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OTHER VIEWS ON sPIRITUALIsM.

OTHER VIEWS ON sPIRITUALlsM.
Editors Pleasantville Press:-
In an article by VIM. M. Golf that
brother says "Spiritualism is a Great
TRUTH and as proof for his state
ment, cites there are Thirty million
S~piritualists in the u. S. A., and ex.
pect it to reach the one hundred mil
lion mark in a few years. l agree
with Mr.. Golf that spiritualism is 60
ing with leaps and bounds, but that is
no indication that it is Truth. Take,
for instance, the days of Sodom and
Gomorroh destroyed by fire, there
were only three saved-Gen. 10. The
days of Noah, only eight souls saved
in the ark after one hundred and TWEEN
ty years preaching. At the time when
our Lord Jesus Christ hung upon Cal
yary's Cross, forsaken by His disci-
pies, there was only one who accepted
Him as their Saviour, and that one
was the thief on the cross. LAS it
was in the days of Noe so shall also
the coming of the Son of a. be" says
our Lord-Matt. 24:37. Truth has
never been popular, always on the
scaffold, error on the throne. Its large
membership is no indication that Spir-
itualism is Truth, but the contrary.
The greatest apostle to the Gentiles
says, Now the spirit (not spirits)
speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the
faith giving heed to seducing spirits
and doctrines of devils.-I Tim. Al.
In 2 Cor. 11:14, Paul tells us, and
no marvel for Satan himself is trans
formed into an angel of light, and the
18th verse, Therefore it is no great
thing if his (Satan's) ministers also
be transformed, as the ministers of
righteousness" In Luke 1918, the
Saviour says, 81 beheld Satan as light
ming fall from heaven. And John, the
beloved disciple tells us, "And there
was war in heaven. Michael (Christ)
and His angels fought against the dra-
gon (Satan) and the dragon fought
and his angels and the great dragon
was cast out, that old serpent, called
the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world, he was cast into
the earth, and his angels were cast out
with him."-Rev. 12:7, 8.
Yet Spiritualism denies the person
atty of the Devil. In a ~spiritualistic
book entitled, Whatever Is, Is Right"
the writer says, There is on devil
and there are no evil spirits" How
absolutely opposed to the teaching of
the word of God. S~piritualism denies
the inspiration of the Bible. The au-
thor of Outlines of Spiritualism for
the Young, says: ITO assert that the
Bible is a holy and divine book and
that God inspired the writer's to make
known his divine will is a gross out
rage on, and misleading to, the public.
The truth is, the Old Testament is
neither more nor less than Jewish his
tory. The New Testament is made up
of traditions and theological specula-
tons by unknown persons. A book so
full of errors requires to be read with
care"
What does spiritualism think of the
Lord Jesus Christ? M. A. Oxen says,
that the divinity of the Lord Jesus is
a fiction which he would disown, and
which mar has forced upon his name"
They deny the div 41ity of Christ. Spir-
itualism is at wal with the Scriptures;
they attribute the WORK of Angels to
our departed ones. Job tells us a man
dies, His sons come to honor, and he
knoweth it not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
JOB IA: 20, 81. Solomon, the wisest
man that ever lived, tells us, 1.-THE
living know hat they shall die; but
the dead know not anything. Their
love and their hatred, and their envy,
is now persisted; neither have they any
more a portion forever in anything
under the sun" And Peter at the
time of the penticost, speaking of Dav-
id, a man after Gods own heart, says:
For David is not assembled into heav-
en."-Acts 2:34. Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try then whether
they are of Cod John Al. We
can try them by the word, To the law
and to the testimony; if they speak
not according to this word, it is be
cause there is no light in them.-Isa-
1920.
MARY ISAAC.
Salvation VS.. Religion.