Nature's Laws in Human Life; An Exposition of Spiritualism Embracing the Various Opinions of Extremists, Pro and Con Together with the Author's Experience (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. CONSEEVATISM. There is a class of public speakers and writers who have not expressed themselves with boldness upon either side of the main question discussed in these pages. Unwilling to array themselves with some, at least of the opponents who have acquired prominence by their undisguised expressions of opposition nor to commit themselves against it, in the language of Mr. Knapp and persons of similar character; yet having a disposition to inquire into the significance of the phenomena, they have spoken and written as nearly definite as the signs of the times seemed, according to their own conscientious scruples, to require of them. They occupy an intermediate position, owing allegiance to neither. They admit the occurrence of spiritual phenomena, but apparently have not attached much importance to them. They cannot consider the manifestations diabolical in character, at least they have refrained from expressing themselves to that effect. What they intend precisely to be understood to mean, it is not proper here in a simple marshalling of the expressed opinions of the opposing parties, to state. The reader must draw the inference. The definite yea or nay wanting, we class them as conservatives, desirous of leaving the existing condition of things undisturbed. Among such we include the following. Some such persons, desiring at all times to subserve the interests of truth, according to the inpetus given by new occurrences express themselves in a more outspoken manner at one time than another; but do not seem to be fully convinced in their own minds so as to take a definite position on either side. REV. H. W. BEECHER. The following abstract of a discourse by Mr. Beech- er embraces the proper method of reasoning to arrive at or depart from Spiritualism. If his hear...