Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-03-24

IOTScS 10 IdSleE lIldu u Walk. SO I0dl
we did not reach our destination until
daylight Sunday morning, March ID.
! Yours Truly,
J. I. CAMPBELL.
The Wonders Of SpirituaIism in Lon
! don.
[From the London Cor espondence Of the
Times.l
At this moment, next to the Ritual
ist controversy, l am inclined to think
that the most exciting topic in Lon
don society is spiritualism. 1t has
even been brought into the new
philosophical society, the Dialectieal,
which has several young lords among
its members, if no elderly soap boilers.
Making a call in Paternoster row the
other morning, 1 met a barrister of
some literary and scientific, as well as
legal reputation and social position,
who gave me an account of some re-
cent manifestations in the presence of
Mr.. Home, which have been witness
ed by hundred or more noblemen,
and literary and scientific notabilities,
and which are more astounding than
anything which has happened per-
haps for centuries. Passing over the
usual manifestations, such as the
raising of heavy bodies, playing on
| locked pianos, or so that the keys can
be seen to move without fingers,
come to three or four distinct mani
festations, the testimony to which is
very difficult to get over. My inform
ant is man every way reliable, and
the other witnesses, whose names
have been eonfidentially given me.
not only belonging to the highest
circles of politics and society, but
are men eminently capable of forming
correct judgement. These, then,
are the facts related: In several in
stances the body of Mr.. Home has
been elongated by measurement upon
the wall, and lying on the floor, to
the extent of eight or nine inches,
and then shortened as matchmaking
a carefully measured difference of a
foot and a half. He has been at
different times raised into the air
from the height of four feet TO that
of higher ceiling, and carried round
the room in the clear view Of all pres
ent, who have had the means of
assuring themselves that no deception
was possible. He was carried hori-
Zontally out of window in the third
story of the house of Lord, and
brought in at the window of another
room, some 80 feet distant, having
been carried through the air 40 feet
or more from the ground. Finally,
he has on several occasions taken a
large live coal from the fire, held it in
his hand, and laid it in the hands of
other persons, without even the smell
of fire or the sensation of heat being
perceived by them. My informant
showed me where his own fingers had /
been burned in testing the reality of
this manifestation. He assured me
that he had seen Mr.. Home 90 to a
large coal fire and lay his face upon
the white hot Goals without even |
singing his hair or beard. As this is
a pretty strong story, beg to append !
the following, which / find in the |
Spiritual Magazine for this month. |
Mr.. Hall is the we'll known editor of |
the Dirt JOlrndL-his wife, Mrs. S. G. |
Hall, is we'll known as writer, and |
has lately received a pension from the |
Queen.
10 ASHLEY PLACE,
Victoria street, S. w.
SIR: state facts without explana-
ton or comment. On the 9th of /
December 1 was sitting with nine |
other persons in my drawing-room |
Mr.. ID. ID. Home left the table, went |
to a bright fire, took thence a lump of |
"living coal +" brought it red to the |
table, and placed it on my head. Not |
a hair was singed, nor did 1 sustain |
any injury. The coal remained upon
my head about a minute Mr.. Home
then took it and placed it in Mrs.
Halls hand without injury to her,
and he afterwards placed it in the
hands of two of our guests. The gas
light and two candles were burning
in the room. / add that nine other
persons present would depOse to these
facts.
Your obedient servant,
s. G. HALL.
The editor adds the following note:
"At the conference at Lawson's
rooms, January IA, Mr.. II. D. Jenckin,
who was present on this occasion,
publicly stated the facts here given
by Mr.. Hall, and added several in
stance of the kind which he had
The fire test, he said, had
now been seen recently, at different
times, by more than fifty persons in
the metropolis and its neighborhood."
/ may add that know Mr.. Jenck-
in, and that he is a gentleman of
high scientific requirements as well
rs social position, and, 1 should say,
every way to be trusted. If there is
any value in human testimony, in
proof of any fact whatever, there can
M ha Il
1ineness of the facts above stated,
and you may judge of the perplexity
and CONSERVATION of men of science,
Fellows Of the Royal Society, and
)ther fellows, who think it is their
iuty to understand everything, to
explain what they do not understand,
md to have theory ready for every
act you can bring them. For long
lime they scornfully, and then sturdi-
Y, denied the facts, but when a man !
5 confronted in every company by ! !
nen of science as distinguished as
himself, and worse still by noble !
Lolds, who declare that they have
een and tested the very facts he
lenies, it becomes aggravating. I'M
Igine Professor Tyndale declaring l
hat the fire test is an impOssibility,
md an absurdity, q deception calmly
walks up Lord Adare, Lord Lytton,
Lord Dunraven, or any one of doz- !,
N equally satisfactory personages,
md assures the company present that
lie had live coal of fire placed in his
,wn hand and held it for two minutes;
hat there was no mistake about it G
t was seen by all his friends around a
lin; that so and so burnt his fingers c
rying to touch the coal, and it would t
laye burnt through an inch beard in g
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