The Penn's Grove record., 1900-03-02

lose 2 friend. The trial Is keen, sharp
sunocating, almost. naddening. II We
could MARSHAL q host and storm the
eternal world and ~fecapture our loved
one, the host would soon be ~marshaied:
The house Is so lonely. The world is SO
dark. The separation is so insufferable.
But s~piritualtsm says, 1--WE will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
not hear his voice, We may hear the rap
Of his hand. So, clear the table. Sit down..
Put your hands on tho table. Be very
outlets Five minutes gone. Ten minutes.
Nd molten Of the table: No response from
the fntufs WoE1d: Twenty minutes: Thirty
minutes: Nervous excitement all the time
world. The letters OF the alphabet are
called over, The departed friends name
Is John: At the pronun citation OF the LET.
ter y two 'raps. At the pronunciation Of
the letter O two raps: At the pronuncia.
ton Of the letter 81 two raps. At the
pronunciation Of the letter n two rapss
out-J-o.h-n; John. Now. the spirit being
present; you say; s'John. are you hnppy?"
Two raps give an aflrmati We answer:
Pretty loon the hand of the medium be-
gins to twltch u toss and begins to write
out, after paper q ink are furnished, d
message from the eternal world. Wat is
remarkable, the departed spirit, although
1t has been amid the Examinations OF the
heaven, cannot spell as we'll as it used to.
It has lost all grammatical accuracy and
cannot write as distinctly. / received o
letter through d medium once. I sent 1t
back. I said; .sJust please to tell those
ghosts they had better gotd school and get
improved in their orthography:b Now,
just think Of spirits; that the Bible repre-
sents as enthtoned In glory; coming down
to crawl under the table and break crock.
cry and ring tea bells before supper is
ready and rap the window shutter on 4
gusty night What cons olation in such
miserable stuff as compared with the con.
ISOLATION Of our departed friends free from
toll and sin and pain are forever happy
and that we will join them, not In mysteri-
GUS and half utterance which makes the
hair stand on end and makes cold chilis
creep the back, but In q reunion most
blessed and happy and gloriousl
And none shall murmur or mtsdoubt
When Gods great sunrise finds US out.
Many years 6 the steamer Atlantic
started from Europe for the United States.
Getting midocean, the machinery 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 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 raving mad and were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After
awhile one day q gun was heard of quaran-
tine. The flags went up on the shipping,
and the bells of the churches were rung.
The boys ran through the streets crying:
"Extral The Atlantic Is safei" 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 ~spirituaiism had put
them.
I bring against this delusfon q more
fearful indictment-it ruins the soul im-
mortal. First, ii makes a man a quarter
' of an infdel; then it makes him half an in.
fdel; then 1t makes him a whole inadel.
II GOD Is ever slapped in the face, 1t Is
when a spiritual medium puts down her
hand on the table. invoking spirits de-
parted 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 s~piritualism In the other.
One orthe other will slip out OF your grasp,
depend 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. Its mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist,
and Lorenzo Dow ~testifies that Christians
are idolaters. Spiritualism calls back Tom
Paine, and he ~testifes that he is stopping
in the same house in heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wesley, and
he ~testiaes against the Christian religion,
which he all his life gloriously preached.
Andrew jackson Davis. the greatest OF all
the s~piritualfsts, comes to the front and de-
clares that the New Testament Is but the
dismal echo OF a barbarlc age" and the
Bible only zone Of the pen and ink relics
of Christianity"
Ihave in my house q book used in spir-
itualistic service, It contains q catechfsm
and a hymn book. The catechism hasthese
questions and answers
O. What is our chief baptism? A.Fre-
quent ablution In water.
@. What is our inspiration? A.. Fresh Ar
and sunshine. ~
@. What is our love feast? A. Clear
conscience and sound sleep.
@. What isour prayer A. Physical ex-
ercise.
And then 1t goes on to show that a great
proportion OF their religious service is q
want to arouse the devotion of the people
to the highest pitch they give out the
hytn on the sixty-ffth page:
The night hath gathered up her silken
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heigh hol
sBut,'' says some one. wouldn't it be
OF advantage to hear from the future
world? Don't you think it would strength
en- Christians? There are a great many
materfalists who do not believe there are
souls, but If spirits from the future world
should knock and talk over to us they
would be persuaded" To that I answer in
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
giving heed to seducing spirits" Audi
ences in this day need to have reiterated
in their hearing the passages I quoted
some minutes ago. ssThere shall not be
among you a c~onsulter OF familiar spirits,
or wizard, or necromancer, for they that
do these things are an abominatfon unto
the Lord and, "sThe soul that turneth
after such as have familiar spirits I win
set Myself against them and they shall be
cut off from their people,"
But I invite you now to a Christian
seance, a MONDAY seance. This congre-
cation Is only one great family. Here Is
the church table. Come around the church
IaDle, take your seats lOF tnlS great CuFtS-
tim seance; put your Bible on the table,
put your hands on top Of the Bible and then
listen md hear II there are any voicescom-
ing from the eternal world. think there
are. Listenl t'Secret things belong unto
the Lord, our God, but things that are re-
vealed belong unto us and to our chill
dren." Surely that Is q voice from the spirit
world. But before you rise from this Chris
tian seance ! 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 90 after the
witch OF En-dor. Do not sit down at table
ranSsngs 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 OF
!, bestial. Remember that s~pirituaftsn at
the best is q useless thing. forst1sit tolls
what the Bible reveals it is g su~parApityj
and II It tells what the Bible 9 not re-
veal It Is 4 lte.
Instead Of RoInsto kNeople Il
tell your fortnn0 tell II 4oFkIneIby
putting your trust &Isdoing the
best you CAM will tell y616rfune. TAI
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