Modern Spiritualism Briefly Tested by Scripture 123 path of the liar, the murderer; it is the path of Divine Ordina tion and Divine Destiny.” 2. INSANITY Dr. Forbes Winslow, Oxford Lecturer on Mental Dis eases, of Charing Cross Hospital, said the prevalence of mad ness owing to Spiritualism was on the increase. The late Reader Harris, K. C., wrote: “The most remarkable case of mediumship I have met with was that of a lady, who com menced with a little seemingly innocent table-turning at a children’s party, and finished up by death in a madhouse.” Sir William Crookes, claimed by the Spiritualists as a strong sympathizer, wrote: “After witnessing the painful state of nervous and bodily prostration in which many of the experiments have left the medium fainting, pale, breathless, I cannot doubt but that the violence of psychic forces means a corresponding drain on the vital forces.” Is this the high and holy substitute for Christianity? Is this the glorious effect of truth? 3. IMMORALITY Mr. T. L. Harris, once a Spiritualistic medium, testifies that the marriage vow imposes no obligation on the Spiritualistic husband. They have been known to abandon their own wives, and prefer the company of those of whom the spirits told them that they had a closer spiritual affinity to them. Mrs. Woodhull, elected three years in succession as president of the Spiritist Societies in America, often lectured in favor of free love; and advocated the abolition of marriage ( “forbid ding to marry”), stigmatizing virtue and responsibility as the two thieves on the cross. She said: “I t was the sublime mission of Spiritism to deliver humanity from the thraldom of matrimony, and to establish sexual emancipation.” Rev. F. Swainson, writing of a lady of his acquaintance, says: “Up to the time that her husband came into contact with
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