Edinburgh, May 30.
Two years ago the General As-warning, to those not equipped for' discriminating truth from faisehood} not to attend seances or dabble in spiritualism.
This mild veto, however, will not lay the modern ghosts, and may: stimulate rather than quench the|Lassen, Brotherton, and Robinson curiosity which the subject has aroused within and outside the Churches. Professor Paterson, while disposed to set down the residuum of facts that survive investigation mainly to "the activities of that elusive entity, the sub-conscious self," quotes a friend who has given study to the phenomena as having reached the sembly of the Church of Scotland conclusion that they are the appointed a Committee on handiwork of "the very dregs of Supernormal Psychic Phenomena; the spiritual universe," and that now, having received the report, perhaps those who take part in they have quietly and diplomatic Spiritualist seances are letting cally shelved it. The Church loose upon the world a troop of "does not like the odour of the "malicious imps" that are supposed whole matter in places it smells to have long ago been banished rank deceit and fraud, and in along with Pan and the fairies. It other places says that "that way is all very well to tell men of madness lies.'' 'Che deliverance of science to investigate this bastard the Assembly is indeed the natural mysticism, and to say to other outcome of the report itself, which people '"Don't.'? But when it be-dissuades Christian people from comes the subject of discussion for being present at spiritualistic several hours in the General As-seances, as exposing them to sembly, people are more likely to serious danger, and acknowledges follow its example than its precept. that "the investigation of these subtle phenomena—cannot
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