Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-03-02

Shah nor pe among you u cOnSultcr OF
familiar spirits. or wizard or nee
romanccr. for they that DO these things
are an abominatlon unto the Lord"
The Lord God Almighty i'm score OF
passages which have not now time to
quote utters his Indignation against all
this great family of decisions. After
that be a spirituallst IL you darei
Takes Advantage of weakness.
Still further, we learn from this text
how IL is that people come TO fall into
splrituallSm. Saul had enough trouble
to kill ten men. He did not know
where to go for relief. After awhile
he resolved to so and see the witch OF
En-dor. He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. 1t was his
trouble drove him there. And have
to tell you now that spiritualism finds
its victims in the troubled, the bank
rupt, the sick, the bereft. You lose
your watch, and you go TO the fortune
teller 10 find where IL is.
You lose a friend; you want the spir-
itual world opened, SO that you may
have communication with him. In
highly wrought. nervous and diseased
state of mind you go and put yourself
In that communication. That is why l
hate spiritualism. 1t takes advantage
of one i'm n moment of weakness, which
may come upon us at any time. We
lose a friend. The trial is keen, sharp,
suffocating. almost maddening. II we
could marshal host and storm the
eternal world and recapture our loved
one. the host would soon be marshaled
The house is SO lonely. The world Is
so dark. The separation is so insult
ferable. But spiritualism says. 1--WE
will open the future world. AMI your
loved one can come back and talk to
you" Though we may net hear his
voice. we may hear the rap OF his
hand. So. clear the table Sit down.
Put your hands on the table. BE very
quiet Five minutes gone. Ten min
utes. No motion of the table. No re-
Spouse from the future world. Twenty
minutes. Thirty minutes Nervous
excitement all the time increasing. Two
raps from the future world. The let
ters of the alphabet are called over.
The departed friends name is John.
At the pronunciation of the letter J
two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter o two raps. At the pronuncia-
ton of the letter III two raps At the
pronunciation OF the letter n two raps.
There you have the whole name spell.
ed out--J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit
being present, you say, "John, are you
happyT' Two raps give an affirmative
answer.
Pretty soon the hand of the medium
hns -. Al.
to write out, after paper and ink are
furnished. a message from the eternal
world. What is remarkable, the de-
parted spirit, although il has been
amid the Nominations of the heaven.
cannot spell as well as 1t used to. Ii
has lost all grammatical accuracy and
cannot write as distinctly. Ireceived
letter through medium once | sent
II back. ! said, Just please 10 tell
those ghosts they had better go 10
school and get improved In their or
biography" Now, just think of spir-
its, that the Bible represents as en-
throned in glory, coming down 10
crawl under the table and break crock
cry and ring tea bells before supper Is
ready and rap the window shutter on n
gusty night What consolation i'm such
miserable stun as compared with the
consolation OF our departed friends
free from toll and sin and pain are for
ever happy and that we will Join them.
not In mysterious and half utterance
which makes the hair stand on end
and makes cold chills creep the back.
but In reunion most blessed and hap
by and gloriousl
And none shall murmur or misdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out.
Affairs of Darkness.
learn still further from this sub
feet that spiritualism and necromancy
arc 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 success.
sors. performed her exploits In the
night. The Davcnports. the Fowlers
the Foxes, the spiritual mediums OF all
ages, have chosen the night or n dark
ened room. Why? The majority OF
their wonders have been swindles, and
deception prospers best in the night.
Some of the performances of spIr-
itual mediums are not To be ascribed to
fraud, but To some occult law that aft
err awhile may be demonstrated. But
believe that now nine hundred and
ninety-nine out OF every thousand
achievements on the part OF spiritual
mediums are arrant and unmitigated
humbug. The mysterious red letters
that used TO come out on the mediums
arm were found to have been made by
an iron pencil that went heavily over
the flesh, not tearing il. but so disturb
ing the blood that IL came up In great
round letters. The witnesses OF the
seances have locked the door, put the
key In their pocket. arrested the op-
orator and found out by searching the
room that hidden levers moved the ia
bles. The sealed letters that were
mysteriously read without opening
have been found to have been cut Mt
the side and then afterward slyly put
together with gum arabic, and the me-
dunn who. with heavy blanket over
his head, could read n book, has been
found to have had n bottle of phos-
phoric oil. by the light of which any,
body can read book, and ventrilo-
quism and legerdemain and sleight of
hand and optical delusion account for
nearly everything. Deception being
the main staple OF spiritualism, no
wonder II chooses the darkness!
Doom and Death.
Still further, ! learn from my text
that spiritualism 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.
Spirtualism is doom and death to ev-
cry one that yields to It. 1t ruins the
body. Look in upon an audience OF
observation-disclosures. weak, nerv-
Gus, exhausted, hands clammy and
cold, voices sepulchral and ominous,
Dewildered with raps. I never knew a
confirmed spiritualist who had
healthy nervous system, II is incipient
epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your