Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-05-05

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Nothing in the spiritualistic circles OF our
day has been more strange, mysterious aud
wonderful than things which havo been seen
In the past centuries OF tlicworld. In oil the
ages there have been necroinancers, those
who consult with the spirits of the departed;
chnrmers, those who put their subjects i'll q
mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who by TAX
ing poisonous drugs sec everything and hear
everything nnd tell everything; dreamcrs,
people who in their sleeping moments can see
the future world and hold consultation with
spirits; astrologers, who could read new
dispensntion in tho stars; experts in palms.
Try, who can tell by the lines in the palm of
your hand your origin and your history.
From cave on Mount Parnassus, we are
told, thcrc was an exhalntion that intoxicated
the sheep ard goats that came anywhere
near it, and shepherd approaching
it was thrown by that c.Ihalation
into oil excitement in which he could furetcll
future events and hold consultation with the
spiritual world. Yea, before the time OF
Christ tho Brallmi:is went through oil the
table moving all tho furniture excitement,
which the spirits have exploited in our day;
precisely the Same thing over and over
again, under the manipulntions of the Brah-
Minis. Now do you say that Spiritualistn is
different from, these? l answer, all these
5delusions 1 have mentioned belong to the
same family They are exhumnt ions. from
the unseen world What does God think OF
oil these delusions2 he thinks so severely OF
them thut he never speaks of them but with
livid thundors OF Indignation He says:
81 will be swift witness against
tho sorcercr.n He says: "Thou shalt-not
suffer u witch to live" And lest you might
mako some important distinction between
Spiritualsm ami witchcraft, God says, i'll so
many words: ssThere shall not be among
you u consulter of familiar spirits or
wizard or necromancer; for they that do
these things arc an abomination to the Lord. :"
And lie says again: "The soul of those who
seek after such as have familiar spirits, and
who go wlloring after them, Twill set myself
against them, and lie shall be cut of from
among his people" The Lord Almighty, in
a score of passages, which 1 have not now
time to quote, uttcrs his indignation against
MI this great family OF decisions. After that
be Spritualst il you darcl
Still further wo learn from this text how
it is TINT people como to fall into Spritualism.
Saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. He
did not know Hhere to SO for relief. After
awhile he resolved to go and sec the witch of
En-dor. He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. Il was his trouble
that drove him there. And have to tell
you now that Spiritualism finds its victims in
the troubled, the bankrupt, the Sick, the
ffl1 md frOt RI
tho fortune teller to find where it is. You
lose friend, you want the spiritual world
opened so that you may have communication
with him. III a highly wrought, nervous
aud diseased state of mind, you go and put
yourself in that communication. That is
why l hate Spiritualism 1t takes advan-
taSe of one in moment of weakness,
which may como upon US at any time.
We lose friend. The trial is keen, sharp,
suffocating, almost maddening If we could
marshal host, and storm the eternal world,
and recapture our loved one, tho host would
soon be marshalcd. The house is solonely.
Tho world is so dark Tho separation is so
insuffcrable.
But Spiritualism says: 1--WE will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
back and talk to you" Though we may not
hear his voice, we may hear the rap of his
hand. So, clear the table. Sit down. Put
your hands Oh the table Be very quiet.
Five minutes gone Ten minutes. No mo-
ton Of tho table No response from the
future world. Twenty minutes Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement all the time
increasing Forty minutes. The table shiv-
ers. Two raps from tho future world. The
letters Of tho alphabet are called over. The
departed friends namc is John. AT tho pro-
nunciation of the letter 81 !" two raps. at
tho pronunciation of the letter 60" two
raps. at the pronunciation of tho letter
"H," two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter ~" two raps. There you have the
whole name spelled out. John, John.
Now, the spirit being present, you say:
'sJohn, arc you liappyT' Two raps give an
affirmative answer. Pretty soon tie hand of
tho medium begins to twitch ind toss, and
begins to write out, after paper and ink are
furnished, message from tho eternal world.
What is remarkable, tho departed
spirit, although it has been amid the
illuminations of heaven, cannot spell us well
as it used to. Il has lost MI grammatical
accuracy and cannot write as distinctly. l
received a letter through q medium once. 1
sent it back. said: "Just please tell those
ghosts they had better 60 to school and get
improved in their photography" Now, just
think of spirits, that the Bible represents as
enthroncd in glory, coming down to crawl
under tho table, and break crockery, and
ring tea bells before supper is ready, and rap
the window shutter on q gusty night Is
there any consolation in ouch poor, miserable
work compared with the thought that our
departed Christian friends, got rid of pain
and languishng, ME in the radiant society
of heaven and that we shall join them there,
not in stifled and mysterious half utterance,
cold chills creep tho back, but in all unhin-
dered and illimitable delight
And none shall murmur or nlisloubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out.
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its decisions Saul, in tho midst of his
disaster, went to tbs witch of En-dor. The
vast majority OF those who have gone to
spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes
1 learn still farther from this subject that
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the darkness. Why did not Saul SO in tie
day! He was ashamed to go. Besides thot,
he knew that this spiritual medium, like all
her successors, performed her exploits ii tho
night. The Daveiports, the Fowlers, tho
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of ali ages,
have chosen the night or darkencd room.
Why? Tho majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospcrs best in
the night
Some of tho performances of spiritual me-
diums are not to be oscribcd to fraud, but to
some occult law that after awhile may be
demonstrated But believe that now 093
out of every 1000 achievements on the part
of spiritual mediums arc arrant and un-
mitigatcd humbuS. Tho mysterious rcd let
tors that used to como out on the mediums
arm were found TO have been made by an