The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-03
(By RICHARD J. HILL.)
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK,

being made every where to convlnc"
the people that the dead are alive
and not dead and that the dead are
really spirit beings and able to COM
municate, through Mediums with
those who are living. The largest
magazines and newspapers in this
country are employed to spread Inc
doctrine, and worst of all modern
clergymen have drifted away from
the Bible and are taking to psychic
research, They have forSaken the
wisdom of Jehovah and adopted the
wisdom of men. They tell us that
the dead are still alive, and to prove
this they refer to phenomna such
as table rapping Spiritual sances,
hearing of voices etc.
Some will insist that such great
and learned men as Sir Oliver Lodge
William r, Stead and other eme-
ncnt scientists in their lifetime were
firm believers in the ability 10 COM
municate with the dead. The great
British Novelist, Conan Doyle, is an
ether witness who insists that com
nunication with ihe dead is a com
mon thing. We wish to say that
there is no doctrine taught in The
scripture that is unreasonable, God
invites his creatures to come and
reason with him, saying, Come
now let us reason together sayth
the Lord" lisa. 9; i3, H4 cX-
peclS of course that such one will
reason in the light of the scriptures,
re divine word. But if any ore
ignores the scriptures he cannot rea
son along such lines,
Just here we desire to sound the
warning that the teaching of the
doctrine that the living can COM
municate with the dead is one of
the great gigantic frauds that is de-
ceiving mankind The public press
throughout the country, since the
war, with big headlines have said:
"1he war has changed the worlds
view of life, death and hereafter"
Had the writer been familiar with
the scriptures he would not have
written such a headline, because the
SO called phenomena is not new but
ages old. 1t is true that since SO
many homes have been bereaved by
the war there is great desire to
know of the condition of the dead
friends; hence they are subject 10
the delusions practiced upon them
by the great Advosary. Spiritual
ism is now sweeping over the world
and when final accounting is made,
i viii be seen that the clergy are
chiefly responsible for this, because
ihey have failed to advise them
selves concerning the Bibles teach
ings and have neglected to instruct
the people. Hence the people are
falling victims to this monaStrouS
deluSion.
That many are able to hear voices
which claim to represent their dead
friends, there can be no doubt. In
stead of attempting to dispute the
phenomina, we readily admit the
happening of events claimed, But
the voices heard are not the voices
of dead friends, because dead peo-
pie can not speak. They are moi
the voices of someone with whom
you used to communicate with il
the flesh. What, then, are those
voices? And from whence come
they?
We answer that after Adam haC
violated Gods laws and was driver
from Eden, God permitted certain
of the Angelic host, spirit beings
to have a supervising control ovel
man. (Heb. 2; 81. These Angel!
were spirit beings, but under thu
divine permission could materaliZ'
and appear unto human beings; fol
instance, when the Angel appeared
to Abraham and again TO Daniel
and other instances, (Gen. %; 15)
Gao. ~; 81. The Genesis accoun
is to the effect that the materializet
spirit beings cohabiied with III
daughters of men. These "Sons o
God came in unto the daughters o
men, and they bear children to them
The same become mighty men, whicl
were of old men of renown. An,
God saw that the wickedness of mel
was great on the earth and tha
tNClN vi wa
only evil continually (Gen. 6; is
All the peoples of earth had becom
so debauched with these degrade
Angelic beings (Materialized as men
That only Noah and the member
of his household was free from sucl
God declared that he would deStro
all flesh in the earth. He directe
Noah from to build an Ark in whic
to save himself and family. Whe
this was completed Jehovah brougt
the great deluge upon the earth, an
all human beings were destroye
that were not in the ark.
The materialized Angels were n,
human beings, yet they occupied HI
man bodies; and while the delue
would destroy, all flesh, it woul
no. and did not destroy these spir
beings. What became of them?
Peter answers: God spared not IL