The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-12-10
Everybody's Column

To~the Editor:
The belief that the soul does not die,
and that when people appear to die,
they are only entering upon higher
sphere, is the real basis for the belief
that the living can communicate with
the spirits of the dead. The bible plain
ly teaches that the dead are unconscious
between death and the resurrection. In
Ps. lag: 8, 4, the Lord commands: Put
not your trust in princes, nor in the
son of man, in whom there is no help.
His breath goeth forth. he returneth to
his earth; in that very day his thoughts
PERISH Certainly when our thoughts
perish, there can~be no consciousness.
Satan was the originator of the first
lie, when he said to Eve in the Garden
of Eden, Eye shall not surely de- and
those who now teach that there is no
such thing as death, saying that what
really repeating the falsehood the devil
told in the beginning.
Many think that Satan is not able to
do things that are supernatural and
mira culous; but such is not the case.
for the bible plainly teaches that the
devil can perform miracles. In Thess.
2: 9, the Lord says that just preceding
His return to this earth the second time
Satan will work with all power and
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IA, He says that the devil will deceive
them that dwell on the earth by the
means of those miracles which he had
power to do" Again in Rev. Is: IA, we
are told that the devil will perform mir.
acles.
Since the spirits of the dead do not
return, how can the supernatural
things be accounted for that are per
formed through spiritualist mediums?
The bible plainly teaches that the devil )
aided by the fallen angels, is bringing
his browning deception to bear upon
those who have lost loved ones. by claim
ing to bring messages from the spirit
world, and frequently personifying some
departed friend so perfectly in looks
and in accent of the voice as to appear
to be in every particular like our own
dear one who was snatched from us
by death.
There are many people who consider
themselves immune from the beWltch'
ing influence of necromancy and witch
craft; but the facts are that all who be.
lieve that the soul never dies are com
mitted to this deception. and are liable
to he swept into the vortex.
The bible teaches. in both the Old and
the New Testament, that the purpose
of Christ's second coming at the end of
the world, is to raise the sleeping dead
to life and immortality. and to trans
late the living righteous.
The inspired apostle Paul says. in |
Thess 4: 1917: For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the Archangel
and with the trump of God; and the
dead in Christ shall rise first; then we
which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord"
The evidences are multiplying which
tell us that the day is fastening when
we shall meet the loved and loving; for
our Lord will soon come to open the
messy old graves, and His angels will
gather His people from one end of the
earth to the other. They will then be
taken to those mansions which He is
now preparing for those who love Him.
They have not received their reward at
death.
Very sincerely yours,
Geo. E. TRACER,
Of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.