The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-02

that our departed friends free from toll
and sin and pain are forever happy, and
that we will join them. not i'm mystic
.rious and half uttcrance which makes
the hair stand on end and makes cold
chils creep the back, but in reunion
most blessed and happy and gloriousl
"And none shall murmur or msdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out"
| learn still further from this sub
ject that spiritualism and necromancy
are affairs of darkness. Why did not
Saul go in the day? He was ashamed
to go. Besides that, he knew that
this spiritual medium, like all her
successors, performed her exploits in
tie night. The Davenports the Fowl
ers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums
of all ages, have chosen the night or
n darkened room. Why? The ma
jority of their wonders have been
swindles. and deception prospcrs best
in the night.
l indict spiritualism also because it
is social and marital curse. The
worst deeds of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the
worst orgies of unclcanliness have
Dttn tldCNth us pau ilt
story is too vile for me to tell. / 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
off hundreds of young women into "a
life of profigacy. 1t talks about "elec-
t,,tt ,,I Il l., ,,p'f
and spiritual matches and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free loveism.
In one of its journals it declares mar
riage is the monster curse of civiliZa-
ton at is source of debauchery
and intemperance.' If spiritualism
could have it's full swing, it would
turn this world into pendemonium
of carnality 1t is an unclean, adulter-
GUS, damnable religion, and the sooner
it drops into hell from which it rose
the better both for earth and Heaven.
For the sake of mans honor and wom-
ans purity | say let the last vestige
of it 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 humiliation!
If God is ever slapped in the face
it is when IA spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed TO make n revelation
God has told you all you ought to
know, and how dare you be prying
into that which is none of your bust
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
it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to
testify against Christianity. It's medi-
ums call back Lorenzo Dow, the cele-
brated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testifies that Christians are idolators.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Paine, and
he testifies that he IL stopping in the
some house in Heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wes-
ley, and he testifies against the CHS
tian religion, which he all his life
gloriously 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 barbaric age"
and the Bible only zone of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity"
| have in my house u book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catechism and a hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
swers:
Q. What is our chief baptism? A. Ere
quent ablution in water
Q. What is our Inspiration? a. Fresh
air and sunshine.
@. What is our love feast? A. Clear con-
science and sound sleep
c. What is our prayer? a, Physical ex-
ercisc.
And then il goes on TO show that Il
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
siNty-fifth page:
The night hath gathered up her siIken
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh no!
But" says some one, wouldn't il
be of advantage to hear from the flu
ture world? 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
tour-human or bestial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is a use
less thing, for if it tells what the Bible
reveals IT. 10 "a ci1narn,,ft,, -