The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-26
TELEPATHY TALES.
David CHRISTIE MURRAY on MIND
ACTING UPON MIND.

periencea-
A writer like David Christie MUIR
gay. who has taken all life fer the field
Of his art as q novelist and draws upon
the whole planet for his illustrations,
must have had rich experiences in the
domain which the P~gychical Investiga-
ton society has chosen FOR its own. But
he does not overload His books with ma
terial Of this kind, nor is his conversa-
ton much weighted with the burden OF
things between heaven and earth that
we do not usually dream of. And yet
when prompted to do 90 he can speak
ON these subjects not only with knowl-
edge, but also with eloquence. He is fit
ted to do this. first, by his fine mental
organization, for he has been psychical-
" sensitive since boyhood, and next by
the many psychical experiences which
have fallen to his lot during q long,
active and adventurous life, lived among
many people and many parts Of the
| world. He does not, of course, believe
in the alterations of ''occultism," but
he is convinced that beneath the ordina-
ry experiences Of life, p~erceptible to the
senses, there exist spiritual phenomena
which will repay investigation and
which science is only now beginning to
learn.
One day recently MFR. Murray talked
to q Boston Herald man ON the special
subject OF telepathy, and after showing
from his own personal experiences how
mind may act upon mind nj q distance,
independently of the ordinary means Of
intercommunication, he went ON to say:
Here is q case in point. My eldest
brother, who died in 1855, was at sea
as midshipman ON board a merchant
vessel. He sailed under a drunken cap
tain. who behaved to ham with horrible
cruelty. He got the seeds of consump-
ton ON that voyage. While he was at
sea my mother was nursing her uncle,
James Withers Marsh, and in the very
hour of his death the old man, who had
been tenderly attached to my brother.
sat up and said aloud: Let the lad
alone. Have you no bowels?' My mother
asked him what he was thinking of, and
he cried, That captain is i'll treating
poor Jack horribly
1.-THE first officer, a Mr.. Mundy, took
command Of the ship when Captain
Gregory died i'm delirium tremens and
was buried at the Azores. Mundy
brought my brother home, and he was
told the story Of the old mans dying
words. He produced his own notebook
and showed that ON the day of the old
mans death he had made an entry, be-
cause he intended to indict the captain
for his cruelty ON their return toa Brit
ish port. What is most singular is that
when he came 60 work ont the differ
enoe OF latitude he found the entry in
his private log and the time OF the old
mans words conceded to.a moment
There are thousands Of such instances
reported, and it seems ! me quite idle
to dismiss them IS mere c~oincidences.
Coincidence has very long arm indeed.
especially i'm drama and fiction. But
think IL hardly reaches so far as that.
} "Not very long ago." Mr.. Murray
resumed, ttIhad q very curious personal
, experience. Two people had been dining
. with me-one q very dear and intimatt
personal friend, the other q comparative
stranger. When they had left me, I dis
tinctly heard d personal conversation
within my own mind. I do not pretend
I that the words would have been audible
| TO anybody else. That would be non
sense. But I heard it within my MIND
and recognized the voices Of the twt
men. They discussed my own character
and the action ! had taken about d Der
tain matter at that time. The compaza
tive stranger was critical and unfriend
lly. and my old friend fought my cans
with great warmth. ! questioned hin
afterward, and he assured me that sucl
a conversation had taken place as u
and his convive had driven i'm the car
riage to the club from my house. ~
The novelist was hero asked whethe
he had met with amy cases of the actiol
of q dead ON d living mind. He replied
speaking in an impressive and reveren
tone OF voice: ~ ann profoundly convinc
ed, though / donot want to be regarde'
as a mailman, that after his death 10.
father assisted me I'm IN literary work
For a year or two / was profoundly con
!, scious Of ii, and / wrote as il / was al
. solutely under his eye, and with Al -
surance OF his sympathy and aid that
however conveyed, was absolute.
81 had an ailusion TO this kind OF In
fiuence.o Mr.. Murray continued, Ill
I my book, Rainbow Cold There is
! dialogue there with q great strong ma
} who has committed some dreadful Grim
q and ia ~repenting Of ii, and the qnestio
g between the takers Ii as to whethe
y there 10 any knowledge Of us ON th
z 2 part OF the dead. And old Armstrong
q practical minded Scotchman, remark
that he cannot conceive OF the souls (
7 Burns and Shakespeare as spending thei
q time in knocking devil knocks at the ~
bles "a noodles like d pair OF dement's
postnnsn. Bat, , says he. 'you can.faF
9 cy the spirit of D mother saying 70 q
@ master seraph, IT have been behavin
e pretty well Of late. and ] would like !
no back to Castle Barfeld and hare
: look al the lad ! left behind me. A
9 the master seraph says, Go TO the pos
= creature. goi'' And you feel her Ne
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