A TEST OF SPIRITUALISM. — THE SHIP MATOAKA.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2218, 16 June 1870, Page 2

A TEST OF SPIRITUALISM. THE SHIP MATOAKA.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, — In perusing the letter of your correspondent “ li.” on the above subject, the following thought came to my mind : Why <Jid nc he (if a believer in the truth of spiritualism) let the communication made to him be known before ? There are many both hi this and the neighboring province, I presume much interested in the welfare of the missing ship who would have been very thankful for any information respecting her, and, surely, had. your correspondent thorough confidence in his communication and rested on the knowledge that -truth capnot err," he would have made public that which he received in private, fearless of the ridicule and the iucredulitj he may have mot of many of those around him, and thus upheld the genuineness of Ids belief. But this he has not done. excuse as stated in his letter, I do not think’,' can be accepted as satisfactory, because I t* at making a communication has good ground to stanu upon, lopg as his informant is reliable. Should his statement prove to bp correct, and not a mere speculation, I can only say that his “spiritual associates " have not taught him much of charity, else he would have made some exertions at the least for the speedy relief of those poor castaways, so near at jhand, to whom the past month (especially in this season of the year) must have been a weary and trying one. In conclusion I would remark that it does seem very curious that his letter and communication should appear about the same time as an artiple in the hpme papers, and I fancy that had not the same appeared, nothing would have been heard publicly of this most important spiritual revelation. I am, sir, QcEnr, Dunediu, June loth.