Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-11

furniture businessl Wen, the people said
= ne nave got something new in this country.
Z Is new religion 0 no, nv friend
thousands Of years ago We ind in our text
Spiritualistic seance.
Nothing in the Spiritualistie circles of on
0Ay mas Deen more strange. MYSTERIOUS anf
wonderful than things which have been seer
Ia Ehe past centuries Of the world In ali the
ages mere have been necromancers, those whs
consult with the spirits of the departed
charmerss those who put their subjects in
mesmerIc states sOrcerers, those who by tax
ING poisonous drugs see everything aud heal
every thing ana tell everything: 1reamers neo
pie who il their sleeping moments can SCI
the future world ana hold consultation witt
/ spirits; astrOlOgers, who could read q new dis
| pensation Ia the stars; experts in paimistry
"uO can tell ~ the lines In the palm of yOul
naho your origin and your history. From
cave on Mount PGrnassus. We are told there
was an eLhalation that intoxicated the
sheep and the goats that came anywhere neaI
Il and shepherd approaching il was thrown
| Dy that eLhalatiOn Into an eYcitamant il
Whlcn ne could not fOretell future events
anu AOI4 consultation with the spiritual
! world lea, before the time OF Christ the
DTaninlns went through all the table-mOVing
al the furniture excitement which the spirits
| nave exploited in our day; precisely the same
Lnlng over and over again, under the manipu
1aLlons OF the BFahmins Now do YOU say
/ that spiritualism is different from these? ]
answer ali these decisions have mentioned
| belong TO the same family. They are exhu
nations from the unseen world. What does
/ UOd think OF all these delusiOnsl He thinks
| them but with liVfd thunders of fndignatfOn
De says; II VIII be a swift witness against
| the sorcerer." he says: Thou shalt not
/ suffer a witch to liVeH And lest YOU might
make some important distinction between
Splrilullsm and Witchcraft God says, in SC
many words; There shall not be among
/ YOU cOnsulter OF familiar spirits, or wiz
! ard, or necFOmancer; for they that do these
! things are an abOminatIOn unto the LOrd.''
And he saws again: 1.-THE soul of those who
seek after such as have familiar spirits, and
/ who go WhOrlng after them, Will set myself
against them, and he shall be cut of from
among his people" The Lord Al
mighty in a score Of passages, which have
not now Time 70 quote, utters His indlgna-
/ ton against ali this great family Of DEUS
| IONS After that be a Spiritulist if you dare!
sun further: We learn from this text how
/ lt is that people come to fall into Spritualism
Saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. He
! did not know where to go for relief After
a"hiIe ne resolved to go and see the witch OF
En-ior. ne expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. 1t was his trouble
! that drove him there. And have to tell you
now that Spiritulism finds its victims in the
troubled the bankrupt the sick, the bereft.
You loose your watch, and you 90 to the
/ tortune-teller to find where it is. You lose
friend, you want the spiritual world opened,
so EnaE you may have communication with
him. In highly-WrOught, nervous, and dis
eased state of mind, you 90 and put Yourself
IN that communication. That is why hate
Spir1tuallsm. 1t takes advantage OF one in
moment Of weakness, which may come upOE
US at any time. We lose a friend. The trial
is keen, sharp, suffocating, almost madden
ing. If we could marshal host. and storm
the eternal world, and recapture our loved
one, the host would soon be marshalled. The
house is so lonely. The world is so dark. The
separation is so insufferable.
But Spiritualism says: ''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 on the table. Be very quiet. Five
minutes gone. Ten minutes No motion of
the table. No response from the future world.
TWENTY minutes. Thirty minutes Nervous
excitement all the time increasing. Forty
minutes. The table shVers. Two raps from
the future world. The letters of the alpha
bet are called over The departed friends
name Is John. At the pronunciation Of the
letter D." two raps- At the pronunciation
of the letter ''O,' two raps. At the prOnun-
citation of the letter 'tH - two raps. At the
pronunciation of the letter M two raps.
There you have the whole name spelled out
John, John. Now, the spirit being present,
you say: John, are you happyF' Two raps
give an affirmative answer. Pretty soon the
hand OF the medium begins to tWitch and
toss, and begins to write out, after paper and
ink are furnished, a message from the eter-
nal world What is remarkable, the depart
ed spirit, although it has been amid the
Nominations of heaven cannot spell as we'll
as it used to- 1t has lost all grammatical
accuracy and cannot write as distinctly. /
received q letter through a medium once.
sent il back. l said ''Just please to tell
those ghosts they had better 20 to school and
get improved IN EuSlr OEGnOgraply." NOW,
just think of spirits, that the Bible represents
as enthrOned in glory, coming down to crawl
under the table, and break crOckery, and ring
tea-beils before supper is ready, and rap the
window shutter on gusty night Is there
any consolation in such poor, miserable work
compared with the thought that our departed
Christian friends, got rid Of pain and Ian
gushing, are in the radiant society of heaven,
and that we shall join them there, not In
stif1ed and mysterious half-utGerance, which
makes the hair stand on end and the cold
OH ha hnRk IN in on mil TF1r1 I'D
and iliimitable delight.
A Fsn n26 3 seal palm pgF RiE. OF gI9 igdOg6
Yes, my friends, SDirltuallsm comes to
those who are In trouble and sweeps them
into It's decisions. Saul, IN the midst Of his
disaster, went to the witch of En-dOr. The
vast majority of those who have gone to
spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfOrtunes.
learn still farther from this subject, that
Spiritualism and necrOmancy are affairs Of the
darkness. Why did not Saul 90 in the day?
He was ashamed to go. Besides that, he
knew that this spiritual medium like ali her
successors, performed her exploits in the
night The DaVenpOrts, the FOWiers, the
/ Foxes. the spiritual mediums of all ages.
have chosen the night or a darkened room
| Whyf The majority Of their wonders have
! been FWndles, and deception prOspers bes9
/ in the night
Some Of the performances Of spiritual med
/ iums are not to be ascribed to fraud but to
/ some occult law that after awhile may be de-
| monstrated But I believe that now nina
] uuulEGG anu uluCtJ -LL4-tC Jul "a ChCAJ L-Ou-
sand achievements on the part Of spiritual
mediums are arrant and uumitig ated hum
] bug The mysterious red letters that used
/ to come out on the mediums arm were found
! to have been made by an iron pencil that went
/ heavily over the flesh, not tearing il, but 50
/ disturbing the blood, that il came up in great
/ round letters. The witnesses of the seances
have locked the door, put the key in their
! pocket. arrested the operator, and found out
/ BY searching the room, that hidden levers
! moved the tables. The sealed letters that
/ rnWaEeTiDusIW read without ODHl4QQ have
/ been found to have been cut at the side and
/ then afterwards slyly put together with gum
/ arabic: and the medium WhO with a heavy
/ blanket over his head, could read q book. has
/ h La . EoEELa -E -.na-nL.--