New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
NE OF US BELIEVE
 |D OTHERS DO NOT
Here Is a Little Talk About [tuaGSm for Herald Readers

of lectures. made his first pub dress in Boston d week or so urlng which he cSsayed to con Ills audience Of the existence 0! l thing as communication with parted. He declared that he ', converscS With his Sou Ray
 who was killed in the Great That such strong mini as livcr's should support this old
 of spiritualism is evidence that an is sincere. But because one
 intellcct is Il believer does not the, fact: nor does il make an person the less intelligent b"- he does not believe, or insists Fitive proof. It is q well known hat eVcn the greatest minds ; continual study and by serious incere research actually con Themselves of the truth of their Ions. During the last few years, ally since the War, there seems Fe been u revival of spiritualism. ith the advent of Sir Oliver and ctures this thing is apt to gain ded following, for time at
 SpiritualiSm is q thing which unbcHever seems not only F but also unChristian. To the er, it is genuine and is taken 1ivine manifestation of survival soul after death. However, we Ltempt 10 neither prove nor dis this theory, but will content kes with an interesting little re- 1f modern spiritualisIn.
 k in 1889 it was asserted by Epncure D. Conway that while alisnlA was not yet 50 years old ! gained moro converts than iEristianity during the first 300 of the Christian era. Immedi- Tl IT. Huxley, one of the scien- If lthat day who had not been U by manifestations" replied piritualism has been in existence nde the Fox sister leaped into bJ reason of their "Rochester ngs" at Hydesville, x. Y, in but actually since the earliest ed epoch of time. During the bf the Renaissance and the Re tion, he said, it had just as
 followers. Even in the first ,f Samuel q case is related con E spiritualistic communication. heiess, the rappings of the final
 of the nineteenth century and encil messages of the present ton are probably sufficiently b entitle them to consideration dern developments of the old
 The very beginning of these recent practices is interesting h believers and non-belieVers.
 esyille is suburb of Roches-
 Y., and there lived in that in 1SIS. Margaret and Rather ight and seven years old re- rely. daughters of J. D. Fox. Is recorded of the father. but other was of q highly nervous rument, very credulous and cE- k. Attention was first attracted
 family when the mother began alarmed by A selivs of strange gs and tappings. seemingly "n- uable Nei2hbOrS wore c:-t {, l witnessed the queer Iupp sic ced in the childrcn's pruSenC&.
 credulous mind conceived th'
 that these knocks were in re- unGsked questions. so verbal were made and "replics' re- a h rap-one rap meaning nd two signifying the negative. Dse years nothing other than q ering ghost or a murder vic spirit was thought of as prompt ese Manifestations. Whcreupon 1irits were led to make a mur- large connected with some for
 occupant of the house. The was searched and sure enough, were dug up. The proof was as conclusive. although no att
 was made to ascertain if the were human or animal. I'm tely the fame of the little, sisters ke national. They were taken to ester and for q long time were &ted, together with tho rap Y in side shows. Then the
 spread and everybody thought heard rappings. Modern spiri- n of this order was therein
 Fox sister, however, grew to +ity and ceased their spirit rap
 
 in after years, exposed the fraud which they had founded their n. Margaret, then Mrs. Kane, led the whole thing before the emy of Music in New York in
 Her story said that herself and sleeping above the Twin" room, g noted that their mother was frightened. amused themselves linz an apple on string and &ing 1t on the floor. When the &shed mother arrited tn inVcsti- the children were. apparently, hsleep. Subsequently, they dis ed a physical freak i'll themselves kby they could snap their big Joints with surp"iSing effect. $ caused added wonderrent on art of the mother. Wherein or- ile commercial spirit in fhc form o girls older a.,ts1-. Sh" coached chifdrer into ansWerine- tEc ,1ors' aue5ti0rF, acted as mHnn- F inc dcmnnet rations an CvC.-
 comIr rnrciafizrh th" whole bsiIion and trarcipd With ril, tw1
 The two principaL, made tniS r1...,a ilN .4ft ,a''