THE SPIRITUALISTS ONCE MORE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 688, 6 May 1879, Page 2

THE SPIRITUALISTS ONCE MORE.

A writer m a Melbourne paper has the following :— ' ' At a i meeting of spiritualists held lately m Melbourne, a gentleman present detailed the wonderful experience that made him a convert to the doctrine of spiritism. He related that one night, when m bed, after receiving several premonitory shakes from an invisible hand, "the iron bedstead was lifted into space and floated about the room on a level with the pictures that adorned the walls, and was then^urned oh its side m mid-air without. its occupant being dislodged. Remembering Newton's question why an apple falls to the ground, I asked why the medium was not ejected from his bed, and was | told it was a proof supernatural agency ; was controlling the laws of gravity. Another medium has told me an incident | which beats Robert Dale Owen's story on' Footfalls on the boundary of another world,' and Slade's slate- writing, all to nothing. When a passenger to Australia he was one day seated m the cabin, and pear 'him* was; the slate, on which the captain was wont to compute his reckoning. The narrator was involuntarily compelled to take the pencil, which, without any control, wrote on. the slate certain degrees of longitude and Utitude. The captain, after several refusals, consented to alter the»course of the rihip, and at the Very place indicated fell m with a wreck, from which four survivors of the orew and passengers were rescued alive. The curious part of the circumstance is that the wrecked ship'jwas not damaged where she was met with, but many miles away, and had drifted with a strong current to the point of meeting. If I could only meet with such like experiences, I fancy it is not impossible I might think there was something m spiritualism after all. But I don't."

[fbom oub own correspondent.]