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Done in Righteousness

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Oct 14, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 11.

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Done in Righteousness.

By T.

THE scientific man as he soberly seeks to investigate Spiritualistic phenomena may be convinced that there is something there that manifests a power which he can not explain. Still he often makes the statement that the spirits do things that are not only ridiculous, but often tricky and deceptively untrue. This being the case, it should cause him to see that spiritism can not possibly stand the true test, for everything that is not done in righteousness must utterly fail sooner or later.
God says of Himself that "He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness." Rom. 9:28. God will do His work in righteousness; what He does will stand the test from every conceivable standpoint. There will be nothing tricky, or shady, or dark about it. The Lord commissioned His apostle to say of His followers: "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." 1 Thess. 5:5. That which can not stand the test of open day, that which can not stand the test of the standard of righteousness, must utterly come to naught. This is set forth in these words by the prophet Isaiah: "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8:19, 20.
We have reached the time when the people of this world are inviting us to seek unto them that have familiar spirits; they are asking us to go to the dead for light and knowledge; but we are asked the very significant question: "Should not a people seek unto their God?" We are to go to the law and to the testimony which God has given us. This is our only source of light. The failure to heed this light is an everlasting mistake.