Show ON e twenty years beare ago if any man professed his a belief in the manifestation of mirac miraculous powers t h he was at on boce denounced as a visionary man s whose brain was disordered the people with it almost one consent said that miracles had their b day and termination about eighteen hundred v years ago there is no move more need of miracles mira cleo 4 and revelations the canon of the scriptures Scrip torea is s i full fall away with prophets and seers that pro i it fess to have intercourse with the inhabitants of the unseen unseen world and to reveal the ll 11 of other spheres B but ut alas how changeable is u g I 1 this proud dictatorial world now we hear an e e editor of one of the largest and most popular e s journals in th the P united states or in any nation p openly avowing chat that spiritualism or the doc tl trine of intercourse with the spirits of other 0 weri worlds dia is established upon a firm basis and modern christianity is falling before it like so t r much stubble before a rapid fire clergymen 1 r lawyers judges philosophers and scholars ho lars are t bowing before the potent revelations of espiritu t alisa jackson davis golian like with all his 1 second sight and spiritual armor is too bormida t ble a giant for christians to dare to encounter t who among all the doctors of christianity dare c enter the arena of this bold and renowned chami pion of divines it is comparatively easy to stand aloof and taunt anda and fling at the great F sorcerer provided you are at a sufficient dis 1 tance not to be reached by his powerful ana an 1 dangerous missiles t but what neav and who next judge edmonds and a lot of clerical and erudite dignitaries nit Wt aries well there is something in citkow it biow r because that great men and learned men have I 1 openly avowed their full fall belief in ic it no one c 1 no need ed to wait and say my have way any of the chief I 1 priests and scribes believed now all you t credulous antl and vulgar people that have secret secretly Jy I 1 believed and wondered way may now come out and acknowledge your convictions some mighty I 1 ROW now armed and qualified to lead you on I 1 to popularity and triumph judge edmonds is ig the some great one he is the ecce homo home of the united states slates dont all rush to his sta standard edard at once give the poor judge a little time to divine and systematize his plan of opera eions give him time to consult with alexan der the coppersmith and simon M magus and other such like apost apostle lea sad and pharaoh and sena cheaib and balsam balaam with other distinguished prophets of former times the judge will have offices and rich I 1 for a great many of you and especially chri fians that have a natural bias suitable for foit filling the posts to which he may assign you dont crowd A million of you already in the ike united states makes a large crowd to throng the avenue to the judge who has hardly ha had timo time to get his morning gown gowa off he is in doia the best beat he can and quite too spiritual to get ft him a wife so says the herald well his followers that are ha fast vf up to untold millions will and in duty must thin thank I 1 t he no cormons mormons rin 0 ne for one thing and that is their ample provision for the women so many millions of the good people of the united states all 4 becoming pious enough to swell up methodism and every other ism and what is so attonis astonishing hing to us backwoods mountain mormons Mor mons rip the judge and his followers ara ar becoming so ethereally etheri ally pl pure and spiritual as to let the women entirely alone poor things to be left so far in the back ground rachel and a host of others other weeping for children abraham and jacob are an run in off the racecourse race course alread already y by the judge ina in I 1 the very outset who will beset be set aside next when hen the judge ascends another step in the scale of purity and spirituality we can hardly tell till the die next new york herald arrived isaiah too is out of fellowship and popularity in the united states ever after this shame on oa your blunder isaiah to I 1 ae telling tw that jeu desp christ should see his seed wonder that you yol should be so sensual and carnal camal as to exhort the i people to hearken to the commandments of god and then back up your sensual exhortation by promising them peace like a river ud and the increase of their seed as the sand and their bowels as the gravel thereof you ought toi to have been more spiritual if you had lived in this age of progress and spirituality rituality STi such a promise would have been without excuse aad OB ag pardonable but some allowance may possibly be made for the darkness of the age in which you lived we have just learned from the latest spiritual i i eppings rap pings ty by way of the new york herald that did joseph smith slipped his foot on the ladder of popularity by introducing among the morcom Morr noru the sensual doctrine ot of polygamy thank the editor for his medium ship and the intelligence although we dont believe it exactly but if the late prophet has altered his bis mind seemingly ito only tor for a little season and he will be on the old track again in the resurrection for we ba ban authentic information that the departed saints are am waiting for and earnestly desiring the redemption demp tion of their bodies that they may a aee ta W increase of their kingdom and posterity US 0 there is no end I 1 surely a new era am is in beginning to dawn vf the century if spirits have bays been kepf prison hitherto it seems owing that some novae of them it at lent least have broken jail jad or hoes been suddenly ht loose if we may credit the divi divinere of tte dk marvellous marv mar ellous vinous age who have suck such familiar spirits as aa to be conversant with such a large and pw pro ous number of good and had bad spirits drw fro other spheres at the prevent present rate of 1 the need of the electric telegraph teft raph will be ceded jooa but the science ceaf of familiar familiars spirit pw seems not bot to be satisfactorily circumscribed Is 1 yet no particular standard of moral www ab is as yet laid down that shall attend th mediums or the spirits that address the medial unless as in the ease can of judge edmona II 11 state of celibacy is regarded as to ID great attainments is in medium ship infidel W mi gi onjel scoundrels anil and honest me on officiate cislO ay we mediums dUMB and get aus answers five fio to i many intelligent honest spirits spirita or from Us tw deceivers and rana ra acala and it seems to po paste e I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ff 1 ii mediums to know f the ch character ar of f the m i essene gers that visit them I 1 now the conclusion that we dra draw v from all 6 1 S 1 I this is is not that it is all a humbug no far from I 1 iati it it but we do don conclude clude that this 4 lia I 1 1 tion of familiar spirits is designed to answer ai a t J i purpose long since revealed by ancient prophets I 1 J and recently by the the prophets joseph and brig 1 lam iain VIZ viz that men who would not hearken to I 1 1 ii the lie true angels apostles and prophets woula ere cre long give heed to seducing spirits a and nd iff atif doctrines of devils god has long since said that he would send strong delusion and what more fit messengers ers rs to ito carry delusion than ajust iasi just such spirits as the mediums acknowledge to I 1 c be their wonderful visitors and guests cerad venture these spirits do not alit all tell ell lien lied if they I 1 et hd did they would be too big fools to practise a successful delusion but god has decreed that dt it shall be a strong delusion 1 to 4 c I 1 t well what will make a strong draught upon 1 i ithe i alie credulity of the learned and ignorant cler 6 Q t T gy men lawyers and philosophers it must be ir something beyond their depth and coMpre comprehend hen 4 sion som something ething that is reat real and indisputable in pirt so something that is true in part something it that is is plausible pertaining to other spheres and 0 other worlds and other modes of existence 4 men have hitherto been so im bedded in seep W U 4 and so stinted and be fooled by a formal it I 1 BJ nonsensical round of unmeaning religious rites 1 alj i that they have said in their hearts if there is 1 an invisible god we dont know it and if men t i have souls that live her hereafter afler there is nobody that can tell us much to prove the fact nor can t they tell what their employment and avocation or enjoyment and misery is the hell of grid I 1 birons irons scorpions pitchforks and endless furk T naces on the one hand or the universality of and bliss for men and murderers sorcerers and liars on the other d hand have left mankind in the dark as to the f equitable distribution of final rewards and pi punishments a nish ments I 1 but true messengers and holy prophets could 1 I 4 not get a hearing who next is sent why ba 4 messengers that will lie and deceive and kick I 1 over the tables dishes and all with the astounding ai I 1 noise nose of whirlwinds whirl winds and earthquakes 1 for r I 1 this is is the manner of the god of this world aj 1 but bat lo 10 our god is not in the whirlwind and icat Hearth earthquake quake nor the upsetting of tables but in CO I 1 the still small voice of the spirit that h he e freely oj i con confirms firLUS upon them that are baptised baptized sed for the A remission of their sins sincerely inthe name of I 1 jesus christ I 1 j who does not know that if irresponsible per 11 elsons sons may act as mediums and messengers of diverse A verse moral qualified qualifications fiel actions from the tha sincere and intelligent 4 I 1 tell igent down to the arch deceiver and basest recreant that confusion and dire amazement is the 0 sure result wizards necromancers astrologers so and have left their devotees in uncertainty and have never acted in unison with 2 each other but wherever god the true and living 19 holy ons one opens up a communication with A men on the earth we know whose right it is to bear messages to the earth and those who receive the messages do know most indisputably 01 who are the bearers and the instructions received 4 must he be so definite and and I 1 they themselves so confident of the truth of the message that they will be willin willing 9 to obey the I 1 lame iame even to forsaking all things their own lives lot excepted I 1 every recipient of a divine message must masl be 1 arst born of water and then of one and the same spirit and in order to secure unity of spirit all I 1 teachings ordinances and rites and laws must emanate from a common centre or president who I 1 is as moses a god unto the people subject to him who is god over all blessed forevermore this heavenly order secures unity and opens the fountain of intelligence as fast as the people b are able and willing to receive and practically obey among all the angels in heaven no one has a right to bear a message to the inhabitants of the oarth earth but he who is sent nor has any one on earth a right to receive it but beat he to whom it is sent the necessity of some such strict and uniform order should be obvious to all the principle involved in this order is found to be indispensably necessary when human governments hents transact business with each other but much more necessary la in a communication to earth from tile the most per J feet fact of all governments even this the government of i god 10 if there is not some order of this kind how cau call p the people be expected to see eye to eye and the 4 T watchmen lift up their voice together and all speak the same thing jesus christ prayed that his followers might be one even as he and the no 4 father were one but bat how can they be one I 1 w alien lien there is such a diversity of teachings by different 2 mediums 4 an ecce homo springs up in england another a i I 1 in america a third in france and the czar 11 of russia a head of them all and all i inculcating the most contradictory teachings somer some introna introducing i ordinances peradventure and others abolishing 41 I 1 every vestige of the same some teaching religion 1 I and others politics IF now so long as these various trumpets give 9 discrepant and uncertain sounds who shall know 0 how to prepare himself for the battle god has f but one church and but one way of orga organizing 9 it and building up his kingdom on the earth he 0 never did have any other way la in past ages and I 1 if we may credit his word we may know and all 0 spiritual mediums may know that he has determined to cut off all witch crafts rafts sorceries sor sore ceries eries and en 1 chant ments from the earth and being a jealous 1 1 god to drive every antagonist entirely off the face 11 of the whole earth I 1 therefore go ahead ecce homo from every op nation in the imagination of your hearts and 4 blow up a flame from the sparks of your own I 1 kindling and measure strength with the almighty 1 I and see if you yon have an arm like his |