Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SPIRITISM ATTACKS CHRIST "Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God." (i) "Neither let there be found among you any one that seeketh the truth from the dead." (2) According to Spiritists, Christ is not God; he is only one closer to God than the rest of us mortals. He is the Christ Spirit, merely one of legions of similar spirits. Spiritists think they have shown quite enough reverence and homage to the Son of God when they reluctantly admit he is a perfect man. None the less he is only a man, shorn of all Divine character and power, a mere creature, like the balance of mankind, and not the great Infinite Eternal Divine Creator, as Scripture and history alike reveal him to us. It is an interesting study to follow the working out and development of a false idea in Theology. A few hours devoted to an inquiry into the rise, (1; I John iv, 1. (2) Deut. xviii, 10. 72 growth, dissolution and decay of all the heresies against Christianity during the last nineteen centuries, would save the leaders and followers of Spiritism from many perils. All the truths of Christianity are so intimately bound together that they form one perfect whole. None of them can be denied without shaking the entire structure; none can be removed, or passed over without destroying the integrity and essence of the Religion of Christ. Hence a repudiation even of one single truth in Christian teaching speedily paves the way for more denials and for the rejection of still other truths, until finally the whole edifice crumbles. This is the phenomenon we are...