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

49The next day after some unsuccessful table-tilting, Mrs. Endicott said of Iola : “Once shecame to me in an earth dress. It was a check, with large, but not long, sleeves ; the bodice wasshort.Q.: “How old were you when that picture was taken ? “A.: “Eleven years.” (Correct.)Mrs. E.; “It was a short bodice, with big sleeves, a low neck ; three or four little flouncesround the bottom of the dress, braidings around the flounces ; something around her neck. It wasa check dress ; the hair was brushed back.”Q.: “I have a picture of Iola in that costume. It is a daguerreotype.”A.: Three taps (yes).Q.: “Where is it ?”A.: “Large bookcase.” (Correct.)Q.: “What part of bookcase ? “A.: “Top.” (Wrong.)Q.: “You have often seen it. You know it is not on the top of the bookcase ? “A.: “Drawer.” (Correct.)I described the place, which is the top private drawer of the solitary big drawer of thelargest bookcase in my room. This elicited emphatic tilts from the table.The daguerrotype incident is very good. The existence of the picture is only known to mywife and children, and it is the only portrait of Iola in my possession that has not at some time orthe other been used as a test ; it has never left the house. The description is not perfect, but sonearly so as to make it absolutely certain what it was my guide wished to indicate through Mrs.Endicot.There were many other communications through the table, but they were mostly rubbish,and not worth recording. Throughout there was a knowledge shown of terrene affairs.I now give an instance of a lying spirit (Diakka) that manifested in this cottage the followingyear :—At 3.40 p.m., Monday, August 17, 1908, I commenced a sitting with a fisherman, Mr.Endicott, and his wife, at 11 St. Peter’s Terrace, Brixham, Devonshire. The meteorologicalconditions were satisfactory.At 3.50 table tilted, and a guide called “Racca” made himself known, and promised to guardthe circle.At 3.55 a vigorous spirit made herself known, and gave the following information in answerto questions put by me :—“Sarah Matherson ; passed over in London, at the Savoy Hotel, on September 9, 1891, fromcancer of the throat, at the age of thirty-three. Widow of a soldier, colonel of artillery in theEnglish Army. Lived at Maclinwater, near Dumbarton. Passed out seventeen years ago.Husband passed out with sun-fever eight years before me, when I was twenty-six years of age.”Q.: “What caused you to come to us to-day ? “A.: “Perceived a bright spirit light.”“’Harris’ is father’s name. Only one child—spirit babe—Ida, who died when one year old; buried at Dumbarton. I attended Protestant Church—Scotch Church. Sister, Mary LouisaHarris—in Leith now ; cannot give her address.“’Gordon was the first name of my husband.” (Mrs. Endicott described the spirit as a tall,big, straight woman.)During the above communication the table tilted down towards Mr. Endicott.I have made particular enquires at the War Office, Dumbarton, Leith, the Savoy Hotel, andof two old officers of the Royal artillery. There is no such place as Maclinwater, and there neverwas an artillery officer in the English Army called Gordon Matherson. There is a negative sort ofvalue about even this communication. It shows a knowledge of terrene affairs, and thereforeprobably emanated from someone who once lived on earth.