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MODERN SPIRITISM
the supper, the heavy sleep, the vain knocking
on the door in the morning, the forcing of the lock,
the scared faces, the still form, the hush of death
as it is realised that the farmer has suddenly been
called to his account from the midst of his prosperity.
Here, then, is the solution of our problem.
We, and not mediums only, do hear voices other
than our own; and to do so it is by no means necessary,
or even desirable, that we should have
seances, or needful we should be professed Spiritists.
Our common description of the voice of God by
His Spirit is, "a thought struck me;" that is, we
describe it in physical and objective terms. This
is significant and most interesting.
'God is ever speaking objectively to men in dreams,
in visions, and in thoughts that strike us. The Bible
is not only itself the voice of God, as all Christians
know, but this voice is constantly speaking to us in
other ways, and is so represented in Scripture.*
'If,
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then, the great Father of Spirits deigns thus to
speak to His creatures, does it not seem to all of us
that the highest and noblest vocation of true Spiritualism
would be to study the differences between
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I
thought" and "a thought struck me;" between
the subjective from our own unconscious mind and
the objective from the spirit world. And, seeing
that Christianity has revealed to us the two worlds
of spirits, good and bad (the latter, at any rate, as
many Spiritists will admit, amply confirmed by the
*
A well-known evangelist told me that one-third of those he
met ascribed their conversion to visions in dreams.