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g tween truth ami falsehood. Right and wrongomust forever remain right and wrong. To cloak impostors, is to become an accomplice of the imposition.1 was informed by an editor whose brain was evidently very tired, that the powers of help were chiefly to blame for the tricks and deceptions of phenomenal mediums, and that to expose these tricks and deceptions would injure the cause of Truth. The powers of hell,” Mr. Editor, are powers not known nor recognized by me. I do recognize the powers of human rascality. I was assured by this |erson with the tired brain, that those anomalous beings called “ mediums” are unfortunates, abandoned to the fluctuating forces of good and evil, by which they are ever and alternately swayed, and in brief, that they are not to be held responsible for their acts.Now I cannot accept this dangerous fallacy. The power that destroys human ac- h countability, must necessarily be the enemy of s man. If mediumshipand deception inevitably go together. 1 am sure, Mr. Editor, that humanity wants none of it. Let the “powers of hell” perch on the steeples where they belong; nor flap their black wings over the sacred fanes of the soul. Let the devils go home to roost. A rational philosophy does not propose to tap the spiritual world and draw them off into human bodies. We need not go out of the flesh to find the causes of evil.If opening the spiritual eyes and ears of man, and gifting him with extraordinary ;ifts, opens wide the gates of hell and leaves lint to the dark dalliance of devilSythe eternal 'emnation of modern Spiritualism is svrit-Israifiateijand the great question remiuning with usnun itsticditcaPPatisettled, is, how shall we sliun it?^n the will and affections of man lurk all the wahful devils that haunt him. He who stops yon on the highway and demands your money, is to claim no immunity from penalties on the plea that the “powers of hell” pointed the pistol and took the purse. Let us lift a great slander from the invisible world. Let those who willfully and deliberately de-i ceive, be treated as deceivers. If the cause of Trnth be injured by the exposure of fraud, it I will tC spBFv thing in human I»istlt; ry.•mrs truly. J. If. Robinson. | \\Worcester. Dec., 1SG2.hnP8siol
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New York Herald Progress
New York, New York, US
Sat, Dec 27, 1862
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