p. 7 | Avoid Spiritualism

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 4, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 14.

Avoid Spiritualism

In more ways than one it would pay people to heed the advice of Holy Writ and avoid contact with soothsayers, wizards, necromancers, charmers, consultors with familiar spirits, etc. In these days they are known as mediums, fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, hypnotists, etc. A mere passing incident is noted in a recent press despatch from Syracuse, N. Y.: "Mrs. Carrie E. Merriam, widow of Thomas Merriam, a wealthy manufacturer, has complained to the police that Professor Ross Edwards, after placing her in a trance, induced her to go to a bank and draw out $4,000 with which, she declares, he departed. Professor Edwards, a clairvoyant, came to this city recently with his wife and a niece. Mrs. Merriam called on him to have her fortune told." If it were only money that people lose by patronizing these Satanic agencies, it would not matter so much. It is the loss of soul which comes of tampering with these forbidden associations that constitutes the greatest loss. Even if one should "gain the whole world" through advice of such counselors, it would not pay for the consequent loss of soul.