Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-26
AKRON DEMoCRAy, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 30 1900

quism and legerdemain and slelght OF
hand aud optical deluson account for
nearly everything. Deception being
the main staple of spiritualism, no
wonder 1t chooses the darkness!
Doom mud Death.
Still further learn from my text
that spritualism Is doom and death to
its disciples. King Saul thought that
he would get help from the medium
but the first that he sees makes him
swoon away, and no sooner Is he re-
suscitated than he is told he must die.
Splritualism is doom and death to ev-
cry one that yields to it. 1t ruins the
body. Look In upon an audience of
piritu0lists-cadave weak, nerv-
Gus, exhausted, hands clammy and
cold, voices sepulchral and ominous,
bewildered with raps. | never knew n
confirmed spirltualist who had II
healthy nervous system. 1t Is incipient
epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system, and you might as well
be dead. have noticed that people
who are hearing raps from the future
world have but little strength left to
bear the hard raps Of this world. A
man can live with only one lung or
with no eyes and be happy, as men
have been under such Affections, but
woe be to the man whose nerves are
shattered! Spirituallsm snites first Of
all, and nightly, against the nervous
system aud so makes life miserable.
indict spiritualism also because 1t is
a social and marital curse. The worst
deeds OF RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst
orgies of uncleanliness have been
enacted under its patronage. The story
Is too vile for Inc TO tell will not
pollTte my tongue or yCur ears with
the recital. Sometimes the civil law
hae been invoked to stop the outrage.
Families innumerablc have been bro.
ken up by II. 1t has pushed OF hun
dreds Of young women into a life of
proflgacy. 1t talks about "electiyo
asfinities" and "aflinital 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 clviliza.
tion," ''It Is a source Of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have it's full swing, it would turn
this world into pendemonium of car.
nality. 1t is an unclean, adulterous
damnable religion, and the sooner IL
| drops into the hell from which it rose
! the better both for earth and heaven
For the sake Of mans honor and wo.
mans purity I say let the last vestige
Of 1t 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 own head
in laundering raps of annihilation!
Cause of Insanity.
further indlct sprituallsm for thai
1t is cause Of insanity. There is moi
an asylum between Bangor and Sar
Francisco which has not the torn ant
bleeding victims of this delusion Go
into any asylum, / care not where i
is, and the presiding doctor. after yol
have asked him, "What is the matter
with that MANI" will say, Spiritual
ism demented him." or, "What is tn,
matter with that womanY he will say
"Spiritualism demented her." 1t ha,
taken down some Of the brightest in
tellects. 1t swept off into mental mid
night judges, senators, governors. min
listers Of the gospel and one time cam
near capturing one of the president
Of the United States. At Flushing
Y, n man became absorbed with II
forsook his family, took his only SIS
600, surrendered them to a spiritua
, medium in New York. attempted thre
times to put an end to his own life an
then was incarcerated in the state luna
tic asylum,
Many years ago the steamer Atlanti
/ started from Europe for the Unite
l States. Getting midocean, the ma
, chinery broke, and she foundere
around day after day and week afte
, week, and for whole month after sh
! was due people wondered and fnall
. gave her up. There was great angus
| In the cities, for there were many VIII
had friends aboard that vessel. Som
4 Of the women In their distress went t
|. the spiritual medium and inquired q
t to the fate of that vessel. The med
1 um called up the spirits, and the raj
q pings on the table indicated the steam
t ship lost, with all on board. Wome
i went raving mad and were carried I
o the lunatic asylum. After awhile or
= day gun was heard off quarantin
:. The flags went up on the shipping, al
i the bells of the churches were run
o The boys ran through the streets CIR
: Ing: Extra The Atlantic Is safe
S There was the embracing as from Il
a dead when friends came again
Il friends, but some of those passenge
Q went up TO find their wives In Il
s lunatic asylum. where this cheat Of /
= fernal snrItunlism had put them,
/, ! bring against this dclusion a nor
q fearful indictment-it ruins the so,
d immortal. First, it makes n man
(. quarter of an infdel; then 1t make
y him half an infldel; then it makes hii
n whole ipldel. The whole system, {
! conceive Ii, is founded on the insult
ciency of the word of God as revel;
tion. God says the Bible is enoug
J. FOR you to know about the futul
Y world. You say it is not enough, m
Ut there is where you and the Lord Iii
"a fer. And although the Scriptures sa
is add thou not unto his words, lest
s. reprove thee and thou be found
ie liar" you risk it and say: "Come bac
=: spirit of my departed father; con
IL back, spirit of my departed mother,
my companions, of my little child, al
y tell me some things l don't know abo