The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-25

| believer Of the believers. was first in
| duced to study Spiritualism In an effort
| to refute the views OF DR.. Hodgson, of
| Cambridge university, England. I be-
| lieve that he was a dreamer and absolute
| ly wrong In his theories. I studied in
| order to combat and disprove what he
| had advanced. 1t was another case Of
| going to scott and remaining to pray
! Others before me have seen the light
| and have known what I now know.
| Among these were none less than Prof.
| Newbold, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. I do not believe, even II I am
connected with Columbia that 1 can be
denied the right to hold such views on
this subject as I wish. / reiterate the
promise to demonstrate shortly the inn
mortality of the soul"
TO DIsPRovE HE'LL.
One of the other things which Prof.
Hyslop promised as result of his show
ing scientifically that the soul Is immor-
tai is the proof positive that there is no
hell. He says that he will show that the
idea of eternal punishment is all wrong.
He maintains that when this proof Is
given that 1t will have a tremendous po-
litical effect, his belief being the some
what curious one that when people are
certain that there is no hell awaiting
them In the future that they will pro-
coed to make hell on earth for other
people In other words, the deduction is
that unbalanced people will give way TO
their passions and to their propensities
for crime. The political significance of
this is that an exceedingly strong gov
eminent will be necessary to counter
balance the doing away with the fear Of
the lake of fire and birthstone
1t is the prediction of Prof Hyslop
that when his proof of Immortality is
shown that dogmatic theology will be
utterly upset, but that the churches
moral influence will be rejuvenated be-
cause of the inspired confidence in a flu
ture blissful state. The Columbia stu
dent has. he says within a few days
been talking with presons long since
dead. He has been talking with them,
he declares, about things knowledge of
which was common only to himself and
the spirit with which he spoke. In or
der to establish this communication with
the other world the professor went to
Boston, and there he had seventeen
"sittings' with the famous medium Mrs.
Piper, who is well known to all Chicago
believers In spiritualism. This Boston
medium is employed by the Society for
Psychical Research. She never gives ex
htbitions for any one outside of the Or
ganization. The investigating professor,
although now firm believer, declares
that he never met medium worthy Of
credence until he saw Mrs. Piper. He
spirit world was so marvellous that If Its
details were made known it would cause
a vast amount Of harm by inducing peo-
pie to rush to the fraudulent mediums
which everywhere abound
Prof. Hyslop AYERS that through Mrs.
Piper he received communications from
the spirit world from persons absolutely
unknown to the medium and upon SUBJ
jects which no person living or dead ex-
cept the communicating spirit and him
self ever knew anything about. The to-
tai number of persons who had passed
beyond and with whom the professor was
put in communication was more than a
score, SO he says. The method of COM
munication the professor gives in detail.
He says that Mrs. Piper went into a
state resembling trance He held his
lips few inches away from her fingers
and talked to them, much as he would
to the receiver of a telephone. He asked
questions which no one excepting the
person in the spirit world to whom they
were addressed could answer correctly
The question asked and Mrs. Piper would
Immediately write the answer upon pa
per- and in many of the answers there
would be details of the subject upon
which the query was made which
brought back to Prof. Hyslop's memory
things which he had forgotten In speak
Ing of 1t the investigator said: There
can be no mistake. There Is no room
for nor possibility of fraud 1t was while
receiving these communications and be-
ing convinced Of their absolute verify
that 1 evolved a method of proving the
life beyond the grave
Prof. Hyslop Is busy just now in get
ting together number of scientists of
known standing, neraly all of them
skeptics on the subject of spiritualism,
for the purpose of having them investi-
gate his claims. He believes that their /
report will find credence among the laity
When he has convinced them, as he
says he Is sure to do, then the scientific
proof will be made public that all may
see and believe.