Published in 1872 | 334 pages | PDF reader required
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART 1
TESTIMONY AGAINST SPIRITUALISM
General assertions.
Tract by Professor Austin Phelps D. D.
Opinions of William T. Dwight D. D.
Elder Knapp.
Comments of the Boston Traveller and Boston Herald.
Statements of Dr. W. A. Hammond.
Church opposition.
Father Hecker.
J. D. Fulton D. D., Rev. Mr. Morgan, P. T. Barnum.
Scientific men and organised institutions.
PART 2
CONSERVATISM
Opinion of Rev. H. W. Beecher.
Opinion of Theodore Tilton.
Opinion of W. H. H. Murray.
PART 3
TESTIMONY INFAVOR OF SPIRITUALISM
The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.
Mediumship of Mrs. J. H. Conant.
Invocation.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF SPIRITUALISM continued
The Séance.
Communication from Rev. Ezra S. Gannett D. D.
William Wesselhoefft M. D.
Reliability of Spirit Communications.
Psychic Force.
OUR EXPERIENCE
MEDIUMSHIP
Additional facts—Rev. Dr. Phelps sen.
Spirit Likenesses.
Spiritualism at Methodist Camp Meetings.
PRESENTIMENT—DREAMING—PROPHECY
Detection of Crime.
Verification of Dreams.
SPIRITUALISM IN COURT
WHAT GOOD HAS SPIRITUALISM DONE?
Medical cases—Injury of the knee-joint.
A lady who had been pronounced hopeless, restored.
Insanity.
Rheumatism and Cancer—Hon. Neal Dow.
Injury from a fall.
Alleged cupidity of healers.
DUPLEX CHARACTER OF OPPOSING TESTIMONY
Elder Knapp—Letter from California.
Rev. J. D. Fulton D. D.
Dr. W. A. Hammond.
Ely, Von Vleck, Barnum, Thomas L. Harris and others.
Rev. G. H. Hepworth.
SEANCES—CONDITIONS AND RULES
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS IN SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
Professor J. H. Von Fichte.
The Double.
President Lincoln.
The Darwinian theory.
The doctrine of Re-incarnation.
Obsession.
The Dread Future.
The co-relation of spiritual and psychological phenomena.
Planchette and Gates Ajar.
Organisation.
CIVIL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS
Equal Eights and Woman Suffrage.
Free Love.
Marriage.
Divorce.
Communism.
PART 4
RELIGIOUS ASPECTS AND RELATIONS OF SPIRITUALISM
Comments on Religious Organizations.
Spiritualism in the Bible.
CONCLUSION
