The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-07-27
4 IEXED QUESTION.

The shallower mind is usually the
more positive it is upon every subject.
The deepest thinkers adopt the Scotch
verdict: Not proven as to many OF
the great problems OF life,
We all OF US turn greedily to any evid-
ence of immortality land hence the
passion for spiritualism Ift can be de-
monstrated that intelligent creatures ex-
ist outside our mundane sphere it is a
great point gained whether they be an
gels, devils or the spirits Of our dead
friends. But still the thought will come
to Us which troubled Hamlet, after he
encountered his fathers ghost -
''The spirit, that have seen,
May be a devil; and the devil hath power
10 assumed pleasing shape; yea, and, per-
haps.
Out Of my weakness and my melancholy
Abuses me 70 damn me. I'll have grounds
More relative than this
One OF the latest phases OF spiritualism
is the formation OF the masks Of hands
and faces in paraffine. We read an ac-
count OF some casts OF hands, produced
the other day in q meeting in New York
which were declared spurious because
the wrists were larger than in nature,
and large enough 10 permit the hand
that formed them to be withdrawn We
have also seen a statement that Mrs.
Hardy, noted medium, was detected
with a number OF casts OF hands on her
person and was also seen making them.
And yet we find in a recent number OF
the Boston Commonwealth, one Of the
leading papers Of intelligent New Eng
land, the iollowing:-
Oh, luck. thought, when candle-dipping
III connection with these nateralztions, wa-
suggested u Professor Denton, 1t NAV have
been an angels whisper, and 10. paraiine hove
IN sight lie said, ",pirits can you dip those
hckering fingers into liquid paraftne, and
when cooled dissolve and leave thu mouid!i'
And they answered tack in the raps, Eyes, W
CAD, or We will try" How fortunate that we,
with no knowledge Of this spirit coiloguv, or
concert Of action, should have happened to have
called on Mrs. Hardy, who has familiar spirit
a. the ancient prophet would say, and find the
Professor airea Nv Their. for the first time with
his pail Of paraiiins, and we swere greeted by
this female dealer with the dcad'(,) thus,
Shadows, We are glad you have, happened
in. So v hat We are DONG The melted para
fine was under the table and nothing else:
around il wer. only four OF US, including the
medium and the Professor. 1t was early in the
aINFnooh ana perfectly light, the space under
the table protected from sight and hight bv a
cloth tackled around the edge Of the table The
spirits We're very lively, and poked their fin :
gers up and oct between the tackled cloth and
table: and, II not fast enough, the medium in
inserted her own hand underneath and 40,
from thence little para.ine rnoulds w. got
on this occasion some thirty, Of all sizes They
were afterwards filled with plaster and harden
I'd, and were casts Of dng.r-ends or all sizes
and shapes, from the baby to the giants and
they had the cutical marks and finger nails OF
human digIts. This occasion was wholly ex.
p-Hmental There was the simplicity and the
rarsness Of . new thing. and which proved sue
cessful, and then and there the ra,s. in reply
to orr questions, SAID, "Yes, " think in time
and practice We can give the moulfs Of y hole
hand What could be better proef, said We.
Of intelligence and truth than doing that. az
number seven or eight hand must dissolve to
give mould sithout rupturiDg a fTe-incl,
wrist or op-nings Shortly after that they did
so: and now, al over the world, are spirits
showing this phenomenon-not only hands.
tut two hands clasped, and faces and fee4, ana
some OF the faces and many Of the hands have
teen unmistAkAbly recognized
It is hard to get at the truth, when
honest faith is 50 mixed up with frauds
and tricks.