SPIRITUALISM AND THE CHURCHES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 9

SPIRITUALISM AND THE CHURCHES.

Rev. Dr. Gibb, presiding at St. John'o Presbyterian Chuich yesterday, strongly condemned spiritualism. Even if all the claims of spiritualism were fully substantiated, he said, it threw no light on ultimate mysteries, and would do nothing to advance knowledge of spiritual things. Dr. Tudor Jones preached at the Unitarian Church on dangers of hallucinations and delugjons and the way out to sanity. He dealt at some length with the effects of various agencies such as supposed supernatural phenomena, narcotics and other drugs upon the mind, and their ultimate llleffects upon the mental and moral development. A meeting is proposed to be held today or to-morrow to consider the conditions which have been submitted for the contest between Bailey and Driver. Last evening there was a large audience in the New Century Hall, when Bailey, under the "control" of the late Professor Denton, gave a lecture on spiritualism. Mr. M'Lean presided, and in an address following the lecture said that he regretted that Bailey would be obliged to leave the city before next Sunday. He was sorry to see the discussions terminated, but some of the sceptics seemed to be satisfied with nothing less than the skinning of the medium. He hoped that Bailey would be able to return to Wellington.