Spiritualism

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1865

SPIRITUALISM.—This potent deception of the great Arch-Deceiver is by no means abating, but like some anciently (Matt. xxiii, 15) "compass sea and land" to spread the virus of its soul-killing tenets. The interesting question, What will the Orthodox do with Spiritualism, is answered as follows in the Banner of Light for Oct. 21st. G.

"Spiritualism or Materialism! This alternative is now fairly before the world. The church and clergy must meet it, and choose between the two. They must embrace Spiritualism, or reject Immortality. All who think that men and women live as men and women, after the death of the body, must inevitably be led to adopt the views of Spiritualists respecting that disembodied life. For fear they shall be regarded as Spiritualists, the clergy do not preach of Immortality one fourth as much as they did twenty years ago. They nearly ignore the doctrine of Immortality, lest they be regarded as favoring Spiritualism. They will be obliged to cast it out of their creed entirely, and become Materialists, or receive the ideas of Spiritualists in regard to the location, occupation, relations and needs of men and women in that state."