The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-10

ed IN the state lunat1c asylum, where he Is:
to-day raving maniac. Put your hand id
the hand Of this witch Of Endor and she will
lead you I'd bottomless perdition; where she
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe
for the United StaieG Getting midocean
the machinery broke; and she lloundered
around day after day and week after week;
and for whole month after she was due
people wondered, and finally gave her up.
There was great anguish In the cities. tor
there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some of the women, in their dis
tress, Went to the spiritual mediums and in
quired as to the fate of that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap.
pings on the table indicated tile, steamship
mad and were carried to the lunatic asyliims.
After while one day gun was heard Of
quarantine. The flags went up on the shin
ping and the bells OF the churches were
rung. .. The boys ran though the streets: "Ex.
ira! The Atlantic is safev'. There was the
embracing as from the dead, wheh friends
came again to friends; but some OF those
passengers went up to find their wives in the
lunatic asylum where this cheat Of internal
spiritusllsln had put them. A man in Belle.
vue hospital, dying from wounds made by
commit suicide, he said: "The spirits told
me to-" Parents have stransled their chill.
dren, and when asked why they did it, re-
piled: "Spiritualism demanded it." 1t is
the patronizer and forager for the mad
house. Judge Edmonds in Broadway taber.
nacle. New York, delivering lecture in be.
halt Of spirituali> m, admitted in 50 many
words: ''Therc is a fascination about con.
sultation with the spirits of the dead that
has a tendency to lead people of from their
right Judgment. and to lnstill into them
fanaticism that is revolving to the natural
mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples, but it ruins
the mediums also-only give it time. The
Gadarran swine, on the banks of tho Lake
of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual medi-
ums than down they went, in an avalanche
of pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds.
men. The Office OF medium is bad for
man, bad for woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion more fearful
indictmcnt-it ruins the soul immortal.
First. it makes man quarter of an infidel !;
then it makes him half an infidel; then it
makes him whole intidel. The whole system,
as 1 conceive 1t. IS founded on the INSULT
cheney Of the word of God as revelation. God
say, the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the
Lord differ. You clear the table, you shove
table, and say: "Now let spirits of the
future world come and tell me something
the Bible has not told me-" And although
the scriptures say: "Add thou not unto His
found 4 liar" you risk it. and say: ':Comc
back, spirit Of my departed father; come
back, spirit Of my departed mother, Of my
companions. Of my little child, and tell me
some things / don't know about you and
! about the unseen world" If God is ever
spiritual medium puts down her hand on
the table, invoking spirits departed to make
a revelation. God has told you all you ought
to know, and how dare you be prying into
that which is none of your business? You
can not keep the Bible in one hand aud
spiritralism ir the other. One or the other
will slip out OF your grasp. depend upon 1t.
SpirituaIism is adverse to the Bible in tho
| fact that it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to testify
against Christianity. It's mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, tile celebrated evangelist,
and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians
are idolators. spiritua'ism calls hack Tom
the same house with John Bunyan. They
call back John Wesley, and he testi5cs
against the Christian religion, which all his
lie he gloriou>ly preached. Andrew Jack
son Davis, the greatest Of all spiritualists,
comes to the front and declares that the
barbaric age" and the Bible only zone of the
pcn-and-ink relics of Christianity.' They
attempt to substitute the writings of Swed.
cnborg and Andrew Jackson Davis and other
religious ba'derdash in the place of this old
Bible. l have in my house book which
ice Of spiritualism: it is Well worn with
much service. open the book, and it says:
"What is our baptism? Answer. Frequent
ahlutioas of water. What is our inspira.
ton? Plenty of fresh air and SUM ght.
What is our prayer? Abundant physical ex'
conscience and sound sleep" And 1 find
from the same book that the chief item III
their public worship is gymnastic exercise,
and that whenever they want to rouse up
their souls to very high pitch OF devotion
they sing page Is: ''The Night Has Gath
cred Up Her Moonlt Fringes;" or page 16:
"Come to the Weeds, Higho" You say yor
are not such fool a. that; but you will be
If you keep OIL in the track you have started.
advantage to hear from the future world!
Don't you think it would strengthen Chris.
TINS? There are great many materlalista
vino do not believe there are souls; but il
spirits from the future world should knock
and talk over to lis, they would be pers,lad
of the Son of God: "If they believe moi
Moses and the prophets. neither will they
be persuaded, though one rose from the
dead"
Now>T believe, under God, that this SER
mon will save many from disease, insanity and
perdition. l believe these are the days Of
which the apostle spuke when lie said: "Ir
the latter times some 8: all depart from thu
faith, giving heed to seducng spirits"
think my audience. well as other audience ii
this day, need to have reiterated IN their hear
ing the passages 1quoted some minutes ago
''Thcre shall not be among you con sultel
Of familiar spirits, or wiz u d, or necromancer
for they that do these things are an abomin:.
ton unto the lori,' and 1.-The soul tina
tur1cth after such as have familiar spirits,
will set myself against tLem. and shall b
cut off from their people,"
But invite you this eemorning to Chris
tian seance. This congrega ion is only one
great family. Here is the church table
Come around the church table, take YOU
seats for this great Christian seance, pu
your Bible on the table, put your hands OF
the top OF the Bible, and then listen and heal
nal world. l think there arc. Listen! Csc
cIet things belong unto the Lo:d our God
but Things that ar. revealed belong unto vi
and to our children" Surely that is yoic.
from the spirit world But before you rise
from this Chrirtian sean:e I want you I,
divine revelation until the light OF tho etel;
nal throne breaks upon your vision. Do 70
go after the witch Of Endor. Do not SIT. dow
at the table-rappings, either in sport or in
dead earnest. Have your tables 50 W.,
made, and their legs so even. that they viii
not tip and rattle. If tho table must move
let it be under the offices Of industrio,,
hous ewtery: Teach your children there ar
no ghosts to be seen or heard in this worl(
save those which walk on two feet or four
human or bestial. Rem ,mbcr that spiritual.
ism at the b>st is useless thing; for il /
tells what the Bible reveals it's Sup crfuty
if il tells wnat the Bibc dos lot reveal it i
Il lie. ms. cad Of gn'"c our to get other pco
pie to tell your fortune, tell your own for
tune by putting your tr,st ~ God and coin;
the ;, best Is; you can; l will tell your forum
who love God" Insult not your departe
friends by asking them to come down an.
scrabble under an extension table. Remem
Der that there is only one Spirit whose di,
tation you have right to invoke, and that j
tie 10; y,blcsscd,and omnipotent spirit Of God
Hank! lie is rappng now, not on a table o
the floor. but rapping on the door of you
heart, and every rap is an invitation t
Christ and q warning Of Judgment to come
On, grievc Him not away. Quench Him not
lie has been all around you this morning
IL oil Il