Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-05
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Spiritism

MT. Editor: Having noticed a | number of letters in The Bulletin 1 lately relating to the subject of 1 SpiritisTn and kndwing that thit matter commands considerable at tention at the present time I would like the privilege of adding to the testimony of some of your core spondents who evidently believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God, our Creator. In a recent edition Of your paper your Taragrapher permitted a few words to slip into the paper after one of the letters and although it was probably accidental, it stated a fact which is more truth than poetry namely, When one man can con l vince every one else that he is right and they are wrong the niIeniurn 1 will be here I agree with this thought becaiise it is true, and since | the Saviour of the World is the way, l the truth and the light. it is evil dent that he is the only one who will | ever convince the world concerning | that which is right and it will occupy all of the millenium period, this work of subduing all things unto himself q Cor's. 21-26) and eventually "every knee (not only should, but shall bow and every tongue confess that Christ is Lord to the honor and glory of Cod
 the Father.
 My idea in writing this letter
 therefore is not for the purpose of convincing anyone but simply to di-
 rect the attention of Christian people
 10 Gods Word and let that do the
 work intended
 The reason tAat Spiritisrn has made
 so much headway and is able to enter the minds of great number of the
 human race is not far to seek. It is
 due to a sub conscious belief that when man dies he is really more alive
 than ever and. this impression is a survival of the disbelief of our first
 parents in Gods statement that the result of disobedience would be Thou shalt surely die" Satan's statement, Thou shalt not surely die,' being ac- ? cepted instead.
 If Christian people would believe ) the statement that God made to 2 lures declare The dead know not , anything their minds would be pre-
 pared to accept the fact that for any
 information "heyond the grave" we
 should turn to the written word of
 God as our Lord did when He was : tempted in the desert, saying "it is 2 written Matt. A. ', 10. Therefore,
 When they say unto you, Seek unto
 them that have familiar spirits and
 unto wizards that peep and mutter.
 Should not a people seek unto their God? On behalf of the living, should
 they seek unto the dead Isa S.19, 20.
 In accepting the divine testimony ; and abey1ng its requirements we mus 2 of necessity refuse to heed any teach ing that would lead us to accept the
 statements of any being not in har-
 mony with the Scriptures. That there are invisible spirit beings and tha t they endeavor to communicate witt : and also control the mind of humar
 beings, the Scriptures everywher,
 agree but the fact that God forbid this intercourse is proof that tn, ? spirit beings so engaged are disobedi e ent to God and therefore their testi T. mony is untrustworthy.
 As 'M B. M" in your issue O
 March Srd so ably pointed out, tn 1T spirit beings who are trying to com n municate with the human race wer g disobedient at the time preceding tn deluge (Pet. 3:20) and were cast dow
 to hell CTartarus, the air or earth
 atmosphere) where they are imprison 's ed or restrained but not destroyed of Some of these beings may be of bet s ter relative character than others an
 Spiritists might think of them a
 good spirits but the student of tn Bible will leave them severely alon. ~ They are the class who impersonat re our dead and deceive those who ar c- not clad with the whole armour C
 God' (Eph 6:13) and this is my pur
 pose in writing to warn, through tn "a Scriptures, Gods people.
 l, As another of your correspond
 ents, signing with the initials N. s Ae indicated the reason for lack of know
 ledge upon the subject is due to th
 fact, partly as expressed in Isa 56 l. Il, and also in Ezek 54:2-e, and . of another correspondent, F. J. W. stat -n ed, that some who are in a positio ,e to do so are not giving out the trut
 of Gods Word upon this and als
 upon other important matters vital
 the life of a Christian.
 he If the matter that has been dil in cussed and the letters that have al oe |