Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-12

world. What is remarkable, the departed
spirit. although it has been AMID the
Examinations of heaven, cannot spell as
well as it used to. 1t has lost all gram
NAUTICAL accuracy and cannot write as dis
|tinctly. | received a letter through Il
medium once. ! sent it back. ! said:
Just please TO tell those ghosts that they
had better 90 to school and get improved
in their photography" Now. just think
of spirits, that the Bible represents as en-
throned 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 OF a gusty night.
Is 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 the radiant society of heaven, and
that we shall join them there, not in q
stitled and mysterious half utterancc.
which makes the hair stand on end and
the cold chills creep the back, but in al
unhindered and illimitable delight.
And none shall murmsr or misdoubt,
When Gods great sunrise finds US out.n
Yes, my friends, S|piritualism comes TO
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
llllOl lS NtlliSlol~. saul, III lllt IllltlSl Vi
his disaster, went to the witch of En-dor.
The vast majority of those who have gone
to spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes.
learn still farther from this subject,
that Spiritualism and necromancy are af-
fairs of the darkness. Why did not Saul
90 in the day? He was ashamed TO 90.
Besides that, he knew that THIS spiritual
medium, like all hersuccessors, performed
her exploits in the night. The Daven.
ports. the FowlerS&hc Foxes, the spirit
ual mediums of all ages, have chosen the
night or a darkened room. WhyY The
majority Of their wonders have been
swindlcs, and deception prospers best in
the night.
some of the performances Of spiritual
mediums are not 10 be asCrlbed To fraud,
but TO some occult law that after a while
may be demonstrated. But | believe that
10 nine hundred and ninety nine out Of
every thousand achievements ON the part
Of spiritual mediums are arrant and UNI
mitigatcd humhug. The mysterious red
letters that used to come out on the medi-
um's arm were found to have been made
by an iron pencil that wen heavily over
the flesh. not tearing it, but SO disturbing
the blood, that it came up in great round
letters. The witnesses OF the seances
have locker the door, put the key IN their
pocket. arrested the operator, and found
out, by searching The room, that hidden
levers moved the tables. The scaled let
ters that were my~steriouSly read without
opening, have been found to have been
cut at the side, and then afterwards slyly
put together with gum arabic; and the
medium who, with a heavy blanket over
his head, could read a book, has been
found 10 have had a bottle Of phosrhoric
oil, by the light Of which anybody eau
read a book; and v~entriloquism, and leg
crdcmain, and sleight of band, and opti-
cal delusion account for nearly every
thing. Deception being the main staple
Of Spiritualism, no wonder ii chooses the
darkness.
ICU have all seen strange and mac
countablc things in the night. Almost
every man has al some time had a touch
OF Authorization. Some time ago. after |
had been over-tcmptcd to eat something
indigcstible before retiring ut night, after
retiring ! saw the president Of one of the
prominent colleges astridc the foot of the
bed. while he demanded of me "A loan Of
five cents! When awakened ! had no
idea it was anything supernatural. And
! have 10 advise you, if you hear and see
strange things at night. TO stop eating hot
minCe pie and take a dose of bilious
medicine. 1t is an outraged physical or
Canism, enough To deceive the very elect
after shutdown. and does nearly al It's
work in The night. The witch OF EHd0g
held her seances al night; SO do all The
witches. Away with this religion oI
spooks.
Still further: learn from my text that
s%pirituaiism is doom and death To its dis
ciplcs. King Saul Thoughts that he would
Get help from the medium" hut the
first thing that he sees makes him swoon
away, and no soOner is he rcsuscitatcd
than he is told he must die. Spiritualism
is doom and death to every one that yields
to 1t. 1t ruins the body. Look In upon
an audience of spiritualists. Cadavcrous,
weak, nervous exhausted; hands clammy
and cold. Nothing prospers bat long
hair-soit marshes Yielding rank grass.
Spiritualism destroys the physical health.
Its disciples are ever hearing startling
news from the other world. Strange hc
ings cross the room in white. Table
idgetty, wanting to get It's feet loose as if
to dance. Voices scpulchral and omi-
nous. DtWliucrcu Win fapS. | never
knew a confirmed spirituallst who had a
healthy nervous system. It is incipicnt
epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system and YOU might as well be
dead, ] have noticed that people who
are hearing raps from the future world
have bet little strength left 10 bear the
hard raps of this world. 1t is an awful
thing to tritic with ones nervous sy stem.
II is SO delicatc--it is so far. r~eaching-its
arrangements are SO terrible. Get the
nervous system in "a iangle, and SO far as
your body and soul are concerned. the
whole universe is in a iangle. Better in
our ignorance experiment with "A chem
lists rctOrt, that may smitc us dead, OF
with an engineers steam boiler, that may
blow us TO atoms, than experiment with
the nervous system. Aman can live with
only one lung, OF with 10 eyes, and bt
happy, as men have been under such af
t'ictions. but woe be TO the man who's:
nerves are shattered. Spiritualism smite,
frs; Of all, and nightly. against The ner
vous system, and SO makes life miserable
| indcict Spiriiualism also, because it il
a social and marital curse. The wors
deeds of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the wors
orgies Of obscenity have been enacted
under its patronage. The story is too
vile for me tell. ! will not pollute my
innpna NOR l~.,~ no 20 ,ultl TIM pagt,.I