"They are the spirits of devils working miracles." Rev. xvi, 14.
"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.
"Brought by a Spirit.—Mr. D. G. Taylor, of this city, some of the members of whose family are mediums, related that a few evenings ago they were directed by a Spirit to put out the lights, and to await, without alarm, the event of a trial which he proposed to make, to exhibit his form to them. They followed the directions, but saw only a faint cloud of white light. This, however, was distinct, though it did not assume a personal shape. They were then directed to go into another room and sit round a table, having done which, a tooth-pick was mysteriously placed upon the table. The table had been entirely cleared off a short time before, and no one present could give any account of the article; but while the party was wondering where it could have come from, a Spirit (who gave his name) called for the alphabet, and said that the tooth-pick had belonged to him while in the body, and that he had just brought it there from his former residence (about 200 miles distant) as a test. This occurrence may be mentioned as a confirmation of analogous facts that have been stated, though taken by itself it would not be conclusive."
"Moved by the Spirits.—We understand that Mr. Henry Gordon, the well-known Spirit-medium, now residing in Philadelphia, was recently entranced, at his residence, and slid up stairs upon the bannister of the stair-way, and then turned and slid down head foremost, in the same manner, all by an invisible power. This occurred in the presence of several credible witnesses. It will be recollected that Mr. Gordon was in the same manner raised from the floor and carried back and forth through the air several times, in this city, likewise in the presence of witnesses whose word may be implicitly relied upon, and who positively testify that no visible agent of the movement was in contact with, or even near him."
"Spiritualism in France.—The N. Y. Tribune published a recent letter from Paris, from which it would appear that Spiritualism has become so rife in France that, to use the writer's own, perhaps somewhat exaggerated, language, "there is scarcely a family that does not make a pastime of these dangerous experiments." The Bishop of Verviers speaks of it as a mania which broke out with unexampled fury in America, and thence extended into France, where its aspect is daily becoming more serious. He of course pronounces it the work of the Arch Deceiver, and cautions all "nos tres chers chretiens" to avoid it as they would perdition itself—in which advice he is joined by the Archbishop of Paris, the Bishop of Orleans, and others."
"Written on the Wall.—At a recent Thursday evening Conference, Mr. Lyon, of Fall River, stated that at a late spiritual circle at which he was present, the name of a person in the Spirit-world was observed to be written with chalk on the wall of the apartment. No one could tell how the writing came there, as it had not been there before the meeting of the circle, and certainly had not been written by the hand of any one present in the body. The minds of the persons present were diverted from it for a time, and when they looked for it again it was not to be seen. The cause of its obliteration was as mysterious as that which had originally produced it."