Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-04-14
From the Spiritual Age.
News from the Spirit world.
DENoSsTRATTvE FACTS.

Hartford TGy77es' sketch Of Britain End
Hanson's discussion, full report ot
which is shortly TO appear:
The speaker then said that he would
comply 18th the gentleman's request
for 'sfacts." He was present al the
house Of Alvin Adams, ESQ, in Boston,
when apiano, weighing 900 lbs, with
three men sitting upon it whose weight
amounted to 400 lbs. more, rose bodi-
ly into the air, without mortal means,
and while suspended at o distance of
some feet from the floor, the instrument,
with all its legs raised from the floor,
correctly marked to the tune Of Hail
Columbia. One of the Harvard Pro
fessors seeing the occurrence, said he
must be psychological; when he was
advised to test the question by putting
his foot under the piano. H did 50,
and the piano, when it came DOWN,
came upon his waiting foot, and the
Professor was convinced by the whole
force Of 4 very oe~iyhty argument =
| Laughter. Now il the agents that
produce these things are all in this
world, as my friends declares, let him
use them and produce these phenomena!
If he does not grapple with these facts
and there are plenty Of them-if he
does not account for them; he fails to
sustain his position.
The speaker then proceeded to cite
many startling facts, within his own
knowledge, illustrative OF spiritual
guardianship and warnings, by means
of which, dangers have been avoided
and lives saved. He told how Dr.. J.
+. Gray, Of n. Y, while going to visit
a patient, was seized by an invisible
power, which stopped him i'll the street,
and filled him with q sudden and over
whelming conviction that he must 90 in
another direction, where his aiI was IN
stantly needed. lie obcyed the direc-
ton, went to y strangers house, enter
ed, and found there woman taken by
hemmorrhage which in five minutes
more would have left her q corpse. BY
an instantaneous operation, he saved
her life. Now there was power and
intelligence here which took IN interest
III human being, and knew where to
guide the Doctor, who possessed the
needed skill to save And here, said
the speaker, IS one of the USES Of spir-
itualism! These frequent premoujf;onS
and lnterventiOns of our spirit-friends
for our advantage furnish Of them
selves 4 sufficient answer to the QueS-
ton, Of what USES it, granting it to
be true He instanced case ut the
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gentleman was suddenly overwhelmed
with the conviction that he must change
his Seut-that an awful danger was i'm
pending-that he must instantly leave
his seat, and go to the back part Of tie
car. He did 50; and another passcn-
ger, less susceptible to spirit impress
ions, went forward and took the vacant
seat. I'm a minute more, the cars made
that tri@htful plunge, and the car in
which this gentleman was, broke IN tlr0
M the centre, the forward part going
down, and the back part remaining =
The man who took the vacant seat was
killed, by 4 large splinter piercing his
brain! while the gentleman who felt
the warning intervention, escaped .un-
iliiiilct L ne similar case Oh non. N.
p. Tallmadge, at the bur.ting Of the
''Big Gun" on board the Princeton,
was also cited Mr. Tallmadge was
forced against his own will and efforts,
by an invisible power, to leave his place
near the gun, and 60 below; and the
next instant the explosion occurred,
sending q mass Of iron through the
breast of a man who had stepped into
his place, the moment Mr.. T. had left
it.
Ifyou reject such cases as these,
happening in our own time, and to hun
drcds of living witnesses, what right
have YOU to command IN mlileI woll3
to believe that Joseph, two thousau'
years ago, was inspired in 4 dream ?
In 50 doing, YOU aim daring blow at
the v"rv foW}l0tions OF the ChriSti@n
religion? | expect, that notwithstand
ing til" cIcrGEm"n this c.tg probably
regard me rs an ''luijdeI,7 | shall vet
see them thank me for defending tn"
truths which lie 1T the foundations Of
their faith, from tie assaults of their
own churches,