Spiritualism, Not Millerism, Blamed for Nancy Beckwith's Insanity
By Editor
“Milleriteism”—Spiritualism.
A BROTHER sends us an article published in the Chicago Journal of Nov. 5, copied from the N. Y. Herald, entitled, “Silent Nancy Beckwith—The consequences of Milleriteism,—Declared a Lunatic,” and asks if we can let it pass without rebuke or refutation. It is an account of a woman who has become insane under—not Millerism, so-called—but spiritualism as the exciting cause. It is not said that this woman was ever an Adventist; but she has all along been a spiritualist, and under that terrible delusion has at length lost her reason. This statement we have no desire to try to refute, for we presume it is correct: and we have no occasion to rebuke it, for it is well for such facts to be known. The only allusion to Millerism is in the heading, as above quoted. But it is as absurd to call this a consequence of Millerism with which this woman had nothing to do, as it would be to call it the consequence of the sewing machine which dates from about the same time.