The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-30

he passed; and as he had handsaw and q
square in his hand, they beat, as he passed
through the air, most delightful music.
And the tables tipped, and the stools tilted,
aud the bedsteads raised and the chairs
upset, and it seemed as if the spirits every
where had gone into the furniture business.
Well, the people said: "We have got some
thing new in this country; it is q new reli-
gion," o, no, my friends. Thousands of
years ago we find in our text Spiritualis-
tic seance
Nothing in the Spiritualstic circles of
our day has been more strange, mysterious
and wonderful than things which have been
seen in the past centuries of the world. In
all the ages there have been NEGRO romancers.
those who consult with the spirits of the
departed; charmsrs, those who put their
subjects in mesmeric state; sorcerers,
those who by taking poisonous drugs see
everything and hear everything and tell
everything; dreamers, people who in their
sleeping moments can see the future worl
and hold consultation with spirits; as
trologers, who could read a new dispense
tion in the stars; experts i'll palmistry, who
can tell by the lines in the palm Of your
hand your origin and your history. From
cave on Mount Parnassus, we are told, there
was an exhalation that intoxicated the
sheep and the goats that came anywhere
near u, and shepherd approaching it was
thrown by that exhalatlon into an excite
ment in which he could forete future
events and hold consultation with the
spiritual world. Yea, before the
time of Christ the Brahmins
went through all the table-moving,
all the furnitu re excitement, which the
spirits have exploited in our day; precisely
the same thing over and over again, under
the manipulations of the Brahmins. Now
do that sri,itualic,1, ie JiHarant
from theSel / answer, all these delusions |
have mentioned belong to the same family
They are exhumations from the unseen
world What docs God think Of all these
delusions! He thinks so severely Of them
that he never speaks of them but with livid
thunders of indignation. He says: II will
be swift witness against the sorcerer." He
says: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to
live" And lest you might make some i'm
portant distinction between Spirituaism
and witchcrafJ, God says, in 50 many
words: "There shall not be among YOU a
.consulter Of familiar spirits, or wizard, or
necromancer; for they that do these things
are an abomination unto the Lord" And
he says again: THE soul of those who
seek after such as have familiar spirits, and
who go whoring after them, | will set my
self against them, and he shall be cut off
from among his people, Tho Lord
Almighty, in score of passages, which |
have not now time tosquote, utters his in
dignation against all this great family of
delusions: After that be Spiritualist if
you dare!
Still further: we learn from this text how
it is that people come to fall into Spiritual
ism. Saul had enough trouble to kill ten
men. He did not know whore to go for
relief. After awhile he resolved to go and
see the witch of Endor. He expected that
somehow she would afford him relief. 1t
was his trouble that drove him there. And
have to tell you now that Spiritualism
finds its victims in the troubled, the bank
rupt, the sick, the bereft. You lose your
watch, and you go to the fortnne-teller to
find where It is. You lose a friend, you
want the spiritual world opened, so that
you may have communication with him.
In highly-wrought nervo4s. and diseased
state of mind, you go and put yourself in
that communication. That is why | hate
Spiritualism. 1t takes advantage of one in
a moment of weakness, which may come
upon us at any time. We lose friend.
The trial is keen, sharp, suffocating, almost
maddening. II we could marshal a host,
and storm the eternal world, and recapture
our loved one, the host would soon be- mar
shalled. The house is so lonely. The world
is so dark. The separation is SO insuferable.
But Spiritualism says: "We will open
the future world, and your loved one can
como back and talk to you" Though we
may not hear his voice, we may hear the
rap of his hand. So, clear the table. Sit
down. Put your hands on the table. Be
very quiet. Five minutes gone. Ten
minutes. No motion of the table. No
response from the future world. Twenty
minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous excite
ment all the time increasing. Forty min
utes. The table shiverS. Two raps from
the future world. The letters of the alpha
bet are called over. The departed friends
name is John AT the pronunciation of the
letter - b" two raps. AT the pronunciation
of the letter 80" two raps. At tue pro
nunciation Of the letter H, " two raps. At
the pronunciation Of the letter IN, /" two
raps There you have the whole name
spelled out. John, John. Now, the
spirit being present, you say: "John, are
YOU happyp Two raps give an affirmative
answer. Pretty soon the hand of the
medium begins to twitch and toss, and
begins to write out, after paper and ink are
furnished, message from the eternal
world. What is remarkable, the departed
spirit, although it has been amid the
illUmlnatlons of heav n, cannot spell as
well as it used to. 1t has lost all grammatical
accuracy and cannot write as dis incly. |
received a letter through medium once.
1 ScuU ~ OdCh- bdlu. JuSb please 10 Ieli
those ghofts they had better go 10 school
and get improved in their orthography."
Now, just think Of spirits, that the Bible
represents as enthroned in glory, coming
down to crawl under the table, and break
crockery, and ri & tea-belis before supper
is ready, aud rap the window shutter on a
gusty night. Is there any consolation in
such poor, miserable work, compared with
the thought that our departed Christian
friends, got rid of pain and anguishiug, are
in the radiant society of heaven, and that
we shall join them there, not in stifisd
and mysterious half-utterance, which makes
the hair stand on end and the cold chills
creep the back, but in an unhindered and
delight.
"And none shall murmur or misdoubt.
When Gods great sunrise finds us out"
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are In trouble and sweeps them
into It's delusions. Saul, in the midst Of his
disaster, went TO the witch of En-dor. The
vas majority Of those who have gone 70
spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes.
learn still farther from this subject,
that Spiritualism and nicromancy are af-
fairs OF the darkness. Why did not Saul 90
in the dayl He was ashamed 10 20. Be-
sides that, he knew that this spiritual
medium, like all her SUCCESSORS, performed
her exploits at night. The Dayenports, he
Fowlers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums
of all ages, have chosen the night or a
room. Whyi The majority Of
their wonders have been swind es, and de-
ception prospers best in the night.