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Let the already truly married practice the principles of Harmonial love and wisdom toward each other, and let those about to embark upon the conjugal existence, regulate their attachments and lives by spiritual delicacy and private truthfulness. We can guarantee that such a home will be a natural Sanctuary of heavenly blessedness. "The family circle" would shine like a ring of diamonds. Each throbbing heart would be a well-spring of love, tenderness, grace, and gladness. Good angels would go in and out of such a sunny home, just as the healthy children thereof would glide to and fro, on the swift feet of unrestrained enjoyment. A divine joy is certain to pavilion such a happy home, and one tender bond is sure to embrace all hearts; for it would be the royal house of the indwelling God, and the very "gate of heaven."

Sympathy with an Amputated Limb.

It is a truth that man's soul does not leave an amputated limb and take up its residence in the interiors of the living body until after the lapse of many days; even though, to all external sense and seeming, the violently removed and buried member would indicate no possession of life. The brain maintains a nervo-vital record and governmental sympathy with each part of the lower organism, and such sympathy cannot be withdrawn violently nor hastily. After death, as we have frequently observed, the vitality treasured up out of a limb severed from the body, elaborates the spiritual limb in exact harmony with the form and proportions of what Nature had first decreed. So that, in the immortal state, each maimed and deformed individual appears, not as he externally looked at the moment of death, but, instead, in such form and embodiments as he would have possessed if Nature's designs had not been arrested in their development in this world.

An authentic instance of cerebro-vital sympathy with an amputated limb, will illustrate the principle. Recently, at Tower's Mill, in Lanesborough, Mass., a young man named Jerry Swan was caught by the arm in some machinery, and the limb was so badly broken and mangled that immediate amputation was necessary. This was successfully performed, but, according to the Pittsfield Eagle, Mr. Swan's connection with the dissevered limb did not cease with the operation. The Eagle says: "On recovering from the stupor (produced by the use of chloroform,) Mr. Swan still complained sorely of an aching hand. Late in the evening his distress became very great, and he insisted that the hand was cramped by being doubled up. The limb had been placed in a small box and buried. His attendants dug it up and straightened the hand, and he was soon easier. This morning the limb was again buried. But he soon complained of a sensation of cold and great pain in it. It was accordingly taken up again, wrapped up, and deposited in a tomb, since which he is again relieved."

The Influence of Indian Spirits.

Indian spirits are robust, healthy, and sympathetic; but they seldom confer wisdom upon their mediums. In the Spirit Land they are exceedingly officious and useful in many ways; particularly in receiving and taking sympathetic charge of the spirits of persons who have just died in hospitals, by accident, or on the field of battle. They exhibit the finest shades of sympa thy and brotherly love, but are rarely wise and prudent in the employment of their powers. For this reason, principally, the gregarious tribes of the Spirit Land are subdivided into classes. as in a school; and thousands of illustrious wise men, once so called on earth among men, delight in appointing themselves to the office of monitors and teachers among the classified Red men who are so grouped in the celestial spheres.

State of the First Man.

QUESTION.- "Was the first man created in a state of infancy, or did he emanate from the Divine Hand in a high state of intellectual development?"

ANSWER. Whatever is right and authoritative derives its sanction and power, not from popular opinion or statute law, but from the true order and harmoniousness of the universe. Divine revelations, so called, are nothing, unless they coincide with the teachings of Nature, whence such revelations derive whatever of truth and authority they may inherently possess. The teachings of Nature are explicit to this point: That the "first man was born just as the first child in any family is born (while exceedingly young,) and that he was not "created" in a perfect state of intellectual development, but commenced the journey of life crowned with every glorious endowment, yet clothed with ignorance or inexperience.

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The Caging of Birds.

We contemplate the operations of our loving Mother, and solicit instruction from her million voices. From every mouth we hear the electric word-" Liberty!" A bird is a beauteous bit of ascending Nature on wings of flight. Man is another form of the same Nature, walking upright, the Lord of all beneath his exalted mind and commanding position. He is good and glorious in his government when the spirit of freedom prevails in the least of things about him; but what shall we say of his lordship, of his influence and administration, when he cuts the wings of Liberty, cages the birds of paradise, and enforces obedience by his will with a rod of iron! Judge of yourself what is right.

Spiritualistic Superstition.

QUESTION. "You have, on at least one occasion, hit Spiritualists pretty severe raps for being superstitious.'

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unbelievers, all Spiritualists are supposed to be superstitious. Will you please define what you mean?"

ANSWER. We denominate all persons superstitious, who, with excessive credulity, and no absolute evidence, attribute unusual physical sensations to the work of spirits; also, they are superstitious who imagine that their own mishaps and discords were developed by the special intervention of the invisible. It is superstition to believe that a medium is influenced by any disembodied intelligence to do or say anything earthly and sen sual. We hold every one individually accountable for all unworthy speeches and physical indulgences. Let all Spiritualists believe that "every good and perfect gift cometh from above," and reversely, that every discordant and miserable influence is generated beneath, in the regions of the flesh, and we will assure them that the "mediums for evil spirits" will number far less than at present.

True and False Hospitality.

We think that if friends and strangers would deal with each other candidly and gently, without dissimulation and hypocritical etiquette, they would never be driven from each other by distrust and enmity. It is the most malignant form of hypocrisy to invite persons to call upon you, while, secretly, you wish they would not; and it is, perhaps, not less injurious to extend the hospitalities of your house to individuals, while, in truth, you dislike them, and want them removed from your vicinity. But there is a higher development for you and all, namely, to feel the spirit of universal adoption, whereby, at all times, you can impart hospitality and kindness alike to friend and stranger, without violating the principles of self-justice and truth. It is, however, far better to be honestly and undisguisedly exclusive, than to be hypocritically hospitable for the purpose of acquiring a reputation for benevolence and philanthropy.

Would You Stop the Flowing River?

Many correspondents will find our answer in the following lines:

"He who checks a child with terror,

Stops its play and stills its song,

Not alone commits an error,

But a great and moral wrong.

"Give it play, and never fear it.
Active life is no defect;

Never, never break its spirit-
Curb it only to direct.

"Would you stop the flowing river,

Thinking it would cease to flow?

Onward it must flow forever;

Better teach it where to go."

The Duty of the Skin.

Some curious facts were presented in a recent lecture of Dr. Thudicum on the Turkish Bath. The human body can bear 300° of heat. The perspiration from a clean skin has an agreeable odor or none at all, while a disagreeable one is the product of an ammoniacal salt, formed of urea and volatile acid. The ventilation of the bulk of tissue-cellular and muscular-is the peculiar duty of the skin.

Traveling as a Medicine.

The principles inculcated in our philosophy of Disease, are within the intellectual grasp of every reader; and we think that every patient is physically qualified to apply our rules of treatment. The scientific name of your disease is of no consequence, so far as the application of this philosophy is concerned. The state or symptoms are the all-essential questions. Life is worth nothing without Health as its crowning glory, and even this glory is worthless without those spiritual feelings which exalt

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