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Date of account: Published 1885
Source: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
Reference: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 104
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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"If all be an imposture, who can measure the depth of that depravity which trifles thus with the holiest affections, aspirations, and sorrows?

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"If all be an imposture, who can measure the depth of that depravity which trifles thus with the holiest affections, aspirations, and sorrows? Greeley in a late _Tribune_ has a rich joke. He says: 'Some brainless editor out in Milwaukee not long since published the fact that he had an interview with the Spirit of Captain West, of the steamer, who reported that the noble steamer struck an iceberg and went to the bottom of the ocean with all on board.' Milwaukee is a great place! Our George (Willets) thinks 'that Spirit took some trouble to spread the news.' It is presumable that it was one of the Auburn Apostolic brethren. What a pity that Spirits (some of them) are not less given to lying. However, if they are capable of falsehood (as we well know some of them are), it is better they should show their hands, else their communications might work much evil.

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