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

302 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCEself so as to give a correct relation, to say nothing of the possibility of receivingand conveying wrong impressions from spirits who do not regardthe truth.1521. Given by Second King, at the council of the presiding band.THE ABOVE ISCERTIFIED TO.1522. After this communication had been read, a certificate, setting forththe above facts was drawn up and signed by all those present, as follows1523. Audience present.— Portia Gage, Gage's Lake, 111.; John Gage,Gage's Lake, Lake county, 111. ; Solomon Bordon, Millfield, Athens county,Ohio ; Thomas Morris and wife^ Ilyram Scheuick, Selah Van Sickle, Delaware,Ohio.1524. Mediums present.—Jonathan Koons, Abigail T. Koons, NahumW. Koons.CONCLUDING REMARKS.1525. When a person comes here and sees the rooms, and finds themopen all day for the children to run in and out of, and for visitors to examine,and sees there are no juggler's tools about, and no place to keepthem ; the mediums and all engaged are of that artless stamp, and in theirwhole appearance, bearing, and conduct, so marked with honesty and sincerityof purpose, that the idea of their being impostors, or of their psychologizingtheir auditors, is simply ridiculous. That the music is not imaginary,is proved in another way, if further proof is necessar}'-; it can beheard as well outside as inside of the houses, and is frequently heard bythe neighbours for miles around.There is no question about the manifestations,and about their having all that superhuman or unaccountable characterthat the most sanguine writers have given them.They rather seem to boover-cautious about exaggerating any thing, and consequently fallof conveying an adequate idea of the phenomena.far shortTherefore, all we haveto do is to account for these existing facts, for the fiicts cannot be controverted.The intelligence displa3'ed is sometimes of a high order, and theyalways claim to be spirits of men or women who have left the earthly form,and passed to that undiscovered country from whose bourne it has beensaid no travellers return.But of this every one can judge for themselves,though it is difiicult to imagine what they can be, if they are not spirits.John Gage.An Evening at Koon^s Spirit Room.New York.By Charles Partridge^ Esq.j1526. Sunday evening, 27th ]May last, I walked some three milesthrough a wood over a very poor road, in the direction of what is calledthe spirit rooms of Jonathan Koons.I noticed at the foot of a hill severalcarriages by the roadside, and horses tied to the fence and trees ; andon reaching the place, I observed from thirty to fifty men sitting on stones,