Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-04

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triciEy not more active. The angel rolled
the rock from the mouth or the tomb.
They were employed in revealing the viii
OF God to His people through the pro-
phets, as TO Daniel, Isaiah and Ezekiel.
They are all of them miuistsrinE saints
sent forth to administer unto the heirsof
salvation. They watch as guardians over
saints of the Lord. He shall give his
angels charge over them, etc" The an
gels of the Lord encampeth FOund the
dwellings of the righteous.
3. They strengthen us in morals as they
did b Savior.
4. They deliver from dangers; In our
temptations makew way for our escape.
8. They execute the judgments of God
on His enemies, a. did an angel on the az
my of Ssnacharib, etc.
6. They convey the souls Of saints to
Paradise.
Z. At the second coming they will gather
together all the saints and attend as q
glorious retinue the descending Re
deemer.
.Imake this point most emphaticaIly
and not the saints, the redeemed, the an
gels or any other order Of beings, are
around the righteous here, as their guar
dians or ministering saints. This fact The
Bible determines beyond successful con-
troYersy.
The Bible afirms and reafirms the
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ing reduced TO be VI Of servants.
G., servants Of ministering spirits TO their
fellOw-mOrtals-they are hOnOred with
the ministry of angelic servants 20 wait
upon, watch over snd guard them. In
stead of the state intermediate between
life and the resurrection being a season Of
toll, and sOliCituds, and labor, to the
saint, it is everywhere declared to be a
place of rep0se, of rest from sl work or
toll, or disquiet Of any sort. / make this
another special point in my defense, for if
l establish it, then the spirits Of Just per-
sons are resting, waiting spirits, and
not miQiSteTiRg- 1. e., serving spiritsi
There is 10 work, nor device, nor knOwl-
edge, in the grave Fec. tx, I0l, and,
therefore the Wise man eXhOrts to the ut
most diligence while we live here. or
course this is spoken with reference to
aiding or ~benehJting persons here in the
flesh and, therefore saints are not minis
tsring spirits. While We can benefit the
living, let US do it with our might, for
we cannot minister to them after death.
"Tbere the wicked coase from troubling
and the weary are at rest'' Job iii. III
''There the prisoners rest tOgegthsr, and
hear not the voice of the Oppressor, the
trOubler or disquieter-as Saul was to
Samuel, if il was the prophet he called up.
blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord. Yea, saith the spirit, they rest
from their labOrs and their works 90 fol-
low them" Rev. iy.,l3.
This is the tenor OF the Scriptures. The
spirits Of the just are freed from the cares,
and happy in each others society, and in
the presence of Jesus, they wait in Para
/ disc the advent Of Christ and the resur-
rectiOn of their bodies.
TIE CASE OF SAUL THE WITCH OF
This case gives not the slightest support
to Dr.. WILSON'S position, in my opinion;
and I am confident that you gentlemen
will so decide. l ask you TO give il your
special attention,
WHO WAS TIL wOMAN2
Seek me a woman thai hath a familiar
spirit. In the original Hebrew the mis-
tress of Baalsth Ob-the Oh that hath a
PytheTic spirit. She was a dreamer, q
witch, a necromancer, a sOrcsress, a spir-
itual medium, Such mediums prOfsssed
70 have, and were believed TO have con-
troll over a.spirit called a familiar spirit
because il was her companion, servant,
subject to her willard receive answers
from him respecting the future. By the
aid of such a spirit sOOthsaying
and fOrtune-telling was carried on.
Paulmet a case OF this kind in a slave
girl at Phillippi, who brought her
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fOretell the future with respect to persons
and things -fOrtune-tslling.
Paul cast the spirit out of her, which
proved that il was a wicked, evil spirit
that prompted her, and assisted her to
deceive the people. A spirit of this sort
had Simon Magus, the sOrcerer, of Sama-
ria, which enabled him to astOnish, be-
witch and deceive the people for years by
reason Of the wonderful things he could
do, and the revelations he could make.
This, men, is what was meant by a fami-
liar spirit.
DR. Clark says: The woman certainly
meant no more than making her familiar
persOnify whOmsOever the querist
should wish, in the evocstion of spirits.
This is all that, according TO the prOfessed
rules Of their art, such persons pretend
TO; for over human souls in Paradise, or
in the Internal regions, they had no
power" Netes on Saml, %, II.
DR.. Gill says: Who had the spirit
of Pythen, or %divination, conversed with
the devil, and by his assistance pretended
to bring up a dead person, thereby tell
things 20 come. A woman is pitched upon,
because such were most addicted to those
wicked acts, and being Of the weaker sex,
were more easily imposed upon by
Satan" So Eve was selected rather than
Adam.
Now, this and no more than this, did
the witch of EudOr profess to be and to
do. Not to call up the actual Spirit of q
dead person, good or bad, but TO iuflu-
enCe the evil Spirit, her familiar, to per-
sOnify the form and appearance, Ian
guage. ETC., which the Inquirer should
ask for, to speak through her for 1t. Did
she, contrary to her profession, bring up
the real Samuel, or did her familiar
spirit, only persOnate Samuel, and deceive
Saul into the belief that it WAS the
real Ssmuel2
WHO Is THE I~NQUIRER2
Saul, now abandoned by God, to his
own ruin. He had inquired Of the
son who refused to auswer
him by the prophet, by dream
or by Trim. / demand Of you, gentle
men, to say ifSaul could, through the art
of sorcery and neOromancy, wake up the
soul of a departed prophet, and compel
him to tell him what a living prophet was
forbidden by God 10 divuige2 Can a wick
ed man, aided by a wicked woman, so con-
travene the will of GOG-snd that too, by
acts which God elsewhere pronOunces
sbOmiusble sndidisbOlical2 1 affirm that
this must have only been a RECONCILIATION 1
OF samuel by the familiar spirit, who ena-
bl6d the woman to speak from the OBJ, |
the bottle, the skull, OF the srmhOls, by
v~entriloquism, Stimulating the voice Of
Samuel.
Saul did not see Samuel, nor the like
ness of any one. The woman saw some
thing she o for Samuel, and upon see
it, and receiving from her familiar the
Information that the n asking was saul,
she cried out for fear, NOT of the appear
anCe, but of Ssul.
So Foster snd our Confederate General,
the terror Of the North. Saul asks her
what she saw, for he evidently saw moth
ing. The woman was betWiXt her and
The appsritiOn, or she may bave been in
another room with her familiar spirit,
performing the operations when the form
appeared, as Gill suggests.
That Saul saw nothing Is further de-
nOnstrated by his question, when she de-
the appearance, /. Ell saw gods
ascending out oft earth-in the original,
[ saw a great parsonage, n Of majestic
like the gods or judges or civil mag
as the term may be translated.
What form is he Oti" That is of what
age, and how clOthsd7 She said:
Old man cOmeth up, and he is covered
with a mantle, such as priests and judges
we're, and Saul-perceived-he took it
{ for granted understood thst
{ was Samuel. Wa il SamuslP
is the question, II it was not the
zeal Samuel, who once lived here in the
iesh, and died, it yields no support to DR..
atson's theory but hurts his inn
nensely,
My first argument is, that those who
managed familiar spirits did not pretend
. bring up the real persons, but TO per-
onify and speak for them,
2. That if they did profess to do it, they
'Ould not disquiet the souls of departed
.aints, because they rest from ali ilabOr
nd toll, and sOlicitude and service.
3. That il was not permitted to the
pirts of wicked men 70 return to COM
nunicate with their nearest living, friends
as Christ informs,
4. That it is not in the power of men or
lemons to disclose the secrets which God I
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