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

79I was born on the same day the father of my country was born. February 22 nd (notconfirmed), 1848. I have the figures wrong—it id 1834. (Correct.) You see, I make mistakes.I was born in a little village in Ohio called Windham. (Correct.)My financial condition was fair ; my son has my influence and Hester is also with him. Sheknows him very well in his work and his name. Am tired now. T. J. Hudson.Mrs. Georgia lost this document for six weeks, but told me she had received the message,when I met her in New York, on March 13, and the purport of it. Perhaps Hudson knew she hadmislaid it ; for when I called on Mrs. Georgia, at the house of Mrs. Brattan, in Central Park West,on that day, she was impelled to write : “I am Hudson who……answered the questions atRochester. I was born on Washington’s birthday in 1834 at a small country town in Ohio calledWindham. My financial condition at my death was just very.…..(word indecipherable). Myson’s name was Jonson (or Thomson ?)……”Hudson says he did not get en rapport with the BangsSisters. That, I take it, means he could not write directly through them ; but he Apparently didmanage to influence their writing-guide, and to precipitate the message that I have called “thepostscript.” As I have before said, the lady at Rochester knew nothing whatever (except theirname) of the professional mediums at Chicago, nor did the latter know anything whatever of Mrs.Georgia. It is not possible that any communication could have passed between them. There is nota doubt in my mind that Hudson was present with me at Chicago.All the details of Hudson’s life that I have been able to confirm have been found to becorrect. He was born in 1834, but what date I do not know ; he wrote the books he says that hedid, and in the order he mentioned ; he was a jack-of-all-trades ; he did practice as a lawyer inCleveland, Ohio, and he did hold a government appointment in Washington. The name of hissister-in-law was Hester ; he died, as he says, in 1903. As to the other details, I should considermyself the debtor of anyone who would kindly tell me whether they are true or not. If these linesmeet the eye of any of his friends who knew the facts, I should be mush obliged if they wouldcommunicate with me. I have not been able to reach his son.While taking leave in this chapter of the witty and accomplished young lady who wrote forme at Rochester, I beg to offer her publicly my grateful thanks for her kindness. She spent manya weary hour over the script out of pure good nature. What I have copied for this chapter is onlyabout half the writing that came through her hand. Iola influenced her to write some fifty or sixtypages, which I have not transcribed, about matters of great moment to me, but could not haveinterested her. Mirror-writing can be acquired without difficulty, but Mrs. Georgia did not learnit. No one was more astonished than the lady herself when she discovered her gift. It was alldone in full light, except in two experimental cases ; she never went into trance, and the writing wasgenerally clear and easy to decipher. As she had never read any psychic literature, the referencesthat appeared were of special value. Our last séance was at New York, on March 18, 1909, for thespecial benefit of Dr. Jas Hyslop. Dr. Funk was also present. Mrs. Georgia had never met himbefore that evening, and had not read his work, The Widow’s Mite. In the middle of the sitting Dr.Funk asked a question of Hudson ; “You wrote me a letter, Dr. Hudson, a few days before yourdeath. Can you tell me to what it referred ?” The reply flowed from the hand of my friend atonce : “It was about a little coin.” I wish that my readers would refer to page 507 of The Widow’sMite to see the significance of this answer. The papers written at this sitting are in the possessionof Dr. Hyslop, who I believe, had subsequent sittings with Mrs. Georgia.It may be put forward that a young dramatist who has so much imaginative power as Mrs.Georgia is capable of inventing, without control from the other side, the situations created in oursittings and the crude dialogues of which they form a part. I admit that such an idea crossed mymind ; but it was soon dispelled when watching the facility with which she wrote from right to left.The rapidity and ease with which she accomplished this mirror-writing gave no time forconstructive thought. Moreover it would have been impossible for her to invent the accuratereminiscences of Iola.I cannot account for Dr. Hudson’s trick in trying to prevent me sitting for a picture ofHypatia, nor for his persuading Iola to lend her name to the deception. Probably he wished to