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taught by the spirits in modern Spirit-
ualism. Thus, even though the churches
may be ostensibly hostile to Spiritualism,
they are permeated with its ideas. Mrs.
Besant, the official head of the Theos-
ophists, and Theosophy is Spiritualism in
an Oriental garb, said a few weeks ago
that she was well pleased with the suc-
cess of that movement, that although
comparatively few identified themselves
outwardly with Theosophy, its ideas are
molding thought everywhere, and she in-
stanced the New Theology of the western
world as an illustration.
One remarkable feature of the com-
munications is their adaptability to the
recipient. They range from vulgar blas-
phemy to the most exalted strains of
morality. This is explained by the spir-
its as being due to the fact that like at-
tracts like in intercourse with the spirit
world. It" might more truly be ex-
plained by the fact that the fallen angels
arc adepts in the art of deception, and
know how to set their snares for all
The cultured and refined will be led on
by appeals suited to them, and the al-
ready debased are drawn deeper into sin.
No communication of a helpful character
has ever come from them. The [Vester
Christian Advocate lately wrote: © When
we ask whether in all the years during
which disembodied spirits have purported
to speak to us through mediums, any im-
portant truth in science, philosophy, or
religion has been given us through them,
the answer must be: Not one.” Distrust
of the Bible is the one point continually
urged, together with the innate divine-
ness of man as an immortal being.
It is to the Bible we must go to learn
the outcome of modern Spiritualism. It
does not do to get the idea that a certain
form of evil is the only one we have to
fear. A man may hate the papacy be-
cause of the evil it did in past centuries,
and yet be identified with it in spirit to-
day. So we may be opposed to Spirit-
ualism in one form, while we are em-
bracing it in another. The devil is cun-
ning enough to change his tactics as soon
as his plans are uncovered. The Spirit-
ualism which the Scriptures recognize as
the enemy, they depict as intensely de-
ceptive, so we may expect to be tricked
by it unless we become so fully identified
with truth that we shall perforce recog-
nize the evil in its every manifestation.
Spiritualism in one guise or another is
going to deceive the whole world, and
THE WATCHMAN
HIS is a term used by medi-
cal men to designate a con-
dition of self-poisoning due
to the failure of the system
to eliminate the poisons that
are continually being formed
in the alimentary tract, or
canal.  Ordmnarily, the ex-
excretory organs of a healthy body take
care of these poisons, and they are thrown
out, so that the physical health 1s not im-
paired. Dut the human system 1s not
prepared to resist indefinitely the ctfects
of an improper diet. By taking into
the stomach
food, and by insufficient mastication, the
unwholesome articles of
formation of poisons in the alimentary
tract 1s so much accelerated that instead
of being thrown off by the eliminative
organs, they are carried into the circula-
tion and irritate the nerves and the va-
rious organs with which thev come in
contact, causing in time serious disease.
An eminent physician discourses as fol-
lows on the relation of these poisons to
disease and premature old age: —
“A locomotive, when actively at work,
produces poisonous residues in the form
of ashes and smoke. The same is true
of the human body. So long as these
poisons are eliminated as rapidly as pro-
duced, the body may continue its work,
provided, of course, its activity is not
interrupted by external violence.
* These poisons are chiefly carried out
through the lungs and the kidneys.
Some portions escape also through the
skin and the intestines. So long as these
even the very elect, if that were possible.
It is going to triumph by means of its
lving wonders, and its victims will be
those who receive not the love of the
truth that they might be saved. We
must know the truth and love it: then we
shall always know falsehood and hate it.
— Present Truth.
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important emunctories continue to per-
form their duty perfectly, the machinery
of life runs on smoothly, without friction,
and apparently without wear; but as
these doors for the exit of body poisons
begin to close, so that the accumulation
of the body wastes begins, a deteriora-
tion of the living cells of the body is set
up which develops gradually, and slowly
or rapidly according to the rate at which
poisonous wastes accumulate. Most im-
portant of all the means of exit for the
body poisons are the liver and the kid-
nevs. IFailure on the part of these or-
gans 1s quickly followed by general de-
generacy and death.
Macrophages
“But accumulation of poisonous
wastes, according to Metchnikoff, the
bacteriologist of the Pasteur Institute, is
not the immediate cause of old age, but
only a predisposing condition. The ac-
tual degeneracy of the tissues is due to
a destruction of the tissue cells by wan-
dering cells found in the body and which
he describes as macrophages.
“These cells move about from place
to place, and while the body remains in
its normal condition, devote their ener-
gies to the destruction of waste particles,
organic débris. They, in fact, play the
role of scavengers, like the turkey-buz-
zards which regularly visit the backvards
and allies of tropical cities to consume
the daily accumulating refuse.
“So long as the macrophages confine
themselves to this work, all is well; but
when the vigor of the body cells has been
reduced by the accumulation of tissue
poisons, these scavenger cells attack the
living tissues and actually destroy them.
‘L his is one of the remarkable discoveries
which Metchnikoff has made in relation
to the causes of premature old age.
“The practical question which the
philosopher asks himeslf is, How may
this attack of the macrophages upon the