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150 MODERN SPIRITISM
lady out, whose face was still invisible, and she broke
her arm. My friend watched the papers, but no such
incident was recorded anywhere. She then had to go
to Westgate-on-Sea, and about a week later took
up the Daily Mail, and there was the accident to the
wife of the pastor of the City Temple fully described,
exactly as seen three weeks before, and the result
a broken arm. But this unfortunate lady was one
of my patient's dearest friends. "Why, then," she
asks, "did she have her parasol over her face so
that I could not see and warn her?"
Visions of Future Common
It is quite evident from innumerable instances,
very many from the Highlands, that future events
are often seen before they happen, but in a truly
perplexing way; for it seems to do no good. If it
did, and any accident were averted, then the vision
would be false, for it would show what, after all,
never occurred. I don't pursue the perplexing subject,
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as I am writing on Spiritism and ' '
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not on Second
Sight."
I
merely give these instances that we may better
understand that we are surrounded with mysteries,
and that many of us possess special faculties, which,
developed as they doubtless are in mediums, may
go far to explain much that puzzles us in seances,
and which we at present believe, perhaps erroneously,
to be the work of "spirits."
Turning from "second sight," I will now give a
remarkable and perplexing instance of clair-audience,
a kindred faculty to clairvoyance.