Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04


Still further; learn from my text that
Spiritualism is doom and death to its disci-
pies. King Saul thought that he would get
help from the ''mediun;n but the first thing
that he sees makes him swoon away, and no
sooner was he resuscitated than he is told he
must die Spiritualism is doom and death to
every one that yields to it. 1t ruins the body
Look in upon an audience Of Spiritualists
Cadaverous. Weak Nervous Exhausted
Hands clammy and cold. Nothing prospers
but long hair-soft marshes yielding rank
grass. Spiritualism destroys the physical
health, Its disciples are ever hearing start
ling news from the other world Strange
beings crossing the room in white Table
fidgety, wanting to get its feet loose as if to
dance. Voices sepulchral and ominous. Be
wildered with raps. | never knew con
firned Spiritualist who had healthy nervous
system. It is incipient epilepsy and cata-
lepsy. 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. Il is an
awful thing to trife with ones nervous
system. II is so delicate-it is SO far reach
ing-its arrangements are so terrible. Get
the nervous system a jangle, and so far rs
your body and soul are concerned, the whole
universe is a j,ngle. 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, tnan ex-
pertinent 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 to the man whose nerves
are shatterei Spiritualism smites first Of
ALL and nightly, against the nervous system,
and so makes life miserable.
indict Spiritualisn also, because it is a
social and marital curse. The worst deeds OF
lcentiousileSs and the worst orgies Of obscen-
ity have been enacted under its patronage.
The story is too vile for me to tell. / viii
not pollute my tongue nor your ears with the
recital Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage Families innu-
merable have been broken up by it. 1t has
pushed off hundreds Of young women into a
life of pronigacy. It talks about elective
afIinities,n and ''afiinital relations" and
spiritual matches,n and adopts the whole
vocabulary Of free loveism, In one Of its
public journals it declares "marriage is the
monster curse of civilization at is a
source Of debauchery and intemperance" If
Spiritualisn could have its full swing it
would turn this world into a pandemonium
of carnality It is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it drops
into the hell from which it rose, the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake Of
mans honor and wOman's purity, l say let
the last vestige of it perish forever / wish
/ could gather up all the raps 1t has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned, and
gather them all on its own head in one
laundering rap of annihilationl
further indct Spiritualism for the fact
that it is the cause of much insanity There is
not an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and bleed
ing victims of this delusion Go into any
asylum, l care not where it is, and the pre-
siding doctor, after you have asked him:
s'What is the matter with that mann will
say: "Spirimalism demented HING or,
"What is the matter with that womang' he
will say: "Spirituahsm demented her." 1t
has taken down some of the brightest intel
lects 1t swept Off into mental midnight
Judges, senators, governors, ministers of the
Gospel, and one time came near capturing
one of the presidents of the United States.
At Flushing, near this city, a man became
absorbed with it, forsooE his family, took his
only $751; 600, surrendered them to a spiritual
medium in New York, attempted three times
to put an end to his own life and then was
incarcerated in the State Lunatic asylum,
where he is today a raving maniac. Put
your hand in the hand of this
witch of En-dor and she will lead
you to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe
for the United States. Getting midocean the
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day after day and week after week, and for
a whole month after she was due people won
,lered and finally gave her up. There was
great anguish in the cities, for there were
many who had friends aboard that vessel.
Some Of the women, in their distress, went
10 the spiritual mediums and inquired as to
the fate Of that vessel The mediums called
up the spirits, and the rappings on the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went raving mad, and were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile
one day a gun was heard OFF quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping, and the
bells of the churches were rung. The boys
ran through the streets, crying: "Extral
The Atlantic is safer There was the en-.
bracing as from the dead, when friends came
again to friends; but some of those passen.
gers went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat nf in
fernal Spirtualism had put them A man in
Bellevue hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, and he said: ''The spirits
told me TO-" Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it,
replied: "Spiritualism demanded it." 1t is
the patronizer and forager for the madhouse.
Judge Edmonds, in Broadway tabernacle
New York, delivering a lecture in behalf OF
Spiritualism, admitted, in so many words
There is fascination about consultation
With the spirits of the dead that has a ten.
6ency to lead people off from their right
Judgment, and to instill into them a fanati-
cism that is revolving to the natural mind.n
It not only ruins its disciples, but it ruin,
the mediums also, only give it time. The
Gadaraean swine, On the banks Of the LAKE
of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual me
diums than down they went, in an avalanche
of PORK, to the CONSERVATION OF all the herds
men, The Oftloo of medium is bad for n
man, bad for a woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion more fearful
indictment: 1t ruins the soul immortal
First, it makes a man a quarter Of an inlidel
then it makes him half an infidel; then it
makes him whole infdel The wholesystem,
as conceive it, is founded on the insuiiiciency
of the word of God as a revelation. God
says the Bible is enough fer you to know
about the future world, You say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the Lord
differ. You clear the table, you shove aside
the Bible, you put your hand on the table,
and say; "Now let spirits Of the future
world come and tell me something the Bible
has not told me- And although the
Scriptures say, add thou not unto his
words lest he reprove thee, and thou be
found a liar you risk it, aud say; "Comc
back, spirit Of my departed father; come
back, spirit Of my departed mother, Of my
companions, OF my little child, and tell me
some things I don't know about you and
about the unseen world.n If God is ever
slapped square in the face, it is when a spir-
itual medium puts down her hand on the
table, invoking spirits departed to make a
revelation. God has told you all you ought
to know, and how dare yon be prying into
that which is none Of your business. You
cannot keep the Bible in one hand and Spirit
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