The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-03


stuff as compared with the consolat ion
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 i'm reunion
most blessed and happy and glorious!
| "And more shall murmur or misdoubt
| When Gods great sunrise finds US out"
/ learn still further from this sub
ject that spiritualism and nccromancy
are affairs of darkness. Why did not
Saul go in the day? lie was ashamed
to go Besides that, he knew that
this spiritual medium, like all her
successors, performed her exploits in
| &c 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
| iority of their wonders have been
swindles. and deception prospers best
in the night.
| indict spirit ualism also because it
is social and marital curse. The
worst deeds of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the
worst orgies of unclcanliness have
been enacted under its 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 innumerable have
been broken up by it. 1t has pushed
off hundreds of young women into
life Of profigacy. 1t talks about "elec-
tive af.inities" and "aiiinital 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 civilian
ton" 1T is q source of dcbauchery
an9 intcmpcrance.' If spiritualism
could its full swing, it would
turn this world into IA 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. | 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 humiliation.
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 Il revelation.
God has told you all you ought to
know, and how dare you be prying
into that which is none Of your bust
ness. You cannot keep the Bible in
one hand and spiri;ualism in The other.
One or the other will slip out of your
grasp, depend upon it,. SpiIitualism 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 ccle-
bratcd evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow
teStiiics 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 Wcs-
ley, and he tcstilies against the CHS
tan 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-
clarcs chat the New Testament is but
1.-The dismal echo of Il barharic age"
and the Bible only "one Of the pen
and ink relics of Christianity
! have in my house Il book used in
spiritualistic service. Ii contains u
catcchism and hymn book. The
catcchism has these questions and an
swers:
@. What is our chief baptism? y. Free
quent ablution in water.
@. What Is cur inspiration? y. Fresh
air and suashine.
O. What H. our love feast? A. Clear con-
science ard sound sleep.
c. What is cur prayer? a. Physical ex-
trci3e.
And then it goes on to show that
great proportion of their religious
service is Il 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-iifth page
The night hath gathered up her silken
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods. heigh hoi
"Eut,' says some one, wouldn't it
be OF advantage to hear from the flu
turc 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 they would be
persuaded" TO that ! 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 or heard in this world
save those which walk on two feet or
four-human or bcstial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is use
less thing, for If il tells what the Bible
reveals it is superiority, and if it tells
what the Bible does not reveal il ip q
lie. Instead of going out to get oil. rr
people to tell your fortune, tell yunr
own fortune by putting your trust IN
God and doing the best you can. | Wall
tell your fortune: ".All things W.. TX
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