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the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace, and the King saw the part of the hand that wrote." Here was a hand incarnated, and that hand wrote words, and the hand and words were seen by the King.

DANIEL was touched by Gabriel, and made to stand up. The appearance of spirits or angels is so frequent in the Old Testament, that I stay my hand and come to the spirit narratives of the New Testament.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA was famous among the Jews as a place for healing, as at a certain period of the year, an angel troubled the water; and the first sick person who stepped in was cured of whatsoever disease he had.

At the birth of Jesus Christ shepherds heard music in the air, and heard words spoken by an angel, and with that angel there was a heavenly host.

MARY.-The angel Gabriel was sent to Mary from God to inform her of her being the chosen.

JESUS CHRIST.-An angel appeared to strengthen Jesus: thus inculcating the principle of angelic help to Christians.

AN ANGEL appeared in the form of a young man sitting on the right side of the sepulchre, clothed in a long white garment, and spoke to Mary Magdalen and Mary, the mother of James. St. Matthew states that an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it: a physical manifestation, and by an angel, showing such manifestations are not contrary to divine order and procedure.

PETER was released from prison by an angel, who had energy and power sufficient to unlock the prison doors and guide him out. Here was another physical manifestation, showing that physical manifestations were as lawful, and as much to be expected, as the Spirit of the Lord acting on the mind. I close with reminding the reader of the astounding physical manifestation when Christ's promise was fulfilled of sending the Holy Spirit.

THE DISCIPLES "were all, with one accord, in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty

consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. Here was fire produced, an angel seen, and also the staff, or rod, he held in his hand.

MANOAH said, art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? and he said, I am; and Manoah offered a kid upon a rock unto the Lord; and as the flame ascended towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. Here the angel is called "The Lord,” and a Man, and then, the Angel of the Lord. He was seen.

SAMUEL appeared and spake to Saul. Here was a so-called dead man, speaking to a living one.

ELIJAH. As he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold then an Angel touched him and said, Arise and eat; and he looked, and behold there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. Here was a visible manifestation -angel seen, Elijah's body touched, and cake and water brought.

ELISHA, when Elijah was taken up into heaven, saw; and behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire. When the King of Syria sent an army to take Elisha, and surrounded the city for the purpose, Elisha said to his servant, "Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them; and his servant's eyes were opened (made clairvoyant), and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. Here was the gift of discerning spirits possessed by Elisha and his servant.

"DAVID and Oran turned back and saw the angel put up his sword again into the sheath." Here was seen an angel, a sword, and a sheath.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR cast Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego into a fiery furnace, and there appeared a fourth, who in his astonishment he stated had the form of the Son of God. That fourth had, and exercised, the power of neutralizing the action of fire; and he preserved the three men from death by burning. BELSHAZZAR, while the courtiers were feasting, the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against.

the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace, and the King saw the part of the hand that wrote." Here was a hand incarnated, and that hand wrote words, and the hand and words were seen by the King.

DANIEL was touched by Gabriel, and made to stand up. The appearance of spirits or angels is so frequent in the Old Testament, that I stay my hand and come to the spirit narratives of the New Testament.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA was famous among the Jews as a place for healing, as at a certain period of the year, an angel troubled the water; and the first sick person who stepped in was cured of whatsoever disease he had.

At the birth of Jesus Christ shepherds heard music in the air, and heard words spoken by an angel, and with that angel there was a heavenly host.

MARY.-The angel Gabriel was sent to Mary from God to inform her of her being the chosen.

JESUS CHRIST.-An angel appeared to strengthen Jesus: thus inculcating the principle of angelic help to Christians.

AN ANGEL appeared in the form of a young man sitting on the right side of the sepulchre, clothed in a long white garment, and spoke to Mary Magdalen and Mary, the mother of James. St. Matthew states that an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it: a physical manifestation, and by an angel, showing such manifestations are not contrary to divine order and procedure.

PETER was released from prison by an angel, who had energy and power sufficient to unlock the prison doors and guide him out. Here was another physical manifestation, showing that physical manifestations were as lawful, and as much to be expected, as the Spirit of the Lord acting on the mind. I close with reminding the reader of the astounding physical manifestation when Christ's promise was fulfilled of sending the Holy Spirit.

THE DISCIPLES "were all, with one accord, in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty

rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." And the effect was, that they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

I have thus proved that physical as well as mental manifestations of supernatural power from God, through an angel of God, were given to, and produced on man; and we thereon have the foundation-stone laid of man's RIGHT to angelic protection and intervention, as much as we have to salvation. If physical manifestations were only for the apostles' days, then salvation was only for the apostles' days: we cannot separate the one from the other. Many mighty physical manifestations are not effected now-a-days because of unbelief, the same as Christ himself stated in his day; divine though he was, still he could not do among his kinsmen many mighty works because of their unbelief.

In classical history we have the same phenomena in a feebler degree, but yet as clear: that devils may and do produce similar kinds of phenomena, there is no doubt; it is simply a question of degree. On this earth among men, there is as much physical power shown by mastiff-headed prizefighters, pickpockets, and murderers, as by any of the good and the true in the ranks of humanity; but there is no law to force any one to herd with the one, or associate with the other. The law still stands good, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve, if the Lord be God, serve him," and his angels will be with you to guide you mentally and physically; but if Baal, then serve him, and his devils will guide you mentally and physically.

I need not enter into the mystery of whether the unseen intelligences are all human beings; I rather think not; angels were in existence before the creation of man, and doubtless they are still alive. Spirits give different statements, and they may be all true, or partially true. If men are not all truthful, spirits may not be all truthful. The devil is said to

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be the father of lies, and therefore his children may be of the same stamp, may have a family-likeness. Few men in England have had greater opportunities of witnessing spirit-action upon men at circles and in private life than I have, and I have often been struck with the adroitness with which spirits parry off too much inquisitiveness; the consummate tact they possess of adapting their manifestations of power in convincing men of their existence and influence, to the mental calibre or idiosyncrasy of the individual to be convinced. Many men have I seen who have come to a circle expecting like Naaman that some great thing or manifestation would happen to convince them; they have had some simple, and to others unimportant manifestations, which has rendered powerless the sword-arm of opposition.

So far as I have seen these manifestations, they have never made any man worse than he was before; but I know scores of men, and have heard of hundreds, who thank God for having witnessed them. Before, they had no belief in futurity, no belief in the existence of deceased relations, no belief in special providence. Now, the hymn of thanksgiving is in their hearts; they can breast life's waves, because they know that when their earth duties are over, their song of joy will be joined to those of the loved ones who have gone before; and that while on earth, special providence, produced by Deity through the action of angels and deceased relatives, will guard and guide.

The great beauty of spirit teachings is, the entire absence of sectarianism. "The Lord God" works through the whole; sometimes straightforwardly, and sometimes obliquely, depending upon the mental or religious state of the party being operated upon; but the teachings lead, however circuitous, to the centre of the circle, the pivot truth of Christendom, the acknowledgment that JESUS IS THE CHRIST, the great enunciator of the fact that man is Immortal. Plato, Socrates, Pliny, Aristotle, Cicero, hoped there was a future, but feared it was fancy's dream. Jesus asserted it was a reality, and by signs

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