Are the Dead Now Communicating
A tremendous impetus is being given to spiritualistic research, and thousands of homes, both in this country and abroad, are daily endeavoring to hold communication with the spirit world. This proves that an uneasy feeling exists as to the future, a tacit acknowledgment that the “death-ends-all” theory of infidelity does not satisfy. The Bible alone gives us sure information as to the unseen and eternal world, and we urge all our readers to study the Bible increasingly with diligent prayer.
That spiritism is awfully real we have no question; that the spirits are demons, and not the spirits of the dead, we firmly believe, and have elsewhere sought to show, and we are glad to find that a warning voice has been raised in the public Press from one who speaks with twenty years’ experience of the mental, moral, and physical shipwreck that follows in the train of this intercourse with the spirits.
The writer amongst other things points out that these spirits are all bad, and agree on one point only, namely, “the subversion of faith in Christ as a divine person” — at this the “messages ultimately aim. The truth of this statement is fully established by the writings of the best of our modern spiritists. From personal letters which have reached me, it is evident that the writer had in each single instance lost his faith in Christianity, and was suffering the keenest grief and disappointment in consequence.”
In our next we hope to give some of the salient points of the writer’s interesting letter, but meanwhile emphasize the fact that the Person of Christ is the touchstone of all truth. Unsoundness there throws the door wide open for the assaults of Satan and the inroad of every form of vital error.
“We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen,” (1 John 5:20,2120And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. (1 John 5:20‑21)).
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Japan and England
We do not here raise the question Japan and as to the right or wrong of an England.
alliance between a heathen and a professedly Christian nation, but Japan’s warning to England cannot fail to awaken serious reflections in the mind. England’s army, according to a high Japanese authority, is not ready for war, and she hints that, as her ally, the needed reforms should be made. War seems to be everywhere in the air, the ploughshares have to be beaten into swords (Joel 3:1010Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. (Joel 3:10)) for that great and final gathering together of the nations.
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