came and magnetize you, and then speak, write,
act
through you; this is Spiritualism [Spiritism].”
The value of Spiritism to the world is thus summed
up by the well known Horace I,. Hastings:-
“According to the theory of Spiritualists there are
a hundred times as many disembodied spirits about us
as there are men in the flesh. Among them are all the
poets, authors, orators, musicians and inventors of past
ages. They know all they ever knew when they were
in the flesh, and have been learning a great deal more
since; and with their added powers and extended ex-
perience they should be able to do what mortals have
never done before. They have had free access to the
public mind and public press, with no end of mediums
ready to receive their communications, and thousands
and thousands of inquirers who have anxiously ques-
tioned them, and earnestly desired to obtain information
from them. They have had tables and slates and pens
and pencils and banjos and pianos and cabinets and
bells and violins and jgdtars; and what have we to show
for it all ? Their business in this world has been to
instd men, to help them, to make them wiser and
better. They have talked and rapped, they have tipped
and rattled, they have fiddled and scribbled, they have
materialid and dematerialized, they have entranced
and exhibited; they have told us many things which
we knew before; many thing which we do not know
yet; and many other things which it was no matter
whether we knew or not; but when we come to real in-
strudion, reliable information, or profitable and valo-
able knowledge, Spiritualism is as barren as Sahara,
as empty as a hollow gourd.”
WHO ARE THESE SPIRITS WHICH PERSONATE
THE DEAD?
We have in the Scriptures most abundant and
moat positive testimony that no commnnication could
come from the dead until after the resurredion. Fu-