The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-26
FLOWERS FOR SPIRITS
Mediums and Their Followers to
Observe an Anniversary.
Mrs. DR.. Sheehan Promises Visitation
of Angels at Lorraine Hall on
Next Saturday.

The Spiritualists everywhere will ceie-
brate the forty-sixth anniversary of mod
ern spiritualism next Saturday. Indianap-
oils will be no exception, and Lorraine Hail.
where the event will be duly observed, is
likely to be we'll filled with believers in
communication between the seen and the
unseen. 1t is the intention to have the hall
handsomely decorated with plants, and at
last nights meeting everybody who so de-
sired was asked to bring flowers in COM
memoration of departed spirit friends. 1t
was advised that these flowers be brought
Saturday afternoon, marked with the name
of the spirit friends or relatives for whom
designed. Mrs. G.. W. Gates will be pres
ent, and her tests are to be one of the
features of the celebration, which will be
continued Sunday. This medium will oc-
cupy the platform at Lorraine Hall during
April, and it was announced last night that
many people were hungering for the tests
for which she is somewhat noted.
Mrs. Dr. Sheehan, of Cincinnati, gave her
closing lecture last night, speaking with
much earnestness and force for nearly two
hours. A portion of her discourse was de-
voted to the hardships of mediums, whom
she likened to Christ's disciples, inasmuch
as unless they are ready to cleave only to
the spirit world they are not fit to preach
the doctrine of spiritualism. She. explained
the unsatisfactory marital relations OF
many mediums by saying that one halr
of such combinations as she referred to
was spiritual and the other half material,
and that, like two horses pulling away
from each other. something has to break.
Mrs Sheehan urged her hearers to throw
away the old swaddling clothes of spirit
ualism-the rappings, rope tying expert
ments, etc., and devote themselves to more
modern methods. 1t was not now neces-
sary to display these old clothes TO prove
that the child lived. The experiments OF
this character, she said were best left to
charatans who were in the business for
money and nothing else.
Mrs Sheehan said that spiritualism fur
nished a heaven for, everybody and dis
worse things than hell right on earth and
the devils in the spirit land were much
the same the devils in Indianapolis.
come from the planet Jupiter and tell the
people here how much bigger that world was
than this one, so 1t is not necessary Tor
one to return from the spirit land TO in
In the one case there are astronomers, who
tell just the size of the planets, their dis
lance, etc, and in the other there are
mediums, who carry information OF the
spirit world. In concluding her talk Mrs.
Sheehan expressed disappointment at the
poor financial results of her efforts to elu-
cidate spiritualism during her stay here
She had intended giving psychometric read
ings last night, but was not we'll enough
to do So She urged her hearers to be more
liberal in providing themselves with means
of learning more OF the religion whlch, some
day, everybody would recognize. Concern
ing the coming celebration of the forty
sixth anniversary, she told her auditors
that their angel friends would surely be
with them at Lorraine Hall next Satur-
day and Sunday to make the occasion
sweeter and more sacred.