SPREAD OF SPIRITUALISM.
By R. F. Cottrell
“Dr. Rigg, of London, writes to the New York Christian Advocate that the success of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain and the spread and growth of spiritualism are reactions against the scientific materialism which has set in throughout the land. And what is peculiarly noticeable about spiritualism, he says, is that it carries the war into the enemy’s country. Men of science are becoming spiritualists; spiritual power, or psychical force, is coming more and more to be recognized, even among scientific men, as a real, widespread, ubiquitous energy, which can no longer be ignored.” The doctor does not say that there is any natural affinity between the work of Moody and Sankey and that of spiritualism. Perhaps he does not mean to insinuate it. But to the progress of spiritualism among scientists he bears a decided testimony. It is not a marvel that men who set their fancied scientific knowledge above revelation, and even undertake to disprove the Bible by science, should become the dupes of spiritualism, being left to believe a Satanic lie, because they believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness. The strongest mind is weak, when it trusts in its own understanding. “Trust in the Lord, . . . and lean not to thine own understanding.” “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.” These things were written for the wisest of men.