The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-03

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but to some occult law that after while
may be demonstrated. But believe
that now nine hundred and ninety-nine
out of every thousand achievements on
the part OF Spiritual mediums are arrant
and unmitigated humbug. The mysteri-
GUS red letters that used to come 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 dis
turbing the blood that it came up in
gr at round letters, The witnesses of
the seances h We locked the door, put the
key in their pocket, arrested the opera
or, AMI found out, by searching the room,
nat hidden levers moved the tables.
I g sealed letters that were mysteriously
cad without op ln,ng have been cut at
ne 81 Ia, and then afterwards slyly put
ogether with gum arabic; and the me-
um who, with heavy blanket over his
lead, could read a book, has been found
have had bottle OF phosphoric oil, by
.he light OF which anyuoly can read a
ouk; and ventrilequism, and legerde-
nain, and sleight OF hand, and optical
lelusion account for nearly everything.
deception being the main staple OF Spiri-
lualism, no wonder it chooses the dark
ness.
You have all seen strange and unac-
countab.e things in the night. Almost
every man has ut some tins had touch
oil hallucination. Some time ago after l
had been over tempted TO eat something
lndigesCible before retiring at night after
retiring | saw the president OF one OF the
prominent colleges astride the foot of
tue bed while he demanded or me
loan OF five cents When | awakened
had no idea it was anything supernatu-
raj. And | have to advise you, if you
hear and see strange things at night, to
stop cutting hot mince pie and take a
dose OF bilious medicine. 1t is an out
ragged physical organis n, enough to de-
ceive the very elect after sundown, and
dees nearly all its work in the night.
he witch OF En-dor held her seances at
night 80 do all the witches. Away
with this religion OF spoOks.
Still further learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death to its dis
ciples King Saul thought lat he would
get help from the medium; but the
lrst thing that he sees makes him swoon
away, and no sooner is he resuscitated
than he is told he must die. Spiritual
ism is doom and death to everyone that
yields to it. 1t ruins the body. Look in
upon an audience OF Spiritualists. CaCia-
verous Weak. Nervous. Exhausted.
Hands clammy and cold. Nothing pros
pers but long hair-solt marshes yielding
long grass. Spiritualsm destroys the
physical health. Its disciples are ever
hearing startling news from the other
world. Strage beings cross the roo n in
white. Table fidgety, wanting to get its
feet loose as if to dance. Voices sep
uchral and ominous. Bewildered with
raps. | never knew a confirmed Spiritu-
alist who had healthy nervous system.
1t is incipient epilepsy and catalepsy.
Destroy your nervous system and YOU
might as well be dead. | have noticed
that people who are hearing raps from
the future world have but little strength
left to bear the hard raps of this world
1t is an awful thing to trifle with one 3
nervous system. 1t is so delicate-it is
SO far reaching g-its arrangements are so
terrible. Get the nervous system jangle,
and so far as your body and soul are CON
cerned, the whole universe is jangle.
Better in our ignorance experiment with
chemists retort that may smite us
dead, or with an engineers steam boiler
that may blow us to atoms than expert
ment with the nervous system, A man
can live with only one lung or with no
eyes, and be happy as men have been
under such Affections; but woe bs to the
man whose nerves are shattered. Spirit
ualism smites first of ALL and nightly,
against the nervous system, and so make
life miserable.
1 indict Spiritualism, also because it is
a social and marital curse. The worst
deeds OF lcentiousness and the worst
orgies OF obscenity have been enacted
under its patronage. The story is too
vile for ME to tell. will not pollute my
tongue nor your ears with the recital.
Sometimes the civil law has been evoked
to stop the outrage. Families sinume-
rable have been broken up by it, 1t has
pushed Off hundreds OF young women in
to a life OF prohigacy. 1t talks about
elective afinities," and "atintal rela-
tions, and spiritual matches" and
adopts the whole vocabulary of free.
lovism. In one Of its pubic journals it
declares marriage is the monster curse
of civilization" :" at is a source of de-
bauchery and intemperance." Ii Spirit
ualism could have its full swing, it would
turn this world into a pandemonium of
carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnabe religion, and the sooner it
drops into the he'll from which it rose,
the better both for earth and heaven.
For the sake of man honor and Woman's 8
purity, l say let the last vestige of it
perish forever. l wish could gather up
all the raps it has ever heard from spirits
best or damned, and gather them all on
its own head in one laundering rap of
annihilation
1 further indict Spiritualsm for the
TACT that 1t is the cause OF much insanity.
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not the
torn and bleeding victims of this delusion.
20 into any asylum, care not VIII re it
is, and the presiding doctor, after you
have asked him, "Wkat is the matter
with that man ?" will say, "Spiritualism
demented him;" or, "Wnat is the mattes
with that woman ?" he will say, spirit
ualism demented her" 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intellects 1t
has 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 $4,000,
surrendered them to q spiritual medium
in New York, attempted three times to
put an end to his own life, and then was
incarcerated in the State Lunatic Asyl-
um, where he is to-day a raving maniac
Put your hand in the hand of this witch
of En-dor, and she will lead you to bot
tomless perdition, where she holds her
everlasting seance Many years ago the
steamer Atlantic started IRON Europe
for the United States. Getting in mid
ocean the machinery broke and she
foundered around day after day, and
week after week, and for whole month
after she was due people wondered, and
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