SPIRITUALISTIC TEACHINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12604, 6 March 1903, Page 8

SPIRITUALISTIC TEACHINGS.

Mr M. W. Green delivered the fourth lecture, on "Spiritualism Self-exposed" in tho- Tabernacle, Great Zing street, last evening. Jlc affirmed that tho system was the embodiment of lawlessness, that it destroyed the distinction between right and wrong, and that it was the enemy of moral character and moral responsibility. Mr Green said that ho realised that the charge he. made was a grave one, and one which ought not to be made without adequate proof, and that he was fully prepared to give. He. <]uotcd Hudson Tuttle, who said: ''Spiritualism can have no creed; every individual must he a law unto himself, and • raft his own crcnd and grant to all others iho same liberty." A writer in the "Healing nf the Nations" said: " Good men need no law, and laws will do bad or ignorant men 110 good. True knowledge removes all laws from power by placing the spirit of man above it." On page 129 of "Holy Truth" it was stated: " Our conscience is the only judge, and to it alone aro we responsible." On page 151 a Spirit said: "I believe that the judge of every intelligent being is within themselves, and I believe they are accountable only to that judge." In " Truth versus Fiction," by A. J. Davis, the revolting murder of Dr Parkman by Professor Webster was justified, and the right of any to judge him denied. As showing tho ■ destruction of distinction between right and wrong, A. P. Coombes said: " Whatever is, is right in its fullest and broadest sense, cove-ring every act in the past, present, and future." At tho Rhodo Island Convention Mr Wheeler said: "Drunkenness is just as good as soberness; vice is just as good as virtue; tho devil is the equal of God; and hell is just as sweet as heaven." In tho "Banner of Light" a writer said: " I cannot think that libertinism injures . the immortal soul "; and in the same paper Dr Child said: "In Fonelow there is no merit; in Herod there is no demerit"; and another says. "Spiritually and divinely considered there is no sin. . _. The Brn'.o teaches of sin, but to us there is no sin." Ap showing the evil results of this teaching Mr Green gave the following acknowledgment of Hudson Tuttlo ill the "Ohio Spiritualist *': —" I sicken _at tho black list of abuses which havo weighed to earth tho divine philosophy: . . . When an immoral agent steps into the domestic circle, hearing the upas of bitter enmity between husband and wifo, insincerity, instability, and social anarchy are at onco inaugurated. A largo class of Spiritualists have allowed this to occur." Dr Potter and Dr Randolph both declared that the leading Spiritualists of America, were tho most licentious and immoral among men, and yet their conduct was easily passed over. Mr Green quoted from a large number of authors, and claimed that he had fully proved his proposition. The lecture was heartily applauded, and a number of questions were answered.