ualism and the Roentgen ray because his discovery was its basis. C. F. VARLEY, the distinguished English electrician, chief engineer to the Electric and International Telegraph Company; assistant in the construction of the Atlantic telegraphy, in connection with Si Michael Farady and Sir William Thomson, the first to demonstrate the principles governing the transmission of electricity through long deep-sea cables. Writing in 1880, he said, in “The London Spiritualist :"

"Twenty-five years ago I was a hard-headed unbeliever.

Spirit phenomena, however, suddenly and quite unexpectedly, were soon after developed in my own family. This led me to inquire and to try numerous experiments in such a way as to preclude, as much as circumstances would permit, the possibility of trickery and self-deception.

"That the phenomena occur there is overwhelming evidence, and it is too late now to deny their existence. Having experimented with and compared the forces with electricity and magnetism, and after having applied mechanical and mental tests, I entertain no doubt whatever that the manifestations which I have myself examined were not due to the operation of any of the recognized physical laws of nature, and that there has been. present on the occasions above-mentioned some intelligence other than that of the medium and observers."

M. LEON FAVRE, Consul General of France, and brother of Jules Favre, the eminent French Senator, says:

"I have long, carefully, and conscientiously studied Spiritual phenomena. Not only am I convinced of their irrefutable reality, but I have also a profound assurance that they are produced by the spirits of those who have left earth; and further that they only could produce them. I believe in the existence of an invisible world corresponding to the world around us. I believe that the denizens of that world were formerly residents on this earth, and I believe in the possibility of inter-communion between the two worlds."

On my way to Constantinople a number of years since to fill a Consular position under General Grant, I was his guest for a

week in Paris, witnessing the manifestations in his own parlors. I shall never forget the kindness of the Consul's son who accompanied me as a guide to Versailles and other cities in France, sight-seeing.

J. HERMAN FICHTE, the distinguished philosopher and metaphysician, writing of Baron Guldenstubbe, of Stuttgart, said: "As to my present position in regard to Spiritualism, I have to say that I have come to the conclusion that it is absolutely impossible to account for these phenomena, save by assuming the action of superhuman influences, or unseen spirit intelligences."

PROFESSOR DE MORGAN, at one time London's greatest mathematician, says: "I have both seen and heard, in a manner which would make unbelief impossible things called spiritual which can not be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincident, or mistake. The physical explanations which I have seen are miserably insufficient."

PROFESSOR CHALLIS, F. R. S., the late Plumerian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, stated his opinion in a letter to the "Clerical Journal," of June, 1862, as follows:

"I have been unable to resist the large amount of testimony to such facts, which has come from many independent sources, and from a vast number of witnesses. In short, the tes

timony has been so abundant and consentaneous, that either the facts must be admitted to be such as are reported, or the possibility of certifying facts by human testimony must be given up.”

M. THIERS, ex-President of the French Republic, exclaimed: "I am a Spiritualist, and an impassioned one, and I am anxious to confound Materialism in the name of science and good sense."

CAMILLE FLAMMARION, well-known in scientific circles as an astronomer and member of the Academie Francaise, thus testifies to the truth of Spiritualism:

"I do not hesitate to affirm my conviction, based on personal examination of the subject, that any scientific man who declares the phenomena denominated 'magnetic,' 'somnambulic,'

'mediumic,' and others not yet explained by science, to be 'impossible,' is one who speaks without knowing what he is talking about; and also any man accustomed, by his professional avocations, to scientific observation-provided that his mind be not biased by pre-conceived opinions,- may acquire a radical and absolute certainty of the reality of the facts alluded to." He further remarks: "Although Spiritualism is not a religion but a science, yet the day may come when religion and science will be reunited in one single synthesis."

DR. LOCKHART ROBERTSON, long one of the editors of the "Journal of Mental Science," a physician who, having made mental disease his special study, would not easily be taken in by any psychological delusions. His testimony to the reality of the spiritual phenomena is most distinct and positive.

SERJEANT COX, an Assistant Judge of the Middlesex Sessions, London, President of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, getting satisfactory proofs of independent writing through a distinguished medium, wrote of it thus August 8, 1876:

"I can only say that I was in the full possession of my senses; that I was wide awake; that I was in broad daylight; that the medium was under my observation the whole time, and could not have moved hand or foot without being detected by * * That these spiritual phenomena occur it is vain to dispute."

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EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, the son of a Swedish clergyman, announced in the year 1743, that he had come into spiritual converse with a world of spirits, and he soon began publishing their revelations, and detailing their conversations with him. He declared that he had seen and conversed with some of the apostles, especially Paul, with Luther and others dwelling in a spiritual state of existence. "I have," he says, "for these twenty years or more, conversed daily with spirits and angels. They have human forms, the appearance of men, as I have a thousand times seen; for I have spoken with them as a man with other men often with several together and I have seen nothing

in the least to distinguish them from other men. Lest any one should call this an illusion, or imaginary perception, it is to be understood that I am accustomed to see them when perfectly wide awake, and in the full exercise of my observation. The speech of an angel, or a spirit, sounds like and as loud as that of a man; but it is not heard by the bystanders. The reason is, that the speech of an angel or a spirit, finds entrance, first, into a man's thoughts, and reaches his organs of hearing from within." * * * In 1758 a revolution was attempted in Sweden. On the 23d of July in that year, Swedenborg was in Stockholm. On that day Count Brahe and Baron Horn were executed in the capital. Swedenborg did not lose sight of Brahe when he was beyond the axe, as the following passage in Scriptural Diary shows:

"Brahe was beheaded at 10 o'clock in the morning, and he spoke with me at 10 at night; that is to say twelve hours after the exectuion. He was with me almost without interruption, for several days. In two days' time he began to return to his former life, which consisted in loving worldly things; and after three days he became as he was before in the world, and was carried into the evils he had made his own before he died."

PROFESSOR SHERER relates this: "Conversing with a companion one evening in Stockholm about the spiritual work, one of those present, as a test, said: 'Tell us who will die first.' Swedenborg at first refused to answer. Then, after seeming to be for a time in silent and profound meditation, he replied: 'Olof Olofsohn will die to-morrow morning at 45 minutes past 4 o'clock.' This prediction greatly excited the company, and one gentleman, a friend of Olof Olofsohn, resolved to go on the following morning at the time mentioned by Swedenborg to the house of Olof Olofsohn, in order to see whether Swedenborg's prediction was fulfilled. On the way thither he met the wellknown servant of Olofsohn who told him that his master had just then died-a fit of apoplexy had seized him and had suddenly put an end to his life. The clock in Olofsohn's dwelling

apartment stopped at the very moment in which he had expired, and the hand pointed at the time."

JOHN WESLEY, the founder of Methodism, was a firm believer in the spiritual phenomena. Prof. A. B. Hyde, D. D., author and professor of Greek in the Denver University, says in his work on Methodism: "During these years strange 'noises' were heard at the Epworth parsonage. They were heard like the whistling of the wind outside. Latches were lifted; windows rattled, and all metallic substances rang tunefully. In a room where persons talked, sang or made any noise, its hollow tones gave all the louder accompaniment. There was a sound of doors slamming, of curtains drawing, of shoes dancing without a wearer. When anyone wished to pass a door, its latch was politely lifted for them before they touched it. A trencher, untouched upon the table, danced to unheard music. At family prayers the 'goblin' gave thundering knocks at the amen and when Mr. Wesley prayed for the King, the disloyal being pushed him violently in anger. The stout rector shamed it for annoying children, and dared it to meet him alone in his study, and pick up the gauntlet there. Many, then and since, have tried. to explain the cause. It was thought to be a spirit strayed beyond its home and clime, as an Arabian locust has been found in Hyde Park. Of such things this writer has no theory. There are more things in heaven and earth than his knowledge or philosophy can compass. Only he is sure that outside of this world lies a spiritual domain, and it is not strange that there should be inter-communication."

The noises were first heard one winter's day in 1715 by Mrs. Susanna Wesley, John Wesley's mother. She was in the bedroom and was startled suddenly by a clattering of the windows and doors, followed by several distinct knocks, three by three. At the same time her maid servant, Nancy Marshall, heard in the dining-room something that sounded like the groans of a dying man.

The young women of the family became greatly alarmed. Mrs. Wesley informed her husband, Samuel Wesley, of the cir