Elder Hull’s Spiritualism Lectures
By Uriah Smith
WE listened yesterday (Sunday, Jan. 10,) to two discourses from Elder M. Hull, before the congregation of Spiritualists of this city. These were the opening of his labors in behalf of the cause of Spiritualism. The burden of his effort was to show that the Bible teaches the consciousness of the dead, and the immortality of the soul. To do this he endeavored to meet some of our positions on that question, and produced arguments which have been adduced thousands of times, and probably will be thousands more, by advocates on that side of the question. The enthusiasm which we expected to see manifested on the occasion was not there. And it strikes us that his effort could not have been in the highest degree satisfactory to either the orthodox or his spiritualistic friends, for this reason: He advertised to give the reason for his change of faith. He has become a Spiritualist; and the reason he offers is the adoption of the belief of the consciousness of the dead. Now it is not very complimentary to the orthodox to be thus told that adopting their views of the state of the dead, has made him a Spiritualist. And as to his Biblical argument on the question, what do the Spiritualists, those progressive individuals who have got beyond everything that the world has hitherto esteemed sacred,—what do they care for the teaching of the Bible on this point? U. S.