an I wanted him to,
until I was so drunk that I could not break my connection with
him, or control his mind. He undertook to go home, fell into the
snow, and came near freezing to death. I suffered awfully, ten
times as much as when I died.'... Reader, we draw the curtain over
scenes like these, such as are daily occurring in this society."

In these cases the whole evil of the indulgences of course falls upon the
mediums; and who would wish to assume personal relation with such a world,
and be forced to bear in their own bodies the evils of the unhallowed
indulgences of unseen spirits, against their will?

Other scenes represented as taking place in the spirit land, are most
grotesque and silly and would be taken as a burlesque upon Spiritualism,
were they not put forth in all gravity by the friends and advocates of
that so-called new revelation. Thus Judge Edmunds, giving an account of
what he had seen in the spirit world, mentions the case of an old woman
busy churning, who promised him, if he would call again, a drink of
buttermilk; he speaks of men fighting, of courtezans trying to continue
their lewd conduct; of a mischievous boy who split a dog's tail open, and
put a stick in it, just to witness its misery; of the owner of the dog,
who, attracted by its cries, discovered the cause, and beat the boy, who
fled, but was pursued and beaten and kicked far up the road. See Edmund's
"Spiritualism," Vol. II, pp. 135-144, 181, 182, 186, 189. Surely here are
the diakka playing their pranks in all their glory.

Miscellaneous Teaching.

On the leading points of faith as held by Christians generally, quotations
have been given to show sufficiently what the spirits teach, and the
object they are trying to effect. But the reader will be interested to
learn what they teach on some other points which incidentally appear in
their communications.

Spiritualists object most strenuously to the idea of unconsciousness in
death, or to the Bible declaration, "The dead know not anything." But the
spirits themselves teach this very thing. Thus Judge Edmunds, Vol. II,
Appendix B, p. 524, quotes the confession of a spirit that he was totally
unconscious for a time, he could not tell how long, and awoke to
consciousness gradually; and that the state of unconsciousness differs
with different persons, depending on circumstances. A. J. Davis admits
that Professor Webster was eight days and a half unconscious.--