Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-03-07
NO. 13.


But spiritualism says, I'VE will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
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 ali the time
Increasing; Two raps from the future
called over. The departed friends name
Is John. At the pronunciation OF the let
| ter two raps. At the pronunciation OF
| the letter o two raps. At the pronuncia-
pronunciation OF the letter two raps.
There you have the whole name spel cd
| out-J-o-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 nidocean, the machinery broke.
and she noundered around day after day
aud week after week. and for whole
month after she was due people wondered
and finally gave her up. There was great
anguish In the cities. for thsre were many
who had friends aboard that vessel. Some
OF :he women In their distress went to tue
| spiritual medium and inquired as to the
tate 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 aud were
carried to the lunatic asylum. After
awhile one day gun was heard of quaran-
tine. The hags went up on the shipping,
and the bells Of the churches were rung.
The boys ran through the streets crying:
| "Extrai The Atlantic Is safel" There WAS
the embracing as from the dead when
friends came again to friends, but some OF
those passengers went up to ind their
wives IN the lunatic asylum, where this
cheat Of Internal spiritualism had put
them.
fearful indictment ruins the soul Inn
mortal. First, 1t makes q man a quarter
of an !nfldel; then 1t makes him half an in-
fdel; then 1t makes him whole infldel.
II God is ever slapped in the face. 1t Is
when 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 spiritua alism 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 hns In
these last days called from the future
| world Christian men to testify against
Christianity. Its mediums call buck
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist.
| and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians
! are idolaters. Spirltualism calls back Tom
Paine, and he testtfies that he Is stopping
In the same house in heaven with John
Bunyan. They call back John Wesley, and
he testifies against the Christian religion.
which he all his life gloriously preached.
Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest OF all
the spiritualfsts, comes to the front and de-
cinres that the New Testament Is but the
dismal echo OF barbaric age' and the
Bible only lone OF the pen and ink relies
| OF Christianity"
l have In my house book used In spir-
itualistic service, 1t contains a catechism
and a hymn book The catechism has the Sc
questions and answers:
@. What II our chief baptism7 A. Fre-
quent ablution In water.
Q. What Is our inspiration2 A. Fresh air
ami sunshine.
Q. What is our love feast2 A. Clear
conscience and sound sleep.
Q. What Is our prayer? A. Physical ex-
ercise.
| And then 1t goes on to show that great
proportion of their religious service Is u
system OF caiisthenics. Then when they
| want to arouse the devotion OF the people
to the highest pitch they give out the
hym on the sixty-ffth page:
The night hath gathered up her silken
fringes.
Or, on the fifteenth page:
Come to the woods, heIgh hoi
"But," says some one, "wouldn't II be
OF advantage to hear from the future
worli? Don't you think It would strength
On Christians? There are great many
| materialists who do not believe there are
souls, but II spirits from the future world
| should knock and talk over to us they
would be persuaded" To that 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, In 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 l quoted
some minutes ago. "There shall not be
| among you a cOnsulter OF familiar spirits,
| or wizard. or necromancer, for they that
do these things are an abomination 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 on from their people,"
But l Invite you now to a Christian
| seunce, MONDAY seance. This congre-
gation Is only one great family. Here Is
| the church table. Come around the church
table; take your seats for this great Chris
| tim seance; put your Bible on the table.
put your hands on top of tho Bible and then
listen and hear II there are any voices com
| ing from the eternal world. think there
are. Listeni "Secret things belong unto
| the Lord, our God, but things that ars re-
vealed belong unto us and to our chill
dren." Surely that Is a voice from the spirit
| world. But before you rise from this Chris
tian sescce 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-humnn or
| bestial. Remember that spirituali-m at
| the best Is a useless thing, for II It tells
what the Bible reveals It Is a supernuity,
and II It tells what the Bible does not re-
veal 1t is a lie.
Instead OF going to get other people to
| tell your fortune tell your own fortune by
putting your trust in God and doing she
best you can. will tell your fortune. "All
things work together for good to them
that love God" Insult not your departed
friends by asking them to come down and
| scrabble under an extension table. Re-
| member that there Is only one spirit
whose dictatton you have right to
| invoke, and that is the holy, blessed
and omnipotent spirit OF God. Hark,
He is rappinR now, not on table or
the floor. but rapping on the door OF your
| heart, and every rap is an invitation to
Christ and warning OF judgment to come.
On, yrieve Him not awayi Quench Him
! not. He has been all around you this
morning. He was ali around you last
! night. He has been around you all your
lives. Harkl There comes n voice with
| tender, overmastering intonatioD, saying:
My spirit shall not always strive"
Necessity may render a doubtful act
| innocent, but 1t cannot make IL praise
worthy.
To let man know you recognize
| and rejoice in some good quality OF
| his, Is to bless him with a new heart