The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-24

| THE MIND FREED PROM THK BONDAGE OF THE
DoDN-PossIBLY GOVERNED BY SEw LAWS
AT ALL EVENTS oUIcKENED AND ENLARGED.
81 have known OF Mollie Fancher for SOW
eral years" said the Rev. Joseph Il. Duryca.
pastor Of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian
| Church. Il have seen her. and have be-
slowed some study and considerable thought
| upon hor. After had become convinced that
she really did tho strange things that wore told
OF her mentioned her in some OF my dis
courses. Mr.. George W. Benson who Is we'll
known here in Brooklyn as the Chairman OF our
Committee Of One Hundred that undertook 20
purify city politics. and who is THIS week out Sf
town saw her day after day for years. and was
absolutely amazed at her powers. had known
OF her some time before wont to sec her. and
in passing the house l had once or twice stopped
70 speak with her aunt when she happened 10
ne at tho door, The afternoon | called. upon
Miss Fancher. was with Mr.. Benson He en-.
tered ,,l ne room Ia advance y me and motioned
few sentences he said: MOlio who Is this p
She answered: don't see anybody. except
"' Look sharp was the rejoinder. and then
the girl made movement "a though In mental
effort. and after moment answered. SEQ him
now its DR.. DurYca.'
49, Did you ever see him before p
90. irs. n. down at the gate. talking to aunt
About thrce Toeks-the day aunt went down
to call in the dog
..,,, -" Now how can you prove to DR.. DuryOa that
He wore a rubber coat
Then added DR.. Dufyea."I remembered
that - .sined and hs l had 10 60 10 the church
and then to a funeral that afternoon had slip
ped on my rubber coat / remembered 1t more
particularly for the reason that II was the last
as entered the coach after the funeral. and he
hung u uD 10 dry by stove In the livery sta
pie on his return and 4 was burned up. Il was
q 70. Iha fturs rail- a tI.,t
| stopped for q moment only. to talk TO Moliie's
aunt Moilies Spltz dog WAS out on the step
barking at boys that were teAzing f. and tho
aunt had gone out TO take II In. Tho girl do
scribed MS perfectly"
practices no deception, how are her powers 10
i is impossible to satisfactorily account for
them. That she has most astonishing powers
OF seeing friends In different parts OF the cOun-
try and city. and OF doing other almost incom-
prohensible things, | have not a doubt The
child cannot deceive she is beyond that: she
docs not wlsn to practise imposition. But her
physical changes have In some manner released
her mlnu from the Imprisonment OF the body
and she does with It what other mortais cannot
DO with theirs. Here she II deprived first OF
throat paralyzed-s up so that nothing
could be passed through it-ln such state that
yoq might as well expect her 70 swallow ram
rod as piece ol bread her abdominal organs
in tno same coqdition The mind or spirit WAS
sssSuIsely so2, sdyo c2Gnaed Gnl, Nay not with amsAty
esnon' sI' pave D1rst away, and, once partly freed
beeen governed by other and higher laws than
those that control 1t while undor tho bondage Of
inc Dodyf That men . minds arc largely sub
Iect TO their physical condition IL we'll under
stood; Occasionally. IA in this instance. under
peculiar conditions we find this power, which
we call second sight or clairvoyance. What II
ID we have not yet ascertained. for the reason
possibly that so few OF the cases have been sci
enuhcally investigated; no critical comparisons
Of one caso with another have been made 10
discover tho analogies. think such instances
should nave tho most widespread publicity of
OF their mental "a talaa
nomena. The more we know OF them the sooner
we shall solve their mysteries"
Miss faDcher sees the Images OF those who
have gone before her 10 the spirit world 2"
Miss Fancher unquestionably thinks that
she secs QleIn and communes with them. Yet
this Is mol So incomprehensibe as some Of her
other acts. She has known their faces upon
earth. With increased mental powers naturally
comes incr9ased Imagination. l can readily
understand how little Increase OF imagining Il
would require for you or for me to think in our
dreams or out Of them. for that mattor. that we
are talking with those who are dead Men
Imagine they are sick while they are well and
Imagine almost every concoivable thing never.
theless. they always have had something from
which TO work. Miss Fancher may think she is
In heaven. yet she has read enough In her Bible |
heaven in her mind. While do not say that |
see an explanation of why she thinks she has |
seen them; 4 IS hor power Of sight Of things |
Of others that puzzles, me. Tests are made |
OF the powers in which she has absolutely no |
foundation from which to work. How does she |
arrange and declpher the contents OF a letter |
that has beon cut into pieces and sealed within |
those who gave 1t TO her had not tho slightest |
notion Let's settle that before we get into the |
merits OF what II IL possible may be produced |
astonishing performance"
Miss Fancher's case is known to many In |
the neigh borhood. is II not2"
II il ] very often mention 1t, and | teach it's |
lesson. like TO see such peculiar manifesto |
tions OF tho mind and the body made public. |
the spirit and the flesh and tho superiority OF |
the one over the other. | have followed hor |
closely, and always with no more dean Wondar. !