Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-04

man IN Bellevue Hospital, dying from
wounds made by his own hand, WAS asked
why he tried TO commit suicide, and be
said: 1.-THE spirits told me to-" Parents
hal strangled their children, and when
asked why they did it, replied: "Spiritu-
alism demanded It," Ii is the pxtronizer
aud foreger tor the madhouse. Judge
Ednonds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering lecture in behalf OF
spiritualism, admitted, in so many words:
"There is fascination about consulta-
ton with the spirits of the dead that has
q tendency to lead people CT from their
right Judgment, and to iGstiI into them e
fanstictsm that is revo!til e to the natural
mind.n
1t not only ruins its disciples, but 1t
ruins the mediums also, only give it time.
| The Gadaraean swine, on the banks of
the Lake Of Galilee, NO sooner became
spiritual mediums than down they wen,
10 an avalscc1e Of pork, TO the conster-
nation OF sil the herdsmeD. The Office OF
q medium Is bad for msp, bad for q
woman, bad for q beast.
Ibring against this delusion more
FEARFUL INDICTMENT:
| 1t ruins the soul Immortal. First. 1t
| makes q man 6 quarter Of an ipfidel; then
it makes him half an infidel; then IL makes
him whole infdel. The whole system, as
| concei G 1t, is founded on the Insult
cheney Of the Word Of God IS q revela-
ton. God says the Bible is enough for
YOU to know about the future world.
You ssy 1t is not enough, and there is
where you and the Lord differ. You
clear the table, you shove aside the Bible,
you put your baud on the table, and say:
| "Now let spirits OF The future world come
and tell me something the Bible has mo-
told me-" And although the Scriptures
say: add thou not unto HIS woros, lest
He reprove thee, and thou be
found liar" you risk Ii, and ssy :
"Come back, spirit Of my departed father;
come bach, spirit of my departed mother,
OF my companions, OF my little child, and
tell me some things don't know about
you and about the unseen world" Ii
God is ever slapped squarsly In the face,
1t is when spiritual medium puts down
her hand on the teole, invoking spirits
departed to make revelation. GOD has
told you all you ought to know, and how
dare you be prying into that which is none
Of your business3 You cannot keep the
Bible in one hand and spiri; uslism Ia the
other. Oae Of the other will slip out Of
your grasp, depend upon IL.
Spirituslism is adverse to the Bible in
the fact that 1t has in these last days
called from the future world Christian
men to testify against Christianity. Its
mediums Gail 0sck Lorerzo Dow, Ine
celebrated evangelist, ana Lorenzo Dow
testihes that
CHRISTIANS ARE IDoLAToRs.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne, and
he testified that he is stopping in the same
house In heaven with John Buny.n. They
J Gail bsck John Wesley, and he testlies
ag.inst the Christian religion which he
all his lie gloriously preached. Andrew
Jackson Dsvis, the greatest OF all the
| spiritualists, comes To the front and dc.
clares that The New Testament is but
"the dismal echo Of barbaric age" and
the Bible only ''one Of the pen and ink
relics of Christ anity." Tney attempt
to substitute the writings Of Sweden
borg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, a. d
other religious b aljerdssh, In the place
of this old Bible. have in my house :
book which wss used in this very city IT.
the public service OF spiritualists. It is
we'll worn with much service. open this,
book, aud it says: "Whs5 is our
Baptism? Answer. Frequent additions
of water. What is our inspiration?
Plenty of fresh air and sunlight. What is
our prsyerf Abundant physical ex4r-
else. WHAT Is cur love-feas,? A clear
conscience and sound sleep" And find
from the same book thst the chef
item in their public worship Is gymnsstic
exercise, and that whenever they want to
rouse up their souls to very high pitch
OF devotion they sing p,ge sixty five !:
1.-THE night hiss gathered up her mooRlit
fringes;" or psge sixteen: "Come to
the woods, heigho!" You say you are
not such fool as that; but you will be il
you keep on in the track you have started.
"But," ssys soma one, "wouldn't 1t be
of advantage to hear from the future
world2 Don's you think it would
strengthen Christians2 There sre
A GREAT MANY MATERIALIsTs
VINO do not believe there are souls; but
II spirits from the future world should
knock and talk to us, they would be per-
haps persuaded" To that l answer, in
the ringing words of the Son OF God: "If
they believe not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though
one rose from the dead"
Now believe, undar God, that this
sermon will save many from disease, in
sanity, and perdition. believe these are
the days Of which the Apostle spske when
he said: "In the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to Sc
ducing spirits" think my audience, as
well as other audiences in this day, need
to have reiterated in their nearing the
passages I quoted some minutes ago:
"rhere shall not De among you
a consulter of familiar spirits,
or wizard, or necromancer; for
they that do these things are an sbomi-
nation unto the Lord;" and "The soul
that turneth after such IS have familiar
spirits, will set myself against them,
aud they shall be cut of from their peo-
ple."
But invite you this morning to q
Christian sesnce, MONDAY seance. This
| congregation is only one great family.
| Here ID the church table. Come around
the church table, take your sests for this
great Christian seSnce, put your Bible on
the table, put your hands on the top of
| the Bible, and then listen, ana hear If
there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. think there are. Listen!
| "Secret things belong unto the Lord our
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