The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-27

TtfH nE N0f tTG-t-ts anu Nf~ AftAr
near capturing one OF the Presidents OF
the United States. At Flushing, l.. l..
man became absorbed with Il. fOrsook Ms
family took his only fifteen thousand
dollars. surrendered them 10 sphltSal
medium i'm New York, attempted tnfee
times to put an end TO his own life. and
then was incarcerated in the state Luna
tic Asylum
Has Driven Many Mad.
MANY years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United States.
In midOceIn the machinery broke. and
she fi0undered around day after day. and
week after week; ard for a whole month
after she was due people wondered. end
finally gave her up. There was great an
guish in the cities. for there were many
who had friends aboard that vessel. Some
OF the women in distress, went to the
spiritual medium, and inquired as TO the
fate Of thar vessel The medium called
up the spirits, and the rsppings on the
table indicated the steamship lost, with
all on board Women went Taving mad,
and we've carried to the lunatic asylum.
After awhile one day gun wes heard off
Quarantine. The flags Vent up on the
shipping. and the bells Of the churches
were rung. The boys ran through the
streets, crying: Extra The Atlantic is
safer There wes the embracing as from
the dead when friends came again 10
friends; but some Of those passengers
went up to md their wives in the lunatic
asylum. where this cheat OF internal spiT-
itualism had put them.
"A man in Bellevue Hospital. dying from
wounds made by his own hand was asked
why ne tried to commit suicide, and he
said. The spirits told me 90 Parents
have strangled their children, and when
asked why they did it. replied: Spiritual
ism demanded it. L is the patronizer
and for1ger for the madhoUse. Judge Ed
munds. i'm Broadway Tabernacle, New
York. delivering a lecture concerning spir-
itualism, admitted, in so many words:
There is a fdnaticism about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has 2
tendency to lead people of from their
right Judgment. ard to instill into them a
fanaticism that is revolving TO the natural
mind
Ruin for Man or Beast.
at not only ruins ITS disciples, but it
ruins the mediums also, only give It time.
The Ga jarene swine, on the banks Of the
Lake of Galilee, 10 sooner became spirit
raj mediums than down they went, IN an
avalanche OF por,s, 10 the CONSERVATION
OF all the heIdsE3en. The office of
medium is bad for a man, bad for a wo-
man, had for a beast.
Il bring against this dslusion a more
fearful indictment: 1t rims the soul I'M
mortal. First, it makes man a quarter
of an infdel; then Il makes him half an
infdei; then il makes lin q whole in
hGeI. The whole system. as / conceive It,
is founded on the insufiiciency of the
Word Of God as revelation. Gcd say
the Eib!e is enough fOI you to know about
the future world. You say il is not
CROUCH, ard there is where you and the
Lord differ And although the Scriptures
say; Add thou -.ot unto His words, lest
He repcove 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 lit
tie child-and tell me some things l do
not know about you, ard about the un-
seen world
IF God IS ever slapped in the face, it
is when q spiritual medium puts down
her hand on the table. invoking spirits de-
parted TO make a revelation. God has
told you all you ought TO know, and now
dare YOU be prying into that which Is
rCne of your business? You cannot keep
the Bible in one hand and sIirltuaism in
the other. One or the Othe, VIII SIP out
Of your grasp, depend upon IL spiritual
ism is adverse to the Bible in the fact
that il 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 testihes thar
Christians are iGOlaters. Spiritualism calls
calls back Tom Paine, and he testiies
that he is stopping in the same house in
heaven with john Bunyan They call
back John Wesley, ana he tcStifles against
the Christian religion, which he All ms
life gloriousiy preached. Andrew Jack
sen Davis the greatest of all the Spirit
JalistS comes To the front, and declares
that the New Testament Is but the dis
NAL echo of barOaric age. and the Bible
only 'one of the pen-and-ink relies OF
Christianity
Faith of SedueiHG spirits.
"I have in my house a book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a cate
chism and a hymn book. The catechism
has these questions and answers;
60. What is our chief baptism?'
"a. Frequent ablutiOn in water
go. What is our inspiration
"'A. Fresh air and sunshine
40. What is our love feast?'
"a. Clear conscience and sound sleep
90. What is our prayer
"A Physical exercise.
And then it goes on &c show that
great proportion cf their religious service
is system of calisthenics. Then when
they want TO arouse the devotion of the
people 20 the highest pitch, they give out
the hymn on the sixty-fifth page:
''The night hath gathered up her siken fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth pase:
Come 70 the woods heigh no,
But says some ole. wouldn't II be of
advantage 20 hear. from the future world?
Don't YOU think il would strengthen
Christians? There are a great many ma [
terialists who do not believe there are
souls: but if spirits from the future world
should knock and talk over 10 US they
would be persuaded To that / answer, III
they believe not Moses and the prophets.
neither will they BE- persuaded, tnough one /,
Iose from the dead
Il believe these ara the days OF which !
the apostle spoke wnen he said: In the
latter times some shall depart from the
faith. giving heed TO seduclng spirits Au-
diences in this day need 10 have Teit- !
Grated IN their hearing the passages /
quoted some minutes ago; There shdll not [
be among you a cOnsulteT Of familiar
spirits. or wizard. or necromancer: for
they that do these things are an abomina- |
tiOn unto the Lord; and, The soul that
turneth after such as have familiar spir-
It's. / will set myself against them. and
they shall be cut OF from their people
No spirits ia This WerId.
oRut I invite you BOW to a Christian Sc
ance. This congregation II only one great
family Here = the church table. Come /
around the church table. take your seats
for this great Christian seance: put your
Bible on the table, pat your hands on TOD !
of the Bible. and then listen and hear II |
there are voices coming from the eternal !
world. | think there are. Listen! Secret I
things belong unto the Lord. our God; bur /
things that are revealed belong unto u /.
and to our children Surely, that q 4
voice from the spirit world But before /
YOU rise from this Christian seance. / 4
want you 10 promise ne ycu will be salts /
fed with the Divine revelation until the
light OF the eternal throne breaks upon
your vision. Do not 20 after the witch Of 1
E.n-dor Do not sit down az tabie-rappings I
either in sport or in earnest
Teach your children there are no 1
ghosts 10 be seen OF heard In this world 4
save those which walk on TWO feet or /
four-human or bestisL Remember thar 4
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