Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-13
LONG BEACH.
A Lecture on the Witch
Endor.

This beach was very popular one
yesterday, judging from the carloads of
people who went down to enjoy it's surf
and breakers. The band was out again
for the day and evening. Last night it
played for ball at the pavilion.
The assembly continues to draw its
crowds, and is as popular as ever. The
lecture course proves to be rare one.
The devotional exercises were conducted
in the morning by Rev. j. H. Weber.
DR.. w. A. Wright addressed the school
of the English Bible, and at II O'Clock
Rev. Selah Brown delivered his lecture
on "The Witch of Endor." AS a pre-
lude to the lecture, Miss Gertrude
Neiverl, of Pomona, sang most delight
fully ''The Tempest" and answered to
an encore. DR.. Brown said that
"modern spiritualism is only about
forty-two years old; but spiritual
ism is as old as mankind, having first
been heard OF in the garden Of Eden,
when the spirit tempted Eve.
When Saul rejected God he
sought information of woman
known as the witch of Endor,
and there met the spirit of Samuel,
which told him that the next day he
would be killed. This came to pass, and
he was killed for seeking witch for in
formation and not God. Modern spir-
itualism was first brought into notice by
the Fox girls of Rochester, and very ap-
propriately on the 1st of April. They
have since confessed that they only did
it to amuse themselves and delude their
friends. From this it spread all over
the world We have manifestations of
spirits moving chairs and tables, flash
ing lights, appearing to view, speaking
to us, and touching us, etc. Spiritual
ism appeals to our desire to see our dead
friends and to pry into the unseen world.
When the medium comes and says to
the sorrowing one: 4 have message
from your FRIEND it is hard to resist
the desire to investigate. Alas, that
these should be deceived. l think can
account for these unusual things in three
ways: First, by natures laws; second,
fraud, treachery, and sleight-of-hand
Third, satanic agency. There are many
things in nature we do not understand
electric phenomena, mesmerism, and
psychic force. l believe that nine
tenths of all this is fraud and humbug-
gerry" The lecturer reviewed at length
the many exposures and confessions OF
mediums, and asked, "What has spirit
ualism done for the world? Why does
it not reveal something? l want some
thing better than the ringing of my din
ner-bell when dinner is over, or my
Methodist chairs set to dancing in my
parlor. Let the spirits come in day
light, and not with the owls and bats.
They can stand the light of our midday
sun if from the land of light if from the
other land they need not fear eighty or
ninety degrees of heat. The world is
full of spirits, but not of such as spirit
ualism brings. The bible says such are
an abomination and of the devil"
! Mrs. Alice j. Osborne, of Boston, the
delightful singer, conducted the musical
prelude to the lecture of the evening.
The lecture was on est Paul, and the
World in which He Lived" Rev. DR..
Jesse Bowman Young, of Kansas City,
was the lecturer. The discourse was
illustrated with the stereopticon and
dealt with the whole life of the great
disciple missionary. Some of the views
represented pictures by the old masters,
Raphael, Reubens, ETC., and of places
visited by Paul-Athens, Antioch, Da-
mascus. Rome, etc. The doctor pro-
nounced a fervent eulogy on the charac-
ter of the great apostle.
Today's programme includes sermon
in the morning at II O'Clock by DR.. A. S.
Dobbs and memorial exercises in the
afternoon for Clinton B. Fiske.