New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-09
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Exhausted. Hands ciammy ana colo.
Nothing prospers but long hair-soft marshes,
yielding rank grass. Spritualism destroys
The physical health. Its disciples are ever
hearing startling news from the other world.
Strange beings crossing the room in white.
Table fidgety, wanting TO get its feet loose
as if to dance. Voices sepulchraI and onlin.
GUS. Bewildered with raps. Inever knew a
confirmed spiritualist who chad a healthy
nervous system. 1t is incipient epilepsy and
catalepsy. Destroy your nervous system,
and you might as well be dead. / have
noticed that people who are hearing raps
from the future world have but little
strength left to bear the raps of this world
1t is an awful thing to trifie with ones nery-
Gus system. 1t is SO delicate, it is so far
reaching, its arrangements are so terrible.
Get the nervous system in jangle, and, so
SO far as your body and soul are concerned,
the whole universe is a jangle. Better in
our Ignorance experiment with chemists
retort that may smite us dead, or with an
engineers 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, and be happy, as men have
been under such affections but woe be to
the man whose nerves are shattered. Spirit
ualism smites first of all, and nightly,
against the nervous system, and SO makes
life miserable.
indict spiritualism, also, because it is 50.
cial and marital curse. The worst deeds of
llcentiousness and the worst orgies of OBJ
scenity have been enacted under its patron.
age. The story is too vile for me to tell. L
will not pollute my tongue nor YOUR ears
with: the recital. Sometimes the civil law
has been evoked to stop the outrage. Fam
lies innumerable have been broken up by
it, It has pushed off hundreds of young wo-
men into a life of prof1igacy. It talks about
Collective afnities, and .saffinital relations
and spiritual matches" and adopts the
whole vocabulary of free-loyism. In one of its
monster curse of civilization" SIT is
source of debauchery and intempcrance."
If spiritualism could have its full swing it
would turn this world into pandemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnabe religion, and the sooner it droEs
into the he'll from which it rosei the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake of
the last yestige of it perish forever. I wish
could gatherup all the raps it has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned, and
gather them all on its own head in one thun-
dering rap Of annihilation
further indict spiritralism for the fact
it is the cause OF much insanity. There is
not an asylum between Bangor and San Fran
cisco which has not the torn and bleeding
victims of this delusion Go into any asy-
lum, care not where it is, and the presiding
doctor, after you have asked him: .sWhat IS
the matter with that MANI" will say: ..Spir-
itualism demented him." or, ''What is the
matter with that woman" he will saw:
"Spiritualism demented her. 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intellects It
swept off into mental midnight judges, SEN
ators, governors, ministers of the gospel, and
one time came near capturing one of the pres
idents of the United States. At Flushing,
near this city, a man became absorbed with
it, forsook his family, took his only $4,000,
surrendered them to a spiritual medium in
endsto his own life, and then was incarcerat.
ed in the State lunatic asylum, where he is
to-day a raYing maniac. Put your hand in
the hand of this witch Of Endor and she will
lead you to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting sesnce. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe
for tine United States. Getting midocean
around day after day and week after week,
and for whole month after she was due
people wondered, and finally gave her I'D.
There was great anguish in the cities, tor
there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some of the women, in their dis
tress, Went to the spiritual mediums and in
quired as to the fate of that vessel, The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steamship
lost with all on board. Woman went raying
mad and were carried to the lunatic asylunls.
: After while one day a gun was heard off
quarantine. The flags went up on the ship
ping and the bells OF the churches were
rung. The boys ran though the streets: "Ex-
ira! The Atlantic is safev' There was the
embracing as from the dead, when friends
came again to friends; but some of those
passengers went up to find their wives in the
lunatic asylum where this cheat of internal
spiritusl1sm had put them. A man in Belle.
yue hospital, dying from wounds made by
his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, he said: s'The spirits told
me to-" Parents have strangled their chill
dren, and when asked why they did it, re-
piled: e'Spiritualism demanded it, it is
the patronizer and forager for the mad
house. Judge Edmonds in Broadway taber-
nacle, New York, delivering lecture in be-
halt of spiritualism, admitted in so many
words: 'tThere is fascination about con.
sultation with the spirits of the dead that
has tendency to lead people off from their
right judgment, and to 1nstill into them a
that is revolving to the natural
mind.''
1t not only ruins its disciples, but it ruins
the mediums also-only give it time The
Gadaraan swine, on the banks of the Lake
of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual medi-
Ulms than down they went in an avalanche
OF pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds
men. The office of a medium is bad for a
man, bad for a woman, bad for a beast
/ bring against this delusion more fearful
indictment-it ruins the soul immortal.
First, it makes a man a quarterof an inf del:
then it makes him half an infideI; then it
makes him whole infidel. The whole system,
as conceive it, is founded on the INSULT
cheney of the word of God as areyelation. God
says the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is where 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: stAdd thou not unto His
words, lest He reprove thee,s and thou be
found a liar," you risk it. and say: s.Come
back, spirit of my departed father; come
back, spirit of my departed mother, Of nv
companions, Of my little child, and tell me
some things I don't know about you and
about the unseen world.'' If God is ever
slapped square in the face it is when
spiritual medium puts down her hand on
the table, invoking spirits departed to make
revelation. God has told you all you ought
to know. and how dare you be pr ying into
that which is none of your business? You
can not keep the Bible in one hand and
splritualism iE the other. One or the other
will slip outof your grasp, depend upon it.
Spiritual1sm is adverse to the Bible in the
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