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| source title =Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = | | source details = No. 377, November 14, 1879, p. 236 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| As}} more experience has been gained, the experimentalists engaged in weighing mediums during ''seances ''are unanimously agreed that the automatic diagrams recently published were not obtained under satisfactory test conditions, and improvements are being made before new experiments will be undertaken. | ||
<center>''To the Editor of “The Spiritualist.”''</center> | |||
{{Style S-Small capitals| Sir}},—A letter from Dr. Wyld appeared in your number of October 24th, and our names being mentioned in it we had prepared a reply, stating that during the ''seances ''held lately in Museum-street we had neither seen nor felt both medium and form at the same time. This we did not publish, thinking it better to wait the result of further experiments. We now feel compelled to say publicly that we look upon the diagram in your number of October 17th as not only worthless as any test of materialisation, but as likely to mislead. We do not believe the fact of a certain amount of weight being recorded upon the drum of the machine to be any proof that the medium was not wholly outside the cabinet at that moment; nor do we think the mere use of a weighing machine (without additional precautions) any security against fraud, it being quite possible, by simple mechanical means, to hold down the cabinet, so that an apparent weight is indicated upon the diagram when, in fact, the cabinet itself is actually empty. The above remarks apply solely to the ''seances ''of which an account has been published, and have no reference to those held with other mediums. | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|C. C. Massey,}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Temple, Nov. 10, 1879.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|George C. Joad,}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Oakfield, Wimbledon.}} | |||
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... | <center>''To the Editor of “The Pioneer” (Allahabad).''</center> | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals| Sir}},—I am rather an inquirer than a propagandist in reference to Spiritualism, so I offer my experiences to others in the same frame of mind, on the Christian principle of doing as I would be done by, not in the expectation of making converts. I like to hear what other people have seen when I am sure they are giving me truthful accounts, so others may be glad of my report. | |||
I was at home for some months a few years ago, and had previously had little to do with this subject. The first person I saw at Charing Cross Station was an old friend who had come to meet me, and almost the first tiling be told me was that lie had, to his own amazement, become a partial believer in Spiritualism. Tn his own drawing-room, with none but members of his family about, except a medium whom he had held the whole time, chairs and other things had been moved about the room in an unnatural manner, &c. He formed no theories, but felt convinced there was “something in it.” I may add that my friend is a man of culture and some literary reputation.—a ''Saturday Reviewer, ''and so forth. I was soon drawn into the vortex, and became deeply interested. My friend’s family and my own form a large connected group. We held repeated {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-125}} | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.377_1879-11-14.pdf|page=10|London Spiritualist, No. 377, November 14, 1879, p. 236 | |||
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