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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1889

WHAT IT IS.

COMMENTING upon Mrs. Kane's recent so-called exposure of Spiritualism, the Good Way says:—

All this may be very well, but it comes very far from furnishing a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena of the modern delusion of Spiritualism. There is an occult power behind these phenomena, intelligent and depraved, and their misleading and corrupting and soul-damning influence is not to be counteracted or arrested by a catchpenny exposure, even though it may come from those who became the first willing instruments in introducing the delusion.

The plain truth is that Spiritualism is devilism, and whoever is deceived thereby is deceived by the devil. The Bible plainly points to our times as the period when the spirits of devils shall go forth to deceive men, and believers in the Bible have no trouble in identifying modern Spiritualism as a Satanic delusion. The power of Satan will continue to work by this and other means till the end. The people of God have from the beginning been warned against the sin of necromancy, and that warning needs to be heeded now as much as ever in the past.

Spiritualism is ancient necromancy modernized to suit the changed tastes and conditions of society. The only reliable safeguard against the evil is to obey God, and resist the devil. Whoever touches pitch will be defiled—whoever tampers with Spiritualism will become demonized. "Abhor that which is evil." "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."