Many of God’s people have been saved from being
ensnared into this great evil, by what we might term
their own spiritual sense, by which they discerned that
there was something in conneAion with Spiritism quite
at variance with the spirit of our Lord and the senti-
ments of his Word. We may safely conclude, how-
ever, on the strength of the Lord’s promise, that none
of the fully consecrated-the
“elect”
be fully ensnared.-Matt.24: 24.
are suffered to
The strongly marked tendency of Spiritism toward
free-loveism served to bring it into general disrepute
amongst the pure minded, who concluded that, if the
influence of the dead was properly represented in some
living advocates of Spiritism,–then
the social condi-
tions beyond the vale of death must be much worse,
much more impure, than they are in the present life,
Instead of much better, as these demon spirits claim.
We could make voluminous quotations from Spir-
itist writings, proving that it totally denies the Bible,
and that it is in direct opposition to its teachings;
that it has denied the very existence of God, teaching
instead merely a good principle,
and that every man is
a god.
It denies the atonement and the Lordship of
Christ, while it claims that he was a spirit-medium
of low degree; and furthermore, abundant testimony
could be quoted from prominent Spiritists proving
that the tendencies of Spiritism are extremely demoral-
izing.
We will content ourselves with one.
Here is the testimony of J. F. Whitney, editor of
the Pathfinder (N. Y.). Having been a warm and
evidently an honest defender and advocate of Spiritism
for a long time and well acquainted with its devotees,
his is a testimony hard to impeach. He says:-