Show SPIRIT communication A COMPACT TRAT THAT FAILED TO AFFORD A satisfactory TEST NEW YORK july 29 courtlandt palmer and stephen pearl andrews had an a agreement g r bement that the one who died first w was a s it if bleto communicate from the tee spirit land with the sur divor A year was to be for the phenomenon to take place and in case ase it did not the conclusion was to be that the theory of spiritualistic intercourse ter course was false andrews was a spiritualist palmer was an unbelieving investigator he and andrews who was commonly called the pant arch together founded the colloquium a society ot of philosophers of diverse views to meet for discussions that was the original of the nineteenth century club of which palmer was president and chief financial sus au talner the two men were anxious to settle the matter while at least one lived whether the spirits of ef the dead communicated munica ted with the living so they made the agreement described each memorized a sentence and this was it feasible to be sent by the one who died to the one who elt lived through some medium hundreds rund set undress reds of miles away nobody else was to know the words andrews died last autumn and palmer although without faith waited for the promised message it did not come the pan tarch was frequently represented as speaking through various mediums here and there but he be did not mention palmer or the compact not long before CourtIl courtlandt Ludt P almers death he talked with several friends about tile promse by stephen pearl andrews and declared that if the expiration pi aaion ration or of the year did not bring r the proof f to the contrary he should set down awn spiritualism as i a sure delu delusion talan As he died before the end of the year and without so far as known disclosing the test sentence to anybody this thin attempt by two of the nineteenth century club men to ascertain the truth as to spiritualism comes to nothing rocky booty mountain news |