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234 MODERN SPIRITISM
"What are the futile
and valueless vapourings of
F. W. H. Myers or "Raymond" (Sir Oliver Lodge),
when weighed in the balance against that fellowship
of universal prayer which the Christian knows himself
to share with the whole company of the Church in
Paradise in Heaven; that fellowship made effectual
not through "Feda" or "Moonstone," or "Dr.
Phinuit" (to name most celebrated "controls"),
but through Jesus Christ our Lord ?
"Spiritism has no message for the sinner; the one
bowed down in the consciousness of his own weakness
and shame. It provides no answer to the
eternal queries of the human soul 'Who will
deliver me from this body of death ?' 'What shall I
do to be saved?'
"Where in Spiritism is there any reference to the
fundamental Christian doctrine of the reconciliation
of man to God by Jesus Christ ? Where any recognition
of man's need of redemption? Where any
admission of the Divinity of Christ? It is noteworthy
Spiritism invariably speaks of Him as Jesus
or Christ, never as 'our Lord.'
"Christianity and Spiritism are, indeed, rival
claimants to our allegiance, and there can surely
be no doubt as to which of the two has the better
right to' it.
"After all, what is there in Spiritism which is not
already familiar knowledge to the most insignificant
disciple of Jesus Christ?"