The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-02-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA..—ThS New Fork Tribune publishes an account of the recent performance of a Mr. Tipple, a spiritual medium in Kansas, who has for hi' attendant a spirit said to be a member of "the King Tribe of People," which existed " in Asia 20,000 years ago." Father King, as the spirit is called, refuses to communieate.save through "an ordinary dinner horn three feet long. Ile is a fuatidious ghost, and as he lived before the age of "voice building "—if not, indeed, before any age whatsoever—it is observed that many of his utterances are so deficient in elocutionary clearness as to be nothing more than inarticulate grunts and groans. Moreover, and as usual, Father King demands that the room shall be darkened before he will breathe a syllable through the Delphic born. 1. For the rest, the admission to the seance was fixed at e-50 cents ahead. And among the heads thus admitted to the exhibition was the long one of a certain Miss CHURCHMEN IN DISSENTINo PULPITs.—The Ben. Jennie Lapsey. She seems to have acted with great S. Minton, whc states that he has during the last three fairness, for she went privately to Tipple, and asked years preached in dozens of Presbyterian, WesleYaM him what would be the effect if, during the visit of Independent, and Baptist pulpits, writes a long letter Father King, the room should be soddenly illuminated, to the " Daily News' in defence of the interchange of "Good gracious," responded Tipple, "it might kill me pulpits between Churchmen and Dissenters. Ile men. by severing the electrical current between myself and tions one or two facts which he tusks show that the Father King." This roost needlessly frightened Miss , practice is not so manifestly illegal as some persons Jennie, who did not want to murder men Tipple; but seem to think, and then argues at great length that it she was reassured when he added, "I do not fear any- is desirable. lie refers to the chief arguments of the thing of the kind, because Father King would know if other side, that Dissenters differ from Churchmen in there was any person present prepared to make a trial doctrine, that they differ from them in discipline, and of the kind, and therefore would not appear." So that Dissenters wish to ilise Anblish the Church. Jennie carried out her original plan; she procured a Neither of these objections are, he holds, a sufficient dark lantern, nod the next night when Father King reason for refusing communion with Dissenters. The was uttering the most astonishing •nonsense through question is, whether we are "to go in for such a 'Re. the horn, the bull's-eye was turned on. Father King union of Christendom' as woohl consist in an araidga. didn't know, it seems. Down tuinbied the horn to the motion of all Churehe, however bad, that are governed floor. Over went Medians Tinpie writhing with extern- by bishops, to the exclusion of all Churches, however poraneous stomach ache ! The electrical current be. good, that are otherwise constituted; or are we to seek tween himself and Father King had been severed. And for a ' ion with all who worship God in spirit and the next day ha left town, taking with him the mngic in t cost Sacerdotalism Lae,. exclusiosm, and horn. eve that is umeriptural and false?"