Spiritualism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 20, 1906

SPIRITUALISM is to-day in the courts of kings, and its advice comes high. Papus, a Spiritualist, has given fifty seances to the czar of Russia, receiving twenty-five thousand dollars as compensation therefor. The press has taken the matter up, and Papus has gone abroad. A contemporary remarks:—

The czar must be on the intellectual and moral grade of Saul when he went down to see the witch of Endor. It is a case of the blind leading the blind.

It seems to us more like the blind being led by the very power of darkness itself, and led thus for a purpose. The Russian ruler is not the only ruler who takes his counsel from that source. And this incident brings to mind this Scripture: “And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief.” Rev. 16:13-15. There is nothing equivocal about the Bible definition of that kind of counsel. Neither does it hesitate to state that when that thing is prevalent, the coming of the Son of God is near.