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332 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCEnifiecl tlicir desire to make a communication in Hebrew. Mr. Partridgeasked who should call the alphabet, and received for answer, ' The onlyperson present who understands it—George Bush.'Professor Bush thereuponproceeded to repeat the Hebrew alphabet, and a communication inthat lano'uajrc was received.IGGO. ^^ Many additional facts might be given to show that spirits communicatein various languages through E. P. Fowler; but the above willsuffice for the purposes of this statement.16C1. ^MVe cannot allow the present occasion to pass, without an expressionof the entire confidence and unqualified esteem with which Mr.Fowler is regarded by the members of the New York circle, and by thosewho know him generally. We have had an intimate personal acquaintancewith him for two years past—some of us for a much longer period—andwe have only known him as a high-minded and honourable young man.From the beginning, he has steadily refused to accept the slightest compensationfor his time and services while employed in the capacity of amedium; and we deem it but an act of simple justice to Mr. F. to recordthe fact that, on all occasions, we have found him entirely unassuming inhis deportment, and eminently truthful in his life.''R. T. IIallock, M. D.,^Y. J. Baner,J. T. AYarner, M. D., John F. Gray, M. D.,Almira L. Fowler, Samuel T. Fowler,A. G. Hull, M. D., Mr. & Mrs. Charles Partridge.''Testimony of the Rev. D. F.Goddard^ Boston.1GG2. " This is to certify that, during a long investigation of the modernphenomena which are now attracting attention in our own countryand in the old, I have repeatedly seen my own table, in my own room, towhich I know there isno nice machinery affixed for purposes of deception,without any contact whatever of earthly kind, raised, tipped, moved aboutthe room, as if a strong man was there at work.Also, a piano-forte playedupon in the same way, without mortal contact, producing most beautifulmusic—an oceanpiece, in which a storm was represented succeeded by acalm. These phenomena occurred in the presence of several other individualsof both sexes, all of whom saw, and all of whom are ready to testify.I have also received from a medium, who neversaw me before, and knewnothing of my family, the fiict of my father's death, his name, and a^QviQQt facsimile of his handwriting;and this when I was not expectingsuch handwriting, and could not have possibly imitated it, without a copy,in the labour of three months.D. F. Goddard."1663. As this work may be read by many who have not perused anyother book on the subject of which it treats, I hope that those who take itup, having a knowledge of the most important spirit manifestations heretoforepublished, will excuse my quoting them here. My object is to fur-