Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-28
indignation against all this great family Of
delusioHs. After that be spiritualist II

ports, the FoWlers, the Foxes, the spiritual
mediums of all ages, have chosen the night
or q darkened room. Why2 The majority
of their wonders have been swindles ana
deception prospers best in the night. some
OF the performances of spiritual mediums
are not to be ascribed to fraud, but to some
occult law that after awhile may be DEM
onstrated. But believe that now 999 out
of every l eco achievements on the part OF
spiritual mediums are arraat and unmiu-
gated humbugs. The mysterious red let
ters thst used to come out on the meol-
um's arm were found TO have been made oy
an iron pencil that went heavily over the
flesh, not tearing it but disturbing the
blood so it came up in great round letters.
The witnesses Of the Seance
have locked the door, put the key in their
pocket, arrested the operator, and found
out by searching the room that hidden
lovers moved the tables. The sealed letters
thatwere mysteriouslY read without open-
ingwere found to hsre been cut st the
side and then aiterward slyly put together
with gum Arabic; and the medium who,
with heavy blanket over his head, could
read book, has been found to have bot.
tie of phosphoric oil by the light of which
anybody can read book: and vsntrilo-
quism and legerdemain and slight OF hand
and optical delusion account for nearly
everything. Deception being the main
stal lie of spiritualism, no wonder 1t chooses
the darkness. You have all seen strange
and unaecountable things in the night,
Almost every man has some time had q
toncb of baliucination. Indigestion from
late supper will generally account for 1t.
II is an outraged physical organism and
not a call from the future world. Spirit.
ualism, knowing that it is able to deceive
the very elect after sundowD, does nearly
all its work in the night. The witch OF
Endor held her seances at night; so do all
the witches. Away with this religion Oh
spooks
and death to % disciples. 1t ruins the
body. Look in upon an audience OF splr'
itualists. Cadaverous, weak, nervous, eI'
hausted. Hands clammy and cold. Moth
ing prospers but long hair-soft marshes
yieluing rank grasses. Spirituallsm. de-
stroys the physical health. It's disciples
are forever hearing startling news from
the other world. Strange beings crossing
the room in white. Table hdgety, wanting
to set its feet loose as If to dance. Voices
sepulchral and ominous. BeWildered with
raps. ,,
[ never knew a confirmed spirltualist
who had healthy nervous system. 1t IL
incipient epilepsy and Catalepsy. Destroy
yorr nervous system and you might as
well be dead. / have noticed that people
who are hearing raps from the other world
have but little strength to bear the nara
raps of this world. Ii is an awful thing to
trile with ones nervous system. IL Is so
delicate, il is so farreachng, its derange'
Gat
system sjangle and so far as your body
ana soul are concerned the whole universe
is siangle. Better in our ignorance eZper'
iment with a chemists retort that may
smite us dead or with an engineers steam
boiler that may blow US to atoms, than ex'
pertinent with the nervous system. A
man can live with only one lung or with
no eyes and be happy as men have been
under such difficulties; but woe be 10 the
man whose nerves are shattered. spirit
ualism smites first of all and nightly
sgaist the nervous system and 80 makes
life miserable.
Another remark, spiritualism is
A Social and Marital Curse.
The worst deeds OF RIGHTEOUSNESS and the
Horst orgies OF obscenity have been enact
ed under its PATRONAGE. Tho Sto~yis 200
vile for ME to tell. will not pollute my
tongue nor your ears with the recital
Sometimes the civil law has been evoked
to stop the outrage. Families innumer'
able have been broke up by it. 1t has push
ed off hundreds of young women into
life Of proflgacy. 1t talks about elective
aflinities. and "atlinital relations" and
spiritual matches" adopts the whole vo
cabulary of free-loyism. In one of the
public Journals il declares marriage is the
monster curse Of civilization" that ut is
source OF debauchery ana intemperance.
II spiritualism could have It's just swing II
would turn this world into pandemonlum
Of carpality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous
religion and the sooner it drops into the
hell from which il rose, the better both for
earth and heaven. For the sake Of mans
honor and woman's purity / say let the
asst ycstige OF it perish forever. wlsh
could gather up all the raps 1t has ever
heard from spirits best or damned and
gather them all on its own head in one
laundering rap of anuihilation.
Another remark: spiritualism ruins the
soulimmortal. First, it makes man
quarter of sn inidel; then it makes him
half an jnfidel; then IL n makes him whole
Infitsl. The entire system, as l conceive
N, is founded on the insufficiency OF the
~ord OF God as a reyelstion. God says the
Bible is enough for you to know about the
iHture world. You say it is not enough
and there is where you and the Lord di her
| You clear the table, you shove ASIDE lhe
Bible. YOU put your hand on the Bible ano
saw. Now, let spirits OF the future world
come and tell me something the Bible has
| not told me-" And although the Scrip
tpres ssy, Add thou not unto His word:
Iess he reproye thee and thou be found
liar" vou risk IL md say, Come back
spirit of my departed father, come back
spirit of my departed mother, OF my com
panion, of my little child, and tell me
something / don't Enow about you an
| about the unseen world. IfGod is ever slap
ped square in the face it is when aspiritua
medium puts down her hand on the tables
| invoking spirits departed to make reye
iation. God has tod you all you ought tc
know and how dare you be prying into
that which is none OF your businessH You
can not keep the Bible in one hand and
,piritualism in the other. One or the otheI
will slip out of your grasp, depand uson
II. Spiritualism is Rv rse 10 the Biole IN
the fact that it has in these last days
called from the future world Christian
men to testify against Christianity. us
mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the cele
hrated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow testi
/ -.
ualism calls back Ton Paine, he tesihs'
! that he is stopping in the same house u
| Heaven with John Bunyan. They cal
| hack John Wesley and he testties aSsins
| the Christian religion which he all his life
ploriously preached. Andrew Jackson
| Davis, the greatest of all the spiritualists
| comes to the front and declares that thu
| new Testament is but
| The Dismal Echo Of Barbarie Age
"and the Bible only one OF the pen snc
ink relics OF Christianity" They attemp
10 substitute the writings OF Andrew
Jackson Davis and other religious balder
dash in the place of this old Bible. haV'
| in my house a book which was used IN thi
very city in the public service of spiritual
lists. It is we'll won with much service
| l open that book and it says: what
our baptism1 Answer: Frequent aAntion
| of water. What is our inspiration Plent.
| of fresh air and sunlight. What is on
| payer Abundant physical exercise
| What Is our love feast? A clear eoAscienc
and sound sleep" And | find from tn
same book that the chief item IN thsi
public worship is cslisthenss; SO tn:
Whenever they want to ioese up tnei