Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-12

that it is the cause of much insanity.
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not the torn
and bleeding victims of this delusion. Go
into any asylum, | care not where it is,
and the presiding doctor, after you have
asked him: What is the matter with
that mani will say: "Spiritualism de-
mented him." or What is the matter
with that woman he will say: ''Spir-
itualism demcnted her" 1t has taken
down some Of the brightest intellects. 1t
swept of into mental midnight judges,
senators, governors, ministers Of the Cos
pei, and one time came near capturing
one of the presidents of the United States.
At Flushing, near this city. a man became
absorbed with it, forsook his family, took
his only fifteen thousand dollars, surren-
dered them to a spiritual medium ia New
York, attempted three times to put an
end to his own life, and then was incar-
cerated in the state lunatic asylum, where
he is today d raving maniac. Put your
hand in the hand Of the witch of En- .dor.
and she will lead YOU to bottom
less perdit'on, where she holds
her everlasting seaice. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Eu-
rope forthe United States. Gettingi in mid
ocean the machinery broke and she tioun-
dered around day after day, and week
after week, and for Il whole month after
she was due people who wondered and
finally gave her up. There was great an
guish in the cities, for there We're many
who had friends aboard that vessel. Some
of the women, IN their distress, went to
the spiritual mediums and inquired AZ to
the fate of that vessel. The mediums
called up the spirits and the %rappings on
the table indicated the steamer lost, with
all on board. Women went ravine mad
and were carried to the lunatic asylum
After awhile one day a gun was heard OFF
Quarantine. The flags went UP on the
shipping and The bells Of the churches
we've rung. The boys ran through the
streets crying. Extra! The Atlantic is
safe There was the embracing as from
the dead. when friends came again to
friends; but some Of these passcn GERS
went up to find their wives in the lunatic
asylum, where the cheat Of internal spir-
itualism had pat them. A man in Belle
vue hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand was aked why he tried
TO commit suicide and he said; The
spirits told ms to-" Parents have strangled
their children and when asked why tncy
did it replied, "SpiritGa,ism demanded
it 1t is the patrOnizcr and forager for
the mad house. Judge Edmunds in
Broadway Tabernacle, New York, Dolly
ering a lecture in behalf OF spirltualism.
admitted, IN SO many words: There is n
fascination about consultation with the
spirits of the dead that has u tendency to
lead people of from their right judgment
and TO instill into them a fanaticism that
is revolving to the natural mind.
1t not only ruins its disciples, but it
ruins the mediums also, only give ittime.
The Gadarcan swine, on the banks of
Lake Galilee. no n became spiritual
mediums than down they went. in an ay-
alanche Of pork, to the CONSERVATION of
all The hcrdsmen. The Office of "A medium
is bad for Ii man, bad for "A woman, bad
for a beast.
bring against this dclusion a more
fearful Indictment; 1t ruins The soul i'm
mortal. First, it makes u man a quarter
of an iutidel; then it makes him half an
infidel: then it makes him whole infdel.
The whole system. rs | conceive it, is
founded on the insutliciency of the Word
Of God as a revelation. God says the
Bible is enough for YOU TO know about
the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is whore you and the
Lord differ. You clear the table,
You shove aside the 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 although the Scriptures
say. add thou not unto His words,
lost He rcprovc thee, and thou be found
Il liar" you risk il, and say: Come
back, spirit of my departed father. come
d I,,l otfrt. ,f ,,,,- J,,.rs,J n,asIn> AT
my companions. Of my little child, and
tell me some things | don't know aAout
YOU aud about the unseen world" If
God is ever slapped square in the face, it
is when a spiritual medium puts down
her hand ON the table, invoking spirits
departed to make Il revelation. God has
told YOU all YOU ought To know, and how
dare you be prying into that which is
none of your business You cannot keep
The Bible in one hand and spirituaIi,m in
the other. One or the other will slip out
Of your grasp, depend upon il.
S~piritualism is adverse 10 the Bible in
the fact that it has in these last days
called from the future world Christian
men TO testify against Christianity. lis
mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the
celebrated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testiics that Christians are idolators.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne, and
he t~estifles that he is stopping in the same
house in heaven with John Bunyan. They
call back John Wesley, and he ~tcstitics
against the Christian religion which he
all his life g~loriously preached. Andrew
Jackson Davis, the greatest Of all the
spiritualists, comes to the front and de
clarcs that the New Testament is but
''the dismal echo of a barbaric age" and
the Bible only zone of the pen and ink
relics of Christianity They attempt 10
substitute the writings of S~wedenborg,
and Andrew Jackson Davis. and other re-
ligious balderdash, in the place of this
old Bible. | have in my
house a book which was used
in this very city in the
public service of Spiritualists. 1t is well
worn with much service. open that
!, book, and it says: What Is our baptism!
Answer: Frequent additions of water.
What is our inspirations Plenty of fresh
; air and sunlight. What is orr prayerl
t Abundant hysical exercise. What is oul
{ love-feast? A clear conscience and SOUND
sleep" And ! find from the same book
, that the chief item intheir public worship
; is gymnastic exercises, and that whenever
they WaDttO rouse ND their souls 10 a VERY