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Title: Modern Spiritualism

Author: Uriah Smith

Release Date: November 7, 2008 [Ebook #27197]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN SPIRITUALISM***

MODERN SPIRITUALISM

A SUBJECT OF PROPHECY

AND A

SIGN OF THE TIMES.

BY URIAH SMITH

THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING CO.

1896.

CONTENTS

Preface.
Chapter One. Opening Thought.
A Manifestation of Power.
A Manifestation of Intelligence.
The Progress of Spiritualism.
Chapter Two. What is the Agency in Question?
Credentials of the Bible.
An Impossibility.
The Soul Not Immortal.
Chapter Three. The Dead Unconscious.
Chapter Four. They Are Evil Angels.
Warnings Against Evil Spirits.
Chapter Five. What The Spirits Teach.
They Deny All Distinction Between Right And Wrong.
Dangers Of Mediumship.
Miscellaneous Teaching.
Spirits Cannot Be Identified.
Chapter Six. Its Promises: How Fulfilled.
Chapter Seven. Spiritualism A Subject Of Prophecy.
Conclusion.
Index Of Authors Referred To.
Index Of Books, Papers, Etc., Quoted.
Index Of Texts Of Scripture Illustrated Or Explained.
Footnotes

PREFACE.

For nearly fifty years Spiritualism has been before the world. This surely
is time enough to enable it to show its character by its fruits. "By their
fruits ye shall know them," is a rule that admits of no exceptions. If
evil fruits appear, the tree is corrupt.

Spiritualism has made unbounded promises of good. It has claimed to be the
long-promised second coming of Christ; the opening of a new era among
mankind; the rosy portal of a golden age, when all men should be reformed,
evil disappear, and the renovation of society cause the hearts of men to
leap for joy, and the earth to blossom as the rose.

Has it fulfilled all, or any, of these promises? If not, is it not a
deception? and if a deception, co