A SUNDAY EVENING MEETING OF SPIRITUALISTS. REASON, AND THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT—THE DOCTRINE OF ENDLESS TORMENTS—THE PSYCHOLOGY OF “REVIVALS"—TRANCE MEDIUMSHIP POWERFUL PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS—MATERIAL OBJECTS MOVED WITH OUT CONTACT WITH HUMAN BEINGS—THE HAPPINESS CONFERRED BY SPIRITUALISM—HEALING MEDIUMSHIP—CURES RECENTLY EFFECTED BY DERVISHES AT SOUTARI IN THE PRESENCE OF PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAN OF PRUSSIA—CARRIAGE OF NEWS FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA BY SPIRITS -TESTIMONY OF THE DYING IN FAVOUR OF SPIRITUALISM ON Sunday, January 30th, Mr. J. M. Peebles, American Consul at Trebizond, delivered a lecture on Spiritualism, at the Cavendish Rooms, Mortimer-street, Langham-place Regent-street. These meetings will be held regularly every Sunday evening, and the proceedings begin at seven o’clock Mr. PEEBLES, according to a system he has long carried out in the United States, preceded his lecture with a short reli gious service, and he began by giving out a hymn, which was sung by the large number of Spiritualists and others present. He then offered up a short prayer to the Almighty, giving thanks to Him for the blessing of direct communication with departed friends, and for having planted within every human being the seeds of endless growth, and eternal progression. Mr. PEEBLES then said that in one of the epistles of Paul there is language something like this :—“ Be ready to give to every man a reason for the hope that lieth in the Reason, he said, is a Divine gift, one of the greatest characteristics of true manhood, and as God has been pleased to make us reasonable beings, we ought to exercise these reasoning powers to the best advantage. We should sanction no theology, no moral teaching, and no deduction of science, till we have brought the subject to the test of reason. Wherever there is an effect there must have been a cause : wherever there is motion there must have been something to produce it, and wherever there is a house there must have been a builder ; so, where we see millions upon millions of bright and glorious worlds circling in their orbits, there must be some intelligence guiding them by grand and immutable laws. All the conceptions of man being finite he can never fathom the infinite ; he will always be a progressive being, and how ever high he may ascend in the scale of creation, he wil always find universes before him to explore. We may with Plato call God the “ life essence,” or with A. J. Davis, “the great positive mind of the universe”; we may accept the teaching of the Apostle John that “God is love,” or what is better we may say with Jesus that “ God is a Spirit ”—the Infinite Spirit of the universe. There is imparted to every man a portion of that Infinite Spirit. The spiritual body of man moves the earthly body, but what moves the spirit body? It is moved by the power of the Infinite Spirit ; God is a living fountain, acting continually upon this innermost spirit—the spirit of man. Mind is unseen, it is the great motive power of the universe, yet the scales cannot weigh it nor can it be analysed by the blowpipe, but an idea often exerts great force. Martin Luther once said that “ every man had the right of private judgment,” and that idea had sufficient inherent power to shake the church of Rome to it foundations. That idea has since grown till all are much agreed that no man, or bishop, or pope, has any right to ster in between a man and his private judgment, and to dictate what he shall think or do. He would tell his listeners some of his own experiences in the matter of Spiritualism. He was born in one of the Nev England States, and his parents were Calvinistic Baptists His early schooling was all coloured by the strict dogmas of that sect, and on Sundays he listened to long sermons, and fearful hymns ; one of these hymns he remembered contained the following verse: Eternal chains and heavy plagues Tormenting rocks and fiery coals, And darts to inflict immortal pains Dipped in the blood of damned souls. Another hymn closed thus The sinner must be born again, Or sink to endless woe He was taught in his Sunday-school that he was a sinner by nature, that he had sinned in Adam, “our federal head," before he was born, and that he lived under the curse of God This teaching had such an effect, that when he was ten or twelve years old, he was afraid to go to sleep, lest he should die in the night, and wake up in the flames of hell. When he was about fifteen years of age, a revival clergyman visited the village of Chenango, where he then lived. Numbers or the people went to the revivalist to “ get religion,” and some of them wanted him to go and get religion too. The revival preacher was, by nature, a keen psychologist, well able to in fluence more negative minds than his own, and he preached a powerful discourse from the text—“ When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not the Gospel." It was a fearful sermon about the torments of hell, and worked strongly upon his youthful mind. Soon after it was over, the preacher took him by the hand—just what a mes merist would do when influencing his subject—and told him that he was a sinner, but that if he believed in Jesus, all would be well. The minister added, “ Say you believe." “Well, I believe,” was the reply. “Another soul saved," exclaimed he. The psychological effect of this was that he felt relieved in mind (he knew why now), and he began to go about with his precious Bible in his pocket, striving to con vert others, while less than sixteen years of age himself. Some little time afterwards, the same Elder Bush, revivalist preacher, left his wife and children, and went to parts un known with his servant girl. This fact had a great effect upon his (Mr. Peeble’s) mind; he thought that the teaching of such a man could not be influenced by the Spirit of God and he threw over all his teachings as nothing but priestcraft and delusion. Then came a dreamless night, with no ray of hope, and he became a student of the works of Voltaire and Tom Paine. About two years afterwards a “ Universalist"