Which; Spiritualism or Christianity? e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. III. Your views with regard to churches and church matters, I conceive, grow out of another error; that is, that inspiration belongs only to one age or race. If you could only get thoroughly into sympathy with the idea that God is unchangeable, and that all men are brethren, that every age produces the phenomena of previous ages, and that men will differ as to the cause of their production, I think you could then see that Spiritualism is but a reproduction of the phenomenal part of all former religions, and that, instead of being at war with other religions, it comes as an explanation of the past. While its phenomena are similar to those that always have existed, to a greater or less extent, in every part of the world, it has, by proving itself and all other religions fallible, thrown its adherents en tirely out of the idea of any teaching except absolute demonstration being authoritative. Spiritualism puts Confucius, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, Mohammed, Swedenborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis on the same basis; and instead of setting any one of them up as an absolute standard of authority either in preaching or practice, it takes them simply as helps, and strives to improve on their sayings and doings.