National Republican., 1888-04-30

familiar spirits, or wizard. or necromancer;
icr they that do these things nre an abomna
"The soHl Of those who i'S seek after such as
have iSmili9r spirits, and who go whoring
an ana ne shali be cut OF from among his
passages, which have not now time to quote,
utters his Indignation against all this great
family Of delusions. After that be spirit
stu further: We learn from tins text how
u Is that people come TO fall into spritualism.
saul had enough trouble to Kill ten men. He
awhile he resolved TO go and see the witch of
En.dor. lie. expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. Il was his trouble
now that spirtualism finds It's victims in the
troubled, the bankrupt, the sick the bereft.
You lose your watch, and YOU go to the for.
friend you want the spiritual world opened,
50 that you may have communication with
him. In hiehly.wrought nervous, and dis.
eased state OF mind you &c and put yourself
spiritualism. II takes advantage Of one In a
moment Of weakness, which NAV come upon
US, at any time. We lose friend. The trial
ing. If We could marshal II host, and storm
the eternal world, and recapture our loved
one, the host would soon be marshaled The
sop8ration Is so insuffcrablc.
But spir,tualism says: "Wc will open the fu.
ture world, and your loved one can come
back and talk TO you" Though we may. not
hand, So, clear the. table sit down Put
your hands on the table. he very quiet. Five
minutes gone. Ten minutes. No motion OF
the table; No response from the future
Nervous excitement all the time Increasing.
Forty minutes. The table shiyers. Two rap.s
flom the future world. The letters Of the Al.
name Is John. At the pronunciation, Of the
Letter., y two raps. At the pronunciation of
hs SttfT ct ,Ts 2t TIVE aPs At the
nunciation Of The letter N" Two raps. There @
yorr have the whole name spelt out ohm,
John. Now, the spirit being present, you say:
Affirmative answer. Pretty soon the hand of
the medium begins to twitch and toss, and
begins to write out, after paper and ink are
' WcrId. What 'isa Is remsrka6ie, the he departed %
spirit, although IL has been amid the
illuminatlons OF heaven, cannot spell MS well
as II used TO. II has lost all grammatical ac.
cuIacy and cannot write so distinctly. | re-
cciyeda letter through medium once.
sent u back. / said; Just please 60 tell those
ghosts they had better go TO school and get
think of spirits, that the Bible represents as
enthroncd 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 on 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 langush.
ing. are in the radiant society of heaven. and
that we shall join them there, not In stitled
and mysterious halfutterance, which makes
the hair stand on end and the cold chlls creep
down the back, but in an unhindered and
illimitablo delight.
"And none shall murmuT or misdoubt,
When Gods great sunrise finds us out"
Yes, my friends, spiritualism comes to those
who are In trouble and sweeps them into its
dclusions. saul, In the midst Of his disaster,
went to the witch of En-dor. The vast ma.
iority of those who have gene To spiritual
mediums have been sent there through their
misfortunes.
learn still further from this subject that
spiritualism and necromancy are affairs of the
darkness. why did not saul go in the day :
He was ashamed to GO Besides; that, he
knew that this spiritual medium, like all her
successors performed her exploits in the
night. The Davenports, the Fowlers,. the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages have
chosen the night or a darkened room. Whyy
The majority of their wonders have been
swindles, and deception prosners best in the
night.
Some of the performances of spiritual me.
diums are not to be asCribed to fraud but to
some occult law that after awhile may be
demonstrated. But believe that now nine
hundred and ninety-nine out of every thou.
meams are nTnn and pPmbas
The mysterious red letters that used to come
out on the mediums arm were found to have
been made by an iron pencil that went heavily
over the flesh, not tearing u, but so disturbing
the blood that II came up IN great round let.
tiers. The witnesses Of the seances have
locked the door, put. the key In their pocket,
searching the room, that hidden levers moved
the tables. The sealed letters that were mys-
teriously, read WITHOUT opening have been
found to have ,eN been cut at the sies-ei ts,a.
s: 7f1S aeSiun Wio witn Msn heavy sS
blanket over his head could read a book has
been found 70 have had bottle Of phosphoric
book, and yeptriloqnism, and legerdemain,
count for nearly everything; Deception being
the main staple of spiritualism. no wonder II
chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unaccount-
able things In the night. Almost every man
has at some time had a touch of hallucination.
to eat something indigestible before retiring
at night, after retiring saw the president Of
one OF the prominent colleges astride the foot
Of the bed, while he demanded of me loan Of
five centsl When i awakened had no idea 1t
was anything supernatural. And l have to
advise you, II you hear and see strange things
at night, 70 stop eating hot mince pie and take
physical organism, enough to deceive the very
elect after sundown, and does nearly all It's
work in the night. The witch Of En'dor held
Away with this religion of spooks.
still further, learn from my text that
spiritualism is doom and death to Its disciples.
from the medium" but the first thing that
he secs makes him swoon away, and no sooner
is he resuscitated than he Is told he must die
s.piritgalism Is doom and death to every one
upon an audience of spirltualists. Cadaver-
ous. Weak. Nervous. Exhausted. Hands
clammy and cold. Nothing prospers but long
ualism destroys physical health. Its disciples
are eyer hearing startling news from the other
world, strange beings crossing the room IN
loose, as If to dance. Voices sepulchral and
ominous. Bewildered with, raps,, I never
knew, confirmed .spritualist who had q
lepsy and catalepsy. Destroy. your nervous
system and you might as well be dead l
have noticed that people who are hear
but little strength left to bear the
hard raps Of this world. II is an awful thing
to trife with ones nervous system. II is so
ments are so terrible. Get the nervous system
a-jangle, and so far as your body and soul are
concerned, the whole universe Is a-Jangle,
Better in our ignorance experimendt dsh with Ia
with an engineers steam boiler that may blow
us to atoms, than experiment with the nervous
or with, no eyes, and be happy, as men hayc
been under such Affections; but woe be to the
man whose nerves are shattered. spiritual
ism smites first of all, and nightly, against
the nervous system, and SO makes life misera-
BILE.
indct spiritualism also because II Is q
social and marital curse. The worst deeds of
licentiousness and the worst orgies of obscen-
ity have been enacted under its patronage.
The story Is too vile for me TO tell. | VIII not
pollute my tongue nor your ears with the re-
cital Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked TO stop the outrage. Families innum-
erable have been broken up by II. IL has
| pushed off hundreds OF young women into a
| life of pronlgacy. II talks about "electiyc
afiinities," and "afinital relations and "spir
| itual Matches and adopts the whole vooapl'
ulary of free-loyism In one of Its puDic
| journals II declares marriage. is the monster
| curse of civilization ut is source OF de
| bauchery and intemperance." IL spiritualism
| world into a pandemonium OF carnality. II Is
| an unclean, adulterous, damnable religion,
| and the sooner It drops into the hell from