A new basis of belief in immortality / by John S. Farmer.

  • Farmer, John S.
Date:
1882
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    THE RELIGIOUS WORLD AN» SRIRITUALISM. Dated, and the truth sooner or later made plain. Slipshod handling 3ike this, however, is neither fair to the subject under consideration, «nor dignified in the objectors thereto. The phenomenal evidences of a continued existence, 'which Spiritual- ism supplies, do not interest those who have rejected all belief in a ■future life, because in their researches they hav'e come across no facts which demonstrate the same! Very good! Be it so. But having Adopted this course, they have no right to a hearing when dealing with this question of the duality and continuity of life. By thus refusing to consider all the evidence relating, thereto, (hey have thereby abdicated the honest, manly position of an impartial inquirer, and have fallen to ■that of special pleaders. The credentials which Spiritualism has to offer are indisputable facts —facts as hard and stubborn as those wbich have been deduced for any physical science. The witnesses of these facts are innumerable, and the character of many unimpeachable. Upon this basis we may well ■be content to rest our raison d’etre. Spiritualism does not fear inquiry : it has nothing to lose, but everything to gain thereby. All •that it desires is a candid and honest method ot investigation, and not A rough and ready mode of settlement, as too many scientists, unfor- tunately for thenfselves, have adopted. CHAPTER III. THE ATTITUDE OR THE EEWCilOUS 'WORLD TOWARDS MODERN STIRtTOALISM. ‘ Not come to destroy, but to fuUII.’’—J. sus. IVe -want TTie Christ! We want a God to burn the truth Afresh upon the forehead of the world 1 To bring the Gospel back again “ That wliich men abuse to-day, . Jfen of the future will adore, And truth which error seeks to slay, Lives evermore.” 'Science has not been the only opponent with which Modern Spiritualism has had to cope. Far less consistent, though perhaps more vigorous in its antagonism, and undoubtedly more iufiucntial in prejudicing the minds of many against even an investigation of its claims upon their attention, has been the opposition of the religious world. It has been denounced by each and every section of the Christian ■Church as ,Satanic in its nature and origin, evil in its tendency, .and utterly subversive of the old and cherished faith of Christendom. By many it is regarded as .antagonistic to the Bible, contrary to, and .at variance ^Cith, .all public morality—in fact, the latest device of Satan ■to beguile mankind from a knowledge of the truth. If true, the impeachment is a serious one, and likely to prove a fatal •objection to the reception ot .Spiritualism by those who -v-alue and I'evcrence the example and teaching of Christ. 1 firmly believe, how*