Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . nd courted the fullest investigation as to the allegedmanifestations from the spirit world.* As the result of hisobservations, he wrote: Whatever may be the origin or the cause of the rappings, the ladiesin whose presence they occur do not make them, We tested this thor-oughly and to our entire satisfaction.—Id., pp 160, 161. It was no mere sleight of hand that launched this cultupon the world as the last days came. Beyond all the physicalmanifestations, the religious idea in SpirituaUsm has leavenedthe religious thought of millions. No one can
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . nd courted the fullest investigation as to the allegedmanifestations from the spirit world.* As the result of hisobservations, he wrote: Whatever may be the origin or the cause of the rappings, the ladiesin whose presence they occur do not make them, We tested this thor-oughly and to our entire satisfaction.—Id., pp 160, 161. It was no mere sleight of hand that launched this cultupon the world as the last days came. Beyond all the physicalmanifestations, the religious idea in SpirituaUsm has leavenedthe religious thought of millions. No one can deny that thebasic idea is the one that the serpent promulgated in Eden,Ye shall not surely die. Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, another of the Fox sisters, says of the discovery of 1848: *0n the night of the thirty-first of March, 1848, we found beyonda shadow of a doubt or peradventure, that death had no power over thespirit. ... In a word, we found our so-called dead were all Hving.—^^Nineteenth Century Miracles {Manchester, England), p. 554. Spiritualism: Ancient and Modern 271 Now the Scriptures teach plainly what these agencies inSpiritualism are not, and what they are. What They Are Not They are not the spirits of the dead communicating mes-sages to« the living. In one of the earliest written portions of Holy Scripture,the Lord declared plainly that the dead have no knowledgeof the living: *^He passeth: Thou changest his countenance, and send-est him away. His sons come to honor, and he knoweth itnot; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not ofthem. Job 14:20, 21. The dead have no part in any communications with theliving on earth: *Neither have they any more a portion forever in any-thing that is done under the sun. Eccl. 9:6 What They Are Already we have told what they are in quoting the warn-ings of prophecy concerning the special deceptions of Satanin the last days. The working of Satan with all power and signs and lyingwonders. 2 Thess. 2:9. *Seducing sp
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