The Weekly Offering from Quenemo, Kansas • 3

THE WEEKLY OFFERING. cm COBRESPOHDEriCE. THEY ARE NOT Of US, The Colpradq courts have set a time ly and needed example to the world by sending to penitentiary for three years a religious impostor who obtain eda considerable amount of money from -a too confiding and credulous woman to carry on certain litigation From Mrs. E. Chase.

Topeka. March Sd, 1893, Mr. C. W. Searing: Dear Sir.

I have been receiying your nice little paper now several weeKs, and as I always pay for all -1 receive, if possible, I send this quarter for 13 weeks, after which please don't send it unless you hear from me. My locality will be an uncertainly, I expect to go East soon and shall be floating around. Mrs. E. Chase.

in her behalr, directed, as he represented, by the advice of "spirits." Frauds of this character are becoming entirely was not Secretary Rusk arrested, and why is the -Bible permitted to go through the mail, if certain quotations made from it are obscene and criminal This is clearly the old orthodox blun-der over again; it provides a heaven for the murderer, while for the poor fellow who was murdered it provides hell of endless torment. A reasonable amount of hell is right enough, but thase Christian orthodox fellows are everlastingly sending the wrong fellow to it. Reader, it is your business and mine to put a stop to this aad to see that the guilty and not the innocent shall suffer. Had Mr. Harmon a member of some fashionable orthodox church he could have published the dirty parts of the Bible without let or hindrance.

The Methodist Book Con-sern does this and thinks it does God service. men may be able to, by artificial means, succeed in originating large and complicated organisms. Only give them time, as you give nature, and they will doubtless accomplish in i this department of science, results as wonderful as are any of th'dsfr that have already been accomplished in other departments. Remember, less than 300 years ago men were burnt at the stake for teaching the rotundity of the earth and he existence of other worlds. Remember that the idea of a telegraph was scouted 50 years ago, and that of the telephone 15 years ago; that it took nature, with ail her infinitude of resources, countless ages to produce the lowest forms of life, and countless ages more to produce the highest forms.

Yes, and I want you Christians to remember, all of you who profess to believe the tales of the Bibles that the magicians of Egypt, while sitting in Mrs. Chase is the mother of cx-Gov ernor Crawford, of Kansas, and is an earnest worker in the spiritual harvest fields. She is intelligent and broad in her views, and is rendering conspicuous and valuable service to the American branch of the Society of Psychical Research, which consists of the most the King's palace, were able, without DO YOU WANT A any divine aid, to instantly originate billions of tons of ffogs throughout the learned and advanced thinkers, scientists, lawyers, doctors and clergymen, bothtf this country and Europe. entire land of Egypt. And cannot what has been done by man be done by too numerous to ba longer tolerated upon the ground of religious defense which is set up in these cases.

It is entirely competent and proper for the authorities to expose this sort of iniquity and subject it to those penalties which the la imposes upon other forms and manifestations of rascality. If the above statement is true, which it may or may not be, it point3 out a fraudulent transaction which ought to be severely dealt with. We have now had considerable experience with the spirits of the departed and none of these have ever advised, any disasterous tbing or suggested a litiginous bout with any one. The fact is, "spirits," as people sometimes call them, are averse to such worldly proceedings so far as we know; and we know if ever we were to pretend that spirits prompted us into measures that would harm anv one, that we should be a fraud unmitigated, too, without any show of defense from their influence. It may-now just aa well be forever understood.that when ever any one claims that spirits demand that any one shall do a thing to the, hurt of anothev, that said demand by said spirit was never made and that the propensities of the individual concerned is alone responsible, and that man again? No I can hear my special creation From Harrison W.

Cole. Dear is one dollar for which send TriE Offering to II. W. friends open their eyes wide, look wise, Cole and William Perry, Ovirbrook, Kansas. The Spiritualists here ought to support a paper right at.home.

Here and ask, if the earth ever produced living organisms spontaneously why does she not do so now I will answer it by asking these wiseacres a question: Why don't 7our grandmother bear children? Ask her why, if 'she ever in town I struck another subscriber, Hiram Rielley. If this last is not in the rule return the money to me. bore children, she does not. still bear Harrison W.Cole. Overbrook, Kansas.

Mr. Cole is an old pioneer settler ot them? She will answer that' she is too old, that she has passed her childbear-ing period. Kansas, and an old-time spiritualist, Grandmother Earth gives the same -w i having brought the infection witn him from the East. His is a good example answer, ner oeanng period was wmie for others to follow, From J. T.

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Iu yonr last issue you have misnamed me, as I am not now, and never was, a her waters were' as warm' a3 is the blood now in our veins, It is now a well known fact of science i that all living organisms, -both animal and vegetable, from monad to man, are composed almost entirely of four simple elements, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, Two of these, oxygen and hydrogen, uniting to form water, it may be said that all living organisms are almost entirely composed of water variously combined with carbon and nitrogen, Of the human body, three-fourths in weight is water. Of the four elements above mentioned, said individual is a fraud, a hypocrite, and a liar, calculated to do great injury, and should be avoided as a pestilence, no matter whathis pretentions to mediumship may bef. Deceivers in the Spiritualist fold 'are rare. Sucn characters, however, have disgraced every age, every church, every congregation, every profession. Within a radius of ten miles we once Wew of nine Christianspreachers, ex-hoi ters or class leaders every one of whom under the guise of spiritual holiness practiced concupscence, incest, assault upon the innocent, and adultry, all of whom were duly covered, and after the shedding of a few crocodile ttroro nnfiTniprl n.9 Kii.int.s lin.vino' Captain.

I was a private of C. 12th Kansas Infantry, and never aspir- pired to higher honors. Dr. Hubbell, of Topeka, was my Captain after Capt. Benton's assassination in Arkansas, April, 1864, I like your little Offering tery been washed in the so-called blood of the Lamb! Mockery! 0 Blasphemy! Hades! How long will vicai-ioii3 religion be the scapegoat for thy hideous crimes? It is comforting, however, to reflect that a fraudulent Spiritualist is' never much.

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Chicago, 111. a Spiritualist, bnt one who merely assimilates a harmonial philosophy. Such belong to some school that opposes true Spiritualism. They may be what the. medium, Paul, said of some mis-chevious fellows in his day: "They went out from us," said he, "but they are not of us." loses Harmon's Release.

WHAT IS MAN? three, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon, unite to torm the membraneous walls or body of the primitive life cells. The interior of the cells contains a semi fluid mixture of these same three elements, with nitrogen. This mixture is called protoplasm, and in it originates or resides that process or action which we call individualized life. If the chemist could mingle these four elements in the proper proportions, and under the proper conditions of heat, light, electricity, just as they are mingled in the great labratory of nature, they would undoubtedly combine, just as they do in nature, and form the primitive cell and generate individnal-ized life. Indeed, in this case i is nature that would do the work.

The chemist would merely" prepare the proper conditions. The exciting, of latent into specific life, by( means of chemical action, is no more wonderful than is the exciting of latent into specific heat, by similar means. In the case of life, it is simply more difficult to "secure the necessary conditions. The principles involved in the two cases are exactly the same. With most scientists the difficulty has hitherto been in the fact that they have not recognized the universal presence ot life in a latent state in all matter.

They have looked upon life as something that had to be created, and rot as something that merely requires to be to individualized action, Our Spiritualistic friends alone generally recognize the universal presence of the Where Did Kle Come From Wliat Is Oestlny? Mr. Editor: You are hereby cordially 'invited to attend a reception given in honor of Moses Harmon's release from the Kansas penitentiary on March the 7th, at. 313 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. Yo will meet many Spiritualists. Committee, About one year ago, we think, Mr.

Harmon fell a victim to Anthony Com-stoskism, which, under the guise of suppressing obscene literature and preventing its passage in the mail3 (a praiseworthy thing when legitimately followed), detained the little liberal paper known as Lucifer at the Topeka post office a3 containing obscene language and arrested and convicted its publisher, Mr. Harmon, for the same. The alleged nasty language consisted of some quotations taken from Secretary Rusk's official circulars to farmers as we understand which in had been taken by the Secretary direct from the Th6 question is, why Any enterprising young lady or gentlcj-man who will send us ,75 -jbscribers to The Offering at 81 eacf for one year, each subscriber shall receive The Offering for one year and the club-getter shall have the above bran new Franklin Typewriter for his or her trouble. Fi? subscribers and five dollars may be sent in at one time and credits will entered upon our books ia favor of the club-getter. A little hard, patient work among friends and Don-church people will enable soma ambitious, go-aheud student to earn for him or herself a very pretty, a costly and a valuable piece or machinery With which thousands are now making an easy and luxurious Address THE WEEKLY OFFERING, Quenemo, Kan, lbe Chrltttiiu'8 Theory of Man's OrlRlii Exp toiled.

In ray last article there is a typographical error; mthe last paragraph the types make me say that "life cells can not be originated without parentage." It should be "can be" instead of "can not be." Having established the fact that all living forms, man not ex-cepted, are the results of the naturally performed multiplications of the primitive life cell, and having established tne fact that this primitive cell is capable of spontaneous origin, I have certainly established the fact that life in all its individualized forms is of spontaneous oriein. life-principle, and they usually call it universal spirit. J. W. Watkuss.

course, I cannot predict how far.