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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 4.

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SPIRITISM

By Uriah Smith

The statements contained in the following paragraph from the Spiritual Magazine, we have no doubt are strictly true. It shows a phase of spiritism of which those who do not look below the surface are not aware, and is a plain index to what its future is to be. It says:—
“Many prominent clergymen, and an innumerable host of private members of Christian churches, are firm believers in the essential, distinguishing doctrines of Spiritualism. These will finally become the link between Christians who do not believe in Spiritualism and Spiritualists who do not believe in Christianity. True Christianity, as taught in the New Testament, will be substituted for the present absurd systems of theology called by that name; and the true Spiritualism of the Bible will take the place of the present mongrel teachings of familiar spirits and true angels.”
Not having the truth on the nature of man, and the state of the dead, the churches have no safeguard against the seductive influence of this last fascinating phase of error; and we see no reason why the way is not all prepared for the silent spread of this delusion among them, and its final open manifestation of such power as is assigned to it in the prophecies. And this may be nearer than the most discerning perceive. U. S.