The age-herald., 1901-04-21
SAYS SP|R|TUAL|SM IS THE
 ARISTOCRACY IF RELIGION

Baptist ministry
 That's right, Jennings was my re-
 ply. I believe you are flrst-class man | as a Baptist minister but mighty poor
 one as Spiritualist
 Dr Hull was asked by a Sunday Inter-
 Ocean reported to relate some of the most | remarkable instances of Splritualsm with
 which he was personally acquainted-in-
 stances that In his judgment, were con- | nrmatory of the belief that Spiritualists
 profess. The doctor thought ever the re- | quest minute and answered:
 some years ago 1 was living at Lanes
 vile, Pa. One day a woman called on
 me and introduced herself as Mrs.
 Philips, and told me the following story: | She had been married number of years | previous to a man with whom she had lived happily until he became dissipated. 1 In one of his drunken spells one day they | quarreled. Her husband. picked up a | butcher knife or : hatchet, 1 am not sure 1 which and threw 1t at her, and then,
 without waiting to see what the result
 was. picked up their 4-year-old boy an1 | dashed out of the house. From that day | she had neither seen nor heard from | either of them. For six years she had 1 employed detectives offered rewards. ad-
 vertised all over the country: fin fact had l done everything that wealth would enable
 her to do. but all in vain Finally. she
 had consulted Spiritualist medium. She | happened to go to Mansfield, the famous l letter. writing medium. Mansfield while 1 under spirit control, saw her boy in a
 city, which he was unable to name It | was a Southern city, because he saw | bags of peanuts and bales of cotton piled i up on the wharves. The boy was in {, squald attire and was in the habit of | picking up a few pennies by singing around the hotels and on the streets | That was all he was able to tell Mrs | Philipps except that her husband was dead that she was to go to Lanesvllle, find Dr. Hull, and tell him that he was to find her boy
 T was considerably taken back by
 Mrs. Philipps story" continued the doc tor. T demurred at undertaking such an apparently hopeless search, but the wo-
 man was so eager and besought me so pitifully that at last l consented. That
 night l thought over the matter and from the mediums description concluded that either Charleston or Norfolk would be a likely city to go to. Som thing told me to go to Norfolk The Lext day l started
 .On arriving at Norfolk first went to the police and asked their aid Then
 went to the newspapers and inserted ad vertisements, and afterward went down
 on the wharves and made inquiries, with
 out success. By this time I was tired,
 
 my room and lay down. Thinking over
 my days work l said to myself: Well, I've done everything I can do Spirit Gave Him a Hint. Something immediately said to me- No, you haven't done everything go to the cemetery This was repeated to me several times until I was compelled to get up and go out. What I was to go to tn cemetery for I could not comprehend I -I.- xI- to me that as Philpps was dead there
 must be some record of his death and burial if he died In Norfolk. Not knowing when he died the cemetery officials could I no help me any but I told them what | was after, and they got down the records | for some years past and told me might | look through them. had only been at work few moments when man walked | Into the office.
 What you looking for? he asked in | an offhand manner. told him. l f" Why, Ilrecollect the death of Phil | lipps, he answered, and I know the boy | He's living with a family near here "The upshot of the matter was that he | took me to where the boy lived, his iden- | tity was established, and In forty eight | hours we were back in Lanesville. l had | telegraphed Mrs. Philipps the news of my success and the whole town was pres- ent to greet us when we arrived. Could
 
 of the genuineness of Spiritualism than this?
 Then there's the case of Charles Part ridge" continued the doctor Partridge was a wealthy man in New York years ago. He was not Spirtualist, but he had revelations which he ascribed to odyllic force and other agencies. He was a distinct skeptic about Spiritualism, but a steady investigator His investigations | led him to Rochester, N. Y, where he | had a seance with the Fox sisters. At | this seance the spirit of a dead brother controlled one of the sisters and told Mir. Partridge various facts about his own wife the lives of their parents, etc. Yes, yes. I know all those things, | said MT. Partridge somewhat testify, and | believe such communications can be | easily explained. But If am to believe l must be told something I don't know | and which l may afterward verify. "'I will give you the test you ask for. | said the medium The firm of Johnson, | Glenn & Co. of San Francisco, which owes you large sum of money, has | failed You will hear of the failure in a | few days but you will never regain a | cent of what trey owe you; neither will | you ever be able to get a statement as
 to the affairs of the firm
 Mir. Partridge Was SkeptlcaI.
 'Ridiculous! was MT. Partridge's s | comment. Why Johnson. Glenn & Go. is l the richest house on the Pacific coast and | their credit is gilt-edge.'
 | Mir Partridge went back to New York | still a skeptic. In few days he received l a notice from Johnson, Glenn & co. of l their failure, together with a statement