Show SPIRITUAL spiritualist IS M tt jt J t 1 itt itz a significant incident 1 as ele eie noting the ibe growth in popularity I 1 and res respectability of bf what re bently ras gas has been regarded as among the grossest humburgs humbugs pro 1 IT postures of the age that two of bf the leding leading american ameri Amert nui nul magazines maya mara have burren shirten stir suir ten ren 1 dered tho their r pages pages for foi the tho month of december to a discussion of the reality or of rather nuu auf to i prove the truth is known li owl as modern modera spiritualism the time ha has hab evidently pa sd when this subject cant cann be ignored by I 1 intelligent I 1 antel people or pooh po olied out of existence or consigned ton sinned signed to the tile category of frauds or ok tricks of jugglery j lery iery whether it be 4 rhen then mental tal tai hallucination ha as the doctors think or a species of diabolism ms as the parsons be or tue the shadowing foreshadowing fore g of ofa a new and higher religion as the more advanced spiritualists assert it is at all events an thin thing 91 a fact a fanoy fancy or ft a manifestation that is attracting he e attention of thousands thousand of intelligent igent people i nn it civilized countries in great britain it is attracting even more at ahan iii in this cau eau country especially ally among the higher and more intellectual classes it is sald said that there is scarcely a family among the nobility and gentry or of england that tt does not riot contain one dimoro or more believers in it has gained many converts among g men b of that country and there are few even among those who dispute the spiritual arl ari gin gaii of the biati pra pretend to attribute them to trick or imposture in this eol dol country believers I 1 in ii spi spiritualism ra t may be pound found in every block of every Bt street reet ori our bour everz c cities I 1 ti and in every village ilni and I 1 h hamlet hamiet am ae t of the rumal rural districts yo no religious sect is bi gaining converts with half the rapidity of spiritualism hn whether all of them together have drawn to the fo folda fol foi db ma uty ny 0 wave elg eig t braced or substitute for religion B mee it took its hiso hise in the tomfoolery so called of rochester rap rapping pings twenty five nive year yeats ngo sago 1 1 and it is a moto mote noteworthy worthy fact that the maar raar manifestations of the new have more than kept pace with the increase in the number of its adherents every day adds to the tho novelty and startling character of its ita miracles first it gave us mysterious raps on tho headboards olour beds and oinbe walls and ceilings of our rooms ghen therit then it began to tb tip our tables aff and d chairs chair and a later unseen hands handa wrote wro teut out half legible communications from departed spirits upun slates and ana bits of p paper next came camo the trance mediums medium who discoursed efa not very coherently on all ali sorts hof bof of subjects as they were inspired by the talka tive deniz denizens P ns of the other world after th them em ca came me tha the marvelous iya lya nar performances or of nome home who dished shed the crowned headset europe and the miscellaneous wonders of the slades blades the eddys the tho daven ports pors an d da a h hundred u n dred oth others ers arwid nd no now as the latest and anost von wondrous miracle of all we have havel i the materialization of the s spirit birl biri the this departed who come to td db lis clothed in ilish flesh and blood walk abou about tour our rooms shake us byitte hand pai partake take of our refreshments laugh and chab chat ch atwith us aft old oid then suddenly vanish vaniah info thin air r T A we know not nob which id 19 the great ermi ulon our credulity to believe the things rebated by robert aobert bert daie dale owen 0 wen in the tho mommy and by C gen F francis J in the galaxy or to lo suppose that these thee gentl gentlemen hiep a and nd eual qualin intelligence telli gence geneo allo ailo ardd arid candor were javor ing under mental hallucination or were deceived and humbugged humbugger hum bugged by the vulgar tricks of an imposter but there la 18 one thing connected with all these manifestations whether 0 the lowest or highest older oi der t that b tit is gal gai calculated cu to seriously shake ones faith in the theory that they are th eLwork the work of departed spirits they tell us nothing new absolutely abao cutely nothing they give us no insight whatever into thorold the world where they claim to dwell dwells more than gehad we had hud benore before were here is ach aln tie tle king for example who appeals appears to materialize herself simultaneously in m and philadelphia and who tells telis her ili ax audiences Wences that she dhe has been dead more than a hundred years surely ratio watie kitag w ho seems to be a bright witted 1 and sighted girl ought id have gained tAhe oth other er world during her hek lonk long residence there but mut does doe i she farl barl farida fari Dg us any messages worth listen ing to nothing of te kind so ar nar as getting any information n e next world is boncer concerned i ned wel hight as weir apply to who murdered goodrich goddrich she ehe shoves her pretty face in thedoor the tho door snows shows her pearly teeth boasts of her hen ringlets danklets shakes hands with vice president forbs all orange that is giver given her and disappears Hereon her conversation vo I 1 what there is of lt it is 14 nd almost silly when hen s befi albe would like an armage shei shel says 1 of cof course I 1 woud would and nd if she ehe had been addressing a san francisco aud audience lenco ienco she would probably have said you bet A the disembodied spirits who communicate cater with ith roge bouer raj udale cDale dale nale owen although althou uh more serious and hud ab philosophical lio ilo are aro nub not a biti batmore bib bit more fioro e edifying dif dlf ying 4 thure there is not nol liing new now in the ilot biot even hn an inkling ora orm ofa new llew luea ill and soli so it is with all tbt thet eom rpm communications m from every qu aur f hur bur port to come from th thu spirits Bpi spi ritso ot dead persons it is hardly possible that this should be the case if they had the origin that is a claimed for thema atheni while therefore we do not believe that spiritualism is all ali alia nila a fraud and imposture and that the manifestations are always ak 0 generally er ally aily the work war of trickery yeta yet ill ili lii is s equally clear clean to our mind that t they hey donot do not nob emanate from disembodied b spirits and have no foundation t which can bernade bex be bei nado mado the basis of a which need shake our faith in the thel old new york tv 1 1 |