The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-23

I'VE lucntlUpu WIN NVlIillSu uHu ttHlS-
nate thei. q dings Psychic Phenomena
Mediums ahG their demonstrations
have been subjected to every lmagina-
bic scientific test to demonstrate that
the results are not fraudulent-that
there is really spirit power. an invis-
lble power which can do and has done
remarkable things beyond the power Of
humanity. Accepting these lnvestiga.
tions as scientific. and accepting the
results ms scientific proof that there
is a spirit power or force which can
and has operated in conjunction with
human affairs aud especially through
mediums, what does this prove? What
scientific fact have we here to evi-
dence that these spirit powers have
anything tc do with our friends who
have died?
"Lyins Spirits" Says ST. Paul.
These spirits operate through me-
diums sometimes in trance, sometimes
answering by written notes from mo
where" sometimes mechanically grasp
ing the hand of the writing-medium
and using it without her voltion;
sometimes by rappings and sometimes
by ouiia-boards. declaring themselves
truthful. sincere. honest, desirous of
assisting humanity. etc.
But does this prove. scientifically,
that they are honest, that they
are truel Ask any spirituallstl He
will tell you, at very most, that he be-
/ Of nV.
will tell you sorrowfully that some of
them have lied to him time and again;
and If he be an advanced and eXpc.
rieuced Spirituallst he will tell that
at times some of these evil spirits
have made all manner Of vile sugges-
tions 10 him. But he will tell also
that at first it was not SO; instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more.
Afterwards he was ieered at and
mocked and told that the Scriptures
were nonsense aud that although
there is God the inquirer IS too rene.
gade to hope for any blessing from
God
We have neglected our Bibles too
much; we have trusted too much to
worldly wisdom. The Bible alone
gives the solution OF the matter II
alone tells us respecting these spirits;
that they are not humans and never
were; that they are the fallen angels.
u. V. we will consider them a week
from now.
"a Mans a Man For A. That"
The Bible IS thoroughly consistent
with itself; from first to lust II muin-
tains that man Is an earthly being
According to the Greek and the He
brew of the Bible he Is an animal soul
or animal being in contradlstinction to
spirit soul or spirit being. Man
that is born of woman Is of few
days and full of trouble; Man dieth
and wasteth away, and where is he;
He shall not awake nor be raised out
OF his sleep until the heavens be no
more"-until the present order OF
things shall have passed away dob
xiv, 1-10l.
Again we read respecting the death
sentence and mans hope Of recovery
out OF death by a resurrection. "Thou
turnedst man to destruction: thou say
est return ye children Of men; "Ceas'
ye from man. whose spirit Cbreath OF
lifel Is in his nostriis" G'salm *. 81;
Isaiah II. 22l: III man die. shall ha
live again? All the days Of mine np.
pointed time will await until my
resurrection change come. Thou shalt
call and will answer thee awakening
from the sleep Of DEATH, for thou wilt
have desire unto the work of thy
hands; There shall be resurrcc-
ton of the dead. both Of the Just and
Of the unjust" dob xiv, II; Acts xXiv.
15).
They are dead. they are not alive as
spirit nor I'm any other sense. They
will be dead until Gods time for the
resurrection of the dead Resurrection
OF the living would he unnecessary.
and II death brought TO man change
to a higher plane of existence as Il
spirit being, then the resurrection Of
the dead would not he set before hu-
manity as n blessed hope. for rather
It would he a punishment. even to the
holy.
Whence Came the Error?
It seems probable that this serious
error. which has had so much to do
with the worlds theological confu-
sion, came about through the misun-
derstanding Of the Bible teachings re-
specting the Church-the application
of fhin0a eofd conparninf, rho CbutY IA
to the world. TO whom they did not
apply. Bible students are coming
more and more to see, IN the light
which one passage of Scripture throws
upon another. that the Church Is n dis.
tinctive class, separate from the angels
and the world Of mankind In general