Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
A GAS CITY MEDIUM.
She Gets Letters and kilograms From
the World of Spirits
AT ONE DOLLAR PER MESSAGE.
A Victim Asks for Letter From Bessie
Bramble and Gets 1t.
SPIRITUALISM AND COMMON SENSE
WRITTEN Fon THE DISPATCH. J

WRITE n FOE THE DIsPATCH.1
In dingy upper room down town there
are gathered together on Sundays a COM
pany of women and men who are fully con-
vinced that they possess larger share of
pure, unadulter ated truth than any other
religious body. They are comfortable and
satisfied in this belief, and are perhaps as
happy as mortals can be upon 'the rack of
this tough world" They have no doubts
as to their ad mittance into the world to
come by Peter at the gate-as have so many
Christians. They want no cross upon which
to. cling. They have no call for fountain
filled with blood in which to wash away all
their guilty stains. They have no fear as
to eternal fire and birthstone.
They are firm in the faith, rooted and
grounded in the belief that death is only a
door between them and the spirit land,
where dwell the friends and loved ones that
have passed ON before. They claim that
their religion "destroys all fear of death,
annihilates the orthodox doctrine Of eternal
punishment, and substitutes the cheering
assurance of eternal progress. They hold
that table rappings, mysterious slate writ
ings and clairvoyant utterances as to past
and present, spiritual manifestations by
way of cabinets and dark rooms, uncon-
scious frances, inspired orations and other
mysterious goings-on are proofs that the
soul is immortal, and that Shakespeare was
wrong when he talked about "The undis-
covered country. from whose bourn no
traveller returns"
Their Ideas of Ghosts.
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make themselves known through the
strangely endowed reople lied mediums.
They have no hesitation in believing that
"Angels ever bright and fair" return to this
vale of tears, and talk TO their beloved
friends through people who are unpleasant
to lovk at and disagreeable to encounter.
They see nothing incongruous in beautiful
spirit returning to earth and numbering
good English in the most shocking manner
through women and men from whom they
would shrink and keep aloof while here on
earth. 1t is hard for the outsider to believe
that the beautiful souls of the blest come
back with sweet messages of love through
the Katie Kings and Dlss De Bars, the
fortune-telling fiends who for dollar will
furnish communications from beyond the
pearly gates and jasper walls.
But to the believer a man or woman may
be a good medium, however deficient in
honesty and morality they may be, if, as
Madam Blavatsky puts it, they can do the
tricks we'll and to the satisfaction Of the
faithful. Spiritualism, says one of its
chief expounders, Mrs. Emma Hardings
Britain, is to the dwellers of earth the
postoffice and telegraph between the friends
who have passed on to the spirit world and
those who yet remain in the mortal form.
Brings Substantial Happiness.
To those who believe, this must be great
pleasure and a comfort. To those firm in
the faith that ghosts and guardian angels
are ever watching for chances to slip out of
Paradise for a season to help and comfort
their friends and aid money-getting
medium in securing 81 for communication,
it is doubtless slice of happiness for which
they are duly grateful. The stamps must