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MODERN SPIRITISM
ignored, as if He had never spoken and no Gospel
had ever been written.*
Spiritism the Result of
Unbelief
After labouring in vain to prove the evangelists
false, critics have been obliged to accept them as
genuine, and the Lord Jesus Christ as a historical
personage, whom apparently all still delight to
honour, more or less, with their lips, but whose
Word is absolutely valueless compared with that of
mediums, or even ordinary men of business! I may
go further, and say it is only because men do not
believe the Word of God that Spiritism has obtained
any footing. It is absurd to speak of "priestcraft"
as the cause, for Spiritism has most following in
America, where there is practically none.
It is not my intention here in this chapter to
describe the other world as Christ showed it to us.
On the contrary, we have very briefly to find out
what Spiritists believe it to be.
Spiritist Glimpses
We are indeed told with great confidence that "in
a few years people on earth will know through
Spiritism much more about the spirit world than
* This seems exactly on a par with the following from the
Times of April igth, 1919:
" To-day there is better thinking and
writing on social or national subjects than ever was in the wprld
before. . . . But the eye is not on the History of the whole
soul .... To read it you would not guess you were in a Christian
country, with a long Christian tradition shaping its society.
You would receive the impression that its religion had no more
to do with its affairs than a harem, that is kept behind the
purdah .... Hardly a reference is made to the Kingdom of
God."