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TRUE SPIRITUALISM 239
all its woe," and enjoy through His grace the dazzling
future He has offered to mankind. *
What is the use even of seeing the futility of
Spiritism, and of being delivered from its toils,
if we
still are so blind and deaf to our own interests as
not to believe the word of Christ Jesus? Once we
enroll ourselves under the banner of the Cross we
find ourselves rich "beyond all the dreams of
avarice," and the much-dreaded darkness of the
future is
joy If
replaced by the radiance of an eternity of
Christianity Always First
Let a man sit down and count the cost of rejecting
Christianity, supposing it for a moment to be (as
it is) a true belief, and he will be appalled at his
folly. Let a man even take everything
for the
moment as equally true Christianity, Theosophy,
Christian Science, Modernism, and Spiritism, listen
to all they respectively offer to man, and make his
choice Christianity will then be necessarily first,
all the time. And when he inquires for the respective
guarantees behind Christianity, Theosophy, Christian
Science, Modernism, and Spiritism, for the fulfilment
of their promises, he will find that the only one that
can produce, even a professed Divine assurance of
their fulfilment, is the Christian faith.
And lastly, if he asks for the evidence of the
*
We can effect no surprise that the apostle should exclaim :
" How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?"
f For years, during its construction, the Simplon Tunnel was
but a gloomy cavern; it is now the entrance to the sunshine and
glories of Italy. It is in like manner the resurrection of Christ
has transformed death from being the gloomy end of all our
hopes into the portal of Divine sunshine and endless bliss !