SPIRITUALISM

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1862

An exchange says, “At a meeting in Lyceum Hall, Boston, on Sunday, the 8th, Miss Lizzie Doten, a celebrated trance lecturer, made the following regular prayer to the Devil:”

“O Lucifer, thou son of the morning, who fell from thy high estate, and whom mortals are prone to call the embodiment of evil, we lift up our voices unto thee. We know thou canst not harm us unless by the will of the Almighty, of whom thou art a part and portion, and in whose economy thou playest thy part; and we cannot presume to sit in judgment over Deity. From the depths of thine infamy stream forth divine truths. Why should we turn from thee? Does not the same inspiration rule us all? Is one in God’s sight better than another? We know thou art yet to come up in his expanded creation, purified by the influence of God’s love—for his love is not perfected while one of his children writhes in misery. So, O Lucifer, do we come up and stand before the throne of the Ancient of Days, hand in hand with thee. As thou hast been the star of the morning thou wilt again become an angel of light. O Satan, we will subdue thee with our love, and thou wilt yet kneel humbly with us at the throne of God.”—Cincinnati Gazette.