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Saved from Disgrace.
A Tragic "Romance in Bos
ton Society Life.
Am Heir to a Million Born in
a Hovel.
MrMt|»8tory framthe Diary of a Phyilctao,
The following Btory comes from the lips of a
prominent physician of this city, whose charac
ter and record as a medical practitioner is sup
plemented by the fact that he has occupied
prominent positions in public office. The ex
traordinary circumstances and occurrences are
all of a date within the past month. The recit
al is given place not only for the interest of the
general reader, but in the hope that other phy
sicians'in emergencies which require fearless
action may be inspired with courage to insist
upon the justice due to the unfortunate:
It is a strange story, said the doctor, and one
which you may think savors of fiction, but it is
nevertheless a true one. A physician, as you
may well understand, is oftentimes called upon
to perform other duties than the simple admin
istration of physic. Yes, sir, we are both min
isters and phj sicians, and we are oftentimes
made the unwilling witnesses of very strange
transactions. The last occasion thatl was oall-
ed upon to act in the character of a humanitari
an occurred in this city a short time ago. . 1
had just entered my room, preparatory to retir
ing for the night, when a sndden jerking of my
hall door bell intimated that some one had call
ed to seek my services. My servant opened the
door and ushered in a messenger, who, in
breathless haste, implored me to accompany
him to Mo. —, — street. Noticing the fact that
the man was terribly agitated, and surmising
that there was something wrong, I immediately
donned the clothing that I had removed but a
few moments before, and hurried away in the
direction of the street indicated by the messen-
Upon arriving in front of the house I
ger.
made an examination of the outside of the prem
ises and satisfied myself that I was about to en
ter a tenement house, where possibly crime had
been committed, and I accordingly nerved my
self for the venture. Having sounded the bell,
I was met at the doorway by a small woman, at
tired in the garb of a domestic, and was at once
conducted up three flights of rickety stairs and
ushered into a squalid-looking apartment.
Upon entering the room, I at once saw by the
number of persons who were ciowdad around
the bed, that a sufferer reclined there, and,
pushing my way through the crowd, I approach
ed the bedside of the unfortunate. There were
present in the room three women and one man-
and at the moment of my entry they were en,
gaged in making frantic efforts to arrest and
prevent the violent and spasmodic contortions
of a fair yonng woman, the suffering object of
my visit. The surroundings of the place and
the scene itself did net please me. It occuried
to me to inquire within myself: Why were those
people here? Who were they ? And how came
this girl, so fair, youthful and respectable look
ing, to be found in Buch quarters ? I first ex
amined the condition of the young woman, and
found that she was suffering from mania. In
endeavoring to ascertain her real condition, re
quirements, etc., I fonnd to my horror that she
had bitten off almost half of her tongue.
Her mouth was filled with blood commingled
with froth, and the pupils of her eyes were ter
ribly dilated. Her features, beautiful in health,
had become pallid and emaciated in suffering.
Her condition at once appealed to my better
nature, and fearing that some great wrong had
been committed, I resolved to sift the matter to
tha very bottom. I first administered an opi
ate of sufficient strength and quantity to
oanse her gyrations to succumb to the more
soothing influence of sleep. As soon as I fonnd
that she had become subdned and quieted, I
demanded of those present that they inform me
as to whether or not the yonng lady had any
friends or relatives present. A middle-aged
lady, whom I had overlooked in making my in
spection of those present, and who had attracted
my attention only by her half-subdued sobs,
replied that Bbe was a relative, in fact, the moth
er of the poor girl martyr. Beckoning her one
side, I requested her to accompany me into the
adjoining room, a request that she at once com
plied with. Feeling that my visit had been in
vested with terrible responsibility, as I was now
convinced that a wrong of some character had
been perpetrated, I told the young lady’s moth
er that if she desired me to officiate for the ben
efit of her child as a medical practitioner, she
mast first unbosom herself to me, narrate the
story connected with her daughter’s terrible
condition, give me all the facts in the case, and
suppress nothing. She consented to do so, and
revealed the following facts: ‘My daughter
and myself,’ said the lady, ‘came hereabout
three weeks ago under an assumed name. I am
the wife of a wealthy Boston merchant, Mr. —,
snd this girl is our only child. We do not live
in Boston, we reside in —. Last summer my
daughter commenced keeping company with a
young gentleman in our place, the son of a near
neighbor. We always believed that the yonng
man contemplated marrying onr child, and in
fact we regarded him as an accepted suitor lor
her hand, and he was always treated as a mem
ber of the iamily. He visited onr home almost
daily, and possessing the most complete confi
dence in his honor and integrity of purpose,
my husband and myself never sut jected him to
any surveillance. About two months ago (and
at this point the poor woman sobbed aloud,
evidencing thereby her extreme griel) my
daughter mloimed me of her unfortunate con
dition. I at once realized the fact (hat if the
public were made aware of her fall irom wo
manly grace that my family would be disgraced,
and accordingly 1 determined to conceal her
shame. My daughter and myself came to Bos
ton, and under assumed names we engaged
these apartments. Ot course they are not what
we have been accustomed to, but I thought that
we would be less susceptible of detection if we
hid ourselves away licm the world. Previous
to coming here, however, I endeavored by my
pleading to induce the lather of my daughter's
betrayer to penult his son to many my daught
er, and thereby satisfy and sanctify the issue.
But it was of no avail; he heartlessly relused to
admit of such a procedure, claiming that his
son was too young to marry. Five uays after
we took up our residence in this place my
daughter gave birth 10 the child that you saw
in the cradle. Child and mother were appar
ently doing well until the third day alter the
birth ol her offspring, when the poor little thing
began to cry. 1 saw at once that my daughter
for the fiist tin e, had realized the disgrace of
her situa tion. She was very much effected,
and upon h earing the child repeat its piteous
wail, she b eoame pallid and motionless. Her
eyes almost started litm her head; her lipa
quivered and assumed a purple hue, and she
became livid with grief and shame.
She became completely crazed, and in her
ravings leaped out ot bed, and in piteous tones,
mingled with the bitterness of rage, exclaimed :
‘My God ! My God ! My poor darling ! O, why
did 1 bring you into this world to live in the
disgrace ot having no lather’s name !’ She wish
ed herself dead, and in the convulsions which
immediately came upon her, and which have
continued ever since, she attempted to bite off
her tongue, and yon see she nearly accomplish
ed it. From that time up to the present, my
daughter has been out of her mind. I am almost
crazed myself. You have no idee, Doctor, what
an ordeal I have had to go through, to see my
only child enduring such terrible agony.
Having listened attentively to the maternal
story, 1 concluded at once and without delay to
call in the services of an older and advisory
physician. The past could not be remedied.
The idea now was to try and improve the pres
ent, if possible, and, above all, to make an effort
to save the life of the poor young girl. I there
fore requested permission to summon additional
medical skill for the purpose of consultation.
The mother agreed with me fully, and I called
in one of onr oldest physicians and a promin
ent member of the Massachusetts Medical Socie
ty. After four days of careful attention our
patient regained her consciousness, and the
very first thing that we discovered after the re-
tarn of her mental faculties was that she was
possessed of an aching and burning desire to
see the father of her child. She appeared to be
beside herself on this one subject, and kept con-
contihually calling him by name. At times, in
her speech and action, she would fondle him,
and again she would chide him for his neglect
and the desertion of her in this her moment of
anguish. She would often use expressions like
these, ‘Oh, come, my darling! Press my lips in
death. I don’t want to compel you to love me;
but, come, let me gaze upon you before I €ie.’
Finding that the desire on her part to see the
father of her child was so strong, 1 consulted
with other physicians, whose experience and
aid I had solicited, as to whether or not she was
in a proper and fit condition to see him. After
consultation we decided it advisable to find the
yonng man and bring him to the bedside of the
apparently dying woman. Nothing short of a
miracle could save her ltfe, and we grasped at
this circumstance as furnishing an opportunity
focthe enactment of a miracle. I sought out the
father of the yonng man, and presented my
view of the case to him. I informed him that I
came neither as a moralist nor as a minister of
the Gospel, but as a simple physioian, whose
duty it is to remove the cause that produces evil
effects upon a patient. Miss has been de
livered of offspring, and your son is the father
of that child. She has realized the fact that her
child is illegitimate, and the issue without the
sanction of law. The fact of her becoming a
mother under such circumstances has produced
acute mania, and it may result in death. I there
fore want your son to marry the young woman.
The father, who by the way is’a haughty mil
lionaire, at first refnsed to sanction such a un
ion. He could not permit himself to allow his
son to marry any such woman; the sacrifice was
too great!
1 immediately informed him that nc sacrifice
that his son would make could ever atone for
the wrong that he had committed, or for the
sacrifice of her life, that this poor yonng wo
man was about to suffer. I also told him that
if he did not at once agree to the solemnization
of the marriage rite between his son and my
patient, that I would acquaint the world with
the true state of affairs, an<i that then he would
find himself and family nokonly disgraced but
even scorned by all respectable people, as a man
unfit to be even tolerated in the community.
Finally he consented. My medical co-laborer
and myself held another consultation as to )
whether or not our patient was capable of un
derstanding the responsibility and sufficient
ly appreciative of the consequences of the
enactment of so solemn a ceremony as marriage.
After holding several conversations with the
young lady, we satisfied ourselves that she had
regained sufficient control over herself to ad
mit of the ceremony. I then called in an emin
ent divine of this city to officiate. Th6 moment
that she caught sight of and was permitted to
converse with the father of her child, we-discoi/-
erea at once a perceptible change in her de
meanor, looka and language. Placing the child
in the bed with the mother, we ail prepared for
the act that would legalize the child and re
deem the mother.
At the time there were present the father and
mother of the girl, the mother of the young man,
and the two attendant physicians, who served
as witnesses to the ceiemony, and the form of
making them man and wife according to the
rules of the Episcopal Church was gone through
with. . The ceremony had hardly ended before
the poor girl, overcome with a mother’s joy to
think that her child had been saved, fell back
upon the pillow and swooned away. The se
quel to the sad story is the most painful chap
ter of the entire narrative. Ten days after the
fulfilment of the marriage contract oar patient
died. The child, however, is saved, an heir to
a million of dollars, and is now being cared for
in the mansion of its wayward father.
the dead,” such as “magnetio” “eleotric,” “mov
ing,” “tipping,” “raps, impressions,” eto, and
aocepting the general drift of the phenomena,
supposed myself a Spiritualist* And while thus
blinded to the misapprehension of truths exist
ing, in faot, so near to Spiritualism that the
line cannot be drawn—had the indications of
“mediumship,” such as “rappings,” “voices”
and other phenomenal wonders that began to
develop themselves in my own body, been en
couraged, or rather had they not been relinquish
ed and banished by a partial understanding of
the causes of mediumship, I should to-day have
thought the evil thing good, and have yielded
obedience to it through the power of its won
derful fascination and the chance of worldly
enterprise it offers to its devotees. But the
path divided. I was led step by step to reject
the whole body of Spiritualists. Had I accept
ed the views of Spiritualism I should have been
blinded to its real meaning, and to its real cause.
Spirituralism has had a series of “evolutions.”
The whole of this wonder, from its first tiny
rap to the calcium light photographing of spirit
forms, has been, in fact, a gradually develop
ing series of wonders following one after the
other with painful slowness, but steady increase
of “evidence” to all the senses. “Mediums” by
the hundreds ean be summoned to an atttesta-
tion of all these statements; for this great power
of Spiritualism, though so reoklessly passed
over as either too shameful or too meaningless a
thing for the great body ot our churches to han
dle, is, nevertheless,
SPIRITUALISM.
Tlie Forerunner of the Second
Advent of Jesus Christ.
The False and the True as Pointed
Out by a Devotee,
True Spiritualism the Coming Religion of
the Civilized World.
If the old adage is to be received without
qualification, ‘there is nothing new under the
sun.’ But the originator of this broad asser
tion, be it remembered, lived on the earth be
fore a Morse had perfected and utilized the
harness which Franklin had succeeded in hitch
ing on to lightning, or electricty; before a Ful
ton had wrought out the idea that steam could
be used as a motive power; before Professor Bell
had got to talking on the string with his remark
able telephone, and before Edison, the greatest
human inventor of modern times, had introduc
ed to an astonished world the wonderful tintin
nabulations of the phonograph. The discover
ies in the realms of science and art certainly
gainsay the old saw. and in the religions world
the searchers alter truth have not been idle.
THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRITUALISM.
which is of comparatively recent growth, has
many adherents in this country, and Boston
particularly in this, as in many other cases, is
the Hub or centre of this prominent one
among the main ‘isms’ of the age. A represen
tative of The Globe called a few evenings ago,
by invitation, at the residence of a gifted lady
of this city who has given much thought and
study to the subject ot Spiritualism, and having
been at one time a ‘medium,’ has been the
better enabled to search out the truth of the doc
trine, eliminate the evil from the good, and
form an intelligent opinion of this, one of the
greatest mysteries of these later days. The lady
is now writing a book, which will be ready for
the public in the early autumn, and that it will
create a sensation in the scientific, theological
and intellectual world there can be no question,
fudging from the pages already prepared which
were submitted to The Globe man’s inspection.
The manner in which the subject is treated by
this lady not only has the merit of originality,
but it is vigorous, terse, startling and even bril
liant in tone, style and argument. She treats
of ‘Spiritualism, the Forerunner of the Second
Advent of Jesus Christ,’ a doctrine which was
first announced by one of the leading Spirit
ualists of New York. She says: ‘When first I
saw this assertion, I believed in the return of
he dead, as a basis of a more Bpiritut.1 religion;
in other words, I was, glad of a more phyiscal
outlook for religion, and that “spirit” could be
come tangible to the senses. I became familiar
with phrases used by believers in the “spirits of
THE GREATEST FACT OF THIS COUNTRY.
The first exclamation of a “believer” of the
genuine stamp would be, “How do yon hold it
to be the greatest fact, when you have said that
human spirits and spirits of devils are the facts
in Spiritualism, but they do not emanate from
the source that is believed in ?” The spirits do
infest other bodies than their own, and “con
trol” and render almost powerless the bodies ot
such as are “controlled,’’ I admit fully. These
spirits, however, are not “emanations” from
something we cannot palpably touch, nor do
they come back from a “spirit land,” to which
they passsed when the gross matter of the body
sank into corruption and loathsome hideous
ness of the grave. The “control” is the result
of
PURELY PHYSICAL CAUSES.
We do not have to go above our earth or beneath
it, to find “hell.” Hell is on top of the ground
and moviDg about in “forms” too well known
and too tangible to mistake as to what is “bell.”
Another idea is thate until soul is a recognized
physical fact, the salie as the body, and dealt
with as such, all the preaching of all the evange
lists on this great, rolling globe will not affect
a cure for sin in one single instance. God hears
player, but He hears it by the use of means,
and uses physical means to produce physical
results. A soul which is formed of something,
and is “something,” cannot be “saved” by no
thing. For this “something” Spiritualism pro
vided intelligence of physical states, and
science, demonstrating by physical proof, will
employ means by which the indubitable proofs
are yet to be rendered. Spiritualism is bearing
about within it the answers *to the deepest ques
tions of hurnaD life. AChristless Spiritualism,
j such as modern Spiritualism is, is nevertheless,
bearing about within it the
“body of our lord.”
But when I make this statement,’ says the
lady, ‘I do not mean a single person or many
included under the name of Spiritualists and
banded together irva belief of the return of the
dead and communication with those who have
been subject to deitb. Persons are not princi
ples. Spiritualism does not stand for Boston,
New York or Leii.HJ, with all the Spiritualists
and investigators cl phenomena gathered from
the east, west, n-vAyor south; but for the body,
natural and spirita/l, with all the attendant states
of bodies, raised up out of sin and death into
nature, and out (if the “natural” into the
“spiritual.” True 1 Spiritualism, plus the Catho
lic Church, and science will unite, and the re
sult will be the opening of the gate for the flood
of grand supernatural events to usher in a
Christ in Spiritualism, or the development of
the principle of love in the union of the sexes.
The value of Spiritualism can only be measur
ed by the value of the human body, and the
restoration of the body to permanent or “eternal
life.” The power that Christ had within Himself
to “rise” from the dead, was typical (as were ail
the physical and spiritual appearances) of the
I Son of God. The physical proof of the redemp-
! tion of the body is to be found only in the
unseen but material process of the refinement
governing it, evolved by Spiritualism under
which head are gathered the extension and di
visibility of matter and all the change to the body
produced by heat, cold, etc. While the theo
logical tenets of religions averse to modern
Spiritualism are powerless to cope with this
discovery in science—the physical bias of life—-
Spiritualism, even of the lowest progressional
status, and striking hands with the most
REEKINC il -TUINESS OF THE FLESH
is lifted to the place of honor in furnishing the
‘missing link’ between science and religion !
* * * But when all the teies are brought into
the store house we shall find that not a few
hands have been gathering, and among the
rubbish heaps of the unfrequented and lonely
places of the earth, and out of the uncanny
haunts of Spiritualism, is yet to burst forth the
aggregate glories of anthropological science,
reaching down to extract from all below it what
ever attracts and hinds together the atoms of
objects, visible and iuvisible, by which to
form laws of attraction and repulsion in the
highest grade of animal existence, or the phys
ical basis of life, known among scientists as the
organic basis of life,’ which science is pledged
to accomplish iD its discoveries. Science will
never discover this organic basis untill it dis
covers Spiritualism. When it does Spiritual
ism will understand itself, which it does not
now do. It is a soul and spirit outside of the
body that produce manifestations, and there
fore a lost soul and a lost spirit, iu the sense
of its being outside and not inside the body.
‘True Spiritualism’ will be the operations in
the spirit, clothed 1 ' ipon by its own body, with
which the spix-y^ Chemically blended, forming
thereby a unioirKW flesh and spirit, where now
there is a disruption and a seperation fatal to
the body, and as we must infer, fatal to the
soul as well as the body, unless rescued by the
power of Christ.
NO LBSS MYSTERIOUS TO OUTSIDERS
than to the most devoted of its adherents, tffiey
are one and all amazed! Mediums are full of
doubt, and most frequently are in doubt as to
their own identity with a power that they can
obtain no clue as to anything regarding it but
the effects. They never know what absurd freak
will take possession of them—some times wise
and prudent, lofty and pure; at others unwise,
imprudent, low and impure, fhat mediums
are controlled I became convinced of, and that
they know nothing of what the source of the
power that controls them is, I also know. All
investigators, as well as the mediums themselves,
are unconsciously the servants of the exigency
of the time, and are proving without meaning to
do so,the low$and unmarriageable state to which
the sexes have been reduced by the ‘fall.’ It is
true that Spiritualism offers a panacea for the
present ills of humanity, and its religion con
sists in proving immortality for the soul, or
whatever takes flight to the ‘summer land. ’But
in so far as Spiritualism has taken to itself prom
ises for the future welfare of the soul, and al
lied itself to religion, it is deplorable and de
lusory, and is fully entitled to rank with the
worst of pretend era, who, while they are all
haters of Jesus Christ in his true character, still
cling to a form of religion, partly to satisfy hu
man needs, and partly to appease the demand
for an immortal existence. All Spiritualism is
* A MASS OF EVIL DOCTRINES,
false and irreligious and degrading physical
and spiritual tendencies; narrow, censorious and
unloving; vague, abnormal and unreal, is at the
farthest, removed from my acceptance and sanc
tion; but a Spiritualism that develops facts
which tend direotly to the construction of a
true physical basis for the escape of the en
thralled body and soul from death, by pointing
out the future union or marriage of the sexes,
and the several mysteries of matter which are
steadily unfolding within its at last all-embrac
ing theological and anthropological science, and
the embracing of religion and science through
its brotherhood with the Catholic Church; these
and other kindred reasons make Spiritualism,
though none of its members, mine; and to all
of which under the name of ‘Spiritualism,’ or
any other name, I accord the fullest acceptance
and sanction as the true science of sciences,
whose Centre and Head is Jesus Christ.’
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