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Show Spiritualism. What kind of evidence evi-dence is this? h'athcr Taylor, the Mariner's Mar-iner's minister in Boston, and lately dead, has been rapping to a professional profes-sional "Medium" in Boston. Now, the point to us seems to be that unless death makes a donkey of ono who on earth was a wise man, then these "messages," of which hundreds ol' columns col-umns arc yearly printed, bear about the best possible testimony against so-callod so-callod "Spiritualism" whioh could be devised, h'or example, tho spiritual .Father Taylor says: "Tho glories ol the belter life soem almost too great ibr mo; so I linger yet in tho shadow of mortal existence. 1 would say, press on press on!" Pray, what is there characteristic of Father Taylor in this hackneyed sort of oommonplucc, the mere iteration of what hundreds and thousands of "tpiriis," by the aid of their knuckles and tho mahogany, liavo "communicated" before? JJow oould John (Juiney Adams become, through death, such a driveling idiot as to rup out lour hundred pages ol alutf and nonsense, printed in a thick book? Wo read theso "messages" printed in the "Spiritual" newspapers newspa-pers with every wiah lor wisdom, but wc are compelled to own that they are ail as nearly alike as two peas. Does the gravo receive all personal character as well as the personal body? If so, how does the personality survive at all? Ntw iorti 1'rioune. |