MOCKERY OF THE SYSTEM

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 26, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 42.

MOCKERY OF THE SYSTEM

divination and enchantments.” 2 Kings 17: 16, 17.

Those modern dabblers in spiritualism who wish to know what to expect from the present renaissance of this first of curses, would do well to study its fruit in its ancient citadel. The tree is known by its fruit. The fruit of spiritualism in heathen lands is a malevolent fruit. Indolence and ignorance, licentiousness and vice, are its products, and the quality of mercy gives place to expediency and cruelty.

MOCKERY OF THE SYSTEM

The mockery evident in the whole system is graphically portrayed in the diabolical punishments devised for those who transgress, the addition of time to the spirit equation being about all the difference made

Attack on Buddhism by the Japan press as translated in China Press, Shanghai, April 16, 1915:

“If examined closely, there are a great many more cases of corruption throughout the Buddhist religious organization.

“Aside from the question of which is superior as religion, we are obliged to judge from practical results that Christianity is far better than Buddhism. What are the Buddhist monks going to say in reply to this? They use vile language against Christianity, but they do not exert one tenth part of what the Christians do. Instead, they only live idly, without caring for the religious duties before them. No matter how profound the Buddhist religion may be, the mortal people will never be able to get the benefit of it through the monks.”—The Hochi (a prominent newspaper), Tokyo, Japan.

in the punishment of the living and the dead culprit.

The systems of spiritism are based on the unattainable; namely, moral perception by human effort. As the Scriptures truly say, “Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.” Col. 2: 23.

The daily plaint of the sin-sick heathen is the same as that of Paul, when in his