Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-02-27
INTERESTS
MINISTER'S
Or. !. K. FUNK READS A PAPER
ON PSYCHIC PIE.
NOMENA.

New York, Feb. 26.-Dr l. X. Funk
today read paper on "Spiritualism"
to 60 members of the New York Con-
gregationalist ministers meeting The
clergymen thanked him. The paper
contained instances of what purport.
ed to be spirit communication. in
Guiding one between a former COVER.
nor of a state whose name was with
held, and his wife and their dead
daughter.
DR.. Funk cited these cases to show
that there are psychic conditions and
laws which science does not yet recog-
nize
AS a test of spirit photography he
related the experience Of DR.. Veeder,
of Lyons. N. Y. DR.. Veeder, he said,
had each OF several persons of test
ed psychic power assist him, place
one hand above and one hand below |
Photographic plate and had all con.
Centrate their thoughts on silver dol.
lar. When the plate was developed |
Dr. Veeder found the form of a silver
dollar on the plate
George l.. Seaburg, of Brooklyn. DR.. |
Funk said, went to a medium with a |
written note, sealed and in his pocket. |
containing two questions addressed to |
his dead father. In a seance the me.
dium informed the audience that a |
spirit was present, gave the correct |
name of Mr.. Seaburg's father and an
sv'ered the two questions.
Another case was that of Mrs. L.,
widow of an army officer. When her
husband died, it ran, he left impor.
tant papers in a safe, but left no mem
crandum of the combination. She call.
ed in safe expert who was a medium.
He sat before the safe while she
prayed earnestly in her own room and
the safe was opened. The man said
his hand had been guided by the spir-
it of her dead husband, but Mrs. L.,
who is not spirtualist, declared the |
safe was opened by prayer
A Remarkable Case.
Coming to the case of the former
governor. Dr. Funk said this man had
written to him about his experience
and had asked that his name be with
held as he did not wish to set going
the funny men of the press" Six
months after their daughters death
insist they are not spiritualists, heard
OF a medium who was visiting a neigh
boring city and summoned her. OF
what followed he wrote DR.. Funk:
1T was 10 o'clock in the morning
and daylight was full in the room.
The medium had with her what she |
called trumpet, and which was of
considerable length when joined to.
Sether. This was laid on the table, !
with the large end toward my wife. |
who was told to put this end to her
ear. The medium did not sit near the
trumpet or table. In few moments |
we heard voice in the trumpet. which
sounded. to our amazement, like the
voice of our dead daughter. 1t was
our daughter
She told us the particulars of her
death, including some incidents which
we felt sure no mortal knew but our
selves. | watched the mediums lips
closely. They did not seem to move
in the slightest. l requested her to
hold her lips tightly together She
offered to fill her mouth with water.
This seemed to me cruelty suspicious
and unnecessary, and l did not insist
upon it. For long time the CONVEX
sation was kept up
Dr. Funk said close CrOSSeXamina- |
ton of this statement had not shaken
it,
I'm the governors case,' he said,
what was said is not of so much
Importance, for tricky medium may
get hold of facts which will puzzle
any of us, especially in mysterious,
ghostly surroundings. The puzzling
thing is that independent voice in what
seemed to be strictly test conditions"
DR.. Funk's hearers were greatly
amused when he described the totally
different visions two mediums had re-
ceived of the planet Mars.
"The first medium" said the doc.
tor. described to me with great par.
ticularity his trip to the planet. He
described the inhabitants, their civil
lization, the fauna, the flora. with
great particularity-all from person
al observation. Some time afterward,
through another medium, equally cred.
liable, another spirit told me of his
trip to mars, telling me that he found
it wholly uninhabited and practically
destitute of animal and vegetable life
l informed him of what the other spir.
it had told me of his trip to Mars.
His reply was: I cannot help what