Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-03

| Quism and legerdemaln and sieight OF
hand and optical deluslon account for
/ nearly everything. Deception being
/ the main staple Of splritualism, no
wonder 1t 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.
Spiritualism is doom and death to ev-
cry one that yields to it. 1t ruins the
body Look in upon an audience OF
ritualists-cadaverous weak, nery-
Gus, exhausted. hands clammy and
| cold, voices sepulchral and ominous.
bewildered with raps. never knew
confirmed spiritualist who had a
healthy nervous system. 1t is incipient
epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system. and you might as well
be dead I have noticed that people
WIN ulC ldDo hlOAli thN
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 Spiritualism smites first of
all, and NIGHTLY against the nervous
system and so makes life miserable.
indict sprtualsm also because it Is
a social and marital curse. The worst
deeds of RIGHTEOUSNESS and the worst
orgies of uncleanliness have been
enacted under It's patronage. Tie story
is too vile for me to tell. will not
pollute my tongue or your cars with
the recital. Sometimes the civil law
has been invoked to stop the outrage.
Families nnumerable have been bro
ken up by it, 1t has pushed off hun
| dreds OF young women into a life Of
prohigacy. 1t talks about elective
afIinities" and "afIinital relations" and
spiritual matches" and adopts the
] whole vocabulary of free loveism. In
one Of its journals 1t declares mar
riage Is the monster curse Of civilian
ton" at Is a source of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism
could have its full swing. it would turn
this world into pendemonium of car
nality. Ii Is an unclean, adulterous,
damnable religion, and the sooner it
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 say let the last vestige
of 1t 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 annihilationl
Cause of Insanity.
further indlct spiritualism for that
1t is a cause of insanity. There is not
an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and
bleeding victims Of this deluson. Go
into any asylum, | care not where it
is, and the presiding doctor, after you
have asked him, what is the matter
with that man?' will say. "Spiritual-
ism demented him." or. What is the
MAJ er with that womanT he will say,
"Spiritualism demented her." 1t has
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 came
near capturing one Of the presidents
Of the United States. At Flushing. N.
Y. man became absorbed with it,
forsook his family, took his only S15,-
600, surrendered them to spiritual
medium In New York. attempted three
times to put an end to his own life and
then was incarcerated in the state luna
tic asylum.
Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United
States. Getting midocean. the ma
chincry broke, and she hOundered
around day after day and week after
week. and for whole month after she
was due people wondered and finally
gave her up There was great anguish
in the cities. for there were many who
had friends aboard that vessel. Some
Of the women In their distress went to
the spiritual medium and inquired as
to the fate Of that vessel The medi-
um called up the spirits. and the rap
pings on the table indicated the steam.
ship lost. with all on board Women
went raving mad and were carried to
the lunatic asylum. After awhile one
| day a gun was heard off quarantine.
The flags went up on the shipping. and
The bells of the churches were rung.
| The boys ran through the streets cry
| ing: Extra. The Atlantic is safe"
! There was the embracing AZ from the
| dead when friends came again TO
friends. hut some Of those passengers
| went up to find their wives in the
| lunatic asylum. where this cheat OF in
fernal spirifualism had mi them
1 bring against this deluslon more
| fearful indictment-it ruins the SOUL
immortal First, it makes man q
/ quarter of an infidel; then it makes
him half an infidel; then it makes him
a whole intidel. The whole system, as
l conceive it, i founded on the INSULT
cheney of the rd of God as a revela-
ton. God sal the Bible is enough
| for you to know about the future
world. You say 1t is not enough, and
there Is where you and the Lord diff
fer. And although the Scriptures say,
Add thou not unto his words. lest he
reprove thee and thou be found q
liar" you risk it and say: Come back.
spirit of my departed father; come
back, spirit of my departed mother. of
my companions, of my little child. and
tell me some things don't know about
you and about the unseen world"
If God is ever slapped in the face, 1t
is when a spiritual medium puts down
her hand on the table, invoking spirits
departed to make a revelation. God