Untitled article by W. C. G.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

A FATAL ADMISSION.

By W. C. G.

A WRITER in the Banner of Light, of Dec. 28, 1867, makes the following admission:

“In our present state we are not conscious of having pre-existed elsewhere; and the evidence that we shall elsewhere be conscious of having existed here, is not strong enough to be conclusive.”

If the writer of the above, after having thoroughly examined and sifted the “Spiritual philosophy,” cannot find evidence “strong enough to be conclusive,” that departed spirits are conscious of having existed here, what, then, becomes of the doctrine of spirit manifestations?

If those who purport to be the spirits of our dead friends are not conscious of having existed here, then they are a pack of lying spirits, for a communication is rarely received without some allusion being made to a previous existence on the earth.

Is it not astonishing that such admissions as these do not open the eyes of candid Spiritualists to the fact that they are “giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils?” yet, such is the hold which this last great delusion of Satan has upon the minds of its devotees, that it is almost impossible to become extricated from its toils.

Reader, receive the love of the truth, by going “to the law and to the testimony,” that you may escape in the day of wrath which is now impending.

W. C. G.