New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD
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iii realm. as she could be % audible vor-s
Hi spoken here
I'LL While have had messages that s,s...
Ld things Of which | had never bes-'
. heard, but verified and found tr,e
have had other thing intensely h -,
own mind, at a seac-- that were n.
alluded % by the medium u would sae--
they would have been II these cournunirs
ton" are merely mind reading.
When Kate Field died IN Honolulu n Na,
. 1896. II happened that Profess1r David
Todd, the astronomer at ATnhe-,t o5serva-or,-
and his wife. Mabel LOOnis Todd were on tbe--
way % Japan with a party IN q c-lvate vacb-
and had stopped at Hawaii o. See the isIa-9-
And thus It came about that Mrs. Todd W.
with Miss Field IN her last hours On earth
At a seance with Mrs. Piper when Doct5-
HOdgsOn and | were both asking Questions n
Kate Field, who appeared % be writing through
Mrs. PIper's hand, / asked Miss Field who r.
LADY, was that was with her Just before she died.
In nv mind was intensely the name Mabe1
LOOMS Todd. Miss Field could not tell All
efforts TO get Mrs. Todd name we're fruitless
and felt that a test had failed Later learnel
from Mrs. Todd and from DR. Adrlance a New
York physician, who was also there that Mss
Fields last hours were unconscious and that
she could not have known the lady that was So
tenderly Ininisterlng 70 her
The Medium as lra1smIrrer
THE most convincing tests Of 'corurnunicat-
ing with the dead that have come into
my own experience are, by toelC verv nature
involved with 50 many events and personalities
that they do not lend themselves = literary
narrative without danger Of becoming tedious.
But 1t IS all far less phenomena than II IS part
OF the Spiritual experience OF lie The friend.
II the body to-day IS freed from the body 70
morrow. The change has not affected the real
man, the spiritual man, the immortal being.
and If we ourselves are sufficiently Gevei0ped
spiritually % receive his telepathIc messages
or 10 hear him ClaITaudiently couCUnicati0n
may continue. The medium lwhen genuine
and out Of much fraud there Is genuine medium
ship IS the same convenience % many, as
tranSnitter, as IS telegraph operator % those
who wish 70 send telegraus-
But the sensitive reCeptIVltv OF the spirit 20
impressions, influences. or messages Is normal
not neurOtic. All the poets painters. mu-
sicianS. inventors, and largely the great dis
coverers are thus sensitively organized. Mrs.
Mary i. LIvermOre, whom the public recCg-
nlzeS as one OF the saneSt and best balanced Of
women, often said that the time was not dis
tant when We should all speak as freelv Of
what those IN the unseen say o Us. IS We 60 CT
any conversation here.
Spiritual things are spiritually discerned-
As one studies psychic laws, the conditions are
found 10 be full Of subtle and complex vaTla-
tons, which cannot be too sweepIngly relegated
10 entire and arbitrary ClVIsi1nS lI e-rner fraud
or genulneneSS, for they exist n -nln1te
field OF mental phenomena Mediums some
times cheat" said Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
50 do people who are not MEDIUMS The
friend in the unseen often forgetS certain things
so does the friend here. All the variation Of
phenomena that attend any efforts n com
munlCatIng with the dead attend and invest
all our various experiences OF courcCclcat-ng--
whether UiUI U0cs or by letter. or by telepathy
with those on this plane One finds n HIM
self and IN his associates curious Apses u1 mem
Orv, unacCOuntable moods. inconsistent mental
attitudes, inexphcabIe attractions and re-
pulSions,-al the varied pheu1uecl. indeed.
that he encounters IN psychic research o. Psy-
chic communication
The unbroken continuity Of Lfe-i-s cease
less evolutionary prog--Ss--s the condition.
that admits of all high achievement ana leads
US TO believe with Robert Browning that
No work begun shall ever pause r1- death