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Show Preaching Against Fortune Tellers. The Rev. Father Wall, rector of St. Paul's cathedral, scored the people of liis parish yesterday, particularly tho married mar-ried women, on the practice of patronizing patroniz-ing fortune tellers and wizards who read the past, present and future. "When a person visits a fortune teller to ascertain his fortune, he goes to find out what Qod alone, and no one else, knows. When you give to a fortune teller your presence, and make him or her believe that they have a foreknowledge foreknowl-edge of seeing the inside view of the future, you adore him and moke him believe be-lieve he has power not 'given to the devil. If you think he can peer into the future you make him the equal of God. Therefore you have strange gods before Him, and violate the first commandment. "We find youths, young girls, and especially es-pecially married women, making a practice prac-tice of this sin. If you deliberately visit a fortune teller you are indulging in a mortal sin. If you go out of pure thoughtlessness it is not so bad, but it is a sin nevertheless. It is the same thing as going to au idol and giving your heart to it. This is idolatry of the worst kind. ' I would like to impress on your mind that fortune tellers compose the worst characters in the community. One class of the business is fortune telling and the other is the seduction and ruin of youth. To my own personal knowledge I know of persons who have been ruined by consulting these people. I warn all persons per-sons of the congregation, and hope you will extend this knowledge, that it is a mortal sin against tho first commandment. command-ment. Avoid them and their nefarious business, for the designs they have on the morality of youth." Pittsburg Dispatch, |