SPIRITUALISM.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4485, 21 May 1883, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

(Ta the Editor of tbe Evening Sb>.r.)

Sib,— Your correspondent calling himaelf "Truth," writing on Professor Denton's remarks on Spiritualism, says that he has examined Spiritualism and found out that it was from the devil. I should like to ask him a few questions upon it. When and where, and how long did he investigate it ? Judge Edmonds was two years investigating it, before he was quite satisfied of its truth, but after that he never wavered, but adhered to those principles until death, and after that returned to his friends and gave a full statement of his happy home and experince, confirming the truths he held during his earthly life. Your correspondent makes many statements, but never tven attempts to prove anything. He admits that there are powerful spirits in existence, but they are demons, and not human beings. How does he know this P Were Samuel, Moses and Elias human? According to the Scriptures they all came

b-ck to this earth, after death He says that all spiritual manifestations are frauds. I ask how he knows this ? Has he seen them all? And in this way I might go through the whole of his long letter and take paragraph after paragraph, and ask him how he knows it, and what proof he lias for his statements ? This man need not try and conceal himself under a false name, he is well known, for no one but one man writes in this bigoted and conceited style. A man who has examined everything, and knows the past, the present, and what is to come, and woe betide the. man who darea to differ from this all knowing one. It might be asked in return how., spiritualists know that Spiritualism is true. I answer this by saying we know it to be true in the same way as we* know any other thing to be true. Ho» do we know there is &uch a place as London ? Somef Know it by having been there, and seeing it, and those who have not seen it depend upon the testimony of others. In just the same way we know Spiritualism to be true. Thousands of spirits who Have lived on earth, and passed off to the spirit land, and have come again to this earth and told their friends about the spirit life. They have felt them, heard them, and e«en them : and the invariable advice from the spirit world is not to blindly trust to others, but get to know for ourselves, and** not to be deceived by any ■ trickery. It might also be asked how we know good from bad spirits ? how we know that those spirits are what they profess to bs; that they are not deceiving us ? The answer is, we know them in the same way as we know good men horn bad ooes, we have to judge them from what they teach and what they do; to try them as they did of old. If the spirits advise us to live pure, honest, noble lives—if they tell to love the truth and seek after it, and make sacrifices for it; if they recemmend us to be charitable, modest, gentle, forbearing, and kind—that would be proof that they were not evil, but good. But there are spirits that leach that men can live wicked, bad lives, and then die happy and go to heaven. Such spirits are false, and not to be believed. Spiritualism is a great fact known to thousands, and may be known to all who will take the trouble to get to know what is known about it. When parents can have communication with their departed loved ones, when they can hear their sons and daughters saying, " Father, mother, I am not dead, but living, and close by your side; do not weep, for I am happy; " is it likely that that old vagabond, the Devil, would give himself so much trouble to comfort, those in deep sorrow ? or, is it likely that people will.be prevented from investigating the truth, and hindered from getting positive knowledge about the life beyond this one, that alone can give comfort to those left behind.—l am, &c,

J. HoBN