The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-03

life of prohigacy. 1t talks ABOUT eieo
tive afinities" and "affinital reiations
and spiritual matches" and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free loveisin-
In one OF It's journals Ii declares mar
r;aoe Is the monster curse OF civiliza-
tionn SIT is a source of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have it's full swing, 1t would
turn this world into a pendemonum
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulter-
GUS, damnable religion, and the sooner
II 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 il 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 it's own head in
laundering raps of annihilationl
If God is ever slapped in the face
il is when spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed to 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 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. Its 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 is stopping in the
some house in Heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wes-
lev, and he testifies against the CHS
tan 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"
l have in my house book used i'll
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catechism and hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
sWers:
@. What is our chief baptism? A. FIRE.
quent ablution in water
Q. What is our Inspiration? a. Fresh
air and sunshine.
n bot 10 low fast? A Clear n.
science and sound sleep.
Q. What is cur prayer? A. Physical ex
ercise.
And then it goes on to show that a
great proportion of their religious |
service is 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-ffth page:
The night hath gathered up her silker
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh hoi
"But," says some one, wouldn't it
be of advantage to hear from the fu-.
ture world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? 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
persuaded" To that l 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"
believe these are the days of which
the apostle spake when he said In
the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spir-
it's" Audiences in this day need to
have reiterated in their hearing the
passages 1 quoted some minutes ago:
There shall not be among you a con-
suffer of familiar spirits, or wizard, or
necromancer, for they that do these
things are an abomination unto the
Lord" and: '"rhe soul that turheth
after such as have familiar spirits I
will set myself against them, and they
shall be cut off from their people"
But invite you now to Christian
seanct, a MONDAY seance. This congre-
cation is only one great family. Here
is the church table. Come around the
church table; take your seats for this
great Christian seance; put your Bible
On the table, put your hands ON top of
The Bible and then listen and hear if
there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. l think there are.
Listen! Secret things belong unto
the Lord, our God, but things that are
revealed belong unto us and to our
children" Surely that is voice from
The spirit world. But before you rise
rom this Christian seance want YOU
to promise me that you will be salts
led with the Divine revelation until
he light of the eternal throne breaks
Upon your vision. Do not go after the
witch of Endor. Do not sit down at
able rappings, either in sport or in
Teach your children there are no
shosts to be seen or heard in this world
ave those which walk on two feet or
our-human or bestial. Remember
hat splritualism at the best is a use.
ess thing, for if it tells what the Bible
eveais it is superfuity, and if it tells
what the Bible does not reveal it is a
lie. Instead of going out to get other ,
'eople to tell your fortune, tell your
'wn fortune by putting your trust in
iod and doing the best you can. 1 will
ell your fortune: "All things work
ogether for good to them that love
iod." Insult not your departed friends
y asking them to come down and
crabble under an extension table. Re. E
1ember that there is only one spirit !