BIBLE SPIRITUALISM. IN the last number of the Spiritual Magazine is a long article on Spiritualism and the Bible, from which we make the following extract: “ Our American brethren direct us also to the East, for a proof of the mere modern and mythic character of Christianity - that only religion in the world which possesses a clear and connected historic basis, unequivocal, positive, and predomi nant over all myth and fable, running from the creation until now. Mr. Peebles, in his Seers of the Ages, tells us that the historic Jesus is copied from the Crishna of India, and that the close and almost perfect parallelisms between the Crishna of the Bhagavat Gita and the Christ of the Gospels is suffi cient evidence that one was borrowed from the other, or that they were both copies from some older myth.' “Now certainly no man well acquainted with the ancient theology of the Hindoos could for a moment doubt which of these relations was borrowed from the other, if there were such a borrowing. In the one case we have in the Bible a plain, clear, uninterrupted history from the very earliest era of history down to the time of Christ, in which the founder of Christianity is most unequivocally and luminously heralded and graphically described, His person, His career and His doc trine. This is done, not by one prophet, but by a score, all living in succession; and, therefore, incapable of together concocting such a story. These prophets prove their mission to be genuine by simultaneously prophecying the fates of all the nations surrounding them, and some of those nations then the most powerful in the world. Profane history has most absolutely shown the truth of these predictions; and that truth is every day in our own time being re-confirmed by the discoveries on the sites of those nations. Egypt, Nineveh. Babylon and Syria, have all yielded up to the researches of travellers and archaeologists the most amazing proofs of these prophetic announcements of from two to four thousand years ago. The Assyrian relics of art in the British Museum, the bricks and manuscripts of Babylon, the latter now in prepara tion for publication ; the discoveries of the giant cities of Bashan, still existing, these and the condition of a thousand objects in Palestine, place the Hebrew history on such a basis of demonstrated truth as no other history of the ancient world possesses. “Turn from this solid and sunlit plane of history, stretching without a break from the very dawn of history, to the litera ture of India—and we plunge at once into a region of dark ness illuminated only by partial light, into a chaos of myths and legends. There is no such thing as a clear matter-of-fact continued history of national events, philosophy, or religion. We gather our scattered incidents from different, quite dis tinct, and often most contradictory books, and all mingled with the wildest and most absurd fables. We have nothing to assure us of the dates of many of the half fact half saga state ments, but such as we can draw from the antiquity of the lan guage in which thcy occur. Some of the greatest authorities such as Max Müller, tell us that probably these mystical, rathei than historic productions, may be as old as the Hebrew history. “ Let us suppose them to be so old ; nay, let us suppose some of them to be as old as the early days of the human race, ere the different tribes had dispersed themselves into different and distant regions, what then? We come merely to that primal period in which the human race possessed, most pro0 bably in common, the divine revelations of those leading truths which should become the ultimate springs of universal civilization and religion. Those truths have maintained them-