The morning call., 1893-04-03
THEY CELEBRATED.
Forty-fifth Anniversary of
Spiritualism.
TWO MONSTER GATHERINGS.
Metropolitan Temple and Scottish
Hall Crowded Three Times Yes
terday by Spiritualists.

The fOrty-ffth anniversary of the birth
of spiritualism was celebrated quite extern
sively in this city yesterday
Forty-iye years ago last Friday the Fox
sisters, little misses OF farmers family.
startled the quiet village of Hydesville, n.
Y, by their mediumistic propensities.
They heard rappings and spirit voices.
and non-material manifestations beset them
on every hand. Soon the whole world rang
with their fame. And to-day. it is claimed,
there are 100000 sprtualists in the
United States alone.
OF this number San Francisco has a fair
proportion. You would have thought so, at
any rate, yesterday, had you attended any
of the several monster gatherings Of spiri-
tuaIsts.
The largest ones were at Metropolitan
Temple. where the Humanitarian Spritu-
alists, under the leadership of Professor
Fred Bell, hold forth.
In the morning, in the afternoon and
again in the evening, the large auditorium
was crowded to its best seating capacity. In
the evening hundreds were standing.
The platform was beautifully and pro-
fusely decorated with seasonable. flowers
and living plants, the Gala lily and the
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lessor Bell did the iuSprational speaking.
But the main feature of the day was kept
Tor the evening services, when an excellent
concert was provided as prelude to the
4eS MiI' T Ps .es'S Nr.s lama. y Ma ,,t..
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-ii'I l'uvn =, nite' tlloe
.oH auu II t n iiaIlIs leHueleu e4ceIleut
' Eocai t uIn Oers mat were appreciated 10 the
STInI VI gu IL GuTo ~ e''cii anu HISS
MAy oeile M II pia' SccohpanIeu On me
paGno D 9lieo ~" DuIne, E1'9 n.onn
Solos; IIuIesSor EeAlhah preslueu at tHe
eIauu organ,
=, ~ MS evening lecture rToiessor Deii n toiu
tiie stoIs VI tue pLt % piL.ua'iSiu' Ahen
nc ~. ~ "e'eu soHie oI MS CI'Hco' .
49,. L ", are smart Alecks' sa'u Me- VINO
say I'm 7 am no HOI apiIitualiS''
.r hey Ne
II II am. ..,,-,
IloIessoI beli IS al least Iorcloie SPEAK
er' anu that ms loIiQwlnR Is consider ape
T " rnIi Guy yeStetaa{ meetings al tne
"SIpIiuaIism," he said. gives the only
DO you catch on TO that?"
~ ~ was appsIfent tha - tne audience ald.
teach a religion he went on, THAT If
man don't get show to right himself in
th,S IIe ne VII MI IN the next;
rings RIlStenea ana sparkied Ike CLEANS OF
supei halhral nre Wheh she STOOD up to under
70 possession vi tHe Spill soon the lnuu-
en ..9,, eSule over, over neI.
here comes 10 me spirit OF one who IS
anxious 10 speak to.nlght.tJShe has no rela-
yves HtiGs one paSStu an hH from some
pIRce IN lhIs state asked the name ana
'he sPiIIt answers AueiaIde hlch.
iecosn re tnal, came SOIL voice from
one OF Vne hiluale rows
the mental influence where she passed
away. ! nav Is IT, was II IN san DleRoP'
les came the answer from the middle
row:
que sehus d MESSAGE OF love 10 you.
me enc was i'ttie girl IN inns NE but IN
the spirit world she mas grown To be a
yCGns r aaog hfp name Is Lalu Booth'
recognize that, SAID man III the
saiisty yy-,niou, o., ,.,-.., .,...;-;.
w no, 80 " man ,1, aS5eu cue spill"
49, 80 :, ~ - .! 10y n"the' am,
illIs J. ine splIlt OF ye a,, lltlle daughter
~. ~ ar Eo'As away SOOH'
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s,i.Si,.1, o,5 80, g.. :-,
"nTte SDu are sUlHH' Is II Salem
.. ~ 10 = 1890. Nh.
rue sPlLlt Oh your H'Iis Elrl Tells me
SGu n. .rs ny, mut go now; 10 not leave I'll
tT' nc sl',tu uaS " may, OF your errand
~ ~ ~ -, 80 w. SS' ~ u
~ opIit II VI Wy n WISE ana mat OF
aIoleSs1L hehIy norton came next and
Helt uulS leCOEuI"eu III inherent parts OF
ne tsS u" ~, C.,-
S Entn"iI nc Coheu comes 10 me, SAID the
t thili Nm 9ne was so weak and weary of
~ ms ny t Ia "Heu sue reached the spirit
tanu sl.e Leale1 II was only a dream and
tnat she wuuIu wake up on the earth plane
"E ga sue senuS ioF owe, to
LeeosHi%o IT, s"Iu woman under the
s"IIelSi D....
,i-.ae "oe'n a'teiSoh was recognized by
'o.ne ole III w ,hl SiIeI W ",
- Aio Suu HIIaU asked the spirit
tn!n.GWHghn the LheuIuh'
rs es' ,.. , 49,,
gu nave pains IN the head"
les ss, g..
u, 10y Golne from suhstroke.
.i M Is 20
IN. .t 70 tHe spItt Oh your mother She
%" r. or sg, plihs wiz 90 away entirely"
auuFu9 SUING tne spirit OF wealthy
t .HI, WIZ, Wleh 10 the earth life was too
s Iniaa w oestow ms means upon spiritual
!suC entei PIlses ana propaganda, came next
10 the hedlum, ana through her he warned
otneIs tlat regrets were useless when the
me was crossed.
wilson hnIghls spirit was recognized by
mana"h9 confessed that his name was
MyrOh ana tnat the spirit was his brother,
VIZ ~ llau uIeu Oh yellow lever.
Inc spirit OIL jeremiah Deaue came to
D. 1 lQGntlHnn hV a hrD fta,