he used to say to us:

"'Oh, my dear children, I do hope that you will get out of this sort of
life soon.'

"Peace be unto her!"

* * * * *

The evil effects of Spiritualism upon the moral and mental condition of
its followers is the deepest stain upon its history. The wrecks of
thousands of intellects are monuments to its heartless fraud and malign
influence.

Mrs. Kane has often said that if in her late years she had wholly
submitted herself to its foolish vagaries and its base temptations, she
would undoubtedly be now a raving maniac.

There are many who, if they would but speak truly, could declare that ruin
of conscience, brain and health, has resulted either from their willing
faith in flimsy illusions or their weak connivance in puerile deception.

I have touched but little upon the unclean side of Spiritualism. Thousands
upon thousands of virtuous men and women entertain its theory or hold to
its faith. But the manipulators of the supernatural machinery, the members
of the inner circle, the prestidigitateurs and clumsy magicians, who seek
to make simpletons of mankind, I now accuse of the grossest practices and
abominations, the loosest social ideas, the most utter absence of
principle that has been exhibited by any one set of people in the
nineteenth century.

They are wholly corrupt, and there is no good in them.

If Spiritualism in any form survives the blow now given it by Margaret and
Catherine Fox, who were its creators, it will only be because of the
veiled licentiousness introduced into it by those who have enlarged upon
its original plan.

This licentiousness, like the bruised serpent, will not down, but still
will lift its head, and lurk amid deepest shadows.

Spiritualism, however, cannot again deceive the world.

* * * * *

And it is written:

"The dead shall not return; nor any that go down into Hell!"

INDEX.

INDEX.

ABJURATION by Margaret Fox Kane of Spiritualism at the Academy of Music,
New York, 65, 74.

ADMISSIONS of Mrs. Leah Fox Fish regarding the results of the Buffalo
medical investigation, 140, 144.

AGASSIZ (Professor) investigates Spiritualism, 147.

ANTICS of the Fox Children at Hydesville near Rochester, 83, 87, 89, 96.

ATTRACTIONS of the younger Fox Sisters, 129.

AUDACITY (Imbecile) of spiritualistic imposters, 146.
--(Supreme) of fraud, 150.

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