piritualism of Jesus of
Nazareth in the simple injunction--'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This
is the first and great commandment; and the second is like unto it--Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets.'"

In the case of Mr. Harris, it seems to us, he lays his stress upon these
peculiar doctrines, and rather aims at a universal Christianity; in all
sects he sees goodness, and he would combine them all into his own. He
and his disciples have found what all the rest are seeking after. His
Christianity is the faith which all good spirits own, which all angels
reverence. Christ came to reveal this faith: the whole world is but an
expression of it; the whole universe but an illustration of it; and as we
become Christ-like, in the renunciation of self, and the acceptance of
the great law of service in the Lord and to the Lord, more and more we
attain to an internal perception of the verities of that faith. The Word
is opened before us, and the natural universe is perceived to be its
outward illustration. The new church takes its stand upon this
fundamental doctrine of regeneration, and it is to the putting forth of
this in art, science, literature, poetry, preaching, in all the uses of
an ordered life, that the energy of the true churchman is continually, in
the Divine Providence, directed. And to those thus regenerated it is
given to become mediums. Mr. Harris, in his sermon preached at the
Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, May 29, 1859, says: "Any
man, good or bad, can become a medium for spirits. I have seen the
vilest and the most degraded made the organs through which spirits
utterly lost, yet with something of the beams of the fallen archangel's
faded brightness lingering in the intellect--I say I have seen such, as
well as others, earnest, sincere, and worthy, become the organs of
communication between the visible and invisible spirits. But no man can
become a medium, an organ or oracle for the Spirit, for the Word made
flesh, giving to every man according to his will, until he hath passed
through the door of penitence--until he hath gone up through the gateway
of a sincere conversion, or turning from his evil--until he hath
consecrated himself to the great law of right--until he hath voluntarily
taken up all the burdens which God in his providence, whether social,