ily, and these were
lined with a pink color, and they were told that unless they made
this great fact known, they would all speedily die, and enter the
spirit-world.

"Gladly would they all have accepted this penalty for their
disobedience in not making this truth known to the world. She told
how they were compelled to hire Corinthian Hall in Rochester; how
several public meetings were held in Rochester, culminating in the
selection of a committee of prominent infidels, who, after
submitting the Fox children to the most severe tests,--they being
disrobed in the presence of a committee of ladies,--reported in
their favor.... All the time she was on our platform, there was a
continuous rapping by the spirits in response to what was being
said by the several speakers, also in response to the singing, and
all our exercises."

In the same volume of the _Forum_ from which quotations have already been
made, M. J. Savage states many facts which have a determinate bearing on
the point now under consideration; namely, the intelligence manifested in
the spiritual phenomena. From these we quote a few. He says (p. 452 and
onward):--

"I am in possession of quite a large body of apparent facts that I
do not know what to do with.... That certain things to me
inexplicable have occurred, I believe. The negative opinion of
some one with whom no such things have occurred, will not satisfy
me.... I am ready to submit some specimens of those things that
constitute my problem. They can be only specimens; for a detailed
account of even half of those I have laid by, would stretch to the
limits of a book.

"A merchant ship bound for New York was on her homeward voyage.
She was in the Indian Ocean. The captain was engaged to be married
to a lady living in New England. One day early in the afternoon he
came, pale and excited, to one of his mates, and exclaimed, 'Tom,
Kate has just died! I have seen her die!' The mate looked at him
in amazement, not knowing what to make of such talk. But the
captain went on and described the whole scene--the room, her
appearance, how she died, and all the circumstances. So real was
it to him, and such was the effect on him, of his grief, that for
two or three weeks, he was carefully watched lest he should do
violence to himself. It was more than one hundred and fifty days