New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-09

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jects ina mesmerIc state; sorcerers, those
| who by taking poisonous drugs see every.
thing and hear everything and tell every.
| thing; dreamers, people who in their sleep.
| ing moments can see the future world and
hold consultation with spirits; astrologers,
| who could read new dispensation in the
| stars; experts IN palmistry, who can tell by
the lines in the palm of your hand your or.
| lgin and your history. From cave on Mount
| Parnassus, we are told, there was an exhala-
| ton that intoxicated the sheep and the goats
that came anywhere near 1t, and shepherd
approaching it was thrown by that exhala-
ton into an excitement in which he could
foretell future events and hold consultation
with the spiritual world. Yea, before the
time OF Christ the Brahmins went through
all the table-moying, all the furniture ex.
c1tement which the spirits have exploited in
our day; precisely the same thing over and
over again, under the manipulations of the
Branmins: Now, do you say that spiritual
Ism Is dlHerent from these? / answer, all
these delusions have mentioned belong to
The same family. They are examinations
from the unseen world What does God
think OF all these delusions? He thinks so
severely of them that He never speaks of
Them but with vivid thunders of indigna-
tlon. He says: Il will be swift witness
against The sorcerer." .. He says: '.Thou
shalt not suffer witch to live, And lest
you might make some important distinction
between spiritualism and witchcrafJ God
says IN SO many words: ssThere shall not
De among you consulter of familiar spirits.
OF wizard, or necromancer; for they that do
these things are an abomination unto the
Lord" And He says again: .sThe soul OF
Ihose who seek after such as have familiar
spirits, and who go whoring after them,
Will set myself against them, and he shall be
| cut off from among his people," The Lord
Almighty, in score of passages, which /
nave not now time to quote, utters His in
dlgnation against all this great family of
delusions. After that be a spirituaiist if
you dare!
Still further, we learn from this text how
it is that people come to fall into spiritual-
ism. Saul had enough trouble to kill ten
men. He did not know where to go Tor re-
lief. After awhile he resolved to 90 and see
The witch of En-dor He expected that
somehow she would afford him relief. It was
his trouble that drove him there. And I
have to tell you now that spiritualism finds
its victims in the troubled, the bankrupt, the
sick, the bereft. You lose your watch, and
you go to the fortune teller to find where it
IS. You lose friend, you want the spiritual
world opened. so that you may have COM
munlcation with him. In highly-w-ought.
nervous, aud diseased state of mind, you 90
and put yourself in that communication.
That is why hate spiritualism. 1t takes ad.
SSs
which may come upon us at any time. We
lose friend. The trial is keen, sharp, suao-
eating, almost maddening. If we could
marshal host, and storm the eternal world.
and recapture our loved one, the host would
soon be marshaled. The house is SO lonely.
The world is so dark. The separation is SO
insufferable.
But sp1rituaIlsm says: owe will open the
future world, and your beloved one can come
back and talk to you" Though we may
not hear his voice, we may hear the rap Of
his hand. So, clear the table. Sit down.
Put your hands on the table. Be yery quiet
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No mo.
ton of the table No response from the fu-
ture world. Twenty minutes Thirty min
utes. Nervous excitement all the time in
creasing. Forty minutes. The table shivers.
Two raps from the future world. The letters
of the alphabet are called over. The de-
parted friends name is John. At the pro-
nunciation of the letter 81" two raps. At
the pronunciation Of the letter s.O, two
raps. At the pronunciation of the letter s.H''
two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter
s'N' two raps. There you have the whole
name spelled out John, John. Now, the
you happvs5 Two raps give an affi Dl, aye
answer. Pretty soon the hand of the medium
begins to twitch and toss, and begins to write
out, after paper and ink are furnished,
IL
remarkable, the departed spirit, although it
has been amid the illuminations of heaven.
can not spell as we'll as it used to. It has
lost all grammatical accuracy and can not
write as distinctly. [ received a letter
through medium once. I sent it back. ]
said: "Just please to tell those ghosts thew
had better go to school and get improved in
their orthography.' Now just think. of spirits.
that the bible represents as enthroned in
glory, coming down to crawl under the table,
and break crockery, and ring tea-bells before
supper is ready, and rap the window shutter
on gusty night. Is there any consolation in
such poor, miserable work compared with
the thought that our departed Christian
friends, got rid Of pain and lanquishing, are
in the radiant society OF heaven, and that we
Shall join them there, not in stihed and
mysterious half-utterance which makes The
hair stand on end and the cold chills creep
down the back, but in an unhindered and
illimitable delight.
And none shall murmur or misdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out
1es,my friends, spiritualism comes to those
who are IN trouble and sweeps them into its
delusions. Saul, in the midst of his disaster.
Went to the witch Of Endor. The vast ma
jorltv of those who have gone to spiritual
mediums have been sent there through their
misfortunes.
learn still further from this subject that
splfltuallsm aud necromancy are affairs of
the darkness. Why did not Saul 90 in the
day? He was ashamed to go. Besides that,
he knew that this spiritual medium, like ali
her successors, performed her exploits in
the night. The Davenports, the FoWlers, the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages.
have chosen the night OF darkened room.
Why? The majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospers best
in the night.
Some Of the performances of spiritual me-
diums are not to be ascrlbed to fraud, but to
some occult law that after awhile may be de-
monstrated. But I believe that now nine
hundred and Dinety-nine out of every thous-
and achievements on the part of spiritual
mediums are arrant and unmitigated hum
bugs. The mysterious red letters that used
to come out on the mediums arm were found
to have been made by an, iron pencil that
went heavily over the flesh; not. tearing it,
but SO disturbing the hood that it came up in
great round letters The witnesses of the
seances have locked the door, put the key in
their pocket, arrested the operator, and found
out, by searching the room, that hidden levers
moved the tables. The sealed letters that
We're mysteriously read without opening
have been found to have been cut at the side,
and then afterward syly put together with
gum arabic; and the medium who, with a
heavy blanket over his head could read
book, shas been found to have had bottle of
phosphoric oil, by the light of which any,