Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-05-17

decisions l have mentioned belong To tbe
same same family. They are examinations from
tne unseen world. What does God think of
al these delusions! He thinks so severely az
them that he never speaks of them but with
i ~ thunders of Indignation He says:
Il will be swift witness fspainst
the scorcer.n He says: "Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live." And lest you might
make some important distinction between
Spiritualism and witchcraft, God SAYS in so
many words: There shall not be among
you consulter Of familiar spirits. OK
wizard, or necromancer; for they that do
these things are an abomination to the Lord"
AND he says again: 1.-THE soul of those who
seek after such as have familiar spirits and
who go whoring after them, win set myself
among his people," The Lord Almighty, in
a score OF passages, which have not now
time to quote, utters his indignation against
an this great family of decisions After that
bea Spiritualist if You dare9
:. sui further we learn from this text how
u is that people come to fall into Spiritualism
saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. He
uid not know where to go for relief. After
awhile he resolved to go and see the witch of
En-dor. He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. 1t was his trouble
that drove him there And | have to tell
you now that Spirituaism finds its victims in
the troubled. the bankrupt, the sick, the
bereft You lose your watch and you GO to
Tile fortune teller to find where it is You
lose friend, you %r&the spiritual world
opened open 50 that youconvenks communication
a Msn diseased nm n found in n nn s
yourself your in tren. the Eion. That is
taee Of na one the house takes ssss adyan
Wnich may %s M at any time.
e lose fi.s-@s W. is keen. sharp.
marshal ,a1' = I,,ssfiroiioh some Of we conln
s san r1be a ,mn in the Eastern host would
The; The world is small stills for ftion is 50
But issSpoiireiiiiskey. He sells lin oman tho
future world,yht. SO that no5bne can come
hear his voceu one of tbs we may az p bs
hand ,a,,. So So; cleah.emoarat b Sit down. Put
Five minutes gone. fen minutes. No juno mo-
future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement all the time
increasing. Forty minutes. The table shiv-
ers. Two raps from the future world. The
letters of the alphabet are called over The
departed friends name is John. At the pro-
nunciation of the letter 81" two raps At
the pronunciation Of the letter "O,n two
raps. AT the pronunciation of the letter
II, J" two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter IN" two raps. There you have the
whole name spelled out. John, John.
NGW tne sprlfb being present you say
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, al
though it has been amid the illuminations of
heaven, cannot spell as well as itused to. 1t
has lost all grammatical accuracy and can
not write as distinctly. 1 received a
ietter through medium once. / sent it
back. | said. Just please tell those
ghosts they had better go to school and get
improved in their photography" Now, lust
think of spirits, that the Bible represents as
enthroned in glory, coming down to crawl
under the table, and break crockery, and 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 languishing, are in the radiant society
OF heaven, and that we shall join them there.
not in stifed and mysterious half utterance,
which makes the hair stand on end and the
cold chills creep the back, but in an unhin-
dered and illimitable delight.
And none shall murmnr or misdonbt.
When Gods great sunrise finds us out.
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into itsdelusions. Saul, in the midst of his
disaster, went to the witch of En-dor. The
vast majority of those who have gone to
spiritual mediums have been sent the re
through their misfortunes.
learn still further from this subject that
Spirltualism and necromancy are affairs of
the darkness. Why did not Saul go in the
day He was ashamed to 60 Besides that,
he knew that this spiritual medium, like ali
her successors, performed her exploits in the
night. The Davenports, the Fowlers, the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums OF all ages,
have chosen the night or darkened room.
Why's The majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospers best in
the night.
Some of the performances Of spiritual me-
dlums are not to be ascribed to fraud but to
some occult law that after awhile NAV be
demonstrated. But l believe that now 900
out of every 1000 achievements on the part
OF spiritual mediums are arrant and UNI
mltlgated humbug. The mysterious red LETT
tiers that used to come out on the mediums
arm were found to have been made by an
iron pencil that went heavily over the hesh
not tearing it, but SO disturbing the blood
that it came up in great round letters. The
witnesses Of the seances have locked tho
door. put the key in their pocket.
arrested the operator, and found
out, by searching the room, that hid
den levers moved the tables The sealed
letters that were mysterously read without
opening have been found to have been cut at
the side, and then afterward slyly put to-
gether with gum arabic; and the medium
who, with a heavy blanket over his head,
could read book has been found to have
had a bottle of phosphoric oil, by the light of
which everybody can read book; and ven
triloquism, and legerdemain, and sleight of
hand, and optical delusion, account for
everything. Deception being the main staple
OF Spiritualism, no wonder it chooses the
darkness
You have all seen strange and unvccount-
able things in the night. Almost every man
has at some time had touch of hallucna-
ton. 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 five centsi When
awakened had no idea it was anything
supernatural. And have to advise YOU il
you hear and see strange things at night, to
ston eating hot mince pie and take a dose OF
bilious medicine. tits an outraged physical
organization, enough to deceive the very elect
after shutdown. 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, / learn from my text that
Spiritualisn is doom and death to its disci.
pies. King Saul thought that he would get
help from the "mediuin;" but the first thing
that he sees makes him swoon away and no |