Sharp County record., 1888-05-17

damnable religion, and the SooHV' ,,o
J'..-r-- 1- into tbe hell from which it rose' lne
bcttor for both earth and Heaven FVL
tbo sake of mans honor and woman :.
t1,,ritv I say let the last Yest9e u "
arisL forever. Iwish l could gather up
ali the raps it has ever heard from SpiI4o II 70,
hest or damned, and gather them az ~, u.
its own head in one laundering rap oI 'n
nlhilatiOn! u0ton+
further inditt Spiritualismfoi the Lae'
+bo+ II is the cause Of much msahlt!'
There is not an asylum between bansot
anJ ND San Francisco which has not the torh
and bleeding victims of this deluSloh. W
into anv asylum, care not Where ~ o 20,
and the presiding doctor, after you n@tI ro
ootad him. "What is the matter WIFI
that manSD will say: "SpirituallSm ae.
rnon+ad rna him.D or. "What Is the matter
With that woman2" he will say spirit
maIism demented her." 1t has taken
down some of the brightest intollc CTS II
swent off into mental midnight JUDGES
Senators, Governors, ministers VI r
GOSPEL. and one time came near CaP!uI
inc one of the Presidents OF the C1t''u
states. At Flushing, near this clty, "
man became absorbed with 1t, torSooh Ht3
family. took his only $1,000, surrendered
them to a spiritual medium IN New oLA, IN
attempted three times to put an emu ~ nio
own life, and then was incarcerateu III
the Safe Lunatic Asylum, where ne us
to-day a raving maniac. Put your nonJ
in the hand of this Witch OF Enuor, anu
she will lead you to bOttomless perul'lon'
where she holds her everlasting sean, g.
A man in Bellevue Hospital, dying from
wounds made by his own hand, was ASKED
vhv he tried to commit suicide anu nc
said, oThe spirits told me to" Parents
have strangled their children, and When
asked why they did it. replied; "Sprltu-
a1ism demanded it~ 1t is the patronlzer
and forager for the mad house. Judge
Edmonds. in Broadway Tabernacle New
York, delivering lecture IN fayor Oh
Spiritualism, admitted, in so many WoIuS'
tThere is a fascination about consulta-
tion with the spirits of the dead that has a
tendency to lead people off from their
right Judgment, and to instill into them a
fanaticism that is revolving to the natural
mind" l.. :.
# not only ruins its disciples, but 1t
ruins the mediums also, only give II tlme'
The Gadaraean swine, on the banks OF inc
Lake of Galilee, no sooner became spirit
nal mediums than down they went, IN an
avalanche of pork, to the CONSERVATION
Of all the herdsmen. The office OF a
medium is bad for a man, bad for wom-
an, bad for beast.
, Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible IN
the fact that it has in these last days called
from the future world Christian men 10 tes-
tifv against Christianity. Its mediums CAL
hack Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangel-
| ist. and Lorenzo Dow testifes that Christi
ans are idolators. Spiritualism calls back
, Tom Paine, and he testifes that he IS stop
, ming in the same house in Heaven with
John Bunyan. They call back John Nes-
lev and he testifes against the Christian
religion which he all his life gloriously
preached. Andrew Jackson Davis, the
greatest of all the spirituallsts, comes 10
| the front and declares that the New Testa-
meut is but "the dismal echo of barbaric
age.u and the Bible only lone of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity" They at
tempt to substitute the writings Of Swed-
enborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, and
other religious balderdash, in the place ol
this old Bible.
"But. y SAYS some one. wouldn't it BIZ
Of advantage to hear from the future
/ world? Don't you think it would
; strengthen Christians? There are great
| many materialists who do not believe
there are souls; but if spirits from the
future world should knock and talk over
to us, they would be persuaded"
To that l answer, in the ringing words
of the son Of God:
II they believe not Moses and the prophets,
: neither will they be persuaded though one rose
from the dead.
Now believe, under Cod that this SER
mon will save many from disease, insanity,
and perdition. l believe these are the
; days of which the apostle spake when he
: said:
In the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to sedIcing spirits
think my audience, as well as other au-
diences in this day, need to have reiterated
in their hearing the passages quoted
some minutes ago:
There shall not be among you consulter o,
familiar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer; for
they that do these things are an abominatiou
unto the Lord.
And,
The soul that turneth after such as have
familiar spirits will set Myself against them,
and they shall be cut of from their people.
But l invite you this morning to q
Christian seance, noon-day seance
This congregation is only one great fam
lily. Here is the church table. Come
around the church table, take your seats
for this great Christian seance, put yom
Bible on the table, put your hands on toT
of the Bible, and then listen and hear il
there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. think there are. Listen
Secret things belong unto the Lord our God
but things that are revealed belong unto US anC
to our children.
Surely that is voice from the spirit
world! But before you rise from this
Christian seance, want you to promise
me you will be satisfied with the Divine
revelation until the light of the eternal
throne breaks upon your vision. Do not
20 after the Witch of EndOr. Do not sit
down at table-rappings, either in sport or
in dead earnest. Have your tables so well
made, and their legs so even, that they
will not tip and rattle. If the table must
move, let it be under the Offices Of indus
trious housewifery. Teach your children