Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-23
REV. AND MRS. SPRAGUt
ON SP|RIIUAL|SM.
THEY ENTERTAINED TWO AUDI
ENCES AT ODD FELLOWS
HALL YESTERDAY
AND TOOK UP A COLLECTION
Al the Closc-Somc Remarkable As
sertions Made by SpraEuc-spirits
Were Located in All Parts of the
House-Mrs. sprngue Gave "A seRnce
mt the Finish.

The spirits still appear to Mr.. and
Mrs. L. w. Sprague at odd Fellows
hail. and last night there was an
auburn haired. rather effeminate young
man who seemed TO get all kinds OF
shocks from the spirit visltants. They
must have told him shocking tales, as
the reception of the messages over the
spirit wire caused the young man to
act very much as IL he had been touch
ed by live wire He did not occupy
the center of the stage last evening,
but simply threw in few extra not
on-the-bill revelations.
Mr.. Sprague did the lecturing and
had much to say of naturalization.
which seemed to be his topic, and told
OF some very remarkable demonstra-
lions of the truth of naturalization of
spirits that he had himself seen.
Here's a sample one; The speaker
stated he had seen a spirit hand appear
and some one present had said IL looked
his his uncle Moses hand, and he
would like to see the back of 1t. Then
the speaker said: Il saw that hand
stretch out. back up. and on the back
OF the hand appeared a small lump
which swiftly grew. to a great wen.
Then the man in the audience said:
It's uncle Moses hand
People in the audience seemed to
have a large amount of confidence in
the professors statement of the Incl
dent. and one lady in low tone and
black dress, said. Wonderful
The professor also stated that it
wasn't necessary to materiallze the
whole person. when only part, as a
hand or some fingers, would be sum
cient to convince the spectator of the
fact.
The professor talked earnestly, loud
ly and long time. He secuted the
| idea of creeds and scored De Witt Tai
mage for calling spiritualists hum
bugs, deluded persons. etc, and dis
claimed the religious, but at the close
of the lecture took up collection.
The professors relation of how a
medium had seen-aetually seen-the
spiritual nerves and arteries, and such
things, being drawn up out through the
| top of a dying mans Uranium, and how
that collection of nerves-all spiritual
of eourse-had gradually gathered to
itself and materialized spiritual shape
like the real body but not it, because
you couldn't touch 1t. but you could
touch the real body which the medium
who vouched for all this. had seen
lying dead while the materialized spr-
itual body stood by.
This idea Of drawing all the nerves
and arteries out OF a mans body
through the top OF his skull, was
unique and thrilling and had a marked
effect on the audience.
The reporter did not fully catch the
language Of the professors narration
OF this marvellous experience of a
medium, but it certainly was as pro-
found as the subject was deep.
Mrs. Sprague followed the professor
with few illustrations OF what the
spirits, her guides could do in the
way of telling things, through her, to
people in the audience. Most of the
spirits the lady saw and publicly
located were standing behind chairs
with ladies in them. There were a
large number OF spirits desiring to
communicate, but in most instances
the wires were crossed, or something
was wrong. Mrs. Sprasue seemed in
clined to lay the blaree on the fact
that she was mot feeling at all well"
A package was handed up for her
to tell the contents. but the spirits did
not act or some other medium had a
ground wire on, cutting her out.
In two cases the parties stated they
knew the spirits who were inquiring
for them, but In most cases the con-
nections were very poor.
The effeminate young man stood up
after Mrs. Sprague was seated, and be-
ing zen rapport" located spirits at
about one every three seconds, and this
caused Professor Sprague to remark
that the young man had better connec-
ton with the spirit world than the
lady-at least at that time.
One of the spirits was located be-
hind the very next chair to the re'
porter, but as it was that of a very nice
old lady-as per the medium-the
scribe was not alarmed.
There was quite a large attendance
at the seance-lecture, a few of whom
were believers