SPIRITUALISM by D. W. Hull

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 6, 1859

SPIRITUALISM.

By D. W. Hull

THE most amusing case of Spiritual seduction we have seen is the following:

In 1856, Dr. T. L. Nichols, the well-known infidel, Spiritualist and Free-lover, was converted to the Catholic faith by the spirit of Ignatius Loyolla. A short time after this, however, at a circle, at which Mrs. Anna Denton Cridge (I think) presided, the spirit of Dr. T. L. Nichols (who was a Catholic and alive and well) came up and said he was not a Catholic; that Ignatius Loyolla had taken advantage of him and ejected him from his body, and was now teaching through his body a doctrine which he (the Doctor) had always abhorred. What was worse than all, the spirit of the dead priest had caused the spirit of Mrs. Mary Gore Nichols to believe that he was the veritable Dr. Nichols, and thus converted her to the same faith. There are several spirits clubbed together, said the spirit, to eject the unlawful tenant from the Dr.'s body, and to aid the Dr. in getting possession of his own body again. We might at least suppose that the Dr, is not as happy in the spirit world as he once thought he should be. Poor, helpless, bodiless spirit! He must stand and see doctrines palmed off for his which he always abhorred.

D. W. HULL.