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their thoughts have perished; they have no part in anything that is done under the
sun; they know nothing of the joys or sorrows of those who were dearest to them on
earth.
Furthermore, God has expressly forbidden all pretended communication with
departed spirits. In the days of the Hebrews there was a class of people who claimed,
as do the spiritualists of today, to hold communication with the dead. But the "familiar
spirits," as these visitants from other worlds were called, are declared by the Bible to
be "the spirits of devils." (Compare Numbers 25:1-3; Psalm 106:28; I Corinthians
10:20; Revelation 16:14.) The work of dealing with familiar spirits was pronounced an
abomination to the Lord, and was solemnly forbidden under penalty of death.
Leviticus 19:31; 20:27. The very name of witchcraft is now held in contempt. The claim
that men can hold intercourse with evil spirits is regarded as a fable of the Dark Ages.
But spiritualism, which numbers its converts by hundreds of thousands, yea, by
millions, which has made its way into scientific circles, which has invaded churches,
and has found favor in legislative bodies, and even in the courts of kings-- this
mammoth deception is but a revival, in a new disguise, of the witchcraft condemned
and prohibited of old.
If there were no other evidence of the real character of spiritualism, it should be
enough for the Christian that the spirits make no difference between righteousness
and sin, between the noblest and purest of the apostles of Christ and the most corrupt
of the servants of Satan. By representing the basest of men as in heaven, and highly
exalted there, Satan says to the world: "No matter how wicked you are; no matter
whether you believe or disbelieve God and the Bible. Live as you please; heaven is
your home." The spiritualist teachers virtually declare: "Everyone that doeth evil is
good in the sight of the Lord, and He delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of
judgment?" Malachi 2:17. Saith the word of God: "Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness." Isaiah 5:20.
The apostles, as personated by these lying spirits, are made to contradict what
they wrote at the dictation of the Holy Spirit when on earth. They deny the divine
origin of the Bible, and thus tear away the foundation of the Christian's hope and put
out the light that reveals the way to heaven. Satan is making the world believe that
the Bible is a mere fiction, or at least a book suited to the infancy of the race, but now
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