enly advocated the same,
and endeavored to induce others to come out likewise, on the ground that
they were only honestly and publicly admitting what the others believed
and practiced in secret. For the same reason we pass by the notorious
Woodhull and Claflin, and Hull and Jamieson episodes, in this field,
which, in the illustration and language of another, "burst upon the
country like a rotten egg three thousand miles in diameter!"

It may be said that these things are in the past and the situation has now
greatly changed. For the benefit of those who thus flatter themselves we
introduce one more quotation. It is from "The Law of Psychic Phenomena,"
by T. J. Hudson (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1894). The language is
candid and conciliatory, and the author cannot be accused of any undue
prejudice on the question of which he speaks. On page 335, he says:--

"I do not charge Spiritualists as a class with being advocates of
the doctrines of free love. On the contrary, I am aware that, as a
class, they hold the marriage relation in sacred regard. I cannot
forget, however, that but a few years ago some of their leading
advocates and mediums proclaimed the doctrine of free love in all
its hideous deformity from every platform in the land. Nor do I
fail to remember that the better class of Spiritualists everywhere
repudiated the doctrine, and denounced its advocates and
exemplars. Nevertheless the moral virus took effect here and there
all over the country, and it is doing its deadly work in secret in
many an otherwise happy home. And _I charge a large and constantly
growing class of professional mediums with being the leading
propagandists_ of the doctrine of _free love_. They infest every
community in the land, and it is well known to all men and women
who are dissatisfied or unhappy in their marriage relations, that
they can always find sympathy by consulting the average medium,
and can, moreover, find justification for illicit love by invoking
the spirits of the dead through such mediums."

We have italicized that passage in the foregoing which shows that the
deadly evil is still working in secret, and that a large and constantly
growing number of professionals are aiding and abetting the iniquity.

Dangers Of Mediumship.

A few testimonies will show that when one gives himself or herself up to
the control of the spirits, such ones t