aling have been
presented; persons have been carried through the air by the spirits in the
presence of many witnesses; tables have been suspended in the air with
several persons upon them; purported spirits have presented themselves in
bodily form and talked with an audible voice; and all this not once or
twice merely, but times without number, as may be gathered from the
records of Spiritualism, all through its history.

A few particular instances, as samples, it may be allowable to notice: Not
many years since, Joseph Cook made his memorable tour around the world. In
Europe he met the famous German philosopher, Professor Zoellner. Mr.
Zoellner had been carefully investigating the phenomena of Spiritualism,
and assured Mr. Cook of the following occurrences as facts, under his own
observation: Knots had been found tied in the middle of cords, by some
invisible agency, while both ends were made securely fast, so that they
could not be tampered with; messages were written between doubly and
trebly sealed slates; coin had passed through a table in a manner to
illustrate the suspension of the laws of impenetrability of matter; straps
of leather were knotted under his own hand; the impression of two feet was
given on sooted paper pasted inside of two sealed slates; whole and
uninjured wooden rings were placed around the standard of a card table,
over either end of which they could by no possibility be slipped; and
finally the table itself, a heavy beechen structure, wholly disappeared,
and then fell from the top of the room where Professor Zoellner and his
friends were sitting.

In further confirmation of the fact that real spiritualistic
manifestations are no sleight-of-hand performances, we cite the case of
Harry Kellar, a professional performer, as given in "Nineteenth Century
Miracles," p. 213. The seance was held with the medium, Eglinton, in
Calcutta, India, Jan. 25, 1882. He says:--

"It is needless to say that I went as a skeptic; but I must own
that I have come away utterly unable to explain by any natural
means the phenomena that I witnessed on Tuesday evening."

He then describes the particulars of the seance. An intelligence,
purporting to be the spirit of one Geary, gave a communication. Mr. Kellar
did not recognize the name nor recall the man. The message was repeated,
with the added circumstances of the time and particulars of a previous
meeting, when Mr. Kellar recalled the events, and, muc