Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-29

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hate spirituallsm. It takes advantage
| OF one in moment OF weakness, which
| may come upon US at any time. We
lose 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 insuffcrnble.
But spiritualism says, "We will open tho
back and talk to YOU" Though we may
not 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 minutes.
No motion Of the table. No response from
the future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty
minutes. Nervous excitement all the time
increasing. Two raps from the future
world. The letters Of tho alphabet are
called over. The departed friends name
ter j two raps. At the pronunciation of
the letter two raps. At the pronuncia-
tion OF the letter III two raps. At the
| pronunciation OF the lctter N two raps.
There you have the whole name spell cd
| out-Jo-h-n, John. Now, the spirit being
present, you say. ''John. are you happy?"
| Two raps give an affirmative answer.
Many years ago the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United States.
Getting midocean, the machinery broke,
| una Suo uOuuucTeu HTOuuu uay dlteE udy
and week after week. and for n 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 tho women in their distress went to the
| spiritual medium and inquired as to the
| fate OF that vessel. The medium called up
the spirits, and the rapplngs on the table
indicated the steamship lost, with all on
board. Women went rayng mad and We're
carried to the luuatic asylum. After
| awhile one day gun was heard of quaran-
tine. The hags went up on the shipping,
aud the bells OF the churches were rung.
! The boys ran through the streets crying:
Extra! The Atlantic is safe!" There was
| the embracing as from the dead when
| friends came again to friends, but some OF
| those passengers went up to find their
| wives in the lunatic asylum, where this
cheat Of Internal spirltualism had put
them.
I bring against this delusion more
| fearful indictment-it ruins the soul i'm
mortal. First, it makes n man a quarter
of an inndel; then 1t makes him halt an in.
lldel; then 1t makes him whole inadel.
II God is ever slapped in the face, 1t Ia
| when spiritual medium puts down her
hand on the table, invoking spirits de-
| parted 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 business? 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 1t has in
these last days called from the future
world Christian men to testify against
Christianity. Its mediums call back
| Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist,
and Lorenzo Dow testies that Christians
are idolnters. Spiritualism calls back Tom
| Paine, and he testiaeS that he Is stopping
| in the same house in heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wesley, and
| he testifles against the Christian religion,
which he all his life gloriousy preached:
Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest OF all
| the spiritualista, comes to the front and de-
clares that the New Testament is but "the
dismal echo Of barbaric age" and the
| Bible only lone Of the pen and ink relics
| of Christianity"
| have in my house book used in spir'
| itualistic SERVICE 1t contains a catechism
| and hymn book. Tho catechism has these
questions and answers:
Q. What is our chief baptism? A. Free
| quent nblution in water.
@. What is our Inspiration? A. Fresh air
| and sunshine.
| O. What is our love feast? A. Clear
conscience and sound sleep.
| @. What is our prayer2 A. Physical ex-
ercise.
And then 1t goes on to show that great
| proportion OF their religious service is n
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want to arouse the devotion Of tho people
to the highest pitch they give out the
hym on the sixty-ffth page:
The night hath gathered up her siken
| fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh ho!
"But," says some one, "wouldn't it be
| OF advantage to hear from the future
world? Don't you think 1t would strength
| en- Christians? There are q great many
materinlists who do not believe there are
souls, but II spirits from the future world
should knock and talk over to us they
the ringing words OF the Son Of God, "If
| they believed not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one
rose from the dead.'
believe these are the days of which the
! apostle spake when he said, I'm the latter
times some shall depart from the faith,
| giving heed to seducing spirits" Audi
ences in this day need to have reiterated
in their hearing the passages ! quoted
| some minutes ago. "There shall not be
among you consulter Of familiar spirits.
| or wizard, or necromancer, for they that
| do these things are an nbomination unto
the Lord" and. 1.-THE soul that turneth
after such as have familiar spirits will
set Myself against them, and they shall be
cut Off from their people,"
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seance, u MONDAY seance. This congre-
cation is only ono great family. Here Is
the church table. Come around the church
table; take your seats for this great Chris
tian seance; put your Bible on the table,
put your hands on top Of the Bible aud then
listen and hear IL there are any voices COM
ing from the eternal world. think there
are. Listen! 'Secret things belong unto
the Lord, our God, but things that are re-
venled belong unto US and to our chill
dren." Surely that is voice from the spirit
world. But before you rise from this Chris
tian seance want you to promise me you
| will be satisfied with tho Divine revelation
until the light OF the eternal throne breaks
upon your vision. Do not go after the
| witch OF En-dor. Do not sit down at table
rappings either In sport or in earnest.
Teach your children there are no ghosts
to be seen or heard in this world save those
which walk on two feet or four-humnn or
bestial. Remember that spirltualism ut
the best Is useless thing. for II it tells
what the Bible reveals 1t Is q suporiluity.
and II 1t tells what the Bible does not re-
| veal 1t Is a lie.
Instead OF going to get other people to