The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-09

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Jones, in whom he reposed a good deal OF
confidence. He had no family and MS
brothers and sisters were the heirs David
sisters as the one best qualified TO wind
Now continued Mr.. Patten. II will tell
you just what happened. After the funeral
David Jones was sitting in his business
office preparing TO take up the details of
the belief that James Reynolds was present
and talking to him. He seemed to hear
Reynolds say:
do nothing or myself. / am not recognized
as having any legal identity. My estate
belongs TO my brothers ard sisters, and
you are authorized TO wind il up and d.
Lvide the assets among the heirs. / am sat
E1sted that you are the right one 10 90 THIS.
Yet / do not feel willing quite yet to give
up my plans. L had Do leave everything
suddenly, as you know. There were many
permitted to carry out. l believe that ii 1
mad lived a few years longer l would nave
increased my estate very largely. L De-
lieve that if you could retain control OF my
business and manage it according TO my
directions as / could give them to you
from fro y. time If to i time New ! sou aaos sas 1Gu d aSat {
am really the spirit Of your brother-in-
law, James Reynolds, l will tell you some
things about my affairs which you nave not
learned, and which no one out James Key
nolos could know
Jones that when he went to the bank he
would find the balance of James Reynolds
was so many dollars and so many cents.
He gave him directions where to ind GER
tain papers. and told him about the exact
conditions of several business matters on
which Jones had not yet informed himself
and OF which no one save m Reynolds
would be likely to know.
Now said the spirit. go and verify
Jones went to the bank and he investi-
gated the other and found they
were strictly accurate.
".Send for my brothers and sisters said
the spirit of James Reynolds. Tell them
just what has taken pace. and lay before
them my request that they permit the es-
tate to remain under your nominal control,
and that 1 retain the management OF it
through YOU
Zones called the heirs together and gave
them an account of what had happened.
They thought it was very strange, but,
the proposition a trial. Jones continued to
manage the property. The spirit of James
just what to do. For instance, when there
was ready money on hand the spirit would
say to Jones:
"'-Such-and-such a man is thinking of
raising a loan. He wants SO much. The
security is so-and-so: He is willing to pay
a certain amount of interest. Go and see
if you can't place the money
A BUSINESS SPIRIT.
Zones would go and find out that it was
so, and would make the loan. In like man
ner the spirit rave instructions for pur-
chases and sales. Save that his name did
not appear in the transactions, James Rey-
nolds managed his affairs just as he had
done in life. The directions he gave were
Uniformly successful. He frequently ex-
pressed to David Jones the pleasure it gave
him as a spirit to carry on business. This
thing went on several years, until David
Jones found himself executor for an estate
worth 5000 300 instead Of 100000. When
the arrangement was entered into Rey-
no.ds's spirit had said that he was anxious
L pnrrld h0Un dnnn had he lfxya6 This Gonnoad
to have been the strong wish in his mind
when he died, and that which promnted
mark was reached Reynolds spirit ap-
peared to be entirely satisfied with the
experiment. 1t said to David Jones:
az have accomplished what l set out to
do. I have no more desire to engage in
worldly matters. There are other things
over here that interest me more. Send for
the heirs, give them this message from
me. divide the estate among them and &C
cept my thanks for the fidelity with which
you have carried out my directions
estate has just doubled in the time he
exercised his own judgment. but had sim
ply done what the spirit of Reynolds in
structed, Now: the there a is a case where bust naa
from the other world. X is the most nota-
BILE case that has come within my personal
knowledge. As a rule, however, the spirits
do not concern themselves much with our
worldly affairs, and / do not seek their
Edmund Russell, the Onset Spiritualist,
says that one Of the best tests he received
at their camp this summer was of a bust
out any specific purpose, but simply to see
what he could get. This frame Of mind he
has found usually invites the best results.
The medium said to him:
Il see a round hill. 1t is northwest of
Denver. On four sides. near the bottom.
there are four holes. On the top there is q
deeper hole
AS she spoke the medium drew with her
finger a diagram and showed the location OF
III hill md hnlo0
"You are interested In that place." she
continued. Parties are trying to get your
There seems to be some work in progress
in the deep hole on the top of the hill. You
will get a letter before long, and It will
contain very good news for you about tina
'sThe fact is" said Mr.. Russell. THAT
seven or eight years ago I was a mining
Pet foand u good ana indi eaaRS n IL P tMo places aae
dug prospect holes. We traced the veins
to the top of the mountain: Then in going
prospectors had struck the veins near the
base. We four prospectors filed our claims
and pooled our interests. We started a
shaft at the summit, where the veinf
crossed, and ran Ii down far enough TO gei
encouragement We hadn't the means &c
develop dnd the propersy, 80 we Veto dor me- a a, com,
to parties with capital. who agreed to worl
the property without expense to US. The
q was suih I q uCtLu " Z oiAlJ 4CCb vi
SO. Since then the other crowd has beer
doing just enough development work yearly
to comply with the law, and trying to ge
us to sell enough stock TO give control
L don't know what the prospect is, but ths
fact that those who have been doing tn
work are anxious to get control makes ms
think there is something in the property
and that the transfer will be taken ad
vantage of to play a game of freeze-out
We have held on to our half interest an(
Z declined all propositions from the otnel
side. Now there is this mediums descrip
ton and there are the facts about the mine
How could she know anything of the place
She had never seen it."
> Not yet. / don't know as 1 put muci
!, faith in that part of IL. But what Interests
me is the accuracy Of her description Of
place and Of a transaction about which
am certain she knew nothing"
. Believers make a distinction betweei
: seeking and relieving aid in worldly affair
from the spirits. Nearly all of them hav,
) some experience to tell of material ad
: vantage derived from these communities
| lions. In almost every case the help wa
Z volunteered from the other word. Whe
/ it. But they are 10th to importune tn
spirits to concern themselves in tempora
matters.
DO SPIRITS HANDLE MONEY?
Father Lyon. as everybody at Onset call
: him., says that in his many years of varies
Z experience as a spiritualist he has know
OF one instance IN which coin seemed t
, come through supernatural agency
Il travelled for quite a time" Fathe