The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-05-10

''electiye afinities, and "allinital relations"
and spiritual Matches" and adopts the
whole vocabulary of iree-lovism. In one of Its
public journals 1t declares ''marrage is the
monster curse OF civilization" 'sIt is a
source of debauchcry and intemperance."
Ii sptritualism could have its full swing il
would turn this world into pandemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it drops
into the he'll from which it rose' the better
both for earth and heaven. For the sake of
mans honor and woman's purity I say let
the last yestige of it perish forever. l wish
l 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 thun-
dering rap Of annihilation!
further indict spirtualism for the fact
it is the cause of much insanity. There is
not an asylum between Bangor and San Fran.
cisco which has not the torn and bleeding
victims of this delusion. Go into any asy-
lum. l care not where it is, and the presiding
doctor, after you have asked him: "What is
the matter with that man?" will say: "Spir-
itualism demented him. or, "What is the
matter with that woman?" he will say:
''Spiritualism demented her." 1t has taken
dogs'l Some of the brightest intellects. 1t
swept off into mental midnight judges, SEN
ators, governors. ministers of the gospel, and
one time came near capturing one of the pres
idents of the United States At Flushing,
near this city, a man became absorbed with
it, forsook his family, took his only $4,000,
surrendered them to spiritual medium in
New York, attempted three times to put an
endIto his own life, and then was incarcerat-.
ed in the State lunatic asylum, where he is
to-day raying maniac. Put your hand in
the hand Of this witch Of Endor and she will
lead you to bottomless perdition, where she
holds her everlasting seance. Many years
ago the steamer Atlantic started from EuroIe
for the United States. Getting midocean
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around day after day and week after week,
and for whole month after she was due
people wondered, and finally gave her up.
There was great anguish in the cities. tor
there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some of the women, in their dis
tress, went to the spiritual mediums and in
quired as to the fate OF that vessel. The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steamship
lost with all on board. Woman went raving
mad and were carried to the lunalic asylumS.
After while one day gun was heard off
quarantine. The flags went up on the ship
ping and the bells OF the churches were
rung. The boys ran though the streets: "Ex.
ira The Atlantic is safew 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
iunatic asylum where this cheat of internal
spiritusllsm had put them. A man in Belle.
w
his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, he said: "The spirits told
me to-" Parents have strangled their chill
dren, 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 taber-
nacle, New York, delivering lecture in be-
halt of spiritualism, admitted in so many
words: 'sThere is n fascination about con.
sultation with the spirits of the dead that
has a tendency to lead people off from theiI
right judgment. and to Instill into them a
fanaticism that is revolving to the natural
mind"
1t not only ruins its disciples, but it ruins
the mediums also-only give it time. The
GadarRan swine, on the banks of the Lake
of Galilee, 10 sooner became spiritual medi-
ums than down they went, in an avalanche
of pork, to the CONSERVATION OF all the herds.
men. The office of medium is bad for a
man, bad for q woman, bad for a beast.
| l bring against this delusion more fearful
indictment-it ruins the soul immortal.
First, it makes man quarter OF an infidel; ;
then it makes him half an infdeI then it
makes him whole intidel. The whole system,
as conceive it, is founded on the insuffi-
cheney of the word of God as Il 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
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" you risk it. and say: ''Come
back, spirit of my departed father; come
back, spirit of my departed mother. Of my
some things 1 don't know about you and
about the unseen world" II God is ever
slapped square in the face it is when a
spiritual medium puts down her hand on
the table, invoking spirits departed to make
revelation. God has told you all you ought
that which is none of your business? You
can not keep the Bible in one hand and
splritualsm ir the other. One or the other
will slip out of your grasp. depend upon 1t.
Spiritualfsm is adverse to the Bible in the
fact that it has in these last days called from
against Christianity. Its mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist,
and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians
are idoIators. Spirituaism calls back Tom
Paine, and he testities that he is stopping in
the same house with John Bunyan. They
call back John Wesley, and he testities
against the Christian religion, which all his
life he gloriously preached. Andrew jack
son Davis, the greatest of all spiritualists,
comes to the front and declares that the
New Testament is but ''the dismal echo of a
| barbaric age" and the Bible only zone of the
.pen-and-ink relics of Christianity" They
attempt to substitute the writings of Swed.
| enborg and Andrew jackson Davis and other
| religious ba!derdash lin the place of this old
Bible. / have in my house a book which
was used in tins very city in the public serv'
| ice of spiritualism. 1t is well worn with
much service. open the book, and it says:
.What Is our baptism? Answer. Frequent
Iobl 0f inf
ton? Plenty of fresh air and sunl ght.
What is our prayer? Abundant physical ex.
ercise. What is our lovefeast? A clear
conscience and sound Sleep" And find
from the same book that the chief item in
their public worship is gymnastic exercise,
their souls to very high pitch Of devotion
they sing page IS: 'sThe Night Has Gath.
cred Up Her Moonlit Fringes;" or page IS:
'sCome to the Weeds, Highow You say yor
are not such a fool as that; but you will be
if you keep OH in the track you have started.
"But," says someone, ''wouldn't it be OF
advantage to hear from the future world?
Don't you think it would strengthen Chris.
tians? 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 persuade
ed" To that answer, i'll the ringing words
of this Son OF God: 'If they believe not
NAosos auu tue prophets, ucltucf Will tHey
be persuaded, though one rose from the
dead"
Now, II believe, under God, that this SER
mon will save many from disease, insanity and
perdition. I believe these are the days Of
which the apostle spake when he said: "In
the latter times some sla!l depart frcm the
faith. giving heed to seducing spirits" II
think my audience. well as other audience s in
this day, need to have reiterated III their hear
ing the passages quoted some minutes ago:
| "There shall not be among you consulter
OF familiar spirits, or wiznd, or ornscromancer; |;
for they that do these things are an abomina-
tion unto the Lord" and ''The soul that
tHrneth after such as have familiaF spirits. /
will set myself against them. and shall be
cut off from their people,"
| But invite you this s.morning to a Chris
tian seance. This congtega ion is only one
great family. Here is the church table.
Come around the church table, take your
| seats for this great Christian scarce. sput
your Bible on the table, put your hands on
the top OF the Bible, and then listen aud hear
| II there are any voices coming from the eter-
nal world. l tiink there are. Listenl "Se-
cret things belong unto the Lord our God.
but Things that arr revealed belong unto us
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