“THE KEY TO THE SUPERNATURAL.”
ONE of the peculiar signs in connection with Christ’s first advent was the wonderful activity among unclean spirits. What a multitude of persons in that day were possessed by them! When they cried out in the presence of Christ, they showed their expectancy as well as their anxiety. The questions they asked Jesus were a revelation. They said: “What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?” Matt. 8:29. It seems, too, as we near the end, we are having similar demonstrations. The efforts of modern Spiritualism are a repetition of the scenes of spirit-possession as they were seen in Christ’s day. They have succeeded more fully in their attempts to cross the border-land, and thus do away with the supernatural. As a sample of their claims as well as of their blasphemous utterances, we give the following extract. Speaking of “the key to the supernatural”767one who made an address at the General Conference of Spiritualists held in London, England, several weeks ago, said: “That key is in the hands of the Spiritualist, who sees clearly enough that the man Jesus was a supreme medium, who lived so near to the spirit world and to the spirit forces that our ‘supernatural’ was his natural, as to some others it has been since, and may be again, and whose so-called ‘resurrection’ was only his supreme ability to present himself in a temporarily materialized form to his disciples. All this is to the Spiritualist perfectly plain, and what he has to offer is a perfect key.” We confess that we cannot see that we are any better off with this new key. The speaker did not claim that he had it. In fact, he did not say that any one had it to-day. It seems that since Christ there have been, according to his statement, some supreme mediums, and there may be such again. There is no doubt but Spiritualists are looking for some one to come who will lift the veil and reveal the whole matter. Meanwhile we are willing to take the word of God as “the key to the supernatural.” We, according to that word, are looking for Christ to come, and not for a substitute. We are assured that He who, when here, could reveal and did reveal, will, when He comes, introduce the perfect state, when we shall see, “face to face,” and “know even as we are known.” We are willing to wait and see and know.