The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-01

an awful thing to tritle with ones nervous
system, II Il 30 delicate; it Is 80 iaI
reaching; ih arrangements are so ter
rible, Got the nervous system ajangle
and so far as your body and soul are con
Cerned, the whole universe is aiangle
Better in our Ignorance experiment with
chemists rctOrt that may smite us dead
or with an engineers steam boiler thai
may blow US to atoms, than experiment
with the nervous system, A man cur
live with only one lung, or with no eyes
and be happy, as men have been under
such aiiiietions; but woe to the mar
whose nerves are shattered, Spiritualisn
Snites frat OF all and nightly against
the nervous system, and 80 makes life
miserable.
Talmage feels that he IL called to the
work Of exposing spiritualism, and doe'
not hesitate to express a good opinion
about Ills sermon, He is not noted fol
his modcsty, Hence he Stree to say thai
he believes his sermon will, "under God
save many from disease, insanity and per
ditiOn." He looks upon spiritualisn as
one Of the deadly moral blights Of our
land. He indicts It US "a social and
marital cursc,p and here Is what he says
Of II under that head:
"The worst deeds Of licentiOusness, and
the worst orgies Of obsCenity, have been
enacted under It's patronage, The story
is too vile for me 70 tell, l will not
pollute my tongue, nor your ears, with
the recital. Sometimes the civil law has
been evoked to stop the outrage. Fam
lilies innumerable have been broken ny
by it. It has pushed of hundreds Of
young women into q life Of prOtligacy
II talks about elective ailinities," and
afllnital relations" and "spirituNl
matChes,' and adopts the whole vOcabu'
larry Of free.loyeism. In one Of its public
journals IL declares marriage IL the mon
ster curse Of ciyiliEation"--"iti Is u source
Of debauChery and intemperance." i
spiritualism could have its full swing II
would turn this world into pande-
monium OF carnality. II Is an uncleani
adulterous, damna6le religion, and the
sooner II drops into tho hell from which
It rose the better, both for earth and
heaven. For the sRke Of mans honor
and womans purity, | any lot the las! !
vestige Of It perish forever. ] wish |
could gather up oil the raps II has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned, and
gather them all on its head In one thun-
lering rap OF annihilation
Mr.. Talmagc says that one reason why
he "hntcs spiritualtsn" so much,is thai
II preys upon those who are in trouble
and makes fools and often maniacs ol
them. When man or woman Is IN dis
tress, they are In a receptive condition Oi
mind, and ready to turn Credulons eal
to pretensiOns that they would scout In
another and happier frame ofmind. There
il good deal Of point in what lie says or
this head. We quote from his remarks
Us follows:
"Yuu are sick with u strange disease
and you 20 to d clairvoyant doctor to find
out by n lock Of hair what Is tho mattcl
with you. You lose friend you want
the spiritual world opened so that you
may have communication with him. IL
Il highly wrought, nervous and dlseaset
state Of mind you go and put yourself In
that communication That Is why hate
spiritualism. It takes advantage oil ON
III a moment Of weakness, which mn!
come upon us at any time. We lose
friend. The trial iskecn, sharp sntlocat
ing, almost maddcning. II we Coult
marshal u host and storm the ctcrna
world and recapture our loved one, lh
host would soon bc maFsllalled. TIL
house Ia lonely. The world is dark. Tht
sepurationis so insullerable. But spirit
ualism says:
eve will oPES THE FUTURE WORLD,
and your loved ono can come back ant
talk To YOU" Though we may not heal
his voice, wo may hear the rap Of lli
hand. So clear the table. Sit down. Pu
YOUR hands OIL the table. l5e very quiet
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. N
motion Of the table, no response from thI
future world. Twenty minutes. Thirt,
minutes. Nervous excitement all the tinit
increasing. Forty minutes. The tabl!
shivcrs. Two raps from the future world
The letters Of the alphabet arc Gu LEI
over. The departed friends name Is John
Al the pronunciation Of the letter %,
two rups. At the pronunciation Of the
Lnt,n. Hi) y Itvn rnhs Al ihn DrOniIilciA
lion Of The letter dII," two ruls. Al The
pronunciation Of the letter "N,"two rars
Then you have the whole name spelled
out, J-o-ll.n, John. Now the spirit being
present. YOU say:
"JOnN, ARE YOU itArrYT
Two raps give an affirmative answer
Pretty soon The hand Of the medium be-
Gins 10 twitcll and toss, and begins IA
write out, after paper and ink are fur
nishetl, n message from the eternal world
What Is remarkable, The departed spirit
although Il has been amid the illnmina'
tions Of heaven, can not spell as well a.
Il used to II las lost oil grammatical
accuracy, and Can not write az distinctly
| received letter through medium
once. sent II back. Tsaid: "JuSt tell
those ghosts they had better 60 to school
and get improved in their orthUgruphy Y
Now, just think Of spirits that the Bible
represents a. enthtUned In glory, coming
down to crawl under tie table, and break
crOckery, and ring tea.bellS before supper
il ready, and rap tlle window-shnlter OH
n a,isty night. Ia there any consolation
IN such poor, miserable work, compared
with the thought that our departed
Christian friends, got RID Of pain and
ianptiishihg, are III The radiant society OI
heaven, andthat weSlall Join q hem there
not III a stifed and mysterious half
utteranre which makes the hair stand OIL
end and the cold chill creep over the back.
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