MR SMITH AND SPIRITUALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3160, 5 April 1873, Page 2

MR SMITH AND SPIRITUALISM.

To the Editor.

Sir, —In your issue of the 6th inst,, one of your correspondents speaks of me as a Spiritualist. The mistake is not unnatural ; but I trust you will allow me to correct it. It is a misapprehension which I removed from the minds ( f people here many months ago, by explanations published in the Melbourne newspapers. When I was in New Zealand I was under the impression that tire phenomena L bad witnessed were identical with those of Spiritualism ; for with the latter I had little or no acquaintance, save from hearsay. Nor was it until after my return to Melbourne that I was completely undeceived in tins respect. As the time had arrived for lifting another veil off ray mind, 1 was permitted to discern that the work in which I have been employed as an insignitieent in strument was preliminary to, and connected with, the Second Advent, with the gathering in of the remnant which has to be saved, and with the approaching purification of the earth by fire. Spiritualism has been shown to me to be that “ strong delusion and lie,” spoken of by Paul in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, and is therefore just as odious in the sight of the Father, a* are the various religions which man has invented and substituted for the law of obedience to the Most High.—l am, &c., James Smith. Melbourne, March 17.