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l ~ 3 IT J j r j \ SPIRITUALISM. ITS TESTS. HARMONY, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION. ME,. & MRS. U. CLARK, EDITORS '[$1,A YEAR, IK ADVANCE; 3 CENTS A COPY. VOL. I.] AUBURN, N. V , AUGUST 29, 1857. 'k ' [NO. 35. ' ■■ 1 U_\_ A Corps of Regular Contributors Engaged Throughout the Country. Free and Fraternal/w ith all—responsible for none—con- , science, our creed—Truth, our search—inculcation of | n e a i l l l g . bhristian graces, our aim —the world our church—angels our monitors—God, o ur Great High Priest, and the dawn of a harmonic age, o u r hope for humanity. M E D L E Y O F M A R V E L S . N o t E lectricity . A few mouths since, a little girl ten years old was developed as a remarkable medium, in the family of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Willard, Louisville Landing, St. Lawrence co., N. Y. Numerous witnesses testified to us the fact that largo tables were rapidly lifted and moved across the nocm, while nothing was in contact except the lingers of the medium.— So powerful was the influence sometimes at tending her. she seemed almost transfigured, and wore the appearance of a spirit. Her health failing, she was confined to the bed for some time. The bed was placed in the cen tre of the sitting room. At intervals it was lifted entirely from the floor, with none near except the little girl, who lay on top almost helpless. An old uncle, belonging to the family, had repeatedly witnessed the tables move, but persisted. In his ignorance, in at tributing the phenomena to electricity. One day while the bedstead was being lifted up aud let down with the most startling sounds, the old man was called in to pronounce his opinion. He stood gazing for a moment with awe and wonder, and then exclaimed, • Fll be hanged i f that's electricity ! \ violent headache, and that it was instantly | bed, on the floor, and from that hour relieved cured through the agency of Mr. Convis.— of all pain. On coming into conversation with Mr. C. and In publishing these sudden and remarkable Dr. Beals, the lady confessed herself a Spir- cures, we would have the reader remember, itualist, and familiar with the fact of spirit- these cases are usually exceptions. Not more than one out of ten or twenty diseased per sons arc constituted in a manner to be suscep tible to the spiritual healing influence to that degree which would w arrant immediate re markable results. M an lifted b y Spirits. Mr. J. Lawton of Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. on the morning of August 4th, related to us a singular experience. For several weeks he had been, at tim6s, subject to some powerful invisible influence which occasionally seemed to move his entire system. O - the e'euing previous, while on his way home from-our lecture, the influence came on The “ W h ippers.” A Christian order called “ W hippers sprang up in Italy in the thirteenth century, and was thence propagated through almost him i u t h e A h the countries of Europe, The society that most exhilarating manner, and ho declared he embraced this new doctrine, ran in multi- was lifted up entirely off the ground and car- tu(les, composed of persons of both sexes, and ried several feet. Mr. Lawton is one of the a11 rauks a»d the public streets; reliable citizens of Saeketts Harbor, o.nd his i with whips in their hands, lashing their naked testimony on any other subject beside the ’bodies-with great severity, with a view to ob- Spiritual phenomena, would bo readily cred- tail1 the D m n e \mercy for themselves and ited by his neighbors. The author of the others> thou\ voluntary mortification and Acts of the Apostles tolls us that Phillip was ! P r a n c e . This scet made their appearance spirited away to the distance of thirty miles !lncw in thc 14th century, and taught among from his interview with the Ethiopian Eunieh, other things, that flagella tion was of equal to Azotus. Many, however, will credit the v;duo with baptism and other sacram ents: testimony of men living eighteen hundred that thc forgiveness of all sins was to bo ob- years ago. and scoff at that of their next door tained by it from Hod. without the merits of neighbors1 C h rist: that the old law of Christ was soon to „ he abolished, and that a new law, enjoining G o v . M a r e y ’s D a u g h t e r a M e d i u m the baptism of-blood, to be administered ' by whipping, was to be substituted in its place. A new denomination of “ W hippers ” arose in the 15th century, who rejected the sacrament and every branch of external wor ship, and placed all their hopes of salvation in faith and flagellation. Spirits in a Crowd. While A. M. Convis, the medium of Bridge water, N. Y., *vas recently on his way to W a tertown, with Dr. Beals, ho was compelled to wait a season at the Railroad Station at Rome While sitting in the passengers'\ room with a company of ladies and gentlemen, all entire strangers, ho w a i suddenly entranced and controlled by his-Indian chief doctor, to go towards a lady and reach out his hands with outspread palms over thc lady's head. Re maining in this attitude hut a moment, he was then suddenly brought back to his nor mal state, and to his chagrin and alarm found himself standing before the strango lady.— Before he was able to recover from his fright the lady relieved him by rendering the most handsome acknowledgments. She declared moment before she was suffering from a The daughter of the late Gov. Marcy spent ; the 4th of July in Troy, N. Y. Though in the company of congenial friends, she ap peared deeply depressed; and during the ! day had strong premonitions of impending sorrow. News came to the house announcing : “ Gov. Marcy's death, and some gentlemen Position ox a Pioneer Spiritualist. 1 were about to break the intelligence to Miss ! ™ , „ , , , , The late Rev. I . j M., when, before she could have possibly j 5 heard anything, she suddenly threw her hand- ] kerchief over her face, and in deep grief re-1 tired alone up stairs. ^ The late Rev. T. J. Smith was known as among the earliest pioneers of Spiritualism in. C entral and Western New-York. He was a member of thc Universalist ministry, and , many of his brethren in that denomination ! felt somewhat agrieved at his course, calling ! out from Br. Smith the subjoined letter pub lished iu the Christian Ambassador : Bn. A u s t i n : —In consideration of the many and conflicting speculations with the Univer salist public in regard to my views and stand ing, 1 have to ask the publication of the fol lowing manifesto; It has been a matter of surprise to me that R h eum a tism cured Instantly. Dana Hawes, aged eighteen, of Potsdam, N. Y., in March last, for several days had been suffering under an inflammatory rheuma tism of thc severest character. His limbs were swollen in a frightful m a n n e r; his pains were constantly intense, and he was confined to his bed. Dr. A. G. Fellows, of Albion, N. Y., was then on a visit in St. Lawrence Co., 1 those professing much anxiety for my. wel- and was sent for to test his hoalihg medium- 1 lare, and friendship towards me, should have j ship on Mr. Hawes. In fifteen minutes after I declined even to inquire of me what opinions j his arrival, the Doctor had his patient off the j 1 entertained, and the position I occupied,—
