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


up in great round letters. The witnesses
of the seances have locked the door, put the
key in their pocket, arrested the operator,
and found out, by searching the room, that
hidden levers moved the tables. The sealed
letters that were mySteriously read without
opening, have been found to have bean cut
at the side, and then afterward slyly put
together with gum arabic, and the medium
who, with heavy blanket over his head,
could read book, has been found TO have
had bottle of phosphorlc oil, by the light
Of which anybody can read book; and
ventriloquiSm, and legerdemain, and
sleight OF hand, and optical delu'ion ac-
count for nearly everything. Deceptio n
being the main staple of SpiritualiSm, o
wonder it chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unaccount-
able things in the night Almost every man
has at some time had touch of hallucina-
tion 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 de-
manded of me loan of 1--WE cents When
l awakened had no idea it was anything
supernatural. And have to advise you, if
you hear and see strange things at night, to
stop eating hot mince pie and take a dose of
bilious medicine. II Is an outraged physi-
cal org lnism, enough to deceive the very
elect after sundown, and does nearly all its
work in the night The witch OF En-dor
held her seances at night; SO do all the
witches. Away with this religion of
spookS.
Still further: l learn from my text that
Spiritualisn is doom and death to its dis
ciples. King Saul thought that he would
get help from the ''medium;" but the first
thing that he sees makes him swoon away,
and no sooner is he resuscitated than he is
told he must die. Spiritualism is doom
and death TO everyone that yields to it 1t
ruins the body. Look in upon an audience
of spiritualists Cadaverous. Week Nerv-
GUS. Exhausted. Hands clammy and cold.
Nothing prospers but long bair-soft
marshei i:yielding rank grass. Spiritualism
destroys tae physical health. It's disciples
are ever hearing startling news from the
other world. Strange beings crossing the
room III white. Table fidgetty, wanting to
get its feet loose as if to dance. Voices
sepulchral and ominous Bewildered with
raps. never knew u confirmed Spiritu-
alist who had healthy nervous system.
1t is incipient epilepsy and catalepsy. De-
stroy your nervous system and you
might as well be dead. | have noticed
that people who are hearing raps from the
futuI world have but little strength left to
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awful thing to tri1e with ones nervous
system. 1t is so delicate-it is so far-reach-
ng-its arrangements are so terrible. Get
the nervous system jangle, and so far as
your body and soul are concerned, the
whole universe is jangle. Better in our
ignorance experiment. with chemists re-
tort 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
Spiritualisn smites first of all, and
nightly, against the nervous system, and
so makes life miserable.
indict Spiritualism also, because it is a
social and marital curse The worst deeds
of licentiousneSs and the worst orgies of OBJ
scenlty have been enacted under its patron
age The story is too vile for me to tell. /
will not pollute my tongue nor your ears
with the recital. Sometimes the civil law
has been evoked TO stop the outrage. Fami-
lies innumerable have been broken up by it.
1t has pushed off hundreds Of young women
into life of profligacy. 1t talks about
elective affinities," and "affilital rel =
tions," and spiritual Matches" and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free-lovsm In
one Of its public journals it declares ''mar
riage is the monster curse of civilization"
"It is a source of dehauchery and intemper-
ance" Ii Spiritualism could have its full
swing, it W. uld turn this world into a
pandemonium OF carnality. 1t is an un-
clean, adulterous, damuable religion, and
the sooner it drops into the hell from which
it rose, the better both for earth and heaven.
For tho sake of man's honor and woman's
purity, say let the last vestige of it perish
forever. | wish | could gather up all the
raps it has ever heard from spirits blest or
damned, and gather them all on its own
head in one thun iering rap Of annihilation!
further indict Spiritualism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity. There
is not an asylum tetween Bangor and San
Francisco whicn has not the torn and bleed
ing victims of this delusion. Gro into any
asylum, l care not where it is, ard the pre-
siding doctor, after you have asked him:
"What is the matter with thaJ manp will
say: "SpiIitualism demented him." or
What is the matter with that womanp
he will say: "Spirituallsm demented her."
II has taken down some of the brightest in-
tellects. 1t swept off into mental midnight
judges, senator's, 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, man
became absorbed with it, for5ook his farni-
ly, took his only fifteen thousand doll rrs.
sugreudered them to a spiritual
medium in New York, attempted
three times to put an end to his
own life, and then was ncarcerafe ed in tho
State luEatc asylum, where he is to-day
raving maniac. Put your hand IN the
hand Of this witch Of En-dor and she will
lead you to bottom ess perdltion, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Eu.
rope for the United States. Getting mid
ocean tho machinery broke, and she
fourdered around day after day, and week
after week, and for a whole m nth after
she vas due people wondered, & I'd finally
gave her up. There was great anguish in
the cities for there were many who bad
friends aboard that vessel. Some of the
wome1, in thor distress, went TO the
spiritual mediums, and inquired as to the
fate Of that vessel. The mediums called up
the spirits, and the rapp ngs on the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board Women WeIt raving mad, and
were carried 10 the lunatic asylum. After
awhile, one day gun was heard off Quar-
antine. The flags went up on the shipping,
and the bells OF the churches were rung.
crying: Extra! The Atlantic is sa.eW
There was the embracing as from
tho dead, when friends came again 10
friends; but some OF those passengers
went up TO find their wives in
tho lunatic asylum, where this cheat of in
fernal spiritualism had put them. A maa
in Bellevue Hospital, dying from wounds
made by his own hand, was asked why be