Connecticut western news., 1900-03-01

system ana Su llaEeS Ire nllSeIanic.
 1 indict spiritualism also because it Is Il social and marital Gurse. The worst deeds of licentiouSn1ss and the worst orgies of uncleanliness have been enacted under it's. patronage. The story is too vile for me to tell. I 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 bro ken up by it. It has pushed off hun dreds of young women into life of profiigacy. It talks about elective affinities'' and ''affinital 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 civiliZa- tion." Tt is source of debauchery and intemperance. If spiritualism could have it's full swing. it would turn this world into pendemonium of car nality. It 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 I say let the last vestige of it perish forever. I wish I 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! Cause of Insanity.
 1 further indict spiritualism for that it is q 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, I care not where it is, and the presiding doctor after you have asked him, What is the matter with that man?" will say, Spiritual l ism demented him." or, What is the matter with that woman?" he will say, "Spiritualism demented her" It has taken down some of the brightest in- tellects. It swept off into mental mid night judges, senators, governors, min isters of the gospel and one time came near capturing one of the presidents of the United States. At Flushing, N.
 r., man became absorbed with it, forsook his family, took his only $15,- GOO, 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 chinery broke, and she floundered 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 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 l 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 safew ] There was the embracing as from the dead when friends came again to I friends, but some of those passengers
 went up to find their wives in the lunatic asylum, where this cheat of in- 1 fernal spiritualism had put them. I bring against this delusion a more | fearful indictment-it ruins the soul 1 immortal. First, 1t makes a man a ,.t1 1f i,.G 1oI. alrA him half an infidel; then 1t makes him | whole infidel. The whole system, as i I conceive 1t, is founded on the insuf1- | ciency of the word of God as a revela- | ton. God says the Bible Is enough | for you to know about the future world. You say it 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 a
 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 1 tell me some things don't know about | you and about the unseen world" If God Is ever slapped In the face, 1t l is when a 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 business? You
 cannot keep the Bible In one hand and l spiritualism in the other. One or the
 other will slip out of your grasp, de-
 pend 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 evangel- | ist, and Lorenzo Dow testlfies that | Christians are idolaters. Spiritualism
 calls back Tom Paine, and he testifies
 that he is stopping in the same house
 in heaven with John Bunyan. They fies against the Christian religion,
 which he all his life gloriously preach
 ed. Andrew Jackson Davis, the great
 est of all the spiritualists, comes to the
 front and declares that the New Testa-
 ment Is but "the dismal echo of bar
 barrie age" and the Bible only "one of
 the pen and ink relics of Christianity"
 l have in my house a book used in | spiritualistic service. It contains a
 catechism and hymn book. The
 catechism has these questions and an | swers:
 Q. What is our chief baptism9 A. Frequent ab- | luton in water.
 Q. What is our inspiration2 A Fresh air and | sunshine.
 | Q. What is our love feast2 A. Clear conscience
 and sound sleep.
 Q. What is prayerP A. Physical exercise.
 And then 1t goes on to show that q
 great proportion of their religious serv- ice is a system of calisthenics. Then
 when they want to arouse the devotion
 of the people to the highest pitch they