Spiritualism.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3650, 7 September 1880, Page 2

Spiritualism.

The Capetown Express makes the following serious reference to Mr Walker the trance lecturer:—" It is useless to ignore the fact that Mr Walker is drawing crowds of curious and earnest listeners after him. The Athenaeum is crowded each time he delivers his antidogmatic addresses, and among his audience will be found members of nearly every church in town. It seems rather a striking thing that last Sunday evening Mr Walker was exerting his oratorical powers to the utmost to prove that the account of the fall of "man as related in Genesis is a myth, while across the road a clergyman of the Church of England was exhorting his congregation to believe the Bible from beginning to end, every word and every letter, as the whole counsel of God. It is -

useless, we say, to ignore .the influence which circumstances like these exert on the community, and it is the bounden duty of the clergy to step forth and give their hearers something else besides the dry bones of dogma and tradition to feed upon. Far be it from us to defend all Mr Walker's arguments, but.he is at least honest to his convictions, and it is well that ministers of religion * should know that he is makiug havoc in their flocks. If they are wise, they 'will arrest the mischief before it is too late, and the best action they can take is to meet Mr Walker on his own ground, and so set at rest the minds of doubters." -.:.,.