Untitled article by W. C. G.

Untitled article

W. C. G.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 4, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 8

BEAUTIFUL!—One of the claims of the “Harmonial Philosophy,” or modern Spiritualism, is that it has a refining, elevating influence upon humanity, and that its utterances are of a lofty and soul-inspiring character. This is said especially of the communications purporting to come from the spirit world.

From the published communications in the “message department” of the Banner of Light (?), we are enabled to judge pretty correctly of the truthfulness of this claim; and certainly we seldom see in print more disgusting exhibitions of bar-room slang than in some of the above-named communications.

In a recent issue of that paper, a spirit, purporting to be that of an Irishman who died in a drunken fit in the station house, comes back to inform the policeman who abused him by kicking him into his cell, &c., that he may expect to have an Irish “knock-down” with him on his arrival in the “other world,” and one or the other of them will “get whipped.” The communication is interlarded with profanity and slang, and would grace the records of the “prize ring,” or the report of a bar-room fight.

And this is the “refining” influence of Spiritualism! Heaven pity those who wish to be thus refined. W. C. G.