The Washington times., 1926-03-02
Open Forum
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PSYCHIC
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Editor, Open Forum,
Washington Times:
My attention has been called to
letter written in the open forum
on Wednesday, February II. signed
by Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, wife
Of United States Senator from Flor
ida. Quoted from the letter Il
states that:
Zone Sunday morning in Au
gust. after the Devotional exer-
cises, Maggie Waite, medium, was
giving platform spirit messages.
She pointed 10 b man IN tlIeg m
dIeIIce ana said: Many YEAR, ago
YOU parted frO1M d fa1esld named
Robert stevenson, WHO was leay-
ing for South Alnerica KOu both
agreed that tIie one who died
first should come back at the
earliest opportunity and give
these pass words: In hoe sIgn0
yinces! lii am not correct, VIII
You rise and tell this audience
so? He answered: You are cor
rest.
ssThen Maggie Waite continued:
You are HOudiniss spy-yOu are
his second cousin. The $50 with
which you paid your room rent
was given you by HOudini.
am not correct will yOu rise ANA
tell this audience So,
ssThe man did mot rise, but she
audience did, and In the excite
ment which followed he disap-
peared. Latin is moi In Maggie
Waite,s vocabulary
wish to inform you that that
incident. when the man ran out 81
the room, was a plant OF Maggie
Yates; it was her confederate. a.
! have never used a man inVesn-
gator in my life. J,
An amateur investigator, named
Virginia Swain, went to Anderson
Ind, and caught the slickest me
dunn. They ought to hang tnelr
heads in shame, and ] wish to state
AsA%StS9SN
never detected anything at any
time, as / have never gone aiter
her. but there is no telling what
might happen.
Trusting you win find space for
my letter in fairness. beg 70 re.
main, A'A+>A
Psychic Forum Editor:
am not a spiritualist, nor do
anticinate becoming one, but IN
Justice to the subject now under
such discussion, ! would ike TO
ask Just one question. !
In Paul's First Epistle to the
Corinthians chapter 12g we lind
this statement: 90.
Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, would not have you
Now there are diversities of
gifts, but the same Spirit.
For to one Is given BY the
Spirit, the word. OF wisdom, to
another the word Of knowledge,
by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same
Spirit: to another the gifts Of
healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working Of
miracles; to another. prophecy;
to another the OSceruInS Oh
spirits, ETC., ETC."
Now IL the discerning OF spirits
il mentioned by one of the fore
most expounders of the doctrine of
Christ, as a gift specially con-
ferred upon men, why should we,
who all ourselves Christians, doubt
it's possibility?
How can Mr.. Houdini, or anyone
else, claim that this gift does not
exist?
And who shall say to what per-
son, or under what circumstances
the gift of God shall be bestowed?
At the tinTe of Christ, we do not
find that the rich. the cultured or
the learned had monopoly upon
the spiritual things.
Ask anyone, either churchman or
layman, to explain this passage
from Corinthians to you, and see
what he will say.
If Mr.. Houdini has never seen a
genuine act Of spirit discerning,
may 1t not be because his eyes are
not opened, while the eyes of some
of those whom he condemns, are
awake to some celestial revelation?
do not say that this is so--but the
possibility exists!
] think we have no right to con.
denim a thing, because we cannot
it. This Is not the true
scientific outlook.
VIRGINIA TURTLE DAWSON.