Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-01-27
Elder Grant On spirIius Iism.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. &th.l
Minna Street Church was crowded
last evening to its utmost capacity by
believers and unbelievers, to hear Elder
Grants views on Spiritualism.
The Elder. chose for his text the first
verse of the fourth chapter Of the First
Epistle of Timothy: "Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly that III the latter
times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils.n In commencing
the Elder stated that though he was
antagonistic to those who differed from
him, yet he stood ready and willing to
assist any one so far rs he could, with
out regard to their opinions he should
speak plainly and truthfllly. The
present assumed ...n. rg.rr3
CAUSE OF sPIRITUALIsITc PHENOMENA
Is not q true one He admitted the
moving Of chairs, tables, ETC., by III
e G influences. He could not say that
1t was trickery. There are about 49,
600, 900 Spirltualists In the United
States. Men of ability and marked
intelligence, even Congressman and
physicians, believe In It. Napoleon
ill.,, William Of Prussia, Alexander Of
Russia, and other noted characters,
have their spiritual advisers IN the
shape OF mediums. There are some
five heads under which this a be dis
cussed /: First, cause Of the phenomena;
second, doctrines taught by Spiritual
lists third, moral tendency of Spirit
ualism; fourth, political aspects Of
Spiritualism fifth, its prophetical
bearings. S%piritualism is the most
DEADLY FOE TO CHRISTIANITY .aa
that has ever existed, while it pretends
to be an advocate Of 1t. 1t is not to
be accounted for by trlckery, nor on
philosophical principles. Mr.. Grant
cited a case Of Spiritualism where a
man In New York State visited a me-
dunn and received intelligence of the
failure of q flrmin California which lie
was Interested In. He did not believe
the story, but the next steamer con-
firmed the statement. Some say that
the medium read the mind. He did
not believe that.any n could read his
mind. These phenomena do not come
from the spirits Of our friends they
never did and they never will. 1t Is
totally unscrlptural, and at total vari-
ance with all laws of nature. They
come from
THE DEMONS,
who area kind of class Of angels, higher
than men, but lower than the angels.
The angels are not the spirits of men,
because they existed before man. They
guarded the Tree of Life before Adam
was made. God made no sinners or
devils. He made no liars, or adulter-
ers, or thieves. They made themselves
such. Quotations from James, 2, 10,
and Luke, 4, Al, OH tho subject of
spirits. Angels are called spirits.
Christ says: "Spirits do not have flesh
and bones, as We see me have" The
Elder could not state what they were
made of, but certainly not Of flesh and
bones, though they might be material.
ANGELS AND DEMONS
Have power to be visible or invisible,
as they please, and he cited, for in
stance, the time that Balaam's ass
wouldn't 60 OH when the angel was
In the road; the MSS saw the angel, but
Balaam did not for some time. Christ
had the same power. Quotation from
Revelations 10, Is and Is; LIST Corin-
thians, 10, 20 and 81 Deuteronomy,
80, 17.) There Is no passage In the
Bible that indicates that the demons
were good. Where r the demons?
They were cast down into hell or tar
tarus. What is the meaning Of the
word ~tartarus? Old writers say il
means. tho lowering darkness of the
lower air. For instance, the prince Of
demons was the prince of the powers
OF the air. The Salem witchcraft "a
the same rs the spiritualism of the
present day. Most leading spiritual
lists have been professors Of religion,
but they have departed from the faith.
D. CORA HATCH
Saws a dark room is needed, because
light disturbs the spirit, and they call
not be controlled. The only differ
ence between mesmerism and spiritu-
alismis,this: The first Is something .
man does with his clothes on, and the
other with his clothes of. Clothes In
this sense means body.
The Elder .readla passage from the
Banner of Light In regard to "flowers
in the spirit land" which are said to
mean beautiful thoughts ; there are no
flowers there in reality. The recogni-
ton ia tive spirit land Is not by form
or feature, but by love. He cited n
case OF a man In Lynn, Mass, who
saw q full-blooded Indian in a street
car; no one else saw him. That was
what Is called spiritunlism. In short,
the Elder holds forth that the pheno-
mena known rs spiritualism are pro-
duced by the demons, who, when they
want q convert, gather around their
victim and mesmerize him. After they
get control of him, he q easily
managed. One demon can take care
of him after that. S~plritualism Is a lie
and a cheat all over the world-the
work Of demons; the spirits of our
never come back.
At the conclusion Of his lecture the
Elder announced that he was willing
to answer any and all questions that
the audience might ask. Quite a num-
Der took advantage of this, and for a
While the discussion was lively, but the
Elder was equal to all emergencies,
and answered the conundrums with
ease and fluency. W~rrsrol
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