Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-30
stlned and mysterious half-utsersnce,

lstined and mysterious hali-uttersnce
which makes
THE HAIR STAND ON END
and the cold chIIls creep up the back, bu'
in sn unnindered and ilIimitable delight
Sand none shall murmur or misdoubt.
When Coos great sunrise nnds us out"
Yes, my friends, spiIitualism comes to
! those who are In trouble and sweeps
them into its decisions. Saul, in the
midst OF his disaster, went to the witch
Of Endor. The vast majority Of those
who have gone to spiritual mediums
have been sent there through their mis-
fortunes.
| learn still farther from this subject,
that spiritua!ism and necromancy are ef :
fairs OF the darkness. Why did not Saul
go in the day? He WAS ashamed to go.
Besides that, he knew that this spiritual
meoium, like sill her successors, per-
formed her exploits in the night. The
Dsvenports, the Fowlers, the Foxes, the
spiritual mediums of ali oges, have cho-
sen the night or @ dsIkened room. Why?
The msjority Of their wonders have
oeen swlndles, and deception prospsrs
best in the night.
Some Of the performances of spiritual
mediums sre not 10 be 6scribed to fraud,
but TO some occult law that after awhile
may be demonstrated. But believe that
now 999 out of every 1000 achievements
on the part OF spiritual mediums are
arrsnt and u1miiigsted humbpg. TIE
I mysterious rsd letters that used TO come
out on the mediums srm were found to
have been made by SD iron pencil that
I went heavily over the flesh, not tearing
It, but 80 disturbing the blood, that it
came up in great round letters. The
witnesses of the sespces have locked the
door, put the key ia their pocket, ar
rested the operator, and found out, by
searching the room, thht hidden levers
moved the tables. The sealed letters that
were mysteriously read without opening,
have been found TO have been
cut at the side, and then after
wards slyly put together with gun arabic;
| snd the nedium wao, with heavy
blanket ever his head, could read book,
mas been found to have had bottle OF
phosphoric oil, by the light of which
snybodY can read a book; and yeDtrilo.
qnism, and legerdennin, and
SLIGHT CT HAND,
| and optical deiusion account for nesrly
everything. Deception being the main
staple Of Spiritualism, no wonder it
chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unsc-
countasle things in the night. Almost
every man has at some time had q touch
OF hsllucinstion. Some time ago, after
had been over tempted to eat something
iudigestible before retiring at night,
after retiring l ssw the president OF one
Of the prominent colleges nstride the foot
OF the bed, while ne demanded OF me
| loan of cents! When awakened had
no idea IL Was anything supernatural
and have to sdvise you, il you hear and
see strange things At night, to stop eat
| ing hot mince pie and take a dose Of
bilious medicine. 1t is an outraged ply
steal organism, enough to deceive the
very elect 6fter shutdown, and does nearly
sill Its work in the night. The witch Of
Endor held her seancss st night; so do
all the witches. Away with this religion
| Of spooks.
Still further: l lesrn from my text that
spiritualism is doom and death to It's dis
ciples. King Saul thought that he would
get help from the "medium," but the
frst thing That he sees makes him. swoon
away, And no eooner is he resuscitated
| than ne Is told he must die. Spiritual
ism is
/ DOOM AND DEATH
| to everyone that yields to 1t. It ruins
| the body. Look in upon an audience Of
spirituslists CEdaverous. Weak. Nerv-
Gus. Exhausted. Hands clammy ana
cold. Nothing prospers but long hair
soft marshes yielding rank grass. Spir-
l.ualism destroys the physical health. Its
disc Piles are ever hesring startling news
from the other world. Strange beings
crossing the room In white. Table
hdgetty, wanting to get Its feet loose IS
| il to dance. Voices sepulchraI and
oninous. Bewildered with rsps. never
knew q confirmed spiritualist who had 8
| heslthy nervous system. Il is incipient
epilepsy and catslepsy. Destroy your
nervous aystem and you might rs well be
dead. have noticed that people VINO
are hearing rGps from the future world
have bat little strength left to bear the
hard raps Of this world. It Is an sWful
thing to tribe with ones nerv-
ous systems. 1t is so delicate
1t Ia SO far -resching-its arrangements
are 50 terrible. Get the nervous system
langle, and 80 far IS your body and soul
are concerned, the whole universe is c
jangle. Better In our ignorance expert
ment with chemists retors that may
smite US dead or with al engineers steam
boiler thst may blow US to atoms,
tnan experiment. with the nervous
system. 4 man can live with only one
lung or with NO eyes and be happy, as
men have been under such affl csions; but
woe be TO the man whose nerves are shat
tered. Spirituslism smites frss of ell,
and nightly, against the nervous system,
Snc 80 makes life miserable.
|. indict spirituslism also, because 1t is
. social and marital curse. The worst
deeds Of RIGHTEOUSNESS snd the worst
orgies Of obscenity have been enacted
under its patronage. The story is too
vile for me to tell. will not pollute my
tongue nor your ears with the recital
Sometimes the civil law has been evoked
TO stop the outrage. Families innumer-
able have been broken up oy it. 1t has
pushed OF hundreds OF young women into
q life OF pronigscy. It talks about
"elective sffinities," and "aflnital rels-
tions," and spiritual Matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary OF free