at fearful sin? I believe it is one of the
greatest sins we have to contend with at the present day. It is
dishonoring to the Holy Spirit for me to go and summon up the dead and
confer with them, even if it were possible.

I would like you to notice the 10th chapter of 1st Chronicles, and
13th verse: "So Saul died for his transgression which he had committed
against the Lord, even against the Word of the Lord, which he kept
not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to
inquire of it; and inquired not of the Lord: therefore He slew him,
and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse."

God slew him for this very sin. Of the two sins that are brought
against Saul here, one is that he would not listen to the Word of God,
and the second is that he consulted a familiar spirit. He was snared
by this great evil, and sinned against God.

Saul fell right here, and there are a great many of God's professed
children to-day who think there is no harm in consulting a medium who
pretends to call up some of the departed to inquire of them.

But how dishonoring it is to God who has sent the Holy Spirit into
this world to guide us "into all truth." There is not a thing that I
need to know, there is not a thing that is important for me to know;
there is not a thing that I ought to know but the Spirit of God will
reveal it to me through the Word of God, and if I turn my back upon
the Holy Spirit, I am dishonoring the Spirit of God, and I am
committing a grievous sin. You know we read in Luke, where that rich
man in the other world wanted to have some one sent to his father's
house to warn his five brothers, Christ said They have Moses and the
prophets, and if they will not hear them, they will not hear one
though he rose from the dead. Moses and the prophets, the part of the
Bible then completed, that is enough. But a great many people now want
something besides the Word of God, and are turning aside to these
false lights.

SPIRITS THAT PEEP AND MUTTER.

There is another passage which reads, "And when they shall say unto
you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that
peep and mutter: Should not a people seek unto their God? for the
living to the dead?" What is that but table-rapping, and cabinet-hiding?
If it was a message from God, do you think you would have to
go into a dark room and put out all the lights? In secret my Master
taught nothing. God is not in that movement, an