Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-12
Spiritualism.---No 8.

The apostle seems to think =" that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. :"
But we believe that God inherits his own king
dom, and that he is something besides flesh and
blood Luke II, 20, 81. And when he was
denouced of the Pharisees, when the kingdom
| OF God shall come, he answered them and said :,
the kingdom of God cometh not with observa-
ton: Neither shall they say, 10 here or, 10
there for, behold, the kingdom of God is
within you
1t appears to us that kingdom tina t
can exist in the inhabitants of earth and
cometh not with observation, is invisible
spiritual. 1t is the stone that was cut out of
the mountain without hands, that breaks in
pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver.
and the gold" the walls Of which shall be call
ed Salvation " and its gates praise. V In that
kingdom, "The sun shall no more be thy
light by day neither for brightness shall the
moon give light unto thee an everlasting light
and thy God thy glory"
Having introduced only small portion of
the scriptural proof we might to show that
God is spirit, and that his kingdom is spir-
itual kingdom, and that he influenced Christ
and the apostles, and the prophets, by his spir-
it, and often spake by their mouths, this for
showing the possibility of spiritual communi-
cations are forever at an end, and that the
bible is sealed up &C., we will now endeavor to
show, that by the bible, we learn that the
| greatest spiritual communications have not yet
been given to the inhabitants of earth. We
do not expect that anything will be added to-
or taken from the bible, but suppose that any
quantity of other books may be written with
out infringing upon that book.
Christ informed his deciples, saying, John l6,
-. 81 have yet many things to say unto you,
but yo cannot bear them now" We have no
evidence that he said those things before his as
cension. " Howbeit when he, the Spirit of
truth, is come, he will guide you unto all truth :
for he shall not speak of himself; but whatso-
ever he shall bear, that shall he speak; and he
will show you things to come Thus did
Christ direct tho mind onward, even to a future
day. He came once in the flesh, and in spirit
returned to his Spirit Father, and the promise
was left that he would return in like manner ;
but the apostles got the impression that he
would not return alone, but would be accompa-
MED by his saints.
Paul speaks of his coming with all his saints,
and being glorifed in his saints, and descending
from heaven with shout. Jude, IA. " And
Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousand of his saints,'' Now we believe
that these spirits have been taught by Christ,
because they teach as he taught, and we believe
that Christ was taught by the Father, because
he taught as God teaches in nature, Can our
opponents give better reason for their belief?
The Jews saw the miracles that Christ did,
but such werc no proof to them; they said he
did them by Beelzebub the prince of devils
Our opponents say just 50 about spirits. But
the Jews did not know God, for if they had,
would have known his son. John, 8, -.
+" Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my
Father Also" We think if our opponents knew
Chris and his Father. they would also know
Che spirits that come in love, for :. God rs love. "
The Jews were expecting Christ would be born
about the time that he was and were anxious
for his appearance, but his appearance was so
different from what they expected they would
ing for his second coming, proving beyond all
contradiction that the time for his second COM
ing, when the sanctuary should be oloansed, ex-
pired in 1874, declaring that it was as certain
that Christ would come then with his saints, as
it was that the bible was true. 1t was about
that time that these spirit manifestations were
known on earth in somewhat different manner
from what they had been known before. I'm
doubted evidence has been given that the saints
have come, and that Christ in spirit is with
them, for their instructions are like his. They
teach forgiveness, humility, kindness, purity,
virtue, brotherly love, long suffering, and re-
pentance. They urge the inhabitants of earth
to do right, and progress in knowledge and
holiness But because they come not in the
way that many expected they would, those very
ones that were anxiously expecting the heavenly
host, cry " humbug, delusion," and think satan
has come with has angels, and Christ has delay
ed his coming. Now unless it can be shown
that there is some mistake in reckoning time OF
that the time prophesiod has not expired, or
that the word of God is not frue, we must be-
lieve that a new dispensation has commenced
If we can know these heavenly messengers by
their fruits, they are of God. They give light
to the blind, heal the sick, comfort the mourner
reclaim the erring, and give hope to the hope
less. Joy, consolation, and shouts Of gladnes'
are heard on earth, while those who have long
mourned, and would not be comforted, excaim
at last the lost are found, the dead are alive
Yes, to them, their friends who had left the
form were gone forever, until some kind act o
the heavenly host gave undeniable proof of the
presence, and conscious existence of them. Blu
we have other proof that these manifestation
are of God. We quote the prophecy of Joel
2, %, " And it shall come to pass afterward
that will pour out my spirit upon all flesh
and your sons and your daughters shall proph
esy, your old men shall dream dreams, you
young men shall soc visions And also upol
the servants and unon tho landmarks in thos,
days will pour out my spirit. And | will
show wonders in the heavens and in the earth
blood and fire, and pillars of smoke. The SUI
shall be turned into darkness, and the moon in
to blood, before the great and the terrible da,
of the Lord GOMEZ