The spirit merely uses its best judgment in offering advice, and although it can see many causes which produce certain results, more clearly than the average mortal can do, they are still fallible, and so claim to be, and are liable at times to be mistaken. It is also true that there are times, when owing to certain physical conditions or weaknesses, the Medium cannot be reached by the particular spirit who would be best able to give the advice desired. A Medium acting wisely under such conditions would refrain from exercising her mediumship until more perfect mental and physical conditions should obtain. We claim not that our sensatives are infallible but that they are honestly doing their best to help you, and that they DO bring messages from the spirit world. As a result we find mediumship manifesting in many beautiful forms, such as those of clairvoyance, clairaudience, slate writing, materialization, spirit healing and inspiration.
Most mediums are honest in their intentions, but none can ever claim to be infallible.
Such a claim on their part would of itself be a positive proof of their lack of knowledge and honesty, and would prove them unworthy of confidence. The mistrust, by the public, of mediums and of mediumship, is the result largely of ignorance, or superstition on the part of some who have not learned to understand that messages from the Spirit world are natural and do not claim to be supernatural or infallible. Mediumship is a natural gift, and is subject to the operation of natural laws, as are all the manifestations of nature whether in the material or the spiritual world, which must be understood and complied with. The National and State Spiritualist Associations issue certificates each year to mediums whom they believe to be qualified and worthy. We grant such certificates only after the applicant has under gone certain educational training and examination and has proven their self competent to receive and transmit communications from the Spirit World.