The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-03
RELIGION OF GHOSTS.
Dr.. Talmage Warns People Against
Modern Spiritualism.
TIKI witch OF Endor n Type OF the
EaIlncIes of the Present Day
Denoanees II ms witchcraft
and SOrcery.
Copyright. 1900. by Louis Slopsch.l

III lllIS ulSCOuTSc hlS-
cussts a theme never more under cX-
ploration than at this time and warns
people against what he calls religion
of ghosts; text, | Samuel 1881: Be
hold, there is a woman that hath a ia
milar spirit at Endor. And Saul dis
guiscd himself and put on other raj
mcnt, and he went: and two men with
him, and they came to the woman by
night"
Trouble to the right Of him and
trouble 10 the left of him, Saul knew
net what to do. AS n last resort he
concluded to seek out spiritual medi-
ur or n witch or'anything that YOU
please to call her-a woman who had
communication with the spirits of the
eternal world. Ii was n very difficult
thing to do, for Saul had either slain
all the witches or compelled them to
stop business. A servant one day said
to King Saul: al know of a spiritual
medium down at the village Of Endor."
"Do you?" said the king. Night falls.
Saul, putting of his kingly robes and
putting on. the dress of a plain citizen,
with two servants, goes out TO hunt up
this medium. -
Saul and his servants after awhile
reached the village, and they say: II
wCnder If this is the house" and they
look in, and they sec the haggard weird
and shrivclcd Up spiritual medium sit
ting by the light and en- the table
sculpturcd images and divining rods
and poisonous herbs and bottles and
vases. They say: "Yes, this must be
the place" One loud rap brings the
wo!San TO the door, and as she stands
there, holding the-candle or lamp above
her head and pcering out into the
darkness, she says: ''Who is hcrc?"
The tall king informs her that he has
cone to have his fortune told. When
she hears that she tremblcs and al
most drops the light, for she knows
there is no chance for n fortune teller
or spiritual medium in all the land
But Saul having sworn that no harm
shall come to her, she says: well,
who shall | bring up from the dcad?"
Saul says: Bring up Samuel" That
was the prophet who had died "A little
while before.
ON iNi "hNihS "dl'l' Va SllllliS
up some poisonous herbs in caldron.
or hear her muttcring over some mean
tations, or stamping with her foot as
she cries out 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, the arms, the fcct-the IN
tire body Of the dead Samuel wrapped
in scpulchral robe, appearing TO the
astonishcd group, who staggcr back
and hold fast and catch their breath
and SILVER with terror.
The dead prophet, white and awfui
froE the tomb, begins to move hia
aGhcn lips, and he glarcs upon King
Saul and cries out: "What did you
bring me up for? What do you mean.
King Snul?" Saul, trying TO compose
and control himself, makes this stam-
mcring and alTrighted uttcrancc as he
says TO the dead prophet: THE Lord
Is against me, and J have come to you
for help. What shall do?" The dead
prophet stretched forth his finger TO
King Saul and said: die tomorrow.
Come with me into the sepulchcr. am
going now. Come, come with me-"
And. 10, the floor again opens, and the
feet ofthc dead prophet disappear and
the arms and the shoulders and the
forehead! The floor closes. Oh, that
was an awful scance!
We are surrounded by mystery-bc
fore us, behind us, to the right of us, to
the left of MS, mystery. There is a vast
realm unexplored that science, | have
no doubt, will yet map out He who eX
plores that realm will do the world
more service than ever did Columbus
or an Amerigo Vcspucci. There are so
many things that cannot be accounted
for, $50 many sounds and appearances
which defy acoustics and investigation.
so many things approXimating to the
spectral, 80 many effects which do not
seem TO have n 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 "'Thc Debatablc Land Be
IWCcn MS NOTlu anu the Next. Ike
searches Into the Phenomena of Spirit
ualism" and whole libraries Of hccus
z pocus, enough to deceive the very elect.
i shall not take time TO rehearsc the
history OF divination, Dclphic oracle.
sibyl or palmistry or the whole cen
turtles of imposturc,
Modern spiritualism proposes 10
open the door between this world and
che next and put us into communica-
ton with the dead. 1t has never yet
offered one reasonable crcdcntial.
When ! find Saul in my text con-
sulting familiar spirit, ! learn that
spiritualism is n very old religion.
Spiritualism in america was born in
the year 1s47, in Hydesville. Wayne
county, N. ", when one night there
was loud rap heard against the door
of Michael Weekmnn; rap Il second
time, rap third time, and all three
times, when the door was opened
there was nothing found there, the
knocking having been made seeming
ly by invisible knuckles. In that same
house there was young woman who
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