Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10

That is why hate sp.tituaiisn, i, ~ ,
vantage of one In u moment Of ,rs 1870 ~
Mhlch may come upon us at any time w,
aoss irienu. Inc trial is keen. sharp. 81, ~
eAung, almost maddening. If we ,a,,,d
marshal host, and storm the esernai ,yr,.lS
ana recapture our loved one .h,. hosi s,,s,,,i
soon De marshaled The house Il 81 iD,'.i..
IN, ihe world Is 50 dark. The separation 4 70
But splrituallsm says eve will omen tho
back and talk TO yonn Thongh ~, ,1e 0u ,,,',
h hot near his voice, we may hear the ran ~
MS hand. SO, clear the liable Sit a. u
nut Your hands on the table. Be very n,,tnt
rive minutes gone; Ten minutes. So mo
s ol " s',v eiDie. NO response from the IA,
.ure world. Twenty minutes Thirty min.
utes. Nervous excitement ali the tims "i ~.
ncieasing. forty minutes. The table shiyers
Two raps nom the future world Tho Ia,tas.
OF the alphabet are called over. TN rs
parted friends name is aoha. All the nrs nv.
nunciation OF the letter up two raps. Ar
the Recommendation of the letter G0,, two
raps. Al the pronunciation Of the Letter an,
Two rap. AT tie pronunciation of the letter
IN TWO raps. There you have the xyh,ia
name spelled cut. John, John. Now. the
dit being present. you say: .John' are are
s sou HAPPY. Two rsps give. an affirmative
answer. Iretty soon the hand OF the medium
begins to twitch and toss and begins n wiz
cut AFTER paper and ink are furnished :
message from the eternal world What q
remarkable. the departed spirit. although a.
has been amid the illumination, of hesya,,
can not spell as we'll as it used to. II has
los: al grammatical accuracy and can NOS
write rs distinctly. / received i.,.os
through medium once. 1 sent IL haet
said: Just please 10 tell those ghosts thai
nad better go to school and get Improved i,
Iheir orttoyraphy.' Now,iiist think Of spir,ts.
That the bible represents as enthroned i,
n o.
and break crockery, and ring tea-bells bes,rs,
supper Is ready, and rap the window shufter
on gusty night Is there any consolafion y,
such poor, miserable work compared yvith
The thought that our departed Chris,;sr
friend. E rid Of pain and laaonishing. are
IN tne lant society OF heaven, and thai we
shall join them there. not in a stifled ana
mysterious haii-utterance which makes the
hair stand ON end and the cold ehj;ls &C.,,
down the back, but In an unhjndered and
tltimitable delight @''1
And none shall raurmur or misdonbt
When Gods great sunrise dnds us ont
fes.my friends. spiritualIsm comes 20 tho.o
who are In trouble and sweeps tbs m int i,s
deiusiens. Saul, in the midst OF his disaster.
Went 10 the witch of Endor The vast me-
Joritv of those who have gone 10 spiritual
mediums have been sent there through their
misiortunes. = '"e'i
lesrn still further from this subject tha,
spirituaiism aud neeromancy are affsirs Of
the darkness. Why did not Saul 20 In Tia
dayf lie was ashamed 10 60. Besides thar,
he knew that this spiritual medium. like an
her successors, performed her exploits m
the night. The Dayenport., the Fowlers, the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of ali aces
have chosen the night or q siarkened room
Whyg The majority Of their wonders have
been swindles, aud deception prospers best
In the night
Some OF tae performances OF spiritual me.
diuins are not To be ascribed TO fraud. but b,
some occult law that after awhile may he do.
monstrated. But believe that now nina
hundred ard ninety-nine out OF every tbo,ls
ana achievements on the part of spiritual
mediiiins are arrant aud ,nmitigated hum
bugs The mysterious red letters that used
to come out on the mediums arm were found
TO have been made by an iron pencil thai
went heavily over the flesh; not. tearing +.
but 30 disturbing the hood that il came up in
great round letters The witnesses of the
seances have locked the door. put the kew In
their pocket, arrested the operator, and found
OUT, by searching the room, that hidden levers
moved the tables. The sealed letters that
were mysteriously read without openinr
have been found TO have been cut at the side.
aud then aiierward slyiy put together with
gum arabic; and the medium who with a
heavy blanket over his head. could read
book. has been found TO have had bottle of
phosrhoric oil, by the light of which any,
body can read a book; and yentrilo-
quism. and legerdemaiu, and sleight of hand.
and optical deltison &C cunt for nearly ey-
erytbing. Deception being the main staple
Of spiritualism, no wonder it chooses the
darkness.
You have all seen strange and unaccounta-
bic things in the night. Almost every man
has nj some time had a touch of hallu.
eination. Some time ago, afterI had been
overtempted TO eat something indgestiblc
before retiring at night, after retiring saw
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leges astride the foot OF the.bed, while he
demanded of me a loan of 3 cents. When /
awakened Ishad no idea 1t was anything
supernatural. And have to advise you, II
you hear and see strange things at night. to
stop eating hot mince pie and ttke dose of
bilious medicine. II is an outraged physical
organism, enough 70 deceive the very elect
after shutdown, and does nearly all its work
In the night. The witch of Endor held her
seances at night: so do all the witches.
Away with this religion Of spooks.
still further: lenn from my text that
spiriftialism is doom and death TO its dis
cipieS. King saul thought that he would
get help nom the .smedruTn;o but the first
thing that he sees makes him swoon away
and no sooner Is he resuscitated than he Is
tod be must die. Spiritualism Is doom and
death 10 everyone that yields to It. 1t ruins
the body. Look in upon an audience Of
spirltualists Cadsyerous. Weak. Nervous
Exhausted. HANDS ciammy ana coid.
Nothing prospers but long hdr-soit marshes,
yielding rank grass. Splritualism destroys
the physical health. Its disciples are ever
hearing startling news from the other world.
Strange beings crossing the room IN white.
Table idgety, wanting TO get its feet loose
as IL TO dance. Voices sepulchral ana onin-
GUS Bewiidered with Taps. Ineyer knew
confirmed spirituaiist who chad he ilthy
nervous system. IL is incipieut tpilepsy and
catslepsy. Destroy your nervous system,
n H.. AaaA hary
noticed that people who are hearing raps
from the future world have but little
strength left to bear the raps of this world.
Ii Is an awful thing 10 de with ones nery-
GUS system. st Is so delicate, 1t Is so far
reaching, its arrangements are so terrible.
Get the nervous system in jangle, and, 80
SO far as your body aud soul are concerned.
the whole universe is jangle. Better In
our ignorance experiment with chemists
retort that may smite us dead, or with an
engineers steau-boiier that may blow US 70
atoms, than experiment with the nervous
system. A man can ike with only one lung
or with no ewes. and be happy, as men have
been under such Affections, but woe be to
the man whose nerves are shattered. Spirit
ualism smites first of all, and nightly,
against the nervous SYSTEM and 50 makes
life miserable.
cial and marital curse. The worst deeds OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS snd the worst orgies OF OBJ
scepity have been enacted under its patron
age. The story is too vile for me b tell. /
will not pollute my tongue no. your ears
with. the recital. Sometimes The ciS law
has been evoked to stop the outrage. Fam
lies inHumerabie have been broken up by
II. 1t has pushed off hundreds OF young wo-
men into a life OF prohiyaey. II talks about
Collective affinities, and "afinitai lelations."
and spiritual matche~,' and adopts tie
whole vocabulary of iree-loy1sni. In one OF us
,,,hI;., iattrra as II 1prlares ssmar1aCe is the
monster curse OF civilization" sit is a
source of debaurhery and intempersnee."
If splritualism could have its full swing II
would turn this world into pandemonium
of carnalty. IL Is an uncleap, adulterou'.
damnabe religion, and the sooner u drol
into the hell from which II rose the better
| both for earth and heaven. For the sake OF
mans honor aud woman's purity say TT
| the last vestige OF it perish forever. wish
| could gather up all the raps II has ever
heard from spirits best or damned. ana
gather them all on its own head IN one thuh-
dering rap OF annih iatio1l
I further indict spirit,lalism for the faef
| II Is the cause of much insanity. There Is
| not an asvIum between Bangor and San Fran
! ,.isco which has not the torn and bleeding
| victims Of this delnsion. Go into any asy-
| um, care not where 1t is, and The presiding
| doctor. after you have as led him. Nv nat IS
| The matter with that man?' will say: .ep.r-
itnaiism demented him" or, "What is the
matter with that womany' he viii say
| ssSnirituaiism demented her" IL has taken
down some OF the brightest inteliects IL
swrpt of into mental midnight Judges Sc =.
ators. Cover 0Ts. ministers OF the 90 pei, ana
| one time came near cal turing one OF the pres
ldents Of the United ssate' At EIl,nn .,.s,
| near this city. a man became absorbed with
| il. forsook his family, took bis orr Sl9.oo0,
| surrendered them to y spiritual medium IN
| New York. attempted three times 10 put a.