The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-30
THE ANGELS THAT SINNED.

Neither let there be found among you any that
consulteth pythonic spirits or that seeketh the
truth from the dead."-Dent. xvii, vii.
The forty or fifty persons who assembled a
few days ago in the Metropolitan hotel, this city,
to assist at an alleged spirit seance held by wo-
man calling herself Mrs. B. Raymond, were shame
fully imposed upon and are deserving objects of
public sympathy. Why objects of public sympathy !.
! Why? Because they mental cripples law
should be framed to protect people of low order
of intelligence against the many impositions prac
ticed their credulity and stupidity by schem-
! ing Adventures protesting command the dead.
Not long ago the Arnold-Dickson combination,
moving along the lines of the Bangs sisters of Chi
eago and the Diss-deBar couple of New York,
worked" the spirit combination on many of our
well dressed citizens whose clothes we admire but
of whose intelligence We etc 1t is melancholy
consolation-but it is a consolation-to the wound
ed feelings of these asinine victims of superstition
that Salt Lake City has 10 more than Its legal pro-
portion of fools "There are Others" A special
dispatch to the New York Herald dated Liverpool,
March ., reports the prosecution of Mrs.
White clairvoyant and medium. to recover a sum
of money paid to her by who wished to con-
verse with the spirit of his dead mother. The pros
ecutor swore that Mrs. White told him that she
had power to call up the soul of his mother. When
the apparation which, he thought to be his moth
er, appeared to him she appealed to him. when their
interview was about to end to give to Mrs. White
liberal contribution f. aid in the diffusion of
spiritism. When the victim returned home and
had good nights sleep he regretted his liberal
ity to Mrs White and entered an action to recover
Tbo IL H.
that the mother appeared and that before the spr-
its of the dead answer the invocation of mediums
they, the mediums, must themselves undergo the
agonies of death. She deposed that she herself
while practicing her profession, had experienced
the horrors of the suicides death, whether that
death came from the razor, the rope poison or
drowning. In brief the medium to succeed in call
ing up the soul of any dead person, must first en-
dure the pains suffered by that person when dy-
ing. The English Judge, who was himself no fool,
came to the conclusion that the plaintiff belonged
to that class who easily parted from their mon
ey, and gave verdict in favor of the medium who
his honor sympathetically remarked, gave great
comfort and consolation to the plaintiff" While
dscrediting the actuality of three-fourths of the
so-called spirit manifestations we do not wish it
to be understood that have no faith in the exist
ence of ultra-mundane spirits or in the possibility
of others appearing to and holding converse with
the living But following the records and reve-
lations of the inspired writer's of the Old and New
Testaments and the doctrinal teachings of the i'm
perishable Church of God we hold that the spirits
who appear make their presence known to the
necromancers and accredited mediums of the cult
of spiritism DEMONS or according to ST Jude
and St. Peter, Angels who kept not their prnci-
pality-angels that sinned," The practice of ne
cromancy or the summoning of the dead to appear
and with the living goes back very far in
to the history of the human race. 1t was prohib-
tied to the Jews, by the command of God in the
days of Aaron. The prohibition was renewed by
Saul under pain of death, and before his time
Moses, the friend of God, publicly proclaimed "the
Lord abhorreth these things and those who do