1. The inspiration of the Bible.
2. The fall of man.
3. The deity of the Lord Jesus.
4. The atoning value of His death.
5. The existence of a personal Devil.
6. The existence of demons.
7. The existence of angels.
8. The existence of heaven.
9. The existence of hell.
Enough has been written to prove the above statement, but it is as well to place it in clear tabulated form, so that the reader may see that Spiritualism is the absolute negation of Christianity.
And yet Spiritualists continue in many cases to be members and ministers of churches and chapels, and call themselves Christian Spiritualists. Is this honest?
For instance, the late Rev. H. R. Haweis, M. A., Incumbent of St. James', Marylebone, a special preacher in Westminster Abbey, and Royal Institution lecturer, said in 1900, in an address, which was published and had a wide circulation,- " Spiritualism fitted very nicely on to Christianity; it seemed to be a legitimate development, not a contradiction, not an antagonist.... Spiritualism had rehabilitated the Bible.... They [spiritualistic phenomena] occur every day in London as well as in the Acts of the Apostles."
At any rate, on this head the author of Outlines is honest, and is more deserving of our respect than Mr. Haweis. He says:- "There is a class of individuals within the Spiritualistic body, who ... wish to retain their theology in one hand, and spirit communion in the other, and give the world an amalgamation of the two in the form of 'Christian Spiritualism.' It is the old story over again, that of striving to put new wine into old bottles. But all such efforts are futile, and only end in disaster."
Please note, the writer is constrained to use the beautiful imagery of the Bible in his attempt to dislodge every trace of its teaching from the minds of the young. Yet again, Dr. Child uses the striking imagery of Scripture in order to deny its truth:- " Spiritualism has bridged the distance between Abraham's bosom and the rich man's hell "
How? By a mixture of trickery and demonology. Honest people will ask for proof, of which Spiritualism furnishes none in reality.
The above statement was made by Dr. Child in 1866 at a Spiritualistic Conference held at Providence, Rhode Island, U. S. A., at which eighteen States and Territories were represented, when the following daring resolutions were passed:-
1. To abandon all Christian ordinances and worship.
2. To discontinue all Sunday Schools.
3. To denounce sexual tyranny.
4. To affirm that animal food should not be used.
"Forbidding to marry" is not to be confounded with the practice of celibacy as practiced by the Roman Catholic clergy, but refers to the Spiritualistic teaching of spiritual affinity, by which the marriage tie is derided, and in its practical working men and women are seduced from their lawful partners. to form unholy and unlawful links with their so-called spiritual affinities.
"By their fruits ye shall know them." Modern Spiritualism is the enemy of truthfulness, morality, law and order, and is the poisoner of men's minds and hearts, and destroyer of their bodies. The late Rev. Frank Swainson in his addresses on Spiritualism speaks of its "three black I's"-Infidelity, Insanity and Immorality.