Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-30

people who in their sleeping moments can see
the future world and hold consultation with
spirits; astrologers, who could read a new
dispensation in the stars; experts in PALMS.
try, who can tell by the lines in the palm of
your hand your origin and your history.
From a cave on Mount Parnassus, we are
told, there was an exhalation that intoxicated
the sheep and goats that came anywhere
near it, and a shepherd approaching
it was thrown by that e1halation
into an excitement In which he could foretell
future events and hold consultation with the
spiritual world. Yea, before the time Of
Christ the Brahmins went through all the
table moving, all the furniture excitement,
which the spirits have exploited in our day;
precisely tine same thing over and over
again, under the manipulations Of the Brah-
MINIS Now do you say that Spiritualism is
different from tbesel l answer, all these
delusions I have mentionsd belong to the
same family They are exbumations from
the unseen world What does God think Of
all these delusionsl He thinks so severely Of
them that he never speaks Of them but with
liyid thunders of indignation. He says;
81 will be swift witness against
the sorcerer.n He says: Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live" And lest you might
make some important distinction between
Spiritualism and witchcraft, God says, in so
many words: There shall not be among
you a consulter Of familiar spirits, or
wizard, or necromancer; for they that do
these things are an abomination to the Lord. "
And he says again: THE soul of those who
seek after such as have familiar spirits, and
who go whoring after them, l will set myself
against them, and he shall be cut off from
among his people" The Lord Almighty, in
a score Of passages, which l have not now
time to quote, utters his indignation against
all this great family of delusions. After that
be Spiritualist if you darel
Still further we learn from this text how
it is that people come to fall into Spiritualism
Saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. He
did not know where to go for relief. After
awhile he resolved to so and see the witch Of
En-dor He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. 1t was his trouble
that drove him there. And have to tell
you now that Spiritualism finds its victims In
the troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the
bereft. You lose your watch, and you 60 to
the fortune teller to find where it is. You
lose a friend, you want the spiritual world
opened SO that you may have communication
with him In highly wrought, nervous
and diseased state of mind. you go and put
yourself in that communication That is
why / hate Spiritualism. It takes advan-
tage of one in a moment OF weakness,
which may come upon US at any time.
We lose a friend. The trial is keen, sharp,
suffocating. almost maddening. If we could
marshal a host, and storm the eternal world.
and recapture our loved one, the host would
soon he marshaled. The house is so lonely
The world is so dark. Tho separation is 81
insuferable.
But Spiritualism says: We will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
back and talk to you" Though we may not
hear his voice. we may hear the rap of his
hand So, clear the table Sit down. Put
your hands on the table. Be very quiet
Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No mo-
ton of the table. No response from the
future world. Twenty minutes Thirty
minutes Nervous excitement all the time
increasing. Forty minutes. The table shiv-
ers. Two raps from. the future world. The
letters of the alphabet ars called over. The
departed friends name is John At the pro
nunciation of the letter -, two raps. AT
the pronunciation of the letter 80" two
raps- At the pronunciation Of the letter
.'H :" two raps At the pronunciation of the
letter "N,n two raps. There you have the
whole name spelled out John, John.
Now, the spirit being present, you say;
'.John, are you happyf Two raps give an
affirmative answer. Pretty soon the hand OF
the medium begins to twitch and toss, and
begins to write out, after paper and ink are
furnished, u message from the eternal world
What is remarkable, the departed
spirit, although it has been amid the
illuminations of heaven, cannot spell as well
as it used TO. 1t has lost all grammatical
accuracy and cannot write as distinctly
received letter through g medium once.
sent it back. l said: "Just please tell thoss
ghosts they had better 60 TO school and ge,
improved in their photography" Now, Jus,
think of spirits, that the Bible represents as
enthroned in glory, coming down to crawl
under the table, and break crockery, and
ring tea bells before supper is ready, and RAP
the window shutter ON a gusty night, J.
there any consolation in such poor, miserable
work compared with the thought that our
departed Christian friends. got rid Of pain
and languishing, are in ths radiant society
of heaven, and that we shall join them there
not in stiied and mysterious half utterance
which makes the hair stand on end and the
cold chills creep the back, but in an unhin
dered and illimitabie delight
And none shall Inurmur or misdoubt,
When Gods great sunrise.finds us out
Yes. my friends, Spiritualism comes tr
those who are in trouble and sweeps then
into its delusions Saul, in the midst of hi.
| disaster, went TO the witch Of En-dor. Th<
vast majority OF those who have gone tC
spiritual mediums have been sent thers
through their misfortunes.
learn still farther from this subject tha,
Spiritualism and necromancy are affairs OF
the darkness. Why did not Saul go in ths
day! He was ashamed to go. Besides that
be knew that this spiritual medium, like al
her SUCCESSORS. performed ber exploits in th.
night The Davenports, the Fowlers, til,
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages
have chosen the night or a darkened room
Whyi The majority OF their wonders hav,
been swindles, and deception prospers best i,
the night.
Some of the performances Of spiritual me
diunls are not to be ascribed to fraud, but Il
some occult law that after awhile may b,
demonstrated But believe that now 800
cut of every 1000 achievements on the par
of spiritual mediums are arrant and un
mitigated humbug. The mysterious red let
.srs that used to come out on the medium.
arm were found 70 have been made by al
ron pencil that went heavily over the flesh
not te, ring it, but 80 disturbing the blood
| that it came up in great round letters The
witnesses Of the seances have locked thf
door, put the key IN their pocket
arrestei the operator, and found
out, by searching the reom, that hid
den levers moved the tables. The sealed
letters that were mysteriously read witbou,
opening have been found to have been cut al
the side, and then afterward slyly put to
gether with gum arabic; and the medium
who, with heavy blanket over his head
could read a book, has been found to have
had bottle IF phosphoric oil, by the light OF
| which anybpdy can read book; and ven