The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-27
Deception L. It's STABLE.

THE witnesses of the seances have Ioci;-
ed the door, put the key in their pocket.
arrested the operator, and found out by
searching the room that hidden levers
moved the tables. The sealed letters that
were mysteriously read without opening
nave been found to have been cut at tha
slde ana then afterWaFd slyIy put IN
Sether with gum arabic: and the medium
VINO, with heavy blanket over his head
could read book, has been found 10 have
had bottle Of ph0sphOric oil, by the light
or which anybody can read a book: and
VentrlloQuism, and leserdemain. and
sieisht of hand, and optical delusion ac-
count Tor nearly everything. Deception
Delhg the main staple Of spiritualism. no
wonder II chooses the darknessi
ou nave all seen strange and unac-
countaDle things In the night Almost
every man has az some time had touch
c! halluc:nation. And / have 10 advise
You, II you hear and see strange things at
night, TO stop eating late suppers. and take
dose of medicine. II is an outraged phv-
seal organism, enough TO deceive the
very elect after sundown, and does nearly
all its work in the night The witch Of
En-dor held her seances at night; so DO
they ali. Away with This religion Of
spO0ks!
still further: I learn from nv text
that splrltuaism is doom and death 10 It's
disciples. King Saul thought that he
would get help from the medium hut
the first that he sees makes him sYoon
away, and no sooner is he resuscitared
than he IS told he must die Spiritualism
Is doom and death 10 every one that Yields
to IL. 1t ruins the body. Look In upon an
audience OF spirltualists cadaverods.
weak, nervous. exhausted. Hands clam
my and cold. Voices sepulchral and Opi-
nous. Bewildered with raps | never
knew a confirmed Spiritualist who rad a
healthy nervous system. IL j. incipiant
epilepsy and catalepsy- Destroy y0lF
nervous system and you might as wei be
dead | have noticed that people who are
hearing raps from the future world have
but little strength eft 10 bear the hard
raps OF this world. \ man can live with
only one lung or with no eyes and he
happy, as men have been under sch
Affections, but woe De 20 the man whose
nerves are shattered. Splritualisrn smites
first Of all, and nightly against the rer-
Vous system, and so makes life miserable
Monster Curse of Civilization.
81 indict spiritualism, also, because II
is social and marital curse The worst
deeds OF hcentiOusness and the worst or
gies OF uncleanness have been enacted IN
der its patronage Sometimes the civil
law has been evoked 10 stop the outrage.
Families innumerabie have been broken
up by il. II has pushed OF hundreds CT
young women into a life OF proilgacy. 1t
talks about elective affinities' and 'afinl-
tai relations and spiritual matches and
adopts the whole vocabulary OF free-Iov-
Ism. In one Of its public journals Il de-
clares marriage Is the monster curse OF
civilization. and IS a source OF debaucherV
and intemE Eersnct. II spiritualism could
have it, full sRiag Ii would turn ibis
world Tito pandemOnium Of carnailty.
IL - sh uuclean. damuzbie religion and
me sooner il drops into the he'll from
which II rose the better both for ear,h
and heaven For the sake Of mans hOpo.
and Womsns honor. | say lei the last ves-
Iige Of il perish forever / wish I could
gather up all the raps L has ever heard
from spirits olesi or damned and gather
them ali on its own head in laundering
raps or annihiisti6n
Il further indiet spirltuaiism for that u
iz cause OF insanity. There Is not an
asylum between BANGOR and San Ff1n-
cisco which has not the torn and bleed