SPIRITUALISM.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 246, 18 October 1888, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

(To the Editor.) !3ik,<-—Will .ypu permit the publication pfa law-' remarks I feel in dufey peund 69 roako

relative to Dr. Tannage's den_nnc }*&>*s ' Liritualisw, which appeared in theT 6ta£ sSjuWeui o£ Sifcujy ay last. I should im-■ 2 t ,ab for pure bigotry arid malevolence nf^-r-- hulicttnents could be.m*» . °■ Te -itualißin. which numbers it* t&> \ herentfl aim * , ri^th!OUfr h o ut the worlda civilised coat. r Hvmce to Saul's riijs doctor assert*. Eodor that trouble visit to-the witch l;• iuto causea people to ; .^ vicfciras j n ism," and \i imciS ■~a ot t i ie g j c k, the troubled, the bank ',f ' revcv . md the bereft. Jividenl^ end gentleman's kno^YtefJge c ist.« "is extremely '?*3?^ cd ' . nour and majority of those I had W» "«■ var ious privilege to know personally a** be inassociationa in London could i? 0?^ • '^tic eluded in such a category. Spiru'uau -^ investigators will compare favourably n ' the members of any stct. Their sole ax^j and object, is to get at the truth, viz., if it is , possible to hold communion with disem- i bodied spirits. The:doctor ridicules the means employed to procure this knowledge, such as the placing of hands while seated at the table, bur- I have yet to learn wherein ; there is anything ridiculous in it. True, it is the most element-try phase of the procedure. Be next alludes to the ringing of { bells, rappings on the walls and furniture, and other physical manifestation?, but he says nothing about those of an intellectual ( character, which have proved to many in - 5 vestigators that there if* an inrluence_ out- J side the sitters, a directing and intelligent J force asserting itself in the manifestations | ] produced. Whether this is the work of 1 disembodied spirits or demoniacal agency is no,t yet satisfactorily solved. But ac Spiritualism exacts no exercise of faith, but is based on experimental facts, it 3 adherents cannot possibly be deceived, but ; accept or reject as the results are dubious or assured. _ : Again, Spiritualism is not necessarily an- • (agonistic or opposed to Christianity. It neither seeks to add to or to sub tract from tho pages of Holy Writ. Through Christianity we are induced to believe in The doctrine of the soul's continued existence hereafter, but through Spiritualism, if it is possible to communicate with disembodied spirits, we should know that such is the case. And this knowledge would be of incalculable benefit to humanity, and disarm death of its terror.-?, providing, of course, that there is nothing sinful or baneful in such investigation. And in conclusion, when the doctor brands it asa "social curse," and " the worsr, orgies of obscenity have been acted under its'patronage," he is stating that which is utterly untrue. _ Professional mediums have resorted to trickery for worldly gain and social advantages I readily admit, but how about those invests gators whose stance* have been conducted , in their respective family circles, where i such motives could not be called into quesbion?—Yours, etc., A. W. Huruy. Helensville.