New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-20
DIR. FUNK ON PSYCHICS.
Cites e.r-Gorernor Who Talked Keith
Daughters Spirit.

DR. l. X Funk. the investigator 81 psychic Pine
& nomena. speaking before The congregational
Preachers Meeting on that theme at the Chelsea
yesterday said '@The Zine has come 10 dismiss
crom our minds once and for all the thought tha'
there is nothing in it Ae cited many examples
I of apparent communication with the spirit world
as.long them a recent experience OF an Ex-Governor
OF an important State. After the meeting number
of those present assured DR. Funk OF their interest
81 the subject. and some OF them SAID they helu
similar views. Dr.. Funk SAID:
The :act that a cause is unpopular; or even dis
reputable is no reason why We shouo Seet 20 ~ on
:iptoe. Every great new truth has come into me
world 10y that sort of doorway The value OF a
seed is known by that i.to which IL grows, not
what men say Of H. II is becoming selen1loeiiss
manifest thar the universe extends Infinitely te-
gnaoP is one Of The ehiefs s Of ps SgT .Fut ~
matter that Is thought by the scientist not seen
Sci a glimpse OF Pauls meaning when he said that
shera Is "A natural body and a spiritual body, and is
beSr, nrenare5 "a accent as explanatory OF per-
oeved phenomena the presence OF foreign ih'el"-
gences.
Dr Funk stated that nine-tenths OF the so-caled
psychic phenomena that had come under his OBJ
servaton could be justly classed fraudulent but
the remainder deserved the most careful inNeStga
.Ton by able psychologists and other trained soien-
lists.
Ifiti is once scientifically demonstrated that the
slead commune with US. however unsatsfacto-
.sy and imperfecIy. then scientific demonstra-
zion viii have been placed under religion ana mere
lty be a new epoch in civilization of an importance
isncOnceiVably great After all. why should II seem
Incredible TO us who believe in the Bible that there
thould be a physical. demonstrabls communication
between this world and the spirit WorldE i do nct
that there is such communication. but Win
believers in the Bible there should he a prior pre-
sumption in its favor, rather than against H.
4 The experience of the ex-governor related ly DR..
Junk that while he and his wife were away
IRON lone they heard Of a medium. and, sending
for her, asked If she could give spiritual communi-
cation with their daughter. who had died SIX
snonths before. The medium placed what she called
a. trumpet on the table. and sat at some distance
srom IT. II broad daylight. Then. according
10 tie account OF the Ex-Governor:
IN a few moments We heard a voice in the trumpet
which sounded like the voice of our dead daughter
j asserted he daughter she told Is the
particulars OF her death, including some incdCnts
which thought no one hut ourselves knew. FOR
O. long time the conversation was kept up
Dr. Funk added that ne had known the man for
tWenty wears that he IS of serious thought of
Thorough honesty. whom jesting or cecep-
ton in an affair of that kind would be unthinkable
Another example stated by DR.. Funk was where |
man having died without leaving the combination |
az The family safe. the widow medium Who /
was somewhat familiar with safes 10 some end sit
with his hGnd on the knob OF the combnatlon The
medium felt irresistible impulse compelling him
20 turn tho combination first 10 the right and then
10 the left until the safe opened.