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| title = Mr. Bennett in India | | title = Mr. Bennett in India. | ||
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From the ''Theosophist'' we learn that the Theosophical Society of India held their anniversary meeting on January 12th, at which meeting Mr. Bennett was one of the speakers. Col. Olcott gave an account of the work the society had performed in the past year, and alluding to the proposition of the ''Bombay Gazette'', that he and Joe Cook should get up a religious controversy, said that he had not the time to answer Cook, but that, perhaps, “Mr. D. M. Bennett, editor and proprietor of ''The Truth Seeker'', one of the greatest organs of the Western Freethought movement,” might have a few words to say upon the subject. Mr. Bennett did have a few words to say, and gave Cook’s religion a thorough overhauling. The speech, together with the other proceedings, will appear in his letters in the proper place. At its conclusion he and Col. Olcott were complimented and warmly thanked by many Hindoo and Parsi gentlemen. In the published proceedings Mr. Bennett is introduced to the public of India by the following note: | |||
{{Style P-Quote|This famous Infidel agitator against Christian orthodoxy is a strong-built gentleman, of medium hight, with a large intellectual forehead and a pleasant voice. He was reared as a ‘Shaker,’ a sect of celebrated Christian mystics in America, who are universally esteemed for their pure moral character and industrious habits. His religious views having changed, Mr. Bennett at the age of 27 left them and went out into the world to fight a life-long battle for Freethought. Eight years ago he established ''The Truth Seeker'', a weekly journal, which now has 50,000 readers, and has written and published scores of tracts and leaflets besides ten or more books against Christianity. He became so dangerous an opponent that, at last, the orthodox party availed themselves of a convenient pretext, and had him sent to prison for selling a physiological work of which he was neither an author nor a publisher, and which the book trade were then selling, and are still selling, with impunity, thousands of copies! The fact appears in Mr. Bennett’s address.}} | {{Style P-Quote|This famous Infidel agitator against Christian orthodoxy is a strong-built gentleman, of medium hight, with a large intellectual forehead and a pleasant voice. He was reared as a ‘Shaker,’ a sect of celebrated Christian mystics in America, who are universally esteemed for their pure moral character and industrious habits. His religious views having changed, Mr. Bennett at the age of 27 left them and went out into the world to fight a life-long battle for Freethought. Eight years ago he established ''The Truth Seeker'', a weekly journal, which now has 50,000 readers, and has written and published scores of tracts and leaflets besides ten or more books against Christianity. He became so dangerous an opponent that, at last, the orthodox party availed themselves of a convenient pretext, and had him sent to prison for selling a physiological work of which he was neither an author nor a publisher, and which the book trade were then selling, and are still selling, with impunity, thousands of copies! The fact appears in Mr. Bennett’s address.}} | ||
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| author = M. A. (Oxon.) | | author = M. A. (Oxon.) | ||
| author signed = M. A. (Oxon.) | | author signed = M. A. (Oxon.) | ||
| title = Spirit Teachings | | title = Spirit Teachings. | ||
| subtitle = Second Series | | subtitle = Second Series | ||
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| source title = Light | | source title = Light | ||
| source details = v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882 | | source details = v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882, pp. 191-92 | ||
| publication date = 1882-04-22 | | publication date = 1882-04-22 | ||
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{{Style P-Subtitle|Second Series.}} | {{Style P-Subtitle|Second Series.}} | ||
This series of Spirit-Teachings, like the former, is made up of selections from a great mass which have been automatically written during a series of years. They are selected on no other principle than that of printing what has been valuable to the person for whom they were originally given, in so far as this can be done without trenching on what is merely of personal and private application. The latter consideration excludes a great mass of what would otherwise be interesting and valuable matter. The phraseology has been preserved, as far as possible, intact, names only being omitted. The series follows directly on the first, from which, indeed, it is separated only by the accident of its publication in another journal, and after some considerable interval of time. The publication is resumed in deference to many repeated requests. | |||
{{Style P-Signature|M. A. (Oxon.)}} | {{Style P-Signature|M. A. (Oxon.)}} | ||