27 This doctrine is taught here, above these graves.

28 Every tree that spreads its branches over the earth; every

its perfume on the air, and every spire of grass that points toward the Heavens, is an eloquent and instructive minister, ordained of God to preach the Resurrection and the Life!

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Of the spiritual nature of Woman.

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OMAN is feminine, or a true woman, in proportion as she is spiritual. An unspiritual woman is masculine, and is therefore repulsive.

2 The Masculine is the minister of the Material, and of Force, whether intellectual or corporeal; and the Feminine of the Spiritual, and of Power in its finer and higher relatious of Divine use.

3 The spiritual is the Creative power in the soul of Man or Woman. It is so by virtue of its oneness with the Great Artist and Creator. It never lacks resource - is not daunted by any array of circumstances, for is not the Infinite its all-suffering support? It knows no despair, sees no failure; knows that failure is impossible, because its aims are one with the Divine aims, which cannot fail.

4 But the aim of the spiritual nature is expansion, and the simplest form of pure, earnest desire secures that. 46 Ask, and it

shall be given; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

5 When the spirit acts sovereignly, it employs the whole nature harmoniously. Sense, passion, affection, intellect, have all and each their sufficient work; when the spirit is satisfied, they too are filled and content. Its perfect sovereignty is not in their extinction; for spirit is cherishing, never destructive, toward any thing that exists-but in their cheerful abdication in its favor. They forget themselves.

6 There is a great inner fullness, which comes not of bread and meat; an inner warmth, that is not of fireside or ermine; an inner radiance, which the material sun can little affect; an unfailing abundance, which no tide in outward affairs can turn to scarcity.

7 For life is not devised to disappoint the human soul, but to afford it the fullest measure of satisfaction. If the satisfaction is not instant, it is because it could not, in the nature of things, be both instant

spirit is the essential, works for ultimates.

8 Spiritual power is self-renewing; it increases by diffusion. Give it away if you would enrich yourself in it. Empty your soul every evening of all that you can impart, if you would find it overflowing in the morning.

9 O heavenly state! O divine victory, which defeat can never dim! Calamity may do its worst. Poverty may come, desertion, coldness of friends, bitterness of enemies, scorn of the world. They only kindle a diviner strength or pity, and throw the soul more completely into the arms of the Infinite.

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CHAPTER II.

Of the spirit's office in maternity. T is the spiritual which is the creative element of the human mother-nature, as of Mother Nature in the universal sense. Matter does not create.

2 In the mother, spirituality is that deepest possible unfolding of the life of which only the consciousness can take cognizance. It is the opening of the heart of the rose, whence the tiny, subtle hummingbird may extract the nectar that sustains him.

3 Spirituality is the characteristic of the maiden compared with the youth, as it is of the Woman compared with the Man; but the years which make him more masculine, should make her more feminine (spiritual); for no other development whatever can give her a true, divine, creative maternity.

4 The Romish Church has acted upon a true instinct in making Mary illustrious among women. Art, a far truer system than Papacy, has done the same thing. She has been one of its grandest and most

5 And the universal human heart, even though blind and cold, pays a certain involuntary homage to the mothers whose children have acted the Christ-part in their generations. 6 Spirituality magnifies maternity, sees its real glory, and rejoices in it, as never other sovereign rejoiced in her earthly crown and scepter. It gives the mother at once pride and humility-pride, in her great office, though a manger be its cradlehumility, in herself as an instrument in the Divine hand for its accomplishment. "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy law. My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name." This is the language of every true spiritual mother.

7 We acknowledge with more unstinted speech and feeling, the fullness of the Holy Spirit in the mother; and have a worshipful feeling toward her, as its pure, responsive recipient; a feeling which all mothers command in the degree that they are pure, divine, and aspiring in maternity; and will more and more command in proportion as they liken themselves to the typical Mary in becoming susceptible to spiritual aids therein; of which susceptibility a profound humility as to herself, and gratitude for the greatness of her privileges, are always among the clearest evidences.

CHAPTER I.

Emma Hardinge was born in London, England. She came to America in 1855. She was then opposed to the idea of communion with the arisen. At length she became entranced. Then came the word of power: "Emma! you must go out and speak to the world." After a time, with much reluctance, she obeyed the voice from heaven, and her words were good and many, and her fame went before her. The following are selections from her sermons to the people.

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HE aim of the people is, liberty. In every corner of the known earth, at this day, the cry is liberty." Liberty for the body; liberty for the soul.

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2 It is not alone the masses; but individuals are struggling for liberty. The cry has gone forth. That thought stimulates every brain and every heart. Hence, from before every pulpit, around the desk of every writer, the cry comes, "Liberty for the soul."

3 Oh, Mystery! thou art indeed the mother of the abominations of the earth.

4 Oh, mystery! can there be truth and mystery together? Is it a possibility that God's works, if he be our Father, shall be a mystery to us, his children?

5 There is no mystery save your own ignorance, and your submission or tyranny one to another. All the wonders of the Almighty's gospel have unrolled themselves in the light of knowledge, or are now becoming manifest to the investigating spirit of man.

6 The vail of mystery being lifted discloses the fact that the Almighty is the God of the living, not the God of the dead; that the living are his ministering spirits; that they can and do come to earth; that they are the ministers of light and knowledge, who, in all ages of the world, have gone forth to minister to the heirs of salvation.

7 Yes, the last great vail of mystery is breaking fast. The great seventh seal, that so long has hidden the word of God, is broken, and the destiny of man and the knowledge of God are being revealed. The vail is rent in twain ! 8 Progress is a portion of the eternal gospel of nature, which the ages tell; which the history of all nations teaches; which the advance of every art and every science indicates; which the history of planets, suns, and stars proclaims; which man himself spells out from the cradle to the grave, in a perpetual series of progressive experiments, each one leading to the culminating point when his spirit is set free, to put in practice the results of the follies, the trespasses, the hopes, the wishes, the aspirations which he has gained in his earthly career.

CHAPTER II.

She teacheth the gospel of God's providence in his laws und works. She upbraideth the people for lukewarmness, and counseleth all to live truly and dia like the ancient one.

HI we need not go and listen to the boom of the mighty Ocean; we need not wait for the thunder of the skies or the flash of the lightning; we need not gaze into the immensity of space to find out God. Every forest tree and every blade of grass will tell the tale-will show wisdom, design, calculation.

2 All things in nature reach their perfection here, except the spirit.

3 We find that there is in the spirit a constant progress; from the cradle to the grave, the spirit manifests growth, but never change. Whatever is impressed upon the consciousness of the babe, remains with the old man.

4 Yea, the destiny of the spirit is eternal progress! Stand upon the highest point to which your imagination can climb, amid all the glories of sunlit skies and rainbow arches, pointing up to higher and yet higher worlds of light and splendor; and doth not thy spirit aspire to it all?

5 Who among ye white-haired old men, as ye plant your trembling feet on the verge of the grave, can say: "My soul is full; I ask for no more; my soul is the perfect flower of my existence; there is no more to be added?" The cry is still for to-morrow; the cry is still for light; and the dim eye opens like a window of the soul looking through upon eternity, and still searching for and feeling after the endless vistas of a perpetually returning to-morrow. These are the evidences of immortality.

6 In every condition of life this immortality would be a lamp for your feet. Ye build houses for tomorrow; why are none building mansions for eternity? Alas! alas! either ye do not believe what your religionists teach ye, or ye fail in your life-practice.

7 Neither believe ye in the immortality of the soul, or if ye do, ye do not manifest it. Ye write on tombstones: "Here lies," "Here remains," "Here sleeps;" and ye do this in view of that word which tells you of the God of the living. 8 O, Man! behold what thy spirit is; take heed of its destiny, observe its origin; know that knowledge is power; as thou dost know thyself, so wilt thou die as the wise and virtuous Socrates died.

9 Give us our daily bread for the body, is the cry of the materialist; but wherefore do you not ask daily bread for the soul? We will tell you why ye do not ask it-because it has been poured upon you; because the measure has been pressed down and running over; because the light has shone in the darkness, though the darkness comprehended it not.

CHAPTER III.

She glorieth in the processes of death as the steps of life. The finality of Sin is prophesied. God's light shineth in man's darkness.

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OME, on her seven hills of

pride, with her noble Coliseum, her towers, her mighty palaces, her men of wisdom, her legislation, her warrior strength and martial freedom, was cnough for her day.

2 Corinth and Athens were enough for their time, but not enough for after time.

3 They had no great factories, no steam-engines, no telegraphs, no railroads, no labor-saving machinery, no printing-press, nothing of all that beautiful new life that has grown up out of the ashes of the old world. She has perished in the night of death for her imperfection.

4 All hail, then, to that which ye term "death." Trace its action, and ye find it touches nothing

5 Nothing which has been, which was beautiful or true in the past, has ever died.

6 Man's sin is finite; must not his punishment be so also?

7 Oh! ye who advocate the eternity of punishment for a finite sin, open the page of your Bible and read that the wages is paid with death.

8 When sin is accomplished, the

10 Nature grants to every thing a stereotyped form, for the purpose of incarnating the life, and giving the spirit expression.

11 Hence, premature or violent death is a misfortune, for it is an infraction of the order of nature. 21 But God is good, and bringeth light out of man's darkness.

CHAPTER I.

5 Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, old things

To the poet, to the philosopher,

to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.

4 The relations of the soul to the Divine Spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

temples, fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it.

6 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.

7 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

8 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

9 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.