The Error of Guardian Spirits
By G.
The last issue of the “Family Guardian,” under the caption Sweet Thoughts, contains the following unscriptural, and therefore, reprehensible, sentiment: “Whenever we find our temper ruffled toward a parent in the family circle, a sister or brother, we should pause and think, that in some few months or years they will be in the SPIRIT-LAND, WATCHING OVER US, or perhaps we shall be there WATCHING OVER THEM.” What a pity that the Christian world have so derogated from the path of truth as to be fed and comforted with doctrines which have no foundation in the word of God! And what a silent, but all-potent influence orthodoxy is thus exerting in favor of that execrable heresy, Modern Spiritualism. Whence all this jerking, and rapping, and tipping, and twitching, and thumping, and knocking, and peeping, and muttering, of a thousand and one half-demented mediums, but from this devil-taught doctrine, that at death we become guardian spirits. It is simply Satan’s first-begotten lie. G.