The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-09

ther excited After a while Mr.. Fox
moved into that house and now the dis
tuTbance became more general and con-
5inuous. Great racket and banging around
the house every night Mr. Fox said:
care you a spiritY' Two raps (the
preacher rapping his table twice. signify
ing the affirmative. Are you an injured
spirit" Two raps knocking the table,
signifying the affirmative. And it was
found out that the ghost OF a peddler who
had been murdered in that house many
years before for his $500 had come back
Whether the ghost of the peddler had
come back to collect the $500, or his bones,
] am unable now TO state, not being a
spiritualist. Loud laughter But that
there was a general excitement around is
proved by Mr.. Weekman and Mrs. Week
man, and Mr.. Fox and Mrs Fox, and
all the little Foxes. Laughter OF
course, the excitement spread, and there
was a general rUmpus. Judge Edmunds
declared IN a book about that time that a
bell upon the top of a shelf in a closet was
swung out by invisible hands and rung
over the heads of the people who were
standing by that closet, and then it swung
out from the back parlor and rung over
the people who were in the back parlor,
and then swung through the folding doors
and was TUng over the people in the front
parlOr. y man declared at that time that
he was lifted bodily up and carried
through the air by invisible spirits, and
he Invent so rapidly through the air he
could not even count the posts of the
fence, and he had in his hand a hand-saw
and square and they ratified together
making delicious music. Laughter
And the tables shook and the stools tilted
and the bedsteads rose and all the spirits
% Al
ture business. Laughter. "Oh," said
hundreds OF people, eve have new re-
ligipn now" Oh, no, it was an old re-
Igion; 1t was as old as the time of the
text; 1t may have been much older than
that. There have not been in our times
any more strange or wonderful things
happening than in all the ages that are
past. There have in all the ages been
necromanceTs, those who consult with the
spirits OF the future world; dreamers,
those who throw their subjects into state
in which they could see all the future
and talk with the spirits of the eternal
world; sorcerers, who took poisonous
herbs and could see everything and hear
everything; astrOlogers, who had a reve-
1ation from the stars; experts in PALMS.
try, who could tell by the lines in the
palm OF the hand your history, your re-
hglon, your destiny. Do you say
that spiritualism differs from all
these? / declare to YOU they
belong TO the same family. They are al
exhalations from the pit, and ii YOU want
to hear what the Lord thinks about them
and what the bible declares about them,
you shall hear. God never speaks of spir-
1tuallsm or necrOmancy or the works OF
wizards or spiritual mediums but with
livid thunders OF indignation. God saws:
IT Ill l. =
cerer- lie says: Thou shalt not suffer
a witch to live" And lest YOU might
make some important distinction between
splrituallsm and witchcraft God says in so
many words: There shall not be found
among you cOnsulter OF familiar spirits
or wizard or necrOmancer, for they that
do these things are an abOminatiOn unto
tie Lord" And he saws again: ''The
soul tinat turneth after such as have
familiT spirits and who 90 a whOring after
them, / will even set my face against that
soul and viii cut him off from among
bis people" And the Almighty in
a score of passages, which have not time
to quote, declares his hatred of everything
like spiritualism, and when YOU adopt
those doctrines, and when YOU 90 and
consult With the spirits of the departed
you put yourselves in antagonism with
the bible and in antagonism with the
eternal God Ny subject also impressed
me with the fact that people fall into it
through trouble. Saul had enough
trouble to kill ten men, and he thought
ne would like TO have little relief from
the spiritual world, and so he goes to seek
the witch OF Endor. If it had not been
for his trouble he would never have got
ten into this communication, or this pre-
tended communication, with the eternal
world. And / have noticed that in our
day those who become spiritualists, in
nearly all the cases are led there
through trouble. IL is bankruptcy, or
it is sickness, or it is bereavement. You
lose your purse; you 60 TO fortune-teller
10 find out where it is. You lose friend;
you arr so anxious TO have communica-