The Forrest City times., 1888-05-05

ocean tue machinerF broke and she founder cd around day after day; and week after week, and for q whole month after she vas due people wondered, aui finally gave her up There was great anguish ifi the cities Tor there werc many who had friends aboard that vessel. Some of the women in tncir distress. went to the spiritual mediums and inquired as to the fate of that vessel The mediums called up the spirits, and the rap plngs on the table indicated the steamship lost. with all on board. Women went raying mad aud were carried Co the luustlc asylum. After awhile OGe dfv gun was heard of Quarantine. The flags went m on Inc ship ping, and the bells Of the churches were ruug. The boys ran through the streets, cfyingi 'Ex. trai The Atlantic is safer' There was the embracing as from the dead, when friends came again tn friends; but some of those pas seugers went up to find their wives in the lunatic asylum, where this cheat Of infer nal spirtuaiisr bad put them. A man in Bellevue Hospital, dying from wounds made by hts own hand, was asked why he tried to commit suicide, and he said: "Ihe spirits told me to-" Parents have strangied their children, and when asked why they did it re- piled; "Splriiualism demanded it." It is inc patronzer and furager for the madhouse. Judge Edmouds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New York. delivering lecture in behalf of Splritualism, admitted In So many words: There is a fascination about consultation with the spirits Of the dead that has tend ency to lead people oif from their right judg- ment aud 10 lnstil into them q fanaticism that Is rcvoiting to the natural mind"
 ft uof only ruins its discipllncs, but it ruins the mediums also, only give it time. The GadafJau swine. on the banks Of the Lake of Galllee, no sooner became spiritual mediums than down they went in su avalanche of pork, to the constcrnation of an the herds men. The office of a medium ls bad for man, bad for woman, bnd for a beast
 bring against this dclusion more fearful indictment; 1t ruins tho soul immortal. First, it makes a man quarter Of sn infdel; then 1t makes him half an inidel; then it as conceive q. is founded on the insufficient cy of the Word of God as revelation. God says the Bible is enough for you to know about the future world. You say 1t is not enough and therc is where you and the Lord differ. You clear the table, you shove aside the Bible, you put your hands on the table. and say: Nov 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 liar" you risk 1t, and say; Come back, spirit of my departed father; come back, spirit of my departed mother of my of my little child, and tell me something's 1 don't know about you and the unseen world" IT God is ever slapped square III tnt lhtt, U lS Nbtu HpifiAQhf 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 you to be pryng into that which is none of your businessi You cannot keep the Bible in one hand aud Spiritualism in the other. One or the other will slip out of your grasp depend upon 1t.
 Spirtualsm is adverse to the Bible in the fact that 1t has iu these last days called from the future world Christian men to testify against Christianity. It's mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, the Lorenzo Dow testifes that Christians gre idolators. Spirltualism calls back Tom Payne, and he tcstides that he Is stopping In the same house in heaven with John Bunyan. They call back John Wess,ey, and he testiics against the Christian religion which he all his life gloriouslg preached. Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest Of all the splritualIsts, comos to the front and declares that the New Testament Ia but 'the dismal echo Of bar baric age,n and the Bible only .'ope of the pen and ink relecs of Christianity" They attempt to substitute the writings of Swedenborp, and Andrew Jackson Dayls. and other religious balderdash, in the place of this old Bible l have in my house a book which was used in this very city in thepubllc service of Spirit uaists. IL Is well worn with much service l open that book, aud it says: What is our baptism. Answer; Frequent abutiops of water. What is our insplrationi Plenty of sunlight What is our prayeri Abundant physical exercise. What is our love-feasti A clear conscience and sound sleep" And find from the same book that the chief item in their public worship is gymnastic exercise, their souls to very high pitch of devotion they sing page sixty-tve: ''The night has gathered up her moonit fringes;" or page siytecni "Come to the woods, heigho~ You say you afe not such fool as that; but you will be if you keep on in the track you have started
 .'But,n says some one, wouldn't It bc of advantage to bear from the future worldi Don't you think 1t would strengthen Chris tiansl There are great many Mater allsts who do not believe there are souls; but If spirits from the fu ture world should knock a nd talk over us, 10 they would be persuaded" To that l answer, in the ringing words Of the Son of God: ''If they believe not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though oue rose from the dead"
 Now believe, under God, that this sermon will save many from disease. insanity, and perdition. I believe these are the days of which the apostle spake when he said: Tn the latter time s some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits" think my audience, as well as other audicnc- es in this day, need to have reiterated in their minutes ago: FaThere shall not be among you consulter of famil- lar spirits, or wizard. or necromanccr; for they that do these things are an adomination unto the Lord.n and "fhe soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, l will set myself against them. and they shall be cut of from their people.n
 But invite you this morning to q Christian ssance, a monday seance. This congregation is only one great family Here is the church
 table. Come around the church table, take your seats for this great Christian seapce, put your Bible on the table, put your hands on inc top of the Bible, and then listen. and hear fl there are any voices com ing from the eternal world. 1 think there are. Listeul Secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children.n Surely that is a voice from the spirit world But before you rise from this Christian seanc,, l want
 you io promise me you will be satlshed with the Divine revelation until the light Of tho eternal throne breaks upon your vison. DO not sit down at table -rapp.ngs, either in sport or in dead earnest. Have your tables so well made, and their legs so even, that they will not tin and rattle If the table must move, let 1t be under the offices Of industrious housewifery. Teach your children there are save those which walk on two feet or four, human or beastial. Remember that Spiritual
 ism at the best Is a useless thingi Tor II IL
 tells what the Bible reveals 1t is . superfuIty, and if it tells what the
 Bib does not reveal, It is a lie. In
 stead of gOiug out to get other people to
 tell your fortune, tell your own fortune by
 putting your trust in God and doing
 the best you can. will tell your fortune:
 'All things work together for good to them
 who love Godn Insult not your departed friends by asking them 10 come down and scramble under au extension table. Remem-
 Der that there Is only one Spirit whose dieta-
 ton you have a right to invoke, and that Is
 the holy, blessed, and omnipotent Spirit of God Harkl He is rapplng now, not on .
 table or on the floor, but rapplng on the door
 of your heart and every rap is an invitation
 to Christ and a warning of judgment 10 come.
 O. gricye Him not away. Quench Him nos.
 He has been all around you this morning.
 He was all around you last night He has
 been around you all your lives. Harki There
 comes 6 voice dropping through the
 roof, breaking through the window filling all
 this house with tender and oyermastering in
 ronstion, saying: "My spirit shall not alwayi