The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-12-25

Spiritua1ism IN America IVES born In
16l7, in Hydesville, Wayne County, N.
Y, where one night there was 9 rap
ping at the door Of Michael Weekman,
and second rapping ct the door, and
third rapping at the door, and every
time the door was opened there was no
one there. Proof positive that they
were invisible knucklss that raped at
the door. In that same house there
was q man who felt cold hand pass
over his forehead. and there was no
arm attached to the hand. Proof posi-
tive it was spiritualistic influence.
After awhile, Mr.. Fox, with his family,
moved into that house, and they had
bangings at the door every night. One
night Mr.. Fox cried out: Are you q
spirit?' Two raps, answer in the
affirmative. "Are you an injured
spirit?" Two raps, answered in the
affirmative. Then they knew right
away that it was the spirit of a peddler
who had been murdered in that house
years before, and who had been robbed
Of $500. Whether the spirit of the
peddler came back to collect his $500
or his bones / do not know. But from
that time on there was O constant ex-
element around the premises, and the
excitement spread all over the land,
and Judge Edmunds had his head turn
ed by the excitement, and he says that
ne saw q bell start from the top of a
shelf in the closet and heard it ring
over the heads of the people who were
In the closet, then swing to the back
parlor and ring over the heads of the
people in the back parlor, then swing to
the front parlor and ring over
the heads of the people in the front
young man was said to have been lifted
from the earth and carried through the
air by an invisible power, and giving an
account of it he says he went SO rapidly
he could not count the posts of the
fence; and he held in his hand saw
buck and square, and he says while
he went they ratified together and made
most delightful music. All these are
matters of history. People said: "Well,
now we have a new religion" But in
all ages there have been necromancers
those who consulted the spirits of
the departed-charmers who threw
people into mesmeric state; sorcerers
who, by eating poisonous herbs, can
see everything, hear everything, and
tell everything; astrologers who found
out a new dispensation of the stars
experts in palmistry who can tell by
the lines in the palm of your hand your
origin, your history, and your destiny.
From the cavern on Mount Parnassus,
it is said, there came up an air, an at
mosphere, that intoxicated the sheep
and the goats that came near by, and
under its influence the shepherds were
lifted into exaltation, so that they could
foreten future events and consult with
familiar spirits. Long before the time
of Christ the Brahmins had all the
table rocking and the table-quaking.
You want to know what God thinks of
all these things. He says in one place
II will be swift witness against the
sorcerers." He says in another place !:
"Thou shalt not suffer witch to live; !"
and lest you should make too wide a
margin between spiritualism and witch
craft, He groups them together and
says: "There shall not be found among
you consulter with familiar spirits, or
wizard, or necromancer for all that
do these things are an abomination unto
the Lord; :" and then the still more re-
markable passage which says: "The
soul that turneth after such as have fa-
miliar spirits and after wizards, to go a
whoring after them, | will even set My
face against that soul, and will cut him
off from ani<ng his people" and score
of passages showing that God never
speaks of these in any other way than
with livid thunders of indignation.
After all this, be spiritualst if you
dare.--Dr. TaImdge, in Frank Les
lies Sunday Magazine.