The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-16

T don't know. I don't know his name or yours. I only tell you what my spirit friends are telling me-
 J then said. My boy, if you are present spell your name-will you 2"
 Three loud knocks.
 1 then recited aloud the alphabet a b e h i k m o D q r (three knocks.)
 The first letter is R." said Miss M'Creadie.
 then commenced again. and to cut my story short I have to report that the table faultlessly spelt out he name-Rupert Wynn. 'But you had another Christian name, my boy. Can you give that?"
 Three knocks
 What was it?"
 l continued to rec.te the alphabet and the letters came-Clifford
 The O was missing. I deliberately Jumped the letter to see what would happen. No knocks. My boys full name was Clifford Rupert Wynn.
 My Friends Amazed.
 once again distinctly felt my boy presence. I therefore plunged int the most delicate and intimate in quiries on certain matters relating to home, Chesham, and my church, and the table answered as intellircntly every time as any human being. ''I speak the truth before God. I lie not"
 NOW" said Miss M'Creadie, you have been asking questions that are double-Dutch to me. Perhaps you think it is I who have done this? It is not The spirits may have used my psychic power, but you. have psychic power. Did you get a name you '-nowT Is Rupert Wynn your son?"
 Yes; he died In France on Febru- ary last 16th last"
 Well, marvellous! Ahl how mar vellous the universe isl" cried Miss M'Creadie. "Go home and use a. table to let you boy speak to you. Few people have sufficient power. You have it. Use it.''
 You must possess the faculty to at tain results. I have tested six of my friends. The table is dead under their hands. Directly I lay mine on 1t, as you would lay a feather. I be- gin to feel a strange throbbing, ana the table starts to make most un- earthly noises. It takes time before 1t commences 70 move. First, an inch; then, a foot; then, a yard; then, anywhere. all round the room
 My first experience gave me be- wildering sensations. Now I know that the table is simply Ruperts pen by which he writes his letters to me. believe it is possible for many peo- pie to sit and get nothing, the result being that they disbelieve in the findings of the others. This disbelief develops into eloquent denials, which are as absurd a doubt on my part of Lord Rayleigh's mathematical genius. because I possess none.
 Religious people really must try to be sensible and logical; some of them will find this very difficult, but they can try. It is certain that the table moved without the least assistance from me. My work, therefore, resolv- ed itself into this: to test whether any of the aforesaid natural causes ac- counted for the phenomena. They certainly did not, as will be seen from thef ollowing facts. I decided on two tests.
 The First Test.
 I asked Mrs. Wynn and MT. Harry Bates during my absenece from home to choosG three articles, and place them anywhere in my study. When I returned I was accompanied by two graduates of London University Gone B. Sc.) to whom the test was ex- planned l went straight to the table, and simply laid my hands on the top of it. The table stood on an ordi- nary carpet, by the side of thick Turkish rug. In short time 1t be- gan to move.
 "Whoever is controlling this table is requested to take it 10 the three articles in the room. What is the first?"
 "An apple" replied Mir Bates Instantly the table moved right round, and went across the room to a travelling case on the floor, with one of the table lege placed very care fully about four inches from the end of the case. Turning to MT. Bates, asked:
 'Is the apple in here?"
 Yes; and the leg of the table is exactly opposite to it. The B. Sc. stared with all the eyes that are left in a mans head after taking that degree.
 What is the next article7" asked. "A purse"
 The table started at once to move, and I followed 1t to a cabinet on the other sfd0 of the. room, the corner of the table pointing exactly. to a little corner in the drawer. |. Is the purse in this drawer?" I asked.
 "Yes.~
 The third article was . Bible. placed on . writing desk, beyond the edge of the Turkish rug. The taSis meved round, sese eA ene tI4 .