The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-03

spirit Of peddler who had been murdered
in that house many years before for his
$500. Whether the ghost of the dead
peddler had como there to collect his $500,
or his bones, cannot say, not being
o Spiritualist, but there was a great
racket at the door, 30 Mr.. Weekman de-
Fox, and Mrs. Fox, and all the little
Foxes. The excitement spread. There
was universal rumpus. The Hon.
Judge Edmonds declared, In book, that
he had actually seen a bell start from
the top shelf of a closet, heard it ring
over the people that were standing in the
closet; then, swung by invisible hands,
it rang over the people In the back
parlor; and f1oated through the folding
doors to the front parlor, rung over the
people there, and then dropped on the
floor. N. P. Talmage, senator Of the
United States. afterwards governor of
Wisconsin, had his head COM
pletely turned with spiritualistic de-
monstrations. A man as he was
passing along the road, said that he was
lifted up bodily, and carried toward his
home through the air, atsuch great speed
hs could not count the posts on the fence
as he passed, and as he had handsaw
and square in his hand, they beat, as
he passed through the air, most delight
full music And the tables tipped, and
the stools tilted, and the bedsteads raised,
and the chairs upset, and it seemed as if
the spirits everywhere had gone into the
furniture buririessi Well, the people
said: 1--WE have got something new in
this country; it is a new religion. Oh,
no, my friends. Thousands Of years ago
we find in our text spEitualistic seance.
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles Of
our day has been more strange, mystefi-
GUS and wonderful than things which
have been seen in the past centuries of
the world In all the ages there have
been necromancers, those who consult
with the spirits of the departed; charm
ers, 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 world and
hold consultation with spirits: astrolo-
gers, who could read new dispensation
in the stars; experts in 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 a
exhalation that intoxicated the sheep and
the goats that came anywhere near 1t,
and a shepherd approaching it was
thrown by that exhalation into an excite
ment in which he could foreten future
| o,o~,+, o,I hold oo,,c,,1fo t,oy, with tho
spiritual world. Yea, before the time Of
| Christ, the Brahmins went through all
the table moving, all the furniture ex-
citement which the spirits have exploited
in our day; precisely the same thing oyer
and over again, under the manipulatiQns
of the Brahmins Now do you say that
spiritualism is different from these?
answer, all these delusions l have men
toned belong to the same family. They
Fare exhumations from the unseen
world. What does God think Of
all these delusions9 He thinks SO
severely of them that he never
speaks of them but with ivid thunders
of indignation. He says: Il will be a
swift witness against the sorcerer." He
says: ''Thou shalt not suffer a witch to
live." And lest you might make some
important distinction between Spiritual
ism and witchcraft, God says, in SO 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: t'The soul
of those who seek after such as have
familiar spirits, and who go whoring
after them, I will set myself against
them, and he shall be cut off from among
his people, The Lord Almighty, in a
score of passages, which have not now
time to quote, utters his indignation
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
Spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble te
kill ten men. He did not know where tc
go for relief. After while he resolved
to go and see the witch of En-dor. He
expected that somehow she would affort
him relief. 1t was his trouble thai
now that Spiritualism finds its victims IL
the troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, ths
bereft. You lose your watch, and yor
go to the fortune teller to find where i
is. You lose a friend, you want the
spiritual world opened, SO that you may
have communication with him. In +;
highly wrought, nervous and diseased
state of mind, you go and put yoursel
in that communication. That is why
hate Spiritualism. 1t takes advantage O
one in a moment of weakness, which
may come upon us at any time. w,
lose friend. The trial is keen, sharp
suffocating. almost maddening. If W.
could marshal host, and storm th,
eternal world, and recapture our loves
one, the host would soon be marshaled
The house is so lonely. The world is s.
dark. The separation is so insufferable.
But Spiritualism says: 1--WE will opel
the future world, and your loved one cal
come back and talk to you.' Thougl
we may not hear his voice, we may hea
the rap of his hand. So, clear the table
Sit down. Put your hands on the table
Be very quiet. Five minutes gone. Tel
minutes. No motion of the table. NJ
response from the future world. Twent,
minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous ex
citement all the time increasing. Fort,
minutes. The table shivers. Two rap
from the future world. The letter
of the alphabet are called over
The departed friends name
John. At the pronunciation of tn
letter 81" two raps. At the pronuncia
ton of the letter s'O," two raps. At th
pronunciation of the letter "H," tw
raps. At the pronunciation of the lette
"N." two raps. There you have tn
whole name spelled out. John, John
Now, the spirit being present, you say
"John, are you happy2" Two raps Civ
an affirmative answer. Pretty soon tn
hand Of the medium begins to twitc
and toss, and begins to write out
after paper and ink are furnished
a message from the eternal world
What is remarkable, the departe
spirit, although it has been amid th
illuminations of heaven, cannot spell a
well as it used to. It has lost all gram
matical accuracy and cannot write q
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