Denton on Spiritualism.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4480, 15 May 1883, Page 2

Denton on Spiritualism.

Professor Denton, in the course of one of his lectures lately given in Melbourne, referring to the Materialistic character of the prevailing faith, said •— - " You will have a Spiritual religion. I know that many of you think who have listened to my lectures that however right I may be in much, that I am mistaken on the subject of Spiritualism. You who think so have uot been over the road that I have been, not once, nor twice, nor ten times, but hundreds of times. I think, therefore, I know more on this, subject than those people can know who have never investigated it. I do not like to hear people talk as. if they had mastered every truth of the universe, and knew everything that ever could be known on this planet. Let me tell you that we have not begun to fathom the powers of the human intellect, have not begun to imagine what men and women who have souls in them can -do, have not begun to dream of the possibilities that lie before the human soul when stripped of the gar* ment of flesh. I know^as I know that you sit there, and I stand here, that there are intelligent beings that are,under ordinary circumstances invisible to us, and that with the*e beings we can come into communication. I have come into communication with them hundreds of times under circumstances that do not leave any room for any possible-fraud or any possible mistake. The»e beings invariably claim to have lived upon this globe; to have been men, to have been women, to have been children. They present evidence to us that they are what they claim to be; the very strongest kind of evidence. Now, that evidence has come to me, it has come to my friends, enabling me to know that my friends that were called dead were alive, and never more fully alive than they are now, and since they live I very naturally draw the conclusion that I shall live also. I know there is a great deal taught in the name of Spiritualism that is very nonsensical, and any intelligent man must know this. I know that there is a great deal .of fraud palmed off in the name of Spiritualism, and I have seen about as much of it as most people have scan; but no amount of fraud can possibly do away with the facts that I know, and that I must loose my 3enses before I can cease to k now. in reference to this subject. Therefore that Spiritualism is true I know ; death does not end us, and human beings will know the destiny that awaits them, for I believe that spiritual beings will walk the earth, and that every man and every woman will know the destiny of the hnman soul.