The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-04
WHAT is 1T?
DR.. SHADES Wonderful Revelations--A True,
Impartial Statement.

impartial statement.
Nashville World
Whatever may be the source the inspiration of
the wonderful revealments which DR.. Slade is
making at the Maxwell House, there can be little
doubt in the minds of all fair and impartial Wis
itors to his private seances that they are pro-
duced by no mechanical agency From the twi
light dawn of history to this day. men, crying in
the night for revelation of the invisible-the I'M
fathomed ocean which lies beyond our mortal
ken and outside the pale of physical experience
have always attributed whatever effects they
can not comprehend to spiritual or to so-called
sssupernatnral3 agencies And yet how hlindly-
wise we are in seeking to locate the line between
the natural and the supernatural! The dominion
of darkness is an unstable province whose circle
narrows day by day as the march of civilization
is onward.
Centuries ago, one crying aloud in the rever-
berating forests, believed that spirit heard and
Knocked his cry. This spirit was personifed and
the satisfied imaginings of men, were christened
Echo" Echo was a veritable goddess for many
generations, since man in his ignorance knew
not that her voice was but the physical reflex of
his own. SO it is now Whatever we cannot
comprehend is relegated to the dark dominion of
the spiritual" DR.. Siade may operate through
biological. or magnetic, electrical laws as yet
but dimly understood. He believes that
his revelations are made through spirit
ual agencies and he seems to be alb.
solutely honest in the expression of
such opinion This we eheerfully concede while
disagreeing with his theory. We believe the
day will come when it will be known as pro
cess of mind reading or of the reflex action
of one intellect upon another that men living will
be as much amused at those who attribute mere
spiritual agency to such work as we are now at
ancients who deified echo
Yesterday morning a reporter for the World
visited Dr. Slade in company with Mrs. - and
a little boy nine years of age We were admit
ted to private interview in the Doctors parlor.
The furniture was plain and in no wise re-
markable-it was the ordinary bed room set With
a walnut table in the center. The three visitors
were seated around this table, their hands joined
on the surface. forming with the medium a com
plete circle" We had carefully examined the
table by the broad light of day. If there was
any machinery connected with it--any secret
drawers or tricky grooves or Stats we were
all unable to discover them. The Doctor, after
exposing all sides of two unsoiled states, placed
between them bit of slate pencil. Being on the
left of the writer, with one hand he held the
slates one slate on top of the other, against the
reporters shoulder, his other hand being con
nected with the circle" above described. in a
few seconds the rapid abrasion of the pencil
point against the inner surface of the states was
heard; presently the sound ceased, and the fol
lowing was found inscribed in plain, legible
hand
Dear Frends-1he spirit world is nearer Won than
you realize. This is subject every should inves
tgate to know his future. Men would be better to
know this Would a who firmly believes that he
Is destined 20 an everlasting state pass fifty sixty
years of his life wit bout spending serious thought
about that unknown futurity into which he is soon to
enter, making the best inquiry respecting its ma
ture and employment? Would he spurn the book
which has unveiled the gories and terrors of eternity
and brought life and Immortality to light'l Would
he sheer at the person who is inquiring the way to
blessed immortality, and count him as an enemy when
he wished to direct his attention TO the Of an
unseen world.
My dear friends, think OF all ths-investgate all
truths, and you will gain wisdom s. MARTIN.
No one present knew S. Martini Next. the
lady visitor wrote the name of a brother who has
been dead several years. She so concealed the
name and the written question that it seemed
impossible DR.. Slade could have seen it. The
reporter certainly did not The name of the de-
ceased had never been mentioned in the presence
of the medium he lived and died in q distant
State-the brother of the questioner, who is a
married lady.
Soon the response came:
Yes-I can. was sitting in the window, and fall
died.
To this the initials of the name were signed
The answer to the question was strictly per-
tinent and satisfactorily responsive. The
family of the dear one had never
the fall whether he had been murdered
and the body thrown from the window--or
whether the fall was purely accidental or
sudden, or whether las the reply announcedl he
had taken u seat in Il fourth story window that
August night, in 1879, and had Fallen to the pave
ment below in unconscious sumber.
The reporter pEopounded a question of one
who died i'll Virginia in 1862 one of the first
martyr heroes of the confederacy. The re
spouse was in every respect as pertinent and