p. 200 | Spiritualism in Asia

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1872

Spiritualism in Asia.

ONE of the plain prophecies which point out the extent of the work of spiritism in the last days, mentions “the whole world” as the field of its operations. The following short article which we clip from a late number of the Methodist, shows that it is now entering the only remaining territory of all the earth which has not already felt the blight of its present development. Truly it is fast approaching the climax of its work, to gather all nations to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Rev. 16: 14. The Methodist says:—

“Behold what a great matter a little fire kindleth!” The Rochester spiritualists little thought of the immense evil they were letting loose on the world when they started their absurd imposture. The mischief has spread over the New World, over England and France, and much of the remainder of Western Europe; and though its sway has been but temporary in these countries, it has, nevertheless, ruined the religious faith and moral character of thousands; it has reacted into unbelief and downright infidelity with other thousands, and sent still other thousands to insane asylums. At last, it has reached the remote East, and entered the most fertile field of superstition in the world. An East India correspondent of the London Times says that “spirit-rapping” has become a mania among the Hindoos, and that it threatens to spread over the whole country. It could not find on earth a more congenial soil for its superstitious extravagances. It may penetrate all Asia from this source, for if it once gets far enough northward to infect the Buddhists, it will be likely to extend over all the interior and eastern range of the continent, for Buddhism is the only live “ism” of all that region.