Mr. T. L. Harris, once a Spiritualistic medium, testifies that the marriage vow imposes no obligation on the Spiritualistic husband. They have been known to abandon their own wives and prefer the company of those whom the spirits told them had a closer spiritual affinity to them.
Mrs. Woodhull, elected three years in succession as president of the Spiritist Societies in America, often lectured in favor of free love, and advocated the abolition of marriage (" forbidding to marry "), stigmatizing virtue and responsibility as the two thieves on the cross. She said:- " It was the sublime mission of Spiritism to deliver humanity from the thralldom of matrimony, and to establish sexual emancipation."
Sublime mission forsooth! What sort of pandemonium would this world become if Mrs. Woodhull succeeded.
The late Rev. F. Swainson, writing of a lady of his acquaintance, says:- " Up to the time that her husband came into contact with Spiritism he was all that could be desired. When he took to Spiritism he came in touch with a certain Spiritist woman who claimed affinity The result was this-that the man cruelly deserted his wife, and left her to die, as she is dying to-day, of a broken heart. That man to-day is passing as a leading official of a Spiritist circle in England."
J- C- writes:- " My wife was first induced to attend seances without my knowledge; then, decoyed from me by a so-called 'spiritual affinity,' ruined, and finally died away from me in dire straits."
The charge against the "three black I's" of Modern Spiritualism is well proved.