The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25
SPIRITUAL VISITOR.
WHO is "KATTE KING?"

KING" TRIES TO EXPLAIN HERsELf-IhE
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN HER
APPEARANCES.
The Springfield (Msss.) Republican gives
the following additional developments in
the solution of the mystery known as katie
Kings" First is given letter from Robert
Dale Owen:
To the Editor Of the Springfield Republican.
A friend has sent me your issue of July "a,
with an article entitled, "The Ghost in
Society,"" AS you baYe shown some dispo-
sition to treat spiritualisIn fairly, perhaps
You will accept few words from me, and
take time to glance over the within articles.
would not trouble you but for my
conviction that there is no more important
subject. All that talk about, pretty kitten
ish WAYS "baby prattle,'' is sheer carica-
| ture of what ought not to be caricatured,
and all there is of truth underlying II is SIM
ply this, that when some one. who ought
| to know better make light of these
things and speak to katie King" after
what is sometimes called a i. chatting
fashion, she replies, if at all, in the same
tone. beg the writer of the article referred
to TO read the first two paragraphs OF
"Katie's" communication, there inclosed)
made through DIR. Child. 1t appears to me
| that they contain reasonable, and probably
a philosophical. explanation of whatever
seems trivial in her demeauor. L have
spoken to her often in aserious way, and her
replies have been uniformly characterized
alike by good sense and good feeling.
Katie's critic seems to think that she ought
to have come out and given us sermon;
| but she appears. unlike many who do preach,
to be conscious of her incapacity. When
she issues from the cabinet, she seldom says
ANYTHING except Ito the friends she knowsl
a kind word or two. or "God bless you"
To me she has more than once said that her
mission here is to bring to the children OF
this world conclusive proof of their immor-
tality, and can anything more important DC
done? If she is not spirit, but confeder-
ate in the flesh then Mr.. William Crookes
and Mr. Alfred Wallace and Mr.. Varley, the
electrician of the Atlantic cable, and i have
! strangely committed ourselves. L think
these gentlemen and even L myself have
fair reputation for common sense. do you
think il likely that we should have risked IL
in this case without having ascertained be-
fOrehand, so far as human senses can ascer-
tain, that imposition, under the tests I'M
posed and submitted to, was physical i'm
possibility?
When the details shall be given to the
public. am not afraid of the verdict.
ROBERT DALE OWEN.
| LAKE GEORGE, July Is, 1874.
s'KATIE KING" EXPLAINS HERSELF.
rive append TO Mr.. Ovens letter the par
| dRTdDuS lIOln bnO 6A'NA NHAN~f -
DIR. Child's mediumship, to which he refers
MY DEAR FRIEND AND BRoTHER-I should
be very sorry if you inferred from the man.
ner in which 1 appear and speak to you and
other friends, when am materialized that
a that is criterion of my present condition
and that the rude and trifiing manner In
which express myself on these occasions
is real reflection of my interior state.
, desire to impress your mind so that you
NAV present to the world the fact that spir
its either in or out of the form, as you cal
it, are, TO a very great extent, sub
iect to the influences of the material
elements with which they are clothed
ard if could have you spend
little time with me, in an appreciative
manner, in my interior home in spirit-land
5 YOU would not know me as the same Katie
. that calls YOU all ''stupid'' and uses expires
sions which are often quite repulsive to my
inner Consciousness. The laws of spiritual
manifestations are absolute, and whenever q
spirit approaches medium it must be more
q or less materialized, first in order to come
4 into the atmosphere of the earth, and then
into that of the medium; and if it presents
itself in form, it Is obliged, under law, to
appear as nearly as may be as it was when
il passed from the earth. Thus child Oi
earth though grown to maturity in spirit
life, returns as child. Deformed persons
present their deformities with pre-
cIsion Spirits IT, retain dI,,, not ,t only
and appearances, but also the power of as
Stunning them in spirit-life whenever it is de-
sirable. You will see the Importance OF this
/, power of maintaining, or recurring to print
! tive conditions of spirit-lifes at least for 8
time, and until all those to whom a recog
milton is necessary shall have passed into
their state; and this power is retained so as
to be easily exercised, until after all who are
living on the earth at the time a spirit en-
tiers this world have also passed on, so thai
the newborn spirit can not fail to recognize
S it's friends and relations. am requested K
say to you that all spirits, when they return
:, to earth, whether they communicate or not
d are absolutely subject to this law. the,
e must assume the conditions the,
had when they left the earthl,
d form, although they may briDs
- have acquired in the interior life; but ever
= these are somewhat modified by being pre-
sented through the necessary condition
which surround them at the time; for in
:. stance, scholars from the spirit-land, speak
y ing through mediums who are ignorant o
S, language and the rules of grammar, may b
IT compelled to use the incorrect expressions O
. the medium. 1t is truth that "the spirit
y of the prophets are subject TO the prophets;
and every spiritual communication that ha
ever been given has been more or less mod
g, flied by the channel through which it hs
passed, as well as by the essential material
istic conditions which spirits may hav
: been compelled to assume when they cam
d into the esrth's atmosphere and into rappor
with the mediums.
WHAT CAN "KATIE KING" TELL Us?
From the ENTHUSIASTICALLY
The letter from Robert Dale Owen whic
IS we publish in another column, together wit
x the accompanying quotations from th
x alleged utterances of the mysterious "Kati
King" deserve respectful attention. MI
owen is an earnest and sincere man, TEN
pering the spirit Of a visionary with tn
IS calm temper of an investigator, and accept
ing spiritualism, with its implications, O.
reasons that suffice for HIM. This question
however, is hardly within the realm of com