{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3345", "width": "2174", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No* _.\\nShelf.. H\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3234", "width": "2165", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3234", "width": "2165", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE PURITY AND DESTINY OF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM\\nWmm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "British Copyright secured to Thomas Bartlett Hall.\\nThe same entered at Stationers Hall, London, England.\\nAll rights reserved.\\nThe British Agency for the sale of this work is at the office of Light,\\nno St. Martin s Lane, Charing Cross, London, W.C.\\nFrench Agency: E. Terquem, 31 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.\\nGerman Agency: K. F. Koehler, 21, Taubchenweg, Leipzig.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0mmmwm.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Digitized by the Internet Archive\\nin 2011 with funding from\\nThe Library of Congress\\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/puritydestinyofmOOhall", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "J d. rt*\\ntO", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nPURITY AND DESTINY\\nOF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM\\nLight for the Seeker\\nHope for the Weary Hearted\\nFKOM THE PEN OF\\nTHOMAS BARTLETT HALL\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nCUPPLES AND SCHOENHOF\\n128 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts\\nV\\nwm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "ran of Congrt**\\nOffice o f the\\nJAV 5- ionn\\nRegister of Copyrtgfcgg,\\n51363\\nCopyright, 180.9,\\nBy Thomas Bartlett Hall.\\nA 11 Rights Reserved.\\nFirst impression numbering 550 copies printed November, iS\\nSECOND COPY,\\n=?$o\\nMANUFACTURED BY CUPPLES SCHOENHOF,\\nBOSTON, U. S. A.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO THE\\n/IDaster Builfcers\\nWITHOUT NAME AND UNSEEN OF MORTAL EYE,\\nWHO HAVE BEEN USHERING IN THE DAWN OF\\nGbe THaonderful 2)a\u00c2\u00a3\\nNOW OPENING, BUT EVER AND ONLY IN SERVICE OF\\nTHE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS\\n%ovh\\\\Qlv UnscribeD.\\nftvlfi)\\nmm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "DA YBREAK.\\nIn vain\\nYe call back the Past again,\\nThe Past is deaf to your prayer\\nOut of the shadows of night\\nThe world rolls into light\\nIt is daybreak everywhere\\nThe Bells of San Bias.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nIffifc\\nAs these modern ghosts will not\\ndown at the bidding of old science, nor\\nyield to the anathemas of any established\\necclesiasticism, but rather persist the more\\nin demanding the attention of all classes,\\nthrough their varied forms of manifestation,\\nand their claim to be not the least potent,\\nif not the principal factors in the great\\nmovements, social, political and religious,\\nwhich are to-day agitating and revolution-\\nizing the whole world of humanity, the\\nwriter of this little book once more, and in\\ncontinuation of previous endeavors in this\\ndirection, 1 feels moved to do his part, so\\nfar as he may be able and permitted, in\\nbringing the cause of Modern Spiritualism to\\nmg\\n1 Modern Spiritualism by a Bible Spiritualist.\\nBoston: Crosby Nichols, 1863.\\nModern Spiritualism, or the Opening Way.\\nBoston: A. Williams Co., \\\\i\\n7", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "W/H\\nflntrofcmction\\nthe observation and study of the many sin-\\ncere thinkers who are still holding them-\\nselves aloof; and perhaps to help those who\\nhave entered upon the investigation to find\\ntheir way better.\\nSurely some quickening power has been\\nbrought to bear upon human life everywhere\\nduring the last fifty years, touching and\\nkindling into flame the refuse that has been\\ngathering out of human experience, and\\nbringing all earth life to judgment, while\\nplainly ushering in new conditions, higher\\naspirations, broader philanthropies, which\\nevery day seem more and more imminent.\\nIn all his dealings with man, God works\\nthrough agencies which alone are within\\nman s developing comprehension, while He\\nis ever concealed behind the clouds in which\\nHe is wonderfully wrapped from mortal\\nvision. May it not be that this opening of\\nthe spirit spheres is part, and no small part,\\nin the varied instrumentalities for lifting and\\nreclaiming man out of the low grade of the\\ncenturies long past, from which he is now\\nplainly emerging These agencies from\\nthe spirit spheres, high and low, as recog-\\nnized by Spiritualists, have come in the\\nprovidence of God for far other purpose\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baJ 8\\nW\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00abs*5\\nthan the mere amusement of wonder seekers.\\nThey are brought nearer and more effectu-\\nally to earth life at the closing of an old and\\nthe opening of a new cycle in the planet s\\ndevelopment, to quicken, to judge and be\\njudged, but always through individual expe-\\nriences for as the kingdom of God is\\nwithin each and all, so are the judgment\\nseat and the retribution, whether on this or\\nthe other side of the veil of time.\\nModern Spiritualism broke in upon human\\nexperience to find very mixed conditions of\\ngood and so-called evil and dealing with\\nthese it could not be otherwise than that\\nthe first fruitage should be equally mixed.\\nThe time seems to have come for a win-\\nnowing of such fruits as have thus far ap-\\npeared, and so there has been an apparent\\ndiminution of interest in the cause, leading\\noutside observers and some within the fold\\nto think that Spiritualism is dying out. The\\nfact would rather seem to be that while the\\noriginal centres of attraction and manifesta-\\ntion have appeared to be losing their adhe-\\nrents, in reality the interest is being diffused\\nand extended by those who have seen the\\nnew light returning to their old associations,\\nand sowing the seeds of the new unfolding\\n9\\nJwl!\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "flntrobuction\\namong them all. The results of such sow-\\ning will in time be seen, if not already appar-\\nent, in the general quickening which has\\nbeen manifested, and of which more may be\\nexpected. The work will go on as directed\\nby the higher powers which have had it in\\ncharge. Gradually the varied forms of\\nmanifestation and different grades of medium-\\nship will be brought to more systematized\\nrelations, which will be marshalled and held\\nas a science worthy the attention and study\\nof mankind.\\nWith all the interesting developments\\nattained to-day, the science of Modern Spirit-\\nualism is still in its infancy. Its relation to\\ndistinctly religious interests, through its\\nbearing upon questions of conduct as af-\\nfected by the conditions and requirements\\nreported of the spirit spheres, would seem\\nto have invited the special inquiry of those\\nwho have been called to the offices of reli-\\ngion. But the whole body of such laborers\\nhave been held by their education and habits\\nof mind in strange antagonism from the\\ntime of the first simple sounds announcing\\nthe spirit approaches, and are still apparently\\nmore eager to hear that all Spiritualism is a\\nfraud, than to learn by patient inquiry what", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "llntrofcuction\\nit does mean, and for what end its advent\\nhas been providentially permitted.\\nSpiritualism is not to be taken as a cul-\\nmination of man s uplifting, but is to be\\nstudied and understood as introducing new\\nforces in the development of this planet and\\nall life upon it. It does not mean, and\\nplainly is not permitted to assume man s\\nindividual responsibilities but would rather\\nteach him to feel that upon him, as the\\nhead of the line, lies all the heavier require-\\nment that he should rise, with his increasing\\nopportunities and widening range of knowl-\\nedge, toward the highest development of\\nwhich he is capable. It is not of itself a\\nnew dispensation, but one of the opening\\nways in which mankind, on both sides of the\\nveil, are bound to move on to the higher\\nand better things of the near opening cycle\\nso that through it shall be fulfilled all the\\nhopes and promises so long held out as\\nman s rightful inheritance.\\nThe mighty Energy by which the great\\nprinciples of Love, Justice, and Truth were\\noriginally implanted in the earth sphere,\\nknows no failure in their ultimate carrying\\nout, though centuries have come and gone\\nin which man has been learning that they", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "flntrofcuction\\ncannot be gainsayed or thwarted except to\\nhis own destruction. Man must and will\\nmove on until at last he shall yield himself\\njoyously to their beneficent direction and\\ncontrol. Then and not till then will peace\\non earth and good will prevail.\\nOf the nine Articles herein published the\\nfirst three were given to the public in 1863,\\nunder the title of Modern Spiritualism by\\na Bible Spiritualist. The second three\\nwere given in 1883, twenty years later, and\\ncalled, Modern Spiritualism, or the Open-\\ning Way. The three Articles now added\\nat this close of the year 1899, make the\\nthird series, completing nine in all, and cov-\\nering the writer s experience during the\\nmany years since his attention was first\\nawakened to what seemed to him the most\\nmomentous topic that could be brought to\\nthe study and contemplation of man the\\nquestion which all must sooner or later meet\\nWhat of the after-life and that bourn\\nwhence it had been before maintained that\\nno traveller returns Taken as a whole,\\nthe Articles form a progressive treatment,\\nsustaining and in a way illustrating each\\nother, and for this reason they are brought\\ntogether.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.L -QHSifA.\\nUntrofcmction\\nWith no thought of assumption of knowl-\\nedge which is not open to every sincere\\nseeker, but with the conviction that his ask-\\ning for bread has not been answered with a\\nstone, the writer commits this little book\\nto the thoughtful consideration of all truth\\nseekers rejoicing to be of service if it may\\nbe to any, while ready and glad always to\\nbe shown a better way.\\nTHOMAS BARTLETT HALL.\\nBoston, November, 1899.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "{\u00e2\u0096\u00a0tyfgugy jpk-\\n5 \u00c2\u00a3M", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nARTICLE I.\\nDAWN OF THE NEW DAY.\\nOpening difficulties in the inquiry. Hume. Mahan s\\nExposition. Mediumship. Individuality. Bible\\nstudent a helpful Medium. Good accomplished.\\nOld conditions tested 27\\nARTICLE II.\\nHEART AND HEAD. THEIR ANTAGONISM.\\nOrigin, growth and present state of antagonism between\\nintellectual and spiritual culture. The old church\\nand its short comings 59\\nARTICLE III.\\nSPIRITUALISM AND MATERIAL INTERESTS.\\nKnowledge the foundation of a living Faith. Spiritual-\\nism breaks up too absorbing devotion to material\\ninterests, and opens the way to nearer approach and\\nindwelling of the very Highest. The signs want-\\ning which should follow them that believe. Our\\ncivil war and its lessons. Of what avail this mod-\\nern necromancy A new Dispensation Two\\nexemplifications of the work of Modern Spiritualism,\\nExternal and Internal 83", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "S*\\nAn emblem strangely found. Various good shown.\\nGifts of the Spirit. Efficacy of prayer. Individual\\nfreedom. No eternal punishment. Neglected\\nopportunities. No concealment of wrong doing.\\nFreedom in love to be in service of God. Su-\\npremacy of the Spiritual. Errors committed.\\nForces of the new Dispensation. Methods, mean-\\ning and mission of spirit workers. Trials of Me-\\ndiumship. Appeal to the churches 119\\nARTICLE V.\\nSPIRITUALISM A SEARCHING POWER.\\nNo escape from Judgment. Spiritual perception not of\\nthe Intellect. Guidance of the spirit possible for\\nall. It gives reality to spirit. The Marriage Rela-\\ntion. Joining of hands. To spiritualize the nat-\\nural, the need and work of the hour 152\\nARTICLE VI.\\nUNFOLDMENT OF THE NEW ERA.\\nMethod of procedure. The new era one of spiritual\\nopening. Its quickening causes the turmoil of the\\nTimes. Inspiration better understood. Causes\\nretarding progress. Foremost, ignorance and dis-\\nobedience of Law in the marriage relation. Too\\nmuch selfishness, too little Love. False shame\\nErrors in food. Real needs of the physical.\\nSpiritualism a source of consolation to the afflicted.\\nIndividuality its first requirement 171\\nARTICLE VII.\\nSPIRITUALISM A NEW SCIENCE.\\nDemonology, what is it Obstacles to inquiry and re-\\nlief. Inconsistencies of opponents. Necessity of\\n16", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nexternal phenomena. Materialization described at\\nlength. Exclusion of sunlight a necessity, why.\\nPlainer manifestations to result from better con-\\nditions of inquiry. Means to a greater end. Mis-\\ntaken opposition. The First Spiritual Temple.\\nContinuing Inspiration from highest sources to be\\ncultivated 203\\nARTICLE VIII.\\nSPIRITUALISM WAITING. POSSESSION AND OBSESSION.\\nSeeming to be at a standstill. Motives of inquiry.\\nDifficulty of identification. Testimony as to con-\\nditions in the spirit realms. Wisdom of ancient\\nspirits. Progress retarded by antagonistic spirits\\nand bands. The Roman Church. The freedom\\nof Spiritualism opposed to all church rule. The\\nFirst Spiritual Temple again. Lack of true seeking\\nby inquirers a cause of outside indifference. Spir-\\nitualists scattered through all the churches. Spirit\\nforces thus brought to bear. Miracles old and new.\\nThe Bible illuminated. Objections considered.\\nUniversality of mediumship. Oliver Wendell\\nHolmes. Testimony of inspirational speakers.\\nYoung inquirers to be restrained. The home circle\\nbest. Unbalanced mediumship. Possession and\\nObsession, what are they Insanity largely disor-\\nderly mediumship. How to be treated. Obses-\\nsion in accordance with Law 237\\nARTICLE IX.\\nCLOSING ILLUSTRATION. SOUL CULTURE THE CHIEF END\\nOF SPIRITUAL SEEKING. THE MARRIAGE RELATION\\nIN CONCLUSION.\\nA judgment upon neglected opportunity given in illus-\\ntration. Soul culture. The marriage relation.\\nIts high calling. The divine right and duty of\\nwoman. Man to be restrained while sharing the\\nresponsibilities of parentage. True freedom in", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nlove not selfish. The lower promptings to be sub-\\nservient to spiritual control. A crime against hu-\\nmanity. False needs from selfish beginnings.\\nMagnetic interchange appointed. Intemperate in-\\ndulgence in food leads to disobedience of Law.\\nA spirit communication upon marriage. Free love,\\nwhat is it Apostrophe to truth. Unveiling of\\nTruth essential, where ignorance is not bliss. An\\ninspirational view of what this orb is yet to be.\\nThe writer s early compassion and prompting.\\nTrue Motherhood the crown of Womanhood\\n277\\nAppendix\\n3\u00c2\u00b07\\nSSI** Jx \u00c2\u00a3K*l w^ i", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPortrait of Author at the Age of 60\\nwith Facsimile of Autograph Frontispiece.\\nPortrait of Author at the Age of 40, Title-page.\\nNOTE.\\nThe publishers deein it their duty to the author to\\nstate that the placing of the second of these portraits\\ntipon the title-page was done at their instance and not\\nat his.\\nSo placing the7n shows the countenance at a period\\nwhen the earlier portions of the work were written in\\ncontrast with its present aspect of added years and\\nexperience.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE PURITY AND DESTINY OF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM.\\n3ftr0t Series*\\nteg**\\nW", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Father, I thank Thee May no thought of mine\\nSwerve from the path of duty, and of love,\\nTo Thee, and all mankind.\\nHelp me to know Thee as Thou art,\\nGive me a loving true and faith-full heart,\\nOh, let me do my humble part.\\nIn serving Thee", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "FIRST SERIES.\\n1863.\\nORIGINAL PREFATORY NOTE.\\nIn willing, but cautious obedience to\\npromptings which have thus far led him to\\nthe beginning, and successful accomplish-\\nment, of many things, often small in them-\\nselves, but serving for an experience to\\nstrengthen his faith, the writer of these\\nArticles has adopted this more permanent\\nform for their publication and he now\\nsends them forth to the world, with an\\nearnest prayer, that they may accomplish\\nsomething of the good, for which alone, he\\nhumbly hopes, they have been written.\\nIt seems proper to add, that the Writer\\nhas never been a reader of the leading pro-\\nductions of other pens upon the topics here\\ntreated. He has never read a word in the\\nvoluminous works of Swedenborg, or of any\\n.23", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Original prefatory IRote\\nof his disciples. Neither has he read any pub-\\nlication written by Spiritualists, except a few\\npoems, from the pen of the Rev. Thomas L.\\nHarris, and his school of Spiritualists. His\\nknowledge of Modern Spiritualism is wholly\\nfrom his own careful, earnest study and\\nsearch into its various phases, in a deep\\nconviction that there must be a mighty\\ntruth concealed beneath all the strange phe-\\nnomena, which would well repay the labor\\nof investigation. He speaks wholly out of\\nhis own experience. How far he has been\\nrepaid for his patient research, may perhaps\\nbe left to the determination of the reader,\\nwho is desired to peruse the articles care-\\nfully, in earnest seeking for the truth; and\\nespecially to discover, and make known, any\\nhidden poison which so many conscientious\\npersons are ready to insist lies concealed in\\nany, the best possible phase, of Modern\\nSpiritualism.\\nThe chief ends sought to be reached in\\nthese Articles, are to show that there is a\\ntrue spirituality underlying the whole sub-\\nject; to point out briefly the conditions,\\nand explain the difficulties, which have made\\nnecessary the otherwise strange method of\\nits development, out of which all the while\\n24\\nJm\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "MSfiP/tt^ffltiP ^ftST^^^MSS^ Ssl\\nOriginal lprefator^ 1Rote\\nis working, in ways as yet little compre-\\nhended even by those who have been ad-\\nmitted into its deepest mysteries, the sure\\nfulfilment of things declared in the Scrip-\\ntures; then to show, by brief allusions,\\nthe great wants of the modern Christian\\nChurch, which cry aloud for something\\nthat shall give a new impulse, a new life\\nto its stagnant faith; and last, but not\\nleast, to declare that Modern Spiritualism\\nhas come, not to deny, but to confirm, not\\nto break down, but to strengthen and estab-\\nlish in our minds and hearts, the teachings of\\nthe Holy Book, the inspired Word of God,\\nby a new inpouring of the Holy Spirit,\\namounting, in its fullness, to a new Dis-\\npensation.\\nThus the three Articles here published seem\\nto complete the preliminary presentation of\\na subject, which will be exhausted only when\\nTime is lost in Eternity.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "M 0\\nHE*\\nMM-\\nm\\n^mm^mmm\\n$m", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE PURITY AND DESTINY OF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM.\\nARTICLE I.\\nDawn of the New Day.\\nOpening Difficulties in the Inquiry. Hume.\\nMahan s Exposition. Mediumship. Individu-\\nality. Bible Student a helpful Medium. Good\\naccomplished. Old conditions tested.\\nThe hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipper\\nshall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.\\nIt matters not whether we adopt the\\ntheory that this globe has, from its infancy\\nto its present state, progressed out of chaos\\nby separate acts of creation, under the fiat of\\nthe Almighty or whether we believe that\\nthe process of growth has been one of devel-\\nopment out of the life principles so im-\\npressed upon the new world at its birth, that\\n27 k\\nsliSi^", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be ffmrity anfc Besting\\ntime could not go on without their unfold-\\ning, gradually, according to a law. The\\ngreat fact is admitted by all, independently\\nof these theories of growth, that there have\\nbeen what are conveniently called creative\\nepochs in this world s history, which are\\ndistinctly marked as divisions of time, though\\ntheir precise beginning and ending have\\neluded the research of the best of our\\nscience. There was a time, we know, when\\nthis earth, now so beautifully clothed with\\nvegetation, was bare of all growing things.\\nSo there must have been, and was, a time\\nwhen this vegetation began to creep over\\nthe earth s surface. There was a time when\\nthere was no animal life sustained by breath-\\ning the earth s atmosphere, and there was a\\ntime when animal life had its beginning.\\nThere was a time, too, when man was not,\\nand a time when he began to people the\\nearth. These epochs have come gradually,\\nnot only in reference to the whole process of\\nthe earth s development, but, judging from\\nall we can learn by scientific investigation,\\nand from all analogy, each epoch has, in\\nitself, been the subject of a gradual intro-\\nduction and growth, and a gradual decay\\nand disappearance as it has given way to its\\n28", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nsucceeding epoch or rather seems to have\\nbeen the foundation on which the epoch\\nsucceeding has been built up. Each new\\nepoch has sprung into being, not complete\\nand full grown, but from germinal begin-\\nnings that have found their life and susten-\\nance in the ashes of the past each successive\\nepoch furnishing, in its ashes, material for a\\nhigher growth in the scale of being.\\nThese epochs have proceeded in regular\\nseries, and the last so-called act of creation\\nwas the coming of man. Of man s begin-\\nning we know nothing. Far back in the\\nEast we discern glimmerings of light upon\\nthe questions when and how the human\\nrace began its career upon earth but they\\nare merest glimmerings, and convey to us\\nnothing more than the beautifully simple\\nrecord of the Bible, that God created man\\nin his own image, and he called their name\\nAdam. Through what vicissitudes of life,\\nwhat changes and varieties of condition,\\nwhat growth and refinement, physical and\\nspiritual, this race of beings has been brought\\nto its present development, cannot be stated\\nin any brief compendium. That this world\\nis, however, progressing as heretofore, to\\nsome higher condition, and that the beings\\n2 9", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "ftbe ffmrit\u00c2\u00a3 an\u00c2\u00a3 Besting\\nwho are ultimately to inhabit it will rank\\nhigher in the scale than its present occupants,\\nis inevitably inferred from all analogy, and\\nis received by all Christians at least, if not\\nby all civilized people, as an event which\\nawaits only the sure fulfilment of prophecy.\\nNo wise man will dare to say that, even\\nin his lifetime, there may not be develop-\\nments promising things yet to be, which\\nwere never dreamed of in his philosophy.\\nWe know not when to look for the signs of\\nthe coming great change, though we perhaps\\ndo know through the Christian dispensation,\\nwhat the signs shall be, when the great\\nchange approaches. That it will be gradual,\\nwe argue from analogy, that it will come\\nsilently, without proclamation, like a thief\\nin the night, we believe from revelation.\\nIt is but a few years since the American\\npublic were surprised and amused with the\\ntidings of what was first known as, the Ro-\\nchester Knockings. By most persons the\\nstory was entirely disbelieved, and deemed\\nunworthy of a second thought, much less a\\nsober consideration. From that little begin-\\nning, what a strange progress and develop-\\nment the thing called Spiritualism, be it true\\nor false, has attained Subjected to ridicule\\n30", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "of fH ofcern Spiritualism\\nthe most sarcastic that could be invented\\nto examinations and tests of as various kinds\\nas there are variety of conceits in the human\\nbrain explained, over and over again, by as\\nmany different theories as learned minds to\\nexamine, theories frequently militating\\nagainst each other, so that the defender of\\nthe cause can often find his best arguments\\nin the mouths of those who think to con-\\ndemn the most educated classes of the\\ncommunity, with old Harvard at their head,\\narrayed in opposition the Church issuing\\nits anathemas against it with a bitterness that,\\nhad it been sustained by public opinion,\\nwould have brought the early votaries of\\nSpiritualism to a fiery stake little under-\\nstood, often entirely misunderstood, used\\nand abused in every conceiveable way, still\\nthe glaring fact remains, that no cause, moral\\nor intellectual, civil or religious, physical or\\nspiritual, ever made such progress in secur-\\ning the attention, and the more or less en-\\nlightened faith, of men, as this same cause\\nof Spiritualism. Its active opponents seem\\nto have pretty much given up their fruitless\\nattempts to stop it, and have sunk back\\nfrom their labors, seeking consolation in the\\nthought, that, if it contained no truth, it\\n3i", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destinp\\ncould not prevail they have left it, where\\nindeed they found it, in God s hands, to\\nmanage according to his own wisdom and\\nhigh behest. The result is, as far as our\\nobservation goes, that the community is di-\\nvided upon this subject into two large classes\\nnamely, those who believe in Spiritualism, in\\nthe broad acceptation of the term, and those\\nwho do not believe it, but think there must,\\nor may be, something in it. The number\\nof those who utterly reject all its facts and\\nphenomena as trickery, is too small to be\\nnamed as a class.\\nSuch a subject demands something more\\nthan an occasional notice from the pen of\\njournalists, in the ordinary course of com-\\nment upon matters that may interest the\\npublic. It is, therefore, with no wish to\\nwrite a passing criticism, or merely to offer\\na readable article, that we have undertaken\\nto present our views upon Spiritualism but\\nfrom an earnest desire to help others to\\nknow something of a mighty cause, through\\nthe highways and byways of which we have\\nbeen laboring in the search after truth.\\nLike all pioneers, we have had our expe-\\nrience, which ought to be of value to those\\nwho may desire to know the truth like our-\\n32", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nselves and if we can point out any of the\\ndangers, the rocks on which some poor\\nmortal s bark might otherwise be wrecked,\\nwe shall feel that we have done some good,\\nwhilst we do humbly trust that, as we seek\\nGod s blessing on our work, there may be\\nother more positive fruits of our labor.\\nPerhaps what we have to write might be\\ncalled, the Confessions of a Medium\\nnot confessions of our own sins, though\\nGod knows we have fallen into errors\\nenough, but confessions of the wonder-\\nworkings of an all-wise Father, who rules\\nthese things, as all others, confessions of a\\ndeep experience, that has awakened our\\nspirit to new life, and leads it to pray daily\\nthat it may be so privileged of God as to do\\nits humble part in bringing his kingdom\\nupon the earth, in seeing to it that his will\\nbe done here, even as it is done in heaven.\\nWe write what we do know, not what we\\nhave heard others tell of. We would be\\nhumble as a little child, seeking the truth,\\nwith God s blessing on our prayers.\\nIt is about ten years, a little more (1855),\\nsince our acquaintance with Spiritualism be-\\ngan through Daniel Hume, 1 of whose medium\\n1 Later known as D. D. Home.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Beating\\nqualities most persons have heard some-\\nthing. The subject was new then, and\\npeople would not believe their senses. Upon\\nhis departure for Europe, he was playfully\\ncalled Hum-bug. But those who win\\nmay laugh his powers, whatever they were,\\nopened the way for him to the inner cham-\\nbers of the man who, of all men of that day\\nand generation, has ranked, and still ranks,\\nthe shrewdest, sharpest, the veriest juggler,\\nwhom nobody would deceive, and whom\\nnobody could find out. This man, then\\nreigning Emperor of the French, with wit\\nand capacity to detect fraud equalled by\\nfew, and with position and power to punish\\nit when detected, without appeal, did not,\\ncould not, find the key to Mr. Hume s\\nwonder-workings, except in the explanation\\nwhich the phenomena have ever claimed for\\nthemselves. Before his departure, we had\\nmany opportunities of meeting Mr. Hume\\nin private circles and family gatherings,\\nwhich offered every chance for testing the\\nreality of the phenomena, so that we became\\nfully convinced that they were no ocular\\ndelusion, no mistake of our senses, and per-\\nhaps might be, what they purported to be,\\nthe works of spirit power. It is enough\\nw^\u00c2\u00aezm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nhere to say of them, that they combined a\\nvariety of physical manifestations, mind-\\nreadings, and what purported to be spirit\\ncommunications, which is not often found in\\nany one medium. He left us wondering\\nand we looked round for other proofs, other\\nmediums, other experience.\\nHaving advanced so far as to believe in\\nthe actuality of the phenomena, doubt not,\\nreader, we soon found ourselves in a very\\nsea of perplexities, and that we were often\\ntempted to give up our inquiry in despair.\\nBut remembering that we were pioneers, we\\ndetermined to brave all hazards, to meet all\\ndifficulties, for the sake of truth. Our first\\ngreat trouble was, that we had ever attached\\nto the word Spiritualism a sense of some-\\nthing high and holy whilst we found\\nneither in the mediums, nor in the pheno-\\nmena, any special characteristic that marked\\nthe high, or the holy for they partook\\nof all degrees, from the highest of Heav-\\nen s blessed truths to the lowest of Hell s\\nhorrors. It seemed to us then that the\\nwrong term had been used, and that it\\nshould have been Spiritism, or Demonism,\\nin the original sense of demon. And this\\nwas, after all, the most natural for if the\\n35", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\ngood spirits could come to bless us, why-\\ncould not the bad ones come to plague us\\nor if the low could come, why not the high\\nGod works by general laws and special prov-\\nidence, in Spiritualism, as in all other things.\\nSatisfied so far, still we found ourselves\\ncontinually perplexed, sometimes beyond\\nendurance, by the absurdities, the contra-\\ndictions, the follies, nay, the wickedness,\\nthat broke out upon the community under\\nthe guise of Spiritism. With what gratitude\\ndid we receive the book published in 1855,\\nby Rev. A. Mahan, President of Cleveland\\nUniversity, entitled, Modern Mysteries\\nExplained and Exposed. Weary and worn\\nwith our labors, ready to sink in the turmoil\\nof doubts that surrounded us, we welcomed\\nthat explanation, incomplete though we\\nknew it to be, as sufficient to furnish a re-\\ntreat wherein we might at least have some\\nrest. He did not pretend to deny the facts\\nof the manifestations, which we knew could\\nnot be denied, and so gained our willing\\nconcession to his theory of odilic force.\\nIt was sheer fatigue that enabled us to find\\nany rest in this poor shelter but it sufficed\\nto give us a moment s respite, only to renew\\nthe inquiry with increased earnestness, de-\\n36", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "of Hfeofcern Spiritualism\\ntermined, with our own good-will, and in\\nGod s own time, to find the truth which we\\nfelt assured must be waiting to rejoice those\\nwho would strive after it. Knock and it\\nshall be opened unto you, Seek and ye\\nshall find, were blessed words of encourage-\\nment, which seemed to bring us a new\\nstrength. Seeking the truth only for the\\ntruth s sake, we trusted that God would\\nguide us, and guard us, through all our\\ndeviations from the true path. We prayed\\nto him, that, if there were truth in these\\nthings, we too might know, in our own ex-\\nperience, the mysteries of mediumship. We\\nasked that we might know in our own con-\\nsciousness, through external or internal sense,\\nthe actual presence of the spirit world about\\nus. At last the answer began to come. We\\nbecame sensible of slight touches upon the\\nhead, as though a hand were gently passed\\nover it. We had not expected this manifes-\\ntation, and at first doubted it but frequent\\nrecurrence of the sensation, often under cir-\\ncumstances that caused us much surprise,\\nproved that it was not the work of our\\nimagination, but a real touch from some\\nbody or thing, some power or spirit, that\\nthus informed us of its presence, and was\\n37", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Zbe fl urit\u00c2\u00a3 an Destiny\\nperhaps communicating some mysterious in-\\nfluence.\\nIt is unnecessary to describe the stages of\\ndevelopment through which we have passed.\\nSuffice it to say, that, though yet far short\\nof the goal, if indeed there be any limit, we\\nhave been carried, sometimes quite imper-\\nfectly, into enough phases of mediumship to\\ngive us an understanding of all these things\\nfrom our own experience. Each day as we\\nhave advanced, the importance of prayer\\nhas been urged upon us, and we have felt\\nits power wonderfully in guiding our search\\nfor truth, and saving us from the errors com-\\nmitted by others who have not known the\\nwonder working of a true appeal to the Great\\nFather of all spirits. Especially have we\\nbeen saved from too rapid development,\\nwhich has so often led men to commit follies\\nthat have brought ridicule, and sometimes\\ndisgrace, on the very cause they had most at\\nheart. In this, as in all other subjects that\\nmay interest and occupy the human mind,\\ntoo much, or too sudden knowledge, topples\\nthe reason, and opens the way for folly to\\nenter in. We have often thanked God in\\ngratitude for the reply made through a\\nmedium to our earnest prayer for develop-\\n3 8", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nment You shall have the truth as fast as\\nyou can bear it for if it should come as fast\\nas it could be given, it would craze your\\nbrain.\\nWe have spoken of passing through cer-\\ntain stages of development imperfectly. By\\nthis we learned that, whilst such forms ofme-\\ndiumship have their use, particularly for the\\npurpose of introducing Spiritualism to the\\nworld s notice, they are not the highest\\nforms. We believe that the highest form\\nof mediumship is that where the individual-\\nity of the medium is the most developed\\nand the most active, so that the medium s\\nself, being a spirit in the body, may draw\\ndirectly from the spiritual fountains of God s\\neternal truth and power, as mankind has\\ngenerally believed the spirits of the departed\\nwould be privileged to do, according to their\\nspiritual deserving and capacity. In other\\nwords, the highest mediumship is what has\\nbeen heretofore vaguely known as inspiration^\\nand sometimes called genius. We mean\\ninspiration in its broadest sense, in every\\nkind of knowledge to which the human\\nmind has been permitted to give expression.\\nReligious inspiration, in its various phases\\nthe inspiration of the fine arts, music, poetry,\\n39\\nSRS^viftH FK", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\npainting, sculpture the inspiration of the\\nmechanic arts in all the phases of invention\\nthe inspiration of the philosopher the in-\\nspiration of what is often called plain com-\\nmon-sense. They all flow from the same\\nsource, God s great fountains of knowledge.\\nAs Solomon said, there is nothing new under\\nthe sun. All knowledge exists in spirit\\nlife before man slowly elaborates it for\\nexternal expression on this earth plane, and\\nthe degrees of so-called genius are marked\\nby the varying capacity to receive and\\nexpress it. This idea is involved in the\\nword impression, so often used by men in\\ntheir every-day business affairs. They have\\nimpressions so and so sometimes against\\nthe convictions of their reason. Where do\\nthese impressions come from What are\\nthey They are the result of influences\\nfrom spirit life that surround every human\\nbeing, that cloud of witnesses, of which\\nwe read in Scripture and they will be of a\\nhigher or lower character, exactly according\\nto the spiritual condition of each individual.\\nGod works through agents more or less\\ndirectly. The spirits in the spirit world are\\nthe messengers which bear tidings of good,\\nand of so-called evil, to every one according\\n4 o", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "^5\u00c2\u00abjjgr\u00c2\u00bb^\u00c2\u00aeiai\\nof fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nto his desire and capacity to receive. As\\nthis desire and capacity to receive depends,\\nunder God s blessing, upon each individual\\nwill, so each one of us has to work out his\\nown salvation in very truth. But not with-\\nout aid the power of prayer is mighty the\\nFather of spirits will send us such influences\\nas we truly ask for. Ask, and ye shall\\nreceive, even the desired presence of the\\nblessed spirit of Jesus.\\nThis principle of individuality is one of\\nthe most important teachings of Spiritualism,\\nthough, we admit, nothing in itself new, and\\noffers, at the same time, the simple explana-\\ntion of one of the serious difficulties in the\\nway of the public acceptation and acknowl-\\nedgment of the reality of spirit presence and\\npower. It is the first and last objection of\\nthe educated classes, that Spiritualism has\\ngiven to the world so little, if anything, new\\nin science, or indeed in any of the ordinary\\nmatters that have heretofore occupied the\\neducated mind. It is true that very little\\nhas been given to common mundane science,\\nin distinct propositions, through ordinary\\nmediumistic communications, and it is for\\nthe reason, now beginning to be understood,\\nthat when God permits the spirit world to\\nly lllSll", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\ndraw close to the earth life, he does not\\nintend that the spirits out of the form shall\\nassume all the responsibilities, do all the\\nthinking, perform all the labors, bear all the\\nburdens, of those in the form. Such a\\ncourse, if permitted, would have directly\\ntaken away man s accountability his indi-\\nviduality would be gone and so experience\\nhas taught very many inquirers that they\\ncannot long act with safety in matters of\\nworldly interest under the sole direction of\\nmediumistic communications. The cause\\nof Spiritualism has seemed to suffer, as un-\\nbelievers have had opportunity to point the\\nfinger of ridicule at the sad and absurd errors\\ncommitted by Spiritualists, who have been\\nworking out this result of their experience,\\nearning this wisdom for their own, and the\\nworld s benefit. It is only when the me-\\ndium s own spirit is developed, so as to\\nreceive impressions direct, that he can with\\nsafety act them out through his own enlight-\\nened mediumistic consciousness but even\\nthen the promptings must ever be brought\\nto the bar of conscience, God within us\\nwhilst the reason must sit in external judg-\\nment to determine pure questions of external\\nprudence and policy. We must ever, as St.\\n42\\n!iB", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nPaul says, try the spirits, that we may\\nprove them.\\nAt the risk of some repetition, we will en-\\ndeavor to explain more clearly what may per-\\nhaps be called the philosophy of mediumship.\\nWhen the man of so-called genius finds new\\nideas crowding into his brain, it cannot be\\nsaid that he makes them. All the result of\\nthe scholar s study is to bring the mind into\\ncondition to receive the thoughts that are\\never waiting for admission, when the mind is\\nready and able to accept and comprehend\\nthem. It is no mere play of fancy, when the\\npoet begins his labor with an invocation to\\nthe muses. It is an act of preparation, to\\nlift the poet s spirit into a condition to re-\\nceive the poesy that is ready to flow in upon\\nhim. The most hard-headed philosopher\\nmust be in what he would call, the right\\nspirit, or he cannot think (receive thoughts)\\neffectively. A genius, then, and there are as\\nmany kinds of genius as subjects to occupy\\nthe human mind, is the medium through\\nwhom the ideas floating in the spirit world,\\nexisting in the spirit life, are given external\\nexpression, so as to be more or less compre-\\nhended by the minds of others. The man\\nC 111\\nor genius gives expression to the thoughts", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Destiny\\nwhich are given to him, and commits them\\nto paper. They are printed in a book. This\\nbook in turn becomes the medium for the\\ntransmission of the ideas to the ordinary read-\\ning minds, which, on their part, must be de-\\nveloped to a condition able to receive the\\nideas, or the words read are hieroglyphics\\nwithout meaning. The man of genius gets\\nthe ideas by inspiration from the world of\\nspirit the ordinary man of talent must wade\\nthrough the printed pages, and receive the\\nsame ideas by slow induction, word by word.\\nPrecisely as the man of genius receives, and\\ngives expression to the ideas which are given\\nto him, so Spiritualism teaches us, truth is\\nhanded down by gradation from the central\\nfount of eternal knowledge and truth, through\\nthe various conditions of spirits in the spirit\\nworld, who progress and rise from one to an-\\nother of those many mansions, each nearer\\nto the source of direct inspiration.\\nNow spirit mediums, as commonly recog-\\nnized, are supposed, by outside observers, to\\nbe the mere instruments used, or purporting\\nto be used wholly by other spirits for pur-\\nposes of manifestation and communication.\\nThe fact is that there are all degrees of me-\\ndiumship, from this entire absence of the\\n44\\n.iOm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nmedium s self, to the complete inspiration,\\nwhere the medium s consciousness and indi-\\nviduality are in full action. They are me-\\ndiums in this latter case as much as in the\\nformer the difference being that, in the lat-\\nter case, the medium s own spirit uses its own\\norganism to express the inspiration which is\\ngiven to it more or less directly, whilst in the\\nformer case, another spirit controls the me-\\ndium s body, and is itself the communicator\\nof thoughts, to which it has been receptive,\\nand now seeks to express. We believe that\\nthose mediums will give to the world the\\nmost new things, and the highest truths,\\nwhose individuality is never lost, and is in\\nthe highest state of development. Of course\\nthose forms of mediumship which only afford\\ntests of spirit presence, resulting in the iden-\\ntification of friends who have passed on, are\\ndesirable, if not indispensable, to satisfy the\\npreliminary inquiries of those who begin by\\nbeing either curious, or anxious, to know\\nwhether the world of spirits is really so near\\nthis earth as it professes to be. But these\\ntests are given quite independently of any\\nconsideration of the medium s own develop-\\nment. Indeed, the most remarkable tests\\nsometimes have come through those of low\\n45", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Besting\\ncondition, physically and spiritually. These\\ntests are given in a great variety of forms.\\nA very striking form is in the appearance of\\nthe names of departed ones, in letters of red\\non the arm a phenomenon which has as-\\ntounded many hundreds of persons, as shown\\nin two mediums recently in Boston. This\\nclass of mediums has been, and still is, essen-\\ntial to the introduction of Spiritualism to\\nman s notice and comprehension, it began\\nwith table tipping and rapping, the first rude\\nalphabet of communication, it will disap-\\npear when it has done its work. Already\\nmany mediums who have been used only for\\ntests are losing their powers, or falling off\\ninto neglect.\\nLet it not be supposed, however, that the\\ntendency of Spiritualism is solely to intellec-\\ntual development and manifestation. In ac-\\ncordance with the spirit of this age, it has\\nfound its introduction to the world s notice,\\nin a great degree, through the intellectual fac-\\nulties and purely intellectual observations.\\nIt could not have been introduced in any\\nother way to a people like the American\\nnation, which had become so eager in the\\npursuit of material prosperity through intel-\\nlectual development, that the nation s heart\\n46\\n-^w?3!", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nhas needed its present fearful awakening\\nunder the hands of an all-wise Providence,\\nwhich, in our belief, is but the beginning of\\na mighty struggle for dominion between the\\npowers of good and the powers of evil, that\\nis yet to sweep over the face of the whole\\nglobe. This consideration leads us to the\\nhigher, or what in common acceptation would\\nbe deemed, the more spiritual development\\nof Spiritualism, which is now gradually un-\\nfolding to the wonder and delight of all its\\ntruest advocates.\\nWhilst it is admitted that an equal devel-\\nopment of heart and head are necessary to\\nmake the perfect man, we believe that the\\nheart must be first cultivated, or the head\\ncannot receive true wisdom. Without an\\nunderstanding of the heart, the knowledge of\\nthe head is full of errors that lead the spirit\\nto its ruin. This is no new proposition\\nthe philosophy of it is simple. True heart\\ndevelopment brings that peace of mind which\\nfits it, the mind, for the highest intellectual\\nconceptions, makes it receptive to the high-\\nest truths. Yet the nations who boast of their\\nChristian civilization have ignored it, and\\nset up intellectual idols that have received\\ntheir souls devotion for six days in every\\n47", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "Zbe fl urtt\u00c2\u00a3 anfc Beating\\nweek, and been hardly forgotten in the midst\\nof their would-be sacred observance of the\\nseventh. Wonderful has been the intellec-\\ntual and material progress of the* nations, and\\nparticularly of this people, during the past\\ncentury but is it not true that spiritual\\nculture and development have been retarded,\\nif not retrograded, in the same degree\\nWitness the practical results see, for exam-\\nple, the utter selfishness of the trading,\\ncommercial classes. With few exceptions,\\nevery man of them is striving, with his whole\\nsoul, to find out, not how he can help his\\nneighbor, but how he can get ahead of him.\\nAlas, for such Christian followers We fear\\nthe Founder of their religion would hardly\\nrecognize his disciples among them. But\\nthis is no place for a homily upon the sins\\nof the nations. We should shrink from\\nsuch a task under any conditions to cata-\\nlogue them only would be a fearful under-\\ntaking, for their name is legion.\\nThe feeling that true Spiritualism should\\nhave something, if not .everything, to do\\nwith the understanding of the heart and the\\nfact that it has thus far, to the view of exter-\\nnal observers, seemed to have so little to do\\nwith it, has been one great cause of the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baj\u00c2\u00bb 48 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nseverest opposition it has experienced. For\\nreasons which we shall hereafter endeavor to\\nstate, it appears to us to have been necessary,\\nin the present condition of the world s devel-\\nopment, that the near approach and commu-\\nnion of the spirit-world should be brought\\nto the knowledge of mankind in the way it\\nhas been. Believing, as the Christian world\\nprofesses to believe, in the second coming of\\nJesus, how many are there who would be\\nable to recognize him now in our streets in\\nthe humble garb of the Nazarene The\\ndifficulties are immense in the introduction\\nof any really new phase in the world s\\ndevelopment, arising out of the conditions\\nof head and heart, into which such new\\ndevelopment must gradually work its wav.\\nWe are able now to see the wisdom that\\ndirected events, when the infant Jesus was\\nlaid in a manger, he the Prince of Peace,\\nthe Saviour of the world. As time goes\\non, the wisdom will be recognized which has\\ndirected the course of Spiritualism to its\\npresent unfolding, itself but the germ of\\nwhat is yet to be.\\nWe have spoken of our own continuous\\nand unsatisfactory search after true spiritual\\nmediumship, in the first years of our inquiry.\\n49", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Deetin^\\nWe did not feel that we had arrived at the\\nbeginning of the truth, until we made the\\nacquaintance of a medium who had been\\ndeveloped as such after an anxious study of\\nthe Bible. This was a young person, born\\nof true New England parentage, in one of\\nthe best of New England homes, of large,\\nhealthful physique, with fine intellectual\\npowers, a broad head and large understand-\\ning, who had been drawn into the cause\\nagainst external convictions, as well as the\\nwishes of family and friends but who could\\nfind happiness in no other direction, and\\nalone, before God, trusting the inmost dic-\\ntates of the still small voice, after many\\nstruggles, much wrestling with the spirit, had\\ndetermined to go forward with the work,\\nwhatever it might be, so long as it did not\\nmilitate with the highest sense of right and\\nduty.\\nThis person, called a healing and devel-\\noping medium, was not under the control of\\nthose who purported to be our relatives, or\\nparticular friends in the spirit world, but\\nwas wholly influenced by a few choice spirits,\\nwho announced, through their unconscious\\ntrance possession, that their medium had\\nbeen selected as an instrument of great good\\n5\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "of fIDobern Spiritualism\\nto the world. What that good was, we did\\nnot at first understand we had yet to learn\\nit. The communications were addressed\\nwholly to our physical and spiritual condi-\\ntion, and the work of regeneration that was\\nto be done amongst the people. They were\\nnot given in tedious homilies, but came in\\nquiet, natural suggestions, warnings, and\\nadvice, accompanied at times with a manipu-\\nlation of the head, which had a strange sooth-\\ning, yet invigorating power, easily and early\\nrecognized. It was indeed a healing power,\\nand imparted a pure vitality, which by a\\nmysterious process gradually reached the\\nspirit within, and we felt that the old heathen\\nmaxim of sound mind in a sound body,\\nhad a spiritual meaning beyond its ordinary\\nacceptation. By slow degrees we began to\\nperceive the refined influence that seemed\\nto rain down upon our heads as we sat in\\nsilent waiting. Not knowing what to expect,\\nthe light of Heaven gradually illumined our\\nheart, and we were ready to acknowledge\\nthat we could perceive a spiritual influx, as\\nwe sat for development, which seemed to\\ngive us, or itself to be, the true riches of\\nwhich the Scriptures teach, for it brought\\nwith it, in very truth, that peace which\\n5 1", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant) Besting\\npasseth all understanding. This is no idle\\nfancy of our own, no mere play of the ima-\\ngination others have known it as well as we\\nit is difficult to describe or explain, but when\\nrealized by experience, brings with it a sense\\nof reality such as nothing else seems to give.\\nIt seems almost the only reality of life.\\nAt intervals the spirits, through this me-\\ndium, would reason with us, as Paul, of right-\\neousness but whenever we asked for tests,\\nsuch as are given through other mediums,\\nthey refused, for the reason that it would be\\na waste of powers which were dedicated to\\nhigher uses, as we have above endeavored to\\nexplain. We did not, we could not, accept\\nthe full meaning of this at once. Tempted\\nin our progress to pursue comparatively idle\\ninquiries, our prayers, and the kind words of\\nthe medium, saved us from dallying by the\\nway-side. Purely intellectual investigation\\nseemed to be for a time forbidden. Our\\nbusiness was with the heart alone. To pu-\\nrify that, to become as a little child, to sit at\\nthe feet of Jesus, and receive from his hands\\nsomething of the Christ-spirit with which he\\nwas filled, this was our work, this the present\\nobject of life. It was (and is) a realization\\nof the patriarch s dream, in which the angels,\\nWs^w^m^xSf^W^^smmi .i j m", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nGod s messengers, are eternally ascending\\nand descending, bearing up to the throne the\\npetitions of His creatures, and bringing back\\nthe responses of His mighty love, re-\\nsponses which teach us to throw away self-\\nishness utterly to live and labor for others\\nto dispense widely unto all to give freely,\\nas we have freely received, these treasures of\\nGod s love to so explain these things, and\\nillustrate them in our lives, that they shall\\nshow forth His goodness and glory.\\nThese lessons could not be learned till we\\nhad given up our conceit of knowledge ob-\\ntained through purely intellectual culture; and\\nnow, humbled as a child before God, but a\\nman amongst men, we feel ready to begin a\\ngood work, rejoicing that we find the yoke so\\neasy, the burden so light.\\nIf we are asked, how can these things be\\nknown to all, we say to all, high and low, rich\\nand poor, learned and unlettered, gather your-\\nselves in small circles, two or three together,\\ncheerfully, but soberly, reverently, in the\\nname of Jesus, pray for the light you need,\\nand it shall be given to you. Let as nearly\\nas possible the same persons meet at each\\nsuccessive gathering let the surroundings be\\nfit for such communion. If the circle be in\\ntj tsH", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\na family, and where better can it be let\\nthe place in the house be selected which is\\nfreest from contaminating influences. It\\nwould be well for the world if there could be\\na holy of holies in every dwelling-house,\\nwhere the best influences could be poured\\ndown upon those in waiting. Let not the\\nfather of the family, the man of business, ob-\\nject that it will interfere with his daily avoca-\\ntions it will rather give him new strength for\\nall his duties. It is not for the Sabbath only,\\nbut every day in the week whilst it teaches\\nstill the true value and use of the great day\\nof rest. But chief of all, let not the man of\\neducation, of learning, fancy that his time for\\nstudy cannot be interrupted for these things.\\nLet him rather forget his pride of intellect,\\nand an humble member of the circle, let him\\nask for that true light which will illumine his\\nsoul, and send its quickening rays into the\\nmost hidden corners of his deepest researches.\\nIt was in the highways that Jesus found his\\nfirst believers and disciples must it be so\\nstill\\nBut be assured, that to follow these things\\nwith trifling curiosity is to expose one s self to\\nthe penalties of sacrilege. By laws to which\\nwe have referred, you will get just what you\\n54", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nseek after. Beware lest you bring to the in-\\nquiry too careless a heart, or a head too vain\\nof its understanding. Do not, however,\\nthink that you can turn away and neglect\\nthese things for one motive or another with\\nimpunity. Your likes or dislikes cannot\\nchange the orderings of Providence. If the\\nnear approach of the spirit world be a fact,\\nthen it remains a fact whether you like it or\\nnot. On the other hand, if it be true that\\nthese influences, for good or for evil, are\\naround about, and so near you, it behooves\\nyou to understand their powers and mode of\\naction, lest in your wilful ignorance you suf-\\nfer approaches to which you would not know-\\ningly be subject. In familiar phrase, if you\\nwish to know what company you keep, ever\\ninfluencing your feelings, your thoughts,\\nyour actions, sometimes much more than the\\nfriends and companions seen by your body s\\neye, look closely into your heart, for as that\\nis, so shall your unseen companions be.\\nYou cannot escape it. Understand your-\\nself rightly, make yourself what you know\\nyou ought to be, and you will learn to thank\\nGod for the sweet angel influences that guide\\nand guard you through every hour of your\\nlife\\ninc.\\n55\\nI", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nLet not Spiritualism be rejected by out-\\nside observers, because they cannot see any\\ngood yet accomplished by it. Misunder-\\nstood as it has been, much silent good has\\nbeen done that is not proclaimed aloud to the\\nworld. By it many doubting minds have been\\nestablished in a faith in the future life of the\\nspirit whilst many more have been relieved\\nof the most depressing fears of the everlast-\\ning retribution, the relentless eternity of\\npunishment, by learning that progress is the\\nlaw of God s universe in the spirit world, as\\nin the earth life and the blessed consolation\\nof a divine hope has given them new courage\\nto try to attain a higher, better, holier con-\\ndition, according to their capacity, and not\\naccording to the dogmas of their theology.\\nStill more good has been wrought out of\\nSpiritualism, through the very errors of its\\nearly converts. Good has come out of the\\nwrongs committed under the name of Spirit-\\nualism, by showing the sad inefficiency of the\\nChristian Church of this day. We say it\\nnot in unkindness, but in sadness; we say it\\nnot of any particular denomination or sect\\nit is true of all, as out of all have come those\\nunhappy victims of their own weakness, who\\nhave, in the name of Spiritualism, thrown\\n56", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\noff the cloak of religious observances under\\nwhich they had concealed the rottenness of\\ntheir hearts from the world s knowledge, if\\nnot from their own, and, availing of the as-\\nsumed authority of false teachers and proph-\\nets, have in their actions confessed their\\nlittle faith. It is a fearful proof of the want\\nof true Christian grace, of vitality in their\\nfaith, that so many professors of the reli-\\ngion taught by Jesus, have been so easily\\nled astray. Let them not make recantations,\\nand lay the blame on Spiritualism, for it is\\nbut their own sins which have found them\\nout; they may rather thank God that any-\\nthing has come to show them their spiritual\\ncondition.\\nAngels are about us, the spirit world has,\\nin this nineteenth century, been brought\\nnear to the earth life to mingle its influences\\nfor good, or for evil. Not, as it would seem,\\nby an entirely new law for these things have\\nbeen before but to an extent, and in a man-\\nner, which indicate, and are proclaimed as\\nshowing, a new dispensation in the provi-\\ndence of God. Exactly what this new dis-\\npensation will unfold is not for man to know\\nyet, but that it is ushering in one of those great\\nepochs in the progressive history of the earth\\n57", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\n%f m\\nand its creatures, to which we have in the be-\\nginning referred, we do believe. Far be it from\\nus to presume to reach too far into the plans\\nof the Almighty but it is our solemn con-\\nviction, that these things do announce that\\nsecond coming of which the Scriptures teach.\\nThe condition of the earth and its people,\\nthe signs of the times, indicate this more than\\never before whilst the near presence of the\\nspirit world brings with it holy influences\\nwhich must elevate and spiritualize all of\\nearth s creatures who will receive them, and,\\nas good is ever stronger than evil, will, sooner\\nor later, drive off.into outer darkness all who\\nwilfully reject and oppose them out of the\\nignorance, or the wickedness, of their hearts.\\nIf God s holy angels can and do so come, why\\nmay not the blessed spirit of Jesus come too\\nHas he not come already Is he not in the\\nmidst of us even now, and we know him not\\nMay, 1862.\\n5 S\\n*r\\nif\\n;i\\n^M\u00c2\u00a3r.J .X -J,-.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE II.\\nHeart and Head Their Antagonism.\\nOrigin, growth and present state of antagonism be-\\ntween intellectual and spiritual culture. The old\\nchurch and its short comings.\\nBehold, I make all things new.\\nHaving endeavored to show that there is\\na true spirituality underlying the external ex-\\npression of Modern Spiritualism, we would\\nnow try to remove the chief obstacle which\\nhas prevented many conscientious persons\\nfrom finding out this inner life, by explain-\\ning the origin, growth, and present state of\\nthe antagonism between intellectual, and pure\\nspiritual culture. This branch of the inquiry\\nmay not be interesting to all readers, but we\\ndeem it indispensable that it should be thor-\\noughly examined, and fully comprehended,\\nbefore the more educated part of the com-\\nmunity, as a whole, can be in condition to\\n59\\nmmm^^--: v", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Besting\\nreceive the truth. We would reiterate, that\\nwe write wholly from a desire, under God s\\nblessing, to give to others the light which\\nhas been given to us understanding that\\nwhat we have to say cannot of itself persuade,\\nbut only make others receptive to the influ-\\nences which God is ready to pour in upon all\\nwho will open themselves to the flowing in\\nof his spirit of love and truth.\\nNothing is more marked in the history of\\nopinion, whether relating to the commonest\\ninterests of every-day life, or to the most\\nabstruse problems of scientific or metaphysi-\\ncal inquiry, than the disposition of mankind\\nto incline to extremes on the one side in\\ntheir tenacity of things already established,\\nand on the other side in their correction of\\nacknowledged errors. Discovering their\\nmistakes slowly, men are apt to adopt views\\ndirectly opposite to the old ones, and for\\nthat reason full of new error. Whether this\\narises from a laudable desire to find the truth,\\nand hold it firmly when discovered, or whe-\\nther it has its origin in man s weak conceit,\\nleading him to assume the right and power\\nto fix the limits of knowledge, and declare\\nout of his own mouth the law, to the concep-\\ntion of which he has slowly attained, are\\n60", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nquestions which we believe might be carefully\\nconsidered with much profit to self-sufficient\\nhumanity. The fact is admitted by all and\\nthe leaders in these opposite positions are\\ndeemed the extremists of their time, and\\nproperly so considered, whether they are on\\nthe side of progress or conservatism. Few,\\nhowever, are able, though recognizing the\\nfact, to attain a position nearer to the truth\\nwhilst most are content to flatter themselves\\nby pointing out the extreme views of others,\\nand pronouncing judgment on them even to\\nfoolishness.\\nOf all extremists none are so unhappily\\nplaced, at least for their own advantage, as\\nthose who are on the side of conservatism\\ntheir case is almost hopeless. The extre-\\nmists of reform are ever moving on to new\\nthoughts and new life making mistakes\\nenough in their self-anointed conceit, but\\nstill getting lessons in their experience which\\ntheir conceit would not let them learn by the\\ngentler processes prepared by God for the\\nteaching of those his children who are willing\\nto humble themselves first before him, in\\nprayer for such light as he will vouchsafe to\\ngive them in his own time, and in his own\\nway. Alas for the extremists of conservatism!\\nR 6l ifi\\nWL", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nThey never try to rise; they wish for nothing\\nnew, no matter how much for the better.\\nThey remain, as they suppose, firmly fixed\\non everlasting truth; till suddenly they dis-\\ncover that the foundation on which they\\nrested has rotted away, or become too weak\\nfor the superstructure; and from being the\\nmost comfortably secure, they find them-\\nselves the most uncomfortably insecure of all\\nthe world. Inevitably they either float off\\nwithout sails, without rudder, without com-\\npass, into a turbulent sea of doubt and dis-\\ntraction; or, as the old ties give way, they\\nswing violently to the other and directly op-\\nposite extreme, yielding themselves to a\\nmixed rule made up largely of temper and\\nselfish chagrin, though its true character may\\nbe concealed from themselves by their de-\\nclared and acknowledged desire to do as\\nnearly right as they can. Their motive may\\nseem to be good but they were extremists\\nin their conservatism, and they are become\\nextremists in their new light. We have re-\\nmarkable instances of this in the political re-\\nlations of the American people at the present\\ntime, when the most ultra conservatists give\\nexpressions to violent sentiments which fairly\\nleave behind many of those whom they form-\\n62 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "of fH ofcern Spiritualism\\nerly decried as dangerous, if not unprincipled\\nreformers. The same thing may be seen in\\nall the relations of life, if we will observe\\nthem carefully, even in the most insignifi-\\ncant matters.\\nIt is not to be expected that men should\\nbe otherwise affected, and experience shows\\nthat they are not, in matters regarding their\\nreligious and spiritual interests. A few cen-\\nturies ago, the civilized world was wholly\\nsubjugated to the Church, which had usurped\\nto itself all authority over the minds and\\nhearts of men, so that both in mind and\\nheart man s individuality was lost. In know-\\nledge of temporal things he became a child;\\nand whenever the spirit world and its influ-\\nences came near him, he fell at once into\\nblind superstition, which culminated, at dif-\\nferent intervals among the nations, in the\\nvarious phases and terrors of witchcraft.\\nThis assumption of the Church, arrogat-\\ning to itself all knowledge, all power, in\\nthings temporal, and in things spiritual,\\nthough under the name of spiritual rule\\nonly, led to the Reformation of the seven-\\nteenth century. Breaking from the thraldom\\nin which he had been held, man rushed into\\nthe arena which he found world-wide, nay,\\n6 3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Gbe fpmrits anfc Destiny\\nlimited only by the limits of his own ca-\\npacity. Not all at once did he obtain free-\\ndom from church rule. Even now it is far\\nfrom complete in things purely spiritual; for\\nthe dogmatic theology of Protestantism has\\nat times held, and does in some directions\\nnow, well-nigh hold, in spiritual things, the\\nvery supremacy which led to the outbreak\\nof the seventeenth century. But the old im-\\npulse, the return pendulum-swing of opinion\\nstarted by the Reformation, continues and,\\nbelieving that the old error was, in yielding\\na blind obedience to the rule of those who\\npretended to act wholly under spiritual guid-\\nance, and thus made distrustful of all things\\npurely spiritual and cognizable first, if not\\nwholly, by the heart, man still is, as he has\\nbeen, for the last two or three centuries,\\ngoing to the other extreme, and letting in-\\ntellectual forces take the lead and control of\\nhis development. The result is a disposition\\nto doubt everything not the subject of abso-\\nlute independent intellectual conception, and\\nthis has led, in different nations and at dif-\\nferent periods, to conditions fatal to his high-\\nest spiritual development. In France, it\\nreached a climax in the fearful reign of Rea-\\nson, and the bloody scenes of her great Rev-\\n\u00c2\u00bbi\u00c2\u00bb 64 j.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nolution. Throughout all Europe it has re-\\nsulted often in a miserably unspiritual, if not\\nwholly Godless materialism. In our own\\ncountry the tendency has been to a material-\\nism, not Godless, but wholly unspiritual.\\nThe intellectual conception of the God prin-\\nciple has been retained, and he has been per-\\nmitted to reign abstractly through such laws\\nas science has been able to investigate but\\nhe has been a God of the head only, not of\\nthe heart. The tendency has been to recog-\\nnize his power in the world s creation, and\\nperhaps in the daily orderings of the world s\\nlife, but to ignore and deny the possibility\\nof a spiritual relation between man and his\\nCreator, other than man s ever-varying con-\\nceptions of his attributes.\\nIn struggling to escape from the thraldom\\nof the old church, man has succeeded so far\\nas to be no longer subject in temporal things,\\nand to a great extent in spiritual things, to\\nits dominion. We see comparatively little\\nof the old superstitious relation between the\\npriest and the people. But in denying\\nthe authority of the Church, and exercising\\nhis own thought upon spiritual things, man\\nhas been carried to the opposite extreme of\\nindependence, and come to rely wholly on\\n6 5", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Stestinp\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0:-Y\\nhis own strength, forgetting that there was a\\nGod behind the Church, whose power, whose\\nlove, the Church had arrogated to itself, and\\ntherefore lost its influence. Nay, the indi-\\nvidual man has fallen into the very error\\nwhich has led to the destruction of the\\nChurch s power, and constituted himself as\\nthe Church, with all knowledge, all power.\\nAs surely as the Church has lost its high\\nposition and power, so surely must individual\\nman be humbled before the true, the only\\nChurch, which is of Christ. It may or\\nmay not be a matter of regret, said an\\nobservant preacher, recently, that church\\norganizations seem to be crumbling the\\ngreat fact is left, that, where two or three are\\ngathered together in the true Christ spirit,\\nthere will always be a true Church. He\\nmight have added, there only has the true\\nChurch ever been.\\nStill, progress is the law and from this\\nextreme intellectual development has come\\nthe power to resist the tendency to supersti-\\ntion in spiritual things which was almost\\nunavoidable during man s thraldom to the\\nChurch, a power without which he would\\nnot have been able to bear the recent advent\\nof spiritual phenomena. The want of this\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baj 66\\nmmm\\nrtS^W", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\npower is even now shown in many individ-\\nuals, who from mere fear are unable to\\napproach the subject of Spiritualism, as pre-\\nsented in the more striking physical manifes-\\ntations, though few are bold and truthful\\nenough to themselves and their fellows to\\nacknowledge their weakness. The old\\nchurch superstition is not all worked out of\\nthem, though they little suspected it till these\\nrecent strange things forced them to show\\nthe fact in their actions, if not in words. A\\nfew of these timid ones try to persuade them-\\nselves that their fear is a proper fear of\\ntrenching upon sacred ground, an unwilling-\\nness to pry into the things upon which God\\nhas set the seal of mystery. But these either\\ndeceive themselves as to the fact, or their\\nfeeling is but another form of the old super-\\nstition which taught that the priest alone\\ncould know the ways of God. Let them\\nremember that Christ died for all men, and\\nto all men is it given to penetrate the very\\ndepths of spiritual things, if they will become\\nworthy to be so blessed. To him that ask-\\neth, if it be in the right spirit, it shall be\\ngiven. To him that knocketh in the name\\nof Jesus, it shall be opened.\\nBelieving, then, that out of this intellec-\\n67", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "gg*\\nGbe purity ant) Destiny\\ntual freedom has come to most men of this\\nday and generation the ability to bear the\\napproach of spirit phenomena, so far as to\\nexamine them without falling into the old\\nsuperstition of witchcraft, we would endeavor\\nto show more particularly how this has been\\nbrought about to explain the working of\\nthe elements of head and heart, mind and\\nspirit, which have heretofore held such antag-\\nonistic relations, and thus to reach, if we can,\\nthe true philosophy of this branch of the\\nsubject. We ask the candid reader s careful\\nattention.\\nThought and spirit are real things. They\\nhave substance, refined, as compared with\\nmaterial things, even up to sublimity still\\nthey are real, substantial existences. It is\\ndifficult for us to come to a conception of\\nthis idea, this fact; and perhaps it is suffi-\\ncient for the present to recognize them only\\nas forces, of substance too ethereal and subli-\\nmated to be recognizable by the senses of\\nthe body, yet living forces. Now it cannot\\nbe denied that, since the Reformation of the\\nseventeenth century, it has been the ever-\\nincreasing tendency of Protestantism to give\\nunlimited sway and supremacy to intellect,\\nand to reject all phenomena, all manifesta-\\n68 g,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualiem\\ntions, which could not be discerned through\\nthe ordinary avenues of intellectual concep-\\ntion, and recognized through the ordinary\\nchannels of external sense. Thus, by the\\ndeliberate exercise of his will, the forces of\\nman s intellect have been held in direct and\\nsuccessful opposition to the forces of his in-\\nner or spiritual life. The idea of spiritual\\ndiscernment, as understood in the days of\\nthe Apostles, has been utterly repudiated, as\\nhaving no possible place in our wise-think-\\ning heads, and any suggestion of such a pos-\\nsibility in these days utterly rejected. Here\\nis a plain, direct antagonism between subjects\\nof externa] intellectual conception, and things\\nof the spirit, to be spiritually discerned.\\nFrom this antagonism has arisen the diffi-\\nculty, especially of educated people, in re-\\nceiving spirit manifestations, whether of the\\npurer and more refined, or of the grosser\\nkinds there being as many degrees of re-\\nfinement among spirits, as mansions to re-\\nceive them in the spirit world. The more\\nmen have been educated in the schools of the\\nday, the greater has been their difficulty as\\nregards these spiritual things. Too great con-\\nfidence in their intellectual acquirements, or,\\nto speak in plain terms, though not in un-\\n6 9", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anfc EJeetiwp\\nkindness, their self-reliant intellectual conceit,\\nhas repelled, or made impossible, all direct\\napproaches from the spirit world. Herein\\nwe find the key to what has heretofore been\\nconsidered the mystery of faith. There are\\nthree conditions to which the idea of faith\\nhas relation. First, entire disbelief; second,\\nindifference as to belief, or mere willingness\\nnot to reject; and, third, active belief. In\\nthese three conditions are the three degrees\\nfirst, direct antagonism of the intellectual\\nforces against the spiritual forces second, a\\nmere suspension of hostilities, with more or\\nless of a guard to watch the enemy and,\\nthird, the open receptiveness, the glad wel-\\ncome to all the gifts and graces of the spirit,\\nwith all their accompanying blessings as they\\nare worked out into external, or more ma-\\nterial expression, on the earth plane.\\nThere is no new law in these conditions.\\nIt prevailed equally in those early days\\nwhen the Holy Spirit was manifested on\\nearth in the form of Jesus. It was amongst\\nthe ignorant fishermen that he, the Naza-\\nrene, the carpenter s son, found his first dis-\\nciples simple-minded men, who had nothing\\nto unlearn, and little, if any, intellectual an-\\ntagonism to overcome. The educated men of\\n*b 70 qf", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nhis day would not receive him. To the fisher-\\nmen it was enough for him to say, Follow\\nme, whilst it required a miraculous inter-\\nvention to reach the heart of Paul. So, too,\\nin the more external workings and expression\\nof the spirit power, what might be called\\nthe more physical manifestations of spirit,\\nwrought out through Jesus, the same law\\nprevailed and we are told in the Scripture\\nrecord, that the want of faith, or rather\\ntheir active disbelief, the intellectual antag-\\nonism, prevented a certain district of the\\nJewish people from beholding the wonder-\\nworkings of the miraculous power. Ovk iSv-\\nvaro ckci ovftefiiav Svva/uv 7rot^sai, ei /xr], etc., And\\nhe could there do no mighty work, save,\\netc. was not able to do is the literal transla-\\ntion, as it is the only meaning of the origi-\\nnal Greek, though commentators find great\\ndifficulty in accepting it, because of the\\nstandpoint from which they take their view. 1\\nBy this same law of antagonism between\\nmind and spirit power, have many persons\\nbeen utterly prevented from witnessing even\\nthe grossest forms of spirit manifestation in\\n1 Gospel according to Mark, chap. vi. verses 5 and 6 also\\nMatthew, chap, xiii., verse 58. See note to this last verse in\\nBarnes s Notes on the Gospels.\\n7i", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity arto Besting\\nthese latter days. Learned men, relying on the\\neducation of their heads, have again and again\\nendeavored to hear even the simple rappings\\nwith more or less conscious desire and will,\\nnot to find out what the strange thing was,\\nbut to prove that it was not what it purpor-\\nted to be and they have gone away reas-\\nsured in their wisdom of this earth, which in\\nsuch an inquiry is indeed very foolishness.\\nIn obedience to this same law, there was a\\ngradual disappearance, and latterly, up to the\\ncommencement of the rappings, there has\\nbeen a remarkable cessation of all the mani-\\nfestations, which in the days of church rule\\nresulted in superstition and witchcraft. Ap-\\npearing at intervals in the gradual decline of\\nthe Church s power, the fact of this final\\nentire cessation has always been to our minds,\\nuntil recently, quite inexplicable. Here and\\nthere, to be sure, we had heard of what were\\ncalled haunted houses, and we had read of\\nthe Wesley rappings but our education had\\ntaught us to consider all such things as man-\\nifestations of anything but spirit power, and\\nmost probably as the result of deluded ima-\\nginations. Still, Mansfield on the English\\nbench, and Sewall on this side, had soberly\\nsat in judgment, and had condemned on the\\ni 7 2", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nevidence and the alternative has been either\\nto deny the facts and stultify Mansfield and\\nSewall, as indeed we believe Sewall, later in\\nlife, did for himself; or to admit the facts in\\nsome way, and wonder why such things had\\nso entirely disappeared in modern times.\\nWe now understand that this cessation of\\nspirit manifestations has been owing to the\\npower of mental forces, held by the will in\\nantagonism with the spirit forces.\\nLet it be supposed, then, for the sake of\\nthe argument, if the position cannot other-\\nwise be admitted by our readers, that, in the\\nfullness of time, the period had come when\\nthe spirit world was moved through its depths\\nto draw near to the earth life. How could\\nit, under the condition of things which we\\nhave endeavored to explain, how could it\\nsignify its approach and near presence? It\\nhas often been objected to modern spirit\\nphenomena, that their method of expression\\nis so mundane, so unspiritual, though claim-\\ning to be of spirit origin. The objectors\\nhave demanded that the spirits should come\\nwith gentler approaches, and in more ethereal\\nguise. But it must be remembered that\\nspiritual things, in what may be termed their\\nmore natural expression, can only be spirit-\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Gbe fl urtt\u00c2\u00a3 anb Besting\\nually discerned and how, we would ask,\\ncould these spiritual things be discerned by\\na race who utterly repudiated the possibility\\nof such a manifestation, and deemed such an\\nidea foolishness Nay, how could the spir-\\nitual world even come near enough to be\\nspiritually discerned by a people who were\\nall the time repelling it, by the antagonism\\nof which we have spoken A little reflec-\\ntion shows that it was only through material\\nsigns, to be recognized by the senses of the\\nmaterial body, that the spirit world could\\nbegin to effect any approach. It was because\\nthe world in the flesh was deaf to the still\\nsmall voice, that resort to the gross, or mate-\\nrial manifestations, by rappings, was neces-\\nsary. Even these manifestations owed part\\nof their influence to, if they were not\\nnecessarily preceded by, the phenomena of\\nmesmerism or animal magnetism, to the\\nlaws of which recourse has so often been had\\nfor an explanation of the spirit phenomena,\\nwhich otherwise would have compelled many\\nminds to admit that they were what they\\npurported to be. Thus gradually, through\\nthe three degrees above named as associated\\nwith the idea of faith, has the antagonism\\nbeen removed, and thus is it still being re-\\n74\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0..sm^S^mw^l^Smh, i*", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nmoved, and the opposition so disarmed, that\\nthe finer, and purely spiritual manifestations\\nbegin to be received by those who have\\nclambered over the stumbling-blocks in their\\nway, and to the spiritually-developed the\\nthings of the spirit begin to be opened, and\\nby them spiritually discerned. But, oh\\nthrough what struggles, what sufferings has\\nthis knowledge of spiritual things been\\nattained. The utter repudiation of the\\npossibility of spirit expression and commu-\\nnion has led to public and private persecu-\\ntion worthy of other days. Men have\\ncharged the folly, if not the crime, of\\nsuperstition upon all the early votaries of\\nmodern Spiritualism and public opinion,\\ninstead of the burning stake, has been, and\\nstill is, the fiery ordeal to which the conscien-\\ntious believer finds himself bound in bitter\\nagony, whilst nearest and dearest friends are\\nwilling to add fuel to the fire, and blow the\\nflame, till the victim yields his faith, or\\nthrough spiritual power is raised trium-\\nphantly, like the martyrs of old, above all\\nconsciousness of suffering.\\nBy degrees the supremacy of pure intel-\\nlectual knowledge and insight is giving way\\nand, having become willing to throw aside\\n75\\nf^ME\\n^m.Wk^i]J^^", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anb Beetin^\\ntheir conceit of intellect, men are beginning\\nto sit down humbly before true spiritual\\nculture, and receive the inspirations from\\nspirit life that have long been waiting to\\nbless them, but they would not accept.\\nTheir intellectual development has liberated\\nmen from those idle fears and low concep-\\ntions which formerly led to witchcraft and\\nits fearful persecutions; whilst the same con-\\ndition of development has led, at the outset\\nof the investigation of modern Spiritualism,\\nto purely intellectual conceptions of the sub-\\nject, through inquiries originating in the head,\\nmuch oftener than in the heart. The idle\\ncuriosity, flattering itself often under the\\nguise of scientific authority, which has from\\nthe beginning put the questions suggested\\nby its vain conceit, has been met and\\nanswered in a way well calculated to put it\\nto the blush. The spirit of the inquiry has\\nbeen promptly met by its brother spirit in\\nthe spirit life and all by the force of laws\\nwhich the wise in the wisdom of this earth\\nhave been slow to comprehend, assuming\\nthat they were already well enough in-\\nformed on all matters of spirit life, power,\\nand manifestation, because they had reached\\nto a comprehension of some of the laws\\n76\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0mS im^i", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nby which its Creator regulates his material\\ncreation.\\nIt may be claimed by different branches\\nof the Christian church, that they do not\\ndeny the proper supremacy of pure heart\\nculture when brought into comparison\\nwith the wisdom of the head, though they\\nperhaps have not distinctly recognized the\\nantagonism which we have shown to exist.\\nIn the Catholic Church, particularly, has the\\nposition been maintained, and practically\\ncarried out, that the danger in giving free\\nscope to intellectual investigation in spiritual\\nthings certainly, and perhaps to some ex-\\ntent in temporal things, was so great, that\\nthe popular mind could not bear exposure\\nto it, and hence the argument in support of\\nblind church rule, and mysterious rites in\\ntheir religious services, conducted in an un-\\nknown tongue by the initiated priest. So,\\ntoo, with the dogmas of the Protestant\\nchurches, insisted upon as articles of faith,\\nand involving points of doctrine which had\\nbeen worked out by the leaders of the\\nChurch, who alone could be lifted up to a\\ntrue contemplation of their inner sense a\\nposition of strange inconsistency for Prot-\\nestantism, as recognized by all freethinkers,\\n77\\nW\\n**\u00c2\u00a3^ifci i L i^J^^-^^m", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nand justly rebuked by the parent church.\\nBut, passing by this question of inconsis-\\ntency, and admitting the merit in this fear of\\nintellectual supremacy, let us look a little at\\nthe character of the substitute offered in\\ncompensation for the loss of the intellectual\\ninvestigation which has not been permitted.\\nIt is in this direction, as it seems to us, that\\nthe Church has deceived itself, and out of\\nthis self-deception that it is so powerless to\\nput an end to the fearful sway of selfishness,\\nwhich now rules with nations and individuals.\\nSo much stress has been laid upon the im-\\nportance of articles of faith, that the masses\\nhave been content with holding to these, if\\nindeed they have not been directly taught\\nthat these alone were sufficient for their sal-\\nvation. Catholicism and dogmatic Protest-\\nantism have pointed out a danger in too\\nindependent action of the intellect upon spiri-\\ntual things, but their position in this regard\\nhas been substantially a negative one only,\\nso long as they have furnished no better\\nsubstitute for the right of free inquiry than\\nsimple obedience to their own authority,\\nwhether expressed in blind church rule, or\\ntheological dogmas. Thus has it happened\\nthat all the while, in spite of Catholic church\\n78\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nrule and Protestant dogmatic authority, the\\nintellectual forces of men, starved into inde-\\npendent self-reliant action, have been at-\\ntaining the ascendancy each day more and\\nmore, and the antagonism of which we have\\nspoken become established.\\nIf the Church had not assumed to possess\\nall knowledge and all powerin spiritual things,\\nand taken upon itself the responsibility of\\ntrue enlightenment, thus relieving men of\\ntheir individual responsibility to know and\\nunderstand their true relation to God and\\ntheir fellow-men if it had not offered itself\\nas the Mediator between them and their\\nCreator, but had rather denied itself alway,\\nand offered Christ as the only Mediator if\\nby its own example it had taught men to\\nhumble themselves, each one, before God,\\nin prayer for such light and such blessings\\nas he might see were needed, and vouchsafe\\nto send them then indeed would a good\\nwork have been done, and the Church of\\nthis day been entitled to a tribute of praise\\nand thanks from its equally humble followers.\\nBut pride, conceit, and self-reliance have been\\nits attributes, and its children could hardly\\nbe expected to be superior to their spiritual\\nguide. The happy middle course of humble,\\n79", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Etestini?\\nprayerful, individual development was hard\\nto find out under such conditions and few,\\nvery few, have found and followed it.\\nWe do not understand, and would not for\\na moment suggest, that the intellectual facul-\\nties of our nature are to be lost, or even kept\\nin abeyance, but made subordinate to pure\\nheart or spiritual culture, so that only true\\nknowledge can, and shall, be offered to man s\\ncomprehension. Then all things of the spirit\\nshall be accepted by, and made reasonable to,\\nthe mental faculties, which will sit humbly\\nwaiting for God s movement, and not trusting\\nin themselves to work out their own knowl-\\nedge in their own way, which leadeth to de-\\nstruction. The equal development of heart\\nand head, the beautiful harmonious result of\\na true relation between the spiritual and men-\\ntal forces, in which alone can be found the\\nperfect man, is yet to come and the grave\\nquestion now proposed to the world is,\\nwhether the time for the establishment of\\nthat harmonious relation is not at hand It\\ncan come in no other way than through a\\npure spiritual Christianity, such as the\\nworld has not seen yet, with the Christ spirit,\\nand not human intellect, under any guise of\\ncreed or doctrine, recognized as the only\\n80\\nim", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "tt 77=\\nof flDofcern Spiritualism\\ntest of a true church. It is then, and not\\ntill then, that the prayer so often on the lips\\nof men is to be answered; then, when God s\\nkingdom shall come, and his will be done\\non earth, even as it is done in heaven.\\nIf it be true and Spiritualists know it to\\nbe true that messages from angel forerun-\\nners have announced the coming of that\\nkingdom as close at hand, when Christ shall\\nreturn to earth, and reign in the name of the\\nFather, is it well, nay, is it safe, to pass the\\nmessengers, or the message, by unheeded\\nIf it should be that they are messengers of\\ntruth, are you ready, are you prepared, to\\nbear the quickening power of the Spirit? Al-\\nready is it at the nation s door. Already\\nhave the elements of war and fratricidal strife\\nin this people been worked out into fearful\\nexpression. Be not deceived because this\\nappears to have been done by natural causes.\\nWait not till the influence has penetrated to\\nthe very hearthstones of your homes, for\\nthere too shall its quickening power yet be\\nfelt, and the elements of disease and death be\\ndriven out into expression more fearful even\\nthan on the battle-field. Purify your homes,\\npurify your hearts, purify your bodies, purify\\nyour lives Wait not for the purification\\n81 j", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nwhich shall be a consuming fire Even now\\ndoes the mighty voice sound through the air,\\nas heard of old by the Prophet of Revela-\\ntions, and audible to him that hath an ear to\\nhear are those momentous words, Behold,\\nI MAKE ALL THINGS NEW\\nJuly, 1862.\\n82 i\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE III.\\nSpiritualism and Material Interests.\\nKnowledge the foundation of a living Faith. Spirit-\\nualism breaks up too absorbing devotion to ma-\\nterial interests, and opens the way to nearer ap-\\nproach and indwelling of the very Highest.\\nThe signs wanting which should follow them that\\nbelieve. Our civil war and its lessons. Of\\nwhat avail this modern necromancy. A new Dis-\\npensation Two exemplifications of the work of\\nModern Spiritualism, External and Internal.\\nAnd he shewed me a pure river of water of life.\\nAgain we find ourselves filled to over-\\nflowing with thoughts restlessly demanding\\nexpression. Again we are moved by a deep\\nheart-felt desire to communicate to others,\\nwould it could be to all the world, some idea\\nof the rich blessing, the joy unspeakable,\\nwhich we have received from a knowledge of\\nthings spiritual, as opened to us through\\nModern Spiritualism. We say knowledge of\\n83\\nf}\u00c2\u00a3)Fs3k\\\\", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be ffmrity anfc Beating\\nthings spiritual for it is no conventional\\ncreed no philosophical, or mystical, shaping\\nof our human conceit no ingenuity of our\\npoor brains. It is knowledge in very truth:\\na certainty; an experience; a living reality;\\nwithout which now, life would become to us\\nalmost insupportable, the world would seem\\na barren waste deprived of the indispensable\\nsunlight of God s love. The soul recog-\\nnizes and rejoices over this blessing, the rich-\\nest in the Father s bestowal, at all times, and\\nin all events. It is drawn in with every\\nbreath it courses through every vein it\\nmoves, it leads, it guides, it guards, in every\\nemotion, every thought, every action of our\\nwaking, or sleeping existence. It is the\\npresence of the living God The willing\\nspirit listens to its heart promptings, and\\nchild like yields every wish of its own to the\\ngentle ruling of a Father s love. Under its\\ninfluence, human pride is let down from all\\nassumption and conceit. The soul recog-\\nnizes in its inner sense, and its outer expe-\\nrience, that the divine guidance is ever direct-\\ning and helping in matters seemingly the\\nmost trivial, as well as in those otherwise\\nsupposed to be most momentous, and so goes\\non in its daily occupation, rejoicing equally in\\nj\u00c2\u00bb 84", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nlarge and small duties, for in all and each, it\\nhumbly feels that it is doing, or at least try-\\ning to do, only the Father s will.\\nAs we look into the world of life around\\nus, we feel, we know, that there too, as well\\nas in ourselves, the power of God, is alive\\nand at work and no living creature, no cre-\\nated thing, is too insignificant to be a sharer\\nof our sympathy as coming from the hand of\\nthe same maker with ourselves, and sustained\\nby the same love. Thus no difference of ex-\\nternal position, or surroundings no appar-\\nent preference or exaltation of one creature\\nabove another, of one human being over his\\nfellows astonishes or deludes us into any-\\nthing like creature worship, or brings any the\\nleast desire to sacrifice to worldly pomp or\\ncircumstance. All creatures and all things\\nare in their proper sphere and place, moving\\non in accordance with a mighty law of devel-\\nopment, which no man can fully comprehend.\\nHappy those who can recognize the Father s\\nguiding and sustaining hand through it all.\\nThrice happy those who can fall gently in\\nwith the current, and acquiescing in the wis-\\ndom of all things, without struggle or resist-\\nance, humbly seek the more to know and feel\\nthe Father s ever present protection and\\n85\\nSii^i, r -r;^^,fcv", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Destiny\\ncare, the more the course of events, near and\\nfar, large and small, becomes complicated\\nand inexplicable to their feeble comprehen-\\nsion. Oh, that this faith, this living faith\\ncould be a reality of experience to all. May-\\nGod s blessing go with our humble effort to\\ncommunicate and explain to others some-\\nthing of this life divine, so that the desire in\\ntheir hearts may unfold into a faith that shall\\nopen them to the influences of the Holy\\nSpirit. Thou knowest, Father, that this\\nwish is expressed in no vain conceit of our\\nown wealth that it is no foolish boast of the\\nblessings with which Thou hast crowned\\nour life. As we are true unto the truth as\\nit is in Christ, be Thou unto us, and unto\\nthis labor\\nThat the desire in their hearts may un-\\nfold into a faith that shall open them to the\\ninfluences of the Holy Spirit Let no\\none take offence at this but rather let every\\none inquire soberly what it signifies. What\\ndoes it mean, that in this day of Christian\\ndevelopment, with so many men and women\\nto be found throughout this religiously en-\\nlightened people,who have experienced the\\nmovings of the spirit within, and become, in\\nthe church sense, reconciled unto God, and", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nwith so many more who have felt their inner\\nnatures touched by the divine presence, and\\nthe secret chambers of their hearts illumined\\nby a divine light, not their own what does\\nthis call mean, which says to such, and we\\ngladly admit there are many such, that their\\nfaith needs yet to be unfolded, and their\\nhearts to be opened to the influences of the\\nHoly Spirit Certainly it is not intended\\nto be a captious, fault-finding complaint, or\\nrebuke. It is rather an invitation to still\\nfurther development, to a finer growth, a\\nhigher life of the spirit, a more complete\\nrealization, in every day practical life, of all\\nthe blessings which are involved in, and\\nspring from, the Christian faith a more\\nabundant blossoming and fruition in those\\ngifts and graces of the spirit, which in the\\ndays of the early disciples of Jesus were dis-\\ntinctly recognized as the natural outgrowth,\\nas they were the visible evidences of a true\\nChristian life. The highest received Chris-\\ntianity of the churches of to-day, stops far\\nshort in its practical outworking of the Chris-\\ntianity taught, and if we may believe the\\nrecord, actually realized amongst the early\\nconverts, the first disciples of the humble\\nNazarene. And this without any reason,\\n8 7 3\\nTSSI....\\\\", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nor explanation, offered or received and when\\nreferred to by some honest inquirer for a\\ncause, is admitted, with the cold, insufficient\\ncomment, that those times are not these\\ntimes. In other words, the men and women\\nof those days, when the world was almost\\ntwo thousand years younger in its develop-\\nment than now, are admitted to have been\\ncapable of spiritual attainments, which we of\\nthis day cannot aspire to What has the\\nworld been about all this time, that such\\nshould be the comparative condition of those\\nwho are so apt, in all other things, to boast\\nof their modern civilization Can it be be-\\nlieved, that the good seed sown by the Mas-\\nter s hand has been all this time germinating,\\nthe divine influence by him implanted upon\\nour earth sphere has been so long, and so\\nwidely, rooting, without some progress in the\\ncapacity of man s nature to receive, and ex-\\npress, a higher type of Christian develop-\\nment, than it was possible for the men of the\\nearly centuries to attain instead of our being\\nunable even to equal them The truth is,\\nnot only that the good seed has been ger-\\nminating, but that the natural man has been\\ngoing through a process of decay. There\\nhas been a breaking down of the walls of\\n\u00c2\u00bbji 88 (ji", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nthe flesh human nature has been changing\\nbecoming less and less gross in its animal de-\\nvelopment, and consequently more and more\\nsusceptible to spirit influences and that the\\nmanifestations of spirit presence and power\\nin these days, are uncontrovertible evidences\\nof the fact. But we may be content, for the\\npresent, to rise to those spiritual attainments\\nwith which, the record tells us, the early\\nChristian disciples were blessed. When\\nthose are reached, it will be time enough to\\naim at higher growth, and loftier elevations,\\nof the spirit s life.\\nThe first step towards progress is the\\nadmission of present wants, the acknowl-\\nedgment of present short comings, the\\nrecognition of something better and higher,\\nwhich we have not yet reached. Every one\\nadmits that there is no condition so fatal to\\nChristian development, as a satisfaction and\\ncontentment with present attainments. In\\norder therefore that the class of professing\\nChristians, to whom we have above referred,\\nmay be reminded how far short they are of\\nthe living faith which Jesus offered to his\\ncontemporaries, and by the wonderfully pre-\\nserved record, as well as by the influences\\nnow pouring in upon the world, offers unto\\nH 89 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nus, we would ask such to put a few searching\\nquestions to themselves, which shall reach to\\nthe heart, without disguise of any sort.\\nWhen these questions have been seriously\\nconsidered, they will be more willing to\\nadmit the necessity, and better able to receive\\nthe blessings, of a new dispensation, whose\\nfirst work is to revivify the ancient faith\\nwhich bears such stinted fruit in their lives.\\nBeginning with the more visible signs of\\nfaith where do we find a professor of the\\nChristian life in these days who, through his\\nreligious development, can show, we do not\\nsay boast of, for they are in no sense a sub-\\nject for pride, any of those signs, which in\\nthe words of Jesus, as recorded by St. Mark,\\nshall follow them that believe In my\\nname, said the Master, shall they cast out\\ndevils they shall speak with new tongues\\nthey shall take up serpents and if they\\ndrink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt\\nthem they shall lay hands on the sick, and\\nthey shall recover Who of them, we ask,\\ncan show a faith responsive to those other\\nwords recorded by St. John, He that be-\\nlieveth on me, the works that I do, shall he\\ndo also, and greater works than these shall\\nhe do Who, again we ask, can show any\\n9\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nof those gifts of the spirit enumerated by St.\\nPaul as the natural result and evidence of a\\nknowledge of Christ, when accompanied with\\nthe gift of charity How is it that none of\\nthese persons can show even the signs and\\ngifts which have, in these latter days, made\\ntheir appearance amongst so many that are\\nnot recognized as the truest followers of\\nChrist, if indeed they are not often wholly\\nwithout that spirit of charity, or love, the\\nwant of which, says St. Paul so truly, renders\\nthese gifts valueless. It may almost be said,\\nthat instead of the members of the modern\\nChristian church showing in themselves any\\nof the gifts of the spirit, they are apt to con-\\ndemn unheard any one who seems to possess\\nthese gifts, as on that very account, to be\\nexcluded from the Christian fold\\nBut passing by these external evidences\\nrecognized by Christ himself as signs of\\nthose who believe in him, what are the inner\\nproofs of progress in true Christian develop-\\nment to be found in the professing members\\nof the modern church For example, how\\nmany of these have comprehended the mean-\\ning, and practical application, of the Saviour s\\nreference to the lily of the field, as a beauti-\\nful exemplar for man to copy in his daily\\n91", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "Zhc purity anb Besting\\nlife How many are there who begin to\\ntake no thought for the morrow, what they\\nshall eat, or what they shall drink, or where-\\nwithal they shall be clothed? How many\\nwho really believe, and carry into practice\\ntheir faith, that if they will seek the Kingdom\\nof Heaven first, all those things shall be\\nadded unto them. To earn a livelihood,\\nto gain an independence, is proclaimed and\\napproved as the great aim, the first object of\\nevery man s ambition not to find out what\\nservice his Creator would have him do, what\\nfield is open for him to accomplish the high-\\nest, greatest good not what the unselfish\\npromptings of the spirit within would have\\nhim attain to, but what avenue is most open\\nby which he can reach what his friends, and\\nall the world, call success. Occasionally, to\\nbe sure, a young man begins his career with\\nvague notions of usefulness but they are\\neither soon crushed out of him by contact\\nwith the stern realities of life, which come to\\ntry him, and prevail against his better feel-\\nings, for the reason that he has not that\\nliving faith which can sense and follow the\\nleadings of the Spirit, and patiently leave\\nresults to the wisdom of God or he sinks\\nin despair at the apparent fruitlessness of his\\n92", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nefforts, and dies early of a broken heart.\\nThe pulpit does indeed insist upon the abso-\\nlute importance of every man s loving God\\nwith his whole heart, being just in all his\\ndealings, and in short carrying his religion\\ninto his business but does it sufficiently\\nteach that a true development in Christ is\\nitself a business, the first business, it may\\nalmost be said, the only business that\\nperemptorily demands his attention for the\\nKingdom of Heaven first attained, the fruits\\nof all other business shall, in natural course,\\nbe added unto, and crown his life with many\\njoys. Men and women have yet to feel that\\nin the performance of all the daily avocations\\nof life, in every position and capacity, they\\nare doing God s business, not their own\\nWhen they can feel this, the work of life, in\\na]] its details, will go on with a harmony that\\nshall chord with the very music of the\\nspheres for then will they have sought the\\nKingdom of Heaven first, and will do their\\ndaily labor, not for the sake of the bread\\nthat shall be earned by it, but for the joy in\\ndoing the Father s will trusting that their\\ndaily bread will be given to them in due\\nseason in answer to their daily prayer, as\\nnaturally, and as surely, as the elements\\n93", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anb Besting\\nbring to the lily of the field the food it needs\\nfor its daily growth, and the materials where-\\nwith to weave the beautiful fabric of its\\nmatchless raiment.\\nA much severer test of the development\\nof those who openly and formally profess\\ntheir faith in Christ, is to be found in their\\nconduct at this period of national judgment 1\\nand condemnation, when if ever there seems\\nto be a call for all the cardinal Christian vir-\\ntues, Faith, Hope, and Charity. We feel\\nthat the leading spirit of the great Southern\\nRebellion is a wicked one. We believe\\nequally, that many, if not the most of the\\ncombatants on both sides, certainly of those\\nwho have gone forth to crush it with death-\\nbearing weapons of war, have been, and are,\\nactuated by their highest sense of self-sacri-\\nficing duty, and shall receive their reward\\naccordingly. But do these considerations\\nalter the fact that war is not, and cannot by\\nany sophistry be made, consistent with the\\nteachings of the gentle Jesus, whom they in\\nother things profess to follow. Undoubtedly\\nevery man does right who acts up to his high-\\nest sense of duty but is that sense of duty\\nnecessarily according to the Christ-spirit of\\n1 1863.\\n94 *fc", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nlove, because it is the man s highest sense\\nThe highest sense of duty with the ancient\\nJew was in exact retaliation, an eye for an\\neye, a tooth for a tooth. But Christ has\\ntaught, nay, in love commanded, That ye\\nresist not evil but whosoever shall smite\\nthee on thy right cheek, turn to him the\\nother also. Love your enemies, bless\\nthem that curse you, do good to them that\\nhate you, and pray for them which despite-\\nfully use you and persecute you are the\\nwords of the Master, spoken without reser-\\nvation of any kind. Some persons, a little\\nmore tender than others, feeling the incon-\\nsistency, have talked about laying aside their\\nChristianity for the war, as they, with their\\nshort external vision, have found themselves\\nunable to see how the struggles of the day\\ncould be carried out to a successful issue\\nwithout the recourse to arms instead of act-\\ning up to their inner sense of Christian duty,\\nand leaving results to Him who rejoices more\\nto be worshipped as a God of love and peace,\\nthan appealed to as a God of battles. Have\\nthese persons forgotten how the walls of Jer-\\nicho fell down at the sound of trumpets\\nblown with a blast of living faith Have\\nthey never read how, more than once, the\\n95\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Pfc", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "vm\\n\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Deetini?\\nenemies of Israel were scattered by the inter-\\nposition of divine power, without a blow\\nstruck by the Sword of Gideon and this\\nlong before the people were blessed with the\\nlight of the Gospels Is it not time the\\nworld began to understand, that if in the or-\\nderings of God s providence there is need of\\nmen to fight, it is because there are men\\nwhose progress in Christian development has\\nnot yet rooted out the elements of war from\\ntheir natures. No pure health can be en-\\njoyed by the human system so long as dis-\\nease is lurking in the vital parts and as long\\nas the passions that culminate in war are cir-\\nculating in humanity, no matter how deep\\nunder the surface, so long will occasions be\\npresented for working them out it being\\nalways the prerogative of God, and of Him\\nonly, to bring good out of this direful evil.\\nIf we are asked what we would have men\\ndo in this emergency of the nation s existence,\\nwe would say, let every one go to his God in\\nhumble, earnest prayer for such knowledge\\nas shall show him his highest duty, and when\\nfound, do it unselfishly, with all his might.\\nLet him not however deceive himself by sup-\\nposing that he is therefore acting up to the\\nChrist teachings, because he is fulfilling what\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba5 96 j\u00c2\u00bb\\nJfettS-;. -v ^i :Ov^4;^ -4", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nhe finds to be his highest duty. But let him\\nrather pray the more earnestly to God that\\nhe may receive the true Christ spirit, and\\nsense of Christian duty, the more he finds\\nhimself called to act at variance with the\\nclear, unmistakable precepts of the Founder\\nof his professed faith for it is a thing of\\ngrowth, and nothing short of miraculous in-\\ntervention will give him the true sense, the\\ntrue light at once. The trouble is, that men,\\nhaving no knowledge of, and giving no rec-\\nogniion to the guidance of the Spirit, use\\ntheir minds first to find out what course of\\nconduct to pursue, and then go to God to\\nask his help in carrying out their plans of\\nmanagement instead of lifting up their hearts\\nfirst in humble prayer to Him for guidance,\\nand then following the lead of the Spirit with\\nall their minds Thus it is that we have had\\nall the while the strange spectacle presented,\\napparently so contradictory, in the civil war\\nnow raging, of clergy and laity on both sides,\\nsending up fervent appeals to their God of\\nbattles to bless each their cause, which each\\nhad previously in the exercise of their wise\\nself-relying heads, stimulated more or less by\\ntheir passions, determined should be main-\\ntained and defended by all the arts of war\\n97", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "ftbe purity ant) Destiny\\nof which modern Christian civilization can\\nboast\\nIn another relation, one which concerns\\nhumanity perhaps more nearly than any\\nother, inasmuch as every child that is born\\ninto earth life is fashioned according to its\\nconditions, we mean the marriage relation,\\nwe would ask, how nearly do men and wo-\\nmen conform to the true Christ life Is\\nthis relation conducted in accordance with\\nthat Christ spirit which teaches them to love\\none another as little children and do they\\nherein show forth a living faith in those\\nwords of Jesus, Whom God hath joined,\\nlet no man put asunder The growing\\ntendency in all legislation to facilitate divorce,\\nis a short answer to the latter question\\nwhilst the former is pointedly met, by simply\\nreferring to the little improvement in the huT\\nman race, both in its physical and spiritual\\ndevelopment, from generation to generation,\\nnotwithstanding its changing conditions. But\\nwe have too much to say upon this sacred\\ntopic, to enlarge upon it at this time.\\nOther points of view might be taken, from\\nwhich a close scrutiny would show still fur-\\nther inconsistencies between the teachings of\\nthe Master, and the lives of his professed\\n98\\nuSjsffi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nfollowers. Too long have these inconsis-\\ntencies been allowed to remain unmolested\\ntoo often have they given opportunity to un-\\nbelieving critics to frame arguments against\\nChristianity, which no honest man can an-\\nswer, and no sensitive soul hear without a\\nblush of shame. They have been kept too\\nmuch out of sight, and considered too much\\nout of the reach of modern faith to remedy.\\nBut we hasten to meet the inquiry, which we\\nfeel is pressing upon us, What has Modern\\nSpiritualism to offer towards helping men\\nout of these admitted inconsistencies We\\nhave been told, says the inquirer, from the\\nMaster s own lips, that the hardness of heart,\\nwhich could not be touched by the sayings\\nof Moses and the Prophets, would not be-\\nlieve, though one rose from the dead and\\nit can hardly be supposed that any less ef-\\nficacy to convert sinners is to be found in the\\nteachings of Jesus, than in the sayings of\\nMoses and the Prophets. Of what avail\\nto Christians then, this modern necromancy\\nAn inquiry based upon such a suggestion\\nof argument, and it is the first suggested,\\nthe most natural, and the most potent argu-\\nment that can be used, indicates the idea of\\nModern Spiritualism entertained by most\\n99\\nO", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anb Destiny\\nunbelievers, and indeed by many believers,\\nthat the whole meaning and value of the\\nphenomena is, in establishing the fact, that\\nthe spirits of the departed do exist in spheres\\nmore or less near to the earth life, and in\\nthe accompanying joy of communing directly\\nwith them. The truth however is, and we\\nwould proclaim it to the ends of the earth,\\nto the many Spiritualists who are yet groping\\nabout in search for it, and to the unbelievers\\nwho stand outside hardly condescending to\\nrecognize the simplest facts of the phenom-\\nena, much less trying to ascertain their mean-\\ning, the truth is, and herein lies the answer\\nto the inquiry so directly put, that these new\\nconditions, and apparently strange relations\\nbetween the spirit and earth life, are chiefly\\nimportant as means to a great end, namely\\nthe more complete opening of the heart of hu-\\nmanity to the influences of the Holy Spirit\\nThus, whilst we admit that the mere raising\\nof the spirits of the dead is not itself of vital\\nimportance, however novel and interesting,\\nand does not of itself possess any power to\\nsave, we say that the influences which the\\nspirits of the departed, coming with the an-\\ngels of God, are now empowered to bring\\nand communicate to those in the earth life,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nconstitute a new element of power not before\\nmanifested or exercised, at least in the man-\\nner, and to the extent, now permitted in this\\nthe fulness of time. The value of Modern\\nSpiritualism is not to be found in those phys-\\nical manifestations which strike so many-\\nminds as too trivial to be worthy of the higher\\nspirit life, nor in those communications,\\nwhich, though often full of beauty and wis-\\ndom, do not inculcate any new doctrines of\\nlife, or in their highest reaches suggest any\\nbetter teachings than those already handed\\ndown to this generation in the blessed words\\nof Jesus. No, it is the influence of the Holy\\nSpirit, which filled the souls of the early Apos-\\ntles, and is now waiting to be poured into\\nour hearts through this channel of communi-\\ncation, this instrumentality of God s appoint-\\nment, that constitutes the real value, the\\nmomentous power and importance of Mod-\\nern Spiritualism. That these things do not\\noriginate with man, most persons are now\\nready to admit. They are indeed of and\\nfrom God. Christ cometh that all things\\nmay be fulfilled. Refuse not to believe be-\\ncause the manner of his coming is not in ac-\\ncordance with your expectations, or your\\nhuman judgment of probabilities. Remem-\\nJ IOI\\nSH", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anD \u00c2\u00a9estinp\\nber how the Jews stumbled, because they\\ncould not find in the humble Nazarene, those\\nevidences of an earthly kingdom which they\\nhad anticipated. Like a thief in the night,\\nis he coming yet like a Prince of Peace.\\nOh blessed light that shines through the\\ndark cloud which now hangs over this peo-\\nple, with a deepening gloom, unfathomable\\nto the eye of reason. To the eye of faith,\\nthe living faith as it is in Christ, which can\\nbe known only through the heart, the silver\\nlining of the dark shroud is visible, and a\\ndivine hope awakened to give new courage\\nto suffering souls, which shall sustain them\\nto the end.\\nModern Spiritualism is then no new cf Cul-\\ntus, but rather a process in the develop-\\nment of an old Cultus, amounting in its\\nfullness to a new Dispensation. The spirit\\nworld, with all its quickening influences for\\ngood and for evil, is brought close to the\\nearth life. The evil influences come to tempt,\\nto try, to judge, and to be judged minis-\\ntering spirits and angels come also, not in\\nidle pastime, but in serious, earnest endeavor\\nto reach the hearts of those, who by inherit-\\nance, and their own contact with the exte-\\nrior world, are hardened against the things of\\nI02", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nthe spirit and the labor has been, and is, to\\nlift humanity into a condition receptive to\\nthe blessed influences which they have\\nbrought with them, even the influences of\\nthe Holy Spirit. Thus are all men to be\\nraised up to a higher plane of spiritual vision,\\nso that they can see and comprehend the\\nmeaning of the Scriptures, which are illu-\\nminated by this increased light. The truths\\nin the teachings of Jesus are now vitalizing\\nto the conception of believers. There is no\\nlonger occasion for scholastic criticism, or\\nlearned intellectual disputations, on the mean-\\nings of words for the meaning intended\\nto be conveyed by them, their true spiritual\\npower and influence, flows out into the re-\\nceptive soul independently of the mere dress,\\nthe external form of its expression. As in\\nthe days of their utterance, the words of Je-\\nsus were heard, but not understood so in\\nthis latter day, their deep meaning, their full\\nsignificance, their hidden power, their life-\\ngiving influence has not reached the indi-\\nvidual hearts of the people, or never could\\nthe inconsistencies, and short-comings, be\\nfound in the modern Christian life to which\\nwe have referred. It is by opening the hearts\\nof the men and women of this generation, so\\n103", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nthat having ears to hear, they may hear and\\ncomprehend, and carry out into practice,\\nthose very teachings of Jesus, that the revival\\nof the ancient faith, the first great work of\\nthis new dispensation, is to be accomplished.\\nAlready has this work been begun with thou-\\nsands of quiet Spiritualists, who are patiently\\nwaiting on the Lord whilst the ever active\\nand forth putting influences of Anti-Christ\\nhave endeavored to fasten upon the cause,\\nthe stigma of Bible Infidelity.\\nThe power of this spirit influence is begin-\\nning to be made manifest in the development\\nof knowledge of things spiritual, which is yet\\nto be a wonder to the world. Only the\\ngerms of truth lie, more or less concealed,\\nin the brief recorded teachings of Jesus.\\nGerms of all truth they are, and first planted\\nupon the earth sphere by him, through the\\ngrace of God, more than eighteen centuries\\nago. They have been all this while working\\ntheir way through the crust of earth, their\\ndelicate points cleaving the hard-hearted soil\\nin which they were set, and now, touched by\\nthe quickening rays of the returning Sun of\\nrighteousness, are beginning to send their\\nbranches out, and to spring forth to a growth,\\nthat shall be worthy of the long preparation.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nWe are lost in contemplation of the possibil-\\nities of development in man s nature and sur-\\nroundings, through his spiritual progression.\\nThese are, and will be, the natural growth of\\nseeds already sown. They cannot pretend\\nto be of any other, or higher origin than the\\nearly Christ germs but in their develop-\\nment, there should be expected, in all phases\\nof being, really new manifestations, new\\nthoughts, a new understanding of the vari-\\nous works of creation, new conceptions of\\nthe earth life and its relations to the spirit\\nworld, which, as they spring forth, will ar-\\nrange themselves, like new leaves in beauti-\\nful order, on the broad and ever spreading\\ntree of knowledge.\\nWe should be glad to explain our mean-\\ning more at length, but must content our-\\nselves, for the present, with a brief reference\\nto two exemplifications, from among the\\nmany which have come within our experi-\\nence. The first of these, we find in a very\\nbeautiful and interesting manifestation of\\nspirit presence and power, recently given in\\nour presence, through a Medium, whose\\nown spiritual condition is a sad evidence,\\namongst the many we have known, that\\nphysical manifestations have in themselves\\n105", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nno saving grace, no healing power, but are\\nonly the necessary means of breaking down\\nthe obstacles which in this day of materialism,\\nprevent the access, and impede the growth,\\nof a living faith. After several other experi-\\nmental tests, not particularly interesting to\\nus, though calculated to astonish, and at least\\npuzzle, a fresh inquirer into the phenomena\\na piece of plain white card board, which had\\nbeen carefully marked so as to identify it,\\nwas placed in the left hand of one of the com-\\npany who sat next to the Medium. In the\\nright hand of the same person were placed\\nthree pencils, two of crayon, colored red and\\ngreen, and one of common black lead, so that\\nthey extended horizontally over the card\\nboard, and about two inches above it. The\\ncard board and pencils, in the position de-\\nscribed were then held by the same person\\nunder the table, out of sight whilst the hands\\nof all the others present were placed upon the\\ntable. Within half a minute, the card board\\nwas produced, and to the astonishment and\\ndelight of all, there appeared upon its before\\nunsullied surface a beautiful wreath, delicately\\ndrawn and colored, the vine and leaves in\\ngreen, thick set with red roses in bud and full\\nbloom, and within the wreath, finely written\\n1 06", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nin black lead, but distinctly legible, a mes-\\nsage of love signed by the name of a child,\\nwho was in the spirit world, unbeknown to\\nthe Medium, and to most of those present.\\nUpon inquiry, it appeared, that the pencils\\nhad remained during their concealment, in\\nthe same position as first placed, a slight vi-\\nbration in them only having been recognized.\\nOur theory of the process was, that the pic-\\nture was first conceived complete in its spirit\\nform, then brought near to the card board\\nand pencils, so that the elements of color\\ncould be abstracted from the pencils, and, as\\nit were, photographed upon the card board\\nby a power, of which we as yet know noth-\\ning beyond this suggestion of its existence.\\nWe could not resist the further reflection\\nthat in time to come, it may be long years\\nyet, the relations of humanity to the spirit\\nworld might be so far changed and advanced,\\nthat this power could be brought into com-\\nmon practical use, in a way that would lift\\nart to a pinnacle of power and beauty never\\nbefore dreamed of.\\nOur other exemplification is not an exter-\\nnal manifestation, but an internal unfolding.\\nThrough Modern Spiritualism we have ar-\\nrived at an understanding of the origin,\\n107", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anfc Destiny\\ngrowth, and purpose of all earth life, of which\\nwe before had no conception. This under-\\nstanding, like all our knowledge of things\\nspiritual, apart from their phenomenal mani-\\nfestations, is a natural out-growth in our\\nminds, stimulated into life by the influences\\nwith which we were first brought into com-\\nmunion through the person, to whose deep\\nreligious nature, and spiritual development,\\nwe have before referred. Little by little,\\nsometimes quite disconnectedly, with occa-\\nsional direct promptings, have these thoughts\\ncome to us, and by slow degrees gathered to\\nmake a symmetrical, harmonious philosophy\\nof nature, which we feel is very truth, for it\\nis from God. Perhaps some of the ideas,\\npossibly all of them, for we are yet in our\\nchildhood, just beginning to read the book\\nof life, have been given to the world in days\\ngone by but they come to us anew as in-\\nspiration, for which we thank only the Giver\\nof all good gifts. Every growing thing on\\nthe earth plane has its spirit life and form,\\nand is but the external expression of the spi-\\nrit reality, the earthly habiliment of spirit life,\\nmade thus external, in order to be cogniza-\\nble to humanity. Let us confine our observa-\\ntion to one phase of this external expression\\n108", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nfor instance, to vegetable life. We find then\\nthat the office of the earth-born flower is,\\nnot merely to delight the senses of man, and\\namuse his hours of idleness or recreation, but\\nmore than all, to throw upon him influences\\ndirectly from the spirit life, of which it is the\\nmedium of expression to his earthly sense.\\nIn form and color suggestive of harmony,\\nthey accomplish much but as mediums for\\nthe transmission, sometimes of a life-giving\\nfragrance, and sometimes of a noxious poison,\\ndo the flowers of earth now appear to us as\\nacting a most important part in the develop-\\nment of humanity. The odor is itself of\\nspirit origin, and exists in spirit life, the\\nflower being the naturally appointed agent,\\nor medium, to express it on the earth plane.\\nHerein we find an explanation of what has\\nheretofore been an inexplicable mystery to\\nthe best of science, namely, how the fragrance\\ncould be continually given forth, a real es-\\nsence filling the air, and yet no discoverable\\nreduction, or abstraction, of the substance of\\nthe flower. The skilful anatomist has dis-\\nsected these little creatures of God s love\\ndown into their most inmost recesses, where\\nthe odor seems to have its birth-place but\\nthe mystery is still unsolved, until we con-", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Besting\\nceive the idea of fragrance existing first in the\\nspirit life, and then poured through these\\ndelicate organisms of divine appointment, and\\nmade cognizable to human sense. The\\nflower in fact gives nothing forth from itself,\\nbut is only the conduit, the beautiful me-\\ndium for external expression of spirit life and\\npower, and is able, be it never so tender and\\ndelicate, to continue its functions of trans-\\nmission, whilst its natural life is prolonged.\\nLet us carry this conception a little fur-\\nther. Does it not throw a flood of light\\nupon the mystery of human life What\\nare human beings, but the external expres-\\nsions, upon the earth plane, of spirit forms\\nand spirit life. What are we but mediums,\\nall and each, in varying degrees, for the out-\\nward manifestation of good and evil influ-\\nences, that are thrown into, and poured\\nthrough us, for the world s weal or woe In\\none respect we differ from the flower, and\\nthat is in the capability of our natures in\\ngreat measure to determine for ourselves,\\nunder the grace of God, whether we will\\ncontinue to be channels for the communica-\\ntion of much evil, mingled with a little good,\\nor whether we will become so purified,\\nthrough the life that is in Christ, that none\\nJi no", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nbut pure influences shall be made manifest\\nin our lives. The subject is capable of in-\\ndefinite extension. We leave it here, with\\nthe earnest prayer that all men may soon ac-\\ncept its deep significance, and ever remem-\\nber, that it lies with each one to determine,\\nwhether he will draw from his surroundings,\\nand give forth in his life, poisonous elements\\nof evil or whether he will spread far and\\nwide only such sweet, life-giving fragrance\\nas the Father s love vouchsafes to dispense\\nthrough him unto his race.\\nBut interesting, as we must admit such\\ntrains of thought have been, and are to our\\nminds, they are like all philosophizing, insuf-\\nficient food to satisfy those yearnings of the\\nspirit which reach up after the Father s love,\\nas its only true life. To drink from that\\nfountain, whose water shall be in those who\\ndrink it, a well of water springing up unto\\neverlasting life, this should be the longing,\\nas it is the greatest joy of the soul. We\\nwelcome then those influences which will aid,\\nas they have already aided many, in finding\\nthat fountain of living waters, by opening\\nthe heart and mind to a true reception and\\nunderstanding of the teachings of Jesus.\\nAnd especially would we remember, and try\\nin k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant Beating\\nto comprehend the deep import of, that say-\\ning of the Master, He that rejecteth me\\nand receiveth not my words, hath one that\\njudgeth him, the Word that I have spoken,\\nthe same shall judge him on the last day.\\nWe feel, we know, that these words have a\\nsignificant application to this day and hour.\\nChrist, the Master, calls us to look into our-\\nselves, and out of our own mouths to save\\nor to condemn. The Bridegroom cometh,\\nwe know not the day, nor the hour but he\\ncometh, and the angels are preparing the way.\\nThe evil that is in men must be eradicated,\\nburned out from the face of the earth and\\nit will be done, nay is doing now the ele-\\nments are now gathering in for the final day,\\nwhen God, through Christ, shall reign. As\\nthe lightning shineth from the East unto the\\nWest so is the Christ influence now spread-\\ning, and spread, over the earth, quickening\\nevery good and evil element of life into new\\nand unwonted activity. It is idle to attempt\\nto fix any period according to our finite\\nmeasure of time, when the culmination of\\nthese passing events shall be brought about.\\nIt may be many years yet the processes of\\nGod s providence have ever been gradual in\\ntheir development. We know not the day\\n^i 112 J", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "A^\\nof flDobern Spiritualism\\nnor the hour. We know, we can know, only\\nthe duties which each day and hour, as they\\ncome, bring with them and this is enough,\\nfor it demands all our best energies to fulfil\\nthese duties with our whole heart. Under\\nthe Father s blessing, influences from the\\nspirit world have now come to help us in\\ntheir daily fulfilment, so that through a\\nknowledge of God, we can say in very truth,\\nin every moment of each day, that we are\\ndoing His will that His business is our busi-\\nness, and our business His that our great\\ndesire is to be humbly worthy to receive the\\nblessed salutation from the Master, well\\ndone good and faithful servant. Thus, and\\nthus only, will the selfish ends of life be lost\\nsight of; thus will men labor at their daily\\navocations, not to earn the means to gratify\\ntheir selfish desires, but to do God service.\\nThus will they be practically seeking first\\nthe Kingdom of Heaven and as surely as\\nthere is a living God, shall all necessary things,\\nwhether in their spiritual or material wants,\\nbe added unto them.\\nLet us then, each and all, thank God for\\nthe new Dispensation, whose work is only\\ncommenced when men, through its influences,\\nbegin to understand truly, and to carry into\\nIJ 3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "flDofcern Spiritualism\\npractice, the teachings of the Holy Book.\\nIn other ways of its own is it bringing, and\\nwill it bring men to the fountain of life, from\\nwhich it is itself an out-pouring, the sweet\\nsavor of whose waters shall entice all who\\ndrink of it to follow the living stream up to\\nits living head. Behold that pure River\\nof Water of Life, clear as crystal, pro-\\nceeding out of the throne of God, and of\\nthe Lamb. In the midst of the street of it,\\non either side of the river, is the Tree of\\nLife And the leaves of the tree\\nare for the healing of the Nations.\\nJanuary, 1863.\\n114", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "^V^,..\\nTHE PURITY AND DESTINY OF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM.\\nSeconb Series\\n*Bmim:", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "All history shows that the first article of a saving\\nfaith, for any land or time, is faith that there is a\\nPower in this universe strong enough to make truth-\\nseeking safe, and good enough to make truth-telling use-\\nful:\\nPres. A. D. White,\\nCornell.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SECOND SERIES.\\n1883.\\nm\\nORIGINAL PREFATORY NOTE.\\nTo minds familiar with modern things of\\nthe spirit, which are rapidly ceasing to be\\nthe strange mysteries they at first appeared,\\nthough yet only partially opened, there may\\nseem to be little that is new in these pages.\\nBut they have been written, and are now\\npublished, for the uninitiated, as well as for\\nthose acquainted with the facts and experi-\\nences. Through all there has been no seek-\\ning after novelty, but rather and only for\\nthe truth.\\nShould some of the inquiry seem like\\nprobing into the ways of God, or too much\\nlike that feeling after the print of the\\nnails, which alone could persuade the doubt-\\ning disciple, the writer can only say that it\\nis in accord with the need of his own mind,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anb Besting\\nas well as with the development of the day,\\nthat man should in all things find a reason\\nfor his faith, if he can the limit of such\\ninquiry, though not always of his attainment,\\nbeing only in his capacity to shape his ques-\\ntioning. Not in conceit or presumption let\\nthe asking mind raise its thought to the\\nhighest, but in that sure trust which should\\never bring the sincere child to the good\\nFather, with uplifted head and outstretched\\narms, for the blessings of His great love, the\\ninspiration of His ever waiting spirit of\\ntruth.\\n118", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE IV.\\nSpiritualism the Opening Way.\\nAn emblem strangely found. Various good shown.\\nGifts of the Spirit. Efficacy of prayer. In-\\ndividual freedom. No eternal punishment.\\nNeglected opportunities. No concealment of\\nwrong doing. Freedom in love to be in ser-\\nvice of God. Supremacy of the Spiritual.\\nErrors committed.- Forces of the new Dispen-\\nsation. Methods, meaning, and mission of spirit\\nworkers. Trials of Mediumship. Appeal to\\nthe churches.\\nUnto the Jews a stumbling-block, and\\nunto the Greeks foolishness, were the\\nwords written eighteen centuries ago, of the\\ndispensation then opening. History repeats\\nitself; and again the announcement of new\\ntruth, and a greater possibility in the world s\\ndevelopment, has proved a stumbling-block\\nto many. To others, and these no longer\\nan exceptional few, Modern Spiritualism has\\nproved An Opening Way, often through\\nl\u00c2\u00a3 119", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anb \u00c2\u00a9eetinp\\nstruggle which has seemed like climbing the\\nvery steeps of Calvary, to be rewarded at\\nthe summit with such joyful assurance, such\\npeaceful outlook, such knowledge, and such\\nfaith, as have well repaid all the toil and\\npain of the sharp ascent. Largely out of\\nknowledge so attained and assured, these\\npages are written.\\nWalking one day of December, 1862,\\nupon a familiar railroad causeway within the\\nlimits of Boston, our attention was drawn to\\na piece of granitic quartz, lying among the\\nten thousand other stones which formed the\\ngravelly embankment. On picking it up\\nand turning it over we found that a portion\\nof the stone had crumbled out from the\\nunder side, so as to leave two veins of white\\nquartz, easily recognized, though roughly\\nbroken, to be in the form of the Christian\\ncross. We accepted the emblem with joy\\nand trembling. Such, we thought, had been\\nour experience in the cause of modern Spir-\\nitualism. Drawn first to examine the ex-\\nternal phenomena seemingly from motives\\nof curiosity, we had learned, upon entering\\ndeeper into the examination, that we had\\nfound no bauble with which to amuse an\\nidle hour, but had taken up the cause, the\\n120 ig", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "tfQMSiP W3 r:\\n^^SKgjS\\nof flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nvery cross of Christ, the cross, because it\\nhad been the occasion of the deepest suffer-\\ning in our life hitherto and of Christ,\\nbecause the suffering had come ever out of\\nour desire and persistent search after the true\\nway of life in all things, both of the body\\nand spirit.\\nUnder similar promptings and convictions\\nothers have entered upon labors to which\\nthey have felt themselves called in the name\\nof Spiritualism, through trial and suffering\\nfinding their better purification. Many in-\\nquirers, however, have been prone to think\\nthat in their simple acceptance of the spirit-\\nual phenomena they have not only found\\nthe way to heaven, but have entered the\\nvery gates To such we would say, there\\nis no high-road opened now, more than\\nbefore, upon which an idler has merely to\\nset his foot and find himself drawn up to\\nthe heavenly mansions without effort or\\nlabor on his part. The recorded errors of\\nearly Spiritualists are like gravestones, mark-\\ning the spots where the seekers after modern\\nspiritual things have been drawn off into\\npitfalls sunk of old to catch all who might\\nwander from the true path while the suc-\\ncesses of others only point the way up the", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "ftbe Jpuritp anfc Destiny\\nsteep ascent, which is yet full of dangers and\\nobstacles. That these difficulties should\\nbecome less and less numerous, and more\\neasily overcome as the pilgrim advances in\\nthe search after truth, is to be expected, and\\nwill be realized in proportion as he is faithful\\nto his highest promptings at and from the\\nstart and so each succeeding generation of\\nmen will advance on the pathway of true life,\\nas the generation passing away has brought\\nthe race nearer to a condition able to welcome\\nthe coming of God s kingdom. But there\\nis work, much work, to be done yet.\\nIt may help the minds of those who are\\nnot likely to come otherwise into present\\ncontact with what seems to us a momentous\\nsubject, to learn something of the work it\\nhas accomplished and is still doing in the\\ndevelopment of ideas essential to man s\\nprogress, against the continued indifference\\nor opposition of the most cultured minds,\\nand the united desire and effort of old science\\nto put down the ghost that will keep rising,\\nwith ever-renewed power, to baffle and dis-\\nappoint all efforts for its suppression. The\\nold cry, Who will show us any good\\nis repeated by many of Modern Spiritualism.\\nHaving found much good, we would en-\\n122", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\ndeavor to show it to others, not for the\\nsake of proselyting, for experience has shown\\ntoo well that belief in these things cannot be\\nforced before its time, but for the enlighten-\\nment of many who, having never sought to\\npenetrate within even the outermost circle\\nof physical manifestations, are waiting the\\ngood Father s time to bring them into the\\nfold which we believe will some day hold all\\nthe children of men.\\nThe most obvious good from the advent\\nof Modern Spiritualism would seem to be the\\ndemonstration or evidence of things heretofore\\nunseen^ which is given in its simplest manifes-\\ntations. Doubtless there are many minds so\\nwell settled it may be only through inher-\\nitance and unquestioning habit in their\\nconvictions as to the momentous question\\nof the after-life, that it is not easy for them\\nto understand the needs of the very many\\nothers who, in seeking a reason for the faith\\nthat was in them, have been led off into the\\nwilds of mysticism, or lost in the desert sands\\nof materialism, and to whom the lowest forms\\nof modern spiritual manifestations have\\nbrought the only light that could help them\\nout of their difficulties. The tiny raps, so\\nmuch abused by the wise in the wisdom of\\nI2 3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc 3E C6tin^\\nearth, have brought such comforting assurance\\nto minds desponding of the future state, as all\\nthe reasoning of the pulpit and the demonstra-\\ntions of mundane science could not have\\nbegun to afford. More than one proud phil-\\nosopher has come down upon his knees before\\nthese simplest evidences of a continuing exist-\\nence, and thanked the good Father that a way-\\nhad been at last opened to him, small though\\nit be, leading up to the heavenly mansions.\\nAdmitting, for the argument, the uncertainties\\nof identity in spirit communication, the bare\\nfact of these little sounds being produced un-\\nder the guidance of an intelligent power, and\\ncoming plainly from behind that veil hitherto\\nso impenetrable, has reached the minds too\\nlong habituated to material evidences to be\\nable to spiritually discern a spirit presence.\\nThis age of material advancement could not,\\nat first, have recognized the nearer approach\\nof the spirit spheres, except through material\\nmanifestations and in time we believe the\\nage will lift its hands in gratitude for the\\nevidences, however humble, vouchsafed to its\\ngreat need\\nAs the next obvious good, may perhaps\\nbe named the testimony of Modern Spiritual-\\nism upon the subject of Faith, which has\\n124 i\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "of flftofcern Spiritualism\\noccupied the Christian mind so much. The\\nsaving faith insisted upon so strenuously by\\nevangelical disputants, as a condition prece-\\ndent to salvation, and made a requirement\\nof the church-member without which there\\ncould be no fellowship, under the light of\\nSpiritualism is shown to be only a compli-\\nance with the common law of all life viz.,\\nthat neither good nor evil can reach an un-\\nwilling recipient as they can the willing mind,\\nand that nothing is so sure to impede prog-\\nress in any direction as the lack of willingness\\nto receive truth, whether it accord with pre-\\nconceived opinions or not. Having once\\nformulated its dogmas, the Church has been\\nprone to resist innovation, and thereby ne-\\ncessarily to retard growth in any direction of\\nthought not in harmony with its settled\\ncreeds. It has been slow to understand the\\nsimple meaning of such words of the Master\\nas Thy faith hath made thee whole,\\nattributing a mystical value to the accepta-\\ntion of certain forms of belief, when the\\nwhole virtue of the condition denominated\\nFaith is simply in its receptivity, or willing-\\nness to receive. The testimony of Spiritu-\\nalism in this direction is interesting and\\ninstructive, showing through all the forms\\n125 \u00c2\u00a31", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "Zhc purity anfc E e0ttn\\\\\\nof manifestation the same undeviating law,\\nwhether in the first approaches of opinionated\\nscientists to the simplest physical demonstra-\\ntions of the after-life, or in the seekings\\nof avowed believers after the more hidden\\nthings of the spirit, where the faculty of\\nspiritual discernment is called into action.\\nThe state of mind of the investigator has\\nagain and again proved a stumbling-block\\nto the manifestations, when the gathering\\nhas been made wholly or mostly of scientific\\nexperts, who will insist upon applying their\\nold mundane tape-measure to conditions ut-\\nterly foreign to such use. Often, too, have\\ncompanies of avowed Spiritualists failed to\\nreach the inner sanctuary by their lack of\\nthe childlike receptive condition of mind,\\nwhich alone can find out the heavenly mys-\\nteries. The lesson shown in the violent\\nconversion of the Apostle Paul still fails to\\nreach the minds of men learned in things\\npertaining to the earth plane, so that as a\\nclass they will not, perhaps cannot, receive\\nthe new philosophy, until brought into it\\nby some prostrating experience, from which\\nthey may rise wiser and better men. The\\nfew marked exceptions only serve, as usual,\\nto prove the rule and, as in other steps of\\n%t 126 j", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nthe world s development, the new knowledge\\nhas found favor with the humbler, before\\ngradually working up into the higher walks\\nof earth life. Again and again, truth must\\nneed be cradled in a manger. Should it be\\nsaid that such kind of receptive faith opens\\nthe way to evil as well as good, the reply is\\nfrankly Yes such is the law of our being.\\nThe willingness to receive must ever be\\ndirected to that which is good. We cannot\\nescape this responsibility it is inherent in\\nthe conditions of free-will, which is the birth-\\nright of humanity, and out of which will\\ncome the glory and the joy of man s final\\nredemption.\\nTo the fear sometimes expressed, that\\nsuch knowledge of things spiritual would\\ntake away all occasion for that exercise of\\nfaith which trusts where it cannot see, so\\ncommended by the churches, and often\\nblindly held to be one of the saving graces\\nof the Christian profession, we would say\\nthat man need not be troubled lest he will\\never advance so far in finding out God,\\nthat there will be nothing left for him on\\nwhich to exercise this spirit of trust. As in\\nmundane science, the further the student\\npenetrates, the wider appears the field of\\ni$ 127 j\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc \u00c2\u00a9estinp\\ndiscovery yet to be explored, so in things\\nspiritual the most gifted seer reports of the\\nfathomless beyond the ever-opening, ever-\\nreceding mysteries of God.\\nAnother good brought by modern Spirit-\\nualism is the light it has thrown upon the\\nefficacy of Prayer. Hesitating to believe\\nthat the great Mind, by whom the universe\\nhas come into being and is hourly sustained,\\ncan be sufficiently concerned with the little\\nthings of individual experience to answer the\\ncalls of humanity, and accepting the idea of\\nlaw in all the outworkings of the Divine\\nBeing, men have inclined more and more to\\ndoubt the efficacy of prayer. Unable to see\\nthe method of response, they have denied\\nthe possibility. Spiritualism solves the prob-\\nlem by showing the method. Prayers are\\nthe expression of the soul s desires. Earn-\\nestness and sincerity are the chief requisites\\nfor their potency. Now, just as a parent or\\nfriend hearing the prayer, or what is equiv-\\nalent knowing the deep desire of a child,\\nwill labor to bring a response and satisfy the\\nlonging if it seem wise and good, so the\\nfriends about us, unseen by the natural eye,\\nare near enough to hear our prayers, to know\\nour deep desires, and equally to labor for\\n128 gi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nw\u00c2\u00a3%m\\ntheir satisfaction. That they can and do\\nthus influence events, by acting upon the\\nminds of others in the form, in whose power\\nit is to bring about the answer to our prayers,\\nas well as in other ways of their own, is\\nproved beyond a doubt by the facts of Mod-\\nern Spiritualism. To the question which at\\nonce comes to the inquirer, Shall we then\\naddress our prayers to the spirits and not to\\nGod our reply is certainly, No. We\\nshould cripple the very power we would\\ncall to our aid by such asking. The mighty\\nSpirit of God pervades the denizens of the\\nspirit spheres, operating through them as\\npart of its myriad agencies, as it does in its\\nmore apparent outworkings through external\\nhumanity. The reaching after that Spirit\\nsets into action all the springs of being that\\nare situated or conditioned so as to be moved\\nby it and the prayer, instead of being lim-\\nited to one sole agency, as it would be if\\naddressed to one known spirit in the spheres\\nabout us, may call to our aid many unseen\\nand unknown influences, glad to be the\\ninstruments of the divine Mind in answer-\\ning the cries of earth s children. The\\nuse of prayer as a means or condition for\\nbringing the soul into harmony with God is\\n\u00c2\u00a3i 129 g\\n^mw^m,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity ant) Besting\\ndistinct from its efficacy for special response\\nbut, in this direction also, Spiritualism shows\\nhow prayer to the good Father will move his\\nloving angels to bring the heavenly peace\\nand strength to the communing soul.\\nAnother good in Spiritualism is its encour-\\nagement of Individuality, and independence\\nof the old bonds of Creed and Church. No\\nreliance on what another has done or suffered,\\nno passport from any church, no forgiving of\\nsins by the mouth of any prelate, no assump-\\ntion of another s holiness, proves to be of\\navail, according to the unvarying testimony of\\nSpiritualism. Every man must work out his\\nown salvation not without help from others,\\nit may be, for we are all members one of\\nanother, but without benefit of the passion\\nof any other, save as it has operated to show\\nthe way of life and instil the principle of\\nsacrifice. To Liberal Christianity such views\\nare not new but the testimony of Spiritual-\\nism is not therefore to be repulsed rather is\\nit to be welcomed as a coadjutor in the work\\nof liberalizing all churches for it is testi-\\nmony, not argument evidence, not asser-\\ntion. Silently, but surely, it is doing its\\nwork in this direction, as is apparent to every\\nunprejudiced observer; co-operating with\\n130", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "w$\\nof fIDobern Spiritualism\\nand stimulating the efforts of the human\\nmind of this day and generation to an under-\\nstanding, such as has not yet been attained,\\nof the liberty wherewith Christ hath made\\nus free. Spiritualism, says a recent in-\\nspirational speaker, teaches the necessity of\\ngood works done for humanity, rather than\\nintellectual submission to a tenet. The spirits\\nwho claim happy states of life in the spirit\\nspheres invariably ascribe their condition\\nto deeds rather than creeds.\\nInteresting and important, too, is the tes-\\ntimony of Spiritualism upon the question of\\nan Eternal Hell, for so many years one of\\nthe cherished tenets of the Christian Church\\nand still dwarfing by its terrors no small por-\\ntion of the Christian fold. That there is\\npunishment, and enough of it, for all the\\nmisdeeds of earth-life, is sadly proved by the\\ncries of remorse from those in the shadowy\\nplaces of the world beyond but every-\\nwhere and under all conditions the law of\\nprogression and development is proclaimed.\\nThe eternity aion of punishment is not\\neverlasting, but, as the Greek word properly\\ntranslated means, it is of indefinite duration,\\nand determined by laws of being and states\\nof life of which we know as yet but little,\\n13 1", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "Zhe ipurtty anfc Deettn^\\npointing, however, always to a possible ter-\\nmination of the retribution, which has come\\nas the inevitable judgment of divine law\\nbroken or unheeded in earth life. As the\\nkingdom of heaven was proclaimed to be\\nwithin, so are the judgment-seat and the\\nterrors of hell, according to Spiritualism,\\neach having its natural and necessary out-\\nworking and manifestation in surroundings\\nwhich belong to the spiritual states so de-\\nscribed. Dark as Erebus are the shadows\\nenveloping some unhappy spirits, as they are\\nseen by seers sufficiently developed and\\nbright as the natural eye has never seen, are\\nthe shining raiments of the just made per-\\nfect.\\nIn this connection may be stated the testi-\\nmony from the spirit-spheres as to the suffer-\\ning consequent upon neglect of opportunities\\nfor good, as well as wrong done. Frequently\\nthis is given in regard to the use of property\\nduring earth-life, and in the final disposition\\nat its close. Holding with unrecognized\\ngreed to the things of earth, the earth-bound\\nspirit, ere it passes beyond the control of its\\nmaterial possessions, too often seeks to tie\\nthe hands, and hearts too, of those who are\\nto come into possession, and by ingenious\\n132", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "of flfcobern Spiritualism\\ndevices to continue the sense of holding and\\ncontrolling what it knows it must soon sur-\\nrender. When such a spirit has passed over\\nthe river it cannot rise, because of the weight\\nof neglected opportunities. It comes back;\\nnay, it has not left the earth, though out of\\nits material form, and cannot leave it, for the\\nheavenly spheres, until relieved in some way\\nof the terrible burden of misused earthly pos-\\nsessions. Fear of retribution is not the high-\\nest motive to appeal to love, not fear, should\\nbe, and surely is to be, the rule of earth-life,\\nas well as of the heavenly spheres. But the\\nknowledge, for it is knowledge, which\\ncomes from the unvarying testimony of\\nSpiritualism in this regard, must be a help to\\nsome minds thus led to hesitate men other-\\nwise unmoved would become accessible to\\nthe approaches of their better angels, and\\nobedient to the promptings of their own\\nbetter natures.\\nAgain, Spiritualism has done and is doing\\ngood by demonstrating the folly of attempt-\\ning to conceal wrong. Mankind instinct-\\nively feel that the all-seeing Eye is upon\\nthem but the universality of the fact, and\\nthe seeming distance of the Ruler of the\\nuniverse, encourage wrong-doers to a strange\\nJ 33", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity atto Besting\\nindifference to what should be a potently\\nrestraining influence. Shutting their eyes to\\nGod, they half believe that he is not looking\\nat them when the moment of temptation and\\nyielding comes. When it is understood\\nthat God sees and acts through many agen-\\ncies, and that he is indeed ever beholding\\nall his children of earth through the watchful\\neyes of dear ones gone before, that a\\ncloud of witnesses is at our right hand\\nand at our left, counting among its number\\na father or mother, sister or brother, the\\nnearest, dearest friend perhaps we have\\nknown, it must give us pause, as it\\ndoes and often has to sincere Spiritualists,\\nwhen we are led into paths of danger. The\\nangel bands can and do bring helping hands\\nand new strength in the hour of our need.\\nThey can and do thus aid those who are\\nunable yet to recognize or admit the possi-\\nbility of their ministrations, but under\\ndifficulty, because of the unbelief which\\nrepels their approaches and continually\\nchecks the good they would gladly do\\nWitnesses they are of our daily acts and\\nthoughts closer than we know they come\\ninto our lives and have access to our in-\\nner chambers. From them, as from God\\nJ 34", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nand our own selves, there is no conceal-\\nment.\\nFrom them, too, we learn the error of\\nthe old saying, Speak nothing but good\\nof the dead. They come to us from their\\nspirit abodes with their eyes opened to any\\nill conditions in which they have been\\nremoved from earth-life, and with entreaties\\nurge upon us to help them relieve their\\nsouls of the weight of their wrong-doing by\\nconfession of the most open kind. Speak\\ntruth of the dead, is the new teaching but\\nspeak it kindly, tenderly, forgivingly. Hav-\\ning sought to cover up their wrong-doing\\nwhen in earth-life, they return to relieve the\\nburden of sin by acknowledging the wrong\\nand seeking forgiveness of the injured.\\nAgain and again has this been demonstrated\\nto inquirers into Spiritualism. Again and\\nagain has the cry come back from the\\nspheres beyond, beseeching that there\\nshould be no more concealment, but open\\nconfession and endeavor to right the wrong.\\nMore valuable to many minds has been\\nthe development, through Spiritualism, of\\nthe ancient gifts of the spirit, which had so\\nnearly died out. Of themselves deeply in-\\nteresting and important, their recent man-\\n135", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nifestation has illuminated the records of past\\nages, especially of the early centuries of the\\nChristian Church, and helped many persons\\nto accept the testimony of those days who\\ncould not before believe. In general it may\\nbe said that Spiritualism has thrown a light\\nupon the Scriptures which was greatly\\nneeded by this doubting, questioning, prob-\\ning age and with all the talk of some\\nextremists about throwing the Bible away,\\nit has brought to many, many inquirers\\nillustration and explanation of the old rec-\\nords which has given them new meaning\\nand value. We heartily commend the testi-\\nmony of Spiritualism to all who need help\\nin this direction.\\nTo our mind the work of modern Spirit-\\nualism upon social questions, and especially\\nupon the marriage relation, has seemed per-\\nhaps the most interesting and important.\\nWhile it is to be admitted that varying ideas\\nof the marriage relation have been expressed\\nthrough spirit mediums, and some on a low\\nplane of selfishness, we hold that on one\\npoint the testimony of the spirit-spheres has\\nbeen uniform, though with varying appli-\\ncation, according to the development of the\\ncommunicating spirit, or of the medium, or\\n%4 I36", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "::i\\nof flDofcern Spiritualism\\nof the inquirer, or perhaps of them all.\\nThis point is, freedom for the love prin-\\nciple manifested in the marriage relation.\\nThat this freedom in its spiritual sense does\\nnot mean wild license that it has regard to\\nthe eternal principle of truth, and must ever\\nbe held to that service of God which\\nalone is perfect freedom, there can be no\\ndoubt. Its practical application to the mar-\\nriage relation is a call for purity, for free-\\ndom from the tyrannical power of lust, and\\nthe abuse of opportunity under cover of\\nlaw. It asserts the right, the bounden duty,\\nrather, of woman, to whom the duty first\\nbelongs, to protect the fountains of life from\\nevery approach that is not actuated by love,\\nand to hold the marriage relation sacred to\\nthe cause of parentage, for which it was\\ndivinely instituted. The free love of pure\\nSpiritualism is, in fact, above the present\\ndevelopment of most men and women, and\\nnot to be easily attained.\\nBut this idea of freedom emanating from\\nthe higher spirit-spheres, in its simple state-\\nment, is one thing in its form of accepta-\\ntion and outworking it may be quite another,\\nand varies according to the conditions of\\ndevelopment it finds to work upon. Thus\\nJ 37\\ns", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant) Besting\\nit has come that so many phases of it\\nhave been manifested through mediums and\\namong Spiritualists some of which have so\\njustly offended the better sense of those\\nstill abiding under the old dispensation.\\nHow the freedom proclaimed for woman\\nhas been misinterpreted, how it has been\\nconstrued into a warrant for open breach\\nof the laws of the land, and bold defiance\\nof established usage, threatening sometimes\\nto subvert all social order, and causing the\\nvery name of Spiritualism to be an offence,\\nis too well known to be rehearsed here.\\nThe fault has been not in Spiritualism, but\\nin its professors, who have fallen into error\\nout of their former states. Early Christian-\\nity had to pass through similar experience.\\nThe sharp rebukes in some of the epistles to\\nthe recently converted heathens of Corinth,\\nshow plainly how they committed excesses\\nof intemperance, and yet graver offences, at\\ntheir love-feasts. They could not bear the\\nopportunity offered in the new rites, which\\nproved a temptation to their old conditions.\\nHow mistaken the more sober-minded of\\nthe unconverted of the Corinthians would\\nhave been, to attribute to Christianity the\\nvices which seemed thus to find expression\\n138", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nthrough the Christian rites, we of this day\\ncan easily see. Not less mistaken are those\\nwho attribute to Spiritualism the excesses\\nof some of its believers, which are only\\nevidences of the low grade of development\\nthey had attained under their old dispensa-\\ntion. Let not the uninitiated be too ready\\nto believe that such extravagances show the\\nreal meaning of the doctrine, or illustrate the\\nlow degree of the angel messengers who\\nbrought it. Rather let them inquire into\\nthe inner mystery of the opening dispensa-\\ntion of love, and learn how far it is above\\nthe average development of our race to-day,\\nand to what heights of aspiration and attain-\\nment it is now calling the children of earth.\\nTo the command, given of old, to subdue\\nthe earth, no higher obedience can be ren-\\ndered by man than this subjection of the\\nappetites of the physical to his spiritual\\nnature. In other and less difficult ways\\nmust he learn obedience before he can at-\\ntain this greatest of his achievements. In\\nall the conditions of his natural life which\\ncombine to make up his physical well-being,\\nespecially in the food with which he builds\\nup and repairs the daily waste of his body,\\nmust he learn to give heed to the voice\\nJ 39", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anfc Weetiny\\nwithin, selecting ever that which will con-\\nduce to the welfare of both body and mind,\\nhabit soon making easy and joyful what\\nat first may seem like sacrifice.\\nThere must be struggle to attain all this,\\ntaking man as he is in his best average\\ndevelopment and patience, too, patience\\nwith one another, patience with ourselves,\\npatience with God, ere the great end will\\nbe reached. That the millennial day is to\\ncome, is believed by most Christians. It is\\nto be brought about, not by any cataclysm,\\nnot by any sudden fiat of the Almighty,\\nbut by and through better men and better\\nwomen, better institutions, better philosophy,\\nbetter teachings, better lives. Man can\\nnever reach his highest development until\\nwoman rises to the dignity of her great call-\\ning, and, holding herself obedient to the\\nvoice of the Spirit, brings herself and him\\ninto perfect accord with the Father s will in\\nall these things.\\nThese high doctrines in relation to the\\nmarriage state came to us in our contempla-\\ntions many years ago, and were confirmed by\\nthe influences ready to communicate through\\nthe medium before referred to. Since then\\nwe have more than once reasoned upon the\\n140", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nsubject with communicating intelligences, and\\nwith mediums whose life-experiences had\\nbrought them to a recognition of the higher\\nlaw. Thus, while admitting that lower\\npromptings, even to the lowest possible, have\\ncome from those in the spirit-world yet grov-\\nelling in the mire of their old earth-life, call-\\ning for the apostle s injunction, verily to\\ntry the spirits, we claim that these higher\\nlaws have been developed in the minds of\\ntruth-seekers in modern things of the spirit,\\nand have been pronounced through their me-\\ndiumship, by direct communication from\\ntheir spirit-bands, and that such are now the\\naccepted teachings among advanced spirits\\nin the spheres above, as well as among those\\nstill in earth-life. Having studied the sub-\\nject in its various aspects, and with ever earn-\\nest inquiry, since our first knowledge of these\\nlaws, we have found them in every way con-\\nfirmed as rational and true.\\nWe have thus spoken of some of the lead-\\ning points in which Spiritualism is bringing\\nits testimony and doing its work in aid of\\nhuman development. A comprehensive\\nview discloses the relation of this modern\\nmovement of the spirit-spheres to the dispen-\\nsations which have preceded it, and espe-\\n141 g,\\nnm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Beetirt^\\ncially its bearing upon the question of the\\nChrist-coming, which is believed by so many\\nChristians to be imminent at this time.\\nThat it is ushering in a new dispensation,\\nwherein spiritual power shall uproot the false\\ndevelopments of the day, break up the arti-\\nficial systems social, civil, and religious\\nby which man s higher nature is now fettered,\\nand establish all the relations of life, all\\ncustoms, institutions, and all philosophy,\\nupon the firm basis of spiritual love and\\ntruth, is believed by most Spiritualists. Old\\ncreeds and dogmas wither before its fervent\\nheat. Fermentation everywhere is trying the\\nstrength of old conditions, and bursting the\\nbonds made up of falsehood and sham.\\nBut with all the seeming confusion there is\\nunderlying order, for the movement is sus-\\ntained by the arm of the good Father, im-\\npelled and directed by his almighty will. It\\nseems, indeed, the second Christ-coming; but\\nnot in the way expected by the Adventists,\\nwho, in their conception of a visible Messiah\\ncoming to judge the quick and the dead, are\\nas mistaken as were the Jews of old in look-\\ning for a temporal kingdom under their ex-\\npected leader. Did not the Christ-man say\\nthat he should come like a thief in the night\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba5* 142 \u00c2\u00bbji", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "of HDobern Spiritualism\\nHas he not come now, with his myriad\\nangels, trying and judging from behind the\\nclouds which screen the mighty presence from\\nthe material sight of earth-life? He comes,\\nnot as a personal king to erect a personal\\nkingdom, but to establish the Christ-princi-\\nple of divine love and truth in the minds and\\nhearts of the children of men. God s king-\\ndom is at hand, ushered in by the angels\\nthat know and do his will.\\nWe understand the operation of spirit\\npower in these latter days to be twofold.\\nThere is a widespread, general quickening of\\nall the conditions of earth-life, affecting the\\ngood and the bad, the developed and the un-\\ndeveloped, to activity beyond their usual\\nstate, the Spirit of God moving over the\\ndeep and there is a special, direct influence\\nexercised by different spirits or bands of spir-\\nits upon individuals, according to the states\\nin which they are found, thus trying the\\ncondition of each and all, and quickening\\nthem to show their inner lives by deeds, and\\nthrow off, through sudden impulse often, the\\ncloaks under which their real state has been\\nconcealed, perhaps even to themselves. In\\nthis way Spiritualism has sometimes seemed\\nto encourage evil ways as well as good.\\n143", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nCloser observation shows that the law of in-\\ndividual responsibility is not to be broken.\\nThe very possibility of low conditions in the\\nseeker after these things of the spirit opening\\nthe way to and attracting undeveloped spirits,\\nwho will be ready to encourage the low seek-\\ning, is only a call to every one now in earth-\\nform to look closely within, and see to it that\\nno evil conditions are lurking there, lest they\\nbe quickened to expression beyond the con-\\ntrol of their unhappy victim. The danger\\nis equally great, if not greater, because un-\\nperceived, though perhaps not so immediate,\\nif we do not directly seek communion with\\nthe spirits for they are about us, whether\\nwe know it or not, watching every opportu-\\nnity to reach and move us according to the\\ntendencies they find in us.\\nThe movement of the spheres above has\\ncome now because man has reached a point\\nin his development where he can and must\\nrise to better understanding and higher views\\nof the future, as well as of his present life.\\nTo help that struggle for development,\\nSpiritualism suggests possibilities, not by way\\nof coercion, but of inducement for him to\\ncome up higher. It is for him to receive the\\nsuggestions, weigh them carefully in the bal-\\n144", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nance of truth, by which he must test every-\\nthing, and to reject or strive to live up to\\nthem, according to his convictions. But let\\nhim see to it that low motives do not under-\\nlie his own life, if he would distinguish the\\ntrue from the false. Blessed are the pure\\nin heart, for they shall see God. Through\\nthe wisdom of the pure heart, man must find\\nthe truth of these latter days. Try the\\nspirits, was the injunction given long ago.\\nIt has momentous meaning now; but let us\\nremember that we, also, are being tried by\\nthem, and see to it that our record will bear\\ntheir keen scrutiny. Judging and being\\njudged, they need our co-operation and help.\\nThey call us to join with them in the great\\nwork of redemption.\\nThe words of a recent inspirational speaker\\nare apt in this connection l An impulsion\\nsweeps toward the earth every heart is\\ntouched, every mind is delicately tried, every\\nsoul is attuned those who are ready are at\\nonce receptive. It is not simply that you\\nreceive it when you seek, but you cannot\\nseek until there is some measure of truth\\nwithin you. It is not simply that it is forced\\nupon your brain and attention from the\\ni Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond.\\n145", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity an Beating\\nspiritual world, but you are tried and tested\\nwhether you are in any degree ready, or\\nwhether you are in any degree capable of\\nserving the advancement of this thought\\nand the spirit-world know to whom they\\nminister, know to whom they bring the\\nmessage of life and it is brought to you\\naccording to your need.\\nTo be true unto the truth, physically and\\nspiritually, is the demand of the hour. He\\nwho fails in either will find out his weakness\\nin the easy falling under temptation, and the\\nlowering tone of his physical health,\\nhappy if he is not brought into dire straits\\nof bodily disease, or led out to be a monu-\\nment of shame for his evil doings. It is\\nmore dangerous now for a man to come\\nwithin the reach of temptation than it was\\nthirty years ago, there is such quickening\\nof every element of his nature, causing the\\nevil conditions to ferment and seek expres-\\nsion as never before.\\nNever was there a time in the world s\\nhistory when there was so much need of the\\ndaily prayer, Lead us not into temptation,\\nThe sunlight of God s love and truth is\\nquickening all conditions with its kindling\\nrays and as the great deep bubbles and\\n146", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "^yn^^r\\nof HDofcern Spiritualism\\nboils, impurities must need be brought to\\nthe surface, and at times seem almost to\\nhopelessly cover and conceal the purer ele-\\nments beneath. But love and truth will in\\nthe end prevail God s kingdom will come,\\nand humanity rise purified from the fiery\\ntrial.\\nOf Mediumship something should be\\nsaid in this brief showing of the work, prog-\\nress, and outlook of Modern Spiritualism.\\nTo those who have given the subject but\\nlittle attention, mediumship is looked upon as\\na kind of cataleptic state, worthy of little con-\\nsideration and less sympathy the time hav-\\ning gone by when it was by the same persons\\ndeemed all trickery and deception. Closer\\nobservation shows that the world has never\\nknown greater occasion for kindly interest\\nand helpful sympathy than is to be found in\\nthose who are called to the labor of aiding\\ndirectly in the opening of this new dispensa-\\ntion through the intercommunion of the\\nspirit-spheres and humanity in earth-life.\\nAll are one on both sides of the veil of\\ntime, members one of another the great\\nfamily of man seems drawing together for\\nsuch final occupation and enjoyment of earth\\nand its attendant spheres as has been prom-\\n147\\nv:", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nised for the ransomed through all the cen-\\nturies. The time is at hand for parting the\\nveil which has heretofore screened the spirit-\\nland from the vision of dwellers upon earth.\\nThe work to which mediums are called\\nto be channels of demonstration and com-\\nmunication, preparing the way for the more\\nopen intercourse yet to come is of momen-\\ntous value. That some, perhaps many,\\nhave not themselves understood the char-\\nacter of their calling, and so have failed to\\nhold up the high standard of love and truth\\nwhich would, at first thought, be expected\\nof them, is to be attributed to the power of\\nold conditions, out of which their spirits\\nhave not arisen; while yet they have been\\navailable for some phases of the work to be\\naccomplished. Much may be said in exten-\\nuation of the shortcomings of mediumship.\\nThat it is no light calling, has been too\\noften proved in the labors and sufferings of\\nits subjects. It has been, indeed, a heavy\\ncross to bear not, however, without its\\ncrown, for it brings ever an underlying sense\\nof happiness through all the suffering, with\\nperiods of exaltation hardly known without\\nit. But none can know, who have not had\\nthe experience, what agony of spirit, and\\n148 j(", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nsometimes acute physical pain, have been\\nborne by persons of mediumistic develop-\\nment in their contact with and rough usage\\nby conditions of earth-life wholly inapprecia-\\ntive of their delicate organization and sensi-\\ntive state. Father, forgive them, for they\\nknow not what they do, has been wrung\\nfrom the lips of many a martyr since they\\nwere first uttered by the great Sufferer but\\nnever more than in these days of modern\\nmediumship. Surely these things ought to\\nbe and will be soon better understood, and\\nthe chosen laborers better cared for.\\nAll hail to the good time at hand, which\\nis to usher in, through tribulation, purer,\\nbrighter, happier conditions for the children\\nof men, to be realized, in a measure, even\\nby some of those who now tread the earth.\\nBut even with willingness of mind, it would,\\nwith rare exceptions, require more than one\\ngeneration to overcome the power of inherit-\\nance and habit, so as to live fully up to the\\nhigher law in all things. There must be\\nsincere conviction, and then long and patient\\nstriving, ere the goal can be reached. It\\ncan and will be attained, not by any startling\\noperation of divine power, though the devel-\\nopment may be comparatively rapid, after\\n149\\n^^esmUmuP^mm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "Gbe ffmritp ant) Destiny\\nall these centuries of preparation. It must\\nbe by growth of the Christ principle in the\\nhuman heart. The kingdom, God s king-\\ndom, is coming through better men and\\nbetter women; and these must be developed\\nthrough better living, out of truer, holier\\nbirthrights than fall to the lot of most of\\nearth s children now.\\nWould that these words could reach the\\nminds and hearts of all who remain stagnant\\nin their old inherited conditions, too content\\nwith their spiritual riches to seek the wealth\\nnow offering to humanity through channels\\nopened under the influences, though not all\\nunder the much-abused name, of modern\\nSpiritualism Let them not be too sure of\\ntheir position, or shut their eyes to their\\nlack of spiritual gifts and to the many\\nmanifest proofs that they have hardly yet\\nbegun to receive the knowledge of God\\ngiven to the world eighteen centuries ago\\nAgain the voice of the Spirit cries out,\\nWoe unto you rich! Woe unto you\\nchurches, that have builded costly monu-\\nments of faith and zeal, but for heavenly\\nmanna have gathered too much the lifeless\\nchaff of creeds and dogmas, the empty husks\\nof formal observance, with which to feed the\\n150 t\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "of fll o\u00c2\u00a3 ern Spiritualism\\nhungry souls crying to you for bread\\nRegenerating humanity will not much longer\\nbe held in bondage. Look to your treas-\\nures, and see that they bear the stamp of\\nGod s own imprint, lest ye perish through\\nvery poverty of spirit while every human\\nhome must become a house of prayer, and\\nevery fireside an altar to the living God.\\n15 1", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant) Besting\\nARTICLE V.\\nSpiritualism a Searching Power.\\nNo escape from Judgment. Spiritual perception\\nnot of the Intellect. Guidance of the spirit\\npossible for all. It gives reality to spirit.\\nThe Marriage Relation. Joining of hands.\\nTo spiritualize the natural, the need and work\\nof the hour.\\nThe foregoing article offers a brief expo-\\nsition of the work, progress, and outlook of\\nModern Spiritualism. Its necessary limits\\nexclude much having important bearing up-\\non the meaning and value of the new con-\\nditions.\\nSpiritualism, as there claimed, by its direct\\ntestimonies, throws light upon the path in\\nwhich men have been groping, makes\\nclearer to their vision the impediments to\\ntheir progress, shows anew the truth and\\nthe life by which they can be brought to\\nbetter development, and, in general, calls\\n*2* 15 2", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcem Spiritualism\\nthem to come up higher. It brings a power\\nthat tries all conditions. The companion-\\nships of earth-life try our hearts and minds,\\naffecting their action in daily experience\\nthe influence of those about us, unseen by\\nthe natural eye, is trying our lives yet more,\\nand in ways little realized, until some action\\ndeclares our states. From their searching\\nscrutiny there can be no concealment, and\\nfrom the judgment of our inner selves, no\\nescape while good angels would lead all\\nmen to be, in humbleness of spirit, children\\nof God, whose love, whose wisdom, whose\\npower, seem now ready to pour upon those\\nwho will receive, as never before vouchsafed.\\nThrough recognition of the spirit agency,\\nboth mind and heart are the more readily\\nquickened. With deep desire and earnest\\nprayer in heart and mind, the doors of the\\nspirit may be opened, so that none but heav-\\nenly visitors can enter.\\nThe subtle forces engaged in the manifes-\\ntation of spiritual or supernatural phenomena,\\nwhether of high or low degree, have condi-\\ntions peculiarly their own, and are subject\\nto laws not fully understood as yet, but\\nwhich are, nevertheless, as fixed as the laws\\nregulating natural phenomena. In one re-\\n153", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Stestin^\\ngard, however, there is a law common to the\\ninvestigation of both natural and spiritual\\nphenomena. It is true of science on the\\nspiritual as on the natural plane, that no\\nman can make original investigation unless\\nhis heart be filled with sincere love. Pure\\nintellect can often follow up and seem to\\noccupy the tracks of other minds which have\\npreceded under the illumination of love but\\nit cannot make sound, successful, original\\nresearch under its own cold light alone. He\\nwho would find out God in things of the\\nspirit must have the love of God in his heart.\\nDoubtless, increasing knowledge of God in\\nthe mind quickens the heart s love and gives\\nit direction, while it enlarges the sphere of\\nits manifestation; but the love must be there\\nto be quickened. The difference is wide be-\\ntween the inquiry of the mind alone into the\\nfacts and philosophy of spiritual or super-\\nnatural phenomena, and the seeking of the\\nheart after pure spirituality in things of the\\nspirit. The two need to be combined for\\nattainment of the broad science of Modern\\nSpiritualism.\\nHumble-mindedness is always an indis-\\npensable condition in this, as in every other\\ninquiry into truth. The valley of humility\\n154", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nlies ever before the mount of vision. The\\nfailure of many (so called) scientific inves-\\ntigations into the ordinary, external phe-\\nnomena of Spiritualism has been instructive\\non this point. Coming to the examination\\nwith little love in their hearts, and to their\\nlack of love adding pride of intellect, such\\ninquirers have been baffled, and refused ad-\\nmission at the very outer gates of that portal\\nwhich may open, according to the real desire\\nof the seeker, up through the blessed angels\\nto the very presence of God.\\nThe claim of Spiritualism, that a new dis-\\npensation is opening to earth-life through\\nits manifold agencies, has awakened a desire\\nin the minds of many, by whom the phenom-\\nena cannot yet be accepted as veritable, to\\nknow the supposed relation of the new con-\\nditions, if true, to their old faith. Allusion\\nhas been made heretofore to what seemed to\\nbe the general relation of Spiritualism to\\nChristianity. A closer relation will be found\\nin the development and operation of the\\nspiritual perceptions under these modern in-\\nfluences, which we would endeavor briefly to\\nset forth.\\nRealization of spirit presence through phy-\\nsical manifestation whether of the startling\\nJ 55\\n3K9", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\ncharacter of recent materializations, or of\\nthe simpler kind is not sufficient of it-\\nself to meet the craving of the soul to reach\\nup through the avenues of sense and liftings\\nof the spirit till it can find the Father but\\nit is an important remove from the ordinary\\nmaterial plane of life. The fact of being\\nface to face with a spirit on the other side of\\nthe veil of time, once realized through per-\\nsonal experience, breaks utterly and forever\\nthe spell of materiality, which has overgrown\\nthe spiritual perceptions of humanity, and\\nmade the average conception of spiritual\\nthings so vague and unsatisfactory. That\\nspell once broken, the way is opened to\\nearnest seekers for recognition of mental and\\nspiritual impressions from invisible sources,\\nleading to a development of the spiritual per-\\nceptions which will come gradually, and, with\\nsteadfast desire in the mind for the highest\\nand best, will prove to be reliable and good.\\nTo have the spiritual perceptions thus\\ndeveloped is to realize far more than the pos-\\nsibility and fact of spirit communing and in-\\ntercourse. 1 1 is to have mind and heart opened\\nto a recognition of spiritual elements and\\nconditions, in a manner and to a degree that\\ncan hardly be understood, and certainly not\\n156", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nenjoyed by those living wholly on the natural\\nplane, however pure their lives, or even spir-\\nitual their desires. It is the opening of a\\nnew sense, but with wider range than any and\\nall the natural senses, and more exquisite in\\nits varied enjoyments, by as much as things\\nof the spirit are above things of the natural\\nworld. Spiritualizing the natural senses, each\\nin their special direction, to perception of\\nspiritual sights and sounds, to recognition of\\nfiner magnetisms in the touch of angel\\nhands, to unwonted satisfaction and enjoy-\\nment in the elements of simple food, to the\\nscent of richest fragrance from flowers of\\nheaven, brought by loving friends, perhaps\\nnot visibly, for such spiritual openings are\\nnot, as yet, always active together, the de-\\nvelopment of spiritual perceptions leads to\\nintelligent acquirement and realization of the\\nvarious gifts of the spirit, of which the Chris-\\ntian world has read so often and understands\\nso little. In addition to these comes now\\nthe possibility of unfoldment and insight\\ninto all the spiritual elements underlying the\\nwhole natural world.\\nSuch experience leads yet further to a\\nguidance within the spirit, which may thus,\\nby a process of growth, learn to draw from\\nI 57", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anfc Besting\\nthe very depths of God s love and wisdom,\\nthrough the manifold agencies of his appoint-\\nment, both on the natural and spiritual planes.\\nSuch guidance is not an after-recognition\\nfollowing experience, but an influence more\\nor less present to the consciousness, and\\nquickly responsive to the seeking of the spirit\\nfor right direction in every movement of\\nthought, prompting and leading in every act.\\nIt calls for no mere passive state, inviting the\\nmental faculties to listless inactivity. On\\nthe contrary, the more developed those facul-\\nties may be, the larger is the range of action\\nfor the guidance only they must be held in\\never humble willingness to be led by the\\ndivine hand, while eager to do all their part\\nin carrying out the promptings. The reason\\nwill not fail to throw its light upon any and\\nevery work to which man is called, and check\\nthe folly of blind impulse, while it waits\\nupon the spiritual man to find what the work\\nto do is. The more developed and active\\nthe reasoning powers, the more ready is the\\ndivine hand to help, when sought after in\\ntrue humbleness. Said the voice in the old\\nfable, Put thy shoulder to the wheel then\\ncall on Jupiter, and he will help thee. But,\\nwhile not requiring a mere passive state, the\\n158\\nW*Z?X", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nspirit must be calm within, or it cannot per-\\nceive the promptings aright, nor hear the\\nstill, small voice correctly. The waters must\\nbe unruffled, if they would receive and reflect\\nthe heavenly images without distorted lines.\\nImpatient zeal may be as great a hindrance\\nas over-confidence in the intellectual faculties.\\nRecognizing and grateful for the part which\\nspirit agency takes in such direction, the\\nearnest seeker will find the possibility and\\nactual fulfilment of those words of the\\nPsalmist, He shall give his angels charge\\nover thee, lest thou dash thy foot against a\\nstone. He must not be discouraged if the\\nimpressions of such guidance come faintly at\\nfirst. Most things which grow well grow\\nslowly, and from small beginnings. Neither\\nshould he falter when the promptings lead to\\npainful experience, except to question the\\nsincerity of his purpose and the reasonable-\\nness of his conduct. If the asking has been\\ntrue, the result will show that the guidance\\nhas been good in the lessons of life which\\nwere needed, and could come only through\\nsuch teaching. Thus Spiritualism, by awak-\\nening and educating the spiritual perceptions,\\nmakes clearer and broader to this age of de-\\nvelopment the way by which, with earnest\\n159", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Destiny\\nstriving and patient waiting, humanity may\\nrise higher and higher in spiritual attainment,\\nco-working with God and the angels, until\\nat last all its actions shall be outworkings of\\nthe Divine Spirit, and the promises of old be\\nfulfilled. in the life of every child of earth.\\nIf the spiritual state thus to be attained\\nappear the same as that considered in Chris-\\ntian churches as the legitimate result of true\\nChristian development, it follows that Spir-\\nitualism is not antagonistic to Christianity.\\nIt is, indeed, its latter-day coadjutor and,\\nwhile bringing the two-edged sword of truth,\\nlike Christianity, it comes to fulfil, not to\\ndestroy. To the minds of hasty observers,\\nthe work of Spiritualism has been a puzzle,\\nif not an offence, in the varied character of\\nits communications and teachings, as a whole,\\ncompared with the single purpose of spirit-\\nual unfoldment manifested in the Christian\\ndispensation. But the way opened to one\\nmust need be opened to all the spirit-spheres,\\nwhich thus bring the operative power of\\njudgment to every condition of earth-life,\\nand in a measure come to judgment them-\\nselves. Through all the various teachings\\nand communication of things spiritual, how-\\never, the higher angels have been and are\\n$i 160 %t", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ninstilling and directly communicating lessons\\nof wisdom and elements of divine love from\\nthe Christ-sphere, supported by such assur-\\nances as conditions have permitted, even to\\nthe surpassing sense of peace believed to be\\nof the very Christ. Thus the promises of\\nold are being fulfilled, though not in ways\\nexpected and, though men have hardly yet\\nbegun to live up to the truth that was and is\\nin Christ Jesus, the angel-bands are bringing\\nto earth-life new elements and ushering in a\\nnew era, which, in its outworkings, shall ful-\\nfil a new and yet larger Messianic hope, to\\nmeet the spiritual needs of advancing human-\\ne-\\nAdmitting gratefully the advantage of\\ntheir starting-point, by birth and education\\nin a Christian community, many Spiritualists\\nhave found it due to the truth to declare\\nthat they are directly indebted to Spir-\\nitualism beginning with the alphabet of\\nphysical manifestations, the rappings and\\ntable-tippings for a new life, which is to\\ntheir old life as light to darkness. The actu-\\nality of their own spirit of spirit life as\\ndistinct from the natural life, and of spirit\\nexistence in the life to come, was so vague\\nto their comprehension, before the light of\\n$i 161 g\\nW", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity arto \u00c2\u00a9eetin^\\nModern Spiritualism dawned upon their\\nminds, that they could get no real hold of\\nany things of the spirit. Our Father\\nwas comparatively an unknown God,\\nwhom they worshipped ignorantly and\\nJesus, a distant friend, whose life they could\\nadmire, but whose great love they could\\nneither fully receive nor reciprocate. The\\ntruths of pure, unsectarian, gospel Christian-\\nity are, indeed, the foundation of all true\\nlife, by showing the Father and spiritualiz-\\ning the moral law in those commands,\\nThou shalt love the Lord with all thy\\nheart, and thy neighbor as thyself, on which\\nhang all the Law and the Prophets.\\nSpiritualism, in its appointed time, comes to\\ngive a reality to spirit, which could hardly\\nbe known before, and helps the mind to a\\nbetter understanding and the heart to a\\nmore living sense of God as spirit, who is to\\nbe worshipped in spirit and in truth.\\nKnowing that Spiritualism has come a helper\\nto many, substantially in the manner de-\\nscribed, we cannot but add our conviction\\nthat an honest admission would show to very\\nmany more a similar need, calling for simi-\\nlar help, in these days when materialism has\\nso overshadowed and imperceptibly grown\\nK 162", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "of fIDobern Spirituall0m\\ninto the lives of all. It was hardly to be\\nexpected, indeed, that man could take such\\nleaps in material development and make no\\ndiscoveries on the spiritual side of his life.\\nSuch a one-sided strain could not long be\\nborne the equilibrium of his being would\\nbe destroyed. Closing in the spiritual per-\\nceptions and stunting spiritual growth, the\\nwhirl of excitement on the material plane in\\nmodern times would have driven mankind\\nmad, if some such additional help had not\\nbroken in from the skies to save them.\\nWith the spiritual perceptions opened, the\\nmost practical life becomes spiritualized, as\\nevery life should be. Spirit mediumship, as\\nwe have before intimated, according to its\\ncharacter and degree of sensitiveness, requires\\nmore or less relief from the ordinary pres-\\nsure of practical duties, a certain setting\\napart for the special service but Spiritual-\\nism, in its simple opening of the spiritual\\nperceptions, which is its normal work with all\\ntrue seekers, will lead no man or woman\\naway from the duties which practical life\\ndemands at their hands. Material interests\\nhave their divinely appointed laws, which\\nmust be obeyed, and which, under true guid-\\nance of the spirit, will not be ignored.\\n163", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "m^\\\\\\n\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destin\\\\\\nSpiritual development cannot contravene\\nthese laws, but only operate to give them\\ntheir most beneficent expression. To the\\nhumblest laborers the divine guidance can\\ncome to lead and cheer them on, so that, in\\nthe most commonplace details, they may\\nfeel themselves to be co-workers with God.\\nBut, until the whole of humanity is opened\\nto the new life, there must be struggle, and\\nperhaps suffering, for those whose light\\nshines upon darkness that comprehendeth\\nit not. Through all the weary centuries\\nhas this guidance been seeking to lead and\\nhelp man in his struggles for development\\nbut it has failed of due recognition and ac-\\ncomplishment, because the diviner elements\\nof his being have been so covered over with\\nthe scales of ignorance on the one hand, or\\nof intellectual conceit on the other, as to al-\\nlow only a partial approach of the manifold\\nagencies of the ever-waiting spirit of God.\\nLaboring to raise mankind out of the\\nsloughs into which they have fallen through\\nignorance and indifference, the higher agen-\\ncies of Spiritualism are not deterred from\\ntheir work by false delicacy or artificial con-\\nsiderations. Viewing man in his twofold as-\\npect, the spiritual and the natural, they\\nj 164", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nseek to make known what are the elements\\nwhich have their life wholly on the natural\\nplane of his being, and what on the spiritual,\\nplacing the spiritual always in the supremacy.\\nLooking thus at the marriage relation, al-\\nluded to in our previous article, right under-\\nstanding of which lies at the very foundation\\nof social science, though to some minds it is\\nalmost a forbidden subject, it appears that\\non the natural plane marriage springs from\\nthe attraction of magnetisms and that far\\ntoo often these are the controlling, if not the\\nonly, forces actuating human mating. These\\ndo give rise to emotions of love but such\\nemotions, being from their origin wholly on\\nthe natural plane, are selfish, and, like all\\nother selfish promptings, seek selfish gratifi-\\ncation, leading to fruits of selfishness. In\\nevery true marriage there is spiritual love\\nalso, which may be known by its seeking the\\ngood of another rather than its own gratifi-\\ncation, and by not being exhausted, but\\nrather growing, through expression. Hu-\\nman mating being comparatively free from\\nnatural limitations, the selfish promptings,\\nwhich are equally strong in the natural man\\nas in all other forms of life below him, must\\nbe held in restraint by the spiritual man.\\n165 q*.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Besting\\nOut of his freedom comes man s special\\nresponsibility, in this relation as in all others,\\nof enlightened self-control, which must look\\nto divine purpose for its direction and strength.\\nConstrained by the higher love, the marriage\\nrelation is lifted to its proper plane and\\nobedience to divine law, as shown in purpose,\\nbecomes both possible and easy.\\nSuch constraint is no mere asceticism.\\nSincere inquiry will make plain what the\\npurpose and law are, and what are the ob-\\nstacles to obedience, as well as the occasion\\nfor promulgation of these views in the\\npresent average state of the marriage re-\\nlation obedience in this regard being an in-\\ndispensable step in the progress of humanity\\ntoward establishing spiritual supremacy in all\\nthe relations of life, that essential basis of\\nGod s kingdom on earth, for which the\\ncenturies have been praying that it come as\\nin heaven. It is due to Spiritualism that\\nthis call for higher life should be accredited\\nto its influence and suggestion, in happy\\ncontrast with ideas which, at the opening of\\nits work, have obtained a limited hold upon\\nsome of its more forth-putting believers, and\\nleft a temporary stain upon its fair name,\\nthat would not have been possible but for\\ni% 166", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nthe weakness of old conditions thus brought\\nto judgment.\\nMarriage has been defined to be the effort\\nof spirit to ultimate itself in form. It is\\nplain that the quality of the ultimation must\\ndepend upon the character of the spirit in-\\nvolved, whether that be on the plane of\\npure, unselfish love, or on the lower plane\\nof selfish gratification. Let true spiritual\\nmarriage underlie the natural mating, with\\nthe life on the natural plane directed by a\\nholy desire to build up and sustain the body\\nas a temple for the indwelling of a pure\\nspirit, and the true intent of the marriage\\nrelation in earth-life will be wrought out in\\nsuch lives, such homes, and such beautiful\\noffspring as humanity are not often blessed\\nwith now. The subject is momentous, and\\ndemands the fullest consideration. Spirit-\\nualism proclaims in general that better social\\nconditions are at hand, waiting only for man s\\nwillingness to welcome them. This cannot\\nbe until these grave matters are taken into\\nthe thoughts, and worked out in the lives\\nof women and men. In the name of God,\\npure Spiritualism demands that the divine\\npurpose in all the relations of life be sought\\nand followed out. Co-working with God\\n*t 167\\nin", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Stestinip\\nand his agencies, it rests with man to help on\\nthe coming of his kingdom.\\nIn this connection we would allude briefly\\nto the joining of hands at their gatherings,\\nto which the attention of Spiritualists, as well\\nas of outside observers, has been seriously\\ncalled. The joining of hands on such occa-\\nsions has sometimes proved to be more than\\nthe old conditions could bear, and selfishness\\nhas crept in to mar and prevent the other-\\nwise harmonizing interchange of magnetic\\ninfluence. Like the love-feasts of the early\\nChristians, those meetings have tried the old\\nconditions in the balance of spiritual intent,\\nand too often found them wanting. The\\nresults are ground for argument against en-\\ntering into such relations unguardedly, and\\ndo show the error of joining in promiscuous\\ngatherings, where the motives of all present\\nmay not be equally sincere and unselfish\\nbut they furnish no reason for refusing to\\njoin in the seeking, where a sincere purpose\\nis known to control. There ought to be no\\nsafer or better place for this joining of hands\\nin spiritual seeking than in the home circle, j\\nTry the spirits honestly, devoutly, reverently\\ntoward God, and there need be no fear of\\nevil consequences, while the way may thus\\n1 68", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "i ^fZVC*\u00c2\u00aeti!S$r\u00c2\u00a3 tal\\nof flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nbe opened to the highest spiritual unfold-\\nment.\\nThe disposition of seekers in Modern\\nSpiritualism to be contented with witnessing\\nsupernatural phenomena, without following\\nup to the higher things of the spirit, was to\\nbe expected at first. By degrees, a larger\\nand deeper interest has been and will doubt-\\nless be yet more awakened while experience\\nis showing that those words of the Apostle,\\nThough I have the gift of prophecy, and\\nunderstand all mysteries and all knowledge,\\nand have not charity [love], I am\\nnothing, are as true now as when they\\nwere spoken. To spiritualize the natural,\\nas Jesus labored to spiritualize the moral,\\nso that the divine spirit and uses which un-\\nderlie all things in the natural shall have due\\nrecognition and full expression, is the work\\nof Modern Spiritualism, not to astonish\\nby external wonders, or merely gratify curi-\\nosity about the conditions of life in other\\nspheres of existence. Heretofore, when spirit\\nforces have drawn near to earth-life, the\\nmanifestations of their presence and power\\nhave seemed marvellous. As the work of\\ndevelopment goes on, and harmonious rela-\\ntions are established, with open communion\\nt-B 169 \u00c2\u00a3t\\nmvmm\\nmm\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "ftbe purity anfc Destiny\\nand communication between the natural and\\nthe spiritual worlds, these manifestations will\\nno longer be exceptional or in any sense\\nstrange. The call for signs and wonders\\nwill cease and humanity, drawing nearer to\\nGod, will move on, happy in fulfilling its\\nvaried part in the ever-repeating miracle of\\ndaily life. Such are the promises of the\\nNew Dispensation.\\n170", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "of fIDctoern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE VI.\\nUnfoldment of the New Era.\\nMethod of procedure. The new era one of spiritual\\nopening. Its quickening causes the turmoil of\\nthe times. Inspiration better understood.\\nCauses retarding progress. Foremost, ignorance\\nand disobedience of Law in the marriage relation.\\nToo much selfishness, too little Love. False\\nshame. Errors in food. Real needs of the\\nphysical. Spiritualism a source of consolation\\nto the afflicted. Individuality its first require-\\nment.\\nA New Dispensation These momen-\\ntous words have been written under full\\nconviction based upon facts of external\\nobservation and inner experience that this\\nworld of ours, after its long and weary cen-\\nturies of preparation, is entering, has indeed\\nentered, upon a new era of development\\nsomething more than the growth which is\\nalways going on, differing from what has\\ngone before by discrete degree, though rest-\\n*t 171", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "Ktf\\nZbe purity anfc Destiny\\ning upon antecedent epochs as its necessary\\nfoundation.\\nWith all the recent rapid development on\\nthe material plane of earth-life, the new era\\nis pre-eminently one of spiritual unfoldment.\\nModern Spiritualism cannot be said to con-\\nstitute, or to embrace, the fulness of this\\ndispensation it is rather the broad way\\nthrough which the wonders and the glories\\nof the new life are opening upon earth.\\nHow far the facts and experience on which\\nthis conviction rests can be shared by all,\\ndepends largely upon the receptiveness of\\neach. As of old, men having eyes may not\\nsee, and ears may not hear, the signs of the\\ntimes or hearing and seeing, they may not\\ncomprehend their import, though unable to\\nfind other satisfactory interpretation.\\nThe method of procedure has been in es-\\ntablishing the basis on which the higher\\nmanifestations could rest, through the evi-\\ndence given on the natural plane, of the\\nactuality and nearness of spirit identities ex-\\nisting and at work on the other side of the\\nveil, which veil is every day becoming less\\nand less obstructive to communication be-\\ntween the natural and the spirit spheres\\nand by the inspiration and very apparent\\n172", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "of flftofcern Spiritualism\\nquickening work of these spirit forces, which,\\nwhether recognized or not, are moving the\\nworld of humanity so potently now to new\\nthought and action. History tells of other\\nsimilar operations of the spirit-spheres upon\\nearth-life but these have been less potent\\nand extensive than now, when the prepara-\\ntions are more complete, the conditions\\nmore ready to receive the great impulse,\\nmore ripe for development. No other view\\nof our times furnishes rational explanation\\nof the turmoil which, for many years, has\\nprevailed over the face of our globe, through\\nindividual, social, and national experience,\\nshowing such universal quickening. Mod-\\nern Spiritualism furnishes a key to the mys-\\nteries of modern life, on whatever side they\\nmay be examined, the very forces of na-\\nture feeling the impulse, and startling hu-\\nmanity into inquiry of the whence and the\\nwhither, as never before. To some minds,\\nalarmed by the apparent quickening of evil,\\nthe moral world seems to be hopelessly rush-\\ning to destruction in deeds of wickedness\\nwhile others rejoice in the more than equal\\noutgrowth of the better elements combining\\nso manifestly to meet and overcome the\\nrising evil. Such spiritual conflict found\\n173", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Deetini?\\nvent in our own Civil War, with its manifold\\nexperiences, including the horrors of Ander-\\nsonville prisons and the mercies of sani-\\ntary commissions, each and all working\\nout and illustrating the purification through\\nwhich men and nations have to pass before\\nrising to the baptism of the new birth into a\\nnew and more blessed epoch.\\nThat such an event as the opening of a\\nnew era should come in the secret manner\\nwhich has thus far characterized this spiritual\\nepoch, is in accord with the law of all devel-\\nopment, which is from within outward. In\\nthe secret chambers of earth, hidden from\\nthe light of the sun and the eye of man, the\\nseeds of all growing things have ever been\\nlaid to germinate. Only in the higher coun-\\ncils could the processes and times of the new\\nunfoldment be known or anticipated.\\nWe have said that the new era is one pre-\\neminently of the spirit. External motives,\\nhaving regard wholly to material ends, will\\ngive way to the higher motives of inner pur-\\npose and use. This idea has been pro-\\nclaimed by inspired teachers, and accepted\\nby well-ordered minds, as the true rule of\\nman s life, through all the centuries of his\\nslow development. The time has come\\n174", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "of flftofcern Spiritualism\\nwhen it must hold full sway, and mankind\\ncease to be ruled by the things they now\\nthink to possess. Material development\\nhas been a necessary antecedent. The spiri-\\ntual elements could find small opportunity\\nfor growth until the creature necessities of\\nfood, raiment, and dwelling place were pro-\\nvided. Man s first efforts have been to\\nprocure these and easily has he become so\\nabsorbed in their acquirement as to measure\\nthe success of his life by the amount and\\ncharacter of such possessions. Development\\nof power over material elements has been\\nand is the aim of our education. With the\\nchild s mind so directed, the man could\\nhardly fail to be absorbed in the pursuit,\\nwhich is well as a means but not as an end.\\nThe new era is to be characterized by mate-\\nrial development for its uses only. The\\nlarger the use, the higher the value of the\\npossession. Radical inquiry into all the\\nuses of life already marks the times, under\\nthe great quickening through spirit influence.\\nNot that the spirit-spheres do all the labor,\\nmaking the individual life of earth only ma-\\nchine-work under their hands. Individuality\\nis rather to grow more developed and pro-\\nnounced, each human being feeling more\\n175", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\n*jL-\\nand more the responsibility of filling his\\npart in the economy of God s kingdom.\\nInspired by new thought and power from\\nabove, humanity will move on under the\\nquickening impulse and the promptings of a\\ngreat purpose, until raised to its proper plane\\nof spiritual unfoldment.\\nThe testimony of Spiritualism upon the\\nsubject of Inspiration has been interesting\\nand valuable, leading to more intelligent un-\\nderstanding and a more rational philosophy\\nof its operation than was possible to this\\nmaterialistic age, or perhaps to any age, be-\\nfore the advent of the full modern spiritual\\nphenomena. We say testimony, for it is\\nnot inference or argument. The evidence\\noffered, and the uniform declaration from\\nthe spirit-spheres, unite to establish the fact\\nthat God works through individualized agen-\\ncies in the mysteries of inspiration, as in all\\nthe other works and ways wherein man finds\\nmanifestation of His presence and power.\\nThe difference between the inspiration from\\nthe spirit-spheres, and that which proceeds\\nfrom the more apparent influences of earth-\\nlife, is one of degree rather than of method.\\nThe various forms of the latter are so fami-\\nliar that they do not attract attention unless\\nK 176", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualiem\\nmanifested in very striking ways or on great\\noccasions, though wonderful in their simplest\\nform. The power of one mind over many,\\nthrough word, look, or act, the charm of\\noratory, the quickening flash of the eye, the\\nhigh purpose of noble deeds, the mere pres-\\nence of a great man, these all operate with\\ninspiring influence. Well-spoken words are\\ntaken up and passed from mouth to mouth,\\ncarrying a power with every repetition, till\\nthe world rings with their inspiring sound.\\nThere is inspiration even from inanimate\\nthings, quickening every receptive life and\\nprompting often to new thought and action.\\nBy a similar, but more direct and complete\\nprocess, intelligences from the spirit-spheres\\ninspire receptive minds with thoughts already\\nfashioned, sometimes putting the very\\nwords into the mouths of the mediums held\\nin more or less unconscious trance or they\\nquicken the receptive brain to its own fash-\\nioning of thought. Thus what has been\\naccepted among men as divine inspiration,\\nis shown and declared to have been given\\nthrough individualized beings, angels of light\\nand love, bringing heavenly truths from\\ntheir heavenly homes to help and bless our\\nmundane sphere. The familiar forms of\\n177", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity ant) Destiny\\nspirit-control for purposes of communica-\\ntion, together with the manifestation of high\\ninspirational powers in various forms of\\nmediumship, have educated Spiritualists to\\naccept this as the method of inspiration\\nwhich, upon reflection, will be found to\\ncommend itself to the understanding, and\\nto lead to a comprehensive philosophy of\\nthe whole subject though it does militate,\\nat first painfully, against the preconceived\\nideas which have been handed down from\\ngeneration to generation of earth s children\\nchildren still, they are, in the hands of the\\nAll-Father, however enabled, through devel-\\nopment, to comprehend more and more of\\nhis wondrous works and ways.\\nIn olden time, Thus saith the Lord\\nwere the familiar words used by persons\\ntouched by the fire from above. In later\\ndays, down to our own time, that which has\\nseemed to be the voice of God has been\\nheard within the inner consciousness of\\nquickened minds. Such inspiration, whether\\nof the past or the present, is one and the\\nsame in method. Angel-voices have spoken,\\nand spirit-powers, high and low, have in-\\nspired, since man s life on earth began. We\\nknow not, perhaps we can never know, just\\n178", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nwhere the inspiration begins or draw the\\nline between the thought generated by the\\naction of our own minds, and thoughts in-\\nstilled directly or indirectly from other\\nspheres. We do know however that, of\\nold and now, the character of the inspira-\\ntion turns largely upon the development\\nand motive of the person seeking and re-\\nceiving it. The voice of God, through his\\nmanifold agencies in the spirit-spheres, comes\\nto man as inspiration and, through all these\\nagencies, the selfish elements of the natural\\nplane which may still hang about the\\nspirits who have gone out from visible earth-\\nlife steeped in those elements are ever\\ncontending with the higher and more spir-\\nitual for supremacy, ever ready to offer\\ntheir enticing promises of advantage and\\npleasure, even to the eating of the forbidden\\nfruit of the tree of knowledge of good and\\nevil.\\nThese voices, this inspiration of the spirit,\\nnow as of old, must be brought to the bar\\nof individual judgment for determination of\\ntheir right or wrong, their wisdom or their\\nfolly. This may be done by direct consid-\\neration of the promptings or teachings or,\\nas has been largely necessary in the course of\\n179\\nmw ^M", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anb Besting\\nhuman development up to this period, by\\nmeasuring the doctrine through the otherwise\\nrecognized merit of the medium or teacher,\\nwhose example and acknowledged develop-\\nment have given authority to his words.\\nThere is no escape from this responsibility\\nof direct or indirect individual adjudication.\\nSpiritualists know, and have shown by the\\noutworking of their experience in this re-\\ngard, to their own misery often, as well as\\nto the present disparagement of their cause,\\nhow surely every spirit that comes to them,\\nwhether through their own consciousness, or\\nvoiced by others, must be tried how in-\\nspiration in every form must be weighed in\\nthe balance of such truth as lies in each one\\nof us. The closest self-questioning and\\nweeding out of low motive have proved the\\nfirst, if not the only safeguard against grave\\nerrors, which have been possible through\\nwillingness to close the mind to the warnings\\nof the monitor within, sometimes against the\\nplainest dictates of common-sense, when\\nseemingly authoritative suggestions have come\\nto encourage the doing of what would be\\npleasant, or in accord with our own thinking,\\nrather than what would be independently right\\nand wise. The unhappy Pocassett child-\\n\u00c2\u00bbjt 180 #4", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nslayer heard what seemed to him the voice\\nof God, as did the assassin, Guiteau. Very\\npossibly there were voices, promptings of the\\nspirit, mingled with their own unbalanced\\nthinkings. It is all one and the same meth-\\nod of inspiration its source and special\\ndirection turning, in their cases, as in others\\nof like character, upon their own mental and\\nmoral weakness and folly, making them,\\npersonally, fit subjects for commiseration and\\nrestraint, while their deeds call for utter con-\\ndemnation. Such appears to have been,\\nfrom the first, the method of divine working\\nin this regard, leading by devious ways to\\nthe grand result of human development\\nthrough experience. Acknowledged leaders,\\nseers of their day, have in the past been lifted\\nto the heights supreme, from which they\\ncould see and report the truths unfolded to\\ntheir lofty aspirations. Modern Spiritualism\\nwould have all its children attain these heights,\\nand live rejoicing on the plane of spiritual\\nunfold ment which has been thus proclaimed,\\nfrom the mountain-tops of human vision, to\\nbe the ultimate destiny of the race.\\nThe development which receives the\\nhighest inspiration is not necessarily based\\nupon what has been heretofore considered\\nJfimi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Deetin^\\nthe highest culture; though culture, if true,\\nis no bar, but rather an aid, to inspiration.\\nThe pure in heart shall see God; and\\nthis may or may not come of culture. Cul-\\nture has in the past tended to ruts and limits.\\nDeveloping the mind in some directions, it\\nhas closed it in others, so that new light\\ncould hardly find entrance. The uneducated\\nfishermen were called first and then the\\nlearned Paul was broken into the service.\\nAgain and again have things of the spirit\\nbeen hid from the wise and the prudent.\\nWith progressing development these con-\\nditions must change. The culture now\\nopening to earth-life, largely through the\\ninspiration and quickening from the spirit-\\nspheres, is to be wider and truer than that\\nof the past. The false, because wholly ex-\\nternal motive of life, will give way to a\\nspiritual unfoldment and supremacy so that\\nthe more the culture, the better and more en-\\nlarged the channels of communication, the\\nbetter and higher the inspiration from the\\ninfluences, God s messengers, ever waiting\\nto draw near to the children of earth, as the\\nway opens for them and conditions attract\\nthem.\\nIt will be seen that this broad philosophy\\n182", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nof inspiration includes within its scope all\\nforms of divination from the earliest ages,\\nmany of which have been such stumbling-\\nblocks to what has been claimed as the com-\\nmon-sense of the materialistic age now\\ndrawing to its close. It reconciles the diffi-\\nculties which have so often perplexed the\\nstudies of the scholar and theologian in this\\nregard and though it may not lead them\\nto send embassies in hope of finding and re-\\nviving the oracles of old, or to give too\\nwilling credence to the stories of divine re-\\nsponse through angel, ghost, or sprite, so\\nabundant in the past it will surely help\\nthem to more correct estimate of what has\\nso often been set down as ignorant credulity,\\nand to find it no longer necessary to stultify\\nthe wise and good of past generations, in\\norder to give any place to the statements of\\nspiritual intervention in the affairs of men,\\nhanded down through history and myth.\\nBut with all the development of modern\\ncivilization, there is much wanting before\\nman can receive the teachings of the inspira-\\ntion now waiting to lead him up to the\\nheight of his great calling. Foremost among\\nthe causes which retard his progress and\\nhigher attainment is declared to be igno-\\n183", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity an Besting\\nranee and disobedience of divine law in the\\nmarriage relation, to the true culture of\\nwhich we would again allude as lying at\\nthe foundation of social science.\\nMore and more the beautiful outworking\\nor the terrible power of heredity are recog-\\nnized among the most potent causes of\\nman s weal or woe. There is a call yet\\nmore to recognize the power for good or\\nevil in the birthright of every human being,\\nwhich comes not of ancestral origin only,\\nbut is the direct result of true or false condi-\\ntions in each particular parentage. Out of\\nthe heart are the issues of life and most\\nassuredly out of the marriage relation, before\\naught else, spring the tendencies which de-\\ntermine the starting-point of every new-born\\nlife. This familiar thought demands such\\nconsideration now as it has never yet re-\\nceived, for the establishment of a basis in\\nthe coming development. There must be\\ncultivated first a truer and more general\\ndesire for knowledge in this momentous\\nregard. By degrees the wrongs may become\\nmore apparent of themselves, and be slowly\\neradicated through independent action of\\neach sincere mind and willing heart. But\\nconditions so established through ignorance\\n184 qi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nand the predominance of selfish life on the\\nnatural plane, so long rooted in the broad\\nfield of humanity, must need be, in a mea-\\nsure, forcibly ejected, before they can be\\nplanted out by the better life, under the\\nknowledge brought through suffering and\\nthe sooner the work of removal is begun,\\nthe speedier will be the coming of the long-\\ndesired kingdom. Man s freedom to break\\nthe divine law indicated in purpose has given\\nhim opportunity to know, through experi-\\nence, the bitter fruits of disobedience. Let\\nhim cease now to make that freedom his\\npoor excuse, and turn it rather into noble\\nopportunity for willing obedience, by which\\nalone he can become master of his lower\\nnature, and in the highest sense a law unto\\nhimself, through perfect accord with the\\nGood Father s will and purpose. As never\\nbefore, angel messengers are pressing this\\nmomentous subject upon the minds of the\\nmen and women of to-day. Like the voice\\nof God again sounding through the Garden,\\nis the call summoning man to answer if he\\nhas been true in this most sacred relation.\\nShall shame, through past disobedience, still\\nforce him to hide from the Great Presence\\nLet him, rather, penitently study the broken\\n185", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "Zhc purity anfc Destiny\\nflSsHraR\\ninjunction, and, with the wisdom gathered\\nout of suffering, humbly re-enter at the once\\nflaming gates, through his obedience no\\nlonger a barrier, and seek to attain that\\nfelicity, handed down among all peoples and\\nfrom all time since he became a sojourner\\nupon earth, as his true birthright. Paradise\\ngained or regained, it matters not, if only its\\nblessed possibility be reached\\nIt is interesting to observe how, through\\npredominance of the natural or selfish love,\\ncomes the sense of possession, which actuates\\nall mating among the lower animals, and\\nshows itself in man through the passion\\nof jealousy. This is plainly for the protec-\\ntion and welfare of animal life on the natural\\nplane but for man is needed only so long\\nas his life is ordered on that plane. When\\nhuman life is raised to its spiritual standard,\\nso that men and women, through subjection\\nof the natural to the spiritual love, can rule\\nthemselves, the need of this selfish element,\\nthis sense of possession in love, disappears.\\nThe marriage relation, entered into with\\nconsentient attraction and impulse on both\\nthe natural and spiritual planes, which in-\\ncrease in power with true use and wise ex-\\nperience, becomes a durable bond that\\n186 gi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nneeds no such jealous protection. The\\nselfish sense of possession gives place to a\\nproper sense of belonging that leaves no\\nopportunity for doubt, and would afford no\\nencouragement to selfish approaches from\\nwithout. Love between men and women,\\nthus held in the service of God, is free for\\nother and wide expression, not limited to\\nthe mated relation, which will help to keep\\nthat relation fresh and strong in its own\\nproper bounds, instead of being dragged out\\nin selfish confinement leading to indiffer-\\nence, if not repulsion, as it too often now is.\\nThe sacred injunction, Love one another, no\\nlonger restrained by fear of selfish misrule,\\nwould be followed in all the social relations\\nwith such beautiful adaptations and healthful\\nresults, on both the natural and spiritual\\nplanes, as has been possible only in excep-\\ntional instances during these eighteen hun-\\ndred years of slow development of the\\nChrist ideal. In such way has the true\\ngospel of Modern Spiritualism come to ful-\\nfil, not to destroy. That this individual\\nruling of the life, through supremacy of the\\nspiritual love, has no conflict with human\\nlaw is readily seen. When the marriage re-\\nlation is thus conducted the statutes regu-\\n187", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nlating it will be no impediment, and the laws\\nof divorce will happily become dead-letter\\nlaws as those against theft and murder are\\ndead letters to all whose lives are up to the\\nChristian standard of love to God and man.\\nThe evil to be overcome, being deep-\\nseated, demands radical treatment. The\\nwork of prevention must begin with the\\nyoung. Children must be educated to ac-\\ncept natural things naturally, and ever with\\nthe pure spirit to which all things are pure.\\nThe ideas of false shame, now so generally\\ninculcated, must give place to a desire for\\nholiness before God and man. Let them be\\ntaught to look upon clothes no longer as the\\ncovering of nakedness and shame, but rather\\nas climatic necessities, and protection from\\ninjury and unwholesome approaches, while\\nstill calling for proper interest in appearance,\\nto make that pleasant as may be to others.\\nIndifference to the decencies of life is not\\ninvolved in such idea of dress. Taught\\nthat the body is but the clothing of the\\nspirit, let children learn to cherish it with re-\\nligious desire for its best development and\\nthe highest and best use of its powers and\\nin turn to care for the clothing of the body,\\nwith the desire foremost to accommodate it", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nto its chief uses. Before God, and in the\\neye of the pure spirit, there is no such con-\\ndition as nakedness, in the low sense sug-\\ngested in false shame, resulting from false\\neducation and false living.\\nBy the removal of false shame through\\nright education, so that all natural relations\\nshall be looked upon with the purity of mind\\nthat knows not shame, and with the subjec-\\ntion of the natural to the spiritual love\\nthrough proper culture of both, most mo-\\nmentous ends will be accomplished. Evils\\nwhich are now the despair of the wisest\\nphilanthropy will find their only effective\\nprevention, and coming generations will\\neverywhere rise up to call their parents\\nblessed.\\nAmong the obstacles to attaining the new\\nlife, spirit messengers allude often to errors\\nin food. This leads to the general subject\\nof appetite. Given to the animal kingdom\\nfor the purpose of keeping up the life of the\\nbody, and continuing the races to their ap-\\npointed uses and ends, the appetites of the\\nflesh have ascended to man, through his re-\\nlation to that kingdom, and in the state to\\nwhich they had been developed prior to his\\nlife upon earth. In these appetites, as in\\n189", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nother respects, the comparative anatomy of\\nbody and spirit, through the animal races,\\nleads up to man. Among the brute animals,\\nto whom is given no power from generation\\nto generation of improving their natural\\nstates, though all the while they have been\\nelaborating the elements of earth through\\ntheir several organisms, each after their kind,\\nthe appetites are restrained by fixed con-\\nditions. But for man, called to a higher\\ndestiny, these natural restraints are removed,\\nhis range for possible indulgence of appetite\\nbeing almost without limit. Uniting in his\\norganism, physically and spiritually, all the\\nelements of earth-life, man, the microcosm,\\nis gifted with power, and therewith called to\\nsubdue these elements, and in his turn to\\nraise them in their various forms to their\\nhighest development. As he finds himself\\nopposed by the forces of nature in subduing\\nthe surface of the earth, whence has come,\\nthrough difficulty and struggle, much of his\\npresent external progress, so in his corre-\\nsponding labor to subdue, develop, and ele-\\nvate the creature elements, handed up to\\nhim through the whole animal kingdom, to\\nbe perfected in his body and spirit, he\\nmust meet and overcome difficulty and op-\\n190", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "of fIDobern Spiritualism\\nposition before he can attain the prize of\\nhis high calling. Thus in man s own being\\nat last, would seem to be centred the con-\\nflict of the ages, begun in the war of ele-\\nments, when form first sprang out of chaos,\\nand to be ended only when his destiny is\\nfulfilled. Having divine uses, the appetites\\nof the flesh in their natural condition, and\\nlegitimate development through the animal\\nkingdom are good, though selfish. In\\nman they are good, and in their action\\ncrowned with a proper joy, so long as they\\nare held by the divine principle within him\\nto true uses and ends. But when perverted\\nfrom their true uses and allowed unrestrained\\nindulgence, made possible through the\\nfree agency, without which he would not be\\nin the image of God, these appetites fall\\ninto states of hell, and carry with them the\\nvictims of their power.\\nMuch, then, must depend upon the right\\nselection of food, as well as upon its temper-\\nate use. That the human race will in the\\ncoming time find all its food in the grains,\\nfruits, and herbs, is not questioned. Many\\nfacts of to-day point to this end. It is true\\nthat the fibrin of animal flesh is found\\nchemically to be the gluten of the grains\\ni\u00c2\u00ab 191", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nbut the gluten is raised one step in the pro-\\ngress of being by passing into the animal\\nlife, and so attains a quickening, heating,\\nfebrile power in flesh meat, which tends to\\nover-stimulate and corrupt man s true health,\\nhowever much habit and his present average\\ndevelopment seem to demand, and perhaps\\nfor a time longer really do need it. Again,\\nargument has been drawn in favor of animal\\nfood from the constitution of man s body,\\nand especially from his teeth. It is claimed\\nthat his canine teeth indicate capacity for,\\nand so need of, animal food; but here, again,\\nultimate purpose, on which rests the law of\\nthe new life, is shown in the canine being\\nmore than matched by the other teeth and\\nthe whole set together upon an even line, re-\\nquiring a harmonious use for them all. Can\\nthis use be fulfilled by eating meat The\\ngrains and the fruits, in their natural states\\nas prepared by man, call into exercise all the\\nteeth, including the canine, but they do not\\ntend to encourage and keep in its natural\\nqualities the canine element, as the feeding\\non flesh meat, the natural canine food, must.\\nTaken as it is, the canine race can hardly\\nlive without its natural food, as indicated by\\nits teeth but the canine element, as it exists", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nin man, can be sufficiently fed without flesh\\nmeat. It is in man as including all crea-\\nture elements below him that the possi-\\nbilities of the lion eating grass, and the wolf\\nlying down with the lamb, may be fulfilled\\nwhile the original creatures themselves must\\ndisappear from the face of the earth, their\\nwork accomplished. Paradise Regained\\nwill be satisfied with that primitive provision,\\nwhatever its source, Behold, I have given\\nyou every herb bearing seed which is upon\\nthe face of all the earth, and every tree in\\nthe which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;\\nto you it shall be for meat and to every\\nbeast of the earth and to every fowl of the air\\nand to every thing that creepeth upon the\\nearth, wherein there is life, I have given every\\ngreen herb for meat. Already a suggestion\\nof the coming time in this regard may be\\nfound in the difference of feeling with which\\nrefining humanity can pluck an ear of corn\\nand thank God for it, while it would shrink\\nwith abhorrence from plunging the knife\\ninto the living creature, whose flesh it still\\ncraves and for a while may yet require.\\nA more interesting topic perhaps to the\\ngeneral reader, and one of importance to\\n1 Genesis i. 29, 30.\\nB^sv\u00c2\u00bb%$^;\u00c2\u00abl^", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nthose who have known nothing of Spiritual-\\nism other than little-credited reports of its\\nphenomena, is the source of consolation,\\nreal and available to all, opened through its\\nsimplest manifestations. The aspect of death\\nis so changed through their acceptance, so\\nrobbed of its terror, made so beautiful in the\\nabsolute assurance of the new birth, not\\ninto a Plutonic kingdom of night, nor into\\na far-off region of light whence no message\\nof love can return, but into a nearer realm\\nof spirit-life, to which the avenues of ap-\\nproach and communication are no longer\\nclosed. The consolations of religious trust\\nare much and many but they cannot fill the\\nvoid in the aching heart as can one word\\nnay, one tiny rap that assures of the near\\npresence of the loved and seemingly lost.\\nNot that any form of spirit manifestation\\ncan wholly fill up the void caused by death,\\nor fully replace the magnetisms of the bodily\\npresence, the living elements of physical life\\nwhich are removed when the spirit puts off its\\nearthly habiliment but to the cry so often\\ngoing out, Give me one word, one touch,\\none look from the dear departed child, par-\\nent, brother, friend, Spiritualism does offer a\\nconsoling response such as can come in no\\n194", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nother way and it is as legitimate to find\\nthis comfort from the sources now opened\\nas it is to avail of any of the alleviations of\\nhuman suffering which the development of\\nknowledge has brought, or with the good\\nFather s blessing and help will yet be\\ndiscovered for the ills of earth, ere they are\\nremoved through the better conditions now\\nat hand and promised.\\nIn closing we would once more touch\\nupon the subject of Individuality, that there\\nmay be no misapprehension of what has\\nbeen written of the continued influence ex-\\nercised over human lives by the spirit-\\nspheres. Real as that influence is, yet there\\nis no escape from the responsibility of every\\nchild of earth to see to it that his life is well\\nordered out of the purpose of his own will\\nand thought. Led, as he may be unawares,\\nto lines of conduct not of his original seek-\\ning, the responsibility is to hold his purpose\\nof well-doing without swerving, and leave\\nthe shaping of his life in such measure to\\ncircumstances and the unseen influences, in\\nconnection with his own desire and purpose,\\nas may be allotted to him.\\nThere s a divinity that shapes our ends,\\nRough-hew them how we will,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Destiny\\nand these unseen influences have much to\\ndo in the shaping but never should man or\\nwoman let the reins slip from their hands so\\nfar as to lose the power of determining\\nbetween right and wrong, under the best\\nculture of conscience which they can attain,\\nand of restaining every prompting and\\nimpulse that is not in accord with their\\nhighest sense of right. To be passive and\\nreceptive to all that is good, but positive and\\nrepellant to all that is wrong, is the plain\\nand safe rule of conduct. Spiritualism shows\\nthat the advantage of such self-direction and\\ncontrol goes out and beyond to others, in\\nways and to an extent little dreamed of\\nby those unacquainted with these modern\\nproofs of spirit presence. Indeed, none of\\nus can know fully the power of our lives to\\nhelp the benighted on those other shores,\\nwho are waiting to be led out of blind con-\\nditions, consequent upon their own life-ex-\\nperiences, by the influence of our conduct\\nand lives, which is ever operating in turn to\\nhelp or to hinder the cloud of witnesses\\nabout us. Spirits in prison there are on\\nthat other side, waiting for the resurrection of\\nour spirits yet in earth-life from low de-\\nsires and external seekings, which are holding\\n196 K", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nus and them in continuing bondage to things\\nof sense, when they and we should be free in\\nthe service of the Good Father. The power\\nof example and influence is recognized in\\nearth-life, and is momentous for that alone\\nbut how much more momentous when this\\nwider area of possible influence is contem-\\nplated Surely, if other motive were want-\\ning, here is inducement enough to raise the\\ndying and the dead in spirit out of their low\\nconditions, their living sepulchres, to the new\\nlife in the new era now opening.\\nmm\u00c2\u00ae,\\n197", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "THE PURITY AND DESTINY OF\\nMODERN SPIRITUALISM.\\nftbirfc Series*", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "Isfs Gottes Werk, so wird s bestehen\\nIsfs Mencken Werk, wird s untergehen\\nIs it God s Work, so shall it stand\\nIs it Man s Work, it will go under.\\nInscription on the statue of Martin Luther at Wittenberg.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THIRD SERIES.\\n1899.\\nPREFATORY NOTE.\\nTo state the present aspect of Modern\\nSpiritualism, as seen by the writer to\\nshow some of the inconsistencies of unbe-\\nlief, remove some of its obstacles, and ex-\\nplain more fully the necessity of its phe-\\nnomenal presentation, culminating in Ma-\\nterialization to state more forcibly the\\npower it has exercised and is still destined to\\nexert, through its various channels, upon\\nearth life in every grade, the recognition of\\nwhich seems so needful for reception of the\\nsympathy and aid it has to offer, as well as\\nto meet successfully the threatening ap-\\nproaches of its lower orders and elements\\nand last, but not least, to declare in a more\\ndistinct and emphatic manner, the true rela-\\ntions between man and woman, which have\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baB 201 g,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "ftbe purity anb Destiny\\nbeen shown to the writer as the very foun-\\ndation of social science the following three\\nArticles have been added. They complete,\\nin a measure, the scheme of treatment which\\nseems to have been laid out from the first.\\nThe writer is well aware that the claim of\\ninfluence on the part of the spirit-spheres,\\nherein made, can hardly be accepted at once,\\nor without some inquiry into the phenomena\\nin their very varied presentation. With the\\nhope of arousing a new and enlightened in-\\nterest in such inquiry, he has endeavored to\\npresent something of its many and varied\\naspects. How far short he has come of\\ncovering the whole ground, as it may be\\ncovered later by some more able hand, he is\\nfully conscious.\\n202", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "of HDofcern Spiritualism\\ncW:,-\\nARTICLE VII.\\nSpiritualism a New Science.\\nDemonology, what is it Obstacles to inquiry and\\nbelief. Inconsistencies of opponents. Neces-\\nsity of external phenomena. Materialization\\ndescribed at length. Exclusion of sunlight a\\nnecessity, why. Plainer manifestations to re-\\nsult from better conditions of inquiry. Means\\nto a greater end. Mistaken opposition. The\\nFirst Spiritual Temple. Continuing Inspiration\\nfrom highest sources to be cultivated.\\nPerhaps the word, Demonology, for a\\ncaption would, better suit the mental state\\nof many readers of an article on Modern\\nSpiritualism, and it might be a correct term,\\nif the original signification of the word,\\ndemon, were not so nearly obsolete its\\ncurrent meaning being limited to bad or\\nundeveloped spirits, instead of including the\\nwhole range of spirit beings, good, bad and\\nindifferent. Webster s first definition of the", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "Gbe puritp anfc Beating\\nword demon, is A spirit or immaterial\\nbeing holding a middle place between men\\nand the celestial deities of the pagans.\\nThis was its original meaning. Such, doubt-\\nless, was the daimon of Socrates, as un-\\nderstood by his contemporaries. But the\\nsecondary and now popular meaning of\\ndemon has long been limited to evil spirit.\\nA pocket Worcester s dictionary gives for\\nits only meaning, an evil spirit, a devil\\nand Demonology has in general been so\\nappropriated by the devil and his angels,\\nthat the very sound of the word has grown\\nto be an offence to polite ears. By easy as-\\nsociation these words have included, in the\\npopular mind, all spirits who could control\\nhuman beings, and demoniacal possession has\\nbeen recognized as one of the factors in\\nhuman conduct, when the equally possible\\ninfluence or control of good spirits had, be-\\nfore the advent of Modern Spiritualism,\\ncome to be quite ignored. Among the ob-\\nstacles to acceptance of the facts of Spiritu-\\nalism, not the least has been this secondary\\nmeaning and use of the words demon\\nand demonology, by operating to discredit\\nthe claims of Spiritualists that good was to\\nbe found in the varied spiritual manifesta-\\n204", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ntions, and so leading to refusal of the whole\\nphenomena. Indeed it would sometimes\\nseem that if the early advocates of the new\\nspiritual truths, in their endeavors to draw\\nthe attention of the religious world to the\\nfacts, had confined themselves to statements\\nconcerning the manifestations of the lower\\norders ot spirits, they would have gathered\\nmore speedily a goodly company of inquirers,\\nwho would have been prompt to do God\\nservice by meeting and battling with the old\\nenemy of man, and so might have unex-\\npectedly found themselves encompassed\\nabout by angels of light, marshalled at the\\nbidding of the Lord of Hosts to do his will\\nin the work of uplifting humanity\\nBut these fifty or more years since the first\\nannouncement of the new conditions, through\\ntiny raps in the little village of Hydesville,\\nhave shown such astounding growth and pro-\\ngress of the new philosophy, that its disciples\\nhave ceased, in great measure, the eager\\nadvocacy of its doctrines which was so\\nnatural at its advent well assured from the\\nprogress attained, that a power higher and\\nmightier than any ordinary human organiza-\\ntion has been and is behind the movement,\\nand will in good time bring it to fruition in\\n205", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc 2 e6tin$\\nthe long promised kingdom of righteousness\\nand peace. If the coming be like a thief\\nin the night, it may be welcomed yet the\\nmore as led on in mysterious ways by the\\nMaster hand, which so many now in the fold\\nbelieve has been directing its approach from\\nthe beginning.\\nNo one cause has tended more to impede\\na proper understanding and easy acceptance\\nof Modern Spiritualism for the unbeliever,\\nthan the general desire for a spiritual pre-\\nsentation of the subject, when the age in which\\nwe live has made what may be called the\\nnatural presentation its only avenue of ap-\\nproach. This is no contradiction of ideas,\\nthough it may at first seem so in terms. By\\nforce of the material and intellectual develop-\\nment of the last few centuries, the human\\nmind, before the advent of Spiritualism, had\\nbeen reduced to a state of infancy as to the\\npower of spiritual discernment, recognized as\\none of the gifts of the Spirit eighteen hundred\\nand more years ago, so that it could only\\nbegin to be informed in that direction in a\\nmanner similar to that by which the human\\ninfant has to begin the awakening or acquire-\\nment of all its ideas, namely through the\\nexternal senses. For most inquirers at the\\n206 t\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "w%w\\n$%mm~\\nof fIDofcern Spiritualism\\noutset, any attempt at a spiritual presentation\\nof Spiritualism has been practically useless,\\nand must continue so, more or less, until a\\nwider breach has been made in the walls of\\nspiritual unbelief; and this breach is to be\\neffected first and easiest through the avenue of\\nthe senses. Leaders in spiritual things of to-\\nday offer no exception to this necessity, any\\nmore than they did eighteen or more centuries\\nago. Spirit life, like external or natural life,\\nhas its order of being and manifestation, its\\ncauses and effects, now beginning to be under-\\nstood as a philosophy before little compre-\\nhended. Simple physical manifestations, with\\nresponsive intelligence, leading up gradually\\nto the more recent full form materializations,\\nhave been the first method for all. From the\\nnecessity of the situation, then, any candid\\npresentation of the subject in what may be\\ncalled its natural, rather than its spiritual\\naspect is, at the outset of inquiry, entitled\\nat least to patient consideration.\\nAnother difficulty in the approach of\\nSpiritualism, and not a slight one, has been\\nthe fact with which the inquirer is early con-\\nfronted, that the communion of saints, so\\nlong established as one of the tenets of the\\nChristian church, has its foundation in natural\\n207 g.\\n..-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0M", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Besting\\nlaw and that while taking its special direc-\\ntion from spiritual culture, it is possible only\\nby virtue of the fundamental fact through\\nwhich, in these latter days, the way has\\nbeen opened to all denizens of the spirit-\\nspheres showing, sometimes so sadly, that\\nall who are ready to commune from the\\nother side of the veil of time are not saints,\\nany more than those on this side of the\\nveil who have sought the communion.\\nNever has the power of education and\\nhabit in fixing mental action in grooves been\\nmore markedly illustrated than in the posi-\\ntion of negation toward Spiritualism held\\nby many who are nevertheless assured of\\nand ready to avow their belief in the near\\npresence and very possible influence of loved\\nones gone before. Welcoming the poetic\\nstrains that tell of such near presence, and\\nreciting them often with spiritual fervor,\\ntheir minds still shrink strangely from any\\npossibility of the poetic fancies being changed\\ninto real presence manifest to the external\\nsenses, though plainly such external mani-\\nfestation is the only avenue of near approach\\navailable, when the gift of discerning\\nspirits is so utterly lost and well nigh ridi-\\nculed by the heads of the Christian church,\\n\u00c2\u00a3i 208", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nthough half believed in as something possi-\\nble two thousand years ago. It is strange,\\nindeed, that so many of the more educated\\nclasses should be unable to perceive that this\\nclosing of the spiritual vision precludes the\\npossibility of the spirit communing they\\nvaguely desire as something which they could\\naccept; while they repel the manifestations\\nupon the natural or sensual plane, on which\\nalone they are now capable of recognizing\\nthe spirit presence.\\nAgain the more cultured classes, as a\\nwhole, are open to the charge of utter incon-\\nsistency in their shrinking from what seems\\nto them at first as desecration of their loved\\ndead, in the apparent necessity of finding the\\navenues of communication open to them\\nonly through strangers and in strange places.\\nThe moment a suggestion is made that they\\nneed not go so far for the communing, if\\nonly they would open their own hearts and\\nhomes to the conditions necessary everywhere\\nfor development of spirit mediumship, they\\nare quick to resent the proposal as almost an\\ninsult thus directly repelling, with their\\nutmost force of will, the very possibility of\\nhaving communication opened anywhere but\\nin places strange to them Possibly it has not\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00bai 209", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity ant) Besting\\noccurred to them that the spirit friends them-\\nselves, longing for direct interchange of love\\nand thought with dear ones left behind, sub-\\nmit to conditions not of their own choosing;\\nnay more, are often forced to avail of states\\notherwise repulsive to them, in order to get\\ninto any avenue of approach a pain and\\nstruggle they might well be saved, if only\\nthe home circle, within its consecrated cham-\\nber, could be established under every roof.\\nThey too would shrink from the strange con-\\ntacts, often unavoidable in the ordinary\\nseance rooms, as repugnant to their own re-\\nfinement as to the most delicate sense of the\\nfriends in the form. Happily there are\\npublic mediums whose personal purity and\\nand conduct would of themselves be no im-\\npediment to the coming of any one from the\\nspirit-spheres, and the number of these\\ndoubtless will increase but the mixed com-\\npany of strangers must too often include\\nelements at least inharmonious with the\\ntender emotions which are called out upon\\na loving message, or it may be upon the open\\nvision and substantial presence of a dear de-\\nparted form. Many good people who still\\ndeny the privilege of such communing in\\nany manner to themselves and their spirit\\ngl 2IO", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nfriends, and are often ready enough, had they\\nthe power, to prevent all others from the\\nprivilege, will be astonished at their error, as\\ncountless other tardy acceptors of the new\\ntruths have been, when their eyes are opened,\\nand the new light has fairly dawned upon\\nthem.\\nBut not without some effort, and it may be\\nsacrifice, is the inquiry into these mysteries,\\nas into any other truth to be instituted. The\\nvotaries of old science are not to be waited\\nupon, as so many of them have been prone\\nto think, by the powers directing the great\\nmovement from the spirit-spheres. They,\\ntoo, must come upon their knees in the sim-\\nplicity of a childlike, though never childish\\nwillingness to be taught whatever they may\\nbe found fit to receive, as the early votaries\\nof Spiritualism have done and perhaps in\\ntime learn that what they have heretofore re-\\nfused to accept, because seemingly contrary\\nto established truth, is not in fact contrary\\nto, but something beyond and in addition to\\ntheir former knowledge. The laws of gra-\\nvitation, for instance, are not changed or\\ncontravened in the new manifestations of\\nexternal force but new powers are intro-\\nduced not hitherto known or recognized as\\nb 211 iji\\nj Sw", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity an Destiny\\nfactors in the great problem of mundane de-\\nvelopment. There is a science of these\\nnew forces to be wrought out, having been\\nalready partially developed, which will stand\\non yet firmer grounds of reason and demon-\\nstration than much of the boasted learning,\\nwhich is now so often only an impediment\\nto progress. Not in unkindness be it said\\nto the votaries of old science, but with earn-\\nest desire to help them over the first stum-\\nbling-block of incredulity, You are right in\\nholding that nature s laws are not to be\\nbroken but you are utterly wrong in as-\\nsuming that there may not be laws of which\\nyou have no knowledge now, that suspend\\nthe action of the laws you do know. The\\nwords of an inspirational lecturer are apt in\\nthis connection. Consider what your\\nworld has experienced in the intellectual de-\\nvelopment of mankind. Here in your at-\\nmosphere was held in reserve a power which\\nyou call electricity for centuries it was unu-\\ntilized, and you knew little of it but now\\nit is becoming one of your elements of\\npower. In this element you have an illus-\\ntration of the elements still beyond your\\nconception, that have escaped your intellec-\\ntual powers. It is unreasonable to suppose", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nthat you have exhausted nature s resources,\\nor that in the future you will not discern\\nmany forces of which you now have no\\nknowledge, which shall be applied to man s\\nuses and for the benefit of the whole hu-\\nman race.\\nInteresting illustration of newly develop-\\ning forces is found in the materialization of\\nspirit forms and the accompanying phenom-\\nena, which those within the inner circles have\\nwatched with hope of further development,\\nwhile outside observers are still contending,\\nsometimes so bitterly, about the possibility\\nof such manifestations unable yet to clear\\naway their old stumbling-block of unbelief.\\nThe story briefly told eighteen hundred or\\nmore years ago, when the blessed powers of\\nspiritual healing were refused their benign\\nwork because of unbelief, so that he, the\\nMaster, could do none of his wonderful\\nworks, is again repeated. Argument avails\\nlittle to remove the obstacle. Nothing but\\nthe slow, hard logic of facts can overcome it,\\nand gradually these facts are gathering with\\nincreasing potency. It is not that these facts\\nare to be received without examination no\\nseverer scrutiny has been instituted than by\\nmany who have outgrown their scepticism\\n213", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "w\\nZbe purity anfc Etestini?\\nbut that they should be approached with\\nwillingness to receive when proved, no mat-\\nter what points of old theology or accepted\\nscience may seem to be opposed. The old\\naxioms of science are not contravened, but\\nonly the laws of external nature superseded,\\nfor the time, by the new forces of what for\\nthis purpose may be styled internal nature.\\nThus it has been demonstrated that Nature\\nis all one, though the finer elements or forces\\nare not cognizable to external observation,\\nwhile they are everywhere underlying the or-\\ndinarily recognized material universe. Mat-\\nter without spirit within and all in\\nNature, which includes the whole grand pri-\\nmary manifestation of the Supreme Being to\\nman s comprehension.\\nThe power to repel spirit manifestations,\\nwhich is often unconsciously exercised by\\nunwilling or incredulous minds, has been\\nshown over and over again to observers of\\nthe phenomena. A marked illustration of\\nthis power was given at a materializing\\nseance, in the difference between the writer s\\nexperience and that of a friend at his side,\\nwho could not refrain from continually ques-\\ntioning and doubting, though really desirous\\nof attaining some convincing proof. At the\\n214", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "v v\\nof \u00c2\u00a3fl ofcern Spiritualism\\noutset of these full form materializations a\\ncabinet has been necessarily used for the\\npurpose of isolating the medium, for the\\ntime being, from the approach of unfavor-\\nable conditions, as well as for exclusion of\\nsunlight the process of materialization, like\\nmany of nature s processes, requiring seclu-\\nsion from light at the start. On the occa-\\nsion to which we refer, the cabinet was a\\nsmall room, perhaps six by eight feet in di-\\nmensions, and satisfactorily closed against en-\\ntrance or exit by any other than the one small\\ndoorway, over which was hung a curtain.\\nThe spirit forms taking visible and tangible\\nmateriality from the elements of the physi-\\ncal body of the medium, who was reclining\\nin unconscious trance within the little room,\\npresented themselves at the small doorway,\\ndrawing apart the curtains with their own\\nhands, and indicating by pointing as well as\\nby calling of names, the person from the\\nseance circle with whom they wished to com-\\nmunicate. Our friend was thus called up,\\nbut to be disappointed in getting any satisfac-\\ntory evidences of identity, either through the\\nface or form which were tangible, though in-\\ndistinctly visible, or through any names given\\nor other words spoken. Very shortly after-\\n215", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "Wm\\nGbe purity anfc Destiny\\nward the writer was called to the curtained\\ndoorway to be greeted by a figure taller than\\nthe medium, and giving the name of a dear\\nrelative who had passed to spirit life some\\nforty-five years before. The features were\\nplainly visible, and the lips substantial\\nenough to impress a veritable kiss. Upon\\nour inquiry whether another near relative was\\npresent, who had passed away more recently,\\nthe reply came distinctly, Yes, wait a mo-\\nment and I will bring her out to you. Re-\\ntiring very briefly behind the curtain, the\\nfigure again came forward, bringing the other\\ndesired spirit, somewhat shorter in height,\\nwith features not so distinctly visible, but\\nequally substantial in the greeting of love, ac-\\ncompanied by words of joy at the meeting.\\nWhile these two forms were standing thus\\nnear, a third figure came out into the outer\\nroom and moved about us, being recognized\\nby the conductor of the seance as one of the\\nCabinet Spirits, so called, who are in some\\nway accessory to the work of materialization,\\nespecially when spirit friends manifest them-\\nselves in this way for the first time. Thus\\nthere were three distinct spirit forms pre-\\nsented at one time the first form melting\\naway before the second had finished the few\\nj 216 \u00c2\u00a31", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nwords of greeting the whole appearance\\noccupying some three or four minutes.\\nLater on the same occasion the writer was\\ncalled up to greet still another near relative,\\nwhose name was given, and who upon re-\\nquest taking his hand, came out to salute\\nthe assembled company, then retiring to the\\ndoorway of the cabinet dematerialized, sink-\\ning out of sight, as it were into the floor, and\\ndistinctly uttering the words good-night\\nwhen half way down, and so finally disap-\\npearing at the floor as a light vapor\\nAt another seance of the same medium,\\na so called Cabinet Spirit came out into\\nthe outer room, plainly visible as a form,\\nthough with features a little indistinct, and\\ntaking the writer by the hand led him into\\nthe dark cabinet room for the purpose, as it\\nproved, of satisfying him that the material-\\nized figure was not the medium, but another\\nand distinct spirit. Holding with his left\\nhand to the hand of this spirit who remained\\nstanding at his side and visible in the dark by\\nvirtue of a phosphorescent light of its own,\\nwhich seemed to permeate and radiate from\\nthe whole figure, the writer at the request of\\nthis cabinet spirit, with his right hand ascer-\\ntained beyond question to his own mind, that\\n217 \u00c2\u00a31", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "Xbe puritp an!) Besting\\nWM\\nas\\nthe medium was then recumbent in an arm\\nchair and in seeming unconscious state.\\nThis experience was confirmed by others of\\nthe seance circle taken in by the same spirit\\nform in the same manner. Similar expe-\\nriences have attended, with many interesting\\nvariations, the gradual development of this at\\nfirst very astounding phase of spirit manifes-\\ntation.\\nDoes the word impossible come to the\\nreader s mind, we can only say that these ex-\\nperiences were real to us, as similar proof has\\nbeen real to many, many seekers. Some fifty\\nyears ago, when sitting with the then noted\\nmedium, Daniel Hume, known afterwards as\\nD. D. Home, with two other near friends\\nabout a table, and with all hands visible on\\nthe table except our own, which were allowed\\nto be under the table, we had two well\\nformed hands placed in ours, one of adult\\ndimensions, and the other of infant size, and\\nboth gently but distinctly grasped the first\\nbeing announced by the medium as of a near\\ndeparted relative, and the other as that of a\\nlost infant child. We knew it was no mere\\nimagination. It was but a question of time\\nand development from such beginning when\\nthe full form materializations should become\\nWarn\\n218", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\npossible, as they are to-day made manifest.\\nBy parity of reasoning the obscurities and\\ndifficulties still attending such manifestations\\nmust gradually disappear through better con-\\nditions of the witnesses in the seance cham-\\nbers, and perhaps better understanding of\\nthe processes on the spirit side. Volumes\\ncould be filled with the veritable details al-\\nready accumulated. That they are real is\\nnot matter of inference, but of knowledge on\\nthe part of those who have conducted their\\ninquiries in the simplicity of a faith that is\\nnot hampered by too much learning of the\\nold schools, or by mental prejudice that must\\never be slow to find out new truth. The ex-\\nposures which have been from time to time\\ntriumphantly announced, have in many cases\\nbeen simply and only exposures of the igno-\\nrance and bigotry of the inquirers for there\\nis a bigotry of unbelief quite as rigid and un-\\napproachable as the cast-iron beliefs of old\\ntheology. It must have set every thinking\\nreader to very serious reflection to read, as he\\nmight in one of our prominent newspapers a\\nfew years ago, the account of such an ex-\\nposure, with the earnest assurance that any\\none who could still believe in such humbug\\nmust be a fool and to find in another col-\\nj 219", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anfc Destiny\\nuran of the same journal the following item\\nunder the head of cable news from London\\nMysticism, Spiritualism, and the occult\\nsciences in any form are very popular just\\nnow, not only in England, but throughout\\nthe whole continent. It seems as if a wave\\nof thought were passing over Europe favor-\\ning the supernatural. In fact mysticism is\\nbecoming fashionable, and the last new\\nmarvel is discussed in every drawing room\\nand at every dinner table. With so much\\nsmoke, it may well be inferred that there\\nmust be fire somewhere, and that it is spread-\\ning may be equally affirmed with such items\\namong the foreign cable news of the daily\\npress a fire which the easy cry of hum-\\nbug will hardly put out, as it certainly has\\nnot succeeded in doing yet, having rather in\\nmost cases fanned the flame with the breath\\nthat was meant to extinguish it.\\nOne of the first objections raised by in-\\nquirers into these physical manifestations,\\nand perhaps their chief stumbling-block, has\\nbeen that the phenomena are, for the most\\npart, though not always, produced in com-\\nparative darkness. But it should be re-\\nmembered that the want of light takes away\\nonly one method of proof and identification,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "aHUs\\noSsta\\nof flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nnamely that of sight the other senses of\\ntouch and hearing being still free to act,\\nwhile the evidence so obtained is confirmed\\nby proofs of intelligence and independent\\naction on the spirit side, quite precluding\\nthe possibilities of automaton work. Be-\\nsides, the difference between the self-lumi-\\nnous quality of the spirit form and that of the\\nmedium in the dark cabinet or room before\\ndescribed, was a veritable fact, and has been\\nnoted by observers over and over again a\\nfact of vision, and one which no one who\\nhas experienced it would admit to be ocular\\ndelusion, the vision being confirmed by the\\ncontemporaneous testimony of the sense of\\ntouch, the hand of the spirit form being dis-\\ntinctly held. In a general way the necessity\\nfor exclusion of sunlight from the material-\\nizing seance rooms has been illustrated by\\nreference to other operations of nature,\\nwhich at their inception require concealment\\nand darkness as necessary conditions. Di-\\nrect sunlight is, for instance too strong for\\nthe ordinary germination of seeds, which\\nfor the most part have to begin the process\\nof building up material elements about\\ntheir inherent spirit forms, under cover of\\nthe soil, though that soil needs to be vivi-\\nifc 221", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc 2 e0tin\\\\\\nfied sooner or later by the sun s rays falling\\nupon it. In its incipient movement the\\nlife of the plant which is to be, or what may\\nbe termed its spirit, cannot bear the direct\\npower of light. All animal life, including\\nman, shows similar concealment to be neces-\\nary at its inception. Is not the ordinary pro-\\ncess of developing photograph plates in a\\ndark room another illustration of this com-\\nmon necessity Perhaps this obstacle to\\nbelief may be lessened, if not wholly re-\\nmoved for some minds, by their considering\\nwhat are the functions of sunlight in produ-\\ncing all natural phenomena. Is it not\\nthrough the power of the sun s light that all\\nforms once started into being are able to\\ngather to themselves the elements which con-\\nstitute their natural, visible composition and\\ngrowth. We know how plants deprived of\\nsunlight sicken and grow pale and feeble, if\\nthey do not die seemingly unable to draw\\nfrom the earth and atmosphere the elements\\nwhich constitute their proper bulk. As the\\nsunlight is thus essential to the aggregation\\nof material elements into living forms, so it\\nis powerful to hold together the elements\\nwhen once thus incorporated. Deprived of\\nits sustaining power those elements tend\\n222 tj,\\nU-", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nsooner or later to feebleness of tension and\\nfinally to disintegration. Now it appears\\nthat the operation of materialization of spirit\\nforms is to disintegrate temporarily the ele-\\nments, or portions of the elements constitut-\\ning the physical form of the medium, and\\nappropriating these to the use of the materi-\\nalized spirit form. Interesting experiments\\nhave been reported in which the medium in\\nthe cabinet was seated in a chair upon plat-\\nform scales, so arranged that any change of\\nweight would be shown outside. When the\\nspirit forms appeared, it was testified that a\\nnoticeable reduction of the avoirdupois\\nweight of the medium was indicated. The\\noperation must plainly be easier in the ab-\\nsence of the sunlight, the power which\\noriginally was so important a factor in bring-\\ning those elements together in the body of\\nthe medium, and helps to keep them there\\nin daily life.\\nOn the other hand, the sudden introduc-\\ntion of light upon a materialized spirit must\\noperate to instantly send the denuded spirit\\nof the medium to resume possession of the\\nelements properly belonging to it, which had\\nbeen drawn away for the purpose of material\\nclothing to the spirit thus manifesting. Such\\n223", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anD Besting\\nhas been the experience in cases of exposure\\nattempted in this manner by parties little\\nunderstanding the conditions with which\\nthey were thus seriously and sometimes dan-\\ngerously trifling, at the expense almost of\\nthe life of the medium. From all time the\\nhistory of ghost seeing accords with this\\npartial explanation. To make themselves\\nvisible to the natural eye or susceptible to\\ntouch, the spirits rising, as it has been gen-\\nerally termed, have of necessity borrowed\\ntemporarily of some form already material-\\nized through the action of sunlight, and\\nbeen able to retain the borrowed clothing\\nonly until the cock crow warned of the com-\\ning morning. By parity of reasoning it may\\nbe understood why a dim lamp light is more\\nfavorable to the manifestations than equally\\nobscure day light the lamp light being a\\nreduced form of the original sun light, and\\nso less powerful to resist the work of dis-\\nintegration performed by spirits for their\\nmaterializations.\\nAgain it is matter of common observa-\\ntion with all inquirers that there is a force in\\nthe sun s rays more or less felt by everyone\\nsensitive enough to permit the exercise of\\nany form of mediumship, when the spirit\\n224", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ninfluence draws near to control. Pain in\\nthe head and increased exhaustion are very\\ncommonly experienced by mediums when\\nexposed to too strong light during the exer-\\ncise of their peculiar vocation and this par-\\nticularly at the beginning of their develop-\\nment. The sun light is too coarse or too\\nstrong for the finer conditions of spirit life\\nthe rays, which are themselves materialized\\nforces, as it were striking too heavily upon\\nthe sensitive spirit, and causing the spirit,\\nas well as the medium in sympathy, to\\nshrink from its sudden or too powerful ap-\\nproach. If the mediums and their control-\\nling spirits are thus sensitive, we can under-\\nstand how the materialized spirits must be\\nequally, if not more, quick to shrink from\\ntoo strong light, and so find a reason for en-\\ntire exclusion of light at the inception or\\ntaking on of the materialized form, and then\\nfor subdued light when they come out to be\\nseen by the seance circle.\\nAnother reason for the exclusion of sun\\nlight at these materialization seances is in the\\ndifference between the light which seems to\\nbelong to the spirit-spheres and that to\\nwhich the natural eye is fitted. There is a\\nwonderful luminosity of the spirit forms\\n225\\nA^lm^S^3mW^i-", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Destiny\\nvarying in degree according to their condi-\\ntions, and perhaps with the greater or less\\nrefinement of the observer. This light pales\\nand disappears before the natural day, as\\nthe stars of our evening skies do when the\\nmorning comes, so that the spirits present\\ncould not easily make themselves visible.\\nSuch was the light before spoken of as ob-\\nserved in the materialized spirit forms a\\npeculiar transfusion of mild phosphorescence\\nmaking them appear self-luminous, which\\nwould have been obscured by the stronger\\nrays of external sunlight. This light of the\\nspirit-spheres has been often testified to by\\nclairvoyant mediums as something beyond\\nthe power of description.\\nTo the further and not uncommon inquiry\\nof doubting minds, Why do not the spirits\\nthus appearing give us some valuable infor-\\nmation, one simple reply is, in the words\\nof another, the mere fact of seeing or\\nsensing a departed spirit is of itself, great\\ninformation. Even a few raps from over\\nthe river, telling us our departed friend is\\nalive, is information by the side of which\\nall other information pales. Indeed it is\\nthe very stupendous character of these mani-\\nfestations, these form materializations, when\\n226\\nmw", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nfirst witnessed, which rouses all the forces of\\nunbelief so promptly, and makes the essen-\\ntial mental conditions of childlike receptivity\\nfor the moment so difficult, and often so\\nimpossible for the observer to retain. In-\\nstead of complaining that so little has been\\ngained in the developments of these forty\\nor fifty years, rather is there occasion for\\nwonder that such progress has been made in\\nso brief a period and to accept the prom-\\nises given that the way will yet open for\\nmanifestations far beyond our hopes or im-\\naginings. But in fact much information has\\nalready been given through spirit sources,\\nto which we shall allude later.\\nIt was said through the inspirational\\nspeaker before quoted, how unreasonable\\nare the old ideas of the spirit world, and how\\nat variance with all we know of nature and\\nwhat we, as spirits, bring to you The di-\\nviding walls between you and the spirit world\\nexist in your own organisms, and they will be\\nannihilated. As the planet becomes puri-\\nfied, more attenuated and refined, your or-\\nganisms will also be more refined, and you\\nshall, face to face, be in communion with the\\ninhabitants of the spirit world for the time\\ncometh when clairvoyance will not be phe-\\n\u00c2\u00bbJl 227 Jl", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity aitt Destiny\\nnomenal or exceptional as now, but when all\\neyes shall be open to the realities of the world\\nin which dear ones are now dwelling.\\nWith all these recognized phenomena of\\nmaterialization, which are accepted as facts\\nmore or less by Spiritualists, it is nevertheless\\nto be candidly admitted that the last few\\nyears have not shown that development in\\nthis direction which the rapid opening of the\\nwonderful signs seemed at one time to indi-\\ncate, and was indeed promised by the spirit\\npowers at work upon them. These manifes-\\ntations have not progressed as hoped for and\\nexpected, and it is matter of much question-\\ning to know why. Two causes have been\\nsuggested, both of which have doubtless been\\nlargely instrumental in this slow advancement\\namounting almost to stagnation. The first\\nof these is the failure of the seance circles to\\nrecognize and so co-operate with the high\\nclass of ancient spirits through whose labors\\nthese full form materializations were at the\\noutset made possible. The conditions were\\nseized upon too often with mere selfish pur-\\npose of gain by the seance managers or con-\\nductors the circles attending were actuated\\nby too mixed, if not low motives and the\\nmediums employed introduced elements of", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ngreed instead of deep desire to help on the\\ncause of truth, thus disappointing the high\\npurpose of the ancient chemists, and opening\\nthe way to lower influences, which have been\\nrepellant, and checked the progress of devel-\\nopment. The controlling relation of ancient\\nspirits in this work then just opening, was\\ndeclared emphatically by them in addresses\\nmade some fifteen years ago. The interfer-\\nence and assumption of other influences has\\ncaused the stay of progress which may not be\\nrenewed until these ancient bands are recog-\\nnized and responded to by the more sincere\\nand devout inquirers. A second probable\\ncause of the delayed development may be\\nfound in the combined opposition to the\\nwork by old church influences, whose re-\\nligious prejudice and bigotry have been potent\\nto this end ignorance of the truth and lust\\nof power controlling and operating to mislead\\nthem all.\\nAmong the many and varied instrumen-\\ntalities employed in opening the way of life\\nnow more completely unfolding, these physi-\\ncal manifestations of spirit presence and power\\nhave their place but interesting as they are\\non the material plane, like many other spirit\\nmovements within and outside of old church\\n..^j; \u00e2\u0096\u00a0..\u00e2\u0096\u00a0v.dSsHI", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anfc Destiny\\norganizations, they are but means to the far\\ngreater end of lifting humanity out of the\\nmateriality of their conceptions of life, its\\nduties, its purposes and its occupations, into\\nmore distinct perception of the spirit side of\\nbeing, which, with all the struggle and boasted\\ntriumph over obstacles on the natural plane,\\nis the only reality to remain when the external\\nthings are left behind. Come up higher, is\\nthe call of the spirit. This does not mean\\nthat the labors on the external plane are to\\nbe given up but that they be entered into\\nwith far different and higher purpose than\\nnow actuates the masses. My Father\\nworketh hitherto, and I work, are the re-\\nported words of the Master but filled with\\nwhat different motive from that shown in the\\npresent prevailing scramble for the loaves and\\nfishes Not for self and personal gain or\\naggrandizement, but for humanity is the call,\\nbelieving and seeking to realize the practical\\nmeaning yet to be worked out in those often\\nquoted words, Seek ye first the kingdom of\\nheaven, and all these things shall be added\\nunto you.\\nThose who consciously repel or are in-\\ndifferent to these modern approaches of the\\nspirit-spheres, instead of welcoming the pos-\\n230 x", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nsible coming with patient inquiry, may know\\nthereby that they are hampered by prejudices\\nwhich are of mundane origin, and which\\nmust ultimately give way to the increasing\\nlight. It is not easy for those who have\\nexperienced spiritual uplifting, and have per-\\nhaps attained high spiritual culture, to un-\\nderstand how they nevertheless may be and\\noften are closed by their mental states against\\nrecognition of these modern approaches.\\nDeeming their illumination to be something\\nsuperior to the natural plane of experience,\\nas it is, they are prone to ignore the law\\nby which the light is permitted to reach\\nthem as having universal bearing, and so are\\nunable to recognize the channels of com-\\nmunication through which often the spiritual\\nafflatus is breathed upon them. They can\\nreach by fine argument the principle of ex-\\ntension of what they recognize as natural\\nlaw into the spiritual world, but fail to per-\\nceive the possible reciprocity involved in the\\nspirit-spheres being permitted to respond\\nby direct approaches to the natural or ex-\\nternal plane of human experience. This has\\nbeen illustrated through all the centuries,\\nfrom the time when sincerely devout Jews\\nignored the presence of the Christ man who\\n231", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "^$sS\\nZhe purity anfc Besting\\nhad appeared among them from the obscure\\nvillage of Nazareth, to these latter days\\nwhen devout and spiritually uplifted Christ\\nfollowers, in their turn, find no light in the\\ndevelopments of Modern Spiritualism. As-\\nsured through certain attainments and up-\\nliftings of the spirit, that they are not living\\non a low plane, many devout religionists of\\nto-day refuse to be increased in their spirit-\\nual insight, as something they do not need,\\nespecially when it is offered through such\\nsources as ordinary spirit mediumship. Can\\nany good, they ask, come out of this new\\nNazareth We would deal lovingly with\\nminds so actuated, while drawing their atten-\\ntion, as in previous writings, to the calling\\nof his disciples by the Master out of the\\nranks of simple-minded fishermen, rather\\nthan from the more cultured classes. The\\nadaptation of those thus called was in their\\nnative sensitiveness and receptivity to things\\nof the spirit, which do not come of mental\\ntraining, but are in the nature of a gift.\\nThis has been shown in some simple-minded\\nand uneducated public mediums of Modern\\nSpiritualism, who while not developed men-\\ntally perhaps to be capable instruments for\\nuse by spirits of known attainments intel-\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "SfcSfc^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2?.Wfc\\nof flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nlectually, may be and often are channels of\\nspiritual communications of the highest\\norder, though lacking the most cultured\\nforms of expression. Those who content\\nthemselves with their spiritual attainments on\\nthe plane which they can in some sort intel-\\nlectually understand and accept, may find\\nthemselves, when entering the spirit-spheres,\\neasily superseded by many supposed inferior\\nspirits who had been quite unknown to\\nthem in earth life. The story of Lazarus\\nin Abraham s bosom illustrates a general\\ntruth beyond the compensation for lack of\\nexternal riches. The heart which in its\\nsimple trust has been moved to spiritual\\nuplifting in gratitude for a crust of bread,\\nmay be opened to a gift which might fail\\nto come in response to the most solemn\\ngrace ever pronounced over a table loaded\\nwith external luxuries.\\nAn interesting and to outside observers a\\nconfounding manifestation of spirit prompting\\nand influence, has been the erection in Bos-\\nton of the beautiful building known as The\\nFirst Spiritual Temple, as inscribed in scroll-\\nwork over the principal entrance. This\\nbuilding, raised largely by the accumulated\\nmeans of one individual, whose motive in", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\nthe building and in its work since, has plainly-\\nbeen most unselfish, however hampered and\\nobstructed by seen and unseen influences\\nopposed through ignorance and old church\\nprejudice, was dedicated to uses covering a\\nbroad platform of philanthropies more or\\nless common to all associations seeking to\\nhelp humanity, with the one distinguishing\\nfeature of continued spirit communion as a\\nbasis of teaching and action, so that the\\norganization should not have its life closed in,\\nor its growth dwarfed by any form of eccle-\\nsiastical rule, authority or dogma, which could\\nlimit or restrain ever renewing and renewed\\ninspiration and revelation from the spirit-\\nspheres. From such sources alone are the\\nchurches of to-day being brought to health\\nand higher usefulness, as indicated in the wid-\\nening, liberal tendency of them all. In the\\nwords of a recent inspirational speaker,\\nThe theologian is right when he says,\\nwithout a special revelation from heaven we\\ncould know little of God and nothing of\\nimmortality he only gets wrong when he\\nlimits that special revelation as God has\\nnever limited it, and does not limit it.\\nWith this broad fact held at the foundation\\nof all organizations, ever fresh recurrence may", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nbe had to the sources of spiritual light,\\nwhich are waiting to send down their benig-\\nnant rays to man, as fast and as far as his\\ndevelopment will permit and human pro-\\ngression will move on without hindrance, as\\nit is ultimately destined to do. Organization\\nis good in the greater power of combined\\nforce for holding development already at-\\ntained, and encouraging every effort to reach\\nup higher but fatal to the ends of progress\\nwhen this power is used to close up the av-\\nenues of inspiration and revelation, for which\\nit can offer, as a poor substitute, only its\\nown self-constituted authority. This topic\\nhas been markedly illustrated in the vain\\nendeavors at creed-bound organizations\\namong Spiritualists. It is a momentous\\ntopic to the whole church of Christ to-day,\\nand indeed to every form of organization,\\nsocial, political or religious. Walls which\\nto-day may shut out evil, may to-morrow\\nprove barriers to the approach of good, and\\nin time need to be removed and the mind\\nwilling to act with God s will, must ever be\\nready to aid in the removal.\\nWe have claimed Spiritualism to be the\\nOpening Way to recognition and wise\\nreception of the philosophies of life which\\n235", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "tMSM\\nGbe purity anb Destiny\\nare now unfolding to earth from the higher\\nspheres philosophies not new in their fun-\\ndamental ideas of love to God and man,\\nwhich are the essence of the Christ teachings\\nfrom all time, but in their practical ap-\\nplications of the brotherly love taught by\\nthe Master, which are as yet so far from their\\nlegitimate outworking for the good of all\\nmen. It is beginning to be accepted that\\npossession of wealth constitutes a steward-\\nship for the benefit of many. A further\\nstewardship is yet to be recognized in the\\npossession and use of brain force, whereby\\nthose gifted with constructive powers of in-\\nvention and organization, and possessing\\nquick insight into profitable results of labor,\\nwill dedicate their powers more to the needs\\nand uses of their fellow men than to their\\nown selfish purposes and aggrandizement.\\nIn every relation of life a call to come up\\nhigher is sounding from the skies, to which\\nheed must be given by all who would find\\nthemselves in any degree able to stand before\\nthe judgment seat of these latter days.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE VIII.\\nSpiritualism Waiting Possession and\\nObsession.\\nSeeming to be at a standstill. Motives of inquiry.\\nDifficulty of identification. Testimony as to\\nconditions in the spirit realms. Wisdom of an-\\ncient spirits. Progress retarded by antagonistic\\nspirits and bands. The Roman Church.\\nThe freedom of Spiritualism opposed to all church\\nrule. The first Spiritual Temple again. Lack\\nof true seeking by inquirers a cause of outside\\nindifference. Spiritualists scattered through all\\nthe churches. Spirit forces thus brought to\\nbear. Miracles old and new. The Bible\\nilluminated. Objections considered. Univer-\\nsality of mediumship. Oliver Wendell Holmes.\\nTestimony of inspirational speakers. Young\\ninquirers to be restrained. The home circle\\nbest. Unbalanced mediumship. Possession\\nand Obsession, what are they Insanity largely\\ndisorderly mediumship. How to be treated.\\nObsession in accordance with Law.\\nThe foregoing article has been directed\\nmainly to a presentation of the more promi-\\n2 37", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Besting\\nnent facts of spirit intercourse in the pri-\\nmary way of physical manifestations and\\nhas been gathered out of the writer s own\\nexperience. It is admitted that progress in\\nthis direction seems to have been stayed in\\nthe past few years. The same is true of all\\nforms of spirit intercourse and the question\\nis forced upon us, why has not Spiritualism\\nmade greater advances, seeming sometimes\\nto retrograde rather than progress Why\\nhave not the avenues of mediumship in\\ngeneral been opened wider for clearer\\nidentification for more information regarding\\nthe spirit-spheres and for more light upon\\nall the strivings and trials of human life\\nIs the fault in the votaries of Spiritualism;\\nor is the cause, though already so full of\\nwonders and helpfulness, to be laid aside and\\ngradually to pass out of view We believe\\nthe latter alternative to be impossible.\\nInquiry into Spiritualism has been and\\nstill is likely to be approached in three di-\\nrections, each leading to collateral questions\\nand investigation according to the turn of\\nmind of the inquirer. The first and most\\nnatural seeking is with desire to meet and\\ncommunicate with dear departed relatives\\nand friends, prompted by grieving hearts\\n238 g,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\none word assured from that other side being\\nmore effective to assuage the grief than all the\\nconsolations offered from other sources. The\\nsecond desire, perhaps, is to become informed,\\nas far as may be, of the conditions of exist-\\nence in the spirit realms; a natural inquiry in\\nthat direction. The third and generally last,\\nis the willingness to be instructed through\\nadvanced spirits who have attained greater\\nknowledge by long dwelling in the spirit-\\nspheres and it may be by many reincarna-\\ntions in earth life and this independently\\nof names or personalities as affecting the\\ncharacter of the highest teachings which the\\ninquirer can invite.\\nIn the first line of inquiry one of the chief\\ndifficulties has been the identification of spirits.\\nMessages may be received containing satisfac-\\ntory test proof of the identity of a spirit an-\\nnounced yet if the inquirer goes to another\\nmedium seeking communication with the\\nsame spirit, he may receive a different message\\npurporting to come from the same influence,\\nor he may be disappointed in getting any\\nresponse at all from the desired source. Ex-\\nceptions to such experience have been happily\\nmet and assured often enough to save the\\ndiscrediting of all communications but the\\n2 39", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "jpsjar\\nZbe purity anfc Destiny\\ngeneral fact remains, without any comprehen-\\nsive explanation other than is to be found in\\nthe mixed conditions of the spirit-spheres\\nnearest to the earth plane. In that border-\\nland we may easily believe, or rather would\\nexpect that there must be a conglomeration\\nof influences well calculated to confuse the\\nminds of spirits and the near friends seeking\\nintercourse, and thus disturbing the condi-\\ntions of the medium. Like the reflections\\nof earth and sky shown on the surface of an\\nunruffled lake, which become distorted by the\\nfirst breeze that moves the quiet waters, so we\\ncan understand how mediums may be turned\\ninto uncertain and mixed communicators by\\nthe inharmonious conditions of the inquirers\\nand of the spirits. There is much yet to be\\nlearned on both sides of the veil to make\\nalways sure that the loving messages are\\nobtained as craved by a grieving heart on this\\nside. It would seem the wisest course, for\\nthe present, if baffled in one direction, for\\nthe inquirer to try some other medium, until\\nthe one who evidently gives the best test and\\ncommunication is found, and then to con-\\ntinue the seeking through such one.\\nIn the second general direction of inquiry,\\nas to the conditions of life in the spirit-\\n240\\nmm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "^iffi^l^SSIi^P WS\\nof flDobern Spiritualism\\nspheres and their knowledge of mundane in-\\nterests, there has been much and very varied\\ntestimony from the spirits according to their\\nstandpoint, and doubtless also in a measure\\nto the wants of the inquirer s mind for the\\nmental states of the seeker have much to do\\nwith the shaping of responses. This need\\nnot and does not lead to false statements,\\nbut is likely to give emphasis in one direction\\nor another to special pictures of the spirit life,\\nwhich while true in their way and degree, do\\nnot and necessarily cannot include in one\\nscene every phase of spirit existence. So too\\nin attempting to tell of coming events, which\\nspirits often see correctly in remarkable an-\\nticipation, they are as often utterly in error\\nas to time, so that little reliance can be\\nplaced upon such vaticination or benefit re-\\nceived, except possibly in putting the inquirer\\nupon his guard. Such effect may be quite as\\nwell for the inquirer as if coming experience\\nhad been laid out in reliable details of time and\\ncircumstance and this for very obvious rea-\\nsons, especially in the present whirlwind rush\\nof all human life. But there has been much\\ngiven, so far as the mortal mind can receive,\\nto show that the conditions in the spirit-\\nspheres are the prolongation or carrying out in\\n241 g,\\nM H^^^s*^S^^^i\\ni*", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Destiny\\ninfinite variety, but unerring certainty, of the\\ntedencies of life which have been developed\\nin each individual through the mundane ex-\\nperience. This results in a judgment through\\neach individual soul, bringing joy to those\\nwho by faithfulness to duty have earned the\\nsalutation, Well done, good and faithful\\nservant; and to those who have failed to\\nimprove their opportunities, every form of\\nretribution, down to the lake of fire and\\nthe wailing and gnashing of teeth figura-\\ntive but sometimes terrible sufferings that\\nmust follow all wrong doing, through a\\njustice that cannot err.\\nIn the third general direction of inquiry,\\nthe seeking of wisdom from advanced spir-\\nits, quite as much has been given as the\\nmental states of the inquirers have been able\\nto receive and digest, that is make really\\ntheir own for guidance of conduct and bet-\\nter growth. These responses have in no\\nway improved upon the simple, fundamental\\ntruths declared by the Master, so far as the\\nmoral principles are involved but they have\\nillustrated those principles with new light\\nwhich has often brought satisfaction and\\ngrowth of soul to the recipients. Obstacles\\nhave been in the way to keep back such in-\\nK 242", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nstruction, as in the other directions of in-\\nquiry, which may now be briefly considered.\\nTwo forces seem to have been at work to\\nretard the progress hoped for at the first\\nrecognition of possible communication with\\nthe spirit-spheres one arising from the op-\\nposition of spirit bands moved by various\\nmotives to thwart Spiritualists in their desire\\nto know more, co-working with the antago-\\nnism of all the old church influences of those\\nstill living on this side the second springing\\nfrom the failure of Spiritualists to recognize\\nthat soul culture must underlie all their\\nseeking into spiritual things, if they would\\nsee their cause grow in its proper potency,\\nand the ways opened to wider vision, and\\ndeeper insight, into the wonders and myste-\\nries of the life beyond.\\nThe first of these opposing forces, the\\nintervention of antagonistic spirits, acting\\nindividually and in bands, calls for careful\\ninvestigation and united action on the part\\nof truth-seeking Spiritualists. Prompted,\\nsome of them, by merely mischievous de-\\nsires, while others have doubtless been actu-\\nated by mistaken purpose to do God service,\\nthese influences have continued a persistent\\nand more or less organized opposition. The", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Stestin^\\npower of spirits banded together out of their\\nhabit of mind and fixed prejudices shaped\\nthrough association with the various forms\\nof church organization in their earth life, is\\nonly half realized by Spiritualists, and still\\nless by those who have no knowledge of\\nspirit return in these latter days. Of these\\nforces, that of the Roman Catholic church,\\nby its more complete organization, extended\\nthrough so long time, has been the most\\nactive and persistent and as in every con-\\ntest moved by religious zeal, the most bitter\\nof all the opponents though the less con-\\ncentrated opposition from those brought up\\nin other forms of sectarian differences have\\ntaken their part in the contention. This\\npower of the Roman church is not limited\\nto those still in the earth form. Spirits who\\nhave gone over bound by their ideas of\\nobedience to that mother church as their\\nonly surety for salvation, are naturally drawn\\ntogether, and thus united have been and\\nstill are a power on the spirit side necessarily\\ndirected against all who do not accept the\\nsame authority on this side of life. Spirit-\\nualism demands and encourages a freedom\\nof thought and inquiry into all things of the\\nspirit, which no other organization has here-\\nin 244 gj", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\ntofore attained and if that cannot be broken\\nup and suppressed, the days of Roman su-\\npremacy, as well as the credal predominance\\nof all other churches, are numbered. Rec-\\nognizing this as the most threatening power\\nwhich has yet been directed against the as-\\nsumptions of Rome and its tributaries, these\\ninfluences have sought to distract and crip-\\nple the labors and inquiries of Spiritualists\\nin every way possible.\\nSuch interference has been indicated in\\nthe history of the First Spiritual Temple\\nin Boston, before referred to. Starting un-\\nder auspices that seemed to promise the\\nvery best conditions for enlightening the\\ncommunity upon the highest phases of\\nModern Spiritualism, it was insidiously at-\\ntacked by these old church forces, as seen at\\nthe time of its dedication by more than one\\nclairvoyant medium, and so has been con-\\nstrained in various ways from moving into\\nthe work laid out by its spirit founders and\\noriginal promoters. Leading workers at its\\ninception were removed by death or other-\\nwise one staunch man alone of them all,\\nwhose means chiefly had built the structure,\\nthey could not drive or persuade to give up\\nhis undertaking. They have succeeded in\\n245", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\ndrawing away, temporarily as it would ap-\\npear, many of its original supporters, and\\ndiverting them to other centres of spiritual\\ncommuning and teaching thus retarding the\\nfull uses into which the Temple will doubt-\\nless be ultimately brought, and toward which\\nit appears to be now tending, though with\\nsmall present encouragement. Should this\\nseem improbable to have been so brought\\nabout, we would call to mind the long years\\nof Roman Catholic rule, at one time con-\\ntrolling the whole civilized world, whose\\nvotaries passing out from earth life, must\\nhave been drawn together by the law of\\naffinity which rules in spirit life, and con-\\ntinued their allegiance, with thought to serve\\nGod through advancing in every way the\\ninterests of the church below. Thus banded\\ntogether in the spirit-spheres, they have been\\na mighty host through which the higher\\nangels have had to struggle to let in the\\nlight which, notwithstanding the opposition,\\nhas given joy to so many minds. Such op-\\nposition to the Temple seems to have been\\nanticipated in the higher councils which had\\nits work in charge so that they can and do\\naccept it patiently, as in the ordering of a\\nwise Providence, for purposes it mav be of\\n246 $t", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ndiscipline and ultimate strengthening and\\nso the Temple and its work stand to-day a\\ncontinuing surprise to outside observers, and\\nto not a few of those who have attended its\\nministrations. 1\\nIs there then no limit to this church\\npower The free mind sees that it cannot\\nbe allowed to continue much longer its ob-\\nstruction to free thought, which shall lead\\nevery spirit, in or out of the body, directly\\nto the Father of all spirit. The Roman\\nCatholic church, so prominent in the exer-\\ncise of such power, has grown, as we see it,\\nlike a huge tree from roots deeply imbed-\\nded in the earth plane, with St. Peter s as the\\ncentral source of its life spreading its mani-\\nfold branches over the mundane sphere and\\nup into the nearest spirit realms. With all\\nthe beautiful lives, however, whichhave graced\\nits rolls, and they have been many, though\\ndoubtless, out of their native quality, these\\nwould have been equally true and beautiful in\\ntheir way, to whatever church they might have\\nbeen attached, it is apparent to every outside\\nobserver that lust of power has grown to be its\\nruling motive, and by this it must ultimately\\nperish.\\n1 See Appendix.\\n247 gt", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity ant) Destiny\\nFor a purpose, doubtless, this growth of\\npower has been permitted but with all its\\nseeming increase in some directions of late\\nyears, it has reached its limit, as we see it, and\\nwill ere long show signs of decadence and de-\\ncay and cease to gather in new forces to per-\\npetuate its hitherto extended sway. We write\\nit not in unkindness, but in justice to truth\\nas it is shown to us. In God s good time\\nwill developing humanity be left free to find\\nthe good Father, and send its prayers and\\nthanksgivings up without waiting for church\\nor priesthood to cripple its natural, simple as-\\npirations with ritual and form that kill the\\nspirit. Doubtless the Roman church and\\nall other creedal associations have filled, and\\nmay yet fill a use in helping humanity up the\\nsteeps of civilization and so far as they\\nhave accomplished this, they are entitled to\\nrecognition and gratitude but all the while\\nthey have tended to keep their subjects in\\nswaddling clothes. Any church which ar-\\nrogates to itself the possession of all truth,\\nand claims through its head supreme control\\nof the spiritual interests of its people, with\\ninfallibility in its decisions, must and will be\\nbroken up, and ultimately merged in the\\nbroader church of humanity. This broader\\n%4 248", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nchurch will never presume to offer itself as\\nmediator between God and man, but only as\\na loving helper to lift up the down trodden,\\nso long as there shall be such among Earth s\\npeople, and to stimulate and guide human\\naspirations to the highest source of Love and\\nLight they can reach. The great tree of life\\nshall yet flourish. With its roots imbedded\\nin the finer conditions of the earth sphere, it\\nwill send forth leaves that shall be for the heal-\\ning of the nations while its uplifting branches\\nshall pierce the spheres above. It seems to\\nbe law that the very highest spirit culture and\\ngrowth must have their beginning and foun-\\ndation in the mundane state, constituting\\nthereby the wonderful circuit of life in which\\nall creation takes its part. A recognition of\\nthis law calls all the more to those still in the\\nearth sphere to do each their part in purifying\\nthe soil for the opportunity of the great Tree s\\nroots, down to the subtlest filament of its\\nbasic growth and expansion. Thus the mil-\\nlennial days will come with rejoicing not only\\nto those yet in mortal form, but send their\\njoy up to the outermost or innermost spheres\\nencircling this regenerated planet.\\nThe second prominent cause of the seem-\\ningly slow progress of Spiritualism during\\n249 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anb Besting\\nlater years, has been, as before noted, in the\\nfailure of Spiritualists to recognize that soul\\nculture must underlie all their seeking into\\nspiritual things, if they would see these things\\nexpand into wider and more beautiful devel-\\nopment. Want of this has been noticed by\\noutside observers, who seeing the compara-\\ntively external interest of many Spiritualists\\nin the mere phenomena, have been deterred\\nthereby from any serious investigation. The\\nprevailing dormant interest in things of the\\nspirit has received slight awakening from the\\nmere curiosity seeking in Spiritualism. Such\\nseeking has little power to break up the in-\\ntellectual unbelief which has grown to such\\nproportions, led on by the universal drift of\\nintellectual activity in the development of\\nmaterial interests, till utterly absorbed and\\nspell-bound in the greed for money making\\nand grasping now the dominant force\\nthroughout the civilized world. Beautiful\\nexceptions to this drift are to be found, and\\nwe must hope that they will prove to be a\\nleaven to leaven the whole lump in coming\\ntime but they are exceptions rather than the\\nrule; and even they can hardly free themselves\\nfrom the influences of their environment\\nwhich have so completely crushed out all\\nK 250 h", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "of fIDobern Spiritualism\\npower of discerning spirits and spiritual\\nthings recorded as possible and actual attain-\\nment in the olden time.\\nMeanwhile there has been in recent years\\na growing freedom of the old churches toward\\nindependent inquiry of the individual mind,\\ntending to send old theologies into the back\\nground. This process is going on with rapid\\nstrides. Men and women are asking not so\\nmuch what the true interpretation and mean-\\ning of the old theological confusions may be;\\nbut rather how they can rise to a higher,\\npurer plane of culture in all the ways and\\ndoings of their daily lives. In sympathy\\nwith this feeling many Spiritualists who have\\nrecognized the want of the highest interest\\nin the public gatherings of the believers, are\\nto be often found now attending the meet-\\nings of the more recently liberated disciples\\nof the Christian fold, rejoicing to hear the\\ndirect application of the Christ teachings.\\nBringing with them their conviction of the\\npresence of denizens of the spirit-spheres,\\nthey open the way, through their unspoken\\nbelief, to nearer approach of the higher bands,\\nwho have been pressing in upon earth life\\nsince the advent of Modern Spiritualism to\\nhelp humanity to something more than mere\\n251", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Besting\\nexpression of acceptance of the Christ prin-\\nciples. Such infiltration of spirit influence\\namong the more liberal and growing churches\\ncannot fail to be adding its part in the gene-\\nral awakening, so that it would be no matter\\nof surprise to see very striking manifesta-\\ntions of spirit presence break out in the very\\nmidst of some of the oldest church organiza-\\ntions, such as may for a time quite surpass\\nin beauty and power the best that have yet\\nbeen shown in gatherings of recognized Spir-\\nitualists.\\nIt is not easy to appreciate, though it has\\noften been stated from various spirit sources,\\nthrough what a dense stratum of lower influ-\\nences these higher bands have had to find\\ntheir way in their approaches to earth life\\nthe many, many souls that have passed out\\nof their mundane existence in undeveloped\\nconditions, and so are held spell bound by\\nmundane attractions. Spiritualists who have\\nopened their minds and hearts too unreserv-\\nedly to the approaches of these lower spirits\\nhave found, often to their cost, that not\\nevery influence that may come is to be\\ntrusted, though they may present them-\\nselves under the guise of angels of light\\nlearning by experience that the gates ajar", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "of HDofcern Spiritualism\\nare opening equally to all the spirit-spheres\\nattached to this planet. Try the spirits was\\nthe Apostle s injunction. It has been and\\nstill is a yet more needed warning in these\\nlatter days of closing in of the old and open-\\ning of a new era for humanity. That bands\\nof advanced spirits, though not recognized\\nby all, have actuated the minds and teach-\\nings of the free souls who in very recent\\nyears and with increasing power have come\\nout from the limitations of old theology, and\\nare now feeding the hungry crowd so long\\nunsatisfied and restless with the husks that\\nhave been offered them before, is believed\\nby the enlightened Spiritualists who have\\nbeen rendering good service through their\\nunspoken influence and their desire to har-\\nmonize with the outworkings of the new\\nfreedom. By experience they know the\\nvalue of their conviction of the near pres-\\nence of the spirit-spheres how it has given\\na reality in their consciousness to all things\\nof the spirit, which they could not attain\\nbefore, until freed from the shackles thrown\\nover their minds by the wide-spread, absorb-\\ning interests on the material side of life.\\nThe wonderful development of external sci-\\nence and art the overcoming of so many\\n2 53", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nimpediments on the natural plane by inven-\\ntions and the consequent selfish struggles of\\ncompetition in every direction, have in the\\ncentury now drawing to its close so blinded\\nthe seekers who have followed in the old\\nlines of spiritual inquiry, that they have been\\nfor the most part but groping after truth.\\nAn evidence of this blindness has been\\nshown in the disposition to deny the so-called\\nmiracles of the early Christian centuries, re-\\npetition of which in these latter days, through\\nthe labors and sufferings often of spirit medi-\\nums, has thrown so much light upon those old\\nrecorded experiences, and opened the way to\\na better understanding and acceptance of the\\nancient scriptures. With this help the Bible\\nhas been read under a new light and all the\\nteachings of the wonderful Book have been\\nreceived with a new power, notwithstanding\\nthe disposition of some Spiritualists to throw\\nit aside, when they first began to realize how\\ncreed-bound they had been under their former\\nreading and teachings. Albeit that the new\\nlight came to their minds through physical\\nmanifestations, the tiny raps it may have been,\\ngiving intelligent response from that hitherto\\nunknown side of life, they have at first yielded\\nto the pendulum swing and gone over some-\\nffi 2 54", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\ntimes to violent negation of their previous\\nbeliefs. Gradually attaining a better under-\\nstanding of spiritual things, they have become\\nsettled to an equilibrium nearer the truth,\\nand so ready to rejoice, with a new satisfac-\\ntion, in all the good that has been and is to\\nbe gained out of all Scriptures of the past.\\nMay it not be that the religious world is\\nwaiting now unconsciously for a revival such\\nas has not been known in this day and gen-\\neration, springing out of the minds cleared\\nlargely, though indirectly, through Modern\\nSpiritualism, which whether recognized or\\nnot, has quickened and helped on their grow-\\ning freedom and more direct aspirations.\\nSpirit mediums will not cease to be developed\\nand help the work on; but they will be on a\\nhigher plane of seeking, and draw more ad-\\nvanced bands from the spheres to join in the\\nredemption of man on lines so plainly shown\\nby the Master eighteen hundred or more years\\nago, and still so far from being directly applied\\nto the practical issues of every day human ex-\\nperience. Then altruism will cease to be\\nsomething talked of as a sort of new phi-\\nlosophy, but in very truth the outworking\\nof the Christ teachings and lead to what\\nwill be indeed a new heaven and a new earth,\\n255 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "Tbe purity aufc Deetiui?\\nfor the peace and rejoicing of every well\\nborn child of man.\\nIt may be helpful here to meet and we\\nhope throw light upon some of the obstacles\\nto acceptance of Spiritualism, which have\\nbeen encountered by too hasty or prejudiced\\ninquirers. An early objection offered has\\nbeen that Spiritualism is only one theory\\namong various possible explanations of the\\nphenomena. The error lies in not recog-\\nnizing the fact that while other theories may\\naccount for some and perhaps many of the\\nphenomena, the Spiritualist theory is the\\nonly one that can meet all the facts. The\\ncloser that scientists examine into the mys-\\nteries, the more they are forced to this con-\\nclusion, however unwilling they may be to\\naccept it as the only way out of the dilemma\\ninto which the many and varied manifesta-\\ntions have forced them. Again, depend-\\nence upon physical proof for the hope of\\nimmortality, is complained of. The neces-\\nsity, and it has been and still is to outside\\nobservers a necessity, that the inquirer\\nmust play the part of a detective must\\nguard against frauds must invent ingenious\\ntests must be ready to work in the dark,\\ncomes, as has been said over and over again,\\n256 g,\\n1*^", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nfrom the mental state of the community at\\nlarge, which has lost the power of discerning\\nspirits, recognized as once possible in the\\nearly days of the Christian dispensation so\\nthat physical proofs and the necessarily\\naccompanying methods of testing them, have\\nbeen the only possible avenue of approach\\non the spirit side. The difficulty is compli-\\ncated by the fact that the state of mind in\\nwhich the inquirer approaches his investiga-\\ntion has often much to do with the character\\nof the manifestations, in whatever way they\\nmay be presented. So sensitive are the\\nconditions of mediumship that suspicion of\\nfraud in the mind of the inquirer invites the\\nvery fraud he would repudiate, and opens\\nthe way to the approach of false influences,\\nwhich rejoice in every opportunity to de-\\nceive. For best results the inquiry must be\\nconducted with minds clear of preconceived\\nideas and prejudices, and so be able in child-\\nlike receptivity, not childish credulity, to\\nrecognize and measure true conditions fairly\\npresented. Like the mariner s compass,\\nthese conditions are sensitive to the ap-\\nproach of any opposing or diverting influ-\\nence, and while pointing to truth when not\\ninterfered with, they can be and too often\\n257 g,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity ant) Stestins\\nare deflected, and so made to appear false\\nand unstable.\\nAnother objection raised, that no im-\\nportant communication of any great human\\ninvention or discovery, and no new thought,\\nor a line of great poetry, have been given\\nthrough mediums, shows the mistaken\\nideas held by many people concerning me-\\ndiumship. Spirits from the spheres about\\nus, individually or in bands, encompass\\nevery human being while in mortal form,\\nand have more or less to do with the shaping\\nof each life. Most students of the subject\\nhave been persuaded of this. Now, while\\nevery one is thus more or less mediumistic,\\nthat is moved upon, prompted, and guided\\nby influences from the spirit-spheres, divinely\\nappointed agencies, according much with\\nand attracted by the character of each indi-\\nvidual, the publicly recognized mediums are\\nthose who not only are prompted in the\\nconduct of their own lives more or less\\nconsciously, but can be used to give com-\\nmunications to others. When so used as\\nchannels for communication, much may de-\\npend upon their average development as fit\\ninstruments for the varying powers of the\\nspirits communicating. Under such often\\n258 ig\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i\\nTAi", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ninferior instrumentalities highly developed\\nspirits could hardly be expected to equal\\ntheir utterances when in the mortal form\\nnor be able to communicate any great inven-\\ntions or discoveries through brains totally\\nunfit for such use. Added to this impedi-\\nment is the possibility that the name given\\nwith any communication may be wholly\\nassumed, and the communication come from\\nsome inferior spirit, willing to trifle with the\\neagerness of the inquirer. Recognizing the\\nfact of more or less universal mediumship,\\nin varying degrees of development, it may\\nbe understood that all inventions are, more\\nor less, given by impression to waiting\\nminds coming we know not from how\\nhigh source in aid of those seeking in the\\ndirection of discovery and more or less\\nowing to the sensitive or mediumistic char-\\nacter of the individual so touched or\\nprompted. The words of the old fable are\\napplicable here, as in so many other ways of\\nhuman effort and development Put thy\\nshoulder to the wheel and then call on Ju-\\npiter, and he will help thee. They are, in a\\nway, applicable to all mental action, which is\\nmore or less inspired by and mingled with\\nimpressions thrown upon the receptive brain\\n259", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Destiny\\nfrom invisible sources it may be from\\nspirits, or perhaps from the great reservoir\\nof knowledge that seems to envelop and\\nquicken all life on the planet and the spirit-\\nspheres connected with it. This does not\\ninterfere with, but flows into and develops\\neach one so impressed, resulting in a culture\\nof the mind, and through that an awakening\\nand growth of soul powers, which is the\\nultimate end of all human endeavor and\\nexperience. Many a man has prided him-\\nself as the originator of fine thoughts and\\ncreative inventions, which came to him\\nrather from inspiration the new idea often\\nspringing into his consciousness at some un-\\nexpected moment; perhaps after being baf-\\nfled by ineffectual efforts to seek the desired\\nend through his own independent thinking\\nand efforts. Over and over again has this\\nbeen shown in human experience. A well-\\nknown author and poet expressed himself a\\nfew years since as follows I wrote the\\npoem rather as a duty than as a pleasure\\nand yet here and there I found myself\\ntaken off my feet by that sudden influx of a\\ntide that comes from we know not whence,\\nbut which makes being, and especially in-\\nl Oliver Wendell Holmes to his friend, John G. Whittier.\\n260 J", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nternal vision, so intense and real. You, as\\na poet, know so well what that means.\\nI think that some of the most real mo-\\nments of life are those in which we are seized\\nupon by that higher power, which takes the\\nrudder out of the hands of will, as the pilot\\ntakes the place of the captain in entering\\nsome strange harbor and I am sure I never\\nknow where I am going to be landed from\\nthe moment I find myself in the strange\\nhands of the unknown power that has taken\\ncontrol of me. What is this but medium-\\nship, when the brain so touched had, by its\\nown development or natural gift, reached a\\nstage which could be receptive to such im-\\npulse and impression from spirit sources, and\\nthe occasion invited such use\\nSimilar testimony, though from a differ-\\nent point of view, comes from the statement\\nof inspirational speakers, some of whom are\\nconscious of standing outside their bodies\\nand listening to the words uttered through\\ntheir own lips but by other controlling\\nspeakers, and which on their returning to\\nself control could thus be remembered, and\\nin some measure repeated while other\\nspeakers are entirely unconscious when so\\nused, and of course have no memory of\\n261 %i", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anb \u00c2\u00a9eetinp\\nwhat has been said. As before stated, the\\nname given by the spirit communicating may\\nbe assumed to satisfactorily determine which\\nmight require much scrutiny and experiment.\\nThis seeming difficulty has its good results\\nin leading to the conclusion, that all that\\ncomes from the lips of spirit mediums should\\nbe judged by its own elements of truth, as\\nrecognized by the inquirer, rather than taken\\non the authority of the name given while\\nby no means precluding the possibility of\\nthe name given being really that of the spirit\\nprompting to speak or write. Is there then\\nno value, it will perhaps be asked, in the words\\nor writings of one who has proved himself a\\nwise counsellor and friend to humanity by\\npast good works and teachings, which have\\nearned for him a name to be trusted Cer-\\ntainly there is, and in the ordinary course of\\nlife such authority is to be relied upon until\\nsomething better is shown but the fact\\nremains that the listener or reader really\\nappropriates only so much as he can receive,\\nand so far only gains by it just as in mat-\\nters of pure science he holds any new truth\\nonly until some other dictum has been\\nproved to be the more correct and advanced.\\nSoul growth, like every other growth, is\\n262 1J4", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nattained by accretion of new life, new thought,\\nnew power, adding their mite each day to\\nthe process of advancement while stagna-\\ntion, which is the other alternative, may lead\\ndown to decay and dissolution. In offering\\nthis explanation, however, we would not be\\nunderstood to admit that little or no new\\ntruth has been brought by the higher bands\\nthrough recognized mediumship, to the com-\\nprehension and aid of truth seekers. Much\\nhas been given, and much more will be, as\\nconditions favor and minds are receptive.\\nThe possibility of misleading mediumship\\nthrough control of mischievous spirits has\\nbeen suggested and it has been asked,\\nShall we not then decry all open gifts in\\nthis direction as dangerous and fear to\\nhave our children interested in this strange\\nand misty borderland? Doubtless there\\nis need of caution in inviting the young and\\ninexperienced to go into the inquiry through\\nany and every public medium who may be\\nfound. As with every other gift there must\\nbe some prudence exercised in our use of\\nthis of mediumship, or it may prove a\\nstumbling-block and mischievous; especially\\nin these days of confusion at large, and still\\nincomplete knowledge of much that is com-\\n263\\n2^S\u00c2\u00ae^^^S^ ^S\u00c2\u00a9K ?w*%Wk", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity aub Bestiui?\\nprehended under the name of Spiritualism.\\nIf the young are brought into opportunity\\nto observe the phenomena, it should be in\\ncompany with older and experienced in-\\nquirers who are sincere seekers, making the\\ntwo or three gathered together in the name\\nof truth. Rarely, if ever, should mediumis-\\ntic qualities when indicated in any young\\nperson be encouraged to their full expres-\\nsion, until the years of maturity in body and\\nmind are reached. Too early giving up to\\nsuch use, if quickened beyond simple growth,\\nmay prove exhausting to both body and\\nmind, and perhaps prevent what might\\notherwise, in later years, prove a healthy,\\nwell-balanced and beautiful mediumship.\\nThe use of any instrument such as the talk-\\ning-board, so-called, is especially to be\\navoided for children. These may or may\\nnot give true response the character of the\\ncommunications through them depending so\\nmuch upon the mental states of the inquirer,\\nwhether young or mature. Their very form\\nis calculated to divert the mind from serious\\ninvestigation into mere idle questioning, and\\nso inviting a low class of spirits to raise\\nfalse hopes and otherwise mislead the child-\\nish mind. If used in the hands of a child\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baB 264 iji", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nalone, these modes of seeking give too easy\\nplay to the idle fancies of their solitary\\ndevotees.\\nIt would seem that the highest and best\\nmediumship is cultivated by retiring into\\none s self in silence, and then prayerfully\\nopening the doors of the soul to such im-\\npressions and such growth as one can be\\ncapable of attaining through earnest desire\\nto seek only truth and this without neglect-\\ning, but rather with the more zeal fulfilling\\nevery external duty to which there may be\\nplainly a call. Not infrequently such fulfil-\\nment of external duty has proved the best\\nopportunity for the unfoldment desired.\\nWhen, however, several like-minded per-\\nsons gather in circle for the common good,\\ntheir united, prayerful seeking may draw\\ndown much blessing of the spirit not other-\\nwise to be reached. Thus it is desirable,\\nwhen possible, to have in every home, as\\nbefore written, some resting-place, some\\nholy of holies, where the members of the\\nfamily may gather, however briefly, to invite\\nsuch blessing as may be most needed for\\neach member. Few words suffice at such\\ntimes to help concentrate the minds of those\\npresent upon the purpose of their gathering,\\n26s", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anD Destiny\\nand the loving messengers of God will do\\nthe rest in beautiful uplifting and strength-\\nening for good, which is of God. The home\\nso conducted and blessed will ever prove a\\nplace of refuge to all its members who, no\\nmatter how far separated, will return in spirit\\nto its loving embrace, until all may perhaps\\nin time form new home circles of their own.\\nSuch life from generation to generation would\\ndo much toward realizing the promised mil-\\nlennial days, and throw back the bars that\\ncould no longer keep man out of his para-\\ndise regained.\\nIn this broad view of mediumship it will\\nbe seen that it is not true that mediums\\nare generally in unbalanced nervous equi-\\nlibrium and live close to the danger line of\\ninsanity, as has been charged; though doubt-\\nless some are so conditioned. The question\\nhas often been mooted, Is genius allied to\\ninsanity? Undoubtedly it is, since genius\\nis another word for the very receptivity of\\nmind to spirit impression and influence, such\\nas characterizes the more avowed and public\\ncases of mediumship. Thus it may and\\ndoes sometimes happen that men of so-called\\ngenius are in unbalanced nervous equi-\\nlibrium, and sometimes, it may be only tem-\\n266\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nporarily, do topple over the danger line of\\ninsanity. But such instances are hardly to\\nbe held up as warnings against the posses-\\nsion and use of powers which are ordinarily\\nrecognized as belonging to genius.\\nThis brings us to a deeply important and\\nsadly interesting direction of inquiry into\\nModern Spiritualism, in its bearing upon\\nthe question of insanity, as ordinarily under-\\nstood and the light it throws upon the\\nproper treatment of victims of that malady,\\nas indicated in what are recognized as orderly\\nand disorderly mediumship the former be-\\ning known as possession, where the spirit\\ncontrol is temporary and under the direction\\nof some guardian spirit or band and the\\nlatter as obsession, when the medium s\\nproper self is so merged or held by spirit in-\\nfluences, that it cannot ward off their ap-\\nproaches, or get relief from their more or\\nless continuous control, and is unable, to\\nthat extent, to assert or express its own indi-\\nviduality. This latter condition is ordina-\\nrily recognized as insanity, and practically it\\nis such, and often most sadly. There may\\nbe no discoverable disease or lesion of the\\nbrain, and yet the symptoms show the lack\\nof self-control constituting insanity.\\n267 qt\\n^mmms^^sm^m^^^st^", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "Zhc purity anfc 2)e6tin^\\nSpirits of varying degrees of development\\nare more or less about every individual in\\nmortal form being by no means limited to\\nrecognized mediums; their character depend-\\ning largely upon the conditions of each\\nindividual. Every inquirer soon learns that\\nin all orderly mediumship some other Intel-\\nligence than the medium s self does, for the\\ntime being actuate, and more or less com-\\npletely control the mental action, whatever\\nthe nature of the communication thus given;\\nthe experience being of the same general\\ncharacter, whether high or low influences are\\npermitted to manifest their presence. The\\ncontrol passes off after its communication has\\nbeen given its mission so far filled and upon\\nits leaving, the medium s own spirit resumes\\nits proper control. This simple statement has\\nbeen substantiated by too many thousand\\ninquirers to be questioned now, however un-\\nwilling the minds of outside observers may\\nbe to accept it. But strange and perhaps\\nlow spirits may and do break in, sometimes\\nit would appear quite unawares to themselves,\\nand get more or less control of any man or\\nwoman whose proper self-control has been\\nlessened or lost through conditions of mere\\nphysical health, it may be or more com-\\n268", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "of flfcobern Spiritualism\\nmonly through severe trials of experience\\nthat have exhausted the natural healthy\\nforces of the mind thus excluding or shut-\\nting in the proper master or mistress of the\\nhouse, and making a disorderly mediumship\\nor obsession. In orderly mediumship the\\nextent to which such undeveloped spirits\\nmay use the medium if allowed to control,\\nis held more or less under the direction of\\nthe guardian spirit or band presiding over\\nthe manifestation such protection or guard-\\nianship being a well recognized fact among\\nSpiritualists. In disorderly mediumship,\\ncommonly looked upon as insanity, such\\nprotection seems to be more or less sus-\\npended under the repelling force of the con-\\nditions involved, and the manifestations of\\nspirit presence and control are full of vagaries,\\nand not infrequently accompanied with vio-\\nlent demonstrations quite foreign to the\\nnatural characteristics of the patient s proper\\nself, and very difficult to manage or under-\\nstand. When such cases have become deep\\nseated and long continued, nothing short of\\nthe Christ power can reach them to cast out\\nthe control at once while the unbroken\\nperseverance and never failing love of an\\nattendant in charge can perhaps gradually lift\\nj\u00c2\u00ab 269 j", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anb Beating\\nthe obsessing spirits so that they will leave\\nbefore they have worn out the body in which\\nthey have themselves become, as it were, in-\\ncarcerated, and the patient s own spirit may by\\ndegrees, through similar loving care and en-\\ncouragement, be strengthened to resume its\\nproper control.\\nPainful opportunity for study in this\\ndirection has been given the writer and over\\nand over again with most convincing dem-\\nonstration of spirit obsession the patient,\\nhaving lost control of self, and being more\\nor less continuously under some so-called\\nhallucination. Had the conditions of ob-\\nsession been better understood at the out-\\nset of this case, long years of watching and\\nwaiting might perhaps have been shortened.\\nBut by way of compensation, it has been\\nstated from the spirit side, that no one can\\nmeasure the amount of good that may be\\naccomplished, under rightly directed care\\nand treatment, for obsessing influences who\\nare thus brought within reach of light for\\nwhich they may have been long groping in\\nutter darkness and despair a good declared\\nto be more than recompense for the labor\\nand sufferings of the obsessed patient and\\nwatching friends As from seeming evil\\n270", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nstill deducing good, God ever makes the\\nwrath of man to praise Him, so in the order-\\nings of his providence may the insane\\npatients be instruments for good, at which\\nultimately they may rejoice, notwithstanding\\nthe suffering caused. We cannot and do\\nnot know all that is yet to be learned in\\nsuch cases but enough has been shown to\\ngive a new and deeply interesting aspect to\\nthis most distressing form of human experi-\\nence.\\nWith all the liability to spirit influence\\nand control shown in this article, we would\\nrepeat the injunction before written, calling\\nupon every one to see to it that their lives\\nare ordered with ever watchful purpose to\\nresist every prompting or impulse that is\\nnot in accord with their highest sense of\\nright. Individual responsibility to this end\\nis still man s first obligation to himself and\\nto God, as it is his special prerogative and\\nglory in the struggles and attainments of his\\ndaily life.\\nConditions often very difficult to under-\\nstand and wisely help occur more frequently\\nthan generally recognized, when obsessing\\nspirits have made partial approach toward\\ncontrol of their subjects, but not enough to\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba5 271", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Besting\\ntake away all responsibility of action. The\\nstate which follows is very trying to friends\\nwho cannot but see the unbalanced mind,\\nyet find it difficult, often impossible, to per-\\nsuade the subject to yield to any reason, or\\nto realize that he is beside himself. Per-\\nsons so affected are looked upon as very\\nodd, sometimes annunciating the most un-\\nreasonable propositions, and doing the most\\nunreasonable things, while yet retaining\\nenough of self to save them from guardian-\\nship though they may be most uncomfort-\\nable and difficult inmates of a household.\\nThese conditions may continue for years\\nunder the suffering patience of relatives and\\nfriends, or they may deepen into states abso-\\nlutely demanding outside control or hap-\\npily, by entire change of surroundings and\\ninterests may be, and not unfrequently are,\\nentirely thrown off Such cases are dis-\\ntinctly allied to recognized mediumship and\\nobsession, and can be understood from no\\nother point of view. Similar conditions may\\nand doubtless do obtain more or less in the\\ndelirium of fevers the manifestations in\\nwhich have so long been waiting for explana-\\ntion from current medical science.\\nIt is true that careful observation has\\n*b 272", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nshown to those who have devoted them-\\nselves to treatment of the insane, that a most\\nimportant end to be labored for is to\\nstrengthen the individuals affected, so that\\nthey can command and use their own proper\\nmental action. So far, so good. But they\\nhave not attained the deep yet simple un-\\nderstanding which will show to the careful,\\nloving attendant the absolute necessity of\\nmost patient speech and action toward the\\nobsessing influences, and how by kindness\\nand instruction to lift them gradually to a\\nhigher plane of thought and character, until,\\nas sometimes occurs in a way not yet fully\\nunderstood, nature opens the doors, perhaps\\nsuddenly after long years of obsession, for\\ntheir departure, so that they can no longer\\nhold sway; or until of their own accord they\\nyield to the loving pressure of those laboring\\nto restore the patient. Both the patient and\\nthe obsessing spirits need help and very\\ninteresting and encouraging will such man-\\nagement be found by those called to such\\ncases it being borne in mind that careful\\nand repeated observation only, and this not\\nalways, will help to determine the identity\\nof the infesting spirits, and so aid in their\\nfurther instruction.\\n273", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "ftbe purity anfc Destiny\\nAmong other efforts at ameliorating the\\ncondition of the insane, recent experiments\\nin hypnotic treatment, an old force under a\\nnew name, now beginning to be recognized\\nby official science as offering invaluable heal-\\ning power when rightly used, seem to indi-\\ncate that it may become of special use in\\nthe care and cure of insane patients. We\\nwould urge such operators to study and\\nunderstand spirit obsession, so that in their\\ntreatment the hypnotic suggestion may be\\nthrown upon the obsessing spirit or spirits,\\nas well as upon the patient. If that can be\\naccomplished, it must help to important\\nprogress in this branch of medical science.\\nAgain, knowledge of the possibility of\\nspirit obsession would help all who by tem-\\nperament or otherwise are too easily brought\\nto extreme expression of emotion, to beware\\nof the danger in givingway to their impulses\\nof anger, or grief, or even of joy, however\\nshort their yielding may be in duration.\\nEvery instance of this want of self-posses-\\nsion gives opportunity for spirit influx, which\\nby too great continuance or frequency may\\nbecome supreme, and in the end wreck the\\nhappiness, if not the life of the sufferer.\\nThat there are cases of insanity attributa-\\n274 g", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nble directly and wholly to physical injury or\\ndisease, the removal of which will restore the\\nlost equilibrium, constituting sane health, is\\nnot to be questioned but in such cases there\\nis opportunity for inroad from wandering\\nspirits to complicate, and make treatment\\nmore difficult and slow of results. Such\\ncases do not contradict our general position,\\nand may, in their way, confirm it calling\\noften, in the course of their procedure, for\\ncareful study and understanding of the phe-\\nnomena of Modern Spiritualism\\nIn every direction and form of life it is\\nthe law that true health depends upon main-\\ntenance of the equilibrium, which belongs to\\nthe component elements of every living form.\\nAny loss of such equilibrium opens the way\\nto invasion from opposing forces, which will\\nattach themselves to the failing part, and if\\nnot driven off, may in the end ruin the\\nblighted form. This is simply true through-\\nout all organic life, and plainly manifested\\nin every injury that reaches the vegetable or\\nanimal form. Parasites numberless are\\nready to ingraft themselves into every\\nwound of the plant or animal. The possi-\\nbility of spirit obsession is one form of such\\nparasitic life affecting human beings! When\\n275", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity artfc Besting\\none considers the myriads of spirits in hu-\\nman form who have passed out of their earth\\nbodies in the lowest conditions of develop-\\nment into some sort of spirit existence, and\\nthus earth-bound must be slow to rise above\\nthe earth plane, it seems a cause for wonder\\nthat any human life can be protected from\\npossible inroad. Only in health of body\\nand mind is such protection to be found.\\nIt must be by virtue of the slow but higher\\ndevelopment of succeeding generations, and\\nstronger hold upon the principles of true life,\\nthough yet far from being fully attained, as\\nwell as by the watchful help of the higher\\ninfluences of the spirit-spheres, who under\\nthe good Father s care and prompting are\\nmore than able to cope with these lower de-\\nstructive forces, that humanity has continued\\nto exist upon the earth, and is gradually de-\\nveloping into higher expression upon that\\nplane Such view of the situation calls all\\nthe more to each and all, by true living, to\\ndo their part in th\u00c2\u00a3 lifting of the race.\\nSee Appendix.\\n276", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nARTICLE IX.\\nClosing Illustration. Soul Culture\\nthe Chief End of Spiritual Seeking.\\nThe Marriage Relation in\\nConclusion.\\nA judgment upon neglected opportunity given in\\nillustration. Soul culture. The marriage re-\\nlation. Its high calling. The divine right\\nand duty of woman. Man to be restrained\\nwhile sharing the responsibilities of parentage.\\nTrue freedom in love not selfish. The lower\\npromptings to be subservient to spiritual control.\\nA crime against humanity. False needs\\nfrom selfish beginnings. Magnetic interchange\\nappointed. Intemperate indulgence in food\\nleads to disobedience of Law. A spirit com-\\nmunication upon marriage. Free love, what is\\nit Apostrophe to truth. Unveiling of Truth\\nessential, where ignorance is not bliss. An in-\\nspirational view of what this orb is yet to be.\\nThe writer s early compassion and prompt-\\ning. True Motherhood the crown of Woman-\\nhood.\\nThe story has been told of one of our\\nreal estate magnates, who had passed into\\n277", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "Gbe fl urit\\\\ ant) Besting\\nspirit life a few years ago, while in posses-\\nsion of house upon house, and in receipt of\\nthousands in rentals, that upon being asked\\nby a friend, through a spirit medium, what\\nhe had been doing during the year which\\nhad elapsed since his departure, the spirit\\nreplied Doing? I have been trying to\\nfind bricks enough to build a house with\\nHe had been so absorbed in his material\\ninterests, and had availed so little of his\\nopportunities to help others out of his\\nabundant wealth, that he had utterly failed\\nto put together the elements of righteous\\nliving wherewith to build the house not\\nmade with hands, which he might other-\\nwise have found ready to welcome him on\\nthat other side and there he stood before\\nthe questioner, houseless and homeless\\nSuch announcement must have been sadly\\ninstructive to the inquiring friend, as to\\nevery thinking mind. The incident is intro-\\nduced here in part for its general illustration\\nof the many and varied teachings which have\\ncome through Modern Spiritualism but\\nmore as a call to all who are looking into\\nmodern things of the spirit, to come up\\nhigher, and to remember that true spiritual\\nunfoldment should be the chief end of all\\n278", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nthe inquiry failure in which has been stated\\nto be the second prominent cause of the slow\\nprogress in Spiritualism during recent years.\\nToo many Spiritualists are sticking in the\\nbeautiful gates, instead of entering into the\\ninner precincts of the Temple, to learn and\\nto worship, and ultimately to unfold in lov-\\ning service to humanity\\nSoul culture what is it, and how to be\\nattained First and foremost it is to be\\nreached through faithful performance of\\nevery duty in external life to which we may\\nbe called, without other thought than its\\nproper fulfilment. While not neglectful of\\nself, so far as care may be needed to keep\\neach life in its best condition for usefulness,\\ngrowth of the soul seems to come more out\\nof work well done for other use and purpose\\nthan from direct seeking for its own develop-\\nment. It is altruistic in the fullest sense.\\nThe powers which may be developed through\\nsoul culture are matters of growth, up to the\\nalmost limitless expression of what lies more\\nor less dormant in every human being and\\nthey are to be dedicated to the highest uses\\nof which each individual may be capable.\\nIt was said recently by an earnest truth-\\nseeker, that her spirit seemed like a young\\n2 79", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anfc Destiny\\nrobin with upturned head and open mouth,\\nwaiting for the inflowing of truth. So we\\nwould wish that every soul should hold itself\\nready to welcome and use for the help of\\nothers, as well as of itself, every thought that\\nhas real life in it, every truth wherewith the\\ngood Father is ready and waiting to satisfy\\nand bless his hungering children. This is\\nno new need peculiar to Spiritualists; it has\\nbeen the cry of all leaders in spiritual things.\\nBut it is to be pressed with special force on\\nthose whose minds have been awakened to\\nthe latter day possibilities of development\\nthrough more intimate relations with the\\nspirit-spheres, that they may show by their\\nfruits what growth and blessing are to be\\ngained by deeper insight into this opening\\nway of life.\\nIn response to the call to come up higher,\\nwhich seems to have been in the air during\\nthe last quarter century, with all the greed\\nand rush for money making, many minds in\\nand out of the churches of to-day have\\nbeen and are busy with plans for ameliorat-\\ning the conditions of the less favored chil-\\ndren of men, and lifting them to a plane\\nwhich shall be more worthy of the Christ\\nname, now sadly a misnomer in so many\\n280 1J4\\nm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "v\\nV\\nof fIDofcern Spiritualism\\ndirections of our boasted progress and refine-\\nment and to these all we would heartily wish\\na God-speed. Our own thought turns, in\\nsuch connection, to what we have previously\\nbut briefly adverted to, as the most momen-\\ntous of all questions pressing to-day, and\\nindeed through all time, upon the need of\\nmankind we mean the near relations be-\\ntween man and woman. Due consideration,\\nor rather study of this grave question is still\\nheld strangely in the background, while the\\nnations go rushing on in their pursuit of\\nwealth and all external gratification With\\nspillings of their mad gains they are building\\nhospitals, asylums, and jails for the sick, the\\ninsane, and the criminal, to meet the conse-\\nquences of ignorance and too wilful neglect\\nof the basic prevention of all sickness and\\ncrime to be assured through a better under-\\nstanding and ordering of the marriage rela-\\ntion, and the holy duties of parentage\\nWith fear and trembling we approach this\\nmomentous subject, so plainly to our mind it\\nis the first and last great need to be rightly\\nstudied and understood. In the solution of\\nthe questions involved in it, as it seems to us,\\nlie the ultimate uplifting and perfection of\\nthe human family. Too long have the mass\\n281\\nwm", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "Zbe purity anfc Besting\\nof mankind closed their minds against a\\nrighteous study and wise unfoldment of the\\ndeep mysteries which have been implanted\\nthrough nature in the wonderful structure of\\nthe bodies of man and woman in special re-\\ngard to continuation and development of the\\nrace. Hedged about by attractions of sense,\\nwhich lead to healthful interchange when\\nwisely exercised, but to degradation and ruin\\nwhen indulged in only for selfish gratification,\\nthe marriage relation has been subjected to\\nevery trial possible in the wide range of human\\nerror. Beginning with the lowest forms of\\nits expression among the earlier and often\\ninferior races, and developing through the\\ncenturies up to the present bounds and limi-\\ntations which society has slowly worked out\\nfor its own protection, the restraints do help\\nto keep the selfish instincts in subjection to\\nthe law of social order. But this is com-\\nparatively external in operation. Man must\\nyet find his way out of the wilds in which\\nhis labors first opened, to the fairer fields that\\nare awaiting him, when his spiritual nature\\nhas attained the predominant relation to his\\nlife, prefigured in the paradisiacal state\\nthe paradise lost, but yet to be regained.\\nThe question of love, as distinguished\\n282", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "of flDofcem Spiritualism\\nfrom attraction on the lower or physical\\nplane, demands a deep study for most of\\nthe present generation of men and women,\\nwhose antecedents and inheritance have been\\nout of such mixed conditions as often to\\nconfuse the most earnest investigator as to\\nthe real source of the promptings ordinarily\\nattributed to love. The first claim of Spirit-\\nualism in this regard has been for freedom, as\\nwe have before written, from the tyrannical\\ncontrol of man over woman, which has been\\nhanded down through many centuries, and\\nsustained with slowly yielding provisions by\\nstatutes of man s making. If not demanded\\nas a brutal right, the result has been too\\nmuch the same through woman s fear that\\nfailure to meet his selfish importunity may\\nturn him away from his proper home, and\\nso with trembling as to possible results, she\\nhas yielded herself against the finer instincts\\nof her nature What a breach of divine\\nlaw is involved in this sacrifice on her part,\\nand what a lowering of true manly attributes\\non his part. On the other hand, artificial or\\nany other unnatural interference in the inter-\\ncourse, is but a disgrace to humanity, and\\nwill sometime, if not always now, be recog-\\nnized by every true man and woman as un-\\n283", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anfc Stestin^\\nworthy of the high calling of a child of\\nGod.\\nEvery branch of the Christian church has\\ntaken its part in endeavoring to keep sensual\\nlicense within bounds. Some portions of it\\nhave held that marriage can be rightly con-\\nsummated only under its ordinances almost\\nignoring the divine law which first moves the\\ntwain to be joined as one, and which if\\nrightly studied and obeyed would, and in\\nGod s time will determine the character and\\nholiness of the joining, as no priest or earthly\\npotentate ever has or could. To be a law\\nunto themselves, so that statute law with pen-\\nalties attached, as well as solemn injunctions\\nof the church, and promises at the marriage\\naltar shall cease to be necessary restraints, is\\nplainly the divine end to be attained just\\nas all laws become useless when the com-\\nmunity over which they stand as sentinels\\nand guards have risen above the possible need\\nof such protection. This is easily written,\\nbut to be accomplished requires a devout\\nstudy, on the part of every man and woman\\ncoming to maturity, to know themselves\\nphysically and spiritually, before entering into\\nthe sacred relation of marriage realizing\\nthat with or without church and state they\\n284 \u00c2\u00bbg", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nare children of God through whom they\\nhave their being, and that in his service, not\\nin their own selfish seeking, the consumma-\\ntion is to be reached.\\nAmong the various effects produced upon\\nthe public mind through the advent of\\nmodern Spiritualism, tending in all directions\\nto freedom of thought and action, and so\\nseeming to loosen old restraints, the license\\nin which some of the early votaries of the\\nnew truths indulged their lower natures, has\\nat times cast a shadow upon the real purpose\\nand message of the angel visitors. Like\\nmany truths when first broached upon the\\nconsciousness of men, this freedom has\\nproved a stumbling-block, partly because\\nmisunderstood, and partly because, as before\\nwritten, the old conditions could not bear the\\nnearer approach of the sun of righteousness,\\nthe very principle of unselfish love, and so\\nquickened they have smouldered and smoked,\\nand at times burst into flames that must be\\nrestrained and extinguished by external law.\\nMany pages have been written and pub-\\nlished by earnest seekers after truth in this\\ndirection, and none more exhaustive of the\\nquestion of freedom in love than the contro-\\nversy between two able disputants published\\n285 k", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "Zbc purity anfc Destiny\\na few years since. 1 But the arguments seem\\nto fail of definite conclusions in not striking\\ndeep enough into consideration of the divine\\npurposes involved in marriage and the\\nprinciple of freedom is still waiting to be\\napprehended and demonstrated in the ex-\\npression of a truer, less selfish, and more\\nspiritual love between man and woman than\\nis now generally recognized as desirable or\\npossible. The fruits of marriage to-day,\\nwith all the legal and moral restraints that\\nhedge it about in vain, offer sad confirma-\\ntion of this position. The time was when\\nfreedom in religion was deemed to be dan-\\ngerous, and the right now enjoyed by so\\nmany, with perfect safety to society, to find\\ntheir religion and their time and place of\\nworship in their own way and choice, was\\ndenied and curtailed by church and state.\\nThat in some way a freedom for expression\\nof love as between man and woman corre-\\nsponding to that now enjoyed in religion\\namong many if not all enlightened nations\\nto-day, has been pressed upon the minds of\\nearnest thinkers, each offering limited solu-\\ntion of the problem, but all admitting that\\nunrestrained expression of the impulses of\\ni By Henry James and Stephen Pearl Andrews.\\n$4 286 gl", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\nthe natural man must be in some way held\\nin equilibrium by the inner or higher powers\\nof the spirit. Deeper and more potent than\\nreligious instincts has been the sway of love\\nbetween man and woman, and by so much\\nmore is its right control and directing the\\ngreatest essential to their well being individu-\\nally and socially. Freedom in both religion\\nand love must be within that true service of\\nGod, and in accordance with his implanted\\nlaw, which alone is perfect freedom, in\\nevery direction of life a prime requirement\\nbeing in the underlying principle and safe-\\nguard, that none shall exercise their freedom\\nin any direction injuriously to others. A\\nhappy illustration of such freedom is shown\\nin the present use of the Christian Sabbath;\\nthe rigid observance of which, that once held\\nsway in this community, has gradually yielded\\nto a more enlightened acceptance of the\\nsimple words reported of the Master The\\nSabbath was made for man, and not man for\\nthe Sabbath.\\nVery plainly, however, society, with a\\nvery few exceptions, has not yet reached the\\ndevelopment which would authorize the re-\\nmoval of all bars and restraints in the mar-\\nriage relation. On the other hand it has\\n287", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant) Besting\\nbeen argued that to continue the restraints\\nis a weakening process out of which man\\nwould never find his highest manhood. To\\nour mind the truer way is for man to outgrow\\nthe restraints through a deeper culture of the\\nindividual, so that, as before written, the\\nstatutes of the State and ordinances of the\\nchurch shall simply become dead letters,\\nhaving no application to the social order,\\nand unnecessary in the mouth of magistrate\\nor priest just as the statutes forbidding\\ngreat crimes are no longer needed by a large\\nmajority of people in every civilized com-\\nmunity on earth to-day. With this view in\\nmind, we feel a constant urgency to lay be-\\nfore every intelligent man and woman, the\\nlast and best considerations which, after\\nmany years of study, have come to us from\\nevery source, mundane or spiritual, to help\\nhumanity on toward the long promised land\\nwhich shall be reached by the few at first\\nand later by the many, the paradise re-\\ngained, to which no longer the gates with\\nflaming swords will deny admission. Our\\ndesire in all this seeking is not for novelty\\nof idea, but for truth, whatever that may be,\\nor however progressed.\\nPerhaps the foremost thought which\\n288 iff", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\npresses itself upon our attention in this re-\\ngard, is the full recognition of the terrible\\ntruth that to give birth to unwelcome offspring\\nis a crime against humanity! The full mean-\\ning of this needs to be held in the minds\\nand lives of all men and women who are in\\nposition possible for parentage. Once taken\\ninto their consciousness, both would be so\\nstrengthened as to be able to exercise a self-\\nrestraint that would be a better safeguard\\nthan any statute prohibition. Still more\\nurgent perhaps are the summons to stay that\\nother great wrong, not yet recognized as it\\nshould and will be, the crime of infanticide\\nbefore birth. Man knows not just when\\nthe spark of life begins its being as a possi-\\nble immortal soul. Shutting his eyes to\\nevery consideration but his own selfish seek-\\ning, he has deemed the stopping of a life\\nonly just begun in its lower stages, as a\\nslight if any offence against the laws of God,\\nby which it came into existence! The retri-\\nbution for such wrong is in the judgment\\npronounced by the all-Father, in conse-\\nquences too often attributed to other causes\\nthan the real underlying one of selfish seek-\\ning. These are plain words, but the times\\ndemand them. Too long has the finger\\n289 g", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity ant) Destiny\\nbeen laid upon the lips for hush of inquiry\\ninto this most momentous question. False\\nshame of women and underlying selfishness\\nof men have conspired to allow the continu-\\nance of old conditions, and the highest and\\nholiest of all social rights been held in cruel\\nbondage. The growing conviction among\\nall who stop to think, that God and nature\\ndemand the absolute control of her person\\nby woman in the marriage relation must be\\nestablished more and more among civilized\\ncommunities, declared and sustained if need\\nbe by statute, until man becomes so subject\\nto the spiritual ruling of his lower instincts\\nand passions, that such statute provision\\nwould become unnecessary. The new gen-\\nerations that would come under such order-\\ning would rise up and call their parentage\\nblessed indeed, as is now far from being\\nalways possible. Children ceasing to be, as\\nthey now too often are, creatures of accident\\nand worse, rather than the beautiful fruitage\\nof love under God s law and woman s abso-\\nlute freedom of person, to which she has a\\ndivine right, would no longer have to con-\\ntend in their growing years with false long-\\nings and seeming needs out of inevitable\\ninheritance from the conditions of their con-\\njt 290", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "^W^^^^^M^W^^^I^ill^^^M^W\\nof flfcofcern Spiritualism\\nception and birth. Inclinations which now\\ntend to irritate and preoccupy the minds of\\nyouth, leading and sometimes almost forcing\\nto indulgence, would no longer divert their\\nlives from pursuit of higher and worthier\\nsources of pleasure and growth! It was the\\nremark in print of a keen observer, that\\nman and woman naturally desire each\\nother, but with this difference man desires\\nfirst, and then loves whereas woman, as a\\nrule to which there are sad exceptions from\\nthe conditions of birth, loves first, and\\nthen desires. It was a beautiful, and as we\\nbelieve a just tribute to the average woman;\\nbut a lamentable recognition of the condi-\\ntions of the average man, resulting directly\\nfrom the ruling motive at the time of con-\\nception and gestation. Through selfishness\\nin parentage the lower propensities are natur-\\nally predominant in the offspring, and will\\ncontinue to be until a purer love moves\\nboth parents with desire only to bless one\\nanother. The world of humanity is crying\\nout to-day for better conditions of birthright\\nfor every child of man. Would that the\\ncry could reach the ears of every newly\\njoined pair, and lead to such recognition of\\nthe awful responsibility in parentage, as\\nMWm,", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nwould protect their possible issue from the\\nblight which otherwise awaits them in vary-\\ning degree, retarding the spirit thus started\\nupon one round of the life immortal. It\\nneeds no argument to show that nature for-\\nbids indiscriminate mingling of the sexes for\\nselfish purpose. This has been made terri-\\nbly plain by the consequences sooner or\\nlater engendered in such low seeking. Like\\nother sins of man committed in breach of\\ndivine law, the punishment is extended to\\nthe third and fourth generation from the first\\nevil doer. Communications written through\\nunconscious hands have in years past, and\\nstill do respond to earnest inquiries in these\\ninner matters, always confirming the progres-\\nsive thought toward purer lives and a re-\\ndeemed humanity.\\nWe have before written that true freedom\\nin love asserts the right, the bounden duty\\nrather, of woman, to whom the duty first\\nbelongs, to protect the fountains of life from\\nevery approach that is not actuated by love;\\nand to hold the marriage relation sacred to\\nthe cause of parentage, for which it was\\ndivinely instituted. This solemn injunc-\\ntion, however, does not mean that parentage\\nis the only purpose and use in marriage the\\n292 \u00c2\u00a31", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "of flDofcern Spiritualism\\ninterchange of magnetism being always a\\nsource of health between man and woman,\\nwhether holding the marriage relation or\\nnot and to those holding that relation a\\ncontinuing source of blessing to both when\\nnot stagnated by wasteful use of opportunity.\\nThe eyes, the hands, the lips, the presence\\nonly offer channels of communication and\\ninterchange, and experience has shown to\\nmany a happily united pair that these methods\\nwill never lose their charm, or cease to bring\\njoy to both so long as the laws of God are\\nobeyed, and selfishness is excluded from all\\ntheir joining. More and more as these laws\\nare obeyed will the marriage vows hold their\\nefficacy to keep the home what it is at the\\nstart in its great purpose, though it be recog-\\nnized that in the present conditions of earth\\nlife the matings are not always the complete\\nunion of two souls, which is to be ultimately\\nreached in the joining of the pair ordained\\nof God, the two in one, constituting the\\ncomplete angel. To this end the promises\\nat the marriage altar are to be kept sacred,\\nwith willingness on each part to forget self\\nand keep the home true to those promises\\nbearing in mind that whatever the ways of\\nman in working up to his highest develop-\\n2 93", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nment, true marriage is purely and of neces-\\nsity monogamic, and to be lived up to in\\nthat conviction. Should this seem some-\\ntimes to involve sacrifice on either part, the\\nblessing that will come of it will surely be\\nrealized ultimately by one if not both.\\nWhen men and women have come to a right\\nunderstanding of and firm purpose to be\\ntrue to divine law, intended to protect every\\nnew-born spirit from contamination, doubt-\\nless the interchange of magnetisms may be\\nsought under the marriage relation, if mutu-\\nally desired, through the closest joining\\nwithout purpose or thought of parentage.\\nWoman s absolute control of the situation,\\nand man s obedience to the law of unselfish-\\nness are the essential conditions by which\\nsuch communing may be allowed, and bring\\nits quiet blessing to both. But, as before\\nwritten, such happy consummation can\\nhardly be reached without obedience to the\\nlaws of health in all the appetites of the\\nphysical. Beyond the real needs of health\\nand strength, indulging his appetite with\\nmeat and drink living to eat rather than\\neating to live, without thought of natural\\nconsequences man has yielded to the stim-\\nulants thus inflaming his lower propensities,\\n294", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nand in the burning of lust, rather than under\\nthe prompting of love, he has gone on from\\ngeneration to generation, handing down the\\nseeds of weakness and ill health, too seldom\\nrecognized as the fruits of his ignorance and\\nselfishness. That woman has in a measure\\nshared this lowering of her better nature is\\nnot to be denied but coming last from the\\nhand of God, as the old Scriptures state it,\\nand recognized by man, in her finer instincts\\nas by nature nearer to the divine source of\\nall life, and so more quick to perceive the\\ntruth and better able to lead in these mo-\\nmentous questions of the sex relations and\\nparentage, surely she is to be allowed free-\\ndom from man s control, exercised through\\nthe long centuries and, thus free, to declare\\nthe inner law of her spirit written before\\nman-made statutes were dreamed of.\\nYears ago it was written through a half\\nunconscious hand, in response to our seek-\\ning and inquiry upon this solemn topic,\\nYour question hath mighty revelations of\\nLight, for it leads into the very beat of the\\ncentral heart of being, and brings us into\\nthose beautiful rays from Light, which are\\nLove, Justice, Charity, Hope and all prin-\\nciples that enter the cells of things and try\\n2 95\\nfm-Gf.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "Zhe purity anb Destiny\\nto shine through them. God said, Let\\nthere be Light. Through light and its\\nuplighting comes immortality. Unless a\\nman have light in every cell, he is not in\\nfulness. A dead liver or a dead lung, is\\nwhere there is no God. God needs every\\ncell to uplift itself and light the taper of the\\nsoul. The Earth is in a low mag-\\nnetic state. It has not risen above the ther-\\nmal heat and reds in some of its people\\nwhile in others there are flames of pure\\ngrade of magnetic power in yellow and blue.\\nEvery mortal or spirit needs the exchange\\nof the magnetic fires for as I told you, all\\nfires are needed for immortality, and it is\\nour desire to help mortals to receive these\\nfires in as high and lofty a grade as possible.\\nAgain it was written, Do you wonder\\nthat we are trying by all means of principles\\ninstilled into the Earth people to raise the\\nquality of this rayed light from one to an-\\nother The soul needs it for its roundness\\nand future immortality. Celibacy is not in\\nthe Divine Law. All things are dual, and\\nin graded magnetism and electricity, and\\nGod is both Father and Mother yet these\\nfires of exchange must be raised into exceed-\\ning finer states than now within the race, or\\n296 \u00c2\u00bbj", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nimmortality will require many incarnations.\\nThe man never will be immortal without the\\nwoman, and vice versa the one completes\\nthe other, and in this completeness the secret\\nof being in God s image lies. No matter at\\nwhat point comes the exchange of fine\\nthreaded light if the quality is pure and\\nwhite, with delicate pink of affection and\\ntenderness, there will be growth toward im-\\nmortality. O let us lift them all into these\\ndelicate colors, that there shall be no more\\nlust, no more improper longing no misuse\\nof God s fire Let us so lift the race that\\nin the closest exchanges there may be the\\nwhite fire only without its material shield\\nfor the highest angels do exchange by the\\nwhite fire, and not by the low thermal state\\nof heat. I say all beings need the blending\\nof one soul in another. It is the mother\\nmingling with the father or the sphering\\nof the two in one, representing God and the\\nSon and the fire or the Holy Ghost these\\nbeing the holy Trinity in which all is. No\\nman can be celibate and become in fulness,\\nfor he would lack the mother flame or the\\nillumined God. We bid you preach these\\ntruths\\nVarious forms of the free love doctrine\\n297", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be Ipurit^ ant) Besting\\nhave seemed to come in with the other\\nclaims for freedom of thought and action,\\nunder the promptings of the mediums of\\nModern Spiritualism. But surely this does\\nnot mean wild license the freedom which\\nsoon kills itself by wanton indulgence and\\nperhaps most selfish encroachment upon the\\nrights of others. It means rather liberation\\nfrom the bonds which have heretofore, in\\nman s slow development, seemed necessary\\nto protect the marriage relation and the\\nsacredness of the home circles, and are yet\\nfar from useless with too many who could\\nnot bear any loosening of the bonds without\\ndanger of results that would be ruinous to\\nthe best social order. This liberation can\\nsafely come only through growth of the indi-\\nvidual toward that highest aim of the deep-\\nest thinkers, when each, by development of\\nsoul culture and the God that is within all,\\ncan become a law unto themselves. The\\nfreedom then will be not in liberation from\\nthe external restraint, but in the subjection\\nof the lower nature to the spiritual life of\\nevery man and woman not crushing the\\nlower nature, but so sustained in the higher\\nand spiritual, that the lower will come into\\naction only when and as prompted by the", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "of fIDofcern Spiritualism\\nhigher. Then it will be true for both man\\nand woman, and not for woman only, as\\nbefore quoted, to love first and then de-\\nsire never the reverse. Is it expecting\\ntoo much of man and woman as they now\\naverage, to reach this standpoint We can\\nonly say that it never will be reached unless\\nthe mark of the prize of the high calling\\nbe held up before them, till gradually all\\nmay be drawn to its wonderful and beautiful\\npossibilities by an attraction that will as it\\nwere compel obedience to the divine law\\nimplanted in every human being to be\\nworked out into joyful fruition.\\nIt was a beautiful inspiration that wrote,\\nO Truth, I love thee it were sweet to pass\\nInto thy essence, as a globe of glass,\\nMelted and shivered by intensest light\\nTo flow and mingle with thy Infinite.\\nO Truth, O Monarch, O thou conquering God,\\nWould that I were a meadow violet trod\\nBeneath thy feet, to feel thy Godhood thrill\\nThis dust, this me, then lie forever still\\nNay, nay thy touch should make me turn to fire\\nI d rise transformed from Nature s funeral pyre,\\nEchoing thy thought. Alas, alas, how weak,\\nHow utter weak: the hot blood burns my cheek:\\nMy aspirations are for thee my life,\\nLike a fallen tear drop in cold seas of strife", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "Gbe purity anfc Besting\\nSinks down the exhaling tear ascends above\\nThe eyes that wept it forth I feel Thy love,\\nO loving Spirit, and this tear, this me,\\nA star of soul becomes informed by Thee.\\nLet no one argue that plain treatment and\\nunveiling of the momentous interests in-\\nvolved in the marriage relation might disturb\\nthe peace, or possibly give false direction to\\nthe thoughts of young men or women, whose\\nminds have been entirely free from the lep-\\nrosy of sensual thought or desire. To such\\nminds ignorance is not bliss when they are\\nbrought, as in the course of nature they may\\nand should be, into position where want of\\nknowledge is a snare into which many an\\ninnocent young woman, and some young\\nmen have been led under cover of the mar-\\nriage ri,tes as usually construed, despite their\\nown native consciousness that all is not con-\\nducted as it should be. Light, more light\\nis demanded for each and all who are likely\\nsooner or later to be brought into possible\\nrelations of parentage for the man, that he\\nshall not ignorantly and selfishly intrude\\nhimself upon the woman and for the woman\\nthat she may guard sacredly the high and\\nholy calling of maternity, through intelligent\\n3\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "of flDobern Spiritualism\\nco-operation with the laws implanted by the\\nAll-Father in her organism for the preser-\\nvation and improvement of the race.\\nTo those whose lives are already infected\\nwith more or less seeming need and desire,\\narising sadlv out of the conditions of their\\nbirth under selfish promptings, rather than\\nthe love which God meant should be the\\nactuating motive, such inquiry into the laws\\nof true marriage-life will prove helpful and\\nsustaining in the struggles with self, and in\\nthe end lift them to a higher plane, quite\\nabove such seeming need. It would lead\\nthem to recognize that the lower promptings\\nhave their use when all the higher conditions\\nare satisfied, so that passion given expression\\nunder the moving sanction of love, shall\\nbring all the forces of the natural man into\\nco-operation with the spiritual man; and thus\\nevery new born spirit, while yet in embryo,\\ncan rightly take on its leading conditions, to\\nbe unfolded through experience on the earth\\nplane. Gradually, it is to be hoped, man\\nwill rise to this higher calling, partly through\\nbetter culture and ruling of the daily life,\\nbut more through better parentage in which\\nall the rest is practically involved. Let\\nthese injunctions be accepted and lived up\\n3 01", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3be purity anfc Destiny\\nto as fast and as far as increasing knowledge\\nand higher aspirations for the truth of God\\nmake possible, and in good time will the\\nearth blossom and rejoice with a regenerated\\nhumanity, such as now can only be antici-\\npated with a divine hope. Then and not\\ntill then will woman s servitude be looked\\nback upon as a terrible dream of a long and\\nweary past and men and women meeting\\ntogether shall be as children of God, always\\nstrong in true manhood and womanhood,\\nthrough their mutual obedience to his law.\\nThen may be realized the beautiful promise\\nof the poet from whose inspiration we have\\nalready quoted,\\nThere is a world whose multitudinous race\\nOne God inspires through every human face\\nBeams forth the mild Divinity of Love\\nTheir forms are beautiful and pure above\\nAll mortal knowledge. There my soul was led\\nIn solemn vision, and an Angel said,\\nExplore these bright dominions, treasure well\\nIn spirit-consciousness the miracle,\\nThe wonder and the glory thou shalt see\\nAs that orb is, thy orb is yet to be.\\nGod speed the time and its fulfilment.\\nHe will, but through man s development\\nand beautiful obedience to the laws of true", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "of flfeofcern Spiritualism\\nlife. It can be reached in no other way.\\nTo repeat, we claim that beyond contro-\\nversy I. Woman must never yield her\\nperson to man out of selfish purpose, but\\nalways with desire rather to bless. II. She\\nmust be free to decide when and under what\\nconditions she may seek to become a mother.\\nOn this point man must be absolutely sub-\\nmissive. III. Man must be lifted out of\\nselfish purpose in all his approaches, and\\nrejoice in perfect freedom from subjection to\\nhis own lower nature. Such is the freedom\\nwhich the higher angels would help man and\\nwoman to achieve. It is the corner-stone in\\nthe foundation of that kingdom which is to\\ncome on earth as in heaven. From genera-\\ntion to generation, down the long line of an-\\ncestry, the blessing in fulfilment of these\\nrequirements may be transmitted. The\\nplanet waits for something better in the new\\norder now opening for all the forces of na-\\nture. It will be a revelation, indeed, when\\nthis development under a true Christian civi-\\nlization is reached and those solemn words\\nof the Master, uttered nearly two thousand\\nyears ago, he that looketh upon a woman\\nwith desire that is not born of love, commit-\\nteth the forbidden sin, shall be an effective\\n303\\niW^M", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "ftbe purity ant) E e6tin\\\\\\nsubstitute for the statute law now vainly en-\\ndeavoring through threat of punishment to\\nsuppress the secret wrongs hidden from the\\npublic eye, and too often sadly committed\\nunder cover of the marriage certificate.\\nFor many years these thoughts have been\\npressing upon our mind. In early youth\\na deep compassion for women who had fallen\\ninto servitude to man s selfishness moved\\nthe writer with earnest desire, now partially\\nfulfilled in these writings, to do what he could\\nto meet and help overcome the terrible social\\nevil. Similar thoughts have found expres-\\nsion through divers other sources among\\ntruth seeking men and women. But not till\\nnow has the fulness of time seemed to call\\nfor such free expression, or been ready to\\nwelcome an open consideration of this mo-\\nmentous topic of the sex relations. With\\nearnest prayer that the work of redemption\\nmay soon be taken up and carried to its ul-\\ntimate, long hoped for results, we leave it in\\nHis hands for whom we would ever labor in\\nloving service\\nPlain words have been written May\\nthey quicken the perceptions of men to rec-\\nognize, and strengthen the native instinct\\nand promptings of woman to insist upon her\\n3\u00c2\u00b04", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "of flfcofcern Spiritualism\\ndivine right and bounden duty to be a free\\nagent in the exercise of her calling under\\nGod to give birth only to offspring worthy\\nto be accepted as his children Would not\\nthe parentage of the Christ man fail of its\\ngreat teaching, if it did not illustrate the\\npossibilities of true Motherhood, as an ul-\\ntimate attainment of all true Womanhood\\nHas not the time come for such recognition\\nhere and now, whenever and wherever a hu-\\nman eye rests upon these pages\\n:fcs*3 B\\n30s", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "Father, may our life in Thee\\nBe hid through all Eternity 1\\nBy Love inspired, by Wisdom taught.\\nBe all our action, all our thought\\nForever to Thy service brought,\\nIn true humility I", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nThe following statement, gathered from most re-\\nliable sources, will be of interest to the general\\nreader.\\nThe First Spiritual Temple, so-called because the\\nfirst of its kind in modern times, was completed in\\n1885.. It is a beautiful stone structure, covering an\\narea of eighty-four by one hundred and ten feet\\nthe main auditorium having a seating capacity for\\nfifteen hundred persons. It was erected at a cost of\\ntwo hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and rivals\\nin architectural effect, after its kind, some of the\\nmost costly of the many places of worship in the\\ncity of Boston, Very nearly the whole cost was met\\nout of an accumulation from successful business, by\\none man, whose deep interest carried the work to\\ncompletion, and who has since held the chief place\\nin its direction, and in large measure borne its cur-\\nrent expenses. By a deed of Trust it was placed,\\nand still stands in the name of three Trustees, of\\nwhom the builder is the chief, with ample power to\\nmaintain the uses declared. It was dedicated on\\nthe evenings of September 26th, 27 th and 28th, 1885,\\nunder the auspices of the Spiritual Fraternity, the\\nname given to the Society attending its ministra-\\ntions.\\nIn the deed of Trust it is declared that this Tem-\\n3\u00c2\u00b07", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "appendix\\npie is to be used for the promulgation of principles\\nwhich shall inculcate the highest moral good for hu-\\nmanity. All isms which shall tend to warp or dis-\\ntort the spirit, or which shall place the intelligence\\nof the people under any bonds, shall be excluded\\nfrom its teachings. A temperate attitude toward all\\nthe great questions of the day and all civic questions\\nunder the law pertaining to the general moral good,\\nshall be strictly maintained. All dogmas,\\ncreeds or rituals interfering with progressive thought\\nshall be excluded. It shall be devoted to the pro-\\nmulgation of spiritual truths through the highest in-\\ntelligences, whether embodied or disembodied. It\\nis devoted to enlighten conscience, to give liberty of\\nthought, without license of speech.\\nAt the consecration service held in the Temple on\\nthe evening of September 26th, in the presence of\\nfifty-seven persons, a spirit, later known as The Tem-\\nple Spirit, materialized through the help of a well-\\nknown medium in a curtained apartment or cabinet,\\nplaced for the purpose, upon the platform of the\\nmain auditorium. Appearing outside at first like a\\ncolumn of phosphorescent light by the altar, at\\nlength the outlines of a human form, arrayed in a\\npeculiar luminous robe, with a tall head-dress or\\nmitre as luminous, were dimly visible.\\nAfter repeatedly advancing and retreating toward\\nthe cabinet, as if to gain strength, the Spirit de-\\nscended to the floor of the auditorium. As he came\\nnear, his extended robe was seen to be composed of\\nthe finest lace, possessing a singular luminosity,\\nwhile an under garment resembling velvet, of a rich\\npurple color, on which were figures of apparently\\nsymbolic character, was visible. After reaching the\\n3\u00c2\u00b0 8", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "Hppenfcir\\nfloor and passing up the nearest aisle and down\\nanother, a distance of over two hundred feet, he partly\\nreascended the platform steps, whence he addressed,\\nin low whispers, several persons called from the au-\\ndience for the purpose. Then gaining strength\\nthrough the aid of a powerful voice-medium, he ad-\\ndressed the whole assembly in tones loud enough to\\nbe heard throughout the auditorium closing with\\nthese words\\nI consecrate this Temple to holy living, to uni-\\nversal brotherhood, to the cultivation of that spirit\\nwhich the Divine Master brought with him in his\\nlife and teachings on earth, to unity of the spirit-\\nual life with that on earth, that there may be but one\\nlife, one brotherhood, one God and Father of us all,\\nthat from this place may be taught that wisdom\\nwhich shall recognize more than teachings from the\\nintellect, even the development and wisdom of heart-\\nlife that here the hearts of people may be awak-\\nened to do, as well as their heads to think, for only\\nthrough the wisdom that comes from both heart and\\nhead can God be brought near to help us in all our\\nendeavors. And may all who come to listen have\\nreceptive hearts to be taught how to live the divine\\nlife Amen.\\nOn the following evening a public dedication took\\nplace before a crowded audience and on the even-\\ning of September 28th, a Dedicatory Festival was\\nheld.\\nBesides the large auditorium, the Temple con-\\ntains a smaller Audience room and a Library room\\nbelow, with minor offices and in the upper story\\nhas seven small Audience rooms, capable of hold-\\ning from one to four hundred persons.\\n309", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "HppenMx\\nAs intimated in the preceding pages of this book,\\nadverse influences seem to have retarded the work\\nanticipated at the dedication of the Temple but\\nnothing has yet occurred to render impossible the ul-\\ntimate fulfilment of all its early hopes and promises.\\nSome interesting Articles by Pres. A. D. White,\\nCornell, were published a few years since, giving a\\nbrief outline of the treatment of insane people from\\nthe early days, when they were often held in chains\\nand otherwise cruelly treated, to the modern gentle\\nmethods, and as far as possible freedom from re-\\nstraint, now generally recognized as the wiser as\\nwell as kinder treatment. The Articles referred to\\nwould have been more intelligently written and more\\nhelpful, if their writer had been more familiar with\\nthe facts of Modern Spiritualism, and especially with\\nthe subject of spirit Obsession, briefly treated in\\nthis book.\\nTHE END.\\nMANUFACTURED BY CUPPLES SCHOENHO\\nBOSTON. U. S. A.", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "BOOKS OF VALUE\\nAND INTEREST\\nIssued by\\nCupples Schoenhof\\nBOSTON", "height": "3243", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "puritydestinyofm00hall_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "J. G. 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