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THE SCB ANTON TRIBUNE-. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1896.
ADDRESS OF THE BISHOPS
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A Document That Covers Every Ihasc
- of Methodist Work.
OP tHE GREATEST INTEREST
Chorea Extension Tho Froodatoa-Chrls-tisa
I nity-Different Conferences.
Epworth - Doctrine-Amusements.
Intoxicants-capital aad
Labor Cltlicnahip.
Below are salient pr.rts of the eplsco
pal address of the bUhops of the Meth
odist church, which was read at the
Cleveland general conference. May -The
address In full contains nearly !.
000 words:
We most heartily congratulate the
church on the success of the last four
year. The country hns been depressed.
The world has bwn in financial straits.
Vast railwav systems have none lmo
the hands of recivcrs. Great corpora
tions have been wrecked. Fortunes have
disappeared like mist. .Men s hearts have
failed them for fear, but the church or
the living; God has moved riisht on to
certain victory. The King of -Kings an
nually makes a draft on our recrultms
office, in the church militant foe a rein
forcement of the church triumphant. This
.ln Ifltroa ft-rtm III nhAllt 32.0t) mOniwTS
a year. Our church records also suffer
from the enterprise of our itinerant people,
thousands going into new states ami ter
ritories where their names are lost to. us.
But notwithstanding tills, our gain in
lay membership in the quadrenniiim lias
been 3S6.U0O, making a total membersnip
Including probationers of 2.7IK.6M.
We find our conferences more and more
crowded every year. One reason for this
abundance and excellence of ministerial
candidates is that we have In our col
leges and schools an army of 3,aj2 stu
dents, Of this army there hns been a
gain of over l.Ooo the past year and a
steady Increase for twelve years. The
Sunday schools of the churches numbered
In 1895 30,219. a gain of 2.7tW in the qim
drennlum. The number of teachers and
scholars Is 2.938.303. a gain In the past
four years of 2M1.KJS. The total number
of conversions reported In the Sunday
school In four years is 533.4SG.
The quailrennium has abundantly dem
onstrated that the church is divinely ap
pointed to evangelise the world. The con
version of India Is both more thorough
and more rapid than was the conversion of
Europe. There Is a power turning the
world upside down that cannot be ex
pressed in the language of civllzation and
secularism. .Uesldes preaching the Gospel
in fifteen languages in the rnited States,
our beloved church has ISO.000 communi
cants and as many adherents outside the
country; 40.W0 students in tralning'sehools
and aro.000 in Sunday schools. During the
quadrennlum we have been able to send
out but: fifteen more American missiona
ries, but the native ordained missionaries
have 'increased ! per cent., the unor
dalned 60 per cent. We could double our
foreign membership In the next four years
if we had the money to send the teachers.
FINANCIAL GROWTH.
A few material facta deserve statement.
During this time of financial depression
we have not only kept good and preserved
out $113,000,000 worth of church and par
sonage property, but we have gained $11.
600,000 more. In pastoral support the gain
has been over ir.uo.000. This has not been
so much a gain to individual pastors, but
a gain In consequence of 1,400 more paslors
In the growing field. The Income of the
missionary treasury from the contribu
tions of the people through the confer
ences In 1891 was $1,078,541; the gain on
that In 1892 was $41,355; In 1K93, $20,910;. in
1894, $9,645; the loss in 1895 was $5,551, leav
ing a total gain of gifts to this cause in
the quadrennlum of $J5,35.
The Woman's Koreign Missionary so
ciety and the Woman's Home Missionary
society arc among the best outcomes of
the Christianity of our century. The In
come for the quadrennlum for the first
has been $1, 143,797. A gain In the amount
given in 1891 amounting In all to $S8.9"".
The Woman's Home Missionery society
bad an income last vear of cash $IS.09O,
and of supplies $55,363, a total of $7Mi."
for the quadrennlum. As a result of new
organisations and greater efficiency of old
ones we are giving for missionary -purposes
$932,000 a year more than we were,
twelve veurs ago.
The Methodist Kpiscopnl church has Arty-one
deaconess' homes, hospitals and !'-
friianages, of which fifteen are In foreign
ands. There are 574 deaconesses, of which
ninety are In our foreign work: 100 are
f rn ina, mmoa Tho nrffnn vulmn hn
$641,850 worth of property, which has been
mostly given during the past quadrennl
um. During the past year the deaconess
es, who work without salary. Have made
(62,461 calls, held 11,060 religious meetings
nd helped to care for 6.209 sick people
either In hospitals or their own homes.
The board of church extension Is or
ganized on the principle that the strong
ought to bear the burdens of the weak.
During thirty years It has administered
nearly $5,500,000, niding about 10.000
churches. Besides the aid given outright
It has a fund of nearly $1,000,000, which
! constantly loaned to churches at a low
rate of Interest, to bo soon returned and
loaned out aguln and again to help other
churches.
FREEDMAN'S AID.
The Froedmen's Aid and Southern Edu
cation society Is of tho greatest service
to the negroes and whites in the south.
It-has been in existence for thirty years
end during that time has expended $4,000,
no In establishing and sustaining Instltu-
tlons of Christian learning in the south.
It has taught Industry and letters, trades
and learned professions. There has not
been a time in the past thirty years, and
we Judge will not be In many a year to
come, when we can withdraw our aid
from these people who suffer so many dis
abilities. In the midst of the severe stringency of
the times, and the prostration of nearly
all kinds of business, our Book Concern,
besides the necessary additions to its per
manent capit il, bus gone on pnying Its
dividends, from-' actual business done,
amounting to J I' .0,000, for the aid of neces
sitous cases nmongr our effffectlve preuch
ers, whose salaries nre deficient, and to as
sist in supporting our veterans, worn out
in the service, and their widows and or
phans. Thus It Is evident that the church
of God, dependent on the free gifts of the
fieople, Is the most substantial, most firm
y founded and best supported business
establishment In this country.
We congratulate the church that within
the pBt four years, as In all Its previous
history, there has come Into it no division
cf sentiment with regard to its funda
mental doctrines. This does not Imply
lack of thought. It Implies that the truth
has been rightly apprehended, that It au
thenticates Itself to the mind und heart
and employs all Us adherents in rapid
progress.
, , EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Among the great ngencles for the In
crease of spiritual lire we cannot speak
too highly of the Epworth league. In It
are enrolled 1,350.000 of our young people
organized Into our 21,000 chapters. They
are turning away from amusements of n
, pernicious character which are always
the peril of advancing wealth and conse-
TheBestGMs
PfPe fopdwith
fit OottoMM Joaa auras aie "CMtofme" aad
SMr'i featf . iimnt wt-wM oi every ua.
-TNI N. X. rolRBANK OOMPANV.
CsJihi,h,1iis Mil If his, Flttlkir.
quently Idleness, and are facing earnest
and intelligent work to bring this world
to Christ. This vut army ot young pro
plo is being trained by appropriate cours
es of reading. By I'W.lwo copies of the Kp
worth Herald issued weekly, by taking
art in religious and social asaemtiliM and
by personal work In the department of
mercy and help to become aw:v. hi -il'-gent
and devoted members of our own
church. We cic...v n.mv. ...
tendance of these young people on the
public preaching services, because no d
votion to any single department, however
excellent, can be as productive of a wait-
rouiuiea i nr:tian character as atieitii- .
a uce on all the means of grace. We r.re
Impressed with the importance of encour- j
aa i'if our pastors and young people to I
establish and maintain Kuwerth Ungues I
rather than other aocletles In order that '
they may have the benefit of our literature
and be trained to be loyal and Intelligent
Methodists.
CITY EVANGELIZATION.
' Another cheering evidence of the rlcht
direction of the spiritual power of the
church is seen in the wilier and more .
Iiiioiide Interest In city eNangtfllzatio'.i.
The separate organizations in ltosion,
New York, I'ittsburg, Baltimore, Cincin
nati. Cleveland. Detroit. Chicago. Km-,
as City, Denver and a half dozen othur
cities have associated together in the Na
tional City Evangelization union.
These thirty different organizations ro
port J173.WO as raised in a single year.
They reiuvigorate churches from which
the former members have moved away,
select new sites, open Sunday schools and
missions and give to undeveloped Chris
tian forces an ample field of work. They
have spiritual life enough to attack tho
worst places and attempt tho most dif
ficult things for Christ. There are cen
ters of crime and sinks of iniquity 0
wicked that the average church does not
touch them. Think of a snuure mile of a
city that has 1,000 saloons, nearly 800 broth
els where 3.000 girls live In tries vestibules
of hell that have no backward swinging
door, to whom In their average life of
four years no hand reaches sympathy and
help, but to whom many a hand offers ab
sinthe, delirium and death. Few churches
have fastings and pruyer enough to he
able to cast out such kinds of devils. Tho
problem of our cities is the problem of
our national existence. To deal success
fully with this is no power but the power
of God unto salvation that can do it.
THE ITINERANCY.
We congratulate you and the church you
represent that our peculiar polity has re
ceived another four years' Indorsement as
God's plan for the working of the Method
ist Episcopal church. In over 60.000 ap
pointment's during the quadrennlum, the
cases of friction and discontent have been
extremely few. Both preachers and peo
ple' have been loyal to the itinerant sys
tem and co-operative therewith. , The peo
ple recognize that the system of regular
annual appointmnfe gives them a stated
pastor all the time without long Intervuls
of anxious seeking ufter supplies, and that
It economizes the resources of the church
bv obviating the necessity of one church
bidding ugainst another, to offer a man
a higher cull than the place' he now iills.
The preachers recognize the fuct that It
gives them regular work, and a salary
without anxletv, during the whole period
or their effective strength. And both
churches and pastors see that In these
regular und necessitated changes the able
and young ministers have facilities to rise
to positions of greater usefulness.
Wo do not recommend any material
change in the time limit or in the mode of
making appointments; but suggest thut
vour wisdom mighl provide some method
by which, under ample safeguards, the
piistoral term might be extended to meet
very rare cases of manifest anil grave
emergency. And we do earnestly pray
that our Itinerant system, so venerable in
Ha history, so illustrious for unparalleled
success, so dear to millions who have
been saved under Its operations, and bo
manifestly owned of God for the conver
sion of the world may not be subjected to
subversive utterances from platform or
press, nor be handed over while yet so vir
ile and strong to the dissecting tables of
doctors who are not yet wise from ex
perience nor philosophy.' but that it may
be held by you In grateful reverence and
handed down in unimpaired efficiency till
God's church militant be merged into the
church triumphant.
We believe the time has fully enme ween
the church should recognize, in the condi
tions to admission on trial to our confer
ences, the preparation mined in the theo
logical schools. The church has already
advanced one step In this direction by or
daining as deacons those who have been
local preachers, have Been students for
two years In one of our regular theological
seminaries, and have completed the first
two years of tho conference course ot
study. We now recommend that the
churrli take one more step In advance
and enact that any student shall be cred
ited on the conference course of study
with examinations in any of thetbooks of
the first two years of the conference
course which' any theological school,
whose professors are nominated or con
firmed by the bishops, shall certify that
he has satisfactorily passed.
AMUSEMENTS.
A spiritual church must always be op
posed to nmusements that are dissipat
ing rather than recreative. To all such
pleasures the church must oppose Itself
or dwindle ns a spiritual force. Churches
do not perish by sacrifices or self-denial.
Persecution from without often makes
them flourish within. Hut churches have
perished by Indulgence In what seemed to
be at first Innocent delights, but grew at
length Into destructive habits. There arc
nmusements that deaden nil spiritual life,
leave one without a sense of power with
God, cause men to lose their first love and
leave them only a name to live while they
are dead. With an Intense, and ever grow
ing aversion to all that deteriorates the
spiritual life of the church, we lift UP a
voice of warning against the Increasing
prevalence of amusements that are deteri'
ollg to our spiritual power. - The constant
and rigid adherence to the priclple which
Is embodied in our general rule, a part i f
the fundamental law of the church, wnicn
requires us to avoid "taking such diver
sions as cannot be used in the name or tne
Lord Jesus," cannot be too earnestly In
sisted upon, and should be enforced by
the godly examble of all spirltually-mlnl-
cd people. We sincerely desire that the
action of this general conference may be
such as to awaken the conscience of the
whole church to tho perils rising from in
considerate Indulgences In harmless pleas
ures. The press of the church should
sneak out on this subject, and the minis
ters should lay down the law of the church
tho teaching of Scripture and the sad Il
lustrations of history till the whole church
shall . be- sensitively ullve on this sub
ject,
INTOXICANTS.
The church has no new word to utter,
nor new position to take in regard o
those seductive but deadly poisons that
blight and destroy nil that is great and
linlv In humnn life. The accursed Influence
of Intoxicating drinks and drugs on every
interest of man, the family, social life,
politics and religion, Is earthly, sensual,
and devil-possessed; By the" power ot
heredity it lays on children to the third
and fourth generation the curse of physi
cal deterioration, deficiency and idiocy.
It hurries men Into Insanity with dreadful
rapidity.
The ideal legislation, the enactment of
which is to be constantly sought, or the
utter destruction of this monstrous crime
Is total prohibition. And while we are
seeking the enactment and enforcement
of this Ideal legislation wo must seek to
annihilate this arch-enemy by every
available weapon. Any law that shuts
tho saloon on Sunday, or on election day,
keeps It a certain distance from a church
or school, that restricts the places where
or the classes to whom . this fiery death
may be sold, should be executed to the
full.
The position of our church in regard
to political parties Is clearly stated in tho
bishop's address of 1S92, thus: "With re
gard to politics, the attitude of our
church is strenuously mon-partisan and
non-sectional-. It acknowledges no alle
giance to any political creed or associa
tion. It urges nil Its members who have
the right to vote, to discharge that duty,
but It leaves every voter absolutely free
from eccleciastlcar Interference to deter
mine for himself for whom his ballot
shall be caBt. ' The right of- suffrage, or
the franchise, we regard as a great and
responsible trust,, which should - In all
cases, ecclesiastical and civil, be exercised
conscientiously, but-in absolute personal
freedom. When moral Issues are before
the public our people are Invariably found
on the side of the highest stnndard; but
even then they choose their own party af
filiations, and refuse to be dictated to as to
the matter of their votes."
We recommend hat the general confer
ence make an. earnest appeal to the gov
ernment of the United States to so adjust
its Internal revenue, lawa-as not to seem
to legalize tho traffic In ardent spirits, In
sections of the Union where prohibitory
laws exist. A popular government- shnul.'l
not aid In forcing an infamous traffic on
unwilling people.
We are glad that awakened public sen
timent has made It respectuble to decline
to drink, and to urge others to refrain,
glad that .great .railroads- and- factories
hvp concluded that men cannot be trust
ed with material -Interests, and precious
human lives,-who are addicted to Intoxi
cating drink, glad that life Insurance com
panies and mutual hannflK Metlna hava
H Warned that all drinker btstntoxlcant
r v
are deteriorated risks; and especially glad
that the cioeing of the saloon on the Lord's
uay has oeeii effected in the great city
of New York.
EDUCATION. . ,
Among the greatest victories In the
Methooist Episcopal church have been
those achieved in the tie.d of education.
Insisting on a gospel that teaches a lofti
ness of ideal for man which has elsewhere
found no higher expressions, and inti
mately relatiug the attainment of those
ideals to human endeavor, the church was
logically compelled to give every on of its
members the best possible means of de
velopment. Hence it has founded schools
by the hundred, sometimes more than
could be maintained. Just as God over
flowing exuberance of Ufa makes a thou
sand seeds for every one that grows. No
one of these schools has ever lived in
vain. We owe very much of our o-ent
greatness to our oldest university founded
by Wilbur.
God sees no perfect Individual nor per
fect service of him that does not Inclule
both mind and heart. He does not want
His church nor His heaven an asylum
for fctble-minded children. Our sys'era
requiring that a sermon be preached on
education every year, and a collection
taken in both church and Sunday school
for the aid of schools and students, makes
It possible that every determined person
who exercises his free will in that direc
tion may acquire a liberal education. But
for the proper and needed development
of our schools we need at least $1,000,000
In gifts every year.
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
It Is doubtless true that Christians seek
a better country, even a heavenly. But
It Is now the supreme duty of every man
to make the kingdoms of this world become
the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ.
Once It was supposed that a patriot was a
warrior in the field 'ready to die for his
country. But m?n and women can be m
patriotic In the quiet walks of every-day
Christian life as In tho fierce excitements
of doubtful battle. The time has come
when every Christian should assume the
duties and bear the burdens and respon
sibilities of true citizenship. This would
belongs to Christ. He made It, upholds
It, owns It, and will Judge It. 'His purpose
In this world Is not merely the regenera
tion of the state. The state Is as truly
divine as the church. Nay, the state Is
tho designed outcome of the perfected
church. A man may be as much a mis
sionary of Mod In tho politics of America
as In the forests of Africa. Every man
owes It to God and his country to be pos
sessed ot a sound, unbrlbable manhood,
of a personal righteousness, and a perpet
ual, persistent, aggressive activity, to
bring honesty into all dealings, justice be
tween mun ana man ana purity into pon
tics. We count It among the auspicious signs
of the time that Christian men are able
to forego the allurements ot gnln nnd
even of ease, and descend into the arena
of political life. Never has better work
been done for clean municipal adminis
tration than in recent campaigns from one
side of the continent to the other. It has
not been done In the Interest of any parly
nor through any party, but for the sake
of decency and right. Let the pulpit mane
manhood eminent, a desire to save one's
country supreme, and that Intensest for?e
will find Its own way of working. Men
must be willing to serve on Juries, work
on committees, for the public welfare, put
their standing and property In peril, and
defy the vllllllcutlon of a corruot press
In daring to enforce laws unpopular with
those who feel the halter draw. Kor the
country must be saved by the victories of
peace no less than by those of war. There
are certain things every church that ever
holds a great gathering should utter ring
ing protests against them. Divorce has
been made so easy In some states that all
the sacred Interests of the home are put in
peril. Tho churches should demand and
secure oue national law to cover all states
alike.
But no follower of Him who Is the Re
deemer of all mankind can limit his view
to any one country. We see In Armenia
such atrocities as we never deemed possi
ble of execution In this age.' We are no
more appalled at the ravage, rapine and
murder of a . hundred thousand by the
Turks than at the apathy and Inaction of
the so-called civilized nations. Through
our whole history and national polity we
have complications. But we believe that
the whole diplomatic and moral power of
our government should be put forth to
bring these gigantic wrongs to a sudden
end.
ARBITRATION.
For the settlement of disputes between
different organizations of men, between
money, capital and labor-capital and be
tween the different nations of the earth,
we believe that tho Spirit of our Savior,
as set forth by our church, demands that
the great principle of arbitration ahull be
tried to Its utmoB't, and that the vast ma
jority of disputes can be happily settled In
that way. The United States has already
set an example to the world by decorous
ly submitting to arbitration nearly fifty
occasions ot differences with other na
tions, CAPITAL AND LABOR
Tn the progress of our liberties and the
widening of our development we have
come upon perils unknown in the earlier
periods of. our history. Classes are ar
rayed against each other with mutual
misunderstandings. A ripple has com-.-upon
our shores from the far-off tidal wave
of tho French revolution declaring that nil
property Is theft, that men may be ns
much enslaved by law as by force; de
prived of their rights by trusts and com
bines as by arms. In these misunder
standings, and It may b great wrongs,
the church must not be silent. It Is her
very nature to defend nnd care for '.ho
poor. Like her Master, the Spirit of the
Lord God Is upon her to preach the Gos
pel to the poor. Peculiarly Is this true of
our church. It bcaan Its ministry to the
wretched prisoners In Britain, continued
It among the poor colliers, has alwiys'
sought tho sorrowing, wretched, wander
ing and lost. It has never pandered to
tho rich, nor been silent at Injustice,-
In this seething discussion concerning,
the rights of property we think these posl
tions are grounded on Justice nnd right:
1 Every man has a right to acquire prop
erty by the legitimate means of activity,
foresight. Invention and Inheritance.
2 No man has a right to use his pos
sessions to oppress his fel'ow men.
3 Every man has a right to the profit
of his own labor. In that respect he is a
capitalist.
4 No man hns a right to use his labor to
oppress his fellow men.
6 Every free man has a right to refuse
to work for another.
6 No man has a right to prevent another
from working when, and for whom he
will.
7 Every man is accountable to God for
the uso of his time, lulior and their out
come, wealth.
All these fundumentnorlnciples of pro
gress nnd personal development should he
plainly taught by the pulpit, If the spirit
of Christ be accepted and practiced by the
church, all unjust dl;rlbiitlons of prop
erty therein will be remedied. This is a
Christian communism which reaches tha
hand of sympathy and help from above
downward, rather than a hand of violence
and murder from below upward. The
equality that Christianity tenches is ac
complished by raising the lowlv to the
highest places, even the heavenlles; not
by dragging the lofty down.
If managers of business requiring va
rious sorts of labor would take, whenever
practical, the individual workingmen Into
partnership by establishing a scheme of
I profit-sharing for all who nre engaged In
I productive labor, then all occasions for
carelessness, wastefulness, strikes, vio
lence and heart-burnings would be avoid
ed. Hundreds of great concerns go on suf'
cessfully year after year, by adopting
God's fundamental law . of social unity
and success.
A general statement has been made that
61 per cent, of employes belong to the
church employees. If this were true It
would be partly accounted for by the
fact that a large proportion of the la
borers have hut recently come to our land.
But we gladly affirm that no such dis
parity of percentages of employers and
employed obtains In our church. There
are thousands of workingmen who do most
'effective work to bring their workmates
to the church nnd to Chrlrt.- Th Meih.
odists in the armies of England have long
been recognised us a very potent factor of
the organization. And Methodists In the'
mines, factories, shops and on farms of
me united mates are a most effective
agency for the nation's good.
1113 LAST liLOW.OUT.
"My last blow out In Work," said the
farmer as he slowly undressed. "But I'm
In for a good lme. No two ways about
II1MI. ' , ,
Then he went ovpr to the fii-A mi.bm mv
rolled it and threw the end out of the win
doy In case of emergency,
'Can bet your life,' he said, ns he rolled
nu ms domes up in a uaii, witn nls watcn,
pocket-book and excursion ticket In tho
middle, and put them under his pillow.
"I'm hero for a blow out. But I ain't
takln no chances," .
"My.flirt and last blow out ill N'Tork,",
he repeated,, as he locked and bolted the,
door before planting the bureau and ward
robe In front ot it.
. Then he blew out the gas,
It was his last blow out.-fat York
World. .
TBEOSOPBY IH ANECDOTE
Recollections of the Two Leading
Apostles of That Calk
THE BLAVATSKY AND MR. Jl'DGE
Several - Feats of Alleged Mysticism
Which Were Found Out to Be Quit
Materiallstio aad Practical
Whea Ones Understood.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Students of the occult, theosophlsts,
or whatever may be tne prctei t desig
nation of the society founded by li.a-
vatsky. are guldci in A me. lea torn a
dr.rk ia! I. et. V. Q. Judgs h ad of ha
cult In this country, is dead, t'resent
ly his ashes, divided Into three c,Uul
parts, will be n.lnRled wKh thoe of ti.e
princess. Judge specified t:ie manner
of the post-mortem proceedings In hl3
own case. After cremation he wl.-h d
one-third of the reman s sent to Lon
don, another third part taken to India
and the remainder retal red In America.
The different fractious he desired
burled with the ashes o Ulavatsi'.y.
whose will provided that her reirali s
should be equally divided In the three
parts of the world.
Arothtrteetio of JuJfe's w.llnam d
his successor. The executive co mit
teo Is enjoined to Conceal the id nt ty
cf this person for one year. Mr. Julj?e
described the present head of the so
ciety as "a crrat adopt." This ia tio
general to enable the ordinary the-vo- j
phlst to name the man. Sevei.'il of the ;
thousand: of disciples in the United
ttiates claim greatness. The best that
can be done Is to surmise. Many b
lit ve Elliott B. Page to be the new h"ad.
lie has been a close student and pro
fuse writer on the theosOphical nub
Jctts, and may be nt ope. ly classified ns
an adept. He Is the Ideal type, too;
spare of frame and self-poised. He 1h '
nseetlo in every sense cf the word and
looks like a Hindu. Could anyone pre
sent better qualifications for leader
ship? Whoever the chief may be. ho hn al
ready assumed central. His fir it ofllc l H
act was the changing of the place of
this year's convention. It was to havo'!
been held In Chicago. Under the new
dispensation New York will have t" en
tertain Kut Hun If he comes as a dew-
gate. The gathering la dated for April
M and 27,
The Prlneers Blavatsky taught many
years In the open, and has been dead
dead to all physical purposes and uses
at all events for several years, It has
not yet been thoroughly established
that she was not a charlatan. Neither
has it been legally proved that she was.
She came to America In the early "70s
and became one of the staff of tho Eddy
brothers, who called themse.ves sp rlt
mediums, In 1874 Colonel Henry r),
Olt-ott, a lawyer and a newspaper man,
and a person thirsty for absolute know
ledge on supernatural affairs, met the
Kussian woman, Iilavatsky had the
soul of a ru'er and could not satl fy her
self In a subordinate part In the Eddy
combination. She associated herself
with Olcott and founded the Thecsoph
lcal Society In America. Judge, a young
lawyer In the office of Olcott's brother,
and a glutton for the mysterious, was
taken Into the enterprise, and when
Olcott and Blavatsky left this country
succeeded to the control of affal a. C I
onel Olcott has been In America but
once cilice he left with the princess for
far-away India. Certain court orders
and tlecreeb of record In New York
make It to the colonel's interest not to
pass tiunrantlne. When his wife ob
tained a divorce from him, subsequent
to his negotiation with Blavatsky, she
was awarded alimony. Olcott haw
lwver observed the legal formality of
complying with the order of payment.
It la (llt)ictilt for one w thout the circle
to pet def'nlte Information concerning
thensophy and Its characteristic pne
notrena. C-ne comes up against dead,
walls of argument, so as to say, As, for
instance, a truth seeker once asked Ol
cott: "Are there In existence uch persons
as mahatmas?"
"Certainly there are," replied Colonel
Olcott; "certainly they exist."
"Could you establish the fact of their
existence by absolute proof; evidence
that you as a lawyer would term 'legal
evidence'?"
"Nothing easlei4," responded Blavat
sky's lieutenant, taking a soft cambric
handkerchief from his pocket. "Noth
ing easier. This very handkerchief
was given me by a mahatma." -This Is
the sort of argument that must satisfy
honest Inquiry.
Backsliders from the faith have been
known to question the integrity of the
leaders, and theosophists well advanced
in the cult have not hesitated to im
pugn one another's motives. Witness
the mutual rending of Mrs. Besant and
the late Mr. Judge. It is to be said for
Blavatsky that she would not talk of
the miracles Bhe worked, but It may
also be said that she did not attach
fetters or padlocks to the vocal organs
of her adherents. They were at llber
tytotell what wonders they chose of the
princess' performing. She never con
tradicted a report. On the other hand
one of the pledges exacted by converts
to the esotorlc session is that they will
controvert every statement that may
discredit Blavatsky or her cult. They
deny without regard to Its truth the
matter in issue,
Blavatsky was not a mahatma; she
was an adept. In disposition the prin
cess .was too erratic to attain the high
est development of soul. She was hot
of temper and of coarse fiber. At times
her conversation .was such that there
were well-grounded suspicions that In
Blavatsky's ample frame the soul of
the celebrated Catherine of Russia had
found Its abiding place. Vulgarity Is
a soft and a smooth deception of Blavat
sky's conversational style. As is
known, she was an incessant smoker of
cigarettes. She made her own, and
had become so expert that history ac
counts foi but one personage who was
her peer in the art. Blavatsky would
place two cigarette papers on the table
or desk at which she might be sitting,
and placing upon each the proper quan
tity of tobacco would roll both simul
taneously, one with her left and one
with her right hand. Both would be
perfectly constructed. Having finished
them she would hand one to the person
to whom she might be talking and In
sert tho other In her own mouth. Prince
Louis Napoleon It was perhaps some
French potentate In any case the only
other ambidextrous cigarette-maker
to come into public notice.
As to the miracles worked by Blavat
sky there are many opinions. The
music which sometimes was heard in
her vicinity Is explicable on the theory
of small music boxes sowed In the opul
ent raiment of the mahntma's friend.
There Is another theory to account for
the bell ringing In harmony. The yan
kee at King Arthur's court whose ad
ventures are carefully reported by
Mark Twain noted a singular thing. A
knight would be absent for several days
and, returning, would tell wondrous
Btorles of princesses he hod rescued
and dragons he had slain. The yanken
remarked that while each one knew ho
was lying personally he accepted the
stories of his brother knights with un
questioning credulity. In the case of
Blavatsky nnd her disciples, all one he"
to do to get a' reputation for esoteric
wisdom wa to assert that he had
heard Btrango sounds, and his state
ment went as It waa made. No one
doubted, but on the contrary united to
spread the news. One night at a gath
ering at her home a young man sud
denly exclaimed; "I hear a bell." Ho
had previously been advised that If he
sought popularity the hearing of bells
waa an easy way to get It. Ho he said
he heard a bell, and afterward .told Ms
adviser, he had sald.,wh.t waa not, for
hatfead haard no bell To him came
toward the close of tha evening another
novice In matters occult.
"Where did tne sound of the bell aeem
to originate?" he asked. .
' In the madam's room,' was tho re
ply. "How many chimes did you hear, one
or three?"
"Three," said the liar, unblushlngly.
"I heard it myself." responded the
other, "but I didn't know but ii iuif.it
be another bell."
The affair between Mine. Blavatsky
and Mrs, Cr.-nnr two years or thr
aboutfl before the madam's death be
carno more widely celebrated than an
ordlrary fljrht between two women, for
the r ntn thai It waa attended by a
"phenomv-nor." or Incident explicable
cn occult grounds opl;. Mrs. O-env
waa a (rtot rt PliiVv'i 'pw in
London, and was a promising addition
tcJ 'ho IniRr cl clA fho r-a; ...i y
and educated ard wns wifhrl t y-t
ore of tho handsomest women In her
set. Mr-v rVerr - r- ... t '
Mr. Hodgson a practical, rude person
who characterised Mme. Blavatsky's
mlrn-Clen p Hcks ed f"".riv- 1 h - n
a mountebank. Mrs. Cremer said It
wan a well written nnd Interestlrg pro
duction, which statement was carried
to Blivstslry. wi5 et o.rd
Cremer In vigorous though mutilated
Knglish to dr"t t--' .--. -.
Cremer went to the house of a friend,
from which, as from a fortaikt. she
hot criticisms and assertions and all
IMnrf rf b-sh n-ordaThe madtm railed
and replied with a wealth ot epithet,
KRtkt-rcd from tho seven modern lan
guages with which she was conversant
When the hostilities were raging the
hottest Blavatsky surprised her home
circle one night by suddenly arising
and reel tins-, as If she read from a
newspaper, an article oa Mrs. Cremer.
"What crs you reading, madam T fn
what rtiper Is It prl. ted ? Tceie su.1 a
score of similar questions weis asked
by th avditors.
"It la In tha Poonah Times" (an In
dian newspaper).
Then, at the request of her friends,
the pttnceFS repeat: d the art o'e end ,t
was tokn down by a stenographer. Mrs.
Annlo Besant and C a-do Falls Wrlgnt,
one of the Blavatsky's sti'd.nts. went
out to find a Poouah Times to veilfy the
madam's report. They four.d the ar-'
tide word lor word as Blavatsliy had
lilvcn it. In this connection Mrs. Bes
ant's memory performed her a surpris
ing trick. At the time she and Wr:gnt
verified Mme. Blavatsky's reo'tatlin
tho Honah Times had been In London
ten days, long enough for an ordlr.a y
gifted person to have memorised seve
oral columns. In giving an account ot
tho '-phenomenon" some months later,
Mrs. Besant made the very material
statement that he paprr con .aini g the
article did not reach London until s'x
days alter the princess had seen it in
the powerful Illumination ot "the astral
light"
Mrs. Besant and the late Mr. Judgj,
as will be remembered, had a set-to In
print, which much entertained skeptics
and pulped theosophists. Mrs. Berant
accused Mr. Judge of chicanery and ot
producing miracles and phenomena by
)iia own efforts, and not with the aid ot
mahatmas.
Another of Blavatsky's per'ormances
widely celbtated at the time and often
cited as an indubitable evidence ot her
possession of occult powers ha become
commonplace in the light of facts ob
tained a year or two later. A party ot
theosophiKts was at the house of an
Knglish army officer near Bombay. In
the evening the members were seated
on the t rando. There waa a crash In
side the house, and Investigation
showed thst a statuette wh'ch had been
or- d hall stand was lying shattered on
the floor. No one had ben ner ll, and
thu accident caused much surprise and
upocultttlon.
"Put it together," directed Blavat'ky.
It was done. There were but seven
or eight pieces, and the fragments were
soon Joined. A triangular piece that
should have fitted Into the rear of the
baBe was missing. 'That piece," said
Blavatsky, "Is in the upper left hand
drawer of Mr. Bennett's desk at Simla."
This A, P. Bennett was of the party, a
recent arrival In Bombay, and was
deeply interested In esoteric research.
He appeared largely In theosophlc mat
ters later. Bennett wrote to his wife to
open his desk and search the drawer
and send to him any piece of delft, or
parian marble, or anything of similar
nature she might And. Bennett did not
believe It would be found. In five or
six days a poroel came by carrier from
Simla. It was the missing fragment of
the statuette. Of course Its presence
In Simla afiorded conclusive proof that
Blavatsky had franchises over systems
of speedy expressage other thsn those
Incorporated under the laws ot the em
pire. India, England and America, as
represented In theosophy, marveled at
this great evidence ot her power.
Note the easy explanation of the
phenomenon. The facts were laborl-
I ously dug up by an honest man and
pieced together into a fabric of truth,
as was the broken statuette. Blavat
sky knew that Bennett was coming to
Bombay, and, like all other actors and
entertainers, she warmly desired to
make a hit with her new audience. She
employed a servant In the house where
she was visiting to break off a piece
of the Btntuette on the side nearest the
wall, where It would not ' be noticed.
This she sent to Bennett's secretary or
clerk a young Hindu, who was a stu
dent of the occult or a confederate of
the princess, whichever may be the
more suitable term. She gave him ex
plicit directions what to do with It and
he carefully concealed It In Bennett's
desk under some papers. Just before
j the house party at Bombay left the
drawing room for the veranda on tne
evening of the second Incident of the
statuette phenomenon, one of the wo
men, also a friend of Blavatsky, "ri a
silk thread to the Ornament. At the
proper time she pulled me thread and
gravitation did the rest. It required
no skill to recover the thread In the
confusion that followed.
One thing the mahatmas did at Bla
vatsky's request has never been ex
plained as a fraud. It is one of the few
Instances of her occult power, so called,
whose Integrity has not been attacked.
Bhe was riding in palanquins one day
with a party of English women In In
dia. One of the number remarking an
uncommon appearing brooch another
wore, snid:
"I once had such a brooch as that, but
I lost It, or a servant stole It. That was
sixteen years ago," she added regret
fully. "Would you like to have It again?"
Inquired Blavatsky.
"Certainly."
"It's in that cushion you are sitting
upon."
The cushion was opened, and, as the
adept had said, In it was the sixteen
years lost piece of Jewelry.
Blavatsky's disciples held two opin
ions of her. It has been said she was
not a mahatma, but an adept. Her in
ability at all times to subject the body
to the mental or intellectual part pre
vented her from reaching the height of
development. Many of the deeper stu
dents suy it Is impossible for a woman
to become a mahatma. There is an
other theory concerning BlRvatsky,
nnd many subscribed to it. This was
that the real Princess Blavatsky died
many years ago, and from that time
until her second death her body wns
used by various mahatmas, who ant
mated It in series, and instructed the
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for Itself out of the solid earth. Ot
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inai is the secret of the whole per
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calculated the speed to a nicety. They
know to the fraction of a foot what
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those ples In order to carry the sand
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them altogether. The bed of a river
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series of long pools separated -ty bars
which have formed between them. It
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masse, but only to cut a channel front
pool to pool, through which the steam
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A Pipe Mouthpiece Thrco Inohts Long
Worth from $12 to SIS.
From the Sun.
"Is that real amber?" asked the man
as he held up a pipe before the dealer.
The pine was a handsome brlarwood
one, and It had a clear amber mouth
piece nearly three inches long. The
price mark was $:i.50.
"Yes, It's real amber," said the dealer.
'That ia, it's as real as any amber you
can get nowadays In a pipe. It is not
cut from a piece of amber, but is mads
by a melting process. Ninety per cent,
of that mouthpiece Is amber. The other
ten per cent. Is a composition used to
harden it and make it stick together.
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a pipe like that would have a mouth
piece of amber cut from a block and
never melted. But the amber mines
have practically given out, nnd you
can't get any more big pieces. A piece
of cut amber as long as thnt on the
pipe you have there would be worth
from $12 to $15, and It wouldn't be a
bit better than the manufactured am
ber. It wouldn't be so durable and
would not feel any better between the
teeth."
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a man who had listened to the conver
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facturers there Bald that there had not
been a piece of amber its long as three
Inches In the marVet for five years."
"That's so," said the pine seller. "You
may get a pipe with a genuine cut am
ber mouthpiece in some stores In New
York, but If you look up Its record you
will find it was made eight or ten years
ago and has been in stock. This com
position is used today in expensive
meerschaums as well as In brlarwooda."
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