Mediums and Mediumship

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... MEDIUMS AND MEDIUMSHIP. "Thou slialt not suffer a witch to live." The above " thus saith the Lord" is said to have been spoken from the mouth of Moses of the "Pentateuch." The following, of like import, is from the "Northwestern Department, W. F. Jamieson, editor," of the paper published by Moses of the "Crucible " "Mediums vs. Impostors.--One of the best physical mediums in the United States told me he know that a certain dark circle medium was an impostor, for he saw him clairvoyantly perform the tricks which he palmed off on the public as spiritual. I asked him why he did not advertise him as a humbug, inasmuch as every impostor cast suspicion on true mediums. 1 trust the self-styled ' defenders of mediums' will make a note of his answer. Ho said: 'Should I do so, the Spiritualists would denounce me and charge me with trying to build myself up by pulling another medium down.' He was correct about the result, for it has been verified in dozens of cases. In order to escape the storm of misrepresentation which some of us have encountered, he bowed his head in silence while fraud was perpetrated in his very presence." And this, in like vein, is from the pen of the editor of the Golden Age, in reply to an invitation from John Gage to attend the late Convention of Spiritualists at Yineland: "My Fbiend--I thank you for asking me to attend your convention. Many labors keep me at my office-desk. The phenomena of Spiritualism have interested me greatly. But I have had bad luck with mediums. Sooner or later, nearly all of them have exhibited traces of impostors and cheats. Thus I have known a medium who, after the manifestation of genuine marvels such as would impress and satisfy the most skeptical inquirer, ...