What I Saw at Cassadaga Lake: A Review of the Seybert Commissioners' ReportColby & Rich, 1888 - 244 pages |
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... slate - writing medium . The room I entered from the street was well lighted , the windows and doors being open . The medium entered ; I recog- nized a gentleman to whom I had been introduced the afternoon before at the hotel , and who ...
... slate - writing medium . The room I entered from the street was well lighted , the windows and doors being open . The medium entered ; I recog- nized a gentleman to whom I had been introduced the afternoon before at the hotel , and who ...
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... slates and saw a communication on the lower one that nearly covered its surface . I read it ; opened the paper in my hand , and the communication was an intelligent answer to that interrogatory ; the writing not unlike the familiar hand ...
... slates and saw a communication on the lower one that nearly covered its surface . I read it ; opened the paper in my hand , and the communication was an intelligent answer to that interrogatory ; the writing not unlike the familiar hand ...
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... slate pencil is not and cannot be affected by magnetism , and besides , if this was possible , as the writing appeared on the inside surface of the slate , and as the medium sat opposite me , he must have written from his right to his ...
... slate pencil is not and cannot be affected by magnetism , and besides , if this was possible , as the writing appeared on the inside surface of the slate , and as the medium sat opposite me , he must have written from his right to his ...
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... written , I knew what to expect . I did not have a mirror , as one of your number had when he saw the medium " write on the slate under the table , " but I determined that my slates should not for a moment leave my hand , and they did ...
... written , I knew what to expect . I did not have a mirror , as one of your number had when he saw the medium " write on the slate under the table , " but I determined that my slates should not for a moment leave my hand , and they did ...
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... slate - writing communica- tions . " I have never seen any of Mr. Seybert's handwriting . I do not know that the communication resembles it in the least , neither do I care . What I wish to know is what power moved the pen- cil ? What ...
... slate - writing communica- tions . " I have never seen any of Mr. Seybert's handwriting . I do not know that the communication resembles it in the least , neither do I care . What I wish to know is what power moved the pen- cil ? What ...
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Page 231 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 77 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Page 80 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 78 - Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Page 5 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 237 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 83 - Spirit is given to every man to profit withal ; 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 discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally...
Page 77 - And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Page 77 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...
Page 78 - And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.