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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN ***
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+Produced by Avinash Kothare, Tom Allen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks
+and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
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+PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN,
+
+WITH
+
+AN APPEAL TO THE MEDICAL AND CLERICAL PROFESSIONS;
+
+AND
+
+AN APPENDIX,
+
+A REVIEW OF "CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION"
+IN THE CHRISTIAN UNION.
+
+BY
+
+JOHN ELLIS, M.D.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+PERSONAL MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OK A PHYSICIAN.
+
+CHAPTER II.
+WHY EVERY PHYSICIAN SHOULD EXAMINE HOMOEOPATHY.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+DANGERS THAT RESULT FROM THE ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+PERSONAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN.
+
+CHAPTER V.
+THE DAWN OF A NEW DISPENSATION.
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+A NEW DAY TO OUR EARTH.
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+THE WANTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+RESTRAINING AND CURING SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL DISEASES.
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED AND EFFORTS.
+
+CHAPTER X.
+FINAL APPEAL TO THE CLERGY.
+
+ADDENDUM.
+A REVIEW OF "CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION,"
+IN THE "CHRISTIAN UNION."
+
+
+
+
+PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+We all admit that every one who attempts to act as a physician, should
+strive to qualify himself, or herself, for the work by obtaining the best
+education which our medical schools afford; for to physicians are
+intrusted, not simply the property or money, but the very lives of their
+fellow-citizens. As the responsibility is great, so the duty of preparing
+one's self before commencing practice, and of keeping fully abreast of all
+new and valuable discoveries in the art of healing, is equally great. A
+physician should not be led blindly by his teachers and prominent medical
+writers, and so strongly confirm himself in the theories and views which
+they proclaim that he cannot, without prejudice, examine new views and
+theories with due care. It has been said that when Harvey discovered the
+true course of the circulation of the blood, there was not a single
+professor in the medical colleges of England over fifty years of age, who
+ever believed "the heresy," as his discovery was called. However this may
+have been, it is certain that professors and prominent medical writers are
+not always the first to see and recognize the truth, even when it is
+clearly presented to their notice.
+
+A native of western Massachusetts, I studied medicine with an intelligent
+and worthy physician in my native town, and attended two and one-half
+courses of medical lectures at the Berkshire Medical College, at
+Pittsfield, Mass., and graduated in 1841; and during the following winter I
+attended the Medical College at Albany, N. Y., devoting a large portion of
+my time to dissecting. After finishing at Albany, I visited various places
+in western and central Massachusetts, and operated on eyes for strabismus
+or cross-eyes,--an operation which had then been recently introduced for
+that deformity; after which I settled at Chesterfield (Mass.), and
+commenced practicing medicine, where I remained about one year.
+
+One day I visited Northampton, and, calling on a physician with whom I was
+acquainted, I found upon his table a homoeopathic book. "Why," I exclaimed
+with astonishment, "you are not studying homoeopathy, are you?" "Yes," he
+replied, "I am studying it, and trying the remedies cautiously;" and he
+went on to describe cases which he had treated satisfactorily by the use of
+the remedies, and among them a case of pleurisy and one of intermittent
+fever, and he wound up by saying: "Now, if you will go down the street to a
+book-store and purchase 'Hull's Jahr,' in two volumes, I will give you half
+a dozen homoeopathic remedies, and you can try them for yourself."
+
+Here was a dilemma. Never until that hour had I ever heard homoeopathy
+spoken of, by either a medical professor or one of my professional
+brethren, except with contempt and ridicule. "But," I said to myself, "if
+there is any truth in homoeopathy I ought to know it, and I cannot treat
+this physician's testimony with contempt; and it is a duty which I owe to
+my fellow-men, and especially to my patients, to investigate the new system
+carefully." I immediately went and purchased the books, and he give me six
+bottles of medicine, and I took them back with me to Chesterfield. I
+remember making but one Homoeopathic prescription before leaving
+Chesterfield, and that was for a case of uterine hemorrhage, which I had
+treated unsuccessfully for some time with allopathic remedies. I looked
+over my Homoeopathic books carefully and found that China (cinchona) was
+indicated. As that remedy was not among the bottles of medicated pellets
+which my medical friend had given me, I directed that one drop of the
+ordinary tincture of Peruvian bark should be dropped into a glass of water,
+and that, after stirring it well, one teaspoonful of the solution thus made
+should be given three or four times a day. The patient commenced improving
+immediately, and was soon well.
+
+Soon after that I removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and commenced anew the
+practice of medicine. I then had neither the knowledge nor the faith in
+homoeopathy which I thought would justify me in treating any serious case
+of disease with homoeopathic remedies; but I did not neglect to study the
+new books. One day, a friend of my younger days, who was residing at Grand
+Haven, came into my office and said that he had been suffering from the
+toothache for several days, and that he did not like to have the tooth
+extracted, and he wanted to know if I could do anything for it without
+extracting it. I told him that I had recently obtained some homoeopathic
+books and remedies, and that I had noticed that remedies were spoken of for
+toothache. So I looked over my books and selected Belladonna as the remedy
+suitable in his case, and gave him a dose of it and other doses to take
+with him if he needed them. We talked in the office for a short time, and
+then we walked up to the hotel where he was stopping; as we entered, he
+stood still a moment and remarked: "Well, my tooth does not ache as
+severely as it did." I saw him weeks afterward, and he told me that he had
+not had the toothache from the hour he took the medicine.
+
+Away in that new place, then a village of about one thousand inhabitants,
+with no homoeopathic physician within a hundred miles of me, I commenced
+cautiously the use of the new remedies; first in mild cases of disease, and
+in cases where Allopathic treatment failed to produce the desired effect.
+Among the first of the serious cases where I used the remedies was a case
+of pneumonia. A young man had been very sick with that disease for many
+days. I had resorted vigorously to the antiphlogistic treatment then in
+vogue; a consulting physician was called, and at last we told the family
+that our patient could not live until the next morning. I then said to the
+consulting physician: "I have some homoeopathic remedies; suppose we try
+them?" His reply was: "It does not make any difference what you try; he
+will not live until morning." Under such circumstances I felt that I was
+justified in trying the new remedies. I accordingly dissolved a few pellets
+of Aconite in a glass of water, and of Bryonia alb. in another glass of
+water, and directed that a teaspoonful of the solution of Aconite should be
+given once an hour for five hours, and that a similar dose of Bryonia be
+given instead of Aconite every sixth hour. I sat down by his bedside and
+watched his case for two hours. At the end of that period I found that his
+pulse was five beats less frequent in a minute, and that his breathing was
+a little easier. The next morning all of his dangerous symptoms had
+disappeared, and in a reasonable period of time he was restored to health.
+I talked with the consulting physician about his unexpected recovery, and
+we were, disposed to think that we had made a false prognosis, and that he
+would have recovered any way. Still, the case made some impression on me;
+so that in the next case of pneumonia to which I was called, I resolved to
+try the same remedies in the same way. The patient was a man about forty
+years of age. Under the action of the Aconite and Bryonia the patient about
+held his own, neither gaining nor losing very perceptibly for about three
+days. At the end of that period I became alarmed, and felt that if the
+patient were to die I should be guilty of the crime of manslaughter. I
+discontinued the treatment, and resorted to the then regular antiphlogistic
+treatment; the patient immediately began to get worse, and at the end of
+three days more he was a very sick man. I then came to the conclusion that
+my patient had done much better under the homoeopathic treatment than he
+had under the Allopathic, and I discontinued the latter and returned to the
+former, giving the Aconite and Bryonia. The patient ceased to grow worse;
+he held his own for two or three days, then he began to improve, and was
+soon restored to health. From that day to this I have never bled a patient
+suffering from either pneumonia or pleurisy, neither have I applied a
+blister, or given a cathartic, or an Allopathic dose of tartar emetic, or
+an opiate, or any form of alcoholic or fermented drinks, either during the
+continuance of the above-named diseases or during convalescence; nor have I
+ever regretted, in a single instance, not having done so.
+
+During the fall of the year we had many cases of dysentery which were very
+obstinate, continuing one or two weeks or longer, attended by a fever
+approaching a typhoid character. I found the Allopathic treatment
+unsatisfactory, as there were quite a number of deaths. So I consulted my
+homoeopathic books and concluded to try the remedies; but at that time I
+had only the six carefully prepared remedies given me by the physician in
+Northampton, and I found that I needed some other remedies; so for
+Arsenicum I used a drop of Fowler's solution of arsenic in a glassful of
+water, giving a teaspoonful of the solution thus prepared for a dose, and I
+also used the tincture of Colocynth and other remedies in the same manner.
+Even with the help of such crude remedies I found that I could generally
+control the disease far more speedily and with greater certainty and safety
+than by Allopathic treatment.
+
+I was called to attend a young man who, while stooping over to set a trap
+in the woods, was mistaken for a bear by a comrade who was hunting with
+him, and shot through the neck. To restrain secondary hemorrhage I was
+obliged, in order to save the life of my patient, to ligature both carotid
+arteries at the interval of only four and one-half days, which, at that
+time, had never been done successfully at an interval of less than twelve
+months between the operations. My patient did not suffer from head
+symptoms, as I was fearful he would, but his lungs became seriously
+congested. I resorted to the Allopathic treatment without affording any
+relief; and, as he was steadily getting worse, I consulted my homoeopathic
+works and gave him Aconite, a drop of the tincture in a glass of water; of
+the solution thus made I directed a teaspoonful to be given every hour;
+this gave prompt relief to the active symptoms of congestion. For a cough
+which remained I gave a few doses of belladonna prepared in the same
+manner, and all of the symptoms soon disappeared. I reported this case to
+the New York Journal of Medicine, and it was transferred, even to the
+homoeopathic prescriptions, to the American edition of Velpeau's great work
+on surgery.
+
+I found when I went to Grand Rapids that the intermittent, remittent, and
+pernicious fevers, which prevailed in that place and in the surrounding
+country, were generally treated by the resident physicians with mercurial
+or other cathartic remedies, followed or accompanied by Quinine and brandy
+or fermented drinks containing Alcohol, and opiates where they were
+supposed to be necessary. As I began to look into homoeopathy, I first
+prescribed Ipecac for the vomiting which sometimes attended these fevers,
+one drop of the tincture in a glass of water, and giving a teaspoonful from
+the glass for a dose. For watery diarrhoeas I gave Fowler's solution of
+Arsenic in the same manner, and in both instances generally with very
+satisfactory results. As my confidence in the homoeopathic treatment of
+diseases increased, I sent to New York and obtained an assortment of the
+remedies and more books, and was then much better prepared to prescribe
+successfully. I soon found that by their use I could dispense with
+cathartic remedies and thus avoid the danger of causing a medicinal
+irritation of the bowels, which it is sometimes difficult to control. I
+also found that I could do much better without Alcohol in any form, in the
+treatment of these fevers, than with it; and I soon ceased to use brandy,
+wine, beer, etc.
+
+As to Quinine, that remedy will unquestionably interrupt the paroxysms of
+intermittent and remittent fevers promptly if it is given at the proper
+time and in suitable doses; and, if the attack is the first the patient has
+ever had, a return of the disease may at least sometimes be prevented by
+giving once a week in two or three doses, at an interval of twelve hours,
+about the quantity which would be required to interrupt the disease in the
+first instance. These doses should be given the day before the disease is
+expected to return. I found it much better to give about two large doses of
+quinine than to give the same quantity in 1 or 2 grain doses. I reported
+the results of my experiments and observations in the use of Quinine at
+Grand Rapids to the _New York Journal of Medicine_ (allopathic). In
+all instances where life is in danger from a return of a paroxysm of
+intermittent or remittent fever, the patient can be rescued from immediate
+danger by giving Quinine in doses sufficient to prevent a return of the
+paroxysm. In all other cases, and perhaps even in such, we can rely safely
+on homoeopathic remedies in minute doses. Quinine in Allopathic doses will
+rarely cure the disease, excepting, it may be, as named above, in a first
+attack. If the patient has ever had more than one or two attacks, it is
+almost sure to return again and again for two seasons, complicated with
+symptoms caused by the remedy, in spite of Allopathic doses of quinine;
+whereas by treating the patient homoeopathically, except in old cases, you
+will not suddenly interrupt the paroxysms, for they may continue one or two
+weeks, or even a few days longer, but when they cease there is generally
+the end of the disease, and the patient speedily regains his ordinary state
+of health instead of lingering along with frequent returns of the disease
+for generally two seasons, as he does when quinine is used. Old cases of
+intermittent fever are frequently cured promptly by infinitesimal doses of
+homoeopathic remedies. I have never seen Allopathic doses of Quinine do any
+good in typhoid fevers. And, as to the use of cathartics, from my
+observation I soon became satisfied that a vast number of lives have been
+lost by their use in cases of remittent and typhoid fevers, the tendency to
+irritation of the mucous membrane, which exists especially in the latter
+disease, being often fatally aggravated by cathartic remedies.
+
+I found the prejudice so strong against homoeopathy when I commenced my
+investigations, that I generally said nothing about the kind of remedies I
+was using, and sometimes disguised the remedies by mixing with sugar or
+pulverized liquorice root, or by mixing or dissolving them in water.
+
+I have given the above details to show how carefully and patiently, step by
+step, I commenced my investigations, and watched the action of remedies
+when given in accordance with the Homoeopathic law of cure, and compared
+the results with the results which followed the use of Allopathic remedies.
+
+I remained at Grand Rapids two years. During that period I gradually
+substituted the Homoeopathic treatment of diseases for the Allopathic, as
+fast as I found I could cure the various diseases which came under my
+observation with more safety and certainty by the former method of
+treatment than by the latter.
+
+Now I ask the intelligent, conscientious, and philanthropic reader, Did I
+do right or did I do wrong in thus investigating homoeopathy and using
+cautiously the remedies for the cure of the sick, as I found them more
+efficacious and safe than the remedies which I had been taught to use and
+had used previously? If it was my duty to thus critically examine the new
+method of treatment, when my attention was seriously called to it, and to
+cautiously try the remedies on the sick, is it not clearly the duty of
+every Allopathic physician in our land to do the same? To thus earnestly
+call the attention of physicians of every school to the importance of
+investigating homoeopathy, and carefully using the remedies for the cure of
+the sick, and to entreat them not to stop and be satisfied with crude
+doses, such as drop doses of tinctures and the first, second or third
+dilutions or triturations of remedies, as some have done, is my sole object
+in writing these pages. The most decided and satisfactory cures which I
+have ever witnessed have been effected by the thirtieth and two hundredth
+dilutions. But, according to my experience, it is not well to confine one's
+self absolutely to either high or low dilutions, as some have done; but if
+you are satisfied that you have selected the right remedy, instead of
+changing the remedy when you do not see relief from its use, change the
+dilution from low to high or high to low, as the case may be. I could
+detail many cases to show the importance of doing this. No physician should
+labor specially to sustain either a theory or preconceived ideas, but to
+cure his patients promptly. The health and lives of our fellow-beings are
+too important to be trifled with.
+
+During the early years of my practice of homoeopathy I was called to see a
+young man recently attacked with "epileptic fits." As he was going
+immediately to New York, with his sister, I advised them to call on the
+late Dr. John F. Gray, with whom I became acquainted during my first visit
+to New York. On reaching New York they called on Dr. Gray, and the young
+man remained under his treatment for several weeks. Of Dr. Gray's treatment
+of this patient, so far as remedies were concerned, I know only of a single
+remedy which he gave, which was Nitrate of silver, which I understood was
+given in a somewhat crude form, and not even in a low centesimal dilution.
+The young man, finding little or no benefit from the treatment, went to his
+home in Georgia, after which I received a letter stating that he had not
+been essentially benefited by Dr. Gray's treatment, and requesting me to
+prescribe for him. In response I sent him the 30th dilution of Nux vomica,
+which he took and soon recovered from the disease, and never had any return
+of the paroxysms. Dr. Gray was a low dilutionist.
+
+On the other hand, during my second or third visit to New York I called on
+Dr. Edward Bayard, who was a high dilutionist. I found him in poor health.
+He had been suffering, as he told me, for some time from a subacute
+irritation of the mucous membrane of the bowels, with loose passages, and
+some febrile excitement. He asked me to prescribe for him. After a careful
+inquiry as to existing symptoms I said to him, "Mercurius vivus ought to
+cure you." He replied that he had taken it repeatedly without the slightest
+effect. I asked him what dilution of this remedy he had taken. He replied
+that he had taken the 30th and 200th dilutions. I suggested that he should
+take the 3d trituration. "Why," he exclaimed, "I have not prescribed the 3d
+trituration of mercury for many years, and I do not know as I have any in
+my office." But, on looking around, he found a bottle of the second
+centesimal trituration; and I said to him: "That will answer. You can take
+a dose of that now [which he did] and repeat it three or four times between
+now and to-morrow night, after which take a dose of the 30th or 200th
+dilution of sulphur." The next time I saw him he told me that my
+prescription cured him promptly.
+
+That the careful treatment of diseases by the use of low dilutions of
+Homoeopathic remedies, when compared with the Allopathic treatment, is
+wonderfully successful I well know; for it was by the success which
+attended the use of the low dilutions that I was led into the new practice,
+as thousands of other graduates of allopathic colleges have been. Still, I
+know very well by experience that the low dilutionists, in a very large
+number of cases, fail to cure patients promptly, and in many cases fail to
+cure them at all when they could cure them promptly by the use of the high
+dilutions, often by the very same remedy which they have been using. I was
+called to see a patient suffering from puerperal anaemia, with "nursing
+sore mouth." She was greatly exhausted; her stomach, which was very acid,
+would retain very little nourishment. She had been under Allopathic
+treatment for some time without experiencing any relief. I gave her a low
+dilution of Pulsatilla, which afforded her no relief. Then I selected other
+remedies, from which she derived no benefit. After that I gave her the
+200th dilution of Pulsatilla, the first dose of which produced, as she
+declared, a change for the better within an hour, and she rapidly recovered
+under its use. A lady who had for two winters been sent to Florida by her
+Allopathic physician for a severe cough, attended by the physical signs of
+induration of the summit of one of her lungs, called on me early in the
+fall, saying that her physician advised her to go again to Florida, but
+that she did not like to go, and wanted me to prescribe for her. After
+examining her symptoms carefully I gave her a single dose of Sulphur, 200th
+dilution; at the end of a week she was better, at the end of another week
+much better, and at the end of the third week she had but few symptoms
+remaining, for which I gave only one dose of Arsenicum, 200th, which
+completed the cure.
+
+Having practiced medicine for two years at Grand Rapids, I spent a winter
+East and visited New York, making the Acquaintance of Homoeopathic
+physicians, and conversing with them about the new system of treating
+disease, attending medical lectures and clinics at the two Allopathic
+colleges. I remember very well attending a clinic at the College of
+Physicians and Surgeons, held by the late Prof. Willard Parker, when a
+little child was brought in suffering from whooping cough. Prof. Parker,
+looking around upon the students, said: "Here, gentlemen, is a case of
+disease which, like the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, runs a
+definite course; if you will let the patients alone they will generally get
+well, but if you commence dosing them you will often bring on complications
+and they will die." This statement, coming from a medical man of his
+prominence, surely was worthy of consideration.
+
+After spending the winter at the East I went to Detroit, Mich., and opened
+an office in connection with Dr. P. M. Wheaton. I practiced in Detroit for
+fifteen years, excepting that during the last six years of that time I
+spent a part of each year at Cleveland, giving a course of lectures on the
+Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Western Homoeopathic Medical
+College, of Cleveland, Ohio.
+
+When I went to Detroit the prejudice against homoeopathy was very strong,
+especially among physicians. An attempt was made to pass a bill through the
+Legislature of Michigan which would virtually prohibit the practice in the
+State. The bill passed the Senate, but, owing to the prompt action of the
+friends of homoeopathy in exposing the design of the advocates of the bill,
+it was defeated in the House of Representatives. The presence of the
+Asiatic cholera in 1849 in the city, and the success which attended the
+homoeopathic treatment of that disease, was instrumental in calling the
+attention of large numbers of the most intelligent and influential citizens
+to the new practice and establishing it upon a firm basis. When the disease
+first appeared in the city, we furnished the families which we were
+accustomed to attend, and all others who desired them, with Veratrum album
+and Cuprum metallicum, which had been earnestly recommended by Homoeopathic
+physicians elsewhere, who had had experience in treating the disease, as
+preventive remedies, a dose or two of each to be taken daily. As a result,
+very few among the families which we were accustomed to attend were
+attacked with the disease, and in such cases as occurred the disease was
+generally readily controlled. As a rule, the most troublesome cases which
+we had to treat were those in which Opium or morphine in some form had been
+administered before we were called. In such cases it was exceedingly
+difficult to get a satisfactory response from our remedies, however
+carefully we selected them.
+
+The Asiatic cholera is a violent disease and rapid in its progress, and if
+severe cases of this disease are to be treated successfully, it must be by
+remedies which are prompt in their action. It is here that homoeopathic
+remedies show their superiority over all other remedies or methods of
+treatment, for they act upon the diseased organs in the direction of the
+disease, and thus excite a prompt reaction. Homoeopathic remedies, when
+properly used, do not benumb, nor do they seriously aggravate existing
+diseased action; and they neither cause diseased action in well organs, nor
+reduce the quantity of blood, nor lessen the vitality of the organism and
+the ability to react against the encroachment of diseased action, as does
+the allopathic treatment; and, consequently, if a patient dies the
+physician and his friends have the consolation, at least, of knowing that
+he did not die from the treatment.
+
+I well remember, while practicing in Detroit, attending a prominent
+citizen, a lawyer, who had a severe attack of pneumonia; and, while
+recovering from it, he went one night into a cold room to sleep, and this
+brought on a relapse which involved both lungs, and my patient became very
+sick. One day on visiting him I found an Allopathic physician sitting by
+his bedside. I was told that he simply called as a friend. As I entered he
+arose and walked out into the hall. I followed him, and asked him what he
+thought of my patient. He replied very promptly: "He will die! he will die,
+sir!! He ought to have been bled, blistered, and physicked long ago, but it
+is too late now." I replied: "He will not die, sir, for the very reason
+that he has not had the treatment you name; he has his blood and vital
+energies, unimpaired by the treatment, to sustain him." And he did not die,
+but recovered, and was appointed Governor of one of the Western Territories
+long after that.
+
+After having practiced medicine for fifteen years, except the months I was
+absent at Cleveland the last six years of the time, I was invited to fill
+the chair of Theory and Practice in the New York Homoeopathic Medical
+College. This invitation I accepted, and removed to New York and took up my
+residence there, and commenced practice again in a new field. About the
+year 1868 I invented a new process for refining petroleum by the aid of
+superheated steam, and spent eighteen months in developing the process at
+Binghamton, N. Y., and then returned to my practice in New York City. In
+the year 1873 I gave up the practice of medicine, and in connection with
+two gentlemen who were interested in selling oils, I commenced the refining
+of petroleum, manufacturing therefrom machinery and other oils; to which
+business I have devoted my attention ever since. I have attended chiefly to
+the manufacturing department and my partners to the selling.
+
+I have been frequently asked: "Why did you quit the practice of medicine?
+Was not that a useful business?" Yes, it was; but I had come to feel that
+there were fields for greater usefulness--in fact, that it was vastly more
+important to teach people the laws of health and life, and to strive to
+lead them by precept and example to shun the causes of disease, than it was
+to cure them when they were sick--that prevention was better than cure.
+Consequently, when I saw before me a reasonably sure prospect of being able
+to make a good deal more money at the refining business than I could ever
+expect to make in the practice of medicine, I could but feel that, by the
+aid of a reasonable portion of the money thus made, I could perform a far
+greater use than I could by practicing medicine. This, then, was the reason
+for my giving up a good and useful profession and practice for my present
+business. What I have attempted to do for the benefit of suffering humanity
+since I gave up the practice of medicine, I will name in a future chapter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+WHY EVERY PHYSICIAN SHOULD EXAMINE AND TEST HOMOEOPATHY.
+
+
+I was born in the year 1815, and on the 26th of November, 1891, was 76
+years of age. I have not practiced medicine as a business for many years,
+and I never expect to practice again. As to money, my present business
+gives me all I need, and money to spare for benevolent purposes. I do not
+expect, nor do I desire, to receive one cent, directly or indirectly, for
+the writing of this pamphlet, or for the money which I expect to spend for
+paper, printing, binding, and sending it, post paid, to every physician and
+clergyman in the United States and Canada whose name I can get. I do it
+because I believe and hope it will be a useful work and instrumental in
+doing good, and that many who are willing and waiting will find useful
+suggestions contained in its pages, and that through their instrumentality
+humanity may be benefited.
+
+A few years after I became a convert to Homoeopathy I met in a railroad car
+a venerable professor from the college where I graduated. We were mutually
+pleased to see each other, and after our congratulations were over I
+remarked to him that, so far as the administration of remedies was
+concerned, I had departed somewhat from the "general principles" which he
+used to inculcate, and that I had become a Homoeopathist. The Professor
+looked up with astonishment and exclaimed most earnestly: "I am sorry to
+hear that! I am sorry to hear that!" He manifested not the slightest desire
+to know why I had made the change, but was ready to denounce and condemn.
+It would be useless to talk to such a man. Before one can see a new truth,
+however plain it may be, he must be willing to either examine the question
+carefully himself, or to heed the testimony of those who have examined it.
+Fortunately, all physicians have not been like the above Professor; for
+there have been thousands who were educated in and graduated from
+Allopathic schools, some of them gray-haired men, who, like myself, have
+carefully studied Homoeopathy and cautiously tested the remedies upon the
+sick, who have become converts to the new practice, and who have ever after
+relied upon its remedies in the treatment of the sick. No intelligent
+physician of any other school has ever carefully read the Homoeopathic
+works, and has to any considerable extent cautiously used the remedies in
+the treatment of severe cases of various diseases, without being able to
+see the vast superiority of the Homoeopathic over the Allopathic treatment
+of disease; and no one, without prejudice, and willing to see the truth,
+will ever do so without being convinced. Can a man, with eyes open, on a
+clear day, go out at noon time and declare that the sun does not shine? He
+may make such a declaration while shut up in a cellar or cavern, or if he
+never opens his eyes. As one who has patiently and diligently studied and
+practiced both systems, I say without the slightest hesitation that
+Homoeopathy, as a system of practice, is as superior to Allopathy as the
+direct light of the sun is to the reflected light of the moon; in fact,
+much of the allopathic practice of to-day is but a reflection of the
+homoeopathic light. What intelligent physician to-day bleeds, blisters,
+salivates, or vomits his patients, as students were taught to do by
+preceptors, professors, and books fifty years ago? And why is such
+treatment so frequently, to say the least, discarded now by Allopathic
+physicians? Is it not largely because the success which results from the
+Homoeopathic treatment of diseases, has convinced Allopathic physicians and
+their patients that such violent disease-creating measures and remedies are
+unnecessary?
+
+Homoeopathy is strictly a scientific system of medicine. It is based upon a
+law of nature--"_Similia similibus curantur_," or the law that
+remedies will cure symptoms and diseases similar to those which they will
+cause when taken by healthy persons. It is wonderful with what care, skill,
+and perseverance the new Materia Medica has been developed, mostly by
+intelligent physicians, commencing with Hahnemann, taking the different
+remedies in varying doses, and carefully and patiently watching the
+symptoms that follow, and writing them down day after day; and then, when
+similar symptoms occur in case of disease, giving the remedies and
+carefully watching and writing down the results. Allopathic physicians, as
+a rule, have not the slightest conception of the vast amount of patient and
+persevering labor in this direction which has been done by physicians as
+well educated as they are, and most of whom have graduated in the same
+schools, who have devoted their lives to this work. Are not these facts
+worthy of the consideration of every physician in the world who desires the
+highest good of his fellow men? It is well known to every intelligent
+physician that there is some truth in the homoeopathic law of cure, and
+that it has to some extent been recognized from the earliest periods of
+medical history. A cathartic remedy, even in Allopathic doses, will
+sometimes cure a diarrhoea, and an emetic will sometimes cure a nauseated
+stomach; but such remedies when given in large doses do not always cure, or
+they would generally be used by Allopathists; they sometimes seriously and
+even dangerously aggravate the disease, so that the vital forces do not
+react and thus effect a cure. Nitrate of silver and acetate of zinc, which
+applied to well eyes will cause irritation and inflammation, are often
+applied to inflamed eyes. The kine pox, which is a similar disease, is well
+known to either prevent or materially modify smallpox; and so I could go on
+enumerating cases where Allopathic physicians treat their patients in
+accordance with the Homoeopathic law of cure. The great discovery of
+Hahnemann was not so much the Homoeopathic law of cure, for some knowledge
+of that was possessed before his day, but the practical application of that
+law to the cure of disease. He found by careful experiments that diseases
+can be cured by remedies, which when given to the well will produce similar
+symptoms or diseases, in doses so small as not to seriously aggravate the
+existing disease or symptoms; and that all diseases may be thus treated
+with a success hitherto unknown. This discovery was accompanied by the most
+careful experiments by him and his followers upon themselves, to ascertain
+with the greatest possible care the effects of various remedies upon the
+healthy, so as to be able to make accurate prescriptions for the sick. Here
+you have most careful scientific investigation and experiments as to the
+action of remedies upon the well and sick, made, not by pretenders or
+quacks, but by well educated physicians, that should command the admiration
+and respect of every intelligent man and educated physician.
+
+As to the doses given to the sick, which have been such a stumbling-block
+to our Allopathic brethren, their size is simply the result of the most
+careful experiments. Everyone can understand that if we give an Allopathic
+dose of Ipecac to a patient already sick and vomiting, or of Veratrum album
+to a patient suffering from Asiatic cholera or cholera morbus, we will
+almost certainly aggravate the disease, perhaps to a fatal extent; for it
+is the reaction of the vital forces of the system against the new
+excitement caused by the remedy, which overcomes this new excitement and
+the diseased action at the same time. Now, if the action of the remedy is
+so severe that no reaction follows, then, of course, no cure follows, and
+even death may result.
+
+The great beauty and excellence of the Homoeopathic system of medicine
+consists in the ability to treat patients successfully thereby, without
+making well organs sick, or aggravating existing diseased action, or
+creating an opposite diseased state, as you do when you give a cathartic
+remedy in a cathartic dose for constipation; in that case the reaction, if
+reaction follows, is not in the right direction, consequently the
+constipation is often aggravated. I have hardly ever seen, excepting in
+cases of mechanical obstruction, a severe and troublesome case of
+constipation that had not been caused by the use of cathartic remedies. So
+if we give an opiate, or an astringent, for a diarrhoea, we can see that it
+is a direct effort to restrain the disease by force, as it were, and we
+necessarily have to give large doses; and, if the vital forces react
+against this medicinal intrusion, the reaction is not in the direction of
+health. It is true that the vital forces sometimes overcome the diseased
+action in spite of the medicinal action; but it does not always do this,
+and subacute and chronic diarrhoeas are the result of the use of such
+remedies in some cases. To create disease of a well organ for the sake of
+curing disease in another organ, as is done when blisters are applied to
+the skin for diseases of internal organs, and when cathartics are given for
+diseases of the head or lungs, every one can see is a roundabout treatment;
+and while patients may sometimes be benefited by this calling off, as it
+were, the attention of the vital forces from the diseased action in other
+organs, still it is not a very satisfactory treatment as a whole; for you
+may lessen the vital power of resistance against diseased action, and may
+even cause serious disease of the organ assailed. I repeat, one of the
+great beauties of Homoeopathy lies in the fact that when remedies are given
+in accordance with its law of cure, they do not have to be given in
+disease-creating doses.
+
+Hahnemann tells us that a single dose of the 30th dilution of Aconite,
+which contains but the decillionth of a drop of the tincture of the remedy,
+will cure acute pleurisy in twenty-four hours. I have thus treated patients
+suffering from pleurisy with a single dose of that remedy (it should be
+given soon after the commencement of the disease), and at the end of
+twenty-four hours have found the pain and fever all gone, and the skin
+moist and cool; and in one instance within two days the patient was on his
+way to California. I have never seen any such satisfactory cures of that
+disease from any kind of Allopathic treatment, nor from the low dilutions
+of Aconite or any other Homoeopathic remedy.
+
+Hereafter I shall call attention of both physicians and the clergy to the
+causes and different methods of restraining or curing both spiritual and
+natural diseases; for there is the most beautiful analogy or correspondence
+between the methods of treating natural and spiritual diseases, and they
+must be considered in connection if we would clearly see the truth.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE DANGERS THAT RESULT FROM THE ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
+
+
+This treatment of diseases, more in the past than at present, consists
+largely in giving and applying remedies in disease-creating doses. The
+antiphlogistic treatment consists of blood-letting and the use and
+application of reducing remedies which directly or indirectly lessen the
+inflammatory or febrile action; but it is manifest that while it may lessen
+the activity of the diseased symptoms it also lessens the vitality of the
+system as a whole, and consequently its power to resist and overcome the
+existing diseased action; so that it is a serious question whether in many
+cases more is not lost than gained, and it is certain that, owing to the
+loss of blood and strength, convalescence will be more tedious. Then the
+use of remedies which cause active diseased action is not always safe. My
+own mother, at the age of 51 years, while in delicate health, was taken
+with a severe pain in her side. A physician was called. She thought an
+emetic would do her good. The physician gave her one, and she died during
+its operation, or immediately afterward. Her physician was so affected by
+this sudden and unexpected result that he had to go and lie down. At that
+time I was but 10 years old.
+
+In typhoid fever there is a tendency to irritation of the mucous membrane
+of the small intestines; and, as I have already stated, I am satisfied from
+observation that when cathartics are given during this disease this
+irritation is often most seriously aggravated, and death not unfrequently
+follows as a result.
+
+But the greatest danger and evil which result from the Allopathic treatment
+of disease lie, not in the direction of the sudden deaths which sometimes
+result from the use of its remedies, but in the liability of patients to be
+led into the habitual use of a drug that has afforded them palliative
+relief during sickness, and the countenance thus given for the use of such
+drugs by the laity during health. Perhaps as a rule poisonous substances
+palliate the symptoms which they cause, or which follow their use. A
+cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the
+use of cathartic remedies. Opium will palliate the sleeplessness and
+suffering that follow when the patient leaves off the use of opiates which
+he has been taking for disease; and alcohol and all fluids and remedies
+which contain an appreciable quantity of alcohol will palliate the coldness
+of the surface, craving, and distress which follow when a patient who has
+been taking such remedies attempts to discontinue their use. And thus the
+patient is led to continue the remedy because it makes him feel better
+every time he takes it; and, consequently, he is led on as naturally as
+water runs down hill, until he becomes a slave to his appetite.
+
+Now, cannot every conscientious and intelligent man see what an immense
+blessing to his fellow men it would be if all physicians were able to treat
+their patients as successfully by the use of Homoeopathic remedies and
+doses as by the use of the so-called Alcoholic stimulants and Narcotics,
+which are enslaving and ruining so many, and thus be able to discard and
+discountenance the use of all such remedies? How can honest, conscientious
+physicians disregard and treat with contempt the testimony of physicians
+who have been educated in the same schools with themselves, but who have
+used their reason and freedom to investigate the new practice and test the
+curative action of its remedies, when they assure them that they have
+treated their patients far more successfully by the use of Homoeopathic
+remedies than they ever have done by the use of narcotics, alcoholic and
+fermented drinks, and other Allopathic remedies? How can physicians
+disregard the testimony of multitudes of patients who have been thus cured?
+
+Why should not every physician study Homoeopathy and test the remedies on
+the sick? He can do it cautiously; he has all of his old remedies by him;
+what has he to lose? If they do not relieve his patient's sufferings more
+safely and promptly, he is not obliged to continue to use them. Is it a
+sensible and rational course for any one to allow himself to be so strongly
+confirmed in the views of prominent professors, teachers, and books, that
+he cannot without prejudice examine new truths and new methods of treating
+diseases, and even new theories? Should not a man strive to keep abreast of
+the age in which he is living? Take it, for instance, in regard to the
+action of alcohol on living structures. No other man has ever experimented
+so carefully, patiently, and thoroughly as has Dr. Richardson, of England,
+and the results of his experiments appeal to the common sense and
+observation of every unbiased man. He shows conclusively by its action that
+it should never have been given in a vast majority of the cases of disease
+where it is given by physicians; yet what attention is paid to his
+testimony and demonstrations, which every disinterested physician can see
+to be true if he will?
+
+Dr. Richardson has also shown conclusively that alcohol paralyzes the
+minute capillary vessels, so that while the blood is forced into them
+through the arteries by the heart, it does not flow out of these minute
+vessels into the veins as rapidly as it does during their healthy action;
+consequently these vessels are congested and unnaturally distended with
+blood; the face and surface of the body become red, owing to the presence
+of an unnatural quantity of blood in these vessels. Nor is this all. The
+heat of the body is generated by changes going on in the blood and flows
+with the blood, and consequently the surface of the body becomes, from the
+presence of this excess of blood, unnaturally warm; but the heat is rapidly
+radiated from the surface, consequently the body, as a whole, becomes
+cooler. Dr. Richardson found by careful experiment that, while the surface
+was warmer, internally the body was cooler and less able to stand the cold;
+and he also substantiated the truth of his experiments by experiments on
+pigeons.
+
+I will allow Canon Wilberforce, of South Hampton, England, to describe his
+experiment. While attending a reception during his recent visit to New York
+he was asked the following question:--
+
+Dr. E. P. Thwing: "I would like to ask the Canon, as a physician, if the
+feeling as to alcoholic medication in England has changed for the better;
+for instance, the aspect of the British Medical Association toward this
+subject?"
+
+Canon Wilberforce: "I believe that is one point in which we are going
+furthest ahead. I think that the whole aspect of the medical question is
+changing, mainly under the influence of that distinguished man of science,
+Dr. Richardson. He is one of the leading scientific minds of Great Britain.
+He has been successful in his experiments and as bold as a lion in his
+utterances, and he is leading scientific thought in this direction. He has
+proved over and over again, to use a common phrase, that from the monarch
+on the throne down to the maggot in the cheese, every healthy being is
+better without alcohol. The other day he was staying with me. I have the
+greatest possible objection to experimenting upon living animals, but he
+described to me an experiment on pigeons. It was not a very painful
+experiment; indeed, there are some people who, I am afraid, would like to
+have the experiment made upon them. He tried to induce the pigeons to take
+peas soaked in alcohol. They refused to do so at first; but after a while
+they were pleased, and they selected the peas saturated with alcohol. One
+cold night he turned the pigeons out, and on the following day, when he was
+examining them, strange to say, all those pigeons that ate the alcoholized
+peas were frozen to death, and those that remained teetotalers were
+perfectly safe and sound."
+
+The drinking of alcoholic liquors generates no heat, it simply holds the
+heat in the congested blood-vessels upon the surface of the body, where it
+is wasted, and thus the temperature of the body as a whole is lowered.
+
+The greatest mortality which results from the use of intoxicating drinks
+does not result from what is recognized as drunkenness, but from what is
+recognized as moderate but steady drinking. The drunkard after his sprees
+usually has seasons of abstinence, during which he has a chance to
+recuperate or regain strength and vigor, and consequently drunkards often
+live to an advanced age; but the steady drinker has no such seasons of
+rest, but his face, by its almost constantly congested appearance, shows
+the condition of his internal organs; for the effect of alcohol is to
+paralyze the minute capillary vessels throughout the body and fill them
+with blood, which produces redness upon the surface and a sensation of
+warmth. The separation of waste and worn-out materials and their removal is
+largely effected through these minute blood-vessels, and it is through them
+that nourishment reaches all the structures of the body; consequently, the
+almost constant state of congestion of these minute vessels, which results
+from regular, moderate drinking, interferes very seriously with this change
+or purification and renewal of all the structures of the body. As a result,
+while some drinkers die from drunkenness, many more die from apoplexy,
+paralysis, laryngitis and bronchitis, heart failure, fatty degeneration of
+the heart, diseases of the stomach and liver, Bright's disease of the
+kidneys, etc., and especially from an inability to either resist or
+withstand epidemic, contagious, or inflammatory diseases, or even
+mechanical injuries.
+
+There are life insurance companies that give special privileges to total
+abstainers over moderate drinkers (they never insure drunkards). Such
+companies find that they can give a bonus of from 17 to 23 per cent. to
+total abstainers as compared with moderate drinkers.
+
+I remember very well attending the family of a brewer. He was standing by
+when I advised his wife not to drink beer, for it was not good for her, as
+it would increase her debility and retard her recovery. With astonishment
+and great emphasis he exclaimed: "Tell me that beer is not good for her!"
+Striking his chest with his fist, he said: "Just look at me and see what
+beer has done for me!" He was born in Scotland, and manifestly inherited a
+good, strong constitution. I replied to him: "You are a large, strong man,
+but a little too fleshy; what beer has done for you time will tell better
+than I can." A few months, perhaps a year or two, after that conversation,
+I was riding up a street which led toward his residence when I was called
+in a hurry into a saloon to see a man who was said to have fallen down "in
+a fit." On reaching his side I found the above brewer dead upon the floor.
+Without much question he died of heart failure, from fatty degeneration
+caused by the steady use of beer. I never heard of his being intoxicated.
+
+Dr. W. B. Carpenter, who stands at the very head of the physiologists of
+our century, says:--
+
+"That the taking of alcoholic stimulants is in any way useful in keeping up
+the heat of the body, may now be considered as a myth altogether exploded."
+
+Again he says:--
+
+"Now, it is the result of many observations that the introduction of
+alcohol specially deranges the vaso-motor system; this derangement showing
+itself alike in disturbance of the heart's action, and in relaxation of the
+capillary vessels, which become filled with blood, especially in the
+nervous system and in the skin. This causes one to feel that warmth and
+exhilaration which is the first effect of the introduction of these
+disturbing agencies, and which are appealed to as evidence that drink does
+us good. Well, what are the facts? The fresh glow is simply the result of
+relaxation of the capillary vessels of the skin, allowing a large quantity
+of blood to come to the surface, so as to give the feeling of superficial
+warmth. But if a larger amount of blood comes to the surface, it robs the
+parts within; and the feeling of genial warmth gives way to a general
+depression, especially when we are exposed to severe cold. The temporary
+exhilaration of the nervous system, too, is followed by a corresponding
+depression. Hence a person feels 'sick and sorry' the next morning after
+taking alcoholic stimulant."
+
+As to alcohol giving strength, it is well known that it supplies no
+substance to the tissues; therefore it meets no want, and consequently can
+give no strength. Every one can see that blood-vessels, when paralyzed and
+congested with blood by alcohol, cannot perform their function in the
+metamorphosis of the tissues of the body, or of conveying nourishment to
+them and removing worn-out, effete substances from them, as during health.
+If you would see the legitimate effects of alcohol, look at the permanently
+congested face of the steady drinker, or his "rum blossoms," and remember
+that the capillary vessels of his brain and other internal organs are in a
+similar state, and then say if you think he has been strengthened by
+alcoholic drinks.
+
+I remember very well when a young man, when a neighboring farmer was sick
+and unable to gather his hay, that the young men in the neighborhood set a
+day when they would meet and gather his hay for him. When, on the day set,
+we met in the field, and the neighboring young men noticed that my brother
+and myself had no bottle of cider brandy with us, they exclaimed with
+delight, "We will lay you out before noon." A spirited contest with our
+scythes commenced in good earnest. But they did not lay us out; they were
+glad to seek and lie in the shade of trees to rest, while we were able to
+continue our work. It is well known that men who are preparing themselves
+for, or engaging in, feats requiring great strength and endurance are
+beginning to find that they must let intoxicating drinks alone. It is
+something marvelous to see with what tenacity so many physicians hold on to
+the idea that fermented wine, beer, brandy, and whiskey are strengthening.
+This idea comes, to a great extent, from the custom which prevails of
+giving such drinks to patients who are recovering from fevers, acute
+diseases, and from the effects of other debilitating causes. Many
+physicians have been so accustomed to give these drinks to patients, under
+such circumstances, that they have not the slightest idea how much better
+they would do without them.
+
+A few years ago I met a German woman whose husband I knew well, and had
+reason to fear that beer drinking was doing him great harm. I said to her
+that, on her husband's account, she should never let another drop of beer
+enter her house if she could help it. "Why," she exclaimed, "I cannot do
+without beer. I suffer so much during and after confinement, and am so
+weak, and have so little milk for my child, that my doctor says that I must
+have beer to give me strength." She was then expecting to be confined
+within a few months. I replied to her by saying: "I have attended a great
+many more patients during confinement than your physician has ever
+attended, and after the first three years of my practice, I never gave to a
+single patient beer, fermented wine, whiskey, or brandy, or any other
+intoxicating drink. Now, if you will follow my advice, you will have a very
+different time from what you have ever had before; and my advice is that
+from this time forth you do not taste a single drop of beer, wine, or any
+other intoxicating drink." She said she would follow my suggestions. I met
+her again when her child was a few months old, and she looked like another
+woman. She came up to me and said: "Well, Doctor, I have followed your
+advice strictly. I have not tasted beer, wine, or any other intoxicating
+drink, and I never before had such a comfortable time during my
+confinement. I never was so strong or gained my strength so rapidly. I
+never had so much nurse for my child, and I never had such a good-natured
+baby before." She was the mother of several children.
+
+Such are the results of the two methods of treatment.
+
+There is no surer way to retard and often prevent recovery than to give
+patients drinks or even remedies which contain an appreciable quantity of
+alcohol. Where the tendency to recovery is strong they will recover sooner
+or later in spite of the treatment; but in some cases the physician may
+keep a delicate, nervous patient sick as long as he gives alcohol in any
+form; and in the most critical stage of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and other
+diseases where the patient needs nourishment, and that impurities should be
+removed, there is no more dangerous treatment than to give alcohol in any
+form, which interferes with these processes by paralyzing and congesting
+the capillary vessels. Hot water and nourishment, cautiously supplied, are
+what such patients require, not alcoholic stimulants.
+
+The habit of taking either opium or morphine in our country has very
+generally resulted from the prescriptions of physicians. The patient may
+obtain palliative relief from its use, but suffers when he attempts to
+leave it off; consequently, without fully realizing the danger which he
+incurs, he continues the remedy until he is enslaved.
+
+With the exception of alcohol, I know of no more dangerous medicine to give
+during the critical stages of inflammatory, febrile, and other diseases
+than Allopathic doses of opium in any form. This anodyne, by its retarding,
+benumbing, and stupefying effects upon the body, often destroys the power
+of reaction at the critical stage of the disease when the vital forces
+should be left free to act, and consequently in many cases patients die who
+would not die if they were not under the influence of this drug. Patients
+will often go very near to the border line and yet rally if kept free from
+the so-called "stimulants" and narcotics, and simple, plain nourishment is
+cautiously given and the body kept warm.
+
+Physicians are sometimes responsible for the habit of using tobacco among
+their patrons. It is generally in chronic cases of disease where tobacco is
+prescribed, and, as a rule, when it is once prescribed by a physician the
+patient never thinks of giving up the use of the remedy; nor, so far as I
+have known, are physicians who prescribe tobacco often, if ever, careful to
+direct patients to discontinue using the remedy as soon as the symptoms of
+the disease from which they are suffering are relieved. Of course, a
+physician who neglects to do this seriously neglects his duty. It is safe
+to say that few physicians ever prescribe the smoking or chewing of tobacco
+as a remedy for diseases who do not use the weed themselves, for they can
+generally find much better and safer remedies.
+
+If a physician loves intoxicating drinks and has become a slave to them, he
+actually feels that they do him good every time he drinks, for by relieving
+the symptoms temporarily which they have caused they actually make him feel
+better; and what is more natural than that he should prescribe them for his
+patients? Here, then, it can be clearly seen that there is great danger in
+employing physicians who love intoxicating drinks, tobacco, or opium in any
+form; for they believe in the efficacy of these poisons, and they will
+often prescribe them when a physician not addicted to their use would not
+think of doing so.
+
+I have alluded to some of the dangers which attend and the evils which
+often result from the Allopathic treatment of diseases. Every one can see
+that they are formidable enough and that they merit the serious attention
+of every lover of his race. The skillful homoeopathic physician is able to
+avoid these dangers and evils, for he does not use disease-creating or
+appetite-begetting doses of any remedy.
+
+We notice that those having the management of our railroads are beginning
+to see that, for the protection of the property of the owners and lives of
+their patrons, it is not safe to employ men who drink intoxicating drinks
+at all; for it is well known that large numbers of those who drink are
+sooner or later sure to become unreliable and careless. Is it not time that
+physicians should cease to accept as students, and that our medical
+colleges should cease to graduate and send forth as physicians, men who
+drink intoxicating drinks? Should not medical professors and teachers have
+as much regard for the health and lives of men, women, and children as the
+managers of our railroads?
+
+Again, it is well known that the use of tobacco tends to prevent
+development, impair health, and to make men moody, if not careless, and it
+not unfrequently leads them, especially when young, to disregard the rights
+and feelings of others. We see men and boys smoking wherever it is not
+strictly prohibited, even lighting their cigars and cigarettes as they
+leave our elevated railroad stations, and walking down the stairs before
+ladies and gentlemen, thus compelling those who follow to breathe the
+atmosphere which they have polluted. As a fair illustration of the spirit
+so frequently manifested, I will describe a little incident which occurred
+in my presence. A young man, perhaps twenty years old, stood in a line of
+men approaching the paying teller's window in one of our banks, vigorously
+smoking his cigar. An elderly gentleman behind him asked him if he would be
+so kind as not to smoke. The young man immediately straightened himself up
+in a most self-important manner and exclaimed: "What do you think I care if
+it is offensive to you?"
+
+In our railroad cars smokers have to separate themselves from wives,
+children, and friends and go by themselves into a smoking-car or apartment,
+and why? simply because tobacco smoke is unpleasant to every man, woman,
+and child who is not accustomed to it; and the smoker's breath often smells
+so strong of the smoke when his cigar is gone that it is exceedingly
+unpleasant to sensitive persons. Why should our medical colleges graduate
+young men to go forth for the purpose of attempting to heal sick,
+sensitive, and nervous patients, who smoke or chew tobacco, and thus are
+unpleasant to many and a bad example to all? Have we not enough cleanly
+young men, of good habits, to supply all the physicians we need in our
+country? A smoking physician, by his breath and bad example to the young,
+may do a vast deal more harm than he can ever do good as a physician in the
+world.
+
+The use of an intoxicating wine as a communion wine in so many of our
+churches, and the efforts of so many clergymen to justify its use, together
+with the prescription of intoxicating drinks by physicians, are the chief
+supports which to-day sustain our distilleries, breweries, and saloons, and
+the prevalent drinking habits and consequent drunkenness. Let all of our
+clergy, churches, and physicians withdraw their patronage and sanction of
+intoxicating drinks, and it would not be many years before the manufacture
+and sale of such drinks would be prohibited throughout the length and
+breadth of our land. That day will surely come, for a new age is opening up
+before us very different from the past. The Lord is coming at this day in
+the "clouds of heaven" with power and great glory. Old things are passing
+away and all things are being made new--new heavens and a new earth.
+
+Sir Astley Cooper says: "I never suffer ardent spirits in my house,
+thinking them evil spirits. If the poor could witness the white livers, the
+dropsies, or the shattered nervous systems which I have seen, the
+consequences of drinking, they would be aware that spirits and poisons are
+synonymous terms."
+
+Again he says: "We have all been in error in recommending wine as a tonic.
+Ardent spirits and poisons are convertible terms."
+
+Dr. Benj. Richardson declares it to be his opinion that the administration
+of alcohol will become, like blood-letting, a thing of the past, that it is
+passing into the same position as blood-letting. He, as a student, was
+educated to bleed; he was educated in the employment of alcohol; he saw the
+effects of the application of these tested by comparison, and he has, in
+one instance as much as in the other, come to consider them as behind the
+age, and both as remedies belonging to a departed and deceived
+generation.--The Dawn (English), Nov. 19, 1891.
+
+I cannot close this chapter without again earnestly calling the attention
+of all physicians to the great danger to life which results from giving
+alcohol in any form to patients in very critical cases, or as they are at
+or approaching the crisis in their disease, in fevers and in inflammatory
+diseases, such as pneumonia, etc.
+
+Since writing the preceding pages, in fact, since most of them were in
+type, my attention has been called by notices in our papers to the fact
+that champagne was given to a starving man, and that a few drops of brandy
+were mixed with the milk given to a child in a similar condition, or
+suffering from marasmus; and within a week a physician who has traveled
+extensively and lectured before medical, theological, and literary
+organizations, and who has frequently been in consultation in critical
+cases, described in my hearing several cases of pneumonia which he visited,
+which were, as he expressed it, drunk. When asked by the attending
+physician what he would suggest, he always replied, "Stop giving your
+patients alcoholic liquids;" and with a single exception, out of a large
+number, and that was a complicated case, recovery followed. While
+practicing in Detroit I was called to see a prominent citizen who was
+suffering from typhoid fever. His physicians had told his family that he
+would die, but that the "stimulants" they were giving him might keep him
+alive a few hours. I found him delirious, with cold, clammy extremities and
+almost pulseless. I stopped his "stimulants" at once and gave him
+Homoeopathic remedies and nourishment, and the next day he was out of
+danger. No more dangerous treatment has ever been adopted than to give a
+patient in a critical stage of disease alcohol in any form or quantity.
+Every intelligent physician ought to be able to see that this is true. I
+repeat, alcohol paralyzes the minute capillary vessels and veins (look at
+the face of the drinker) on the surface of the body, in the brain (look at
+a drinker's words and actions), stomach, lungs, and kidneys, and congests
+them with blood, through which the structures are nourished with food and
+drink and purified by the removal of decomposed and effete substances.
+Cannot every one see that these vessels, when thus paralyzed and congested,
+cannot perform their duty as well as they can in a natural state? Then,
+again, the temperature of the body is lowered internally and its heat
+wasted from the surface. What patients in the critical stages of disease
+require are warmth applied, if needed, to the surface of the body and
+limbs, and hot water (not scalding hot, of course), milk, unfermented wine,
+and other simple, easily digested articles which will nourish and
+strengthen the body taken internally.
+
+It is possible that in sudden, severe cases of hemorrhage, alcohol may
+sometimes rescue a patient from fainting and bleeding to death, by storing
+the blood in the capillary vessels of the brain and surface of the body
+temporarily while the bleeding vessels contract; but even in such cases
+other remedies, if at hand, may prove more reliable.
+
+In cases of marasmus in children, if Homoeopathic remedies and nourishing
+articles fail to give relief, and the child becomes greatly emaciated, give
+the child cautiously salt fat pork, fried, but not to a crisp; give him a
+piece in his hand, too large for him to swallow, and see with what avidity
+he will chew and suck it. The fat in combination with the salt will supply
+a want in the child's system, and patients will often be restored by this
+simple treatment after other measures have failed.
+
+Even if alcohol were a stimulant, as some claim, we can certainly see that
+to give it to a patient in a state of great exhaustion, either from lack of
+nourishment or from an inability to take nourishment owing to diseased
+action, is to most seriously endanger the life of the patient and often to
+destroy life; for alcohol gives no nourishment, and all unnatural
+excitement is necessarily followed by corresponding depression, which often
+carries patients in critical cases below the living point, and death
+follows.
+
+I will close with the following from the _Health Monthly_:--"The
+theory that whiskey is necessary in the treatment of pneumonia has received
+a blow from Dr. Bull, of New York, who discovers that in the New York
+hospitals sixty-five per cent. of the pneumonia patients die with alcoholic
+treatment, while in London, at the Object Lesson Temperance Hospital, only
+five per cent. die.--_Ex._"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+PERSONAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN; AND AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF A
+NEW DISPENSATION.
+
+
+We know that in various ages of the world the Lord has revealed a knowledge
+of Himself to man. In the Ten Commandments we have the laws of spiritual
+life, in accordance with which we must live if we would enjoy spiritual
+health, precisely as we must live in accordance with the laws of natural
+life and health, if we would enjoy natural health.
+
+We are dependent upon revelation for a knowledge of the laws of spiritual
+health, and of the causes and methods for the cure of spiritual diseases;
+but the Lord gives us, if we will keep His sayings, the ability, by careful
+scientific study and investigation, to obtain a knowledge of the physical
+laws of health, and the causes and methods of curing physical diseases. And
+it is wonderful how the natural in all respects symbolizes or corresponds
+to the spiritual.
+
+To the Jewish Church the Lord revealed so much knowledge of Himself, and
+how they should live if they would be prosperous and happy here and
+hereafter, as that Church was prepared to receive; and He also promised to
+manifest Himself in person. All Christians believe that He fulfilled His
+promise when Jesus Christ appeared on earth; but He did not come in the
+manner which the Jews at the time of His advent expected. He came, not as a
+temporal ruler or prince; consequently they took Him for an impostor and
+crucified Him. To His followers and disciples He promised to come again in
+the clouds of heaven; but the clouds of heaven may not be the clouds of the
+material earth, any more than the spiritual kingdom which He came to
+establish was a natural kingdom; and it is possible that His second coming
+may not be in the manner anticipated by the Christian Church at the time of
+His second coming. He intimated as much when He inquired if He should find
+faith on earth. Should Christians, then, not watch and pray, and heed the
+signs of the times, lest they follow the example of the Jews, and reject
+Him at His second coming? Should not clergymen, as well as physicians, be
+led in freedom according to reason, and not blindly by prominent religious
+professors, clergymen and writers, and creeds formulated in an age of
+comparative darkness? Should the traditions and creeds of men be allowed to
+make of none effect the Word of God? Do we not see all around us signs of a
+most wonderful change going on in the world? Are these changes which we
+behold from the Lord, or from man?
+
+I was reared in the Baptist Church. My father was a deacon, and labored
+faithfully to bring his children into the Church. I was taught that I must
+be converted, or get religion, before being baptized or joining the Church.
+What was meant by being converted I never fully comprehended, but I
+inferred from the instruction I received that it meant a radical change in
+one's feelings, the result of faith in the Lord's "atoning blood;" and that
+when this change was effected, I should be able to tell an experience
+similar to what I had heard others tell before joining the Church, which
+sometimes seemed quite marvelous. I attended "protracted meetings" and
+"revival meetings." And, one evening, I remember hoping and almost feeling
+that I felt a little change, and I even thought of announcing my feelings
+in the meeting; but caution prevailed, and I concluded to wait until the
+next day and see if there really was any change in my feelings. When the
+next day came, I could see no change, and consequently I made no
+announcement. Thus, I grew up and continued, until I was over thirty years
+of age, outside of the organized Church. I always respected religion, the
+Bible, and religious teachers, but I never got converted.
+
+I had many things during childhood and early youth to be thankful for. My
+father and grandfather before him were accustomed to gather the family,
+night and morning, and read, or have some member of the family read, a
+chapter in the Bible, and then prayer was offered. Now, when this is done
+regularly, and especially if the Bible is read, in course, with here and
+there a few kindly remarks by the father or mother, no one can tell the
+good impression which is made on the children; they learn to reverence the
+Bible, and, what is of exceeding great moment, they hear it read through
+and through several times before they reach manhood, and they become
+comparatively familiar with the good and living precepts therein contained.
+The Sabbath-school, once a week for an hour or two, is all very well; but,
+in my estimation, it is very little, compared with daily family worship and
+acknowledging the Lord, and asking a blessing. O, that all Christian men
+and women could be aroused to the importance of such religious observances?
+
+Some years ago, I went with my wife and a friend for a summer outing to the
+Catskill Mountains, and spent a few days at the Mountain House. There were
+a large number of guests there, of the various religious denominations.
+Those religiously inclined had established the custom of meeting every
+morning around a table, in a large room, when a chapter from the Bible was
+read, followed by singing and prayer. There have been few, if any,
+incidents of my whole life that I have more frequently thought of, or with
+greater pleasure and delight, than of those large, non-sectarian, and, as
+it were, family gatherings and simple services.
+
+My mother died, as stated in the first part of this work, when I was ten
+years old. After remaining a widower for three years, during which period
+my grandparents, who lived with us, died and my only sister was married, my
+father married a widow, the mother of several children, a good Christian
+woman and a member of the Baptist Church.
+
+I have always been thankful that I had a step-mother. No own mother could
+have been more kind, or have exercised a stronger influence for good over a
+son than she strove to exercise over me. She entered our home when I was
+thirteen years of age, when I needed a mother's influence and care perhaps
+as much as at any period of my life after I had ceased to draw my
+nourishment from my mother's breasts. Tears come into my eyes as I recall
+the pleasant, useful, and happy evenings and Sunday afternoons which I
+spent with her, when we happened to be alone in the house, reading and
+conversing about the interesting stories in the Bible and other religious
+books and papers that she thought would interest me. She may have had
+faults, yet I was about to say I do not remember one; but, unfortunately,
+she had one--she was a smoker of tobacco. Years before she had been
+troubled with "water brash," and a physician who, without much question,
+was himself a smoker, advised her to smoke; so she commenced smoking. He
+did not tell her to stop smoking as soon as she felt relief, as any
+intelligent physician should have done, if he was so unwise as to make such
+a prescription; but it is a question whether she ever experienced any
+permanent relief; for she was a bright, intelligent woman, and would have
+been likely to stop smoking of her own accord if she had been cured. In my
+estimation the physician who made the prescription was much more to be
+blamed than she was for the habit which followed. But seventy years ago
+very little was known as to the fearful slavery and diseases and mortality
+which result from the use of tobacco, compared with what is known to-day.
+The sin of ignorance cannot be pleaded in extenuation of such habits
+to-day, as it could then.
+
+As to intoxicating drinks, I remember hearing my grandfather, when he was
+over eighty years old, after taking a drink of cider-brandy, exclaim: "A
+good gift of God, if taken with faith and prayer."
+
+Fortunately, or providentially, I would say, the temperance reformation
+commenced soon after, and my father and other prominent members and the
+clergymen of the Baptist and Congregational churches in our town took an
+active part in the new movement. My father signed the pledge not to drink
+intoxicating drinks, and I followed his example; and I thank the Lord that
+I did so, for it gave me the strength and courage to say, "No, I thank you,
+I never drink," when invited and tempted to drink intoxicating drinks. No
+intoxicating drinks have been publicly sold in that town (Ashfield, Mass.)
+for many years. During a recent visit there I found that, within the past
+three years, there have been 61 deaths in the town, of whom 15 only were
+under 50 years of age, whereas 20 were over 80 years, of whom 4 were over
+90 years of age. What do you think of that, Christian brother?
+
+I remember very well the first ideas I had of God when a boy, which I
+derived from the preaching and praying of ministers. It was that God and
+our Lord Jesus Christ were two distinct Beings. We had for a time a
+venerable gray-headed old man who preached one Sabbath, and a young man who
+preached the next. I thought the old man represented God the Father and the
+young man represented Jesus Christ.
+
+When I arrived at manhood and came in contact with men of different
+religious views, and read some of their writings, the doctrine of the
+Trinity became more and more a mystery to me. At one time I was slightly
+inclined to Unitarianism, but I could not reconcile their doctrines with
+the Bible. Yet the Trinitarians seemed to teach distinctly that there are
+either two Gods, possessing different attributes, or that Jesus Christ was
+not God. It does not make any difference what we say with our lips; the
+question is, What do we "think in our hearts"? When I heard a bishop of one
+of the prevailing denominations stand up in his pulpit, as I have, and
+represent Jesus Christ as standing with one hand upon the throne of
+Jehovah, and the other hand resting upon the sinner's head, pleading with
+the Father to forgive him for his (Christ's) sake, was there not in the
+mind of that bishop a distinct idea of two Beings, possessing different
+feelings and passions? Now, were both of them Gods, or was one of them not
+God? And when I heard prayers so frequently terminated by the phrase,
+"Forgive us for Christ's sake," the question naturally arose, to whom were
+such prayers addressed? If there are any intelligent rational ideas
+connected with the phrase in the mind of the one using it, has not his
+prayer unquestionably been addressed to some God outside of the Lord Jesus
+Christ? Who is that God? Can Christian men safely reject the express
+teaching of our Lord Himself when on earth, when He declared: "I and my
+Father are One;" "Whose hath seen me, hath seen the Father"? and the
+apostle's teaching, that "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
+Himself"? Is there any other way to the Father at this day except through
+the person of the Lord Jesus Christ--God manifest in the flesh? Is He not
+the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last"?
+Why, then, pray to an unknown God? In the Old Testament, we are told that
+"I, Jehovah, am your Savior, and beside me there is no Savior," and in the
+New Testament we are told that in Jesus Christ dwelt all the fullness of
+the Godhead bodily. He is "Immanuel--God with us." Let us, then, worship
+Him--One God in One Divine Person.
+
+The doctrine of election and predestination early troubled me. I could not
+reconcile it with the loving kindness which the Sacred Scriptures proclaim
+as characteristic of our Heavenly Father.
+
+The doctrine of justification by faith alone, "without the deeds of the
+law," as the old hymn read, was not a doctrine which appealed to my reason,
+but it was a very consoling doctrine. Every young man who has been
+carefully reared by religious parents, and under the influences of a
+church, expects to be converted and get religion some time before he dies,
+and to join a church. But if he enjoys good health and the prospect of
+living for many years, especially if he is taught that, by merely believing
+or having faith at any time in the "atoning blood of Christ," he can escape
+the consequences of his evil deeds, there is great danger of
+procrastination.
+
+A clergyman once said to me: "If a man repents and gets converted one hour
+before his death, the worse he has been or lived, the happier he will be."
+It seems to me better to be guided by the Word of the Lord, and to believe
+that the evil doer shall not go unpunished. The Lord came into the world to
+save men from sin and from the penalty only so far as they co-operate with
+Him. Sin is the cause, the penalty is the effect; and effect follows cause
+as a normal and necessary consequence.
+
+The young, as well as the old, should be taught the great truth, that every
+thought we harbor, and every word we speak, and every act we do, aid in
+building up our spiritual organism, and will tell on our eternal destiny,
+just as the natural food and drink we use, and the exercise we take, will
+tell on the future health of our material bodies, for good or evil; and
+there is no avoiding it. If a man or woman, young or old, would be right in
+the future, he must do right in the present. No one should forget that,
+even if we reach heaven, the mansion which we will occupy there will depend
+on our lives here--every one will unite with those like Himself. No one can
+tell the immense harm which has been done to our race, by teaching that
+either by faith alone, or through the influence or efforts of the clergy,
+men can be saved from the penalties or consequences which are sure to
+follow an evil life. The "willing and obedient" shall eat the good of the
+land. Our blessed Lord tells us: "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall
+abide in my love" (John xv: 10). Thus beautiful, symmetrical, spiritual
+organisms are built up, not by "sowing wild oats" during youth, and
+disobeying the divine commandments during the subsequent period of life. It
+is well for all, young or old, to remember the Word: "Be not deceived; God
+is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Gal.
+vi: 7.) At this day we need practical doctrines, which shall unite religion
+and life, or faith and charity, and such alone will command the respect of
+non-churchgoers.
+
+While a young man my attention was early called to the doctrines of the
+Universalists, but their doctrines did not seem to me to accord with the
+Sacred Scriptures; nor did I think that all men could be equally happy
+hereafter, when there is such a vast difference in their conduct and lives
+here. Genuine happiness is the result of right willing and doing; in other
+words, of keeping the commandments. I have no doubt but the Lord desires
+that all men should thus live and be happy; but we know that all men are
+not willing. Having created them free agents, God does not compel them here
+to love the Lord and their neighbor, which loves manifestly constitute
+heaven; what reason, then, have we to think He will compel them to do it
+hereafter? If a man deliberately leads an evil life here, growing ever
+stronger and more confirmed in that life, until he has made evil his good
+and rejoices in it, what reason have we to suppose or assume that he will
+change when he enters the next life? I am willing to leave him in the hands
+of the Lord--he has passed from my sight. I well remember the remarks of my
+grandmother when she was eighty-six years of age, a few days after the
+death of her husband, my grandfather. She said: "I do not fear to die, for
+I feel that God will do me no injustice." Within a few days she departed in
+peace.
+
+The Millerite excitement commenced when I was a young man. When I was about
+twenty years old I was traveling in central Massachusetts. One night there
+was a meeting of Millerites in the neighborhood where I was stopping, and I
+attended the meeting. The speaker was very zealous and earnest in his
+remarks. There was a comet with quite a long tail then visible, and he
+seemed to think that that comet, with its tail, might sweep across the
+track of our earth and work its destruction, which he anticipated. I
+remember very well my reflections on leaving that meeting. A few days
+before I had stood upon the side of a hill near the track, and had seen for
+the first time a railroad train on its way from Boston to Worcester. I said
+to myself: "Now we have railroads, steamboats, friction matches, temperance
+societies, Sunday-schools, the Bible translated into various languages,
+which but a few years ago were unknown. This great continent, from being a
+wilderness, inhabited by a comparatively few wild Indians, has been
+discovered and is being developed and cultivated by civilized and Christian
+people, and gradually being made capable of containing and sustaining
+hundreds of millions of inhabitants." With all these facts before me, I
+said to myself, "It looks a great deal more as though the world is just
+beginning to live; in fact, that a new era is dawning, than it does that
+the world is going to be destroyed." From that night the Millerite doctrine
+never troubled me any more, for I felt that I beheld, in all the wonderful
+inventions being made and changes going on in the world, the dawning light
+of a better day for the inhabitants of our earth.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+THE DAWN OF A NEW DISPENSATION.
+
+
+We behold the dawn of a new day before we see the sun, from whence the
+light proceeds.
+
+The young in the Baptist Church, not having been baptized in infancy, are
+brought up to feel that they are out of the Church, and that they have to
+be converted, or "to get religion," before they join the Church, instead of
+being brought up to feel that, having been baptized, they belong to the
+Church and must believe its doctrines, and live the life which they teach.
+Thus I remained out of the Church until I was over thirty years of age.
+After I was twenty-three years old I attended different churches, as was
+most convenient. For a time I attended the Episcopal Church, while studying
+medicine; and after I graduated I attended the Congregational Church for
+several years more frequently than any other; but I had no thought of
+joining that Church, for during those days I always thought that immersion
+was the only true mode of baptism.
+
+While practicing medicine in Detroit, a gentleman whose family I was
+attending asked me if I would not like to read a work on "Heaven and Hell,"
+written by Emanuel Swedenborg, who claimed, he said, to have had open
+intercourse with the spiritual world, and to have written of what he had
+seen and heard in that world. He said that he had read it, and believed
+that the views therein contained were rational and true. If I had ever
+heard of them at all, at that time, I had never heard the writings of
+Swendenborg spoken of favorably before. Out of respect to the gentleman, I
+took the book home with me, but did not feel sufficient interest in it to
+attempt to read it through in course, but read here and there a few pages;
+and, after keeping it a few weeks, I returned it to the owner, feeling from
+what I had read no interest in its contents. Not long after this a lady
+whom I was attending asked me if I would not like to read Professor George
+Bush's reasons for accepting as true the revelations contained in the
+writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Well, I thought to myself, if the gentleman
+who lent me "Heaven and Hell," if my patient here, who is a very
+intelligent woman, and Professor Bush, whom I had understood was a very
+learned man, believe that Swedenborg's writings contain truths good and
+useful, it may be well for me to read the pamphlet then before me. So I
+took the book home with me and commenced reading it. About that time Rev.
+George Field commenced the delivery of a course of lectures on Creation and
+the first chapters of Genesis, treating the subject from the standpoint of
+Swedenborg's writings. I attended his lectures, which added very much to my
+interest, and I read Bush's reasons with care. Then I obtained "Heaven and
+Hell," and read it carefully through with the greatest interest. When a
+small boy I remember very well listening with fear and trembling to a
+discourse delivered by a clergyman, on "God is angry with the wicked every
+day," in which the speaker dwelt upon the fearful sufferings which the Lord
+had in reserve for the wicked in a hell of fire and brimstone, where they
+were to be tortured forever and ever.
+
+When I came to read Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell," I found a very
+different and more rational doctrine taught--that heaven consists in loving
+the Lord and the neighbor, or in religious obedience to the divine
+commandments; and that hell consists in loving one's self and the world
+supremely, or sensual and selfish gratification, without regard to use;
+that either heaven or hell is within us, according to the character of our
+ruling love; that the Lord casts no one into hell, but does all He can,
+without interfering with man's freedom, to prevent men from going to hell;
+if they go there, they go of their own free choice, among their like, where
+selfishness in some form rules the hearts of the inhabitants; they would
+not and could not be happy among those who are ruled by love to the Lord
+and the neighbor; or by obedience to the divine commandments. The spiritual
+world is a more real world than this; therefore, in that world the motives,
+thoughts, and intentions of men cannot be hidden as readily as in this
+world; consequently, there is a great gulf between heaven and hell. One is
+opposite to the other. When love to the Lord and to the neighbor rules in
+the hearts of all the inhabitants, there is no need of penal laws or
+punishments, for each one is a law unto himself, and all are striving to do
+good to each other and to all; consequently, unity, peace, and harmony
+prevail.
+
+How different from this is hell, where selfishness prevails; where the love
+of dominion over others, or the love of vain show, the love of acquiring
+unfairly that which belongs to others, the love of riches for the sake of
+being rich, and of selfish and sensual gratification without regard to use,
+rules in the hearts of all the inhabitants. We know that such perverted
+passions make a hell hot enough here; and, as death does not change the
+character of a man's ruling love, they will make a hell hot enough
+hereafter. But the Lord, in His mercy which endureth forever, by His angels
+governs the hells as well as the heavens, and does not permit vindictive
+punishments. All punishments are for the benefit of evil doers, to restrain
+and prevent them from doing evil to others and themselves, and from sinking
+to greater depths of wickedness; we may, therefore, safely leave the
+inhabitants of that world in His care.
+
+No man or woman can read "Heaven and Hell" attentively, carefully, and
+prayerfully without great benefit. It is clearly shown that, to escape
+hell, an evil man has but to repent, to look to the Lord and shun evils as
+sins against Him, and that the Lord is no respecter of persons, but that He
+gives to every man the ability to do this, if he is willing. When we
+examine ourselves carefully in the light of the Sacred Scriptures, and
+discover an evil, if we shun that evil as a sin against the Lord, He keeps
+us in the effort to shun all evils, and enables us more clearly to see
+other evils to which we are inclined. Here is an open door for approaching
+the Lord, free to all; there is no mystery about it. If an evil man is to
+be reformed, he must repent or face about and commence a life of shunning
+evils as sins against God; otherwise, there will be no radical change, but
+a miserable shuffling from one evil habit to another. Even if a man shuns
+one evil habit, like the smoking or chewing of tobacco, because it injures
+his health and is likely to destroy his life, and not because it is a sin,
+and without the acknowledgment that it is a sin, he is almost sure to seek
+as a substitute some form of intoxicating drinks--opium, strong coffee, or
+tea. We make a great mistake, as Christians, if we try to substitute
+coffee- or tea-houses for saloons; not that the effects of coffee and tea
+are as pernicious as intoxicants, but they are unnecessary, and often
+diseases and great suffering result from their use. We should strive to
+show men and women, in the light of this day, what substances are
+unmistakably injurious to health and endanger life, and strive to lead
+them, by precept and example, to shun their use as sins against God.
+
+After reading "Heaven and Hell" I read the "True Christian Religion," which
+is the last work that Swedenborg published, containing the essential
+doctrines of the New Christian Church, or the New Jerusalem now descending
+from God out of Heaven, "making all things new." In this work it is clearly
+shown that God is one in essence and in person, and that in the Lord Jesus
+Christ that one God is manifested to men. God is love. "In the beginning
+was the Word and the Word was, with God and the Word was God." Here we have
+the Father or Divine Love, the Son or Divine Wisdom, and the Holy Spirit or
+Divine Proceeding, flowing from the Father because He is a being of
+infinite love, wisdom, and power, through the Son, a trinity in unity. The
+Divine Being is no more three persons than a man is three persons, because
+he is created in the image of God and has affection or love, an
+understanding, or thoughts, words, and acts that flow from his love through
+his understanding out toward his fellow men. All the doctrines of the New
+Christianity are based upon the Sacred Scriptures and appeal to our highest
+reason; and we are to receive them because we see them to be true and in
+strict harmony with the Word when the latter is correctly understood.
+
+But I have neither time nor space to discuss these doctrines here. I will
+simply say, that when we come to see clearly that there is but one God
+whose name is one, who was manifested in the person of the Lord Jesus
+Christ, and that whoso seeth Him seeth the Father, then a number of false
+doctrines which proceed from and cohere with the doctrine of a tri-personal
+Deity will disappear like mists before the rising sun; and we shall be
+prepared to see and understand the rest of the beautiful and rational
+doctrines taught in "The True Christian Religion," and the mystery of
+Babylon and all man-made creeds will disappear before this new revelation
+from our Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+After reading the "True Christian Religion" I read the work on Divine
+Providence, which gives such a clear view of the Lord's providential care
+over men that it strengthens and encourages the earnest seeker after truth
+wonderfully. It is a book which should be read by every Christian man and
+woman.
+
+Next, "The Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom" throws a
+flood of light on the origin of the material universe and all created
+things. In this work we are clearly shown that the Lord is Love itself,
+because He is Life itself: and "that angels and men are recipients of
+life;" and "that all created things in a certain image represent man," and
+"that Love is the life of man."
+
+But Swedenborg's "Apocalypse Revealed" was one of the most satisfactory
+works I ever read. It opened up to me a new world of thought, of
+expectation, hope and joy. The reading of this work and the first volume of
+his "Arcana Celestia" satisfied me that the Sacred Scriptures are divine or
+a special revelation from God to man, and differ from all merely human
+writings as much as a living man differs from a statue; for they are filled
+with a Divine spirit. The Lord says: "My words are spirit and life."
+
+The Sacred Scriptures are written in accordance with the law of
+correspondence between spiritual and natural things. The spiritual is the
+cause, the natural is the effect; and effects must correspond to their
+causes in every particular. The Lord is the sun of the spiritual world and
+the creator of all things: consequently our natural sun corresponds to the
+spiritual sun, or the Lord. From the Lord, or the spiritual sun, love and
+wisdom proceed, and give life to man's spiritual body; from the natural sun
+flow natural heat and light which enable the natural body to live; natural
+heat and light therefore correspond to spiritual heat and light, or to love
+and truth, which are heat and light to the spirit of man. Through the
+natural clouds and atmosphere which surround the earth we receive natural
+heat and light from the natural sun, as we receive spiritual heat and light
+or love and truth from the Lord through the literal sense of the Sacred
+Scriptures; Consequently the clouds of heaven in which the Lord was to come
+are the literal sense of his holy Word, unfolding its spirit and life and
+manifesting the Father clearly to His children. The sun which was to be
+darkened was not the natural but the spiritual sun, or the Lord obscured to
+man's spiritual perception. When men in their creeds separated the Lord
+into three persons, and framed doctrines in accordance therewith, which, in
+their estimation, would enable them to reach heaven by believing certain
+dogmas, instead of by a life according to the Divine Commandments, then was
+the sun indeed darkened in the minds of men. Then a true faith or knowledge
+of the Lord was destroyed and the moon became as blood. A true faith
+reflects the light or wisdom of the Lord upon man, as the natural moon
+reflects the light of the natural sun. Water corresponds to truth upon the
+natural plane of the mind, for it cleanses the natural body as truth
+cleanses his spirit; it also circulates throughout the natural body,
+conveying nourishment to all the structures of the body as truth circulates
+through the spiritual body, conveying that which is good and true to
+strengthen and develop the spiritual body. It is owing to this
+correspondence that water is used in the ordinance of baptism, for it
+performs the same office for the natural body that truth does for the
+spiritual body; it cleanses and conveys nourishment; and therefore baptism
+by water signifies that man is to be regenerated by receiving and living
+according to the truth. It is also the Christian sign--a sign that one
+baptized is of the Christian Church, or professes the Christian religion.
+
+The "Fruit of the Vine," or pure unfermented or unleavened wine, has been
+organized by the Lord in the vegetable kingdom; it therefore not only
+contains water, but also organized nourishment for the structures of the
+body, which supply in a most remarkable degree the wants of the body, like
+a mother's milk to her infant child; it therefore most beautifully
+symbolizes blood, and corresponds to spiritual truth, united with good from
+the Lord, which nourishes and builds up the spirit of man, when he drinks
+or appropriates it, or when he lives as divine truth teaches, shunning
+evils as sins against God. It is consequently used appropriately in the
+Most Holy Supper.
+
+It has been my aim above to simply give the reader a glimpse of this most
+wonderful and beautiful of all sciences, and really the foundation of all
+sciences-the science of correspondence between natural and spiritual
+things. He who reads carefully and without prejudice the "Apocalypse
+Revealed" and the "Arcana Celestia," with a desire to know and live
+according to the truth, cannot fail to see that the Sacred Scriptures are
+plenarily inspired, and are a special revelation from God to man; and that,
+different from all merely human writings, they contain within the letter a
+connected spiritual sense. That the science of correspondences was once
+understood by the inhabitants of our earth, is to be seen in the relics
+which remain in a more or less perverted form in the hieroglyphics of
+Egypt, the idolatry among many nations, and sun-worship, where the
+spiritual signification has often been lost and men have come to worship
+the natural objects instead of the spiritual, which they represent. The
+mythological writings of many nations, and even Masonry, contain remains of
+this once well known science. The first chapters of Genesis and the entire
+Word are written in strict accordance with this science. The first chapters
+of Genesis, like the Parables of our Lord, were not intended to be
+understood literally; the very names therein show this clearly. A tree of
+life, a tree of knowledge of good and evil, a talking serpent, how can any
+man for a moment suppose these to be natural trees and a natural snake? Do
+serpents ever talk? the garden eastward in Eden, and an Ark which would not
+hold the hides and teeth of all the animals on earth--were these to be
+understood literally?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+A NEW DAY TO OUR EARTH.
+
+
+"'Behold He cometh with clouds,' signifies that the Lord will reveal
+Himself in the literal sense of the Word, and will open its spiritual sense
+at the end of the church."--_A. R. 23._
+
+A church, we are taught, comes to its end when the true doctrines of the
+Word are falsified by its members, to justify evils of life; or when the
+members of a church who are in the love of ruling over others in civil and
+ecclesiastical affairs, for their own aggrandizement, or for vain show, or
+who love money or sensual gratification without regard to use, strive to
+justify the gratification of their perverted loves and appetites by an
+appeal to the Sacred Scriptures, and thus frame creeds and doctrines which
+exalt faith and ceremonials above a life of charity, and when men come to
+live in accordance with such false doctrines the church comes to its end.
+At the same time, there remain some who are still in the good of life, or
+striving to live good lives in obedience to the Divine commandments. Such
+comprise the common people who receive the Lord with joy at His coming, and
+follow Him, among whom a New Dispensation of Divine Truth commences. Such
+may be found both among the clergy and laity. The end of the world is the
+end of the Dispensation or Age, and not of the material earth--"The earth
+endureth forever."
+
+We are told by Swedenborg that the angels rejoiced greatly that it had
+pleased the Lord to reveal a knowledge of correspondences so deeply
+concealed during some thousands of years; "and they said it was done in
+order that the Christian Church which is founded on the Word, and is now at
+its end, may again revive and draw breath through heaven from the
+Lord."--_Conjugial Love_, 532.
+
+So we are not to look for the destruction of the prevailing religious
+organizations, but for the rejection of their false and irrational
+doctrines, and the receiving of new light and life from the Lord. And how
+is such a result to be brought about?
+
+It was apparently the opinion of Swedenborg that his writings would be read
+by the clergy, who would teach the doctrines therein contained to their
+congregations; and thus the glorious truths for this new Era or crowning
+Church would be spread among the people; for, in speaking of the descent of
+the New Church, or New Jerusalem, from God out of Heaven, he says it can
+only take place "in proportion as the falses of the former Church are
+removed; for what is new cannot gain admission where falses have before
+been implanted, unless those falses are first rooted out; and this must
+first take place among the clergy, and by their means among the laity."
+
+That Swedenborg's anticipations are surely and somewhat rapidly being
+realized at this time seems beyond question; for over 30,000 clergymen of
+the various religious denominations of our country have already sent for
+and obtained Swedenborg's "True Christian Religion" and "Heaven and Hell,"
+and over 25,000 have received his "Apocalypse Revealed." It is known that
+large numbers are reading the above works with great interest, and that
+hundreds if not thousands are full receivers of the doctrines therein
+contained, and that they are teaching them to their people as fast as they
+find they can receive them. In fact, many of Swedenborg's writings were
+translated into English by the late Rev. John Clowes, Rector of St. John's
+Church, Manchester, England, who, for many years, without ever being
+required to sever his connection with the Church of England, openly and
+boldly taught the doctrines revealed through Swedenborg. Mr. Clowes says:--
+
+"Nothing, therefore, can be plainer than that the New Jerusalem
+Dispensation is to be universal, and to extend unto all people, nations,
+and languages on the face of the earth, to be a blessing unto such as are
+meet to receive a blessing. Sects and sectarians, as such, can find no
+place in this General Assembly of the ransomed of the Lord. All the little
+distinctions of modes, forms, and particular expressions of devotion and
+worship will be swallowed up and lost in the unlimited effusions of
+heavenly love, charity, and benevolence with which the hearts of every
+member of this glorious New Church and Body of Jesus Christ will overflow
+one toward another. Men will no longer judge one another as to the mere
+externals of church communion, be they perfect or imperfect; for they will
+be taught that whosoever acknowledges the incarnate Jehovah in heart and
+life, departing from evil, and doing what is right and good according to
+the commandments, he is a member of the New Jerusalem, a living stone in
+the Lord's new Temple, and a part of that great family in heaven and earth
+whose common Father and Head is Jesus Christ. Every one, therefore, will
+call his neighbor _Brother_, in whom he observes this spirit of pure
+charity; and he will ask no questions concerning the form of words which
+compose his creed, but will be satisfied with observing in him the purity
+and power of a heavenly life."
+
+"The Gentiles," says Swedenborg, "cannot profane the holy things of the
+Church like Christians, because they are not acquainted with them." "They
+are afraid of Christians on account of their lives." "Those who have lived
+well, according to their religious principles, are instructed by the
+angels, and easily receive the truths of faith, and acknowledge the Lord,"
+"for they have not formed for themselves any principles of falsity opposed
+to the truths of faith, which would need to be first removed."
+
+"Although Gentiles are not in genuine truths during their life in the
+world, they receive them in the other life from a principle of love."
+
+"The Church of the Lord exists with all in the universe who live in good
+according to their religious principles, and acknowledge the Divine Being;
+and they are accepted of the Lord and go to heaven."
+
+The above is in strict accordance with all that Swedenborg has written; for
+he says:--
+
+"In the spiritual world to which every man goes after death, it is not the
+character of your faith into which inquiry is made, nor of your
+_doctrine_, but of your _life_, whether it has been of this
+character or that; for it is known that such as a man's _life_ is,
+such is his faith--nay, more, such is his doctrine; for life forms its
+doctrine and faith for itself." (_D. P._ 101.) "For the good of life
+according to one's religion contains within it the affection of knowing
+truths, which such persons also learn and receive when they come into the
+other life." (_A. C._ 455.)
+
+"Evils which belong to the will, are what condemn a man and sink him down
+to hell; and falsities only so far as they become conjoined with evils;
+then one follows the other. This is proved by numerous instances of persons
+who are in falsities, and yet are saved." (_Ibid._ 845.)
+
+"It has been provided that every one, in whatever heresy he may be as to
+the understanding, can still be reformed and saved, provided he shuns evils
+as sins, and does not confirm heretical falsities in himself; for by
+shunning evils as sins the will is reformed, and through the will the
+understanding, which then first comes out of darkness into light. There are
+three essentials of the Church: the acknowledgment of the Divine of the
+Lord, the acknowledgment of the holiness of the Word, and the life which is
+called charity. According to the life, which is charity, every one has
+faith; from the Word is the knowledge of what the life must be; and from
+the Lord are reformation and salvation. If the Church had held these three
+as essentials, intellectual dissensions would not have divided but only
+varied it, as light varies its colors in beautiful objects, and as various
+diadems give beauty in the crown of a king." (_D. P._ 259.)
+
+Here, then, we have a broad spirit of charity which acknowledges every man
+as a brother who believes in a Supreme Being, shuns evils as sins, and
+strives to live conscientiously and honestly according to the light he
+possesses.
+
+As many who will be likely to receive this pamphlet may know little, if
+anything, in regard to the claims which Swedenborg makes, that he was the
+human instrument chosen by The Lord through whom to reveal to the world the
+truths of a New Dispensation, even of the Second Coming of the Son of Man,
+it may be well to allow this chosen servant to speak for himself as to his
+mission. He says:--
+
+"I have been called to a holy office by the Lord Himself. I can sacredly
+and solemnly declare that the Lord Himself has been seen of me, and that He
+has sent me to do what I do, and for such purpose has opened and
+enlightened the interior part of my soul, which is my spirit, so that I can
+see what is in the spiritual world and those that are therein; and this
+privilege has now been continued to me for twenty-two years. But in the
+present state of infidelity, can the most solemn oath make such a thing
+credible or to be believed? Yet such as have received true Christian light
+and understanding will be convinced of the truths contained in my writings,
+which are particularly evident in the book of 'Revelations Revealed.' Who,
+indeed, has hitherto known anything of importance of the spiritual sense of
+the Word of God, of the spiritual world, or of heaven and hell; the nature
+of the life of man, and the state of souls after the decease of the body?
+Is it to be supposed that these, and other things of like consequence, are
+to be eternally hidden from Christians?"
+
+Again, in the "True Christian Religion," at a later date, toward the close
+of his life in this world, he says:--
+
+"I foresee that many who read the relations after the chapters, will
+believe that they are inventions of the imagination; but I assert in truth
+that they are not inventions, but were truly seen and heard; not seen and
+heard in any state of mind buried in sleep, but in a state of full
+wakefulness. For it has pleased the Lord to manifest Himself to me, and to
+send me to teach those things which will be of His New Church, which is
+meant by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation; for which end He has opened
+the interiors of my mind or spirit, by which it has been given me to be in
+the spiritual world with angels, and at the same time in the natural world
+with men, and this now for twenty-seven years."
+
+In a letter to the King of Sweden, with characteristic simplicity and
+boldness, he says:--
+
+"When my writings are read with attention and cool reflection (in which
+many things are to be met with hitherto unknown) it is easy enough to
+conclude that I could not come to such knowledge but by a real vision and
+converse with those who are in the spiritual world. I am ready to testify
+with the most solemn oath that can be offered in this matter, that I have
+said nothing but essential and real truth, without any admixture of
+deception. This knowledge is given to me by our Saviour, not for any
+particular merit of mine, but for the great concern of all Christians'
+salvation."
+
+When asked why a philosopher was chosen to this office he replied:--
+
+"To the end that the spiritual knowledge which is revealed at this day
+might be reasonably learned and naturally understood; because spiritual
+truths answer unto natural ones, inasmuch as these originate and flow from
+them, and serve as a foundation for the former."
+
+To the Swedish clergymen who visited him a short time before his death, and
+who urged him to recant what he had written if it was not true, he replied,
+with great zeal and emphasis:--
+
+"As true as you see me before you, so true is everything that I have
+written, and I could have said more had I been permitted. When you come
+into eternity you will see all things as I have stated and described them,
+and we shall have much to discourse about with each other."
+
+Here, then, we have in this illustrious seer the unparalleled instance of a
+man, not in the enthusiasm of youth, but at the mature age of fifty-six
+years, standing among the first in the philosophical world, with reputation
+unsullied, high in office in his native country, with proffered promotion,
+giving up all, and proclaiming to the world that he was called by the Lord
+to the important office of revealing new truths of vast moment to his
+fellow-men--even the truths of a new dispensation, or of the second coming
+of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
+
+Now, I appeal to you, one and all, Clergymen of the Christian Church, of
+every name, to obtain and read his writings. In the good Providence of the
+Lord, three among his most important works can be obtained without money
+and without price by the clergy and theological students of our country, by
+simply ordering them and sending the postage--as will be seen on the second
+page of the cover of this pamphlet.
+
+Swedenborg does not require or desire you to believe anything contained in
+his writings on his simple declaration, but you are to believe the
+statements made, and doctrines proclaimed, in his writings, only as you
+perceive them to be true, and in strict accordance with the Sacred
+Scriptures. What have you to lose by reading his writings? Thousands of
+laymen and clergyman testify to you that they have found the greatest help
+and strength from reading them, even where they may not have read enough to
+fully recognize his claims.
+
+Canon Wilberforce, of Southampton, England, one of the most distinguished
+clergymen of the English Church, visited this country a few years ago; and
+while he was here, being a prominent temperance man, the National
+Temperance Society gave him a reception, during which some one introduced
+me to him as a believer in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Stopping a
+moment, and looking steadily at me and those in the immediate vicinity, he
+exclaimed, most emphatically: "Emanuel Swedenborg has done the Christian
+Church an immense service! an immense service!! especially in his
+explanation and illustration of the doctrine of the Lord." These words were
+spoken manfully and boldly in the presence of members and clergymen of his
+own and other Churches. The doctrine of the Lord is the chief corner-stone
+of the New Jerusalem now descending from God out of Heaven. Let that
+doctrine be accepted by our Churches, and their creeds, so far as they are
+based on a tri-personal God, will need no revision; they will disappear.
+
+"All things," says a great authority, "are of God, who hath reconciled us
+to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath committed unto us the ministry of
+reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto
+Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." (2 Cor. v: 18, 19)
+
+The late Professor George Bush and a large number of distinguished scholars
+and clergymen, after a most thorough and careful examination of
+Swedenborg's writings, assure us that in them they find the truths of a New
+Dispensation, even of the Second Coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of
+heaven. The light of a New Day is shining. Christian brethren, will you
+close your eyes against it?
+
+Was there ever any greater need of a new revelation from God to teach men
+anew that, if they would reach heaven and happiness, they must repent and
+shun evils as sins against God, and strive to live a life according to the
+commandments? Look at the fearful evils which prevail in our beloved
+country; the love of rule, civil and ecclesiastical; the miserly love of
+money, selfishness, vanity and sensualism, in their worst and most
+degrading forms! Customs and habits prevail which threaten the extinction
+of at least the Protestant portion of the community in large sections of
+our country. A Catholic bishop stated, a few years ago, that one quarter of
+the inhabitants of New England are Catholics, and that one-fourth of the
+population give birth to 70 per cent. of the children born in New England.
+More recent inquiries, it is stated, show that the average number of
+children in a family among the Canadian French settled in New England,
+averages 5; whereas among the native New Englanders the average number of
+children in a family is 1-1/2. It is not difficult to see by whom the land
+of the Puritans will be ruled within the next quarter of a century. Seventy
+years ago, the average number of children to a family among New Englanders
+was fully equal to the number among the French to-day. Why this change?
+Fashionable habits of dress--tight lacing, which is worse to-day than ever
+before--has, to a large extent, destroyed the ability of the New England
+and other native American women to bear healthy and well-developed
+children, and to properly nurse them after they are born. Among our present
+deformed women, child-bearing is attended with much more danger and
+suffering than among well-developed, symmetrical, and beautifully formed
+women. No man who desires peace, health, and happiness in his home, and
+desires to leave children behind him, and to thus perform the most
+important use which can be performed in this life, should ever think of
+marrying a small-waisted woman.
+
+Then again, to have a good family of children is thought not to be
+fashionable, among those who are led by fashion, as it interferes too much
+with one's selfish pleasures, they think; most dearly do they pay in after
+life, if they live many years, for their folly. Children are a blessing;
+and yet the most unnatural and injurious measures are adopted to prevent
+bearing children, even to the destroying of the unborn. The Catholic
+Church, through the confessional, holds some restraint over Catholics; but
+what restraint do our Protestant Churches hold over their members in regard
+to such evils? Look at the miserable caricatures of the female form printed
+in our fashionable magazines, and even in our daily papers, and sent forth
+and freely spread before our young girls, for them to pattern after, and
+thus deform themselves.
+
+Look at the drunkenness, the leaden and congested faces of our steady
+drinkers of intoxicating drinks, and the innumerable deaths and the
+wretchedness and sorrow which follow such drinking; and remember that the
+chief support of such drinking at this day is the use of the drunkard's cup
+instead of "the fruit of the vine" as a communion wine in so many of our
+churches, and the example of so many of our clergy, backed up by the
+prescribing of such drinks by so many of our doctors. Do away with these
+two chief supports, and prohibition would be enacted and enforced
+throughout our land within five years.
+
+Look at the use of tobacco, which is to-day recognized as one of the most
+deadly poisons, which when used by the young prevents the development of
+the human body, and at all ages causes innumerable diseases and deaths and
+an inability to withstand the encroachment of other causes of disease; and
+the smoke and saliva from the nostrils and mouths of those who use it,
+which are so unpleasant and disagreeable to those who are not accustomed to
+them, but who yet are so frequently compelled to breathe a polluted
+atmosphere. Please read the following and tell us whether to thus prevent
+the development of the body and lessen one's ability to withstand the
+causes of diseases should be shunned as a sin against God or not:--
+
+
+SMOKING AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
+
+From the records of the senior class of Yale College during the Past eight
+years, the non-smokers have proved to have decidedly gained over the
+smokers in height, weight, and lung capacity. All candidates for the crews
+and other athletic sports were non-smokers. The non-smokers were 20 per
+cent. taller than the smokers, 25 per cent. heavier, and had 62 per cent.
+more lung capacity. In the graduating class of Amherst College of the
+present year, those not using tobacco have in weight gained 24 per cent.
+over those using tobacco, in height 37 per cent., in chest girth 42 per
+cent., while they have a greater average lung capacity by 8.36 cubic
+inches.--_Medical News._
+
+Just see the countenance which is given to this habit by too many of our
+clergymen--the example which they set! Yes, in many of our denominations,
+young men who are known to be smokers, or chewers of tobacco, with their
+breaths smelling of this filthy, poisonous weed, are deliberately licensed
+and ordained by Clergymen, when it is known that they will go in and out
+before young and old, setting them an example which will unquestionably do
+untold injury to the rising generation, and confirm old smokers and chewers
+in their injurious and destructive habits, and thus be instrumental in
+destroying many lives. What are the fathers and mothers in our churches
+thinking about when they consent to such an example being set before their
+children? Is it not time that they awake to the importance of choosing and
+introducing into office their own ministers, instead of entrusting this
+duty to the clergy? Swedenborg has given us the true signification of
+ordination by the laity. In speaking of the ordination of the Levites by
+the laity he says: "By the sons of Israel laying their hands upon the
+Levites was signified the transference of the power of ministering for
+them, and the reception of it by the Levites, thus separation."--A. C.
+10,023. It will be seen that it was not Aaron the priest who laid his hands
+upon the Levites when they were introduced into the office of the
+priesthood, but the laity, or the children of Israel; and we can all see
+how appropriate and significative the ceremony was; and it was strictly in
+accordance with republican usages of this day. It does not exalt the
+officer above the office which he fills.
+
+Is there a race of men on earth to-day who stand in greater need of light
+on spiritual subjects, and of the services of good, earnest, clean,
+pure-minded Christian Missionaries, who shall call men and women to
+repentance, and by precept and example lead them to shun the fearful evils
+named above, and many others, as sins against God, more than the people of
+the United States? Look at our children, many of whom, if they live at all,
+grow up with crooked legs and spines, delicate muscles and irritable
+brains, imperfectly developed jaws and consequently crowded teeth, which
+commence decaying and torturing the young before they are twenty years old,
+instead of lasting during life as they should; all of which results
+principally from feeding children with starvation bread, or superfine flour
+bread, cakes, and puddings, instead of the "full corn in the ear," or
+unbolted flour or meal, as the Lord has organized it in the kernel of
+grain. Many years ago scientific investigation demonstrated the fact that
+the portions of the grain which nourish the brain, muscles, and bones is
+principally confined to the dark, hard portion of the kernel immediately
+beneath the hull; this is not easily pulverized or rolled into superfine
+flour, and if it were the flour would not be white; but it goes principally
+into, the second and third runnings or as canal, shorts, and bran, and is
+fed to the horses, cattle, and hogs, causing them to be well developed,
+strong, and healthy, while our children, for the want of it, are half
+starved. Even a dog, it has been found by experiment, will starve to death
+on superfine flour bread, but will live well enough on Graham or unbolted
+flour bread. I have seen a child come near starving to death on such bread,
+and only rescued her from impending death by mixing mashed potatoes with
+the flour from which the bread was made. The little girl thought she could
+eat no other food but such bread, and if she ate anything else she threw it
+up. And yet, strange to say, I have known in one or more institutions under
+the care of physicians, which were devoted to the treatment of deformed and
+crippled children, superfine flour bread to be given them to eat.
+
+It is fashionable and customary to use superfine flour bread; and as a
+physician, and an employer of men, I know how difficult it is to induce or
+persuade fathers and mothers, even for the sake of their children, to use
+Graham or unbolted flour bread, cakes, and puddings, which will give
+nourishment to the brain, muscles, teeth and bones, and all the fat and
+heat-producing material they need, instead of superfine white flour bread,
+cakes, and puddings, which give comparatively little more than fat and
+heat-producing material.
+
+I remember very well when my wife and myself were traveling in Egypt up the
+Nile, and were at ancient Thebes, mounted on donkeys, going to the tombs of
+the kings, the young Arab girl, with a vessel of water upon her head,
+balanced by the ends of the fingers of one hand, who ran beside us over the
+sand, stones, and hills; for she was one of the most beautiful and
+symmetrical female forms I have ever seen. There was no contracted waist or
+humped shoulders, but a beautiful female figure, full of life, with
+splendid teeth and sparkling eyes. And on a visit to the house of our Arab
+dragoman, or guide, we saw how the flour or meal was made upon which that
+young girl was fed. In the court-yard two women were grinding at a mill as
+they ground thousands of years ago. There were two circular mill stones,
+perhaps 20 inches in diameter, standing in a basin; through the centre of
+the upper stone there was an opening through which the wheat was poured,
+and upon two sides were erect wooden handles, by which the women turned the
+stone round and round, and back and forth, and the meal escaped into the
+pan at the circumference. I said to our dragoman: "We have not had a bit of
+good bread in Egypt. We have been stopping at hotels where they think they
+must give the Americans and Englishmen white bread. Now, I wish you would
+bring me some bread made from that flour to-morrow morning;" and he brought
+us some bread, and it was by far the best bread that we had in Egypt.
+
+The fearful evils which I have hastily named in the preceding pages, and
+many others which cause the prevailing deformities, diseases, insanity, and
+premature deaths, are not to be dragged along into the Church of the New
+Jerusalem now descending from God out of heaven; but our race is to be
+purified, renovated, and developed into a healthy, noble, symmetrical,
+graceful manhood by the new inflowing of truths from the Lord, pointing out
+the evils and falses which are causing the present suffering and
+wretchedness, and calling on men and women to shun such evils and falses as
+sins against God. A reformation from worldly motives is but "skin deep,"
+and generally only results in the changing of one bad habit for another.
+Men and women must be earnestly called to repentance, and to the absolute
+necessity of shunning the evils which prevent the development of the body,
+impair health and reason, and so fearfully shorten the average duration of
+human life, as sins against God, which will tell on their eternal destiny.
+The fact that individuals who drink intoxicating drinks, smoke or chew
+tobacco, or deform their bodies by tight dressing, sometimes live to old
+age under otherwise favorable circumstances, amounts to nothing. The simple
+question is, do such habits shorten the average duration of human life? If
+they do, they are a violation of the laws of God as manifested in the
+organization of the human body and in His Word.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE WANTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
+
+
+The Christian Church at this day, first of all, needs true doctrines which
+are in harmony with the Sacred Scriptures, and which all men who are
+willing to see and obey, using the reason with which God has endowed them,
+can accept and see to be true.
+
+Second, such a law or principle of interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures,
+that when they are interpreted in accordance with it, every man and woman
+who is willing to see and obey the truth will find there is actually no
+conflict between the Word of the Lord and His works, and no real
+contradictions to be found in the Sacred Scriptures.
+
+In the writings of Swedenborg the Lord has shown us that "all religion has
+relation to life, and that the life of religion is to do good;" and that,
+if we would enter into the heavenly life, or have heaven within us, we must
+strive faithfully and honestly to keep the commandments, not simply in
+external acts, but also in our motives, thoughts, and words, as well as in
+act. In the writings of Swedenborg the Lord has clearly revealed Himself
+and has come down to the comprehension of man--God in Christ and in His
+Word.
+
+The Science of Correspondences enables us to see that the first eleven
+chapters of Genesis are purely allegorical, and in their spiritual and true
+sense treat of the regeneration of man, and his fall through the seduction
+of his lowest or sensual nature and appetites, as men are seduced to-day;
+and of a flood of evils and falses, similar to the flood which threatens to
+overwhelm the Christian world, at least in our land, at this day; and a New
+Church as an ark of safety. While the Science of Correspondences shows that
+there are no more contradictions in the Word of the Lord than in His works,
+there are apparent truths and real truths in both. It is an apparent truth
+that God is angry with the wicked every day; but the real truth is that God
+is never angry, but when man disobeys His laws and brings upon himself
+consequent suffering, it appears to him that God is angry. So it appears to
+us that night and darkness are caused by the going down of the sun, but the
+real truth is that the sun always shines and that night and darkness are
+caused by the earth's diurnal revolution on its axis. It will therefore be
+seen that if the Sacred Scriptures are the Word of God and in accordance
+with His works, they must contain both apparent and real truths.
+
+No man who has ever diligently and faithfully, without prejudice, read the
+Sacred Scriptures in the light of the Science of Correspondences, as
+revealed by the Lord through Emanuel Swedenborg, has ever failed to be
+satisfied that the Sacred Scriptures are Divine and plenarily inspired, and
+that they differ as much from the writings of men as do the works of God
+from the works of men. At this day, when so many of our clergy and
+intelligent laymen are beginning to doubt the special inspiration of the
+Sacred Scriptures, a knowledge of the Science of Correspondences, in
+accordance with which they were written, is wanted above every thing else,
+that the Christian Church "may revive again and draw breath through heaven
+from the Lord."
+
+The Lord speaks to man in parables, and "without a parable," we read,
+"spake He not unto them." The Lord intimates in many passages that the
+Sacred Scriptures, or His words, contain a spiritual sense, as in the
+following: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing;
+the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." "The
+letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
+
+"The early Christian Fathers, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, understood
+that the Sacred Scriptures have a spiritual sense; and Origen--when that
+shrewd enemy of Christianity, Celsus, ridiculed the stories of the rib, the
+serpent, etc., as childish fables--reproaches him for want of candor in
+purposely keeping out of sight, what was so evident upon the face of the
+narrative, that the whole is a _pure allegory_."--_Noble's Plenary
+Inspiration._
+
+"The idea of a spiritual sense in every part of the Scripture was the
+generally received doctrine of the Primitive Church--believed and taught
+by Origen, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Jerome, Augustine, Pantaenus, Tatian,
+Theophilus, Pamphilius, Clement and Cyril of Alexandria, and nearly all the
+early Christian Fathers. And the same belief has been held by many eminent
+theologians ever since. Dr. Mosheim, speaking of the illustrious writers of
+the second century, says: 'They _all_ attributed a double sense to the
+words of Scripture; the one _obvious_ and _literal_, the other
+_hidden_ and _mysterious_, which lay concealed, as it were, under
+the veil of the outward letter.' But the Fathers had no recognized rule for
+eliciting the spiritual sense. Each one's own spiritual perception was his
+only guide. A hundred different expositors, therefore, might give as many
+different expositions of the same text."--_Rev. B. F. Barrett_.
+
+Every natural object is the form and embodiment of some spiritual idea or
+principle; and therefore it is the most perfect expression or type or
+picture of that idea.
+
+"Inasmuch as the end of the creation is an angelic heaven out of the human
+race, and thus the human race itself, therefore all other things that are
+created are mediate ends, which being referable to man, look to these three
+things of man, his body, his rational part, and his spiritual part, for
+sake of conjunction with the Lord. For a man cannot be conjoined to the
+Lord unless he be spiritual; nor can he be spiritual unless he be rational;
+nor can he be rational unless his body is in a sound state. These things
+are like a house, of which the body is the foundation, and the rational is
+the house built upon it; the spiritual comprises those things which are in
+the house, and conjunction with the Lord is being at home in it."
+
+Here are outlined clearly and distinctly three fields for much needed
+labor.
+
+We see above, clearly taught by Swedenborg, that "a man cannot be spiritual
+unless he be rational, nor can he be rational unless his body be in a sound
+state." The reason is plain: for the natural corresponds to the spiritual;
+natural diseases and natural causes of disease correspond to spiritual
+diseases and spiritual causes of spiritual disease.
+
+Swedenborg says that: "Diseases correspond to the lusts and passions of the
+mind; these, therefore, are the origins of diseases; for the origins of
+diseases in general are intemperance, luxuries of various kinds, pleasures
+merely corporal; also envyings, hatreds, revenges, lasciviousness, and the
+like; which destroy the interiors of man, and when these are destroyed the
+exteriors suffer and draw man into diseases, and thereby into death."--
+_Arcana Coelestia_, 5712.
+
+For this reason, if a man is to be reformed and regenerated, his
+reformation must commence by his shunning natural falses and bad habits of
+life, which correspond to his spiritual evils.
+
+Swedenborg's writings give us a wonderful insight into the causes and cure
+of both spiritual and natural diseases, as we shall hereafter see, and many
+suggestions which it would be well for us to heed. He says:--
+
+"The man who is willing to be enlightened by the Lord, must take especial
+heed lest he appropriate to himself any doctrinal which patronizes evil;
+for man in such case appropriates it to himself, when he confirms it with
+himself, for thereby he makes it a principle of his faith, and still more
+so if he lives according to it. When this is the case, then evil remains
+inscribed on his soul and his heart; and when this effect has place, he
+cannot afterwards in any wise be enlightened by the Word from the Lord; for
+his whole mind is in the faith and in the love of his principle, and
+whatsoever is contrary to it, this he either does not see, or rejects, or
+falsifies." (A. C. 10,640.)
+
+Every one can see how true this is in regard to evil habits which destroy
+health, reason, and life, such as the prevailing use of tobacco and the
+drinking of intoxicating drinks. If a man drinks thoughtlessly, without
+knowing any better, he can be taught and shown that it is wrong and a sin
+to drink poisonous fluids which are entirely unnecessary, and which
+endanger health, reason, life, and the welfare and happiness of all
+associated with him, and actually destroy vast multitudes of those who
+drink them moderately. All children and young persons who are free from bad
+examples and false teachings can be taught and can readily see that it is
+wrong and a sin to use such drinks; but let a man strive to justify such
+habits by the Sacred Scriptures, and to make them accord with his religious
+principles, and we all know how difficult it is for him ever to see the
+truth upon this and kindred subjects.
+
+
+MUCH-NEEDED INSTRUCTION.
+
+Inquiry should be made into the natural causes of disease, into which
+spiritual causes flow and cause the suffering, wretchedness, and premature
+deaths which prevail, and men and women should be led by precept and
+example to see them as evils and to shun them as sins against God.
+Swedenborg says:--
+
+"Thus, by washing the feet, is meant to purify the natural principle of
+man; for unless this principle appertaining to man, when he lives in the
+world, is purified and cleansed, it cannot afterwards be purified to
+eternity; for such as the natural principle of man is when he dies such it
+remains; for it is not afterwards amended, inasmuch as it is that plane
+into which interior things, which are spiritual, flow in--it being their
+receptacle; wherefore when it is perverted, interior things, when they flow
+in, are perverted like it." (A. C. 10,243.)
+
+There are two great hindrances to the reformation of the world at this day;
+the first is false teaching in regard to evils, by which unlawful
+indulgences are justified, and in moderation held to be good; for by this
+the individual is strongly confirmed in their favor and prevented from
+seeing the truth. The second is the love of the evil which the truth
+condemns, which closes the mind against the truth, and, as it were, binds
+and imprisons the individual (see A. C. 5096). It must be self-evident to
+every intelligent Christian that if it is wrong to deliberately appropriate
+falses and evils "temperately" or moderately to the building up of our
+spiritual organizations, it is equally wrong to appropriate temperately
+those natural substances which correspond to falses and evils in a vain
+attempt to build up healthy natural bodies. Total abstinence in both cases
+is the only law of life. The lover of intoxicating drinks can never be
+radically reformed or regenerated until he resolves, with the help of the
+Lord, to stop drinking intoxicating drinks and sets himself honestly about
+it; so the thief must stop stealing, the vain woman must stop her tight
+dressing and habits of idleness; and so of all other evils affecting
+physical and spiritual health and life.
+
+But to-day the great difficulty is, that multitudes of the young and of all
+ages become "bond-servants" to evil habits, which impair health and reason
+and shorten life, through ignorance, hereditary inclination, and the bad
+example of others. And how are they to regain their freedom, and the
+innocent to be protected from contamination and from a like slavery? The
+truth can alone make them free; and even when received by the willing and
+obedient, line upon line and precept upon precept may be required. And they
+will often have to endure many a hard struggle; and those who are free
+should have sympathy and charity, and judge them not. Men, women, and
+children must be taught that they have no right to follow habits which will
+endanger health and reason, and which observation and carefully collected
+statistics show will shorten the average duration of life; for to thus act
+is to violate the command, "Thou shall not kill." The causes of ill health,
+deformity, and the prevailing insanity and premature deaths must be sought
+out and exposed, and a call to repentance must be made.
+
+In the good providence of the Lord, we have men who, by education, diligent
+investigation, and careful observation, are most admirably adapted to give
+the needed instruction--physicians. Let physicians arm themselves with
+true doctrines, with the spiritual sense of the Word, with the Science of
+Correspondences and a knowledge of natural sciences, and they will be able
+to combat the prevailing evils as no other men can; and they should lead in
+all the great necessary reforms of this age that have regard to physical
+health, life, and morals. In almost every society of our Churches of any
+size will be found one or more medical men who have devoted their lives to
+the study of anatomy, physiology, the causes of disease, diseases and their
+cure, and the effects of poisons and the bad habits of dress, and other
+habits injurious to health; and they are able to speak with authority in
+regard to the prevailing evils of life, which are so destructive to our
+race. These men, thus providentially prepared, should be called into the
+field as lecturers. There is not a religious society which does not
+actually need the services of such teachers; and we can send no other
+missionaries to those outside of our church organizations who will, to the
+same extent, command their attention and respect. In order that the body
+with its environment may be a fit dwelling place for the Spirit, there are
+provided--
+
+"_Uses for sustaining the body_, comprising its nourishment, clothing,
+habitation, recreation and enjoyment, protection and conservation of state.
+The uses created for the nourishment of the body comprise all things of the
+vegetable kingdom which are good for food and drink; fruits, berries,
+seeds, pulse, and herbs; all things of the animal kingdom which serve for
+meat, oxen, cows, calves, deer, sheep, kids, goats, lambs; not to mention
+milk; also fowls and fish of many kinds." (D. L. W. 331.)
+
+"Good uses," says Swedenborg, "are from the Lord, and evil uses are from
+hell. Evil uses were not created by the Lord, but they originated together
+with hell." (D. L. W. 336.) Among the evil uses he enumerates all kinds of
+poisons--in a word, "all things that do hurt and kill men." (_Ibid_.
+339.) Here, then, is a criterion by which we must judge of the suitability
+of any article for nourishing and supplying the wants of our natural
+bodies. It should be evident to every one that substances which have their
+origin from hell, which, when used as we use legitimate articles of food
+and drink, seriously endanger, hurt, and kill men, should never be used for
+such purpose.
+
+Who are better qualified to judge as to what are evil uses than the
+physician, who has made them the study of his life? The men and women who
+are violating the laws of life cannot see that such violations injure them;
+for such violations palliate the sufferings which they cause, and make the
+transgressors feel better every time they indulge. The true physician, by
+precept and example, is qualified to lead all who are willing to be led to
+a higher life and to protect the innocent and the young.
+
+That such teachers are most important at this day is manifest "from the
+signification of physicians as denoting preservation from evils--the evils
+which obstruct conjunction. In the Word, physicians, the art of physic and
+medicine, signify preservation from evils and falses.... That in the Word,
+physicians, the art of physic and medicine, signify preservation from evils
+and falses, is manifest from the passages where they are named.... Hence it
+is evident what _medicine_ signifies, viz., that which preserves from
+falses and evils; for when the truth of faith leads to the good of love, it
+preserves, because it withdraws from evils." (A. C. 6502.)
+
+Here, then, we have the men suitable for this use. Shall we call them into
+the fields which are ripe and ready for the harvest?
+
+A clergyman who has a knowledge of the medical profession and of medicine,
+in speaking of the importance of such teachers, says: "Moreover, from their
+relation to the sick and suffering, from their habit of analyzing the
+mental and moral states of their patients, and from the deep, tender
+sympathy which sincere, God-fearing physicians have for suffering human
+beings, they are placed in a much closer relation to the people than any
+other vocation could give them. How many persons have been comforted,
+strengthened, instructed, and turned to uprightness of life through the
+kindly ministrations of their physicians!"
+
+And church organizations are languishing for the want of such teachers, and
+can never thrive in true doctrine and good lives, as they should, without
+them.
+
+Surely every one can but see of what immense benefit such lecturers would
+be, especially to the young in our churches. One physician might be
+employed by and serve several societies, giving to the different societies
+once or twice a week a lecture in each society, fully illustrated by
+drawings, plates, stereoscopic and microscopic views, which would attract
+young and old, and fill our churches to overflowing with those who now
+attend no church; and the latter, when they found a physician, with the
+consent of the church, thus clearly pointing out the great evils of life
+which cause so much suffering, wretchedness, sorrow, and so many premature
+deaths, and calling young and old, from a religious standpoint, to shun
+them as sins against God, could but feel that our churches are striving to
+elevate humanity, and are a great blessing, and that it would be desirable
+to belong to them, and especially to have their children brought up under
+the influence of the Church.
+
+Nearly the same could be said in regard to the important services which a
+second class of teachers of which I am about to speak could render. By the
+lectures of the two new life would be infused into our churches, and they
+would stand upon a sure foundation by manifesting love to God and man in
+our external natural lives, by teaching and leading men to act from
+spiritual motives, and to be willing to see their evils, and to commence by
+shunning well-known evils as sins against God. What a glorious day would
+this open up to our churches and for the elevation of our race through
+them!
+
+
+THE SECOND CLASS OF TEACHERS REQUIRED.
+
+Physicians as teachers in our churches should have for a special work the
+teaching of truth as to the physical life of man in connection with his
+spiritual life--the laws of health, the causes of prevailing diseases,
+deformities, insanities, and premature deaths, together with the methods
+and the duty of shunning them as sins against God. But there are other
+evils and questions which require careful consideration in our churches,
+such as the true relation, according to the laws of justice, mercy, and
+right, which should exist between men as neighbors, citizens, and
+Christians; and the clear light of this New Day should be brought down to
+guide men into a life of peace and harmony and good-will in this wilderness
+state of the world. Important questions are pressing for a solution, and
+for a careful consideration, by the religious teachers of our churches,
+such as the ecclesiastical and civil government best adapted for men of
+different countries and races, especially for our own country and churches;
+the relation of capital and labor; the right of single individuals to hold
+an unlimited amount of real estate, and transmit it to their children; the
+rights of corporations and of women; and our duties to others in all the
+relations of life. Fortunately, we have in our churches legal men or
+lawyers, who, while familiar with the doctrines of the Church, have devoted
+their lives to the consideration of such questions. It would not be
+difficult to point out several members of the legal fraternity belonging to
+our church organizations who would be able to perform a great use to the
+Church as lecturers and acting as missionaries among those who do not
+attend church as opportunity may offer. They would enter into a field of
+usefulness almost altogether beyond the reach and influence of our present
+ministers. Their advice, their counsel, their discourse, in their legal
+practice, are channels for the introduction of Christian thought and
+doctrine otherwise closed. There is one passage in the Writings which
+indicates this use:--
+
+"_And strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die_--that
+hereby is signified; that the things which pertain to the moral life should
+be vivified, appears from the signification of strengthening, as denoting
+to vivify the moral life by truths; _for truths from the Word vivify that
+life_, which, when it is vivified, is also strengthened, for it then
+acts as one with the spiritual life." (A. E. 188.)
+
+To meet and vivify the moral life of man with truths from the Word is a use
+eminently adapted to the position and mind of the legal profession. We need
+the services of such ministers, especially at this day, when we inherit
+from the fallen churches of the past an inclination to the love of
+spiritual and temporal dominion or rule, and the love of money and of vain
+show without regard to use. The evils that result from the gratification of
+such perverted affections must be fearlessly exposed, and a call to
+repentance made, before the injustice, oppression, and wrong which exist
+all over the world can be materially lessened. Lawyers, by making a special
+study of the Word in connection with their professional-studies, could not
+fail to impart much valuable instruction both to the Church and the world.
+
+Christian physicians and lawyers would take hold of men in their present
+low state, showing them what acts are evil and wrong, and why they are so;
+and would call on them to repent and stop doing the evil acts which the
+truth condemns, fully realizing that a man must cease doing evil before he
+can cease thinking and willing evil; or, in other words, that reformation
+must commence on the natural plane, and from the highest motives of which
+the individual at present is susceptible.
+
+It is the duty of our clergy to teach spiritual truths and the spiritual
+sense of the Word, and to lead men and women to live good lives, in
+obedience to the Divine commandments, from spiritual and celestial motives.
+But it is difficult for them to fill the entire field where religious
+instruction is needed, for we are living in the midst of the most direful
+evils of life, which must be put away before the New Jerusalem can descend
+and have an abiding place with men. Evils so terrible as to destroy vast
+multitudes of men and women of all ages, and even innocent children, all
+around us, too frequently go unheeded by our clergy and the periodicals
+under their charge. I know that in this respect there are some noble
+exceptions among our clergy and editors; but however willing and anxious
+they may be, it is impossible for one man to possess the knowledge and to
+impart all the necessary instruction as perfectly as three men thoroughly
+educated and trained for the different fields for labor could do it.
+
+To recapitulate: The physicians are required to teach and to lead men to
+obey, from a principle of obedience, the spiritual and natural laws of
+health and life; the lawyers are required to teach and lead men by
+spiritual truths to act from a principle of justice, truth, and neighborly
+love in all their relations with others; our ministers are required to
+teach and lead men to act from love to the Lord and thence the neighbor,
+and to do right because it is right, and to administer the ordinances of
+the Church.
+
+While some church organizations are laboring earnestly for the reform of
+men and women addicted to evils, and are striving to guard the innocent and
+young; and while in many of the churches in England they are organizing
+their temperance societies and "Bands of Hope," many of our organizations
+are as silent as the grave in regard to these evils. Can our churches
+prosper without teachers who are able to point out the evils of life which
+are so destructive to our race, and who are sufficiently free themselves to
+be able earnestly and consistently to call men to repentance, and to lead
+them to live orderly lives?
+
+Various denominations of Christians, in sending forth missionaries to
+distant lands, have, of late years, been sending, among others, some
+well-educated physicians as missionaries, and have found them very
+efficient in reaching and influencing the people among whom they labor. May
+not all take a hint when some of the religious organizations around us are
+beginning to see the advantages of sending out medical missionaries? If we
+would reach the Gentiles, or non-church goers, in our midst, should we not
+follow their example? A vast number of children and young people are
+growing up in our country, who are more ignorant of the spiritual and
+natural laws of health and life than many in Gentile lands; many of them
+rarely read or hear the Sacred Scriptures read, and do not even know the
+Ten Commandments.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+METHODS FOR RESTRAINING AND CURING SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL DISEASES.
+
+
+As there is a correspondence between the natural and spiritual causes of
+disease, so there must be a correspondence between the methods of
+restraining and curing natural and spiritual diseases.
+
+First: Spiritual diseases or evils are restrained by punishments which, by
+force, as it were, counteract the inclination to do evil; corresponding to
+this method we have the Antipathic method of restraining natural diseases,
+which is one of the prevailing methods; for instance, for constipation
+cathartics are given, for a diarrhoea astringents, and opiates are given to
+forcibly relieve or restrain the symptoms of disease. Every one can but see
+that such remedies for the cure of natural diseases, like punishments for
+the cure of spiritual diseases or evils, are but palliative; for the
+reaction, if reaction ensue, is not in the right direction. It is true that
+a cure sometimes results in spite of the treatment, especially in transient
+cases, the vital forces restoring health during the temporary restraint of
+the diseased action; but in many cases the constipation is only aggravated
+by cathartics, and diarrhoeas are not benefited by astringents; and the
+evil man often becomes more vicious after punishment.
+
+Second: Spiritual evils are often restrained by exciting one passion to
+restrain evil acts in another direction; for instance, acquisitiveness and
+vanity are often excited to restrain evil men from evil acts, which might
+result from hatred and a desire for revenge, thus calling off the attention
+from the prevailing evil inclination. Corresponding to this method of
+restraining spiritual diseases we have the Allopathic method of restraining
+diseased action in one organ by exciting diseased action in another organ
+or part, as is done when a cathartic is given for disease of the head or
+lungs, or when a blister is applied to the skin in case of internal
+diseased action; thus, as it were, calling off the attention of the vital
+forces from the diseased structures, and thus palliative relief is often
+obtained in natural as in spiritual diseases.
+
+Third: Either from afflictions, suffering, disappointments, or from
+voluntarily hearkening to the truth, a man begins to feel a desire to
+change his life, and looking to the Lord he repents and resolves to obey
+the Divine Commandments by shunning evils as sins against God. But when he
+commences to do this, evil spirits flow into his mind and tempt him to
+again do evil acts; if the temptations are too strong he falls, but he may
+fall to rise again; he will either do this by renewing his resolution to
+overcome the evil inclination, or he will fall to rise no more, and keep on
+in his old course of life, perhaps worse than before. Thoughts come before
+actions; if a man, when tempted to do evil, resists the thoughts of doing
+the evil acts, every one can see that he is striking a blow at the
+perverted affection through which he has been tempted to do evil;
+consequently the step toward a cure is far more radical and permanent than
+it would have been if he had done the evil act.
+
+Children and the young should be taught that to violate the Divine
+Commandments is a sin against God, and that they should resist their
+hereditary or acquired inclination to speak wrong words or do evil acts the
+moment such inclinations are manifested in their thoughts, which is far
+better than to allow them to move them to do evil acts. The cure of
+spiritual diseases by the resisting of temptation is a genuine method of
+cure. Corresponding with this for the treatment of natural diseases, we
+have their treatment by the use of Homoeopathic remedies. Only spirits of a
+similar inclination can tempt a man to do an evil act and thus manifest his
+unsubdued inclination to him, which enables him to see and overcome the
+inclination by resisting it. So, on the natural plane, it is only a
+poisonous substance or remedy, which is capable of causing a similar
+disease to the one existing, which can manifest the disease to the vital
+forces and thus enable them to react against the disease. But if the dose
+of the remedy given is too large it will aggravate the disease, as a
+cathartic dose of a cathartic remedy will aggravate a diarrhoea; but the
+vital forces may react and overcome the disease, or they may not, and the
+disease continue even worse than before. It is the reaction of the vital
+forces that overcomes the diseased action and effects the cure, and not the
+remedy, any more than it is the evil spirit that tempts man that overcomes
+his spiritual evils during regeneration. As it is not necessary that the
+temptation should be so strong as to make a man take the first step toward
+performing an evil act, to enable him to resist it if he will the moment
+the inclination is seen in his thoughts, so it is not necessary that a dose
+of a Homoeopathic remedy should be so strong as to aggravate the natural
+diseased action in the slightest degree before it can be seen by the vital
+forces, and a reaction follow. The size of the dose must be determined by
+experience; but we know that its effects need only to equal the effects of
+temptations which proceed no further than the thought of doing evil before
+reaction may follow, therefore we can form no conception of the minuteness
+of the dose which may be sufficient for a cure to follow.
+
+But if a man would be restored to spiritual health by getting rid of his
+hereditary and acquired inclinations to do evil, he must acknowledge the
+Lord, diligently search His Word, and be willing to see and obey His
+commandments, which are the laws of spiritual health and life, and must be
+obeyed conscientiously, in intention, thought, word, and deed, if health is
+to be restored; otherwise, punishment, hope of reward, and temptations can
+only afford palliative relief at best. So in regard to natural diseases. If
+a man would be restored to physical health by getting rid of his hereditary
+and acquired inclinations to diseases, he must recognize that the laws of
+nature are the laws established for his good by the Lord, and he must
+diligently study the laws pertaining to health and life, and be willing to
+see and obey those laws as to sunlight, air, exercise, clothing, and in
+eating and drinking, etc., if he would be restored to health; otherwise,
+antipathic, allopathic, and even homoeopathic remedies will prove only
+palliative at best. If we expect to be well, spiritually or naturally, we
+must strive to know and obey the laws of health and life.
+
+Temptations by evil spirits permitted and controlled by the Lord for the
+sake of removing many spiritual evils, and a corresponding action of
+homoeopathic remedies administered by a skillful hand, for the sake of
+removing natural diseases, are curative methods which belong to the New
+Jerusalem Dispensation, now descending from God out of heaven, making all
+things new--the Church of the future.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED--AND EFFORTS.
+
+
+Soon after I commenced reading the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, while
+residing in Detroit, I was invited to attend a social gathering at the
+residence of one of the members of the congregation of believers in his
+writings in that city. During the evening, to my astonishment, fermented
+wine was passed around to the guests, of which quite a number partook. As
+already stated in the preceding pages, while a young man, through the
+efficient teachings of Baptist and Congregational clergymen and prominent
+members of the churches, and the results of drinking which I witnessed, I
+was providentially enabled to see that to use drinks which endangered
+health, reason, and life was wrong, and consequently a sin; and with many
+others I signed a pledge never to drink intoxicating drinks during health.
+The reader can imagine how I was shocked to see intoxicating wine presented
+and partaken of among gentlemen and ladies who professed to be receivers
+and believers in a new revelation of Divine truth from God to man. I
+immediately saw the clergyman of the society, and asked him if Swedenborg
+teaches that it is right and proper to drink an intoxicating wine. He
+replied that he did.
+
+He and members of his society were holding Sunday afternoon meetings for
+the purpose of reading the writings and discussing such questions as might
+arise, which meetings I attended. I said to the reverend gentleman that I
+would like to have this wine question discussed at our next meeting, to
+which he assented. At that meeting, I brought up the medical and scientific
+aspects of the question, and endeavored to show that fermented wine was a
+dangerous poison, it having destroyed vast multitudes of the human race,
+and that it performed no use when taken into the stomach of healthy men and
+women; and, consequently, that it is wrong to drink a wine which does so
+much harm. The clergyman tried to justify its use by quoting certain
+comparisons which Swedenborg had made between the apparent combat which
+takes place during fermentation and the combat which ensues during the
+regeneration of man, and the clearness of resulting wine after fermentation
+and that of truth in the mind after regeneration, and also of the purity of
+alcohol after it has been through certain processes, which he named,
+compared with pure truth.
+
+But we know that pure alcohol cannot be used as a beverage, and therefore
+it is certain that these comparisons were simply as to the clearness of
+fermented wine after fermentation, and the purity of alcohol after being
+purified; and that they have nothing to do with the inherent quality of
+these fluids, or their ability to affect man when he drinks them. We had an
+earnest discussion of the question from our different standpoints, but
+neither of us was satisfied with the result; and, consequently, we
+adjourned the discussion of the subject until the next Sabbath afternoon.
+In the meantime, the clergyman prepared a discourse, which he delivered on
+Sunday morning, in which he endeavored to show that fermentation was caused
+by an influx of angels from the highest heaven into the juice of the grape,
+stirring it up and cleansing it from "inherent impurities." Providentially,
+during the week, I had obtained a copy of Swedenborg's work on the "Angelic
+Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom," in which he teaches that all
+poisonous substances which do harm and kill man derive their life from or
+through hell. When we came together in the afternoon to discuss the
+question, we were about as far apart as it was possible to be, as the
+reader can readily see. He took the ground that fermentation was caused by
+influx from the highest heaven, and I took the ground that it was caused by
+influx from the lowest hell, and we had an earnest discussion; but he
+certainly did not satisfy me nor many of his audience, if any, that his
+position was true. How could he? for there is no doubt but that fermented
+wine has harmed and killed more of the human race in ages past than any
+other poison. As a result of that discussion, within my knowledge,
+fermented wine was never again used at the sociables of that society during
+my residence in Detroit.
+
+Within perhaps a year after that discussion, I was baptized and united with
+the Detroit Society of the New Church. When I came to understand, from the
+writings of Swedenborg, the true signification of water and the ordinance
+of baptism--that water signified natural truth and that baptism introduced
+one into the Church, and signified that man is to be regenerated or
+purified by living a life according to the truth, and that the head
+represented the man--I did not regard immersion as so important as I had
+previously, consequently I was baptized by the application of water to the
+head. There is, I think, no serious objection to any one being baptized by
+immersion who prefers it. Children should, I think, be baptized into the
+Church, and be brought up to feel that they belong to the Church, and are
+expected to live the life of the Church. More and more have I seen the
+importance of bringing children up under the influence of the Church, where
+they should be instructed and entertained and thus kept away from bad
+company.
+
+
+WHY A SEPARATE NEW-CHURCH ORGANIZATION.
+
+Swedenborg made no attempt to organize the believers in the revelations
+made by the Lord through his instrumentality into a separate church
+organization, and nowhere in his writings does he express the opinion that
+such a separate organization would ever be needed or desirable. And he
+apparently expected that the prevailing false doctrines of the churches
+would, in the increasing light of the New Jerusalem, be seen to be false by
+the clergy of existing church organizations; and that through them the
+laity would be enabled to see that they are false, and thus they would be
+put away, as is manifest in passages which I have quoted elsewhere; also
+see T. C. R. 784.
+
+When individual men or churches put away false doctrines, they are
+prepared, if in the good of life, to see and receive the truth;
+consequently Swedenborg says that although the First Christian Church has
+come to its end through false doctrines and evils of life, yet it is to
+revive again through the instrumentality of the newly revealed science of
+correspondences; consequently it is not to utterly perish, for there is a
+remnant within its borders.
+
+Then the reader will inquire, "Why was an external New-Church organization
+ever formed?" We have not to look far to find the reason. First, there was
+a vast multitude of intelligent men and women who did not belong to any
+church organization, and when some of them came to see and believe the new
+doctrines, they naturally desired to be baptized and to join a church
+organization; but seeing clearly in the light of the new revelations that,
+according to the Sacred Scriptures, God is one in essence and in person,
+and that that one God was manifested to man in the person of the Lord Jesus
+Christ, and that He made that human form Divine and is henceforth to be
+worshiped as one God in His Divine Humanity, and that a life according to
+His sayings and the commandments is essential to salvation, they could not
+join the prevailing churches, for they could not assent to their creeds.
+
+Second. When, as soon occurred, both clergymen and laymen, belonging to
+various church organizations, began to read the writings, and to see that
+the Lord is in very deed now coming in the clouds of heaven, and desired to
+let the new light shine among their brethren, they found that they were
+often not free to do so without giving offense; and in not a few instances
+clergymen found that they were silenced as preachers, and sometimes both
+clergymen and laymen were expelled, for believing the Heavenly Doctrines
+instead of the creeds; consequently the receivers of the doctrines of the
+New Dispensation had no choice but to form a new church organization. But
+at this day there is a vast change, and I trust that from but a very few if
+any church organizations would a lay member be expelled for believing in
+the Supreme Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Sacred
+Scriptures are Divine and plenarily inspired, and that a life according to
+the Lord's sayings and His Commandments is essential to salvation.
+Consequently there are thousands of earnest receivers of the Heavenly
+Doctrines of the New Jerusalem scattered throughout the various churches,
+gradually leavening, as I trust, the whole lump; and there are clergymen
+not a few who are gradually beholding, with more or less fullness, the
+light of this New Day; and as they receive it, large numbers of them are
+not slow to let the light shine among their fellow-men, as they are
+prepared to receive it.
+
+The Lord has given to men freedom and reason, and they are responsible for
+their acts. To whom do a clergyman and members of a church organization owe
+fealty, to the Lord and His Word and the members of the congregations where
+they worship, or to a creed and church or a church organization formulated
+and organized during darker ages of the world and Church? Should men or
+should they not, when they behold the glorious light of the Lord's Second
+Coming in the clouds of heaven, stand in their place and proclaim the glad
+tidings to all who are willing to hear?
+
+Swedenborg, in giving the spiritual sense of the second chapter of the
+Apocalypse, in No. 69 of the _Apocalypse Revealed_, says:--
+
+"This and the following chapter treat of the seven churches, by which are
+described all those in the Christian Church who have any religion, and out
+of whom the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, can be formed; and this
+is formed by those who APPROACH THE LORD ONLY, AND AT THE SAME TIME PERFORM
+REPENTANCE FROM EVIL WORKS. The rest, who do not approach the Lord alone,
+from the confirmed negation of the divinity of His humanity, and who do not
+perform repentance from evil works, are indeed in the Church, but have
+nothing of the Church in them."
+
+If all clergymen and members of our churches, the moment they begin to see
+that portions of their creeds are false and injurious in their tendency,
+instead of trying, by proclaiming the truth among their brethren, to have
+the false doctrines removed and true doctrines substituted, were to
+immediately forsake the church organization in which, in the good
+providence of the Lord, they stand, what hope would there be for the
+perpetuation of existing churches as Christian organizations at all? The
+great danger at this day is that false doctrines will be seen faster than
+true doctrines will be seen to take their place, and thus our churches and
+members will be left desolate and return to a Gentile state. For instance,
+if our clergy and intelligent laymen begin to see, as many of them seem to
+be doing already, that the doctrine of a tri-personal God, instead of a
+trinity in unity, and the doctrine of the vicarious atonement are contrary
+to the teachings of the Sacred Scriptures, and unreasonable and
+inconsistent, and do not at the same time see clearly the scriptural
+doctrine that God is one in essence and in person, and that in the person
+of our Lord Jesus Christ that one God was manifested for the purpose of
+reconciling the world unto Himself, such individuals are almost sure sooner
+or later to deny the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Sacred
+Scriptures are divine and special revelations from God to man, and
+consequently plenarily inspired.
+
+The doctrines which are false in the prevailing church organizations must
+go--they are going--from the minds of their members if not from their
+creeds. Then are these organizations to become Gentile and stand like the
+remnants of the Ancient Church, which we behold in southern and eastern
+Asia? I think not; for we are told, as has been already stated in the
+revelations made by the Lord through Emanuel Swedenborg, that the science
+of correspondences was revealed that the Christian Church "may revive and
+again draw breath from the Lord through heaven." Gentiles received the Lord
+at His first coming with joy; and so I believe the Gentiles in and out of
+our church organizations will receive Him now as He comes in the clouds of
+heaven. In the light manifested in the Sacred Scriptures by the aid of the
+science of correspondences, every willing and obedient man and woman is
+able to see that God is one, and that the Lord Jesus Christ, or God in His
+Divine Humanity, is that one God and the only Being whom men should and
+whom angels do worship. Then of what unspeakable importance it is that the
+attention of all clergymen and laymen be speedily called to the writings
+for the Church of the New Jerusalem which is now descending from God out of
+heaven!
+
+After practicing medicine for ten or twelve years, and on accepting the
+chair of "Theory and Practice of Medicine" tendered by the Western
+Homoeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, I commenced, as it were, the study
+of the practical department of my profession anew, in order to prepare
+myself for filling the chair profitably to the students and creditably to
+myself. While preparing forgiving lectures, and especially in after years
+while away from my active medical practice at Detroit, giving a course of
+lectures at Cleveland every winter, I began to study and investigate in my
+leisure hours the causes of diseases. Step by step I pursued my
+investigations, until I became satisfied that most of the deformities,
+diseases, and insanity which exist have been caused by the violation of the
+physical and spiritual laws of our being which could have been avoided in
+the past, and which can and must be in the future, if our race is to be
+restored to a state of healthy, symmetrical, and noble manhood.
+Consequently I came to the conclusion that it is far more important that
+men, women, and children should be taught the laws of health and to
+understand the causes of the prevailing deformities and diseases, and how
+to shun them, than it was for them and their children to get sick,
+deformed, and suffer, and often to pay their hard-earned money to doctors
+for the uncertain chance of being cured--in fact, that "an ounce of
+prevention is worth more than a pound of cure."
+
+As a result of my investigations I wrote a series of articles for the
+_Detroit Tribune_ on the bad habits which cause diseases, insanity,
+and deformity; and, as opportunity offered, I gave lectures upon such
+subjects; and finally I wrote a work entitled the "Avoidable Causes of
+Disease," of 348 pages, of which I printed several editions, the first of
+which was in 1859, and furnished to different publishers, and advertised to
+a limited extent; after that it was published for several years by Messrs.
+Mason Brothers, of New York; after which it came into my hands again. I
+also wrote a pamphlet of 48 pages on "Marriage and its Violations," which,
+for a time, was bound separately, but afterward was bound with the
+"Avoidable Causes of Disease." In all, eleven editions of the work have
+been printed; the last edition was printed by Messrs Boericke & Tafel, of
+Philadelphia, who will probably publish any future editions which may be
+demanded.
+
+I soon found, what my publishers found after me, and other writers and
+their publishers have found, that it does not pay to advertise books which
+contain the greatest amount of practical and useful information which is
+calculated to benefit readers, especially if they call in question the bad
+habits and evils of life in which so many people indulge; consequently,
+feeling that a work treating of diseases and their cure, in which I could
+advertise my first work and call special attention to it, would sell more
+readily, I wrote a book of 404 pages, entitled "Family Homoeopathy," in
+which I took great pains to carefully describe in few words the various
+diseases, and gave as definite and positive instruction as was practicable
+to guide laymen, so that harmless homoeopathic remedies might take the
+place of drastic drugs and injurious domestic remedies, which are so
+frequently used when it is thought not necessary to call a physician, or
+before his arrival when called. At the end of this volume I inserted a
+carefully prepared table of the contents of the "Avoidable Causes of
+Disease," occupying three pages, and referred not unfrequently to that work
+when treating of various diseases.
+
+With but very slight efforts, and no advertising on my part, "Family
+Homoeopathy" sold very well--principally through the different
+homoeopathic pharmacies in our country; and this increased the sale of "The
+Avoidable Causes of Disease" very materially, as I expected it would.
+Seventeen editions of "Family Homoeopathy" have been printed and sold, the
+last edition by Dr. E. R. Ellis, of Detroit, Michigan, who will continue to
+print and supply applicants as wanted.
+
+
+SPIRITUAL CAUSES OF DISEASES.
+
+As I continued my investigation into the causes of disease, and especially
+as I read the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, I began to see more and more
+clearly that diseases, to a large extent at least, have a spiritual origin,
+and that the great obstacles to the removal of their causes lie in the
+false doctrines of Christian churches. When selfish men who were leaders in
+the churches desired to exercise their love of rule in spiritual and
+natural things and to exercise despotic power, when they desired to reduce
+other men to slavery and to hold them as slaves, or when they desired to
+gratify other perverted passions and sensual appetites, they all went to
+the Bible and strove to justify their conduct from its pages, with the
+expectation of reaching heaven at last; for this purpose it required the
+invention of special doctrines, and these they taught to their children,
+and thus the Word of God was made of no effect by the traditions and
+doctrines of men.
+
+Unfortunately for the Protestant Church, early in its history, instead of
+"If ye would enter into life, keep the commandments," there was substituted
+the doctrine of justification by faith alone; which led men, especially the
+young, to hope that by getting religion and having faith, they could at any
+time escape the legitimate penalties which are attached by the Lord to evil
+doing. No young man, religiously brought up, expects to go to hell; but he
+intends to repent and be converted before he dies; he often thinks he will
+"sow his wild oats" first, instead of earnestly and faithfully striving to
+keep the Divine commandments from his youth up. Evil thinking and doing
+develop an infernal life within him, which often gradually gains strength
+until he is ruled by his perverted appetites and passions; and day by day
+his ability to regain his freedom grows less.
+
+When the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church began to teach men that
+the punishment which rightly inheres to the doing of evil can be escaped by
+confessing to the priest, doing penance, and receiving absolution, and that
+every Catholic priest has from the Lord the power to forgive sins and to
+grant indulgences, then the hope of escaping the penalties of sin by
+something short of keeping the Divine Law in everyday life was held out to
+the young of the Catholic laity, similar to that which the doctrine of
+faith alone offered to the young of the Protestant world; and the results
+have been similar. We know, however, that among religious teachers there
+are many to-day in all of the various sects of Christians who have put
+away, or are gradually putting away, or materially modifying, the perverted
+doctrines of the past. As an illustration of the changes which are taking
+place, I clip the following from an English paper, recently received:--
+
+"The Rev. T. Vincent Tymms, the new Principal of Rawdon College, preaching
+to his late congregation at Clapham, said:--
+
+"'From the first day I stood in this pulpit until now, I have desired to
+tear away from every heart that obscuring veil of pagan thought which first
+attributes a wrathful justice to the Father and a tender mercy to CHRIST,
+and then represents the Son as dying to soothe the anger and satisfy the
+relentless demands of the Father. Such unholy and revolting ideas are the
+leaven of heathenism, not the unleavened bread of Christian truth.'
+
+"This is from the first of 'Three Farewell Sermons,' published by Messrs.
+James Clarke & Co., Fleet Street, E. C."
+
+More and more, as time progressed, I began to realize that there was very
+little chance for any radical improvement of our race until the false
+doctrines which have come down to us from the dark ages were put away; and
+knowing that in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg we have a new revelation
+from the Lord, even the truths of his Second Coming in the clouds of
+heaven, which are destined to make all things new by leading men back to a
+life of obedience to the Divine commandments; and, furthermore, believing
+the most important missionary field to-day in the world to be among the
+clergy of our country, I wrote an "Address to the Clergy" of 24 pages. This
+Address I sent to over 50,000 clergymen. A few years before I wrote that
+Address, the late Mr. L. C. Iungerich, of Philadelphia, through the book
+publishing firm of J. B. Lippincott & Co., of that city, had offered to
+clergymen who would order and send the stamps to pay the postage,
+Swedenborg's "True Christian Religion," and afterward he added the
+"Apocalypse Revealed;" and the New Church Tract Society added to the above
+works "Heaven and Hell,"--all to be sent free to clergymen on receipt of
+postage. Several thousand copies of the above works had been sent when I
+wrote and sent out my Address. Upon the second page of the cover of my
+tract was a notice of the above-named gift books; and my aim was to hastily
+call the attention of clergymen to them, and to give them some idea of the
+claims of Swedenborg's writings to their attention, and to encourage them
+to send for and to read the books thus providentially within their reach.
+As a result of receiving the Address, thousands of clergymen sent for and
+obtained one or more of the above books.
+
+When I commenced sending the above-named Address to the clergy, I resolved
+to devote one-tenth of my income to the work of spreading a knowledge of
+the doctrines of the New Jerusalem and of an orderly life among my
+fellow-men. I can truly say, and will say for the encouragement of others,
+that as I have given I have received; for never had I prospered financially
+as I have since that resolution was made and lived up to. After having
+secured a competency for myself and family I did not stop at one-tenth of
+my income.
+
+The result of sending the Address was so satisfactory that I wrote and
+compiled a work of 260 pages, entitled, "Skepticism and Divine Revelation,"
+with the intention of sending it to the clergy. My aim was to present a
+hasty view of the application of the science of correspondences in the
+interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis, and some other parts of
+the Word, and to meet the arguments of skeptics, and thus to show that the
+Sacred Scriptures are Divine revelations from God to man, and plenarily
+inspired, consequently differing as much from the words of man as God's
+works do from the works of man. In that work the attention of the reader is
+called to the creation of the world, the creation of man and woman, Eve,
+the Garden of Eden, its trees and river, the fall of man, the serpent, Cain
+and Abel, the flood, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the flood of waters, the
+Ark, the Tower of Babel, Sun worship and idolatry, spiritualism, the little
+reliance to be placed upon communications from spirits, and why. Next, the
+doctrines of the New Jerusalem--God, the Incarnation, the Divine Trinity,
+sacrificial worship, the Cross, a true and heavenly life, the end of the
+world and Second Coming of the Lord, the resurrection, state of infants in
+the other life, the state and condition of the Heathen and Gentiles in
+another life, the New Jerusalem--the Church of the Future--the Crown of all
+Churches, the Divine promise to those who receive the New Jerusalem at the
+Lord's Second Coming as revealed through Emanuel Swedenborg.
+
+Such were the subjects discussed in the light of the revelations made by
+the Lord's chosen servant. My aim was to produce the best work I could.
+Consequently, when I found in the writings of others passages, or even
+whole sections, in which the ideas that I desired to present were as well
+or better conveyed than I thought I could present them, I selected them,
+giving the writers credit for the same, and the sixteenth and twenty-third
+chapters were written at my request by the Rev. William B. Hayden, who
+assisted me materially in seeing the work through the press. About one-half
+of the matter in the volume was selected from other writers.
+
+I commenced to send this work in editions of 10,000 to the clergy of our
+country, and when I had sent about 50,000, I had the "Address to the
+Clergy" printed and bound with it, and both were sent to the Catholic
+clergy, to whom the Address had not previously been sent. From that time
+both works have been printed and bound in one volume. About 65,000 of the
+above works, containing a notice of the gift books, named in preceding
+pages, on the second page of the cover, have been sent to the clergy of
+America, about 10,000 have been sent to physicians, and as many more have
+been circulated among laymen. The sending of this book to the clergy
+immensely increased the orders for the gift books.
+
+The above works have been translated into the German language, and about
+48,000 copies sent to German-speaking clergymen in Germany and other parts
+of Europe, and in our own country. They have been translated into the
+Swedish language, and about 6000 copies have been sent to the clergy of
+Sweden and Norway and circulated among the laity; and they have been
+translated into Italian, and 10,000 sent to and circulated in Italy. And
+more recently they have been translated into French, and 20,000 printed
+which are now being sent to the clergy of France and the French-speaking
+clergy of other European countries, and of our own country.
+
+Then, I have aided materially in sending other works to the clergy of our
+country, either explaining or containing the doctrines of the New
+Jerusalem, upon the second page of the covers of which will be found a
+notice of the gift books offered to clergymen. I aided with money the
+Swedenborg Publishing Association in sending Rev. Mr. Ravlin's "Progressive
+Thoughts on Great Subjects" to all the clergy of our country whose names
+could be had; and, later, I have aided the American Swedenborg Printing and
+Publishing Society in sending, first, "The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly
+Doctrines;" second, "The Doctrine of the Lord;" third, "The Doctrine of
+Life"--all three Swedenborg's own works--to all the clergy in our country
+whose names could be readily obtained; in all 82,500. So that almost every
+clergyman in our country has had an opportunity to acquire some knowledge
+of the doctrines and revelations made by the Lord through Emanuel
+Swedenborg for the benefit of men in this new age--doctrines very different
+from those formulated in the creeds of bygone centuries--and thousands of
+our clergy are beginning to realize, that we must return to the rational
+and plain doctrines taught in the Sacred Scriptures, and summed up by the
+Lord when on earth in the Two Great Commandments, Thou shalt love the Lord
+with all thy might and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself, and that we
+must commence the new life by repentance, or by being willing to see our
+evils and to shun them as sins against God.
+
+As a result of the efforts made by others and myself to make known to the
+clergy the offer of the gift books, 32,831 clergymen have sent for and
+obtained "The True Christian Religion," 30,887 have obtained "Heaven and
+Hell," and 25,522 have obtained "The Apocalypse Revealed," according to the
+report of the Trustees of the Iungerich fund (May, 1891).
+
+
+COMMUNION WINE.
+
+For several years after I joined the Church I paid little attention to the
+subject of communion wine. But at last an article appeared in a New-Church
+paper, in which the writer claimed that fermented wine was a good and
+useful article to be used as a beverage, and he tried to justify its use by
+the teachings of the Church. Such views were so contrary to what I regarded
+as true, that I immediately commenced a more careful and critical
+examination of the writings of Swedenborg, to ascertain what is taught
+therein as to wine. I soon found that he distinctly recognized two kinds of
+wine, as does the Bible: one kind unfermented, a good and nourishing fluid
+to which he always gives a good signification when its use is not abused;
+and the other kind, known by its effects on man when he drinks it to be
+fermented, to which he has never given a good signification when it is
+clear from the context that reference is had to fermented wine. And I will
+here say that my opponents in the Church have done precisely what the
+advocates of slavery, intoxicating drinks, and skeptics have done in their
+appeals to the Bible to sustain their views. They find here and there a
+comparison and passage which, by placing their own construction upon them,
+they think will justify their views, while they totally ignore a large
+number of passages which most clearly and positively teach a totally
+different doctrine; and they ignore scientific facts, the well known
+effects of drinking fermented wine, and the testimony of ancient writers
+whenever such testimony does not accord with their own views. Thus they
+uphold the use of the drunkard's cup as a beverage and even as a
+sacramental wine; and within my knowledge more than one poor man in our
+Church who was struggling to reform his life has been led back by partaking
+of it to drunkenness.
+
+A distinguished clergyman said in a letter to the writer:--
+
+"I can never forget the experience already related to you when Mr. ----, my
+wife's brother-in-law, a gentleman of classical education, had become a
+sober man through my efforts and received the heavenly doctrines ... Then
+came the Lord's Supper and we had fermented California wine. I handed him
+the cup, he drank, and after church he fled to some place where wine could
+be had, came home late in the evening drunk, and continued drinking for
+three months, until he died one evening after being brought home beastly
+drunk. Unfermented wine is no seducer, and had Mr. ---- been given such in
+the Sacrament, he might be living, a sober man, to-day. Your books on the
+'Wine Question' deserve, therefore, all that you have done and expended
+under the Lord's guidance for their publication and circulation, and God
+only knows how much good they will yet have to do."
+
+Another clergyman wrote:--
+
+"I was called to officiate at the funeral of a child. The parents--who were
+non-professors of religion--became much interested in the New Church. I
+furnished them suitable reading matter and visited them occasionally.
+Within a year they united with our Society. The man had formerly been a
+drinking man, but had ceased entirely. They were regular attendants on our
+church services. He was a mechanic. His well-behaved life restored public
+confidence in him, and he soon found constant employment at his trade.
+After about two years he felt a desire to take the Lord's Supper. I did not
+dissuade him; for, as he had abstained so long and faithfully, I felt sure
+he would continue. He presented himself with the communicants. Upon
+receiving the cup he took a sip and moved to return the cup to me; but
+suddenly, the old appetite being touched by the alcoholic spark, he
+returned the cup to his lips--it was about two-thirds full-and nearly
+drained it, as though urged on by demons. Poor man! Realizing what he had
+done, and evidently feeling disgraced, he at once arose and left the
+temple. From that time he returned to drink, and I have been unable to
+regain sufficient influence over him to effect his return to our services.
+
+"Another man in my Society formerly drank to excess. I dare not encourage
+him to come to the communion. A majority of our members favor intoxicating
+wine for the Lord's Supper. How they can do so after witnessing its
+dreadful effects, I cannot understand. But the light is spreading, and may
+the Lord hasten the full day."
+
+O Lord! how long? how long shall such evils continue in our churches?
+
+Of course I replied to the article in the New-Church paper alluded to
+above, and others replied to me, and I to them in return; but it was not
+long before notice was given that the discussion would cease, and that with
+three unanswered articles against me in one number of the paper, and that
+in a paper edited by a clergyman, and published by the General Body of the
+Church. Well, looking for the welfare of the Church and its members which I
+loved, I could not stand still and see such false and dangerous views
+boldly and dogmatically proclaimed in the most extensively circulated
+periodical of the Church without doing my best to counteract them.
+Consequently I wrote a reply in a tract form, and sent it to every
+New-Churchman whose name I could obtain. This was but the beginning. An
+article appeared in another periodical of the Church to which I was allowed
+to reply; but the discussion was soon closed, and I was given no chance to
+reply to the last communication, and a reserved communication which was
+published afterward. Finding that there was no chance to present the
+temperance side of the wine question fairly before the readers of these two
+periodicals, I was led to write several pamphlets in reply to such articles
+as appeared in favor of the use of fermented wine, in which I endeavored to
+present fully and fairly, generally in the language of its advocates, their
+views of the question, and I endeavored to answer them in the light
+afforded by the Sacred Scriptures, the writings of the Church, ancient
+history, science, and well-known facts as to the manufacture and
+preservation of unfermented and fermented wines in all ages.
+
+Several pamphlets were published in reply to the advocates for the use of
+fermented wine in our New-Church periodicals in the course of five or six
+years, of which about 10,000 of each were printed and sent to all
+Newchurchmen whose names I was able to obtain in this country, England, and
+elsewhere, hoping to reach as far as possible the readers of the writings
+of my opponents and others. The following are the names of the pamphlets
+written, printed, and sent, viz: "Pure Wine, Fermented Wine, and Other
+Alcoholic Drinks," published in 1880; "The Wine Question in the Light of
+the New Dispensation," in 1882; "Reply to the Academy's Review," in 1883;
+"Intoxicants, Prohibition, and our New-Church Periodicals," 1885, to which
+was added "Deterioration of the Puritan Stock," 1884; making in all, with
+index, 736 pages.
+
+Finally, I had printed an edition of all of the above pamphlets from the
+plates, and bound in cloth, of which I sent a copy to all New-Church
+ministers in the world whose names I could get, and to some others.
+
+My controversy with the clergy on the wine question led me to fear that
+there were other evils gradually creeping into the Church organization
+which should be exposed, and against which both laymen and clergymen should
+be warned; therefore, I wrote a tract entitled, "The New Church: its
+Ministry, Laity, and Ordinances, with an Appendix on Intoxicants and Our
+New-Church Periodicals," published and sent out in 1886, the latter part to
+answer some articles which had recently appeared in the Church papers. This
+tract was sent to about 10,000 or 11,000 Newchurchmen.
+
+Then I wrote and compiled and condensed from my previous writings,
+including "The Avoidable Causes of Disease," a work of 511 pages, fully
+presenting the wine question in all its aspects, and the use of tobacco and
+opium, and the bad habits of women, faulty methods of rearing children,
+etc., etc., of which in paper covers I sent out over 10,000 to my
+New-Church brethren, and about 40,000 copies I sent to clergymen of various
+denominations.
+
+In the year 1883 my attention was seriously called to the signs of
+deterioration of the Puritan stock in New England, especially in
+Massachusetts, my native State, where it was shown that in six years,
+ending in 1881, the deaths among the native population fully equaled, if
+they did not exceed, the births; whereas, among the people of foreign
+birth, the births exceeded the deaths by over 87,000. And I found, on
+visiting my native town in Western Massachusetts, and the school district
+where I attended, where we used to have about thirty scholars in the winter
+and twenty in the summer, when I was a boy, and although there are but two
+families less residing there now than when I was a boy, and all native
+Americans, still I found that they had but eight or nine scholars during
+the winter, and not enough to keep up a school in summer.
+
+As a result of my inquiries I wrote a work of 52 pages, calling attention
+to the spiritual and natural causes of such decline of the native stock,
+and especially to the bad habits and false ideas of men and women which
+have produced it. This pamphlet I entitled, "Deterioration of the Puritan
+Stock, and its Causes," and printed 140,000 copies, which I sent to all the
+clergymen and physicians in our country whose names I could get, regarding
+them as the teachers and leaders of the people, and largely responsible for
+the existence of at least some of the prevailing evils of life.
+
+Within the last few years pamphlets have been written by prominent
+clergymen of some of the prevailing denominations advocating the use of
+fermented wine, especially for sacramental purposes, in strong language,
+and claiming that it is a good and useful fluid. This seemed to aid and
+comfort distillers, brewers, and saloonists very much. At last one appeared
+entitled "Communion Wine," in which the advocates for the use of the "Fruit
+of the Vine," or pure unfermented wine, were assailed in no very gentle
+language. Several thousand of this pamphlet were sent by a Rev. Doctor of
+Divinity to clergymen, with a special request from him, to at least some of
+them, that they should read them and give him their opinion as to its
+merits. About 285 clergymen responded, most of them in favor of the views
+contained in the pamphlet, but 22 most decidedly opposed. The arguments in
+favor of fermented wine were based upon assumptions which were entirely
+groundless, and which have again and again been exposed. I could but feel
+that the time had come when a concise statement of the truth upon the wine
+question should be written and placed in the hands of every clergyman in
+our country; and as, in the controversy extending over several years, I had
+had occasion to examine the wine question in all of its various aspects,
+and to read whatever I could find written on both sides of the question,
+and had had suggestions from, and the cooperation of, some of the most
+distinguished scholars upon this question in this country and England, I
+felt that it was my duty to write a reply, which I did, of 38 pages, which
+was printed in connection with a short article on "The Holy Supper is
+Representative," by Mr. J. R. Hoffer, editor of the Mount Joy
+_Herald_, Mount Joy, Pa. Of this pamphlet over 80,000 were sent by Mr.
+Hoffer to clergymen in the United States. And of my reply alone, in a tract
+form, which is based upon the letter of the Sacred Scriptures--the
+testimony of ancient writers and science--about 50,000 copies have been
+printed and distributed by Mr. J. N. Stearns, 58 Reade Street, New York,
+who keeps a supply on hand to fill all orders.
+
+The last pamphlet before this one which I have written is one recently
+published by "The Swedenborg Publishing Association," of Germantown,
+Philadelphia, Pa., entitled "The Essential Points of the Wine Question
+Carefully Examined," which, with an Addendum of 6 pages by W. J. Parsons,
+son of the late Professor Theophilus Parsons, contained 70 pages. This
+pamphlet was written for Newchurchmen and based upon the Sacred Scriptures
+as unfolded by the Science of Correspondences revealed through Swedenborg.
+This pamphlet was sent only to 10,000 Newchurchmen.
+
+
+THE RESULTS OF EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF TEMPERANCE.
+
+The reader may reasonably inquire what results have followed all the
+efforts which I have made to call the attention of the clergy and laity of
+the New Church, and the clergy of other churches, to the importance of
+using as a communion wine, the genuine "Fruit of the Vine" as the Lord has
+organized, ripened, and sweetened it in the grape, instead of a leavened or
+fermented wine, which, when used as a beverage, causes disease,
+drunkenness, insanity, and death, in innumerable instances, among the
+clergy and laity of our churches, and enslaves their children often before
+their rational faculties are fully developed. I am happy to say that to-day
+there are quite a number of New-Church clergymen, in this country and
+England, and a large number of laymen, who, after a careful examination of
+the subject, are satisfied that the good wine of the Word and the Writings,
+and the only wine suitable for use as a Communion wine, is always the fruit
+of the vine, and never fermented wine. Many of these clergymen and church
+members have not always thought thus, and did not when I commenced writing
+upon the subject.
+
+At the Annual Meetings of the General Convention of the New Church, when
+unfermented as well as fermented wine has been permitted to be used, and
+full notice has been given, nearly or quite one-third of the members
+present have deliberately partaken of unfermented wine.
+
+I am satisfied, from what I have seen and heard, that one of the most
+useful works which the Lord has enabled me to do was the writing and
+sending the reply to "Communion Wine" to over 80,000 clergymen. The clergy
+of the prevailing organizations are not so difficult to reach upon this
+subject as are a majority of those of the New Church, for they have not
+confirmed themselves in favor of fermented wine from the writings for the
+New Dispensation. It is one thing to see new truths when they are revealed,
+but it is another step to be willing to see that those truths condemn
+falses in which we have strongly confirmed ourselves, or evil habits in
+which we delight, and to avoid confirming ourselves in falses, and to avoid
+striving to justify evils. To do the latter means to endure and resist
+temptations, and to engage in a warfare until the old man with his deeds is
+put off.
+
+The New Church is descending from God out of heaven, and as it progresses,
+fermented wine is disappearing from the Communion tables of Christian
+Churches.
+
+"The new wine," says Swedenborg, "is the Divine Truth of the New Testament,
+and thus of the New Church." (A. R. 316.)
+
+The new wine for the New Christian Church is unfermented wine, pure as it
+comes from the hands of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in the fruit of
+the vine, and not a leavened wine. And when men return to its exclusive
+use, multitudes now enslaved, diseased, and insane from leavened wine will
+be set free, cured and restored to their right mind by the Great
+Physician--by the inflowing life from Him through this physical
+representative of His blood.
+
+The New Church is not a new sect or organization, but a new faith and a
+renewed life resulting from a revelation of Divine Truth, made by the Lord
+through Emanuel Swedenborg, for the benefit of all sects and all men, that
+the Christian Church may "revive again" and be reunited in the bonds of
+Charity, by worshiping the one God whose name is one--even the Lord Jesus
+Christ--and by striving to live a life according to His commandments.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+FINAL APPEAL TO THE CLERGY.
+
+
+I again appeal to you, as Christian men, to lay aside prejudice and
+preconceived ideas, if you are troubled with any that have come down to you
+from darker ages, and to patiently examine the writings of Emanuel
+Swedenborg.
+
+If you desire and are prepared to read with open eyes and a willing heart,
+you can but see that the fig-tree is putting forth its leaves, and that we
+are living in the dawning light and warmth of a new summer. Look at the
+radical changes which have taken place within the last one hundred and
+thirty-five years, and are taking place to-day with increasing rapidity, in
+every department of science, arts, mechanics, medicine, and even in the
+religious sentiments of the people and in theology, and in civil and
+ecclesiastical governments, and you may rest assured, that as certain as
+the Word of the Lord is true, so sure it is that we are now seeing but the
+beginning of the changes which are yet to be witnessed; for the sure word
+of prophecy is, "Behold, I make all things new"--New Heavens and a New
+Earth--old things are to pass away, and we can see that they are passing
+away.
+
+Swedenborg assures us that he was permitted by the Lord to witness the Last
+Judgment in 1757, which, like all general judgments, took place in the
+spiritual world. The Lord when on earth declared, "Now is the judgment of
+this world, now is the prince of this world cast out." Swedenborg tells us
+that between the Lord's first coming and His second coming vast societies
+were organized in the world of spirits, which is intermediate between
+heaven and hell, from among those who were not fully prepared for either
+heaven or hell; and they were associated with those of like affections and
+persuasions in this world. As the First Christian Church became gradually
+perverted by false doctrines and evils of life, and as its members
+increased in the spiritual world, their influence was more and more felt
+among the religious societies in this world, interfering with the inflowing
+of good and truth from the Lord and His Word into the minds of men, and
+threatening their ability to see and obey the truth. The judgment consisted
+in a new influx of Divine truth into such societies, the effects of which
+were such that those who were really good were received into heaven, and
+those who were evil joined their like in hell, glad to escape from the new
+inflowing of heavenly light and life. In this way they were separated from
+men on the earth and human freedom reestablished. The effects of that
+judgment are to-day gradually being manifested here on earth.
+
+Swedenborg tells us that he witnessed the downfall of Babylon the great in
+the spiritual world. By Babylon is meant those who are in the love of
+spiritual dominion over the souls of men. And also he witnessed the casting
+down of the Dragon. By the Dragon is meant those who are in the doctrine of
+salvation by faith and ceremonials alone.
+
+As the above vast organizations in the spiritual world were then removed
+from contact with men, I will let Swedenborg speak of some of the results
+which followed that judgment in the spiritual world, and of those which are
+following and which must follow in the Church on earth.
+
+"After the Last Judgment (in 1757) a new heaven was formed from among
+Christians, only from those, however, who acknowledged the Lord to be the
+God of heaven and earth, and also repented in the world of their evil
+works. From this heaven the New Church on earth, which is the New
+Jerusalem, descends, and will continue to descend.... And the New Church
+on earth makes one with the New Heaven." (Preface to A.R.)
+
+"In this new Christian heaven are all those who, from the first formation
+of the Christian Church, worshiped the Lord and lived according to His
+commandments in the Word, and were therefore in charity and faith from the
+Lord through the Word." (A.R. 876.)
+
+Swedenborg tells us that "the slavery and captivity in which the man of the
+Church was formerly" were removed by the Last Judgment; so that "he can
+now, from restored liberty, more easily perceive interior truths if he has
+a desire for them." (L.J. 74.) And again he tells us that, as a result of
+the Last Judgment, the people of Christendom "would be in a more free state
+of thinking on matters of faith, that is, on spiritual things which relate
+to heaven, because spiritual liberty has been restored to them" (L.J. 73);
+and that consequently "the state of the world and of the Church before the
+Last Judgment," compared with what it was, or was to be after, "was as
+evening and night compared with morning and day." (Contin. L. J.)
+
+Now can we not all see that the very changes anticipated in the above
+quotations are rapidly taking place in the Christian world all around us?
+Men and women are beginning to cease to be willing to be led blindly by
+clergymen and creeds, with their understandings under subjection to dogma.
+Many of our clergy, we see, are not willing to be thus led. Swedenborg
+tells us that in this New Dispensation men are to be led in freedom
+according to reason, and that professing to believe doctrines which they
+neither understand nor perceive to be true is of very little use to men.
+
+As false doctrines are passing away, is it not of vast moment that true and
+rational doctrines should take their place, that our houses and churches be
+not left desolate? Somewhat extensively among the clergy, and far more
+extensively among scientists and intelligent people, is the Divine origin
+of the Sacred Scriptures being called in question. In the writings of
+Swedenborg, as has already been stated, you will find this question clearly
+and distinctly settled, for you are there shown that they are written
+according to the law of correspondence between natural and spiritual
+things, and therefore that they contain a connected spiritual sense which
+causes them to differ from all merely human writings, and demonstrates
+their Divine origin to all who are willing to examine and to see the truth.
+The day is not far distant when, in the Christian Church, the Sacred
+Scriptures will be reverenced as they have never been before; for the
+coming of the Son of Man in the Clouds of Heaven, or in the literal sense
+of the Word, is with power and great glory.
+
+Even now in the dawning light old false doctrines are rapidly passing away.
+Look! What congregation would be willing to sit quietly and hear the
+doctrine of infant damnation proclaimed? Who is satisfied with the doctrine
+of election and predestination as taught but a few years ago? That favorite
+doctrine of my childhood's days, the vicarious atonement as taught then, is
+trembling in the balance, for it is being found not to accord with the Word
+of the Lord, nor does it appeal to human reason. The doctrine of a trinity
+of Divine Persons will soon follow. How few even now believe in the
+resurrection of the material body! Our church members are rapidly coming to
+believe with St. Paul that there is a natural body and there is a spiritual
+body, and that the spiritual body is raised at death, and that flesh and
+blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. The doctrine of a literal hell of
+fire and brimstone, as taught but a few years ago, is rarely taught to-day.
+
+And now, Christian ministers, as these old doctrines are departing, what
+have you to substitute for them? You know very well that when extreme views
+are given up, there is great danger that opposite extreme views will be
+substituted.
+
+Troublesome questions are arising to-day before the clergy and in our
+churches, which require to be handled with care by intelligent and wise
+men, if the Lord and His Word are to be reverenced in our churches as they
+should be, and men are to be led to live heavenly lives.
+
+The question of probation after death is troubling many clergymen and
+laymen at this day. They see that men and women often leave this world in a
+very uncertain state of life, so far as they can judge, ill prepared for
+either heaven or hell; what is to-become of them is the question. Are they
+all to put away their false doctrines and evils of life and go to heaven,
+as some believe; or are some of them to go through purgatory and finally,
+after being purified, to enter heaven, and the rest go to hell, as others
+believe? Or again, has a man the same chance of choosing and the same
+ability to choose between truth and falsehood and good and evil, and of
+shaping his life there, as he has here?
+
+Upon these questions the New Revelations made by the Lord through Emanuel
+Swedenborg throw a flood of rational light. They show us that heaven is not
+a place into which a man can be let as a matter of favor; but that, for a
+man to enter heaven, heaven must be within him. Heaven consists in loving
+supremely the Lord and the neighbor, or obedience to the Divine
+Commandments. Hell consists in loving self, money, vain show, ruling over
+others without regard to use, or sensual gratifications supremely. Before a
+man can become a resident of hell, hell must be within him. Men enter the
+other world in much the same state as they leave this world; death does not
+change their essential characters. Good angels appointed by the Lord strive
+to teach heavenly truths to all, and to lead all into heavenly affections
+and societies who are willing to be led. But as the Lord respects the
+freedom of all men in this world and compels no man to love Him, his
+neighbor, or obedience to the Divine Commandments supremely, He compels no
+man there. The Lord casts no one into hell, but when our material bodies
+are put off and we appear among the inhabitants of the spiritual world, our
+thoughts and intentions can be seen more clearly than in this world;
+consequently the good and evil necessarily separate; and finally every one
+sooner or later associates with his like, the good forming heavenly
+societies and the evil, infernal societies.
+
+It is evident that those who are guided in all they think and do by either
+love of the Lord, the neighbor, or of obeying the Divine Commandments, need
+no penal laws or punishments. It is equally evident that men who are
+actuated by the supreme love of self, vain show, or sensual gratifications
+must be restrained, in that world as in this, by penal laws and
+punishments. But we are told that the Lord governs the hells as well as the
+heavens through His angels, and does not permit vindictive or unjust
+punishments. All punishments in that world are reformatory, or for the
+purpose of restraining spirits from evil doing, and protecting others, as
+all punishments should be in this world. The Lord's tender mercies are
+around all His creatures in that world as well as in this, and He strives
+to make all happy. Even the evil man is permitted to enjoy his delight so
+long as he does not interfere with or harm others or himself.
+
+Here in this state of probation good and evil men dwell together in the
+same society, so that the evil have good instruction and good examples, and
+every chance for repentance and reformation; but in hell they dwell among
+their like, and it would seem that they are not so favorably circumstanced
+for changing their life's love there as in this world. In the world of
+spirits into which we enter at death, all who are not fully prepared by
+their lives here for heaven or hell tarry until their characters are fully
+developed, when each one goes to his own congenial society either in heaven
+or hell, according to his ruling love.
+
+Swedenborg, so far as he was permitted, describes what he saw in the
+spiritual world; but he did not claim to be a prophet--the future, he
+tells us, is known to the Lord alone, not even to the angels. Some of the
+readers of his writings, from certain passages contained therein, have come
+to think that the Lord in His loving kindness may yet so change the
+inhabitants of hell that they may be received into heavenly societies, as
+some have drawn from the letter of the Sacred Scriptures a similar
+conclusion; while a majority of readers, in both cases, have come to a
+different conclusion. But the future is known to the Lord alone, and He is
+love itself, and in His hands we may safely leave the inhabitants of hell;
+especially as our belief one way or the other will not change the final
+destiny of a single individual one iota; therefore it is not a practical
+question.
+
+
+PREVAILING EVILS OF LIFE.
+
+We are living in the midst of prevailing evils of life which should command
+the special attention of every clergyman and every Christian. Even infants
+and children are dying on all sides, and those that survive are being
+contaminated often even in our churches by the example of clergymen and
+prominent members.
+
+But yesterday, as I was speaking to a very intelligent, well-known citizen
+of New York, he expressed to me the opinion that gambling and a desire to
+obtain money or valuables without returning a due equivalent, by purchasing
+lottery or chance tickets and stock gambling, is a greater evil than
+selling and drinking intoxicating drinks; and he most earnestly blamed many
+of our clergy and churches for the prevalence of this great evil; for, as
+is well known, it is at church fairs that the young and even children
+frequently take their first lessons, enticed thereto by the hope that they
+may be able to obtain an article of much value for a trifling sum. In this
+the work of demoralization commences, and leads naturally to gambling for
+money, betting on games, horse-racing, buying lottery tickets, and stock
+gambling, stimulated by the hope of making fortunes by risking small
+amounts, not stopping to think that what they gain, if successful, others
+must lose who are probably no better able to lose than they are. How much
+short of stealing is this? Look at the sad results which follow the
+practice started in so many of our churches--the poverty, the thieving, the
+failures, the breaches of trust, the disgrace and loss of character, and
+the poor wretches in prison, and others who merit punishment. Christian
+ministers, is not this a most fearful evil which you, if guilty of
+encouraging it, should put away from your own lives and teach your people
+to shun as a sin against God?
+
+Again, it is the duty of husbands and wives to reproduce their species or
+to multiply and replenish the earth, and this is the most important use of
+life. Yet a vast multitude of women, by tight dressing to gratify vanity,
+impair health and their ability to bear healthy, well-formed children, and
+even their ability to nurse such as are born to them; and such deformed
+women walk into and out of our churches as examples to young girls, without
+one word of admonition. And some church members deliberately shirk the
+responsibility of rearing families of children, either because it is not
+fashionable to have large families, or because children would interfere
+with their selfish or sensual enjoyment; and this is not the worst which
+could be said of some.
+
+Now, although it is equally the duty of all husbands and wives to multiply
+and replenish the earth, yet church members who, either for the want of
+ability or inclination, have no children, and bachelors and maidens who do
+not marry, will stand idly by and see the husbands and wives, however poor
+they may be, who are willing to do their duty, take the entire care of
+their children until they reach adult age; they deliberately leave the
+entire responsibility upon the parents of caring for and raising the money
+required for the support of the children, who are to be the men and women
+of the next generation. Is this right? It is true that public schools have
+been established, for all feel that it will not be safe for the children,
+who are to rule our country a few years hence to grow up in ignorance.
+
+Men and women will roll in their thousands and hundreds of thousands and
+even millions, and see the toiling, struggling, hard-working brothers and
+sisters, sometimes even in the same church organization, striving to do
+faithfully their part in the care of the children who are to people and
+replenish the earth, without feeling that they have any responsibility or
+duty to perform in the way of giving a helping hand in this most important
+work of life. Now I ask you, brethren of the Christian Church, are such
+things in accordance with the grand and noble precepts of Christianity, in
+which we profess to believe--thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself? Of
+course, husbands and wives who are able are but too glad to take care of
+their own children; but there are multitudes who need help. If wealthy
+husbands and wives are not willing or able to have children, or if
+bachelors and maidens are not willing to marry and have children, have they
+no duty to perform toward aiding, even financially, and by their own hands
+if such help is needed, those who do this most important work, and thus add
+to the number of intelligent and Christian inhabitants of our country? for
+the want of whom our country is being flooded by multitudes of the most
+ignorant of other nations, who have comparatively no knowledge of our free
+institutions and of religious freedom.
+
+It is true that our poorhouses are established at the expense of the
+public, to which parents who are without means or employment or adequate
+wages to support their children can go with their children to avoid
+starvation; but what parents desire to take their children to such
+institutions? And we have also charitable institutions to which children
+can be sent to prevent their starving and going naked; but what father or
+mother likes to part with their children? It is not charity that such need,
+but the kind, helping hands of Christian brothers and sisters. All things
+are to be made new. As the light and especially the heat or love of the New
+Jerusalem descend into the minds of men, hard-hearted selfishness will
+disappear, and true Christians will love and strive to help one another and
+all men as they may need.
+
+And now, in conclusion, I appeal to you, Christian ministers, one and all,
+to diligently read the Revelations made by the Lord at His second coming
+through His chosen servant, Emanuel Swedenborg, for they will give you new
+light and, if you are willing, new life. The light is spreading from the
+East even unto the West, and the day is not far distant when a clergyman,
+to be acceptable to an intelligent Christian congregation, must be familiar
+with the grand and rational doctrines and precepts revealed by the Lord for
+the benefit of the men of our day and the Church of the future.
+
+It must be evident to you even now that many of the clergy and intelligent
+laymen are steadily drifting in one of two directions; either to a distinct
+recognition of the Supreme Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the
+holiness and Divinity of the Sacred Scriptures and of the life of charity
+or of obedience to the Divine Commandments as the only way of salvation; or
+to an ignoring the existence of a personal God, and of course of all
+revelation from God. There is no middle ground. Choose ye this day whom ye
+will serve.
+
+Below you will find a notice of a work on the Science of Correspondences,
+the science in accordance with which all material things were created and
+the Sacred Scriptures were written. Send for it. It will give you new
+light.
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+
+ADDENDUM.
+
+A REVIEW OF AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION"
+IN "THE CHRISTIAN UNION."
+
+
+In the _Christian Union_ for July 11, 1891, will be found an article
+written by a clergyman which should not be allowed to go unnoticed. The
+reverend gentleman assumes in that article that "the life and teaching of
+Jesus Christ constitute a Divine standard for all His followers." And so do
+I most unequivocally; but I also claim that we should not be blinded by
+either strong confirmations or sensual appetites in favor of false views
+and evil habits, so that, having eyes, we see not the truth and
+consequently cannot lead a life in accordance with the truth. The writer
+truly says: "Christ is not to be blindly, but intelligently, followed." In
+other words, I would say the light afforded by science, by well-known facts
+and ancient history, must be allowed to shine upon such an important
+question as the one under consideration. Then again, the testimony of
+distinguished scholars who have devoted years to a careful consideration of
+the wine question in the light of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, of
+ancient history and science, should not be ignored, and statements made
+which have repeatedly been shown to have no foundation in truth, but which
+are contradicted by facts which at this day should be known by every man
+who attempts to write upon such an important question.
+
+In the consideration of this question the above writer appears to utterly
+confound good and truth with the evil and false, which, it is manifest,
+should never be done. His whole argument is based upon assumptions which we
+shall find, the more carefully we examine them, have no foundation in
+truth. He assumes that fermented wine is a good and useful article to be
+used as a beverage, and, after admitting that he thinks the law of
+Christian love requires a general abstinence at the present day, he says:--
+
+"But I trust that this necessity belongs simply to the present epoch, and I
+am not without hope that we shall yet come to a time--though not in my
+day--when a pure wine can be used by society with no more seriously evil
+results than now are produced by the use of tea and coffee."
+
+By pure wine he means fermented wine. He apparently thinks that tea and
+coffee are harmless drinks. Of this more hereafter. Again he says:--
+
+"Any permanent temperance reform, however great emphasis it may lay on a
+Christian duty of total abstinence, must draw sharply and maintain stoutly
+the distinction between total abstinence and temperance, between
+drunkenness and drinking. It must recognize drunkenness to be everywhere
+and always a sin, drinking to be made so only by the circumstances;
+temperance to be always and everywhere a duty, total abstinence to be only
+a means now to be employed for promoting temperance."
+
+Now let us examine this assumption in the light of science, facts, and
+history.
+
+First. It is known that all the drunkenness in the world up to the sixth
+century--and history and even the Bible shows us that there was plenty of
+it, and this the above writer admits--was caused by drinking fermented wine
+and other fermented drinks, for the art of distillation was unknown. And
+almost all of the drunkenness in our country at this day results either
+directly from men and boys drinking wine, beer, or other fermented drinks,
+or from the appetite thus formed leading them on to the use of distilled
+liquors; for it is rarely that they commence by using such liquors. There
+has never been an age in the world's history when the drinking of fermented
+wine did not lead large numbers of those who drank it to drunkenness, and
+it is safe to say that in no age of the world has there ever been more
+drunkenness among those who drink at all than there is at this day.
+
+As to temperance: That old philosopher, Aristotle, tells us that temperance
+consists in the moderate use of things good and useful, and total
+abstinence from things injurious.
+
+Second. Fermented wine is either one of the good gifts of God, to be used
+as a drink to build up and supply the wants of the human body, and may be
+used freely as we may use milk, the unfermented juice of grapes, and water,
+or it is not. Let us examine this question carefully for a few moments. We
+all know that there are animal, vegetable, and mineral substances which act
+as poisons when taken into the stomach, and that to thus use them is to
+violate the laws of health and life and to seriously endanger health,
+reason, and life; and not a few are destroyed by their use. The Divine
+commandment in regard to all such we know is, "Thou shall not" use them if
+they kill or endanger life when used. We know that there are other
+substances which are useful and necessary to nourish and build up the body
+and give it strength and health. How are we to distinguish these two
+classes of substances? By their effects on the body we may distinguish
+between good and useful substances and poisons. There is a natural appetite
+for wholesome food, which is satisfied by the usual quantity, and the
+middle-aged and old do not require any more nor even as much as the young
+man. But for poisons, unless they are made sweet by other substances, there
+is no natural appetite, but it has to be cultivated by using the poison;
+but when the appetite is once developed no other substance in nature will
+satisfy the appetite for it, and the appetite demands that the quantity
+taken shall be steadily increased to relieve the craving and diseased
+symptoms which the poison has caused; and if the natural inclination to
+increase the quantity or frequency is followed, unrestrained by caution or
+conscience, the individual comes at last to be able to take a quantity with
+impunity which would kill more than one person not addicted to its use. We
+all know that this is notably true in regard to fermented wine and other
+alcoholic drinks, opium and tobacco.
+
+Again, all poisons, when taken into the stomach in a sufficient quantity
+and length of time, cause specific diseases characteristic of the poison
+taken. Healthy food does not do this. You see a man reeling in the streets,
+or drunk on the sidewalk, or with rum-blossoms on his face; you know that
+he has been drinking fermented wine or some fluid containing its chief
+ingredient--alcohol. Now, unfermented wine and other healthy drinks never
+cause such specific diseases or symptoms, however freely used.
+
+Here then, in the characteristics given above, is a broad gulf, as broad
+and deep as that between Heaven and Hell, between nourishing, life-giving
+substances and the poisons named above. Of the one we are to use
+temperately, but from the latter we are to totally abstain. "Thou shalt
+not" is clearly written.
+
+In all ages fermented wine has been regarded as a poison. In the Bible it
+is likened to the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps. Solomon
+tells us not to look upon it, for at last it biteth like a serpent and
+stingeth like an adder. Clement of Alexandria, who lived at the close of
+the second century, says: "From its use arise excessive desires and
+licentious conduct. The circulation is accelerated, and the body inflames
+the soul."--_Divine Law as to Wines._
+
+We know by observation that fermented wine is a fluid which fills man when
+he drinks of it as freely as he may of healthy needed drinks with all
+manner of uncleanness of both body and soul. How can a clergyman talk of
+using such a fluid temperately? Can we steal temperately, bear false
+witness temperately, commit adultery temperately, or murder temperately? Is
+it right to deliberately do any of these acts temperately? If it is, then
+it is right to deliberately drink fermented wine temperately, which we know
+endangers health, freedom, reason and life, and leads men to commit crimes
+even the most filthy. One glass leads naturally to another, and that to
+many; just as stealing pennies leads to stealing dollars, and hundreds and
+thousands of dollars. A perverted appetite or passion can never be fully
+satisfied, but it leads to sorrow. All such evils must be shunned totally
+as sins against God.
+
+It would be difficult to find elsewhere in the English language, in so few
+lines, as many statements so absolutely untrue, dogmatically proclaimed, as
+in the following from the article in the _Christian Union_:--
+
+"This notion of two wines, one fermented, the other unfermented, must be
+dismissed as a pure invention, unsupported by any facts, unsanctioned by
+any scholarship. There was but one wine known to the ancients--fermented
+grape-juice. This was the wine Christ made, drank, blessed. There was no
+other used in His time or known to His day."
+
+First, as to scholarship. Does the writer of the above believe that he is
+superior as to scholarship to the following distinguished scholars, all of
+whom believe in "this notion of two wines, one fermented and the other
+unfermented," several of whom, after a most patient and careful examination
+of the question, have written one or more volumes upon the subject, and one
+of them has been twice to the Bible lands for the purpose of carefully
+investigating the question there and verifying his statements? viz., Moses
+Stuart, Eliphalet Nott, Alonzo Potter, George Bush, Albert Barns, William
+M. Jacobus, Taylor Lewis, Geo. W. Sampson, Leon C. Field, F. R. Lees,
+Norman Kerr, Canon Farrar, Canon Wilberforce, Dawson Burns, Wm. Ritchie,
+George Duffield, C. H. Fowler, Wm. Patton, Adam Clarke, J. M. Van Buren, S.
+M. Isaacs, Wm. M. Thayer, John J. Owen; Charles Hartwell, and many other
+writers I could name, who, after a most critical examination of the
+question, have written earnestly in favor of the "notion of two wines, one
+fermented and the other unfermented." In view of the opinion of such men as
+these, can the above writer say truthfully that the "notion of two wines"
+is "unsanctioned by any scholarship"? Have we any more distinguished
+scholars than those I have named? Are not scholars who have for years made
+a special study of a question like this, in all of its aspects, much more
+competent to judge correctly than those who have not? It is certain that
+the writer in the _Christian Union_ has never examined both sides of
+this question with the slightest care; for if he had done so, as an honest
+Christian man, as I trust he is, he could never have made many of the
+statements he has made. He says that the "notion of two wines" is
+unsupported by any facts, and that "there was but one kind of wine known to
+the ancients--fermented grape-juice." Has he never read the Bible--even the
+New Testament? I shall first bring the testimony of the Lord Himself
+against him. He says:--
+
+"Neither do men put new wine (_oinon neon_) into old bottles; else the
+bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish; but they
+put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Matt, ix, 17.
+
+Here we have the fresh, unfermented juice of the grape called wine--"new
+wine." It could not be put into old bottles and be preserved, for old
+bottles, especially skin bottles, are sure to contain leaven cells, which
+would inevitably cause fermentation and burst the bottles, whether they
+were of skins, glass, or earthenware. We know that fermented wine can be
+preserved in old bottles, and that it is so preserved without bursting the
+bottles. Here, then, the fresh, unfermented juice of grapes is called wine
+by the Lord. Should not our clergy heed His testimony?
+
+There is no difficulty in preserving the juice of grapes, or new wine,
+unfermented by various methods described by ancient writers. Thus
+Columella, who lived during the Apostolic days, tells us to fill bottles
+with fresh grape-juice and seal or cork them carefully and sink them in a
+well of cold water and fermentation will not ensue. I have tried it
+successfully; any one can do the same. Next, fill a new or clean bottle
+with new wine just pressed from the grapes up to its neck, then pour about
+half an inch of sweet oil on the surface of the wine and cork it carefully,
+leaving a little space between the cork and oil, and stand the bottle in a
+cellar, and it will keep. I have three bottles thus preserved free from
+fermentation for over three years; the cork must not be removed and the
+bottle must not be shaken. Again, heat the juice to 185 [degrees] Fahr.,
+or to the boiling-point if you please, bottle, cork, and seal it, and it
+will never ferment.
+
+Now we will turn hastily to the Old Testament. In Isaiah xvi, 10, we read:
+"The treaders shall tread out no wine (_yayin_) in their presses."
+Here we have the juice of grapes, as it is trodden from grapes, called
+wine.
+
+In Jeremiah xl, 10, 12, we read: "But gather ye wine (_yayin_) and
+summer fruits and oils," and we read that they "gathered wine and summer
+fruits very much." Here we have the juice of grapes called wine, as it is
+gathered in with other fruits.
+
+Chapter xlviii, 33: "And I have caused wine (_yayin_) to fail from the
+wine-presses."
+
+Dr. Adam Clarke says: "The Hebrew, Greek, and Latin words which are
+rendered 'wine' mean simply the expressed juice of the grape."
+
+This juice, like our cider, may be fermented or unfermented, and it is
+still called by the same name. Here, then, in both the New and Old
+Testaments, we have the unfermented juice of grapes distinctly recognized
+as wine, and called wine; and all admit that the fermented juice of grapes
+is called wine, consequently there are two wines. And distinguished
+scholars say:--
+
+"In all the passages where the good wine is named (in the Bible), there is
+no lisp of warning, no intimation of danger, no hint of disapprobation, but
+always of decided approval. How bold and strongly marked is the contrast!
+
+"The _one_ the cause of intoxication, of violence, and of woes; "The
+_other_ the occasion of comfort and of peace. "The _one_ the
+cause of irreligion and of self-destruction; "The _other_ the devout
+offering of piety on the altar of God. "The _one_ the symbol of the
+divine wrath; "The _other_ the symbol of spiritual blessings. "The
+_one_ the emblem of eternal damnation; "The _other_ the emblem of
+eternal salvation."--_Bible Wines_.
+
+  "The _one_ the cause of intoxication, of violence, and of woes;
+  "The _other_ the occasion of comfort and of peace.
+  "The _one_ the cause of irreligion and of self-destruction;
+  "The _other_ the devout offering of piety on the altar of God.
+  "The _one_ the symbol of the divine wrath;
+  "The _other_ the symbol of spiritual blessings.
+  "The _one_ the emblem of eternal damnation;
+  "The _other_ the emblem of eternal salvation."--_Bible Wines_.
+
+"The distinction in _quality_ between the good and the bad wine is as
+clear as that between good and bad men, or good and bad wives, or good and
+bad spirits; for one is the constant subject of warning, designated poison
+literally, analogically, and figuratively; while the other is commended as
+refreshing and innocent, which no alcoholic wine is."--_Lees'
+Appendix_, p. 232.
+
+_Tirosh_ is another Hebrew word that is often used in the Old
+Testament for grapes and the juice of grapes, like our word must, but it is
+rarely if ever applied to the juice after fermentation has commenced. We
+read: "They shall gather together corn and new wine (_tirosh_), they
+shall eat together and praise Jehovah, and _they who are gathered
+together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness_."--Isaiah lxii, 9.
+
+And again, in regard to _tirosh_, we read: "That thou mayest gather in
+thy corn, thy wine (_tirosh_), and thine oil." (Deut. xi, 14.) "Thus
+saith the Lord, as the new wine (_tirosh_) is found in the cluster,
+and _one_ saith destroy it not, for a blessing is in it." (Isaiah lxv,
+8.) "And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place He shall
+choose, the tithe of thy corn and wine (_tirosh_)." (Deut. xiv, 22.)
+Here we see that _tirosh_ was to be eaten.
+
+The word _tirosh_ occurs thirty-eight times in the Hebrew Bible.
+
+It is translated into Greek, in the Septuagint, by [seventy] distinguished
+Hebrew scholars, about three centuries before the Christian era, as
+follows: "The LXX renders _tirosh_ in every case but two by
+_oinos_ (the Greek word for wine), the generic name for _yayin_."
+
+Now, are we for a moment to suppose that the above seventy distinguished
+ancient scholars did not understand as well what was included under the
+name of wine in their day, as does the writer in the _Christian Union_
+to-day, when they classed the unfermented juice of grapes with wine, and
+called it wine? How can the above writer say that "there was but one kind
+of wine known to the ancients--fermented grape juice"? Unfermented wine not
+known to the ancients, indeed! How utterly contrary to the truth, and to
+well-known facts, is such a statement. Just look a moment, gentle reader--
+
+"Aristotle ('Meteorologica,' iv, 9) says of the sweet wine of his day
+([Greek Text]), that it did not intoxicate ([Greek Text]). And Athenaeus
+('Banquet,' ii, 24) makes a similar statement."--_Oinos_.
+
+"Josephus, the Jewish historian, paraphrasing the dream of Pharaoh's
+butler, who dreamed that he took clusters of grapes and pressed them into
+Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup to Pharaoh, repeatedly calls this
+grape-juice _wine_. Bishop Lowth, 1778, in his 'Commentary' (Isaiah v,
+2) says: 'The fresh juice pressed from the grape' was by Herodotus styled
+_oinos ampelinos_, that is, wine of the vine."--_Wine of the
+Word_.
+
+The celebrated Opimian wine, which Pliny [born A. D. 23] tells us (xiv, 4)
+had in his day, two centuries after it was made, the consistency of honey,
+was unquestionably an inspissated article. Such was the Taeniotic wine of
+Egypt, which Athenaeus, in his "Banquet" (i, 25), tells us had such a
+degree of richness that "it is dissolved little by little when it is mixed
+with water, just as the Attic honey is dissolved by the same process."
+
+"There is abundance of evidence," says the Rev. Dr. Patton, "that the
+ancients mixed their wines with water; not because they were so strong with
+alcohol as to require dilution, but because, being rich syrups, they needed
+water to prepare them for drinking. The quantity of water was regulated by
+the richness of the wine and the time of year."
+
+"Aristotle (born about B. C. 384) testifies that the _wines of
+Arcadia_ were so thick that they dried up in goat-skins, and that it was
+the practice to scrape them off and dissolve the scrapings in water."
+(Meteorology, iv, 10.)--"Temperance Bible Commentary."
+
+We know very well that these ancient wines, which were called wine in those
+days, which did not intoxicate, and others that were as thick as honey,
+were not fermented wines; for fermented wines do intoxicate, and wines as
+thick as honey cannot be made from fermented wine, for the albuminous and
+other substances which make condensed wines thick are cast down or out, or
+destroyed by fermentation. I have four samples of such condensed wines, or
+grape-juice, which are as thick as honey. One I obtained at Buda-Pesth,
+Hungary; one in Cairo, Egypt; one in Damascus, Asia; and the fourth was
+condensed and sent to me by a gentleman then residing in California. I have
+had these samples now over six years.
+
+Why should the writer in the _Christian Union_ quote from another
+writer, and thus try to make it appear that the ancient condensed wines
+were nothing but "grape jellies"? Does he not know that they are very
+different preparations, and prepared by different methods? Condensed wines
+are prepared by crushing and pressing the juice from the pulp, skins, and
+seeds, and then boiling or otherwise evaporating the water until the juice
+is as thick as honey, so that it can be easily preserved from fermentation?
+whereas grape jellies are made by boiling the grapes until they are well
+cooked, then rubbing or squeezing all the pulp and skins practicable
+through a colander, sieve, or coarsely-woven strainer; and then sugar is
+added to sweeten and aid in forming a jelly. Condensed wines will dissolve
+in water as we are told the ancient thick wines did, but grape jellies will
+do so only very imperfectly, for they are composed largely of the pulp of
+the grape.
+
+The writer in the _Christian Union_ tells us, in a passage already
+quoted, speaking of fermented wine:--
+
+"This was the wine Christ made, drank, blessed."
+
+And again he says:--
+
+"He (Christ) commenced His public ministry by making, by a miracle, wine in
+considerable quantity, and this apparently only to add to the joyous
+festivities of a wedding. He apparently used wine customarily, if not
+habitually. When He was about to die, He chose wine as the symbol of His
+blood, shed for many for the remission of sins, asked His Father's blessing
+on a cup containing wine, passed it to His disciples with the direction,
+'Drink ye all of it.'"
+
+Now, intelligent Christian reader, what are we to think of the above
+statements? Let us look at these statements in the light of reason, common
+sense, science, and revelation. Is it probable, is it possible, that at
+that wedding feast, after the guests had drank freely of an intoxicating
+wine, that our blessed Lord, guided by love and wisdom, would create a
+large quantity more of an intoxicating wine for them to drink? It is not
+possible; and the assumption is flatly contradicted by the Governor of the
+feast, who pronounced the wine created as the "best wine." Place to the
+lips of a child of parents who do not use intoxicating drinks, or to a man
+or woman who never drinks such drinks, two glasses, one containing a
+well-fermented wine, and the other containing the sweet, delicious juice of
+good ripe grapes, and there is not the slightest doubt as to which would be
+chosen and pronounced "best" every time--try it.
+
+Then again, is it possible that, on that occasion, a kind of wine was made
+of which the Lord has never created a single drop in the fruit of the vine?
+Fermented wine is a product of leaven or ferment and of man's ingenuity;
+and its chief and essential constituent, alcohol, for which men drink it,
+is an effete product, and holds a similar relation to the leaven that urine
+does to the animal body. As Pasteur says, "ferment eats, as it were," or
+consumes the nourishing and useful ingredients in the juice of the grapes,
+decomposes them, and casts out excretions, as man does when he eats grapes.
+Consequently, fermented wine is an utterly unclean fluid, and it fills man,
+when he drinks it, with all manner of uncleanness, mentally and physically,
+from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, as we well know. It is
+preeminently a leavened substance, for it is never purified by heat, as is
+leavened bread. We have an abundance of testimony, which the reverend
+writer of the article ignores, that the Orthodox Jews have regarded, in all
+ages, and do to-day as a rule regard, fermented wine as coming under the
+restrictions placed upon leavened things.
+
+The celebrated Jewish Rabbi, S. M. Isaacs, said in 1869: "The Jews do not
+use in their feasts for sacred purposes fermented drinks of any kind. The
+marriage feast is a sacrament with us."
+
+In a recent work (1879) written by a Jewish Rabbi, the Rev. E. M. Myers,
+entitled "The Jews, their Customs and Ceremonies, with a full account of
+all their Religious Observances from the Cradle to the Grave," we read that
+among the strictly orthodox Jews, "During the entire festival (of the
+Passover) no leavened food nor fermented liquors are permitted to be used,
+in accordance with Scriptural injunctions." (Ex. xii, 15, 19, 20; Deut.
+xvii, 3, 4.) This, we think, settles the question so far as the Orthodox
+Jews are concerned; and their customs, without much question, represent
+those prevailing at the time of our Lord's advent.
+
+The editor of the London _Methodist Times_ lately witnessed the
+celebration of the Jewish Passover in that city, and at the close of the
+services said to the Rabbi: "May I ask with what _kind_ of wine you
+have celebrated the Passover this evening?" The answer promptly given
+was:--
+
+"With a non-intoxicating wine. Jews never use fermented wine in their
+synagogue services, and must not use it on the Passover, either for
+synagogue or home purposes. Fermented liquor of any kind comes under the
+category of 'leaven,' which is proscribed in so many well-known places in
+the Old Testament. * * * I have recently read the passage in Matthew in
+which the Paschal Supper is described. There can be no doubt whatever that
+the wine used upon that occasion was unfermented. Jesus, as an observant
+Jew, would not only not have drunk fermented wine on the Passover, but
+would not have celebrated the Passover in any house from which everything
+fermented had not been removed. I may mention that the wine I use in the
+service at the synagogue is an infusion of raisins. You will allow me,
+perhaps, to express my surprise that Christians, who profess to be
+followers of Jesus of Nazareth, can take what He could not possibly have
+taken as a Jew--intoxicating wine--at so sacred a service as the Sacrament
+of the Lord's Supper."
+
+[Transcriber's Note: the asterisks in the preceding paragraph
+are thus in the book.]
+
+It is utterly impossible that Jesus Christ could have used fermented wine
+as a symbol of His blood, for in its essential constituents, which are
+alcohol, vinegar, etc., it bears not the slightest resemblance to blood;
+whereas unfermented wine, in its essential constituents, which are albumen,
+sugar, etc., bears the greatest resemblance to blood. This simple fact
+ought to satisfy every intelligent man.
+
+Then again, our Lord, when He took the cup and blessed and said, "Drink ye
+all of it," knowing that fermented wine was included under the name of
+wine, and as if foreseeing that His followers might mistake and use
+intoxicating wine, carefully avoided the use of the word wine at all, and
+called it the "fruit of the vine," which unfermented wine is and fermented
+wine is not. It does seem that these facts should satisfy every
+intelligent, Christian man. Can there be, my Christian brethren, a greater
+profanation of a holy ordinance than the use of the drunkard's cup as a
+communion wine, instead of the fruit of the vine? By the use of fermented
+wine as a communion wine many a man who was struggling to reform his life
+has been led back to drunkenness and death. I have known of some sad
+instances.
+
+It might be well for some of our clergy to hear and heed the warning voice
+of the Sacred Scriptures:--
+
+"'It is not for kings to drink wine, nor princes strong drink, lest they
+drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of the afflicted.' Here
+is abstinence enjoined, and the reason for it plainly given. Again (Lev. x,
+8-11), _it is required of the priests_: 'And the Lord spake unto Aaron,
+saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee,
+when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall
+be a statute for ever throughout your generations: That ye may put a
+difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; and that
+ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath
+spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'"
+
+"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
+thereby is not wise."--Prov. xx, i.
+
+No one questions that the wine referred to above as unholy and a mocker and
+unclean, is fermented wine, and no one supposes for a moment that it is
+unfermented wine. "But they also have erred through wine, and through
+strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred
+through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the
+way through strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For
+all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
+clean." (Isa. xxviii, 7,8.)
+
+How correctly and literally do the above words represent the effects of
+drinking fermented wine and strong drinks, seen today as of old. O
+gentlemen of the clergy! beware! beware! "Woe to him that giveth his
+neighbor drink; that putteth thy bottle to him." (Hab. ii, 5,15.) You have
+young and inexperienced men and women and even boys under your charge. May
+the Lord protect them!
+
+
+CANON WILBERFORCE ON SACRAMENTAL WINES.
+
+Canon Wilberforce is reported by the London _Temperance Record_ as
+saying at a recent meeting in England: "He believed if people desired to go
+back literally and absolutely to the days of the institution of the
+Sacrament, it would be a most difficult thing, if not impossible, to prove
+that the particular cup which their Master took in His hand in that solemn
+crisis of His life when He instituted the Holy Eucharist was fermented at
+all. There was abundant testimony to prove it was not. Some went back to
+primitive authorities. He should like to read one or two which might have
+weight with them. Take for example the testimony of St. Cyprian, who wrote
+in A. D. 230:--
+
+"'When the Lord gives the name of His body to bread, composed of the union
+of many particles, He indicates that our people, whose sins He bore, are
+united. And when He calls wine squeezed out from bunches of grapes His
+blood, He intimates that our flocks are similarly joined by the varied
+admixture of a united multitude."
+
+"This distinctly implied, for all he knew, squeezing bunches of grapes. But
+there was more important testimony from one man who was considered by a
+certain party in the Church of great value--St. Thomas Aquinas, a great
+father of the 13th century. He said:--
+
+"'The juice of ripe grapes, on the other hand, has already the form of
+wine; for its sweet taste evidences a mellowing change, which is its
+completion by natural heat (as it is said in the "Meteorologica," iv, 3,
+not far from the beginning), and for that reason this Sacrament can be
+fulfilled by the juice of grapes.'"
+
+While in Egypt in 1884 I visited the American missionaries, and asked them
+what kind of wine they used as a communion wine in their churches. They
+told me that almost all of their members were from among the Copts, who are
+the descendants from the early Christians of Egypt, who have been
+comparatively isolated and separated from the Christian world for many
+centuries, and when they told them that the Western Christians used
+fermented wine, or "shop wine," as they called it, they were horrified at
+the idea, and would not partake of it; so they steeped or soaked raisins in
+water, and then pressed the juice from them and used that, as has been done
+by the Orthodox Jews when they could not obtain pure unfermented wine. I
+visited the Grand Patriarch of the Coptic Church, and through an
+interpreter he told me that he did the same, and that it was suitable for
+use the moment that it was pressed from the raisins. The day is not far
+distant when the members of the Western Christian churches will be as much
+horrified at the idea of using fermented wine as a sacramental wine as are
+the unperverted Christians of Egypt, and this will occur when our clergy
+and laity cease to be controlled by either strong confirmations or
+preconceived ideas or by sensual appetites, and can study the Sacred
+Scriptures and ancient history, and science and well-established facts, in
+the light of reason and common sense, instead of assuming everything which
+accords with their desires, and ignoring everything which conflicts
+therewith.
+
+Again, the writer of the article I am reviewing says:--
+
+"Drunkenness is always and everywhere a sin; whether drinking is a sin
+depends upon circumstances; and whether the circumstances are such as to
+make drinking sinful, each individual must decide for himself, and answer
+for his decision, not to a priesthood, a society, or a newspaper press, but
+to his own conscience and his God."
+
+While drunk the drunkard is insane, and when not drunk he is an abject
+slave. His appetite controls him, soul and body; he will sacrifice his
+property, his reputation, and the comfort of wife and children to gratify
+it. If, gentle reader, you have witnessed the struggles which some have
+witnessed of men striving earnestly to break loose from that habit, you
+would not be so ready to pronounce drunkenness always a sin; you would
+hardly dare thus to judge the poor victim. God alone can realize what he
+suffers. I ask the intelligent reader, in the light of reason and common
+sense and of the Word of God, which is the greater sinner, the man who,
+after he has witnessed all the wretchedness, sorrows, drunkenness, and
+deaths which we see around us, deliberately takes his first glass of the
+fluid which has caused this misery, or continues to drink after he has once
+commenced, while he has the ability in freedom to restrain his appetite, or
+the man who, by thus drinking, has lost his freedom and reason, and then
+drinks to drunkenness? If either is a sinner, can there be any doubt as to
+which is the greatest sinner? A far greater number, die from steady
+drinking than from drunkenness; they die from an inability to withstand the
+ordinary causes of disease, or to resist diseased action when attacked, and
+vast multitudes die from diseases caused by so-called temperate drinking,
+short of drunkenness. The statistics of insurance companies show that the
+average duration of adult human lives is shortened from seventeen to
+twenty-four per cent. Is it no sin to enter upon or to continue such a
+life? Is such deliberate self-murder no sin? And again, no man living who
+commences and continues drinking can have any assurance that he will not
+become a drunkard. I well remember when a young man, perhaps eighteen years
+old, standing on my native New England hills, working upon the highway with
+a young man three or four years older than myself. I said to him that I
+thought it was well to make up our minds never to drink intoxicating drinks
+during health, and to join a temperance society; he differed from me, and
+he said that when he was tired, or went out in the cold and wet and got
+chilled, he thought that a little "cider brandy" did him good. "But," he
+exclaimed with great energy, "the man who cannot restrain his appetite is a
+fool! If you ever hear of my getting drunk, tell me, and I will quit
+drinking." I intimated to him that it then might be too late. Alas! alas
+for that young man! he became a drunkard; he spent the farm left by his
+father; his wife died; his children were scattered among friends; and years
+after, when I returned to my native town, I was told that he was a pauper
+at the poorhouse.
+
+We are told by the reverend gentleman in the _Christian Union_ that
+nature produces alcohol in the juices, as though its production was by a
+natural and orderly process. The process of fermentation is just as natural
+as the putrefaction of meat, when not prevented by care, and from an
+altogether similar cause; and as orderly as the eating of grain by rats if
+no care is taken to prevent it; and it is a no more natural or orderly
+process. The writer tells us that:--
+
+"Whether the community can properly, without infringing on the liberty of
+the individual, prohibit all manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors, is
+a political question, on which the life and teachings of Christ throw no
+light."
+
+A strange statement, indeed! Is it not right to prohibit theft, highway
+robbery, and other evil acts? Do Christ's teachings throw no light upon
+such questions? "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself." In our country
+the government is by the people and for the people, and voters are
+responsible for the laws made or unmade; and they should be governed by
+Christ's precepts and not by political cliques. We do not hesitate to enact
+laws to prohibit druggists and others from selling other well-known poisons
+to people without the prescription of a physician, for fear they may
+possibly be used by the purchasers to harm either themselves or others; and
+I presume the reverend writer does not seriously question the justice and
+propriety of such laws; yet, strange to say, we license men, and thus give
+the sanction of the law, to sell fermented wine, beer, and other
+intoxicating drinks, and allow them to sell tobacco, all deadly poisons,
+when they know the purchasers will use them to harm themselves and others,
+and often destroy their lives. Yes, we thus license men to sell when we
+know that these poisons are sold to men and women who are controlled by an
+unnatural appetite instead of by reason; when it is known that they have
+harmed and killed more of the human family than all other poisons put
+together, and that many of the purchasers, to say the least, will certainly
+use them to destroy health, reason, and their own lives, and to render
+their own families and all intimately associated with them unspeakably
+wretched and unhappy. And yet, exclaims the above writer, whether the
+community can prohibit such sales of alcoholic liquors or not, without
+infringing on the liberty of the individual, "is a political question, on
+which the life and teachings of Christ throw no light." And the inference
+is that Christians, preachers, and our religious press have nothing to do
+with this question. "O consistency! thou art a jewel." Let stealing become
+as universal as the selling of intoxicants, and wives and children thereby
+be deprived of their means of support as extensively as they are by the
+selling of intoxicants, would the reverend gentleman stand aloof, and
+represent that the life and teachings of Christ throw no light upon the
+question of prohibiting such a violation of the Divine commandments? Shall
+Christians stand aloof from enacting laws to prohibit stealing for fear of
+infringing on the liberty of individual thieves? Can crimes be prevented
+without interfering with the "personal liberty" of criminals to commit
+crimes?
+
+What is stealing when compared to the selling of intoxicating drinks and
+tobacco as they are sold in our streets, and all over our own and other
+lands? Kind Christian parents, which in your estimation would be the
+greatest crime, and which would you prefer, that a thief should steal from
+your boy or son, before he is twenty-one years of age, or after you cease
+to be responsible for him, his money, or that a man should sell cigarettes,
+beer, fermented wine, or other intoxicants unbeknown to you, and take his
+money, giving these poisons instead, and thus leading him on step by step,
+until an unnatural appetite is formed, and he becomes a slave to the use of
+a poison often before he has reached the age when his rational faculties
+are fully developed; and when by the use of these poisons the full
+development of his body is prevented, and his prospects for enjoying good
+health thereafter and of living to the allotted age of man are most
+materially lessened. In both instances his money is taken, and we know, by
+the poverty-stricken men and women and young men we see visiting our
+saloons, that some of the saloonists, as well as the thief, will take his
+last penny. Which is the greatest crime, to steal a man's money who is
+under bondage to a perverted appetite, and consequently comparatively
+irresponsible for his acts, or to sell him the above named poisons, which
+so seriously prevent development and endanger his health, reason, and life,
+and which bring such wretchedness and sorrow to so many homes? In both
+instances the man's money is gone, his wife and children are deprived of
+the benefit which might result from its legitimate use; but in the one case
+the man returns to his family a sober, loving husband and father--in the
+other, perchance, drunk, or on the direct road that leads to drunkenness.
+
+In reply to his intimation that the Bible permits Christians to use
+fermented wine, but the Koran does not allow Mohammedans to use it, I would
+simply intimate to the reverend gentleman that the Lord, in His good
+Providence, has permitted, through the Koran, the Mohammedans to be
+protected from the drinking of fermented wine and other intoxicating
+drinks, as He has attempted to protect Christians directly by the numerous
+warnings in His Word; but the difference lies right here--the former have
+heeded the warnings, while the latter have not, and hence the fearful
+drunkenness prevalent in Christian countries. And we see the people of
+Christian countries sending their whiskey into heathen or Gentile lands
+with their missionaries. Alas! alas! Which is better--to be a good heathen
+or a drunken Christian?
+
+A gentleman whom I desired to see resides at Constantinople. He is an
+Englishman, and when my wife and myself were there in 1885 he had resided
+there twenty-two years, and had run the largest flouring mill in Turkey. We
+visited his mill, which was about two miles up the Golden Horn, and he
+spent an evening with us at the hotel where we were stopping. During our
+conversation I said to him: "I would like to know about the Mohammedan
+Turks: what kind of men are they? In our country you can hardly call a man
+by a worse name than to call him a Turk." He replied that the Government
+officials and those who come much in contact with foreigners are apt to be
+corrupt enough. "But," he exclaimed with great emphasis, "the laboring
+Turk! the laboring Turk has a great future before him!! If I want a man to
+row me down the Golden Horn when the weather is rough, or to watch my mills
+when I am away and asleep, who I know will do his duty faithfully, I always
+choose a Turk instead of a Christian." He admitted that the fact that they
+never drink fermented wine or other intoxicating drinks was one of the
+causes of their greater reliability.
+
+"Hon. Chauncey M. Depew will scarcely be accused of fanaticism on the
+question of liquor drinking. His opinion as a man of wide observation and
+knowledge of human nature is valuable even to those who would discount his
+opinions on the political methods of dealing with the evil. Here is Mr.
+Depew's experience as stated in a speech before a company of railroad
+men:--
+
+"'Twenty-five years ago I knew every man, woman, and child in Peekskill.
+And it has been a study with me to mark boys who started in every grade of
+life with myself, to see what has become of them. I was up last fall and
+began to count them over, and it was an instructive exhibit. Some of them
+became clerks, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, doctors. _It is
+remarkable that every one of those that drank is dead;_ not one living
+of my age. Barring a few who were taken off by sickness, _every one who
+proved a wreck and wrecked his family did it from rum and no other
+cause_. Of those who were church-going people, who were steady,
+industrious, and hard-working men, who were frugal and thrifty, every
+single one of them, without an exception, owns the house in which he lives
+and has something laid by, the interest on which, with his house, would
+carry him through many a rainy day. When a man becomes debased with
+gambling, rum, or drink, he does not care; all his finer feelings are
+crowded out. The poor women at home are the ones who suffer--suffer in
+their tenderest emotions; suffer in their affections for those whom they
+love better than life.'"--_The Voice_.
+
+I think almost every man who is 75 years old, if he will look back and
+review carefully his youthful acquaintances, can bear almost if not equally
+as strong testimony as to the effects of intoxicating drinks on human life.
+
+It is certain that but a small proportion of the drinkers who died
+prematurely were drunkards; they were simply what is called temperate
+drinkers.
+
+I fully agree with the reverend writer in the _Christian Union_ that
+we should not judge others to be bad or evil men because they do not speak
+and act just as we think they should, for we cannot see the motives from
+which their words and acts spring--they are known to the Lord alone; but
+should we not judge whether a man's words and acts are true and useful and
+in accordance with the Divine Commandments, or whether they are false and
+evil and in violation of the commandments? For instance, when we clearly
+see that the arguments in favor of fermented wine are all based upon
+assumptions which the most careful investigations by scholars as competent
+as any in the world show have no foundation in truth, and when we find from
+historical records that in all ages its use has caused an immense amount of
+suffering, wretchedness, drunkenness, and an untold number of premature
+deaths; and we see the same results following its use all around us at this
+day; and when science teaches us that its use is entirely unnecessary
+during health, and a direct violation of the laws of health and life; and
+when in the Sacred Scriptures fermented wine is likened, as to its effects
+on man, to the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps, and Solomon
+tells us that at last "it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an
+adder;"--is it not clearly our duty to show to our fellow-men, and
+especially to the young, that to commence drinking fermented wine or beer,
+or to continue to drink so long as we have the power to resist the
+inclination to drink, is a violation of the commands, Thou shalt not kill,
+Thou shalt love the Lord thy God supremely, and not the gratification of a
+perverted appetite; and should we not as clearly as possible point out the
+truth, and call men to repentance and to the shunning of such evils as sins
+against God? How else is the world to be reformed and elevated, and the
+life of the New Jerusalem to descend from God out of heaven, and find an
+abiding place among men?
+
+The boy, the young man, and those of all ages, in whom the regenerate life
+has either not commenced or has barely commenced, cannot be expected to
+live and act up to the Pauline maxim--"if meat cause my brother to offend,"
+etc. Satisfy such that fermented wine is not the "cup of devils," but that
+it derives its life from the Lord through heaven instead of through hell,
+and that it is a good and useful drink, and that it is to be hoped the time
+will come when it can be safely drank, can they want any greater license
+for commencing and for continuing the life which leads to drunkenness? No
+one ever intends to become a drunkard or to destroy his life by drinking.
+He only drinks enough to satisfy his perverted appetite and to make him
+feel good; that is all.
+
+Now, dear Christian reader, what can be more unfortunate for the Christian
+Church than for clergymen standing high in the Church, as do several who
+have written in favor of fermented wine, to write when they possess
+_only_ such an extremely superficial knowledge of the wine question,
+in its Biblical, historical, scientific, and medical aspects, as is
+manifested in the article under review, and several others which have been
+printed and circulated within a few years? And how unfortunate that such
+articles should ever be published in religious periodicals that enter the
+homes where dwell children, and the young and innocent as well as drinkers!
+I thank the Lord that no religious paper bearing such seductive messages
+ever entered my father's house as I approached manhood.
+
+
+The greatest obstacle which the grand temperance reformation has to
+encounter to-day is the stand publicly taken by so many of our clergy and
+religious periodicals in favor of fermented wine as a good and useful
+drink, and the use of intoxicating wine as a communion wine in so many of
+our churches. But the True Light has come into the world, and it will shine
+more and more until the perfect day.
+
+As to tea and coffee, while they can hardly be compared with intoxicating
+drinks, tobacco, and opium, as to their injurious effects on man when he
+uses them, yet they are very far from being harmless; for, like the other
+poisons named, their use begets an unnatural appetite which healthy fluids
+will not satisfy, and they cause symptoms and diseases characteristic of
+the fluid taken. Tea causes sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, and
+other symptoms, while coffee causes the "coffee headache," often destroys
+the morning appetite; if given to children, interferes with their
+development, interferes with digestion, and causes a variety of nervous
+symptoms about the chest and stomach. Parents make a great mistake and do
+their children great injustice when they allow them to taste of tea or
+coffee before they are twenty-one years of age, or until they have passed
+out from their control. If the young can be kept from becoming enslaved by
+such habits, and consequently remain in freedom, until their rational
+faculties are fully developed, in the increasing light of this new day, it
+will not be difficult for them to see that all such substances should be
+avoided. They do not add to one's enjoyment, for they, like intoxicants,
+tobacco, and all stimulating condiments, destroy or seriously impair the
+natural delicacy of taste with which the Lord has endowed us, when we eat
+or drink wholesome and needed articles of food. I am seventy-six years of
+age, yet I never had a better appetite, and food never tasted better than
+it does to-day; and I attribute this to my having so generally avoided
+improper articles of food and drink. After a most patient and careful
+examination of both sides of the wine question in the light of Divine
+Revelation, ancient history and of science, for many years, and after
+having witnessed the fearful demoralization, the wretchedness and sorrow,
+the diseases and deaths which result from drinking fermented wine and other
+intoxicants, nothing so surprises me, and discourages me, in regard to the
+immediate future of the American people, as the pertinacity and persistency
+with which so many of the clergy of our country, without any careful
+examination of both sides of this question, are striving to justify the use
+of fermented wine as a beverage and even as a Communion wine. Instead of
+assuming and ignoring everything, let the advocates of fermented wine
+answer the following inquiry by the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott, President of
+Union College: "Can the same thing, in the same state, be good and bad; a
+symbol of wrath and a symbol of mercy; a thing to be sought after and a
+thing to be avoided? Certainly not. And is the Bible, then, inconsistent
+with itself? No, certainly."
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