finds
goodness he may worship. God's face is seen in the violet, and man
may well worship this tiny flower."

In the pantheism of Spiritualism, every object in nature, the tiny flower,
the pebbles, the trees, the birds and bees, are worthy to be worshiped as
much as Christ. In one breath the spirits extol him as a most perfect man,
pre-eminent in goodness and worthy to be worshiped, and in the next, place
him in a position which would make him the greatest fraud and impostor
that ever lived. Such inconsistencies show that Christ is a miracle which
evil men and evil angels know not how to dispose of.

As they deny Christ, they must, logically, deny the doctrine of his second
coming. This doctrine is made of especial importance and prominence in the
New Testament. The nature of that coming, its manner, and the
circumstances attending it are so fully described, that no one who adopts
the Bible view can possibly be deceived by false christs. But the church
and the world have been turned away from the true doctrine of the second
advent, and the way is thus prepared for the great deceptions of the last
days. Spiritualism is one of these, and claims that it is itself that
second coming. Joel Tiffany, a former celebrated teacher of Spiritualism,
has said:--

"I must look for the coming of my Lord in my own affection. He
must come in the clouds of my spiritual heavens, or he cannot come
for any benefit to me."

And through Mrs. Conant, a famous medium of the early days of
Spiritualism, the controlling spirit said:--

"This second coming of Christ means simply the second coming of
truths that are not themselves new, that have always existed....
He said, 'When I come again, I shall not be known to you.'
Spiritualism is that second coming of Christ."--_Banner of Light,
Nov. 18, 1865._

But the Bible description of this event is, the revelation of the Lord
himself in the clouds of heaven in the glory of the Father, the
reverberating shout of triumph, the voice of the archangel, the trump of
God, the flash of his presence like that of the lightning, the wailing of
the tribes of the earth, as they thus behold him, while unprepared to meet
him, and the resurrection of the righteous dead. And where and when have
these inseparable accompaniments of that event been seen? They do not
occur when a person is converted from sin, nor do they occur in the dying
chamber, nor have they occu