The Future of Spiritualism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1911

The Future of Spiritualism

SPEAKING of the blow to Christian Science through the death of its leader, Mrs. Eddy, also of some of the recent manifestations of Spiritualism, the Christian Advocate of July 6, 1911, says:—

Yet we prophesy that there will be a great resurrection of Spiritualism. Its power went down as that of Eddyism went up, but Eddyism has received a hard blow. Two great superstitions rarely flourish contemporaneously. Those who reject true religion either plunge into superstition or into practical or intellectual atheism, or sing the song and dance to the tune of Omar Khayyam.

Of the future of Christian Science as a separate cult, we can not particularly speak; we do know, however, that according to the prophecy of the Bible, Spiritualism in its various forms and phases will constitute the last great deception with which this world will be ensnared. According to Revelation 16, it will be the great influence which will prepare the nations of men for the battle of the last great day. The only safety of the church of God from this delusion, from Christian Science, and from scores of other erroneous theories in the world, is the Scriptures of truth. “To the law and to the testimony,” says the prophet; “if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Let us make the law and the testimony the standard by which we judge of the many “lo heres” and “lo theres” which come to us from every quarter.