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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 35

Preface

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Preface.

The chief portion of the matter contained in the following pages was presented in the form of four lectures, and delivered in the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand, during the months of June and July of the present year. A desire was expressed by very many who heard them delivered that they should be printed, so that those not hearing the lectures might be warned by the facts presented, and thus be preserved from the pernicious and debasing principles of spiritism. As the lectures were delivered without notes, with the exception of references to the authorities to be cited, it was difficult to reproduce them as delivered; and further, the lecture-form not being deemed so suitable for publication and permanent circulation, it was decided to place the facts under their appropriate headings, along with additional testimonies, and present them to the public in the present form It was under a sincere and overpowering conviction of the terrible evils likely to result from the spread of spiritualistic teachings, and with an earnest desire to warn and preserve the unwary and unsuspecting, that the lectures were delivered; and it is with the same earnest desire that the present edition of this work is issued. The testimonies given might have been largely increased; but such was not deemed needful, as, if those presented are carefully considered, it will be seen that sufficient has been said to fully expose the true nature of this evil system, and to deter the wavering from entering upon a path that can only end in ruin. It is with the earnest prayer that it may be blessed of God, and may be the means of saving many from the ways of spiritual death, that it is now sent forth by

The Author. Dunedin,