Spiritualism Nothing but Witchcraft.
We suppose it will be not only conceded but contended that this blessed land of ours, in this glorious nineteenth century, stands for enlightenment and advanced intelligence at the head of the civilized world. Yet here within a few years has been revived the practice of necromancy, or evocation of the dead, to tell us the secrets of the future, a belief in women who have a familiar spirit—that is, witches, though we call them mediums, not witches—and have instituted, under the name of spirit, blunderingly called spiritual, a regular system of demon-worship. This revival did not take place among the benighted foreigners settled among us but with genuine Americans of Protestant lineage, taught to call the Pope Antichrist, or the “Man of Sin,” and to denounce Catholicity as a superstition. Spiritism has flourished luxuriantly among our free and enlightened Americans as in a congenial soil, and bids fair to become the national religion.—New York Tablet.