The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-03

heaven. For the sake Of mans honor |
and woman's purity, I say let the last
vestige Of it perishi forever. I wish /
could gather up all the raps it has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned, and
gather them all on its own head in one
laundering rap Of annihilationi
I further indict Spiritualism for the
fact that it Is the cause of much insanity.
There is not an asylum between Bangor
and San Francisco which has not the
torn and bleeding victims Of this delu-
sion. Go into any asylum, ! care not
where it is. and the presiding doctor,
after you have asked him: ssWhat is the
matter with that man" will say: .'Spirit-
ualism demented him." or ssWhat is the
matter with that womaAp' he will say:
''Spiritualism demented he1." It has
taken down some of the brightest intel
lects. 1t swept off into mental midnight
judges, senators, governors, ministers of
the Gospel, and one time came
near capturing one of the presi-
dents Of the United States. At
Flushing, near this city, a man
became absorbed with it, forsook
his family, took hfs only $15, 900,
surrendered them to q spiritual medium
in New York, attempted three times to
put an end to his own life, and then was
mcarcerated in the state lunatic asylum,
where he is today a raving maniac. Put
your hand in the hand of this witch Of
En-dor, and she will lead you to bottom
less perdition. where she holds her ever
lsstiRg aeance. Many years ago the
steamer Atlantic started from Europe for
the United States. getting in mid-oceap,
the machinery troke, and she foundered
around day after day, and week after
week, and for a whole month after she
was due people wondered. and finally
gave her up. There was great anguish in
the cities, for there were many who had
friends aboard that svessel. Some of
the women, in their distress, went;
to the spiritual mediums, and inquired
as to the fate Of that vessel. The me-
diums called up the spirits, and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steam
ship lost, with all on board. Women
went raving mad, and were carried to
the lunatio asylum. After awhile one
day gun was heard off quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping, and
the bells of the churches were rung. The
boys ran through the streets, crying:
"Extral The Atlantic is safei" There
was the embracing as from the dead
when friends came again to friends;
but some Of those passengers
went up to find their wives in
the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of
internal Spiritualism had put them. A
man 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 it, re-
piled: ''Spiritualism demanded it." 1t
Is the patronizer and forager for the mad
house Judge Edmonds, in Broadway
tabernacle, New York, delivering lect-
ure in behalf of Spiritualism, admitted, in
90 many words: ssThere is fascination
about consultation with the spirits of the
dead that has tendency to lead people
off from their right judgment, and to izfs'
still into them fanaticism that is revolt
ing to the natural mind"
It not only ruins its disciples, but it
ruins the mediums also, only give it
time The Gadarean swine, on the banks
of the Lake of Galilee, no sooner became
spiritual mediums than down they went,
in an avalanche of pork, to the con-
Of medium is bad for man, bad for a
woman, bad for beast.
bring against this delusion a more
fearful Indictment: it ruins the soul i'm
mortal. First, it makes man quarter
of an infidel; then it makes him half an
infdel; then it makes him whole infdel.
The whole system, as conceive it, is
| founded on the insufficiency of the Word
of God as a revelation. God says the
Bible is enough for you to know about
the future world. You say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the
Lord differ. You clear the table, you
shove aside the Bible, you put your hand
on the table, and say: "Now 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" y.u risk it, and say:
'Come back, spirit Of my departed
father; come back, spirit Of my de-
parted mother, Of my companions, of my
little child, and tell me some things
don't know about you and about the
unseen world" If God is ever slapped
square in the face, it is when spiritual
medium puts down her hand on the
table. invoking spirits departed to make
revelation. God has told you all you
ought to know, and how dare you be
prying into that which Is none Of your
business? You cannot keep the Bible In
one hand and Spiritualim In the other.
One or the other win slip out Of your
grasp, depend upon it.
Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in
the fact that it has In these last days
called from the future world Christian
men to testify against Christianity. Its
mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the
celebrated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testifies that Christians are dolators.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne, and
he testifies that he is stopping in the same
house in heaven with John Bunyan.
They call back John Wesley, and he tes-
titles against the Christian religion which
he all his life gloriously preached.
Andrew jackson Davis, the greatest
Of all the Spiritualists, comes to
the front and declares that the
New Testament is but 1.-THE dismal
echo of barbaric age, " and the Bible
only zone Of the pen and ink relics Of
Christianity" They attempt to substi-
tute the writings Of Swedenborg, and
Andrew jackson Davis, and other re-
| igious balderdash, in the place Of this
old Bible. have in my house book
which was used in this very city in the
public service Of Spiritualists. It is well
worn with much service. open that
book, and it says: "What is our
baptism7 Answer: Frequent ablutioni
of water. What Is our inspiration
Plenty of fresh air and sunlight. What
is our prayeri Abundant physical exer-
else. What is our love feast? A clear
conscience and sound sleep" And
find from the same book that the CHIEF
item in their public worship is gymnastic
exercise, and that whenever they want
to rouse up their souls to very high
pitch of devotion they sing, page
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