St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
STANDING ON THE TRUTH.
A Heavy Weight Medium Puts Both Feet
on Facts.
DO YOU USE CUSS WORDS?
The Curious Scenes and Incidents Wit
messed at a Recent Spiritualistic
Meeting.

II am an orthodox spiritualist from
way back!" shouted Miss Thomas, a
colored medium, as she gazed out from
under the awning OF "a big poke bonnet,
over the mixed audience assembled at
the Madison Street theater yesterday
afternoon. II have got one foot on
orthodoxy and one on spiritualism."
"HOld 'em down and don't let 'em get
away!" exclaimed a crank sitting in the
parquet.
"That's right" returned Miss Thomas.
''Fll not let them escape"
When once Miss Thomas sets both
| feet on anything it would have very
| small chance of escaping without the
| Intervention of supernatural aid.
Il don't blame aman," she continued,
! ''fOr not wanting one of US clairvOyantS
| for wife. We can see man so clear,
| we can look clean through him. l
| wouldn't marry medium either it
were man. Why. can see an OrthO-
| dOX Spirltualist thousand miles away.
| There is dividing line in spiritualism,
| and | thank God that the people in Chi
cago are beginning to call themselves
| Christian spiritualistS. L believe in
sticking to the Bible
'WhoOp!"c from busby-bearded
man working his arms conyulSiyely i'll
the audience.
"Ah," said Miss Thomas. when men,
ton the Bible l am stepping on some
bOdy'S cOrns, but | am not afraid. l
don't teach that there is hell or feun-
tain of blood, but do teach that there
is fountain of truth.'e
Mrs. Belle +. Hamilton, who an
nounced herself as celebrated trance,
test, and business medium, came for
ward and gave herself over to the con-
troll of the spirit of Mamie Henderson.
the daughter of old jim Henderson, a
steamboat captain of Newport, KY, and
gave number of tests. Then she woke
up and sang a little German song.
Miss Jennie Moore then called for
Brother Blair. Brother Blair, man
with long gray WhiSkers and cyclonic
voice, mounted the platform, and, be-
coming confidential with the audience,
told them they were standing on the
borders of the world. We are glad" he
said, THAT the papers are beginning to
notice us, for we would rather be
noticed even in ridicule than not at all.
SpiritualiSm is the greatest factor in
the religious world: it is no longer lit
tie child in swaddling cloths. We pred
the nineteenth century Oh living evil
dence. Instead of faith we have actual
living proof based on scientific facts.
We know that we are just as much
men and women, after we pass the
RubicOn of death, as we are here. We
don't have to have faith: we don't have
to have belief; we don't have to drink
water out of a lead pipe; we go up to
the eternal fountain of truth"
Prof. Barnes, a small man with
<pindling legs and weak voice, who
said he was at home wherever he took
his hat off, stepped out, washed his
hands in imaginary water with in
visible soap" and located number of
| spirits lowering about Il number of diff
| ferent heads, but his account Of what
| they wished to communicate was so
vague and confused that nobody but
those on the ''inside" understood him.
Mr.. Stranger was introduced as man
''well thought of at the Michigan camp
meeting" Mr.. Stranger showed him
| self as an elderly man with high fore
| head and string-halt gait. He said
he was young I'm mediumship. II do
it, he said, ''simply for pleasure and
development. My greatest success has
! been in locating and diagnosing disease,
and | will forfeit $50 for any case of dis
| ease cannot correctly locate and dag
nose without knowing the patient"
Mr.. Stranger attempted to get en- rapport
with his subject by fumbling with
| the Observation-Disclosures of various
persons who threw them on the stage,
but he failed. He said he was controlled
by certain spirit doctor, and could not
shake him off.
One man, who threw up his handker-
chief, was asked:
do you use cusS words?"
81 used to, but have quit since be-
coming spiritualist."
Eyes. and you used to swear terribly.
| get it from this handkerchief"
''Dr." Bishop, who denied that he was
physician, but said he was ''healer,"
made speech saying that he had seen
tables and bureaus move without con-
tact; had received messages that were
written without paper or pencil, and
had seen materialiZations that were
tangible to his touch.
Miss Thomas, the colored clairvoyant.
said the spirits would not come near
IN EN- who used tobacco or alcohol, and a
great many went down from the meet
ing discouraged by this information.