silver shining letters. Will you show me a vision of the soul leaving the body? At once the following vision was given to the Seer.

The mirror is changing colour-I see the interior of some room-a very poorly furnished one; a bed-a sort of tent bedstead, but the post cut off on one side; there is a person sitting in a chair: an elderly man he is leaning on the bedpost at the place cut off; towards the foot, there are two children— they have very rough heads of hair, they seem very poor. Round the foot of the bed, there is some one coming in at the door, and looking at the woman in bed:-on the other side, there is a rush-bottomed chair, with the top, back off; towards the head of the bed, there is a table, and on the table a cup, and a couple of bottles; the woman who came in, has gone to the fire-place-a broken-down grate-a little fire; she stirs it—she has gone and sat down on the bed half way up :The sick woman is turning round to look at the man-is putting her hand out on to his knee-he is gone and has knelt down as if in prayer. She is getting more pale-her husband and the woman are weeping-the woman is taking the two children out of the room-the man is standing and taking her hand-the woman comes in again, and has come upon the other side of the bed looking at her-sick woman is drawing very long breaths. There seems a great light breaking through the ceiling, and coming down on the sick woman; there seems as if floating over the bed, several shadowy forms, like women hovering over, in a kind of circle round the woman; they are holding their hands and fingers out attracting the womanthere seems a FIGURE or FORM, coming out of the womanseems to come out of the head of the sick-woman-it has come out, it is so beautiful it is a shadowy form, transparent almost : -surrounded by some vapour, the form has the features of the sick woman, but so young, so beautiful. Turns her face from me, seems to be looking down on the body, and round the room. Rising up, and the spirits going up with hergoing up-as it goes up, it gets brighter and brighter-the very air gets brighter-all seems stationary-seems fading.

Q. When the last breath is drawn, is the spirit still in the body for a time?

A. The soul does indeed stay at times in the body when to all appearance it has left, but there is at present no rule yet known by man; to direct him with certainty whether the soul is in the body, and how long it remains there. Man

must wait patiently for those rules from Infinite Wisdom. Man must leave time, rule, directions, and all with his Maker.

ANOTHER VISION, given the same SITTING.-Fog on the glass, clearing up. There seems to be a man standing with his face towards me, he has on dark clothes-he is on an elevated piece of land. It seems surrounded with water; but the water is calm-why! the ground seems to be rising up; higher, higher, still seems to get higher, but more slowly. The man seems as if staggering; upon one side of the hill I see written up "Ambition," on the other side "Error." Over the man are clouds, the rain is pouring down,—how it rains, he seems now to be frightened at the rain. As it rains, the waters seem to come up, or the hill is going down. He is looking on the water in great dread, the hill is going down fast; it is very little above the water. The water is getting full of foam and raging; he clasps his hands,—he is sinking in the waters ;— he is gone. Over the top of the mirror there is some reading. "Such is the end of the man who rises by might, and not by right."

The following prayer was seen on the mirror, and the direction given was; that it was to be used regularly at the com-mencement of each sitting.

O! most merciful Jehovah, grant unto us the light of Thy Holy Spirit, to guide us into all truth; that we may be brought into sweeter communion with Thee.

Come humbly
Come hopefully
Come truthfully

on the merits of the Most High.

The Seer is a man in one of the humblest walks of life, and a good man who means well towards every one. The power continued for a time, and then left. He has often sat since, but no visions are given to him.

I have some fifty to sixty visions by the same person, full of variety of incidents.

INSPIRATION BY VISION-COMMANDS.-Whether the inspirations came through young or old, through man or woman, through warrior or child, its revelations were accordant, simple, positive, and to the purpose. By them they all testify that they were warned of their approaching enemies; were told when they need set no sentinels; when there were traitors amongst them, and by them they were enabled to conquer both man and the elements. Let us give a few of the most remarkable instances of such inspirations.

"Our troop," says Durand Fage,

"" was once between Nair

and La Cour de Crevièz, when our leader Cavallier had a vision whilst he was sitting, on which he started up and said these words, O my God, how wonderful! I have seen in the vision the Marshal Montrevel, at Allez, giving to a messenger letters against us to carry to Nismes. Let somebody hasten away, and they will find the express, in such a habit, and on such a horse, and attended by such and such persons, (describing all these). Ride full speed and you will meet them passing the Gardon.' In a moment three of our men got on horseback, Rickard, Bouvet, and another: and they found the courier in the place, and with the company, just as described by brother Cavallier. The courier being brought to our troop, they found letters upon him from the Marshal, so that by this revelation we happily discovered many things whereof good use was made in the sequence. The messenger was sent back on foot. I was then present, and saw these things all pass before my eyes. "

CESAR, in his Commentaries, states that during a portion of the battle of Philippi he lay still in his tent, confined there by sickness-but that his friend, Artorius, having a vision, commanding that he, Cæsar, should be carried out of the camp, he was conveyed out of his tent. Shortly after, the enemy made great efforts to gain Caesar's camp; and, when gained, they believed him dead, as they found his empty litter pierced in many places with darts.

SECOND SIGHT, is this vision faculty; and, as several works are published containing authenticated narratives, it is unnecessary to continue the illustrations. We have them richly studded in the sacred books; and in Mahomedan, Brahmin, Classic, and Modern History.

SECTION XII.

DREAMS.

EXTRAORDINARY DREAM.-On Wednesday, an investigation took place in the board-room of the Strand Union, Bow Street, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of a man named William Death, aged forty, whose body was discovered in a complete state of nudity, ander the following circumstances.-William Atkinson, beadle at the Piazza, Coven Garden, stated that he had for some time known the deceased, but had latterly considered him of weak intellect. On Friday night he (witness) dreamt that deceased had committed suicide by hanging himself in a house in White Hart Street. On the following day, (Saturday) he became so uneasy that he determined to visit deceased; for the dream had made a deep impression on him. He first, however, went to Mr. Robins's room, and told the porter there, who consented to accompany him. On entering the house, No. 3, White Hart Street, they called to deceased, but on receiving no answer, proceeded to the front door on the first-floor, and, on entering, were horrified to see the deceased lying on his face in a corner of the room in a perfect state of nudity, and quite dead. The Coroner, in summing up, remarked that the case was one of the most extraordinary ever brought under his notice, but had been made quite clear. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.-Times of 25th March, 1859.

A. WELLS.-Her niece had the mother's gold thimble playing with, and lost it. Every effort was made to find it by a diligent search, but without success. Some two or three weeks after; A. WELLS dreamt she saw the thimble in one of the child's old shoes on a certain shelf. The dream was so vividly on her mind when she awoke, that she got up, went to the shelf and shoe, and found the thimble as she had seen it in her dream. It seems that one day, a quantity of old shoes had been taken down from the shelf, and put back gain; in the meantime, the child playing about, had put he thimble in one, and left it.

DREAM OF WORDS SPOKEN AFTER SIX MONTHS.-"Some me ago, when my mother resided in London, and I was in Full practice at about fifty miles from London, one night I had so vivid a dream that I told my wife of it; and

made a memorandum in my diary-it was, that I was with my mother; she used certain words upon a subject, and I replied. Some six months after, I and my wife went up to London on a visit, and coming into the presence of my mother, she commenced the subject named in the dream, and used the very words I had dreamt. I called the attention of my wife to the circumstance, and she remembered it-then said my mother, 'John, I had such a strange dream at such a time, naming the date I had my dream; and I thought you said being the very words I had said."-Dr. M., 1859.

JOHN Huss, in the fourteenth century, was persecuted for his religious opinions, and was burnt. When summoned before the Council of Constance, and in prison, he dreamt that he saw the features of Jesus Christ, which he had caused to be painted on the walls of his prison study, effaced by the pope and bishops. The dream distresses him; but next day he sees painters employed in restoring them in greater numbers and splendour. Their task finished, the painters, surrounded by a great multitude, exclaim, "Now, let popes and bishops come, they never shall efface them more." Huss adds, "Many people in Bethelem rejoiced, and I among them."

"Think of your defence, rather than dreams," said his friend Chevalier Chlum. “I am not a dreamer," said John Huss. "But this I hold to be certain-the image of Christ will never be effaced; they wish to destroy it, but it will be painted anew in men's hearts by far abler preachers than I." The dream nerved Huss for the stake; and, 100 years after, the Reformation under Luther and others verified the prediction.

At the time of the Reformation, the ELECTOR FREDERICK of Saxony, at his castle of Schsweinitz, near Wittenberg had one of those vivid dreams which operate on men's intellect, and guide their actions.

AFTER TWELVE YEARS.-The following remarkable instance of a dream was related by the late Mr. Calcott, a worthy clergyman of Bristol. "A gentleman, a friend of Mr. Calcott, observed to him one morning that he had been much alarmed the night before by a dream, so strong, so lively, and so distinct, that no length of time would efface it from his recollection. 'That a woman, whom he circumstantially described to Mr. Calcott, had appeared before him, and made an attempt upon his life; and that this visionary murderess was so strongly

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