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

50 INTUITIVE EVIDENCE OPas performed by putting the hands of a medium upon a plate and ball supportedby a tea-table. (199.)212. Accordingly, the attending medium being placed under exactlythe same circumstances and conditions, a similar violent tilting ensued.213. Dr. Child, together with the same medium and myself, placed ourfinger ends all reciprocally in contact, and about a quarter of an inch abovea tea-table. After an interval of about two minutes, the table rose, andwas tossed from the legs on one side to those on the other forcibly.214. During a visit to New York, I entered the apartment where oneof the Misses Fox was sitting. There were more than half a dozen personspresent. On my entrance, I inquired, ''Does any one here recognise me,so as to know my name ?" No person answered that I was known. As soon,however, as I inquired, my spirit sister announced herself, and indicatedmy name.215. During a visit made to Boston last autumn, on sitting with amedium, my sister addressed me in the following way, by spelling thewords out upon the disk apparatus just described:Brother beloved, of ardent soul,Striving to reach a heavenly goalWouldst thou attain the blissful heightWhere wisdom purifies the sight;Where God reveals to humblest gaze.The bliss and beauty of his waysIncline thine ear to angels bright,Who radiant from the realms ofFor ever hover near,To offer thee, sweet words of cheer.light,216. Only tbe first couplet in these verses difi'ers at all from thosewhich were given in the impromptu, the words having been too flatteringfor me, to have mentioned.Soon after being at the residence of a highlyesteemedfriend, who is a medium, my spirit sister, who manifests muchlove for this lady, reporting herself, I told her of the change which I thusdesired to have made. The reply was, ''I give you full liberty to alter myverses; you know I never wrote two lines of poetry while in the flesh.''Miss Ellis is no poetess, still less is Mrs. P., the medium.217. After my lecture at the Melodeon, being at the residence of Mrs.Hayden, an accomplished medium, I requested a repetition of the experiment,of which I had given an account on that occasion, in which the viewof the disk was cut off" from the medium, by the interposition of a screen;and Mrs. Hayden consenting, an arrangement was made so as to satisfythe bystanders, as well as myself, thatseen by her.the letters on the disk could not beUnder these conditions the name of Washington was spelt out.218. I have had this test repeated under Gordon's mediumship, as wellas that of others, several times. Afterward, Mrs. Hayden sitting aloof, onmaking the index move successively to each letter, those required for the