South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-15


paths whereas they would emulate
the successful. though Goddess, man.
Gives Personal Story.
This Is his story Of a personal
Investigation Of spirlusm made in
seances with q woman whom ne de-
clared Is one Of the most famous ex-
ponents OF the physic belief:
In New York I sat for three
months at the feet OF Nine +. I
had come % the city a stranger and
there was nc way in which she
could have known Of my connections
or other personal matters.
an a seance she called on me tell
ing me that my Aunt Annie was
speaking, and then that Nv mother
was speaking She named every
relative / had and many OK whom
j knew nothing I didn't know that
I had an Aunt Annie but she told
me that she had died while a baby,
more than 80 years before. i wrote
10 all parts Of the country for six
months and Found every point 70 be
correct.
Then one day I challenged the
about Jesus and the medium told
me that she said Jesus was only a
medium such as the one 10 whom
was speaking and that Moses and
Elias were his guides. i asked her
IL the things she had told me dur
ing her life were true, If the moral
guidance she had given me would
help me. When she said son. YOU
are too strict about your morals"
rushed out and 20 my room and fell
on my knees before the Bible and
there found the truth and 1 knew
that the spirits were the spirits Of
evil and that it was not my mother
speaking.
Can Get Manifestations.
1T is true that we can get those
manifestations. The day has past
Tor man 10 doubt there is pow
er IN spiritism. There is-but il
Is the work OF demons and not Of
God. IL Is so actual that if any
man can prove that there is not
devil 1 become a spiritist
Sir Oliver Lodge says that If you
can estab lish communications with
those spirits, they are there. They
are there but they are not the spirits
OF those whom they represent them
selves 10 be. They are devils i'm
ondeavor 10 shake our beliefs.
When you talk over a telephone
you don't know who IS at the other
end. He might tell you that he is
someone and you would have to be-
lieve him When "a spirit says Il am
your mother. IL may be the devil.
] challenge any spiritist 10 prove that
a departed spirit is "a loved one.
'If the devil can blow down Jobs
house he can make a table walk
and he can make you act "a fool over
ouija board"
Dangerous Religion.
Declaring that spiritism is the
greatest and most dangerous religi-
Gus system of the devil on earth
and that the medium is a demon
controlled person he substdntated
his statement with an incident of n
friend who suddenly found himself
lnvOluntarily writing spirit messages. I
When after months OF attempting TO
rid himself OF his uncanny power he
walked into a mission and gave him I
self up 20 God the power left him I
Certainly Jesus casts out devile, /
he declared.
Proof enough that spiritism is the !
WORK Of the devil is that the belief |
has not won "A representative Bible /
takes as It's mediums "hags" ana !
persons OF low moral and mental |
powers. ne stated.
VIII Damn People
1.-THE thing that IS going to damn I
more people in the next 10 years |
than anything else IS modern spirit /
ualism. man who has any sense
and believes the Bible and doesn't |
come 10 God IS under the hypnotic |
sLell OF the devil.
LAS a hypnotist holds the mind |
Of lis subject the master mind of the /
devil is holding thousands of men. /
I've seen men stand In their pews
and tremble who wanted 10 come 10 /
God but were held back in the /
mighty hypnotic grip OF the devil. J
AS the man who resCues the bird I
under the hypnotic spell of the ser /
pent. belief in Jesus Christ can I
crush the serpent OF hell under your
feet"
He opened his sermon with an at I
tack on Russellism declaring that
Pastor Russell was a man raised up 4
by the devil 10 take certain men I
t9l type away from Jesus Christ. He I
concentrated his fire on tie teach I
ings OF Russellism that there is no 4
hell. that Christ did not. eVis- while (
he was IN the tomb ana that there
was no incarnation.
Speaks OF DeDials.
The man who tries 20 get rid of 4
hell usually has a personal reason" /
he declared Speaking OF Russel's /
denial OF the incarnation, ne dCClar- /
ed, IF Jesus was not God and God |
told the angels 20 worship him then /
God Violated His own command |
ment and every Christian worshipS f.
an idol"
Speaking Of Christian Science, he !
opened FIRE BY declaring. You can /
be suspicious of any religion that /
Etartg with a woman. That is no re- I
fiection on Christian womanhoOd. II
honor womanhoOd as much as any
man but God himself said, II suffer
no woman 20 teach.
Mrs Eddy says. God Is love.
therefore love IS God. That Is as
foolish as II I was 10 say. That wo-
man il kind. therefore kindness IL I
that woman. You can start I'm the
middle OF a book on Christian Sci /
ence and read il backward as well
as forward.
E1ays Science OF Healing.
christian Science cures the sick
in some cas-s but there are more
people in the graveyard through Il
than have been saved by H. The
theory which & uses IS nothing new.