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There are just three ways explaining these manifestations. The first is, that they are produced by confederates. The second, that the mediums personate them by means of masks and secret wardrobes. The third is that they are what the mediums claim them to be, manifestations of materialized spirits, or of some active force or mysterious power which is equivalent to spirits. As to their being produced by confederates, even Dr. Beard, from the examination he made, admitted that was impossible. The new cabinet, put up while I was there, settles the question of confederates if Dr. Beard did not. But the most satisfactory and confirmatory proof of all is obtained at the seances of the sister of the Eddys, Mrs. Huntoon, who lives neighbor to the brothers. There you see with your own eyes two or three spirit forms, while the medium is in plain sight. At one of her seances. I tied her hands and feet with ropes, using knots I was taught to tie by one of the most expert detectives of spiritual frauds I have ever seen; knots, too, which no person, not a medium, can untie. When thus tied to her chair, while sitting in plain view, two spirit forms appeared at once. One of them came out in to the room where the spectators and mediums were, and showed himself in full form, and was recognized by a brother in the audience, with whom he shook hands. | There are just three ways explaining these manifestations. The first is, that they are produced by confederates. The second, that the mediums personate them by means of masks and secret wardrobes. The third is that they are what the mediums claim them to be, manifestations of materialized spirits, or of some active force or mysterious power which is equivalent to spirits. As to their being produced by confederates, even Dr. Beard, from the examination he made, admitted that was impossible. The new cabinet, put up while I was there, settles the question of confederates if Dr. Beard did not. But the most satisfactory and confirmatory proof of all is obtained at the seances of the sister of the Eddys, Mrs. Huntoon, who lives neighbor to the brothers. There you see with your own eyes two or three spirit forms, while the medium is in plain sight. At one of her seances. I tied her hands and feet with ropes, using knots I was taught to tie by one of the most expert detectives of spiritual frauds I have ever seen; knots, too, which no person, not a medium, can untie. When thus tied to her chair, while sitting in plain view, two spirit forms appeared at once. One of them came out in to the room where the spectators and mediums were, and showed himself in full form, and was recognized by a brother in the audience, with whom he shook hands. | ||
The question of personation in this case is absurdly impossible, for the medium is before you and bound hands and feet. The impossibility of confederates is just as absolutely proved in this case as in that of her brothers Now let me ask you what other conclusion could any person come to, in view of such proofs, than the one to which I have come. I have not enumerated a fiftieth part of the proofs and tests that I had while there. This medium, though tied in the way above described, when placed behind the curtain was untied IN TEN SECONDS. 1will give any juggler, or sleight of hand performer, ten dollars, who will get out in twenty minutes, without help or without tutting or breaking the ropes, after I have thus tied him. | The question of personation in this case is absurdly impossible, for the medium is before you and bound hands and feet. The impossibility of confederates is just as absolutely proved in this case as in that of her brothers Now let me ask you what other conclusion could any person come to, in view of such proofs, than the one to which I have come. I have not enumerated a fiftieth part of the proofs and tests that I had while there. This medium, though tied in the way above described, when placed behind the curtain was untied IN TEN SECONDS. 1will give any juggler, or sleight of hand performer, ten dollars, who will get out in twenty minutes, without help or without tutting or breaking the ropes, after I have thus tied him. I don't believe he can get loose in a l week without assistance. The fact is there is a great under lying truth on which this subject of Spiritualism rests, which lives and grows in spite of all the fraud and juggling, which pretended mediums exhibit, and in spite of the ridicule of the press and the denunciation of skeptics. It is on that truth that my filth is founded. | ||
For a ten dollar bill I will guarantee the expends and a week’s board to any skeptic who will go there and stay a week, and produce satisfactory evidence that Mrs. Huntoon's manifestations arc produced by fraud. It is worth a journey to San Francisco to witness these manifestations My faith in God, in the Bible, in true Christianity, and in not only the immortality of the spirits, but the resurrection of the body has been strengthened by what I have seen at the Eddy’s. I can see only good to the whole human family to come from a right understanding and use of this wonderful and mysterious power. | For a ten dollar bill I will guarantee the expends and a week’s board to any skeptic who will go there and stay a week, and produce satisfactory evidence that Mrs. Huntoon's manifestations arc produced by fraud. It is worth a journey to San Francisco to witness these manifestations My faith in God, in the Bible, in true Christianity, and in not only the immortality of the spirits, but the resurrection of the body has been strengthened by what I have seen at the Eddy’s. I can see only good to the whole human family to come from a right understanding and use of this wonderful and mysterious power. | ||