me the dominion over the Persians; whence it is, that having seen no other in that habit, and now seeing this person in it, and remembering that vision, and the exhortation which I had in my dream; I believe that I bring this army under Divine conduct, and shall therewith conquer Darius, and destroy the power of the Persians; and that all things will succeed according to what is in my own mind. And when he had said this to Parmenio, and had given the high priest his right hand; the priests ran along by him, and he came into the city; and when he went up into the temple, he offered sacrifice to God, according to the high priest's direction; and magnificently treated both the high priest, and the priests. And when the Book of Daniel was shown him, wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended, and as he was then glad, he dismissed the mul titude for the present; but the next day, he called them to him, and bade them ask what favours they pleased of him; whereupon the high priest desired that they might enjoy the laws of their forefathers; and might pay no tribute on the seventh year. He granted all they desired." -Josephus.

Alexander the Great was a man of Dreams, a medium, a man who had unhesitating faith in the Gods, and of their ordering the weal or woe of human beings; by the direction of his dreams, he commenced and stayed his wars. He had his soothsayer, who attended on him in all his journeys and his battles; a few instances of this, are herewith given :

"Alexander had a dream, in which he saw Hercules offering him his hand from the wall, and inviting him to enter. Many Tyrians dreamed that Apollo declared he would go over to Alexander, because he was displeased with the behaviour of the town. Hereon the Tyrians loaded his statue with chains, and nailed his feet to the pedestal.

"Alexander, in another dream, saw a satyr playing before him at some distance; and as he advanced to take him, the savage eluded his grasp. However, at last, after much coaxing, and taking many circuits round him, he prevailed with him to surrender himself. The interpreters interpreted the Greek term for satyr, into two, Sa Tyrus, which signifies 'Tyre is thine.' They still show a fountain, near which Alexander is said to have seen the vision.

"Alexander, after he had conquered Egypt, determined to build a city to be peopled with Greeks, and called after his name; by the advice of his architects he had marked out a

piece of ground, and was preparing for a foundation; but a wonderful dream made him fix on another situation. He thought a person with grey hair, and a venerable aspect, approached him, and repeated the following lines

'High o'er the gulfy sea, the Pharian isle,

Fronts the deep roar of disembogueing Nile.'

It is

Alexander, on this, immediately left his bed and went to Pharos, which was at that time an island lying a little above the canopic mouth of the Nile; but now is joined to the continent by a causeway. He no sooner cast his eyes on the place than he perceived the commodiousness of the situation. a tongue of land, not unlike an isthmus, whose breadth is proportionable to its length. On one side it has a great lake, on the other the sea, which there forms a capacious harbour. He ordered a city to be planned suitable to the ground; for want of chalk they used flour, which answered well on the black soil. While the king was enjoying the design, on a sudden an infinite number of large birds, of various kinds, rose like a black cloud out of the river and the lake, and alighting on the place, ate up all the flour that was used in marking out the lines. The diviners assured him it was a sign that the city would be blessed with such plenty as to supply to all that should repair to it from other nations."

POMPEY.-"After his fall he went on board a small river-boat. As he was coasting along, he saw a ship of burden just ready to sail, the master of which was Peticius, a Roman citizen, who, though not acquainted with Pompey, knew him by sight. It happened that this man, the night before, dreamed he saw Pompey come to talk to him, not in the figure he had formerly known him, but in mean and melancholy circumstances. He was giving the passengers an account of his dream, when, on a sudden, one of the mariners told him he saw a little boat rowing up to them from the land, and the crew making signs by shaking their garments and stretching out their hands. On this Pelicius stood up, and could distinguish Pompey among them, in the same form as he had seen him in his dream. Then, beating his head for sorrow, he ordered the seamen to let down the ship's boat, and held out his hand to Pompey to invite him on board, &c."-Plutarch.

CESAR.-"The night before his murder, as he was in bed with his wife, the doors and windows of the room flew open. Disturbed both by the noise and the light, he observed by moonlight his wife in a deep sleep, uttering broken words, and

inarticulate groans. She dreamed that she was weeping over him, as she held him murdered in her arms. Next morning she conjured him not to go out that day, if he could possibly avoid it, but to adjourn the senate; and if he would pay no attention to her dream, to have recourse to some other species of divination, or to sacrifices, for information as to his fate. This gave Cæsar suspicion and alarm, for he had never before known in his wife Calphurnia anything of the weakness or superstition of her sex, though she was now so much affected. He therefore offered a number of sacrifices, and, as the diviners found no auspicious tokens in any of them, he sent Antony to dismiss the senate; but, overruled by the ridicule of one of the conspirators, he went, and was stabbed to death."

MARK ANTONY dreamed that his right hand was lightningstruck; and a few days after, he was informed that Octavius had a design on his life.

When CESAR was murdered by Brutus and others, the poet Cinna dreamt that Cæsar invited him to supper, and that when he declined the invitation, he took him by the hand, and constrained him to follow him into a dark and deep place, which he entered with the utmost horror. The agitation of his spirits threw him into a fever, which lasted the remaining part of the night. In the morning, however, when Cæsar was to be interred, he was ashamed of absenting himself from the solemnity; he therefore mingled with the multitude that had just been enraged by the speed of Antony; and being unfortunately mistaken for that Cinna who had before inveighed against Cæsar, he was torn to pieces.

PONTIUS PILATE's wife dreamed, and that dream was so far a presentiment, that she implored her husband to "have nothing to do with that just man.”

JEWISH.-Joseph's dreams, by their signficance, influenced his brothers to sell him as a slave; his dreams, caused the collection and saving of corn during the years (of plenty, and. raised him to high official position in Egypt.'

CHRISTIAN. Joseph, was by dream warned to save the life of Jesus Christ by fleeing into Egypt; the massacre of the children proved the divinity of the warning."

"FOR GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon man, in slumberings upon the bed, then he openeth the ears of man, and sealeth their instruction; that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.' -Job.

SECTION XIII.

SPIRIT-POWER-HEALING.

GREATRAKES, the great healing medium, was evidently under spirit-action. The cures by simple laying on of hands were by hundreds; they were all manner of diseases; therefore the details are unnecessary. I only copy that which is necessary, to show angelic action.

Greatrakes was clerk of the peace for the county of Cork. He states:

"About 1662 I had an impulse, or a strange persuasion in my own mind (of which I am not able to give any rational account to another) which did very frequently suggest to me, that there was bestowed on me the gift of curing the king's evil, which, for the extraordinariness of it, I thought fit to conceal for some time; but at length I communicated this to my wife, and told her that I did verily believe that God had given me the blessing of curing the king's evil, for whether I were in private or public, sleeping or waking, still I had the same impulse; but her reply to me was that she conceived this was a strange imagination; yet, to prove the contrary, a few days after there was one William Mather, of Satterbridge, in the parish of Lismore, who brought his son, William, to my house, desiring my wife to cure him, who was a person ready to afford charity to her neighbours, according to her small skill in chirurgery; on which my wife told me there was one that had the king's evil very grievously in the eyes, cheek, and throat, whereupon I told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy, or imagination, as she thought it, or the dictate of God's Spirit on my heart. Then I laid my hands on the places affected, and prayed to God for Jesus' sake to heal him, and bid the parent two or three days afterwards to bring the child to me again, which accordingly she did, and I then saw the eye was almost quite whole, and the node, which was almost as big as a pullet's egg, was suppurated, and the throat strangely amended; and, to be brief (to God's glory I speak it), within a month discharged itself quite, and was perfectly healed, and so continues, God be praised!"

There is abundance of evidence to prove that many persons were cured through him of long-standing complaints. It appears that the clergy soon grew jealous of him, and he was cited into the bishop's court at Lismore; where, not producing a license for practising, he was prohibited from laying his hands on any persons for the future; but he disregarded the prohibition, and continued to perform cures as usual.

GRASSNER, a Roman Catholic priest; was another man who recognized a divine power on him, which effected cures. He asked the patient the nature of his disease; he then laid his hand on the ailing part, and in a loud voice commanded the disease to show itself. In about three cases out of four, the disease came out on the surface of the body. He then requested the patient to expel the disease himself, by the simple thought, "Depart from me, in the name of Jesus Christ." Schisel, the physician, who was suffering hell torture' from the gout, and who had written a treatise on the subject; went to Grassner to test his power, rather than from any hope of receiving any benefit, and was cured. He pithily says, "A man that sees will not deny that it is day when the sun burns his back, and a courageous physician will believe that he is ill when he feels pain. All those present, including other physicians, fully testify that which we saw, and I myself, to my astonishment, experienced."

GIFT OF HEALING.-There is not the slightest doubt that occasionally spirit-power for healing purposes comes through a medium; I have had many opportunities of testing it.

I am intimately acquainted with a person whom I have known from boyhood; and shortly after he attended circles, he, for a time, felt a singular power laying hold of his arm; and in cases of domestic illness, a floating and drawing power would lay hold of his arm and hand. He would yield, and his hand would, after several gyrations, pass on to the patient, and be rested on the spot where the pain was felt. After a time the hand would rise, and float to the fireplace; apparently that the unhealthy mesmerine, absorbed,