Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, [electronic ...

194 PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF SPIRITUALISM.and disbelief, and 1ms opened to liis rejoicing mind the irrefragable evidenceof a future life beyond the grave !1009. 'Iliiil now on cirlli the glorious clay,When infidels Imve learnt to pray;"When heaven's laws by reason hlessed,Arc all with fondest love confessed^Vhen man in bli.*s can look above,And see a Giod in all his love;Can own with joy the mighty King,And loud his hallelujahs sing.Throw back the gates, ye heavenly band.To loved ones show the spirit land;Hang out the beacon lights to seeA homo for all, the bond and free.And now the dreams of former daysBehold in those celestial ways;Where sorrow's eye is never seen,Where love and hope are ever green.'—W. G.1010. "The exhibition of so-called spiritual agency in New York Cityby the Misses Fox and their mother, was the first incident that claimedmy notice, and excited my laughter and ridicule, in this apparent newphase in the science of legerdemain.1011. " Blitz and his wonders crossed my mental vision, and seemedoutdone by the results of this feminine exhibition, in which the spiritsof another world were invoked, and aided in the performance.1012. " This happened when psychology had been developed to a wonderingworld, as the climax of magnetic phenomena in the wonderful attributesof man, and was regarded by myself among many as the culminationof human research in the science of animal life.lOlo."Meeting an intelligent friend who had bestowed much pains inthe investigation of this department of science, and inquiring of him as tothe progress of magnetism, I was answered, that something much more wonderfulthan magnetism engaged his attention and occupied his mind atthat time.1014. "Asking what the subject might be, and being asked in return,if I had not heard of the wonders of Spiritualism, a painful impression wasmade on my mind and feelings that, where all had been regarded as soundand straight, there must be some latent obliquity of thought; that myfriend, as the Spaniards say, was a little tonto, or that he was likely soonto become so,was quite apparent.1015. " However, my strictest scrutiny could detect no decline of hisintellio;ent and ino-enuous mind, and his well-digested remarks addressed tomy incredulous ears, gave proof enough that this might be another demandfor the investigation of science, and a step forward in the progressivedevelopment of nature's laws.