The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-11

Pretty soon the hand Of the medium be-
gius to twitch and toss and begins to write
cut, ate. paper Ind ink are furnished. q
message from the eternal world. What Is
remarkable, the departed spirit, although
1t has been amid the illumiuatious Of
Heaven, can not spell as well as it
used to. 1t has lost all grammatical sccu-
racy and can not write as distinctly. I re-
ceived letter through = medium once I
sent 1t back. I said: 'Just please to tell
those ghosts they had better go to school
and get improved in their photography"
Now, just thing Of spirits that the Bible
represents as enthroned in glory coming
down to crawl under the table and break
crockery and ring teabells before supper Is
ready, and rap the window shutter on a
gusty night. IL there any consolation in
such poor, miserable work compared with
the thought that our departed Christian
friends. rid Of pain sani languishiny, are
in the radiant society OF Heaveul
Yes, my friends, spiritualism comes TO
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its deusions. Saul. n the midst of
his disaster. went to the witch OF EnGor.
The vast majority Of those who have gone
to spi itual mediums have been sent there
through their m.sfOrtunes.
learn still further from this subject.
that spritualism and nerromancy are af-
fairs Of the darkness. Why did not Saul
go in the day1 He was ashamed to go.
Besides that, he knew that this spiritual
medium, like ali her successors. performed
her exploits in the night. Tae Davenporss.
the FUwlers, the Foxes. the spiritual me
diuns o! all ages, lave chosen the nigh, or
darkenei room. WIN! The majoti'y of
their wonders have been swindles, ami de-
ception p, ospers best in the night.
Some Of the performances Of spiritual
mediums ara not to be asc 'bed to fraud.
but to some occult law that after awhile
may be demonstrated. But l believe that
now nine hundred and ninety -nlne out of
every thousand achievements on the par
OF spiritual MEDIUMS are arrant aa1 un-
mitigated humbug. The sealed letters that
were my steriously read without opening
have been found to have baen cut at the
side and then slyiy put together with gum
arabic; and the medium who. with
II heavy blanket over his head.
could read q book. has been found
to have had Il bottle of phospacr oil,
by the light of which anybody C III read a
book, and ventriloQuism and legerjemain
aud sleight Of baud ami optical delusion
account Tor nearly every thing. Deception
being the main staple Of ,splritualism, no
wonder it chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange anu unaccount-
able things in the night. Almost every
man has ut some time had touch Of hal
lucination. And l have to advise you. if
you hear and see strange thing, at night,
to stop eating hot mince pie and take n
dose Of bilious medicine. 1t Is Nm outraged
physical organism. enough to dece ve the
very elect after shutdown. and 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 OF
spooks.
Still further: learn from my text that
spiritualism is doom and death to its dis
ciples. King Saul thought that he woul !
get help from the "medlum;" but the first
thing that he secs makes him swOon ava Y
and no sooner is he resusctated than he
10 told he must die. Spiritualism Is
doom and death to every one that
yields to it. 1t ruins the body. Look
in upon an audience Of spirituaiist-,
cadaverous, weak. nervous, exhausted,
hands clalnmy and cold. Nothing prospers
but long hair-soft marshes yielding ranl,
grass. Spisiiualisn destroys ths physical
health. It's disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the other world. Strange
beings crossing he room in white. Table
hdgety, wanting 20 get its feet loose AS ii to
dance. Voices sepulchral and Ominous
Be,.ildcred with raps. l never knew a
spirltualist who had a healthy nervous
system. 1t Is incipient epilepsy and cata-
lepsv. Destroy your nervous system and
you might as well he dead. have noticed
that people who are hearing raps from the
future world have but little strength left
to bear the hard raps of this world.
1t is an awful thing to trifie with ones
nervous system. l: is so delicate, it is so
far-reaching, lis arrangements are 50 ter
rib,e. Get the nervous system a-jangie,
and, 80 far as your body and soul are con-
cerned, the whole universe il O janglc.
Better in our ignorance experiment with a
chemists retort that may smite Us dead.
or with an engineers steam boiler tina:
may blow US TO atoms, than experiment;
with the nervous system. A man can 1--we
with only one lung and with no eyes and
ba happy, as men have been under such
affections, but woe o the man whose nerves
are shattered. Spirituals:n smites first Of
all, and nightly. against the nervous sys-
tenn and SO makes life miserable.
indict spiritualism also. because H. is a
social and marital curse. The worst deeds
of Righteousness and the worst orgies of
obscenity have been enacted under its
patronage. The story is too vile for me to
tell. I will not pOiluie my tongue nor your
ears with the recital. Some times the cIvli
law has been evoked to stop the Outrage
Families iunEmerabl, have been broken up
by it. 1t has pushed OF ,,rndreds of young
women into II life Of protfigacv. 1t t.ixs
about Collective aifinities," and ''affinital
relations" and spiritual matches.' and
adopts the whole vocabulary of free-love-
ism. In one of its public journals it de-
clares marriage is the monster curse Of
civilization" 1T is u course Of debauch-
cry and intemperance." II spiriiualism
could have its full swing. it would turn his
world into q pandemoniucl of carnall,y. IL
is an unclcan, aGuiterouS. dainnable reiig-
ion. and the sooner it drops into the he'll
from which it rose, the better both for
cart q and Heaven.
further indict spiritualism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity. There
is not on asylum between Bangor and san
bleeding victims Of this delusion. 60 into
any asylum. care not where it is, and the
presiding doctor. after you have ASKED
him: "What is the matter with that ui1n g.
will say: ''Spirituali.m demcnted him."
or .'What il the matt r with that woman 60
he will say: .'Spiritualisn demon ed her"
It has taken down some of the brightest in
tsllccts. II has swep: Of into mental mid
night Judges, Senators, Governors. gospel
minister's, and on. time came near cap'ur-
ing one Of the Presidents OF the United
States. A, Flushing, near this city. . M Il