Excerpt from Astounding Facts From the Spirit World: Witnessed at the House of J. A. Gridley, Southampton, Mass., By a Circle of Friends, Embracing the Extremes of Good and Evil

Up to February 22d, 1852, I had attended but four sit tings, in different places, with three several Mediums. These Mediums and circles were evidently respectable, and many of them intelligent. For three years I had not entertained a doubt but that spirits who had left the body could communicate with their friends whom the had left behind but I had resolutely made up my min that I would not seek a Medium to come into my famil till I could find one through whom I could converse wit my Spirit-friends, on subjects worthy to occu y the minds of Immortal Intelli enese, whether in the body or out. The Circles that I lglad visited, thou h often blessing an afflicted heart, seemed to me to be ar too well satisfied with mere outward manifestations; the sou ht mainly that which was wonderful, marvelous, w ile longed for inst/motion in relation to the home upon which all the members of my father's family have entered, and whom I expect 'oyfully to follow at no distant day. In short, I felt that I wanted a Medium and Circle that were anx ious to be controlled by the moral power and superior goodness of their Spiritfriends, if such they possessed. I wanted the outer and inner circles selected with the wisest reference to the mutual and everlasting good of both. With such feelings, I had seen nothing that sat isfied me. I was, however, patiently expecting it in the right time.

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