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though ignorance, superstition and bigotry have withheld 

 from you the just rewards to which your keen enlightenment 

 and noble sacrifices so fully entitle you, the end is not yet, 

 and a mighty change is about to take place to put you where 

 you belong. 



"William Martin." 



I have no evidence that this Mr. Martin was a friend of 

 my father, but the fact that my brother William was with 

 him as stated (which must have been a favour), renders it 

 probable. On the same evening there were a number of 

 messages to about a dozen people all in different hand- 

 writings, several of which were recognized. My friend General 

 Lippitt had a most beautiful message which he allowed me 

 to copy, as it was a wonderful test and greatly surprised and 

 delighted him. His first wife had died twenty-seven years 

 before in California. She was an English lady and he was 

 greatly attached to her. This is the message : — 



"Darling Francis, 



" I come now to greet you from the high spheres to 

 which I have ascended. Do you recall the past? Do you 

 remember this day ? This day I used to look forward to and 

 mention with such pride ? This, my darling, is my birthday 

 anniversary. Do you not remember ? Oh how happy shall 

 we be when reunited in a world where we shall see as we are 

 seen and know as we are known. 



■ Elizabeth Lippitt." 



General Lippitt told me it was his first wife's birthday, 

 that he had not recollected it that day, and that no one in 

 Washington knew the fact but himself. 



A German gentleman who was present had a message 

 given him, which was not only written, as he declared, in 

 excellent German, but was very characteristic of the friend 

 from whom it purported to come. 



On this evening most wonderful physical manifestations 

 occurred. A stick was pushed out through the curtain. Two 



