Show I Unitarian Iliit r bhT rt oo h L I al large quota of Salt Lakes churchgoers I church-goers and nonchurch goers for that matter yestetday morning The subject sub-ject of the address was Spiritualism and Its Spirit is It Spiritual After appropriate and well rendered music by the choir the Rev Stanley ar HUnter HUnt-er spoke He said that the term Spiritualism Spir-itualism was a misn m r f J irit ism was the proper name to apply to the phenomena of spiritualism The term spiritualism implied a spiritual atmosphere which Mr Hunter did not concede to exist in the apartments concee where seances and mediums reigned He was of opinion that there was something very decidedly material about all such exhibitions He had spent he said a whole summer investigating inves-tigating the phenomena of spiritualism spiritual-ism and he had never seen anything that could not be in fact that had not been as well done and often much better bet-ter by the professional conjurer He was impartial to his verdict for he had a decided leaning toward psychic phenomena phe-nomena He paid spiritualism the tribute trib-ute of having emancipated many thousands thou-sands from the thraldom of a fossil not bound creed I they had only themselves by another equally as untenable un-tenable Forthe idea of ImmortalityiMr Hunter expressed sincere reverence and for the spiritualistic idea of a life but to come he also expressed respect only when considered apart from medi umigtlc phenomena There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous and that step spiritualism has taken I This is always the way One decade parodies the grandeur of its predecessor predeces-sor Mr Hunter illustrated his remarks re-marks by incidents in his experience while at Onest Bay Mass the famous spiritualistic camp meeting He also spiritalstc showed the rise and growth of a beU fin f-In spirits as nearly as historic research had been able to get at i In conclusion conclu-sion he asked the Question whether necessary the belief to in earthly a future happiness life was Better really to spend eternity in the sweet peace of annihilation than in cutting up the silly of socalled spirits Could we capers of socaled iIspirts not better leave It all to that great power that brought us into existence and through which as one Paul so long ago said we live and move and have our being |