A Biologist Deprived of his Power.
A Correspondent of the Spiritual Telegraph, writing from Moretown, Vt., says:— "The cause of Spiritualism is making rapid progress in this vicinity. We have healing mediums, writing mediums, and speaking mediums: yet not enough of either to satisfy the demands of the inquirers after truth." "There was a case of Spirit prediction at Montpelier, last Fall, in which a great biologist, by the name of Stone, was told his power was all given him of God, to help prepare the way for the Spirit manifestations, and that it would soon be taken away from him. He was lecturing at that place, and hearing of the marvels of a family in which there are two mediums, he said it could all be explained on the principles of magnetism. He called on these mediums, for the purpose of "showing them up," and requested the privilege of magnetizing one of them. It is unnecessary to say, his power was inferior to that of the Spirits' influencing the medium, and he was quite unsuccessful. It was at this interview that he was told that his power was to leave him, and he was invited to turn in and help to spread the Spirit manifestations. Not believing the prediction, he chose to follow his old profession, with what success the sequel will show." "At his next lecture in that village, he failed to illustrate his doctrine by his usual experiments, not having power over his own subjects, who were two girls, or young women, that he called his mediums; and report says he was equally unsuccessful at Northfield, his next place of labor."