CHAPTER X II MODERN SPIRITUALISM BRIEFLY TESTED BY SCRIPTURE* BY ALGERNON J . POLLOCK, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, ENGLAND I. ORIGIN AND GROWTH
Modern Spiritualism claims as its birthday Mareh 31, 1848, and the place of its birth Hydesville, Wayne County, New York, U. S. A .; but it is in reality almost as old as the world’s history, and will go on to its close. That the number of adherents of Modern Spiritualism is amazingly large is borne out by Dr. F. Maack, of Hamburg, writing so recently as 1910. As an antagonist of Spiritualism, he is not likely to overstate the numbers. In Berlin alone, he says, there are probably 10,000 Spiritualists, among them exalted and court personages; 400 mediums, and from fifteen to twenty societies. In North America there are said to be 16,000,000 adherents; while in the whole world it was com puted that in 1894 there were 60,000,000 Modern Spiritualists, with 200 journals exclusively devoted to the propaganda of this awful system. The number has grown considerably since. Add to these the demonized races of the heathen world; the millions of China, Japan and India; the countless tribes of Africa; the savage hordes of the Sudan; the cannibal inhab itants of the South Sea Islands; and you complete roughly the picture of Spiritualism covering the earth with darkness— Ancient Spiritualism in the East, and Modem Spiritualism in the West, bringing in its train wickedness of every hideous kind. ♦Condensed for the Fundamentals. 166
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