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| author = Sunderland, LaRoy
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| source title = London Spiritualist
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| source details = No. 276, December 7, 1877, p. 275
| publication date =1877-11-17
| publication date = 1877-12-07
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| original date = 1877-11-17
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Sir,—I am indebted to the kindness of a friend in England for a copy of your paper, just now at hand, of October 5th, in which “M.A. (Oxon),” confesses his inability to solve the problems to which I had invited his attention. I am not disappointed. Those problems admit of no solution that would not be fatal to the enthusiasm which animates bis pen. The motive power of modern Spiritualism is what Christians call “saving faith,” that is, “faith” in the ''unknown, ''which fabricates “the evidence of things unseen” (Heb. xi. 1).
The miracle before our eyes (of knowledge and chemical skill) is admitted. All else is unknown and unprovable. In no case can we know how many “spirits” are present, or their sex. We do not know where they originated, nor whether they bring to us any knowledge of persons, dates, and places, except those they learnt during their control of mediums; and thus, nine-tenths of the factors are unknown. I am not surprised, when one of the foremost devotees of this modern “ism” owns up to his inability to meet the issues raised in my previous paper. And while I concede the facilities of his pen, and his “familiarity with requests of all kinds, and from persons in all parts of the globe,” it was, after this confession of inability, hardly necessary, perhaps, for “M.A. (Oxon),” to refer me to any newly projected volume of his “Researches” for any light on problems he does not understand, and which he could not solve if he did comprehend them, without an utter annihilation of his own faith in the unknown.
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Quincy, Mass., U.S.A., November 17th, 1877.
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