Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-11


SO Severely Of Them that He Never Speaks
Of Them But With Livid Thunders Of In
dignation-
s. eeial to the Kansas city Times.
BROOKLYN April 29-After the Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D., had in his weI-knoWn
manner expOunded the Scriptures, the multi
tude of people who throng the Tabernacle
and all through the entrances, packing every
available space OF standing and 81 ting room,
united in singing:
Salvation! let the echo ny
The spacious earth around
While all the armies Of the sky
COnspire TO raise the sound
DIR. Talmage announced his subject: Mod
ern Spiritualism." He took for his text;
Behold, there is a woman that hath a IA
mtliar spirit at En-dOr, And Saul disguised
himself and put on other raiment, and he
went, and two men with him, and they came
to the woman by night; and he said, pray
thee, divine unto me the familiar spirit and
bring me him up, whom I shall name unto
thee,"-I Samuel XIV iii. z, 8. Following is
the sermon in full:
have recently become a spiritualist At
least so some Of the journals of that belief
declare. This, together with the fact that
"mediums' are now being tried in the Grim
inal courts, setting millions Of people to make
inquiry in regard to communication between
this world and the next, leads me to preach this
sermon.
Trouble to the right of him, and trouble to
the left Of him, Saul knew not what to do.
AS a last resort, he concluded to seek out a
spiritual medium, or a witch, or any
thing that you please to call her-at
any rate, a woman who had communication
with the spirits Of the eternal world 1t was
a very difficult thing to do, for Saul had
either slain all the witches, or compelled
them to stop business. A servant, one daY
said to King Saul: 81 know of a spiritual
medium down at the village of En-dOr.'' s'DO
yOu| sad the king. Night falls. Saul, put
ting OF his kingly robes, and putting on the
dress OF a plain citizen, with two servants,
goes out to hunt up this spiritual medium
1t was no easy thing for Saul to disguise him
sell, Tor the TalleSt people In the country only
came up to his shoulder and 1 think from the
strength Of the man and the way he bore him
self, ne must have been well prOpOrtiOned. 1t
must have been a frightful thing to see a man
walking along in the night eight or nine feet
high. 1 suppose, as the people saw him pass
they said: "WhO is that2 He is as tall as
the king''-haVing no idea that in such a
plain dress there really was passing the king.
saul and his servants after awhile reach the
village, and they say: 81 wonder If this is
the house," and they look in and they see
the laggards weird and shrIV6LIed I'D spiritual
medium sitting by the light and on the
table sculptured images, and diVining rods,
and poisonous herbs, and bottles and vases
%
LOUD rap brings the woman to the door, and
as she stands there, holding the candle or lamp
above her head and peertng out into the dark
ness, she says: "WhO is hereF' The tall
king informs her that he has come TO have his
fortune told. When she hears that she
uembles and almost drops the light for she
knows there is no chqnce for q fOrtune-telIer
or splr1tusI medium in all the land. But Saul
having sworn that no harm shall come
TO her, she says: ''Weil who shall I
bring up from the deadp Saul says:
Bring up Samuel" That was the prophet
who had died little while before. I see her
waving wand, or stirring up some poison
Gus herbs in a cauidrOn, or hear muttering
over some lamentations, or stamping with her
foot, as she cries out to the realm Of the
dead: Samuel Samuelp' LO the freez-
ing hOrrOrl The floor of the tenement opens.
and the grey hairs float uD, and the forehead
the eyes, the lips, the shoulders. the arms
wrapped in sepulchral robe, appearing to the
astOnished group, who stagger back and hold
fast and catch their breath, and shiver with
Terror. Inc dead prophet white and aWful
from the tomb, begins, to move his ashen
lips, and he glares upon King Saul, and cries
out: what did you bring me up fOrl Why
did you break my long sleep9 What do you
mean King SaulF' Saul, trying to compose
and control himself makes this stammering
and atlrighted utterance, as he says to the
dead prophet: ''The Lord is against me and
l have come to you for help. What shall I
dot" The dead prophet stretched forth his
niger 70 King Saul and said: ode tO-mOr-
row! Come with me into the sepulchre. I
am gong now. Come, come, come with me 20
And lOl the floor again opens, and the feet of
the dead prophet disappeared and the arms
and the shoulders, and the forehead. The
nOOr closes. Nothing is left in the room but
Saul and the two servants, and the spiritual
medium, and the sculptured images and the
dtVining rods, and the bottles, and the vases,
and the pOisinous herbs 0, that was an
awful sceneI
learn first from this subject that spiritu-
aIsm Is very old religion. 1t is natural
that people should want to know the origin
ana the history OF doctrine which is
so widespread in all the villages, towns,
and cities Of the civilized world get
ting new converts every day-a doc
tinged
Spiritualsm in America was born in lS47,
In HydesVille, Wayne County, New York,
when one night there was g loud rap heard
second time, rap a third time; and all
three times, when the door was opened. there
was nothing found there the knocking hay
ing been made seemingly by Invisible knuclL-
les. In that same house there was q young
woman who had cold hand passed over her
face, and there being seemingly no arm at
tached to it, ghOstly suspicious we're excited.
After while Mr.. Fox and his family moved
into that hOnse. and then every night there
was banging at the door and one night Mr..
Fox gSids "Are you a spirit4il Two rams.
answering in the Affirmative. care you Ean
injured spirit4' Two raps, answering in the
affirmative And so they found out as they
say LnAE IL was the gnOSE or spirit OF g
pedlar who had been murdered In that house,
many years before, for his five hundred dol
lars. Whether the ghost Of the dead pedlar
had come there to collect his five hundred
dollars or his bones, cannot say. not being
Spiritualist; but there was a great racket at
the door, so Mr.. Weekman declared, and Mrs.
Weeknan, and Mr.. Fox, and Mrs Fox and
all the little Foxes The excitement spread.
There was a universal rumpus The Hon.
Judge EdmOnds declared, in 3 book, that he
d ad actually seen bell start from the Tor
shelf of q closet heard it ring over the peO-
pie that was standing in the closet; then.
swung by invisible hands, it rang over the
people In the back parlOr; and hOated through
the folding doors to the front paFlOr, rung
over the people there, and then dropped on
the floor. y. P. Talmage, Senator of the Unit
Cd States. afterMards Governor Of Misconsin.