The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-05-04

itualism destroys the physical health. IT'S
disciples are ever hearing startling news from
the other world. Strange beings crossing the
room in white; Table fdgetty, wanting to
get its feet loose ss II to. daqce. Voices
sepulchral and omnibus. Bewitdered with
raps | never knew a confirmed SpiIltUGlIst
who had healthy nervous system. 1t Is in
cipient epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system and you might as we'll be
dead I have noticed that people who are
hearing raps from the future would have but
little strength left to bear tie hard rapE OF
this world. 1t is an awful thing to trife wfth
ones nervous system. 1t Is SO delcate-lt Is
&c tatrGa ebing=rits arrangements are so ter
rible. Get thG tetvots ,system . iangle, and
so far as your body and 1tttt srs concerned,
the whole universe is jangle. bette. ~ our
ignorance experiment with a chemists rctort
that may sthite US dead, or with an en-
gineers's 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 finder such Affections: but woe be to the
man whose nerves are sfatteted, Hpritualism
smiteS first of all, and nightly, against the
nervous system, and so makes life miserable.
indict SpiritUalism also, because 1t Is 4
social and marital curse: The worst deeds OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst orgies of OBJ
scenity have been enacted under its patron
age. The story is too vile for me to tell
Will not polute nv tongue nor your ears with
the recital Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innum-
cradle have been broken up by it. 1t has
pushed off hundreds Of young women into a
life of profiigacy. It talks about effective af-
fnities," and 'aff1nital retatiOne" and "spirit-
ual matches" and adopts the whole vocabulary
of free-lovism. In one of its public journals it
declares marriage is the monster curse of
civilization" at Is source of debauchery
and intemperance" If spirituaism could
have its full swing, 1t would turn this world
into pandemOnium 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 and heaven.
For the sake of mans honor and wOman's
purity, | say let the last vestage of it perish
forever. | wish l could gather up all the raps
1t has ever heard from spirits blest or damned.
and gather them all on It's own head in one
laundering rap of humiliation!
l further indict Spirituaism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity. There
is not an asylum between Bangor and San
francisco which has not the torn and bleed
ing victims of this delusOn. Go into any
asylum, care not where 1t is, and the presid-
Ing doctor, after you have asked him; "What
Is the matter with that manP' Will say:
''Sprituallsm demented him." or "What is
the matter with that wOman!' he will say
"Spiritualism demented herr 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intellects 1t
swept off into mental midnight judges, sena-
tors, governors ministers of the Gospel, and
Presidents of the United States. At Flush
ing, near this city, a man became absorbed
with it. forsook his family, took his only
fifteen thousand dollars, surrendered them to
spiritual medium in New York, attempted
three times to put an end to his own life and
then was incarcerated in the State Lunatic Asy
lum, where he is to-day a raving maniac. Put,
your hand in the hand of this witch of En-dor
and she will lead you to bottomless perditon,
where she holds her everlasting scene. Many
! years ago the steamer Atlantic started from
Europe for the United States. Getting mid
ocean the machinery broke, and she founder
ed around day after day; and week after
I week, and for whole month after she was
due people wondered, and finally gave her up.
/ There was great anguish in the cities, for
| there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some of the women in their
distress, went to the spiritual mediums, and
inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steamship
lost, with all on board. Women went raving
mad, and were carried to the lunatc asylum.
After awhile one dav gun was heard off
Quarantine. The flags went M on the ship
! ping, and the bells of the churches were rung.
The boys ran through the streets, crying: "Ex-
ira! The Atlantic is safe!' There was the
embracing as from the dead, when friends
came again to friends; but some of those pas
sengers went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of infer
nal Spiritualism had put them A man in
Bellevue Hospital, diving from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide and he said: 1.-THE spirits
told me to-" Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it, re-
piled: "Spirituaism demanded it.' 1t is
! the patronizer and forager for the madhouse.
! Judge EdmOnds, in Broadway Tabernacle,
New York, delivering a lecture in behalf of
Spritualism, admitted in so many words:
There is a fascination about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has a tend
ency to lead people off from their right judy
ment, and 10 instil into them a faraticism
that is revolving to the natural mind"
1t nof only ruins its discplines, but it ruins
the mediums also, only give it time The
Gadar@an swine, on the banks of the Lake of
Galilee, no sooner became spiritual mediums
than down they went in an avalanche of
pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds
men. The office of a med ium Is bad for a
man, bad for a woman, bad for beast.
/ bring against this delusion a more fearful
Indictment: it ruins the soul immortal.
First, 1t makes man a quarter of an nfidel
then 1t makes him half an infdcl; then 1t
makes him whole infidel. The whole system,
as i conceive tits founded on the insufficient
ey Of the Word OF God as a revelation. God
says the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the Lord
differ You clear the table you shove aside
the Bible, you put your hands 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 say: add thou not unto
His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be
found liar" YOU risk 1t, and say; ''Come
back, spirit of my departed father; come
back, spirit of my departed mother, of my
companions, of my little child, and tell me
something's | don't know about you and
the unseen world" If God is ever slapped
square in the face, it is when spiritual med um
puts down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed to make a revelation. God
has told YOU ali you ought TO know, and how
dare you to be prving into that which is none
of your business. You cannot keep the
Bible in one hand and Spiritualism in the
other. One or the other will slip out of your
grasp depend upon 1t.
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 the
Lorenzo Dow testihes that Christians are
idolators. SpIritualsm calls back Tom Payne.
and he testifies that he is stopping in the
same house in heaven with John BunVan.
They call back John Wesley, and he testfes
against the Christian religion which be all his
life gloriously preached Andrew Jackson