case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner Guilty. His Honor sentenced Mortal Man to die for those deeds which the divine law compels him to commit. Thus the lower court construed obedience to the law of Love as disobedience to the law of Life. Claiming to protect a Mortal Man in right-doing, the court pronounced a sentence of death for doing right.
One of the principal witnesses. Nerve, testified that he was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides. He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he knew Mortal Man, and he was made in the image of God, but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on the Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of Intelligence. It indicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn mortals, in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth, in the presence of Divine Justice, before the Judge of our higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness, Nerve, to be destitute of Intelligence and Truth, and bearing the messages of Error only.
Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected; Intelligence not allowed a hearing; Soul a slave, though recommended to mercy; the helpless body executed, — these are the terrible records of your Material Court of Common Errors, and I ask that the higher Court of Spirit reverse this decision.
Here the opposite counsel, Belief, called Science to order, for contempt of court. Various notables — Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, and Mediumship — rose to the question of expelling Science from the bar, for such high-handed illegality. He was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regularly constituted court.
But Judge Justice, of the Supreme Court of Spirit, overruled their motions, on the ground that unchristian
