Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-02-02
spiritu.lism-A Growing Ev,I.

| The San Francisco Examiner utters the follow.
ing wholesome truths in reference to this horri-
BILE fanaticism, which is destroying the minds of
so many OF our people. We hope to see the day,
whap man who breaches it or disseminates its
noxious influence among the people, is Stunned
like leper. Men who give their fellow men the
deadly posons that destroy the body, terminate
their days on the scaffold or IN dungeons, but as
yet no punishment has been devised for the pois-
oners of the soul. When a man. whose brain
has been crazed with alcohol sends the deadly
bullet through his head, thousands cry out
against the deadly dram but, when man
whose intellect has been dethroned by the ac-
cursed jugglery of gang of impostors and charl-
atans, kills himself, only two newspapers, out of
nearly an hundred published in the State, come
out and boldly denounce the villainous cheat and
mockery that is doing such deadly mischief In
this good work we will lock arms with the En-
dminer, and never give up until the miserable
humbugs who practice this mummery are driven
from the land
Its doctrines are at war with the propositions
OF revealed religion, with the enlightened ex-
perlence OF mankind for centuries past, and with
the strongest suggestions of common sense vet
unfortunately for the welfare of our race, we
find many professors of, and countless converts
to this ridiculous faith.
Let any man or woman, however earnestly
anxious to hold intercourse with the perhaps
loved deniZens of the world beyond the grave.
go to the solitude of his or her chamber and
there on Bonded knees implore the visitation of
deceased friend or relative, and how fruitless the
frpn c..1
persons of apparently excellent sense consigned
by the just verdict of the Commissioners of
Lunacy to the Insane Asylum, that individuals
laborlng under abnormal mental excitement NAV
imagine that they I" see sights and hear sounds
imperceptible and inaudible to a healthy man or
woman. But cleared of the mist of error, and
subjected to the ordeal of common sense, no man
or woman born, can truthfully aver that any voice
or apparition from the dark confines of the tomb
has ever penetrated the ear startled the eve,
with the sound or outlines of its presence.
But 1T is not our purpose to enter upon dis
cussion of this contemL tible and bad delusion
1t has for years past consigned its victims to the
Lunatic Asylum, the State Prison and the sui
cide's grave And of the latest who has been
crushed by tbs mental Juggernaut, is Lieut.
Col. Robert A. Wainwright of the Ordnance
Department, U. 5. Army, stationed at Beneca
1t has heretofore been mentioned in the Examiner
that this gentleman committed suicide at Beneca
Arsenal, on Sunday, the 23d of December, by
shooting himself through the head. 1t is now
asserted and not contradicted, that he committed
the act of self murder in state of despondency,
owing, it is said, to the effects of Spirituasm.
'Only God can comprehend n God" and
when fnit beings attempt to do so. no wonder
the poor, weak creatures rush to death in their
despair.
The AGE CALENDAR.-Ladies who are receiv-
ing the attentions of bachelors with view to
matrimony, would perhaps be better satisfied if
the gentlcman's age was known. They have q
delicacy in putting the question direct and even
if they did would be no wiser than before ask
ing. Hand him the following table, requesting
that he inform you in which, and how many of