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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.

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"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.'

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"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!'

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pare; unless we use the simile of a freestone quarry, in contrast to the school-boy's tiny marble.

ANOTHER IDEA is, that the metalliferous veins of the earth run in ridges from the north to the south pole, like the joinings of the gores of an orange; and that they dip down towards the centre of the earth, from whence they have arisen as imponderable vapours; and which, as they uprose, crystallised themselves according to their several properties, and became the fibres and nerves for the cohesion of matter, in the crust of the earth. That by an attentive exploring of this law, from the commencement of the flow of any of the ridge lines from the pole; the exact latitude and longitude for finding layers of metals. could be pointed out.

SEVERAL fresh ideas have been broached in the course of the argument on the Natural and Supernatural; other ideas, I leave till a more convenient time.

THE END.

BILLING, PRINTER, GUILDFORD.

limbs ! He fell down upon the spot, and cried to his companions, I was telling lies.' I saw him a few days after, a miserable object indeed."-Mrs. Kirkpatrick. 1792.

A WONDERFUL DOG.-On Sabbath last, two local preachers, belonging to the Primitive Methodists at South Shields, went to preach at Usworth, a colliery village some eight or nine miles off. They finished the labours of the day a little after 8 o'clock, and soon after set their faces homeward. The evening had passed, and night, robed in her starry stillness, had approached, giving the two preachers an opportunity of conversing on the sublimities of the stellar regions. They had not proceeded far in their interesting conversation when they were overtaken by a large Newfoundland dog, and some time elapsed before they took any particular notice of the animal. They pursued their way, and still the dog followed, when they thought it necessary to drive him back, as he appeared to be a valuable animal, and his owner might come to some loss should he stray away from home. Notwithstanding all the means employed, the dog followed, keeping the two preachers ahead at a respectful distance. They continued on their way, and came through some fields which lead to the main road. When coming through one of those fields, the dog passed them, making a whining noise as he came by, which, by their interpretation, sounded like a mark of disapprobation at their driving him back. Before they came to the hedge at the bottom of the field they heard the dog growling and barking, and upon advancing a few steps further, they were terror-stricken at beholding three men in the hedge ready to pounce upon them. Two leaned back in the hedge, and the other slunk down, as the dog snarled and the two preachers passed by. The preachers went on quickly, leaving the dog in front of the rascals. After they had got about a mile further the dog came up to them again, and appeared pleased, as if he had found his master. They determined that he should follow, and that, when they separated, the one he followed should take him home, give him his supper and a night's lodging, and take him back the next day. They went on and down the railway, and as soon as they turned off the line to come into a lane leading into the town, the dog turned round and took his departure home, leaving the two preachers in safety, and thankful for his sagacity and protection.-Newcastle Daily Express, September 1859.

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