Year: 2021

CHAPTER III. “Know well my soul, God’s hand controls Whate’er thou fearest.” From the time the Fox family entered the house at Hydesville, about December, 1847, they were incessantly disturbed by similar noises to those heard by Lucretia Pulver and the Weekmans. During the next month however (January, 1848) the noises began to assume the character of slight knockings heard at night in the bedroom; sometimes appearing to sound from the cellar beneath. At first Mrs. Fox sought to persuade herself this might be the hammering of a shoemaker in…

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CHAPTER II. A few months after these events happened the Bells left the neighbourhood, and the house became tenanted by a Mr. and Mrs. Weekman, who lived there about eighteen months, and left in the year 1847. Mr. Weekman’s statement respecting the noises he heard was to the effect that one evening when he was about to retire for the night, he heard a rapping on the outside door, and, what was rather unusual for him, instead of familiarly bidding them “come in,” stepped to the door and opened it.…

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Chapter 1 CHAPTER I. The birth-places of the greatest of the world’s social, political, and religious reformations have generally been of insignificant and lowly aspect, and apparently under the most inauspicious circumstances for producing any great effect upon mankind. The Babe of the lowly manger becomes the Spiritual King of millions of human hearts and souls, and the “Wood Hut” becomes the gateway through which Holy Ministers of Light, from their world of Truth and Beauty, send the evidence of man’s immortality, through the instrumentality of a child, to the…

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