The Worthington advance., 1878-12-19
TO BROTHER HACKETI.

OF gootl faith. -.
TO BRO7HER HACKET7.
EDITOR ADVANCE: see that some-
thing has awakened Bro. Hackett, of
Graham Lakes, to Il supposed defense
Of the Bible. Hear him quoting the
1st Epistles of St. John 3:4, land every
spirit that confesseth not that Jesus
Christ is not come III the flesh is not Of
God," but he has failed to tell US of IL
single spirit that ever made such a
confession. II he has ever seen Il Spir-
itualist wEo did not contend that
Christ came in the flesh just as Bro.
Hackett and all of US came, he has
seen more than ever did. Dozens of
spirits have told me that Christ came
just as other children come, only being
i Child of Il high perfection Of love.
Did he differ from other children?
And the cheap fling that spirits labor
ed to overthrow the Bible, is all gra-
tuitous, for they labor for no such pur-
pose us far us am informed, but labor
to establish purer life and nobler
manhood than any of the Bible makers
ever possessed judging them by their
own record left i'll the Holy ~ Bible,
for without single exception, save
Paul, they are confessed Polygamists
and Bigalnists, us far us we can obtain
their record.
Again he quotes "for this purpose
the Son of God was Manifested, that
he might destroy the works of the Dev-
H." Well, now, who was this S,n
of God2 Certainly not Christ, for he Ill
variably calls himself the Son of Man.
And suppose Bro. Hackett is anoth-
er Son of Man III the same sense that
Christ used the term, and as for the
''Holy Ghost assuming the paternity
of Jewish maids child, would be i.
naturalization too strong for the av-
erage Spiritualist to swallow. just
think of it, Bro. Hackett, to what per-
fection naturalization must have at
tanned that 4 meterialized spirit could
claim such relations as he must have
done, to be the father Of such a son
us Christ was.
But, then, Bro. Hackett is long
way in advance of the average church
men. Being an Adventist, lie admits
the phenomena, but denies the source
from which they are derived, and all
lie needs is investigation to convince
even him that Spiritualism il true.
And with your permission, Mr.. Editor,
| will copy leaf OF two from my man
script each week, OF facts obtained
while on my Investigation trip two
years ago. In them. of course, l do
not offer All explanation, bnt merely
relate the main fact and leave others
to draw their own conclusions. OF
course, / have 4 theory but rot being
able to offer any scientific explanation
other than the facts cropping out in
the seances, others can judge as well
rs myself. J. II. Is.
IS THE BIBLE ALL DIVINELY Y INSPIH-
ED OF GOD?
Some of our young people have been
studying the bible of late and find
many passages and even whole chap
ters they cannot explain so as to l,ar-
monlze with the advanced ideas of
Deity now, and the older people are
unable by comparing different rassag-
rs, or by sophistry, to satisfy these in-
qniring minds. We would be glad if
some minister of any denomination
would, through the Free Department
of the ADVANCE, explain the follow
ing passages Of Scripture, which are
said to have been written by direct i'll
spirltion of God, and deeds recorded
to have been performed by Gods chos-
Ell people: In the twenty second chap
f.. <>f - Il T..
I'll Abraham to make burnt Offering of
his son Isaac. 1t appears that Abr;.-
ham cut the wood and made little Isaac
carry It, and started for mount Mori-
al, and on the third day they could see
the place that God ordered them to 60
to. Now, Wien We tell our young reo-
pie this was Il heroic act of faith, this
is the answer we get: If my p. should
take one OF us and say god told him to
go onto the mount and burn us. 10 one
would believe God told him any sucl,
thing. They would think he was not
in his right mind. III Exodus, thirty
second chapter, we find another order
from God. Aud he (Moses) said "thus
saith the Lord God of Israel, put every
man his sword by his side aud go il.
and out from gate to gate throughout
the camp, and slay every matt his bro
ther, aud every man Ills companion,
and every man his neighbour Aud
there again we are puzzled to reconcile
ninteenth century, and some of the
more intelligent children do not hesi-
tate to speak out in Sunday School and
say, 1--WE do not believe God ever told
Moses any such thing" The next we
will r,onti i0n &c %l,o kl,;rk,, E,,A .,.
of Numbers. 1t seems the Lord told
Moses to avenge the Children of Israel
OF the Midianites and they went cut to
obey the orders of God. When they
returned they met Moses and Eliazer,
the priest and Moses was wroth with
the officers of the army because they
had not obeyed orders. lie says,
Now, therefore, kill all TIE little boy
babies anu all married women but save
al the little girls and young women
for yourselves. When onr children
read these passages and come to us for
explanation, our ingenuity fails and
we cannot white-wasl or smooth this
over and make it appear that Moses
WAS anything but the most detcsttble
william that ever disgraccd the name Of
man. 10 give orders to butcher the
boys and their mothers and save the
daughters for fate worse than death!
IL Second Kings, 9th and 10th chap
ters. we find the account Of the propl,-
ct Elisha amounting Jelu king of Israel
on purpose to destroy the house of
Ahab. And he sent and had seventy
! soils Of Ahab bel,eaded and their heads
brought to him in baskets. He direct
Ell them to lay the heads in two heaps
1T the entrance Of the gate. What a
CHASTITY spectacle; part Of them no
| doubt were little babes torn from their
mothers bosolns. We could mention
| hundreds of other passages of as equal.
| iy cruel and barlmrous deeds, said to
have been perpetrated by the express
command of God. Now, if any clergy
man, Sunday School superintendent,