The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-31
SP|RITUAl|SM THEME
Of EVANGELIST SERNS
Ripcned Scholars of Science Believe In
Recurring Phenomena of
Spiritual tmrm

And when they shall Say unto you.
Seek unto them that have familiar
communicating spirits. and unto the
wizards that peep and that mutter;
should not n people seek unto their
God . Should the living go to the
dead for Information were the open
Ing words OF Evangelist Serns' lecture
last night at the big Bible Institute
Tent, on West Main Street.
There 10 conception" he said,
that man knows more when he Is
dead than when he was alive. 1t Is
because OF this belief and the human
curiosity to penetrate the future that
many have devoted much study TO the
phenomena of Spiritualism."
The evangelist continued The day
or miracles Is not past phenomena OF
a supernatural character are occurring
every day in the secret chambers of
the spiritualistio Heanee. Much that
is pawned off as genuine is quackery.
deception, the product of the cunning
coniurer But within the inner DIR
cles OF sclentihc spiritualism will be
found the rtpened scholars of science.
philosophy and. theosophY. Today
there are but one or two scientists
of the first rank who deny tho actual
probability OF the future life; while
a large proportion claim that this fu
the recurring phenomena of Bpiritual-
ism Among it's claimants are found
such names an Alfred Russell Wallace,
Sir oliver Lodge. William James, VIII
liam r. snead and Count Tolstoa.
These scientists havs made rigid
tests upon d. D. Homo. Mrs Piper,
Miss Cooke and Madame Palidino, the
worlds greatest psychin mediums
| These tests have been made under
/ al
electrical apparatus. and photographs
have been taken upon sansitized silver
OF the naturalization of apparittons,
/ ievitattone of objects and mediums. D.
D Home, the worlds greatest medium
held his seances under the glare of the
| full daylight In all the wonderful
| productions of hia psychic control
never once was he detected in trickery
even under the most careful scrutiny
Of Europe's best scientists.
| ITO deny the phenomena of spirit
| ualisn Is to deny the images made on
photographic plates. Through hypno-
sis and mental haluninattons, the mind
I can rnisjudge, but n Is not at all pos
s3b}s TO deceive the sensttized camera
| plate. On repeated occasions Mr..
Home has been known to go TO the
| stove and take out red hot pieces
of half burned charcoal. hold them in
| his hands for several minutes without
! the slightest Inconvenience.
| Mr.. Sems, who has had hve years
experience with the real spirftualism,
maintained that with Bible scholars,
the phenomena of spiritualism Is not
denied but that it's source and agency
of all It's miraculous accomplishment s
} IL questioned He said, THE Bible EN-
! phatically declares that the living
know that they shall die. but the dead
know not anything. Their love and
their hatred and their envy Ia now
/ persisted. neither have they any more
a portion for ever, In anything that is
done under the sun Now, II the dead
/ know nothing. these ASPIRATIONS.
called materialized spirits, cannot be
dieembodied souls OF loved ones, but
must he other spirits.
THE Scriptures tell us that angels
are ruinistering spirits and have power
OF Undertaking. Themselves into visi-
bic forms. Thus Paul. warning the
! Corinthians says that Satan. a fallen
angel, could transform himself into an
angel of light Spiritualism is found
ed on the first declaration of the ser
pent to man. 'Ye shall not surely die
! The doctrine OF the Immortality OF the
soul Is the cornerstone OF the great
cathedral OF spiritualisn. and 1t num-
lssexs It's claimants among the mignty
ItoaAhen nations of the earth"
J.. Tonight. Mr.. Serns will lecture on
.l~The Bible and the French Revolu-
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