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THE SPIRIT LAND.
THE SPIRIT LAND.
By S. B. EMMONS.
PHILADELPHIA:
JOHN E. POTTER AND COMPANY.
Nos. 614 and 617 Sansom Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
L. P. CROWN & CO.,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts
TO THE READER.
This volume is intended as an antidote to a species of errors that havebeen rife in every age of the Christian church. Notwithstanding thedisclosures the Most High made of himself to his ancient people, theywere yet prone to turn aside from the worship of the true God, tofollow the lying spirits of the prophets of Baal, and other deceivers,from the days of Moses till the destruction of Jerusalem. So, likewise,under the Christian dispensation, there has been a succession ofAntichrists, until their name is legion, whose teachings haveclouded the understandings and blinded the moral perceptions of men,subverting the faith of many whose mountains stood strong, and who hadbeen counted the chosen people of God.
The present is viewed as an age of isms. Men have run mad, andare chasing phantoms. They are roaming round to find some fulcrumto overturn the church and the Bible; they are imagining they arereceiving utterances from heaven, when nothing is uttered but thevain fantasies of their own minds and hearts. It is the grossestfanaticism—fanaticism in its most frightful form, leading its unhappyvictims, not unfrequently, to flagrant crimes, and to the most horridof all—that of self-destruction.
These pages are submitted to the public with the counsel of the wisestand best of all ages, that, amid the wily arts of the adversary, weshould cling to the word of God, the Bible of our fathers, as the onlysafe and infallible guide of faith and practice.
NOTE.
We would here give credit to the principal works from which valuableand important matter has been selected for these pages: Whitman'sPopular Superstitions; Upham's Lectures upon Witchcraft; ChristianFreeman and Family Visitor; Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers;Influence of the Imagination upon the Nervous System, by Rev. GrantPowers; Life of Adam Clarke; Hayward's Book of all Religions; Milleron the Second Coming of Christ; Borrow's Gyp