120 The Fundamentals counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; and enquired not of the Lord.” VI. CONCEPTION OF CHRIST We have seen how the blessed Saviour went about “heal ing all that were oppressed of the devil,” showing what He thought of Spiritualism. Yet, in spite of such plain testi mony, Dr. Wisse, a noted Spiritualist, said: “All testimony received from advanced spirits only shows that Christ was a medium or reformer in Judea; that He is now an advanced spirit in the sixth sphere; but that He never claimed to be God and does not at present.” The late Gerald Massey, poet, and Spiritualist, wrote: “I do not find that Christ claimed for Himself more than He held out as possible for others. When He identified Himself with the Father, it was in the oneness of mediumship. He was the great Medium or Mediator.”* Could profanity go farther? The Lord Jesus again and again claimed for Himself that which He could share with none other. “For there is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus; who gave Him self a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Tim. 2 :5 , 6), shatters the whole of his contention. The daring of confounding medium with Mediator is awful. A blow against redemption is thus aimed. It is not scholarship or philosophy, but profanity and knavery. We may well ask, Why cannot Spiritualism leave Christ’s name alone? They seem impelled to endeavor to get His support for their system. I t only proves most conclusively that Spiritualists feel the reality of Christianity and of Christ, and are forced to these attentions. They are not continually fighting against Mohammedanism and Brahminism and the like. ♦Another noted Spiritualist, Dr. J. M. Peebles, wrote, “The Apostle (Paul) with a singular clearness of perception pronounced the Nazarene a Mediator, i. e., a Medium, between God and man.”
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