Modern Spiritualism

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 21.

Modern Spiritualism

MODERN Spiritualism is based upon the first recorded lie of Satan. The penalty pronounced upon man for sin was death. “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die;” “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” These are the words of the Lord. Satan says, “Ye shall not surely die.” And it is a remarkable fact that, from that time to this, the arch deceiver has deluded a large part of the race to believe that death is life. And upon this doctrine of the immortality of the soul, or consciousness in death, are built some of the most soul-destroying doctrines known. The multitude of heathen gods, which were but deified dead heroes, the worship and invocation of saints, purgatory, Mormonism, Swedenborgianism, and modern Spiritualism, are all built upon this error. The united testimony of Scripture is that “the dead know not anything;” that life depends upon the resurrection, that all rewards and punishments take place at that time.