Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-11-25

il demonstrates to nicely the faseness Of all relief
for future happiness, for salvation, in short,
through an adherance to such q sect. Evil rather
than sladness or benefit is cOncusively shown to be
the result OF the spiriualistic craze and this new
and exhaustive book cannot fail to become q
text book for Christian workers In the orthodox
6led everywhere. It fOrtifes them with every
argument they require to put the entire sprituals
world TO Gight. OF course it viii also Hnd bitter
oppOstons as spirtuast for with such 1t is not 80
much the evils as the convenience Of having the
reality This Miss Thomas Of course does not
assail, and she may even be used to verify their
claims, but when their works are shown as evil,
with all honest seekers alter truth whether orthodox
or spritualists, her arguments will be fairly con-
sidered. alN
There are thousands of people, closely acquainted
with persistent advocates Of the spirtuaist creed,
who realize that their morals and claims cannot
possibly be inspired by an enduring righteousness,
but who are staggered when they attempt to reinte
the phenomina. With this new book at hand, the
Word is made so simple with all fair rational persons
that longer existence is rendered impossible. To
this class of church workers, Miss Thomas certainly
comes with halo Of light, and the things that
have been made appear so real are readily cleared
up by her magic pen.
There is still another class Of earnest seekers for
light who must be immeasurably benefited by this
new work, so scientifically compiled. We refer to
those who have never been able to find that which
to them seems absolute evidence Of the pOstiveness
of future state in harmony with the laws Of the
Creator. OF course the Bible makes the promise,
but so many shrewd men have commented upon the
various promises and phrases OF the Word that the
ordinary student finally becomes in a state Of be.
widerment calculated to benumb if it does not
shatter belief
The writer quotes in the compilation OF her won.
deriul book from 81 authers who are more or less
recognized as standards and cities the Scriptures in
81 different places. This fact demonstrates that
the work is not merely fairy tale, giving the idle
fancies of the imagination, but written in the most
serious most painstaking, and most concise form,
that those who peruse it's pages may be well repaid
for their time and it's careful reading
In her conclusions Miss Thomas forever dispels
the delusiOn that the spirit and soul are sinOny.
nous terms, that to reach spirit land is the final
reward OF earthly life and existence and that spirit
land is eternal. She cOnclusively shows that mind
and spirit are one and the same, both perishable
when God asks for his final reckoning, and that the
soul alone is immortal, that it must survive the
spirit before the promises Of the hereafter made by
BY the Creator, can be fulfilled. She agrees with the
Spiritualists that mind and spirit survive the dis
solution from the body called DEATH and that said
death makes no change in the individual; but she
as plainly demonstrates, and Odersthe most uDques
tiOnable proof to sustain the claim, that the SOU
which passes from the earthly body ct the same
time that it finds the dissolution Of the spiIit i'm
possible to restrain longer, isa higher and more
precious thing than the mind and spirit, snd sur
wives them to pass into eternity, or to its God.
This writer makes the pretty distinction between
Spirit and Soul 90 plainly that the most ObsCur
mind can grasp It, and FeFutes, with q master hand
the claim that the oft found difcuty in distinguish
ing the connection between the material and spirit
ual has nothing whatever to do with the existence
Of the higher essential attribute Of man, the soul
This woeiul ignorance, she shows, is not attribute
BILE to the brief time in which man bas had to in
form himself, but to bis disposition to ley aside th
true teachings Of che Scriptures and substitute Il
their place his own weak and impOtent conclusions
But to attempt the review Of such 3 wonderful
book as Miss Thomas has presented to the scientif
world, in a newspaper Article, Is but to skim tn
surface. Il is just to skip along and now and the
touch the high places, if We may be pardoned 70
! the vulgar expression Of the day. We can only sa
that to read this wonderful work is to have one
> mind opened out into new field Of grandeur, nn
that student Of life, that man who has hopeslor th
! future who has personal labOrs to perform In th