew some Williams who were spirits; but this message, though in­telligent, was not definite enough for me to identify the signer. In writing and in touching me, the fingers moved as mine do now, by intelligent will power. How could that action be performed, unless there was an invisible presence there that had materialized his extremity into a visi­ble hand, and a tangible one, and so con­trolled its movements as I now do mine ?

I was present a few months ago at a seance by Chas. H . Bridge. The ar­rangements were similar to the older one at Sargent’s. A flower appeared in sight at the extreme end of the top o f the cur­tain. I am sure, in this case also, that nobody was behind the curtain. By raps, the flower signified that it was for me, so

II went up, and it was a white pink. As that flower was a favorite o f my son, said, “ Is that from you, E lly? ” and the hand that held the pink came in sight and ! patted mine three times, which meant yes. I then said, “ Will you write a mes­sage if I pass you a pencil and paper ? ’ There were three raps. I was rather hoping he would write as the band did af Sargent’s, but it took pencil and paper out of sight, and in a few minutes threw them

lout from behind the curtain on to the floor, and a message such as a son would write to a father was written on the block and' signed “ E lly,” which was short for Elliott, my son’s middle name, and by which he was always known.

Now, there is no more question of these hands being materialized, and made ob­jectively visible as my own now are; and there is no more question that the phe­nomenon was the manifestation o f a de­parted spirit, than that there is paper now before me on which I am now writing about it. I f a hand can be materialized, why not the full form ? I have no doubt o f it, for I have bad absolute proof of it but I simply say this for those who doubt form materializations.

fact. I was glad to read in Mr. Gill’s article also where he said, “ Nor can it

reasonably denied that there are some probabilities in favor of these supermun­dane manifestations,” and further, “ that they are testified to as an experience of many of the ablest and most circumspect intellects the world has ever known.”

now and then a gleam of truth on this subject is emitted from even Bundy’s paper, and the above quotations remind me o f what the Rev. M. J. Savage said

this point, which is as follows: “ T o establish the claim o f Modern Spiritual­ism there is a body of evidence that would be regarded as conclusive on any other proposition whatsoever.” I do not see why so much more evidence is re­quired to establish a claim that is as­sumed to be true and taught as truth, by the Christain pulpit generally as a faith, merely because proof o f the fact is offered: but an argument would occupy too much space in a fragment, so 1 will leave the matter here.

Boston, March 13, 1888.

Gods and Devils.

[Written for the Golden Gate.]

Problems in Life.—T ie S p irit Land.

Recording the preceding fragment leads me to write what follows. Mr. W. J. Gill, in an article in the R . says, “ Thereappearance in the old form o f one who is known to have dropped the common human conditions, if it be ever a fact, a great fact and must be o f a great impor­tance.” There is no doubt about that, even if any form is materialized. It not only opens a new field o f chemistry, but proves also supermundane intelligence that can not be construed into mind read­ing, for it would be an intelligent ob­jective fact. T o be exact in dealing with the quotation we must say, and be will admit it, that the old form never does re­appear; they are not resurrections; they are new forms temporarly materialized. When they are honestly the work o f de­parted spirits, they, as invisibles, have clothed themselves in flesh, blood, bones and clothing, and for a moment or two have become human beings, objectively visible as we are, who havfe never been thus unclothed. A form thus materialized may be the friend it claims to be, and it may be only an assumption on the part of the spirit, working, perhaps, in the interest the medium. The important thing is be sure the apparition is a temporary i camated spirit, and not the medium or fellow-being humbugging us. We would prefer to see reappear objectively our de­parted friend, but the fact of materializa­tion is settled if any spirit appears, for if one, then all can, conditions being the same. So I maintain that the important thing is that the apparition should be a spirit not a mortal, and that is a matter p f demonstration, and I have had the fact absolutely demonstrated time and again. I have not had it as absolutely demonstrated that the materialized forms are the persons they claim to be, and I do not think the majority are, but in some cases they have approximated so closely, and have given tests also that are an indication, so that I have felt as if I was in the presence of a certain departed friend, and I think the thing is possible, but I also think that many are not the persons they claim to be, and it often strikes me there is no effort to look like them, and I think the accusation of fraud so often made in connection with the phase is due to these deficiencies, by not looking like the persons as we remember them. I do not blame investigators for having doubts.I have often been present when I would have doubted had I not had other experi­ences, nor do I blame them if their doubts are extended into supposing them frauds; but knowing as little as we do of the modus operands, ruffianism is hardly in order, or, as a writer lately said, “ The door o f the temple of truth can never be forced open by the hand o f violence,” and in this connection we must remem­ber also there is such a thing as identity of mind without identity o f body or person.

I think also as a general thing the mentality of these forms is weak; they never appear as bright as the persons they claim to be, or as we remember them. I have often had tests that would indicate a personality, when _ the apparition was not a success objectively. So you will see I am open to the many disabilities of the phase, even if I do strongly defend it as

Editor or Golden- Gate.

A lecture on Spiritualism was lately de­livered by the Rev. Mr. Pendergast, which, from his own arguments, bear in- contestible proof of reality. It can scarcely be argued that the present state o f enlight­enment is due to orthodox teachings, since the most advanced thinkers have acquired their intelligence in opposition rather than in obedience to such theories. T o keep mankind in ignorance of the relationship of mind and matter, and the harmonious principles of higher laws, has been the professional practice and aim of orthodoxy, the existence o f which depended on an unfaltering belief in preference to convic­tions obtained from dispassionate investi­gation.

It is certainly a reflection on a supreme power to assert that only devils are enabled to communicate with the material world, thereby frustrating the work o f higher de­velopment and rendering that of a God nugatory. Is not the reverened gentle­man aware that the devil was first created in heaven ? A t least, such is the theory shamelessly taught by Christian creeds, and the only cause assigned for his crea­tion is foolishly claimed to have had its origin in a rebellion against Divine Rule, since which time the Prince of Evil, equal in all things to the Supreme Ruler, is now stated to be in exclusive possession of the earth, excepting the intervention and re­sistance of self-dubbed saints, who make it their professional business to fight him in the interests of humanity.

This self-sacrificing spirit of the various creeds trading on human credulity is not sustained by hope or practiced in a spirit of charity. Money from the ignorant, su­perstitious and credulous, is required for the work of salvation. Dignities, titles and emoluments are showered upon the chiet sachems and scribes, passions o f a deadly character are kept alive between different creeds, and even’ matrimonial love forbid­den, to heal the wounds o f distrust and animosity.

Immense wealth is vested in what is known as church property, daily becoming more valuable and free from taxation, whilst mankind, increasing in numbers and responsibilities, is forced to bear the burthens imposed on it, without complaint. Does the Lord, in whose name this im­mense wealth is obtained, get the benefit of this, or the hordes o f preachers who impose on human credulity ? When one of the reverend gentlemen prays, does he really get a devil to prompt him or a good angel to help him out ? I f good influ­ences can come to a parson, why not to another person equally good ? H e is born the same, and goes through the same vicious curricular and experience. He only wears a black smock and white tie distinguish him in his business; otherwise has he the effrontery to say that he is bet­ter than any other good, moral man woman ? I f so, by what means ? H e be­longs to the earth and is earthy.

T he profession of Spiritualism is like that o f all other isms, entirely dependenton the conditions which create it. water runs to water, and air to air, and heat reflected by heat, so do gods and devils aggregate. If good influences are invoked by noble aspirations and desires, they are attracted first. “ Evil only those who evil think.”

T he devil would be out of his or her element in heaven, and God misplaced hell. Frauds and their dupes have always existed, and even churches have turned out some extraordinary devils. Good but the offspring of an undeveloped evil, and devils the developing power for good. If there were no human devils there would be no spiritual ones, and without these there would be no material for the manu­facture o f gods. Moral laws can be taught without sophistry, and justice be attain­able by uprightness o f conduct and con­stant development.

R eginald W. Nuttall.

A lady in Greenwood, Mass., gave a cat to a friend living in Somerville, nine miles distant. T he cat was taken at even­ing, put in a box, which was placed in buggy and covered with a horse blanket anacarriage robe. T he cat was put in the cellar of its new owner, but escaped the next day. On the following day it turned up at the old home.

Nature needs no constable; she exe­cutes her own laws.

. written in answerto a question. “ How does the spirit world seem to you 7 ” ]

W isdom is ligh t, where’er it be T o light the soul that w ould be tree,A n d notare, b y her lows although.G ives wisdom to each act w e do.

Mortals can not express any definite idea, except as in their intercourse with spirits permits them to draw conclusions. Spirits, like mortals, have many draw­backs in life. A ll are made for a pro- gressive purpose, and from the environ­ments of their souls on earth, they have not advanced or unfolded their soul nature to the extent that enables them to grasp all the beauties in life.

Thus they can only express themselves, according to their stand-point, from their present environments. Thus, to get clear approximation o f facts, we must put the experience of those who have pro­gressed to higher standards o f intellectual light now given to us, and from that point make our observations. T he first point to examine is to know what is a so-called spirit. We find them all human beings, who have left the mortal form, and evolved to their spiritual or immortal ex­istence, having all their conscientious fac­ulties, and the perfect knowledge o f their earth experience, to profit by as lessons ' r future development.

Thus they are mortals evolved into a higher grade o f immortality. Their mis­sion as developers of the earth in an ani­mal condition has ceased, and now they are born into the earth’s spiritual atmos­phere, and from that stand-point work to] develop earth’s children (spirits yet in the flesh), according to their capabilities, thus becoming teachers to the pupils on earth, through the organisms of earth’s children mortals). Hence their avocations are

just what they are most fitted for.Many mortals here have, through earth

life, pursued avocations not congenial to their desires. In spirit life, each is per­mitted to follow that which gives them the most happiness. No one is forced to do

iytl)ing that would cause him unhappi­ness. T he soul’s desire is plainly felt by competent teachers, and from that soul’s desire you are taught to do that most con­genial, thus harmonizing all your faculties nto a higher state of being. And as you

progress you become teachers to those less progressive in your line of pursuits.

This description, to the average mind, infers that only happiness prevails there. Yet that is not the fact. Discontentment always exists in undeveloped spirits. It is so here in the human family. We find mortals here in classes. T he ignorant are not happy with the educated; they feel their inferiority in their presence, and thus seek those o f their kind as associates.So in the spirit world; a drunkard passing from the body would not feel happy in the association o f a purer spirit.

Thus the spirit world is divided into classes or spheres, and all o f the same grade are magnetically drawn together. Y et teachers from higher grades are con­tinually instructing undeveloped spirits in the higher conditions of life; and the schools o f instruction, preparatory for ad­vancement, are filled with spirits eager to work their way into a higher unfoldment o f their soul's requirements. Many think they are in hell and can not escape, having had that doctrine preached into them while in the form on earth.

I remember attending a circle three years ago, where I found the hired girl of the lady in whose house the circle was held, under the control of a spirit that had been crushed out o f the body in a railroad accident. She had controlled that girl for three years, and would not re­lease her for fear of being cast into hell. She claimed to be a concert singer from Phil­adelphia, Pa., and that the company, while traveling, met with the accident that thrust her out o f the mortal form. She would sit on the floor in a helpless condition all the time, -claiming she could not stand. I talked to her, informing her of the cause o f her present conditions in life, and the possibilities o f her advance­ment. I promised to aid her myself, and through my spirit guides show her the way out o f her present condition.

A medium in the circle was controlled by the father of the girl whose body she was controlling. H e begged her to re­lease bis daughter, and he would assist her to the light. She finally consented, and released the girl, who went about her work. A few months after, at another circle, the control of a medium said there is a spirit here giving the name of Ethel, who wants to thank Mr. D . for the in­terest he took in her welfare; also on two other occasions she expressed herself through mediums in like manner.

At a seance given for materialization by Mrs. L . S. Cadwell, in New York City, it was announced from the cabinet that a spirit named Ethel was there, and would materialize if her friend wished her to do so. I said if that spirit is for me, I would be pleased to see her. In the course of the seance she materialized and asked for me. She was a beautiful young girl. She said, “ 1 come to thank you for what you have done for me. You was the first to tell me o f progressive life, and by your act a soul is now progressing from darkness to light.” I have since heard from her; she is now with a band of spirits doing cabinet work.

Thus you see how mortal! can advance

spirits held in darkness through false teachings on earth. Hence we find the spirit world a counterpart o f this world, only a higher or spiritual nature, more perfect in its conditions, and we also find our stations there are just what our needs require. I f we develop here' spiritually;

: reach higher spirit conditions there, short, we are just what we make our­

selves, free to remain in ignorance or un­developed, or to progress and unfold our­selves, as we desire to reach beyond our present strata in life. W e can commence to-day or can wait one thousand years. We are masters of the situation; no one else can unfold us; we have the key and must unlock the door, or forever remain in darkness and despair. We may have been millions o f years developing to our present state, and only now begin to realize we are something more than an animal, and as we unfold our soul, our spiritual nature will predominate, and our animal conditions become subservient to the higher conditions o f spirit, then we can feel- spirits excamated around and about us, our nature will undergo a change, and we will feel the co-operating influence of our spirit friends.

Thus each day we grow spiritually, and as our desire to learn is manifested, our thoughts pertain to higher things, and we find our inward nature is guided by intui­tion. T h e monitor or conscience is ac­tive, and we look before we leap, thus showing wisdom in our acts. Our love for the beautiful becomes stronger, and thus our unfoldment (although slow) is attaining to the bights o f our comprehen­sion of the beauties in life. Is not all this worth trying for, is not the time to commence now? Let your soul pour out in fervent prayer, and by your acts try to realize the fruits o f that prayer, and guid­ing angel spirits will come and bless you with their higher gifts o f knowledge and truth. Such is life here and hereafter. As we learn through wisdom these troths, our experience brings forth that knowl­edge which no soul can gainsay.

K now ledge, a beacon ligh t o f power T h at moves beyond earth ’s darkened hour; Both spirits and m ortals must obey T h e truth when know ledge has the sway.

New Y ork, March, 1888.

Organization.

Editor op Golden Gath >

There is no class o f people, according to my experience, so hard to harness, in organization as are Spiritualists, and I sometimes question the possibility o f fix­ing or formulating a set o f ideas that will hold us together as societies. Last Sun­day morning, we (The First Spiritual So­ciety o f Portland, Or.) bad the above question in discussion. In other words, How can our Constitution and , By-Laws be so amended that general prosperity and harmony can be produced upon the dis­cussion o f this question ? We found al­most as many different ideas as there were individuals.

Tw o prominent members held that the doctrines and teachings o f Christ were just the one thing needed, and that the New Testament contained sufficient for our guide and rule of action, and there­fore the precepts an<J examples of the Unitarian Church furnished us the very best form o f organization. While others thought that would not do at all, and were of the opinion that the harmonial philoso­phy, as set forth by Andrew Jackson Da­vis, would do them very well. Some thought that all we needed was a recogni­tion o f D eity, and that a belief in the re­turn o f spirits should be all that should be necessary for the qualification of members.

Some thought that all that Spiritualists should require of each other in forming an organization, is a belief that we survive the change called death, and that our loved and gone before do remain near about us, and can and do communicate with us.

Some thought that we should have & code of moral ethics that would defy the unfriendly criticisms of the world, and thus place us on a firm foundation in so­ciety.

Some held that Spiritualism had come into the world, and grown to its present wonderful proportions, without creed or organization, and that it would be well w let well enough alone.

Thus, it seemed, we could come to no definite conclusion, and the debate held over for another Sunday, when it u proposed that each one shall formulate and bring in his or her ideas in writing.

I think if we ever come to any definite conclusion, it will be to agree to disagree, and only attempt to hold or form an or­ganization for the conduct of business and the spread o f spiritual truths, leaving the individual soul

Free as is the sky,N o man to worship or G od to deify,L e t the soul live, and thought expand,O n every sen, in every land.Strike o ff the fetters o f the mind.Leave darkness an d error far behind;W elcom e the truth, wherever taught.By child, or man, or angel wrought,Know ing that truth will make us free,Know ing that in love we can agree;O r if we differ wide as the Pole,L ove w ill harmonize the whole; „Love, then, should be the watch-word and tne /• Love for you and me, or else we die.L ove is the fulfilling of the law,T h e last best g ift to manH as neither speck or flawT o mar the blessed planT h e human race to free. _ _

C . A . R eed.P ortland , Or., April 5, 1888.

G O L D E N GA.T3S. 3April 14. iSSS.]

Pkilftsophy of P rajrw .

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rain on the lake, where it can do 1

forth the glory of His power and greatness I the university, asked where the moneyo f H is love. 1 pleaded with him that H e was to com e from. Stilling replied that bad encouraged his people to pray for he had only one dollar, but his H eavenly rain, and now the time had com e for Him Father was rich and would provide for to show H is power in this thing and H is I him. " W ell, I am one o f your Father's faithfulness as a hearer o f prayer. Before Stewarts,” said the merchant, and handed 1 rose from m y knees there was a sound him thirty-three dollars. Settled at

. o f a rushing mighty wind. I looked out, Strasburg, his fee to the lectures became and k>, the heavens were black; that due and must be paid by Thursday even- cloud was rolling up, and the nun fell in tng, o r his name be stricken from the torrents for two lull hours.” roll. H e spent the day in prayer, and at

T hose who are acquainted with the five o 'clock nothing had com e. H is anx- lake region know the peculiarity o f these ¡*ty becam e unbearable, when a knock storms, and will readily understand the was heard at his door, and his landlord rapidity o f their coming. T h ey require entered and inquired how he liked the no prayer to move them , and that the co- room, and if he had money. " N o, I incidence o f the rain and the prayer have no m oney,” cried Stilling in despair, should be endorsed by leaders in theology, “ I see how it is ,” replied the landlord; is a strange instance o f mental aberration, “ G od has sent me to help you,” and or, as Darwin would say, ativism. T h e handed him forty dollars. Stilling threw absurdity o f the representation apparently himself on the floor and thanked G od, escapes the notice o f those who accept "'bile the tears rained from his eyes. His it. T h e jealou s Finney telling an om- whole life’s experience was o f a like char- nipotent G o d what he ought to do to acter. H e prayed constantly to G od,rK~” u — ~ — — a 1----- , 1 ---------- r ! #lMj at the last moment his necessities

were supplied.How difficult it is to suppose that God

interested himself especially in one of thousands o f students, a great many equally poor and needy, and as earnest in their efforts! How easy to suppose that a spirit friend, foreseeing the great capabil­ities o f Stilling, interested himself, and by influencing this or that mind smoothed the way, and furnished the means he im­peratively needed. It will be remarked that at no time were his necessities ex­ceeded. N o one gave him lavishly, or more than sufficed for his urgent needs.

R ev. H . Bushnell, in his " Nature and the Supernatural,” refers to an interesting incident he teamed in his visit to Cal­ifornia. T h e man had hired his little house o f one room, in a new trading

show H is power and keep H is promise for his own interest and reputation, as though the rain was not withheld for some good purpose well known by the Omnipotent.A nd then his pleading, this little Presi­dent o f a then obscure college, changed the will and purpose o f the Alm ighty, and brought the rain to a narrow section o f country, leaving regions beyond equally .suffering without a drop o f moisture.

Such instances prove too m uch. T h ey maintain the changefulness o f G od , and the power o f man to persuade Him to alter the course of the elements. M r.Finney heralds with bigoted pride this case when the clouds came to his call; he does not tell us o f the prayers he and all the praying people o f that region had daily offered for weeks and months for thesame object, which brought no m oisture., ------ .. — — — - — — „

Rain is sure to com e at some tim e, town that was planted last year, agreeing and if the seasons o f prayer be continued I to give a rent o f ten dollars a month, long enough, the last one will surely be I When the pay day came he had nothing followed by rain. I to meet the demand, nor could he see

T h is instance is introduced to illustrate whence the money was to come. Con- tbe limitation o f the power o f prayer, suiting with his w ife, they agreed that T h e insensible elements can not be influ- prayer, so often tried, was their only hope, enced. T h e clouds and the winds, the T h ey went according to prayer, and found

« ur$ ^!,hwu J ° ,Wf5 * » ««w unt o f his life. W here the answer to prayer follows so » tiling desired to study at a university directly the appeal, we may suppose that

,so a» to become a physician, and in an- the intensity o f thought may affect di- swer to ms prayer to know which he should rectly the individual who responds. Thus,

- - — --- ( cnoose was directed to Strasburg. In or- when AUston was so despairing, hisgood, and leaving us<o suffer so terribly ,d e r to attend that school he required a thoughts would go widely forth, and the for « n t o f the w aaed w a te r? “ , thousand dolíais, and he had only forty- Marquis o f Stafford having seen the

Finney saw : His words cut m e to j six; yet with this he started on his journey, j painung, and desiring it, might have thethe very neaii , 1 turned and ran home to freely relying on heavenly aid. O n reach- thought o f it awakened, and be thereby m y closet, fell on m y knees, and told the tng Frankfort, he had only a dollar left, drawn at that special time to the artist’s

had been said to m e , and b e - 1JJ© his case known by prayer, studio. O f course the case is also opensought H un, for the honor o f H is great " a lk tn g on the street he met a merchant, to the direct intervention o f angelic mes- nam e, to confound his caviler, and show | who, learning his purpose o f attending sages, for all this class o f tacts intimately

blend, and are controlled by the same general laws, and it is difficult to deter­mine to which of the two causes they should be referred. T h e door that admits an­gelic "beings makes the influence o f thought waves also possible.

T h e cure o f Melanchthon by the pray­ers o f Luther is well known by the stu­dent o f the Reformation. T h e former had been given over to die, when Luther rushed to the death bed o f his loved friend with tears and exclamations of agony. Melanchthon was aroused and 1 said: " O Luther, is this you ? W hy do you not let me depart in peace ?” " We can’t spare you yet, Philip,” was Luther’s answer. Then he bowed down for a long

I hour in prayer, until he felt he had been answered. T hen he took Melanchthon's hand, who said: " D ear Luther, why do you not let me depart in peace ?” " N o, no, Philip, we can not spare you from the

j field of labor;” and added, " Philip, take 1 this soup, or I will excommunicate you .”■ Melanchthon took the soup, began to re- 1 vive, and lived many years to assist the : sturdy reformer with his facile pen. Luther went home and told his wife, in joyous triumph, that " G od gave me my brother, Melanchthon, in direct answer to prayer.”

Now, such a cure could be called faith cure, or magnetic healing. T h e state o f feeling induced by long and fervent prayer was the source o f the magnetic power, and therein, and not through the direct inter­vention o f G od, was the prayer answered.

Bishop Bowman gives the following ac­count o f the unexpected recovery of] Bishop Simpson, when he was supposed to be dying:

" I remember once, when there was a conference at M t. Vernon, Ohio, at which I was present. Bishop lam es was presid­ing one afternoon, and, after reading a dispatch saying that Bishop Simpson was dying in Pittsburg, asked that the con­ference unite in prayer that his life might be saved. W e knelt, and T aylor, the great street preacher, led. After the first few sentences, in which I joined with my whole heart, roy mind seemed to be at ease, and 1 did not pay much attention to the rest o f the prayer, only to notice its beauty. When we arose from our knees,I turned to a brother and said, * Bishop Simpson will not die; I feel it.* H e as­sured me that he had received the same impression. T h e word was past around, and over thirty ministers present said they had the same feelings. I took my book, and made a note o f the hour and circum­stance. Several months afterwards I met Bishop Simpson, and asked him what he did to recover his health. He- did not know, but the physician had said it was a miracle. H e said that one afternoon, when at the point o f death, the doctor left him, saying that he should be left alone (by the doctor) for half an hour. A t the end o f that time the doctor returned, and noticed a great change. H e was startled, and asked the family what had been done; and they replied nothing at all. That half hour, I find, by making allowance for dif­ference of localities, was just the time we were praying for him at M t. Vernon. From that time on he steadily improved, and has lived to bless the Church and humanity.”

Bishop Bowman adds:" O n the G od who has so often an­

swered my prayers, I will still rely, scien­tific men and philosophers to the contrary notwithstanding.” T h e “ scientific man” would reply that he had no desire to dis­pute the tact as stated; but, instead o f a personal G od who had struck down Bishop Simpson with disease, changing his pur­pose because supplicated by the ministerial conference, the intense fervency o f thought o f that conference united in prayer had gone forth in a magnetic beam, and given the suffering patient the strength o f a new life. I f there was divine agency, it stood back of the laws o f spiritual forces, in which case prayer was only a means of

I preparation, unitizing, harmonizing, and I directing.

H e was affected just the same as he would have been had he been in the con­ference hall, for distance, as has been re­peatedly shown, is an unimportant element in the exercise o f these spiritual forces.

There are several charitable institutions which their founders claim to have been entirely supported by means o f donations made in answer to prayer. A s these are often brought forward in evidence o f the direct answer to prayer, they become o f interest to the student o f this subject.

T h e Bristol Orphan Home is typical o f its class. George Muller, its founder, be­gan with no wealth, aside from his sub­lime faith in his appeals for divine aid. In his Thirty-sixth Annual Report, he says that in 1875 his faith was put to trial most severely. H e commenced the year with $ao,ooo in his treasury, which in three months was reduced one-half, or only enough to meet expenses for a tingle month. T h e treasury had never been as low, and the number o f orphans had doubled. H e fervently prayed, as the situation became more alarming, and at the end o f the month so many donations flooded in he had $48,000.

In the forty-one years this institution

storm and the earthquake, will not come or go at the bidding o f the invocation, even o f a saint.

Y e t earnest prayer, within fixed limita­tions, may be and has been answered, as is proven by innumerable witnesses. Not b y a personal G od to whom the appeal is m ade, but by becom ing harmonized with subtile spiritual forces, which work in ways not comprehended by a gross view o f the world. W hen we consider hu­m an and spiritual beings as laved by an ocean attenuated substance, elastic and receptive beyond comprehension, and that each being is a vortex o f vi­brations, we understand how from an intensely wrought mind vibrant thoughts go forth, and although they strike an in­finite number o f individuals who are not sensitive to them , they find others in mortal bodies or spiritual, as harps like attuned set each other in vibration, and m ove those thus receptive to answer their appeals. T h e power and strength given by prayer arise from this harmonizing o f this being by spiritual aspirations which lift the mind into the realm o f superior spiritual forces. It is then that the ap­peal to G od goes forth in vibrations, to b e recognized b y spirit friends, and by them conveyed to mortals who have the ability to respond, or directly reach some responsive mind in the mortal body.

T h e following narrative o f D r. Joseph Sm ith, o f Warrington, England, which is accredited by the journal o f the Society for Psychological Research, M ay, 1S S 5 ,! is a fine illustration o f what is popularly I known as G od’s answer to prayer:

“ I was sitting one evening reading when a voice cam e to m e, saying:

** * Sen d a lo af to James G rady’s .’ I continued reading, and the voice con­tinued with greater emphasis, and this tim e it was accom panied with an irresisti­ble impulse to get up. I obeyed, and went into the village and bought a loaf o f bread, and seeing a lad at the shop door,I asked him i f he knew James Grady. H e said he did, so I had him carry it, and say that a gentleman sent it. Mrs. G rady was a member o f my class, and I went down next morning to see what mmt> o f it, when she told m e that a strange thing had happened to her last night. She said she wanted to put the children to bed, but they begane to cry for want o f food, and she had nothing to give them . She then went to prayer, to ask G od to give them something, soon after which the lad to the door cam e withjthe loaf.I calculated on inquiry that the prayer and the voice I beard exactly coincided in point of tim e.’ ”

A s a mem ber o f his class a d o se con­nection existed between D r. Smith and M rs. G rady, and he was thereby receptive to the eager appeal she made, incited by her children’s cry for bread.

T h e case o f H enry Young Stilling has become a text in most orthodox books on the subject o f prayer. H e was a physi­cian at the court o f the Grand D uke of Baden, the intimate friend o f Gcetfce, who, impressed with his remarkable experiences,

assurance that their want should be sup­plied.

W hen the morning came the money did not. T h e rent owner made his ap­pearance earlier than usual. A s he en­tered the door their hearts began to sink, whispering that now, for once, their prayer had failed. But before the demand was made a neighbor came and called out the untimely visitor, engaging him in conver­sation a few minutes at the door. Mean­time, a stranger came in saying," Doctor, I owe you ten dollars for attending me in a fever, and here is the money.” H e could not remember either the man or the service, but was willing to be con­vinced, and had the money when the rent owner again entered. T h e same ex­planation applies here as to the preceding.

T h e following indicates not an answer to the prayer, out a direct communica­tion. It is related by D r. Wilson, of] Philadelphia: " T h e packet ship, ‘ A l­bion,’ full o f passengers from America, was wrecked on the coast o f Irelapd, and the news was that all on board had per­ished. A minister near Philadelphia, reading a list o f the lost, found the name o f one o f the members o f his congrega­tion, and went immediately to inform the wife o f the sad fact. She had been earn­estly praying during the voyage o f her husband, and had received assurance o f his safety amid great danger. H ence, to the astonishment o f her pastor, after he had informed her o f the shipwreck, and showed her the list o f names o f those who were lost, she told him that it was a mistake, that her husband had been in ex­treme peril, but was not dead. When the next tidings were received it proved that her husband was among the passen­gers, and had been in great penl, but that be had escaped, and was the only one saved.”

T here could be no connection between the wife’s prayer and safety o f her hus­band, but the state o f mind induced by prayer allowed her to receive the message o f his safety.

T h e celebrated artist, Washington Alls- ton, refined and sensitive to a fault, had at first to struggle with great difficulties, and endure the pinchings of poverty. A t one time he was reduced to the want o f even a loaf of bread for himself and wife. In despair he locked himself in his studio' and despairingly prayed for assistance. W hile thus engaged, there was a knock at the door, ana opening it, a stranger appeared, who inquired if the artist still possessed the beautiful punting, " T h e Angel U riel.” Mr. Allston drew it from a com er, and brushed off the dust. T h e stranger said he had greatly admired it when it was on exhibition, and inquired the price. T h e artist replied that as no one seemed to appreciate it he had ceased to offer it. " W ill four hundred pounds purchase it ?” said the stranger. " I never dared ask one-half o f that.’ ’ " T hen it is m ine,” exclaimed the visitor, who ex­plained that he was the Marquis o f Staff­ord, leaving the artist overwhelmed with gratitude.

I has been conducted, during which no ap­peal for charitv has been made directly—- except through prayer— $3,3*5,000 has been received. A s the results o f its use, 46,400 persons have been taught in schools wholly sustained, and tens o f thousands in schools assisted; 96,000 Bibles, *47,- 000 Testaments, and 180,000 smaller por­tions o f the Scriptures circulated; above 53,500,000 tracts and books in various languages distributed, o f late years 170 missionaries annually assisted; 4.677 pr-.

I phans cared for; five large edifices built, at a ebst o f $575,000, able to accommo­date 1,050 orphans.

Such an institution may have no organ­ized soliciting board on the earthly side, but o f necessity must have on the spiritual side. It is a potent center o f attraction to those who have means, and are looking 1 about for some worthy object. T h e leaders, with self-abnegation, devote their lives to the unselfish work, and the angel messengers, with equal devotion, act as solicitors to those they are able to approach.

W e may also regard earnest prayer going out on waves o f thought, and directly af­fecting susceptible minds, calling their at­tention to the great charity, and influencing them to sustain it.

T his explanation o f the effect of prayer, and o f the causes contributing to its an­swering, while removing it from the realm of miracle, makes the subject one o f ab­sorbing interest. T h e Divine Spirit never directly answers, but there are laws and conditions through which the earnest spirit is granted the assistance it desires. It is a mistake to refer the answer directly to G od, as it would be to say he supports the world in space by his extended arm. T h e Protestant Churches hold as sacrilege the appeal to any being but G od. T h e Cath­olics are more wise, and offer their prayers to their patron saints, by which the com­forting love and assuring affection are awakened by direct contact.

Berlin H ights, O ., M arch, rSSS.

[Written for the GoMm Gate.]

The Application of the Law s Govern­ing Good and E v il Applied to Mate­ria lisa tion .

•V MRS. A. WlllTMOSB.

T here has been so much written con­cerning materialization, each one advocat­ing a certain theory, until it has become a stumbling-block in the way o f spiritual progression to a great number o f intel­ligent inquirers who, are seeking for the true solution o f spirit communion.

I f we would approach a subject for in­vestigation, we should divest our minds o f all former prejudice on the subject, com­mencing with the fundamental principles, tracing every rootlet to the source from whence it sprung. Every detail must be examined separately and minutely, until we can trace a connection between the several divisions, thus by investigation and experience connect the whole without one unbroken link.

T o understand fully the subtile laws governing materialization we must first unfold the divine motive, which lies hid­den in the deep recesses o f nature's un- fethomless designs.

T h e laws controlling cause and effect must be perfectly understood before we can comprehend their import. T h e posi­tive and negative forces are ever creating friction. T h is friction is necessary for the maintenance o f that perfect equilibrium, which is essential in the economy of nature in producing harmonious results, producing cause and effect, which we witness daily, but which we so imperfectly understand.

T h e day, the night, the seasons, in their diurnal and annual rotation are wrapped in mystery, hut it being o f daily occurrence, we pass it by without com­ment; but when we try to investigate the phenomena we are lost Ih the immensity o f the subject.

T h e positive and negative forces are ever combating, clashing, and raging, striking at points the most vulnerable, causing a marshalling o f forces at these sensitive points to resist this invasion, which calls into action certain agencies which have become inactive from disease; thereby endowing them with renewed vigor in resisting the second attack.

G ood and evil are the positive and negative factors which regulate the great balance-wheel o f the universe. E vil is just as essential as good; the two are in­timately interwoven, one acting as a chem­ical compound in detecting the good prop­erties o f the other.

M etal is not often found in a pure state, and the refining process must he resorted to, to separate the mass. It is impossible for metals to be produced in a perfect condition. It needs this alloy— this evil, you may call it— to perfect itself. It is obeying nature's great command in gath­ering to itself those crude substances for its existence and growth, combining with the various alkaloids for sufficient base to perfect the excellency of its standard.

I f evil were not combined with good, by what method could we distinguish be­tween the two ? I f it were all evil in the world, we would not know the definition o f the word good; and the same with good,— we would not recognize it as good, not being familiar with evil.

W e pronounce a thing evil i f it is not in harmony with our preconceived ideas and conflicts with our proposed plans, when it would have been detrimental to our welfare if it had been perfected ac­

cording to our ideas o f right, showing to us in the future, that that which we des­ignated evil was a blessing in disguise.

Materialization is so little understood that we are inclined to decry and censure it. Its traducers are not all outside the spiritual ranks, but those calling them­selves good Spiritualists denounce this form o f manifestation, and pronounce it fraud and trickery. I f they would ac­quaint themselves with the great law which reigns supreme in nature, they would soon trace a perfect design running through the entire fabric, and learn why evil is amal­gamated with the good. I f there were no false presentation, how could we detect the genuine ? T here must he a standard whereby we measure good and evil. I f there are no fraudulent manifestations, by what criterion are we to decide in pro­nouncing them genuine ?

T his mixture o f fraud in materialization is essential for its healthy growth. It is introduced as a tribunal, whereby we must arrange the facts which are in our own possession, and compare them with those demonstrations which have with­stood the crucible o f thorough investiga­tion. B y fraud, I do not intend to uphold those mediums who resort to masquerading, smuggling costumes and wigs into their cabinets, for the purpose o f deceiving those who attend their, seances, but those mediums who are unconsciously impelled, without volition o f their own, to personate a spirit form. It is not to deceive, but is resorted to for the purpose o f inviting in­spection, and calling into action criticism and controversy, creating friction, which is an essential agent in everything which contains life.

I f materialization could be produced perfect, without defect, it would become an established feet, and would invite no further investigation, no more discussion, than every-day objects which we see about us. It would not excite our curiosity more than the mystery surrounding a blade o f grass, which springs from the earth. It is a mystery, hut we have ac­cepted the feet, and it is so common that we cease to discuss the subject. These fraudulent manifestations are presented to us encased in a shell o f scientific thick­ness, wherein the kennel o f truth is con­cealed.

T h e spirit world presents these encased truths for us to crack. Nature does not iroduce nuts for us all prepared to eat!

! :t is the same with her great problems. W e must search for ourselves, with patient study and enquiring minds, until we find the kernel o f truth clothed in the fibrous covering o f materialism, and its hard shell o f stern facts. B y persistent efforts we enjoy the fruits o f our labor.

It is this investigation— this friction— which promotes healthful activity and growth. Materialization is given us in its imperfect state as a problem for us to

solve— an object lesson, to study and com- j xare, and by discernment detect the gold I rom the alloy; and learn the great lesson that evil and good are component parts, and it requires the subtle alchem y o f thought, ground in th e mill o f experience and investigation, which creates the fric­tion that separates the good from the ill.

Io n s C it y , April 5 , 18SS. ,

“ Progressive Colonies.”

Km to* o r Gqlokm G a t s :

I would not ask to trespass upon your valuable space hut for the feet that I may correct false impressions in regard to the Sinaloa Colony o f M exico, and save some well meaning people from losing m uch money and being sadly disappointed. I pity the people who wish to escape from the life polluting mammon power, hut I must say to all that Sinaloa is worse. It is a hallucination, a psycholgic cyclone o f blind enthusiasm, State socialism under military rule, a railroad schem e with a false pretense o f " inter-dependence ” and co-operation. Slaves can co-operate with tyrants, but freemen prefer a crust and liberty.

T h e methods o f the Colony are to instate the most brutal, and reckless, and ostracize men o f principle and intel­ligence. D r. Peet, a director, a scholar, and good man, was ostracized— driven from the Colony— the best man among the resident directors, and his wife driven to death. Others fared similarly.

I was in Sinaloa about seven m onths and know whereof I speak, and can speak without prejudice. L e t thinking men and women read Owens’ book, " In­tegral C#*Operation,” and T k t CVnfft/*«- cmt, and they will be able to judge o f the truth o f m y statements. T ruly,

J. K . M oorkv

Maria Mitchell, the celebrated Pro­fessor o f Astronomy at Yassar C ollege, is seventy years old. She is the discoverer o f eight com ets, the discovery o f one o f which gained her a gold medal from the K ing o f Denm ark, and it is raid that when she was a girl o f eleven she made an accurate record o f a lunar eclipse. She has received the degree o f L L . D . from three different institutions o f learning.

T h e r e is raid to be a queer o ld fellow in Boston who has devoted years o f time and a fortune in money to the collection o f elaborate statistics which go to show that the more dogs there are in a com­munity the more w icked the people o f the community.

T h e flower which we do not pluek is the only one which never loses its beauty or fragrance.

GOLDEN GATE[April 14, 1888.

GOLDEN GATE.

734 Montgomery Street, Sam Francisco, C al.

AMOS ADAMS, Pbbsidbnt; I. C. STEELE, Vick President; DR. HENRY ROGERS,

Da. JOHN ALLYN and J. J . OWEN.

"G olden Gate,

S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L i

EDITORIAL FRAGMENTS.

Ignorance it (he cause of all discord. Those

who know the truth should be patient and char­

itable with those who do not, ever remembering

that they themselves were once in darkness and saw not the. light.

Don't Ht waste your time trying to find the heart

o f a man or a woman who doesn’t love children.

There isn't enough o f it to bother with when

found. W ait till it grows, unless you can help it to grow, which is belter still.

Come up higher, brother, sister— up and

from the mists and shadows of the valley— from

the realm of unworthy thoughts and things—

into the pure air and bright sunshine of God's

eternal highlands. There, and there only, is peace, strength and lasting happiness.

Many a man in this world begins to die before

he is one-half grown. Instead of pushing onward

and upward, as he should, gaining in wisdom and

knowledge with his years, and evolving the

grand possibilities of his nature, he reaches a

point of stupid mediocrity, and there he stops

and stagnates; and when be should be ripe and

beautiful in soul be is found to be fossilized and covered with moss.

Age does not belong to the spirit. We have a

jo lly friend, now in his ninety-fourth year, whose

heart is as young as ever it was, with all the

added wisdom and beauty that years are sup­

posed to bring. The moss and barnacles of

mental and spiritual inaction have never stuck to

him. The fact is he has never found time to

stop growing, and never will, through a ll the countless ages of eternity.

.One of the first fruits of the " g ift of the

spirit" is that o f being able to sense the spiritual

status o f those with whom one comes in contact.

H e reads his fellow-beings, whenever be chooses

to do so, as from an open book. He

tell you how or why, but he knows, and that

knowledge is almost infallible. In the highci

unfoldment of this wonderful faculty one may

ever know in whom to put his trust. Armed

with this power how many of “ the rocks and shoals of time ” may be avoided.

It is only when one comes to know and ac­

cept the fact o f the psychic form manifestation

that be is qualified or prepared to judge justly

or wisely o f this phase o f mediumship. Until

he can disabuse his mind o f all unjust suspicion,

and enter upon the investigation o f the subject

with a gentle, reverent and loving spirit, the

forms of his spirit friends will not, indeed they

can not, come to him, if at all, with any degree

of positiveness. But once the way is broken,

communion with the spirit world becomes a beau­

tiful and ennobling fellowship, lifting the thoughts and aspirations into all goodness.

What is there in the facts and philosophy of

spirit existence, or manifestation, giving one the

positive assurance o f a future life, that any one

should be ashamed of ? In Stockton, at a recent

public seance, in the Avon Theater, no profes­

sional singer could be found to furnish the music,

unless permitted to sit in the wings of the theater,

or behind a screen I When these good people

reach the “ sweet fields of Eden,” are assigned to

seats in the celestial choir, and are supplied with

harps o f the orthodox fashion, we wonder if they

will not need some nice little angels to hold fans before their faces to conceal their blushes 1

The closer one gets to the truth in spirit man­

ifestation, the more will he see the necessity for

great caution in judging unfavorably of medium-

ship, lest he may do injustice to mediums. Many

a good Spiritualist has gone away disgusted from

a materialising seance, because he recognised the

medium in the form that came to him for his

friend,— thinking that the medium was prac­

ticing a deception upon him; when the fact

his spirit friend was really there, and able only to

use the body of the medium. It is much easier

to control a medium than to use the elements to

create a new form. We are satisfied that genu­

ine mediums for the psychic form are often thus

used, and not always, perhaps, wholly uncon­sciously. But these truths are not for skepti entirely ignorant of psychic laws.

L IF E .

What a restless and relentless thing is that

which we call life! From the cradle to the

grave it forces us 00 to endless exertion,— first

through blind instinct, and then through ways of

forethought and wisdom. Could we distinctly

the end, the way, when beset with obstacles

and pitfalls and darkened by clouds, would not

seem so long; and we would travel on with

new patience and hope, for to most souls the

destination means a joyful liberation. But no

part o f the prescribed way, much less the end,

is given us to see or know. W e have but to

move on so long as the machinery of this mys­

terious life continues to serve us; the only rest

for the weariness of soul and body, is change of

work.

We may not "b lo c k the wheels and uncouple

" th e pinions and allow this dreadful me-

"chanism, unwinding its endless threads and

“ sounding its monotonous drone, to have a

" brief holiday.” The same power that impels

us onward, leads us upward, and through all the

dark gropings, disappointments, and hopes de­

ferred, each soul, in its aspirings, makes its own

philosophy.

Thus, amidst conflicts with material things,

very many lives become " lik e the day— more

“ beautiful in the evening; or like the Summer—

I “ aglow with promises, and like the Autumn-

'rich with golden sheaves, where good deeds

11 have ripened in the field.”

Let us then do cheerfully each our part, and

esteem it an honor that we are worthy to act.

Destiny has our emancipation and our reward in

his keeping; it only waits the seal of death, and

then comes rest! sweet rest! but sweeter work!

LOW LY OALLING8.

There seems to be a growing idea that the callings and professions of men must be of the so-called higher order to endow their sons with ¡gifts and talents that would distinguish them in their day.

Demosthenes, Euripides, Socrates, Epicurus, Virgil, Columbus, Shalespeare, Luther, Cromwell, Sextus V , Linnaeus, Franklin, Rjsseau,Murat, were sons whose fathers all had positions and followed pursuits o f little or no distinction.

Hence, it is inferred by the M edical Age that these noted men were indebted to their mothers for the heritage that made them great. While we believe there never was a great or good man who had not a good and perhaps gifted mother, we fail to understand why the avocation of the father should make it improbable that be pos­sessed qualities with which to dower a make him great.

We must remember that the fathers of these noted men lived rather in times of necessity than opportunity; that ambition in their day was 1 most persons what clipped wings are to a bird.

The idea is becoming too prevalent that the work bespeaks the man, this especially when more than commonplace, i t oftener bespeaks determination and will to open a fairer avenue 0 life to those be is responsible for. T o this gcnci out desire and crippled ambition Shakspeare, Luther, and Cromwell may have been indebted for their renowned attainments.

Bread-winners " must needs avail themselves of the readiest resources; we doubt not the great majority go down to the grave with as lofty de­sires and noble aspirations as ever immortalised a Virgil, a Franklin, a Murat. It is not what

te does, but what one would do, that makes le great.

C losing Mu t i n g in L o s A noelks .- Colville’s closing meeting in Los Angeles, Friday evening, April '6th, in Bartlett's Hall, delightful. Most exquisite music was furnished by Signora Pauline Vicenti (prims donna so­prano), Mrs. Stratton (solo pianist and accom­panist), W . J. Colville (tenor), and Mr. Ham­mond (basso). The efforts of all the artistes

vigorously «re-demanded, A very fine reading was given by a friend who was Called up from the audience, and kind remarks made by Alfred Street, and others. W . J . Col­ville gave an inspirational address and poem which called forth hearty applause. It much pleasure that the audience received the an­nouncement that W . J . Colville would return Los Angeles, Monday, M ay 7 th, and on that evening open a public class for the study of The­osophy in the same hall. Mr. Bartlett, his part-

and assistants have all been so extremely kind in making their charming hall delightful their patrons that all feel it to be a source of cc gratulation that the new class will opin under such favorable auspices, and in so agreeable place. Penons who are in any way sensitive their surroundings can not fail to be pleased with the refined and genial atmosphere of Mr. Bartlett's entire establishment. Those who de­sire to take a course with W . J. Colville in Met- a physics should apply to Mrs. Cornelia Harpei 640 South H ill street, in whose delightful home the lessons will be given, commencing Tuesday, May 8th, at 2:30 r . m . Arrangements are also in progress for W . J. Colville to take a class Pasadena. Terms in all instances, $2.50 A twelve lessons. Twenty-five cents single ad­mission.

O dd F ello w s ’ H a l l .— w . R . Colby and daughter, Ida M . Colby, had quite an increase in attendance at their seance Sunday evening, and gave satisfactory evidence of the power spirits to demonstrate their continued existence and interest in the welfare of mortals.Colby answered several sealed fetters gathered from the audience, and clinched the tests pointing out the writers. Miss Colby assisted her father, giving several fine tests, and gives promise of being not only the youngest, but one

of our best platform \eat mediums. Choice selections of music by J . M. Maguire and others add interest to the meetings, which will be con­tinued every Sunday1 at S r . M.

A QUESTION OP "GENIUS ”

Jesse Shepard, in an article in the Retigio-

Philosophical Journal of April Stb, entitled.

Phenomena versus Culture— Genius and Learn-

Opposed to the Formulas of Spiritualism,”

aims at what the author doubtless regards as

hard blows at phenomenal Spiritualism,

and might have some weight but for the fact that

Titer o f said essay had devoted a quarter of

century of his life to professional mediumship

illustrating the very phenomena which he de- liinces.

In the same paper with Mr. Shepard's essay,

and immediately following it, is a calm, dis­

passionate criticism fron; the gifted pen of that

clear-headed writer and thinker, Hudson Tuttle,

: closing portion of which we give below. In r humble judgment, Bro. Tuttle “ hews dose the line ” 1

Mr. Shepard has always been understood to be advocate o f Spiritualism. He has been for

many years before the public as a medium. The entire spiritual 'press, in this country and Europe, has sounded his praise. This not because his musical recitals were so very extraordinary, for they have been severely criticised by experts, as severely as Mr. Shepard criticised the oratory of other mediums, but be­cause o f the proof afforded of inspiration. He claimed, or the claim was made for him, and endorsed by him, that he was absolutely ignorant

' music, had no education in that direction, and is used as an instrument in the hands of exalted

[spirits.The value of his musical seance depends on 1

this claim, granting which, the performance has great value as evidence of spirit intercourse. Never having attended one of Mr. Shepard's seances I can not speak from experience, but in 1880 Mr. Shepard came to the residence of the celebrated mediom, Mrs. H . H . Crocker, in Chicago, with whom my daughter, Mrs. Rosa Bonbeur Crocker, was then stopping, and begged the privilege of holding a series of seances in her parlors, saying that he was in depressed cir­cumstances, so much so that he had been obliged

I to pawn the “ fur coat made of 3,000 Siberian squirrel skins,"given him by a celebrated Duchess

Countess, whose name has escaped her mem- y. The privilege was accorded, the recom­

pense being the opportunity afforded to observe the manifestations. The series of seances were held, and strange and unaccountable phenomena nightly occurred. He was very particular that only twelve, or at most fourteen persons should attend, charging two dollars each for the even­ing. He seated the members carefully, and re­quested them to join hands. H e tacked shawls

r the heavy shades, locked the doors himself, that the rooms were in absolute darkness.

He then explained that he was controlled by ■ band of Egyptian spirits, the leader of whom was a grand spirit who lived on earth when the pyramids were young, and who gave what was then, and has constantly been Mr. Shepard' leading performance. After this he sang in tw< voices, a feat which has astonished so many! listeners, Sontag singing in one voice, and the Egyptian in the other. Another spirit played the harp, and between the pieces Mr. Shepard, under influence, gave tests, describing spirit friends, etc.

■ My daughter became deeply interested in the manifestations, as the finest display of spirit power she ever witnessed. Mr. Shepard made the claim then, and constantly reiterated it, that

was totally ignorant of music, and was a :re instrument in the hands of a band of spirits,•d so remarkable was the performance that no ie disputed the claim.

,— lit is'With regret that we now find him sharply criticising phenomenal Spiritualism, for on phe­nomenal Spiritualism depends the grandest phi­losophy ever presented, and the same criticism he applies to others, rebounds with double force on himself. He has been for yean taken as an example and evidence of spirit influence, and in this country, in England, and other European countries, be has allowed and fostered this claim. We now ask in all seriousness. What meaning? Are you, Mr. Shepard, a humbug,

are you not? Have you been sailing all these . ars under a false flag, allowing Spiritualists to believe you were “ the most wonderful musical medium on earth,” while you had taken every means to cultivate your musical faculties? or were you really such? If the former, nothing —ore can be said. If the latter, why do you

persistently seek to destroy the confidence i mediumship, and sneer at the inclination to si manifestations, which have yielded you such harvest?

If your own wonderful development is the r suit of inspiration, why can not other mediums depend on the same ? If Sontag can sing through you, why can not a departed orator speak through another, or a great writer produce Ms thoughts? •

If there is gift par excellence that one may be pardoned for being proud of, it is that of being 1 pure and correct exponent of the divine thought! of angels, expressed either in words or notes harmony.

The world is a hard world, full of undesirable labor and exacting tasks. It it pleasant to re­pose in gilded halls, in the shaded light of stained windows, and breathe an atmosphere tempered with perfume, but few can indulge therein. There is rough work to do, and there must be rough workers roughly used. After,the “ Grand Egyptian March ” goes up from the echoing halls

lot “ Villa Montezuma,” where to mention the name of money is borbidden as profanation, the thousands of toilers in the spiritual vineyard must go at the hard work of the bread-winner; the self-sacrificing speaker must make his way across the wide intervals between appointments; the medium gives the best hours of his life * furnishing to the best of his ability a means communication between the spirit world and this; the inspired writer snatches an unoccupied hour from the burdens of business, and the editor brings out his journal, giving time, money and talent that in any other direction would make his fortune, for the love of the cause he advo­cates. ' Ah, me! there is culture and culture; there is genius and genius, but the culture genius which will live and bless mankind is that which sets itself in harmony with the tide flowing from the world of spirit, and receives its inspira­tion as the light of the morning fell on the brow of Memnon, silent in the darkness brooding c the N ik , and made it smile with the breath of higher life.

There is art and art; but the highest art is that which seizes on all the advantages this life affords, and receives the full inspiration which may be poured through it from the masters in spirit life.

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT ART,

This phase of spirit phenomena is just now attracting no little attention throughout the Spiritualistic world— the principal medium on- the Atlantic side of the continent being Madame Diss-Debarr, and on this tide Dr. Henry Rogers of

this city.W e have heretofore described the production

Tabor, taken during Prof. Wallace's visit to our city . This lecture was written especially for the occasion, and reported for our columns; the number containing the lecture was soon ex­hausted, and we were obliged to disappoint many applicants therefore, bat can now furnish

1 above described, for ten cents per copy.

n oil a 1 the

— Miss Susie M . Johnson, the gifted inspira­tional speaker, has a lovely little home at Long Beach, which the styles " Harmony Villa.”

of two life-size bust pictures, (one other in crayon), through the wonderful medium- ship of Dr. and Mrs. Rogers; also the production of four beautiful miniature heads in oil, in a few min­utes’ time, under crucial test conditions, in the presence of the wife o f the writer and himself.

One o f the large pictures mentioned is a rarely beautiful crayon drawing of a spirit sister o f a prominent citizen of Washington Territory.The other an exquisitely fine oil painting of a spirit daughter of Mr. Alvinza Hayward, o f this State.

Each oi these pictures required several weeks of patient sitting, daily, by the medium and his wife, to gather the required forces, before the actual work was attempted. When everything was in readiness for their development but a few minutes' time was required for the comple­tion of the work.

W e present on our first page, this week, a reduced copy of another life-size picture given through Dr. Rogers' mediumship, at the develop­ment of which we were present. It is the second Isrge picture in oil that has been given through this instrument; although his guides have produced several life-size pictures in crayon, and many smaller ones in crayon, and some in oil.

This picture, which is a likeness of Cora, the {spirit daughter of Mrs. E . W . Bushyhead, wife

-Sheriff Bushyhead, of San Diego, was de­veloped on Thursday evening, March 29th.

and Mrs. Rogers, while on their recent visit San Diego, sat for this picture, at the hotel

where they were stopping, for about six weeks, owing to the disturbed psychical condi­

tions they found there the guides were un­able to develop the picture, and their mediums

obliged to return to their home in this city, where, after a few days of quiet rest, the picture

produced.There were present at the development of the

picture, and constituting the circle, or battery,Mrs. Bushyhead and a lady friend, Mrs. Dr. Rogers, Mr. S . B. Clark, and the writer and “ fife.

The seance room, or studio, is a small room 'boat eight feet square over the main hall of their residence. A door enters from the upper hall, and another into a large front chamber. The studio contained no article of furniture excepting

chair for the use of the medium, and the upon which the canvas rested. Upon a dinner plate on the floor beneath the easel were the paints just as they were squeezed from the tubes.The door to the hall was locked, and sealed with strips of paper in every way possible to render it absolutely secure. The front window was dark­ened. The door leading to the large room was open and a curtain hung across the open space.

small zigzag piece was cut, in our presence, from the canvas at the outer edge of the stretcher, about two inches in length, and placed in the hands of Mrs. Bushyhead, to enafilc her to make

assurance doubly sure" that no change of canvas could be made without instant detection.

The five persons constituting the circle were seated in the form of a horseshoe in front of the curtain, and the lights were turned down. From the position of the circle, the opening of the door between the studio and the lighthed hall, admission of light from the window, could have been readily detected. But from this, and the writer’s former experiences with Dr. Rogers, we know, if the senses are of any value to demonstrating facts, that there was not the slightest attempt, or even pomibility of deception.

After a little singing to harmonize conditions, and some pleasant conversation with the me­dium’s controls, it was announced that the artists had commenced the pointing, and in a few minutes thereafter the work was declared finished, and the picture, with the paints fresh from the artist's touch, stood revealed before us in all its marvelous loveliness. No engraving can do it justice. It seems throbbing with life, and ready to speak from the canvas. It represents Cora as she appears in spirit, in the full flush of health and life, and is also a dote resemblance o f her when in health in mortal life.

Cora passed to spirit life about twelve years ago, of consumption, at the age of twenty-three. She was of petite form, with finely molded features, a noble forehead, and dark, expressive eyes. She

bright and vivadous, and a great favorite I with her friends. She was very fond o f pets, espe­cially of birds, a trait which evidently clings to] her in spirit life, judging from the dove she holds

I her breast.But what can be said of the wonderful gift

that has come to these mediums, whereby artists from studios immortal can turn aside the vaiL and thus leave the imprint of their genius upon canvas palpable to mortal sense? Surely, this

be o f " the greater things ” promised b y the Master.

a suggestive (act that some persons can not obtain these pictures; in feet, no amount of] money can purchase their appearance. There 1 some peculiar element of the person desiring picture, and also of the spirit whose picture is sought, which is necessary for success. The guides are able to determine in advance whether or not they can produce a picture o f any particu­lar spirit. I f they say they can, they have never yet felled.

P r o p . A l f r e d R . W alla ce on Sp ir it u a l ­ism .— Albert Morton has published the lecture given by Alfred R . Wallace, L L . D .. at Metro­politan Temple, last June, “ If a Man Die Shall He Live Again,” In a neat pamphlet form, with the addition of a concise biographical sketch of the distinguished lecturer, and a fine autotype

. portrait, which is an exact reproducti I crayon by Mr. Morton, from a photograph by

W. J. COLVILLE IN SAN DIEGO.

W . J. Colville commenced his present term work in Son Diego on Sunday last, April 8th,

Louis Opera House, where services will be held the next four Sundays at the same hours, 2:30 and 7:30 P. m . Excellent music is furnished by |Mr. and Mrs.. Melville, and hymns are heartily sung by the congregation.

Mrs. Williams, an active and earnest worker, co-operating w ith Mrs. Bushyhead in carrying' |out all the arrangement for the meetings, intro­duced the speaker in very kindly and appreciative words. The audience was all that could pos­sibly be desired, both in point of numbers and I interest displayed. A s those present represented Widely different shades of opinion, the inspiring intelligences showed considerable wisdom in treating their theme from a truly universal stand­point. The advertised topic was “ Spiritual Science— Glad Tidings for all Humanity.” The ground taken was decidely moderate. Extreme statements were cautiously avoided; at the same

the speaker left no doubt in the mind of any intelligent hearer as to the stand taken con­cerning spiritual being as the sole reality. A very pleasing poem concluded the interesting and instructive exercises.

In the evening the attendance was much larger than in the afternoon, and fully as appreciative. A great many young people were present who evinced surprising interest In the discourse, which I was o f a nature well calculated to arouse and [rivet the closest attention of all thinking people. The subject was the query, " I f Goodness is Supreme in the Universe, W hy is there Suffer-

The theory o f evolution came necessarily under dsacussion, and while the basic principle

1 diametrically opposite to that o f the mate­rialistic evolutionist, no admirer of Darwin's works could possibly have objected to the general theory stated.

This world was considered in the light of a school and workshop; we are all manufacturing

future environment; our liability to mistake is essential to our progress. If we could realize that we are perfectible, but not perfect, and whenever any trial or sorrow over-

:cs us, regard it is a blessing and not a curse, should remove the sting from suffering, and,

having mastered the lesson it is destined to tench, reach on to a point where suffering would be ours |no more. T o resist, not to succumb, to triumph instead of yield, is what we are here for, and no matter bow adverse appears our fete, to conquer fete is within our province, and to do so is our only passport to the realms of everlast­ing bliss.

During the evening service M r. and Mrs. Melville greatly delighted the audience by a charming rendition of that lovely sacred song,

; " O h , Where is H eaven?” The exercises ended with a fine promptu poem (subject chosen by the audience), “ Our Destiny and that of Stn Diego."

Classes in Spiritual Science opened very .uspiciously at the South W est Institute, Third

street, Monday, April 9th, at 7:30 and Tues­day, April 10th, at 2:30 p. st. Mrs. Both well (the lady who was so strikingly benefited while

W . J . Colville's class in Oakland, in June, 1886, at the camp grounds), in concert with many other kind and active women, has greatly assisted in getting up the classes, and as the charge for the entire course of twelve lessons is only $2.50, many persons who have felt unable

[to pay a large sum for instruction are gladly riling themselves of this favorable opportunity.

The class room is exceedly pleasant, and as it is situated in a building devoted to education, the associations and surroundings are all agreeable. The classes meet Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 7:30 p. 11., and Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2:30 p. m . Lessons and conversa­tions in Theosophy take place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 P. M., to which an admission

twenty-five cents is charged. These arrangements continue in force till over Sunday, May 6th, when W . J . Colville’s engagement in Son Diego closes, and be returns immediately to Los Angeles to fulfill engagements already made.

HELPING ITS OWN.

| Every day we read o f some commendable un­dertaking on the port of orthodox societies for |the aid or maintenance of its ministers. Just now U is the raising o f a million-dollar fund by the American Presbyterians for relief of its aged and indigent ministers.

Spiritualists number many millions, but they are so disintegrated in feeling and purpose, that

j successful organization has not taken place on a I very large scale. Hence, Spiritualism is in com­mand o f no available means to properly assist its faithful and reliable workers, much less when they are disabled from age or sickness.

W e do not believe this is due to lack of means, but rather to that deplorable disposition defined by Dickens as “ waiting for something to turn up. Everybody, even Spiritualists, knows that what turns up under those circumstances will be noth­ing to benefit any one, but may be a calamity to the best undertaking in which one has risked his bottom dollar.

Toilers in all fields are wearing out; if they work without the aid of co-operation, or help to sustain their labors, simply for the love of the cause, they can not be expected to work long, however well. They have worldly needs that demand worldly generosity and sympathy; this is fully recognised and provided foe fully and amply outside the spiritualistic vineyard.

Many workers in the spiritual field are becoming weak and Infirm in tho service, and it is but ® and proper their wants should be considered. So should they be sustained and encourageo while in the field. When will Spiritualists move to help their own?

April 14, 1888.J G O L D E N G A T E sEDITORIAL NOTES.

— M rs. B . H u s to n ’s room s a rc a t 9 1 7 M a rk e t s tr e e t , seco n d floor, p arlor 3 fro n t.

— D r . H e n r y R o g ers, o f th is c i ty , h as been e lec te d a trustee o f th e G o l d e n G a t e P rin tin g an d P u b lish in g C o m p a n y , in p lace o f A b ija h B a k e r resign ed .

— O n W e d n e sd a y e v e n in g n e xt, th e iS t h , M r. J . J . M o rse ’s c o n tro ls w il l lectu re fo r th e U n ion S p ir itu a l S o c ie ty a t S t . A n d rew ’s H a ll , i n L a r ­k in s tre e t . A l l a re in v ite d . D oors open free.

1 ' I c a n n o t te ll y o u ,” w r ites a g o o d sister

fro m S a n t a C la r a c o u n ty , “ h o w d e a r to m e the “ G o l d e n G a t e h as b ec o m e. Y o u c a n be as- “ so red 1 sh a ll b e a su bscriber as lo n g as it is ■“ p rin te d .”

— T h e th ree-lin e ite m in la s t w e ek ’s G . G . , a n n o u n c in g th e d e a th o f M r. H ea th , w as pub­lish e d un der a m isapprehension o f th e fa c ts . O u r in fo rm an t o n ly in ten d ed to s a y th a t he w as d e a d in a m etap h o rical sen se.

— M r. G ill , a n in te llig e n t y o u n g S p iritu alist fr o m N e w ca stle-o n -T y n e, E n g la n d , a rriv e d in th is c i t y a fe w d a y s a g o , w ith a v ie w t o m a k in g ¡this co u n try h is fu tu re a b o d e. H e com es t o us p ro p e r ly a c cred ite d from B ro . H . A . K e rs e y , th e G o l d e n G a t e ’ s E u ro p ean a g e n c y .

— A t M r s . W h itn e y ’s seco n d pub lic, sea n ce in S a n D ie g o , on e h u n d red e x tra c h a irs w ere p u t in th e O p e ra H o u se , an d m a n y p ersons w ere turn ed a w a y , u n a b le t o o b ta in ad m issio n . H e r tests fro m th e p la tfo rm w e re m o st c o n vin cin g . She le ft o n T u e s d a y la s t fo r K a n sa s C ity .

— A le tte r fro m D r . J . V . M an sfield to G e o . H . H a w e s , o f th is c i ty , in a n an sw er t o a n in v ita tio n t o b e p resen t a t th e ap p ro ach in g C a m p -M e e tin g , sa y s : “ I sh all le a v e B o sto n v ia * ' M o n tre a l a n d th e C a n a d ia n P a c if ic ro u te to 4'M a n it o b a , th e n ce t o W a sh in g to n T e rrito ry , “ then to O re g o n a n d C a lifo r n ia . I in ten d to “ lea v e M a y 3 d o r 5 th . W il l h o p e to be w ith 4‘ y o u b y th e 20 th .

— D r . A s p in w a ll w il l n o w b e fo u n d in h is new p a r lo rs . N o . 9 1 7 M a rk e t s tre et , room 3, second s to r y fro n t, a n d w ill g iv e p riv a te s ittin g s for the d e ve lo p m e n t o f m edium s, t h io w in g o u t e v il in ­fluences, a n d su rro u n din g th e in stru m en t w ith g o o d , useful sp irit g u id e s. P u b lic c irc les fo r d e ­ve lo p m en t o n W e d n e sd a y an d S a tu rd a y even in gs a t 8 o 'c lo c k , a n d T h u rsd a y a ftern o o n a t 3 . M rs. H a sto n w ill assist in these d eve lo p m en ts, an d g iv e s it tin g s d a ily .

— T h e S o c ie ty o f P ro gressive S p iritu a lists w ill g iv e a l ite ra ry an d so c ia l, c lo s in g w ith dan cin g, fo r th e ben efit o f th e ir F ree L ib ra ry an d R e a d in g R o o m , lo ca te d a t 841- M a rk e t street, o n M o n d ay e v e n in g n e xt, A p r i l 16 th , co m m e n c in g a t 7 :4 5 ■ o’c lo c k , a t W a sh in g to n H a ll , 3 5 E d d y street; L e t it b e a c ro w d ed h a ll, fo r th e p ro gram pre­p ared b y th e C o m m itte e w arran ts i t . S e e p ro ­g r a m s t o b e distrib u ted a t th e d ifferent h a lls to ­m o rro w . T ic k e ts o n ly tw en ty -fiv e c e n ts .

— M rs. B este, th e w on d erfu l m edium fo r in de­p en d en t vo ic es, g a v e an o th e r p rivate seance at

o u r p arlors o n S u n d a y e ve n in g la s t, t o a few fr ie n d s o f th e w rite r , selected m a in ly w ith a v ie w t o th e b est resu lts, w h ic h p ro ved h ig h ly satisfac­t o r y . W ith th is g ifted m edium , a s w ith a ll o th ers, th e c irc le is q u ite as respon sib le fo r g o o d m a n ifes ta tio n s as is th e m ed iu m . D istru st, c y n ­ic ism , a n d u n frien d ly th o u g h ts a re d istu rb in g e l­e m e n ts a lw a y s, fo r w h ich th e m edium is n o t re­s p o n s ib le .

— L a s t W e d n e sd a y e ve n in g M rs . M . J . H en d ee o c c u p ie d th e p latfo rm a t S t . A n d rew ’s H a ll . T h e su b jec t w a s “ M ed iu m sh ip ,” w h ich w as h a n d le d w e ll b y th is g ra n d in sp ired sou l. S he w a s fo llo w ed b y M rs . M ille r , w h o se h ea rt is so fu l l o f su n sh in e fo r e v e r y o n e , a n d she clo se d her rem a rk s b y sa y in g , “ P lea se d o n ’t fo rg et the « b e n e f it a t W a sh in g to n H a ll o n M o n d a y even - “ in g n e x t fo r th is w o rth y purpose— th e free “ lib ra ry w h ere e v e r y on e is in v ite d t o a l l th e 41 b o o k s th e y ca n re a d .”

— W e h a v e re c e n tly w itn essed so m e m a n ifesta­t io n s o f th e p sy ch ic form , th ro u g h th a t m ar­v e lo u s in stru m en t fo r th e a n g e l w o rld , M rs. H e n r y R o g e rs , th a t fa r exce lle d a n y th in g o f th e k in d w e h ad e v e r befo re s een . T h e form s, o f w h ic h th ere w ere three p resen t a t a tim e, w ere w o n d e rfu lly s tr o n g a n d perfect, g iv in g a n iden ­t i t y th a t co u ld n o t b e m ista k e n . M rs. R o gers h o ld s h er w o n d erfu l g ifts to o sacred to s it fo r p erso n s w h o a re n o t prepared t o receive the tru th . A n d in th is she is r ig h t.

_A le tte r from D r . S ta ru b u ry , d a te d SanD ie g o , A p r i l 9 th , s a y s : “ W e lea v e to-m orrow“ for K a n sa s C i ty , d ir e c t , v ia S a n ta F e ro u te . I ■ ■ h a v e b ee n s o b u sy , d a y a n d n ig h t, th a t I co u ld 44 n o t sen d y o u a lin e . I h a v e som e g o o d notes “ w h ich I w ill p u t in sh ap e fo r p u b lica tio n , en « rtm ff, a n d sen d y o u from K a n s a s . W e have •• h a d th e b est o f tre a tm e n t, a n d b e s t o f success “ a l l th e w a y . M rs . S ta n s b u r y is e n jo y in g her- « s e lf im m en sely , a n d im p ro vin g a ll th e tune, “ b o th p h y sic a lly a n d spiritually.** * I * 3 *

— M rs , N . A . W . M a y o , w r it in g fro m the

m o u n ta in s o f M a rip o sa c o u n ty , s a y s : • “ T h e “ G o l d e n G a t e rea ch es o u r m o u n ta in hom e

44 v ery reg u la r ly n o w , a n d w e p rim i t h ig h ly , as “ w e h ave e v e r d o n e . A fte r rea d in g it I sen d it

“ to frien d s E a st . H a v e sen t sev era l co p ies t o a •• M eth o d ist m in ister, w h o h a s re c e n tly P o a c h e d “ a v ery sm art (?) serm on a g a in st 4S p iritism .•• T h e G o l d e n G a t e is a pap er e v e r y S p ir itu a list 1 ** n n sen d o u t t o ske p tics an d in ve stiga to rs an d *• h a v e n o fears. I t is a lw a ys g o o d ."

** |n M y o p in io n ," w rites a corresp on d en t o f

th e B ottom In v estig a to r, “ th e med iu m business * 'd isp ro ves S p ir itu a lism ; because i f sp irits ca n “ retu rn t o th e liv in g , th e y w o u ld c o m e d irect to “ each o n e o f u s , a n d n o sp e cia l m edium s w ou ld " be n e e d ed .” T h a t is a b o u t a s rea so n ab le a s it w ou ld b e t o s a y : T h e v e ry id e a o f telegra ph y d isproves th e p o ss ib ility o f su ch a m ethod o f co m m u n ica tio n ; b ecause, i f m y friends from a d ista n ce c o u ld co m m u n ica te w ith m e a t a l l , th ey w o u ld n a tu ra lly d o s o w ith o u t th e use o f a w ire, o r a special m ed iu m . T h e y w o u ld send their m essages d ire ct! O , sap ien t w isd o m ! H o w m a n y th in g s there are w h ereof th o u art ig n o ra n t!

T h e M e a n s P r e d i c t t h e E n d .— B u t few th in gs a tte s t o u r pro gression m ore stro n g ly than

th e co n sid eratio n show n to con dem ned crim in als. T h e w o rld fo rm erly so u gh t reven ge o n the m ale- facto rs; n o w i t is satisfied w ith s im p ly p u ttin g

crim in als b ey o n d th e p o ss ib ility o f rep eatin g their evil d eed s. I t is s ti ll s ee k in g m o re speedy an d

hum an e m ethod s. T h e C o m m issio n app oin ted to d ecid e u p on a b etter m ean s o f ca p ita l punish­m ent th a n h a n g in g, p resen ted on e o f th e m ost

s ig n ifica n t p u b lic d ocu m en ts su bm itted to C o n ­gress lor years. I t recom m ended e lec tr ic ity as a m eans o f p u tt in g t o d eath , an d crem ation fo r th e fin al d isp o sitio n . I t sa id : “ In term en t in

th e gro u n d is to crem a tio n w h a t h an gin g “ is to d eath b y e le c tr ic ity . T h e on e is sane-

“ tio n ed b y ou r o w n prejudices an d the a p - “ p ro va l a n d p ra ctic e o f o u r fo refathers; the “ o th er is ap p ro ved b y w isdom an d sanc- “ llo n e d b y s c ie n c e .” T h e re is n o d o u b t th a t w e s h a ll in a v e ry short tim e reach th is p o in t in d evelop m en t o f crim in a l treatm en t. T h a t g a in ed , th e u tm o st refinem ent o f punishm ent w ill be attain ed ,' an d w e should, an d w ill in tim e, g o b eyon d i t , an d ' n o lo n ger p u t t o d e a th . T h e m ean s su gg ests its e n d ; an d in th e N e w D isp en ­satio n there w ill b e n o crim in als born.

A M a r t y r a n d H e r o .— S in ce n ecessity com - j polled th e p h y sic ia n s o f th e C r o w n P rin c e to de­sist fo r a tim e fro m pro bin g an d to rtu rin g his a ilin g th ro a t, h e has had n o relapses an d no a la rm ip g sym p to m s; b u t, o n the co n trary , w ith h is n e w resp on sib ilities , h e has rested w e ll, and bad fa ir ly g o o d a p p etite . T ru e , con flictin g ru ­m ors ab ou t h is h ea lth are rife, bu t h e s till en ­dures, w h ich show s th a t N a tu re is b u sily im pro v­in g th e o p p o rtu n ity afforded h er b y th e national crisis. I t is p erhaps to o la te n o w , b u t there w as a tim e, n o t lo n g past, w hen, had th e cause o f the tro u ble been rem oved, w h ich w as doubtless sm o k in g, an d su rg ical in strum ents never brought in to use in th e P rin c e ’s ca se , bu t a g ood m ag­n e tic healer been em ployed, the n ew Em peror w ould h ave been g iv e n a n ew an d lo n g lease o f life, n o w v e ry m u ch n eeded b y th e G erm an n a­t io n . W h en th e E m pero r F red e ric k d ies i t w ill b e a s a m a rty r t o m ed ical scien ce, th a t does n ot y e t k n o w enough to cu re b y na tu ral m eans, to a id th e recuperative forces o f the hum an system in repairing in ju ries d o n e it through poisonous agen ts. H e is in d eed “ an unflinching h ero ,” an d w ill b ra v ely d ie o n th e d octors ’ hands.

OUR QUESTION DEPARTMENT.E ditok of Golden Ua t y

A letter reaches m e from Los Angeles, saying: “ I have attended a course o f metaphysical lectures given in this city by M r. C olville. I think I have the theory o f M ental H ealing, but practically I know nothing whatever about it .”

I f, as you say, you have the “ theory ” o f “ M ental H ealing,” or the “ Divine Law o f C u re,” o f course you will need to make the “ theory” practical, or it will be o f little value to you. T h at it is being made practical, can be proven to any one who will honestly investigate, and earn­estly test the truth in this direction. But you see, m y friend, you violate the very fundamental principle o f this “ sc ien c e” ; when you think (much less put on paper) that which you do not consider the good. 1

Before one can make practical these 1 teachings he must realize that thought is 1 a creative eneigy— a power; and that in the very nature o f things we relate our­selves to the state or condition we con­tinually think. .W e radiate our mental states. In other words, our thought and feeling create an atmosphere in which we live and are m oved,— an atmosphere which draws the like unto itself. T h is is according to a well-known law , which says that “ like attracts like .” W e do this un­consciously and in ignorance o f the law, but when the law has been declared to us, we should try to conform to it, (the will o f the Father), for though we can not break a law , we may violate it, and suffer for its violation. Now the law declares that “ we must hold the thought in m ind that we would see externalized»” both for ourselves and for others. T h is law o f thought works not only to make changes in our bodies, but in our environments. It also acts, when rightly directed, at long dis­tances.

O nce grasp the truth (even intellectu­ally) that nothing can externalize unless it has had a thought form, or at least has its root in some mental state, and you will see how carefully the thoughts must be guarded.

W hen we are suffering in body, when everything is going wrong with us in our surroundings, i f we dwell in our thoughts right in this suffering o f the body, and live always in the thought o f our inharmo­nious environments and daily trials, this state o f mind m ust, in the very nature o f things, become chronic with us. W e are holding ourselves by the power o f our own w ill right in the condition we deplore.

Now it is possible to change all this by a positive change o f thought. I f we are suffering, we must begin to declare the truth o f the R eal Being, (which is health, and harmony, and peace), until thought and feeling becom e O ne. T h at One is the Creator o f the good, we declare for our1 selves. H old in mind the thought, I am spirit, divine in essence, and included in the universal. AU the harmony that goes to m ake m y R eal Being, I now declare true o f m yself in body.

H o ld to this thought steadily, until the feeling responds, and you have created the state you think, and feel in the thought realm. H o ld right to the thought, and sooner o r later, in ratio to you r pow er o f concentration, you w ill actualize it in the external. .

I f you continuously let in the evidence o f the senses, which declare pain, distress,

poverty, o ld age, death, and all the other things you do not want, don't you see you float yourself right into the stream you are creating ? Y ou r little stream seeks and relates itself to streams o f a like nature, and down you go in the flood tide o f the current thought o f the day, which gains power from race belief, until there comes a tim e when you have no strength to longer resist the law which says, “ T hink G od (Good) for yourself and others, if you would relate yourself and others to the G oo d .”

T o think the good is to think in har­mony with the A ll G ood; to think the not good is to relate oneself to evil. T h e former is the “ will o f the Father,” the latter is not. T o resist the “ will o f the Father,” the G od (good), which is the w ithin , the center and circumference o f individual existence, is sure to bring de­feat by a necessary law o f our being.

I am aware that habit is strong upon us, and that it must take an effort to

.break up 'the almost universal habit o f thinking the very things we do not want. T o think, to declare, is to decree, to cre­ate the thing we think. I f it be the good we think, it will help to do away with suffering and overcome evil. I f it be the not good, then suffering, and that we name evil, will be increased thereby.

*' A s a man thinketh, so is he .” T h is is fundamental in “ M ental H ealing,” and in harmony with the “ Divine Law o f C u re.” Sarah A . H arris, R . C .

B erkeley, Cal.

A nniversary in San ^Diego.

E ditor of Golden Ga t s :

T h e Pacific Co-operative Spiritual Union celebrated the Fortieth Anniversary o f M odern Spiritualism with becoming fes­tivities, on Saturday and Sunday last, in their new hall on T h ird street. T h e program was varied, interesting and well received by a large and attentive audience. T h e music by Case’s orchestra was ex­ceptionally fine; the songs and recitations well selected and w ell rendered, and the speakers surpassed themselves in eloquent addresses. A n original piano solo, “ Bird’s C a ll,” by M rs. M elville, was a musical inspiration o f the rarest merit, eclyps- ing anything o f the kind ever rendered in this city.

A hop, with refreshments, on Saturday evening, was not the least enjoyable event o f this delightful occasion. Everything passed o ff pleasantly and harmoniously, and many names were added to the roll- call o f the U nion. T his society is increas­ing in numbers and popularity. Though two months have not elapsed since its organization, it already numbers over a hundred and twenty members, and has a fine library o f valuable and high-toned literature, which is constantly growing by voluntary contributions. Several genuine and well tested mediums are among its members. Notably among these is Mrs. Julia A . Curyea, who gets instantaneous slate-writing between closed slates on top o f the table. T h e tests that she gives daily are grand and wonderful.

Mary A . White,Cor. Sec’y P . C . S . U .

San D iego, C a l., April 4, 1888.

P a s s e d O n.

From this city. April nth . after a long and painful illness.Willie E .. only child of Cape. w . E. and Rosa L .Bushnell. aged 13 years and 9 months.Willie passed on in the foil consciousness of another

life. He saw and held sweet communion with his loved ones on the ocher side, and at times, in his mortal anguish, pleaded with them to take him over. Willie eras an only child, and was the idol o f his parents. To them there is do death, but only life and love eternal for their darling boy. They know (for to the mother has come some precious gifts of the spirit), that their loved one is in the gentle and protecting care of angel ones, who will watch over him with all a mother's fondness. What a comfort to them is the knowledge of this glorious troth.

A d v ic e t o M o t h e n .U u . W inslow’s Soothing St b d p should always be

need when children are cutting teeth. I t relieves the liwl« sufferer a t oooe : it produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes at “ bright aa a butteo." I t U very pleasant to taste. I t aootnee the child, softens the gome, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowel», and is the beet known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes.' Twenty-live cents a bottle.

N O T IO E 8 O F M E E T IN G 8 .

I_I E A D Q U A R TE R S O F T H E G N O STIC SCHOOL “ and Society— Room 17, Flood Building, Mar­ket street. Sunday Lectures, i t a . at. Mrs. Chainey will lecture and give psychometric readings 7:45 p. m.. Prof. Chainey will lecture. All seats bee. Voluntary collection. Sunday class in Theosophy conducted by Mrs. Chainey at 2530 p. m. Admission, at cents. Night class in Physical Culture, Oratory. Elocution, and Drams tic Art conducted by Prof. Chainey, Mondays at 3 p. m. D ay class in the same, Fridays at 2:30 p. m. Night class in Psychic Cát­ente, Psychometxy, -Medial Unfoldment, Mental Science of Healing, and all kindred subjects, cunducted by Mrs. Chainey, Tuesdays at 8 p. m. Day class in same, Thurs­days at s;yo p. m.

C P IR T T U A L P H ILO SO PH ICA L SE R V IC E S A T *3 Metropolitan Temple, by the Golden Gate Religions and Philosophical Society, every Sunday. A t 11 a . m. J . J . Morse, the celebrated inspirational speaker, win ans­wer questions in the trance state, and wul lecture in the evening. Children’» Lyceum at tatyo p. m. AU services bee.

P S Y C H O L O G Y A N D S P IR IT PH EN OM E NA.—I There will be circles for the investigation of spirit phe­

nomena and development o f mediums at 3x5 Tenth street, Oakland, every Sunday evening, at 7:30 and Sunday after­noon, at 2:30. Pupils may be psychologized, the quickest way o f development. Admission, as cents.

C O C IE T Y O F PR O G R ESSIVE S P IR IT U A L IST S •J meet Sunday at 1 r . Washington Hall, 35 Eddy st. Free Spiritual Library, o f 700 volumes, open every Sunday bom x to 5 p. m. All are invited. Admission to cents.

U N I O N SP IR IT U A L M E E TIN G E V E R Y WED- U aesday evening, at St. Andrews* HaO, No. xxx, Larkin street. Interesting addresses, followed by tests hy the mediums. Admission, bee.

F I R S T PR O G R E SSIVE SP IR IT U A L ASSOCIA- 1 boo o f Oakland, meets every Sunday at Fraternity Hall, corner of Seventh and Peralta streets. Meetings at3 and 7:30 p.m .

T H E SO C IETY FOR TH EOSO PH ICA L R E- — search meets rtgolary every Sunday evening at t r i

Mr ftlbrier street, at 7:50 sharp. Free library and Tree ad-

MRS. A L B E R T M O R T O N ,

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F o r V a r io u s P h a se s , a s in d ic a te d In th e F o llo w in g T estim o n ia ls :

M r s . M o r t o n : “ I feel that I h ave had a feast from the spirit la n d . T h e re is need o f more w orkers in th e field lik e yourself, an d I fu lly ap­preciate yo u r beautiful p ow ers.” — S e l d e n J . F i n n e y , N ov . 20, 18 73.

“ I h ave recen tly had in terview s w ith th e co n ­tro llin g spirits o f M rs. A lb e rt M orton o f your c ity , during w h ich th e y discoursed g ra n d ly an d e lo qu en tly upon this an d co gn a te su bjec ts . • • *I found M rs. M orton one o f the m ost tru ly m a g­n e tic a n d cultured m edium s I h ave ever k n o w n .” — T h o m a s G a l e s F o r s t e r , L e c tu re , Tan 16, 18 8 1. j

“ M rs. A lb e rt M orton is a la d y o f cu ltivated tastes, an d r ic h ly endow ed w ith sterlin g personal graces a lik e o f head an d h eart, com m an din g the esteem o f a ll for h er unosten tatious social an d dom estic v irtues, as w ell as for h er beneficent m edial pow er, as exem plified in cla irvo yan t, psy­chom etric, h ea lin g , d eveloping, an d other phases. T h o u gh not specially churning t o be a test me­dium , strik in g tests o f id e n tity a re often g iven through h e r — m y o w n experien ce w ith her corre­spon ding, a s above, w ith th a t o f the m a n y co n ­sulting her for ad vice an d coun sel.” — W m . E m- m e t t e C o l e m a n , I t . P . J o u rn a l, J a n . 29, 18 8 1.

“ T h e influences w hich surround this la d y are o f the h ighest an d purest order, an d m y seances w ith h er w ere com plete spirit baptism s. In such com m un ion w e reach the heart o f relig io n .” — C h a r l e s 'B r ig h t , o f th e M elbourne A rg u s,

“ In this c i ty there is n o m edium possessing h igher or m ore ben ign p ow ers than M rs. A lbert M o rto n ;'h e r o w n spiritual nature h as reached such heigh ts o f unfoldm ent, that o n en terin g her abode you feel at once th a t yo u are in the presence o f d ivin e influences— in a h o ly atm o s­phere. O n e o f M rs. M orton’s beautiful g ifts is that o f hea lin g . S he is guided in this b y sci­e n tific spirit kn o w led ge; teaches th e patient som ethin g o f the la w a t the sam e tim e she a d ­m inisters her life-g ivin g balm . W ith th e pene­tra tin g eye o f prophecy she peers far in to futurity , an d w ith m inute exactn ess reads th e h istory o f ‘ com in g events.* A d d ed to these are p sy­ch om etric g ifts o f a fine order. In these realms- o f thought an d ac tio n M rs. M orton is found a faithful laborer,— d oin g a grand w ork in a gran d w a y .” —-G o l d e n G a t e , M a y 22, 1886.

“ M rs. M orton, th e unsurpassed psychom etrist an d prophetic an d h ealing m edium .” — L u t h e r C o l b y , E d ito r o f the B a n n er o f L ig h t.

' “ M rs. M orton is one of the most g ifted me­dium s I h ave eve r m et.” — W . J . C o l v i l l e , B a n - n et o f L ig h t, J a n ., 1888.

W e h ave n o tim e or m agnetism to expen d on mere cu rio sity seekers, bu t exten d a cord ial w el- com e to a ll w h o earn estly seek in form atio n or th e a id o f the spirit guides, to those t o whose ser­v ice w e d evo te o u r lives.

M r.' an d M rs. M orton g iv e special a tten tion to w ritten com m unications fo r those unable to oe presen t. T h ose w ho w ish ca n receive co m ­m un ications from their friends an d gu id es w ith ­o u t personal a tten d a n ce . In th e first le tter for advice enclose a lo c k o f h air w rapped in clean paper, an d ask an y question as yo u w ould i f presen t. W e so licit correspondence o n ly from those w h o, in g ood faith , desire ad vice or com ­munion w ith th e spirit w orld . C on fiden ce in th e spirit guides an d the ir mediums is essen tial, in order to receive the best results.

A ll w ritten com m un ications a re g iven w hile M rs. M orton is entra n ced , an d are reported ver­batim b y M r. M orton.

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T h e S o ciety w as ca lled to ord er a t 8 p . m . b y th e Vice-Presiden t, M rs. S . A . H a rr is , w h o, af­ter a short address o f w elcom e an d tim ely expla­n ations t o the stran gers present, w as fo llow ed b y J . W . M aguire w ith a v o ca l solo e n titled , “ T i­din gs from A fa r .”

T h e V ice-P resid en t then an nounced that' P rof.1 G eo rge C h ain ey, w h o h ad k in d ly offered th e S o ­cie ty h is services, w ou ld o ccu p y th e platform . H is lecture w as brim ful o f n ew an d original though ts, an d unique an d sta rtlin g y e t self-evi­d en t con clusions, an d , as usual, i t w as d elivered in bis a r t is tic an d h ig h ly m a gn etic m anner. T h e Professor brou gh t to b ea r h is v a s t e locu tion a ry ab ilities, an d this, w ith h is fine, sm ooth voice, m ade i t d o u b ly acceptab le t o th e ap p aren tly w ell pleased audien ce.

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As one of the first members I came into the earth counterpart of the Sun An­gel Order of Light in the higher heavens.It is not my purpose alone to give an ex­perience of what this glorious Order does for those who receive its influences, in baptismal waves, from the sun center. The experience o f one is that of all. Earth hearts know little o f their great privilege which is opened before them ini the opening of these same gates. Hu­manity have here offered to them the greatest truths ever before given through any channel. Has earth waited all these ages for these facts which existed for them, and only waited opening minds and recep­tive hearts to receive them ? If it be true now that man had birth in the love atmos­phere of Deity, that he is dual in nature, that he_ needed repeated incarnations in matter in order to perfect his Divine na­ture, it was eternally true.

Truth wears garments that are immortal. She may perfect herself in the mind and heart of the people, but herself has al­ways been Truth, and always will remain so. Over the mind of man hovers clouds which sometimes wear the silver sheen of truth; there exists within a subtle some­thing, which we call conscience, which we educate to a certain belief, until those clouds can so obscure the brain and en­fold the heart, that truth can find no lodging place there. It is hard for these higher teachings to clear your atmosphere that they may make their own influence felt, leading mankind out of the old un­certain light into the more certain truth.

For this the angels place before you their thoughts, and weave with them facts which will stand all tests. Time has rolled along upon its noiseless wheels; there have been here and there landmarks left which the destructive powers of the ages have failed to sweep away. Man knows nought of the histories written upon the pages of time, except it be revealed to him through the power of those intelli­gences who have acted their part upon the stage, and then taken another place in another world, but to again’ return when fullness of time has come to work out for themselves another problem of life, and again risen to newness of life beyond earth scenes and above earth conditions.

No one can so well tell you of those things as those who have experienced them. Angels speak as they know, con­cerning the histories of the past; they tell you their own history, and yet man wraps himself in his own mantle of ignorance, looks over his own narrowed boundary of thought, and questions if these things can be so. Spirits disrobed of materiality have need to learn much, ere they can become teachers of the higher truths to their human brotherhood.

Saidie only gives as she has gleaned. Her children must give each as they have gleaned, and we unitedly tell you. You have entered the great school of life, where wisdom guides are your teachers, and where knowledge which you appro­priate will be well-earned gems you will each and every one be glad to own, when again you cross the mystic tide and stand on the shores over here. Our homes, as real as your own, have at times missed the tread of our feet; we have left them for a season, and for years knew it not. Then, after a time, we have been brought to a knowledge of them. Our soul responded to the voice of the dual, who spoke in a language known only to the soul, and thus have we been led into the shining pathway of the angels, the end of which is at home.

In all this is merely the working of the law of our being. On the earth brain is but a faint image of the unfoldment of the spirit impressed. Many, it is true, feel the soul longings for something more, something the mind can grasp as a tangible reality and hold as its own possessions, but we oft turn from such longing, think­ing it as a will-o'-wisp, which only lures us from a beaten path in search of fabled treasures, which will elude the grasp, or fade away into the air, even as we seem to have grasped them in eager hands. This is the more material view of the soul longing, which in time will fold its restless wing and rest in contentment.; There is a great conflict between mate­

rial and spirit, which must come, ere victory is ours. Life can not be to any exalted soul, or noble spirit, a time of peaceful enjoyment. You are in your school' time o f unfoldment. Materiality makes its demands upon your nature, and in strong terms insists on being your mas­ter. Spirit asks unfoldment. Your very life happiness imperatively commands that you, having entered the battle field, shall come from the same, a triumphant con­queror.

It is not enough to live in these con­ditions with which you are surrounded: you need to become master. You each wish your own inheritance, and through your own powers, aided by the instruc­tions of those who have become master­ful, through the same school of experi­ence, you must gain that inheritance. It has an inspiring effect upon the human brain to bear direct from those who have fought these battles, and now are enjoy­ing their well earned peace. It gives us gladness of soul to be able to give to you our words of experience, our counsels of

wisdom. May they cheer each heart, as our own has been cheered by the words of those who had preceded us.

As 1 come back to-day, and see the land covered with snow, I think of the time, but few years since, when I, too, came with you at the center to meet the loved ones from the Summer Land. I used to think how great the contrast be­tween this land of snow and cold and that of perpetual Summer and flowers.I thought to myself the contrast Is equally great between myself clothed in mate­riality and my soul-mate, as she stepped from the unseen to the seen, in all her loveliness, clad in the garments of the Summer Land to meet ner own. Here was I, clothed as the rest who sat with me, and she, the dual of my own soul, clothed in regal glory from the other side of life,— yet twin souls throughout the endless eternities of life. My thoughts went surging through my brain— thoughts which could find no expression in words. Questions would rise, as they rise in other minds, but all found response in answers written in my soul. There was the ac­ceptance, the acknowledgment of the deep truths presented to me in the clearer light of the angel world. I was among the first members who composed the Or­der of Light, was among the first to know and accept my soul-mate, and the first to pass through the gate of death into the life beyond. And I can say to every brother and sister in the Order, I found it was all true we had been told. Saidie and the band were with me in the trying hour. I was carried triurmphantly home, and loved ones ministered to my needs. All is as the band represent to you here in this life. Free from earth conditions, I have risen to my own place, and am now working, as before I worked, for the in­terests of the Order in earth land.

T o each member, far and near, I send my greetings, and bid you be fearless and strong, for you will be guided into the right harbor at last, and you will be glad always that you enlisted under the pure banner of the Order o f Light; the motto inscribed upon its surface in letters of gold is, Love and Wisdom. Forsake not the ship and you will find the part of eternal peace.

Yours truly, for truth and right,ZOLNAIRE.

J. B. F a y e t t e , President and Corre­sponding Secretary of the Sun Angel O r der of Light.

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P rac tica l Spiritualism .

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What we undem and by practical Spirit­ualism may appear to the outside world very unpractical from the m ere fact that it emanates from Spiritualism under any •circumstances. But for all that Spiritual­ism has Us practical as well as theoretical side, just ‘ as materialism, or so-called science has two rides— only that the practical ride o f Spiritualism is un­earthed by introspection or self-study in th e place o f pick and shovel, and the theoretical an effect o f inspiration instead o f speculation. T h e nebular hypothesis is true for all that, and proves that specu­lation is akin to inspiration, for it is doubt­fu l whether man can imagine anything that is not founded on some fact or tacts in connection with it , and approaches the absolute in comparison to his force o f penetration or his power o f discerning causes. Pith and point ¡^everything, and the nearer to the truth,, the simpler it be­com es, both in comprehension and ex­pression.

Intelligence has been generally accepted as the conscious motive power or tile prin­cip le o f the universe, and thus explains it­self as the caute o f all effects in the same. M ow, G o d , spirit, law, or any other word that would express causation as the con­scious m otive pow er o f existence could be substituted without objection, but intel­ligence p er sc defines itself by its very actio n , or when enacting itself through m an, and no better elucidation o f a fact can be given than to express its action or m otion, and which can only be done with an absolutely living entity.

Being an intelligent effect, man must originate from an intelligent cause, or a cause which is intelligent or constitutes intelligence, and in comparison to the comprehension o f his own nature, be is enabled to understand that o f the uni­verse— o f causation. A s the cause exist­ing in man constitutes a conscious motive power, so the cause o f the universe must constitute- an infinite conscious motive power;, and what that means must be left to the individual mind to meditate upon — those with the greatest sway o f thought o r powers o f imagination obtaining the grandest conception o f its existence.

T h u s speculation is permissible, and if robbed o f this, it would be a cold world indeed. T o rest on our oars and await th e absolute exclusively, would cause the m ind to becom e stagnant during the inter­va l; but keeping it active this way pre­pares it for the reception o f the absolute when it does com e. In this respect Spir­itualism is practical. I t teaches constant soul activity, in order to allay the animal nature o f man, and without which the absolute would never be reached . I t is ju st this perpetually active interior con­dition which leads to the goal o f perfec­tion, and those whose intellectual faculties are not sufficiently unfolded to be kept in motion for this effect, are admonished to keep their will power active by abnega­tion— this requiring interior motion or soul activity to be enacted. A nd those who are too weak, or lack the will to den y themselves the material, o r a portion o f it , at least, are inspired to love deeds, o r benevolence, charity, e tc ., in behalf o f their fellow-creatures.

N ow , this is certainly all very practical, an d must lead to good results in the end, for the whole o f life's mission comprises the attainment o f a purely intelligent im­petus in esse. B y persistently indulging the material, the worldly or the sensual, it will not be attained. E ven the desire for fame is earthly, and by no means a spiritual desire, and keeps the soul in a negatively acting state. _ O nly when ris­ing above the material it operates for a positive effect, and in which condition it a c ts on the spirit body for a purifying effect, i. e . , converges or transforms its animal impetus into a purely spiritual or intelligent one. E ven I f it does not con­vert it into pure intelligence like itself, it drives out all the material animus, and thereby makes it a fit abode for an ex­clusive intelligent operation in the here­after, and which constitutes the gist o f spiritual purification so-called. But by constantly adding material impetus to it, this is impossible, an d it therefore requires a very practical method to prevent this— such being the firmness o f will to over­co m e our unnecessary desires o r tastes, our human or worldly ambitions, and o u r self-love generally. In the latter are contained our little conceits, vanities, envies, jealousies, fault-findings, e tc ., and before’ calling our attention to our neigh­bor's shortcoming, see if we are above censure ourselves.

Theoretic Spiritualism, like the theories, o f materialism, is subject to being called into question, and simply because tangible proofs are lacking to substantiate the in­spirations (spiritual speculation). But when a theory is universally accepted, without further substitutes being offered, it looks like the truth has been reached. T h u s inspirational theories that can not be met b y anything higher than criticisms must be true as far as they extend, and may stand until displaced by something better— this, in a spiritual sense, signify­ing something higher, as man's inspira­tions are com portable with his force o f penetration or power o f discerning causes (soul growth in conjunction with spiritual purification).

N ow , the practical part comes in here again as a necessary adjunct to perfect inspiration, for without purity o f coo-

ditions the inspirations are subject to perversion, and thus the purest will take the lead, until displaced by something stiff purer then the last. A nd as L a Place s theory has never been displaced

• a better or higher, be ranks as one o f e purest among the material scientists, e say scientist, because be is regarded

_j such, although but a theorist from the feet that he can not furnish tangible proofs o f what be has given to the world. B u t bis theory must be a fact, neverthe­less, as it is universally believed and ac­cepted; and if he is regarded as a sci­entist on this account, all our inspirational mediums, who theorize or speculate on universal creatimi, are scientists, and of which the purest will always stand pre­eminent— there being no limit to pene­tration into the causes of things, as there ** *0 matter or material science, and thus spiritual theories, speculations or in­spirations will always be displaced by higher ones.

T hus theoretic Spiritualism even has something practical in it, because it is scientific, and without which it would not take rest in the minds o f the peo­ple. Soul being a cause, can not be impressed by effects, and, therefore, whatever can be felt by the soul as being true, must constitute a part o f a cause itself, or o f that which has absolute exist-

T hus a theory that is intuitively believed or accepted is true as fer as it goes, except it be willfully rejected on account o f prej­udice, envy, or self-conceit in not admit­ting it to be posable through certain channels; whether by Spiritualists against their own class, or by materialists against us as a body, is indifferent.

Self-love shuts out intuition under all circumstances, and such have to rely on their own mental faculties, or exterior life- condition (the spirit-body), for a compre­hension o f causation. Soul-thinking, ex­clusively, is hardly perceptible on the brain (die spirit-body's medium o f percep­tion and action), and the less we think o f self, therefore, (an exercise o f the ex­ternal) the better the soul or interior life- condition can operate or act for an inde­pendent effect. T h e soul's eventual aim is to reach this exclusively independent motion; and if se lf is kept constantly active, man will never obtain a proper re­alization o f bis future destiny, or o f the true cause o f his being.

Knowing the latter, leads to a compre­hension o f universal causes, and when this is attained, man need not even rely on inspiration or speculation for light. His own soul nature will reflect a microcosm o f the universe to bis exterior comprehen­sion, and then be knows absolutely, whether believed or comprehended by others or not. O f course, much depends j on his logical powers to express it as be in­tuitively knows it, and be is often entirely | unable to make himself understood, fo r ! want o f intellectual qualifications neces­sary for this effect.

Thus the incongruity sometimes m an i-; fested by inspirational mediums or writers. 1 It is not the want o f light which causes this, but the want o f expression intellectu­ally and logically considered. I f nothing was forthcoming from the soul, there would simply be no attempt made to speak or write, and to have this interior intelligence crowding upon one's exterior life-condition, is burdensome, if unable to give it out in some way. But such is an effect o f spiritual punfiaction. A s (the spirit body is freed from its material im­petus, it is filled in by the soul-nature it­self; and every point gained in this re­spect, adds that much more intelligence or knowledge o f causation to the exterior condition— this reacting upon the spirit body's medium (the brain) for an intelli­gent effect, and is cognized as thought. N ow, self-love contracts the soul, and prevents this outpouring, while sensualism debars spiritual purification, and cannot admit the soul's fight into the spirit body. In either event man remains in mental darkness as to the absolute, or causation, either, and in which instance be will have no theories o f any kind to offer the world, and thus remain in darkness all around.

T hus mental activity is as necessary to attain soul power, or interior force, as physical energy is necessary to attain mus­cular power and health o f body, one be­ing analogous to the other; for a tick soul condition is manifested by envy, jealousy, peevishness, feult-findlng, and all the ef­fects o f self-love or hatred towards some­body, just as a tick body is the effect of pleating one's senses, in the form o f lust, intemperance, etc.

Love expands the soul, and admits the fight o f causation, while physical purity frees the spirit body from its animalism, and admits the soul's inherent light into the same. Either conduces temporal hap­piness, and when freed from self-love and spiritual impurities, man reaches the abso­lute— such being heaven, and an effect o f the teachings o f Spiritualism, practically applied, or what we understand by practi­cal Spiritualism I

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The Law of Correspondences.

T h e law o f correspondences bolds good everywhere. W e have life and death, in­telligence and ignorance, love and bate, truth and error; one o f these being posi­tive! the other negative; both good, but different degrees o f goodness. T h e one must be experienced to produce the other; that is, first the negative, the experiences from which produce the positive or its op­posite. H ence, there is no evil in the world but undeveloped good; and if, through the bard experiences or results that follow undeveloped good, we become positive or developed to a comparative de­gree o f goodness, why should we blame

j those who are still passing through that negative state from which we have devel­oped, or become positive ? How absurd, when we view these conditions from an intelligent standpoint, to be filled with ego­tism, or to put ou a conceited “ I am better than thou " air to those who are in a more negative condition than we our­selves chance to be, knowing, as we must, that we were obliged to pass through the same conditions in order to reach a present standpoint.

All have the possibilities within them, and must reach that positive degree some­time, if not through the bitter experiences o f this life, then in the everlasting life that condition must finally come. As “ dirt is only good matter out o f place," and “ all roads lead to R om e," so the per­fect condition will finally be obtained, and as each and every individual is working out his own condition in life, as he un­avoidably must, the darker that condition the more need has be o f that charity which covereth a multitude o f sins.

And when we sit idly down, with a feel­ing o f our own superiority, commenting upon and despising others for their short­comings, we forget that by so doing we show ourselves to be in a wretched condi­tion, and that we have yet much to work out before we can reach the point we really think, in our own estimation, we have already obtained.

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ErvryTuasday,Thorsd»r sa d Saturday, Iremo te ta A. u .

Zar He b remarkably successful ia the treaImeni of even variety of cx a o x ic kisease, either physical or m eniti, adapting rem-die» 10 meet (he pocoBt— i— and requite-

Coe—Italica, with special directions for cure, Sri x r i — b»agata» interview, 3«. Simple t t e f f ia , If needed, extra

SSL Mr. Devis would he pie—ed to receive the fail name aad address of liberal persons 10 whom he amy, from time totime, mail rnrrnanr»mieti or circulate co— iog desira­ble informatine ^

p R E D EVAN S,

M ed iu m

I N D E P E N D E N T

SLA TE

Aed M ECHANICAL

W RITING .

S n a p daily (Suo- days excepted », from 7 a. n . to 5 p. m.

Privale D r u lepieg. deBy.

N e. «3g Octavie Street, sear Haight i t , S— Preach« Take the Haight Street cable car.

M ^ S . S . SEIF,

PSYCHOM ETRIST,J

AM ES R. CO CKE,

D e v e lo p in g a n d If u sin e— M e d iu m ,

Will give Psychometric Readings; Seeled Letters, aad Qatotio— Answered, and Reading o f Rock, every

Wednesday evening at S t. M, sharp. Metaphysical College, red McAllister Street.

Admission Free.Residence, aed Her— a Street, two block* from Haight,

corner of Webstar.

CL AIR V O Y AN T PH YSICIAN .

No. I j l t Washington Street, - Bottom, Mare.

Sitings Daily—From > a , » . till 3 p . m. Price, Sz-ns.

£ ) R . W. M. K EELE R ,

SP IR IT PHOTOGRAPHER.

454 F ran k lin A ven u e, B roo klyn , N. Y .

Those who desire correct liken esses of their departed friends can send to the above address. The doctor operator upon likenesses of the living, thereby producing pictures of departed friend«. Terms, W- Addnxr — above.

DavaLOrxaxT or M azxoxaxtr.

Dr. Cocks makes aad gives six private

Sooday, at 1« A. M. a

a specialty of developing mediarne, sitting* for Semole advance.

CIR CLE S,tod I m i . Abe Thursday evening«

at TOP-Do You W ish to K xow i s Y e» A aa a MaottrM 1—

Seed name, age, aad sex, together with u coats ia a a — l or poetai mota, and you will receive a lattar riving brief temperament reading aed phases of mediumship. Write «divari plainly. (—3

M R S . l . m . b a t e s

C iras

IN D E PE N D E N T SP IR IT TR E A TM E N T FOR HEALING.

—35 Cu x t o x A vaxoa, A LAM BOA, Cal,$r per treatment,

I F Wonderful tocco» ia most cases. *Vfi •epee-dm

J ) R . A. W. D UNLAP.

CLAIR VOYAN T A N D M AGNETIC H EALE R,

I« M iseiox Stxbbt,

Diagnoses disease without aneado— ; all lands of ditea i t treated; root aad herb medicine a—d: eyes, cancer, tornea, etc., tace—rfelly treated; has had twenty years’ practice a« a Healer in this city. References at office. jala-ew

M R S - A L B E R T MORTON,

SPIR IT MEDIUM A N D PSYCHOM ETRIST.

«so Stockton Street. : : San Francisco.Dote-tf

g E A L E D LE TTER S.

E L EAN OR M ARTIN

Now makes a specialty of Fount ■ i f .Fall Spiritual message, S*.

7 3 L a n a A v e n u e , C olu m b u s, O hio.DOT.rp-jm*

M R S . M. M ILLER .

MEDIUM,

Meetings Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday eve sings, sad Fridays at a p. m. Sittings daily, Sx.00.

rt* Task Street, between Taylor aad Jones.Sittings daily. Admission to Public Circles, ladies sc

cents, gentlemen a$ cents.

M m e m a r ie FRIES-BISHOP,(Soprano, it op— to engage menu.)

T e a c h e r o f " V o ic e B o f l d l a g , "ALSO

ITALIAN , FREN CH . GERM AN , A N D EN G LISH ' SINGING.

Pupils prepared for church, concert, oratorio or operatic stage.

Lessons private or ia classes. Highest reference . Twenty yean experience.

For terms, strictly moderate, address 3 1 1 Taylor Strum.San Frauds«- septa

Q L A IR V O Y A X T A N D T R A N CE M EDIUM .

C o m e a n d H o a r fr o m Y o u r L o v e d O ne*.

M RS. C J . M YER,O f San Francisco, the Wonderful, Gifted Tam aad Trmace

Medium, accompanied by

M R S. JU LIA N A JACKSON.The Noted Magnetic Healer,

Will visit Sacramento for a few weeks, wha— they «HO be pleased to receive their friends,

l u K Street, . . . Sacra«— o. Cal

JgO D O LPH ST1CKM EY,

CH R ISTIA N SCIE NTIST.

Graduate of the Choate Metaphysical College, of Boston, Mass.

Office. 3x6 Tenth Street, - - - Oakland, Cal.

Office Hours, to to ia a. 1 to 4 I . st., week days,

“ C -------- d drink of the I iriar Water,Cnmi and porrxkv of the fr a t of the Tree o f Life.

Aad be healed." fobxfi-xm*

M U . M. E. CR AM ER,

M ETAPH YSICIAN,

324 Sbvbxtxxxtx Stxbxt, Sa x F xaxcuco.

A STONISH ING O FFER.

Seed three r on e stamps, lock of hair, age, sex, and one

by spint po m r.D R . A . B. DOBSON.

Maqookcza. Iowa.

M R S - M . E . AYER S.

PSYCHO-M AGNETIC PH YSICIAN.

Residence, 55 Valley Street, comer 23d Street,

Oa k lax o, t : 1 9 t : t C al.__________________ »°Z»3______________

'p R U T H W ILL SU R VIVE I

M R S. P E T TI BONE,

la Hxxx to StraoTAxrtATX t h a t Fact.

The past, present and future revealed; the ride healed; the lost found; homes made happy. Sittings daily.

zrj Jones Street. aovytaO

J£ R S. AGNES EVANS,

(Wife of Fred Evans Independent Slate*Writer,)

TR AN CE T E S T MEDIUM .

<33 Octavia St „ . . . . Sax Fxaxcuco.

C i Taka the Haight Street Cars.Jaa. at

U PETTIBONE,

PH YSICAL A N D IN D E PEN D EN T SLA TE­W RITING MEDIUM.

110 J o u m i t , n ear G o ld » G ate A v en u e

SAN FRANCISCQ.

M > & M ARY L . M cGINDLEY,

Mandaa, Dakota,

CLAIR VOYAN T, IN SPIR ATION AL A BUSINESS MEDIUM.

Six questions answered for one dollar.Life horoscope seat for fr-oo. 1 Satisfaction gnwantrrd

g H O R T -H A N D A N D CALIGRAPH TEACH ER.

M ISS GEORGIA H ALL,

At «fir Seventh Street. 1 I 1 t Oakland.

M R S SALIMA PULS1FER.

M IN E R A L PSYCH OM ETRIST,

Wehmer Street, t 1 East Sau Jose.

Small specimen« of rock may be —at by letter» Prompt examinations made. Terms. S2.50. aogt]

|£ R S . J . HOFFMAN,

CLAIR VOYAN T & M IN ER AL PSYCH OM ETRIST.

S it tix cs Daily, h e r .Circles for Materialization, Saturday Evenings at I o'clock,

axd Fridays at a p. m.

*330 Howard Street, San Francoc*.

Hours for Treatment, 3 to 4 p. mu, dally.

Classes t Tuesdays aad Fridays at 2 p. a .

n L D . J. STAN S8U RY.

IN D E PE N D E N T SLATE -W RITING.

Office and Residence. - - 303 Scott Street,San Francisco.

I F D a. Stavsbokt k now absent on a trip to the Soatfa and East. Dim notice lrill be given of his rerxro.

M R S - T- SAGE, M . D .

a— Stock ro x Stxxxt, Sa x Fkamcuco.

DISEASES O F W OMEN A N D CH ILD R E N

A S PE CIA LT Y.Office hours, from S to 10a. cl, t to e , asd 7 to 3 p. m

M R S . D R . BEIGH LE.

Has moved into the

M u rp h y B u ild in g , - - O n M a r k e t S t r e e t . Over J . J. O'Brien’s Store, Room 54.

,% • will visit San lose every other day during the month Of February, after which she wiQ remain permaacotlr in thm city.

M R S . SEAL.

M EDIUM ,(Nr— all diseases; ako the a— of tobacco in any form,

nquor or opium; the care of tobacco guaranteed or ao fee will be charged.

Sittings Daily, t t C o d e s Wednesday Afternoons.

■ P«fr«f_____ N o. m3 S ixth Stxxxt, S. F.

H O R A C E H. TA YL O R .

M AGNETIC H E A L E R A N D T E S T M ED IUM ,

*1*1 Ninth Street,

Sac«amkoto, . . . , ^».,

P .O . Box 4z3.Office bouts 9^0 A. X. to 1« m. x to 3 p. «*. except Sunday.

|£ E T A P H Y SIC IA N A N D PSYCHOM ETRIST,

M ARTH A A . TE W ,

43° Eddy Street. San ffr— rirm_

M R S - W- W EIR.

TE LEG R A PH IC M ED IUM ,

Controlled by dm la— Mia. Breed,

M T « x W o x o xxm . Rattixo M m s a . E l

1 5 0 2 SEVE NTH STR E E T . W EST O AK LAND . ________ Center Statieu. (Sittings Daily.) L . —

^ REM AR K ABLE O FFE R .

SE N D TW O »-CENT STAM PS.

I . C. EATDORP. M. D.,Priaápa! Magnetic Institute. Grand Rapids Michigan.

GOLDEN G A T E[April 14, 1888.

ten for the Golden Gate./A D efense.

A pretty fancy, sorely; natural, 1 To most of us. I felt the same

You placed m Will need n

” Here grow, my favorite blossoms. You will find Delight for heart and soul, and work for hands

In caring for my treasures.” Loud 1 sang A joyous tune that woke the slumbering lands.

Swift flew the days in Love’s fair gardetr walks That joined the luminous pathway of the stars.

Heaven touched the earth lor me in those bright hi Whose radiant light no shadowed memory man.

One day a passing thought recalled the flowers I once had loved, my flaming lily-blooms,

and purple groups

" I’ll plant them here I” 1 cried. " Not so," you said “ Your lilies flame too much, they hurt my eyes, And heartsease stare one stupid; mignonette

Reflects no lovely tint of earth or skies ”

And so, as after-longings grew too strong,I made a little garden all my own

Beside your flowers, with no dividing hedge Save the thick ranks my lily-bulbs had grown.

And here I often come to walk erect As God designed I should; not bending low

Lest your white roses’ thorns shodld pierce my bro Hearts cling to hearts, but souls alone must go.

I love you just the same, but 1 have needs Bora of my individual soul and brain,

That force my hands to plant my simple flowers.

/Written for the Golden Gate.]N em ophlla.

In plea »t places, wl

A little flower doth bloss Which weavet

About the heart; for all1 Its blue of ski

And love the sweetly shy and modest g; Of baby-eyes.

Sam Francisco, April a, r iti.

rad blow, spell

Th e W in te rs.

We did not fear them once; the dull gray mornings No cheerless burden on our spirits laid;

The long night watches did not bring us warnings That we were tenants ol a house decayed.

How is It that we fear the winters now 7

Their home fires fall as bright on hearth and cham Their northern starlight shines as coldly dear;

The woods still keep their holly for December, The world a welcome yet for the new year.

And far away in old rcThe snowdrop ri

The inn and moonengss

Why is it now the north wind finds us shaken By tempests fiercer than ¡1* bitter blast.

Which fair beliefs and friendships, too, have taken Away like summer foliage as they passed;

And made life leafless in its pleasant valleys. Waning the light of promise from our day,

Tilll the mists meet even in the inward palace,A dimness not like theirs to pass away 7

It was not thus when dreams of love and laurels Gave sunshine to the winters cf oar youth,

Before its hopes had fallen in fortune’s quarrels,Or time had bowed them with his heavy truth;

Ere yet the twilights found us strange and lonely, With shadows coming when the fire burns low.

To tell the distant graves and losses ouly;The past that can not change and will not go.

Alas I dear friends, the winter is within us.Hard is the ice that grows about the heart,

With petty cares and vain regrets that win us From life’s true heritage and better part.

Seasons and skies rejoice, yea, worship rather;But nations toil and tremble even as we,

Hoping for harvests they will never gather, Fearing the winters which they may not tec.

W h en th e B a b y C a m e .

Always in the house there was trouble and content Little sparks of feeling flashing into flame,

Signs of irritation So sure to make occasion

For strife and tribulation till the baby came.

All the evil sounds full of cruel hate and rancor. All the angry tumult—nobody to blame I

All were hushed so sweetly. Disappearing fleetly,

Or quite completely—when the baby came.

Faces that had worn a gloomy veil of sadness. Hearts intent on seeking for fortune or for fame-

Once again were lightened.

And til r rapture higbtened—when the baby ca

AH affection’s Windows opened lo recai ve it,Pure and fresh from Heaven, and giva it carthly ni

Clasping and caressing In arma of love, confessing

Tfcal lift had missed a blessing—till thè baby carne

Homes tbat were in shadow felt thè gentle 1

[Written for the Golden Gatt.)

Psychic Force.

proclaim:Grateful songs were swelling,Of mirth and gladness telling,

And love ruled all the dwelling—-when the baby c

Hearts that had been sundered by a tide of passion Were again united in purpose and in aim,

In the haunt secluded,Peace divinely brooded,

Where discord had intruded till the baby came

Little cloud dispeller I little comfort bringcr I Baby girl or baby boy, welcome all the same I

Even o’er the embers Of bleak and cold Decembers

Some fend heart remembers—when the baby carat

C o w a r d ic e .

The veriest coward upon earth It he wbo fears the world’s opinion,

Who acts with reference to its will,Hit conscience swayed by its dominion.

Mind it not worth a feather’s weight,That must by other minds be measured;

Self must direct and self control.And the account

Fear never sways a manly soul.For honest hearts ’twas ne'er intended;

They—only they have cause to fear. Whose motives have the truth offended.

What will my neighbors say if I Should this attempt, or that, or t'other?

A neighbor is most sure a foe If hi prove not a helping brother.

That man is brave who braves the world. When o’er life’s tea hit bark be steereth;

Who keeps that guiding star in view,

Psychic force is that force or power of the soul which communicates itself from one to another, through the medium of the magnetic aura which surrounds and conveys it. Experiments in animal mag­netism have conclusively proved this the­ory to such as have been sufficiently in­terested to investigate it, and are still making inquiries into the bounds of its [possibilities. Many have concluded that the force is always at work, and that with­out doubt mind acts upon mind through this eighth sense, as it were (if that may be called sense which has no reference to the materiality of existence); but so po­tent is this power decided to be, that it is not always possible to determine at what point the outside influence ceases and the individual life begins. One acts upon another so often in such a way, that at times it almost seems as if the universe of thought was the centre of all things, and was seeking outlets, in order to materialize itself in such a way as to benefit the earth in all directions.

Thus an age of discovery is precipitated upon us. The different periods of art and science as surely mark the epochs of the world’s history, as do storms and whirl­winds, at certain periods, the different changes of the earth's atmosphere. Whence comes this thought, and why is a question not yet answered ? What are its limits, and why, at certain periods, does the same thought reproduce itself in different directions ?

An age of discovery is followed, perhaps, by one of invention,— a golden by an iron age— coming spontaneously, and disap­pearing slowly, perhaps in the same man­ner. For this we can not answer, but we do know that thought is contagious, and we do know that nothing, so much as Spiritualism, has directed the mind in the right channel, possibly, in the end, to as­certain the cause of the ebb and flow of the tide of thought, observable to investi­gation; and the result has justified us in believing that so closely allied to the spirit world in thought is this, that it is almost impossible to tell where the line of de­marcation begins or ends; and our only safety lies in the fact that a knowledge of the power of attraction alone can regulate and preserve us from danger. All of us are more or less sensitive, more or less psy­chical subjects, more or less acted upon by unseen influence,and have got to learn that, though to know ourselves is not, perhaps, altogether impossible, influence is around us, and that it is necessary, if possible, to know what influence is likely to do to us. If we are especially sensitive or medium- istic, we must understand that influence may contaminate or strengthen us. I f our aims are lofty,there is no danger; if low and selfish, we must be prepared for the con­tingency, and avoid everything likely to increase susceptibility in the direction of

1 that development. Psychic subjects are j responsible for their individuality, and must bring to bear all the moral force pos­sible to prevent their being under the domination of the lower, that unseen is constantly about them. Angels or lower influences are attracted towards us in pro­portion to the strength demanded, and one reason why we are in no better under­standing with ourselves is, that unseen lower influences are ever ready to foster

| our self-hood— our belief in our own strength— ever ready to condemn the world which does not accept us at our own valuation.

The “ get thee behind me, Satan ” is not always ready to disperse the traitors who would betray us; not that they have aught against us, but because they have not themselves risen to the point of self judgment, which helps them to perceive that ascension must be in proportion to self abnegation; and to assist, they must first be assisted to forgetfulness of the lower, in the search for the higher. Then the higher can be brought to bear, and strength to all become the result.

This is the philosophy of life— influence from one to another, in the body and out of the body, all unseen as it were, but still powerful enough to do its work of good or evil, in proportion to the end to be obtained and desire accorded. I f the evil which is in the world could be thor­oughly examined, how much less of evil it might seem in the individual, and how much more of ignorance of the laws which govern our life, and of the true foes which actually surround us.

A child is born into the world, but what of the conditions that surround it ? The mother, non-im pressed with the greatness of her trust, feels only that another is to be fed and cared for. Her instinct to preserve it in the body, gives her the feel­ing that her constant care is needed; but as little realizing that its spiritual existence has commenced as well, she goes on with her daily avocations, feeling cross and tired, annoyed, perhaps, by her surround­ings, and wearied with painstaking, which shows no results. Possibly this is in be­half of the father, who only wonders why his neighbors flourish, while he is left the burden and heat of the day, of which fie is wearied. The world is small to him. and bis desires seem crowded into it, and around him sunshine seems mockery. The wailing of the child is but one more woe added. Around him gloom is appar­ent, even to the senses. What is the soul life, and what are its attractions ? A smile plays for a moment on the face of the child, as its wants are answered, as if the angels were endeavoring to force an en-

trance; but for the most part the lower in­fluences triumph and gloom predominates. Do either of those parents realize that a hell is already preparing for their little one — in fact is already established ? Would they not hasten to dispel it, and would not smiles and loving words come at once to the rescue ?

But who does realize ? In our super­ficial views of life, where the senses pre­dominate, and their victory only recorded, the unseen has no thought, till the time comes when at length the destruction of all that is beautiful in the home life sends out a criminal, who mingles with others, till the world is appalled, and wonders 'what is to be done with him.

From little things unheeded, from low attractions, come the forces that blight the world, and make its gardens of heaven to I perish. Is there no help for it ? God in heaven knows there is. The angels know. Let us live in the light of their love; let us remember they are ever near us; that their desire is to draw us towards them; and that In the use of that force called psychic, or soul force, in the right direc­tion, great ends will be achieved.

' C . E . S .

A D V E R TIS E M E N TS .

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A Specific for Cleansing the Blood and Improving the Action of the Liver.

P H O S P H O R U S A CALISAYA TO N IO ,

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CAPILAL PAID UP IN GOLD COIN,

$624,160.RESERVE FUND IN PAID UP STOCK,

$27.500-O F F IC E R S .

. D . LO G A N . - - • r r o i t o lC . S T E E L E . Vice-President. M O N T PE LLIE R - Cashier and Manager

F R A N K M CM ULLEN - - Secretary

D IR E C TO R S.D . LO G AN . President - - Colusa Comnty

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' accounts rendered every month.LOANS ON WHEAT and Country Produce a spe-

COLLECTIONS throughout the country are made promptly, and proceeds remitted as directed.

CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT issued, payable on

BILLS OF EXCHANGE on the Atlantic States bought

andS°ld' ALBERT MONTPELLIER,-tf Cashier and Manager.

COUGH BALSAM,A Sure Cure for Coughs, Colds, Bron­

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PAIN OURE.

For Neuralgia, Local Pain, Colic, Etc,

CHAMOMILE COMPOUND

Gives Tone to the Stomach and Improves the Appetite.

E y e L o t i o n .

Purely Botanic. Cures Inflammation of the Eyes and Eye-Lids.

V IT A L ELIX IRCures Nervous Debility, and is an Excel­

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POISON OAK LOTION

Immediately Reduces the Inflammation, Alleviates the Pain, and Counteracts

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T H R O A T H E A D E R .

Cures Sore Throat and Diphtheria.

P rice, On e Do ll a r Ea c h .

8U R E K ID N E Y CURE,

For All Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder.

In liquid form and in powders for mailing.

SUR E CU RE FOR RH EUM ATISM .

A sure remedy for Chronic Rheumatism.In powders for mailing.

Price, O n e Do lla e Each , (post paid.)

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Round Trip from San

I Francisco to San Bruno. M lllbrae.... Oak Grovo. San Mateo.. Belmont.... Redwood... Fair Oaks. . Menlo Park. M ayfield...

¡for. . ___Sold Saturday and Sunday only-

good for Return until following Moni day. Inclusive, at the following rates

salto Round Trip

50 Mount’d View 05 Lawrences .90 Santa Clara.

1 10 San Jose__L 25 G ilroy........1 40 Aptos . . .1 50 Soqucl L 60 Santa Crux .1 75 Monterey. .

^Ticket Offices —Passenger^Depot, Townsend St-,

Grand Hotel. I

SOUTHERN PACIFICC O M F A N T .

TRAINS LEAVE AND ARE DUE TO ARRIVE AT

SAN FRANCISCO

FROM APRIL I,

p R X D EVANS ’

M a g n e tiz e d

Developing Slates!

FRED EVANS,

W O N D E R F U L

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S la te -W rite r !

A U T O M A T I C

W rite r!

Has been instructed by Ms guides to an­nounce to his friends

— . . . — and the public, that beU prepared, through hu guides, to develop any mediumistic persons for these convincing phases of spirit power.

Persons residing at a distance can send for Mr. E l__Magnetised Developing Slates with instructions of

i ten cents in stamps for circular, statin your hand-writing, to

FRED EVANS, =»y»0 133 Octavia Street. San Francisco.

Celiato« and Napa

Knight s Landing . . . Livermore and Pleasanton Lot Angeles, Deming, El Paso ft East Los Angeles and Mojave

Red Bluff via Marysville Redding via Willows - Sacramento via Benicia -

“ via Benicia -

Santa Barbara

Stockton via Livermore -

Siskiyou and Portland -

Standard Time furnished by Lick Oosebvatout.

A. N . Towns,Geo. Manager

LO C A L FERRY TRAINS

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, DAILY.

To EAST OAKLAND

TH E PSYCH OGRAPH

Dial Planchette 1This instrument has now beci

__ of the cl________mediumsMp. Many who w istic gift have, after a few

satisfactory,

thoroughly tested by !_ red more satisfactory than the certainty and correct-

w i aa a means of developing ire not aware of their media sittings, been able to rece from their departed friends.

Cant. D. B. Edwards, Orient, N. V., writes:J“ d communications (bythe Psychograph)from mi,,,

other friends, even from the old settlers whose grave-stones moss-grown in the old yard. They have been Mghly

>ry, and proved tome that Spiritualism is indeed - .....; . communications have givtn my heart the great­

est comfort in the severe loss I have had of son, daughter and their mother.” * 1

Dr. Eugene Crowell, whose writings have made his namt familiar to those interested in psychical matters, wrote ai

Dm Sik: 1 am much pleased with the Psychograph you sent me, and.will thoroughjy test it the first opportunityI may have. It ¡every simple ro principle * ---- ■---- =~and 1 am sure must be far more sensitive „ ....... ,___than the one now in use. I believe it will generally super­sede the latter when its superior merits become known.

A. P. Miller, journalist and poet, in an editorial notice o. the instrument in his paper, the Worthington (Minn.) "Ad­vance,** rays)

“The Psychograph is an improvement upon the plancbette, having a dial and letters, with a lew words, so '*

power’ is apparently required-------- •------

the question whether spirits can return andP rice , $1., p o sta g e free.

HUDSON TUTTLE,jan. 14 Beilin Heigh-

To FRUIT VALE (via East Oak land.)—Same as East Oakland1’ until 6.30 r. si., inclusive, 1 » — 8.00, 9.00 and 11.00 t, si.

To FRUIT VALE (via Alameda) *9.30* 1x007«To ALAMEDA—«5.00 *6.30 7.co *7.30 8.00 *f-£

9.00 9.30 10.00 I To. 30 11-00 tix.30 1M“i.eo »1.30 3.00 la

15.00 5.30 6.00 <

To BERKELEY and WEST BERKLEY—*6.00 H.J»7.00 »7.30 8.00 *8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00•a» trr.30 13X0 lr3.3o 1.00 ti.303A» |-3o 4x0 4.30 S.00 5.30 0“ “-î*

all who care rc

3-jo 6.00 6.30

is "To

a

TO SAN FRANCISCO DAILY

Fhom FRUIT VALE (via East Oakland>-<.»5 f j* 17.25 7 55 8.35 8.55 9.35 9-55 7 3

»«•»S 11.55 «.35 ».55 r-25 «-SS 2.25 -553.25 3.55 4.25 4-55 5.25 5-55 ®-*5 ***7.50 8.55 9-53

From FRUIT VALE (via Alameda)— *5-« 5-5«»9 *0 **2-55 *3-20

From EAST OAKLAND - »5.30 6.00 «-jo 7 “

, — 4.30 5.0C-9.00 5.58 X0.58

5-30

From BROADWAY, OAKLAND— 9 nunutc from East Oakland.

From ALAMEDA— *5.30 6.00 *6.308.00 *8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 »re.jo 1

12.00 »ia.30 1.00 »I.30 2.03 »3.304-00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.C0 6.30

From BERKELEY 5*55 f '9-55 »11-55 » _ _5 55 6-25 6.55

WEST BERKELEY— ’S--)n a u r and a » »» »»— „ -,'•.«J 6.55 *7-25 7-55 *3-25 J-» ¿ .J¡0.25 10.55 »11.25 12-55 t**-*S «*-55 ♦ *[}.*$ 2.55 3.25 - 3-55 4.25 4-SS

CREEK ROUTE.From SAN FRANCISCO—*7-13 9-’

3*5 5-15From OAKLAND—*6.15 8,ts 10.15