Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-02-02
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FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE 4Gl
a SPIRIT REVELATION.

my solitary chamber. Ny fire was burning
low; the logs ia the place had collapsed into
ashes, significant of the consumption Of hui
man life and suggestive of the solemn words
OF the burial service dust TO dust, GaheS to
ashes" Nor less was the falling nature of
human life emblemed by the wick Of ny
lamp, which dared, andfblared, a~ndwAvereA,
and burnt blue, as any ~iinpurity inAs SPIRIT
(burningfui was caught upint5the flame
burnt blue, we say, as all false Spirits do,
giving out blue or bewildering, and not white
or guiding lights. In the meantime, the
Storm Spirit was bowling fearfully and fierce
y without. lie seized the tops and limbs of
lofty trees and twisted them about, as a gi-
ant would seize the hair of a pigmy's head
and wiring it off. He whistled, and Kissed,
and hustled, and howled furiously under the
projecting coping Of the roof, as if In rage
at his exclusion be would lift it up and de-
scend from above. The deep foundation of
the house moved in acknowledgment of the
mighty power which assaulted it. The Snow
hlnS, too, had come upon the Storm Spirit,
as if riding upon his feet courser, and drop
ped his snowy-shroud upon the earth, as if
Tor It's entombment. The various objects in
my room, chairs, table legs and bed posts were
projected In strange and unreal shapes upon
the white wall, Sometimes they appeared
rs SO many Spectresy stepping through the
wall from tho adjoining rooms. Anon, as
my lamp swayed in the wind and struck these
objects at different angels, post legs and chair
backs seemed like so many limbs, which a
human body had tossed off from itself, and
set to gyrating and pirdhetting in fantastic
and spectral dancing, as if in mockery Of q
genuine Waltz. Introverted Memory, with
witches wand, but touched the dark buried
past, and 10! the once familiar and fond faces
of the departed and absent, emerged from
the dark and cherries Lethe! But oh how
changed, with mo speculation in the eye,"
or a strange, altered expression in the face.
1t was in the midst of this accumulation
AMI environment of unearthly horrors, that
the Spirit but not the Spirit Of the Storm,
nor yet the Spirit Of the Snow, but the SPIRIT
of the "still small voice. " said unto me-
: %urite! and | said how can I? for [ am
not equal to so high matters. And the Spirit
said write what shall be given unto thee to
write, and the truth shall make We strong"
And | took up mine pen; the Spirit said
" write unto thy countrymen, and especially
unto thy young c0uatrymen ofthe South, hith-
erto the land Of sound common sense, and
what is better, If it be not the same, OF COM
mon honesty, AMI nightly and repeatedly
warn them -
1't. That the Spirits of nelusion are steal
thily creeping from the North to the South
from the Njrth which, ever since Ihor's ham
tasr rang in the woods OF Scandinavia, aud
her heroes, or olldead Blood ShedIers, drank
wine from human skulls in Walhalla or Pan
r demDnium, has been the breeder and nurse OF
: gloomy superstitions-from the North, which
t along with much that is good weeds with
J flowers has spawned or imported more isms
thaa any other country in the world, namely
e g)istn, Abolitionism, Stoicism, Cynicism
: MormOnism, Agrarianism, Communism, Fou
rierism, Fanny Wrightism, Mesmerism, Spir
t itualism, Millerism, Solecism, Rheumatism
and Il perfect Cataclysm Of other isms.
End WARvINa.-Warn your young com
tTymen to beware of Clairvoyance, Of Spirit
ual Ripping falsely so called, AMI rather
which last is a new and taking name Of oil
u Mesmerism, which has had its day, been rur
d into the ground, and is dead and buried 70
a cycle, at least. Let foolish maidens be
ware of this bird-lime, Of these wife and
TX nets. They are generally Matched by tn
r worst of men, toraise the wind, (that is mon
% cyl or to win notoriety, for some men, aye
re and WomeR too, coYet distinction so much
" that rather than to be unknown, they woul
+! be unfuU0rdbty known; they would accept III
fanny in place Of fame. But what need t
warn mortlls against lies and decisions an
the fathers of them, when the same are n
IN ferred to and condemned in the Bible, til
I'd first, the last and only Spiritual Commune;
S ton for all Scripture is given by inspir;
ton of God" or Spiritual procedure."-
W 2 Tim. 3, l6, and to suppose that there ca
ne be other Spiritual Revelation or commune;
= ton, is to call in question their %fullness, the
ld suthoiency, which is p~erilous, for Add tho
ll mt INTO I{to u-or1c loc+ h. cn0ro-o 4l,.o -
thou be found a liar" Prov. XXX, 6.
IL Moreover, that all men and women M
~ be left without excuse, if they fall into Il
lt- snare of the impOstures of the evil one, quo
tn unto them the words of Scripture" Fal
he Carists and false Prophets shall rise and sha
/? show signs and aConders, to seduce, if it we
ne possible, even the eject Mark xiii, o.
or, Again" Now the SPIRIT speak"th express
S.. that in the latter times, some shall depa
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits al
it doctrines of D8ciIs." l. Tim. iv, l. And
* the same purport is Cd Tim. ii, 6-"For
or, this sort are they which creep into houses al
ur lead captiUe silly aconen laden with sins, |
to away with divers lusts." Lastly, it is VIZ
ed ten for the warning, edifcation and conf
lis of those who are tempted by evil men a
ire spirits Beloved, believe not every spir
ur but try the spirits whether they are Of G.
~ because m1hy J0tSc p0PeetS are gone 0dt
tn to the corld." l John ", l.
ief 81 WARNING.-Warn all Southern Elitc
lie to grid themselves for manful controver
w, with tho powers of darkness and the Spir
us of Evil. Luke xxi, SO, ct al. For as |
Spirit told thee in the beginning, they
advancing South. The Spirit of lying va
u.s. ties, inanities and nOncntities has eartI
: ~ itself in the Mountains of Virginia, and
'or der the name Of " Mountain Cove Jour
our and Spiritual Uarbinger," publishes M
an balderdash, stupidity and nonsense than
to be found in ali the rest of duncedom a
ne humbugiom. Tell all men that it is a lyi
lhS' trumpet, and gives out an uncertain SCUM
/. Cor. xiv, 6, a mere "sounding brass
art tinkling ~cymbal." l. Cor. xiii, L. 81
my this Spirit, whether 1t be of God" that
Ign whether it be true or false. And / will
IN veal to thee whereby We may test it. Try
l'e' parse it, or "sense it, and if We can
on neither, then you and all men may know t
it is-0 !!-for a sentence is defined, by
the highest grammatical authority, to be an
semblage ofwords, making a complete sens
"t but the sentences Tor what is intended
to them) of the Mountain Cove Journal"
md and similar Organs of Spirits farther MOI
make unmitigatod nonsense, except W
they speak of " Terms, Advertisements"
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