The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-27

the Brahmins Now, do you say that
spiTituzlism r. different from thsse2 /
answer. all these decisions / have men-
toned belong 10 the same family. They
are sxhumati0ns from the unseen world.
what does God think of all these de-
lusions? He thinks so severely Of them
that he never speaks Of them but with
iivid thUnders Of Indignation He says.
4 will be a swift witness against the
sorcerer' He says: Thou shalt not
suffer witcn to live And lest you
might make some importanat distinction
between spirituali5m and witchcrart, Goa
says. in so many words. There snal
not be among you a consulter OF familiar
SPIRITS. or wizard, OF necromanceri Tor
they that 90 these things are an abomi-
nation unto the Lord TIE Loru COO
Almighty. in a score OF passages wnlcn
/ have not now time TO quote. utters MS
indignation against all this great tamHy
Of delusions. After that, be Spiritualist
If you dare
still further, We learn from this text
how il is that people come 10 fall into
spirituallsm- Saul had enough trouble 10
xiii ten men. He did not know where &c
e for relief. After awhile n decided 20
90 and see the witch Of En-dor- He ex-
pectec that somehow she would AFFORD
him relief IL was his trouble drove him
there. And I have 10 tell you now that
spiritualism finds its victims in the
troubled. the bankrupt the sick the be-
reft. You lose your watch and you go 10
the fOTtune-teller 10 find where IL Il.
What Makes spirituaIists.
''You lose a friend you want the spirit
ual world opened so that you may have
communication with him In a highly
wrought. nervous and diseased state of
mipd, you so and put yourself in that
communication. That is why / hate
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in moment Of weakness. which may
come upon us at any time. We lose a
friend The trial is keen, sharp, suffocat-
ing. almost maddening. If We could
marshal a host and storm the eternal
world, and TeCapture our loved one, the
/. host would soon be marshaled. The
house is lonely. The world is so dark
The separation is so insufferable. 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
tSs rap Of his hand. So, clear the table
Sit down Put your hands on the table
Be very quiet. Five minutes gone. Ten
minutes goGe. No motion of the table
No response from the future world
Twenty minutes. Thirty minutes Ner-
vous excitement all the time increasing
Forty minutes. The table shiyers. Two
raps from The future world. The letters
of the alphabet are called over. The de-
parted friends name is john At the
pronunciation Of the letter J. two raps
At the pronunC iation Of the letter %
two raps. At the pronunciation Of the
letter H. two raps At the pronunciation
Of the letter N two raDs There you
have the whole name spelled out. J-o-h-n.
John. Now, the spirit being present you
n FTrxzrr,
give an affirmative answer.
Medium spirits Cannot spell.
Pretty soon the hand of the medium
begins to twitch and toss. and begins to
write out, after paper and ink are fur
nished message from the eternal world.
What is remarkable, the departed spirit.
although it has been amid the iilumina-
tons of heaven, cannot spell as well as it
used TO. II has lost all grammatical ac-
curacy and cannot write as distinctly. l
received a letter through medium once.
l sent it back. 1 said: Just please tell
those ghosts they mad better so TO school
and get improved in their photographic
Now, Just think Of spirits, that the Bible
represents as enthToned in glory, COM
ing down to crawl under the table. ard
break crOckery, ard ring tea-bells before
supper is ready, and rap the window
shutter on a gUSty night What COnsOla-
ton is there In such miserable stuffs as
compared with the consolation that our
departed friends, free from toll and sin
and pain, are forever happy, and that We
viii join them, not in mysterious AMI
half Utterance which makes the hair
stand on end and makes cold chills creep
the back, but in a reunion most blessed
and happy and glorious?
And none shall murmur or misdoubt
When Gods great SUI rise finds Us out
Il learn still farther from this s,faject
that spiritualism and necromancy are Of
fairs of darkness. Why did not Saul go
in the day? He was ashamed to go Be-
sides that, he knew that this spiritual
medium, like all her successors. perform
cd her exploits in the night. The Dayen-
ports, the FOwlers, the Foxes the spirit
Uai mediums of all ages, have chosen the
night or a Carkened room. Why? The
majority OF their WONDERS have been
sWindles; and deception prospers best in
the night
Some Of the performances of spiritual
mediums are not to be ascribed as frauds.
but 10 some occult law that after awhile
may be demonstrated. But / believe that
now nine hundred and ninety-nine out of
every thousand achievements on the part
OF spiritual mediums are arTant and un-
mitigdted humbug. The mysterious red
letters that used TO come out on the medi-
um's arm were found to have been made
by an iron pencil that went heavily owe,
the flesh, not tearing ii, but so disturbirg,
me blood that II came up in great round
letters.
Deception L. It's STAPLE