The question is often asked, “Why should immortals walk, when they can move with greater velocity than light?”

In return I would inquire, “Why, when men can travel by the steam-engine, do they prefer the slow movements of the horse?”

Again, it is asked, “Why, if spirits can converse by thought-language—­if they can express with their eyes, or impress magnetically their wishes, or the words they desire to utter—­why should they employ their vocal organs?”

But I rejoin that the deaf and dumb on earth converse by signs with great celerity, yet would gladly express their thoughts with voice also.

Many trancendentalists and idealists fancy that the inhabitants of the spirit world do not converse audibly; yet they would be greatly shocked if told that in that world there reigned one vast silence; that sound was unknown; and yet such a condition would exist, if their mode of reasoning were correct.

No unbiased person would suppose for a moment, that song was unheard in this land of the immortals; that the voices of the spirit maidens never burst forth into melody; and that they could not give utterance to their feelings and sentiments, in the warbling notes of music!

Spirits can read each other’s thoughts, although possessing a universal spoken language, and also retaining in many sections the native dialect they used on earth.

Though the spirit world is a world of marvels and miracles, and things unutterable, which the tongue cannot express, yet it is a world similar to the natural one; a glorified body of the old earth.

The soul visiting that new country will not feel itself an utter stranger on its shore, but will find that it can assimilate with the thoughts and feelings of the residents of that land, and the knowledge and experience which it developed on earth will be useful to it there.

If the teachers on your planet, and those who instruct concerning the condition of the soul after death, would employ the same reason and intelligence that they exercise in investigating any other obscure subjects—­either chemistry, astronomy, or natural philosophy,—­they would arrive at more truthful data respecting the spirit globe which ultimately they are all destined to inhabit.

H.T.  BUCKLE.

THE MORMONS.

Looking upon the world, the voyager through space discerns vast tracts of land, uninhabited barren wastes, and immense forests echoing only the tread of the wild beast and the cries of birds of prey.

It becomes the duty of the political economist to reclaim these lands and place them in the hands of civilization.

How is this to be done?  Shall it be by following in the beaten track of custom?  No:  it can only be accomplished by the zeal of the enthusiast.