The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-03
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REV. DR.. TALMAoE plScoURsES ON
MODERN sPlRITUALlSM.

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REV. DR.. TALMAGE DlscOURsEs ON
MODERN sPlRlTUALlsM.
An Unclean, Adultsrous, Damnab1s Re
ligion-Not n1adhouse but Has Its
victims-The Bible Il Enough for Us to
Know Of the Future.
BROOKLYN, April 29.-After the Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., had in his
well known manner expounded the
Scriptures, the mulitude Of people who
throng the Tabernacle and all the en-
frances, packing every available space of
and sitting room, united in
singing:
Salvationi let the echo dy
The spacious earth around.
While all the armies Of the sly
Conspire to raise the sound.
DIR. Talmage announced his subject:
ssModern Spiritualism. He took for his
text: ssBehold. there is a woman that
hath familiar spirit at En-dor. And
Saul disguised himself, and put on other
rainlent, and he went, and two men with
him, and they came. to the woman by
pight; and he said, I pray thee, divine
unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring
me him up. whom ! shall name unto
thee" Samuel xviii, Z, 8. Follow
ing is the sermon In full:
Ihave recently become q Gpiritualist.
at least So sous of the 50uuna of that
belief declare. This, togethG- -Ni11DE1ee,
fact that mediums" are now 6tang tried
in the criminal courts, setting millions of
people to make inquiry In regard to COM
munication between this world and the
next, leads me to preach this sermon.
Trouble to the right Of him, and
trouble to the left Of him, Saul knew not
what to do. AS last resort he con-
cluded to seek out spiritual medium, or
witch, or anything that you please to
cali her-at any rate, woman who had
communication with the spirits of the
eternal world. It was very difficult
thing to do, for Saul had either slain all
the witches, or compelled them to stop
business. A servant, one day, said to
King Saul: 81 know Of Spiritual me-
dunn down at the village Of En-dor. I"
"Do your" said the king. Night falls.
Saul, putting off his kingly robes,
and putting on the dress Of q
plain citizen, with two servants,
goes out to hunt up this spiritual me
dunn. It was no easy thing for Saul to
disguise himself, for the tallest people in
the country only came up to his shoul-
der, and think from the strength of the
man and the way he bore himself, he
must have been well proportioned It
must have been frightful thing to see a
man walking along in the night eight or
nine feet high. suppose, as the people
saw him pass. they said: ''Who is that?
He is as tall as the king''-having no
idea that in such a plain dress there
really was passing the king. Saul and
his servants after awhile reach the vii
lage, and they say: II wonder Il this
is the house," and they look in and they
see the haggard, weird and shriveled up
spiritual medium sitting by the light, and
on the table sculptured images, and
divining rods, and poisonous herbs, and
bottles and vases. They say: Eyes,
this must be the place." One loud rap
brings the woman to the door, and as she
stands there, holding the candle or lamp
above her head and peering out into the
darkness, she says: WHO is here2" The
tall king informs her that he has come to
have his fortune told. When she hears
that she trembles and almost drops the
light, for she knows there is no chance for
fortuneteller or spiritual medium in all
the land. But Saul having sworn that
no harm shall come to her, she says;
"Wel, who shall bring up from
the dead?" Saul says: "Bring ul
Samuel. !" That was the prophet
who had died little while before.
see her waving a wand, or stirring up
some poisonous herbs in caldron, OF
hear muttering over some incantations,
or stamping with her foot, as she cries
out to the realm Of the dead: ''Samuel
Samuelr' Lo, the freezing horrorl The
floor Of the tenement opens, and the
gray hairs float up, and the forehead, the
eyes. the lips, the shoulders, the arms
the feet, the entire body of dead Samuel
wrapped in sepulchral robe, appearing tt
the astonished group, who stagger bach
and hold fast, and catch their breath
| and shiver with terror. The deat
prophet, white and awful from the tomb
begins to move his ashen lips, and hs
glares upon King Saul, and cries out:
| s'What did you bring me up fora VIII
| did you break my long sleepp What d.
you mean, King Saul9' Saul, trying t.
compose and control himself, makes thi
stammering and affrighted utterance, a
he says to the dead prophet: "The Lort
is against me, and have come to 20,
for help. What shall dog' The deat
prophet stretched forth his finger to KIM
Saul and said: 'tDie tomorrow Com,
with me into the sepulcher. am going
now. Come, come with mel" And 10
the floor again opens, and the feet Of tn
dead prophet disappear, and the arm
and the shoulders and the forehead. Tn
floor closes. Nothing is left in the room
but Saul and the two servants and th
spiritual medium and the sculptures
images and the divining rods and tn
bottles and the vases and the poisonou
herbs. Oh, that was an awful seance!
learn first from this subject that spir
itualism is a very old religion. Il Is nat
ural that people should want to know tn
origin and the history Of a doctrine whicl
is 50 widespread in all the villages, town
and cities Of the civilized world, gettin,
new converts every day-a doctrin
with which many Of you are alread.
tinged-
Spiritualism In America was born i
1S47, in Hydesvtlle, Wayne county, N
Y, when one night there was loud ra
heard against the door Of Michael Week
man; rap second time, q rap a thir
time; and all three times, when the doc
was opened, there was nothin
found there, the knocking havin
been made seemingly By inyisibl
knuckles. In that same house there wa
young woman who had cold han
passed over her face, and there bein
seemingly no arm attached to 1t, ghostl
suspicious were excited. After awhil
Mr.. Fox and his family moved into tha
house, and then every night there was
banging at the door, and one night Nj
Fox said: '.Are you a spirits" Two rapI
answering In the affirmative. care 20
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