St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-03-31

tive 0hhnltleS ana 0Hlnitdl ISiAsaO0S
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 civilza'
ton" ..It is q source of debauchery
and intemperance." IL spiritualism
could have its full swing, it would
turn this world into . pendemonium
OF carnality. 1t is an unclean. adulter-
ous, damnablc religion. and the sooner
it drops into hell from which it rose
the better both for earth and Heaven
For the sake of mans homer and WON
ans purity / say let the last vestige
of it perish forever. wish ! could
gather up all the raps it has evel
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
il is when . spiritual medium puts
down her hand on the table, invoking
spirits departed to make q 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 spiritualism in the other.
One or the other will slip out of your
grasp, depend upon it. Spiritualism il
adverse to the Bible, in the fact. that
it has in these last days called from
the future world Christian men to
testify against Christianity. Its medi-
ums cali back Lorenzo Dow, the cele-
brated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testifies that Christians are idolat0rs.
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 testifies against the Chis-
tian religion, which he al his life
gloriously preached. Andrew Jack
SON Davis, the greatest of all the spirit
ualists, comes to the front and de-
ci.res that the New Testament is but
the dismal erho Of barbaric age"
and the Bible v.ly zone of the pen
and ink relics of ChristiA..;ty."
/ have in my house . book --ed in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains -
catechism and y hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
swers:
q. What Is our chief baptism? A. Free
quent ablution in water.
Q. What Is our inspirationf A. Fresh
air and sunshine.
O. What II our love feast? l. Clear cor
science and sound sleep.
Q. What II our prayerf A. Physical ex-
ercise.
And then it goes on to show that .
great proportion Of their religious
service is . 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:
friEses.
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 fn-
ture world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There are
great many materialists who do mot
believe there are souls, but il 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 Noses and the proph-
cts. neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead"
believe these are the days Of which
the apostle spake when he said: I'm
the latter times some shall depart from
the faith. giving heed to setlucing spir-
it's" Audiences In this day need to
have reiterated in their hearing the
passages quoted some minutes ago:
There shall not be among you . con-
sulter Of familiar spirits, or wizard, or
necromancer, for they that 10 these
things are m abomination unto the
Lord" and: "The soul that turfeth
after such n have familiar spirits
will seo myself against them, and they
shall be cut OF from their people"
But 1 invite you now to a Christian
seancc, MONDAY seance. This congre-
CATION is only one great family. Here
is the church table. Come afound the
church table: take your seats for this
great Christian scance; put your Bible
ON the table, put your hands on top Of
the Bible and then listen and hear il
there are any voices coming from the
eternal world. I think there are.
Listen! Secret things belong unto
the Lord, our God. but things that are
revealed belong unto M and to our
children" Surely that il voice from
the spirit world. But before you rise
from this Christian seance i want you
to promise me that you will be satis-
fed with the Divine revelation until
the light Of the eternal throne breaks
upon your vision. Do not 60 after the
witch of Endor. Do mot sit down at
table rappings. either in sport or in
earnest.
Teach your children there are no
ghosts to be seen or heard in this world
save those which walk on two feet or
four-human or bestial. Remember
that spiritnalism at the best il use
less thing, for if It tells what the Bible
reveals 1t il superfuity, and IL It tells
what the Bible does not reveal IL is q
lie. Instead Of going out to ret other
people to tell your fortune, tell your
own fortune by putting your trust in
God and doing the best you can. ] will
tell your fortune: IAN things work
together for good to them that love
God." Insult not your departed friends
BY asking them to come down and
under an extension table. Re-
that there il only one spirit
whose dictation you have right to in
voke. and that is the holy. blessed and
spirit of God. Hark! He
p rapping now, not On . table or the
lioor, but rapping ON the door Of your
heart, and every rap il m invitation |
to Christ and warning Of judgment
o come. Oh, grieve Him not away!
luench Him mot. He has been ali
around You this morning. He was all
around you last night. He has been
around you III your lives. Hark! There
comes a-voice with tender, overmaster-
ng intcnation. saying: NY spirit shah
rot always strive"