National Republican., 1888-04-30
"Salvation, let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire Oruisp thp sound

DIR. Talmage announced his subject MOD.
em Spiritualism.' lie took for his text "Be-
hold, there is a woman that hath familiar
spirit at Endor. And Saul disguised himself
and put on other raiment, and he went, and
two men with him, and they came to the
woman by night; and he said, I pray thee,
divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and
bring me him up, whom ! shall name unto
thee''--I Samuel, xviii: Z, s. Following is the
sermon IN full
have recently become q spiritualist. At
least so some of tho journals of that belief
declare. This, together with the fact that
mediums" are now being tried In the Grim
inal courts, setting millions of people TO make
inquiry in regard to communication between
this world and the next, leads me to preach
Trouble to the right of him, and trouble to
the left Of him, saul knew not what to do. As
last resort he concluded to seek out a spirit.
ual medium, or witch, or anything that you
please to call her-at any rate, woman who
had communication with the spirits of the
eternal world. 1t was q. very difficult thing to
do, for Saul had either slain all the witches, or
compelled them to stop business. A servant,
one day, said to King Saul: " know of n spirit
nal medium down at the village Of En.dor."
payns pG ySu of fa& &s he ky kfaf SSSs o5e % and
Ting on the dress of a plain citizen, with
two servants, goes out to hunt up this
sprtpssal mcdu% %islt was SimnS, no easy thing
tallest people in the country only came up'to
his shoulder, and l think, from the strength
of the man and the way he bore himself, he
have been frightfui thing TO see a man walk.
ing along in the night eight or nine feet high
suppose, as the, people saw him pass, they
king''--haying no idea that in, such plain
dress there really was passing the king. Saul
and his servants after awhile reached the VII
age and 1T thcg 81 wonder i this Is The
haggard, weird and shrivelled up spiritual
medium sitting by the light, and on the table
sculptured images, and divining rods, and
They say, yes this must be the place"
Che loud rap brings the woman to the door,
and as she stands there, holding the candle
GE the ddm nSSyf aes S Pssfth IS S
tall king informs her that he has, come, to
have his fortune told. When she hears that
she trembles and almost drops the light for
teller or spiritual medium In all the land.
But Saul having sworn that no harm shal!
come to her, she .Sy says, aWel sSh wh9 aSi shall
Bring up samuel" That was the prophet
who had died little while berore i see her
wsying q wand or stirring up some poisonous
herbs In q cauldron, or hear muttering over
some incantations, or stamping with her foot
rs she cries out to. the realm Of the dead;
samuel! samuel!n Lo, the freezing horror.
hairs float up and the forehead, Tie eyes, tie
lips, tho shoulders the arms, the feet, the
entire body of dead Samuel, wrapped. In
group who. stagger back and hold fast and
catch their breath and shiver with terror. The
dead prophet, white and awful from the
tomb, begins to move his ashen lips, and he
glares upon King Saul and cries out: what
did you bring me up fory Why did you break
my long sleepS What do You mean, King
sauls", Saul, trying to compose and control
cd utterance, as he says to the dead prophet:
"Thc, Lord Is against me and have come to
you for help, What shall l dos" The dead
prophet stretched forth his finger to King Saul
and said; "Die tomorrow. Come with me
into the sepulcher. am going now Come,
come with me-" And TO- the floor again opens
n AMID S he gss of and fS he dfaa sd ddSePsa e s
head, The floor closes. Nothing is left In the
room but Saul and the two servants, and the
spiritual medium, and the sculptured
bottles, and the vases, and the poison.
GUS, herbs. Q, that was an awful seance.
learn first from this subject that spiritual.
the history of q doctrine which Is so wide.
spread IN all the villages, towns, and cities of
the civilized world, getting new new converts
spirituaiism In America was born in 1si7, in
Hydesyille, Wayne county, New York, when
the door i Of Michael weekman;r nj a rap rap a Second second
time: a rap third time; and all three times,
when the door was opened there was nothing
seemingly by invisible knuckles. In that
had a cold hand passed h over her face, and and
ghostly suspicious we're excited. After awhile
Mr. Fox and his family moved into that house,
and then every night there was banging at
you spiriti Two raps, answering in the
affirmative. Are you an injured spirit? Two
raps, answering In the affirmative. And SO
they found & out as they ssay that # w was h, the
murdered In that house, many years before,
peddler had come there to collect his $500, OF
spirituSlist; but there was Vas a great racket
at the door, so Mr. Weekman declared, and
Mrs. Weekman, and Mr.. Fox and Mrs. Fox
spread There was q universal rumpus. The
Hon. Judge Edmonds declared, In book,
that he had actually seen bell start from the
people that were standing In the closet; then,
swung by invisible hands. II rang over the
people In the back parlor and foated through
the people there, and then dropped on the
floor, n. p. Talmage, senator Of the United
States, afterward governor OF Wisconsin, had
his head completely turned with spiritualistic
demonstrations. man, us lie was passing
along the road, said that he was lifted NJ
bodily, and carried toward his home through
he air, at such great speed he could not count
the posts on the fence as he passed; and as h,
had a handsaw and a square In his haad, they
beat, as he passed through the air, most dc
lightful music. And the tables tipped, and
and the chairs upset, and u seemed as II the
spirits everywhere had gone into the furn
ture business, Well, the people said: we
have got something new In this country; II \
anew religion" Q, no, my friends, Thousand,
Of years ago we find In our text spiritual
istiC seance,
Nothing in the splrtlhlistic circles of oul
day has been more strange, mysterious, ant
wonderful than things which have been seel
In the past centuries OF the world, In al tn
ages there have been necromancers, thos,
who consult with the spirits of the departed
charmers, those who put their subjects % M IN m !,
ing poisonous drugs see everything and hea
everything and tell everything; dreamers
people who In their sleeping moments can Sc
The future world and hold consultation witt
spirits; astrologers, who could read new dis
pensation in the stars; experts In palmlstry
who can tell by the lines In the palm OF you
hand your origin and your history. From
cave on Mount Parnassus, we are told, ther
was an exhalation that intoxicated the shee
and the goats that came anywhere near II
and shepherd approaching II was throw
Which he could foretell future events an
hold consultation with the spiritual world
Yea, before the time OF Christ the Brah
minis went through all the table-moyinl
have exploited in our day; precisely the sam
thing over and over again, under the manipr
lations OF the Brahmins. Now, do You say tina
spirltualism Is different from thesey answer
10 the same family. They are exhumntion
from the unseen world. What docs God thin
OF all these delusionss lie thinks so seyercl
Of them that He neyegspeaks OF them but wit
livid thunders Of Indignation. He says;
will be swift witness against the sorcerer
lie says: "Thou shalt not suffer witch