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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 5, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 30.

Ghosts

By Editor

A FEW weeks ago we made mention of a ghost that was reported to be making considerable trouble on the Atlantic Coast. And now we are informed that there is one on the Pacific Coast that is doing some very mysterious things and causing no small amount of terror in one of our little cities. Some people have depended upon the civilization of this time to sweep away from the minds of men the superstition of ghosts. But so long as man clings to the notion that there is some kind of invisible spirit that lives in an individual, and that when he dies this spirit goes on in a conscious state, he has the foundation left for all of the beliefs in ghosts that ever cursed the Middle Ages. He may boast of liberality and his freedom from superstition; but so long as he has those roots woven into his very mind and soul, he can not break away from the

uncanny belief that he may be encountered by a ghost any time when he is out in the dark. How much better it is to believe this plain Bible statement:

"The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun." Eccl. 9:5, 6.

Since the definite Word says that the dead have no more a portion in anything that is done under the sun, we may know that this is a positive truth, and when a man is dead he is gone beyond the power of visiting this earth again. The belief that he may, is but a superstition that allows the devil himself, or one of his fallen associates, to impersonate our dead friends and appear to us. If we would be eternally freed from the terrors of all such superstitions, turn to the living word of God, carefully read what it says, and believe every one of its divine statements. The Master said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and it does indeed make us free from all such darkness as the belief that the dead may come back to us in the form of terrorizing ghosts.