The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07
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COZ. Ol.SOgE'S IECTUEsi,
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The Opera House was well filled on Sat
urday evening h., an audience comprising
many of our best citizens, To listen to the
lecture Of Col. Olcolt on the Eddys'. The
substance of the speakers remarks we give
below. The lecture, as delivered, did not
fail to interest the audience for nearly two
hours, and although Tie subject matter was
not as well arranged as it might have been,
this was owing to the fact Of its being the
first lecture given by the speaker upon the
subject, and beside there being so much to
be saG and 50 little time to say 1t. The
speaker seemed to carry the conviction TO
all that he was telling that, and only that,
which he himself fully believed from what
he had seen and thoroughly investigated.
The speaker opened his lecture by re-
ferring to the recent appearance of DR..
Lord upon the same platform, as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen 4. am quite SEN
siblc of the fact that in addressing you
upon the evening after that on which you
uCulu DOClDl JOlH i-plhs ulsCOuIsc uJOu
Columbus, am placing myself at great
disadvantage. That lecture is an ingot of
gold, dug from the mine of history. refined
in the crucible of his intellect, and beaten
out into plate on which his picture is
traced, like Il masterpiece of Denvenuto
Cellin, in exquisite Tep0nsSs. 1t is mar
vel of elaboration and finish, all symmetry
and grace. Its sentences swing with sis-
tanned rhythm, and the ear is enchanted
with the musical flow Of his rhetoric
My story. tonight, is no such compost
ton as that. The preparation of my book
upon the Eddy mediums has left me no
time, since the receipt of your invitation,
to do more than frame plain, unyarnished
tale of personal experience, and all can
hope to achieve is that may interest peo-
Pile of fair and intelligent minds in the pro-
gress and results of my three months
labor.
The speaker had been reminded recently
by certain clergyman of what Mungc
Park once said, that che had seen so many
things, he preferred to leave half untold
rather than have any Of it disbeleved.
His (Park's) story was only to lie verified
| by his hea.ers taking the same trayels
whereas the speakers story was corobo
rated by host of witnesses and Chtten
den was within easy reach. 1t is strange
that so little is known hereof what is hap
penng "up the valley" The Eddys arr
l re ~, ippit ni, In
not seeking the friendship of any one
while they are often denounced as beinl
absentees from public worship while III,
strange things that are reported as happen
| ing at their house are often accounted TO
on the hypothesis that Satan is in leagu,
with them.
But we have all read that = a prophet j
not without honor save in his own country.
Go where we will we find that medium
are apt to c different from other people
Mediums as class are of peculiar temper
ament. 1t is said that no person can be
medium unless of the same Temperament
with other people and susceptible to ANNA
magnetism they must be able 10 rcceiv
and give off influences. In the case of III
Eddys they can be positive or negative
When there is a certain amount of electric
ity in persons system, animal heat per
vades the whole person ut once, and then
rapid change can immediately take place
This the speaker had seen occur with SUI
prising rapidity in the persons of the Ed
family. That is the negative Temperament
necessary for the medlumistic power. Thi
same condition will make people more sus
ceptible to influences about them; they ar
not so able TO resist temptation or msfol
tunes of the world as we are, and on thu
principle their exceeding shyness may b
accounted for il places them in antasol
ism with their neighbors and gives them
retiring nature. We find they have not
large circle OF friends. There is n questo
which springs at once to our minds whe
we think of their condition, viz. VIII
should spirits OF pure and elevated feeling
use such persons as their medium ct con
municatiOn with this world The speakr
knew a noted medium in the city of Ne,
York, who was in deed and thought Dc
meath the contempt of respectable people
vet one of the very best of mediums. Wha
these Eddys might be the audience knee
better than did the speaker. The speakC
had seen stranger things occur in the
house than had ever taken place under hi
observation before
Having ascertaincd the facts concernin
sons therefor. The speaker was not n phi
losopher, but merely reporter, a colectC
of facts. which facts he hoped to arranl
in such form as to command the after
} ton of thoughtful persons and the sciel
tiflc world especially When we considt
the humble condition of these people "
may easily find presidents in the humble
walks of life We have only to look bac
, to the birth of the Christian religion an
, see the Savior Himself in company wit
, men of low origin, one of whom was fouu
to be perjurer, and another turned out
be thief. This fact, however, made Il
Christian religion, as taught by Christ, i
/ less worthy in name or potent in effect.
9 there is any truth in this spritualism Il
mere fact of its being in the hands of the
people should not lead US to deny its ge
: uineness, but that should, on the contiar