Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-30

ual mediums Of all ages, have chosen the
night or q darkened room. Whyr The
majority Of their wonders have bean swim
files, and deception proepen best In the
night j,
Some of the performances Of spiritual
mediums are not 10 be ascribed 10 frand,
bat to some occult law that after awhile
may be demonstrated. But believe that
now nine hundred and ninety-nine out OF
every thousand achievenents on the part OF
spiritual mediums are arrAnt and unmfn-
gated humbug. The mysterious red let
ters that used 70 come out on the medium's
arm were found TO have bean made BY an
iron pencil that went heavily over the
flssh, not tearing IT, but % disturbing the
blood that il came up In great round let
ters. The witnesses Of the seauces have
locked the door, put the key In their poct-
ct, arrested the operator, and found ont,
by searching the room, that
HIDDEN LEVERS MOVED THE table,
The sealed letters that were mysterious
ly read without opening. have been found
10 have been cut at the side, and then
afterwards slyly put together with gum
arabic; and the medium who, with Q
heavy blanket over his head, could read ,
book, has been found to have had bottle
Of phoephoric oil, by the fighs Of which
ANYBODY can read book; and ventrilo.
quism, and legerdemain, aud sleieht oil
hand, and optical delusion account for
nearly everything. Deception being the
main staple Of spiritualism, no wonder II
chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unsccount.
able things in the night. Almost even ,
man has ut some time had touch Of hal
lucinatiou. Some time ago, after had
been over tempted 10 eat something indi-
gestible before retiring at night, after re-
tiriug saw the president Of one OF the
prominent colleges astride the foot OF the
bed, while be demanded ot me loan oi
FIVE cents! When I awakened ] had no
idea II was anything supernatural. Aud
have TO advise you, II You hear and sec
strange things at night, 70 stop eat
ing hot mincs pie and take q dose Of bilious
medicine. II ia an outraged physical or
ganism, enough TO deceive the very elect
after sundown, and does nearly oil its
work in the night. The witch Of Ea-dor
held her ecanoes at night; 20 do ell the
witches. Away with this religion ol
spooks.
Still further: l learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death 10 Its dis.
ciples. King Saul thought that he would
get help from the medium" but the
first thing that he sees makes him swoon
away. and no sooner is he resuscitated than
be is told he must die. Spiritualism ID
doom and death to everyone that yields "a
il. 1t ruins the body. Look in upon mn
audience Of spiritualists. Cadaverous.
Weak. Nervous. Exhausted. Hands
clammy and cold. Nothing prospers but
long hairs-soft marshes yielding rank
grass. Spiritualism
DESTROYS THE PHYSICAL HEALTH.
It's disciples are ever hearing startling
news from the other world. Strange be
ings crossing the room In white. Table
fidgetty, wanting TO get its feet loose as u
to dance. Voices sepulchral and ominous
Bewildered with raps. ! never knew Q
confirmed Spiritualist who had healthy
nervous system. 1t Is incipient epilepsy
and catalepsy. Destroy your nervous sys
tenn and You might as we'll be dead.
have noticed that people who are hearing
raps from the future world have but littl'
strength left TO hear the hard raps Of thi
world. II Ia an awful thing to tri1e will
ones nervous system. II is 30 delicate
it Is 90 far. reaching arrangements ar,
40 terrible. Get the nervous system {
angle, and 30 far as your body and 500
are concerned, the whole universe is |
jangle. Better in our ignorance experiment
with q chemists retort that may smite III
dead, or with an engineers steau
boiler that msy blow US TO atoms
than experiment with the nervous
system. A man can live with Only Snt
lung or with no eyes, and be happy, ~
men have been under such affections
but wee be 10 the man whose nerves arr
shattered. Spiritualism smites first Of sll
aod nightly, sgainst the re, vous system
and 40 makes life miserable.
indict spiritualism also, because II u
social and marital curse. The worsI
deeds of licentiousness and the wors,
orgies of obscenity have been enacted IN
der its patronage. The story Ii too vii.
for me to tell. will not pollute my
tongue nor your ears with the recital
Sometimes the civil Law has been evoked
10 stop the outrage. Families innumer
able have been broken mp by u. Il hai
pushed of hundreds Of young womer
into.
LIFE OF PRoFLIGACY.
II talks about elective affinities," and
afliuital relations" and spiritual match
e. and adopts the whole vocabulary o.
free-lovism. In one Of its public Journal
IL declares marriage In tho monster curss
of civilization" Itisa source Of debauch
cry and intemperauca. II spiIitualisn
couh have its full swing. Il would turr
this world into o pandemonium Of carnal
ity. II Is an unclesn, sdulterous and
damnable religion. and the sooner Il drop
into the hell from which Il rose the bettel
both for earth and heaven. For the SAX,
of mans honor and womans purity, SAY
let the last vestigs Of Il perish forever.
wish could gather up all the wrxps 10 ha,
ever heard from spirits blessed or damned
and gather them all on its own head In on,
laundering rap of annihilstion!
further indict spiitualism for the fsc,
that IL il the cause of much insanity
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not tha
torn and bleeding victims Of this delu
sion. Go into any asylum, care MOI
where Il Is, and the presiding doctor
after you have asked him: "Whsl
IL the matter with that man?n will say
'Spiritualism demented him." or "What
In the matter with that woman?v be will
say: 'Spiritualism demented her" II
has taken down some Of the brightest In.
tcllects. Il swept Off into mental mid.
night judges, Senators, Governors, minis.
ters Of the Gospel, and one time came neal
capturing one Of the Presidents Of the
United States. At Flushing. near this
city, q man became absorbed with Il, for.
sock his family, took his only 315, 900, sur.
rendered them 10 q spiritual Medium In
New York, attempted three times 10 put
an end 10 his own life, and then wss ipcaS.
cerated in the State Lunatic Asylum,
where he IL today . ravips maniac. Put
your hand in the hand of this witch d
Eu-dor, and she win led you
TO BorToMLEss PxRDfTfoS,
where she holds her everlasting ssancs.
Many years ago the stssner Atlantic start
ed from Europe for the United States.
Getting mid-oceau the machinery broke,
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