doctrine that all men have "ministering spirits" attending them, and that the departed become ministering spirits to their surviving relations, is confuted by Heb. i. 14 which states that "angels only" are "ministering spirits;" and that their ministry is confined to those," who shall be heirs to salvation"; and that the righteous dead will not become “equal to the angels"; and take their place, in this respect, until after their "resurrection." Moreover, as there is not the slightest hint in the Word of God, that God Himself has ever sent any of the righteous dead on any such errand; and as the doings of the demons are diametrically opposed to everything that is said in that Word, touching the character, and work, of the righteous—on these grounds alone (were there no other), we would give the lie direct to any such hallucination whatever.

Moreover, Spiritualists have furnished abundant evidence themselves, to confute their own baseless assumptions: for they tell us, over and over again, that they have seen the "materializations," as they call them, of their supposed departed relatives, formed before their very eyes; sometimes out of gauzy matter lying in a heap on the floor, and sometimes out of similar material, drawn out of the side of the medium himself; shewing most conclusively that such materializations could not possibly be the spirits of the departed: for the bodies of such are, as we know, still lying

1 Luke xx. 35, 36; Heb. ii. 5; 1 Cor. vi. 2, 3.

mouldering in the grave! And yet such a materialization was blasphemously said to be, and worshipped as, Christ Jesus Himself, the Saviour!! 2

3. But let us test the movement itself in its entirety. Our Saviour says, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."3 And surely the evidence I have furnished in these pages of the "evil fruits" of "Spiritualism," is proof enough of the corruptness of the tree from which they spring! Nevertheless, I will give two more extracts from the confessions of those who were once Spiritualists, but who were afterwards emancipated from its thraldom; not only in proof of this fact, but also to shew that the design and purpose of the demons, is to bring about the very result, which I have shewn, from the Scriptures, that it will eventually end in. The Rev. T. L. Harris, after having set forth the summary of the teachings of the demons, which I have before quoted, concludes his

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1 See pages 122, 175.

2 See pages 183, 184.
4 See page 185.

3 Mat. vii. 15-20.

scathing testimony in the following words :-"I pledge myself, and stand committed to the assertion that, through mediumistic channels, all these things are taught as emanating from the spirits, and WORSE IS TAUGHT, if possible, to those who penetrate the inner circles of the gloomy mysteries where the old magic is · born again!

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Spiritualists seek professedly TO PULL DOWN AND DESTROY ALL EXISTING INSTITUTIONS. Their creed seeks to lay its fiendish hands on all the safeguards of social life, and to remove every barrier to the gratification of their prejudices or passions. GOVERNMENTS are to become a babel of ruins, Church and State are to become true yoke fellows, religious organisations are to crumble at its touch, and A BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE full of dead men's bones IS TO TAKE THEIR PLACE”!1

Dr. Hatch, of America, also says: "Having for several years been a public advocate of the doctrine of universal salvation, I was prepared to accept the claims of Spiritualism as being angelic, and it is well known that for several years I did much to establish it on this basis. For a while its real character and nature were hid amid extravagant pretensions of the blessings to result from these heavenly messengers visiting earth's inhabitants, and in its early development we saw little comparatively of the mischievous effects that are now so conspicuous everywhere.

"Suffice it to say that the horde of damned spirits, which still lingers among the scenes of their former

1 See also pages 154, 185-187.

wickedness, Proteus-like, assuming ANY and EVERY form to accomplish their hellish purpose, soon demonstrated, not only the falsity of my previous faith, but also the terrible danger of carrying on a forbidden intercourse with the unseen world; and now the drama. of the basest iniquity is freely, and in many instances. openly, enacted before the bewildered gaze of the public! In fact its mischievous and corrupting effects are only limited by the capability of human depravity! There is now a class of necromancers, or earthly devils, whose secret crimes excel in real wickedness those of Messalina and the Borgias! This statement, extravagant as it may appear, I stand pledged as a man of honour to demonstrate, whenever called upon to do And it is a very significant fact, that one of the leading medical organs of the United States, asserted that of the 24,000 cases of insanity in that country in the year 1873, no less than 7,500 of them were believed. to be directly attributed to Spiritualism.2

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This last quotation is from an article on Spiritualism unveiled," by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Phayre, K.C.B., in the Silver Morn," of August, 1887.

2 London Weekly Review, pp. 131, 282. A young man was lately found, in an apparently dying condition, on the floor of a Paris church. When he was restored to consciousness it was discovered that his mind was wandering, and he was accordingly conveyed to an asylum. It has been since ascertained that the poor fellow was the victim of THE SPIRITUALISTS OR THEOSOPHISTS, who had been USING HIM AS A MEDIUM in order to find out what General Boulanger was doing at a certain time!!

weight with a certain class of minds, I shall now proceed to dispose of them. From what I know of the vagaries of the human mind, I can quite conceive, notwithstanding the overwhelming mass of evidence which I have adduced against Spiritualism, that there may still be some persons, who may think there is some good in it because they suppose, that they, or some of their friends, who have consulted the spirits, may have derived some real substantial benefit from them-a vain and false notion, which I shall endeavour to dissipate from their minds.

The excellent Matthew Pool, in his Commentary on the Scriptures, which was written between 200 and 300 years ago, has some admirable remarks on Matt. xii. 25, 26; which exactly meet, and dispose of, this objection. He says:-"The sum of the argument is, The devil is so wise, that he will look to the upholding of his own kingdom in the world. This will require an agreement of the devils"-rather, demons-" among themselves, for if they be divided they cannot uphold their kingdom, nor stand, any more than a house, city, or kingdom in the world so divided can stand; therefore the prince of devils "-demons-" will not forcibly cast out the inferior devils "-demons. "There is but one imaginable objection to this: Do we not see the contrary to this in people's going to cunning men for help against them that are bewitched, to get help for them? and is there no truth in those many stories we have of persons that have found help against the devil for some that have traded with the devil?"-which