Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — SPIRIT MESSAGE FROM MRS. EDOI [ARTICLE]

SPIRIT MESSAGE FROM MRS. EDOI

Mrs. Minnie L Gove Is the Medium of Commun cation. WRITES OF STRANBE TRANCES Statement of Mrs. Stetson That Mrs. Eddy Would Return to Earth In Flesh Is hn Error Says Spirit —Mrs. Gove a Disbeliever. Boston, Jan. 20. —Messages from Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy have reached Mrs. Minnie L. Gove, wife of Clarence Gove of Randolph, according to a statement made by her. Mrs. Gove says she is not a spiritualist, and Is not a Christian Scientist. She is unable to account for the strange trances which she says overcome her and in which her hand is guided to write messages. The messages are addressed to Mrs. Gove’s father, James Littlefield, of 28 New Hall street, Lynn. Mr. Littlefield knew Mrs. Eddy well when she lived in Lynn years ago. “I am rot a spiritualist,” said Mrs. Gove. “I have never believed in such things, now have I any sympathy with the Christian Science movement It is strange that I should be selected as the medium of Mrs. Eddy's communication. , When these trances come over me I cannot help wrting what T do. Some strange force guides my band.”

In addition to receiving messages which purport to come from Mrs. Eddy she says she has received several from the late Grover Cleveland and Prof. William James

In one of the messages she believes came from Mrs. Eddy it is declared that the statement made by Mrs. Augusta Stetson of New York that the Christian Science leader would return to earth In the flesh “was an error.” She referred to her earthly body as merely a shell and said It would not again be habitated. The , message also declared that there was no need of keeping a watch over the tomb where the body lies and that it would be best to discontinue the vigil. Another of the messages which purport to be from Mrs. Eddy is to the effect that the Christian Science leader was mistaken about many things pertaining to the future life while she was in the flesh. According to Mrs. Gove Mrs. Eddy has urged ■ her to become more proficient in technhalittes so that the departed Christian Scientist may be enabled to expiess better through her, amended views on the spiritual life.