Spread of Spiritualism
By Editor
Spread of Spiritualism.—In confirmation of the articles by Professor Rine regarding the extension and growth of Spiritualism, take the following from Dr. George B. Warne, national president of the Spiritualist Association, in the Boston American of Feb. 19, 1911. He declares that "there is a great army of Americans who are Spiritualists, altho they do not declare themselves such." "Perhaps," he said, "they are associated with other churches and their belief in Spiritualism is unsuspected. But thousands of the most intellectual people secretly accept it as the one religious proposition that actually meets the need of more information about the life hereafter." The association of which he is president numbers 200,000. He admits many frauds, and also evil spirits. He says: "Yet all that is seen in materializing meetings is not genuine. Impositions may creep into the best conducted séances. A noted medium told me that if more than three materializations developed at one sitting, the fourth, fifth, and sixth might generally be ascribed to fraud. Frequently an entranced person will perpetrate fraud and be unconscious of it himself." This does not speak highly of the moral influence of Spiritualism. There is one standard by which Spiritualism ought to be judged; namely, the Bible. It will then be found that all familiar spirits are demons and that the dead are unconscious.