s: but as for thee, the Lord thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do," Deut. 18:9-14.

Similar pernicious practices and dangerous heresies, are to prepare the
way for the final destruction of the nations who reject the claims of
Jehovah. Peter declares that "there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be
evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words
make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not," 2 Pet. 2:1-3. And Paul says of that
wicked: "Whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and
signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness," 2 Thess.
2:9-12.

"The battle of that great day of God Almighty," it would seem, must
commence by a conflict of opinions. Mind will war with mind, and puny man
will stoutly contend against the truths of the Almighty. In this revival
of demon-worship, the old gods of the heathen are to be set up against the
claims of Jehovah. His declarations are to be made to give place to
"doctrines of demons." The teachings of God and of these spirits are to be
brought into direct conflict.

The followers of the spirits have baptized their new theological dogmas,
"The Harmonial Philosophy," of which _Reason_ is the final umpire.
Revelation no longer speaks to them in tones of authority. From the Bible,
it is claimed, "the seal of infallibility must be broken away, before a
new light and beauty can enliven and embellish the mystical disclosures of
any seer, prophet, or evangelist." So writes Andrew Jackson Davis, the
Poughkeepsie seer, one of the leaders of this new school, who complains
that "owing to the dogmatism of infallibility, the Bible is taught
now-a-days as it was nearly four centuries ago."--_Review of Dr. Bushnell_,
p. 10.

The Scriptures are, with those of his faith, only "the _paper and ink_
relics of Christianity," (_Ib._, p. 21); which they regard as "a
foundation as impermanent