Spiritualism and Self by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1890

Spiritualism and Self

By Editor

THE editor of the Golden Gate writes thus:—

“When the Methodists want to pay off a church debt, be the same more or less, they pass around the hat, and, lo, the shekels come forth. When the Catholics would erect a cathedral, the bishop passes the word down the long line of servant-girls and day laborers, and a mighty host they ‘step up to the captain’s office and settle.’ When a little handful of Seventh-day Adventists, even,—a sect believing in a monstrous idea of the All-Father, in a personal devil, in the sleep of the dead, in a literal resurrection of the flesh and bones of these old bodies of ours, in the annihilation of the wicked, and in an assorted lot of other absurd notions,—when these people, whom Spiritualists outnumber twenty to one, want a college or a publishing house or a new church, they go to work and build it. When Spiritualists—we beg pardon, ‘comparisons are odious.’”

All of which shows the difference between religions which are based upon the teachings of Christ, even though those teachings may be perverted, and a religion which begins and ends with self—whose sole principle is the ego. Each man for himself, both here and for eternity, is the motto of Spiritualism.