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Three Evidential Chenoweth Sittings. 11
and mother of another large family, she had rather less than the
average association with pet animals and was not especially fond
of having them about. The exceptions were rare. Therefore,
she would not especially have hoped to find " pets " in a future
state, and her surprise is entirely expectable. In communications
received through another psychic, I often get these characteristic
touches of her humor, and this one serves to re-enforce those.
Her effort to give evidence would be natural on the assumption
that she knows the needs in this work and is anxious to
help in this as in all that ever concerned her children. Her own
scientific appreciation of the necessity would have been gained
subsequent to her passing, and would be secondary to the desire
to help, just as she herself states. Matters that concern my peace
of mind and heart would claim her attention first. She has always
been a loving and demonstrative parent.
Her description of the " home " which father says he had
all ready for her-and he had long preceded her in death, making
such an idea natural to one's thinking-is of just such a home
as she, herself, made and loved, open, airy, sunny, with flowers in
the windows and out-of-doors. She repeatedly refers to this
through various psychics, who are strangers to her and to one
another.
Her reference to my responsibilities as daily increasing was
as predictive as it was pertinent at the time. Within two months
of the date of her letter through Mrs. Chenoweth, they doubled
and trebled and have never since been as light as they were
even when she wrote the message, tho five years have elapsed
since. The old home problem has in the meantime been happily
solved, making the life conditions better, thus fulfilling another
prediction.
My father's communications bear the stamp of his character
very plainly. His attitude toward me, as still my proper protector
and provider, is suitable to my age at his passing. I was
just past eighteen and still in school. His remarks upon the value
of money and of work and of this particular work are quite in
character. He was a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and a faithful
attendant upon the Friends' Meeting in which he had been
brought up from childhood. Both of these associations must
have fitted him to understand readily the work of psychic re-
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