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


through the folding doors to the from
perlor, rung over the people there, ant
then dropped ON the floor. N. P. Tai
msge, Senator Of the United States, At.
forwards Governor Of Wisconsin, had bill
head completely turned with spiritualistit
demonstrations. A man as he wal
passing along the road, said that he was
lifted up bodily, and carried toward hif
home through the air, at such a grea,
speed that he could not count the post:
on the fence as he passed; and as he had
q handsaw and square in his hand, they
beat, as ne passed through the air, most
delightful music. And the tables tipped
ard the:stools tilted, and the bedsteads
raised, and the chairs upset. and 1t seemed
IS If tie spirits everywhere had gone into
the furniture business! Well, the people
said: 1--WE have got something new In
this country; it Is new religion" Q
no, my friends. Thousands of years ago
We find in our text spirituslistic sesnce.
Nothing in the spiritualistlc circles OF
our day has been more
STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS AND WONDERFUL
than things which hsve been seen In the
past centuries Of the world. In xli the
ages there have been necromsucers, those
who consult with the spirits Of the de-
parted; charmers, those who put their
subjects in mesmeric state; sorcerers.
those who by taking poisonous drugs see
everything, and hesr everything, and tell
everything; dreamers, people who IL
their sleeping moments eau see the
future world and hold consultation with
spirits; sstroiogers, who could read a
new dispensation in the sEsrs; experts In
p.lmistry, who can tell by the lines in the
palm OF your hand your origin and 7ou!
history. From csve on Mount Parnas-
sus, We are told, there was al exhalatlon
that intoxicated the sheep and the goats
that came anywhere near it, and shep
herd approaching it WAS thrown by that
exhalation into an excitement in which he
could foretell future events and hold con-
sultation with the spiritual world Yes,
before the time OF Christ the BRAHMS
went through all the tsble-moving,
all the furniture excitement, which the
spirits have exploited in our day; pre-
cisely the same thing over aud over ag.in
under the manipulations Of the Brahmlns.
Now do you say that spirituslism is dit
ferent from these2 1 answer, all these
delusioas have mentioned belong to the
same family. They are examinations
from the unseen world. What does God
think of oil these delusioIsf He thinks
80 severely OF them that he never speaks
OF them but with livid thunders of iDdlg-
nation. He says: ~ will be sw I,
witness against the sorcerer." He
says: "Thou shalt suffer a
witch to live." And lest
you might make some important distinc-
ton between Splritualism end witchcraft,
God seys, in SO msny words: "There
shall not De among you consulter OF
FAMILIAR SPIRITS,
or wizard, or nscromsncer; for they that
do these things are sn abominstion unto
the Lord" And he ssys again: "The
soul Of those who seek after such as have
familiar spirits, and who go whoring af-
ter them, will set myself against them,
and he shall be cut of from among his
psople." The Lord Almighty, in score
of passages, which have not now time
to quote, utters His Indignation against
ali this great family of decisions. After
that be Spiritualist II you dare!
SILL further, we learn from this tex.
how 1t is that people come to fall into
Spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble
to kill ten men. He did not know where
to go for relief. After awhile he resolved
70 go and see the witch Of Endor. He
expected that somehow she would sford
him relief. It was his trouble that drove
him there. And have 30 tell you now
that Splrituslism hads its victims in the
troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the be-
ref. You lose your watch,
and you go to the fortune-teller
to find where it is. You lose
friend, you want the spiritual world
opened, so that you may have communi-
cation with him. In highly wrought,
nervous and diseased state of mind you
go and put yourself in thst communics-
ton. Thst is why 1 hate Splritualism
1t takes advantage Of one In d moment OF
weakness, which may come upon US a.
any time. We lose friend. The trial
is keen, sharp, sunocstipg, almost mad
deniDg. II we could marshal host, and
storm the eternal world, and recapture
our loved one, the host would soon be
msrshalled. The house is SO lonely, the
world is so DARK, the separation is sc
insuffera5le.
But Spiritualism says: "We will open
the future world, and your loved one
can come back and talk to you" Though
we may not near his voice we may hear
the rap of his hand. So clear the table,
ST. down, put your HANDS on the table, be
very quiet. Five minutes gone; ten
minutes; no motion of the table, no re-
Spouse from the future world. Twenty
minutes; thirty minutes; nervous ex-
element ell the time Increasing. Forty
minutes;
THE TABLE sHIvERs;
two raps from the future world. The
letters of the alphabet arc called over
The departed friends name is John. Al
the pronunciation Of the letter ~" twa
rspa, at the pronunciation Of the lettt I
80" two raps, st the pronunciation O!
the letter III" two raps, at the pronun-
cistion OF the letter "N" two raps. There
you have the whole name spelled out
John, John. Now, the spirit being
present, you ssy: "John, are you
happ ?" Two raps give an { fl -mstive
answer Pretty soon the hand Of the me-
dunn begins TO witch and toss, and be-
gins TO write out, sftef paper and ink are
furnished, message from the eternal
world. What IL remarkable, the departed
spirit, although it has been amid the
illuminations Il heaven, cannot spell as
well as 1t used to. l. has lost all gram
maticsi accuracy, and cannot write as
distinctly l received letter through
medium once. sent 1t back. ssid :
"Just please 10 tell those ghosts they hsd
bstter go to school and get improved in