West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-05-10

| VINO 80 whoring AFTER them, VIII set myself
against them, and he shall DO cut Off from
among his people," The Lord Almighty, in
score Of passages. which have not now
time 70 quote utters his indignation against
All TINS great family OF delusions. After that
DO Spritualist II you darel
Still further we learn from this text how
II Is that people come 20 fall into Spiritualism.
Saul had enough trouble 10 kin ten men. He
ala 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. IL was his trouble
that drove him there. And / have to tell
| you now that Spiritualism finds its victims I'm
| tho troubled. tho bankrupt, the sick, the
/ berett You lose your watch, and you 90 to
the fortune teller TO find whore Il Is. You
| lose 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 90 and put
Yourself in that communication That Is
why hate Spiritualism. 10 takes advan-
tage OF one in moment OF weakness.
which NAV come upon US at any time.
we lose friend The trial is keen, sharp.
suifocating, almost maddening. If we could
marshal a host, and storm the eternal world.
and recapture our owed one the host would
soon be marshaled The house is so lonely
me world Is so dark. The separation Is so
insufferabe.
But Spiritualism says; We will open the
tuturo world, and yonr loved one can come
back and talk 20 you" Though we may not
uSth htH NoAtt We ifluN near tne rap OF MS
hand. SO, clear the table. Sit down. Put
your hands on the table. Be very quiet
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No mo-
ton OF the table. No response from the
future world. Twenty minutes Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement oil 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-
annexation of the letter 81, " two rams. At
the pronunciation of tho letter "O,n two
raps. At the pronunciation of the letter
I'll" two raps. At the pronunciation of the
whole namo spelled ont. John, John.
Now, the spirit being present, you say:
"John, are you happy7n Two raps give an
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, nj
though IL has been amid the illuminations OF
heaven, cannot spell as well as itused to. 1t
has lost all grammatical accuracy and can
not write distinctly. 1 received n
letter through medium once. L sent it
back. L said: Just please tell those
ghosts they had better go to school and get
improved in their orthography.D 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 DOOR 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 stifled 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 murmur or misdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out.
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its decisions. Saul, in the midst of his
disaster, went TO the witch of En-dor The
vast majority of those who have gone 10
spiritual mediums have been sent the re
through their misfortunes.
learn still further from this subject that
Spritualism and necromancy arc affairs of
the darkness. Why did not Saul go i'm the
day He was ashamed to go Besides that,
he knew that this spiritual medium, like all
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.
Whyi The majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospers best in
the night
Some OF the performances of spiritual me-
diums are not TO be ascrbed to fraud, but to
some occult law that after awhile NAV be
demonstrated But believe that now 900
out OF every 1910 achievements on the part
/ of spiritual mediums are arrant and I'M
mitigated humbug. The mysterious red let
/ tiers that used 70 come out on the mediums
| arm were IOunu 10 nave Deem made by
| iron pencil that went heavily over the flesh
not tearing it, but so disturbing the blood
| that 1T came up in great round letters. The
| witnesses of the seances have locked ths
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 mysteriously read without
/ opening have been found to have been cut at
| the side, and then afterward slyy put to-
/ gether with gum arabic; and the medium
/ who, with heavy blanket over his head
| could read n book, has been found to have
mad bottle OF phosphoric oil, by the light of
which every body can read book: and ven
triloqusm, and legerdemain, and seight of
hand, aud optical delusion, account for
everything. Deception being the main staple
OF Spiritualism, no wonder it chooses the
darkness
You have all seen strange and unacccunt-
able things in the night. Almost every man
has at some time had a touch OF hallucina-
ton. Some time ago, after had been over
tempted 20 eat something indigestibls before
retiring at night, after retiring l saw the
! president Of one of tine prominent colleges
astride the foot Of the bed, while no de-
manded Of me loan Of five centsl When |
awakened / had no idea il was ANYTHING
supernatural And have TO advise you il
you hear and see strange things at night, 70
stop eating hot mince pie and take dose of
bilious medicine IL is an outraged physical
organization, enough TO deceive the very elect
after GundOWn, and does nearly all its work
in the night The witch Of En- dor held her
seances az night; so do all the witches. Away
with this religion Of spooksl
Still further, / learn from my text that
Spiritualisfz is doom and death to its dsci.
pies. KING Saul thought that he would get
help from the 'medium;" but the first thing
that he sees makes him BwOOn away, and no
sooner was he resuscitated than he is told he
must die. SpiTitualism is doom and death to
every one that yields TO it. IL ruins the body.
Look in upon an audience OF Spiritualists.
Cadaverous. Weak Nervous Exhausted.
Hands ciammv and cold. Nothing prospers
but long hair-soft marshes yielding rank
grass Spiritualism destroys the physical
health. It's disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the other world. Strange
teings cross the room In white Table
hdgety, wanting 20 get its feet loose as II TO
dance. Voices sepulchral and ominous Be
wiidered with raps ] never knew n con.
I iirmod Spiritualist who had n healthy nervous
system. lt is incipieut epilepsy and cata-
I lepsy Destroy your nervous system and you
might as we'll be dead. / have noticed
I that people who arc hearing raps from tho
I future world have but little strength left 30
I bear tho hard raps Of this world. 10 Is an
awful thing % trihe with ones nervous
system 10 is 80 dolicate-it Is 80 far reach.
I inR-its arrangements are so terrible Get
T the nervous system a iangle, and 30 far as
your body and soul are concerned, tho whole
/ universe is a iangle. Better In our ignorance
I experiment with "a chemists rotor That may
/ smite us dead. OF with an engineers steam
boiler that may blow us % atoms, than ex-