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Minister to all the chief fiends of the Middle States—and leap to the conclusion that all a man's sins are atoned for while embodied—that he is not to be punished at all after death; and hence they cut off all restraining cords, give a loose rein to boasting and lying, and solace themselves and blind others with the absurd sophism that 'Whatever is, is right'—murder, robbery, concubinage, divorcing two, three, or a dozen, for the sake of obscene dalliance, and semi-legal infamy—are just the thing to rid the world of evil and make society a bond of fraternal fellowship! And such a system dares to call itself 'Spiritual,' 'Harmonial, 'Reformatory'! It does. But, thank God! the days of Pseudo-Spiritualism, in whose train myriads of insanities, wrongs, irreligions of all pestilent sorts, non-immortalism, and a host of importations from the pit, follow as harlots follow an army, scattering death, horror and devastation on every hand! Yes, thank Heaven! the false will soon be succeeded by a true and godly Spiritualism; and instead of being possessed and obsessed by the maleficent harpies from the mid-region, as is too often the case now, people will be enlightened, instructed and saved from ruin, instead of being plunged therein; for the noble, the true, the religious and pure spirits, from realms where God's presence sanctifies all hearts, will come to aid man in his hour of greatest need. The true spiritualization will bring peace on earth and good will among men, instead of hatred between couples, and absurd envyings and jealousies amongst mediums and believers; it will effect the destruction of all spiritualistic and philosophic pretence, the current sophistry of 'All-rightism,' pretentious cant and mock philanthropy, whereof so much now floats