"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [Private Circles,] shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." 2 Pet. ii, 1.
"When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them." 1 Thess. v, 3.
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit," &c. Chap. xviii, 2.
"Whose [Christ's] coming is after [immediately following] the working of satan with all power, and signs and lying wonders." 2 Thess. ii, 9.
"And shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Matt. xxiv, 24.
FROM a Correspondent of the Spiritual Telegraph, we gather the following:—
The soil in Maine is still in a virgin state for Spiritualism. In Portland I found a class of minds deeply yet rationally interested in the new gospel. I was vastly refreshed by the noble and congenial souls there engaged; and if every place had the salt of Portland the cause of Spiritualism would never savor of folly and fanaticism. In the hospitality of my learned and venerable friend, James Furbish, and his family, Mrs. Dennet, Mr. Milliken, the Rev. Mr. Hayden and lady, of the New Church, I found the most elevated congeniality and encouragement to the spiritual cause.
I had the honor of breaking ground in Augusta. The friends here are hearty and zealous, and are favored with some good media. In the family of Capt. Smith I witnessed remarkable phenomena in the way of rappings and tippings of a huge family table. The fine old town of Augusta promises a spiritual harvest.
Boston with its vicinity is still alive in Spiritualism, and shows signs of reviving interest. In Roxbury, East Boston and other suburbs, regular circles are held in halls on Sunday for speaking media and others.
The Boston Conference of Spiritualists has taken recent measures to insure a broader public interest.
NEW TESTAMENT "MIRACLES," AND MODERN "MIRACLES."—This is the subject of an essay, now published in pamphlet form, read before the middle and senior classes of Cambridge Divinity School by J. H. Fowler. In regard to it the Telegraph says:—
The fact that "the middle and senior class" of a modern "divinity school" would patiently listen to the perusal of such an essay as this, must be set down as one of the most significant signs of the times. The "essay" is here presented in a pamphlet of 100 octavo pages. It is a clear comparative presentation of New Testament and modern facts of a spiritual and so-called miraculous or supernatural character, and we think no one who peruses this production will fail to be convinced, with the author, that the "modern miracles" are sustained by evidence far more abundant than that upon which professing Christians rest their belief in the ancient. Among the collections of facts and testimonies which have been placed before the world upon which the doctrine of the present intercourse with the Spirits rests, we know of none more conclusive, and at the same time more concise, than the pamphlet under review.