The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-02


affirmative. Are you an injured
! spirit?" Two raps-answer in the af-
firmative. Then they knew right away
that it was the spirit of a peddler who
had been murdered in that house years
before and who had been robbed of his
$500. Whether the spirit of the peddier
can back to collect his $500 or his
bones do not know.
| The excitement spread There was
a universal rumpus. Hon. Judge Ed
mOndS declared in a book that he had
/ actually seen a bell start from the
top shelf of a closet. heard it ring over
/ the people that were standing in the
/ closet; then. swung by invisible hands.
/ il rang over the people in the back par
| lor and hCated through the folding
| doors to the front Parlor. rang over
/ the people there and then dropped on
/ the floor. 4 senator of the United
/ States. afterwaTd governor of Niscon-
! sin. had his head quite turned with
/ spiritualistic demOnStra tions. The ta-
| bles tipped. and the stools tilted, and
/ the bedsteadS raised. and the chairs
upset. and it seemed as if the spirits
| everywhere had gone into the furni-
I turc business, WeI. the people said:
/ I'VE have got something new in this
country. 1t is a Tcw reli@ionl" Oh.
no. my friend. thousands of years ago.
we find in our te,t. Il spiritualistic
seaHce,
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles
of our day has been more strange,
mysterious and wonderful than things
which have been seen in past centuries
of the world. In all ages there have
been nccromancers, those who consult
with the spirits Of the dcparted;
charmers. those who put their subjects
in a mesmcric state; sOrcerers. those
who by taking poisonous drugs see
everything and hear everything and
| tell everything; dreamors. people who
in their sleeping moments can see the
future world and hold consultation
with spirits. Yes. before the time of
Christ. the Brahmaus went through all
the table moving. all the furniture eN-
citement. which the spirits ave eN-
plotted in our day. precisely the same
thing over and over again. under the
manipulation of the Brahmans. Now.
do you say that sPiritu2lism is differ
cnt from these? ! answer. all these
delusions / have mentioned belong to
the same family. They are eNhuma-
tions from the unseen world.
What does God think of all these de
lusious? He thinks so severely of them
that lie never speaks of them but with
livid thunders of indignation. He SAYS:
Il Will be a swift witness against the
sorcercr." He says: Thou shalt not
suffer a witch TO live And. lest you
might make some important distinc-
tion between Spiritualism and witch
craft. God says. in so many words:
There shall not be among you Il con-
suIter of familiar spirits. or wizard. or
Uecromancer, for they that do these
things are an determination unto the
Lord" The Lord God Almighty in a
score of passages which | have not now
time to quote utters His Indignation
against all this great. family of delu-
siOns After that be a spiritualist if
you dare!
Still further. we learn from this text
how it is that people come 10 fall into
spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble
to kill ten men. He did not know where
TO go for relief. After awhile he re-
solved 10 go and see the witch of En-
dor. He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. 1t was his
trouble drove him there. And have
TO tell YOU now that spilituaiism finds
its victims in the troubled. the bank
rupt. the sick the bercft. You lose
your watch, and YOU go to the fortune
teller to find where it is.
You lose a friend; you want the spir-
itual world opened. so that you may
have communication with him. In
highly wrought, nervous and diseased
state of mind YOU 90 and put yourself
in that communication. That is why
I hate spiritualism. 1t takes advan-
tage of one in moment of weakness,
which may come upon us at any time.
We lose a friend. The trial is keen,
sharp. suffocating, almost Iladdening.
If we could marshal a host and storm
the eternal world and recapture our
loved one. the host would soon bemar-
shaled. The house is so lonely. The
world is so dark. The separation is so
insutferable. But spiritualism says:
We viii 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 CT 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 !
all the time increasing. Forty min
uTes. The table shivers. Two raps |
from the future world. The letters of |
the alphabet are called over. The de- !
parted friends name is John. At the |
of the letter j. two raps. |
At the pronunciation of the letter o. |
two raps. At the pronunciation of the !
letter Fl, two raps. Al the pronuncia-
tion of the letter y. two raps. There |
YOU have the whole name spelled out
John. John. Now. the spirit being |
present. you say: John, are you hap
py?" Two raps give an affirmative an
Swer.
Pretty soon the hand of the medium
begins TO twitch and toss and begins
10 write out, after paper and ink are
furnished, a message from the eternal
world. What is remarkable. the de-
parted spirit, although it has been
amid the illuminatiOns of the Heaven,
spell as well as it used to. 1t
has lost al grammatical accuracy. and
write as distinctly. l received
a letter through 4 riedium once. /
sent In back | said: '.TuSr DlpaSa RI !
ell those ghosts they had better go to
school and get improved in their or
biography" Now. just think of spirits,