Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-05-11

passed through the air, most delightful
music. And the tables tipped, and tho
stools tilted, and the bedstead raised, and
the chairs upset, and it seemed as if tile
spirits everywhere had gone into the fur
niture business! Well, the people said:
1--WE have got something new in this coun-
try; it is new religion" oh, no, my
friends. Thousands of years ago we find
in our text tho spiritualistic seance.
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles of
our day has been more strange, mysterious,
and wonderful than things which have
been seen in the past centuries of the
world. In all the ages there have been
necromancers, those who consult with the
spirits of the departed; charmers. those
who put their subjects in mesmeric state;
sorcerers, those who by taking poisonous
and tell everything; d1eamers, people who
in their sleeping moments can see the fu-
ture world and hold consultation with
spirits; astrologers, who could read new
/ dispensation in the stars; experts in PALM
isty, who can tell by the lines in the palm
of your hand your origin and your history.
From cave on Mount Parnassus, we are
told, there was an exhalation that intoxi-
Gated the sheep and the goats that came
anywhere near it, and shepherd APP
preaching it was thrown by that exhalation
into an excitement in which he could fore.
tell 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 ex-
element which the spirits have exploited
in our day; precisely the same thing over
and over again, under the manipulations of
the Brahmins. Now do you say that spirit
ualism is different from these? I answer,
all these decisions have mentioned be-
nations from the unseen world. What
does God think of al these delusions? He
thinks SO severely of them that He never
speaks of them but with livid thunders of
| indignation. He says: Il will be a swift
witness against the sorcerer." He says:
"Thou shalt not suffer witch to live."
And lest you might make some important
distinction between Spiritualisn and witch
craft, God says, i'll so many words: There
| shall not be among you consulter of
familiar spirits, or wizard, or necroman-
Ger: for they that do these things are an
abomination unto the Lord" And He says
again: "The soul of those who seek after
such as have familiar spirits, and who go
whoring after them, | will set myself
against them, and he shall be cut off from
among his people," The Lord Almighty,
in a score of passages, which I have not
now time to quote, utters his indignation
against all this great family of delusions.
After that be Spiritualist if you dare!
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 while he resolved to
go and see the witch of En-dor. He exc
pected 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 be-
reft. You lose your watch, and you go to
the fortune teller to find where it is. You
opened, so that you may have commune
cation with him. In highly wrought nerv-
GUS and diseased state of mind, you 60 and
put yourself in that communication. That
is why hate Spiritualism. 1t takes adj
vantage of one in moment of weakness,
which may come upon us at any time.
| We lose friend. The .rial is keen, sharp,
suffocating. almost maddening. If we
could marshal u host, and storm the eter-
the host would soon be marshaled. The
house is so lonely. The world is so dark.
The separation is so insutferable.
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 motion of the table. No re-
spouse from the future world. Twenty
minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous .x.
citement all the time increasing. Forty
minutes. The table shivers. Two raps
from the future world. The letters of the
| alphabet are called over. The departed
friends name is John. At the pronun-
! citation of the letter 81, two raps At the
pronunciation of the letter go" two.raps.
AT the pronunciation of the letter al, !"
two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter an, two raps. There you have the
Now, the spirit being present, you say:
"John, are you happy" Two raps give an
affirmative answer. Pretty soon the hand
of the medium begins to witch and toss,
and begins to write out, after paper ana
ink are furnished, message from the
eternal world. What is remarkable, the
departed spirit, although it has been amid
the illuminations of Heaven, cannot spell
as we'll as il used to. 1t has lost all gram
| NAUTICAL accuracy and cannot write as dis
tinctly. received letter through me-
please to tell those ghosts they had better
90 to school and get improved in vheir Or
biography" Nox Just think of spirits,
that the Bible represents as enthrened in
glory, coming down to crawl under the ia
bic and break crockery and ring tea bells
before supper is ready and rap the window
shutter on o gusty night. Is there anv
consolation in such poor, miserable work
compared with the thought that our Chris
tim friends, got rid OF pain and anguish
ing, are in the radiant society Of Heaven,
and that we shall join thenl there. not in a
stified and mysterious half utternnce;
which makes the hair stand on end anS the
cold chills creep up the back, hut in an un--
hindered and ilHmitable delight.
And none shall murlnur or lnisdoubt
When Gods great slinrise finds US out.
Yes, my friends. Spiritualisea comes to-
those who are in trouble aud sweeps them
into its decisions. Saul, in the midst of
his disaster, went to. the witch of En-dor.
The vast majority of these who have gone
to spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes.
| l learn still farther from this subject,
that Spiritualism and necromancy are
affairs of the darkness. Why did not Saul
go in the day? He wns ashamed to go?
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