with the chief Anti-Christ, so in combination with
these will be the powers of darkness, the powers of the
air, the lying and seducing spirits, operating in some
manner or in a variety of ways,- Spiritism, Christian
Science, Theosophy, Hypnotism, etc.
“Rev. Father Coppens, M. D. [Roman Catholic],
Professor in Creighton University, recently delivered
a discourse on ‘ ‘Borderland of Science, ‘ ‘ from which we
extract the following on the phenomena of Spiritism:-
“What must we think of the nature of Spiritism,
with its spirit rappings, table-turning, spirit appari-
tions and so on? Can the fact, which are not impos-
ture, but realities, be explained by the laws of nature,
the powers of material agents and of men? All that
could possibly be done by the most skilled scientists,
by the most determined materialists who believe neither
in God nor in demon, as well as by the most conscien-
tious Christians, has only served to demonstrate to per-
fect evidence that effects are produced which can no
more be attributed to natural agency than speech and
design can be attributed to a piece of wood. One prin-
ciple of science throws much light on the nature of all
those performances, namely, that every effeA must
have a proportionate cause. When the eff& shows
knowledge and design, the cause must be intelligent.
Now many of these marvels evidently show knowledge
and design, therefore the cause iscertainly intelligent.
“A table cannot understand and anwser questions;
it cannot move at a person’s bidding. A medium can-
not speak in a language he has never learned, nor know
the secret ailment of a patient far away, nor prescribe
the proper remedies without knowledge of medicine.
Therefore these effeAs when they really exist, are due
to intelligent agents, agents distinct from the persons
visibly present, invisible agents therefore, spirits of
another world.
“Who are these agents? God and his good angels