The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-02
" SUPERNATURAL TRUTH


Rev. j. Gray Declares His Belief in Spir-
ituaIism.
"The Truth in Spiritualism" as evidenced
by st. John in Revelations was the subject
of Rev. j. Gray's address to his congrega-
ton ia Metropolitan Temple last night
''There are" he said, 'two faith founda-
tons common to spritualism and Christian
ity-tbe belief in the supernatural and the
belief in the existence of the Genesis of
another world. The doctrine of modern
spiritualism is as old as mans creation.
The Old Testament Is full of incidents of
Gods presence revealed to man under cir
cumstances that the human mind cannot I'M
derstand or explain. Ever since Christ
came to earth prayers have been said for
the dead, showing that the belief existed
that their souls were in some phase where
the intereession of the living might avail
them. All religions have something of the
real truth in them, and also all of them have
something of the supernatural in their
tenets. The New Testament confirms the
Old in the visible presence of Christ after
his death on the cross under conditions that
wecan hardly conceive. Part of the revelation
OF God Is the supernatural, but not all of Gods
dealings with man are supern atural.
Why we are in state of probation we can
not tell, but to reach God we must be pre-
pared not only on this earth but in an in
termediate state. We live two material
lives Oh earth and the growing tendency of
the age is in that direction. A belief in
Spiritualism is better than this materialistic
belief. All the great religions believe in the
genesis of existence in another world. Christ
himself spoke of paradise as the future in
VislDie world, and on earth he was attended
by cohorts OF good spirits. He'll is the place
where souls are prepared for ascending into
higher world. 1t is only recently that
men have denied that their souls were pre-
pared by Gods mighty hands after death
for perfection. Who that dies is fit to go
into Gods presence direct from his death?
1t cannot be denied that there are other
bodies between us and God, such as cherubs,
cherubims, and good and evil spirits. Men
come before God for reward or punishment
not individually, but collectively. The
legends OF the churches are that men and
women are in communion on earth
with the souls in paradise. AS to
the manner OF the communion between
them there are the widest differences of
opinion. Man has dual nature, mind and
body. How to reconcile these two natures
communion with the souls Of spirits gone
before is hard TO explain, but ii is possible
that the spiritual communion between the
souls OF men and those of the departed can
only be determined by certain physical con-
dltlons. The manifestations and commun-
ions through mediums have opened the
door to great abuses and much deceit by
evil-minded people or spirits. But that
does not affect the truth of spiritual COM
munlcatlon between mems souls aud God
or the denizens of the spiritual world.
There were evil spirits in Chrst's days
which he cast out of the bodies of those
they possessed. The Roman Catholic
Church would not be the leader and hold
her children as closely TO her as she does If
she was not the champion OF the super
natural"
In conclusion the speaker said: 81 tell
you, all the men and women of my congre-
cation, that 1t is part OF your duty to be-
ieve III the supernatural"