I little expected that I should have to say anything on the subject of 
' P tntuallSm as having relation to the contents of my paper ; but as Mr. Row 
asserts that expressions in the Paper brought this class of phenomena to his 
nnnd, and spoke upon them at considerable length, I ask permission to state 
certain decided views which 1 have for a long time entertained on this subject. 
1 begin with quoting a very pregnant passage in the Book of Ecclesiasticus 
(xxxui. 14, 15) : “ Good is set against evil, and life against death : so is the 
godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly. So look upon all 
the works of the Most High; there are two and two, one against another.” 
In conformity with this law God aud Satan (the adversary) are contrary one 
to the other, and the power of Satan, always delegated and conditioned (see 
Job, chap, i.), is opposed to the power of God. Now, as miracles are spoken 
of in Scripture as being primarily wrought by God, the Creator of heaven and 
earth, so Satan, “ the prince of the power of the air,” has the power of 
working miracles; and just as the miracles which God performs by the agency 
o man demand/^ on the part of the agent, so Satan works miracles under 
condition of the faith of an operating medium ; but in this case the faith is 
that of an operator who is under delusion and believes a lie. The quality of 
the faith is shown by the character of its fruits. Mr. Row justly asserts that 
the phenomena of Spiritualism are “ prodigiously grotesque and absolutely 
unmeaning,” but at the same time he admits that “it is impossible to deny 
that the whole subject has a very intimate bearing on the question of miracles.” 
Certainly the phenomena cannot be referred to any kind of physical causation 
and must, therefore, be ascribed to a certain mental, or spiritual state, which’ 
although it has its foundation in error, is permitted to display miraculous 
power, in order, apparently, that by the character of the manifestations the 
existence aud source of the error may be exposed. The miracles of Spiritualism 
are so utterly opposed in character to the beneficence and dignity of the 
miracles of the Gospel, that a Christian should have no hesitation in deciding 
that they are miracles of Satan. It is no proof of weak-mindedness that some 
persons should be influenced, however mistakenly, and others perplexed by 
these strange manifestations. Although I have never at any time witnessed 
any of these phenomena, I am yet unable, in common, I believe, with many 
others, to resist the evidence of their reality which has come from all quarters 
of Christendom. Personally, I have been as much convinced by the evident 
unfairness of what has been done by those who deny them, as by what has 
been testified by those who affirm them. It now only remains that I should 
state Jhat I believe to be the source and root of all this evil. On this 
point I shall only say what I said as long ago as 1S63 in a letter to the 
editor of the Clerical Journal, inserted in page 58 of the number for July 
Oth of that year. I have there said that these “signs of the times ” have 
their origin in a wide-spread and persistent belief of a great untruth the 
reality of a spirit-world, of which Scripture, rightly interpreted, says not one 
