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82. What does Spiritualism teach us in regard to man’s duty to his native land or the land of his adoption?
That every man owes a debt of loving and loyal service to his own land, to which he should render a supreme devotion. No man can serve two masters and no one can render a supreme devotion to two flags. This does not imply any spirit of antagonism to other lands. It simply states the law of reciprocity that should exist intact under all circumstances between the citizen and the state: the state granting and guaranteeing the full rights of citizenship to each citizen and affording ample protection to him in the possession of his life and property, and the citizen, as in duty bound, rendering in thought, speech and service loyal devotion to his country which protects him.
83. Has Spiritualism any definite knowledge concerning a Life after Death?
Spiritualism today has indubitable proof that man lives after death. Its evidence of this great fact is a million fold stronger than the evidence the world possesses of the truth of historical Christianity. The great fact upon which all the preaching and evangelism of the Apostles of Jesus was based was the dogma of his resurrection. This was the substance of the message of early Christianity. It was based on the testimony of those who saw and recognized the arisen Master. It possessed in those days living witnesses and (accepting the Gospel accounts) large numbers of them. Today its evidence rests on the written testimony of the Gospels which, while divergent, may be regarded as substantially true. It may be said that historical Christianity today rests on the testimony of the two eye-witnesses given in the Gospels. Yet upon the record of these two witnesses—preserved through the centuries—and whether altered or changed in the copying no one knows—the whole Christian world accepts as a veritable fact the Resurrection Story. Spiritualism has its millions of living witnesses, the testimony of a galaxy of brilliant, scientific men, and can point to convincing manifestations of the resurrection power in our own age daily.