The Fruits of Error by Wm. Cochrane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1875

The Fruits of Error.

By Wm. Cochrane

WHEN we contemplate the sad fact that there are at the present time, in the United States alone, over five millions of persons who are believers in the doctrine of modern spiritualism; that these persons are led by seducing spirits and doctrines of devils; and that they “seek unto those that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep and that mutter,” we feel that it is high time for all lovers of the truth to awake, to feel the responsibility resting upon them, and go to work to counteract this great evil. Especially should this responsibility be felt by those who are helping Satan to build and strengthen the false foundation of this great system of error, to which so many souls are being sacrificed.

I doubt not but every honest Christian will say, Amen. This is our duty. Now it is a well-established fact that the best way to cure a disease is to remove the cause; and the foundation of this abominable structure of deception and crime is the doctrine of natural immortality. Remove the foundation and the whole fabric will sink into oblivion, and on the ruins of this heathen superstition one of the great truths of God’s word will be built up.

Then, reader, if you are a believer in the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, renounce that popular error, and adopt in its stead the Bible truths that man is mortal; that God alone is the possessor of inherent immortality; 1 Tim. 6: 16, that it is the gift of God and given to those only who by “patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;” Rom. 2: 7; and that all who do this will obtain the reward at the resurrection of the just. Luke 14: 14.

May the Lord help his people to see the necessity of exchanging error for Bible truth.

Wm. Cochrane.

Lovington, Ill.