The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-05-10
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book; and ventriloquism, and legerde-
main, and sleight of hand, and optical
delusion account for nearly every thing
Deception.being the main staple of Spirit
ualism, no wonder it chooses the dark
ness.
You have all seen strange and unac-
countable things in the night. Almost
every man has at some time had touch
of hallueination. Some time ago, after l
had been over tempted to eat something
indigestible before retiring at night, after
retiring saw the president of one of the
prominent colleges astride the foot of the
bed, while he demanded of me loan OF
fifty cents, When awakened had no
idea it was any thing supernatural. And
have to advise you, if 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 or.
ganism, enough to deceive the very elect
after sundewn, and does nearly oil its
work in the night. The Witch OF Endor
held her seances in the night; SO do all
the witches. Away with this religion of
spooks.
/ indict Spiritualism also because IL is
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
to tell. | will not pollute my tongue nor
your ears with the recital. Sometimes the
civil law has been evoked 10 stop the out
rage. Families innumerable have been
broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of young women into
life of profigacy. It talks about
"electiye affinities" and "affinital rela-
tions" and spiritual matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary of free
lovism. In one of its public journals 1t
declares marriage is the monster curse
Ct civilization" sit is source of de-
bauchery and intemperance-" IL
Spiritualism could have its full swing it
would turn this world into pandemontum
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner 1t
drops into the hell from which 1t rose, the
better for both earth and Heaven. For
the sake of mans honor and woman's
purity, say let the last vestige of it
perish forever. / wish could gather up
all the raps it has ever heard from spirits,
blest or damned, and gather them all on
its own head in one laundering rap of an
initiation!
further indict Spiritualismfo for the fact
that il is the cause of much insanity.
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not the torn
and bleeding victims of this delusion. Go
into any asylum, care not where ii is,
and the presiding doctor, after you have
asked him, 'What is the matter with
that mani" will say: "Spiritualism de-
mented him;" or, "What is the matter
with that woman" he will say: spirit
ualism demented her" 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intelleots. II
swept off into mental midnight judges,
Senators, Governors, ministers or the
Gospel, and one time came near captur-
ing one of the Presidents OF the United
States. At Flushing, near this city,
man became absorbed with it, forsook his
family, took his only $1,000, surrendered
them to n spiritual medium in New York,
attempted three times to put an end to his
own life, and then was incarcerated in
the Safe Lunatic Asylum, where he its
to-day raving maniac. Put your hand
in the hand of this Witch of Endor, and
she will lead you to bottomless perdition.
where she holds her everlasting seance.
Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe to the United States.
Getting in mid-ocean the machinery
broke, and she houndered around day
after day, and week after 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 dis
tress, went to the spiritual mediums and
inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the
rappings on the table indicated the steam
er lost, with all on board. Women went
raving mad, and were carried to the
lunatic asylum. After awhile one day
gun was heard off 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 safel" There was the en-
bracing as from the dead, when friends
came again to friends; but some of those
passengers went up to find their wives In
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of
internal Spiritualism 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-" Parents
have strangled their children, and when
asked why they did it, replied, "Spiritu
alism demanded itp' 1t is the patronizer
and forager for the mad house. Judge
Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering a lecture in favor of
admitted, in so many words;
'There is fascination about consulta-
tion with the spirits of the dead that has IA
tendency to lead people of from their
right Judgment, and to instill into them
fanaticism that is revolving 10 the natural
mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples, but it
ruins the mediums also, only give it time.
The Gadaraean swine, on the banks of the
Lake of Galilee, no sooner became spirit
ual mediums than down they went in an
of pork, TO the CONSERVATION
Of all the herdsmen. The office of
medium is bad for man, bad for wom-
an, bad for beast.
Spiritualism is adverse 20 the Bible in
the fact that it has in these last days called
from the future world Christian men to tes-
tify against Christianity, Its mediums call
back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangel-
lst, and Lorenzo Dow testfes that Christi
ans are idolators. Spiritualism calls back
Tom Paine, and he test!fes that he is stop
ping in the same house in Heaven With
John Bunyan They call back John Wes-
ley and he testifes against the Christian
religion which he all his life gloriously
Andrew jackson Davis, tho
greatest Of all the spiritualists, comes 70
The front and declares that the New Testa-
nent is but ''the dismal echo OF a barhario
age" and the Bible only zone of the pen
and ink relies of Christianity" They at
tempt to substitute the writings Of Swed-
auborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, and
other religious balderdash, in the place Of
lhis old Bible.
But | invite You this morning to a
Christian seance, noon-day seauce.
This congregation is only one great fam
ily. Here is the church table Come
around the church table, take your seats
for this great Christian seapcc, put your
Bible on the table, put your hands on top
Of the Bible, aud then listen and hear it
thore are any voices coming from the
eternal world. / think there are. Listen
Secret things belong unto the Lord our God,