National Republican., 1888-04-30

mediums, and inquired as 20 the fate OF that
vessel. The mediums called up the spirits
steamship lost, with all on board. Women
went raving mad, and We're carried TO the
lunatc asylum After awhile one day gun
on the Shipping, and the bells Of tSe churchess
were rung. The boys ran through the streets
crying; "Extral the Atlantic is safel' There
was the embracing as from the dead,
but some Of those passengers
Ss Ssrs anagp Hp asylum to MSSre a @ e' d6es Te S e 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, II re-
piled "Spiritualism demanded it, II Is the
patronizer, and forager for the madhouse.
Judge Edmondsin Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering. a. lecture in behalf of spirit
ualism, admitted, In so many words There
Is q fascination about consultation with. the
spirits Of the dead that has a tendency to lead
instil into them fanaticism that Is revolving
TO the natural mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples but It ruins
the mediums also; only give II. time. The
Gadaracan swine, on the banks of the Lake OF
Galilee, no sooner became spiritual medu
than down they went in an avalanche of
pork, to the CONSERVATION of all the herds.
men. The office of q medium Is bad for a
man, bad for a woman, bad for a beast.
bring against this, ,delusion more fearful
Indictment; II ruins the soul immortal First
makes him half an inidel then II makes him
whole inndel. The whole system, as | CON
seeive II, y founded on the insufliciency Of the
Bible Is enough for you to know about the
future world. You say 4 is not enough, and
there is where you and the Lord differ; You
put your hand on tho table, and say: "Now
let spirits of the future world come and tell
me, something, the Bible has not not
lures say: Add, thou not unto His
found liar, you risk Il, and soy, Come
back, spirit Of my departed mother, Of my
companions, of my little child, and tell me
some things ! don't know about you and
slapped, square in the face, II Is when a
spiritual medium puts down her hand on the
table, invoking, spirits, departed to make a
Enow and how how @ dare tV you be pr pryns into that
which Is none Of your businessS You cannot
keep the. Bible in one, hand and spiritualism
in the other One or the other will slip out Of
Spirituaism Is adverse to the Bible ii, the
fact that II has IN these last days called from
| the future world Christian men to testify
| back Lcrenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist,
| and Lorenzo Dow testifes that Christians are
idolators. iSpirltpalism calls back Tom Payne,
| house In heaven with John Bunyan. They
| call back John Wesley, and he testiies against
the Christian religion which he all his life
| the greatest of all the spiritualists, comes to
| the front and declares that the New Testa-
ment is but 'the dismal echo Of a barbaric
ink relics % Of S cRrstisnity" They t attempt en- tito to
| substitute the writings OF Swedenborg, and
Andrew Jackson Davis, and other religious
d II Ross the place SSSk Of hch s ola sss
this very city in the public service of spiritual.
opened that book, and Il says what is our
Of water. What Is our inspiration Plenty
of fresh air and sunlight. What is our
prayer' Abundant physical exercise. What
sound sleep."' And / find from the same book
that the chief item in their public worship Is
gymnastic exercise, and that wheney9f they
want to rouse up their souls to very high
pitch Of devotion they sing page 65, THE
night has gathered up:her moonlit fringes, " or
page 10, Come to the woods, helgho !" You
say you are not such a fool Us that, but you
viii be If you keep on in the track you have
But" says some one, wouldn't It be of ad.
You o't think t'1 It would strengthen christianss
There are a great many materialists, who do
not believe there are souls, but If spirits from
the future world should knock and "a talk & over
answerin In the ringing words of the Son Of God:
''Tf they believe not Moses and the prophets
neither will they be persuaded though one rose
Now / believe, under God that this sermon
will save many from disease, insanity, and
perdition. I believe. these are the days OF
latter latter times i'm Some some Shall depart from the faith
giving heed to seducing spirits" think my
audience, as we'll as other audiences En- &C. In this
i6e pasSagss I quoted some minutes ago,
There shall not be among you consuitef 81
familiar spirits, Or wizard, or necropiancer
tion unto. the Lord;', and nThe soul that
will set myself against them, and they shall be
But invite you this morning to a Christian
Is only one great family. Here Is the church ia.
BILE. Come around the church table, take your
seats for this great Christian seance, put your
Of the Bible, and then listen, and hear Il thoree
are any voices coming from the internal
world. think there are. Listen Secret
nss Ssfp Sa are uS peSeaed he Ssons our unto and
he spirit world But before you rise from
s yon S1Ib M be sssSs aed WEI Ma bSpe S pG%ss H
lation until the light Of the eternal throne
breaks upon your vision, Do not go after
the, witch, Of En;dor. Do not sit down at
their legs 50 even, that they will not tip and
rattle. II the table must move let II be under
the Offices Of industrial housewifery, Teach
your children there ,arss are no ghosts 3Ss
world save those which walk on two
ffset Or four, human Or bestial' Remember
thing; for II 1t tells what the Bible reveals, II
y snpertiuity; and Il II tells what the he Bible Bible
out to get other people to tell your fortune,
tell your own fortune BY putting y9qr,mtr1as;tt ,t 1l;t
your fortune ''AiI things work together for
good TO them who love God.n Insult not your
down and scrabble under an extension table.
Remember that there IS only one Spirit whose
dictation you have q right to invoke, and that
is the holy, blessed, and omnipotent Spirit Of
God. Hark! He e rapping nov, not on 2
your heart, and every rap Is an invitation to
Christ and Q warming OF Judgment, e come.
o, grieve Him not away. Quench Him not.
He has been all around you this morning, He
was oil around you last night, He has been
around you all your lives: Harkl There comes
a voice dropping through the roof, breaking