p. 94 | WHEN, WHERE, AND WHITHER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

“WHEN, WHERE, AND WHITHER.”

A Spiritualist writes to a favorite organ of his school that the work Spiritualists have before them is—

“To enthuse all humanity with a new religious devotion to ‘all truth, lead where it may;’ and if the truth be not known, to its discovery; and if the way to discover it be also unknown, then to the discovery of the way. To the discovery of the discovery, they devote themselves; and thus will the hierophantic souls sail down the picturesque vistas of protoplasm to the shore of the analogies.”

To sail down a vista, and especially such vistas as those of the protoplasm, may be a greatly pleasanter and smoother thing, than to accompany Christian upon his toilsome pilgrimage; but then how are we to do it? Evidently after the discovery of the discovery of the discovery, the “hierophantic soul” has still another discovery before it. If only the soul could then “discover” its own foolishness! In the whole range of Spiritualistic books, the above quoted passage strikes us as the supreme effort of imbecility. And yet these people discard the Bible because its utterances are too dark even to their illuminated understandings!—Christian Union.