The first lie that the Bible records is found in the words of the devil in Gen. 3: 4, "Ye

shall not surely die," and this initial conceit, held up before the eyes of our first parents,

permeates Philosophy, Paganism, Theosophy, Spiritism, Protestantism and Popery. We

do not wish it to be understood that Gen. iii.4 really teaches anything specifically

touching upon the question of the immortality of the soul; there it was a blasphemous

contradiction of the words of God as uttered in Gen. 2: 17, but so completely did its bait

beguile, that the father of lies has ever since sought to confuse the tremendous issues of

life and death, which the Bible brings forward on every page, by a conflicting jargon of

Theology among believers, and a fruitful seed of error among the unsaved. We ask our

readers, as Berean believers, to carefully consider the following extracts from spiritistic

seances and mediums quoted from the writings of Mr. Miles Grant (The Bible Echo):--

Here it will be seen that Orthodoxy has nothing to say against these doctrines of

demons, but rather, in Pulpit, Press, and Song, this great lie is echoed and enforced,

colouring as it does the whole evangel. We gave in our next quotation a Resolution

passed at an important Spiritistic Convention, which shows how important a place this

doctrine holds in their Creed:--

It must come as a great shock to many godly Christians, who constantly pray for the

"never dying souls" of men, to find themselves sharing a "common faith" with the enemy

of truth! Yet so it is. A spirit says of this doctrine, "When once that is established, this

one simple germ knowledge will work out all the rest. The first lie of Satan was, "Ye

shall not surely die." This was the "simple germ." It will culminate in the fruition of the

second lie, "Ye shall be as God," for Spiritism and its doctrines are the precursors and

forerunners of antichrist. Another spirit says:--

"The first great object is to convince sceptics of the immortality of the soul, disrobe