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CENTS.
PROFESSOR ANDERSON'S
EXPOSE OF
??
SPIRIT
HAPPIES
TOGEIIIKR WITH
( thauh my God ihe Sun and Moon are both hutif up so high, That no presumptuous band can stretch and pull them from the Sky If tliry were not, I have no doubt that some Reforming- Ass Would recommnnd to take them down, and light the world with Gai !'
i
SOLD BV SAMUEL
C.
JOLLIE, 300
BROADWAY.
1863.
f*
PROFESSOR AIDERSOFS
EXPOSE OF
"SPIRIT EAPPINGS,"
SSring a
$nm
of
%t\im
TOGETHER WITH
"I thank my God the San and D^oot are both hang up so high, That no presumptuous hand can stretch andpull-them from the Sky; If they were not, I have no doubt that some Reforming Asa (Would recommend to take them down, and light the world with Sat J"
NEW
FRIKTEB BY
S.
YORK":
109
BOOTH,
NASSAU STREET.
1853.
PROFESSOR ANDERSON'S
Humbug and
its
he seems determined
it
to neglect
no means
for
accomplishing
skill
in the
His
him
He
to the
which he addressed
Editors of public press, gone into the rise and progress of this
delusion, laying bare the trickery
priestess
by which
its
high-priests
and
the
manage
to
many by
the de-
to
them
first
The
following
is
the
in dSipasttiau nf
tjje
Ipiritoal
Happing Imnlrag.
Baltimore, April 5th,
1853,
To
the Editors
excuse this
of the Baltimore Sun: Sirs I hope you will apology from a public character who does not desire
notoriety, but a
wish
to save
the
spirit-
much
Union.
D
Prior to
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
my
expose,
it
will
be necessary
to
commence with
at
The
following
is
W.
Elliott,
Esq., published by
Harper Bros., of New York. " Mysterious Noises, which are supposed by many
communications from the
Spirit
to
be
the
all
Hall, 1850.
"Let no reader at this stage of the business, closing the work in an energetic way, exclaim, 'Humbug,' Delusion,' or
'
'Tom
him.
Foolery.'
Should he do
so,
if
it
Stupid
it
may
be, but
what
it
The
labor pays.
"The
house
for
house seems
to
aught that
is stated,
and there
is
no reason
to sup-
elves, or the
remarkable
fact in its
that
'it
was moved
into
developement has
come
to us.
If
we can
which
is
Let
us,
who
took
down
then being
1st of
mouth of Mrs* Fox, a venerable lady of some sixty winters, she at the house of Mr. Partridge in New York on the
May, 1851
in
for
be established,
"'Twas
December
to bed,
moved from Very soon they were disturbnoises, which, however, did
by various
much
them
to
be made
by
the rats,
doings.
which do sometimes, of themselves have strange (It is a pity that the age and condition of the house
dis-
awake sometime,
began
to
suspect
that
mischievous
after a space of nearly four months, when on the last day of March, year 1848, they determined to go to bed early, so as to But this was not get a good night's rest, in spite of all noise. permitted. The thought then struck Mrs. Fox, whose bed
was
in the
that of her
retta,
noise.
"
'
Who
it
it
makes the noise V made by any person living?' made by any one dead ?' [Rap.]
" 'If any injured spirit?' [Rap.] " 'If injured by her or her family?'
" 'If by various other names?' " Getting no farther reply, she arose, somewhat excited, and
called her husband, and
some of the neighbors, who were yet up. The two girls, so Mrs. Fox states, were not apparently as much excited as she was, but entered with some spirit into the
"
spirit,
asking the
spirit to
do as they
which
it
did.
"One of the neighbors followed up the injured spirit, asking when the injury was done ? five raps, indicating, as they supposed, five years.
"
'
What name
Is the
Rap,
at the
name of a man
who
"
"
'
years before.
in the cellar
?'
rap was heard, and they determined to dig, but somehow learned that they mnst delay it four months, and of course did
Mrs. F. stated, that upon digging at the time mentioned, so. her son and two others found some pieces of bone, but whether or not those of a man, does not seem to have been ascertained.
"
the
'
Spirit,'
much
'
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
able an accusation.'
left
the house,
them was
so considerable
girls,
when
The
was a medium,
lost the gift.
for
such
the
title
now
somehow
" Ch.
(Signed,)
W.
Elliott.
"New
The above
to say, are
the
first
The
originators, strange
now
to
and
that
are admitted
be the
best
they are
secret of
somewhat strange
The
a lady, which
sex.
we would
Those
home
Oh
tles
no
They had a
God
(?)
was
to
Son of God.
" casting out devils, " " raising the dead, " " feeding the multiall the miracles of our Saviour tude, " " walking on the sea "
must
fall
into insignificance,
the knocks
Professor Anderson.
HOTNB
Mm
To
3f5raftssnc SlmttraiiiJ
the Editors
ILJEWIEIB
m
tl)t
fprit
3inpnstttres.
1853.
intelligent,
How long will an of the Baltimore Sun. enlightened, and generous nation suffer itself to be
vile juggle.
imposed upon by a
festations
Why
it
world what
shall benefit
by the mani-
Why
not
make
the system
generally
known ?
If
Why
an
re-
is to
we
cover a
new
theory in
life,
have
much
them.
it
we were
I do, I
all
every one
knew
much as
my wonders
no one,
of natural magic.
The mystery
of
my incomprehensibilities will
aware
that
injure
no imposture is intended, and special care is taken that the most weak-minded individual may not imagine that what he beholds is produced by super-
human
or spiritual agency.
Were
my
The thing would go for what it was worth, and no more. Were the Spirit Rappers to publish the following Programme, we should be prepared to receive them as professionhumbug.
als
own.
PROGRAMMEIMPORTANT
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.
NOTICE.
The Misses
10
tury,
professor Anderson's
beg most
respectfully to
announce
to the citizens of
AS PRACTISED BY
THEM
IN ROCHESTER WITH
THE
citi-
H.-A.DEI*m'0
This wonderful most
secret,
intelligent, will
POWERS!
most learned
is
be
illustrated
The
whole machinery
got up
by them, under
their
own
expense, defying
the greatest
this
country
now
abounds, to discover
3?3eCBKr0M3S3XrA!
will
be brought
into action,
be-
The whole
their
commanding
room
to
dance a quadrille.
No
11
weak and
superstitious, their
astounding wonders.
This, Sirs, however, would not answer their purpose.
Al-
is
perfect in
its
way, there
is
not sufficient
to
make up an
entertainment.
is,)
but (as they suppose,) a communication with they do not say which " Heaven or Hell. " They (the Rappers ) do not tell
come
sufficient, there
If intelligent persons
to inquire, this
There humbug.
is
an old imposture exhumed, and it is a great some people make up their minds to go crazy about what they knowingly tell us is a new revelation, they do not take some pains to acquaint themselves with such facts as New humbugs of this sort are bad are frequently to be found.
enough, but old ones, re-galvanized, should not be tolerated
outside a lunatic asylum.
it
may be
en tables were
known
to
be
electrical nearly
a century ago.
Upon
Oct. 12.
"In
letter
from Paris
we
are informed of a
there
by one Father Ammersin. He pretends to have found out that wood of every kind becomes highly electrical when deprived of all its moisture and kept perfectly dry. His method of making the experiment is to put a piece of wood in a warm oven or chimney, where
singular discovery said to have been
made
a constant
dry
fire is kept,
and
to let to
it
remain there
its
until
it is
quite
after
which, in order
it
prevent
ure,
he boils
it
in
wax
or
or otherwise
coats
wood-
12
professor Anderson's
to
grow
cold,
it
is
said
fire
said,
and so
many As
who,
first
proceed
I will
parties,
at the outset,
The
which
will
be the evidence of a
the
show that the originators had planned the imposture from commencement, and had carried it out as such. Mrs. Norman Culver's evidence, I have no doubt, was correct on the outset, but her Expose caused the inventors to seek a new Theory, which they found, and which has answered their purwill
as follows
"
Their
brother married
great deal at
my
husband's
sister.
The
girls
have been a
my
when
that they
way
was visiting the girls at Rochester made me suspect were deceiving. I resolved to satisfy myself in some and some time afterwards I made a proposition to CatheI
had a
cousin visiting me from Michigan, who was going to consult the " Spirit," and I told Catherine that, if they intended going
to Detroit, I also told
it
for
them
to
convince him.
I
her
do
it
cheerfully
would
all
answer
would do
it
if
me how
to
make
the raps.
She
said that, as
Margaretla was
me.
it
all to
She
sit
said
when my
next to
I
was
called.
did
13
to
answer nearly
this
all
After
revealed to
All
me
rine
the secret.
The Raps
me how, I could produce them perfectly mvself. was very hard work to do it. Catherine told me to warm my feet, or put them in warm water, and it would then be easier work to rap. She said that she sometimes had
showing
" At
first it
to
warm
her
I
evening.
my
raps in succession.
all
feet
told
it
is
most
to
difficult to
Catherine
answer the questions. She said it was generally easy enough to answer right, if the one who asked the questions called the alphabet. She said the reason why
to
me how
manage
then point
to give
of the
was
guess
She She
also explained
way they could nearly always how they held down and
have
foot
I
moved
tables.
the tricks.)
me
to
do to
make make
my
on the bottom
to
when
I rapped,
wished
on the wall,
and
direct
to
my own
wished
them
be heard.
She
my foot
to the bottom
of the door, the raps would be heard on the top of the door.
me
that
when
their
floor,
from the
cellar.
The
girl
was
in-
whenever she heard their voices calling the Catharine also showed me how they made the sounds spirits. (The whole trick was explainof sawing and plaining boards.
ed to us.)
When
was
Marga-
14
retta told
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
me
that
when
" Elizabeth
one
who now lives with who produced these raps. She way to make them, by playing with
Catharine told
me
um.
why
was because she was too conscientious to become a medisecret was revealed to me, with the understanding that I should practice as a medium when the girls were away. Catharine said that, whenever I practiced, I better
father,
The whole
have
my
little
girl
was
the medium,
for,
Catharine that
my
only object
I
was
to find
out
how
She was very much frightened, and meant to tell of it, and expose them and if She was so nervous and I did, she would swear it was a lie. excited, that I had to sleep with her that night. When she was instructing me how to be a medium, she told me how frightfarther in this imposition.
I
to get, in
and gave
me
She
was a
spirit."
"
We
hereby
certify that
Mrs. Culver
is
town of Arcadia.
We
whole
D.,
were present when she made the disclosures. We had heard the same from her before, and we cheerfully bear testimony
that there cannot
be the
statement.
(Signed,)
C. G. Pomeroy,
M.
Rev. D. S. Chase."
15
nit tjrt
fpirit mappings.
1853.
To
the Editors
sional Spirit
of the Baltimore Sun : Sirs The profesRappers go about in gangs of eight or ten, with a
well-trained "
medium."
or female,
is
prior to the
of their operations
to
worm
visit.
they
regular book
families or
names of such
members
who visits
the "
medium "
The former
All
name
is
at
The
married, or
who
are about to be
is
known:
lately
left
the
known,
tact,
and system.
They also find out those persons (who abound in every city) who are always ready to run after any new " ism" or "seism," and who become, sooner or later, either their victims or else
confederates.
There is another class of Confederates he room with the medium. The visitor supposes
;
or she
is
in the
this confederate
to
be a
Now
this is
sential
ful
render
it
success;
as, for
example
The
visitor
in fact, the
com-
is
incorrect.
It is
The
"
very strange
my
The
16
and, that the visitor
professor Anderson's
says to
first
question and
answer."
The
confederate then
commumedium.
The communication
is
made with
Every
what he
The
astonished at
was
told
their conversation.
The
he intended
to
communicated
all his
medium, who
is
now
try the
prepared to answer
visitor is
and the
this time.
Every
!
He
is
does so.
There
is
question
answered
correctly.
no mistake Oh most
!
wonderful
he exclaims.
He is
and relatives
their
communication.
is
juggle.
The
tells
raps,
how
or,
Mrs.
to,
of others. Imagine
it
the
medium
would then be no
from beneath
The
room
from
the table
it,
or from his
own
My
little
friend Blitz
would make an
the construc-
medium.
affair,
however,
is in
Suppose,
the other.
for
The medium,
and confederates
in
one room,
The wires
EXPOSE OF SPIRIT RAPPINGS.
17
trom the battery pass under the door, or out through the wall beneath the skirting boards, passing under the carpet to the
legs of the table
;
a communication
is
is
table in
which there
which
is
applied,
it
raises the
galit is
disconnected, the
hammer
rap,
medium
Of course,
placed
to
render
the construction of
the manufac-
which must be such as to deceive the machinist and those who have a knowledge of electricity, &c. (See Cut.) The public can have an opportunity of hearing the raps nightly, upon a table which I have prepared to illustrate the system by which the raps are produced, which is on the above
principles.
described machinery, and a galvanic battery form the whole required to communicate with the world of
Sirs
:
spirits.
It
may
not be generally
known
that, in
connection
To what
base uses
may we
not return."
They have
Maine
to California.
There are
been invested
and
No stone has been left unturned by the projectors of this " speculation " to make it tell
in the " imposture."
it
will not
be disputed that
is
it
hit,
and
at this
mania in the United States. My astonishment is, that it has not been denounced, long ere this, by the whole "Press" of the Union, which is ever
the most popular
moment
Reports of victims,
by
paragraphs of
18
country
professor Anderson's
most marvellous anecdotes and of every be accomplished by and swallow these have been recorded by
tales
the
miracles,
to
the Spirits in
the press,
till
render
difficult
matter to
that the
There is not a rational member of the press but knows whole is a base unnatural delusion having nothing to recommend it no foundation but imposition. It has been allowed to go on unheeded, with the exception as before stated.
Hence
Had
nounced
many
mighty engine and public protector, the Press, deof your fellow-citizens would have been saved
throughout the
many a
now miserable family would have been happy. The Rappings Swindle would have gone the way of " Millensm" " Salem Witchcraft" and the " Cock Lane Ghost," and remembered only as one of the popular humbugs of its day.
I trust that the public will not think that I
seek notoriety or
;
have nothing
to
gain
I
on the contrary,
have placed my-
be the
loser,
self in a position, as
However,
make a few enemies by the transaction, I will save them the trouble of calling me what I know I am myself
should
I
humbug. (This I leave, however, to the public.) If I can but save one victim, I am sufficiently repaid for my labor. I trust in God I may be the humble instrument in
saving
I
many from lunacy and death. know that I will have a hard battle
I will
to fight,
but there
is
one thing
promise you,
the death
sirs
my
cause,
Union
more
than a perversion of science ; (when I say science, I perhaps give it to much importance) a vile juggle.
19
FOWIE^M
/runt
ILJETIHEIB
To
turn
The
statistical ac-
573
caused by a monomaniac
com-
Is there
no public pro-
weak and
credulous
When
its
makes
appearance amongst
we become
our
own
citizens.
to
check
Why
Enquiry and Protection be formed and maintained, to warn and screen the public from a seductive imposture, which is as malignant in form and effect, and which engenders that worst
of human maladies-madness
1
make
much as
disease
in
God's name, of
all intelligent
and well-meaning
ture
impos-
and
its
baneful influences.
tent with
the character of
tell
ignorant impostors
Him who
and of
20
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
S
New discoveries
by which mankind
sistent
made
but
all
with the great laws of Nature and Nature's God. with both.
spirits;
The
God
We
are, (I
but
hides
When He,
by death, removes
this
World
There
is
parted
spirits.
of Spirits will be visible to our dea wide barrier placed between Mortals
and the
Spirit
World.
None has
yet appeared
from "that
will rest,
bourne whence no
as will the
The dead
spirit, till
The
souls
Spiritual
Samuel by
let's father
Witch of Endor, and of Lazarus by oui Saviour. " Hamwalked like a ghost, but spoke so like a man when
" That incestuous beast,
he said
With
him
credit as
being a Ghost.
may
have
faith in
Rapping
to
California, for
$5,000 or $10,000,
my table
which
by natural causes, consistent with the well understood laws of Natural Philosophy. With thanks
I
cannot account
columns,
remain, Sirs,
Your obliged
servant,
J.
H. Anderson,
21
wmm wamm mm
&o professor
^Intorson's ziltxs.
Baltimore, April 11th,
1853.
:
My
atten-
been specially
professing to be an expose of
what
is
now
Manifestations ."
partiality, I
Knowing your
in
answer
to the statement
Prof. Anderson,
made by your former correspondent, on the subject of " spiritualism," trusting you
which a
fair discussion of
to.
will accoixl
it
that consideration
any
To
pass upon
all
the statements
;
made by
myself to
says that
for the
in refutation of
what the
set forth.
talented Pro-
and ingeniously
He
the whole
is
and
now
This
latter fact, I
cannot pre-
is
tend to dispute, but that any thing like an imposture or juggling connected with the " Spiritual Manifestations " I unhesi-
men
modes of communication " between this world and immateriality, which were
never before dreamed
of,
fellow-
both sexes,
who
22
professor Anderson's
is
made,
still
there
is
a de-
trary notwithstanding.
The
been no instances wherein spirits from the other world have had communication with us poor mortals, excepting in two cases, viz. Lazarus raised from the grave by our Saviour, and Sam:
uel by the
ous.
Witch of Endor.
The
matter to be proved
* whether or not
we can hold
I,
but
my own
use,
when
to
op-
any
new Theory.
could cite various authorities, of the most unin support of the position
impeachable character,
which
have
may have
in which he comes before the public, and for the very specious and plausible explanations he gives of the imposture, as he
chooses to call
it.
me
bad position
in the opinion of
who
my own
is
experience,
daily
me
Why,
if
such progress
makI
why,
when
the
same
object
in view.
Prof.
Anderson
have
hitherto
humanity.
Should
this
new
intrinsic merits
is
have been
made known ?
Who
forth
some new
23
facts are
backed
by
men
as Judge
Edmonds, of
New
in society,
and endowed with every intellectual gift, how can man have an influence sufficiently
powerful to break
to,
down the
barriers
of,
Spirituality
ly constructed
and established ?
Why
become converts
How
is it
that
we
hear so
it is
fre-
con-
The
reason
is,
that a
new
era in
Moral
Science has
commenced
state of things is
coming about
which
Churches, Curates, Bishops, Popes, "et hoc genus omne," will, instead of wielding their present almost absolute powers,
The
it
;
progress of spiritualism
is
onward.
vol-
ume
The
as soon melt under the simple touch of a mortal hand, as the advance of spiritualism be retarded. Look at the convention
of spiritualists held the other day at Springfield, Mass. ; are these individuals to be considered as humbugs, or their asserI trust not. tions to be treated as fictions, and nothing else ?
That this whole world will be united in one common brotherhood I have no doubt, and that this happy period is close at hand, Witness the gigantic strides which the spirit I firmly believe.
rappers have
daily making
made
proselytes,
unbelievers in our
new
that
we have
many prejudices
counteract, I
to
am
my
word.
24
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
Among
by
whom we
are liable to be
Anderson. Her attacked, I must particularly mention Professor to attack us endeavored has as yet has been the only one who in doing us succeeded not has all, in our vital parts ; but, after
much
injury.
That he
fact,
is
a dangerous enemy
to spiritualism is
on this an undoubted say if I were to tell gentleman the would what But subject. soul of the great him, that by a spiritual communication with the and illustrious Father of our Country, George Washington, I America have been desired to expose him to the citizens of
as witnessed
by
science, and earnestas the greatest foe to the advancement of one whose inshores their from ly entreat them to drive away
fluence
may
laws, institutions,
&c;
this solely
owing
to his skepticism
on
science. one of the most interesting branches of modern shall Gladly shall I hail the day, and bless the breezes that " who so boldly proclaims his waft from America the " Wizard I am afraid I have unbelief in " Spiritual Communications." patience of your the on trespassed transgressed my limits, and
offence. readers, but I feel sure you will pardon the unintentional discussion, continue this I to choose Anderson Should Prof.
shall
be prepared
to
adduce such
in the
minds
of the world generally on the subject of inter-communication with this world and the World of Spirits. Trusting you will
excuse the length of this, in part refutation of the one-sided arguments or rather assertions made by Professor Anderson, for
whom,
whose
may
soon
fall.
A Writing
The above
is
Medium.
to
N.B.If Prof.
take
be him
The above
Sun
me.
EXPOSE
OF.
SPIEIT RAPFINGS.
25
^mtarat Jntanu's
lf|i!i|
To
the Editors
have no
difficulty in
of answering the
the Baltimore
Sun
Gentlemen
letter of
your correspondent
in to-day's issue,
to require
an answer.
is,
that spiratualism
does
of
all
our
also
at present
established.
He
states that
it
is
not a juggle.
That
to
is
opinion.
I
show
that
it is
nothing more
Your correspondent has not than a juggle of the worst kind. advanced one single item of proof that it is not. He simply
calls
The
on M.D's, D.D's, and Judge Edmonds, as his authorities. (Judge Edmonds) is just as likely to be humbugged 'Tis not the seat he fills that will proas any other citizen. when he submits himself to be imimposition, tect him from Judge Edmonds must make choice. matter of a as upon posed
latter
further inquiries and researches into the subject, and then both he and your correspondent will find out their error. By the way, it might save the State of New York a considerable sum He could then per annum if Judge Edmonds were a medium.
empanel a jury
dead.
also,
The
arrange their matters in the world of spirits as here on earth for, according to the "rapping system," there are no lies, no
false witnesses, no partial judges.
The whole
is
spiritual cir-
26
cle.
professor Anderson's
Judge Edmonds might take
from the
spirit world,
it
coolly,
dict
If such
trials.
were the
no necessity
for
new
is
This, I
have no doubt,
will
by them abolished.
With
the establishment of the spiritual science upon this " obsolete idea" for
and America
fied,
will
become an
filled
we
then can
recti-
through
" "
time.
We
shall then
know
directly
to the point
How much it cost to build the Pyramids." What became of the Ark after the Flood."
contents of the Books of the Alexandrian Library."
stole the last
"The
"
Who
Books of Livy."
"The
Travels of the
Ten
"The doings of the Dark Ages." "The author of the Letters of Junius." " The History of the Aztecs." " Where Sir John Franklin is." " What was the true fate of the President"
"
(steamship.)
Who
all
And
ple, or
any thing
whom
So f
or of
also,
in the dark.
an opposition
have
to
me-
diums.
All that
we
shall
do will be
first-rate
they
EXPOSE OF SPIRIT
l)e
R.U'l'IXf.S.
27
linos;
and so of
my
former
letter I
tems, in
full
Your correspondent
My
only answer
to this is,
"
my
witches in their
'
On
But why
It is positively
shocking,
what
is its
Who
Wliat
your correspon-
dent " For a long time back there has been in the United States
who
a class of minds dissatisfied with existing religious creeds or any religion at all. By a pro;
away from
,a
of Christianity
and, to
fill
by them termed a delusion of eighteen and a half centuries, they needed but some mind, visionary as themselves, but more stable, to draw up a creed, in the profession of which they all
is
They wanted
jstar
was, and
.is,
28
PROFESSOR ANDERSON
Davis, whose name
all
is
Andrew Jackson
der.
Under
his
guidance
'Human
Progress,' to disprove
Christianity,
and
to
remodel science.
uniting the visionaries of our country, and, by his feats of asserted communication with the other world, has made himself
the leader of a
band small,
to
it is
true,
We
'
cannot pretend
say
how
or
by
whom
books and
lec-
We are not decided whether the tures have been written. rappings,'' which have assisted him in his professions, are to
be ascribed to 'mental delusion? or to 'ingenious imposture.' " But whatever be the true state of the case, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that there is an organized body at work in the community, and upon such grounds and principles as leave;
very
little
room
to
to hesitate
it.
with respect
on the course proper to be pursued Societies are being organized all over the
Union under the title of 'Harmonial Brotherhood,'' all professing the same things, and all working as much in unison as it is
possible they should.
test
Their intentions
are,
<
to
reduce
to the
of reason'
all
truths
Among
those upon which the generality of mankind rest their dearest hopes here and hereafter, and those upon which the principles
It is
which
these infidels aim, and they claim from us a denial of its doctrines and mysteries because we cannot understand them. The
very idea seems unworthy a being of sound intellect, for what an absurdity it is for (he finite mind to suppose t] a it can un1
derstand
all
All that
may be
:
completely
summed up
!>\
remarks of Locke
your own
finite
deem
and
it
mind'
avIio
all
things,
whom
is
This
who met
at
Springfield in
29
who
"
he"
is,
"Mr. Finney, of Cleveland, Ohio, a noted 'speaking medium,' then rose, and stated that in the city of his residence there
thousand disciples.
He
stated
that
as the
spirits
had
the
Even
He
then gave an
in-
a table
all in pieces, in
order to
He
there
was
endowed with
spiritual life.
Thus much he
(the
said,
and more of
of the 8th
similar purport."
From
April)
I
the
same authority
the above.
long-
by an address by Mr. Finney, of Ohio, 'a smart man, with fine natural powers of oratory, excellent wind, and a very high developement of infidelity. His theme was the emancipation of
the
lie
its
discussion,
to illustrate
progress, and kick over the Bible, the priests, and the church.
We
in
cannot undertake
points,
to give
some
was
sufficiently ingenious,
some
points
which, in
its
versive of
all
human
li
life.
anity can
When mankind have become as good as Christi. make them, we will call on Mr. Finney for more ea<
rhtmsnt."
30
"
PKQFKSSOR ANJHSBSOn's
is
one of those
who
ought
forth
hacc
upon
"That
New
Era
in
Moral Science."
be attempted,
so) as that
more
which gained the independence of this great nation. Is the banner of Christianity to be trodden under foot, and the flag or ensign of abominable Infidelity and Atheism to be raised
in your blessed country
?
No
The
will,
opened
to this
movement, who
" True Ministers " of Christ's Gospel, use their combined influence to check the progress of this vile Atheistic imposture.
To
start
new
religion
is
"gross
lie
"
I
is
to
understand.
sons
am
aware
that, to the
mass of the
all that I
per-
now
can
do
to
perhaps, be
I
fruitless,
(yet
hope
not.)
who
would
enlist in
exposing
many
and checking a system of fraud and jugglery which has sent so victims to the lunatic asylums, and dealt desolation and
death
all
around.
is
Your correspondent
more
to
be
pitied
when
in support
'
disgrace
to
such a father.
Washington
.'
Washhe will
No ! He was
world of
a Christian,
his soul
in the
spirits,
.31
him victorious
to the
What
all
in-
/ hope
this
x^irtu-
ous,
them by
Americans, think
spirit
for a
moment
The
No! my
beg
to
friends,
no
Such
is
In conclusion,
have more
faith in the
the majority of
that
good
it
old
faith that
has raised
Your correspondent
and
still
may
who have
not admitted
re-
pudiate
and he will
on the very
of
On
wherever
it
may
find a habita-
home.
all
As a
public character,
my
it
This
make
his
appearance at
to
the Theatre or
place, I
am
ready
meet him
He
calls
influenced
H. Andehson,
Fiofesyor of Natural
Magic