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

medium once. 4B II back. / said:
ssJust please to tell tose ghosts they had
better 90 to school ma get improved in
their photography Now Just think Of
spirits, that the Bisfe represents as en-
throned in glory, coqning down to crawl
under the table and break crockery and
ring tea bells before ripper is ready and
rap the window shutter on q pusty
night. Is there a1fy Consolation in such
poor, miserable work compared with
the thought that e1r departed Christian
friends. got rid of pain and lanquishinS.
are in the radiant ao6iety of heaven, and
that we shall join them there, not in q
stified and mysterlnps half utterance,
which makes the h1dr stand on end and
the cold chills creep the back, but in an
unhindered and illmitable delight.
And none shall rnuzmur6 6r misdoubt.
When Gods greet 1unrise finds us out
Yes, my friends spiritualism comes to
those who are In trouble and sweepe
them into its deIpions. Saul, In the
midst Of his disastex, went to the witch
of En-dor. The v>st majority Of those
who have gone to spiritual mediums
have been sent thsrs through their mis-
fortunes. I'D
learn still father from this subject
that Spirituahszn and necromancy are
affairs Of the darkness. Why did not
Saul go in the dWa He was ashamed to
go. Besides thst be knew that this
spiritual medium, like all her successors,
performed her explo;ts in the night. The
Davenports, the = 8 = ne ffoxa, Hsa.
spiritual mediums OF All ages, have
chnssn the night or . darkened room.
Whs7 The majority Of their wonders
Asye been swindles, and deception pros
pers best in the night.
Some of the performances Of spiritual
mediums are not to be ascribed to fraud,
but to some occult law that after awhile
may be demonstrated. But I believe
that now. 999 out of every 1000 achieve
ments on the part of spiritual mediums
are arrant and unmitigated humbug.
The mysterious red letters that used to
come out on the mediums arm were
found to have been made by an iron
pencil that went heavily over the flesh,
not tearing it, but so disturbing the
blood that it came 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 been cut at the side, and then
afterward slyly put together with gum
arabic; and the medium who, with a
heavy blanket over his head, could read
q book, has been found to have had a
bottle of phosphoric oil, by the light of
which anybody can read book; and
ventriloquism, and legerdemain, and
sleight Of hand, and optical delusion ac-
count for nearly everything Deception
being the main staple of Spiritualism, no
wonder it chooses the darkness
You have all seen strange and unac-
countable things in the night. Almost
every man has at some time had touch
Of hallucination. Some time ago, after
had been over tempted to eat some
thing indigestible before retiring at night,
after retiring saw the president of one
of the prominent colleges astride the foot
of the bed. while he demanded of me a
loan of eve cents! When / awakened /
had no idea it was anything supernat-
ural And have to advise you, if you
hear and see strange things at night, to
stop eating hot mince pie and take dose
of bilious medicine. 1t is an outraged
physical organism, enough to deceive the
very elect after sundown, and does nearly
all its work in the night. The witch of
En-elor held her seances at night; so do
all the witches. Away with this religion
of spooksl
Still further learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death to its dis
I1eiples. ss King saus 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 re-
suscitated than he is told he must die.
| Spiritualism is doom and death to every
one that yields to it. It ruins the body.
Look in upon an audience of Spiritual
| lists. Cadaverous. Weak. Nervous.
| Exhausted. Hands clammy and cold.
Nothing prospers but long hair-soft
marshes yielding rank grass. Spiritual
ism destroys the physical health. Its dis
ciples are ever hearing startling news
from the other world. Strange beings
crossing the room in white. Table fid-
getty, wanting to get its feet loose as if
to dance. Voices sepulchral and omin-
GUS. Bewildered with raps. never
knew a confirmed Spiritualist who had
a healthy nervous system. tits incipient
epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system and you might as well be
dead. have noticed that people who
are hearing raps from the future world
have but little strength left to bear the
hard raps of this world. It is an awful
thing to trif1e with ones nervous system.
| 1t is SO delicate-it is so far reaching-its
arrangements are go 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 chemist s
retort 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. Spiritualism smites
first of all, and nightly, against the
nervous system, and so makes Life miser-
able.
indict Spiritualism also, because it is
social and marital curse. The worst
deeds Of icentiousness and the worst
orgies of obscenity have been enacted
under its patronage. 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. Families innumer-
able have been broken up by it. 1t has
pushed off hundreds Of young women
into life of profigacy. It talks about
'selective afinities" and ''affinital rela-
tions" and spiritual matches, and
adopts the whole vocabulary Of free
loveism. In one Of its public journals il
declares marriage is the monster curse
of civilization. lit is source Of
debauchery and intemperaEce.n If spir-
itualism could have its full swing, Il
would turn this world into pandemo-
mum Of carnality. 1t is an unclean,
adulterous, damnable religion, and the
sooner it drops into the hell from which
it rose. the better both for earth ano