though my reins be consumed within me" (or, as the margin reads:
"My reins within me are consumed with earnest desire [for that day];") or
(2) David: "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness;" or (3)
Isaiah: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust;" or (4) Ezekiel:
"Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves;" or (5) Daniel: "Many of them that sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt;" and (6) Hosea: "I will ransom them from the power
of the grave, I will redeem them from death." Job 19:25-27; Ps. 17:15;
Isa. 26:19; Eze. 37:12; Dan. 12:2; Hosea 13:14. And as for the New
Testament, it is no doubt "disgusting" to many Spiritualists to read that
"the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have
their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death;" and that without the city "are dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and
maketh a lie." Rev. 21:8; 22:15.

Communications from spirits are offered in place of the Bible as a better
source of instruction, the Bible being denounced, as above quoted, as
"vague, inaccurate, and difficult to believe." A brief comparison of the
two will furnish pertinent evidence on this point. Take, on the Bible
side, for example, a portion of the record of creation (Gen. 1:1-5):--

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day."

The facts stated in this record, the profoundest minds can never
comprehend; the language in which they are expressed, a little child can
understand. The statements are plain and simple, a perfect model of
perspicuous narrative. Place by the side of this an account of the same
event, as given us from the "spheres." The spirits have undertaken to
produce a new