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to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites," etc. "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." Moses, in reply, said, "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee, and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain." Thus, over four hundred years from Abram's call, and at the time appointed, the Lord met Moses, called and commissioned him to go to the king, and in the name of the I AM demand the captives.

Agreeable to God's promise, in due time the children of Israel emerged from Egyptian bonds, passed through the Red Sea, and moved over the desert toward the land of Canaan. And why? God had promised the land whither they journeyed to the seed of Abram. When famine threatened them with destruction, quails gathered around their camp for meat, and the heavens rained manna. In the thirsty and parched country, the smitten rock became a fountain. What

ever tribe or nation arose to prevent their progress was cut off. On, on they marched;-and why victorious? God had promised Canaan to the chosen race.

It would be sacrilege to linger around Sinai, witness the awful grandeur that attended the giving of the Law, or to overlook Gethsemane, where Jesus suffered in spirit, and pause on Calvary during the Crucifixion; or stand at the mouth of Joseph's tomb while the body of the Lord slumbered there, and behold the Resurrection, when death was conquered; we repeat, it would be sacrilege to awake these scenes and offer them by way of comparison with the sickly opposing phenomena of the Nineteenth Century.

Let the spiritualists who deny the divinity of the Bible communications, meet this Covenant with whatever their manifestations afford! Let them invoke their gods to come down and imitate! In vain they shall plead from the morning until the evening sacrifice for an answer.

REFLECTIONS.

To contravene this, as already shown, they must excel it throughout in power, wisdom and effect, by contradictory manifestations; and as they propose to establish a religion of an opposite character, they must disclose a superior prophetic spirit, make and fulfill greater promises. Nor can this be admitted as proof in sup

port of their theory, and in condemnation of the Christian doctrine, until their prophecies of a superior character, extending ages into the future, shall have been fulfilled. Truly that COMMUNION with a single individual (Abram) presents a barrier that our prophets, media, and all spirit dictations will hardly be able to remove during this age.

To seek to evade the test, and weaken the Abrahamic Covenant, by crying Myth, Tradition, Bigotry, etc., is but to concede their inability to contest its truth or stand before its majesty. It absolutely beggars their cause. As one revelation from the Invisible that cannot be touched by the magnetic hand of the age, or equaled by modern phenomena, or overcome by any philosophy, we present that Covenant, and call upon all men and the spirits of anti-Christ to meet it. We offer and defend it as from the Almighty Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, the eternal Logos.

Spiritualists, cavil not! Ye challenge with many words the Christian: with this we meet that challenge. It is a world of unfolding truth, an unfathomable deep of Infinite and Almighty Design; an inexhaustible fountain of Providential Benefaction. Here is divinity! philosophy! manifestation! Ye who boast of wonderful disclosures, of your natural religion, and unfailing

philosophy, launch your fleets upon this sea. Fathom it! Ascertain its boundaries, and bring testimony, tangible, irrefutable, self-evident that ye have reached its distant shore, or even passed into regions hitherto undiscovered and unrevealed.

Ye modern miners for truth, dig deep, sink your magnetic shaft far into the unknown, and undermine the ROCK OF AGES; then bring your trophies forth. Ye who ascend (?) to spheres on high, reach the summit of its lofty dome, and bring a gem from realms superior, one blossom plucked from the heavens over-arching it. The work to overthrow is yours, ye boasters. Grapple with this Truth, ye subjects of opposing powers, ye heaven-daring of this reckless age!

CHAPTER IV.

ELIJAH AND THE MANIFESTATIONS.

MESMERIZERS, psychologists, and media make lofty professions of spiritual and mesmeric power. They claim to equal the works of the Lord, his prophets, and apostles; and, as by the present relief which attends animal magnetism, they have, in many instances, persuaded the subjects and their friends to believe themselves capable of doing what the Christian denominates miracles, we shall consider this phase of the subject before examining modern manifestations. We are aware that when an immovable difficulty arises, these modern teachers cry out, "fables," "legends," "tradition of the undeveloped," but boasting and denunciation is not argument, and although they satisfy superficial minds, magnetic subjects, and the marvelously inclined, it is trifling to the thoughtful and informed. By such methods could they obtain, all history might be blotted from the page of ages, and facts be done away. It seems most probable that there have been true and learned men before the present school; men as well qualified to note what passed before them, and of which they were witnesses, as are those now assuming the teacher

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