Litchfield enquirer., 1870-01-13

no faith; twill burn you Lady c. ex.
 tended her hands, asaying:--' will take it
 without fear. for I have faith Mir. Home then placed the burning mass in her
 hands, and she did not feel it at ali hot,
 although she held it for at least one min
 ute. It was afterwardo put on e. sheet of paper, which directly began to blaze and
 had great hole burned in it. 'N El'@
 This matter is of such exceeding inter. est to mengof science as well as inQuirers
 into the marvellous, that I copy, entire one further testomony-a letter from the well known authoress, Mrs. s. 0. Hall 60 the
 Earl of Danraven, which also forms uart of the appendix to the volume before me:
 15 ASHLEY. PLACE. July 5, 1869. I Dear Lord Dunraven-You have request cd me to recall the circumstances of o seaace that took place here several weeks ago. have much pleasure in doing 90: but never take notes. I am, however. cert.in of the facts, though shall not be able to place them in the order in which they occurred. 4-~zr .s%sfe.-,, g -...,...-..s We were nine Ia greater number than MT. Home hkes}; we were seated round the table, as usual, in the small clraviuR. room, which communicates with ., much
 larger room; the folding doors were push ed back into the wall, and the portiers r,n. closed. think there was one lamp burn. ing over the table, and very large fire was blazing away in the, large room. know that there was great deal of light.
 The Master of Lindsay, Rsvs Mr. Y-- ana his wife, Mir. Hall and myself, Mr. I Home, and the Misses Bertoiacci were present. We sat for some time before the tremulous motion, that so frequently indi- cates stronger manifestations, commenced.
 but it was quickly followed by raps, not only on the table, but in different parts of the room; the table was moved up and J down-lifted perfectly of the ground made light and heavy at the request of one.two of the gentlemen present: and, after lapse of. suppose, nearly ga hour, MT. Home went intn a trance. Presently he pushed his chair. or the chair was push- ed, quite away from the table. He got up, l walked about the room in his usual man. ner, went to the fireplace; half knelt on the fender stool: took up the poker and poked the fire, which was like . red-hot furnace, so as to increase the heat; held his hands over the fire for some time, and i finally drew out of the fire with his hand large lump of live burning coal, so large that he held it in both hands, as he came from the fire place in the large room into l the small room; where, seated round the table, We were all watching his movements. l MT. Hall was seated nearly opposite to 1 where sat; and saw MT. Home, after standing about half minute at the back | of MT. Halls chair, deliberately placed the lump of burning coal on his headl | have often since wondered that [ was not 1 frightened, but I was not; I had perfect faith that he would not be injured. Some | IT., r.t swered-'' Warm, but not hot. Mr. Home had moved a little away, but returned, still in a trance; he smiled and seemed quite l pleased, and then proceeded to draw up l MT. Halls white hair over the red coal. The white hair had the appearance of sil- | yer threads over the red coal Mr. Home drew the hair into sort of pyramid, the | coal, still red, showing beneath the hair; l then, after, think, four or five minutes, Mir. Home pushed the hair back, and, ta- king the coal off MT. Halls head, he said,
 Gin the peculiar low voice in which, which, when in trance, he always speaks), ad-, dressing Mrs. Y--. Will you have it2" She drew back. and heard him murmur, Little faith, little faith" -a z 'fa 59a " | Two or three attempted to touch it, but it burned their fingers. I said, Daniel, bring it oyer to me; do not fear to take 4V' AU was uOt ECU 3n Ot0GO AS WA0u MEs Home put it on MT. Halls head, but it was still red in parts. MT. Home came and knelt by my side; put out my right hand, but he murmured, Mo-. not. that; the oth. CT hand" He then placed in my left hand, where it remained more than. Q minute. felt it. as my husband. had said q warm;" yet when stopped down to examine the 1 coal, my face felt the heat so much that was obliged to withdraw it. After that, Mrs. Y. took it, and said she felt no incon- venience. When Mr. Hall brushed his hair at night, he found g quantity of cin- der dust. MT. Home was elongated, and all the manifestations that eveEing were very remarkable; but, I believe, your Lord ship requested me to relate only what remember of the coal test. 4S 9'AAh .i'iH'
 Dear Lord Dunraven,, sincerely yours.
 {; -...-esqr5t s,..s s 4. ANNA MARIA HALL. g
 ...,'.. <@.t Mrs. s. 0. Hall)
 In the notice am kindly permitted to give of this intensely interesting record, have omitted even the mention of hun dreds of very striking and very beautiful manifestations, selecting, and grouping those best calculated, perhaps, to challenge thoughtful men to a scientific investiga- tion. I.have no theory on tho subject to offer, but l see no reason whatever to doubt the facts. Those who nave naQ tne pleasure of meeting Viscount Adafel dur ing his recent visit to America will not question his competency as an observer, and the Earl of Dunraven has too solid . reputatioasas as man of science, and too high character in all respects to be sus- .pected of either deceiving or being dsceiv4 ed; aud cannot but hope that these s'ex- periences," or, at ieast the greater part of them, will soon be given to the world. 9as
 In the meantime 1 have, to thank Lord Dunraven for his kindly granted permis- sion to lay so much of it before your read ers.-Coyres. NsY. Times. .i3as afd l2 s
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