The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-30
SPIRITUALISM.
Continued From Ninth Page.


pcrdtion, where she holds her everlasting
seancc. Many years ago the steamer At
lantlc started from Europe for the United
States. Getting mid-ocean the machinery
broke and she floundered around day
after day, and week after week, and for a
whole month after she was due people
wondered, and finally gave her up. There
was great anguish in the cities, for there
We're many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some OF the women, in their dis
tress, went TO the spiritual mediums, and
inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the
rappmgs on the table indicated the steam
siip lost, with all on board. Women
went raving mad, and were carried to the
lunatic asylum. After awhile one day
gun was heard off quarantine. The flags
went up on the shipping, and the bells OF
the churches We're rung. The boys ran
through the streets, crying: "Extrai The
Atlantic is sale" There was the embrac-
ing as from the dead, when friends came
again TO friends but some OF those passcn-
gers went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of in
formal spiritualsm had put them. A man
in Bellevue hospital, dying from wounds
made by his own hands, was asked why
be tried to commit suicide, and he said.
'The spirits told me to-" Parents have
strangled their children, and when asked
why they did it, replied "Spiritualism
demanded it." 1t is the patronizer and
forager for the mad-house. Judge Ed
munds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering a lecture in behalf of
spiritualism, admitted, in so many words:
"Therc is a fascination about consultation
with the spirits OF the dead that has ten
dc ncy TO lead people off from their right
judgment, and to instil into them a fanati-
cisn that is revolving to the natural
mini"
IL not only ruins its disciples, but it
ruins the mediums also, only give IL time.
The Gadarean swine, on the banks of the
lake OF Galiee, no sooner became spiritual
mediums than down they went, in an
avalanche of pork, 10 the CONSERVATION Of
all the herdsmen. The office OF medium
Is bad for a man, bad for a woman, bad
for beast
] bring against this delusion more
fearful Indictment; il ruins the soul inn
mortal. First, it makes II man a quarter
OF an iniidel then it makes him half an
in!idci; then il madcs him whole inGdel
the whole system, as ! conceive it, is
founded on the insutliciency of the word
OF God rs a revelation. God says the
bib'e is enough for you TO know about the
future world. You say it is not enough
aud there is where you and the Lord dii-
Ter. You clear the table, you shove aside
-thr Bible, YOU put your hand on the
table, and say: "Now let spirits of the
future world come and tell me something
the Bible has not told me-" And al
though the scriptures say: "Add
thou not unto his words, lest
he reprove thee, and thou be
found 4 liar" you risk IL, and say: "Come
buck, spirit Of my departed father, come
back, spirit Of my departed mother, OF my
companions, OF my little child, aud tell me
sore things / don't know about you and
nlOnt the unseen world" II God is ever
slammed square in the face, Il is when n
spiritual medium puts down her hand
on the table, invoking spirits departed 10
make revelation. God has told YOU all
You ought 10 know, and how dare you be-
vrying into that which is none OF your
business? You cannot keep the Bible in
ono hand and spirtualism in the other.
onc or the other will slip out Of your grasp,
depend npon II.
Splritualism Is adverse 10 the Bible in
the lact that IL has in these last DAYS called
from tho future world Christian men TO
lastly against Christianity. Its mediums
c1ll back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated
evangelist and Lorenzo Dow tcstiiies that
Christians are idolators. Spiritualism
calls back Tom Payne, and he tcstiGcs
tha' he is stopping in the same house in
heaven with John Bunyan. They call
back John Wesley, and he testiies against
th" Christian life which ho all his life
glusiously preached. Andrew jackson
Davis, the greatest OF all the spirtualisis,
comes 10 the front and declares that the
New Testament is but 'the dismal echo Of
Narbaric age, and the Bible only zone
oi the pen and ink relics Of Christianity"
They attempt 10 substitute the writings oI
SWedcnborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis,
md other religious baldcrlash, in the place
oil this old Bible. have in my house q
book which was used in this very city III
the public service OF spiritnalisls. II is
we'll worn with much service. | open
that book aud il says "What is oui
bnntism2 Answer: Frequent abluiion,
OF water. What is our inspiration? Plenty
oi fresh air and sunlight What Is oui
prdyc2 Abundant physical exercise.
What is our love fcast2 A clear conscience
AMI sound sleep" And | end from the
fa'uc book that the chief item In thcii
public worship Is gymnastic exercise, and
that whenever they want to rouse up theil
souls to very high pitch Of devotion they
siug page slxty-hyc: "The night Ia,
gathered up her moonlit fringes;" or pag,
sixteen: "Comc 10 the woods, hcigho!
You shy you arc not such fool MS that
but YOU will be II you keep on In III,
track you have started.
But, says some one, Wouldn't IL bS
OF advantage 10 hear from the futur,
wurid7 Don't you think Il would strength
en- Christians? There are great man,
maicralisis who do not believe there ar,
souls, but II spirits from the future worlt
should knock and talk over 10 us the
would be persuaded" To that answer
in the ringing words Of the Son Of God
"If they believe not Moses and th'
prophets, neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead"
Now, | believe, undor God, that thi
sermon will save many from disease, in
sanity and pcrdition. | believe these ar
the days OF which the apostle spake whel
he said. "ln the latter times some shal
DEPART from the faith giving heed TO scduc
In spirits" think my audience, as wei
NJ other audiences in this day, need &
have reiterated in their hearing the pas
kigcs quoted some minutes ago 'Thcr
shall not he among you q consulior Of lamil
lar spirits, OF wizard, or necromancor; "a
they that do these things arcan abomina
ttun 10 the lord - and "Ihe soul tina