l physical and mental
transformations that are secured. Nothing but ignorance will attempt to
deny that, to some extent, its claims are real. That it has assemblies,
ministers, and mysteries deep and profound, and that it is able to
demonstrate its claims of physical transformation, does not lift it
above the level of Satan's power. That it denies even the need of the
blood of the Cross, separates it, in spite of its claims, from the God
of the Scriptures, and brands it with every characteristic of Satan's
counterfeit.

Another subject, already mentioned, which is of common interest to
humanity, is immortality. How persistently man has sought to see beyond
the veil! And yet how little of fact has been discovered, beyond that
which it has pleased God to reveal in His Word! How strong is the desire
of the heart to follow the departed into the great unseen! And how
subtle is "Spiritism" in its election of a phase of the immortality
question as its bait to beguile sorrow-crushed souls into a disregard of
their only hope in the blood of Christ.

This system has existed from the earliest ages and has the unqualified
condemnation of Scripture; yet in the last half-century it has taken new
interest and dignity to itself under the modern title of "Psychical
Research." With boldest assumption it claims to be the only safe
exponent of truth, and to be working in the interests of science;
changing science being accepted as more trustworthy than revelation. It
offers as final evidence for its assumptions, what are represented to be
the statements of deceased people.

Less is made of the Scriptures in this system: yet here, as might be
expected, there is violent opposition to the doctrine of Regeneration.

It cannot possibly be denied that there is an intelligent response to
the human appeal from the Unseen; and messages are being received and
mysterious acts are being performed with increasing frequency. It
cannot, however, be proven that this response is from the spirit of the
person named, for a lying spirit could easily know enough of any
person's life to represent him in every detail. That the whole system
could be of Satan is evident, and since it denies man's only hope of
redemption, it is no part of the real truth of God. It, too, bears all
the marks of the workings of Satan.

Another system of thought called "New," but which is as old as human
philosophy, appropriates every phase of metaphysical belief. The central
ide