"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 brought 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.
A Correspondent of the Telegraph from Cannon, Mich., giving an account of his experience says: I soon commenced hearing, and could readily distinguish, by the voice and manner, departed brothers and friends, who had power over me to move me about the house and fields with a force similar to atmospheric pressure. My hands were moved to many passages of Scripture, turning the leaves with accuracy and expounding their meaning; reproving me at the same time for evil thoughts, ungraceful movements, and pernicious habits, such as using tobacco, and correcting me in the pronunciation of words.
The manifestations soon began to spread over the neighborhood, and there are now in our town some forty or over that receive communications, some of them of a high order, approximating to a state of clairvoyance, and a majority of our citizens are believers. The subject has been treated respectfully, and evidently most are seeking after light and knowledge.
CARRIED OVER THE ATLANTIC BY SPIRITS.—We published, some months since, a wonderful relation of facts which seemed to prove that a ribbon bearing a peculiar inscription, was brought by Spirits from a circle in England, to a medium in Troy, N. Y., and that by the same agency a penknife belonging to said medium was carried to the circle in England, and that both transportations must have occurred within less than the period of an hour. Incredible as this statement may appear, we have just been informed upon good authority, that the medium referred to, Mr. Hansen, of Troy, has since been to England, and found his penknife in possession of his friends of the circle with which he had been in communication by means of the Spirits. His friends had previously written him descriptions of the knife which had suddenly and mysteriously appeared at their circle, but he now saw and identified it by unmistakable marks. The ribbon was in like manner identified. We merely allude to this affair now, in the hope thereby to induce Mr. Hansen to write us the particulars concerning it, as he found them on his visit to England.—Spir. Tel.