Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-03-15

OF one in 4 moment OF weakness. which
may come upon Us at any time. We
q friend. The trial IS keen, sharp.
sntr0catiDg. almost maiiening. If We
could .narsha; Il host and storm the
eternal world and recaptIra our loved
one. the most would soon be marshaled.
The house is 50 lonely. The world Is SO
dark. The separation is so ipsuTerabie.
But spiritualIsta says, y Will open the
future world. and Your loved one can como
back anl talk 70 YOU Though We may
not hear bis voice, We may hear the rap
81 his lanl. SO. clear the table. Sit down..
Pat ycar haui. on tho table. Be very
4l.et. Five minutes gone. Ten minutes.
W motion II the table. No response from
tie i4ture wo-!1. twenty minutes. Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement all the time
increasing. Two raps from the future
world. me letters Of the alphabet are
called over. The departed friends name
Is John. AZ the pronunciation Of the let
ter J TWO rars. At the pronunciation OF
the letter o tive raps. \. the pronuncia-
ton of the letter Fl two raps. At the
pronunciation OF the letter \ two raps.
There YOU have the whole name spell ed
out-J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit being
present, you say ''JohD. are you happy!"
Two rars give an affirmative answer.
Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United States.
Getting n.idOcean. the machinery broke,
AMI she Goundered around day after day
and week after week. and for IA whole
month after she was due people wondered
aud finally gave her up. There was great
anguish in the cities. Tor there were many
who had friends aboard that vessel. Some
Of .he women in their distress went to the
spiritual medium and inquired rs to the
fate Of that vessel. The medium called up
the spirits, and the rapplngs on the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went raving mad and were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After
awhile one day a gun was heard off quaran-
tine. The flags wen: up on the shipping,
aud the bells Of tho churches were rung.
The boys raa through the streets crying:
"Eytrai The Atlantic is safe!' There was
the embracing as from the dead when
friends came again to friends, but some OF
those passengers went up to find their
wives II the luLatic asylum. where this
cheat Of Internal spiritualism had put
them.
l bring against this deIusion a more
fearful inlictment-it ruins the soul i'm
mortal. First. it makes Il man a quarter
Of an !nEdel; then it makes him halt an in
lIel: then it makes him a whole iniidel.
Il God is ever slapped in tho face, it Is
when 4 spiritual medium puts down her
hand on the table, invoking spirits de-
parted to make q revelation. God has told
YOU all you ought to know, and how dare
vou be pryinS into that which is none OF
your business? You cannot keep the Bible
in one hand and spirilualism in the other.
One ortile other will Slip out Of your grasp,
depend rpon 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 mediums call back
lorenzo Dow, tia celebrated evangelist,
and Lorenzo bow t~estifies that Christians
are idoiaterS. SpiritualisIn calls back Tom
Palma and Ina est les that hR IC StOnnjuC,
in the same house in heaven with John
Bunyan. Thew call back John Wesley, and
he testines against the Christian religion,
which he all his life sloriously preached.
Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest Of all
the s~piritualists. comeS to the front and de-
clares that the New Testament is bat the
dismal echo Of u barbaric age" and tho
Bible only zone OF the pen AMI ink relics
OF Curistlanity."
have IL my house 4 book used in spir-
itualistic s~ervfc6, 1t contains q catechism
and a hymn book. Tho catechism has these
questions and answers
9. What is our chief baptism? A. Free
1uent ab!ution in water.
@. What is our inspiration? A.. Fresh ak
and sunshine.
Q. What is our love feast? A. Clear
conscience and sound sleep.
e. What is our prayer A. Physical ex-
ercise.
Aud then it goes on to show that q great
proportion of their religious service is a
system of calisthenics. Then when they
want TO arouse the devotion Of the people
10 the highest pitch they give out the
ilym on. the sixty-titth page:
Tho night hath gathered up her silkea
fringcs.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh hot
"Rut,' says some one, wouldn't it be
OF advantage to hear from the futura
worlt? Don't You think it would strength
en- Christians? There are a great many
materialists who do not believe there are
souls. but If spirits from the future world
should knock n ak over to us they
the ringing words of the Son Of God. Il!
they believed not Moses and the prophets,
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 spirits" Audi
ences in this day need to AVE reiterated
III their hearing the passages / quoted
some minute ago. There shall not be
among you q consu!tar Of familiar spirits,
or wizard. or necromancer, for they that
Il othese things are an abomination unto
the Lord and, The soul that turnett
after such as have familiar spirits I will
set Myself against them, and they shall be
cut off from their people,"
But l invite you now to n Christian
,eance, IL MONDAY seance. This congre.
CATION is only one great family. Here i:
the church table. Come Ground the churct
table: take your seats for this great Chris
tian seance: put our Bible on the table,
put your hands on top Of the Bible and theL
listen and hear il there are any voices com,
fng from the eternal world. 1 think there
rare. Llstenl Secret things belong unto
4 the Lord, our God, but things that are re
; vealed belong unto US and to our chill
| dren." Surely that is u voice from the spirit
: rE EaEl1 But before you rise from this Chris
will h satisfied with the DivTnsr iifdsos,ne you
untifthe light Of the eternal throne breroo
uph your vision. Do not go after ~
witch OF En-dor. Do not sit down at table
,Appings either in sport or in earnest.
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
besttai. Remember that spirituaIiSn at
the best is. a useless thing, for II it tells
what the Bible reveals il is a superiiuitv.
and IL it tells what the Bible does not re-
rA,f - d. IL