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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 17, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

The Spiritualist Convention.—The National Convention of Spiritualists, which was in session at Cleveland during several days of last week, finally adjourned on Friday under very remarkable circumstances. On Friday morning resolutions were adopted recommending local societies and organizations to celebrate the anniversaries of the Rochester rappings; an amendment of the National Constitution so as to place all adults upon an equality regardless of sex or color; denouncing the present style of women's dress, and the extermination of the Indians, and favoring the establishment of children's lyceums, and benevolence toward the poor and vicious. Resolutions were also adopted for collecting accurate statistics of the number of Spiritualists, and favoring the meeting of a World's Convention of Spiritualists in London, in 1868.

A report from a number of leading Spiritualists was read before the meeting, denouncing the greater portion of the physical manifestations, such as the performances of the Davenports, &c., as the tricks and deceptions of cunning knaves. Great excitement followed the explosion of this bomb-shell in the camp. The report was violently denounced and rejected; and the Convention broke up in disorder.