Show d J f 1 i p j S = h P f C Ij4j 1 METPHYSICS A Sensation at the Joseph it c Church by Gopal Joshee The Heathen Meets the Christian laid w Slaughters Christianity Mormon and Hindoo Polygamy Compared Com-pared to the Superiority of the Latter I Mohammedanism and Christianity Are Tracked hy the Sword of Blood But Spiritualism Sinks Personality and Helps Bring Us to Universality Uni-versality The Beautiful Ideal Religion of the Hindoos Far Better Than All The lecture by Gopal Joshee the educated edu-cated Brahmin at the Josephite Church last night was fairly attended and was listened t with much interest by all present The lecturer was attired in native na-tive Indian costume but spoke with distinctness dis-tinctness and tincn ss emphasis and wns nnita readily understood Mr E L T Harrison Har-rison introduced the gentleman and stated that the lecture would probably partake of the nature of tiger hunting It was fine sport to hunt the tiger until the tiger turned and hunted you The i Christians had hunted the benighted i heathen for a long time tonight one of the heathen would hunt them During the lecture some of the speakers allusions allu-sions to polygamy were of such a nature that many ladies left the hal and Mr H W Lawrence arose and objected to further remarks but asked that other i topics be brought forward Quite a commotion com-motion was caused by this proceeding but on motion the lecturer was called upon to proceed I is proper to state however that Mr Lawrences objections were well founded a it also is that the speakers nationality will excuse him From any intentional breach of taste in the language he used With tho exception of a few expunged passages the following i a verbatim report of the lecture LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I shall never forget Salt Lake City Here I met with an accident the first of its kind in my life I was caught in the whirlwind of fate and hurled headlong down to the depth of ignominy and shame Oh re entless fate Thou dost not respect rank r or age The greatest men have fallen victims to thy wrath the noblest of souls I have been crushed to death in thy covet jaws No crime offense or guilt is requisite requi-site to incur thy displeasure WHEN TIE STARS CHANGE Shafts of the sheltering roof begin to sneak Mothers become murderers of I their own children friends turn into enemies and the whole world look aghast at the conquered subject of mis fortune I came panting to the land of plenty that I might no longer hunger and thirst but soon after my arrival while I was enjoying excursion parties and company of friends in the twinkling twinklng of An eye I was suddenly thrown adrift into the awful theatre of lifej friendless lf 1cndleBs and homeless at least for some time Why was it so Did I commit any offense or outrage modesty Did I betray con idence Did I create discord between husband and wife No not to my knowledge I have no real name to tell yon I am supposed t have made myself known by a false name I am detected a a fullfledged indescribable I DONT PRETEND TO BE ANYBODY I look all around in this hal and I find that there is not one among you who is in any way different from me in form and action I may be different from you in dress and language but in other things I am alike I I be called a liar I will call you by the same The greatest liars frauds and fornicators that ever breathed on earth are and were those who declare that they are the chosen few of God and the rest of the devil Oh you wicked wretches who indulge in i such thoughts and clenle Gods name thereby Un you treacherous who confine Gods grace and mercy within yourselves Oh you deceitful de-ceitful who tell others that baptism cleanses away sins and the baptized become be-come your brother and sister Away away such infernal and ignominous souls hide your faces in shame DONT DISGRACE GODS NAME BY YOUR ILEA ILE-A D WICKED PRACTICES Oh thou destroyer of the universe who preaches such foul doctrines and set I brothers against brothers We all are Gods children I am no way better bet-ter than the other I I look I within myself I find that I am the worst of the whole lot I am corrupt I wicked deceitful dishonest What right have I then to < ondemn others and exalt myself Take Jesus Christ a he is given us By his declaring that he was the Son of God and the promised Messiah he not only had his life taken but he caused millions of eople t be slaughtered a beasts of prey 1 have no respect for such 1 founder whose infamous deeds shine on every page of history Our tongue beguiles i blasphemy is our pursuit pur-suit falsehood our religion Let us not tell one another that we are good and you r bad I know you a much as you know me Faults frailties and weaknesses weak-nesses are our common prestige and heritage Let us call one another brothers and sisters The Mormons are nearer truth and universal brotherhood I have the highest respect for them Though prejudiced they are easily reconciled recon-ciled They acknowledge the force of logic and reason more readily than all the religionists on earth The most I te rlgionist perverted per-verted and far from truth are the Christians whose preachings of vicarious salvation have spread wickedness allover I over the world THE MORMONS UNITE AND THE CHRISTIANS I i DIVIDE 1 In such a small town of 25000 the standing monuments reproach are the Christian churches of twenty different denominations de-nominations None but the wicked deny this fact That principle of universality which a free born values above all prizes runs through the veins of every Mormon woman and man Hundreds and thousand of helpless families forlorn and forsaken condemned and starved to death a sought for and brought from other countries brought into the heart of j this happy state and fertile valley and I sheltered a brothers and sisters whereas jj where-as the socalled Christians of different I denominations send their emissaries abroad not t collect the needy and the helpless and bring them home and feed them but t enhance their miseries and aggravate their wretched and deplorable I condition by destroying all they possesss their morals and their pssesss Mormons are a better set of people compared com-pared to all others but they are not in fallible They are guilty of the same errors er-rors misunderstanding arid prejudices as x L 4 i l r A J t t J I 4 J J > 2 R J J j II nl of f U5 m BuStolug from 1 B mpi thizo with t the Mornidns becaiisd I THE ItlNDoos dF INDIA ARE MdllMONS INC IN-C i fPRtNcIptB AND nniJEf 1 We believe in polygamy we depend for salvation upon our own deeds we propitiate pro-pitiate the spirits of the dead we anoint and bless the limbs of both sexes before they are united in matrimony But as we are slaves of ignorance and prejudices so are the Mormons When people asked me i I were converted to Mormonism I said that I was born a Mormon and belonged to the church of thousands of years standing The so I called Mormons arc only of fortyfive years standing Jade by man and not by God We are Godmade Mormons and therefore date far back into eternity We do not come from Adam and Eve We have no Abraham for our forefather Our forefathers were illustrious personages person-ages superior in knowledge intellect They did not sit down telling cat and dog stories like those related in the Mormon and Christian Bibles Our prophets were not jugglers and conjurers and dreamers like Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith They were liveborn without fathers no holy spirit cohabited with their mothers They found no tablets buried underground under-ground Nothing prophesied and noth ing fulfilled Our gods never stood in need of witnesses and proofs to establish establsh their identity and existence TIE CHRISTIAN AND THE MORMON RELIGIOUS BOOKS ARE CONCOCTED I And rotten to the core They no doubt inculcate noble principles but practice the same amount of deception and fraud I is very good for a missionary to preach pra to other but who will preach to him Our religion teaches us one principle sublime Know thyself I Work out thy own salvation Our gods tell us that they cannot save us we must not depend upon Moses Abraham or Christ Our prophets and lawgivers were of different calibre Our Lord Krishna which is a contemporary name with Christ had 16000 wives Polygamists in India unite all souls into one and sleep together A man with two or three wives has one bed for them all He sleeps with two on one I side and two on another But the Mormon Mor-mon system in this country is quite different differ-ent A Mormon Moron polygamist builds a sep arate house for each bird of his heart and visits them periodically but the Hindoo I polygamist is united to all While he feeds one he talks another to sleep just I as a mother does when she has so many children around hershe dresses one and undresses another she feeds one and I swigs the cradle r > f nnnMior olio liacoa one and pats another she band one b-and frowns on another The Hindoo polygamist occupies the same position towards his numerous wives But the Mormon is an inferior being He is not unity yet he preaches universality but practices personality as far as his position I as a husband is concerned HP confers on his wives embraces proportionally prportonaUy cold or warm ACCORDING THEIR BEAUTY AND YOUTH A Mormon husband is always suspected by his wives I therefore commend our I system of polygamy to those who may I wish to grow into universal brotherhood I was in 1879 that I first heard the word Mormon I was talking to some Europeans and finding fault with their narrowmindedness I advocated thp I principle of independence of thought and action I said that i a t mi wanted to be married to a man who is already married she should not be prevented from doing so I also maintained that i a man wanted to be married to a woman who is already married he should be at liberty t do TO if he choses so that he and she may F joy equal rights In that case there will wi be found in an VTUiiniijuuiriuil lu acvcrnl husbands and many men with many I wives Our renowned pious andyirtuous lady by name Dropadi had five hus I bands Their relations with Dropadi were so unique that she was the admira I tion of all She was allotted t each by I two months I and odd days during which I time she was the wife of one while the other four treated and respected her as their mother Even today at the foot of the Himalaya mountains and in Malabar and Travancore in India live tribes and people who have more than one husband to one woman I believe this institution is nobler and more refined than the mor refned concerted con-certed Mormon system of polygamy I would therefore earnestly ask earnest devout and sincere Mormons to equalize both men and women in respect equalze I alitv of bondatres I lost sight of the Mormon sect in this country till January 1885 when I met one William Willis of Salt Lake on his return voyage We grew thick and thin in a short time A Mormon father and a heathen son will appear to vou a a strange phenomena phe-nomena But nothing is new under the sun Father Willis s I call him gave me an invitation to visit this city and I promised to do so I was introduced to several prominent and wellmeaning Mormon brothers and sisters and I enjoyed their company very much Although I am not a Mormon yet I like lke to use the terms brother and sister when addressing the Mormons Brother Savage has promised to give me a present for having 1 constituted myself the heathen I delegate to the Old Folks excursion at Garfield Brother Dwyer is also going to favor me with a group of Brigham Youngs grandchildren I WAS FED LIKE A PIG PI By Father Willis for more than a week Dont you think it is but just that I should feel grateful to them all There are some who think that Father Willis and his coreligionists co-religionists have forfeited their claims to I any kind of expression of gratitude I differ from them Man can be a devil but salt and bread is the life of beings Father Willis salt and bread have con tributed to iIi both trbuted my growth physically and spiritually I would therefore be unjust to ignore it Hence my gratitude to all the Mormons grtude I am however exceedingly sorry to I say that Father Willis had an occasion to I turn against me a my bitter enemy I am exceedingly sorry that he has undone me Looking to age and experience I naturally expected indulgence and forgiveness I for-giveness at his hand but tumults in the teapot are sometimes more serious than open his house hostilities in consequence I was obliged of my to leave asso II aso ciation with all classes of people I could I I not help it Had it been in mv iinnror in I I avoid it I would have done so but how can I say that I will associate with one and stand and against another when I look upon all mankind a my brothers and sisters I deprecate antagonism It do I may very I well for a Mormon it may do very well for a Gentile it do Gente may very well for a I socalled Christian to speak ill of others i spak other I but I being born a heathen and BROUGHT UP AS AN IDOLATOR FROM MY INFANCY I Should not stand against anybody I I may differ in opinion and principle but not in conduct toward my fellowmen I fall into the company of regular lunatics and I sympathize with them I never tell them they are mad people and I am I wise I never let them see that am wiser than themselves This is my creed this is religion I will my wi stand by it till I breathe my last offending no one individually or in regard to our relation I with man and man But dont call mea me-a liar dont give me hard and difficult names Dont show me your vindictive i I spirit i A 1 c I C j k I 1 wave umamcu jw tI llg Uli t if llif i uudHon I l could nut < ti > otherwise I THE RELIGIONS OF IXlttA Arc i written in volumes For 1 Idrig I time ages ago India had but one religion relig-ion called Brahminism All were governed I gov-erned by it But now we have four different dif-ferent religions eyeing one another with suspicion and contempt namely Brah minism Buddhism Christianity and I Mohammedanism Under Brahmmism I are many different schools of philosophy which are divided into different beliefs and doctrines The Brahmins recognize three elements pervading this universe the creative preserving and destructive For the instruction of the ignorant the erudite personified them They are now designated deities Their names are BRAHMA THE CREATOR VISHNU TiE PRESERVER PRE-SERVER AND SHIVA TiE DESTROYER As there is one universe with three different dif-ferent operative elements so there is mankind devoted to the worship of one or the other As we find nothing in the Creator to revere him for we have left him out of our public religious services No one worships the creator We have therefore two principal sects among the Brahmins of India the followers of Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer No one will respect parents if they will abandon their children as soon i they are born I is the kindness and care bestowed upon them by their parents that commands respect The I creative force is therefore unworthy of I attention in India The followers of Vishnu j ind Shiva the Preserver and De I stroyer are dissenting but requisite for universal growth some need preservation preserva-tion while others are afraid of destruction destruc-tion When we amass wealth we immediately imme-diately secure an iron safe in which to preserve it When we squander away our fortune in dissipation and vices we are in danger of facing starvation and ultimate destruction we court favors so cour that the Brahmin religion with allots divisions and subdivisions is a scientific philosophy Its fundamental principle is DO NO HARM TO OTHERS In other words negative virtue or morality I moral-ity The ignorant classes of people are however enjoined to practice positive morality in conjunction with a negative pne I am obliged to divide mankind into two classes the ignorant and the erudite The ignorant require a tangible religion and a heaven of celestial bliss and happiness the erudite do not want sueh a heaven as the ignorant crave for They think that the heayen of the iffnorant will hfi no better than their earthly habitations I we are not satis sats I fed with what we have in this world so we will not feel contented hereafter Any I thing formed must decay Fall and rise rse go hand in hand The created is preserved pre-served and ultimately destroyed so that the heavens above will soon wear out They therefore try to attain that stage of life where no heaven and no bell can exist where no happiness or misery is experienced and where desire to rise and fear to fall torments no human souls They howeyer do not condemn the idea of heaven I is indispensably necessary for the satisfaction of the ignorant I we were to despise the theory chaos will reign and the ignorant i will come to wi end prematurely I was talking to a Presbyterian minister the other day I could not help laughing at his ignorance when he advanced and advocated the I gift of celestial empire which God has reserved re-served for the enjoyment of his worthy sons OUR RELIGION IS PURE AND WHITE LIKE SNOW I is not to my knowledge that its founders found-ers or propagators have ever been persecuted perse-cuted or pu to death The holy and the pinna always COmmanilPfl nnivoranl H I spect and reverence They never sat on a colt and were arrested They never were tried And crucified They had no reason to hide themselves They were holy and religious and no one dared pull their single hair Buddhism sprang out of Brahminism I was partly temporal and party spiritual religion It did its noble work but the religions of Jesus Christ and Mohammed are stained with blood Wherever they went they carried with them blood and the sword Look at their bloodthirsty gods and their bloody salvation A decent man will have his heart broken i anybody called him a Christian but a the children of prostitutes prosti-tutes feel no shame in soliciting passers by to come to their houses so there are Christian missionaries who PQ to India to propagate their religion Debased and depraved I do not understand how they continue to believe in outrageous and repugnant re-pugnant to common sense beliefs MOHAMMEDANISM IS BETTER THAN CHRISTIANITY CHRIS-TIANITY In its tendencies of future aspects I will not satisfy the rational of the nine teenth century They will soon be swept away I do not agree with the Mormons that God will wi destroy ninetynine percent per-cent of the population and preserve one per centthat is the Mormons Noth ing is more absurd than this statement I has however frightened many a stupid girl and entangled her in polygamy When I say Christianity and Mohammedanism Moham-medanism will be swept away I do not I mean thereby that the Christians and Mohammedans will be destroyed No not at all They will turn their faces against their religions The religions will no I longer swagger them they will be de tested and despised I shall never be a Christian Mohammedan or a Mormon if I b asked to believe in absurd stories about birth and death and resurrection I will always respect the spirit of their teaching Before I finish I should like to impress upon your mind what I would constitute AN IDEAL RELIGION There are no divijie religions on earth All faiths and dogmas are mans inven tons and innovations Had they been from one eternal unerring spirit they would not have been diametrically op posed to one another What is truth op one is falsehood to another We all know this and yet we go to form others convictions con-victions according to our own Had we confined our labors t our own individual progesr and development and tolerated others in the other formation of their own peace and tranquility concord and har I nonv would have reiirned on earth 1 Religion means a social moral code more or less enacted for the guidance of the ignorant by those who were farseeing But it has always been abused by the j executor and executed This state of things appears to me inevitable I must take place a there are and there always have been three different forces at work creative preserving and destructive Experience teaches that the more a man j I reads and becomes conversant with the I histories and philosophies of the world the more does he disclose his ignorance I alxmtnature A ignorant man and an I ignorant woman easily settle down to any path of life dictated to them but when they inquire into its merits and demerits I cons and pros before entering upon it they are invariably misled and thrown i i picions into a disastrous gulf of doubts and sus I I EDUCATION IS THEREFORE DANGEROUS Restriction creates wickedness Moral codes teach a lesson how to tell a lie de liberately He who takes upon himself to dictate to and lead the masses is found t have been a most infernal soul Parents Pa-rents have reared and brought up chil chi then in wickedness den ickedess and deceitfulness zt < V ffr y I fthi t hoi i ntt I tO 1 BttJ l 5 j Sow ddfltln tt whd over existed ex-isted who taught people as he i believed Truth and f31s hood are two synonymous beC words I is difficult to define de-fine them What is truth to dnd is falsehood false-hood to another From the creation rf earth if it was ever created as I belief it was not to the present stage of progress and civilization which to me appears in a stagnant condition of motion and rotation ro-tation no better than what it was some I thousands of years ago tnomanloE i ever born with consummate knowledge I of this universe or if any were he was I not known to the world All those whose I names have come down from generation to generation were slaves to their own I i ignorance and thought too much of sufferings I suf-ferings and wickedness They wanted to remove them Have they succeeded II in doing so No not in the least They simply added imaginary evils to we I real ones Ve therefore today suffer more from wiJ former than the latter I mor Every man and woman of the present age is engaged ih speaking against what II is reasonable and essential I know of many souls why the whole human creation cre-ation who pretend to be what they are not in reality I would therefore rather I be a beast than such a depraved human I being We keep open what we ought to cover and cover what is worth gazing Ion jon j-on We all are engaged in misleading I others as well as ourselves The 1 I sages of old knew tins very wen They therefore behaved like madmen that others may not be deceived and led astray There is no truth that can be shown there is no falsehood that should be concealed A child is as perfect in its innocence as 1 grownup man is in his ignorance The mother presses hearty kisses on its cheeks but there is no one to do the same on the cheeks of the grownup Why is it so I ask I is conceitedness that teaches us to love no man or woman who do not walk in the footpaths of others FREE SCOPE TO AND EQUAL TREATMENT OF ALLis ALL-is what we need most I is improper for one man to depend upon another for guidance and instruction i he can do otherwise I is proper to believe that every man and woman when they come to think for themselves have their own I individual religions to follow Everyman Every-man and every woman has an inspiration or intuition of their own They need not I go to others for knowledge and yet should not think that others are wrong As we I I are as different in individuality so we differ in i inspiration and intuition My I inspiration or intuition win not coincide with that of another much less with the third party So it is everywhere when we say ours is correct and yours is otherwise other-wise we do harm to and injure ourselves The highest inspired beings known to the world were the Brahmin sages of old The Lord Buddha came next He II was all humanity and kindness He was divided till he was reconciled to himself I and his fellowmen by the inspiration he received while sitting one night under the Ashwatha Tree He was so reconciled that he treated all creatures both man and beast as if they were his fellows He destroyed all individuality and became be-came one withall lie was born a prince and heir to the throne but be descended to the common level that all may stand I on one common platform The Hindoo the Christian and the Mohammedan have this one and myriads I of Gods They wrought the destruction and degradation of mankind Christ was born of poor parents and wanted to wear a crown of thorns The Mohammed I was a debaucher and wanted sanction I for polygamy They were all INSPIRED ACCORDING TO THICK REQUIREMENTS REQUIRE-MENTS J iJut they prool 1 hh a the case with the Buddha and Brahmin l sages They became lower than the lowest that the lowest may associate with the highest Spiritualism has saved mankind from gross forms of religion I has taught us that revelation inspiration and instruction in-struction are within the reach and bound of every being and that we should not go to others for the same No Brahma no Buddha no Christ and no Mohammed will save us We are to be saved by ourselves our-selves in the manner we desire I we wish to meet our dearest and nearest hereafter we shall have them I we wish to have a sceptre of gold we can get it In short our desires will be fulfilled ful-filled But desires are tormenting on earth and will be so in heaven also It I is for this reason that the Brahmin sages of old and Lord Buddha Gantama relinquished relin-quished them that they may be in possession of undisturbed bliss hereafter This is the ideal religion which absorbs whicJ all cares and anxieties desires and aspirations pirations lust and pride and leads to eternity in a perfect state of happiness Spiritualism is a steppingstone to a higher and broader knowledge of ourselves I our-selves Spiritualism is a helping hand Ito I-to those who wish to be emancipatedfrom the tyranny and oppression of priest hood Spiritualism is a safe and sure guide to lead into universality where we forget all differences of opinions nay we lose our personality We become so because be-cause Spiritualism teaches us to be virtuous virtu-ous When we are virtuous we become wise Perfect pleasure which fsl happiness happi-ness you will have obtained when you have brought your bodies and souls into i a state of satisfied tranquility To arrive at this much previous exertion is requisite j I requi-site yet exertion not violent only constant I con-stant and even And first the body with its passions and appetites demands gratifications and indulgence In satisfy ing passions and appetites must we provide pro-vide ourselves with a skilled pilot called Prudence the mother of virtues and handmaid I hand-maid of wisdom Temperance which throws a bridle on our desires Fortitude Fortude will strengthen us to bear disease Jus tice will give us security among our fel lows and Generosity endear us to them Gentleness shall take the sting from the I I malice of enemies and malce your Gratitude shall lighten the burden of obligation Thus attended we should hold on our course in confidence and moor our barks in the haven of repose I PHILOSOPHY CANNOT CHANGE THE LAWS OF i NATURE J i But she can teach us to accommodate ourselves to them She cannot annul I pain but she can arm us to bear it Na ture levels us with death but how mild is the death of r Nature with philosophy to spread the pillow and friendship to take the last sigh Death is never our foe Examine the ills of life are they not of our own creation or take they not their darkest hues from our passions and our ignorance What is poverty i we have temperance and can be satisfied with a crust and a draught from the spring What is poverty i we have I modesty and can wear a woolen garment as gladly as a Tyrian robe What is i slander if we have no vanity that it can wound and no anger that it can kindle What is neglect i we have no ambition I that it can disappoint and no pride that I it can mortify What is persecution if I i we have our own bosoms in which to re tire and a spot of earth to sit down and rest upon WHAT IS DEATH WITHOUT SUPERSTITIONS To be clothed with terrors when we can cover our heads and go to sleep in his arms What a list of human calamities and misfortunes are here expunged poverty slander neglect disappoint menVpersecution and death The per fection of wisdom and the end of true QUr VLII1t Lu 1hlIeiiOPlly 18 i fAiUVUV A ambitIOuS to our our possessions j our capabilities I i00 rourper I have done Before Ptd51 let me thmittik mission to sit down dent Joseph Smith for IloWing inc to alSO to in this chapel AlloW me Speak ifaa Gentile friemmds who have kiumdly sootimed time arMS Mormon friends Father miie by my 1TjliiS rushed intO print that lie might mortify them but I slittli survive in spite of all illfcchiimgs anti cranks I equally all for attentivelY lie feel obliged to you tening to my disquisition on religion |