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Show O - O The r.-v.' rath, r r.u; ;.-rt, re- O C) frr;rj to the CinonMration () ;.) sa!J: "Not!.:::? tV.r.t I have ever 0) (r-'i S'.-on or ex ; rr;r-t,ced bf-f-re has O CD trouf ht rr.e r.-rer the fall under- 0) (:) standing cf God's miracles than .() () the demonstrations , maJe by Dr. 00 () GrLsstr. It has shown me a way 0 that oupht to scattpr the doubts of the scof.Vr and cement the belief of the devout. 1 Intend to make this demonstration a subject for a series of sermons. I.don't think I ever .had a subject that offered such "possibilities, not only for me and the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church, but for clergymen of every denomination." . ) 0 0 slowly tiny sparks began to Jet off Mr. Mackaye's clothing. Soon the sparks grew to curling flames and when the discs attained their full speed the man's entire body was a mass of. writhing blue and white flame. When he stepped down from the platform not so much as a thread of fu on his clothing was singed. i I A. a i - - -m .-Li ilW. . v ..... . . UwC C 1. 3 ... ii clc.3 - Crc ilzcs i r. is. s NEW TORIC, May iX rrlests of the rtoaian Catholic church and clergymen of ProttEtant denominations declare that the demonstrations made' by .Dr. Albert C.'Grisser of the Bronx with the X-ray elucidated In a marvelous manner man-ner many of the miracles of the Bible. I , Dr. Grisser set the great glass wheels of his battery In action and allowed his audience to look through pieces of thick j timber and other opaque bodies. He continued these experiments, reading passages from the Scripture referring to the miracles. He showed how simple sim-ple it was to produce a halo of electric i fire about his head though he remains at a distance of ten feet from, the apparatus. ap-paratus. He stood on a raised platform set on glass pegs. The glass prevented electrical elec-trical contact with the earth, and as , he raised the two negative and positive poles to the height of his head the electricity elec-tricity passed through and out of the crown-of his head in a circle of flame. Then Dr. Grisser compelled his machine, ma-chine, by various manipulations, to shoot bagged flashes. He called attention atten-tion to the passages In the Bible referring refer-ring to the descent of the Holy Ghost in a pillar of flreiand said: !Jf someone will only volunteer I will show that the enveloping of a person in a pillar of flame is not a miracle." Thomas Mackaye came forward and offered .to serve for the experiment Dr. Grisser placed him on his small platform plat-form before the apparatus in a standing position.. He adjusted on each side of him two steel rods formln negative and positive poles. There Was no possibility pos-sibility of a short circuit, as the platform plat-form was separated from the floor by glass pegs. With a Crooke's tube in one hand Dr. Grisser stood off to oae side of the platform and signalled for the starting of the big glass discs. They started off with a whirr. Then |