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GERALD MASSEY’S GREAT WORK.T H E N A T U R A L G E N E S IS :

SECOND PART OK*Y‘ A BOOKt o F TH E B E G IN N IN G S,’’ i ntaiM g . a n a t t e m p i t o r e c o v e r a n d

. RECONSTITUTE Js^HE LOST ORtGINES OF T H E M Y T H S AND M YSTERIES, T Y P E S AND SYMBOLS, RELIGION, ANDLanguage, w fA u E gypt for the mouth-piece and Africa as the birthplace. 2 Vols. B yGerald Massey. W illiams and N orgate, 14,

, For twelve long years Gerald Massey has lived the life of a hermit to outward seeming, but in spirit he appears to have left no region of the earth or sphere of human thought untraversed. He has, moreover, ran­sacked all the archives of the most remote and curious knowledge, and by some strange power of intuitive per­ception has become, as it were, a contemporary of the earliest ancestors of the human race, from “ the missing link” downwards. The result of this unexampled ex­perience, this heroic penetration of hitherto unexplored recesses of thought, now lies before us in four large volumes. These contain an absolutely fresh interpre­tation of universal history in its earliest epochs, and constitute in themselves a science of mental evolution, which deserves to take its place by the side of those discoveries of the course of physical development, which are exercising so vast an influence on the specu­lation of our time.

Mr. Massey’s work, though it occasionally displays considerable power in philosophical generalization, is scarcely at all of a speculative character. It is simply a scientific arrangement of phenomena never before brought into juxtaposition, the deductions from which seem to us obvious and irresistible. Every important position which he occupies is based on a foundation of facts, bewildering in their multitude and variety, and yet all brought to bear on any particular point in ques­tion with a cogency of reasoning, a patient accuracy ini the management of details, and a commanding grasp of principles, such as is rarely met with. The erudition

I and portentous labour evinced by this book is wonder­ful enough, as the achievement of one man in little more than a decade, but in our time of high pressure,

j great intellectual acquirements are not so very uncom­mon. More wonderful to us are the moral character-

ri latics manifested in the way in which the work has -j been produced. The mental solitude in which the

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author of “.The Natural Genesis” must have lived during all these years, and the self-control he must, have exercised, touch the present writer with a fec’ing that shrinks from expression. The spirit, however, of entire indifference to popularity, and absolute consecra­tion to truth alone, in which Mr. Massey has worked, have had an unfortunate effect. They rendered “ The Book of Beginnings ” very difficult readies and T9

||T h e Natural Genesis” may he perused with rather less strain on the attention, there is? no attempt made there either to conciliate prevailing prejudices, though these will be offended at every turn. It is impossible to foresee the immediate reception which this wonder­ful work will meet with at the hands of European scholars. That its effect on scientific, moral, and reli--

ious thought will finally be very great, we cannot oubt.After what we have written, our readers will not

expect that we shall presume to criticise the merits of this new science of Universal History. We merely wish to announce to them the rising of another star in' the intellectual heaven, a star of the first magnitude, whose appearance, if we mistake not, will be an epoch- making event. In this, and possibly two or three other , articles, we shall also do our best to give some notion of the sort of office which Mr. Massey’s work is adap­ted to perform, indicate some of the lines of thought which he has followed, and illustrate his treatment of various interesting topics.

The following sentences occur in the preface :—“ ‘ The Natural Genesis ’ contains the second half of * A Book of the Beginnings,’ and completes the author’s contri­bution to the new order of thought that has been - inaugurated in our own era by the writings of Darwin and Wallace, Morgan and McLennan, Tylor and Lub­bock, Spencer and Huxley. The total work is based upon the new matter supplied by the ancient monuments,

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ranging from the revelations o f the bone-caves and the records o f th e S ton e A g e to the latest discoveries of hieroglyphic inscriptions, the cuneiform tablets, and the still extant language o f gesture-signs. T he work sets forth a physical basis for the human beginnings in th ought, language, and typology ; show s th e mode in w hich th e prim itive and archaic man attained expres­sion in terms o f external phenom ena, recovers the lost foothold o f m ythology in the phenomena o f space and tim e, and traces th e typ o logy of the past*’into the m ytholatry of the present. M ystical subjects previous­ly dabbled in — m ysteries numerical, physiological, and astronom ical— are for the fir|g tim e sounded to the depth. T he writer has not only show n that the current theology is, but also how it has been, fa lsely founded on a m isinterpretation o f m ythology by unconsciously in ­heriting the leavings o f prim itive or archaic man, and ignorantly m istaking these for divine revelations. T he work culm inates in tracing the transformation of astro­nom ical m ythology into the system of E quinoctial C hristolatry called C hristianity, and dem onstrating the non-historic nature of the canonical gospels by means o f the original m ythos, in w hich the M essianic mystery, the V irgin m otherhood, the incarnation and birth, the miraculous life and character, the crucifixion and resur­rection o f the Saviour son, who w as the word o f all ages, were altogether allegorical.

tl During a dozen years the writer has put h is whole life into his work, fu lly facing th e fa c t that th e more thorough th e research, the more fundam ental the iirapSl pretation, the more rem ote would be its recognition and the few er its readers. B u t the work is warranted to w ait, and the author does not doubt that its compara­tively few friends at first w ill be continually increased from m any generations o f genuine men and women.”

I t m ay be gathered from the foregoing extract that the clue, by means o f w hich Mr. M assey traces the course of m ental evolution, and is enabled to interpret the real m eaning o f existing system s of theological and m etaphysical dogmas, is what he has named typology, or the science of sym bolization. T he human mind, he says, has long suffered an eclipse, and been darkened and dwarfed in the shadow of ideas, the real meaning of which has been lost to the moderns. M yths and allegories, whose significance was once unfolded to initiates in the mysteries, have been adopted in igno­rance, and re-issued as real truths, directly and divinely vouchsafed to mankind for the first and only time ! T he earlier religions had their m yths interpreted. W e have ours mis-interpreted. And a great deal o f what has been im posed on us as God’s own true and sole revela­tion to man, is a mass o f inverted myth, under the shadow of which we have been cowering as timorously .as birds in the stubble when an artificial k ite in the shape o f a hawk is hovering overhead. The parables of the primeval thinker have been elevated, so to say, to tbe celestial sphere; and we are in precisely the same relationship to those parables as we should be t o . astro-

. nomical facts, i f w e thought the serpent and bull, the crab and hawk, that g ive names to certain groups o f stars, were real animal and bird, instead o f constellations w ith sym bolical appellations. The simple realities o f the earliest time were expressed by signs and symbols, and these have been taken and applied to later thoughts, and converted by theologists into problems and meta­physical mysteries, w hich they have no basis for, and

, can only wrangle over en l’air; unable to touch solid earth w ith one foot, when they want to expel opponents w ith the other. The Greek and still more modem misinterpretations of ancient typology have made it the most terrible tyranny in the mental domain^

M uch of our folk-lore, and most of our popular beliefs « are fossilized symbolism. A nd misinterpreted m ytho­

logy has so profoundly infected religion, poetry, art, and criticism, that it has created a cult of the unreal. T he myths still furnish lay figures for the painter and poet, and lives are spent in the vain endeavour to make them live, by those and for those who have never known

w hat th ey signified at first. Youth yet falls in love with them , and has the desire to reproduce. Humanity is recast in the present after an unreal type of the past; and the hum anly heroic is superseded by the counterfeit divine. T hese d iv in ities o f the bygone time may serve to beguile the children of to-day as dolls for dandling, but th ey are outgrown by all who have attained the stature and status o f men and women.

The Jew s are caught and confined in a complete net­work o f sym bolism , so closely woven round them that they are cramped and catalepsed into rigidity from long I keeping of the sam e postures, and the interstices are I almost too narrow for breath to pass through. So is with the M ohamm edan and Parsee ritual of rigid ru le* and cerem onial ro u tin e; a religion of form in which I the trivial is stereotyped for all time, because of its * m ystical, that is, emblematical, character.

T he world o f thought is thronged with false births ! and malformations, w hich were entirely bred of pervet- f ted typology. T he theological doctrines of evil, the I depravity o f matter, the fallen nature of the flesh, have j no other basis and had no other beginning. Religion \ itself is sick, and daily dy ing in the process of unliving j and sloughing off that, w hich has been imposed upon it \ by a m isinterpretation o f symbolism. It is not the - ancient legends th at lie ; the creators of these did not | deal falsely w ith us. T he falsehood is solely the result , of ignorantly m istaking m ythology for revelation and historic truth.

I t takes the latter h a lf of all one’s lifetime to unlearn- | the falsehood th at w as instilled into us during the I earlier half. Generation after generation we learn, un- I learn, and re-leam the same ly ing legendary lore. And J nothing but the application of the evolutionary method can rescue us from the traditions we have inherited as survivals of the prim itive system o f mythical interpre­tation. Only the evolutionist can present the facts in 1 their natural sequence and the true order of their deve­lopment. M oreover, an E gyptologist may know the S monuments from first to last, and yet be unable to give I any satisfactory account of the rise and development of J the E gyptian religion, because its roots are hidden in j, an unknown past. AH that would be of supreme inte- I rest and value to the evolutionist is out of view and | untested by the comparative process. Egypt comes into sight upon a sum mit o f attainment. The non-evo- I lutionist is still infected w ith the notion of a primeval monotheism, and a lapse into polytheism and idolatry, whereas m ythology arose out of typology, and religion was developed from the m ythology; but to begin with a conception o f the one hidden God, is to make religion precede m ythology. A religion had been established in the time of tne earliest monuments, but the mytho­logy no more begins at that point than the Nile springs - in Egypt.

The typology which explains the origines of language, m ythology, and religion, is not Egyptian, except in a developed form, it is not even exclusively African. It is a comparative typology, which may be verified in Australia and Europe, in China and Japan, in America , and P olynesia; in superstitions traceable to cave- [ dwellers o f the stone-period, and customs that obtain am ong English rustics of to-day. Secret typological t knowledge was painfully scored in the flesh by the marks and symbols of tattoo, as if one should bury his jewels in his own body for a safe. The most perfect, that is, the most primitive, forms o f the myths and symbols out of Africa, are those which for thousands of years have been kept by living memory alone. The oral method of communication from “ mouth to ear was continued in all the mysteries, including masonry* Am ong the Tembus, Pondos, Zulus, Ashantis, JFantis, j. and various other African tribes, there are many peo- , 1 pie o f the same family title. These are unable to trace any relationship with each other, but, wherever they are, they find them selves in possession of ceremonitl

. customs, w hich are quite peculiar to those who bear that name. . ................. -

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James describes the K iawa-K askaia Indians as na­tions united “ under the influence o f th e B ear-tooth^ B yet they were totally ignorant o f each other’s spoken language, and when tw o individuals o f different nations wished to converse, they did sofredy by the language ofgesture- signs. The primal unity was show n by the Totemig^ ^ j tribe-heraldic) Bear-tooth, and by gesture-signs. T n e r e l we get down to a recorulof the past that lies beyond either spoken language or liv in g m em ory of man, tribe, or race. This recordJis the language of symbolism, a skeleton of all other forms of hum an speech, whose bones are like the fossil remains that ex ist as proofs of an original betw een the lands that are now;severed, Suit as the bones of the mam moth in Britain and France show that the tw o lands, though divided now, were originally one.

The skill of the Bushm en, Kaffirs, and some N egroes in the drawing and m odelling of figures is a result of the primordial gesture-language transferred from the air to solid ea n ^ B ^ S ^ b n itz has said that th e w riting r0f the Chinese might seem to have been invented by a deaf person, its form ation w as so near to that of ges­ture-signs addressed to the eye. A considerable num ­ber BjT Chinese ideographs are id en n S il w ith the

E gypt m ay be traced the developm ent of° writing from gesture-signs through ideograph?® determinatives down to the alphabet. M an praying,

Bgoicing, dancing, b u ild in g jjjh tin g , reposing, ruling, walking, old man and young child, are represented in

B e act ofSmaking the appropriate gesture-signs or Ksible speech which all m en can read at sigh t. A Bomparison of certain E gyptian signs w ith those of the ■ North American Indians tends to th e conclusion that

they had a common oipgir^ T h e E gyptians engraved • such hieroglyphics in granite, and th e Indians still 1 figure them in the air.

It must not be supposed that the gesture-language which Mr. Massey refers to here as common to th e Egyptians and North Am erican Indians, consists only of such simple signs as would naturally suggest them -

S" selves. Many of these gestures are com plex and con­ventional, and require interpretation by the principles

[ of typology. There are gestures of affirmation, nega­tion, death, truth, falsehood, union, astonishm ent,

I* companionship, number, woman, child, &c. There are gestures based on the tongue, the hand, the teeth , and

Gesture language was and still is continued in religious rites and ceremonies. In holding up the holy water the Parsee ritual prescribes that at certain words it is to be lifted TtMl*$nth the heart of the officiating priest, and at others it is to be held Zgjgl w ith the a rm oM the priest, so that the warriors fighting for their coun­try may he fu lle r o f breath , and the husbandm en stronger of arm in tillage and cultivation of the world.

These primates o f human expression have now to be traced on another line of thought. In the early dawn of the human consciousness man would observe that the animals, birds, reptiles, and insects excelled him in various kinds of contrivances, modes o f getting a living, and power over the elements. T he fish could breath in water which to him was fatal. The hippopotamus could dive and disappear for an hour together. T he cat could see and pounce on her prey in the dark; the bee, bird, and beaver, beat him in bu ild ing; the spider n spanning empty space w ith the woven means of crossing The serpent managed the art o f locomo­tion without visible members, and renewed its garment periodically by changing its skin. T he m onkey with bis four hands excelled man who had lost tw o of his in the process of metamorphosis and descent from the four-fold foot-hold in the tree to the two-fold standing on the earth. Animate or inanimate th ings were adopted as a means of representing man’s primitive thought, and these things in the later phase became sacred objects, and thus Africa and the world were filled with fetish images, which are only another kind of hieroglyphics not yet interpreted. Traditions, customs,

and languages in m any lands still preserve th e an cien t types, where their m eaning is riS longer understood. ; B u t the notion that th e prim itive man fell straightw ay to w orshipping these ty p es is w holly erroneous. Our rem otest ancestors could n ot regard the brutes as gods, or the birds as angels, or the reptiles as devils, for such a reading postulates god, angels, and devils, w h ich w ere M t then extant. E g h is first chapter, entitled th e “ N a tu ­ral Genesis o f the K am ite T opology” E gyp tian sym ­bolism ), Mr. M assey g ives a variety gSmnteresting ilKjj^M trations o f the sym bolic m eaning and superstitions co n -v - Ejected w ith th e follow ing anim als— th e frog. c a tte r p il- '■ lar, pig, gjfilfSgafcidog. spider, beetle, crocodile, lion, crow, stork, swan, and ape.

D arwin says, ‘‘ I t is a rem arkable fact th a t an ape, one ofithe gibbons, produces an exact octave of m u s ic a ls sounds, ascending and descending th e scale1 "by h a lf tones,” and Professor Owen has observed that th is mon^a k ey , alone of brute m am mals, m ay b e sai& to sing. T h is then was th e first teacher mpkjp scale in A frica: ; T h e ape, adds our auroor? w as certain ly the predeces- ; j sor of man, and th e singing ( S f f ig gibbon was there- ‘ fore an earlier phase of utterance than hum an speech. A s th e ape has been continued typical singerand divine bard, it looks as if a form o f m usical b m po S m ay have been practised by the prim itive man in im ita -’ Earni o f the ape.

T he connecting link o f the beast fables o f Europe and Inner A frica is not only extant in the E gyptian ideographs, the fab les them selves as found in iE sop are E gyptian.

The practice o f k illing and burying a dog w ith a deceased person i j E 5 § uncommon, and the custom can be read by the hieroglyphics. Cranz relates that the E squim aux laid the head o f a dog in a child’s grave, as the type of the in telligen t anim al that was sure to find the way. B ishops used to be buried in this country w ith a dog ly in g a t their feet. One of the ch ief funeral ceremonies o f the A ztecs was to slaughter a dog, w hich was burnt or buried w ith the c o r p s e .I T h e custom of bringing a dog to the bedside o f a dy ing person as an escort and guide to the soul, was comm on w ith the H indoos and Persians. A corpse w hich had not been seen b y a dog was held capable of polluting a thousand men. • In Egypt the dog as Anubis was the embalmer and preserver of the dead. H ence the protection afforded to the corpse by the presence o f the dog.

I t should be remembered that all our illustra tions have been taken from the first ch ap tejjjm T h e Natural G ene-

w hich only occupies in a volum e B |i550 pp.One more characteristic extract and w e have don e..

“ A ll who have ever suffered m entally from the m is­interpretation of ancient m yths in the name o f theology, and felt its brand of degradation in the very soul, ought to sym pathise w ith the treatment of the a,ss, for it is a fellow-victim , who has likewise undergone unmerited punishment, and had its fall and still awaits its redemp­tion. The ass w as once in glory, sacred to Sut, and a type o f the H ebrew D eity. B u t Sut w as transformed into Satan, and the ass w ho carried the Messiah in the Mysteries, having borne him for the last time, was de­graded and assailed w ith stripes, kicks, and curses. B eating the ass becam e a Christian sport, a humorous pastime, in which the pagan past was figuratively kicked

; out in the real k icking o f the ass ; and the animal being cast down from his primitive estate, was associated w ith all that was ignominious.”

W e are glad to learn that Mr. M assey proposes to deliver shortly a course of lectures at S t. George’s Hall, in which he w ill illustrate, in a popular form, some o f the leading principles of his great work. S. E . B .

L eicester : Silver Street, Lecture Hall.—On Sunday even­ing laBt Mr. Bent delivered an inspirational address. The spirit-guides took for their discourse, Deuteronomy, vi., 4, 5: “ Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. And Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”—B. W ig h tm a n , See., 74, Mostyn Street, Hinckley Boad, Leicester.

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SECULARISM AND SPIRITUALISM: Compared as Co-operators in Moral

Reform.A DISCOURSE BY MR. W. SOHW EIZER.

Delivered in Rodney Hall, Liverpool, Sunday, J uly 29,1883.

I t is singular to observe tw o schools o f thcffim t a t variance on one point, but st ill sym pathic, and labouring in tn e sam e direction on many like ideas. This (SKIiSwever,1, a ^ c t . W e see, on one band, Secularism dem anding of thep^ ople a g rea ter ! attention to the duties o f life, a sincerer and more p ractical application of the energies contained w ithin th e m se lS s , w h ilst directing a disregard of m atters o f an illusory and morbid character.Bt>ecriPQgsm advocates man's deliverance from the thraldom o f monarchical im p os^ on s and priestly power, assertin g the right of the people to not only m ake their w ill know n, but to enforce the realization o f th a t w ill, according to th e ex ig en cies of the tim es. jSsEjiSualism , on the other hand, w h ilst advo­cating the overthrow of p r ie s tly tyranny, p rotestin g a g a in st judicial interference and socia l ostracism , c lasps hands w ith Secularism in ^ o m o tk ig a h igher m orality , a truer responsi­b ility , a brighter ana health ier v iew o f earth-life, together with a greater attention tb its duties than that obtain ing practice in the decaying c fb e d s H

It, however, differs Rrom Secularism in th is respect, th a t it asserts it possesses the qm&fs of the continuation of life after the corruption ofK ie physm algbocly ; its proofs are to be ob­tained by aljpjjwho^&Hm sufficient tim e, thought and a tten tion to the in v es® a tio n of Sj^ijiJualisjic phenom ena, w hich m ust m aterially influence the -future of th e world. fe&Dn this point d o , these tw o jppdies differ from one another, for althoiffih^kcula*ism does ■nbt'iA envSithe p ossib ility of a future em stencaK pcffl^ ders '.the idea o f a ttem pting to so lve this question as futile. y S tM J w liis lm y * b e lie f th at the funda­m ental facts p | Spiritualism w ill itnfim e be proved and j l c o g - nised by many Secularists, for altm5|ig|gnow affirmed by som e, it appears to me they are more lik el^ a b e influenced by stern facts, than many se S s of Christians who regard know ledge as m isleading, and r tm u p o n mormd_ sen tim e^ a lity for S ie g o n - summation of their desires.

My (mtention is to lay before p a brief review o f th ese t w c j subjects, m in tin g out the vaipm s view s held in common^ thus proving my argum entE hat of their being co-operators in Moral

- Reform Sim bued w atlgSeas fm the better furtherance of free-* dom of tron gh f^ an d liberty of investigaworj in to a ll depart­ments of life.

It has been assert® , and many no doubt c a n jc S r o b o r p a m y statem ent, th a ||3p iim ia lists have nSerUcalltM atheistical in the ignorant and vulgar sense.^even worse flian ffiajjlthey have been credited with intercourse w ith |n e ChristiaiBjSSajm. r ig i s doubtful wfiMher we have anything ft!do wjfti the old tOTrifier, and I feel very sure w e intend |o y relieve any reli^ B ^ ofi its onerous burden, but apartS from that i t nattfrally Scants to the very great freedom Eggognised by Sm^jtualists gen era lly , who deal in facts and not in creeds.

First, to define Secularism :—This school of thouglra and action arose chiefly tfhriKgh the

political and clerical1 oppression which existiSI during th e la t -9- ter part of the pastgentifry, and the Ijeginning oft thejoresent,

and found virgin som in the intellaBm al works of such men as Voltaire, Paine™ WashingffimJ C artw right® HorneJf^Iooke, Robert Owen, Henry B a sS h a m , George ©omlng an S B ih ers.

The gross tyranny and in ijusnce saferevalefft’ during the latter end of the last and%he first halftm jthe present century drove men alm ost to despair in endeavomungEffircumncile facts with theories, searching to find in man that Iqvo and gen tlen ess depicted in some of the Christian u ttera n ces^ B ut a ll to no effect; some very erroneous and false principles m ust be at the root of the Christian system , was naturally adm itted as the

. outcome of this degradation and misery and w ant.To this endfjhe pioneers of Secularism set to work, investi­

gating the causes of these direful and terrible bum an condi­tions. Some entered the political arena, others sought to promulgate reform in Theology, and not a few entered the lists of Social Reforms. Gradually, after severe and desperate struggles, Free-thought w as observed em erging beauteous in her robes of purity from the dark and corrupt past, opening up to the world grander and more rational view s of life and its duties, than those forced upon humanity during m any centuries by an arrogant and superstitious priesthood..

Secularism teaches only of this mundane existence, it re­cognises the necessity of placing the whole of one’s energy in ­to action, not for self-gratification or self-exaltation, but for the improvement of society and the elevation of the nation ; for by promoting the general happiness, the individual happiness is augmented. It exhorts the cultivation of the mind, it ad­vocates strict morality, and upholds a sincere and d istinct practice of truthfulness. To give a fu ll com prehensive idea of its objects, I w ill detail the five definite points of Secularism ,

. a s held by the National Secular Society ‘of this country, the

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object o f w lych is to d issem in a te th ese principles by every leg itm a te m eans in it s pow er

1. —“ The N ational Secular Society has been formed to maintain the rights of Free-thought, and to d ire c 9 th e ir application to the secular improvement of life. By the principle of Free-thought is meant the ex. ercise of the understanding upon relevant facts, independently of penal or priestly intim idation.”

T his is a m o st n ecessa ry foundation for the betterance of leg itim a te rggprm and sooiar progression . N eglect secular duties, aud th e E Sonsequences are only too apparent in the presence o f p overty and slo th , th u s a ss istin g g u p few avaricious to grasp and hold a ll to th e d etr im en t o f the many.

P lou gh noffflp th e u n d ersta n d in g and sow it w ith knowledge, it w ill rem ain dorm ant, or, i f abused b y misusejMmS human fam ily w om d soon d eg en era te in to a condition of gross ani­m alism . A nd! agtft e p ow er o f th e government andthe in tim idation U e p r ie s th sM becom e excessive, this deplo­rable outcom e w oiu cgn atu ra lly resu lt in fetishism ’^nd unmanly prostration before c ra fty deceprars.

2. —“ By the rights of Free-thought are m eant the liberty of free critic­ism for the security o f tru th , and the liberty of free publicity for the extension of tru th .”

H as not th e m an , w h o p o ssesses a m ind, the right to analyse and criticise w h a t is offered to him for acceptance! The g rea test proof of th e un sou n d n ess o f a doctrine mustpje the attem p t m ade to force such a doctrine upon a person irrespec-; tiv e o f th a t person’s u n d erstan d in g . T he true guardians of? truth are p erfectly confident th a t tim e w ill eventually recog­n ise its r igh t, and th a t th e u se o f force is degrading to free­dom .

T he ex ten sion o f tru th , th e pub lic ity o f that which men earn estly cred it to be tru th , is not on ly worthy of attention and d is c u ss io n ! but it is decided ly th e duty of each one to express h im self, and offer h is opinions to the world, and it will u ltim a te ly be, th a t th e am ount o f re liab ility possessed in such utterances w ill be received and effect good, whilst anything of a m islead in g or doubtfu l character w ill be rejected as unsound, and m u st be abandoned as useless.

I t therefore behoves a l l on reason ab le occasions to give forth w ithput fear th a t w h ich th e y hold to be true, that by earnest discussion and th o u g h t, th e w orld in gen eral may be purified

K rohe erroneous, and advanced to a stricter adherence to the tunth. W ith th is prin cip le p ra ctica lly w orked into effect, it cannot bjffl be otnBnjsase th a n b eneficia l to an advanced and m ore digpified s t a t® o f ex isten ce . Once allow liberty to be rep eated lVjSoJj5Kj? and th e on ly sequence would be that, step by s t e p ,S h e supporters o f ty ra n n ic ideas, growing stronger amjflmore audacious in th e perpetuation and success of their e f f m w ould lea v e m ean s untried, until finally, they engulfe<M hum anity in to th e n tt o f despotism , there to behold a seeth in g m ass o f h e lp lessn ess, governed and guided for their sojfe gratification and satisffirejion.

3. — ' Secularism relates to th e present existence of man, and to act- ions the issue ofrpKJsh can be tested by experieoce.”

The p resent is o f m ore im portance than the dreams of an im probable future eJsucb is the idea contained in the above. It s& m s not too early th a t th e efforts and intelligence of all should be flow ing in to m ore p r a c ® a l channels of progress.

L ooking over our country to -d ay , w e observe much demand­in g reform . I t is by no m ean s a paradise, this boasted Island H om e ; it is, how ever, the aim o f Secularism to create of the inharm ony a t p resen t p reva len t, a harmonious and happy country, in w hich con ten tm en t and peace shall be enjoyed by a ll.

T he actions o f m en are to be ju d g ed and estim ated as regards their in trinsic v a lu e for tb e w elfare o f society in general. A ctions o f a m orbid and selfish sentim entality can but be credited as dangerous, as gen erative o f discord in |ne human fam ily, and on th a t account prohibited.

4. —“ That, in order to promote effectually the improvement and hap­piness of mankind, every individual of the human family ought to be well placed and well instructed and th a t all, who are a suitable age ought to be usefully employed for their own and the general good.”

I know not whajT amount of life is misspenran placing individuals into positions winch they are nja fitted for, physi­cally, mentally, or morally MI cannot tell the anBJunt of social harm brought about by such but n| the existence ofthese evils I am fully aware, and it seems Sfflable to behold men and women weagng themselves out, and often succnmbing, from beiDg forced to labour in fields of mdustry for which they are not adamed. For instance, how often do we observe men in official posts, who possess ndm;Jie mental or moral calibre for the pentpamance of snm duties, and likewise men in menial empjnvmentff, with bright and strong intellects but lacking tbe opportunities of advancement, and, agaiD, women are, to a large extent, destitute of that useiul and necessary education which should place them in a superior position to that preva­lent under tbe Christian Dispensaf^^H

Woman is m an’s equal, m an is wom an’s equal, and the two should bo in rem procity one w ith th e other.

5. —“ That human improvement and happinesa cannot be effectually promoted without fiv il and religious liberty, avd th it therefore it is the duty of every^dam dual to aotively attack all barriers to equal freedom of thought and utterance upon all political, theological an l social sub. jecta. The Secularist is one, who deduces his moral duties from consid-

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SB i c l i P erta in to th is life , an d w ho p rac tic a lly reco g n is in g th e above duties devotes h im se lf to th e p ro m o tio n o f th e g en era l good .”I ^ u s '8 obtained a fair v iew o f the duty of a Secularist. I t is his dnty to demolish a ll those errors and inequalities, which exist and hamper the universal happiness of the human r a c e ; it is his moral duty to act in th is life for the benefit o f th is life, and not by neglecting h is terrestrial work, or absenting him­self, through morbid ideas, from his fellow s, to suppose he w ill be blessed and receive great reward in another e x is te n c e ^ ]

The morality of Secularism is based upon utilitarian ideas, the greatest good for the greatest number being the ch ief point of this systemls That which is useful for the majority m ust be moral, for usefulness im plies goodness, and therefore it is that Secularism possessing defined and positive lines o f agreem ent, is capable of advanmng and confronting her opponents, effect­ing a defeat amongst them w hich u ltim ately becom es o f use to the vanquished in thus acquainting them w ith more tangib le reasons for the advancem ent, progress, and happiness of the human family.

The Secularist declares th a t freedom does not belong to Christian Beets; a mock freedom prevails, and it is represented th u sB eliev e as the Church bids, confide in her doctrines, search the Scriptures, but do so believing Christianity to be true; don’t doubt the main truths o f the B ible ;—if you accord in these points, you are in safety, and you m ay dream about various bluMm consequences ; but should you happen Ip search the Scriptures and deny the doctrines o f Christianity in their entirety, the Church cannot answ er for you.

No one has asked the Church to answ er for the Secularist He protests against the interference and im pertinence of any Church either answering or protesting against the private right of judgment and thought.

If the responsibility be upon every creature, ip each has to work out bis own salvation, has not each a righ t to exclaim : “Hands off! I w ill proceed m y w ay, and if a ll depends upon myself, I will trust to those powers I possess, and not be ham­pered by any of the set and cram ped notions of sectarian pre- judice. I possess senses, which I m ust m ake use o f; brain­power, which I feel i&tfflbe m y duty to e x e r t ; and the expanse of nature lies before me to exam ine and explore. T hese advantages belong to all, and no body of persons, w h eth er clerical or otherwise, dare stand in the path o f individual freedom of choice, upon this question of v ita l im portance, if such it truly

Turning our attention to Spiritualism , w e fail to find con­tained in this body certain fixed principles of accord, specified in a text-book for the use o f its m em b ers^ I t is true that the Spiritualistic body is heterogeneous in its character; it con­tains all shades of opinion, from the orthodox to the brightest and clearest Freethinker, and naturally the great difficulty arises to so bind these discordant elem ents into one as to form a compact whole.

Manifestly the main object o f Spiritualism is to dem onstrate tbe continuation of life after the change called Death, and accordingly the phenomena have drawn earnest seekers and inquirers from all quarters.

But apart from this foundation-stone of Spiritualism , the demonstration of life beyond the grave, there is, am ongst Spi­ritualists generally, mtrch agreem ent regarding a purer m oral­ity, a grander idea of life, and a fixed determ ination to further the happiness of humanity irrespective of a ll class opprobrium.

I shall now detail the various ideas, which are adm itted as being the component parts of spiritualistic mundane work :—

1. It upholds the dignity o f m an, and teaches that the duty of man is to advance terrestrial prosperity, and encourage universal peace.

2. It promotes independence o f thought, and free inquiry into all subjects, resenting S tate interference relative to m at­ters not of a criminal n a tu re; seeks to relieve itse lf of the stigma and oppression of the OhurchVby using a ll m eans within its power to bring about the destruction of ecclesiastical erroneous ideas.

r 3 . It declares that man possesses the power, with lim itations of either making or marring h im se lf; that this is but a prepa­ratory state of employment and enjoym ent; that as each acts, in such wise will each improve or debase oneself! Man’s responsibility consists in that he is responsible to the law s of nature, and in breaking those law s he receives adequate pun­ishment thereby.

4. Spiritualism regards the w hole human race as one great family, consisting of members differing in kind and quality, but all possessing the primary elem ents of everlasting life and continual progression.^!

5. That the duties of this life are paramount, and that the certainty of existence after death should not cause apathy towards the secultffi majpmrs of life. On the contrary, it is tbe duty of each one to labour with diligence and pleasure, know­ing that by creating true love, happiness, and prosperity, he not only erijoys the present am ongst his fellow s, butapat also be is producing within him self a condition fog renewed happi­ness and labour in grander anajnore elevated scenes of life.

It can be clearly seen that the moral ideas of Spiritualism We very revolutionary in their character.

Tho authority of any clique of persons is not to leratedJ Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, are its first demands, and with the aid of these two a grand and sublime set of prin­

cip les has been enunciated. I t is true th at Spiritualism refuses to dogm atically assert the in fallib ility o f her ideas, but she is contented w ith these ideas until better ideas are evolved, through process of hum an im provem ent, slowly being accom ­plished.

Christianity has been dealt w ith in a justifiable m an n er; it has been asked repeatedly to boar w itness o f its truth, by tho repetition of its m iracles and the exercise of those spiritual powers bequeathed to the Church, but to w hat effect you are a ll doubtless aware.

Spiritualism does not pretend to answ er for the p a st; its avocation is to dem onstrate the facts of the present.

The occurrences tak ing p lace now and during the la s t 34 years, have been collected, and sufficient evidence is to hand as proof o f the continued ex istence of human beings after the change called D eath . Spiritualism m ay, therefore, and has, upon the above evidence, theorized to a certain exten t, and holds that the main spiritualistic theories propounded are the only rational theories adduced up to the present tim e, which w ill cover the w hole field of experience.

Studying the spiritualijfflS#bthics, and contrasting them with the present Christian ideas of the “ fa ll o f man,” “ vicarious atonem ent,**1 salvation through faith $ and rewards and pun­ishm ents, one unbiassed in opinion- cannot but assert that the morals of Spiritualism are higher and more ennotnfng for man, and productive of more happiness and prosperity than those of tbe Christian Dispensation.

The spiritualistic morals are practicable in everyday life, and as such ought to be made use of. This life of m an is composed of actions, and the duty o f man is to endeavour to cause a ll his actions to be profitable to his countrym en and to him self. In failing to do a good action, or through com m itting a base action, he undermines his nature and effects an unheal­thiness in society. I believe I w ill be borne out in th is state­m ent, that Spiritualism possesses w ithin itse lf a ll the essentials of l i f e : high rational m orality, true d ignity of man, and the proofs of the continued existence of man in a spiritual form.

H aving portrayed to the best o f my ability the morals o f Spiritualism , I shall now compare Secularism with Spiritualism , and show their sim ilarity in reference to terrestrial affairs.

Secularism and Spiritualism possess much in common, and appear to be tbe tw o great pioneers of advanced thought in th is country.3 Breaking aw ay from the errors o f the past, casting aside the m antle o f serfdom and submission, they both have been labelled seductive and m ost dangerous comm unities ; people who should be shunned, creatures whom God bad for­saken, those who were to believe a lie and finally m eet their doom by being hurled into the everlasting torm ents o f that expansive lake, surrounded by a sulphurous atm osphere.

Both bodies have stood the brunt, and now are defying their antagonists to im peach their integrity o f purpose and sound-i! ness of v iew s on theE om m on platform .

This prjgilege the Christian Church w ill not grant, for within the pulpit rails safOTy is guaranteed m but upon the public platform justice is supported, quibbling denounced.

The main principle oM Freethought, and the exercise o f this principle irrespective of publicjjRensure, I consider is fu lly re J cognised by the advocates o f our grand Truth.

The search after truth, the inquiry into all departm ents ot life, ancient and modern, allied w ith a full and healthy cr it i- l cism of everything pertaining to life, are ideas defended m ost valiantly by both these sections of thought.

A lthough Secularism pertains only to m atters of th is exis­tence of worldly welfare and progression, Spiritualism can even berewffin w ith Secularism regarding the duties of life, for Spirraialisn |igivc8 a greater impetus to life and to material concerns, in that to live long and w ell here, advances p osition / after death, in the spiritual life.

The principle of educa&Sn and right individual placem ent, as also the full em ploym ent of all persons capable of working, is fu lly rejmgnised by the teachings of Spiritualism. In fact, it supports most heartily the improvement and equality of a ll earth’s sons and daughters, continually urging for a reconstruc­tion of the social fabfg^H

L astly, universal human improvement, civil and religious liberty, and the duty of a ll to destroy the obstacles in the path of advancement and freedom, the consideration of a ll subjects and moral duties deduced from rationality, are, I need not add, fu lly in harmony with the actions and desires o f a true and thorough Spiritualist.

W hatever may be said against Secularists and Spiritualists generally, and much calum ny has been bestowed upon these tw o parties, still I hold that the backbone and pith of these movements staunchly adhere to those ideas enumerated upon secular m attersH j

And, in conclusion, I w ill add, it would afford me, and I believe many others, much pleasure to observe these tw o re­forming powers advancing side by side, opposing and contest­ing together in the arena of thought and action for tbe great and sublime truths w h ich fl is the duty of a ll to seek for, and in thus m aterially uniting them selves, become a strong power,, bidding defiance to the common foe, elevating w ith the supreme and pure power of intellect, the love o f truth, equity for the world, and promoting, with all earnestness, universal prosperi­ty and happinesB for mankind,

550 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. A ugust 31, 1883.

SPIRIT DIRECTION IN HUMAN LIFE.T H E F A B E W E L L M E ET IN G TO M ISS SA M U E L .

T he n ew ly decorated reception room a t th e Sp iritua l In s ti­tu tion w as f itt in g ly inaugurated on M onday even in g b y a se lec t com p an y, w ho crow ded i t to overflow ing, th e cen tre o f a ttrac­

t i o n b e in g M iss Sam uel, w ho has sin ce sa iled for A u stra lia .Mr. B urns opened th e m eetin g by observing th a t th e occasion

w a s one for th e m an ifesta tion o f th e finer fee lin g s , ra th er than for keen in te llec tu a l d isp lay. T h ou gh he had n ot seen much o f M iss S am u el for th e la s t tw o years, s t ill her g o in g a w ay w a s a regretab le occurrence. H er acq u ain tan ce had been both p lea sa n t and useful, and could be looked back on w ith d e lig h t . H e regarded her a s a rem arkable la d y , one w ho had show n g rea t s tren g th o f character, ab ility , and m oral purpose. W herever she w en t she w ould m ake her m ark, and th a t m eet­in g w as to concentrate on her p a th a l l good w ish es for her happiness and success.

T hey a lso had another purpose in assem b lin g . A m o n g st them w ere Mr. and Mrs. Spear, from A m erica , w ho w ere about to rc-cross th e A tlan tic . Mr. Sp ear w as now one o f th e o ld est sp iritua l w orkers and m edium s in th e C ause. E ig h te e n years a g o th e sp eak er had jo in ed him and others in a con ven tion w hich w as tho b eg in n in g o f th e jo u rn a list ic w ork n o w carried on in th e prem ises in w hich th ey w ere a ssem b led . W hen th ese prem ises becam e th e S p iritu a l In stitu tio n , Mr. Spear, about to return hom e a t th e con clu sion o f h is form er v is it , had th en a “ Sp iritua l In stitu te ” for th e su p p ly o f in form ation to inquirers. H e a lw a y s advocated th e a d v a n ta g es o f a w eek ly paper, and to -d ay he could rea lize m uch th a t had been prom oted and a d ­vocated by him in years th a t are p ast.

Mr. John M urray Spear, n o w n early 80 y ea rs o f a g e , on b ein g ca lled on, rose and g a v e a rem ark ab ly c le a r and w ell- spoken speech , sh ow in g no d im inution o f pow er during th e la s t tw en ty years. H e spoke very fe e lin g ly o f th e p a st, and w h a t i t had done for th e p resen t. In a tou ch in g m anner ho a llu d ed to B ritain as the “ M other cou n try ,” and , a s such , w a s th e actu a l parent o f m uch th a t w a s h ig h ly regarded in A m erica, and th ou gh t by m an y to be A m erican in stitu tio n s . H e w ish ed people w ould th in k m ore d eep ly on th e sign ifican ce o f th e term “ M other country."* R a ilw a y s w ere first in troduced in th is country. M am Q uakers w ere in A m erica , b u t th ey or ig in a ted in E n g la n d . W illiam P enn , a Quaker, and w ho p la n n ed th e c ity in w hich he (th e sp eak er) lived , P h ila d elp h ia — 20 m iles lo n g and 8 m iles w id e— cam e from th is country . F or a p la ce in h is father’s house he w ou ld n o t ta k e off h is h a t to k in g or courtier, but w en t and m ade a hom e for h im se lf and m an y others. Joh n M urray w as persecu ted in th is cou n try , b u t in A m erica g a v e rise to a w ide-spread re lig io u s in flu en ce. M other A nn, th e founder o f th e Shakers, w ho h a v e m an y co lon ies, w a s an E n g lish w om an, and b eg a n h er w ork as a sp ir itu a l lead er in th is country. H e a lluded to A ndrew L eig h to n , and other friends passed aw ay and in th e form , and app reciated th e im portance o f in tern ation a l p eace and go o d w ill b etw een th is land and Am erica* t

Mrs. Spear, in a few w ords, exp ressed her g r e a t in terest in th e you n g friend w ho w as about to proceed to th e oth er s id e o f the g lob e.

M iss Sam uel on r is in g hoped her friends— for it w a s a m ee tin g o f friends— w ould excu se an y ap p aren t egotism in h er r e m a r k s ! T hough she w ould a llu d e to her ow n career, i t w a s for the purpose o f illu s tra tin g a u n iversa l sp ir itu a l p r in cip le: viz., th a t th e life o f m ankind is d irected by an u n seen and w ise in te llig en ce , w hich brings th e issu es o f life to bear w ith o u t an y effort on m an’s part. N o tw ith sta n d in g th e p rivation s under w hich Bhe laboured, she considered th a t a num ber o f a d van tageou s c ircum stances en tered in to her life . S h e w as o f P olish stock , to w hich fa ct she attr ibuted her g r e a t te n a c ity o f character and fixedness o f purpose. She w as born in London,4 and a t th e a g e o f five lo s t her ey esig h t. H er g ir lhood w as sp en t in N ew Y ork. T here w as som eth in g , she th ou gh t, in th e atm osphere o f A m erica p ecu liarly adapted to prom ote th e developm ent of certain m en ta l characteristics, and to th a t fa c t she had been indebted . In N ew York her h ea lth u tter ly broke dow n, and sh e w as ob liged to relinquish her arduous s t u d ie s ! She w as a sp irit-seer, and did n ot know w h a t it m ea i$ , w hich k ep t her mind in a very unhappy s t a t e ; she did n ot relish an i­m al food, w hich from custom she had to t a k e : she w a s in d arkness aB to th e r ig h t use o f her bodily and m en ta l en d ow ­m en ts, ou t o f harm ony w ith her ow n nature, and therefore il l and w retched . H er life seem ed to p resen t to her an u n en d in g m isery. Quite u n ex p ected ly her parents m oved to Cardiff, in W ales, an o u t-o f-th e-w ay p la ce , y e t, stra n g e to sa y , there she found w h at she stood in need of, a s i f she had been led to it . T hrough a m agn etiser , w ho endeavoured to benefit her, she becam e acquainted w ith S p iritu a lists. She found she w as a psyebom etrist,” and th u s b egan to understand her ow n nature. M essrs. S m art and S p r ig g s in troduced her to veg eta r ia n dietj] U nder th e k in d ly d irection o f Mr. R ees L ew is she b ecam e de­velop ed a s a speaker, w hich opened up th e w ay to a w ider acquaintancesh ip w ith p rogressive m inds. H er com in g to L ondon and co n ta ct w ith Mr. B urns fu lfilled a sta tem en t m ade b y a seer in N ew Y ork, w hen a g ir l, th a t she w ould jou rn ey to a d is ta n t country, and m eet n fair m an, through w hich ch an n ed

she w ou ld becom e a p u b lic speaker. Mr. Burns introduced [ P h ren o logy to her, g a v e her som e ideas on health, and threw around her, a n ew sphere o f th ou gh t. Soon after that Mrs. I B illin g cam e to L ondon, and her fa ith fu l spirit friend, “ Ski- I w a k ie ,” b ecam e a tta ch ed to th e Cardiff circle, and used to talk to them in th e d irect vo ice , th ro u g h th e extraordinary medium | sh ip o f Mr. S p r ig g s . T h is sp ir it volunteered the statement th a t in th e fu ture a le t te r w ou ld com e from a relative of her m other, and th rou gh it her fa m ily w ould cross the ocean, and i t w ou ld b e th e g r e a te s t ch a n g e o f their lives. T ill then sue. 1 cess w ould n ot a tten d th em , and th e in terva l had been bo dis- h ea rten in g th a t it appeared as if th e sp irit had been mistaken.In due course M essrs. S p r ig g s and Sm art le ft for Melbourne, i and sh e w e n t to resid e a t B righ ton , com ing to London occa- L sio n a lly to sp ea k a t th e S p ir itu a l Institu tion , GoswellHall, and other p la ces . A bout th is tim e she m ade the acquaintance o f M iss C handos L e ig h H u n t (M rs. W a lla ce ), and derived great K benefit from her sy stem o f h y g ie n e and diet, also mental ad­v a n ta g es from a process o f se lf-exam in ation which was Bug. g ested to her. T h is p la ced her in a condition, mental and * p h y sica l, for a n oth er ch a n g e w h ich had been foreseen by Mr,A . D ugu id , a y ea r or m ore in ad van ce o f its occurrence. This seer sta ted th a t sh e w o u ld m eet w ith one w ho would extend a c h e lp in g h and , b y w h ich sho w ou ld becom e self-sustaining ;*J| afterw ard s a t th e sea so n o f th e r ip en in g o f th e corn, the great­e s t ch a n g e w o u ld occur. T h e h e lp in g hand was extended to her b y M rs. T eb b , th ro u g h w hom sh e becam e a student at the R o y a l N orm al C o lleg e and A cad em y o f M usic for the Blind, at U pper N orw ood . O f th is in stitu tio n she spoke in the highest® term s, and a lso o f D r. C am pbell, it s P rincipal. In this position I i t required m uch co u ra g e to m a in ta in her principles of vegeta- l rian ism and S p ir itu a lism , a n d th o u g h m uch misunderstood for \ a lo n g tim e , y e t sh e u lt im a te ly w on th e respect of all.

R esp ec tin g th e g r e a t ch a n g e th a t has been spoken of, Miss S a m u el’s ow n im p ression w a s in accord w ith the opinions of F a ll seers, th a t it w o u ld occur in th is m onth o f August, and that { sh e w ou ld g o a b ro a d ^ T h is con clu sion w as arrived at by Mrs. V T eb b and oth ers q u ite in d ep en d en tly . A t the close of the f" season , a few w e e k s a g o , a v ery k ind and liberal offer had been ex ten d ed to her to rem ain a t th e C ollege tw o years longer, as a lea d in g so lo co n tra lto s in g er and p up il teacher, having j th e b en efit o f a l l th e in stru ctio n sh e m ig h t require. Thus Bhe | h ad reached th e se lf-su sta in in g p o in t. H er parents resided at L eicester , and w h en sh e retu rn ed hom e it w as with the inten­tion o f co n su ltin g w ith th em an d a ccep tin g th is offer. She was d eta in ed a t C o lleg e sev era l d a y s beyond the expected time, [■ and, s tra n g e to sa y , on th a t accou n t, arrived in Leicester with th e sam e tra in th a t b ro u g h t a n u n c le from Australia, who had b een a b sen t from E urope for 26 y ea rs, and who consequently h ad n ev er seen her j T h is b rother o f her m other came to Eng- -j lan d for th e ex p ress p u rp ose o f tak iD g her parents to Australia, fc p a y in g a ll ex p en ses . T h is p reven ted th e necessity of discuss- !l in g th e s itu a tio n th a t had b een offered, and she was free to le a v e a t once, w ith o u t h a v in g to w ithdraw from any pre-en­g a g e m e n t. B y th is th e pred iction g iv e n in the direct voice by "j “ S k i ” w a s fu lfilled , a n d a t th e season o f the year that had I b een a n tic ip a ted .

M iss S a m u el sa id th a t h er v iew s on m edium ship were some- * w h a t m odified by ex p erien ce . In v estig a to rs attached great S' im p ortan ce to ab n orm al and sp ec ia l sp ir it control, which gave h rise to phen om en a an d “ te s ts .” S h e prized more the influence ff o f sp ir itu a l b e in g s on our liv e s w h ile en g a g ed in the duties of life . W hen sh e look ed b a ck , sh e sa w in her little history a I continuous m a n ifesta tio n o f sp ir it d irection and support. In [ her fu ture w ork sh e in ten d ed to g iv e due prominence to all of th ose stu d ies w h ich ten d ed to th e en largem en t of man’s con­cep tio n s and th e a tta in m en t o f true h a p p in ess; Spiritualism divorced from th ese co n sid eration s is incapab le of doing what i t is co m p eten t to perform . T h e la w s o f health , vegetarianism * tem p eran ce , and th e a n ti-v a cc in a tio n m ovem ent covered a broad fie ld , and in it s cu lt iv a tio n th e influence of the spirit p w orld w o u ld ev er b e h e lp fu l and con gen ia l. Such philanthro- [ p ic w ork sh e w ou ld regard a s her h ig h est ideal of life, and she hoped to d ev o te h er c h ie f en erg ie s to it . B ut first of all she m u st provide th e m ea n s o f su b sisten ce , for which purpose she | w ou ld u n d ertak e th e d u ties o f m usic teach er and vocalist. To i h elp p eo p le to h e lp th e m s e lv e s ; to se t their minds on the right tr a c k ; to surround th em w ith th e n ecessary conditions, and ' tea ch them to liv e in h arm ony therew ith , would realize the £ lon g-look ed -for h eaven on earth , and prepare every soul to hear th e V o ice o f th e F a th er , w h ich should be the aspiration

l and p r iv ileg e o f a ll .Miss S am u el’s rem arks, m uch abbreviated here, were re­

ceived w ith deep in terest . M r. S am u el thanked the meeting for th e k ind in terest m a n ifested in h is on ly daughter. He said , th ou gh he w a s one o f th e “ chosen people ” yet he was g la d to turn to th e l ig h t o f S p ir itu a lism through the agency of his ow n ch ild $$ M rs. G raf a lso sa id a few words, and Mr. T ow n s g a v e a ch eer in g p rogn ostica tion o f the path that lay before th e tra v e llers , referr in g | | o four years as a period for I- esta b lish in g th em se lv es . M rs. T ebb , as th e ^spiritual mother” o f th e y o u n g la d y , sp o k e a fe w w ords o f benediction.

A t th e req u est o f th e m eetin g , M iss Sam uel sang “ The B etter L and ” in fine v o ic e a a n d m anifesting careful culture. [ M any k in d ly ex p ress io n s w ere m ade, and one of the best meet- [

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mgs ever held in these w a lls term inateid. - M iss Sam uel has had many good m eetings a t th e Spiritual In stitu tion , but the last eclipsed them a ll. She sailed , w ith her parents and uncle, on Thursday, in th e “ T ham es ” for.M elbourne. . >

MEDIUMSHIP.OUR T R IP TO T H E SO U T H .

On July 16 Mrs. Brow n and I le ft B urn ley for a ch an ge of air and influences, at adVice o f m y spirit1 guidesRsvith th e hope of regaining m y lost m agnetism . I do not d " ir e BjiHKtgflbe understoodjthat m y h ea lth g a v e w a y through d isease. I t w as by too frequently in th e circle, and occasionally w ithpeoplejpf unspugEual nature and a scep tica l tu r n E f mind. M y experience has ta q S it m e a lesson I sh a ll never forget. I would advise m y brother arja sister m edium s never to s it for tests, bun for the truth and th a t on ly . I f people w ill not believe, leyihem rem ain as th ey are, or in v estig a te for th em ­selves. Sceptics go n ot care a s tr a '^ ^ F th e y g e t their pound of flesWwhat becom es o f th e poor m ed iu m a I rem em ber g iv in g a test lifting about six years ago , w hen m y m edium ship w as more forahysical m anifestations. I w as tied in a m ost unm er- ciful way an unbeliever in sp ir it com m unication . T he m ani­festations were pow erful and ^ n v in cangT and th e scep tic! declared him self sa tisfied ; b u t I w as tied w ith stron g cords in such a way that the blood in th e le ft hand and foot w as m arred in its from th a t tim e to th e present*f havebeen a great su n e r e r * H ad I n ot had a thorough k n o w led g e of physiology and the ec lectic p ractice o f m edicine, I have no dffijij in I |y n g th a t I should h ave been a h e lp less invalid . This is hot a gem ary ca se in wtJfch I h ave had to suffer by giving test sittings. In th e future I in ten d to be moreRaijftious as tPnow I dispose of m y m edium ship .

On our arrival at L eicester w e w ere received by a lady resi­dent in a most cordial m anner. W e sh a ll lo n g rem em ber her hospitality. Our sta y w as so lim ited th a t w e had n ot th e

l « tM v of attending any o f th e sp ir itu a l m eetin gs ; but I Kope that p il l ngh be the la s t tim e w e sh a ll have th e p leasure of visiting the beautiful tow n o f L eicester J B

On the 2Qth w e reached L ondon, and m et w ith a k ind recep­tion afffiw^^flaraal fifgtjtution from Mr. and Mrs. B urns and family. The reception accorded us b y th e L ondon S p iritua lists will alwayB be rem em bered w ith p leasure.

A'ftfSj padsing a few hours a t 15, Southam pton R ow th e fol­lowing lines came into m y m ind :—

I f we knew the cares and crosses,Crowded round pocft Bnrns’s way

I f we knew his many losses.Sorely grievous day by day :

Would we then so often cnide him. . ,....For the lack of th rift and gain P

Leaving in his heart snch sadness,Leaving on his name a stain !

The true use of the tr ia ls and tem p tation s o f life , and o f th e turbulent passions in our ow n b rea sts , is to ca ll forth sp iritua l

EeheEpJand^fflio^pufOTses. Excelleffise m ust be pursued earnestly: an inert purpose w ill ava il us noth in g ; our w hole nature must b ^ aw akeM True, w e m ust to il, b u t th e h arvest is rich: we must fig h tjb u t th e s tren g th w e g a in by ranftjCt is an inestimable com pensation. H ere w e h a v e one exp lan ation of onr present!stgi&pwe are tried as by fire, th a t w e m ay com e forth pureFTrbm the furnace. yQflr vixfiges are in peril, th a t w e majpold them w ith a firm er grasp . T h is is th e w orld for th e formajpinCm generous and reso lu te sp irits. T h is force o f principle gives, as it w ere, n ew pow er to th e w hole m an. Where is there a m an who has w orked so hard , and under snch unfavourable circumstau ces, a s our m i nd B urns ? Go jpg,

Bear brother: God’s b est g ifts are th ose whjmh H e diffuses silently; and so j® |s w ith m.an? T h e n o b lest benevolence is that which operates on th e m ind, w hich seek s tnefhappm ess o f men by advancement,';, and th is is a g rea t w ork, for th e mind is a complex organization, h av in g various pow ers, capamtmsS affections; and th e true h app iness o f a m an con sists in the development p£ all.

0 radiant Sun of T ru th divine, 'Thy raya through boundless nature shine;

' And from^the earth in glory, ris e,' To meet the brightness of the skies. .. W ide le t th y g lo ry be d isp lay ed ,

In oneJffight day wim&Jtfja shade,And thus may we supremely prove The nameless, endless Joys of love.

Whilst staying at th e Spiritual In stitu tion , w e had a grand display pLclairyoyant pow ers (from various friends, w hom w e had thg pleasujptBfiPj m eeting. One la d y described1 severa l o f my controls in a very accurate m anner. She a lso delineate d jp l me many th ingpof a private n a tu r e ; she i s a m ost rem arkable medium. We had also three s ittin g s wjrai MrHTowns, another extraordinary clairvoyant m edm mjpOne (ffjhis controls, know n by the name of jg M other Shipton,” g a v e us unquestionable proof of spirit communioQ, M y sp ir it m other w a s delineated to me in a most satisfactory m a n n er ; s e v e r a l other friends who have passed on to spirit life were a lso , in an. unm istakab le w ay, described.

We were also severa l tim es in th e com pany o f Mr." A*

Duguid : his ^HrvoyanH powers are truly wonderful, he is a true SfOTitualteaoheR and one who can prescribe the spirit sur­roundings in a satisfactory manner.

W hilst in th e com pany o f those w onderful c la irvoyants, I had m any proofs o f m y ow n clairandient powers. I could d istifilE sr hear th e spirits ta lk in g , w h ilst being described! T h is is a doBple proof o f sjfflit c o m m ff im .

In th e first p a s | o f m y letter , I have sa icH m t m y jo u rn em o L ondon w as to try to g e t a renew al o f m agnetism . I w as introduced to Mr. H aw kins. H e is one o f th e best m agnetic h ealers th a t it has been m y good fortune to m eet w ith . L ike m 5ffi8teom edB ^ nd,ia |i?. M ack, h is p o w ^ ^ a r e -tr u ly w o fid er l fu l. H e is a generous-hearted m an. ^ H is in tentions are str ic tly h o n e s t; he is w ish fu l to e lev a te suffering hum anity.

50, S tandish S treet, B urn ley , A u g . 1883. William Brown. ------- ♦ -------

MR. TOW NS A N D STAM FORD F R IE N D S.Mr. Chapm an w as a t Yarm outh a t th e tim e o f Mr. T o w n s’s

v isit, and through th e notice in th e Medium m ade his acquaint­ance. Mr. Chapm an w rites:— “ Ere he had^sat down m any m inuteSjM ^M m d be w as a w onderful m a n B in fact, I could sa y lik e th e woman o f Sam aria, Baffino. see a m an who rtold me a ll th in g s th a t ever I d id ? ’ H e to ld m e w ithout ask ing any questions, particu lars concerning m y pasfcj?present, and futureM H e described m ost accurately details concerning my b u sin essR h a t no one knew but m y se lf and w ife. H j Q B ^ B e d m y house, w ith every room in i t ; a lso m y w ife and children, w ith m ost m inute ex a c titu d e ; a lsq e p m e room at th e P rogres­sive L yceum , w ith correct descriptions o f m any of th e sitters, includ ing recom m endations for our better developm ent, etc. T hus ho w en t on the w h ole o f th e even in g , and w e parted h igh ly p leased w ith each other’s fflm pany, I g a v e him an earnestm nvitefto com e againjbefore he le ft, and he favou red , u s w ith h is com pany on Thursday, w hen he im m ediately described m y sp irit surroundings, including a m ost correct description Ipf m y m otham l fa th e g son, b r S h a - in - la w , and tw o sisters o f m y w ife, w hich I ojpuld not help but recognise. A fter tea , w e had a lo n g stro ll on the beautifu l cliffs here, aud sittin g dow n w ith a sp len d id v iew of th e sea before Esjjand the se ttin g sun behind us, he w as sudcfenBHTOnfflol|Effl by m y m other, w ho g a v e m e one o f her k indly greetin gs, interspersed w ith new s from hom e. A fter th is, Mr. T ow ns wasEontajflled^ b y ‘ Mrs. Sh ip ton ,’ com m only know n a s S M o ^ u Shipton,’ who g a v e m e som e o f her w onderful propheciefcsom e of which are to be fu lfilled by Christm as. M any o f theseSSjOpurse, I could not announce pnb n cly , but one w m ay d ivu lge w as, th a t o f T supplied th e conditions necessary, I should soon develop the g if t o f cla irvoyance. Should th is proveEorregt, I ehall only be too thank fu ljE a devote th a t g if3 for the advocacy E | our gloriou s Cause, and E h e happiness o f suffering hum anity. I t w as rea lly aston ish ing to learn from her w h a jjsh e knew concerning ev en ts in Stam ford. A fter £^is, ‘ John K ing jjk jn e w ith a very different voice, and announced th e fact th a t he had v isited ouajpircle a t S tam lgm ,|an d knew allrtyat w as a fc y g od, th a t w e had m edium s capable o f producing m aterialisation, and i f w e w ould on ly s it for it , he w as sure he could and w ould com e and show h im selT gtij us. Mr. T o w n i| lias con­sen ted to com e dow n and v is it our S ociety a t Stam forcjyon Sunday, Septem ber g flj I am sure our fmends w ill heartily w elcom e him- am ongst u s B I can earn estly recom m end persons w a n tin g advice us to their health , business v or dom estic concerns, K ta k e advantage o f his p resen ces and v is it us on th a t occasion .’eM

Plymouth SsRichm ond H a ll, R ichm ond S treet.-j|O n S unday m orning a t 11 a.m ., our rostrum w as occupied by M rSstenti-' ford, w ho read aEgrance discourse on th e S S & jy e r s a l righ ts o f m an,” after w hich a g en era l conversation S o k p lace on the sa h a E rl A ltogeth er th e service w as very enjoyable. I In the evenffigj& ie guides o f Mr. R . S. Clarke g a v e a fu t ure on “ T he second com ing o f ChrisL” w hich w as handled in a m ost ab le and m aifflM v|m anneraEjgd w as v ery h igh ly appreciated. On Sunday next, Septem ber 2nd, w e are ex p ectin g Mr. C o lv ille to lecture in S t. Jam es’s H a ll, w hen w e are hoping to see la r g e a u d ien ces.^ gO T . Br P A j g r E g S ^

Birmingham.— T he m eetin gs w ill be com m enced in O ozell Street Board g^hocyjgm Sunday evening, a t 6 whe n Mrs. Groom w ill deliver a trance address, andjpesoribe spiritual su r -l roundings. T he m eetin gs w ill be continued on Sunday even-, in g s through the

Manchester.— On Sunday m orning, A ug. 26, M rijjoh n son , of Hyde, spoke on a subject chosen by the andiencejJ1 Spiritual­ism in the R evelation o f C hristianity,’Jywhioh w as d ea lt w ith to the satisfaction o f th e audience. In th e even ing Mr. John­son spoke ^pqnByjffie ffijflh Man and L azarus,” which w as e x ­plained very clearly .— Samuel Chesterson, M .S.S.S.

R eceived y*iwo copies o f Pychom etio Circular," f tit June, on wliich w e had to pay 2d., as stam ps ea t from p ost cards m ust not be used for n ew sp a p ers: so rules th e pope o f th e post-office. W e see a report of a lecture on “ J esn s Christ,” ' through Mr. J . 0 . W rightir I f w e w ere in th e spirit-world w e w ould much prefer speaking for ourselves ; but how can personified m yths g iv e an account o f them selves ?

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NOTES AND 'COMMENTS.— ♦—

The prreat pressure pof m atter prevents a “ H yde-P ark Homily ”§Lom appearing thisyyeek.

After certifying the faSEmf spiritual existence and m anifesJ tation, the great*5ifflStroh isH he nature and tendeffc^e^Sf the spifijual infliifenc?8 w as aim S§® iydinE gypt aso it was infthe early Sffim T es of b l ir p r a ; so nt is now. In the Erie m e name of Bureaus C h r is ta s u^OTk^K>rayedftrf ward off evil influfflces further o n n u ™ shff^fi thal&Bdimm pti We have seen th e m ostjra^ fd erly m anifestations after th a t formula. The simple truth i s , ‘th at a ll phenom ena occur in accordance w ith inflexible law : g iven the true aspiration and surroundings a ll witflcome r ig h t; b a t w e cannot hoodwink the Great Lawgiver by any formula. The invocation o f a m ythi­cal personage is most likely to introduce fa lse ly personifying spirits and evil influences. L et us have faith in Goodness and Trntb, and a ll w ill be w ell.

After visiting Plym outh, Mr. Colville w ill proceed to Paris, and on bis return to Liverpool w ill pass through L ondon and give a few friends opportunity of m ej|ffig;jffn?® T his m ay lead to arrangements on a more extended basis.

“ A W e l l W is h e r ” is thanked for kind com m unication on Miss Samuel’s farewell, fflur report partly covers thcTgmflnd, though quite in a d eq u a te to do justice to S i e subject. Our readers generally w ill unite with the aspirations of that m eet­ing for Miss Samuel’s u seftfm eson ’her future hom eSig

Ma rried .—On August la ! at W est M alvern, b y the R ev. 0 . E. Freeman, Kjjbarles Daviesou', son as the la te David D avie- son, M.D., Lancashire, to Fanny E lizabeth , daughter o f the late Joseph Whattoff, of Saddington and Hereford. MrJ

. Davieson w ill be gratefully remembered by m any o f our L on­don readers for his kind assistance at the pianofore at recent soirees.

Warrington .— A correspondent writes to say th a O h e can­not hear of a single Spiritualist in that tow n o f 48 ,(u ilinham ! tants. I f he applied to Mr. Thomas, Frodsham, he m ight g ive him an introduction.

TO THE SPIR IT U A LISTS OF E N G L A N D ^I desire to introduce to the kindly notice of Spiritualists

generally, Mr. T. N B ln g le s , o f shicago, U .S., who is now in England. He is an unusually successful m agnetic healer, and also quite a flue speaker. Since his arrival in E ngland a few months ago, he has treated many patients very mfccessfully, and has given unm istakable evidences o f the abffijjfty o f pus spirit guides to work through him to much advantage in th is co u n ty . I am Confident that if he perseveres in the good work, and m eets with the sym pathy of®tJie public, he w ill do very much to promote the Cause of Spiritualism in th is coun­try. H e is at present staying at 45, K ensington, Li verpool. Hoping friends' w ill correspond w ith him w it]p a v iew to securing h is services, I remain the friend of a ll workers in the spiritual vineyard, WT J . Colville.

SPEC IA L NOTICE TO LONDO N FRIENDS. <Mr. W. J . C olville w ill hold tw o public receptions at th®

Spiritual Institu tion , on W ednesday and Friday, September 19 | and 21, a t 8 p.m . p rec ise ly ® On W ednesday he will give an | account o f h is experiences in connection with sSraualism both in A m erica and F rance. On Friday fife will answer questions from th e audience. T here w ill be m u ® and singing

B o th evenings, and im prom ptu poem s.A collection w ill be m ade to defray the actual expenses in.

curred by Mr. C olville’s v is it to London.------ ♦------■

O P E N -A IR WORK.T he sum o f £ 1 Is . 6d. w as co llec ted at Miss Samuel’s fare­

w ell m eeting, w hich has been p laced to the fund®™ supply, c in g hym n lea v es for th is work.

Clerkenwell Green.— A n ex ce llen t m eetin g® After Mr. B urns cam e Mr. K ipps and Mr. T ow ns. We had left, but we 1 hear th at som e lit t le d isturbance ensued near th en ose . It is not w e ll for speakers to answ er persons who speakjfglm the * crowd. S tick to the subjecojand th e publio w ill protjsj yon if f l you are worth hearing. A n irregular squabble a |w a good speech undoes a ll th e good th a t has been accomplished.®! we are true to th e a n g e ls o f peace and d ign ity , they will stand by w in a ll oar dangers and tro u b les!! Mr. Burns and others will be on th e ground a t 11.30 on Sunday.

Hyde Park.— T his w as th e w orst of the series. A hard restrain ing influence prevailed , and th e audience was small, r Spiritual truths are b ein g d eep ly probed, and m anySpses of spirits— Christian and IS p iritu a listic— do not like^it. They m ay save their pains, for th ose th a t are w ith us occupy the position o f liberty and lig h t, and are the friends of all, Oven [ of those w ho w ould oppose. N e x t Sunday, a t 4 o’clock, on the point betw een tw o w alks, near th e east end of tkffljjg®ntine

Victoria Park.— Mr. D ow n in g reports thata there was a f large gath erin g on Sunday ^ fijn ingT to listen to ttyjftmffis of , Spiritualism . Theijje w ere .three speakers were listened to w itp g rea t atranCcn by th eS oferested audience. Weather B perm itting, there w ilftoe a m eetin g in the sam e plaoe on Son day n ex t a ta jL a .m .

Mr. W. Tfuxford Reports :— “ M r^ Jp n isoraM r. Downiffi and \ friends w ere a t th e u sual p lace a t* !^ o r ift |j? a rk . We had a sp lendid m eeting. M r.V jennisonH s ^ k e for a considerable tim e, and he w as fo llow ed by a gen tlem an whose najSSpid not * transpire. Mr. E m m s th en g a v e a short address with usual power. M rj& jm iison brought h is»h arm M $j|S | with him, and I it letrnhe sin g in g adm irably, t TSfex t S u n d a v at 11 a.m. prompt, L Spiritualists w ill I hope bring their back numbers of the Med­iu m w ith them .”

— :— ♦ --------- .North Shields.— On Sunday even ing , Mr. A. Duguid, on his [I

w ay hom e to K irkcaldy, w ill g iv e an address in the Hall, B olton’s Y ard, T yn e S treet, a t 6 o’clock.

Sunderland.— Sunday, A u g . 26 , the Avenue Theatre was | aga in w e ll attended by a very respectab le audien< ^ un the I afternoon Mr. F. W alker g a v e a cap ita l address, wKEBj gave greaM saFSlaM o h to his h'^K ers; Mr. A. Pickering occupied th e chains In th e evem p g Mr. T . B. Sm all, of Gateshead, dis­coursed upon “ Sin, W hat i s ^ p ^ d w hat S i s not.” The

w ent deeplySinto^jhis subject, and a@|he closo of his d js& irse be answ ered a num ber o f questions put to him by ’ the audience/ Mr. Ty D . Ur w in a b S jo ffi® itM as chairman.

TH E N A T U R A L GENESIS.GERALD MASSEY.

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August 31, 1883. THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. 553

GERALD MASSEY’S LECTURES.On Sunday week, at three in the afternoon, Mr.

Massey will give his opening lecture in St|| George’s Hall, Langham Place. We refer the reader to the Review on our first page, and would imply that these lectures will contain the essence of the large, valuable, and costly volumes referred to. As these lectures will not be reported, the only means of gaining ready access to Mr. Massey’s new ideas, will be to attend St. George’s HaMV^^T:-

We have been appointed to the duty of selling tickets, and solicit the kind assistance of every reader of the Med iu m , in or near London, to Sp-operate in filling the Hall to overflowing. The course tickets are Enly is. for the four lectures® Those who desire to help the Cause could not do better than buy these tickets and present them, with compliments, to friends. At least we hope everybody will favour us with an application for one course ticket, which may be loaned to a friend on any day when the holder cannot attend.

The first application came from the veteran thinker, poet, author," editor, and Spiritualist, Mr. S. 0. Hall. He writes :—■

Dear Mr. Burns,—Although I fear I shall not be able to be present at either of the lectures of Mr. Qerald Massey— although I am in fairly good health, thank Qod!—I desire to have a and send enclosed 5syln order that I may have one.

I earnestly hope his visit to the United States will be in all ways a success, and wish I could in any degree contribute to it: for I hold him in very high respect, both as a gentleman and a poet; and also as a man of letters. And I ask you to present to him, with my warmest wishes, my very sincere

B ggardsJPIt has been very unfortunate that for several years past I

have seen but little of him.—Most truly, yours,S . 0 . H a l l .

This noble letter will, we hope, strike a chord in every reader of the Medium, within 20 miles of Lonl don, and that Gerald Massey will be welcomed by audiences worthy of our honour as friends of progress. The most advanced truths are to be discussed by a mind capable of setting them forth : let us see if, by

. our appreciation, we maintain a title to have such ■ ‘pearls|cast before us.

Ordinary shilling and sixpenny tickets may be had at the Hall on entering to the Lecture.

A well-known Man of Letters says of Mr. Massey and his twelve years’ labour:—“ He has sacSmced everything to this Book, and his friends have regretted and bemoaned his negMfflSlfthe muse without ceasing, but p i vain. One of these, a well-known author and edijg|StoqJ| forth this plea, the earnestness of whiph is maniastjfen®Ehy—‘ I am mneved beyond measure that you are wasting yonam agnificent faculty of singing on some theological metapbysmal problem that a German mighygo at, but wmch it is sheer blasphemy against the gift God Almigmar has given vm . as one in TwmqCTsr youl to weary heart and brain over. I protest against sucimmiging away Rf yourselW I don’s care what the thing may be if it does hottaiean song. MyftSloved brother, I wqumMmplore yon to recognise your divinely appointed w npapf^akiag in whichffl adjudge you the first, tenderest, subtlest, most chuffing gift possessed hylHking poet. I t is enongh to make angels veep to think of your so mistaking^ Well we shall see, or those who come after us mavffww

Mr. Gerald Massey, says “ The Ecmo,” who is abont to pay a visit to America, wilBlectnre on Snnday afternoons next month at SpGeorge’s Hall, Langham Place. Some of his subjects are of a rather startling character—e.g., “ Man in search of his soul during fifty thousand years,” and Wbyl does not God kill the j£tipi^?s| Mr. Masse7 believes that he lean jinrow a flood of jight on these interesting cmestions, though he does not say whether hisg‘ spirit friends ’ have furpjshed him with each private and exclusive information asi; jf we are to believe Borne statements that were made, was supplied to him in regard to Shakspeare’s Sonnets.^^jsTB^W ^^pi^fi^^SCTi

Miss Dale Owen, daughter of the late Robert Dale Owen, will deliver an address on Sunday evening, at 7 o’clock, at the Temperance Hall; >52^ Beljfstreet, Edgeware Road, near Edgware Road Station. Seances at 50, Crawford Street, Bryanston Square: Mr. Towns, Friday evening ; a clairvoy­ant, Saturday evening, at 8 o’olock.

EGYPT:; THE LAND OF WONDERS. By William Oxley.

E G Y P T IA N S P IR IT IS M .

U N D E R this term, S p ir it is m , I include phenomena such as appanESns, and more or less objecting apraarances of supermundane o r ig in ; as w ell as spirit-obsessions, -

exorcisms, m agnetS healing, a n d ’all that* comes under the action of psychological and theurgic practical art.

M any, doubtless#* w ill regard w hat fbfiows as mental vagaries and idle tales. M aking allowancalfor<S>ver- *

scredulitjg and a readme® to ascribe tfi a sunpjmundanjgffligin . w hat a more correct^ gffllfic observation other grounds, y e t a substj^jtum of actual fact remains, which is of great finterest to t^S modern. psychologist,>who w ill be able to separatgjtheEhaff from the grain.

Th@|01d and N ew Testam ents aboumSwith narrated cases that come under the category of Spiritfflm action, and those ... w ho regard our Scriptures as literal truth, cannot w ith any degree of consistency reject stories w hich are related by E gyptian authors. T h e early Christian Fathers not only believed in spiritual agency-Sboth good and evil— hut claimed to possess the power to exorcise, as the following demonstrates.

Minucius F elix , a Roman author (supposed about 198 A .D .fyin ‘ The O ctavius^ C h a p .* ® , writ&i thus :— “ There . are some insincere and vagrant sp ir its degraded from their heavenly vigour by earthly stains and N ow t f tspirits, after having lost the simplicity of their nature by . being w eighed down and immersed in vices, for a solace for ' their calamity, cease not, now that they are ruined them ­selves, to ruin others; and being depraged mem selves, to ‘ infuse into others m e error of their d e p r a ^ ^ fl T he poets know that these spirits are demon's*; and the philosophers discourse of them. T h e m agi, also, know that there are demons, hut, moreover, whatever miracle they affect/to per­form, they do it by means of demons; by their aspirations and communications they show their wondrous tricks, m a k jfl ing either those things to ajroear Svhich are n o ^ B ^ B E se things to appear w hich , are. Of those magicians, the first both in eloquence and in deed, is Sosthenes, who not only describes the true God w ith fitting majesty, hut also the angels that are the messenger of the true God.”

T h e African Bishop of CarthagS (an S ffl^ O A .p ff l^ id was said to he martyred, g ives an account in “ T he Treatise on the LapsedSj o ff i'a n infant who had some bread mingled w ith wine given to it m the presen® of an idol, and which '

ibvjgpertain signs showed that s^ ^ fflge had beenfcom m in^ |^ M A lso, of a woman, jgvhen she tried witffl unworthy hands to

open the box in which was the holy body of the Lord, was deterred bg» fire rising from it from daring to touch it. A noth^»$h<w um ffiyj was K ^ le< P * d a reH p S ^ ^ ^ 5 | rest to - receive secretly a part the sacrifice celebrated by the priest; he could not eat or handle the holy b oaaj of the Lord, butKound in his hands when opened, that he had a cinder.”

T he Bishop states that he was eye-witness of the facts/ and cites them as warnings to such as would attempt to par­take of th a E timfeamt; in an improper manner. \

Origen, another celebrated African bishop, one of the most learned and illustrious that has graced the Christian annals, and whtMwas expffied from Alexandria on account of his so-called heretical opinions, in his “ D e Principiis,” writes::—■, ' t£What shall w e say of the Diviners, from w hom g-by the

■working of those sjmits daemons m who have the mastery w over them— answers are given (to those who consult them) in carefully constructed verses? Those persons, too, whom _ thewfterm M agi (magicians) frequently^)by invoking demons over boys of tender years, have made them repeat poetical com - • positions which were the admiration and amazement of all. N ow these effects, we suppose, are brought about in the fol­lowing manner. A s holy and immaculate souls, after devot- . ing themselves to God with all affection and purity, and preserving themselves from the contagion of evil spirits; and purifying themselves by long abstinence, by these means they assume a portion of divinity, and earn the grace of prophecy, and other divine g if t s : the result of this is, that -- they are filled w ith the working of those spirits to whose service they have subjected themselves.”

554 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. A ugust 31, 1883.

A s O rigen w as, above all others of h is day, a learned m an and author o f the m ost valuable w orks o f h is tim e, i t w ere hard to doubt evid en ce so trustw orthy. B u t w h at has a m ore direct bearing on m y work, is th at w hich h e g iv es as a kind o f left-h an d b low to h is great atheistical antagonist,

- C elsus :— “ B u t h e (C elsus) compares them (the m iracles o f J esu s) to th e tricks o f ju gg lers, w ho profess to do still more w onderful th in g s ; a n d to the feats performed by those who have been taught by Egyptians; w ho, for a few obols, w ill im part the know ledge o f their m ost venerated a r ts ; w ill ex - p el dem ons from (the b o d ie s . of) m en S w il l ex p e l d iseases, and invoke the souls o f h e r o e s; w ill exh ib it banquets, w ith tables and dishes, and dainties, th a t have no real existence ; and w ill p u t in m otion, as if a live, w h ich are not real liv in g anim als, b u t w hich have on ly the appearance o f life. So, y o u see that b y these expressions h e allow s, as it w ere, the ex istence o f m agic. C elsus com pares th e m iracles related o f Jesu s to the results produced b y m a g ic ; and there w ou ld indeed be a resem blance betw een them , if J esu s , lik e th e practitioner o f the m agic arts, had perform ed H is w orks on ly for show, &c., &c.” ; .

T h is C elsus w as a v ery form idable antagonist, w h o , in th at v ery early tim e (about 2 0 0 a .d .), not on ly called in to question the then Christian doctrines, b u t even th e actuality o f J esu s th e C hrist; and it is unfortunate th at all w e know o f h im , or h is works (for h e appears to have been a volum inous w riter), is the references quoted from h is works, and u sed b y O rigen to oppose b y h is ow n argum ents. A n d w h at is m ore, none o f the great G nostic w riters have an y w ritin gs e x ta n t :. as th ey w ere all classed under the head o f heretics, their w orks h a v e all been suppressed and destroyed b y th e orthodox Church.

T ertullian , another celebrated Christian F ath er (supposed date about 2 0 0 a .» .), in h is “ D e Spectaculis,” w ritin g against the public show s, says, those w ho attend th em becom e acces­sible to ev il spirits, and states :— “ W e have th e case o f th e wom an— the L ord H im self is w itness— w h o w en t to th e theatre and cam e back possessed. I n the outcasting (by exorcism ), accordingly, w hen th e unclean creature w as u p ­braided w ith having dared to attack a believer, h e firm ly re p lie d : * A n d , in truth, I d id i t m ost r igh teously , for I found her in m y dom ain.’ A nother case, too, is w e ll know n, in w hich a w om an had been hearing a traged ian ; and in the very n ig h t she saw in her sleep a linen cloth,— the ’ actor’s nam e being m entioned at th e sam e tim e w ith strong d isap­proval,— and in five days th at w om an w as no m ore.’ i

In h is “ A pologeticus,’’’ T ertu llian , in speaking o f obsessing spirits, says &j-“ T h e y disclaim b eing unclean spirits, w hich y e t w e m ust hold as indubitably proved b y their relish for the blood and fum es and foetid carcases o f sacrificial anim als, and even by the v ile language o f their m inisters (m edium s). Our power over them is from our nam ing the nam e of Christ. So at our touch and breathing, overw helm ed b y the thought and realization of those ju d gm en t fires, at our com ­mand th ey leave the bodies th ey h ave entered, unw illing and distressed, and before your very ey es th ey are p u t to an open sham e.”

In th e “ R ecognitions ” of Clem entW translated b y R ufinus (about 4 1 0 A.n.), w hich appears to be a religious novel, there is a lon g account concerning Sim on M agus, w ho is confronted b y Saint P eter and others. I ts in terest consists in m any details, w hich throw lig h t upon the early h istory o f the Christian Church, and more especia lly on th e a lleged pre­tensions o f Sim on the M agician. T h e author m akes h im

( out to be the victim of demons (spirits), w ho deluded him • into the b elief that h e w as “ G od incarnate in flesh ,” and

says o f Sim on :— “ Y e t, although h e is sure, b y these very th ings (h is wondrous pow ers), that bouIs are im m ortal, and

, a lthough he thinks that h e really sees those th ings w h ich we believe by fa ith ; y e t, as I said, h e is deluded b y dem ons, though he thinks that h e sees the substance o f the s o u l ^ S

T h e above are a fair sam ple o f w h at abounds in the earliest know n Christian annals, and although in the m ain th ey are used by the authors, to show the truth of their own powers over spirits, and th e healing o f diseases, &c., to the dispar­agem ent o f “ m agicians,” y e t they , undoubtedly, adm it the genuineness of m agical and theurgical practices, and th is is the part w ith w hich I am a t present concerned ; and I have selected the above to prove the connection betw een the Christian and older E gyp tian beliefs and practices. I f these stories, along w ith m any others, as narrated, are true, then I fail to see w h y th e E gyp tian stories should not be equally tr u e ; but of this the reader m ust ju d g e for h im self or her- self.

T h e Christian system rests upon— hot 'wisdom, but— the

ancient m iraculous elem ent, w h ich w as m anifested at the time • o f its in a u g u ra tio n ; and th is form s th e foundation upon which the w h ole superstructure rests. T h e central figure*Jesus, w ith h is im m ed iate d iscip les, w ere supposed “ to have done w orks th at no other m an or m en ever did,” the crowning dis­p la y o f w h ich w as th e b r in g in g back to life some who were dead. B u t p rec ise ly th e sam e is said of others, who were in no w a y associated w ith C hristian ity , as witness Pythagoras, A p ollon iu s o f T y a n a , and others, sothat to m y view a m uch m ore rational and enduring w a y w ould be, the substi­tu tion o f sp iritual princip les for m iraculous relations. These m a y be questioned , and are c a lled in to question; hut the spiritual princip les, o f w h ich th o se narratives are the symbols, will never die, and are b ey o n d th e reach of adverse criti­cism , for th ese princip les are co ev a l w ith , and the funda- 1 m ental force and p ow er of, L ife !

"Who can separate L ife from th e forms in which it is mani- Bfested ? W h o can fathom th e depths from which this Power ^orig inates? I t la u g h s a t th e pseudo-science of mortals, who, »th ou gh th e y h a v e th e p ow er to liberate it from the form of [w hich it w as th e m o tiv e principle, y e t it still continues; and although it ch an ges th e form s by w h ich it is made manifest to | m ortals on th e earth, y e t it s e lf is eternal, unchangeable, and incom prehensib le. * S e e in g th at th e Life-principle itself is so in fin ite ly beyon d th e pow er o f m en to control,-the all-im- | portant q uestion is as to th e form s w hich are temporarily b u ilt up and an im ated b y th is L ife-princip le. T hese temporary, |w onderful, liv in g , structural form s are seen to decay, dissolve, and p e r is h ; b u t w h a t becom es of th at which made them w h at th e y w ere ? W il l i t b u ild another form in which the p continuity o f th e sam e in d iv id u a l conciousness" will be p e r f l p etu ated in other spheres o f ex is ten ce? In plainer terms, fc I f a m an d ie shall h e liv e ag a in ? I f so, have we any proof | w h ereb y th is trem en d ou sly im portant fact can be substan- r tia ted ?

I n answ er to th ese , and a v a st m any others which spring ou t o f them , th e E g y p tia n s h ad not th e slightest doubt. W ith them i t d oes n o t appear to h a v e been a matter of specu- la tiv e belief. T h e fu ture, w ith them , w as as real as the pre­sent, and th e h is to ry o f th a t future w as mapped out as dis­t in c tly as th e sun’s p ath through th e heavens, which pheno- jm ena form ed th e base o f th e superstructural idealism that [m a d e* ' a t once, th e social and religious life of Ancient E g y p t. I th in k I h a v e advanced sufficient to prove, that I ’their system rested on som eth in g far more solid and sub- |stantial than im agination and dream y speculation. Psycho- |lo g y , in all its branches and ram ifications, was the grand |portal through w h ich their in itia tes entered into the regions w hich , to m ost m oderns, are unknow n and unexplored.

I say, to m ost m o d ern s^ b u t there are some (now in the m inority) w h o are strong enough , or (to the thinking of the ? great m ajority) w eak en ou gh to stu d y the same supermun­dane science, and w h o h a v e entered into the Great Beyond b y th e sam e w a y ; and their explorations have been, and are, em inently su ccessfu l; and to them selves, at least, the evid- ence adm its o f no flaw , for th e y return w ith a certitude of a hereafter*, w h ich n either ignorant ridicule nor egotistical superficiality and incredu lity can shake or disturb. The ranks o f m odern so-ca lled Spiritualists, have been filled, for £ th e m ost part, b y those w h o w ere— before contact— scoffers, deniers, and th e lik e ; and i t isJEonly n ow a question of time, for th e m inority to be turned in to the majority. For that the w orld m ust afford to w ait.

S trange it is th at th e E uropean nations, and especially | B ritain, w ith its B ib le and m issionary enterprises, pre-eminently Christian, w h ile professing to believe, and teaching the certainty o f rew ards and punishm ents w hich are to follow in I th e future state, y e t w ilfu lly and inconsistently reject all evidence that g oes to prove the truth o f the doctrine they in cu lca te ; and scien tist and p ietist, religionist and sceptic, all jo in hands in repud iating th e evidence and proofs that are jbrought before th eir notice, se ttin g down all those who '

p g iv e h eed to these th in g s Was either dupes or knaves. We assert that Spirit-com m union is area l and tangible fact, which w ill be patent to all w ho u se th e r igh t means to obtain the know ledge ; so th at it m a y be as true to those of the present as to those o f lon g past E g y p tia n generations.

(To be continued.)

The first job we sent out done on the New Printing Machine was 1000 Hymn Leaves for the Plymouth friends on the oo- casion of Mr. Colville’s visit. I t docs work in the best pos­sible manner. We can supply promptly hymn leaves with special heading for any oocasion. Send for specimens.

August 31, 1883. THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. 555

A COLUMN FOR THE LADIES.S Y B I L ’S ID E A L .

A T a le o f th e D ayb reak .* \B y Mrs. R a m sa y L a y e .P A R T I I I .— (C o n t in u e d ) .

So far Sybil’s intercourse w ith th e sp ir it w orld h ad b een on ly comforting and en c o u r a g in g ; but her exp erience w ou ld have been different from th a t o f others in th e reg ion o f inquiry on which she had ventured, had sh e not, before lo n g , had proof that there is a dark a s w e ll as a b r ig h t side to th e subject.

One evening after th e ohildren w ere g o n e to bed, she w a s holding com m unication w ith her husband, and m an y in terest­ing and p leasant m essa g es w ere g iv en her. T h ey abruptly ceased, or rather w ere in terrupted by a com m unication from what she at once knew to be a d ifferent “ control.” T h e hand­writing was w ild and ir r e g u la r ; i t w a s accom panied by un ­comfortable sensations on her p a r t; and th e m essa g e it s e lf was an uncomfortable on e .

“ Oh, cruel horror! S a v e m e ! S a v e m e ! 1 ”The notes o f exclam ation , as w e ll a s th e w ords w ere pro­

duced by the involuntary m ovem en t o f her ow n hand.“ Go to 1 2 3 a , W hite C hapel, and ask for th e m usician .”Sybil, whose experience w a s a ll b e in g g a in ed p erson ally ,

who had never had op p ortu n ity o f com paring n o tes w ith others, was greatly aston ished .

“ What does th is m ean ? W ho are you ? W hat am I to do ? ” To these questions there w as no other an sw er th an a repeti­

tion of the m essage, in a lm ost th e sam e w o r d s; a h eavy lin e being scored under th e w ord go and th e address.

Sybil felt disconcerted, b u t it n ever occurred to her to d is­obey a spirit m andate, and she reso lved to g o the fo llow in g day to the address g iv en ( i t w as ex p lic it a t an y ra te ) , and trusted that she w ould th ere be d irected w h a t course to pursue.

The morning w as h o p elessly w et, b u t th is did not deter her. She saw the children off to school, to ld them th a t sh e w ould probably not be a t hom e to preside a t their early dinner. Then, armed w ith w aterproof an d u m b rella , she proceeded by the Underground R ailw ay to L ondon. She sou gh t th e address specified, and found there w a s no such num ber. She w en t in ­to a post office, and looked a t a D irectory, and inquired w hether the numbers of the stree t had b een ch an ged . N o, n ot th a t they were aware of. N o t to be ea sily fo iled , how ever, she tried at various houses in th e v ic in ity , and th ose o f w hich the number had any proxim ation to th a t g iv en . U p m any long uninviting stairs she to iled , a t m an y doors she knocked, asking if any one lived there c a lle d ^ 11 the m usician ,” any one who gave music lessons, w ho w as connected w ith m usic in a n y way. She received c iv il an sw ers, short answ ers, rude a n sw ers, but no clue whatever could she obtain .

Not until she had sp en t hours in th is va in search, d id she admit the conviction th a t sh e had b een sen t on a fool’s errand.' Her exposure to th e ra in and a raw e a st w ind , during th e morning’s fruitless w ork g a v e S y b il a cold , w hich she could not shake off for w eeks ; b u t even th is sh e m inded le s s than the discovery that fraud and fa lsehood ex is ts on th e other- side, no less than am ong m en. S h e prayed ea rn estly for an explanation of the m ystery , and her husband w rote through her hand,

“ An undeveloped sp irit took th e control. I cou ld n ot pre­vent it.”

“ What did he m ean ? ” S y b il asked.“ Nothing, except to tea se you , and to g ra tify h is m alicious

propensities. There are a ll sorts here, ju s t a s there are w ith you. Spirits leave earth in every sta g e o f d ev e lo p m en t; those who are wicked, foolish, ign oran t, do n o t a t once ch an ge their character on com ing here.” .

Distressing as th is in c id en t w a s to S yb il, i t nevertheless gave her a valuable lesson . I t en lig h ten ed her as to the meaning of St. P au l’s w a r n in g : “ B e liev e n ot every sp irit.’S “ Try the spirits.” I t show ed her th a t w e m ust n ot b lind ly accept all that com es from th e other side, but exercise our reason, to discrim inate. T he p ath s to occu lt know ledge are slippery paths, and th ose w ho venture upon them have need, above a ll others, to k eep a cool head and a sound ju d g­ment; that precious fa cu lty w h ich God has g iv en us to be a guide to our feet and a lam p to our p a t h ^ f

Though Syb ilfound it m o st'co n g en ia l to her ta s te and to what she esteem ed*the sacred character o f sp iritua listic inquiry to pursue her in v estig a tio n s in private, she w as o f too inquiring a mind not to desire to acquaint herself w ith the the nature and ex ten t o f phenom ena occurring outside her ow n experience. For th is purpose sh e sa t a few tim es w ith the strongest mediums o f th e day, both for p h ysica l and other manifestations; she g o t in troductions to a few lead in g Spiri­tualists, and learned much by conversing w ith those w hose ex ­perience was greater' than her ow n , She bought th e best books on occult philosophy, such as L ady Caithness’s “ Old Truths in a New L ig h ^ ’ th e w orks o f M rs. H ard inge B ritten , and others. T hese she k ep t in a locked book-case. H av in g satjsfied herself by a few sean ces w ith professional cla irvoy­ants and in m ixed circles, she d id n ot m ake a practice o f

a tten d in g such. I t w as more in harm ony w ith her fe e lin g s to hold intercourse w ith th e U nseen qu ietly and in p rivate , and she w as conten t w ith w hat cam e to her sp o n ta n eo u sly .

L on g before th e tim e arrived for Mary and G eorge to be in itia ted into the m ystery, th ey g o t an in k lin g th a t there w as som eth ing from w hich th ey w ere shut o u t ; and Sybil, to w hose candid m ind evasion w as repugnant, found it b est to ow n th a t there w as som eth ing w hich oould not be im parted to them a t present, but she added,

“ W hen M ary is seventeen , th en you sh a ll both be to ld .”T h is of. course stim ulated their curiosity , and th ey la u g h ­

in g ly teased her to ta k e them in to her confidence a t once. B ut S y b il w ould have no lev ity on the subject.

H I t is n o t a m atter for je s tin g ,” sa id s h e ; “ it is a very serious th in g .”

“ I s it a p lea sa n t secre t,” th ey asked, look in g a li t t le dis­appointed . “ S h a ll w e lik e it ? ”

“ Y es, very m u c h ; but now w e w ill n o t speak about it an y m ore, u n til M ary is seventeen , th en you m ay ask m e.”

T he children w ere obedient, and m ade no further a llu sion to th e subject, and she som etim es th o u g h t th ey had forgotten it , but th ey had not, for w hen th e tim e drew near th ey rem inded her o f th e prom ise.

S y b il had h erse lf looked forw ard to the day w ith in terest, and som e an xiety , and in th e afternoon on M ary’s birthday, she bade them both accom pany her to th e sohool-roora, now for severa l years p a st d isused in th a t capacity , for S yb il had g iv en up another room to the ch ildren , and reserved it ex c lu s iv e ly for her seances.

T hey looked round eagerly , ex p ectin g to see som eth ing ex ­traordinary ; but th ey saw on ly chairs ran ged form ally a ga in st th e w a ll, a s in a room lit t le o ccu p ied ; a sm a ll book-case w ith closed doors, and on th e centre ta b le a packot o f letters, and a few trifles w h ich had belon ged to their m other and u n cle . S y b il w as very anxious for the sake o f her nephew and niece th a t the seance should be an im pressive one, and she had done everyth in g in her pow er to secure good conditions.

D raw ing dow n th e b lind , as the sun w as sh in ing rath er stron g ly in to th e room , she d irected G eorge to p lace chairs a t th e tab le , and th ey a ll sa t ddwn. T here w as a pause, for S yb il, often as sbe had looked forward to th is m om ent, hesitated how to begin . M ary g a v e her an opening, by ta k in g up a litt le pin cushion, and sa y in g in a tone o f fee lin g :

“ Ob, th is belon ged to poor m am a, it used to lie in her w ork-box.”

“ Y ou need not sa y ‘ poor m am a,’ M a r y ; for those w ho have done w e ll in th is life , death is noth ing more than the entrance to a new and a happier life . I t is o f th is I have to speak to you to-dayJE Y our m other is n o t d ead ; she is liv in g and happy, m uch happier than she w as on earth . T his I k n ow from herself, for it is perm itted u s in th e p resen t day to receive com m unications from those w ho have passed from our s ig h t.”

T he children looked too m uch astonished to s p e a k ; their aunt w en t o n :• “ W hen a soul qu its th e body, the on ly part o f the person

th a t d ies is th e deserted bodily fram e, that, as w e k now , resolves it s e lf aga in in to th e e le m e n ts ; but th e spirit finds itse lf , or rather I m ust say h is or herself, sinoe it is the person, s t ill clothed w ith a body which is, apparently, the counterpart o f th e form er, on ly o f finer substance and possessing th e sam e facu lties as heretofore, th ou gh in a m uch higher degree, w ith pow ers, for in stance o f locom otion, far beyond anyth ing w e h ere dream of. T he surroundings are as ta n g ib le and rea l to th e inhabitants o f th a t world as th ese are to us.”: “ H ow deligh tfu l,^ in terru p ted Mary. “ I t m akes th e pros­

p ect o f death quite d if fe r e n t ia l“ E x a ctly : th e essence o f sp irit teach in g is th a t for those

a t lea st who h a v e used w ell their tim e on earth there is noth-.: in g to shrink from in d ea th ; it is m erely a transition , a birth, to a higher phase of being. N ow w e w ill try if w e can obtain • evidence o f your m other’s continued existence, but first I w ill offer a prayer.”

. She paused a m om ent, th en sa id :—“ Father o f a ll sp irits ! o f those w ho are in th e flesh, and

those who have quitted th e m ortal body, w e beseaoh th ee to b less us who are assem bled here th is afternoon, and i f it be th y w ilf l gran t us the happiness o f com m uning w ith dear friends who have entered before us on the higher and nobler, life w hich w e know aw aits u s all. P erm it th ese ohm lren to receive a tok en from their m other, whioh sh a ll assure them th at she is not dead butjajmng and caring for them . P urify us th a t w e m ay be worthy and fit to receive pure and holy com m unications, for the strengthen ing o f our faith, the increase of our happiness, and the rem oval from our m inds o f a ll fear o f death. We ask th is in the nam e o f J esu s Christ.”

“ N ow ,” resum ed M rs. Branscom be, • “ there are various w ays o f receiv ing com m unications. T he m eans I u su a lly adopt is to hold a pencil, and m y hand is guided to w rite by an unseen in te ll ig e n c e ; but, as th is is your first experi­ence, you m ight not understand th at the w ritin g is purely autom atic on m y part, so w e w ill have recourse to th e slow er, less convenient, mode o f com m uning by m eans o f raps and the alphabet. M ary shall repeat the alphabet, and G eorge m ust note down w ith th is penoil every letter qt which a rap ocours,”

556 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. A ugust 31, 1883.

A s sh e cea sed sp ea k in g a succession o f raps w ere heard in different p a rts o f th e room , as w e ll a s on th e ta b len jl

“ W hat is th a t ? ” ex c la im ed th e y o u n g peop le . G eorge h a stily jum ped up .

“ S it s t ill ,” sa id h is aunt, “ or n o ; exam in e and see i f th ere is a n y th in g in th e room to account for th ose raps.”

She m oved her ow n chair c lear o f th e ta b le , and her nephew look ed e a g e r ly about, b u t declared th ere w a s n oth in g to a c­cou n t for th e raps.

“ W h at are th ey , A unt ? ”“ T h ey are a s ig n a l th a t sp ir its are p resen t, and from th e

cheerfu l, an im ated sound, I am inclin ed to th in k th ey m ean us to understand th a t th ey approve o f our arran gem en t. N ow w e w ill b eg in . M ary, rep ea t th e a lp h ab et s lo w ly .”

M ary obeyed , and proceeded w ith ou t in terruption u n til she said “ M,” w hen there w as a decided rap . S h e b eg a n a ga in , “ A ”— a rap. T he repetition o f th e a lp h ab et and th e raps w en t on brisk ly for som e m inutes.

“ D on't stop to read u n til i t is fin ished ,” S y b il said .P resen tly th ere w a s a pause.“ T h at is a ll,” said she ; “ read w h at is on the paper, G eorge.” “ M ary, G eorge, m y dear ch ildren , you m u st not th ink o f m e

as dead. I have never died. T here is no d e a tb S I am often near y o u ; a t this m om ent I am close to you. I h a v e m et your father, your uncle , and m any other friends. I can ’t, t e l l you th e happiness it g iv e s m e to see you doin g w e ll. God b less you a ll. Your lo v in g m other, M ary B ranscom be.”

T he children w ere both affected , and M ary burst in to tears. “ T o th ink th a t th is should have com e to us from beyond th e

tom b! My dear m o th e r ! ”“ Y ou see now ,” observed S yb il, “ th a t I cou ld h a v e no p a rt

in producing th a t m essage.”“ No, certa in ly ,” th ey assen ted .“ B u t,” said G eorge, w ho looked uncom fortab ly p erp lexed ,

“ it Beems so odd th a t m other should com e rap p in g in th a t w ay. I t is so u n like her.”

“ W hy does th e postm an rap, G eorge ? ” asked S yb il, qu ietly .j “ T he postm an ? T o le t u s know th at he is there, and has

brought a le tter .”“ E x a ctly , and th e sp ir its rap for the sam e p u rp o se: to le t

us know th a t th ey are p resen t, and h ave a m essa g e for us. Y ou m ust rem em ber th e d ifficulties th ere are in th e w a y o f them com m unicating w ith us a t a l l ; th ey are in one s ta te o f ex isten ce, and w e in another.”

“ And such a d istance as th e m essages h a v e to com e,” in ter­rupted M ary.

“ A h,” replied Sybil, “ you w ill have to d ivest your m ind o f th e idea th a t th e sp irit w orld is far d is ta n t; i t is round and about us, and o f th a t I have m uch th a t is in terestin g to te l l you. B ut for a ll th a t, th e difficulties in th e w ay o f com m uni­catin g m ust be im m en se : th ey are on th e sp ir itua l p lane, w e on th e m a te r ia l; in stead , therefore, o f cr itic iz in g th e m eans they adopt, for th ey use Buch as th ey find a va ilab le , le t us look beyond details, and receive thankfu lly th e m essages th ey bear,—ju st as w e are indebted to th e tin y taps o f th e te legrap h needle for im portant new s from th e far ends o f th e earth. H ow ever, as I have to ld you, raps are on ly one m ode o f com ­m unicating, and the m ost elem entary. T here is au tom atic

_ w riting, w hich I am about to show you, there is a lso direct w riting— w riting th at is produced w ithout any visib lo a gen cy a t a ll. T here is th e sp irit vo ice , either w ith or w ith ou t a m aterialized form ; a ll these have com e w ith in m y experience, and w ill, no doubt, be w itnessed by you also. Oh, children, you are on th e brink o f unfathom able wonders.”

She then took paper and pencil, and a variety o f com m uni­cations w ere w ritten by her hand. George and M ary becam e in ten sely in terested ; they m ultip lied questions, som e o f w hich w ere answered in the m ost unexpected manner?* L on g after their aunt proposed to adjourn they entreated her to continue.

“ Perhaps w e may have th e pow er; w e m ust try,” said George. “ We w ill sit every day, A unt.”

“ You w ill do nothing of th e kind,” w as her rep ly . “ I t w ould be exhausting and injurious to a ll o f us. Once a w eek is often enough. W e w ill sit every Sunday afternoon.”

Before leav in g the room , Sybil opened the book-case and showed them her. collection o f sp iritualistic literature, a ll standard works, including a set o f bound volum es o f “ Hum an N ature,” a periodical rep lete w ith instructive and in teresting m atter, th e prem ature cessation o f which she regretted .

“ I have no objection to your reading a ll these books, in due course,” said Mrs. B ranscom be; “ then you w ill know as much as I do on occu lt subjects. W e m ight read one aloud in the evening, and discuss it as w e g o on.”, “ I should lik e th is,” said G eorge, pouncing on “ Ghost

Land.”T h at is rather too strong m eat for you just a t first,” replied

h is aunt, w ith a sm ile, “ you m ust g o on step by step , and not attem pt to grasp truths which your mind is unprepared for.”

She selected a couple o f volum es which she considered suit­ab le for beginners, and put into th e hands o f each.

(To be concluded.— Commenced in No. 6 9 3 .)

T oronto.— One ot our readers has a letter on Spiritualism in the “ E vening Canadian ” o f A ugust 6th. This subject does not appear to receive much publicity from the new spapers o f the Dom inion.

PROGRESS OF SPIRITUAL WORK.MR. W . J . C O L V IL L E IN LIVERPOOL.

On Su n d ay la s t , A u g . 26, Mr. W. J . C olville again occupied th e p latform o f R odney H a ll, L iverp oo l. T he audience wag very la rg e a t both serv ices. In th e m orning the topic of dig. course w a s “ T h e fu tu re o f th is p la n e t , the com ing race, and th e g o ld en a g e .” T h e d iscourse -was in som e measure an ex­position o f L ord L y tto n ’s fam ous n o v el, “ The Coming Race,” in w hich h e sa y s th a t th e race d estin ed to supersede the present w ill know how to co llec t and em p loy “ Vril,” a force by means o f w hich th ey w ill p erfect aer ia l n av ig a tio n and be able to rid th e land o f a ll th a t is obnoxious. I t w ould be impossible in a few w ords to g iv e a n y th in g lik e th e purport o f this lecture, but one or tw o p rom in en t id ea s th a t w ill aid the reader to know to som e e x te n t w h a t is in store for us if the prognostica­tio n s o f Mr. C olv ille’s in sp irers are correct. After refuting the old dogm a th a t p h y sica l d eath is th e result o f sin, in the sen se in w h ich th is doctrine is ta u g h t by the orthodox, the in sp irin g in te llig en ces quoted la rg e ly from the results of g eo lo g ic and other sc ien tific research es, to prove that all the phenom ena transp iring from a g e to a g e on the earth result in th e g rea ter perfection o f th e p la n e t. The loss of Atlantis propably about 12,000 y ea rs a g o w a s referred to as the cnl- m ination o f th e la s t gran d cy c le o f th e earth, each grand cy c le covering a period o f over 25,000 years. When land is buried under th e ocean i t undergoes ch an ges and recuperation, fittin g it to becom e th e abode o f h igher types of life than it has borne h ith e r to ; and th u s a t th e c lo se o f a grand cycle, land and w a ter to a la rg e e x te n t ex ch a n g e p laces. The final out­com e o f th is w ill b e th e beau tification o f th e entire earth, and th e eq u a l d istribution o f lan d and w ater over its entire surface. In th a t far d ista n t day a ll races w ill be one, and the true golden a g e is fu ture and n o t p a st, though the m ythologic conceptions w ere la r g e ly h istoric , in so far as th ey related to Atlantis and C entral A m erica, in th e p a lm y d ays o f a longgone-by civiliza­tion . B r in g in g th e m atter to a focus in the present day, the con tro llin g sp ir its regarded th is cen tury as the end of one of those m inor cy c le s o f w hich th ere are tw elv e in every grand cycled^ T h e unprecedented strides m ade by science in this day, and th e irrepressible efforts o f a ll c iv ilized nations to be self- go v ern in g , w ill lea d to th e am algam ation o f the European nation s ere lon g , th e estab lish m en t o f independencies in C anada, A ustra lia and e lsew h ere, and th e substitution of a higher and m ore sp ir itu a l re lig io n for th e present forms of w orship in Christendom . M oham m edanism , Judaism, and C hristian ity as system s w ould probably m igrate into Africa, and ta k e th e p la ce o f m ore barbaric system s, while an unsec­tarian relig ion , a llied w ith sc ien ce , inspired by the direct com m union w ith th e sp irit-w orld now becom ing prevalent, w ould be th e relig ion o f E urope, A m erica, Australia and parts o f A sia. In th e ev en in g th e contro l announced himself as “ Geo. T h om p son ” th e abolition ist. H e spoke for an hour and a h a lf upon §jT h e cause and cure o f crim e and poverty,” so earn estly and eloq u en tly th a t out o f an audience of several hundred people scarce ly a n y le f t t i l l th e conclusion of the en­tire service. T h is lecture has been reported by a competent stenographer, and m ay appear shortly in the Medium, in s lig h tly abbreviated form . T h e poem a t the close was an un u su ally fine effort.

On M onday, A ug. 27, Mr. W . J . C olville answered a great m any im portant questions, th e answ ers to w h ich appeared to g rea tly p lease and sa tisfy a la rg e , in te llig en t and appreciative audience. Mrs. E. H . B ritten lectu res in Rodney Hall, next Sunday, Septem ber 2, a t 11 a.m . and 6 p.m .

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E X E T E R .Our cause here during la s t w eek d isp layed much activity in

in various directions. On Friday ev en in g , there was a large com pany in our circle room , and w e w ere privileged to listen to a pow erful oration through th e trance medium, from “ Byron.” A friend te lls m e th a t on one even ing of the week, a com pany o f tw en ty wero gathered a t h is house, being nearly a ll relations, w hen a series o f im personations took place through the medium in th e trance, occupying nearly three hoars. N early a ll the invisib le actors w ere reoognised.

W e are again brought into m uch public prominenoe throngh discussions in th e loca l papers, an opportunity of great advan­ta g e to our m ovem ent w hen jud iciously and w isely used J | The resu lt w as realized on Sunday even in g in the large company o f respectab le c itizens w ho cam e to the Hallg£ They were richly repaid for com ing, for the platform w as occupied by the medium for about tw o hours and a h a lf w ith splendid orations, interspersed w ith in teresting im personations. Some of the highest eulogium s th at could be possib ly uttered were given by gentlem en o f influence in th e ?city, who entered the Hall thoroughly scep tica l about Spiritualism .

N ew to n S t . Cy r es .T he writer lectured again a t th is p lace on Sunday afternoon

to a goodly com pany. T he sp iritual influence was excellent, and inspiration flowed rich and fu ll. The tw o female mediums, Mrs. 0 . and M iss B ., g iv e addresses, and regularly on week evenings and on Sundays. Omega.

August 31, 1883. THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. 557

MEETINGS, S U N D A Y , SEPT E M B ER 2n d , 1883. L o ndon .

Spiritual I n stitu tio n , 15, Southam pton R ow , a t 7.Tbmperance H all, 52, B ell S t., E dgw are Road, a t 7, Addresses. Cavendish Rooms, M ortimer Street, W., a t 7, Mr. J . J . Morse,

“ Some experiences o f th e Control.”P r o v in c es .

Barrow-in -F u rn ess .— 75, Bucoleuch S treet, a t 6.30.BatleyCarr .— T own Street, 6 p.m .: Mrs. GotlSjg Bedworth.—® § g Street, a t 6 p.m . W ednesday a t 7 p.m . Bklper.—Lecture R o o m * Brook side, a t 6.30.Bingley— Intelligence HallgSgSO and 6 ® m .SiM iss M usgrave. Birmingham—Oazell S treet Board School, flE T ^ M |M E ,qom. Bishop Auckland.— T em perance Hall,4G ra®»y V illa , 2.30, 6. Bradford.—Sm Stualist Church, W alton S tr e e p H a ll L ane,

Wakjgmld R oadaK 30 and 6 p.m . jjrMrs. Illingw orth and Mrs. Bailey.Wade’s Meeting Room, H arker S treet, B ow ung, a t 2 .30 and 6 p.m .: Mr. H enry B riggs, a n d M S Peel.Spiritual Lyceum , OdmfellowsgRooms, O tley Road, al^g.30 and 6 p.m., Miss Harrison.

Exeter.—Oddfellow’s H a ll, B am pfylde S t. 6.30, R ev. 0 . W a r e ! Gateshead.—Central B uild ings, H igh S treet, 6.30 .Glasgow.—2, Carlton P lace, South Side, at 11 and 6.30. L y c - .

earn at 5.Halifax.—Spiritual Institu tion , P eacock Y ard, U nion S treet,

2.30 and 6.30, Mrs. G r e g g f l Hetton.— Miners’ Old H a ll, a t 5.30.Keighley.—Smritualiat L yceum , E a st Parade, 2.80, and 6.30 :

Mr. A rm itaggjaL e ed s .— Tower BuildingssHW oodhouse L ane, 2.30, and 6. 30,

Mrs. Butler.Leicester —Silver S fo s e t L ecture H a ll, a t 11 and 6.30 .Liverpool.—Rodney H alfH & m ney jSreeffl M ount P leasan t, at > 11 a.m., and 6.3$! p .m .^ M rs. E . fij.-B ritten .

MACCLESFiF.LrWj^iritualists’ Free Church, a Pradise S treet, at 6.30 p .m .: Rev. A . Rushtou.

Manchester.—Bridge S treet Chapel, B ridge Street, Ardwick,10.30 and 6 .3 0 M 3

Morley.—Spiritual Mission Room , Church St., 6 : Mrs. Ingham . Middlesborough.— G ranville L ecture Room s, N ew port Road,

at 10.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m .Northampton.—Oowper C ottage, Cowper Street, 2.30 and 6.30. North Shields.— m ^fflr’iffi^ arcaT yne Stflj 6, Mr. A. Duguid. 0u>HAM.5yS6, Unm n J&treet,. aj*2.30 and 6. Newcastle-onS y n e .— Weir’i^ H u rt, at 6.30.Plymouth.—S $ j^ m o s’s H al|f( U nion Street, a t 3 and 7, M r.

W. J . Colville.SHEFFiELDS-Psyiffib^aical Inst’n, Cocoa H ouse, Pond S i 2.30

and 6.30, Mrs. Dobson, B atley .8owerby BridgeS - P rogressive L yceum , H ollin s L ane, at

2.30 and 6.30, Mr. E. W. W allis .fi Sunderland.—Avenue T heatre, a t 2.30, 6.30, Mr. Thom as

Ashton, Newcastle.WALLSAiS-Exchange Rooms, High St., at 11 and 6.30.West PisLTcEBr-At Mr. T. Cocker's, Grange V illa , at 6 p .m .:

Mr. P ickfffiaH

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^ c o n t e n t s MPA R T I.

CHAP.I ntroduction \L ist of Au th o rities , and

Books Q uoted from i . T h e Creation and Fall of

Man •■ 2. T h e D eluge •

3 . T h e T ower of Babel ,4. T h e T rial o f . A braham^

Faijti j5. J acob’s V ision of L adder6. T h e E xodus from E gypt7. R eceiving t h e T en

mandments 8. Samson and h is E xploits -

I 9 . Tonah Swallowed by a B ig - F ish10 . C ircumcision1 1 . CoN«iiusioNibF P art F irst

PA R T I I . :. 12. T h e M i f ^ u l o u s B ir t h * of

Christ jE su ^ ^ j *3. T he Star of Bethleh em

' 14. T h e Song of th e H eavenly H ost

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22. S H E E m O iNDEDiim O HELL” >23. T he R esurrection and As-

: cension of Christ J esus )24. T he ^ second Coming of

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SjSpRi$;r Buddhaand Ch r^ H J esus

T he E ucharist or L ord’s ' $upper| ^ |Baptism

- T he Worship ofthe Virgin •. Mother ' Chris™ .n^Symbols .T he Birth-day o f . Christ

J esusT J T he T rinityPaganism in ChristIani^ m W hy Cristianity . Pros P

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O A H S P E .J l ' g t c n ? I g S i D C e ,

IN THE WORDS OF JEHOVIHA N D * H IS

A ngel Em bassadors.A S A C R E D H I S T O R Y

OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE HIGHER AND LOWER HEAVENS ON THE EARTH FOR THE PAST

T W E N T Y -F O U R TH OUSAND Y E A R S,T O G E T H E R W IT H

A SYNOPSIS OF THE COSMOGONY OF THE UNIVERSE; THE CREATION OF PLANETS; THE CREATION OF

MAN; THE UNSEEN WORLDS ; THE LABOUR AND GLORY OF GODS AND GODDESSES

IN THE ETHEREAN HEAVENS;WITH THE

New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With Revelations from the Second Resur­

rection, Formed in Words in the Thirty- third Year of the Kosmon Era.

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~ L E C T U R E s M S M l IARCHAIC, EVOLUTIONARY, AND THEOSOPHIC,

Addressed to Thinking Men and Women.

Previous to his departure for America,

G E R A L D M A S S E YWILL DELIVER A. COURSE OF

FOUR LECTURESIN

ST. CEORGE’S HALL, Langham Place, Regent Street, On SUNDAY AFTERNOONS in SEPTEMBER.

SUBJECTS:September 9th, at 3 o’clock : “ Man in Search of H is

Soul D uring 50,000 Y ears.”*September 16th, at 3 o’clock : “ T he N on-Historic N ature

of the F all of Man, and W hat it Meant as F able.”

September 23rd, at 3 o’clock : “ T he N on-Historic N ature of the Canonical Gospels indubitably D emon­strated by Means of the Mythos, now for the F irst T ime R ecovered from the Sacred Books of Egypt.”

September 30th, at 3 o’clock : “ W hy does not God K ill the D evil ? ” (Man Friday’s crucial question.)

. * As revealed by the Bone Caves. This Lecture will include an explanation of thefundamental difference between modern “ Spiritism ” and that of u Esoteric Buddhism.’’

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NEW MEDICAL WORK BY Miss Chandos L eigh H unt (Mrs. W allace) & Lex et Lux

PHYSIANTHftOPY, or T he H ome C ure and E radication of Disease 120 pages, tastefully bound in cloth, price 3s. 6d. Send for Synopsis to Miss Simpson

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THIRD EDITION.—(Just Published.) PRIVATE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE

SCIENCE AND ART OF ORGANIC MAGNETISMBY MISS CHANDOS LEIGH HUNT.

Being her original Three Guinea private Manuscript Instructions, printed, revised and greatly enlarged, and containing valuable and practical translations, and the concentrated essence of all previous practical works. Numerous illustrations of passes, signs, Ac.•' Price One Guinea, Paper. French Morocco, with double lock and key,'5s. extra best Morocco, ditto, 7s. extra.

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E P IL E P T IC F IT S I E PIL E PT IC FITS!To PROFESSOR KERSHAW,

Electrician and Mesmerist,6 2 , Sefton Street, Southport, Lancashire.

Dear Sir,—I have great pleasure in using my pen on behalf of Mesmerism, as we have found it of great benefit in our Family. My Wife had been troubled with E pileptic F its over 20 years. We tried a great many Doctors, but all to no use. During the time she had Fits, it caused a great deal of uneasiness in our family. When I have gone out to my work in the morning, I have not known where I should find her at night. Sometimes I have found her in bed, shockingly disfigured from ill-using herself. She was always to watch during the day when I was at work. But now there is a great change. My Wife came to you in Feb., 1880. You cast her into the Mesmeric Sleep, and she told you, when in that sleep, she would have 289 Fits, her last being on New Year’s day, 1881. She came out of that Fit exact to the minute, after being 9 hours in it. Thank God, since then she has not had the LEAST SY M P T O M of a Fit. Dear Sir, I thank you most sincerely for what you have done for my Wife, and I hope you will make this case widely known.—I remain, yours ever gratefully, JAS. EDWARD THORNTON.

Carter's Yard , Carlinghow, B ailey , Yorkshire. July 9th, 1883. *

MR. OMERIN, known by his wonderful CURES of Rheumatism, Gout, Neural­gia, Lumbago, Epilepsy, General Debility, and several affections of the Head,

Eyes, Liver, Ac., attends Patients from Eleven to One and Two to Five, at 3, Bul- strode Street, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, W.

M R. I. H A W K IN S , M agnetic Healer.AT HOME Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 12 to 4 o’clock. Free

Treatment on Friday. Patients visited at their own Residence. Specially successful in Rheumatics, Gout, Dropsy, Lumbago, Weak Spine and Chest.

4, Devonshire Street, near Southampton Row, W.C.

A S H M A N ’S EMBROCATION.EOR Gout, Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Inflammation, Bronchitis, Pleurisy,

and Congestion of the Lungs, Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Wounds, Cuts, Ac. 2s. 9d. per bottle. To be obtained at 3a, Sixth Avenue, Queen’s Park, Harrow Road, W., and of all wholesale chemists.

CAROLINE PAWLEY, Writing, Speaking, Healing Medium. By the desire of her Guides, no money accepted.—Letters sent first, with stamped envelope for

reply. 34, Alvington Cresent, Kingsland High Street.

MR. A MRS. HAGON, Magnetic Healers, at home after 10 every day. Patients attended at their own homes. Circles conducted. Seances on Sundays at 7.30

p.m. Free Healing on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Removed to 116, York Road, King’s Cross, N.

RS. KATE BERRY, Magnetic H ealer,5, Grenville Street, Brunswick Square, W.C.

SAVAGE A CRISTUS, 129, Great Cambridge Street. Hackney Road, London, E., Trance, Clairvoyant, and Healing Mediums. Appointments by letter only.

MR. CECIL HUSK, 20, Hazlewood Terrace, Maxted Road, Peckham Rye, S.E.Seances—Wednesday and Sunday evenings at 7.30, for Spiritualists only. 0u

Saturday evenings at 8.30, at 61, Lamb’s Conduit Street, for reception of Friends.

MR. A MRS. HERNE are at home every Tuesday evening for Healing and Developing Circle, and every Thursday evening for ordinary Ruelle, at 8 o’clock.

—8, Albert Road, Forest Lane, Stratford, E. _____ _________________

MISS LOTTIE FOWLER, Trance, Medical, and Business Clairvoyant, 2, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. Hours from 1 till 8 p.m. Fee 21s.

At Home on Friday evenings to receive Spiritualist friends, at 8 o’clock.No enquiries answered by letter.

J THOMAS is willing to correspond with those requiring advice or information • upon conditions and surroundings. The fee for writing one entire sheet of not*

paper is 2s. 6d., no charge being made for advice. Address, Kingsley, by Frodsham*

MR. TOWNS, Medical Diagnosis, Test and Business Clairvoyant, is at home daily, and is open to engagements. Address—99, Lisson Grove, Marylebone

Road.

MR. A. DUGUID, Spiritual Teacher and Correspondent, 13, Oswald’s Wynd, Kirkcaldy.

MRS. LISTER, Laundress, 14, St. Leonard’s Square, Haverstock Hill. Terms Moderate. Good Drying-Ground ; Gentlemen's linen a speciality.

MR. C. HALLGATH’S Hydropathic, Mesmeric and Magnetic Establishment is now open to receive the Sufferers of Humanity. All letters addressed in care

of C. Hallgath, Ossett, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.

BLACK Oval Concave Seering Mirrors, with new French Crystoleum Glasses for developing Clairvoyance, see circular “ Mirrorology,” post free from Robert H.

Fryar, 8, Northumberland Place, Bath.

NATIVITIES Cast and Astrological Questions Answered. For terms, enclose stamped addressed envelope to Neptune, 24, Wallgrave Road, Earl’s Court,

London, S.W.MR. T. B. DALE,

PROFESSOR of Astrology A Astronomy, 3, Highgate Road, Kentish Town, N.W.Calculations, personally or by letter, on Nativities, Business Questions, Ac.,

daily from 12 to 8 p.m. Fee 2s. 6d. Astrology Free. Lessons given.

I SLE OF WIGHT.—Annandale Villa, Sandown.—One or two invalid Ladies will be taken great care of by a Healing Medium, including Board and Lodging, for

30s. per week for the six winter months at this pretty seaside town, which is knownto be particularly salubrious.

A STR O LO G Y A N D ASTRONOMY.TvR. WILSON may be Consulted on the Past, and Future Events of Life, at 103, J J Caledonian Road, King's Cross. Time of Birth required. Fee 2s. 6d. At tendance from 2 till 8 p.m. Lessons given.

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