SPIRITUALISM.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 2 May 1872, Page 8

SPIRITUALISM.

A Kentucky paper extracts as follows from a Sunday evening discourse by the Rev. J. M. Peebles, at Louisville : — " Paganism was the midnight of antiquity, Judaism was the pale moonlight, dim, struggling, yet breathing not a joyous word relative to a future conscious existence. With the Christian era dawned the morning light. The Nazarene taught the doctrine of immortality, but nothing, comparatively, of its nature, character, and occupation. Spiritualism, the noonday sun of the centuries, may be considered the "second coming of Christ;" jf corning in the clouds of Heaven with his holy angels ; •a coming in spirit and in truth ; a coming with heavenly evangels from the realms of the glorified. This unloosed the se ded " Book," and ( revealed to us the heavens and the hells, or life in the sphere as it is. "Itis an established Jaw in the natural world that things the more gross gravitate towards the earth ; so, by. virtue of fixed spiritual laws, the less progressed spirits occupy the lower plane of the spirit life, ranging .and residing within the ether-atmos-phere of this world. And they can no more pass to the higher spheres, or traverse the interstellar spaces, before bf»ing prepared by repentance, reconciliation, and spiritual unfolding, thau you can mount up with bird-like swiftness. Angels descend as teachers to these * spirits in prison.' God is love, and progress underlies and overreaches all words. For all things that exist, there must be an appropriate plane adapted to that existence. That is, as there is an adaptation between the fish and the stream, and seed and the soil, the soul and divine truths, so there must be' between spirits and that portion of measureless space they inhabit when disenthralled from their fleshy clothing. ' As one star rliffereth from another in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead.' 'In my father's house,' says Jesus, 'are many mansions' — that is, many departments, places, spheres, or conditions. In these spheres, or spiritual zones, surrounding the earth in concentric circles, dwell those spirits, angels, and gods that hold the guardian care over and have conscious intercourse with mortals. This is now called Spiritualism. Jesus was a very distinguished Spiritualist. On the Mount of Transfiguration he talked with Moses and Elias in the presence of Peter, James, and John."

-" Old Colonist, " in the " Auckland. Weekly News " says': — The farmers in the Nelion Provinpe have came to the conclusion that the sparrows*are a great evil, and ought never to have been acclimatised in the colony. They^ also dread the rabbit, and nearly as < much the introduction^ of the hare. / My opinion hardens coutinually that < oar acclimatisation societies are, withi the best of 'intentions, doing muchl Sieflre fcarm tfiao goo.&