Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

IT was DIR. Hodgson and not some other
personality which communicated with
you?"
There have been many, of almost equal
value. For example. at a sitting which
had with Mrs. Piper after DIR. Hodgson's
death and at which messages purporting
to be from him were received he told me to
ask Prof Romaine Newbold of the Uniyer-
sity Of Pennsylvania If he remembered be-
ing with him on the beach at the seashore.
Now, had never heard of their being at
the seaside together. and afterward in
quired of Prof. Newbold IL this message
had any pertinence to him. He replied that
the last time he saw Hodgson before his
death was en- the beach at the seaside. We
have collected a large number of facts and
Incidents, communicated described,
which could not possibly be in the knowl-
edge OF either the sitter or the medium.
They are Incidents which cannot be ex-
planned by telepathy or defective memory.
For example. | was in New York and DR..
sitting with Mrs. Piper IN Boston. She
wrote for him message from my de-
ceased father, who said that at the time
my mother and sister at their home out in
Indiana. were packing UP their belongings
preparatory to going away for the summer
and remaining until fall. Now IT was not
their habit to leave home In summer. and
neither Hodgson nor I had any idea that
they would do so at this particular time
The next day l received from my mother
letter, written at about the hour of Hodg-
sons sitting, and stating that she and my
sister were packing to go away until fall.
Again. while was having a sitting with
Mrs Piper message was received from
a mana stranger to me-who gave his
name. and that of his home town. He also
stated that he had lost finger 7 made
Inquiry in the same county and same town
mentioned as his home and found that the
Oldest residents of the same name people
seventy-fve and eighty-four years old, had
never heard of him. Later, I found a cousin
OF these peoples father, who had had the
same name, and had died before / was
born. Pursuing my inquiry still further I
found that this man had lost a finger In
the war of 1872"
Has the Immortality of the soul been
proven to your satisfaction by your ex-
periments made to date?"
MY position is that the only accepta BILE
hypothesis which can account for certain
phenomena that I have observed is that
o. survival after death. The balance Of
hypothesis as the only rational one to
which we can hold at present"
A "spiritist" Not spiritualist.
Are you, then. a spiritualistT'
ITO nearly all people . spiritualist' 10 q
person who accepts cabinet matsrialixa-
tons. siate-writins tabie-rappins. table
| fitting. rope-tying. and all such physical
manifestations as supernormal phenomena.
| In this sense I am most decidedly not q
| 'spiritualist' But In view OF my beliefs
| arrived at to date as the result OF purely
| scientific inquiry you might call me a
| 'spritist.' What I stand for now Is that
We have a body OF facts best explained by
| the supposition that we communicate with
certain deceased persons. under favorable
| conditions. l believe these phenomena to
| be much more rare than commonly sup
| posed by the spiritualists. but that they do
nevertheless occur"
| You do not believe then, that there are
| any genuine physical phenomenar'
NO. There have been reported quite a