Overdone by T. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1874

Overdone.

By T. S.

Bro. J. E. Titus has just placed in possession of this Office a series of what are called spirit photographs, representing the sitter as in an ordinary picture, and in the background, with more or less distinctness, ghostly visages that purport to be the figures of attending spirits. These pictures were taken about a year since, in the village of Leslie, Mich., where he resides. He witnessed the operation of one of them, by which he assured himself that the impressions were made on the plate in the camera, and not by any manipulation of the operator afterward.

But it seems to us that in these experiments the devil has overshot the mark; for if any one wants evidence of the diabolical nature of spiritualism, he has but to look at the Satanic countenances that appear in the background of these pictures. No real face that we have ever beheld, though almost every trace of humanity had been battered out of it by debauchery and crime, could equal in hideousness some of them. If such are the denizens of the spirit world, the fewer of them we have about us the better. In viewing them, one can but feel expressly thankful for the promise which reads, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” T. S.