Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-26

him half an infidel; then it makes him
whole infdel. The whole system, as
1 conceive it, is founded on the INSULT
cheney Of the word of God as a reveal
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
reprOye thee and thou be found
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 l don't know about
you and about the unseen world"
If God is ever slapped in the face, it
is when a spiritual medium puts down
| her hand on the table, invoking spirits
| departed to make q 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 it. SpiritualiSm 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 mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangel-
| list, and Lorenzo Dow testifies 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
call back John Wesley, and he testi-
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 Tesla
ment is but 1.-The dismal echo Of a bar
barrie age" and the Bible only zone Of
the pen and ink relics of Christianity"
have In my house a book used in
spiritualistic service. 1t contains a
catechism and a hymn book. The
catechism has these questions and an
swers:
Q. What is chief baptism9 A Frequent alb
luton in water.
O. What is our inspirationH A. Fresh air and
sunshine.
O. What is our love feastf A. Clear conscience
and sound sleep.
O. What is prayer9 A. Physical exercise.
And then it goes on to show that a
great proportion Of their religious serv-
ice is q 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-fifth
page:
The night hath gathered up her slken fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh hot
But" says some one, wouldn't it
be of advantage to hear from the fu-
ture world? Don't you think it would
strengthen Christians? There are a
great many materialists who do not be-
lieve there are souls, but if spirits from
the future world should knock and
talk over to US they would be per-
suaded." To that I 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"
Christian Seance.
believe these are the days of 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 l 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 1
will set myself against them, and they
shall be cut off from their people"
But l invite you now to a Christian
Seance, monday Seance. This con-
gregation is only one great family.
Here is the church table. Come around
the church table; take your seats for
this great Christian seance; put your
Bible on the table, put your hands on
top of the Bible and then listen and
hear if there are any voices coming
from the eternal world. 1 think there
are. Listen! "Secret things belong
unto the Lord, our God, but things that
are revealed belong unto us and to our
children" Surely that is a voice from
the spirit world. But before you rise
from this Christian seance 1 want you
to promise me you will be satisfied
with the 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-human or bestial. Remember
that spiritualism at the best is a use
less thing, for if it tells what the BIZ
BILE reveals it is a superiority, and if it
tells what the Bible does not reveal it
is a lie.