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Decease of Mr. Henry D. Jencken
On Saturday morning last Mr. Henry D. Jencken, Barrister-at-Law, of 16, St. James’-square, Notting-hill, passed to the higher life after an illness of but three days, having been seized with paralysis on the Wednesday previous. Happily he suffered little, and was conscious to the last, meeting death calmly, and with confident anticipation of a new and brighter life beyond. His precise age does not appear to be accurately known, but it is believed to have been about 58. In 1873 he married Miss Kate Fox, an American lady, and one of the “sisters” through whose mediumship the phenomena of what is known as Modem Spiritualism were first observed in 1848. Mrs. Jencken survives him, with two sons, the eldest of whom is seven years of age.
Mr. Jencken, in addition to his practice at the Bar, devoted a large share of his time and energies to the assistance of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, of which he was Honorary General Secretary, and to which he was able to give valuable aid from his intimate acquaintance with International Law and his great accomplishments as a linguist. We, who knew him well, and were engaged with him in many matters of business, testify with pleasure to the high esteem in which he was universally held. He was intelligent, courteous, and genial, at the same time that he was frank, open, and ingenuous. He was one of the oldest Spiritualists in Great Britain, and never ashamed to confess his faith, with emphasis, whenever occasion seemed to need a witness for the truth; but he was never offensive to others in the avowal of his own convictions, and always treated honest doubters with consideration and respect.
Our friend's earthly garment has been put away in the Brompton Cemetery.
A Few Words to "M. A. (Oxon.)"
Sir,—“M. A. (Oxon.)” will find the idea that “all is magnetism in the universe” worked out to a great extent in Roustaing’s “Quatre Evangiles.” This working out does not in any way depend on the expansion (to suit the growing intelligence and science of the age) given therein to the Christian myth. How far that is, or is not, true, each must be left free to judge for himself. Whether Christ be “Myth, Man, or God,” or “Our Planet Ruler,” the ideal Christ is an ever-living verity. Were all the existing sacred books of different nations wiped out, still the same eternal verities would be again revealed to us—the morality being again personified, according to the needs of the time and of the race, as it has been before in a Christ or in a Buddha, in a myth suited to those it came to. The gracious Powers above us teach us like little children, as we are spiritually, by myths (fables), inculcating the highest morality, and we, like ignorami, fight tooth and nail about the former, and in the very act of so doing, entirely forget and violate the latter.
“Righteousness is not in creeds, or solemn faces, |
Further, the author of “Art Magic” and “Ghostland” is quite at one with “M.A. (Oxon.)” as to communion with departed human Spirits. This author is himself an “adept,” and it is refreshing to see “adepts” differ, for it strikes a blow at all leaning on mere authority, in other words—Popery. According to the Theosophist theory, only the “higher adepts” (and some few others, may be) are human beings (in the sense of having immortal souls)—the remainder of mankind are nothing, after all, but just “missing links.”
Bath, November 28th, 1881.
Form Manifestation
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Editor's notes
Sources
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Light, v. 1, No. 48, December 03, 1881, p. 386
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Harbinger of Light, No. 136, December 1, p. 2099