Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-06
NUMBER IA.

that our departed friends Tree from toh
and sin and pain are forever happy, anc
that we will join them, not in mystic
rious and half utterance which maker
the hair stand on end and makes cold
chills creep the back but in reunion
most blessed and happy and glorious'
And none shall murmur or mlsdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds us out
| learn still further from this sub
ject that spiritualism and necromancy
are affairs of darkness, Why did no.
Saul go in the day? He was ashamed
to go. Besides that, he knew that
this spiritual medium, like all heI
successors, performed her exploits in
lie night. The Davenports, the Fowl
ers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums
of all ages, have chosen the night OF
a darkened room. Why? The ma
iority of their wonders have been
swindles, and deception prospers best
in the night.
indict spirituslism also because il
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 me to tell. will
not pollute my tongue or 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 Il
life of profligacy. 1t talks about "elcc.
tive aflinities" and "atfinital relations"
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 civili2a.
ton" "It 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, 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 | say let the last vestige
of it perish forever. l wish | 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 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 spiritualism in the other.
One or the other will slip out of your
grasp, depend upon it. Spiritualism is
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. It's medi-
ums call back Lorenzo Dow, the ceie-
brated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
testifies that Christians are idolators
Spiritualism calls back Ton. 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 testfies 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
1.-THE dismal echo of n barbaric age"
and the Bible only lone of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity"
/ have in my house a book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catechism and a hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
,swers:
G. What is our chief baptism7 A. Ere
quent ablution in water.
Q. What Is our Inspiration? A. Fresh
air and sunshine.
Q. What is our love feast? A. Clear con-
science and sound sleep.
@. What is our prayer? A. Physical ex-
ercise
And then it goes on to show that n
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-ffth page:
The night hath gathered up her silken
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh no!
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 the ould he
persuaded" TO that aus,,er 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
four-human or bestial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is a 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
tell your fortune: "All things worl
together for good to them that love
! God" Insult not your departed friend,
, by asking them to come down anC
, scrabble under an extension table. Re
| member that there is only one spirit
: whose dictation you have right to in
! yoke, and that is the holy, blessed ant
ornnipotent spirit of God. Hark! II,
is rappiDg now, not on table or TIL,
| floor, but rapping on the door Of you
| heart, and every rap is an invitation
I to Christ and warning Of iudgmen