are in close connexion with congenial mortals, and
that they, when circumstances are favorable and it
agrees with the Plan of Divine Government, give also
to exterior senses of men perceivable proofs of this
connexion. I said to them, that A.D. 1838 were
greater spirit manifestations in the Roman Catholic
Cathedral Church of Boston by my mediumship and the
mediumship of 144 witnesses, than mortal men could
expect. Whereas that catalogue of witnesses as
well as the events which happened in connexion with
our proceedings, have been published in my books,
I could by the means of that catalogue in a short
time convince the professors of the great Truth of
close connexion and mutual influence between mortals
and their congenial departed, and by the public testimony
of the professors the pernicious influence of their
report regarding the spiritual phenomena would be
abolished, and the way for the circulation of our message
of Peace would be opened. They should therefore
appoint time and place to meet with me for this most
important investigation of what departed spirits are
able to effect through mortal men. With all my
exertions to move the professors they remained obstinate
sinners against the Holy Ghost who gave them opportunity
to learn what is most important to correct the pernicious
effect of their report and to cease to brutalize their
students with their materialism. I started from
Massachussets to New Hampshire, because in that State
besides other spirit manifestations in Concord a Convention
of those adventists was held, who besides other blasphemies
of the living God and his Christ teach also, that man
dies as a beast, but that when Christ comes on the
clouds, he will awaken the righteous from death, but
the wicked will be eternally annihilated. As
all other pestilence which is spread in the Papal and
in the Protestant sects is supported by the use and
abuse of the Bible, likewise also these “annihilators”
made their discoveries of the annihilation of the
wicked by the means of the Bible. They are spread
through the country and especially through the States
of New England, and are only a branch of the dreadful
materialism which has brought the human beings so on
the surface of the matter, that they stifled the most
needful knowledge regarding the spirit world.
I warned all sects of Adventists as well as others,
everywhere. At length I met in October, 1858,
with a portion of the Adventist annihilators in a
Conference in Providence of Rhode Island, and tried
to convert them from their folly. But they were
not ready to hear facts and then reflect upon them
with a sound reason, to know man in his interior life.