Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-10

gins to twitch and toss and begins to write
"ut, after paper and ink are furnished. I
message from the eternal world. What ]!
remarkable, the departed spirit, although
1t has been amid the illuminations o.
Heaven, can not spell as well as il
used to- 1t has lost AL grammatical accu
racy and can not write as distinctly. / re
ceived letter through medium once.
sent it back. said: Just please to tel
those ghosts they had better go TO schoo
and get improved in their photography
Now, just think Of spirits that the Bible
represents as enthroned in glory conlins
down to crawl under the table and break
crockery and ring teabells before supper !,
ready, and rap the window shutter on i
gusty night. l. there any consolation in
such poor, miserable work compared with
the thought that our departed Christian
friends. rid Of pain and langu;shing, are
in the radiant society OF Heaven?
Yes, my friends, spiritualism comes 70
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its delusIons. Saul, in the midst OF
his disaster, went to the witch OF Endor.
The vast majority OF those who have gone
to spi, itual m diums have been sent there
through their m;sfortunes.
learn still further from this subject,
that splritualism and necromancy are AT.
fairs Of the darkness. Why did not Saul
go in the day! He was ashamed to 60.
Besides that, he knew that this spiritual
medium, like all her successors. performed
her ex plots in the night. The DavenpOrts,
the Fowlers, the Foxes, the spiritual me-
diums OF all ages, ave chosen the night or
a darkenei room. Why! The majority OF
their wonders hare been swIndles, and de-
ception prospers 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 / believe that
now nins hundred and niaoty-nlne out OF
every thousand achievements on the part
Of spiritual mediums are arrant AMI un.
miti.ated humbug The sealed letters tina,
We're mysteriously read without opening
have been found to have been cut at the
side and then s!yly put together with gum
arabic; and the medium who, with
heavy blanket over his head,
could read a book. has been found
to have had bottle Of phosphor Oil,
by the light of which anyb ,dy en- read a
book, and ventriloqasm and legeriernain
and sleight Of hand and optical delusior
account for nearly every thing. Deception
being the main staple Of sp,ritualism, nc
wonder it chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unaccount-
able things in the night. Almost every
man has at some time had touch OF hal
lucinatlon. And l have to advise you. il
you hear and see strange things at night,
to stop eating hot mince pie and take a
dose of bilious medicine. 1t is an outraged
physical organism, enough to dece We the
very elect after shutdown. and does nearly
all its work in the night. The witch of
Endor held her seances at night; 80 do all
the witches. Away with this religion OF
spooks.
Still further: learn from my text that
spiritualism IS doom and death to it's dis
ciples. King Saul 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 resuscitated than he
is told he must die. Spritualism Is
doom and death to every one that
yields to it. 1t ruins the body. Look
in upon an audience of spirituaiists,
cadaverous, weak. nervous, exhausted,
hands clammy and cold. Nothing prospers
but long hair-sOft marshes yielding rank
grass. SpGtualism destroys the ply steal
health. It's disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the other world. Strange
beings crossing the room in white. Table
iidgety, wanting to get its feet loose as il to
dance. Voices sepulchral and ominous.
Be~ildered with raps. / never knew u
spirltualist who had healthy nervous
system. 1t is incipient epilepsy and cata-
lepsv. Destroy your nervous system and
you might as well be dead. l 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.
1t is an awful thing to trifle with ones
nervous system. H. is so delicate, it is 80
far-reaching, its arrangements are so ter
rible. Get the nervous system a-jangle,
and, so far as your body and soul are con-
cerned, the whole universe is a janglc.
Better in our ignorance experiment with a
chemists 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 and with no eyes and
BE- happy, as men have been under such
:ff1ictIons, but woe the man whose nerves
are shattered. Spiritualism smites first of
dll, anu ullSuIii dSaiiSb Tue lcFSOUS SyS-
tenn and so makes life miserable.
indict spiritualism also. because it is a
social and marital curse. The worst deeds
of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst orgies OF
obscenity have been enacted under its
patronage. The story is too vile for me t.
tell. will not poilute my tongue nor your
ears with the recital. Some times the civil
law has been evoked to stop the outrage.
Families innumerab!e have been broken VI
by it. 1t has pushed off hundreds of young
women into life OF proaigacy. It talks
about elective affinities," and "affinital
relations" and spiritual Matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary OF free.love-
ism. In one of its public journals it de-
clares marriage is the monster curse OF
civilization' 1T is course Of debanch-
cry and intemperancc." II spri,ualism
could have its iull swing it would turn tins
world into pandemonium Of carnallty. 1t
is an unc!ean, adulterous, damnable reIig-
ion. and the sooner it drops into the he'll
from which it rose, the better both for
earth and Heaven.
l further indict sp!ritualisE Cor the fact
that it is the cause Of much insanity. There
is not an asylum between Bangor anu San
Francisco which has not the torn and
bleeding victims Of this delusion. 60 into
any asylum, care not where it is, and the
presiding doctor, after you have asked
him: "What is the matter with that man g.
will say: 'SpiritIali>m demented him.
or "What is the matt r. with that woman.''
he will say: ''Spirituallsm demon Cd her "
1t has taken down some Of the brightest in.
tellects. II has swept off into mental mid
SpnCtnrS (r0varnnrs
minister's, and ons time came near c,ptur.
ing one of the Presidents Of the United
States. At Flushing, near this city, M M
became absorbed with it, forsook his fam.
lily, took his only fifteen thousand dollars,
surrendered them to spiritual medium III
New York, attempted three times to pu'