Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-30

| city, man becsms,a5sorbed with It, for
sock his family, took his O1ly SIS 900,
sufrsr1ersd them to spiritual medium
| In New York, attempted three times ID
pu. an end TO his own lie, and then wss
| incsrcerated in the State Lupsfic Asylum,
| where he is to-day 3 raving maniac. Pat
your hand in the hand Ct this witch Of
Endor aud she will lesd you to bottomless
perdition, where she holds her
EVERLASTING sEANcE.
Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United STATES.
Getting mid-ocesn the machinery broke,
and she Numbered around day after day,
snd week after week, and for whole
month after she was due people wondered
and fiaslly 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 aud ipqalred as to
| the fate OF that vessel. The mediums
called up the spirits, and the rsppings on
the table indicated the steamship lost with
all on board. Women went revipg mad
and wee carried to the lunstic asylum.
After while one day gun WAS heard on
quarantine. The flags went up on the
shipping and the bells OF the churches
were rurg. The boys ran through the
streets crying: "EXIrsi The Atlantic Is
safe!h There was the embracing rs 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
Internal spiritualism had put them.
man IN Bellevue Hospital, dying from
| wounds made By his own hand, WAS asked
| why he tried to commit suicide, aud he
said: "The spirits told me to-" Parents
have straugled their children, and when
asked why they did it, replied: "SpiIi.u-
alism demanded IT," 1t is the patronizer
snd forager tor the msdhouse. Judge
Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering lecture in behalf Of
spiritualism, admitted, in SO many words !:
"There is a fascination about consulta-
ton with the spirits Of the dead that has
tendency to lead people of from their
right judgment, and to instiI into them 8
fanaticism that is revolving TO the natural
mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples, but ii
ruins the mediums also, only give it time.
The Gadsrsean swine, on the banks of
the Lake CT Gslilee, no sooner became
| spiritual mediums than down they went,
| In an avalanche OF pork, to the conster-
nation of all the herdsmen. The office Of
q medium is bad for q man, bad for o
woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion more
FEARFUL INDICTMENT:
1t ruins the soul immortal. First, 1t
makes 8 man q quarter Of an infidel; then
1t makes him half an infdel; then 1t makes
him whole infdel. The whole system, as
I concei e 1t, is founded on the insult
cheney of the Word Of God as O revela-
ton. 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 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
say: "Add thou not unto His WORDS, lest
He reprove thee, and thou be
found liar" you risk IT, and say:
"Come back, spirit Of my departed father;
come back, spirit of my departed mother,
Of nv companions, Of my little child, and
tell me some things don't know about
you and about the unseen world" II
God is ever slapped squarsly In the face,
1t is when g spiritual medium puts down
her hand on the table, invoking spirits
departed to make revelation. God has
told you all you ought to know, and how
dare you be prying into that which is none
OF your ousinessf You cannot keep the
Bible in one hand and spirituslism in the
ether. One Of the other will slip out of
your grasp, depend upon 1t.
Spiritusiism Is adverse to the Bible in
the fact that 1t has in these last days
called from the future world Christian
men to testify against Christianity. It's
mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the
celebrated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testi1ss that
CHRISTIANS ARE IDoLAToRs.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne, and
he testified that he is stopping in the same
house IN heaven with John Bunyan. They
Gail back John Wesley, and he testifes
against the Christian religion which he
ali his life gloriously preached. Andrew
Jackson Davis, the grestest of Ill the
spiritualists, comes to the front and de.
clares that the New Testament ia but
"the dismal echo Of q bsrbaric ege," aud
the Bible only "one Of the pen and ink
relics of Christianity" They attempt
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 q
book which was used in this very city in
the public service of spiritualists. It is
we'll worn with much service. open that
book, and 1t says: "Whst is our
baptismf Answer. Frequent additions
OF water. What is eur inspirstion7
Plenty oiifresh air and sunlight. What is
or prsyera Abundant physical sxsr-
else. What is cur love-feast! A clear
conscience and sound sleep" And 1 find
from the same book that tho chief
item In their public worship is gymnastic
exercise, and that whenever they want to
rouse up their souls to very high pitch
Of devotion they sing page sixtY-fve:
"The night has gathered up her moonlit
fringss;" or page sixteen: "Cone to
the woods. heighoi" You say you are
not euch fool IS that; but you will be II
yol keep on In the track you have started.