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{{Style S-Small capitals| Spiritualist Services in Churchyard}}.—Mr. A. Klamborowski, of Tincleton, Dorchester, writes, in a recent number of ''The National'' ''Church, ''against the delivery in churchyards of funeral services by those who are not Episcopalians, and quotes in support of his view parts of a speech by Dr. Hitchman, of Liverpool, made soon after the death of a brother Spiritualist. Mr. Klamborowski says:—“Standing by the resting-place of the dead, this gentleman purposed to say, ‘Mr. Welch, the ‘''ordained’ ''chaplain of Anfield Cemetery, now reading stereotyped prayers at the adjacent receptacle for dust and ashes, may reiterate his theological parables to the end of-time. Spiritualists, and Spiritualists alone, possess the key of their mysteries, or the ethereal instrument that unlocks the door of the ‘Spiritual Temple.’ Speaking in consecrated ground, Mr. Hitchman intended to pour out the vials of his bitter scorn upon the very notion of consecration. He would, had he had the opportunity, have cried, ‘Consecrated ground! Why not ask benediction of atmospheric elements? Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Are Spiritualists henceforth to believe that the Lord created the earth and then left man to consecrate it? I trow not.’ But the ‘Doctor’ can bless as well as denounce. The Spiritualist, like the materialist, seems to have his wiser and better moments, and this is one of the new and revised gospels for prohibiting the preaching of which in God’s acre churchmen are at once lovingly warned and fiercely threatened by Nonconformists, who are so much more pure and liberal than themselves, ‘I would rather say,’ shouts the ‘Doctor’ in the ''Medium, ‘''instead of “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,” blessed are the living, either in the body of matter or that of spirit—who live in the truth of God, morally and scientifically, by acting in obedience to those laws of nature which are the Scriptures of Divine Philosophy, whether found in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall, the Vedas revealed directly to Brahma, the Zendavesta of the Persians, the Koran of Mohammed, the Pentateuch of the Hebrews, or the sayings and doings of Zoroaster, Socrates, Plato, and Confucius — nay, the alleged “miracles” of Christ Himself.’ Which, Sir, of the numerous sects into which Nonconformity is split would tolerate such blasphemous balderdash within their own unconsecrated chapel-yards?”
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| source details = No. 219, November 3, 1876, p. 166
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''To the Editor of “The Spiritualist.”''
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—''' '''As some proof of Spiritualism to the sceptic who would he more or less staggered by the extraordinary case now raging against Dr. Slade, will you give me a small space in your valuable paper for trustworthy circulation?
For the past month I have been very ill from bronchitis, and unable to leave my bed, when one evening my daughter (Lady L.) came to say good-night, with her baby in her arms, and, just as she kissed me, I heard ''distinctly ''the spirit voice of my husband say, “Tell her to wait, and you get up and go down first; do, do.” I, from postexperience, knowing that there was some danger imminent to this his favourite child, begged her to sit down and wait, which she most reluctantly consented to, as she feared the exposure to me in going through the cold air. But I got up, and being very weak I took rather longer to dress, and when I did go down, the moment I entered the bed-room a fearful crash sounded. On looking up there I saw ''more ''than twelve feet of the ceiling had fallen right on the bed. Any one piece of the mortar might have killed both mother and child. Now, I wonder if Mr. Maskelyne can do this; or can he explain where the voice came from uttering the same language used by one loved too dearly to be ever mistaken? No one can say “imagination,” for a severe bronchial cough leaves no room for ''stick ''pastime, and one would require an Eastern imagination to fancy the ceiling coming down; so, will the Lankesters, and Donkins, and Maskelynes explain this, and give their explanation publicly through your paper? If they succeed with this, I will promise to give them dozens of such experiences, which might somewhat dematerialize their self-confidence, and lack of courtesy to those so far progressed in their knowledge of the importance of the use and abuse of life here.
{{Style P-Signature in capitals| Charlotte Anderson.}}
Campbell House, Sandown, Isle of Wight, Oct. 30th, 1876.
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london_spiritualist_n.195_1876-05-19.pdf|page=13|London Spiritualist, No. 195, May 19, 1876, p. 239
london_spiritualist_n.219_1876-11-03.pdf|page=12|London Spiritualist, No. 219, November 3, 1876, p. 166
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