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The Story of Redemption
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.
Satan beguiles men now, as he beguiled Eve in Eden, by exciting
a desire to obtain forbidden knowledge. “Ye shall be as gods,” he
declares, “knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:5
. But the wisdom
which Spiritualism imparts is that described by the apostle James,
which “descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.”
James 3:15
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The prince of darkness has a masterly mind, and he skillfully
adapts his temptations to men of every variety of condition and
culture. He works “with all deceivableness of unrighteousness” to
gain control of the children of men, but he can accomplish his object
only as they voluntarily yield to his temptations. Those who place
themselves in his power by indulging their evil traits of character,
little realize where their course will end. The tempter accomplishes
their ruin, and then employs them to ruin others.
None Need Be Deceived
But none need be deceived by the lying claims of Spiritualism.
God has given the world sufficient light to enable them to discover
the snare. If there were no other evidence, 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 virtually
declares 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.
Moreover, 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 to be
lightly regarded or cast aside as obsolete. And to take the place