Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-30

SPIRITUALIsM.-The experiments at Boston by
which Spiritualism was to be tested, were brought
to close, on Saturday evening, after searching
Investigation OF three days during which time all
the best test mediums that could be summoned
from far and near were present. with company
composed ofsome five or six OF the sauans of Har-
ward University. The Boston Courier saws of
the investigation -
When the Courier made its offer of five hun
dred dollars, to be paid upon the exhibition of
certain Phenomena, which thousands of people
oeileve themselves to have witnessed, it had not
the slightest faith in the phenomena The only
apparent reason why no manifestations occurred
IN the present instance, was. that the operators
were overlooked by men Of intelligence educa-
llon; observation, experience, and integrity. The
result has correspOnded precisely with our antic.
lpatl0ns, although great efforts were made to
nave some OF the strongest test mediums in the
country present. They were present. and mani
testify and confessedy without power The con
oltlons under which spirits cannot or will not
act are, that men in the possession of their fac.
mites shall be present with their faculties awake
and active. AnS other pretended conditions are
JUST suited to impose on the credulity Of those
whom imposition always finds its only too ready
victims
In realty, nothing resembling manifestations
was produced during the whole sittings except
certain raps by the Foxes, on the first day.-
lnese were not made, as the Gazette states, 'on
the hoori the table, the ceiling, and other places
nor were they produced with n ost distinct.
ness. Ihey were not only faint but they were
evidently made, about the persons of the mediums
tine Foxes) or on places which they touehed--
ms was admitted to the committee by Dr. Gard
ner. NO other medium produced solitary rap
Yet the committee was present on the first day
as on all other days, and it is to be presumed
that the same conditions were necessary then as
dTteFWaruS. hoaa r. g.
incredibly of the committee and never appeared
again. In tact, there were those present 'of the
skeptics VINO, without calling upon spirits, could
DO all the rapping better than the Foxes, with the
aid OF all the spirits they could con mand. And
beyond all controversy, it was apparent to the
end of the proceedings, that the mediums and
their AUDITORS, who had appeared before the COM
mlttee, under various fall re pretences of superhu-
man power, were In reality only 'wretched and
miserable, and poor and blind and naked
The representative Of the Courier was present
at all the sittings, and this statement IS made
entirely upon our own responsibility Except to
correct error, we should not feel ourselves war
ranted even thus lar to anticipate the report Of
the Committee. Whenever that appears, it will
confirm every former investigation of scientific
men, with this additional advantage to the pub.
Ec-that no such complete opportunity has ever
before been afforded 10 the spiritualists that no
sucb congregation of test mediums has ever
before examined the whole subject, or who could
nave given to it more patience, or candid attn
tloh, or VINO nave spent upon it much time, or
who could have been more actuated BY the sole
desire to discover what could or what could not
be done. That there will be certain class Of
minds to which their report will neither afford
satisfaction nor bring conviction, we can easily
anticipate But even these will eventually learn
that science is a substantial thing, not to be tri.
NED with, or set aside, and that no general error
can long prevail against the intelligent demon.
stration of truth"