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AUSTEALIA. 63
prised? It is simply an affair of Hodge's razors. Journals, whether
of news or literature, like those celebrated razors, are made to sell. So
long as the press thinks it will pay better to
abuse Spiritism than to profess
it, it will continue to do so; but should the writers for the press hear
to-day, or any day, that the public is gone over to Spiritism, they will
all, to a man, be zealous Spiritists the next morning. Then, and not a
day earlier, nor a day later, will the press be convinced. Their logic all
lies in ihe tlu-ee celebrated words, pounds, shillings, pence."
The clairvoyance and healing-gifts of Dr. Dunn were
underrated and mahciously ridiculed in the dailies, calling
The city was in quite
Passing the streets, I frequently heard, " There
out in the end several spicy rejoinders.
an uproar.
there he goes, that old long-haired Spirituahst! "
Spiritualists and liberalists, sufficient for the occasion,
resolved upon a new line of tactics, that of appealing from
the press to the public. Accordingly, immediately following
our first course of six lectures in Temperance Hall., the committee
unitedly resolved to take possession of a larger and
more fashionable place for the second series. Luckily they
secured the Prince of Wales Theater. The first Sunday,
there were over twenty-five hundred present. The following
Sunday evening, the proprietor opened the upper gallery,
and there were full three thousand in attendance. The
platform was fiUed with gentlemen of standing and position
in societ}^ ; and the congregational singing was excellent.
" The Melbourne Press " met with a sudden conversion. In
a single night its snarls turned to songs, and all was fair as
a summer's morning.
" The Daily Express " mentioned the meeting very handsomely.
" The Daily Herald" said, "An immense crowd of
people assembled again last night to hear the American Spirituahst
expound the new religion. He was evidently in
earnest, and at times eloquent." " The Daily Telegraph "
thus prefaced a fine report "
: A crowd filled the Prince of
Wales Theater last evening, from pit to ceiling. The assemblage
was intelligent and orderly, listening to the lecture
entitled, ' Spiritualism becoming Universal.'' " " The Daily