Spiritualism and the Dead
The despatches are telling of a gentleman who claims to have had a communication through the spirits from hell. He says the place is not so bad as it has been pictured by the orthodox world. Among the curious things that he saw there were the spirits of Michel Ney and Napoleon Bonaparte, who appeared before him in the costume of Michelangelo. The communications that the spirits are pretending to send from “the great beyond” are becoming more and more persistent and more and more numerous. The world is becoming quite thoroly convinced that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, but such a notion is decidedly unscriptural, and men ought to be able to see that it is also unscientific and unreasonable. The only way that men can claim that the return of the11spirits of the dead is in harmony with science is for them to adopt that which is science falsely so-called. The Bible gives some of its most striking and vigorous warnings against the deceptions that will be worked by Satan in the closing hours of time; and among these deceptions, the manifestations of spirits such as are coming to the world now through Spiritualism stand in the forerank. With the clear warnings that the Word of God gives, why is it that men will reject the warning and be misled by the seducing spirits of devils, while thinking that they are communicating with their “departed friends”? If there ever was a time when the warnings of the good old Book were needed, and should be carefully heeded, that time is right now.