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244 time we are communing with Immortality? If the departed are in rapport with mortality, or matter, they

are not spiritual, but must still be mortal, sinful, suffering, and dying. Then wherefore look to them — even were communication possible — for proofs of immortality, and accept them as oracles? Communications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in tendency.

Spiritualism, with its material accompaniments, would destroy the supremacy of Spirit. Truth pervades all space, and needs no material method for the transmission of messages. Spirit needs no wires or electricity in order to be omnipresent.

Spirit is not materially tangible. How then can it communicate with man through electric, material effects?

How can the majesty and omnipotence of Spirit lose themselves? God is not in the medley, where matter cares for matter, and Spiritism takes the place of Spirit, making hypnotism and electricity the agents of God's government.

Spirit blesses man, but man “cannot tell whence it cometh.” By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are comforted, and the sinful are reformed. These are the effects of one universal Good, and that Good is the invisible God.

The act of describing disease — its symptoms, locality, and fatality — is not scientific. Warning people against

death is an error that tends to frighten those who are ignorant of Life as God. Thousands of instances could be cited of health restored by changing the mental condition.

A scientific mental method is more sanitary than