New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-12


my house ffou, q disA,. CITY, and through nsr,
~ODe ertrsnced spd unconscious, VS. finished to my
laughter parting Injunction OF her mother, which
death bad interrupted too years before.
orwil it 10 to cay this was . mere reflex OF tue
nn'' of the Hy Dg, for ny dsugh'er alone koe~ Of
be injunction WI oh had been given, and knew n,
tie conclusion Until ,he thus heard it.
Tbu- has my II. d'umsh progressed from sshaiows
pe..on Of allegory to seeing spirits converting
.th tbsm, and receiving thoughts from them vito
and oiatiSc'ness. Why may not this be equally
tiu. of .ve.y one
Fou,h. MeOiumship has an itfuite variety Of phase
tho same that i, witnessed in human character and
human action, and absolutely precuiirg the idea Of
eOllusion.
Fifth. 1t comes q. its ple~ure, and not ours. B,
observing tie proper conaiton', We msy aid its
conirg. SO we may surround ourselves by crcum.
stances which viii re'ard or prevent in coming; bu'
We cannot make it come at pleasure. Taere is no
srs,er anomaly connected with the subject than the
extent and Of control over it, and part
of it where improvement by culture c.n be gre.ssr
Iris control seems to belong to part of his
ture and can be acquired by him entirely 10 fore
stall any power TO do harm.
SirA: Wherever it appears in whatever part Of
the world, it has the same general chsrac Arstics
Teus smorg the slaves at the South, learn that it
come, in the zane form ss among the free at the
North. have been told by missionary in S,u Do
niDgo that such was its appearance among the iguo-
rant negroes there. A French gentleman who had
bee u in Algeria described to the thing anopg
the Arabs Two Spsbards, who had never heard Of
the phenomenon found it obscurely in Ca5iz with the
same features. Al Eoglish gentleman came to my
house ont Of curiosity and bearing it described, sx
claimed that it the thing which had occurred
at bis fathers coun1y mansion year, sgo, bat they did
not know what it
This accordance in feature every where, is pretty
formidable argument against the theory Of COLLISION
and deusoD.
Serenh: Though have said that it depends mainly
on physical organization, must not be understood a.
Implying that mental moral do not Affect it.
know of DO kind Of mediumship that 10 entirely
empt from the effect Of the human mind, and know
many where, the power being abused has bsen
interrupted. The most frequent of interruption,
is the perverson of it to sefsh purposes. One me-
dun, knew who became grsspiDg, svanciou,, in
spite Of warnings. His power was Suspended until he
reform ed. young girl, taken from the streets as q
ray picker, with grea. po~en, was used BY an old
women TO make money out of. Not only was the child
tax en- from her, but the power taken from the child.
When is necessary for my daughter to rest fro her
LAHORE, the power is temporarily suspended.
But i. ia not always thst it will be stopped At our
pes,ure When the desire to stop it is purely eefsh,
they will often pay no attention to it. know Gaze,
where female afraid tina. her business might De hut,
,eu,.d 10 be used. She was followed by the ,nfss
tators until she yielded, aod then all wa well. My
caught and niece long resisted the belief and for
hnl. haur tad with
other p.rformar ces urtl they yielded, and then it
stopped If they omitted their evening devotions on
going to bed they would be disturbed uutl they said
their pray ers, and then all would be quiet.
could enumerate msny kindred instances, but my
space compels ns TO be content with saying, o. the
result of ny experience, that where the power is
yielded TO and used with good sense and from pure
motives, it dom hurts but il, generally productive
of good; but when perverted to selfish purposes, it
will frat or Last, be interrupted, or bring punishment
in its train, and sometime, botn.
Eighth: Meoiumshp fr, quently changes in the same
person in it's form Of snd this not a. the
Of ton of tn, instrument l know who, q. first,
was mednm for tapping, tsble-ppiOgs and the like;
then she wrote mechanically thoughts not her vi;
then she spoke in mary tongues; then she tang and
played words and music unknown TO her; then shs
p.,sop sted TIE departed then spirs; then spoke
by impression; then wa, cl,itvoysnt, s,eiDg earthly
distant Objects then che prophesed, and thsu CON-
D.uued freely with the dead, and conveyed their mes
,ages Of affection and instruction to their surviving
friends.
Ninth Ihsve observed that though i'll health will
rot always prevent yet sound state Of health s most
favorable to the manifestation, AID the health will
never be injured when the power is dscIeety used.
Indulgence in it, as in other things, will be
Injurious.
Ard, Finally, for sps,e compels me to stop, have
observed that, in every form which mediumship has
assumed, there hss been ever NANTES: great OBJ
iect 10 view-ste sdiy aimed at throusbou.-snd tina.
wss to open communication between morta's AMI the
il vi,ibe world and TO that end intelligence displaying
it.elf and forcing upon the rational mind this
most inro rtant inquiry, WHEscE CONES THIS ISrEL'
IIGrscE1 J. w. EDSoyDs.
Ne,eYO,k April 2, 1859.