The table was thrown to the other end of LE TO smashed to fragments. To the surmises of Di broken table remained an evidence of toc practis any weight with Dr. Robertson; besides no youth biologize a full reared man with De Z play?

SPIRIT WRITING, 1854.—“ We were the ret our hand under the table, and, having cemit was placed in it, in the same mysteri being upon the table, except the oneness of this letter was written in hues of aimer the words all being joined together s hues like the branches of a vine, and pree pearance to view. To a mortal i mir immense and unprofitable labour. Stran terly impossible to say where i There were four different sunte four of red, four of brown, e

and artistically blended. I than its exterior. It was V

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. 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. 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.

It

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.

The

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

The

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.

By the certainty which it gives us of the future which awaits us.

By the material proof of the existence of those whom we have loved on earth, the certainty of their presence about us, the certainty of our rejoining them in the world of spirits, and the possibility of communicating with them, and of receiving salutary counsels from them.

By the courage which it gives us in adversity.

By the elevation which it impresses upon our thoughts in giving us a just idea of the value of the things and goods of this world.

It contributes to the happiness of man upon the earth :— In counteracting hopelessness and despair.

In teaching man to be content with what he has.

In teaching him to regard wealth, honour, and power as trials more to be dreaded than desired.

In inspiring him with sentiments of charity and true fraternity for his neighbour.

The result of these principles, once propagated and rooted in the human heart, will be:

To render men better and more indulgent to their kind.

To gradually destroy individual selfishness, by the community which it establishes among men.

To excite a laudable emulation for good.

To put a curb upon disorderly desires.

To favour intellectual and moral development not merely with respect to present well-being, but to the future which is attached to it;

And, by all these canses, to aid in the progressive amelioration of humanity.-Revue Spirite, Paris.

SECTION XVI.

SECTION LAST.

COMING from the presence-chamber of the invisibles, what is the effect on the mind? Has it not opened fresh views of the Infinite? Has not the unseen been a realized fact? Have not the mysterious incidents and coincidences in your life—in the life of your relatives-in the lives of the representative men and women in all ages, found their solvent in the substantial proofs placed before you? Have not the various manifestations of angelic power on families, and individuals, enveloped what was mystery, in a mantle of light? Is not the certainty of a future life more pleasurable than future extinction? Are not the annoyances of life felt to be merely the polishing process the master has to apply to the gem, so that its beauty and lustre may be increased?

BEREAVED! Father or mother, husband or wife, son or daughter, brother or sister, lover or friend; the so-called dead yet live, and love, and guard. You are in the workshop of eternity; work heartily, work cheerfully, work for an object worthy an Immortal; and the past sections are illustrations of the help you will receive, and of the certainty of your rest, your repose, your enjoyment, with those who entwine their affections with yours in that upper-that BETTER LAND.

The Natural and Supernatural are one, the only difference is, position; Man as a Physical structure is a wonder; Man as an Apparitional-a Soul structure is a wonder; and Man as a Spiritual structure is a wonder; Angels in space are a wonder; and, God the Deity is an INFINITE WONDER.

NOTE.-The reader will kindly refer to the Preface, page iv, paragraph 3.

"IDEAL" SECTION.

THE CREATION OF WORLDS.

PONDERINGS over the divisional mechanism of the universe have led the mind to new ideas; ideas which may, or may not be new to science; but having no opportunity for testing and giving publicity to them-they have faded away; to be in some instances resuscitated in after-periods by other persons. In past life, this has often been the result of my observations and thinkings. One idea I would have broached in the section upon the "universe;" but I feared to place it beside verified facts, lest the grandeur of the real, might be marred by the pigmyism of the unreal. The idea is―That the SUN is the Mother of the Planets of the solar system. That the materials of which the planets are composed, whether ponderable or imponderable; were in the interior of the sun, and were shot out into space, through its positive pole in a fluid state; and became spheroid, on the same principle, that molten lead passing through a sieve, becomes spheroid while descending in the air.

The sun is 520 times larger than all the planets of the solar system joined in one; the ejection of the quantity of matter for those planets, would not reduce the external circumference of the sun, which contains matter equal to 1,300,000 of our earths. The photographs of the moon, show the contractions of matter from north to south round the poles like an orange with the skin off; and like the animal organs for emission. The birth of the planets, would not disturb the gravitation harmony of the universe; as they, by the magnetism of the parent, cling to the sun, within its orbit in space; therefore the weight would be the same.

Pursue this idea, and it gives us the BIRTH of the sun, and of the suns in space, from mother suns; till we reach the original, which, for size, the mind cannot grasp-cannot com