The late Senator Leland Stanford left a brother, Thomas Welton Stanford, of Melbourne, Australia. That brother is a devotee of Spiritualism. At séances conducted in his Melbourne home he has been the recipient of various articles "materialized" or brought to him in original substance by spirits, such as tablets, coins, ancient manuscripts, and other marvelous things. Some of these were presented to the university a few years ago, and were refused, so report stated; but now a collection of them has been donated and accepted.11
But this is not all. The San Francisco Bulletin of May 1 states:
"For the founding of a chair of Spiritualism at Stanford University Thomas Welton Stanford of Melbourne, Australia, a brother of the late Senator Stanford, has given the university $50,000. This is half of the $100,000 gift announced Sunday. . . .
"Mr. Stanford is said to have assured the university authorities that he stands ready to donate $1,000,000 for the investigation of Spiritualism.
"The other half of the $100,000 gift is to be used to complete the wings to the university, where the famous Australian landscape paintings presented by Mr. Stanford are to be housed."
There is a tremendous amount of deception practised in séances and manifestations; but without question there are superhuman intelligences—spirits—that reveal a knowledge of mundane affairs of past and present above and beyond the human, that say and do what humans could not say or do, because humans do not know. These spirits have deceived millions into believing that they are spirits of the dead, when according to God's Word, "The dead know not anything." All investigations of Spiritualism apart from God's Word will only serve to help forward the cause of the devil.
“THE SWORDS OF SOLDIERS ARE HIS TEETH: THE ONLY VICTOR IN THE WARS OF THE WORLD”
