Nineteenth century miracles, or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth : a complete historical compendium of the great movement known as "modern spiritualism" . o those who consider how unprecedented in modernexperience all the phenomena of Spirit communion are, that their recitalexcites so little attention and the repetition of spiritualistic narratives sosoon palls upon the minds of the recipients ; but the truth is, there existstoo little variety amongst these phenomena to render reiteration tolerable. Then again, Spirit communications are for the most part addressed toindivi
Nineteenth century miracles, or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth : a complete historical compendium of the great movement known as "modern spiritualism" . o those who consider how unprecedented in modernexperience all the phenomena of Spirit communion are, that their recitalexcites so little attention and the repetition of spiritualistic narratives sosoon palls upon the minds of the recipients ; but the truth is, there existstoo little variety amongst these phenomena to render reiteration tolerable. Then again, Spirit communications are for the most part addressed toindividuals, and the innate selfishness of humanity renders personal matterwholly uninteresting except to the parties immediately concerned. As the intention of this work is to prepare a record for the use of futuregenerations, we feel compelled to avoid the tedium of useless repetition onthe one hand, and on the other to send down to posterity a completeset of such representative cases as will display the nature of the spiritualphenomena manifested in the nineteenth century. • It is with this view thatwe select a few of Mr. D. D. Homes remarkable manifestations, as repre-. S . C . Hall NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES. 143 sentative cases which it would be difficult to transcend in interest. Thefollowing narrative, pubUshed in the London Spiritualist of March 30th,1877, was communicated by the charming authoress, Mrs. S. C. Hall, andreads as follows :— EASTER EVE—IN MRS. S. C. HALL. The near approach of, perhaps, the happiest of our Festivals, sends my memory backto, I think, the most marvellous of all my experiences in Spiritualism: there may beamong your readers some vi^ho will thank me for preserving and publishing a record of it. I did not write concerning it at the time it occurred ; yet I can recall vividly everyone of the remarkable incidents : they are as fresh in my mind to-day as they were tenyears ago, for they happened on the Easter Eve of the year 1867 : and th
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