AN EXAMPLE — AND A WARNING.
WE have just received, from a correspondent in Ohio, an account of a terrible experience he has had with the workings of Spiritualism. The victim was his own daughter. The family were approached by this fatal delusion, at first, in easy stages, and with all manner of fair and delusive promises of happiness and power. The daughter was assured that she would easily develop into a complete and powerful medium, if she would only yield her will to the power which was seeking to control her. Not having had enough acquaintance with Spiritualism to be aware of its terrible nature and seductive influence, the desire to become a medium was encouraged by friends, and the inclination to Spiritualism was fostered. Under the promise of reaching what was held out to be the much-to-be-desired position of a medium, the daughter yielded up her will, and then suddenly found herself in the snare. The power which had assumed the guise of an angel, turned to that of a demon. But she could not throw off the hypnotic, devilish influence. It would seize her even in sleep, and impress her to do everything a demon could invent to ruin herself and injure the family. In two weeks she became a raving maniac, and has been treated at the asylums of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Dayton, Ohio, with apparently no hope of recovery. Her father has written an account of the case, and published it in pamphlet form, and desires to see it spread abroad, to warn others of the danger of dabbling in Spiritualism, hypnotism, Christian science, or any kindred delusion. The price of the pamphlet is twenty-five cents. Address Thos. I. Moore, box 275, Bradford, Ohio.