An Outbreak of Spiritism
By Editor
SOME theosophists are teaching that Theodore Roosevelt is the reincarnation of Cæsar, and that President Wilson is a "superman." They also offer the suggestion that an improved race may soon be developed by men becoming possessed with the souls of the dead soldiers of Europe. Men are claiming to-day, as never before, that they are receiving messages from their dead relatives. Leading scientific and literary men who have recently died are said to be active in their communications with the living. There seems to be a strange and unusual outbreak of spirit phenomena; and men who do not know their Bibles, are deluded into the belief that these apparitions are from the dead. But God's book says: "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. As never before in the history of this world, men need to cling to the strong foundations of the Old Book. That Book tells us of "spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16: 14. It is only through a knowledge of the book of God, and a living experience in the salvation offered through the gospel of Jesus Christ, that men may be able to detect these false spirits which are working with such mighty power in the world. All who do not stand on the solid rock of eternal truth will be swept away by the delusions of this time, and be lost in the deluge. A DISPATCH from London says that the president of the Board of Trade is about to present to Parliament a measure making it compulsory throughout the British Isles to use whole wheat flour instead of white, placing a ban on all fancy cakes and pastry, and also instituting "meatless days, on which neither shops nor restaurants will be allowed to sell meat." WE advertise to print fifty numbers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES each year. We omit an issue in midsummer and one at holiday time. In accordance with our usual custom, there will be no paper next week. THE city of Washington, according to the Washington Post, is to have a half-million-dollar "temple" for the moving picture show.