Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-17

MRs. HATCH, the Spiritualst, closed her
lectures OF experiments, on Wednesday even
ing, and met with complete success. There
was no failure in anything she attempted, no
hesitation in answering any question upon
any subject, and all answers were satisfactory
to the persons submitting the questions. 1t
only remains to know by what POWER she
speaks and acts To say that she does it of
herself, is to invest her with understanding,
information, cultivation, and taste. possessed
by no person that we have ever seen or heard
of, while it is obvious TO every one that she
is not above ordinary intellects, and her years
preclude the possibility of her being CONVEX
SAINT with all topics that come before her.
First, it is noticeable that her use of language
is most perfect All that n P. Willis said of
her was proved here. The closest observa-
ton of the best scholars in town, did not dis
cover the misuse OF single word and her
utteranoe was as beautiful and perfect as the
language. Each meeting was opened and
closed with prayer, and we never before heard
such prayers so simple, so beautiful, so earn
est, so spiritual. NeYt the selection of topics
forbade every possibility of collision or fraud.
She did not propose to lecture upon any GER
tain subject, but at the openingof each meet
ing the audience were called upon to select
committee, and that committee could submit
any topic, scientific religious, or political /;
and upon that she agreed to speak; and upon
such she did speak with great eloquence and
great wisdom. On the first evening they
asked her to discourse upon spiritual medium
ship. On the second day they submitted two
questions first, the distinctive physiolog-
zeal, intellectual, and psychological character
of the African race the second, the history
and philosophy of the vertebral theory of the
skeleton, and its application to science TO
show the fairness Of the transaction, she asked
the audience which they would hear dis
cussed, and they took the former.
What could be more fairs There was no
arrangement between the committee and the
speaker, for nobody knew who the committee
were to be, and least of all what question
they would select. But whatever the ques-
ton, though it might be such that not one in
hundred of the audience We're capable of
investigating, she goes on as though she had
studied the matter for a life time She COM
menced with the African race from their ori-
gin, denying that they had a common parent
age with the whites, and followed them down.
distinguishing between them and the ancient
Egyptians, and giving their habits of life and
characteristics of mind and modes of worship,
with as much ability as Professor FELTON,, or
Agassiz, or any of the philosophers who have
OPpuseu splINualISIu, WOulQ nave. eANlOlUeU,
Now we will not say that there is not man,
and never was man, who could upon one
minutes notice lecture upon any subject that
could be named, and do it with the facility,
and learning, and beauty, displayed by Mrs.
Hatch, but we have never heard of that per-
son, and know not-where he can be found.
But she went further. After the address she
was ready to give any explanations, and to
remove any doubts that might hang about the
meaning of her words and we are satisfied
and We believe that nine in ten at least, of all
who heard her, were satisfied that she was not
in natural state. We are driven to this con
clusion, or we must admit. what appears to
be more questionable, that mentally she is
superior to any other person. IF not in
normal condition, then by what influence does
she speak She claims that it is a spiritual
power. If she is not right, by what power is
it F? If we deny her affirmation, we feel bound
to give some other explanation more rational,
and that explanation we have not. The blind
man in olden times, refused to say by what
power his blindness had been healed, but the
fact he asserted, that whereas he was blind he
could see; and that's all we have to say about
it the facts are as we have stated, and five
hundred persons each evening were witnesses
thereto, but by what influence they were so
we leave each person to say for himself
Neao5aryport Herald.