Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-27
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news OF his brother Johns death, which
had occurred on the day and at the hour
his apparition had been seen by the two
officers. Several years after Lieut.. Col
Gore gave the foregoing account in writ
ing 10 Sir John Harvey, acknowledgement
OF the English forces In Canada, He
added that when Sir John Sherbrooke,
who had never seen John Wynyard alive,
returned 10 England, he recognized a
brother OF the deceased by his likeness to
the figure he had seen at Sydney.
Marvellous as the foregoing accounts
are the circumstances related rest on a
fabric Of evidence precisely similar IN
Kind to that which establishes the &C.
oepted facts Of history. The murder OF
the princes In the Tower IS not more
strongly attested than the vision OF Sher-
brooke and Wynyard. The assassination
OF Rlzzlo is corrohorated 10y witnesses
whose trustworthiness does not surpass
that OF the witnesses TO the cure OF Mile
Coirin, Accordingly the new school Of
iaith asks that such testimony shall not
90 dismissed, as II has been be.
lore, with sneer, but nationally,
patiently and soberly considered, IL
IL NO longer enough TO urge that
because the alleged event or happening
Is per Sc Improbable, therefore Il is the
result OF delusion or deceit. Franklin
PROVOKED the smlea OF the British sclen.
tiuc pnollc waen he announced the pos.
Hnllity OF Harvesting lightning. The
PEomse Q, steam locomotive to run
more tnan twelve miles an hour was
once received with laughter and incredu.
IVY Inc inherent improbability Of any.
thlng Is not TO be permitted TO crowd
~ defenders out OF court. Granting,
then, that the phenomena are OF a char.
aetsr 10 challenge intelligent scrutiny
and investigation, how are thew 10
be explained AS the media of these ex.
traordlnary revelations are comparatively
lew 1t may be assumed that thew nossess
some power OF breaking through the crust
OF our common environment and enteriny
sphere which Is the theater OF the acliy.
Ivy or DR.. Wallace's ''preternatural in.
tciiigences." The barriers that separate
us from that sphere will grow weaker az
mankind advances along the future STAGES
OF mental and moral DEVELOPMENT
Somelimes disease, particularly in
the case OF persons XII
exceptionally high nervous organization
seems TO suddenly deliver the subieot
from the conditions that obscure his wa.
Ion and raise him TO plane where he
may behold and even receive The min.
istrauons OF these lntelligences. THIS
tneory OF explanation points TO a spiritual
state Immediately beyond the grave
when IS progressive and not final n
would show that dlsembodled spirits do
NOV pass at once to their ultimate desti. |
uaton, but linger on a lower plane than
tue angelic OF heavenly one.
hey Heber Newton is one OF the mora
OF those who are al present
Ewing me subject profound consideras
Won lie attends the seances OF A promI.
neht New York medium, and /, inyesti.
ssting the phenomena with the zeal and
intelligence OF man who Is deeply infer
esleG and sincerely DESTROYS of knowIng
lne exact truth. From a late say
non OF HIS l derive the heIiet
mat the result OF his study TINS
lar Is TO convince MIN that gns,
~ mas seen proceeds from inapances
worthy OF our highest concern. AZ
over u 10 the confession Of hIa ,aI,b
mat man Gin his moral statel IA y,s,nr