Excerpt from Spirit-Rapping Unveiled
The design of the following pages is to expose one of the most remarkable delusions that has ever prevailed in any age or country. In all the annals of the past we find nothing at all comparable with modern "spirit-rapping." It is the grand climax of soothsaying, astrology, witchcraft, phrenology, mesmerism, clairvoyance, psychology, Fourierism, Millerism, Mormonism, and all other superstitions, delusions, and isms that ever have been, or probably ever will be.
Appealing to that love of the marvelous, for which, as a nation, we are somewhat distinguished, and also to our natural affection for the departed; and not having been regarded hitherto as really worthy of refutation; the delusion has gone on from one step to another, and from year to year, till it has undermined the faith of thousands, and has already ruined its hundreds for time and for eternity. And yet some continue to say, "Let it alone; it will soon die of itself But are such counsels wise? Why is it not dead already? Is silence the best antidote for the spread of error? Especially, are watchmen placed upon the walls of Zion, and pledged to "banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God"s "Word," to discharge their duty by a studied silence ? Alas for us and for the cause of God, when such comes to be the general policy of Christian ministers!
"I am perfectly aware," says Rev. Dr. Clark, of Hartford, "that to ascribe so much importance to such a subject as this, will lead those who know nothing about it, to suspect the soundness of one"s judgment, and it will be said that our wisest course is to let it alone; it is one of the humbugs of the day, and will soon die of itself. It may be so, but the indications do not point that way at present."
("Few really know," says the Journal of Commerce, "how the belief in the spiritual nature of these rappings is increasing. And this, too, not among the ignorant, but among men of learning and standing in society." The "spiritualists," as they style themselves, now number their "mediums" by thousands, and their disciples by tens of thousands.
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