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EITEOPE AND ITS CITIES. 397
silence the observers retraced their footsteps to the chamber of mourning,
and there learned that the spirit had returned to God, who gave it.
The last words audible were, " '"
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When in Paris the first time, guest of Mr. Gledstanes,
the French Consul Leon Favre accompanied me to the residence
of the Swedish Baron Louis Guldenstubbe. This
gentleman, a distinguished Spiritualist, was related to a
Scandinavian family of great renown. " Two of his ancestors,
Knights of the Order of the Grand Templars, and of the
same name, were burned alive in 1309, in company with
Jacques de Molay, by order of Pope Clement the Fifth."
If it be true, as is sometimes asserted, that the country of
one's birth and hereditary descent are not without influence
upon mediumistic qualities, the baron was favored in both
these respects. The mother who gave him birth in the
country of Swedenborg, the mystic Scandinavia, prone to
Spiritual belief, early initiated him in this kind of reading.
When quite young he was remarkable for presentiments and
visions.
He published several volumes relating to his
researches in
the science of positive and experimental pneumatology,
besides a deeply interesting contribution upon " direct spirit
writing." Both himself and sister were mediums. The
baron recently passed to spirit-life, esteemed highest by
those who knew him best.
ALL CITIES EEPUDIATED.
As wens and warts to human bodies, so are cities to a
country. Unnatural, they are the cesspools of crime,
competition, and avarice. While Nature has lavished her
gifts with prodigal hand, men should make community-villas,
and gardens of hiU and dale, each and all earning their bread
by honest toil. Rome, grim and grand, unites the dead past
and hving present. The Papal Church is the most logical
of any. It has an infallible God, an infallible Lord Jesus,
an infallible Church, an infallible Douay Bible, and an iufal-