Resolved 2d, That the particular and in the exterior life of people
manifest evils, which are easily observed by those materialists who
are falsely called reformers, cannot be removed from the society,
till true reformers understand the real position of the existing
churches and the spiritualism in the churches as well as the modern
spiritualism out of the churches; because without this
understanding there is neither knowledge nor strength in the so
called reformers, to effect the true reformation, and to establish
the promised Peace amongst all nations, for which the means are
developed in the publications and manuscripts of the writer of
these resolutions.

It is expected, that those who have called this Convention, and
those who attend it are not so blind that they having called "a
Convention to overcome evil with good,"[O] and granted freedom of
speech in this Convention, this freedom being accepted by the
assembly, would reject the good which is offered by the writer to
overcome evil; since the writer affirms that those who are anxious
to speak in this Convention, have nothing to say, which has not
been already many times repeated in Conventions, if it is for any
use at all to remove evil, but that the writer has to communicate
matters to remove evil, which are not known to those who attend
this Convention, as will be evident, if the two documents which are
offered to be read in this Convention, and which have been written,
one the last month, and the other during the travelling of the
writer from New-York to this Convention, will be read publicly to
this assembly. The writer remarks especially in regard to the
mediums of spirits by whom they have been brought, to speak with
closed eyes in this Convention, that from the documents offered to
be read, it will be made manifest, that their spirits are deluding