ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

A MATERIAL MEDIUM.
By GERTRUD£ 0. TuBBY.
577
On Thursday, April 24th, 1919, Mr. Blank took me with him
to a private dark seance at which Mr. and Mrs. Herrman of
Lexington Avenue near 103rd Street, had agreed to try to produce
materializations for him and a friend whom he would
bring. We arrived at the place just after noon, about 1 P. M.,
and engaged in conversation for a short time with Mrs. Herrman
while her husband gave a short interview to a yo\tng lady who
was waiting to see him when we arrived.
Mrs. Herrman conversed on general spiritualistic lines, giving
her opinions on various questions brought up by Mr. Blank as
to the nature of the work, of the next life, of our relation to it
and to those gone before. He mentioned freely to her his
father and his daughter who died at birth and ·the attitude of his
family toward his inquiries along these lines, how he hoped
they might become more sympathetic in time, but that being
Christian Scientists he feared they would be slow to do so, etc.,
etc., showing a tendency to discuss freely his own affairs with the
mediwn herself. G. 0. T. said little and gave no personal information
whatever, but endeavored to manifest open-mindedness
and appreciation of the mediwn's point of view when
possible.
Meantime, Mr. Herrman was out of sight and busy talking
in a low tone to the yoWlg lady aforesaid, in the adjoining room,
behind thick curtains, a double pair, and with the glass doors
closed, so that it is Wllikely he heard what was being said in the
larger room by us three. Mrs. Herrman remarked in the regular
fashion that " the yoWlg lady " ( G.O. T.) was psychic herself.
She said she saw lights around me indicating the fact. The
colors were orange or red and blue, but she put no especial significance
upon the colors. I said I was interested to hear these
things, and in fact everything that had to do with psychic matters
interested me, but I displayed no knowledge of the subject beyond
that of the ordinary newspaper and magazine reader.
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