The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-04-10

telling him or her the most sacred
thlngs-the idea is degrading and a dis
honor! Spiritualism is a fraud, two
thirds of it being devil at second hand
and the rest of it devil at first hand. 3"
This is the testimony of an ex-spirit-
ualist. Yet Spiritualists. l suppose,
will claim they are Christians when
they turn aside from Christ and His
spirit. whom they reject for the spirits
of darkness. No intelligent Christian
can be Spirltualist, because it is ex-
posed and condemned most unmistaka-
bly, IN the Bible. o, that men would
trust the Savior and do as Paul SAYS in
Rom. 12:1, 2.
If you want to know the will of God,
yield your body a willing sacrifice.
Eyes that they do not look upon sin;
ears that they do not listen to it; hands
that they do not touch it; feet that
they do not walk in its WAYS; minds that
they do not think it and hearts that
they do not love it.
THE moral and spiritual influence of
Spiritualism is ruinous. 1t is only a
question of time before it leads to re-
nOuncing Jesus; to all sorts of free love
and other immortality" This is the tes-
timony of one of the greatest and most
widely experienced workers in the
world. 1t is a snare of the devil and
leads to the eternal ruin of the soul
The end of the thing is to lead it's vo-
taries to deny the Savior and reject the
Bible as the word of God A writer on
the subject says, This gives evidence
that there NAV be a deep purpose under
all its fantastic tricks and that the
craft of the old serpent, who is liar
from the beginning, may underlie those
trlfling and unimportant communica-
tons with which the system begins),
which, by stimulating curiosity and in
spring confidence, hull to slumber the
suspicious of honest but undiscerning
souls, until they are in the fatal coils Of
the enemy of all righteousness.
The editor of prominent paper in
New York at one time a staunch de-
fender Of the system, saw his error,
and exposed its fallacies and frauds
He concludes an expose with these
words, I'VE desire to send forth our
warning voice and If our humble posi-
ton as the head of public journal, our
known former advocacy of Spiritual
ism, our experience, and the consplcu,
Gus part we have played among its be
levers, the honesty and fearlessness
with winch we have defended the sub
ject will weigh anything in our favor
we desire that our opinions may be re-
ceived, and those who are moving pas
sively down the rushing rapids to de-
struction, should pause, ere it be too
late and save themselves from the
blasting influences which those mani
festations are causing Surely such
testimony like this ought to have some
weight even with the votaries of the
system. The tendency of the thing is
toward immortality. the rejection of the
Bible and renouncing the Savior. 1t
will not, it cannot, save a soul from
death, nor lead a poor lost one to heaven.
Better take what has satisfied and does
vet satisfy the deepest longings OF the
soul; which gives the sense Of peace
and security and opens the gates of
heaven to its followers the religion Of
Jesus. Nay more, the person of Him
who gives US his life, and reveals to our
hearts, by His Holy Spirit, the glories
of the life to come; in word, who gives
US His Word, as our sure and safe
guide I trust ! am done with this de-
fusion. Yours truly,
HAN