Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-18
PAYS HIS RESPECTS PLAINLY
Gives Hi. Opinion. of Man Who Re.
fuses to Debate an Open Question
"Why Doesn't pye Stone Him7" He
Asks, According TO scrip.ural In
junosion-Paine and Wesley,

ana Jonn wesley. resulting in Mr.. Ply
delivering scsshing sermon on Spirit
uahsm from his pulpit, returns the fir
of Mr.. Pye in communication t,
the T.-R.
Mr.. Hull talks mainly. and strike.
straight from the shoulder. He give
his opinion of msn who is unwillln,
TO debate an open question. and base,
some of his statements on the tex
from Proverbs .4:e "Debeaee tn,
cause with. thy neishbor himself an,
discover not a secret 70 another" Mr.
Hu.rs communication is as follows:
Il am great believer in debates
when honotably conducted. Isaiah said
or an influence said thru his organism
Thomas Jefferson said: Error of opin.
ion may be safely tolerated where truth
Is left free TO combat IL Only COW.
ards. and those who have theories t.
maintain, right or wrong. Will oppos,
open ana fair debate. The poet said
He ~ho shoots and runs away
May live TO shoot another day.
But he who on the field is slain
Can never, never shoot again.
Ny reply TO the reverend gentle
mans remarks viii be based partially
on the report made by the Times-Re-
publican. and partly on mis- own letter
ss published in last Fridays issue o!
the same paper His leading text and
found In Deut. lS:s-1. 1t reads as fol-
laws: When thou art come into the
land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt no, learn to do after
the denominations OF those nations.
There shall not be found among you
any one that nakett his son or his
daughter TO pass thru the fire or
that useth divination, or an observer
OF times, or an enchanier. or witch.
or charmer or consuiter with famil-
lar spirits, or wizard or a necroman-
Ger. For all that do these things are
an abomination unto the Lord. ana
because OF these abominations the Lord
thy God doth drive them out from
before thee.
The same ideas are partially ex-
pressed in Lev. 1891. 20.627. Isaiah
s:is-20:
81 fully and cheereully acknowledge
the weight OF these scriptures against
Spiritualisrn. Indeed they are more
strong against it than many who use
them know They not only forbid
seeking unto familiar spirits, but they
oppose necromancy. That word ne
cromancy IS not an English word. IL is
a compound OF two Greek words. One
Is 'nekros' dead, the other is man
,eia,' word which signifies div,na-
tion. familiarity. communication. etc.
The word signifies that those forbidden
by 1t should have no dealings with the
iead-no communications from them
no familiarity with them.
Nov, violate the text talk with
The dead. What shall be done with
ne? Shah the Rev. Mr.. Pye preach
against me, and SANDER nil Spiritualists
'or that sin? No. his duty is plain. II
ne does not do his duty, he should not
use this text The same law that for
bids my talking with the dead, tells him
what to do with me II I am guilty.
viii he do il? II he does not shah
quote Paul to him. Paul says. There
fore t,lou art inexcusable. o. man.
sshosoever thou art that judgest an
,ther. for thou condennest thyseif; for
.hou thai. judgest another doest the
same things Brother Pye violates this
aw. The law which forbids my OBJ
aiming knowledge from the dead COM
hands him to stone me II i violate 1t.
Levsticus so:.T commands him TO
tone me with stones. so do other pas
ages in the Bible. Why is he not here
With his pocket full of rocks to throw
II Spiritualists instead of barricading
himself in his pulpit and hurting an
.themas as us.
Now II that law is binding. the pen
Hy is binding; If II is not binding
hen he is guilty OF arra!gning Spirit
alists and trying them by an old. dead
nd buried law. A lack OF time is all
hat prevents me carrying this argu-
aent much further I vii! only say Je-
US and Moses and Elias talked on
he mount of TRANSPORTATION. When
esus talked with his dead friend.
loses, he violated that law or he did
OF: IL he did not violate that law
hen 1t is no violation of the law to
ak with the dead. II he did violate
ne law, he sinned, or he did not. II
q violated the law without SHINING.
hen ii is no sin to violate the law.
, he sinned in violation OF tina. law,
hen the reverend gentieman's savior
not a savior at all, hut a sinner in
tead. II he sinned and sinners go
, hell for sins, then Jesus must go
18th the other sorcerers TO hell: thus
Is logic sends Christ and the whole |
uman family to hell, pugnus ct cali
bus
This Reverend Spiritualisn- killer
casts that he doesn't go into thing }
'ithout knowing what he is talking /,
bout / am glad to hear it: like to
leet man who knows something OF
hat he talks about. What does ne |
now
What does he know? First he knows
lat .Spiritualism is Yankee produc-
on originating with the Fox girls
hat is a wonderful piece OF know
ige. AS the Fox girls never were
ankees. they would, II they were still
ere. and In the Methodist church, rs
2 says one OF them is be surprised
learn this piece of history. The
OK girls have both gone to their re-
ard. not as Methodists. but as Spirit
,lists. They died in the religion they
I'D always preferred.
This Spiritualism. which originated
ith the Fox girls Is. not new, for, spir-
nalists existed in the Old World. The |