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

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are not such fool al that but you will be
II you keep on in the track you have started,
| but, says someone, f.wouldn,t it beyof
advantage to hear from the future world?
Don't you think it would strengthen Chris.
tlans! There are great many materialists
VINO 20 81 NOT believe there are souls but il
spirits from the future world should knock
and talk over to us. they would be persuade
ed. = To that answer, in the ringing words
of the Son of God: ssIf they believe not
Moses and the prophets, neither will they
be persuaded, though one rose from the
dead.''
Now, II believe, under God, that this SER
mon will save many from disease, insanity and
perd1tion. [ believe these are the DAYS Of
which the apostle spake when he said: GIN
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, II
think my audience. well as other audience S in
this day, need to have reiterated In their hear
ing the passages quoted some minutes ago:
ssThere shall not be among You onsulter
of familiar spirits, or wiz d, or necromancer /:
for they that do these things are an abomina-
ton unto the Iord,o and 'sThe soul that
turneth after such as have familiar spirits, I
will set myself against them, and shall be
cut off from their peopie.n
But invite you this smorning tOa Chris,
tian seance. This congsega ion is only one
great family. Here is the church table.
Come around the church table, take your
seats for this great Christian seance, put
your Bible on the table, put YOUR hands on
the top OF the Bible, and then listen and hear
1t there are any voices coming from The eter-
nal world. ] think there are. Listen! ssSe-
cfet things belong unto the Lord our God,
but things that ar REVEALED belong unto us
and to our children" Surely that is voice
from the spirit world But before YOU rise
from this Cnr1rtian seanee want you to
promise me you will be satisfied with the
divine revelation until the light OF the eter-
nal throne breaks upon your vision. Do rot
go after the witch Of Endor. DonoG sit dowa
at the table-rappings, either in sport or in
dead earnest. Have your tables so Wall
made, and their legs SO even That they will
not tip and rattle. If the table must move.
let it be under the offices of industrious
house Wifery: Teach your children there are
no ghosts to be seen or heard in this world
save those Which walk on two feet or four.
human or bestial. Rem mber that spiritual-
Ism at the best is a useless thing; for if it
tells e what the Bible reveals it's a:snpa rfuity,
II = tells Va the Bible does Lot reveal it IS
a lie. Instead OF going OUT to get other peo-
pie to tell your fortune. tell your own for
tune by putting yonr trrst IN God and doing
the best you can. 1 will tell your forum !:
AL thlngs work together Tor good to IL EN-
Who love God" Insultnot your departel
friends by asking them to come down and
scrabble under an extension table. Remem-
Der that there is only one Spirit whose die.
tation you have right to invoke, and that is
the holy, blessed land omnipotent spirit of God.
Hark! He is rapping now, not on a table or
the floor, but rapping on the door of your
heart, and every rap is an Invitation to
Christ and warning of judgment to come.
on, grieve Him not away. Quench Him not.
ne has been all around you this morning.
He was all around you last night He has
been around you all your lives. Hank
There comes ayoice dropping through the
roof, breaking through the window, filling
all this house with tender and oyermastering
information, saying: Only spirit shall not al.
ways strlye."