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

4ouprrndrlIrzlI. ana L nayo to advise you, IL
you hear and see strange things at night. to
stop eating hot mince pie and take dose Of
bilious medicine. 1t is all outraged physical
organism, enough to deceive the very elect
after shutdown, and does nearly all its work
in the night The witch Of En-dor held her
seances at night; so do oil the witches.
Away with this religion of spooks!
Still further: learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death to its disci-
pies. King Saul thought that he would get
help.from the medium" but the first thing
that lie sees makes him swoon away, and no
sooner was he rcsuscitated than be is told he
must die. Spiritualsm is doom and death to
every one that yields to it. 1t ruins the body.
Look in upon an audience of Spiritualists.
Cadaverous. Weak. Nervous. Exhausted.
Hands clammy aud cold Nothing prospers
but long hair-soft marshes yielding rank
grass Spiritualism destroys the physical
health Its disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the, other world. Strange
beings crossing the room lin white. Table
fdgety, wanting to get its feet loose as if to
dance Voices sepulchral and ominous Be
wildered with raps.. l., never know con;
lirmed Spiritualist who had a healthy nervous
system 1t is incipient epilepsy, and cata-
lepsy. Destroy your nervous system and you
might as well be dead. I have noticed
that people who are hearing raps from the
Z. future world have but litties sttengt left 80
: bear the hard raps Of this world. 1t Is an
awful thing to trife with ones nervous
system tits so delicate-it is SO far reach
ing-its arrangements are SO terrible. Get
, the4neryous system a. jangle, and SO far as
YOUR body Ind soul arc concerned, the whole
universe is jungle Better in our ignorance
experiment with chemists rotort that may
smte us dead, or with an engineers steam
boiler that may blow US to atoms, tnan cx-
pertinent with the nervous system. A man
can live with only One lung or with no eyes
and be happy, us men have been under such
Affections; but woe to the mnn whose nerves
are shattered! Spiritualism slnires first Of
all, and nightly, against the nervous system,
and so makes life miserable
Iindict Spiritualism also, because it is a
social and marital curse. The worst deeds Of
RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst orgies of obsceil-
iUy have been enacted under its patronage.
The story is too vile for ME to tell I will
not pollutc my tongue nor your ears with the
recital. Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innu-
mcrable have been broken up by it. 1t has
pushed off hundreds of young women into u
life of proHigacy. 1t talks about elective
aiIinities,n and sailinital relations" and
spiritual matches" and adopts the whole
vocabulary Of free loveisn. In one of its
! public journals it declares marriage is the
monster curse of civilization" sit is a
source of debauchery and intemperance." II
Soiritualism could have its full swing, it
would turn this world into q pandemonium
Of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnablo religion, and the sooner it drops
into the hell from which it rose, the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake Of
mans honor and woman's purity, i say let
: tho last vestiGc of it perish forever. l wish
i could gathgr up all tho raps it has ever
heard from Spirits blcst or damned, and
gather them all on its own head in ono
laundering rap of annihilatiop!
further indict Spiritualism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity. There is
not an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and bleed
ing victims of this delusion. Go into any
asylum, / care not where it is, and the pre-
; siding doctor, after you have asked him:
"yYhat is the matter with that manm will
saw: "Spiritualism demented him." or,
s'What is tho matter with that woman!s, he
viii say: "Spiritunlism demented herr 1t
has taken down some Of the brightest intel
lects. 1t swept OFF into mental midnight
Judges, senator's, governors, ministers of the
(; Gospel, and one time came near capturing
one of the presidents Of the United States.
At Flushing, near this city, man became
absorbed with it, forsook his family, took his
only Sl5, 600, surrendered them to Il spiritual
medium in New York, attempted three times
to put an end to his own life, and then was
incarcerated in tho State Lunatic asylum,
where be is today>a raying maniac. Put
your hand in the hand of this
witch of En-dor and she will lead
you to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
! AGO the steamer Atlantic started from Europe
for the United States. Getting midocean the
machinery broke and she floundered around
day after day and week after week, aud for
n whole month after she was due people WON
dered and finally gave her up. There was
great anguish in the cities, for there were
many who had friends aboard that vessel.
. Some OF the women, in their distress, went
to the spiritual mediums and injured as to
the fate of that vessel. The mediums called
up the spirits, and the rappings OIL the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went raving mad, aud were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile
ole day n gun was heard off quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping. and the
bells of the churches were rung. The boys
ran through the streets, crying: "Extral
, The Atlantic is safo!" There was the en-
bracing as from the dead, when friends came
again to friends but some of those passen-
gers went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of in
fernal Spiritualism had put them A man in
Bellevue hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, and he said: "The spirits
told me to-" Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it,
replied: "Spritualism demanded it." 1t is
the patronizcr and forager for tho madhouse.
Judge Edmonds, in Broadway tabernacle,
New York, delivering lecture in behalf OF
Spiritualsfn, admitted, in so many words
.sTherc is fascination about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has ten
dency to lead people OF from their right
Judgment, and to instill into them fanati-
cisln that is revolving to the natural mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples but it ruins
the MEDIUMS also, only give it time. The
Gadoraean swine, On the banks Of the lake
of Galilec, no sooner became spiritual ME
diums than down they went, in an avalanche
! Of pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds
men. Tho Office Of q medium is bad for q
man, bad for woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion more fearful
Indictment: It ruins the soul immortal.
First, it makes man quarter of all infidel;
then it makes him half Oil infidel; then it
makes him whole nfidcl. The whole system,
as conceive it, is founded OH the insufHciency
of the word of God as a revelation. God