Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

eyes, and you can see it through all the
STANCES of progression until it reaches
the finished picture a life-sized bust,
and counterpart of the sealed photo
in your pocket. The picture will not
be a doubly make-believe attempt, but
will rank in artistic execution and COM
pleteness of finish and expression with
the best artists of the times. They do
no prepare the paints for this unseen
artist, neither do they open the tubes
of collapsable make, but they are lying
around the room in promiscuous order.
You may also get slate writing from
these mediums in the same broad day
light under conditions which precludes
all chance of fraud.
If Mr. R had put in his three
months time at the large end OF spirit
ualism instead of the small end one, he
would now be wiser, and make less
noise. He might still give exhibitions
but he would call them by the right
name instead OF an expose of spiritual
ISM
Hundreds of our great scientists and
professors have been carefully investi-
eating, testing and examining from va
rious points of view this much abused
and fraud ridden ISM" but somehow
lor other we do not hear of them expos
ing it, even after thirty and forty years
experience. The fact is the further they
pursue it the less inclined are they
| to expose it. No one will say they are
not as competent as Mr. RI. We
would naturally suppose them to be
much more competent if time and re-
search count for anything. 1t will be
generally admitted that counterfeit
| can exist only as secondary to a gen.
| uine, and that the genuine must have
existed in order to make the counterfeit
| possible.
Josephus says: Spirits of the dead
good and bad return, the bad will kill
US if we do not watch and get rid OF
them, and the good will lead us to virtu-
Gus and sober lives.
| JosephuS' father says:-"For what
| man of virtue is there who does not
| know that the Shouts which are severed
| from the fleshly bodies in violence by
| the sword, are received by the ether
| that purest of elements, and joined to
that company which are placed amongst
| the stars, and that they become good
demons and pulpotious heroes, and
| show themselves as such to their pos
| terity afterwards"
! Spiritualists are more than anxious
| to have all honest painstaking people
| investigate this science, and are as dill
! gent in getting rid of charlatans as
| possible. Investigations can not be well
made in three months, nor in three
years without making a business of it
! Biblical history is full of spiritualism
| 1t has always existed and will last as
| long as the race.
| THE thing which hath been is that
which it, and that which is, is thai
which shall be. and there is nothing
new under the SUM- Spiritualism is
too large to be torn from its strong
anchorage by one individual or many
| You cannot destroy the fact Mr.. R
would meet with just as much success
in trying to set aside the sciene OF
| numbers. Man has nothing to do witf
the laws governing in either case. They
| exist Independent of man, and it is his
mission to discover them. There is q
Physical Research Society in London
| composed of such men as Prof Oliver
| Lodge, A. ]. Balfour leader of the
| House of Commons; Sir VIM. Crooks
and others of advanced thought. Tt
what conclusion have these great mer
! arrived? A few words gives the sub
stance of their conclusions. Spiritualisn
| is truth, the decarnate can and do con
verse with the carnaLe. Prof. Hyslop
! after careful and painstaking series
| of Investigations, with a number OF
| other professOrs), using Mrs Pipe. as
| the instrument, comes to the conclu-
| sion that he is made aware of another
living fact in natures phenomena
| Saml Johnson the dictionary-maker
said: THAT the dead are seen no more
l will not undertake to maintain against
| the concurrent and universal testimony
| OF all ages and of all nations. There
| is no people, rude or learned, among
whom apparitions of the dead are not
| related and believed" DR.. F. w. Bar.
| rett, professor of experimental physics
| at Dublin Royal Academy. says: 1T i.
| well known to those who have made
| the phenomena of spiritualism the sub.
| Ject of prolonged and careful inquiry
IN the spirit of exac- and unimpassion.
| ed research, that beneath a repellant
mass of imposture and deluson there
remains certain indubitable and start
| ling facts which science can neither ex.
plain nor deny"
| But | have made this too lengthy and
will close. Perhaps Mr.. R will
now be good do not know.