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43021 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 158.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

“Why does Luther make a dash at the church of which we were once a member? More than ten years since, we renounced that for Spiritualism, where we found just what we preach, write, and practice .”

43022 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 158.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… every spiritual society with whom I had a contract, broke its engagement. In every instance where the reason was assigned, it was not my course of life, but its …

43024 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 160.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… of Spiritualism, and treated Andrew Jackson Davis, Home, and the Davenport brothers, as if they belonged to the common fraternity of showmen and mountebanks …

43025 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 161.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… of Spiritualism in public ways and places are great enough, but the extent to which it prevails in private circles, unknown to the public, is surprisingly …

43026 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 161.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… in Spiritualism. I am told that the same fact exists in Europe. For example, when Foster was here, some three months since, his visitors were mainly composed …

43027 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 162.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… -called spiritual mediums; yet it can scarcely be doubted that their name is legion; that not only the unreligious man, but professing Christians, men and women …

43028 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 162.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… of Spiritualism, that we think it would be serving the cause of truth to briefly notice the fallacies and unreasonableness of such a profession.

43030 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 164.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

“Mr. Partridge, of the Telegraph, informed the writer that the greatest obstacle to the progress of Spiritualism was the implicit confidence which many persons religiously inclined were wont to repose in all the spirits say.”

43031 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 164.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… that “Spiritualism demonstrates that Heaven is not a place, built somewhere in the universe for a particular class of men; but that it is in the soul of the individual …

43032 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 164.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… of Spiritualism is not the Christian religion, but directly opposed to it. We are not astonished that it professes to be the Christian religion; indeed, it …

43033 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 165.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… of Spiritualism; knowing that it tends to irreligion and anarchy, they cannot believe that its advocates will be intolerant in practice, or endeavor to put …

43034 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 165.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

We shall not be disappointed if such proves to be the world’s millennium -Spiritualism as “the church,” regulating and controlling the State.

43035 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 165.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… upon Spiritualism and Spiritualists must cease-that they cannot permit our holy religion to be so reviled, and our feelings so trifled with.”

43036 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 166.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

But Spiritualism, in their estimation, is the only “religion” too holy to be spoken against, as they unceasingly revile all religion outside of their fraternity; and especially Christianity, the author of which they continually blaspheme.

43037 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 166.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… or spiritual influence, and at the express predictions of false christs and false prophets, who shall show signs and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible …

43038 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 166.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

This was written in 1842, about five years before Spiritualism began its work in the State of New York.

43039 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 166.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… “Modern Spiritualism, a profane parody of the dispensation of the Spirit.” The quotation is prefaced with the remark that the lecturer “anticipates a future …

43040 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 167.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… its spiritual despotisms, and eminently in that of Rome; so there remains yet for the world, as the crowning delusion, a lying imitation of the kingdom and dispensation …