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The frequent applications made for i copy of tlio pamphlet on Clairvoyance, which I had printed for private circulation only, and in limited numbers, has in- duced mo to have more struck off, with some additional incidents taken from ray original memoranda, and the correspondence which took place between Mr. Vogl and myself, aj to the practical, or as some objectors say, the ciii bono phase of this matter. I discover there are many who would diligently enquire into the dollar and cent part of the question, rather than the more important truth involved. If, however, they arrive at the one, they can scarcely escape the other conclusion . Amor ^st the various ways in which some of my friends account for my "experience," it is gratifying to feel that in a community where I have been long known, I have not, I believe, been charged either with collusion or wilful misrepresentation. I do not complain of the various solutions given by some unboiicvers, as I frankly con- fess I can scarcely conceive any ordinary evidence which two years since could have induced a belief which I am now compelled to entertain. Of the two most prominent expositions given by many persons ; viz., the agency of the devil, and hallucination : I must as to the first admit, that some three or four years since, when I was told by most reliable persons of certain strange occurrences which took place through a medium in this city, I did not hesitate to put them down to demoniacal agency. This view of the case, however, T need hardly say, has now no place in -my I mind whatever. Ah to tho other — halliui nation — 1 cannot (exactly comprehend what is meant ; if it ho that I was not in Bostoii nt all, but only fancied I was, that I never saw either of the persons I supposed I did, nor heard nor saw what I have detailed, hut only fancied 1 did, or that in imagination only by direction of VogI 1 dug up a piece of clay in Portland, handled it, sent it to Boston, subsequently sent a barrel of clay, and now see upon my mantel-piece a small cup and tiny jug, manufactured from this clay, sufficiently substantial to shiver any lance of unbelief which may be couched against them l)y doubting friend or foe ;— why, then, I must leave such a theory to such as can entertain it ; to me it is unthinkable. To such of my friends as sincjerely regret my depar- ture from a part of my earlier instructions and more orthodox ideas, 1 can truly say, that could they but en- tertain the joyous belief that our departed loved ones stdl live in spirit torm, and can be and are at times around and about us to guide and impress for good, instead of re- maining in the grave or some unknown place until the last trump shall awaken them, and us, or at least some of us, according to orthodox creeds, to inevitable and never-ending torment, their pity would be turned to joy. The Mosaic account of Adam's lall and sentence, recorded in the third chapter of Genesis, breaths forth no such terrific curae against him or his ofispring. To those who are so wise in their own opinions as to pooh ! pooh ! every thing which is not the emanation of their own intellectual crucible, I would not presume to offer anything either new or old. With those who call me crazy 1 cannot personally contend, but must leave that issue to the decision of the community. GEO. BOTSFORD, Frkdkricton, Feb., 1876. ..aa*-,^.*^ Personal Experience of the Subscriber FROM 26th JUNE TO 2ii« JULY, 1876. Uavinq Been in some of the newspapers of the day that the wonderful medium, C. H. Foster, was iu Boston and would re- main there all the month of June last, I, impelled by an almost Irresistible desire to see him, which had been upon me for some time previous, left homo (Fredericton) on the morning of the 'Uth Ju.;e b' rail, and arrived at Boston at 6 o'clock, A. M., on the 2r% an'l took up my quarters at the Parker House, where I^"'. i ^f V i: J his room^ lilpau enquiring for him I found that he did not j^f^nerally sleep a» the hotel, but went in the afternoon by trsi:^ to S^^'n, where his family resided, and was to be back that .nonilvi? at iO o'- lock. T h:A h good wash and change of ap- oare:. ^nd tcoV' bop-zfasi ai. t o clock. At 10 o'clock I enquired o( one of the waiters if Fo.tei lif.d arrived. He said he had not, but that he would show me v»it room, where some persons were already waiting for i-'ra. I went in and found a lady there, a stranger, of course, to me, as she also appeared to be to Foster. We sat a few minutes conversing on the subject of our visit, and Foster come in. The lady asked me if I was there by appoint- ment. I said no mtpresuming that she wa8,Igotuptoretire, when Foster said it would be more satisfactory probably if we -'t together. Whereupon the lady expressed her willingness, u id we sat up to a table in the middle of the room, when Poster told us to write the names of any persons whom we wished to see on slips of paper, and fold them up as closely as we could, so that he could not see or read them. I wrote twelve namec on separate slips ofpaper, and folded each oho four double. The lady had hers already wriUen and folded up. Then Foster told us to throw them in the middle of the tab'o and mix them together, which we did, and it was almost impossible for us to distinguish which belonged to one or the other. Foster sat down with a cigar in his mouth, which was scarcely ever out of it except when he was speaking to us. There was no change * i^^^*"*^ 6 In his npponrftuco or manlier, nnd while talklnjf with us In pn ca«y aflUblo way, ho «ah! to one of un, [ forget which first, lu»ro Im ro and ho, iiamin{; a porHon, to sco you, and doRcMlblng thoir ttppenruiico to tho very letter. If you aHkcd him, which I did In Reveral instancoN. In one case however he described tlio person before glvhijf mo tho name. Wo sat for some Jimo converHinx with our roNpectlvc friondsand rcIativoH, tho lady Heemlnj^ quite HutiHtlc'd with her convorsutioii, somoUmoH j^ivon by Foster epcukinjf to uh, and sometirnos by written moHsajfOH and answers, which ho wrote on some papers he had before him, tore it off and handed to us. DuriuK our sitting, Foster look- ed towards me, said, '* here is your (fraiulinoth.or Uichard'^on." Ho had scarcely the words out when tho lady said, •* why, that Is my grandmotherV name," and she asked a jfreut irmuy questions of her, and was quite satlsttcd with the replies. Foster said, laujfhingly, '*I thou;,'ht she came to you, as she Is now standing here between you and me." At this sittinj; there were present, my father, mother, my two sisters, two brothers, my little son Frank, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Dorr, (»ne of my old collcjfo friends Inglis Haliburton. I do not know how many of (ho lady's friends wore present, but she took up a good deal of the time, and I was so astonished at what had taken place that I could not sufficiently co'lect my thoughts to ask many questions, yet enough to convince me of tho reality of our Interview. I asked my sister Sarah whether I was right In giving up the atonement by blood. She replied at once, " you are right; It is entirely vtrrong." I asked how and where my mother was, she replied, ''mother Is happy in spirit-land, and is often very near you. Father and mother are both stand- ing near you now." I asked about a gold chain, che said^ "I remember the chain giveti to Fanny and Helen, but can't tell where it is now." She said "hold on to Westcock ; buy i t back ; father wishes you to have Westcock." t also said to my father, "what about Westcock?" He said they wished me to buy it again. 1 then asked if there was any probability of my over being able to do so, he said Influences would be brought to bear by which I would do so, and at a very low figure. I asked father if he would write his name for me. Foster tore off a small slip of paper, and taking It and a pencil, he put his hand under the table close to me, as we were sitting next each other at the table. I 4 i I n*' ^»5»: A f 'mf,^. mf } .3bk ' wmm i rr^ hcftrd a lort of gcratchliiK an If wrilliiK, and In ftbnut half a mlnuto Foiitor handed mo tho paper with William Motuford written backwards on It, no you had to hold tho paper up to the light and read It from the other side of tho pui>cr. Tiu; WiUlam waH very liko my falher'H writing, but HotMford was h«»t. I then aHkod mother If mIio would wrlto her fuime. FoHtor did tho Hamo thliiKuKHln, and hundod mo tho papor.wlth Sarah BotMford. There waH no L. In It , an rIio UHcd to wrlto her name, and although tho 8arah waH very like her writing, tho BotRford wan not so much, both from my recollection and from comparhijf it with one of her lotted s since my return home. My mother wrote a very peculiar hand, as much unlike Fonter'H as well could be, and after a further and more irinute examination I muHt say that the Bimllarlty between the writing so made umlor the table and my mother's Ik most str'king and unmistakable, I forgot ta write my Histcr Eliza's name at flrwtjttnd whiht Foster was talk- ing with the lady 1 wrote it and put It amongst tho rest. Very soon after Foster said, here comes one calling herself Eliza, and tun of love for you, oxpreasing her great delight at seeing you, and wishes to shake hands with you. Foster quickly put out his haml towards mc, and I seized it without a moment's henitatlon, and shook it most cordially , but it very nearly upset mo, as I could not but fee) that Eliza was there. It was about 11 o'clock now, and having determined in my own mind to have another inter- view with him, I walked out into town, and going into a book store, I saw some spirit phonographs for sale, and upon enquir- ing whether tho person who took them did not live in New York, the clerk in the store said that he lived here In Boston, but he had been told that ho had closed his oflBce for taking photographs. He could not tell me in what part of Boston he lived, 80 1 wont back to my hotel, and found from the directory his place of resideuco, und after dinner I started off to find him out if possible, to get a photograph taken. I found his wife at home, but he was not. I told her I wanted to sit for a photo- graph. She said he bad not taken any lately, as he was very busily engaged in some new discovery for taking copies of etchings by sun light, but she said he had promised a gentle- man who had come a long distance to get a photograph, to sit next day at 10 A. M., and if I would come about 9 she had no doubt but that I could have a sitting. I arranged to do so. I ■ r^^sm-' .ia«?.'; I Imd ft ■hort coiiTeiMfttloii with hor, ami « luiulnJ ii .hf knew ol •ny teit tnedlnm as lo miii«rali*. Shi» Httid thut .h^li' bout tern inevUuin HhU Just •.ailed for Euiopts but Ihcro wan finolher per- non, wlioKf iiamo himI raiihleiioe ilie gave mo on u illp ofptiter, who wan vpty mun}, and whllM wn worn (ulkiii|r of thh iho pftrty hlniMolf came In, and shp tol.l him n\w had Just gluMi me a refer- once to him. I thoii arranged to ^eo him Uio next day aho at 8 o'clock, r. M. It nuint ho remembered bore that tbfc-4« peoplr were all HtranKors to me, and that I had no intention or idea of HCoinK Miimlor before I saw the phr»tograph mm monllono^fWf^' ': S # ^ 'IV •UtnU bo4.(\e you ono mo.^t boautf fUi , alio hM pMioit away loine ioiigth of time ; the hoUU in hor IiaikI » crown of tlu} most loTely floworii; and there l» written »oinethln.eculiar feelings and difilcultios accurately, ro far as I cou'd judge from my long acquainttmce with her aufferings, and flrom iirevioue diagnoses of her condition by two other Clair- voyant Physicians, severally made ai aifferent times, when they successfully treated her in some dangerou*! illness. I went im- mediately to my liotel and wrote otif the above . I may here say that up to this time ueither Mr. or Mrs. Muraler knew my uame, whore I was from, or the hotel T was stopping ai, as I purposely avoided giving them any such Information, nor had they asked me. 2 10 After dinnci I went ta see Mr. Vogl, the mineral man, at the honr appointed. I found him at home, and after shewing me his extensive cabinet of minerals from all countries, we went into a private room, and T told him I had some sort of ore which I wished him to look at. I then placed in his hand a piece of stone I took off from my property in Portland. He looked at it and examined it with his glass, saying there was iron and a very slight appearance of silver in if. I then gave him the plan of it, made by the Surveyor who made ■ i T 11 k. #,^ ^* SO that I recognized my daughter Fanny. lie then said, '* I see .luothor ^irl," describing Kate, and said, ** she seems to have had her hair cut not long since, by the way it hangs on her shoulders. (This was the case, she having had her hair crop- ped off some time before this.) He began to talk about some- thing else then, and after a short time I asked him if he saw any one else. **Yes, I see another girl, with lighter hair and eyes than the first, with broader forehead and more pointed chin." And went to describe her so that I couM see Ilulon was the one. " I see a boy about 9 or 10 years of age, with large dreamy eyes, and rather long face," and described my son Georj^e. I asked what he was best fitted for iii life. He said ho could not say, but he seemed to be surrounded with wheels o.''every kind of machinery. This boy has a wonderful tendency to these things, •* I see a little girl from 4 to 6 years of age; ihe is dressed in a light dress with a blue sash or belt," describ- ing my youngest daughter Leila. This was entirely correct as I found on my return home. I then asked if there were any more, ho said, " there is another boy, older than the one I spoke of," whom I supposed was my sou Harry. 1 asked if there were iny more ; he said, "yes, there is another little girl, a tender flow- or," describing Bessie, and at the same time cautioning me as to her liability to hava her lungs affected, if allowed to take a severe '5old, and told me what to give her if she were so attacked. It is somewhat remarkable that I bad been told the same thing of this child, at different times, by two Clairvoyant Physicians when examining her between five and two years since. During this conversation, 1 several times tried to get him to fix my house in town as the place he saw them, telling him that we were all living there, and not on the hill ; he however persisted in saying they were on the hill, and on my return home, I found that rhey had been all down there, just at the time we were talking in his room, except Harry, who ".'as not there, but young George Allen was with them. I sat talking with Mr. Vogl about 2i hours, and arranged to gee him again on Tuesday, at 9 o'clock, A. M. I have given but a short outline of Mr. Vogl's description of my family, he gave me a full delineation of most of them, not only their appearance, but of their peculiar dis- positions and tempers. Foster was not at the hotel on Saturday nor Sundav. the 12 26th and 27th Juno, hut on Monday the 28th, T again saw him; hiR wife or lister, I don't know which, was with him during this sitting. Foster said, «< Here is a person who calls himself Henry G. Clopper." I asljed Foster to descrihc his appearance, which he did at once, but as I had never seen Mr. Clopper, I could not judge of the correctness of it, except that it corres- ponded so far as I could judge with a painting of him, which my wife has. I then asked him if he liad a message for his daughter Fannie. Foster took up the pencil immediately and wrote the following, and handed it to me: "I wish you to bear a message of love to my dear daughter, your wife; say to her that I am with her much of the time, and watch over her; I will be near her always, and guard her in the right way. Henuy G. Oloi'per." I asked him where she was living now; he replied at once, in the old house at Fredericton." This house was my wife's homestead, but we had occasionally been residing in a new house I had built in another part of the city. My half brother Murray came, and Foster described his ap- pearance as I remembered him, with the exception of a slight moustache, which I do not recollect. I asked him if he had any message for his daughter Fanny ; he said, nothing particular. My brother Chipman came, Foster saying, *' here comes a very tall person with a long thin face, with a haggard look, as if he had suffered a good deal; he calls himself Chip, Chip, Chipman." My brother was 6 feet 1 inch in height, and for sometime a great sufferer, and none of his friends who saw him during the two or three last years of his life, can fail, I think, to discover the correctness of this description. I then said, " Chip, where is your son Edwin?" Foster at once said, •* Ed. is alive and well, in California." Foster wrote this answer at tl^e same time, and handed it to me. I will here remark that shortly after this, Edwin, whose name I had included amongst the papers, supposing he was dead, came and confirmed his father's statement, in answer to my enquiry. 1 was not so much startled at this, because I had in my inter- view with Vogl been told by him that certain persons whom I knew to be alive, were standing near me, and he described them so accurately, that I could readily conclude who they were. This would rather confirm the doctrine, that the spirits of per- .-d»»UM»MMH«l tb ^U 18 sors, when in sleep or abnormal condition, has possession of the body, can leave the body, and are not confined iS epaco. This question however, I do uot intend t'> express an opinion upon. 1 tlien aslvcd " Chip," if he would send a message to «< Knox." Foster immediately wrote off the following and handed it to me : " Tell brother ' Knox,' that I am near to hi'n at all times, and would assure him of my prcpence. I am very happy to write to him. Chip." He used to call the doctor "John Knox." Foster then said, " Here comes a person you don't know; he calls himself Jeremiah, and says that ho is your great, great, great grandfather." I asked him in what country he had lived ; he said Scotland. I did not ask him any more questions then, but the next time I sat I put his name among my pa^.grs. Brother Hazen came again, and I asked Foster to describe his appearance, which he did most accurately, particularly his face and figure. He told me that I would again own Westcock, and buy it back. Foster here oDserved to me, ♦' Westcock seems to have been formerly owned by you." I said yes, but I had sold it. Inglis Haliburton came again, and told me he died and was buried at sea. An intimate college friend, Trimingham, came, and said he was drowned going from Halifax to Bermuda. I asked the name of the vessel and captain. Foster at once said the Euclid, Captain Bates. Foster at the same time wrote the name of the Captain and vessel on a piece of paper, and handed to me ; it looked something like " Eclid " but he called it Euclid. I then asked how it happened ; he said, " in a gale the vessel broke up and all were lost." I have written to Halifax to see if this was the case. LeBaron Drury came; he said he was drowned on a voyage to China. This was contrary to my ideas, from what I had heard of his supposed death. My sister Eliza came again, and [ asked he'- if she remembered our visit to Nova Scotia. Foster replied at once, " yes," and then told me who was with us; viz., Sarah, Edwin, and the Doctor. I did not at that time think the Doctor was there, nor do I now re- collect it, but am strongly of the opinion that he was in Scot- land at the time. The Doctor has since told me that he never was in Nova Scotia with her. I asked hnr if she had ever spoken audibly to me since she left this earth, she said, " yes, once." I asked what it was, she replied, she said, " George." In the u wiiiicr of 1848, on my way from Boston, I slept aU niglil at Woodsibck, and early in the morning whilst lying in bod -vaii- iug for a flro to be made on in my room, I heard distinctly some person caU me, apparently at the foot of my bed, and thonght at the time it was her voice, and a short time after this I told my wife of it. Sarah came again, and I asked her if she was at the photographers with me last week; she said** yes." I asked "did you show yourself?" she sai'l "yes." " Did any one else?" " Yes, Frank." •• How was he standing?^' " By my side leaning over your shoulder." I had not at this time seen Ihe photograph, but only the negative, as I ^mvc stated above. The afternoon of this day, I went again to Mumler's, to sec if my photographs were finished, but finding they were not, I determined to sit again, and see what I could get, and arranged for next morning, 29th June, at 9 o'clock; and according to appointment went there, but found that the water pipes in the house had burst, and would not be repaired for an hour or so. I then went to Vogl's and got liis conclusions as to the Port- land property, which wlien fully developed, I will have attach - eU to this statement. After I got throu:jh here, I returned to Mumler's, where the workmen were just clearing out, and in a few minutes I sat again, and proceeding in the same way as before, the negative showed a female figure standing behind me; whicli, from the peculiar slope of her shoulder, struck me as my mother. The photograph from this negative I could not wait for, and it was forwarded to me by mail the following week. I recognized my mother's looks in it, and so have two or three of her old friends liere, but some of my brothers do not see the likeness. After 1 got through with this sitting, I told Mrs. Mumler that I wanted her to be entranced for me again, leading her to suppose it was in reference to the lock of hair she had examined the day before. 1 asked for a piece of paper and pencil, and when she was entranced, I asked if there were anv of those spirits present who were here before. She replied at once as follows, and I took the words down as she spoke them, requesting her to stop at times, when she spoke too quickly for me to write them : " There are a fereat many spirits here. 1 see again the old gentleman, beautiful and glorious, just what he wished to be ,. r^-i''. 15 before throwing off the material body, and all earth's old divin- ity. A passage in the Bible eeems to clinif to him fearfully, and ho says while on earth he was n'ways trying to ferret out, but it was a question ho could not solve then, for he could not find its conditions. After throwing off the material boc . the great Book of Life was opened to him, and he says to you, live the Hie you are now living, for you are surely on the right track, for there is no sting of death, death can't affect the soul, neither can the grave liold it, for even Christ broke asunder the chains of death, and led Wis captive in triumph, and may they not all wlio pass through the same change then lead death captive. In coming back we wander over thorns of opposition, we only wish for • our doors to be opened, to come in to aid and guide you in your journeyings through life. Mortals should know that when the present shall have faded from their view, another, more beautiful shall arise, and its light shall illu. mine the whole earth. And that is what is spiritualism, and none shall ask then, know ye of these things, believe ye in them, for all shall believe in the one grand religion that is coming down from God the author of all. You believe it in its childhood to-day ; the coming generation will believe in its man- hood; the miracles of to-day shall be understood; more glorious truths, more tangible revelations shall be given, and the sons and daughters shall see that God is with them, and the return of the spirits will unseal the great mysteries of the past." " O here comes another spirit ; O how beautiful I" I asked if it was the same, she said, " yes, the same that came a few d^ys ago, she is shaking what seems a thin tissue paper, with golden letters. O how brilliant they arel yes, these are the words: 'X*l®^® ^^^ minutes in youth when the spirit receives Whole volumes of thought on its unwritten leaves, When the folds of the heart in a moment enclose, Like the innermost leaves of the heart of the rose. These moments to mortals are like dew to the flowers. They brighten and freshen like April sun showers. O If ever in life one feels that he's blest, 'Tis when he hears IVom his loved one's and knows they're at rest.' " She tiien said, '' yes, for well might you feel blessed, when they come back to give you instruction, for when the spirit has been so bound down with old theology and its fetters burst and et you free, it is really like being let out from a dungeon into the wind and the heat of sunshine." '•*^Stv>%t , la AikI closod thus, <« may the inuntlo of tho angoln bo thrown arouud you, may you be guarilotl and directed in your footstops, and may you bo borno nafoly to your journey's end, with crumbs of comfort to tlio many Kufterings you meet on the way." In a few moments after this hIio resumed her normal condition, and I merely told her what she had been speaking of, and left for my hotel, when I immediately rewrote the whole statement as above. Mis. Mumler when in I ranee is controlled by tho spirit ot the celebra'.ad Physician, the late Dr. Rush of Philadelphia. I have a photograph of her talven whilst so en- tranced, which shows most distinctly a shadowy forni of him standing behind her, with one hand upon her head, and the other extends round in front; the likoness of this form to one of Sully's paintings of Dr. Rush which I have seen is most remark- able. I saw nothing more of them until the next afternoon, when 1 went and got the photographs first taken. On Wednesday, tho 30th June, I again saw Foster, and held conversations with several persons. LeBaron Drury came again, and I asked him what port he sailed from for China. Foster at once said, " New Orleans." I then asked the name of the vessel. Foster said ho did not give it. I asked how it hap- pened; he said, ** tho ship foundered at sea, and all wore lost." My triend Trimingham came again, and I asked him if he recollected an expression he used to laugh at over our meals, in our rooms at college. Foster told me to write it down and fold it up. I did so, and he then said he did noi recollect it. I was rather disappointed at this, but upon reflection, remem- bered that it was another college chum, Mr. Clinch, from New- foundland, with whom I used to laugh over it. I then asked, ** did Dr. Cochran expel you or me from college?" " You," was the prompt reply. This fact I could not deny, and Foster laughed heartily at it. My father came again, and I asked him if he could not send a message to the Doctor, to convince him that his spirit could return to earth again. Foster imme- diately wrote off tho following and handed to me: " It is my desire that the Doctor should investigate this beautiful truth, he will be benefitted by it." 1 then asked him if I should sell my Portland property. Foster wrote off the following reply and handed it to me: "I should advise you to sell part of the Portland property, and buy "Westcock. Your Father, William Botsford." * ••^' I vuaum, » 17 It h rcmnrkablo Ihct when FoRtcr wrote tho namo ho npclt It with two t'a, but wlion it wns written under tho table in both canos tho name was Hpolt prJDcrly. Jcrcmlu!) Butsrurd came uguin, and [ asked him in what part of Scotland lio had lived; he Raid, " near Kdinbtu'i^li." I ask- ed wliat was IjIh occupation ; lie said, " a Doctor." I neglected to ask as I Hhould have done, what tho name of tho place was, etc. Surah came again, and I a>4kcd her if she were again with mo at tho photographers. She said, " yes." Was any one else with Iicr? She said, " yes, mother, and you got a good picture." I then asked her if bIio were with mo at Vogl's. She said/'yes." I asked if tho delineations ho made of the Portland property were correct. She said, "yes." I then asked if what he said of the corner of tlio lot was right. " Yes, and it was valuable." [ asked her whoso watch and chain this was (looking down at mine). Foster at onco said, "Fatlier's." 1 asked if he had any peculiar way of taking hold of it. He said, " yes, he twisted' it with Ins thumb and finger, and moved the band up and down on it." This was literally true, but some of my unbelieving friends will say that Foster read this from my mind altogether. It may bo so, but tinder all the circumstances surrounding my experience with Foster / doubt it, as he certainly could not liavo acquired from the same source the information as to Trimingham, Drury, Edwin, and Haliburton. This was Wed- nesday morning, and having got my first photograph I left next morning for home. I have given as correct an account of what occurred during all this time, as I could make by immediately writing down every thing on my return to ray hotel. I held no commr.nication or conversation with any one as to what I was doing. I do not pretend to explain these matters ; but I well know that most of ray readers will attempt to explain it all rather than admit that tho spirits of the departed can return to earth, and will rather believe me crazy or under some malign delusion ; but all this will not disturb the full and quiet belief of my own mind as to the truth of this doctrine. GEO. BOTSFORD. Ji^^SEDBEiCTON, JuIy 24, 1876. At the bottom of page 10, the word 3 ' Botsford " should be " BoTTsford." TO MY EXPERIENCE AT BOSTOHf, IN JUNE AND JULY, 1876. I OMiTTMi (o niciiJion Jlmt Mr. FoRli-r, the incdiiiin I rcfoircd to, had been honored, I bfliovo, by Intorviows wllli Her Mnjesty the Queen, I lie Emperor of Kussia, and the lato Emperor of the French; and now holds letters of comniciidaJion and con- firmation of his clairvoyant powers from Komo of tlie most dls- tingnisliud of the nobility of England. On the 29tl» June, at the lime appointed, at \\h residence, 729 Tromont Street, Boston, Mr. Voj,'l jfavo me a written projframmo of his clairvoyant search, and liad marked on tlic plan throe diotinct veins of majjnetic iron o.-e, one of which it would pay to work, and would yield from (JO to 65 per cent. j)ure iron. He also, in my presence, marked a spot where l.j said tliere was, near the surface, a valuable bed of pluster, stating very posi- tively that the place looked like, and in fact was, an abandoned Buckwheat Field, and askod if I knew wliother Buckwheat liad ever been grov i there, which I did not. When speaking of this plaster I told him I did not know whetlier there was any euch thing in the vicinity, but there was certainly plenty of limestone formation. He said "yes, and beneath that you will find marble." Ho also at the same time marked on the pK n a place where he said there \Vas a bed of some kind of clay, bnt he could not get en rapport with it sufficiently to say what it was, but it was valuable. He then wished me on my return home to pace off a certain distance from the coi ner of the lot along the lower line; then in another direction a cei-tain further distance, and dig up a spadeful of the earth, which was of a red- dish color, and fonvard him some of it for further examination. This was the corner I referred to in my question to my slstei Sarah during my sitting with Fester. On the 2nd July I returned home, and on the following 9th I went to Indiantown by steamer, ond taking the street cars as far as the Suspension Bridge Road, I walked over to tho prop- erty, and just as I was entering the road leading to tl e places fio marked by Vogl, I met a laboring man coming down the (18) I %^# ;#- 10 road. I partly pnH8C(I him, btit tiirnin(( round I asked him if 1)0 woro acqualtitfld wilii tho property nbout licrc. IIo Kaid, *• Yo8," and that ho lived near by. I then asked If he had ever known of a IJuckwhtat field hero. IIu Hald, " Yes," and at once pnttin^ down bin load, volunteered to hIjow mo whore it had been. Ah wo proeced'Ml to tho place ho told mo the perKon'n name who, some twenty-cif/lit ymm ago, had rained Buckwheat there for two yearR, but H had not been cultivated Hince, except a very Hmall corner of it as a garden attached to a Hhanty, which was now all gone. Wo then came to tho ground, and ho show- cd mo tho bounds of tho old liuckwhcatjleld, still diHlinct and marked, and upon ret'erring to tho mark on tho plan as mado by VogI in IJoston, I found it to correspond with it. I then asked this person if ho could show mo tho corner between Mr. Charles llazon's lot and mine. Ho said " Yes," and although the lino fence had been removed, he showed mo the spot 1 want- ed, and having paced off tho dintance.^ as directed by Vogl I dug up ft spado of the earth and forwarded some to him by ex- press that evening. On tho 17th July I received a letter from Vogl, dated the Uth, in which ho described tho depth of tho clay from the surface, stating also that there was fire clay in the vicinity. Ho also wished mo to send him the plans again, which I did, and on tho 4th August ho returned them, with some additional marks in- dicating a stream of mineral water some 30 or 40 feet below the surface. At my ik.terview with him ho had mentioned an ex- isting spring of water on the property, which was medicinal to eomo extent, and seemed like soda. Not knowing of any sprin;, except one on tho harbor side of the lot, iu one of my letters to him I called his attention to this fact, and marked its location on a sketch wl ich I enclosed to him, but in his reply to mo on 1st August he located tho spring he meant as '* facing the Jails of St. ,/uhn, where the River makes a bend,^^ the exact place where I was subsequently shown one by my workman, and in an en- tirely different portion of the property. I took homo of the water of this spring with mo, and when Dr. Smith, my Clair- voyant Physician, was entranced, I placed the vial in his hand, and he pronounced it to be excellent water, slightly tii' ;ed with »>ulphnr and iron, but to no great degree medicinal, alihough in certain cases in might be beneficial. 20 On tho lUh AuKunt I wont ngotn to PoiMand to net a mun to work pro8poctinj< for titn cluy and pliintor, who, upon my on- quhiiig if any ciny hud been found Ihcrcabout-i, Hald that U cropped out on tho river's bunk horo and ihoro in thin luyorn, and ho took mo to a Hpot on Mr. UuzcirH property where in ditfKing a drain it had appeared. Thi^ was about 10() yarda from the place marked by VokI. I tlion marked tlio place for him to dig for the clay, and lUtcr making an actual measure- ment of tho place whore Vo cr »>f gravel and Hand, and will eimtly reach llio clay. I nin told to Iflll you nhout 26 feet deep to oiny. lu my delliif ntloii I aald that tlin plantci- wa« quite iioai' the Nurfacf^ and an the accne comei up before ino iiKatu, it ccrtaiidy 'lanuot be lUitru than 20 to 30 feet, niid it lookn an if ou the U|>per ri}(ht hand corner of my X whore I mtiikcd Ihe dot; It nuHt be altnoit cropping out of the ground. Your bed of clay will become lighter in color M you go (low. I deeper, and consequently more vahinhio. I am told to H8Huro you tliut this bed of clay will pay yoa well to -,vork." Being unacquainted with the commercial value ol clay, Vogl tn the same letter Informed mo Hint he took the sample to Rlr. Ednmuds, one of their largest manuf«ctm-er» of dioiu pipe in Charleston, who got»i l»i« clay from Now JorHey, ant8. The slate speclmon ap- pears to bo the only fixed rock on lie niDce, a pir ;o of whicn I send tor the purpjsc of localiz: • j • oar cialrvoyani viow." In July I received a lottei Vom Vogl dated 24th, in which he wrote: " I have given this property a most searching Investl* gation, and the result is that I am perfectly satisfied that there is not any gold here, nor is there any other mineral hero that would make it desirable for you to retain this property. Your friends desire vuu to sell this property and take the funds -.m^fm'sss^*. ^1^---^'ii^^m-Ur^^'%g J 18 'WlfwNl fitom lt« iftle to dpvolo|> tho 8t, John proportv/' " L«t hltii (I. vot« III. Aimli t > tho (hiv.-lopmontof tho clay and plotter bed*; those rightly di voh>i)<;!| will coiiHtltum u fortune in them- •tirci." I had a f«w dayt |:rovloui to tiUit wi iticn to oak whom ho inciint hy my fnentU. lu reply, ho wiolo, •• when I niiid • your IVIciuli..' I wun only roocatlng to you whot uiy control! ■•I in tho perplrxhiK anxieties of thU mortal life; m you may know who In neurc»t to )ou «pirituully m guardianH." !»« then pro ccedcd: «'Flriit in piOHonled to mo an old K<'iitlei.mii, | lobably ■evcnty or inoro," and gave a full and singularly u.; urate des- cription of my lather, next of my mother, third of my i.ls(. r 8uroh, eoncluthng tho deHcri|»licn of iho latter om follows: •« 8h.? wan wliat I call very good looking, an»:;„, /^.y ,», own family, although ho '-'d vcy f. quen 5 , ^^^_^^^^. ^i, unaccountably been in my thoughts 1 do ^^.^,3 mustache, but in all «'hor partu,«la^s tho^^ ::rx%Turrr:netmir;vith many others Of hi. inexhaustlblo,' . fi.:«.,/>R miffht bo led to find .tood the directions he had received, and had "an. a :?elay to a wrong person, -'"T ';;,;:,r'td e "met^a return, who, upon finding out the '^' '^^"^ h»d ^ rap^a^'LTpl^r- rSre^ rth/table stU a *'^:.i«te>-''S«fr' 25 little brown cup made out of your clay sample, and the first proof of the clay — why, that little brown cup looks lovelier to me than if it were made out of pure gold — hero is a tangible evidence, and a decidedly practical result of clairvoyance. Mr. Edmunds says he made this little cup with his own hands, — it was subjected to the greatest heat, and stood the test splen- didly. Ho says, so far as he can judge, it will make a very strong kind of ware, something like the ware made in England and Clermany." Last evening, 3d Feb. Instant, I received by express from Boston, a small cup and tiny jug made from the clay I had for- warded ; they certainly appear of a very firm and durable kind of pottery; but not having received Mr. Edmand's report of it, I thought I would try what a Clairvoyant medium would say about ii, and when he was in trance I placed the jug in his hand, asking him what it was. He said it was a jug or vessel made of clay. I asked of what kind of clay ; he replied, that he was not a mineralogist or geologist, but he knew it was of a very superior kind i.vA very uncommon, not much of it hav- ing been discovered anywhere ; he did not know what geologists would call it, but he called it adamantine clay ; it was permeated all through with an imperceptible iron impregnatedgas, and when exposed to heat it became almost like iron, very difiicult to break, and impervious to water or acids, and was very valuable ; and if in any quantity would be a fortune to its owner. He then asked me how it had been discovered. I said that I had been directed to it by a medium to which he ; replied, he was glad of it, as it would go to prove the reality of clairvoyance. Sinco writing the above I have received from Vogl a copy of Mr. Edmand's roport from the Stone Drain Pipe Works, Charleston. He says they made a few pieces of ware in the form of jugs and cups, and burned them in their kilns, the articles being small stood the heat of our burning, and when dravm shows a aark but good body for common ware. They made too short pieces of drain pipe of it, and put in a kiln with New Jersey clay, but it failed ; he however says from what experience they have had in this clay they think it may be of value, and good pipe manufactured of it by less heat than the Jersey clay requires, and be turned out in good marketable condition. Before receiving Mr, Edmand's report from Vogl, I had writ- 26 ten to him, giving an account of tiio Clai voyant's description of the vakie of the clay as above stated. On the 8th Feb. instant, I received ids reply dated the 7th, wherein after giving mo a copy of his report, ho added, " we are no mineralogists, and cannot give an opinion in that regard. So far as its value is concerned, it is no more val. ■ to us than the clay wo obtain at New Jersey, which cost there from $1.75 to $2.10 per ton of 2,240 pounds; freight, $1.50 to $2.00 per ton." 1 also wrote to Mr. Vogl giving liim an account of what the medium said, who examined the cup and jug, and requested him to have another examination of the property, and on the 25th instant, received a letter from him dated the 18th, in which he writes, " The vision as I got it, and it now comes up again, is, men busily at work digging dark colored clay, and teams carting it to a vessel. Then the picture changes, and I see a long one story building with any quantity of windows in it, and aiu!>y rnen and boys engaged in making plates, bowls, and all kinds of pottery ware. I can see the kiln for burning this crockery ware, and it resembles in color the English Wedgewood ware, and it ^s nearly white, with a deep bluish tinge, and ^-^.s a clear metallic ring. That refers to the white clay. In another por- tion of the building I see men making crucii^Ies and other fire proof articles of pottery ware." I am well aware that very many persons will call this hum- bug or hallucination, &c., &c., but I insert it here that it may remain a record of what Mr. Vogl had clairvoyantly seen and described, in case some pottery should hereafter be established at this place for the manufacture of this clay. I have gone more fully into this matter than I at first intend- ed, but as what I had already published had caused a good deal of enquiry and discussion, I have deemed it as well to give a full detail, so that the reader may more satisfactorily judge for himself. As soon as the spring opens, I intend testing the plaster location, as well as the depth of the bed cf clay. Having already given a general account of some spirit photos, of which I sat to Mr. Mumler, I purpose now to give a detailed one for the consideration of such of my friends as take any in- terest in such things. The arrangements being all made, and Mumler standing a little at one side, he said in rather a low tone of voice, "Are ...i-^jiii^ ' :rsa'i&^-%. ~'' *■ ""- -' -^"-^ 27 mpn there any spirit friends of this gentleman present?" Tvro or three raps, which could bo distinctly heard all over the room, seemed to come from the floor or wall just in front of the cam- era. Ho said " Let me know when you are ready." In a very •hort time, the raps carao again, apparently from the same place, and he immediately toolc ofl the covering trom the camera and waited some time longer than I had over sat before for a photo, when ho again covered the instrument, and took out the holder and wont to his developing room, but returned soon, saying that he did not get a form. Having again arranged the camera, he crossed over to me, and taking hold of my hand, again asked as before if they were present, when the raps came at once, and he said, " Will you show yourself?" No reply was given. After waiting a few moments he again said," Won't you try and do so?" Immediately the raps came again, from the same place, and whilst he had hold of my hand. He imme- diately let go and stepped over to the side of the camera, saying, *'Ltt me know ivhen you are ready." In a very short space of time the raps came again. Ho uncovered the camera and stood for a few seconds, as it appeared to me, when the raps sounded again; and he at once covered the camera, took out the holder, and in a few minutes returned with the negative, showing two forms beside my own, which I now entertain not the slightest doubt were those of my sister Sarah, who has been dead some years, and my little son Frank, who died some eighteen years since. The likeness of ihe latter has been at once recognized by many who knew him, both in my household and outside. He is standing leaning ove- my shoulder, with his cheek ao:ainst the side of my head and face. On the 28th I again sat for a photo, and going through the same process as before, except that he did not take my hand, Mumler produced a negative with a female form standing be- liind me, which I fully believe to be my mother in her younger days. My brothers who have seen this do not, however, recog- nize it, although one or two of her old friends here have done so> but others think it resembles my younger sister Eliza, who died some forty yeai'S ago. Having learned from a circular which Mumler gave me when I left Boston, that he could take photos with spirit forms, ap- pearing together with a copy of an original photo of any per- 28 soil, under certain conditions, after my return lioino I scut a photo of niNVicIf, tulaui by Flood in St. .Tolm, and lixed tlie 2nd of Au^aist at 1) o'clocli, a. ni., of tiie time licre, for tljc sitting to talvc plucx'. I {,''ave liim the latitude and longitude of tiii.s place to enable him to calculate the dillerence of time, according to his directions. At the time so arranged I sat quietly in ray owu room, lixing my mind as well as I could upon what was going on with Mumler in Boston; which I could very well lo, having been so recently in his rooms there. After a few days I received a photo, showing mo the three original photos, stand- ing on a small tnblo, which I remember having seen in his draw- ing-room ; and in addition there appeared a full length figure of a man holding a wreath between the table and the camera, wliilst behind the table appeared a female form. At lirst 1 was disapi)uinted, as I had earnestly wished to see my father's like- ness, and did lot recognize it there; but upon a more minute examination 1 now clearly see that of my brother Chipmau, and ot my mother, but older than she appeared in the first photo. This picture has the same as yet unexplained character- istic as the ethers; viz., onejwrt is between the camera a:id the table, whilst the other part is wholly behind it. In September last I forwarded to Mumler a photo of my wife, fixing the time for sitting, &c., as in the previous case; and shortly after I receivi' from him a photo showing the original and two other forms fi iy and most distinctly developed. One of them my wife at oiioe recognized as an unmistakeable like- ness of her mother, and the other of one of her uncles. Acci- dentally meeting with an old friend of her mother's family from Woodstock, where they had lived, I showed him this photo. He had no doubt about her mother's likeness, but U ought the other was not so much like the uncle she thought it resembled as anothc of her uncles; but he had no doubt of the family likeness. I may hereafter publish some very curious incidents in connection with these photos, of which I have notes. I will here remark that eighteen months ago I was a most determin- ed, and, I might say, rabid unbeliever and opponent of the doc- trine of the return of the spirits oj the dead', but after what I have since that time seen and heard I need scarcely say that my opinion is entirely changed. This doctrine, I find too, is neither new nor unorthodox, as it wa adoubtedly believed and T 29 taujfht by many of tho ancient Fatlioi's of tlio Chur(li,by Bishops (distin^'iilshea ones too) of the CImrch of I':n;,'Ian(l, and by tho colobraled fouiidorof Methodism, tho llov, John Wosloy. Be- sides wlilcli, both tho Old and New Testaments plaiidy teach tho same thhiir. At "jo translli,niratlon tho dlsclplos mn«t have seen tho spivf >■■' • jodlcs only (1 Cor. xv. 41.) of Moses and Ellas, in the for. . «,i(i vppcaranco of tholr natnral bodies, as St. Paul said, flesh and blood cannot inlierli tho Klnjr,lom of Heaven, and tho natural body, according' to orthodox creeds, must remain in tlio grave until tho last trump sounds; and they must have heard thein speaking to Josus (Matt. xvil. 3.) in tho same way, that media of tho present day sco and hear the spirits of departed persons. How plain and intelligible the otherwise mysterious story of tho 80 called Witch of Endor becomes when read by the light of this Bible truth. Thio woman, no doubt, was a medium; viz., by organism she was clairvoyant and clairandlent. Saul havn.g desired her to bring up Samuel, when the woman saw him, she cried with a loud voice and said, I «^aw (lods ascend- ing out of tho earth ; and when Saul enquired " what form is he of.'' she said, ''a-i old man cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle ;" and Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and ho stooped with his face to tiie ground and bowed himself. Samuel havino- been addressed by Saul and after telling him what God was about to do, said, '' and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons he with me. (1 Sam. xxviii.) " So Saul died arid his three sons, and his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together " Cib. xxxi. 6.) This woman evidently saw and hoard what Saul did not, and was tho medium through whom this occurrence took place. C. H. Foster, one of the most remarkable clairvoyant and c airaudient mediums of the present day, when in his normal state, m my interview with him before mentioned, claii voyantly saw my brother, most accurately describing him, and ^nyu,„ in 3 his name, and told me what ho clairaudieiitly heard htm say in answer to my question as to wha^ had become of Jus son whom I supposed to be dead; viz., that he was alive and well m Ca ifornia." The correctness of this has not yet been ascer- tained, but I have no doubt of its truth. so I hav« heard it strongly objected ag»ln,t -f ''"/J'^' *'J^ ,.„ mortal coald over bo permitted to »« ' "P "f ^ P^';'," Z 8ucl. impression came. And how manj nu ,,,.eaay nrescienco of something about to happen, " "^'J'*^;;^'"^ happened, which subsequent events have proved to have '"how c^roU^g and beautifnl the belief must be to those who ca ir: it,'that some o. their departed loved^-.o-om^^^ otherministeringspirits.are constantly, andby God -fiond««^ guiding and watching over their footsteps in their joui , "'Z Bible' from Genesis to Bevelatioi. is full of such spirit 'T^riitlv received a letter from the brother of mv friend luglis Haliburton, in reply to my i'"l»'™'„ ^' '" "j" S Z manner of hi, death, informing me that, " m "«/';;•«» buried there too, I for brei .t> s sake wioic Foster's. Halifax to Bermuda in 1832, "o»« ^^ " ^^ ^i.^ ^nonth tbe name of the ship or captain, and f ^J^^^'^f ^^^^^^^ ,^,, h. M. of the yea-. In the newspapers of the daj it seem. 1 ^ j^ t %.i -Msur,-: 31 i, thai of do- , I bo- merrly which I inter- How at they leave whence Bt vivid aheady ire been ase who or some vidence, journey 3h spirit \f friend, the time he sailed 1 his re- • f, Cuba, s return died in Jstand," f sickness emoranda have been d and was t Foster's. :rimming- Is in Hali- »yagc from ired either the month that H. M. Brig liecruit, Lleiit. Hodgca, sailed from Halifax on the 28th May, 1832, with the mail for Bermuda, hut no passenger list ig given. This vessel never roachod iJernuidu, and his friends in Halifax now think that ho sailed In her. One of his most in- timoto friends and college chums, however, who is now in the United States, I bollove, and who had been written to from Halifax on the subject, replied that he could not remember the name of the vessel, but she was a 10 gun brig; and he nays " that it was not true that his mother, and the young lady to whom ho was engaged, saw the vessel go down ; but the vessel was sighted from the Signal Station at Bermuda, uhouL bunset; that during the night a hurricane came up, and she was never seen again." Ho says also, " that he knows it was in the month of August." In a number of the "Leisure Hour" it is stated that in 1834 a spar was picked up at the Bahamas with the word '' Recruit " stamped on it. If he sailed in August, as his friend says so positively he did, the name of the vessel and captain are still undecided; although I confess that my opinion inclines to the belief that it was the Hecruit, Lt Hodges, in which he sailed. Having heard that an expression in reference to " atonement of blood" in my private memoranda, tailed forth an indignant denunciation from one of the pulpits ot this city the other day, I will now state, for the further consideration of these high Ec- clesiastics, that I do not believe that Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe, and by whom all things were made, shrd his blood upon the cross to appjase his own anger against the creature of his own will (man), and to redeem his offspring from tlie unending torment of lire and brimstone in Hell ; to which, it is said, they are all subjected by the tansgrcssion of their first parents in eating the forbidden fruit in Eden ; especially since Christian Missionaries, modern travellers, and learned men have brought to light authentic history— wri^en, monumental, and sculptured, which conclusively attests the fact that several ori- ental nations not only believed in, but most devoutly worship- ped, their respective /orcv life wliun hi exHinpIc will liiici h nappy ontriiiioc to n ueitcr iiiu wnen iii spirit Icuves* tl»is body. Im lils creed wliiit it iniij , Nor do I b< liovo tliat i\i\\ *' living nouT' ((Jen. ii. 7.) e-Hcntlally oxtHtin, by and of the spirit ot God, cun be eternally lost; aUhouif Christian MiniatcvH Imvo preached and written tliut " Hell \ paved with the skulln of unbaplized infants" ! " Then hhall th dust return to the earth as it wur; and the spirit shall retur unto Ood wlio gave it." (Ecclcs. xil 7.) Solonioji doc» nc socni here to teach tlie rc-crcalion of the mortal tenement c the spirit for future life. " And Enoch walked witli God, an ho wa.s not; for God took him." (Gon. v. 24.) According t St. Paul, Enoch's natural body could not enter Heaven •, hi spiritual body therefore must bo wilh(»od. Moses docs nc tell us what became of his mortal body ; nuist this morti casket bo reconstru'jted before Enoch can join in never cndin praises with the Angels in Heaven? ** And the Lord Ood sal unto Adam, cursed is the ground for thy sake," &c. (Gen. ill 17.) " In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till tho reti'.rn unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken ; for duj thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." (ib. 19.) Can th living soul bo included in this doom? Whatever may bo th probation of en'ng mortals cither in this present life, or in th future, I believe that in the end all God's works will glorif Him, and Jle will be all and in all. "By their fruits ye shall know them." Mat. vil., 16. " Evei; tree is known by his fruit." Mat. xii., 33. " And they wei judged every man according to their ivorks.-' Rev. xx., 13. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 1. Cor. xV 26. If millions upon millions of its victims (living souls) ai to remain in the torments of the orthodox Hell to all cternitj how can death be said to be destroyed? Fbedericton, February, 1876. ^ \'