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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S mg out for some “ great thinkers” to step into the breach and give the world a new doctrine” before bolshevism runs everybody off the earth. _. ^ , question is, was it the Kaiser’s orthodoxy or his hypocrisy— his Christ or his kultur that sent Germany to the devil? Let some schoolboy tresh irom the history class answer the question. The critics indeed are in a pitiful plight that they must resort to so ridiculous an idea as that ad vanced by the Kaiser’s theological advisor and the dean of Chicago Uni- versity, but it is good to know that many of the Herr professors in Ger- many are frank enough to admit the failure of their doctrines and are look ing for a ‘new doctrine.” Something tells us that the “ new doctrine” Germany needs is the “ doctrine of Jesus Christ” (2 John 9) and the “ faith of their fathers,” (“ He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” )—K. L. B. SHALL W e Follow Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Sir Oliver Lodge? Many look upon the demonstrations of Spiritualism as wholly founded on fraud. That much of it is, there is no doubt. “ Spirit” apparatus may be purchased from any magical supply house. On the other hand there is no denying the fact that some of these manifestations are real. Science has fully demonstrated the existence of spirits; pictures have been taken- bodies have actually been weighed; writings have been produced; conversa tions have been held; spirits^ have talked in foreign languages entirely unknown to the medium calling them up—and there are plenty of com- these things. Chief among these just at present are Ella .Wheeler Wilcox, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle. Magazines and newspapers are stuffing their columns with their testimonies to Spirit- ualism, and hundreds of people are going daffy over spiritism as a result. The Bible plainly warns, (for there is nothing new about these demon strations) that the spirits with whom some are communicating are not the spirits of departed human beings, (for these are not roaming at large in space) but impersonators and agents of the devil to allure souls away from the vital saving truths of the Gospel. Such investigations are strictly forbidden because of the impossibility of discerning the character of the spirits; because of the danger of being lured away by half-truths which the spirits utter; because of the supernatural powers which they have and because the results of such practices, as history has proven, are almost inevitably immorality and insanity) They lead to no beneficial goal. They add absolutely nothing to the revelation about the hereafter which God has revealed in His Word. They only serve to promote visionary notions, help stock asylums and send a multitude to hell. The Satanic counterfeit is demonstrated to perfection in an incident recently related in an exchange. A friend of the writer disappeared. For months search was made for him. After two years, it was decided he had suffered foul play. His wife was induced to consult a spiritist medium. A seance was held, and in full view of several competent witnesses, the head and shoulders of the missing man appeared, and when asked if he was happy, he smiled and the ghost vanished. Several months afterward, a relative in another city met the man who was Certainly alive and well. And
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