The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-12-06
III listcllonp. j .
SpiritualiSnn,

OI spliltuallsnl. ABOUT Wnlcn tncre can
scarcely be diversity Of opinion. lie
takes the melancholy wreck of the Are
tic as his theme; and that his reason is
a wreck is conclusion that can scarce
ly be resisted. To the spirit world man
kind have looked for an unclouded intel
ligcncc. but Judge Edmonds represents
disonbodicd spirits rs seeking instruc-
tiou and guidance from finite and fallible
mat He speaks of himself as a medium
bctv cen the spirits themselves, who are
unconscious of each others presence in
his company. lie writes of the loss of
the Arctic, pnd says he imbibcd the idea
that there were present with him at least
hundred of the lost passengers, but the
names he gives and the conversations he
details have little relation to them. He
imagines he saw the spirits and couvers.
ed with them lie saws:
"N. D. Blunt. late District Attorney.
Bishop Wainwright. Isaac T. Hopper.
DR.. Cory, and others of our spirit friends,
were also present and occasionally spoke
through or to some of us
Il plainly saw the whole assomblaec.
and particularly one Of them, with whom
| had been we'll acquainted. lie was la
boring under great mental excitement
lie exclaimed to me Good God, Ed.
monds Can this be truel Is death,
after all. what You said it was, and is
death ? Can it be possible this is the
change which death makes 2
Il answered, 'Ycr see. You eau
judge for yourself Bring your own
clear intellect to bear upon it, and you
can understand it
But he said, where am |? What
must | do Where am goingl Is
this to be always sol'
j told him No, by no means il it to
be always so. But it will be difficult for
the to tell you what to do. for cannot
know all the circumstances which sur
round you But there Is one close at
haud who eau tell you and who can assist
you'
Nv ho is that q lie asked
answered. Our old friend, Blunt
He said Nat Is he here 3
Where ? let me see him Let me hear
from HIM where am, and what am to
do
This conversation had thus far been
between me and that spirit direct, and
now Mr., Blunt came through my daugh
ter AMI said Judge. tell him am nda,
a, hand. ready to assist him. and he has
only eancs,ly TO wish it. and hear me
himself Now.ts mini is in such un
certainty and confusion that neither bis
LrotLcr nor can make ourselves visible
to him
"This BEING said to me in an audible
yoicc was hoard olso bv The shirt who
no lopcer raid opv attention to me. but
turned ia where Blunt was. and soon en-
pogeJ in conversation with hin.n
Uo dcscribcs otLcr shirts as left how
crinr near the earth in n state of amaze
moni excitement and conCnsion of mind
and sol;citinc fran, him counsel and di
rcction
Ano,her whom, 7 had well known
so;d to mo with = coed 1cul of emotion
Friend Edmonds is if truc then. this
which | always thonoht nm illusion Of
thy insane mind 1t truely seems so
know tbot + have dicJ int I know
that seem as much upor earth as ever
and talk to thro nc nlainlv rs ever |
d;J Oh toll mo What ali this meals
and wLatam II To doi
II rctcrrcd linn TO Father IIorpcr
wbo wns ,roso,, nna ,vbo conl1 instruc,
him, hn,,dn ,Lan 7 oanl1 flo shronl
from ,h;s ,nI ron,;ndod mo that he and
Mr. II hn5 mo, n"r"oJ vnry wen unor
cor,h ha'in'' M ~" h.Js so,ao d;ficult;es with
cach o,lar i, ,''no,;,'r., That i. in tLoi,
rol;n;ona soo;",' 1's
nNr H.? onsn,lo to me tbrouol
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