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 THE PERFORMANCES loR MIRACLES. OF MB
 HoME-TEsTIMoNY OF A NOBLE EYE wrTNEss. 4-rsz LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. IA. !, 1 The Committee of the Dialectical socis
 ty. presided over by Dr. Edmonds, has ta
 ken the testimony of perhaps fifty wit
 nesses, noblemen> and noble ladies
 men Of science, men of letters, la
 dies and gentlemen of as high reputa
 ton as any in England. A portion of thi
 testimony has been published from tim,
 to u mo, and the whole, carefully taker
 down. will no doubt. be printed with th, report of the committee in the proceed
 ings of the society. The opinion of tn,
 commlttee will not, perhaps, satisfy every
 body; but the testimony will be there fo,
 everybody to examine. ~ala \
 While this examination has been in pro
 grsss. there has appeared in some of tn,
 highest circles of English society one o the most important and in avary way ra
 markable books yet written on the slbiec
 --written and printed, but as yet, I an
 sorry to say, .only for private circulation
 It lies before me now, a handsome large
 octave in purple and gold, 179 pages, enti
 tied, Experiences in Spiritualism with
 MT. D. D. Home, by Vicount Adare, with
 introductory remarks by the Earl of Du
 raven. It is not published; only few copies have been printed for the family and friends of Lord Duraven and Lord Adare; 1t has not been furnished to any
 libraries, and is to be treated, therefore
 strictly as private letter; and it is to be understood that am not betrayine the confidence with which am honored. in the remarks l may make upon this euri \ ous and most interesting volume.
 And now for the facts, such as I fee] myself permitted to give, recorded in thi. extraordinary volume. The moving of ob. lects by themselves, with no visible force,
 s recorded in no less than thirty three in.
 stances. The cords of a piano are swept
 when no one touched the keys. s4 g "The piano was lifted" says Lord Ad. are, "about two inches off the ground. l had my hand underneath, and was again lifted two inches higher, and then, with. out any effort, I should say. ;eight inches Chairs, sofas. tables, books, move about the room. from place to place, of their own accord, and are seen to rise in the air. In fourteen instances flowers are brought by invisible hands and given to different per. sons. The fragrance is taken from flowers and thrown about the room. Brandy rises flom glass into the air-that is, it disap- pears from the glass, which is quite emp ty; then it falls out of space to the glass through Lord Adare's fingers. Then the spirit was taken out of the brandy, the vvo tor NMp Tp Au ces, spirit forms were visible; in thirteen, 1 spirit hands were seen. and cases of spirit l hands touching persons are recorded in twenty other places. Spirit voices are heard in nine instances. Many of these things were very striking, utterly impossi- ble to be accounted for on any hypothesis 1 of deception or hallucination. But must leave them with only this reference to the table of contents, and come to some as- ! founding fact. which, within the past year, nave carried strange consternation to the minds of numbers of hard headed scien- tific materialists-facts it is no longer DOS sible to deny-facts which no scientific theory can in the least account for. One of these is the elevation of Mir. Home's body in the air. At Ashley House. in the presence of Lord Adare and the Master of Lindsay, Home was seen to rise into the air four or five feet. Then he was raised to the back of Lord Adare's chair, who says:-- , 9st 4a ,}e-.'@T 55 .+l.
 II took both his feet in my hands, and away he went up into the air so high that l was obliged to let go his feet; he was car ried along the wall, brushing past the pic lures, to the opposite side of the room; he then called me over to him. I took his hand and felt him alight upon the floor. At Adare Manor, Ireland, all present saw him raised off the ground, in the open air, and floating past them at a height which carried him clear over 8 wall, by a move ment quite horizontal and uniform, dis l tance of ten or twelve yards. At No. 2 Buckingham Gate, he was raised in the air | and his head became quite luminous at the top, giving him the appearance of hay 1 ing halo round it. When he was raised, he waved his arms about, and in each hand there came little globe of fire, Ito my eyes. blue); the effect was very pretty" l At Ashley house, as l have formerly mentioned, Home was carried, that is, he won't out of one window and came Tn at another. at an elevation of forty five feet from the ground. Lord Adare says: "Ws heard Home go into the next room, heard the window thrown up. and presently XOL4O opPCoICOs 0GSAOAuB OuLSlU0 one Win. dow. He opened the window and walked in quite coolly." Lord Adare then went into the other room, and finding the win dow raised only about two feet high, he wondered how Home could get through so narrow space; but Home was immediate ly carried out horizontally and brought back again. The Master of Lindsay who was present, has given an account of the same manifestation to the Committee of the Dialectical Society.
 More astonishing yet arc the accounts given of the shortcomings and elongations |'of Homes body. " L ,a4aloaI sut 32 r We can imagine body raised in the air by a sufficient force, but how can 1t be made longer or shorter? Any one who has examined g human skeleton can see the difficulty. The facts, as clearly stated, and vouched for by men whose words can not be questioned, or their judgment, in such 8 purely mechanical manner distrust- ed, are of the highest interest nd.signifi- canoe. rn1.s 4.%,. osra 6staa.. At Mir. Jencken's 8 at Norwood, Lord Adare saw MT. Homes body lengthen six inches. He sayS:-ga 1s yoEa4 lls9 ,aaa&1 4oGG a3G Ia "'iMr. Jencken, who IS a taller man than Home, stood beside him, so therecould be no mistake about it. Homes natural height is, Ibslieve, five feet ten inches. should say that he grew to six feet four inches or six feet six inches. placed my hands on his feet and felt that they were fairly level