Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-03-12

From al our troubles we're released;
We've rolled IN lemons and come ose squse,er
For sa,tsn.
SPIRrTUALDsM.
The following interesting extracts
are taken from q statement given in
the NY. Tribune, from DR.. Randolph,
who has been, he says, in = trance
about $500 times and is probably sef
well prepared to speak of the merits of
Spiritualism as any other man.
THE CONVERTED MEDIUM
DR.. Randolph, the heretofore distin.
gui>hed Spiritual Medium, preached al
Sermon on Sunday, Nov. 2lst, in Gin
ton Hall, from the text:---
''FOr VIC wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers oil
the darkness Of this world, against
spiritual wickcdncss in high place" -
(Greek-Against the spirits Of wicked.
ness in wrial regions.)
As DR.. Randolph's prominence, in
the early days Of Spiritualism renders
his recal,tatiop . matter Of considers
bic Importance, we reproduce IN his
own words, the more significant pas
sages Of his discourse. t is necessary
to state that DR.. Randolph is man Of
extraordinary intellectual activity, is
Of the Roanoke stock, and has Indian
and African a. well as Caucasian blood
In his veins.
"For nearly ten years have l been
seeking rest Tor my weary soul. But
rest came not until l sought it earnest
~ at the family altar, surrounded by
those whom in the delirium of mad
philosophy, I thought were no: for
me, but whom I subsequently found
dearer, nearer, tr,acr than all the
Spiritualism. il. all eyes and head; no
soul and heart ; oil intellecs, no emo.
tions; III philosophy, no religion; all
spirit, no God! And even the social
rcformatory movement has dwmdled
down into prostitutional nurseries!
I crter the arena as the champion
Of common sense, against what in my
soul I believe to be the most tremen.
duous enemy Of God, morals, and re-
Ggion, that ever found foothold on the
carth-tl,e most seductive hence most
dangerous form of sensualism that ever
crushed nation, age qr people.
was . medium about eight years,
during which time ! made three thous.
and speeches, and travelled over sew
eral countries, proc'aiming the new
Gospel ! now regret that 80 much
excellent breath was wasted, and that
my health Of mind and body was well
nigh ruined. I have only begun to
regain both since totally abandoned
it, and to-day had rather see the cl,ol-
era in my house than be q Spiritual
After embracing Harmonial Philoso-
ply, land my experience is that Of
thonsands,) sought to be q medium
made experiments and obtained my
wish. Better had l found my grave!
The rapping and other phenomenon
followed me, produced as then tho't
by good human spirits. These were
soon succeeded by the trance condition,
to which became subject, and the
moment l yielded to the seductive art
ceased to be a man, and became q
mere autOmaton, at the mercy Of q
power I believed to be demoniac, but
which others accept a. Progressive.
Spiritual, bnt which they cannot prove
TO be snch try AZ they may. Mind
do not say it is not SO, but aver that
not the faintest proof can be adducel
that it il so! As q trance speaker
became widely known; and now ave,
that during the entire eight years Of
my membership, l firmly and sacredly
confess that l had not the control Of
my own mind, al l now have, one.
twentieth Of the time; and before man
and high heaven most solemnly de.
clare that / do not NOW believe that
during the whole eight years, I was
sane tor thirty-six consecutive hours,
in consequence Of the trance and sus.
ceptibility thereto. would have lucid
intervals, an hour or two at time,
until the next circle. During these "a
tional periods, l would in word asxer,
my manhood, and not unfrequently de.
''os'nce the spirits, and in the very next
circle, in the trance, retract it all and
for this obtained the reputation OF
inconsistency, and having no balance
wheel / often resolved to break my
fttcrs, but some good natnrcd miracle
seeker would persuade me to sit in q
circle Just once more, in order tina,
some defanct Napoleon, Crscr, Frank
lin or Mahommed, might, throughmy
lips, give lis opinion on the subject
and cdify sornc dozen or 80 with meta
physical moonshine and trasccndenta
twaddlc. ! would consent, Just to
obligr,' and then good bye reason
sanity aditu, common sense farewell!
Like the reformed incb,iote who, SC
long AZ he tastes not, is safe from tile
destroyer, but who is plunged into
deeper misery tho nvmcn, he. yields