Tazza 121 16 10 szug for i sjencini wany in produng sita fm gradu. Ta manfestaticos frugi fe retrai powers of men, dere i de leg-bole for argument and ir fertile imaginings as a delusion, eclesia, de; bis vien a slid body, willen ny mehanism attached theretty rises from its place and fuses the mere reppen of a few persons who desire such a proof that unseen intelligences are in the room, and that they are powerful for wel or for woe; is at me puts flence on the Hips, and the estriction of the mind is that we must enlarge the area of on conceptions as to the Divine creations of life. Their mode of existence, and the leverage by which such creations move and act, are mere curiosity thoughita

If a heavy table is raised off the ground, it is obvious that there can be no difficulty in raising a human being off the ground-grant the one, and we must grant the other; and that the one has been done, sufficient evidence has, in the past section, been produced; and that the other has also been done, is now about to be proved, by the narration of facts recent and remote. Some loudly proclaim against furnituremoving as being absurd-that apparent absurdity, is the result of the continued opposition of man to the evidence of angels and devils, as developed in their action on the cerebral power of a human body; and the bluff denial of supernatural action, in the "curious coincidences," and other modes of spiritual display. Wisdom or folly is known by their results-these results are not always obvious to the witlings who decide so dogmatically. Let me give a proof:-Look at the absurdity so called, of the physical manifestations detailed, as witnessed by two or three literary characters, whose previous ideas were point blank against the possibility of such physical manifestations; and whose command of the current literature of the age, enables

them to assist or resist, any given developement of nature during the time they hold the reins of power. Would mere fence logic convince them? Would a pulpit sermon convince them? Would Scripture convince them? Has it convinced them? The answer is, no. Such men ask, what "The Lord" stated should result from effective belief in his mission; they ask that signs and wonders should be effected, as proofs of the alleged life of spirits—and within the year 1860, they have had it to the full:-manifestation of spirit-power so effective, so convincing, that one of those witnesses prepared an article of some thirteen pages, which was inserted in the "Cornhill Magazine," which has a sale of some 100,000 copies; now supposing only ten persons had read each copy; we have one million persons suddenly presented with a faithful narration of certain phases of spirit-power, and it went like an electric shock through the newspaper press; every newspaper in England-has referred to the article, and has copied portions of the narrative; so that millions of the population are roused. This rousing will, like the wave-ripple when a stone is thrown into a pond, extend and extend till it reaches the circumference of the British Empire. The lever of physical manifestations of spirit power, has been put under the mass of " terialism," in the church and out of it; and however rough and ungainly that lever may appear to the vinaigrette men of society; the agent, the mind, the spirit, is moving the mass with power and with wisdom; making the weak and foolish things around us to confound the mighty and the strong.

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Wisdom, we have said, is justified by the results produced. These mighty marvellous evidences of spirit action on inanimate substances, and on human physical substances; subdue the mind, and prepare it for receiving the more subtle evidences of spirit existence and power, as will be developed in other sections.

HUMAN BODY FLOATING IN A ROOM.-The following incidents transpired in my presence on the 7th of May, 1860; the other incidents on the same evening, the reader will find on page 337.

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After a pause. Mr. Home said he felt as if he were about to be lifted up: he moved from the table, and shortly he said, “I am rising”—but we could not see him-they have pat me or my back.” I asked, “W you kindly bring him, as muet as possible, towards the window, so that we may see him;” and at ouse he was floated with his feet horizontally into the light of the window, so that we all saw his feet, and a part of his legs, resting, or floating on the air like a feather, about six feet from the ground, and three feet above the height of the table. He was then floated into the dark; and he exclaimed, “They have turned me round, and I am coming towards you I then saw his head and face, the same height as before, and as if foating on air instead of water. He then floated back, and came down and walked up to, and sat on the edge of the table we were at, when the table began to rise with him on it. He asked a lady to sit on the table, and perhaps the spirits would take them both up; the table moved a little, and then was still Mr. Home was then taken behind to the sitter next to me; and while there, we heard sounds several times as of some one giving utterance to a monosyllable in the middle of the room. Feeling a pressure against my chair, I looked, and saw that the ottoman had been brought along the floor about six feet, no one touching it, and close to Mr. Home. He said, "I suppose it is for me to rest on,"he laid down, and the ottoman went back to its original position—“ Oh! I am getting excited, some one come and sit with me." I went, and sat beside him; he took my hands; and in about a minute, and without any muscular action, he gently floated away from me, and was lost in the darkness. He kept talking to let us know where he was. We heard his voice in various parts of the further end of the room, as if near the ceiling. He then cried out, "Oh! they have brought me a cushion to sit upon-I am sitting on it-they are taking it away." Just then the tassel of the cushion of another ottoman in the room struck me on my hair and forehead as if coming from the ceiling, and the cushion was deposited at my feet on the floor, falling as if a snow flake. I then saw the shadow of his body on the mirror as he floated along near the ceiling. He said, "I wish I had a pencil to make a mark on the ceiling. I have made a cross with my nail.” He came down near the door between the two drawing-rooms, and after a pause he was again taken up; but I did not see him, but heard his voice as if near the ceiling. Again he came down,

and shortly returned to the table, and the sounds on the table bade us "Good night."

THE following statement is copied from the August number of the "Cornhill Magazine :"—the editor gives the writer a twenty-five years' character, and as I know the writer, and was one of a party of nine with him at one of the sittings, I the more cheerfully insert the statement. He says:

"Ir is not my purpose to chronicle the whole phenomena of the evening, but merely to touch upon some of the most prominent; and that which follows, and which brought us to the conclusion of the séance, is distinguished from the rest by this peculiarity, that it takes us entirely out of that domain of the marvellous in which the media are inanimate objects.

Mr. Home was seated next to the window. Through the semi-darkness his head was dimly visible against the curtains, and his hands might be seen in a faint white heap before him. Presently, he said, in a quiet voice, "My chair is moving-I am off the ground-don't notice me-talk of something else," or words to that effect. It was very difficult to restrain the curiosity, not unmixed with a more serious feeling, which these few words awakened; but we talked, incoherently enough, upon some indifferent topic. I was sitting nearly opposite to Mr. Home, and I saw his hands disappear from the table, and his head vanish into the deep shadow beyond. In a moment or two more he spoke again. This time his voice was in the air above our heads. He had risen from his chair to a height of four or five feet from the ground. As he ascended higher he described his position, which at first was perpendicular and afterwards became horizontal. He said he felt as if he had been turned in the gentlest manner, as a child is turned in the arms of a nurse. In a moment or two more, he told us that he was going to pass across the window, against the gray silvery light of which he would be visible. We watched in profound stillness, and saw his figure pass from one side of the window to the other, feet foremost, Îying horizontally in the air. He spoke to us as he passed, and told us he would turn the reverse way, and recross the window; which he did. His own tranquil confidence in the safety of what seemed from below a situation of the most novel peril, gave confidence to everybody else; but, with the strongest nerves, it was impossible not to be conscious of a certain sensation of fear or awe. He hovered round the circle for several minutes, and passed, this time perpendicu

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larly, over our heads. I heard his voice behind me in the air, and felt something lightly brush my chair. It was his foot, which he gave me leave to touch. Turning to the spot where it was on the top of the chair, I placed my hand gently upon it, when he uttered a cry of pain, and the foot was withdrawn quickly, with a palpable shudder. evidently not resting on the chair, but floating; and it sprang from the touch as a bird would. He now passed over to the farthest extremity of the room, and we could judge by his voice of the altitude and distance he had attained. He had reached the ceiling, upon which he made a slight mark, and soon afterwards descended and resumed his place at the table. An incident which occurred during this aerial passage, and imparted a strange solemnity to it, was, that the accordion, which we supposed to be on the ground, under the window close to us, played a strain of wild pathos in the air from the most distant corner of the room.

"I give the driest and most literal account of these scenes, rather than run the risk of being carried away into descriptions, which, however true, might look like exaggerations."

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G. A. REDMAN, 1851.-"Circles were next arranged to be held at the house of Mrs. Haight. Here much that was surprising resulted, and a few out of the many wonders I will relate. We gathered round the table, selections from the Spirit Minstrel' were sung, and a very subdued light kept in the room; the influence that pervaded the circle was calm and beautiful, giving evidence that high and progressed spirits were present. So perfectly harmonious were we, it seemed as though actual converse might be held with our loved ones. was raised, in a half-stupified state, from the chair, conveyed to the ceiling of the room, which was some ten feet from the floor, and I floated alone in the air for a few moments. I was then joined by Mrs. Shepard, and soon after by her daughter. Here were THREE OF US, ALL SUSPENDED IN THE ATMOSPHERE, in no contact with any material object, but upheld by an unseen power, and wafted by it over the heads of some dozen individuals."

G. A. REDMAN." At a subsequent meeting of a few friends at Mrs. Leed's house, a large centre table, at which the company were sitting, was taken entirely from the floor, carried over the heads of all present, and placed at a distance of some feet from the circle. So lightly and prettily was this manifestation performed, that scarcely a sound above our voices was perceptible."