Our Day / In the Light of Prophecy

by William Ambrose Spicer

"On the night of the thirty-first of March, 1848, we found beyond a shadow of a doubt or peradventure, that death had no power over the spirit.... In a word, we found our so-called dead were all living."—"Nineteenth Century Miracles" (Manchester, England), p. 554.

THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT
One of the historical settings of Spiritualism. A poor woman accused by her neighbors of practicing witchcraft.

Now the Scriptures teach plainly what these agencies in Spiritualism are not, and what they are.

What They Are Not

They are not the spirits of the dead communicating messages to the living.

In one of the earliest written portions of Holy Scripture, the Lord declared plainly that the dead have no knowledge of the living:

"He passeth: Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." Job 14:20, 21.