to do. And can any one fail to foresee
the result? Comparatively a small proportion of the inhabitants of this
country have committed themselves to these views; consequently but little
of the legitimate fruit as yet appears; but take human nature as it is and
suppose all the inhabitants of this land to act on these principles, and
then what would we have?--A pandemonium, a scene of anarchy, riot,
bloodshed, and all depths of rottenness and corruption--in short, a hell so
much worse than that to which the Devil is popularly assigned, that he
would at once change his location and here take up his abode.

That this statement is none too strong, will appear as we look a moment at
some of the results which have already developed themselves among the
friends of such views, and as their inevitable fruit. The tendency can by
no possibility be otherwise than to atheism and all immorality. As has
been already remarked, the repulsive features were made much more
prominent in the early stages of Spiritualism than at the present time.
They are now held in the background. The literature touching these points
has been remodeled, and an air of respectability and religion assumed.
Most of the quotations therefore date some years back, and would be
charitably withheld were there any evidence of reform either present or
prospective. But where or when have these principles ever been officially
repudiated, and evidence given that the consequent practices had been
abandoned? That there are many Spiritualists of upright and moral lives,
and honorable members of society, in the best sense of that term, we
gladly believe; but is not this because they are living above their
principles; and due, not to the influence, but rather to the non-influence
of real Spiritualism upon their lives? The quotations given are from those
who have been prominent among Spiritualists as authors and speakers. If
they overdraw the picture, the responsibility is with them. Dr. B. P.
Randolph, author of a work "Dealings with the Dead," was eight years a
medium, then renounced Spiritualism long enough to expose its character,
then returned to it again, unable to break entirely away from the spell it
has fastened upon him. He gives his opinion of it in the following
scathing words:--

"I enter the arena as the champion of common sense, against what
in my soul I believe to be the most tremendous enemy of God,
morals, and religion, that ever found foothold o