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caose; and Us friends are content to have It
live or ,lie on its own merits. Mansfield
made soine mODey by bis fral>d, and that wao
probably aU he wa.. after. lie may, however,
!.hauk his atam thDt be got away with it
withouheriou9 difficulty, as our people are
Dot ovor fond of being humbugged. 11'; I.
eonaluly a p ..... tty speeimen to be travolling
about the country, and it ioth" duty of tho
Pf'C$' everywbere to sbow hiJO.llp."
·TIIE .dit;", of the 1.0ndon' Spiritualist doc1area
that be bas never .~n SDY 6exible featore.
Iil material forma tbllt wore unUke tbe
medium 10 the lin~a
SPIRITUAL SCI1:~VTIST.
of the eyea ana nose.
Mr. Charl.s Ulaekburo thinks dilIe",ntly, and
lells him: "No", in the fac. of all thi. e.iden~,
I trust you will believe Dr. N •• the
Re •• Mr. Colley, Sil!. Rondi, and mys.lf.,aU
oyewitne"cf, and don't go 100l'Scif Inlo A.
·.caoce lliko Prof. Tyndall) with a mlod 10 a
al·a", of suspicloua confusion on that point
of non·6exibiUty of f.atores, otherwise YOII or
Olhers may get a bard knock by a mischievous
spirit, which ;. often done 10: those persisting
10 ODe groove of thollght," .
TnE Evening Chronicle. of Virginia City,
Nsvada, tells the story of an. exposed im·
postor named Cummings, wbo claimed to be
a medlnm for form manl.festations.
A correspondent who bas read" A ~lcthod·
of Obtaining CommuDlcaUoll.," ao de.cril!ed
on page 57 iIi the Marcb Scientist, Illforms .
Us that the experiment was tried in bis (amlly
of tbree without succesi. but with just eDough
eccentrlcllY of result to excite cunosity. A
laws, and the shocli thllt would ."sue ID .......
of graspiDg the 'pirit, could not "'suit other·
wllle than di .... trously.-o'. p.j. Mch. Ill.
VOlCE OF Till': I'RF.~:
JDle11lgent ,Spiritualists haye for the laot
thlrly yea!':! w"med iuvesUgatoro against !bu
danger to wbicb they are exposed in giving
them.elve. up to the dictation of spirl\.s.
That mueb mischief may)}e dOne throQ-gb
too great reliaMe on sopposed spirit communications,
we bave alway. tatigbt. 'fhat
spi~te·a .... but fallible e.eatures, like mortals,
Is a les.ou we have . lost nO opPortunity of
cnfordog. It Is nol tbo experienced 5pirlloo
ualist who Is in dauger from tbis liability.
It Is tho Ignorant Dovice, rejecUbg the expel'ience
of othe ...., and b •.gk'Cting their warn­
Ings, wbois likely to be fooled.-B. I' .. TOIlrnal
Marcb :/. .
lady to whom planebelte b .. Ilover granted
any lavom bad her hand moved to make . We bave adop"'d Ibo policy of declining to
lines but no writing, OD Olle evening and on notice any of tbe pbenuroella purporting u>
tho next there was no movement at all. He occur iu tho presencB of mediwns for phy'\'
aoks for Individual testimony on U.ls matter
and if It nlakes any ditrereucc what kind of
cal manlfe.talions, iu Ibis cily, wbo refu