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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title|A Word of Advice To The Singing Medium, Mr. Jesse Sheppard.}}
{{Style P-HPB SB. Title|A Word of Advice To The Singing Medium, Mr. Jesse Sheppard.}}
{{Style S-HPB SB. Editors note|Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. II, July 8,1875, p. 209|center}}
{{Style S-HPB SB. Editors note|Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. II, July 8,1875, p. 209|center}}
{{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|This was published in "A Modern Panarion," p. 86, as "A {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|...}}"|center}}


I am truly sorry that a spiritualist paper like the Religio-Philosophical Journal, which claims to instruct and enlighten its readers, should suffer such trash as Mr. Jesse Sheppard is contributing to its columns to appear without review. I will not dwell upon the previous letter of this very gifted personage, although everything he has said concerning Russia and life at St. Petersburg might be picked to pieces by any one having merely a superficial acquaintance with the place and the people; nor will I stop to sniff at his nosegays of high-sounding names—his Princess Bulkoffs and Princes This and That—which are as preposterously fictitious as though, in speaking of Americans, some Russian singing medium were to mention his friends Prince Jones or Duke Smith, or Earl Brown—for if he chooses to manufacture noble patrons from the oversloppings of his poetic imagination, and it amuses him or his readers, no great harm is done. But when it comes to his saying the things he does in the letter of July 3rd, in that paper, it puts quite a different face {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on||1-38}}
I am truly sorry that a spiritualist paper like the Religio-Philosophical Journal, which claims to instruct and enlighten its readers, should suffer such trash as Mr. Jesse Sheppard is contributing to its columns to appear without review. I will not dwell upon the previous letter of this very gifted personage, although everything he has said concerning Russia and life at St. Petersburg might be picked to pieces by any one having merely a superficial acquaintance with the place and the people; nor will I stop to sniff at his nosegays of high-sounding names—his Princess Bulkoffs and Princes This and That—which are as preposterously fictitious as though, in speaking of Americans, some Russian singing medium were to mention his friends Prince Jones or Duke Smith, or Earl Brown—for if he chooses to manufacture noble patrons from the oversloppings of his poetic imagination, and it amuses him or his readers, no great harm is done. But when it comes to his saying the things he does in the letter of July 3rd, in that paper, it puts quite a different face {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-38}}


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