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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 29, 1867

THE PROGRESS OF SPIRITUALISM.

SPIRITUALISM is making more rapid progress than most people are aware. It is silently winning its way among the masses. Should we ask you, reader, how numerous you suppose Spiritualists are in this country, compared with the Roman Catholics, and the Protestant sects covering the same territory, you might at first thought confidently answer, “But a small minority.” If so, ponder well the following statements made by Judge Edmunds in a lecture given in Williamsburg, N. Y., May 1, 1867, and reported in the Banner of Light, June 1, 1867. He says:—

“Already the Spiritualists in the United States outnumber the Catholics and Protestants together. At the meeting of the Roman Catholic Bishops at Baltimore recently, the first object was to ascertain the religious condition of the people, and it was found that the Catholics and Protestants numbered less than nine millions, but that the Spiritualists numbered between ten and eleven millions, and have more than fifty thousand mediums. This statement comes from those who are not friendly to Spiritualism. . . . Last year I received from London a book by a lady traveling, who said that there was no town or city of any magnitude in Europe, where there were not Spiritualists; she had heard of them in nine different languages.”

Truly the way is preparing for the spirits of Devils to go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments. The most thrilling prophecies are on the eve of fulfillment. We are living in momentous and solemn times.

“Wicked spirits gather round thee; Legions of those foes to God, Principalities most mighty, Walk unseen the earth abroad, They are gathering to the battle Strengthened for the last deep strife; Christian, arm! be watchful, ready, Struggle manfully for life.”