The Worthington advance., 1878-10-24
The words are these. .

I'VE nau one evening some very loud
and unpleasant raps which annoyed us,
Upon inquiry the name Of the evil one
was spelled OUT" ETC. Another is as
follows: Zone evening some evil: intlu.
ence- calling himself Xerxes made sew
eral Intellectual efforts to communicate
and finally succeeded i'll Writing."
Then follows what he wrote: II want
to write but u girl here wont let me,
with an oath.'O Now, all I want
with these quotations about wicked
spirits or demons is to show that there
is very great danger in going into the !
dark for the purpose of consulting the
spirits of the dead OH account OF tile
presence of those wicked spirits Of vast
experience, knowledge and power, yes
so vast that no young girl in the spirit
world could resist them and no doubt
those wicked spirits and demons are
waiting to be consulted and are con-
suited daily and are in return cOmmun-
icating all sorts of wicked lies to their
consulters which are dignified with the
name of scientific truth. Hence the
wickedness of the system and hence the
demonized condition of many of those
who seek unto them and become infu-
enced by them, and hence the folly of
the vain boast that Spritualism or spir-
it commerce is matter Of scientific
demonstration. The word science
means knowledge based OH self-evident
truths. We challenge any Of the advo-
Gates of the system to give us Il self-ev-
ident truth as coming from the spirit
world for so long as lying spirits and
demons can communicate and do CON-
municate there can he nothing reliable,
there can be no certain truth.
l will here introduce the sad expert
ence of Mr. p. B. Randalpll, once Il
noted but subsequently reformed
Spiritualist, rs Il warning against this
fatal delusion: lie says, ''for several
years [ held intercourse with What per-
ported to be my mothers spirit. |
am now firmly persuaded that it was
nothing but All evil spirit, an internal
demon who in that guisc gained my
souls confidence and led me to the very
brink of ruin. Five of my friends" !"
he continued, ''destroyed themselves
and attempted it 10y direct influence
of the spirits" II ask" says lie, do
such fruits spring from mothers
counsel? can sweet fountains send
forth such bitter waters? can good
trees yield such corrupt fruits?' Care
ful observers cannot fail to see that
there is in Spiyitualism Il personal fagen-
cy ut work under covert to accomplish
the subversion Of all things good.
AMOS ELLIS.
Without trenching upon the do
main of Modern Spiritualisn, we may
admit that some marvellous facts, point
ing in the direction of our suggestion.
are now we'll attested, and when per-
sons at a distance from each other find
intervening streets and dwellings no
obstacles to II free Interchange OF
thought Ill conversation. we may we'll
hold III reserve all skcpticism upon the
possibilities of Il spiritual body.-Re-
hgious Herald, Hartford, Conn.
Just so. And if the blind and bigot-
ed clergy and old fogy scientists
would join with such noble men as DR..
Buchanan, Dr.. Crowell, Prof. Zollrerr,
and scores Of others, in candid inves-
tigation Of the laws governing clair
voyance, mesmerism, magnetism,
trance, spiritism, and other occult
sciences, it would not lie ten years be-
fore telegraphing without wires or bat
teries would be as common as it now is
with them. Distance would not pre-
vent communion with friends; the
angels would sit daily ut our tent doors
as they did with Abraham, and death
would be looked upon as Il beautiful
birth and promotion to Il higher life.
We are indebted to \. n. kellogg,
the Auxiliary Publisher, Of Chicago,
for book entitled ''Kellogg's Auxili-
airy Handbook" which contains Il
history of Auxiliary Printing, and a
Day-Book and Journal combined,
which furnishes to publishers a model
system Of keering advertising accounts.
This is Il very valuable gift to country
printers, furnishing Il ready handbook
for reference, so that the publisher can
see at q glance the status Of any adver.
tisement in his paper.
The Postmaster at Reynolds, Rock
| Island county, Illinois, notifies us that
the ADVANCE to l.. L. Shirley is not
taken out OF the Office. Mr.. $. notified
rs to stop when he went there from
Pre-Emption. We wrote him that he
WAS owing us and we would stop as
soon as lie paid. lie didn't pay. Shr
ley beats us out Of a dollar and half
People who do this hereafter may ex.
pect to see their names in the ADVANCE
-Worthington ADVANCE.
II Miller owned the Gazette ant
adopted the above plan, lie would b(
obliged to publish! large list of names
-Sibley Gazette.