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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 15, 1908

Note and Comment

Spreading Spiritualism

THE existence of the spirit as a separate entity apart from the body, and its power to express itself independently of any physical medium, are conditions absolutely essential in establishing the claims of Spiritualism. The doctrine that death is only a separation of the spirit from the body, and that the spirit continues its conscious existence in a higher sphere, which is maintained in nearly every orthodox creed, has laid the foundation for Spiritualism, and the structure is rapidly rising. Belief in the probability of communication between these disembodied spirits and those still in the flesh is constantly being encouraged, and the way is thus being prepared for a union with Spiritualism. As an illustration of this we quote the following from a leading religious paper:—

We are quite sure That He will give them back—bright,     pure, and beautiful. We know he will but keep Our own and his until we fall asleep. We know he does not mean To break the strands reaching between The Here and There. He does not mean—though heaven be     fair— To change the spirits entering there, that     they forget The eyes upraised and wet, The lips too still for prayer, The mute despair.

Thus those whose friends have been stricken by death are encouraged to look for comfort to the hope of continued fellowship with the departed, rather than to rest upon “that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”