New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04


m object placed before the camerai this Is tho the
bogus shenstone ghost was photographed; sheet tea
friend were the only persons ia the room Could We
tncEi And il we we're deceived how did the cOnfeder
ate who pcrsonated the spirit make herself Transparent
u she eset ~ sho ar LOT a on1 down
through tho air They are all rs transparent as goSsa
Inor. How then we're they takeni was In haste 10
form my conclusions Another case came under my no
tice
photo raphers OF tho city to have some tntypes
lie about 20 close his rooms for the day Tho Rrl
coming over her eyes. She spoke OF It TO Mr. A.. who
was standing by the Samers lie told her she g be
plate, pair OF hands appeared on each face! There
were eight faces on the sheet This photograph Is very
remarkable l have examined four OF the Impressions,
and have Of them in my possession The hands are
olasped around the girls neck They are shown up 10
They are transparent ono hand comes down over the
girls chin and you right through 1t tho perfect OUT
to ali these pictures Judge Edmonds tesaes that the
spirits he sees are transparent and ono o. the eso
that he sees spirits In the same way.
Now you cannot suppose that these hands had oeen
photographed the tin before The photographer tes
me that he used sheet Suppose do not Deheve
him. How, then, did the hands appear orer the race
srS Yon viii see that the little finger and ring finger
OF the left hand thrust under the girls collar lou
must say then. that girl aud hands were oil taken TO-
gether And did some one steal In and clasp her
hands around the girls neck and still elude the eye OF
himself and the girl. Suppose did steal In how
did sho make her hands transparent and conceal the
rest OF her bodyi The photographer Is man whose
word no one will doubt He tells me that he had never
Thought spirit photography that lie has no theory
that he only knows tho h'O0' came 'n'0uSn '''' y
Now eentemen-you who have not settled these ques.
tiops on prio groundscan you escape the conclusions
10 which have been drlVcnf I'D.
First: That the sensitzed plate may be more sensNo
TO light than the human eye.
Second That men and wOmen-sprits, but not moor
porealcan under certain conditions c0the ner Perso
n, oIoY mn
II these things true the world had never such neeu
Of kn2wns them We are oins our 5 1 daad IN are @
ing but think of them as gauzy distractions
their talk OF the after life. and tell us their faith
that our loved ones who have gone before are rea'
human beings with human forms and human affections
we call them dreamers. Haucuatlon Is tho mlldese
word we apply them. While reading report OF the
trial OF Muer and finding LAWYERS trying TO break tho
testimony OF witnesses because OF their belief IN spirits
Thought OF the words OF living German philosopher
No ono who has eyes to fail TO remark that tho
bce I'm te Immortality OF the soul has long been enaeed
from ordinary life" We witness on the Bible;
ana IHTe R tho writers u the New were
not mistaken when, almost every page they SPEAK OF
spirits and admOnish "to try the spiritsp whittier
are we driflngl How would an item like this appear IN
THE TRBUNEi ,, -, -.
"The Bishop OF Rhode Island has written 70 the Bishop
OF New.YOrk that three men whom he mad known III
providence appeared 20 him and talked with him after
their deceaso The Rhode Island Bishop thinks tha Dad
snr, cnn personae good and deceive us but no is
confident that these three spirits were reay MS ehus
The Bishop Of NowYork has replied that douOtless
there are deceu spirits and false visions ana Wishes
that we had some sure means OF Distinguishing 'Neih
from the true" 80, -. -,
our departure from the faith OF primitive Christianity
For the Bishop Rhode Island put Exodus Bshop IN
Africa ana or Inc bishop OF EewYork put Augustine,
and for tho nineteenth put the fourth century, ana you
have historical truth. u.-., -.
told Won So But modern science AYERS that spirits are
ilusione" What sciencei II tree had sense ana SCI
ence suppose that such science Woud deYSoP
might fay Animals arc illusions. They come ana 80
ont OF dead spaces by vegetable law ana our science
OF stumps AYERS that birds appar0ns, ana That lo
blress and bcastless wilderness vegetable OfhOdoay
Boston, Mass, April 20, 1869. Nd L.