Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-29
OMEGA.
O@ensyille, Ind, April Dist, 1879.
From EmbreevilIe and River
Items.

dW inlOIueu tuat |CplrltuaIlsM Is De-
ing revived again in a few miles of this
place: The following are a few items Of
the would,be miraculous power.
First, around and at the shrine Of Raal
c few ignorant and deluded of Adams
race, will get around a table as sancti.
monlons as the Priest or Pope of Rome,
say in silence then with the sacred name
Of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost,
they command the table to rise, some of
them raise it with their hands and then
say that the Spirit of God raised it.
Then to the blasphemous presumption of
prcphesying and opening up the far bids
den secrets of the past, present and
future, by questions and signals from the
table. Influenced as they say, by the
Spirit of God telling how long each one
is to live, how many Angels are in the
room, of the departed dead, low lorg the
world has been made, &c. Then who
are dishonest, who will get to heaven and
who will 60 to hell. BY the way l will
just add, Unfortunately for that CON.
munity the predictions arc all unfayorable
except the Spirito of the Dutchmaus bless
ing. God bless nc and my wife, my
son Shon and his wife, us four and no
more, Amen" to the rest get away Ante
d%iluyian world and let us poor tcllo,rS
who can't call up the table through the
Spirit Of God or agency 60 to the bot.
tom. They profess miraculous power and
have tie ignorant around the table shout
ing and crying hoping they are Mediums,
as that is the name given to all their pro-
~fessors, when some one around the table
raise it and make the impression that it
is done at their command-though spir-
itualy agency; having children crying
and following by telling them their de.
parted friends are present and so many
Angels; the table raping for the Nuns
Der that are fresh from heaven, who they
are and what degree of heaven they oc>
cupy as high as the ffthteenth degree,
and such ~foolishness is carried on to an
extent that is shocking, to truth Onegen,
tleman, | am informed, raised the table
as an evidence that it was no mysterious
thing and that any body could do it in
like manner, the worshipers hoping to
get him to believe in the folly told him
he was a Medium or Christian or he
could not have raised it. He swore be
was not but the table still persisted he
was for some time. At last, he swore he
bell be - if he was, so tho table
met with its match that time and it let
him alone, But all the prayers and
sermons Of nine tenths Of hat communi.
ty could not get the table to believe there
was any good in any one only those who
can raise it and tell that God did it.
But the table makes so many mistakes
that several Of its converts fell from tail.
conversion so that one man concluded
that a good hunk Of bread and meat,
when hungry is the best lift that can be
made around q table so he has taken
to eating again, since fasting did not give
him miraculous power enough 10 raise
the table, He now lifts the meat and
bread and my informant thinks, that
plenty Of meat and bread will give more
strength to raise it than anything else
My informant thinks if those '.phellers'
will partake freely Of meat and bred.
they can still raise the table by muscular
power aud will not need a m~iraculou:
power.
A. RESIDENT.
Embreovilie April 27th 1875.