The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-02

stuff as compared with the consolation
that our departed friends free from toll
and sin and pain are forever happy. and
! that we will join them, not in myste-
rious and half utterance which makes
the hair stand on end and makes cold
chilIs creep the back, but in a reunion
most blessed and happy and glorious!
And none shall murmur or msdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out"
l learn still further from this sub
ject that spiritualism and necrOmancy
are affairs of darkness. Why did not
Saul go in the day? He was ashamed
TO go. Besides that, he knew that
this spiritual medium, like all her
successors, performed her exploits in
lie night. The Davenports, the Fowl
ers. the Foxes. the spiritual mediums
of all ages, have chosen the night or
darkened room. Why? The ma
jority of their wonders have been
swindles, En[ deception prospers best
in the night.
l indict spiritualsm also because it
is a social and marital curse. The
worst deeds OF RIGHTEOUSNESS and the
worst orgies of uncleanliness have
been enacted under it's patronage. The
story is too vile for me to tell. / will
not pOilute my tongue OF your ears
with the recital. Sometimes the civil
law has been invoked to stop the
outrage. Families innumerable have
been broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of young women into
life of profiigacy. 1t talks about ''elec-
4
and spiritual matches" and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free lOveism,
In one Of its journals it declares mar
riage is the monster curse of civiliza-
ton" 1T is a source of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have its full swing, it would
turn this world into pendemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, aduIter
Gus. damnable religion, and the sooner
il drops into hell from which it rose
the better both for earth and Heaven.
For the sake of mans honor and wOm-
ans purity l say let the last vestige
of it perish forever. l wish l could
gather up all the raps it has ever
heard from spirits blest or damned and
gather them all on its own head in
laundering raps of annihilation.
If God is ever slapped in the face
it is when u spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed to make a revelation.
God has told you all you ought to
know, and how dare you be prying
into that which is none of your busi-
ness. You cannot keep the Bible in
one hand and sPiritu2iism in the other.
One or the other Will slip out of your
grasp. depend upon it. Spiritualsrn is
adverse to the Bible. in the fact that
it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to
testify .gainst Christianity. It's medi- |
uIns call back Lorenzo Dow, the cele- |
brated evangelist. and Lorenzo Dow |
testifes that Christians are idOlators. |
SpirituaIism calls back Tom Paine, and |
he testities that he is stopping in the |
some house in Heaven with John |
Bunyan. They call back John Wes- |
ley. and he testifies against the CHS |
tian religion, which he all his life |
gloriously preached. Andrew Jack |
son Davis. the greatest of all the spirit
ualists, comes to the front and de- |
clares that the New Testament is but |
''the dismal echo of a barbaric age" |
and the Bible only "one OF the pen
and ink relics of Christianity"
| have in my house a book used in |
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catechism and hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
Swers:
n yy-,s- fs our chief bantisyn3 Fre-
quent a6lution in water.
.. What is cur inspiration? a, Fresh
air and sunshine.
q. What is our love feast? a. Clear con-
science and sound sleep.
Q. What is our prayer? A. Physic2! eS-
ercise.
And then it goes on to show that
great proportion of their religious
service is a system of calisthenics
Then when they want to arouse the
devotion of the people to the highest
pitch. they give out the hymn on the
page:
The night hath gathered up her silken
fringes.
Or. on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh hoi
But" says some one, wouldn't it
be of advantage to hear from the fu-
ture world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There are a
great many materialists who do not
believe there are souls, but if spirits
from the future world should knock
and talk over to US they would be
persuaded" To that | answer in the
ringing words of the Son of God: "If
they believe not Moses and the proph-
cts, neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead"
Teach your children there are no
ghosts to be seen or heard in this world
save those which walk on two feet or
or bestial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is use
less thing. for if it tells what the Bible
reveals it is a superfuity. and if it tells
what the Bible does not reveal it is a
lie. Instead of going out TO get other
people to tell your fortune. tell your
own fortune by putting your trust in
God and doing the best you can. | will
ell your fortune: "All things work
ogether for good to them that love
iod." Insult not your departed friends
~ asking them to come down and
scrabble under an extension table. Re-
member that there is only one spirit
whose dictation you have right to in
-oke, and that is the holy. blessed and
spirit of God. Hark! He
s rapping now, not on a table or the
ioor, but rapping on the door of your
leart, and every rap is an invitation
% Christ and Il warning of judgment
o come. Oh, grieve Him lot away!
luench Him not. He has been all
around you this morning. He was all
lround you last night. He has been