Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-26


{ afterward governor Of Wisconsin, had
! his head quite turned with spiritualis-
/ tic demonstrations. The tables tipped,
and the stools tilted, and the bed
I steads raised, and the chairs upset. and
it seemed as if the spirits everywhere
had gone into the furniture business!
, Well, the people said: 1--WE have got
something new in this country. 1t is
/ new religionH' Oh, no, my friend,
! thousands of years ago, we find in our
text, Il spiritualistic seance!
/ Nothing in the spiritualistic circles Of
our day has been more strange, mys-
terious and wonderful than things
which have been seen in past cen
| turtles of the world. In all ages there
have been necromancerS, those who
consult with the spirits of the depart
ed; charmers, those who put their sub
jectS in a meSmeric state; SOrcercrs,
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 the table moving, all the furniture
excitement, 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 you say that spiritualism is differ
ent from these? I answer, all these
decisions I have mentioned belong to
the same family. They are exhuma-
lions from the unseen world.
Il n
lusions? He thinks so severely of them
that he never speaks of them but with
livid thunders of Indignation. He says,
81 will be a swift witness against the
sorcerer." He says, "Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live" And lest you
might make some important distinction
between Spiritualism 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 a score of
passages which 1 have not now time to
quote utters his indignation against all
this great family of decisions. After
that be spiritualist If you dare!
Takes Advantage of Weakness.
Still further, we learn from this text
how it 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. 1t was his
trouble drove him there. And 1 have
fo toll hot nd
it's victims in the troubled, the bank
rupt, the sick, the bereft. You lose
your watch, and you 60 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 a
highly wrought, nervous and diseased
state of mind you go and put yourself
in that communication. That is why l
hate spiritualism. 1t takes advantage
of one in a moment of weakness, which
may come upon us at any time. We
lose a friend. The trial is keen, sharp,
suffOcating, almost maddening. If we
could marshal 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, 1--WE
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 min
utes. No motion of the table. No re-
spouse 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 the letter ]
two raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter 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-J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit
Sbeing present, you say, John, are you
happy" Two raps give an affirmative
answer.
Pretty soon the hand of the medium
begins to tWitch and toss and begins
to 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 Examinations of the heaven,
cannot spell as well as it used to. 1t
has lost all grammatical accuracy and
cannot write as distinctly. 1 received
letter through u medium once. 1 sent
! it back | said, "Just please to tell
those ghosts they had better go to
school and get improved in their Or
biography" Now, just think of spir-
it's. that the Bible represents as en-