The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-06
SPIRITUALISTS WORKED UP OVER
DISCOVERY OF widows MITE" COIN

Beecher. wanted TO speak 20 him from
the spirit world. Dr. Funk assented.
why don't YOU return that coin you
borrowed from me thirty years ago.
the medium. inspired by Mr. Beecher' 8
spirit. said In Mr.. Beecher's well known
jOvial manner
What coin?" Dr. Funk asked. as
tonished.
why. The Widows Mite said the
medium, speaking for Mr. Beecher.
You used il as a model for illustration
in one of your books
"I returned il TO you years ago DO
said Dr. Funk
Pardon me. but you are mistaken. %
the spirit insisted IF you viii look I'm
your safe, I'm the compartment In the
lower right-hand corner, YOU viii find
my old coin under some papers.
Coin Found in Safe.
The spirit described the bundle OF
papers and the position of the coin with
considerable detail When DIT Funk
arrived at his Office next day he asked
a clerk who was with him at the time
the Widows Mite was borrowed what
had become of it. The man was sure
it had been returned TO Mr.. Beecher.
Nevertheless the search was made.
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small safe, which was first examined.
but search in "A larger safe revealed 10
in precisely The position and under the
papers as The spirit or medium had
revealed IT,
Dr. Funk smiled as the reporter re-
counted the story He admitted its
substantial correctness
"I win not Try to explain 10 at pres
emit said Dr. Funk. "Telepathic com
muuicatou by means of what, for lack
OF "a better name. we may call thought
trausference or thought waves, is r
well established fact Mothers know
when their children are sick. wives
have seen as in a vision the figures Of
husbands at the moment Of death.
These things are common and well
y0uched for.
Still in the Dark.
How are these communications
mader We 10 not know. There must
be some rules that govern them. and
we are I'm the dark. on the mere border
of the subject cropping I'm an effort to-
md those rules out
I'll is outside of the question to say
that che dead cannot communicate with
the living mind, I say cannot / do
not assert that they have cOumuui-
Gated. To win not do 10 quote any hard
and fast rule
who knows by what means one
mind communicates with another with
Que means OF speech or visible sign or
writIng2 What part OF the mind. of
the ego, sends and receives these mes
sasesf is it a higher CONSCIOUSNESS
which we have not vet identified And
Us the report of such communications
from mind 90 mind any more wonder
ful Than the MarcOui messages. which.
by means Of a wireless electric impulse.
ny across the ocean and are clearly
received thousands OF miles away?
II prefer TO give no details as 90 The
experiments thus far made until my
Investigations shall have been con-
cluded, Thus far I may say. that
which has appeared has been pro-
foundry interesting. I cannot say To-
the exclusion OF an other hypothesis
that ] have received a message from
the spirit world But 7 DO say we cau-
not deny the possibility of receiving
such messages until that impOssibiity
has been proved.
ana not forgetting the possibility
of one PERSONS reaWakeniug and read
ins tclcpathically "a dormant memory
ln the mind Of another Neither ann 7
denying that it is possible for one spirit
Oh communicate with another Ny mind
Us open 20 conviction i seek only the
truth