Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-03

turies OF the world In all ages there
have been necromancers. those whC
consult with the spirits of the depart
ed; charmers. those who put their sub
jects in a mesmerlc state; sorcerers
those who by taking poisonous drugs
see everything and hear everything
and tell everything; dreamers, people
who in their sleeping moments can see
the future world and hold consultation
with spirits. Yes, before the time Of
Christ. the Brahmans went through
all thektable moving, all the furniture
exclterhent. which the spirits have ex
plotted In our day. precisely the same
thing over and over again. under the
manipulation Of the Brahmans Now
do youssuy that spiritualism is differ
ent from these: | answer. all these
delnsions have mentioned belong tC
the sailsp' family. They are exhuma
tions from the unseen world.
What does God think Of all these de
lusions? He thinks so severely Of then
llv!d thundcrs Of Indignation. He says
81 will be swift witness against the
sorcerer." He says. Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live.' And lest you
might make some important distinction
between spritualism and witchcraft
God says In so many words. There
shall not be among you "A consulter OF
familiar spirits. or wizard. or nee
romancer. for they that do these things
are an abomination unto the Lord.
The Lord God Almighty in score OF
passages which have not now time to
quote utters his Indignation against al
this great family Of delusions. After
that be splritualst II you dare!
Taken Advantage of Weakness.
Still further. we learn from this text
how 1t is that people come to fall into
spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble
to kill ten men. He did not know
where to go for relief. After awhile
he resolved TO go and see the witch OF
En-dor He expected that somehow she
would afford him relief. II was his
trouble drove him there. And | have
to tell you now that spiritualsm finds
its victims in the troubled. the bank.
rupt, the sick. the bereft. You lose
your watch, and you go to the fortune
teller to find where il is.
You lose a friend; you want the splr'
itual world opened. so that you may
have communication with him. In
highly wrought. nervous and diseased
state of mind you 60 and put yourself
In that communication That Is why
hate splritualism. 1t takes advantage
Of one In a moment Of weakness, which
may come upon us at any time. We
lose friend. The trial Is keen. sharp,
suffocating, almost maddening. If we
could marshal a host and storm the
eternal world and recapture our loved
one the host would soon be marshaled
The house is so lonely. The world is
so dark The separation Is so insult.
ferable. But spiritualism says, I'VE
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 Of his
hand So. clear the table. Sit down,
Put your hands on the table. Be very
quiet. Five minutes gone. Ten min
utes. No motion of the table. No re-
sponse from the future world. Twenty
minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous
excitement all the time increasing. Two
raps from the future world. The let.
ters Of the alphabet are called over.
The departed friends name Is John.
At the pronunciation of he letter
two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter o two raps. At the pronuncia-
ton of the letter II two raps. At the
pronunciation of the letter \ two raps.
There you have the whole name spell
ed OUT ohm. John. Now. the spirit
being present. you say. John. are you
happy" Two raps give an affirmative
answer.
Pretty soon the hand Of the medium
to write out. after paper am ink are
furnished. message from the eternal
world. What Is remarkable. the de-
parted spirit. although it has been
amid the illuminations Of the heaven,
cannot spell as well as 1t used to. II
has lost all grammatical accuracy and
cannot write as distinctly. received a
letter through medium once. sent
It back. said. Just please to tell
those ghosts they had better go 10
school and get improved in their or
biography" Now. just think of spir-
its, that the Bible represents as en-
throned 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 a
gusty night. What consolation in such
miserable stuff as compared with the
consolation Of our departed friends
free from toll and sin and pain are for
ever happy and that we will join them,
not In mysterious and half utterance
which makes the hair stand on en1
and makes cold chills creep the back,
but In reunion most blessed and hap
py and glorious!
And none shall murmur or misdoubt
When Gods great sunrise hnds us out.
Affairs of Darkness.
| learn still further from this sub
ject that splritualsm aud necromancy
are affairs OF darkness. Why did not
Saul 60 in the day? He was ashamed
to go. Besides that. he knew that this
spiritual medium. like all her success
,ors. performed her exploits In the
light. The Davenports. the Fowlers
the Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all
ages, have chosen the night or a dark
ened room. Why? The majority OF
their wonders have been swindles, ano
deception prospers best in the night.
Some of the performances OF splr'
itual mediums are not to be ascribed tc
fraud, but to some occult law that aft
er awhile may be demonstrated. Bu'
/ believe that now nine hundred anC
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