THE REMARKABLE SPIRIT CURE.

Evening Star, Issue 3835, 9 June 1875, Page 2

THE REMARKABLE SPIRIT CURE.

To the Editor. Sra, —I do not challenge the good'faith of your correspondent “ Freundschaft,” but I do challenge the accuracy of his statements. Were such statements allowed to go tmohallenged they would circulate amongst the people as germs of poison, giving rise to the maladies of superstition and bigotry. Will your correspondent answer the following questions ? Ist. Who certified that his wife was in a “hopeless state of decline and that she suffered from lung disease of several years standing, and that she is now recovered ? ” 2nd. What were “ all the other avnDable means which hod failed to restore her to her health?” 3rd. How did the controiling spirit, a doctor without doubt, make himself intelligible? and what chemist was his prescription addressed to? 4th. What guarantee is there that this circle was not already acquainted with the nature of Jus wife s illness and possessed of medical knowledge for the occasion ? An answer to these questions would place your readers in a better position to receive or reject as true what your correspondent asserts. Further, as he was present on both occasions, would it not be as well were he to accurately and minutely describe what took olaoa m that enchanted circle ?—I am, Ac., * Dunedin, June 8. W, C,

To the Editor, Sib,—Having seen in Vonr issue of lasi mght a report of a remarkable cure effected through the medium of the spirits I deem it my duty to those who may unfortunately be Buffeting from the same excruciating as that which, until two weeks ago, prostrated me on a bed of sickness, to make known the manner in which I was raised from what my inends and medical adviser predicted would prove to be my death-bed. I may state that I am a law student, of twenty years of age, and have, from my earliest infancy, been of a weakly nature, _ Notwithstanding the warnings of my relatives I determined to study for the bar, with the laudable ambition in view of having my name bracketed in the hook of earthly fame and glory with such intellectual and forensic gladiators as Kenealy and Chaffers. By severe and unremitting study I speedily found my health giving way, and when I discovered that it was beyond my strength to read more than sixteen horns per diem I determined to consult the medical *n%n of our family. My friends’ worst ferfrs were on a fair way to be realised; I was suffering from fatty degeneration of the heart, one of my lungs was totally destroyed, my kidneys and liver were, according to the doctor’s stethosoopioal examination, quite gone, and the ganglia of my spinal cord refused to respend to either sensory or water stimulants* and epilepsy, accompanied by acute dementia, had been set up in ite direct form. My medical adviser abandoned, all hope of my recovery, and senoudy admonished me to prewttetSnasi my rJuMrf torfiuu!) my a dernier rcMrt, induced me, much against my will, to attend a.spiritualistic stance at Mr D-—-’s n to that stance a sceptic— l regret to say a sceptic—but. sir. I am proud to owa before tffifianoe-doS I saw my error, and came away convinced o! the truth of spiritualism. Two doctors were pre«

sent in spirit. One gave his name as Dr Abercrombie, of Philadelphia, and stated that the fame of a great medicine had reached even unto his western home shortly before his death, and that if this potent healer did not cure me nothing else would. Sir, your readers can form no conception of my mental agony during the shoit space of time the medium was employed asking the doctor to give a stance to the medium in whose magical powers he placed so much faith. You might have heard a pin drop in the room. Suddenly the medium grasped a pen and wrote in a clear flowing hand “ Take two pints of Dr S ’a rheumatic balsam internally tw'ce * day,” and “ aq. pur et alcohol ad lib. ” I oarefu’ly followed this prescription, and I am happy, ti say that withm a week I was in the enjoyment of robust health. I enclose my card as a token of my existence in the flesh.—l am, &0., W. S. Dunedin, Joneß.