St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-30
SPIRITS WERE MIXED.
True Believers Furnish AM
usement for a Crowd Of
Skeptics.
Celebration Of the Forty
third Anniversary Of the
Latest Methods.
A Constitutional Convention
Discussed by the Labor
Lyceum.
Seibept Successfully Closes
His Series OF Sunday Mu-
SicaleS.

Easter Sunday was celebrated by the
S~piritualistS yesterday in afternoon and
evening sessions at Odd Fellows hall,
and for the small consideration of a
dime II was able to CLEAN a vast
amount of information from spirits, who
were kind enough to visit the earth.
The torty-tlIird anniversary of the adj
rent of the modern idea of spiritualism
was the cause OF the celebration, and a
great deal of amusement was furnished
to those who went to the meeting out of
curiosity. In the afternoon W. IL.
Bach. who is a lecturer on s~piritualiSm,
and who has been in st. Paul for some
months, gave a history of the course of
Spiritualism during the last fifty years
and the progress the doctrine had mate.
He denounced the persons who made
false manifestations for the purpose of
deludlng the ignorant.
Miss Abby A. JudSon, of Minneapolis.
an elderly lady, gave her experience of
the visits she had received from spirits,
notably those she received from her
Stepmother, who visited her in spirit
form when she was sick. When she was
fifteen years old she had received visits
from the occupants of spirit lands but
she was no fully convinced until 1887,
when, through a medium, she was con-
verted from orthodoxy. Last summer
she saw the spirit of a son of a dear
friend come out of the cabinet, and he
called for her: be did not 20 back into
the cabinet, but was dematerialized right
in front Of her. Then she was fully con
WINGED Of the truth of the doctrine. Miss
Judson then went on to explain table
rappingS, and suddenly stopped her dis
course TO say, Are table rappingS
silly?:"
Yes" shouted a small boy in the
audience. and a shout of laughter
brought the afternoon session to a close.
In the evening the opponents of the
doctrine again assembled to demon
strate to a large audience of believers
and nOn-believers the truth OF spirit
ualIsm. A vast amount of talk was in
dulged III by a Mrs. Pruden, of Mime
apolis, who, for over an hour, discoursed
upon spirit life" ''earth body" ''spir-
itual phases" conditions" ''medi-
ums," and mixed a variety of subjects
up in such a name that a Philadei-
phia lawyer could not make anything
out Of the conglOmeration of verbiage.
She promised later on i'll the evening to
give a few tests, and resumed her seat,
to the relief of many present.
Then arose a man who said he was a
doctor of medicine, and gravely in
formed the audience that he had seen
and spoken in st. Paul with many
spirits.
Il wcnder if they were rye or bOur-
bonn.' was the audible remark of some
one present, and a litter went round the
room, while the high priests of the
SpiritualiStS looked very much discom-
forted. The doctor then explained that
a SpirItualiSt in New York who was an
electrician had invented a machine,
and II could send and receive dis
patches to and from the spirit land.
The widest dreams of Nine. Blavatsky
and the ~theoSOphiStS are evidently to be
eclipsed by the new electric line of
communication. and the Western Union
will have to look to its %laurels. or it will
find its receipts diminished by its new
competitor.
a very weak trio sang a psalm at this
point, and then came a scene which was
doubtless edifying 10 the believers, but
a source of much merriment to the skep-
ties. Mrs. Pruden, who had promised
to give some tests, came forward. and,
after swapping her fingers, announced
that she was the spirit of a lady who
was the mother of a gentlemen present.
She gave her description, and said she
had lived on a farm, and had been a
kind, loving mother.
Am | right" asked the medium of a
gentleman who was near her.
Yes, so far as being a kind, loving
mother, but your description is all
wrong, and she never lived on a farm"
THE conditions are very bad" said
the medium, but L see a light over
there" and, walking over to where three
ladies sat, she commenced to speak in a
childish voice, and announced that she
XNr1C q child shirt on a visit IN hnv. narfh
home.
The affair would not work, however,
for the three ladies would not claim the
Waif from spirit land; but the medium
was not to be defeated by such q mis-
take, and, seeing a lady dressed in Grape
sitting on another row of seats, eX-
claimed: ''Oh, Mamma, don't wear
Grape for me-" The guess was a good
one, for the lady evidently was mourn
ing the loss of a child.
"You had better look aftermy brother.
for be will follow me in two years. the
medium exclaimed. The lady she was
addressing suddenly reeled and seemed
about to faint, and, a number of indig-
nant remarks being made by a party of
gentlemen, the medium rectined her
daring statement by saying, "He will
live, if you take good care of him for
two years"
A GLOBE reporter who was sitting in
the rear of the hall also received some
startling information, and it was only
by the strongest inducements that he
vas prevented from resigning his posi-
ton when he reported at the editorial
Offices after the eance The child
spirit, through the buxom medium,
walked up to the spot where the knight
of the pencil was seated and commenced
to be very familiar with him.
'Oh. how do you do? Why, do you
know that you have a lot of real estate
and property?a' squeaked the medium.
well, that's q good thing" was the
reply Of the peneiler.
Yes, and it is in dispute, and you
sent a long letter about it, but the letter
did not reach its destination" continued
the spirit visitor. The reporter looked
very grave, and, stroking his Turkish
beard, said in ali anxious voice:
rs it abroad?"
The medium took the bait and said il
was, but the clouds and conditions be-
ing very misty, she could not tell where
it was situated.
"Ah, don't you remember when you
put it on" " piped the mock spirit, and
she held up her left hand.
Put what On??" asked the news
gatherer.
why the ring you bought her, and
she gave ii back TO you when you quar-
relied" was the spirits reply.
\ ring on the reporters hand had
caught the spirits eye and she yentured
OF a guess.
The reporter blushed and gravely ad-
mitted that he had been a candidate for
matrimonial hOnorS. and that it was very
unkind of the spirit to give him away |
before so many people. He had trav-
eled far and wide in the hope of his
wounded heart being healed. but ever
in st. Paul his secret was not safe, when
spirits could make public the fact of his
unfortunate attachment. He will never
attend another spiritualistic meeting as
long as he stays i'll st. Paul, and pleaded
with tears III his eyes to the city editor
never to send him III a mission like the
one ne was assigned to yesterday.