ns of
morality and virtue, and lead to the most unbridled
licentiousness.

"We are told that 'we must have charity,' that it is wrong to
blame any one, that we must not expose iniquity, as 'it will
harden the guilty,' that 'none should be punished,' that 'man is a
machine, and not to blame for his conduct,' that 'there is no
high, no low, no good, no bad,' that 'sin is a lesser degree of
righteousness,' that 'nothing we can do can injure the soul or
retard its progress,' that 'those who act the worst will progress
the fastest,' that 'lying is right, slavery is right, murder is
right, adultery is right,' that 'whatever is, is right.'

"Hardly can you find a Spiritualist book, paper, lecture, or
communication that does not contain some of these pernicious
doctrines; in disguise, if not openly. Hundreds of families have
been broken up, and many affectionate wives deserted by
'affinity-seeking' husbands. Many once devoted wives have been
seduced, and left their husbands and tender, helpless children, to
follow some 'higher attraction.' Many well-disposed but
simple-minded girls have been deluded by 'affinity' notions, and
led off by 'affinity hunters,' to be deserted in a few months,
with blasted reputations, or led to deeds still more dark and
criminal, to hide their shame."

The same writer also mentions a fact which shows where the responsibility
of all this looseness of morals belongs. He says:--

"At the National Spiritual Convention at Chicago, called to
consider the question of a national organization, the only plan
approved by the committee, especially provided that no charge
should ever be entertained against any member, and that any
person, without any regard to his or her moral character, might
become a member."

The fact that no plan could find approval which did not provide that they
should never be blamed nor called to account for any of their deeds, shows
on what points they felt the most anxious, and plainly proves that they
belong to the class of which Christ spoke, who loved darkness rather than
light, and who would not come to the light lest their deeds should be
reproved. John 3:19-21.

It is unpleasant to wade through pools of filth, and we therefore spare
the reader quotations from those Spiritualists who have not only avowed
the most revolting practices of free love, but op