a short time, another gentleman was requested to place his hand under the table, and another letter was brought forth, but not before a violent struggle had taken place between the recipient and some unseen power that bestowed it. The hands were never stirred from the table during the whole time, and our legs had free play beneath. This letter was signed by the autograph names of nearly all present, ourself included; but none of us had any knowledge of ever having signed it. It was a short petition. It was very curiously sealed and folded. It was burnt by order of the spirits-this I saw complied with myself. Another gentleman was then requested to put his hand under the table, as the others had done. It was the same, or a fac-simile of the same letter which had been burnt, with the exception of some additional hues, and a portrait, which the other had not. A small piece of paper was then torn, having nothing upon it, and thrown under the table. We were presently desired to hold out our hand, and we received the same paper, with a name written upon it in pencil. These things were accomplished with the greatest rapidity in succession."-Charles Partridge, New York.

MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF SPIRITUALISM. By reasoning, practical study, and observation of facts, Spiritualism confirms and proves the fundamental bases of religion, namely:

The existence of an only, omnipotent God, creator of all things, supremely just and good.

The existence of the soul; its immortality and its individuality after death.

Man's free will, and the responsibility which he incurs for all his acts.

Man's happy or unhappy state after death, according to the use which he has made of his faculties during this life. The necessity of good, and the dire consequences of evil. The utility of prayer.

It resolves many problems which find their only possible explanation in the existence of an invisible world, peopled by beings who have thrown off the corporeal envelope, who surround us, and who exercise an increasing influence upon the visible world.

was lifted up; the Doctor defied the "power" to injure it. The table was thrown to the other end of the room, and smashed to fragments. To the surmises of biological action the broken table remained an evidence of too practical a kind to have any weight with Dr. Robertson; besides, how could a slim youth biologize a full reared man with his energies in full play?

SPIRIT WRITING, 1854.-" We were then requested to put our hand under the table, and, having complied, another letter was placed in it, in the same mysterious manner, all hands being upon the table, except the one engaged. The direction. of this letter was written in hues of almost every possible degree, the words all being joined together by straggling picturesque hues like the branches of a vine, and presented a beautiful appearance to view. To a mortal it must have been a work of immense and unprofitable labour. Strange to say, it was utterly impossible to say where it began, or where it ended. There were four different shades of blue, nine of scarlet, four of red, four of brown, et cetera; and all harmoniously and artistically blended. Its interior was no less wonderful than its exterior. It was written in myriad coloured inks of every hue, shade, and degree, which were scattered over it in miraculous shades and gradations. One letter had as many as seven different hues in it. It was as follows:

November 12th, 1854. "CREATURES OF YE FLESH,-Ye are doubtless assembled to view ye marvels of Spiritualism, inasmuch as they may af ford you amusement. If any such there be now assembled at this table, it may be proper to undeceive them on certain points connected with this view-our object being not only to amuse, but also to instruct.

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To those present who cannot, or, rather, will not, profit in a moral point of view by our teaching, let them be warned, lest certain iniquities be exposed, the publication of which may, perchance, cover them with shame and confusion.

To those who have already witnessed our manifestations, this exordium is particularly addressed. We caution them, ere it be too late, to turn their minds towards the power and wondrous mercy of that great and Almighty God, whose eye is everywhere, whose judgment, though slow, is nevertheless sure! Therefore see that ye sin no more!'

After having commented upon this extraordinary letter for

ceive how it will be effected; but if his favourite air is not played, I pledge myself to tell you so.' Almost immediately the flute notes of the accordion (whieh was upon the floor) played through 'Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon,' which the gentleman alluded to assured us was his father's favourite air, whilst the flute was his father's favourite instrument. He then asked for another favourite air of his father's, which was not Scotch,' and 'The Last Rose of Summer' was played in the same note. This, the gentleman told us, was the air to which he had alluded.

"Intelligent phenomena, such as the music played at request, point to intelligent agents; and spiritual bodies that have quitted fleshly bodies may be at work. I, for one, wish that it were proved te be so; for a more solemn discovery than that of a means of communication between embodied and disembodied sentient beings cannot be imagined. It giddies the brain to think of the possible result of such a discovery."

DR. COLLYER, of St. John's Wood, Oct. 1860, states, "He had studied and written on Biology and kindred subjects, and thoroughly disbelieved the assertions made as to spirit-power till a few hours before writing his communication. That in his

presence the table he was sitting at rose and made four bounds, and struck the door of the room; that a guitar in the hand of a young lady gave out sounds; that several were being touched by the power producing the phenomena; that he also being touched, he asked that he should be pinched; they did -so impressively, so energetically, that he had to call out; that he, after the sitting, examined his leg, and there was the mark of a thumb and two fingers; that the next day his leg was on those places discoloured, and that he called on and showed the discolourization to the Editor of the 'Morning Star.'

So,

"NOTE.-Why should Dr. Collyer be surprised?-JACOB wasnot only sensible of an angel-man, who allowed him to wrestle, so as to imprint the fact on his mind; but the angel dislocated the joint of Jacob's thigh, so that he was lame ever after. Such an incident would now-a-days be considered 'devilish.'

DR. ROBERTSON, 1860, considering the asserted phenomena of spirit-power to be untrue, invited two gentlemen to his house; one was a Medium, Mr. Squire, and who with the Doctor and a friend, sat at a ponderous iron-clamped table, which had been made to withstand the violence of lunatics. That table

was lifted up; the Doctor defied the " "power" to injure it. The table was thrown to the other end of the room, and smashed to fragments. To the surmises of biological action the broken table remained an evidence of too practical a kind to have any weight with Dr. Robertson; besides, how could a slim youth biologize a full reared man with his energies in full play?

SPIRIT WRITING, 1854.-"We were then requested to put our hand under the table, and, having complied, another letter was placed in it, in the same mysterious manner, all hands being upon the table, except the one engaged. The direction. of this letter was written in hues of almost every possible degree, the words all being joined together by straggling picturesque hues like the branches of a vine, and presented a beautiful appearance to view. To a mortal it must have been a work of immense and unprofitable labour. Strange to say, it was utterly impossible to say where it began, or where it ended. There were four different shades of blue, nine of scarlet, four of red, four of brown, et cetera; and all harmoniously and artistically blended. Its interior was no less wonderful than its exterior. It was written in myriad coloured inks of every hue, shade, and degree, which were scattered over it in miraculous shades and gradations. One letter had as many as seven different hues in it. It was as follows:

November 12th, 1854.

"CREATURES OF YE FLESH,-Ye are doubtless assembled to view ye marvels of Spiritualism, inasmuch as they may afford you amusement. If any such there be now assembled at this table, it may be proper to undeceive them on certain points connected with this view-our object being not only to amuse, but also to instruct.

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"To those present who cannot, or, rather, will not, profit in a moral point of view by our teaching, let them be warned, lest certain iniquities be exposed, the publication of which may, perchance, cover them with shame and confusion.

To those who have already witnessed our manifestations, this exordium is particularly addressed. We caution them, ere it be too late, to turn their minds towards the power and wondrous mercy of that great and Almighty God, whose eye is everywhere, whose judgment, though slow, is nevertheless sure! Therefore see that ye sin no more!'

After having commented upon this extraordinary letter for

said a fortnight ago, while riding over Hounslow Heath, some boys were playing at cricket. One of them striking the ball, hit him just on the toe with it, looked him in the face, and ran away. His toe pained him, struck up his body with mortification. Dr. Lake asked him if he knew the boy; he said, 'About ten years ago, I was riding over the heath, when an old man ran by my horse's side, begged me to relieve him, and said he was almost famished. I bade him begone, but he still kept up with me. I drew my sword, and with one blow killed him. A boy about four years old, who was with him, screamed out his father was killed. His face I perfectly remember. That boy it was who struck the ball against me, which is the cause of my death.'

RETRIBUTION." One time especially, (as we were then informed) there was a very wicked man whom they got to come to the Quakers' meeting; this man put a bear's skin on his back, and undertook with that to play pranks in the meeting. Accordingly sitting himself just opposite to the Friend that was speaking, he lolled his tongue out of his mouth, having his bearskin on his back, and so made sport to his wicked followers; and caused a great disturbance in the meeting. But an eminent judgment overtook him, and his punishment slumbered not, for as he went back from the meeting there was a bull baiting in the way, which he strayed to see; and coming within the bull's reach, he struck his horn uuder the man's chin into his throat, and struck his tongue out of his mouth; so that it hung lolling out as he had used it before in derision in the meeting. And the bull's horn running up into the man's head, he swung him about upon his horn, in a most remarkable and fearful manner."—Geo. Fox, vol. i. p. 356.

James Skene took great delight in inventing malicious slanders against friends. On one occasion whilst he was repeating some wicked verses, which he had composed on purpose to defame an innocent person; he was in that instant suddenly struck down as one dead, and for sometime deprived of his senses. RETRIBUTION. "A man was at Bridgenorth affirming that he was present, when Dr. Priestly's house was burnt down at Birmingham; and saw the first stone thrown by the rioters. His comrades did not believe, but he persisted; and at last I called to God to blast his limbs if it was not true-at the same time clapping his thighs with his hands. God took him at his word, and immediately deprived him of the use of his.