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Rh King of an everlasting Kingdom, the unseen world must be seen or felt as a present reality. Miraculous powers must strike off the shackles from prisoners' hands, heal disease, and strengthen the messengers of the Lord in the presence of torture and death.

But, once again, we must recall the fact that these supernatural unveilings were merely accompaniments of a new revelation. They were helps in the establishment of the church as an institution to teach God's truth and to lead men to follow it. And the Christian unveilings were wholly tributary to the new conception of God and of Christian life which Jesus Christ revealed to His followers by His life and teachings.

We reach, then, this conclusion: orderly unveilings of the spiritual world are always accompaniments, supports or confirmations of Divine revelations.

In contrast, there are unveilings of the spiritual world which we believe to be disorderly or wrong. These are such as are sought for as proofs of a hereafter, and whose effect is to weaken the effect of Divine revelation instead of strengthening it; or to substitute the teachings of what are believed to be disembodied spirits in place of Divine revelation.

These wrong unveilings have existed in some form all through the ages, and they exist to-day in various forms, but especially in modern spiritism. They are recognized and condemned all