The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-17

mans honor and woman's purity, say let
the last vestige of it perish forever. l wish
could gather up all the iaps it has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned, and
gather them all on its own head In one
laundering rap Of annihilation!
further indict Spirituolism 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 delusion. Go into any
asylum, care not where it is, and the pre-
siding doctor, after you have asked him:
"What is the matter with that manf' will
say: "Spiritualism demented him. or,
"What is the matter with that woman" he
will say: "Spiritualism demented her," 1t
has taken down some of the brightest intel
lects 1t swept OFF into mental midnight
judges, senator's, governors, ministers OF the
gospel and one time came near capturing
one of the presidents of the United States.
At Flatbush, near this city, man became
absorbed with it, forsook his family, took his
only $4,000, 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 asylum,
where he is to day a raving maniac. Put
your hand in the hand Of this
witch of En-dor and shs will lead
you to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe
for the United States. In midocean the
machinery broke and she fioundered around
day after day and week after week, and for
a whole month after she was due people won
dered 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
nm tho crirts apd tho pnpoe on the ia bla
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went raving mad, and were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile
one day gun was heard of quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping, and the
bells of the churches were rung The boys
ran through the streets. crying: Extra!
The Atlantic is safe!" There was the en-
bracing as from the dead, when friends came
again to friends; but some of those passen-
gers. went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of in
fernal SpirituaIism had put them. A man in
Bellevue hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried TO
commit suicide. and he said "The spirits
told me to.n Parents have strangled their
children, ana when asked why they did it,
replied: "Spiritualism demanded it." 1t is
the patronizer and forager for the madhouse.
Judge Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle,
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Spiritualism, admitted, in so many words:
There is q fascination about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has q ten
dency to lead people off from their right
Judgment, and to instil into them fanati-
cism that is revolving to the natural mind"
1t not only ruins its discip pies, but it ruins
the mediums also only give it time. The
Gadarenean swine on the banks of the lake
of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual me-
diums than down they went, in an avalanche
of pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds
men. The office of medium is bad for
man, bad for woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion more fearful
indictment: 1t ruins the soal immortal;
First, IL makes qtqM half an infSI; then it
masR him whole infdel. The whole system,
as conceive it, is founded on the insufficiency
Of the word of God as 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 hand on the table,
and say: "Now let the spirits of the future
world come and tell me something tho 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 flasher; come
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companions, of my little child, and tell me
some things l don't know about you and
about the unseen world" If Gcd is ever
slapped square in the face, it is when a spir-
itual medium puts down her hand on the
table, invoking spirits departed to make a
revelation. God has told you all you ought
to know, and how dare you be prying into
that which is none of your business. You
cannot keep the Bible in one hand and Spirit.
ualism 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 oac'
Loronzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist an
Lorenzo Dow testiiies thag Chr,seld4s ar
idolators. Spi,itualism calls back Tom Payns
and he testities that he is stopping In tn'
same house in heaven with John Bunyan
They call back John Wesley, and he testihe:
against the Christian religion, which he al
his life gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson
Davis, the greatest of all the Spirltuallsts
comes to the front and declares that the New
Testament is but ''tha dismal echo of a bar
baric age" and the Bible only ''one OF ths
pen and ink relics of Christianity" They
attempt to submit the writings Of Andrew
jackson Davis and other religious balder
dash in the place of this Old Bible have
in my house book which was used In y, onls
very city in the public service ofiprie'alsos ,,
1t is well worn with much ssrvice. open
that book, and it says: r,,,,+
1What is our baptism' Answer: Frequene
ablutions of water What is our inspira'ioh'
Plenty Of fresh air and sunlight. What Is
our nrayer2 Abundant physical exerclss.
What is orr love feastl A clear consclence
and sound Sleep" And find from tne sans
book that the chief item in their pubic wor-
ship is gymnastic exercise, and that IS when.
ever they want to rouse up their souls 10
yerv high pitch of devotion they sing,
mage IS; "Tho night has gathered up her
moonlit fringes;' or page IL: Come TO
the woods, heigho!" You say you are not
such fool as that; but you will be if you
keep on in the track you have started.
But" says some one, wollldnt IL pe .,
advantage to hear from the future world?
Don't you think it would strengthen Chris
tians! There are greet many Materia -;
who do not believe there aie SOUS. but Il
| spirits from the future world should knocH
| and talk over to us they would be persuaded.
To that answer, in the ringing words OF the
Son of God: ''If they believe not Moses anc
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded
| though one rose from the dead"
| Now believe, under God, that this sermon
| will save many from disease, insanity ant
perdition. | believe these are the days o
| which the apostle spake when he said: II
the latter times some shall depart from tht
faith. giving heed to seducing spirits.
think my audieuce, as well as other audience
y in this day, need to have reiterated in tneil
hearing the passages l quoted some minutes
ago: "There shall not be among you con
sulter of familiar spirits, or wizard, or nec
romancer; for they that do these Things ,Ti nIe
an abomination unto the Lord; ana .,.ne hhe
soul that turneth after such as have famiiiai
spirits, will set myself against them, ane
they shall be cut off from their people.
But invite you this morning to Chris.iaa
seance a MONDAY seance. This congregation
is only one great family. Here IS the cnurcl
table. Come around the church table. tas
your seats for this great Christian sep, seq =,
mt your Bible on the table, put your hsiiI -, ~
the top OF the Bible, and then listen nu ~.
if there are any voices comips iiJ'n -. ..'
eternal world think thep are, listen ~,
"Secret things belong unf, tne LoIu ou
God. but things that aye revealea ueiui'.
INTO MS and our childrsd. surely tnae Is
voice from the spirit worldl But before yo'
risa from this christian seance, l wan
Won to propse me you will be satisiis'
with the divine revelation until TN
Iobt Of the eternal throne breaks upol
vsnr Vision. Do not go after the witch Q
I'm dor. Do not sit down at table rapp,ngs
either in sport or in dead earnest. nv y
your tables SO well made, and their iess y
even. that they viii not tip and ratsie ~,
the table must move, let it be unaer ~ -
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