The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-03-02

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sG1ocatlng. almost maddening. IL W.
could marshal a host aud storm thu
eternal world and recapture our loved
one, the most would soon be marshaled.
The house l. 80 lonely. The world is 50
dark. The separation is SO insufrerable.
But splritualtsn says, We will open the
future world. and your loved one can come
back aud talk 20 YOU" Though we may
not hear his voice. we may hear the rap
OF his hand, so. clear tue table. Sit down.
Put your hands on the table. BE very
quiet. Five ninG,es gone. Ten minutes.
No motion ~ the table. No response from
the future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement ali the time
Increasing, Two raps from the future
| world. Tue Letters OF the alphabet are
called over. The departed friends name
j. Joha. A, the pronun citation of the let.
ter two raps. AT the pronunciation ot
the letter q two raps. At the pronunc,a-
| tion ot the letter II two raps At tho
! pronunciation % the letter n two raps.
| There you have the whole name spel oil
! out-J.o-h-n, JOHN. Now, the spiri~@,cing
/ present, you say, John, are you happy
/ Two raps give an atfirmati ye saswer
! Pretty soon the hand OF tho medium be-
| gins 70 twitch ant toss and begins 10 write
! out, after paper and ink are furnished. "a
message from the eternal world. Wat H.
remarkable. the departed spirit. although
I IL has been amid the il,uminatious OF the
/
IL has lost all grammatical accuracy aud
cannot write rs distinctly, l received
| letter through medium once. l sent it
back. | said. Just please 10 tell those
ghosts they had better go TO school and get
/ improved in their orthography." Now,
just think ~ spirits that tho Bible repre-
| sents ~ enthroncd IN glory. coming down
to crawl under the table aud break crock
cry and ring tea bells before supper IL
ready and rap the window shutter on II
\ gusty night What cons citation In such
| miserable stun ~ compared with tho con-
ISOLATION ot our departed friends free from
| toll and sin and pain arc forever happy
aud that we will Join them, not Ia mysteri-
! Gus ana half utterance which makes the
hair stand ou end aud makes cold chills
| creep the back. but In a reunion most
| blessed and happy and glorlousl
| Aud none shall murmur or misdouht
When Gods great sunrise lnds us out
| Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
| started from Europe for the United States.
| Getting midoceap. the machinery broke,
| and she loundercd around day after day
| aud week after week, aud Tor "a whole
month after she was duo people wondered
! and nnally gave her up. There was great
! anguish IN tue cities, tor there were many
! who had friends abosrd that vessel. Some
! OF .he women Ia their distross went 90 the
spiritual medium and inquired a. TO the
! fate of that vessel The medium called up
Indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went ravlng mad and were
carried to the lunatlc asylum, After
| awhile one day gun was heard or quaran-
| tine. The nags went up on the shipping,
| aud the bells OF the churches were rung.
Tho boys ran through the streets crying:
! Extra! The Atlantic IL satel" There was
| The embracing as from tho dend when
| friends came again 10 friends, but some OF
\ those passengers went up 20 nni their
| wives I'm the lunatc asylum, whore this
cheat OF internal spirituaism had put
| them.
bring against this dsluslon moro
| fearful indictment 1t ruins the soul I'm
| mortal. First. X makes n man quarter
! OF nn !nndsl, then IL makes him halt au In.
| ndel; then Il makes him n whole inndei
II God IL ever slapped In tho face, II Ia
| when "A spiritual medium puts down her
| hand on the table, invoking spirits de.
| parted TO make a revelation. God has told
| YOU Alt you ought TO know, and how dare
| YOU be- paying into that which IN none OF
| your businessf You cannot keep tho Bible
! IN one hand aud spiritualism In tho other.
| One rthc other will slip out OF your grasp.
| depend upon &C. Spirtuallsm II adverse
| to tho Bible, ia The fact that IL has In
| these last days called IRON the future
| world Christian men TO testify against
| Christianity Its mediums call back
| Lorenzo Dow, tho celebrated evangelist
!
| are idolaters. SplritIalism calls bnck Tom
Paine, aud he testilles that he IL stopping
| ia tho same house la heaven with John
| Buuyau. They call back John Wesley, and
ho tcstInes against tho Christian religion,
| which he all hi. HE gloriously preached.
! Andrew Jackson Davis, tho greatest OF nll
! the spirituHlists comes TO the front and de-
clarcs that tho New Testament rs but the
| dismal echo OF a bnrbnrlc age" and tho
Bible only 'one OF the pen and Ink relies
| OF Christianity"
| have IN my house book used Ia spir.
itunlistlc service, II contains cntechism
| and hymn book. Tho cntechism has these
/ questions and answers:
| q. what /, our chief baptism A. Frc-
! quent ablutiOn ia water.
Q. what Is our inspiration' A. Fresh mir
| ant sunshlnc.
q. what Ii our love feastp A. Clear
| conscience and sound sleep.
| .. What Is our prayer A. Physical OK
| crclsc.
Aud then Il goes on TO show that great
| proportion Ot their religious service IL
| system Of calisthenics. Then when they
! want 10 arouse the devotion of s<r~oplo
TO the highest pitch they give out tho
hym on tho slxiy.Gnh page:
| Tho might hath gathered up hor silkeD
| fringes
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Como 10 the woods, heigb ho'
! "But, says somo ons, wouldn't II be
| of advantage 10 hear from the future
! wOrld2 Don't you think Il would strength
| en Christlans2 There are "A great many
| materlalists who do not beleye there are
| souls. but " spirits from the future world
| should knock and talk over 20 us they
would bs persuaded" 10 tbut a1sv n iD
! the ringing words % tbe Son of GG1. eli
! they believed not Moses and tho prophets.
neither will they be persuaded though one
| rose from the dead"
| ! believe these are the days oil which tho
! apostle spake when he said In the latter
/ times some shall depart from the faith,
| giving need 20 seducing spirits" Audi
el"es IN this day need TO have reiterated
| in their hearing the passages j quoted
| sOms minutes ago. There shall not be
among YOU "a coDsulter oi familiar spirits,
| or wizard. or necromnuccr, for they that
! do these things are Hn nbOmination unto
| tho Lord Il" aud The soul that turneth
! after such as have familiar spirits l Will
set Mysslf against them, aud they shall be
\ cut OF from their people"
| But 4 invite you now 10 Christian
| seHnce, MONDAY seauce. THIS cODgre.
| gation II only one great family. Hero IL
| the church table. Come around the chnrch
| table: take your seat. FOR this great Chris
tlnn senncc: put your Bible on tue table,
| put your hnnds on top ~ the Bible aud then
| listen and hear " there ars any voices com
| Ing from tho eternal world. think thers
! are. Listenl Secret things belong unto
| the Lord. our God. but things that nfs re-