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THINGS MOVED-TIMOLEON.-"When the fleet was equipped, and the soldiers provided with all that was necessary, the priestesses of Proserpine had a dream, wherein that goddess and her mother Ceres appeared to them in a travelling garb, and told them that they intended to accompany Timoleon into Sicily.' Hereon the Corinthians equipped a sacred galley, which they called 'the galley of the goddesses.' Timoleon himself went to Delphi, where he offered sacrifice to Apollo; and on his descending to the place where the oracles were delivered, was surprised by this wonderful occurrence. A wreath embroidered with crowns and images of victory, slipped down from among the offerings that were hung up there, and fell on Timoleon's head, so that Apollo seemed to send him out crowned on that enterprise.

"He had seven ships of Corinth, two of Corcyra, and a tenth fitted out by the Leucadians, with which he put to sea. It was in the night that he set sail, and with a prosperous gale he was making his way, when on a sudden the heavens seemed to be rent asunder, and to pour on his ship a bright and spreading flame, which soon formed itself into a torch such as is used in the sacred mysteries, and having conducted them through their whole course, brought them to that quarter of Italy to which they designed to steer."-Plutarch, p. 199.

PLUTARCH-STATUE-MOVING.-"In the capital (during Otho's reign) there was a Victory mounted on a chariot, and numbers of people saw her let the reins fall out of her hands, as if she had lost the power to hold them; and in the island of the Tiber the statue of Julius Cæsar turned from east to west, without either earthquake or whirlwind to move."

CLASSIC-HAIR CUTTING.-Pliny in his Letters, after narrating the incident of the appearance of the titular deity of Africa to Curtius Rufus, states: I have a freedman named Marcus, who is by no means illiterate. One night, as he and his younger brother were lying together, he fancied he saw somebody upon his bed, who took out a pair of scissors and cut off the hair from the top part of his head, and in the morning it appeared the boy's hair was actually cut off, and the clippings lay scattered about the floor. A short time after this an event of a like nature contributed to give credit to the former story. A young lad of my family was sleeping in his apartment with the rest of his companions, when two persons, clad in white, came in through the windows, and cut off his hair as he lay, and as soon as they had finished the operation, re

turned the same way as they entered. The next morning it was found that this boy had been served just as the other, and with the very same circumstances of the hair spread about the room." Pliny says nothing remarkable followed these events, "unless that I escaped a persecution, in which, if the Emperor Domitian had lived some time longer, I should certainly have been involved, for after his death articles of impeachment against me were found in his scrutoire. It may be therefore conjectured, since it was customary for persons under any public accusation to let their hair grow, that this cutting off the hair of my servants was a sign I should escape the imminent danger that threatened me."

JEWISH.-Elisha was a medium of great power. One day a workman, while working, let the axe-head fall into the river. Elisha, on hearing the man bewail his loss, as he had borrowed it, asked where it fell in; he then cut down a stick, and cast it into the river; and the iron rose from the bottom, and floated on the surface.

JEWISH.-"Moreover the eastern gate of the inner court of the temple, which was of brass and vastly heavy, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty men, and rested upon a basis armed with iron, and had bolts fastened very deep in the firm floor, which was there made of one entire stone, was seen to be opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night. Now these that kept watch in the temple came thereupon running to the captain of the temple and told him of it, who then came up thither, and not without great difficulty was able to shut the gate again. This also appeared to the vulgar to be a very happy prodigy, as if God did thereby open the gates of happiness. But the men of learning understood it that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that the gate was opened for the advantage of their enemies. So these publicly declared that this signal foreshowed the desolation that was coming upon them." -Josephus.

To satisfy some, whose minds have not been directed to the truth and possibility of the phenomena of moving; I will now only add two instances, because they will refresh the minds of some Christians, and dissipate their fears of such movings. as we have related, being adverse to the divine order.

Peter was in prison; the prison doors were unlocked, and then the gates or doors were opened without any physical means, but in that instance spirit-power was in action; the person, or soul-spirit, showed itself, and the apparition was seen by Peter, a task not more difficult than some of the incidents narrated in this Section on Movings.

SECOND INCIDENT.-A large sepulchre stone sealed by the Roman powers in Jerusalem, was moved and put aside without any human being touching it. In that sepulchre there lay Jesus the Christ, and in that instance also, we are informed that the stone did not move by the dual powers of the Roman guards, nor by the laws of electricity, but by spiritpower openly confessed; as it is said, that it was effected by an angel, or spirit. If, therefore, Peter and Christ accepted assistance from spirit-power, so may we; if wisdom is shown, by help rendered to the proper person, at the proper time. If, therefore, any man's happiness is derived from a higher power, and that happiness is given in the manner best adapted to that man's circumstances, mental or physical; other persons ought to be silent.

PERSONAL, 1856.—I have seen a large heavy dining-room table with four leaves, heave, twist, tremble, and rock, as if pos sessed with life; and the legs nearest me moved up and down several hundred times the same evening, answering questions.

CORNHILL MAGAZINE, 1860.—“ On the first occasion when I experienced the effect I am about to describe, there were five persons in the room. In other places, where it occurred subsequently, there were seven or more. The architecture of the houses in each case was wholly dissimilar, both as to the area and height of the apartments, and the age, size, and strength of the buildings. We were seated at a table at which some singular phenomena, accompanied by loud knocks on the walls and floor, had just occurred, when we became conscious of a strange vibration that palpitated through the entire room. We listened and watched attentively. The vibration grew stronger and stronger. It was palpably under our feet. Our chairs shook, and the floor trembled violently. The effect was exactly like the throbbing and heaving which might be supposed to take place in a house in the tropics during the moment immediately preceding an earthquake. This violent motion continued for two or three minutes, then gradually subsided and ceased. Every person present was equally affected by it on

each occasion when it occurred. To produce such a result by machinery might be possible if the introduction of the machinery itself were possible. But the supposition involves a difficulty somewhat similar to that of Mr. Knickerbocker's theory of the earth standing on the back of a tortoise, which might be an excellent theory if we could only ascertain what the tortoise stood upon. * * When I saw a table, at which two ladies were seated, moving towards me without any adequate impulse being imparted to it by visible means, I thought the fact sufficiently extraordinary; but my wonder abated when, on subsequent occasions, I saw tables move apparently of their own volition, there being no persons near them; large sofas advance from the walls against which they stood; and chairs, sometimes occupied, and sometimes empty, shift their places for the distance of a foot or a yard, in some cases easily, and in others with a slow, laborious movement. The catalogue might be readily enlarged, but the accumulation of examples would throw no additional light on the subject."

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JOHN WESLEY.-ANGELS.-"How astonishing is their strength. Even a fallen angel is styled by an inspired writer, 'the prince of the power of the air.' How terrible a proof did he give of this power, in suddenly raising the whirlwind which smote the four corners of the house,' and destroyed all the children of Job at once (chap. i.) That this was his work we may easily learn from the command to save his life.' But he gave a far more terrible proof of his strength (if we suppose that messenger of the Lord' to have been an evil angel, as it is not at all improbable), when he smote with death a hundred four score and five thousand Assyrians in one night; possibly in one hour, if not one moment. Yet a strength abundantly greater than this must have been exerted by that angel (whether he was an angel of light or darkness, which is not determined by the text), who smote in one hour all the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.' For, considering the extent of the land of Egypt, the immense populousness thereof, and the innumerable cattle fed in their houses, and grazing in their fruitful fields, the men and beasts who were slain in that night must have amounted to several millions. And if this be supposed to have been an evil angel, must not a good angel be as strong,-yea, stronger, than him? For surely any good angel must have more power than even an archangel ruined."

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If a heavy table is raised off the ground, it is obvious that there can be no difficulty in raising a human being off the ground-grant the one, and we must grant the other; and that the one has been done, sufficient evidence has, in the past section, been produced; and that the other has also been done, is now about to be proved, by the narration of facts recent and remote. Some loudly proclaim against furnituremoving as being absurd-that apparent absurdity, is the result of the continued opposition of man to the evidence of angels and devils, as developed in their action on the cerebral power of a human body; and the bluff denial of supernatural action, in the "curious coincidences," and other modes of spiritual display. Wisdom or folly is known by their results-these results are not always obvious to the witlings who decide so dogmatically. Let me give a proof:-Look at the absurdity so called, of the physical manifestations detailed, as witnessed by two or three literary characters, whose previous ideas were point blank against the possibility of such physical manifestations; and whose command of the current literature of the age, enables

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