Spiritualism a Curse by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1878

Spiritualism a Curse.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THE following from the Golden Censer gives a true record of spiritualism:—

“An eastern paper very truthfully observes that spiritualism is a withering scourge; whom it touches it curses. It relaxes morals, weakens conscience, excites passion, destroys domestic purity and peace, works general mischief in society. We have known thousands who have experimented in it, yet not one benefited, but multitudes destroyed by it. In the circle of our own acquaintance, scores of families have been distracted by its influence; others testify to the same results wherever it prevails. The insanity of Robert Dale Owen is one of its fruits, of which there are thousands of examples in lunatic asylums. Wretched wives wandering with vile men, disgraced children, households destroyed, are samples of its work. Is it not time to pluck up a tree which bears such baneful fruit? Have we not seen enough of this delusion to cause general fear of its blighting touch? Its effects are more dreadful than the contagion of mortal disease.”

Wherever it goes, it is a blighting curse. We should avoid it as we would the plague.

D. M. CANRIGHT.