| Show L municipal election PEOPLES PEOPLED TICKET for mayor DANIEL H WELLS for aldermen HENRY W LAWRENCE SAMUEL W RICHARDS ALONZO 11 RALEIGH LE GRAND YOUNG ALEXANDER 0 for councilors councillors Counci lors ROBERT T BURTON ISAAC GROO THEODORE mckean WILLIAM S GODBE JOHN SHARP PETER THOMAS JENKINS GEORGE J TAYLOR HEBER P KIMBALL for city recorder ROBERT CAMPBELL campbelll for city Treas troas treasurer PAUL A 11 for city cly nars Mars ihal lial JOHN D T mcallister ASTROLOGY AD AND ITS man is prompted by an innate disposition to seek for a knowledge of the future when properly controlled oled this desire results in good to himself and his fellow creatures when hen he has a correct knowledge of god and his laws he is prompted to seek for the holy spirit and when he obtains that the anxiety of his soul is legitimately and fully gratified but when hels heis he is ignorant of god he is liable to have Teco recourse urse urae to practices ae t i ces which bring him under the ar bondage n d a ge of superstition and he is debased and rendered unhappy thereby astrology is one of the means which has been used by men from the earliest ages to pry into futurity tutu lutu rity and obtain its secrets before abraham emigrated from chaldea that country was famous for its 0 a astrologers it is called the mother country of diviners dividers div iners and especially of judicial astrologers that is those who pr pretended e tended to foretell moral events as if they were directed by the stars to such a degree of power did this class of men attain in that country that they formed the tho highest caste and enjoyed a place at court so indispensable were they in chaldean society that we are informed no step could be taken not a relation could be formed a house built a journey aljourney undertaken a campaign begun until they had ascertained the lucky day and promised a happy issue some have claimed egypt as the land where astrology had its origin but be that as it may the people of that country at a very early age encouraged its practice as well as other arts of divination we find frequent allusions in the bible bibie to astrologers isaiah in foretelling gods judgments upon babylon says in relation to them I 1 let now the tile as gers the star gazers the monthly prognosticators stand up and save thee from from these things that shall come upon thee behold they shall bo be as stubble the fi nire fire shall burn them they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame with all their pretended knowledge they could not save themselves much less their city and nation they perished miserably perished with their countrymen despite all their figures and horoscopes and arts of divination every nation which fostered or trusted in them has similarly perished syrians assyrians As egyptians grecians Grec ians and romans were al ail all numbered among their believers through their agency those people sought the knowledge of the isaure iti lure but their knowledge was only partial just enough of it mingled with tue the falsehood which they revealed to deceive their credulous victims and lur lux lure e them hem on to destruction our object in alluding to this subject at the present time la Is to put our people on their guard against this system we understand there awesome are some bome individuals in this city and elsewhere who practice it they impose upon the credulity of the ignorant and unwary by their pretensions to knowledge respecting the future they contrive to make money by playing upon the superstitions of of those who visit them besides being able to foretell future events they pro fess to describe where lost stock can be found to tell the proper day and hour when any important undertaking shall be commenced to inform a young lady respecting her prospects and a young gentleman whether the alliance he is about to enter upon will be fortunate and at what particular hour the stars will be propitious for his marriage all these rhese and much more that we have not space to enumerate these charlatans profess to be able to do do by the casting of a a figure not only do da the unwary and 11 ignorant orant visit them for the purpose of ozi oti obtaining the knowledge which they profess to dispense but we are assured that if we sawa list lisi of the names of their visitors we would be surprised there would be found the names of individuals who would take serious umbrage if they were called either cither unwary or ignorant we do not expect that anything that wo we may say upon this subject will have the effect upon those who practice this system to deter cleter them from prosecuting it bo so long as they can find lind dupes dupea and those dupes will pay them for casting their figures they will continue their operations but it is not for them we write particularly our words are addressed to those who patronize them who in their credulity imagine that they can be bene fitted by what they tell them if we could have influence with them we would warn them of their danger they tread on slippery ground those who practice this system are either complete apostates or are on the verge of apostasy apo stacy those who patronize it if they persist in doing so will go the same way no man who practices astrology or seeks to obtain knowledge through its agency can retain his confidence in the mean means s which god has appointed by which the knowledge of the future can be no imparted he will wilf sooner or later deny the faith like table rapping writing mediums etc it is a means which god does not acknowledge but which he has condemned there may be some truth in the system the hold it has retained of the human mind for so many ages could not have been probably had it not possessed some correct principles but it is that truth which makes it the more dangerous the devil will at any time tell nineteen truths if by doing so he N can make the people believe one lie under such circumstances the nineteen truths strengthen him and are of far more use to him than lies iles would be but such knowledge as daniel possessed obtained by him through the proper channel was of far more avail in the day of need in revealing the lords lordis purposes than all the astrology astrolko y of chaldea Ch aidea aldea |
