THE INFALLIBLE FOOL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 11

THE INFALLIBLE FOOL.

' 'Gibjbj while - discoursing on the ',abov,e.subject, on Sundayevening, ■ seemed, to • meVto- make.vrsome ..•ras)i ;,and; J .i,inconsistent ... statenients. ' He.said lio admired- decision -of \ . cHaracter.,;and;firmness Vof .w)ll, •but firmness ; ■ was-one 'thing; and, pig-hoadedness another; i»nii;^iEnrth'g' it -, j j|bat j mo jnaij to / hSconyiotibris'uw^^! 10^ -lia Posted •by . air the methods .pbssible; ; of''getting;-at the ' if-,.'he, actually, 'means', what ,hu says,' .am , doubtful,; as ho. commenced/to de- . 1 , nounce'/ spiritualism Vith.-no - uncertain], voice. He^amon^vroHiher^iiigs,- said':.he'-was-cer-tain .and, sure .that spirits: had'something better,! to. do: than rap tables, and that-he would pref er';death .to .both.body, arid soul to dealingwith Isnqh:absurdities.; Did Dr; Gibb, before . h6 l'>'.became -;firm, in his convictions, that spirjtiualism' waswicked,'yile,-.. absurd,'.;and intimatelyiconnected with his .Satanic Majesty' . *ri4 l ,.cpntra'i7,,.to..the of God,-test all . the'methods .possible in order.to getat-the truth; of i spiritualism, or did ho only .staad afarjoff'.andvhave, a look; at.the„l>rudest'.and. : lowest'phase,, of the :of spiritism,' aiia'r'iriistako:,itifor spiritualism?-:..,;. - 'No truo spiritualist, will advocate spiritual

communication.;., through;, table-rapping .for various '/reasons. : - : Firstly,■•,- because;- it ~:is 1 tedious.i.,.' VSecpndly, ;.> earth-bound •spints;,'are.:,mbre,,;apt..t<) .use: the- : table-as a . mea'ns! of. communication than, soulsthat have 1, progressed "and-have_ ; something 'better to do/ ". Besides/: it. is-the. only-.modo ofcpmmunicating th'at,:,thos.e' poor- earth-bpund -, spirits, have; as • , well-as.being' the/onlyl'means [which.many on earth;,can/'sfecufe.*' Unfortunately' few men : 01 : women','crucify..the flesh,, curb their animal passions and.desires r sacrifice their worldly pleasures arid live.the life in order that pure and/holy.: -spiritual beings: may ; f,:use! their ■ physical organism and once more in love commune with men.. Still, fortunately,-.there aic. good,-pure, and'holy'nien and'women'who' sacrificed.their;-lives,'in -Order to ;: allow"them-; '. sclyos; to;:be.iised as mediums' of cbmmunica-tion.with-those-who have passed'beyond the change;, calledvdeath' or spirit life beyond thb" graye,,,v.,-,.-;i-,;..-(,' ■iiji :,' ; ■■•■■ : ;' ■: -. ; : --- ' ' It"i&.'p'ossible ; ,th'at some , spirits who co'mmuno'.byraps'or lcriocks-pri tables may'have ■ something ibetter^to'do, but. it is' quite pos.sible, that those/when oil' earth' , did -often agreatldealworso/'often rapping -their' little' children in-a..brutal way or knocking' their wiyes 'down with .a'chair.- , ' Arid Dr. Gibb miist.'.-'knowj-. -if ; . he 'knows 'anything 'about spirits, that when- the spirit'leaves the body it .is.: not. put: through aii orthodox sausage machine and changed from a suiner intoa saint. >If-he.'is sure, spirits 'have something bettor to;(lo than cOirimunicate by telegraphic raps that7.monn'letters 'and numerals, '-the same,as have been.'in common use on earth for,itheUast ! so or '60 : years at least, lib"might' infornfyour- readers how such spirits or any spirits, spend--their: time in the state, condition,-.; or< sphere thoy live in. ' , :: ' •;■ ■'. ; However,-for'Dr. Gibb's , information' , , tablerapping is ;:riot spiritualism. Wiidti a person dies,-,r>is'wei;say, the' spiirit; leaves tho'body andjthat-lbeing is a ■ spirit; but 'it' does riot follow j that 'that-being becomes 'a spiritual being.. .v Far from - it. - If it lived a lito of vice, and crime when on earth;'an unspi'ritual life;, even "so shair it be over thereuntil the light. , of love,dawns upon its darkened soul. Then comes.its resurrection', r 6r a rising into new..; light or life' in the : spiritual : piano 'or state. .Spiritualism is in perfect-harmony with,,the.teaching in the.' Word of God from the 1 beginning to the : end, arid is the, scienco, , and-belief that the real man is a spirit, and that spirit, being part of God, cannot dio, but must live on. Life after the.change called death,is a conscious onej;and spirits can return to earth and spnak through:,-the .physical organism,",.of mortal maril' 'For ages this so even as it is to-flay,; /and acknowledged .by , our .greatest Bciontists'and deepest thinkers of the present day/ 1 irieri 'who stand ( . head, and 1 shoulders abovp/theif felldws. /, Arid .b'ecauso bigoted njerij who have never had tho .time', or inclin.i-tion:to.-irivestigate' as to its truth,, and mistake ' spiritism for/spiritualism, should do-. notincejit-.frP'm'the pulpites' moro absurd than oven table-rapping.—r am, etc., '// ■'■' .-: ' "A SPIRITUALIST."