The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-01-05
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sPIRITUALIsM:
What an Investigator Says
About IL,

EDITOR SILVER SrATE:-The subject
here under consideration is one, as yet,
very unpopular; but standing on.
parallel plane in point of advancement
With all other important truths in the
past history of the world. It's
modern advent we believe commenced
by the tiny raps with the Fox girls of
New York. in 1913. We also find its
ancient phenomena @att ~" ?"
RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.
LIST Samuel 28th chapter. LIST Kings 22a
chapter. LIST Corinthians 18th chapter
and in other passages too numerous to
mention. AS to the cause of its un.
known existence for so long period
We fail to understand. though from the
deeds of barbarism of ancient times
and the depraved condition of the
human mind the light of spirit COM
munion was withheld from the world.
Under this depraved condition of the
human mind the germs of falsehood,
bigotry and superstition were planted
in the human mind. A child is born
with au organization modelled from
opinions of its mother. Under this
condition of the human mind religious
creeds and dogmas were formed, and in
the name of God religious wars. perse-
cutions and barbarism clouded the
land. Shall we cling to
THE PALACES OF OLD cREEDs
Or shall we reason and search for truth.
Religion is good. and has its moral in.
huence before the world; but is has
bad its dark as Well as its bright
side. We now propose to show a
beautiful truth, standing out before the
world under blaze of evidence known
as spiritualism. Though the scoffery at
the latter name is wonderful, neverthe-
less it Is true; we propose to sho " from
legal standpoint that We can prove it to
be true. We find that spirits can only
manifest themselves through mediums
or organizations, for spirits control one
phase of mediumship for one thing,
another for something ,else. as we find
the Bible plainly teaches. We refer
the reader here to Pauls diversity of
spiritual gifts. 18th chapter of 1st
Corinthians. We say to the Churches,
who take the Bible as the infallible
word or God and standard of faith,
you scott at the honest investigations
of thousands of the most Intellectual
and best minds we have, and deny your
own Bible. We now proceed to intro
duce evidences to the phrase of medium
ship known as
DECENTRALIZATION,
OF which phase have been thorough
investigator for near six weeks in
Chicago. at Bartiau & Taylor's, 1870
East Adams street. / advance to the
witness stand, an oath is administered
by the court. the attorneys now say
tell as what you know about material.
ization. I testify, under oath, that
many persons attend the seance, and
that at all times all claim to see the
same thing at the same time, and that
/ know of my own knowledge, through
my senses of seeing and handling, that
it would have beeniimpossible to have
procured the manifestation through
any physical or mortal means; that
nearly every night for month or more
l recognized materia!ized spirit as
that of lovely wife. and we embraced
each other as in earth life. There are
thousands who would be willing to
testify to the above, who stand 10 point
of'intelligence fully equal to'any, and
in moral character stand aboye i'm.
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parchment, therefore.th evidenceycan-
not be overthrow, and must stand be-
fore the court as evidence. Our laws
hang man on, the evidence of two or
three persons. We now propose SHOW
that 4.s ry4
THE VARIOUS cREEDs. r. !,
Or those who claim the orthodox
religion and the bible as a standard of