Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-30


dered in that house. many years before
for his $500. Whether the ghost OF
THE DEAD PEDDLKR
had come there to collect mis- $500. or his
bones, cannot ssy, not being spiritual
| list; bu: there was CREST racket st the
door, 90 DIR. Weekms1 declared, and
Mrs. Weekmsn, &nd Mr.. Fox, and Mrs.
Fox, and all the little Foxes. The ex-
citenent spread. There WAS Universal
rumpus. The Hon. Judge Edmonds de-
clared, in book, that he had actually
seen 8 bell stsrt from the top shelf Of a
closet, heard it ring over the people that
were standing In the sloset; then, swung
by invisible hsnds, 1t rang over the peo-
pie in the back paIlor; and 1oated
through the folding doors to the front
parlor, rung over the people there, and
then dropped on the floor. N. P. Tai
mage, Senator Of the United States, af-
forwards Governor CT Wisconsin, had his
head completely turned with spiritualistic
demonstrations. A man as he WIS
passing along the road, said th.. he was
lifted up bodily, sud carried toward his
nome through the air, st such great
speed thst he could not count the posts
on the fence as he passed; and as he had
q hs1dsaw and square in his hand, they
beat, as be passed through the air, most
delightful music And the tables tipped,
snd the stools tilted, and the bedsteads
raised, and the chairs upset,a and it seemed
as il the spirits everywhere hsd gone into
the furniture business! Well, the people
ssid: ave have got something new in
this country; il Is s new religion" o
NO, my friends. Thousands Of years ago
We find in our texta spiritualistic seance.
Nothing in the spirltuaiistic circles OF
our dsy has been more
STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS AND WONDERFUL
than things waich have been seen in the
past centuries Of the world. In all the
ages there have been necromancers, those
who consult with the spirits Of the de-
parted; clarmers, those who put their
subjects in q mesmeriC state; sorcerers.
those who by taking poisonous drugs see
everything, and near everything, and tell
everything; dresmers, people who in
their sleeping moments can see the
future world and hold consultation with
spirits; Sstrologers, who could read
new dispensstion in the stars; experts In
palmistry, who can tell by the lines in the
palm of your hand your origin and your
history. From a cave on Mount Parnas-
sus, we are told, there WAS An exhalatlon
that Intoxicated the sheep and the goats
that came anywhere near it, and & shep
herd approaching It was thrown by that
exhslntion into an excitement in which he
could foretell future events and hold con-
sultation with the spiritual world Yea,
before the time OF Christ the Brahms
went through all the table, moving,
all the furniture excitement, which the
spirits have exploited In our day; pre-
clsely the same thing over and over again
under the manipulations of the Brahmlns
Now do you say thst spirituaiism is df
ferent from these2 l answer, all these
decisions 1 have mentioned belong to the
same family. They are exhumations
from the unseen world. Whist does God
think Of all these delusionsf He thinks
80 severely OF them inst he never spesks
OF them but with lvid thunders O; indlg-
nation. He says: 81 will be swift
witness against the sorcerer." He
says: "Tnou shalt , suffer G
witch to live" And lest
you might make some impor RANT distipc-
ton between Spirltualism and witchcraft,
God says, in SO many words: "There
shall not De among you consulter OF
FAMILIAR SPIRITS,
or wizSrd, or necromancer; for they that
do these things are an sbomination unto
the Lord" And he says again: 'The
soul Of those who seek sitter such ss have
familiar spirits, snd VINO go whoring af-
ter them, will set myself against them,
and he snail be cut of from among his
people," The Lord Almighty, in score
of passages, which hsve not now time
to quote, utteEs His indignation against
all this great family OF decisions. After
that DE Spiriyualist IL you dare!
Sill further, we learn from this text
how It is that people come to fall into
Spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble
TO kill ten men. He did not know where
to go FOR relief. After awhile he resolved
to go and see the witch Of Eudor. He
expected that somehow she would shord
him relief. It was his trouble that drove
him there. And 1 have to tell you now
that Splritualism finds it's victims in the
troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the be-
ref. You lose your watch,
and you go to the fortune-teller
to fnd where 1t ie. Tou lose
e friend, you want the spiritual world
opened, 50 thst you may have communi-
cation with him. In highly wrought,
nervous and diseased state of mind you
go and put yourself In thst communics-
ton. Thst is why 1 hate SpirituAlisn.
L takes advantage Of one In moment of
weakness, which may come upon US at
any time. We lose friend. The trial
is keen, sharp, suffocs;iag, slmost mad
dening. Ii We could marshal host, and
storm the eternal world, and recspture
our loved one, the host wo uld soon be
marshalled. The house is 50 lonely, the
world is so dark, the separation is 90
insuffersble.
But Spirituslism says: 1--WE will open
the future world, and ycur loved one
can come back and talk to you" Though
we may not hear his voice we may hear
the rap Of his hand. So clear the table,
ST. down, put your hands on the table, be
very quiet. Five minutes gone; ten
minutesi 10 motion OF the table, no re-
spouse from the future world. Twenty
minutes; thirty minutes; nervous ex-
element ell the time increasing. Forty
minutes;
THE TABLE, sHIvKRs;
two rsps from the future world. The