SPIRITUALISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 250, 15 October 1908, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

UIiSCUJiSED BY ANGLICAN SYXOD. iiy Telegraph. --Press Association. Auckland, 1 Last Night. At to-day's sitting of the Anglican Synod tile llcv. C. U'. Scott -UouerieiL moved: That in view oi 'we incieasing number of adherents of spiritualism, il committee be appointed to consider the causes, real nature and probable tendencies of this movement, and to present a report to lie-vl years Synod. The mover said lie had heard several of his brother clergymen testifying to the increasing number of adherents of spiritualism in New Zcala/ul and eisewlwre. It was not dying ou-t, as at first prophesied. So far from' dying, it was continuing to flourish. Surely t'iie Church was bound to take notice of a movement which was taking people away from Church, and. as many would testifv leading them Into unwholesome :ind dangerous ways. The ltcv. F. W, Pigott seconded the. motion. ft was, he said, a question of considerable importance, there being a good deal of confusion in the public mind as to wliat spiritualism was avid what it was not. Mr. W. J. Speight deprecated going into t!he matter at all. He had known a good fenv people who had been fitted for the asylum as a result of thleii* ■investigations. Mr. Ewington said there were hundreds of people in Xew Zealand who wore ill difficulties over the subject. The opinion of experts was that numbers of people had been sent to lunatic asylums by studying the question. The Rev. G.' Smaile said he had not only been astonished at the numliers of people who attended spiritualistic gatherings, but at the people themselves, many of whom were lending citizens. The debate was adjourned,