The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-07

clearly ana distinctly, "Allce.'
She asked, sis this my little Alice p
and the cabinet shook violently.
She began to sing again and the voice
said, "bless mamma" This was very cleal
and natural, and heard by all in the room
and appeared to be close beside her.
We had nothing in the light.
In the sixth seance several voices Joined
in the singing, and one of them seemed tc
be floating around over our heads, a:
though it were flying from side to side O
the room. In one of the verses they
changed the words, substituting
aE There is nothing here to fear
When you come,
When You come,'
- There is nothing there to fear
When we CO.
go When we CO." .... -....r lad.
We were several times sprinkled as by
o slight shower of rain, and the strange
part of it was that the drops left no damn
ness. being, the medium said, electrical
phenomena" We complained of the
room being cold, and soon a warm breeze
seemed to be tanning us. AS all began to
speak OF this at once we concluded it was
not a fancy. ssa.5 ~ 10 80 ,I-,laS -
One of the gentlemen said 1.-THE sprink-
ling was to baptize us into the new
church." At this the cabinet shook
violently. He asked if the cabinet con-
firmed his remark, and it replied by q
similar demonstration. After the voice
called for. the light we heard murmurings
Of several voices, but could not distinguish
the words. =-1taf ..alzjrslgl 2 -
In the light a face appeared with large,
manly brow, even features and heavy
beard. lie tried to speak, but we were una
BILE to understand him. Another smaller.
more youthful appeared and reached out
his hand, made signs, and several of the
gentlemen said, ''He is Mason! He is
Master Mason ~ Then he bowed
and shook the curtain, and, leaning, his
face out of the cabinet, looked at Judge
from Pennsylvania, who was present, and
said, Fred. Park" This not only was
satisfactory to the judge, but he took
paper from his pocket and showed us
what, to say the least, astonished us,
This was communication he had received
from medium in New York city purport-
ing to come from his mother. Among
other things she directed him to Ego to
Moravia upon his return, and Fred. Park
would be there and communicate. 7"
Alter him came negro girl. She was
smiling, and the teeth and the white of the
eyes and a white turban she wore. were
about all that defined her face as she look
ed out of the darkness of the cabinet.
They asked, sis it Black Bess ?' She
bowed and shook the curtain. They told
me she often comes and sings with o beau
tiful voice. @a
There were many new arrivals for the
next two seances, and nothing of interest
occurred except the calling of new names.
These were the seances of the strangers,
but as they did not see fit to reply to
them, the influences ceased to entertain
us. | say they were the names of strang-
ers, because they acknowledged it after |
ward. They having behaved SO ilnpolitely,
we decided to have an evening seance and
leave them out. We sat at 1880. Our
company consisted OF judge, o minister,
an actress, doctor, farmer, two old la
dies, an old maid, Lucia, from Boston,
and myself This was one Of the best |
seancss we had. All the phenomena of |
the dark circle appeared intensified if pos
sible. Numerous lights, voices, sprink-
ling of water, trembling of the floor, and
frequent patting of every one, The light
circle, also was excellent. There was q
perfect shower of hands from both win
dows. They were of oil sizes, and were
not only hands bat arms thrust out further
than the elbow at times. Some of them
were ladies' hands and arms, suitably
draped, in pretty sleeves; others were
plainly alfred in coat or shirt sleeve, and
were decidedly masculine, both in size and
gesture. These arms turned themselves
about and the fingers moved rapidly, as if |
to convince us that they were genuine. Luz
cia asked if the "small hands she saw
were those of her little Alice.n They were
lifted higher and put forward. |
| can not tell how many hands appeared at |
once, but counted eight at the upper 1
window, and there seemed to be about as |
many at the lower. Soon after this a |
pleasant countenance of lady appeared,
and reaching out thin hand and |
arm, dressed in dark sleeve with a
beautiful lace undersleeye, she pointed |
Obliquely from the window toward the |
farmer from Michigan. He asked, els it |
Myra" She said. Amanda" lie said,
1t is my sister Amanda, who died at 20 |
years OF age" He not only recognized
her, but said, II remember the sleeve and
me lace are like those she wore at her bu-
rial., He showed us her photograph,
which certainly resembled the face at the
window. The next was man, and gave
The name OF my cousin, who died niue
years ago. lie not only gave his name |
but gave mine also. | asked if he had
anything to say to me. He reached far |
out Of the cabinet and, calling my name,
said, =, don't be afraid to proclaim the /
truth" had not up to this time revealed |
my name, and you may be sure the
whole company repeated the name and
asked II IT was mine. This was the last
incident OF the last seance attended. We |
began the seance by repeating the Lords
Prayer. We sang beautiful HYMNS. most |
y referring to heaven and angels. and for !
myself felt as innocenuly happy as ever
did in well ordered class-meeting. And
yet some things that happened were yerv