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86 SPIRITUAL SC/f:NTlST.
of two roO\llll whicb we~ separat.ed by foldiog
doors. The circle ext.ended to the~e
f(.lding doors •. A pbospborcscen~ kiud (>f
Ilght flashed· within tbe cabinet, from whlcb
emergt>d "Jobn Kiug," robed in wblte. A~
different pBI'UI of the room, and .... rtlcally
over tbe beads ohome of tho sittOlrsbe'floalr
tid steadily up to the ceiling, and bls head
• could be 8een touching It; bo then two or
three times, at roque.t, struck the ceiling
with the bard luminous substanee be hcld In
hi> hand.; biB face could be scon di.tlnetly
now and then, and the fe:>.tures were living ..
Sometimes be came "" far from th~ cabinet
as tho folding doo", at the otber eud of tbe
room~ 'rhe ligM only made the upper port
Ion of Ilis form visible, but from the way in
wbieh be moved over the1ieads of the sitt.ers
h. appeared to be ma ... rlaliwd only to the
wai.t. ..
Emdenc. o/the Reality 0/ lJIe Direct Voice.
Speaking of a feauee witb C. F.. William.,
tbo editor of the I. s., In 286 oay.: ."Onee
one of tbese "1.lriIB (Pet"r) stood by the cab-
· inet, and the other (wbo call. hlm.elf Irresistible,
perhaps from the. beauty of bis
voice). 8tood I\t the otber, end of tbe room,
~nd by request they then not oDly sPoke
loudly a~ the same time, bUt'; wbile 8peaklng
. the olle .truck tbo cabinet door and the other
the folding doors at the opposite eDd of tbe
room, UII tbey rang with the vlbratluns.
~III was goo.\ evidence to the clrele, tbat
these voices, 'wbicb follow Mr. William. everywhere
were oot produced by ventrilo·
quism.
TI1E CAnnIFF eIBCLF-.
;Materiate FornuJ under T",' Cond1(wn .••
William Stotl, 103 llre.on Uoad, Merthyr
Tyfdil, in writing to. the South Wales 1)ally
,-,Vews, a secular paper, says: "lIa~ing had
ocrasiun to visit CardiJf,art.erbaving read the
corrcapond~tlce on Spi~tua1i8m in your paper,
J called the' .arne "vl.'Ding on Mr. Lewis,
· Roath, and aakrd him if be would kindl,. al~
. low me-to attend one of hisscancE's.' lIcc-on­
•• nted to D',. doiog so OD the following Thu,... •.
day, at si" o'clock r.M. On entering tho
et~ltncc room 1 W8.fI, in1roduce" In ~C'vcrS\1 pc-r ..
8on9~ all &trangl'n, with 'the (lxct'ption of the"
WOrthy host. ] WRe H~k,·d to bNl.Tch lh,. me.'
dium. who is ad€'1icatc fUld unill4~illning young
m'ln .. I r('l~_.a deH':acy in duing tit); how ("vcr,
on 'th€'ir hisisting I a'''l'''ul'd to their requ~8tt
Bnd found nothioG' 00 him bot his ordinary
wearillg apparel. I also ........ fully searchod
tbe cabinet, wbicb is a 'kind of cio~et tit the
baCk of the roOm in which .. e snt. At the
8ame time, J was far from mi.trni.tlDI! any_
thing tbat '1'188 &anctlooed under the roof of
Bueh a C"ntJ.maD, whose honesty, oprighlr
ne88, and loye; of truth 18 UDqu~9tionable.
'Ve sat with the ga8 boming sulllcienOy to
enabll.' Boyone to read. Aft.r lb. v.ual .....
vic. ,.inging and reading B prayer), th. medium
"as entran