Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-05-11

, the table, you shove aside the Bible, You
put your hand on the table and say: Now
. let spirits of the future world come and
tell me something the Bible has not told
me-" And although the Scriptures says:
add thou not unto His words, lest He re-
prove thee, and thou be found liar, you
risk it and say: Come buck, spirit Of my
! departed father; come back. spirit of my
departed mother, OF my companions, of my
little child, and tell me some things I
don't know about you and about
the unseen world. II God is ever slapped
square in the face, it is when spiritual
medium puts down her hand on the table,
invoking spirits departed to make rove
lation. God has told you oil you ought to
know, and how dare you be prying into
, cannot keep the Bible in one hand and
Spiritualism in the other. One or the
other will slip out Of your grasp, depend
upon it.
Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in
the fact that it has in these last days called
from the future world Christian men to
testify against Christianity. Its mediums
call back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated
evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow testifies that
Christians are idolators. Spiritualism
calls back Tom Payne, and he testifes that
he is stopping in the same house in Heaven
with John Bunyan. They call back John
Wesley, and he testifes against the Chris
tan religion which he all his life gloriously
preached. Andrew jackson Davis, the
greatest of all the Spiritualists, comes to
the front and declares that the New Testa-
ment is but "tAe dismal echo OF bsrbaric
age," and the Bible only zone of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity" They at
tempt to substitute the writings of Sweden
borg, and Andrew jackson Davis, and
other religious balderdash, in the place of
this old Bible. have in my house a book
which was used in this very city in the
public service of Spirtualists. 1t is we'll
worn with much service. Iopen that book
and it says: "What is our baptism? An
is our inspiration? Plenty of fresh air and
sunlight. What is our prayer? Abundant
physical exercise. What is our love feast?
A clear conscience and sound Sleep" And
I lind from the same book that the chief
item in their public worship is gymnastic
exercise, and that whenever they want to
rouse up their souls to a very high pitch of
devotion they sing, page 50: "Ihe night
has gathered up her moonlit fringes;" or
page 16: "Come to the woods, heigho!"
You say You are not such fool as that;
but you will be il you keep Oh the track
you have started.
"But, says some one, wouldn't it be
of advantage 10 hear from the future
world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There IRE great
many Materialists who do not believe there
are souls; but if spirits from the future
world should knock and talk over to us,
they would be persuaded" To that I an
swer, in the ringing words of the Son of
God: eff they believe not Moses and the
propets, neither will they be persuaded
| though one rose from the dead"
Now 1 believe, under God, that this
1 serm will save many fromsdisease, in
sanity, and perdition. l believe these are
the days of which the apostle spake when
he said: "In the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to Sc
ducing spirits. think my audience, as
we'll as other audiences in this day, need to
have reiterated in their hearing the passages
quoted some minutes ago: "There shall
not be among you consulter of familiar
spirits, or wizard, or necromancer; for they
that do these things are an abomination
unto the Lord" and "the soul that turneth
after such as have familiar spirits, will
set myself against them, and they shall be
cut of from their people,"
But invite you this morning to q Chris
tian seance, d naonday seance. This con-
gregation is only one great family. Here
is the. church table. Come around the
church table, take your seats for this great
Christian seance. put your Bible ON the
table, put your hands On the top of the
Bible, and then listen and hear if there are
any voices coming from the eternal world.
I think there are. Listen? "Secret things
belong unto the Lord our God, but things
| that are revealed belong Unto t., and to our
children" Surely that is: voice from the
spirit world! But before you rise from
this Christiacs seance, vast you to prom
ase me You will be satisfied with the Di-
vine revelation until the light of the eter-
1sal throne breaks upon yonr vision. Do
not go after TIE witch of En-dor. DO net
Sit down at table rappines, either i'll
sport or in aend earnest. Have Your
tables SO weM made, ana their legs Sc,
evsn, that they will not tip and rattle, If
tho table mast move, let it be under,
the Offices OF industrious: house wifery.
Teach your children there ere no ghosts to,
be seen or heard in this werld save those.
whsEh walk on two feet or sour. human or,
bestaal. Remember that Spiritualism at
the best is useless thing; for it it tells
whak the Bible reveals it is super1uity,
and if it tells what the Bibza does not re-
veaN-it is lies. Instead OF going out to.
get o!her people to tell your fortune, tell
YOUR own fortu2e by putting Jour trust in
Go<kand doing: the best you can. will,
tell your fortune: "'All things work to-
gether for coed to them yalse, love Coo. ~
Insult not your departed friends by asking
them to come down and sc-nbble under an
extension tablss Remember that there is
only one spiris whose dictation YOU have
a right to invoke, and that is the
holv, blessed, and omnipatsnt Spirit of
Cog Hank! He is rapp;ng now, not on
q table or the floor, but rappng on tide
door of your hsart, and eve,y rap is m in
vitotion to Christ and a warming of judg-
mens to GOMEZ Oh, drive Him not away.
Quench Him rot. He has Sesn all around
You this morning. He was all around you
last night. He has been around you, all
year lives. Haek! There, comes a voice
dropping through the roof, BREAKING
through the window, filing all this house
VIII tender ald overmastezing intonasion,
saring: "MH spirit shall not always
stsive."
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