The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-06-22

I what consolation In Such miserable
stuff as compared with the consolation
thatour departed friends free from toll
and sin and pain are forever happy, and
+ that we will Join them, not in mystic
rous and half utterance which makes
the hair stand on end and makes cold
ohills creep the back, but in a reunion
most blessed and happy and gloriousl'
"And none shan murmur or misdoubt
/ When Gods great sunrise finds us out"
learn still further from this s4b-
ject that spiritualism and necromancy
are affairs of darkness. Why did not
Saul 90 in the day? He was ashamed
TO 20. Besides that, he knew that
this spiritual medium, like all her
successors, performed her exploits in
tie night. The Dayenpsrts, the Fowl
ers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums
OF all ages, have chosen the night or
a darkened room. Why? The ma
iority of their wonders have been
swindles. and deception prospers best
I in the night.
indict spiritualism also because it
is social and marital curse. The
worst deeds of licentiousness and the
worst orgies of uncleanliness have
been enacted under its patronage. The
story is too vile for me to tell l will
not pollute my tongue or your ears
with the recital. Sometimes the civil
law has been invoked TO stop the
outrage. Families innumerable have
been broken up by It. 1t has pushed
OF hundreds of young women into a
+ life of profigacy. 1t talks about "elec-
tive aflinities" and "afiinital relations"
and spiritual matches" and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free loyeism.
In one of its journals It declares mar
riage is the monster curse of ciyiliza-
/ ton" at is a source of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have its full swing, it would
turn this world into a pendemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulter-
Gus, damnable religion, and the sooner
il drops into hell from which il rose
the better both for earth and Heaven.
For The sake of mans honor and wom-
ans purity / say let the last yestige
of il perish forever. / wish / could
gather up all the raps it has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned and
gather them all on its own head in
laundering raps of annihilation!
If God is ever slapped in the face
it is when a spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table. invoking
spirits departed 10 make a revelation.
God has told you all you ought to
know, and how dare you be prying
into that which is none Of your busi-
ness. You cannot keep the Bible in
one hand and spiritualism In the other.
One or the other will slip out of your
grasp. depend upon it. Spiritualism 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 medi-
ums call back Lorenzo Dow, the oele-
brated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testifes that Christians are idolators.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Paine, and
he testifies that he is stopping in the
some house in Heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Nes-
lev. and he testifes against the CHS
tian religion, which he all his life
pioriously preached. Andrew Jack
son Davis. the greatest Of all the spirit
ualists. comes to the front and de-
clares 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
I have in my house book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains
catechism and a hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
swers:
O. What IS our chief baptism? A. Ere
quent ablution in water
o. What Is our Inspiration? a. Fresh
air and sunshine
O. What IS our love feast? A. Clear con-
science and sound sleep.
Q What Is our prayer? A. Physical ex-
ercise.
And then il goes on to show that a
great proportion of their religious
service is a system of calisthenics.
Then when they want to arouse the
devotion of the people to the highest
pitch, they give out the hymn on the
sixty-fifth page:
The night hath gathered up her shken
fringes.
Or on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods. helgh hoi
But" says some one, wouldn't it
be of advantage to hear from the fu-
ture world2 Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There are a
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
persuaded" To that ] answer in the
ringing words of the Son Of God: IF
they believe not Moses and the proph-
cts, neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead"
Teach your children there are no
ghosts to be seen or heard in this world
save those which walk on two feet or
four-human or bestial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is use
less thing, for if 1t tells what the Bible
reveals it is a superfuity, and if il tells
what the Bible does not reveal il is a
lie. Instead Of going out 10 get other
people to tell your fortune, tell your
own fortune by putting your trust IN