The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-03

What consolation in such miserable
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 mystic
rious and half utterance which makes
the hair stand on end and makes cold
chills creep the back, but in a reunion
most blessed and happy and glorious!
'And none shall murmur or misdoubt
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
Tie night. The ~Davenports, the Fowl
ers. the Foxes, the spiritual mediums
of all ages, have chosen the night or
a darkened room. Why? The ma
jority of their wonders have been
swindles, sni deception prospers best
in the night.
l indict spiritualism also because it
is a social and marital curse. The
worst deeds of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the
worst orgies of un~cleanliness have
been enacted under it's patronage. The
story is too vile for me to tell. l will
not pollute my tongue or your ears
with the recital. Sometimes the civil
law has been invoked to stop the
outrage. Families innurp. Iable have
been broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of yeIng women into a
life of profigacy. 1t talks about "elec-
tive affinities'' and ~"affinital relations"
and spiritual matches and adopts
the whole vocabulary of free loveism.
In one of it's journals it declares mar
riage is the monster curse of civiliza-
ton" sit is a source of de~bauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have its full swing, it would
turn this world into a pendemonium
of carnality. 1t is an unclean, adulter-
GUS, damnable religion, and the sooner
it 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 it's WI head in
laundering raps of humiliation!
If God is ever slapped in the face
it is when a spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed to make a revelation.
God hoo to1d un,, oil x-4,, N,,rhf IN
know, and how dare you be prying
into that which is none of your bust
ness. You cannot keep the Bible in
"A hand and sp~iritualism in the other.
One or the other will slip out of your
grasp, depend upon it. S~piritualism is
adverse to the Bible, in the fact hat
it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to
testify against Christianity. Its medi-
uns call back Lorenzo Dow, the cele-
brated evangelist, and Lorcnzo Dow
testifies that Christians are idolators.
Spiritualism calls back Tom Paine, and
he testifies that he is stopping in the
some house in Heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wes-
ley, and he tes.ifies against the CHS
tan religion, which he all his life
~glcriously preached. Andrew Jack
son Davis, the greatest of all the spirit
u~alists, comes to the front and de-
'the dismal echo of a barbaric age"
and the Bible only one of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity"
1 have in my house a book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catcchism and a hymn book. The
cntechism has these questions and an
swcrs:
Q. What is cur chief baptism? A. Free
quert ablution in water.
Q. What is cur inspiration? A. Fresh
air and sunshine.
@. What is our love feast? A. Clear con-
science and sound sleep.
@. What is cur prayer? A. Physica. ex-
ercise. AUF lshNa FthI
And then it goes on to show that a
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
sixty-fifth page:
The night hath gathered up her silken
friage3.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh ho'
"Eut." says some one, wouldn't it
be of advantage to hear from the flu
ture world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There are a
great many matcrialists who do not
believe there are souls, but if spirits
from the future world should knock
and talk oycr to us they would be
persuaded" To hat / 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 CIR heard in this world
save those which walk on two feet or
four-human or Lestial. Remember
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