THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES has for years pointed out from the basis of Scripture truth that Modern Spiritualism is based on the utterly wrong conception that the dead are not dead, that death is but the entrance into a higher life. If the claim that is made that man has, apart from his physical organization, an entity capable of a separate existence, that thinks, moves, etc., is true, then Spiritism itself is true. The Society of Psychical Research and other organizations are endeavoring to demonstrate the truth of spiritistic mediums by scientific research. They are investigating in such a way that they will invariably be deceived, because there are spirits malefic, evil intelligences which were once messengers of God, but are now fallen in the spiritual world as man has in his sphere. These evil angels come to men in the guise of spirits of the dead. They are what God's word calls "lying spirits." This is one of the ways by which Satan, their chief, will manifest himself to a deceived world "with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth." Of course there are thousands who are deceived by Spiritism now. Some of the members of the Psychical Society are convinced, others contend that they are not yet convinced. But in a meeting held in England, January 30, Sir Oliver Lodge, the principal of Birmingham University, and a member of the Psychical Society, uttered the following words: "Like excavators engaged in boring a tunnel from opposite ends, amid the roar of water and other noises, we are beginning to hear now and again the strokes of the pick-axes of our comrades on the other side." In other words, these scientists have come to that place where they feel that the next thing will be direct communication with those who are dead. Among these evidences, Sir Oliver Lodge declares we find the late Edmund Gurney, and the late Richard Hodgson, and the late F. W. H. Myers, with some other less known names, "constantly purporting to communicate with us, with the express purpose of patiently proving their identity, and giving us cross correspondence between different mediums. We also find them answering specific questions in a manner characteristic of their known personalities, and giving evidence of knowledge appropriate to them." That is, these supposed spirits of the dead deliver a part of their message thru one medium and make direct communication of the rest of the message with another medium, these mediums knowing nothing of each other's messages or conditions. This is considered excellent proof that the living are communicating with the one who professes to give the message, and some consider that the proof is absolute. Of course, such ones do not take into consideration the fact which the Bible reveals, that the evil spirits are not only able to counterfeit the dead, but are acquainted with the secrets of their lives while they lived here. The Bible declares that "the dead know not anything;" "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." And those who come in the place of the dead are the messengers of evil, who would set aside God's truth and deceive the world to its destruction.