Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-05-17
TALMAGE
OEAYN nlviNE's SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject; "Modern Spiritualism.

hoth familiar spirit at Ea-dor. Ind saul
hsquised himself and put on other rai,nent.
un@ ne trent, and ttco men tcith him, and
Mey came 10 NE tcontdn by night, and he
SAD, 1 rrdu thee dirine unto me bv the
fdiHufdr spirit, and bring me hin, a,D ipbonn
shott name unto ttcen-I Samuel xviii.
rs
have recently become Spiritualist At
least SO some Of the journals Of that belief
ueclare This, together with the fact that
mediums are now being tried in the criminal
courts, setting millions of people to make
inquiry IN regard to communication between
TINS world and the next, leads me to preach
this sermon,
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
spiritual medium, or a witch, or ANYTHING
that you please to call her--at any rate, q
woman who had communication with the
spirits oil the eternal world. 1t was a very
u,iicnlt thing to do, for Saul had either slain
aii the witches or compelled them to stop
business. A servant one day said to King
saul: u know of a spiritual medium down
at the village of En- dor" ''Do YOUR said the
King Night falls. Saul, putting off his
kingly robes, and putting on the dress of a
pam citizen, with two servants, goes out to
y hunt up this spiritual medium 1t was no
ca r thing for Saul to disguise himself for
the tallest people in the country only came
up to his shoulder and | think from the
strength Of the man and the way he
bore himself he must have been well pro-
portioned. 1t must have been a frightful
tnlng TO see man walking along in the
night eight nine feet high suppose.
as the people taw him pass, they said:
woo is thatl He is as tall as the king"
having no idea that in such a plain
dress there really was passing the King
saul and his servants after awhile reach the
village, and they say: II wonder if this is
the housei" and they look in and see the
haggapd, weird and shriveled up spiritual
medium sitting by the light and on the table
sculptured images, and divining rods,
and poisonous herbs and bottles, and vases
They say: YES this must be the place.
Tine loud rap brings the woman to the door;
and as she stands there, holding the candle
or lamp above her head and peering out into
The darkness, she saws;
who is herer' The tall king informs her
that he has come to have his fortune told
W hen she hears that, she trembles and
almost drops the light, for she knows there
Is no chance for a fortune teller or spiritual
medium in ali the land. But Saul, having
sworn that no harm shall come to her she
says: well, who shall / bring up from the
dcad.' Saul saws; Bring up Samuel That
was the prophet who had died little while
before. / see her waving a wand. or stirring
up some poisonous herbs in a caldron, or hear
her mutt ering over some incantations, or
stamping with her foot as she cries out to
the realm of the dead: "Samuel! Samuel!n
tenement opens, and the gray hairs float up,
and tho forehead, the eyes, the lips, the
shoulders, the arms, the feet the entire body
OIL dead Samuel, wrapped in sepulchral robe,
appearing to the astonished 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 for? Why
hat do
mean. King Sauls' Saul, trying to compose
and control himself, makes this stammering
and affrightcd utterance, as he says to the
dead prophet; 'The Lord is against me, and
have come to you for help. What shall
dos" The dead prophet stretched forth his
finger to King Saul and said: 'sDie to-mor-
row! Come with me into the sepulcher
am going now. Come, come with me!n And
To- the fioor again opens, and the feet of the
dead prophet disappear, and the arms, and
The shoulders, and the forehead. The floor
closes. Nothing is left in the room but Sau!
and the two servants and the spiritual me-
dunn. and the sculptured images, and the
diVining rods, and the bottles and the vases,
and the poisonous herbs. Oh, that was an
awful seance
learn first from this subject that spir-
= itnaism is very old religion 1t is natural
hat people should want to know the origin
ND the history of doctrine which is so
widespread in all the villages, towns and
cities of the civilized world, getting new
converts every day-a doctrine with which
manysof you arc already tinged
Spiritualism in America was born in 1s47,
IN Hydesvhle, Wayne County, N. Y, when
one night there was a loud rap heard against
che door of Michael Weekman; a rap q sec
ond time, rap a third time; and all three
times, when the door was opened, there-was
nothing found there the knocking having
been made seemingly by invisible knuckles
In thatsame house there was a young woman
who had cold hand passed over her face.
and there being seemingly no arm attached
to it, ghostly suspicious were excited. After
while Mr.. Fox and his family moved into
that house, and then every night there was
banging at the door; and one night Mr. Fox
said: "You are spiritm Two raps, an
swering in the affirmative sAre you an
injured spiritn' Two raps. answering in tho
affirmative. And so they found out, as they
say, that it was the ghost or spirit IT ped
Ter who had been murdered in that house
many years before for his $780, Whether
the ghost Of the dead pedler had come
there to collect his $500. or his bones, I can
NOT, saw mott ba;po 4 s,,;r;tra,;st. Inf tbaro
ss a s o, rasa+ ~ t,a Jro ru 20 M A.,
WceLn,sSn "a Jaclsred and M Mrs Weelman