Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-05-14
PLYMOUTH, IND.
Thursday Morning, May 14th. 1857.
Modern Spiritualism.

on the Lrst page. we nave reau u giea'
mary articles of late on spiritualism, but
have seen none that we SO fully endorse as
the one we refer to. There is no doubt
but many wise and good persons have been
led far astray by this spiritual delusion.
We never believed for a moment, that
those strange phenomena, such as NOV
ing Tables and Misunderstanding Drums
and Tamborins. and tapping, etc., etc.,
were performed by the spirits Of those who
have gone "to that bonrne from which no
traveller returns"
In the first place we are inclined to the
opinion. that such theory is not in har-
mony with tha Bible: that it is contrary to
reason, and that the character of the com.
municaiions purporting to be made; forbid
the idea that they were from good spirits,
oven if such thing were possible.
We find by reading Genesis, 1T, that
man was formed of the dust of the ground
and the breath of life was breathed into him
and man became living soul, Tor man. y
The 1911 Of Gen. reads thus; ''In the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto the ground; for out of it
vast thou taken: for dust thou art, and un-
to dust shalt thou return"
These scriptures prove conclusively Ito
oar mind that man was made of the dust
of the ground, and when he dies be returns
TO the dust, and were it not for the promise
of a resurrection; death would be an;eternal
sleep: hence the impossibility of the man
proper, rs some term the immaterial part
which is nothing a:all, revisiting the in
habitants of this globe after they have suf-
fered the pelalty--which is death.
In further confirmation Of this view we
refer TO Job, XIV-l2, which reads as fol-
lows: $50 man lieth down, and riseth not
ill the Heavens be no more: they shall not
awake, nor be raised out of their Sleep"
David says in the latter clause of the 10
OF the XVII Psalm; Il shall be sati6ed
when / awake in his likeness" CVI-4 ellis
breath goeth forth, he returneth to his
earth, in that very day his thoughts per-
ish." Paul in his first letter to the CORN
thians XIV, argues that there would be a
resurrection Of the dead, and that Christ
had been raised, and in the l6 and 18th
verses he says; For if the dead rise rot,
then is not Christ raised And if Christ
be no: raised, your faith is vain; ye are
yet in your sins. Then they also which
are fallen asleep in christ are persisted"
Job " II "Shall mortal man be more
ust than God?" Paul III his frsfletter t.
Timothy VI 16 says; "Who only hath i'm
mortality dwelling in The light, which NJ
man can approach unto; whom no maj
hath seen or can see, &c.
From the foregoing extracts we deriy,
he folio wing conclusions: That man is
mortal in his entire being. that he wa
made OF the earth, that when the breath o
life was breathed into his nostrils, he be
came living soul, or living man: whel
he ceases TO live, he becomes a deac
man. In every sense of the worl, that hi
memory, his knowledge, and his thought
are persisted, and a future life is entirel,
dependent OF resurrection from the dead
If our views on the foregoing quotation
be correct, this rapping, table-turning, etc.
Will have to be attributed to some othe
principle, than spiritualisis attribute it to
We have no doubt but many of the phe
noma, as they are called. which have bee
reported in the papers, have been seen an
heard. and we are frank to acknowledge
that we cannot give philosophical expla
nation of them, yet it does not follow, as
matter of course, that because they har
net been explained on philosophical prime
pies, that they must be performed by tn
spirits of the dead
Some argue that the rapping, etc.,
caused by Satan, or some of has spirits
This hypothesis, We think, is equally q
absurd as the other
The Serpent that beguiled our Motht
Eve. is represented as talking with her,
Satan was represented in Jobs day as wall
ing up and down.in tie earth; as smith
Job, etc., and in our Saviour's time, IL
Devil is represented as talking with hin
but this secret, invisible power, that he
represented as exerting, is, to say the leas
not In harmony with the accounts given
IN the Bible, of his manner of commun
eating with the children of men in ancie
times. Doc. Everts of the La Porte Time
says, :" If Angels conversed with Abr
ham, why not with Mr.. Cathcart?" II
Angels that conversed with Abraham, we
called men, and no doubt were; they a
and drank with him. and conversed freel
which was conclusive evidence that tn