Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . (5,000,-000 or 6,000,000); Hepworth Dixon, three million (3,000,000); A. , four million two hundred and thirty thousand (4,230,000);Warren Chase, eight million (8,000,000); and the Roman CatholicCouncil at Baltimore, between ten and eleven million (10,000,000to 11,000,000). Of those who have become its devotees. JudgeEdmonds said as long ago as 1853: — Besides the undistinguished multitude, there are many now of high stand-ing and talent ranked among them,— doctors, lawyers, and clergy
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . (5,000,-000 or 6,000,000); Hepworth Dixon, three million (3,000,000); A. , four million two hundred and thirty thousand (4,230,000);Warren Chase, eight million (8,000,000); and the Roman CatholicCouncil at Baltimore, between ten and eleven million (10,000,000to 11,000,000). Of those who have become its devotees. JudgeEdmonds said as long ago as 1853: — Besides the undistinguished multitude, there are many now of high stand-ing and talent ranked among them,— doctors, lawyers, and clergymen in greatnumbers, a Protestant bishop, the learned and reverend president of a college,judges of our higher courts, members of Congress, foreign ambassadors, andcx-members of the United Senate. This statement was written more than half a century ago; andfrom that time to this the work of the spirits has been steadily pro-gressing and spreading among all classes of people. 1 This place is Rochester, N. Y. ; hence the phenomenon was known at first as the RochesterKnockings. 13. 186 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS One reason why it is now difficult to estimate the number of thosewho might properly be denominated Spiritualists, is that the moreprominent and respectable of the adherents of thismovement are drawing under cover the ob-noxious and immoral features of the system,heretofore so prominent, and assuming aChristian garb. By this move they bringthemselves and a multitude of church mem-bers upon common ground, where there is nodistinction between them in fact, though theremay still be some in from this nation Spiritualism has gone abroad into all theearth. It is working its way to the potentates of the earth, and isfast preparing to accomplish its real mission, which is, by deceivingthe world with its miracles, to gather the nations to the battle of thegreat day of God Almighty. Rev. i6: 13,14. Here we pause. Let this work go on a little longer, as it hasb
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