is Spiritualism.... When modern
Spiritualism made its appearance, it said in so many words, I come
to reform the world.... Spiritualism came to put the ax at the
root of the tree of human evil, it came to decide upon the most
important and vital thing connected with existence; _i. e._, Is
man only an evanescent, material, earthly being, or is he
immortal?... Spiritualism came to reform death, to resolve it into
life; came to reform fear, to resolve it into trust and knowledge;
came to reform the darkness which rests upon humanity concerning
the nature of man's existence."

In the same paper, April 6, 1887, was given the following prediction of
the future of Spiritualism:--

"Modern Spiritualism will grow, and deepen, and broaden, and
strengthen, until all false creeds and dogmas shall be swept from
the earth--when faith shall be buried in knowledge, when war shall
be known no more, when universal brotherhood shall prevail to
bless mankind."

In "Nineteenth Century Miracles," p. 79, M. Jaubert speaks as follows:--

"Affirm to your people that man never dies, that his immortality
is proved, not by books but by material and tangible facts, of
which every one can convince himself; that anon our houses of
correction, and our prisons, will disappear; suicide will be
erased from our mortuary tables; and nobly borne, the calamities
of earth shall no longer produce madness."

Mrs. R. S. Lillie, in a speech at the Thirty-eighth Anniversary services
in Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., and reported in the _Banner of
Light_, of April, 1886, said:--

"Christianity never had a Pentecost to be compared with modern
Spiritualism. The latter is as far in advance of the former, as
the electric light is in advance of the tallow dip of the past;
for it is nineteen centuries ahead of it."

These are most astounding claims; and if there is any truth in them,
Spiritualism ought to have shown itself as a great uplifting moral power,
provided it has been able to get any foothold among the people. We
therefore inquire what its success has been. On this point Professor Keck,
at the Thirty-ninth Anniversary of Modern Spiritualism, at Bridgeport,
Conn. (_Banner of Light_, April 9, 1887), said:--

"It [Spiritualism] has made converts of more scientific men and
profound thinkers than any other sect in the world. In thirty-