The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-10

the State Lunat.c Asylum. where he Is
to-day raving maniac. Put your hand
in the hand of this Witch of Endor, and
she will lead you to bottomless perdttion,
where she holds her everlasting scarcs.
A man in Bellevue Hosritah dying from
wounds 'nads bS his own hand, was asaed
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, replied: "Spirltu-
alism demanded il !" 1t il the patrouishr
and foraget for tho had house. Judge
RdmHnts, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering a lecture in favor OF
Spiritualism, admitted, in so many words:
"There is fascination about consulta-
ton with the spirits Of the dead that has 8
te ndency to lead people off from theii
right judgment, and to instill into them Q
fHnaticism that Is revolving to thu uaturA
tnind.O
It riot bniy ruins its disciples, but IL
ruins the mediums also, only give II time.
The Gadaraean swine, on the banks Of the
Lake of Galileo, no sooner became spirit
ual mediums than down they went, in an
avalanche of pork, to the CONSERVATION
Of all the herdsmen. The ofioo NJ .
medium IS bad fer d man, bad for wom-
an, tsd for a beast.
l bring against this delusion o moro
fearful indictments: 1t ruins the soul i'm
mortal. First, it makes man quarter
of an infidel; then il makes him half in
fidel; then it makes him whole intdel.
The whole system, as / conceive it, Is
founded on the insuffciency of the Word
of God ms revelation. God says the
Bible Is enough fer YOU to know about the
futile World. You say it is not enough,
ana there is where you and the Lord diff
fer. You clear the table, you shove aside
the Bible you put your hand on the table
and you say:
"Now let the spirits of the future world
come and tell me something the Bible has
not told me.o
And although the Scriptures say:
add thou not unto His words, lest he
reprove thee and thou be found liar"
you risk it, and say:
"Come back, spirit OF n,y departed
father; come back, pirit of my departed
mother, of my companions, of my little
child, md tell tne some things l don't
khow about you and about the unseen
world"
Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in
from the future world Christian men to tes-
tify against Christianity. Its mediums call
back Lorenzo Dow. the celebrated evaugel-
list, and Lorenzo Dow testifcs that Christi
ans are idolatOrs. Spiritualism calls back
Tom Paine, and he tcstifes that he is stop
ping in the same house in Heaven with
John Bunyan. They call back John Wes-
ley and he testifes against the Christian
religion which he all his life glOriouSly
preached. Andrew Jackson Davis, the
greatest of NIL the spiritualists, comes to
the front and declares that the New Testa-
r,ent is but "tha dismal echo of barbaric
age" and the Bible only lone of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity" They at
tempt to substitute the writings of Swed-
enbOrg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, and
other religious balderdash, in the place OF
this old Bible.
| have in my house a book which was
used in this very city in the pubic service
of spiritualists. 1t is well-wUrn with much
service. open that book, and il says
''What is our baptism: Answer: FIRE.
queht additions of water. What Is our
Inspiration? Plenty of fresh air and sun
light. What is our prayer? Abundant
physical exercise. What is our love-
FEAST" A clear conscience aud sound
sleep"
And find from the same book that tho
chief item IN their public worship is gym
nastic exercise, and that whenever they
want to rouse up their souls to very
high pitch of devotion they sing page G5:
The Night Has Gathered Up Her Moonlit
F"nges;' or page IS, Come to the
Woods, Hcigho" You say you are not
such a fool as that, but you will be if you
keep on in the track you have started.
But" says some one, wouldn't it be
Of advantage to hear from the future
world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians: There are a great
many matcrialists who do not believe
there are souls; but if spirits from the
future world should knock and talk over
to us, they would be persuaded"
To that answer, in the ringing words
of the son of God:
1t they believe not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one rose
from the dead.
Now believe, under God, that this SER
mon will save many from disease, insanity,
and perdition. L believe these are the
days of which the apostle spake when he
said:
In the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits
think my audience, as well rs other au-
diences in this day, need to have reiterated
in their hearing the passages | quoted
some minutes ago:
There shall not be among You conSultcr OF
familiar spirits. or wizard, or necromancer; for
they that do these things are an abOmination
untO the Lord.
And,
The soul that turneth after such rs have
familiar spirits, W II set Myself against them,
and they shall be cut of from their people.
But l invite you this morning to a
Christian seance, n nOOn-day seance.
This congregation is only one great fam
lily. Here is the church table. Come
around the church table, take your seats
for this great Christian seance, put your
Bible on the table, put your hands on top
of the Bible, and then listen and hear if
there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. l think there are. Listen!
Secret things belong unto the Lord our God,
but things that are revealed belong unto US anc
to our children.
Surely that is voice from the spirit
world! But before you rise from this
Christian seance, | want you to promise
me you will be satisfied with the Divine
revelation until the light of the eternal
throne breaks upon your vision. Do not