THE "CATHOLIC REVIEW" ON SPIRITUALISM.
By Editor
THE following paragraph from the Catholic Review, of July 6, is interesting because of the incidental allusion which is made in it to the inroads which Spiritualism is making upon the Church of Rome:— "It is reported that the divorce obtained by King Milan from Queen Natalie is to be annulled, and the ex-queen will return to Servia. The unhappy woman has the sympathy of all who have the welfare of society at heart, but it seems that her troubles are by no means at an end. King Milan has become a sort of Spiritualist, and, under the influence of a woman medium, who is supposed to be a medium of Russian intrigue as well as of the mysteries of Spiritualism, has resigned the cares and honors of State and become a private citizen. The king seems completely in the power of this woman—Mme. Christich—and lives in a sort of dream, obeying her every command. He has lived a life which we generally call 'fast,' and has probably run through all the so-called pleasures of this world, and now thinks to prepare for the future by spending the rest of his days in the unknown and mediumistic spheres which Mme. Christich pretends to inhabit. When a man like ex-King Milan has run through this world's follies and has worn out the sham pleasures which such a life brings, he is apt to be led away by some delusion that appeals to the senses, without possessing actual good sense in themselves. But the ex-king of Servia is not the only one who has been led away by the deceptions of scheming mediums. We hear of many in our own midst, of intelligence, seemingly, and good sense in other matters, who have become deluded by Spiritualism." It is not strange that Romanists should become Spiritualists, seeing that they all hold not only to the dogma of the natural immortality of the soul, but to the fiction that the dead may appear to and converse with the living. In fact all Romanists are already Spiritualists, only instead of receiving their spiritism from professional mediums they take it from "the church."