That the number of adherents of Modern Spiritualism is amazingly large is borne out by Dr. F. Maack, of Hamburg, writing so recently as 1910. As an antagonist of Spiritualism, he is not likely to overstate the numbers. In Berlin alone, he says, there are said to be 10,000 Spiritualists, among them to be found exalted and court personages, 400 mediums, and from 15 to 20 societies. In North America there are said to be 16,000,000 adherents; while in the whole world it was computed that in 1894 there were 60,000,000 Modern Spiritualists, with 200 journals exclusively devoted to the propaganda of this awful system. The number has grown considerably since.
Add to these the vast races of the heathen world; the millions of China, Japan, and India; the countless tribes of the Continent of Africa—Africa, with its unspeakable darkness and intolerable superstition begotten of fear; the savage hordes of the Sudan, now the victims of aggressive Mahommedan missionary enterprise; the cannibal inhabitants of the South Sea Islands- and you complete roughly the picture of how Spiritualism has covered the land with darkness-Ancient Spiritualism in the East, Modern Spiritualism in the West, bringing in its train wickedness and evil of every hideous kind.
Our task is done. Tested by Scripture Modern Spiritualism is proved to be satanic in its origin, evil in its real teaching, destructive of common morality, poisonous to both soul and body, and fatal in its issues in eternity. May God preserve writer and reader from its wiles.
And now, reader, I turn to ask you, How do you stand in relation to Christ? The question is all-important. It may be met by indifference, but in the end each soul will wake up to the tremendous importance of it.
"What think ye of Christ? is the test,
To try both your state and your scheme,
You cannot be right in the vest,
Unless you think rightly of Him."
He is the Eternal Word-" God over all, blessed forever "-uncreated, yet creating all things, self-sustained, and sustaining all things by the word of His power, never less than God. Mystery of mysteries, " The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us' (John 1:1414And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)); that is to say, this Divine and glorious Person stooped down and became a Man in order that He might die on the cross of Calvary to perform a Savior's part.
The angel of the Lord announced His name before His birth into this world-" Thou shalt call His name JESUS; for He shall save His people from their sins." What does the name JESUS mean? Jehovah-Savior-Jehovah, the name of a covenant-keeping God as revealed in the Old Testament: Savior, the name indicating the purpose for which He stooped to manhood, viz., that He might by His death upon the cross perform the work of redemption. This work He has accomplished to God's satisfaction, enabling God to express His love, grace, and mercy RIGHTEOUSLY, so that "He might be just, and the Justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3:2626To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:26)). "What think ye of CHRIST?" (Matt. 22:4242Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. (Matthew 22:42)).
This is plain. There is no mistaking its significance. Multitudes believe about Christ; few believe on Him. Multitudes give an intellectual assent to the great facts concerning the Deity, manhood, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ; few " believe to the saving of the soul." Religion was never so abundant as now. But Christianity is another and vital thing. Many are Christians by profession, and their religion consists of formalism and outward observances, and they are, alas f religiously going to hell. Such are as much in the world as the infidel and irreligionist.
But to belong to Christ, to be forgiven, saved, justified, is quite another thing. Some one has well said there is a top and bottom to the verse just quoted but no middle. Reader, are you in the top -" NOT CONDEMNED "; or in the bottom-" CONDEMNED ALREADY "? The top means heaven, the bottom will mean hell, if you do not turn to the Lord. Thank God, you may pass from the bottom to the top by coming to the Lord Jesus Christ as a poor, lost, hell-deserving sinner, and trusting Him as your own personal Savior. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)). "Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)).
One of the saddest and most sinister effects of the late great European war is the great revival of Spiritualism that has followed in its wake. Hearts, sore, and torn and bleeding, parents and wives yearning for their lost ones, have yielded in many cases to this terrible snare, believing that they are thus getting into touch with their separated ones. Never were more terrible delusions and more appalling results.
Amongst those who openly advocate Spiritualism, are Sir Oliver Lodge, ex-principal of the Birmingham University, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the novelist. The influence of the names of these men in the cause of Spiritualism has been great, though the more their statements are examined the less convincing to many they appear.
We feel sure enough has been pointed out in this pamphlet to convince any, who receive the testimony of Scripture, of the true character of this Satanic system of deceit.
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