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232 MODERN SPIRITISM
Of course, the very forbidding of necromancy
shows it existed; but does not prove it was successful.
The ancient practice was essentially devilish, and,
as we have seen, to be repressed at all costs. Not
for nothing has the Christian Church throughout her
history forbidden the practice of necromancy. Will
any apologist deny it has a most unpleasant and
deterring record ?
Borrowed Plumes
Spiritism speaks deceptively at times in language
borrowed from Christianity: "The grand figure of the
Crucifixion will endure throughout the ages," but it
proceeds, "The true atonement is the ennobling of
the nature, the pacifying of the spirit, the making
at one the human and Divine." The new religion will
have but one confession, "Love and faith, and
Our Father which art in Heaven." It is evident that
Modern Spiritism and the true Spiritualism of
Christianity have little in common.
Neither the atonement nor the resurrection are
accepted by Spiritism. That Christ is now alive
in the other world with myriads of the living host
of Heaven, as well as with the spirits of the dead, is
absolutely unknown to it.
Sir Oliver Lodge beautifully says in "Raymond,"
the shame
"Christ's advent is the glory, his reception
of the human race," but he does not point out that
that shame has been turned by God into glory on
the Cross, and into the redemption of the world;
for salvation is to be found in the Cross, not in the
cradle, of the Lord Jesus Christ. The language and