The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-11
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DOOks ana NentrllOQulSIns anu ltBeEuo-
main, and sleight of hand, and optical
delusion account for nearly every thing
Deceptionlbeing the main staple Of Spirit
ualism, no wonder it chooses the dark
ness.
You have all seen strange and unaca
countable things in the night. Almost
every man has at some time had touch
of hallucination. Some time ago, after
had been over tempted to eat something
indigestible before retiring at night after
retiring saw the president of one of the
prominent colleges astride the foot of the ,
bed, while he demanded Of me a loan OF
fifty cents. When / awakened had no
idea it was any thing supernatural And
/ have to advise you, if you hear and sea
strange things at night, to stop eating hot
mince-pie and take a dose Of bilious
medicine. 1t is an outraged. physical or.
ganism, enough to deceive the very elect
after sundown, and does nearly all it's
work in the night The Witch OF Endor
held her seances in the nights so do all
the witches. Away with this religion Of
spooks.
/ indict Spiritualtsm also because IL is g
social and marital curse. The worst deeds
of Righteousness and the worst orgies of
obscenity have been enacted under its
patronage. 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 % stop the out
rage. Families innumerable have beon
broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of young women into
a life Of prohigacy. 1t talks about
'selective affinities" and "afinital rela-
tions" and spiritual Matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary Of free
lovism. In one of its public journals IL
declares marriage is the monster curse
cf civilization" ''It is a source OF de-
bauchery and intemperanoe." IL
Spiritualism could have its full swing Il
would turn this world into pandemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it
drops into the hell from which It rose, the
better for both earth and Heaven. For
the sake of mans honor and woman's
purity, / say let the last vestiRe OF 1t
perish forever. wish could gather up
all the raps 1t has ever heard from spirits,
blest or damned, and gather them all on
its own head in one laundering rap OF an
nIhilationl
further indict Spiritualism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity.
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not the torn
and bleeding victims of this delusion. Go
into any asylum, care not where IL is,
and the presiding doctor, after you have
asked him, 'What is the matter with
that man?" will say: ''Spiritualism de-
mented him;v or, 'What is the matter
with that wOman?" he will say: "Spirit-
ualism demented her" 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intellects. II
swept off into mental midnight judges,
Senators, Governors, ministers Of the
Gospel, and one time came near captur-
ing one of the Presidents Of the United
States. At Flushing near this city, q
man became absorbed with 1t, forsoOk his
nga
them to spiritual medium in New York,
attempted three times to put an end 70 his
own life, and then was incarcerated in
the Safe Lunatic Asylum, where no its
to-day a raving maniac. Put your hand
| in the hand of this Witch of Endor, and
she will lead you to bottomless perdition4
where she holds her everlasting seance.
Many years ago the steamer Atlapt1c
| started from Europe to the United States.
! Getting in mid-ocean the machinery
broke, and she foundered around day
| after day, and week after week, and for
| whole month after she was due people
wondered, and finally gave her up. There
was great anguish in the cities, for there
were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some Of the women, in their dis
| tress, went to the spiritual mediums and
inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the
rappings on the table indicated the steam
| er lost, with all on board. Women went
| raving mad, and were carried TO the
! lunatic asylum. After awhile one day
| gun was heard off quarantine. The flags
went up on the shipping and the bells Of
! the churches were rung. The boys ran
through the streets crying: "Extrai the
/ Atlantic il safep' There was the en-
| bracing 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 Spiritualism had put them.
A man in Bellevue Hospital, dying from
wounds made by his own hand, Was asked
why he tried to commit suicide, and he
said: 'sThe spirits told me toW ~ Parents
/ have strangIed their children, and when
asked why they did II, replicd "Spiritu
alism demanded It'll" II is the patronizer
and forager for the mad house. Judge
/ EdmOnds, in Broadway Tabernacle, NeW
| York, delivering "a lecture in favor os
/ Spiritualism, admitted, in so many words
4There is a fascination about consulta-
| ton with the spirits Of the dead that has a.
tendency 20 lead people of from their
| right Judgment, and to instill into them
/ fanaticism that is revolving to the natural
| mind"
IL not only ruins it's disciples, but IL
| ruins the mediums also, only give IL time.
/ The Gadaraean swine, on the banks OF the
Lake Of Galilee, no sooner became spirit
ual mediums than down they went, In an
| avalanche OF pork, 20 the conformation
of all the h0rdsmen. The office Of
/ medium is bad for man, bad for wom-
an, bad for a beast.
Spiritualism is adverse 20 the Bible in
the fact that it has in these last days called
| from the future world Christian men TO tes-
| tify against Christianity. It's mediums call
| back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangel.
ist, and Lorenzo Dow teshfes that Christi
ans are idolators. Spiritualism calls back
Tom Paine, and he testifes that he ia stop
| ping in the same house in Heaven with
| John Bunyan. They call back John Wes-
ley and he testifies against the Christian
| religion which he all his life gloriOusly
preached. Andrew jackson Davis, tho
| greatest Of ali the spiritualists, comes 10
the front and declares that the New Testa-
uent * but "the dismal echo Of n barbaFio
| age. and the Bible only zone Of the pen
and ink relies OF Christianity" They at
| tempt TO substitute the writings Of Swed-
| enborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, aud
other religious balderdaEh, in the place Of
this old Bible.
But / invite you this morning 20 a
Christian seance, noon-day ecance.
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 sem co, put yoiir
Bible on the table, put your hands on top
Of the Bible, and then listen and hear N
there are any voices coming from the
eternal werld / think there are. Listel
secret things belopg unto the Lord our Cod.
but things that arc revealed belong unto us and
TO our children.
Insult not your departed friends by ask.
ing them 10 come down and scribble un-
der an extension table. Remember that
there is only one Spirit whose dictation
you have "a right 10 invoke and THAI j.
the holy, blessed aud onnipOtent spirit 81
God. Hark! He IS rnpping now, not on a
table Or the 6oOr, but rapping cn the door
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