| Show J l m u IV IUt MI r dill dills J B i i s A 4 correspondent aaka aska HA us to toUR I UR explain the tho tram from rom our point i ot of sio I between this the rev re re un c through the thi head of ot the Milt Mor Milte l man In Chu and an Oie t e lent of O or 01 In us In the IK 1111 tiet latter express It IL communion of at o mor mar Thu tRill tala with who Mv hn pa through the Iho v Yell ll Jr j Thu r distinction n them Is u to us u tret t very vor ve great grot A revelation from and morl m lt t necessity of h pt ho higher and ond great VJ bill Tt er or and more mora to bo be depended upon than th I a 11 communication from u a 1 human being even een though separated from tram the HI i l body The Tho former may Inny be ho re ret t in tit as ns Infallible The latter lutter Is In of ot ottin l tin 3 31 little It If any more moro Importance than If It I gu gl n by one Ono individual In Jo the flesh to IW 1 W another lot la hi supreme and His unit w Is U Truth Ho lb has ha the tho right to toI I Vic Vl command as no 11 as to lo Instruct Obe Obet I nl at t i IlIon Is 10 Ired to His laws III ws and auth 0 J lI There no such n I f fn n Ju iii ala to 10 the tIO uninspired words t will of ot one opo o o human being to lo another ys Va cl et er or the personal Intelligence Is l in OP or oral out au of ot th t body bod ohl It U Is 19 a n matter nutter of ot serious doubt d n of t r wither whether w ether the alleged to lo tol lont l nt rt b be from Cram spirits are arc In m 1 c really what they thoy purport to be It IB III certain cert ln there bill Is hi 11 a great greal deal donI of if It th thit Imposture lure associated jIh many of thorn thoin Apart from the deceptions d hr are ure known to th have been proc J by some mediums anti and andl I l flu H 4 It Is hi I by b no means mauis sure stirs that nr I n 1 the individuals In satI to b Iii th lr con can canh h 5 trot troi are or If uc they ore that they do not nut spook ituk without I C Cro rn ro u In III th names of at others pro propos o I pos 1109 IO to lo be thOM whom they thus thuM r r lu Ii h personate M themselves Gus Ou often n as na much In thus this way la na us naf ushi f hi j I are nr the Iho people who vho a accept pt their rom com 1 n 1 as Its coining from their do lie vill ported parted p rl d friends t It Is I no doubt tru tl hat t In n a number U J I 1 of or Instances I thus the of ot Spirit t lUh Ism Appear to como coma from beings who have hare departed from this life anti who s I ir 11 refer Iet r to lO and u it IH Ls IHA A AI I supposed nobody could know anything about oe ox pt the Individuals I a Q who W h 0 figured In them mid anti who moke t them known to the tho luring living perhaps for tor torI 1 I ou ll Aliw Ahio that things J u only to th the persons erson to reveal Ie nl them thern and anti those to whom hom they are corn rom l inu are arc at nt g seano anc ji f frn ll hi II If und carry conviction to the tho living as ns messages from the dead nut lint nil all that J might ht be accomplished without the ther r r nI pre nce of oC sprIt spirits disembodied trans from ur thU world c e II Away back In early times of at the earths history id it d commanded His ning I uit people not nol to seek unto them that had Association with familiar spirits or orM orIS ors those who practiced necromancy that M IS s a 0 sage age is Communication with the dead or OP of ot U II alleged conversations ot of that charac hh Lh bt tr ter and Instruction was wa given that y T desired to hoar hear from B 11 ht the death dead they the should asek rk unto th their lP hern horR r God nj dot zot to suh u h ml who bu latter alt were DIacO under the hem ot or Divine Divino It Is II evident from train butts boll tho the Old anti and New flow Testaments that ovll evil spirits spirit not persons who had bach lived In tho the body obtained Influence over In Individual ll who eho yielded to lo them and nud thus deceived and led lell them thorn Into Inlo lor error Wo We W have hAVO not nut th the least lell t doubt that thal this li is dono Iono nt It tio tsO present day tiny One Otio thin th that t a n great dIN tho the oi ot of God to man maui anti and modern rn and tho effusion of or li is thoU that the tho former convoy conoy light and truths truth auth din dis clow cIoe clo principles of ot value to mankind both boils tar for the tho present pre enl and the tho future while tho the latter are arc chiefly so o 0 far us its II wd WO have seen 1011 either puerile or mere mero repetitions ot of well known Ideas which needed no supernatural means of ot deo dec declaration Bom of at them exhibit Hugh suIi weakness of ot Intellect that they have b beaus n u d as us an nn argument against suicide as showing how Intelligence do tie through to lo the lisa theother other othel side Of or course wo we vc understand that the fact of or o divine revolution revelatIon may itlay mil be Ills die disputed puter by We Wo re speaking from our standpoint ot of faiths faith In Iss Clod nod the Eternal rather n nil a n Infallible OIL nil powerful working lu In and through nature and by eternal law who Is hi yet el willing and ready tg 19 9 com On with Ills His children In tho heels dealt and suid In its use tho spirit when they thoy reek tek Him HimIn In III sincerity and auth obedience stud and who will guide and ond Instruct them through the tiso moans means In He lie 0 lion han appoints and visit them by hue His spirit which enlightens enlighten I the tho ouI and an bean lusars of Dr him Him and andor of ot His JUg word The revelations of ot lod 01 nr are given HIell through divinely und ap op appointed pointed risen 1 Is 11 an 1111 order In ls communication Is en entirely cuss absent ahll nt In the tho alleged ta lions 11 of disembodied The his lust lat latter ter tar appear Ir to b be i at III tho the b bek ck and call coli of or any 1111 person who chooseS to 10 l summon them and both Loth those who s seek leek ek them anti those thoe tho e who Vho are the tho medium of or tho lie supposed Intercourse need not net be right righteous IOU cone or o even mom murol in conduct or 01 prin puss principle ciple We do ilo not moan mean by this thie to br nd psychics 11 or thou followers as nl Im Irn Immoral moral or oven even erratic W Wo We merely make tho the statement that purity of ot o life Ufa and conduct und and thought Is II not essential to communion with tho the clans cIties of that Ihal respond to the lh whims demands of ot th this curious of either BOX IO messages m eniti to come com from the tho world by mousse means of ot are and frequently misleading Nothing original find and practical for tor the uplifting and of or humanity has line originated from tron that source the fhe rot rev re Rations lations ot Clod are adapted to the this com corn comprehension nod anti conditions of ut mankind wherever they are made known and when acted upon promote union di dl direct root virtuous action nellon purity purify the soul el ci elevate tho Intellect anti and open to view eternal things while witness Is borne borM bornea to a their truth truths by tio tho power lower and girt gift ot or otho ortho ho tho Holy to lo every Individual who Is s to the tho heavenly mandates Jt It t Is IR tho tie siro word of ot prophecy and amid like Iko n a 1 light chining In n a 1 dark place photo It maltes plain that which was mysterious I and leads humanity into Inlo the presence of lit Almighty Clod |
