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{{Style S-HPB SB. Editors note|Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. II, April, 1875, pp. 44-5|center}}
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{{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|Published in "A Modern Panarion", p.25 as "The Holmes Controversy Continued"|center}}
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  | source details = Boston, Vol. II, April, 1875, pp. 44-5.
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SOME LIGHT ON THE KATIE KING MYSTERY—MORE EVIDENCE—A STATEMENT, AT LAST, WHICH SEEMS CONSISTENT WITH CIRCUMSTANCES—A LETTER FROM MADAME BLAVATSKY.{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|#<ref>{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|# <u>Ordered</u> to expose Dr. Child. I did so. The D’ is a hypocrite, a liar & a fraud. }}
SOME LIGHT ON THE KATIE KING MYSTERY—MORE EVIDENCE—A STATEMENT, AT LAST, WHICH SEEMS CONSISTENT WITH CIRCUMSTANCES—A LETTER FROM MADAME BLAVATSKY.{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|#}}


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In the last Religio-Philosophical Journal (for February 27th), in the Philadelphia department, edited by Dr. Child, under the most poetical heading of “After the Storm comes the Sunshine,” we read the following:
{{Style P-No indent|In}} the last Religio-Philosophical Journal (for February 27th), in the Philadelphia department, edited by Dr. Child, under the most poetical heading of “After the Storm comes the Sunshine,” we read the following:


{{Style P-Quote|“I have been waiting patiently for the excitement in reference to the Holmes fraud to subside a little. I will now make some further statements and answer some questions.”}}
{{Style P-Quote|“I have been waiting patiently for the excitement in reference to the Holmes fraud to subside a little. I will now make some further statements and answer some questions.”}}
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These “mediums” are persecuted; so far, it is but justice, since they themselves admitted their guilt about the photography fraud, and ''unless it can be shown that they were thereunto controlled by lying spirits'', their own mouths condemn them; but what is less just, is, that they are slandered and abused on all points and made to bear ''alone'', all the weight of a crime, where ''confederacy'' peeps out from every page of the story. No one seems willing to befriend them—these two helpless uninfluential creatures, who, if they sinned at all, perhaps sinned through weakness and ignorance—to take their case in hand and by doing justice to them, do justice at the same time to the cause of truth. If their guilt should be as evident as the daylight at noon, is it not ridiculous that their partner Dr. Child should show surprise at being so much as suspected! History records but one person, the legitimate spouse of the great Caesar—whose name has to remain enforced by law [as] above suspicion; methinks, that if Dr. Child possesses some natural claims to his self-assumed title of Katie King’s “Father Confessor,” he can have none whatever to share the infallibility of Madame Caesar’s virtue. Being pretty sure as to this myself, and feeling, moreover, somewhat anxious to swell {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-24}}  
These “mediums” are persecuted; so far, it is but justice, since they themselves admitted their guilt about the photography fraud, and ''unless it can be shown that they were thereunto controlled by lying spirits'', their own mouths condemn them; but what is less just, is, that they are slandered and abused on all points and made to bear ''alone'', all the weight of a crime, where ''confederacy'' peeps out from every page of the story. No one seems willing to befriend them—these two helpless uninfluential creatures, who, if they sinned at all, perhaps sinned through weakness and ignorance—to take their case in hand and by doing justice to them, do justice at the same time to the cause of truth. If their guilt should be as evident as the daylight at noon, is it not ridiculous that their partner Dr. Child should show surprise at being so much as suspected! History records but one person, the legitimate spouse of the great Caesar—whose name has to remain enforced by law [as] above suspicion; methinks, that if Dr. Child possesses some natural claims to his self-assumed title of Katie King’s “Father Confessor,” he can have none whatever to share the infallibility of Madame Caesar’s virtue. Being pretty sure as to this myself, and feeling, moreover, somewhat anxious to swell {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-24}}  


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