Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-30

Look in upon an audience of Spiritualists.
Cadaverous. Weak. Nervous. Exhaujted.
Hands clammy and cold, Nothing prospers
but long hair-soft marshes yielding rank
grass. Spiritualism destroys the physical
health Its disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the other world. Strange
beings crossing the room in white Table
fidgety, wanting to get its feet loose as II To
dance. Voices sepulchral and ominous. Be
wildered with raps | never knew con
firmed Spritualist who had a healthy nervous
system. 1t is incipient epilepsy and cata-
lepsy Destroy your nervous sySt0sIi and you
might rs well be dead. | have noticed
that people who ar3 hearing raps from the
future world have but little strength left to
bear the har,l raps of this world. 1t is an
awful thing to trifie with ones nervous
system 1t Is so delicate-it is so far reach
ing-its arrangements are terrible. Get
the nervous system jangle and 50 far as
your body and soul are concerned, the whole
universe is a jangle Better in our ignorance
experiment with a chemists retort that may
smite us dead, or with an engineers steam
boiler that may blow us to atoms, tnan ex-
pertinent with the nervous system. A man
can live with only one lung or with no eyes
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daInnaeie renel"n' anu 'ne soo"ei uloP'
ih.o .he neii iro,n WHICH ~ - '"e 80. 80
oo'n ior eaftn anu ne"'e.'. foi .ne 'aAe
mans nohor anu "o'ii'n pui nay iT'
,he ias' 'es.ee =, - nj p .i' IsA :. ISL S
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further indict Spirituaiishi ior tne tact
that 1t Is the cause Oh much insanity mere Is
not an asylum between nahSor aho san
Francisco which mas not tne torn ana Diced
ing victims OF TINS deiusioh. "o INTO any
asylum, care not where II Is, and the pre-
siding doctor, after you have asked him:
What is the matter with that man. Will
Say: "Spirituaiism demented him'' or,
w nat Is the matter win 'hat "",hahi ne
viii say: Spirituaiisin demehted her. 1t
has taken do"h some :" 'ne riSn't". niUet
iectS L. swept Oh ih'o niei'ii ut
ludses Sha'oiS' so' h'' D i'iii''''eis VI .iie
'rospei, ana one iii'e came near capturing
one OF Ihe Presiueht' Vi tue oniUe7' ''h'es'
Al riusnihS, near 'nis citS' a "ah "ecaine
aosofoea VITO II, toisoA n,s tai' tooA ms
only Si''uv, sur,ehuereu 'heiii !" spirluai
heiiuiii III We" ioih a',ep'eu ,'s me 'in'es
20 put an emu " i.is o"n s,. . hhu tnen was
insaice, a''d ~ .ue ' a'"a "'s iI,i. UNI.
"ue'o ue s. -, "
Jour nnha II, o manu- ., lhis
"ncn vi anu sne WIN ieiu
you 10 ooeeoihiess peiui'ioh' "here sue
noios ner everlasting Se' iaht years
ago .he steamer A.iai''ic s.ai 'e' iioiii furope
Tor the oh',ed S'a'ts, "e.,iiis iiiiuoceah tue
machinery proke ana siie houn'iersd AROUND
Ay a,'er uat anu "A are, ven anu ioi
"uoio ','oilh ,, a. 'e' '"o ""' IN, "oH
iered ana niiaiiy sa'e nei up ineie WAS
great anguish u, .he ei''t's' ios tnere were
many VINO "au ii,eiius ao'iu ,:' .nat 'ea'ti