Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — April 1907, Seite 180

German transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

Cited in Eckhardt's Reallexikon (1907) under: Anhang

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18⁰ Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches.

velope as a handsome, dark-bearded man with sparkling eyes, who onee had
governed a city full of armed men and besieged by enemies. The descrip⸗
tion of his person, of his past, and also of his character so far as I knew
it, was throughout correéct; but when the clairvoyant added that this man
was at the time not in Paris, but in another eity where be had gone to
meet a person very dear to him, I thought we had caught her in a mistake.
A few days later I returned to Paris, and had hardly arrived there when
Imet General Klapka on the street. I asked him at once whether since
he had vritten his last letter to me he had been constantly in Paris, and
Lwas not a little amazed w'hen he told me that he had a few days ago
made an excursion to Brussels, where he had stopped not quite a week, and
the “dear person“ whom he was to have seen there, I learned from an
intimate friend of Klapka, was a lady whom, it was said, he would marry.

The clairvoyant was therefore right in every point. This occurrenee
mystisièed me very much. The more I considered the question whether the

Clairvoyant could possibly have received knowledge of the contents of my
envelopes, or wvhether she could have had any cue for guessing at them,
the more certain I became that this could not be. Strodtmann bimself
did not kKnow what I had put into the envelopes. Of Klapka's letter to
me he had not the slightest information. He also assured me that he had
put the envelopes into the hands of the clairvoyant, one after the other, in
exactly the same condition in which he had received them without for a
moment confiding them to anybody else, and without telling to any one
from whom they came, and I could absolutely depend upon the word of my
thoroughly honest friend. But even if — which was quite unthinkable to
me — there had been some collusion between him and the clairvoyant, or if
he had, without knowing it, betrayed from whom the envelope had come, it
would not have solved the riddle of how the clairvoyant could have de-
scribed my character, my inclinations, my impulses, my mental qualities,
much more clearly and truthfully and sagaciously than Strodtmann or
Melgye sanother friend] ever could have done. ... In short, I could not in
the whole ineident find the slightest reason for the suspicion that here we
nad to do with a merely clever juggler. ... In later years I have had similar
expériences.““ — So muß auch der ungläubige Carl Schurz die heutzutage
viel verspottete Lehre der Schrift von der Existenz böser Geister bestätigen.

Was ist die Ursache des zunehmenden Wachstums der Verbrechen in
unserm Lande? Die von der American Humane Education Society heraus⸗
gegebene Preisschrift nennt folgende Ursachen: 1. Die starke Einwanderung
bon Ausländern, von denen biele geistig verkümmert und zu Verbrechen veran⸗
lagt seien. 2. Die Zunahme des Luxus, der zu fraglichen Geschäftsmethoden
führe, um das nötige Einkommen zu bergrößern. 3. Die allgemeine Sucht
nach Reichtum und die Gleichgültigkeit gegen die Art und Weise, wie es er⸗
worben werde. 4. Ungesunde Wohnungen, in welchen Männer, Frauen und
Kinder dicht zusammengedrängt seien, was körperliche, geistliche und sittliche
Verkümmerung zur Folge habe. 5. Der Genuß von berauschenden Ge⸗
tränken. 6. Mangelhafte Beaufsichtigung und Erziehung der Kinder von
seiten der Eltern unter Reichen und Armen. 7. Die allgemeine Sucht, von
sich reden zu machen, welche den Verbrecher stolz auf seine Schandtaten
mache. 8. Die ins einzelne gehende Beschreibung empörender Verbrechen

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