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
“All days are alike to God,” says the reformer; “why should we
observe the Sabbath more than any other day?” I will tell you why: a
concentration of the spiritual nature of men throughout Christendom
necessarily creates a magnetic atmosphere through which spiritual
beings can approach. The sincere and devout worshippers in every land
congregating in churches upon one day, send forth waves of magnetic
light which extend into the world of spirits. The music and the prayers
are borne upward on this current, and great batteries are thereby
formed that cannot but affect the souls in Paradise. They respond to
the music and the prayers, and worshippers in the churches feel their
magnetic influences. Those who are sincere in their religious faith
say that they feel “heaven opened to them.” Even those who attend
church from fashion, or for the purpose of meeting their friends and
neighbors, are there brought in contact with spiritual influences which
could reach them in no other way.
The experience I have gained since my entrance into my spiritual home
has given me more liberal ideas of the uses of the Sabbath, and taught
me that to the working man it is a necessary day of recreation. But I
lift my voice against its becoming one of beer-drinking and boisterous
sports. The workman who is confined to the bench or the workshop, in
the midst of a crowded city, for six days of the week, will certainly
be benefited by seeking the green fields and healthful influences of
the country; but on reaching that desirable Eden, let means be provided
for his instruction; so, while sitting under the leafy trees, his mind
may be benefited, and his bodily organism rested, rather than injured
by feasting and rioting in the public gardens and parks.
Field preaching should become a regular institution of the Sabbath; and
discourses instructing the mind in morals and sciences should be given
in the tent, or under trees, in parks and woods set apart for that
purpose. Then would, the object of the Sabbath be attained. As I have
said, the spiritual nature is more open to the reception of truth on
that day.
The state of sleepiness, which is a well-known attendant on the
Sabbath, is indicative of the magnetic influence; and those who discard
the day, and secretly pursue their active employments, would do well to
heed the remarks I have made.
Before I close, I wish to make some observations upon the present
style of preaching as compared with the sermonizing of my day. When I
occupied the pulpit, the doctrines of election and predestination were
the principal themes that engaged the attention of ministers.
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