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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.’ THE DESCENT OF MAN. 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