LYING SPIRITS.
To the Editor of the “ Dunstan Times.” Sir, —I notice's disgusting article in an up-country sheet touching spiritualistic mediums, in which the spirit of our late fellow townsman, Mr. John William Garrett, is profanely said to have been raised, and made to talk nonsense at some Dunedin “seance.” It is a pity that the dead cannot be allowed to remain at rest, and it is very provoking moreover to find that the spirits alleged to be evoked are lying spirits. The spirit of J. W. Garrett, for instance, is. strangely enough it would seem, ignorant of the fact that a tombstone has long since been erected over his grave ; for he is made to express a wish prospectively on the subject. How this “ new and beautiful faith” constantly betrays its true origin as an emanation from the regions of falsehood ! I am, &c., ANTI-HUMBUG. Cromwell, July 5, 1870.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 429, 8 July 1870, Page 3
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