by a spirit, formerly an ancient English
physician, and medicines are thence prepared
for each individual case. What sins could any
eminent physician have possibly committed
to justify such a fearful punishment in the
other world as this? To become the medical
adviser, and that without fee, of all the
afllicted fools who go to Suffolk Place,
Boston, for help.
Not only are there Medium apothecaries,
whose " spiritual, clairvoyant, and mesmeric
prescriptions are carefully prepared," and
highly gifted butchers, bakers, and
candlestick-makers of all kinds, anxious to secure
the patronage of the spiritual public; but
even lawyers are touting for transcendental
clients.
Counsellor at Law, Jabey "Woodman, of Portland,
vho practises in the counties of Cumberland, York,
Oxford, and Androscoggin, and in the courts of the
United States, trusts that the friends of truth in Boston
and New York will see to it that he does not suffer in
his professional business, because his testimony has been
freely given in relation to the evidences of life and
immortality that have occurred in the present age.
Courtney and Payne, attorneys, also follow,
with only a shade little less assurance upon
the same side.
Spiritual phenomena of the medium kind
are grown so common in that enlightened
country, that furnished apartments are
absolutely advertised upon the ground of their
suitability for clairvoyant pursuits.
ROOMS FOR MEDIUMS! To let, at No. 6, Warner
Square, two parlours, furnished in handsome style.
"Will be leased singly, or together. Also, an office on
the first-floor suitable for a Healing Medium.
In Montgomery Place, Boston, there is,
we suppose, Asiatic accommodation, for there
Mr. N. C. Lewis, Clairvoyant Physician,
"keeps an Indian spirit of the olden time for
examinations and prescriptions."
Here follows a striking circumstance,
which even in the columns of the Spiritual
Age, may be well denominated A Remarkable
Test:
At the sitting of a circle a short time since, Dr.
Charles Main being present, and having at the time a
patient under his care that had long baffled his medical
skill, inquired of the Spirit Intelligence what medicine
it would prescribe for the case in question. The spirit
gave his name (as having formerly been well known as
a celebrated physician in the earthly sphere), and
replied, "Go to Dr. Cheevcr's, No. 1, Tremont Temple,
Tremont Street, and procure his Life-root Mucilage."
This was done by the Doctor, and used with complete
success. At that time, the Doctor, the Medium, nor
either of the circle, knew anything of Dr. Chcever, or
that there was such a medicine to be had; and since
Dr. Main has formed an acquaintance with the
proprietor, he has informed him of the fact, and here gives
him the full benefit of it. One dollar per bottle for
the Mucilage, or five dollars for six bottles.
Among some dozen public notices of the
same character, we learn that Miss Sarah
Magoun, trance-speaking Medium, will answer
calls for speaking on the Sabbath, or any
other time; also that Mr. Frank White's
supernatural services are at anybody's
disposal, upon the usual terms, as a writing and
rapping Medium. Mr. John Hobust, too,
receives calls to lecture upon spiritualism,
is prepared to present the subject in its
phenomenal, biblical, and philosophical
aspects, and, above all things, desires a public
discussion with any honourable disputant,
who may be disposed to oppose him.
Several public discussions upon this matter
are reported in the Spiritual Age, in all of
which the opponents of the spirits get raps
over their knuckles, and are chawed up
with apparent ease. One Sunday at one
of the Melodeon meetings, Mr. H. B. Stover,
from Connecticut, trance-speaker, ascended
the desk, and presented to a numerous
company the views of an unknown spirit upon
the love of adventure and its uses. The
invisible speaker declined to give his name,
alleging that the world had been influenced
by great names too much already; but,
dropping some remarks about Icy Regions, and
referring incidentally to his having recently
quitted these earthly diggings, he led many
of the audience to believe that they had been
listening to no other than Elisha Kent Kane!
A CIRCLE is held for Medium Developments, and
Spiritual Manifestations, at Bromfield Street, every
Sunday, morning and evening, admission five cents;
and every Sunday afternoon, admission free.
Under these circumstances we very much
fear that the Circle will scarcely find time
to go to church. They lean, we fear, in the
unorthodox direction of Mr. George Stearns,
the talented Author of the Mistakes of
Christendom, who will answer calls in any
direction.
At the Evening Star Hall, in Main Street,
the Sunday forenoons are occupied by Circles;
the afternoons devoted to the free discussion
of questions pertaining to spiritualism; and
the evenings to speaking, by Loring Moody,
whose reputation is, of course, European.
One lady (who resides over a dry goods
store) has the advantage of thirteen other
more or less gifted female advertisers in being
a rapping, writing, trance-speaking, and test
Medium combined, as well as possessing the
more ordinary and common-place power of
clairvoyance.
Nor do these persons reap only the five
dollars or so, which they have all such a
strong inclination to see in advance:
sometimes Surprises are given to them. Under
this head we learn that a number of persons
brought their own food with them, unasked,
and picnic'd in Clairvoyant Newcorube's house
on Saturday evening, with much agreeable
interchange of sentiment. They left behind
them afterwards, not only spiritual (that
State is not afflicted with a Maine law) but
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