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Soon after this, circles began to be formed in my native town, for the purpose of table-moving. A number of persons met, secretly at first, for as yet there were no avowed converts, and quite as much for sport as for serious investigation. The first evening there was no satisfactory manifestation.
I had always regarded the subject as the greatest nonsense upon earth, and I had read of the conviction of fraudulent mediums and wondered how any sane man could believe such things. I met some friends, however, who were interested in the matter, and I sat with them at some table-moving seances. We got connected messages.
Home went into the trance, and addressing a person present, said, 'You ask what good are such trivial manifestations, such as rapping, table-moving, etc.? God is a better judge than we are what is fitted for humanity, immense results may spring from trivial things. The steam from a kettle is a small thing, but look at the locomotive!
The spiritualist in whose house this exhibition of table-moving "without contact" took place, was well known as a man of strict honesty; and it was reasonably presumed that no mechanical contrivance could be used without his cognizance, in thus moving a piece of his furniture for the table belonged to him and that he would countenance a deception was out of the question.
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