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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1859

Spiritualism.

By James White

The extent of Spiritualism and its rapid progress may be seen by the statistics taken from the Spiritual Register for 1859 by the New York Tribune.

NUMBER OF PROFESSED SPIRITUALISTS.

| Maine | 40,000 | Maryland | 3,000 | | New Hampshire | 20,000 | Virginia | 5,000 | | Vermont | 25,000 | North Carolina | 4,000 | | Rhode Island | 5,000 | South Carolina | 3,000 | | Massachusetts | 100,000 | Georgia | 5,000 | | Connecticut | 20,000 | Kentucky | 10,000 | | New York | 350,000 | Tennessee | 20,000 | | New Jersey | 5,000 | Alabama | 6,000 | | Louisiana | 15,000 | Mississippi | 15,000 | | Arkansas | 2,000 | Minnesota | 3,000 | | Ohio | 150,000 | Missouri | 30,000 | | Michigan | 70,000 | Kansas | 1,000 | | Indiana | 50,000 | Nebraska | 1,000 | | Illinois | 90,000 | Florida | 1,000 | | Wisconsin | 70,600 | Texas | 20,000 | | Iowa | 25,000 | California | 30,000 | | Pennsylvania | 80,000 | Oregon | 1,000 | | Delaware | 2,000 | New Mexico | 2,000 |

Total in the United States — 1,284,000 Canada — 40,000 Cuba — 1,000 South America — 15,000 The Eastern Continent — 600,000 Total — 1,940,000

The Register gives the names and addresses of 349 public speakers, and 238 professional mediums.

The Register estimates that there are 1,000 public speakers, 40,000 mediums, public and private; that 500 Spiritual books and pamphlets have been printed.

Compare the above with the statistics for 1858! and it will be seen that there has been an increase of Spiritualists in one year of 302,500. J. W.