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


room in white. Table hdgetty wanting 70
get its feet loose as If to dance Voices
sepulchrai and OumiOus. BeWldered with
raps- / never knew 8 confirmed SplritualiSS
vino had a healthy nervous system. 1t Is iu-
clplent epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system aud you might as well be
dead. have noticed that people who are
hearing raps from the future would have but
little strength left TO bear the hard raps of
this world 1t is an awful thing to tribe With
ones nervous system. 1t Is SO delicate-it Is
50 far-rea ching-its arrangements are so ter
rible. Get the nervous system Z iaugIe, and
so far as your body and soul are concerned,
the whole universe is Jangle. Better in our
ignorance experiment with 8 chemists r6GorE
that NAV smfta rs dead or with an en-
gneers's steam boiler that may blow US
TO atoms, than experiment with the nervous
system. A man can live with only one lung
or with no eyes. ana be haDpTs as men have
been under such Affections; but woe be to the
man whose nerves are shattered. Spiritualism
smiUes nrst OF al, and nightly, against the
nervous system, aud so makes life miserable.
indfct Spiritualism also, because it is q
social and marital curse. The worst deeds Of
RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst orgies Of OBJ
scentGy have been enacted under its patron
age. The story is too vile for me to tell /
will not pOlute my tongue nor your ears with
the recital Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innum-
cradle have been broken up by it. It has
pushed OF hundreds OF young women into 4
life OF prOhlgacy. 1t talks about elective az
hnlties,' and ''afdntt2l retatiOne" and "spirit-
,
pf IFee-IOVisms In one OF its public journals it
declares marriage Is the monster curse Of
and lntemperance-" If sDirttualtsm could
have its full swing, il would turn this world
into pandemOnium OF Carnality. 1t is an
unclean, adulterOus, damuable religion, and
the sooner ii drops into the hell from which
IL rose, the better both for earth and heaven.
For the sake of mans honor and Woman's
purity say let the last vestage Of it perish
forever. 1 wish l could gather up ali the raps
Z
and gather them all on It's own head in one
laundering rap of anuihilatiOnl
I further indict SpiritUalism for the fact
that it is the cause Of much insanity. There
is not an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and bleed
ing victims Of this delusiOn. Go into any
asylum, 1 care not where it is, and the presid-
ing doctor, after you have asked him; 'sWhat
Is the matter with that manl' Will say:
''Spritualtsm demented him;' or "What is
Bne matter With that WOmanP be will say
''SplTitual1sm demented her" It has taken
down some Of the brightest tntellects- 1t
swept OF into mental midnight Judges. sena-
tors, governors, ministers Of the Gospel. and
one time came near capturing one OF the
Presidents OF the United States. At Flush
ing near this city, a man became absorbed
with it. fOrsOOk his family, took his only
fifteen thousand dollars, surrendered them to
q spiritual medium in New York, attempted
three times to put an end to his own life, and
then was tncarcerated in the State Lunatic Asy
lum, where he is to-day raVing maniac. Put,
your hand in the hand of this witch Of En-dOr
and she will lead you to bOttOmless perdition,
where she holds her everlasting scene. Many
years ago the steamer Atlantic started from
Europe for the United States. Getting mid
ocean the machinery broke, and she founder
ed around day after day; and week after
week, and for whole month after she was
due people wondered, and finally gave her up.
There was great anguish in the cities, for
there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel Some of the women In their
distress, went to the spiritual mediums, and
inquired as to the fate Of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steamship
mad, and were carried to the lunatic asylum.
After awhile one day gun was heard OF
Quarantine. The flags went M on the ship
ping, and the bells Of the churches were rung.
The boys ran through the streets, crying: tx
tral The Atlantic is safe ~ There was the
embracing as from the dead, when friends
same again to friends; but some of those pas
5engerS went up TO md their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of infer
nal Spiritualism had put them. A man in
Bellevue Hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, and he said: 1.-THE spirits
told me to-" Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it, re-
piled: ''Spiritualism demanded it." 1t is
the patrOnizer and fOragsr for the madhouse.
Judge EdmOnds, in Broadway Tabernacle,
New York, delivering a lecture in behalf of
SpirttUalism, admitted in so many words:
''IheF6 Is q fascination about consultation
with the spirits Of the dead that has a tend
ency to lead people of from their right judg-
ment, and to instil into them a fanaticism
that is revolving to the natural mind"
1t nOt only ruins It's dtscipltnes, but it ruins
the mediums RlsOs only give 1t time. The
GRdar9ean swine, on the banks OF the Lake OF
Galilee, no sooner became spiritual mediums
than down they went, in an avalanche of
pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds
men. The Office OF a med ium Is bad for a
man, bad for a woman, bad for beast.
I bring against this delusion more fearful
Indictment: it ruins the soul immortal.
First, 1t makes man quarter OF an infdel +;
then 10 makes him half an inhdel; then {
makes him whole infideL The whole system,
as I conceive it, is founded on the insufficient
CT of the Word Of God as g revelation. God
says the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You say it is not
differ. You clear the table, you shove aside
the Bible, you put your hands on the table,
world come and tell me something the Bible
has not told me-" And although the
Scriptures say: ''Add thou not unto
His words, lest He reprOVe thee, and thou be
found liar" you risk 1t, and say; "COme
back spirit of nay departed father; come
back spirit Of my departed mother, of my
companions, Of my little child, and tell me
something's I don't know about you and
the unseen world" If God is ever slapped
square in the face, it is when spiritual medium
puts down her hand on the table, inVOkin Q
spirits departed to make q revelation God
has told you all you ought to know, and how
dare you to be prying into that which is none
Of your business? You cannot keep the
Bible In one hand and Spiritualism in the
other. One or the other viii slip out Of your
grasp, depend upon it.
SpiFituaIism is adverse to the Bible Ia the
fact that it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to testify
against Christianity. Its mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, the
Lorenzo Dow testi6es that Christians are
fdolators. Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne,
and he testifes that he is stopping IN the
same house in heaven with John Bunyan.
They call back John Wesley, and he testihes
against the Christian religion which he all his
life gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson
Davis, the greatest of all the 9piritualists,
comes to the front and declares that the New
Testament is but 'the dismal echo Of . bar
barrie ge,'' and the Bible only tone of the pen
and ink reIecs Of ChristiauftV.n They attempt