THE following article we clip from the Evening Mirror, to which journal it was contributed by one well known in spiritual circles, and to the readers of the Telegraph.—
We have received the following communication from a highly respectable source. It is accompanied with bona fide names as witnesses to the truth of the statements therein contained. The italics in the first paragraph are not our own, but those of a sufferer by the Herald’s practice of publishing private letters sent to the Editor.
*Editor of the Evening Mirror:*
Dear Sir:—I send you the following incident of the “rappings,” with the names of the witnesses, trusting to your gentlemanly courtesy not to make public what is intended for your own private satisfaction. On the 20th inst., I placed on Miss Fox’s table a sealed package sent by a gentleman in Washington, the contents of which were unknown to me, but which were said to contain questions. In a few moments the following sentences were spelled out by the alphabet, to which the raps responded:
“He will become a medium.”
“He will find it soon; he has mislaid it. Tell him he will. We cannot name the place. He cannot get answers to the questions.”
“He must not receive implicitly any communication, nor rely on any revelation but God’s word.”
The gentleman returned to Washington on the 27th, when the package was returned to him with the seals unbroken, and this certificate (which accompanies the statement) was received. The package was then opened in the presence of ten persons, many of them skeptical on the subject. They all read the questions it contained, which are as follows:
“Am I, or is it possible for me to become a medium—and in what manner is it to be effected?”
“I either left at Lyons, or lost between that place and Washington, some packages containing questions to be answered. Is it possible for me to be informed where they are, or have the several questions answered through some medium?”
“May the Divine Revelations in Judge Edmonds’ and Dr. Dexter’s ‘Spiritualism’ be implicitly relied on, and are those gentlemen perfectly truthful?”
You can judge how well the questions correspond with the answers received a week before the package was opened. The test is as fair a one as could well be offered, and I should be pleased to know your opinion of the matter.
From Correspondence of Spiritual Telegraph.
FRIEND BRITTAN.—Since I wrote you last I have been much encouraged in consequence of some interesting spiritual manifestations that are taking place in West Tennessee. A very singular instance of physical manifestation occurred near by, in an adjoining county. A circle was formed for the investigation, and sat awhile, when some of them began to trifle with the Spirits, and suddenly a log, some eighteen feet in length, which formed a part of the building, split from one end within two feet of the other, making a noise like the firing of a cannon!
Stolen money has been received, the Spirits pointing out the thief, and putting the loser of the money in possession of legal testimony against the offender, which was so clear that the thief came forward and gave up the money, and paid off another debt of long standing, rather than be prosecuted. In another county, also joining this, are two or three writing mediums, through whom much has been written and of a very interesting character, more of which will be known in the future. One of the mediums just alluded to, is so well developed that he can hear the audible voice of spirits, which appears to him something louder than a whisper; and by this means can converse with the invisibles with ease. Heavenly things also have been pictured in the atmosphere before him, which had a very sublime appearance. *