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Show EXORCISING THE SPIRITS. By his physical teats in spiritism, Protessor Baldwin has shaken the confidence of many people who bad fully made up their minds to adopt those apparent phenomena as the miracles that were to usher m and accompany the wcw faith. We have heard honest, well meaning souU arcue that as the christian religion was, in its inception, ratified by tbe violation of natural laws in order to eocourage the hesitating Jews to believe, be-lieve, bo modern spiritism, which, through the media ol the Fox sisters in Rochester first knocked for re-, re-, cognition at the popular heart, had . also ita confirmatory supernaturahsms. This idea seemed reasonable, nice, and pleasant; but now comes this man Baldwin and calls the miracle "tricks," and shows the juggle, leaving leav-ing us in the condition of tbe Indian Brahmin who looked through the missionary's microscope and Baw ammal life in the water be believed was pure. He has taken away our faith by letting light into tbe dark cabinets,, seized hold of our moat solemn mysteries, and Bhown them to be not above the dignity of the cheapest deception a boy may learn from the "MagicUn's Own Book." He will tell you how to materialize, show how tbe the dark seanctB are given, expose the sealed letter and slate-writting tests, and improve on Kay's last trick; teach you to to the rope tying and rappings, explain the mode of showing spirit faces and bands in tbe dark, and also dissipate Home's favorite transmigration and elongation delusion; all the chain tests, an me epirit-urum tests, ciair-voyancy ciair-voyancy and spirit music are laid bare, and be seems to lake a delight in throwing us back on tbe grosser foundation of mere materialism. In short, lie will devote to morrow evening even-ing to proving in the most conclusive way that the "new faith of spiritualism" spiritual-ism" is followed as a business for! profit in the United States as much as the patent medicine trade or the lyceum lecture system and that it can not flourish in any community j that is swift to investigate and slow to believe. N. Y. Call. |