The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-10-12


Wait 10 = New Spirit Hall.
OK tho third floor Of brick building on the
,rncr II Eighth avenue and Sixteenth stcect is q
hail, which will hereafter he devoted to what may be
called ghosty Intelligence Office, and its first essay
in the busincas was made on Sunday evening last
On large placard placed at the foot Of the second
night Of stairs, read, "spirtuL Circles up stairs
every evening"" together with long list II the won-
cerfu things there at all times. Tho stairs leading
10 the hall and dirty, and tho hall itself Of
peculiar shspe being only sbou,otweve feet wide and
thirty or forty Ia length. ~ seats all ranged
lcngthwise Ia the room. the furthOst end
Of which, from tho de8k weaker, and sscre-
taries stand. On slAaAS evening last, wlen
our reporter entered the M, aftor submitting ba
toll Of Ave cents At the door, . Mrs FRKSou was oc
cupying the speakers stand. She Is a moderately
goodlcoking woman, evidently strong minded, on
the occasion we mention, wore q bluo dross, sud
though she stood Immediately before . couple of
brillisnt gas lights, her eyolids, which wore stretched
10 their fullest o,tont, never once attempted wink.
sho was now supposed to be In . trance state, and
was speaking with great rapidity and earnsstnnas.
The animAting spirit was evidently not that ofa Mua
kAr SMITH, but stu she got along very gnbly In
her exposition Of the doctrines Of "unioldment" aud
"spiituA development" As the privilege was
granted TO the audience Of asking tho spirit quos
tons little old gentleman WAS peculiarly anxious
to learn where the spirit first comes from, whether
they created from earth they needed, like
the body, kept ready, (bottled wo going
10 syJ manufactured. lie was promptly referred
10 "Tho fountain u litc" II information he
evidently thought very vague, and the locality Vi said
fountain doubtful 10 his mind the aforesaid
origin. Ills queries at length brought out the real
state Of facts, thAt "it was an emanatlon Of the d
vine essence of the immortal gsrn from the
fountain II lfo." Tho spirit sool soomoJ
to exhaust It's subject In this direction aud addressed
itself particularly to unbeievors accounting for tho
false prophecies and mistaken revelations Of the spr-
It's by tho explanation that the spirits of ethsr living
or departed persons exercised q powerful influence
over tho mind OF the medium, and the revelations
often those of the mind u an unbo.ieyer noar
tho MEDIUM, who Was more under ths immoii.to
control Of the spirit In tue living form than in tho
other world
After Mrs. FEssCu, or tho spirit through her, had
thuss s.0kcn for a considerable length Of tnc, tho
influence departed, and she stood rubbing her eyes,
and pparently exhausted. A white headed old tou-
teman, she seated herself, took advantage Of tao
silence Which ensued, t. remind tho audience that she
had never winked through the whole performance,
and he inferred nom thi, that she must have been
under spirit CONTROL The inluiring mind Of the ittlo
gentleman Was not yet satisfied, and he modssty in-
sinusted that though ho thought 1t was all very WE'LL
still he couldn't understand 1t. Mrs r. again rose and
this time enlarged this life being merely school
for the next, and SiloncSd the little man by telling him
that "ths revelation Of tho origin Of immortality
could not lie made except by transgression OF tho
avs Of God" She took the ground that crimes wero
never committed except when tho spfit committing