New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-09
SPIRITUbLIST "BENEFIT" AT HOPE
CHAPEL.

was announced that tho benefit of Miss Emms
Frapces Jay, speaking ard writing medium Of some
celebrity would take place last evening before the
Public Circle Of Spirtualists, at Hope Chapel Ii
was not promised that talented company Of distin-
eushed spirits were engaged, aud would perform
positively for this occasion only, but as the fair
beneficiary has been terms of intimate friendship
for the past two years with everybody in the Spirit
world that is worth knowing it wss confidently hoped
the Terrestrio- Celestials would be on hand. When
the hour arrived, one or two songs were admin
isered in very diluted state to the waiting audi
ence; after which an individual, with an exceedingly
birsu,e countenance, made some few remarks about
the character of the coming performance stating IN
effect that would consist only of vocal esponses TO
questions TO be proposed by the assembly to the me-
dun ard responded 10 by the oblging Sp,rits-ln.
sipusiing that the tsble-tippng, chairmoviDg, sud
other pleasant cabnetware recreat0ns OF tue higher
inielg could be dspens ID with on this occa-
zion 1hir announcement occasloned some disap-
pontment TO many who, not willing to trust alone 10
hear.ssy evidence, desired ocular proof OF the
presence of the intangible hsbters OF both this world
and some other But il was settled that they were to
witness 10 Heterogeneous hornpipes by the ma
Logany 10 eccentric perambulatiOns by the chairs,
and even "pas seul' by the pulpit sofs was not to
be hoped tor. .
Several slips of paper were handed up by iaquisl-
tive iuCtylQuhls In the h-ctUUlcu WIN
vers queries written thereon, concerning the after
state of spirits the truth Of the doctrine OF eternal
punishment the genulneLess OF the ths0ry Oh spirit
ussm and sundry other equally satisfsctoty aostrac-
ton the exact truth Of which hos been 40 thoroughly
revealed and mechanically demonstI ated 10 Us,
that We could tell 10 fraction the correctn es OF the
replies Seriously, not single QUESTION was pro-
tosec which might not have been answered 10 any
one OF hundred different weys, without me sZneest
fear OF contradiction OF reuotest possibility OF ever
sscertsining whether the answer was true or fase.
Several Of these definite inquiries having been So
lected for discussion Miss Jay rose TO ner ieet snut
her eyes opened her mouth, and waited to see snst
the Spirits would put into II. Al the word TO-
one or mole Of these accommodating gentry TOOK
Possession Of the rather cOmely mstera body OF the
Medium AID forthwith CONNER ced addressing the au-
oepoe in asepuchrs tone and nervous manner being
PROBABLY unsccustomed to public speaking, oy
upetrs Il the taking apparatus apperfsning ~ tne
BODY aforesaid at the zane tine schieying consia-
ersfle melodrsmsiC gestic1aion with the arms
thtreurfO belonging.
lives no essy matter 10 decide upon The eIsct
character Of the complicated hsrsngue which eSsusd
first II Wa something wonderfully muddy suh uu-
irteeible about the connection Of the physical add
suititi,l bodies with msgniloqaent cescTIpuon OF
ceaih scene IN which the new spnu g. oody wac 'eP'e
s.pfeC a. sgrCuLDg from the cazt-of earthiy cofPs
dining Y process Of ci soutOn, n the tsne way as
new potato shoot pprings from the decsying psren.
bulb: then Il assumed Philosophical pnese' %, g2'
sw.uped In the my steries OF electricity then TOOK
on a Pathological aspect, but was soon sLangied IN
The tbroes Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES j Numbered
on irto sea of shallow metaphysics which yet was
full ceep enough to utterly wreck the communicating
spiris, whoever be might be.
Ore sspert Celestial voacbsafed the news thas the
world has been created millions Of years, com non
opinion TO the contrary. notwithstanding; and said
tfst the men restored TO life by the miraculous power
Of the Savior were only half dead, 30 the perform
auce did 1ot amount to much anyhow. with 0ther re-
marks equally ecifying and Christi .n like The re-
6isquisifioD on the origin Of evil, and reha.h II
BON bssc lang usge of of the wss&est Of tnos:
stale and shallow sophisms Of Infdelity which nss
been long aimee exploded BY sound logic and sI'ons
common serse. When the speaking was ova, 10 y
ten words had been ssid relevant TO the ques'ns
srs, propose, aad the gulhbls qusrists voa1' ns''