Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1857 — "Spiritualism.” [ARTICLE]

"Spiritualism.”

■tt *Bb' W 1 I !Wje have thrown tne weight of this journal, .says 'the Detroit Free I‘reea, on proper occasions, agaipst “spi ritualism,” Localise we liave belietSid it to be ft mon- i stros imposture, whose calamitous consequences,.# unrestrained, could not be' estimated. We have same examples o' | its 'tendencies in thfc proceedings of a State convention of spir iUijjJjoU hold at Ravenna, Ohio, on the 4th and sih ult. \V r e quote (Vom the report of one of the Ravenna papers. i : r “Mr. Kellogg, of Newton Falls, was exceedingly desirous to have it understood that he believed nothing in the Biblo; that it was all .a lie, and that only knaves and fools.would pay attention to its commands. fie .ktfjioved reason and intelligence to bo, supreme, and was emphatically a. higher law man... He. said if ‘Jesus Christ were on earth and should utter anything contrary to Lis views ,of right, he would not believe him any sooner than if the devil had said the same thing.” One of the speakers said he ‘would not exchange places with St. Paul, if he would give him heaven to boot.’—* A Mr. Robinson said that be “could live just as well without God as God could without him. He didn’it thank God for anytliing.' ” In the course of the discussions, the subject of “free love” was introduced, when, •- l . “Mrs. Cobb protested at length against the spiritual organization, and said that the Lord created one man for one woman, and gM woman for one man, that they might Jive, happily together, and concluded her remarks by saying that,, such wits a part and parcel of spiritualism, she wished to renounce it immediately. “Mrs. Lewis, of Cleveland, replied to her by saying that she was in favor of u nTv eTsalTfee d om, and That loving “whom" soever she chose was, a part of that freedom, and to confine' hgr to love one man was an abridgement of her rights. She said that, ‘although shqliad one husband in Cleveland, the.considered herself married to the whole race. All men were her husbands, and she had an nnduiny love for them' She said, also, what business is it to the world whether one man is the father of my children or ten men are? 1 have the right to say \vh6 shall be the father of my offspring.' “There seemed to be a 'contrariety of opinion Oil the subject, many 'f ejecting' the doctrine as loathsome and others approving of it.” ; These discussions occurred on Sunday. | The novices in spiritualism "were doubtless the opponents of the incorporation of tlie free-love doctrines into tire spiritual organization, while, we presume, those who bad drank deep at the spiritual fountain made a stand for coalition. The novices, when they shall have been fuitlier initiated into the mysteries and famlHarizcdjwith the peculiar beauties of spiritualism, will be more tractable. The late scientific investigations at Boston have exposed the worthlessness of the claims of spiritualism. The public is every day witness of its “ contaminating influence, which surely tends to lessen the truth of man and the purity of woman.’ ’ it is time good men and women’ every where had set their faces against if, as they would set their faces against every demoralizing and debasing thing. Especially is it time the enlightened public press had set its face against it -