Our public meetings were held in Van Vechten Hall, then the principal one in Albany
Our public meetings were held in Van Vechten Hall, then the principal one in Albany
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They insinuated that if the mediums were men their husbands would not become so deeply enlisted in this…
They insinuated that if the mediums were men their husbands would not become so deeply enlisted in this unpopular, and, seemingly, weird subject
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In it we see a striking revival of the old Salem (and mediæval) spirit of animosity against the so-called "witchcraft;" a spirit which was perhaps stimulated by the same mistaken and misguided religious zeal which some couple of centuries before had hurried to
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I was told that two or three gentlemen would rush from the door and suddenly carry me in
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who came down to New York expressly to propose it to us, telling us that the high position of his brother, Rufus W., would enable him to unite for that purpose the best elements which the great metropolis could afford
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A negative reply is indicated by silence
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"The evening was now far advanced, and it was not thought desirable to continue our colloquies any further
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"They appear to be intelligent persons, and there is little, if anything, in their manner that looks like simulation or imposture
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The young ladies moved about the room, apparently independent, and it was clear that they were not knocking, whoever was; and as to concealment and emissaries in a large bustling hotel, with bells ringing, waiters running about, chambermaids and lodgers consta
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Our own dwelling was among those thus visited, not merely submitting to but courting the fullest and keenest inquiry with regard to the alleged 'manifestations' from the Spirit world by which they were attended
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"Curiosity having led us to visit the rooms at the Phelps House in which two females from Rochester--Mrs
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"A highly respectable lady of this city possesses the ability of developing sounds similar, both in character and degree, to those professedly elicited, by the Rochester impostors, from the Spirit world
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diplomatic editor of their organ, and whom I spare from mention of what had been, in former times, his last exercise in Buffalo of the honorable profession to which he had been of but little honor
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You have need of great watchfulness and care that you may be permitted to enter the society of the blest
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"At the conclusion of the address, it was asked by the acting medium, 'Are the Spirits all done?' No reply was made
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"There were many other incidents during the sitting
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The positions which they assumed we knew to be fallacious and unsupportable, and we at once challenged a fair and impartial investigation, believing that it was not in the nature of these gentlemen to seek our conviction of fraud contrary to evidence which I k
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Buffalo was the great battle-ground and the University the great adversary chosen to annihilate this already too wide-spread imposture
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Are they displeased because the ladies keep staying in spite of their mandate to go home?
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The number must have counted by thousands who had by this time witnessed for themselves, not merely the comparatively small sounds of the ordinary rapping near our persons, but sometimes great knockings, as by powerful arms and heavy hammers, on all parts of r
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I will copy the notice as follows: 'We have read this book, and have been pleased with its style, and impressed with the sincerity of its author
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"If all be an imposture, who can measure the depth of that depravity which trifles thus with the holiest affections, aspirations, and sorrows?
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ould most effectually comport with our comfort and desire), by an early departing train from our sister city, whose queenly dignity, in thus aspiring to rob us of our Spiritual flame--the guide of our uncertain steps--we are getting jealous of
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"George Willets and myself went over to see Clara (your housekeeper) yesterday
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A company of twenty or more persons had assembled--the 'three sisters' came into the room--the sounds were heard--and through the medium of the alphabet, they, and about half of the company, were directed to retire to another apartment
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"Afterward the same gentle rapping was heard in the form of a call for the alphabet (five quick successive raps)
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s always manifest between the mere underfoot uniform sounds, yielded by this miserable trick, and the variety of the "knockings" on tables, floors, doors, walls, and ceilings--now faint, now approaching the thunderous--to say nothing of the identification of t
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We advertised through all the papers that, immediately after the Burrs had lectured and entertained the public with their toe-rapping expositions, the Fox family would be forthcoming to give them every opportunity of testing the truth of the real Spirit rappin
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"DEAR MADAM--Great excitement prevails in our quiet little village at this time
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The promises have all been fulfilled
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"The Spirits.--Miss Catharine Fox, the spirit medium, accompanied by a married sister and a female friend, will remain a few days at the Walnut Street House, where they will be pleased to meet those who feel interested in these manifestations, and who desire t
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e my brethren, ye have,' etc.; and also, 'In my father's house there are many mansions;' but the belief I had on this point was always accompanied with a desire for more positive proof of immortality
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A large concourse of personal friends and friends of the cause of Spiritualism attended
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The famous conjurer Anderson, "The Wizard of the North," was exhibiting in New York, I believe in the large building called Tripler Hall, in the rear of a hotel on Broadway, near Bond Street
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It will be seen that that phenomenon actually occurred through my mediumship, though under circumstances and appearances highly suggestive (to our enemies) of trickery on my part, and such as naturally to awaken uneasiness in the minds of friends whom long exp
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We never gave public séances in darkened rooms
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[12] The frequency of the appearance of lights, or luminous appearances, at séances, is suggestive of the idea that Spirits often employ, in their manifestations, phosphorus in some form or condition--phosphorus probably drawn from the atmosphere, or from the
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"The members of the circle are expecting me to see you and have a talk with you respecting the manifestations of lights at Mr
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"After sitting a few moments they were directed to 'break the seal' (which was done by Mr
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"My attention was attracted to a bright light on the floor, when, at the same time, Leah noticed a bright, flashing light, rising from the mantel, and showing the picture over it distinctly
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Great doubt was expressed, in the press editorials of the day, of the honesty of the professors in thus expelling the student without giving him an opportunity to prove his integrity
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Townshend, attentive to whatever passed
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Raps and tipping of the table did not come as they usually do with him; yet he asked those at the table to write the names of deceased friends and roll up the slips
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Have you not the 'slightest hesitation' in setting down persons of character and station as wilful perjurers?--nay, as motiveless perjurers?
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"Inasmuch as my book treats only of spontaneous phenomena, not of those that are evoked, I have therein said nothing of the Foxes, except in connection with the narrative of what, in the olden time, would have been called the 'haunted house' of Hydesville; one
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"Desiring, after twenty years of public life, some more tranquil and philosophical field of labor, I discovered none which appeared to promise more useful results than this
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I judged it to be about four inches long and two and a half inches wide
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Emily--that was the girl's name--had been Mrs
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