Prophecies of Mr. Miller.--His computation of time.--Management to suit his own particular views.--Keeping the world standing thirty years on a simple _if_.--Various blunders and mistakes. --Confession of his errors.--False information respecting signs. --Disappearance of stars.--Of the Aurora Borealis.--Shooting stars.--Sun and moon turning to blood.--Darkness of the sun.-- Its cause.--Remarkable appearances in various ages of the world. --Opinion concerning Halley's comet.--Ignorance of the constitution of comets.--The comet of 1770.--Tests of signs that shall indicate the end of time.--Scientific men stationed in various parts of the earth.--No such changes as have been spoken of by the second advent preachers, observed by them. 102
Spirits, ghosts, and spectres seen in all ages.--Account of the magic crystals, or divining glasses.--Seeing spirits in Egypt.-- Lady Blessington's crystal in England.--Spirit of Lord Nelson described.--The Latin language commonly used by spirits.--An account of spirits that live in the SUN.--Spirits conversing with human beings.--Mode of communication by letters of fire, or large printed _capitals_.--Interview with the spirit of _Pharaoh_.--His present dwelling in the planet _Jupiter_.-- Information gleaned in conversation with him.--Swedenborg's account of Sir John Franklin.--Describes his situation, blocked up by _ice_.--Spirits do not understand about _latitude_ and _longitude_.--Description of the spirit of Socrates, his dress, &c.--Account of the emperor Alexander in the spirit world.-- Dickens's account of fashionable dupes in England.--The sciences of astrology and magic.--Practices of high titled ladies in London.--Account of famous conjurers, or fortune tellers.-- Account of the "rappers," or "knocking spirits."--Children frightened by their noises.--Snapping of fingers, and clapping of hands, imitated by the spirits.--Mrs. Fox asks questions of a spirit.--Answers given by a succession of _raps_.--Account of a ghost that appeared in Waltham, Massachusetts.--Conversation with the ghost by a gentleman.--Said he had been murdered, and told by whom.--Tones of the ghost, (unearthly,) its mode of walking, &c. --Great excitement on account of the ghost.--Mode of communication with the _rapping_ spirits.--Tables and chairs moved, sounds heard, &c.--Band of music, beating of the _bass drum_, and roar of artillery. --Guitar played by unseen hands.--Ladies' hair taken down and braided by spirits.--People touched by unseen hands.--How spirits produce the sounds of _music_.--How they make the _rapping_ noises. --Account of an interview with the spirit of Dr. Franklin.-- Sounds heard like trying the batteries in the telegraph office.-- Occupation of Franklin in the spirit world.--Getting up a line of communication between the two worlds.--Dr. Franklin predicts great changes in the nineteenth century.--Connection of _magnetism_ with the _spiritual rappings_.--Clairvoyant interpreters between men and spirits.--Spiritual postmasters, letter paper, and envelopes. --Letters received from the spiritual worlds.--The _Spirit Journal_, in Auburn, New York.--Its pages edited, controlled, and superintended by _spirits_.--The _prophets_ and _apostles_ its conductors, acting under the LORD SUPREME.--Blunders and errors of the rapping spirits. --Ignorant spirits.--Mischief produced by them.--Swedenborg's account of their stupidity.--How to distinguish the sounds made by an ignorant or an intelligent spirit.--Wonderful precocity of infant spirits.--Progression of spirits, both upwards and downwards.-- The spirit of Dr. Channing _deteriorated_ in the other world.-- Theological teachings of the rapping spirits.--Prophecy of Swedenborg concerning the year 1852.--Noises of the _rappers_ indicative of the approach of his prediction.--Are to be considered as _omens_ of a new advent.--Compared with the Miller prophecy of 1843.--Miracles, both of the rappers and the Millerites.--A sick man and his bed taken up by spirits.--The body of a Mr. Gordon taken up by spiritual hands.--Miracles wrought in favor of _Millerism_.--Miracles wrought in favor of _witchcraft_.-- Millerites taken up by spiritual hands.--Strange noises made by _spirits_ among the Adventists.--Houses shaken, mirrors shattered to pieces, furniture broken.--Four women carried through the air on a _pole_.--Testimony under oath respecting it.--Account of a bewitched _ventriloquist_.--Witches in 1850.