SPIRITUALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

To the Editor. Sir, —It would be a gratification to every lover of truth, if tbc Presbyterian Synod were to act on the suggestion thrown out by your correspondent, George Hunter, and either institute a course of lectures bearing on Spiritualism, or arrange for a public discussion with Mr Peebles, the much-talked-of champion of this modern phase of superstition. The Clerical attempts hitherto to expose the fallacies of Spiritualism have been comparatively weak- and puerile, but I firmly believe there are in that body men who are able to give a clear, log:ca', and scient lie explanation of those phenomena on which fpiritnalists base their theories. Christianity insists on our belief of many events, which be ong to the purely super 1 - natural, of capricious interferenc< s with the laws of n lure, and of diiect communicatious with the Great Unknown at certain times of the world’s history, while Spiritualism, admitting all this, avers that such things are of daily occurence now ; and as it is a recognised tru hj among logicians, that what has occurred once will under like circumstances occur again, if we grant the former we cannot reasonably refuse t® believe the latter j so that in such a dilemma it is extremely difficult for those of ns who are only partially educated to discriminate between thetrueand the false, and therefore we may confidently look to our recognised teachers for enlightenment on the subject.—l am, &c,, C. F. Dunedin, 19 th January. 1873.