Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance stateHorn, Henry J.
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Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state
Horn, Henry J.
Spirit writings
Imagine for a moment what result would ensue from a movement of this
kind set on foot by the followers of the Protestant religion as it is
taught by the churches of the present day. No theatres or places of
amusement would add gayety to the sombre city. The dance and the sound
of mirth would be hushed. The inhabitants would walk ever in solemn
fear of the awful future that might await them; they would despise
their physical frames, crucify their passions, and trample under foot
the most divine attributes of their nature.
But the religion of the Mormons is a natural religion; it is primitive.
They people the world even as God peopled it in the time of Abraham and
Isaac.
They enrich the state by their tithes. They bring in their corn, their
wine, and their fruits, as offerings, and the state pays them back by
improving their roads and building houses for instruction and pleasure
for them.
Their domestic system, which has been so much despised and ridiculed,
does not greatly differ from the custom of the civilized world. Such as
are wives with them become with you the neglected women of the town.
What with you is considered dishonorable, with them becomes honorable.
The man of wealth in Utah does not concentrate his riches on a few
relatives; he distributes it among his many wives and numerous
children. In all times, nations which have grown rapidly and have been
developed in arts and sciences have been peopled in the same manner.
The female element introduces into a community taste, ornament, and
grace. Look at California previous to the emigration of women to that
land! Misrule and misery reigned. It is a law of nature that men
and women should be united. In the present form of civilization, a
large proportion of women are compelled to remain single, and their
usefulness to community and humanity is dissipated. The Mormon system
eradicates this evil.
The progress of civilization points to a time when a magnetic relation
shall be established between all the inhabitants of earth; when the
globe shall form one vast circle of mind as it does now of matter. At
present the chain is broken; the intermediate spaces are not filled
up by population. The spirit world is using all its skill to bring
about this magnetic connection, but till this is complete the magnetic
relation between the spirit world and earth cannot be perfect.
Wise intelligences in the world of spirits have originated and
guided the Mormon movement, and these intelligences will develop new
communities under similar auspices. The legislators of the land, the
Napoleons of the day, would do well to investigate the policy of the
leaders of Utah.
The crimes common in your large cities are not known among the Mormons.
They live on friendly terms with the red men of the plains, and are
just in their dealings.
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