The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-02
RELIGION OF GHOSTS.
DR.. Talmage Warns People Against
Modern Spiritualism.
The Witch of Endor a Type of the
FnlIRcies of the Present Day
DenOunces IL ns WItchcraft
and SOrcery.
Copyright. 1900. by Louis KIopsch.l
Washington.

Copyright. 1900. by Louis KIopschI
Washington,
In this discourse DIR. Talmage dis
rUSses a theme never more under eX-
pioration than at this time and warns
people against what he calls religion
of ghosts; text, ] Samuel PSI: Be
hold, there is a woman that hath a ia
miliar spirit at Endor. And Saul dis
guised himself and put on other raj
ment, and he went. and two men with
him. and they came to the woman by
night
Trouble to the right of him and
trouble to the left of him. Saul knew
not what TO do. As a last resort he
concluded to seek out a spiritual mcdi-
nm or a witch Or'anything that YOU
please To- call her-a woman who had
communication with the spirits OF he
eternal world. II was a very difficult
thing TO do, for saul had either slain
al the witches or compelled them to
stop business. \ servant one day said
TO King Saul: 81 know of a spiritual
medium down at the village of Endor"
DO you2' said the king. Night falls.
Saul. putting off his kingIy robes and
putting on the dress of plain citizen.
with two servants, goes out to hunt up
this medium.
saul and his servants after awhile
reached the village. and they say: Il
wonder If this is the house" and they
loOkin, andIthcy see the haggGrd. weird
and shrivcled up spiritual medium sit
ting by the light and on the table
sculptured images and diviuiug rods
and poisonous herbs and bottles and
vases They say: Yes. this must be
the place One loud rap brings the
woman 10 the door, and as she stands
there. holding the candle or lamp above
her head and Peering out into the
darhnesSk she SAYS: WHO is here9'
The tail king informs her that he has
come 10 Have his fortune told. When
she hears that she trembles and al
most drops the light, for she knows
there is Mo chance for a fortune teller
or spiritual medium in all the land
But Saul having sworn that no harm
shall come to her, she says: well.
who shalpI bring up from the dead?"
saul says: Bring up Samuel" That
was the prophet who had died little
while besare
1 see her waving Il wand. or stirring
mp some Poisonous herbs in caldron.
or hear her muttcring over some incan-
tations. or stamping with her foot as
she cries olt to the realm of the dead:
Samuel, Samuel" LO. the freezing
horror! The floor of the tenement
opens. and the gray hairs float up and
the forehead. the eyes. the lips. the
shoulders. 2 hsa - he on
tire body Of the dead Samucl-wrapped
in sepulchral robe. appearing to tie
astonisheq group. who stagger back
and hold fast and catch their breath
and shiv'r with terror.
The dead prophet. white and awful
from the tomb. begins to move his
ashen lbs. and he glares upon King
saul am cries out: ''What did YOU
bring he up for? What do YOU mean.
King SauI?" Saul. trying to compose
and control himself. makes this STAN
mering and affrighted Utterance as ne
says o the dead prophet: The Lord |
rs against me, and / have come to YOU |
for help. What shall l do?" The dead /
prophet stretched forth his finger TO /
King Saul and said: die tomorrow! |
W Ut N ltlN III 20 lflG - IhlNl-NA stANA l
going now. Come. come with me-" |
And. To- the floor again opens. and the |
feet of the dead prophet disappear and /
the arms and the shoulders and the |
forehead, The floor closes. Oh, that |
was an awful seance!
We are surrounded by mystery-be-
fore us. behind us. TO 5he right of us. to 4
the left of us mystery. There is vast /
realm uneNplored that science. | have /
no qoubt. will vet map out. He who eN- |
piores that realm will do the world /
mere service than ever did a Columbus /
or IN Amerigo Nespucci. There are so |
mahy things that cannot be accounted |
Tor. so many sounds and appearances |
which defy acoustics and investigation, /
50 many things approXimating TO the
Spectral. so many effects which do not
seem to have a sufficient cause.
To unlatch the door between the |
Present state and the future state all
the fingers of superstition have been
busy. We have books entitled Foot
falls on the Boundaries of Other
Worlds The Debatable Land Be
tween This World and the Next" Re
searches Into the Phenomena of Spirit
ualism" and whole libraries of hocus
BOGUS, enough to deceive the very elect.
i shall not take time TO rehearse the
history of divination. Delphic oracle. |
sibyl or Palmistry or the whole cen
turtles of impOsture.
Modern spiritualism proposes to
open the door between this world and
the next and put us into cOmmunica-
tiOn with the dead. II has never vet
offered one reasonable credentiaI.
When / find Saul in my text con-
sulting u familiar spirit, learn that
spiritualism is a very old religion.
Spiritualism in America was born in
the year 1S45. in HyGesville, Wayne
county. y. Y. when one night there
was a loud rap heard against the door
of Michael Weekman; a rap a second
time, rap a third time, and all three
times, when the door was opened.
there was nothing found there. the
knocking having been made seeming
lv by invisible l1nuckies. In that same
house there was a young woman who
had a cold hand passed over her face
and. there being seemingly no arm at
tached TO it, ghostly suspicious were
excited.
After awhile Mr.. Fox with his family
alOved iat , that house, and then tley