The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-10

III paimlstly, who can tell by the Ehes II
the palm of your hand your origin anC
history. From = cave on Mount Painas,
sus, we are told, there was an exhalatior
that intoxicated the sheep ard the goats
that came anywhere rear il, and a shep'
herd approaching IL was thrown by thai
exhaiatiOn into an excitement in which he
could foretell future events and hold con.
sultation with the spiritual world. Yea
before the time of Christ the Brahpilr.s
went through all the table Ting, all the
furniture excitement, which the spirits
have exploited in our day; precisely the
Same thing over and over again, under
The manipulations Of the Brahmins. Now
do you say that Spiritualism is different
from these? | answer, all these delusiuns
have mentioned belong to the sand FAM
lily. They are cxhumations from the TIN
seen world.
What dots tod think of all these delu-
slohs? He thinks so severely of them that
he never speaks of them but with ltvid
thunders Of indignation, nc says:
vii, be a swift witness against the sorcerer
He says:
Tho" shalt not suffer witch to lit'
And lest you might iiiake some impor-
tant distinction between Spiritualism and
witohcraft, God says in so many words
There shall not be among you a consultcr OF
familiar spirits, or wizard, or nccromancer; for
they that do these things are an abomination
unto the Lord.
The Lord Almighty, in a score of pas
sages, which have not now time to Hurt6,
utters his indignation against all this
great family u uelusions. After that be
a Spttitualist if you dare!
But Spiritualism says:
1--WE will open the future world, and
your loved one can come back and talk to
you"
Though We may not hear his voice, we
may hear the rap of his hands on the ia
Die. SO, clear the table Sit down. Put
your hands on the table. Be very quiet.
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes gone.
No motion of the table. No response from
the future world, Twenty minutes. Thir-
ty minutes. Nervous excitement all the
time increasing. Forty minutes. Tie table
shivers. Two raps from the r;iture world.
The letters of the alphabet are called
over. The departed friends name is John.
At tie pronunciation of the letter 81"
two raps. At the pronunciation of the let
ter 60" two raps. At the pronunciation
of the letter III" two raps. At the pro-
nunciation of the letter IN" two raps.
There You have the whole name spelled
out. jo-h-n, John. Now, the spirit be-
ing present, you say:
John, are you happy"
Two raps give an affirmative answer.
Pretty soon the hand of the medium be-
gins to twitch and toss and bcgius to write
out, after paper and ink are furnished, q
message from the eternal world. What is
remarkable, the departed spirit, although
1t has been amid the Examinations of
Heaven, can not spell az well as it used to.
IL ha- lost all grammatical accuracy and
can not write as distinctly. Ireceived a
letter through medium once. | sent it
back. ! said
''Just please to tell those ghosts they
had better ga to school and get improved
in their photography"
Now, just think Of spirits, that the Bible
represents as enthrOnCd in glory, coming
down to crawl under the table, and break
ciockcry, and ring tea-bells before supper
is ready, and rap the window shutter on q
gGSty night. Is there any consolation in
such poor, miserable work compared
with the thought that our departed Chris
tian friends, got rid of pain and languish"
ing, are in the radiant society Of Heaven;
and that we shall loin them there, not in
a stitled and mysterious half utterance,
which makes the hair stand on end and
the cold chllls creep the back, but in an
unhindered and iliimitabic delight?
And none shall murmur or mi sdoubt,
When Gods great sunrise finds US out.
Yes, 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.
Tho vast majority of those who have gone
to spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfOTtuncs.
l learn still farther from this sub ject
that Spiritualism and nccroman cy are af-
fairs of the darkness. Why did not Saul
go in the day: He was ashamed to go,
Besides that, he knew that this spiritual
medium, like all her successors, per-
formed her exploits in the night. The
DayenportS, the Fowlcr5, the Foxes, the
spiritual mediums of all ages, have chosen
the night or a daykened room. Whyt
The majority of their wonders have been
swindles, and deception prospers best in
the night.
You have all seen strange and unac.
countable things in the night Almost
of Authorization. Some time ago, after |
had been over tempted to eat something
indigestible before retiring at night, after
retiring l 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
l have to advise you, if you hear and see
ct AT TiC rht n Stn hpt
mince- pie and take dose of bilious
medicine. 1t is an outraged physical or e.
ganism, enough to deceive the very elect
after shutdown, and does nearly all 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 Spiritalism also because it is a
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. l will not pollute my tongue nor
your ears with the recital. Sometimes the
civil law has been evoked to stop the out
rage. Families innumerable have been
broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of young women into
lite of profigacy. 1t talks about
elective affinities" and "afinital rela-
tions" and spiritual Matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary of free
lovism. In one of its public journals it
declares marriage is the monster curse
CT civilization" 1T is n source of de-
bauchery and intemperance." If
Spiritualism could have its full swing it
would turn this world into pandemonium
of carnalitY. 1t is an unclean. adulterOus :,