Spiritualism Outdone.
--The Baptist press at the
North are discussing with much warmth the novel views of
Mrs. Mason, the
Baptist missionary in
Burmah, the wife of
Dr. Mason, the linguist and translator.
This lady professes to have discovered what she calls a "God-language." This she discerns not only in works of nature but in works of man as well, such as carpels and fingered cloths.
Mrs. Mason thus recites her discovery:
Last September I was in
Philadelphia, U. S. A. It was midnight, and I eat alone in an upper chamber.
Something seemed to speak; there was no voice, but it came like a flash: "Look down upon the floor." I looked, and there was the fourth chapter of Revelation as plain as flight woven in the carpet at my feet.
It was an English or
Dutch ingrain carpet, of a rich design, and that design and the colors all spoke out this chapter.
I was so much overpowered by it I called up my son to see it, and neither of us dared afterwards to step on the carpet.
I began to look into letters, studying the origin of forms.
The result has been this: 1st, I am convinced that the alphabet was known to
Adam and Eve, and that the alphabet is stereotyped in the heavens, and from this all nations have learned to count and to reckon time.
It proves, 2d that the solar system is our own Bible, and represents God and the history of man's redemption.
It proves that God took upon himself the form of a world, and covered it with sacred letters, making every rock, mountain, and river, and country, a word or chapter.--Then the world was made of book, lighted up with trees, flowers, grass, birds, fishes, and animals, which were created expressly for letters to this world-Bible.
Consequently
Adam gave names to all expressing or expressive of the word.
Did you ever notice how like the first six verses of Generis and the first six verses of John were?
One telling us of the natural, the world, the other of the spiritual, the Word?
World is certainly Word with a light on it. God has in infinite mercy given us the key to this great book, and to my inexpressible surprise and joy, I read this same all over the Karen dresses.
Their dresses or sacks are the true New Testament of our Brole.
I have always told them that a deliverer would come, and they would yet have a Cansan."
