The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-05-22


ceives people by performing miracles
Next to God, the devil is the most
powerful person i'm the universe. No
man can overcome the devil alone:
Christ was the only man yet who has
been able to trample him underfoot
The devil seeks to be worshipped
Hence he has invented a religion to
suit most every temperament. In
New York and Berlin have been found
societies called Devil Worshppers.
They gather in a darkened room. and
clasping hands, dance around in a
fiendish spirit of Worship of the devil
because they are imbued with the
idea that the devil will some day over
throw God and whoever has paid the
most homage to the devil will then be
his right hand man. The three
principal devil inspired" religions
however, are "Millenial Dawnism 4"
Christian Science" and Spiritual
ism."
1T was while he was telling of the
damning effects Of spiritualism on true
religious tendencies that Hr. Jones
gave his interesting story Of his own
experiences with a medium. In ef-
feet. Mr.. Jones' story is as follows:
1T happened in San Antonio, Tex.
AT the time I had just passed through
a great deal of sorrow, and was in
duced to visit the medium after hav-
ing a talk with a woman friend of
mine, highly cultured and well edu-
Gated. In fact, she possessed one of
the most wonderful libraries 1 have
ever seen, and she lived with her
BOOKS She told me that she had
lost sometime previous a valuable dia-
mond brooch which detectives and DO
lice had been unable to find any trace
Of. She went to Madame, Scurles (the
mediun,) The madam toll nv
friend. that her brooch had been stol-
en- by negro man, had been sold to
a jeweler in Lockhart,.l Texas; and
broken up into several rings. The
facts were found to accord exactly
with the story of the medium, upon |
investigation, and so my friend re-
covered the rings and the shell Of |
her brooch. Well, l went to the mel
dunn. A number Of. people were !
there, and in the semi gloom we
clasped hands and sang Nearer MY
God to'Thee." which blythe way is not
"a. Christian song-all spirituansts use
it-+-and pretty soon some, of those inI
the circle began answering questions /
IN q strange way. Next to- me was a I
woinan who said that she was from
the north and had come out OF Gu
riosity. just about this time she was
called upon TO answer some one and |
talked right along. 1 began to wonder
IT Id be the next one, and sure
enough 1 felt something in the ma
ture of an electric thrill, and before
realized it I said: Well, who is it,
my name or where 1 was from.) Any
way, in answer to my question some
thing purpOrting to be my mothers
voice began to say certain things
about my Aunt Annie answered
that I had no aunt by that name. But
the voice insisted that 1 did, and that
Aunt Anne had died when I was a
very little fellow. Later investigation
proved all of this to be true. And
other things the voice told me on diff
ferent occasions proved to be true.
Then one day it said Son, Jesus
Christ was nothing but a man with a
wonderful power like this medium
has l knew then something was
wrong. / went into my room and ask
ed God to explain to me the mystery,
and when I had finished praying I
went to the Bible and found the solu-
ton, that this Madam Scurles was q
demon possessed woman, working for
the devil, who had had me at her
feet. That is the one true explana-
ton for, mediums; there is no doubt
that a real medium has a devil given
power. Remember the demon pos,
sessed Cananites who were complete
~ exterminated. You quit trotting
off after fortune tellers and spiritual
lists. If you want to know things, get
down on your knees and ask Almighty
God, and He will tell you all you need |
to know In Cultured Germany
alone, Mr.. Jones said statistics show
there were in 1910 10000 spiritualists
and in North America 100000 spir-
itualiSts.
Rapping the principles of Christian
SCiQnca Inna0 that Cod