fidence to the mind, that the mansion is trustworthy—that its walls and its flooring will defend and give shelter when the hurricanes and mental storms of life are passing over them. It is now some six years since I first saw Mr. Home, then about twenty-one and a half years of age-and the results of my first day's sittings with him has had an important influence on my sentiments, feelings, and actions ever since.

Possibly an article written by me in January, 1857, may be interesting to many-the more so as it was made the text for several of the editors of daily and weekly newspapers-as well as for simple magazine literature-it will show how simple truth and knowledge come when given by a higher power. The reader will find it under the Section Sounds, page 317.

Mr. Henry Gordon is a medium for similar manifestations of spirit-power; he resides in America, and has never been in Europe.

Mr. Redman of America, is a physical medium of peculiar power. An investigator comes into his room, wishes proof of futurity. He requests them to write the names of deceased relatives on slips of paper, roll them up in little balls or pellets, and scatter them on the table. He then takes up pellet by pellet, and asks if the spirit named in the pellet is in the room, till yes is given by a sound. Mr. Redman's hand is then moved, and without any volition of his own mind, the arm and hand is acted upon, and he writes out a name which, when the pellet is opened, is found to be the name as written by Mr. Redman. His hand is then acted upon, and the spirit gives tests by naming the age-time of death, or some incident in his past life which convinces the inquirer: the spirit then writes out a message. (Since the above was written, Mr. Redman has been in England. I have seen and recorded a portion of my seeings in the Section "Movings.")

Mr. Koon, of America, is a plain country farmer-has rooms free to all inquirers-the phenomena is music, played upon instruments, and the instruments go up to the ceiling, and whirl round the room, and even when mentally wished

for, they will descend, and gently or strongly touch the person-again ascend and whirl.

Miss Fox, of America, is the medium, the original medium through whom the sounds on floors, beds, chairs, &c., were alphabetized by a code of signals, to represent words; thus one rap for no; two for no answer; three for yes; and then the alphabet was read out, and as a detonation was heard, the letter was put down, and thus messages were given. Sometimes, they appeared to be an absurd collection of letters, but by reading them backwards, important information was obtained.

Mr. T. L. Harris, of America, now in England, is a mental Medium-a minister by profession, and acquainted with theological variations and phraseology. His body was controlled to go to various places-he was physically acted upon so as to lie down as if almost dead-his body cold and powerless; when in that state, in a whisper, he would give out utterances as fast as the amanuensis could write, which for richness of diction, and sublimity of thought, and true poetry, has no equal since Milton shone, and Shakspeare sparkled-two of those works "Lyric of the Morning land," and "The Golden Age," will after his death be hailed as the outflow of as divine an inspiration as either Milton or Shakspeare. Other works of his are issuing from the press so saturated and supersaturated with imagery, that the mind wearies, cloys with the gems of fancy. His public orations are brilliant, but if we were to speak our thinking, it would be that they are chameleon coloured, they vary with the day -that he does not weigh, does not compare-does not select, and hold fast. Granting him that which he asserts, that he never prepares a sermon-that he proceeds on that precept, "Take ye no thought of what ye shall speak-for in that hour it will be given to you what you shall say:" granting also that Spirit can act upon man mentally by suggestion: we lose all wonder at the peculiarities of matter enunciated, because various spirits, according to their wisdom and knowledge, act

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upon and produce mental music, as varied in tone, brilliancy, and style, as given forth by the piano-forte under the manipulation of a master and a pupil.

His principles are often poetic fancies. Thus I have heard him preach, that the affections stream down from the upper spheres into a man, that they become creative-every thought becomes a spiritual intelligence; that prayer for an enemy will create a spiritual dove, which, when the days of incubation have elapsed, will fly out of the man's body a veritable, goldencoloured dove, and, as a spiritual living being, fly off to the enemy, mingle with his aura, and so endeavour to subdue the opponent-a pretty fancy; but peopling the spiritual world with myriads of intelligent doves and foxes, serpents, &c. ; instead of that which in the light of Mesmeric will and sympathy acting upon an opponent, and in the belief of the action of unseen intelligent angelic powers acting upon us, and upon others, would give a rational logical reason, for a fact produced; instead of making man a female, hatching doves, spawning fish, and giving birth to cats by the thousand.

Again, his spiritual ideas of man's enjoyment in another world are soaked in connubial joys, and though he doubtless does not so intend it; his ideas, as abstract principles, may be coolly and anatomically examined by old married folks; but to young persons bursting into life, there is a sensuous aura which is far from suitable. Scent, perfumes with nectar drank from goblets of buttercups, has so little of the actual verities of life, of the stern iron grip of hunger and thirst, of house-rent, and taxes; that his teaching leads to effeminacy, and sentimentalism. Let him cultivate the surrounding of those Spirits or intelligences which will teach men and women the method of breasting the storms of life, of piloting the soul along the rough coasts of adversity, of assisting their fellows in mental and bodily trouble; thus making them blessed and a blessing. Harris the man, and Harris the medium are two; and so will we find it with almost all mediums. How beautiful the thought, that all the shortcomings of mediums, mental

or physical, show that we are not to put our trust in those "Princes" among men, but in "The Lord God of Hosts."

Other mediums there are, but their name is Legion. In or by them appear all the phenomena as unveiled in the following pages. I have perceived that a little of human nature peeps out in the shape of shall I call it jealousy, a kind of half envy, akin to that shown by statesmen and ministers of the Gospel. How seldom do those who mingle with ministers hear a frank avowal of talent, of piety; it, as a rule, is, Ah,. he is very well-but-yes; that “but” is the plague-spot of the pulpit, the press, and the senate; "Love thinketh no evil." Can we not weave that principle as the line of beauty throughout the garment of society. LET US TRY.

THE REVIVALS in America and Great Britain have followed in the wake of spirit manifestations in those countries, and the "bodily affections," as the Earl of Roden naively called them, are mere repetitions of those spiritualists have been accustomed to see over and over again developed in mediums; and in private families, among individual members of those families, but which were nick-named, laughed at, derided, by the leaders of various sections of the Christian church, and of the materialistic school, hissing out with the curled-up lip "Spirit-rapping" as a convenient method of answering the different questions put as to the phenomena. But now, that it has made its foot-tread to be felt within the pale of the Sections or sects, there is a yielding of the mind to an acknowledgment of divine power ;—an awe has stolen over their feelings; God is recognised; and the authors of pamphlets and articles declare there has not been such a work of the Spirit since the days of the Apostles; showing by such declaration how hard it is to believe anything marvellous unless our own eyes have seen, and our own ears have heard; forgetting also the pouring out of the Spirit in the earlier Roman Catholic days, and again as shown in the history of the "Camisards," the Quakers, the Methodists of last century, the Covenanters of Scotland, the German preaching epidemic, as it was called ;-explained as of the "Devil"

by one class, and by the other as "hysterical sympathy." Totally ignorant of the details, deciding from the up-gush wish of the mind; the one makes the "Devil" the author of good, and the promoter of purity; and the other denies the action of either devil or angel.

"God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform."

May we all, as children, feel we know as little of the mental creations of God, and his methods of using them to assist inferior grades, as we know of the nature and laws of electricity.