There has been sent to us “a call for a convention to organize a National Anti-Spiritualistic Association of America,” commencing in Anderson, Ind., Sept. 7, 1897. It seems to us that the Word of God, borne by the man of God, is sufficient to oppose all error, howsoever blighting it may be. Of course men may not believe it; but if they do not it is because their hearts prefer the selfish morality of some false system. God gave Adam and Eve his Word in the Garden of Eden, but they believed the serpent; and the same old lie has been taught ever since; and on this lie Modern Spiritualism is based. Of course there are many other deceptions connected with it, such as sleight-of-hand, prestidigitation, etc., but no effective Gospel opposition can be carried on by exposing these tricks just as long as people are taught that the dead are not dead, but conscious. They are thus led to hope for communication with them, and demons personate the dead friends or help their agents to trick their dupes. In either way the soul is deceived and led from Christ. The only antidote for Spiritualism is the Word of God and its teachings concerning sin and resultant death, and the only Source of righteousness and life—Jesus Christ our Lord. Every man who bears witness to this is a most effective foe, not to Spiritualists, but to “Spiritualism,” and every other ism based on that first falsehood, “Ye shall not surely die; . . . ye shall be as God.” Gen. 3:4, 5.