Modern Spiritualism Briefly Tested by Scripture 177 Abbey, and Royal Institution Lecturer, said in 1900 in an ad dress : “Spiritualism fitted very nicely on to Christianity; it seemed to be a legitimate development, not a contradiction, not an antagonist. . . . Spiritualism had rehabilitated the Bible. . . . They [spiritualistic phenomena] occur every day in London as well as in the Acts of the Apostles.” VIII. “THREE BLACK I ’S” OF SPIRITUALISM. The Rev. Frank Swainson in his addresses on Spiritual ism speaks of its “three black I’s—Infidelity, Insanity and Im morality.” 1. INFIDELITY In a Spiritualistic book, “Whatever Is, Is Right,” circulat ing among a certain section of advanced Spiritualists, we read the following: “What is evil ? Evil does not exist, evil is good.” “What is a lie ? A lie is the truth intrinsically; it holds a lawful place in creation; it is a necessity.” “What is vice? Vice and virtue, too, are beautiful in the eyes of the soul.” “What is virtue? Virtue is good and sin is good. The woman who came to the well of Sychar was just as pure In spirit before she met Christ, even though she was a harlot, as she was afterwards when she went to live a different life. There’s no difference between Herod the murderer of the babies in Bethlehem, and Christ the Saviour of men.” “What is murder? Murder is good. Murder is a per fectly natural act.” “What are evil spirits? There are no evil spirits. There is no devil and no Christ. Christ and the devil are both alike.” “ ‘For not a path on earth is trod That does not lead the soul to God.’ “No matter how bad that path may be, whether it be the
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