Dr. Forbes Winslow, Oxford Lecturer on Mental Diseases, of Charing Cross Hospital, said the prevalence of madness owing to Spiritualism was on the increase. The late Reader Harris, K.C., wrote:- " The most remarkable case of mediumship I have met with was that of a lady, who commenced with a little seemingly innocent table-turning at a children's party, and finished up by death in a madhouse
Dr.——, once a noted medium, who was afterward converted, said,- " I believe Spiritualism to be the greatest enemy of religion and morality that has ever found foothold in this world. I have been a medium for eight years, and during that time my health of mind and body suffered tremendous consequences, and I have only regained both since I abandoned Spiritualism, and to-day I would rather have the cholera in my house than be a Spiritist medium. During those eight years the demoniacal side of Spiritism deprived me for a time altogether of my reason, during which time a terrible madness overtook me, and during that time, with suicidal intent, I cut my arms in four places, and was only saved by superhuman efforts." Sir William Crookes, claimed by the Spiritualists as an adherent, wrote,- "After witnessing the painful state of nervous and bodily prostration in which many of the exp-riments have left the medium,- after seeing the medium lying on the floor in almost a fainting condition, pale and breathless,-I cannot doubt but that the violence of psychic forces means a corresponding drain on the vital forces."
Surely the above is ample testimony under this head. Sir W. Crookes' description of the condition of a medium does not attract one to such a revolting spectacle. Is this the high and holy substitute for Christianity? Is this the glorious effect of truth?