THE BISTORT OF SPIRITUALISM

themselves that whoever died first would come and
show himself to the other. Home removed to another
district some hundreds of miles distant, and about
a month later, just after going to bed one night,
he saw a vision of Edwin and announced to his aunt
his death, news of which was received a day or two
after. A second vision in 1850 concerned the death
of his mother, who with her husband had gone to live
in America. The boy was ill in bed at the time, and
his mother away on a visit to friends at a distance.
One evening he called loudly for help, and when his
aunt came she found him in great distress. He said
that his mother had died that day at twelve o'clock;
that she had appeared to him and told him so. The
vision proved to be only too true. Soon loud raps
began to disturb the quiet household, and furniture
to be moved by invisible agency. His aunt, a woman
of a narrow religious type, declared the boy had
brought the Devil into her house, and turned him out
of doors.

He took refuge with friends, and in the next few
years moved among them from town to town. His
mediumship had become strongly developed, and at
the houses where he stopped he gave frequent stances,
sometimes as many as six or seven a day, for the
limitations of power and the reactions between physical
and psychic were little understood at that time. These
proved a great drain on his strength, and he was fre-
quently laid up with illness. People flocked from all
directions to witness the marvels which occurred in
Home's presence. Among those who investigated

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