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

tnurc OF insanity.
1 further indict spirituallsm for that
Ii is cause of insanity. There is not
an asylum between Bangor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and
bleeding victims OF this delusion. Go
into any asylum, care not where Il
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
matter with that womanT' he will say.
"Spiritualism demented her" Ii has
taken down some OF the brightest in
tellects. 1t swept or into mental mid
night judges. senators, governors, min
listers of the copeland one time came
near capturing one OF the presidents
Of the United States. At Flushing, n.
u, man became absorbed with IT.
| forsocK his family, took his only $15,-
600, surrendered them TO a spiritual
medium in New York, attempted three
times to put an end to his own life and
then was incarcerated i'm 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 foundered
around day after day and week after
week. and for a 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
20 fl,x rns,
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 gun was heard off quarantine
The flags went up on the shipping, aud
! the bells OF the churches were rung.
| The boys ran through the streets cry
ing: Extra, The Atlantic Is safer
| 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 in
fernal spiritualism had put thep,-
1 bring against this delusion a more
fearful indictmcnt-it ruins the soul
Immortal First, it makes a man n
quarter of an infidel; then it makes
him half an infidel; then it makes him
whole infidel. The whole system, as
conceive il, is founded on the INSULT
cheney of the word of God as q reveal
ton. God says the Bible is enough
for you to know about the future
world. You say IL 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 n
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 1 don't know about
you and about the unseen world"
If God is ever slapped in the face Il
Is when spiritual medium puts down
her hand on the table, invoking spirits
departed TO make 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, de-
pend upon IL. Spiritualism Is adverse
to the Bible. in the fact that II has in
these last days called from the future
world Christian men to testify against
Christianity. Its mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow. the celebrated evangel-
list. and Lorenzo Dow testifies that
Christians are idolatcrs. Spiritualism
calls back Tom Paine, and he testifics
that he is stopping In the same house
in heaven with John Bunyan. They
call back John Wesley, and he testi-
hes against the Christian religion.
which he all his life glorlously preach
cd. Andrew Jackson Davis, the great
est OF all the spiritualists, comes 10 the
front and declares that the New Tesla
ment Is but 1.-THE dismal echo OF bar
barrie age" and the Bible only zone of
the pen and Ink relics OF Christianity"
i have in my house n book used In
spiritualistic service. 1t contains n
catechism and n hymn book The
eatechism has these questions and an
swers:
8. What is our chief baptismS A. Frequent alb
| luton in water
Q. What is our inspirationi A. Fresh air and
| sunshine
Q. What Is our love feasti A. Clear conscience
| and sound sleep.
| Q. What is our prayerf A. Physical exercise.
And then II goes on to show that a
great proportion OF their religious serv-
Ice Is system OF calisthenics. Then
when they want TO arouse the devotion
or the people to the highest pitch they
give out the hymn on the slxty-fifth
page:
The night hath gathered up her silken frsnges.
Or. on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods. heigh hoi
But" says some one, wouldn't 1t
be OF advantage to hear from the fu-
ture world? Don't you think ii would
strengthen Christians? There are a
great many materialists who DO not be-
lieve there are souls, but IL spirits from
the future world should knock and
talk over TO us they would be per-
suaded" 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"
A Christian seance.
peheNe THESE are the days or which
the apostle spake when he said, 'In the
latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spir-
It's" Audiences in this day need to
have reiterated in their hearing the
passages | quoted some minutes ago,
There shall not be among you a con-
suffer of familiar spirits, or wizard, or
necromancer, for they that do these
things are an abomination unto the
Lord" and. THE soul that turneth
after such as have familiar spirits |
VIII set myself against them. and they
snail be cut of from their people"
But i invite you now TO n Christian
seance, monday seance. This con-
gregation is only one great family.
Here is the church table. Come around