Lenderman's adventures among the spiritualists and free-lovers; . ful as musquetoesin a July evening. The music stopped, and the candles were lit seemed to have become composed, though shesat with melancholy, stupid stare, her eyes cast on thefloor. I noticed Miss Callan sitting near her reverendseducer; she appeared melancholy and absent-minded,as though her thoughts were wandering elsewhere thanon the fantastic group around her; she perhaps wasthinking of her girlhoods home, when innocence, andvirtue, and happiness were hers;—of a mother whowatched over her in sickness and he
Lenderman's adventures among the spiritualists and free-lovers; . ful as musquetoesin a July evening. The music stopped, and the candles were lit seemed to have become composed, though shesat with melancholy, stupid stare, her eyes cast on thefloor. I noticed Miss Callan sitting near her reverendseducer; she appeared melancholy and absent-minded,as though her thoughts were wandering elsewhere thanon the fantastic group around her; she perhaps wasthinking of her girlhoods home, when innocence, andvirtue, and happiness were hers;—of a mother whowatched over her in sickness and health,—whose earwas ever open to her daughters voice, either in the busybustlings of the day or in the still oblivion of night;that mother whose unwearied hand was always ready toprepare her for school, or for Sunday school, or forchurch; that mother that learned her to say, eachnight: Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray thee, Lord, my life to keep;If I should die before I wake,I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take. And where was that home now; where that mother!. THE SPIRITUALISTS HALL. The Spiritualists and Free-Lovers. 2l;5 Oh! she was miserable;—she felt how lost she was,—how cheaply she had sold her happiness,—her the way of the transgressor is hard! the wagesof sin is death! The medium here indicated that nomore demonstrations would take place that night, andhaving been released of the spirit, sat c^)wn by Landor. Will you go home with me, Miss Brandon? sheasked ; the spirits say it is not good for you to be withthe invalids. Oh! how can I ? It is too much to ask of me. I willnot disturb them. I will not go in the room where theylie. If I can only be in the house, that I may know howthey are, and do every thing that I can to help them. We have had directions, that it is not good for youto be with them. You can not know what is for theirgood, as well as the spirit of the greatest of is not right for you to wish to do your friends harm,if their
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