WALKER'S LECTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2241, 12 May 1877, Page 8

WALKER'S LECTURE.

(To the Editor.) Sin,—The lectures of this young man appear to be well pa*ti-onized, and are conducted Avith the W o*~_^ ty - a Vd r _- Bure W^te the whole of the I serv e«ma4- r°< utinev° f an ordinary un-Sunday | m C e__% Avttb _ «£._?'7 eJSS- ¥* c* opening the ■_____S_Kfc_-«_f wj?trpdactory romarkf.- in

Avords of an illustrious man Avhose name Avas Goethe, aud whose last words wore "more light." X apprehend Mr. Kdgrer takes tlieso words to imply that Goothe sought after "the light" reflected in such personages as Walker—that he sought after tho " light of spiritualism "—a light which can luwa no bonellcial effect on mankind —"a light" which ensnares tho unwary, and delude* tho weak, the. vain, and the superstitious, and causes thorn to become ihc victims of avariaious and unscrupulous mediums. I read in this morning's "HeraK" of a widow, evidentlr not a poor widow, Avho had baoa duped by the "beautiful language" of one of the greatest of these mediums, and so great did her baliof become in this "good man" that she actually paid _(>O,iWO to him as ttie alleged command of her decaasad husband's spirit, which lie declared A-ras speaking to her through him. (Mr. Editor will you kindly tell mo when. Avill wonders eeasa !) I Wist that in this beautiful city of Auckland there are not to bo found many widows who would scatter their money in the same, reekloss manner as did this good widow of whom I haA'e been Avriting.—Yours, Lux.