The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-01-14
XIII.
SPIRIT AND sUPBRsTI4 ION HUM
BUGS.
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AS soon as MT. Rhody sot down, old
| Mrs. Howe got up 20 express her opinion
on the subject She's dreadful peculiar.
Has a way OF her own when IL comes 20
talkln. When old Doctor Cooper called
on her a few months ago he felt Of her
pulse and looked at her tongue. and then
looking in her face IN a puzzled kind of
a way he said, 'Why, Mrs Howe you've
got the droppn' of the nerves. Why.
when you try TO get up out of your chair
and walk around the room. your head
| goes tizzer.iz- -erlm. tizzer-iz-erum, tiz-
| zer-iz-erum" why doctor" says she.
you express my feelings prezactly."
\ Well, that's the kind of a woman she Is.
Its my notion" says she. that every
mortal being has right 10 believe In
| spiritualism. and IL they see strange
sights and experience strange sensations.
nobody else has got any right 20 call
them the outcome OF suspicion. for ~
amt anything OF the kind. The Bible
\ speaks OF signs and wonders, and for
man 10 say anything against the power
! ful arguments OF the Scriptures is
simply prezosperous Now, for my part
/ I don't believe anybody in Canterbury
I has ever been injured by spirit mani
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/ II the young folks are spending their
money for such like things 1t goes 10
1 show they are woke up TO the import
/ ance OF learning something about the
! hereafter that may do them some good
For my part I've been helped physically
time and again when I've been on the
verge OF nervous prosperation. and have
| been brought back to really abnormal
/ condition again through the soothing ef-
| 90 az
aemn such n blessed reality.
| Now there was Hannah Hubbard"
/ SAYS she ''who was dreadful strong be-
| lever I'm spirit power She suffered for
years with guitar and rheumatic. All
| OF n sudden an Indian guide told her OF
| some kind Of roots 10 dig up and put in
| = pot 20 steep and then TO drink some of
II for two moons and that she'd get well.
Sure enough. she did Got TO be as rigor-
/ Gus now as anybody you ever see After
that she got cured OF a dreadful attack
| OF ammonia Only think. Now what's
the use OF trying to make folks think it
is the work OF the devil. when such
! things are such a comfort to old folks I'm
their declining years2'
! Then Susanna Franklin said Hannah
/ Hubbard has been cured OF about all OF
! the ills ef the universe with more simple
/ things than root medicines She's al
WAYS on the sick list so as 20 be offered
! as a sacrifice In the field of medicine at
any and all times but her ailments are
OF the healthy kind that can be set aside
whenever occasion requires So l don't
see as her miraculous cure I'm the hands
! OF the clairvoyants carries much weight
with IT,
For my part" saws Susan. Il think
we've Mad evidence enough here I'm our
! town OF the evils that come ont OF pa
tronzng trance mediums and that kind
! Of things, with all the separations and
divorce proceedings that have been
| brought before Judge Towards court
| Just because II is claimed some spirit
| from the other world has left a message
| that certain married folks were not prop
! erly mated when they were married. and.
| as they are. therefore. living lives tLat
are not congenial they had better sep
| arate and find new partners. And this
| I'm lots OF cases where there are little
children that need the fostering care OF
both mother and father, no matter
whether they are agreeable to each other
! or not,
what sin and folly! I hope Judge
| Howard will compel every one OF them
! 10 go back to their homes and wait until
their children arrive at an age whore
they will not suffer through any such
| separation If there IS any thing that
! will help the people OF Canterbury 10
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in the herea fter. it Is this endeavor 10
! blot out OF existence the blighting in
/ fuence OF this thing called Modern
! Spritualsm among our young people To
the older ones who are stereotyped In
/ their belief, 70 Is not so harmful. IL is
more OF an amusing farce 10 them. hut
20 lives that are Just unfolding. and are
susceptible 10 good and evil Influences.
NAV God deliver them from these
! destructive teachings. ont Of which no
good thing has ever come. n give many
| a believer credit for being honest, but
their Judgment Is nevertheless bad. and
they can offer no reasonable excuse for
their folly in trying to draw water from
dry we'll"
parson Holden said he thought that
what Miss Franklin had just said carried
a volume OF truth That IL covered the
greatest OF the evils that can be
| summed up under that so-called religion.
For" says nc. "any belief. be 70 re-
l llgious or any other kind. that I'm any
| way affects the sanctity OF tho home be-
! comes OF the backest kind. and there can
/ be no defense for its existence
Jason Howard who had beon listenin'
10 the arguments with a good deal Of In.
! said: "Tve heard so much about the
! devil an these meetin's, I've come To thu
4 conclusion it's about time somebody eN-
| plafned away that old neurological lie.
Which was good enough 10 frghten the
| heather into decent behavior IN the dark
ages. but IN these times for the intelligent
/ christian TO keep on talking about n per-
| soual devil IS "a discredit 20 their enlght-
/ enmcnt. There is. Ia my opinion. such
thing as mysticism, which doctrine main
tains that 81 Is possible 10 have direct in
/ tercoursc with the divine spirit, and
--rrl.laA-a -acquires-a-<nowledgo of spiritual
| things that cannot he attained by the
natural intellect. Now. that is no moro
| nor less than Modern Spiritualsm. But
| 20 talk about It's doinss being tho work
/ Of the devil n the silliest thing I've ever
| heard mentioned.
Talk about tho devil" says he. there
isn't any such thing as personal devil
! The best ~ ye cant prove IL. although
/ YOU are always talking about him as "
| YOU knew all about hts kingdom and just
/ where II is located. It's an insult 90
/ every believer IN spirituallam 90 call them
/ followers of Satan, which signifies an EVIL
| condition that doesn't exist. Spiritualists