offenses to the influence of satan, while, in fact, the causes are wholly and unqualifiedly referable to the operation of psychological principles. And here we find a valuable truth-a high and noble power! The myriad suns and planets revolve harmoniously, upon these positive and negative relations. According to them, the Deity lives and acts in his magnificent temple. The knowledge of the existence of this law and power, adds very much to our ability to overcome all physical, social, and mental enemies-to banish the causes of terrestrial discords and diseases.

The incoming of this century was signalized by the introduction of a new influence into Christendom; the spirit of reformation. At first, it advanced like the beginning ripples of an ocean storm. But, anon, the billows rose high in their mighty strength, and cast their glittering spray far over the granite sides of monarchial Europe! And avenues, where the purifying element had never flowed before, are now being cleansed by the rising tide of reformation. By the gradual ascension of this onward tide, you will see Lapland's "eternal snows" melt into means of cultivation, and miasmatic climes will give sweet encouragement to the growth of perennial flowers. And it has been shown that what is possible in the physical world is equally possible in the world of morals. By the immutable action of his psychological principles of omnipotence, the Deity fills the world with life, which is LOVE, and with order, which is WISDOM. And with the mighty spirit of reformation, the human heart begins to throb most musically every where. But let us apply rightly the high powers of our mental constitution. It should be constantly remembered, that all "sin,” and “error,” and "unhappiness” are demonstrative evidences that a misdirection or misapplication of good persons or principles exists some where in the world. I am deeply impressed that every individual should learn rightly to employ the psychological powers of his own mind. The same power which produced the thirty years' war, is capable

of producing as many years of peace. The same law of sympathetic contagion, by which one individual commits a crime and thereby psychologically excites a corresponding propensity in other minds, is identical with that divine influence by which many minds. may be advanced to virtue and inward peacefulness. Every one of you, brethren, are endowed, naturally and constitutionally, with this psychological power; but in different degrees. And to exercise it is the high prerogative of your being.

"When each fulfills a wise design,

In his own orbit he will shine."

Like the rushing flame on the burning prairie, the fire of harmonial reformation will spread from village to village, from city to city, from hemisphere to hemisphere; and the ennobling principles which now flash upon us from the effulgent spheres on high, shall be communicated, with all the sweet contagion of a psychological sympathy, to every human heart! You should be distinguished from the world's inhabitants,-by your nobility: by your happiness: by your brotherly love: by your superior offspring: by your high intelligence, and eloquence, and psychological power,-by ALL, in a word, which distinguishes the kingdom of heaven from the discords of earth.

THE lecture this evening is concerning man in the sympathetic state; but I will first, as preliminary, proceed to explain to your minds the FOUNDATION of sympathy in nature, which will form the most of what I shall say on this occasion.

The human mind is a beautiful combination of substantial and immortal principles; it is the organization of essential realities,-a unitary development of the most interior essences of all external forms and visible substances. Hence the mind is the most practical and actual agent in nature; and every thing in existence sustains to it a relationship, more or less remote, or a sympathy of greater or lesser intensity and power. So real and practical is the mind, in its principles, that it can neither inhale nor emit any absolute falsehood, replete with spurious imaginations; for its every breath is loaded with similes, substances, and correspondences, which bear some distinct friendship for all the living truths in nature. Thus: every romance derives its inward vitality from the hiding-places of humanity; and every so-called fiction is but a novel arrangement of actual occurrences and scenery. The facts of our common nature are sometimes too roughly hewn for finely strung temperaments; consequently, such minds will frequently decorate them with a youthful and spiritual tapestry. Many splendid thoughts and facts of science, are thus darkly concealed beneath the fable's livery. The mystic garments of mythology infold innumerable forms of truth; and the wildest fancy that ever

floated along the broad horizon of human speculation, may safely claim a relationship, more or less intimate, with the common developments of modern times. Hence I am impressed to affirm, that every scheme of thought, every surmise and vaticination of the human mind,-is entitled to a certain amount of deference; for there is, properly speaking, no system without valuable suggestion,--no theories or philosophies without some important essence of vitality.

Men throw fancy or drapery around facts, only because the wisdom-principle of the mind is unbalanced or undeveloped. To the spiritually minded, all realities are clothed in a glowing divinity; every-day occurrences are miraculous. To the truly wise, there is no poetry, no fable, no romance which is so beautiful and so inspiring as a simple fact in nature. To such a mind, the rose needs no additional hue; the sun no brighter rays; the rainbow no more vivid tints; nor the violet a sweeter fragrance; but the softest luxuriance of an omnipresent divinity radiates from the blade of grass, the stones, and peaceful trees, which dress the landscapes that spread out in endless perspective before the vision.

But he whose mind is not sufficiently unfolded to see, as he walks, the perpetual breathings of the living divinity,—the spirit of God emanating from the forms and objects around him,--is very often tempted to convert the substance of a fact into the structure of a gaudy fable; so that many truths may walk abroad under the strange disguise of romance, and a fictitious dress may be worn by our most familiar thoughts. Yet there is some substantial vitality in every theory or speculation that ever emanated from the human mind. The constitution of the soul will not permit it to generate unmingled or unmixed error. There must be something actual and practical in its most extravagant imaginations. The Persianic cosmogony,--or world-building philosophy,--to be found in the first chapters of our Bible,-is not without certain tints and

relationships to truth. Mythology has some true theology in it; alchemy has a chemical basis; and astrology depends very much upon mathematical and astronomical science. Plato says,—“ Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." The mythological drapery which man has gradually thrown around truth, in consequence of not recognizing the intrinsic beauty of her realities, he as gradually unwinds as he unfolds himself in wisdom. So that, when men shall have grown to be wise, you will see the deformities, cumbrous shapes, complicated envelopments, mazy ambiguities, and oracular sophistries with which facts and realities have been for long centuries invested, all carefully unrolled and removed, and TRUTH will be seen in her native simplicity and beauty, which are the foundation of her mighty power and colossal magnificence! You may prepare yourselves, therefore, to behold your most cherished theologies dismantled; your serious or sacred errors freely and fairly exposed; your traditionary religions and dogmas divested of their oriental costume; your supernaturalism and miracles reduced to natural occurrences; and your long fostered and cherished superstitions weighed, analyzed, and cleansed of all their noxious connections.

If all human thoughts and speculations were properly divested of the artificial clothing in which they are enveloped-all, in consequence of man's undeveloped state of mind,--we would each recognize a certain friendship to their inward properties: a sympathy for the little germs of truth which those thoughts and speculations embosom. Let the civilization of an analytical and harmonial philosophy be duly spread abroad--rendering men and things altogether natural, wise, and spiritual--and, I can assure you, the superficial, the partial, the incomplete, and the disagreeable of the outer world will rapidly disappear. Let this spirit be introduced into the soul of the multitudes, and all disagreeable appearances says a writer-swine, spiders, snakes, pests, mad