Letter from Mr. Roustaing, of Bordeaux.

Mr. Roustaing, of Bordeaux, addressed to us the following letter, requesting its insertion:

Mr. Director of the Spiritist Review, In the work that you announced in the issue of the Spiritist Review of last June [see The Gospels explained], and entitled: “Christian Spiritism, or Revelation of the Revelation – the Four Gospels, followed by the commandments explained in spirit and in truth, by the evangelists assisted by the apostles and Moses, collected and put in order by Mr. J.-B. Roustaing, advocate at the Imperial Court of Bordeaux, former bâtonnier, 3 vol., Paris, Central Bookshop, no. 24, 1866”—a work which I presented to the management of the Spiritist Review of Paris in the months of April and May last, which accepted it—a passage of the manuscript was omitted in the printing, which escaped the correction of the proofs. This omitted passage, which is thus conceived, has its place after the last line of page 111 of the 3rd volume: “And this hypothesis on the part of the Spiritists: – If the body of Jesus had been a terrestrial body – and if the angels or superior Spirits had been able to render it invisible, to carry it away, and had carried it away – at the very moment when the stone was wrenched out and overturned, it would be, a priori, inadmissible and false; it must, in effect, be set aside as such, in the presence of the revelation made by the angel to Mary, then to Joseph; a revelation that would then be lying, which it cannot be, emanating from one sent by God, and which must be interpreted, explained according to the spirit that vivifies, in spirit and in truth, according to the course of the laws of Nature, and not rejected.” (See above, 3rd vol., pp. 22-24; – 1st vol., pp. 27 to 44; 67 to 86; 122 to 129; 165 to 193; 226 to 266; – 3rd vol., pp. 139 to 145; 161 to 163; 168 to 175). By publicity in your journal, in order to bring to the knowledge of those who have read, of those who read, and of those who will read this work, this omission that occurred in the printing, and so that those who have this work may add by hand, on the indicated page, the above-mentioned paragraph – I come to solicit the kindness of the insertion of the present letter in the nearest issue of the Spiritist Review of Paris, for which I thank you in advance.

Accept, Mr. Director, etc.

Roustaing, Advocate at the Imperial Court of Bordeaux, former bâtonnier.

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