Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-08-09
SPIRITISN HAS
TOLD NOTHING
Of THE BEYOND
The Only Spirit That We
Can Reach With Safety
Is Holy Spirit, Says Joseph
Wilson in Sermon Sunday

ViOOil VI SCI illOit ShlIAoJ
There are hidden dangers in
spiritualism which we should avui't
as we would any evil snare, said
Joseph r. Wilson in a sermon de-
Il livered at the Congregational
church yesterday morning. Mr.
Wilson. when asked to fill the pull
pit, chose as his subject, rs There
Any Communication With the
Spirit World?"
Mr. Wilson answered the Ques-
ton in the affirmative, with the
statement thnt there is only tne
spirit that we can reach with
safety. The Holy Spirit, and vert
on to show the many delusions
which come from the pursuit Il
| knowledge from spirits from the
beyond. Members of the university
| faculty, and those who are inter-
ested in spiritualism, were In the
congregation.
Spiritism induces an unhealthy
atmosphere Of mind, and will bring
about the degradation of humanity,
said Mr.. Wilson; it has caused
innumerable cases of insanity
among persons who, racked with
grief, seek solace in communica-
ton with those who have gone be-
fore. or among those who allow
themselves to become obsessed with
the idea of supernatural informa-
tion.
Any Manifestations Evil Ones.
R'The doctrine of spiritism is
ri bn ~
side are those Of the departed, but
this is not true said Mr.. Wilson,
Devils, demons, and the powers
of evil are, according to scriptural
authority roaming in the beyond,
and from the nature of the infor-
nation that is received we must
believe that this so. Christ refused
praise from an unclean source;
Paul discovered the snare, as in
Acts, 16, VS.. 1918. Read also
Mark ", 23-27, also 32-34. Paul
warns against the final dangers
which will beset the Christian
faith. In Second Corinthians, Ia
verses he says, Another Jesus
whom we did not preach, another
spirit which We did not receive,
another Gospel which ye did not
accept
with the deliberate frauds,
either on this side or the other, we
need not deal" continued the
speaker. "planchette, ouija and
slate writing, are all acts of the
unconscious mind which has an
extraordinary power. Old spirit
ism dates back to ancient times,
and modern spiritism began In
1S47 with some knockings in the
house of a Methodist minister in
England. Spiritism has hundreds
of churches and Sunday schools.
1t has become a religion"
The fact that no information of
any good to the human race has
ever been vouchsafed was brought
out, and that only mischievous talk
and idle words which produced
unrest or unhappiness had ever
| been received, was dwelt on. The
we'll known controls which have
dominated famous mediums are all
manifestations from hell said the
speaker, and work no good.
No Direct Communications.
Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir A. Conan
Doyle, Sir William Crookes, Mae
terlinck, w. T. Stead. Prof. William
James, none of them had direct
communication, but had to work
through mediums. Clairvoyants,
and mediums who work through
trance or hypnotic stages, bringing
| the unconscious mind into activity,
employ a power which has not yet
been learned or defined. Mediums
speak with certainty on things
quite unknown to themselves. They
demonstrate a psychic phenomena
which is amazing, but not super
natural, nor necessarily dealing
with the beyond.
Telepathy, it has been proven by
scientific authority, is a condition
in which the minds of others can
| be read. What highly sensitized
condition is induced, or how, Is
not vet explained, and clairvoyance
is also n mystery. demonstrating
/ our remarkable mental capacities
First Timothy, Al verses, and Rev
elations, ", bear on this.
AS far back as 1877 DR.. Forbes
| Winslow stated that there were
ten thousand lunatics, victims to
spiritism. How many are there to-
| day? Dr.Schofield calls their
malady "borderland diseases or
functional nerve disorders. They
are in condition of subeonscious
mental activity where they see
that which is beyond the mental
vision normally.