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down than the handouts and ring strucl

down than the handouts and ring struck
the floor. Upon examining the - wrist
Let's after the light was on. they was found
to be unlocked, No flexibility of joints on
the part OF the prisoner was here necessary.
Toe irons had been unlocked and more
quickly too than an officer would usually
unlock discharged culprit. In this last
experiment the ring would seem TO have
been superfuous if the operator could I'M
lock the irons the ring would. of course,
fall off, 1t was supposed that he :. - going
TO take off the ring. leaving the handouts
on, which could have readily been done had
the handouts been slipped off. Many OF
these operators can slip their hands out OF
a rope or iron placed around their wrists,
though never 80 tightly.
Now it Is certainly not beyond the prov
ice of science to explain tnls and similar
dOings which are constantly taking place,
and which are absorbing the attention OF
hosts of people who cannot be stigmatlzcd
as simple or even tloughIless. To illus
trate hOwmuch Is thus given, | Will men
zion that recently was IN mixed compa-
nv Of ten persons all OF them above the
average in Intelligence and culture. The
subject Of spirltuallsm came up and was
under discussion, Tor perhaps an hour-
There was not splrituallst, not one that
did not suspect all - mediums 70 be charl-
atans or worse but yet there was not one
Of the company who Lad IL; witnessed GER
tain Of the manifestations which spiritual
ism processes 10 produce and which were to
them unaccluntshle under the known laws
Of nature They believed to-. every one,
that they had been placed as sucn witnesses
where fraud was out o.. the question entire
| ly. Every one, too. was OF the opinion
| that science could and ought to tathOm the
mysteries which they had sen. a.. heard
! Nor were they-e-yC-. t.ie more lntsiii-
| gent of them-airaId tnat IT l. should turn
| out (Which they did NOT at all appreheud)
| that spIrltuglsn was real. tlat any ssc1.
/ harm would be done The knowledge -
truth can never do any harm IN t1e -r1 A.
! spiritaallsm Is true W all want % kno" 10,
| and the sooner the better. 1916 Is az error.
a. most Of u believe. let Us expose 1t, ana
! kill il Is We would any other error, i5 the
use OF tact, arr unent, percussion, leaSJu.
| The teachings OF IyndAl and Huxley, the
! logical deductions from which teAu u de-
strUy the belief IN the immortality oi tue
! soul, are spreading fast. IL MUD l. thc
/ product OF matter, and not It's creator, rs
/ u has been a part, and = large part 700 oi
our religion 20 believe, the inference rs IL
resIs.ible. that when tue matter tlrouga
] WHICH as nov A44E a. 44AiA AAA4@ s--A lAa-'N
through the process OF dj-lnlcsrailvn, and
IS disseminated o. tic ioar winds OF heaven,
the mind. winch Is a. tLsy teach tle pro-
duct Of tust matter, cea-- So ec- lie doc
trine of the immortality t1e soul, bee
Ieved in from the FIRST s,ntItut being tnat
nina bited the planet loar through sue
ces>iye ages till the present Gay and never
denied, except by = lew speculative pnIes
ophers, Is gone, If Iyudal and Huxley be
true guides Thew deny this It Is true. or
rather they deny that these conclusions axe
/ logically deiuctd from tayir premI-e- but
the tendency OF their doctrines IS plainly
this and nothing e.sa. II, then. inns doc
/ trine Is in danger from these teachings, the
church should welcome any and from any
quarter, IN It's battle wIth thls i0gm OF IN
fidelity. Spirlt4alIsn prcteuds TO solve The
problem. and, IN the opinion OF such high
authority in science Is Wallace, does sJlY,
it. Certainly religion, which has 50 much
to gain by It's solution. cannot afford u re-
fuse To let 1t Icy NJr should II decline &,
follow IN the trail. even through miro aut
dirt, nor into guaccu-lJl-c1 paths. POSI-
bly, IN the following tie c4udreu u hsai
may bring D4cE from the devious ps tbs oh
error the children Vt darkness, and jHc
long neglected contact result IL large ---
dliiJns 10 the ranks OF the balerc-s 10 The
Christian !aith.