Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

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In last Sundays Register, Mr.. H. w.
Rogers gave an interview in which ne
explained his connection with spirit
ualism. The article created a COM
motion among the spiritualists Of
Wheeling, and a prominent believer
furnishes the following for publiea-
ton:
Mr.. Rogers, with three months in
vestigation, with one medium of doubt
full character, comes before the world
brim full of knowledge on spiritual
phenomena. THE Chesterfield Camp
Association" of Indiana, warned the
public in general and the spiritual as
ISOLATION in particular against this
man medium. His mediumship is
only equaled by his trickery and dis
honest methods and now Mr.. R. would
enlighten the world through the
knowledge gained (for considera-
tom through this trickster. The
mountain labTed and brought forth
a mouse.
1t is so sad that spiritualism must
take it's place with the many things
which have become extinct, and to
think it's age will not save it, although
it has done duty since the world was
populated, it must die. Mr.. r. with
his three months experience and fake
medium so DEGREES. He has dissipat-
ed its fallacies, and saved trembling
world from this nightmare of lgnor-
ance and superstition. Sad indeed will
be the bitter wailings of our great and
gifted friends: Prof. Wallace, the scien-
fist; Sir VIM. Croons, the chemist; Rev.
Minot J. Savage, DR.. Heber Newton,
Hon. A. B. Richmond Rev. Moses
Hull, Prof. Lockwood, Prof. Hyslop,
Hudson Tiettle and thousands of 9TH
ers of the greatest thinkers of the
world, when they hear this news.
Abraham Lincoln and John Wesley
both believers, would probably turn in
their graves. Mr. R., the modern
James and Jambres, has punctured the
entire spiritualistic fabric (although
the inventor of a non-puncturable pro-
lection strip, and set at naught the
lifetime scientific investigations of
these aged sages. They are dupes be-
cause Rogers says so.
The believers in spirit return are va
riously estimated at from eight to
twenty million people in the United
States alone. They are found in all
walks of life, in the various Sectarian
pulpits, the church membership is
honeycombed with it, in fact it seizes
its victims regardless of station or
condition in life. He would destroy
the only knowledge we have of life
beyond the grave. Thousands of be-
levers never attended a seance of any
demonstrable kind but this knowledge
comes to them in their homes, and
stiles unbelief by the very fact of it's
vivid reality. This has been in the
process of exposition very energet-
ically for the last fifty years of the
present century, but the ghost will not
down. On the contrary its victims are
increasing with accelerating progress,
just in proportion as the individual is
escaping from intellectual prison
bounds and learning to do a little
reading and thinking on his or her own
account.
He who denies spirit return makes
the Bible a falsifier. Did Moses and
Elias appear to Christ and his dis
clples, or did they not? They had been
dead to the physical body some years,
yet the Bible says they were there.
Saul conversed with Samuel through
the woman of Endor, and Saul was
sore afraid because of the words of
Samuel Samuel's spirit was there
and conversed with Saul through this
woman medium of Endor just as peo-
pie to-day may do through some sem
sitive.
Spiritualism is not necessarily a re
ligion, but always scientific, and a
true believer must be better from the
fact of that belief. TIE dark seance
is not the most satisfactory phase of
spiritualism, but there is plenty of
genuine phenomena even in this form.
1t is along scientific lines and some
of the best mediums can only show
their gifts under such conditions. We
do not think strange because a tele-
graphic instrument can not transmit a
message over a cotton line, and vet
we say to the trumpet medium OF the
dark seance You can not show your
powers in the light; therefore you are
a fraud and so is spiritualism.
The one is compelled to yield to
scientific demands the same as the
other Many great things have been
done in the night, and we may pre-
sumo in more or less darkness. The
Lord appeared to Isaac in the night:
Jacobs wrestle with God Almighty
was at night; Mamma fell from Heaven
at night; the quails were sent at
night. 1t was at night that God an
peared to Solomon and promised him
such great wisdom. Daniels wisdom
was given him in a night: Paul held
a night seance with the angel: the ten
commandments were given in the dark.
and the Bible says God dwells in the
midst of thick darkness. But this will
suffice to show only a small part of
this dark work recorded in the Bible.
But we do not have to base a belief on
the dark seance. There are numerous
manifestations just as wonderful.
given in the bright light of a noon
day sun, one phase in particular which
I will speak of. The investigator NAV
so to the Bangs sisters. of Chicago. or
the Campbell brothers. of Lilly Dale.
n Y, and get life size oil paintings
of departed or living friends eyecutad