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2 3 o MODERN SPIRITISM
humanity was imminent.
The terrible nature of the
danger may be measured by the steps taken to
stop it, and the reality of it will be realised by reading
the well-known "Giant Cities of Bashan," by
Porter, a sober record of unheard-of marvels, which
at once silences all scoffers and sceptics. That
under these special circumstances no communications
with the unseen world should be allowed
was absolutely essential to the preservation of the
human race, which was probably only saved by an
action which has been loudly condemned by ignorant
humanitarians and arm-chair critics.
Sons of
Anak
Degenerate survivors of the great disaster, however,
may exist even to this day. Those who know Palestine
are aware that some of the fellaheen are the
original Canaanites of the days of Joshua; and in the
Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases, near Beyrout,
to me the most wonderful Christian work -in the
Near East (and the only one carried on by England
throughout the Great War), I have seen one of the
"sons bf Anak" with the twenty-four fingers and
toes, and giant stature, that still distinguishes the
once hybrid race; at any rate, in the belief of the
people.
Of course, in modern times, this special reason for
condemning necromancy no longer exists, though the
danger of tampering with the secrets of the other
world is still a great reality and furnishes another
reason of nearly equal weight. The tone of the New
Testament, probably from the above facts, is
different with regard to mediums. It is rather the