Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam.

  • Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ward attractions in those invisible witnesses around, who Hold thee in full survey. Open advocacy of Spiritualism then did, and to some extent may even now, incur cost, but also it may bring equal and even overbalancing gain, not however in precisely the same coin. The loss mainly comes in changed conditions of the social and domes- tic relations, and in the public estimate of one's soundness of mind. The gain is in the growth, ex- pansion, and elevation of the mental and emotional faculties, outgrowths from consciousness of being true to, and faithful in, personal use and open com- mendation of truths taught by the Infinite Teacher through the evolution of facts which reveal His pur- poses in manner not yet acceptable to the public mind. Here I am pleased to say, and say it truthfully, that through my long open advocacy of the cause, and conflicts with college professors, no person, in consequence of my spiritualistic faith and labors, has ever addressed me in an uncivil or irritating manner. The world is not all bad; not all harsh; far other- wise. Probably my course has drawn forth from society much more pity than reproof; and, if so, the course has not been void of benefit to those who were grieved by it, for exercise of pity is exercise of an ennobling emotion. Ere I had been«a^tudent of these then novel opera- tions fifteen months, 1 addressed a large, intelligent, and respectful assembly of my relatives, friends, and neighbors in Roxbury as follows : —