Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union

234S.: It takes somebody to do that!Tom: You come right here now!S.: Well, maybe I will, and maybe I won’t! He thinks he can say “Come!” and I will come! Ifyou want me, you can just come right out here!Tom: I am looking you over to see what you are made of.S.: Well, look away!Tom: You have got a great big bump of conceit on one side.S.: Oh, I have! On which side?Tom: On your right side, where you can have it handy.S.: I haven’t laid a straw in your way. You have made up your mind to quarrel with me.Tom: No; I tell you you are a curiosity to me, because I never saw a man quite like youbefore.S.: I don’t suppose you did. I never saw a man quite like you, either.Tom: Well, we are both learning something. We are both getting an experience to-night thatwill be a benefit to you and to me. Say, I want to ask you a question, right here now! Who isLucy?S.: Lucy who?Tom: Why, don’t you know her?S.: I know a Lucy, but she is not here.Tom: She isn’t?S.: No; how could she be?Tom: She could be here, just the same as you are here.S.: Oh, no; she died long ago!Tom: How did you get here?S.: I walked here, of course.Tom: Did you walk barefooted, or with your boots on?S.: I don’t know as that is any of your business.Tom: Look down at your feet now, and see what you have got on them.S.: Why, I have got my socks on!Tom: Where are your boots?S.: That d fool has got them! I told you that before. You needn’t ask any questions aboutthat. But my socks haven’t got holes in, and yours have.Tom: How do you know?S.: I’ll bet you! Just pull off your boots, and let’s look!Tom: You don’t see me. Now I will show you something!S.: What are you going to show me?Tom: Look right at the young man’s head, and I will show you.S.: Ha-ha-ha-ha ! —the d—— fool has set fire to his head!Mr. B.: That is the Irishman coming out of him!S.: Oh, crackie! That’s a queer thing, isn’t it? Well, that is the devil himself!S.: That is no man!Tom: Yes, that is the man that has been talking to you. You watch him, and you will see himgo back again.S.: That’s funny!Mr. B.: Did he go back again?S.: No, he’s standing up there. I never saw anything like that in my life. There! he’s suckinghim in! He’s sucking him in! That’s a good trick.Mr. B.: It isn’t a trick at all. There is no trick about it.S.: Well, then, how could he go out through his head and come back .through his head?Mr. B.: He’s a spirit.S.: A spirit!Mr. B.: Yes, this Irish spirit takes possession of the young man and talks through him.S.: Well, that’s a queer thing, upon my word! I never saw anything like that before. That is astrange thing!