. Abraham Lincoln and religion. general. tribute to her life and work, says:For 46 years she was my pastor,my teacher, my friend. The glori-ous work of the guides throughher, their chosen instrument, gaveto the commonest life a vital sig-nificance. I should like to empha-size the spirit of obedience andduty with which Mrs. Richmondfollowed unfalteringly the leader-ship of her guides, no matterwhere it might lead her. Theynever compromised with what theydiscerned as truth. As the years went on, manywonderful and prophetic utter-ances were given from her lips,and in her volume of Psychoso-phy ar
. Abraham Lincoln and religion. general. tribute to her life and work, says:For 46 years she was my pastor,my teacher, my friend. The glori-ous work of the guides throughher, their chosen instrument, gaveto the commonest life a vital sig-nificance. I should like to empha-size the spirit of obedience andduty with which Mrs. Richmondfollowed unfalteringly the leader-ship of her guides, no matterwhere it might lead her. Theynever compromised with what theydiscerned as truth. As the years went on, manywonderful and prophetic utter-ances were given from her lips,and in her volume of Psychoso-phy are embodied some of hervisions and prophesies. One of her most interestingbooks is called My ExperiencesWhile Out Of My Body. It is to berepublished, with part two added,and will be a valuable contributionto the testimony from the spiritside of life. In my opinion, Mrs. Richmondwas the most remarkable, faithfuland most frank of all mediums whoact as open doors between the twoworlds. I feel that though herwork, in the human form, is ended. experiences; they are a part of theannals of the spiritual movementshe so ably defended, and they willpass into history as an exampleof the loyal devotion of a willingand obedient instrument of heaven. Her life work is but onethose Living Monuments, rearedby many of the chosen ones goneon before her. It is a testimonial,eternal in the heavens, not madwith hands. It proclaims the truthof spirit communion and illus-trates their ineffable power in pro-moting the spiritual reformation ofthe age. At the age of 11, like Joan ofArc, she heard the voices andheeded their call. She snatched thestandard of Modern Spiritualismfrom the thunders of a new Sinaiand entered upon her mission. Holding aloft her standard andproclaiming the paramountcy ofthe spirit,* she entered the battlin the early fifties during the stir-ring ante-bellum times. Shefought for liberty; she fought forthe freedom of human bodies, forfreedom from chattel slavery, what-ever the race,
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