Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-05-05


Know oflt.,c I turc.
T. BROOKLYN, April 29.-Aftcr the Row. T.
De Witt ,4alnusc D. D., had in his well
known nrilaer. cxpounded tho Scriptures, the
malt!tulc;0f people who throng tho Taber-
n;lclc and,nll Che entrances, packing every
nvaiablo s6ace of standing and sitting room,
united in Staging:
ssSSiils...eoa lot tho echo Cy
iThcspaciotis cart.i Ground
While all Tho nr;:;ics of the sky
{CotsIiro to rs;ijc tic ion.d.
D.. TSlinaga announced his subject, Mod
crn S;,riEi,llsln.n lie took for his text,
..Behold, tacsJ:i is Il woman that .ath famil-
iar spirisaEEn-dor. And Saul disguised him
self and l,u5 Oh other raimont, and he went,
mud two ,rien.with him, and they came to the
woman .b5S night, and lie snid, I pray thee
divine untpsnoS by the familiar spirit, and
b-in:. me ;hiIaSuo;whon Stall nnme unto.
tiicc.'-I s.inuet xvii, 3, 81. Following is
tho sermoi IN full: -
8 havo recently become n Sniritunlist. At
least SO solae OF the jousnc.s,of that belief
declare. CHS, together with tho fact that
mediums aro now being tried in tho criminal
courts, setting millions of people to mako
inquiry iniregard to communication between
this worldjand the next leads me to preach
/ this SERMON
Trouble to the right of him and trouble to
the left of;hirl, Saul knew not what to do.
| AS last resort, he concluded to seek out
spiritual medium, or a witch, or anything
that you please to call hcr-at any rate,
woman who had communication with the
spirits of the eternal world 1t was very
difficult thing TODD, 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 a spiritual medium down
at the village of En-dor." do you'" said tho
king Night falls. Saul, putting off his
lingly robes, and putting on the dress of
plain citizen, with two servants, goes out to
hunt up this spiritual medium 1t was no
easy thing for Saul to disguise himself, for
tho tallest people in the country only came
up to his shoulder, and I think from the
/ strength of She man and tho way no
bore himself, he must have been
we'll proportional 1t must have been q
frightful thing to SEQ man walking
along i'll the night eight or nino feet high.
suppose, as the people saw him pass, they
said: "Who is that? Hc is as tall rs the
kingn-hnving no idea that in such plain
dress there really WINS passing the king.
Saul and his servants after awhile rench the
village, and they say: "I wonder if this is
the house," and they look in and SEQ the
haggard, weird and shrivelcd up spiritual
medium sitting by the light, and on the ta-
BILE sculpturcd images, and divining rods,
and poisonous herbs, and bottles and vases.
They say: eyes, this must be the place."
Ono loud rap brings tho woman to the door;
and as sho stands there, holding the candle
or lamp above her head and pcering out into
the darkness, she says:
"1Nho is herezm The tall king informs her
TINT he has come to have his fortune told.
Whom shoi hears that, she trembles and
almost drops tho light, for sho knows there
is 10 chance for fortune teller or spiritual
medium mall the land. But Saul, having
sworn that no harm shall como to l.cr, she says:
"Well, who shall bring up from the dcadl"
Saul says: Bring up Samuel That was
the prophet ;aho had died little while be-
fore. sec her waving wand, or stirring
up some poisonous herbs III q caldron, or
hear niuttcring over some incantations, or
stamping with her foot, as she cries out to
the realm of the dead: Samuel! Samuel"
Lo, tho freezing horror The floor of the
tenement opens and the gray hairs float up,
and the forehead, the eyes, the lips, tho
shoulders, the arms, the feet the entire body
OF dead Samuel, wrapped in sepulchral robe,
appearing to tic astonished group, who
stagger back and hold fast, and catch their
breath, and SILVER with terror Tho dead
prophet, white and awful from tho tomb,
begins to move his ashen lips, and he glarcs
upon King Saul, and cries out:
"What did you bring me up for? Why did
you break my long sleep? What do you
mean, King Saull' Saul, trying to compose
and control himself, makes this stammering
and afrrightcd utterance, as ho says to the
dead prophet: "Tho Lord is against me, and
have come to ycu for help. What shall
doc" Tho dead prophet stretched forth his
finger to King Saul and said: "Die to-mor-
rowl Como with me into the scpulchcr.
mn going now. Come, conc with mc!n And
10! the floor again opens, and the feet of the
dead prophet disappear, and tic arms, aid
the shoulders, and the forehead. Tho floor
closes. Nothing is left i'll tho room but Saul
and the two servants, and the spiritual me-
dunn, and the sculpturod limoges, and the
divining rods, and the bottles, AID the vases,
and the poisonous herbs. Oh, that was an
awful scancc
learn first from this subject that spir-
itualism is a very old religion 1t is natural
that people should want to know the origin
and the history of a doctrine which is so
widespread in oil tho villages, towns and
cities of the civilized world, getting new
converts every day-a doctrine with which
many of you are already tinged.
SpiritGalism il America was born in 1S4T,
in Hydcsville, Wayne county, n Y, when
one night there was u loud rap heard against
tho door of Michael Weelimau; q rap Sec
ond time, rap q third time; and all three
times, when tho door YVES opened, there was
nothing found there, the knocking having
been made seemingly by invisible knucldes.
|. In that same house there was young woman
who had cold hand passed over her face, and
there being seemingly no arm attached to it,
Ghostly suspicious were excited. After
awhile Mr.. Fox and his family moved into
that house, and then every night there was
banging at the door: and one night MIR. Tox
said s'Aro you q spiiitl" Two raps, ans
swering in tho affirmative. "Arc you an
Injured spirits" Two raps, answering III the
affirmative And so they found out, as they
say, that it was the ghost OF spirit of ped
dler who had been murdered in that house
many years before for his $500. Whether
the ghost of the dead pcddlcr had come
there to collect his $500, or his bones, 1 can
not say, not being a Spiritualist; but there
was a great racket at the door, so Mr..
Weellnan declared, and Mrs Weekman
and MIR. Fox and Mrs. Fox and all the
little Foxes The excitement spread There
was universal rumpus. The Hon. Judge
Edmonds declared, in book, that he had
actually seen a bell start from the top shelf
of a closet, heard it ring over the people that
were standing in the closet, then, swung by
invisible hands, it rang over the people in
the back porlor, and aoated through