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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 12.

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SPIRITUAL LINGO.

The New York Tribune says that “it is a melancholy fact that no spirit has yet been reported to us as talking otherwise than like an idiot or a lunatic,” and verifies the statement by the following which was reported as a communication from John Quincy Adams: “Ever the Empyrean grows with the golden effulgence of truth, and man, emancipated from the terrestrial dust, soars to the heights of flowery magnificence, while white-robed truth attends upon him, and his soul expands in the purified atmosphere of a rejuvenated existence!” To say the least of it, a remarkable change has taken place in the style of the stern old statesman if this revelation is authentic.