Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-01
TALMAGE GIVES A sEANCE.
The Absurdities of Spiritualism Ex-
posed by the Brooklyn Preacher.

The Absurdities of SpirituaIism Ex-
posed by the Brooklyn Preacher.
DR.. Talmage treated his hearers in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday last, says
the New York Herald, to a discourse in
which he ridiculed the practices of me-
diums. and showed the evils of spiritual
ism. We are surrounded, he said, by
mystery. The wall between the material
and the spiritual is very thin. To un-
latch the door between them all she fin
gers of superstition have been busy.
Modern spiritualism proposes to open the
door, but it has not one reasonable Gre
Dental.
''By their fruits We shall know them"
BY that test L conclude that the tree of
spiritualism, which yields bad fruit con-
tinually, is one Of the worst trees IN all
the orchard of necromancy.
DIR. Talmage here exhibited a number
of spiritualist photographs and declared
that all the pretended materializatiOns
were swindleS. He said that member of
his church had rushed into one of the
seances and discovered the false hair and
masks with which such apparitions were
made up. The letters from the other
world were models of condensation, for
they contained more bad OrthogIaphy, bad
grammar and bad morals in the same
space than any other writings. The
preacher then went on to sketch the
history of spiritualism in this country,
beginning with the Fox manifestations in
New York over 30 years ago. Ages ago,
he said, the Brahmins had their table
rOckings. Spiritualism was a very old
doctrine.
Again, said DIR. Talmage, spiritualism
takes advantage of people when they are
weak and morbid, and OvertnrOws the
soul. One peculiar thing-after being in
the illumination Of heaven the spirits for
get how to spell. Just think of spirits
enthroned in glory coming down to crawl
under table and break the crockery and
ring the bell before supper is ready!
Spiritualism is an affair Of the night be-
cause deception prospers best in the dark
ness. For many of the individual expert
ences indigestion will account. Take a
late supper of lobster salad, mince pie,
ice cream and a little cOcOanut, and you
will be able to see fifty materialiZed
spirits.
Spiritualism ruins the physical health
and is a marital and social curse. Orgies
of Obscenity have taken place under its
wing. Women by hundreds have been
pushed off into a life Of prohigacy. If
spiritualism had full swing it would turn
this world into pandemOnium of carnali-
ty. 1t is an unclean and adulterous re-
lgiOn, and the sooner it goes down to the
pit from which it came up the better for
humanity. Spiritualism produces insani-
ty all over the land. If you put your
hand in the hand Of this influence it will
lead you down to hell, where there is an
everlasting seance. Spiritualism ruins
the soul and makes men infdels.
The whole system is based on the in
sufficiency of the Bible as a revelation.
l invite you to a Christian seance. Don't.
sit at a worldly seance either in fun or in
earnest. Have your tables so well made
that they won't tip. Don't insult your
departed friends by asking them to go
into a dark closet to cut uD capers or
crawl under an extension table!